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Three episodes: In "Starlight Night," it's the new year holiday when all the Cyberspace stars are refreshed, so Hacker launches a super-scary scheme just as everyone is getting ready to celebrate. In "Snow Day To Be Exact," Digit and gang must go to snowy Solaria after Hacker steals its powerful sunisphere.
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In "A Time To Cook," the CyberSquad must beat Hacker in a crazy culinary competition, or he'll cook up chaos across Cyberspace.
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William J. Spooner, 84, Grand Rapids, died on March 9, 2014 in his home.
Mass of Christian Burial: 11 a.m., Saturday, March 15, 2014 in the Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, Coleraine.
Visitation: 4-7 p.m. with recitation of the Rosary at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 14, 2014 in the Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, Coleraine and will continue from 10 a.m. until the Mass on Saturday.
Interment: Itasca-Calvary Cemetery, Grand Rapids next to his wife, Geraldine.
The family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to the staff from Essentia Health-Itasca Hospice. Their care of Bill and support for the family helped us through his journey. Memorials are preferred to the Beefy Lawson Memorial or to the donor's choice.
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Myler took to the stage at The Savoy to receive scoop and news reporter of the year on behalf of Mazher Mahmood, the "fake sheikh" who hides his identity, for his expose of cricket corruption.
The paper also won showbusiness reporter and magazine of the year. Some thought NOTW might have won the top award, Newspaper of the Year, if it were not for the phone-hacking saga. That gong was won by the paper's nemesis, The Guardian, which has investigated the hacking scandal relentlessly.
* Such is the bad blood between the News of the World and The Guardian that no one thought it a coincidence that they were seated at tables at opposite ends of The Savoy ballroom. As a result, The Sun and arch-rivals the Mirror were next to each other for the first time that anyone could remember.
* Other notable winners, apart from a brace for the Evening Standard's Dispossessed campaign, included The Times' Caitlin Moran. She got critic and interviewer of the year, on her birthday. Moran joked her career "might have peaked" after her winning interview with Lady Gaga in a Berlin sex club when the pair ended up in the ladies' loo. Feature writer of the year was The Guardian's Amelia Gentleman, who has written extensively about how the coalition's austerity cuts are hitting ordinary Britons, despite her husband being rising Tory MP Jo Johnson.
* One whisper at the Press Awards: Is The Sun about to restart a price war by cutting from 25p to 10p, supposedly after Rupert Murdoch sanctioned the move? A senior Sun figure laughs off such talk. It would apparently be hard to cut even to 12p because of newsagent margins.
* News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck told this newspaper about his methods in a rare interview six years ago: "On every single story we sit down and discuss the privacy issue... Very often we are presented with stories that are very difficult to prove, and we have to spend a lot of time beavering away to prove things. When we've done, there may be hours and hours of painstakingly boring work that ends up in a lawyer's safe that the reader will never see." Thurlbeck was speaking at the 2005 Press Awards, when the NOTW, under editor Andy Coulson, won paper of the year.
* Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey earned a package worth close to £2.1 million last year. Despite not receiving an increase in base salary, her pay and pension package was £1.7 million, including a £660,000 cash bonus. The annual report says she was also granted 887,000 deferred and performance shares as long-term incentives. At today's share price, they are worth another £420,000.
* Craig Oliver, who quit as a BBC World Service boss to be David Cameron's spin chief, has not been forgotten by his old colleagues, who still reel from cuts he helped to implement. At a "wake", held to mark the axing of feature series The Interview, producer Annette MacKenzie ended her tribute to her team with a theatrical pause: "And finally my thanks go to... Craig Oliver, without whom none of this would have been possible." Staff are aghast at the cuts, which include last week's abrupt end to English-language broadcasts on 648kHz medium wave in Europe.
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Mo's boss wants him to get out and tell South Florida the changes happening at Kool 105.5. So Mo, Sally, and T.A. get their friends to spread the word! Kool 105.5 now plays the best mix of the 80's, 90's, and 2000's. It's Today's Kool 105.5.
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From Kool 105.5: Mo, Sally, T.A, Curtis Daniels, Mike Perry, Skip Kelly, Joel Malkin.
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The Mo & Sally Morning Show started back in 1994 in Roanoke, Virginia. Sally was already part of an existing show on a local station and Mo was the night-time disc jockey. When Sally's partner abruptly quit the station, the program director decided to move Mo into the morning time slot and BOOM,...the show was created.
Station management had no idea Mo & Sally were dating at the time and they weren't exactly thrilled when they found out about the off-air romance. After getting married, Mo & Sally continued to keep their relationship quiet, choosing not to tell their listeners right away. Eventually, their secret came out and when they took a job in Richmond, Virginia, they became "a married morning show."
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Christopher Dorner manhunt moves to ski mountain
The hunt for a fired Los Angeles policeman accused of a shooting rampage has moved to a snowy mountain range.
Search teams combed Big Bear Lake for Christopher Dorner, 33, after his torched truck was found by a ski area.
Though the focus is on the resort area, the huge manhunt spans California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico.
He is wanted over the shooting deaths of a couple at the weekend and attacks on Thursday that left one policeman dead and another seriously wounded.
Police used search dogs and helicopters with infrared equipment overnight in an attempt to track down the suspect in Big Bear Lake, 80 miles (128km) east of Los Angeles.
Diversionary tactic?
