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Cell: A Novel (edition 2006)
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I wanted to read this since the movie was coming out. I laughed, cried and was disappointed. 95% of the book was actually a decent read and kept me on the edge of my seat.
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This book was so intensifing that I could'nt put it down. I realize while sitting there reading the book that I was getting no air. The monster of the storm had me holding my breath The Author made me feel like I was there tring to survive the storm. It was a true story and The Author took me completely through the massive storm. I have been on a boat in rough waters before but nothing as destrutive as this.....Amazing
"Cell" has a great underlying premise: The human brain is an organic computer that has a basic operating system, which is capable of being erased. In this case the erasure is triggered by a "pulse" that is sent out to millions of people through their cell phones. The twist comes when the "normies" (those that had their phones off), realize that the "phoners" ( those that had their phones on), are evolving over time. They appear to be developing more sophisticated traits that are, in some cases, superior to those of normal humans. For instance, they communicate via telepathy and move around by means of levitation.
From the first page to the last, you're hooked. It doesn't matter if the reading calories are empty; you can't stop reading. That's why Stephen King, above everything else, and perhaps in spite of everything else, has remained one of the best selling author in the world. You just can't stop reading him.
I resisted starting Stephen King's Cell mostly because cell phones have evolved so much since 2006, as has our relationship to them. What was once a new and feared gadget is now more common than ever. (Seriously, it's only a matter of time before we think of ourselves as cyborgs, and not in a sarcastic way.) And King's a bit of a technophobe, at least in his stories, so I thought whatever anxieties cell phones caused 10 years ago would be so much worse today. Also, I'm not really into zombies so there's that too.
Turns out most of my initial impressions were unfounded. Cell is a fun, post-apocalyptic adventure. Give it a try.
Clayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine who is estranged from his wife, Sharon, and a young son named Johnny, has landed a lucrative graphic novel deal in Boston after having spent years teaching art instead of producing it. As he prepares to celebrate, somebody, somewhere, triggers "The Pulse," a signal sent out over the global cell-phone network which instantly strips any cell-phone user of their ability to reason, locking them into blood-thirsty, homicidal creatures. Civilization crumbles as the masses of Pulse's victims (dubbed "phone crazies" or simply "phoners") attack each other and any unaltered people in view. During this, Clay encounters or sees many of the phone crazies that he remembers later and they continue to haunt him throughout the book: Pixie Dark and Pixie Light, two teenage girls crazed by the Pulse, Power-Suit Woman, a woman Clay sees who tries to kill an ice cream man and is in turn killed by Pixie Light, the Dog Man, a man seen by Clay to be chewing on a dog's ear (Before ripping it off the side of its head), the teacher, an elderly woman who won a fierce battle near a sub-way station. Amidst the chaos, Clay is thrown together with Tom McCourt and 15-year-old Alice Maxwell. While Boston burns behind them, they walk to Tom's house in the Boston suburb of Malden. The journey is not only successful but almost peaceful; as night falls the victims of the Pulse all mysteriously drop out of sight.
The next morning the phone crazies, while still engaging in spasms of violence, reappear and begin "flocking", migrating in lockstep outside Tom's home, only to disappear once again at dusk. They also begin to regain a semblance of intelligence, and forage for not only food, but radios and CD players of all sorts. Despite these new developments, Clay is unalterably determined to return to Johnny. Having no better alternatives, the other two come with him.
They trek north by night across a devastated New England, having fleeting encounters with other "normie" survivors and catching disturbing hints about the activities of the phone crazies, who still attack non-phoners on sight. Crossing into New Hampshire, they arrive at the Gaiten Academy, a prep school with one remaining teacher, the kindly but definitely "old school" Charles Ardai (or "The Head"), and one surviving pupil, a very bright boy named Jordan. The two of them show the newcomers where the local phone crazies flock goes at night: packing its components into the Academy's soccer field like sardines, "switched off" until morning. They also notice that there are many radios and speakers throughout the field, playing random songs each time. The Head demonstrates that the phone crazies have become a hive mind, and are developing psychic and telekinetic abilities. The five of them decide that they must destroy the flock before its powers grow even stronger. They do this by parking two propane tankers on the soccer field, waiting for the flock to settle in for the night and blowing up the vehicles with a shot from a revolver. Clay tries to get everyone to flee the resulting scene of carnage, but The Head is too elderly to travel, and the others refuse to leave him, particularly Jordan.
The sleep that follows is filled with horrific dreams, in which everyone sees themselves in a stadium, surrounded by hundreds of phoners who broadcast a grim telepathic threat in Latin. A disheveled African-American man wearing a Harvard University hooded sweatshirt approaches, bringing their death. Waking, the heroes compare notes and dub him "The Raggedy Man". A new flock then surrounds their residence, and the trapped normies face the flock's metaphorical spokesman: the man (or body) wearing the Harvard hoodie. The flock commits bloody reprisal on all other normals in the area, and orders the protagonists to head north to a spot in Maine called "Kashwak". To preempt one objection, the flock psychically compels the Head to commit suicide. Clay and the others bury him and travel north, mostly because Clay is still determined to go home.
En route, they learn that as "flock-killers" they have been psychically marked as untouchables, to be shunned by other normals who refer to them as "The Gaiten Bunch". They are further disheartened to learn the phoners have now recruited normals to guard them while they "sleep". The worst blow of all hits when, following a petty squabble on the road, Alice is killed by a loutish pair of normals. Again the group buries its dead and pushes on. Arriving in Clay's hometown of Kent Pond, the remaining three discover notes from Johnny which tell them that Sharon was turned into a phoner on October 1, but that her son survived for several days, before he and all the other local normies were prompted to head to Kashwak, deluded by the phoners into thinking it was a safe haven. Clay has another nightmare which reveals that once there, they were all exposed to the Pulse by the phoners. He is still intent on finding his son, but after meeting another trio of flock-killers (Dan, a technical school teacher; a pregnant woman named Denise; and Ray, a construction worker), Tom and Jordan plan to head west, avoiding the ceremonial executions the phoners clearly have planned. Before leaving, the group discover that Alice's murderers were compelled into suicide as punishment for touching an untouchable.
Clay sets off alone, but the others soon reappear driving a small school bus; the phoners have used their ever-increasing powers to force them to rejoin him. Ray secretly gives Clay a cell-phone and phone number, tells him to use them when the time is right, and shoots himself.
Kashwak is the site of a half-assembled county fair. The travelers notice that more and more of the phoners are behaving erratically and breaking out of the flock. Jordan theorizes that a computer program was the source of the Pulse, and while it is still pumping its signal into the battery-powered cell-phone network, it has become corrupted with a computer worm, infecting the newer phoners with a mutated version of the Pulse on October 1. Nevertheless, an entire army of phoners is waiting for the arrivals; among them is the battered shell of Sharon, whom Clay pushes aside. Night falls, and the phoners lock the group in the fair's exhibition hall.
