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German multicenter study investigating 177Lu-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy in advanced prostate cancer patients
(177)Lutetium labeled PSMA-617 is a promising new therapeutic agent for radioligand therapy (RLT) of patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Initiated by the German Society of Nuclear Medicine a retrospective multicenter data analysis was started in 2015 to evaluate efficacy and safety of (177)Lu-PSMA-617 in a large cohort of patients.
145 patients (median age 73 years, range 43-88) with mCRPC were treated with (177)Lu-PSMA-617 in 12 therapy centres between February 2014 and July 2015 with one to four therapy cycles and an activity range of 2 to 8 GBq per cycle. Toxicity was categorized by the common toxicity criteria for adverse events (CTCAE 4.0) based on serial blood tests and the attending physician's report. Primary endpoint for efficacy was biochemical response as defined by a PSA decline ≥ 50% from baseline to at least two weeks after start of RLT.
A total of 248 therapy cycles were performed in 145 patients. Data for biochemical response were available in 99 patients and data for physician-reported/lab-based toxicity in 145/121 patients. The median follow-up was 16 weeks (range 2-30 weeks). Nineteen patients died during the observation period. Grade 3 to 4 hematotoxicity occurred in 18 patients: 10%, 4% and 3% of the patients experienced anemia, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia, respectively. Xerostomia occurred in 8%. Overall biochemical response rate was 45% following all therapy cycles, while 40% of patients already responded after a single cycle. Elevated alkaline phosphatase and presence of visceral metastases were negative predictors and the total number of therapy cycles positive predictors of biochemical response.
The present retrospective multicenter study of (177)Lu-PSMA-617 RLT demonstrates favorable safety and high efficacy exceeding those of other third line systemic therapies in mCRPC patients. Future Phase II/III studies are warranted to elucidate the survival benefit of this new therapy in patients with mCRPC.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine. 2016 Oct 20 [Epub ahead of print]
Kambiz Rahbar, Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar, Clemens Kratochwil, Uwe Haberkorn, Michael Schäfers, Markus Essler, Richard P Baum, Harshad R Kulkarani, Matthias Schmidt, Peter Bartenstein, Andreas Pfestroff, Ulf Lützen, Marlies Marx, Vikas Prasad, Winfried Brenner, Alexander Heinzel, Juri Ruf, Philipp Tobias Meyer, Martin Heuschkel, Maria Eveslage, Martin Bögemann, Wolfgang Peter Fendler, Bernd Joachim Krause
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany., University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany., University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Germany., Theranostics Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Universe of Marburgl, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Charite, University Hospital Berlin, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Rostock, Germany., Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, University of Muenster, Germany., Department of Urology, University Hospital Muenster, Germany., German Society of Nuclear Medicine, Germany.
Tags: Prostate Cancer, mCRPC, Oncology: GU, Genitourinary, Radionuclide therapy, radioligand therapy, PSMA-617


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DO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL? (Emir Kusturíca, 1981)
February 3, 2007 · by grunes
Although it lacks his later magic realism, Emir Kusturíca's Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell), in Serbo-Croatian, is a deeply satisfying, heartaching film about a Sarajevo family in the early 1960s, during the time of Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia. It is especially about sixteen-year-old Dino (Slavko Stimac, sweet, charming, perfect), the Zolje family's second-oldest of four children, whose coming of age involves a blonde-wigged stripper and prostitute who goes by the name of Dolly Bell. Kusturíca, a Bosnian Muslim like the Zoljes, has said that the film is partly autobiographical.
The family head is Maho, a head waiter who bears indignities well. While waiting for decent state housing that never materializes, Maho and his family live in a one-room apartment dominated by the kitchen table. Maho, wife and daughter sleep in one bed; the three boys, including Dino, in the other. Maho loses his temper a bit when his eldest son disciplines Dino for smoking a cigarette; "No one does any belting here but me!" Maho isn't really harsh or strict; he is gruff. He is a true Communist believer who keeps waiting for true Communism to kick in and transform all their lives. In the meantime, he religiously peppers his conversations with Communist catch phrases, but these utterances are more reflexive than reflective; what does Maho believe? He chides Dino for pursuing hypnosis, but, when stricken with lung cancer and dying, he tells his son that hypnosis is good. One has to negotiate drab Yugoslav life any way one can. Dino helps roll over his father for an injection from his nurse. At that moment Maho's face reflects a lifetime of disappointment, humiliation and forbearance. I am adjudging Slobodan Aligrudic 1981's best supporting actor for his bone-deep, ultimately heartbreaking performance as Maho Zolje.
Perhaps my favorite moment in the film is the one in which father and son share a smoke together. Dino, like his brothers, is forbidden to smoke, but you know kids. Maho certainly knows his kids. He is on the threshold of dying and Dino, his favorite, I think, is on the threshold of being an adult. The two are seated alone together and Maho is smoking a cigarette. He invites Dino to smoke a cigarette, too. "I don't smoke," Dino remarks, not out of fear of punishment, but in a gallant gesture of filial respect about as touching as anything I've seen in any film. But Maho exceeds his son in gallantry: "I know," he says, giving his son a cigarette and lighting it with his own. Well practiced in the craft of smoking, Dino doesn't cough; he and the man he dearly loves, who is slipping out of his young life, share a piece of eternity together that may calm prodigious misfortunes ahead.
