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The legal trouble continues for Randy and Evi Quaid: The couple faces arrest warrants after failing to show for a court hearing stemming from their arrests last month on suspicion of illegally squatting at a home, a prosecutor told The Associated Press.
Randy Quaid and wife facing burglary charges
The $50,000 warrants were issued following their scheduled arraignment on Monday in Santa Barbara, Calif., on a felony vandalism charge. The Quaids were arrested last month and accused of causing more than $5,000 in damage to a guest house of a Montecito, Calif., home they previously owned.
An e-mail to their attorney, Robert Sanger, who worked on a previous criminal case, was not immediately returned.
The couple was also arrested in Santa Barbara in April on outstanding warrants after showing up to court two weeks late stemming from an arrest in September 2009 for allegedly ducking out on a $10,000-plus hotel tab in Santa Barbara County. After not showing up for a previous court hearing, they pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. The felony charges were later dropped against Randy, and Evi was sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to perform 240 hours of community service.

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Owing to adopted advanced micro processor and special Echo processed technology,the radar level meter can be applied in any kinds of complicated working environment
False echo saving function make the meter can select the correct echo out of a large number of interfering reflections,obtained the correct measured results.
Multi process connecting method and antenna shape make CMAXS60 serial radar level meter suitable to any kinds of complicated working environment.for example:high temperature,high pressure and small dielectric constant media measurement and so on.
Adopting pulse work method can make the meter has lower transmitting power,and suitable to install into any metal or non-metal vessel,no harm to people and environment.
The antenna of Radar level meter emits extreme short microwave pulse to the measured media surface and reflects to the same antenna with the speed of light,the time from emission to receiption of the signals is proportional to the level in the vessel.
GUIDEPULS60 serial radar level meter adopted special related demodulation technology,they can correctly judge the time from emission and reception of the signals to calculate the distance between the antenna and the surface of measured media.
the antenna receive the reflected microwave and transmit to current circuit ,microprocessor processed the signal,to read out the reflected microwave from the surface of the measured media.intellectual software select the correct signal and accuracy can reach millimeter degree.the distance(D) to the measured media is proportional to the running time of the pulse(T)
D=C×T/2 C:speed of light.
empty vessel distance(E) is known,then the level(L)=E-D
By inputing empty height(E)(= zero point),full vessel height(F)(=Max.measuring range) and some applied parameters to set,applied parameters can make the meter adapting to the measured environment.corresponding to 4-20mA output.
When the antenna emits microwaves,there should have emission angel.the area that emited microwaves radiated between the bottom of the antenna and surface of measured media should not have barrier ,so when installing,do best to keep away of facilities in vessel,just like:ladder,limit switch,heating equipment,and bracket.when it is unable to keep away,when installing,we should do false echo saving.we should note that microwave and filling flow can not intersect.the Max. level of the media should not enter into dead zone,there is certain distance between the level meter and vessel wall.when installing,the best is to make the emission direction of the antenna is vertical to surface of measured media.when installing in the area of anti-explosion,we must abide by national installation stipulation,the housing material of the intrinsic safety type level meter is aluminum,it is suitable to install in the anti-explosion area,the housing of the meter should connect to ground.
the area from measured reference plane to the bottom of the antenna is the dead zone of the level meter(reference plane is the seal surface of thread or flange)
Power supply cable can use normal two core cable,the outside diameter should be 5...9mm to make sure to seal the inlet port of cable.if there is electromagnetic interference,use shield cable.
4...20mA/HART(two wire) Power supply cable can use normal two core cable
4...20mA/HART(four wire)
CMAXS60 has 3 debugging methods:
1,display/debug module(programmer)
2,upper computer debugging GDPFSOFTWARE
3,HART handheld programmer
display/debug module(programmer)
Programmer is pluggable debugging tool,to debug by 4 keys,after bebugging,it is easy to read measured datas through the display screen of the programmer and display window on the meter cover.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- The Colorado Rapids continued where they left off before the World Cup break by stretching their unbeaten league run to five games. Nonetheless, there will still be some disappointment, as they couldn't hold a 2-1 lead against Houston on the road when they surrendered an 80th minute equalizer.
Gary Smith, head coach of the Rapids, had expressed some concern the two-and-half-week break from MLS action had left some of his players a little rusty. It did maybe show on a few occasions, especially in the first half when the Rapids found it difficult to string passes together and create decent chances.
"The point is tinged with a bit of frustration having had the lead but this is an extremely difficult place to come with 95 degree heat and humidity and I think it was fair for both sides in the end," he told MLSsoccer.com. "We restricted them to very little and it's pleasing to come away from home and do that."
On a day when the US' dream at the World Cup ended, one of the players originally tipped to be in South Africa put his name on the score sheet for the Rapids.
Conor Casey scored his 35th goal as a Rapid and his sixth of the season right at the end of the first half. After Mehdi Ballouchy did well to dispossess the Houston midfield, the Moroccan passed to Casey, who expertly dummied and rounded Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad before calmly slotting the ball into the Houston net.
Casey's goal pulled the Rapids even after Houston had taken the lead on a Danny Cruz goal from long range.
Though the Rapids started a bit askew, some fluency emerged in the second half and more chances were created. Ballouchy had a golden opportunity in the 67th minute after a nice offensive move, but the midfielder hesitated fatally and the chance was lost.
Later on in the complementary period, a scrappy goal listed as an own goal stretched the Rapids' lead, but the Houston equalizer dimmed hopes of another road win for Colorado. Nevertheless, Smith was content with the point gained on the road, especially because the team doesn't have a good record in Houston.
Many players were exhausted at the end of the game given the World Cup break and then playing in such humid conditions, he said. He particularly praised Matt Pickens for a spectacular save in the 58th minute and Casey for his coolness in front of goal.
