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Mr. Mullet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
vloerlamp.com (floorlamp)
Our company is selling floor lamps to the Dutch consumer; for now we have a small shop but are going to sell our floor lighting online.
Our team consists of 3 lighting enthusiasts who travel through Europe to visit small designers and exhibitions to see new trends and designs.
The company will launch a B2C web shop which focuses on selling floor lamps. The company will mainly work with designers, small suppliers or manufacturers in an attempt to offer unique lighting products.
The company however targets on the upper / middle- class consumer. Since we're working with lighting and interior designers we're targeting the "less is more" customer who's into design.
Our customers are a tech savy and like brands such as Apple, Bang & Olufsen, Moooi Design, Artemide and the "Barcelona Chair". Architecture like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Flatiron in New York City are also their choice.
Our clients expect the best, and something they've never seen in another store or living room.
Like we stated, less is more, modern, with a clean overview and good usability.
We ourselves are very web 3.0 orientated and web savy.
The width can be at 960 pixels, no stock photo's or stock icons.
We like illustrated designs like:
* http://twitter.com
* http://kissmetrics.com
* http://tokyocube.com
* http://nettuts.com
* http://tutsplus.com
* http://lemonstandapp.com
* http://skype.com
* http://panic.com/coda
We don't want flash elements, just fancy and slick CSS designs; We've made a moodboard for you guys to see what we like (attached).
Please don't send us ms paint designs, if you know what I mean.
The design of the shop must be strong, professional and convincing. Since many costumers are using the internet for orientation purposes and offline purchases only, the design is crucial to convert the costumer in the online purchase on the web shop.
Since most of our products are photographed on a white background, we think the background needs to be calm and quiet. e.g. white, gray
As you see above, we like websites with a twist. Something funny and colourful is possible in the header, navigation or footer.
Good usability, clear and clean overview, tidy, less is more, design, web 2.0
Hacker safe, SSL, Comfortable.
Easy to see what's in the shopping cart, including price, vat, and shipping costs.
Full briefing attached.The logo for the company is aslo enclosed.


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Sale Conducted By: Morgan & Associates Realty & Auction Services ,LLC. Firm NCAL # 9054 Tangela Morgan Ciarvolo (BIC) 187251, NCAL # 8058
Cash or Pre-approved Check, VISA /MASTERCARD 15% Internet Premium will apply to the sale of all purchases. Items are being Sold "as is-where is" with no warranties or guarantees, expressed or implied, of any kind. Bidders acknowledge by bidding that they accept the auction firm's description and terms when bidding. Morgan & Associates will not be responsible for any errors or omissions in the description. Please view each and every picture for details & conditions. Due diligence to verify the condition and description of a lot is the sole responsibility of the Bidder prior to placing any bid. If you have questions about any item that is for sale please feel free to call Tangie @828-777-9158 or email: tangiemorgan71@gmail,com. No Returns or Refunds. Invoice will be sent to winning bidder following the auction with details. Invoices need to be paid in Full at the end of the Sale unless otherwise arranged with Morgan & Associates. Auctioneer has the right to add or delete items prior to the end of the auction.
PICK UP / SHIPPING: Local Pick Up is Wednesday January 10 & Thursday, January 11 from 12 Noon to 6PM in Tryon, NC. Please bring your own help for loading large items. Bring packing supplies we will have a limited amount of boxes and newspaper. Home has limited parking space so appointments will be arranged for pickup of purchased items.Winning Bidders will be sent the property address along with your invoice and instructions for pickup. Some items will be available for shipping via UPS or United States Postal Service where we can arrange packing. We will bill you separate for the shipping of your winning items. You need to communicate with us at the close of the auction as to whether or not you are picking up or shipping your items. If you are shipping you must pay for your items and communicate your address and contact number before we will take to UPS or US Post Office. We will not be held responsible for damages during transport. Insurance on shipped packages is available and we suggest you purchase additional coverage. Please call 828-777-9158 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com with your plans.

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when I use the behavior on a player sprite called " Platformer character" I instantly get the character to move and jump.
The default keyboard controls are "arrow keys"(movement) and "space key"(jump).
Is there any way I can change those keys into my own custom keys- example: A-D - move left-right, W - jump??


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The GPSMAP® 60C and GPSMAP 60CS are new all-purpose unitspacked with exciting
new features and delivering the kind of color that consumers want in their
handheld GPSs. These lightweight, rugged, waterproof units raise the bar to
offer a 256-color, highly reflective display that provides easy viewing in
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Both the GPSMAP 60C and GPSMAP 60CS are packed with extra features, including
rapid automatic route calculation, an integrated outdoor calendar, a dedicated
geocaching mode, and indoor/outdoor GPS games that turn the outdoors into a
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30. San Francisco Giants
Current batting order: (1) Dave Roberts, LF; (2) Omar Vizquel, SS; (3) Randy Winn, RF; (4) Ray Durham, 2B; (5) Rich Aurilia or Dan Ortmeier, 1B; (6) Bengie Molina, C; (7) Kevin Frandsen, 3B; (8) Fred Lewis or Rajai Davis, CF.
Did you know the Giants ranked last in the majors in 2007 with a .387 slugging percentage -- and that was with Barry Bonds?
Now that Bonds is gone, San Francisco has a mix of veterans past their primes and young players who aren't as good as the talent the Rockies, Diamondbacks and Dodgers are running out there.
The Giants made a run at Miguel Cabrera, but you never got the sense that they were really in it. The fact that general manager Brian Sabean is even considering a "Tim Lincecum for Alex Rios or Hideki Matsui" deal shows you how desperate San Francisco is for offense these days.
Brian Sabean should be fired. He's let this happen over the past five seasons, allowing an aging lineup to fade away to nothing while drafting pitching ahead of hitting. The Giants are a top 10 payroll caliber team and this is what we have?


