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Having a MomentBy Sadie Stein
Big in 2014: the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
Founded in 1783 in what was then called Thompson's Pond Plantation, the community consists of eighteen buildings, an orchard, a tree farm, vegetable and herb gardens, livestock pastures, and hay fields, all spread over eighteen-hundred acres of land. The community practices traditional Shaker crafts—basket-making, weaving, printing—although only three of its members—Sister Francis, Brother Arnold and Sister June—are still active today.
This summer, the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, will honor the Sabbathday Lake community with its 2014 Maine in America Award, which is presented to an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to Maine's role in American art. Prior honorees include Robert Indiana and Alex Katz. They and the three elderly Shakers may seem like strange bedfellows.
Equally unlikely is their association with the famously innovative Wooster Group, whose Early Shaker Spirituals is currently playing in New York. The show—part of an ongoing series based on recordings—is grounded on an eponymous 1976 LP recorded by the Sisters of Sabbathday Lake. Using a technique the company pioneered, the actors wear earpieces through which they hear, as they perform, the actual recordings of Shaker songs. The show also includes pattern dances, inspired by surviving fragments of Shaker ecstatic dance. (You can see clips of a rehearsal here, and watch the actors morph from ecstatic Shakers back into actors, joking and laughing.)
These are real and fitting tributes to people whose work and art have added genuine beauty to the world—it's gratifying to see the community receiving attention while there are still Shakers around, and to know that there is a living record of their history. And yet, one wonders: will the three surviving members come to New York to see the show? Will they go to the Farnsworth Summer Gala to accept their award? Read More


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PHILADELPHIA - A flurry of second-half looks on both sides ended with Penn on the wrong side of a 2-1 decision in a University City showdown with Drexel on Wednesday.
The two sides combined for 18 shots in the second half, but it was Ken Tribbett's low ball to the far left post in the 85th minute which broke a tightly-contested deadlock in Drexel's favor. Penn had taken eight shots in the second half, coming very close to finding the winning goal twice in tight situations just before Tribbett was able to take a Brandon Zeller pass and use open space to score the winner.
Duke Lacroix had a game-high five shots for Penn, four of them reaching goal, but his last shot on a pretty run down the right side was denied by Drexel keeper Tim Washam in the 82nd minute. Moments later, Nicky Yin had a second good look to break the tie for Penn, getting to a second chance on a Quaker corner, but his low liner was stopped by Washam.
Drexel opened the scoring in the 10th minute, Nathan Page one-touching in a low cross from John Boswell. Drexel's midfielder had burst down the left side and he fed a low pass to Page who went to the near post for the score.
Multiple times early in the season, Penn had been victimized by quick counter strikes from opponents after a goal. This time, it was Penn that answered in short time, Travis Cantrell scoring his fourth goal of the season just 2:09 after Drexel had taken the lead. Cantrell got all of his offering from 40 yards out, booming a ball top right corner after a short pass from Bryan Yasukochi along the near sideline.
The most dangerous chance of the early stages of the second half came off a Stephen Baker run down the right side in the 61st minute. Mariano Gonzalez-Guerineau sent him down the near side, Baker getting first to the ball, but his cross to Louis Schott led to just a blocked shot. Drexel countered down the field to earn a corner, but the entry was rendered a bouncer unable to find a foot as the score remained deadlocked at 1-1.
The blocked shot seemed to spur the Dragons, as Drexel forced two corners in succession, causing Penn to defend twice in 34 seconds before the Quakers could send the ball away. Drexel regrouped for a third quick look, Guido Pena sending a low curler which forced Kurtzman to dive out and make his third save of the match.
With just under nine minutes to play, Penn had a chance to take advantage of a break on the defensive end after Nicky Yin made a tackle on the outer edge of the penalty area to send Penn downfield. Schott broke Lacroix in 1v1, but Lacroix's curler was denied by Tim Washam on a lunging stop. Minutes later, Nicky Yin came close to giving Penn the lead with a low curler on a second-chance look following a Penn corner, but again Washam was there to deny.
The Quakers (2-7-0) delve into Ivy League play for the first time this season on Saturday, heading to Ithaca for a match with undefeated Cornell at 7 p.m.
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Buckel fans eight over seven scoreless
Rangers prospect leads Carolina League in ERA, strikeouts
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | May 3, 2012 10:23 AM ET
"My main focus is the changeup," he said. "It's there, it's there, and then I'm losing it again."
The Rangers' No. 11 prospect eventually found his off-speed offering Friday afternoon and, with it in tow, completed seven shutout innings in the Class A Advanced Myrtle Beach Pelicans' 4-0 shutout of the host Frederick Keys.
"I had all my pitches when my changeup came late," Buckel said. "I was trying to do too much, trying to slow it down too much, trying to slow it down with my body. [Then] I let the grip do the work."
Buckel (3-1), who has credited his early 2012 success in part to his friendship and offseason work with D-backs No. 1 prospect Trevor Bauer, scattered three singles -- to Bobby Stevens in the first inning, to Aaron Baker in the sixth and Kipp Schutz in the seventh -- and walked three while striking out eight. He recorded 10 outs on the ground.
"The cutter I have been using, it had some good biting action," the 19-year-old right-hander said. "It got on some bat handles. Guys aren't doing much with it."
Buckel said he threw 94 pitches and expects to be held in the vicinity of 90 throughout his season. That's all he's needed thus far in 2012 anyway. Texas' second-round draftee in 2010, enjoyed his best previous outing this season on April 12, when he struck out nine over six, two-hit scoreless frames opposite Potomac.
His 1.31 ERA through six outings is tied for first with Frederick's Richard Zagone among active Carolina League starters. Winston-Salem's Andre Rienzo compiled a 1.08 mark through four outings before he was suspended for 50 games.
Buckel is alone at the top in strikeouts: He has fanned 41 batters over his first 34 1/3 innings.
"I aim for weak contact," Buckel said, "and when you aim for weak contact, you're going to get a lot of swings and misses."
Buckel's lone reliever, Ben Henry, yielded a single and issued two free passes but kept the shutout intact. (Henry is a member of the "Birds' Nest," a nickname given to the oft-Tweeting bullpen.)
Myrtle Beach designated hitter Jared Hoying led the lineup. He smacked a solo home run off Keys starter Kyle Simon in the fifth, went 3-for-3 overall and fell a triple shy of cycling.
Hoying, the 2010 Northwest League MVP, left Buckel's last start diving for a ball and landing awkwardly on his shoulder.
"I felt bad for pushing him out of that game, and today he helps me," Buckel said. "I really appreciate what he did for me today. He looks pretty strong."
Simon (0-5) allowed all four runs on seven hits over five innings.
The Pelicans have won consecutive games after dropping four straight.