"Conor showed a huge amount of composure in front of goal." Smith said. "He could have been forgiven for not taking that extra touch and he picked his spot very nicely. The goal gave us a great lift coming in at halftime."
The Rapids return to the more friendly confines of Dick's Sporting Goods Park to take on the New York Red Bulls next Sunday for the traditional Independence Day extravaganza. The game kicks off at 9pm ET.
Join the Debate! MLSsoccer.com's "ExtraTime Radio" is LIVE every day during the World Cup, 5-7 pm ET. Call in at 888-MLS-GOAL.


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Editorial: A fitting tribute to Vietnam veterans, and one missing from the Civil War
A front-page piece Sunday in the York (Pa.) Daily Record told the tale of Hellam Township's Mike Wherley and his connection to the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
After his service in Vietnam, Mr. Wherley and an Army buddy visited Washington and were disturbed to learn the tomb did not include an unknown casualty of that war.
He launched a crusade to have a Vietnam soldier interred at the monument. He lobbied Congress and the military - even scoring a meeting with Caspar Weinberger when the then defense secretary visited York College to speak.
The effort was successful. On Memorial Day 1984, President Ronald Reagan dedicated the memorial.
It was a remarkable and laudable effort on Mr. Wherley's part - making certain that those who perished in Vietnam but whose remains could not be identified were properly honored.
Flash forward several decades, and there's an interesting postscript to this story. Military officials in 1998 identified the Vietnam soldier who was placed in the Tomb of the Unknowns: Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie. As he prepared for a speech on the 30th anniversary of the entombment of the unknown, Mr. Wherley did some research on Mr. Blassie. It turned out he flew air support missions in the area of Vietnam where Mr. Wherley's unit served. He was likely a guardian angel for many of Mr. Wherley's fellow soldiers.
It's a moving story, and thanks to Mr. Wherley for sharing it.
In another story about memorials: This memorial doesn't actually exist - yet.
It is a memorial to an unknown black militia man who died defending Wrightsville, Pa., against Confederates during a Civil War siege aiming to take control of the Susquehanna River bridge.
He was the only fatality of that conflict, and yet there is no public marker or memorial to his ultimate sacrifice.
Last year, as preparations were under way to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg battle, a group gathered, many in full re-enactment regalia, to dedicate a new grave marker for an unknown Rebel soldier who died on the banks of the Susquehanna.
Since then, the question has been raised repeatedly: If our community can stir itself to memorialize the grave of an enemy of the union, why has it not enacted any monument to an unknown man who died helping to preserve that union?
Some have discussed such a venture, but this effort remains to be accomplished.
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Where are Americans ringing in the new year?
Sun-soaked Orlando has outranked New York to become the most popular destination among Americans for ringing in the New Year, according to an online booking site.
After looking at hotel bookings made on December 11 for travel between December 30 and January 2, Hotwire.com has deduced that revelers likely those in snow-swept regions are opting to ring in the New Year in Orlando, Florida where many attractions are animated and Disney-saturated.
Orlando is likewise the cheapest destination on the list, with an average hotel rate of $89.
Meanwhile, the only international destination to figure on the ranking is London, which landed in 8th spot.
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N° 83–2003: Mars Express releases Beagle 2
19 December 2003
This morning, ESA's Mars Express flawlessly released the Beagle 2 lander that it has been carrying since its launch on 2 June this year. Beagle 2 is now on its journey towards the surface of Mars, where it is expected to land early in the morning of 25 December. Mars Express, Europe's first mission to Mars, has passed another challenging milestone on its way towards its final destination.
At 9:31 CET, the crucial sequence started to separate the Beagle 2 lander from Mars Express. As data from Mars Express confirm, the pyrotechnic device was fired to slowly release a loaded spring, which gently pushed Beagle 2 away from the mother spacecraft. An image from the onboard visual monitoring camera (VMC) showing the lander drifting away is expected to be available later today.
Since the Beagle 2 lander has no propulsion system of its own, it had to be put on the correct course for its descent before it was released. For this reason, on 16 December the trajectory of the whole Mars Express spacecraft had to be adjusted to ensure that Beagle 2 would be on course to enter the atmosphere of Mars. This manoeuvre, called "retargeting'' was critical: if the entry angle is too steep, the lander could overheat and burn up in the atmosphere; if the angle is too shallow, the lander might skim like a pebble on the surface of a lake and miss its target.
This fine targeting and today's release were crucial manoeuvres for which ESA's Ground Control Team at ESOC (European Space Operations Centre) had trained over the past several months. The next major milestone for Mars Express will be the manoeuvre to enter into orbit around Mars. This will happen at 3:52 CET on Christmas morning, when Beagle 2 is expected to land on the surface of Mars.
"Good teamwork by everybody - ESA, industry and the Beagle 2 team - has got one more critical step accomplished. Mars, here comes Europe!" said David Southwood, ESA Director of Science.
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Mars Express overview
Status: In operation around Mars
To study the martian atmosphere and climate, the planet's structure, its mineralogy and its geology, and to search for traces of water.
Mars Express is Europe's first mission to the Red Planet. It carries seven instruments and deployed a lander, Beagle 2. The lander was lost during its attempt to reach the planet's surface but the orbiter continues its highly successful on-going global investigation of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
What's special?
Mars has always been a source of intrigue and fascination. It is currently the only planet in the Solar System on which there is a strong possibility of finding the evidence of past life, perhaps even existing organisms. It is also a prime candidate for future manned exploration.
Since beginning science operations in 2004, the mission has already provided countless breath-taking views of Mars in three dimensions. It has traced the history of water across the globe, demonstrating that Mars once harboured environmental conditions that may have been suitable for life. Key discoveries include the presence of minerals that form only in the presence of water, the detection of water-ice deposits underground, and evidence to suggest volcanism on Mars may have persisted until recent times.
