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Small SP mod I'm working on... Story only atm..
Ok this is PART of the background and working story of the SP mod I'm currently working on. Please be kind...:)
I'm planning to release about 3 maps with this, maybe 4, depending on how far I want to branch the story line.../shrug
The first map is 80% complete, a few area's need to be tweaked, and I have one script that is pissen me off.../grr
The second map isn't even started yet...:)
3rd map is about 25-30% done, the first two areas are done, but I'm wanting to add about twice as much area as the map currently has, so it will take some time...
ETA on complete project 2 months...
Ok story...
-- Star Wars --
Reborn Complex -- The Hidden.
Opening Sceen: RavensClaw
Jan -- We really should reconsider the offer that Monmatha offered us.
Kyle -- I've had enough dealings between the Republic and the Remnate.
Jan -- I know, but the RavensClaw can't repair herself.
Kyle -- I know, I know.
<>-- Incoming Communication messsage.
<>-- Beeps etc. can be heard coming from the console.
Kyle -- Great, wonder who that is.
Jan -- Just a second and I can tell you.
<>-- Jan types and pushes a few buttons on the console.
<>-- After a few seconds she sits back with a deep frown.
Kyle -- What is it?
Jan -- It's not a message kyle.
Kyle -- Then...
Jan -- Its an encoded SOS signal. But why would some one encode an SOS?
Kyle -- Can you trace it?
<>-- Jan leans back over the console and pushes a few more buttons.
Jan -- Yeah, but we may not have too.
Kyle -- What do you mean?
Jan -- Theres more to this single, I think theres some Nav Cords. here.
Kyle -- Nav Cords? Why would someone send Nav Cords with an SoS?
Jan -- I'm not sure...
Kyle -- Jan, send them to the Nav Computer. I'll see if I can pull them up.
Jan -- Here they come.
<>-- After a few seconds of Kyle pushing buttons on his console...
Kyle -- Yeah their Nav Cords alright, And looking at this its coming from Yavin.
Jan -- Yavin? Do you think its from Luke?
Kyle -- Possibly. See if we can't get through to the Academy.
Jan -- Kyle I think I've found another set of Cords. But these seem to be surface Cords.
Jan -- I'll try the academy but who ever sent this message wasn't at the Academy.
Kyle -- Hmmm...
Kyle -- Go ahead and try the academy. I'm going to go ahead and punch these cords in.
Kyle -- We're not to far out from Yavin.
Kyle -- We might as well stop in and say hi.
<>-- RavensClaw changes vectors and enters hyper-space.
Jan -- Jedi Academy, this is Ravensclaw.
Jan -- Jedi Academy, this is Ravensclaw.
<>-- Incoming message.
Speaker -- Greetings Ravensclaw. Jedi academy, how can we help you?
<>-- Jan pauses for a second, looking at Kyle.
Jan -- Should we tell them about the signal?
Kyle -- Not now, I'll discuss it with Luke, when we get there.
<>-- Jan turns back to the console.
Jan -- Jedi Academy, RavensClaw requesting clearance to land for repairs.
Speaker -- Negitive Ravensclaw.
Speaker -- We're having problems with solar flare. Our equipment has been malfuctioning.
Speaker -- This has also been causing problems with ships in the region.
Speaker -- Please avoid this system for the time being.
Jan -- Ok thanks Jedi Academy. We'll locate another friendly repair bay.
<>-- Jan ends the transmission.
Kyle -- I don't like it Jan.
Jan -- Neither do I.
Kyle -- Just to play it safe, I'll drop us out of hyper-space just out side the system.
Kyle -- We can do a system scan just to be safe.
<>-- A few hours later --<>
<>-- Ravensclaw screams out of hyper-space. In the far distance,Yaviin and its moons
<>-- can be seen orbiting around its sun.
Jan -- The Scans should come back in a few, Kyle.
<>-- A few beeps and lights go off. Kyle keeps looking at Jan, impatience clearly seen in his features.
Jan -- Kyle there seems to be some magnetic disturbance around Yaviin 4, but it doesn't appear to be strong enough to cause any problems.
Kyle -- Jan!! We have Company!
Kyle -- Hange on!
<>-- Blaster shots blaze past the Ravensclaw.
Jan -- Kyle!
Kyle -- Yeah Jan ?!
Jan -- I'm getting to old for this.
Kyle -- You've been hanging around Lando too much.
<>-- Kyle smiles weakly at Jan.
Jan -- I'm serious.
