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Assyrian Standard Guideline
The Assyrian TaiXuanZhun YiGuaMing (太玄準易卦名); the "great black standard guideline of changes fortunes names, titles and positions" diagram or sigil represents in Arian age the 27 Xiu (宿); "mansions" of the Horites (חורי), the 12 zodiac (צדק: -zedek) houses and the 81 chief royal families of the kings (מלכי: Melchi-) of Ashur, Assyria and the Assyrian empire of the Assyrian Kings list continuing through and based on Heaven's Code's formula of the 9 houses of the kings of the Northern Kingdom of Israel plus 7 kings of the Neo-Assyrian period after the kings list was compiled concluding with the fall of Nineveh (נינוה) in BC AYN 622.
The "great black" is referred to in Genesis 15:12 as the "great darkness" (חשכה גדלה) which fell upon Abram, a portent of the changing of the age; Taurean age of Sumer to the Arian age of Ashur (אשור) and Yashar-el (ישראל); "God prevailed,"[1] or Israel and the Age of Restoration or Image Time-identity.
The 1st/3 sons of Noah (נוח) is Shem (שם) the source of the terms Semite or Semitic, who for the first 100 years covering the Annual Reports of BC AYN 2402 through BC AYN 2303 is an eponymous period for the Akkadian state and after Shem's progeny and the Biblical flood of Noah (נוח) ending in BC AYN 2302 is an eponymous period for the Akkadian dynasty of BC AYN 2302 through BC AYN 1803 the end of the 600 year period of Shem. Genealogically Ashur (אשור) is the 2nd/5[2] sons of Shem (שם) having come out of the land of Shinar (שנער); "Sumer" whence came out and went forth Asshur (אשור); "step" by step according to Genesis 10:11 with the Semitic root-stem for Ashur (אשור) of Asher (אשר); meaning: "happy."
Assyrian Great Black Standard Guideline of Changes Fortunes Names, Titles and Positions
In Hebrew heaven (שם) or more precisely heavens (שמים) are always plural as in the JiuTian 9 (九天) heavens or underworlds called shamayim (שמים), the masculine plural heavens. Each of the JiuTian 9 (九天) heavens encompasses 40 degrees of 360 degrees of a Tun (תען) solar year in the Galactic Underworld. In Hebrew the letter Mem (מ) is the numeral 40 as for 40 degrees while the letter Mem (מ) is singular as in a single 40 degrees, the masculine plural is mayim [3](מים); "water" or more precisely "waters" of 40 degrees each times 9 heavens or 9 members (of the solar system) is 360 degrees. Heavens, the heavens of Genesis 1:1 is the term shamayim (שמים) composed of Shin as the verb S (ש) pronounced es compounded with MIM (מ) for S-MIM, the 9[4] Mim X 40 degrees each heavens that are the JiuTian 9 (九天) shamayim heavens which in the beginning of the creation of things is begun by assembling, organizing or ordering them into groups.[5]
The JiuTian 9 (九天) heavens of TianFuJing (天符經); "Heaven's Code" are components of the TaiXuanZhun YiGuaMingTu (太玄準易卦名圖); the "great black standard guideline of changes fortunes names and titles positions diagram or image" as illustrated in the Tu (圖) diagram or picture in the inner 3rd ring of planets or the destined and the 4th ring of orbits or the destinies.
TaiXuanZhun YiGuaMing (太玄準易卦名) great black standard guideline is similar to the simple drawing found at Susa circa 3200 BCE where the drawing consists of a triangle with three 120 degree sides echoing the 3 seasons of the Egyptian calendar with the northern most triangle tip centering at 340 degrees illustrating where the 1st/81 Shou (首) begins followed by the other 80 going clockwise encompassing 4.44 degrees each in the spacetime continuum around the 360 degree solar year.
The JiuTian 9 (九天) heavens constitutes the 2nd/2 types of castles of Mictlan's Nine Underworlds called ShiDaXing (實逹城, 실달성; SilDalSung); the "real castle city or area," with 9 floors or terraces (mictlan; "underworlds"). The real castle area ShiDaXing (實逹城) is represented by the structure called Bolon Yokte; the Mayan "9 heavens or underworlds" of creation.[6]
In Hebrew the working order [7](וערכת) of the Solar system is the 9 planets (מערכת: market) of the sun (השמש) in the same relationship as the 9 houses of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah in the position DaYi (大一); the "great one," the north star BeiJiXing (北極星).
Tablets of Destiny
The JiuTian (九天) 9 heavens in Sumerian are called Dup Shimati (דף שמעתי); the "Tablets of Destiny," a permanent legal document on a clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing and impressed with cylinder seals conferring upon the god Enlil (ענליל) his supreme authority as ruler of the universe.
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Graça Machel
Graça Machel, DBE (born Graça Simbine; 17 October 1945) is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She is the third wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela and the widow of Mozambican president Samora Machel. She is an international advocate for women's and children's rights and in 1997 was made a British dame for her humanitarian work. Graça Machel is the only woman in the world to have been First Lady of two different countries, serving as the First Lady of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986 and the First Lady of South Africa from 1998 to 1999. Born in rural Incadine, Gaza Province, Mozambique (Portuguese East Africa), she attended Methodist mission schools before gaining a scholarship to attend University of Lisbon in Portugal, where she studied German language and first became involved in independence issues. In that university, she earned a scholarship from Romance Languages. She is also fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and English, as well as her native Tsonga. She returned to Mozambique in 1973, joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and became a schoolteacher. Following Mozambique's independence in 1975, Machel was appointed Minister for  ( Wikipedia article )
Personal facts
- Known as
- Graca Machel
- Date of birth
- 1945-10-17
- Place of birth
- Mozambique
- Nationality
- Mozambique
- Spouse(s)
- Nelson Mandela Samora Machel
- Children
- Josina Z. Machel Malengani Machel
- Profession
- Teacher, Politician, Humanitarian
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revolutionary ideas for spectrum policy
Regulations long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. For many years, a large area of radio regulation has developed based on a consensus that it predominately concerns technical aspects of radio signal interference. Few persons are able to contribute to deliberations thus organized. Yet centuries of conversation and experience have explored, in ways deeply relevant to everyone, the meaning of interference and freedom. Now interactive, broadband and ubiquitous communications, which undoubtedly will depend heavily on radio, are expected to reshape personal activities and relationships. Radio regulation should no longer be a field ruled by a reason inaccessible to most persons. Now is the time for radio regulation to recognize, as most persons do, revolutionary ideas about government, persons, and freedom.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence remains relevant.
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cost of digital radio sytems for public safety
Just outside of Washington, D.C., Arlington County recently opened a new, state-of-the-art emergency communications center (ECC). The ECC includes a new digital radio system that complies with Project 25. Project 25 defines new standards for interoperability of public safety communication systems.
Interoperability is a common issue in the communications industry. Communications standards and universal interoperability were key to the growth of the internet. Interoperability did not develop as rapidly in public safety communications systems. Older public safety communications system often did not allow neighboring public safety organizations to communicate with each other.
Arlington's new digital radio system was about twice as expensive as all the rest of the center. The fact sheet for the project notes:
Cost of the new ECC is approximately $9.6 million, including construction costs; furniture; video capabilities; cabling; 9-1-1 software and equipment; and technology equipment, included computer-aided dispatch. Cost of the new digital radio system is approximately $18 million.
For comparison, consider the cost of your house, furniture, televisions, personal computers, and personal software. Compare that to the cost of your digital cell phones, DSL or cable modems, and all other digital communication technology that you own. The cost of your house and its contents is probably on the order of a thousand times greater than the cost of your digital radio systems. Moreover, just your house and furniture probably cost a thousand times more than all the digital technology that you own.