"We're going to continue searching until either we discover that he left the mountain or we find him, one of the two," San Bernadino County Sheriff John McMahon told a Friday morning news conference.
He said search teams would continue to scour abandoned cabins in the area.
Investigators said they believed fresh tracks spotted in the snow near the burnt-out truck were made by the former naval reservist, who is said to be heavily armed.
Former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton told CBS News on Friday the destroyed truck was "possibly a diversionary tactic to draw people into that area while he's actually heading south".
Investigators are examining a parcel sent - possibly by the suspect - to CNN presenter Anderson Cooper, which contained a note saying: "I never lied."
Mr Dorner is also said separately to have written a 14-page essay that made threats against Los Angeles police employees and their families.
Officials have assigned more than 40 protection details to his potential targets.
He was with the police department between 2005-08, but lost his job for making false statements.
'Asymmetrical warfare'
Mr Dorner is accused of killing Monica Quan, whose father represented him before a disciplinary tribunal that ruled against the suspect at the time of his dismissal.
Quan, 28, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, 27, were found dead with multiple gunshot wounds on Sunday night in their car at their home in Irvine, California.
According to court documents, Mr Dorner was fired in 2008 after making a complaint against his field training officer, saying she had kicked a suspect, a schizophrenic man with severe dementia, during an arrest.
On Thursday near Los Angeles, he allegedly shot at two police officers, grazing one, before ambushing another two in a patrol car, killing one and seriously wounding another.
Later in the day, on-edge Los Angeles police fired on a vehicle they mistook for Mr Dorner's, injuring two innocent women who were delivering newspapers.
San Diego police said a man matching the suspect's description had tried to steal a boat from one of the city's marinas on Wednesday night.
Mr Dorner's rambling "manifesto" contains a number of allegations against former colleagues.
The essay warns of "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty".
His grievances include alleged racism he encountered at the LAPD and while growing up in southern California.


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Jewish Family & Life (JFL Media), December 2006
Editor's introduction to the subject of leadership in Judaism.
Topic: Power, Leadership, Clergy
Name of Publication: Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
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There is one section where the girls dance in their underwear, however, as befits the times, this is pantaloons (to the knees) a chemise (short-sleeved top) with an underbust corset. There is no 'shape' to the breast area, nor is any of the clothing tight or revealing (other than the corset area being tight, but that isn't revealing at all).
There are a few fist-fights in this movie, including one between the brothers, one between the brothers and some townsmen, and one at a 'barnraising' where the brothers fight another lot of townsmen. At no time is there any gore, or blood (other than a couple of very minor scrapes). These are very minor parts of the movie, however, they may frighten very young viewers.
This is set in the 1850's and has all the morality inherint to those times. No profanity whatsoever, the 'worst' word said in the movie is 'damn'.
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There is one scene where Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel) - (the eldest brother) empties out his pipe, but I don't remember him actually smoking from it (although, in truth, he may - when I re-watch the movie I'll update).
There is one scene where the brothers 'kidnap' their girls, this is inherent to the movie and they realise they were wrong to do so. The girls are fine, they aren't hurt, and it all ends well, however, this may frighten very young viewers.
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New York Live Arts Presents Showing of Jimena Paz's UNTITLED This Weekend
New York Live Arts presents the Studio Series showing of Jimena Paz's Untitled, today, May 23 and Saturday, May 24 at 6:00pm in the third floor studios at New York Live Arts.
For Paz's Studio Series showing, she will present the work-in-progress of various sections of a collaborative work between herself and two established American choreographers. Working with the idea of "foreignness" and how each artist interprets the word within their own creative process, the points of departure for the collaboration are anecdotes and short stories from Paz's life in Argentina. Interested in looking at the "subculture" of her body, Paz examines movement and the dichotomy between schooled and unschooled, or self-taught, movement. The work, shown as a work-in-progress from the early stages of a long term project, sources material from improvisations created from key words used in the abovementioned anecdotes, magazine imagery and lesser known dance forms from Argentina.
Studio Series is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Studio Series work-in-process showings will take place in New York Live Arts' studios. Tickets are $5. There will be free in-process talks after each showing with an array of moderators. Tickets are available online at newyorklivearts.org/tickets, by phone at 212-924-0077 and in person at the box office. Box office hours are Monday to Friday from 1 to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 8pm. New York Live Arts is located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. There will be no late seating.
About Jimena Paz: Jimena Paz is an independent dancer, teacher and maker who shares her time and heart between New York, Europe and Argentina. She is currently developing a project on foreignness and a fictional and portable-landless Argentina. She has had the pleasure of working with Vicky Shick, Susan Rethorst, the Stephen Petronio Company ('99-'06), Constanza Macras (Berlin), Iris Scaccheri (Buenos Aires), Burt Barr (video) Analia Segal, Virginie Yassef (France), Antonio Ramos and Todd Williams, among others. A Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Paz is on faculty at the National Danish School for Contemporary Dance, under the direction of Jeremy Nelson, and teaches internationally.


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KENNESAW - Friends say Steve Osborne led a life of adventure - from jumping out of airplanes as a Special Forces paratrooper to being on a Villa Rica police SWAT team to protecting the lives of others in Iraq.
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The Kennesaw man died last week in Baghdad when two suicide bombers entered the city's highly protected Green Zone and blew themselves up at a bazaar close to the U.S. Embassy. The 40-year-old was working in Iraq since May as a private contractor, protecting embassy dignitaries.