As a sleepless Clay waits for his execution the next morning, he realizes what Ray planned with the cell-phone: he covertly filled the rear of the bus with explosives, wired a phone-triggered detonator to them, and then killed himself to prevent the phone crazies from telepathically discovering his plan. The heroes break a window large enough for Jordan to squeeze through, and he drives the bus into the midst of the inert phoners. Thanks to a jerry-rigged cellphone patch set up by the fair workers pre-Pulse, the bomb works exactly as hoped, and another scene of mass carnage rains down. The Raggedy Man and his flock have been destroyed.
The majority of the group heads north into Canada, to get out of cellphone coverage and let the approaching winter wipe out the region's unprotected phoners. Clay still seeks his son; after making arrangements with the others for a later rendezvous, he heads south. He searches a town called Gurleyville where surviving phoners wander around, now without a flock mind, utterly disoriented. Some have begun to regain speech and somehwat normal actions but are still obviously insane. Against all odds, he finds Johnny, who received a "corrupted" dose of the Pulse; not only did he successfully wander away from Kashwak, he seems to almost recognize his father. However, Johnny is an erratic shadow of his former self, and so, following a theory of Jordan's, Clay gives Johnny another blast from the Pulse, hoping that the increasingly corrupted iterations of the Pulse will destroy each other and reset his son's brain to normal. The book ends with Clay putting a cell-phone to his son's ear, repeating what he would say to Johnny in pre-Pulse days when there was a phonecall; "Fo-fo-you-you."
If you have ever worried that using mobile phones might scramble your brain, Stephen King suggests you may just be right. It all happens at 3.02pm one afternoon, when everyone in the world using a cellphone suddenly becomes a violent maniac.
Stephen King is supposed to have retired. A year ago, he published the final part of his seven-book Dark Tower saga with the book of the same name - a novel so crushingly disappointing that, reluctantly, all but King's most ardent fans were forced to agree with the author himself that it was probably time for him to stop and enjoy the royalties from his 40 or so bestsellers.
Cell is Stephen King's first full-length novel since his threatened retirement in 2003. Of course, this most prolific of authors has not been idle during this period, penning a collaborative non-fiction book about baseball, a regular column for the popular US magazine Entertainment Weekly, several short stories, and even a short (and slightly puzzling) noir novel, The Colorado Kid, for small publisher Hard Case Crime. This is the first of two new novels to be published this year, with Lisey's Story to follow in October.
This is the way the world ends... not with a bang, but a whimper.
— T. S. Elliot
Actually, it ends with a "pulse" -- an errant cell phone signal that wipes away the user's humanity, 'rebooting' their brain back to something basic... primordial... and evil. Even those within earshot of the gray matter draining signal suffer a kind of evolutionary epilepsy, reverting to a state of pure impulse and mental confusion. As the feeling consumes its host, madness takes over, and there is only one way to satisfy this cruel craving. The insanity must be met with violence, quelling the instinctual bloodlust that lay dormant inside every person's DNA. Thus the world ends, and it's the very people who protected and prospered upon it who are now intent on taking it down.
If the stretch of years between Sept. 11 and last fall's Kashmir earthquake has reminded us of anything, it's that history can take a drastic turn in one day. Stephen King jumps into the middle of one such day on the opening pages of Cell, his first full-length novel since he came off what has to be the shortest-ever retirement not involving professional boxing. Happily wandering Boston after selling a comic-book pitch, artist Clay Riddell watches as the world goes mad when a mind-wiping electronic pulse turns everyone using a cell phone into a violent zombie.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0743292332, Hardcover)Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror's homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.
In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.
Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King's writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn't hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell. --Daphne Durham
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It may seem odd, but it's true--something as simple as one phone call can change the world forever. And that's exactly what happenes on October 1, when a single pulse is simultaneously transmitted through every cell phone on the planet. After the Pulse, an unspeakable transformation occurs. People everywhere begin devolving into inhuman killing machines--and civilization as we know it grinds to a halt in a terrifying riot of violence.… (more)
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This vast downtown area linked by a series of of two-storeyed arcades, includes the Royal Mosque, the Mosque of Sheyx Lotfollah, the magnificient Portico of Qeyssariyeh, and the 15th century Timurid Palace. The area was built by Shah Abbas I the Great at the beginning of the 17th century.
Pasargadae was the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus II, the Great, in Pars, homeland of the Persians, in the 6th century BC.
The mausoleum of Oljaytu was constructed in 1302-12 in the city of Soltaniyeh, the capital of the Ilkhanid dynasty, which was founded by the Mongols.
Site of the most famous royal proclamation carved by Darius I on the great cliff known as "Mountain of the Gods" which celebrates various of his victories including his defeat over Gaumata, pretender to the throne.
Site includes three monastic ensembles in the north-west of the country: St Thaddeus, St Stepanos, and the Chapel of Dzordzor. The oldest, St Thaddeus, dates back to the 7th century.
The hydraulic system created two main diversion canals on the river Karun and can be traced back to Darius the Great in the 5th century B.C. One canal is still in use providing water to the city of Shushtar via a series of tunnels that supply water to mills.
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In this chapter we are going to take a look at textures and materials in Google SketchUp. Now before we get started I want to show you the differences between the Mac and the Windows interface for the Materials window. Now we can find this window here under Window>Materials and when it comes up you'll see it's a little bit different on the Mac than it is on the PCs, so let me just point it out some of the differences. The big difference is that we have all of these tabs along the top. Now the first four tabs are color pickers.
So the first one is a color wheel and we can just pick a color that way. If we want we can select this second one, which are sliders. Now you can have a gray scale slider, we can have RGB, HSB or CMYK sliders However, you want to choose your colors. We also have a Spectrum color picker. Now if you're familiar with the Mac and familiar with most of these color pickers, and we also have crayons which are just standard stock colors. Now the tab that's most important is this last one which is Textual PalLet's.
And if I click that you'll notice that I have photographic and realistic textures that we can create from photographs and we can create ourselves. So this gives us a pulldown menu that we can use to select all sorts of different textures. Now if I scroll through here you can see that we actually do have Crayons and just standard colors but we also have other ones which are, for example, Bricks and Cladding if you want to put brick on the outside of your building. We have things like Carpet and Textiles. We also have things like Roofing.
So all of these will give a much more realistic look to your models and we can apply textures very easily just by selecting them and clicking on them and notice how it comes up here in this window. And once we've clicked on it notice how our cursor changes to a paint bucket. And all I have to do is position my paint bucket over the face I want to color and just left-click and you can see that I'm actually filling this roof with these roofing tiles. Now one more difference between the Mac and Windows versions is that, you don't have a dedicated Eyedropper tool.