Kyle -- I know, so am I.
Kyle -- Hold on. I'll try to get us out of here.
Jan -- Kyle these ships don't have their transponders active. They appear to be old emperial gun ships.
Kyle -- Great. Could be anyone. You can get those for 5000 credits now.
Kyle -- Take over I'll man the guns.
<>-- Space Fight sceen, RavensClaw continues its evasive manuvers.
<>-- Kyle manages to get off some good shots, taking down two of the gun ships down.
<>-- The other two turn and run for deeper space.
<>-- Kyle comes back to the cockpit.
Jan -- Kyle look.
<>-- Jan is pointing out the cockpit window, toward Yaviin.
<>-- The fighting has moved the RavensClaw, closer and around Yaviin.
<>-- Jan and Kyle can now clearly see two Star destoryers orbiting Yaviin.
Kyle -- I don't think you can buy "those" on the black market.
Kyle -- Why is the Remate here? And why isn't the Republic arware of this?
Jan -- I don't know. Kyle, Those Cords, are coming from the other side of the planet.
Jan -- If we waited long enough we could sneak down unseen while those star destroyers are on an oposit orbit.
<>-- A short while later...
<>-- Ravensclaw makes it way down to the planet.
Jan -- Kyle, I've located the source of that singal.
Jan -- It doesn't appear to be coming from the same location as the surface cords.
Jan -- This signal is coming from below the surface.
Kyle -- If these Cords are right, they appear to be right in the middle of the jungle.
Kyle -- Great.
Kyle -- How far away is the source from the given cords?
Jan -- It doesn't appear to be too far. But theres no telling since its not on the surface.
Kyle -- Great...
Kyle -- Ok Jan, set me down as close to that signal as you can.
Kyle -- Then head to the other side of Yaviin 3.
Kyle -- You should be out of scan range there.
Kyle -- I'll Check things out down here, and see what I can find.
you're ambitious...this should probably go in mapping or beta testing (probably mapping).
Current Screen Shots... Some Area's are still ruff and need to be modified or some what changed.../shrug
Mapping does look promising. And I must say your opening cinematics will demand great efforts and lots of time - I hope you haven't underestimated that alone. I have done my share of cinematics, and with the camera and NPC positioning and refining, not to mention scripting, it eats time faster than you notice. Of course if you have already done that all, then your rather tight timetable might work. But if you haven't, relax...
I haven't figured out what I'm going to do about the voices yet...:(
I was thinking that I might be able to do sub titles only... but then that would be kinda odd. I might see if I can record some dialog of my own... Or I might just leave it as text, to accompany the maps, but thta would be a let down...:(
And lassev, your right, the cinematics might take longer than I anticipate, but we shall see...
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Likely due to Microsoft unveiling it's next-gen console the Xbox One, the company reported record revenues for Q3 in 2013 to the tune of $24.52 billion, according to a report today from GameSpot.
The record quarter also yielded a net profit of $6.56 billion for Microsoft, an increase from the same quarter in 2012.
Within the department that encompasses the Xbox consoles –– Total Devices and Consumer –– revenue increased by 13 percent to $11.91 billion with a combined total of 7.4 million Xbox One (3.9 million) and Xbox 360 (3.5 million) units shipments.
Revenue for the Xbox platform rose by $1.6 billion with the launch of the Xbox One, but according to the report additional costs were felt with the next-gen console's release.
The 3.9 million Xbox One units shipped seems to contrast the figure released by Microsoft earlier this month, when the platform holder said it sold-through 3 million next-gen consoles before the end of 2013.
You can read that full Examiner report by clicking here.
However, Microsoft released a statement to GameSpot explain that the additional 900,000 Xbox One units weren't left on the shelf but were rather "sold into the channel in the final period of the quarter and so there was no time to sell the units through to customers."


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07:49, UK, Sunday 21 August 2011
A Red Arrow pilot, named as Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, has been killed after his jet crashed in Bournemouth.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the 33-year-old from Rutland died when his Hawk aircraft crashed just south of Bournemouth Airport.
The MoD confirmed it would investigate the cause of the accident.
Group Captain Simon Blake, the Commandant of the RAF's Central Flying School, said Flight Lieutenant Egging was a "gifted aviator".
The pilot flew in the "most demanding position" of the Red Arrows formation - on the right hand outside of the diamond.
"A true team player, his good nature and constant smile will be sorely missed by all," Group Captain Blake said.
"In such a close-knit team, this tragedy will be keenly felt by his fellow team members, the Reds and all of the engineering and support staff, the Blues," he added.
