text:
Charlie Hanna, director of insurance, Hyland Software, said the increasing focus on technology and new technology-based competitors have insurers revisiting their legacy systems and older tech infrastructure.
June 04, 2018
Register to be notified of new A.M. BestTV episodes.
NAIC's Gann: Insurers Should Follow Investment and Credit Loss IssuesJune 5, 2018
Microsoft's Silverman: Artificial Intelligence Poised to Remake Claims, UnderwritingJune 5, 2018
GIA's Hemesath: Accelerator Gives Smaller Insurers a Path to Tech InnovationJune 5, 2018
Demands Mount on Insurance CFOs, Mostly Non-FinancialJune 5, 2018
InsurTechs: Not All Insurers Are Ready for New Tech, or Even Hungry for ChangeJune 4, 2018
Nolan's Discher: Outrunning the Market Means Deploying People Just as QuicklyJune 4, 2018
Hyland's Hanna: Insurtech Is Pressuring Insurers to Firm Up Their Tech BaseJune 4, 2018
Duck Creek's Yohn: Talent Gap Has Insurers Pursuing New Processing Strategies June 4, 2018
West Bend's Dunn: Artificial Intelligence Is Promising Management ToolJune 4, 2018
Hartford's Bourke: Agile Project Management Delivers Benefits to Users SoonerJune 4, 2018
Johnson Lambert's Murphy: New Rule on Fair Value Set to Alter Insurer's ResultsJune 4, 2018
Sapiens' Pettit: Accessing the Fruits of Insurtech Starts at the CoreJune 4, 2018
AdvantageGo's Sutton: Some Insurers Reluctant to Pick Up the Pace of Tech AdoptionJune 4, 2018
Western Union's Vyskocil: Consumers Expect Immediate, Enhanced Insurance BillingJune 4, 2018
Input 1's Greenbaum: Focus on Convenience Before PriceJune 4, 2018
Plateau's Graham: 'Odd-Lot' Investing Helps Smaller Insurers Make Targeted InvestmentsJune 4, 2018
Brotherhood's Robison: Planning for Job Succession Crucial to GrowthJune 4, 2018
It's Not About Watching Insurance Competitors, It's All About the CustomerJune 4, 2018
Grinnell's Eaves: Much of Insurtech Driven by Insurers Disrupting ThemselvesJune 4, 2018
Insurity's Victor: When Adopting New Technology, Start With Standard, Then CustomizeJune 4, 2018
Miles Capital's Boal: Today's Low-Rate Investing Environment May Not Be Here to StayJune 4, 2018
SS&C's Pallone: Technology Succeeds When There's Willingness to ChangeJune 4, 2018
Faster, Connected, Responsive: How Tech Is Shaping Tomorrow's Insurance June 3, 2018
IASA's Travers: Conference Attendees Interested in Insurtech, Learning, NetworkingMay 23, 2018


text:
Yaro la vita autumn rainbow
All Yaro wraps, are being produced within the European Union according to all the industry standards, requirements and labor regulations.
All the steps of the production process – designing, weaving, cutting, sewing, packing – are performed within the EU.
All our yarns fulfill high quality standards that assure they are safe to use with babies and toddlers. The dyeing process of our yarns is according to Oeko-Tex standard and the dyeing of our organic yarns is GOTS certified.
We are often being asked how we manage to offer wraps with such great quality for such affordable prices. The answer is simple. We believe in ethical and ecological production and therefore we work on optimizing all our processes to the fullest. We try to work as much as possible with suppliers who use ecological, closed loop manufacturing processes, solar and wind energy in order to minimize the impact of the production process on the environment.
Together with you, our Yaro fans and customers, we strive to promote and facilitate ergonomic babywearing for all parents. Let's spread love and babywearing!
- Instructions
- Wash & Care
for combinate carriers with silk, linen or wool/ cashmere
- Washing temperature 30°C/85°F (cold/gentle cycle)
- Never use bleaching agents
- Use mild, preferably liquid detergent
- Use water softener if your water is hard
- Do not tumble dry
- Iron at max 45°C/110°F
for cotton ones
- Washing temperature 40°C/104°F (warm)
- Never use bleaching agents
- Use mild, preferably liquid detergent
- Use water softener if your water is hard
- Dry-spin on gentle cycle only
- Avoid high temperatures, especially in the dryer
- Iron at max 65°C/150°F
People who like this product also like
Wooden nested eggs
Topa-Top Greatcoat

subset: commoncrawl


text:
I'm imagining you staring at your screen. Your head is cocked to the side and you've rested your hand on your chin to ponder my bizarre title. Could a panko-encrusted wasabi brownie really be the brownie recipe for everyone? Let me explain:
Cakey brownie lovers: This brownie isn't stick-to-your-fingers wet and it doesn't have that oily taste that many mix-made fudgy brownies have (my personal brownie pet peeve). It's cakey enough that you should be pleased, but your fudgy friends will be able to tolerate it because it's not as light as a chocolate birthday cake.
Fudgy brownie lovers: This brownie is packed with chocolate chunks. You can see the pieces of chocolate if you look closely at the photo. It won't be wet like your beloved fudgy-style brownie, but you can see that it is dense (not like an airy piece of cake) and the chocolate chunks give it a nice punch of chocolate flavor.
Nutty brownie lovers: Sorry, there are no nuts. But, I think that you'll find the panko (Japanese bread crumbs) to be a viable substitution. The panko gives the same satisfying crunch that you get from a nut while still allowing you to bring the brownies to homes of nut-haters or nut-allergic folks.
Brownie purists (anti-nut people): These brownies have no nuts. Instead, they have panko (Japanese bread crumbs) that provide a nice crunch. If you are also anti-crunch, you can easily remove the panko – it's only on the top.
While these brownies might not be the favorite of any of the groups listed above, they are brownies that cross the great brownie divide. You can safely bring them to a party knowing that all camps will enjoy them.
What About the Wasabi? Is That Really for Everyone?
The wasabi just gives the brownies a little zing. Zing is what makes life fun (it sure is fun to say) and fun is for everyone!
The wasabi is not so strong that your kids won't like it, and you won't need gallons of milk to calm your throat after having a bite. I think you'll enjoy the wasabi, but if it makes you nervous, you can always just leave it out.
Disclaimer: I do understand that "everyone" does not include those who are gluten-free, vegans, and folks with all manner of other allergies. If you are in one of those camps, perhaps you can work with the spirit of the recipe to make something similar that meets your needs (think crunch and a bit of spice). For example, you could use crushed gluten-free crispy brown rice cereal instead of panko if you are gluten-free.
Panko-Encrusted Wasabi Brownie Recipe
The recipe for these brownies is a modification of my grandma's brownie recipe. It's a one bowl recipe, so it's nice and easy!
Panko-Encrusted Wasabi Brownies
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 teaspoons wasabi paste
- 1/2 cup chocolate chunks or chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup panko
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Butter and lightly flour an 8" square baking pan.
- Mix all ingredients except the chocolate chunks and the panko in a medium-sized mixing bowl until fully combined.
- Fold in chocolate chunks.
- Pour into prepared baking pan and use a spatula to evenly spread the batter.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and evenly distribute the panko on top of the partially-cooked brownies.
- Return to the oven and bake for another fifteen minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry.
- Ideally, you should wait for them to cool prior to cutting (they'll cut more cleanly), but then you'd miss the joy of hot brownies. So, I say, make a mess and eat some right away!
Thanks to my friend Sylvia for pointing me to a post on The Island of Dr Gâteau about maple syrup panko biscuits. This gave me the inspiration to use panko in these brownies. I also used panko in cupcakes.
Fudgy vs. Cakey
Did you ever wonder if more people prefer fudgy or cakey brownies? I did. Check out my Facebook poll and join in with your thoughts.


text:
â€We packaged it. We packaged it like it has never been packaged before. We wrapped it up, along with our most unique business model and plan, in the most easily recognizable, electrically charged, energy generating way. The Spy Place is sure to become the most recognized name in the security industry, period,†explains Ms. Smock.
The Spy Place Franchising, LLC
Offering a Full-Service, Fully-Integrated Security System
Debuts at ISC West—Booth # 5047
Las Vegas, NV (April 1, 2009) From its humble beginnings as a security shop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, The Spy Place has developed into a full-service, fully-integrated security system franchise that is being introduced at the International Security Conference (ISC) West, at the Sands Convention Center, April 1—3, according to Tammy Smock, The Spy Place spokesperson.
"The Spy Place is geared to become a leading security and surveillance franchise company. The energy created by this name and system are unlike anything in the industry. We are committed to helping entrepreneurs take full advantage of the energy and industry diversity created by The Spy Place,†notes Ms. Smock.
"We have all seen successful businesses that service only one aspect of the security or surveillance industry such as GPS vehicle tracking software, mobile document destruction, limited access or lighting. That corporate model can only go so far and is self-limiting. We believe that franchising a system that allows for one business to serve every aspect of the industry is a paradigm shift that will allow this industry to grow and develop,†says to Ms. Smock.
"We pride ourselves on being an innovative franchisor utilizing the highest quality training and systems for our franchisees. The Spy Place franchisees will run our exciting James Bond-type retail store complete with the most innovative and exciting spy gadgets. Our unique system and trademarked name, The Spy Place, allow for a panoply of surveillance services far beyond the generalized business model of installation and monitoring, limited access and lighting control. There is no limit as to what our franchisees can do in this industry. In addition to the general business model, our franchisees can also service GPS vehicle tracking, document destruction, vehicle recovery, personal protection, private investigation, computer forensics, and any other niche from within the industry. In essence, the franchisees will be running several different businesses under one name,†adds Ms. Smock.
In order to train franchisees, the company will provide a fully-integrated sales training program including "Perception Training†at The Spy Place University in its world headquarters located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. During the two-week course, franchisees will be provided insight into the company's operating system, along with its business knowledge and leadership.
Because of the combined buying power of a franchise system, The Spy Place has arranged for franchise owners to receive preferred pricing from its approved surveillance industry suppliers.
What did The Spy Place do for the surveillance and security Industry? â€We packaged it. We packaged it like it has never been packaged before. We wrapped it up, along with our most unique business model and plan, in the most easily recognizable, electrically charged, energy generating way. The Spy Place is sure to become the most recognized name in the security industry, period,†explains Ms. Smock.
For additional information on this extraordinary franchise opportunity, please go to www.TheSpyPlace.com .
"The combination of AVINFO's network management software and Cantronic's camera products will allow us to offer a complete solution in China's rapidly expanding security and surveillance market," stated James Zahn, president and CEO of Cantronic. "AVINFO has established its software as one of the leading management platforms for monitoring and surveillance, with small and large installations in some 60 Chinese cities. As these cities expand their networks they are more likely to choose a proven software solution with a user interface that their staff has been trained on. With AVINFO, Cantronic has improved its product offering, acquired a growing customer base in China and added talented technical and sales management. Cantronic is now well positioned to achieve its China growth strategy."
The American Association of Port Authorities says more than 200 projects are available for funding to the tune of about $8.5 billion.
Projects range from a $100 million lock replacement in the Soo locks to dock wall reconstruction for the Ports of Indiana and numerous dredging and channel maintenance projects around the county.
"Ports got a push after 9/11 with port security, but the transportation infrastructure component has really been given short shrift," he said. "There are people on the Hill and in the administration that understand both domestic and international trade is what really helps propel the economy, and if we're going to nurture that business, we've got to make sure the transportation connections are efficient."
Subscribe Now
On the Editor's DeskPaul Ragusa
News and notes
Monitoring MattersGinger Hill
Guest Blog
© 2020 United Publications ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.


