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Row 7, #5 - Mouse Cologne by Roccobarocco
Row 7, no 2 might be L'Eau d'Issey Eau de Parfum with Holiday Decor.??
By the way, tang, this is probably the most gorgeous layout yet! Amazing!
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Row 7, #5 - Mouse Cologne by Roccobarocco
Row 5, 12 Romance Silver
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Row 5, #1 - Nino Cerruti Cerruti Black
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Sniff and let sniff.
Ralph Lauren Romance Silver row 5, no. 12.??
Row 5 #1 Nino Cerruti Cerruti 1881 Black for Men
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row 3, no 7 Amouage Reflection Women?
Row 6 #7 Amouage Reflection Woman
Row 7, no. 5 Mouse Cologne by Roccobarocco
Oops! Jillsy beat me to the Mouse!
Is my Row 7, no 2 inccorect? (or maybe we're not allowed to know?
Last edited by lizzie_j; 2nd February 2009 at 04:13 AM.
Has Row 5, #2 (True Star Men by Tommy Hilfiger) been guessed?
It was an extra guess that didn't count, so it's yours!
Row 5, #9: Juicy Couture Travel EdP (1 oz.)
For sale: JL Scherrer parfum (reduced price) and more!
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Jane Austen
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume ~ Jean de Boufflers
That puzzle is an amazing creation, Tang! I think I have one that hasn't been mentioned...
Row 5, #10 - The Different Company 48 hr. travel atomizer case
Row 7, #8: Avon "Touring T" Deep Woods Aftershave ?
For sale: JL Scherrer parfum (reduced price) and more!
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Jane Austen
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume ~ Jean de Boufflers
OMG Tang, this could be the most stunning desktop yet *sqweeeeeeeeeeeeee!*
Row 4 # 9: L'eau D'Issey EDP refillable travel spray
Row 4 #4: Inferno Paradiso for Women - Benetton
Row 5 #5: Paco Rabanne Pour Elle
Row 6 #4: Solid perfume "Pleasures" - Estée Lauder (here it is listed as a 1995 release, and here from 1997).
Row 1 #11: Christmas Camellia Solid Perfume "Estee" (1981) - Estee Lauder
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Row 2, slot 7: the ORIGINAL, by GAP.
Row 6, slot 10: O'Boticario GLAMOUR eau de toilette
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Sale/sample thread. http://community.basenotes.net/showthread.php?t=218207
Gorgeous as always, tang!
I don't seem to know ANY of the ones left - oh well. Good luck everyone!
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Great work tang looks pwetty
But once you get locked into a serious perfume collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Row 6 bottle #12 Norma Kamali's Olive You perfume
Row 6 bottle #9 Oilily Blue Sparkle
Row 1 bottle #5 Cosmic, by Solange
Seventy-eight bottles have already been identified, only 12 hours after the start of the contest! (There may be 1 or 2 freebie answers floating around in this thread that exceeded the guesser's max of five.)
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Sniff and let sniff.
This was so much fun last night
Thank you another gorgeous desktop!
Autumn treasures: Magnetism, Midnight Orchid, Tea for Two,
Aimez-Moi, Chinatown, Dzongkha, Five O'Clock Au Gingembre,
Cittá di Kyoto, Jasmin de Nuit, Jasmin Full, Kelly Calèche, Venezia,
Douce Amère, Eau de Charlotte, Falling In Love, Chergui, Prada,
Rose Alexandrie, Hypnôse, Omnia, Flowerbomb, Poivre Piquant,
Cuir Beluga, 7:15am in Bali, Lolita Lempicka, Fumerie Turque,
Datura Noir, Songes, Gaultier², L'Ombre Fauve, Kors, My Couture,
Ligea "La Sirena", Red Aoud, Rose Absolu, Cèdre, Milk, No. 23
Bending backwards is like falling in love, come bend with me
The mind is like a drunken monkey, it constantly jumps here and there.
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"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think."
Wow, that filled up quickly! I have no idea what the missing ones are. Good luck to everybody! I love these collages, Tang. They're so beautiful.
Row 4 number 6,
Carlo Corinto Silver Cologne...??
Row 2 #13 Clipping by Boticário
Row 2, #2 - Bijan With a Twist for Men
Row 4, #2 - O Boticário Speed Man
Row 7, no.14: Yves Rocher - Comme Une Evidence Homme
row 4, number 5; Wickle Jude Kenny Ltd Edition - Chestnut & Vetiver
Last edited by mira187; 2nd February 2009 at 08:39 PM.
Row 5 #6 Perceive by Avon - for women
Row 7 #13 Lucien Lelong perfume (bottle designed by Lalique)
Row 3 position 8: Guerlain Shalimar parfum refillable purse spray
All right, class... which one of you stole the answer key from my desk?!
Eighty-eight down, two more to go.
Row 3, 6: Marcel Franck atomizer
Row 2 #5: V Sigma, Perfect? a complete guess
If more detail is needed on Row 3 #6: Marcel Franck atomiser for 'Escale', probably a Baccarat bottle
Wiping brow...taking off readers...rubbing eyes...standing up from chair and stretching...sitting back down...throwing hands up in the air.
