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Shows how to create an FAQ section for a web site with questions that have expandable and collapsible answers, using Dreamweaver and jQuery.
- [Voiceover] Hi, this is Chris Converse, and this is a course on creating an interactive FAQ for your website. I want to start by showing a copy of the final project we'll be creating in this course. So what we're gonna be doing is creating an FAQ that's gonna have questions that you can roll your cursor over, and get a little help icon. When I click on the actual question, it's gonna open the answer, it's gonna animate the Q and the A states, over on the left-hand side, and it's gonna open up the answer to whatever height it needs to accommodate all of the content inside of your answer. We're gonna be writing our script in such a way that you can add any number of questions and answers to a page, and each question and answer will function independent of each other.
We're also gonna add in the capability to auto-open one of the answers, based on an anchor link. So I'm gonna come up here to the URL field here. Type in "barchart," hit Return, and then hit Reload, and we can see, we can go to this page and automatically open one of the individual answers as well. Now, we are going to be building this using jQuery, which means we're gonna get some cross-compatibility across different platforms and devices. So here we are in Windows 7, running IE9. And I can see the exact same user experience, running over here as well.
The icon for the help is gonna look a little bit different than the Macintosh OS, but again, users who are used to this particular operating system, again, will see the help symbol show up, just like they would see in other sites. Click on the individual items, again, and open up the content that relates to the individual answers. We'll also get the same user experience across devices. Let's look at the same experience running over on an iPad. And again, tapping on these individual items will open up these pieces as well. So now, to illustrate what we're actually gonna be building, I want to bring up a sketch. We're gonna be building a series of HTML containers that hold questions and answers, so we can write our JavaScript to target the outermost container, and then look for elements inside.
And we're also going to be using jQuery to inject graphics into each one of these questions. So we don't have to add a graphic for the Q and the A for every question. When the page loads, we're gonna inject all of these items based on the number of questions in our HTML markup. So I hope this course sounds interesting to you, and if so, let's get started with the first movie.
- Creating project folders
- Creating the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files in Dreamweaver
- Activating the FAQ carousel with JavaScript
- Adding in sample question and answer content
- Creating CSS rules for graphics
- Animating the graphic states


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THE SMART THING Is to Prepare for the Unexpected.
So reads the fortune cookie fortune that Amanda receives at the beginning of her family's vacation to Florida. Amanda knows all about preparing for the unexpected—her mother, whom she calls The Captain, is always hard on Amanda, and it's just when Amanda lets her guard down that the very worst comes through. Looking for acceptance, Amanda turns her attention to boys, and doing whatever she can to be popular at school. That includes making out with the gorgeous senior Rick in his car after school—even though he has a girlfriend. And when Rick offers her The Deal—a real, official date to the Homecoming in front of everyone, in exchange for her virginity—Amanda jumps at the chance. But no matter how you try to prepare for the unexpected, sometimes you can't. Sharp, chatty, and brutally honest, this debut novel is compulsively readable and heartbreakingly real.
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California could become the fourth state to remove itself from a controversial federal immigration fingerprint check program, following recent moves by the governors of Massachusetts, New York and Illinois.
The state Senate's Public Safety Committee has scheduled a hearing next week to consider AB 1081.
The measure would remove California's 58 counties from the Secure Communities program, which uses biometric data from arrestees in local jails to search for illegal immigrants. Each county would then be free to negotiate its own terms for participating in federal immigration checks.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials contend that local agencies are required to participate in Secure Communities. City and county law enforcement officials send arrestees' fingerprints electronically to federal immigration agents, then hold identified illegal immigrants until ICE can pick them up.
ICE had taken custody of nearly 72,000 people from California county jails in the past two years, through February. Federal data shows that a third of those illegal immigrants previously had been convicted of a serious offense. However, 28 percent of those booked through Secure Communities had no prior criminal record.
Opponents of the fingerprint program argue that too many of those snared are non-criminals. Among them are "persons stopped for minor traffic offenses, and even U.S. citizens have been caught up in its net and have wrongly been detained at local expense," Julia Mass, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said in a written statement.
Such arguments last week persuaded Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to block his state's participation in Secure Communities, which his counterparts in Illinois and New York did earlier.
In a letter (posted by The Huffington Post) to federal officials, Patrick wrote:
ICE has sent conflicting messages about the implementation of the Secure Communities program, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has publicly acknowledged. The DHS Office of Inspector General has also committed to conduct a review of the program to 'determine the extent to which ICE uses the program to identify and remove dangerous criminal aliens from the United States.' We are reluctant to participate if the program is mandatory and unwilling to participate if it is voluntary.
In April, California Attorney General Kamala Harris began her own examination of how Secure Communities has operated in the Golden State. That effort is still under way, Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for the attorney general, said Monday.
Most California counties have willingly joined in the immigration fingerprint scans. Through individual agreements with ICE, they could continue to check for illegal immigrants in their jails, even if AB 1081 becomes law.
Before that, the Senate must decide whether to pass the measure and Gov. Jerry Brown whether to sign it.
Last year, as state attorney general, Brown blocked the San Francisco County sheriff from opting out of the immigration program. He argued at the time that Secure Communities is not voluntary, a position espoused by ICE officials as well.


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We all love to save money, right? Whether your favorite store is having a huge sale, you find a coupon in the mail, or see an ad in the newspaper, the end result is the same: saving money to do the things we enjoy and buy the things we love! Now this concept has spread to the Internet. Groupon is a website that features daily deals on restaurants, sights to visit, dance or workout classes, and so many other activities. These daily deals are essentially "coupons" – they offer you savings for yourself and others if you choose to buy one as a gift. For example, for a certain deal, you may be able to pay $10 and receive a $20 voucher for a restaurant. These deals can be purchased on the Internet or even Android devices or iPhones, to be used when you arrive at the site of your choosing. One of the perks about Groupon is that even if you don't use it by the expiration date, you can always redeem it for the amount you paid — so all is never lost. Let's learn how to use Groupon so you can find yourself some good deals!
First, go to www.groupon.com. To sign up, enter in your email address, location, and fill in all the required info. If you have signed up in the past, sign in with your username and password. You can always change the city you are subscribing to in order to receive deals for that area. On top of the page in large white letters, it should say the city of your choosing. If you ever wish to change this, simply click on the down arrow next to the city name, and you can search the U.S. by state to choose a new city.
There are five main tabs on the top center of the page. The first tab says "Featured Deal." This displays the deal of the day. On the left hand side of the page of any deal, there is a green icon that says "Buy!" Click on this if you wish to purchase the deal. Before purchasing any deal, make sure to read the details and fine print displayed below the picture and name of the deal. Below the "Buy!" icon, it will display the actual value of the deal, the discount you are receiving, and how much money you are saving in dollar amount. Below that, you have the option to "Buy it for a friend!" The time left to buy the deal is displayed below this, and the quantity bought is the final number displayed on the bottom row of this box.
If there is a deal that you wish to share with your friends online, Groupon lets you do this via social networking websites or email. Underneath the "Buy!" box, there are 5 mini icons to tweet (Twitter), pin it (Pinterest), email, or Facebook the Groupon deal. The blue "t" allows you to share the link to the deal on your Twitter account, the envelope icon opens Microsoft Outlook so that you can e-mail the link to a friend. Likewise, the "Pin it" icon will post the deal onto your Pinterest account, and the blue "f" icon stands for Facebook. You can either Send the link via Facebook or "Like" it on Facebook, which will also display the deal you like on your Facebook account.
The second tab is "All Deals." When you click on this tab, you have an option to view either all types of deals, or to select the area in which you want to find a deal: Food & Drink, Events & Activities, Beauty & Spa, Fitness, Health, Home & Auto, Shopping, and Education. There is an additional option listed labeled Rewards. This is a rewards program that you can sign up for to receive exclusive deals when you use your credit or debit card at certain businesses.
The third tab is "Now! Deals." As the name indicates, these display deals that are to be used on the SAME day as purchase. Some of these deals may differ than those listed under "All Deals," so make sure to browse through these and take advantage of some of the great deals they have to offer.
The fourth tab is "Getaways." These are deals featured by Groupon with Expedia for getaway offers to travel in the United States and even around the globe. There are hotel deals and travel packages listed under this tab, and often you can save fifty percent or more on these getaway offers.
The fifth tab is a newer option – the "Goods" tab. These are essentially your material items, which can range anywhere from a GPS to suede boots to shower curtains to diamond earrings. You can save anywhere between fifty to ninety percent on these "last chance" deals.
So if you love finding yourself some good deals, Groupon will definitely help you accomplish that – and if you are a subscriber, you will receive daily deals straight to your email account. Enjoy!