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Bodum: Coffee, Tea & Kitchen Stuff
We used to think of Bodum as a good source for French presses, teapots, and not much else, but in the past few years we've been impressed by their expanding line of glassware and kitchen gadgets.
The company was founded in 1944 by a Dane named Peter Bodum. It remains a family-owned business today, with Peter's daughter Pia and son Jørgen as its current owners. The company's first big transition occurred in the 70s, when Jørgen relocated Bodum's headquarters from Copenhagen to Switzerland and began a major expansion campaign, opening shops across the US, Japan, Europe, and Australia.
The French Press was their first big product launch under Jørgen's direction, and the company used it to market their modern, functional aesthetic. It was so successful that for a long time it was really the only thing we associated with Bodum's product line. But since the launch of that first French press, they've been slowly and steadily building their collections, adding small kitchen electrics, textiles, cookware, glassware, and storage goods.
Most lines are very affordable, although we've noticed that prices have risen slightly over the last few years as designs become a little more sophisticated. For instance, Maxwell really loves their double-walled glass mugs, a line which they've been slowly improving. At $30 for a pair, they're not cheap, but they're also not astronomically priced.
Bodum products can be purchased through one of their 20 worldwide shops, their online store (where they have a sale outlet) or through major retailers like Crate & Barrel, Target, and Amazon.com.
They used to have a flagship store in Manhattan, but have since closed it and focused instead on e-commerce and placing their products with major American retailers.
• 1 Bistro Double-Wall Glasses, $30 – $40 for a pair
• 2 Bean French Press Coffee Maker, $30
• 3 Venice Manual Coffee Grinder, $70
• 4 Bistro Flatbed Toaster, $80
• 5 Measuring Jug, $25 – $30
• 6 Barcelona Flatware, $100 for 16 pieces
• 7 Yokhi Glass Storage Jar, $8
• 8 Pavina Porcelain Cups with Silicone Strip, $10
• 9 Bora Bora Double Wall Glass Tea Pot, $150
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Motorola added the Backflip to its growing list of Android devices on Jan. 6.
With a 3.1-inch, 320 by 480 TFT display, at a glance the Backflip appears iPhone-like. But take another look and the device opens up - the screen sliding up to reveal a QWERTY keyboard, and then continuing backward toward a 45-degree-ish angle that enables the phone to prop itself up for hands-free video watching. Or as a - albeit pricey - bedside clock.
The Backflip gets Motorola's content-aggregating MotoBlur feature, which it describes as "the first and only solution to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more - from sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal email, and LastFM - and automatically deliver them to the home screen." The idea is to focus on content, not its method of delivery.
MotoBlur is also on the Cliq, from T-Mobile - but was left off the iPhone-rivaling Droid, on the Verizon Wireless network.
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"Since introducing our first Motoblur-based device, we've remained focused on differentiating the Android experience and bringing it to new carrier partners around the globe," said Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola, in a statement. "Backflip maximizes the multi-tasking and multi-functional potential of Motoblur with its unique design elements, making it as smart as it is social."
Unique to the Backflip is a feature called Backtrack, a touchpanel on the back side of the phone that lets users scroll without covering up what it is - Web sites, emails, etc. - that they're looking at.
The Backflip will ship with Android 1.5, but Phonescoop reports that it will eventually be updated to 2.1. Shipping worldwide, it supports WCDMA 850/1900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12 and a-GPS.
There's 3G and WiFi connectivity, a 5-megapixel camera with flash, a full HTML browser, support for MMS, SMS, various corporate and personal email accounts, as well as music and video files. It comes with 2GB of memory, which can be expanded to 32GB. And, of course, users have access to Google's Android Market, which now houses more than 18,000 applications.
Motorola also offers users online access to their devices, enabling them to wipe the device, should it be, heaven forbid, lost or stolen, as well as locate the device. With a user name and password, data can also be restored.
The Backflip will arrive in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia in the beginning of the first quarter of 2010, though Motorola is for the time being declining to name its U.S. carrier partner for the device.


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European equities edged higher on Tuesday, building on the previous session's strong gains and bolstered by expectations that euro zone finance ministers will approve the next tranche of bailout cash for Greece.
European Markets
Top officials signaled they were hopeful the Tuesday evening meeting would result in a solution, avoiding a fresh escalation of the euro zone crisis and the threat of bankruptcy for Athens. However, issues remain and a deal on debt reduction may be subject to more negotiations.
The deal, worth 44 billion euros ($56.3 billion), has been delayed by differences between the EU and the International Monetary Fund over Greece's debt reduction targets and restructuring.
"It's just short covering ahead of this evening's meeting of EU finance ministers," said Markus Huber, trader at ETX.
"They have basically promised that they would find a solution ... It's a typical pattern — ahead of the meetings you always go up, and then they usually disappoint and we come back the next day."
The FTSEurofirst 300 provisionally closed up 0.3 percent at 1,094.35 points, with its rebound from a session low of 1,087.08 points also supported by stronger than expected U.S. housing starts data and gains on Wall Street.
Earlier in the session, European shares traded lower, led by France's CAC 40, after credit ratings agency Moody's Investor Service stripped France of its triple-A rating. Moody's cited fiscal concerns, a weak growth outlook and a loss of competitiveness as reasons for the downgrade.
Moody's actions heightened the risk of cuts for other top-rated economies such as the U.S. and Germany. France is also on a "negative outlook", signaling that it could be downgraded further if economic conditions do not improve.
E.U. finance ministers meet in Brussels today to discuss a deal on emergency aid for Greece worth 44 billion euros ($56.3 billion) on Tuesday. Athens could receive the money on December 5, but only if it fulfills all remaining reforms and once there is agreement on how to reduce the country's debt according to multiple reports.
In stocks news, the banking sector closed lower. Shares in Swiss bank Credit Suisse closed down after the company said on Tuesday that it will dismantle its asset management unit. The bank was also in the news on Monday after Reuters reported that the New York attorney-general is preparing to file a civil lawsuit against it for misleading investors who lost billions of dollars on mortgage-backed securities.
Shares in Easyjet closed more than 6 percent higher after the low-cost carrier reported a rise in full-year profit on Tuesday, and doubled its dividend.
Also on Tuesday, mining giant Glencore was reported to be close to a takeover of Xstrata after nine months of protracted negotiations. The $31 billion deal is one of the largest tie-ups in the sector to date.


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Most parents, it's safe to say, want their children to grow up with an edge. They enlist them in team sports, or even chess tournaments, hoping to encourage a killer instinct. They put them on stage to square off against other kids in beauty pageants and dance troupes. And for these activities they pay a small fortune.
CNBC.com presents a list of competitive activities for kids, and what parents can expect to pay for their child's involvement. Some are academic, some are in the arts and some are meant to develop strategic thinking. But all of them carry a price tag much higher than you'd expect. Read ahead to see what they are.
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Performance Center guns originate from standard designs or are created from the ground up. From hand-cutting and fitting to fine tuning for precision, these firearms are top performers. Products from the Performance Center are the ultimate expression of old-world craftsmanship blended with modern technology.


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To report an emergency in progress, call 911.
The Witness Notification Unit is responsible for coordinating the appearance of witnesses subpoenaed for court testimony. Unit staff works very closely with prosecuting attorneys and investigators in their coordination efforts. The unit is a very important contributor to the prosecution function. Below are frequently asked questions with answers that may be helpful to you if you receive a subpoena
What should I do when I receive a subpoena? Immediately contact the District Attorney's Witness Notification Unit at (916) 543-8016 and provide them with a telephone number where you can be reached for updates on court scheduling and location. Court cases may be cancelled, delayed, or continued, and it is important for Witness Notification to be able to contact you to avoid unnecessary appearances. If you fail to provide Witness Notification with updated contact numbers, you may be required to attend multiple court appearances and be ordered back to court. Note: You must call in each time you receive a new subpoena to confirm receipt of the updated information.
What will happen if I don't appear? Failure to appear in response to a subpoena may result in the Court issuing a warrant for your arrest, and may be punishable by fines and/or jail. The Courts do not look kindly at having to reschedule cases and inconveniencing all of the involved parties and other witness because of the failure of a witness to appear as ordered.
I already gave a statement. Why do I have to appear in Court? Rules of evidence and fair trial procedures require that an accused person must have an opportunity, through his or her attorney, to ask questions of witnesses.
What if I don't want to get involved or "take sides" in the matter? Either the prosecution or the defense may subpoena you because your testimony is important to one or both parties. When you appear and testify truthfully you are not "taking sides" with either the prosecution or the defense, regardless of which party issues the subpoena.
How can my testimony make a difference? People sometimes believe that they have very little to offer in a case and wonder why they have been subpoenaed. Court cases are governed by rather strict rules of evidence and procedure. Physical evidence and the testimony of witnesses are all pieces of a puzzle. All of the pieces, no matter how small, are important to complete the picture. Your testimony is important and may ultimately affect the outcome of the case.
I have never testified in Court and I'm very nervous. It is very natural for you to be nervous. The fact is, everybody in the courtroom is nervous to one degree or another. Below are some tips that will help you to control your nervousness and make your testimony clearer to the Court and jury.


