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Clipboard Help+Spell is a text-based clipboard utility withhttp://www.donationc...pandspell/index.htmlWeb site visited 06/05/2012, 20:42:03Clipboard Help+Spell is a text-based clipboard utility with the following features: * Database stores history of all past text clipboard entries for easy viewing, modification, and search * Use it for keeping hierarchical notes - search, sort, filter by text, modification date, last view date * Super easy and super fast search function - or use complex filters if you need them - you'll never have a problem finding a note again! * Organize your notes and clips any way you want - show them all or view by group or category; view your clips any way you like * High-quality spellcheck - underlined mistakes; learning spellchecker * Configurable hotkeys for common functions * Powerful text formatting options - make your own presets for common functions * Simple functions for copying and pasting into and out of other applicationsIf you like Clipboard Help+Spell, check out Find+Run Robot and Screenshot Captor
There are Firefox extensions that can copy both text and link.........Oops... looks like you already know about that one. See screenshot.
Thornsoft's ClipMate has a template feature, whereby you can change the format of the clipped material on pasting. The author warned me not to put too much reliance on it, but it can be quite useful... ......In other words, ClipMate knows something about the page title and URL of a section clipped from a Web page, and can rearrange them for you. CHS must also understand them because of the way you can choose columns. I seem to remember requesting something similar to ClipMate's template system for CHS. That might go some way to giving you your URL functions.
Yes, there seem to be a few add-ons around that do something of what I am requesting in this regard, but nothing that does all of it. I think you might have one such in your FF (per image), because I don't get that in my FF. Another is, I think, CoLT that was in @Curt's post of his Waterfox add-ons, here:« Reply #446 on: 2012-03-22, 09:52:05 »
I don't want the feature as a transient record just in Firefox or just in any other application though - I want it as a defined data record in the clipboard manager (CHS), so that all the relevant hyperlink data is saved in the CHS database and can be recalled later.
I seem to recall that ClipMate (when I last played with it) did something like that and that it seemed a little kludgy. In any event, it is not what I am requesting here.
[RANT]I didn't produce that user-editable Google docs spreadsheet User Requirements for CHS just for fun
...Well, I did belatedly add "methinks I'm adding irrelevant responses today" .........But it's only useful if mouser commits to it, and he's got a myriad commitments already.
I wasn't complaining and didn't feel your response was irrelevant.
I wasn't thinking it needed @mouser's commitment so much as I think he could find the spreadsheet (or something similar, contributed to by the CHS users) useful, but probably only if the users displayed an interest in taking on responsibility for something like that.
...I think I feel that mouser's programs, for all their quality and "donatability," belong to a hobby-programming culture rather than to a commercial one. In such a situation, I felt it would be polite to avoid putting something that might potentially feel like pressure on him. That's just my perception, of course.
Unless you have resources committed to the project, don't bother to plan for it.
A = Mandatory ("must have").B = Highly desirable.C = Nice-to-have.
Estimate of of users who potentially could and would make use of this.
Provides the option to copy selection as plain text or html.It adds a "Copy As Html" and "Copy As Plain Text" to the context (right-click) menu. It is useful if you want to copy the text or underlying html from a web page into documents, posts or other applications.
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Been mentioning our new product for the past few weeks and it's here with us in Booth 106, as part of our SXSW Trifecta.
Kickstand holds your iPhone 4 while you watch videos or read. Simple, lightweight, and practically indestructible. Kickstand will ship in April 2011 and costs $4.99.
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We're soft-launching Kickstand with codes for free samples. We want to get these out into your hands so you can try it out, give us feedback, and tell your friends. After SXSW, we'll put them into production and ship in April 2011.
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With the sounds of school bells just around the corner, principals, teachers and staff are gearing up for the more than 4,400 students expected on area campuses next week.
Teachers returned to school this week to prepare their classrooms for the first day of school August 3.
Newly hired Superintendent Ben Desper said this year will be one with lots of opportunities for students not only academically but in the arts and athletics as well.
"I am very excited to be here. I'm just as excited as the kids. It's almost like the first day of school for me again," Desper said Tuesday morning. "I've been around to all the schools over the summer and looked at what they've done since school finished this spring. It's exciting. There are lots of things going on."
Desper said approximately 140 kids showed up at last week's new student registration, a surprising number.
"We didn't expect to have that many show up. They are primarily in elementary grades. We will be carefully monitoring those numbers to see if we need to add staff or move staff around."
Desper said the upcoming year will have administrators and teachers focusing on what he called the "Three As" – academics, the arts and athletics."
"It's an exciting time of year. The principals are all ready to go. We had a meeting this week, and you could just tell they were chomping at the bit to get going and get the staff and kids back for a great year," he said.
Desper said new bus routes scheduled to roll out next week will save the system money. The savings accomplished by reducing the number of bus drivers equates to two teachers' salaries.
Desper said new staff in key positions such as athletic director, food service director, high school band director and special education director will also bring new energy to those areas and departments.
The new culinary arts lab at PHS will open, training students for possible careers in the food service industry, he said.
"We also have a big, new program – the "School's In Don't Be Out." That's something we're really impressed with," Desper said. "If we can get students here, we can teach them. The number one thing employers look for is a good work ethic."
Desper also said school officials will focus on strategic planning this year.
"It's more in-depth than the SACS planning. We'll be looking at where we want to be five years from now. What's the direction Pickens County schools need to head into to serve our kids best," he said.
Desper will speak at the high school this Friday at the system-wide meeting where he will introduce himself to teachers and staff.


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Even though I was extremely sceptical of this whole tablet thing, I bought an iPad 2 a few weeks ago. Obviously, this occasion couldn't pass by without a proper review of the thing on OSNews, so here we are. Inside, my view on the iPad 2, and more importantly, how my perception of tablets has been turned around completely.
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That really sucks discoverability-wise, especially if it is combined with what Thom mentioned inconsistency.
My biggest beef with iOS (running 4.1 on an iPod Touch 2G) is the lack of a simple "push here for help" or "push here for a menu" option. At least with Android, you always have a the "menu" button, which leads you to options and help and whatnot. There's simply no in-app help system that's easy to access across applications (or even anywhere in the OS).


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The superstar gets philosophical on the craziness surrounding his little wonderland
If there's one another thing that Shahrukh Khan is known for, besides his acting skills and posing with arms wide open, it is being a philosopher. The superstar often lapses into these pensive moods where he reflects on things, events and people around him, and thinks out loud as he shares his thoughts.
Today, as he is shooting non-stop atop a moving train for his upcoming flick Chennai Express, he lapsed yet again into another one of his philosophical moods, and wrote on twitter, "Film world is a land of Wonder. Dreams..make believe..larger than life..fun..innuendos..distortion & of course a little Malice in Wonderland."
Serious, isn't it? We never knew our stars, who usually make mind numbing entertainers, could reflect so deeply. Probably justifies all those doctorates that SRK has been honoured with!