Now on the Mac if you want the eyedropper a color all you have to do is hold down the Command key. So if I position my cursor over, for example, this wall, you'll notice it's a paint bucket. As soon as I touch Command it switches to an eyedropper and all I have to do is click on that and notice how my color changes to that white color. So if I position it over the roof, hold down my Command key, it will pick up the roofing tiles as well. So those are some of the differences. And just be aware of those as we go through our subsequent lessons on how to create our own materials in SketchUp.
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Drone surveillance has been used in eight criminal cases and two national security cases, wrote Stephen Kelly, assistant director of the FBI's Office of Congressional Affairs. The FBI also authorized use in three more unspecified cases, but did not ultimately use the UAVs.
Last month, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that surveillance drones are used in the U.S. in a "very, very minimal way." He didn't say how many times they had been used.
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"As the Director stated, we have used surveillance aircraft in very limited circumstances to support operations where there was a specific operational need. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) allow us to learn critical information that otherwise would be difficult to obtain without introducing serious risk to law enforcement personnel."
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In cases where using a UAV for surveillance violates an individual's "reasonable expectation of privacy," the FBI must request a warrant, Kelly said. But "to date, there has been no need for the FBI to seek a search warrant or judicial order in any of the few cases where UAVs have been used."
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This is my first time owning any mazda and for the most part I can say it is OK. I own the Touring Plus model with a few extra features. First thing I must say is the car is very slow and the 4 cyl seems lousy and sluggish. It is a very loud engine for not being that fast... The extorior styling is beautiful. I love the trunk, even though fitting some larger boxes through the small opening can be difficult. Since the day I owned the car, the radio has been very staticy and even when close to local radio stations. Tried to take it back and get repaired and they said it was fine, which it is not. Heritage Mazda of Towson has bad service and is pretty expenisve. Prefer the Camry SE over this...
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Better interior dash materials, new radio with better antenna, higher quality brakes, (lots of brake dust) higher quality carpets, new 4 cyl engine at is quicker and more fuel efficient, (govt. fuel economy ratings are mediocre and Inget around 26 hwy driving, 6 speed automatic transmission in all models, a few new extorior colors, (gray looks like a pooter blue- i own the silver paint), fit and finish of some cheap plastics on the dash.
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Two face charges in west Erie shooting
A man was undergoing surgery late Wednesday afternoon after being shot in the abdomen during a reported fight on Erie's west side late Wednesday morning.
Two men were arrested in connection with the shooting, which happened in the 400 block of West Eighth Street at about 11:15 a.m.
Police arrested Tymeen Williams, 20, no address available, and Darrian Beasley, 20, of the 700 block of East 22nd St.
Both men were arraigned Wednesday evening before Erie 5th Ward District Judge Joseph Lefaiver, each on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, robbery, possessing instruments of a crime, firearms not to be carried without a license, theft and criminal conspiracy to commit robbery. The suspects were placed in the Erie County Prison, each on $100,000 bond, police said.
Police said Williams, an Erie resident, was homeless.
Witnesses said the shooting occurred as three men fought in a gravel driveway next to 434 W. Eighth St.
Jeff Pohl said he was pulling into the parking lot of a locksmith on the south side of the street when he saw two people wrestling on the ground on the north side of the street. One of the men pulled out a gun and fired it at the other man, Pohl said.
The suspects then flipped the shooting victim over and rummaged through the victim's pockets before they ran off heading south, Pohl said.
Other witnesses said the two suspects ran south through the parking lot of the locksmith. Debi Anderson, who lives next to the locksmith, said she came outside and called 911 after witnessing what happened.
The shooting victim, whose name was not available, also fled the area, witnesses said. EmergyCare paramedics who were called to the shooting were sent to the 300 block of West Seventh Street, where the victim was found. He was taken to UPMC Hamot for treatment.
The man's condition was not available Wednesday night.
Police officers who responded to the shooting searched the area and spotted two men matching the descriptions of the suspects in an alley between West Eighth and West Ninth streets, just west of Chestnut Street. They were taken into custody, and a gun was recovered in the area, police said.
Items found at the scene of the shooting included two lighters, a tube of lip balm and some paper.
Anderson, who gathered with other neighbors as police combed the scene for additional evidence, said the shooting follows a recent robbery in her neighborhood.
"We don't like this kind of stuff," she said.
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Recognizing that governments and communities often cannot or fail to provide the poorest of families with educational opportunities, EdPowerment seeks to fill this gap. Through personal involvement, local and global networking, and collaboration with other organizations, we seek to open educational channels for otherwise forgotten young people. Working closely with school administrators, community organizers and leaders of NGOs with common goals, EdPowerment provides: -a variety of programs from classroom learning to private school sponsorships. -long-term, comprehensive support required in order for each student to turn his or her education into an income-producing job or career. -educational outreach programs to support young people struggling with disabilities or needing remedial help. -support for students' families in cases of extraordinary need.
Currently we have 30 students in our Long Term Sponsorship Program. 4 of which are in University programs, 6 which just graduated from secondary school, and the rest in other secondary school levels. We have 60 students at Kilimahewa Education Center receiving education from 4 Tanzanian professional educators and eating a nutritious meal each day as well as participating in enrichment activities. We have built a well at the Kilimahewa Education Center that provides water to the school and the surrounding community. We have hosted 4 educational workshops on Autism that served over 415 people and have built a network for families to go to for help. We have built a playground for the Gabriella Children's Rehabilitation Center and brought in professionals in the field of Autism to educate center staff on best practices. We have built a preschool classroom, teachers quarters, and new kitchen at a local primary school to ensure that children can eat lunch and preschoolers can come to school for much needed early childhood interventions.
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EdPowerment Inc. is an umbrella organization for several initiatives, all of which address the educational need of impoverished and educationally disadvantaged populations - who have little to no access to government or other support programs.
Direct beneficiaries per year:
The children and community members of the Samburai Ward located in the Kilimanjaro Region of Northern Tanzania. -The families, children, teachers, caregivers and government leaders of Tanzania that are impacted by intellectual disabilities that attend our conferences and spread their knowledge to their villages.
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Currently we target the Samburai Ward located in the Kilimanjaro Region of Northern Tanzania.
EdPowerment Inc. is an umbrella organization for several initiatives, all of which address the educational need of impoverished and educationally disadvantaged populations - who have little to no access to government or other support programs. Our main programs are: Our LongTerm School Sponsorship program "sponsors" young people who otherwise would not be able to pursue formal education. For each individual that we support, we provide all school tuition, fees and other necessities for as long as he or she is able to progress in his or her course of studies. We thereby allow capable and determined young people to pursue the highest educational degrees possible for their career goals. In this way, today's disenfranchised youth will become tomorrow's community leaders. We support and fund the Kilimahewa Women and Children's Centre for Education which began as a community-based organization in Moshi, Tanzania, founded on September 28, 2006 by local citizens who made it their mission to help underprivileged students in the area. As of the 2011 school year, about 60 students, mostly ranging in age from 14 to 18 attend the school. These children are struggling to access a secondary education because of a variety of economic and social factors. At Kilimahewa they continue to learn and can potentially access post-secondary education through a qualifying test system. Our third program Autism Connects Tanzania (ACT)'s educates Tanzanian families, organizations, and schools about intellectual disabilities, create a national network to better serve this special population and works to protect children with intellectual disabilities from harm.
