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I have recently bought ThinkPad Edge E320. It is a new notebook, most probably manufactured September 2011. I have found that it is using chipset HM65 B2, which was recalled half year ago by Intel.
E320 has 3 SATA interfaces. SATA III port 0 is HDD, port 1 is external eSATA and this leaves 4 faulty SATA II ports for mSATA interface. Here is a picture from Gigabyte diagnostic program with external eSATA drive connected:
I can't test the faulty ports, fortunately I haven't bought mSATA SSD yet.
Anyway, I'm quite surprised, that Lenove still have buggy chipsets.
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Hi and welcome to the forum!
Please have a look at this KB:- http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/B2-stepping-QM67-chips-incorrectly-reported-by-CPUz-or-deviceid/ta-p/423317
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)ThinkPads:- T400[Win 7], T60[Win 7], IBM 240[Win XP]
IdeaPad: U350
Thanks for your information. This was very interesting.
I have read this page before and found that Edge E320 is not supported by Intel AMT. When running current version of MEInfoWin.exe I get following information:
Intel(R) MEInfo Version: 188.8.131.527
Copyright(C) 2005 - 2011, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
PMXUtil: Error during PMX Call: PMxDrv!MAPPHYS - Bad Input Parameters
GBE Region does not exist.
Intel(R) ME code versions:
BIOS Version: 8NET27WW (1.11 )
MEBx Version: 0.0.0.0
Gbe Version: Unknown
VendorID: 8086
PCH Version: 4
FW Version: 220.127.116.115
UNS Version: 220.127.116.115
LMS Version: 22.214.171.1245
MEI Driver Version: 220.127.116.114
Wireless Hardware Version: 1.5.68
Wireless Driver Version: 22.214.171.124
FW Capabilities: 17833056
Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology - PRESENT/ENABLED
Intel(R) Capability Licensing Service - PRESENT/ENABLED
Protect Audio Video Path - PRESENT/ENABLED
Intel(R) ME Dynamic Application Loader - PRESENT/ENABLED
CPU Upgrade State: Upgrade Capable
Cryptography Support: Disabled
Last ME reset reason: Power up
Local FWUpdate: Enabled
BIOS and GbE Config Lock: Unknown
Host Read Access to ME: Disabled
Host Write Access to ME: Disabled
SPI Flash ID #1: EF4016
SPI Flash ID VSCC #1: 20052005
SPI Flash BIOS VSCC: 20052005
BIOS boot State: Pre Boot
OEM Id: 00000406-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
OEM Tag: 0x00000000
Looks like this tool doesn't work correctly and there is no reliable info what value "PCH Version: 4" really mean. Accidentaly this value is equal to revision, that can be read in Device Manager, which is revision of B2 stepping.
I have downloaded the same version of MEInfoWin.exe as in your link about QM67 chipset. The only difference is that now I get "PCH Version: 600005". So maybe this is revision B3? Could I expect any explanation from Lenovo?
If it says 60005 then that means yours is a B3 stepping system. Further, as explained in the KB, lenovo hasn't shipped any ThinkPad system with faulty B2 stepping chip, so rest assured yours is not B2 stepping."Lenovo has not shipped B2 Sandy Bridge silicon on production ThinkPad systems. The ID being referenced returns the Intel CRID -- Compatibility Revision ID -- of the chip, not the actual chipset revision. This is a feature implemented by Intel and Lenovo on recent ThinkPad notebooks which, in order to maintain image stability required by many Large Enterprise customers, hides a chip revision change from the Operating System, such as Microsoft Windows to keep it from re-installing device drivers when it detects a revision ID change. This is a web page which describes Intel Stable Image Platform Program --http://www.intel.com/itcenter/topics/refresh/sipp.htm "
Thanks for explanation, but it still leaves some doubt, since HM65 chipset has no AMT support.
Can you tell us your E320's 7 character product number? It looks like 1298-3SG and can be looked up from the back sticker. Just wondering, did you try this version of AMT from the support page, it says it is meant for Edge E320:- http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS013707
I appreciate your help. I have sent 2 emails to Lenovo Poland over a week ago and still have no replay.
My Edge E320 is 1298-5WG.
Your last link leads to IMEI driver, this is different package then AMT. My notebook came with exactly this version of the driver already preinstalled. You can see it in previous output form MEInfo: "MEI Driver Version: 220.127.116.114".
I have reinstalled it, but can't see any change.
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The land upon which the nation of Israel sits is steeped in stories and myths. It's ancient, holy; all three major faiths that took root here see salvation in its domes, its olive groves, its cracked earth. It's a land where people still seek the messiah. In one Orthodox Jewish messianic tradition, He will return riding a white donkey. On a blistering summer's day in 2006, Yaakov Israel peered through the heat waves and saw, emerging in the distance, a man atop a white donkey. "He materialized," says Israel, a photographer based in Jerusalem, "like a fata morgana," a mirage.
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The myth that Easter was a German goddess, or actually Ishtar in disguise, is so profusely integrated into the remembrance of what Jesus did on the cross and His resurrection, that I am hoping it would be helpful to show sources to refute this common error in thinking/teaching.
Historically, the German/Norse/Teutonic/Scandinavian evidence, from where the "story" of Easter allegedly originates – shows that Easter was never worshiped or celebrated as a goddess. In fact, there is no such goddess recorded anywhere in historical records in either European or Scandinavian cultures.
The name "Easter" is taken from the Spring month of Eostremonath on the German calendar – also known as the Norse/Teutonic/Scandinavian calendar. In other words, Eostremonath is simply, the name of the Spring month. It eventually evolved into the English "Easter" as brought to England by the Saxons [ancient Germans]. Easter was used as a convenience and accepted, morphed/coined as the word to indicate the time of year when Christians celebrated the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ >>> because it occurred in the spring.