The mission has also provided the most complete map of the chemical composition of the atmosphere, indicating the possible presence of methane, which on Earth is attributed to active volcanism and biochemical processes.
Mars Express has also studied Mars' innermost moon Phobos in unprecedented detail.
The spacecraft has also provided relay communication services between the Earth and the NASA rovers on the surface, so forming a centrepiece of the international effort in exploring Mars.
Mars Express hosts seven scientific instruments. HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera, OMEGA (Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer) and MARSIS (Sub-surface Sounding Radar Altimeter) are used to image and study the surface and subsurface. For atmospheric and plasma studies there is PFS (Planetary Fourier Spectrometer), SPICAM (Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer) and ASPERA (Energetic Neutral Atoms Analyser). OMEGA is also used to the study the atmosphere, and plasma is also studied with MARSIS. A radio link to convey data between the spacecraft and Earth is provided by MaRS, the Mars Radio Science Experiment, and used to study the gravity of Mars, the atmosphere and ionosphere, surface roughness and solar corona.
Electrical power is provided by the spacecraft's solar panels, which are mounted on a rotating drive mechanism, which tilts them forwards and backwards to catch the most sunlight. When the spacecraft's view of the Sun is obscured during a solar eclipse, an innovative lithium-ion battery, previously charged up by the solar panels, takes over.
Mars Express launched from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher on 2 June 2003.
One month before arriving at Mars, preparations began for the separation of the Beagle 2 lander. Beagle 2 was released on 19 December 2003, just six days before Mars Express went into orbit around the Red Planet.
The rocky ride through the Martian atmosphere to the surface should have taken no longer than ten minutes. The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter, several Earth-based telescopes and Mars Express itself all tried to make contact with Beagle 2; however no signal was received. The Beagle 2 Management Board met in London on 6 February 2004 and, following an assessment of the situation, declared Beagle 2 lost.
Mars Express successfully entered orbit around Mars on 25 December 2003.
Mars Express is so called because it was built and launched in record time and at a much lower cost than previous, similar missions into outer space. The experience gained on Mars Express led to the Venus Express mission.
The relatively low cost of the mission was achieved through new and innovative approaches in the working relationship between ESA, industry, national agencies and the scientific community, and through the reuse of equipment developed for ESA's Rosetta mission. Some of the scientific instruments have a heritage from the Russian Mars 1996 mission.
Astrium SAS of Toulouse, France, was the prime contractor for Mars Express. The Soyuz-Fregat launcher was provided by Starsem, which is jointly owned by Arianespace, Aerospatiale, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and the Samara Space Centre.


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The JL JOURNAL is a WAYALIFE Production with a focus on the all new Jeep JL Wrangler. This YouTube video series will highlight the build process of our JL as well as all the adventures both small and big that it takes us on. We hope that you follow us along on our journey.
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In the cuisine of Spain, a tortilla is an open-face omelet.
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- Makes 4 servings
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 pound russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 4 ounces mushrooms, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped drained roasted red peppers from jar
- 8 large eggs, beaten to blend
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Heat 1/4 cup oil in large ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Add potatoes; simmer in oil 3 minutes. Add onion; sauté until potatoes and onion are almost soft, about 5 minutes. Add mushrooms; sauté until vegetables are soft, about 7 minutes. Add red peppers; sauté 4 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer vegetables to large bowl. Cool slightly. Wipe out skillet.
- Preheat broiler. Stir eggs, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper into vegetables. Heat 1/4 cup oil in same skillet over medium-high heat. Add egg mixture; cook without stirring until just beginning to brown on bottom, about 3 minutes. Cover skillet; cook until eggs are cooked through, about 3 minutes. Uncover and broil until top is brown, about 3 minutes.
- Slide spatula around edges and under tortilla to loosen. Slide tortilla onto large plate. Serve warm or at room temperature.


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According to the latest results of the Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Survey released Thursday, close to 45% of Americans accept the tough economic conditions. Plus, the vast majority of these investors, nearly 95%, feel better prepared than ever to cope with economic uncertainty, and more than half (58%) see themselves as more stable than last year.
"At a time when stability around the world is harder to find, it is encouraging to see investor sentiment and personal outlooks improving," says John Thiel (left), head of U.S. Wealth Management and the Private Banking and Investment Group for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, in a press release. "Having a handle of one's financial life and a feeling that economic uncertainty can be weathered are important steps toward increasing confidence and financial security."
Overall, one-third of affluent families say they feel more in control of their financial lives, and many have taken steps to gain greater control by sticking to a budget (32%) and setting tangible goals for their future (28%). In addition, 33% of respondents said they are living more within their means.
Affluent Americans' outlook on 2013 can best be described as cautiously optimistic, according to Merrill. Some 30% are feeling optimistic and nearly half (45%) express hope about their financial situation for the year ahead.
When asked specifically how they anticipate their financial situation may change during 2013, 35% believe it will improve, while 41% expect it to remain about the same.
Among respondents with a positive outlook on 2013, 45% cite their ability to take advantage of investment opportunities as the top reason they believe their financial situation will improve next year. Other reasons include:
- Greater discipline in their spending habits (36%)
- Having less or lowered their debt (32%)
- Opportunities for career advancement (26%).
The majority of those who believe their financial situation will not improve in 2013. In that group, 61%, cite the impact of ongoing market volatility on their investments as a key barrier. Many of them, 23%, also say their dependents (children, parents and other family members) continue to be a drain on their finances.
The survey of 1,000-plus investors with at least $250,000 in investible assets was conducted in August.


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The 2015 Mini Cooper has grown in every measurable dimension on the outside, but shrunk under the hood. It's an odd combo. But there might be some good under-hood news coming in the form of diesel power for the US.