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Under the authority of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I of Damascus, and led by the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad, the army of North-African Muslims (Moors) landed at Gibraltar on April 30 and then moved on northward in a 8-year long military campaign at the end of which most of the Iberian Peninsula was brought under Muslim occupation save for small areas in the northwest (Galicia and Asturias) and the largely Basque regions in the Pyrenees. The conquered territory, under the Arabic name al-Andalus, became part of the expanding Umayyad empire.
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Update: Former elementary principal told police he didn't know he was meeting a minor for sex at Frisco mall
SHERMAN – This week's trial involving a former elementary school principal accused of attempting to entice what he thought was a teenage boy for sex hinges on two key issues, prosecutors told jurors seated in the case Monday.
Oscar Figueroa, 47, of Carrollton has pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. He was arrested July 7, 2015, at the AMC Stonebriar Theatre in Frisco after police detectives had responded to his Craigslist ad seeking a young man for oral sex.
Jurors will have to decide whether Figueroa knew he was communicating with an individual purporting to be 16 years old and whether he planned to meet that person for sexual activity, federal prosecutor Marisa Miller said.
"Much of what you're going to hear about in this case is undisputed," Miller told jurors.
Jurors viewed Figueroa's original ad posted on Craigslist inviting men to meet him at the theater, where he planned to hang out all day. Figueroa included his phone number. Frisco Police Detective Wade Hornsby responded to the ad, and jurors saw their text message exchange.
Figueroa's first question to Hornsby? He wanted to know his age. Hornsby texted that he was 16.
But after his arrest, Figueroa said he hadn't read the texts closely and wasn't aware he was meeting a teenager.
"The first time I found that he said that he was a minor was when I got arrested," Figueroa told the detective.
Figueroa also told the detective during that interview that he had changed his mind and was planning to tell the undercover officer when they met in the theater's unisex bathroom that he didn't want to go through with it anymore.
Defense attorney Bruce Anton asked Hornsby on the stand Monday whether he had gotten confirmation that Figueroa knew he was meeting a teenager. "If you're going to arrest someone, you want to make sure they know they are communicating with a 16-year-old," Anton said.
Hornsby said he only posted the age once during the text exchange. Anton suggested that Hornsby's other messages hinting at the respondent's young age could be construed as role-playing. Hornsby's text that he was being dropped off at the mall could suggest he was getting a ride from a parent. It could also suggest he was using Uber, the online transportation network, Anton said.
Figueroa's Craigslist ad sought out a young male. Hornsby, who works on crimes against children, testified that meant 16 or younger to him. But Anton said that young to a man in his 40s could easily be a man in his 20s, which is not a crime.
At the time of his arrest in July 2015, Figueroa was a principal at Viridian Elementary, which is located in the city of Arlington and in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. He had worked for the district since 2007. Prior to that, Figueroa had worked in Richardson and Little Elm ISDs.
During his recorded police interview, Figueroa told Hornsby he worked as a professor at the University of North Texas at Dallas. Hornsby asked about him working in a public school setting. Figueroa lied and said it had been about a year since he worked for a school district. He resigned as principal of Viridian shortly after his arrest.
That position of trust that Figueroa held in the community is one of the reasons that a federal judge denied to release him from custody last year. Figueroa has been held without bail since July awaiting trial. If convicted, Figueroa faces a minimum of 10 years in federal prison.
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It's not even half way into January and we've lost two profound artists—David Bowie, and Alan Rickman. Both were 69 and both died of cancer. Whenever well-known actors and musicians pass, they seem to take the moments in life that they touched with them.
I wasn't a big Bowie fan—I didn't own any of his albums, but I liked his music and his style. As I'm more of a movie fan, I knew him more for his talents as an actor. He made the movie Labyrinth, he was chilling in The Hunger, the Man Who Fell to Earth was a wild piece of art, and he was hilarious as himself in Zoolander! I took some time to listen to his music in depth this past week and I immediately saw why he was so loved in that genre. I, of course, knew his hits Space Oddity, Let's Dance, China Girl, but there was so much more there that the radio didn't show.
I bought his last album, Black Star. It's an exceptionally profound album, because he wrote it knowing he was dying. It's a cerebral and abstract work, which touched on mortality and is profound in the light of his dying of cancer. His video for the song Lazarus has him writing in his notebook furiously, as if he were running out of time and still had so much to say. Indeed, he did.
Alan Rickman was an actor, brilliant in character creation. He played so many memorable characters, but I think many of us remember him first as Hans Gruber, high-priced robber of Nakatomi Plaza in the first Die Hard. His Sherif of Nottingham was the ONLY reason to watch Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and was well worth it! He was wonderful in Sense and Sensibility. He played Metatron (the voice of God) in Dogma–rubbing blood off of his pants, he whines "It never ends!" He made Galaxy Quest great and of course, he was the perfect Snape in Harry Potter.
I will be watching Alan Rickman movies and listening to David Bowie all this week in honor of these great artists. I'll be reliving many memories of eras in my life that they affected. Giving so much of their own message, they help both mirror and shape our views on the world.
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Grant committee member with Murrells Inlet Elks Lodge #2797
Native of Milwaukee, Wisc.
Resident of Surfside
Retired after 23 years of active
service in U.S. Air Force, former stock broker, infrastructure wiring
designer, now a marketing consultant
What do you like about being part of the Elks Club?
Ive had a very interesting life. I have moved 28 times and it has been a real adventure.
Now, it is time to give back a little bit. Thats the reason I got involved with the Elks in the first place.
I wanted to do something for other people and since the Elks clubs whole philosophy is, What can we do for our community?, it was a perfect fit for me.
When I found out what kinds of things the Elks Club is doing, and how dedicated they are, I wanted to be part of it.
What projects have you been involved with as a member of the Elks?
I was part of a grant committee for the new emergency dental clinic offered through Helping Hands of Georgetown.
The other members of that committee were David Chacon, Bill Carman and Sally Arnett.
This group of four individuals got together and were able to accomplish a goal, to help provide a very critical service for Georgetown County.
We wrote the grant and received a $10,000 grant through the National Elks Foundation to help with start up costs for the clinic.
The clinic now provides emergency extractions for uninsured Georgetown County residents who meet certain requirements.
They do the extractions on Thursdays at the clinic at Helping Hands of Georgetown.
It is first come, first served and they take the first eight people in line at 3:30 p.m. Six of them get extractions.
More than 20 dentists, along with dental assistants, are volunteering their time for this clinic.
For more information, people can call 843-527-3424, or visit helpinghandsofgeorgetown.com.