Of course, emergency communications systems have extraordinary requirements. But so too do emergency communications buildings, furniture, software, and other equipment used in an emergency communication center.
Digital radio systems for public safety seem to have lagged far behind cost-performance improvements for other digital technologies. This outcome suggests the importance of institutions and ideas to results in different communications fields.
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human rights to communicate using radio devices
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes a right to freedom of expression. Article 10 of the European Declaration of Human Rights does likewise. Regulation of the use of radio devices can restrict freedom of expression. What sort of radio regulation is justified under human rights law?
Under the prompting of Open Spectrum, human rights organizations are beginning to consider this question. With respect to licensing requirements (one type of restriction on radio use), a human rights organization called Article 19 stated in a brief note (MS Word doc):
A licence requirement for wireless communications devices clearly constitutes a restriction and therefore it must be 1) provided by law; 2) serve a legitimate aim; and 3) be necessary for the attainment of that aim.
A necessary restriction for attaining a legitimate aim under law is no more restrictive than a feasible alternative, narrowly tailored, and proportionate to the aim.
Article 19's brief but pioneering analysis seems to have at least one weakness. The analysis suggested that "preventing chaos in the frequency spectrum is a legitimate goal" under human rights law. Under Article 19(3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, one legitimate aim for restricting freedom of expression is to protect public order. One might consider protecting public order to encompass preventing chaos in the frequency spectrum. However, focus on order among frequencies, like focus on relations between bodies of water, can lead to law with little connection to the facts of communication among persons. Particularly with respect to human rights, public order is probably better understood in terms of order among persons (the public). Compared to the extent of chaos in the frequency spectrum, actual personal freedom to communicate is a much more meaningful public issue.
Freedom of expression is directly related to the real circumstances of contemporary life. In an insightful response to Ofcom's consultation entitled "Spectrum Framework Review," Open Spectrum UK noted:
The justifications given in the current consultation for utilising market forces refer to maximising economic benefits and spectrum efficiency. However, one must not forget that the regulation of radio was instituted internationally not to control interference but to reign in the business practices of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.
Knowledge of technology and examination of leading practices world-wide provides insight into what sort of communications capabilities persons could have at a given time. Radio regulation that deprives persons of these capabilities deserves to be assailed as a violation of human rights.
rights to communicate using radio spectrum
An important trend in communications policy has been to give persons more freedom to communicate using radio devices. The U.K. Office of Communication (Ofcom) currently is consulting on new ways of defining licenses for communicating using radio spectrum. Ofcom proposes to specify in licenses spectrum usage rights. It proposes to define these rights by specifying geographic boundaries and about thirteen parameters relating to power flux density, including parameters relating to time and location density. Of course, many other parameters will be relevant to modeling and measuring these rights. Compared to the structure of parameters embedded in specific technologies and applications, this new structure of license parameters gives licensees more freedom to communicate using different radio technologies and for different purposes.
Adjudication of spectrum usage rights through an institution separate from the spectrum regulatory body would make spectrum usage rights less uncertain and more secure. The authoritative meaning of spectrum usage rights may not be clear. If the spectrum regulatory body adjudicates the spectrum rights that it issues, it can further specify or revise the rights it grants through the adjudicatory process. If an independent body adjudicates the rights, then the spectrum regulatory body cannot do this. Independent adjudication disciplines the public specification of spectrum usage rights. Similarly, the spectrum regulatory body might prefer at some future time to revise spectrum usage rights granted earlier. Having an independent institution adjudicate spectrum usage rights makes those rights more secure under subsequent changes in spectrum policy.
radio regulation in low-income countries
About the year 2001, 40% of persons in the world lived in countries where there was less than one fixed-line telephone per hundred persons. Good radio regulation can help to foster rapid development of communication capabilities for many persons around the world.
Björn Wellenius and Isabel Neto of the World Bank recently posted a paper, The Radio Spectrum: Opportunities and Challenges for the Developing World. I hope this important topic gets more attention in development economics.
Update: Check out this very impressive website and book on Wireless Networking in the Developing World.
warrantless searches: the banal and the newsworthy
With the aid of high-tech equipment not in general public use, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) monitors radiation emanating from a variety of sities, including homes. In addition, the FCC claims legal authority to enter a home without a search warrant, find a device of concern, and collect information about it ("inspect radio equipment").
Under such regulation, Benjamin Franklin might have gotten into trouble with the law for messing with spark-gap radiators (Leyden jars) within his home. Perhaps to avoid that danger he might have invented an effective cloaking technology.
Why is government monitoring of radiation associated with illegal home-based radio stations less controversial than government monitoring of radiation associated with a potentially catastrophic "dirty bomb"?
Why is inspection, without a specific warrant, of radio devices within homes less controversial than inspection, without a specific warrent, of suspected communication about terrorists acts?
Perhaps because spy agencies and terrorism provide an exciting framework for grave scholarly discussion and heated political hyperbole. Radio regulation, in contrast, is, well, boring. You don't even need leaked classified documents to find out about government monitoring of (radio) radiation!
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What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
I applaud important new research from MIT on the frequency attenuation properties of aluminum foil deflector beanie helmets (AFDBHs). This research concludes:
It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.
The research indicates that AFDBHs disturb radio frequency waves. Nonetheless, the FCC has never regulated the use of AFDBHs. Thus the FCC is probably not responsible for the rapid growth in the use of this radio device.
secure rights to use radio devices
A lot of ink has been spilled about "defining property rights in radio spectrum." Unfortunately much of the discussion has lacked sufficient appreciation for physics and for institutions. In "Property Rights in Spectrum: Taking the Next Step," Dale Hatfield and Phil Weiser discuss some important issues of signal characteristics that have been largely ignored in the U.S., but not in Britain and Australia. For more details, see Section II of my work, "Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation."
Update: Playing around with blog searching, I found two blogs (here and here) presenting this article. These blog entries seem to me to be focused on fostering publicity (a fine and important communication function) rather than on advancing discussion of the article. Am I missing some aspect of blogging here?


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North Idaho ammo maker rehiring some laid-off employees
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Thursday April 02, 2009, 12:20 PM
LEWISTON, Idaho -- Ammunition maker ATK Armament Systems in northern Idaho says it is rehiring at least some of the 70 to 80 employees it laid off in January.
Spokeswoman Amanda Covington is declining to say how many will be rehired but that the company, part of Minneapolis-based ATK, is reaching out to former employees who are already trained.
The plant is the Lewiston area's third-largest manufacturing employer with about 850 workers.
Shooting enthusiasts say concern the Obama administration could impose a new ban on some semiautomatic weapons is driving worried gun owners to stockpile ammunition and cartridge reloading components at such a rate that manufacturers can't meet demand.
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Did you disagree with any of the coaches' decisions? Tell us in the comments section below.
Daytime TV has recently suffered several losses ranging from the cancelation of a few of its longest-running series to Oprah Winfrey's talk show retirement. But in the process of repeating the message that daytime is still thriving, it lived up to one of the realities of its host city, Las Vegas: You win some, and you lose some.
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He added that although he was initially angry when he found out Toscano would be going home, it didn't take long for him to resign himself to the fact.
Chris Mann beats Monique Benabou on Celine Dion's "The Power Of Love"
Jordis Unga beats Brian Fuente on Alanis Morissette's "Ironic"
Juliet Simms sang a rendition of Cee Lo's Gnarls Barkley hit "Crazy," for her tribute. She continued with that theme, singing "Born to be Wild" in her duet with her coach. She rounded out the night with a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird."
