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- Can only have a maximum of one goal object
- Goal objects may not be resized or rotated
- Goal objects can not be added or deleted
- You may move, but do not resize or rotate, from one to all of the objects per edit
- The build and goal area can be resized and moved (try not to be too drastic)
- You must solve the previous level to be able to edit, and make a new level (edit a level bu chaning levelID to editID
- If an edit goes unsolved for 48 hours, or how long it is until a group of people agree that we need a new edit, The edit will be RESET Not remade, but I will give you a whole new edit. Only I Can reset the shuffle, so if you need me I will be on IRC and msn at email@example.com.
*New* - From now on, no one may edit delete add etc any dynamics. Im a bit tired of the classic "2 giant balls" tactic. Lets see how this new rule works out.
A. If you post your progress it is implied that anyone can steal it!!!
B. If you do solve a level from somebody's progress, you MUST edit the level. This is one of the things that sets the UNCshuffle apart from the other shuffles.
*Failure to listen to these rules may result in an X day ban :-P
To edit a level, in the url change levelId to editId (I think the command is case sensitive).
For example, if the url was
- Code: Select all
change it to
- Code: Select all
to edit the level.
If nobody can solve the previous level for a day, someone can make a new simple level with 1 small goal object
If multiple people reply to the same post, use the first reply as the starting point.
I hope that makes sense!
*Stolen from Level Shuffle
Unconnected Rules: Your Design can not have any pieces that are connected (Hence the name ) Examples:
Sumaleth http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=6092659
Wizbang http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=7670085
All designs must be Green/Brown (Obviously, You cant use powered wheels in Unconnected ) Green: Your contraption may only contain Water Rods, Sticks, and Unpowered wheels. Brown: Your Contraption may contain only Water Rods and Sticks.
Ready? Lets go!
Starting Edit: http://FantasticContraption.com/?levelId=352279
BapfelOrange for creating the Badge!
Weasel/Pacifist for making the game!
Sumaleth for all is Unconnected Contributing!
Hero88go for making the hopefully Successful Unconnected Shuffle!
~~Upcoming Changes~~
-June 17th, 2010 - Anniversary and uber 3 page challenge!
-June 30th, 2010 - Dynamic change to
-July 7th, 2010 - Its bungie day! Time for a reset!
-July 16th, 2010 - Hero's birthday Edit day!1!!111
-July 30th, 2010 - Goal Piece change to small
-August 10th, 2010 - Dynamic change to
-THE REST - We'll see.


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Dobie Maxwell discusses Comedy Night at Twisted Q
By Jessi Virtusio firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @JessiVirtusio August 28, 2013 2:44PM
Dobie Maxwell aka Mr. Lucky will perform Aug. 31 at the Listening Room at the Twisted Q in Homewood.
Dobie Maxwell and James Wesley Jackson with Trevor Burke and host Joe Nuccio
♦ 8 p.m. Aug. 31
♦ The Listening Room
at the Twisted Q,
2053 Ridge Road,
♦ Tickets, $10
♦ (708) 957-8899
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Updated: October 1, 2013 6:10AM
He talks a mile a minute, and that rapid-fire delivery will be cranking out the comedy come Aug. 31.
That's when Dobie Maxwell aka Mr. Lucky, of Fox Lake, will co-headline the inaugural Comedy Night at the Listening Room at the Twisted Q in Homewood.
"Dave Rudolf is just a wonderful guy," Maxwell said of the Park Forest resident who books the acts at the relatively new venue.
"He's a champion of the arts. For him to bring this here, it's such a huge area and hopefully people will become regulars and see there's a lot of talent in the Chicago area."
Maxwell has performed in 48 U.S. states as well as in Canada and shared the bill with notables such as Jeff Foxworthy, Jay Leno, Drew Carey, Rosie O'Donnell and Robin Williams.
One of the collaborations Maxwell said he is most proud of is working with longtime Chicago South Sider James Wesley Jackson (jameswesleyjackson.com), who co-headlines on Aug. 31.
Jackson opened up arenas for years, warming up crowds prior to Parliament-Funkadelic's concerts.
Maxwell produced Jackson's DVD, "The 21st Century Enviromedian — Live in Chicago," which will be one of two DVD releases celebrated on Aug. 31.
"It was a blast to do that, to be able to take one of your heroes and be able to work with him in that way," Maxwell said.
He also will be celebrating the release of his "The Dented Can" DVD at Comedy Night.
A portion of the proceeds from DVDs sold at the show will go to the American Diabetes Association.
"I was diagnosed in 2011 with diabetes," Maxwell (dobiemaxwell.com) said.
"Diabetes can be overcome with diet and exercise. I was determined to turn my life around. It was basically sodas for me. I stopped drinking sodas. I exercised. I'm not on insulin anymore.
"The doctor said, 'Wow! I didn't think you could do it.' It's got to be a full lifestyle change."
Maxwell, who has appeared on CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" and is a former morning radio personality from WLUP-FM (97.9), has been sharing his craft with others by teaching classes.
"I teach comedy because the best person to learn from is the one who made the most mistakes," Maxwell quipped.
"I did everything wrong offstage and on. I can't make anybody funny, but I can tell them to do things in the correct order."
Comedy Night will feature some performers Maxwell met through his classes.
Joseph Burke took Maxwell's comedy class, and his son Trevor (trevorburke.com), 11, is set to perform.
Also, host Joe Nuccio (joenuccio.com) is a former student of Maxwell's.
"We're veteran comedians. We're clean comedians," Maxwell said of the bill.
"Unfortunately a lot of people hear 'stand-up comedy' and think dirty or off-color. We're not prudes, but it's not filthy especially since we have an 11-year-old on the show."
Jessi Virtusio blogs about music, movies and much more on Elaborating on Entertainment at blogs.southtownstar.com/entertainment.
More of her conversation with Dobie Maxwell will be posted there soon.

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Reza explains all of the Mexico shenanigans.
MJ and Reza try to out-do each other much to the amusement of Mike and Asa.
Lilly complains about her loose skin but the others just don't see it.
Despite Mike's best efforts, Lilly can't get over the "gross" factor of this bar.
Bravo's in-house Persian Nadine recaps and remixes what we've seen so far.
While GG freaks out, Lilly and the rest of the Shahs are partying in Mexico.
Everyone is livin' it up in Mexico but Lilly is a bit overwhelmed by it all.


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If a person thinks ill and unkind thoughts of someone, for example a neighbor or a coworker, then that is the attitude they have toward that person.
If you are flooded with thoughts over the way people drive while heading home during rush hour, your attitude toward them is composed of your thoughts.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., an author and speaker in the field of self-development, believes when we change the way we look at things the things we look at change. He also was quoted saying "When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
Some quotes from my favorite quote book may get us thinking in the right direction. The first one is from Dyer.
"You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality." — Dr. Wayne Dyer
"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts." — James Allen
"The soul never thinks without a picture." — Aristotle
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee ..." — Isaiah 26:3
"If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again." — Aristophanes
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. — Mary Kay Ash
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
"I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching." — James M. Barrie
"I carry my thoughts with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down." — Ludwig van Beethoven
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." — Henri Bergson
"To think is to live." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To sum it all up, our thoughts comprise our overall attitude. What's on your mind? For some of us it may be a place we would rather not talk about. The best advice I can give is from Philippines 4:8, from the New International Version of the Bible. "Finally, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things."
If we keep our mind on these things then think about how great our attitude would be — not to mention how much joy this would bring us. Life is short. Don't just live your life ... live it well.


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LCD and LED Monitors Tech Showcase
Dec 14, 2011 5:02 PM, by Mike Keadle
One of the fastest growing markets in commercial AV is undoubtedly flatpanel displays—specifically LCD and LED-based displays. The technology in these products has advanced tremendously in the last few years. We see leaps in screen size and drops in pricing regularly from all manufacturers. Along with the larger, less expensive screens, we also see image quality advancements quite routinely. LCD and LED displays are now becoming the go-to product for rooms of all size and use. While there are a number of offerings now available, the displays listed here feature the latest offerings from the leading manufacturers.
JVC has long been recognized for its quality broadcast monitors. The company's newest model, the DT-V24G11Z, continues that tradition. The DT-V24G11Z is a 24in. LCD panel in a 1920x1200 native resolution. It provides a viewing angle of 178 degrees and features very minimal color variation from different viewing angles. It is 3G/dual-link ready and SMPTE 424M, 425M, and 372M compatible. It features a high-resolution waveform monitor and a vectorscope for checking and adjusting the image. It also contains a built-in digital closed-captioning decoder. Inputs include two HD/ SD SDI, RGB/component, and composite video, DVI-D (with HDCP), and RS-232C and RS-485 control ports. Audio inputs are also included and allow sources to be heard through built-in speakers. Free calibration software is available.