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Saffell Street names students to honor roll Saffell Street Elementary recently released its honor roll for the first nine weeks of 2012:
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Saffell Street Elementary conducted a mock presidential election, complete with a demo voting machine, on Nov. 1.
Students, with help of County Clerk Jason Denny, filled out ballots and learned how to use the same voting machine Anderson County residents used to vote on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama won the elementary school's mock election with 245 total votes, and presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney received 232 total votes.
FFA students enter YouTube national soybean contest FFA students Kali Whiteside, Kelby Tucker, Eric Gribbins and Lyndi Walker have entered YouTube videos for a chance to win almost $4,000 in the Soybean YouTube contest, sponsored by the Kentucky Soybean Association. According to adviser Randy Adams, the contest's purpose is to allow students to educate the public about how soybeans are used in the agriculture industry and how soybean production influences consumers.


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VIDEO: The First "Lost" Season 5 Promo!
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OMG! Have we got an early Christmas treat for all you Lost fans out there. ABC has just released a promo for Season 5 of the hit show, and it's packed with juicy details about the Oceanic 6 and their upcoming escapades!
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I asked you I needed to hear the answer It wasn't a joke at all It never was All of the questions were supposed to help me to decide I heard it now I heard it loud and clear No you can't ever be mine Even I would turn the world up side down for you You would never ever be mine I was shocked Everything I did was all for nothing I'm helpless Yet I have to keep my promises to you Now here I am Writing, Trying, Doing my best to face the fact That you will just never be mine.
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Got front axle in, new 2" upper links etc.. The axle looks like itll take a hit now! Phone pix look a little rough. :thumbdown: Maybe a little better pic. Side view of the new length. Went from a 108" wb to a 113" wb, moved shockz up 4-5" so it can set a little lower. Belly will be 24" and flat. It was 24" and the skid plate hungs down 3".. Had to put some small holes in the hood for the shocks. .here they are. Turned out pretty well, want to trim lock them/edge guard em. All that. .and finally set the motor in tonight. Still need a hole in the firewall for the air cleaner, and finish remainder of the motor mounts. Oh yeah quick update on my hauler. Painted, rewired and new 1.25" white oak ruff sawn deck. .its tough! Getting there still quite a bit of work to do..but making progress! Pretty sure I feel a vacation day dor tomorrow. .haha see If I can get some more done. .:thumbup: sended frum dis stoopid fone |
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Totally un productive night in the barn. First im ticked my harness hasnt been modded yet. Feva...ill take all the tongue lashin u got..lol. ya told me so! I gotta learn from my own mistakes sometimes. .grrrr.. Well bought another stick of DOM for a hood hoop. Screwed that up! Forgot my parts to finish up trans crossmember at work. Broke a 5/8" tap off in the frame, beat it out of there. . Smashed my wrecked hand with the dead blow. .mfer.. On a good note I finished the fuel system 100%. Came inside decided I would've been further ahead if I just drank beer on the deck.. Hoping for a better day tomorrow!. sended frum dis stoopid fone |
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Well. .my harness is done and he 2nd day aired it to me but because of the dang holiday I won't have it till Tuesday!
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Had this week off to get the boiler set and hooked up. Got er done, spent all day today in the barn working on the jeep. Got the whole harness wired up, and actually started the 6.0! Awesome. Fired right up first fee cranks, ides nice, throttle response is great! Need some cleanup and engine wise its done. Spent some time dreaming up an engine skid plate. ..this is what I got. The front is tied to the frame on both sides. The pic is looking from the rear of the jeep towards the front axle..incase u didn't figure that out..:banghead: Going to skin it and add a few more braces. Ordered a factory ecm holder. ..wanted to mak sure it wasn't rattling around in the jeep. Ecm is inside the jeep, in front of the passengers feet. Got all week to work on it..should b able to get it ready for exhaust shop by next week. . Yaay. Glad to start getting caught up this week. sended frum dis stoopid fone |
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Kinda remind me of Assassin's Creed, Bioshock and Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Consiracy. Then again, i needs to watch a few more footage and screen shots to be absolute.
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Ned Stark could have used a visit from that guy, or thing.
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I was excited until I learned that it was first person. Oh well...
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I'm not going to compare this to anything. Not AC, not Bioshock, none of those. It has steampunk, it has mind powers, it has free-running, it has assassination, and it has epic skull masks. It looks, frankly, freakin amazing.
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Four Men Leave Guantanamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials in Italy
Last Monday, the Obama administration announced that it had transferred four prisoners from Guantanamo: Sabir Lahmar, an Algerian, was transferred to France; an unidentified Palestinian was transferred to Hungary; two Tunisians, Adel Ben Mabrouk bin Hamida Boughanmi and Mohammed Tahir Riyadh Nasseri, were transferred to the custody of the Italian government.
Sabir Lahmar, an Algerian, Freed in France
Sabir Lahmar's release was long overdue. An Islamic scholar, he was living in Bosnia-Herzegovina and working for a charity, the Saudi High Committee for Relief, when, in October 2001, the US government accused him and five other Algerians living in Bosnia-Herzegovina as citizens or residents, of plotting to blow up the US embassy in Sarajevo. After a three-month investigation, which the Bosnian authorities were forced to undertake by the US government (human rights activist Srdjan Dizdarevic said that "the threats from the Americans were enormous" and that there "was a hysteria in their behavior"), the men were cleared of all charges. However, on January 18, 2002, as they were released from custody, they were kidnapped by US agents and sent to Guantanamo, where they endured brutal treatment and discovered that the US authorities had no interest in the supposed bomb plot, and were, instead, using them in an attempt to secure intelligence about Arabs who had settled in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the ethnic war of 1992-95.
In November 2008, the six men finally had the opportunity to challenge the basis of their detention in a US court. Their hearing took place five months after the Supreme Court granted the prisoners constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights, after ruling that legislation passed by Congress in 2005 and 2006, which purported to strip the prisoners of the habeas rights that the Supreme Court had first granted them in June 2004, was unconstitutional.
District Court Judge Richard Leon, a no-nonsense appointee of President George W. Bush, granted the habeas corpus petitions of five of the six men, including Lahmar, after concluding that the government had provided no credible evidence that, as was alleged in place of the bomb plot, they intended to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against US forces. The sixth man, Belkacem Bansayah, was ruled to be legally detained as an "enemy combatant," based on the government's claims that he was "link[ed] to al-Qaeda and, more specifically, to a senior al-Qaeda facilitator," although he is currently appealing the ruling.
In his ruling, Judge Leon also implored the Justice Department, the Defense Department and the intelligence agencies not to appeal his verdict, which would "at a minimum, constitute another 18 months to two years of their lives." As he explained, "It seems to me that there comes a time when the desire to resolve novel, legal questions and decisions which are not binding on my colleagues pales in comparison to effecting a just result based on the state of the record."
