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AROUND TOWNTenant group calls for EPA city manager's ouster
A tenants' rights group is calling for the replacement of East Palo Alto City Manager Magda Gonzalez after the group reviewed...Original post made on Jul. 11, 2014
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PALO ALTO ISSUESWork on Oregon Expressway to close lanes tonight
Construction crews will be installing new roadway markings on Oregon Expressway Friday night, prompting lane closures in...Original post made on Aug. 22, 2014
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PALO ALTO ISSUESPalo Alto Airport gets ready to fly solo
Even as Palo Alto's airport risks losing $150,000 in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant money, one representative...Original post made on Sep. 27, 2013
Last comment by can't wait, on Aug 22, 2014 at 4:53 pm | 34 comments | 9775 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUESBilling errors lead to higher assessments for Palo Alto businesses
A "clerical error" has prompted the City of Palo Alto to send incorrect bills to downtown businesses as part of their assessment...Original post made on Aug. 21, 2014
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SPORTSStanford fills baseball coaching vacancies with familiar faces
The Stanford baseball program named three assistant coaches Friday. Brock Ungricht rejoins Mark Marquess' staff this year,...Original post made on Aug. 22, 2014
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AROUND TOWNLocal road closures, why can't we be told here?
Just got back from driving around town to a couple of different appointments and discovered that Meadow is closed to traffic...Original post made by Resident on Jun. 30, 2014
Last comment by Resident, on Aug 22, 2014 at 9:30 am | 10 comments | 685 Views
PALO ALTO ISSUESReal-world PA Town Square?
I've been thinking it'd be fun to have a real-world gathering of PAOnline Forum posters/members, a civil, friendly gathering...Original post made by Chris Zaharias on Aug. 14, 2014
Last comment by Chris Zaharias, on Aug 22, 2014 at 8:50 am | 47 comments | 877 Views
AROUND TOWNMoonlight Run/Walk celebrates 30th year
Pull out those running shoes and hop on the Internet — it's time to register for the 30th Annual Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight...Original post made on Aug. 22, 2014
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AROUND TOWNA place to be
Just a few blocks away from the bustle of downtown Palo Alto, there is a house whose old-fashioned style, blue hues and slender...Original post made on Aug. 8, 2014
Last comment by Sara Taylor, on Aug 21, 2014 at 5:08 pm | 14 comments | 6930 Views
AROUND TOWNShop Talk: More mall, restaurants flock downtown
In this week's Shop Talk column, read the latest on Stanford Shopping Center's big expansion, three new restaurants set to...Original post made on Aug. 18, 2014
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PALO ALTO ISSUESYMCA refuses to budge on Page Mill gym closure
A special meeting between leaders of the YMCA of Silicon Valley and members of the Page Mill YMCA branch to discuss staving...Original post made on Jul. 30, 2014
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AROUND TOWNMembers of Page Mill YMCA look to city for help
Calling the proposed closure of the Page Mill YMCA a colossal loss for the Palo Alto community, patrons of the gym on Monday...Original post made on Aug. 5, 2014
Last comment by Sea=Seelam, on Aug 21, 2014 at 1:25 pm | 78 comments | 23408 Views
SCHOOLS & KIDSRavenswood district seeks input on new, consolidated middle school
The Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto is launching an "intensive listening campaign" to solicit community...Original post made on Aug. 21, 2014
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SPORTSGunn grads invited to play in Champions Tour golfing event
Recent Gunn grads Jack Jaffe and Anna Zhou, both of whom represent The First Tee of Silicon Valley, were invited to play...Original post made on Aug. 21, 2014
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AROUND TOWNI wonder if the spam string is on purpose
A few posters have sounded unhappy with some of the issues discussed on the threads, I wonder if the spam is on purpose?...Original post made by resident on Aug. 21, 2014
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PALO ALTO ISSUESPUBLIC AGENDA: historic preservation, 385 Sherman Ave.
Read the full story here http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/06/27/public-agenda posted Friday, June 27, 2014, 7:49...Original post made on Jul. 1, 2014
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AROUND TOWNMosquitoes?
Anybody else finding them bad this last day or so? Last time it was because of problems in the Baylands. Anything going...Original post made by Itchy in South Palo Alto on Aug. 16, 2014
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PALO ALTO ISSUESAvenidas names new president and CEO
Amy Andonian, a nonprofit executive with experience in services to seniors and caregivers, will become the new president...Original post made on Aug. 20, 2014
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AROUND TOWNThe next generation
Mandarin Roots, the revamped version of Palo Alto's longtime Chinese standby Hunan Garden, is fresh, contemporary and inviting....Original post made on Aug. 20, 2014
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SCHOOLS & KIDSBikes crossing Oregon with new lights and safety islands
I would love to hear comments from those who use these intersections today and for the new school year, bikes, drivers, pedestrians....Original post made by Paly Parent on Aug. 18, 2014
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OK I Changed The Title
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Family Outing - Inside Out
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Relay for Life, Menlo Park, August 8
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Tempe's Neighborhood Wine Bar
Always the freshest quality
Salut Kitchen Bar, located in Tempe, Arizona was voted Best Wine Bar by AZ Central in their very first year. It offers a wide array of flavorful and innovative menu items inspired by a mix of Mediterranean and American cuisine.
Salut Kitchen Bar is Tempe's Rustic-chic neighborhood bar providing fine wines, craft cocktails & tapas in a eclectic European atmosphere. At Salut Kitchen Bar, Chef Jesse folds Mediterranean and American flavors into dishes like hummus nachos, crispy pita smothered in hummus, feta, pomegranate, and a balsamic reduction drizzle. He spices his Sun Devil turkey burger with pepper bacon and chipotle aioli spice, sweetens his Brie-Hive Panini with honey butter, and drizzles the pistachio crusted salmon with honey. Diners can compliment their meals with more than 100 wines, which they can order by the glass or bottle from Salut's rustic wooden bar. The remaining 3,400 square feet of the European-inspired restaurant houses a wine room and a custom glass garage door that opens onto a 1,250-square foot patio where your dog may join you.

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Unprofessional , never organized.
Location . walking distance from convenience store and waffle house.
Staff way too slow ! Pillows too flat !
Clean and comfortable, and great location
pets stayed free, laminate floors (easier than carpet with pets), friendliness of staff, newly renovated.
Staff was great all around. At checkout I forgot a book in my room and they called me right away. They would've mailed it to me, but I was still nearby so I picked it up.
Older fridge and microwave were serviceable. Close to downtown area.
Room was basically very clean except the carpets need to be replaced.(several old stains)
Front Desk clerk tried her best to satisfy, but with limited and degraded resources, was unsuccessful.
I had reserved a non-smoking room. I checked into the room and was overcome by the odor of smoke when I opened the door. There was an ash tray on the table and even burn holes in the comforter. I went down to the lobby and the clerk was apologetic and tried to find another room. One was found but still had to be doused in odor ban as the room had an unpleasant smell. I was told that they had re-arranged which rooms were non-smoking and which were smoking a few months ago. Management should realize you just can't rearrange the non-smoking decals but that you need to have the rooms cleaned as well. No need to leave the light on for me as I will not be returning! Better off staying 30 minutes away in Rock Hill or an hour away in Columbia.
Good price
Our room smelled like smoke and we got a non-smoking room. Shower curtain was stained. There was a hole punched in the bathroom door.
The human being,in the room above me, wander around all night, woke me up at eleven pm.
Nothing at all!!!
Took them an hour to find us a room after I paid for room days in advance. First room they gave us had people sleeping in the beds once we walked in. Second room had a dog in it. Third room the toilet didn't work. And the forth room we were told that we
Seemed a little old and worn.
