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By Jon Saperstein Herald Writer
EVERETT — The celebration would have to wait. The Marauder fans crowded the fence on the sideline of Frank Goddard Memorial Stadium like a whale pushing against the walls of its tank.
The Mariner boys soccer team had just won 2-0, but first had to congratulate Lake Stevens on a valiant effort in the 4A District 1 semifinal Tuesday night.
After the handshakes, the Marauder faithful were released to celebrate with their team at midfield. Mariner advances to the state tournament and will play Snohomish on Thursday night in the district championship 7:30 p.m. at Edmonds Stadium.
"It became a tradition sophomore year," senior Cristhian Robles said of the students rushing the field. "Everyone rushed after we beat Lake Stevens in districts. It's nice because during this time of year it gets sunny and everyone is happy and we come together as a community."
This celebration was a little more than a year in the making.
A year ago, these teams met in the first round of the district tournament at Lake Stevens with Mariner prevailing in the 10th round of penalty kicks. The win was overturned two days later, when it was determined that Mariner used an ineligible player. The Vikings advanced to the state tournament after thinking their season was over with the loss. And Mariner coach Vince DeSimone had to do something no coach ever wants to do.
"Last year, we had the same celebration ? We came out with a win, but unfortunately we had an ineligible player," DeSimone said. "I had to tell the guys that as coaches we made a bad choice. We didn't know the rules. We saw the guys all devastated. I had to break the news and it was tough."
There was no devastation Tuesday as the Vikings remain alive, but they'll need two consecutive wins to advance to the 4A state tournament. Their first game will be against Mount Vernon on Thursday night at Edmonds Stadium as the opening act before the final.
The Marauders got a quick strike in the first half to score all the goals that they would need. Silvan Katynskiy played admirably in goal for Mariner, earning a clean sheet.
From start to finish it was a physical game, but the referee chose stern warnings for both sides rather than pulling out cards.
In the 9th minute, the Vikings committed a seemingly harmless foul near the sideline around 45 yards from the goal. Robles stepped up and effortlessly chipped a free kick over the Viking defense where a streaking Elmer Delgado was there to put the ball away with a header.
"I've been doing that all year," said Robles, who plays goalie on an Olympic Development team. "Vince wants me to put it in the box. I'm a goalie, so I know where keepers aren't going to want to come out. So, I just try to put it inside of six (yards out). Keepers don't usually come out especially with the sun."
The Vikings spent the first half of the game, staring into the sun. Goalie Brennen Countryman and his defensive back line played 40 minutes with one hand shielding the setting sun's rays. It was all part of home field advantage for the Marauders, who earned it by winning the Wesco 4A South title.
"I wanted them against the sun,' DeSimone said.
In the 20th minute Lake Stevens nearly had a header goal of their own. James Tanner threw a rocket of a throw-in into the box, but Ahin Ali's shot was just wide of the post.
It was one of the few real dangerous chances for Lake Stevens, which played hard but couldn't take the ball away from the smooth Marauders.
"They just came out with no nerves," DeSimone said of his players. "They just played their game."
They nearly came out of halftime and scored in the first 12 seconds, but one of many big Countryman saves kept the Marauders at bay.
Mariner kept missing its close shots, so Edgar Navarro tried another tack in the 43rd minute.
The Marauder defender corralled a loose ball around the 40-yard line and unleashed a stunning shot that made a straight line for the net and a 2-0 Mariner edge. Lake Stevens could only watch that one helplessly fly through the air.
"He's done that a couple times," Robles said of Navarro. "It's crazy. He's a good player."
It was a big win, but DeSimone insists it just means his team gets to keep playing.
"We don't look toward anything except today," he said. "Some of these kids on the team don't even know what their record is because we don't care about that."
But at the same time the Marauders aren't happy just returning to state.
"We just have to stay humble," Robles said. "But we want more, not just one win at districts."
At Frank Goddard Memorial Stadium
Goals—Elmer Delgado (M) Edgar Navarro (M). Assists— Cristhian Robles (M). Goalkeepers—Lake Stevens: Brennen Countryman Mariner: Silvan Katynskiy. Records—Lake Stevens (12-4-2) Mariner (12-4-1).


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Men's Tennis Can't Grasp WinMarch 11, 2014
NEWBERRY, S.C.- The Brevard College (1-7, 0-1 SAC) men's tennis team lost 5-4 while traveling for their first South Atlantic Conference match up against the Newberry Wolves (5-4, 3-2 SAC) on Tuesday, March 11.
