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- During the ski season, Fifty Two 80 Bistro and Bar offers daily special events such as Fish-Fry Mondays, Food Truck Thursdays, and Bling Burger Saturdays.
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- Surrounded by picturesque wilderness, the Four Seasons Resort Whistler is a luxury year-round mountain retreat for families, couples, and groups. Designed with stone, glass, and timber, the expansive lobby displays an impressive collection of contemporary art and sets the refined yet intimate ambiance found throughout the hotel.
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- After a day of outdoor adventure, guests can soothe tired muscles at the full-service spa. Signature treatments include the BC Glacial Clay Wrap and the West Coast Marine Body Scrub (surcharge). In the evenings, guests can dine at the modern steakhouse, Sidecut, and sip fireside cocktails at the sleek Fifty Two 80 Bar. Resort amenities include a ski concierge and complimentary shuttle service to Whistler Mountain (seasonal).
4591 Blackcomb Way
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Four Seasons Resort Whistler offers 273 guestrooms and suites, all of which feature sitting areas with warm wood interiors, gas fireplaces, and views of the courtyard, forest, or mountains. Room amenities include flat-screen TVs, CD/DVD players, MP3 player docking stations, dual-line telephones, and complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Large slate tile bathrooms feature soaking tubs and separate showers, hair dryers, complimentary L'Occitane bath products, and terry bathrobes.
Twice-daily housekeeping and evening turndown service are provided. Additional amenities include minibars, coffee/tea makers, and complimentary newspapers.
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This Whistler luxury hotel is located near the Upper Village. Complimentary shuttle service is provided to Whistler Village and to the base of Whistler Mountain during ski season. A full-service spa offers a variety of treatments. The 24-hour fitness center offers fitness classes and a eucalyptus steam room. The heated outdoor pool and spa tubs are available year-round, and feature tables and cabanas for poolside lounging.
Dining options include a modern steakhouse and a bistro/bar. Room service is available 24 hours. Additional amenities include a 24-hour business center and a concierge desk. Complimentary coffee and seasonal treats are available in the lobby.
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SidecutContemporary steakhouse with an open fireplace and views of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. Serves a variety of regional meats and seafood including prime beef from Alberta, British Columbia venison loin, and Queen Charlotte Sound halibut. Open nightly for dinner.
Fifty Two 80 Bistro and BarElegant lounge with a heated terrace. Serves specialty cocktails and gastropub fare. Children's menu available. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The 647-square-meter (6,960-square-foot) health club and Spa at Four Seasons Resort Whistler includes treadmills, elliptical trainers, and stationary bikes. Juice and fruit are complimentary, as are classes in yoga, Pilates, circuit training, and spinning. The freeform outdoor pool is heated.
Nicklaus North Golf Course, () from the hotel, offers special privileges to guests.
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How badly did Gumby screw up his attempted robbery of a San Diego 7-11? Well, really badly: Not only did he not, in fact, steal anything, he actually gave money to the clerk.
As you can see in the above surveillance video, Gumby enters the store, hands held high, "telling the clerk he is being robbed" and "demand[ing] a pack of cigarettes and cash." Good robbery form so far! And then:
The flexible suspect then tried to pull out what he said was a gun from his costume. Apparently flustered, Gumby dropped 27 cents on the floor and left the convenience store empty-handed.
Police say the clerk thought the robbery was a joke and pocketed the spare change.
In fact, Gumby botched his hold-up so badly the clerk didn't even realize it was a robbery, and the crime wasn't reported to the cops until the 7-11 manager saw the surveillance tape "hours later." Gumby! We love the concept, but you may want to be in a different line of work. Like philanthropy, maybe.


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We have compiled a list of Easter egg hunts in eastern Idaho and western Wyoming. Although this is a long list, we know it is likely missing some Easter egg hunts. If you know of a hunt that is not listed here, please email us at email@example.com, and we will update this page.
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- Easter egg hunt, noon. Aberdeen Elementary School.
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- Easter egg hunt by ABC Auto Clinic, 1 p.m. Indian Springs Resort just south of American Falls. 4,000 eggs, with a thousand for each age category 13 and under. Prizes.
- Blackfoot Easter Egg Hunt, 10 a.m. Jensen Grove. Note the time change.
- The Willows Assisted Living and Memory Care Easter Egg Hunt, 1 p.m.
- Downey Easter Egg Hunt, 10:30 a.m. City Park.
- Downata Hot Springs Easter Egg Hunt & Activities, 3 p.m. Free with paid admission to the swimming pool.
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- The Biggest Easter Egg Hunt in East Idaho, 10 a.m. Lilac Circle in Tautphaus Park. More than 15,000 eggs, 5,000 prizes.
- Third Annual Phits Easter Egg Hunt, 1 p.m. Community Park. Ages 12 and under. Beeper eggs available for blind and visually impaired children. Also a bouncy house and face painting. Donations to National Federation for the Blind.
- Hope Lutheran Church and School Easter Egg Hunt and Craft Making, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Craft making is at 10:15 a.m., and Easter egg hunt begins at 11 a.m. Three age groups for children up to 12.
- The HUNT @ Parkwood, 10:30 a.m. Parkwood Meadows Assisted Living. Free hunt and light brunch. Three different age groups and a chance to win a new bike or iPod Shuffle.
- Piece by Piece Easter egg hunt, 10 a.m. Idaho Falls. For children with special needs and their siblings.
- Easter egg hunt, 10 a.m. Stuart Park if weather permits -- otherwise at Inkom Elementary School.
- Easter egg hunt, 11 a.m. Iona Park.
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- 46th Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Town Square, 10 a.m. For kids 1 to 6 years old.
Lava Hot Springs
- Bunnyland USA Easter Celebration, 10 a.m. to noon. Lava Elementary School. 10 a.m.: Breakfast with Easter Bunny. 11 a.m.: Easter parade. 11:30 a.m. to noon: Easter egg hunt.
- Malad Easter Egg Hunt and Easter breakfast, 10 a.m. City Park. Golden eggs can be redeemed for $1.
- Montpelier Easter Egg Hunt, noon to 2 p.m. Adams Park.


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Reading multiple reports online that the ObamaCare helpline spells out just that. The official healthcare.gov website lists the number as 1-800-318-2596.
The #1 on the phone doesn't have letters attached to it, but that spells out, 1-800-F**K-YO.
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FILE - In this Oct 9, 2012 file photo, Venezuela�s President Hugo Chavez holds a miniature copy of his country's constitution during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela. The ailing president's health crisis has raised contentious questions ahead of the swearing-in set for Jan. 10, including whether the inauguration could legally be postponed. Officials have raised the possibility that Chavez might not be well enough to take the oath of office, without saying what will happen if he can't. The constitution says that if a president or president-elect dies or is declared unable to continue in office, presidential powers should be held temporarily by the president of the National Assembly and that a new presidential vote should be held within 30 days. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's National Assembly has approved a plan for President Hugo Chavez not to attend his scheduled inauguration this Thursday and to instead be sworn in later on before the Supreme Court.