In a conversation with AutoGuide, Mini product boss Pat McKenna said that a diesel is "in the realm of possibility." What that means in reality is that it might happen. What that means for enthusiastic auto journalists who pray to Rudolf Diesel as if he's the second coming is that a diesel Mini will definitely be here and we all need to buy one now.
McKenna didn't say that the Mini diesel would only come in brown and only have a manual transmission, but it's our job to assume that will happen.
While the diesel is a rumor right now, what is confirmed is a plug-in hybrid will be heading our way. McKenna didn't say what model it would go in, but I'm going to assume it's the hardtop.


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This Palomino Horse II Woven Blanket and Pillow Set is made in the USA using advanced jacquard weaving techniques. They are woven from 100% cotton which gives them rich color, texture, and definition. The pillow is backed, corded and poly-filled, providing ultimate comfort for you and your guests. It measures 17" x 17" and makes the perfect throw pillow for a couch or bed. The blanket is soft to the touch, supplying a warm and welcoming embrace. It is carefully sewn and hand-finished for uniqueness. It measures 56" x 56" and is great for cold mornings on the couch or a lovely afternoon picnic.
The pillow and blanket are available on the site to purchase separately, but buying as a set will save you $24.00!
- Pillow dimensions: 17" x 17"
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St Hilarion Castle is named after a hermit and monk who escaped from persecution in Palestine, and lived on the mountain where the castle stands today. The saint resisted the cries of tempting demons who stalked the mountain in the 7th century AD with ease – because he was stone deaf and couldn't hear them. Eventually the demons left him, and the mountain, in peace.
St Hilarion Castle and Disney's Snow White:
With its system of three sets of defensive walls and towers, topped with the redoubt, the castle certainly has a fairy-tale look about it. The writer Rose Macaulay called it "a picture-book castle for elf-kings" and the rumour still persists that Walt Disney based Snow White's castle on this North Cyprus original. At the bottom of the complex is the bailey, a courtyard inside the walls containing the stables and barracks. You climb steadily to another gate, which leads into the royal apartments and past the Byzantine church and dining hall. Onwards and upwards, you will discover another set of apartments, another dining hall and more barracks, before finally reaching the tower at the very summit of the twin peaked mountain. From here, the view across to Kyrenia and along the coastline is simply amazing.
Kyrenia (Greek: Κερύνεια, Kerýneia; Turkish: Girne) is a town on the northern coast of Cyprus, noted for its historic harbour and castle.In its heyday Kyrenia harbour was lined with warehouses in which were stored the fruits of the countryside whilst they awaited export. The harbour is currently used largely for pleasure craft, and the buildings are now mostly all restaurants, with outdoor tables along the water. The harbour is particularly busy during the summer season, which is when it is greeted with mass loads of tourists. Daily boat tours of Kyrenia and Karpaz take off from this ancient harbour. A larger harbour is located a few miles east of the town centre, used by commercial shipping and ferries from the Turkish mainland. Despite the unrecognized state of the TRNC, it is known that Cruise liners carrying tourists often stop at Kyrenia before making their way onto different Destinations, such as Egypt. This has been said to be the collapse of the decades long embargo that the TRNC has been under.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrenia


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Say you have a client (or yourself, perhaps) who's heavily into fantasy sports. So heavily, perhaps, that he's one of the 25 million-plus players who fork over more than $1 billion annually for the privilege of putting together a "dream team" of actual football (or baseball or basketball or hockey) players and pitting them against other similarly constructed teams.
While this rapidly growing activity can be free, for those investing actual money in their teams, fees can range from $20 to as high as $500 or even $1,000, depending on the league. And with some devotees "owning" multiple teams, what could be more frustrating (and costly) than—as in real life—drafting a player who ends up sidelined with an injury and missing all the action?
Well, now there's a solution for that: FantasyPlayerProtect, real insurance coverage for fantasy sports players. The brainchild of Phoenix businessman and fantasy gamer Joseph LaGiglia and the product of a partnership between FantasyPlayerProtect LLLP and MiniCo Insurance Agency LLC, the coverage will reimburse gamers for up to $1,000 in league entry fees and up to $250 for "ancillary expenses" such as subscriptions incurred in the course of "maximizing the value of your fantasy team" should a covered key player be injured and unable to play.
Gamers can insure up to five key players on a team and no more than 10 players in any one fantasy sports season. There are four coverage options for football, relating to the championship games in weeks 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the season. Premiums (yes, the premiums are real too) run between 9% and 13% of a gamer's league fees. There are restrictions on when coverage may be purchased and on which players, and each player insured is covered according to underwriting for that specific player.
The whole thing, as appropriate for a sport run entirely online (albeit with real player stats), can be handled online; a policy portal at FantasyPlayerProtect.com handles everything from the application to purchase and policy issuance. MiniCo serves as the program administrator for the coverage, and FantasyPlayerProtect provides product design and marketing consulting services for the program. The policy itself is underwritten by carriers rated A by A.M. Best.
While MiniCo is not usually known for such coverage—founded, according to the company's website, in 1974 as a provider of specialty insurance products and publications for the self-storage industry—it's since branched out. It's a member of the Aran Insurance Services Group, and these days offers not only self-storage coverage but also products for collectibles, agribusiness and sports activities (real and fantasy).
But it may be onto something with this new coverage. "Fantasy sports gamers spend a lot of time and money on their fantasy teams as part of the ownership experience," said John LaCava, president and CEO of Aran Insurance Services Group, in a comment on the firm's website. "FantasyPlayerProtect is the next logical step for serious fantasy sports gamers to protect their teams."
Interest is running high, according to LaGiglia. "The total policies sold figures won't be available until after this year's Super Bowl," he said. However, he added that the firm expects "exponential growth in 2014" and has already gotten "hundreds of pre-signups for our FantasyPlayerProtect insurance product relating to all of the top four U.S. fantasy sports (football, baseball, basketball and hockey)."