I've been working on those last 2 for awhile now and I've got NOTHING! I'm done.
Hee, hee, hee. I'm snickering at Ubu's latest post.
Your montage is beautiful, Tang, and it has elicited an understanding for me for which I am forever grateful. I have long loved gray. I remember once telling a querying therapist that it was my favorite color and her looking somewhat horrified . My gray Trek bicycle, a gray sweatshirt, gray socks ... oh, so pleasing, so attracting. For the first time I believe I understand it is the absence of color, the reduction of stimuli that makes gray so peaceful--dare I say, spiritual for me.
Gray is special--not to be found in an excitable rainbow; softer than white, less severe than black, infinite in its gradations.
Thank you for tuning our attention on spectra, good woman!
In a world where 6 million people are added each month, every landscape matters.
dpak found the Marcel Franck atomizer , and I'll give Rakhee credit for the Baccarat detail.
I'm very surprised that bottle 2:5 is the last one standing!
Quarry, my gray bottle consultant, you know this one was for you. Gotta post the silvery-gray one next... Quarry loves gray!
row 2 #5: ....
oh, the urge to finish the quiz is almost irresistable!
Row 2 # 5 (or the last one) Xoxo By Victory International For Women. Eau De Parfum
Yeah mira187!!
^ That's the one!
All 90 bottles have been identified... this took approximately 36 hours and didn't leave room for the extra-credit guessing that the last few contests needed. You guys are pros!
I hope to announce the winners by the end of the week. Thanks again to everyone for playing along and for the comments on the collage. I appreciate it!
And Quarry -- there *is* something very serene about the full-size gray bottle background on my desktop. I have a new appreciation for gray.
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Sniff and let sniff.
Ok I almost kill my self, but I was glad I didn't give up. I even had dreams of bottles all night (maybe I was looking for them to long).
Glad I was able to close the game !!!
Another beautiful montage, Tang! I'm sorry I couldn't play along. Between a Super Bowl Party on Sunday and a horrible long 14 hour-long day at work yesterday, I didn't even get to open the thread til way past the last guess. Good job at naming all these silver/gray beauties!
I've trademarked the color bleu
My hat's off to you Mira! What determination!
Thanks (again) to you Tang, you're the top!
Tang, thanks for the game (my first time participating!), and for the wonderful "wallpaper"!
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Tang I just had to pop in and thank you for this. Gorgeousness! Stunning job, as usual.
Good luck to the players!
"I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." - Jacques Guerlain
The Prizes:
- $50 gift certificate
- La Prairie Silver Rain, 50ml (no box)
- added: Comptoir Sud Pacifique Aqua Motu, 15ml
- La Maison de la Vanille - Vanille Sauvage de Madagascar body lotion, 250ml
- Zirh EDT, 40ml in box
- Duo of silver 10ml atomizers, with Serge Lutens Bois et Musc & Bois Oriental
- Grey Flannel EDT, 30ml in box
- added: Grey Flannel EDT, 30ml in box
- Thymes Fig Leaf & Cassis cologne rollerball, 7ml
- Thymes Green Tea cologne rollerball, 7ml
- J. Lo Glow After Dark EDT rollerball, 6ml (no box)
- World Market, luxury French bar soap pour homme, 100g. Choice of 2: cedar (2), sandalwood, or marine
- From Grant! A year's supporting membership to Basenotes, with the green supporter banner
(if this winner is already a supporter, he/she would get a subscription refund)
- added: KISS Her edp, 15ml, sealed in box (similar to this, but smaller bottle)
Special thanks again to Grant, Asha, BlackCat, anonymous prize contributors, and to Quarry, my silver bottle consultant. This endeavor has grown so much because of all of you.
The Turnout:
We had 25 players this month, down from the green contest high of 33. I put 90 tickets into the virtual hat and drew 15 names.
The Winners:
For the gift certificate: arwen_elf :bounce:
For the other prize drawings:
Each of you will be contacted later today regarding your prizes. :bounce: Congratulations, and thanks to everyone who participated!
Yay! Congratulations everybody--good game
Congrats to Arwen_Elf and everyone else who played! Tell us what you buy with your GC Arwen_Elf!
Big congratulations to arwen elf, and all the other winners!!
Thanks dear tang for all the fun!!!!!
Oh my god I never win anything! Thank you Tang, and well done to everyone who took part It was a really great fun exercise Well done especially to ArwenElf!
How exciting! Thanks, as always, Tang for past, present, and future contests. And to those who donated prizes!
Congrats to all! Thanks tang, for the crazy fun!
Congratulations to all the winners!
Once again, Tang, thank you for a beautiful montage to enjoy.
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Of the suggestions I've seen as to what Triumph should do with these bikes:
Give them to you,
Auction them off to support ACT,
Tear them down to measure the wear regular riders (versus Triumph's professional R&D riders) put on the bikes,
tearing them down probably has the biggest payoff with the fewest adverse side effects for Triumph.