Nevertheless, although three of the five men - Mustafa Ait Idr, Hadj Boudella and Mohammed Nechla - were released within weeks of the decision, the fourth, Lakhdar Boumediene, had to wait until May to be freed, when he was accepted by the French government, and Lahmar has had to wait for another six months before he too was given a new home in France.
Speaking to AFP, Rob Kirsch, Lahmar's attorney, said that his client, who is now 39 years old, will be allowed "to rebuild his life as a free man after nearly eight years of illegal detention. Mr. Lahmar suffered years of inhumane, isolating imprisonment. He was separated from other human contact until one month after Judge Leon ruled that the detention of Mr. Lahmar was illegal." He also praised French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner as "straight shooters throughout this process," adding, "We appreciate the opportunities they have given to Sabir Lahmar and Lakhdar Boumediene."
A Palestinian Freed in Hungary
Little news has yet emerged about the prisoner released in Hungary. On September 16, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai announced that Hungary "would take in one former prisoner, likely to be a Palestinian national," and last week Gabor Juhasz, the minister in charge of the civilian secret services, confirmed that the Hungarian government had"given its official consent to the Hungary-US agreement on accepting a detainee from Guantanamo." He added, however, that, in common with the other releases in Europe in recent months (in Portugal, Ireland and Belgium, the government had decided "not to disclose the identity of the former prisoner, the person's time of arrival or place of residence." He also explained that the government would "provide support to the former detainee for settling in the country, including "access to health-care services, language learning opportunities [and] assist[ance] in finding a job."
From Jail to Jail: Tunisians Transferred to Italian Custody
This is good news for Sabir Lahmar and the unidentified Palestinian, but for Adel Ben Mabrouk bin Hamida Boughanmi and Mohammed Tahir Riyadh Nasseri, the two Tunisians transferred to Italian custody, the future looks as bleak as the last seven years that they have spent in Guantanamo. As the Justice Department explained in a press release announcing their transfer, "Both detainees are the subject of outstanding arrest warrants in Italy and will be prosecuted there.... These transfers were carried out pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding concluded by Attorney General Eric Holder and Italian Justice Minister Angelino Alfano in September. The United States has coordinated with the government of Italy to ensure the transfers take place under appropriate security measures and will continue to consult with the government of Italy regarding these detainees."
This perhaps sounds relatively innocuous, but as I reported in July, when the rumors first surfaced that Silvio Berlusconi had agreed to take a number of Tunisian prisoners from Guantanamo, there are serious doubts about the circumstances in which the prisoners have been transferred. These are not alleviated by the careful mention of a Memorandum of Understanding, and they hardly warrant the thanks extended by the DoJ - "The United States is grateful to the government of Italy for helping achieve President Obama's directive to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility" - unless that sentence were to be followed by the words, "by any means necessary."
As Daniel Gorevan, a spokesman for Amnesty International, noted in March, after EU Justice Commissioner Jacques Barrot stated that the US government had raised the possibility of a Memorandum of Understanding between the EU and the US on the protection of detainees in Guantanamo, during a meeting on March 17, "Any memorandum of understanding between the USA and Europe on Guantanamo detainees must take into account this fundamental requirement: all detainees who are not charged and tried fairly in US courts must be released safely."
This is clearly not the case with the two men who have just arrived in Italy from Guantanamo,as I explained in July, when reports in La Repubblica and information obtained from sources in the United States allowed me to confirm that, after the US government informally asked the Italian government in April to take six or seven prisoners from Guantanamo, the Department of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice compiled a list of Guantanamo prisoners who had criminal proceedings pending against them in Italy, and then focused on three prisoners, including Boughanmi and Nasseri, on the basis that they would be transferred from Guantanamo to Italian jails.
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La Repubblica suggested that Roberto Maroni, the Minister of the Interior (and a member of Italy's notoriously right-wing Northern League), only approved their transfer when he received reassurances that they would not be set free, and this was confirmed in an article in the Christian Science Monitor, in which reporter Anna Momigliano wrote that Maroni, whose party was bluntly described as "oppos[ing] the presence of Muslim immigrants" in Italy, stated, "I oppose taking [the prisoners] in, as long as we are not sure they will be kept behind bars."
La Repubblica added that the prisoners would not receive "credit" for their seven years in Guantanamo, and noted that, in 2007, the Milanese Public Prosecutor's Office had requested extradition of two of the men, but the Ministry of Justice refused to forward the extradition request to the US government because Guantanamo was "not US territory." As a result, it is understood that the US government's transfer of the men to Italian custody will not involve extraditing them, but rather expelling them, and the Italian government can therefore treat them not as prisoners who have already served a jail sentence, but as fugitives who are obliged to serve a full term. As a source in the United States explained, this novel approach to disposing of prisoners in Guantanamo is actually a form of "rendition."
These fears have not been allayed with the transfer, under the cover of a Memorandum of Understanding, of two of the three men mentioned in July. Both were taken into custody on their arrival in Milan, and are currently being questioned, and no indication has yet been provided as to whether they will face a trial, and whether their lost years in Guantanamo will be taken into account should they be sentenced.
The Fog of Evidence
In the fog of rumors and allegations surrounding the men, it is difficult to know where the truth lies. According to Italian prosecutors, both were involved with an Islamic center in Milan that had connections with al-Qaeda, and arrest warrants for both men were issued while they were in Guantanamo. In 2005, Boughanmi was accused of "international terrorism, falsification of documents, aiding illegal immigration, theft and drug trafficking," and in 2007 Nasseri was accused of "organizing in Afghanistan the logistics for fighters coming from Italy 'where they were trained in the use of weapons and in preparation for suicide attacks,'" and was also described as "the head of the Tunisians in Afghanistan, 'from where he maintained constant relations with the structures in Italy and Milan.'"
However, Boughanmi, who was 31 years old when he was seized crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan, explained to his lawyersthat he worked in restaurants in Naples and Rome, and as a barber in Milan, and stated that he traveled to Afghanistan in early 2001, "because I became a Muslim when I was in Europe. My country was very tough on the Muslims. Afghanistan was a country where they were willing to take anybody, you don't need any money to live there, and they welcome all the Muslims."
In addition, as I explained in July:
In Guantanamo, he [Boughanmi] denied an allegation that he was part of a terrorist network in Italy, and that he "possibly" falsified passports "for fleeing al-Qaeda combatants who make it to Europe" (that use of the word "possibly" generally indicating that even the US military regarded the allegation as unreliable). He also refuted allegations that he was an "extremist" in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the civil war, and, to prove it, showed the tribunal the visa stamps in his passport, which he requested as evidence. The information about his purported activities in the former Yugoslavia was apparently provided by the Tunisian government, which had sentenced him in absentia to 20 years in prison for allegedly being a member of a terrorist organization operating abroad.