text:
Eat Here Now: Six New Restaurants in Honolulu
Hawaii is a great place to eat, and it seems to get better all the time. Here are six of our favorite new eateries that have opened in the past year.
(page 1 of 3)
It is a thrilling time to dine out in Hawaii. Eating spaces have gotten more casual—hell, some of them aren't even permanent or fixed, as in the case of pop-ups and food trucks—as fanaticism over ingredients has replaced table linens and formal service. Everything we eat and drink these days has gotten better: coffee is brewed to order at new cafés such as Morning Glass and Beach Bum Café, gastropubs such as Real and Pint + Jigger serve craft beer from Hawai'i and around the world, and, while local meats and produce used to be the provenance of high end restaurants such as Alan Wong's and Roy's, they are now also being served by prepared food vendors (i.e. The Pig and the Lady) at the farmers' markets.
Here is a look at some of the most interesting and appetizing restaurants that opened in the past year.
In the Grand Wailea, 3850 Wailea Alanui Drive, Wailea, Maui, (808) 891-3954,
Thirteen years ago, Alan Wong opened The Pineapple Room with a three-page pupu menu. This was before Jose Andrés popularized small-plate dining in the United States, before tapas popped up on every menu, even before izakayas became mainstream.
It lasted three months. People thought the portions were too small, they didn't understand that plates were meant to be shared and "people were looking for the entrée," Wong says.
Now, Wong's revitalizing his old concept with Amasia at the Grand Wailea, offering a menu of 65 small plates and larger ones meant to be shared family-style. Dishes come from the raw bar, sushi bar, robata grill and main kitchen. There are Alan Wong classics, like a whole tomato salad with li hing dressing and soy-braised short ribs with ko choo jang sauce. Wong and his kitchen crew change the menu frequently, but new dishes have included a grilled Greek-inspired sausage on cardamom yogurt, topped with pickled fennel, and even some plates with "Spong," a housemade Spam (the word itself is a mash-up of Spam and Wong).
Sushi chef Jeff Ramsey, who had a stint at Jose Andrés' Minibar in Washington, D.C., has come up with some inventive sushi rolls, like the "lū'au," with grilled ika, a coconut-milk lū'au sauce, and a cube of pressed l'ūau leaf. Of the larger, family-style plates, there's a whole chili-garlic Dungeness crab. The beauty of Amasia's menu is that you get the whole spectrum of Wong's cuisine, from the more local-style comfort food of The Pineapple Room, like a kimchee fried rice, to the rarefied dishes of Wong's flagship restaurant, such as the "soup and sandwich," a chilled tomato soup and a grilled cheese, kālua pig and foie gras sandwich. You can have it all at Amasia. You just have to share.
767 Kailua Road, Kailua, 261-1000, cactusbistro.com.
Cactus collects the flavors of Latin and Caribbean cuisines and, like a spice trader at a market, lures you in with bright tastes and smells. There are wild boar picadillo empañadas, cumin-scented ground meat folded into corn tortillas and deep-fried; Argentine fry bread, rounds of fried dough somewhere between a biscuit and a doughnut, accompanied by a pineapple and chile jelly. These are from the small-plates section of the menu, a nod to current trends, perhaps. Mostly, though, the menu is dedicated to generous-size entrées, like a big hunk of pork shoulder roasted and sauced with tamarind and fresh mango. Pork and clams go together like beer and fries, and there's all of that in the fideos, similar to a loose risotto, but made with vermicelli noodles. Here, they're in a rich broth of Dos Equis lager, lemon and chile. The aforementioned pork and fries? They're crisp, airy chicharrones, or fried pork skins.
John Memering, the chef of Cactus, spent six years helming the kitchen at Kalapawai Café before he moved right across the street to open his own place. ("That was incidental," Memering says. "They have sore feelings about that.") He's brought with him the same style of comfort food—nothing too crazy or unusual, hearty portions—but instead of the pan-European fare at Kalapawai, he's punching it up with chiles and spices from other tropical climes. It's food that belongs here, according to Memering, with "the brightness of lime and mango and pineapple and coconut and chiles."
Click here to watch our web exclusive video featuring Prima and The Whole Ox Deli.


text:
- You can create a - Layout, Card, Canvas, Mini Album, Mixed media, "Off the Page" creations
- Only new creations from 7th of July 2017 onwards
- Enter a direct link to your creations into the link tool, not only to the main page of your blog. This makes it easy for the Design Team to find your creations to leave comments
- You may enter a maximum of 4 entries for each Challenge
- MUST BE A FOLLOWER!!!!!(to enter Challenges)
- If your Challenge entries does not meet the above requirements your entry will be disqualified!
Friday, July 7, 2017
Challenge 94 - Birthday
6 comments:
Very nice work DTReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Beebeebabs, thank you for your lovely comment and entry.Delete
Have a great week
Congrats to the 4 years anniversary of the Challenge Blog!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....... :)Happy birthday dear Srapping 4 fun, Happy birthday to you,hip hip hurray!!!!
Love the Dt birthday cards!
Hugs and have a great weekend, Crealientje.
sorry, Scrapping 4 fun!:) I hope my English is o.k.ReplyDelete
Awesome DT works and congrats to the 4th birthday, girls!ReplyDelete
Kleido's BastelStüble
*Owner* Do-Al(l) Kreatives (#7 – Cool Wet – a small cool/refreshment due?)
*DT* Die Sketchtanten
Gorgeous creations by the DT and the Guest Designers!ReplyDelete
Happy Crafting Birthday to the Challenge Blog! Thank you Ladies for all the effort you put into it! It's always a pleasure to play along here.
Thank you for stopping by.
Please know that your comment is valued to us.
Hope you enjoyed your stay.
Scrapping4funChallenges Team


text:
Welcome to Saskatchewan. Come experience our vibrant cities, uncrowded parks, world-class freshwater fishing, abundant wildlife, canoeing, hiking, golf, and horseback riding. Start planning your visit today - we can't wait to see you!
Can a canoe trip change your life?
Retrace the path of voyageurs. Rapids to shoot, lakes to cross, winding trails to traverse, all immersed in the stories that bring nature and history together.
It's what memories are made of
The scent of fresh morning air. The lake that seemed to go on forever. The family in the site next to yours, the ones you couldn't wait to see every summer. Nothing brings people closer together than camping in Saskatchewan.Find Your Park
Chat with our Experts
Our friendly travel counsellors are ready to help you find your perfect Saskatchewan vacation.
The Saskatchewanderer
Follow along as the Saskatchewanderer travels the province and shows why Saskatchewan is a great place to live, work and play.Check it Out


text:
Everyone celebrates the arrival of college football a little differently. For Auburn center Reese Dismukes, it was apparently a week-long party beginning Friday evening.
The party ended before it ever really got started, though. Dismukes was arrested for public intoxication Friday night and released on a $300 bond, multiple media outlets reported Saturday morning through Lee County Sheriff online records.
As a result, he is facing an indefinite suspension.
The Dismukes incident comes just days after Gene Chizik confirmed that receiver DeAngelo Benton had been indefinitely suspended from the football program for violating an unspecified team rule.
Dismukes started all 13 games last season for Auburn and was listed on this year's Rimington Trophy watch list. A suspension of any kind would most definitely be felt along Auburn's O-line.
The Tigers open up the season in Atlanta against Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. Coincidentally enough, the Tigers (of Clemson) have suspended one of their best playmakers in receiver Sammy Watkins for that game because of a drug-related offseason arrest.


text:
For once, these fashion models don't just look like robots by accident. The make-up artist for yesterday's Marios Schwab fashion show in London modeled the models' faces on "Battlestar Galactica android aliens." That included bleaching the eyebrows, using pale foundation, and putting reflective gloss on eyelids, says artist Val Garland with Revlon. "It's all about a very blank face," she added. Click through for full-body pics of Cylons on the catwalk.
Photos by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images. [WWD]


text:
Yohannes, a publisher and editor of the defunct weekly Setit and a recipient of CPJ's International Press Freedom Award in 2002, died in prison, several sources in the Eritrean diaspora disclosed to CPJ in February 2007. Yohannes was among 10 independent journalists rounded up in a massive 2001 government crackdown that shuttered the nation's private press.
Several sources said Yohannes died on January 11, 2007, after a long illness in an undisclosed prison outside Asmara; one source said the journalist may have died much earlier in a prison in Embatkala, 21 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of Asmara.
In a June 2007 interview, Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu told CPJ that he had nothing to say about Yohannes. "I don't know," he said. "This is an Eritrean issue; leave it to us. I have nothing to say."
Yohannes went by the name of "Joshua" among family and friends. Formerly a member of the guerrilla movement fighting for Eritrean independence from neighboring Ethiopia, he turned to journalism when Eritrea became a state in 1993. In November 1997, he joined Setit as co-owner and board member, a former colleague told CPJ. He became a popular writer, and Setit grew into the nation's largest-circulation newspaper.
Setit's staff tackled tough issues in the young nation, including poverty, prostitution, and Eritrea's lack of infrastructure for handicapped veterans of the 30-year independence struggle. The weekly's criticism angered the government, and by May 2001, Yohannes asked CPJ to help him create a journalists' union to improve press freedom conditions.
He and other journalists never got the chance. President Isaias Afewerki's government launched a crackdown on all critical voices, including those in the press, just one week after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States had diverted the world's attention. Under the pretext of combating terrorism, the government shut down every independent media outlet and arrested independent journalists on sight.At the time, he and other imprisoned journalists still had contact with the outside world. In May 2002, Yohannes and several other colleagues staged a hunger strike in hopes of spurring their release. Instead, government officials transferred the journalists to undisclosed locations. Online news reports, which have not been confirmed, suggest that as many as three other journalists also may have died in government custody. The other jailed journalists continued to be held incommunicado in secret jails throughout 2007, according to CPJ research.


