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Deana had never been this excited about a camping trip before. Every inch of her teenage body was alive with desire. The small but perky nipples stuck out like hard little bullets wanting to be tantalized again. Her pulsating pussy ached to be touched and fucked repeatedly.
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Part 6 camping with Daddy & Tommy
Deana had never been this excited about a camping trip before. Every inch of her teenage body was alive with desire. The small but perky nipples stuck out like hard little bullets wanting to be tantalized again. Her pulsating pussy ached to be touched and fucked repeatedly. However, she decided to wait until they were at the campsite to continue things. Deana had a plan to do something that she'd only dreamed about. Ever since daddy told her it would be just the two of them on this trip, she fantasized about what it would feel like to have sex out in the open, next to a campfire under a star lit sky.
Deana looked over at her Tommy then back at daddy and chirped, "Hurry up and get dressed guys, let's go camping!"
Daddy flashed Deana a seductive grin and replied, "I'm ready to do more than just camping, aren't you Tommy"
Tommy tried to zip his pants around his half swollen cock and shouted, "You bet! Can't you see how excited my still is"
She licked her lips and said, "Oh Yeah, it makes my pussy drool with excitement."
Daddy laughed and said, "Well you two better calm down or I won't b e able to drive with a clear mind."
Deana and Tommy both said, "Okay pops!"
The three of sat in silence as Daddy drove toward there destination.
As the truck pulled off the highway onto an asphalt road then after a few miles turned onto a gravel road. After awhile they saw a sign that said, "Robertson lake one mile ahead."
Soon dad drove off the road toward a grove of trees near a small lake next to it was an abandoned camp site.
Daddy looked over at the two of them and shouted, "Well we're here. What do you think"
Deana's eyes lit up, "Oooh Daddy this is perfect!"
Tommy grinned mischievously as he answered, "Wow, just right for a weekend of fucking, with no one around to interrupt out play."
Daddy laughed, "You got that right!"
They three of them were so excited they could hardly unload the truck.
Daddy took a breath and shivered, in attempt to stay calm while making camp. His mind was filled with many thoughts of what he and Tommy would do to Deana. The image of the two of the fucking her at the same time made his cock hard. This weekend would be special, because he could have sex with Deana without the fear of Momma catching them.
As Tommy helped, his body trembled with anticipation. Except for fucking Deana, he had never been this excited about anything. His dad never took him camping, and momma was always too busy for him. Now here he was with his girl and her dad on a camping trip. Tommy's mind was filled with different sexual positions he's seen only in his father's porn movies. His cock oozed pre-cum as he imagined what they could all be doing after supper.
After the tent was pitched, Deana started setting up a small table and some chairs. While Tommy helped her daddy walked over to inspect the fire-pit.
Deana's dad told Tommy that the fire-pit needed a few more rocks around it and sent him down to the lake to get some.
After lining it, Dad stood up and complimented Tommy, "Thanks for your help, now all we need is some firewood. Then I can put the prepared dinners on the hot coals."
Deana walked over to them and heard her dad say all that was needed was firewood. "Hi guy. Daddy, Tommy and I can go get some wood."
Tommy nodded in agreement as his stomach growled and he admitted, "Yeah, I'm getting kind of hungry."
The two of them went toward the trees to gather wood for the fire. It didn't take long for her dad to have a fire going.
Deana went over and got the tinfoil dinners out of the ice chest and took them over to daddy.
While daddy placed them on the fire, Tommy moved the chairs around the fire. We all sat and watched the flames for a few minutes.
Dad watched the fire and wasn't paying much attention to Tommy and me. Tommy cleared his throat and when Deana glanced over at him; found he had his pants pushed down around his knees and his cock standing at attention, begging for her lips.
She scooted over to him and sat down on the ground in front of his. Tommy's cock was swaying in front of her face as if it had a life of its own. Deana licked her lips, moaned softly as she grasped it and guided it toward her slightly parted lips.
Deana's lips touched the silky swollen purple knob of Tommy's cock. Her tongue flicked out to catch the drop of pre-cum oozing from the tip.
She purred, "Mmm, I love the taste of your cum Tommy." Afterwards she opened her lips and engulfed his cock.
While looking into her loving eyes Tommy slid his cock into her mouth. Her lips felt warm, soft and velvety as they slid down his shaft.
"Oh God baby, I love the way to suck me."
Her dad looked up from the fire just in time to see Deana sucking Tommy's hardened member. The sight before him fueled the fire in his loins and his dick pulsated and hardened aching for release.
At first her dad just sat there watching Deana and Tommy. He then stood up, unzipped his pants, dropped them to his ankles, grasped his cock and began to stroke it slowly.
Daddy then exclaimed, "Don't mind me kids, I'm enjoying the show! Oh God, that's it, Deana, suck his cock good make him cum for daddy!"
Deana kept on sucking Tommy and watching her daddy out of the corner of her eyes. She was happy that he approved of what she was doing.
Tommy reveled in the moment as in his wildest dreams he never thought he would be doing this. Maybe this was all a dream. He shook his head, blinked his eyes, the tightening of his balls and the movement of his hips told him that the mouth around his prick was real.
He gasped from between clenched teeth and squealed, "Oh fuck, Deana, I'm going to shoot this hot fucking load right down your throat! Ohhhh, suck it baby, it feels so good!"
Her dad watched and began to feverously stroke his cock. He knew Tommy was going to cum soon and he would too. As soon as Tommy filled Deana's mouth her daddy's balls tightened, his cock went rigged, and he shot a spurt of my hot sticky cum onto the ground before him.
Deana licked her lips and purred, "Wow, what a way to initiate a hot-fucking week-end!"
All Daddy and Tommy did was nod their heads in agreement.
Afterwards they cleaning themselves up, got dressed, and then sat down to enjoy supper.
Daddy told them it was getting dark, so he would do the dishes as Deana and Tommy made sure there was enough wood on the fire.
Tommy got some of the wood they had gathered and stoked the fire. Then sat down next to Deana, pulled her close, kissed her passionately and then confessed. "You know something girl, I don't think I have had a better time camping."
Deana trembled with desire and admitted, "Me neither, never in my wildest dreams did I ever realize how my world would change this year."
Her dad had just returned to the campfire, saw the two teens holding each other and talking. He smiled and asked, "What are you kids talking about"
Tommy looked up and answered, "We were telling each other how much we love this camping trip."
Deana shuffled her feet and looked at her two favorite men. She loved the way they had introduced her to fucking. He body quivered in desire, and she shrieked, "Oh God, I don't think I will ever get enough of you two. I think I will love and fuck you both forever!"
Daddy sat down next to Deana, with him on one side and Tommy on the other. He grinned and confessed, "I like that idea, as long as your mom never finds out. If she does, were in deep shit."
Tommy cleared his throat and asked, "To bad, we cannot make her a part of this. Forgive me if I hurt your feelings, but she is one hot-sexy mother, I'd love to fuck."
Her dad chuckled, "That would be so fucking hot, but she is too frigid to enjoy this."
Deana thought for a moment then suggested, "Do you really think so I remember hearing you guys fuck well into the night and mom sounded pretty hot."
Her dad's mind went back to his wedding night, when mom and he could not get enough of each other. They fucked all night and through-out the next day. They made love in just about every place one could do it, in bed, the shower, in the Jacuzzi, and even naked on the beach under a star lit sky. Tears formed in his eyes, and his cock started to harden as his mind wandered through the sexy hot memories.
He frowned and looked at the two teens and answered, "She was when we first got married, but over the years, your mom's sex drive has dwindled. I have to almost beg for sex now."
Deana licked her lips hungrily and flashed her dad a sultry smile. "I bet we could find a way to see just how sexy mom really is, as I think she's bluffing."
Her dad laughed and questioned, "Think so"
Before he could say another word, Tommy joined in and suggested, "I bet I could find out. I noticed that she watches me every time I come to the house. It the same kind of look that Deana gives me and you cannot tell me that she's not after my hot body."
Her dad, sighed and exclaimed, "Let's think about this tomorrow as see what we can come up with, for now, my cock is too hard for me to think about anything but Deana's hot, sexy, cunt!"