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The focus in the Senate last week and the days ahead will be on receiving and vetting many House bills while we continue to work on our own legislation.
We've all seen it as we drive down the road; a person in the car in front of us flicks a small object out of their window, and it falls to the ground, hardly visible.
We drive on and, most times, we probably don't think about it again.
The object is a cigarette butt, and we've all seen it. Do we call 911 and report someone for littering? No, of course not. It's just a cigarette butt.
What a week of weather we have had in the commonwealth. No part of Kentucky was spared the record-breaking snowfall and temperatures this week. As schools, businesses and many government agencies had to close, so did the General Assembly due to the hazardous weather. However, the Senate made the decision to report to work on Thursday and Friday to do the people's work and help pass through legislation that would be in the best interest of our citizens.
Football is one of my favorite things to watch on TV, but during the regular season I rarely see the commercials. I'm among the millions of fans who watch DirecTV's Red Zone Channel, and with that, the programming is a barrage of highlights and live peeks into games as the action unfolds, but with no commercials. If you're a football fan, watch it and you'll never want to give it up.
Lori and I were putting up groceries while our 2-year-old grandson, Eli, was making himself at home, sitting there cross-legged on the kitchen cabinet, chomping on a cookie. He reached for a bag of frozen strawberries I had set next to him.
"You can't have those, Eli," I smiled. "They're frozen."
At the word, "frozen," he promptly began singing, "Let it go, let it go, let it go."
Lori laughed; I was confused.
This week marked the start of the 2015 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. For this year's session, we are only scheduled to meet for 30 days, and we spent the first week more or less getting the House of Representatives in order.
Two days after Christmas, I surprised my wife with a post-Christmas present. It had been somewhat of a blue Christmas for her, and I thought my gift would help.
So I gave her a rope.
"A what?" you incredulously ask. "A rope? Really?"
Maybe you're thinking my gift ranks right up there with Barney Fife (Don Knotts, The Andy Griffith Show) giving his mom and dad a septic tank for their anniversary.
It's been said that we all have a story to tell. Well, my story is changing, and, in a few days, I will begin a new chapter in my life.
After nearly 12 years at the CKNJ, tomorrow will be my last day here.
The decision to accept another job in the community wasn't an easy one for me. The CKNJ has been part of my life since the day I was born.
It's that time of year again, when most of us will make a New Year's resolution or two, promising ourselves that we're going to do this, or stop doing that, when the new year begins.
Usually, we look at it with excitement and determination. The first week, maybe even the first month, we're on the path to our goal. After that, many resolutions sadly fall short, and we're back into our old ways.
From triumphs to tragedies, Taylor Countians made headlines in 2014.
While compiling the News-Journal's annual Year In Review stories, CKNJ staff members have spent time reliving the past year.
And what a year it's been. We read about city and county business, the economy, retirements and hires, political changes, crime, death and much more.
Read about the Top 10 stories of 2014 on today's front page. The year in sports will be in Thursday's issue.
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Michigan Tech, Portage Health Offer Medical Discount to Peace Corps Students
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Graduate students in Michigan Technological University's Peace Corps Master's International programs will be able to get their required medical exams and lab tests at a major discount, thanks to a new partnership between the University and Portage Health.
The health care provider will offer PCMI students at Michigan Tech a 20 percent discount on any balance they owe after insurance payments for exams and tests required by the Peace Corps, plus an additional 10 percent prompt-pay discount, for a total discount of 30 percent.
That can add up to quite a sum. "The personalized medical exams and tests that the Peace Corps requires of each applicant can, in the most expensive cases, cost up to $5,000," said Blair Orr, professor in Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science and director of the University's seven PCMI programs. "The Peace Corps only reimburses $125 to $290, so the cost can be a serious obstacle to many students who would like to enroll in the program"
Portage Health is pleased to be able to offer the discount, said Brian Donahue, chief financial officer. "We have a strong history of collaboration with Michigan Tech, and this is an excellent program that we are proud to be able to support."
PCMI participants can take advantage of Dr. Rima Carlson's family practice at Portage Health. Dr. Carlson served as a Peace Corps volunteer herself.
Michigan Tech President Glenn D. Mroz praised Portage Health for the partnership. "Each volunteer goes abroad to make a positive influence in people's lives," he said. "We are grateful that the people of Portage Health recognize the importance of facilitating the global reach of our Peace Corps Master's International programs at Tech by making a positive contribution to our student volunteers' lives."
The PCMI programs accept approximately 20 new students a year, a number that Orr hopes to see increase to approximately 35.
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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TALIAS (Technology Assisted Legal Instruction and Services) is a live, interactive, videoconference series which originates at the North Carolina Central University School of Law and broadcast to its participating hosted sites, Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, Elizabeth City State University and North Carolina A&T State University.
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Families of September 11 is now operating as the For Action Initiative. The web pages on this site are available for informational purposes only. Please visit us at www.foractioninitiative.org.
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Families of September 11 extends its deepest sympathy to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in London and to those injured in the attacks. We share the outrage of the world at yet another country held hostage to the determined fanaticism of the few.
As family members of victims of terrorism, we know all too well the anguish born of loss. In the days following the London bombings, many of our members reached out to support those affected by this most recent wave of terrorism. Read and submit your own thoughts on our Bulletin Board. In addition, FOS11 Board members delivered a letter of condolence to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. If you would like to support victims of this attack and their immediate families, please consider making a contribution to the London Bombings Relief Fund (see below in Resources).
It is important to note that much work remains to be done to safeguard our country against terrorism, as this summer's 9/11 Public Discourse Project's "Unfinished Agenda" panels make abundantly clear. As the four year commemoration of September 11, 2001, approaches, we recognize our commitment to this important unfinished business.
Issues Update
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On July 13, the Senate voted (71-26 vote) to approve an amendment offered by Senate Homeland Security Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, and ranking member Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., to change the current formula structure and reduce the guaranteed minimum amount each state receives in federal funding. However, senators from California, New York and New Jersey, had lobbied instead for an amendment by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, that would reduce the minimum amount further, closer matching the 9/11 Commission's and Secretary Chertoff's recommendation. A House-Senate conference committee will now negotiate this provision and others included in the fiscal 2006 Homeland Security appropriations bill. The NY Times and Government Executive both report on this issue. Contact your elected officials to share your opinion on this important matter.
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Lastly, Peter Lehrer, a newly elected member of the WTC Memorial Foundation Board, was named Co-Chairman of the joint committee of the LMDC and the Memorial Foundation Board. This committee meets every two weeks to review the status of the memorial and memorial museum center designs as well as the cultural buildings. With all of the recent questions about the International Freedom Center and the other cultural facilities, it is expected that the LMDC will finalize the arrangement of the cultural buildings and the programs in the next couple of months. The WTC Memorial Foundation and its committees are functioning and making progress with the fundraising and establishment of the administration of the process. Contact the LMDC and share your thoughts.