David Taggart and Christoph Plasa took their singles matches to three sets, with Taggart downing Newberry's previously undefeated Vinicius Botelho.
Taggart played in the No.1 singles position, winning the first 7-5 then falling 4-6 in the second. The extra set resulted in a point for the Tornados when Taggart came back with a win at 9-6.
Plasa got caught in extra sets after splitting with Carlos Nicolopulos, losing the first 7-5 and rebounding with a 7-5 win in set two. The freshman was unable to carry his momentum into the final set, losing 6-0.
Nathan Sabate won No.2 singles over Fernando Espana 6-4, 6-0 after losing in doubles with partner Guilherme Prophiro 8-6 in the No.3 spot.
Guilherme and George Finch rounded out the match with their wins in the No.5 and No.6 singles spots but were unable to gain the overall win for BC.
Brevard travels to Rock Hill, S.C. to compete against Winthrop at 9 a.m on Friday.

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|reviewer: Anonymous from Anytown, AT 55555
|The Maurices (White and Hines) have created one of the best musicals to be seen on stage in many years. I had the pleasure of seeing the performance during previews in Washington, DC and I also know that the show has changed since then. It has only gotten better.
If you like the music of EWF (and who does not) and can appreciate the genious choreography of the incomparable Maurice Hines, then this show is a "can't miss" for you. Sit back and enjoy!
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|reviewer: Just another theatre lover. from Rockland Cnty, New York
|I had the pleasure of taking my family (with out-of- town guests as well) to the theatre. We all loved it ! It is not a deep and meaningful story and is predictable and corney. But the music and dancing was FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!. I would see it again.
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Hot feet is hot!!!,
|reviewer: Pam from Baltimore, Maryland
|The show had one of the strongest cast of talented dancers I've ever seen on the broadway stage. The storyline was extremely strong especially compared to Movin Out which lacked story and dance ability. Fabulous performances from the lead characters coupled with great music, lots of costume changes and light/stage effects simply made it a joy. Vivian Nixon can dance her hips off however, Allen Hidalgo as the devil was my favorite along with Michael Balderrama. It was also great to see Keith David up there. I was in the front row and the show simply leapt off the stage for me. The packed audience gave it a standing ovation in NYC on 4/22 at the matinee. I would go back and see it again with a friend and will recommend it to others. Ignore negative reviewers who seem to want deep drama. It is a musical people! Enjoy the simplistic story line and just be entertained. It is a dance enthusiast's dream.
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|This show is the most high-energy, infectious hit in years. The dancing left me BREATHLESS and exhilerated. There is no weak link in this show. The whole cast is wonderful. I recommend everyone go see this show, it is guaranteed to be a wonderful, exciting and memorable experience.
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|I saw this show on Saturday - 8 PM - I was four rows from the stage and took my two daughters - 16 and 13. We were star struck, on our feet and totallly entertained for the entire time of this show. It was amazingly done, the music was awesome and the dancers were truly not to be believed. I enjoyed the story behind it and actually cried tears along with "Kelly's" mom. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW - IT WILL NOT DISAPPOINT YOU NO MATTER WHAT AGE, OR WHAT COLOR YOU ARE.
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While on a family vacation several years ago, my husband and I did the most frivolous and impulsive thing imaginable. We bought a piece of land on a Bahamian barrier island called Elbow Cay. My oldest son came back from a fateful jog and told us with great enthusiasm about a wonderful piece of land he had discovered in a pristine cove at the very north end of the island. We immediately went out to see it, contacted a real estate agent, and began the convoluted process of purchasing the property.
This took many months. During that period not one, but two hurricanes visited the island. They succeeded in denuding all of the buttonwoods on the lot, but other than that all else remained of the pristine beach and property. This convinced us that we were fated to own this little piece of nirvana. So began our long, drawn-out quest for a beach house in the Bahamas.