According to historical records, spring was not celebrated festively. That was reserved for summer and winter celebrations. Neither was Easter evolved from Roman/Green pagan spring festivals. Although that has been added to the myth as part of the council of Nicea in 325 AD or to Constantine, the word Easter was unheard of until the 8th century AD. I have noted that some translations of the Council of Nicea include the word "Easter", but I believe it was added much later [after Bede – 9th century] as a substitute word for pascha, which does not mean Easter, but passover, but to differentiate between the Jewish feast and the resurrection of Christ.
The beginning of the myth, as originated by the Venerable Bede, a Catholic monk, wrote the following:
From De ratione temporum 15. [approx 700AD] (The reckoning of time, tr. Faith Wallis, Liverpool University Press 1988, pp.53-54)
15. The English Months
In olden time the English people — for it did not seem fitting to me that I should speak of other people's observance of the year and yet be silent about my own nation's — calculated their months according to the course of the moon. Hence, after the manner of the Greeks and the Romans (the months) take their name from the Moon, for the Moon is called mona and the month monath.
The first month, which the Latins call January, is Giuli; February is called Solmonath; March Hrethmonath; April, Eosturmonath; May, Thrimilchi; June, Litha; July, also Litha; August, Weodmonath; September, Halegmonath; October, Winterfilleth; November, Blodmonath; December, Giuli, the same name by which January is called. …
Nor is it irrelevant if we take the time to translate the names of the other months. … Hrethmonath is named for their goddess Hretha, to whom they sacrificed at this time. Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance. Thrimilchi was so called because in that month the cattle were milked three times a day…
Reiterating, Bede had no historical information on which to base his supposition that Eostre was a goddess. She cannot be found in any ancient writings or traditions in that entire part of the Norse/German world.
A professor, Dr Elizabeth Freeman [BA (Hons), MA, PhD (University of Melbourne); Grad. Dip. Ed. (Sec), Grad. Cert.(Rel. Ed.) (Australian Catholic University)], teaches the history of Europe in the early Middle Ages (300-1000AD) and High Middle Ages (1000-1300AD). She also studies medieval Christianity, ancient nuns and monks. She has also written publically, that there was no such creature as a goddess name Eostre. From an article published in 2005 she concludes that the entire myth of Easter was made up – again, based on actual research:
The goddess did not exist.
The earliest reference to goddess Ostara or Oestre is by a celebrated medieval intellectual — the monk known as the "venerable Bede".
Working in north-east England in 730AD, Bede wrote a book about calculating time. Bede identified a pagan spring celebration called Eosturmonath. He said this celebration got its name from a pagan goddess called Oestre for whom they had a feast.
But when modern-day researchers scoured the history books they could find no prior reference to the goddess.
Researchers found many references to the spring celebration Eosturmonath but absolutely no mention of the goddess Bede reckoned the feast was named after. They suspect Bede fabricated the pagan goddess to suit his purposes.
"He has definitely made up that goddess," Dr Freeman said. "Bede is the first one to mention it. German academics have found no evidence of the spring goddess Oestre anywhere else before Bede."
Dr Freeman said Bede, who had been a monk since he was seven years old, was revered in an era where very few people were educated.
"Bede was extremely influential and his view has survived until the last 50 years when scholarship developed to the level it could show he was wrong," she said.
Dr Freeman said Bede and his contemporaries constantly sought to find moral meaning for words and often made up definitions to suit their moral outlook.
From another source:
"This was [Bede's] attempted etymology of Easter – which is only called that in English of course. The problem is that as the Goddess in question, Eostre is completely unknown otherwise, … so this proposed etymology is probably spurious. In the 19th century a German antiquarian invented Ostara, as the German form, using Bede as his source.
Bede admits this idea is his speculation – he is not actually aware of a goddess called Eostre, he just thinks there was one. There is not a single reference to her, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, any of the other writings we have from the period, or from inscriptions. No depiction – no amulets – nothing. Her Germanic version was invented completely in the 19th century, and again has no evidence whatsoever from history or archaeology to back it up."
Another one of the most mangled, twisted, and downright ugly views of Easter is this one:
"Semiramis, the queen of heaven, was "born again" as the goddess Easter (Ashtarte) as she emerged from a giant egg that landed in the Euphrates river at sunrise on the "sun" day after the vernal equinox. To proclaim her divine authority, she changed a bird into an egg laying rabbit. As the cult developed, the priests of Easter would impregnate young virgins on the altar of the goddess of fertility at sunrise on Easter Sunday. A year later the priests of Easter would sacrifice those three-month-old babies on the altar at the front of the Sanctuary and dye Easter eggs in the blood of the sacrificed infants. (Michael John Rood, The Mystery of Iniquity, Chapter 8) [see more on the heresies and false teachings of Michael Rood here: http://www.seekgod.ca/roodbreakup.htm ]
Everything about that twisted version is completely and categorically false and sensationalized to appeal to people who are convinced Easter is evil and wicked. Ashtarte is not Easter. There is no such thing as eggs being dyed in babies' blood at any time or anywhere in history, nor is there any evidence that priest impregnate virgins on the altar of a fertility goddess at sunrise on "easter sunday". These things are designed to get people in fear and to hate Christians who are celebrating and remembering was Jesus did for us. To mangle and pervert the Gospel in such a way is just plain heinous, in this writer's opinion.