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Bangkok luxury hotel suites fit for a rock star
For libidinous rock stars, multi-millionaire moguls or heads of state used to the finest things in life, regular rooms in Bangkok's luxury hotels just don't cut it.
When in the Thai capital, rock icons, global leaders and the just plain filthy rich stay in these notoriously fancy suites.
St. Regis Royal Suite
Though nobody will publicly admit it, there's credible evidence that both Lady Gaga and Ryan Gosling stayed in the St. Regis Bangkok's Royal Suite when they visited this year.
The 250-square meter suite overlooks Bangkok's Royal Bangkok Sports Club and is equipped with amenities like a guest powder room, wine cooler, reading area, 50-inch TV with home theater system, 300 thread-count linens, a dining area for six and a pantry.
Rack rate: 200,000 baht (US$7,466) per night.
159 Rajadamri Road; +66 (0)2 207 7777; www.starwoodhotels.com
The Oriental Suite
Who wouldn't want to shower in a bathroom once used by Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, John Cusack and Owen Wilson? (Not all at the same time, of course.)
Located on the top floor of the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok's River Wing, the Oriental Suite has two bedrooms, a sitting room, dining room, pantry and mini-library.
Though recently renovated, the historic interiors are intact, including antiques, Thai artwork and timber walls.
Rack rate: 150,000 baht per night
48 Oriental Ave.; +66 (0) 2 659 9000; www.mandarinoriental.com
Four Seasons Explorer Suite by Jim Thompson
One of the newer suites on this list, the Four Seasons Bangkok's Explorer Suite by Jim Thompson used to be the general manager's penthouse.
Can't imagine what he/she did to get the boot from this magnificent space.
Named in honor of the American silk legend's creativity and commitment to Thai industries and arts, this suite is full of traditional Thai antiques and has paneled walls, teak floors, fine textiles and Ed Tuttle-designed furniture.
There are two bedrooms, one with a king-size bed and one with two double beds, two-and-a-half bathrooms and a large living/dining room and a study overlooking the golf course of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.
Rack rate: 70,000 baht/night
455 Rajadamri Road; +66 (0) 2 253 9195; www.fourseasons.com
The Sukhothai Suite
On the ninth floor of Bangkok's Sukhothai Hotel, with views of the Sathorn Road financial district, the Sukhothai Suite is more than 198 square meters big.
There's even a lounge area with a grand piano, private dining room, fully equipped kitchen, study, bedroom with dressing room and grand bathroom more.
Extra touches the privileged take for granted include a remote control Bang & Olufsen flat-screen TV.
Rack rate: 82,000 baht per night
3/3 South Sathorn Road; +66 (0)2 344 8888; www.sukhothai.com
Shangri-La Presidential Suite
The Shangri-La Hotel's 235 sqm Presidential Suite is actually a suite within a suite, with a master guest room area featuring its own private living room, master-sized guest bedroom, oversized walk-in closet and double bathroom. That's for guests of guests.
Don't want to kick out your party, but want to hit the sack? Retire to your spacious master bedroom suite within the Siam Suite and let them keep on till the break of dawn.
Rack rate: 110,000 baht per night
89 Soi Wat Suan Plu, New Road; +66 (0)2 236 7777; www.shangri-la.com
The Peninsula Suite
Across the Chao Phraya River from the Oriental and Shangri-La stands the The Peninsula. Its massive Peninsula Suite covers the entire 34th floor, a space of 364 square meters.
It has a master bedroom, guest bedroom, formal living and dining rooms, private living and dining rooms, study, private gym, butler and pantry. There's even a private helicopter landing pad on the roof for those who want to fly in on their chopper.
Other stellar features of this Bangkok luxury hotel suite include a master marble bathroom with a whirlpool tub, custom-designed armoire with a sound system and an entertainment center with a 41-inch TV -- perfect for a rock star to throw down the stairwell in a drunken rage.
Rack rate: 120,000 baht per night
333 Charoennakorn Road, Klongsan; +66 (0)2 861 2888; www.peninsula.com