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running 'yum install @xfce4.10' on a fresh fedora 20 install terminates with this error:
Transaction check error:
file /usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_FedoraJava.xml from install of libreport-fedora-2.2.0-1.fc20.x86_64 conflicts with file from package abrt-java-connector-1.0.6-1.fc20.x86_64
How can I get by this?
If you are starting with a fresh install why not start with the Xfce live system? Also look at the Korora Xfce remix, it is Fedora 20 with all the extras most people add included.
If you want to fix the current system, have you added any non standard repos? You could try removing libreport install Xfce then reinstall libreport if xfce doesn't pull it in.
Removing libreport allowed the install of xfce to proceed.
I've been using the Fedora distributions for a long time and have been pleased with
them except for the gnome 3 desktop only policy.
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The White Rocks formation is a mass of 40 million year old plutonic granite rising from the sedimentary rock at the southern end of Skull Valley in Utah. The Bureau of Land Management maintains an 8 mile gravel access road and there are several primitive campgrounds around the base of the formation. White Rocks rests against the eastern edge of the Cedar Mountain Wilderness. Other nearby sights include Horseshoe Springs (a pair of natural springs creating a riparian environment in the desert) and Iosepa, a ghost town.
Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia


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This course is designed to give you an introduction to concepts related to the automatic management of infrastructure in the IT industry. Using tools like scripting languages, version control, configuration management systems, and monitoring solutions, this course will give you an introduction to automation in IT. It will have an emphasis on creating automation that's both scalable and manageable.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
* understand the fundamentals of programming using the Ruby language.
* create basic automation scripts to perform system administration tasks.
* use regular expressions to extract meaning from raw text.
* manage code by using the version control system, Git.
* develop and understand the benefits of tests for the scripts and automation they create.
* deploy software using the Chef configuration management software and understand the principles of configuration management in the IT context.
* track the health of technology systems through monitoring and become familiar with common monitoring concepts and practices
Before taking this course, it's helpful to be familiar with the following concepts:
– installation of software on a computer platform
– basic computer network terminology and concepts
– common system administrator tasks and responsibilities
This course has been designed to be completed completely in-browser. You don't have to install any software on your computer. However, supplemental readings and instructions are provided, where appropriate, if you want to install the software and tools that we discuss in order to experiment on your own systems.
Except as otherwise noted, the contents on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


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By Vienna Thomas
Today marks the 5th year since YouTube first came on the Internet scene. But did you know that YouTube is also a phenomenal source of genealogy education and inspiration?
According to BBC News, YouTube now receives over 2 billion hits each day, with 24 hours of new video being uploaded every minute.
For more on the history of YouTube's first five years, watch the video below...
YouTube has definitely become more than just funny cat videos in the last five years (although those are great for an occasional laugh!) You can literally find a video about almost anything these days, including Genealogy Gems!
If you're interested in family history the Genealogy Gems YouTube channel is for you. There are over 35 FREE videos on topics ranging from online genealogical search, to how to blog about your family history, to heritage quilts. My personal favorite is the very first one that Lisa posted, A Nurse in Training Part 1, which is also the video with the most views at 11,637! Hearing stories from her grandmother's diary transported me to that time period. I also love Socks to America (which Lisa hints is her favorite video.)
When you visit the Genealogy Gems channel you should definitely check out the latest video on Google Search, Google for Genealogy Update: Its All Related. You'll learn the latest and greatest techniques for using Google for genealogy searches.
Be sure to click the "Subscribe" button while there so you will always be in the loop when a new video is available to watch.
You can also watch Lisa's videos on the Family Tree Magazine YouTube channel. And if you have a Genealogy Gems Premium Membership, you can watch an exclusive series of videos featuring Google topics.
And finally, you can take Lisa's video instruction with you with her brand newDVD for your PC called Google Earth for Genealogy, which teaches you how to harness the power of the free Google Earth program to further your research. You can get it here. When it comes to genealogy and video, look to Genealogy Gems!


