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In 1999, I joined a group of community members who wanted to see an art center established in the mid-Roaring Fork Valley. In 2004, our vision was realized when the Wyly Art Center decided it wanted to move from Woody Creek to Basalt in order to reach more community members. In 2005, the Wyly Community Art Center was operating in Basalt. in 2010, the Wyly was offered the opportunity to move into the former Basalt Library building in downtown Basalt. Since 2010, the Wyly has blossomed in its new location serving twice as many community members in 2011. From after-school children's art enrichment to adult art workshops and special programs for the developmentally disabled and at-risk teens, the Wyly is your community art center, fostering creative expression through the visual arts for all ages and all abilities. Stop in to see outstanding local artist exhibitions, or take a class, no experience required! See how creating art can help you think differently, envision new possibilities, problem-solve better, and enrich your community.
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LOCAL teenage photographer Olie Horton, was out and about in the snow last weekend with his camera and captured this Muntjac deer in Spalding Cemetery.
If you would like to see more of Olie's fantastic work then why not go along to the visitors centre at National Wildlife Trust Cley Marshes, Norfolk where he will be opening an exhibition on Saturday.
The free exhibition is open daily from 10am to 4pm and runs until Sunday, February 19.
For more information visit www.oliehortonimages.com.

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Sorry, that you had to wait a few days longer for the results, but the good news is we added an additional copy of The Journey Down to the pool of prizes. So there are FIVE lucky people who'll get their hands on them. And their names are:
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Fri 6 Jul 2012
CONTEST The Journey Down RESULTS
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Four! IV! "4"! That's the amount of The Journey Down digital copies that we'll be giving away courtesy of Skygoblin – the scourge of the skyroads. Participate in our contest, or risk a surprise goblin visit during your next flight.
So… If you want to know more about the game, have a look at our review (2 reviews actually): HERE.
And to win, all you have to do is to answer the following 4 ("four") simple questions – correctly – and email your answers to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tue 22 Feb 2011
Best AGS Games of 2010 Awards
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Once again, it's time to look back on the games of yesteryear and give the best ones shiny digital trophies. The annual AGS Awards are coming up shortly and the nominees were recently announced, so let's take a look at the contenders for Best Game Created With AGS in 2010. Hopefully, you'll be more informed about the contenders.
Still, as LeVar Burton said, don't take my word for it. I highly encourage you to play all the nominees for yourself, as they're all excellent. This article promises to have 20% more spunk than last year's.
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The Journeys Down and Inside Backdrop Art
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I stumbled upon one tiny image.
My brain burst into emotions. I remembered getting chewed out by my boss for messing up with a client, being recruited by a secret underground organization, running a smalltime casino in a jazzy little port town, I remembered my good friend who drove me across the land in his madly upgraded company car, exposing corruption, swinging a scythe, and in the end finally getting on a train with the girl I had been chasing all that time. I got chills.
All that came from one single image…
"What if I could capture that in my art as well?", I started thinking.


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"This guy is a great pitcher, but his mind is not good."
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"Me and you are going to work this guy and mess up the mind."
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"Why you look at me like that? You don't intimidate me. I'm not a player you look at. Hell no, I look at you!"
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I am only a student in year 9 (British education) and I need a laptop that would survive long enough to finish long papers, graphic design and gaming. I normally multi task to complete 2-4 homework at the same time and I am quite short of cash.
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I've made an important post on my WP blog as a "sticky" so that it always appears first at the top of the home-page.
Small annoyance... that same post also appears again in the order that I posted it. One workaround is to make the date older than all other posts so that it's second appearance is on the last (earliest) page.
Still, I'd like for it to appear only once, in it's top sticky position... any suggestions? Thanks.
See the "To exclude all sticky posts..." example for using query_posts() to change what posts appear in a list:http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Sticky_Post_Parameters
Lol weird, I just noticed this now too. It does appear twice, one on top, as a sticky, and then in it's natural order as per sorting or display method.
It also appears with a different background, like highlighted, in its natural order.
