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Boston MA, April 2nd, CNP integrations announces the launch of Truth-Out.org using Joomla CMS.
(PRWEB) April 02, 2012
The Truth Out organization is known for their often controversial and alternative view points out side of main stream media. Their web site which is a popular thought provoking source of news and information made them targets of numerous cyber-attacks and due to the heavy volume of traffic from their extensive readership; the old framework built on the Drupal CMS platform was also problematic and inefficient.
The new framework, built on the Joomla CMS platform, marks a major technical accomplishment from the support teams at CNP Integrations. They have developed a unique process for migrating Drupal sites to the Joomla platform. While there are a few companies doing this type of migration none have yet migrated a site of this scale and complexity. CNP Integration's new process has trimmed the level of effort required, thus minimizing cost and time to market. In addition to refining a complex process for a Drupal to Joomla migration they developed several custom extensions to facilitate Truth Out's proprietary workflows and content management practices.
"As a Project Manager for many different types of Joomla! sites, Truthout.org is definitely one of the most interesting projects we've run across. With it's unique requirements for security, content, and user management, CNP Integrations was able to employ innovative solutions to help build the site into a successful, and secure portal with the potential to grow in the future. This was an exciting challenge and a great opportunity for us to showcase our integrations and support capabilities," says project manager Jonathan Neubauer.
In addition to the new Joomla CMS platform rolled out by the CNP Integrations team they relocated the site's hosting to CNP's new cloud based hosting platform which will offer significant savings for ongoing support and a proactive security strategy through CNP's partnerships with RackSpace and SecureLive.
Details of the case study can be found on http://www.joomladesignservices.com/blog and for more information about CNP's new hosting platform for Joomla CMS visit http://www.cnpsupport.com
CNP Integrations is known for delivering world class support for Joomla CMS
CNP Integrations has an engaged US based and global development team of technical and configuration experts. CNP employs highly skilled programmers and project managers with the focus of providing the most responsive web application support services for the Joomla CMS and other compatible technologies. CNP Integrations is a business division of Creative Networks Protocol Inc., a Massachusetts based corporation. CNP Integrations offers premium technical support and hosting with a value building methodology and a proven process of project management success. CNP Integrations primarily provides services across the United States but has serviced companies globally in 7 countries abroad.
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Boston, MA Area USA - November 22nd, CNP Integrations (www.cnpintegrations.com) announced their proprietary conversion service for a Drupal to Joomla platform migration, allowing web administrators of the well known Drupal system to embrace the ease of use and extensible framework of the powerful Joomla! CMS.
Read more: Drupal to Joomla conversion solution creates opportunity for CMS community
The CNP solution quickly and safely migrates content directly from the Drupal database into a new Joomla! installation. CNP's conversion process interfaces with Drupal's core content options, to migrate all existing content, even comments! Further options and features are also available with the expanded Joomla framworks using the popular K2 extensions.
Read more: Drupal to Joomla conversion solution creates opportunity for CMS community
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.4. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla...
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.26 [senu takaa ama busani]. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to...
For CNP Integrations, please contact your project manager for details on updating your site.
Through this vulnerability in myblog they are able to inject code into an article that could modify template fils and other files on your site.
Template security tip:
Since template are a common areia for hackers to place malitious code injections, it is always good practice to keep your template up to date and delete old templates that are not in use since a hacker can access any templat on your site if they knopw the name of the template. Most hackers trying to get in this way are going to know the names of these templates.
This is a screen shot of the Beez template after a hack on one of our demo sites. The hacker was able to publish an article in the front page component as well as place a java swcript pop up when the users first enter the site. Well… just thing of how much damage could be done with a javascript pop up and an execution button.
Some helpful security links:
Security Wiki: http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Security
Security Forum: http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=432
If your site requires this or other upgrades you can contact: www.cnpsupport.com for professional Joomla CMS support or call 1-508-644-1553 to speack with a Jooomla professional.
We are happy to announce that JoomlaLMS 1.1 is released!
New features in 1.1:
Joomla 1.6 compatibility. The new version is completely compatible with the new version of Joomla! CMS (1.6.x) while retaining full compatibility with the previous Joomla! CMS (1.5.x).
Recurrent payments (PRO edition only) are available for PayPal payment processor. You can now charge your learners automatically in specified periods of time.
New information modules on JoomlaLMS homepage:
- Latest forum posts. Displays the latest posts in the courses forums the user participates in.
- Latest mailbox messages. Shows the latest messages the user received via JoomlaLMS mailbox.
- My certificates. Displays course certificates the learner received.
JoomlaLMS software updates are free for yearly licenses owners, so please feel free to download a new 1.1 package from your MembersArea. If you would like our professional team to update your LMS for you, we will be happy to do it for our regular installation fee of $99 - just contact us.
The same goes for owners of perpetual licenses - please contact us to discuss your upgrade to 1.1.
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If you don't use JoomlaLMS yet, we welcome you to download a trial from your MembersArea or order a license in our webshop.
We are pleased to let you know that we now partner with JomSocial Team that developed and supports the most popular Social Engine for Joomla! CMS.
Advanced Social Learning Tools that exist beyond the formal learning process make it engaging and more cost effective. Education professionals say that learning is 80% informal, we must use it to make learning process more effective. Social Tools help to support natural connections between people who can help one another. And we can distribute that support between employees, partners, students and trainers. Check the real Social Learning Benefits.
Together, JoomlaLMS and JomSocial provide the LMS users with a possibility to build Informal Learning Communities, use advanced Communication/Collaboration Tools and express themselves by customizing their public profiles. Launching a community with all the Social Tools benefits on your web site is very easy - for less than $150 you are enhancing your own copy of JoomlaLMS with extensive social tools similar to Facebook or LinkedIn. When ordering JomSocial package from JoomlaLMS web-shop you get free installation of JomSocial as a bonus. Moreover, further support of JomSocial component is done by JoomlaLMS Support Team, with priority support available through the JomSocial Core Team.
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Trying to Live My Life While Awaiting Medical Answers
This post has sat, a quarter-written, in my drafts folder, for over a week now. It's not the first time a blog post has languished, but it may be the first time that avoiding a post has scared me away from writing entirely. You see, I am in a season of waiting. Waiting for answers, waiting for comfort, waiting for surgery. Waiting for God. It is not a season I like, and it is not a season I, to be totally blunt, particularly want to write about.
If I could, I would just neatly push the delete button on this draft, let time and life happen, let this season pass by at its excruciatingly slow pace, let the answers finally come, this season finally pass and never write this post, so there would never have to be a record of this, my very least favorite type of season.
But, if you're anything like me, this is the kind of post you probably need most, because this is probably the kind of season in your life you probably live – and dread – the most.
My life as a chronically ill person who is simultaneously a lot of other things (educator, mother, wife, family member, friend, church and community member, etc.) involves living in a lot of in-between areas.
In a previous post about chronic pain, I talked about how, if we all have a stoplight of pain – red meaning total, disabling pain that means we stop everything do, and green meaning nearly no pain – I spend most of my days on yellow. I am at "slow down": clearly aware of my pain, but, with medication and solid coping strategies, able to go to work, parent my child and spend time with family and friends. However, that pesky pain of mine is always a constant companion and reminder.
Just like my days are spent in the yellow, in between zone of pain, much of my life is spent in another in-between zone that is less-than-pleasant: a waiting zone. There is no fast forward button. Unlike on a TV show or in a novel, most of my life takes place in the uninteresting bits.
It's wild for me to think about, because it consumes so much of my life now, but last year at this time I didn't even know I had Chiari malformation or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Life has changed in so many different ways since I got my diagnoses, but one thing that hasn't changed is then, just like now, was a period that was fraught with the tension of waiting for medical answers.
Most people with chronic illness know the diagnosis process can be frustratingly slow. It can take months or even years to find out what is wrong with you. And sometimes, you can get an answer, and later find out it is the wrong answer (like what happened with me and being misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia).
Getting the right diagnostic labels was such a relief to me, but what I didn't expect was that there would be new seasons of the same kind of nervous, anxious waiting once I knew what illnesses I had. No longer is the question "why do I have these horrible, crushing headaches and neurological symptoms?" the first one on my mind, sure. I know they're owed to my Chiari malformation.
But answers aren't treatment. I have been waiting for months to get in to finally see a specialist to find out whether or not I will need brain surgery for my Chiari.
One of the other difficult things is that one's own acceptance journey and their medical red tape journey never seem to travel at the same speed. Chances are I would already have had the brain surgery now if it wouldn't have been for my own anxiety and waffling over it.
But now that I've finally accepted that I do most likely need surgery and that the risks are worth the potential rewards, since my symptoms are so severe and continually escalating, I have to wait for my treatment schedule to be on the same page as I am emotionally. Sure, if I would have booked these appointments and done all of the legwork earlier, I could have had the surgery now, when I was emotionally ready, but I wasn't in the place of acceptance before to take those steps to get the treatment. So it's a challenge for sure.
I started drafting this post on a Wednesday, the day after I was released from an emergency room trip that yielded absolutely no answers. Today is Saturday, over a week later. The biggest thing that has happened in that time is that last Friday I finally was able to schedule an appointment to see a neurosurgeon specialist for my Chiari, three hours away.
If this was a TV show, we would only see the highlights, and this whole two-week period, from emergency room visit to specialist's office, would be one episode. But this is real life, and there is life to be lived in the in-between, in the tension of not having answers or proper treatments or timelines. There are questions to be answered honestly when parents at your education job ask you how you're doing and you have no new news to give them. There are frustrated prayers to pray when you cry out to God, begging for a little peace among the pain as you try to wait the best and most faithfully you can.
I am looking forward to Wednesday, and the appointment with my neurosurgeon, an appointment that has taken months to schedule, like it's Christmas. But I am nervous about it too. What if it goes badly? What if they can't help me? Or won't? What if it makes all of this feel like I'm back at square one with treating my Chiari?
In the meantime, the best I can do is push the "what ifs" aside, pray a lot, trust God has a plan for all of this, lean on my support system and try to remember there is life to be lived in the wait. Unlike on a TV show, in real life the little moments matter. Each job shift where I get another opportunity to impact a life of a child. Each night I get to snuggle up with my daughter. Each time I get to go out on a date with my husband. These times are precious, and they deserve to be treated as such, not consumed by the worries of living in the in between.
So I wait, and I muster as much peace as God can possibly give me for the wait. The wait may be hard, but there is life – beautiful, full, worthwhile life – still to be found in it if one looks hard enough.
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We are looking for social media blogger / celebrity who can help us to promote our F&B Thai Dessert outlet, The Mango Garden Malaysia ([login to view URL]). We have 2 outlets in Thailand (Phi Phi Island and Siam Paragon Bangkok) and have expanded to Malaysia in April 2018, starting with the first store at Nu Sentral KL, followed by One Utama KL (August), IOI City Mall Putrajaya (September), The Gardens Mid Valley City (October) and Aeon Nilai Mall (January 2019), total 5 in Malaysia by Jan 2019. Thus, we need some social media people to help us create following and branding among social media users.
10 pekerja bebas membida secara purata $5/jam untuk pekerjaan ini
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ı am on the all the social media for a long time. I know all of them well. I hope we'll work together, thank you :)
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I am a social network manager and can help you manage your customers on facebook and other social sites for your stores. Thank you
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Hello , I'm come form Thailand and really interested to work in this project. If you have any question, Please keep it touch to have more information. I'm looking forward to work with you. Best regards, Elephan Lagi