In her lifetime, Houston notched 39 hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with 23 of those reaching the top 10. Of those, a whopping 11 went to No. 1, including "How Will I Know," "I Will Always Love You" and "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)." Her most recent Hot 100 hit was 2009's "Million Dollar Bill," which peaked at No. 100. (Though it climbed to No. 1 on the Dance Club/Play Songs chart, in part thanks to the popularity of a remix by the Freemasons.)
A Brief History of John Baldessari
Director: Jono Foley
What's Astro's process when it comes to writing his own raps? "I'll do it whenever, wherever I can," says the 15-year-old whose real name is Brian Bradley. "If I have to write on the wall, I'll write on the wall, or if I have a phone, I'll type something, an ipad… it's whatever I'm thinking. When words flow through my mind, I write them down." His original raps seem to be working. On Wednesday, he received tweets from Snooki, who called his skills "sick," and Jaden Smith, who suggested linking up.
Stephanopoulos asked if she'll quit dancing.
PHOTOS: Royal Wedding Style
Inception got the WGA nod, but Seidler wasn't eligible for that award. Even though some believe Christopher Nolan will get a consolation prize after failing to earn a directing nomination, they're wrong: Speech is a virtual lock here, helped by older voters who identify with Seidler's age, 73, and his great backstory: Like his hero, the writer had a stutter as a youth.
On April 29, 2011, when Prince William and Kate Middleton married in front of 72 million people livestreaming from 188 countries and became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, they also became one of the most-watched couples in the world. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Beyonce and Jay-Z are arguably eclipsed by the young royals.
And, no, they won't pull a Ricky Gervais. "I can guarantee that if you're looking for someone to call people out, we're not your hosts," Hathaway said.
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An anonymous man with skills of inexplicable origin infiltrates the corporate hideout of a shady, but high-ranking businessman. Using fast and fluid tactics, our protagonist is determined to complete his task.
The following list and remarks reflect my personal opinions and do/will not in any way impact my projections or analysis on this site, wherein I strive above all else to correctly forecast what will happen, not what I believe should happen.
PHOTOS: THR's Biggest Rule Breakers of 2011
Recent Mandalay Vision projects include The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer. The company has The Whistleblower, Salvation Boulevard and Bernie forthcoming.
Directed by: Bret Haaland
Tell us: What do you think of Michelle's coral Oscar dress?
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Watch the Jordis-Brian battle that had Blake using his disappointed face again below.
Director: Eliza Kinkz
"He's doing great. [His partner] Ricki [Lake] was very concerned. He's fine. He's such an amazing dancer," she said. "These guys do it all the time. They sign up for it. If I had to dance like that every single day…."
Directors: Brandon LaGanke, John Carlucci
How trippy is it to watch themselves back on TV? "It's almost just as exciting as being on stage," say the Stereo Hogzz. "We watch it like it's a football game. Like, 'Woah, touchdown!'"
Rachel Crow may not have won X Factor, but she is now poised to make several dreams come true all at once.
Puck: After dressing up in drag in an effort for New Directions to get a leg up over Nationals' main competition Vocal Adrenaline, a flunking Puck gets thrown into the dumpster by a group of sports jocks before he pulls out a rubber knife (from a West Side Story production, he says) that nearly gets him into a whole heap of trouble. But Coach Bieste helps him out, giving him a chance to retake a test he needed to ace in order to graduate high school.
In other L.A. fashion news, word on the street is that Slimae, YSL's new design director, wants to move the base of operations from Paris to Hollywood.
MTV announced Tuesday the decision to revamp its iconic series House of Style starting Oct. 9. Exploring the cutting edge of fashion in today's media savvy market, House of Style will be featured exclusively on the MTV Style digital platform but also include crossover content for TV. The refurbished program promises to "highlight the humor and personality of leaders and tastemakers in the industry."
Harry Potter star Emma Watson will receive the Calvin Klein Collection Emerging Star Spotlight Award. Shirley MacLaine will receive the L'Oréal Paris Legend Award.
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For the crew of ABC's Pan Am, the comparisons to Mad Men is just mere coincidence.
She also credited her husband Billy Baldwin for helping support her.
Bennett Miller's big screen adaptation of Michael Lewis' best-selling book is less about baseball than creative-thinking, which is probably why it has been so warmly received by fans and agnostics of both genders. The film recounts the story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), a once-promising player who flamed out on the field but worked his way up in the Oakland A's front office to the position of general manager, where he -- along with a younger assistant (Jonah Hill) whom he recruited from another franchise -- employed an unprecedented numbers-based approach to his job that changed the game forever. Moreover, it shows how Beane -- a smart, soft-spoken, single father like To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, of whom he reminds me -- teaches his offspring to do the right and noble thing by conducting himself honorably and with an even-keel during moments of triumphant success and heartbreaking failure. Most films that experience as must production turbulence as this one -- two years ago, its original director, Steven Soderbergh, left the production over creative differences just days before shooting was to commence, and Aaron Sorkin was brought on to re-work Steven Zaillian's script -- don't turn out that well. But thanks to a great story well told and the most endearing performance of Pitt's career, this one, like its protagonist, proves that there are exceptions to every rule.
Directors: Christina Manrique, Robert Clogher
3.) Elvis is lucky his eyes are closed: As part of the annoying and endless tributes to Vegas and its tourist destinations, the show put on a tribute to Elvis Presley set to his song, "Viva Las Vegas." From the messy choreography, attempts at throwing b-boy dancing into the mix, and the plastic Elvis pompadour wigs, we were thankful the superstar wasn't around to see it. Sadly, we weren't so lucky.
Here is how it all went down:
Lucca belted out a bluesy rendition of Jay-Z's hit hip-hop single "99 Problems" that garnered praise from all of the coaches -- except for Aguilera.
9. Pariah (Focus Features, 12/28, R, trailer)
The House of Tolerance was certainly tolerated by France's foreign press who vote on the prizes with three nominations for the film in the Most Promising Actress category that will see Alice Barnole, Adele Haenel and Celine Sallette compete against Annamaria Vartolomei (My Little Princess) and Zoe Heran (Tomboy).
Music sensation Charice said Monday that the launch-pad Glee offers Internet artists is invaluable.
Chynna Phillips loves the way she looks after competing on Dancing With the Stars.
RaeLynn beats Adley Stump on Tom Petty's "Free Fallin"
While that 36-track Arista Records album offers most of her best-known ballads, it substituted remixes of her uptempo singles instead of the well-known original versions. For example, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is represented by a Junior Vasquez club mix, while "So Emotional" was reworked by Dave Morales.
A man daydreams about what terror could be lurking in his backyard pool.
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PARIS - Already making noise stateside, Michel Hazanavicius' silent film The Artist will add France's Lumiere Awards to its awards season palette with five nominations in a tough race against Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance, Pierre Schoeller's The Minister, Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre and Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache's Untouchable.
Ellen Barkin, Demi Moore, Kate Bosworth, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Burstyn and Ezra Miller star in the story of a strained family trying to survive a wedding. The film had its world premiere in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where Levinson won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
For her next go-round, Sanchez pulled off a Jennifer Hudson-quality rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls, oozing raw emotion and ending the song in tears. All three judges rose in Sanchez's honor as Lopez raved, "There's nothing to say."
PHOTOS: 'The Muppets' Premiere Red Carpet Arrivals
The story of one boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in his small town.
Since signing on as a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers, the Academy and Grammy Award-winning Hudson has dropped a significant amount of weight. Though she was contractually restricted from revealing her full weight loss in pounds, the singer did tell Oprah in early 2011 that she had transitioned from a size 16 to a size 6.