Many people warned us of the obstacles in building on a barrier island in the Bahamas. We were told Bahamian contractors would be difficult to find and unused to working with architects. Costs would be prohibitive since everything would have to be imported from the United States. This would involve shipping items from Florida to Marsh Harbour and then barging them over to Elbow Cay. On top of shipping charges, duties would be placed on all imported items, even though no building materials are available on the islands. It would be genuinely impossible to get a fixed price for construction. None of these warnings dampened our enthusiasm for the project, however. We were convinced we could overcome all challenges. After all, we had an architect (me) and a landscape architect (my husband) on our side. Were we ever wrong!
local conditions We began the process by selecting a contractor who had come highly recommended. This choice was mistake No. 1, as we soon discovered that several other people on the island had had very dubious experiences with him. We then decided that the prudent thing to do was to get a bid from the only other recommended and available Bahamian contractor (unless we wanted to wait two years to build our project). He, in turn, presented us with a bid that was much more reasonable, so we decided to go with him. Little did we know that the alternative bid didn't include nearly half of the required work! So much for my being a smug architect who could control costs. At this point, we had absolutely no leverage to do anything about it, as he was the only game in town. And so began the bottomless-pit building project that was to have been completed in nine months. Seventeen months later, the house is finally complete, though it cost twice the amount we had intended to spend on it. And to think that I have been a practicing architect for more than 20 years!
Building on a barrier island is indeed no easy feat. There's no local supplier to go to when one is short on materials. There's no heavy equipment, such as pile drivers, bulldozers, and concrete mixers. There's only a sand path to our lot, so access is very challenging too. All materials are barged in to the north-end dock and then unceremoniously dropped onto an open truck and delivered to the house site. Electric power is notoriously interrupted every time the wind blows significantly. Because our site contains no bedrock, the contractor had to dig down eight feet, mostly by hand, to find sand firm enough to hold the piers that would support the house. It took more than three months just to get out of the ground. All rebars and reinforcements have had to be coated steel, as everything corrodes on this beachfront property. Every nail, screw, and fastener is stainless steel.
compromising position Upon one lovely inspection visit to the island in March, the contractor announced to us that the project was literally making him sick, because the structural drawings were so very confusing and overdesigned. I had a very competent structural engineer from Philadelphia design the structural aspects of the project, so this revelation was surprising.
What we hadn't realized was that Bahamian contractors, for the most part, are not used to such detailed structural drawings; because of their years of experience building on hurricane-prone islands, they tend to build intuitively. Thus a battle began between the two and I was caught in the middle. In order to keep the project moving, we somehow managed to do a bit of what the contractor wanted and a bit of what the structural engineer wanted. I have no clue if the house will survive 150-mile-per-hour winds, but of course that is why we have hideously expensive hurricane insurance.
We had initially designed a masonry fireplace, only to discover that the sole mason on the islands who knew how to build one was tied up for a year and a half. As the fireplace was an integral part of the project, we had to abandon that idea and opt for a prefab version (even though the concrete foundation for the masonry one was already in place). So on and on goes the saga of "missed opportunities."
Lessons learned: Should I ever decide to repeat this experience, I would certainly be present throughout the entire construction process (rather than just visit once a month). I would also work with a general contractor from the very beginning, while establishing the design and details of the house, and I would use a local engineer. I would advise other architects working in an unfamiliar part of the world to make sure they have architectural representation on site at all times and to educate themselves fully in the capabilities and common practices of local builders.
Though our simple beach house became a complex nightmare for the builder and owner, in the end all will be forgotten due to its position on such a marvelous site. Even with the doors in the wrong places, sections of buildings that are too high, and details that have been done differently than intended, this house will serve as a wonderful vacation spot for our seven children, their various spouses, and our 14 grandchildren.
Susan Maxman, FAIA, is the design principal of SMP Architects in Philadelphia.


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I need some help ! related to booting from external usb hard disk (western digital).
i have had previous experience of booting bt-linux from usb drive.
if do the same way on my external hard disk. even though the bios option for usb is set it is being bypassed goes to normal boot
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Tammara Phillips considers herself to be "an ordinary American."
"I've worked since I was 15," she explains. "I went to college, got married and raised a family."
So how do you go from running a household and looking for a job as a freelance writer to becoming a 44-year-old "peaceful revolutionary" speaking out in support of the Occupy Long Beach movement before the Long Beach City Council and elsewhere?
Life was going along pretty well for Phillips in San Diego, where she and her husband were operating a small business making industrial, electrical and mechanical repairs for printing presses.
"We tried our hardest for nine years, but the economic downturn hit our industry hard and smothered our business," she said. "Without our business income, we were no longer able to pay our mortgage and we lost our home. We had to uproot our son and move from San Diego to Long Beach where my husband got a job."
Phillips said she went back to college at Alliant International University in San Diego and got a degree in international human rights, but "by then the recession was in full flame and there were no jobs." She earned some income as a freelance writer, but those assignments were hard to come by.