Less is known publicly about Nasseri, who was 35 years old at the time of his capture in Afghanistan, because he refused to take part in any of the military review processes at Guantanamo (the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and the annual Administrative Review Boards), although it was noted that he refuted all the allegations against him. Some of these related to the Italian arrest warrant mentioned above, a claim that he fought in Bosnia may have come from the Tunisian government (which gave him a ten-year sentence in absentia for being a member of a terrorist organization operating abroad), and no clue whatsoever was provided to back up an allegation that he "led a band of thieves in Italy and Spain who cooperated with Algerian terrorists."
Most worrying is the claim that he was "the head of the Tunisians in Afghanistan," which may, of course, be true, but what makes it suspicious in the context of the intelligence-gathering at Guantanamo is that it comes from an allegation that he was "identified by a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant as having trained at the Khaldan camp and that he eventually took over as the Emir of the Tunisian Group in Afghanistan."
References to "a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant" in proceedings at Guantanamo invariably refer to "high-value detainees," who, at the time, were held in secret CIA prisons where they were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved by lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; in other words, where they were tortured.
There is, of course, no indication as to who this particular "high-value detainee" was, but as the reference is to the Khaldan training camp, it seems likely that the allegation was made either by Abu Zubaydah (the gatekeeper of the camp, and the CIA's most well-known torture victim, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammedor by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the CIA's most famous "ghost prisoner." Tortured in Egypt in 2002, al-Libi made afalse confessionabout links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Rendered to various other prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA in the four years that followed, he was returned to Libya in 2006, where he died in May this year, reportedly by committing suicide.
With al-Libi conveniently out of the picture, andAbu Zubaydah psychologically destroyed (in April this year, one of his attorneys, Joe Margulies, wrote that he "has permanent brain damage," and that, "In the last two years alone, he has experienced about 200 seizures"), it seems unlikely that any of these doubts about Nasseri will ever be addressed.
For their part, the Italian authorities seem to be relying heavily on an informer, Lazhar Ben Mohamed Tlil, a Tunisian who traveled to Afghanistan to undertake military training and who is now the main source of information - for US officials as well as the Italian authorities - on the movements of Tunisians and others in Afghanistan and Europe. Three weeks ago, Italian prosecutor Elio Ramondini told the Associated Press that, without Tlil, the prosecution of the Guantanamo suspects in Italy "is not difficult, it is impossible."
Whether Tlil deserves this star billing is unknown. His testimony may, for example, be unreliable, but perhaps a court can sort that out if he remains cooperative. For now, his lawyer has explained that he is "unhappy with Italy's witness protection program," and feels "abandoned," and that, as a result, he is "threatening to withhold testimony," both from the Americans, who want him to testify in the United States, and also from the Italian prosecutors.
Just as troubling, given the lack of information about the circumstances of the men's transfer to Italy, is the fact that theItalian government announced on Tuesday that it was still looking at a number of other cases of prisoners in Guantanamo. Franco Frattini, the foreign minister, said that Italy has agreed "to take in others," but added, "we haven't pinpointed yet" which prisoners to take.
If trials are justified on the basis of genuine evidence of wrongdoing, then it will presumably be acceptable that extraditions, expulsions or "renditions to justice" are a new tool for a president who has allowed so many doors to shuton his plans to close Guantanamo, but without transparent and reliable assurances that trials will be fair, and that the men will receive credit for their lost years in Guantanamo, I fail to see how this deal between Barack Obama and Silvio Berlusconi can be regarded as a valid step forward in bringing to an end the injustices of Guantanamo and the "War on Terror."


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Jay Ambler wrote: When he was still known as Billy Jack, Haynes made a spectactular debut in Eddie Graham's Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) beginning in either the Winter of 1982 or January 1983. He had a strong push by none other than Dusty Rhodes and Mike Graham. With Haynes case it was unique because the Graham promotion openly acknowledged Haynes' prior success in the Pacfic Northwest promotion. In fact for weeks on CWF's Saturday evening program, hosted by the great Gordon Solie, ran commercials indicating that Haynes was coming and going to make a huge debut, quickly becoming a fan favorite. He would do promotions where he would implore kids to stay away from drugs and stay in school.
Haynes often tagged with the likes of Rhodes, Graham, Blackjack Mulligan and Barry Windham. Haynes then began a series of matches against Kendo Nagaski (JP), who was known to carry and at times use a kendo stick. The series of matches were known as the the 'Full Nelson' (Haynes' finish move) versus the kendo stick. The series climax when Haynes won the CWF Florida belt in March 1984.
At the same time Superstar Billy Graham was making a run in Florida pairing up with Kevin Sullivan. Haynes and Graham began a series of matches to determine who was the true strong man. These matches were also centered around arm wrestling contests. This culminated in Graham defeating Haynes in June 1984 for the Florida belt. In my opinion the feud between Haynes and Graham was legendary, on par with Rhodes-Graham matches in the late 1970s.


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He has an axe to grind. Some selfish motive in the background: some personal interest to answer. Franklin tells of a man who wanted to grind his axe, but had no one to turn the grindstone. Going to the yard where he saw young Franklin, he asked the boy to show him how the machine worked, and kept praising him till his axe was ground, and then laughed at him for his pains.
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Justin Theroux is running a filmic trifecta at Sundance this year. He steals Zoe Cassavetes's Broken English out from under Parkey Posey with a dazzling performance as a self-loving L.A. actor (is there another kind?); in David Wain's Biblical takeoff The Ten, he plays what he calls "Jesus Christ, or something"; and then there's Dedication, his first directorial effort, a New York–set dark-toned romantic comedy starring Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore, which the Weinstein Co. snapped up for a cool $4 million. We spoke to Theroux the day after Dedication's premiere and found him sporting a hand-drawn "Brad Pitt 2006" T-shirt and a necklace made of human teeth.


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The Timberwolves spent the 48 hours heading into Friday's 114-101 win over the Pistons stressing the necessity to stay calm. Don't panic. Wednesday's loss to the Knicks was one game, and although there isn't a lot of wiggle room in this playoff chase, Minnesota needed to stay calm and focused so that one loss remained isolated and not the beginning of a streak.
"We just wanted to come out with more energy than we did on Wednesday," forward Kevin Love said. "We felt like we did that, jumped on them early. And you know, we played a good 3 ½ quarter, so we were happy."
Now, the challenge is to continue this new stretch of momentum against a Toronto Raptors team on Sunday that is playing sound basketball. Don't be fooled by the franchise's name recognition (they haven't had a winning record since 2006-07) or by the fact that they're not part of the Eastern Conference's two-horse race between Miami and Indiana. The Raptors are 34-26, they currently have their third best winning percentage in franchise history and they're currently battling to hold onto that third spot in the conference.
Part of it comes from a mid-season move. The Raptors traded Rudy Gay to Sacramento in December for John Salmons, Greivis Vasquez, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. Since then, they've gone 27-12.