Despite the euro-zone debt and China's economic slowdown, European designers are ramping up their couture collections -- and some are launching brand new ones -- to take advantage of the growing Asian and South American market for exclusive higher-priced clothing.
Cerre got a big boost earlier this year from the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. They'd become friends with costume designer Trish Summerville and were thrilled when she asked them to design Rooney Mara's (Lisbeth Salander) leather jacket and her omnipresent backpack. They also did several pieces for Robin Wright's character.
Unbeknownst to many shoppers and shoe addicts alike, the women behind shoe brand Sigerson Morrison are in the midst of a lawsuit with their former financial backer, Marc Fisher. The New York Times reports on how Kari Sigerson and Miranda Morrison have been booted from their own company, no longer allowed to even use their own names for any designs. (NYTimes)
"I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that," she said. "I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 pounds lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career."
Sometimes survival is worse than death.
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Two friends play 'Would You Rather.' When their choices magically start to come true, they find themselves in a variety of awkward and funny situations.
Daneyko and her father -- an All-Star defenseman who won three Stanley Cups during his 1983-2003 career with the Devils -- braved the East Coast heat wave, showing up at 5:30 a.m. to sing for her shot at the title.
The Love Competition
In Buenos Aires, an old woman looks forward to all the joys of becoming a grandmother. However, unfolding historic events mean she is forced to wait over 30 years.
Director: Lily Baldwin
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Hollie Cavanagh: Cavanagh had the final spot of the night, and she is just too cute -- like a partly British real-life Tinkerbell. I could listem to Cavanagh and her parents speak all night. Cavanaugh, born in 1993, performed Celine Dion's cover of Laura Branigan's "Power of Love." It is a big song for a little girl, and she missed a few notes in performance, but that's just a quibble. Lopez and Tyler noticed the pitch problems, but praised her performance. Jackson said she blew it out of the box.
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The haunting story of two children living in different countries, each visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them. Cast: Clive Owen, Carice Van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Pilar López de Ayala (U.S. Premiere)
David Dinerstein will shepherd the film's theatrical release in collaboration with Phase 4, which has recently released Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, The Freebie and Vidal Sassoon: The Movie.
Zombie Chic
A very short comedy set in a retirement home with senior citizens. On the morning of his birthday, Emmett asks his fellow residents to guess his age and is surprised by their answers.
PHOTOS: Stars hit the red carpet at the Daytime Emmy Awards
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For one thing, Skyler Samuels -- who pays the titular character -- is reunited with her The Gates co-star Colton Haynes (now on MTV's Teen Wolf), who plays the mysterious Kai (what exactly is he?), and by the end, her safety is put into question. Again.
Heejun Han: This season's Sanjaya was certainly on his best behavior in a total 180 from the cocky hipster-rebel persona he crafted over recent weeks, much to Iovine's frustration. Sporting a sober expression, Han put a calculated and super-serious spin on his version of Donny Hathaway's "A Song For You" making Iovine very, very happy. "A lot of times, people put up a front. That's what I think he was doing (before)," theorized the veteran record exec. The judges, meanwhile, were ecstatic to have the "old" Han back, with Lopez opining: "You don't make it this far by mistake. He is here because we know he can sing that way." Conspiracy theory: was Han, who rubbed Diddy the wrong way when the rapper-mogul guest mentored, on his best behavior out of respect for Nicks?


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High School Boys Basketball
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Lindy's Warren has grand finale
Stew Warren of Lindenhurst, playing less than three varsity seasons, scored 1,185 career points. He scored his 1,000th point on Jan. 31, and reached that plateau in fewer games than any other player in school history.
For the second consecutive season, Warren averaged more than 20 points and 12 rebounds per game. Last season, as a junior, he was League I co-player of the year. This season, as a senior, he was voted League II player of the year as Lindenhurst upset No. 1 seed Half Hollow Hills West in the Class AA playoffs before being eliminated by Central Islip. Warren scored 31 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in the victory over Hills West.
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Lancaster police investigating rash of daytime burglaries
Lancaster police say a rash of daylight break-ins has recently happened in the southwestern quadrant in the city.
In many cases, officers say the burglaries were preceded by a midmorning knock at the door. If no one was home, the burglar would get in through an unlocked back door or window.
Police say anyone who sees an unknown person knocking on doors in Lancaster neighborhoods should report it.
Also, make sure doors and windows are locked, especially those in the rear of the home.
Police also urge that residents keep an eye on neighbors, too. Trespassers or someone planning a burglary could be spotted in a back yard.
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The Louisiana Bar Foundation will honor Professor Robert A. Pascal as Distinguished Professor and alumnus W. Shelby McKenzie as Distinguished Attorney at the 26th Annual Fellows Gala on April 20, 2012. The event will be held at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans.
Professor Robert A. Pascal obtained his J.D. from Loyola University, New Orleans in 1939, a Master of Civil Law from Louisiana State University in 1940, and a Master of Laws from the University of Michigan in 1942. He joined the law faculty of Louisiana State University in 1945, where he taught with distinction for 35 years until he became Professor Emeritus in 1980. He has taught at the University of Chicago Law School, at the University of Rome, Italy, and at Loyola University, New Orleans.
W. Shelby McKenzie ('64) of Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips, chaired the LSU Law Center's Forever LSU Campaign, is a former chair of the LSU Law Alumni Board of Trustees, and received the LSU Law Center Distinguished Alumnus of the...
The LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center's Federal Bar Association (FBA) Moot Court Team placed in the Top 8 nationally when they competed at the FBAs Thurgood Marshall National Moot Court Competition that was held in Washington, D.C. March 29 through 31. This was the Law Center's first time competing at the competition. Jonathan Moore and Lindsay Jarrell advanced through multiple rounds ultimately placing in the Top 8. James Sudduth and Donna Lee advanced out of the preliminary rounds to the 16th round.
This competition is held in conjunction with the FBA's annual meeting, and judges included federal court practitioners and federal judges from around the country. This year's problem dealt with...
The Trial Advocacy Board of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University is pleased to announce and congratulate the newly elected officers who have been elected for 2012-13 school year:
Rikki Weger, President
Barry Edwards, Vice-President of Internal Competitions
William Macke, Vice-President of Internal Competitions
Arthur Kraatz, Vice-President of External Competitions
Drew Nordgren, Vice-President of Judge and Faculty Relations
Jeremy Ancar, Vice-President of Media and Outreach
Donna Lee, ABA Arbitration Chair
Cassandra Jelincic, National Trial Chair
Anna Brown
Kelly Burris
Valerie Fontenot
Haley Jones
Arthur Mitchell
Lalla Morris
Christopher Moss
William Priestley
Je'Rell Rogers
Dan Schilling
James Sudduth
Reshonda Thompson
Arvind Viswanathan
Ed Waters
Bill Willis
Joshua Wood
The Moot Court Board of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University is pleased to announce and congratulate the newly elected officers who have been elected for the 2012-13 school year:
Anna Brown, President
Michael Heier, Vice-President of Internal Competitions
Chelsea Gomez, Vice-President of External Competitions
Katherine Lagow, Vice-President of Judge and Faculty Relations
Lauren Thompson, Vice-President of Media and Outreach
Members of the 2012-2013 Moot Court Board:
• Jessica Allain
• Mark Assad
• Christopher Caswell
• Christopher Cummings
• Jessica Engler
• Andrew Heacock
• Heidi Kemple
• Arthur Kraatz
• Caroline Massey
• Thomas McCall
• William Priestley
• Scott Raney
• John Simmons
• Matthew Smith
• Sarah Trufant
• Edward Waters
• Rikki Weger
Jessica Allain and Dominic Cvitanovic placed first in LSU Law's first ever Arbitration Competition on March 24, 2012. Competitors were required to argue both sides of a mock arbitration involving a dispute between a former employee and a corporation over the course of three days. Lani Gholston and Michael Heier placed second in the competition, and Bradley Pierson and Melanie Johnson placed third. Jessica Allain won an award for the Best Advocate in the final round, and Michael Heier won an award for the Best Advocate in the preliminary rounds. Special thanks are due to our esteemed final round arbitrators, Mr. Don Frattini and the Honorable Robert Burns, Sr.
