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The "Stun Gun Electroshock Weapon" is a compact electric stun gun pistol with very loud sound. This weapon simulator with LED lighting was developed to have lots of fun while you are pretending to play self defense.
Drive your friends crazy with this high voltage electroshock stun gun at your fingertips. Use your finger to push the button and unleash a massive electric spark of energy. Ensures the security of your environment. Electroshock your subjects, when they do not expect it.
★ Electroshock friends or enemies with this realistic electric stun gun simulator.
★ Vibrate when fired to enhance the electroshock.
★ Play as if you were a gangster from the west coast with this game
★ Lighting: Camera LED Flash tested on Samsung Galaxy S4, S5, Alpha, Note 3 and 4.
Do not be a "Brutus", everyone knows you can not have a Moskete or perhaps a Makarov pistol on your mobile phone. But a good zapper ... it is clear that an outlaw like you can have it.
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Cool, it's fake btw. So to those crying because it doesn't work, dry your eyes as it is fake
[★★★★★] Brandon Boyette on May 4, 2014 at 5:01 PM
Barrels o fun Oh my god, this app shocked the flying Hell out of my buddy. It killed my battery on my phone, but a well designed app for self defense. Next car jacking I get jacked in, Ima stun the hell outta them. I'm looking forward to the real projectile m16 upgrade..
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Pretty good To all thinking this was an actual stun gun,you're idiots.This app is for fun,nothing more.Stop your crying.
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Wow It does shock you it hurts too.
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Two people involved in a small airplane crash at the Cortez Municipal Airport Wednesday afternoon walked away from the wreckage virtually unscathed.
"There were no serious injuries," said Montezuma County Undersheriff Linda Carter.
However, one of the two aboard was transported to the hospital, "as a precautionary measure," Carter said.
According to Carter, both people involved in the crash were pilots, and one was undergoing a recertification process and practicing "touch-and-go" landings at the time of the crash.
"Something went wrong," she said.
The airplane, a 1999 Piper Malibu, sat on the runway Wednesday surrounded by airport and county officials.
Carter said there was a small fuel spill, and the scene would be secured until investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived. The NTSB investigates all airplane crashes.
Cortez Mayor Karen Sheek said emergency fire crews were quick to respond to the scene, adding that they performed their duties professionally.
"Both passengers walked away with only minor injuries," said Sheek. "That's what's important."
Wednesday's 4 p.m. Great Lakes Airlines flight into Cortez from Denver was canceled, but City Manager Shane Hale said commercial operations had resumed by 7 p.m. Wednesday.
On scene just after noon on Wednesday, Hale speculated high winds may have played a role in downing the lightweight aircraft.
"It was really windy," said Hale.
Hale didn't have an exact number, but said the crash was not the first to occur on the city's airfield.

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TMG-L ArchivesArchiver > TMG > 2011-03 > 1299549101
From: John Charles Tippet <>
Subject: [TMG] TMG Report Issue
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:51:41 -0800
I am re-posting this with another subject line since my previous post
was buried in another thread by mistake:
I created a report to list all of the marriages in my database that do
not have a date - day listed.
The report I tried is a list of events report as follows:
tag type label = marriage and
date - day = 0
When I run this report, TMG hangs in calculating the second filter.
I then noticed that if I added an output column for date - day to a
report it is a two character entry, for example the first of the month
is 01 and no entry is 00
So I modified the list of events report above to use 00 rather than 0
hoping that this would work. Unfortunately, TMG still hangs.
I then created the following similar report to try to troubleshoot this
tag type label = marriage and
date - year = 1885
This one runs fine without hanging TMG.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
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From: minoune <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Berard-Lepine family
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:02:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Thanks for sharing your success Carl. It will serve to inspire all of us to never give up!
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>From: Carl W Carruthers <>
>Sent: Aug 6, 2006 10:47 AM
>Subject: [Q-R] Berard-Lepine family
>This is good news!!
>Posted my desperate request on your site. I'd been at the "Brick Wall" for almost two years trying to find the family of Dennis Lapine, Rutland, VT. Carol Ann Grenier Turner () replied with a suggestion. I followed through and wrote a letter to a Mr. Camille L Bolduc, Biddeford, Me, he does not use a computer but has been working on Franco-American and Canadian Genealogy for 25 years. Within a week he sent me a package on my great-grandfather, Denis Berard-Lepine. His parents are Pierre-Ambroise Berard-Lepine and Marie-Anne Prud'homme, married 23 Aug 1825, St-Cuthbert, Berthier, Quebec. He was able to trace the Berard-Lepine family back to France in 1644.
>I immediately called Mr. Bolduc to thank for his fine work. He acted like it was just another days work, but to me I was as excited as a kid at Christmas. I owe Quebec-Research, Carol Ann Grenier Turner and Mr. Bolduc a GREAT BIG THANKS!! for busting down another genealogical wall. Would love to hear from any of my Berard-Lepine relatives.
>Carl W. Carruthers
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When I am teaching childrens Bible study, I will introduce the characters of the Bible story with puppets first. I find that children become communicative when a puppet is used.
Try this Sunday school Bible study activity to let them create their own puppets. The characters of any Bible story will make great popsicle stick puppets. Use small homemade pompoms for hair and beards.
Bible Study Activity: "Popsicle Stick Puppets"
-Popsickle sticks. Two or three for each child
-Homemade mini pompoms (see instructions below)
-Paint, varying colors
-Glue sticks
-Styrofoam bowls to use as puppet stands, one for each child
-Scraps of old fabric, 2-inches wide by 4-inches long
Before Class:
1.Make homemade mimi pompoms as follows:
a.Wrap a piece of brown or black yard around your index finger loosely
b.Remove the loops from your finger, pinching them together at the top
c.Run another piece of yarn through the loops and tie it tightly
d.Cut the loops to make twelve pieces of yarn hair Cut it very short or keep it long
e.Keep the yarn strand long that was used to tie the loops, as children will need the lengths to tie the hair on the popsicle stick
2.Do enough mini pompoms so every child can have a couple heads of hair and a beard.