Phillips said that for some time she has been a concerned citizen on various issues but had limited her involvement to writing and calling public officials and voting.
But the result, she said, was that she felt patronized and ignored by "my government." What really outraged her was the treatment of financial institutions by Washington politicians.
"These institutions did essentially the same thing as Bernie Madoff, who was sent to prison, but our government says, `Bad banks, here's $800 billion; now go to your room and think about what you've done.' Is that fair?"
What prompted her more vocal activism now was the creation of the Occupy movement, which has spread from New York to the West Coast. She was about to go to an Occupy Los Angeles meeting when she discovered there was a meeting of the fledgling Occupy Long Beach at Bluff Park in October.
"That was in my own backyard, so I went and found people interested in demanding more from our elected officials," she said.
The group, which claims no leaders in the conventional or political sense, asked who wanted to speak before the City Council the next day.
Phillips raised her hand and, before she knew it, she was before the council asking the city's cooperation in occupying a nearby park.
For more than two months, Occupiers have been at Lincoln Park, which is in the shadow of Long Beach City Hall.
I spent part of the night there last Tuesday. It was bitterly cold with windy gusts making you want to find a heated place. The two sets of floodlights placed there by the city gave the area a surreal feel. By city rule, no one can stay in the park after 10 p.m., but sleeping is allowed on the sidewalk.
There were 16 people, primarily homeless, wrapped in heavy blankets and other paraphernalia lying on the sidewalk, their faces barely visible. They looked like 16 mummies lined up for warmth. There also was a small contingent of young Occupiers present.
Wayne Marchyshyn, an Occupier who was standing watch over bins of food, said, "It's quiet now and there's a small number now, but all movements start small." Marchyshyn, who lost his computer business because of the economic downturn, added: "Many of the Occupiers have jobs, and they have to split their time between those jobs and occupying here. It's not easy."
Meanwhile, inside City Hall, a stone's throw away, the council meeting was into its seventh hour with several Occupiers waiting to talk about their concerns. They eventually got to talk, asking the council for further dialogue on their issues.
Phillips, who could not make last Tuesday's council meeting, said she doesn't know what the future holds for the movement or for her personally. She says there is "some tension" at home as she tries to find freelance writing jobs to help the family income while spending time as an activist.
"My husband and I have been married for 22 years. He is very supportive and shares my ideas," she said.
Their 19-year-old son, who is pursuing a singing/songwriting career, was arrested at an Occupy LA demonstration but was released without charges, she said.
Phillips said the real test of the Occupy movement is whether Americans will wake up and find the courage to speak out against what she calls the "behemoth that is the corporate state."
"I am just one of many voices of the movement," she said. "My story is just one of millions of stories of hardworking people living by the rules who feel let down by government. We may not have all the answers, but we have to keep working hard to find solutions."
As a postscript, my conversations with Phillips reminded me of an article Larry Allison wrote after he attended the historic Monterey Pop Music Festival in 1967, which was attended by many people in the counterculture movement of the 1960s protesting against the Vietnam War and participating in the struggle for civil rights and equality for women.
Allison, the Press-Telegram's editorial pages editor who died in October at 77, wrote: "Like it or not, the Movement is too much with us to be shrugged away. Maybe we won't `get with it,' and maybe we won't even be invited.
"But perhaps with a little courage we can see in these children of the electronic age, these people who are so involved, so disarmingly candid and so brutally direct, some signs of goodness, of purpose, and of hope."
Allison wrote that in 1967. How prophetic he was, as much of what he said then applies today to another grass-roots effort trying to change our world.
Rich Archbold is community liaison director and editor emeritus for Press-Telegram. Reach him by mail at 300 Oceangate, Suite 110, Long Beach, CA 90844; calling 562-499-1285; or e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com.


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did you try creating traffic on the network?
Yes, i actually am trying right now.....
I start airodump on mon0, then i start aireplay on wlan0 to associate to the access point, i get association successful (aid 1), then i start injecting packets with the -3 option of aireplay on wlan0,
I currently see the message:
Read 9000 packets (got 0 arp requests and 2 acks) sent 0 packets... (0 pps)
I think i have already read all the how-tos on the net... i just wanted someone to point me another one concretely with the same exact situation and hardware and backtrack version as i am using...
Maybe i am doing something wrong?
did you try creating traffic on the network?