Arbitration is a dispute resolution process in which the disputing parties present their case to a third party intermediary (or a panel of arbitrators) that examine all the evidence and then make a decision for the parties. This decision is typically binding. Like court-based adjudication, arbitration is adversarial. However,...


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Features & Specs
- Engine 6.0 L V 8-cylinder
- Drivetrain Four Wheel Drive
- Transmission 4-speed Automatic
- Horse Power 325 hp @ 5200 rpm
- Fuel Economy 0/0 mpg
- Bluetooth No
- Navigation No
- Heated Seats Yes
Review of the 2007 HUMMER H2 SUT
By virtue of its open pickup bed and removable midgate, the 2007 Hummer H2 SUT has a bit more versatility than the H2 SUV. However, it shares the same glaring faults in performance, fuel consumption and packaging, making it a very impractical vehicle for everyday use.
- Safety
Distinctive styling, unmatched off-road capability, comfortable ride, cushy seats, versatile cargo/passenger space.
Feels massive, poor visibility, some cheap interior materials, horrible fuel economy, still can't carry much cargo.
What's New for 2007
Other than some additional chrome, a new Glacier Blue limited edition and the powertrain warranty being extended to five years/100,000 miles, there are no changes for the 2007 Hummer H2 SUT.Read full review of the 2007 HUMMER H2 SUT
Full 2007 HUMMER H2 SUT Review
What's New for 2007
Other than some additional chrome, a new Glacier Blue limited edition and the powertrain warranty being extended to five years/100,000 miles, there are no changes for the 2007 Hummer H2 SUT.
With the initial and promising success of the Hummer H2, it was only natural for GM to capitalize on that outlandish vehicle's fame by rolling out another version. Called the Hummer H2 SUT (for sport-utility truck), this sibling supposedly offers the passenger comfort of an SUV along with the cargo-hauling versatility of a pickup truck. Essentially, the H2 SUT is simply an H2 SUV with the rear cargo area fashioned like a pickup truck's open bed. A measure of versatility is added via the "midgate" feature, which allows the cargo area to be either separated from the passengers or extended into the passenger compartment. Otherwise, the two H2s are identical.
Introduced a couple of years ago, the Hummer H2 SUT sees no significant changes for 2007, save for another color-themed special edition. Called the Glacier Blue limited edition (which joins the Fusion Orange edition that debuted last year), this truck features unique light blue paint, chrome wheels, carbon-fiber cabin trim and a host of luxury items, such as a rear-seat DVD player.
With 10 inches of ground clearance, aggressive approach and departure angles, large all-terrain tires, a variety of skid plates and a locking rear differential, the H2 SUT can pretty much go anywhere wide enough to accommodate its considerable girth. However, this macho hardware is mostly a liability on pavement. Tipping the scales at 6,400 pounds, this H2 weighs about as much as two Honda Accords. All that heft means that even with 325 horsepower and 365 pound-feet of torque, the H2's 6.0-liter V8 is huffing and puffing to get this tank up to speed. As expected, gas mileage is dismal, averaging less than 10 mpg all around.
Those looking for instant celebrity status will be disheartened to learn that the 2007 Hummer H2 SUT doesn't turn quite as many heads as it once did while motoring through suburbia. Unless you're a very serious off-roader or happen to be in love with the H2's style, you'll likely find that this Hummer's unwieldy size and big thirst make it foolish to drive on a daily basis.
Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options
The 2007 Hummer H2 SUT is a large SUV with an open cargo area. Standard features are generous and include dual-zone automatic climate control, Bose audio with a CD player and cassette deck, leather seating, full power front seats including lumbar adjustment, a trip computer, OnStar, keyless entry, heated seats front and rear, underbody skid plates, 315/70R17 all-terrain tires and a locking rear differential.
There are two major packages -- the Adventure Series and the Lux Series. The Adventure Series adds a self-leveling rear air suspension, a six-disc CD changer, tool and first aid kits and a front brush guard. The Lux Series package doesn't include the air suspension, but comes with chrome wheels, upgraded leather seating, a chrome appearance package, single-passenger third-row seat, a brushed-aluminum roof rack, tubular side steps, satellite radio and the CD changer. A new color-themed package is available as well: Glacier Blue. It comes with special wheels, a DVD player for those in back, a navigation system, a rearview camera, carbon-fiber cabin trim and a roof-mounted light bar. Most of these features, as well as a sunroof, are also available as stand-alone options.
Powertrains and Performance
A 6.0-liter V8 rated at 325 hp and 365 lb-ft of torque sends power to all four wheels through a heavy-duty four-speed automatic transmission. A dual-range transfer case is standard, as is a driver-selectable rear differential locker and a drive-by-wire throttle setup that changes sensitivity when low-range gearing is selected. Getting the 3-tons-plus H2 SUT up to 60 mph is an effort that takes nearly 11 seconds. Gas mileage is absolutely dismal, as we've averaged just 9.2 mpg overall in our testing.
Antilock brakes and traction control are standard, but stability control is not available. Side-impact and side curtain airbags are not available either.
Interior Design and Special Features
The H2 SUT's cabin features rugged design elements, such as exposed Allen bolts and a gear selector that looks as if it were lifted from a fighter jet. In spite of the tough personality, the H2 pampers its occupants with dual-zone climate control, well-padded leather seats and a nine-speaker Bose audio system. Sadly, an abundance of hard plastic trim and unconvincing faux metallic accents cheapen the interior of this truck, whose sticker can quickly approach $60,000. The midgate feature increases the cargo versatility. With the midgate closed, the cargo area is a 30-cubic-foot, rubber-lined open bed. Folding the rear seats down and opening the midgate expands the cargo area to 56 cubic feet.
Driving Impressions
The 2007 Hummer H2 SUT simply feels massive on the road. The ride is slightly stiffer than that of a Suburban or Tahoe, but not so much as to be uncomfortable. The H2 SUT's off-road prowess is beyond reproach (provided the trail is wide enough), with steep approach and departure angles, plenty of ground clearance, ample wheel travel and plenty of grip from the aggressive tires. Power from the big V8 is blunted by the vehicle's substantial mass, and gas mileage often averages less than 10 mpg.
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I wandered around the ranch with my camera this weekend. We've had two days of beautiful weather, but our first storm of a series hit today. I won't be able to drive up to see the horses as winds are forecast up to 60 mph! But, on Saturday, the sky was blue and clear and I found this sign. The ranch owner breeds exotic birds (to help finance her horses). Like so many other people with horses, she has another "hobby" which helps her afford her beautiful horses. Mellow Yellow Monday for January 18, 2010.
Deserts and Beyond
Deserts and beyond...places in and around the southern California deserts and beyond. Photo taken at Canyon Lake, in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, December 2011. A few minutes later, after the sun disappeared, these cliffs were their normal color. They were only golden for a short time and I'm glad we were able to view them in their glory.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Around the ranch~Mellow Yellow Monday 011810
Posted by desertsandbeyond at 9:59 AM
3 comments:
- Carolyn Ford said...
How cute! It looks like something useful for a Jimmy Buffett concert! I might need to borrow it someday! HA!