Although there are many articles and etymologies that link Easter/Eostre/Ostara with Ishtar, historically there is no connection. The Gemanic religious culture [Norse deities] never mentions Eostre or Ostara as a goddess at all.
Digging into the Germanic/Norse/Teutonic history reveals that Germany was once a Scandinavian Country and therefore, embraced the Norse deities. The main female deities were known as Frigga and Freyja with no mention of Eostre/Ostara.
The Columbia Encyclopedia gives a brief overview of the Germanic/Teutonic/Norse religious system:
The Germanic Pantheon
Germanic religion, like most ancient religions, was polytheistic. In early times there were two groups of gods-the Aesir and the Vanir. However, after a war between the rival pantheons (which perhaps reflects a war between two rival tribes), the defeated Vanir were absorbed into the Aesir, and the gods of both were worshiped in a single pantheon. This pantheon, which according to some accounts consisted of 12 principal deities, had Woden (Odin) as its chief god. Other important deities were Tiw (Tyr), Thor (Donar), Balder, Frey, Freyja, and Frigg. The gods dwelled in Asgard, where each deity had his or her own particular abode. The most beautiful of the palaces was Valhalla; there Woden, attended by the Valkyries, gave banquets to the dead heroes. The ancient Nordic gods, however, unlike the gods of most religions, were not immortal. They continually renewed their youth by eating the apples of Idun, but they were doomed, like mortals, to eventual extinction.
The gods were opposed by the giants and demons, representing the destructive and irrational forces of the universe. It was prophesied that at Ragnarok, the doom of the gods, the forces of evil and darkness led by Loki and his brood of monsters, would attack the gods of Asgard. After a ferocious battle, in which most of the gods and giants would be destroyed, the universe would end in a blaze of fire. However, it was also prophesied that from the ashes of the old world a new cosmos would emerge and a new generation of gods and humans would dwell in harmony.
Also from this source – no mention of Ostara/Eostre:
The four main deities in Germanic religion and Asatru are:
Odin (Germanic Woden) – god of magic, poetry, riches and the dead; ruler of Valhalla (gave his name to Wednesday)
Thor – sky god who wields a hammer, controls the weather, and protects the law and the community (gave his name to Thursday)
Freyr – fertility god represented with a phallic statue and seen as the founder of the Swedish royal dynasty
Freyja – fertility goddess of love and beauty, sister of Freyr, known by many names (including Frigg, Odin's wife and patron of families, who gave her name to Friday)
"According to Norse Mythology – The Myths and Legends of the Nordic Gods by Arthur Cotterell, Freyja is the daughter of the sea god Njord and sister of Freyr. She is an important fertility goddess …"
"Freyja flew over the earth, sprinkling morning dew and summer sunlight behind her. She shook spring flowers from her golden hair and wept tears which turned to gold or to amber at sea."
"For she [Freyja] was the goddess of lust as well as love, a suitable partner for Odin who was the father of battles."
"The goddesses were clearly important in northern religion, yet only Frigg and Freyja play any main part in the tales …."
"Freyja kept up the sacrificing, for she alone lived on after the gods."
She [Freyja] was regarded as a giving goddess, bringing bounty to the fields, animals and mankind …"
Some other sources about the Germanic gods and goddesses:
Idun, Ithunn – (Norse mythology) goddess of spring
Iduna/Idun/Iduun – Norse Goddess of eternal youth and spring
"Idun, also spelled Idunn, or Iduna, in Norse mythology, the goddess of spring or rejuvenation …"
"In Norse* mythology, Idun (Iduna) was the goddess of spring and rebirth."
Interestingly, the sources above that list numerous Norse gods and goddesses include zero reference to either Eostre or Ostara.
And here again – Eostre/Ostara is missing:
"Norse Goddesses
Iðunn (Idun, Idunn, Iduna)
Frigg (Frigga)
Freyja (Freya)
Here are even more links here from historical sources that have written about the Norse /Gemanic/Teutonic religious systems, gods and goddesses, which show that Eostre/Ostara is not mentioned.
It's important to explore Bede's writings which have come under intense scrutiny as we see in these references:
"This was [Bede's] attempted etymology of Easter – which is only called that in English of course. The problem is that as the Goddess in question, Eostre is completely unknown otherwise, … so this proposed etymology is probably spurious. In the 19th century a German antiquarian invented Ostara, as the German form, using Bede as his source.
Bede admits this idea is his speculation – he is not actually aware of a goddess called Eostre, he just thinks there was one. There is not a single reference to her, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, any of the other writings we have from the period, or from inscriptions. No depiction – no amulets – nothing. Her Germanic version was invented completely in the 19th century, and again has no evidence whatsoever from history or archaeology to back it up."
See this article also: http://www.celtic-catholic-church.org/oak_tree/easter.html
More info on Bede:
" It is equally valid, however, to suggest that the Anglo-Saxon "Estor-monath"simply meant "the month of opening", or the "month of beginning", and that Bede mistakenly connected it with a goddess who either never existed at all, or was never associated with a particular season, but merely, like Eos and Aurora, with the Dawn itself." [The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain; Ronald Hutton; p.180]
"Eostre is a very obscure Goddess, and uniquely Anglo-Saxon Heathen. She is not mentioned at all in the Norse corpus and only fleetingly in the Old English by Bede in De Temporum Rationale. Her material is so scant that some scholars have speculated she was not a Goddess at all, but that Eostre was merely a name for the holiday."