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The Houston Rockets have pretty good depth at small forward for 2013-14
The Houston Rockets have solid depth at small forward for 2013-14. It all starts with 24-year old Chandler Parsons. He played in 76 games (all starts) for the Rockets last year and he averaged 36.3 minutes, 15.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.0 steal per game. He has now played in 139 games (133 starts) in his first two years in the NBA and he is averaging 32.8 minutes, 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.1 steals per game. He seems to be getting better every year and the Rockets hope that is the case once again in 2013-14. 31-year old Francisco Garcia is an offensive minded backup. He played in 58 games (20 starts) for the Kings and Rockets last year in which he averaged 17.7 minutes, 5.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game. Garcia has now played in 480 games (133 starts) in his first 8 years in the NBA and he is averaging 22.0 minutes, 8.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. 25-year old Omri Casspi and 21-year old Terrence Jones will duke it out in training camp for the #3 job at small forward for the Rockets in 2013-14. Casspi played in 43 games (1 start) for the Cavaliers last year and he averaged 11.7 minutes, 4.0 points, 2.7 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game. Casspi has now played in 256 games (94 starts) in his first four years in the NBA and he is averaging 21.4 minutes, 7.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game. Jones played in 19 games (0 starts) for the Rockets as a rookie last year and he averaged 14.5 minutes, 5.5 points, 3.4 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 1.0 blocked shot per game.


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Nick Cardy, an influential comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics titles during the Silver Age, has passed away. UPDATED with DC's statement.
Paul Pelletier brings life to Geoff Johns' penultimate issue of "Aquaman," a story that's "one of the strongest within an already-impressive title."
"Aquaman" artist Paul Pelletier discusses re-bearding DC Comics' Atlantean king, Larry Bird's influence on his comics career and the challenge in choreographing underwater battles.
Tony Bedard discusses his and co-writer Geoff Johns' DC Villains month one-shots starring Aquaman nemeses Black Manta and Ocean Master, the thought process behind fleshing out the character of Orm and more.
As he prepares to take over the series from Geoff Johns, writer Jeff Parker has plans to make "Aquaman's" world bigger with an expanded rogues gallery, new threats for king and country and plenty of shark punching.
A legendary artist from the Silver Age of Comics, Ramona Fradon talks about her new story in "Fairy Tale Comics," why her favorite project was Metamorpho, fond memories of "Brenda Starr" and more.
Notable news items in DC Comics' December 2013 solicitations include J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman originally listed as the writers of "Batwoman" #26. UPDATED with the new solicitation text.
With "Batwoman" making wedded heroes a hot-button issue again, CBR examines the dissolution of superhero marriages at the hands of cosmic forces, magic, divorce and outright retcons.
It's Atlantean versus Amazon as Wonder Woman and Aquaman clash in an all-new clip from "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox." The latest DC Universe Animated Original Movie is on sale now.
DC Comics has released art from today's All-Access panel, featuring covers and interiors from "Green Arrow," "Injustice," "Forever Evil," "Aquaman" and more.
DC Comics has announced its Annuals for October, including tie-in issues to family events like Green Lantern's "Lights Out!," Superman's "Krypton Returns" and "Teen Titans'" Superboy origins mystery.
Writer Tony Bedard spoke with CBR about his upcoming Villains Month issues of "Aquaman" #23.1 and "Superman" #23.2 featuring Black Manta and Brainiac, expanding on their significance to September's "Forever Evil."
John Ostrander and Manuel Garcia welcome The Others back to "Aquaman" on May 22 when the Atlantean king's former team reunites and welcomes a new member in order to save the world.
DC Comics has released their full solicitations text and images for product releasing in August, 2013, including the latest on "Trinity War," new issues of "Batman Zero Year," "Green Lantern" and more.
Writer John Ostrander spoke with CBR News about his one-shot issue of "Aquaman" featuring The Others, introducing a new character to the team and more.
Doug Zawisza gives "Aquaman" #19 written by Geoff Johns with art by Paul Pelletier 4 stars, calling the issue "one of the most enjoyable books on the racks nowadays, and certainly a reliably entertaining read from DC."
Veteran writer John Ostrander, best known for his work on DC Comicsâ "Suicide Squad, "will step in for Geoff Johns on Mayâs "Aquaman" #20, bringing with him artists Manuel Garcia and Sandra Hope.
DC Comics has released their full solicitations text and images for product releasing in July, 2013, including the first word on "Trinity War," new issues of "Batman Zero Year," "Superman unchained" and more.
Courtesy of DC Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Aquaman" #18 by Geoff Johns & Paul Pelletier. Aquaman attempts to solve an ancient murder mystery while Mera embarks on her own quest March 27.
Doug Zawisza gives "Aquaman" #17 4.5 stars, saying Geoff Johns and Paul Pelletier's "Throne of Atlantis" epilogue "sets the table and preps adventures to come while addressing all aspects of the character."
WB Games has released a new trailer for NetherRealm Studios' "Injustice: Gods Among Us," revealing Aquaman as a playable character and teases his role in the game's story.
DC Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at the May solicitations for the publisher's Justice League titles, including "Justice League of America" #4, "Green Arrow" #20 and more.
Doug Zawisza gives "Aquaman" #16 by Geoff Johns and Paul Pelletier 4.5 stars, saying the creative team "collaborates nicely to fill each panel, regardless of orientation, with action, character and detail."
When the "Justice League" crossover "Throne of Atlantis" ends, there's still more underwater action for "Aquaman" and DC Comics shows off new Paul Pelletier art from issue #17 introducing Murk and the Sea Devils.
Courtesy of DC Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Aquaman" #16, a "Throne of Atlantis" tie-in by Geoff Johns and Paul Pelletier. The monstrous Trench force Aquaman to make an impossible choice January 30.
ROBOT 6's Tom Bondurant dives into the "Justice League" & "Aquaman" crossover, noting "Geoff Johns always starts strong and 'Throne of Atlantis' is no exception."
The new artist behind "Aquaman's" adventures dives into his half of "Throne of Atlantis," and Paul Pelletier explains how he's following Ivan Reis while making his mark on the Justice League, Darkseid and more.
As Ivan Reis and Joe Prado join DC's "Justice League" for the "Throne of Atlantis" crossover, Geoff Johns describes his long term plans for Aquaman, Cyborg and Superman and Wonder Woman's romance.
DC Comics has released a preview of "Justice League" #15 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, featuring variant covers by Jim Lee and Billy Tucci. The "Throne of Atlantis" crossover begins December 26.
DC Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at the March solicitations for the publisher's Justice League titles, including "Justice League of America" #2, "Aquaman" #18 and more.
Greg McElhatton gives "Aquaman" #14 by Geoff Johns and Pete Woods 4 stars, calling the prologue issue to the "Throne of Atlantis" crossover "strong jumping-on point" with "a lot of story possibilities."
Under writer Geoff Johns, two of DC Comics best-selling franchises go to war with an underwater nation, as the CCO explains how "Aquaman" and "Justice League" both stand to change from Ocean Master's "Throne of Atlantis."
Doug Zawisza gives "Aquaman" #13 4 stars, saying the issue by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Julio Ferriera "does a great job bringing all of the numerous plots, subplots and characters into focus."
Courtesy of DC Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Aquaman" #13 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis. "The Others" storyline concludes October 31.
DC Comics writer and CCO Geoff Johns and artist Ivan Reis spoke with CBR about "Justice League," the Wonder Woman/Superman relationship, the new Green Lantern and what lies ahead for Aquaman in 2013.
Just in time for the incoming "Throne of Atlantis" crossover with "Justice League," Paul Pelletier returns to DC Comics to draw "Aquaman." The artist assured CBR: He's ready for Geoff Johns' master plan.
At the New York Comic Con DC Comics: Justice League panel, Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and other creators discussed their books, artist announcements and the launch of the brand new âJustice League Of America.â
New details for Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado's upcoming "Throne of Atlantis" crossover between "Aquaman" and "Justice League" have surfaced including a redesign of Atlantis and Ocean Master.