- January 18, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Joops said...
Very nice signage.
Bunk Bed Bliss for mellow yellow monday!
- January 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
- Manang Kim said...
Love the sign it's very colorful. Thanks for sharing!
MYM:Poster at school
- January 18, 2010 at 4:40 PM
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Last week, Thermos overnighted me a cup of hot coffee from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., to see if it could. It was a bald-faced PR stunt. It succeeded in both senses: The coffee was still hot by the time it reached me, and I am writing about it now.
Now you've been warned: This is an article about a PR stunt. It was, however, an extraordinary PR stunt—well-executed, conceptually simple, and bubbling with zeitgeist. And I accepted the hot coffee for reasons beyond my love of roasted arabica.
The stunt was ostensibly to promote Thermos' vacuum-insulated 40-ounce Stainless King beverage bottle. The company claims the Stainless King can keep hot things hot and cold things cold for 24 hours, and indeed my own experience with this monarch of thermoses bore that out.
The stunt's part of a larger contest (and context). In May, Thermos shipped 25 of its Facebook fans in the contiguous U.S. free coffee overnight from Ritual Coffee in San Francisco. This month, the second time it ran the contest, it chose a more midwestern provider: Spyhouse Coffee in Minneapolis.
Courtney Fehrenbacher, a marketing manager at Thermos, told me that the company hopes to re-run the contest every other month, at least until the end of the year. Altogether, Spyhouse will hand 35 of its steaming envoys over to FedEx to be distributed across the country.
But, dare I say, the stunt was about even more than Thermos, Spyhouse, the Stainless King, or the Iron Throne. It was about logistics.
As best as I can assemble it, here is the trajectory of the Stainless King and its erstwhile contents.
The coffee inside the Stainless King was Spyhouse's Las Nubes roast: a coffee variety indigenous to Kenya and grown in El Salvador. The varietal was brought to El Salvador in the early 20th century when that country's economy rested on its coffee production. This bean was grown on a similarly old farm, high-altitude land owned by the same family since the 1920s. (Or, at least, that's the story Spyhouse tells.)
This bean, though. It was harvested sometime last winter before it entered its customary months of rest. Afterward, it was shipped to Spyhouse, which roasted the beans on July 21, 2014. It became the shop's Las Nubes lot.
I presume it roasted those beans in the morning, because by the afternoon it was brewing the coffee. Around 4 p.m., the team got out their 10 Stainless Kings (designated for me and fellow members of the media) and filled them with Las Nubes, which they dripped. Then they put them in Thermos's special packages—augmented with a bag of freshly roasted Las Nubes—and drove the boxes "about a quarter mile away" to the local FedEx facility.
According to a FedEx spokeswoman, the package was placed in a modified McDonnell Douglas DC-10, called an MD-10*. That plane's a couple decades old, at least—McDonnell stopped making them in 1989—and FedEx owns more than anyone else. FedEx indisputably owns the largest private cargo fleet in the world, and, according to the trade journal Supply Chain, the fourth-largest aircraft fleet, period.
Perhaps the package was stopped and exchanged in one of FedEx's global or national hubs, in Memphis, or Indianapolis. Eventually, though, it arrived in D.C. in the wee hours of the July 22. Unloaded from the plane, sorted, loaded onto a truck, and carried to The Atlantic's office/cement island-fortress, the Watergate, it reached its destination at 7:21 a.m. The coffee had been roasted less than 24 hours before.
Of course, the coffee wouldn't reach its final destination—my belly—for another hour or so. I got to work during the eight o'clock hour, hoping to intercept the Stainless King, and discovered Santa had already arrived.
With my colleague Adrienne, I unboxed the long-traveling liquid. Like Max's dinner in Where the Wild Things Are, it was still hot.
Talking to Spyhouse's founder and owner, Christian Johnson, I've been able to piece together the coffee's temperature-history. Spyhouse uses water at exactly 203 degrees Fahrenheit to brew Las Nubes. Johnson estimates that by the time that liquid—now coffee—departs the brew shuttle, it's between 175 and 180 degrees. Then it was capped, vacuum-sheathed, and sent on its way.
But still the conditions outside changed. "Depending on the exact placement of the package inside the aircraft, temperatures range from 40 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit during an average flight, with the average temperature being about 60 degrees," a Fedex spokeswoman said of the Thermos' cargo transit. And the pressure changed outside as well, rising to the equivalent of 8,000 feet above sea level.
It was about 72 degrees in the district as the package trundled through, and a few degrees cooler in my almost-refrigerated office. When we uncapped the Thermos, we measured its temperature to be 151 degrees.
"Wow. That's amazing," said Johnson, after I shared this heat conservation with him. "So really you only lost 25 degrees between when we capped the thermos to when you opened it."
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Official Pixelmon Pack
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Minecraft: 1.5.2
For complete support for pixelmon go to the pixelmon website http://pixelmonmod.com/blog/ We have an extensive support setup there and a number of great people who are willing to help you out if you have an issue. Support requests posted here (technic discussion) will not be answered.
Link to Pokeloot's Topic on our forums: http://pixelmonmod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=2903
This mod DOES NOT work with OPTIFINE or NEI at the moment. Optifine is working on a fix.
Features of the mod:
172 pokemon
Modifies NO base files (Meaning it should work with any mod)
Configuration file to change spawning amounts, Block and item ID's
Comprehensive attack system featuring over 500 attacks (including status effects and stats modifiers)
Pokemon overlay showing current pokemon and their status
Functioning pokedex
Multiplayer supported! (including bukkit using bukkitforge)
Full PC storage system!
New Healing block!
Evolution stones!
New Capturing system!
Brand new models for pc and healer
3D pokeball and capture animation (now improved)
All Mob's to scale as specified by the bulbapedia
Battleable Trainers
Aggression system
Friendship System (Umbreon will evolve with it)!
Hammer and anvil crafting system for pokeballs!
Pokeballs now work in battle!
Apricorn trees
More Pokeballs: Heavy Ball, Level Ball, Love Ball, Moon Ball and Friend Ball + More!
New GUI's for battling, summary screen, and inventory, and more!
Fossil Machine for reviving fossils found around the world!
Trading! Trade pokemon with your friends!
Evolve Pokemon!
Find Icy and Mossy stones throughout the world to evolve certain Pokemon!
and much, much more....!
Changelog for Pixelmon 2.2.1:
- Moved to 1.5.2
- Updated method for downloading database to mask the url for the download through our server
- Added more exception handling specifically for the odd case in which a player dc's during an operation which is affecting their save
- Added catches for more possible crashes in battles
- Extended Pixelmon API for XWaffle's achievements side mod
- Heaps more animation code including wings, arms, leg modules and more
- Fire stone ore moved to the rooves of caverns with lava in them
- Pokemon with no spawn info will now only spawn on grass (stopping them spawning in buildings etc)
- A number of moves added
- New flying ai
- Pokedex updates on pokemon evolution and trade
- Healer retrieve pokemon as they are placed on healer
- Added error reporting switch in config, off by default will only report critical errors if off
- Fixed evAdjusting items not giving correct Ev boost
- Fixed status's all reverting to burn when pokemon retrieved and sen tout
- Added API stuff for new events
- Added register to pokedex on trade
- Added clearing function when player enters world
- Added evolution rocks. Must be within 10 blocks of them when your eevee levels up
- Bosses reworked - No longer have a set level, level is set when you engage them in battle, set to be a certain number of levels above the highest level pokemon in your team
- Increased rate of hammer decay
- Reduced leaf stone ore spawn
- Reworked player connection code
- Fixed disconnecting from a server and the side-bar disappearing
- Fixed bug in Base-Stat loading which reduces memory used by pixelmon entities 10x
- Fixed potions applied to pokemon crashing the game
- Fixed wrong location bug
- Fixed recharging moves
- Increased badge stack size
- Normalised size of pokemon in pokedex and fossil machine
- Fixed rendering of held item when moving in pc
- Fix to disable not always being reset after battle
- Pokemon in battle should now properly be positioned if sent out
- TM's are now only removed if the move is learnt - cancelling will not remove them
- Tms can now only be taught to owned pokemon
This pack is made by the Developers of the mod, so of course we have permission to use it.