text:
Bubbles Galore! 5 Sparkling Wine Options to Please Any Palate
'Tis the season of celebration and often the first thing that comes to people's minds (at least in our world) is opening a nice bottle of bubbles! Whether it's New Years Eve or Christmas morning, there's nothing like the sound of a cork popping to liven up the occasion. Often people assume that most sparkling […] Continue reading


text:
primalegg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
New clean and professional design needed for April 1 launch of TheGymBox.com
workout virtually everyday
Desired Color Scheme:
Lime (#9DDE42) / Gray (#676666)
Desired Style:
Clean, professional, active
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); Prefer Fireworks .png
About TheGymBox.com
THEGYMBOX uses innovative technology to bring you gym-style fitness classes directly to your television or computer. With 30 new hours of classes each week, the days of repeating the same old workout DVD again and again are history. You can log into your account and view the classes on your computer monitor from anywhere in the world, or you can simply plug THEGYMBOX directly into your television and play the classes whenever you want.
Use existing logo
Use colors from existing logo
Design for home page $500
Design for Interactive TV on home page $250
Design for trainer bios $250
Current site: http://www.thegymbox.com/
Settop menu sample: http://www.thegymbox.com/menu/
Artwork: http://www.primalegg.com/thegymbox.zip
home.psd - sample design from client. Please just use these as a starting point and possibly just a guide as to what functionality the main page needs to offer
logo.psd - high resolution logo - use this logo for the design
menu.psd - actual menu sample from service
STB_hi-res.jpg - high resolution image of actual settop box - use this image for the design
Menu items
Home, How it works, 30-day trial, Features, Contact, Login
Menu items need to be able to be reproduced with standard CSS and layed out in a manner that items can be easily added/removed.
Home page
Interactive television - Shows each discipline and clicks to flash video sample. Ability to scroll between disciplines and also marketing messages. Design needs to be easy to replicate so I can add disciplines as necessary. I will be using this component http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet…ultCS.aspx to make the tv 'interactive'.
Focus on main marketing message - 'Workout from home for under a $1 a day'
Rotating customer testimonials
6 main messaging points
Wourkout for under a $1 a day
Toss your dvds - New classes added weekly
No commercial interuptions
Workout when you want in the comfort of your own home.
Skip the daycare and the hassle of going to the gym
Wide variety of classes to choose from
How it works
Use this page to describe the ease of use. Plug the box in to your TV, connect it to your home's broadband (1.5 meg or higher - possibly offer a speed test) either wired or wirelessly, and workout on demand.
30 day risk-free trial
the order page.
give another description of the service, more demo videos, and the ability to see bios for our trainers. Something like you see at http://www.push.tv/. I don't currently have images for the trainers so just use a sample image. Design should be easy to duplicate as trainers will be added/removed often. Again using this component http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet…ultCS.aspx to make 'interactive'.
The regular contact form address and phone info.
For use with current subscribers. This is where they will find the user's area.Â


text:
Damon Houx
Evangeline Lilly in Talks to Join Marvel's 'Ant-Man'
The casting of Edgar Wright's 'Ant-Man' is heating up, though it looks like it's about to get 'LOST.' Evangeline Lilly, who spent six seasons stuck on an island and recently appeared as an Elf in 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,' is being courted for the …
'Uncharted' Has Found a Director in 'Horrible Bosses' Helmer Seth Gordon
It's been a long time since we've heard anything new about an 'Uncharted' movie, with many directors having circled the project. But now Sony has hired 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Identity Thief' helmer Seth Gordon to take on adapting the video game franchise for t…
'The Amazing Spider-Man 2′ Has Revealed a New Villain
One of the goals with Sony's reboot of the Spider-Man franchise seems to be setting up as many of the webslinger's nemeses as possible. 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' will feature Paul Giamatti's Rhino, Jamie Foxx's Electro, and Harry (Dane DeHaan) and Norman Osborn (Chris Cooper), with at least one don…
'Need for Speed' Getting Last Minute 3D Conversion
In a move we haven't seen in quite some time, 'Need for Speed' is getting a last minute 3D conversion for its March release. That means -- if they haven't started yet and can send out the digital files the night before -- DreamWorks has thirty eight days to get this done.
'Chip 'n Dale' Are Getting a Live Action Hybrid Origin Story
Perhaps due to the success of the 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' and 'Smurfs' franchises, 'Chip 'n Dale' are going to be brought to the big screen in a similar way as Disney is pursuing a live action/animation hybrid feature film version of their origin story.
'The Amazing Spider-Man 2′ Super Bowl Trailer Tease: Watch Half the Footage!
Half is better than none, right? 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' will have a Super Bowl spot this Sunday, but Sony doesn't want to spoil all the surprises just yet, so they've released half of their new trailer.
Oscar 2014 Shocker! 'Alone Yet Not Alone' Disqualified for Best Song
Though many of the 2014 Oscar Nominations seemed inevitable (we're looking at you, 'Gravity,' '12 Years a Slave' and 'American Hustle'), there were a number of surprises -- some pleasant, some less so. But perhaps the biggest "Huh?" was the best s…
'Noah' Super Bowl Trailer: Russell Crowe Fights the Flood
'Noah' is the first movie to release its 2014 Super Bowl ad, and now we're starting to get a look at the larger picture of the film. There's the familiar images of Russell Crowe preparing his ark, and looks at his family, but now we can see that fire is raining down from the heav…
'Thor 3′ Has Hired Writers, Plus New Plot Details
With 'Thor: The Dark World' outperforming the first 'Thor' both domestically ($204 million vs. $181 million) and worldwide ($632 million vs. $449 million) a 'Thor 3' was all but inevitable. Now Marvel has confirmed it by hiring one of their own to write it.
Russell Crowe is Ready for the Flood in the Final 'Noah' Poster
One of this spring's biggest question marks is Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah,' which has Russell Crowe playing the titular hero, the biblical figure who saved his family and all the animals with his giant ark. Now the film has a final poster that suggests Noah is ready for action.


text:
Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
There are times that we have doubts in our faith. The Gospel tells the story of someone who doubted Jesus, the story of doubting Thomas. To me it is understandable that Thomas had doubts. I am sure that he doubted Peter and the others who had said that they had seen the Lord. These are the same guys who only a few months earlier were squabbling with each other over who would be the most powerful in the Kingdom of God. Jesus had told them that they would be tested, but with the exception of John, they had all deserted the Lord, including Thomas, who in his own bravado had said earlier, "Let's go with him to Jerusalem and die with him." The fact the Thomas was nowhere to be found at the crucifixion must have left him with some pretty negative feelings about himself. And what was probably most devastating to Thomas is that for the first time, he questioned his belief in Jesus. So Thomas was vocal in his doubts. He doubted the other disciples. He doubted himself. And he doubted the Lord. This obviously changed when he saw the Lord. Pictures will often show Thomas putting his hands in the marks of the nails on Jesus' hands and touching the Lord's side, but actually Jesus only invites Thomas to do this. Thomas' response to Jesus was, "My Lord and My God." Jesus' next comment was meant for us, "You believe because you have see. Blessed are those who have not seen yet believe."
We have doubts in our faith. That is part of being a human being. Faith asks us to take a step, a leap actually, away from all that we can see, hear and sense, a step away from the limits of our rational capabilities and a step into mystery. This is a difficult step for all of us, but particularly difficult for us as our minds develops their intellectual prowess. When we become teens, if not a bit before, we can do things with our mind that we could not do as children. We can think in abstractions. We can conceive concepts that do not exist in the real world but do exist in the world of mathematics, in the world of literature, psychology, and so forth. When we were eight, we could not fathom something that could not exist in the real world. We can now. When was the last time you came across the square root of two? It exists only in our minds. We have studied how a poet or author can create a totally imaginative world and apply human emotions to this world to such an extent that the reader can easily confuse the world with reality. And we have studied how certain psychological realities determine people's actions, even though those realities are not physical but are purely mental.
But, now faith asks us to take a step into a deeper reality, into that which is beyond our intellectual capabilities, a step into a knowledge our minds can never come to on their own. So, it is normal for humans to doubt, particularly as Teens, but actually throughout our lives. Add to that the fact that many in our society transfer their own questions and doubts onto others, attacking the faith of those who believe, particularly the faith of Catholics. We take courses in high school, college and grad school with other students who question our faith. We even have to put up with some teachers and professors who treat us like naive children because we say that we believe in the Bible and the teaching of the Church. On top of all this, we have crises in our lives where our prayers appear to go unanswered. We pray for our parents to stop fighting, but they don't. We pray that our grandmother might get over her sickness, but she doesn't. We hear about the people who died natural disasters like earthquakes and tornadoes, we are aware of the children who are starving to death in Africa, the suffering taking place in Haiti, etc, and we begin to question if anyone is hearing our prayers. Doubts in faith are normal. It takes courage and determination to say, "In spite of what others say, and in spite of my own questions, I still believe, Lord. I believe in your Word in the Bible. I believe that your Son became one of us as the Bible said He would. I believe that His sacrificial love on the cross earned for us the very life of God. I believe that no matter what my eyes see or don't see, my ears hear or don't hear, no matter what my mind can determine or what its limits are, you are still there for me, loving me, filling me with a joy that doesn't go away."
And God, in His Mercy, sees us for whom we are, human beings with doubts, but also people who have experienced His Love and want more of it. We might feel bad about ourselves for having doubts, but His Mercy, His Divine Mercy, is so great that He sees us not as people with doubts, but as people who are searching for Him. That's why Divine Mercy Sunday fits so perfectly with the gospel of doubting Thomas, ordinary people like you and I called to have extraordinary faith.
St. Pope John Paul II was, really, an ordinary man called to have extraordinary faith. He had an extremely difficult life as a child and Teen. His mother died when he was nine. His older brother, a young doctor whom little Karol Wojtyla looked up to, died while still in his 20's. Karol's best friends, many of whom were Jewish, were hunted and killed by the Nazis. He was forced by the Nazis to work in the mines and given very little food to sustain his large body. He was even hit by a German truck and left to die on the side of the road. He survived and continued working to keep the faith alive in Poland. Karol had was part of two secret religious groups, the Living Rosary and the Rhapsodic Theater, where Karol not only acted but wrote plays. When he decided to become a priest, he had to study secretly. Every day he and another clandestine seminarian, Jerzy Zachuta, would jeopardize their lives to assist a priest at Mass. One day, his friend did not show up for Mass. The Nazis learned that Jerzy was studying to be a priest and executed him. Still, Karol continued growing in his faith. He knew that the people needed priests more than ever. And he knew that somehow God would work His wonders through him. Karol was extremely intelligent, so intelligent that he understood there were limits to what his mind can come to but no limits to the knowledge that faith could provide. The war ended, but the Nazis were replaced by the Russians and their Polish communist puppets. The new priest, Fr. Wojtyla still continued in faith, fighting to proclaim the Truth of Jesus Christ. He continued this fight through the priesthood, episcopacy and the papacy. In everything all that mattered for St. John Paul was Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.
So, putting it together, Karol Wojtyla was a human being who suffered crisis after crisis, but held on to his faith. He was extremely intelligent, brilliant actually. But he knew that his mind could only go so far. Faith had infinitely more to offer than his rational skills. He was tested with a difficult life, but He knew that God was there through it all.
We need to pray to St. John Paul II today to intercede with the Lord for us. We need faith. We need forgiveness for the times that our humanity has led us to doubts. We need to trust in the Divine Mercy of the Lord. We need courage to withstand the attacks of the godless upon us. We need spiritual strength to take a leap away from those who belittle us for our beliefs, a leap away from our own doubts, a leap that refuses to let the crises of our lives destroy our faith, and a leap into the arms of our Savior.
Reflections are available for the following Sundays:


text:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Liber AL II;9
Resources you might find useful:
Blazing Star
418 Lodge
Sirius Encampment
College of Thelema
Red Flame
About A∴A∴
Existence is pure joy. Remember that. There will be a quiz.
Love is the law, love under will.
The license plate of the Beast.


text:
This probably seems simple, well I'm sure all of mine seem simple, so here it goes. I am having trouble constructing strings. str1, str3, and str4 give pre-compile errors and show up yellow in my IDE. The pre-compile errors are commented in the code below. str2 gives a pre-compile error (commented in code below) and also a runtime error. The runtime error was:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - Erroneous tree type: <any>
at hsstringdemo.HSStringDemo.main(HSStringDemo.java:1 4)
Line 14 is where the string is declared and initialized, which I think is also called the string constructor.
I imported java.lang.Object and java.lang.String in hopes that something was not defined, but to no avail. I tried using the code tags this time, seems simple, but tell me how I am doing.
package hsstringdemo; import java.lang.Object; import java.lang.String; public class HSStringDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { // Declare strings in various ways. String str1 = new String("Java strings are objects."); //Pre-Compile Error: String constructor invocation String str2 = new "They are constructed in various ways."; //Pre-Compile Error: <identifier> expected String str3 = new String(str1); //Pre-Compile Error: String constructor invocation String str4 = new String(str1 + str3); //Pre-Compile Error: String constructor invocation System.out.println(str1); System.out.println(str2); System.out.println(str3); System.out.println(str4); } }


text:
Late for Breakfast
Nikki McDonald April 16, 2012Works for me, David. Well conceived and executed and the tones are just right for the image. #1456944
david H. casian April 16, 2012Thank you Nikki, I really enjoyed this picture.. #10094577
Rolando Rosito May 26, 2012Great finalist David! Congratulations! #10152403
Linda L. Ruiz May 26, 2012#10152448
JO ANN CLEVELAND May 29, 2012Big congratulations on this outstanding 2nd Place Gold Winner David!
And sooo well deserved too..I just love it!
jo ann c. #10159433
Mary Beth Aiello May 29, 2012Outstanding work, David. Huge congrats on this beautiful Gold. #10159512
Rolando Rosito May 30, 2012Well deserved David, congratulations!! #10161860
david H. casian May 30, 2012Thank you all for your kind word ...I am truly honored
David #10162077
David M. Montero June 08, 2012I apologize for my tardiness. Congratulations on your gold award for this eerie, yet wonderful work David! #10173422
This photo was taken at Bodie CA. Bodie is the best preserved ghost town in California. Perhaps the country! Bodie was once a thriving gold mining town with 10000 residents in 1879. the image is of the interior of one dwellings located in the towns remains. The figure of the woman was cloned in using Photoshop. I luminated the center a little to give a ghostly glow, burned the corners and changed to B&W and sepia tone in an attempt to eliminate any distractions and add Drama...I hope the effect worked .....
Exif: F Number: 2.8, ExposureTime: 1/15 seconds, Flash: did not fire, auto mode, ISO: 160, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 3.85 mm, Model: iPhone 4
Uploaded on April 16, 2012
Entered into contest on 2018-01-05 12:21:11
Copyright for this gallery photo belongs solely to david H. casian. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.
Log in to follow or message this photographer or report this photo.


text:
Your daily news briefing with the video of the day, the top news and the quote of the day.
News to know
Ed Schultz was suspended from his MSNBC progressive talk show, "The Ed Show," for one week without pay Wednesday for calling political commentator Laura Ingraham an inappropriate word on his radio show. Schultz has since apologized on air, and in a tweet, Ingraham accepted his apology.
Quote of note
"I want you to know that I have a wonderful life now … No matter what you do, you will never affect me again." – Elizabeth Smart to Brian David Mitchell in court today. Mitchell was convicted of kidnapping and raping 14-year-old Smart nine years ago, and today he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Hot video
-- GateHouse News Service


text:
You tell your Scouts to "Be Prepared" for anything, but would they know what to do when a model rocket flies off course and into the chest of one of their peers?
Josh Raynes and Chris Rogers did.
For their actions in saving the life of 16-year-old Connor McNeil, the boys received the Heroism Award (left) in a ceremony yesterday.
To read how their actions saved the day, click here.
The Heroism Award, first given out in 1923, is awarded to youth or adults who use Scouting skills to attempt to save someone's life with little or no risk to themselves. Only about 3,000 have been awarded in the medal's history.


text:
Electric Vehicle's invade Logan County on annual road trip
Album 1
on photos below to enlarge.]
[June 27, 2014]
Send a link to a friend
This week, the cities of
Lincoln and Atlanta were two of several stops for the 2014 State of
Illinois Electric Vehicle Relay. The relay is a drive around the
state of Illinois in electric vehicles or EV's. To expedite their
trip, the relay sent a Nissan Leaf to Lincoln early Tuesday morning
where it was put on an electric charger on loan from Eaton Corp in
Lincoln at City Hall.
The relay was scheduled to arrive in Lincoln shortly after 11 a.m.
They were going to be met at the Lincoln Depot by Mayor Keith Snyder
and several Eaton representatives.
The tour ran a bit late, but when they arrived, it was an exciting
time for everyone.
Pictures by Nila Smith
Mayor Keith Snyder (right) visits with representatives from Eaton
Snyder greets Eric Heineman, Sustainability Director from the Office
of the Governor.
Click here to go to Album
Back to top