"They made that trade and ever since they've played really well," coach Rick Adelman said. "They're deeper, their whole bench is basically because of the trade. They're all good players. So yeah, they're a solid team. Their two guards are very, very good. And they've got size inside. But I think when they made that trade, it basically gave them three guys that come right off the bench for them."
Toronto is 12-12 against the West, and they're 16-14 on the road.
Coming into this four-game home stand, it looked like if the Wolves did drop a game it would likely be against the Raptors. Now, after the Knicks loss, this game becomes a must-win to keep their hopes of a potential 3-1 home stand alive and to stay above .500.
The key is making sure that win or lose the Wolves have the same mentality the next day and the next game. "We have to do that going forward," Kevin Martin said. "We can't have any lapses like we did in the first quarter versus the Knicks, because in this league all it takes is a team to get hot and they're hard to stop—especially when you have talented players like the Knicks do. But we put the game behind us, and we came out last night with a great effort and we'll come out tomorrow with the same effort."
Rubio Stands Tall
Statistically, Kevin Love and Andre Drummond are second and third in the NBA in rebounding—Love is No. 2 with 13.2 boards per game, and Drummond is third at 12.9. Greg Monroe and Nikola Pekovic, at 9.0 and 9.1, respectively, are in the top 20 in that same category.
Yet with all four of them on the floor at the same time on Friday night, it was Ricky Rubio who stood tallest in the first quarter. For much of that first frame, Rubio led all players with rebounds. He finished with five in the first and eight overall (to go along with 11 points and nine assists), and by the quarter's end only Kevin Love's five equaled Rubio on the floor.
When Rubio is clicking, he's lauded for not only being able to impact the game with his passes but also with the way he crashes the glass. He ended up with more rebounds on Friday night than Drummond (seven), one fewer than Pekovic (nine) and just behind Love (14) and Monroe (15). Not bad for a 6-foot-4 point guard.
"I didn't realize it, but I was kind of lucky because a couple of times the ball went to my hands," Rubio said. "I was feeling like Kevin Love."
Love said Rubio helped out as the bigs inside were going pound-for-pound early.
"There were a lot of shots going off the back rim like there was the other night—there weren't a lot of rebounds for the big guys to be had," Love said. "And you know at the end of the night Pek and Drummond kind of canceled each other out I guess."
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Zeroing an Eotech 512
Title pretty well sums it up really. I took my M1A out to the range to zero in my new Eotech. I started at 25 yards and was punching such a tight pattern that I had to get up close to see multiple impact points. It was very small, 1/2" MOA or even a little less.
25 yards seemed a little close for a .308 so I moved out to 100. But I found that the reticule almost totally obscured the target at that range. I moved all the way in to 50 yards even then then the reticule was slightly bigger then the 1" bullseye of my target. Where do you guys sight in your Eotechs?
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First off, it is a combat sight not a target sight.
I use a 50 yard zero for my 5.56 and .308. This link should help out with the sight in. http://www.eotech-inc.com/documents/...ire_Target.pdf |
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I sighted it at 25m. not sure about .308, but it'll put 5.56 right on target at 300m
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Actually... The more I think about it... Your 512 i'll assume has the standard ring/dot reticle. Your ring is 65mils, your dot in the center is 1mil. Which translates to 1" at 100m. So the dot SHOULD cover the 1" bullseye at 100m.
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Signs reading âPHOTO ENFORCEDâ still hung at four intersections previously monitored by the cameras, though they were deactivated Friday.
All five of the cityâs cameras were left mounted despite being turned off, according to Cpt. Dennis Vrooman of the Murrieta Police Department.
âThey will not be removed due to litigation by ATS (American Traffic Solutions, the company providing the cameras to the city),â Vrooman said.
The cameras had to go dark as a result of the passage of Measure N, which Murrieta residents approved 57 to 43 percent in November. The measure passed an ordinance â" against most of the council membersâ wishes â" that will outlaw the cameras.
The council accepted the results Dec. 4, and the ordinance became law 10 days later.
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âIâm happy theyâre turned off,â said Diana Serafin, who led the charge. âItâs a good Christmas present.â
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Murrieta police officials reported the number of broadside collisions declined after the cameras went up, though detractors pointed to an increase in rear-end collisions.
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The original writ of mandate was thrown out, but they filed again, and the city was served with it last week, Murphy said.
The cityâs response to the writ was still in the works, he said.
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If i close the DataInputStream and the DataOutputStream, I get a "socket closed" exception when i try to open new ones in the "other" class (although I did not close the socket itself), whereas if I do not close the streams, I get a EOFException. :confused:
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Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon everyone. VMware had a great first quarter with record free cash flows, revenue, and operating profits. Our business was particularly strong in Europe, China, and Japan. The demand we witnessed in the December quarter somewhat unexpectedly carried over into the March quarter. We are not yet ready to assume that the world's economy is robust and believe that w4e continue to benefit from pent up customer demand on the heels of a long dry period.
Our field execution was outstanding across the board and we are seeing the benefit of our international investments particularly in Japan and China. In Europe, we closed an eight-figure ELA that included over $8 million of license bookings. This is our largest ELS since Q1 2009.
We maintained strong discipline on product discounting and even though our mix shifted from Enterprise Plus towards the SMB focused vSphere packages, we were able to maintain our blended ASPs at similar levels to those in 2009. Customers continue to adopt the vSphere platform as a strategic investment that delivers substantial cost savings, improved efficiency, and flexibility for their business.
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Hi guys need a little help from you people with the know how I have 2 6870s This one http://www.hisdigital.com/gb/product2-660.shtml And This one http://www.hisdigital.com/gb/product2-663.shtml I Tried to flash the Bios to the Black edition one XFS is it? But it didnt work so I went to revert back and my backups werent there,... Lock stock style traveling to my mates house then back again with a computer to flash a bios that works Put the first HIS bios running the same clock speeds that worked back on and it doesn't feel like it runs the same can anyone please look into the 11 Choices that are on the bios list and tell me which ones are for which card they don't say its just 11 Choices of 900/1050 Dont know if any of you can "read" the bios to get the right ones with right connections and fan speeds and everything? Any help would be appreciated Chris
Hi To test these vga bios files; ensure they will not brick your cards look here http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=340398&postcount=24 and follow instructions If you open Detail and read it should say; example http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/109591/HIS.HD6870.1024.110816.html This is the first card core and mem and ports look the same HIS requires 900 core and 1050 mem [4200 divided by 4 = 1050] download GPU-Z here http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/ run gpu-z and upload a screen shot from the HIS card Note: dont forget to uninstall and reinstall drivers after flashing *will update if I can locate one for the IceQ Edit: Maybe this http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/112604/HIS.HD6870.1024.110727.html This is the second card core and mem and ports look the same atb (all the best) Law-II
Hi It may be possible that the vga card/s were damaged; when flashed with the wrong bios. Note: other members of TPU may be able to upload a more upto date vga bios image or maybe ask around on other forums Edit: Welcome to TPU atb Law-II
I've got a 6870 bios around here somewhere, and I'm pretty sure its a 900/1050, don't know if its HIS however, but if you have RBE I seem to remember you could changed the manufacturer or something to suit your cards. Not sure how I'm supposed to upload a .rom file however But I just remembered how to do it, so have fun, its in a zip file, attached to this wonderful edited post.......I hope Btw you may want to check that bios over, as I honestly cannot remember wtf I've done to it in terms of voltages etc etc etc. Anyhow, good luck with it all matey.