LG's new 65VS10 is the latest large screen offering from a leader in commercial display manufacturing. It is a 1920x1080 native resolution, 65in. widescreen LCD display. It features high 700cd/m2 brightness, and a typical 5000:1 contrast ratio while providing a 178-degree viewing angle. The 65VS10 can be used in either portrait or landscape mode, and it features a Split Zoom mode for creation of up to a 5x5 videowall. It features RGB, HDMI, component, and composite video inputs with corresponding audio inputs. Powered speaker outputs offer 20W per channel. USB playback support is provided for convenient presentations or easy digital signage applications. The 65VS10 offers three levels of energy saving and is Energy Star-rated.
NEC's new X462HB is the latest addition to its X series line of commercial displays. It is a 46in. 1080p resolution professional-grade display rated for 24/7 outdoor use. The display features a sealed design and advanced thermal protection. It uses a special polarizing film, which allows viewing through any type of polarized eyewear—a problem that plagues many outdoor displays. It features a brightness of 1200 cd/m2 and a contrast ratio of 3500:1, making it an ideal choice for outdoor digital signage or drive-thru menus. The X462HB offers DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI-D connectivity, and an expansion slot for future use. It provides network control for remote management, and it offers a 24/7 time-clock scheduler. Color calibration kits, speakers, single-board computers, tuner cards, an HDSDI card, and a DVI daisy-chain module are available options.
The new NEC MultiSync EA273WM represents the next generation in the company's successful EA series of monitors. The new model is up to 30 percent thinner and 25 percent lighter than its predecessor and now features a height-adjustable stand. The 27in. 1080p native display is now LED backlit and offers up a power savings of up to 52 percent compared to some earlier EA series models. It features DisplayPort, HDMI, DVID, and VGA inputs; audio inputs; and integrated speakers.
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BYU has reached the midway point of its WCC slate needing to pick up the pace to improve postseason prospects. Greg Wrubell also hands out his midseason WCC awards.
Cougars look for all-around contributions to end road swing on Saturday
Jaren Wood |
posted Jan 22nd - 11:57pm
BYU closes out a three-game road stretch on Saturday in San Diego, while continuing to deal with the season-long injury bug.
Resilient Cougars return to conference road
Greg Wrubell |
posted Jan 22nd - 6:31pm
With at least one injured player ready to retake his spot on the floor, the BYU Cougars visit San Diego on Saturday.
Cougars, Spartans announce football series in 2016, 2020
Jason Shepherd |
posted Jan 21st - 11:26am
BYU and Michigan State announce a home-and-home football series to be played in 2016 and 2020.
Opinion: BYU football falling behind Utah
Patrick Kinahan, KSL.com Contributor |
posted Jan 21st - 10:17am
A recent poll of Utah residents shows the University of Utah football program has replaced BYU as the most popular in the state. Maybe it's time for the BYU administration to consider going back to playing in a conference, particularly the MWC.
Memphis' review finds 12 Tigers to be punished for brawl
The Associated Press |
posted Jan 20th - 4:31pm
Memphis will punish 12 Tigers for their role in the brawl after their double overtime win at the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl following an internal review by the university. BYU officials aren't saying how many Cougars will be disciplined or how.
Majority of Utahns want BYU-Utah rivalry to return, poll says
Josh Furlong |
posted Jan 20th - 12:13pm
A majority of sports fans in Utah want to see the BYU-Utah football rivalry return, according to a poll released Tuesday by Dan Jones and Associates for UtahPolicy.com.
Utah schools in final blitz of recruiting season
Jeremiah Jensen |
posted Jan 19th - 11:48pm
National Signing Day is Feb. 4, and the clock is ticking, with only 12 more days for college football coaches to lock up their recruiting class.
Saint Mary's stays undefeated in WCC, beats BYU 82-77
The Associated Press |
posted Jan 18th - 12:17am
Brad Waldow had 24 points and 14 rebounds on Saturday night and Saint Mary's won its ninth straight, beating Brigham Young 82-77.
Game Center: BYU at Saint Mary's
Follow along as the BYU Cougars take on the Saint Mary's Gaels at McKeon Pavillion in Moraga, California with KSL.com's live Game Center.
Cougar Sports Saturday: January 17, 2015
Jason Shepherd |
posted Jan 17th - 6:00pm
The CSS crew previewed BYU basketball's big game at St. Mary's, got an update on Jimmer Fredette and got the latest on BYU football recruiting.
BYU football hires new strength coach, announces transfers and returning missionaries
Jason Shepherd |
posted Jan 16th - 3:28pm
Frank Wintrich has been hired as BYU football's new strength and conditioning coach. The Cougars also announced new additions to the football program for the winter semester.
Collinsworth gets 4th triple-double; BYU beats Pacific 93-80
The Associated Press |
posted Jan 15th - 11:48pm
Kyle Collinsworth tied the NCAA single-season record with his fourth triple-double and Brigham Young beat Pacific 93-80 on Thursday night.
Eaton, Bailey post career scoring nights in BYU women's rout of Pacific
Sean Walker |
posted Jan 15th - 10:16pm
Lexi Eaton scored a career-high 32 points, and Morgan Bailey tied a career-best with 31 points as the BYU women's basketball team handed Pacific its first loss in West Coast Conference play with a dominating 89-72 victory at the Marriott Center.
Game Center: BYU at Pacific
Follow along as the BYU Cougars take on the Pacific Tigers at the Spanos Center in Stockton, California with KSL.com's live Game Center.
Wright, Haws named to Wooden Award midseason Top 25
Josh Furlong |
posted Jan 14th - 3:18pm
Senior guards Delon Wright and Tyler Haws were named to the John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Wednesday.
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Norwood, MA (08/19/2010) - Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), the leading supplier of data converters and global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications, today introduced 12-bit and 10-bit mixed-signal front-ends (MxFEs) that reduce power and board space for developers of wireless infrastructure and portable radio equipment. The 12-bit AD9963 and 10-bit AD9961 MxFEs use 40 percent less power and 25 percent less printed-circuit board area than competing devices without sacrificing performance. These MxFEs are especially effective for cost-sensitive wireless equipment, such as femtocell and picocell base stations that require highly integrated dual transmit-and-receive functions. For more information: visit http://www.analog.com/pr/AD9963 and http://www.analog.com/pr/AD9961.
"For RF design engineers designing small-scale wireless communication equipment, Analog Devices' new MxFEs reduce power and component count," said Chris Jacobs, product line director, Analog Devices. "The low-power, highly integrated transmit-and- receive paths of our new front-end ICs help customers simplify their designs to meet aggressive cost targets while still providing industry-leading data converter dynamic range."
The 12-bit AD9963 and 10-bit AD9961 are pin-compatible, low-power MxFEs that each integrate two ADC (analog-to-digital converter) channels with sample rates to 100 MSPS (mega samples per second) and two DAC (digital-to-analog converter) channels with sample rates to 170 MSPS. The new MxFEs enable up to 10 dB better ACLR (adjacent-channel leakage ratio) performance than competing devices, easing design and filtering requirements while consuming less power.
Also integrated onto the devices are digital interfaces with flexible clocking options. These MxFEs have five auxiliary analog channels consisting of two 12-bit DACs, two 10-bit DACs and a 12-bit ADC. The ADC may be used to measure and monitor multiple points, both internal and external. The transmit path is configurable for 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x interpolation, and the receive path includes a by-passable 2x decimating low-pass filter. The AD9963 also integrates auxiliary LDO (low dropout) voltage regulators that allow the device to be powered from a single-supply and further reduce external component count.
The highly integrated MxFEs can be coupled with ADI's ADF4602 3G multi-band transceiver, ADL5501 RMS power detector as well as RF amplifiers, such as the ADL5320, ADL5542 and ADL5601 products to create a complete femtocell radio.