It is an important thing to be able to help other people to succeed.
Helping Hands is doing that providing food, clothing, and now dental care.
What advice can you give to people for helping in the community?
I think everybody should sit back and look at their lifestyle and ask themselves, What can I do personally to help my fellow man?
If everyone could help out in some way to take care of people in the community that would make a very positive impact.
Can you tell me about your family?
My wife of 46 years, Judith, is a professional artist who creates lifelike dolls.
To see her work, visit carolinamoonstudio.com.
We have five children and four grandchildren.
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by Humza Ali from Chicago | September 22, 2016
I'm the second owner of a 2004 Fx45, i bought this car 9 years ago and have 2 other cars but this one is still the most versatile. I live in Chicagoland and I do approx 3000 miles a month, the winters here are mental, i've driven through 3 foot snow, when all cars were abandoned and thorough localized flooding approx 1-1/12 feet. The car will power through snow with "Snow Mode" and not slip. Not a lot goes wrong on this car but if something does it costs $300 dollars and upwards. i end up servicing the vehicle exclusively through Infiniti almost every 12,000 miles, which costs around $500 but they do the little things to your car that make it feel like you're driving it off the showroom floor. Unbelievably the car takes a beating (weather wise) with the frigid winters, ice and localized flooding and the car just keeps on going. My vehicle has over 220,000 miles and is still fast and comfortable and looks great. I also drive a new Benz, but prefer the comfort of this car.
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Does recommend this car
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by Knight Rider from Brooklyn, NY | September 14, 2011
FX 45's fly. I've been craving one of these ever since I saw the burnout videos on Youtube. Wish I had a plane to bring it back to NY:) Good luck!
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Best Owned Car Yet
by Frequent Car Owner from Philadelphia Suburb | November 29, 2010
Over the years we have spoiled ourselves with way too many cars. However, we've experienced enough to know what is good. Our FX45 is absolutely wonderful. So wonderful, that we want one a piece. So in about a year, mine will be passed down, and I will get another/newer one. We only want the original body style, though. It will take a long time to warm-up to the current look. I especially look forward to long trips (to Maine). Confidence at high speeds is such a great feeling. My only complaint is the cost of new tires. At $300 each, it becomes more than a pollyanna christmas gift. Otherwise, a most enjoyable car.
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Does recommend this car
It ain't your mom's SUV!
by James from Maui, HI | April 25, 2009
If you don't like the stares, then this ain't for you. Infiniti just has that "cool" factor in which you can drive a luxury, but not have to be old. The versatility of an SUV, but the performance and drive of a sports vehicle (G35 to be more specific). Great vehicle!
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Does recommend this car
The Answer to your 4WD SUV/ Sports Car/ Needs
by FX45 Driver from Florida | April 3, 2007
There really isn't much out there that comes close. Here are the Reasons 1. It handles like a G35 coupe/ Nissan 350Z 2. Gives you the versatility of a stationwagon or hatchback 3. One of the most advanced 4WD/RWD platforms on the market. 4. Rock Solid Reliablility 5. Japanese Low-Maintenance (No-Maintainance) 6. Inexpensive to own and a Thrill Ride to drive. My first impressions of this vehicle were "This thing must defy the laws of physics because an SUV or Crossover should not be this fast and handle like a car half of its size" I was sold after the test drive but, the navigation, reverse rear camera, 20 inch wheels and overall versatility were just icing on the cake. The other cool thing about this car IF you get the navigation is the ability to see and control virtually all of the vehicles electronic systems. For example you can see your realtime fuel economy and figure out who much idle control you need while driving to achieve 20 MPG. On the same token you can see exactly when and where your wasting gas by your lead foot habits. The birds eye view of the navigation is phenonmenal and there is too much info to go into concerning the amount of features you can control but this vehicle is "Complete" to say the least. The only reason this vehicle gets a 9 and not a 10 is because it doesn't have the fit and finish in the interior of a Lexus or mercedes and isn't as fast as a Porsche Cayenne Turbo (0-60 in about One Second quicker. ) With that being said, Lexus doesn't have anything that even comes close (RX330 forget about it, not fun to drive) Lexus vehicles are great but they ARE NOT drivers cars and ................$300 Oil changes combined with the monthly car payment of a $90,000 dollar Porsche all for a just about a One Second difference faster from 0 to 60 make buying one a very impractical idea. The FX45 is half the price of a Cayenne Turbo ( not to be forgoten is that this vehicle is faster than the Cayenne, Cayenne S every BMX X5 including the most recent 2007 models) You can't go wrong with this vehicle but, if you buy it I strongly recommend getting the technology package including Navigation, rear camera and all the extras. In Conclusion, you guessed it, I love the Car.
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"NOTE: BetterSpore 1.5.1 was made for Spore Patch 1.3 with no GA. If you install it on Galactic Adventures or a more recent patch (or older) then any problems are at your own risk as it was not made for those versions."
Right what it says on the site. Also:
5. Force Save
- The Force Save application is found in the force save folder.
- While running spore, load up Spore Editor.
- When in the creature editor, make sure you have a completed creature, then go to the "options" tab in
Spore Editor and make sure that "Force Save" (Option 3) is on. MAKE SURE YOUR CREATURE IS NAMED.
- You should now be able to save your creature.
Note: If it still doesn't work, try un-applying the hack (by using the "unhack" button), and then making sure
the "Force Save" option is on, then try again."
Pepys Monster (Topic Creator)7 years ago#3
I already did that. I even tried moving the files to C/Programs/Electronic Arts/Spore/EP1/Data like it says on the site. That didn't work either. And what the hell is "RTFM"? Read the ****ing manual? Your rudeness is unwarranted and your post isn't helpful. Galactic Adventures is over a year old now. Better Spore should have been updated to work with it, so don't give me attitude.
Agamemnon485bc 7 years ago#4
The only one I see with attitude here is you. Better Spore was created by one person and he's got a busy life, on top of which he also lost his work drive with the mod on it. Not really my problem if you refuse to believe that you will not be playing it with GA. Some better advice? Grow up. The world was not designed to cater to you.
Pepys Monster (Topic Creator)7 years ago#5
Actually, you're the one with the attitude. Why do you assume, incorrectly, that I think the world caters to me, just because I didn't know it was made by one person, and I thought that a year after Galactic Adventures came out, Better Spore would probably be updated to be compatible? How old are you? Still going through your 14 year old trolling phase?
Agamemnon485bc 7 years ago#6
I'm twenty-one, thanks for asking. Run along now and take a bath in your tears, considering that's about the only constructive thing you can do now. Your embarrassment is understandable, but your ignorance is inexcusable. Why you continue to dance around this topic like as if in the grand scheme of things you or I will even remember it within a week is beyond me. Don't you have a life you should be trying to live?
monsterlord 7 years ago#7
ITT; Two people arguing badly for no reason whatsoever.