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January 8, 2009
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius appointed Dan Biles, Shawnee, to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday. Biles, best known for his work for state agencies, represented the State Board of Education in a 1999 lawsuit that eventually forced the state to phase in an $892 million increase in school funding over the past four years. He'll replace Chief Justice Kay McFarland, who is retiring Monday after more than 31 years on the court. Biles was joined by his family: from left Sydney, 12, Allison, 19, Claire, 10; and his wife, Amy McCart, who is assistant research professor at KU in the Department of Special Education.
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Reid Gives Backing To Menendez
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he has the "utmost confidence" in fellow Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez and says he has confidence the New Jersey senator "did nothing wrong" in associating with a prominent political donor who appears to be under investigation by the FBI.
Reid adds: "But that's what investigations are all about."
Menendez's office last week disclosed that he reimbursed the donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, for the full cost of two trips that Menendez took in 2010 to the Dominican Republic.
The FBI searched the eye doctor's office in a raid that took place on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
Reid said on ABC's "This Week" that he's comfortable with Menendez serving as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Tropic Days Backpackers
Home Sweet Home... Tropic Days is a charming little guest house set in tropical landscaped gardens and a relaxed environment.
Offering free Internet, 24h unlimited free WiFi and free tea & coffee, with all linen and towels provided and extremely clean facilities, we are the perfect choice for the budget conscious traveller.
Tropic Days has been recognised by the Lonely Planet as 'Cairns' Best Hostel' 4th Edition of their East Coast Australia Guide Book.
Located in a quiet area, our guests can relax in our sparkling pool, or lie back in our hammocks and chill out to the music in the beautiful landscaped gardens.
With our two well equipped kitchens, TV lounge and laundry, it is a real cosy and very comfortable place to stay.
With comfort in mind we at Tropic Days offer various accommodation options such as Doubles, Deluxe Doubles (complete with a T.V. and DVD player), Twins, Singles, 3 and 4 bed dorms (no bunk beds!), as well as camping options.
All Rooms are air conditioned and equipped with ceiling fans.
We supply full linen, towels, a safety deposit box in all rooms, plus free tea and coffee and a free meal at The Woolshed 5 nights a week. There is also a fridge in every private room.
We also offer free WiFi (24 hours), free high speed ADSL2 Internet (from 7:00am to 9:30pm), free DVD hire, free safety deposit box and luggage storage, a free pool table, a free evening meal 5 nights a week at The Woolshed, complimentary tea & coffee, and complimentary buses to and from the town.
We like to help you save money where possible!
Our staff have excellent local knowledge too, so any transport needs, walks to do, or local conservation parks to see, you can just pop in and ask us.
All amenities are ideally located just a short walk to Cairns Central Shopping Mall. Here you can find two supermarkets, post office, banks, food outlets, cinemas and many shops. The Mall is also used as quick access through to the city centre - check Google maps for our location. We also have a courtesy bus that runs to and from town throughout the day.
All in all, with great attention to cleanliness and personal service we guarantee you will have a fantastic stay here at Tropic Days backpackers.
Our Tour & Information desk is here to help you.
We have great advice and fantastic specials & standby prices for tours to the Great Barrier Reef, Cape Tribulation, Whitsunday Sailing, Fraser Island 4WD Safaris, and many, many more thrilling activities.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Bicycle hire
- Bicycle parking
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Free Breakfast
- Breakfast Not Included
- Card Phones
- Ceiling Fan
- Common Room
- Cooker
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Dryer
- DVDs
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Iron / Ironing Board
- Jobs Board
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Late check-out
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Luggage Storage
- Microwave
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Outdoor Terrace
- Parking
- Pool Table
- Reception (limited hours)
- Safe Deposit Box
- Shuttle Bus
- Swimming Pool
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Towels Included
- Utensils
- Vending Machines
- Washing Machine
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Cairns Airport has an international and domestic terminal, located about 6km from the city centre. A cab from the airport to Tropic Days will cost you about $25, or we can offer you a discounted airport shuttle for only $5 per person through Cairns Airport Shuttle. They will drop you to our door. You must book directly on their website and mention Tropic Days to get the special price; www.cairnsairportshuttle.com.au
f you are arriving to Cairns by bus or train we can offer a free pick up service between 7.30am to 8.30pm. You must inform us in advance if you require a pick up.
Tropic Days Backpackers is located in a quiet area, a pleasant 20 minute walk from the Cairns Esplanade through Cairns shopping district.
If you feel like taking it easy, we offer frequent courtesy buses which run to and from town, between 7.30am and 9.00pm daily; making Tropic Days an ideal location to enjoy the city, while you have the option to relax in the peace and quiet we offer.
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Tropic Days is located at 28 Bunting Street, just off Scott Street.
We have a great location being only a 10-min walk to Cairns Central Shopping Centre & 20-mins to the beautiful board-walked Cairns Esplanade. Fantastic opportunities await with lots of Shopping, Restaurants & Bars within a hop, skip & jump of Our Hostel.
We have a regular shuttle bus that runs between 7.30am & 9pm dropping our guests directly in the centre of Cairns, City Place.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Mar. 6, 2012) – After taking two out of three against Indiana over the weekend, the ETSU baseball team hits the road for the first time this season with a Wednesday afternoon matchup against Western Carolina inside Childress Field at Hennon Stadium.
First pitch will begin at 4:00 p.m. and for fans unable to attend the contest, live stats will be available at ETSUBucs.com.
Freshman right-hander Jimmy Nesselt (Plantation, Fla.) (0-0, 3.00), who has made three appearances totaling 6.0 innings this season, will be making the initial start of his college career. Nesselt has given up just two hits and two runs, with six strikeouts and no walks in his time on the mound.
This past weekend, ETSU earned a pair of one run victories against Indiana to earn its second straight series win. The Bucs improved to 4-2 all-time against Indiana after also earning a series win back in 2002.
Sophomore Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) was 6-for-11 (.545) at the plate on the weekend, including a double, home run and two RBIs. Meanwhile, Dylan Pratt (Johnson City, Tenn.) hit .444 with two home runs and three RBIs in the series. John Long (Anderson, S.C.) earned his third win in as many starts with a complete game effort on Friday. In addition, the trio of Jake Long (Anderson, S.C.), Freeman and Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) held Indiana to just four hits and one run in the victory on Sunday.
Freeman leads the Bucs at the plate on the season with a .424 average to go along with three doubles, a triple, a home run and five RBIs. Matthew Scruggs (Knoxville, Tenn.) owns a .371 average with five homers and 10 RBIs, while owning a nine-game hitting streak. Meanwhile, Derek Niesman (Wellington, Fla.) (.367, 2 HR, 6 RBI) and Pratt (.333, 2 HR, 5 RBI) have also been key contributors at the plate for the Bucs.
Western Carolina currently sits at 8-3 after most recently sweeping a weekend series over Iona. The Catamounts earned an impressive win over No. 8 Georgia last Wednesday. WCU will face Duke on Tuesday afternoon before facing the Bucs on Wednesday.
Aaron Attaway and Jacob Hoyle lead the Catamounts at the plate through 11 games. Attaway leads the squad with a .469 average to go along with 12 RBIs. Meanwhile, Hoyle is batting .439 with two homers and 17 RBIs.
Western Carolina leads the all-time series against ETSU with a mark of 60-28. The two schools last met in March 2009 with Western Carolina winning both games of a two-game series in Cullowhee.
For more information on ETSU baseball, please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the baseball link.


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By Lou Mancinelli
Before it was published in 1974, and went on to sell more than five million copies and be translated into more than 23 languages, Robert Pirsig's, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" was rejected by 121 publishers, according to Wikipedia.
"We tend to act in a way that is reasonable, but is it good?" said Mt. Airy resident, published poet and author Caryl Johnston during an interview days before her talk about Pirsig's ideas "In Search of Quality," sponsored by The Philadelphia Forum For Anthroposophy, Saturday, March 12, at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave.
This spring, Johnston, who was raised in Birmingham, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement, will publish "Stewards of History: A Study of the Nature of a Moral Deed" (lulu.com), her memoir of Southern history, race and civil rights. It focuses on her ancestor, John Hartwell Cocke, a friend and contemporary of Thomas Jefferson, who was honored during Black History Month a few years ago for his efforts in trying to achieve the emancipation of slaves.
Pirsig's book has sold more copies than any book of philosophy in the history of publishing. One of the major questions posed by the book is: why do we keep doing things that are supposedly reasonable, even when they are no longer effective?
"I do not think our country is in good condition," said Johnston, who requested that her age not be stated. "The question is, are we thinking in ways that lead to effective action. The world is going to depend on people like you [referring to the 20-through-40-somethings] taking the right steps."
Johnston, herself mother to two 20-something sons, a recent 25-year-old Temple University graduate as well as 21-year-old jazz pianist, planned to pay special attention to the metaphysics of quality (MOQ) developed by Pirsig in his inquiry into values. The book is based on a 17-day motorcycle journey Pirsig took with his son, Chris, from Minnesota to California.
While a journey across the American Midwest towards the American West on a motorcycle might invoke visions of sprawling plains, rolling mountains and total freedom (remember "Easy Rider?"), the book does not have much to do with motorcycles, unless motorcycle maintenance is a metaphor for philosophy.
The purpose of the journey was to review scenes of Pirsig's earlier life as a teacher of rhetoric at Montana State University, according to Johnston. As the story goes, Pirsig was told to teach his students about quality, but none of his fellow professors or contemporaries could tell Pirsig the meaning of quality. This led him to assign his students the task of defining quality. Pirsig himself participated in a Native American Church peyote ceremony with an anthropologist friend.
The metaphysics of quality sounds scientific, yet its meaning is simple. Pirsig contended quality cannot be defined. It's something one already knows, sometimes without immediately being aware of why, Johnston explained. It's the thing that separates great pieces of art from other pieces of art, the seeming ambiguous attachment you (and multitudes of others) experience upon viewing something like the Sistine Chapel. "It's that feeling you're on the knife-edge of existence," she said.
In order to help people understand his realization, Pirisg broke his definition of quality into two categories: dynamic and static. Dynamic quality is "inspiration, something you can't predict, that happens in the spur of the moment," said Johnston.
She said static quality is the force that maintains life and its institutions. Pirsig broke static quality down into four components: inorganic, biological, social and intellectual. Schools and hospitals are examples of social static quality. An intellectual example is "writing a poem."
Without dynamic quality an organism, or school, cannot grow. Without static quality, it cannot be maintained, Pirsig contended. "We're not dealing with the reality in the U.S.," said Johnston. Things like outsourcing of jobs, the potential peaking of oil reserves, libraries subjected to funding cuts and the
skyrocketing costs of the health care system "are symptomatic of a whole group of problems we haven't dealt with legitimately."
The U.S. has a history of Pirsig's concept of dynamic quality — think of the inspiration behind the Bill of Rights, steam engine, automobiles, airplanes, NASA and the iPhone — but Johnston is concerned about whether our modern society is overlooking the importance of maintaining its institutions, its elements of static quality.
She believes Americans' everyone-for-his-or-her-own-self mentality has bred a society where we have come to accept certain things to be true because they are reasonable. But Johnston revisits Pirsig's significant question: is it good?
In America we have available to us gasoline any time we need the fuel, as long as we can afford the cost. But is this rampant use of potentially limited resources good? Is it a quality use of resources? These are the types of questions one might ask when thinking in terms of Pirsig's paradigm.
Pirsig further develops his MOQ and asked the question "is it good?" in his 1991 book "Lila, An Inquiry in Morals." In Lila, Pirsig challenges the traditional Western philosophic view of the world that the world consisted of two parts, objects and subjects. Objects are what is; they are matter, a globe, for example. A subject is the self, the "I am." It is Robert Pirsig or Caryl Johnston or you or me.
Pirsig called subjects and objects the metaphysics of substance (MOS). He said that objects outside of us do not have values, unlike subjects. Pirsig wanted to shift thinking away from the MOS and towards the MOQ as a way to help form better moral judgments. Instead of saying it's true, ask if it is good.
"People are always glad to fill out a consumer survey that asks of a product or service, is it good," said Johnston. "But we're also confronted with the same question everyday about our decisions with everything we choose. The music we listen to, our actions, the art we like. The question is pretty basic."
In addition to her philosophical rhetoric, Johnston, who attended Birmingham Southern College in the 1970s, plays folk guitar and sings Appalachian songs to seniors at Wesley Enhanced Living at Stapeley in Germantown. She likes to sing Duke Ellington or traditional songs like "Way Down Upon the Swanee River."
In 2000, she published "Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge" (Floris Books, Edinburgh, Scotland). She has also self-published a novel, "After the Crash" (about oil); a collection of stories, "Earthly Nurturance," and a poetry collection, "Indulge Me Once," and other titles all through lulu.com.
Right now she's planning to move from Mt. Airy into a new apartment in Germantown and "waiting for the next quality event" in her life. "I'm waiting for the inspiration. I think it will happen."
For more information, visit Johnston's blog at www.meta-q.blogspot.com. To purchase her books visit lulu.com and search for "Caryl Johnston."