"No Norwegian, Icelandic or other Scandinavian primary source mentions 'Ostara'. In fact, the name 'Ostara' isn't found anywhere in connection with a goddess. 'Ostara' is simply the Old High German name for the Christian Festival of Easter. Because the word is cognate with Anglo-Saxon 'Eostre', and because we have Bede's evidence that Eostre was a goddess, Grimm concluded that "This Ostara, like the Anglo-Saxon Eastre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their own grandest anniversaries." [Jacob Grimm, (trans. James Stallybrass) Teutonic Mythology, Dover Books, reprint of 1883 edition, volume one, p.291]
"All we know from Bede was that she was worshipped sometime in April. Bede also mentions another Anglo-Saxon goddess, Hredhe, who was honoured in March, and for whom the month of March was named. If the heathen Anglo-Saxons actually did worship a goddess at the Vernal Equinox, then according to the only historical evidence we have it would have been Hredhe, not Eostre."
The connection of Easter with Ishtar was circulated mostly due to Alexander Hislop. He has a rather lengthy section on Ishtar that is loaded with speculation. This is how he begins his article:
"Then look at Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country." [Aexander Hislop, TheTwo Babylons (1858) – Chapter III Section II – Easter]
In that chapter, he connects Easter with Semiramis [completely false], and includes much conjecture and unsupported information about other goddesses, the definition of their names, and other non-historical opinion that he promotes as "truth".
Ralph Woodrow, who wrote "The Babylon Mystery Connection" based on Hislop's "The Two Babylons" and at one time promoted Hislop's "facts" became aware of the errors, wrote another book "The Babylon Connection?" refuting his original book and Hislop's. It took a lot of guts to admit he was wrong! He makes this comment about Hislop on his website, admitting that most of Hislop's connections and so-called "information" is neither historical nor accurate – it is sensationalism:
"Hislop, for example, taught that mythological persons like Adonis, Apollo, Bacchus, Cupid, Dagon, Hercules, Janus, Mars, Mithra, Moloch, Orion, Osiris, Pluto, Saturn, Vulcan, Zoraster, and many more, were all Nimrod! He then formed his own "history" of Nimrod! He did the same thing with Nimrod's wife. So, according to his theory, Nimrod was a big, ugly, deformed black man. His wife, Semiramis—also known as Easter, he says—was a most beautiful white woman with blond hair and blue eyes, a backslider, inventor of soprano singing, the originator of priestly celibacy, the first to whom the unbloody mass was offered! This is not factual history—it is more in the category of tabloid sensationalism."
In the Hebrew Roots Movement, Hislop's "facts" were snapped up by CJ Koster ["Come Out of Her My People" – referring to "Babylon"] and by Lew White [Fossilized Customs] which promote the most unglody associations with Christianity and it's "Babylonian/pagan/Greek roots" further hammering into and spreading the conjecture and opinions to unsuspecting people. Many others within Hebrew Roots have promoted these writings and then propagated the myths within their own teachings.
Both Bede's and Hislop's errors are discussed here, and quoted with permission:
"Alexander Hislop, in his book The Two Babylons [1858], mistakenly equated the goddess Eostre with the Babylonian-Assyrian fertility goddess Ishtar, and with the Phoenician fertility goddess Astarte. Questionable etymology and the mistaken research of Hislop has led some to conclude that the festival of Easter is pagan in its name and its origins.
However, the annual spring celebration of the resurrection of Jesus was not even called Easter until centuries after Christians began celebrating it, and etymological authorities (those who study word origins) have cast doubt on Bede's accuracy.
In a footnote in a circa 1850 edition of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, the translator, Isaac Boyle, suggested that "our word, Easter, is of Saxon origin, and of precisely the same import with its German cognate Ostern. The latter is derived from the old Teutonic form of auferstehn, auferstehung, i.e. resurrection."
The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Baker Books, 1984) article on Easter, after mentioning Bede's account, says it is "more likely" that the word Easter "came from a German root for dawn or east (the time and place of the rising sun)." The Oxford English Dictionary relates Easter and the east to a common root meaning dawn or morning. If these are accurate, Easter did not derive from the name of a spring goddess Eastre. Rather, both words came from a root that means "dawn," or "morning/rising/new light," or by extension, "resurrection."
More likely than Bede's explanation, it seems possible that the resurrection celebration was named Easter because the word described the promise of new light and new life brought to humankind by the new-risen Son."
Jakob Grimm — of Brothers Grimm fame (1785 – 1863), in his 1835 Deustche Mythologie; further promoted the Easter myth and wrote that Ostarâ, "must in heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applit to one of their own grandest anniversaries." Again, scholars have noted his supposition, with no proof, based on what Bede surmised/made up. Error begets error and is then promoted over and over again with hyper sensationalism in order to denigrate a title/word given to a Christian spring celebration of Jesus Christ. [see above quotes and footnotes
One other myth associated with Easter is that it is etymologically connected to estrus/oestrus giving it an even more sexual and derogatory meaning. Easter has nothing to do with estrus as seen here in the etymology dictionary. Please note that the word only goes back to the 1690s, and the definition of "frenzied passion" and "rut in animals" only goes back to the 1800s. Estrous > 1900. The word "Easter" is much older than that as seem in the various writings already sourced in this article.
1850, "frenzied passion," from L. oestrus "frenzy, gadfly," from Gk. oistros "gadfly, breeze, sting, mad impulse," perhaps from a PIE *eis, forming words denoting passion (cf. Avestan aešma- "anger," Lith. aistra "violent passion," L. ira "anger"). First attested 1890 with specific meaning "rut in animals, heat." Earliest use (1690s) was for "a gadfly." Related: Estrous (1900).
Comparing Ostara/Eostre to Ishtar/Ashteroth/Semiramis/Astarte
The German Ostara does not come from nor is she related to Ishtar/Ashteroth/Astarte, etc.