But Kusturíca's film is essentially a comedy—a comedy elastic enough to incorporate life's tragedies. "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better": this is the self-hypnotic mantra that Dino and one of his friends ritualistically repeat aloud in unison to counteract life's bleakness for youth in Sarajevo. Dino may be having better luck applying hypnosis to himself than when he tries it out on his pet rabbit, who will have none of it. Here is a boy who wants to believe in something; just maybe he can believe in himself. Earlier, his father set the path, humorously catching himself in extolling "private, er, I mean, public initiative." Dino does not want to have to catch himself—to monitor himself. He just wants to be able to be. Listening to Western rock 'n' roll and, better yet, playing in a rock-'n'-roll band at the community culture club permit him to be himself. Dino isn't a rebel with or without a cause; he is a kid wanting to be a kid—not, like his father, an old and ailing man before his time. And being a sixteen-year-old kid means he wants to prove himself to himself as well. That's where Dolly Bell comes in.
Dolly is named after a stripper in a movie that Dino saw at the club. Sonny is a pimp. Like the young Kusturíca, Dino somehow gets involved with petty criminal elements, and Sonny ends up paying him to keep Dolly hidden in the upper level of the Zolje family shed. Amidst the flutter of pigeons, Dino and Dolly become friends. Testing the value of his property, Sonny arranges for a flock of horny boys, including Dino, to mount the ladder to the upper loft, one by one, to have sex with Dolly. Dino wants her most of all but, in one of his acts of gallantry, only pretends to be having sex with her, sparing her at least one leg of what is an orderly gang rape. Tactfully, Kusturíca keeps his camera below; and, as boy after boy proceeds to nirvana, Dino's face registers utter helplessness at being unable to counter Dolly's predicament. Waves of dust stream down through the upper planks as boys "have" Dolly and Dino listens and watches below. The sheer loveliness of the sight is ironic counterpoint to the horror of the event. On another occasion Dino really does have sex with Dolly because they both want to make love with one another, and again Kusturíca keeps his camera discreet. What Kusturíca shows is what follows: Dino standing up to Sonny when the latter begins beating Dolly. Dino takes the beating; and Kusturíca's showing it suggests that this, not Dino's loss of virginity, is what he considers to be Dino's passage from boyhood to manhood. But this "passage" must remain incomplete unless Dino knows what we know, that this gallant gesture of his has only interrupted the cruelty to which Dolly is fated to endure at Sonny's hands. Later, wearing the bruises of the altercation, he lies to his family, bragging he got the better of Sonny. His overcompensation for at least partial defeat suggests, to me, he is privately coping with the truth.
A more decisive passage is Maho's death. Once he has passed from life, his eldest sons, following Islamic custom, carefully set his body down on the floor. "He was a Communist!" barks a family friend, who has brought over the bicycle that Maho has arranged for his youngest son to have as a father's meager, infinitely loving legacy. The tonal complexity of the scene is remarkable, especially when his sons undo the ritualistic gesture and restore their father's corpse to the bed. Kusturíca seems to be taking a satirical swipe in both directions, at Communism and Islam, deftly, humorously. How can that be? It helps to know something about Kusturíca's background. Kusturíca's ancestry is Serbian, that is to say, Orthodox Christian. After the Ottoman invasion in the fifteenth century, these ancestors had Islam impressed upon them, much as, centuries later, Communism was politically impressed upon them. Closest to the camera in both the action and its mirror-image reverse, moving his father's body from bed to floor and, then, from floor back to bed, Dino is the key figure in these shots, and indeed Dino, if you will, Kusturíca's surrogate, is the film's central vehicle for the idea of untangling one's life from all the outside forces that have been imposed upon it—forces that, over time, become part of the foundation of one's life, whether one likes this circumstance or not.
Kusturíca, who was all of a decade older than Dino when he made the film (his first feature, after a number of shorts), has stated that he aimed at steering its material away from politics in order to focus on human elements involving family and community. But politics nonetheless asserts itself everywhere, if only as an invisible force permeating Kusturíca's unaffected, muted, mostly naturalistic shots. (Hardly the later Kusturíca style, is it?!) Indeed, Sonny's pimping of Dolly Bell, which in some other context might seem a capitalistic intrusion, functions here, primarily, as a metaphor for all kinds of modern slavery that undermine an individual's right to self-determination. I know what Kusturíca has said; I watched him say it in an interview excerpted on my DVD of Do You Remember Dolly Bell? But, for me, everything in the film returns to politics.
The final two shots are at least as existential as they are political, though. In the penultimate shot, perhaps the most brilliant one in the film, Dino is among those in the back of the truck as the family, following Maho's death, moves on. They have been reduced to the bare bones of existence, nearly everything having been necessarily sold. Where are they going? Let's say the future. As it is jolted back and forth by the rockiness of the road, Dino's face is devastating to take in. Dino has lost his father, several kinds of innocence, his rock-'n'-roll band, and his friends, including Dolly Bell. The final shot is a long-shot of Sarajevo. Did we not understand all along that Kusturíca's film is a portrait of a city as well as the portrait of a boy, his family, his friends?
At Venice, Kusturíca won two prizes for his Dolly Bell: the international critics' prize and the prize for best first film. He also won the critics' prize at São Paulo.