This week, Peter Parker and Aunt May talk over pancakes, Black Manta goes head to head with Aquaman, Black Benny bangs the drums, Apocalypse goes all "Smallville," and someone's ringing for the butler in the crypt.
ROBOT 6's J. Caleb Mozzocco investigates the latest issues of "Justice League," "Aquaman" and "Green Lantern," noting casual violence is "the one consistency I see between Johnsâ storytelling and the tone of the New 52."
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FLOR, flooring, spring 2012, carpet tiles, berber, sisal, animal print
There's a lot we love about FLOR. The company's modular carpet tiles are made from recycled and renewable content, with a closed-loop life cycle in mind. Because FLOR doesn't want to see any of its carpet tiles end up in the landfill, it started a Return & Recycled Program in which it sends pre-paid labels for customers to mail old tiles back. The tile's modular nature also gives rise to creativity, allowing tiles to be arranged in a high number of unique patterns and design. But all this aside, FLOR offers what every homeowner, eco-conscious or not, wants in a product: beauty and durability. FLOR's new Spring 2012 collection was recently released, and we couldn't help but sharing a few of this eco flooring company's new designs. From muted berbers to bold, audacious prints, here are a handful of designs that caught our eye!
Berber Afoot
Durable but cozy, berber carpet is an excellent choice for many areas of the home, especially high traffic-rooms, which is perhaps why it's one of the best-selling carpets out there. FLOR's berber styles are made from 100 percent recycled Nylon. And with sweater-inspired tiles, some of FLOR's new designs look cozy enough to curl up on for a nap.
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While traditional sisal is made from the fibers of the agave plant, FLOR's sisal-style carpet just mimicks the look of this natural fiber; they're actually made from recycled Nylon fibers. On the upside, FLOR's sisal carpet tile are easier to clean—and softer underfoot.
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If playing it safe isn't for you, FLOR has plenty of bold and colorful designs that will make your home pop, from Union Jack-inspired tiles to funky floral prints. Or, you can arrange single-color tiles into a fun pattern of your choice.
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Dan Borne, president of the Louisiana Chemical Association and "Voice of Tiger Stadium," will be the guest speaker at the Bayou Industrial Group Luncheon at noon May 13 at Bayou Country Club in Thibodaux.
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Salish-Xootenai Community College ::OX 1020 Ronan, MT 59364 PABLO, MONTANA 59855 ISSN: 0528-8592 NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH. PEND (TOREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION , WESTERN MONTANA VOLUME 11 NUMBER 4 FULL MOON OF THE SERVICEBERRY JULY I, 1982 Money-saving reorganization plan passes probation As might be discerned by looking at this month's calendar (see page 17) the Tribal Council finds its new meeting schedule agreeable. Word has it that the eight-meetings-a-month plan will be in effect at least until the end of this fiscal year. While the Council seems satisfied with the new plan, one drawback has been discovered: Eight meetings mean eight sets of minutes. That much information, plus reports of other doings on the Rez and elsewhere in Indian Country, are making for some lack-of-space problems in the ol' Tribal newsletter. Until we manage to catch up with the official record of what's happening in the Council Chambers, here's a brief summary, greatly condensed from four sets of minutes: July quarterly is the 2nd Although July 2nd has been declared an official day off for Tribal employees (because we were denied the right to sleep in or watch soap operas on Washington's birthday), some of us will be trucking to Pablo as usual that day. The reason? The Tribal Constitution demands that quarterly Council meetings will be held the first Friday of January, April, July and October. This year's first Friday of July happens to fall on the 2nd - our in-lieu-of holiday. Rhetoric aside, here are the complete details: Third quarterly Council meeting, Friday, Jury 2, 9 am., at the Council Chambers in Pablo. Lunch will be served -- an agreeable consolation prize for those of us unable to spend the day 'pow wowing*. Tribal Court: Some people, it seems, are making it a habit of dropping court charges after the 'complained against' has spent a few days in jail. In an effort to hasten the cooling off period, and decrease the "waffling", the Council voted June 8 to set up this fee schedule: Every time a complainant drops charges prior to an arraignment, he or she will be charged $25, plus $25 for each day the defendant sits in jail. MX Missiles: The Council went on record June 11 as opposed to having any MX missiles in Montana The resolution said their presence in the state would make Montana a "number one nuclear target", threatening the security of the Tribal people. The resolution also supports putting Initiative 91 on this November's general ballot. Tribal Wilderness Area: Six years in the proposal and development stage, the Tribal Mission Mountain Wilderness now has a set of guidelines for its future management The Council accepted the plan June 15, and approved Ordinance 79A, which gives the plan some 'legal teeth'. (The Recreation Program promises to provide us with detailed information at a later date.) Consumer Credit Counseling: The Council approved the concept of providing Tribal members with help managing their debts. The Credit and ANA departments will be setting up the new service, which is supposed to be self-supporting within a year, after receiving seed money from two grants. Further details will be provided, once the project goes beyond the concept stage. Shoreline Protection Board: Gem Mercer, Jack Grieves, and Joe Schnieder became the newest non-Indian members on this controversial Tribal board. The three men agreed to serve after being specifically invited to do so by the Council.
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|1982-07-01 Char-Koosta News
|Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation.
|Salish Indians --Newspapers.; Kutenai Indians --Newspapers.; Pablo (Montana) --Newspapers.; Kootenai Indians
|Money-saving reorganization plan passes probation; Road closure policy is under fire; North end gets a district meeting too; U of M commencement convenes briefly at SKC; Flathead students take honors at I.T.Y.P.; Teens get pointers on getting hired; Youngsters enjoy outdoor 'classroom'; High schoolers score big at rodeo; Reagan's danger signals; Bison Range hosts open house; There's more to do on this Rez than hunt, hike, fish, swim, drink beer, cruise chicks, or watch cable T.V.; How not to shrink your SSI money in October and February; Hamel receives USDA honor award; Asay strives to save IHS money; Meet the Solna 164.
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The mayhem of battle was strewn across Minturn's Maloit Park last Thursday but it was all cleaned up by 3 p.m.
By the end of the day, there was little evidence of the historical drama that erupted between three Eagle County middle schools.
Pyrotechnics sent dirt flying into the air as about 220 costumed eighth-graders reanimated the Civil War Battle of Shiloh. It was hard for them not to smile.
"Stop smiling - this is war! Don't make it look so fun - you're getting stabbed with bayonets!" coached Darrell Osburn, director of You Can Live History!, a Denver-based non-profit that has organized and filmed more than 600 mock battles for history students.
The organization films each re-enactment with multiple cameras and edits the footage to make a documentary with sound effects and voice-overs.
"I've been doing this 21 years and filmed every one," Osburn said.
You Can Live History! also does re-enactments of the American Revolution.
"Those are my favorite because they're so colorful with the red and blue coats," Osburn said.
The eighth-graders at Maloit Park were from Gypsum Creek Middle School, Homestake Peak School and Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy. They studied the Civil War for six weeks. One week was spent studying the Battle of Shiloh and two afternoons were spent in marching practice.
At that time, Osburn also coached them on weaponry, death scenes and facial hair.
"The Civil War soldiers were the hairiest guys," he told GCMS students at practice. "Feel free to make costume beards and mustaches. I once had a fifth-grader who had a great mustache and goatee stuck on with gum. I asked him where he got the hair and he said he shaved his sister's Barbie doll. It was a good costume but his sister was mad at him."