While at this writing the teams heading for the Super Bowl were still fighting it out to get through the playoffs, by the time this article hits print the game will be only a few days away and the season nearly over. So what's a fantasy league gamer to do till football season starts again? Take heart, and work up a basketball, hockey or baseball league. According to LaGiglia, "We hope to have most, if not all, available for the 2014 seasons."
If American sports aren't your thing, LaGiglia has a ray of sunshine for you too: "As we continue to grow FantasyPlayerProtect's presence domestically, we believe future opportunities may develop due to the rising popularity for international fantasy sports such as soccer (football), cricket and rugby."


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Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again and hey, pilgrim, isn't it about time? might do well to take in Flyboys. In this elaborate, computer-generated fantasy, the plucky volunteer pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille are once more cast as "knights of the sky," dashing young Americans who soar aloft in flimsy wood-and-canvas biplanes, shoot down a glowering Hun or two over the verdant fields of France, then return to the chateau to quaff Cognac and sing bawdy ballads in tribute to their fallen comrades.
In this glossy version of the War to End All Wars, belief in mission rarely wavers, fear and battle fatigue are momentary aberrations, and there's always a gorgeous mademoiselle living down the next tree-shaded lane who's endlessly thankful that the Yanks have come over to make the world safe for democracy. For that matter, their mustachioed commanding officer, Captain Thenault (played by the elegant veteran Jean Reno), is pretty thankful himself. This is one Frenchman who loves Americans: without them, he'd probably be eating wienerschnitzel and polishing the Kaiser's boots.
As for that other, less convenient World War I embodied in the grim, futile slaughterhouses of Verdun and the Marne well, there's no point in revisiting that old mess, no use even thinking about the hundreds of thousands of dismembered corpses rotting down there in the mud. Because the romantic heroes of Flyboys are figuratively and literally above it all. You won't find much All Quiet on the Western Front-style despair vexing them. Instead, this is 1927 and the synthetic valor of Wings is washing over us again, even to an impressive reproduction of William Wellman's famous scene in which Allied airplanes attack a German dirigible. This is Howard Hughes' obsessive-compulsive, jingo-laden war epic Hell's Angels revisited and revered. This is aerial spectacle in the service of myth, wherein the paths of glory are unsullied by doubt or disillusionment. "You gotta find your own meaning in this war," one veteran pilot advises, certain in his heart that one actually exists.
The real history of the Lafayette Escadrille a corps of mostly American volunteers who started flying for France a year before the United States entered the war in 1917 contains as much screw-up and absurdity as actual heroism (for instance, the squadron's first casualty lost his life while flying a crate of oranges to a wounded friend), and the three screenwriters on Flyboys (Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans, and David S. Ward) predictably pick and choose from the bright side. Their fictionalized, composite pilots include rawboned Texas cowboy Blaine Rawlings (Spider-Man's James Franco), whose family has just lost the ranch back in Aberdeen; a stuffy rich boy from Boston (Tyler Labine) who has a few things to learn about social equality; a world-weary flying ace (Martin Henderson) who worries that the newcomers won't survive, and, probably because the filmmakers would like to herd everyone into the tent, an expatriate African-American prizefighter (Abdul Salis) whose father was a slave. The squadron actually did have one black pilot, Eugene Bullard, but his story was quite different and might make a good movie in its own right.
For now, director Tony Bill is concerned less with individuals than with esprit de corps. Handsomely decked out in tailored leather trenchcoats and, in some cases, the kind of flowing silk scarves Snoopy used to wear when he did imaginary battle with the Red Baron, the flyers of the Escadrille make for a suave bunch. This despite the fact that one of them is portrayed as a meek, teetotaling Bible-thumper and another as a buck-toothed hick who fled to Europe after he got caught trying to stick up a Wisconsin bank with a toy gun. Going against the blood-red Fokker triplanes of German Jagdstaffeln, the boys are uniformly intrepid, and Bill directs the exciting aerial combat scenes with great verve. He gets a lot of help, of course, from CGI technology, which neither the crazed perfectionist Hughes nor the makers of 1966's The Blue Max had at their disposal.
Back on earth, Bill plumps up the proceedings with a superfluous romance between Franco's handsome Texan and startlingly beautiful French girl Lucienne (Jennifer Decker), culminating in a preposterous rescue scene in which the young hero spirits his lady love away from a platoon of growling Germans in his trusty single-engine Nieuport. For this dubious act Rawlings is sternly reprimanded by the imperious Captain Thenault, then promptly awarded the Croix de Guerre. In the end, after 139 minutes, Rawlings must also do battle with the movie's archvillain, a ruthless German ace who flies a jet-black Fokker with a fierce white falcon painted on the fuselage, and that encounter turns out just as it would in any Hollywood air combat epic. World War I may have been the bloodiest, most useless atrocity in the history of mankind, but not tonight, not in this movie.
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MONROVIA, Liberia — We're in the upper edges of Liberia, neighboring the border of Guinea, enjoying an alfresco dinner with the crew from the local radio station, swatting at mosquitoes, swigging down Liberian beer to mute the heat of that divinely delicious red-pepper sauce. We're talking about land disputes, the havoc wreaked by two civil wars and how hard it is to do community radio with an all-volunteer staff, when a young man leans in to ask me a question.
"Tell me," he says. "Is there rape in the United States?"
"Of course," I tell him, stammering a bit in surprise.
The young man looks at me dubiously as I talk about date rape, incest and child abuse. "Rape is a very big problem here in Liberia," he tells me.
He's right, of course. It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the problem in Liberia. Here, rape became a tool of war (just as it did in Bosnia, the Congo and Sri Lanka — and as it has been as long as there has been war in the world). Estimates vary widely, but between 60 percent and 90 percent of the female population — women, girls, babies — was raped at some point between 1989 and 2003, the 14-year stretch of Liberia's brutal civil war. Men and boys were, too. Gang rapes were common. They still are.