Product | Sample Availability |
Resolution (Bits) |
Power | Price Each Per 1,000 |
Packaging |
AD9963 | Now | 12 | 425 mW | $29.50 | 72-lead LFCSP |
AD9961 | Now | 10 | 425 mW | $25.75 | 72-lead LFCSP |
More designers turn to Analog Devices than any other supplier for the high-performance conversion technology required to bridge the analog and digital worlds in today's myriad electronic systems. With the industry's leading portfolio of ADCs (analog-to-digital converters) and DACs (digital-to-analog converters), Analog Devices' converter products feature the right combination of sampling rates and accuracy with low noise, power, and price and small package size required by industrial, medical, automotive, communications, and consumer electronics. Online evaluation tools help customers quickly validate, select, and design in the optimal data converters to reduce design complexity, development schedules, and bill-of-material costs. To view ADI's ADC selection guide, visit http://www.analog.com/ADCsearch . For ADC drivers, visit http://www.analog.com/ADCdrivers . To view ADI's DAC selection guide, visit http://www.analog.com/DACsearch .
Innovation, performance, and excellence are the cultural pillars on which Analog Devices has built one of the longest standing, highest growth companies within the technology sector. Acknowledged industry-wide as the world leader in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, Analog Devices serves over 100,000 customers, representing virtually all types of electronic equipment. Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. Analog Devices is included in the S&P 500 Index. http://www.analog.com
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Mobile authenticator app update for iOS is coming soon
To make sure you don't get locked out, before you upgrade you'll want to write down your restore code: from the app menu, click setup and then continue. You'll have a serial number and a restore code here which you can write down or take a screenshot of for reference. Then, if your new app isn't working, open the menu, click restore, then "I want to perform a restoration," then enter your serial number and restore code. If you haven't already, you can also set up SMS protect, which allows you to remove a broken authenticator -- or broken authenticator app, in this case -- from your account via a text message to your phone, so you can detach the old authenticator and connect a new one.
Anyone who has their iPhone set to automatically update apps should be especially wary, as this means your authenticator app will update as soon as the update appears on iTunes. Make sure you're ready for the update so you don't get locked out!
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Remembering Eudy, KwaThema's brightest, killed on its darkest night
Eudy Simelane's portrait hovers above her parents' lounge in KwaThema.
KwaThema, South Africa | At dusk in early winter, smoke from coal fires shrouds this bustling black township in a persistent haze resembling volcanic ash.
Among slag heaps of the heavily mined East Rand, temperatures are certain to dip below freezing on a clear night toward the end of June. The corrugated-tin dwellings of KwaThema, established in 1951 to house blacks relocated from white areas southeast of Johannesburg, lack heat and electricity. So outdoor fires already have started.
The parents of the late Eudy Simelane wear hats, scarves and coats both indoors and out. Her father, Khotso, eats his evening meal beside the kitchen stove, the only heat source in the trim double-pile house. Knotted around his neck is an Arsenal scarf. "It is real," he says, looking down and fingering the tasseled ends. Several years earlier his daughter had brought the scarf from an overseas trip with Banyana Banyana, the senior women's national football team, for whom she was a midfielder.
The scarf is not a local product but originated in north London, an impossibly distant land from which Premiership matches would be beamed to Khotso and Mally Simelane's home in KwaThema's Tornado section. Khotso watched games along with Eudy and Eudy's brother, Bafana, on the small television in his lounge.
Eudy Simelane died on 28 Apr 08 less than 200 yards from the four-room house, behind which she lived in her own bungalow. On the Monday following Freedom Day, commemorating independent elections of 1994, police retrieved Simelane's body from a culvert. According to a medical examiner's report, she had been stabbed eight times in the neck, abdomen and thighs. She was 31.
Scenes from KwaThema on 29 Jun 09, including Eudy's mother, Mally, at lower left.
Simelane's murder numbers among a series of attempted sexual assaults and "corrective rapes" in which black South African men have targeted lesbians based on the women's sexual preference. So says a coalition pushing government to live up to a progressive constitution that bars discrimination on grounds that include sexual orientation, conscience, belief and culture. With human rights, at least theoretically, at the center of the 15-year-old democracy, South Africa since 2005 has recognized same-sex marriages.
Since February hundreds have demonstrated outside Delmas circuit court, Mpumalanga province, famed for "treason trials" of anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s. One of the accused, Thato Mphiti, on Feb 13 received a 32-year sentence after pleading guilty to murder and to assault and robbery.
The fate of three alleged accomplices, Themba Mvubu, Khumbulani Magagula and Johannes Mahlangu, became more uncertain in late July when Mphiti recanted previous testimony and said that he had acted alone. Closing arguments have been postponed until Sept 21.
Eudy Simelane was born two months' premature at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on 11 Mar 1977. The hospital, with more than 3,000 beds, covering 173 acres, is the largest in the world. Complications after birth kept Eudy at hospital for several months. According to women of the family—including Eudy's mother as well as her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Skosana, and aunt, Busi Skosana—Eudy's early fragility resulted in special treatment. She resisted domestic routine and household chores.
"She started to kick the ball when she was crawling," her mother told the Sowetan. As a toddler, she cried when the ball went flat. It would be years before Eudy had a regulation-size football, but, until then, starting around age five, she played street soccer with boys along a warren of alleys and side roads near her grandmother's home.
Designers infused with idealism intended KwaThema to replicate garden cities in Europe and the United States with play areas and allotments on which families could grow produce. In reality, greenbelts sketched on planning documents became buffer zones to segregate KwaThema from Brakpan and Springs, coal- and gold-mining towns established in the late 19th century, and to limit blacks' freedom of movement and access to opportunity. According to a history of Johannesburg-area housing, open spaces—only now being appropriated, here and there, as soccer fields as part of 2010 World Cup legacy funding—remained "undeveloped veld, dumping grounds for car wrecks and havens for vagrants and criminals."
These brown stretches of Gauteng steppe, over which dust and haze hung low, formed the frontier of Eudy's known world as a schoolgirl. Growing up, she stuck to routine, soccer filling gaps between school, study and sleep. Grandmother Elizabeth remembers that Eudy would present miniature match reports on return from football training. Eudy liked television and Rasta music, especially Bob Marley and Lucky Dube, a Mpumalanga musician himself murdered in 2007 in a Johannesburg suburb. Teachers at Qedusizi primary and Phulong secondary schools encouraged her athleticism. Photos from secondary school show Eudy with placid expression, hair trimmed, long-sleeve white shirt and vest covering a broad torso.
Khotso Simelane (right) wears the Arsenal scarf Eudy brought from London.
She grew to be as tall as her mother, close to 1.75m, and stout, almost the prototypical South African woman player, according to national-team manager Fran Hilton-Smith. Eudy's world expanded on her discovery by Joseph "Skesh" Mkhonza, a former player for Kaizer Chiefs with a history of developing women footballers, including Hilton-Smith, in Gauteng. For the national side Eudy was a central midfielder, positioned in front of the defense, "very strong, very good with the head, stable, lovely girl, quiet, pleasant," Hilton-Smith recalls.
Eudy's attachment to football did not make full impact on the family until she received her first call-up to Banyana Banyana at 21 and began traveling across the country, throughout Africa and to tournaments and friendly matches in Europe. Women's football in South Africa suffered the same international isolation as the men's game with the additional handicap of gender discrimination, writes Martha Saavedra in a 2004 survey. Amateur women's sides played curtain-raisers as early as the 1960s, but a national program for women did not start until 1993.
Eudy's parents never saw her play for the national team. Travel times and logistics, even to Johannesburg, are prohibitive given a lack of efficient public transit. But brother Bafana, also a footballer, accompanied her to training sessions and games. Father Khotso watched her play in school and township matches.
Until her death, even after being dropped from the national-team player pool as the result of a coaching change, Eudy played for Tsakane Ladies in a neighboring township. Her devotion to football did not lessen with age. She became one of the first women in South Africa to earn refereeing certification. Following from her practice of organizing impromptu girls' and boys' teams in her youth, Eudy helped Mkhonza with administration of women's soccer in Gauteng.
She was the family's breadwinner, its center. In KwaThema she provided HIV/AIDS counseling and also worked with the handicapped. In May 08, Eudy planned to start a job with a pharmaceutical company in Pretoria.
In the end, Simelane lost her life for a mobile phone and a pair of "takkies," black-and-white athletic shoes that one of the alleged attackers, Mvubu, according to his younger brother, wore the morning after the crime. Mvubu's trousers contained traces of Simelane's blood near the zipper. Simelane fought her assailants, testified the doctor who conducted the postmortem, and likely had been restrained while receiving the fatal stab wounds. The convicted killer, Mphiti, before changing his story in July also said that Simelane had recognized her murderers. In Mphiti's words, she looked at Mvubu and said, "Themba you know me, and why do you do this?"