About 500 family members and friends - including soldiers from the 20th Special Forces Group of the Alabama Army National Guard and suburban Atlanta police officers - gathered Saturday afternoon to remember the North Cobb High School graduate.
Audience members cried along with those delivering eulogies and Villa Rica Police Chief Ned Watson sang "Amazing Grace" in Osborne's honor.
"You could always count on Steve to look out for you and to watch your back," said Sgt. First Class Steve Edwards, who added that Osborne was "a dedicated and loyal patriot - he will be missed by all."
Osborne was a former Special Forces paratrooper who had completed communications training at Georgia's Fort Gordon and paratrooper training at Fort Benning in the 1980s.
He later became an officer with Cobb County and Villa Rica police departments and spent a year training police officers in Bosnia.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. – UTEP pounded East Carolina down low while punishing it on the glass on the way to picking up its first victory inside Minges Coliseum, 66-56, Wednesday evening.
The game was tied at 35 at the half but the Miners (16-2, 5-0 C-USA) ripped control of the contest with an 11-2 run over the first nine minutes of the second stanza. The Pirates (6-11, 0-4 C-USA) tried to rally but each run was answered with one by the visitors.
The Miners never relinquished the lead, and used a 9-3 surge down the stretch to seal their first triumph in four trips to Greenville. The Miners, winners of six straight, also extend their best start on the road in school history to 6-1.
Gloria Brown posted her eighth double-double of the year (17 points, 11 boards) to lead the way while Anete Steinberga added a season-best 15 points and Kayla Thornton pitched in 10. Senior Kim Smith also stood out with a career-best five rebounds and a career-high-tying six assists in 26 minutes of action.
"It was a great road win for us," UTEP head coach Keitha Adams said. "We played much better in the second half. The post players gave us a strong presence inside. I'm very proud of our team."
UTEP hit 47.4 percent from the floor (27-of-57), including 61.5 percent over the first 20 minutes. It scored 40 points in the paint while adding another 10 at the charity stripe. The miners out-rebounded ECU, 47-29, and enjoyed a margin of 19-8 in second-chance points.
The Pirates finished at 36.8 percent from the floor, including just 25.9 percent (7-of-27) in the second half. ECU committed 18 turnovers, which resulted in 13 UTEP points. Celeste Stewart tallied 14 points to pace the Pirates.
ECU scored the first two points of the tilt but UTEP rattled off a 10-3 run. The Pirates countered and pulled even at 12 as result of a 7-2 surge. The two teams traded baskets over the next several minutes before the Miners re-instated a five-point edge (26-21) with 5:31 to play in the period.
To its credit ECU rallied back with five consecutive points, and was up 35-33 with 34 seconds left in the period following a triple from Paschal. Kelli Willingham, who had four helpers, set up Steinberga for a wide-open lay-up to pull her squad even at the break.
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Smith, Dianne J. (2006) Interior design as social design - what? when? and why? In Smith, Dianne J. (Ed.) Exit : QUT interior design 2006. School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 128-130.
Smith, Dianne J. (2006) Moving on from university life. In Smith, Dianne J. (Ed.) Exit : QUT Interior Design 2006. School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 12-13.
Smith, Dianne J. (2005) Do I decorate? In Abbott, Sarah, Hortz, Allison, Scullin, Suzy, Smith, Dianne J., & Kurucz, Rohit (Eds.) D : -for design : -for derelique. Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, pp. 15-19.
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Smith, Dianne J., Hedley, Peter W., & Molloy, Michael P. (2008) Design learning: A reflective model. Design Studies, 30(1).
Smith, Dianne J. (2008) Color-person-environment relationships. Color Research and Application, 33(4), pp. 312-319.
Barnett, Karen R., Buys, Laurie, Lovie-Kitchin, Jan E., Boulton-Lewis, Gillian M., Smith, Dianne J., & Heffernan, Maree E. (2007) Older women's fears of violence: The need for interventions that enable active ageing. Journal of Women & Aging, 19(3/4), pp. 179-194.
Adkins, Barbara A., Smith, Dianne J., Barnett, Karen R., & Grant, Eryn L. (2006) Public space as context in assistive information and communication technologies for people with cognitive imapairment. Information, Communication and Society, 9(3), pp. 355-372.
Suresh, Mini, Smith, Dianne J., & Franz, Jill M. (2006) Person environment relationships to health and wellbeing: An integrated approach. IDEA Journal, 2006, pp. 87-102.
Jerome, Kristine P., Franz, Jill M., & Smith, Dianne J. (2006) A design workshop for youth 'At Risk'. IDEA Journal, 2006, pp. 42-59.
Smith, Dianne J. & Adkins, Barbara A. (2006) The environmental experience of shopping with cognitive impairment. IDEA Journal, 2006, pp. 72-86.
Smith, Dianne J. (2005) Environmental Distinctions: The discriminating dining environment. Les CAHIERS du CICLas, October(6), pp. 55-73.
Smith, Dianne J. (2004) COLOUR and SPACE: An investigation of three-dimensionality. IDEA Journal, 2004, pp. 103-116.
Smith, Dianne J. (2003) Environmental colouration and/or the design process. Color Research and Application, 28(5), pp. 360-365.
Smith, Dianne J. (2001) Interior architecture as a storied life: Narrative-research and the built environment. IDEA Journal, 1(2).