The students also had to raise more than $2,000 in addition to fees of $25 each.
"Part of a $35 activity fee they pay for the year also went into it," said GCMS social studies teacher Torrey Kaddatz.
The students who raised the most money by scoring highest on a test - akin to spelling bee pledges - had first dibbs to be officers.
Matt Jordan was Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, which made him a superior officer to Kaddatz, who was but a lowly private. Jordan smiled when asked what it was like to outrank his teacher.
"I'll listen," Kaddatz said.
For the most part, students got to pick which side they wanted to "fight" for.
"It was pretty even," Kaddatz said. "We had a few voluntarily switch to get the numbers right."
The teacher who brought the program to Eagle County was Tracy Teetaert. She formerly taught at Minturn Middle School and took her students to Denver to participate in a re-enactment. Minturn Middle was moved into Homestake Peak School last year and Teetaert is now with Homestake as well.
"We joined 400 eight-graders for the (Civil War) Battle of Bull Run," Teetaert said. "A parent brought the idea to my attention."
She hopes participation will grow next year to keep the organization coming back to Eagle County.
"Hopefully we can get all the middle schools next year," she said. "The experience does seem to boost students' enthusiasm and drive to learn history. It also encourages discipline."
Kevin Labbe is a friend of Osburn who has a passion for pyrotechnics. He was on his hands and knees, hurriedly setting up ground wires on the battlefield before students arrived, as he's done for You Can Live History! for the last six years.
"I'm self taught. I was just interested in it while I was in college and read a lot of chemistry books," he said.
Otherwise, he's a musician, which is how he met Darrell Osburn and his brother, Gary Osburn, who also helps the organization.
Labbe set charges in the ground with talcom powder to make it look like cannon balls exploding as kids dived in either direction.
Cannons were stuffed with powder and caps as well for genuine BOOMs. Even the muskets were made to shoot white powder to make it look like gun smoke and all the more convincing when sound effects are added to the film.
"I wasn't a history buff until I started working with Darrell," Labbe said. "Now I'm really into historical artillery and weapons."
The Osburns' grandfather was a paratrooper in World War II's Battle of the Bulge and their grandfather's uncle was a Civil War veteran.
"My grandfather had a jillion stories," Darrell Osburn said. "He told me his stories and stories that his uncle told him about the Civil War."
Those stories inspired Osburn to study history.
"I read and studied because I liked it, not for some degree," he said.
He ended up making his living as a musician but never put down the history books. His knowledge and knack for telling the stories took him into a fifth-grade classroom as a guest speaker 21 years ago.
"I had friends who had thousands of painted Napoleonic soldiers, so I borrowed those and set up a giant scene of the Battle of Austerlitz that took up the whole cafeteria."
Other schools ended up visiting to see it.
"After that, the teacher asked me if there was any way to do a Civil War re-enactment," Osburn said. "The school gave me $1,200 to get costumes and materials."
Osburn since became a thrifty guy, making plastic belt buckles from a mold he made with a real one and equipping the toy muskets to shoot powder via blow tubes.
"Every dollar we get goes back into the program," he said. "I think I have about another five years left of doing this before I collapse."


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Authorities say a 4-year-old Transylvania County boy has died after being left in a hot van for about seven hours.
Sheriff David Mahoney said the child was in the van early Wednesday morning when the grandmother dropped other children off at school. Mahoney says family members discovered the child in the afternoon and called authorities to the home in Brevard.
He says it's not clear why the grandmother did not realize the child was still in the van.
A meteorologist at the National Weather Service says it was 79 degrees at noon at Asheville Regional Airport and 81 degrees at 3 p.m.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the temperature inside a car can rise almost 20 degrees within the first 10 minutes.


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Mafia II
Version and / or Patch Used: Latest Steam Update
Timedemo or Level Used: Built in Benchmark
Developer Homepage: http://www.2kczech.com/
Product Homepage: http://www.mafia2game.com/
Buy It Here
Mafia II is a third-person action-adventure video game, the sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It is developed by 2K Czech, previously known as Illusion Softworks, and is published by 2K Games. The game is set from 1943 to 1951 in Empire Bay (the name is a reference to New York's state nickname "The Empire State"), a fictional city based on San Francisco and New York City, with influences from Chicago and Detroit. The game features a completely open-ended game map of 10 square miles. No restrictions are included from the start of the game. There are around 50 vehicles in the game, as well as licensed music from the era.
HD 5770 Here we see no change.
HD 5870 Here we see no change.
HD 5970 Performance is a little wobbly here; nothing too concerning, though.


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The beauty of vacation is you have nowhere to be! Capture that leisurely feel at home by slowing down your sex. Make foreplay last longer with saucy games like naughty dice.
Vacation is a break from your regularly scheduled stress: You can have sex, or order room service, any time you want. Back home, break your routine, pick a free weekend, and have sex smack in the middle of the day.
Old-School Romantic Ideas


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After seeing this 70s folding bike with integrated rack, taking some photos, and chatting with the owner, I googled italian folding bike and found several versions of the same bike with different names. There's the Cinzia, Hyda Bike, Barbarellas, Safari, and sometimes Bianchi. Fascinating. Anyone know the history of these bikes?
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I saw a Betty on the way to work…
excellent—was it stoked?
I've looked at many websites trying to find the history of these bikes, but there isn't much out there. From what I can gather, they were manufactured only in the early to mid 70's and were even used in some promotions (see this photo).
I think they were Italy's answer to the Raleigh Twenty, but were probably phased out since the Twenty had taken over the market.
I'm restoring the same Bianchi model, so please add another post if you find anything. Thanks!
I have this bike but it is missing the front fender and the chain guard. Does anyone have any idea where i might be able to find replacements? Mine is this exact bike (same color too) but the brand is Pierce Arrow.
I have the same bike just in an orange shade,I have a promblem with it
It just woun't spin it locks up…
anyone know how I can fix it?
those bikes were very common all over the middle of europe from the 70ies till BMX came to Germany.
They could easyly be used for children, as well as they could be transported. In my opinion, most of them were never folded. They were just used as lowtech cheap bikes. Your bianchi marks the top of the line i think.
Born in 1975 I broke some of them in my pre-bmx-time. They did not last very long, bearing jumps and so on.
Another advantage: Untill the 90ies loads of them were thrown away, so spare-parts were cheap and easy to find at the "garbage-collection"(?).
These are called U-frames, apparently. They were made by a lot of companies in Europe. I just bought one- a Phillips Folda, dated '82 on the hub. I suspect it's pretty much the same bike that parent company Raleigh introduced as the Safari in '84 to replace the Stowaway, but I cannot find any mention of it online anywhere. I've also seen pics of several produced by French firms, notably Peugeot.
The poster above is correct. The Peugeot P20 (1986 catalog) is a folding bike with the U frame much like this. You can find them all over the place. I was lucky enough to get one off Craigslist a few days ago. If you search by name and model number, people don't seem to recognize it, just search for folding vintage bike and they're easy to come by.
Wow, I have this exact same bike except in red. I got it for free at this "garage sale" (without the sale, so you could just take whatever you wanted). It had a "dynamo" lighting system on the front fendersIt says Barabellas on it and made in Italy, I dont know the brand for sure, but I can show you some pictures of it. (Mines really rusted though, but Im looking forward to turn it into a Stingray-like bike with a siss bar and banana seat, but Im gonnna keep that handlebars. :)
iìm italian and i can answer to the quetion. The first and original folding bike was Graziella. The other ones are clones. Some of them like benelli are at last very good clones
Hello! To Bike Member.