text:
!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event September 13, 2006-Early December 2006: Newly Released Footage from 9/11 Does Not Show Impact on the Pentagon. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
An employee at a gas station located across the street from the Pentagon servicing military personnel later says the station's security cameras should have recorded the moment of impact. However, he says, "I've never seen what the pictures looked like. The FBI was here within minutes and took the film." [Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12/11/2001] A security camera atop a hotel close to the Pentagon also records the impact. Hotel employees watch the film several times before the FBI confiscates the video. [Washington Times, 9/21/2001] The Justice Department will refuse to release the footage, claiming that if they did it might provide intelligence to someone who would want to harm the US, but some Pentagon officials say they see no national security value to the video. [CNN, 3/7/2002] The gas station footage and video taken from one nearby hotel, the Doubletree, will eventually be released in 2006, but do not show much (see September 13, 2006-Early December 2006). Reporter Sandra Jontz, who is evacuated from the Pentagon some time after it is hit, notices a Department of Transportation camera that monitors traffic backups pointed towards the crash site. [Bull and Erman, 2002, pp. 281] As of the end of 2006, the footage from this camera has not been released.
Entity Tags: Sandra Jontz, Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Pentagon security cameras facing the crash scene allegedly have been put out of order by the attack. [Murphy, 2002, pp. 245] John Jester, the chief of the Defense Protective Service (DPS), runs from his office at the Pentagon down to the DPS Communications Center and orders, "Get a camera up there!" [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 152-153] As the Washington Times will later note, "The attack occurred close to the Pentagon's heliport, an area that normally would be under 24-hour security surveillance, including video monitoring." [Washington Times, 9/21/2001] However, some of the Communications Center's eight wall-mounted monitor screens are blank, because the crash has destroyed the camera nearest the area of impact and cut connectivity to others. Furthermore, some of the security cameras at the Pentagon are currently inoperable because of construction work going on (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). Officer Jesse De Vaughn brings up an image from a camera at the Navy Annex, located a few hundred yards from the Pentagon, which is then focused onto the crash site. [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 153 and 244] Two recently installed security cameras located north of the crash site in fact captured the moment the aircraft impacted the Pentagon (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 161] The poor quality footage from these will be officially released in 2006 (see May 16, 2006). [Associated Press, 5/17/2006] Whether the cameras that were destroyed or disconnected when the Pentagon was hit captured the approaching aircraft or the moment of impact is unstated.
Entity Tags: Pentagon, Jesse De Vaughn, John Jester
Logo of the FBI's National Capital Response Squad. [Source: FBI]Within five minutes of the Pentagon being hit, the first group from the FBI's National Capital Response Squad arrives there. Due to this being a terrorist attack, the Pentagon and its grounds are immediately declared a federal crime scene. Under the terms of a 1995 presidential directive, this makes them the exclusive responsibility of the FBI. The FBI immediately begins collecting evidence and is also responsible for recovering bodies. Its agents are able to confiscate security videos from a nearby gas station within minutes of the crash (see (After 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). More than 700 FBI agents, assisted by hundreds of individuals from other organizations, will participate in the recovery operation. [US President, 6/21/1995; Washington Times, 9/12/2001; US Department of Health and Human Services, 7/2002, pp. A-7, A-23, C-1, C-54 ]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pentagon
A report in the Washington Times suggests, "Federal investigators may have video footage of the deadly terrorist attack on the Pentagon. A security camera atop a hotel close to the Pentagon may have captured dramatic footage of the hijacked Boeing 757 airliner as it slammed into the western wall of the Pentagon. Hotel employees sat watching the film in shock and horror several times before the FBI confiscated the video as part of its investigation. It may be the only available video of the attack. The Pentagon has told broadcast news reporters that its security cameras did not capture the crash. The attack occurred close to the Pentagon's heliport, an area that normally would be under 24-hour security surveillance, including video monitoring." [Washington Times, 9/21/2001] In a later report, an employee at a gas station across the street from the Pentagon that services only military personnel says the gas station's security cameras should have recorded the moment of impact. However, he says, "I've never seen what the pictures looked like. The FBI was here within minutes and took the film." [Richmond Times-Dispatch, 12/11/2001] In late 2006, the FBI will release the footage from the gas station's cameras, along with footage from atop the Doubletree Hotel near the Pentagon. Whether the Doubletree is the hotel referred to in the Washington Times report is unknown. Neither of the videos will show the impact on the Pentagon, though the Doubletree video shows the subsequent explosion (see September 13, 2006-Early December 2006). Footage taken by the Pentagon's security cameras and released earlier in 2006 will show that the Pentagon's claim—that its own cameras did not capture the impact on 9/11—was untrue (see May 16, 2006).
Entity Tags: Pentagon, US Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation
The first two of five stills of the Pentagon impact. [Source: Public domain]A series of photos surfaces purporting to show a plane crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11. It is not clear who released the photos, but the Pentagon asserts that they are authentic and were taken by a Pentagon security camera. The release of these pictures comes within days of the publication of the book l'Effroyable Imposture that disputes the claim that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon (see Early March 2002). "Officials could not immediately explain why the date typed near the bottom of each photograph is September 12 and the time is written as 5:37 p.m.," the book notes. [US department of Defense, 9/11/2001; Associated Press, 3/8/2002; Fox News, 3/8/2002] The whole video, together with another also taken by a Pentagon security camera, will be released in 2006 (see May 16, 2006). [Associated Press, 5/17/2006]
Entity Tags: Pentagon
A frame from the video showing the attack on the Pentagon. [Source: US Department of Defense]For the first time, the US Department of Defense officially releases video footage of the Pentagon attack. Two security cameras outside the building recorded the footage on the morning of 9/11 (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [US Department of Defense, 9/11/2001; US Department of Defense, 9/11/2001; Associated Press, 5/17/2006; Washington Post, 5/17/2006] The digital cameras positioned north of the crash site had recently been installed and were still undergoing testing. They were part of a security system that enabled a guard in a booth to identify drivers heading toward the parking lot for the Pentagon Mall Entrance. [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 161] The Pentagon releases the two videos in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and related lawsuit by the public interest group Judicial Watch. It previously refused to do so because, it said, the tapes were "part of an ongoing investigation involving Zacarias Moussaoui." [Judicial Watch, 5/16/2006] Both tapes were played as evidence during Moussaoui's recent death penalty trial. [Washington Post, 5/17/2006] However, the footage is of poor quality and several still images from one of the tapes have in fact already been released unofficially (see March 7, 2002). [Associated Press, 5/17/2006] Furthermore, Judicial Watch had sought all recordings of the Pentagon attack, including those taken by cameras at the nearby Sheraton Hotel and Citgo gas station, and Virginia Department of Transportation traffic cameras (see (After 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Judicial Watch, 5/16/2006] According to CNN's Jamie McIntyre: "[T]here are at least 80 other tapes that the government is holding onto. We're told that they don't really show much, but sources have told us that at least one of the tapes from a security camera at a nearby hotel may have captured the plane in the air." [CNN, 5/20/2006] So far, none of these tapes have been made public, though the FBI will release the footage from the Citgo gas station and video taken from the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington later this year (see September 13, 2006-Early December 2006). Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says he hopes the newly released Pentagon security camera footage "will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77." For example, some suggest a missile hit the Pentagon on 9/11. [BBC, 5/16/2006] However, it appears to have the opposite effect, causing Internet traffic to 9/11 conspiracy websites to soar. James Fetzer, co-chair of the group Scholars for 9/11 Truth, says of the videos: "There is no new information here whatsoever… You can't tell what in the world is hitting the Pentagon." [CanWest News Service, 5/18/2006]
Entity Tags: Tom Fitton, Pentagon, US Department of Defense, James Fetzer, Judicial Watch
Security camera footage of the Pentagon attack, from the nearby Doubletree Hotel. [Source: Public domain]In mid-September 2006, the FBI releases never-before-seen footage from security cameras at a Citgo gas station near the Pentagon, recorded on the morning of 9/11. Agents seized the video just minutes after the attack on the Pentagon (see (After 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). The FBI releases it in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and related lawsuit by the public interest group Judicial Watch. Many people believed the footage would show the strike on the Pentagon. However, the video, depicting views from the gas station's six security cameras, shows that these cameras apparently did not capture it. The footage has been partially obscured by the FBI, though, to protect the privacy of individuals who were in the Citgo convenience store at the time it was recorded. [Citgo, 9/11/2001; Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9/13/2006 ; CNS News, 9/15/2006; Judicial Watch, 9/15/2006] Early in December, the FBI releases more security camera footage from the morning of 9/11, taken from atop the Doubletree Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, which it also seized after the attacks. This is also in response to the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch and others. The grainy video does not show American Airlines 77 in flight, but does show the explosion after the Pentagon was hit. According to Judicial Watch, this "seemingly contradicts a sworn FBI affidavit in a related case claiming that the Doubletree security recordings 'did not show the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.'" [Doubletree Hotel, 9/11/2001; CNN, 12/2/2006; KWTX, 12/4/2006; Judicial Watch, 12/7/2006] In the weeks after 9/11, it was reported that FBI investigators confiscated footage of the impact on the Pentagon from a hotel nearby (see September 21, 2001). Whether the hotel referred to was the Doubletree is unknown. Judicial Watch is trying to obtain 9/11 footage from cameras at the Sheraton National Hotel, which is also near the Pentagon. [Leader-Telegram, 9/12/2001; Judicial Watch, 5/16/2006; CNN, 5/17/2006]
Entity Tags: US Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Judicial Watch
Receive weekly email updates summarizing what contributors have added to the History Commons database
Developing and maintaining this site is very labor intensive. If you find it useful, please give us a hand and donate what you can.Donate Now
If you would like to help us with this effort, please contact us. We need help with programming (Java, JDO, mysql, and xml), design, networking, and publicity. If you want to contribute information to this site, click the register link at the top of the page, and start contributing.Contact Us
Except where otherwise noted,
the textual content of each timeline is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike


text:
Every weekday, from Monday to Friday anyone arriving at the "Parko ranča" will be able not only to observe, but also to participate in vivacious thematic events. Excellent host of the evening, delicious food, cosy environment and a variety of drinks - everything is ready.
Mondays – "Brain Battles"
Every Monday "Parko ranča" invites you to compete in the "Brain Battle" duels and have a good time with your friends: you are invited to demonstrate your skills, test your knowledge and find out the unknown before facts and win great prizes.
Tuesdays - Darts Evenings
You are invited to test your accuracy and the ability to concentrate in the "Parko ranča" on Tuesdays, which is announced as the Darts Evening! Darts are a great entertainment, and for the professional players – is a gambling game. The target of the Darts helps to develop both the verstality of the hand and the acuity of the mind, and when competing with your friends or colleagues, it gives a lot of sports enthusiasm.
Wednesdays - competitive poker and board games
On Wednesdays, there is an evening of competitive poker and board games at the "Parko ranča". Competitive Poker is a great opportunity to test your patience, self-possession and attention. A good dose of adrenaline and great prizes awaits you! Those who want more relaxed impressions, positive emotions and emulative competition will be able to test their favourite board games in the "Parko ranča" on Wednesdays. You just need a good mood and a good company! Everything else will be taken care of.
Thursdays - Karaoke
We are waiting for music lovers on Thursdays, as every week on Thursday, musical and sometimes, noisy karaoke evening will take place at the "Parko ranča". This is a great opportunity to reveal and demonstrate your vocal skills and support your singing friends. Of course, the great evening prizes will be granted to the most voicefull and bravest singers!
Fridays - Tastings
Friday evening is for whiskey and beer tasting. During the tasting, the experts will present you with the history of these beverages, production processes and taste features. After having tried the checked with time drinks and BBQ dishes specially grilled for the evening, everyone will realize that their evening was extraordinary.
Advanced registration for events +370 601 60730
Table reservations +370 610 00454
The "Parko ranča" is a place where the time is spent perfectly and the food is extremely delicious. The kitchen at the "Parko ranča" works until 2 o'clock in the morning, dances on weekends are held until 4 o'clock in the morning. The "Parko ranča" is located at the "Atostogu parkas" near the log villas. This is a great place for everyone, because at the "Parko ranča", there are slot machines, darts, pool table, widescreen TVs, and most importantly, a spacious dance floor for dancing until the dawn!
The menu at the "Parko ranča" ranges from delicious steaks, burgers, sausages served in extra large portions to the delicious meals for the smallest visitors. Spicy chicken wings in BBQ sauce, homemade potato chips, sandwiches with homemade mayonnaise, cheese doughnuts, grilled drumsticks and many other dishes.
More information: goo.gl/nbo2ea
Palanga tourism information center
Vytauto Str. 94, LT-00132 Palanga
Tel. +370 460 48811
Without lunch break
All rights reserved.