The location was extremely convenient and the room was as described. The breakfast was decent and the staff was extremely friendly.
My fiance and I woke up the next morning covered in bug bites (possibly bedbugs?), there was foreign hair under the covers, and a bottle of lubrication in the drawer with the bible (complete with sticky fingerprints all over the drawer).
Parking was convenient and room was quiet.
The floor of the room was dirty with toothpicks. Breakfast area was not clean.
Left .my room open and threw me out for complaining
We did not like anything except the location. I've stayed in better crack houses. No Wi-Fi like advertised. The door would not lock without slamming it real hard. You could see where the door, at one time, what broken into with a crow bar.
found at last minute
very unclean, bath tub was very dirty, bed mattrice had mold, refrigerator didnt work right, door lock didnt work right.
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Proper configuration for TV
I have a Panasonic TH42PX600B plasma connected to an Asus A8N-VM CSM board having an integrated Nvidia chipset with a DVI-to-HDMI cable.
It is unclear (to me) from the Nvidia driver's README if the TVStandard option actually has any effect when the DVI connection is in use.
I think the problems is that I'm connecting to a TV but I'm *not* using TV-Out. Do I need to tell the driver that my main display is a TV?
Can someone confirm the sort of settings I need? I'm currently using HD720p but motion is juddery even when I deinterlace.
Ideally I want to output 720p PAL at 50Hz.
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The TVStandard option only effecs the TV output (composite/s-video/component).
Re: Proper configuration for TV
Thanks, that helps a lot. I think I am getting there now... :)
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text: Opening Pandora's Box - My First Leopard I left school at the end of 1956 and immediately attested into the Royal Rhodesian Air Force on a short-service commission. I trained as a fighter pilot. After learning the hard way that aeroplanes are not designed to fly underground, I found myself at a loose end in civvy street by mid-1958. It had always been my ambition to join Rhodesia's Department of National Parks as a game ranger but I was then too young. Government policy dictated that one had to be 22 years of age before joining the civil service. So I arranged employments that would take me into the bush and allow me to hunt. In the spring of 1958 I turned 19 years old. In those days my parents had a farm at Karoi, some 180 miles north of Salisbury (now Harare). There I kicked my heels for many months, doing odd jobs here and there for farmers in the district. Then an old friend of the family, Mike Reynolds, asked me if I would like to help him open-up his recently pegged copper claims on the Angwa River some 100 miles north-east of Karoi. The country was very rugged and one of my jobs was to shoot game to feed ourselves and to feed the black labour force – a job for which he had all the necessary game department permits. I nearly took his hand off! We drove the first forty miles to the last of the commercial farms in the Miami district. There we left Mike's Land Rover. We then walked down the Deta Valley to the Angwa, with black porters carrying our equipment and supplies on their heads. The plan was that we spend two months working on Mike's copper claims. It took us three days to walk the distance to where the claims were located and perhaps a week to set up camp. The terrain was very rugged with high razor-back ridges rising several hundreds of feet above the crystal clear rapids of the Angwa River. Between the ridges were deep gullies with heavy cover where I was to shoot lots of bushbuck over the next many weeks. Bushbuck and klipspringers became our stable diet - and fish blasted with dynamite in the river pools. Our first task was to set up a permanent campsite. This required that we cut two wide terraces out of the steep hillside that sloped down to the river some fifty feet below – one for our white man's camp, the other for the compound that was to house the black staff. On our ledge we constructed a pole-walled hut with a thatched roof that housed all the camp supplies and in which Zook Nesbitt, Mike's 70 year-old father-in-law – who had walked all the way down the Deta with us - slept. Mike and I elected to sleep on the open ledge next to the campfire. My bed comprised four empty maize sacks. I slit each one along the side-seam and sowed them together into one large bag – which I stuffed with straw. During the day my bed lay against the wall of the terrace. At night I dragged it closer to the fire which was situated in the middle of the earthen platform. No sooner had we established camp than Mike hiked off back to Karoi. It was my job to peg the claims and to start cutting a Land-Rover track out of the Angwa. It was Mike's job to find the finance to open the copper mine. Zook – the camp's keeper - and I were then left to our own devices. About a month after our arrival at the campsite, I was awakened one morning at first light by the raucous clatter of Natal francolins. They were my regular pre-dawn alarm clock. I sat up on my palliasse, stretched, and began thinking of an early morning cup of coffee. In the gorge below, the rapids of the Angwa River rumbled away gently. It was the lullaby that sent me to sleep every night. Then my eyes fell on the fresh pugmarks of a leopard. They were clear imprints in the powdery soil all around my bed. My heart missed a beat. I looked around the camp quickly to make sure the big cat was not still with us. I saw nothing. Only then did I relax. And, still sitting quietly on my makeshift bed, I examined the spoor in greater detail. The leopard had been attracted by the smell of the bushbuck carcass that I had hung on a single strand of 8 gauge wire from a high tree branch behind the camp's thatched hut. I had shot the bushbuck late the previous evening and had hung it out harm's way just before nightfall. The leopard's footprints were all about the blood-drippings on the ground beneath the gutted carcass. But the meat was beyond its reach. It had then walked boldly into camp examining everything of interest. Its spoor was no more than a hand's breadth from the edge of my bed so it must have had a good sniff at my face as I slept. That was the only time we ever had a visitation from a leopard in the camp and, after I had got used to the idea, its close proximity to me that night exhilarated rather than alarmed me. In Africa one rarely hears of a leopard attacking an adult human so I knew, or rather felt, that I had been in no real danger from our close encounter. The following week I hunted the Nyashire valley behind the camp looking, as usual, for bushbuck. I had very quickly found out that all there was to kill in that rugged place were bushbuck and klipspringers – which I hunted every afternoon, silently and alone. That particular afternoon, I walked quietly and slowly up the Nyashire gorge – watching - waiting - listening - for bushbuck movement in the thick bush up ahead. That was the only way to successfully get a bushbuck in this kind of terrain. Move as slowly and as quietly as possible – stop – and listen. Listen more than anything else. And when you heard movement up ahead you stalked the quarry silently. Absolute silence was the key to success. But that afternoon there was no sign of them. I then moved up the hillside to a saddle in the hills that overlooked the adjacent drainage. I had walked this route many times. The saddle overlooked one of those rare gentle basins amidst the rugged hills that the bushbuck loved to frequent. The veld had been burnt clean so the aspect was wide open. There were patches of green grass emerging from the black stubble in the hollows and I knew that here, in the evenings, bushbuck liked to venture into the open to get some of the green bite. I approached the rim of the saddle cautiously. Without exposing myself I lay flat on my belly and crawled to the lip. Only the top of my head protruded amidst the rocks when I lifted my eyes, very slowly, to scan the vista below. From my left side a small dry streambed ran down to the middle of the basin creating a shallow vee in the topography. It fetched right down to the much bigger, but equally dry, water course below. Halfway down the smaller watercourse there was a waterfall – when it rained - that dropped vertically, perhaps ten feet, into a dry puddle of pebbles ensconced by a small rocky amphitheatre. There were some large trees in this hollow under which there grew a thicket of tall elephant grass and sundry brush that had not been burnt. It was a pocket of isolated heavy cover from which I had flushed many a bushbuck in previous hunts. I had learnt to be patient when still-hunting. So I lay quietly on the pebbly ground and slowly inspected the scene below me. On the stream bank at the bottom of the basin there grew three huge ebony trees and beyond them there was a heavy thicket of scrubby bushes. Bushbuck liked those thickets, too. The maximum range to any target was a hundred and fifty yards. So I knew that if a bushbuck came into the basin that evening it would be hanging in our camp larder come nightfall. All I had to do was wait and watch. There was no time left to begin