The display team had taken part in Bournemouth's annual air festival shortly before the crash.
Wayne Kent, the assistant manager of a local pub, said eyewitnesses reported the plane seemed to be guided away from houses in the village of Throop, and from people walking near the riverbank, before it crashed.
Shaun Spencer-Perkins saw the crash and said he heard "a whoosh sound, looked around and saw a Red Arrow flying below the tree line".
"It was flying incredibly fast, then it hit one side of the embankment of the river," he told Sky News.
"I saw part of the plane on our side of the embankment, strewn over a field.
"The rest was on the opposite side of the river.
"The crash site was quite large and there was a smell of aviation fuel."
Laura Goodwin also saw the crash, and said shortly afterwards she saw a police helicopter and a coastguard helicopter in the air.
She had been watching the display, and said she saw the Red Arrows coming in to land.
"One went one way, one went the other and then did not come back up," she told Sky News.
"Within seconds you could tell something was not right as there were ambulances there."


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Your photos are incredible!!! Amazing shots!!!!
I'm really looking forward to having more put up of the pups! I love them so! and some of the old man tristan up as well!
Unfortunately I can only make a trip out to the park once a year D: I have a few more pictures I can post though~
And I mostly spend it with the main pack. I'll make a note to stop by Ayla, Renki, and Tristan though!
Oh, then we may have bumped into one another, right now i'm working but I usually do the seminars and help with the wolves and foxes, I started going there about 6 years ago, then volunteered, once I was able to. I fell in love with Ayla and Tristan... I wish you could have met Orca, Apollo, and Socrates... man they were so sweet... i miss them dearly... earlier this year, I went for a winter session, came back in the late spring to find out that they had just burried Apollo a day before I came... it was sad...
I normally get out there June/July-ish. I was in the main pack three years ago, just Ayla two years ago, and the main pack again this past year, but I've been going to the park for 5 years now :3
I would love to volunteer there, but I live out in Colorado D: I go the park with my grandma who lives out there and she has fun watching
Yes, it's always sad when one of them passes away ): But because they lived at the park, you know they had a good life full of treats!
ah, okay, usually i help out with main herd intros, rat pack (more of the rat pack then any), and the bison... for some reason we aren't doing the bison demo as much these past months... I love my rat pack puppies!
Nice gallery, really cool wolf pictures
You have a great gallery!!
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Jose Enrique Garcilazo
Jose Enrique Garcilazo is the Head of Unit for Regional Growth and Policies within the Regional Development Policy Division at the OECD. His work has focused mainly in the area of regional competitiveness, measuring the performance of regions and understating the key factors for growth at the regional level. During his doctorate studies, his thesis investigated the problem of European unemployment and the relationship between inequality and unemployment.


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The life of a fight promoter isn't easy. Just days before Bellator 119 goes down on Friday in Canada, CEO Bjorn Rebney is being forced to make some changes. Out is Brett Cooper and his main event fight with Brandon Hasley for a shot at the Bellator middleweight championship. "Fudoshin" explained (Credit Fightline.com):
"After my fight with Kendall [Grove], my back just hasn't been where I need it to be to have a proper training camp for one of the biggest fights of my career. It's a setback, but with some time off, I should be ready to go by late July. I never like missing time, but I know this is the right move. I'll be back stronger, and I'm looking forward to winning another tournament and getting another shot against Shlemenko."
Also a matchup between Shahbulat Shamhalaev and Fabricio Guerreiro had to be scrapped due to visa issues.
The rest of the amended card is as follows and can be seen live on Spike TV at 8 p.m. CT.
Featherweight: Daniel Weichel vs. Desmond Green
Featherweight: Chris Horodecki vs. Marlon Sandro
Welterweight: Marius Zaromskis vs. Vaughan Anderson
Heavyweight: Raphael Butler vs. Nick Rossborough
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com)
Catchweight: John Alessio vs. Eric Wisely
Middleweight: Brian Rogers vs. Adrian Miles
Heavyweight: Stuart Austin vs. Craig Hudson
Lightweight: Jason Meisel vs. Remy Busseieres
Catchweight: Chris Kelades vs. Malcolm Gordon
Lightweight: Behrang Yousefi vs. Chad Freeman


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Craft ACT Gallery One: 26 March to 2 May 2009
Surgical augmentation of the body presupposes a plastic surface conducive to design: the skin as subject to the cut and suture of composition. But this 'clinical' approach to cosmetic surgery would belie the severity of the intervention. There remains in contemporary culture a gap, a time-lag between the constitution of identity and the choice of the scalpel.