"She grew up here," said Mally Simelane in June. "Everybody here in this location knows her. It was to us a shock and a surprise, 'Why did they do this to her?' Because if these boys have killed her, they knew her. … We never even think that she was threatened outside. Because she goes wherever she likes. She comes back at home."
Speaking to Dipika Nath of Human Rights Watch in February, Mally said Eudy's death had transformed her into a resource for KwaThema's lesbian community. These lesbian daughters, rejected by their families of origin, now call her "mum."
To those pushing to have Simelane's case and others recognized as hate crimes, Eudy's alleged killers were young men threatened by her gay lifestyle. She had a lesbian partner and a reputation for physical strength. Although she had only come out to her mother the year before her death, Eudy had been participating in gay-pride marches in Johannesburg. Her family had not seen pictures from these marches until the memorial service at KwaThema Central Methodist Church.
The cover of the memorial program for Nkosi. An athlete and activist for lesbian causes, Nkosi "lived a proud life," reads the tribute inside, "transgressing all social gender norms and openly confronting the ills posed by economic exclusion."
Close to 2,000 attended Simelane's funeral. Similar numbers filled the service for one of Simelane's teammates with Tsakane Ladies, who died Jun 22 as the result of internal bleeding from another KwaThema stabbing attack. The funeral program calls Girlie "S'gelane" Nkosi, 37, "arguably the most visible lesbian of Kwa-Thema" with a history of speaking out against hate crimes. Before she died, Nkosi asked that those attending the memorial sing songs from church and from the struggle against apartheid. They sang "Yonk' indawo umzabalazo uyasivumela" (Everywhere Struggle Is Welcome) and the isiZulu hymn "Igazi Lemihlatshelo" (It Is the Blood of Sacrifices).
Cases of black-on-black violence crystallize arguments from critics who see South Africa, especially disillusioned township youth, losing touch with ideals that energized apartheid-era resistance. Townships such as KwaThema became organizational hubs during the freedom struggle, particularly in the wake of Soweto student protests in 1976. When Eudy was eight, in the winter of 1985, state security police killed seven residents participating in an anti-apartheid demonstration. Two weeks earlier, eight resistance fighters in KwaThema and nearby Duduza township died when their own hand grenades exploded. They were between 19 and 23, roughly the same age, one generation later, as the men charged in Simelane's killing.
Also during apartheid, writes Phumzile Mtetwa of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, KwaThema helped bring the region's gay subculture to light. KwaThema resident MaThoko, in particular, emerged as a key figure in gay and lesbian activism in the Witwatersrand. "Drag queens" walked KwaThema's streets in the early 1980s. "Ordinary members of the Kwa-Thema community would have been perceived as 'out of touch' if they dared speak against gays and lesbians," Mtetwa says.
Africa's first gay-pride march occurred in Johannesburg in 1990, where Simon Nkoli, among 22 who faced treason charges in Delmas beginning in 1985, declared that he needed to feel free as a gay man in order to be free as a black man. Nkoli died of AIDS in 1998. Again in Delmas, activists now see in the Simelane case a chance to bring premeditated violence against gay women into public view. At pre-trial hearings at Springs Magistrate Court in 2008, demonstrators wore black shirts with Simelane's name along with names of other gay women murdered in Khayelitsha—outside Cape Town—Ladysmith (KwaZulu-Natal) and Soweto. "Not Just Faces and Vaginas," read one of the stark block-letter placards.
Efforts to prosecute earlier cases have encountered procedural delays, lack of investigative zeal and other barriers to holding South Africa's legal system to the high constitutional standard. At the February trial of Mphiti, the judge declared Simelane's sexual orientation of no significance. This past week, Circuit Court Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng asked whether "lesbian" was an appropriate word to use in court.
The bridge constructed in Simelane's honor near the place of her death. Gay-rights activists cleaned the field before the first anniversary of her murder and erected a wooden cross. "A fellow struggler was killed there," writes Mtetwa of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, "for transgressing pre-assigned societal gender roles and for living openly as a non-heterosexual." (© 2009 Laurie Adams)
"Whatever the ultimate judgment," Mtetwa writes, "this case will leave many questions unanswered." The public record likely will remain opaque on the motives of Simelane's murderers. More broadly, the late Steven Biko's prediction that Africa would bring the world a new standard of human relations seems well beyond reach.
Work to narrow the gap between the dream of equality for gay women and reality progresses incrementally, with victories and defeats. In the wake of the Simelane and Nkosi murders, organizers announced the first gay-pride march in Ekhuruleni, the municipality containing KwaThema, on Sept 19.
But skeptics speak of institutionalized violence seeking outlet in times of economic disparities. One bleak assessment observes that the worst phase in South Africa's xenophobic rioting, killing 62, began two weeks after Simelane's murder.
When will South Africa achieve its after-tears time?
The conclusion of Simelane's trial Sept 22 in Delmas attracted worldwide attention. The BBC, Guardian and New York Times all reported on Judge Ratha Mokgoathleng's judgment:
Eudy Simelane suffered a brutal, undignified death. She was stripped naked, stabbed, assaulted, raped. What more indignity can a person endure?
Themba Mvubu, 24, received a life sentence. Khumbulani Magagula, 22, and Johannes Mahlangu, 18, were acquitted, although Mokgoathleng warned of God's judgment for their presence that night. The judge concluded that Simelane was known to her killers and was murdered in order "to obliterate the evidence. It is a sad, sad state of affairs that a person can be killed for such a flimsy reason."
The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, which has helped coordinate demonstrations on Simelane's behalf, expressed disappointment at the two acquittals. But the project's Phumzile Mtetwa extrapolated from the verdict that Simelane's sexuality had been a factor in her death, even though the court would not make an explicit connection:
How did people know her in the township? She was a soccer player who was "butch" and was known. People are killed because of who they are.
Eudy's mother, Mally, told Agence France-Presse:
Eudy liked to be a lesbian since she was small. I accepted her. I want to tell the other mothers that these are my children. They are not creatures, they are human beings. They are our children of South Africa today.
Lungile Madywabe of Johannesburg contributed reporting and interpretation.
About the trip
The tour of Cape Town and Johannesburg was arranged by the International Marketing Council of South Africa.


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CHINA/US - Chinese premier urges East Asian nations to focus on peaceful cooperation - full transcript
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Wen Jiabao of the Fourteenth China - ASEAN Leaders' Meeting (Full Text)
November 18, 2011, Premier Wen Jiabao held in Bali, Indonesia, the
fourteenth China - ASEAN (10 +1) Summit and the China - ASEAN dialogue
relations at the summit marking the 20th anniversary of a speech. Speech
reads as follows:
The Fourteenth China - ASEAN (10 +1) Summit
And the China - ASEAN dialogue relations at the summit marking the 20th
anniversary of the speech
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
(November 18, 2011 Bali, Indonesia)
Dear President Yudhoyono and colleagues:
After a lapse of eight years, once again came to the beautiful island of
Bali to attend the China - ASEAN dialogue relations summit marking the
20th anniversary, I am very happy and excited. Here and now, all we want
to promote the China - ASEAN relations and contribute to the development
of this hard work is being expressed gratitude and appreciation to all
walks of life.
In 1991, China and ASEAN dialogue relations, reflecting the trend of the
times the two sides to explore regional cooperation of strategic vision
and courage, opened the China-ASEAN relations in the historical process,
has a milestone significance.
- We adhere to mutual respect, noninterference in each other's internal
affairs, and constantly enhance mutual political trust. ASEAN countries to
pursue the one China policy and support China's peaceful reunification, in
principle concerning China's sovereignty and other issues to take care of
China's major concerns. China respects the ASEAN countries to
independently choose the path of development and values, support ASEAN in
its own way deal with disputes against external forces to interfere in the
internal affairs of ASEAN.
- We promote mutually beneficial cooperation, mutual aid, mutual learning,
and promote common development. Bilateral trade volume this year will
exceed $ 350 billion, 40 times in 1991. China became ASEAN's largest
trading partner, ASEAN became China's third largest trading partner. China
for the ASEAN member countries to develop economy and improve people's
livelihood and offered sincere assistance and help. ASEAN member countries
to China also provides active support. Political parties in the country
and to exchange experiences, learn from each other.
- We help each other in the face of difficulties, to the challenges into
opportunities. Both sides to resist the 1997 Asian financial crisis,
promote the establishment of ASEAN cooperation mechanism; work together to
address the international financial crisis, a rare, fully completed as
scheduled China - ASEAN Free Trade Area; in major natural disasters and
epidemics in the mutual help and explore the establishment of effective
early warning, prevention and control, rescue mechanism.