Not that they need the information, their test bikes were torn down and measured eight ways to Sunday during the development phase. This enables them to create lots of ads with "technicians" measuring 'things' with micrometers, scales, and who knows what, showing parts still at new tolerance levels. Especially once they cure the stalling issue. Expect one or two of your photos in each ad.
If Triumph give the bikes to you, well, you can just imagine...
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Me: "I could do a ride report."
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This monthly feature was conceived by writer and Nation editorial board member Walter Mosley as a kind of do-it-yourself opinion and action device. Most often "Ten Things" will offer a brief list of recommendations for accomplishing a desired political or social end, sometimes bringing to light something generally unknown. The purpose of the feature is to go to the heart of issues in a stripped-down, active and informed way. After getting our visiting expert--or everyday citizen--to construct the list, we will interview that person and post a brief online version of "Ten Things," with links to relevant websites, books or other information. Readers who wish to propose ideas for "Ten Things" should e-mail us at email@example.com [1] or use the e-form at the bottom of this page.
One lesson from the economic crisis that's even more crucial during the season of giving is to give more meaningfully. While every shopping outlet entices you with generous sales and quick-fix gifts, it's hard to know whether your hard earned pennies make for worthwhile presents. Here are ten ways to give "progressively" not only during the holidays but year round, as suggested by past and future contributors. You can live up to the tradition of holiday giving while making a difference in the lives of those who really need it. (For a ranking of the financial health of any of the organizations listed, visit Charity Navigator [2].)
Homelessness is a huge problem in Philadelphia, where there are approximately 4,000 people living on the streets and in shelters; roughly 80 percent are African-American. Past contributor to "Ten Things" Z.P. Heller says that Project HOME offers an incredible array of services, from housing to employment. With the economy and housing crises still affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans, this organization enables you to make a tangible difference at the local level. Go to Project H.O.M.E [3] to donate.
Lend to a Kiva start-up. Through Kiva you can make a minimum $25 microloan that will go directly to an indigent entrepreneur halfway around the world who doesn't qualify for a standard bank loan. You can read entrepreneurs' profiles on the Kiva website; the site relies on Field Partners to ensure that your loan is being administered properly and that the entrepreneur repays the loan. Once the loan is repaid, you can choose to re-lend to another entrepreneur in need, donate [4] to Kiva, or withdraw funds through PayPal. You can also purchase Kiva Gifts [5].
For the family member who already has everything, browse the Oxfam America Unwrapped [6] online shopping catalog, then choose gifts for people in need from around the world--anything from a cooking stove and a dozen chicks to saving a lake and planting a forest.
Donate to American Jewish World Service's Fighting Hunger From the Ground Up [7] campaign. You can give in someone else's name. Your gift supports people in the developing world who are creating smart, local, sustainable solutions to the global food insecurity crisis.
Reward your friends and family with beautiful, fair trade, handcrafted gifts that help contribute to a movement for global justice. Order here [8].
Gift to the environment: send green cards. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, US household waste shoots up from about 4 million tons to about 5 million tons just between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, making up as much as 30 percent of total landfill waste. Buy recycled paper products containing at least 30 percent post-consumer waste and bearing the Forest Stewardship Council seal, which means it comes from well-managed forests. For more green ideas, go to the GreenPenny.com [9]. Check out New Leaf Products [10] and the B Lab "Season of Giving" [11] for special offers and discounts from progressive corporations.
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"Ten Things" will soon have a resident librarian. Here in advance are three books he recommends as gifts for yourself or a loved one: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis [13], Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization [14], and The Inner History of Devices [15], edited and introduced by Sherry Turkle.
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A gift to yourself and your loved ones is to remember what we each are about, to remember our role and place on the planet, and to stay in touch with this knowing. Find a way to be present before the things you consider holy. The idea is to ground yourself in an action that leads to this contemplation, this remembering. A phrase to hold close is a fragment from the Buddhist Metta Sutra, and it goes: May all beings be peaceful/May all beings be happy/May all beings be safe.
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In the past few weeks, millions of students, teachers and staff have returned to classrooms in schools across the United States. The air quality in many of those classrooms might be unhealthy, thanks to poor ventilation. But a new sensor designed to identify elevated amounts of carbon dioxide could help solve the problem — and maybe even boost test scores, scientists report.
The handheld device developed by a chemist and his colleagues is easy to use: Simply carry it into a room where you ...
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FLOWER MOUND The man who took possession of a $330,000 home for just $16 now wants to show other people how to do it.
Last week, we told you about Kenneth Robinson's discovery, and since then his story has spread around the world on the Internet.
People who see what he's done want to know more about a real estate law called adverse possession. While the technique has its risks, Robinson is now reaping the rewards.
I mean, I've been contacted even from Hong Kong, he said, reviewing his fan mail.
The man who says he's a former Marine, entrepreneur and real estate agent moved into the house a month ago, claiming adverse possession.
He filed an affidavit at the Denton County courthouse that says he is now the owner of a house that was abandoned by someone else.
When people saw what he's done, they started calling and knocking on his front door.