another hunt elsewhere. So I had nothing to lose by just lying there and waiting out the rest of the day. There was only an hour of hunting-light left. So I lay there unobtrusively - waiting - watching - listening. I had been in position for perhaps fifteen minutes when I felt, rather than heard, subtle sounds coming from the direction of the waterfall. I focused my attention on that spot and I heard the same soft noises again. They were familiar yet strange for they seemed out of place in that environment. They sounded like a dog gnawing on a bone. I strained my ears - and heard a grunt. Bushpigs, I thought. There are bushpigs below the waterfall. The soft sounds became more obvious the harder I listened. I held my breath and shut my eyes. I focused all my senses on the sounds I was hearing. Bushpigs? No! It sounded more like a dog - but there were no dogs here. Then I heard a soft growl. It was a pleasant, contented, almost purring sound. The sound a dog or a cat makes when enjoying a meal. It was deeper, however, and much more resonant than that of a dog. It caused the hackles on the back of my neck to rise. It was a leopard. It could be nothing else. There was a leopard in the waterfall thicket feeding on a kill. The moment I understood what I was hearing the adrenaline began to pump. All over my body my nerves jangled. My hands began to shake. And all the other symptoms of juvenile buck fever became manifest. The excitement and the exhilaration that ran rife through my body at that moment was indescribable. I had never seen a wild leopard. Nevertheless, I had read all about how very dangerous they could be when wounded. There were lots of stories about the terrible maulings that hunters had suffered when they had approached a wounded leopard incautiously. All these thoughts and ideas ran round and round in my head as I lay there on the brink of the ridge and listened to the miniscule sounds of the leopard feeding. Most of the sounds were so soft that had I drawn my focused attention away from the waterfall I would not have heard them. A black-headed oriole flew across the open valley and perched on a treetop above where the leopard lay feeding. It gave vent to its strident, piping call. The bird's calling went on and on and on. It totally swamped the gentle sounds I had been listening to. But the leopard was still in there. That I knew. And because I knew its whereabouts, and because the leopard had no idea that I was lying-up so close by, I understood implicitly that I held the hunting advantage. The bird flew off. Peace returned. My initial excitement had, by then, dissipated. The buck fever had subsided and my mind had begun to function constructively. I was conscious of the fact that I only had a .22 Hornet in my hands and that the calibre was totally unsuitable for leopard hunting. I also knew, however, that the tiny bullet was capable of killing a leopard if it hit a vital organ. There was little difference between the size of a leopard's body and that of a bushbuck, and I had killed many bushbucks with the rifle I held in my hands. To kill the leopard all I had to do was to place the bullet into a vital organ – the brain, the heart or the lungs. But how was I going to get close enough to do that without being detected? The leopard was lying somewhere below the rim of the waterfall - either on the edge of the dry pebble pool, or even in it. Wherever it was I knew that I would have to approach right to the edge of the rocky precipice if I was to have any chance of even seeing it. One thing was certain. If I could not see the leopard I could not shoot it. The ground between my position and the upper edge of the waterfall was bare dark-red earth. It was covered in small rocks and pebbles and the stubble of burnt elephant grass. I knew there was no way I was going to get to the edge of the waterfall without the leopard hearing me. One false move, one clink of a shifted pebble, one rasp of a foot on a stiff piece of burnt stubble, and the leopard would be instantly aware of my presence. Trying to approach the waterfall, therefore, was out of the question. There must be another solution! I could wait and hope the leopard would finish its meal and move out into the open. But I knew that was a pious hope. The leopard was feeding heavily and I just knew it would still be feeding there come nightfall. I had read somewhere that big cats with full bellies were inclined to just lie about and rest. I understood, therefore, that once the leopard had satisfied its hunger there was no reason for it to move out of the thicket. It would probably stay there, I surmised, until after dark before moving down to the Angwa to slake its thirst. The sun had already disappeared under the rim of the mountaintops in the west. Time was running out. If I was to kill this leopard I had to make a plan - fast. It did not take me too long to reach what seemed to me to be the obvious conclusion - my only chance of getting a shot at the leopard was to get him to move out of the thicket. But how was I going to achieve that? I racked my brain. Slowly an idea began to formulate. And the more I thought about it the more I realised it was the only answer to my problem. All I needed was the gumption to put it into action. I lay for a few more moments enjoying the comfort zone of knowing that my presence was still not known to the leopard - and building up my courage. I KNEW I could do what had to be done! Presently I rose to my feet and picked up a flattish rock from the ground at my feet. It was about the size of the palm of my hand. The leopard could not see me from where it was hidden below the waterfall precipice and I had to stand up to get the leverage I needed to hurl the rock. Gripping the projectile between my thumb and forefinger I sent it flying through the air down the slope. It travelled like a discus, floating on the air like an aerofoil, and it landed about a hundred yards away down the slope. I dropped back into my position behind the rim and was well hidden by the time the rock hit the ground. Rifle at shoulder I made ready to fire. My heart was pounding once again. My chest felt tight. The rock hit the ground with a soft clattering sound. I had hoped for a much bigger noise. I was disappointed but could not now change what I had done. All I could do now was prepare myself for when the leopard left the thicket. Nothing happened. I listened attentively. There were no feeding noises coming from the thicket now. Silence reigned. I remained ready to shoot the leopard if it moved. I imagined it slinking off up the open hillside on my left, stopping once to look back. That would be my chance - when it stopped to look back! In my mind I was already willing that leopard to run out of the thicket – and to stop and look back! I waited patiently. Nothing happened! A flock of francolins began their clattering calls in the thickets beyond the stream far below. They were answered by another covey higher up the gorge. These were all sounds that told me everything was quiet and peaceful in the valley. They weren't alarm calls. They were social calls. I reasoned that if I could interpret them as such so would the leopard. Still nothing happened. For fully five minutes there was neither sound nor movement from the waterfall. Then - suddenly - unexpectedly - silently - the leopard heaved itself up the trunk of one of the big trees. And there it stood, fully exposed, on a high lateral branch looking down towards the place where the stone had landed. Despite all the other homely sounds the leopard had been hearing it understood something else. Something large must have dislodged that stone. The leopard could not afford, therefore, to ignore either the presence of a new prey animal or a potential source of danger. It just had to know what had caused that rock to move. The leopard was a big tom. I could see the tight ball-bag under his tail clearly. And he was standing up there on the high branch, broadside on to me, in full view. The white tip of his tail swung gently to and fro like a flashing signal in the fading light. His head turned first to the left then to the right as he scanned the scene below him. He was looking down the valley and away from me. He was a beauty. And he was only fifty yards away! My body began to shake again – like a leaf in the wind - as I brought the iron sights to bear on that magnificent beast. My heart was pounding like a hammer mill. I set the tip of the front post just behind the leopard's shoulder and lifted the rear U-sight into position behind it. Taking up the first pressure on the trigger I drew a deep breath. This was my first real adventure into the realm of big game hunting. At that moment my mind was a whirl of conscious emotions. Would the tiny soft-nose bullet do its job? Was I being irresponsible in attempting to kill a leopard with such a small caliber bullet? But deep down inside me I knew none of this mattered. I was going to do it anyway come hell or high water! Ripples of goose pimples ran up and down my spine and the hairs on my forearms stood up like hedgehog quills. I squeezed off the second pressure of the trigger - gently. The rifle barked. The leopard's body jerked. The big cat turned on the branch as if to execute a controlled descent of the tree. Then it lifted its head high and tumbled backwards into the void. There followed the