Tiffany Parbs' cosmetic explores just such a gap utilising the medium of jewellery. This new body of work problematises the surgical processes that would purport to erase dermatological traces of time and history. Parbs uses her own body to stretch the boundaries of what we know and understand as jewellery as well as skin. In the title piece cosmetic, a series of small stainless steel pins line the periphery of the eye and the mouth, recalling the preparatory cutting lines of the surgeon. These sombre signposts map the face as an aggregation of 'flaws' ripe for excision. 'Jewellery' in this scenario draws dangerously close to an unravelling of the skin - not because there is an antagonism inherent in these tiny implements but because figure and ground, before and after are here undecidable. Are these markings a precursor to an incision that will follow or are they already the result of a cosmetic embellishment? Fixed under the seal of photography, cosmetic suggests a topology of the skin akin to the endless, enfolded surface of the Möbius band1. The skin and its adornment become inter-implicated, challenging the 'before/after' chronology of invasive surgery.
This understanding of the skin as a complex enfolding of time and space is further reiterated in bake, where the word "RAW" has been burnt into the delicate region of the décolletage.2 bake appropriates the body as if it were a flat surface, using the skin as a photographic membrane and deliberately exposing it to the stain of the sun. Here adornment figures as a crafting of the self; 'jewellery' fashioned from the biological matter of the very skin which is its ground. Again it is the secondary mediation of the photograph (itself a type of 'skin'3), which so effectively re-marks the seamlessness of cosmetic processes. With bake we are forced to reconsider the permanency of surgery, the cultural impulse to nullify the complexity of time.
Rendered photographically, the work developed as part of cosmetic imbricates the conventions of jewellery with photography, marrying the material with the conceptual, the cultural with the political. Crucially, Parbs has developed a unique dialogue between craft methodologies, apt to amplify our relationship to the skin of our own bodies.
Nella Themelios 2008
Nella Themelios is the Curatorial Officer of Craft Victoria
1 Steven Connor, The Book of Skin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) 36
2 This notion of 'enfolding' is derived from Connor (2004) 36-37
3 Connor (2004) 59
Through allegories of disconcerting adornment, artists such as Tiffany Parbs elucidate the futility of corporeal excessiveness. With a heightened awareness of exaggerated bodily forms, Parbs commits to unravelling the signifiers associated with cosmetic procedures. With its judicious interventions her exhibition cosmetic acts as a timely incisive excavation of the social body politic and its obsession with achieving evermore-rising standards of beauty and evermore-invasive methods of achieving them. Gone are the days of applying rouge in the hope of highlighting our beauty. Surgical developments seem to have emerged overnight. However the market acceptance of cosmetic surgery is the most extreme example of the struggle to find ways to sustain the illusion of youth. The fleeting beauty of a crinkling, twinkling eye has shifted to the rigid fixity achieved by fillers and injected poisons. From teeth bleaching, chemical peels and liposuction, there are smaller steps towards discarding the natural in favour of the manufactured. The natural is a misnomer in contemporary capitalist nations. So complex the intertwining of synthetic and biological, so untraceable and insidious our impact on the planet and other bodies that we indelibly alter substances just by being present. Historically, many cultures have employed progressive procedures that indelibly alter the notion of a natural body. The obsession with extending and transforming the limits of bodies is an intricate phenomenon. There is something sinister about bodily alterations that aim to turn back the clock. Yet we are all implicated in the encroaching fear of aging and death, if not by our own feelings, then by the shifting reactions of others to our surfaces. The emphasis on youth, the invisibility of senior members of society is perhaps the catalyst of the resort to cosmetic surgery. Rather than processing the pain and pressures of life, mixed emotions are sliced out, discarded with the precision of a scalpel. The fictionality of youth buffeted against buoyant saline implants. Is it really now the puckered, parched skin of us mere mortals that look increasingly abnormal next to the hyper-real plump skin we see in magazines and on red carpets? It says a lot about capitalist societies, that the erasure of traces of time and effect take precedence over the pursuit of wisdom and inner allure.