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Unraveling Identity With Zoe Crosher
By looking backwards at an archive of an American woman's adventures in post-WWII Asia, Zoe Crosher's show at DCKT contemporary comments on our present moment of life archiving, digitization and globalism.
By looking backwards at an archive of an American woman's adventures in post-WWII Asia, Zoe Crosher's show at DCKT contemporary comments on our present moment of life archiving, digitization and globalism.
Look for her work at this year's Armory Show and the upcoming issue of Aperture, which raises questions of history, identity, the transience of contemporary life and just what evidence one life leaves behind.
The show is made of an archive of shots taken by Michelle DuBois put in a new context by Crosher, bringing a new perspective in the consideration of another's life:
. . . a reconsidered archive culled from crates, boxes and albums consisting of endless flirtatious smiles, tourist shots, cheesecake mementos and suggestive poses in every film type and size.
It is simply an archive. But nothing is ever simple. Michelle duBois, one of a number of aliases, kept a lot of pictures of herself. Turning tricks in the Pacific Rim during the '70s, she took on many guises for her particular profession and kept fanatical documentation of her many dramatic transformations.
I talked with Crosher after the show and her recent talk at the Aperture Foundation and got her take on her work:
What is "the Unravelling of Michelle duBois"?
It's the both literal unending and falling apart of the narrative of the archive as well as the physicality of the analog archive. I am very interested in collapsing the intention of the work with the medium, and it is within this digital moment, with the end of the analog photography and all the physicality that it entails, that all the varying layers of physical degradation of the film take on other levels of meaning.
Where does the archivist in you end and the artist or subject of the work begin?
I've been concentrating on collapsing the archivist/artist/subject persona. What is most important to remember is that this is not a biographical project in any sort of literal sense. The archive is NOT presented chronologically nor in any sort of documentary fashion. All my work is about approaching things from a satellite point of view, looking at the (empty) center from all the surrounding viewpoints.
Could Michelle DuBois happen today?
No, I don't think so. She was galavanting around Asia at a very particular historical moment that was post-wwII and in the middle of the Vietnam War. Asia was not so powerful economically and there were still a subtle sense of Pacific Rim colonialism in the air. Remember too, like the physicality and heaviness of her actual analog archive, international travel was also daunting. The New International had not taken hold and globetrotting had not become a sport.
However, the epic story of the small town girl going out into the big world will never change – only the way it is acted out and told will be. They are all Michelle duBois / Blanche duBois / etc.
How do you reconcile this work with your other work?
I am obsessed with transience, travel, movement and all that promises it (doesn't) deliver – that schism between the anticipated and the expected and the reality – I'm interested in the in between place, the almost already, the just happened or the promise of the perpetual present – all types of interstitial spaces.
This is the inspiration for the next series of books that (I hope) Aperture will be publishing – a series of books coming out over the next couple of years, each a living, breathing archive with images added and taken away each time, all the text and reviews (and this article probably) incorporated as textual fragments, sometimes included, sometimes forgotten, different covers on different papers – working in a very similar way to how remembering, and most importantly, misremembering actually works.
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Richard Peirce set sail from Padstow, in Cornwall, a fortnight ago on his £8,000 hunt for the predator.
But after 13 days at sea the 55-year-old from Bude has yet to glimpse the elusive creature.
Before setting sail for the last time on Wednesday Mr Peirce said he was disappointed his team had not found more sharks.
"My main impression is that there is a real lack of sharks here now," he said.
"We have been working areas with a crew of professional shark anglers and it is frightening the amount of sharks we haven't found," he said.
"I would liken our trip to going to a game park and discovering that someone had killed all the mammals."
Mr Peirce is joined on the private charter boat the Blue Fox by South African shark expert Craig Ferreira, Padstow skipper Phil Britts, crewman Mike Turner and a documentary film crew.
So far the team have spotted blue sharks, basking sharks, and porbeagles (mackerel sharks).
Lifelong enthusiast
They will continue monitoring north Cornwall waters for signs of shark life during the summer.
During the expedition the crew set sail each morning and returned to land each night.
It was hoped a great white shark would be drawn to the scent of fish remains released into the water from the boat.
Mr Peirce, a freelance marketing consultant and lifelong shark enthusiast, has paid about £8,000 for the expedition out of his own pocket.