text: Author Ernest Hemingway, born on this day in 1899, is perhaps the most famous former resident of Key West. Only one of his books, To Have and Have Not (1937) was set in the southernmost city, but Hemingway logged many hours perfecting his craft at his Whitehead Street home. An avid fisherman and boater, Hemingway enjoyed all that Key West had to offer.


text:
Harris Allgeier
Class of 2014
Major/Minor: English, Drama
"Our Saxophone Quartet is really cool. This is my first time playing in a quartet setting," notes Harris Allgeier `14, a double major in English and drama.
"We play a wide range of fun and technically challenging music – from quartet adaptations of popular music to more refined pieces, and we perform in Hotchkiss Recital Hall. I've played the saxophone since the age of 12," explains the Maryland native.
"Last year Kenneth Schweitzer (Assistant Professor of Music) approached me to join the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo. Ken's a good professor and he also knows what he wants from the groups." Harris plans to take Music Technology with Schweitzer in the new Keyboard and Technology Laboratory where student compositions are created in the Gibson Center for the Arts.
"I don't have enough time to do all the things I like to do; besides playing the sax, I like to act and write," says Harris. He added Drama to his double major when Dale Daigle, Associate Professor of Drama, chose him as an ensemble cast member. His freshman year he starred in two senior thesis productions: Sam Shepard's True West and Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs.
As a sophomore, Harris has worked with playwright Robert Earl Price, Washington College Lecturer in Creative Writing and Drama on the world premier drama All Blues. "He trained the cast in their parts and took us to Atlanta to perform in a professional theater. Then we worked with a professional cast and handed off the play – it was an incredible experience," recalls Harris.
Academically speaking, he is taking a playwriting class as well as working for Michele Volansky, Chair of the Drama Department.
Revitalizing the student-run drama group, "Fakespeare," has been another big project for Harris. He pulled together an interested group of writers and actors who are busy developing a "big night of sketch comedy" for the spring entitled "Nowhere Near Broadway."
Harris is exploring his other passion in the Creative Writing Workshop taught by author Robert Mooney, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing. "My immediate goal is to 'shoot for the stars' – I would like to compete for the Sophie Kerr Prize for writing," says Harris, reflecting on the largest undergraduate prize in the U.S. for a senior who demonstrates promising literary instincts.
"After I graduate, I want to continue writing short fiction; I'd love to teach English and make a difference."


text:
Remote installation
Based on work by Tobias Kieslich. Original version available http://www.justdreams.de/archlinux/docs/00_rootserver.html
- 1 Summary
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Backup and Preparation
- 4 Prepare the intermediate system
- 5 Create a new swap file
- 6 Set old swap partition as new root partition
- 7 Things to check before you boot
- This is a guide to set up a rootserver with Archlinux. While Archlinux makes a good server system, it is not usually the preinstalled distribution of choice. It is quite easy to replace a preinstalled system on a local computer. Replacing a system on a computer you can only acces remotly via SSH is not as easy and requires certain steps be done in a certain order.Please make sure you understand each step before proceeding. If not, please refer to some standard docs such as man-pages, Archlinux Forum or the Wiki.
We will replace a running Linux system on a remote server. When you finish this tutorial you will have a base Archlinux, which can be accessed via SSH. To setup Mail-server or Subversion or Apache is subject to other tutorials which can be found elsewhere.
- Disclaimer: This is a dangerous process that assumes you know what you are doing. It is easy to destroy your system or to lose critical data, and your service provider will likely charge a lot to help you recover. Follow this procedure at your own risk.
You will need to setup an intermediate system, boot into it and setup your new Archlinx server from there. This sounds a bit easier than it is, because you will be faced with a classical situation: you kill the system that hosts your activities. As with many other things,there is more than just one way to do it. There are two possible scenarios:
- Many providers offer sytems called rescue sytems or remote consoles, which is often just a bootdisc stored on a network card. This boots into a rudimentary sytem which just exists in your RAM. Thus you will have the ability to partitionate your harddrive as you like
- Many servers have a swap partition. If yours doesn't you should maybe switch providers. You can disable the swap partition and set up your intermediate system there.
This document outlines the latter option, as if you have access to a remote console, you have won half the battle.
Backup and Preparation
- During the procedure you WILL ERASE ALL DATA on your former server. Backup all your data including mails, webservers, etc. Have all information at your fingertips. Preserve all your server configurations, hostnames, etc.
Here is a list of data you will likely need:
- your IP Adress
- your hostname(s), (note: rootserver are mostly also part of the providers domain, check/save your /etc/hosts before you delete)
- your DNS Server (check /etc/resolv.conf)
- your SSH keys (if other people work on your server, they will have to accept new keys otherwise. This includes keys from your apache, your mail servers, your ssh server and others. Those are usually spread all over your system, at least all over /etc If you have signed keys, then you have paid for these keys. You better keep them ;-) )
- knowledge of your hardware (network card, etc. Refer to your preinstalled /etc/modules.conf )
- if your bootmanager is already using /boot/grub/menu.lst please backup it.
In General, it is a good idea to have a local copy of your original /etc directory on your local harddrive.
Prepare the intermediate system
The intermediate system is the system which is used as a place where you setup your new disc layout and install the final system. There is no need to install more then the absolutely necessary packages in it. In addition to the base system you will need wget to fetch some software and an ssl server.
Create a new swap file
- If you're paranoid or have very little RAM available you might want to add a swap file as swapspace before you disable the swap partition. Note that you don't need running daemons such as mailserver, http-server etc. When you stop them you can free memory at the remote machine.
The following commands create a file filed with zeroes, formats it as swap space, activates the swap file, forces writing of the buffer cache to the disk, and then checks for active swap files.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512288 # mkswap /swapfile # swapon /swapfile # sync # cat /proc/swaps
Set old swap partition as new root partition
You likely have only one hard drive. (Otherwise you could install your intermediate system on the other hd). Check
/proc/swaps or
/etc/fstab to find your swap partition.
Assuming your hard drive is located on hdaX (X will be a number), The following commands disable the swap space, create a filesystem on it, create a directory to mount it in, and finally mounts the new directory for installing the intermediate system.
Don't forget to change the partition ID field from "Linux Swap" to "Linux" in fdisk first! Otherwise, GRUB will not boot your bootstrap Arch partition.
# swapoff /dev/hdaX # fdisk /dev/hda (set /dev/hdaX ID field to "Linux" - Hex 83) # mke2fs -j /dev/hdaX # mkdir /mnt/newsys # mount -t ext3 /dev/hdaX /mnt/newsys
Install the intermediate system
David Leinhäuser (aka Calavera) wrote a bootstrap script which can be used for the intermediate system as well as the final system. It makes things easier. Grab it here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=4020.
- Copy the file from your local machine to the remote machine:
$ scp archbootstrap firstname.lastname@example.com:/home
- Run the script on your remote machine (Ensure wget is installed on the remote machine before running
# ./archbootstrap /mnt/newsys ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/archlinux
- You can, of course, choose another mirror.
Configure the intermediate system
When archbootstrap has finished, you have a raw system which still needs information you usually setup during an ordinary archlinux setup. This is all information you should have saved from your former system.
Tweak the following files before you chroot into the new system:
- add the newroot/formerswap partition to your
- add the newroot/formerswap partition to your
/dev/discs/disc0/partX / ext3 defaults 0 1
- add the nameserver to your
- add the nameserver to your
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
- add your remote host to
- add your remote host to
rooditoottoot yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
- allow ssh clients to access; add sshd to
- allow ssh clients to access; add sshd to
- edit your
/mnt/newsys/etc/rc.confscript; make sure you add sshd to your DAEMONS array
- edit your
Caution: If you don't allow your ssh daemon to start automatically you won't be able to gain remote access to your system. If you don't allow ssh clients to access your new server via /etc/hosts.allow the situation is technically different but the effect is the same.
- add your network card to your
- add your network card to your
alias eth0 <your module>
- copy your ssl keys from
- copy your ssl keys from
Things to check before you boot
You will have to chroot into your new system to bring up a kernel. When you're in it you will have to setup a root password, otherwise ssh won't let you into your system. Also your bootmanager must be directed to your new system. You might want to configure your bootmanager to be able to boot into your old system. This makes it easier to use the recovery console in case you have one.
- mount essential systems
# mount -t devfs none /mnt/newsys/dev # mount -t proc none /mnt/newsys/proc
- chroot into your new system:
# chroot /mnt/newsys /bin/bash
- make sure you have a network and `ifconfig` gives you something meaningful:
root@tester root]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:24:77:5E
inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:81ff:fe24:775e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0 TX packets:3266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6076799 (5.7 Mb) TX bytes:332020 (324.2 Kb) Interrupt:209 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
- Now you should have pacman available to manage your system. You will need a kernel and an ssh server to reboot into your rescue system. Once you are installing stuff also consider the editor of your choice (nano, joe) if you dislike vi.
# pacman -Sy kernel26 openssh
- You have to install and configure the bootloader now. I strongly recommend grub, as system updates on production systems are nerve wraking and there is a good chance to forget to call lilo after a kernelupdate. edit your
/boot/grub/menu.lst(note: grub starts counting from zero not from one)
- You have to install and configure the bootloader now. I strongly recommend grub, as system updates on production systems are nerve wraking and there is a good chance to forget to call lilo after a kernelupdate. edit your
# (0) Arch Linux insert your old swap partition as new root title Arch Linux /boot/vmlinuz26 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part2 ro
Before you install grub, note* that this is when you ruin your old system, If you don't make it available from your new grub config and don't edit your old fstab to disable the swap partition.
# install-grub /dev/discs/disc0/disc /dev/discs/disc0/part2
- set a root password (DON'T MISS THIS AS IT LOCKS YOU OUT OF SSH)
# passwd
- leave chroot environment:
NOTE: Before proceeding double check that you:
- set up your bootmanager to the new system
- called sshd from rc.conf
- allowed other machines to access your server in /etc/hosts.allow
- set a root password
All this is necessary to get a working system.
- If you are sure the new system will boot, enter
- If you are sure the new system will boot, enter
Prepare a home for your new production server
Give the server time to reboot and then ping it to ensure you can access it.
SSH into your new Archlinux system. If you forgot to copy your ssh-keys the output will tell you why. Follow the lines to get rid of it. Make sure you understand where you are - at your former swap partition. In your private little rescue system. You are surrounded by your old system partition. If you are freaky enough to choose option #1 you are on your own for this part. To use parted is not the world's hardest challenge at all.
- You want to migrate your old data to the new system. You use
partedto create a rescue partition and copy all your data to it.
- You already have a backup somewhere on the net (good boy!) then you can call cfdisk without a risk and set up your new disc layout directly.
- You want to migrate your old data to the new system. You use
Let's consider a good layout first: You are here in a rescue system. Useful, isn't it? Let's have rescue system at your harddrive if your server got hacked or if you have to work at the actual system. This can also be useful if you set up your server and need to interrupt your work. What to do, leave your server there without a firewall and no root passwords set for the MySQL-server? Bad idea! Boot into your rescue system just waiting to ssh into it again and continue your work. You can also add all the tools you need to work to this system and you're not restricted to the minimal system from the providers rescue console(if you have one). Now swap partitions, where you are currently, are mostly at the very beginning of a disc layout. Don't waste fast parts of the hd for your rescue system! Place the rescue system at the end (maybe 512-1024MB) of your disc layout.
Now the idea for the complete layout (It'll depend a bit on the former layout and where the partition you are currently working on is located). Some people might want to use Confixx or Vistas to maintain their domains and e-mail accounts. This will require a different layout but is not covered by this tutorial at all. We will suggest this layout:
- part1 swap 512MB
- part2 / 2048MB
- part3 /home depends on size of the disc
- part4 -- extended --
- part5 /backup usually the same size as /home
- part6 / for rescue system 1024MB
Now make your layout. When you do so don't forget that you will have to leave the partition you are currently working on intact!!!
# parted /dev/discs/disc0/disc
# cfdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc
Create filesystems as desired and mount your new root partition to
# mkdir /mnt/newsys # mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 /mnt/newsys
Set up your new system
We need archbootstrap again and this uses wget
# pacman -S wget
Copy archbootstrap from your old home, which you will have to mount, or copy it again via scp. Alernatively you can extract the original Arch setup script from the cd or from the floppy images. I assume you used archbootstrap again and have the base installed to
/mnt/newsys. You can edit your
/etc stuff manually again, or you can copy:
# cat /etc/fstab > /mnt/newsys/etc/fstab # cat /etc/pacman.conf > /mnt/etc/pacman.conf # cat /etc/hosts > /mnt/etc/hosts # cat /etc/hosts.allow > /mnt/etc/hosts.allow # cat /etc/rc.conf > /mnt/etc/rc.conf # cat /etc/modprobe.conf > /mnt/etc/modprobe.conf # cat /etc/resolv.conf > /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
When you're done set up your final
/mnt/newsys/etc/fstab (Edit to suit your system):
# # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 #sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0 # the production system /dev/discs/disc0/part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/discs/disc0/part2 / ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1 # the backup system /dev/discs/disc0/part5 /mnt/backup ext3 defaults,noauto 0 1 # the rescue system if necessary /dev/discs/disc0/part6 /mnt/rescue ext3 defaults,noauto 0 1
Don't forget to make a directory for the backup
# mkdir /mnt/backup
Again, don't forget to copy your ssl keys. Mount devfs and proc:
# mount -t devfs none /mnt/newsys/dev # mount -t proc none /mnt/newsys/proc
Chroot into your soon to be production system, set a root password, and install essential software
# chroot /mnt/newsys /bin/bash # passwd # pacman -Sy kernel26 openssh mc wget nano
Tweak your
/mnt/newsys/boot/grub/menu.lst to default it to your new production system.
# install-grub /dev/discs/disc0/disc dev/discs/disc0/part2
Double check that you have performed all necessary steps (as for setting up the rescue system), exit chroot, and reboot.
Final Remarks
Now you have Archlinux running at your server. More things need to be done to turn it into something useful.