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Otherwise known as my first smartphone.
I was worried about moving up to a touchscreen and the possibilty of pressing in the wrong place and rendering the phone un-usable, especially as I love to fiddle with my electronic toys and am more than a little clumsy.
This bit of self knowledge did come to pass. I touched the wrong place and turned the phone Bulgarian and couldn't turn it back, as Bulgarian is not one of the languages I do speak. I had to be rescued by the nice chaps at the T-Mobile shop down the road, which they managed without having to wipe all my numbers and start from scratch. So if you do end up in the same boat, go to the shop, go directly to the shop and they will help you.
With an English speaking smartphone I started playing with Apps.
I had been craving a Kindle but the Kindle Fire was not out and grey on grey was not an option for my appalling eyesight. I pressed the Market app which was preinstalled. I downloaded the Kindle App.
I now have a full colour Kindle with the black text on white background which my terrible eyesight needs and a machine which fits my hand so comfortably that I use it every day.
The Navigation fuction saves me from getting lost on a regular basis while I am warned of traffic problems local and ahead of long drives by the AA and RAC apps. Then there is music and games to keep me amused and the news and social networks to keep me up to date and connected.
It even makes phone calls and messages.
The phone does need regular feeding, as the battery could be better, especially if you keep the GPS on. But it does eat from a USB lead while you are doing other things as well as from the mains charger.
The on board memory could be a lot better and my next love will have more brain as well as a better camera. But the camera on the Droid has never failed me, unlike my digital camera which always runs out of juice when I need it most. It also easily synchs photos and music between the Droid and the computer.
Most importantly for a clumsy and accident prone person, this smartphone is one tough cookie. I've dropped it on a fairly regular basis and it still going strong and giving me no problems but lots of joy.
If you are looking for a cheap, robust first smartphone, you won't regret opting for this one.
I haven't.
Especially as I got it as a free upgrade when I renewed my mobile phone contract.
I have now had my phone 18 out of 24 months on contract and I hate it!! I have always had problems with it being slow even with latest updates. Now it often freezes completely, will not close apps or end calls. The internet can be hit and miss, it refuses to use Wifi and often looses 3g despite saying it is still there. Quite a big phone over all and needlessly so!
A lot of people mention that this phone is great value for money. And at around £100, I guess it is an OK price. However, I have had this phone for about 1 year now, and after the honeymoon period, it has done nothing but give me trouble.
Probably one of the best things about the phone is its size. It's not too big, and not too small (113.5 x 55 x 12.6mm), with the right weight in your hand (113g). The screen size is ok if you use it as a phone, but for media or browsing the web, it's probably too small. (3.2 In, 240 x 400 pixels)
667Mhz. Standard affair for entry level smart phones. Basically, don't expect this to set the world on fire.
This is my BIGGEST gripe. It has a pitiful 200Mb of memory, of which about 40Mb is loaded with bloatware. This leaves you with very little space for apps and media. I put in a 16Gb micro SD card in mine (Supports up to 32Gb and is hot swappable), but if you are stuck on android 2.1, you cannot moves apps to your SD card. The support on this phone is shocking, as all the other similar phones were enjoying 2.2 by this time. I had to manually update it myself, which was risky. (I would not recommend it unless you know what you are doing.) This made the experience a lot better and i was able to put my apps on the SD card. Either way, they should of had inluded at least 512mb internal memory.
A standard 3.2MP camera. Nothing spectacular at all.
Data Connection
Pretty good actually. Can maintain signal in many places and connects to at least 3G about 70% of the time (although I do live in a city). Wi-fi is average. Not the best, and as of late, won't turn on unless i go straight into the settings menu. This is the same for bluetooth. GPS is fine, although it takes a huge amount of time to connect, even with assisted GPS (i once waited 10 minutes, then gave up!).
It contains a 1500mAH battery. This lasts between 8 hours and 3 days, depending on use. I find an average of 1 day, where i charge it overnight.
These things are fine... except that after 4 months, my phone failed to actually function as a phone. Contacts opened 15 seconds after i told it to, trying to text was fun, as it wouldn't pick up what i typed, and possibly the must frustrating is when someone called me, the phone froze on the accept/decline screen. This meant i couldn't do anything and had to let it ring out. Sometimes, my phone would crasha nd restart in the middle of a phone call. This had nothing to do with anything i installed, as it continued to happen even after a factory restart.
I fully regret buying this phone, and wish i paid out more money to get a top of the line samsung or HTC (although, no phone nowadays seem to be fully reliable).
This is the first smartphone I have brought, and I think i'm going to stick with it as it's generally very good!
I brought it for around £80, which I felt was a very good price for such a good phone (from Carphone Warehouse). I had it on pay as you go as I don't spend much! Therefore, I can say on pay as you go (02) it's very cheap to run.
The camera is 3.2 megapixels, and take's fantastic photos - really clear. The camera has lots of different features which I was really pleased to discover, such as macro for closeups, night setting for photos that are in the dark, candlelight setting which adds a nice glow and so many more. I often take my phone out when taking pictures instead of my camera as it's so handy!
The touch screen is really responsive and doesn't stick or get stuck. It needs skin contact to work however, unlike some touchscreens which need just pressure. It's display is very bright and clear so viewing photos from the gallery is really enjoyable.
I haven't found the battery to be bad at all, as some other people seem to have. It doesn't take long to charge from empty, perhaps 2 hours, and i've found it to last for a long time, about a week or two with moderate use.
I use a memory card with my phone, and it provides altogether an OK amount of space. I think it depends on how many photos and songs you wish to store along with apps - I have a lot of photos which makes it tricky to fit in all the apps i'd like, but overall it's not such a problem. I think most people wouldn't go as crazy with photos as I have, see!
It came with a lot of features such as a calculator and clock which I found useful, and some others which I have yet to use, such as Allshare and Samsung Apps. The radio plays very clearly and the memo pad is really useful.
The phone plays music nicely! I don't use the headphones which came with it so I can't comment on those, but it allows you to store songs in different folders, rename songs and includes album art for some songs.
When used with Wi-Fi, the phone is very quick on the internet and displays websites clearly. The phone has a useful feature that allows things to be viewed portrait or landscape, depending on which way you hold the phone, and double clicking allows you to zoom in to read small text easily.
There is just one thing which was not mentioned when I brought the phone or anywhere else - unlike some smartphones, it does not support live wallpapers - that is, animated wallpapers which respond to touch and things.
Also, when taking photographs, it is a good idea to double check every now and then what size they are set at, as sometimes (not very often) it changes back to default by itself.