The Scars of a Nation
Liberia, which was founded by freed American slaves, is a nation with a collective case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Rape remains a part of the national psyche, perhaps because there were so many, perhaps because it was often a public affair. Just ask Mark Delighted Dowee, a one-time general in Charles Taylor's army, who now works as a rice farmer alongside other ex-combatants.
"They raped my mother in front of me," Dowee says of rebel forces in his village, "and then they carried my sister away. I never saw her again. I said to myself, 'I have to defend my family.' "
Of his own complicity in the war, Dowee has this to say: "For me, I did not kill anybody. I killed my enemies."
Today, one-time enemies live side by side. This, of course, has posed its own set of problems: Dowee says, "We had to develop love for each other." But putting away the guns was the easy part. Getting over the war's legacy of sexual violence has proved much more difficult. Seven years after the last shots were fired, rape still permeates Liberia.
For most Americans who even bother to pay attention to the affairs of this West African nation, Liberia's rape statistics warrant little more than some head shaking and tsk-tsking. But this country's problems have far-reaching effects: Two years ago, an 8-year-old girl from a Liberian family was gang-raped in Arizona.
Or, as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — herself the survivor of sexual violence — puts it, "It stems from the victimization of women during the many years of conflict, because rape was not part of any historical black male society, but women were used as sex slaves [during the Liberian civil wars], and so that has now entered into part of the value system.
"[There] has to be the education to try to change that culture and that violence that relegates women to just being assets for sex."
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This is what it looks like when a war-weary nation tries to change that culture.
At a safe house for sex-abuse victims right outside Monrovia, blue, pink, yellow, green and orange balloons hang from the low ceilings. The generator hums along; the overriding vibe here is one of quiet good cheer. Over one office door hangs a sign, "Counseling." Outside, children play. They are the clinic's patrons.
The clinic is part of THINKLiberia, a faith-based Liberian nongovernmental organization headed up by Rosanna Schaack, a Liberian nurse who was adopted by European missionaries as a child. "THINK" — Liberians are fond of acronyms — stands for "Touching Humanity in Need of Kindness."
For many of the women and girls who come here, kindness has been in short supply in their lives. About 65 people flock to the safe house each month, victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse. They are brought in mostly by the police, thanks to a new sex-crimes unit set up by Liberia's minister of justice. The victims range from age 2 through adulthood, but most are 13 to 17 years old. This is a big improvement, Shaack says; the majority of them used to be between 6 and 12.
Why are the victims so young?
"We don't know that," says Shaack, a small, sweet-faced woman who speaks with a lilt. "Some people are just sick. Some do it because they think it will bring them luck."
Shaack says that she has a hard time convincing the victims to press charges. "They won't come to court. Culturally, they don't want to send someone to jail. But we tell them that [rape] is a crime against the state." Compounding their reluctance is the fact that most times, the perpetrator is someone the victim knows: a neighbor, a stepfather, an uncle. "Most of the parents blame the survivor," Shaack says. "They don't know the perpetrator is to blame."
Such was the case with 14-year-old Kebbeh Famdfie, who'd been trying to tell her mother for years that her father was raping her. The abuse started when she was 10 and went on for four long years, but her mother refused to listen — or to help.
Never mind that her father had threatened to kill her if she told anyone; never mind that her mother refused to hear her out. Kebbeh kept talking about what was happening, until someone — two someones, her uncle and her grandmother — listened, and they got angry, too. Now her father is in jail awaiting a court hearing, and she is living at the clinic, far from her mother, with whom she no longer speaks.
"I want to be a lawyer, a female lawyer," Kebbeh says, one who puts rapists in prison. "Because of what my father did to me."
Modernity Is Still Fighting Tradition
Willie L. Tokpa is strutting around the offices of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Nimba County, deep in Liberia's interior. It's hard not to look at him: He's got close-cropped hair, smooth, deeply brown skin bordering on black, and he's sporting a leopard-print cap festooned with two cowrie shells, a long brocade tunic, and black-and-white pin-striped pants. He's handsome, yes, and he's got attitude to spare. A member of the Mano tribe, Tokpa is here representing as "the chief of chiefs." "There are so many powerful chiefs," he says, "but I am the One."
He's here, ostensibly, to talk about land disputes in Nimba County — postwar, there's a lot of confusion about who owns what — but today he has other things on his mind. Such as how those "human rights" people, or NGO workers, are screwing things up for Africans, interfering in traditional ways. "It's confusing us in Liberia, very confusing."
Of particular concern to Tokpa: the modern woman of Liberia. He paces around the room, miming the differences between the traditional woman versus today's woman. This one walks, head down, speaks in a low voice, wears long skirts. That one — he stands upright, folding his arms belligerently, thrusting out his butt — she talks back and wears short skirts. And that, he says, is why these women are raped: "Some men get hard," he says. "They see their butts shaking, woo-woo-woo!" Rape can't be helped.
"So what are we to make of the 1-year-olds here that are raped?" I ask him. "Are they dressed too provocatively as well?"
"That to me is a wickedness," he says. "Taking a baby and making it like that's your wife is a sickness. You have to pay the penalty. You be in jail and you die. That's the only way it will get better."
Some 250,000 died in the war — wars — here, widely regarded as one of Africa's bloodiest. More than 1 million were displaced. Those who could flee fled. Those who couldn't stayed and suffered. Families were broken.
Soldiers forced men to rape their daughters in front of others. Mothers were forced to have sex with their sons; sisters, with their brothers. The war made women widows and children orphans. Left to fend for themselves, young girls became vulnerable to sex trafficking and rape. Where there were once stable families, there are now young single moms raising children alone.