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Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
In preparation for my first real charter as skipper (BVIs in Jun 02 aboard a 40'' sloop), I am investigating the cruising course offered by Steve Colgate''s Offshore Sailing School.
The rates seem good for the 5 day course (there''s even a special discount - I imagine to perk business back up after 9-11) and the US Sailing Basic Cruising and Bareboat Charter certifications are included (assuming you pass, which I will).
Just wanted to see if anyone else has taken instruction there and hear your comments. TIA.
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
Ahoy, DuaneIsing. Steve Cogate''s school is excellent and I recommend it to you. I have Basic Keelboat, Coastal Cruising, and Bare Boat Charter certifications from them. The certifications are U.S. Sailing. Everything is handled by the school though. I recommend the fast track live aboard which gets you the Coastal Cruising and Bareboat certifications. Their instructors are excellent and their boats are too. The proof of the pudding is that they turn you loose at the end with their boat, probably a 46 foot hunter, overnight. That''s confidence in their training. I went through in Fort Lauderdale. I loved it. Contact Susan at 800-724-5011, or www.offshore-sailing.com. Tell her Dean Hart sent you. Hope this helps. Regards. dhartdallas.
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
Ahoy, dhd.
Thanks for your reply and endorsement.
I already enrolled in Colgate''s school (via Susan) for the 5-day Cruising course in Feb 02 out of Captiva, FL. We have a place on Sanibel (adjacent island), so it will be an excellent way to combine vacation and sailing.
The Cruising course will give me both the Basic Cruising and Bareboat Charter Certs, but it is not live-aboard. I am already a US Sailing member with the Basic Keelboat Cert.
I am very excited about it!
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
Ahoy, Duane Ising. You will enjoy Sanibell Island. We came back from Libya on vacation one summer and spent a week on Sanibell. The mosquitos were a bother but otherwise we really enjoyed it. This was in the seventies so it is probably even better now. Have fun at Captiva. dhd
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
Ahoy, DuaneIsing. Correction to my previous. I sailed out of St. Pete. on that course. I''ve been thinking about a trip to Fort Lauderdale and have been doing some research. Guess I had it on the brain. Regards. dhd
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
The Offshore school was the first I ever attended. I enrolled in the "Advanced sailing" course which was very good. The instuctor was great, the island is very beautiful, and it''s an ideal area to sail. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
Ahoy, all.
Just got back from a week at Colgate''s Offshore Sailing School on Captiva, Florida. In case it helps any of you, I''ll give you a quick summary report.
I enrolled a few months ago for the "Bareboat Prep" course, and my wife (future cruising partner) enrolled under their last minute plan and paid half price. There were only 3 students in the course that week, so we got a terrific bargain. They accommodate up to eight students (four per session - morning and afternoon), but with just 3 of us, we were on the water longer each day.
Words don''t describe how much more confident I feel handling a larger boat (38'') after this course. We had winds 10-25 kts all week while under instruction, but they diminished to 5-15 on Fri and Sat when we 3 students sailed on our own.
Our instructor was very professional, with great knowledge and skills, and was very personable, too. My wife was afraid some young hotshot instructor was going to intimidate/humiliate her for her lack of knowledge and experience. The opposite was true; she now feels much more comfortable in all the aspects of boat handling we covered.
I would offer a little advice if you decide to go: study the textbooks very well in advance. The pace of the classroom instruction is fast, just barely enough time to confirm what you should already know. You are unlikely to be able to absorb all the material if it is all new to you. The written tests are not hard to pass if you know your stuff.
Finally, just so all you "school of hard knocks" guys out there don''t get the wrong idea, I know full well that a weeklong course doesn''t make me a great seaman. It''s like when I got my pilot''s (as in airplane) license in the 80''s; it just give you a starting point from which to learn during the rest of your flying (or sailing) life.
BVIs here we come!
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
Ahoy, Duane, may I say, "I told you so." Colgate''s is a class act. Glad you had fun.
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
I see all of those who have responded have had a good experiance with The Colgate school. I on the other hand did not. I attended the school in New Jersey and did my basic keel in the Hudson.The course cost just shy of $900.00 ,which after researching I have found other Basic keel courses for 1/3 the amount. (Ok I''m a bit bitter that I did not research schools better....I was just pumped to get started.) I would not be so bitter if I was taught better....our instructer was a 22 yr old who was intimidated by his class being twice his age. He usually came in a bit hung over and just had us sail around in circles....when he was on time. We never practiced docking,tieing the boat up to a dock, rigging the sails,Etc. Reading it in the book is one thing, actualy doing it is another. The worst thing was when we were finishing up our solo sail and were going to motor in, the motor would not start.....(oh yea we did not go over the engine either.) We were making a bunch of short tacks threw a narrow channel into the marina...when my buddy who was at the helm tacked too fast and we did not have enough speed to complete the next tack.Our colgate 27 was now on a colision course with a 60 + ft. yacht. The owner who was waving his arms franticaly and screaming some colorful metafores was hanging over his stern. Our other classmate panicked and froze...I was telling her to back the main...BACK THE MAIN !...I then ran to the bow of the boat and was able to push off the mega yacht and avoid any contact. The problem was that the clip for the engine kill button was missing....they had use a thin piece of rope wraped around the shank of the kill switch to keep it pulled out. ( The funny part was I asked what that piece of rope was ...instructer said ahh nothing.)Well that is my story...but perhapes the best thing I learned was never depend too much on anybody ...even your teacher...if you have a quetion ask it ....and if you don''t get the right answer ..ask it again. But experiance will always be your best teacher.
Anyone used Colgate''''s Offshore Sailing School in Captiva?
That is quite a horror story. How long ago was that? I sure hope you contacted the school and let them know what your experience was. If you did not, you did yourself and others a disservice.
I can''t imagine Steve Colgate tolerating that type of instructor. From the way the instructors talked down in Captiva, he runs a pretty tight ship. I do believe that a company''s behavior reflects those at the top. I hope that what you described was limited to that particular location with that particular instructor, and he was soon gone.
It''s especially sad that such a thing occurred during your primamry training. To me, they should put the best instructors in the Basic course, because that sets the foundation for everything you do later.
So, did you pass the Basic Keelboat test? What are you doing now?
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Welcome to the forum from washinton.
This is a discussion on Hello from North Carolina within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; Great to find a forum for Concealed Carry that doesn't require a paid subscription! Thanks for providing this service. I am 48-years old, married with ...
Great to find a forum for Concealed Carry that doesn't require a paid subscription! Thanks for providing this service.
I am 48-years old, married with three grown children and 3 grandchildren. I have been using firearms since I was very young and my Dad took me shooting. I am a veteran, U.S. Army Infantry (peacetime, 1975-78).
I got my concealed carry permit a few months ago, and recently completed a 14-hour Self-Defense Pistol training class. My primary carry firearm is a Bersa T380CC. I occasionally carry my Ruger P95DC 9mm. I have a CZ75BD 9mm and a Rock Island 1911, but I rarely carry either of those. The Ruger is my primary home defense weapon, just because I have owned it the longest and am intimately familiar and comfortable with it. The Bersa is my primary carry because of it's small size and low weight. It is a little smaller, lighter and more narrow than the standard Thunder .380.
Other than shooting sports, I enjoy hiking, reading, travel, most outdoor activities and spending time with my family.
Looking forward to using the forum and getting to know some of you.
Welcome to the forum from washinton.
Welcome Jay 1958. I am also from North Carolina in Wilmington and just completed the concealed carry class this past weekend. I need to apply for my permit. Look forward to hearing some post from you.
Welcome from Eastern Idaho. 1958 damn good year
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Best Of :: Shopping & Services
After more than thirty years, it was a blow to both the young and the young at heart when Kazoo & Company finally closed its doors in Cherry Creek. But the store's legacy lives on both online, where you can still buy hundreds of toys that are both entertaining and educational, and at Denver International Airport, where an offshoot of the original is going strong. Although the selection at DIA isn't as vast as what you'll find on the website, this Kazoo is still packed with games, gizmos and gimcracks — more than enough to ensure that you'll find the perfect toy for the kids back home. And if you're traveling with your family, Kazoo & Company is a great place to eat up time during that unanticipated flight delay.
A one-stop shop for all-organic personal care, Vert Beauty knows that a happy customer is a conscious one. Opened just a few months ago, the Highland shop has already cornered the market on a long-awaited necessity: all-organic, cruelty-free, responsibly sourced bath and beauty products for men, women and children. From fragrances for the home and body to moisturizers, sunscreens, skin tonics and the latest in makeup trends, Vert carries the same products as a department store, but all from ecologically responsible sources. The staff has decades of combined experience in the cosmetic industry, plus a wealth of knowledge on the latest in sustainable beauty trends, and they're happy to walk customers through new beauty routines. Vert also offers on- and off-site makeovers, makeup tutorials and wedding and special-event consultations.
How best to keep tabs on the inevitable road closures and accidents in winter? You could wade through ads on commercial radio in hopes of catching a traffic update. Or you could whip out your phone and check the Colorado Department of Transportation's Twitter account, where the agency posts regular updates on interstate and surface road closures throughout the business day. @ColoradoDOT is short and to the point, with the latest information on closures and delays caused by various acts of nature (and out-of-state ski-trippers) crammed into 140 characters or less. The best part: Unlike radio, Twitter works in both directions, so the department's social-media managers can (and do) answer questions directed at them. Just make sure to pull over before whipping out your phone: You don't want to be the subject of the next tweet.
In the age of so-called affordable care, we like the idea of checking with a nurse about what the doctor is or isn't telling us. Centura offers one of several nurse hotlines in the area. Unlike Denver Health's round-the-clock operation, the Speak to a Nurse Hotline is available just twelve hours a day, but if you're calling during business hours, you can generally count on the friendly, accessible manner of the knowledgeable staff, who boast an average of 22 years of experience.
Early this year, Denver County Court opened a Civil Self Help Center in the City and County Building, staffed by a bilingual attorney, to assist the beleaguered in navigating the forms and processes for self-representation in small-claims matters, protection orders, evictions and more (but no legal advice allowed). Add to that the self-help centers for probate, domestic relations and juvenile cases, and the do-it-yourself litigant has a good chance of asserting the right to a fair hearing.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Updated at 11:56 a.m. to clarify that the festival is to be held at IRMC Park at North Seventh and Water streets in Indiana.
The first Delaney Chevrolet Westsylvania Jazz and Blues Festival will be held this weekend, bringing talented jazz and blues artists from around the nation, but also bringing together local student talent.
When the guys in Dad Band, a prominent jazz quintet in Indiana, first started planning the festival, they knew they wanted some sort of student involvement.
"We started doing what we do because we want young people to gain awareness and a love of jazz," said Dave Ferguson, of the band, who is assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
That notion ended up taking two forms, he said: through having student jazz ensembles from different schools perform at the daylong festival and by having students from several schools perform together in what is called the Westsylvania All-Star High School Jazz Band.
The festival begins Saturday at IRMC Park with Dad Band performing at 10:30. Following their performance, regional high school jazz ensembles from Marion Center, Indiana and Hempfield schools will perform, with Marion Center slated to begin at 11 a.m.
See the festival's full lineup here
Keeping in mind "Westsylvania" and the region that would have covered when it was proposed as a 14th state during the American Revolution, Ferguson began reaching out to area band directors, asking for nominations for students who could perform.
Though the process of choosing the students was driven mostly by instrumentation, Ferguson said, every band director who submitted a student was guaranteed to have at least one student in the group.
For some students whose schools do not have jazz ensembles, this was their chance to learn more about the art form.
Through the jazz band, Ferguson hopes the students will build technical proficiency and, overall, raise awareness of jazz.
"This is an American art form," Ferguson said. "This music was born in America … and you should be able to play American music."
Fitting, with the festival's tagline: "Great American Music for a Great American Town."
The Dad Band, he said, "exemplifies" the idea of lifelong learning within music, doing outreach programs in high schools as well as in IUP classes.
"We demonstrate how you don't have to go into music to continue to have music be a part of your life," he said. "We've chosen jazz as the medium through which we continue to engage with music. We want to be examples to our own children and to the kids that we hope to reach."
Throughout the day, the festival features performances from bands and performers such as The Old Masters, the Jukehouse Bombers, The Elecromotives, The ChopShop and Sonny Landreth, the Poogie Bell Band and Sean Jones.
To Ferguson, the community should head over to the event on Saturday not only because it's free, but also because there's "great value in coming together for something that is as universal as music."
Especially, he said, music that's homegrown — American music made by Americans in western Pennsylvania.
"To me, that's almost as patriotic as you can get — to show support, on Memorial Day weekend, for something positive that we have done as a nation that we continue to do as individuals in this region."
2014 Westsylvania High School Jazz All-Stars:
Alto Saxophones
Julia Gogol, Hempfield Area; Brittany Gaston, Marion Center; Noah Porter, Saltsburg
Tenor Saxophones
Jeanne Marie Stalteri, Indiana Area; Arista Barnoff, Marion Center; Aimee Kirsch, Penns Manor
Baritone Saxophone
Sebastian Murabito, Saltsburg
Bo Putt, Indiana Area; Nick Comito, Hempfield; Abigail Brown, United; Rachel Mangan, Apollo-Ridge; Brandon Griffith, Indiana Area
Jesse Isenberg, United; Colton Finchum, Indiana; Chris Haupt, Saltsburg; Glenn Travis, Indiana Area
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Not to be mean, or to gloat, or even bask. Just to remind myself, if I wander back here one day, that at least once in August when I had three days of relative freedom the weather played along.
Freedom maybe not so much, depends.
We took our poor Saturn into the dealership yesterday, as it had failed emission testing, and I should add that "we" means "Julie" in this case, and that whole emission testing thing? It came after we realized that we'd forgotten to renew our tags by the end of July.
And that "we" up there? Also means "Julie." Trying to be fair. We have a division of labor.
We're a one-car household, which I've noted before. Like ditching cable TV or not eating a lot of red meat, it seemed unlikely until we actually did it. Then it was fine. I can walk, John doesn't move around much. Inconvenient a lot, but you can deal with inconvenient when the benefits are so broad.
But it was funny, listening to the lady from the dealership on the phone talk with Julie, which I could hear clearly for the most part. There were issues with coils and gunk, and this person suggested that maybe since this 1999 Saturn only had 86,000 miles on it, it wasn't driven often and therefore the build-up.
She was corrected, of course. That's a hundred and eighty-six thousand, and so here we are. I have no idea where we'll be at the end of the day, either. Maybe extensive and expensive car repairs. Maybe a new car that will not be new by any means. Exciting!
Well. It's been so long – we bought this car almost exactly eight years ago – that this feels like new territory. Cars feel expensive, too, just because it's been so long. Are you kidding me? $15,000 for a used car? But I know what's going on, I know that I'm out of the consumer loop on this one, and I know we'll manage to work this out eventually. We're not sweating it, just looking at details.
But this is the downside of the simple life, like trying to park in the big city: If you're not used to it, the whole process starts to seem unnatural.
For the record, though: I have a few days free of client obligations. The weather looks perfect. At some point we will be spending money we'd rather not part with, but we have, and looking at it that way it starts to feel pretty simple itself.