- We are committed to peaceful coexistence and good neighborliness, and
actively create a safe, harmonious regional environment. Settlement of
disputes through dialogue and consultation and treatment of historical
issues; to build a Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone; cherish
traditional friendship, spread the concept of friendship.
Many ASEAN leaders told me that the relationship between China and ASEAN
most practical, most extensive and fruitful. I can not agree. We are
developing countries, has always been the development of the economy and
improving people's livelihood as the most urgent and most important task,
the ability to bring their people and the region's real interests first.
We geographical, cultural, historical close, close contacts and exchanges
in all aspects, in many areas of cooperation with favorable conditions. We
work hard, open and inclusive, and always maintain vigor and vitality.
Today, China and ASEAN is committed to peace and prosperity as a strategic
partner, in an unprecedented wide range of areas and a high level
exchanges and cooperation, as solidarity, and woe fate. China and ASEAN
brilliant achievements, to promote well-being of people in the region and
promote the lofty cause of peace and development has made outstanding
contributions to the progress of Asia and the world had a profound
positive impact.
Dear colleagues,
The world is in a profound and complex changes. The international
financial crisis entered its fourth year, the global economic and
financial situation is still not optimistic. Some developed countries,
economic recovery is weak, a serious financial and debt crisis. The status
of emerging and developing countries on the rise, but the overall strength
is still not strong enough. Social unrest in the WANA region. Global food,
energy and environmental problems increasingly threatening the sustainable
development of mankind. The uncertainty of the world economic outlook,
instability may be a long time.
Currently, the East Asia to maintain rapid economic growth and social
stability, is the world's most dynamic and potential, ASEAN and China has
made important contributions to winning the international community widely
recognized and attention. Must see that in the era of deepening
globalization, regional and country is immune to any. Severe external
environment is bound to adversely affect East Asia, China and ASEAN's own
weaknesses and problems will further enhance the competitiveness
constraints. We need to confidence, but also stay awake, the key is to
seize opportunities, strengthen cooperation to cope with challenges, the
fate firmly in their own hands, not loose, without wavering, in the
intended direction and goals to continue forward. Relations between China
and ASEAN on the future direction of the principles I have a few comments:
First, to strengthen strategic communication and strategic mutual trust.
China will never seek hegemony, against any hegemonic behavior, will
always pursue the "neighbors as good neighbors as partners" around the
foreign policy, abide by the "Treaty of Amity and Cooperation." Countries
in this region there is controversy in the South China Sea, is years of
accumulated matter for sovereign states directly concerned through
friendly consultations and negotiations to resolve it. External forces
should not be any excuse for intervention. In 2002, China and ASEAN
countries signed the "Declaration on Conduct of Parties in the South China
Sea", to determine will promote practical cooperation, and finally reached
"the South China Sea Code of Conduct" and efforts. This is a common ASEAN
countries and China will. ASEAN countries, China is ready to actively
promote the full implementation of the "Declaration on Conduct of Parties
in the South China Sea", strengthen pragmatic cooperation, and started to
explore the development of "the South China Sea Code of Conduct."
Second, the promotion of economic development and social progress as the
top priority. China and ASEAN countries are in a critical period of
development, development strategy and we want both sides to better combine
their respective strengths in the wider areas and at higher levels of
cooperation, enhance the inner life force and power, to accelerate
economic development and improving people's livelihood, the modernization
drive, to achieve the overall revitalization of East Asia.
Third, to the ASEAN-led East Asian cooperation process. China supports the
ASEAN integration and community building, ASEAN would like to see rising
power and influence, I believe that ASEAN is fully capable to continue to
lead the East Asian cooperation. ASEAN next year China will set up
permanent missions. China will continue to support and work with the
ASEAN, adhere to the 10 +1, based on the 10 +3 as the main body, the East
Asia Summit as an important supplement to promote East Asian cooperation.
Fourth, multilateral and safeguard common interests. The same area as the
developing countries on many important issues we share similar views and
positions and challenges facing the same situation, share the same goals
and aspirations. China and ASEAN are promoting peace and development of
strategic forces, the two sides to close coordination to promote the
establishment of a just and rational international political and economic
Dear colleagues,
The pragmatic cooperation between China and ASEAN have a solid foundation
and great potential, with a higher goal to favorable conditions.
Development and changes in the situation we want to strengthen the overall
planning, establish and improve cooperation mechanisms, deepen cooperation
in key areas, opening up new areas of cooperation, and strive to achieve
more fruitful results. To this end, I propose the following specific
initiatives and recommendations:
First, expand trade and investment cooperation. To earnestly implement the
China - ASEAN Free Trade Area of a**a**the agreement, complete the free
trade zone, so that both people and businesses get more and more benefits.
ASEAN countries, China will continue to send trade and investment
promotion missions, the establishment of ASEAN products in Nanning,
Guangxi Exhibition Center, to promote sustained and balanced growth of
bilateral trade. China will actively expand investment in ASEAN countries,
the transfer of advanced and applicable technologies to increase efforts
to work together to upgrade the competitiveness of industries.
Second, the interconnection and other infrastructure construction in a
prominent position. To make this cooperation in key areas more smoothly,
efficiently, proposing the establishment of China - ASEAN Interconnection
Cooperation Committee, and strive to achieve as soon as the countries of
China and ASEAN land transport link interoperability goals. China attaches
great importance to the sea with the ASEAN countries to build
interconnection networks, willing to take effective measures and the
development of ASEAN countries, refrigerated ships, ro-ro and container
shipping line, to promote the maritime transport of passengers and cargo
facilitation. The Chinese government in 2009, ASEAN countries pledged to
provide $ 15 billion credit to support a total of more than 50
infrastructure construction projects, involving almost all ASEAN
countries. I declare that China will be an additional $ 10 billion credit,
including $ 4 billion of preferential loans.
Third, deepen financial cooperation. China is willing to cooperate with
ASEAN countries to strengthen the central bank and financial personnel
exchanges; through the mutual establishment of branches and other forms of
finance, promote financial market opening; to strengthen dialogue and
cooperation in the field of regulation; to expand the size of the currency
swap, the yuan and the ASEAN countries in both the inter-bank currency
traded foreign exchange market; gradually establish the inter-bank
currency settlement mechanism, promote the development of bilateral
currency settlement; to play the "China - ASEAN Consortium" role, for both
parties to provide diversified financial services companies; two sides
should jointly promote the improvement of the CMIM and other regional
currency swap mechanism to raise the overall level of assistance the East
Asian financial crisis and maintain regional financial stability.
Fourth, to develop pragmatic cooperation at sea. China will set up a 3
billion yuan of China - ASEAN Cooperation Fund at sea, from the marine
scientific research and environmental protection, interoperability, safety
of navigation and search and rescue, combating transnational crime and
other areas to start, gradually expanded to other areas of cooperation
extended to form a China - ASEAN multi-level, comprehensive maritime
cooperation pattern. Suggested that both sides have set up corresponding
mechanisms to study, develop collaborative planning.
Fifth, the deepening of scientific and technological cooperation and
sustainable development. Initiative next year as "China - ASEAN
cooperation in science and technology", first held in China China - ASEAN
Science and Technology Ministers Meeting. The two sides signed as soon as
possible, "China - ASEAN Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement,"
started the Technology Partnership. China is willing to work with ASEAN to
promote the green economy, energy saving, new energy, renewable energy and
other areas of communication and cooperation.
Sixth, more attention to social and livelihood areas. China is willing to
set up 10 vocational education and training center for ASEAN countries to
provide the necessary economic and social development of human resources;
suggested the two sides in terms of disaster management and humanitarian
relief to establish a mechanism for contact, exchange of information and
technology to explore the establishment of China - ASEAN relief supplies
repository; initiated the establishment of China - ASEAN exchanges and
cooperation in traditional medicine center; China is willing to work with
ASEAN Culture Ministers' Meeting, held its first formal meeting
recommended next year, explore the development of China - ASEAN Plan of
Action for Cultural Cooperation.
Today, China - ASEAN Center was officially established. Both sides should
actively support the work center for the promotion of friendly exchanges
and cooperation to provide services.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, colleagues,
China and ASEAN countries spoke highly of China in 20 years - the
achievements of ASEAN relations, the direction of future cooperation and
highlighted the important and constructive comments. China - ASEAN
relations are based on solid, the potential is huge and the prospects are
bright. China willing to work with ASEAN to become good neighbors, good
friends, good partners, close coordination and cooperation, to promote the
implementation of the consensus reached by more benefit of the people, for
the region to make greater contributions to peace and prosperity.