Deana body quivered with desire, she stood and took her everything off. As the campfire silhouetted her body she asked the two men, "What do you think"
Tommy felt his cock harden and gasp in awe at Deana's naked body. He blurted out, "You're beautiful!"
Her dad was spellbound by Deana's naked body. Her breasts were lovely, firm and round, the soft globes seemed to reach out to him, begging for a kiss on the crinkled pink nipples protruding from the center of each one. He could just barely make out her cunt. However, the wetness of it and her thighs glistened in the firelight.
"You surely are", Dad croaked.
Deana got closer to the guys so they could see what she was doing next. She then turned her back to them so they could view her perfect, tight ass. After pausing for a few seconds, she bent over; spread her legs to reveal her soft inner lips, which were covered with the hot slippery juices pouring from her cunt.
Tommy sighed, stood, and removed his clothing. When his hardening dick sprang from his pants, he bellowed, "Oh fuck, Deana! Look what you're doing to my dick!"
Her dad just stared at her, unable to say anything, and removed his clothing also.
The three of them just stood there for a moment, until Deana commanded, "Will someone please get a sleeping bag to lie on the ground, and I feel like doing something sexy right here in front of the fire!" Her dad jumped up and almost fell when he ran to the tent for a sleeping bag. When he returned, Tommy was pinching Deana's nipple and she was stroking his prick.
She paused momentarily, grabbed the sleeping bag from her dad and unzipped it. She then swayed her ass and tits, for the two men while laying it on the ground near the fire.
Deana then flashed them a sultry look, patted the bag, and suggested, "There is room on here for the three of us."
Dad moved to join her first and responded, "I've been aching to do this ever since you got in the truck."
He leaned over her, lowered his lips on hers, nibbled on the lower lip, sucked it into his mouth and started gently biting it with his teeth. As her breast pressed tightly against his bare chest, the softness a stark contrast to the hard nipple rubbed adamantly against his. He then tenderly explored her lips, teeth, and tongue.
Deana responded by flicking his tongue with hers as her breathing became more labored, coming in short, jerky gasps, as her passion mounted.
He then took his right hand, reached for her right breast, then held it in his palm, and then started to gently roll the hardened nipple between his thumb and fore-finger. His cock throbbed as it pressed tightly against Deana's thigh, leaking it sticky lubricant into a puddle on atop her leg. He then lowered his head and took the perky little nipple into his mouth.
She moaned, "Ooooh God, Daddy. I love what you're doing to me and cannot wait to feel you hot, prick inside me." Her daddy looked into her eyes and whispered, "I want to fuck you until you beg me to stop."
Tommy then spoke up and yelled, "What about me, I don't want to just sit here and watch, unless you want me too Deana."
Deana looked at Tommy with a seductive look and squealed, "You can watch baby, but I would love to have you fuck my mouth as Daddy does my cunt. Would you like that"
Tommy moved over and got near her mouth and ran his hot, oozing cock across her lips, and shouted, "Open wide, here comes Tommy!"
Deana lay down on the sleeping bag, parted her legs, and urged her dad to fuck her hot wanting cunt. While he guided his cock into her wanting pussy, Tommy slipped his cock inside Deana's mouth.
It was then her dad wondered about the subject of pregnancy, after all, what would her mom do
The frown on her dad's face worried her and Deana asked, "What's wrong dad"
He stammered when he replied, "I was just wondering what we all would do if you got pregnant."
Tommy looked as if someone pulled the rug out from under him and he shouted, "Yeah, what would we do, Deana"
Deana saw the worried look on both there faces and knew she'd better say something quick or the two men would loose there erections.
"Hang on a minute, you two; don't get so freaking bent out of shape. Awhile back when I first started playing around with Tommy, I ask mom about sex and babies." She chuckled, and continued, "That conversation really scared the dickens out of her, because she took me to the doctor and got me some birth control pills."
Her dad bellowed, "Well I'll be damned your mom for once thought ahead and did the right thing."
Tommy agreed then commanded, "Let's get back to business! Suck my dick Deana!"
Deana pulled her dad close and asked, "Why don't we pick up where we left off. Fuck me daddy."
Her dad melted into her once more and rammed his cock inside Deana. Then her watched with a lustful eye as Tommy's cock slid in and out of his daughter's hot mouth.
Deana dug her heels in and started to buck wildly against her dad's cock, while sucking hungrily on Tommy's rigid pole. With her free hand she began to massage her sensitive clit, knowing her own orgasm would soon overtake her.
Tommy watched her dad and then observed Deana masturbating. "Ooooooh fuck Deana, you've made me so hot! That's it rub you clit, I'm going to cum soon!"
Deana's and Tommy's actions made her dad's balls churn wanting to release their contents. He thrust his cock in deeper, harder, and faster. All of a sudden he shouted, "Oh my sweet baby girl, your cunt feel so damn good on my dick."
Tommy then yelled, "Here it comes baby, swallow it all!"
Deana responded by clamping her legs tightly around her dad, eagerly swallowing Tommy's load, and climaxing like a freight train out of control.
The three of them rolled over onto the sleeping bag, exhausted, panting, just holding on to each other.
Dad looked over at Deana, chuckled and confessed, "Well, I'm beat. I'm going to bed down in the tent, that way; the bugs won't carry me off in the night."
Deana glanced at Tommy then back at her dad, as the devious wheels in her mind began to move. "Sounds like a good idea to me. After all you never know what may go bump in the night."
Tommy winked at her and wondered if Deana's scheming mind was thinking about a double penetration. "Yeah, one never knows what will happen in the middle of the night."
Her dad just chuckled and said, "You kids head into the tent, I'm going to put out this fire."
As he began to put out the fire her dad began thinking, 'How long will it be before those two go at it again."
The minute he crawled into the tent, her dad noticed that the two sleeping bags were unzipped making room for the three of them to sleep together. Tommy and Deana were still naked and fast asleep in each others arms with her lying in the middle of the bag.
Her dad slid onto the sleeping bag, spooning Deana. He panted her naked ass and whispered, "Better what out for who goes bump in the night, my sweet baby. Goodnight precious."
Sometime during the night Tommy had to get up to go to the bathroom. When he got back to the tent, he noticed Deana was cradled in her daddy's arms. As he slid in beside her, he was tempted to make love to her, but Deana looked so peaceful in her daddy's arms that he decided to save his energy for a morning fuck.
Her dad woke up with the sun just beginning to peek up over the trees, but that wasn't what awoke him. It was the moans and groans coming from Deana. She was laying on her side with her face about a foot of his, her eyes, though a little glazed, looked straight into his.
Her dad raised himself up on one elbow and watched Tommy. He had one of her legs held high in the air, which opened her wide for his thrusting prick. He shoved it all the way in then slowly withdrew till just the head was inside her, the soft pink flesh of her inner lips clinging moistly to him. Her juice was streaming from her gooey cunt, spreading onto her belly and thighs. Deana's tits were bouncing and jiggling at every thrust.
Her daddy watched for a few minutes, then slowly leaned forward and kissed Deana. Her lips were warm and moist as he softly pressed against her, parting slightly as their tongues did the dance of lovers.
Tommy looked over at me and said, "She likes her tits played with, daddy. Think you can handle that"
Her dad's cock began to swell and throb as he reached out and ran his fingers over her breasts, then cupped one tit in the palm of his hand as he bent down to claim the throbbing nipple between his lips.
She moaned, "Oh, Daddy, suck my nipple. Uh-huh, just like that, harder, yessssssss!"
Tommy gasped and then shouted, "I'm coming, oh god, I'm coming!"
Deana shrieked, "Don't stop now! I was almost there! I!"
Tommy weakly replied, "Sorry baby, I couldn't help but cum in your tight little cunt."
Deana groaned and frowned, "But I was so close!"
She then looked into her dad's face, almost pleading as she asked, "Daddy, make me cum, pleeaaaase!"
Her dad looked over at Tommy, who just smiled and nodded in approval. As Deana rolled onto her back as he positioned himself between her legs. He then took a hold of his stiff cock, rubbed it up and down her drenched slit, lubricating it with Tommy's cum.
Deana squealed with delight with lust in her eyes and shrieked, "Fuck me daddy, shove it in all the way!"
Her daddy rammed his cock into cunt balls deep and yelled, "Ohhhh God your cunt is so fucking tight!"