Created: 06-19-2013
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I have just ran SIMSINST.exe and Installed SIMS to APPONO/SQLSERVER and attatched a blank database which I named SIMSMAIN. When the SIMS installation had finished, I clicked ok and it returned to the main SIMSINST screen, does that mean it was unsuccessful? Anyway, I closed that down and went to a client PC and clicked SIMS.net, it then upgraded the workstation to SIMS 2012 Spring (I know it's not latest, but It'll do) Then I connected it to the connect.ini file on the server and then the login sreen came up. I put username: sysman and password: password but it said Invalid Username/Password. Any Ideas?
Do you have any other logins? There is a patch (11602) to reset the SYSMAN account.
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Honoring Education Pow-Wow to be held April 28 at UW-Eau ClaireApril 20, 2012
Doors to the event will open to the public at 11 a.m. Grand entries will be at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The feast will begin at 5 p.m. in the Council Fire Room of Davies Center.
Admission (including the feast) is $4 for adults, $3 for those with a Blugold ID, and free for children under 5 and seniors over 55.
Larry "Amik" Smallwood will serve as master of ceremonies. Host drums will include Smokeytown and co-host Lac Courte Oreilles Badger Singers. The head female dancer will be Rebecca St. Germaine. The head male dancer will be Dr. Rick St. Germaine.
The event is expected to draw up to 1,000 visitors, according to event coordinator Odawa White of UW-Eau Claire's Office of Multicultural Affairs.
"The Honoring Education Pow-Wow and celebration is an exciting time for all students," said White, noting that Indian nations from all over Wisconsin and Minnesota will be represented at the event. "A pow-wow is a social gathering and is open to everyone who wants to participate and experience Native American culture."
The annual event provides an opportunity for Native American people to gather and celebrate the importance of their heritage and culture, and for UW-Eau Claire to recognize and honor its American Indian alumni, White said. All members of the campus community and surrounding communities are invited to attend to experience an example of Native American culture.
The UW-Eau Claire Native American Student Association will sell fry bread tacos and fry bread. Vendors will sell their arts and crafts throughout the day.
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Having been bumped from the Southeast Regional Tournament by Kentucky last season, the coaches of Liberty's DII team made sure the 2010-11 schedule included a slew of tough opponents.
Head coach Chris Lowes figures his Flames will benefit in two ways: 1.) Strong performances against the marquee names on the schedule will enhance Liberty 's chances for a high enough ranking to make the regional field. 2.) Competitive games weekend after weekend will strengthen his team for the high-caliber clubs it will face in the regional.
"Last year we made the regional with a fairly light schedule. It didn't leave much room for error," said Lowes, whose club joined the newly formed Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Hockey Association's new D2 Southern Division during the offseason. "This year we wanted more opportunities to impress the ranking committee and to make our players battle tested. The loss to Kentucky was our first must-win game."
The Flames's schedule is dotted with opponents that figure to give Liberty a fight. They'll face three or four of them at the ACHA Showcase, Oct. 15-17 in Youngstown, Ohio. They'll meet several more at Liberty 's own MACHA showcase, where Rider and Rowan from MACHA's Northern Division and East Carolina and Liberty from the Southern will go at it.
Then there are the rivalry dates. "Virginia Tech is at the top of the list," said Lowes. "We've been battling from our days in the ACCHL. Last year we played twice and both went to a shootout. Kennesaw State is right there with them." The Flames will meet Kennesaw State and Virginia Tech, both MACHA-Southern Clubs, three and two times, respectively.
Lowes views the Flames' home game with KSU on Oct. 22 as the beginning of a challenging stretch in the schedule. "We have a run of pretty strong games heading into the semester break," he said.
Preparing to execute the schedule won't be a problem. The Flames have their own ice rink on their Lynchburg, Va., campus. They've been practicing for two weeks and Lowes said he's just about completed the selection process for the 2010-11 squad. The Flames will meet a junior team from Richmond and will play both the Liberty DI and III teams prior to their opener Sept. 18 vs. North Carolina State.
Sept. 18, vs. North Carolina State (ACCHL)
Sept. 19, vs. North Carolina State (ACCHL)
Sept. 24, vs. Christopher Newport (BRHC-Colonial)
Sept. 25, vs. North Carolina-Wilmington (BRHC-Carolina)
Oct. 1, vs. Georgetown (ACCHL)
Oct. 8, Life (MACHA-Southern Division)
Oct. 9, Life (MACHA-Southern Division)
Oct. 15-17, ACHA Showcase in Youngstown, Ohio
Oct. 22, vs. Kennesaw State (MACHA-Southern Division)
Oct. 23, vs. Maryland-Baltimore County (MACHA-Northern Division)
Oct. 29-31, Liberty Showcase (Rider, Rowan and East Carolina (all MACHA teams)
Nov. 6, vs. Virginia Tech (MACHA-Southern Division)
Nov. 12, at Kennesaw State (MACHA-Southern Division)
Nov. 13, at Kennesaw State (MACHA-Southern Division)
Nov. 14, at Life (MACHA-Southern Division)
Nov. 19, vs. Maryland (DII)
Nov. 20, vs. Temple (MACHA-Northern Division)
Jan. 14, vs. Penn State (MACHA-Northern Division)
Jan. 15, vs. Richmond (BRHC-Colonial)
Jan. 16, vs. Eastern Carolina (MACHA-Southern Division)
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What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
By James Fitzgerald
Random House Canada
499 pp.; $34.95
Reviewed by Steve Noyes
In What Disturbs Our Blood, James Fitzgerald has exhumed the story of two notable Canadian physicians — Fitzgerald's father, Jack, and grandfather, Gerry — who succumbed to progressive debilitation after laudable careers.
Jack died in 1970 after a long decline into mental illness and drug addiction. Gerry, the founder of two of Canada's key public-health institutions — the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto and Connaught Laboratories — committed suicide in his hospital bed in 1940. This sad tale sweeps through the 20th century's struggle with science, race and class, providing a record of a son's and grandson's courageous attempt to understand the past.
Courageous because I infer, from the preponderance of documentation and the paucity of family comment, that Fitzgerald's family may not have appreciated his efforts.
The family memoir begins badly — with a welter of clichés, gothic adjectives and overblown narration: An Awful Secret is loose in the Fitzgerald household, and young James is Terribly Sensitive to it. But be patient: As he warms to his story, Fitzgerald's prose becomes cleaner, more evocative. And for all the early overwriting, an important aesthetic effect has been achieved: Fitzgerald skilfully writes around the absence of the grandfather (he isn't mentioned until page 87) in the family mythos. Yet that absence fairly pullulates throughout the book.
The rhythm of What Disturbs turns on two great tidal bores of fact and memory, one cycling backward through the stories of the author's grandfather and father, the other cycling forward through the history of 20th-century medicine. A great deal of forgotten debris is washed up.