Smith, Dianne J. (1999) Environmental interpretation and the construction of environmental meaning. Spectrum: Journal of the Colour Society of Australia, 14(2), pp. 9-12.
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Smith, Dianne J. & Demirbilek, Nur (2009) What is that place? Observations of the impact of environment colour through photographic analysis. In Smith, Dianne J., Green-Armytage, Paul, Pope, Margaret, & Harkness, Nick (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association, The Colour Society of Australia Inc, Sydney, New South Wales, pp. 1-8.
Demirbilek, Nur & Smith, Dianne J. (2009) A reflective model for colour studies learning. In Smith, Dianne J., Green-Armytage, Paul, Pope, Margaret, & Harkness, Nick (Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association, The Colour Society of Australia Inc, Sydney, New South Wales, pp. 1-8.
Smith, Dianne J. (2008) Echoes or Whispers: Interior voices in the subtropical debate. In Subtropical Cities 2008, September 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
Hedley, Peter W., Smith, Dianne J., & Fermer, David J. (2007) Designing risk into the design studio. In Proceedings 'At Risk' conference, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2-6, 2007, Wellington, New Zealand.
Suresh, Mini, Franz, Jill M., & Smith, Dianne J. (2007) Interior Design from an Integrative Health Systems Perspective Reveals the 'Hidden Dimension'. In At Risk Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Demirbilek, Nur, Smith, Dianne J., Scott, Andrew, Dawes, Les A., & Sanders, Paul S. (2007) The role of the learning context and designer characteristics challenge and reveal the design process. In Dancing with disorder: Design. Discourse, & Disaster, EAD07 Conference, April 11-13, 2007, Izmir, Turkey.
Smith, Dianne J., Sanders, Paul S., Demirbilek, Nur, & Scott, Andrew (2005) Designing together: A collaborative experiment in design methodology within a multi-disciplinary environment. In Holt-Damant, Kathi & Sanders, Paul (Eds.) Third International Conference of the Association of Architectural Schools of Australasia (AASA), 28-30 September, Brisbane.
Suresh, Mini, Franz, Jill M., & Smith, Dianne J. (2005) Holistic Health and Interior Environment: Using the Psychoneuroimmunogical Model to Map Person-Environment Research in Design. In Goh, Roland G.S. & Ward, Nicholas R. (Eds.) Smart Systems 2005 Postgraduate Research Conference, 15 December 2005, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Smith, Dianne J. (2001) The colour studio in crisis? Embracing change. In Chung, Robert & Rodrigues, Allan (Eds.) AIC Color 2001, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Rochester, New York State, USA, pp. 1017-1020.
Smith, Dianne J., Crawford, Jane C., Martin, Fiona, Collins, Diane, & Smith, Anne P. (1995) The introduction of problem based learning to students through a computer based education module. In Inaugural Pacific-Rim-First Year Experience Conference, 11-14 July 1995, Brisbane, Australia.
Creative Work
Franz, Jill M., Hedley, Peter W., Molloy, Michael P., & Smith, Dianne J. (2002) Calling Home. [Exhibition/Event]
QUT Thesis
Smith, Dianne Joy (2000) Architectural experience : a composition of viewpoints. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Smith, Dianne J. (2002) Architectural context: A Peircean frame', Interpretants of Charles Pierce and his work.


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Can't open door from the inside drivers side????
So when I got home this evening I discovered that I couldn't open my drivers side door! I made sure that it was unlocked, locked and unlocked it again but that didn't seem to help. Ended up reaching through my window and opening it from the outside (at least that works!) I have the Haynes Repair Manual which I use religiously but found nothing in it that could help my problem. Has anyone else experienced this? Or does anyone have any ideas. I plan on taking the door apart tomorrow when I get home from work. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Pull the door panel off...chances are the rod came off to the inside handle or one of the little plastic connectors broke. You might even be able to see it by just unscrewing the screw holding the inside handle on and pulling it out gently.
when u take ur door apart u will most likey find that theres a lil white clip that holds the rod that goes to the latch has broken. its like a 7 dollar clip at the dealership. simple fix (at least thats wat it was for me)
What they said, except you can buy a whole pack of the clips in various sizes at a store like autozone for about $2. My '98 had this problem when I bought it. Replaced the broken clip and worked for a while then clip came off again. Second time I fixed it I used a zip tie around the clip and rod to make sure it didn't come undone again.
just recently I pulled mine apart
the lil clips that hold the rods in have a tight hole for the rod to fit in,on mine the hole wore over time and when the handle is pulled the rod could pull the latch enough to open.
I took a picture of the position of all the rods in there normal position,pulled the latch and rods off,I slightly bent the rod that pulls the latch thus making it shorter,barely shorter.Re assembled and it works fine.
At about 200,000 miles it was worn out.I took a picture because almost all those rods have to come out to get to the assembly and get it out
Sweet thanks guys! I'm gonna go outside in a few and see what I can do. :D
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Big but NOT Luxurious. Still plenty to do.: Oasis of the Seas Cruise Review by alanmm1
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Big but NOT Luxurious. Still plenty to do.
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
What surprised us most is that the ship is not luxurious. The rooms are small and plain. Your basic cabin. Bathrooms are very small and the shower is the size of the old telephone booths. We were not impressed.
In the halls near some rooms we smelled toilet sewage. This smell was aft on the 12th floor but may be also on other floors.
The food is OK but not spectacular. Service was excellent and everyone was very helpful.
What was above par was the entertainment. You will not be bored! There is lots to keep you busy.