Deana thrust her hips up to meet his cock and yelled. "Daddy, fuck me hard. Slam your prick into me. Make me cum!"
Bucking wildly Deana wrapped her legs around her daddy waist, pulling his cock into her as deep as it could go. Her arms went around his neck, squashing her tits against his chest.
As Tommy watched, he could hear the squishy, slurping sounds of her dad's cock going in and out of Deana's cunt. Her moans grew louder as Deana neared climax.
Deana clenched her teeth, made and face and trembled all over. "Oh God, Daddy, fuck me harder! Faster! Aaaaaahhhhh, I'm cumming!"
Her daddy slammed his cock deeper, and harder, feeling the velvety walls of Deana's pussy milking his cock. His balls tightened, his cock swollen to even larger size.
He gasped as his cock exploded deep inside her shaking body, "Daddy's cumming!"
The three of them collapsed into each others arms, reveling in the moment as their breathing slowly returned to normal.
Tommy just grinned devilishly and proclaimed, "I think we need to go camping like this every year." Deana chirped, "I agree and one of these days, maybe momma will join us."
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One of the things that you are not considering is that back in the old times, slaves/serfs were nothing more than laborors. If there was an injury or many deaths the lords would think "thats what serfs are for." True the undead work longer with less requirements, but look at the magik that would be needed to sustain the undead. What necromancer would want to put himself under any lord? Unless he was using it as a guise and pulling the lords strings. The main point of being a necromancer is to have power, and once you have a force that large who cares about the living, he just need to take care of himself, and once he has enough power he would probably turn himself into a LITCH. great fun thoose. It is a good idea, but maybe you could try stone or wood golems. just as easy to maintain and could really take care of business without the STINK!
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NPCs (Extras) (Combative)
's comment on 2004-07-17 08:09 PM
This is good back ground, maybe have him wander the local woods for a while, but its the spells that are not quite right. The minor pick lock can be a cantrip or something of that nature, easy enough for a low lvl critter. The globe of protection and the healing are another story. I have neverheard for a mage class casting heal. Now if he was out on his own long enough I would consider him as a mid lvl ranger with some druid like spells. Have him be like a local guide for adventures traveling through his part of the woods.
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By the law they froze
Plots (Coincidence) (Side-Quest)
's comment on 2004-07-17 07:46 PM
Another plot twist is that you could have some dark arts practiced by the local Lord. Have some rumors of undead walking the lands. (chill touch and cold weather, NASTY)
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The Hellcoat
Items (Clothes) (Magical)
's comment on 2004-07-20 10:25 PM
I just read a novel that the main character had a tanned hellhound coat that could talk to people mentally if it chose to. and prefers coal to eat. could also breafth fire 3 times a day. cool concept. but you should have it give it a small benifit so that a character would like to keep it
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's comment on 2005-01-10 11:00 AM
The magical pathways is a plot all on their own.
Would this cart be heavly loaded with items all over or are the neatly packed away in trunks? If this person is seen quite often pulling large objects out of small containers, there just might be some other wizard out there trying to find out how this peddeler is traveling about the lands selling so quickely of just wanting to see what is inside all them trunks.
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March 26, 2003
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Final Report of the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans. Along with your former colleague, John Paul Hammerschmidt, I was honored to co-chair this Task Force. Copies of the Final Report, along with a Brief Guide to the Report, have been delivered to the Committee, and I ask that they be made a part of the record of today's hearing.
At the outset, I note that this Final Report is indeed the work of a task force, not of any individual member or members. While John Paul and I were privileged to chair the Task Force, the final product is the work of the overall body and speaks for itself.
I also note that all of the work of the Task Force was carried out in a very open, very public manner. Anyone with an interest in what we were doing -- and I know that included staff of the Committee -- could attend our public meetings or, shortly after each meeting, find both all the briefing slides and a verbatim transcript of the meeting on the Task Force's web site. Now that the Final Report has been issued, it, along with last summer's Interim Report, is available on the Task Force web site which will be maintained as a stand-alone site though the summer and then will be placed on the VA web site.
As you know, the Task Force was established pursuant to Executive Order 13214 issued in May 2001. Along with the two co-chairs – originally former Congressman Gerry Solomon was the other co-chair until his untimely death in October 2001 – the President appointed thirteen other members. We were a diverse group, with backgrounds in medicine, VA and DOD affairs, information management, health policy, and various other disciplines and life experiences. Some knew VA or DOD well, while, for others, Federal medicine was a new enterprise. Over time, I think we worked together very effectively. One demonstration of our effort to forge consensus is that, of our 23 numbered recommendations which, with sub-elements, comprise 35 specific recommendations – all but one was supported by the full Task Force.
The President identified improved cooperation between VA and DOD in delivering health care to those who served in the Armed Forces as one of his Administration's ten management improvements, and he established the Task Force to assist in that effort. The Task Force was given three specific missions:
- to identify ways to improve benefits and services for VA and DOD beneficiaries through better coordination of the activities of the two Departments;
- to review barriers and challenges that impede that cooperation and to identify opportunities to improve VA and DOD business practices so as to ensure high-quality and cost-effective health care; and
- to identify opportunities for improved resource allocation between VA and DOD so as to maximize the use of their resources.
The President identified improved cooperation between VA and DOD in delivering health care to those who served in the Armed Forces as one of his Administration's ten management improvements, and he established the Task Force to assist in that effort. The Task Force was given three specific missions:
- to identify ways to improve benefits and services for VA and DOD beneficiaries through better coordination of the activities of the two Departments;
- to review barriers and challenges that impede that cooperation and to identify opportunities to improve VA and DOD business practices so as to ensure high-quality and cost-effective health care; and
- to identify opportunities for improved resource allocation between VA and DOD so as to maximize the use of their resources.
As I will discuss later, as the Task Force carried out its focused work on collaboration matters, we realized that there were other issues, most notably those associated with the mismatch in VA between demand and available funding, that had to be addressed if we were to successfully deal with the primary mission of identifying ways to improve VA-DOD collaboration.
In the end, I believe that the PTF's work, as exemplified in our Final Report, adds important insights and direction on the collaboration issue. This issue is one that will continue; I do not believe that any of us on the Task Force supposed that we would have the final word, but I do believe that we have helped further the process. Our goal, from the outset, was to forge a set of recommendations that would be implemented.
Few are more aware than my co-chair, John Paul Hammerschmidt, of the challenges associated with fostering greater cooperation between VA and DOD. John Paul was the Ranking Member of this Committee when the original sharing legislation was enacted in the early 1980s and he worked on the issue until he left the Congress in 1993. The Task Force benefited greatly by his insights and perspective gained through his experience in the Congress and specifically on this Committee.
Since the Final Report speaks for itself and our work, I will not go into any detailed discussion of the specifics although, of course, I am very happy to attempt to answer any questions you may have. Instead, I will just highlight some of the more significant themes from the report.
As the Members of this Committee are only too aware, the history of VA-DOD collaboration is one of fits and starts. In the early days, after the enactment of the original Sharing Act, Public Law 97-174, back in 1982, there was a flurry of activity. However, that activity was focused almost exclusively at the local level and seemed to flourish in those locations where it was in the mutual interest of the local facilities involved.
Early in our deliberations, the Task Force identified senior leadership commitment as the linchpin of any sustained collaborative effort between VA and DOD. It was not until the mid-1990s that there was any focused leadership at the national level and that interest was not sustained. Indeed, it has only been in the last two years or so that there has been a renewed attention at the national level on increased cooperation between the Departments, interest that I believe reflects the President's attention to the issue and the creation of the Task Force.
The Task Force found that the current leadership focus within the two Departments to VA-DOD collaboration is very effective. We heard from and met with some of the key VA and DOD officials on a number of occasions. The Task Force was pleased with the activity of the Joint Executive Committee, chaired by VA Deputy Secretary Dr. Leo Mackay and DOD Under Secretary Dr. David Chu, as well as with the Health Executive Committee, chaired by Dr. Roswell and Dr. Winkenwerder. This level of leadership commitment must be sustained.