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Parenteral drug solutions
ISSUE 6 DECEMBER
Andrew Montanari, Peter Murney
Montanari A, Murney P. Parenteral drug solutions. Aust Prescr 2008;31:143-5. https://doi.org/10.18773/austprescr.2008.082
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Editor, – Many thanks for the excellent article about compatibilities of parenteral drug solutions (Aust Prescr 2008;31:98-101), written from a pharmacy point of view. It certainly contains much practical information for everyday clinical practice, but it might be helpful to add a few extra points from a clinical perspective.
Table 1 shows an incompatibility between lignocaine 2% and sodium bicarbonate solution. In practice, however, the two substances make an excellent marriage; the intense stinging of local anaesthetic injections is markedly reduced by mixing the two. The only problem (in practice) is that left to stand for a few minutes, crystals do form and can block fine needles. The practice is well known and has stood the test of decades.
It is also noted that diazepam precipitates in water. Is this really the case or could the cloudiness be an innocent emulsion? In any case, dilute diazepam (for example 10 mg in 10 mL saline) has been given intravenously for years and works very well. It is standard practice and certainly far easier to titrate than the 10 mg in 1 mL in the ampoule.
The article states that phenytoin must not be diluted as it will precipitate. With its extreme pH of 12, intravenous injection of phenytoin is made easier and less irritating by dilution in saline. Although not described in the product information, it is thankfully normal practice. 'Phenytoin - must be diluted in 0.9% saline (rather than dextrose) to avoid crystallization'.1
Andrew Montanari
Merewether, NSW
Author's comments
Mr Peter Murney, author of the article, comments:
Lignocaine hydrochloride is an acidic solution (pH = 2.3) which causes pain upon injection. Adding sodium bicarbonate injection to raise the pH and reduce pain is widely practised and supported by a wealth of literature. Nonetheless, the solutions are incompatible and mixing them precipitates lignocaine from its hydrochloride salt. Intradermal injection of suspended lignocaine crystals is of no concern as lignocaine has no local toxicity and will absorb into tissue eventually.
However, intravenous injection of precipitated particulate matter concerns me as I suspect it would many other health practitioners. Diazepam injections are painful, probably because of venous irritation from the propylene glycol/ethanol/water solvent system. Appropriately slow administration of the small volume may also be difficult. There is no component of the mixture which would produce an emulsion and the haze is probably due to precipitated microcrystalline or colloidal diazepam. After 24 hours, the diluted solution clears with deposition of a thin oily film (presumably diazepam) on the syringe barrel. At a total mass of 10 mg, it is unlikely to cause harm upon injection and should rapidly redissolve in plasma. Larger amounts of precipitated drug may result in an embolism of precipitated drug sludge although I could find only one report of an associated fatality.
While some references support addition of phenytoin to normal saline infusion solution for short periods, the diversity of stability studies is disconcerting with some reporting presence of suspended crystals immediately after addition to the bag. Contrary to the current product information, a number of institutional protocols permit addition to a saline infusion bag but generally specify use of an in-line filter to remove crystals.
Slow administration of undiluted injection solutions can be facilitated with spring-loaded devices which, with a flow restrictor fitted to the syringe, allow administration of a specified volume over a specified time.
Kelso AR, Cock HR. Status epilepticus. Pract Neurol 2005;5:322-33. \r\nhttp://pn.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/5/6/322.pdf [cited 2008 Nov 10]
General practitioner, Merewether, NSW
Peter Murney


New York Prime Beef says they sell the best steak on the planet. "It's not a humble statement; I'm aware of that, but I believe it," says founder Vinny Pacifico. "If you can't tell me that's the best steak on the planet we didn't do our job. If somebody is going to put down a $200, $400, $600 dollar bottle of wine for dinner, don't you think they want the best steak? It just goes hand in hand. That's who we're going after." The company dry-ages their steaks in a new state-of-the-art facility in the Bronx. Their butchers, the best in the country, custom cut each order, which they ship via Federal Express anywhere in the world.
In their first year, they turned to the Hamptons to get their name out, partnering on luxury events with Rolls Royce, Maserati, Ferrari and other brands. "The Hamptons is where these people are in the summer that can afford this kind of product," says Tanner.


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West Imboden
American Steam merchant
Name West Imboden
Completed 1919 - Columbia River Shipbuilding Corp, Portland OR
Owner Seas Shipping Co Inc, New York
Homeport Portland
Date of attack 21 Apr 1942 Nationality: American
Fate Sunk by U-752 (Karl-Ernst Schroeter)
Position 41° 14'N, 65° 55'W - Grid CB 1677
Complement 35 (0 dead and 35 survivors).
Route Durban - Port Elizabeth - Capetown - Trinidad - Boston, Massachusetts
Cargo 7357 tons of general cargo
History Built for US Maritime Commission, Washington DC, later laid up as part of the reserve fleet.
At 04.48 hours on 21 April 1942 the unescorted and unarmed West Imboden (Master Anton Anderson) was hit on the starboard side forward of the #1 hold by one of two torpedoes from U-752 about 175 miles east of Nantucket Lightship. The U-boat then surfaced, began shelling the ship and scored two hits before the eight officers and 27 crewmen abandoned ship in two lifeboats. In about two hours, the Germans fired over 35 shells into the ship, setting her on fire and then questioned the survivors, asking if anyone was killed. When the chief mate replied "No", a German officer replied "That´s good, what ship?" and the U-boat left the area after receiving the answer. The survivors were picked up on 22 April by USS Bristol (DD 453) and landed them at Portland, Maine.