most terrifying growls and roars I had ever heard. The animal was clearly in a rage. I could hear its body thrashing about amongst the thick canes of the elephant grass in the thicket beneath the trees. Then - suddenly - complete silence returned to the waterfall thicket. I lay on my belly and did not move. I had already ejected the spent shell and had pushed another round into the breech. I was ready should the leopard emerge from the thicket. I lay frozen-still. I did not want to betray my location by either sound or movement. My body squirmed and my bowels moved, and the hairs on my body, all over, rose and fell – and rose and fell repeatedly - of their own volition. The goose pimples that covered my forearms were the only constant and visible sign of my physical exhilaration and anxiety. Every fibre of my being was quivering, softly, right down to the very depths of my soul. My eyes felt like huge saucers on the stiff fabric of my face. My eyes, in fact, were the only part of me that was mobile. They canvassed every nook and cranny around the waterfall. My ears were attuned to catch the slightest nuance of sound. Nothing! Nothing moved. There was not a sound. Down in the valley below me the francolins were now quiet. The crack of the rifle and the rumbling reverberations of the report that had run up and down the gorges of the hills all round had long since died away. Its message, however, conveying the hunter's presence, had been heard. Every animal and every bird within hearing distance of that shot was, at that moment, standing perfectly still and listening. The minutes dragged on - one following inexorably after the other. Still the silence reigned. I was reluctant to move for several reasons. Firstly I did not want to betray my whereabouts just in case the leopard was not dead. I did not relish being attacked by an irate wounded leopard with only a .22 Hornet in my hands. Secondly - and perhaps more importantly - I did not move because I was afraid. And, in those first few minutes after the shot, I was afraid to very core of my heart. It was only when darkness began creeping over the land – with my nerves now well under control - that I slipped quietly back into the Nyashire gorge behind me. And I made my way back to camp leaving the leopard to lick his wounds - or to die from them. I hardly slept a wink that night – reliving in my mind every moment of the hunt. I wondered if, had done anything different, the outcome would have been more satisfying. I could not fault my actions. I believed I had done everything in as near a perfect way as was possible under the circumstances. I was up before first light - before there was even a tweet from the local francolins. I slugged back a mug of sweet, hot coffee that both contently warmed my innards and settled my still highly excited nerves. Zook was awake and I took him a mug of hot coffee in his bed. He said very little except to tell me not to take any chances. Getting the skin of the leopard, he said, was not worth getting myself mauled! But Zook was not a hunter and he did not give me any instructions with regards to how I should conduct the second phase of the hunt. He was that kind of man. He was wise but not prescriptive. That was why we got along so well. It was time to make a choice. Was I going to look for the leopard with my .22 Hornet? Or should I be prudent and take Zook's proffered double-barrelled shotgun? I took the shotgun, loading both barrels with AAA shot - and I packed a handful of extra cartridges into my jacket pocket. Then I press-ganged two 'volunteers' from the black labour force in the camp compound to come with me on the dangerous job of locating the leopard. The final moment of truth was at hand. The sun was rising by the time I walked out cautiously, alone and silent, onto the slab of rock above the waterfall. I moved to the edge with great trepidation and looked down into the well beneath me. My heart was beating loudly in my breast again – but it had no cause. The leopard was lying in full view, on its side, at the edge of the dry puddle of pebbles. It was stone dead. There was blood everywhere. This told me my bullet had found the lungs. The shot had been perfect. The leopard had been dead long before I had even left my position the evening before. That was my first leopard. There were many more to come. It was also the first success of my big game hunting career – a hunting career that was to absorb my life ever more greatly from that moment on. I had opened Pandora's box!


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There is a danger, Jones suggests, in assuming that the known world is preferable to any alternative.
If not, cutting losses now may well be preferable to depleting blood and treasure while caught up in a downward spiral.
Avoid if possible; the phrase "[x] was caught lying and sheepishly acknowledged it" is preferable.
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Apprentice Member
Joined: 5/11/10
Infinite Dungeons kill crafting : Due to an infinite amount of loot on par with or better than crafting there is usually little incentive to wear crafted gear. The crafted gear that IS useful is usually quickly replaced.
Infinite Dungeons kill the life of the game: A Full set of so called "RARE/Epic" gear in a weekend? Not problem at all with the help of infinte spawning dungeons + LFG tools!
Infinite dungeons make rare/epic gear the Norm...meaning nothing is epic or rare: When you sloooow down the amount of available gear in the game everything instantly becomes more valauble and *Gasp* memorable!
So youre opposed because ...."Guild A will just camp and Kill the Skeleton King 24/7 so I'll never get to see it"
So? Whats wrong with that? You want your MMO world to feel immersive and real having an infinite amount of dungeons spawning on the fly? Thats not immersive....whats wrong with "Sorry adventurer the Skeleton King has already been slain we are safe...for now"
Also consider once the "next tier" of dungeons come out, the older dungeons will clear out which will allow YOU to start farmiing those dungeons while the top tier guilds farm the new stuff. Isnt this CONSIDERBLY a better option than welfare tokens?
Not to mention if you kill Infinite dungeons you can kill the whole Bind on Equip feature which will allow those top guilds to sell off their old gear. This would help guilds earn money for their guild raids instead of the absoutely terrible guild feature of "spawning an extra 10% gold from nowhere" perk.
I'm really curious to hear your feedback. Is being able to "Run a dungeon" worth killing so many other aspects of the MMO?
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Joined: 3/02/11
Instance dungeons allow game to actually feel like a game than virtual world. It can be quickly run in and out with a team, and achieve something from a short time to epic weeks or months, depending on the dungeon. It can also be tailor to tell story that's close to single-player game counterpart, and can be repeat if player want to do it again.
I prefer open world non-instances, but some gamer do prefer instances over open world because of the convenience and story telling aspect which is easier to translate from single-player game to MMO. That's why we have two sub-genre, instances and non-instances game co-exist which target different type of players.
Novice Member
Joined: 12/05/05
Who did wrong? The advertiser hired to sell the game or the consumer who put faith in advertising?
Just remember; it wasn't all ham and plaques:
Non-instanced dungeons also:
- had overcamping issues
- had opposing groups train you to get your spot
- had noobie groups train you accidently
- had high level farmers taking all bosses
- remember in Lord of the Rings, when the fellowship is trapped in Moria and they have to escape hordes of goblins alive, and then that other fellowship came in and killed the Balrog and took the wizard epic piece, and then Gandalf had to stay there because the Balrog was on a 24 hour spawn timer? ......a.k.a. sometimes you've earned the right to face that boss you've worked so hard to get to.
Playing devil's advocate here more than anything; but just remember; there were reasons games switched to instancing - it wasn't just cruelty to their paying customers which motivated the switch.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 12/24/11
Originally posted by Zorgo
Either way has it draw backs. Just as instanced MMORPG's make it not an MMORPG since it isn't an open world, etc.
But again...since what made MMORPG's different from console games was just that...they were living breathing worlds where the player had to maintain a reputation to get in groups, guilds, and get anywhere.
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Joined: 4/10/05
It has nothing to do with gear but rather with making a dungeon feel like a dungeon. Dungeons are about a small group of people entering, exploring and conquering. When a dungeon is not instanced and you can have dozens of groups working through them.
Dungeons are about isolation. They are about overcoming the current occupants. They are not about camping or fighting with other adventurers for content.
I've never understood why people oppose instanced dungeons. If you don't want to run them because they are instanced and it breaks your 'immersion' (now there is a joke in an mmo but that aside).