Ishtar has a Semitic word root which may mean "to lead". Ostara is a German word that means dawn, rising sun and includes resurrection, which became the Anglo Saxton Eostre/Easter.
Ishtar is a goddess whose history goes way back to the beginning of civilizations and nations. She is referred to in the OT as Ashteroth. She is a Semitic goddess, not a Norse deity. There is no connection between Ishtar/Astarte and Eostre/Ostara who was not even known until well into the Common Era. Eostre/Ostara is not listed with the Norse deities of the Germanic/Teutonic culture.
Ishtar is a mother goddess, fertility goddess, the goddess of spring, a storm goddess, a warrior and a goddess of war, a goddess of the hunt, a goddess of love, goddess of marriage and childbirth, goddess of fate and a goddess who is the divine personification of the planet Venus. She is also an underworld deity. She is known predominately as the "mother goddess" and is connected to the earth's fertility.
Here are lists of names that represent Ishtar in other languages and cultures and please note, not one of them refers to Ostata/Eostre – nor is there any reference to bunnies and eggs, or even sacrificing infants and using their blood to dye "Easter eggs":
Ishtar – Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, sex and the divine personification of the planet Venus
Ashteroth [found in OT] is the Phoenician/Semitic for Ishtar
Inanna = Sumerian for Ishtar
Astarte = Akkadian for Ishtar
Athtar = Arabian for Ishtar
Tanith = Northern African for Ishtar
Mylitta = Babylonian and Assyrian Mythology > The goddess of love and fertility and war; also called Ishtar; the counterpart of Ashtoreth and Astarte.
Ishtar (Istar) – Assyro-Babylonian; Akkadia, Chaldea, Semitic, Sidon, Sumner.
Also known as: Absusu (Sumerian), Abtagigi (She Who Sends Messages of Desire), Agasaya, Ashtart, Ashtoreth, Athar (Arabic), Aya (Babylonian), Banitu (possibly), Belti (Semite), Bisi-Bisi, The Bride, Dilbar (The War-provoking Evening Star), Gamlat (Babylonian), Gumshea, Hanata (Middle Eastern), Inanna (Sumerian), Innini, Irnini (possibly), Kilili (Queen of Harlots), Meni (possibly), Minu-anni, Minu-ullu, Nin-kar-zi-da, Nin-khar-sagga Nin-si-anna, Ninkarrak (Sumerian), Ninkasi, Ninlil (Phoenician), Sharis (possibly an ancient name used by the Armenians), Shaushka (Hittite), Shimti (Akkadian; goddess of fate), The Shrieker, Zanaru (Lady of the Islands), Zib (evening star who stimulates sexual desire).
Ishtar is identified with the Sumerian goddess Inanna and with Astarte of the Phoenicians and the Babylonians. She has been identified with Ninlil. Ishtar corresponds to the Chaldean goddess Nintu. Ishtar parallels the ancient Sumerian goddess Anunit in numerous ways. The Hebrew goddess Tamar is equivalent to Ishtar, The Hittite goddess Shaushka is known as the Hurrian Ishtar. As Hanata, she is also a warrior. The Babylonian goddess Gamlat eventually assimilated into Ishtar, as did the Babylonian Aya. The war goddess Agasya eventually became Ishtar as the sky warrior. The vegetation goddess Gumshea merged with Ishtar.
Her titles of Minu-anni and Minu-ullu may link her with the Assyrian god or goddess, Meni. Compare Ishtar to Isis (Egyptian), and the Inca goddess, Mama Allpa. Ishtar is depicted sometimes naked, with her hands clasping her breasts. Often she is bedecked in jewelry and has an elaborate hairstyle. She is also shown reclining, wearing a crowned crescent set with a shining stone on her head. Sometimes she is shown holding her symbol, the eight pointed star. In her battle stance, she carries a bow and is depicted standing on a chariot drawn by seven lions. The lion, bull, and dragon are Ishtar's emblems. The lion is her sacred animal and perhaps the dove.
See also Abtagigi; Allat; Allatu; Anat; Anta; Anu; Arinna; Ashur; Astarte; Asushunamir; Atargatis; Athar; Aya; Belti; Boann (Celtic); Chemosh; Ea; Enki; Enkidu; Ereshkigal; Gilgamesh; Igigi; Inanna; Innini; Khumbaba; Kilili; Namtar; Ninkarrak; Ninkasi; Ninlil; Papsukaal; Ramman; Saltu; Sammuramat; Semiramis; Shamash; Sharis; Sin; Tammuz; Tiamat; Venus; Zerpanitum.
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The Relationship between Ishtar, Semiramis, and Tammuz:
Ishtar was the lover/husband of Tammuz
Dumuzi is the Babylonian Tammuz
Semiramis is the wife of Nimrod/Nimnus and the mother of Tammuz
More information on the Greek goddess Aprhodite and her connection to Ishtar:
"Astarte, Semitic goddess of fertility and love. Dominant in ancient Eastern religions, she was the most important goddess of the Phoenicians, corresponding to the Babylonian Ishtar and the Greek Aphrodite, also known as the Great Mother of the Gods.
Aphrodite, in Greek mythology, goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. She was either the daughter of Zeus and Dione, or she emerged from the sea foam. Married to Hephaestus, she loved and had children by other gods and mortals, e.g., Harmonia was fathered by Ares, and Aeneas was the son of Anchises. Aphrodite was awarded the apple of discord by Paris, leading to the Trojan War. Probably of Eastern origin, she was similar in attributes to the goddesses Astarte and Ishtar. The Romans identified her with Venus.