The effort of the Congress to solidify the statutory underpinning for this effort, most recently in H.R. 1911 as passed by the House in late May, is an important element in seeking to institutionalize the needed leadership but, frankly, it cannot be seen as enough by itself. I strongly urge your Committee and the other committees and subcommittees that deal with VA and DOD to maintain vigilant oversight of the two Departments and insist that they continue the current level of attention to VA-DOD collaboration.
It is also vital that the field-level managers of the two Departments come to understand the commitment of the top leadership to improved collaborative efforts between VA and DOD. Once field managers begin to see that increased success in undertakings between the Departments is recognized and rewarded, it is likely that there will be a much more sustained and consistent effort throughout the Departments.
Before I turn to some of our specific recommendations on collaboration issues, I stress one key, underlying principle of our work: the goal of improved collaboration between VA and DOD is not collaboration for the sake of collaboration, but rather that, through such activity, VA and DOD can improve timely access to quality health care and reduce the overall costs of furnishing services.
As directed in the Executive Order, the Task Force identified a number of process, institutional, and organizational barriers to improved collaboration, and our report provides specific recommendations to address these barriers. In addition to these departmental process issues, the Task Force members quickly focused on what their work would mean to the individual veteran. Specifically, they asked what should the Task Force recommend to make the transition from military service to veteran status seamless to the individual.
Early on, we decided it was important to get input from the field – from the VA medical center directors and military treatment facility commanders and their staffs engaged in the day-to-day challenge of delivering quality health care to their beneficiaries. As delineated in Appendix E of the Final Report, Task Force members and staff made a concerted effort to visit both joint venture sites and a number of co-located VA and DOD facilities.
We rapidly came to the conclusion that providing timely, high-quality health care requires effective information sharing. When you talk with clinicians at joint venture sites, you are quickly struck by the inability of the VA and DOD electronic medical record systems to readily share data. The frustration of providers is often palpable. I well remember at one of the joint venture sites I visited how delighted the staffs were that their IT experts had developed a way to display both the VistA and CHCS medical records on the same desktop so the provider could at least have access to the full medical record on one computer. This was important enough to the local leadership that they invested scarce facility resources that were intended to fund other activities to accomplish this IT collaboration. And, while this was an important step, it was clearly only a first step. The Task Force quickly identified the electronic medical record as one of our focus areas.
As we researched the electronic medical record issue further, we found that the issue was not technology – the technology exists today -- but rather the will and the leadership commitment to overcome institutional "rice bowls" and make it happen. The development and use of electronic medical records that can share data would not only foster collaboration in the delivery of health care services but also reduce medical errors and attendant costs.
As a result, development and deployment in real time of interoperable, bi-directional, standards-based electronic medical records is the centerpiece of the PTF's seamless transition recommendations. VA and DOD responsibility for an individual's health begins when the service member enters the Armed Forces. It is important to gather baseline medical information in an electronic medical record that DOD can later use to exchange appropriate information with VA in mutually understood and usable formats. Subsequently, information relevant to deployments, occupational exposures, and health conditions should follow the service member throughout the military career. As discussed in greater detail in the report, DOD's personnel tracking systems are also a vital component in correlating subsequent health problems to exposure to occupational hazards during military service and need to be adequately resourced.
Upon separation from military service, the process for determining eligibility for veterans' benefits, reviewing health status, and receiving VA health care should be timely, accurate, and seamless to the individual service member. A mandatory separation physical from DOD should set the stage, where appropriate, for a compensation and pension examination to determine the level of VA disability. When the individual separates, the DD214 should be immediately transmitted electronically to VA, not take weeks or months. The current transition process is often cumbersome, slow, and overly bureaucratic. The technology exists to make it reasonably seamless to the individual, and the Task Force felt strongly that, with continued leadership commitment, this was an achievable goal.
Earlier in my statement, I mentioned that many Task Force members and staff visited a number of joint ventures. The individual effort expended by local medical center directors and military treatment facility commanders and their staffs at these joint ventures is extraordinary, and they are clearly committed to overcoming a variety of obstacles. I also learned early on that, when you've seen one joint venture site, you've seen one joint venture site. They are all very different and, in many ways, still viewed as pilots. In addition, the separate strategic planning and management practices, personnel assignment processes, and standard IT capital investment programs of each Department generally have disregarded the needs of joint venture sites. The Task Force believed that VA and DOD should declare joint ventures to be integral to the standard operations of both Departments and made specific recommendations for action by the Joint Executive Committee, including that all proposed VA and DOD facility construction within a geographic area be evaluated as a potential joint venture.
As I noted earlier, as the Task Force addressed issues set out directly in our charge, we invariably kept coming up against concerns relating to the current situation in VA in which there is such a mismatch between the demand for VA services and the funding available to meet that demand. It was clear to us that, although there has been a historical gap between demand for VA care and the funding available in any given year to meet that demand, the current mismatch is far greater, for a variety of reasons, and its impact potentially far more detrimental, both to VA's ability to furnish high quality care and to the support that the system needs from those it serves and their elected representatives.
The PTF members were very concerned about this situation, both because of its direct impact on VA care as well on how it impacted overall collaboration. Our discussion on the mismatch issue stretched over many months and, as anyone following the work of the Task Forces already knows, it was the area of the greatest difference of opinion among the members.
Although we did not reach agreement on one issue in the mismatch area – that is, the status of veterans in Category 8, those veterans with no service-connected conditions with incomes above the geographically adjusted means test threshold – we were unanimous as what should be the situation for veterans in Categories 1 through 7, those veterans with service-connected conditions or with incomes below the income threshold.
Our recommendations, if adopted, would represent a very significant change in how the government fulfills its commitment to these veterans who represent VA's historical constituency. Recommendation 5.1 calls on the Federal government to provide full funding so as to ensure that enrolled veterans in Categories 1 through 7 are provided the current comprehensive benefit within VA's established access standards. Recommendation 5.2 provides that, in instances where VA cannot offer an appointment to enrolled Category 1 through 7 veterans within its access standards, VA would be required to arrange for care with a non-VA provider. If these recommendations become law, service-connected and low-income veterans would get needed care from VA in a timely manner, with no use of waiting lists to manage access to care.
As to Category 8 veterans, the Task Force members had legitimate disagreements. Some members believed Category 8 veterans should be treated the same as Category 1 through 7 veterans; others believed that these veterans should have access to VA but on a pay-as-you-go basis; and still others believed that the Task Force had neither the information nor the authority to make such decisions.
While we were not in agreement on the specifics of how the issue of Category 8 veterans' access to the system should be resolved, the Task Force members did agree that the status quo is not acceptable. It is not clear what Congress intended for these veterans with the enactment of the Eligibility Reform legislation or whether VA's response to that legislation has been in keeping with that intent. To the extent there was uncertainly about the impact of providing this category of veterans with access to VA care, that would now seem to be at least partially addressed, as more specific information is becoming available on their demand for service. With such information, it should be possible to engage in a full and open debate on the appropriate policy, and that was the recommendation of a majority of the members of the Task Force.
Mr. Chairman, that concludes my statement. I am happy to attempt to answer any question that you or the other members of the Committee might have, but note again that the Final Report is indeed the work of the entire Task Force and can and does speak for itself.
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Falls are the primary cause of accidents among the elderly and frequently cause fatal and non-fatal injuries associated with a large amount of medical costs. Fall detection using wearable wireless sensor nodes has the potential of improving elderly telecare. This investigation proposes a ZigBee-based location-aware fall detection system for elderly telecare that provides an unobstructed communication between the elderly and caregivers when falls happen. The system is based on ZigBee-based sensor networks, and the sensor node consists of a motherboard with a tri-axial accelerometer and a ZigBee module. A wireless sensor node worn on the waist continuously detects fall events and starts an indoor positioning engine as soon as a fall happens. In the fall detection scheme, this study proposes a three-phase threshold-based fall detection algorithm to detect critical and normal falls. The fall alarm can be canceled by pressing and holding the emergency fall button only when a normal fall is detected. On the other hand, there are three phases in the indoor positioning engine: path loss survey phase, Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) collection phase and location calculation phase. Finally, the location of the faller will be calculated by a
Because of increasing life expectancies and declining birth rates, many countries, particularly developed and developing countries, face aging population problems. Data from the International Database of the U.S. Census Bureau shows that in more developed countries the percentages of individuals over 65 years old were 6.9% to 28.7% of the population in 2013, and these percentages are expected to reach 17.0% to 59.0% in 2050. The aging trend is forecast to accelerate to a peak before 2035, and the world is expected to experience a significant acceleration in population aging in the future [
Some studies have found that approximately one-third of elderly people are involved in falls every year and about 10% of elderly fallers suffered multiple falls [
Recently, several well-known approaches for designing automatic fall detection systems have been developed that can be classified into three main categories according to the type of sensor used: video-based, acoustics-based and wearable sensor-based fall detection systems [
Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have enabled a variety of telecare applications. System integration for smart home telecare provides safety and security services based on automatic and remote activity monitoring [
This study uses a tri-axial accelerometer mounted on the waist to measure motion acceleration, and proposes a fall detection scheme and an indoor positioning engine to detect the fall and the faller position using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). The proposed method can provide effective fall alarms and reliable indoor position information that not only reduce the fear of falling, but also can reassure the user about maintaining an independent lifestyle.