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Joined: 5/23/09
It can be a nuisance when it is a busu server. Say I can only play at weekends and I log on to play an open world mmo and want to do a dungeon run with my guild. But when I gey there i realise it is peak hours and all the dungeon is packed with groups of people who are camping bosses. Not exactly what you want.

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Joined: 6/11/08
I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
I'm not against open world dungeons, but I am against having only one path for progression. So just having instanced dungeons is bad, but so is just having non instanced dungeons. There should be a variety of content.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Elite Member
Joined: 12/19/10
I like both.
I like instanced dungeons because they feel very themeparky - you stand in line (LFG), you get on the ride, and you go through the ride until you kill the final boss.
I like open zone dungeons as well. They are usually bigger and more sprawling. There's no static path, no "winning". There are other groups and players to interact with. It's like playing on a playground, as opposed to standing in line for the roller coaster.
Both are fun. Just in different ways.
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Joined: 12/10/08
I'm not big on instances, but I do like having something to do when I log in.
If you limit things to the point where I feel there's nothing productive to do in your world, I'll log out and go play a world where I do feel useful.
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Joined: 7/28/12
Originally posted by Divona
If ANYONE prefers instanced dungeons over non-instanced dungeons, it is only because they haven't experienced what it really was like to be in non-instanced (in other words, the original concept of dungeons in cyber game world.) dungeons. The concept of instanced dungeons was developed only for the convenience of game development, not for the better of MMO. It is just litterally bad thing. Something to be excluded from MMOs sooner or later, except for very few potential exceptions that can possibly enhance the quality of game experience.
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Joined: 9/26/11
I'll give you a scene from the only open world dungeon I have dealt with personally but I can't imagine it being different in other games... grp of lowbies waiting at a boss spawn point hoping they can get the tap to complete their quest before the high lvl chars farming it do.... that is the HUGE problem with it. It provides a great annoyance.. FYI that was a mid lvl instance in AoC. We all needed the quest, needed the xp and it was more like 3 parties waiting in a line hoping to whatever god they pray to that they can get the tap and move on to the next boss and fight with those high lvl toons.
edit: just remembered I experienced these in Lineage 2.. also just as bad. We actually fought over farming spots.
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Joined: 12/05/05
Who did wrong? The advertiser hired to sell the game or the consumer who put faith in advertising?
Originally posted by Kaledren
I agree. My preference is for a well done mix - and for the non-instanced dungeons to be more VG like and less EQ like. I also like the idea of having quests lead to items where you 'spawn' the boss you need with the item in a non-instanced dungeon, rather than them be on a timer.
Joined: 12/11/08
Originally posted by kaz350
You're arguing that gear drop rates should be lower. That has nothing to do with instancing.
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by Zorgo
This ^
And don't forget trolls / griefers. A lot of idiot-proof systems in games are specifically created nowadays, because unfortunately developers have to design to combat trolls & griefers. It sucks, but if developers don't sacrifice certain mechanics to compensate, then the game as a whole tends to suffer much worse. Because there's just no way to police them all if a game is popular.
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Joined: 3/13/04
9 yrs ago I was trying to get my monk epic so I was trying to get raster of guk. I went in every few hours for days to see if he was camped and he always was by the same guy. I finally asked after about a week if he had gotten it or not, he said he got it 3 days earlier and just leaves his guy there while playing his other account to piss people off.
Add people selling MQs for drops, and you've got the main reason I am against non instanced dungeons. If the non instanced dungeons have no quest items that are required for anything important or best in slot items, then sure, fill your non-instanced boots.
The other thing is that non instanced dungeons can entertain one group of people at a time, instanced dungeons can accomidate a lot more people. SOE is looking to throw a broad net for players and non instanced dungeons don't help with that.
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Joined: 4/18/07
Originally posted by KoreanSoWhat
i like BOTH equally open world for interaction with others and group instances so we can have different versions of the open dungeun for example sebillis welll its full of frogloks but in the instance version " revenge of the iksar" iksar invade and retake sebillis, there can be many more versions different events, but you cant do that in open dungeuns not , when 3 or 4 groups are doing different goals at once
theres room for all open and instance dont like instances dont do them !
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Joined: 7/15/08
Im not opposed but I can see in certain games how it could be a problem......It worked pretty well in EQ because there were so many zones you could go to for raiding.....It might not have worked as well in WoW though because it seems that only a handful of dungeons were done over and over......What Ilike about boss timers and such though is that it helps keep a limit on uber gear in the world and keeps them valuable....When everyone and their mother has epic pieces galore then it isnt much to brag about.
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Joined: 1/08/07
Freeloading mooches are the scourge of the gaming community.
For what its worth.. I prefer Open World Dungeons. I think Instances kill a lot of things. IE people making new friends due to instance demands and people just waiting for the people they already know to come play.
I also think it creates world where everyone is always after the same TIER gear. Worlds like EQ1 and EQ2 had people actually wearing a lot of different gear... Everyone is always running the same few instances for their level.
I also like running into other players or god forbid saving another group because they got bad pulls. This stuff happens in Open World Dungeons. Not so in Instances.
Yep I will take an Old Non instanced EQ1 style or EQ2 style or Vanguard Style dungeon any day of the week. compared to Instancing of WOW style dungeon.
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Joined: 2/15/04
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It's never been an either or argument for me. There is a time and place for both. Like many have stated there are pros and cons for both of them.
Also I disagree with people who talk of the old days as if it was perfect. Camping an NM for hours upon hours to just watch another guild claim and kill it wasn't really that fun. On the other hand if you're apart of the group that claims it or even better the actual player that claims it, that always caused a huge adrenaline rush for me that instances just don't. You give up that rush, and the player interaction for convenience with instances. As much as I loved those times in non instanced dungeons sometime I don't have hours upon hours of time, I just want to get in get something fun done and log off.
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Joined: 9/22/05
I'll play.
Instanced dungeons versus open dungeons.
In EQ1, UO, and every other world I've played in since, dungeons are hypercamped. If you don't have the biggest guild, then you won't get the spawn without putting some money down or camping (with your group of friends) for several hours to maybe get the spawn. And others are going to try to move past you or tag it first.
In EQ1, you paid cash to get into raid dungeons, but then again, you needed a huge number of people for a lot of them. In addition, EQ1 had gated content (like 5 to 10 dungeons requiring large numbers of people) that you would never get; as no one wanted to back-flag. So you paid cash, didn't go, or one of the 3%-5% of players that got to see the end-game content.
Not because you were super-leet. No, it was because you landed in the right guild and were tortured weeks on end earning everyone above you crap.
I remember people putting baby rangers (not rogues, doh) in dungeons so they could log in and see if the mobs were up before bothering 30-100 other people.
Instanced dungeons do allow for repeated content; and what you're trying to do is leverage having all the gear to yourself at the expense of all the other players. Creators tend to want people to play their dungeons, not stand around with their hands out because all dungeons with good equipment has been camped.
Non-instanced content was a HUGE failure in EQ1 and that is the reason why a lot of other games had instanced content and EQ1 put in instanced content later.
You could have some content instanced (dungeons being the obvious targets) and other stuff open.
You could do the EQ1 content, where the general dungeon was open, but instances were available for the sidelined content.
Ever do a camp for your j-booties in EQ1? Sit on that damned island when you got the camp? Only 1 seafury and that a rare spawn. Memory says 10 minute spawns and I think the cyclops was a 10% or so. And he only sometimes dropped the goodie. Nothing else nearby. That was around a 4-8 hour camp if you could get it. Only one and only drops one goodie.