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|Fernández de Salas, Pablo; Lattanzi, Massimiliano; Mangano, Gianpiero; Miele, Gennaro; Pastor Carpi, Sergio; Pisanti, Ofelia
|Aquest document és un/a article, creat/da en: 2015
|We consider the case of very low reheating scenarios (TRH∼(MeV)) with a better calculation of the production of the relic neutrino background (with three-flavor oscillations). At 95% confidence level, a lower bound on the reheating temperature TRH>4.1 MeV is obtained from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, while TRH>4.3 MeV from Planck data for very light (∑mi=0.06 eV) neutrinos. If neutrino masses are allowed to vary, Planck data yield TRH>4.7 MeV, the most stringent bound on the reheating temperature to date. Neutrino masses as large as 1 eV are possible for very low reheating temperatures
Fernández de Salas, Pablo Lattanzi, Massimiliano Mangano, Gianpiero Miele, Gennaro Pastor Carpi, Sergio Pisanti, Ofelia 2015 Bounds on very low reheating scenarios after Planck Physical Review D 92 123534-1 123534-9


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The voice of a keenly observant satirist is heard throughout "Buy the Bi and Bye," at the Richmond Shepard. Yet Felton Perry's play isn't as sharp as it must have been 10 years ago at Los Angeles Actors' Theatre. Some of the attitudes he skewers are not as prevalent as they were then; others have been roasted so often in the intervening years that they're no longer fresh for the fire.
Perry takes us to an "off-mainstream" theater in 1976, where a mostly black cast gathers to rehearse a play by a white schizophrenic writer-director. It's a lurid saga of a black family whose son brings home a white bride, complete with baby.
At first the comedy arises from the apparent gap between the white man's fantasies and the reality of the black actors' lives. But then we learn that the cheap melodrama is rooted in an actual chapter in the lives of the director and one of the cast members.
Stereotypes turn somersaults; the writer of the play-within-the-play knows more than appearances might indicate. Still, the fact remains that his play is terrible--so terrible that its extended passages eventually pall and begin to drag down "Buy the Bi and Bye" itself.


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Interactive Ethics Training
Answer to Question 4 (Quiz 3)
If you chose YES, you are correct.
Yes, an employee can have a bumper sticker.
PD-23 (Employee Political Activity and Participation in Employee Organizations) discusses guidelines for running for an elective office. It prohibits the following activities in connection with employee political activity while on agency premises/property: the placement, distribution, display, or wearing of any form of political campaign materials, including but not limited to, buttons, handbills, posters, shirts, hats, and the use of employee bulletin boards. Note: This does NOT include bumper stickers affixed on an employee's personal vehicle.
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The world of professional wrestling will never be the same thanks to an angel of the purest heart. From the over-the-top melodrama of the wrestling industry, to protagonist Ally Forman's daily challenges of life as a girl with big dreams and unusual hurdles, SHORT BUS HERO carries you through the full gamut of emotions and leaves you feeling alive at the end. Every time I took a breather, I couldn't wait for a chance to dive right back in the ring with Ally and her broken champion, Stryker.
Author Shannon Giglio does a fantastic job of not only plotting a story ripe with the kinds of believable-yet-spinning twists to draw you in deeper, but she delivers through a powerful voice full of wit and charm. On the technical side, details spanning from pro wrestling history, technique, and politics, to the medical and psychological accuracy of an insider's view of Down syndrome, build a colorful and realistic setting as intriguing as the characters themselves. The pacing ebbs and flows between action and drama, allowing time to fully absorb some of the more heartfelt moments before flying off the ropes into fist-pumping action, and the multiple layers of conflict keep tension at just the right pressure to maintain a high level of thrill.
By far, one of SHORT BUS HERO's strongest aspects is characterization. No cardboard people here. Each person, good and bad alike, possesses his or her unique flaws and gifts. More importantly, they grow throughout as they add dimension and life to the story. These are the kinds of characters one envisions stepping off the page in true Spielberg tradition. Their dialogue is as real as their struggles, from greed to alcoholism, though I have to admit Ms. Giglio does a great job of giving us both issue-riddled adults to make A&E drool, as well as a worst-hangover-ever moment to convince even the staunchest of teetotalers to never want to drink again.
SHORT BUS HERO is a well-written story with a strong plot and ton of lovable character. The overarching themes of tolerance, compassion, and heart of a hero are woven throughout. As engaging as it is touching, I can say at least twice I had to put the book down. I couldn't see the words anymore. For a beautiful snapshot of a little girl's heart and a chance to recharge my own, SHORT BUS HERO is a solid five-star, must read.