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The annual Preseason Media Days All-SEC Team and predicted order of finish have been announced.
"If I have a son that I have brought to this campus and I don't look after his personal well-being, I have lied to that parent.
"I'm confident in [Coach Jones']. The man is on a mission," defensive lineman Jacques Smith said. "I really wish I had three more years with…
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Arkansas brings a rejuvenated spirit, and new coach, to SEC Media Days.
The Volunteers and new Head Coach Butch Jones take their turn at SEC Media Days
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"This whole past week has been a little frustrating, but I'm continuing to grow and continuing to learn each day," Manziel said.
It's the portion of Media Days that needs more cowbell! Mississippi State takes the stand.
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Led by a new head coach, and a new level of excitement, the Kentucky Wildcats take their turn at SEC Media Days.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post1863361994773942760..comments2017-06-22T20:03:37.754-04:00Comments on Doctor Grumpy in the House: Nice job, ad agencyGrumpy, M.D.http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-51990251821927118042010-10-07T20:23:20.374-04:002010-10-07T20:23:20.374-04:00Oh, if you don't give skin tone and hair more ...Oh, if you don't give skin tone and hair more weight in your judgment of their resemblance than those features actually have when makin' babies, those two don't look any less family-resemblancy than other sets of people cast as family.

Those of us with multiracial families are sort of tired of people supposing that our relatives aren't our relatives because their skin tones don't match ours. It's not a bit unlikely.

The unlikely thing is that this guy would remember a mom (presumably she's a memory, which is why she is young, and in black and white) dressed in a style that predates his birth by twenty years or firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-33298445573373756052010-10-06T08:14:47.643-04:002010-10-06T08:14:47.643-04:00Anon- that's a good point, but I thought the C...Anon- that's a good point, but I thought the COX-inhibitors were already that drug of choice?Grumpy, M.D.http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-588986888847044202010-10-05T21:46:35.739-04:002010-10-05T21:46:35.739-04:00I think that it couldn't be his mother is the ...I think that it couldn't be his mother is the point. Her handing him the Zipsor is the next best thing, after all.

Zipsor sounds like the analgesic of choice for those nasty, nasty zipper injuries. A situation where a man's mother might not be his first choice of email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-54145420843738783082010-10-04T15:39:12.331-04:002010-10-04T15:39:12.331-04:00Yeah, I thought of that, too. That's why I sa...Yeah, I thought of that, too.