3.Lay out as many popsicle sticks as you need to supply all children with two or three
4.Paint the top inch of each stick black (that's where the hair will go )
5.Paint the second inch pink or gold (flesh colored) to be the face
6.Leave the rest blank
7.Cut out "outfit" shapes with the squares of fabric Make them vary in length and fabric pattern
8.Punch three slits in the bottom of styromfoam bowls, one bowl for each child
Give two or three popsicle sticks to each child. Have them:
1.Pick their own pompoms for hair and outfits from a box or bowl or bag in the center of the table
2.Tie a pompom over the black part of the popsicle stick to make hair. Knot should be tight and may need teacher's help Stick glue used under the pompom will help hold it in place.
3.Color on eyes, nose and mouth with marker pens.
4.Tie on a beard if needed or wanted
5.Apply an "outfit" to each stick using stick glue
6.Decorate the outfit with glitter, buttons, foil, etc.
7.Turn over the styrofoam bowl and stick the bottoms of the popsicle stick into the slit.
8.Play games with puppets or have a puppet show!
Did you enjoy this Bible study activity? Share you thoughts by leaving a comment below! And don't forget to Follow me on Twitter, where I will sahre more great Bible study ideas and activities!


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Oct. 15, 2009
That last love poem I gave you, I want to apologize for that. It was
crudely put and several of the metaphors leaned too heavily on sea
life. I love you so much more than that. The best part of the poem
was the beginning, and that had nothing to do with you, or me,
or how much either of us loves each other. It was just a line from
another, better poem. Most of the poem sounds defensive, like I've
been accused of not loving you, or you of not loving me. Not that
I think I don't love you, or you me. I don't. Still, one could read a
poem by someone else and it'd seem more authentic—you'd be more
likely to think that poem was dedicated to you, I mean, than to think
mine was. One could even argue, too, that by studiously avoiding
your name or any identifying traits, I was making this poem fit for
more than one person, like women in general, or a second wife, or
your very attractive sister.
It's the birthday of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, (books by this author) born in the Prussian village of Röcken (1844). He was a philosopher who loved literature, and he experimented with different literary styles to express his philosophy. Some of his books are long lists of aphorisms, while others are written almost like novels or poetry. His most famous book, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883), describes a prophet who comes down from the mountains to teach people about the coming of a new kind of super-man, but the people he speaks to only ridicule and laugh at him.
Nietzsche spent most of his life suffering from debilitating headaches and deteriorating eyesight, and he eventually went crazy and spent his last years in an asylum. He's perhaps best known for claiming that "God is dead," but most people forget that he actually said, "God is dead … and we have killed him!" He thought that the absence of God from the world was a tragedy, but he felt that people had to accept that tragedy and move on. He wrote that God was like a star whose light we can see, even though the star died long ago.
It's the birthday of English novelist Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse, (books by this author) born in Guildford, England (1881). He moved to Greenwich Village in 1909 and began to publish the stories that made him famous in the Saturday Evening Post. From America, he wrote about an imaginary, cartoonish England, full of extremely polite but brain-dead aristocrats, and his work was wildly popular in the years leading up to the decline of the British Empire. He is best known for books such as My Man Jeeves (1919); Carry On, Jeeves (1927); Thank You, Jeeves (1934); and Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) — books about a servant named Jeeves who is constantly saving his employer, Bertie Wooster, from all kinds of absurd situations. Over the course of his life, he wrote almost a hundred books of fiction, wrote for 16 plays, and composed lyrics for 28 musicals.
It was on this day in 1764 that Edward Gibbon (books by this author) thought up the idea of writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. His six-volume work, published between the years 1776 and 1788, covered more than a thousand years of Roman history, from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople.
Gibbon wrote in his autobiography: "It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryers were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind. After Rome has kindled and satisfied the enthusiasm of the Classic pilgrim, his curiosity for all meaner objects insensibly subsides."
Rome had cast a spell on Gibbon. He wrote that he was not very "susceptible [to] enthusiasms" and never pretended to be enthusiastic when he didn't actually feel it. "But at the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the Eternal City. After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation."
Gibbon became known as "the first modern historian." He tried to write objectively, and in departure from his predecessors, he relied heavily on primary source documents rather than on secondary sources such as official Church histories. He made extensive — and eccentric — use of footnotes.
Gibbon argued that the Roman Empire's decline and fall were a result of a couple of major factors: changing military practices and the spread of Christianity. Rome had begun outsourcing its military jobs, hiring paid mercenaries from around the world to defend the Empire, and Gibbon argued that this made them susceptible to the "barbarian invasions" to which Rome fell victim. Additionally, he argued that Christianity's emphasis on the heavenly afterlife reduced the incentive for Romans to sacrifice for the cause of their Empire and the accompanying earthly riches and glory.
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Thai Children Say Politics Not for Them Amid Ongoing Protests
Becoming a politician is looking pretty distasteful to Thai children after years of stuttering political turmoil.
Around 80% of children between the ages of six and 14 say they do not want careers in politics, according to two opinion polls released ahead of planned protests aimed at bringing Bangkok to a standstill on Monday. The protests also mean they won't get to test out the prime minister's chair during Children's Day activities on Saturday.


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Crescent City Farmers' Market
A great way to get to know a new city is to visit the local farmers market. You get an inside look at the region's bounty and it's always nice to see how a community is supporting its local food growers and producers.
The Crescent City Farmers Market is one such place.