William Hobart
Australia Mobile +61 402 506 853
Chris Farnham wrote:
Guys/gals (I prefer to offer equality and use the word 'Gays', a mixture
between the words 'guys' and gals'), can we please gig up more on this
please. The interplay between the US and China is the focal point of
this summit only just ahead of how India and ASEAN place themselves in
the dynamic. Please look for what Wen said, transcripts and comments.
Chinese premier urges East Asian nations to focus on peaceful
Text of report by Teddy Ng headlined "Wen Urges Asian Leaders Not To Be
Distracted by US" published by Hong Kong-based newspaper South China
Morning Post website on 18 November
Premier Wen Jiabao said East Asian countries should focus on their
co-operation and not be distracted by "all sorts of interference", amid
recent US moves to contest rising Chinese power in the region.
After Wen arrived in the Indonesian resort of Bali yesterday for a
series of high-level meetings with the region's leaders, Xinhua reported
that he and Indonesian President Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono agreed that
the summits should not focus on disputed political and security issues.
"As the world is facing complex and challenging political and economic
situations, the upcoming meetings of East Asian leaders should give
priority to solidarity, development and co-operation," it quoted Wen as
saying, referring to summits between members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, China, Japan and South Korea.
Tension over the South China Sea, in which China, Vietnam, the
Philippines and several other countries hold claims, has been heightened
in the past few months. The US said it would discuss the disputes at the
summit, but Beijing wants the matter reserved for bilateral
Wen also said the East Asia Summit, to include the US for the first
time, should stick to contributing to the region's economic development
and peaceful co-operation.
Xinhua issued a strongly worded commentary warning of adverse
consequences if the US "plays with fire". It said Asian countries did
not need a "leader" or "arbitrator" but a partner that treats them
equally and with sincerity.
Wen is expected to meet Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and US
President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the summits today.
Zhang Jiuhuan, a former ambassador, expected Wen and Obama to discuss US
involvement in the region. "Countries in the region are concerned about
whether the US's participation will have a positive impact or not,"
Zhang said.
Source: South China Morning Post website, Hong Kong, in English 18 Nov
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The brothers' cantaloupe caused 33 deaths and 147 illnesses across 28 states according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Jensens each pleaded guilty to six federal misdemeanors of introducing contaminated food into the supply chain. Sentencing is set for Jan. 28 in Denver.
The probation requests reference a pre-sentence investigation report, which is not a public document, saying the probation officer who did the report did not find any evidence the brothers were aware their equipment or procedures were substandard.
"Additionally, there is no evidence to suggest that the defendant and codefendant 'cut corners' to save money in order to earn a greater profit by installing the new processing equipment," Eric Jensen's attorney wrote in the request. "It is readily apparent that the probation officer who authorized the report invested much time, effort and thought into this project. His recommendation for probation is reasonable."
Many of the points in the probation requests are included in the Jensens' federal lawsuit against PrimusLabs, whose parent company is Primus Group Inc., Santa Maria, Calif.
The brothers signed the case over to the 66 listeria victims and victims' families who have filed civil cases in relation to the Jensens cantaloupe so any damages awarded will be paid to those victims.
PrimusLabs is named in all of the suits. Two federal judges and one state judge have dismissed Primus from cases in their jurisdictions. Bill Marler, the Seattle food safety attorney handling 45 of the victim cases as well as the Jensens' case against Primus, said case law is mixed on the question of "duty to consumers," but he believes many of the cases will go forward.
Primus continues to blame Jensens
PrimusLabs subcontracted the Jensens' 2011 audit to Texas-based Bio Food Safety Inc. The Jensens contend the California company was negligent and breached its contract because the auditor failed to point out substandard conditions and equipment that federal officials later cited as the cause of the listeria contamination.


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Congratulations to the winners!!
Congratulations to the winners!!
Congrats guys. You are all awesome and I can't wait to see what you do!!!
huge congrats to the winners.
However I think the contest was miss named
OK, not to be a party pooper, but I just don't understand how you judged this competition. It mustn't have had anything to do with originality. Why would you choose a designer who uses other people's creative work over a designer who creates everything from scratch, and creates it very well I might add. Anyone can buy a CU stash or run a script or action to make elements - NOT everyone is a good enough designer to create all of their own. To me a "designer" is someone who creates things by hand with loving care, not someone who has a credits file with every item attributed to someone else.
I'm not saying anything bad about all of the designers who entered the contest, because they all created beautiful kits, however, it just seems a bit lopsided that a person who should have won or at least been somewhere in the winners list wasn't considered good enough for Go Digital Scrapbooking.
This is why I said I thought the contest was miss named, to me a designer is someone who 'designs' an item from scratch, otherwise it is a DIP contest, not that there is anything wrong with that, it just seems the longest credit list won, where as I would have thought the shortest one would win. Just pleased I am not the only one thinking it
Exactly! I think of it this way. A clothing designer designs a gown for someone for the Academy Awards and charges thousands of dollars for her hard work, and then the next day department stores are making knock-offs of it. Who is the better designer, the original artist, or those who are copying the original artist's work??
I totally agree! Don't get me wrong all the kits were fabtastic and I know it takes time to put them together even if you purchase the items, its how I started. But designer is someone who designs...from start to finish.
The Designer Contest was judged on many factors, not merely originality. We are extremely grateful for all of the efforts put forth by all of the Contestants and stand firmly in honoring the Contestant who won this contest fair and square.
Congratulations again to our winner, Seoul 2 Soul Scraps!
I am sure it was judged with a great deal of time and many things taken into account. I was just saying it could have been named a little more appropriately is all. By saying designer it gives the impression people are going to be making everything. Kit contest may have been more apt.
I to congratulate all winners, all kits were fabtastic!
I think the right person won and the others that were winners also did a great job!!!
My way of thinking is, when you go to the craft store and you buy some fabric...or some yarn...and you make something with it, people will say wow that is a beautiful shirt. They are also considering the fabric that you used, which you didn't make yourself. The same with if they love the hat you knitted. You have the skill to take something, work with it and make it your own. To me that is designing. The people that make CU items make them for a reason, and there are THOUSANDS of different CU items out there, the reason being is because some people don't have a photography skill it takes to photograph a picture, extract it and make it look right. I know personally, I stink at that part. I was doing the play along and could not get the photos to be good enough to use the items to be extracted.
I think its very unfair to make a comment and take away from starwarsfan and the other ladies celebration. they worked very hard on their kits and did a great job. I think just like the person who buys fabric to sew or yarn to knit, they made each item their own and THAT is hard work. I am pretty sure if these ladies put their minds too it they could make their own elements as well, but with only a few days for each part of the contest it would have been virtually impossible for them to make each and every element themselves and make the dead lines.
You can think what you want, everyone has a right to their opinion but Nobody has the right to take away one second of joy and excitement from these ladies they earned it.