Some have even tried to connect Artemis to Ishtar, but in Greek mythology, she goddess of the hunt. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. Artemis is associated with chastity, marriage, children, wildlife, and, as a complement to the sun god Apollo, with the moon. The Romans identified her with Diana."
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In conclusion, and reiterating: Bede and Grimm are the only sources that connects Easter with a goddess named Eostre/Ostara – which has never been proven or authenticated – and by their own admissions and writings, supposed that she was an ancient German goddess. The name "Easter" is a simple word "evolved" from the German "Eostre/Ostara", into the Angle-Saxon culture taken from the names of the German spring months of Eostremonat and Ostaramanouth and traditionally applied to the Christian spring celebration of Jesus' suffering, death and resurrection as the English, Easter. In other words, there is no pagan connection. Easter was always a Christian celebration, it was never a pagan festival, because there is zero archaeological or ancient literary evidence to support that Easter was ever a goddess or that there were ever festivals in her honor [before the current wiccan/celtic movements] in either Germany or England/The UK/Ireland.


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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Building the Courthouse Steps
went to the library
ate homemade vegan biscuits
checked out WAY too many books (again)
played computer games
took Sydney to dance class
baked vegan whole wheat hamburger buns
and ate them with veggie burgers and baked potatoes
In my scarce child-free time, I:
read from start to finish
bought a guitar
made vegan whole wheat hamburger bun dough
sewed and sewed and sewed more dinos
The log cabin quilt is probably the easiest kind of quilt to sew, after the one-block quilt, of course, because it doesn't require a template. And if you're not way into precision (which I'm not), sketchy math skills just make it look better.
The traditional log cabin block starts with a middle block that is a perfect square; since my middle block is made from the picture on the front of a T-shirt, however, my middle block is rarely a square. Here's how I start with that to build a Courthouse Steps log cabin block that IS perfectly square:
1. You can save some time while piecing if you have some guidelines in mind and prep accordingly. For instance, although I'm building my blocks with strips of various lengths and widths, I know that I want each finished strip to be no wider than 1.5" and no longer than 12". When you add in the seam allowances, that means that my largest possible strip could be 2"x12.5". So I pre-cut every strip to that measurement, and just trim off what I don't need as I'm piecing. To save extra time, I also basically chose that 1.5" width just so that I could cut strips to the width of my 2" clear plastic ruler and not have to measure.
2. You build a Courthouse Steps block with mirror-image symmetry, so that what you do to one side, you do to the other:
You do top and bottom, then left and right, then top and bottom again, taking turns to build up your block:
Obviously, some of the pieces on the longer side will have to be trimmed to be narrower than 1.5", otherwise you won't be able to get to a perfect square AND have the same number of pieces added.
When you're done with one block, repeat (can you figure out how I messed this one up?): And repeat again:
And then go do something else, because piecing gets tiresome.
3 comments:
- cake said...
questions: you guys are not vegan, are you?
also, um, whole wheat hamburger buns would already be vegan, wouldn't they? just wondering.
love the title of this post.
- March 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- julie said...
I've been eating vegan for a few weeks, and since I'm the only one who cooks or shops, I suppose everyone else just gets dragged along with me. The only differences are that I spend more time cooking and use real recipes, so stuff tends to taste better, and I've stopped spending a fortune on Trader's Point Creamery yogurt.
I don't know anything about bread. I just use a recipe, and the title of this one was Vegan Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns.
- March 10, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- julie said...
Oh, wait--I do, too, know how it's vegan. The cup of unflavored soymilk that the recipe called for probably substituted for cow milk or something.
- March 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM


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It is not the salary they were or are getting while performing the job, it is the higher than normal retirement benefits that is unsustainable. I was fortunate that I worked for a company that even offered retirement but it was nowhere near the salary I was making when I retired. The medical coverage is pretty well nonexistent. Would I want that level of pension? Sure, but where do you think all of this is heading?
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Only if they live long enough to collect it.
You were told that Your benefits were for life but who will pay for them when the state and federal government go bankrupt? This is becoming a very real possibility when China decides to quit buying our debt.
If the federal government goes bankrupt we all will have larger problems than a pension cut.According to the last full audit by KPMG the federal CSRS and FERS retirement funds are fiscally sound. State funds may be different.I believe China is the number three holder of U.S. Debt, behind Canada.
Actually I think Japan is number one and China number two in holding our debt. My point was that many states and local government bodies are in trouble and the federal government may not be able to bail them out in the future.
Is the pension money put away as it is earned/paid so that it can grow and earn interest or is it being spent now with promissory notes put in for a future day of reckoning? Some states actually are putting the money into investments that grow and build a huge bankroll to support the future retirements. CA in not one of those. Is that the employees fault or the voters fault for putting politicians in charge of the funds? Ken
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Stretchy clothing works best. Your instructor needs to see your muscles and how they're working so he or she can evaluate your form and offer adjustments. If you have long hair, you'll want to secure it so that it doesn't get tangled in the equipment. Remove accessories like jewelry and scarves.
Pack light
If it's a mat class, you're welcome to use one of ours. If you'd like to bring your own, find out the kind of mat that your instructor prefers. Other than that, water bottles are always a good idea.
Go shoeless
Most students go barefoot. But, if that's not for you, consider buying special footwear like Pilates shoes or thin barrier socks with added traction.


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The frenzy of transactions that previewed this year's winter meetings gave way to a slow opening day Monday, and along with that, the Orioles resumed a methodical plan of improving their club for next season.
The Orioles reopened talks with prospective free agents and possible trade partners during the winter meetings Monday, and executive vice president Dan Duquette remains confident he will return to Baltimore with a new acquisition.
