Panthera Pardus

So I finally got it. Roars like a real bad kittie. And for all of you macusers that were experiencing slow speed from iPhoto… it works like a charm now in Leo.

Can’t wait to explore it this weekend

Green Paint

wow this is just great huh ? what an amazing painting job .. ;) seems like the town is getting green it self

Wire Characters

I’ve found this on a russian site. Have no idea what it means, but the pictures speak for themselves.

The Truth of Face Book

Facebook ( www.facebook.com) is an online social networking directory that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Created and launched in February 2004 by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes, the site began as a network strictly for Harvard University. Two months later, the site expanded to include other Ivy League schools. After that, the college network slowly grew and by the end of 2004, Facebook had registered more than one million users.

Now open to anyone with a valid email address, the site includes members' pictures, biographies, interests and messages, and members can browse freely through open profiles. Members may choose their personal levels of security to prevent strangers from accessing their personal information.

The platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that members can choose to use. Applications range from photo sharing to graffiti walls and everything in between.

Create An Encoded Email Link

Everybody loves spam. Just loves it. I can't get through a day if I know I'm not gonna get me some spam.

Unfortunately, there are people who don't want us to get our yummy spam 230 times a day. Those evil people use encoding to filter out all that tasty processed meat product.



That's a picture of what it looks like when you use an Email Address Encoder. To stick it on your blog, just copy that code, and paste it in your template. You can see mine over on the sidebar.

'Laamu, Gaadhoo - Maldives' On Black

I was on an official trip here. I had just landed with a small airplane at the airport in Gaadhoo. I was met by some local people there who brought me by boat to this Island where I was supposed to meet some colleagues who arrived on another island the day before by boat. This pic was taken while I was waiting for them. Eventually they came and we all went together to meet with the island chief and further with their council of women. The total population of the island is, I am not sure, but i thought we were told it is around 200-300. We were going to asses the impact of the assistance provided to the islanders after the Tsunami hit the island in Dec 2004. The wave swept through the island (had covered it all) but luckily had lost in height (not in power though) by the time it reached the Maldives. The agricultural land was signficantly damaged by the salt and most of the fishing boats were gone. The highest peak in Maldives is about 2m above mean sea level.

The Life and Legacy of Bob Marley ....Continued

Bob Marley gave the world brilliant and evocative music; his work stretched across nearly two decades and yet still remains timeless and universal. Bob Marley & the Wailers worked their way into the very fabric of our lives. "He's taken his place alongside James Brown and Sly Stone as a pervasive influence on r&b", says the American critic Timothy White, author of the acclaimed Bob Marley biography CATCH A FIRE: THE LIFE OF BOB MARLEY. "His music was pure rock, in the sense that it was a public expression of a private truth."

It is important to consider the roots of this legend: the first superstar from the Third World, Bob Marley was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of our time and his music could have been created from only one source: the street culture of Jamaica. The days of slavery are a recent folk memory on the island. They have permeated the very essence of Jamaica's culture, from the plantation of the mid-nineteenth century to the popular music of our own times. Although slavery was abolished in 1834, the Africans and their descendants developed their own culture with half-remembered African traditions mingled with the customs of the British. This hybrid culture, of course, had parallels with the emerging black society in America. Jamaica, however, remained a rural community which, without the industrialisation of its northern neighbour, was more closely rooted to its African legacy. By the start of the twentieth century that African heritage was given political expression by Marcus Garvey, a shrewd Jamaican preacher and entrepreneur who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The organisation advocated the creation of a new black state in Africa, free from white domination. As the first step in this dream, Garvey founded the Black Star Line, a steamship company which, in popular imagination at least, was to take the black population from America and the Caribbean back to their homeland of Africa.

A few years later, in 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia and took a new name, Haile Selassie, The Emperor claimed to be the 225th ruler in a line that stretched back to Menelik, the son of Solomon and Sheba. The Marcus Garvey followers in Jamaica, consulting their New Testaments for a sign, believed Haile Selassie was the black king whom Garvey had prophesied would deliver the Negro race. It was the start of a new religion called Rastafari. Fifteen years later, in Rhoden Hall to the north of Jamaica, Bob Marley was born. His mother was an eighteen-year-old black girl called Cedella Booker while his father was Captain Norval Marley, a 50-year-old white quartermaster attached to the British West Indian Regiment. The couple married in 1944 and Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945. Norval Marley's family, however, applied constant pressure and, although he provided financial support, the Captain seldom saw his son who grew up in the rural surroundings of St. Ann to the north of the island.

The Life and Legacy of Bob Marley

Bob Marley was a hero figure, in the classic mythological sense. His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love -- inspired by his belief in Rastafari -- was beginning to be heard and felt. The last Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest audiences at a that time for any musical act in Europe. Bob's story is that of an archetype, which is why it continues to have such a powerful and ever-growing resonance: it embodies political repression, metaphysical and artistic insights, gangland warfare and various periods of mystical wilderness. And his audience continues to widen: to westerners Bob's apocalyptic truths prove inspirational and life-changing; in the Third World his impact goes much further. Not just among Jamaicans, but also the Hopi Indians of New Mexico and the Maoris of New Zealand, in Indonesia and India, and especially in those parts of West Africa from wihch slaves were plucked and taken to the New World, Bob is seen as a redeemer figure returning to lead this

In the clear Jamaican sunlight you can pick out the component parts of which the myth of Bob Marley is comprised: the sadness, the love, the understanding, the Godgiven talent. Those are facts. And although it is sometimes said that there are no facts in Jamaica, there is one more thing of which we can be certain: Bob Marley never wrote a bad song. He left behind the most remarkable body of recorded work. "The reservoir of music he has left behind is like an encyclopedia," says Judy Mowatt of the I-Threes. "When you need to refer to a certain situation or crisis, there will always be a Bob Marley song that will relate to it. Bob was a musical prophet." The tiny Third World country of Jamaica has produced an artist who has transcended all categories, classes, and creeds through a combination of innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic, may yet prove to be the most significant musical artist of the twentieth century.

Circulus conbergenzionis
"DIES FRAE"

3 Children watches the sunset on Fuvahmulah. An Island located just south of the Maldives near equator.

About Hulhumale Online Community

Hulhumale Online Community is a global forum which was established in 16th of january 2007. Though it has been only 8th months, since than HOC has the record number of posts in maldives at the time and there is no other forum which has more users than HOC. Also, i would like to highlight that Hulhumale Online Community is a 100% Hulhumale based forum hence all moderators and admins are from hulhumale.

for more information please contact admin@hulhumale.org or visit our site www.hulhumale.org

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