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious...
All the guides says to follow 4 steps (as far as i understood)
1: airmon-ng start wlan0
2: airodump-ng -c [NUMBEROFCHANNEL] --bssid [BSSID] -w [capturefile] mon0
3: aireplay-ng -1 0 -e [ESSID] -a [BSSID] -h [MACIMADEUP] wlan0
4: aireplay-ng -3 -b [BSSID] -h [MACIMADEUP] wlan0
And the ARP requests should start increasing... but i get nothing......
Can it be i should try another target?
Can the problem be that the mac i am using for my wlan device is the actual mac address of one real client of that ap?
Am i missing / misunderstanding anything?
is there a computer connected to the ap ur trying to crack?
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious...
Probably, not... is it mandatory? I thought if i inject packets, i generate that traffic.....
That means your not playing with you own equipment.
That's something we don't condone here.
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
If you are new to Back|Track
Back|Track Wiki
Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
Of course its mine!!!!!
How you dare to think im doing illegal stuff!!
Now seriously... is my own router, but i am the only one that usually generates wifi traffic on it.... belive me...............
So, if there is no traffic, i cannot do anything?
I say again: I thought the packet injection was for generating that traffic.....
Because we can read!?! Because we see people trying to get help doing something illegal all the time!?! Because you're above quoted line was the best you could do in your defense!?! If you have read the forum rules you wouldn't allow yourself to give a loose answer like below quoted.How you dare to think im doing illegal stuff!!
Sorry, but I for one don't believe you.Probably, not... is it mandatory?
Ok, sorry, i was just joking when i replyed like that:
You see.... i have an access point of my own, which only is me the one that uses it, and, sometimes, my brother when he plays online with his ps3 (his room is in the other side of the wall, and we could not pass a lan cable)..... thats why i said that probably, ther eis no traffic in the network, because he is not allways connected, playing online or doing who knows what... but the point is that,... if is not me the one that is connected to the AP, usually, nobody else is.....
And, again: I apologyze if i behaved some way that made all you understand me wrong, i didnt mean to break any rule or do anything illegal....
Thanks anyway!
I still did not get any packet injection......


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Not Such A Magical Week on the Carnival Magic: Carnival Magic Cruise Review by sold66
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Not Such A Magical Week on the Carnival Magic
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
Embarkation in Galveston was delayed a few hours due to fog causing the ship to dock late. We weren't aware that Galveston was plagued by fog this time of year....more on that nightmare later.
Line ups to get on the ship were VERY LONG. We were herded like cattle through two mazes in one room and then one more long maze in another room only to be filed into another waiting room once we checked in with the reservations agents. We got onto the ship close to 3:30 p.m.
The ship itself is beautiful and enormous. It is clean and the colors chosen for this ship are appealing to the eye (not like other ships that try to put the Vegas strip inside a ship). Our 8D balcony cabin was much like all the other cabins we More have had. No bigger, no smaller, no extra perks. Balcony doors, however need to be calibrated better as many doors slammed loudly as you shut them. Very disturbing if you are trying to sleep. A nice touch is the toothpaste, breathe right strips, lotion, razor and soap provided. Shower gel and shampoo are also dispensed in the shower. One annoying new feature is with the cabin lighting. In order to save energy, you must put one of your cabin cards into a light slot and leave it in there in order to keep the cabin lights on. One day, my husband took his card out of the light slot and I was in the washroom. All the cabin went dark! So not only do you need your cabin card for everything on the ship, you now need it for lighting. The cabin steward was invisible most of the time. We saw him maybe three times throughout the week. But he did keep the room spic and span. We got chocolates every night!! Thought that luxury was long gone! And we got the odd towel animal.
This ship has been built specifically to entertain kids. The water park/slide/sky-walk maze is a child's dream. Arcade is immense and full of games. If parents bring their kids, they will be guaranteed that their children will be well entertained. We didn't have kids with us and found out that there were over 1100 kids on board. And at times, we could hear and see that!!! This ship is NOT the one you want to be on if you are trying to have an "adult" holiday.
Shopping on the ship is the same old stuff. Same tourist trap stores - cheap watches, tacky shirts, costume jewelry, rum cakes, booze, etc. The candy shop is cool, just another place for the kids to get sugar crazy....but other than that - nothing new or exciting here.