When viewing photos which are portrait orientated, the phone often flips them around which doesn't affect their quality but can mean you can't see all of the photo. When setting an image as the wallpaper, if the image was not taken by the phone it can cause some problems with sizing and orientation - but that's OK, because the photo can be rotated from it's menu and you can select which area of the image you'd like to be displayed as the wallpaper.
But considering everything else, these aren't really an issue :)
A great allrounder with few issues, it's a brilliant budget smartphone that runs just like the other more expensive ones for a fraction of their crazy price!
Over 6 months ago I was shopping around looking for my first contract phone and I knew what I had in mind, a touch screen Smartphone, something new, free minutes should be average and the contract should be something like 18 months. In the end I negotiated to get my Samsung galaxy Apollo down from £20 to £15 but the contract was for 24 months.
Nice touch screen Smartphone. The camera is 3 megapixels. It is androids so you can download any apps which are for free but without downloading the phone comes with, maps, memo, music player, radio, chess, as well as others. But if you get bored of these there are many apps available to get you busy.
I was paying £15 per month. Calls to T-mobile numbers are free. Internet usage is also free based on a "fair usage", whatever that means, because I use the internet like every time and I have not been charged extra so it's basically free. Calls to other networks are 300 minutes plus 300 free texts. I choose those two boosters, however, you can choose to have free European calls up to a certain limit.
Monthly contract £15, but make sure you control calls to other networks because the T-Mobile contract charges a lot if you go pass your minutes. Overall the cost is quite cheap as compared to other networks who were advertising £20 per month.
This is the weakest part of the phone. The biggest reasons for the sudden deplation in the battery life are due to:
1.Android system 85% of the time. If you use for example, maps, play games or download apps then you battery level goes down very fast.
2.Speaking on the phone for as much as an hour will dramatically reduce your battery life.
3.Sometimes there is no warning that the phone will switch off because of the battery.
The earphone that comes with this mobile is absolutely rubbish. Firstly, you have to press the button on the earphone set to hear the maximum sound from your phone. Second having your volume turned to maximum will give the earphone another sound problem.
Overall the phone is very good with a bargin price but downsides are the battery, earphones and perhaps the camera being only 3 Mega Pixels
As my previous contract came to an end, I decided to give a touch screen a go, rather than the good ol' fashioned button 'candy bar' phone. So I came to THIS which is by far the worst phone I've ever owned. Let me run through why this phone is dreadful:
Firstly, it has the speed of a snail waking up from a heavy night out - I can spend a good minute or so waiting simply for a text to open, let alone start to reply on a screen which frequently lags behind my fingers. That's to say, when I type, it takes a second or so for the words to actually appear on the screen: shoddy. As a result of this, I haven't barely bothered using the 'smart' features of the phone, because they are too slow. What's more the screen is small so they don't look particularly good.
It feels cheap and tacky; I concede that its lost cost is an incentive to some people, but I must confess that in moments of frustration where I've been tempted to smash it against my wall, I've worried that unlike previous phones with metal cases, this would simply shatter leaving me phone less.
The camera is atrocious; it's entirely pointless to use. The one benefit was that the phone came with a Micro SD card of 4GB; not sure if they always come like this, but this was a nice addition. I subsequently removed the card and have used it elsewhere; seems wasted in this phone. The battery life is quite good, although has a tendency to be quite odd in announcing that the battery is low; sometimes this means that if it's not connected within 15 seconds it'll die, whilst on other occasions, it'll last for hours.
The greatest benefit, to give some degree of balance, is its appearance; it's nice and small, and has a nice curved back which fits nicely in the palm of your hand. The screen has quite a mirror like surface, which means that it can be used to check your hair etc, although if I wanted a mirror, I'm sure I could find cheaper ones.
So to conclude; avoid.
After my last phone finally gave up the ghost I was in need of an upgrade and totally new. Searching through the Carphone warehouse website I cam across this snazzy little number and decided to go for it. At £10.50pm who wouldn't??? Then I found out why there aren't as many people using them as I thought there would be. So here it is
The phone itself is a nice size and fits well in your pocket. Safety features i.e. key lock and also the pattern unlock are very useful and a nice big touch screen. Plenty of apps and useful gadgets that came with it. Cable to connect to PC in ear earphones and a code for a taste card! Useful apps on the phone are the navigation system that is built in and the places app to help you find things close to where you are ATM, petrol stations and restaurants. The phone has a decent camera built in and a nifty little app that keeps you informed of the weather for the day. Full on screen QWERTY key board, I have found that when composing a text if you turn the phone on its side they keys are a little bigger which helps when you have big fingers (as my hubby discovered).
Unfortunately that's where that positives end for me. I have had this phone for three weeks now and apart from the positives I am not impressed. There are a few things that are of no detriment to the phone like answering a call you have to slide the accept/dismiss icons on the screen as the buttons at the bottom are menu and back keys so this gets a little confusing when you first use it, also making your own tunes ring tones, you can do caller ring tone but not text messages.
Then we come to the battery life out of the 21 days I have had this phone I have had to charge it 15 of those days. So far I have only used this to text so god knows what it would be like if I constantly talked and videoed things. The memory card hardly held any thing so of the things that I saved to it I ended up deleting them and only keeping two pictures and a ring tone on there.
I don't want to slate this phone too much as like I said it does have its upside and is a really nice phone, unfortunately it doesn't do it for me. I don't think I would recommend it to all but as a first smart phone and all touch screen it will do the job.
This was my first smartphone, so I had pretty high expectations. But this phone is actually better than I thought it would be! I wasn't sure because it was quite a cheap smartphone, but it is actually very good for the price! There are obviously some bad points, but overall it is a very good phone. The SWYPE feature is very fast and makes texting 10 times faster than it usually is, even if sometimes it isn't very good at guessing what word I am typing! I was disappointed that you can't save Android apps onto an SD card, because you can't really get a lot of apps before it says that you are low on memory and you have to delete most of them. Also, the battery life isn't that good, even though I was told that it was. Maybe it is just my battery, but I find myself running out of battery almost every night! But overall it is a very good phone that I would definitely recommend!
The Samsung Galaxy Apollo is basically the budget version of Samsung's higher-spec Smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S, and offers many of the same features as that phone at a much lower price. I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy Apollo last September and have been using it on a daily basis ever since. It runs on the Android operating system and has all the basic features (phone, text, internet, camera, ability to download apps) that you would expect from a smartphone. It also has 3GS and WiFi capabilities.