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Top-seeded Denver knows to beware of Stags' Snow
FAIRFIELD -- Some day Sam Snow hopes to have fans in Denver. Thursday afternoon will not be one of them.
The senior midfielder will still be wearing a Fairfield men's lacrosse uniform and looking to advance the fourth-seeded Stags (8-6) to their third straight Eastern College Athletic Conference championship game when they meet top-seeded Denver in the semifinals (5 p.m., FSN) at Hobart College's Boswell Field in Geneva, N.Y. Defending national champion Loyola, Md., and third-seeded Ohio State meet in the other semi, with the finals slated for Saturday afternoon.
Snow, who was taken by the Denver Outlaws in the Major League Lacrosse draft back in January, already has been a pest for the Denver Pioneers (11-3) in his collegiate career.
Two weeks ago, he netted the game-winning goal in overtime to stun the then No. 1-ranked Pioneers 10-9 on their home field. Snow also tallied the game-winner last season in another OT win over Denver, 9-8 at Fairfield.
"(Denver Pioneers') coach Bill Tierney probably doesn't like me too much, but hopefully the coach of the Denver Outlaws will," Snow said with a smile.
The Pioneers are not the only team to receive headaches from Snow, who has three OT game-winners and eight overall on his resume. Not bad for a player who slipped through the scouting radar during his high school days in Bainbridge, Wash.
"I think he's developed into a very marquee guy," Fairfield coach Andy Copelan said. "Sam's very clearly on that short list (of great Fairfield players) and that has been a product of Sam's development. Coming out of high school I would put him in the under-recruited department and part of that is him being from Seattle, so not a lot of people knew about him."
With some help from a West Coast spotter Copelan met years ago while working as an assistant at Maryland, he was able to reel in Snow. In his first season, Snow scored 15 goals and has been lighting up opponents ever since -- including a career-high 35 goals last season in 16 games.
This spring, Snow has drawn more attention from the opposition and has scored 19 goals (second on the team) with a career-high 12 assists. But two of those goals have won games, including against Navy on Feb. 19, when Snow scored with four seconds left in regulation.
"I think I'm just really zoned in," Snow said of his knack for producing big goals. "I like the ball in my stick when it comes to the game on the line and I think my teammates trust me. That's part of the reason why they throw me the ball.
"A lot of things come together and it's just nice to be able to cap it off for the team sometimes."
The ability to perform at crunch time is something that caught the Stags by surprise when Snow arrived.
"I knew Sam was a goal scorer and had a good understanding of the game, but I didn't know he had that edge to him," Copelan said. "He's been doing that for the last few years. ¦ I'm proud of him. During those moments when it's crunch time and you need a big play, you turn to your senior captain and he's been able to put one in. Hopefully he has one more in him on Thursday."
Before leaving for the Outlaws, who already have former Stags Greg Downing and goalie Charles Cipriano, Snow would like to help the Stags reach their first NCAA tournament since 2005. Fairfield lost to Denver two years ago in the final and then last season to Loyola in the title game.
"We've been really close," Snow said. "You break down the last two seasons and one or two goals go our way and we're in the NCAA tournament. Needless to say, we are very hungry."
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Wednesday, 4p.m.
The fifth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team went scoreless over the final seven minutes against Saint Joseph's, and that drought combined with a flurry of missed shots and turnovers conspired to send the Terps to their first loss, 50-49, on Saturday at Hagan Arena.
Maryland (2-1) had a chance to win at the buzzer, but with a half-second remaining, senior forward Tianna Hawkins' jumper from just inside the 3-point line hit the rim and fell off, triggering a wild celebration at midcourt for the Hawks' first victory over a ranked opponent since 2007.
"Obviously we have a thin margin for error," said Terps coach Brenda Frese, who did not make players available to the media after the game. "Obviously you've got to come ready to play. I think this game will absolutely humble us. I think we may have spent a lot of time thinking about last year versus this season."
Last season Maryland advanced to the NCAA tournament regional final, fueling expectations for a push for the Final Four this season. Then presumptive starting point guard Brene Moseley tore her anterior cruciate ligament during a scrimmage one month ago, and Frese had to move several players out of position.
The lack of a true point guard made a difference against Saint Joseph's, which forced 19 turnovers that led to 15 points. Terps junior Laurin Mincy, normally a shooting guard who has become the primary ballhandler, had 14 points but committed six turnovers with two assists.
Junior All-America forward Alyssa Thomas had 16 points and a game-high 15 rebounds to go along with three assists and three blocks but missed 19 of 25 shots and had a game-high seven turnovers. Hawkins, who last week was named Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week, had just two points on 1-for-5 shooting with six rebounds.
"We know where we're at. We're not going to get a point guard this season," Frese said after a lengthy talk with her team in the visiting locker room. "So we've got to do it by committee, and we've got to find a way."
The Terps were unable to do so after growing the lead to 47-38 with 9 minutes, 10 seconds to play courtesy of one of two foul shots from junior center Alicia DeVaughn. From there, Saint Joseph's (2-1) went on a 12-2 run with forward Ilze Gotfrida's basket at 4:21 putting the Hawks ahead to stay.
Forward Chatil van Grinsven led Saint Joseph's with a game-high 18 points and a team-high eight rebounds, and guard Erin Shields chipped in 10 points and two 3-pointers. The Hawks limited Maryland to 34 percent shooting, including 21 percent in the second half, and held the reigning ACC tournament champions to 14 points after halftime.
The victory was especially gratifying for sophomore guard Natasha Cloud, who transferred to Saint Joseph's after one season at Maryland in part to be closer to home. Cloud finished with eight points and a game-high seven assists while committing just one turnover.
"It's a great win," Cloud said. "I have nothing against Maryland. They're a great team. It's always going to be a part of me. I was there for a year, but it feels great to be home with my hometown team at Saint Joe's with a team that I love and a coaching staff that I love and come out with a win over the No. 5 team in the country."