On board We have details of 3 people who were on board.


No more having to change your spotlight to your floodlight headlamp, the new Fenix HP25R rechargeable head torch has it all. Reaching in with 1000 lumen reach, the HP25R is one of the brightest head torches in its category. With two beam opportunities, the Fenix HP25R will enable you to see afar with the cool white for high illumination and with detail contrast and visibility for faraway distance, neutral white for wide angle clarity for close surroundings and puncturing through the fog.


……a premature, born before my time to my mother..
…although I still feared heights. Something which made me wonder what life in the forest would look like for me.
It wasn't until recently that I was actually cleared to be taken out there… I didn't know or remember who my other was since I was hand raised by care givers.Chimps really freaked the hell out of me but then again I was one.This actually was my first day out there as a 1 year old boy, scared of what life would be.
This is Sara my big sister, she loves me so much!!
The party has began here at Ngamba Island and these kids here came all the way from Ambrosoli International School to celebrate with me.


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US Says Border Crossing Didn't Have Room for Asylum Seekers
A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants, peers from a bus carrying the group to the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, April 29, 2018. The sign reads in Spanish: We're all brother countries from the Americas. Free transit. S
TIJUANA, MEXICO - After traveling through Mexico with great fanfare for a month under the Trump administration's watchful eye, nearly 200 Central American migrants attempting to seek asylum in the United States were stopped in their tracks when border inspectors said that a crossing facility didn't have enough space to accommodate them.
Trump vowed last week to "stop'' the caravan while Cabinet members said they would deliver a swift response. The asylum seekers held firm, setting up a possible showdown.
In an anticlimactic twist, about 50 asylum seekers were allowed past a gate controlled by Mexican officials to walk across a long bridge but were stopped at the entrance to the U.S. inspection facility at the other end. They were allowed to wait outside the building, technically on Mexican soil, without word of when U.S. officials would let them claim asylum.
Another 50 or so camped on blankets and backpacks in Tijuana outside the Mexican side of the crossing, prohibited from even getting close to the U.S. inspection building.
The asylum-seekers began the day with anticipation, traveling in red-and-white school buses under police escort to a beachfront rally in Tijuana, where a steel fence juts out into the Pacific Ocean. They sang the Honduran national anthem, and supporters on the San Diego side of the fence waved a Honduran flag.
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Members of the Central American migrants caravan arrive at the "El Chaparral" pedestrian crossing on their way to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, April 29, 2018. (A. Martinez/VOA)
After a final briefing from lawyers and minutes before they were to begin a short walk to the border crossing, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan announced that the San Ysidro border crossing, the nation's busiest, had "reached capacity'' for people without legal documents and that asylum-seekers may need to wait in Mexico temporarily.
Trump has commented frequently on the caravan since it started in Mexico on March 25 near the Guatemala border and headed north to Tijuana. His broadsides came as his administration vowed to end what officials call "legal loopholes'' and "catch-and-release'' policies that allow people requesting asylum to be released from custody into the U.S. while their claims make their way through the courts, which can take years.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called the caravan "a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system.'' Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said asylum claims will be resolved "efficiently and expeditiously'' and warned that anyone making false claims could be prosecuted.
The administration's stern warnings left organizers in disbelief that border inspectors were not ready for them.
"They have been well aware that a caravan is going to arrive at the border,'' Nicole Ramos, an attorney working on behalf of caravan members, said at a news conference. "The failure to prepare and failure to get sufficient agents and resources is not the fault of the most vulnerable among us. We can build a base in Iraq in under a week. We can't process 200 refugees. I don't believe it.''
The San Ysidro border inspection facility can hold about 300 people, according to Pete Flores, Customs and Border Protection's San Diego field office director, suggesting the bottleneck may be short-lived. The agency processed about 8,000 asylum cases from October through February, or about 50 a day.
Asylum-seekers are typically held for up to three days at the border and then turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If they pass an asylum officer's initial screening, they may be detained or released into the U.S. with ankle monitors.
Asylum seekers didn't appear to be thrown off the by the delay.
Wendi Yaneri Garcia said she was confident she will be released while her asylum case is pending because she is traveling alone with her 2-year-old son, who has been sick. She said that police in her hometown of Atlantida, Honduras, jailed her for protesting construction of a hydroelectric plant and that she received death threats after being released.
"All I want is a place where I can work and raise my son,'' the 36-year-old said.
Elin Orrellana, a 23-year-old pregnant woman from El Salvador, said she is fleeing the violent MS-13 street gang, a favorite target of both Sessions and Trump because of their brutal killings in communities in the United States. She said her older sister had been killed by the gang in El Salvador, so she is attempting to join other family members in the Kansas City area.
"Fighting on is worth it,'' she said as she camped out for chilly night outside the border crossing.