That's why I said "not impossible, but unlikely".Grumpy, M.D.http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-31606152327244412082010-10-04T15:36:28.007-04:002010-10-04T15:36:28.007-04:00President Obama's mother, maybe?President Obama's mother, email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-86257033730176617532010-10-04T13:29:55.762-04:002010-10-04T13:29:55.762-04:00Zipsor? Well, I've learned a new product today...Zipsor? Well, I've learned a new product today, although I have visions of "product not covered" in my reject screen. On the bright side, I have a new Scrabble word!Frantic Pharmacisthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-24671877257425992432010-10-04T11:37:30.650-04:002010-10-04T11:37:30.650-04:00Hey with Zipsor we can get rid of Drs. Except we w...Hey with Zipsor we can get rid of Drs. Except we will probably need them to treat the side effects. Gotta love it--FDA is chasing Lance Armstrong for alleged perfomance enhancing substance use 10 years ago, but not saying a word about 12 consumer drug recalls this year..firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-33063797828749837432010-10-04T09:22:37.753-04:002010-10-04T09:22:37.753-04:00Yeah, there is virtually no way she's his mom....Yeah, there is virtually no way she's his mom. She's probably younger than he is. Step mom, maybe.

And what's wrong with plain old Advil? That's what this June Cleaver hands out like water. Or did. Now I just leave a huge bottle on the kitchen counter.The Motherhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-67187506229100427062010-10-04T08:48:17.056-04:002010-10-04T08:48:17.056-04:00mmm - adoptive mother? v.w. goontion - how the gu...mmm - adoptive mother?

v.w. goontion - how the guy's acting?Juliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Removing or Adding Items to Your Persistent Connections List (All Windows)
Windows stores the names of previously mapped drives in the registry, this can be a security threat if vulnerable hidden shares are listed. An advantage is that this key can also be used to set default items for list, if for example inexperienced users were required to map common drives, you could store them here.
Open your registry and find the key below depending on your Windows version.
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Listed under this key are all the shares Windows has stored for the current user, simply delete the entries you don't want to store or add new ones by adding a new string value, and name it by incrementing the alpha values already in the list. Set the data to equal the drive share you wish to add.
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I thought I was done, even smiled smugly as I drove out the mall parking lot. Then realized as I was buying wrapping paper that I still need to get my father something.
I have this theory that holiday shopping never actually ends - we just run out of energy and/or credit and stop for the year
Edited to add that the xmas shopping is done (for my in law's); it's the Chanukah shopping that's not finished yet.