Scenario of ZigBee-based location-aware fall detection system.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows:
Wearable sensor-based fall detection methods primarily comprise two types: threshold-based methods and machine learning methods [
Wearing location is critical for wearable sensor-based fall detection algorithms. The most common wearing locations are waist, wrist, trunk, thigh and head. Some studies have aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of different wearing locations based on threshold-based fall detection algorithms. For example, Bourke
For an indoor environment, several well-known positioning systems based on various technologies, such as InfraRed(IR), ultrasound, Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID), Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Bluetooth, ZigBee, magnetic signals, camera
The RF-based indoor location systems use the RSSI feature to estimate the distance between two objects, establish fingerprinting database or sense the proximity known reference tags. However, environmental interferences, such as multi-path fading, moving objects, temperature and humidity, can severely affect the accuracy of the triangulation technique; moreover the fingerprinting database is troublesome to implement. To avoid environmental influences and complexity of site survey work before positioning, Ni
In the ZigBee-based location-aware fall detection system, the wearable sensor detects the fall event and transmits the fall alarm to the gateway to trigger the indoor positioning engine based on the reliable transmission protocol [
The descriptions of nodes in the ZigBee-based location-aware fall detection system.
|Wearable sensor
|ZigBee module; Mother board; Battery
|Detect fall; Receive signals from RF generators and send RSSI to computer through gateway
|RF generator
|ZigBee module; Battery
|Send the broadcast signal to wearable sensor and reference nodes
|Reference node
|ZigBee module; Battery
|Receive signals from RF generators and send RSSI to computer through gateway
|ZigBee module
|Deliver the data from all the nodes to computer
The hardware of wearable sensor and ZigBee module (
The simulated falls were performed on a soft mat by nine healthy young subjects (62.89 ± 15.26 kg weight, 167.11 ± 8.1 cm height) wearing protectors. The volunteers wore the sensor on the left side of waist, and according to the placement of the tri-axial accelerometer, the
Wearing position and the axial direction of sensor.
The sample rate of the accelerometer is 200 Hz. The simulated falls occur in four main directions, front, posterior, left and right lateral falls, following seven kinds of ADLs. For example, the subject stands up and then falls forward. To clarify the effect between the wearing side (left) and the lateral falling side, two situations occur during lateral falls (left and right). There are 28 kinds of simulated fall types. On the other hand, this study also selects seven types of ADLs with normal or fast speed, such as standing up, sitting down, lying, walking, jumping, running, going up and down stairs.
The characteristics of falls and daily activities.
|From sit
|From squat
|On the ground
|On the bed
|Normal speed
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Right lateral
|Left lateral
|Turn the body then fall to the ground
The flow diagram of ZigBee-based location-aware fall detection system is shown in
The flow diagram of ZigBee-based location-aware fall detection system.
After receiving the raw data from the accelerometer, the data processing phase handles the analog to digital signal conversion and memory allocation. Furthermore, the results of the data processing and feature extraction phase are calculated using the fall-detection algorithm. The fall alarm can be classified into two kinds based on level of emergency. One is the normal fall alarm that occurs during non-serious falls, and in this case the user can cancel the alarm by pressing and holding the emergency fall button, like the red button in
The fall detection algorithm includes three phases, as shown in
In the final phase, the variation of velocity on horizontal plane (
During the fall, the acceleration on horizontal plane will exceed 2 G. To distinguish falls from ordinary daily activities, the threshold
The fall detection algorithm.
According to the characteristics of radio frequency signal, the power of the received signal decreases with distance. The log-distance Path Loss (PL) model describes the relationship between received power and distance, which is calculated as follows:
Class I: the RSSI value in Class I is measured within 0.5 m transmission distances. Class II: the RSSI value in this class is measured between 0.5 m to 2 m transmission distances. And the RSSI versus distance is near linear relationship in Class II. Class III: the RSSI in this class will be distributed at the distance from 2 m to 7 m. Class IV: when the distance far from 7 m and above, the RSSI values rapidly decay in Class IV.
Class I: the RSSI value in Class I is measured within 0.5 m transmission distances.
Class II: the RSSI value in this class is measured between 0.5 m to 2 m transmission distances. And the RSSI versus distance is near linear relationship in Class II.
Class III: the RSSI in this class will be distributed at the distance from 2 m to 7 m.
Class IV: when the distance far from 7 m and above, the RSSI values rapidly decay in Class IV.
The range of each class is defined for a temperature of 25 °C: Class I (144–255), Class II (112–143), Class III (60–111) and Class IV (0–60).
In the RSSI collection phase, the home server gathers the RSSI from the RF generator to the wearable sensor and reference nodes, and these RSSI values are adjusted and calculated for the location of the wearable sensor during the location calculation phase. First, the wearable sensor triggers the RSSI collection phase by sending the fall alarm to the gateway. The gateway then asks RF generators in turn to send the broadcast message to all reference nodes and the wearable sensor. As soon as the wearable sensor and reference nodes receive the broadcast message, they save the value of RSSI into their memory. After all RF generators have sent the broadcast message, the wearable sensor and reference nodes will forward the RSSI values to the gateway. Finally, the location of the wearable sensor is calculated on the home server during the next phase.
After all the RSSI values are transmitted to the computer, the location of the wearable sensor is calculated during this phase. Suppose a situation involving
The wearable sensor has a Euclidean distance vector,
The parameter values at a temperature of 25 °C.
|Class I
|Class II
|Class III
|Class IV
The detection results of ADLs using the proposed fall detection algorithm.
On the other hand, for fall detection results,
The indoor positioning experiment is performed in a 11 m (length) × 5.75 m (width) classroom. The gateway is located in the middle and the 18 reference nodes are fixed in the classroom at intervals of 2 m. Furthermore, five RF generators are set symmetrically between reference nodes. The error distance,
One of the key issues affecting the estimation position is to determine the optimal number
The detection results of falls using the proposed fall detection algorithm.
Living in a telecare smart home has become popular among geriatric retirees. Unintentional falls pose a major health threat to the elderly and can result in severe injuries. An effective location-aware fall detection system for elderly telecare is important for delivering adequate and immediate medical support and to dramatically reduce medical care costs. Moreover, such a system can reduce the fear of falling and reassure the user that they can maintain their independence. This study uses a waist-mounted sensor node with a tri-axial accelerometer to monitor the movement data of the human body, and proposes a fall detection algorithm for analyzing motion patterns that can distinguish falls from ADLs. Furthermore, in the event of a fall, the location-aware mechanism starts the indoor positioning engine, and then provides immediate indoor position information to caregivers. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed algorithm has high accuracy for fall detection, and this study also designed a normal fall alarm to avoid a minor falls from rendering the victim helpless. The accuracy of the location information satisfies the requirements of location awareness. The proposed system delivers critical information to remote telecare providers and improves the quality of elderly care.
The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan for financial support (NSC 99-2218-E-241-001).