Caravan Migrants Mull Next Move at US-Mexico Border
Members of a Central American migrant caravan that drew the wrath of President Donald Trump during its month-long journey through Mexico to the U.S. border faced hard choices on Sunday, as they decided whether to cross illegally into the United States, ask for asylum at the border or try to remain in Mexico.U.S. border authorities said Saturday that some people associated with the caravan had already been caught trying to slip through the fence and encouraged the rest to hand…
Trump Threatens Shutdown over Border Wall Funding
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down the government later this year if Congress does not approve enough funding for border security, including money to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Last month, Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that keeps the government open until the end of September. Speaking at a campaign rally Saturday in Washington Township, Michigan, the president said the Congressional spending bill vote will come…


Lulzsec & The Jester Expose each other, Long Live Anonymous ! - Think Information. Think Security.
Lulzsec & The Jester Expose each other, Long Live Anonymous !
They may have something in common. Both LulzSec and Anonymous are hackers in their own rights, but it does not mean that they will come along together for a common cause.
This only goes to show that a revolution cannot be won by individuals who in the first place have never understood the ideology that they are fighting for and ego is at primary stake.
Lulz war ! Today Hacking group "Lulzsec" completed their 50th day and also announce the retirement of Lulz boat. What are the Reasons behind this ? Lulz Security's rise to prominence has been extraordinarily fast. The hacking group first emerged in May and in the past few weeks has attacked the websites of some of the world's leading corporations and governments. The group specialises in locating websites with poor security and then stealing information from them and posting it online via Twitter account, well They get 278,429 Followers also in 50days.
To understand who/what lulzsec is, you need to understand where they came from. Everything originates from the chan (4chan/711chan/etc.) culture. It's a culture built around the anonymity of the internet. If your anonymous no one can find you. No one can hurt you, so your invincible.
According to Anonymous "The problem with Lulzsec is that they lack the skills to keep it going. As such after SONY they couldn't get into anything. So they switched their focus to just releasing random crap that didn't mean anything. Then they started running out of things they could hack. So they put out requests for people to join them. That got them a few hits, and now they've switched their gears again to be ANTI-SEC".
Sabu, Topiary , Kayla , gn0sis , Uncommon, EEKDACAT.
LULZSEC skills : We have seen that Lulzsec mostly hack random targets which are vulnerable and easily available on net. Now just check the Defacement section of "The hacker news" , you will get so much talented hackers of world, Then why these guys are not having millions of followers ? Why these Indian, Pakistani and Albanian hackers don't get attention of Big media sites ? Its all because there aim is never to get Fame, they are testing their own skills and Learning from real world. Even PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) & Writerspace Hacked Again by Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe) . According to Warv0x (AKA Kaihoe) "This wasn't done for fame or fun, just proving LulzSec aren't as good as they think they are. I haven't rooted the box or been up to crack the hashes, I'm just proving that most of their attacks are very lame and basic (i'm pretty sure and automated) SQL injections and further privilege escalation, which is just matter of time." He also said "Support for WebNinjas & Jester, good job at exposing them.Sad to mention, but I really agree with th3j35t3r & WebNinjas - LulzSec are just a bunch of script kiddies..."
Daniel Rhodes-Mumby and Richard Fontaine are friends from school (check their facebooks).
Married to Melissa Scott - LESBOZ!!!
Richard Fontaine is also deaf and wears a hearing aid.
EE Uses those Busy Box Bounces that were dropped in the lulzsec/gn0sis private channel logs (which were leaked).
bounce: 89-38-2-102.tcnet.com.br (189.38.2.102) Hacked Busy Box IP (from Nigg).
We back hacked him all the way back to his Home IP in Sartoga NY.
Now this kid actually hacks stuff. He goes around and does his little google query hacking thing. Fing's his SQLinjections. He then goes and downloads the databases. This is the kid who helped Uncommon with the attack on Gawker.
- oneechan.org: setup as "trans support"
His real name is TOM.
He is a minor hacker in the group. He is the one who got all the stolen routers that everyone is using.
His real name is Peter. He claims to be Trans Gendered.
He doesn't really do anything except have gender identity issues.
Probably the lamest one of the bunch. He doesn't actually do anything except give interviews.
There are plenty of logs of him all over the internet being a complete idiot. His "d0x" are all over the internet also. He tries to deny it but there are logs of him bitching about being d0x'ed int he #hq logs that Laurelai leaked.
And here's the official signing-off message of LulzSec posted at Pastebin.
For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It's what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.
While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.
Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.
So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.
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Why some people attract more mosquitoes than others
by: CNN Wire
Posted: May 8, 2015 / 09:14 AM EDT
Updated: May 8, 2015 / 09:14 AM EDT
(CNN) — With the exception of maybe a mosquito's mother, the world is unified in its hatred of the little buggers. But the world seems divided by those the bugs ignore and those who too often become the blood soup du jour. This may seem random, but scientist say there is a real reason for it: blame your parents.
For the first time, scientists discovered a possible genetic reason why some of us are mosquito magnets, at least according to a pilot study from the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine. It's published in the recent edition of PLOS ONE.
To figure this out, scientists released Aedes aegypti, also known as dengue mosquitoes, into a tube. The tube was divided into two sections. The bugs were essentially given a choice to swipe left or swipe right and fly down either side.
At the other end of the tube were a pair of twins. Eighteen identical and 19 nonidentical female twins volunteered to be mosquito meat. With these pairs, scientists saw a difference in who the bugs chose. When the twins were identical, the two would either be equally attractive or not attractive to the mosquitoes. When the twins were not identical, the choice varied.