I'm have been sold 4 of those; 1 Lygies orange, 1 Pro-Cycle blue, the two others unknown, because those have been repainted.


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Following a public hearing regarding the annexation of land for the building of a new Walmart, the Devils Lake City Commission approved a resolution at its meeting Monday night to annex the parcel of land located east of Devils Lake, south of Highway 2 and west of the 17th Street Embankment and across the street from the Topper Motel.
City Administrator Terry Johnston reported that the city had not received any written input from the public regarding annexing the land. Addressing the commission Monday night regarding the annexation was Nels Halgren of the Greater Ramsey Water District. Halgren said he has "no objections" to the annexation but that the water district would like to have an agreement with the city regarding this and other annexations, since the district provides water and sewer service to the area.
Halgren recently delivered a draft agreement letter to the city commission office that was written by the water district's attorney. Mayor Dick Johnson said the city is interested in working out an agreement with the district with the first step being to have City Attorney Tom Traynor review the agreement.
In commission portfolio reports, Gary Martinson, city assessor and building inspector, offered a motion, which was approved to purchase lots at the Roundhouse subdivision on which townhouses will be built. Myron Asleson, public ways department supervisor, said the city, weather permitting, will begin Jan. 8 to cut down 20 dead trees marked for destruction throughout the city. City Engineer Mike Grafsgaard said the new fish cleaning station is set to officially open Jan. 18.
The next city commission will be Monday, Jan. 21 at 5:30 p.m. at the city offices.
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Today, I finally decided that my gVim editor needed a smaller font, and the process of getting it to work right has made me notice a fundamental flaw in the way we think about user interfaces. It's not an innovation that you'll get on the proprietary side of the line, because it's an innovation required for the digital middle class of 'user-developers' that I mentioned last week.
Essentially it's just this: GUIs should teach, not obfuscate or hide the underlying mechanism.
What I did, of course, was go straight to gVim's snazzy GUI Edit menu and select Select Font.... This leads to a GUI menu which allows me to choose any one of my installed fonts, and I really do have a lot of them! Furthermore, I get a nice preview of the font I'm going to choose, and I can easily try it out. Clicky, clicky,... GUIs are fantastically efficient ways to work!
If you pay attention to the status bar in gVim when doing this, you'll notice it says
:set guifont=*. Now that's kind of cool, because it tells me what I'd have to type to change the font using the command interface in gVim, which is basically a CLI and scripting interface. That's important, because later on, I'm going to want to stick these commands in my startup file for gVim so that I can do this everytime.
However, this is unnecessarily hard to do, and I want to explore why that is.
Behind the curtain
Something that did not happen, which would've been really nice, is that when I did pick a font, the status bar did not show me what I would've needed to type to get the same effect from the command line (or from a script).
What a waste of an opportunity!
But it made me think about why this opportunity gets missed, and it has to do with the unfortunate myth of class division promulgated upon us by the same professional programmer mystique that I mentioned last week. The myth says there are two classes of people: "users" and "developers".
"Users", are a much maligned class of people. Developers have little respect for them, and regard pleasing them as an unfortunate consequence of getting your software used. They're just so demanding. What's more, they can't be bothered to learn obvious CLI command names and hotkeys. They just won't read the manual.
"Developers", on the other hand are smart people like me, who know how to do things the "right" way by relying on commands and the manuals that define them. They don't mind taking the time, and they know their way around.
I hope it's pretty clear that this division is entirely off base when it comes to users of a programmer's editor like Vim! But the truth is, it's pretty much true everywhere—or at least it should be. Because we in the free software world don't want a division between users and developers. We need that middle class, because free software is driven more than anything else by people fixing their own problems.
Yet, we're still thinking like professional proprietary programmers, trying to defend our turf from the riff-raff.
The conventional wisdom is that GUIs should hide as much information as possible, to keep from confusing the user. But that process makes switching from "user" to "developer" mode harder, and that works against our community goals just as much as hiding your source code. Because, essentially, that's what the GUI is doing: hiding the source code.
That downright discourages tinkering and customization.
Most free software GUI applications are actually front-ends for CLI applications. GVim's GUI is (I imagine) just passing commands through the standard Vim CLI to get its work done. Something just like that happens when you use KDE's 'Control Center' or run an X-based CD-R burner application.
The developers of these front ends see their jobs as "making things easier for end users", but they are not helping the "end users" to become anything more than "end users".
Ironically, many old time GNU/Linux users feel threatened by all these GUI-based users and cling to CLI interfaces. A peculiar idea of CLI use as a critical rite of passage emerges, and a rift grows between the "new" GUI users, and the "old" CLI users. In the name of modernizing and simplifying our systems to make them "more usable", we're making them "less hackable". Essentially we're copying the proprietary models of Windows and Apple too closely.
This isn't so obvious to the old guard, because they still have their familiar, hackable, CLI and scripting interfaces to play with. But they may by now have noticed the absence of new blood to their communities. What's missing is the open bridge that invites "users" to become "developers", by simply allowing them to see behind the curtain.
Teaching, not hiding
The key concept here is that we should view GUIs not as an opaque layer to separate the digital classes, but as a convenience to make learning easier.
In my gVim example, this doesn't work so well because neither the status line nor the GUI font selector tells me what the correct name for the font I've chosen is. The command that is displayed,
:set guifont=*, is a useful hint (it tells me what command to look up, but it doesn't tell me the right arguments to use, the
* only brings up the GUI menu (not something I'd want to do from my start-up script!).
Browsing the manual, I do, of course find documentation. However, it's short on examples, and the font names are different, depending on whether the program is running in Windows, GTK, or Motif window managers. I do happen to know that I'm running in GTK—but is that really knowledge that should be assumed? The program itself obviously 'knows' which version it is running under, so it would make more sense for it to figure this stuff out and then tell me what font names it means. The mapping from the names in the menu I get is not necessarily intuitive.
For example, suppose I selected "Sazanami Mincho", the style "Mincho-Regular" (there's only one to choose from on my system), and fontsize "8" points. That all makes sense, of course, but how am I supposed to know that this should appear on the command line as:
:set guifont=SazanamiMincho\ 8
and not, say, like this:
:set guifont=Sazanami\ Mincho\ 8
or even
:set guifont=-shinonome-mincho-medium-i-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-jisx0208.1990-0
The last one may seem a little odd, but not when you consider that the Vim manual suggests using
xlsfonts to find font names, and this is the nearest "mincho" font I can figure out to the one I chose.
You might note that this is an unusual font, but frankly, getting "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, 8pt" to work is even harder (is that "BitstreamVera", "Bitstream Vera", "bitstream-vera", or just "Bitstream"; is "Vera" a 'fontname' or an 'option'?).
This sort of confusion is exactly what makes GUIs so useful, because it sorts all that out for you, and lets you visually choose which font makes sense instead of forcing you to play guessing games with a long feedback loop.
However, the time gVim saved me in picking my favorite font, it then proceeded to steal back from me, by not providing any way for me to extract that internal information so that I can use it in my start-up script. I've experienced "User Ghetto Lock-In"!
It's not gVim's fault
Somebody's going to complain that I'm picking on gVim—but I'm not. I ran into this problem with gVim precisely because it's my favorite editor, and I'm not planning on switching anytime soon. Also, gVim is just following the norm here. I could've run into this problem in any of a dozen different applications.