All authors worked together to build conception of the research and design the system. Chih-Ning Huang participated in data acquisition and analysis. The main part of the writing was done by Chih-Ning Huang, and revised by Chia-Tai Chan. All authors contributed to the final version of the manuscript.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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There is a solution, but not one that would be cheaper than buying a MadCatz common ground pad. The MadCatz CG 360 pad have been used with the Cthulhu board to make a ton of 360&PS3 sticks.LuCieD, post: 2269189 wrote:hi toodles, i'm new about this stuff
Ive got question here..
is possible that hori FS EX2 to become dual mod (PS3&360)? coz i Heard EX2 pcb is not common ground. Any solution into this?
it's kinda off topic but I just curious coz i never see anyone mod xbox EX2 stick to become dual mod. Thx before
Numbski, post: 2269192 wrote:Okay - I'm just now finally getting serious about actually USING my UPCB. :P So I might not be the best person to ask, however...
Since you pointed me at the Arduino yourself, I can't help but wonder if an arduino shield might be simpler for you to make. Seems like it can read/write fast enough.
Toodles, post: 2269193 wrote:The Arduino is simple enough that a stand alone board would actually take up less room than a full shield, and be cheaper than your normal decimelia.
Using the Arduino/Atmega16 as a base would mean no full speed USB support like I have now. Speed of the actual chip, the Arduino is faster, sure (16MIPs vs. 12MIPs), but not enough to justify losing the debugging capability I have now,and the on chip USB tranciever. Believe me, it was considered, and is too a degree still considered.
I'm making a few friends in the Mechanical Engineering college that have access to their rapid prototyping equipment, so there is still the possibility of getting the plastic pieces for the flash clone so I can finish it. There's still the problem of expense getting a mold made, but there's no sense in worrying about that until I get a proto or two made. Its still on the list of things to do, but is lower on the list than getting the Cthulhu board fleshed out.Numbski, post: 2269195 wrote:Search returns just a few results when I search for "sanwa flash" - did the upgrade board project ever pan out?
I meant compared to the size of a decimilia. Decimilia size is a little bit larger than the Cthulhu board. Yes, the -mini, -nano, and other small versions, especially surface mount versions, of the arduino will be smaller than the Cthulhu board; Most of the area of the Cthulhu board is there for the wide spaced connection points for easier install and so screw terminals can be used. If I wanted to forgo those and just use .1" spaced holes on the side, I could probably get it down close to the size of boarduino, but the goal isn't size. The goal is to make is as easy to use as possible, then as buff as possible without making it harder to use. The UPCB will always be buffer than the Cthulhu board, and 50% larger, but it is difficult for some people to install. The assembled Cthulhu board, like the one Im sending you (thanks BTW), is hands down 100% the easiest to install PCB into a custom stick. Put the wire in the hole, screw down, put a USB cable in the plug, and you're done. In order to get that kind of ease based off an Atmega, I'd be looking at the exact same sized board, and less reliable USB support.Numbski, post: 2269196 wrote:Oh, btw - are you sure about size? I mean the arduino mini is just freaking TINY. Just a thought.
Appreciated, they'll be here.slagcoin, post: 2269199 wrote:I should be getting at least one of those new PS3 PCBs in the near future.
There will be a multi-console version in the near future, and you can betcherass PSX will be one of them, but I dont have an ETA on that yet. I don't want to start selling multi console versions until I have a bootloader coded that will allow for firmware updates like the UPCB has. Then, I'll be be able to work on fixing converter support. Once those two things are done, I'll have multi-console versions of this board available. The board will be the exact same, but the chip will be different, so if you want to install a Cthulhu and upgrade to the multiconsole version, just pop out the old chip and pop in the new chip.slagcoin, post: 2269199 wrote:Are you thinking of doing a PS2 version?
Toodles, post: 2269138 wrote:Keeping in mind that added screw terminals and a USB jack will add something like $10-$15 dollars to the cost of each board, do you honestly feel it would make that big of a difference?
Replied to PM, but I figured an answer here would be good for everyone: The board itself is the final revision. I don't forsee any need to change the board, even when I get a multi-console version done. For the PS3/PC version, the code and chip are finalized; there will not be any change to the PS3/PC code.ShinJN, post: 2269204 wrote:Ok, I'm sold on these. Will there be another revision to this board? If not, i am ready to purchase 3 complete un-assembled kits. Toodles, you have a PM.
That was a little bonus for people who pre-ordered. All of the Cthulhu boards now identify as 'Cthulhu PS3 Controller'.ShinJN, post: 2269204 wrote:Domz, how did you get the PC to recognized the board as "Handcrafted by Domz?"
Prices, including the optional USB jacks and screw terminals, are available here:final_cut, post: 2269205 wrote:Yes. I would definitely buy one, it would make it so much easier to use.
Have I tried it directly on x64? No. I dont have access to any 64 bit machines.Anthuzad, post: 2269211 wrote:Just a quick question, will this work with my Vista x64 ?
dtampinco, post: 2269214 wrote:Hi Toodles, I'm pretty new to all of this, but I was wondering:
If I purchased one of your boards, would that be all I need to fix my broken Hori SC4 FS3? Say I toss the stock PCB, get some wires, buttons, quick disconnects and joystick, connect them to your board and I'll be good to go on my PS3? All without soldering. Do I surmise correctly?
Toodles, post: 2269212 wrote:Have I tried it directly on x64? No. I dont have access to any 64 bit machines.
However, I can tell you that the board, when connected to a PC, is 100% HID compliant. There are no drivers except the Microsoft HID drivers; so you KNOW there will be no 'driver signing' problems.
If you have ANY type of game controller, including PSX->USB adapters, that work without drivers, then the Cthulhu will definitely work.
If any Cthulhu customers have access to a Vista64 machine, a definitive answer to this would be nice.
ShinJN, post: 2269220 wrote:Side Note: I picked up some lead-free solder from a local electronics store and was told is had a rosin core (the packaging didn't say so). So I began soldering the board using the lead-free stuff and hated it. The solder joints did not come out shiny and made my solder job look like a hack. I found some scrap lead rosin core solder and was only able to solder a portion of one of the screw terminals. These joints came out nice and shiny. Woot. I think I'll take my chances with the lead stuff.
Esker, post: 2269222 wrote:Lead-free solder requires a higher temperature to use than leaded, and will typically not come out with a shiny surface. So long as the surface is at least smooth without cracks or ripples, that's good enough for lead-free. It's just how it is.
Esker, post: 2269222 wrote:Lead-free solder requires a higher temperature to use than leaded, and will typically not come out with a shiny surface. So long as the surface is at least smooth without cracks or ripples, that's good enough for lead-free. It's just how it is.
ulovemikeroch, post: 2269226 wrote:It says that start and select together make the PS button, but what about games such as T5DR that require both be pressed to exit whatever mode you are in?
Yup. Keep in mind, it still takes a bit of work to get it going, so that is NOT a project for a n00b, but if you've done a dual pcb setup before, you'll find it easier to do with the Cthulhu because the points you need to connect up are easy to access.sir_arthur, post: 2269229 wrote:this looks great, so basically i can play ps3/xbox360 if i dual PCB with the common ground right??
The Cthulhu will never support xbox360, so that would only be true if you have it dual'ed with a common ground xbox360 pad. If you dual the PS3 Cthulhu with an xbox360 pad now, and then the multiconsole version comes out, to support PSX you would need to pop out the old chip, pop in the new chip, and solder a PSX cable to the Cthulhu board to the points marked on the grid close to the USB jack.sir_arthur, post: 2269229 wrote:and with the upgrade you're doing in the future it will be PSX/PS2/PS3/Xbox360 by just inserting the new chip?? im really tempted about this i have a HRAP that i'd like mod so i can play mostly next-gen and ps2 instead of having 2 or 3 sticks
ElvenShadow wrote:A single Pot buster does 45% damage on Chipp with full life.
Twinniss, post: 2269232 wrote:wait wut, pop out old chip??
does the Cthulhu board have usb updating?
Well done, man. You'll be adding the D+ and D- wires from the Cthulhu board later I assume? It looks like you have everything connected except those.zombie cpt, post: 2269234 wrote:And if you think that looks messy, you should see my first one, way worse wiring in that one.
Toodles, post: 2269236 wrote:Well done, man. You'll be adding the D+ and D- wires from the Cthulhu board later I assume? It looks like you have everything connected except those.
The part I think is cool about doing that is you can still use the easy to access points on the side of the Cthulhu to connect to the buttons and stick; even with screw terminals.