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SANCHEZ MEJORADA Y CREEL CARLOS SANCHEZ NEHIRADA LUTS J. CREEL LUJAN CARLOS SANCHEZ MEJORADA (JR.) Februrary 2, 1960 Mr. O. L. Dykstra, Treasurer Utah Construction & Mining Company 100 Bush Street, San Francisco 4, Calif. Dear Mr. Dykstra: In connection with the opinion you requested during your last trip to Me-xico regarding the advantages and disadvantages of operating in this country through a foreign corporation, I beg to give you the following information: 1. According to law, there are certain activities that must necessarily be carried out by a Mexican corporation; among such are the chemical, the fertilizer, the insecticide, the fishery and the soft drink industries. Furthermore. also according to law, no foreign inidividual or corporation car hold land within the so called prohibited zone, which is an area of 100 kilometers wide on the international borders and 50 kilometers wide on the sea coasts. 2. If there is no legal impediment to operate in Mexico through a fo-reign corporation, it will be necessary to fulfill the following requirements in order to have said foreign corporation qualified in this country. a). Submit evidence that the foreign corporation has been duly incor-porated in accordance with the laws of its place of incorporation; this evidence consists in: i). A copy, duly certified by the Secretary of State of the State where the corporation was incorporated or by the competent authority, of the deed, of incorporation and of the other pertinent corporate document:. This certified copy must be duly authorized by the competent Mexican diplomatic or consular representatives. ii). A certification from the competent Mexican diplomatic or consular authorities that the foreign corporation has been duly incorporated and is qualified according to the laws of the country of incorporation to act. b). An official translation prepared by order of a Mexican Court, of the documents referred to in a) i). SANCHEZ MEJORADA Y CREEL ABOGANDOS - 2 - Mr. O. L. Dykstra San Francisco 4, Calif. February 2, 1960. c). A Mexican Court ruling that the foreign corporation's charter and bylaws is not contrary to the provisions of public policy of the laws of this country. d). Legalization by the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the do-cuments referred to in paragraph a). e). A permit from the Ministry of Foreign Relations, in which it will be provided that the stockholders of the foreign corporation will consider themselves as Mexican citizens in all matters pertaining to the operations of the corporation in Mexico and that they waive the right of ever requesting diplomatic protection in connection with the activities carried forth in this country. f). A permit from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, who will examine all the documents referred to in preceding paragraphs and will, at his discretion, authorize qualification of the foreign cor-poration to operate in this country. g). Registration of the official Spanish translation of the charter and. bylaws of the foreign corporation, as well as of all other documents such as the permits from the Ministries of Foreign Relations and of Industry and Commerce at the Public Registry of Commerce. h). The appointment of a permanent representative of the foreign corporation in Mexico. i). The establishment of permanent offices in Mexico. j). Registration of the corporation in question with the appropriate industrial chamber or chamber of commerce and with the competent tax authorities. k). The opening of books of accounts, duly legalized by the Tax Authorities. 1). The publication in the Federal Official Daily of the yearly balance sheet of the foreign corporation. 3. The foreign corporation operating in Mexico will naturally be ABOGANDOS - 3 - Mr. O. L. Dykstra San Francisco 4, Calif. February 2, 1960. subject to compliance of all legal requirements pertaining to Me-xican taxation, such as the filing of returns. Though the tax laws provide for specific rules in determining the taxable income of fo-reign corporations operating in this country, there is the possibility that due to the internal organization of the corporation, it would be hard to comply with the requirements of the tax laws, primarily the Income Tax legislation, regarding certain deductions. To overcome this difficult there is the possibility of entering into agreements with the Mexican Tax Authorities which would establish the basis for computing the taxable income. In my experience I know of very few foreign corporations which operate directly in Mexico and in my experience, those who started of on said basis have decided to establish Mexican corporations as subsidiaries of the parent The major drawback is the tax question and I would recommend that the opinion of the Mexico City Office of your independent auditors, Price Waterhouse & Company, be obtained. please let me know if you will require any additional information and oblige, Yours very truly, Luis J Creel Luis J. Creel Lujah. c. c. Mr. L. B. Shelley LJCL:gaa l/3
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Iron Age:
-Roman businessmen went bankrupt when people preferred seeing emos beat up rather than watching gladiatorial fights.
Middle Ages:
-The Mongols flipped out and started killin everybody because their tribute of concubines from china turned out to be a bunch of emos (guys and girls, the senders couldnt tell the difference) who broke every time a mongol tried to hump one.
-buddhists went celebate after deciding that relationships with emos were too much of a pain in the ass since they kept whining about how they "wont call the next day", how they didnt say "i will love you forever" back and how the buddhists didnt show much interest when they tried to make them read the dark poetry the emos "poured out my emotions for you" into.
-Aztecs decide to use emos exclusively for their sacrifices since they were more fun to watch, the gods, also enjoying the spectacle, reward their subjects with unparalleled riches.
-Emos illigitimately infiltrated the samurai bloodline, and thus spread the habits of not being able to fight for shit, being afraid of christians, and killing themselves when the going gets tough, they popularize the term "harakiri" for the aformentioned activity coz it sounds more poetic than "seppuku". the resulting pussiness renders the country so weak it is conquered by foreigners and decimates the samurai bloodline (the contrary could be the reason for ninja superiority and kick-ass ways of life...lesson: never mix with emos, its true they're easy but come on...is it really worth it).
-Spanish conquistadors render native americans helpless by showing them emos, emos are just too fucking sorry a sight...
Imperial Age:
-The Marquis de Sade discovers the full use of the emo.
Modern Age:
-The united states embarks on the largest and most brutal cleansing operation in history, they launch a massive campaign on europe and japan, especially the latter, in the hope that they will kill all existing emos, the campaign is covered up and an excuse of their actions is sold as "World War II", the campaign failed miserably as americans had not realised that the largest emo concentration lied in their own lands.
21st century:
-With accusations that emos could be close species to humans, emo hunting goes down and they begin to thrive.
Future speculation:
-Due to increasing emo populations, and increase in being annoying fucks, people grow more impatient to their existance (except emo sympathizers, pussies who claim that emos are blessed with being in touch with the emotions of the universe, a.k.a. my ass) people speculate that a new world order will rise to rid humanity from their revolting existance...and all their pussy bullshit.
If eating toast is emo, then eating French Toast is tres emo
It's so emo to eat toast.
Emo Nemo
My friends made this on Valentines day.
a bunch of emos. jk, cool kids
version 2, new and improved
haha I just made this yesterday
Emo Brownies
Emo Poser
that's my "emo" brother...he thinks he's "kool" now because he's "emo"..riight
yup_yup! EMO :(
Vampire Inc
Don't try and run away from your life, coz then its not worth living
Jayne the Stomo
Me.. DO NOT make fun of me because I look...really bleh here. It's not my fault. I wasn't ready!
you're not emo if you call yourself emo
Emo chick
emo moment in pizza hut
Chris's Emo Picture
me :P
emo ye....
If only that ahir was a liiil longer, over one eye perhaps
THE emo! Such a loser! No geeky glasses though...
emo emo
2 emoz
-tear- You just don't understand me...
emo, punk
this is me!
emo footsoldier
Do i appear to be Emo?
I look really emo
Jay Perrin
here the pretty boy is again<33333
I am not emo. Nor do I really like emo kids much, they complain all of the time that no one understands them... Well, every other damn emo kid in this world does... so go complain to each other. oh yeah, about the picture, i just thought it looked kind of emo... ---TWEAK ^_^
me and melissa
So emo he makes his mother cry...
state of this emo
emooooo fag
yup emo...eh?
Oops!! </3 , emoo?
Emo Sadness : (
Cheer up Emo Kid
err okay.
hows this
Poor guy;; /so/ f-kin' emo!
usually has emo hair, short in the back and bangs over the eye
You cute when you scream <3
Some times its easier to be sad than trying not to be
um...emo? maybe.
You can't be emo without a tear-streaked journal...
The horror boo hoo
im me on aim and i send normal pic. whiskeygurl5253
fall in love with me_im emo
I cant find my glasses
Hawt Emo.
Pretty emo.
its just me
Little Emo Kid (15 years old, lets cry about it)
emo lol
Emo? No thank you
Ive got nothing to say x.x
The emoish "Mirror" photo.
soooo emo....
emo is for hardcore lovers
heh my eyes .xo
smokers unan-a-musster-scrap!
Logan is so emoXcore.
don't make me cry ......
Im not emo! just misunderstood *sob*
It's Emo Cow
Wahoo.. another sad little emo girl. Xanga s/n: Vintage_xx_Queen
this is more of the happy emo.
"Four letter word"
Just Bored.....hhmm
EMO is your daddy, and nobody else!!
Emo Eye ~ See those tears welling baby?
me being eeeemoooo.
A lot of Emo kids
Boo hoo...
emo chick
emo chick
SO0 H0tt ♥
kill yourself and make the world a better place emo bitch. go cry.
Being emo AND walking into a door in one day, some people just have no luck.
Emo is
I Love Thursday
xxSittinghalfwayawayfromnowhere xx
bus stop
hott emo guys are rad.
emo jon
black hair..green eyes
So sad, too bad
Emo sidepart
The Used is her life
Emo With another flower
Dont overdose on emo...
*sniff* no body understands my pain *sniff*
emo sandra
in my emo phase....not looking at the cam..trying to be artsy
artwork by an emo
emo kid lolll
emo heh.
*sniffle* =( im so lame lol
awe i didbnt do thisss
xXx XCOREX XEMOX XGRINDX XCOREX xXx
awsome emo Tifeni
Poor lil' Emo dog )=
so emo
a very hungry mad depressed emo that was going to a concert to play in and it got canceled
who knows...
emo jesse
I'm no Emo I'm Rocker
This cow is so emo. He's a total attention whore too.
Hot Emo Girl
stupid emo whore
Help me, I can't seem to find my glasses.
Emo Baby!!!!