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Clever, as long as no one came by, noticed it, and reappropriated it. Because a UPS package has got to be good! It's secret projects, but at least you get the intro to the story.
Then yesterday I went to the post box and finally picked up my mail for the past week. I'm going to have to get my knitting in order so I can get in some spinning.
I won this fleece from Kim in the Storm the Fleece group on FB. I know - those colours!!! She included a surprise pkg of tea, which I am excited to try.
Todays post brought T-shirts.
I love teefury shirts, and have, with much self-restraint, not purchased any in over a year. I just couldn't resist when I saw these two.
"Stealing Time"
I have a few more on the way - $5 grab bag, with no charge for the upsize (American Apparel wears well but fits crazy small!!) Even with shipping + exchange, I'm happy to roll the dice.
The TRR Poncho is growing at a pleasing rate.
I started a child-sized Yuka sweater out of Bernat Giggles for Len's. Not nearly as pleasurable to work with, but needs must.
It's a lovely pattern; I think I should like to do one for myself out of something lovely when I get a day or two.
I went for physio today; got a list of exercises for stretching and strengthening to do at home. As well as a brace. Yes, so happy this is happening now as this would be a seriously not sexy look with shorts!
The chiropractor is quite fascinated with my injury and is looking forward to seeing my X-rays. Lol. He's not ever seen a break like this (high fibula, no lower ankle break, not from rolling and/or impact). He suggests that the muscles broke the bone by the way they sustained the injury. So I have weak bones and/or strong muscles. I'm rather more fond of the latter. I also found out that my ankle-modeling career is shot. Aside from the staple scars, this swelling, while it will reduce, will probably not diminish altogether for upwards of two years!! We are not pleased.
I also am in desperate need of a pedicure!!
Horrible cracks on my heel, not to mention the dryness all over my leg/foot. I'm creaming it at home, and doing my best to keep Petey from licking said cream off (weirdo).
I'm going to start driving again the end of this week, woo hoo!!! Freedom at last, again!!!
Okay ... Busy day, not quite over yet.
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Sam on 06/22/2011
My daughter traveled to DisneyWorld Resort with her high school drill team. They stayed at the "All Star Movies" hotel from March 5-9, 2011. She reported that the hotel was "nasty". Around March 30 is when we first noticed the bed bugs in her room here at home. I told her she needed to announce to the rest of the team they too could have carried some of these bugs home. No one else reported them, but then by the time everything was treated and we found out more info, school was out for the ye
ar. And not to mention, most people just don't want to speak about this in the public. We've been nowhere else to have possibly brought these into our home before Disney.
39 bedbug reports near this address:
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|Disneys Saratoga Springs Resort And Spa
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|Disneys All Star Music Resort
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|Disneys All Star Sports Resort
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|Orlando Courtyard Suites
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|Holiday Inn Nikki Bird
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|Ramada Inn Resort Maingate
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|Club Hotel Ionian Princess
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|Ramada Plaza And Inn Gateway
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|Clarion Hotel Maingate Kissimmee
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|Crabby Joe ( Clarion Hotel Maingate )
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|Disneys Coronado Springs Resort
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|1850 Animation Way
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|Disneys Coronado Springs Resort
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|Best Western Lakeside
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|Continental Plaza Hotel
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|Continental Plaza Maingate West
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|1200 Epcot Resorts Blvd
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|Walt Disney World Swan
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Sapphire PI-AM2RS690MHD AMD RS690 w/ HDMI ReviewPackaging »
IntroductionI would like to thank Sapphire Technology for supplying the tested motherboard.
AMD/ATI recently launched their first new chipset, called the AMD 690 which is based on the RS690G/V. A few days ago at CeBIT, Sapphire announced their RS690 motherboard. It comes with Sapphire's white PCB and offers all the chipset's features like HDMI on board.
For more information about the chipset, read our AMD 690 Preview.
|Sapphire PI-AM2RS690MHD
|All AMD Athlon64 AM2 processors, including Athlon FX Series
|HT Speed
|1000 MHz
|4x 240 Pin DDR2, Dual Channel DDR533/667/800, up to 8 GB
|Award Bios
|1x PCI-E x16
1x PCI-E x1
2x PCI
|HDD Connectivity
|1x ATA-133
|1x 10/100/1000 Mbps - Realtek RTL8110S-32 via PCI
|12x USB 2.0 (4 on Back Panel)
|7.1 Realtek ALC882D HD Audio + Digital Dolby
|Form Factor
|MicroATX 244 x 244mm
- AMD® RS690G+SB600 Chipset.
- Support for AMDTM K8 Processor in a Socket AM2 package.
- Support Hypertransport interface bus.
- Flexible motherboard design with onboard VRM, easy to upgrade
with future AMDTM K8 processors.
- 0.800V to 1.55V in 25mV steps.
- A total of four 240 pin DDRII SDRAM sockets (optional).
- DIMM sizes from 64 Mbytes to 4Gbyte.
- Supports Dual Channel 128-bit Wide Memory Interface.
- Supports 533/667/800 DDRII SDRAM memory types.[list]System BIOS[list]
- PnP, APM, ATAPI and Windows® 2000/XP.
- Full support of ACPI & DMI.
- Auto detects and supports LBA harddisk with capacities over 160GB.
- Easy to upgrade BIOS by end-user.
- Supports Plug and Play specification 1.1.
- Plug and play for Windows® 2000, as well as Windows® XP.
- Fully steerable PCI interrupts.
Onboard VGA
- Integrated ATI PCIE X1250 graphic core.
- Supports CRT or TV Out display.
- Integrated DAC and CRT controllers.
- Full screen/full speed video playback.
- Up to 2048x1536, non-interlaced screen resolution for CRT.
- Support DVI-D port (via header) (optional)[list]TV Out (optional)[list]
- Integrated TV encoder.
- 10-bit DAC with 4-tap filter.
- PAL/NTSC TV Out with Composite and S-Video outputs (via a header).
- ATI's exclusive "Composite Dot Crawl" freeze option for PAL
and NTSC to improve the picture quality.
- TV-Out power management support.
- Includes 2 OHCI host controllers.
- Includes 1 EHCI USB2.0 Host Controller that supports all ports
(Bandwidth is shared between the all ports).
- This motherboard supports USB 2.0 only on Windows® 2000
(with SP4 or above) and Windows® XP (with SP1 or above) operation
- One 16-lane PCI Express graphics port, fully compliant
with the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
- A base PCI Express frequency of 2.5Gb/s only.
- PCI Express support and Enhanced Addressing Mechanism.[list]PCI Express X1 Ports[list]
- Full PCI Express 1.0a compliant.
- One virtual channel support for full isochronous data transfers.
- Support for full 2.5Gb/s bandwidth in each direction per X1 lane.
- One onboard PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 2 ATA, ATA2 , Ultra
ATA33/66/100/133 IDE HDDs, CD-ROMs, ZIP drives and LS-120
drives as boot drive.
- One ECP/EPP parallel port.
- One 16550 Compatible UART serial port (via a header).
- One floppy port which supports two FDD of 1.44MB, 2.88MB capacity.
- Ten USB ports (six ports via three headers).
- PS/2 keyboard support.
- PS/2 mouse support.
- One front panel sound connector.
- Infrared (IrDA) support via a header.
- Provides 32-bit performance, PCI bus master capability.
- Full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 100 Base-T specifications and
IEEE 802.3X Full Duplex Flow Control.
- Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s (only for RTL8110S)
- Supports Wake-On-LAN function and remote wake-up.
- Supports ACPI, PCI Power management and PCI VPD.
- Integrated 30-bit TMDS HDMI interface.
- Support EIA-861B uncompressed digital video modes.
- HDMI accepts 50Hz video formats, and that supports HDTV capability.
- Supports firstname.lastname@example.com/60Hz.
- Supports SMM, APM and ACPI.
- Break switch for instant suspend/resume on system operations.
- Energy star "Green PC" compliant.
- Hardware monitoring circuit provides voltage, fan speed, etc. monitoring
- External Modem Ring-in Wake-up support.
- Supports suspend-to-RAM (STR) (optional).
(Note: Make sure that the current of your 5VSB power supply is more than
1.5A. Please use a 300 watt power supply or greater.)
- Compliant with 1394 OHCI specifications v1.0 and v1.1.
- Integrated 400Mbit 2 port PHY.
- Integrated HDA controller with HDA codec.
- Support 16/20/24 bit PCM format for 7.1 sound play back.
- Support SPDIF-IN/OUT .
- Windows® 2000/xp ready.
- Independent DMA operation on four ports.
- Data transfer rates of 300Mb/s.
- RAID feature support .
- 1 PCI Express X16 slot.
- 1 PCI Express X1 slot.
- 2 PCI slots, - ver. 2.2 compliant (optional).


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I am not gonna write an essay here. But I'll give you an idea. :) As mentioned in my last post, I am contemplating buying one of the following:
FZ16 (I can buy immediately), or
Classic 500! :D (perhaps in a couple of months I might be able to make the provisions), or
Bandit! :D :D (Yes, the 1250cc Bandit! God knows when I would be able to manage that kind of spare monies. Perhaps in about an year's time...)
The fear in waiting is that petrol would become so prohibitive that the one wouldn't feel like buying a Bandit at all. It would rob you instead! ;)


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Young readers will be astounded by the tiny organisms that live in soil, their ecological roles, and how they adapt to living there. Children will learn the value of even the smallest bacteria and be amazed by the impact that soil degradation has on an entire ecosystem.
Soil Erosion and How to Prvent It helps young readers see the real impact of erosion on all life. This intriguing book describes the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition, the impact of erosion on plants and animals, and kid-friendly steps to preventing erosion.
How Is Soil Made introduces children to the concepts of organic and inorganic parts of soil, the nutrient cycles of plants, and decomposition. Complex processes such as weathering, erosion, and deposition are also made easy to understand.
Scientists who have studied light and sound over the last few centuries invented many things that we still use today. Thomas Young, for example, proved that light moves in waves and invented prescription eyeglasses. The study of sound has led to inventions like the telephone and hearing aids. Thomas Edison studied both light and sound and invented such things as a long-lasting light bulb, the phonograph, and the first recording machine.
Find out how water moves, how it can be a solid, liquid, or gas. Find out how Earth can use the same water over again in the water cycle.
"Once upon a time" meets science in a children's picture book that tells the thrilling story of how life began on Earth. The second in a trilogy of Universe stories - the first being "Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story"-- this book picks up the story with the first appearance of life on Earth. It's a thrilling story about how Earth triumphs over crisis to become bacteria, jellyfish, flowers . . . even dinosaurs! The author, Jennifer Morgan, studied evolutionary science and saw its storytelling possibilities when she explained it to her elementary-age son. Coupled with brilliant artwork by Dana Anderson, who also studied Cosmology, these books will intrigue children and adults alike with their storytelling style and colorful pages.
There are so many different types of weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy and more! Learn what each weather type looks and sounds like in this helpful book created especially for young learners. Adorable illustrations and simple text make reading along easy!