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The new preview for the upcoming film gives an extended look at a scene where Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet are attacked by vampires.
New "Priest" trailer has been unveiled. The video for the horror sci-fi movie features an extended look at Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet who are attacked by a bundle of vampires. A shorter preview to the scene has been previously obtained from a TV spot aired during Super Bowl in February.
"Priest" tells a tale of the title character who has to break his sacred vows and ventures out to find his niece, who is kidnapped by vampires. Having lived in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church, he was stripped out of the order as he breaks the swear.
Yet, he keeps continuing the quest and is joined by Priestess, a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills, and his niece's boyfriend, Hicks.
In addition to Bettany and Gigandet, other stars joining the Scott Charles Stewart-helmed film are Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Stephen Moyer, Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif, Madchen Amick, and Lily Collins. The PG-13-rated movie will hit theaters nationwide on May 13.


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My mother has not taken her diagnosis well (Vascular Dementia and Alzheimers with signs of old stroke damage conveyed to her, my brother and I on 21st December 2011). She seems to have decided that I have 'engineered' this, blames me directly for her being told she must not drive again, does not understand why she has to have carers daily to administer her Aricept (which she doesn't understand why she has to take) and is taking her anger and frustration out on me.
She is furious that I claimed for and managed to get Attendance Allowance for her - apparently she was well aware that she was entitled to this and was waiting for someone from the DWP to contact her direct and offer it to her. She blames me for all the clothes that she says are missing from her wardrobe, also blames me for all the mysterious items that have been piled high in her spare room, blames me for all her important paperwork going missing (Marriage and Birth Certificates, all the paperwork from her divorce from my father some 40 years ago). She has told her friend that I have had all her important mail redirected to my house and that I have somehow (because I have some legal knowledge from very long ago) got around the system without a Power of Attorney. In fact she has told them that I am evil.
I took her shopping today and have been berated for being concerned that she has lost £200 in cash that she withdrew from the Bank only recently (which I know she cannot possibly have spent as she only uses this cash to buy the Daily Mail twice a week) and I've been screamed at to "GET OUT OF MY BUNGALOW" for being so horrible as to be concerned about her, help her look for the missing cash and take her out shopping. She has in recent weeks also tried to slap me on a couple of occasions.
Now I know my rational side is telling me that this is all symptomatic of her disease, but today she reduced me to tears. It is very reminiscent of the mother I grew up with who would scream and shout, beat me, threaten to take her own life all because my father left her. I was a terrified 11 year old and left home as soon as I could. I thought all those years were behind me but now find the little girl in me struggling to stay put as I'm faced with some very old memories coming to the fore, and I'm 52 now.
Today, when she behaved very bizzarely in the Bank with me stood by her side but not interfering, on leaving she apologised to the cashier for my bad behaviour!!
I have tried to communicate the troubles I am having with my mother to the social care team at the hospital but I'm finding them as much help as a chocolate teapot. They have instructed me as to all the things I should have in place for my
mum but they don't have to implement the process! I'm having to pay up front for everything I do for her as she is in total denial and we wouldn't have got anywhere if I hadn't and ultimately I don't think it's fair on my husband who goes out to work for our household income to be financially supporting my mother in this way (and she is not short of money).
The anxiety is getting so acute that I'm suffering palpitations and feel as if I'm going to have a heart attack. I wake some nights with throbbing chest pains and feel like I can't breathe and today when she was having a go at me and tried to shut her front door on my face I could feel my blood pressure rising. I thought I was going to burst!
We have no Power of Attorney registered yet - she has one but she's hidden it from us. I know that once this is done I could probably deal with things without having to have the face to face confrontations. She set one up when she was thinking clearly but now sees it as a threat that she has one. The GP has suggested we get a psychiatric assessment and apply through the Court of Protection. She seemed to think we would have no problem going this route. Yet my brother and I were trying to help her retain her dignity for as long as possible. I feel as though this is now our only course of action otherwise it's going to be me needing the carer, or worse.
It's all compounded by the fact I am officially my husbands carer too - he has MS and Parkinsons but bears his lot with good grace. He may still be working but he does require a certain level of support from me to enable him to do so. We know that our future is not looking too brilliant, but here I am with the unexpected addition of my mother's condition.
Sorry for moaning. Today has not been good. Does anyone know how to cope with these issues and is there any advice on how to get POA with a psychiatric assessment?


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A KINGS Coughton company has benefited from a grant scheme for small rural businesses organised through Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP).
Angstrom Engineering which operates from the Mill Industrial Park in Kings Coughton received a grant of £20,000 through the Rural Growth Network Awards, which are now in their second round of bidding.
The company, which manufactures press tools, working with companies like Jaguar Landrover, was delighted with the grant money.
Graham Smith, managing director at Angstrom Engineering said: "It's quite encouraging that we've been able to get some assistance from the government. We've had some help and it's been very good. It's allowed us to invest in better quality technology than we would have been able to afford. Business has been particularly good recently, and the grant enabled us to invest in some high technology kit which will ensure we're up to date and able to compete in the market. We're also hoping to create one or two more jobs from it."
The £500,000 scheme is jointly funded by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs and the European Union via the Rural Development Programme for England, and is part of Warwickshire Rural Growth Network.
It aims to help micro businesses across the country, operating in manufacturing, digital media and low carbon sectors in rural areas.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, leader of Warwickshire County Council and CWLEP board director, said: "CWLEP's strategy is to stimulate the rural economy and the Rural Growth Network grant funding is helping to achieve this.
"The grant scheme is part of a wider package of support including specialist advice, one-to-one mentoring, coaching, loans and property. With funding still available via the Rural Growth Network and a range of other local enterprise partnership programmes, we would encourage any rural business to contact us to find out how we can help."
So far 13 projects in Warwickshire have received grant funding of between £10,000 and £100,000 for eligible projects.
For more information about the Rural Growth Network visit warwickshire.gov.uk/ruralgrowthnetwork or call 01926 412709.


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Hammonton Vacation Packages
Hammonton is near a range of colorful Mount Laurel's well-known sights. Two destinations that should be at the top of every visitor's to-do list is the fabulous New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve and the iconic Renault Winery. If time permits, be sure to also visit the Scotland Run Golf Club and the Pine Valley Golf Club.
Add to your wardrobe, stock up on food or just window shop at nearby fashion hotspots like Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing.
See local heroes, the Philadelphia Phillies go head to head with rival teams in their home stadium, the iconic Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia. If there is no game on, you can still visit Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia for a behind the scenes tour.
Finding somewhere suitable to base yourself in Hammonton is easy. The Wingate by Wyndham - Vineland NJ, the Wingate By Wyndham Voorhees-Cherry Hill / Mt Laurel and the Homewood Suites by Hilton Atlantic City/Egg Harbor Township are just three of the most popular accommodation options here.


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O-GPS1 and K3, features removed and added.
The K-3 does not support the Pentax GPS' simple navigation that existed in the K-5 (stated in K-3 manual, destination manager option gone from menu).
Some K-5 users had complained that the LED on the GPS was too bright during astrophotography, there is now a menu option to turn the LEDs off in astrotracer mode.
Turning on the compass is easier (press info button twice, to select what is displayed on rear LCD).
Flash while using the O-GPS1: One disadvantage to using the hot shoe mounted GPS, is that it makes it harder to do fill flash outside. Several web pages discuss how overcome this.
How to hook up cables to use GPS with External Flash
Discusion on connection external flash while using O-GPS1
With the K3 supporting manual power control of the popup flash, using fill flash is a bit easier (still using the Pentax hot shoe adapter "FG" with 5 pin cable and F adapter to GPS mounted on flash bracket).
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Larry King's wife Shawn King was found with several prescription drug bottles and a handwritten note that police believe she wrote on May 28, the day she was hospitalized for overdose.
According to the police report, the Provo office who was dispatched to King's home after Shawn's dad called 911 saw "multiple pill bottles all of which were empty on the bed." The bottles found at the scene included Ambien and some anti-anxiety medications, some of which had been filled within 10 days. Multiple bottles of water are also in the room.
Aside from the pills, multiple pages of a handwritten note that police believed may have been a suicide letter. The police report stated that the officer believed "had intentionally taken the quantity of pills." The reported added that the note stated Shawn King was "leaving, or that she might hurt herself, such as that wished to be buried in Utah."