All they want is that paperwork, Robinson said. But there is a whole lot more to it than just the paperwork. The paper is what makes it legal.
Robinson said he wants to cash in on his technique with a seminar that outlines the rules (and risks) of adverse possession.
The number one risk is eviction. Any person or a bank with the legal title can start the process.
In Robinson's case, it could be Bank of America.
Bank of America told me it has not foreclosed on the property, rather the original owner just walked away, he said. If it does foreclose, it will exercise all of its legal rights.
That could mean having Robinson removed from the house by police, or offering him a financial incentive to leave.
David Weatherbie is the former chair of the state bar's committee on real estate law. He told News 8 that adverse possession is as old as Texas.
It is normally used to settle disputes between ranchers or land owners where property lines aren't well-defined.
Weatherbie said Robinson has little chance of ever owning the Flower Mound house outright because he would have to live there for 5, 10 or 25 years before it reverts to his ownership.
That's a long time for somebody to just sit in a house that somebody else might actually own without the other party taking action to evict them from the house, Weatherbie said.
Robinson says even if he's forced to move, he could still claim possession of the appliances, the pool table or anything inside.
Or he could walk away with a check for his time.
But if I have to go, I am prepared to go, he said. I'm here to stay, but if I have to go, I am prepared to.
Robinson says he wants other people to know adverse possession is not a loophole it's the law. He's ready to use his experience to teach them all about it.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur—A Chinese national landed in jail here on Friday for allegedly abusing one of his employees.
Michael Chan, who manages a dry goods store here, was charged with hitting one of his workers, Alvin Candor, 20, with a ceramic plate for being late for work. The assault left a deep cut on the worker's head.
Chan was quickly arrested by policemen and is now detained at the police jail here where six other Chinese nationals are also being held for illegal mining.
Senior Inspector Ephraim Detuya, town police chief, said Chan's trouble worsened when it was found that he is staying in the Philippines illegally.
He said the store manager was a Chinese national and did not speak any other language except Mandarin.
A local, who spoke Mandarin and helped the police in its investigation, quoted Chan as saying he has no travel documents because another Chinese national, who is based in Davao City, is holding his passport. Chris Panganiban, Inquirer Mindanao
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Oklahoma wilts down stretch, falls to No. 5 Kansas
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lon Kruger knew that if Oklahoma was going to keep No. 5 Kansas from clinching at least a share of its 10th straight Big 12 title, it would have to weather the Jayhawks' runs.
The Sooners survived one to open the game. They even survived a second one to end the first half. But it was the third surge that finally did in the Sooners, allowing the Jayhawks to hold on for an 83-75 victory and another conference crown.
"The difference really is in the runs they make," Kruger said. "That's what you've got to try to avoid. Easier said than done."
Naadir Tharpe had 19 points, Wayne Selden and Andrew Wiggins added 15 points each, and Joel Embiid had 12 points and 13 rebounds for the Jayhawks (22-6, 13-2 Big 12), who poured off the bench at the buzzer to celebrate the latest addition to their nation-leading 57 conference titles.
It might be the only one for Wiggins and Embiid, the dynamic freshman duo projected to be lottery picks if they come out this season. Wiggins has already stated his intention to do so.
"Just a great feeling," Tharpe said. "To be at home, to hear the fans and all that, it's a beautiful feeling. It just shows the tradition of Kansas and what it means to us."
Only two schools in men's Division I basketball have won more consecutive conference titles than Kansas: UCLA captured 13 straight from 1967-79 in the Pac-10, and Gonzaga won 11 straight in the West Coast Conference from 2001-11.
Cameron Clark had 18 points and Buddy Hield finished with 16 for the Sooners (20-8, 9-6), who have lost 12 of their last 13 games against the Jayhawks, including both this season.
Oklahoma hasn't won at the Phog since 1993.
"They made a couple shots," Clark said. "We made a couple shots. I think the main thing is we didn't take care of the ball in critical times. We've just got to learn from that."
The first half Monday night boiled down to an old-fashioned Big Eight tussle.
The Jayhawks threw the first body punch, picking up right where they left off in a rout of Texas by taking a 15-4 lead. Oklahoma answered with a few haymakers of its own, going on a 13-2 charge and eventually pulling ahead 27-25 with 5:26 left in the half.
"I thought our shot selection was pretty good," Kruger said. "After the initial four or five minutes, I thought our guys got more comfortable in attacking and making the extra pass."
Selden took over late in the half, scoring seven straight points to give Kansas back the lead. Frank Mason's 3-pointer capped a 10-0 surge and made it 42-33 at halftime.
The Jayhawks, arguably the deepest team in the Big 12, forged their lead despite playing without a handful of players due to foul trouble. Wiggins, Tharpe, Perry Ellis and Jamari Traylor all had two fouls, and Connor Frankamp was on the bench with three.


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OSI Completes Phase Two of TELMEX Multi-Million Dollar Network Performance Management Deployment.