Pitlord is not crap! >_>
Yes. I know I go >_> alot.
Agamemnon485bc 7 years ago#8
And what we needed was a third troll too.
monsterlord 7 years ago#9
It managed to shut the pair of you up, so my job is done ¬_¬
Pitlord is not crap! >_>
Yes. I know I go >_> alot.
Agamemnon485bc 7 years ago#10
Yes, trolling is over, last word in, run along now as well.
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- ITV Report
Live updates
Kinmel Hall: 10 things you might not know
A sprawling, 122-room mansion near Abergele, Conwy has just made it on to the list of Britain's 10 most endangered buildings.
But what is Kinmel Hall, and how long has it been standing empty?
Here are 10 things you might not already have known:
- Kinmel Hall was designed and built in the 1870s by an English architect.
- It's palatial in scale with around 18 acres of gardens and 122 rooms.
- Originally built as a private home, it had around 50 bedrooms and 60 private quarters for servants.
- It's rumoured that there was also a room entirely dedicated to ironing newspapers.
- Over the years, the hall has changed its identity a number of times, becoming a school, a health spa and a hospital.
- It's now been left unoccupied for 20 years.
- The identity of the current owner is thought to be unknown.
- Nicknames for the hall now include the 'Welsh Versailles' and 'discount Downtown'.
- It's a Grade I listed building.
- It's thought to be Wales' largest surviving country house of its kind.
Three cases of E.coli confirmed in Conwy
Three young children in Conwy have been diagnosed with E.coli infection.
Public Health Wales and Conwy County Borough Council are continuing to investigate the three confirmed cases.
The affected children attended the same childcare providers, but also had links to one another 'outside of the childcare settings'.
The three children affected have links to one another outside of the childcare settings they attend, and there is no suggestion that the infection has been transmitted within that setting.
The childcare providers remain closed on a voluntary basis but will re-open once testing confirms that staff and other children are clear of infection. So far, 18 individuals have received negative results for the infection and Public Health Wales say no further positive cases have been identified.
E.coli O157 is a very serious infection that causes very severe diarrhoea, sometimes with blood in it, abdominal cramps and fever. In children, it can cause kidney failure that can prove fatal.
Anyone who has concerns about their health should contact their GP or NHS Direct Wales on 0845 46 47.
Two children diagnosed with suspected E.coli
Two young children are being treated for suspected E.coli in north Wales.
Public Health Wales and Conwy County Borough Council are investigating the suspected cases in the children who both attend childcare settings in Conwy.
The affected childcare providers have closed voluntarily and relevant children and staff are being screened for the infection as a precaution to prevent it spreading.
The source of the infection is believed to be outside of the childcare settings. Both children are recovering well at home. says Public Health Wales.
E.coli O157 is a very serious infection that causes very severe diarrhoea, sometimes with blood in it, abdominal cramps and fever.
In children, it can cause kidney failure that can prove fatal. It is not uncommon for outbreaks to be associated with children having contact with farm animals. The infection can also be contracted by eating contaminated food or drinking unpasteurised milk.
Anyone who has concerns about their health should contact their GP or NHS Direct Wales on 0845 46 47.
Man arrested after post office robbery at Conwy
A man is in police custody following a robbery on a Post Office in Conwy.
North Wales Police say they were called to the scene at around 3:30pm on Conway Road, Talybont and a man was arrested.
I would like to reassure the public that offences of this nature are unusual for the West Conwy area, albeit there was an unrelated similar offence in Llandudno two weeks ago where a man was arrested, charged and put before the courts.
- ITV Report
Unique surfing facility to open in north Wales
Surf Snowdonia, which features the first ever publicly accessible surfing lagoon, is to open in the Conwy Valley this weekend.Read the full story ›
No joke - Welsh town gets its own official jester!
The historic town of Conwy has appointed a jester in an effort to entertain locals and visitors.
The town's chamber of trade says Erwyd le Fol is just the right person:
Jesters were always more than just entertainers, they were a recognised figure within the community and as such the appointment of a town jester was never taken lightly.
Erwyd has been a regular performer at events in Conwy for the past five years, he embraces the town's past, is extremely passionate about its future and wants to help grow Conwy's reputation both locally and globally. He's everything a town jester should be.
Erwyd, who has his own jester show, said "One of my duties as town jester is to come up with new and exciting tricks and stunts to entertain visitors and locals.
More: Is Conwy one of Europe's most beautiful places? The Japanese think so...
Trains: Arriva Trains Wales, Conwy
There's a replacement bus service running on Arriva Trains Wales between North Llanrwst and Blaenau Ffestiniog because of flooding.
Adventurer returns home after epic journey
A young adventurer from Colwyn Bay has returned home after walking 1,500 miles solo across one of the most desolate countries in the world.
Ash Dykes is the first recorded person to complete the epic journey from the western border of Mongolia, across the Gobi desert to the eastern border with China. Ian Lang has his story.
North Wales adventurer breaks Mongolia world record
A young Welsh adventurer has become the first person to walk 1,500 miles solo across Mongolia - one of the world's most desolate countries.
23-year-old Ash Dykes from Colwyn Bay walked into the record books after spending 78 days alone, battling sandstorms and heat exhaustion.
During his journey he tackled the high Altai Mountains, the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian Steppe.
Ash has already gained recognition from world-renowned explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
- ITV Report
Gwyrch Castle reopens to the public
A group of supporters are planning to turn part of the site into a visitor centre - and tomorrow the public are allowed to take a look.Read the full story ›


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ALDI Tranekærcentret - Randers, Denmark
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Aldi Randers NV
posted by: pstidsen
location: Denmark
date approved: 1/8/2013
last visited: 8/30/2014
Aldi Ridderhof - Alphen aan den Rijn - Netherlands
Aldi market at shopping centre
posted by: Axel-F
location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
date approved: 12/23/2012
last visited: 4/20/2016
Hofer Tirolerstraße - Villach, Kärnten, Austria
posted by: luzzi-reloaded
location: Kärnten, Austria
date approved: 12/7/2012
last visited: 8/26/2014
ALDI Süd - Walldorf - Germany
ALDI store in an architect-designed building. / ALDI-Filiale in einem Architektengebäude.
posted by: DieCacherGirls
location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
date approved: 11/30/2012
last visited: 7/8/2014
Hofer - Wien 23 Breitenfurter Str. 261 (Vienna/Austria)
Hofer market with a Hofer gas station in Liesing.
posted by: SaschaVie
location: Wien, Austria
date approved: 11/19/2012
last visited: 3/7/2016
Hofer - Wien 17 Bergsteiggasse (Vienna, Austria)
Hofer Markt next to Jörgerbad.