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Further reading
Download a range of different resources such as guides, datasheets, infographics and green papers providing technical guidance to help support your penetration testing programme.
Webinar: how can penetration testing support your GDPR project?
Learn more about how penetration testing can help you with GDPR compliance by watching our free webinar. How can penetration testing support your GDPR project? is hosted by IT Governance's founder and executive chairman, Alan Calder, and head of technical services, David Grove, and explains how penetration testing can help organisations comply with the GDPR.
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Our penetration testing experts share practical insights about implementing a penetration testing programme. Designed to inform information security professionals, this webinar will help you to conduct effective, value-for-money penetration testing as part of a technical security assurance framework.
White paper - Assured Security: Getting cyber secure with penetration testing
Most organisations are the target of random, indiscriminate attacks, and they need an appropriate level of penetration testing to ensure their defences are adequate. But while many organisations know they need penetration testing, it can be hard to know how to fit them in to a larger security programme, or even how to get started.
Our white paper, "Assured Security: Getting cyber secure with penetration testing", provides a clear introduction to best-practice penetration testing.
Data sheet - Are your critical assets safe from hackers?
A penetration test identifies the vulnerabilities that leave your infrastructure and applications exposed, and gives you the information you need to close any gaps in your security.
Learn how IT Governance approaches a penetration test and how our penetration testing services can strengthen your security posture.
Case study – Collinson Group
Collinson Group is a rapidly evolving organisation that operates a diverse set of market-leading technologies. It needs its systems to be secure and dependable, but it had no way of knowing whether its defences provide adequate protection. Penetration testing provides that information.
Download the case study to find out how penetration testing helped Collinson Group test its ability to protect its applications.
Infographic - What is a penetration test and why would my company need one?
Hacking is not the preserve of master cyber criminals. Unskilled computer users can easily download and run hacking software designed to search for, find and exploit known vulnerabilities wherever they occur.
This infographic gathers the latest facts and figures on cyber attacks and hacking, and offers reasons organisations should test the security of their IT infrastructure – from networks to applications.
Infographic - Is your Wi-Fi under attack?
Wireless capabilities can provide opportunities for attackers to infiltrate an organisation's secured environment – irrespective of security access controls. Pen testing can help validate weaknesses in the wireless infrastructure.
This infographic describes the common types of Wi-Fi attack and how penetration testing can help to validate weaknesses.
Infographic - Are your employees resistant to phishing attacks?
As phishing attacks increase in frequency and sophistication, it is critically important that end users and businesses learn to identify them and how to react when they are being targeted.
To do our part in spreading cyber security awareness, we've created an infographic covering phishing attacks and what users can do to protect themselves against this common online threat.
Infographic - Is your web app under attack?
Web applications often process and/or store sensitive information including personally identifiable information, cardholder data and proprietary data. They connect with the corporate infrastructure and can communicate freely with the corporate Cloud at the point that users grant access through open authentication.
This infographic describes the application dilemma and offers suggestions for helping to answer the threat.
Infographic - Is your network under attack?
Network penetration tests focus on the organisation's boundaries – how it connects with the Internet and other external systems. If the interfaces are not designed correctly, this creates a perfect loophole for hackers to enter a network.
This infographic describes the risks posed to the network from both internal and external threats.
Penetration testing and the GDPR
Article 32 of the Regulation requires organisations to implement technical measures to ensure data security. For GDPR compliance, penetration tests are crucial because they provide a final, end-of-state check to make sure all the security controls required have been implemented correctly. They can also be used in the early stages of developing new processing systems to identify potential risks to personal data.
Download this green paper for practical guidance on how to conduct a penetration test that supports GDPR compliance.
Green paper - Penetration testing and ISO 27001
Penetration testing is an essential component of any ISO 27001 information security management system (ISMS), from initial development through to ongoing maintenance and continual improvement.
This free green paper describes how penetration testing fits into an ISO 27001 ISMS project.
Please contact us for further information or to speak to an expert.