* Phone Basics *
The front of phone is a silver mirrored finish with a large touchscreen panel and three buttons at the bottom (a central button for turning the screen on, a menu button and a back button). The back is made from black plastic which does make it feel a bit less high quality than some of the other touchscreen phones on the market. The dimensions of the phone are 114mm by 55mm by 12.9mm, meaning that it is slightly on the chunky side. However, it still fits in the phone pouch on my bag so I'm not too put off by the size and weight of it. There is an on / off switch at the top of the phone.
Once activated, you can select your choice of home screen from the standard phone options on set up, or you can take / upload your own photo to use. The homescreen also has a clock, the usual battery life / signal indicators at the top. There are four icons at the bottom which link to the phone function, the text message function, your contacts file and the main Android menu. You can add any additional apps to the bottom of your home screen, although I've taken all mine off again as I feel that it makes it look a bit cluttered.
* Features *
Phone - Pressing the Phone icon brings up a keypad with four additional buttons across the top. These are 'Keypad' (so you can return to it if necessary), the 'Call Log', 'Favourites' and 'Contacts'. It is easy to make a call by just dialling the number but I find the 'Favourites' list invaluable for providing me with quick access to the friends and family numbers that I use most. I tend to add people that I call regularly to the favourites list as, since I synched the phone with my Facebook account, my Contacts list has got a bit out of control!
Text Messaging - This is my favourite element of this phone. I'm a bit of a text addict as it is and I really like the way that your text messages are viewed as a conversation with speech bubbles so you can keep track of the whole thread of a conversation just by scrolling up and down. When you start a text, the keyboard appears and you can swivel the phone to make it come up in landscape format if you need slightly wider keys. Typing on a touchscreen with a Qwerty keyboard did take a bit of getting used to at first but I am proficient in it now and wouldn't want to go back to the old-style of texting.
Contacts - The Contacts file is arranged in alphabetical order and is easy to scroll through. There is also an A-Z list at the side which you can use to find people more easily. As I've said previously, my Contacts are synched with my Facebook so I can see everyone's pictures next to their names - and the photos come up when the phone rings. Clicking on their name will bring up their phone numbers and any other information you have - email addresses, birthdays etc.
Camera - For me, this is one of the phone's weaknesses. I find it very difficult to take a good photo on this phone as it seems to wobble and lose focus at the crucial moment. It is fine if your subjects stay still, but when you are trying to take photos of two under 5s that are like a blur of perpetual motion, it just isn't good enough. However, there are a lot of camera features / modes and you can set it up for different types of shots (including continuous action shots and panoramas) so maybe I just haven't managed to find the mode that works for me. There is no flash on this phone and you do need relatively good light to take a shot without it.
Internet - Accessing the internet through this phone is easy as long as your connection is good enough. Through the WiFi I find that it is always relatively quick to load sites, but it is a bit hit and miss through the 3G connection. It is nowhere near as quick as the internet on my iPod Touch though so if there is a wifi connection available I tend to use that instead of my phone. You can also use this phone for email via a Googlemail account - this is set up on my phone but I have never actually used it.
Apps - You can download as many apps as you want to through the Android Market. I haven't got a huge quantity of apps on my phone - Facebook, a few games, a few restaurant apps for voucher codes etc, but they have all been easy to download and install. It also comes with a variety of inbuilt applications including a map application with GPS.
* Performance *
Call Quality - Unfortunately, I have had a lot of issues with call quality on my phone - when it connects and you are in an area with good signal strength the call clarity is fine, but it does seem to drop calls a lot and sometimes I will make a call and be able to hear the person on the other end but they can't hear me.
Processing Speed - This is completely dependent on how many apps that you have running. If you have too many apps open, then the phone can feel really sluggish. Running on a minimal number of apps it is much quicker and the whole process feels so much smoother.
Battery Life - The battery life on this phone is about 2 days if you don't use it much, although making a couple of calls, sending a few texts, playing a game for 10 minutes on the tube and checking my Facebook several times a day means that I have to charge it every night or it will run out of battery midway through the next day. The most annoying thing about the battery is that it will go from showing a half-full battery on the screen to being completely dead in about 5 minutes which drives me mad.
* Cost *
I got this as a free upgrade with Orange on a relatively cheap monthly contract but you would probably have to pay for it as a Pay As You Go phone. It is significantly cheaper than a lot of the other smart phones on the market though.
* Conclusion *
I would probably recommend this phone if you want a smart phone and only have a limited budget to spend on it. Personally, I do wish I'd held out for the iPhone which is what I really wanted (and what I'm planning to get as soon as this 24 month contract is over), but it isn't a bad phone overall. Reading other reviews makes me think that I have just been unlucky with the call quality issues and the sound quality when it does connect is much better than on my previous Samsung phone. I will give it four stars as basically it does everything I would want my phone to do - I just wish it would do it slightly faster, more smoothly and with a little bit more consistency.
In autumn last year I upgraded to the rather flashy looking Samsung Galaxy and absolutely adored that phone... until just two weeks after having it the screen broke and was replaced by lots of different coloured flashing lines! Luckily Vodafone replaced it with a brand new model and everything was fine until June this year when I started to have some charging problems - basically the phone seemed to have a mind of its own when it came to charging, sometimes it would and sometimes it would just point blank refuse. This problem escalated until finally Vodafone agreed to send it away to be looked at, despite me not having insurance (oops)! It was returned to me last week with a lovely letter informing me that it had suffered water damage and was unfortunately damaged beyond repair... fantastic!
Having accepted I wanted a phone as similar as possible to the Galaxy, yet a much cheaper version, I visited my local Vodafone store who tried to offer me a HTC £190 model! Instead I decided to visit The Carphone Warehouse and found a really helpful member of staff who suggested I try the Samsung Apollo at the much more appealing price of £64.95 (the actual phone is priced at £49.95 but it was subject to a £15 pay as go top up charge as well). The member of staff informed me that it was virtually the same as the Galaxy (which would have cost me in the region of £300 to buy on pay as you go) as it had the same processor, the same touch screen and ran the same Android system... the only thing that wouldn't be quite as good was the screen as it wouldn't be quite as clear as the Samsung Galaxy.
The Appearance
The Samsung Apollo is a basic black phone with the touch screen taking up the majority of the front. The size is 114mm by 55mm by 12.9mm which means it's smaller than your average smart phone these days and does look quite sleek. It's thinner and shorter than the Galaxy S but not as slim. It weighs just 109g making it quite light. The front face is made of metal and glass, which looks very smart, while the plastic back does cheapen it just a little. There are three buttons at the bottom, all of which are not touch sensitive unlike more modern models. I must admit it isn't quite as modern looking as other models such as the new Samsung Galaxy S II or the Apple Iphone but I personally think it looks just fine.