text:
Printable View
Hahahaha, gunn!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha, she's a bit of an arrogant bogan tbf, but it was an awesome run and worth waiting up for hours. Poor Lolo. :(
Haha, Bogan tstl. Gives a gun interview
Hahahaha this is the best interview ever. She's drunk, surely.
Haha, someone get that interview on youtube.
"I was like '****!'. Did you see me, did you see? I was so pumped, I don't even know how but I was"
Hahahahahaha, awta
Best interview
She got off to an amazing start. As much as she reminds me as that annoying girl from school, she really raced as well as she possibly could've.
Almost salvages one of the worst days of the Olympics I've ever watched. Though technically it's the next day. :cool:
There is already an "Australia Thread" please post any matters relating to specific Australian athletes in there. Threads merged.


text:
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 makes date with US: Black Friday for $799.99
Sponsored Links
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X1 Available in U.S. for 2008 Holiday Season
Pre-orders for the premium converged device begin today at SonyStyle.com
Research Triangle Park, N.C. – November 12, 2008 – Today, Sony Ericsson North America announced the arrival of the highly anticipated Xperia™ X1 to the U.S. marketplace. The Xperia™ X1 delivers a range of multimedia and communication experiences that have long been coveted and in demand by consumers.
The Xperia X1 will be available unlocked through Sony Electronics and its authorized retailers beginning on "Black Friday," November 28. Pre-orders of the Xperia X1 will be available through the Sony Style Web site at www.sonystyle.com beginning November 13. This premium device will be sold unlocked for the MSRP of $799.99, giving consumers the freedom to choose their own mobile operator and data plan.
"The Xperia X1 continues the Sony Ericsson tradition of delivering the highest quality experiences and the most advanced technology available today," said Karen Morris, vice president of marketing, Sony Ericsson North America. "The most exciting scenarios enabled by the Xperia X1 will be created by consumers – enabling them to customize and personalize their device and content to fit their lifestyle and personality."
The Xperia X1's unique panel user interface is at the heart of the device's ability to create and adapt consumers' personal choices. With up to 9 panels, it's easy to find and enjoy the information and entertainment content they want. Sony Ericsson is busy working with third-party developers to create a wealth of new applications and new panels that will soon be available for download.
By incorporating the Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional operating system, the Xperia X1 frees consumers from their home and office, allowing them connectivity to their content wherever they are.
"Windows Mobile gives people the ability to easily navigate between their business and personal lives," said Todd Peters, vice president of marketing, Mobile Communications Business, Microsoft. "The panel user interface found only in the Xperia X1 is bringing unique experiences to consumers who want more from their converged devices."
As Sony Ericsson's most advanced phone to date, the Xperia X1 brings together a large, 3-inch wide VGA display touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard all wrapped into a sleek silver metal- finished arc slider handset. The Xperia X1 supports fast 3G networks, enabling audio and video streaming, high-speed internet surfing, multimedia messaging and email on the go. In addition to delivering 3G mobile broadband speeds, the Xperia X1 supports WiFi to meet the needs of consumers' always connected lifestyles.
In the tradition of Sony Ericsson, the Xperia X1 offers consumers the ultimate multimedia experience with a 3.2 megapixel camera, video streaming, video playback and video recording, and the ability to enjoy all their digital music.
"The Xperia X1 complements Sony Electronics' family of Windows-based devices and leverages the company's heritage of providing beautifully designed, highly functional, portable electronics," said John Kodera, vice president of product marketing, Sony Electronics. "The Xperia X1 delivers the highest quality entertainment, communication and personalization options for consumers."
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X1 – At a Glance
• Auto focus
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• Photo light
• Video recording
• Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)4
• Media player
• Music tones
• Windows Media® Player Mobile
• 3D games
• FM radio
• Java™
• Video streaming
• Video viewing
• Internet Explorer® Mobile
• RSS feeds
• Opera™ 9.5
Communication and Messaging
• Polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Vibrating alert
• Video calling3,8
• Email
• Picture messaging (MMS)9
• Predictive text input
• Text messaging (SMS)9
• XPERIA™ panels
• Optical joystick navigation
• Navigation key
• Picture wallpaper
• Touch navigation
• Alarm clock
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Document editors
• Document readers
• Flight mode
• Handwriting recognition
• Notes
• Phone book
• Tasks
• Touchscreen
• aGPS
• Bluetooth™4 technology
• Modem
• Synchronization
• USB support
Windows Mobile® Operating System
• Microsoft® Outlook® Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks
• Microsoft® Office Mobile: Word Mobile, Excel® Mobile, PowerPoint® Mobile
• Windows Live™
• Microsoft® ActiveSync®
• Voice control
• Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes
Facts and Figures
Size: 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm (approx.)
Weight: 145 grams (approx.)
Available colors: Silver
Main screen: 65,536 color TFT
Resolution: 800 X 480 pixels
Size: 3 inches (approx.)
Phone memory5: up to 400 MB
microSD™ memory card support
UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1900/2100 MHz
Legal Information
1) Facts and features are subject to change without notice and/or may vary depending on local variant.
2) Talk and standby times are affected by network preferences; type of SIM card, connected accessories and various activities e.g. games. Kit contents and color options may differ from market to market. The full range of accessories may not be available in every market.
3) Compatible service required. Some features may not be supported by all operators or in all markets. Additional charges may apply.
4) Ability to use this Bluetooth™ enabled product with other devices may vary as not all Bluetooth™ devices are compatible.
5) Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.
6) 3G not available in all areas or from all service providers.
7) Internet services may require a fee.
8) Both parties must be in a 3G area, have a phone enabled for video calling, and have a video calling service plan to use this feature. Video calling not offered by all service providers. Additional charges may apply.
9) Standard messaging rates apply.
© 2008 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc.
Screen images are simulated or enhanced. Music tracks displayed are for demonstration purposes only and are not included. The Liquid Identity logo, XPERIA(TM) , and the XPERIA(TM) logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Sony is a trademark or registered trademark of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a trademark or registered trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
Microsoft, Windows, PowerPoint, Windows Media, Windows Mobile, Office, ActiveSync and Internet Explorer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Bluetooth is a trademark or registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG Inc. and is used under license. Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Wi-Fi is a trademark or a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications was established as a 50:50 joint venture by Sony and Ericsson in October 2001, with global corporate functions located in London. The company serves the worldwide communications market with innovative and feature-rich mobile phones, accessories and PC-cards, and it has R&D sites in Europe, Japan, China, India and America. Sony Ericsson is the title sponsor of the Women's Tennis Association, and works with the Association to promote the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in over 80 cities during the year. For more information, please visit www.sonyericsson.com