Having bangs doesn't make u "emo" u Posers.
This is an emo kid. A hot one too. Notice the black and white with coloured hair.
*insert "emo" lyrics* sad again
so emo right now...
i had to stop crying to take this picture
i'm going to go cry now... xx
This is me. I like to slit my wrist and spell badly. Im cool. I [heart] the thrift store
Pandas! on a side note emo is more than just not smiling it's all emotions, rites of spring just tried to emphasize emotions in music rather than political agendas in the punk and hardcore scene where if you weren't on the same page you didn't belong emo brings different people together just writing sincere more poetic music with diversity in among the music and how it's played. emo is often very misunderstood where it's one of the best things that's happened for music.
my emo looking friend thats not acturly emo CRAZY
Bury me!!!
emo brother
Cry me a fucking river...
don't hate me... i'm indie i swear... *me when I was 13... gaah*
This is me thinking -- I think.
Vi from *the Incredibles*....e.m.o
just me..a sad day..rainbow of love*
hardore kid biotch
best interest..my gift of b-day
this image is sooo freaking EMO
too emoish--
I drew this in french
pretty Kim
heck yes
oh yes
oh, so sad.
emo kid
you have no idea
a hawaiian emo girl
the band just broke up
a hot emo guy
made especially for the everyday emo
tee hee
because it does
REAL emo pictures have eyeliner and a high angle shot. most of these here are posers.
couldn't get any more emo than this..
Don't hate me cuz I'm emo... but even if you did hate me, I wouldn't care. I'd just write an accoustic song about it.
A new movie from Pixar And Disney.
My paper heart will bleed
purple as well as emo.
im not emo really.
just one of those days.
note: thick rimmed black square glasses, hoodie, peace and love poster, sad expression on face. perfect description of an emo kid.
I still taste you, thus, reserve my right to hate you
i say its not a word, but it should be
THAT iS EMO
emo squared
Emo Band
no beauty in bleedin mascara
Lil Ol' Emo
id rather die than see your smile
And I can't make it on my own. Because my heart is in Ohio.
me with my emo glasses. me in happier times. *sniffles*
my hot emo girlfriend
because you kill me. you know you do. you kill me well. you like it too. and i can tell.
Psh..I'm so emo that I don't even have to look at the camera...
sad emo kids
Emo Ben!
as much of a smile as you'll ever see
oh it hurts so much to cryyyyyy
Emo Pose!
cheer up emo girl
Look what emo's did to poor pikachu!
every day i die a little more
I need a tissue
Don't hate me because I'm emo.
Im so emo wiht my pink eyemakeup...
Yeah, emo kids basically whine just for the sake of whining.
Generic emo photoshopped tear fest.
hot emo guy
Emo kid doesn't want to talk about it.
emo kids (by Rob Dobi)
1. Girls say they like "sensitive guys" (lie)
2. Guy finds out, so he listens to faggy emo music and dresses like a dork so chicks will see that he is sensitive and not afraid to express himself (lie). He dyes his hair black, wraps himself in a stupid looking scarf, develops an eating disorder, and rants about how "nobody understands".
3. Now an emo guy, he meets Emo chick and they start dating, talking about how their well-off suburban lifestyles are terrible and depressing (lie)
4. Emo guy is just too much of a pussy. His penis is too small, he's too depressed to bathe, and has more mood swings than emo chick, and he doesn't even have a menstrual cycle. Emo chick dumps him, saying "It's not you, it's me." (lie) as she drives off with Wayne, the school jock and captain of the football team.
5. Emo guy goes home and cries, proceeds to write a weak song and strum a single string on his acoustic guitar. Another emo chick sees how he is so in touch with his feelings, and the cycle continues.
This is the sad truth of the emo lifestyle/music, and now that I look at how pathetic it really is, maybe the emos DO have something to cry about!
Goths hate Everyone
Emos Want to Kill themselves
Goths Want to kill Everyone
boyfriend: I'm too sad to have sex.
girlfriend: I'm sad too; lets have sex and cry.
boyfriend: I'm already crying.
I just thought I'd clear that up after all of these "definitions" in which I have encountered an unbelievable amount of people who try to pass off their blatantly false pretenses as fact, and are slowly infecting others with their high-horse, holier-than-thou bullshit. Because honestly, with your ridiculous definitions, Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Britney Spears are/was "emo bands."
Now, onto the real definition.
In the early 90s there was a movement in the hardcore genre that came to be known as "Emotive Hardcore," spearheaded by Rites Of Spring. Harder-core-than-thou kids, who swore by Dischord Records a la Minor Threat, actually coined the term "Emo" as something of a put-down for the kids who really liked Rites Of Spring, Indian Summer and this new wave of "Emotive" Hardcore bands. That's right, "Emo" was once not something kids called themselves. The field exploded outwards from there - Level-Plane Records has always been the most famous Emo label. Acts like Yaphet Kotto, I Hate Myself, Saetia, Hot Cross, A Day In Black And White, Funeral Diner, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, You And I, and hosts of others came in the next decade. Most emo bands have since broken up, but there's still the occasional hold-out (again, the majority of Level-Plane Records' roster has been a procession of emo acts). Like most DIY hardcore/punk of the time, a majority found its way onto vinyl and not much else. Some people consider bands like Fugazi, and later Sunny Day Real Estate, a progression of emo, but personally, I don't quite follow that philosophy.
Often, more recently, this gets intertwined with post-hardcore, and understandably so - that's nothing to make an issue of, since well shit, at least it's close.
Since the late 90s, though, bands have been emerging in the vein of Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, and the thousands of their clones. As far as I can tell, some lazy journalist somewhere, writing an article about them, decided "Well, fuck, no one knows what emo is anyways, so I'll call these bands "emo" - sounds more appealing than bubblegum pop rock..." and the spiral continued downwards into the current amalgomation of bands MTV has told everyone is "emo."
Somehow, people decided that "emo" meant "emotional," which is obviously bullshit, as 99% of bands make music to illicit emotion, which would make "emotional" a completely all-encompassing genre from classical to opera to pop to rap.
Hope that helps.
Rites of Spring is emo.
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: omg my gf just left me
acidburnedsoul: that sux man
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: i blame myself only i'm such an ass *cries*
acidburnedsoul: dude come over to my house and we can cut ourselves together
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: okay *cries*
acidburnedsoul: omg dashboard confessional has a new cd, i preordered it already
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude they're my favorite band to self-mutilate to
acidburnedsoul: i prefer to cut myself while watching Napoleon Dynamite on my bigscreen
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: dude that movie is so deep. i cry every time i see it
acidburnedsoul: me too. i hate myself
XxSlavetoAnguishxX: yeah we're such tortured souls, nobody understands how hard life is for us
acidburnedsoul: yeah we got it tough dude. pass the tissues


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(CNN) -- A chain-reaction crash involving 40 vehicles in Indiana injured 10 people Thursday who were sent to area hospitals, police said.
One person was in critical condition, said Indiana State Police spokesman Rich Myers.
No fatalities were reported in the pileup of semis and cars that closed a seven-mile section of Interstate 70 west of Indianapolis, said state police Cpl. Tim James.
A hazardous materials team was cleaning up fuel and automobile lubricants from the roadway, Myers said.
Wintry white-out conditions are one possible cause for the wreck, James said.
A semi tractor and trailer hauling three elephants slid off the roadway at the crash scene, but the animals were not injured, authorities said. The elephants were never loose.
In Michigan, three people were killed and up to 20 injured in another chain-reaction accident Thursday, state police said.
Killed were a child and two others, Lt. Michael Shaw said.
The accident happened over the Rouge River Bridge in Detroit on Interstate 75, said Robert Morosi of the Michigan Department of Transportation. At least 30 cars were involved in the pileup, he said.
Snow was falling at the time of the crash, Morosi said, describing conditions as a "typical Michigan winter morning."
The jaws of life were used to pull people out of three vehicles, Shaw said.
-- CNN's Michael Martinez, Stephanie Gallman and Jake Carpenter contributed to this report.
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During our exciting weekend air shows, the Aerodrome turns back the hands of time and relives the years of early aviation (weather permitting). The colorful era of early aviation is brought back to life amidst the roar of rotary engines and is great entertainment for all ages.
The Saturday shows chronicle the History of Flight with Pioneer, World War I and Lindbergh era aircraft taking to the skies. If the winds are calm you will even see our 1909 Bleriot (the oldest flying aircraft in the United States) take to the air. The Sunday shows feature a World War I dogfight plus Barnstorming Aircraft.