Craft is generally associated with the things we hold dear to us both metaphorically and literally. Pieces close to the body intertwine the interior and exterior body. Drawing out complexities and contradictions of experience, these artworks assist us in drastically evaluating our relation to the world and others within it. The body is adorned with prosthetic accoutrements, temporary but affecting. Unlike art which seeks to have a generalised relationship with the body, craft goes further to become a possession close to both flesh and heart. For punks, jewellery and style were acts of resistance, a visible communication with authoritarian powers. Dissent measured in piercing marks and neon pink Mohicans. Parbs often conceals the brutal potential of such embellishments with the veil of delicacy, a lightness that belies any affliction of physical distress. Her previous marked series involved playful bruising and ephemeral markings, embellishments left as a residue or remainder on the skin after the jewellery removed, fleeting allusions to experience. There is an afterimage of sorts, likened to a recurrent memory, or a photographic negative. More recently though she has produced increasingly playful works which take false eyelashes to extraordinary lengths or prompt and capture tears leaving no traces on the skin. Unlike the French performance artist Orlan whose highly invasive procedures are likely to shock and transgress, Parbs nudges us gently to contact the everyday, mundane nature of emotion, pain, and fleshy knowledge. Parbs' precise operations with jewellery and temporary attachments act as an emotive collage. She gets under our skin.
By extending the limits of audience participation and viewing through technology, Parbs problematises the limits of the surgically enhanced body. In doing so she questions whether we should interpret this body as authentic and truthful. The work in cosmetic approaches the instruments used in surgery and skin treatments as tools to affect temporary change in direct opposition to surgical procedures. Rather than covering or beautifying the face, clamp exposes gums and teeth whilst contorting lips with an elasticised contraption. Invoking through parody the pearly white Hollywood smile, clenched teeth provide the background in a dramatically set grinning grimace for the camera. Beauty is and has always been a subjective fiction, misleading and unreliable. But within this subjectivity it remains desirable and inescapable. We can shape the world, so why not ourselves? The stakes are high. It is a question of the dubious need to conform to acceptable ideas of beauty sanctioned by the mass media.
When bones fracture, they knit back together but can never return to the same state. Skin has the same restorative properties forming a scar as evidence of the wound. This begs the question if we erase the visible memory present in our bodies, what is left behind? In other words does the emotional rupture heal over once more, leaving us to gaze longingly at the imaginary scar? Cosmetic surgery can dismember any preconceptions we may have of ourselves; it erases the indexical passing of life's events. Evidence of bodily knowledge and memory is wilfully subtracted. This is not always a bad thing; perhaps there is a need to escape our past. But can all things be simply altered for a price, as risk is ignored in the pursuit of a perverse regressive progress? It is important to question the overbearing presence of manufactured bodies, whose sinews and soft tissue dissect natural conceptions of beauty and nature, notions so easily taken for granted. By working so closely with the body Parbs provokes a displacement of the markers by which we define ourselves. The work in cosmetic makes explicit the absurdist nature of cosmetic surgery in contemporary society, whilst exposing a painful construction of identity, under the increasing pressure to conform to unrealistic societal norms.
Daniella Watson 2008
Daniella Watson is a UK based writer, curator and co-director of The Embassy Gallery, Scotland
Photos: Terence Bogue.
Craft ACT is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and all state and territory governments, and also gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance it receives from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian government's arts advisory body. Craft ACT is a member of ACDC, Australian Craft Design Centres.


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Prostate Cancer Prevention
Eat a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables, rich not only in lycopene but in thousands of other protective compounds. Each year, researchers find another carotenoid that has powerful beneficial effects and reduces cancer. Spinach was this year's recipient of the anti-prostate cancer award, with researchers in Japan finding neoxanthin compounds (a class of carotenoids) that powerfully inhibit prostate cancer. In the past, pink grapefruit, watermelon, cooked tomatoes, pomegranate, cruciferous vegetables, red peppers, berries, figs, and many other foods all have been shown to inhibit the development of prostate cancer.Heck, even the so-called "experts" think more cases of prostate cancer can be prevented or so claims the results of a new 15 year study. Alan Mozes of HealthDay News has more:
According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), cancer of the prostate is the most common non-skin cancer among American men. Most patients diagnosed with the disease do not ultimately die of it. However, because of its high prevalence, prostate cancer remains the third biggest cancer killer for men in the Western world.Well, I guess this is encouraging, but, as Dr. Fuhrman explains if you're currently eating a nutrient-rich vegetable-based diet, you're already doing a great job helping your body prevent cancer. Here's Dr. Fuhrman again:
By age 40, one-third of men have already developed small carcinomas of the prostate, the researchers noted. By age 60, that figure rises to 60 percent, and, in North America, one in seven men will develop prostate cancer at some point in their lives.