Some of them, like Hannah Farr, a 27-year-old student at Cuttington University in Bong County, are raising children who are the result of rape. "He's 7," Farr says of her son, adding as an afterthought, "It was during the war."
How do you recover from war and the destruction that it creates?
"When we advocated for peace," says Lindorah Howard-Diawara, national network coordinator of Women in Peacebuilding (WIPNET) of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, "we just wanted the guns to be silenced. We thought that we'd go back to a normal life. That wasn't the case."
Instead, she says, rape increased. It became a part of the national DNA, an irony in a country that in 2005 elected the first woman president on the continent. And that is the dichotomy here. Everywhere you go, it seems that the people of Liberia, men especially, have been sensitized to the issue of rape. (Tokpa is the notable exception to what I encountered.)
Have the Lessons Been Learned?
As with just about every war-torn country, when the government could not help its citizenry, the NGOs swept in to fill the void, educating, counseling, mediating. And listening to young men like my dinner companion in Nimba, I can't help thinking that sometimes, they're just parroting lessons that they've learned from the NGOs.
Everywhere, there are billboards reminding Liberians that rape is a crime, that women are to be respected. Community radio stations, Liberia's most prominent form of media, broadcast public information campaigns against rape.
And it is indeed now considered a serious crime here; those charged with the crime are no longer granted bail. The definition of rape has been expanded to include penetration by any means. Gang rape now brings with it a life sentence upon conviction. But the problem persists.
"We're torn with, what else can we do, given the fact that we're committed to the promotion and respect of human rights," President Sirleaf says. For example, the fact that someone who's been charged with rape cannot get bail is being challenged by legal scholars. Given that, she says, "How do we go after the aggressor without violating their rights?"
The solution, as Sirleaf sees it: Increase education; reduce poverty. Get the girls into the schools and out of the streets. Educate the society that girls are to be treasured. Prosecute the offenders.
"If a lady feels she has gotten some justice," says Howard-Diwara, the peace activist, "it can help her heal mentally."
Teresa Wiltz is The Root's senior editor. She traveled to Liberia on a Gatekeeper Editors trip organized by the International Reporting Project. Follow her on Twitter.


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Subject description: GnoMenu + Screenlets in just 54 KB
Hello dear desktop tweakers,
if you like a fancy startmenu or want to add some simple widgets without a truckload of dependencies then I probably got something for you.
What Navig8or is:
By default, Navig80r is a borderless, pseudo-transparent window which may be populated with a few widgets specified in a config file.
Currently available widgets are:
1) Shaped button
2) label
3) image
4) launch entry field
5) application menu
6) monitoring display
7) drop target
What the widgets do:
1) Shaped buttons launch an application linked to them when clicked. If they are not set as persistent, the Navig8or window they are attached to will be closed.
2) Labels are good for displaying some text - what else?
3) Images - well - no explanation necessary I think
4) Type the name of your application into the field, press ENTER, and your program starts
5) Basically what you already know from JWM's startmenu, but as a widget ready to be added to your customized menu window.
6) The monitoring display reads the content of the text file linked to it (once per second), and displays that content.
7) The drop target retrieves the drop item's full path and launches an associated program with it.
How to control them:
Navig8or is started with the following parameters:
"/usr/local/navig8or $POSX $POSY /path/to/config"
$POSX and $POSY determine the position of the top left corner of the windoe on the screen
The Config file:
Every widget to be displayed requires a little one-liner in the config file, among with a few important window settings. The config options are:
--- Closes the window whenever it loses the focus
<geometry>x=xSize y=ySize</geometry>
--- Determines the window's width and height
<showimage>Image="/path/to/image" x=xPos y=yPos</showimage>
--- Displays the linked image at position xPos yPos (from the top left of the navig8or window)
<shapedbutton>Image="/path/to/image" x=xPos y=yPos command="/path/to/application" Kill=yes/no</shapedbutton>
--- A button shaped according to the mask generated from the icon dusplayed on it, which starts the linked application when pressed. The Kill option may be yes or no. If it's yes the application window will be closed if the button is pressed, otherwise it will stay open and active afterwards.
<showmenu>x=xPos y=yPos</showmenu>
--- Shows the main menu
<showentry>x=xPos y=yPos</showentry>
--- Shows the launcher entry
<showlabel>Text="Insert text here" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever</showlabel>
--- Shows a text at the specified position in the specified color
<monitor>File="/path/to/textfile" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever</monitor>
--- Constantly monitors the content of the linked textfile and displays it as a text in the specified color.
<droptarget>Image="/path/to/file" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever command="application"</droptarget>
--- Provides a drop target widget which launches programs and associates the dropped file to it.
The screenshot shows a few things you can do with Navig8or, I included a few configs in the dotpet (the ones that made most sense).
- Monitoring widgets (top right)
--->image + monitoring from a text file in /root/.navig8or/datafiles
- Menu (bottom left)
---> included everything except for monitoring stuff. The window will close if it loses focus, after a certain amount of time, and when one of the widgets included is triggered
- Launcher icons (bottom left, behind the menu, and bottom right)
---> shaped button: the left one starts the menu, the right one immediately opens the TinyLogout window I included in the package
Stuff I didn't include:
- Wallpaper "widget"
--->simply a window scaled up to fit the screen with a scaled version of the wallpaper I wanted to use. My pic2root program is more effective, however, so I didn't bother including this one in the mix.
- Dock (top)
---> an image with lots of shaped buttons on it. Just a copy of my wbar launcher, no need to include it either.
- try to improve it's speed
Well, so much from my side. Any suggestions and feedback is very welcome. Have fun with it, I did already.
Repacked the dotpet as I forgot to remove the theme skelleton I used for the older version.
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Posted: Fri 25 Mar 2011, 16:35
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I cant believe no one replied to this yet!