That, scientists say, suggests there is a genetic component to the mosquito law of attraction. Identical twins have identical genes. With fraternal twins, there are differences.
This gene that makes people more attractive might influence how someone smells to the insect.
This research builds on earlier studies that show a person's body odor may play a role in who gets bitten more. Earlier studies have found people with a particular type and volume of bacteria that naturally occurs on skin may make people more of a target. Same with people with Type O blood, which is linked to a particular odorant marker in sweat.
Pregnant women sweat more because pregnancy raises their average body temperature about 1.26 degrees, so they are bitten more often. The same has been shown with people who are heavier.
Knowing how this works will not keep you safe from the little buggers this summer, scientists need to do more research. But eventually, this may mean researchers could figure out a way to neutralize this particular odor, if that's what the mosquitoes like. This could mean fewer mosquito bites, and it may mean fewer cases of yellow fever and dengue since these particular bugs are often the carriers of these viruses.
In the meantime, Missy Henriksen from the National Pest Management Association suggests people wear the bug repellent that is on the market any time you go outside.
"We've gotten pretty good about sun screen, but people need to get better about protecting themselves against insects as well, since mosquitoes are more than just a nuisance. They carry disease."
Henriksen and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend using products that have one of four active ingredients.
Check the label for DEET, picaridin, IR3535 and/or lemon eucalyptus and para-methane-diol products. These products are effective, and they are registered with the EPA (meaning the EPA believes the chemical will only hurt the mosquitoes not you).
Henriksen also suggests you may want to wear shirts with long sleeves and long pants if you can stand it in the heat of summer.
"Bugs (are less likely to) bite what they can't access," she said.
And hopefully someday, bugs won't be able to suck what they can't smell.
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Girls Basketball Preview: Notre Dame Titans
Lady Titans get defensive for another banner year
By Paul Boggs - pboggs@aimmediamidwest.com
The 2019-20 Notre Dame Titans girls basketball team.
Courtesy of MRD Images
PORTSMOUTH — What happens when your all-around offensive (and defensive) ace graduates?
For the Notre Dame Lady Titans, you get more defensive.
That's the mindset for the defending Southern Ohio Conference Division I and Southeast District Division IV girls basketball champion, as the Lady Titans — following the graduation of Southeast District Division IV Player of the Year Katie Detwiller — turn to their defense and perimeter play for continued success this season.
J.D. McKenzie, the Titans' 10-year head coach, made it known that the Lady Titans — following last seasons's stellar 24-2 campaign and second consecutive district championship — take a different approach to winning this year.
Notre Dame dominated opponents for a second straight undefeated SOC I title, as the Lady Titans have lost just three games in two years — two of them being regional semifinals and the other, at the time, an undefeated Division II Waynesville (34-27) club at last year's Tackett's Body Shop Shootout in Ironton.
"We have some people which can guard. I think right now the biggest thing is getting them into shape where they can guard for 32 minutes. At the beginning of the year last year, we were probably good for about three quarters. Then that stretched out as the season went. Right now, I don't know how good we would be for a half. We want to get guarding full-court the whole way. That's what we harp on. Making it tough on somebody for 32 minutes every night," said McKenzie. "Our mindset is we don't want anybody to ever look forward to having to play us."
Most teams prefer to avoid Notre Dame, as the six-foot four-inch Detwiller was the Southeast District Division IV POY — averaging 16 points per game.
Notre Dame also graduated Clara Hash and Baylee Webb, but Detwiller was the most glaring of graduations — in terms of her scoring, rebounding and shot-blocking abilities.
Detwiller's sister, six-foot junior Claire, and Lauren Campbell — a 5-9 senior — are expected to fill that void, but defense becomes so much more important.
"Losing Katie (Detwiller) is losing that anchor in the middle and that basket protector. You lose obviously the scoring of points, blocking of shots and rebounding the basketball. We're not going to block as many shots or change as many shots, so we have to be better defensively on the perimeter," said McKenzie. "Maybe take a few less chances in the half-court set than before, but I think the girls have the right mindset defensively."
While the Lady Titans are indeed a veteran group, their experience is in their guard play — with first-team all-district Ava Hassel (5-5, jr.) and second-team all-district Taylor Schmidt (5-5, jr.) leading the way.
Hassel averaged 11.2 points per game as a sophomore, while Schmidt managed 8.3.
"They've been really good leadership-wise. Those two primarily handle the basketball, run the court, set the tone defensively and bring a lot of energy," said McKenzie.
Two other guards, Isabella Cassidy (5-8, jr.) and Olivia Smith (5-6, sr.), made Special Mention all-Southeast District — as Claire Detwiller will be the tallest Titan on the team at six-foot.
Notre Dame sports five seniors, including 5-9 forward Paetyn Collins and 5-6 guard Cassie Schaefer, but again — it's all about defense, defense, defense.
"Claire Detwiller, fundamentally, is one of the best defenders I've ever coached. She can guard all five spots on the court, brings a ton of energy, has a relentless attitude, plays her butt off. Then Olivia (Smith) is one of the best on-ball defenders I've seen and can make anybody have a nightmare night," said McKenzie. "I think we're going to be good defensively again like we have been in the past."