Thats the 11 I have to choose from, Ive seen those i just wondered if any of you could read the file and see exactly which one is for which card, would HIS send them to me if i asked ? Also why didnt the XFX ones work? they seam to work from most people but both my cards didnt take them, and these cards cant be manually overclocked AT ALL useless, just ati driver has crashed blah blah blah, If id have known now that these cards were like this id have left them in the shop and saved some more ..... One thing is for sure, I shall be flashing the cards one at a time lol
Hi You could try but any warranty went out of the window when they were flashed This has been done - here [would it be to much to ask for a thank you!] Because XFX Bios image is not meant for HIS vga cards - were drivers uninstalled and the vga cards flashed separately at a dos prompt What cards are Most people using; are they reference design; what are you trying to achive, higher clocks, mem, voltage or other nb: most people use software to OC, afterburner or other atb Law-II
Cheers Law, Big help I'll give those two a try a bit later, if this week is anything to use as a guide my cards will be stuffed. Can someone please tell me what is meant by reference cards ? I presume just a board brought from ati that's then fiddled with and has new bits put on new bios's stuff like that? but wouldn't that make all cards that aren't directly from AMD reference cards? The drivers weren't removed no :S and both cards stupidly flashed at once, I kind of just jumped into it after reading a few boards and made a big boo boo I never have any luck with overclocking with software just crashes all the time
Hi Reference card comes with reference PSB and cooler in most cases Example However some of AMD's addin board partners choose to enhance the reference design; at this Point The Card becomes Non-Reference: For example but not limited to: tweaked memory timmings, higher quality VRM's and or Third Party coolers such as the HIS IceQ cooler including Bios Images For software OC using Afterburner; both cards have to be the same core and mem speed. Factors to be built in to the OC process -Fabrication process of the GPU [differs from one to another some OC well and other not so well] -the cards are different [General Rule of Thumb; find out the max OC for each card individually and then use the lowest OC for both cards, increase 5~10Mhz on core in stages test at each stage, if the system freezes you have gone to far, lower the OC by 40Mhz and then start the same process with the MEM increase 5~10Mhz once you get artifacts back the OC down by 40Mhz; Use GPU-Z to keep an eye on VRM Temps these can rise quickly when OC's are applied Keep these between 70~80c : 85c Max] -Adjust vga card fan speed manualy -Be aware that some games do not like OC's and testing with each game as well as benchmarks is nessasary -Coolers differ [while one card may cope well with heat the other may not; Place the cooler card at the bottom when in crossfireX] -Make sure the OC is synchronised, most third party OC software will allow for this -Make sure the drivers are stable; if they are unstable they will crash the OC -Check that the motherboard is setup and chipset drivers are up to date [Run CPU and MEM at default speeds while testing vga card OC] atb Law-II
And they all should have that big white AMD logo on the bottom above PICE golden fingers(hence made to AMD specs) non-Reference will not have this logo.IS the easy way to tell them apart. I also forgot all Reference boards came and still come in black pcb......... OK IF your card is the black pcb try this BIOS http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/88738/HIS.HD6870.1024.101004_1.html If it is the one you posted (the last version on non-reference board then use LawII one above . They way that BIOS data base works is newest at top the oldest At the bottom. Your links point to the last 2 versions HIS made of the 6870 so the (1 and 3) top most BIOS versions will work,Yes make sure you flash ICE version separate from the other one.
Cheers guys Its all sorted now, Both of the ones Law picked were right funny thing is I'd randomly put the IceQ one on already was the same when I went to change it, the second card must have been wrong and causing the random little artifacts, Thats all gone now though thanks Am currently running i5 2500k @ 4.7 with both GFX cards Running at 920 1090 with no crashing Thanks LFCEVO
Glad to hear and welcome to TPU ps please fill out the system specs under your user control.Will help with reply's if we know them just by clicking it under your name.


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geo-engineering: 1/5 of 5
The melting Arctic - John Nissen's emergency call to action
Tomás d'Ornellas
15th December 2015
The Earth faces an imminent crisis caused by runaway Arctic warming. So says climate campaigner John Nissen, who travelled to COP20 in Lima to impress the dangers on delegates - and urge them to emergency action to cool the Arctic before it's too late. Tomás d'Ornellas, editor of Tecnews.pe, met him there ... more...Geo-engineering: climate solution or dangerous distraction?
1st September, 2009
The launch of the Royal Society's report on geo-engineering raises the spectre of a quick-fix solution to climate change. But is it that simple? more...Dumping iron sulphate into the ocean, or, how to 'geo-engineer' the climate
Jim Thomas
24th February, 2009
Climate change due to human interference with fragile ecosystems? No problem - we can just dump 20 tonnes of iron sulphate into the ocean more...How to be free: Endogenous growth theory
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden is truth, beauty and lots of good food... more...Salton Sea: desolation in the desert
Manuela Hübner
1st July, 2008
A sobering, disturbing yet humorous look at the journey of a holiday resort 50 miles south of Palm Springs from utopia to apocalypse. more...
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Dock4Droid Full v1.7.8
Requirements: Android OS
Overview: Dock4Droid is the first Dock task manager for the Android platform
Dock4Droid is the first Dock task manager for the Android platform. You can quickly access your running tasks from anywhere you currently are in your phone and launch new apps from the current screen. Icons are rendered in a wave-like parabolic view and tasks are accessed by sliding your finger on the dock.
You can add custom launchers and exclude apps from the Dock.
Now Dock4Droid supports also your favorite contacts to appear in the Dock so you can use it as a quick dial solution.
Dock4Droid is fully localized into Italian - many thanks to Michael Lepori.
This app is a lite version but fully functional. In the paid version you may access all sort of different settings, including: unlimited number of launchers, excludes and contacts, background colors, wake-amplitude etc...