But the disease is also often slow-moving, sometimes taking decades to develop from a single prostate cancer cell to advanced-stage illness.
That fact has led to the hope that doctors could intervene in ways that could halt disease progression at an early stage.
There is still some controversy about which foods cause which cancers and whether certain types of fat are the culprits with certain cancers, but there's one thing we know for sure; raw vegetables and fresh fruits have powerful anti-cancer agents. Studies have repeatedly shown the correlation between consumption of these foods and a lower incidence of various cancers, including those of the breast, colon, rectum, lung, stomach, prostate, and pancreas.1 This means that your risk of cancer decreases with an increased intake of fruits and vegetables, and the earlier in life you start eating large amounts of these foods, the more protection you get.For more on all this, check out these posts:
Humans are genetically adapted to expect a high intake of natural and unprocessed plant-derived substances. Cancer is a disease of maladaptation. It results primarily from a body's lacking critical substances found in different types of vegetation, many of which are still undiscovered, that are metabolically necessary for normal protective function. Natural foods unadulterated by man are highly complex—so complex that the exact structure and the majority of compounds they contain are not precisely known. A tomato, for example, contains more than ten thousand different phytochemicals.


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Takashi OKIGAWA1),
Daisuke UTSUNOMIYA2),
Satomi TAJIRI1),
Shuichiro OKUMURA1),
Akira SASAO1),
Hirohumi WADA1),
Seitaro ODA2),
Hiroki ARIMURA1),
Eri HAYASHIDA1) 2),
Joji URATA3),
Yasuyuki YAMASHITA2)
1) Diagnostic Imaging Center, Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital
2) Diagnostic Radiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University
3) Diagnostic Radiology, Kumamoto City Hospital
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Purpose: Differences in acute adverse reactions to different gadolinium (Gd)-based contrast agents have not been thoroughly evaluated. We investigated the relationships among the incidence and severity of acute adverse reactions, backgrounds of patients, and 4 types of different Gd-based contrast agents (gadopentetate dimeglumine, gadoteridol, gadoterate meglumine, and gadoxetate disodium).Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the radiological records of 10,595 consecutive patients (4,343 female; 6,252 male; mean age, 63.8 ± 14.0 years) who underwent contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging between August 2006 and March 2011. Adverse reactions were classified as mild, moderate, and severe according to the definition of the American College of Radiology. The incidence of adverse reactions were compared on the basis of clinical characteristics and type, dose, and delivery methods of contrast agents by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses.Results: The incidence of overall reactions was 0.45% (48/10,595); 45 reactions were mild and three were moderate. No severe reactions were observed. Although the incidence of adverse reactions did not differ significantly between male and female patients, younger individuals were at higher risk for acute adverse reactions. The contrast injection rate and contrast dose were not significantly related to the incidence of adverse reactions. The incidence of adverse reactions was significantly higher for gadoxetate disodium (0.82%) than gadopentetate dimeglumine (0.43%).Conclusion: The incidence of acute adverse reactions elicited by Gd-based contrast agents injection was only 0.45%. Younger age was a risk factor for acute reactions. All 4 agents were found to be safe, although gadoxetate disodium showed a relatively higher incidence of adverse reactions.
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Jumpstart and Solaris 10
By user12609114 on Jul 15, 2007
I was recently tasked with upgrading a Netra T1 to Solaris 10. The server has a CDROM, but the latest versions of Solaris come on DVD. Obviously the solution here is to Jumpstart it. Now maybe it is old school so there is no docs on it, or maybe my google searches are just missing it, but I can't find a simple how to do a Jumpstart 101. There is tons of stuff out there on complex Jumpstart environments included Sun's JET. I have found a Sun Blue print for Solaris 8. I am going to follow it and modify for Solaris 10, and see what winds up happening! Following are the steps I took to try and get a Solaris 10 Jumpstart server up and running.
Create Solaris installation image:
cd to /cdrom/sol_10_1106_sparc/s0/Solaris_10/Tools
run ./setup_install_server /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_10_2006-11
Note the naming convention for the directory of the installed media. This way I know what version of Solaris it is. Depending on the speed of your HD and DVD player this step can take quite a while. You are copying over several gigs which is the Solaris OS. My copy took an hour.