Getting Started
Switching the phone on and off is controlled by a small button on the top of the phone, which is also where the battery charging socket is located as well. The phone takes about 30 to 40 seconds to switch on and to find a signal before you're ready to go. After that everything is really quite simple, the four touch icons at the bottom of the touch screen are all you really need to get started - phone (allows you to see recent call logs), contacts (allows you to scroll through your contacts), messaging (allows you to access your messages and various folders) and applications (allows you to access the main screen of the phone where all applications are listed). It took my dad only minutes to work out how to use it.
The Samsung Apollo features a TFT display of 16 million colour and 240 by 400 pixels which is less clear than my Samsung Galaxy, however not enough to cause me any problems. The screen itself measure 3.2 inches which is a decent size. It comes with a 4GB memory plus there is a slot on the side where a memory card can be inserted. The phone offers a 3 megapixel camera which has autofocus, face detection, smile shot and 4x digital zoom (but no flash!) as well as video recording. There is a music player and you're able to access FM radio, the sound it really clear although it could be louder. You are able to connect using WiFi, Bluetooth or a USB cable - all of which work absolutely fine I've found.
Calling is very simple on this phone - you can manually enter a number or you can browse through your contacts and highlight one before selecting "Call." Once on the call you have the options to mute it or to switch it to speaker. The blue tooth feature means that it can be connected to other speakers such as the one I have fitted in my car. Messaging is also easy, you can create a new message from the messaging icon or you can again browse through your contacts and highlight one before selecting "Send Message." This phone features Samsung's famous swype method of text inputting where you can swipe your fingers across different letters and it will produce the word on the screen - I love this!
The sound quality is very clear on this phone, when I make a call I can clearly hear the speaker and adjust the volume if I need to using a button the left hand side of the phone. I've made quite a few calls on this phone now and have never had a problem with not being able to hear or interference at all. It might be also worthwhile mentioning here that the screen does lock itself after 30 seconds (the time can be altered on the settings) but after that there is an ever so slight delay when you press to unlock the phone again, only a second or two but this might bother some people. I've had no other technical issues or problems with this phone apart from that very minor one though... luckily!
The main reason I bought this phone was so I would be able to access the internet and applications like Hotmail and Facebook. The internet connection is slightly slower than your average smart phone (3.6 mbps versus 7.2 mbps) but I can't say I've actually noticed a difference whatsoever. It runs the Android 2.1 operating system so it has access to tens of thousands of applications, many of which are actually free which is a huge bonus. The phone does come with about thirty or so applications already installed on it which include Calculator, Google Mail, Google Maps and Samsung Applications. You will need a Google Mail account to access the internet and enable you to purchase further applications here.
Purchasing applications is very simple using the already installed Market Place application - using the search icon on this you can easily search for any sort of application you want, or you can merely browse the different categories. There is literally an app available for anything; my most recent ones have been Angry Birds, Ebay, Sky and Trip Advisor, all of which were free. Last thing to mention is that the phone has GPS and the Layer Reality Browser which combines the camera, compass and GPS to identify the phone's location and then displays information on the screen - to be honest it does make the phone look very hi tech indeed! All in all this phone features everything I could ever imagine needing.
The battery is a 1500 mAh battery which apparently offers talk time of 7 to 15 hours and can be put on standby for 510 to 620 hours according to the advertising information. As the screen is smaller than your average smart phone it does mean you get slightly longer use from the phone between charges which I've definitely noticed. I'd say I make about two calls a day (of around five to twenty minutes), send about forty or so texts and access the internet about four or five times. Based on that usage I find I have to charge my battery every night and the only strange thing is that one minute it'll have half a battery and then the next it'll be flashing saying the battery is near dead... very strange!
I found the cheapest offer for this phone was to buy it from The Carphone Warehouse on the 3 network for £49.95 plus a £15 top up charge, 3 phones are apparently unlocked which mean it was fine to use with my Vodafone sim card. To buy it on O2 or Vodafone is £89.95 plus a £10 top up charge from The Carphone Warehouse and on contract it's free with pretty much any contract you choose, even those starting from as little as £10 a month. I haven't been able to find it cheaper in another store or online so if you're considering this phone on a pay as go basis I'd certainly check out The Carphone Warehouse. If you are interested in insurance it's just £3 a month from The Carphone Warehouse too... bargain!
When you compare the Galaxy Apollo to other phones on display in any phone shop I'm sure you'd agree that it's starting to look just a little bit dated. It certainly isn't as flash or as hi tech as some of the more recent models that have entered the market. However it does everything that many of these more recent models do, as I've mentioned I can only find a few differences between this and my old Samsung Galaxy, plus it's priced at just a fraction of the cost of other phones. Browsing the internet, making phone calls and sending texts are all straightforward. It's actually a pretty good phone and I'm giving it the full five stars, it's affordable, it's reliable and it's got a great range of features for a smart phone.
Thanks for reading.
Low end smartphones tend to be somewhat a mixed bag, particularly in the past, being based on propriety software which leads to limited functionality (the death of any smartphone). So the first encouraging aspect of Samsung's low end offering is that, much like the rest in the Galaxy series, it uses Google's Android smartphone standard, which grants the phone access to the comprehensive Android app Market. So on paper, the phone already impresses. but what is it like to live with? Having made the less than brilliant move to buy it from a bricks and mortar
The Samsung is a rather thin but bulky phone, probably about the right weight, and unlike bigger offerings like the original HTC Wildfire, isn't too big for tiny hands. Slips in the pocket just fine and is amazingly tough for a smartphone. It managed to survive my clumsiness after all with only a couple of war wounds to show for it! The three buttons (context menu, centre button and back button) are comfortable and feel distinctive blind, so accidents like hitting the centre button instead of the context menu are few and far between
Physically the Galaxy Apollo is a rather pretty phone, with the screen in particular being surprisingly bright (though that could be chalked down to my relative inexperience with smart phones). The screen is relatively high-resolution and the standard interface is is bright and colourful to demonstrate this chromatic superiority.
Well, it uses Android 2.1, so pretty much anything you could want to do on it (with the exception of running flash natively) is available on the system. Along with that, it has a GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G capability as standard, a relatively sensitive tilt sensor and a camera that while nothing special will actually do the job. The standard apps are your usual fare for Android, and to their credit all work.
What's it like to use:
Rather impressive. It chugs like nothing else if you run more than a few apps at once on it but with the interface being both simple and somewhat comprehensive after a little bit of tinkering around, leaving programs running in the background won't be much of an issue. Flash was a sticking issue if you plan on using as your primary web browser but outside of that, there's little wrong with it. The battery life initially seems incredibly poor (4 hours from a full charge) but once one stops playing with the apps the battery tends to average around 36 hours with just 3G on, so clearly the issue was just with the extra features. Speaking of communication, the call quality was fantastic, although the interface to hang up is less than stellar.