I had long forgotten about this, but wanted to try it. On that page that Dan mentions, at the top section that says "Usage" it shows to place the query_posts function on the Main Index Template (index.php) presumably between the first <?php tag and //The Loopif ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
The code to exclude all sticky posts from the query is:query_posts(array("post__not_in" =>get_option("sticky_posts")));
Ok, but the index.php I have for the current WP 2.9.2 isn't quite exactly like that one example, so I tried:
<?php /* The LOOP starts here. Do this for all posts: */query_posts(array("post__not_in" =>get_option("sticky_posts")));while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $bfa_ata['postcount']++; ?>
Is that correct? It worked with the example for "return just the first sticky post or nothing" but when I try it with the code for "exclude all sticky posts from the query" ...the result is that if I go to "Older entries" I just keep getting the same first page (but with an incrementing page number each time)


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This senior history seminar examines twentieth century Central Asian history. The purpose of this seminar is to analyze the cultural and social impact of Stalinism in the region and on its people. It examines the expansion of the Bolshevik and Stalinist ideology into Central Asia. The readings include the secondary literature written mostly by scholars outside of Central Asia and some Central Asian primary sources. Although the focus of the course is the social and cultural history of the region, most of the required books provide a political history. The articles in the course package will help us understand the politics of social and cultural change in Central Asia. Given the time constraints of a quarter, the "region" is limited to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang of China. Our main goal is to learn about the ways in which the peoples of Central Asia forged their "Soviet" identities through cooperation, resistance and rebellion. We will address such specific topics as ethnic and national identity versus regional and local identity; sedentary life styles versus nomadism; traditional Islam versus Sufism; central socialist ideology versus localized socialism; and Soviet cultural establishment versus local cultural traditions.
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Young men and boys poured into the streets as soon as the game ended, about 7 p.m., piling into caravans of taxis and trucks that careered through the streets for hours. They hoisted huge Afghan flags, whooping and shouting, "Long live Afghanistan!"
"After 30 years of war, the world thinks of Afghanistan as only having wars and violence. Today, we are showing that our young men can become world champions," said Khalid Sadat, a fruit-seller who was watching the chaotic celebration in the downtown Shar-i-Nau commercial district.
Even without putting it into words, everyone in the streets seemed to be celebrating far more than a soccer victory. It was as if something had snapped after years of conflict, oppression and grim daily routines of survival. Suddenly, Afghans had an excuse to go crazy, and nobody was stopping them.
Horns honked nonstop, and car radios blasted Afghan pop and patriotic tunes. Dancing crowds overwhelmed traffic circles as grinning police looked on. Flares and rockets arced and sparked overhead, and celebratory gunshots rang out, but no one flinched.
Hundreds of people used their cellphones to record the event or called relatives outside the capital so they could hear the excitement. There were no women on the streets, a reminder of Afghanistan's conservative social mores, but several people noted the ethnic diversity of the crowds, seeing a hopeful sign for national unity.
It was not lost on the celebrants that Wednesday was the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States that had branded their country a terrorist haven and plunged it into war once more. All day, national television stations here replayed film clips of New York's twin towers falling and featured solemn interviews with experts about the event.
But as darkness fell, people began gathering around TV sets in bakeries and electronics shops to watch the India-Afghanistan game being broadcast live from Nepal — something that would not have been possible here even a few years ago, when there were few TVs or TV channels. As the Afghan team scored one, then two goals, while India remained scoreless, cheers could be heard across the city.
"We are celebrating because we have suffered so much for so long," said Mohammed Basir, 30, an insurance agent in the crowd. "This day has brought hope for all Afghans. Now we can all celebrate with real joy in our hearts."
There were hints of irony everywhere one looked. High-powered open pickup trucks, once used by turbaned Taliban squads enforcing a harsh moral code, were full of cheering, carefree young men in jeans and T-shirts. Elevated traffic police posts, like the one from which the Taliban hanged the Afghan president in 1996, were crammed with victory-party mobs.
Athletics, soccer included, were frowned on as immodest by the Islamist Taliban regime that was toppled in 2001, and soccer stadiums were used instead to publicly execute adulterers and others who broke the rulers' strict religious and moral rules. Dancing and singing were banned, and public celebrations were unthinkable.