It is easy to forget how people from different backgrounds and social strata lived in the early 20th century. Although sensitive to the repressive effects of his own privileged upbringing, Fitzgerald is clear-eyed about the racist origins of the first efforts to address today's concept of the "social determinants of health." This passage illuminates attitudes toward the denizens of St. John's ward, Toronto, 1913: "The influx of 'dirty foreigners' had terrified the largely homogeneous, white, Anglo-Protestant, middle class; they vilified the slum as a breeding ground for disease and immorality where a destitute, degenerate underclass of over ten thousand poor Italian, Jewish and Polish immigrants — a population three times denser than London's slums — recklessly indulged in animal sexual appetites. The ghetto was judged intrinsically pathological, rife with contagious disease, graft, sloth, pauperism, harlotry, Sabbath-breaking, gambling, alcoholism, theft, swearing, and sexual abuse of children."
This is expertly set against Fitzgerald's portrait of the medical class in Canada — their cricket and rugby fields at Upper Canada College, their debutante parties, their working vacations in Europe.
Then, too, ideas of class and race loom large in Fitzgerald's description of the professional war between Sigmund Freud's "talking cure" and physiological treatments for mental illness. Freudian analysis lost; electroshock, insulin shock and lobotomy won, and the ascendant school's underlying philosophy was eugenics, the purification of the race by weeding out the mental defectives.
An uneasy tension suffuses the narrative: On one hand, the Nazis, the forced sterilizations of Alberta mental patients, the cruel treatments; on the other, Fitzgerald reaches, time and again, toward race as the explanation of the tragic fatal flaw, the madness, that destroyed his relatives, a flagrant, stalking Irishry that rose from the peat bogs of Mother Eire to choke his progenitors at the height of their careers.
Nazis and racial cleansing, the Irish and madness — these stereotypes were popular, and there is no reason to believe Fitzgerald's father and grandfather didn't hold with them, which makes their mental illnesses even more poignant. We come to learn that an insistence on family pride in a repressed upper-class household can significantly cancel out the social determinants of health.
There are also interludes where Fitzgerald reminds us of his sensitivity to his absent father figures through his dreams; it is how he shares in the tragic grandeur of his forebears and ennobles his quest. But the dreams are rather pat, and they turn around the withholding of the family "secret" from the frightened child; they don't evoke much but symbolism — an awkward gloss on the real, which stands powerfully on its own.
What Disturbs Our Blood is beautifully orchestrated, with the counterpoint of Gerry and Jack's stories; the author's discoveries slowly unearthing layers of meaning; the medical achievements set against the stifling silence of madness. The confluence comes at a remarkable point where all the scientific shades in Gerry's memory — the Bantings, Bests, Farrars, Joneses, Freuds — file forward to berate him and pronounce him guilty "… of slitting open the brains of cadaverous Irish lunatics, probing the tissues with his gleaming lancet for the mythical microbe of madness; guilty of eradicating the immigrant ghetto of St. John's ward, supplanted by the sterile hospital where he now lies; guilty of failing to bring his influence to bear …"
What Disturbs Our Blood is a fascinating, multi-layered history of 20th-century medicine and a passionate inquiry into a family's tragedies. It's a banshee of a book.


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I. To determine whether somatic tumor genome alterations identified in tumor tissue before or after the initiation of CYP-17 inhibition (like abiraterone therapy) are associated with a 12-week composite progression free survival (PFS) endpoint.
II. To use tumor tissue obtained prior to the initiation of therapy and from the 12 week biopsy to develop tumor xenografts for mechanistic and functional studies which will determine whether mutations identified in the tumor genome are associated with response to drugs that target the observed mutated genes and/or associated pathways.
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II. To determine whether somatic tumor genome alterations identified in tumor tissue before or after the initiation of CYP-17 inhibition (like abiraterone therapy) are associated with progression free survival (PFS).
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- Histological diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate or documented history in medical records of having received treatment for prostate cancer diagnosis
- Metastatic disease on chest, abdominal, or pelvic computed tomography (CT) and/or bone scan amenable to biopsy
- Hemoglobin (HgB) > 9.0 gm
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1500 cells/L
- Platelets >= 100,000 u/L
- Creatinine =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) and serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) =< 1.5 x ULN
- Castrate serum testosterone level (< 50 ng/dL -or- < 1.7 nmol/L)
- Progression while on or after androgen deprivation therapy defined as:
- Progressive measurable disease: at least a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameters of measurable lesions over the smallest sum observed or the appearance of one or more new lesions as assessed by imaging during hormone ablation treatment; measurable lesions are nodal or visceral soft-tissue lesions with nodal lesions >= 20 mm in diameter or visceral/soft-tissue lesions >= 10 mm in diameter OR
- Bone scan progression: appearance of 2 or more new lesions on bone scan during hormone ablation treatment OR
- Increasing serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level: two consecutive increases in PSA levels documented over a previous reference value obtained at least one week apart are required; if the third PSA value is less than the second, an additional fourth test to confirm a rising PSA is acceptable; a minimum starting value of 2.0 ng/mL is required for study enrollment
- NOTE: androgen deprivation therapy may have included either medical or surgical castration
- >= 14 days has passed since completing radiotherapy (exception for radiotherapy: >= 7 days since completing a single fraction of =< 800 centigray [cGy] to a restricted field or limited-field radiotherapy to non-marrow bearing area such as an extremity or orbit) at the time of registration
- Patients who may have received systemic chemotherapy or any novel therapeutic CYP-17 inhibitor and/or novel androgen receptor (AR) inhibitor agents previously for prostate cancer should have received the last dose of the previously administered systemic therapy >= 12 months from the date of registration
- Provide informed written consent
- Has recovered from any other therapy-related toxicity to =< grade 2, (except alopecia, anemia and any signs or symptoms of androgen deprivation therapy)
- Willing to provide tissue and blood samples for correlative research purposes
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- Patient is considered a candidate for initiating CYP-17 inhibitors abiraterone acetate and prednisone after failure of hormonal therapy and has no contra-indications to starting this combination as standard of care
- Patients have stopped any antiandrogen therapy (including bicalutamide) >= 4 weeks prior to first dose of study drug; in addition any other therapies for prostate cancer, other than gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue therapy, such as progesterone, medroxyprogesterone, progestins (megestrol), or 5-alpha reductase inhibitors (e.g., finasteride or dutasteride), must be discontinued >= 2 weeks before the first dose of study drug
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- Use of any of the standard therapies for castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) stage =< 12 months prior to registration; NOTE: See below for further exclusion details of specific standard therapies
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- Note: Docetaxel for hormone sensitive prostate cancer is not an exclusion criterion
- Use of radium-223 for CRPC stage is an exclusion criteria
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- Note: less than 3 doses of Provenge vaccine =< 12 months prior to registration for CRPC is not an exclusion criterion
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- Use of cabazitaxel chemotherapy =< 12 months prior to registration is an exclusion criterion
- Note: initiation of full dose chemotherapy with cabazitaxel for CRPC stage with-in the previous 12 months is an exclusion criterion
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- Use of enzalutamide for CRPC stage =< 12 months prior to registration is an exclusion criteria use of any experimental or standard of care CYP-17 inhibitors =< 12 months prior to registration is an exclusion criteria
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- Receiving any intermittent hormonal treatment GnRH analogues and has not yet achieved sub-castrate levels of testosterone (< 50 ng/dl or < 1.7 mmol/L)
- History of or current documented brain metastasis or carcinomatous meningitis, treated or untreated; Note: brain imaging for asymptomatic patients is not required
- Current symptomatic cord compression requiring surgery or radiation therapy
- Note: once successfully treated and there has been no progression, patients are eligible for the study
- Active second malignancy (except non-melanomatous skin or superficial bladder cancer) defined as requiring anticancer therapy or at high risk of recurrence during the study
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