In particular, I realize that this conflict is the one thing I really don't like about KDE, compared to my old favorite window manager, which was FVWM. FVWM was a pain to customize, because everything had to be done in scripts. You had to find obscure documentation to figure out how to design on-screen launcher bars and stuff that we take for granted in KDE and Gnome. In order to see the results of your changes, you had to log out and log back in again.
But because there was no other way to do the job, and because you had to know where the scripts were to create them, you obviously wound up knowing where your customizations were when you were done with them. You could easily back them up with your other user files, and it was easy to reload them onto a new computer, or recover them from backup after a hard drive crash. They were yours, not something the program hid away from your prying eyes.
With KDE, of course, all these customization are massively easier, and I routinely set things up, that would've been a nightmare with FVWM. But at the same time, I've lost control. I don't know where KDE is storing all that information. The GUI itself certainly doesn't show me, and while I don't doubt that the answer is buried somewhere in the KDE documentation, it certainly is not easy to find. And if I have to dig through KDE documentation just as I had to dig through FVWM's documentation, then what has the GUI really gained me?
Some old-timers are quick to shout "Nothing! That's why you shouldn't use those new-fangled point-and-grunt interfaces!" Well, that's silly, actually, because there's nothing about the GUI concept itself that insists on this kind of secrecy. It's just a habit that free software GUI designers have inadvertently copied from proprietary designers.
Show me the magic!
Obviously, I've ranted for a bit here, but the insight is simple: GUIs for free software, in order to appeal to the same ideals that make free software possible, should provide some kind of transparency. It should be possible for the end user to capture the messages going from GUI front-end to CLI back-end, or to see the configuration files that that fancy GUI configurator is writing. At least tell us where you're writing all that mysterious information, so we can go diving for it afterwards.
If you do this, then you'll be inviting end-users to become more involved, and healing the gap between "user" and "developer". You'll be providing a much needed incentive and educational help. You'll also be giving end-users that feeling of greater control over their system which is one of the main draws to free software operating systems.
We can learn what's good from proprietary GUIs without copying all the bad habits or turning our backs on the ideals inherent in good, open design.
Copyright (C)2006 Terry Hancock / CC-By-SA 2.5+. Originally published at www.FreeSoftwareMagazine.com..
Right on
In my tentative experiments with GNU/Linux over the years, I've always felt like I needed to master the CLI first, and I think this is one of the reasons I've been slow in making progress. It seems overwhelming and easier to put off for tomorrow. The way I learned Windows was to have this GUI that does most of the work for me and then gradually learn what goes on underneath. I think people want to be able to do things right away. Today. I want my MTV and my instant gratification. I do software development for my job both in Windows and on Unix/Linux servers and I muddle around with command line programs, but it's more natural for me to start from the ease and safety of a GUI.
But even though I like the GUI, I do want that command line interface underneath. And what you suggest sounds like a good idea -- that the GUI should be better designed to help me learn the underlying complexities.
However, while that might work for me, a kind of user-developer hybrid, and while I don't want to keep people in the ghetto, I just can't imagine most people wanting to learn this stuff. So it becomes a question of how do you make a useable program without overwhelming the person who just doesn't have an inclination to understand the nuts and bolts?
(As a vague side note slash tangent, I also think we should reject the often-made comparison with the car, that computers are like cars in that people used to know more about them and now they don't and they don't need to. I believe that is mostly true for cars. I don't need to know the details of how my car works. It's a specialized device that really only does one thing: move stuff from one place to another. Computers of course are so much more, and knowing more about them will enable people do a lot more, to their great benefit. When you start closing down options to make things easier for the user, you're preventing them from doing as many things, where if I don't understand how my internal combustion engine works, I can still get from point A to B.)
Scott C.
"However, while that might
"However, while that might work for me, a kind of user-developer hybrid, and while I don't want to keep people in the ghetto, I just can't imagine most people wanting to learn this stuff. So it becomes a question of how do you make a useable program without overwhelming the person who just doesn't have an inclination to understand the nuts and bolts?"
Here's an example I just thought of: what about the "Javascript Console" in Mozilla? You can launch this little window, and it will display the output from the Javascript in a webpage as you load it.
Why not have a GUI console that shows the messages as they go by for a front-end program? Or why not include the locations of key configuration files in the documentation accessible from the "Help" menu available in most GUI applications?
I think there are a lot of different ways to make this information accessible without having to break stuff or make it difficult to use for pure GUI users. Most of these things would probably make the programs easier to debug and test, too.
Absolutely. Consoles and
Absolutely. Consoles and accessible logs are good things. Anything that lets you dig when you're ready and interested.
(That's one of the frustrating things to me about Windows -- that you often have a hard time finding out what is going on. The contrast between Windows and Unix is striking to me. It seems like Windows and most Windows applications are stuck in binary. You can't grep through and examine flat files. It all has to be in some incomprehensible undocumented format, and when the tools provided fail you... good luck. I think this is why the prescription for a problem is so often to reinstall software on Windows. Whereas on the *nix servers, there are all kinds of tools you can use and most things are documented and accessible. Things are modular and you don't have the monstrosity of the Windows registry.)
It would be good to have these consoles or other helpers, but I think there's the old challenge -- what's the incentive for free software volunteers to provide this functionality when it takes additional time and doesn't especially benefit them personally?
Scott C.
"That's one of the
"That's one of the frustrating things to me about Windows -- that you often have a
hard time finding out what is going on."
I mostly quit using Windows about when Win 3.1 was going out of style (that'd be 2000, for me ;-) ), and I knew my way around the WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI files. But then they got sneaky and started doing everything through this new "registry" thing. One of many reasons I bailed out at that point.
DOS works, but you can't
DOS works, but you can't expect all people to learn DOS commands. I can work in DOS, but would also like to have the opportunity to learn *nix commands---even if I have a prompter to assist my learning curve.
Old GUI did this
I remember that on HP-UX, the configuration application (a GUI) did it like this: each command that was applied was logged and if you were curious about which modification was made under the hood, you could just read the log (from the application itself, no need to search for the log file).
I remember being pissed at Mandrake whose GUI application to update the rpm was just a shell over a command, but this wasn't written in the 'About' section so I didn't know this and lost quite a lot of time over this crashing GUI whereas the command line conterpart was more useful.
saving gvim font selections
All you have to do is set the font you want on a blank page, then save the session using the icon and a memorable name. When you start gvim load the session and voila. This way you can change settings to suit different documents, codings, etc. And all through the GUI.
I imagine that having access to the source, you could add your other needed features even using something as rudimentary as an xdialog window listening to your application output. You could add a command line option to switch it on.
If you need a fully featured fast prototyping IDE, try Runtime Revolution for Linux for an easy scripting based method which also allows one to access shell commands. Once you have the runtime prototype tested and approved you can use an Open Source IDE to finalise the project.
I like Linux because you can put your ideas into practice and then share them with the rest of the community.
kde saves everything in ~/.kde
no different than any other wm.
and to shine some light on those configs
if one looks in `kde-config --prefix`/share/config.kcfg you'll find a bunch of xml files that describe various settings. the names of the files are generally the name of the apps. you can find all sorts of cute things in there.
that said, it is quite true that most cli frontends hide everything about those backends. which is unfortunate for power users. and of course it's not just cli frontends, it's network apps as well. i absolutely how kontact and the various kde pim apps have a little arrow in the status bar which, when clicked, pops up a nice widget saying what it is doing on the network, one entry per activity.
amarok does similar things as well... for those who couldn't care less these notifications are simply "not there" but for those who want or need (think: troubleshooting) to get to that info it's pretty darn useful.