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Australians are becoming obese at an alarming rate, according to a report that shows seven in 10 men are too fat.
Health experts are horrified, warning that gains to life expectancy could be reversed if drastic action is not taken.
It needs an effort along the lines of the anti-smoking campaign, says Professor Graeme Hankey, co-author of the report which was published in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday.
The 188-country report shows Australia's problem is ballooning out of control.
Overall 63 per cent of adults are overweight, up from 49 per cent in 1980. Five million, one third of the adult population, are obese.
One in four children are overweight.
New Zealand is worse, with 66 per cent of adults overweight.
When grouped together, Australians and New Zealanders are becoming obese at a faster rate than any other region.
"We should be incredibly worried," said Prof Hankey of the University of Western Australia.
Other developed countries are starting to plateau, he said, but not Australia and New Zealand.
"We are getting worse."
Apart from the burden of diabetes, heart disease and stroke, people are buckling under the strain.
"It causes wear and tear on the knees, hips and spine from having to carry the weight around," Prof Hankey said.
"We seem to have nailed tobacco and reversed the trend, but we are not doing very well at managing this."
The Heart Foundation's Dr Robert Grenfell said Australia was going backwards on obesity.
"Overweight and obesity is now one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease in our community. Carrying the extra kilos greatly increases the risk of death from heart disease."
Professor Rob Moodie of the Melbourne School of Population Health blamed junk food and a sedentary lifestyle.
"The environment is geared towards over-consumption because of the way food is marketed and because of a lack of regulation," he said.
"The junk food and processed food industry is enormously powerful. The politicians are absolutely frightened."
It's marketed all over sport and social media, he said.
"The exposure of children to junk food and junk drink advertising needs to be reduced."
A short-term goal should be to reduce the amount of salt, fat and sugar in processed food as well.
"If you do it across the board, it reduces the risk for the whole population.
"We need sensible regulation to make sensible choices much easier than they are at the moment."
Australia and New Zealand are ranked the 30th and 23rd most overweight countries in the world, not far behind the US, which is ranked 20th.
In the US, close to three quarters of men and six in 10 women are overweight or obese.
"In the last three decades, not one country has achieved success in reducing obesity rates, and we expect obesity to rise steadily unless urgent steps are taken," said co-author Christopher Murray of the University of Washington.


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by Lou Mancinelli
Before Abraham Lincoln was given permission by Congress in 1862 to bypass state laws and recruit African American soldiers to fight for the Union Army in the Civil War, the Massachusetts governor promoted the formation of black regiments. To that effect, a number of recruiters visited Philadelphia and returned to Boston "quietly, overnight to avoid attention" with enough black soldiers to fill Company B for the 54th Massachusetts, as dramatized by the 1989 film, "Glory."
That token of local trivia and a few others you may want to dish out to impress your dinner friends comes via the informative insert included with "Drexel University Presents: The Civil War As it Came to Philadelphia."
The new two-disc music CD was compiled by 15-year Chestnut Hill resident and Drexel University associate history professor Kathryn Steen, and serves to tell a story about Philadelphia's involvement in the war.
Produced in conjunction with students and faculty from Drexel's music industry program and its Department of History and Politics, it was released this spring to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Steen wanted to get the school involved in similar efforts like those led by historical institutions, like the Pennsylvania Heritage Society and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's "Pennsylvania Civil War 150," to spread information about the war. Her vision was to utilize resources only available at Drexel.
Since Drexel's music industry program is "fairly unique" to the university, Steen thought music would be the appropriate medium for information about the war. In June, 2009, she contacted Jim Klein, head of the music industry department, "half-thinking he might laugh."
But Klein was interested. He in turn organized students to perform and record the disc's 14 songs. Each song is done twice. Disc one features renditions of classics like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," performed by the school's choral group the way they might have sounded in the 1860s. It includes songs associated with both Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, like "Children of the Battlefield." Yet the unique aspect of this collection comes on disc two, where the musicians took the traditional songs from the first disk and created their own 21st-century interpretations of the songs.
Guitarist Paul Lingerman, a friend of Drexel student David Balcher, thought a rock-influenced version of "Hell on the Wabash" with a powerful sounding guitar would be a fitting way to dress the song in 21st-century garb. The version he and Balcher eventually recorded stemmed from the song's original flute melody.
According to what Steen has learned from research, "Hell on the Wabash" is an older name of the song "Hell on the Rappahannock," said by one solider to have "enough music in it to make a man who was just about dead brace up, throw his chest out and take [a] step as if he had received a new lease on life."
For Steen, who normally focuses on the history of technology, business and comparative industrialization, the project was also a learning process. She said the collection's song selection was driven by history since Philadelphia was home to several music publishers 150 years ago. The song "Battle of Gettysburg," by James Cox Beckel, e.g., was published in 1863 by Philadelphia's Winner & Co.
"I wanted to be able to tell the story about Philadelphia in the Civil War," Steen said. "Part of that was figuring out what story we wanted to tell." The story she tells from research gathered with the help of Drexel student Hannah Bennett hinges on her belief that Philadelphia's location determined its role in the Civil War. The city is close to the South and was a hub of railroad transportation as well as the manufacturing capital of the U.S. at the time.
During the war, its numerous textile and other factories made uniforms, guns, swords and other items to support the war effort. The city was known for manufacturing drugs. A number of its old train stations and hotels served as brief hospitals for the wounded soldiers. In the weeks after Gettysburg, for example, 10,000 wounded soldiers arrived in Philadelphia.
The "Satterlee Polka," is a song written by the bandmaster at Satterlee Hospital, a West Philly site with more than 4,000 beds. "A lot of the legacy of the Civil War is music," said Steen. "I think music is a good vehicle to tell history."
"Drexel University Presents The Civil War As it Came to Philadelphia," is available at Hideaway Music, 8612 Germantown Ave. (215-248-4434); the Drexel U, Bookstore, 33rd and Chestnut Streets, MacAlister Building (215-895-2860), and online through Amazon.com. For information about "Pennsylvania Civil War 150," visit www.PACivilWar.com.
Ed. note: Kathryn Steen requested that her photo not appear with this article and that we not mention her age or when she graduated from college. Also, last week I listened to each of the 24 songs at least twice and found most of them thoroughly enjoyable. I particularly liked the 1860s' version of "Battle of Gettysburg," some of which is even reminiscent of a Mozart piano sonata.


