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Good Life

OneRepublic has re-created their hit music video "Good Life" and it's a performance you won't want to miss. The artists are making memories around some of your favorite Disney attractions at Walt Disney World Resort and they're joined by several familiar faces, including Donald Duck on drums. Read more at the Disney Parks Blog: http://bit.ly/skuav4

Germs on Planes

Where Germs Lurk on Planes

It's a common complaint: Fly on a crowded plane and come home with a cold. What's in the air up there?

Air travelers suffer higher rates of disease infection, research has shown. One study pegged the increased risk for catching a cold as high as 20%. And the holidays are a particularly infectious time of year, with planes packed full of families with all their presents—and all those germs.

Also, viruses and bacteria can live for hours on some surfaces—some viral particles have been found to be active up to a day in certain places. Tray tables can be contaminated, and seat-back pockets, which get stuffed with used tissues, soiled napkins and trash, can be particularly skuzzy. It's also difficult to know what germs are lurking in an airline's pillows and blankets.

Hydrate. Drinking water and keeping nasal passages moist with a saline spray can reduce your risk of infection.

Clean your hands frequently with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. We often infect ourselves, touching mouth, nose or eyes with our own hands that have picked up something.

Use a disinfecting wipe to clean off tray tables before using.

Avoid seat-back pockets.

Open your air vent, and aim it so it passes just in front of your face. Filtered airplane air can help direct airborne contagions away from you.

Change seats if you end up near a cougher, sneezer or someone who looks feverish. That may not be possible on very full flights, but worth a try. One sneeze can produce up to 30,000 droplets that can be propelled as far as six feet.

Raise concerns with the crew if air circulation is shut off for an extended period.

Avoid airline pillows and blankets (if you find them).

The rest of the article here.

Prep & Landing

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Enjoy the New Holiday Special Again and Again
The Christmas elves are back and they're teaming up with Noel, the foremost Naughty Kid Field Expert, in a race to recover classified North Pole technology from a computer-hacking Naughty Kid!
Watch the full special and more new videos online!

Secret Santas

Secret Santas give out $12,000 in $100 bills

If you had $12,000 sitting in the bank, what would you do?

You might pay down the mortgage, buy a car, maybe leave the money to collect some measly interest.

Well, how about withdrawing it in crisp $100 bills, heading to the streets and handing out every last cent to strangers? That’s exactly what a married couple did Monday, for the fourth year running. They took out all that cash — remember, $12,000! — and went around Lincoln Park and Detroit, wearing red Christmas elf hats, and gave the money to people they did not know.

No strings attached.

“I get such joy out of this,” said the woman, who, like her husband, allowed the Free Press to ride along in exchange for not naming them. “What I get for my 12 grand every year is the best day of my life.”

The rest of the article here (and YOU SHOULD READ IT!).

Sugar Bowl

Ry's Motorcycle

So a few weeks ago Ryan bought his motorcycle. I haven't posted much about it because we haven't had it at our place much. It was off getting checked out and fixed up, then we were waiting on the registration and title. Now everything is at least at the house, so Ry went out for a couple rides this weekend. It is a 1971 Honda CB 450. There is some work Ryan wants to do on it, but it is ridable and he likes it (which, I am told, is all that matters). We shot a couple pictures of it tonight by the garage (maybe I'll get some action shots after the holidays).