That perimeter play also extends to the offensive end — with juniors Chloe Delabar (5-9) and Ashley Holtgrewe (5-6), freshmen Charlee Lansing (5-6), Annie Detwiller (6-1) and Kamryn Bradford (5-7), and sophomore Mollie Creech (5-5).
"You're probably going to see us shoot more from the outside than we have in the past and attack the basket from the perimeter more than we have in the past. We're going to get a lot of the points from our post players with our guards penetrating, getting into the paint and dropping it off to them. Whereas before, Katie would post up with her back to the basket and we'd toss it in to her," said McKenzie. "Our philosophy hasn't changed. It's how we go about putting the ball in the bucket that will be different. We're going to try to fly down the court offensively and pressure you defensively."
The Lady Titans have, however, had to make a quick transition from their successful district champion volleyball season to the basketball floor.
Basketball began practice the week that many of these same Lady Titans took part in the regional volleyball tournament.
"I feel like we are improving every day, but it's been a slow start with all the stuff we're trying to get in. We're trying to get in shape and get the volleyball legs out and get the basketball legs in. We're implementing some new things we're going to try this year. It's going slowly. We kind of feel more pressure each day. Each day that goes by is one less day we have to get ready. With us opening up early this year, it's kind of crunch time," said McKenzie. "The biggest thing for us right now is staying healthy and everybody being active in practice."
Especially when you are the SOC I favorite again — and facing improved teams in New Boston and Green with new entrants into the league like Ironton St. Joseph.
Notre Dame's non-league slate of six games, three of which are part of one-day Saturday events, is difficult as well.
"There are a lot of teams that are improving and gunning for us in the conference and want to knock us off. I preach to the girls that we can't take anybody lightly because we're going to get everybody's best shot every night. Then we're trying to get quality opponents outside of the conference and testing us. We're trying to play bigger, very good basketball schools in the Fairland Throwdown and the Ironton Shootout and the University of Rio Grande Shootout and in the bigger division of the SOC. It's just preparing us for the tournament," said McKenzie. "We've been really blessed the last few years to not lose very many games and knock off some big teams and go toe-to-toe with some of these powers. We don't look at it as 'poor little us', but rather as somebody giving us a challenge and seeing if we can rise up to that."
The Lady Titans are sure to encounter their share of challenges, but they are also eager to meet them — and earn new rewards.
"You can't just wish it. The things that we've accomplished in the past was because those girls worked for them and earned them. I reminded our girls that we haven't earned anything yet this year. Just because you wear Notre Dame on your uniform doesn't mean that you are guaranteed this or that. You have to go earn it. We have to have the mindset that we go to work every day in practice. Every night when we have a game, that's another work, but if you put forth your best effort, you're going to get rewarded in the end," said McKenzie. "We want to be competitive in the conference and have a chance to win it. Then the tournament is that one stage at a time. We have that mentality where we don't overlook anybody and prepare for each team. That's been successful for us and we won't change that formula."
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It amazes me that we still Lion King our 'smart' phones. You'd think that the networks would be better by now; or we'd have learned that it doesn't help.
Still, it makes us feel better so we do it.
Not every day is going to go right. So when things go wrong, just yell FISH and leave.


Iron Incense for Skalloy, Flare Incense for Vixun and Barkub. Max Happiness.
are mew celebi and deoxys inthe game?
No, unless they are written in in a patch sometime after the full game is released.
Whats the weakest poke in Topaz?
Focus Sash won't be in Topaz though, so Level 1 Endeavor Pokemon won't be as effective as they are in D/P.
Ok! For concept art, how do I post and image in a thread?
first, you have to upload the image to a place like Photobucket, Deviantart, ect..., right click and select copy image location. they you paste that in your reply, in between the tags [img] and [/img], and it should show up.
Also, are we aloud to change our avatars? or are people of major improtance only allow to?
You are free to, under user cp.
He said IRC, so unless that was a typo - IRC is Internet Relay Chat. It's a series of networks where you can join or create your own channels to chat with others. Topaz had one but it wasn't active so I took it off. The links haven't been changed yet to reflect that. Obviously, nobody was clicking on them anyway so I'm not worried.
also has anybody come across the problem of the pokescript not working after a minor edit in it?
are you able to get the other starters?
There'll possibly be trading. If not then it'll be possible somehow.
Quick Question, exactly how do you post an image in a thread? Do you need to upload it to Photobucket first?
Yes, it has to be uploaded somewhere first then you can use [img] tags around the url to post it as an image.
First of all, I guess, are you guys planning on using at least some of the 4th Gen moves?
Second, can I get a little more detail on the storyline? Right now, it seems like five gyms really fast, then a **** ton of story before the sixth one. And that doesn't agree with the level differences between them at all.
One more thing. What is the focus behind Dolphure's moveset? I mean, it seems like it was put together haphazardly. The moves go from being fast and sweeper-based, to a ton of support moves (Purify, Serenade, Water Wall) and random water moves just thrown in (especially Dive, since it's an HM move in Topaz and we don't want something common, especially a starter, learning it naturally).
We're not using any of the 4th gen moves. In my opinion, the 4th gen moves are among some of the most poorly designed, based on giving every type everything and entirely rushed with respect to trying to get the Physical/Special Split through. Also, they'd represent a lot more work for us to do, and a possibly much stronger competitive metagame than was in Topaz's vision.