FOLSOM, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Objective Systems Integrators (Nasdaq: OSII) announced today the completion of phase two of a US$5 million reengineering and expansion project by Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. (NYSE: TMX) to increase the quality of its service offerings throughout Mexico. To complete this second phase, TELMEX and OSI's professional services organization customized and installed OSI's PM Exel(TM) automated performance management solution, making it available to TELMEX's national wireline network. The system will provide network operators with historical and real-time network data for the more than 500 switches that TELMEX will add to the system over the next year. Leveraging OSI's NetExpert(R) operations support system (OSS) framework installed during phase one, PM Exel will enable TELMEX to proactively monitor and improve service quality for their more than 10 million local access line customers.
Formerly known as trafficMASTER, PM Exel provides automated, graphical performance management through real-time views of network traffic congestion and long-term trends that enables TELMEX to monitor its services and network proactively. As a result, TELMEX can increase call completions during high traffic volume by rerouting calls before network problems affect service to customers. In addition, PM Exel will help TELMEX reduce operations costs through effective growth planning from historical analysis, and build customer loyalty by improving service levels based on observed trends. Because TELMEX uses the open and flexible NetExpert framework as its service and network management foundation, the company can quickly deploy new equipment from different vendors, regardless of standards and technologies.
Juan Ludlow, vice president of business and operations support systems for TELMEX said, "The addition of PM Exel to our NetExpert-based management system enables TELMEX to measure and manage performance in real time, providing a significant competitive edge in ensuring service availability and operational efficiency. TELMEX selected OSI's NetExpert framework because of its proven ability to support multivendor networks, integrate legacy systems, and rapidly deploy new services."
"As the management system for other large carriers, NetExpert has proven it can scale to handle network growth -- a requirement for implementing our aggressive 12 month plan to expand TELMEX's network by adding to the system more than 500 switches from multiple vendors," added Ludlow. "The carrier-grade strength and stability of OSI's solution will accommodate both our current and long-term business goals of continued development and growth."
"Carriers like TELMEX recognize that their longevity and success depends on investing in carrier-grade, open management systems that they can add functions to as their business grows," said Chris Simon, vice president, OSI global product marketing. "NetExpert is the cornerstone of our NetEx(TM) Unified Management Architecture(TM) -- OSI's unique model for scalable, integrated service and network management. With the latest release of
NetExpert, OSI applications for managing service delivery, assurance, and usage now have access to universal functions through the common class library. Because the applications can share functions, service providers can receive a higher value from their integrated system, such as comparing how network problems may affect customers with service guarantees and flow through provisioning."
About TELMEX
TELMEX ( http://www.telmex.com.mx ) is the major telecommunications company in Mexico, and it provides local telephone, domestic and international long-distance, wireless, and voice, data, and video transmission services. Since its privatization in 1990, TELMEX has been one of the fastest companies to modernize, and it has emerged as a leader in telecommunication services in Latin America. As part of this immense modernization and technological diversification effort, TELMEX has invested more than $16 billion in its infrastructure over the last eight years and is investing $4.6 billion in 1999 and 2000. At the end of the second quarter of 1999, TELMEX had approximately 10.2 million local access lines in service and more than 3.2 million cellular subscribers.
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Objective Systems Integrators, Inc. ( http://www.osi.com ) supplies communications service providers with advanced software solutions that simplify service and network management in complex multivendor environments. OSI's family of products provides an integrated framework for performance, fault, configuration, accounting, and business process management. Using OSI's integrated solutions, service providers can offer innovative, high quality services cost effectively on leading platforms. More than 250 customers around the world have installed NetExpert(R), the company's flagship operations support system (OSS) framework product. OSI has headquarters in Folsom, California, with offices worldwide.
OSI news releases dating back one year are available by fax at no charge by calling 800-758-5804, ext. 623150. Investor literature and information may be obtained by calling Investor Relations at 800-741-1069.
NOTE: NetExpert, VSM, and PM Exel are registered trademarks or trademarks of Objective Systems Integrators. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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FOR THE PAST TWENTY YEARS, Mike Toomey has loomed large in state government, as imposing and immovable—and some would say as cold—as the pink-granite Capitol itself. First as a Republican legislator, then as the Capitol's premier business lobbyist, and now as chief of staff to his longtime friend Governor Rick Perry, the intense 53-year-old Houston lawyer has promoted a steadfast conservative agenda with little tolerance for compromise with—or mercy for—his adversaries. These include Democrats, plaintiffs lawyers, opposing lobbyists, and anybody else who stands in his way. His nickname, Mike the Knife, originally referred to his budget-cutting proposals as a legislator but now conveniently describes his propensity to carve up his enemies. With his encyclopedic knowledge of state government and his reputation as a ruthless political operative, he is positioned to help Perry challenge the old saw that the governorship of Texas is a constitutionally weak office. He is unquestionably the most powerful—and the most feared—nonelected person in Texas politics today.