Since 1995, the Crescent City Farmers Market has been setting up shop in various parts of the city three times a week. As the "public face" of marketumbrella.org, the market is:
…an outgrowth and reflection of marketumbrella.org's core mission to cultivate the field of public markets for public good. Learning, sharing and growing, marketumbrella.org cultivates community markets that utilize local resources to bolster authentic local traditions.
The market accepts food stamps and utilizes wooden tokens (known as 'crescents') that can be purchased with a debit card with an optional donation to the Crescent Fund Request:
A hybrid between micro-finance and alternative philanthropy. We award up to $500 in cash infusions to projects that reinforce the Crescent City Farmers Market's belief in linking public markets with public good.
I spent a morning visiting the market and talking with some of the producers who have stands there. The biggest themes to emerge from the conversations were that the market has had major positive impact on the growth of these local businesses and the local producers have had a good hand in educating the market consumer about the seasonality and quality of their products.
The Core family, who have been with the market since the beginning, have grown their business from 5,000 to about 150,000 strawberry plants today. Timmy Perilloux has drastically diversified the kinds of produce he grows as an answer to the requests of both restaurants and a more food-savvy public. He said, "Every year, I add more. Romanesco, kohlrabi, artichokes… next year, I'm starting purple and citrus cauliflower. People just want more!"
Bill Ryals, of Rocking R Dairy, does brisk business selling pastured eggs, cow's milk, goat's milk and cheeses from both – although it was slow-going when he first started. "There really aren't a lot of southern cheese makers, so it took a couple months to introduce people to the cheese and then a couple more months before people really embraced it." Clara Gerica, of Gerica Seafood, noted "We have the insight on the product." She says she's educated people on such facts as, "redfish cannot be wild-caught and farmed catfish is not nearly as delicious, fresh or healthy as the wild-caught we sell."
I was also introduced to local varietals of rice and rice grits (something I'd never heard of before) at the Cajun Grains stand. Proprietar Kurt Unkel's family had been growing rice for two generations when Kurt had an epiphany: there was no 'life' on his land. No bugs, no worms, no birds. He realized that the conventions of farming with pesticides had eroded the ecology around him and he decided to convert his operation over to organic and biodynamic practices. He also started growing heirloom rice varietals, some of which the locals had never seen or heard of before. These major changes have resulted in Kurt's rices bearing as much as four times the protein found in conventional rice! I picked up a bag of rice grits as a souvenir of my edible tour of New Orleans.
It's this passage of information from consumer to producer (and, sometimes, back again) that illustrates the absolute necessity of the farmer's market.
As Crescent City Farmer's Market says on their site:
Our market brings the city and the country together. A farmer from rural Mississippi meets his urban customers and learns firsthand what they want to buy. New Orleans shoppers get to know the family that catches their catfish. And with each social transaction, the city and the country realize how much they need each other.
Do you shop your local farmer's market? Tell us about it in the comments!
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Chris Regan and Ashley Mayne produce a wide array of delicious greens for the Hudson Valley.
Handmade tacos in the heart of Woodstock, New York.
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Forrest Pritchard and Smith Meadows are prime examples of sustainable family farming.
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Album Rating: 2.0"you need to get that 2 out of here deterge fan boy"
his new cassette roxxxxxxxx
Album Rating: 4.5no but srsly 2 gtfo man
and yeah new one's better potsy get your ears cleaned (for once)
i don't even like his music i just like the artwork
Album Rating: 4.0I wouldn't say it's better by a huge amount (I have them both as 4s), but songs like My Heart for Deliverance push it over the top for me.
Digging: Converge - The Dusk in Us
Album Rating: 2.0never mind dame holy shit wtf this is amazing
post-metalz 4ever
Album Rating: 4.5hi5
Album Rating: 2.0this sux again
rip neurosis after teoes
Album Rating: 4.0The band may be past their prime (in my opinion) but no.
Well in my opinion they are at their peak and this is probably stay in my tops for 2012. Stay tuned for my 2012 list!
Album Rating: 4.5sweet
Album Rating: 3.5they were at their peak with eye of every and the tsib/times of grace era (besides sun that never sets)
new album sucks
a 1 for this is ridiculous
Album Rating: 4.0oh don't worry, I will. your list is more anticipated than any album
Album Rating: 4.5I like the new one, but not as much as basically everything else they've done in the last 20 years
Album Rating: 4.5again progmaster is wrong
Album Rating: 2.0http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Graveyard/2012_____y____
gooooooooooooooood shit
Somebody put a 1 to a neurosis album?
There's no way that those fags who puts bad scores to a neurosis album aren't trolls.
Album Rating: 3.5how am I wrong
i said three things
1. their peak time period was tsib/times of grace, but eye of every is their best record (definitely debatable though)
2. a 1 for this is ridiculous (not debatable, a 2.5 maybe but a 1 wtf)
3. hfid does suck (sorry bro)
will you just shut up explaining yourself does nothing except make you more wrong
Album Rating: 3.5dont know most of the shit on that list grave but lust for youth, mount eerie and swans were great to excellent this year
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Problem disconnecting USB flash drive
I have an MP3 player which SuSE 9.3 sees as removable media (which I assume is normal). Sometimes when I disconnect it, my system doesn't seem to notice. This causes a problem when I try to reconnect it; the system doesn't see the "new" drive. As I'm new to linux, my troubleshooting arsenal is still quite limited. I've tried
umount /dev/sda1/
I'd also appreciate an general troubleshooting tips and links.
You should never disconnect without unmounting it first
Also, what about floppies and CDs? they're also "removible media"?
Nope. You can plug & unplug USB devices to your hearts content.
But when you mount something, regardless of what, you should always unmount it before removing it.
CDs are a good parallel: A music CD can be ejected with impunity, but a mounted CD will not eject until it's unmounted. Because you should never remove mounted media.
Especially when it comes to USB flash, because they have limited write cycles: To prolong their life, they should be set to be written to as little as possible. Once this is set up, writes will be done 'virtually', and the physical writes will only be done when needed.