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Sarah Palin told President Obama this weekend that the "game" is "on." But it remains less than clear what that game is.
Was Palin's speech this weekend at an anti-union "tea party" rally in Wisconsin a sign that the combustible former governor is growing more serious about a presidential bid? Or will she instead continue to lob anti-Obama rhetorical grenades from the sidelines?
After a busy campaign season in 2010, Palin has largely avoided public speaking engagements like the one she attended in Madison on Saturday. But the results of her appearance appeared mixed—and if Palin wants to bolster her standing among Republicans, which polls have shown to be steadily dropping, she may yet have some work to do.
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A few days ago, I had the opportunity to meet with a friend who lives 45 minutes away. We were going to meet at a park and let our kids play while we visited. I was ridiculously over excited about it because, well, I don't actually have any real friends. My friends consist of moms I've met through facebook groups. So when I actually had the chance to visit with someone face to face, it was pretty much the highlight of my week. The day of, I dropped Ben off at work so I could use the car, arranged the girls' nap time so we had plenty of time to get there, spent a good part of the day getting snacks ready, packing extra clothes, packing activities for the girls to do in the car, getting us all showered and dressed, doing our hair, putting on my makeup (something I do like twice a week when I leave the house)...I got the car packed up, I got the girls buckled, I turned the key to start the car, and...nothing happened. The car was dead. The play date was canceled.
It wasn't a huge deal, but to me it was. Because I get lonely. And I feel secluded as a stay at home mom. And I almost never get to visit with anyone face to face. And I was super excited. And then disappointed. And then discouraged.
Yesterday I dropped Ben off at work so I could use the car for the day. We needed groceries. Before I drove away from Ben's work, he used his phone to check how much money was in the bank (less than $100) and I planned on spending less than half. We spent 45 minutes at the store, only to get to the check outs, have the cashier scan all my groceries, swipe my card and find that it was declined. Three tries later...yep, definitely declined. Come to find out the less than $100 we had in the bank was actually less than $0 due to a bank fee we were charged while I was shopping. I drove home feeling pretty discouraged. I went through all the trouble of putting my grocery list together, getting the girls ready, dropping Ben off at work, doing the actual shopping, then drove home with no meals for the next three nights. Plus the girls were upset because I promised them Rolo's and they even watched the cashier scan them and we had to walk away without them. And I felt like the worst mom in the world for that.
Ben bought the groceries we needed when he got off work last night. Not sure where he came up with the money. But that part of the story had a happy ending at least. We're not going hungry for the rest of the week. But it was still a discouraging situation to be in.
Today after lunch, I put together some delicious Teriyaki chicken drums and stuck them in the crock pot. Checked on them an hour and a half later to find them room temperature because I accidentally set the temperature to "warm" instead of "high". So...our dinner tonight may or may not give us food poisoning.
A little later, the girls and I attempted to make homemade play doh, which I do often. I used the same recipe I always use and have never had any trouble with. Today it turned out all dry and gross. I tried to fix it by adding some water to it. Then it was a soggy mess and impossible to mold.
After that, we tried making homemade salt water taffy. I found a super simple recipe and followed it exactly. It never hardened enough to pull it. We snacked on it for a while and then threw the rest away.
After an afternoon of failures, I decided we needed to get outside and play at the playground. The playground that is close enough for us to walk to (which is amazing since my husband takes our only car to work 6 days a week). The playground that we've lived across the street from for a year and a half. The playground that we spend AT LEAST an hour at on EVERY SINGLE day that it's not raining, and on nice days we go two or three times, and spend up to two and a half hours playing there at a time. We consider it our second backyard. Well today, we walked there and found it to be a construction zone. It was a disaster. The swings had been torn out. There was gravel everywhere. Orange construction fencing (or whatever it's called) surrounded our precious playground. I was honestly devastated. And it was another promise I broke for the girls since I told them they could play at the park and we couldn't get to one.
The park thing was the last straw for me. It totally tore me apart. I was overwhelmed with discouragement. But I refuse to stay in a bad place for very long. I'd been planning on making a 30 Days of Thankfulness list for Thanksgiving. I knew I needed to do it now to snap me out of my mood, but I could not for the life of me think of a single thing I was thankful for in the midst of my utter discouragement. We walked home, made some hot chocolate, I spilled boiling water all over my legs (did I mention I'm PMSing?) and I turned to my sweet three year old to snap me back into a happy place. I explained to her that it was almost Thanksgiving, told her that Thanksgiving was a time to remember the things we're thankful for, told her what the word "thankful" means, and asked her to make a list of things she was thankful for. I grabbed a piece of paper and started scribbling as she chatted away, listing all the things she was thankful for deep down in her precious little heart.
- Playing with books
- All my wonderful toys
- The beautiful day
- The Kipper show.
- Happy that Suki Sunshine is gone (our puppy we recently re-homed).
- My candy
- Myself
- That God made me
- The beautiful water
- Numbers
- Puppies
- Money to buy me food and toys
- Bears
- Animals and blocks
- Hot chocolate
- Play-doh
- The wonderful butterflies
- The wonderful momma
- The wonderful daddy
- The wonderful pictures I made
- The wonderful snacks
- The wonderful Emerald
- Taking care of Emerald
- The wonderful plants
- The wonderful library and books
- Mommy's phone
- Now I'm happy for the refrigerator because there's always snacks in the refrigerator.
- The wonderful God because I love Him and I do the right things for Him. That makes God so happy.
- My hair.
- Kisses. Chocolate kisses (Hershey's kisses) and just plain kisses. Just because I love them so much.
- Cups. Because there's hot chocolate inside.
- Cupcakes.
- Spoons because you eat potatoes with them.
- Forks because you eat hot dogs with them.
- The wonderful snails.
- The wonderful flowers
- Hearts because they come from you, Mommy (I draw hearts on her papers when she asks me to draw something for her).
- Jesus and our salvation. I don't think I've ever truly appreciated God's gift of salvation and the sacrifice Jesus made for us on the cross until my dad died. It is so amazing to be 100% certain that he is in heaven with Jesus, completely pain free and happier than he ever was on earth. It makes his death less sad and it brings hope to death, which for unbelievers is a hopeless situation. Even though I miss him every day, I know that he's better off now than ever and I know that he's alive through Jesus and I will see him again someday.
- My husband...who has stood by me through the good and the bad (honestly looking back there's been more bad than good) the past 4 years.
- Mercedes. My sweet, sweet 3 year old. She makes me laugh and teaches me new things every day. She constantly challenges me and helps me to become a better mom.
- Emerald. My baby. Even though she is currently going through an 18 month old version of the terrible twos, I can't imagine one day of my life without her.
- My job. Okay, so I don't get paid. But being a stay at home mom is the most rewarding experience I can possibly imagine. And even on the worst days, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I am so thankful that my husband is willing to work 6 days a week and support us completely so I can raise and teach my girls at home.
- My husband's job. This year, Ben was promoted to lead tech at Firestone. While he is an incredibly intelligent and a hard worker and totally deserved the promotion, it's an opportunity that is super rare for someone who has only had 3 years of experience as a mechanic. His boss recognized his potential and gave him a chance to learn as he works. The promotion also came with a raise and the chance to do more and bigger jobs. Such a blessing for our family and Ben is loving it.
- My marriage. Ben and I have both had reasons to walk away from each other over the past 4 years. Yet by the grace of God we're learning to have a grace filled marriage and forgive each other. We're in a better place in our marriage right now than we've ever been before, so this Thanksgiving season I'm more thankful for my marriage than ever before.
- Our home. We are blessed with an incredible 3 bedroom duplex with a finished basement so the girls have plenty of room to play. It's the first house I haven't felt overcrowded and claustrophobic in, and it's plenty big enough that we don't have to worry about moving again until we're ready to buy.
- Our town. Ben and I are constantly restless because we would love to live by the ocean or the mountains or somewhere with more to see and do. But since my dad recently passed away and this is my hometown where all my family lives, I'm very blessed to live here and was able to spend unlimited time with my dad during his last days, and now we are close to my family so we can all support each other. God knows best and even though we've always wished we lived anywhere else but here, right now I know that this is exactly the best place for us to be.
- Our yard. This is the first home we've had a yard, which means it's the first home we've been able to keep outside toys for the girls. They have a swing, a slide, a sandbox, bikes, lots of smaller outside toys we keep in a bin for them, plus a vegetable garden and a strawberry patch.
- Our park. Even though our precious playground is gone, we still live across the street from a 13 acre park for the girls to run around in. It's basically like having a 13 acre backyard. And I'm assuming the reason why our playground is a construction zone is because next spring we're going to have an even better playground.
- Sleep. For the first time in 3 1/2 years (not counting the 9 months I was pregnant before the 3 1/2 years began), our girls are both sleeping through the night and Ben and I are getting a solid 8 hours of sleep a night. I never thought I'd get to sleep through the night again, and I have to tell you, it is BLISS.
- Our health. Even during the worst of the girls' anti-sleep phases, in the back of my mind I am so thankful that all of us are healthy. Not only do we all have immune systems out the roof and have not had so much as a runny nose so far this fall (thanks to homemade elderberry syrup, probiotics, multivitamins and lots of oranges and grapefruits packed with vitamin C and antioxidants, plus making sure we get AT LEAST an hour of fresh air and exercise outside every day), but since the girls were born we have not had to battle a single serious health issue with either of them or with me or Ben. We have been incredibly blessed to have such a healthy family.
- Homeschooling. This goes along with being a stay at home mom, but this year Mercedes has started home school preschool and she is an absolute joy to teach. She is thriving and loving every second of it and so am I. I love researching and coming up with projects and activities to do to help her learn her letters and watching her enjoy them and get smarter right before my very eyes. She's a pretty special kid.
- Our car. We share a car, which is a pain and I tend to forget to be thankful for it. But for the first time, Ben works close enough to home so I can drop him off at work, and the girls don't scream bloody murder every time I stick them in their car seats like they did when they were younger, so it's easy for me to borrow the car for the day and do our errands and grocery shopping and take the girls to the doctor without disrupting Ben's entire day off. I also don't feel so isolated and stranded now that having the car is at least an option most days. It's great.
- My workouts. Ever since Emerald was 4 months old, Ben has taken the girls for me for at least half an hour every evening so I can do a Jillian Michael's workout video. Not only did I lose all of my baby weight plus some, but I also feel a ton stronger and healthier, have lots of energy (especially now that I'm sleeping better) and the 30 minutes a day child-free works wonders for my nerves and my brain.
- Groceries. This is the first time since we've been married that our budget includes enough money to buy plenty of food for our family without the help of food stamps or WIC checks. Ben also gives me money every week to buy the girls new clothes and preschool supplies which we've never been able to do consistently before. No matter how tight money is and how much we struggle to pay the bills on time and get out of debt, I don't have to worry about my family going hungry and that is an awesome feeling.
- Our computer. The girls have successfully destroyed two computers in two years, by giving them "baths" or "drinks" or whatever they think they're doing when they pour a cup of liquid all over them. So this is our third computer in two years and somehow no matter how tight money is, Ben always manages to come up with enough money to buy us a new one.
- My blog. I had no idea when I started this blog two years ago that it would turn into what it is today. It's nowhere near the biggest or the best mommy blog out there, but it consistently gets around 150+ page views a day and my blog's facebook fan page has over 130 fans, so when I write posts like this one I know I have the chance to impact at least a few people. It's my way of being able to touch people's lives without leaving my house. Without taking time away from my girls. Without having a full time job. I can encourage people and share my ideas and thoughts with the world as a stay at home mom. It is a huge blessing.
- My mommy groups on facebook. I've already admitted that I have no friends to speak of in my town. But I do have an incredible support system on the Internet. These moms share my same passions and beliefs as far as how I am raising my kids, and have given me endless encouragement and support whenever I need it. It's also an opportunity for me to share encouragement and advice with new moms and it has been a great source for educating myself on how to be a better mom. I honestly don't know what kind of mom I'd be right now without my Internet support system. I am incredibly thankful for my mommy friends across the United States.
- My phone. Ben splurged and bought me a smart phone for my birthday. I was completely surprised and thrilled since my old phone didn't even have texting. Not only can I text and use the Internet anywhere now which is awesome, but my phone is filled with educational preschool games that Mercedes loves so it's a great big kid toy for her that I use as a reward for her good behavior a few times throughout the day. It's also a special treat for Emerald because I let her watch videos on YouTube (which is much better than watching them on the computer, apparently). Even her worst moods can be remedied with a little phone time. After having it for a few weeks I don't know how I ever lived without it.
- My camera. Anyone who has ever spent any time on my blog knows that I take WAY TOO MANY pictures. But I love being able to record my kids' childhood with photos. They are growing up right before my eyes so even when I take picture of them every single day I never feel like it's enough. As sad as it is to watch them change from babies to big kids, at least I know I'll always have photos to keep the memories fresh.
- Thrift stores. Where we buy most of the girls' toys and where I buy most of my clothes. For almost nothing. Seriously. Thrift stores are awesome.
- Our snake, Vector. I've wanted a snake as long as I can remember, and this spring Ben made that dream a reality. Our sweet baby corn snake is an awesome addition to our family. All four of us are obsessed with him. The girls beg to hold him all day long. We love him.
- Like Mercedes, I'm thankful that our puppy Suki Sunshine has been re-homed. While we loved her, she was more trouble than we could handle right now. She's completely loved and treated like part of the family at her new home, and our family's stress level has significantly decreased since she left.
- Painted walls. We (against the rules) painted the inside of our rented house blue, green and pink and every day I am so happy we did it. My girls and I are incredibly creative people, and living in a white house is BORING.
- Artwork. I love that in addition to painted wall, our home is decorated mostly by artwork by my girls plus stickers and crayon/marker scribbles all over the walls. It makes our home just that much happier.
- Gluten Free food. There are a million options for gluten free everything compared to when I first got diagnosed with Celiac Disease 8 1/2 years ago. I'm much less hungry now. Also my cravings can all be satisfied.
- The Merc. An amazing health food store we live walking distance from, stuffed full of gluten free food, and natural herbs, pills and teas we have used to remedy countless health and mental issues over the years. From what I've heard from my mommy friends around the US, not every town is blessed with a place like this.
- Chocolate. Because seriously, sometimes a little chocolate is an instant cure for all the world's problems. And even though I am working on a rest-of-my-life sugar fast, my love and complete addiction to chocolate will never truly go away.