This is very initersting
This uses pesodo transparency, which fails epic-ly on my dwm. Try to spot navig8tor
Anyways. nice
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Posted: Sat 26 Mar 2011, 11:33
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This looks great.
i planning to use it with yeahwm on White Fang (3.01) but i get an error:
# /usr/local/navig8or/navig8or
no config file found. Exiting ...
The navig8or(s) in the backup do show up when called but the menu do not work.
menu might need an configured?
i'll play more
logout errors:
# /usr/local/logout/logout
(logout:19360): Gtk-WARNING **: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old (micro mismatch)
/usr/local/logout/logout: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/logout/logout: undefined symbol: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text
My gtk too old?
It would help if i was not using an deadpup on an old laptop that will not die.
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Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011, 03:33
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You'll find working configs in /root/.navig8or. I'll still need to clean up a few things and repack the dotpet, as I changed a lot of features and options after packing that backup config into /usr/local.
As for your error: I compiled navig8or on Puppy 5.00, which has a newer version of GTK. You either need to update GTK on your machine, or install a newer version of Puppy Linux. You could also try to recompile navig8or (the sourcecode's included, after all), but I have my doubts it'll fix the lack of a feature.
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Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011, 21:09
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Thanks WarMocK
Did you compiled Logout-1.2.pet on Puppy 5.00 as well?
Because i installed the Logout-1.2.pet and now it works.
What icon set used with logout?
I have not had time to play with navig8or yet.
Keep up the good work.
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2011, 17:36
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Yep, compiled it on 5.00 as well. And you can find the icons used under /usr/local/logout/icons if you want to edit them, as well as the header/footer image and the image for the canvel button.
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Posted: Sun 03 Apr 2011, 18:24
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Really fascinating. A tree menu system, launcher, panel maker, wallpaperer, and conky - all rolled into one lightweight package. Nicely done.
A few comments:
I tested it on pup431 and found the following-
The default "config" would not run the left hand file commands unless the " Kill=" were added to the <shapedbutton> as follows;
<showimage>Image="/root/menutheme/back.png" x=0 y=0</showimage>
<showimage>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/avatar.png" x=20 y=20</showimage>
<showimage>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/frame.png" x=12 y=12</showimage>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/folder-home.png" x=20 y=80 command="/usr/local/navig8or/scripts/home.sh" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/folder-documents.png" x=20 y=130 command="/usr/local/navig8or/scripts/downloads.sh" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/folder-downloads.png" x=20 y=180 command="/usr/local/navig8or/scripts/docs.sh" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/folder-media.png" x=20 y=230 command="/usr/local/navig8or/scripts/media.sh" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/folder-pictures.png" x=20 y=280 command="/usr/local/navig8or/scripts/pictures.sh" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/button.png" x=10 y=370 command="/usr/local/logout/logout" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<shapedbutton>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/search.png" x=52 y=370 command="/usr/local/bin/pfind" Kill=no</shapedbutton>
<showimage>Image="/usr/local/navig8or/images/menu.png" x=77 y=77</showimage>
<showmenu>x=80 y=80 Kill=no</showmenu>
<showentry>x=80 y=370 Kill=no</showentry>
<showlabel>Text="Welcome," x=80 y=20 color=white</showlabel>
<showlabel>Text="Puppy Linux user" x=90 y=40 color=white</showlabel>
I was hoping that adding " Kill-no" would make the <showmenu> and <showentry> items also persistent, but apparently it's not applicable there.
Also, the <unfocusquit> doesn't seem to work- or maybe I don't understand how to use it.
Anyway, this is real "swiss-army-knife" menuing and screening utility with promise. Thanks.
By the way, what kind of tool do you use to place x,y coordinates for the items in a program like this?
(I don't know what Gtk+ level pup431 has, and don't even know how to check that.... also, just looked at the source code and the parsing for finding "commands" uses " Kill=" as the ending point, so if that's missing, the "command" given to "run" isn't correct)
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Posted: Mon 04 Apr 2011, 05:22
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Yes, the menu and the entry aren't persistent - yet. I probably will change that pretty soon, though. I wanted to tweak the entry widget anyway, so I can use it in conjunction with shaped button widgets as well.
Also, if you add the line "<property>unfocusquit</property>" to your config, the application will close as soon as the window loses the focus. If you change the line to something else, the window will stay even if it loses the focus.
And yes, the "kill=yes/no" option is mandatory, otherwise parsing the commands won't work properly. The package needs to be cleaned up a bit, I might have mixed a few incompatible configs by accident.
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Any new updates
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Not yet, but I'm working on it. Prob is I still gotta finish my work on two Desktop Environments atm, and I'm writing a simulator for a browser game as well.
Turned out that drag&drop fields are far more complicated than I expected, but I'm certain that I'll crack that nut as well.
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is this still being worked on? if not, is the source anywhere? I'm sure a few people would like to play with this further... It seems a little buggy out of the box, yet to play with it seriously, but very nice indeed!
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Posted: Fri 11 May 2012, 09:32
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sc0ttman wrote:
is this still being worked on?
Yep, don't worry. Navig8or is not dead. ^^
However I had lots and lots of work to do in the past few months, and I have a lot of linux projects running, so I had no time to add the last feature, the Drag&Drop field which gets the absolute path to a file being dropped onto it (still gotta figure out how this works).
As soon as I finished my work on the basic system of my multi-user patch for Puppy Linux, I give Navig8or another shot (just solved the mounting issue for physical devices, now I need to test whether my security system works with loopback devices as well, and tweak quite a few programs which deal with mounting).
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Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2012, 22:24
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a tiny launcher interface I've written for a minimalistiv Desktop Environment called veRTix
Are there any DotPets of
looks useful.
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harii4 wrote:
a tiny launcher interface I've written for a minimalistiv Desktop Environment called veRTix
Are there any DotPets of
looks useful.
Not yet, but I can create one once I get home today.
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