Your flash drive will last a lot longer like this, but if you don't unmount it before removing it, the data might not have been physically written.
Fair enough, however, as I don't mount it why should I need to umount it? And if it is automatically mounted when I attach it, then it is reasonable to expect it to also automatically umount when I detach it. If it's like a CD, when I remove/eject it the system should recognize this. Normally, that's exactly what happens; I plug it in and a few seconds later I have /media/usbdisk/ and /dev/sda1/ available and when I detach it, a few seconds later they're gone. But sometimes there are glitches and the system doesn't realize the device isn't still attached.
So the question is: "When the system doesn't recognize that the device has been detached, how do I force it to do so short of rebooting?"
Regarding data not being written, that's not an issue as a window opens with a progress bar to provide status.
As far a limited life cycle, as I generally only listen to a podcast once, I'll just have to live with it.
It DOES get mounted - it's just done automatically. But it can't be auto-unmounted (properly) as the event that would trigger an unmount is the removal of the hardware that should be unmounted, so it's no longer present to be unmounted.
My advice is to set up an "unmount" shortcut & make sure you always use it. That would solve the whole problem.
If you really don't want to do that, next time the problem occurs, post:
- The output (if any) from the failed "unmount" command
- The output of "mount" alone, which should list all mounted drives
- The output of the last few lines of "dmesg"
- The last few lines of your syslog file
and we might be able to track down the problem & suggest a fix!
I am not sure if this applies to 9.3 as well, since a lot has changed with the hotplug scripts, but in 9.1 it seems to be required to run the 'eject' command on some USB devices in order to stop SUSE from accessing it (e.g. iPOD-mini).
It could cause problems if you remove the drive anyway: if you remove the drive while you are still accessing it (e.g. a konqueror window is open), it may not be unmounted properly.
I never got happy with the submount way of mounting. I prefer to have better control on what is mounted and what is not.
I figured anything Windows could do linux could do better.
The eject command work (I know, no surprise for you, but is't a new command for me) when things are normal. I'm guessing that it might work for the problem as well. We'll see.
As far as the umount failing, it does so silently.
BTW, do you have any good links regarding dmesg or syslog? If not, I'm sure I could find something at TLDP.
Thank for the help.
"man dmesg" should tell you a bit about dmesg.
The syslog depends on your logger - there are several, such as syslog, syslog-ng, and metalogger. You'll have to find out which one you use before you can find out more about it :) They usually write to /var/log/messages tho
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UK Women's Cohort Study
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The UK Women's Cohort Study is one of the largest cohort studies investigating associations between diet and cancer in the UK.
A large cohort of over 35,000 middle aged women has been created encompassing a wide range of different eating patterns, including diets currently of interest to research into protection against cancer and coronary heart disease. Women in the cohort are health conscious with only 11% current smokers and 58% taking dietary supplements. 28% of the subjects self-report being vegetarian and 1% vegan.
Participants are regularly followed up to study the effects of different food and nutrient intakes on long-term health outcomes.
New research published on the geography of diet in UKWCS
7 April 2016
New research has been published which looks at geographical patterns of consumption in the UKWCS. Diet can influence health outcomes and chronic disease risk, therefore a better understanding of factors influencing diet is important in promotion of healthier dietary choices. Many factors influence food choice, including the environment in which we live.
Outcomes of the research include:
- The North West of England has the highest proportion of individuals consuming the least healthy, monotonous diets.
- Greater London has the highest proportion of vegetarian diets.
- People living in the 'Countryside' and 'Prospering Suburbs' consume healthier, more diverse diets.
- Those who live in 'Constrained by Circumstance' and 'Blue Collar Communities' consume monotonous, less healthy diets.
- A combination of different geographical levels of analysis could have a beneficial impact on targeting of public health dietary interventions and subsequent health.
See the full paper 'Geography of Diet in the UK Women's Cohort Study: A Cross-Sectional Analysis'
New UKWCS research published - Fidgeting can be good for you
23 September 2015
New research suggests that the movements involved in fidgeting may counteract the adverse health impacts of sitting for long periods.
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Blackduck Chamber members discuss Shop Local campaign; coming events
Six members of the Blackduck Chamber of Commerce met April 20 at the American Legion in Blackduck for the regular meeting.
Following the approval of the minutes and as the treasurer was not present to give her report, the group moved to old business.
First to be discussed was the Lady Slipper Scenic Byway Celebration.
Members were updated on a letter Shirley Gilmore. She had sent to Charlie Anderson and asked him to bring it to the meeting to discuss with the group.
The first thing she mentioned was the June 24 wine tasting at The Pond. She asked if the Chamber should advertise widely (TV, radio, direct mail) or locally. It was suggested to advertise locally as direct mail can be quite expensive. There are TV channels where she could advertise for free.
Chamber member Paula Bauman will put in an article on the event into the Blackduck American as well as submit articles to The Pioneer, to run if there is space available. Taco Night will be held June 24 and getting the word out will be done as usual.
Gilmore also asked if the Chamber could round up around 10 tables and 80 chairs for the hospitality tent June 25. Suggestions of where to get tables and chairs were the fire department, Zion Lutheran Church or possibly the school. Anderson said he would check into it and report back to Gilmore on her request. Chamber members will be responsible for setting up between 9-9:30 a.m. and then tearing down at 4 p.m.
The group thought it would be a good idea to get a list of people who would be willing to volunteer that day. They can be broken into two teams of people -- one to set up from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and one to tear down from 12:30-4 p.m.
Anderson suggested talking to Anchor Marketing and let them know this event is taking place. There is a possibility that they would want to be there to take pictures, etc. or may have some material that could be used that day in the hospitality tent.
Next on the agenda was the Shop Local project.