Next need to add these dirs to NFS mount. Create a group:
sharemgr create jump
Add a mount to the group:
sharemgr add-share -d "Jumpstart Directory" -p anon=0 -s /jumpstart
JumpStart Client Configuration
To perform a JumpStart, the JumpStart server, must know the ethernet address(MAC) and IP addresses of the
JumpStartclient. This information is provided to the JumpStart server through the use of the /etc/hosts and /etc/ethers files. The add_install_client JumpStart script uses this information to create an entry in the /etc/bootparams file. To simplify this example, the /etc/ethers and /etc/hostsfiles are used for this procedure.
Create an/etc/ethers file, and add the following line:
8:0:20:d9:41:20 js-client01
Add the following line (for the JumpStart client) to the /etc/hostsfile:
192.168.250.21 js-client01
The JumpStart server issues the IPaddress, js-server01 192.168.250.21.
Add the JumpStart client, js-client01, to the JumpStart boot server with
following command:
pwd /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_10_1106_sparc/Solaris_10/Tools
#./add_install_client -c js-server01:/jumpstart js-client01 sun4u
This will get everything set up that needs to be set up on the server, turn on services etc.
At this point you can build out further files and setting to completely automate the jump. This would be a good thing to do if you are jumping a lot of boxes that are the same. Since I am just trying to jump one, I am going to do an interactive install and just jump the box now.
Start the server and from the OpenBoot prompt issue
boot net - install
Like magic the install has worked and I now have Solaris 10 on the Netra!


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John Mayer Wants to Date Sandra Bullock?
"John's latest target – Sandra!" exclaims the headline of an In Touch story, which tries to link John Mayer to Sandra Bullock. Yes, you read that correctly. According to the tabloid, "John is trying hard to get fixed up with Sandra." But the magazine says it's only because he has an ulterior motive. He wants to "repair his reputation, and he thinks that dating America's Sweetheart" will do the trick. Uh huh.
In Touch notes Bullock was "flattered" that Mayer wanted to go out with her, but ultimately turned him down "because she's looking for a relationship and not just a booty call." Got it.
Here's what's right: The spelling of their names. Here's what's wrong: Everything else. No such thing ever happened. Mayer, says a source connected to the singer, did not "target" Bullock. "It's bulls**t," adds the insider.


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I'm running Ubuntu and am setting up a development server for my website. I only want the IP from my workstation to be able to access the website. Is there anyway to setup a firewall rule for this?
Thanks Jason
Yes. The typical way to do this would be in the web server's config; that's where I'd recommend putting it. For Apache:
But, if you're inclined toward blocking connections altogether, you can do that, too. Ubuntu provides a simplified iptables interface called UFW:


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The snow has begun in the return of the polar vortex. Throughout the Northeast, travel is delayed and temperatures are dangerously low. Massachusetts is no exception.
The State of the State address was canceled, along with many activities. In Western Massachusetts, National Grid has has already issued a warning to customers in need of electronically powered medical equipment that the power may be interrupted. The area is under a winter weather advisory until 1 p.m. Wednesday.
It is advisable to stay indoors in these conditions. Standard transit, as well as paratransit, may be delayed. Transit stops and sidewalks may be unsholveled. This might be the perfect time to try Peapod or another grocery delivery service. Many of these have no charge delivery. Be sure to call or check the website of anywhere you might be going to insure the location is open and the event is still happening.
Tomorrow is shaping up to be a day devoted to reading that book you've wanted, calling your long lost friend, or leveling up in World of Warcraft. Many schools and businesses are preemptively closing due to Janus.
Stay safe! Take care of yourself and those around you.


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Jul 14, 2011
Out of curiosity as to what Friendster folks is doing, I take a visit at the site. When the site loads up I saw a newly designed Friendster website that has a clean and cool interface. Though it's currently in beta stage, it was totally different with the previous look and feel before the site goes down for overhauling. Then I tried to look around by logging in. I almost forgot my password but after attempting several times, I finally get in. On your first login, you will be ask to change your default profile picture or 'avatar'. You can do this by uploading a file or choosing from the list of pictures already provided by the site. The default pictures are cool enough if you don't have one save on your computer.
During my stay, one question crossed my mind. What will I do in this site? When I saw 'Explore Games', I finally got the notion of Friendster is becoming like Facebook. There are plenty of games to choose from and just like playing FarmVille on Facebook, you can play those games with your online friends. What's more (though I'm not sure) is that 'Rewards' will allow us to buy something from the internet.
I get this hint because MOL or Money Online which is the current owner of Friendster, has a flagship product of MOLPoints. This is the leading virtual currency across Asia for online games and digital products. MOL is also linked online to 88 banks in 9 countries worldwide. If what I'm thinking will become possible, we can earn money just by playing online and having fun.