last visited: 2/26/2015
Aldi Markt - Heilgenroth - Germany
[DE] Ein Aldi Markt im Industriegebiet von Heiligenroth
[EN] An Aldi supermarket in the industrial area of Heiligenroth
posted by: DerSchnelleLinus
location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
date approved: 11/3/2012
last visited: 8/18/2014
Aldi Werkstadt Limburg
[DE] Ein Aldi-Markt in der "Werkstadt" in Limburg
[EN] An Aldi market located at the "Werkstadt" in Limburg
location: Hamburg, Germany
date approved: 10/21/2012
last visited: 9/2/2014
Aldi - Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
Aldi supermarket, Kidderminster
posted by: The_Senior_Crabbes
location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
date approved: 10/15/2012
last visited: never
Aldi - Gannat - Allier - France
Aldi store in the suburbs of Gannat, Auvergne
posted by: JMRetSB
location: Auvergne, France
date approved: 10/3/2012
last visited: 10/4/2012
Aldi - Thiers - Puy de Dôme - France
On the main acces route to join the city of Thiers
last visited: 10/14/2012
ALDI -- 1601 W Northwest Hwy, Garland TX
This ALDI at 1601 West Northwest Highway is the first ALDI in Garland.
posted by: Benchmark Blasterz
location: Texas
date approved: 9/25/2012
last visited: 9/11/2012
ALDI Rakoczi ut - Budapest, Hungary
location: Budapest, Hungary
date approved: 8/23/2012
last visited: 8/23/2012
Aldi - Gerzat - Puy de Dôme - France
Aldi store in the suburbs of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne
date approved: 8/20/2012
last visited: 8/20/2012
ALDI Market,Columbia City,IN
ALDI Market-551 N. Line St.,Columbia City,IN 46725
posted by: walkingwildly
location: Indiana
date approved: 8/18/2012
last visited: 8/19/2012
Aldi - Vichy - Allier - France
Aldi store Vichy in front of school
last visited: 8/18/2012
Aldi Conweiler, Germany
Aldi Conweiler
posted by: ichel
date approved: 7/13/2012
last visited: 12/3/2012
ALDI Plaza - Ogdensburg, New York - USA
Not surprisingly, this waymark is located in ALDI Plaza.
posted by: elyob
location: New York
date approved: 7/10/2012
last visited: 5/19/2014
ALDI Sued - Backnang, BW, Germany
Ein ALDI Sued in Backnang, neben dem Finanzamt.
posted by: Wombat97
date approved: 7/6/2012
ALDI Market - Spencerport Rd & Lyell Ave, Gates, NY - USA
This Aldi's at 48 Spencerport Road, Gates, NY 14606 isn't even the closest to my home, but I had the GPS and the camera handy, so here we go!
posted by: sagefemme
date approved: 6/18/2012
Hofer Wörgl, Tirol, Austria
Hofer Wörgl
posted by: DNS82
location: Tirol, Austria
last visited: 6/17/2012
ALDI Market - Milford, MA
This Aldi Market along Mass. Route 16 has been in Milford since 2010.
posted by: NorStar
location: Massachusetts
date approved: 6/15/2012
ALDI Market, Warsaw, IN 46580
ALDI Market just off RT 30,Warsaw, Indiana
date approved: 6/8/2012
last visited: 6/22/2012
ALDI Market - Ellington, CT - USA
An ALDI grocery store in Ellington, CT
posted by: chrissyml
location: Connecticut
Aldi - Faro, Portugal
An Aldi store in Faro, Portugal
posted by: Torgut
location: Faro, Portugal
date approved: 6/6/2012
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nokia n8 is left out this time ,ya it got the belle refresh update ,it would have been better if it got the fp1 & fp2
I had updated to fp2 the first time when the update was released, later there was an update for Nokia Music, I installed that and then I got the trouble. I get a message that Unlimited Subscription is over or completed. Now I am not able to download any songs. As mentioned above, I did not get the update again via OTA, hence I reinstalled through Suite, but still the issues are same. Video Editor not working, no more music download. And need to still check what are the other issues
Has anyone nokia users in the US gotten this new Belle FW as of yet?????
I have an N8 NAM & still no sign of this expected update! smh
Updated my Nokia 603, 9 hrs ago, to Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 via Nokia Suite....till now its working bug-free....
The Swipe to Unlock, new camera UI, new widgets are really a big improvement, the gallery has been disappointing. Earlier in Belle FP1, atleast I could mark multiple images for sending as well as deleting. But now can select multiple images only for deleting. For sending, I've to open each image individually and then send it. Thats like a downgrade rather than upgrade.
Otherwise, quite a good update. I hope Nokia gets the gallery goof up rectified.
About NOKIA BELLE FP 2
Still front camera option missing
and 2 sides orientation is missing
social not user friendly as android. they have to improve lot in social.
gallery multiple marking option missing and sending option too.
jinga, 10 Oct 2012any news on e6?IKR? sigh.. I haven't been able to get ALL the widgets from Belle Refresh.. But I think nobody got the full widget list for those owning E6.. Am I right or is it just me? :|
uk, 10 Oct 2012friends
1.is there exit button for camera
2.option in gallery to mark and send pics
pls tel me1. Red button to end call.
2. No, you should search for another solution.
rafamx.mx, 10 Oct 2012Liar! Have you tried to tap one single word that you type? Surprise! When you tap one word the... moreyou are right man, now I just have realized, because I am using Swype, just hear another talk about this.
ali, 11 Oct 2012Yeah but the thing is there is no exit for the camera !You close the camera by just tapping on "close the call" or "hang up" button, the red one.
Working great. Same procedure on 700 and 701 at least.
SS, 10 Oct 2012At least Nokia 700 have a much quicker camera..will check on 701 also but it seems that Nokia ... moreYeah but the thing is there is no exit for the camera !
paulabyface , 11 Oct 2012pls how can you get access to the secondary camera on fp2During a call only.
Sanna, 10 Oct 2012Nokia old specs with big bezels.
Nokia cant make slim phones.Have you seen the Nokia 700, or before that the E52?
Along with the SE Xperia Ray these have to be two of the smallest, slimmest smartphones ever...
Update for 701 was very quick and correct! Afterwards there was updates to Calendar, MS Office, Nokia Music... etc.
Dam - the phone is once again like new. Nice job Suomi!
Sanna, 10 Oct 2012Nokia old specs with big bezels.
Nokia cant make slim phones.The bezel is there for a reason - to stop your screen from breaking! I hope Nokia continue this tradition and that other manufacturers start doing it as well
Apple deliberately put a weak, non-protectice bezel on their iPhone... oh, it look sooo cooool until there is some pressure from keys or coins etc on the unprotected edge of the glass and then you find yourself queueing with lots of other Apple owners to pay a lot of money to Apple to replace your screen!


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Experts: Erie County judge race too close to call
Erie County judge candidate Bill Kelly Jr.'s face gazes from a billboard high above the traffic streaming below on Interstate 79.
On TV, all four judicial candidates -- Kelly, Jamie Mead, First Assistant District Attorney Robert Sambroak Jr. and Joe Walsh -- are airing atmospheric ads touting their qualifications and values.