The 3/50 Project flyers were distributed in all the teacher's mailboxes at Blackduck School and a recent copy was submitted to The American which included Project Shop Local -- Top 10 Reasons to Shop Local, Small Business Saturday, City-Wide Garage Sale and the Chamber listserv.
The group is organizing a "Chamber After Hours" event to be held May 18 at 6 p.m. at the Blackduck Municipal Golf Course. Andra Vaughn from Blackduck High School will be giving a marketing presentation. The Chamber is giving the group $50 to spend on meat and cheese and vegetable trays. Beverages will be available.
The following events have been scheduled for the summer season:
May 21 is the City-Wide Garage Sale and Crazy Days. Bauman is running an advertisement as well as small articles about these two events. She made up garage sale kits and will bring them to city call for anyone who comes in with an ad for the garage sale map.
The ads have to be prepaid and can be dropped off at city hall or Deerwood Bank's drop boxes or mailed to: Blackduck American, PO Box 100, Blackduck, MN 56630 by May 16.
The location for the Chamber's garage sale was discussed with the sidewalk on Main Street, which would be blocked off during the day, being the main area. Chamber members can drop off items at city hall. Anderson also has a building he said could be used to store items for the sale.
July 30 -- Woodcarvers Festival
Aug. 20 -- Backwoods Bash
Oct. 24 -- Fall Bash
Ditch Clean Up -- this is scheduled for May 3. Anyone who will be helping with this project should meet at Shamrock Storage at 5 p.m. Members should dress appropriately, wear boots and bring gloves. They were also asked not to park on the grass at Shamrock Storage.
Host wages continue to be an issue at the Tourist Information Center. Monte Sharbono will talk to Miriam Osborn and Bruce Meade about what is going on with that.
The next meeting will be held May 18 at noon at Wells Fargo in Blackduck. All Chamber members are encouraged to attend.


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TOKYO, April 4 (UPI) -- The opposition Democratic Party of Japan agreed Friday to support the promotion of Masaaki Shirakawa to governor of the Bank of Japan, a party leader said.
Shirakawa has been deputy governor.
Party Secretary-General Yukio Hatoyama indicated the party would also back former Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Hiroshi Watanabe as a replacement for Shirakawa as deputy governor, Kyodo news reported.
''We, the DPJ, approved deputy governor Shirakawa so I think it would be difficult from a logical point of view for us not to approve him as governor,'' Hatoyama said at a news conference.
The government is expected to make the proposals official Monday, the report said.
The bank has been without a governor since Toshihiko Fukui resigned from his five-year term on March 19.


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NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) -- Jon Favreau's Chef won the Heineken Audience Award Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
The film, which is directed by and stars Favreau, is about a chef who operates a food truck after his restaurant is closed.
The film comes with a $25,000 prize, which Favreau said he would donate to City Harvest, a food rescue organization in New York City.
Winning the audience award for best documentary was Alan Hicks' Keep on Keepin' On, about the relationship between jazz legend Clark Terry and blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin.
"These films happen to share the common theme of following one's dreams, the challenging journey to achieve them, and how it cannot be done without true friendship, family and support," Genna Terranova, the festival's director of programming, said.
Chef debuts in theaters May 9.


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Georgetown Book Club: What Should We Read?
Thursday, July 25, 2013, 7:06 a.m.Georgetown LibraryBook Clubs
Georgetown Book Club: What Should We Read?
Are you a regular at the Georgetown Book Club meetings? A sometimes attendee? Have you heard of the group and considered attending a meeting?
Check out these three titles: Canada by Richard Ford, NW by Zadie Smith and The Round House by Louise Erdrich -- all titles published last year that made the 100 Notable Books of 2012 list by The New York Times.
These titles were considered as possibilities for the Georgetown Book Club's September selection, and an online poll was used to determine which title the group will read and then discuss on Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll, and please check back to find out the winner!
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An investigation into the gaps between tourism education provision and industry need in KwaZulu-Natal
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There is a growing demand for professionally educated and trained staff in the tourism sector. However, current literature reveals a significant disparity between the tourism education provided by institutions and the skills required by the industry. A major challenge facing tourism education institutions is the identification of industry needs and requirements and the involvement of industry in curriculum design. The aim of this research is to examine the education, skills and training required of tourism employees and whether the provisions of higher education tourism courses are adequately meeting industry needs. Identifying this "gap" will assist in improving the development of tourism education programmes to meet the needs of industry. The research examines the relevance of the tourisms qualification from three stakeholders" perspectives, namely, managers from the tourism sector, tourism graduate employees, and tourism academics. Surveys, in the form of structured questionnaires, were used to obtain information from the three groups. The overall findings of the study revealed that gaps do exist in the tourism curriculum according to the perceptions of stakeholder groups that participated in this study. The recommendations are that closer collaboration is required between academics, managers from the industry when designing tourism curriculum and also to sustain the relevance of the curriculum to meet the needs of industry.
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More than 13,500 issues were dealt with at Boston's Citizen Advice Bureau (CAB) during 2010/11 - with that number set to rise as the Government's benefit reforms kick in.
With the charity soon moving to larger premises in Boston's Lincoln Lane, more people are set to be seen by advisors and volunteers than ever before.
Boston CAB's chief executive officer Stuart Hellon said: "As a result of recent reforms and cuts to services, as well as the biggest shake-up of welfare benefits for decades, there is a huge demand for bureau advice and policy influence. Our volunteers give over £123,000 worth of hours a year between them. Without their passion and generosity our bureau would struggle to survive, and the cost to Boston's economy of unresolved problems would soar."
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UN Secretary-General releases report on children suffering from ongoing violence in Central African Republic
UNICEF is supporting the release and reintegration of children associated with armed groups
BANGUI, 13 February 2009 – The UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon issued a report on 3 February detailing the grave human rights violations perpetrated against children in the Central African Republic (CAR). The report highlights that children have been recruited by non-state armed groups and government-backed self-defense militias to participate in the ongoing conflicts in northern CAR. Mr. Ban notes that children have become victims of widespread abuse including abductions, rape and other forms of sexual violence committed by all parties to the conflict.