Before the Taliban took over, many young Afghans spent their high school and college years fighting, first in a brutal war with the Soviet Union in the 1980s and then a ruinous civil conflict in the 1990s that destroyed much of Kabul. More than a million people died.
In recent months, the country has been consumed with worry about whether things will fall apart again when U.S. forces leave and a presidential election is held next year. There have been predictions of economic collapse, political chaos and a Taliban takeover.
But for a few hours Wednesday night, with the neon lights of new restaurants and shopping centers illuminating the streets, and a new generation of students and sports fans capturing the raucous street party on their cellphones, the grim past vanished and the future seemed to glimmer ahead.


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You have to program the code for getting food in any game where NPCs get food. That part is fairly obvious. And yes, the RAI, as Cormar said, is more sophisticated than what you get in most games, but it's not miraculous, and it's not groundbreaking in any way.
True curious, I forgot about sharpening. The base damage of the flame sword is fairly high, but it can't be enhanced in any way - other swords can. Especially those self-forged can get very high damage since they have a higher damage when made than those in stores.
Fair enough DArtagnan, let's agree to disagree.
Edit: Yes Corwin, I actually found the ten year old MM npcs better than those in Morrowind. At least not worse, hehe. Compared to MW, Oblivions AI certainly is a huge step in the right direction.
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While cold weather delayed this years mosquito outbreak, the pesky vampires are out with a vengeance now due to mid-April showers.
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"The ones that come after rain in the marsh or woods are very aggressive, but these are docile in comparison," he said.
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Excellent point!
Back when I used to fly small planes, one of the aviation magazines had a monthly article: "I learned about flying from that" – all about mistakes made while flying (survived!) that taught important lessons.
I recently dusted off an amateur radio project that I put on the shelf 2 years ago because it was not working out as I'd planned. Oh, the mistakes –
BS170P in an 'E-Line package' that is not *quite* a BS170 – pins were flipped (D-S-G became G-S-D … no worky!).
No ground to one of the boards – schematic said it was inbound on a cable, but PCB had left it off.
No ground on that PCB carried down to an LM386 speaker output that I'd built, causing all havoc there – Horrible BUZZZZZ.
That radio works now! Patience (sometimes the patience of Job) and re-reading and double-, and triple-checking, and trying alternatives… that's what works.
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England new-boy Wilfried Zaha has spoken of a run-in with Saints forward Guly do Prado last season, in which he alleges the Brazilian told the youngster to show him some respect.
The 20-year-old Crystal Palace winger has been included in Roy Hodgson's squad to face Sweden tonight and is expected to make his senior debut, having previously featured at under-21 level.
Having terrified Championship sides this season and last, the supremely confident Zaha freely admits he wants to face "defenders who will properly test me" and is even prepared to mention himself in the same breath as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, widely considered the best two players in the world.
That streak of arrogance has hardly endeared him to second-tier opponents, though.
He said: "Last season Guly do Prado at Southampton grabbed me and said 'Respect me'. I'm thinking, 'I don't know you, I don't care who you are, so why should I?'
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"I'd never look at someone else and think he's better than me, unless it's Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi."
Zaha admits "it's 50-50" as to whether he will represent his adopted country long-term.
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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini has offered Carlos Tevez an olive branch after their recent bust-up.
Mancini claimed Tevez was finished at the club after a dispute between the pair during the 2-0 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
The former Manchester United man was fined two weeks' wages after being found guilty of five breaches of contract relating to his actions in Munich
It is widely expected City will look to offload Tevez when the transfer window reopens in January, but Mancini has indicated the Argentinian could still have a future at the club if he apologises for his actions.
"Everything depends on Carlos. If he apologises to the squad and to me then everything will be as before," Mancini is quoted as saying in the Corriere della Sera.
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A group of 70 young people meet last Saturday (22 June) on Aucklands North Shore to spend the day discussing bullying and what can be done to address the issue from a youth perspective.25 June 2013
Young people come together for Youth Action Anti Bullying Hui hosted by the charities Blue Light and Youthline
A group of 70 young people meet last Saturday (22 June) on Auckland's North Shore to spend the day discussing bullying and what can be done to address the issue from a youth perspective. The outcome of the Hui, which was organised by Blue Light and Youthline, was to develop a very practical set of resources to support anti bullying behaviour including an emotional first aid kit; an anti-bullying/celebrating youth campaign to be delivered via social media, a smart phone app, a parent support pack and content to be delivered via seminars.