And so, at the beginning of my interview with Toomey in his oak-paneled Capitol office, I was surprised when he mentioned how much he had enjoyed a job he had held to put himself through Baylor University, working as an aide in a treatment center for emotionally disturbed teenagers. Mike Toomey providing solace for troubled youths? The same Mike Toomey who is determined to slash social programs in the state budget, who as a hard-nosed business lobbyist campaigned to defeat lawmakers who dared vote against him, who is credited with getting his enemies in the lobby fired? Had I missed something in my research? I was struggling to conjure a mental picture of Toomey comforting adolescents when he explained: "I was basically in charge of discipline," he said, fixing his steady gaze on me, "the heavy when the kids got out of hand. I was the enforcer of the rules."
Of course. The enforcer.
THE STAKES IN THIS FIRST legislative session of the Republican era are sky-high. The state faces a mammoth $9.9 billion budget shortfall, for which the Perry-Toomey solution has been to cut spending rather than raise taxes. Perry is also pushing for a sweeping reform of tort laws that will make it harder for injured people to win big jury awards against business. Sometime in the next few weeks, Perry is likely to find himself in a battle with Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, a fellow Republican and the leader of the state Senate, who favors more spending, with the help of "non-tax revenue," and a more balanced, though still strongly pro-business, approach to tort reform. The winner will determine whether the primary power over legislation in general and the budget in particular remains with the Legislature, as the authors of the 127-year-old state constitution intended, or flows to the governor—a development that was unthinkable as recently as the previous legislative session, in 2001.
The old ideas about Texas government are in jeopardy. They may prove to be relics of a dead political tradition, one that was rural, Democratic, and loosely organized. Today, a new political tradition is being established, one that is suburban, Republican, and tightly controlled. At the heart of that new tradition are Rick Perry and his enforcer, Mike Toomey. With a huge mandate from the voters, unassailable Republican majorities in both the state House and the Senate, and a major budget crisis that justifies gubernatorial intervention, Perry is poised to become the most powerful governor of modern times. And Toomey is providing the brains and the muscle.
In the Capitol game of Clue this year, he is everyone's favorite suspect: Mike Toomey did it, in the governor's office, with—what else?—the knife. Why did the Texas Medical Association part company with its longtime lobbyist, Kim Ross, last December? Because Perry told the doctors' group that his office would not work with them as long as Ross was around. (The TMA backed Perry's Democratic opponent, Tony Sanchez, in the 2002 governor's race after Perry, at Toomey's urging on behalf of two clients, vetoed the doctors' top-priority bill in 2001.) Why did the State Preservation Board, dominated by Perry appointees, fire its executive director, former GOP legislator Rick Crawford, whose tenure included the construction of the highly regarded Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum? Because Crawford refused Toomey's request for his resignation, his apparent sin being friendship with Perry's archenemy, former Democratic House Speaker Pete Laney. Why did several Democratic representatives have a change of heart in late March and vote for a proposed constitutional amendment limiting lawsuit awards? Could it be because the governor's office informed them that funding for a regional health center in the Rio Grande Valley and a medical school for El Paso depended upon local lawmakers' support for the tort-reform bill? Many more dark and dirty deeds are attributed to him without proof, as occurred with Karl Rove in the Bush years.
After two decades as one of the leading political operatives at the Capitol, Toomey has accumulated the skill and the will to influence every issue of consequence. And all the indicators are that Perry is ready to let him do so. The two men have been friends since they served in the House together, in the mid-eighties, when Perry was still a Democrat. As their career paths diverged in the late eighties—Perry leaving the Legislature to run statewide for agriculture commissioner as a Republican, Toomey leaving to operate behind the scenes—the friendship became even closer, as Toomey became Perry's most trusted adviser. (Their relationship transcends politics; Toomey served as Perry's attorney in a deal involving Perry's sale of prime residential land to computer magnate Michael Dell for a $330,000 profit.) When Perry stumbled through his first two years as governor, Toomey blamed bad staff work. Eventually, Perry prevailed on him last fall to give up an annual income that is widely thought to have been in the seven figures to take the job as chief of staff.
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Panel rejects plea for Alliant satellite campus
"At this point we felt that's the best transition for them," she said.
Community member Maty Adato opposes the partnership and said Sweetwater had ample time to sort through the permit process, calling it a simple lack of organization and planning on the district's part.
"National City had nothing to do with Sweetwater not following the correct protocol," Adato said.
City Manager Leslie Deese said it's always good to communicate early on in case of unanticipated delays with the process.
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Brand acknowledged during a council meeting in June that he should have notified the city manager and let the city know about plans for the satellite campus. However, on Monday he said that city staff led district officials to believe they had answered everything that was asked of them.
"There was no indication that there would be a delay or potential delay," Brand said.
Beginning Aug. 26, Alliant at Sweetwater will offer undergraduate degrees in child development, psychology, criminal justice and business administration, college courses for high school juniors and seniors and military/adult educational options.
Corona said Alliant has its eye on using the Sweetwater High campus for the spring semester if an agreement on the Adult School site cannot be reached.
"We'll have to wait and see what happens with the permit process," she said. "The permit's important because National City was the first choice."


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Red Bull pulls Jesus 'walking on water' ad after outcry in South Africa
Energy-drink maker Red Bull said Wednesday it has dropped an advertisement in South Africa after an outcry from both Christians and Muslims for its portrayal of Jesus Christ walking on water.