Mr. Ban calls for an immediate end to abuse and to the recruitment and use of children within armed ranks. "I appeal to the Government to address the prevailing culture of impunity for grave violations against children, including child recruitment, sexual violence and abductions, through rigorous investigation and prosecution," says Mr. Ban.
In his report, the Secretary-General comments on the current lack of a formal Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process in CAR. Mr. Ban urges all relevant parties including Government and relevant United Nations entities and their NGO partners to reinvigorate the process.
Recent signs of national reconciliation as well as an increased presence of international humanitarian actors have contributed to boost funding for CAR. Several donors have now committed to assist in accelerating the DDR process in the country. The Peace Consolidation Fund has set aside US$4 million and the UN Peace Building Fund has allocated US$2 million specifically for the separation of children from armed groups and their reintegration into communities.
UNICEF and its international NGO partners in CAR are committed to reintegrate released children into their communities. To date two rebel groups operating in northern CAR claim to have released hundreds of children associated with their ranks. The Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR), northeast, entered a tripartite agreement with UNICEF and the Government resulting in the release of some 500 children. The Popular Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD), northwest, claim to have released 49 children from within its ranks.
The UN Peace Building Fund will support UNICEF and its partners in implementing a three-year program to assist in the release and reintegration of hundreds of children associated with armed groups. Transition care centres are currently being established in northern CAR to ensure that children have access to psychosocial support and are returned safely to their families. Related reintegration activities will reach some 300,000 children and women affected by armed conflicts; this includes host communities welcoming their children, victims of sexual violence, returnees, and Internally Displaced Persons.
On 17-19 February, UNICEF will host a workshop for partner NGOs aimed at establishing common standards and coordinating psychosocial, medical and legal support to released children, in a secure environment, before being reunited with their families.
The Secretary-General's report further reiterates the urgency of concerted and immediate efforts by the Government, relevant UN agencies and international NGOs in providing assistance to all vulnerable children in CAR.
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"Think Different – Accept Uncertainty" Part X: The Christ – He Is Not the Savior of the Fallen
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In my studies of the origins of life and its evolution, I have become convinced that the traditional and primitive claim that involves the concept of "original sin" has got to go! This mythological misunderstanding was based on the assumption that human life began perfect, but that we had our perfection destroyed by our disobedience, …
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How do I respond to people who fear that I am going to hell because I don't believe in hell?
Dear Tia,
Sometimes hell seems to me to be preferable as a place in which to spend eternity, if the only other option is to spend eternity with people who think like the ones you refer to in your question!
In the first place, the only place where judgment literally resides is in God. Those who presume to play the role of God and speak about another person's eternal destiny are presuming that they can speak for God and are guilty of the sin of blasphemy.
Second, the Devil is now and always has been a mythological figure, who comes into the Judeo-Christian story very late in history after the exile. It reflects the dualism of Zoroastrianism, which the Jews met when the Persians conquered the Babylonians who were at that time holding the Jews in captivity. When Satan first appears in the scriptures he is an angel and is in the employ of God testing Job on God's behalf. Only later does he become a fallen angel who rules the world and into whose hands we dare not fall.
Third, the convenient ability to blame an external being for any moral lapse is little more than uninformed piety. It sees God as a punishing parent and seeks to escape the divine wrath by saying, "It was not my fault, God, the devil made me do it." That is a perfect formula for personal irresponsibility.
This kind of religious talk is pitifully immature and significantly uninformed, not only about God but about life itself.
So, to answer your question, I would ignore people who think you are hell-bound because you do not share their particular mental illness and I would not seek their company.
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text: Don't you just love it when two of your favorite things come together in a magical, unexpected way? Sort of like when the Jetsons met the Flintstones or that time that Isabelle Huppert was on Law & Order SVU. Such is the case with Stevie Nicks and La Belle et La Bête; her song "Beauty and the Beast" was inspired by the film. It's the closing track on The Wild Heart, she also channeled Belle on the album cover!


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One day Trini and I were talking post-grunge, and I asked her, goofily enough, "Is there a pre-post-grunge?" She gave that the snicker it deserved, departed for a moment, and returned with a few tracks by Breaking Benjamin, which she identified as a post-post-grunge band.
And which is now, apparently, an ex-band:
Breaking Benjamin has reached its breaking point.
The Wilkes-Barre band, which gained worldwide fame for alternative rock anthems focused mainly on affliction and adversity, has been torn apart by a feud between its namesake lead singer and two longtime bandmates, according to a trove of court documents obtained by The Citizens' Voice.
The dispute, over a new recording of the band's hit song "Blow Me Away," erupted in May when lead singer Benjamin Burnley fired the bandmates, guitarist Aaron Fincke and bassist Mark Klepaski, via e-mail.
"Blow Me Away" has a weird history anyway. Recorded for the game Halo 2 in 2004, it was available only on an EP for several years. In 2010, for some reason, it was released as a single, and was added as a bonus track labeled "Soundtrack Version" to the Zune (!) version of the Dear Agony album.
Burnley's dispute with his bandmates arose when, he said, they agreed to a remix of "Blow Me Away," for which Disney's Hollywood Records anted up $100,000, without telling him. The new version, billed as "featuring Valora" more precisely, featuring Valora singer Sydnee Duran, also signed to Hollywood is out right now as a single. (There's no video yet, but there is a YouTube version; the un-Valora'ed Halo version is here.) Perhaps most annoying to Burnley: the imminent compilation Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin contains not the original "Blow Me Away," but the remix.
I think I'm more annoyed that Shallow Bay doesn't contain the song "Shallow Bay," from their 2002 album Saturate. (Which contains Trini's favorite BB song: "Polyamorous.")