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BP: Fraudulent Claims for Spill Could Cost Billions
BP is challenging the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill fund's process for handing out money, saying in court filings that "fictitious awards" could cost it billions of dollars. Tom Fowler reports. Photo: AP.
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Some traditional country music fans — and artists — are calling for Blake Shelton's head over comments that the country star made in a recent GAC TV special.
"Country music has to evolve in order to survive," Shelton said on his episode of "Backstory."
"Nobody wants to listen to their grandpa's music, and I don't care how many of these old farts around Nashville (are) going, 'My God, that ain't country.' Well, that's because you don't buy records any more, jackass. The kids do, and they don't want to buy the music that you were buying."
Shelton's "Backstory" aired in December, but his words didn't gather much notice until Wednesday, when they were highlighted in a post on music blog Saving Country Music with the headline "Blake Shelton Calls Classic Country Fans 'Old Farts' & 'Jackasses.' "
In addition to hundreds of user comments on the post, several country music stars weighed in on the controversy, including Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Price.
"It's a shame that I have (spent) 63 years in this business trying to introduce music to a larger audience and to make it easier for the younger artists who are coming behind me," Price wrote on Facebook. "Every now and then some young artist will record a rock-and-roll type song, have a hit first time out with kids only. This is why you see stars come with a few hits only and then just fade away believing they are God's answer to the world. This guy sounds like in his own mind that his head is so large no hat ever made will fit him. Stupidity Reigns Supreme!"
On Thursday, Shelton responded in a series of tweets. "Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement. "Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music, and probably some other things from that same interview on GAC Backstory. I hate that I upset him."
"The truth is my statement was and STILL is about how we as the new generation of country artists have to keep re-inventing country music to keep it popular. Just EXACTLY the way Mr. Price did along (his) journey as a mainstream country artist...Pushing the boundaries with his records. "For The Goodtimes" Perfect example with the introduction of a bigger orchestrated sound in country music. It was new and awesome!!!"
"I absolutely have no doubt I could have worded it better (as always ha!), and I apologize to Mr. Price and any other heroes of mine that it may offended. I meant every word I said."
"Country music is my life and it's future AND past is important to me. I'll put my (love) and respect and knowledge about it up against anybody out there...ANYBODY..."
Shelton also shared words of support he'd received from friends on Twitter, including Martina McBride, who wrote, "Just catching up on this. We all know where your heart is Blake. Love you."
"Love what you meant by your quote buddy," Chris Young wrote. "Know how much you love country music history. Love your music brother and who you are."
Before signing off Thursday night, Shelton offered a few more thoughts on all that had transpired.
"What an interesting day," he wrote. "Turns out I have a lot of friends in this industry that refuse to jump on any band wagon and turn their back on me. And a handful that have no problem doing it...Publicity can make people do and say anything I guess... Oh well. Good news for me is... I don't forget and won't forget."
Blake Shelton apologizes — sort of
Some traditional country music fans — and artists — are calling for Blake Shelton's head over comments that the country star made in a recent GAC TV special.