Recent changes:
- nicer contact icons - consistent look with launcher icons
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Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth Century RussiaRussia has endured more bloodshed than any other European country in the twentieth century. Yet, while countries such as Germany have learned the value of confronting the darker side of their own pasts, Russia has never faced the reality of its troubled history in a meaningful and collective way. In this provocative and highly original book, Catherine Merridale asks Russians difficult questions about how their country's volatile past has affected their everyday lives, their aspirations, their dreams, and their nightmares. Based on extensive research including rare imperial archives, Soviet propaganda, memoirs, letters, newspapers, literature, psychiatric studies, and texts, as well as interviews with doctors, priests, social workers, policemen, survivors, gravediggers, and funeral directors, Night of Stone seeks answers to the questions: What is the true impact of violence in the Soviet century? How successfully have the Russians psychologically rewritten their own histories? What rituals have survived the Soviet regime, and what do they tell us of the Russian mentality? Reminiscent of the highly successful The Hour of Our Death, Night of Stone is an emotionally wrenching, eloquent work that will appeal to all readers of Russian and European history as well as anyone interested in the processes of memory. |
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Earth's Star Force Marines invade an alien world!
In the second book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs has another bad year. The Nano ships have a new mission - one that sentences their pilots to death. Meanwhile, the governments of Earth want to steal Star Force's Nano technology for their own. Worst of all, Earth has made a promise to the Macros, and the machines are coming to collect.
Extinction is the story of Earth's entry into an interstellar war between living creatures and machines. And to buy the peace, we've signed up with the machines.
Battle stations! Listen to another Star Force novel.
©2011 B. V. Larson (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
"Much less than it could have been"
This is the seconds book in the Larson's Star Force series. I liked the direction the first book took, I thought there were some interesting things the series could explore and decided to ignore the problems with the first book and see where the second book went. Well now I know, we went to lazyville. Lawson must have written this book in about a week. The plot is silly, the characters are flat and the science has left the building.
Very sad, this could have been a very interesting series. I think Larson has the ability to write a much better book. But for some reason he just seems to be cranking out these books like cheap romance novels. Maybe that is how a writer needs to pay the bills these days - Volume. I think there are about another 9 books in this series, but I am in no hurry to read the rest.
On the brighter side, Mark Boyett did a great job narrating the book!
"The Kyle Rigs Show"
Kyle Rigs is special. He's the sort of hero who knows better than everyone, about pretty much everything. If an officer gives an order, he'll countermand it. Sure hell do the same thing later, but he's Riggs. He's so smart that he's not only better than anyone else to run the new tech, he's better than all other people combined. These are the glaring and reoccurring things. Leave aside failing to remember little bits of science like inertia. That's okay, he's The Riggs and not bound by foolish things like planning, military disciple, or a rudimentary appreciation of self replicating factories. Thinking and behavior that could be excused in the surprise and crisis of the first book continue on a larger and more costly scale.
"Too much Superhero"
The first book was really good, but in this one, Kyle Riggs was a little too great. This guy does everything but leap tall buildings.
I doubt that I will read anymore in this series.
I've been a member a lot longer than one year--that is all.
"Rip AND Roaring"
This series so far hasn't sent me into periodic episodes of deep contemplation and introspection, but it HAS provided one helluva lot of fun. So long as you don't try to think too deeply about various premises and events and just go with it, you're in for some quality, good ol' SF entertainment.
I am an artist and I love to listen to books while I work. Books have always been an important part of my life. Audible Rocks!
"Enjoyable Scifi, Marines in space."
I think there are a lot of interesting ideas and concepts. I enjoy this series, but it is not one that I wait all year for the next one like the destroyermen and lost fleet series'.
Also I find the commander's girlfriend very annoying. Obviously the author identifies with his hero so he gave him a beautiful 23 year old bimbo with a great body and limited brains, that loves sex, for his companion.
I could really do without that character.
Some of the other characters are really great characters. I love Jack and the general. Most of the others just are placeholders for the story with no depth.
The story is really the star of the books.with many twists and surprises. The technology is interesting and The books keep my interest, but I don't think I will re read the series when the next one comes out as I do with the In Death series or the destroyermen books.
Good, enjoyable, worth the credit but forgettable afterwards. not 5 stars
"Very Middle of The Road"
The narrator sounds a lot like Brian Cranston from Breaking Bad. Not that that is a bad thing or anything that is just how Kyle Riggs looks like to me now. I would definatley try the next book in the series just to finish the series but it did not blow me away.
No my friends don't like sci fi so if wanted to get them hooked i would not recommend this one.
Heisenberg Breaking Bad
Yes get The Lost Fleet series
The story didn't blow me away and just getting the main character's perspective is getting old. I would love to have seen the humans attack from the the eyes of one of the aliens they went up against.
"Disappointing for a sequel"
In the the first Star Force, Larson created a credible tale of unknown alien technology and AIs sent to Earth to assist in a battle against a machine intelligence ready to invade and conquer. Our intrepid hero, Kyle Riggs saved the day by deciphering the alien technology and developing various successful attack modes. In the end, Kyle negotiated a truce with the promise of thousands of nano-enhanced human soldiers fighting as mercenaries for their previous enemy.
In the latest installment, Kyle must first deal with Earth governments that now with the removal of the alien threat, have decided to return to their historical roles of infighting. Kyle is determined to fulfill his duty of human mercenaries and proceeds to build an army.
Rather than attempt to double-cross the aliens, Kyle leads this army into battle against an unknown planet in an unknown star system with worm-like intelligent life. There is much musing and philosophical hand wringing about biota fighting biota, rather than teaming up to battle the machines, but Kyle has dug himself such a deep hole, he has little choice but to practice genocide on the first biological alien species that Earth encounters.
Overall, the battles are boring and mundane with a totally unsatisfying ending. Traveling through wormholes to stab a worm is hardly the stuff of interstellar sci-fi battles. It's likely that Kyle will return to an even more messed up Earth with the only conclusion that both machine and human intelligence are not fit for existence in the universe.
If there is a book 3, the universe would be better if the machines took over and put Kyle out of his and readers' misery.
"This Book Turns My Stomach!"
The first book in this series was reasonably good. It was told from the standpoint of a guy who was put in a new situation, and how he reacted. But this second book is just ridiculous. The more I listened to it, the sicker I got.
The lead character is an arrogant, egotistical, selfish know-it-all and his girlfriend is a sex-crazed bimbo.
- How does some college professor all of a sudden have total control of the world's most dominant military force? Because he found it first?
- With all of the brilliant minds and governments all over the world, how does this guy speak for all of mankind and make deals on its behalf?
- How does he alone design star ships and tanks with no knowledge of industrial design? How arrogant is he to think he couldn't use the help of qualified engineers the world over?
- Why would seasoned military veterans follow him?
- How does he go to planets no one has ever seen and take no scientists with him, only vowing to "take tons of pictures for the spooks back home?"
His girlfriend is even worse. He says he loves her, but she has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. She's a whiny, complaining, possessive sidekick whose only asset seems to be her sexual prowess.
I've listened to more than 500 books on Audible, and I have never had a book affect me in this way. The sheer arrogance of a person who takes alien technology and keeps it for himself and from his country, essentially proclaiming himself the head of his own little nation. It's just sickening.