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Hap[py Sunday!
Here we had a very busy weekend. In my home town there was
an art route. These are locations around town that are open
and show all kinds of different art works. Our Clubhouse
from the boatclub was part of this event. My husband and I
were busy with this from Friday until today.
We had two femaile painters whos showed their work.
We had a lot of visitors this weekend, nearly 400!
For this page I used a
Michael Strong stamp
and Club Scrap papers.
So here you see some of the paintings that were hanging there.
I used Michael Strongs Cloisonné Nesting stamp as a frame
for the paintings. I stamped with versamark
on the dark purple paper and embossed the frames in gold.
For the painting I used the complete frames,
but I also used part of the frames for decoration
on the pictures.
Here you see a class of children coming to listen to the artist
telling them how she works. Next you see some of the exhibition
and on the last picture you see the many people who came.
It was a great sunny weekend and very satisfying to see so
many people coming to the Clubhouse.
Thank yopu very much for looking.
Have a creative day.


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Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (formerly known as SoftGrid). This is the first Microsoft-branded release of the product, which includes new capabilities that make it easy for enterprise IT organizations to support large-scale, global application virtualization implementations.
Microsoft Application Virtualization is now available in a public beta on Microsoft Connect and will be generally available through both the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and Terminal Services in Q3 CY2008.
Dynamic Virtualization: Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 allows the flexibility to control virtual application interaction. Administrators wanting to consolidate virtual environments, and enable faster, easier administration, can use the product's Dynamic Suite Composition, which sequences and manages packages for middleware applications separately from the main application. It shrinks potential package size by eliminating redundant packaging of middleware, allowing, for instance, multiple web applications to communicate with the same single instance of a virtualized .NET Framework or Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Updates for the common virtual middleware are simplified as well as one virtual application is updated instead of several. This "many-to-one" capability greatly reduces the cost of updates. It also makes it easier to deploy and manage applications with multiple plug-ins and add-ins, and improves management of plug-in distribution to different user groups.
Extended Scalability: Choose among three flexible deployment modes:
System Center Application Virtualization Management Server, which ships as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and Microsoft Application Virtualization for Terminal Services packages, enables dynamic streaming including package/active upgrades, and requires Active Directory and SQL Server;
System Center Application Virtualization Streaming Server, a lightweight version which also ships as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and Microsoft Application Virtualization for Terminal Services packages, offers application streaming including package/active upgrades without the Active Directory and database overheads, and enables administrators to deploy to existing servers or add streaming to Electronic Software Delivery systems; and
Standalone mode allows virtual application execution without streaming and is interoperable with Microsoft Systems Management Server/System Center Configuration Manger 2007 and third-party ESD systems.
New features that enhance manageability include improved diagnostics and reporting on the client and server; health monitoring for System Center Application Virtualization Management Server; integration with System Center Operations Manager 2007; auto-load (pre-cache) options; and support for Microsoft Update for all application virtualization components (except virtualized applications). This release also adds support for Windows Server 2008 32-bit Terminal Services (Microsoft Application Virtualization for Terminal Services only).
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Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka has taken a dig at Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola ahead of the two sides meeting this weekend by claiming that he isn't the best boss in the Premier League as Jose Mourinho has that distinct title.
Despite all three men now managing in the Premier League it is fair to say that there is no love lost as the ties o Real Madrid and Barcelona remain clear.
Karanka, who won the Champions League as a player with Real before joining Mourinho's coaching staff as assistant manager at the Bernabeu, takes on Guardiola on Saturday with his Middlesbrough side.
And ahead of the meeting the 'Boro boss had some choice words for his counterpart by suggesting that he isn't even the best manager in Manchester.
But not only that, he hinted that their relationship has more of an edge given their history.
"For me, Jose is a better manager than Pep," Karanka told the Daily Mail.
"I worked with Jose for three years and I know his methodology, I know his character, I know everything.
"For me it was amazing to work with him, so I know him better than Pep."
"We (myself and Pep) are not (friends) because Real Madrid versus Barcelona were big games.
"Once you've been part of that divide, it stays there. But I think it is the same here if you are Newcastle, Sunderland or Middlesbrough. I think it's always the same.
"I wasn't with him in the national team (either) so I didn't have a relationship with him."
Pep 'not the best'
Karanka then went on to reel off a lift of managers that he feels are held in just a high a regard as the City chief, and when asked if he felt Guardiola was one of the best in the game he responded: "One of the best. But I don't think one is much better than the rest because we also have Jose.
"We have Diego Simeone in Spain, Jurgen Klopp, Mauricio Pochettino and Antonio Conte here, so there are a lot of top coaches."
Karanka also backed former City striker Alvaro Negredo to shine upon his return to the Etihad, two-and-a-half years after leaving the club.
Negredo initially found a hot run of form for City, bagging 23 goals in the first half of the 2013/14 season across all competitions, but failed to find the net again beyond the turn of the year.
The 31-year-old is currently going through another dry spell at the Riverside, having failed to score since the opening day of the season, but Karanka believes the striker will have something to prove against his former club.
"When you have played in a big team and now you are facing up against them in their stadium, I think it will be an extra motivation for him," he said.
"I don't know exactly what went wrong for him there, but as a striker, you can probably think that it was a lack of confidence. 'If you are in a team like Man City and you start losing your position, it can be hard to get back to your best again."


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Today, data center company Cologix announced that the construction of a 160k sq.ft, MW data center in Columbus has begun. The new facility will become Columbus's largest neutral data center and will be linked to Cologix's existing data centers. The project is estimated to cost over $130 million.
Cologix claims that they have designed the site with the most sophisticated cloud providers and enterprises in mind. They say that the data center will be built based on a concurrently maintainable design with 2N power and N+1 cooling.
Grant van Rooyen, CEO, Cologix said :
Cologix's position as the leading data center and interconnection provider in Columbus has provided a unique perspective on key trends in the market.
Large enterprises are increasingly interested in outsourcing internal data centers with an eye toward leveraging cloud services for some aspects of their IT systems.
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I woke up this morning with the strange realization that this is my very last day with Office Dynamics International. What a very weird feeling.
As I write this I am feeling all the emotions. I'm remembering many of our incredible stories that we've collected over the last decade of partnership. Life has been filled with so much joy and with an unbalanced amount of pain. We've been through it all, together.
Many have been shocked and even baffled by my decision to leave the incredible opportunity that I have had here with Office Dynamics. Hey, me too. When I said yes to Joan more than ten years ago, I had a great job and I was making progress in my career. I had great friends and family all around me…two young babies and an older son with split custody with his father. My husband had built his own lawn and landscape business and it was thriving. On paper, it was picture-perfect. There was no reason to leave Iowa. But, within me, there was longing to fulfill my potential in a different way. When the opportunity to work with Joan Burge in Las Vegas presented itself, and my husband was on board with the possible move, I went for it. We were both surprised that I got the job!
This has been an unbelievable story. I wish I could chronicle the entire timeline of my ten years. Maybe I'll write my own book someday? I'd love to share these ten consistent messages that I've learned over and over during my time here at Office Dynamics working with the legend that is Joan Burge. Okay, I will throw in a bonus, too.