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JOHANNESBURG—Energy-drink maker Red Bull said Wednesday it has dropped an advertisement in South Africa after an outcry from both Christians and Muslims for its portrayal of Jesus Christ walking on water.
South Africa's Roman Catholic bishops urged Christians not to drink Red Bull in traditional fasting for Lent ahead of Easter celebrations next month, stopping short of calling for a full commercial boycott.
The television cartoon implies Jesus walked on water because he had been invigorated by a miraculous energy drink and knew where there were hidden rocks to tread on.
South Africa's Muslim Judicial Council on Wednesday warned of consequences of "secular extremism" against any religious faith.
It said any "insult and satire" of Jesus targeted "the very foundation of Islamic theology."
Christ is a revered prophet in Islam.
In a message to Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, head of the Southern Africa Roman Catholic Bishops Conference, the Muslim council said the ad was hurtful to Christianity, Islam and religion as a whole.
"We wish that our voices can be united to make clear to any secular extremist that any attack or defacement of religious symbols and sacred spaces is not acceptable," the council said.
Cardinal Napier earlier called on Catholic worshippers to donate to charities any money they saved on Red Bull during Lent.
In a statement, the drinks maker said its humorous advertising always looks at "well-known themes."
"It is never our intention to hurt anyone's feelings," it said.
It said the ad, aired on Tuesday, was scrapped Wednesday, and Red Bull regretted it had caused such strong feelings in religious communities.
Cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohamed triggered violent protests in Europe and across the Muslim world.
"There is a need for a new sensitivity toward people's beliefs," said Chris Townsend, an official of the Bishops Conference in South Africa.
"As on this occasion, people become very deeply offended," Townsend said.
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Sector 7-4-9erDec 19, 2014 Full Version 0 comments
Here is the full, final version of the game... for free! Unfortunately, I lost the source code, so if there are any bugs or incompatibilities, I can't...
Mine asteroids and struggle to survive on the frontiers of space with only your wits and a tiny mining ship in this arcade-style game. Dig your way through massive, dynamically generated asteroids and discover ancient alien technology! Adjust the difficulty anywhere from super-casual to a hard-core fight for survival.
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Spinach with Sweet Red Onion
The onions are cooked in red wine and grenadine syrup, then served on the spinach for this elegant side dish.
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Spinach with Sweet Red Onion
large red onions, halved and sliced (3 cups)
tablespoons butter
cup red wine
cup grenadine syrup or boysenberry syrup
tablespoons sugar
teaspoon salt
5 ounce package fresh baby spinach (16 cups)
Salt and black pepper to taste
- In a large nonstick skillet cook the onions in hot butter for 5 to 8 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally. Add the wine, sugar, and salt. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Boil gently, uncovered, about 15 minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated and liquid is syrupy.
- Meanwhile, place the spinach in a very large serving bowl. Spoon the onion mixture over spinach. Toss to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts(Spinach with Sweet Red Onion)
- Per serving:
- 88 kcal cal.,
- 3 g fat
- (2 g sat. fat,
- 1 g monounsatured fat),
- 7 mg chol.,
- 153 mg sodium,
- 12 g carb.,
- 3 g fiber,
- 4 g sugar,
- 1 g pro.
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet


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Aloha got it right, but let me comment...
Good wins are wins against players with "higher rankings" than you overall. Note that when we calculate our Tennis Recruiting rankings, we first create a master rank list that includes all players of the same gender - that master rank list includes players of all ages, graduation years, etc. Note also that only results are used in the rankings - age, etc. does not factor into the rankings.
Once we have the master ranking list, we then filter out the various graduation years to create the 7 lists for 6th-12th grade.
So... wins against players significantly above you in the master rank list are "good wins". Losses far below you are "bad losses". Almost every player has a handful of wins above and a handful of losses below - but most wins are over players ranked below them.
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If I beat a blue chip 2 years older than me is that as good as beating a blue chip 2 years younger than me?
The rule of thumb is that "older kids are better than younger kids". The No. 1 senior is usually higher ranked than the No. 1 8th-grader in our master rank list, and a Blue Chip senior is usually ranked higher than a Blue Chip 8th-grader as well. However, there is nothing to say that this is always the case... a freshman phenom that wins, say, Kalamazoo, might be ranked higher than most Blue Chip seniors. In this case, beating that freshman would be a stronger win.
So, to be precise, age/graduation year does not factor in directly - except insomuch as older kids are typically ranked higher than younger kids in our master rank list. But yes, beating a Blue Chip 2 years older is almost always worth more than beating one two years younger.
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Saying UnSorry
Will Japan's new prime minister really take back his country's apology for World War II?
- By Robert Whiting Robert Whiting is the author of Tokyo Underworld and You Gotta Have Wa, among other books. He has lived in Japan for 35 of the past 50 years.