We had had as good or better cruises on other ships but we would still recommend this one.
Central Park is nice but a waste. Very few guests used this part of the ship. Not much to do or see.
I was surprised that public toilets More hand to be flushed manually. Most new ships are automatic.
There are also charges for things that should be free. As an example, if you take watered down orange juice it is free but if you want real orange juice it cost $4.00. Doughnuts are free but Cupcakes cost extra. Whereever you go it seems the cruise line has their hand in your pocket. The TV had 8 channels, 5 of which were advertising products.
The cabin was very small. There was no room to put your empty luggage. We had to stack them on the sofa. The safe is also too small. You cannot put the smallest netbook computers in it. Needless to say we were not happy with the cabin.
Forget about using the internet. It is just too slow. I just gave up after spending $30.00
By the way, the cruise director asked everyone on board if they plan to go again on the Oasis or the Allure and no one raised their hands. We enjoyed the cruise but most likely would not take a second cruise on these ships. Less
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General Mitchell Oates recently asked soldiers to list stupid rules they have encountered. Here are their reactions:
Conducting an "announced" inspection.
Honest, general, telling soldiers they will be inspected will not result in ordinary conditions.
No umbrellas allowed.
Yes, general, the rain not only rains on the plains of Spain but on heads of soldiers.
Requiring a pass to drive over 70 miles.
General, they can get killed in combat, but not killed while driving?
Not allowing soldiers to go off base during non-duty hours.
Shucks, they might want to make out with a woman off base.
No alcoholic beverages.
After all we don't want them getting drunk while on active duty. They might kill themselves.
Rolling up one's sleeves.
Imagine, showing one's muscles.
Being required to wear an Army "values" tag.
I assume all those who wear the tag are decent, honest, and moral people.
Being required to wear an helmet at all times.
Does this include going to the john?
The body fat test.
Wouldn't some body fat protect against a bullet?
Fifteen month deployments.
I think it results in some PTSD.
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This has me confused. I see artwork updated almost daily in the 2D section, but sometime the 3D section goes for days without new artwork. Do you mean to say that more 3D art is submitted and rejected than 2D art?
If we are talking about proportions of work rejected, then yes, a higher percentage of 3D submissions are rejected than 2D, for sure. Most 2D works are accepted; there is a lot more poor quality 3D than poor quality 2D being submitted.
Unfortunately visitors to the site are more interested in 3D, particularly realism, which is largely seen here as the pinnacle of excellence. This makes me a sad panda.
I plugged a really lovely storybookish painting last night and it's only had four or five replies. If that image had been a photorealistic render of a car, a chick with huge tits or a robot, it'd have pages of replies by now. The lack of appreciation for creativity and non-realistic work here makes me want to weep.


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Any gun made by Kel- tec had 2 they both were dogs.
Same with Kahr had 3 the slide cracked on one the other two were nothing but problums.
Any Smith and wesson made after 96 using MIM parts and that dumb lock and they started pushing them out the door as fast as they can. Bought to many to list over the years and not one of them compares to my 640-1 357mag. Just sold off my last one.
Side note: all firearm manufactures sometimes put out a Monday or Friday gun but if you go to the Smith Wesson forum you'll read about all the guns that have to go back. It's a dam shame a once great company like Smith & Wesson putting out junk. They should just put the return lable in the box with the gun. Ok my rants over:)


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What does it really take to make a location independent travel lifestyle work? Many people assume that it is okay for single people in their early twenties to take a gap year to travel the world, but what if you are getting older and need to focus on a career? What if you are travelling as a couple? How do you make a living? Simon Fairbairn and Erin McNeaney of NeverEndingVoyage.com share their experiences transitioning to a life of long-term travel in this interview.
Please tell us about yourselves.
We are a British couple who've been together since we were 18 (we're now 30). Our first backpacking trip together was around Europe when we were 19 and we've continued to travel ever since. Simon has worked his way through varied careers as a musician (the highlight was playing at the Glastonbury Festival), legal caseworker to help asylum seekers stay in the UK, and web designer. I worked for a community arts organisation working with refugees to organise arts projects and events including an annual multi-cultural festival attended by 10,000 people.
How did you decide to embark on a nomadic lifestyle of long term travel?
Although we had taken one month backpacking trips around Europe and I spent three months volunteering in Sri Lanka after university, I always knew that I wanted to do a year-long round the world trip and after working for a few years I was keen to head off. It took a bit of effort to convince Simon but as soon as we set off at the end of 2007 he was hooked. We spent an amazing year travelling around Asia, Australia, the South Pacific and the US and had more incredible experiences that year than we had in the previous ten.
Returning to the UK was hard and we struggled to fit back into the dull routine of working 9-5. We had been back a few months when I discovered the world of digital nomads – people who could work and live anywhere in the world. This seemed perfect for us, especially as Simon was developing his web design career at the time (after designing websites for fun for 10 years) – an ideal location independent job. It was a natural step for us and wasn't really a difficult decision to make. We decided to save as much as we could in nine months (as we were already experienced at saving for our previous trip we managed to save 75% of our income, sell everything we own and then hit the road. We left England with a one way flight to Rio de Janeiro on 1st March 2010.
What countries have you visited so far?
On our first trip we visited Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands and the US.
This time we spent our first year travelling mostly overland in South America: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia; then Panama and Costa Rica. From there we moved on to the US, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Japan and now Thailand.