Dining on this ship offers a few different alternatives. There is the Red Frog pub which we visited a couple of times and found it to be fun and different. You do have to pay extra for the food here. Sushi bar is good - it was fresh although you are limited to three pieces each time you line up. We ate at the Italian restaurant for both lunch and dinner once. Lunch was very good and free. Dinner on the other hand was terrible and there is a $12 per person charge. We ordered the chicken parmigiana which was pounded down to nothing and had the texture of cardboard. The "grandma's" pasta sauce was way too sweet.....maybe grandma liked her sugar??? Not appetizing at all. Had a "chef-boyardee" taste to it. The best part of the dinner was the complimentary appetizer of crusty bread slices with creamy cheese, garlic cloves and fresh cherry tomatoes. Would have been happy with just that. And to top off the bad food, we had the pleasure of listening to very bad singers (waiters) that would all of a sudden stop their service, grab a microphone and break into Italian song. I have heard some pretty bad karaoke, but this was just plain embarrassing and awkward. Something needs to be done about the complete menu in this restaurant and they need to drop the cheesy, terrible singing - it isn't good and we are paying for it. We ate in the steakhouse one night as well and that was okay. Nothing wow'd us. Not really worth the $30.
The breakfast buffet on the lido deck was ok. Omelets were consistently good. Regular buffet fare like any other cruise ship. Nothing special. The dining room food was not good. Most nights, the food arrived barely lukewarm. Food was tasteless. Our favorite meal of the week was the prime rib. The food came very quickly, almost too quickly, which was surprising for such a large dining room with so many guests to feed. The singing maitre 'd was great! Looked forward to his gig each night.
Fitness room is nice. A good choice and number of exercise machines.
Serenity area is nicely decked out with big cabana chairs, hammocks, etc for those wishing an escape, although it is placed just around the corner from the water park. Not an ideal place. If you want one of these chairs/hammocks, you better get there super early in the morning because NO ONE leaves them.
Staff and crew weren't overly friendly throughout the week. Most just gave a small smile if anything. Cabin stewards seem to be the happiest crew members on board.
X-Press Debarkation was scheduled for 7:00 am on the Sunday. We awoke at 6:00 to look out of our balcony cabin to see thick fog! No announcements were made. We asked a crew member about what time we would be docking and she said due to the fog and the port closure, not before 10:00 o'clock minimum. We had a flight out of Bush International (1.5 hour cab ride away) at 11:30. There was no way we were going to make that flight. We waited in our cabin until about 11:00 a.m. when we decided to pack up and wait in the lobby. We were told by crew members that X-Press passengers were to wait in the theatre until announcements were made to disembark. We got the the theatre to find it packed with passengers. We couldn't get in. We decided to sit in the atrium lobby while my husband went up on deck to make phone calls to the airlines to find alternate flights. As we were sitting in the lobby, Stephanie (crew member) told us that we couldn't wait in the lobby and that we must make our way to the theatre to wait. We told Stephanie that we had a family member up on deck making phone calls to airlines and that we didn't want to get separated from him. She said ok.
We waited in the lobby for quite a while as my husband was on the phone trying to figure flights out. A lady who was also waiting in the lobby to meet up with family members was told by Stephanie that all of us in the lobby area will not be vacating the ship until everyone else has been let off - because we didn't do what were were told. Stephanie and her co-crew member (don't know his name but he was paired up with her to do crowd control) came up to us again and said you cannot sit in this area. We said we were still waiting for our family member to come back and then we would move - we didn't want to lose him in the theatre crowd. Stephanie just gave us a glare. I asked the male crew member Stephanie was working with that if we go into the back of that theatre that already has over 1500 people in it - how in the heck are we going to get off X-press!! He said if you are X-Press you are to wait in the Northern dining room. We were never told this. At this point, there was no separate disembarkation groups, everyone had just muddled themselves into any corner, hallway and stairway they could find.
By the time my husband came back, the ship had docked and doors were opening. The time was 2:00 pm. Passengers had spilled out of the overcrowded theatre and into the halls. We lined up with others that had been waiting in the lobby and Stephanie put her hands in front of us and said, "Everyone behind these people can get off but these people will be staying behind". Nice thing to say - single us out when everyone was doing the same thing.
We managed to get off rather quickly. A nice lady and her family told us to go with her so we could get off quickly and try to get to the airport that afternoon. In the end, we managed to get another flight out of Houston at 6:30 but it cost us $597 each person one way. There was four of us travelling. Not a nice unexpected charge to our already expensive cruise vacation and don't count on Carnival if you want to be reimbursed.