Yeah, the storyline is currently getting a revamp. Due to how Caldera/Kirant is made, making the tons of storyline between gyms 5 and 6 may be inevitable, but hopefully the newer script could incorporate some of those events afterwards to make the leveling curve a little less drastic. The level differences I decided to give up on for precisely that reason. I was thinking that perhaps a second demo might be necessary for that one, so that we can see what levels people got up to and change them accordingly.
Dolphure's moveset, in my opinion, is a very tricky one. The best moveset I could find for it is using Serenade to prevent contact moves (most Physical moves) and then Mirror Coat to reflect back any special moves. And early on it's not very sweeper-based at all. Water Pulse is used more often than not for confusion, at least competitively. Supersonic and Water Sport are very support-oriented moves. In the end its base stats are sort of reminiscent of Lugia's: Mainly to soak up damage (85/90/100 yes please!), surprisingly high speed (98 is unfortunate but still considered high), and can attack when needed. As for HMs on movesets, I believe Rayquaza got Fly when you got him, and almost everyone had a Rayquaza. It's not unprecedented.
Rayquaza is different. Depending on the version, he's either postgame or very late-game. You'll have gotten Fly, and probably put it on someone, way before you catch him. It's a bigger problem if you get the Dive HM in game after you get the badge that lets you use it on the field.
I wonder if a map revamp might be in order, also due to the area west of Cianwood HG/SS added messing with the map a little.
And I understand what you mean about the moves, but there were also some that were added (ie. Energy Ball, Giga Impact, Signal Beam, Dark Pulse) because some types desperately needed them. I can go more into detail...later.
Anyway, I don't want to start off on the wrong foot; just want to throw my opinion out there.
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I can't see a big problem with dolphures move set. Though I dont know how to do competitive battles (I just teach my pokemon all power moves), I think its fine.
The map thing I was acutally thinking of though too. I dont think it will happen, though I will admit, You have my vote on adding the new area.
I believe Caldera/Kirant was designed based off of the region in Japan that is adjacent to the one Johto was based off of. An addition to the area west of Johto is definitely possible though, since it wouldn't impact anything unduly.
And Zenith, you seem to be an intelligent new member, so I'm glad to have you around!
What I actually meant is that I was under the impression that Cianwood, the Safari Zone, and Routes 47 & 48 were on an island by themselves, since Serebii has them like that. But I just looked at the map on my copy of Soul Silver, and it's pretty ambiguous there.
But adding in Routes 47 & 48 would be a pretty cool shout out. Maybe we could have the path to Cianwood be over land instead of trying to cram in Route 41, since we're really limited with space on that side of the map. Then have 48 connect to Laysan.
I'm going off topic. Is there a major suggestion thread for this stuff I somehow missed?
There was on the old forum but I think this place is as good as any.
About the reigon question, I looked it up and found that caldera/kirant is based on the chugoku and shikoku reigons of japan.
So Johto covers western Chubu and Kansai. Huh.
Maybe we need a new suggestion thread? I noticed a couple problems with some of the Light moves, and I feel like it would make more sense in a suggestion thread. And it probably wouldn't seem as legit if a new guy like me created it.
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Something I forgot. If what some of the NPC text for Sunset Village says is right, does Topaz take place a couple decades after the other games?
Yes, we consider it a fan made 3rd gen sprited 4th gen. it's basically how we would have wanted to make gen 4, instead of what did come out.
Another one. Is there anywhere around here to discuss potential movesets? All I've been seeing are 'Dex entries.
All the movesets have been finalized for a while.
...For everything up to Forretress. What about the movesets of the ones we're making 'Dex entries for right now?
That's because we had a forum crash a while ago and I wanted to restore everything into a cleaner format. Then busy-ness happened and so that's why it's been on hold for a little while. If you check the disorganized mass below you'll find every Pokemon in Topaz, and a large chunk of the previous gen ones.
How exactly do the evolutions work in the Trillogill line?
Trillogill's evolutions work based on which stat out of attack, defense, or speed is the highest. Tidasale is for attack, Tsunall is for defense, and Quiisord for speed. It's base stats are equal in all three of those areas.


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Italian artist and dancer who was born without arms, and uses her feet to draw, write and perform all other daily activities.
Attempts were made to fit Simona with prosthetic arms at an early age, but she very quickly rejected them. She has said that she found the prosthetics extremely heavy and impractical, and it was much easier to use her feet to perform tasks.
She started painting at the age of 4 and her talent was soon noticed by artist Mario Barzon, who encouraged and supported her. In 1983 she was awarded a scholarship from the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists of the World. A defining moment in her early career was an audience with Pope John Paul II, at which she presented him with a portrait of himself.
Simona also started to dance at the age of 6. Despite some initial opposition from teachers who felt that it was not appropriate, her own determination and the strong support of her mother enabled her to succeed in a discipline normally associated with the fully able-bodied.
In 1996, she commenced her studies at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Her course in Visual Arts enabled her to combine the two passions of her life, and she graduated with honors in 2001.
Later Simona became associated with the Pescara Dance Festival, and has endowed this event with the Atzori Award, given to dancers and choreographers. She continues to perform and exhibit her work all over the world.
On 10 March 2006, Simona performed a dance routine during the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Turin.


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