What are your most and least favourite countries so far?
Our favourite country is India. It's a country of extremes, vibrant, colourful, challenging but never boring. We also loved the food and as vegetarians it's one of the few places in the world where we can eat local food without worrying that it contains meat.
Our least favourite is New Zealand, which is a bit controversial as most people love it. For us it was too much like England and it didn't help that we were there during the winter and it rained constantly, so we couldn't do a lot of the outdoor activities that it's famous for. That said, least favourite is relative and we still enjoyed snowboarding and heli-hiking on a glacier.
Can you give us a rough break down of monthly living expenses?
Our living expenses vary widely – when we are house sitting and have free accommodation we spend very little, but then other months can be expensive when we are travelling around places like Japan and have to buy international flights. During our first year in South America we averaged £1500 a month for the two of us. Our second year so far is working out at £2000 a month on average as we have travelled to more expensive places like the US, Canada and Japan, and we've spent a lot on international flights. As we don't plan our travels very far in advance we buy one way tickets and these often aren't much cheaper than returns so flights have been a big expense this year.
We have shared detailed breakdowns on our blog of our travel expenses in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay; Bolivia and Peru; and Japan.
These days we don't travel that frugally, although we are flashpackers rather than luxury travellers. We always stay in private en-suite rooms, and as we spend a lot of time working in them we can be quite fussy. We also spend quite a lot of money on food, but we don't drink very much. After a few months travelling we often need a break from moving around to get some work done so we rent apartments for a few months. We usually end up choosing quite luxurious places as we want somewhere comfortable to work. These cost anywhere from $650 a month in Thailand, $800 in Argentina up to $1200 in Colombia.
Can you please tell us some administrative details about your banking, health insurance, credit cards, etc.?
As UK citizens we don't need health insurance but we do have travel insurance which covers medical emergencies while we are travelling. We manage all our finances through online banking and access our money by withdrawing cash using debit cards at ATMs. We also have a few credit cards for emergencies. It's important to have a number of different cards in case one gets stolen (which has happened to us). We also carry a few hundred US dollars just in case.
Although we don't have a home base it's impossible to manage without an address so we use a relative's address where our banking and tax related mail gets sent.
Do you return to the UK often?
We've been back to the UK once in 20 months for a friend's wedding and to visit family. We don't know when we'll next go back, it'll depend if a visit works out with our travel plans. While we were there we stayed with various family members.
We sold almost everything we owned before we left and don't have anything in storage. We keep two small boxes at Simon's mum's house with some documents and photo albums.
Do you still own a house there?
Unfortunately we do still own a house in the UK, which we are desperately trying to get rid of. The market is awful at the moment so we haven't been able to sell it, so we've just put it on the rental market. We don't like having the tie, and there's always the worry that something will go wrong with the house (ours is over 100 years old) and it'll cost us a lot to fix it. Dealing with the house from abroad is a bit of a pain, and we are lucky to have a friend and relative nearby who have helped us out a lot. If we find a tenant then we'll have the estate agent manage it for us. Ideally we'll rent it out for six months and try selling it again next year.
Do you travel with a lot of possessions?
We travel with a carry-on size backpack each plus a travel guitar. We love travelling with just carry on luggage – we save time at airports and always have our bags with us on planes and buses. It's also much easier not having to lug a big backpack around when looking for accommodation. You can see exactly what we travel with on our packing list post. People are fascinated by that and it has been our most popular post for the 20 months we've been running the blog.
What are the essential items you must travel with?
Really the only essential item for us is a laptop, which we need to work on. Simon has a Macbook Pro and I have an Asus EeePC netbook (although I have my eye on a Macbook Air). I also love my Kindle – being able to travel with hundreds of books on a device smaller than a paperback is amazing.
Have you had any serious travel problems?
Not really. Simon got pick-pocketed in Costa Rica but he only lost $30 and one of our debit cards (which we had a backup for). We tend not to keep too much in the wallet we use daily just in case it gets stolen. On travel days our passport, cards and money are in money belts and our backpacks are lockable so it prevents anyone being able to get to the laptops easily.
How do you earn an income now?
Our main source of income is Line-In the WordPress web design and development business that Simon runs. We only started monetising the Never Ending Voyage blog three months ago and now have some income from that and another travel website I run, from selling links, advertising and affiliate products. I've been surprised at how lucrative it can be and although those sites are making about £900 a month at the moment, I have no idea how long it will last.
We aren't currently making quite enough to cover our expenses (we saved up before we left to give ourselves a cushion) but to be honest we haven't tried that hard, and have often been distracted by travel. We aren't particularly good business people, and Simon loves what he does so much that he tends to over deliver way more than clients have paid him for. It turns out being a perfectionist isn't so good for business!
Ultimately client work isn't scalable so we are currently settled in Chiang Mai, Thailand for three months to develop some products to sell including Premium WordPress Themes. We aim to have income coming in from multiple sources.
What are some of the downsides of a location independent lifestyle?
Sometimes we get tired of moving around and we miss home comforts like a couch, a comfy bed and having a kitchen. That never makes us want to return to the UK though, instead we just rent an apartment for a few months or look for a house sitting opportunity. After a few months of comfort we get itchy feet and are ready to hit the road again.
Our biggest challenge has been building a business as we don't have any experience with that.
Is it difficult to travel as a couple?