"We've had a lot of conversations," Duquette said. "We should be adding new players by the end of the week."
Duquette said he had not made any additional free-agent offers as of Monday evening.
The Orioles reportedly have shown interest in a pair of free agents — outfielder Nelson Cruz and right-hander Bartolo Colon — who have a history of performance-enhancing drug use.
Duquette would not comment specifically on the club's interest in either player, saying it would be inappropriate to do so, but added that the Orioles would be thorough in researching any player before offering a contract.
"The club has to do its due diligence on all the players, and the performance-enhancing drugs are just another area that the clubs need to look closely at," Duquette said. "So we have a systematic way to approach it. It's really a fact of life now. But as far as doing our due diligence, we do our due diligence on all the players."
At first blush, neither nether Cruz nor or Colon seem like ideal fits for the Orioles. Colon served a 50-game suspension in 2012 after testing positive for synthetic testosterone. Cruz was suspended for 50 games last year as part of the BioGenesis investigation.
It's unclear whether the Orioles are simply checking in on the players or have targeted them as serious options. But neither one will likely come cheap. Contracts given to past PED poster boys such as Melky Cabrera (two-years, $16 million from the Toronto Blue Jays following a 50-game suspension after the 2012 season) and Jhonny Peralta (four years, $53 million from the St. Louis Cardinals two weeks ago) indicate that teams have short memories and deep pockets.
So investing in Cruz, who has been posturing for a three-year deal with the Texas Rangers, and Colon, who will likely receive an eight-digit, one-year deal, comes at a risk.
In attempting to add a free-agent starting pitcher to bolster the rotation, Duquette said he will not be limited to offering a one-year deal. Duquette added he will consider signing a pitcher returning from injury who might not be ready for Opening Day.
"There's a lot of pitchers under rehab and they are under consideration too," Duquette said.
According to an industry source, the Orioles are still monitoring and have interest in Mount St. Joseph graduate Gavin Floyd, who had Tommy John surgery in May. The team also has interest in former Boston Red Sox relievers Joel Hanrahan (elbow surgery) and Andrew Bailey (torn labrum), as it has requested medical information on both players.
As previously reported, Duquette said the club is open to losing the draft pick it would take to sign a starting pitcher who has turned down a $14.1-million qualifying offer. That group includes Ubaldo Jimenez and Ervin Santana.
The Orioles took more steps toward acquiring a left-handed batter who can contribute in left field and designated hitter. That acquisition will still likely come via trade, and Duquette said that could take some time. Duquette indicated he wouldn't characterize any trade talk as any more than "lukewarm."
"It's easier to go out and sign players," Duquette said. "Trades are a little bit more complicated, but we've been working on both."
One day into the meetings, there are still many discussions to come, and Duquette said he has faith he will add a player other than the one they will likely add in Thursday's Rule 5 draft.
"There's going to be a lot more moves made, but there were a lot made going into the winter meetings," Duquette said. "There's only so many players changing teams but there will be a few more between now and the end of the week. But so many teams went out and signed players and made transactions."


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Binary package "joe" in ubuntu precise
user friendly full screen text editor
Joe, the Joe's Own Editor, has the feel of most PC text editors: the key
sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo C editors, but the feature
set is much larger than of those. Joe has all of the features a Unix
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system. It also has six help reference cards which are always available,
and an intuitive, simple, and well thought-out user interface.
Joe has a great screen update optimization algorithm, multiple windows
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Mark Twain demanded that his autobiography not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death because he feared that much of it was too incendiary.
Now, exactly a century later, the first authoritative volume has arrived, after decades of painstaking scholarship involving tens of thousands of documents -- and after decades of NEH support. Readers can finally see the unexpurgated version of Twain's views on Christianity, government, human nature and scores of his contemporaries from Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley to Booker T. Washington and the Rockefellers.
At over 700 copiously annotated pages and a list price of $34.95, the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 became a runaway best-seller when it was published in November of 2010.
But thanks to funding by NEH and other contributors, anyone can read it for free at the Web site of the Mark Twain Papers & Project, housed at the University of California at Berkeley's Bancroft Library.
Readers expecting a conventional linear chronology will be surprised. Twain struggled for 30 years against the constraints of a cradle-to-grave narrative. By 1906, when he began dictating large portions of the Autobiography, "he had finally liberated himself from that," says Robert Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Papers. "It took him a long time to get to the final form. And the final form is this: I'm going to talk about whatever I want to talk about, I'm going to change the subject whenever I lose the least bit of interest, and go to some other topic."
However, the original documents – a welter of fragments, false starts, revisions and variations – are "to a degree puzzling and confusing," Hirst explains. That is why it took decades before it became clear exactly what Twain had in mind. "In fact, we thought until three years ago that this whole manuscript was a kind of incomplete set of drafts. But that's wrong.The editors who worked with me out in Berkeley are the ones who figured out that Twain had actually finished it. He knew exactly how he wanted to begin it, exactly what he wanted in it, and exactly what he didn't want in it.
"From our point of view," Hirst says, "it's like discovering all of a sudden that you've been sitting on Mark Twain's last major literary work and you didn't know it!"
The result has delighted many reviewers. "Mark Twain is his own greatest character in this brilliant self-portrait," said Publishers Weekly. "Dip into the first enormous volume …" from this seemingly well-known figure in American history, The New York Times review said, and "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate with us, though not the ways we might expect." In short, the Wall Street Journal observed, "every word beguiles."
For more information, see the Mark Twain Project Web site and the Mark Twain Papers & Project Web site.


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OK so this is kind of following on from someone else's thread that I am trying to help out with (http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=534932).