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As you'll see from the photos below, I had an awesome night when Marianne de Pierres and I launched Burn at Riverbend Books in Bulimba with another of our annual chats.
We had a great crowd and the buzz was fantastic. Thank you again to Marianne, the team at Riverbend Books (especially Vicky, Pauline and Lachlan), Text Publishing (especially Steph Speight), and everyone who came along and made it such a great night.
And I got to meet fellow Brisbane writer Christine Bongers 🙂
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By David Niles White | Friday, April 30, 2010
OK. Wrap your brains around this: A hyperrealistic, 180-degree panorama of Times Square in New York City illustrated in Photoshop. The finished piece when printed out will be 60 inches by 25 feet. The flattened Photoshop file is 11.7 gigabytes. There are roughly a half a million layers. And it has taken Bert three years to complete.
Times Square, soon to be exhibited at the School for Visual Arts Theatre in New York, is only part of the story of this gifted digital artist who started with paper and rubber cement, graduated to the first Macintosh in 1984 and co-wrote the first ever book on Photoshop. From his home and studio in Berkeley, California, Bert creates art like no other. He is driven to share his gift and his techniques. I'm betting you'll be as riveted as I was when I met and interviewed Bert for this installment of Creative Inspirations in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.
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Less than 4 inches – please don't go ice fishing. There is no reason to test the newly formed ice at this time. If you still proceed out, wear a life jacket, use ice picks in case you fall through and need to get out, and use a pole to poke the ice in front of you.
4-6 Inches – Ice fishing, foot travel in single-file lines, and small spaced seating on the ice should be safe, presuming the ice is clear and clean. If you've gotten a lot of snow or had some recent warm spells be VERY careful for weak spots.
6-10 Inches – Snowmobiles and ATV's can travel safely on good ice that is over inches thick. Ice fishing out of your vehicle should not be an option.
10-16 Inches – Small cars and pick-ups can begin to venture on to the ice. However, the MN DNR states that it is best to avoid driving on the ice whenever possible. If you do, please keep your windows rolled down. This will allow an easy exit in case you fall through.
16+ Inches – A medium-sized car or mid-size pickup can drive on good clear solid ice. But as the saying goes, there's no such thing as safe ice so keep the tips above in mind.
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RPGWatch Side Quest - Game Feel
In our latest Side Quest, Josh "Moxie" Sprague delves into the "feel" of a game and how it comes together from the design choices:
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Nice article; one of those things that got me nodding in agreement almost all through.
I was actually thinking along very similar lines in magerette's recent genre-related thread.
Specifically, I strongly dislike the "feel" of the gameplay (specifically, the combat) in Planescape: Torment, moderately dislike the "feel" of combat in Fallout, but strongly like the "feel" of The Witcher.
Then I got to thinking, is the problem that I like real-time but dislike turn-based, and dislike the indirect real-time-with-pause in Infinity Engine even more?
The answer is "no."
For example, I very much enjoy the feel of NetHack. And the reason is exactly what Moxie says -- it's immediately responsive. I type h to move left; if there's a monster there, I hit it with whatever I'm wielding. I type z-e-h to z(ap) inventory item e (a wand, presumably) to the left. I type Z-c-h to cast spell c (presumably something like a fireball) to the left. The speed of my gameplay is constrained by my typing speed and my ability to remember which usable item is in which inventory slot.
OTOH with Fallout it's a lot more work to execute an attack, especially later in the game when you're good enough to get some targeted shots. Click on the attack button, click on the monster, click on the body part, repeat until out of action points, click "end turn." This is much slower and more cumbersome, and when fighting mobs it gets old real quick. As to the IE games, they're more or less the same, except with added randomness and terrible pathfinding thrown in. Not that NWN or NWN2 are much better in this respect.
To pick some real-time examples, the "feel" in Morrowind was pretty damn terrible, whereas in Oblivion it was pretty damn good. VtM: Bloodlines was pretty bad in terms of "feel," while Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was pretty damn good. (OK, I only played the demo, but it *was* fun kicking orcs off ledges or into spikes.)
I've been meaning to give Eschalon a shot, and this article is one more push in that direction: it sounds like a TB system that I would enjoy.
The "feel" of a game is not defined purely by it's combat alone though. I don't think the "feel" of Fallout & Torment are only defined by their combat systems.
I think we're talking about a different kind of "feel" here; "atmosphere" and such perhaps. That certainly has little to do with the combat system (and, indeed, both games were among the best ever in this respect).
It's always a problem when rating rpgs because sometimes input is your own imagination. You can create your own "fell".
Prime Junta, have you tried TOEE ?
I ask, because it's turn-based, too, and I liked the "feel" of its combat a lot.
I haven't. I've been looking for a copy on the used market, but haven't come across one. I would like to; I've heard a lot of good things about it.
Unfortunately the combat is the only good part about ToEE. The actual adventure is dull and lifeless.
Well, I had some fun with it, anyway.
The only visual drawback is that almost all tenants are inside their houses - you hardly won't ever see people running around in the village.
Gothic's alternate controls are mouse/keyboard, and the keyboard keys can be remapped. Gothic 2's controls were nearly identical to the ones I used for the original game.
I point that out, because one of the best things about Gothic was its controls and the "feel" of them. It was very responsive, very satisfying.
Swink's analysis is good stuff but doesn't go far enough for us, because there's more to these games than just steering yourself around and interacting with whatever's there. Unlike the others, your identity in an RPG should feel like a life. There needs to be a lot that's beyond your control.
Remember Close Combat? That was twelve years ago. You controlled a "party" -- a squad, technically speaking -- in combat in varied terrain. It was very fast, fluid, and responsive. I see no reason why this type of RT combat couldn't be implemented in a role-playing game (other than it'd be a fair bit of work). There are plenty of other tactical games, both real-time and turn-based, to look at for inspiration.
The unfortunate fact is that party combat in most role-playing games is just pretty badly done. The reasons are historical -- you take a system that works, sort of, for a single character game, and then add more characters. This makes a mess of it. What should have been done is a complete redesign based on multi-character combat to start with.
This means better AI and a different design paradigm. For example, take your classic D&D-style RPG. What I'd *want* to be able to do is give each party member "standing orders" -- for example, my sorcerer should look for cover, hang back, and be the artillery; my rogue should look for high ground and attempt to sneak around and be the sniper; my tank should face the enemy head-on, and my cleric should support and heal the tank.
I should not have to micro-manage this behavior -- whenever combat starts, they should look for appropriate positions and take them. As combat proceeds, I should be able to order individual members, a part of the party, or the entire party to take up new positions by designating a new target area. If necessary, I should be able to give individual members specific orders -- for example, to tell the sorcerer to break cover and move to a new position, or give the rogue a new target area -- say, behind the enemy -- and get her to sneak her way there, using cover intelligently.
Note that this would work equally well in turn-based and real-time. The main change is pretty simple, really -- better AI and a squad-based command interface. Nothing that hasn't been done very well many times over.
I'll tell you what I think would make these game feel better. Enable characters to perceive things differently. That would spice it up.
Remember the blind master in the old "Kung Fu" TV show who could anticipate your every move and beat you to the punch? Or Galadriel who observed and considered what only the wisest could perceive? Or Brainiac 5 whose super power was his amazing intellect?
I'd like to experience the feeling of an assassin's deadly insights or a cleric's close connection with his deity. I'd like wizards to have more options than anyone else. And I'd like combat to slow down for veteran warriors who can skin goblins in their sleep.
It's all a level playing field right now. Every character gets a turn or a twitch. Maybe roles should have a bigger impact on the game. Change that and then worry about the turns or twitches or whatever.
Don't know if this is exactly your point, Squeek, but I agree that different types of characters should feel different to play, and use different approaches, and they should be realistic to the specific character type.
I'd also like to feel differently playing a thief, have different choices and different responses than a paladin. I think the rules-set the game follows determines how far you can go here. Purely mechanically, I'd like to see situations where my primary skillset was appropriate, and others where I had to avoid an encounter and pursue it another way, because a shot of well-implemented realism is as good as a jug of conventional imagination for identifying you with your character.
For example, one of the things I dislike is to play a master archer, but have to put thirty arrows into something before it falls. I can understand that even a Legolas might occasionally miss a target, but nothing should be able to walk up and kill me after I've put a woodpile's worth of shafts through it unless it's a dragon. Meanwhile, the apprentice wizard is roasting twenty goblins with a level 3 fireball spell. :) A little realism done right adds a layer of challenge and reigns in your boredom at another predictable encounter also.
I was thinking more about Prime Junta's Fallout example. A quick fix for the excessive clicks could be making the enemy's target zones clickable from the original combat screen rather than bringing up a separate interface (even though the PIP boy targeting had a cool look).
This may be redundant on the party comments, but I was thinking about how Might & Magic III (and IV and V) did a good job of letting you barrel through combat at your own pace. You could spend time thinking with your casters or you could just set a default spell and use that on the fly. However, those and first-person party games still kind of function as a single character with multiple personalities.
When characters can move independently of each other, party systems get more interesting. I actually liked the old Ultimas' style for this (III, IV, and V). Move and attack were your basic options with different options for the attack. Even fleeing combat was executed by physically moving characters out of the battlefield. Comparing this to the Japanese-style tactics games, its no contest for which one I enjoy more. The speed of the computer's moves in Final Fantasy Tactics was crippling boredom for me. Even my own moves require 4+ button presses for the simplest actions.
That's probably the reason why the feel of the Witcher is so good -
It sure has lots of Polish.
Good article, I agree with a lot of the points. Simple example, intellectually I believe I should enjoy Fallout a lot but it just doesn't click with me in some way. And the interface is partly to blame, it is slightly unwieldy.
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DINNER: A benefit spaghetti dinner will be hosted by Salem Lutheran Church, Route 954 and Clarion Street, Smicksburg, from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Proceeds will assist Dana Lentz, of Indiana, as he awaits a double lung transplant.
Takeouts will be available. A silent basket auction will also be held.
For more information, call Pastor Arlene Schweitzer at (724) 354-3970.
MEETING: Indiana County Herb Study Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Red Cross Building on Kolter Avenue. The guest speaker will be Nathan Williams.
TRIP: A bus trip sponsored by Rainbow Diamond Glass Club to the Northeastern National Show and Sale and two antique shops in the Carlisle area will be May 4. The trip will cost $50. To make reservations, call (724) 254-2239.


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A classic word game with a twist! Kids will love thinking up words to stump their opponent, or taking their best guess to win it all! Includes one Hangman game board with erasable whiteboard, self-storing dry-erase marker and eraser. No loose pieces - ideal for travel!
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Wacknificient: Wack Rappers We Love To Love
I consider myself sort of a lyrical extremist when it comes to hip-hop.
I don't really care what MCs talk about as long as they say something slick in the process. There's nothing like a good beats and rhymes combo when the MC is just obliterating a great beat with mind blowing rhymes. As much as I love lyrics, I've learn to appreciate simile-challenged MCs for other facets of their games whether it be comic relief (at their expense sometimes) or flows. It's like…sometimes I need to take a break from deciphering Nas' lines so I just wanna listen to something really niggorant, so I put on some Jim Jones or something.
Now, Jim Jones isn't a good MC by any means. He'll tell you himself that he's no rapper. The thing is, as mediocre an MC as he is, Capo still churns out some pretty good music. He's wack at the essence, when it comes to straight up rappin, but he puts out solid music. He's what I call, Wacknificient. Like, at times, he'll say something really wack, but I won't care. I'll be the first one singing along to it. To his credit, Jim has gotten much better over the years. He's no Pharoahe Monch, but he's gotten better.
See, at times, an MC's wacknificience doesn't have to do so much with his lyrics, but the way he delivers his bars. It's so pedestrian and borderline laughable, yet, there's something absolutely infectious about it. For me personally, Gucci Mane LeFlare may just be the most wacknificient rapper out today. He's no Black Thought, but I still love his music. "Freaky Girl" is just about the best example. The song is just full of wacknifient lines.
He sets off the first verse with, "Let me set the record straight/hater you participate/three girls with me like I'm going on Elimidate/say you got a man, but your man ain't here/the ice in my ear shine like a chandelier" and later boasts "My money long like a limo/just to show off I put my wrist out the window" on the second verse. LOVE IT!
Lil' Boosie is another example. I don't look to him for lyrical content, but you'll most likely catch me brushing my shoulders and shoes if they play "Wipe Me Down" at a party. This is subjective of course. My wack MC is the next man's Rakim, so it's all up for debate. But what about you guys? Who are some of the most lyrically impaired MCs you love to love?-Jackpot