text:
|Stratford, CT
|High School:
|Middle Free
|Club Team:
|Amity Regional AC
2012-13: Helped CCSU finish fourth in both the 400 freestyle relay (3:28.09) and the 200 medley relay (1:46.47) at the Northeast Conference Championships...Also helped Central place fifth in the 200 freestyle relay at the NEC's with a time of 1:36.07...Claimed a season-best time of 24:79 in the 50 freestyle at the NEC Championships...Season-best finish was second in the 50 freestyle in the Feb. 2 dual-meet against Wagner...Placed third in the 200 freestyle with a season-best time of 1:58.80 on Oct. 27 against Saint Francis U. and Duquesne...Totaled 22 top-five performances on the season including three relay firsts.
2011-12: Finished second in the 400 yard freestyle relay in the dual-meet against Vermont with a time of 3:42.81...Swam in the 200 yard medley relay against Vermont, helping the team to finish in 1:52.28 for third place...Turned in a solid performance at the Blue Devil Duals helping central come in second in the 800 yard freestyle relay (8:02.42), third in the 200 yard medley relay (1:52.47), third in the 400 yard medley relay (4:07.96) and fourth in the 200 yard freestyle relay (1:43.65)...Helped Central earn third place in the 200 yard freestyle relay at the Northeast Conference Championships with a time of 1:36.32...Earned sixth place in the 50 yard freestyle and in the 100 yard freestyle at UNH with times of 25:61 and 55:85, respectively...Finished 10th in the 50 yard freestyle at the NEC Championships with a time of 24.83...Swam a 1:56.08 in the 200 yard freestyle at the NEC Championships...Placed 12th at the NEC Championships in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 53:77.
2010-11: Finished 13th in the 100 freestyle, as well as finishing 14th in the 50 and 200 freestyle events at the NEC Championships.
Before Central: Swam at Stratford High School for four years...Was named first team All-State and first team All-SWC...Connecticut Post Athlete of the Week...Qualified for the Connecticut Zone Team...Captained her high school team for two seasons.


text:
12's, the wife and I are unable to go to the game tonight.
I have listed 2 tix to tonight's game in section 336, row GG, seat 1 and 2, through the Seahawks web site, through Ticketmaster.
I listed these two tickets at $89 each, that's $26 under face value.


text:
Sea Turtle & Coastal Conservation in Mexico by Jo-Mari Bosman
Choosing my project
What do you do when your creative heart has stopped beating? What if ordinary life has somehow managed to drain the colour from your dreams & imagination? How do you get back your inspiration? I chose to get on a plane to Guadalajara in Mexico and join a 6 week Arts & Craft project followed by a 2 week Conservation placement with Projects Abroad.
Everybody has different reasons for travelling to a foreign country but, in this case, not only did I get to visit a great destination, I also had the opportunity to learn a new skill and stretch my creative muscle. Why Mexico? Vibrant colours, interesting people, great artistic inspiration. You are simply bound to be inspired!
Arriving in Mexico
At the airport I was met by a friendly member of Projects Abroad staff, Alejandro, who picked me up and took me to my host family. My host family were amazing and went out of their way to make my stay as comfortable as possible. My Spanish was virtually non-existent and my host mum's English was no better, but we somehow magically communicated with gestures and a lot of laughing! She was an excellent cook and I loved the food that she prepared. Her family welcomed me with open arms and I felt immediately at home.
Alejandro showed me how the busses worked and how to get to my Arts & Crafts project. Taking the bus made me feel like part of society and gave me a chance to interact with ordinary Mexicans. Miraculously, after 6 weeks I was actually able to understand some basic Spanish.
My Arts & Crafts project
I spent my first 6 weeks working at Ceramic 1, a ceramic workshop owned by a great artist. It was like walking into a ceramic wonderland. There were beautiful examples on the walls as you walked in and loads of ceramic pieces in the backyard. In the six weeks that I was there, other volunteers joined me which made it such a lot of fun.
Martin was our wonderful ceramic tutor. With a great deal of patience and a teaching style reminiscent of Mr Miagi (a la Karate Kid), he not only taught us how to prepare the ceramic liquid for pouring into the moulds, but also gave us some free Spanish lessons. There was a lot of confusion at times and also a lot of laughs, but somehow we managed to actually make some tiles! Martin showed us how to retrieve the tiles from the moulds once they were dry. Then it was on to the final refining and smoothing of the surface before it was ready to paint. You could also create any free forms and shapes with the 'pasta ceramico', from flowers to animals. One thing that I have learnt is that you have to have a slow hand and an easy touch, as many of my creations ended up breaking - so handle with care!
The painting of the ceramics was, for me, the best part. You could paint on the decorative tiles, plates and cups. There was no limit to what you were allowed to do and your imagination had complete free reign. The atmosphere was absolutely great. The resident master painter played music all day so you could simply get lost in the creative process. Your mind switched off and you were transported to a place far away. With every new idea, ten more followed. It was the perfect way to spend a day.
I have always loved getting my hands dirty, whether it be with paint or clay. There is nothing better than changing your mouse for a pencil and paintbrush, your computer screen for the smooth, clean canvas of ceramic tile. In my heart I knew that I had to say goodbye to this great experience, but the memories have been captured in colour on every piece of ceramic creation and I have found the way to bring back inspiration to my soul.
Living in Guadalajara
Guadalajara has some fantastic markets and museums. The most impressive were the art museums which had a lot of Jose Clemente Orozco's famous murals. I also enjoyed spending time just walking and exploring on foot, discovering the great history of the city.
The nightlife in Guadalajara was fantastic. There were great restaurants, bars, clubs, night markets and taco stands in the main street of Chupultapec. Mexicans love to socialise and the streets were always filled with people and music late into the night. After 6 weeks however, it was time to get out of the city. Time for some peace and quiet…
My Conservation project
My next adventure started with a 4 hour bus ride to Tecoman on Mexico's Pacific Coast. It was such a beautiful trip and the scenery changed continuously. In Tecoman, I was met by a member of Projects Abroad staff and some of the other conservation volunteers. We drove to the project camp down a road that was lined with palm trees - it looked just like paradise. The beach sand is black because of the volcanic rock and it stretches on for miles, without the interference of buildings or man-made structures.
The camp itself had a rustic charm, with wooden cabins to sleep in and cold, saltwater showers. I didn't mind the cold water at all as it was very hot and humid! At the Turtle Camp, the routine was very simple: wake up at around 7am, clean the camp and kitchen, followed by free time until around 5pm. Then we would do some turtle nest cleaning or go bird watching at the lagoon.
At night time we took turns to do beach patrols. This was by far my favourite activity! We drove on quad bikes along the beach searching for newly made nests. Once we'd spotted the nests, we quickly counted all the eggs and placed them in bags. Some nests had up to 120 eggs, which looked like golf balls with a soft shell. Sometimes we were lucky enough to see turtles while they were still laying their eggs. They were enormous and moved extremely slowly. Nothing will be able to describe the feeling of riding on the beach at night, with only the moon, the crashing waves and the spooky palm trees as your companions. There were no other lights, buildings or people in sight- it was magical!
The next morning, we buried all the eggs that we'd collected during the night patrols and recorded data detailing how many eggs were collected from each nest. Then it was back to our daytime duties. The best part of the conservation project was getting to see the little turtles hatch and make their way to the ocean. I could sit there for hours and watch them. They were the most beautiful and tiny creatures, each one absolutely perfect.
At the lagoon there was this little shop with an old lady and her husband who sold a few beers and occasionally some freshly caught fish. We made our way there a few times at night to have the best fish I have ever tasted! She fried it and served it with salsa and tortillas. A meal I will certainly never forget!
Travelling in Mexico on the weekends
In Guadalajara I had the great opportunity to meet a lot of the other volunteers from other projects and, in the process, managed to organise some trips to nearby Mexican attractions. On one of the weekends, some volunteers and I travelled to the very famous town of Tequila! We had such an awesome time. We went on a tour around one of the Tequila distilleries, where we enjoyed some tequila tasting.
On my final weekend I went to Colima, a beautiful town with an active volcano. Here we ate tacos, went to a live music show and visited a beautiful park with a waterfall. The centre of town had beautiful buildings and great souvenir shops.
Sadly after this, it was time to go back home. Mexico has charmed me, bowled me over - not only were my expectations exceeded, but it will be forever part of my life. I will be back one day.
Jo-Mari Bosman
Dette er en personlig fortelling om én av våre frivilliges opplevelser ved dette prosjektet. Alle frivillige er forskjellige, og det kan hende at din opplevelse vil være annerledes. Våre prosjekter er i kontinuerlig utvikling da de tilpasses lokale behov til enhver tid, og bygges videre på bakgrunn av erfaringer og måloppnåelser. Sesongbasert vær kan også spille en viktig rolle for din opplevelse. For å lese mer om hva du kan forvente kan du lese mer om prosjektet her, eller kontakte en av våre hyggelige prosjektrådgivere.


text:
AS OF DEC 10, 2018 WE WILL NO LONGER ALLOW SMOKING ON THE OUTDOOR DECK. WE WILL ALLOW SMOKING NEAR AND AROUND THE TIKI BAR. THANK YOU ! Welcome to Rusty's Seafood and Oyster Bar, located in the beautiful waterfront harbor of Port Canaveral! A "come as you are" family restaurant where you can enjoy the cozy southern feel of dining inside, or on our outside patio overlooking the water. Sit at our full service inside bar and enjoy the friendly bartenders while they shuck you fresh oysters. Rusty's has 42" flat screens and other various tv's that play water related video entertainment. There is always something for the whole family to watch.
We always have a fun and friendly atmosphere that will put a smile on your face. Rusty's isn't just a place to come and eat, but also a great location for holiday parties or any special event.
Dive into our raw or steamed oysters, peel-and-eat shrimp, seared ahi tuna, buffalo wings, snow crab legs, a hearty bowl of our seafood or clam chowder. Wash it down with a pitcher of ice cold beer or your favorite cocktail, ice tea or soda.