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Claire Danes spent several minutes discussing her father-in-law, Jonathan Dancy (of particularism fame), on Craig Ferguson's show!
Dancy was on my dissertation committee. He read my dissertation and let me know that it was done. That was very helpful, especially coming from an opponent of my view.
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Gorman: Pens protégés still saluting Sarge
Sergei Gonchar stood outside the Ottawa Senators dressing room at Consol Energy Center, smiling at the suggestion that he played a part in Evgeni Malkin winning the Hart Trophy last year and Kris Letang being named a Norris Trophy finalist this season.
"I'm happy for both of those guys," Gonchar said. "When I played with them, you could see the talent right away, the dedication — they both work hard, make sure they do what it takes to improve every day — so, for me, it doesn't come as a surprise.
"It was just a matter of time."
The Penguins make no secret that Gonchar had much to do with the success of Malkin and Letang, two of the game's premier players at their positions.
What isn't as obvious is the impact he had on the core of the 2009 Stanley Cup champions.
"Gonch was a guy who wasn't very vocal but just the way he carried himself, he was such a respected guy just by the way he played," said Brooks Orpik, Gonchar's former Penguins defense partner. "He probably wasn't even aware of it, but I think he rubbed off on a lot of guys. A lot of guys watched his every move, just how he carried himself, how he acted in certain situations and how he treated people."
Gonchar was the calming influence, both on the ice and in the dressing room, for those young Penguins. It's worth remembering that they were on the outside looking in on the playoffs until his February return from a shoulder injury.
Since he left for Ottawa in 2010, the Penguins have tried each year to replace his veteran presence and quiet leadership.
It's no coincidence that they have had little luck doing so and, after being billed as a budding dynasty, have failed to make another prolonged playoff run.
Now their playoff march goes through Ottawa and Gonchar, still a standout defenseman and power-play point man for the Senators in what, at 39, should be the twilight of his career.
Gonchar led the Senators with 24 assists, including 10 on the power play, and ranked second with 27 points in the regular season. He has four assists this postseason, all against Montreal.
Letang marvels at how his power-play predecessor not only still is skating with the game's greats but also remains the same old Sarge: As in, still in charge.
"He's what — 38 or 39? — and he still manages to play the game with control," Letang said. "He's managing the game. He's still good on the power play. He's still doing the same stuff that he was doing with us. That's why he's had success with them."
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma credited Gonchar for being "a huge factor" in helping his fellow Russian Malkin adapt to language and cultural changes.
Malkin went so far as to publicly thank Gonchar, whom he considers a great friend more so than a mentor, upon winning the Hart Trophy as MVP last year.
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby also is close with and fond of Gonchar, who was instrumental in helping Crosby and Malkin communicate and find common ground.
And the feeling is mutual as Gonchar takes pride in the role he played for the Penguins.
One thing you can't teach, however, is temperament. That's where Letang and Malkin got into trouble last year in the playoffs. Both have behaved better this year but still have a tendency to lose their minds on the ice every now and then.
That's where Gonchar's absence is missed most.
"Both of those guys have kind of a temper," Orpik said. "Gonch was always so even-keeled. In the five years I played with him, I think I saw him get mad once or twice. Guys viewed that: No matter how high or low in games, he was really reserved and just went with stuff."
Gonchar attributes that to age and experience. Whereas he was 31 years old and a 10-year veteran when he joined the Penguins, it's worth noting that Letang and Malkin are only 26.
"When you're younger, you have a little bit more fire in you, I guess," Gonchar said. "Obviously all three of us have different personalities. Just the way they are, that fire, I'm sure, is helping them. My calmness probably helps in some way, too."
Gonchar hopes to gets under the skin and into the heads of the Penguins stars throughout this second-round series.
"I'm not going to tell you all the secrets," he said, "but, yeah, you can see it in all great players: When things aren't going their way, you can see some frustration. That's the way the game is."
Spoken like someone who knows the game but didn't teach his Penguins protégés everything he knows.
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(Editor's note: since this story was posted, the end of the world has failed to arrive. Nonetheless some of born-again Christians who were "orgying" pre-Rapture have apparently continued to do so post-Rapture. They include the good people of Axe Handle Alabama, whom we photographed for our story. As of this writing they're still making whoopi in their local mega-church's font several days later. As one woman put it: "Honey when we fornicate we take our time. People our size it can take a while figuring out what goes where!")
May 19th 2011: A Californian preacher's assertion that the world will end next Saturday evening is good news for bars, brothels, and drug dealers across the Bible Belt. With Judgment Day less than a week away, Baptists and Evangelicals are seizing the opportunity to have sex with that guy in Parts and Service or that red-head in Piggly Wiggly they've lusted after for years. And they're getting 'trashed' on legal and illegal substances while they do.
As one Baptist woman put it at her church in suburban Atlanta, "We're partying like there's no tomorrow because come Saturday, there won't be no tomorrow."
The phenomenon may seem counterintuitive to those of other faiths, but given the fundamentalist tradition of predestination, it makes perfect sense. On Saturday around the happy hour, those who are 'saved' will be 'Raptured' – or snatched bodily up to Heaven by Jesus. Knowing the 'day and the hour,' as Jesus put it, of their deliverance and having had all their sins forgiven them, they're free to do anything they like between now and then. If it's a sin, it's pre-forgiven. The vast majority of preachers and pastors agree with this theology, and are leading orgies in megachurches across the region, praising Jesus even as they climax multiple times, 'wasted' on cocaine and Ecstasy.
"We are SAVED!" beams Randy Wright a 40-ish Pentecostal deacon and senior snake-handler from Tuscaloosa, sneezing as he tries to snort marijuana. "All is forgiven unto the end of time! Any sin I commit, I'll still be Raptured!"
Like other white, obese and preternaturally unattractive Christians whom angels will snatch up to Heaven May 21st - though in his case at the risk of an angelic hernia – Randy's having no trouble hooking up with similarly full-figured partners. Pentecostal or not and of both genders.
Until last week, when he heard he would be Raptured and began to party down, Randy not only didn't know he was bisexual, he didn't know what the term meant: "Like...a fancy word for prostitution?"
New Orleans native Brian Bradley echoes that experience. He says for years he'd been tempted by what the Bible calls 'lying with thy fellow man' but didn't know how to "be gay." Last weekend, a born-again friend from San Francisco showed him how, at a pre-Rapture orgy in the megachurch he attends. Judging by the three-way action Brian was enjoying in the back of a Bourbon Street bar when he spoke to a reporter, the initiation was successful.
The only problem? As he had a J for JC an hour or so later, Brian said he was having second thoughts about Saturday. "I ain't so sure I want to be Raptured - not now I've been gay a few times."


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Wooh! Two cameos in one episode.
And one of them is a return cameo from JOTA, as he reprises his character on Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo in Episode 15.
Although it's a barely-there-appearance with no dialogue, we at least noticed him. He's that guy that showed up to the party, made an appearance, and then slipped away when no one was looking.
So you may easily have missed it. What with Nam Joo Hyuk's abdominal distraction and all. Happy cameo hunting in dramaland, y'all.