Yeah, I know ... whoa
Yeah, I know where KDE puts its config files, but have you looked under .kde?
It's "a maze of twisty passages, all alike", as they say.
I'm sure it's possible to find your way around after a great deal of searching, but it shouldn't be that hard. Obviously every component in KDE knows where it needs to look to find its config files. The person writing the GUI must have access to that knowledge all during the process of designing the GUI.
So the idea is simply to share that info with the end user. You shouldn't have to know it, to use the GUI, but there should be an easy way for a non-programmer end user to come across it. Why a "non-programmer"? Because the whole point is that this is how we get people to want to become programmers!
Anyway, that needs to be something in the GUI.
Printer friendly
It would be nice to have a printerfriendly option for those of us who have trouble reading large amounts from a screen.
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It's in the web site's todo list. We will add it as soon as we can!
Knowing where to look
Sometimes the information you seek is there, you just don't know where to look for it. In the case of gvim, you need to be able to go to command mode - press the esc key, then type :set and enter. You will then see the guifont setting with all of the proper modifiers. Once you have that info, just open up another gvim instance and edit your .vimrc (for MS Windows _vimrc) and then, on a blank line, type in "set guifont=..." (example: sets my guifont to DejaVu Sans Mono type with a size of 10 - "set guifont=DejaVu_Sans_Mono:h10:cANSI"). Save the file and exit all of the gvim windows, then restart gvim to show that you have set the guifont to what you wanted.
While you picked on gvim, as well as KDE, sort of, I don't think many users understand that most of the FOSS packages use plain text configuration files. For the most part, changes to the configuration are saved in the program's config file whether or not the change was made using a gui or the cli - gvim doesn't save the guifont setting automatically in MS Windows, you have to edit the config file to put it in for subsequent use. Because the configuration file is plain text, you can add, change, remove, etc. settings to make the program work exactly like you want it to. The secret "developer knowledge" is knowing where to look for the configuration file and what the syntax is to make proper changes. That is where good documentation and/or internal help is necessary.
Knowing where to look
Thanks for the tip! I didn't think of trying that, though it makes sense (works the same way as environment variables in most shells).
"While you picked on gvim, as well as KDE, sort of,"
Please understand that I only "picked on" those because they were ready examples. I can think of few applications that work like I'm suggesting.
Even FVWM doesn't do it right, because it doesn't provide the GUI in the first place.
The point is that KDE eliminated the necessity of editing the config files directly, making it easier for an end user to change configuration without having to acquire expert knowledge. But since that eliminated the need for end users to understand the config files, it caused two distancing processes: one, the priority for documenting the config files was greatly reduced; and two, there was no longer any obligation to keep their design simple (since only 'experts' would have to mess with them).
It's better than just having scripts (otherwise, I'd still be using FVWM, wouldn't I?), but it's not as good as it could be, nor is it doing exactly what we want from free software, IMHO.
I think that free software GUI design is mostly derivative of proprietary GUI design. Everybody says "Windows is easy to use" so we copy it. But I think we copied a little too much -- the values, as well as the engineering.
It's just one idea, but it makes me think that we should re-examine some of our ideas about how GUIs should work. While people are currently thinking about things like "better 3D eye candy", I think maybe ideas like this should be in the mix, too.
This "revelation" feature is a great idea but it will only be useful if it works consistently across applications. I would suggest a "Session Log..." entry under the "Help" menu, right before "About..." - of course, there may be a more intuitive name than "Session Log" :-)
That makes sense. Maybe "Command Log" or just "Log" would be reasonable, but "Session Log" makes sense to me, too.
Of course, not every GUI app is a front-end with a CLI backend, so you can't always have that. Sometimes, there's just a configuration state stored in a file, and you have something more like a DOM, where it's easier to keep track of the state than of the changes.
Inkscape, for example, has a tool for editing the XML content of the SVG file you're working on, which is pretty impressive (of course that's the document, not Inkscape's config file).
An even lighter-weight solution is to just include the location of the config files in some item under "Help". Say "hacking" or "scripting" or just "config". Or it could be in the text on the Preferences menu (usually under "edit"), since that's where you change the configuration with the GUI.
Anyway, it'd have to be a GUI guideline, and it would take time for it to get around, no matter what approach was taken.


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The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW Post 3176) and the members of VFW Post 3176 raised an estimated $750 in cash and food donations for the Good Samaritan Resource Center food pantry to go toward the families of Pulaski County in need.
"We wanted to help the community. Part of what the auxiliary is for supporting the community and not just the veterans," said Ladies Auxiliary President Judy Keeth. "We also know that many veterans go down there too so it's our job to help out there."
Since October, the local VFW post has collected canned vegetables, soups, pastas, canned fruits, jellies and dressing to help give local families a Thanksgiving meal. Keeth said that they gave a total of $350 that will go toward purchasing turkeys and hams for local families.
"I'm very happy with the turnout," Keeth said. "More is always better, but I'm very happy with the amount that people donated."
The Ladies Auxiliary left the donation box by the door at the VFW center since October and Keeth said that they would get a lot of donations when there were events held at the hall. This was the first year the VFW collected donations for Good Samaritans food pantry during the holidays.
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Before Safari, browsers were an afterthought. Something you put up with if you wanted to surf the internet. One browser looked and felt just like another, so you chose the one that worked the best and crashed the least. They were ugly, cluttered affairs, whose interfaces competed for your attention and made browsing â" the very purpose for which they were created â" more difficult. Safari changes all that.
Safari is designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. By default, thereâs no status bar. Instead, a progress gear turns as your page loads. And if you so choose, you can hide almost the entire interface, removing virtually every distraction from the browser window. A great browser should get out of your way and let you simply enjoy the web. Safari does just that. And it does it regardless of platform.
The first browser to deliver the ârealâ internet to a mobile device, Safari renders pages on iPhone and iPod touch just as you see them on your computer. But this is more than just a scaled down mobile-version of the original. It takes advantage of the technologies built into these multi-touch devices. The page shifts and reformats to fill the window when you turn it on its side. You zoom in just by pinching and extending your fingers. Of course, no matter how you access it, Safari is always blazing fast and easy-to-use.
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After I have installed Safari 3.0b, a few Dashboard widgets do not work anymore. It happened with IP Locator, Amazon Art and Dicionário (a Portuguese language dictionary). And other users have been reporting this problem with more widgets.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a post about this subject. You may read it here:
Finally Safari warns you that you're closing more than one tab when you quit accidentally! Minor change but it is incredibly useful.
As with all updates of expandable applications, be aware of Safari 3.0b might be incompatible to previously installed 3rd party software (input managers, SIMBL bundles, etc.). In my case SafariStand (2.0b16) prevented Safari 3.0b from loading any website at all. Also I couldn't close Safari's windows because Taboo.bundle was installed.
Although the new Safari features are quite useful I'm pretty used to Stand's features and switched back to Safari 2.0.4 now, waiting for my 3rd party extensions to be updated as well (which I think is similar to FF users regarding their desired extensions).
Some people stated after trying and finally uninstalling 3.0b their previous installed Safari 2.x was gone. I can't second this. However I packed Safari 2.0.4 into a .zip archive before installing the 3.0b., my old Safari.zip was still in tha application folder. I dunno if that's the reason why I found 2.0.4 again after I did uninstall the beta?
After I have installed this new version 3.0b of Safari, a few Dashboard widgets do not work: IP Locator, Amazon Art and Dicionário (a Portuguese language dictionary).
Coincidence? Hmmm... I'm not so sure.