"Bullying is widespread in New Zealand and has been shown to result in poor educational, social and emotional outcomes for our young people" said Brendon Crompton, Blue Light acting CEO. "The digital world has added a new dimension to bullying and having a group of young people come together to talk about bullying and find ways to manage and reduce it is a fantastic opportunity. The outcome of the hui is to develop a set of practical resources which will effect real change for our young people".
During the day long Hui attendees participated in interactive workshops and heard guest speakers Levi 'Nek Minnit' Hawken and Tori Mcauley who both shared inspiring personal stories around bullying. Willie Losia was the MC for the day.
"Bullying is repeated, deliberate and harmful behaviour towards others. It means one person has power over another. It involves young people; their peers, adults, parents, school and home environments, and the world young people grow up in and we must all work together as a community to eliminate it from our society" comments Youthline Acting CEO, Glenda Schnell.
The project was facilitated by Blue Light in partnership with Youthline and funding was provided by Punanga Haumaru. Punanga Haumaru provides funding for community action that encourages positive social behaviour and reduces bullying of children and young people (0-19years). Te Punanga Humaru aims to build community ownership and a commitment to addressing bullying and has a preference for projects that are collaborative, have support from across the community and have a well-thought out plan to effect local change.
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The Onondaga Free Library in Syracuse, New York has launched a Food for Fines program this month, letting patrons pay down library fines by donating food to a local charity.
While a number of libraries have found success with similar programs, this kind of work is particularly important in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. This ALA Connect discussion thread discusses how other libraries can run this program, sharing best practices that librarians can follow.
Here's more about the Syracuse Food for Fines program: "For each food item you bring in, $1.00 will be waived from your overdue fees, with a maximum waiver of $10.00 per library card. Only overdue fees will be waived- Fines for lost/damaged items or collection agency fees will NOT be waived. Patrons who don't have fines are also encouraged to make donations of non-perishable food items. Credits, though, will NOT be made to those accounts … This food drive will end on November 30th at 5 p.m."


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A lawsuit against Scranton by resident and businessman Bob Bolus claims the city made "misrepresentations" to him about ownership of a section of land next to his home that he wanted to buy, and that the city improperly approved a subdivision of that property.
The lawsuit filed Monday in Lackawanna County Court, which seeks at least $50,000 in damages, interest and costs, centers on a 16.5-foot-wide "deeded waterway" cutting through property on Birch Street fronting Mr. Bolus' home on East Mountain.
Though called a waterway in the lawsuit, the strip is dry and likely contains old pipes underground connecting to a spillway at nearby Mountain Lake, he said. The strip had been intended as a potential waterway for overflow if the 3-acre lake was threatened with flooding, he said.
During the subdivision, Mr. Bolus, who has lived on Birch Street for 25 years, said he told city officials that the city owned the 16.5-wide strip, but it fell on deaf ears. The lawsuit claims the subdivision was improperly approved because the deeded strip was not properly identified.
A year or so after the subdivision went through - and before two homes were built on the Birch Street land - Mr. Bolus offered to buy from the city the deeded strip for $50,000, but his offer got no reply, according to him and his lawsuit.
Around late 2011, Mr. Bolus raised the issue before city council, which made inquiries to city solicitor Paul Kelly, who told council the city doesn't own the strip, Mr. Bolus said. However, a title search by Mr. Bolus found a deed from 1915 stating the city owned the 16.5-foot strip, and the city's ownership appears to carry through to the present, the lawsuit claims. If the city had transferred the strip to a new owner, that transaction would have had to have been approved by council, but it appears no such action ever was taken, the lawsuit claims.
Mr. Bolus' attorney, Tony Moses of Kingston, said, "If the city owns it and said, 'We don't want to sell it,' OK. But either they're not being truthful (about the ownership) or it was transferred (to a new owner), but not according to the proper protocols."
Efforts to reach Mr. Kelly and Mayor Chris Doherty were unsuccessful.
Mr. Bolus said he wants to buy the strip of land.
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