If you cant be bothered to read the other thread, here's a brief summary of what I (and the OP in that thread) would like to achieve:
When a USB drive is plugged in, the application automatically searches this drive for a specific file.
So to cut a long story short, this is what I have so far:
I am using VB.NET by the way, not VB6
This works in that when a USB drive is plugged in, it pops up with the messagebox. It took me a lot of trial and error and a lot of reading on the MSDN site to get even this much working (this is only the 3rd or 4th API I have ever tried to use) as there didnt seem to be much useful stuff on google... but anyway yeah, the problem is that its all well and good detecting that a drive was connected but now we need to be able to scan it. So we need to get the drive letter that was assigned to the newly connected drive - According to the MSDN site, the following is passed in through the lparam property of the DEVICECHANGE message:vb.net Code:
- Public Class Form1
- Private Const WM_DEVICECHANGE As Integer = &H219
- Private Const DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL As Integer = 32768
- Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
- If m.Msg = WM_DEVICECHANGE Then
- If m.WParam = DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL Then
- MessageBox.Show("Removable Drive Detected")
- End If
- End If
- MyBase.WndProc(m)
- End Sub
- End Class
Looking at the DEV_BROADCAST_HDR structure and its dbch_devicetype member in particular I can see that I can check to see if the device is a Volume. Then if it is a volume I can check the DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME structure member named dbcv_unitmask and this relates to the drive letter that is assigned. Hopefully I didnt explain that too badly... The problem is, like I said, I'm fairly new to APIs and so I havent got a clue how to do what I just explained!A pointer to a structure identifying the device inserted. The structure consists of an event-independent header, followed by event-dependent members that describe the device. To use this structure, treat the structure as a DEV_BROADCAST_HDR structure, then check its dbch_devicetype member to determine the device type.
I'm guessing I need to just declare each of these structures and then it will be fairly easy to use them in my managed code but none of the mentioned structures appear in my API Viewer program so I have no idea what type of object each member needs to be declared as etc
Anyone help me out?


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Microsoft has released a couple of patches for Windows Vista after realising that the pre-release OS is vulnerable to some of the security bugs addressed in its last (mammoth) Patch Tuesday update cycle.
Of the seven critical Windows updates released in August, two (MS06-042 and MS06-051) also affect Windows Vista Beta 2 or later, prompting the release of additional patches.
The most threatening of the Windows flaws addressed on 8 August (MS06-040) - the subject of active malware exploitation over recent days - leaves Vista untouched.
The two necessary fixes for Vista have been released through Windows Update. Microsoft may issue additional patches for Vista, in response to future security threats, but there'll be a hiatus in patches between the end of the beta testing period and the final shipment of the OS, due early next year.
"Windows Vista is the first major Microsoft product release that will be serviced with security updates throughout the beta process. We are committed to release Windows Vista updates for all MSRC critical class issues that may arise during the beta testing period. We strive to release any Windows Vista updates as soon as possible, but our priority will be to release the updates for Windows products that have been released to manufacturing," explained Alex Heaton of the Windows Vista Security team in a blog posting.
In other Patch Tuesday-related news, Microsoft said it would release an Internet Explorer patch (MS06-042) next week after reported problems with the update for some IE users. Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack One systems were the focus of this glitch and the target of the forthcoming update, which leaves Vista Beta users in the clear...at least for now. ®


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Every episode of Comedy Central's "Review" begins not with a punchline, but an existential question: "Life – it's literally all we have. But is it any good?"
The search for the answer – by a TV host who reviews a gamut of life experiences – propels a deceivingly dark, at times brilliant comedy that's hurtled largely under the radar for two seasons.
"Review" returns Thursday for a third and final season to offer the final word on, if not life, then an unconventional sitcom that eviscerates all kinds of media conventions.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
The show centers on Forrest MacNeil (show co-creator Andy Daly), an earnest and devoted host determined to tackle nearly any reviewing challenge presented to him – ostensibly by his TV audience.
In this comedy of chaotic escalation, Forrest bounds from pancake gluttony to an unnecessary divorce to cocaine addiction to murder. He rates experiences with stars, as if he were reviewing movies (spoiler alert: killing someone, even in self-defense, gets a half-star).
But the larger story unfolding is the televised self-destruction of a hopelessly misguided, duty-obsessed man and his meltdown's impact on his loved ones.
If that doesn't sound hilarious, well, it depends on who's doing the reviewing. The show devolves into gripping comic insanity as Daly's wide-eyed likable straight-laced goofball turns into a wild-eyed, unhinged maniac. The humor is sparked less from the self-immolation of Forrest, for whom we're somehow rooting, than the absurd and expanding trap he's seemingly set for himself.
Uneasy laughter also flows from the show's sharp satire of media culture. "Review" takes Reality TV – both peeks into pseudo-celebrities' lives and challenge shows – to extremes. Daly and Co. traverse the bleakest patches of a social media-filled world where lives are lived publicly – and constantly rated by others.
In the Season 2 finale, Forrest becomes convinced he's the victim of a conspiracy theory orchestrated by his passive-aggressive producer Grant (James Urbaniak). Forrest takes a "Reichenbach Fall"-like plunge off a bridge with Grant, who already pushed him to the metaphorical edge.
It's unclear whether Grant is a Moriarty figure. But Forrest, no Sherlock Homes, has yet to deduce, despite ample evidence, that perhaps the mystery of life is better explored by simply living it – without thrusting himself and others into constant peril. He's also hasn't figured out that the only way to fully rate life is when it's over.
"Review," thankfully, isn't done yet. With one season to go, "Review" gets five stars.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.