Anybody's able to explain this?
Safari fans can get some useful plugins and apps at
I prefer Camino; for extensions, themes, applications, etc see
The memory leak is fixed in the nightlies.
Safari is my favorite browser but the HUGE memory leak problems spoil it. Why don't they fix it? Everyday Safari reduces my machine to a crwl using gigs of virtual memory and hundreds of megabytes of real memory. You constantly have to quit it in order to free up resources.
webkit is a requirement, imho. every since using the nightly builds a la webshift, adding type to search via fiwt, using sogudi to easily search multiple search engines, and taking advantage of thumbnail tabs from safaristand, i've been really happy. i finally got rid of firefox today.
I use Safari for 99% of my browsing, but its memory-leak problems annoy me mightily. I have to Quit it once a day at least to reclaim hundreds of megs of RAM that it latches onto. If I don't do that, my PowerBook and Mac Mini start swapping to death. But it's a good browser.
I have just discovered Safari after years and years of using Netscape, then Mozilla then Firefox and I must say I'm very happy with it. Safari is a great browser.
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|USHL Second All-Star Team (1997) Curt Hammer Award (USHL Most Gentlemanly Player) (1997) CCHA Rookie of the Year (1998) Signed as a free agent by Philadelphia, August 4, 1998. Traded to Nashville by Philadelphia for Detroit's 3rd round pick (previously acquired, Philadelphia selected Patrick Sharp) in 2001 NHL Draft, September 29, 2000. Signed as a free agent by Grand Rapids (AHL), February 16, 2005. Signed as a free agent by Pittsburgh, July 3, 2006. Signed as a free agent by NY Islanders, July 2, 2010. Missed majority of 2010-11 due to hip injury at Calgary, January 3, 2011. Signed as a free agent by Wilkes-Barre (AHL), January 23, 2013. Signed as a free agent by Pittsburgh, February 25, 2013.
Signed as a free agent by the Islanders on July 2, 2010.
Signed as a free agent by the Philadelphia Flyers on August 4, 1998. Traded from Philadelphia to the Nashville Predators for the Detroit Red Wing's third round selection in the 2001 National Hockey League Entry Draft on September 29, 2000. Signed as a free agent by the Grand Rapids Griffins (American Hockey League) on February 16, 2005. Signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 3, 2006.
Was limited by a hip injury to 34 games in his first season with the Islanders and 11th in the NHL…Made his Islanders debut in the season-opener on Oct. 9 vs. Dallas, wearing an assistant captain's "A"…Registered a season-high plus-three rating on Oct. 11 vs. NY Rangers…Recorded his first point (assist) with the Islanders on Dec. 5 vs. Philadelphia…Left the game with a groin injury on Dec. 11 vs. Atlanta and missed three games…Suffered a hip injury on Jan. 3 at Calgary, which required season-ending surgery.
2009-10: Established career highs in games played (79), assists (13) and points (16) in his 12th professional season and fourth with Pittsburgh...Ranked second on the Penguins with 135 blocked shots and was eighth on the team in average time on ice (19:45)... Had a career-long three-game assist streak from Jan. 9-13, logging four assists...Appeared in his 500th NHL game on Jan. 19 vs. NY Islanders. 2008-09: Won the Stanley Cup in his third season with Pittsburgh...Tied his career high in goals with four andranked third on the team in blocked shots with 148...Selected by the Pittsburgh chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association as the Penguins' nominee for the 2009 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, awarded to the NHL player who "best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey" after his successful return following two injury-plagued seasons... Played in his 400th NHL game on Dec. 3 at NY Rangers. 2007-08: Posted an even or better plus-minus rating in 28-of-36 games for Pittsburgh...Suffered a season-ending knee injury on Dec. 23 and underwent surgery...At time of injury, led the team with 89 blocked shots...Ranked fifth on the team in average time on ice (19:40). 2006-07: Played in 36 games during his first season with Pittsburgh and recorded three assists...Ranked fifth on the team in average time on ice (19:12). 2005-06: Played in 65 games
with Nashville, recording a career-high 44 penalty minutes...Led the team with 170 blocked shots and was fourth in average time on ice (19:43). 2004-05: Spent the NHL Lockout season with Grand Rapids, scoring three goals and three assists in 29 games. 2003-04: Posted a personal-best four goals while setting Nashville's franchise record in plus-minus with a +16 rating...Scored a single-game career-high three assists on Oct. 25 at Colorado...Ranked fourth on the team in average time on ice (20:55). 2002-03: Played in 50 NHL games with Nashville and tallied nine points (2g/7a). 2001-02: Established a new career high in games played (58) in his second season with Nashville and scored eight points (3g/5a). 2000-01: Posted 11 points (3g/8a) in 34 NHL games during his first season with Nashville...Also played in 34 International Hockey League games with Milwaukee, scoring 15 points (3g/12a) and being named the IHL Defenseman of the Week for the week of Dec. 18-24. 1999-00: Made his NHL debut with Philadelphia and recorded two points (1g/1a) in 27 games...Also posted 26 points (9g/17a) in 47 games with the Philadelphia Phantoms (AHL)...Became the first ice hockey player to be named Delaware's Athlete Of The Year by the Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association on Jan. 27. 1998-99: Made his professional debut with the Phantoms and posted a minor league career-best 36 points (9g/27a) in 74 games...Won the Barry Ashbee Award, given annually to the top defenseman on the Phantoms.
2010: Played in all 13 of Pittsburgh's postseason games, recording three assists and finishing second on the team with 20 blocked shots...Led all defensemen with 31:11 (2:23 avg.) short-handed minutes. 2009: Helped lead Pittsburgh to a Stanley Cup Championship with seven points (4g/3a) in a career-high 24 postseason games. 2007: Played in five Stanley Cup Playoff games for Pittsburgh. 2006: Recorded eight penalty minutes in five Stanley Cup Playoff games with Nashville. 2004: Played in six Stanley Cup Playoff games with Nashville. 2000: Made his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut with Philadelphia, playing in seven games.
2005: Participated in the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Orientation Camp. 2004: Helped Team USA win the Deutschland Cup. 2002: Recorded three assists in seven games with the U.S. team at the World Championships. 2001: Scored two points (1g/1a) for the U.S. in nine games at the World Championships.
1997-98: Scored 29 points (12 goals, 17 assists) in 41 games with Notre Dame during his only collegiate season...Became the second player in Notre Dame history to be named the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) Rookie Of The Year, as selected by the conference's coaches.
1996-97: Won the United States Hockey League's Curt Hammer Award for "Most Gentlemanly Play" as a member of Waterloo...Posted 38 points (6g/32a) in 50 games and was named a Second Team USHL All-Star. 1995-96: Scored 25 points (4g/21a) in 50 games during his first USHL season with Waterloo.


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Last night on How I Met Your Mother, the gang celebrated Thanksgiving with a few extra friends: Lost's Jorge Garcia, Jennifer Morrison, and a mysterious "Wang Guy." There were Lost references! Ferris Bueller references! The mysterious curse of the Blitz!
First off, here's the backstory behind the Curse of the Blitz. It all goes back to Ted and Marshall's college days and their friend Blitz (played by Jorge Garcia) who would leave the room and—without fail—something awesome would happen immediately.
But in this Blitzgiving episode, Ted gets the curse and then passes it on to Barney, who "caught it" when he took a separate cab from the gang. This scene also has rapid-fire Ferris Bueller references!
By the end of the episode, Barney gives The Blitz back to Steve (who is now The Blitz again.)
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