We have a bone to pick with our Carnival cruise representative. Why don't these representatives tell us when we are booking cruises and flights that Galveston has a fog problem between January and March! We understand mother nature can't be controlled but had we been informed of the possibility of fog, we would have booked our flight out the day after we got off the ship, enjoyed a night in Houston before heading home to Vancouver, Canada. There has to be some accountability with these Carnival reps. They MUST know this Galveston itinerary has a fog issue! It happened a week before!!! If they don't know, they are going to know this week!
PROS...beautiful ship, great ports, beautiful weather, clean cabins, good music, Red Frog Pub
CONS .... low quality food, too many kids, robotic crew, Italian restaurant, embarkation, debarkation, loud balcony doors and WORST CON.....FOG!!!!!!!
We spoke to a few other passengers on the Magic and most said that this is going to be their last Carnival cruise for a while. I think we're in the same boat as them....no pun intended. Less
Published 01/13/12
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great balcony but noisy balcony doors, cabin 8403 is directly over bbq deck being engulfed in bbq smoke, need more selection of movies on television, hallway very noisy, using cabin card to keep lights on is inconvenient.Read All Balcony (8D) Reviews >>
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i would say my dog ran out of the house and i went looking for it or i got in an argument with my parents or sleepwalking <hah
i would say my dog ran out of the house and i went looking for it or i got in an argument with my parents or sleepwalking <hah
That i got really hungry and wus walking to a 24/7 McDonalds
Do ur thing.
pigs cant do shit its legal to walk around at 2 am
writers in san francisco pm me
not here, if your under 16 anyways.
edit: i just say i'm coming home from a friends
wait dont u have the right to remain silent ??????????
writers in san francisco pm me
Yeah, when they arrest your ass.
one time me and my friends were walkin down the street extremely high around 2 am..cop stopped us and asked names and shit and why we were out..all we had to say was he were havin a butt..a thread like this really doesnt need to be around cus this is just one of those things you can use your noggin for
Tell them that the bar kicked you out after last call.
I'd tell you to kill yourself, but you'd probably have to go on a suicide forum and ask how to do it.
Naww, they can search u if ur out in the middle of the night with a bullshit ass excuse and just take all ur paint, no charges, but no paint
Do ur thing.
thas fucked up u gotta be 16 o go out at night i didnt know that
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wher ei live in australia,they jsut paddefd the law that if ur not over 18 u cant be out past 11 pm,and if you are they have the right to search everything on you
They caught three of us out at night and i was completely baked and made the mistake of telling him i was 15, he threatened to drive us home and what not cuz we wouldn't let him search our bags. But he ended up just letting us go, fun times.
any know the law in america or cali or sf?
ill look right now into it
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im not sure if theres a law like that in toronto but if there is they must not car because the dont inforce it cops r lazy and tired at 2 in the mornin they wont care if they see one or two kids walkign down the street
i like this thread
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cops in NYC can stop you for pretty much anything. I've been stopped for such bullshit reasons before. They just do whatever they want
naaw ive come across some not too lazy cops its no fun
"Well you see sir i was just going for a..." *Runs away.*
i'm sorry officer, i thought i was able to spend the night at my friends house, but my parents called and said my dog ran away and got hit by a car so they called or some shit like that....
I was the second person to post on page 2000 of the good afternoon thread, yay!!!!!
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Red Snapper Near Vostok Island
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Dr. Enric Sala and a team of scientists explored the pristine waters of Kiribati's southern Line Islands, one of the last healthy, undisturbed places in the ocean. These photos were taken during the expedition.
Red snappers (Lutjanus bohar), such as this one photographed on the leeward side of Vostok Island, are probably the most inquisitive fish in the southern Line Islands, says marine ecologist Sala: "Red snappers have already bitten several of our team members." In the background, a school of soldierfish plies the waters.
Grey Reef Shark
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Here, a gray reef shark swims amid a school of black triggerfish in the waters off Starbuck Island.
Enric Sala
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Enric Sala (photographed here searching for monk seals on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey) is leading the Pristine Seas expeditions. A National Geographic Emerging Explorer and Fellow, Sala and his team studied the entire marine ecosystem of the southern Line Islands.
Flint Island
Photograph by Mauricio Handler
Flint Island, a speck of land 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) wide at its widest point, is some 400 nautical miles (740 kilometers) northwest of Tahiti. Covered with coconut trees planted in 1881, the island has abundant coconut crabs and non-native Polynesian rats, and is surrounded by a healthy coral reef.