Ever get your halfling mask in EQ1? That'd be at the bottom of chardok as a 1% spawn from a rare mob with 10 minute spawn? I camped that mob for 6-8 hours a day for 2 months. Every day. That was well over 200 hour camp. But it was the rarest item on the server at that time.
Sound like fun? No. And that is why almost everyone ran to other games ... that had instances.
Non-instanced content is the minority path. It wastes endless time unless you are a hardcore player AND you are in a good guild. Everyone else loses out.
Ever camped for your fungus tunic in EQ1? No, you didn't if you were on my server as a Chinese guild had that camp. Always. 24 hours a day seven days a week. You want a fungus tunic? Your ass pays 10x the price in the market or you pay cash or you don't get it.
People stopped playing non-instanced content games because accessing the content requires hours. I don't know about you, perhaps you're still high-school age. I don't have 2 hours (even) to wait on a spawn.
Almost no one does any other content than the newest and highest. Saying that people can "just wait around to get the older content when the kewl peoplez move on" is just like working with pissed-on economics.
Non-instanced dungeons gate content only to the best few (under 3) guilds and a minority of the player base on a server.
It pisses people off and they leave as soon as something else better comes out.


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The Cardinals' quarterback carousel has been well-documented throughout the season, and may have reached a low point Sunday, as John Skelton threw a career-high four interceptions and lost one fumble.
Rookie Ryan Lindley wasn't much better, as he lost one fumble and completed just 8-of-17 passes.
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Chemical Existence WalkthroughJan 28, 2010 Guides 0 comments
I managed to dig up the original walkthrough from the CE homapages (thanks archive.org) and here it is for everyone.
Chemical Existence is a Total Conversion type of mod, singleplayer. It is pretty old, so the cutscenes are that greatly graphic wise, but it is So-So. Completley different weapons, so it can be fun.
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I managed to dig up the original walkthrough from the CE homapages (thanks archive.org) and here it is for everyone.
Chemical Existence Steamfix Version: September 05, 2006 Features: * Added a new menu with music * Added a new icon for steam gamelist
Story Chemical Existence puts you in the role of Reece Max whom simply is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He gets mixed up with fighting gangs...
its good to see links to dl it and this being one of my favorite hl1 mods i usually play it often
Please make a Chemical Existence Remake or 2. This is a old great mod that are still the best compared to others mod.
Why don't you try to make it yourself, the tools and tuts are out there, lol.
So i downloaded it but i cant even start the game because everytime i click start game after i select the difficulty NOTHING HAPPENS. should i reinstall the game?
when the first cutscene is over the game close and says me "couldnt not find models/soldier.mdl" and when i put configure keyboard theres anything keys. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! HEARD ME!!!!!!
this is what i did i have taken a hgrunt model and renamed it to soldier and put into Half Life/Chemical existence/models
i found a bug i think cuz when i untick the reverse mouse in options the game wont let me walk anymore not even if i restart it or untick it i have 2 reinstall it to make it work again but then its still reversed.
plz help i cant play with reversed mouse if there is any console commands 2 change it plz reply
i love this mod :)
used to play it all the time on rainy days
Me too, at radioactive rainy days. Its easy to play with 3 hand.
where can id download this MOD?
Lowest Rated (3 agree) 5/10
The mod is rusty, very rusty. Pistol takes 2 headshots to kill, the enemies with pistols don't drop them, and some sounds are terrible like explosions and the uzi firing sound, sounds like bullets hitting metal.. which sounds just wrong when firing it from a distance. The level design is mostly bare open spaces, with blocky textures... and felt rather random. I would have so preferred if the mod stayed in the urban type of places because it was so short lived. But the characters look good (and most…
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Everest VBS "Conquering Challenges with God's Mighty Power" (Thu. Jul 2, 2015 6:00 pm - Mon. Jul 6, 2015 7:00 pm)
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Crosspoint Community Church
951 CR 1625 East
Join us for engaging Bible lessons, outdoor games, cool crafts, rockin' music, and of course, tasty snacks! 6-8:30pm. Ages 3yrs - entering 5th grade are welcome to register for this free event at the link below.
"God did not give us a spirit of fear...but Power, Love, and Self-Discipline" 2nd Timothy 1:7
Lake Springfield Baptist Camp - Junior High Camp (Sun. Jul 5, 2015 4:00 pm - Sat. Jul 11, 2015 10:00 am)
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Lake Springfield Baptist Camp
5878 Iron Bridge Road
Chatham, IL 62620
Lake Springfield Baptist Camp is holding a summer camp for junior high students July 5 -11. The camp theme is "The Gift: God's Amazing Gift of Salvation." The cost is $260. Find more information or register online.
ICC Summer Explorers Camp (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 6:45 am - 5:00 pm)
Contact Info:
Illinois Central College
1 College Drive
East Peoria, IL 61635
Summer Camp for children 6-12 years old (must have finished Kindergarten) Located on the East Peoria ICC Campus, we engage your child through fun and learning activities, games, creativity, field trips and more! Nutritious lunches and snacks are provided. Monday through Friday, 6:45am-5:00pm. For registration information, go to the website listed above.
Open Registration St. Mark's Child Care and Preschool (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 7:00 am)
Contact Info:
St. Mark's
200 S. Main
Washington IL 61571
St. Mark's Childcare and Preschool is accepting registration for 3 and 4 year old preschool. Space is limited so call today to reserve your spot! Childcare openings are also available in our 2 and 3 year old daycare classrooms. Contact our Director today!
Our Savior's Summer Day Camp (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 7:30 am - 5:30 pm)
Contact Info:
Our Savior's Lutheran School
2645 Old Jacksonville Rd.
Springfield, IL 62704
Mission: Providing a safe and loving environment for children to share the love and Word of God. Our Summer Camp runs from June 1 – July 31 with flexible hours.
Ages: 3 - 6 years
Registration: Available online
Christian Center Soccer (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 8:00 am - 4:30 pm)
Contact Info:
The Christian Center
4100 N Brandywine Dr.
Peoria, IL 61614
Soccer registration is currently underway. Ages 5 – 18; Coed. Season Runs August 24 – October 3 (this league meets 2 times per week; once during the week and once on Saturday). The fee is $50 per participants, with discounts for multiple participants from the same family.
Fees go up to $60 per participant after July 29 – so register now! Forms and league information are available online at the link above, (although we do not have online registration at this time). You may also register at The Christian Center offices, Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.. Call the number above with any questions.
Anniversary/Fundraiser (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 9:00 am)
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Words of Wisdom Christian Books & Gifts
1021 4th Street
Fulton IL 61252
Words of Wisdom Christian Books & Gifts of Fulton, Illinois is giving back to the community in appreciation for your support over the last 20 years by giving a portion of our sales to the following organizations during their week.
July 6-11 Victory Center Rescue Mission.
July 13-18 Pregnancy Center.
July 20-25 Anti-Trafficking Committee.
July 24-Aug 1 Friends for Charity.
We invite the community to participate by bringing in a canned food, baby item or monetary donation and getting 5%-30% off your purchase. Also free gifts and weekly drawing for great prizes. Begins July 6 and ends August 1.
Faith Baptist Christian School Registration for 2015-16 is Open! (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 9:00 am)
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Faith Baptist Church and Christian School
1501 Howard Ct.
Pekin, IL 61554
Faith Baptist Christian School has ministered to the Pekin community and surrounding areas for 39 years. We are a Pre-school (3 year old) through 12th grade school in association with both the Illinois Association of Christian Schools and the American Association of Christian Schools.
Our mission is to "partner with families in educating students through a Bible-centered curriculum to foster academic excellence and spiritual growth in preparation for ongoing ministry and education."