We don't find it difficult at all and argue less on the road than we did at home when we were stressed with work and commuting. We rarely have any time apart, and that's not a problem for us, although it is nice to have an apartment with two rooms so that I can sleep if Simon's working late!
Do you plan on settling down in one country as a home base?
We have no plans to settle down permanently. There isn't one place in the world that we want to commit to, although we'd be quite happy to spend a few months each year in San Francisco. The world's a big place and there are still too many places we want to visit. Even if we begin to travel more slowly we are still addicted to the freedom of this lifestyle.
Do you have any advice for people considering long term traveling?
Do it! Get control of your finances, cut down your unnecessary spending and start saving now. It's important to set a start date for your trip, even if it's two or three years from now. It gives you something to work towards and helps keep you motivated while you save.
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STUNNING homewares and glassware at Sydney's Elevate – these beautiful ceramics by Danish designer Anne Black can be purchased in Melbourne from Safari Living… for other stockists please visit the Elevate website! The delicately coloured Sia Mai glassware also caught my eye… (from Denmark also) truly beautiful.
Great gifts mainly from Japan at Via Alley – polka dot cutlery! Where have you been all my life!?
Gorgeous Christmas things by Bloom (with packaging illustrations by Ortolan!)
Cute printed teatowels by Bonnie & Neil
The very lovely ladies who run boutique trade show Life in Style came to hear me speak at Comme a little while ago… they were so sweet I promised I would return the favour and check out Life in Style this month!
It was GREAT! And exhausting! So so so much great great product to see… and everything you see here will be in retail stores before Christmas… yippee!
I would like to also make a disclaimer and say I ONLY had 2 hrs here… I tried my best to see everything but there are many many stalls I missed sadly :( I completely missed Hall 2! Devastated! It looked awesome. So if you are a wonderful designer who was in Hall 2 please accept my sincere apologies! (I am legitimately disappointed!)
Life in Style have their own fabulous blog (with videos!) so you can check out anything I have missed!
Here are just some highlights… My full photo gallery with many more shots from Life in Style is right here! Please check it out! :)


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Who Really Gets Hurt
When You Block Right-Click?
Content scrapers are thieves who make us want to hit them where it hurts!
But before you go setting up the electrified barbed wire fence, using anti-right-click plugins, lets double-check that these will (a) be effective and (b) not have unacceptable collateral damage.
Unfortunately, some bloggers are under the misguided notion that disabling right-click functionality actually blocks scrapers from stealing their content.
Plugins such as "Blog Protector" seem to feed the need for reassurance that we are safe… but what are they actually accomplishing?
Impact on Content Thieves
Most scraping tools operate by forcing the feed into full view (even if you posted an excerpt) and then taking the content from there. This is content that the anti-right-click plugin can not protect. Other scrapers do actually make it to your blog, but process the page with all of the scripts blocked, thus giving themselves an easy way around the plugin.
Not only do most scraper bots totally ignore the "block right click" utilities (and do it anyways) but most scrape from the feed which you can't protect in the first place.
So, those guys we set out to stop… we didn't even create a speedbump for!
Impact on Real Readers
The real truth is that all right-click-blocking does is annoy your normal reader who has many valid reasons to use right-click functionality.
Most of us take advantage of built in spell checkers (which depend on right click) and blocking this can mean that people will not leave a comment. Some of us also have browser based tools, on the right-click, that make it easier for us to share your content… that you surely don't want to slap our hands for trying to use, do you?
How To Get Around Right-Click-Blocking On Sites You Frequent
Tired of sites blocking you from right clicking? There are dozens of add-ons, for the different browsers, that let you override their blocking of that function.
I hope by sharing this, that someone will see that the only people they're actually harming are the people whose lives they should be making as enjoyable as possible.
This is just an example of one for Firefox: http://nc.ddns.us/RightToClick/RightToClick.htm
But What About Those Pesky Thieves?
I understand that content thieves can make us all want to pull our hair out in aggravation!
Here's some posts that, if you so desire, you can take action against these bad boys:
The Definitive Guide to Blog Content Scraping & How to Stop It! (Probably the best post available currently)
Copyright Infringement – What Should You Do if Your Blog Post is Stolen? (Some really useful and sometimes heartbreaking stories in the comments)
Content Scrapers – How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It
Have you ever encountered a site that had right-click blocked? How did you feel about the user experience?
~ Kim ~
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PS: It's probably worth noting that I take the opposite approach. I encourage republication of my content (as long as links aren't broke). I don't have time to slap down a bajillion spammers but I CAN make sure my content can help the people whose readers really could use it! (Separate from approved republishing, most posts on my site are scraped/stolen anywhere from 5 to 30 times each and have been so for a long time.)


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Video Shows Handcuffed FL Shooter Zimmerman [VIDEO]
A surveillance video shot after the slaying of Trayvon Martin shows admitted shooter George Zimmerman being led in handcuffs from a police car, frisked and led down a series of hallways.
Sanford police Sgt. David Morgenstern on Wednesday confirmed that the video being shown by ABC News is of Zimmerman. The 28-year-old's head and face are visible throughout.
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Zimmerman told police that he shot the 17-year-old Martin on Feb. 26 after Martin attacked him. His attorney has said Zimmerman's nose was broken in the fight and the back of his head was gashed.
A lawyer for Martin's family says the video clearly shows that Zimmerman's nose wasn't broken and he had no noticeable blood on his head and face.
Police did not arrest Zimmerman, touching off widespread public outrage and protests across the country.