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Before 1960, there were more Vendo 83s made than any other model of Vendo soda machine. It was the first coin-operated, upright soda vending machine made by Vendo that they mass-produced. As with all other Vendo machines, it was manufactured exclusively for the Cola-Cola Company. The 83s with a mechanical coin mechanism were manufactured from 1946 through 1957, and those with an electrical coin mechanism were built from 1953 through 1957.
We have some great vintage photos of Vendos that we wanted to share with you. The photos vary in subject from production lines to staged publicity shots, but we thought they were interesting and that you might enjoy them. The following two photos were taken in a Vendo soda machine factory.
And then we have the assorted "chatting around the Vendo 83" photos. These illustrate the Vendo 83 in different environments such as the workplace and a grocery store.
The next two photos are of models posing with a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Vendo 83. Those are followed by a man dressed as a Vendo soda machine serviceman beside and open Vendo 83. He is pointing to the loading instructions inside the door of the machine.
This last photo is interesting in that it shows a Vendo 83 embossed in Spanish. Rather than "Drink Coca-Cola", it says "Tome Coca-Cola" and instead of "Ice Cold", it says "Bien Helada". Vendo evidently built this machine for the booming Coca-Cola market in Mexico. We hope you enjoy all of these vintage Vendo 83 photos and we will continue to post more like these in the future.
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For some people, charting the topography of the universe is easier than locating the wormholes in their own apartments. Brian Greene, a boyish, mediagenic Columbia physics professor, is wandering helplessly around his living room in Morningside Heights, trying to find an autographed picture of John Lithgow. He scans the bookcase, whose shelves are studded with hiking guides, Camus novels, and videotapes of physics symposia from all over the world. He pulls down a stack of folders, lecture notes, and yellowing newspapers, and begins to sift.
Greene received the photograph a year ago, after helping a Hollywood friend punch up some dialogue for NBC's 3rd Rock From the Sun. On the show, Lithgow plays a crackbrained physics professor from outer space, and as a point of professional pride, he likes his science patter to make sense. Greene was delighted to pitch in. He's always had a peripheral interest in show business. In his spare time, he studies acting; and in 1995, while teaching at Cornell, he performed in a community-theater production of a Harold Pinter play. Right now he's trying to drum up funding for a three-part public-television series on physics starring, potentially, himself. But Brian Greene isn't just a physicist who'd like to play one on TV. At 36, he holds tenured positions in both the math and the physics departments at Columbia University, and adjunct professorships at Cornell and Duke. His specialty is string theory, the spellbinding, diabolically complicated school of physics that attempts to describe everything in the known universe from quarks to supernovas. Ed Witten, the Princeton colossus who has dominated string theory for more than a decade, believes that Greene is one of the top three or four string theorists of his generation -- and string theorists are some of the brightest people on the planet. They may be the ones to finally pick up where Einstein, at the lonely and frustrated end of his career, left off: with a unified field theory of the cosmos.
Greene finally finds the Lithgow picture in a manila envelope, buried in a loose pile of family photographs. "Brian," the inscription says. "Thank you for your equations on quantum chromodynamics. John." Greene smiles. "It was so cool," he says, "to hear John Lithgow talking about quark jets."
String theory, also known as superstring theory, has been around since the late sixties, but only in 1984 did a surge of persuasive new data start forcing scientists to reckon with its claims. Suddenly, conferences were being held, MacArthur "genius" awards were being given, and a moniker was born: "the Theory of Everything." The term still gives some physicists, including Greene, a rash.
Now the field of string theory is white-hot, luring the physics world's bright young stars deep into the hearts of the universe's collapsing ones. Harvard's last two physics hires were string theorists, and breakthroughs in the discipline are eagerly reported by the mainstream press. (Last July, when a group of physicists opened a banquet with a song about string theory set to the tune of "The Macarena," even that made the science section of the New York Times.) The attention has excited resentment and envy in some scientists, particularly those who see string theory as a fad whose charms are overblown. "Don't tell anyone in my department this," a Princeton graduate student confessed to me recently as he was making his way over to the math building, "but I'm a closet string theorist."
For all that it promises, string theory has never been proved experimentally. But if what it says is correct, the basic inconsistencies of twentieth-century physics will wondrously evaporate. The theory rests on a very simple premise: that the smallest building blocks of the universe -- muons, photons, gluons, and all those other particles that sound like Santa's reindeer -- are generated by the vibrations of tiny, quivering loops of string. The whole universe is made up of them, tied up with them, if you prefer, as if the cosmos were a shimmering aeolian harp.
Actually, that last image is stolen from Greene's first book, The Elegant Universe, which will start appearing in stores next week. Publishers Weekly has already given Greene a rapturous write-up ("He possesses a remarkable gift for using the everyday to illustrate what may be going on in dimensions beyond our feeble human perception"), and Kirkus Reviews declared the book "possibly the clearest popular treatment to date of this complex subject." W.W. Norton & Company, Greene's publisher, hopes he can do for string theory what Stephen Jay Gould did for evolution, Stephen Hawking for black holes, and Richard Feynman for quantum electrodynamics: give science a friendly face, and make a chart-busting best-seller out of a rarefied subject.


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text: The new owners of the American Cheerleading Academy plan to open Lake County's first dinner theater on the 100-acre complex in Fruitland Park. More than 1 million young people have learned cheerleading at the academy since it opened 26 years ago, but the complex also has hosted its share of big-name performers. During the past decade, Count Basie played the center three times, and other performances have been put in by bands for Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey. The center's new owners, Robert and Alice Atkins of Polk County, hope to begin holding live musical productions at the center this year, and by next year be prepared for the dinner and theater combinations.


text: BEHIND THE SCENES AT BALLARD DESIGNS December 19, 2012 Two weeks ago I (along with a few other bloggers across the country) was treated to a behind the scenes look at Ballard Designs, the European-inspired home furnishings company headquartered here in Atlanta….it was bananas. We had a full day tour of the Ballard offices and learned all about their extensive processes for selecting merchandise and shooting their coveted catalogs. The research they go through is beyond comprehensive and the visual details are a huge part of getting to the final product–rest assured that Ballard sells nothing without keeping the wants of their ideal customer at the heart of the selection process . It's such a collaborative effort–everyone brings in inspirational tear sheets, they sort through the various ideas, talk concepts and start to pull the catalog layout together from there. From a business perspective, I love their process because it's such a great reminder that inspiration can be found anywhere! While the January/February catalog should be mailboxes next week, they were actually already shooting the March catalog so we were treated to an off-site visit at a gorgeous custom-built home that Ballard rented to shoot their catalog. The amount of hands on-set and sheer volume of props, furniture, food & styling accessories reminded me of my time working as a Design Assistant on the TBS show Movie & A Makeover…except with about two times the stuff. Jill Sharp Brinson, Ballard's Creative Director (and whose house, you may remember, was featured in House Beautiful awhile back) created these great vignettes throughout the home that were gorgeous…can't wait to see how the catalog comes together once it gets to my door. HUGE thanks to the Ballard team that put this event together–Mollie Kitchens (Marketing Manager), James Pope (Director of Business Development), Karen Mooney (Vice President of Creative Services) & Ryan McKelvey (President). We started out the night before our tour with dinner at Ecco (have you ever had fried goat cheese?? Definitely not Paleo, but it was D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S) and then began our morning with breakfast and they were so transparent about their business, processes & history…I was honored to be included in this group! Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Related 5 Comments on BEHIND THE SCENES AT BALLARD DESIGNS pve design December 19, 2012 at 7:28 am (6 years ago) Dayka,You are always welcome to come to my studio and see the "behind the scenes" of what I do! Perhaps not as grand as Ballard but nonetheless it is fun to look at how things work in the back~ Like entering a grand home from the back door or a yacht from the galley! Seeing how things work get's me excited. Another great post! Bananas!!!pve Reply charmaine December 19, 2012 at 10:33 am (6 years ago) So jealous! Reply myblackfriendsays December 19, 2012 at 7:53 pm (6 years ago) Sounds like a lot of fun (esp. the goat cheese)! Glad you got to be a part of it (: Reply Kim@Chattafabulous December 19, 2012 at 10:52 pm (6 years ago) What a fun way to spend the day. Surprised to hear they rent homes to stage and photograph. http://www.chattafabulous.blogspot.com Reply Miya @ Design Indulgences December 28, 2012 at 3:03 pm (6 years ago) I would love to be a design prop stylist. What an inspiration to see the behind scenes of something like that. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment *Name* Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.


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text: Dawn Mountain seeks to instruct new and advanced students in the contemplative, artistic and healing practices of Tibetan Buddhism in collaboration with Western and Asian teachers. Our founders Anne Klein (Rigzin Drolma) and Harvey Aronson (Namgyal Dorje) are authorized lamas in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and we offer three to four retreats a year with beginning and advanced components for those in different places on the path. Dawn Mountain offers those interested in pursuing the higher empowerments of tantric practice an opportunity to study with some of the most advanced teachers in the west.


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I'm outraged, plans were made, very nice people were waiting for us, and beer was in the fridge. And SkyEurope cancelled all that. If you didn't already know, they filled for, what in the States would be Chapter 11 and promised no flights would be affected. Well every flight we've had with them has been delayed and this is too much. At least if they had the decency not to sell tickets for the last month so people would not get scammed into buying them and then get their plans turned upside-down.
Here's what they say on the website :
Those of you who have purchased flights with a credit card, please turn to your credit card issuing bank to seek refunds for unused portions of SkyEurope's flights.
If you are already at the destination or have rented a car through SkyEurope's business partner, you may stay at the hotel and use the vehicle during the period originally agreed. You must, however, order a return flight from some other airline at your own expense.
I am completely appalled. Everyone should be informed about this, not to get to the airport for nothing. And if you're wondering what the relation to Bratislava is...well it's the curse again, remember, SkyEurope is/was partly Slovak owned, q.e.d.
We're changing our plans, of course, we'll surely have a great time, and trying to get our money back, but still it's sucks big time.