Fincke and Klepaski wanted everything aired in open court, but apparently the case is going to arbitration.


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If you're bored at work today, do yourself a favor and have a background tab tuned to www.mariomarathon.com. It's their third annual fundraiser for Child's Play, and it's always a fun event to keep tabs on. For those unfamiliar with the marathon, these guys play an utterly absurd amount of Mario, and the lengths that they go to depend on how much cash they bring in for the charity.
Take a look below at what they'll be playing for the forseeable future:
As of this writing, the guys are on World 8 of the original Super Mario Bros. and have raised over $8,000. As you can see, they have quite a bit of Goomba-stomping to do (and a lot more money to raise), so keep an eye on their progress and help out Child's Play if possible.


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1 University of Central Lancashire
With nearly 35,000 students, the University of Central Lancashire is one of the UK's biggest universities. Its vice-chancellor, Dr Malcolm McVicar, is unhappy with the government's proposals to auction 20,000 places to institutions that charge an average of £7,500 or less from autumn 2012. His university intends to charge the maximum tuition fees of £9,000. McVicar is unhappy with the plan to allow universities to take as many students with AAB grades at A-level as they can. It will leave universities in the middle "very squeezed", he said. "This is deeply worrying. When we set our fees, we did so to replace grants that the government cut. If we were forced to charge £7,500, we would have to think extremely carefully about which subjects we offered and how we maintained quality."
2 University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is one of the hardest to get into, with almost 10 applicants for every place. The Guardian's University guide ranked it 19th in the UK. Many students with two As and a B in their A-levels apply to Nottingham, said Dr Paul Greatrix, the university's registrar. The average student probably has an A and two Bs, he says. But the university has no immediate plans to expand the number of students it admits. He predicts that universities will fight for top students even more than they do now and try to tempt them with scholarships. Greatrix is not happy with some of the government's proposals to encourage private organisations to offer degrees. "If there are entrants who are on the extreme end of cheap and cheerful, this will damage our international reputation," he says.
3 New College Durham
New College Durham is a further education college with about 1,500 students doing higher education courses. Its fee for degree courses next year will be £6,000 and, like many FE colleges, it hopes to gain from the expansion of places for institutions with an average fee of £7,500 or less. Its principal, John Widdowson, said: "The ability to offer additional places is really welcome. There is demand from people who want to study locally, and do vocational qualifications. We can certainly see expansion across the board, in areas like business studies and more specific vocational qualifications like sport and leisure management.
"[Colleges] will fill these 20,000 places pretty quickly and still find there's unmet demand."


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Vortex FAQ/Walkthrough - V 1.0 by Simon (firstname.lastname@example.com) - Aug/2002
Table of Contents
1 - Presentation
2 - Controls
3 - Walkthrough
4 - Secrets
5 - Credits
1 - Presentation
Vortex is one of the numerous games released using the famous FX chip for SNES.
All the games that used this chip were Yoshi's Island, Doom, Winter Gold, Dirt
Trax FX, Star Fox, Stunt Race FX and Vortex. There is also a prototype of Star
Fox 2, available around the Internet (for playing with emulators), but never
really released for SNES, Super Famicom or Satella View. Most people also talk
about a game which would use this chip, but was cancelled -- FX Fighter. This
game would be a 3D Fighting game, pretty much as Virtua Fighter or Tekken, but
cheer up, there's a 3D Fighting game on SNES -- Ballz 3D. This is a pretty good
game if you ask me, and... uh, let's just talk about Vortex :) Vortex is a very
good game. It is a blend of 3rd person shooter, 1st person shooter, platformer,
flight sim, mech sim and racing. Wow! The game uses a modern 3D engine for its
time, but it was too much to SNES handle with the deserved care. I guess this
game may be considered the first 3D platform game ever, since in later levels
you have to jump broken pathways, but you can also jump in order to avoid some
aerial and terrestrial foes. But, essentially, Vortex is a shooter game, pretty
much as Mechwarrior series. In Vortex, you take the control of a Mech with an
ability called Morphing Battle System. This means that your Mech may morph into
a Sonic Jet or a Land Vehicle. This open up doors to a rather diverse gameplay,
but also makes the controls more difficult to learn. Overall, Vortex is a very
underrated game, with some flaws, but quite fun if you can overpass most of its
challenges -- and this won't be an easy task.
2 - Controls
+ Walker Mode
- Press Control Pad left to turn left
- Press Control Pad right to turn right
- Press Control Pad up to go faster
- Press Control Pad down to go slower
- Press "Y" to fire the left weapon
- Press "A" to fire the right weapon
- Press "X" to jump
- Press "B" to face backwards
- Hold down "L" and press "X" for Jet Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "B" for Land Burner Mode
- Hold down "R" and press "Y" to swap left weapon
- Hold down "R" and press "A" to swap right weapon
- Hold down "L" and press left Control Pad to swivel view
- Hold down "L" and press right Control Pad to swivel view
- Press "Select" to transform (*)
- Press "Start" to pause the game and access the map of the current stage
+ Sonic Jet Mode
- Press "X" to thrust
- Press "B" to Brake
- Press "A" or "Y" to fire weapon
- Hold down "R" and press "B" to change between Laser/Cannon
- Hold down "L" and press "B" for Land Burner Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "A" for Hard Shell Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "Y" for Walker Mode
+ Land Burner Mode
- Press "A" or "Y" to fire weapon
- Hold down "R" and press "B" to change between Laser/Cannon
- Hold down "L" and press "X" for Jet Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "A" for Hard Shell Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "Y" for Walker Mode
+ Hard Shell Mode
- Press "L" and "R" together to trigger Electrobomb
- Hold down "L" and press "B" for Land Burner Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "X" for Jet Mode
- Hold down "L" and press "Y" for Walker Mode
* "Select" button works as a morph selector. While in Walker Mode, you will
change to Sonic Jet. While in Sonic Jet, you will change to Land Burner. While
in Land Burner, you will change to Hard Shell. While in Hard Shell, you will
change into Walker.