Overall, this is a rather cool phone for the price you pay. For less than 90 quid (even at hiked up Carphone Warehouse prices and including minimum top-up) it's somewhat of a bargain, but of course shop around. The niggling problem s
The Samsung GT I5800 Galaxy Apollo is the smartphone that my dad upgraded to after using the Samsung Genio Qwerty. I previously wrote a review about the Samsung Genio Qwerty on April 5th, 2010 and reported how my dad found it easy to use even though he has poor eyesight. He has now found that the Samsung GT I5800 Galaxy Apollo is even more effective than the Samsung Genio Qwerty because it is touch screen. He has found it easier to use the touch screen rather than the Samsung Genio Qwerty (keyboard phone). The operating system of the phone is Google Android 2.1.
Look and Feel
The phone is deep black, very sleek and smart looking. The phone is also very light weight and only weighs 109 g. The phone is not too chunky and is easy to carry around. The dimenions of the phone are width 55 mm, depth 13 mm and height 114 mm.
Durability and Robustness
My two year old daughter is often dropping the phone on the floor and she takes it and runs away from her grandfather. She loves looking at the pictures and know how to flick from picture to picture! Anyway the durability and robustness seems to be good as there are no scratches on the phone from all the dropping and the phone is in good working condition.
Battery and Stand By Time
The Battery Talktime is excellent. Once you have fully charged up the phone there is talk time of up to 910 minutes.
Value for Money
The phone is excellent value for money.The phone was purchase as part of a 24 month contract with Orange for £15 a month with 100 minutes and 100 text messages.
Range of Features
The phone has "3G Mobile Broadband". He found that the internet was fast and effective to use. He loved using the facebook application and found the facebook application more advanced than on a blackberry. You can also use the instant messaging services Google Talk. You can also make conference call. The Samsung GT I5800 Galaxy Apollo also has FM radio, digital player and a GPS receiver. Ther are also additional timer functions such as a countdown timer and stopwatch which can proove very useful.
Digital Camera
The camera is of excellent quality and is a 3 Megapixel digital camera. My dad has been taking high quality pictures of my daughter and putting them up on facebook.
Reception Quality
The Reception Quality is very good and calls are very clear.
Overall he was very pleased with his Samsung GT I5800 Galaxy Apollo and has said that he will now only use touch screen phones from now on.


text: Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | March 2014 (Revised October 2014) ISS A/S: The Buyout Lucy White and Carsten Bienz Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buyout; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the company's balance sheet of a significant amount of new debt and a reshaping of the capital structure. While leveraged buyouts had been used in Europe for several years, this was likely the first LBO done with a company that had publicly traded investment grade debt outstanding. The increased debt from the deal would increase the risk to the company and to the existing bonds, and the bonds' prices would fall significantly as a result. Students can use discounted cash flow techniques to value the LBO. They can then consider the wisdom of undertaking the LBO at the offered price, and work out a sensible debt schedule for the company. Students must also evaluate the effect of the transaction on the existing bonds, and understand the principles governing contractual duties (and how they differ from fiduciary obligations) towards bondholders (accounting for a business and social culture outside the United States) in order to determine the best course of action for the private equity buyers. Keywords: LBO; private equity; contracts; global business; international business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe; Citation:White, Lucy, and Carsten Bienz. "ISS A/S: The Buyout." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 214-066, March 2014. (Revised October 2014.) View Details CiteView DetailsPurchase Related


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Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society (ACRS) breakfast story
When Monday February 11, 2013 @ 7:30 AM (1622 days ago)
Where Northlawn, West Dining Room
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
On MONDAY morning, Feb. 11, 7:30 – 9:00 in EMU's West Dining Room, Peggy Shenk will share her life-story with us.
Peggy: The youngest of five siblings, all sisters. Born east of Lancaster along Lincoln Highway in Chester County Pa. The daughter of Pastor Milton Breckbill who also taught in the short term Winter Bible School at EMS (EMC), sometimes proudly known as "the bulwark against the liberalism of the Mid-West." EMHS/EMS was a point of increasing interest to those who wanted the best for their children. Here at Eastern Mennonite High School Ms. Peggy met young Michael Shenk from Denbeigh, VA and began dating him at age 14. The marriage endured the strains of the changing times and cultures. Into the Shenk family were born three children: The oldest now an ordained Mennonite minister; the daughter, a generous helper of the needy (her marriage also made the Shenks an interracial family); the youngest, a professional actor who is gay—long marginalized in the Mennonite Church—is most recently (by divine invitation) also a pastor in a UCC Church in LA.
In 1970 when EMC's young president, Myron Augsburger (40), called Peggy, his former church secretary in Florida because he needed help, Peggy responded. And so for nearly the next three decades she occupied the presidential suite at EMU, first with Augsburger (1970-'80), then with Richard Detweiler ('80-'86), then with Joe Lapp ('86-'99). Here she transitioned from Secretary to Administrative Assistant, and finally to Assistant to the President. With it always came the job of Secretary to the Board of Trustees. No one in EMU's history has shared so many of its secrets. No one has weathered so many of its storms on the high seas. No one has lived longer than Peggy with the operational truth: "An office manager is responsible for the smooth operation of the day to day business . . . . No excuses accepted." Few, if any, know better than Peggy EMU's sporadic tempests: financial crises, constituency conflicts and administrative brawls. No one knows better than Peggy the quiet gratitude of another year well ended. Peggy Shenk: Ever gracious; the rudder of the ship; the hidden steadying force exploring the deep waters and crossing turbulent oceans because the captains refused to let the ship rot in the safe harbor.
Please share this announcement with your friends and others interested in the life and times of Peggy: in family and in university weathering the struggles of the larger church and the society. Courage on the storm-tossed sea; invisible in still waters! Next month's presenter and story-teller is Rick Yoder—a one-time EMU professor in business and economics, choosing the road less traveled.
Join us Monday morning at 7:30. If you wish to eat a full breakfast please go through the cafeteria line, then bring your food to the West Dining Room. Coffee and pastries will be provided.
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MATT Le Tissier believes Saints possess the mental strength needed to secure promotion to the Premier League this season.
Nigel Adkins' men further improved their chances of reaching the top flight by demolishing Derby 4-0 at St Mary's on Saturday to move back to the head of the Championship.
Nearest rivals West Ham can overhaul them again tonight, but even then Saints would still be left in a most enviable position.
With just over two months of the season remaining, however, the pressure in the promotion race is beginning to really intensify.
But Saints legend Le Tissier, pictured below, is confident that the club have the players to cope with the mental strain.
"I haven't seen anything which makes me think they might be fragile in that department," he said.
"I'm positive about everything and keeping everything crossed that we go and finish the job off."