In late December, newly installed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that he will revisit Japan's 1995 apology for the suffering the country wrought in Asia during World War II. That apology admitted that the Japanese Imperial Army had forced females, mostly from Korea, China, Japan, and the Philippines, known euphemistically as "comfort women," to work in brothels during the Japanese occupation. "This is entirely inexcusable," the prime minister at the time, Tomiichi Murayama, said in a statement. "I offer my profound apology to all those who, as wartime comfort women, suffered emotional and physical wounds that can never be closed."
The hawkish Abe, who has publicly and repeatedly denied that comfort women served Japanese soldiers against their will, is unrepentant about Japan's wartime behavior. In his best-selling book utsukushii kuni e (To a Beautiful Country), published during his previous term as prime minister in 2006, Abe even argued that Japanese war criminals convicted in the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal were not guilty under Japanese law.
None of this has gone over well with the neighbors. South Korea's president-elect Park Geun-hye responded to Abe's remarks by saying that Japan "needed to come to terms with its colonial history," while a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman urged Japan to "adopt a spirit of reflecting on history." On Jan. 4, an anti-Japanese protester stabbed himself in the stomach at Seoul's Kimpo Airport to protest the arrival of a special envoy dispatched by Abe to soothe ties between the two countries, while former comfort women, now in their 80s and 90s, continue to gather outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, as they have for decades, to demand even more contrition and reparations from Tokyo.
For the past few weeks, Abe has kept a low profile on the subject. He avoided mentioning it in his policy address to the Diet on Jan. 28, focusing mainly on domestic matters such as recovery and reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake and escape from the "bog of deflation" that has plagued Japan in recent years. Few analysts, however, doubt the ultranationalist politician will eventually make good on his promise to unapologize.
Why is the Japanese apology such a big issue? The Japanese emperor surrendered on August 1945; Japanese officials have made an estimated 54 different apologies to Japan's Asian neighbors, including South Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines, since they began apologizing in 1957, in addition to paying more than $3 billion in reparations and surrendering more than $23 billion of government and private assets Japan held in the countries it occupied. (Japan never apologized or paid compensation to North Korea, however, because the two countries have never had formal diplomatic relations.) But from Japan's neighbors' perspective, it hasn't been enough — and Abe's curious decision to re-open these old wounds has only heightened their sensitivity.
There are more than a dozen ways to apologize in Japanese, from sumimasen (after bumping into someone on the subway) to makoto ni moshiwake gozaimasen deshita (after spilling a drink on the Emperor at his annual garden party), and Japanese officials have likely tried them all, except for the dogeza, the ultimate form of apology, which consists of placing one's knees and forehead on the floor. Japanese officials, moreover, have generally avoided forthright admissions and actual use of the word "apologize" (shazai), to avoid angering right-wing supporters who don't want any admission of wrongdoing. Instead, they have resorted to generalities and terms like remorse, regret, sorrow, and self-reproach, which dance around the issue and minimize responsibility, similar in tone to the non-apologies often used by public figures in the United States, such as, "If my remarks offended anyone, I deeply regret it."
Apologies by prime ministers are often undone by offensive behavior by other Japanese politicians. In April 2005, then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed his "deep remorse and heartfelt apology" for the suffering that Japan caused other Asian countries during World War II. Only hours before, however, 81 members of Japan's legislature, belonging to Koizumi's own party, had visited Yasukuni Shrine, where Japan's war dead are enshrined, prompting the Chinese Foreign Ministry to express its "strong dissatisfaction" over the "negative behavior" of Japan's politicians.
Most Japanese recognize that Japan did bad things before and during World War II. But they are also weary of the apology issue and complain that no matter how contrite their leaders are, Japan's Asian neighbors will find a way to blame them. In 2010, another Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, expressed "deep remorse" and a "heartfelt apology" to South Koreans for Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula. This prompted complaints from Koreans that Japan did not admit the "illegality" of its occupation, while Chinese grumbled that Kan had chosen to ignore Japan's colonial history in China.
Taiwan, the Philippines, and Burma also suffered under Japanese rule. So why have South Korea and China been so much less willing to forget wartime injustices? Perhaps it's the scale of the crimes in question: Japan occupied the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, imposed the Japanese language on its people, brutally repressed a rebellion, and brought hundreds of thousands of Koreans to Japan as forced labor. Japan occupied a huge swath of Chinese territory during and before World War II; in one particularly brutal period in December 1937, now known as the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese slaughtered as many as 300,000 Chinese.
But keeping the apology issue alive is also geopolitically convenient, especially for China. The controversy over Abe's unapology comes on the heels of a recent escalation of disputes between Japan and China, and between Japan and South Korea, over the ownership of uninhabited islands in the waters around the three countries. "I don't think that China or the Koreas are inclined to let Japan off the hook of history. It's way too convenient to keep Japan on its back heels diplomatically," Temple University professor and Japan expert Jeffrey Kingston told me.
Shinzo Abe, whose own grandfather was imprisoned for war crimes before going on to become prime minister in 1957, would no doubt agree with that. But before he creates any more tension, he had better focus on the reason voters elected him in the first place: his vow to fix the stagnant Japanese economy. If he doesn't do that, he may not be around long enough to unapologize to the rest of Asia.
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