FBCS offers a traditional education using curriculum provided by quality Christian publishers who are not aligned in any way with the Common Core. Our students average over two years above Mean Grade Equivalent according to annual achievement testing.
We offer a safe environment in small classrooms with experienced teachers. Fine arts are a part of every grade level, and several interscholastic sports are offered for 4th grade on up.
Applications are now being accepted for all grade levels. Please contact our school office by phone or email to receive an application packet, or arrange a meeting and tour with our administrator. Please no calls on weekends or holidays.
Read to the Rhythm summer reading program (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 9:30 am)
Contact Info:
Prairie Skies Public Library District
125 West Editro
Ashland, IL 62612
Starting on June 8 we have the Pulse of Peoria Drumline to get the rhythm going.
June 15th brings "Thunder Medicine", a Native American drummer, dancer, & storyteller from the Northern Cheyenne Nation.
Get your rhythms on June 22 with African drumming by FONZIBZ DRUMS!
Come see Clothespin Puppets on June 29 to see the rhythm of books.
"Rhythms, Rhymes, & Raps" by Bobby Norfolk will be on July 6.
Dale Evans presents Silly Songs and Outrageous Instruments on July 13th.
Mike Anderson (the Dulcimer Guy) is at the library on July 20 to show off his rhythms.
Read to the Rhythm summer reading program (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 1:00 pm)
Contact Info:
Prairie Skies Public Library District Branch
555 Buckeye Road
Pleasant Plains, IL 62677
Starting on June 8 we have the Pulse of Peoria Drumline to get the rhythm going.
June 15th brings "Thunder Medicine", a Native American drummer, dancer, & storyteller from the Northern Cheyenne Nation.
Get your rhythms on June 22 with African drumming by FONZIBZ DRUMS!
Come see Clothespin Puppets on June 29 to see the rhythm of books.
"Rhythms, Rhymes, & Raps" by Bobby Norfolk will be on July 6.
Dale Evans presents Silly Songs and Outrageous Instruments on July 13th.
Mike Anderson (the Dulcimer Guy) is at the library on July 20 to show off his rhythms.
FREE FOOTBALL CAMP (Mon. Jul 6, 2015 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
Contact Info:
Peoria Heights High School
508 W Glen Ave.
Peoria Heights, IL 61616
Rising Stars Football Camps is a free faith based football camp open to anyone that wants to attend ages 5 - 18 yrs of age. This camp is 100% free with games, prizes, awards, shirts, drinks, & instruction all included for nothing. If interested, please register at the link provided above.


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In the past, security bugs in the Xpdf PDF viewer have endangered Linux systems time and again, and projects that use Xpdf code are also affected.
Security researchers at Secunia have discovered three vulnerabilities in Xpdf 3.02. All three are located in the stream.cc file. The first bug which affects the "DCTStream::readProgressiveDataUnit()" function can lead to memory corruption on indexing an array. The other two bugs, one of which is in the "DCTStream::reset()" function and the other in "CCITTFaxStream::lookChar()", can lead to heap-based buffer overflows. In all three cases, a carefully crafted PDF file is required. If the attacker can trick a victim into opening the file, the attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.
Secunia discovered the vulnerabilities in Xpdf 3.02 (with xpdf-3.02pl1.patch), however, other versions may also be affected. As many projects, such as Kpdf, Koffice, Cups and Poppler rely on source code by Xpdf, these projects are also affected, as Secunia has proved.
The developers of Xpdf have now released a patch to remove the vulnerabilities. Users who prefer not to build the application from scratch are advised to avoid PDFs from untrusted sources until their distributor releases a new package.
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I'm sorry for such direct questions and I hope I haven't offended anyone. Please PM me if you want to share your thoughts privately. I'm just trying to get to the heart of what we're really in for or the worse case scenario. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and answer my questions.


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on 2/22/2015 11:21:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
This is the best mascara I've tried! I highly recommend this product! there is one thing that I don't like! the fact that when I wash my face it goes down my face and just won't come off my under eyes! overall it's the best mascara I've tried even though it's pricey!
on 2/19/2015 8:43:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
First application the mascara is beautiful, volumizing and clump free. After about a week, I don't know what's going on with the formula or something but the mascara turns sooo clumpy! Although despite the clumpy-ness it does not flake and it literally bulletproof (seriously, it's like impossible to get off) I wouldn't recommend if you have sensitive eyes as it's serious business getting this mascara to come off! May I add it's way over priced (Seventeen falsify HD is a £12.51 price difference and does exactly the same, highly recommend)
This mascara is okay.
Drug store ones can do the exact same things though.
on 2/18/2015 11:56:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Pros: makes lashes stand out, length and volume. Cons: I have sensitive eyes and it irritated my eyes a little, can clump the lashes together which is not a good look
on 2/17/2015 7:18:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I bought the $10 sample size. I wouldn't call it a waste of money because I'd been waiting months to try it before I actually did, but I don't think I would buy it again. The brush isn't the best and the formula is decent but nothing special. It reminds me a lot of the formula for Maybelline's great lash mascara, just not as wet/thick (which is good in my opinion). The difference though is that 'they're real' actually elongated my lashes ever so slightly and my lashes fanned out a bit more. It doesn't flake and it holds a curl :)
on 2/14/2015 12:22:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Love this, ZERO clumping, its perfect for me (middle aged). Will buy again but will be waiting until its a TSV on QVC!
on 2/13/2015 7:47:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
The only mascara that has EVER worked on my lashes and actually made them visible! I love it! My friend recommended it and I went out and bought it with her that same day. I have very dark lashes that are very thick and heavy, causing them to droop down a bit using regular mascara and even though my lashes aren't super short, they just don't look very visible when I apply mascara because of their thickness. But this one.. It just lengthens my lashes and gives a really natural look, I only apply one coat though because I prefer natural rather than super clumpy. The only downside I can think of?? - The price. $38 Australian dollars. But honestly, that doesn't bother me. I'd rather pay a lot for one good mascara than buy a few crappy mascaras that will do nothing for me. :-)
on 2/13/2015 7:13:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Other
Picked this up at duty free when I was bored. I really like it.
on 2/13/2015 12:12:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Very Dry, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Black, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Black
I'm conflicted about this mascara. For reference, I have decently long, thick, black lashes and most mascaras look good on me so it takes a special one to stand out. This one was not special. Sure it made my lashes look great but all mascaras do. The length was average, the volume was pretty good, the separating was dismal, and the curl holding power was mediocre. It did smudge on me, which was highly annoying. This is typical because my eyelashes hit my browbone, cheek, and glasses when I look up or down or blink. I have found mascaras that don't do this in the drugstore, though, so I really expect more from something so expensive. The other problem is that somehow, despite the fact it smudges, it is impossible to get off! I have to scrub at my eyes which is painful because I have very dry, sensitive skin (although I think this would be painful for anyone). It's not worth it. I do not recommend.
on 2/12/2015 11:36:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
i really like this mascara...it volumizes and gives length and lasts all day....only thing i dont like is 1)clumps up if you apply more than 1 coat...2) the brush is plastic and hurts applying it..but i can live lol...3) price is expensive...luckily i got the sample size of this....probably wont repurchase but not because i dont like it just because i like trying other mascaras
on 2/12/2015 5:44:00 PM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
Ugh. Gloppy made my lashes spidery and stiff in the worst possible way.. The brush doesn't help it just holds gloppy mascara. Back to ulta....