Fla shooter's dad: Son was trying to protect self
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Zimmerman interview: MyFoxORLANDO.com
The father of a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager says despite dispatchers telling his son to stop following Trayvon Martin, he kept going so he could get an address for police to check.
Robert Zimmerman spoke to WOFL FOX 35 in Orlando in an interview that aired Wednesday night. He says his son was suspicious because of several break-ins and thought it was strange for someone to be walking between the town homes on a rainy night.
He reiterated what other George Zimmerman supporters have said. He says his son was walking back to his car and Martin confronted him.
He says Martin broke his son's nose and knocked him to the concrete.
He says Martin continued the beating and his son "pulled his pistol and did what he did."
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The Hawks of Morning
by Peter S. Gardner
The union of mind to mind,
Spirit to spirit,
In the enfolding light of the inner world,
Life protracted, life infused,
Rise to the long mountains of white brilliance,
Of deep roots and high air,
Live forever in the forests of shade,
Cool climbing to the heart's completion.
The river pools in harmony to the spheres,
Where one began - green hills and elm groves,
Leaves like soft hands in winds,
Taken, the fleet sky musings, to flight
With the birds of the heights,
With the hawks of morning,
With the wings of azure evening,
With the rising noon heat of the floating breath.
The hawk was chosen as the school mascot by the students of Doctors Charter School in the fall of 2005.
Luis Hidalgo and Gyasi Weir, both 9th grades, won the art competition to draw the mascot.
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Features a Civil War Lamp Light Tour on Friday
and Old River Tales, a historical
performance, on Saturday. Guided tours of
the Village begin for the season at 10:30 a.m.
A Make-and-Take craft for children is planned, as well as
Steampunk on Display, an opportunity to meet and learn from
re-enactors about the growing interest in the alternative history
called Steampunk. Plus, take the Circle the
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Anyone who has ever worked in a Calc spreadsheet knows that you start with several worksheets and they're named Sheet 1, Sheet 2, etc…
Totally useless, unless you're really good at associating what information is contained on each numbered sheet.
Personally, once I get past using 2 sheets that no longer works for me so I'm super thankful for the fact that we have the ability to rename the sheet tabs to whatever we choose.
To access the Rename Sheet dialog box simply double-click on a sheet tab.
Enter a new name for the sheet – something that makes sense to you – then click OK.
It always makes good sense to use sheet names that make sense.
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Suppose the Internal Revenue Service decided to audit you. Suppose you told them under oath that you had done nothing wrong, and then invoked the Fifth Amendment. Suppose they then subpoenaed all of your documents supporting your tax returns, and you told them you lost them all in a computer crash. Suppose your computer had a backup system but you told the IRS the documents they want were not backed up. And suppose just to complete the circle that all the people you got the documents from - banks, accountants, brokers - all had computer crashes too, on the very dates the IRS is interested in, so you can't get the records from them either.
Do you suppose you, the average citizen, might be doing a perp walk after all of that?
Yet stripped to its essence, this is the story the former head of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Unit is now telling Congress. Lois Lerner was at the reins of the unit when it allegedly went after tea party and other conservative non-profits in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. Lerner famously testified she had done nothing wrong and then invoked the Fifth Amendment when hailed before congressional investigators in 2013.
More recently Congress subpoenaed Lerner's emails from 2009 though 2011, the period during which the illegal targeting of conservative groups is alleged to have occurred. After months of promising the emails would be delivered, IRS officials a few days ago announced that the emails had been "lost." Fantastically, the missing emails are mainly messages to and from the White House and other offices and departments outside the IRS.
IRS officials contend the emails were lost because Lerner's computer hard drive "crashed" in mid-2011. Further, she apparently was not the only IRS employee in Congress' sights to suffer such misfortune. GOP Rep. Dave Camp, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, says he has been told the IRS has lost emails from six other employees as well. The IRS claims its forensic staff attempted to recover information from Lerner's hard drive at the time of the crash but failed, and the hard drive was subsequently "recycled."
But cracks are starting to appear in that story. First, we will note anecdotally that most email systems we are familiar with don't store emails on individuals' hard drives - they store them, or copies of them, on a companywide email server, which is routinely backed up. And indeed, a story emerged over the weekend that the IRS had a contract through at least 2009 with an email archiving company called Sonasoft to back up its email system. If so, restoring Lerner's lost emails should have been a simple and routine undertaking, technologically speaking.
So the sudden announcement that Lerner's emails (at least the ones that matter - the IRS has turned over 24,000 Lerner emails to people within the IRS itself) magically disappeared and couldn't be retrieved is pretty hard to swallow. The claim that emails of six more IRS employees also evaporated during the relevant time period (More hard drive explosions? That's currently unclear) is even more far-fetched.
The problem the IRS faces here is that although it has, for partisan reasons, some defenders in Congress, virtually no one among the American public who regularly uses email is going to believe this story. And we don't believe it either.
Since Biblical days, no one in society is more despised than a corrupt tax collector. And corruption is what the Lerner case is all about. The IRS is merciless when it goes after taxpayers, demanding receipts for every expense, prescription or donation going back for years. Yet the agency expects the public to buy this story and simply shrug its shoulders?
That won't happen. All politics aside, Congress is right to keep pursuing this episode. There is no credible defense for the IRS' position here and it's not fair to the American public to allow the agency to skate by with these ridiculous claims.
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