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While cleaning out my late grandmother's attic, we came across photos that are labeled "1907, Lake Naomi." Shown are boats that appear to be decorated for some kind of festive occasion. Since some of the members of my family now vacation in the area, we are interested in learning more about the boats.
While cleaning out my late grandmother's attic, we came across photos that are labeled "1907, Lake Naomi." Shown are boats that appear to be decorated for some kind of festive occasion. Since some of the members of my family now vacation in the area, we are interested in learning more about the boats.
Also found in the attic were papers on the Davidson Institute, which appears to have been in operation during the early 1900s. Was the institute in the Poconos?
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A short reference to a "boat carnival" can be found in the Aug. 4, 1907, New York Times:
"The greatest week of the Summer school at Pocono Pines was made memorable by the boat carnival at Naomi Lake, when the boats from all the cottages and hotels were decorated by their owners to compete for the prize for the most unique and effective decoration."
Although this carnival may not have been the event depicted in your grandmother's photos, it appears to have been a festive happening — "illuminated craft paraded" on the lake for all to see.
Local hotels participating in the carnival included the Montanesca, Pocono Mountain House, The Belmont, Fairview and The Ontwood.
"The first prize was won by Prof. Ricsocker of the Moravian College," according to the article.
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What is the address of Alanis Morissette?
Where can you buy 5th Avenue candy bars?
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Hoda Kotb, co-host of the fourth hour of NBC's "Today" with Kathie Lee Gifford, started with the show when it debuted in 2007. Kotb has also been a "Dateline NBC" correspondent since 1998, and she is a New York Times bestselling author: "Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee," according to today.msnbc.msn.com.
Her 2005 marriage to University of New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga ended in divorce.
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What Paul does dwell on in these verses is how what we believe about the future should affect our lives today. It most certainly affected Paul. The knowledge that he possessed an eternal house in heaven allowed him to have a positive attitude toward life's adversities. Therefore, he says, we are always confident. The verb tharreo means "to be of good courage or cheerful." Paul maintains a cheery attitude toward his present circumstances. This is the opposite of losing heart or growing weary (4:16)--a temptation that all of us in full-time ministry face from time to time. Moreover, he is cheerful not only when things are going well but always. Not even the prospect of death affects his basic attitude.
Paul's cheerfulness stems in part from knowing that as long as we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. Some Greeks drew courage in the face of death from the belief that they possessed an immortal soul. Others, who had no such hope, felt only despair over their eventual demise (1 Thess 4:13). Paul, on the other hand, was cheerful about the prospect of death. Death for him was not an enemy but a friend. This was because death, or being away from the body, meant being at home with the Lord (v. 8). The verbs endemeo ("at home") and ekdemeo ("away from home", "abroad") are found only here in the Greek Bible. The noun dhmos refers to the city or land where a particular group of people live (Grundmann 1964c:63). It is what we call our "hometown."
Cleveland is my hometown, the place where I grew up and where my mother and many of my friends still live. But Chicago is the city where I now make my home--where my colleagues, church family, spouse and children live. In a similar way, Paul speaks of in the body and with the Lord as too different homes in diverse locations. He cannot be in both places at the same time. And his preference is to be at home with the Lord (v. 8). But for this to happen he must be away from the hometown of his mortal body.
Has Paul slipped unknowingly into a dualistic way of thinking? Not at all. Body and Lord merely represent too different places that he can call home--like Cleveland and Chicago for me--without any necessary implication of a body-soul framework. Body is simply a catchword for his present mortal existence, much like the expression "home is where your heart is."
But what does it mean to be away from the Lord (v. 6)? To forestall misunderstanding, Paul adds parenthetically we live by faith, not by sight (v. 7). Live is literally "to walk" (peripateo), a word that Paul uses with regularity to describe the Christian life. The preposition by (dia + genitive) probably denotes realm (M. J. Harris 1978a:1182-83). To live by faith is to walk in the realm of faith. By faith, not by sight does not reflect a belief in the immaterial over against the material world but represents a conviction about what is yet to be seen compared to what can now be seen. This is similar to Hebrews 11:1, where faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen.
In religious parlance, to be away from the Lord (v. 6) can mean to be relationally distant from God. Paul, however, is speaking in spatial, not relational language. Our present existence offers to the visible eye merely a dim reflection of the Lord (1 Cor 13:12), so that our relationship with him, for the time being, is in the realm of faith, not sight. But at death we will see Christ "face to face" (1 Cor 13:12), for we will be at home with the Lord (v. 8). The preposition pros + the accusative ton kyrion (with the Lord) suggests not just impassive spatial proximity to Christ but dynamic, interpersonal communion with him (M. J. Harris 1978c:1205). Paul's use of the aorist tense (endhmesai/ekdhmesai; v. 8), as opposed to the present tense (v. 6), denotes a once-for-all turn of events (Martin 1986:112). This is why death is preferable to life in the mortal body. In fact, Paul can say to the Philippians that for him "to die is gain" (Phil 1:21).
In light of the expectation of face-to-face communion with Christ, Paul makes it his goal to please him (v. 9). The verb philotimoumetha means "to strive eagerly to do something," "to aspire earnestly" (Liddell, Scott and Jones 1978). The something Paul strives eagerly to do is to please Christ. His ambition is an eternal one. He makes pleasing Christ his goal, whether at home in the body or away from it. The NIV adds in the body; the Greek says merely "whether at home or away." Some consequently think that being at home or away from the Lord, not the body, is what is in view. If, however, verse 9 completes the thought left hanging in verse 6 (see the note), then Paul is speaking of life in or away from the body. This is suggested as well by the fact that Paul goes on in verse 10 to speak of our accountability for what we do through (dia + the genitive) the body.
Either way, his lifelong and eternal ambition is to please Christ. David Brainerd expressed a similar thought when he said, "I do not go to heaven to be advanced but to give honor to God. It is no matter where I shall be stationed in heaven, whether I have a high or low seat there. . . . My heaven is to please God and glorify him and give all to him and to be wholly devoted to his glory." Second Corinthians 5:9 is the only place that Paul speaks of pleasing Christ. Elsewhere we are exhorted to find out what pleases God and then live that way (Eph 5:10). The Philippians' financial support of Paul (Phil 4:18), our offering ourselves as living sacrifices (Rom 12:1) and children's obeying their parents (Col 3:20) are examples of activities that are pleasing to God.
The second reason Paul strives to please Christ is the prospect of appearing before his judgment seat (v. 10). This prospect is an inclusive one, "we all must appear"--pantas placed first for emphasis. The tone is one of warning. Must appear evokes images of being called before the judge's bench to give an account of one's actions--though in Paul's day the judge did not sit on a highly polished piece of wood but on a stone seat or dais. The ministry of all who claim to be preachers of the gospel (including Paul's critics) will be subject to divine judgment. The Greek word dei (must) is commonly used of what is divinely ordained. Divine judgment is a requirement, not an option. Nor is this judgment to be taken lightly. In 1 Corinthians 3:10-15, Christian workers are cautioned that the quality of their work will be tested by fire. If what they have built survives, they will "receive a reward." But if it is "burned up," they will "suffer loss."
Divine assessment of our work will take place before the judgment seat of Christ. The bhma or judgment seat was the place where civil officials held session to hear certain legal cases and render judgment (McComiskey 1976:369-70). Jesus was brought before the bhma of Pilate (Jn 19:13; compare Mt 27:19). Paul came before the bhma of Gallio in Corinth (Acts 18:12-17) and the bhma of Festus in Caesarea (Acts 25:6). According to Romans 14:10 we will stand before God's judgment seat, whereas here we come before Christ's bhma. These need not be too different occasions. In Romans 2:16 Paul states that God will judge the secret thoughts of all through (dia + the genitive) Christ.
This provocative text has elicited a fair amount of comment. Who is to be judged? What kind of judgment is this? When is this judgment to occur? Paul is not talking about the last judgment, when all of humanity past and present will be judged and those who have done good rise to live while those who have done evil rise to be condemned (Jn 5:28-29; compare Rom 2:6-11). For we at the start of verse 10 looks back to verse 9 and those who make it their aim to please Christ. So it is judgment of the believer that is in view. Paul's intention is to remind the Corinthians that all those who serve Christ will have to give an account of what they have accomplished for the Lord, not how they have increased their own reputation (5:12). Even the Corinthians are not exempt from this divine scrutiny and assessment. Though "washed, sanctified and justified" (1 Cor 6:11), they too will have to give an account of themselves (compare Rom 14:12).
How will we be judged? According to Paul, we are to receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. While he began by saying that we as a whole must appear (tous pantas hemas; literally, "the whole of us," v. 10), each, nonetheless, is responsible for his or her own actions (v. 10; compare Rom 14:12). The middle voice is reflexive: "to receive for oneself." The term for what is due refers to receiving one's just deserts. What our just deserts will be is determined by the things done through the body. It is a judgment based on works that Paul puts forward.
This could be construed as in conflict with salvation by grace (as in Eph 2:8), if it were a judgment that determined destiny or status. But this is not the case. Paul is thinking, rather, of a divine assessment that results in praise or blame (1 Cor 4:5). A final assessment of the Christian is a recurring theme in Paul. Christian slaves are instructed to serve their masters wholeheartedly, because the Lord will pay back all for whatever good they do (Eph 6:8) and for whatever wrongs they commit (Col 3:25). Paul does not say what the reward or punishment will be, so it is useless to speculate. The punishment is a real one, however. In 1 Corinthians 3:15 there will be those who will "suffer loss" even though they themselves "will be saved." Here, as well, it is written that Christians can expect to receive in kind for the good and the bad that they have done.
When will this happen? It is not clear whether judgment will occur at death or at the parousia. Paul does not say one way or the other. What he does say is that we will be held accountable for what we do through our body (dia tou somatos; v. 10). Paul's emphasis on our moral accountability with respect to the body is no accident. As F. F. Bruce observes, though the mortal body belongs to a passing order of things, we are nevertheless accountable for its deeds (1971:206). It is easy to think that because the body will eventually be dismantled (v. 1), it matters little what we do with our bodies. Some in the Corinthian church thought this (1 Cor 6:12-17), as have others since. Paul, however, did not. Indeed, he teaches elsewhere that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and, as such, the object of redemption. We are called, therefore, to honor God with our bodies (1 Cor 6:18-20).
One final question needs to be raised, especially since this is one of the few places that Paul touches on what happens to the believer at death: does the believer face an embodied or a disembodied existence in the interim betoeen death and the parousia? The difficulty is that Paul does not explicitly address this issue. We must read betoeen the lines, and as with any venture of this sort, there is a wide margin for error. This explains the current disparity of interpretations. Some argue on the basis of these verses that there is no period of disembodiment (for example, F. F. Bruce, Murray J. Harris). Others maintain that Paul is indeed acknowledging a time of disembodiment betoeen death and resurrection. But perhaps even to phrase the question in this way misses the central truth of these verses. The question of life beyond the grave is primarily not a metaphysical one (that is, what happens to the body at death and when a new body is given) but a Christian one (that is, what happens to the believer at death; see, for example, Philip E. Hughes 1962:175). Embodiment or disembodiment is, at best, peripheral. What matters the most to Paul is that to be absent from this present world is to be at home with the Lord (v. 8).
This is absolutely critical to communicate to those grieving the death of a Christian loved one, facing a terminal illness or struggling with the concept of personal mortality. We do not float somewhere in limbo at death or sleep the sleep of the unaware--even though our language at times wrongly communicates this. For the believer, death initiates face-to-face fellowship and communion with Christ--a "going home," as it were.
A little girl whose father had just died asked her mother where he had gone. "To be with Jesus," replied her mother.
A few days later, talking to a friend, the mother said, "I am so grieved to have lost my husband."
The little girl heard her and, remembering the earlier conversation, asked, "Mother, is a thing lost when you know where it is?"
"No, of course not," said her mother.
"Well then, how can Daddy be lost when he has gone to be with Jesus?"
The little girl had hit the nail on the head. To say that at death a Christian "goes to be with Jesus" is not a euphemism but a reality.
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