On Wednesday, Larry released a statement saying, "I am extremely supportive of Shawn. Reports that we have fought are absolutely false. I love her dearly. Our marriage is still together and I am staying very close to our children, who we love immensely. We shall go through this difficult time intact as a family."
Shawn's father Karl Engemann told Access Hollywood that his daughter had "been out of the hospital for a long time. She's great, she's fine, she's exercising, she's happy. Everything is good." He added that reports of Larry not visiting his wife while she was in the hospital are "not true." He said, "He's been in touch every day."
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Chris Thompson rigged up this time lapse intervalometer for SLRs made from a cell phone headset, a 555 timer, and "a bunch of electronics bits." He threw up his HOWTO on Instructables.
While Chris's hack makes the time lapse gear much more portable, many DSLRs have software available from the factory that let you do time lapse if you keep the camera tethered to your computer. Also, many video programs like Apple's iMovie (at least the old version) allow you to shoot time lapse from an attached video camera or the built-in webcam. For obvious reasons, those won't look as nice as shots from a DSLR, but it's a good option for web video.
Below, a video of time lapse shots Chris took with his rig of some fireworks.
Time Lapse Intervalometer for SLRs with 555 timer IC [Instructables]


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Catholic Relief Services was preparing for "thousands and thousands" of dead and injured people in the wake of the most devastating earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries, said Karel Zelenka, the agency's country representative.
Among those reported dead were Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince and Zilda Arns Neumann, a pediatrician who founded the Brazilian bishops' children's commission and sister of Brazilian Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, retired archbishop of Sao Paulo.
A group of Montfort priests and seminarians initially reported to have died in Port-au-Prince were not even in the city and were not killed, a spokesman said.
In an e-mail from the capital, Port-au-Prince, Zelenka told his colleagues at CRS headquarters in Baltimore that damage was "incredible all around."
In response, CRS initially has committed $5 million to help survivors, said John Rivera, the agency's communications director.
CRS already had food, bedding, water storage containers and other supplies in warehouses around the country and agency staff is working to assess if it was damaged in the quake. Other supplies will be shipped from the Dominican Republic and Miami, he said.
Robyn Fieser, CRS regional information officer, shared part of Zelenka's message with Catholic News Service Jan. 13 and said he wrote that the Haitian government has not made any announcement about rescue and recovery efforts.
"On the radio stations there has been only wild music," Fieser said Zelenka wrote. "People have been screaming and chanting all over the place. People are chanting and praying. It's the disaster of the century."
Zelenka reported that the only rescue efforts he and his staff have seen are by people digging through rubble with their hands.
Cell phone service was sporadic, with calls lasting only a minute or so, making it difficult for CRS staff to communicate with each other, Zelenka said.
CRS international staff were safe and accounted for; however, some local CRS employees had not been heard from since the earthquake hit shortly before 5 p.m. local time Jan. 12, Fieser said. CRS offices survived the magnitude 7 temblor, but an office building across the street collapsed, she said.
The quake was felt as far away as eastern Cuba, where houses shook but there were no reports of significant damage.
"We felt it very strongly and I would say for a long time. We had time to evacuate," Archbishop Dionisio Garcia Ibanez of Santiago, Cuba, president of the Cuban bishops' conference, told the Associated Press.
Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., home to 80,000 Haitians, told CNS he had been in touch via e-mail with Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio in the country.
"He tells me the devastation is incredible," Bishop Wenski said. "He said he toured the city last night and it was quite devastating. Priests and nuns were in shock."
Amid the confusion, Archbishop Auza told the Vatican missionary news agency Fides that 100 priests and seminarians also were killed. The clergy were reportedly members of the Montfort order on retreat in Port-au-Prince.
Father Matt Considine of the U.S. province of the Montfort Fathers, based in New York, said that although the "situation is very confused," the order's officials have not been told that any of their members died in Port-au-Prince. The order has fewer than 100 members in the country, he told CNS Jan. 13, adding that although there was a retreat going on, it was not in Port-au-Prince and everyone is "presumed OK."
There have been reports of "lots of pain and misery" but no deaths reported associated with the Montfort Fathers, he said.
The U.S. government and relief agencies were mobilizing quickly to provide assistance to the devastated area around the Haitian capital. The quake's epicenter was about 10 miles southwest of the capital. It was the country's worst quake in two centuries.
At the White House, President Barack Obama offered his thoughts and prayers to the Haitians.
"We are closely monitoring the situation and we stand ready to assist the people of Haiti," he said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon confirmed Jan. 13 that at least five U.N. staffers were killed and that more than 100 were missing, including the Tunisian head of the world body's mission in Port-au-Prince.
CAFOD, the overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, immediately pledged $162,000 for water, food, medicine and shelter for victims in the worst affected areas.
A special Mass to pray for victims was scheduled for Jan. 13 at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Miami.
Bishop Wenski asked parishes to sponsor special collections for quake victims.
Information about injuries, fatalities and damage was difficult to obtain because major communication links were destroyed in the disaster.
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IG Markets - Afternoon Thoughts
IG Markets - Afternoon Thoughts
6120 +3
Oil 93.59
Gold 1682
Asian markets have been mixed today with the Nikkei and Heng Seng both losing ground after recent gains. The while the ASX has bucked the region's trend to be up 0.4%. Currencies continue to lead equities with the yen rising for a second consecutive day as the over-crowed USD/JPY unwinds. There is increasing speculation that the Bank of Japan will fail to live up to expectations at the January meeting, as investors seeking bold policy initiatives may be disappointed with the outcome. We see further dips here as the yen-bearish trade hits technical resistance at 90. Additional macro pressures will also see USD/JPY unwind further in the short term, as policy makers from all sides of the global fire shots at each other as they each attempt to stimulate their respective region. We would look to buy dips in USD/JPY as the 'currency wars' resurface in the coming months, with US 'debt-ceiling negotiations expected to start in earnest in the coming days. In other Asian news, AUD/USD was stuck in a tight trading band between $1.054 and $1.057, ahead of tomorrow's official unemployment data. AUD/USD briefly hit $1.058 on the back Westpac's consumer sentiment which rose to 0.6% in December and was back up by new motor vehicle sales data which advanced 2.2% as the high Aussie dollar saw consumers cash-in on cheaper overseas models.
EUR/USD had its biggest intraday drop since January last year, down 0.9% overnight after Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker stated the currency was 'dangerously' high and would threaten eurozone growth prospects. Short positions in EUR/USD have unwound over the previous three days, triggered by the press release from ECB President Mario Draghi, and Goldman Sachs putting out a long EUR/USD call at $1.37 on Monday. EUR/USD fell to $1.3263 before rallying back to $1.334 on strongly bid support. There seems to be plenty of bids sitting at 1.325, with EUR/USD jumping up each time it tests this level. EUR/USD is currently holding at $1.3298. The fall in the currency has been taken as a positive in pre-market trading and we are therefore calling the European markets up, led mainly by the DAX.
The local market continues to hold its own, up
0.4% to 4735 points as investors continue to pile back into
defensive-yield plays. Blood plasma group CSL rallied 3.06%
in some of the thinnest volumes seen in months, while other
major yield plays such as Telstra, Woolworths and Wesfarmers
all enjoyed positive moves as yield-hunters look to
equities as the bond markets yields fall away. The financial
sector also enjoyed yield-hunters as CBA, NAB and ANZ all
rallied hard on the back of softer bonds markets. The
quasi-bond play in CBA is looking incredibly expensive as it
heads back towards its all-time high. Watch for switching
here, the most likely target seems to be Westpac. In other
local news - building and construction materials provider
Boral announced a company restructure in an effort to reduce
its 'excessively' high operating environment. The
restructure will see 1000 jobs being shed globally as new
CEO Mike Kane searches for profit enhancements. The news was
met with strong applause, with BLD rallying 11.24% as
productions costs have been a major hurdle for the share
price over the previous few months. Mining stocks continue
to drag on the local market with RIO shedding 0.8% after it
fourth-quarter results didn't shoot-the-lights-out and
investors 'sold the fact'. As we look to the close,
health care, telecommunications and financial sectors are
all outperforming the market.