"What a waste of time!"
Really? Book one wasn't that bad but book 2 was horrible. I kept hoping it would get better but it never did. Everybody on the planet is an idiot except for the main character who knows everything about everything. And his girlfriend???? Was there ever a more annoying character? Jarjarbinks I guess would be the only one who could top her.
The story is OK, but something is missing. The main character's personality changes significantly even though Star Force #2 picks up immediately where Star Force #1 it left off. Riggs goes from being a creative computer science professor to an arrogant commander, physics guru and master astronomer without explanation.
The book is like eating Taco Bell at 3:00am, you regret the engagement after the first bite, but decide you might as well finish.
Could have been worse.
"enjoyable not as good as the first"
enjoyable and didn't have to think too much.would recommend if you enjoy SciFi then give it a go
"great book."
Excellent 2nd book. What does book three have installed for readers. Good Read. next book.
"Not as good as the first"
Yes. Relaxing and interesting.
Most of the time looking forward to what comes next.
Some of the characters becoming predictable, hopefully the 'girlfriend' gets killed off quite quickly!
Accents for characters interesting. Some good, but some comically awful, especially the rather dubious ship voice.
Yes, not as good as the first but willing to give the third a try.
"Better Than The First In The Series"
I was in two minds whether to read this second book in the Star Force series
after my rather ambivalent feelings regarding the first. however, I tend to
give a first book in any series the benefit of the doubt if I'm not sure and
so I purchased Star Force: Extinction to see if this series is worthy of
continuing with. Don't get me wrong, I really like B V Larson's writing when
I first came across his work in the Undying Mercenaries series but was a
little under whelmed with the first book in the Star Force series in overall
terms despite its promising beginnings.
The second instalment of this series picks up directly where the first left
off seeing our protagonist, Kyle Riggs, having negotiated a truce with the
Macro's and now wondering just how he is going to deliver on that. This
story is really a book of two halves as it were in story terms. The first
part is very much like the first in terms of much of the key elements being
present. I was becoming more and more hopeful that the irritating character
of Crow would finally be expunged from this series until he makes an
annoying re-appearance in chapter 11. The Sandra character is still pretty
much just a sex object for Riggs and it seems whenever he's with her that he
cannot think of much else but ogling her or having sex. In the best of
circumstances this might be more understandable but there are several
instances where Riggs remarks on her shapely form etc after having fought
for his life! Kind of strange to me but hey, what do I know, I've never been
in combat.
Where this book redeems itself is in the second act that sees Riggs and
company deliver on their deal with the Macros and head off to parts unknown
to fight for their new machine task masters. This is where Larson excels in
his depiction of strange alien worlds that have different types of stars
shining in their skies than the yellow stars like our own Sol. Further,
unlike a lot of pulp science fiction where the gravity on alien planets
always seems to be the same as Earth's we find our Nano enhanced Marines
land upon an alien world that is almost twice the gravity of our Earth, an
unbreatheable atmosphere and a red giant star for a sun. The indigenous life
too are anything but humanoid and pose a formidable adversary to the Riggs'
ground pounders. Brutal and visceral fighting takes place and this is where
Larson always manages to deliver as he does in the Undying Mercenaries
We also find that the Macros appear to have some exotic faster than light
speed travel technology which is depicted in an unusual way I thought
interesting. Not entirely original, of course, but a different
implementation that is not space based.
Just a couple of minor plot anomalies I noticed in this story. The first was
that it was stated that the language used by the Nanos and Macros was
basically the same and yet in the first book Riggs had to do quite a bit of
work to decode the language as his Nano ship had evidentially not been able
to translate it. The second thing comes near the closing stages of the book
where a character called Sloane is injured in his tank and has compound
fractures to his legs as I recall. However, in just a few minutes he appears
to be able to run along with a Nano filament without any difficulties. I
know that Nano troops have a much faster healing ability than unmodified
humans but this seems to me to be an error from Larson. As ever though, such
minor observations do not affect my enjoyment of this story in the least.
If the second part of this book is now the pattern for forthcoming stories
in this series then I am going to be reading more of these books. If you
were unsure, like me, after reading the first book in this series then I can
recommend this one as I found it a much better and satisfying read than the
I can see that Larson does appear to have gotten much of his inspiration for
this and his undying Mercenaries combat narrative from the Starship Troopers
movie. There was a line in this book that I had heard in the aforementioned
film where Riggs tells a nervous officer that he has the job now until he
dies or is replaced by someone better or words to that effect. I like this
influence as it makes for a fairly rare breed of science fiction that isn't
afraid to get down and dirty and avoid being overly cerebral.
"Let down by 2-d, stereotypical characters"
The sense of adventure is well captured but, as I say in the headline, it's let down by two dimensional characters; in particular Sandra's character; she is written as nothing more than an object of the main character's sexual desire. In fact, so far, the first and second volumes of the 'Star Force' have been passively misogynistic.
Hmmm. Maybe. I'd like to see how the story pans out but as the character interaction is simplistic and the misogyny irritating. I doubt these themes will change throughout the series so I'm not sure I'll bother. There's plenty more (and better) sci-fi in the sea...
Sometimes his dialogue between the main character and Sandra is just outright creepy; I lost count of the amount of time I cringed. But then, this could be down to the writer, so, hey, possibly not Mark Boyett's fault and perhaps the best anyone could have done with the material.
It has one.
This is a great following story in the series. longer than previous books and so worthy of a 5star review. on to the next.
"loved it"
great story. looking forward to reading the next book in the series. it's simple easy to follow but great plot
"Good clean alien fun"
Was looking for more after the first book but this was still good, enjoyable and fun. This is not complex scifi but fun and fluffy.
"Good continuing of the story"
In general - to say very short - if you liked the first book in the series, you'll like this one too.
I think that this book is a very well made continuing to the first one. What I liked most about it is that at the very beginning of the book there were no usual phrases "and after a week... month... year... since the last book ended, happened this and that". No, there was a feeling like you never had put down the first book at all, it continued just were it had left us, in the exact spot. I loved that fact because that way I didn't lose any of the details of the story as a whole. It really helps to blend in with the main character, too.
I have to admit that sometimes the surprises in the book were unexpected like it was supposed to be but sometimes you were waiting for the main character to at last see what you already predicted long ago. But I didn't let it ruin the joy of reading the book. :) Starting the next one in the series already. ;)
And like I said when I reviewed the first book, the narrator is just amazing!
"A good follow up to the first book"
I really enjoyed the first book in this series. It had a reality about it that some other science fiction lacks. I haven't been a big fan of SF in the past for this reason. The first book captured my imagination and I found the alien invasion believable and consequently fascinating. My fear for the second book is that it could have easily moved in to the fantasy realm. Thankfully my concerns were unfounded. The second book is great. Exciting and progressing the story well.
I will be buying book 3 very soon!