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AMHERST - Jumping to the Bantam AAA level has been a great experience for three Cumberland County hockey players.
"It's fun playing against the best bantam players in Nova Scotia," said Amherst's Kansas Hart, who plays for the Truro Bantam AAA Bearcats.
Springhill's Chandler MacKinnon is Hart's teammate.
"It's been the best year of hockey I've ever played," said MacKinnon. "I love the coaching staff and my teammates are great."
Amherst's Reuben Mackenzie also plays for the Bearcats. He's an assistant captain with the team.
Everybody on the team is really nice and they make sure we work hard, and I like that," said MacKenzie. "They correct us if we're not working hard."
Bantam AAA coach Lou Lanceleve say's all three players bring a unique skill-set to the team.
"Reuben's probably one of my favourite all-time players," said Lanceleve. "He's one of those big power forwards and he has a ton of upside.
Lanceleve says that if Mackenzie stays focused he could play Midget AAA and Junior hockey.
"He has all the tools, all the tools, and he's probably got one of the best shots in the league, he's just got to put it on the net, but that's OK," added Lanceleve with a laugh.
MacKenzie says he's learning to keep his feet moving and to shoot the puck low.
"The AAA game is intense, and everybody tries their hardest, so you have to keep alert and keep moving," said MacKenzie.
Lanceleve calls MacKinnon a role player.
"Chandler's an energy player," said Lanceleve. "He's a heartbeat player that gives 100 per cent."
MacKinnnon says Bantam AAA is faster than what he was used to, and adds that his game has improved a lot since September and continues to improve.
"Everything about my game has improved both physically and mentally," said MacKinnon.
Hart is the only defenceman among the three players.
"I find I've improved a lot since I joined the team. I sense the game better," said Hart. "The coaches are very educational and teach me everything I need to do."
Lanceleve says Hart is one of the bigger players on his team.
"When he focuses on his game and keeps it simple he's very effective. He's improved a lot since September and he's a great asset for us."
Lanceleve says all three players are great assets.
"It's a big jump for these guys to come up to this level and I've seen improvement in them all," he said.
"It's awesome having them here and hats off to them. The travelling they do and the commitment from the players and their parents is amazing," he added. "I have total respect for them. They're committed to playing the game."
All three players are 14-years-old and are in Grade Nine: Mackinnon at Springhill High School, Mackenzie and Hart at Amherst Regional High School.
"They're 14-years-old and we practice two days a week and, no matter where we're playing, they're on the road Saturday and Sunday.
He also says their parents are very supportive of their kids and the Bantam AAA program.
"I speak to the parents and they're very good people," said Lanceleve.
The Bearcats currently sit in 11th place in the 12-team Nova Scotia Major Bantam Hockey League.
"We're a young team. We have nine first year kids, so there's some growing pains for everybody," said Lanceleve.


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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. plans next year to issue the first U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities supported by distressed loans since the 1990s, as it revives a practice that regulators used to extricate the nation from the savings & loan crisis.
The investment bank has approached ratings firms with two pools of defaulted and distressed loans held by financial institutions that are J.P. Morgan's clients, according to people familiar with the matter. J.P. Morgan wants to create commercial mortgage-backed...


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Outdoor Activities and Courses with Terry James Walker MIA, ISTD
During the Summer months, I am based in Llanberis, at the heart of the Snowdonia mountains in North Wales. I offer a vast range of Rock Climbing courses and activities. Within a 30 minute radius of here, we have access to some of the best rock climbing in the UK. From the stunning coastal cliffs of Anglesea and Gogarth, to the Trad climbing kingdom of the Llanberis Pass, and the fine weather haven of Tremadog, through to the sport climbing mecca of Lower Pen Trwyn and the great Orme. I also run Scrambling and Walking courses in the beautiful local mountains for all to enjoy.
In the Winter, from December to April, I am based in the French Alps offering Ski and Snowboard lessons in the amazing resort of Val d'Isere. I specialise in Off Piste, Freeride and All Mountain courses, but can cater for all abilities and any ages.
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Songs By The Smiths Now Told In Comics
Songs by the iconic English alternative rock band are now being turned into comics by an American publisher.
Shawn Demumbrum, an Arizona-based comics publisher, is bringing songs by erstwhile alternative rock band The Smiths to life in an anthology of comics titled Unite and Take Over: Comic Stories Inspired by the Smiths. Demumbrum's anthology, expected to be published by November of this year, transforms songs such as Girlfriend in a Coma and How Soon Is Now? into comic-book stories. Each tune is slated to be interpreted as a four-to-eight-page comic strip. Demumbrum explains:
As a teen in the 80s, one of my favourite soundtracks was the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. While training for cross country, I played the cassette over and over on my Walkman as I ran. There was always something about the Smiths' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want. It tapped into my teenage psyche, a combination of loneliness and yet hopeful optimism, that only Morrissey's vocals seem to capture.


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5. Grindhouse Mind Games: Teaser
These snowboarders from the UK are no joke! I fully back the Grindhouse dudes, and this teaser is the reason why.Mind Games features snowboarding from Will Smith, Andy Nudds, Jamie Nicholls, Ollie Dutton, Tom Guilmard, Jonny Russell, Simon Foster, John Weatherley, Stu Edwards, Matt Higson, Tom Honey, Andy Laird, Jon Addison, Stuart Horsham and Ian Ashmore.
Pourquoi Pas: Teaser
So I'm going to be honest, I've never heard of any of these dudes ( except for Francis Bourgeois), but holy shit this teaser is sick. The French Canadians always know how to bring the heat, and this teaser does just that.


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Phones 4U is now accepting pre-orders and is willing to give the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini for free with a contract from one of several available carriers. Furthermore, the first 350 customers will be given a Samsung S Pebble MP3 player as a gift, simply for being awesome. Subscriptions are priced between £25 and £36 per month.
For those who need a refresher, the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini is a lot like a stripped-down version of its bigger brother, the Galaxy S III, and as such it comes with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution and a dual-core 1GHz processor. There is a 5-megapixel main camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing shooter for video chats. The latest version of Android - 4.1 Jelly Bean, is running the show.
Anyone who is interested can pre-order a Samsung Galaxy S III Mini by following the link below. The smartphone is expected to ship on November 2.
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