For the first time, maybe I'll try playing games hosted by Friendster. Who knows? The idea of monetizing 'Rewards' could become a reality someday. =P


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On March 27, 2014, Manalapan health Examiner Stacey Chillemi researched how healthy the food is at Taco Bell. An interview with USA Today news showed that Taco Bello isn't really healthy at all. However, Taco Bell claims they are becoming more health conscious and here are some of the promises that they made in their interview to USA Today.
Taco Bell is changing up their menu in an effort to draw in health-conscious customers. However, any health conscious eater who likes Taco Bell is going to have to wait a bit to eat one of their healthy meals, since the changes are not going to take effect until 2020.
The company told USA Today in an interview that it plans to have 20 percent of its combo meals, which includes a main dish, a side dish and a beverage, meet one-third of the federal government's recommended daily nutritional guidelines by the year 2020.
"Our customer tastes and needs are evolving," Greg Creed, CEO at Taco Bell, told USA Today. "They want more balanced options."
In my opinion, all they want is more customers because more customers mean more money. All these fast food joints panicked when sales started dropping due to a society that has quickly begun to become more health conscious.
The company's new nutritional strategy will impact how it develops new products. In the past, Taco Bell focused on keeping costs down. Now, Creed says, they will also have to factor in meeting nutritional goals.
The chain will begin testing healthier products this year, and may launch some nationally in 2014, Creed says.
Taco Bell has already been making an effort to cut back on sodium. In the past few years, Taco Bell has reduced sodium in its food on average by 20 percent, a company nutritionist, Missy Schaaphok, told USA Today. For example, they let customers substitute pico de gallo for sauce or cheese on its Fresco menu items.
However, the Taco Bell Cantina Burrito with steak packs 28 grams of fat and 1,900 milligrams of sodium into a 780-calorie entrée. An order of Volcano Nachos will set you back 980 calories, with 58 grams of fat and 1,670 milligrams of sodium. The government recommends that adults who eat 2,000 calories a day have no more than 65 grams of fat and 2,400 milligrams of sodium.
Robyn Flipse, a registered dietician and nutritionist, told USA Today that while she supports their efforts, it might be a lost cause.


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Feb. 23, 2013
Alabama Game Notes
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -
The women's basketball team (12-14, 2-11 SEC) will play its final home game of the month when it hosts Florida (15-12, 4-9 SEC) on Sunday. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m. CT in Foster Auditorium.
The Crimson Tide and Gators will be meeting for the 53rd time overall and second time this season as Alabama and Florida faced each other on Feb. 3, in Gainesville. The Gators won the previous contest by an 87-54 decision. Alabama leads the series, 29-23; however Florida has claimed three of the last four meetings.
Last time out, the Tide fell, 75-51, at Mississippi State, for its seventh straight loss. Redshirt sophomore Kaneisha Horn led Alabama in scoring with 16 points, in addition to eight rebounds, two blocks and one steal while senior Meghan Perkins collected a team-high 10 rebounds and four blocks.
Over its last seven games, Alabama has struggled offensively, managing an average of 58.3 points, shooting 32.1 percent from the floor. Sophomore Daisha Simmons continues to lead the Tide in scoring with an average of 12.8 points per game. She is followed by junior Shafontaye Myers, who adds 11.5 points per contest. Horn has been Alabama's top rebounder thus far, pulling down 5.5 boards per contest while Perkins adds another 5.4 rebounds.
Florida has lost its last three games by an average of 7.6 points to teams at the top of the league, including Texas A&M, Georgia, and most recently, Vanderbilt. In Thursday's loss to the Commodores, the Gators shot 40 percent; however Vanderbilt took advantage of its 22 trips to the free throw line, connecting on 16 extra-point attempts. Florida was led by senior Jennifer George and freshman Sydney Moss, who both had doubles-doubles as George finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds while Moss added 15 points and 10 rebounds.
For the season, the Gators have three players averaging double digits, led by George (12.2 ppg) and junior Jaterra Bonds (12.1 ppg). In addition, Moss chips in 10.0 points per contest. George also leads Florida in rebounds (8.0 rpg), blocks (1.5 bpg) and steals (2.0 spg).
Sunday's game can be listened to on the Crimson Tide Sports Network. In addition, fans can follow the team's official Twitter page @AlabamaWBB for in-game updates.