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Worst hotel we've ever stayed in would never go back , spoilt our holiday
Recommendedby Sharon King
Good Central spot but see below.Posted Jun 17, 2012 on Hotels
It served our needs. One thing that was very good was the quality of the food, The food was very good! Thought that your Market shop was good value for money. Room very clean. Out side it very poorly kept. We Did not like the Blasting Music that you provided, more relaxing music would have been much nicer. The coffee machines were not at all nice. I tried them all and they all tasted the same, very Bitter!! Fresh served coffee would have been nice, Also tea and coffee provided in the rooms would have been nice. We would use this Hotel again. But we would consider looking at other Hotels you have on offer in the future.Thank-you.
for Everyoneby Jules from Blackpool England
Holiday hotel reviewPosted Jun 2, 2012
Pros: variety of good
Cons: entertainment
Location: very good location however near to local disco but did not keep me awake
Food very good and a good choice. Staff very nice but not much knowledge of the English language apart from reception staff. Night life although friendly entertainers it was very average and short. Cleanliness very good standard. must have the turkish bath experience within the Hotel.


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Choice AU 1793 AMERICA Chain Cent, Elusive Sheldon-2 Variety1793 Chain 1C AMERICA AU55 PCGS. S-2, High R.4. This magnificently detailed Chain Cent has smooth walnut-brown surfaces. Wear is generally limited to the hair southwest of Liberty's ear. A trivial rim ding before 9 o'clock on the reverse is mentioned primarily to help identify future auction appearances of this impressive example.
Although Chain Cents were produced for only a few months in the year 1793, heavily circulated (and frequently corroded) pieces are always available for a price. However, bold examples with choice surfaces are very rare, and their appearance at auction is an event that gathers the specialists.
Five die varieties of 1793 Chain Cents exist, and four of these share a common reverse die, which has AMERICA on the left border instead of the abbreviation of Sheldon-1, AMERI. Among the four AMERICA reverses, Sheldon-2 is the rarest, aside from the non-collectible NC-1 variety. S-2 is promptly identified by its wide date, and LIBER is spaced much more closely than RTY.(#1341) (Registry values: N7079) (NGC ID# 223F, PCGS# 1341)
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My son is a couple months shy of 5. I asked him if he wanted to play the letter game on www.starfall.com. I didn't push or nag or anything, I just let him play when/if he wanted to. He now knows all the letter sounds. I got the wooden pieces to handwriting without tears (got them for $5 off craigslist.)I also bought the laminated templaces from HWOT. (paid full price.) PLUS I got extra pieces and cards for making small letters from ebay. Tonight we did the small letters. We worked together to put the pieces on the cards. It was fun, like doing a puzzle. He told me all the letter sounds. We came up with words that start with those letter sounds.
He's also really big on words that sound alike. "Garden and gardenburger start with the same sound." It's my understanding that kids start by identifying the sounds at the beginning of words then end of words then middle of the word. They basically start with word or syllable sounds then move onto letter sounds. If you ask him what sound "berry" starts with, he'll tell you "bear" not "B."
For the most part I'm just letting him lead the way on all this. We're just playing with sounds as an introduction to phonics.
Created an instant family (7/89 and 5/91) in 1997. Made a baby boy 12/05 adopted a baby girl 8/08. Ask me about tandem adoptive nursing. Now living as gluten, dairy, cane sugar, and tomato free vegetarians. Homeschooling and loving it.
DD was interested in bricks and mortar schools at that age too but she lost interest pretty quickly when she realised it meant all day without her dad or me.
he turns three on the 27th and i just answer his questions which are becoming more and more. he is asking me a lot about words and letters and is pretending to read and recognizing labels and signs and things. i am enjoying watching him it is a fun age. he also asks a lot of questions about numbers a while back someone gave him magnetic numbers and letters for the fridge and he has a lot of fun with them. he has not gotten much into starfalls tho i did show that to him once. i prefer he not play computer games yet so if he doesn't like them yet that's fine with me!
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She loves to do activity books with me that we pick up from the book store. I really do want to unschool so I don't want to search for curriculums but I also see that is a really good opportunity to introduce the right lessons for reading and such. Do you have any good resources or just ideas...kind of lesson plans that I can do with her? I guess I feel like if she is ready, than I can help her learn to read but I didn't think I'd need to research reading programs so soon.
Think of reading like any other interest: ballet, animals, whatever, and do what you would do in that case. Rather than thinking of it as something that "needs to be taught". Most kids (IMNSHO) can learn to read on their own, they just need access to words in a way that interests them. For my DD it was mostly books, but for DS it was video games that required reading to get through them.
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She's also interested in letters/numbers/colors so we always answer her questions but never push.. Some days she's interested so we'll talk about stuff like that more other days she wants to just color so that's completely fine too.
She's also more interested in the stuff surrounding school than school itself. So we got her a backpack, paper, crayons etc. We don't really play school but she'll put on the backpack, my shoes and tell me she's going to work.
Maybe you could look into a local homeschool co-op/homeschooling groups for anything she'd be interested in? She wouldn't have to go to school per se but maybe she just might be interested in interacting with the other kids?
It's so fascinating because even my friends who already homeschool are very much into teaching reading a certain way...like there are rules to reading. You have to teach phonics first. It's pointless to learn capital letters before lower-case, etc.
I did sign up for the trial of Reading Eggs and she likes some of it. Some of the games seem to bore her though so I don't know if it's worth paying for.
The thing that I have really noticed with her is that she does what she wants to do her way. We get the activity books (like Kumon or some other one I can't remember). I'll read her the instructions and she decides if she wants to follow the instructions or just do it her own way. Sometimes it's hard for me not to tell her the "right" way.
Obviously, I know this isn't a real term. I just thought it was kind of funny. My DD is talking a LOT about school. We go to school playgrounds all the time and she always wants to go inside so she can go to preschool. It's sweet and I'm always explaining to her that mommy and daddy know what's best for her and we want to teach her at home. She is asking for "homeschool." She loves to do activity books with me that we pick up from the book store. I really do want to unschool so I don't want to search for curriculums but I also see that is a really good opportunity to introduce the right lessons for reading and such. Do you have any good resources or just ideas...kind of lesson plans that I can do with her? I guess I feel like if she is ready, than I can help her learn to read but I didn't think I'd need to research reading programs so soon.
Please don't judge my writing...I'm exhausted and have a baby in my lap.
Dont worry about judging. That should be the beauty of unschooling/homeschooling. You are free to do what works for your family.....regardless of any labels. Do what feels right and works well. Enjoy it. And change it a week from now, a year from now if it stops working. Feel the joy of not being tied down to any ideals, rules, etc that are not set and guided by your own families beliefs.
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My DS, on the other hand, is 3.5 now, and couldn't really give two figs about learning letters or anything. He likes listening to stories, but his mental energy is mostly consumed by learning the names of every single type of construction vehicle that exists in the world. I tried to teach him the first letter of his name, in an informal kinda way, and it was a total flop-- I would tell him, "J is the letter that starts your name," and show him his name, or a J, and he would just say, "Why, mama?" and then move onto "can we read my truck book please?"
I'm a reading teacher-- that's what I do, full-time before and part-time now-- and it's been hard for me to resist the impulse to be too much of a "teacher," and to remember to follow their interests. I struggle with that.
I just got a big easel pad, and DD2 (who's also 3.5 now) and I sit down every few days and write a "story" on the pad-- she dictates, and I write it, and we stop to point out features of the writing-- the names of the letters, the punctuation, the size of the words, which words start with letters she knows, etc. And I got her an ABC poster for her closet, and she's always asking me to tell her the names of the letters-- she also spends a lot of time standing in front of it, "practicing my school, mama!"
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