Full story in today's Daily Echo


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SUNY Plattsburgh has received one of the largest gifts from an alumna in the history of the college.
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sdk is available since a moment
im working on it ....; swc666 too i think
we may .......maybe one day produce something
As you now it maybe, google will, in the second semester 2008 produce a mobile OS (android) based on linux - Samsung, LG and Motorola mobiles will use it.
The source code will be completely open, no artificial bareers (like the Iphone for example...).
Do you think, that we can imagine an aircrack suite developpement for android?
The only barrer I can imagine, is how to connect a powerfull wireless card (and give her enough electricity) to the mobile phone
Do you imagine a bit how gorgeous it could be? Use aircrack (and more) on youre mobile phone!
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What do you think?
not really a fresh news
sdk is available since a moment
im working on it ....; swc666 too i think
we may .......maybe one day produce something
Watch your back, your packetz will belong to me soon... xD
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What is sdk?
But have you an idea, if the integrated wlan card will support injection? And if not, how it could be possible to connect a more powerfull one? I mean, all the software part would be useless, if the hardware does not support it.
software development kit
we are not members of bt crew, but only contributors interested in this aspect
you're right for the hw pb, will have to wait for good hardware
Watch your back, your packetz will belong to me soon... xD
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I think, the HTC Dream will have such a WLAN card, that is capable to inject.
And yes, it is possible to inject with an integrated wlan card: the HTC Universal has an acx100 compatible chip integrated on it, so it can inject. (But there are some driver unstabilities, and therefore it is not the best at now).
I have tried to crack a test ivs file on my Universal (520 MHz Intel Xscale, 64MB RAM) and it was succesful, and took 1min:38sec.
So, we can hope that there won't be any problems, and then it will work!
127.0.0.1 sweety 127.0.0.1???
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Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
But you are right with the other part: Android sucks, it doesn't allow any access to the hardware, you can't even run your compiled ARM binaries from the SD card etc...it's bad.
For packet injection tests use your best friend, and look for androidfanatics forum thread.
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First Look: Leo + Carey Mulligan Get Their Jazz On In 'The Great Gatsby' Trailer
The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby' starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire has just dropped! What do think? Let's take a look!
-Lucia Peters
It was big news when Baz Luhrmann, the visionary if slightly bizarre director of such hits as Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, announced that he planned to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby to the screen. It was even bigger news when its cast was announced: Leonardo DiCaprio would play the titular Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan the beautiful and tragic Daisy Buchanan, and Tobey Maguire our somewhat voyeuristic narrator, Nick Carraway. It finally started filming in September of 2011; and hey, guess what? The first trailer has just arrived! Gatsby has actually been adapted to film a couple of times in the past; none of them, however, have been particularly good (no, not even the Robert Redford one from 1974. Sorry, Bob!). Will this one buck the trend? Well let's take a look, shall we?
Read What Exactly Is Daniel Craig as James Bond Doing in the New 'Skyfall' Trailer?
Well, it… certainly looks like a Baz Luhrmann film. The big question I've had since the film's inception is whether Baz was going to make it as anachronistic as, say, Moulin Rouge. The trailer suggests that this Gatsby has not a little bit in common with the 2001 hit: The images of the Jazz Age parties look to have the same sort of decadent spectacle that defined the world of Satine, Harold Zidler and the rest; the choice in music draws from the modern era rather than the past (the trailer opens with Jay-Z's and Kanye West's "Watch the Throne" before morphing into U2's "Love Is Blindness"); and so on and so forth. That said, though, trailers aren't always accurate to the films themselves, so I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
Leo, Carey, and Tobey all look like they're filling the shoes of their characters nicely—literally and figuratively (isn't '20s fashion glorious?); it's also kind of nice to see Leo paired with Baz Luhrmann for the first time since Romeo + Juliet, which in the actor's pre-Titanic career was what catapulted him into the hearts of teenaged girls across the country. Those teenaged girls are now all roughly the same age as the characters in Gatsby, so it will be interesting to see how much Leo does or doesn't continue to resonate for them. I was also pleased to catch a glimpse of the gigantic glasses of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg, the ophthalmologist ad which serves as the novel's greatest symbol.
Oh, also, Gatsby is going to be in 3D. I have mixed feelings about 3D films, mostly because I don't think filmmakers have really learned how to use it yet (they're still largely framing shots for 2D—for example, I saw Thor in 3D last summer and I literally forgot it was in 3D while I was watching it. Not so good); but something tells me that if ever there was a filmmaker suited for 3D, it's Baz Luhrmann.
All in all, it looks interesting; but then again, most Baz Luhrmann films do, even if they end up being flawed in the end. The Great Gatsby also features Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, and Amitabh Bachchan; it hits cinemas in December.
Tell us: What do you think of Baz and Leo's latest cinematic outing?
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Acer has announced its top-end Aspire AS8950G-9839 notebook, featuring Intel Core i7-2630QM processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6850 graphics processor with 2GB of dedicated video memory and 8GB DDR3 memory (support up to 16GB).
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(TMZ) - Justin Bieber was the ringleader in a SECOND pap altercation in Miami Wednesday - ordering his goons to steal a photog's camera, all while the man pled desperately for mercy - and the entire exchange was caught on tape, reports TMZ.
According to TMZ, the incident occurred outside The Hit Factory recording studio at around 4 AM, just hours before Bieber's security guards allegedly choked another photographer, and tried to jack his camera equipment as well.
On the tape, you hear Justin scream to his bodyguards, "Get that f***ing camera out of here!" (time code: 1:30)
You can hear the photog plead with Justin, who responds like a benevolent prince, "Alright, alright. I'm gonna give you your camera back. I'm gonna take your SIM card though."
The photog begs and pleads to let him keep his memory card - even offering to delete the photos he took - but Bieber is unmoved.
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Usual price is under $20 per bottle. 14% alcohol. Winery uses sustainable agriculture. Blend of Grenache (50%), Syrah (40%), Cinsault (10%) My bottle was purchased at The Wine Merchant, Raleigh for $18.99 but some retailers have it for as little as $10.99. imported by Kysela Pere et Fils, Winchester, VA (my father's family migrated to Nebraska from Winchester, VA to homestead as did Willa Cather's family.)
Dark inky purple color. Nose suggests black and blue fruits, mixed berries. A little tight and a little tart at this stage (on the first evening.) It would probably drink better with decanting or another year in cool storage but the fruit is there--dark-skinned plums and boysenberries. Juicy quality with a hint of spice on the finish. Grenache and Syrah identifiable as part of the blend. More fruit-dominated after being opened for two days (recorked and refrigerated.) Very nice even though I had intended to buy a 2007 vintage Cotes-du-Rhone. Some sediment at the bottom of the bottle.