Colorful campaign signs, modest and dining-table large, stand at the ready on roadsides that vein the nearly 800-square-mile county, while hardly a community event goes by without one or all of the judge candidates showing up to meet voters.
On Tuesday, it could all, in effect, be over. Voters will decide whether one of these lawyers wins the nominations of both parties or if there will be a two-man race heading into November for the seat on the bench opened by the retirement of Erie County Judge Michael E. Dunlavey. The 10-year term pays $173,271 annually.
With a crowded field and an expected low turnout, local political experts say any one aspect of a campaign, good or bad, could decide the outcome.
"When you have this many candidates, you do not need a huge percentage in the primary to win," said Michael Federici, a political-science professor at Mercyhurst University. "It is going to be about getting your people to the polls."
Recently released campaign finance reports show thousands of dollars are flowing into the race to drum up the vote.
Kelly, of Fairview Township, reported the most contributions from donors -- about $103,093 -- and, so far, the greatest expenditures -- $120,165 -- in his bid for a seat on the bench, according to his campaign finance report, which covers the money collected since the start of his campaign until May 6.
Mead, also of Fairview, raised the next largest amount of money, reporting $61,170 in contributions from others and $102,894 in expenditures.
Sambroak, of Erie, listed $43,798 from others and expenditures of $24,196, while Walsh, of Fairview, posted $26,550 in contributions from others, and expenditures of $67,487.
In addition to raising funds from others, all of the candidates are investing heavily in their own campaigns.
So far, Mead has injected the most -- $89,000 -- of his own money into his campaign coffers, followed by Walsh, about $60,000, and Kelly, $40,000. Sambroak reported no donations of his own money to his campaign as of May 6. He said he planned to invest up to $40,000 in the last days of the campaign to be spent mainly on advertising. A final campaign report, due 30 days after the primary, will reveal the total amount collected and spent by the candidates.
Money raised and spent will not be the only factor in the race, if the past is any indication.
A high public profile, key endorsements, heavy spending, tireless campaigning, or some combination of all of those factors -- have earned judges their tenure in the past.
Kelly's sister, Judge Elizabeth Kelly, combined heavy campaigning, a message about Family Court and a then-record-breaking fundraising effort -- $105,90l -- to beat out nine male competitors in the primary race and lock up a seat on the bench by winning the nods of both parties.
In 1970, then-candidate Fred P. Anthony famously wore out a pair of shoes in an 18-month door-to-door campaign.
In the 2009 race for Erie County judge, Judge Daniel Brabender, aided by a family name well-known in local politics, eschewed heavy spending and instead targeted both parties and every corner of the county in an aggressive door-to-door effort. He clinched both party nominations in the nine-person May primary contest.
Local political observers say it is difficult to predict who has the edge in this race.
"I find it hard to believe you are going to have a Brabender-like outcome," Federici said. "Not one of them is going to run away with it because all of them have name recognition."
Robert Speel, associate political-science professor at Penn State Behrend, said the Supreme Court a decade ago gave judicial candidates the right to discuss their views on specific issues, but few do.
He and Federici said this can make it difficult for judicial candidates to make themselves stand out from other candidates. The candidates instead focus generally on character and experience.
Sambroak had the highest ranking by his peers in the Erie County Bar Association poll and has a strong reputation built on his career as one of the county's top prosecutors, Federici said. Sambroak also has the endorsements of District Attorney Jack Daneri, the Pennsylvania State Police Swanson Memorial Lodge No. 48 and the Erie County Fraternal Order of Police William Tyler Memorial Lodge No. 64.
"I think that matters," Federici said. If anything, Sambroak might be hampered by a campaign that in the early days, at least, appeared to be less visible than the others, at least in terms of signs and ads, Federici said.
Federici said Mead and Kelly both have strong name recognition. Mead's family owns the company that for 125 years has published the Erie Times-News. Kelly's father, Bill Kelly Sr., was a well-known local attorney. Kelly is also a graduate of Cathedral Prep and the University of Notre Dame.
"In this community, those things matter," Federici said.
Walsh, a general practitioner and the son of a well-known local lawyer, has distinguished himself as the only registered Democrat in the race and has campaigned on his experience as a veteran of the U.S. Navy. If that message reaches enough people, it could help Walsh win the Democratic nod, Speel said.
For some candidates, negative information could distinguish them from the others, Federici said.
Mead is a board member and shareholder of the company that publishes the Erie Times-News and GoErie.com. He has worked as a federal prosecutor, a high stakes civil litigator and has represented indigent clients accused in some of the county's most high-profile homicide cases. His campaign is built on this experience, which, he said, has prepared him to help address the growing gun violence in Erie.
Mead has also, however, acknowledged a past problem with alcohol that 10 years ago resulted in his arrest for striking a woman in the face in a domestic dispute and in an arrest for drunken driving. Mead pleaded guilty to a summary charge in the first case and entered a special probation program in the second. He now counsels others who struggle with alcohol.
Federici said that history might cause some voters to discount him.
"I think it can only hurt," he said. "People want the person wearing the robe and running the courtroom to have an impeccable past."
Speel disagreed.
"It was a long time ago," said Speel. "I don't think many voters will see it as a disqualification."
Speel said the Bar Association rankings, which showed Kelly with the most "not recommended" votes from his peers, could negatively impact Kelly, who touts 22 years experience in mostly civil and family matters. Kelly's campaign, arguably the most visible of all the candidates, also experienced a glitch when it emerged Wednesday that his fundraising committee had failed to register as required by law with the Pennsylvania Department of State. The committee, chaired by Tina Mengine, has now filed the required paperwork.
"If Bill Kelly does not do well despite his advertising, I think the Bar Association rankings probably had an impact," Speel said.
Several candidates used the word "balanced" to describe their primary campaign strategies. They said they sought to raise enough money to effectively advertise, but all four also reported heavy campaigning door-to-door and at events from parades to charity fish fries.
Sambroak said he is on the trail "every night" of the week and on weekends.
Mead's family created a campaign camper in which to tour the county and met with voters at clubs and ice cream shops. Walsh at his events collected items for those serving overseas.
Kelly's children and wife accompanied him almost everywhere, Kelly said.
"I have knocked on in excess of 5,000 doors," he said.
LISA THOMPSON can be reached at 870-1802 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNthompson.


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Police were scouring West Philadelphia and surrounding areas Wednesday for three masked men who snatched a 2-year-old boy from his father's arms in Upper Dublin Township and drove away with him, then left the child alone about 20 miles away on a city street about six hours later.
A Philadelphia police officer spotted the boy, Tymire Dior Smith, about 4 a.m. Wednesday, wandering near 66th and Malvern Streets in the Overbrook section. The toddler was rushed to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was being evaluated, but was not seriously hurt. His mother, who lives in Philadelphia, was reunited with him there.