Giant Clams
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Abundant giant clams and branching corals thrive on the patch reefs in the lagoon of Millennium Atoll.
Blacktip Reef Shark
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Pristine Seas expedition member Adam Geiger films a blacktip reef shark, the most abundant large predator in the waters around Vostok Island.
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Lionfish (Pterois antennata), such as this juvenile, hide during the day in coral overhangs and emerge at night.
Tuna Nets Off Malden Island
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A fish-aggregation device—a raft with long nets hanging below—used to catch tuna in the offshore waters of the Pacific drifted to and got entangled on Malden Island. Note the coral rubble in the foreground, which was created by the net dragging on the coral reef.
Coconut Crab
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Vostok Island's coconut crabs—such as this one—can grow as large as basketballs. The world's largest land invertebrate, the species can reach three feet (one meter), measured from the tip of one leg to another.
Red Snapper School
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At Starbuck Island, the expedition team encountered the "largest school of curious and voracious red snappers so far," Sala says.
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Milan Grygar Biography
Milan Grygar - Biografie
1926 born in Zvolen
1942-43 study at the college of arts and crafts in Bruenn (Professor Kalivoda, Z Rossmann)
1943-45 hard labour in the German kriegsindustrie
1945-50 study at the university for applied art in Prague, in the studio of the monumental painting of Professor J. Novak (1945-1948) and Emil Filla (1948-1950)
1960-63 abstract paintings
1963-64 linear designs
1964 first acoustic designs
1966 large sized painting and designs
1967 first acoustic designs with mechanical toy - sketch scores - sound performance on the design surface
1969 colored scores and palpation designs. Co-operation with the acoustic laboratory of the institute of the art theory and history of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. Schallplattenaufnahme of the acoustic design No. 22 and the Adagios with the characteristic Supraphon
1970 performance of the score of the sound directions (1969) by Erhard Karkoschka and the ensemble for new music of the Stuttgart school of music
1971 film "black-and-white counterpoints" (direction Josef Korán and Jaroslav Korán)
1972 first sound-plastic designs and linear scores
the designs in the acoustic chamber of the Czechoslovakian broadcast Hradec Kralove accomplishes 1973 Grygar. Karkoschkas ensemble for new music of the Stuttgart school of music specifies architectural scores (1970) in the theatre of the old part of town in Stuttgart Grygars
1974 independent exhibition in the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz/Polen, (sound implementing)
1976 in co-operation with the museum of arts and crafts in Prague as well as the acoustic laboratory of the institute for art theory and history of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences he produces his 2. Record of the acoustic designs
1980 space scores (white painting)
1981 implementing of the sound-plastic design for slow sound (1973) by Erhard Karkoschka and Toma Ungvary in the electronic studio of the computers music BMS in Stockholm
1982-83 films - alive designs, palpation designs and finger scores (direction D Zbornik)
1986 black paintings. Participation in the exhibition Chambre D ' Amis in the museum van Hedendaagse art, Gent
1994 white-black paintings. Participation in the exhibition open form (John Cage - Francois Morellet - Milan Grygar) in the gallery hlavniho mesto Prahy
1995 white-red paintings
1997 red Antiphonen
1998 white Antiphonen


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Olivia Munn 'Kanyes' Taylor Swift
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You know there's no more ways to make funny jokes about that time that Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMA's, right? It was an iconic pop culture moment and inspired about a year's worth of awesome memes and parodies, but it was four years ago now, and it's been trodden over so many times by now that it's just donezo as a source of potential comedy. Too bad nobody told Olivia Munn, Newsroom and Magic Mike actress and presenter at the People's Choice Awards last night, as she insisted on "interrupting" Taylor's Favorite Country Artist win, and reminding everyone yet again of that fateful night in 2009.
To be sort of fair to Olivia, it didn't seem like she was consciously trying to call back to the Kanye moment—it seemed like she was just obnoxiously overstaying her welcome as a presenter, trying to build on a never-funny joke about "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" being written about her and refusing to get out of the way. It wasn't until Taylor referenced the previous incident herself by exclaiming "This always happens to me!" and Munn weirdly responded "And it always will happen, Taylor…this is your lot in life" that the moment became Imma Let You Finish XLVII.
Still, it keeps the incident—and by extension jokes about it—alive for another award show season.
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