Morphing Battle System
| Walker Mode |
| Weight: 9800 | Height: 5.5 M | Speed: 60 KPH |
| Pick up items in Walker Mode |
| 3 Forward Speed 1 Reverse |
Walker Mode - This is the principal mode of the MBS. It has 3 forward speeds
and one reverse. It can Jump high in the air and spin to face backwards. This
is the only mode in which objects can be picked up and stored. Weapons
available are the Cannon, the Laser, the Multi-Rocket Launcher, and the Seeker
| Sonic Jet Mode |
| Weight: 9800 | Height: 1.3 M | Speed: 260 KPH |
| Features: Hi-Thrust, Air Brake |
| Caution: High Energy Usage |
Sonic Jet Mode - This is the fastest mode of the MBS, but also the one with
the highest gas usage. Use this for reconnaisance and high speed strafing.
Remember though, you can't stop while you're into Sonic Jet Mode. Weapons
available are the Cannon and the Laser.
| Land Burner Mode |
| Weight: 9800 | Height: 1.3 M | Speed: 160 KPH |
| High Speed, All Terrain Capability |
| 3 Forward Speed 1 Reverse |
Land Burner Mode - This mode is nearly as fast as Sonic Jet, but uses less gas.
You can use a boosted jump to clear obstacles and gaps. Weapons available are
the Cannon and the Laser.
| Hard Shell Mode |
| Weight: 9800 | Height: 1.3 M | Speed: 10 KPH |
| This mode immune to attack |
| Features: Electrobomb, Solarcharge |
Hard Shell Mode - This is the defensive mode of the MBS. When in Hard Shell
your shield is invulnerable to attack. Energy is expended though, whenever a
hit is absorbed. The only weapon available is the Electrobomb, which can
destroy many enemies at once. Your energy can be recharged by solar power in
Hard Shell Mode.
-- -- -- -- -- - In some stages, Defense Droids may assist you - -- -- -- -- --
3 - Walkthrough
Training 1 - Weapons Test
How to access: Select Start/Training.
Briefing: The simulator will place you in a battle arena. Your task is to
destroy 30 alien craft. The Mother Ship will pick you up at the end of your
mission. You have 600 seconds to complete this task.
Modus Operandi: Pretty easy task here. You probably won't need help, since you
just have to bash everything that moves or shoots you. Use your map to avoid
getting lost. Don't forget to test everyone of your Mech's abilities. Just a
tip: instead of using the combo buttons to change the battle system, just use
"Select" button. This is a lot easier. When you finish off with 30 enemies, the
Mother Ship will come to get you. Congratulations, Training Level 1 Complete!
Training 2 - Navigation Test
How to access: Select Start/Training, and when the description for Training 1
appears, press Control Pad down once.
Briefing: The simulator will place you in an alien base. Your task is to
navigate the obstacles and meet the Mother Ship at the M-Pad pick up point.
You cannot use Jet Mode for this task. You have 600 seconds to complete this
Modus Operandi: Another pretty easy task. This one is even easier than the 1st!
All you have to do is switch to Land Burner Mode and avoid the traps and shoot
down the enemies. The path is very linear, and there is no way you can get even
get lost! Eventually, you will step onto the M-Pad pick up point and the Mother
Ship will come to get you along. Congratulations, Training Level 2 Complete!
Training 3 - Seek and Destroy
How to access: Select Start/Training, and when the description for Training 1
appears, press Control Pad down twice.
Briefing: The simulator will place you in an alien base. Your task is to
destroy all five pyramid drone generators. Make use of your map to locate the
generators. Stray too far from the route and you will be in no mans land. After
all five generators have been destroyed the Mother Ship will pick you up. You
have 600 seconds to complete this task.
Modus Operandi: Right after you land, press "Start" button. You'll be presented
to the stage map. The green points are obstacles, or wall limits. The yellow
arrow is you. And these 5 flashing brown points are the generators. They look
like an Aztec pyramid, coloured in tan and the base in green. Your task is very
simple, just approach them and shoot like crazy. They will also shoot you back,
but these generators can not move. The best thing you can do is to change to
the Land Burner Mode, and keep shooting down the enemies. When you find one of
the generators, reduce the speed and just shoot. Follow the map constantly in
order to avoid getting lost. Eventually, you will destroy the fifth generator,
and the Mother Ship will come to pick you up. Congratulations, Training Level 3
Level 1 - The Vortex
How to access: Select Start/Game.
Briefing: Travel through the Vortex to the Aki-Do System where the Aki-Do
Forces await and the pieces of core are hidden. Destroy as many of the enemy
fighters as possible to hinder their chances of ruling our planetary system.
The Warrior Crixus is blocking the entrance to Aki-Do system.
Modus Operandi: Not much advice, also. The map is, uh... not useful at all.
You are inside a corridor, moving forward and shooting enemies. Change to the
Sonic Jet Mode to gain more speed, but beware the enemy shots. Eventually, you
will be ordered to destroy the Warrior Crixus.
Boss Battle - Warrior Crixus
This guy is no walk in the park! The best thing you can do is to stick to the
Sonic Jet Mode and shoot like crazy. Use your secondary weapons wisely for a
better performance. When the Boss shoots the Seeker Missile, quickly change to
Hard Shell Mode in order to avoid damage. While in Hard Shell Mode, firing
Electrobombs will not be very helpful, since they cause a very low damage.
After a while, the annoying Warrior Crixus will be history. Congratulations,
Vortex Complete!
Level 2 - Cryston - Ice Planet
How to access: Finish Level 1, or input password YFGJW and select Start/Game.
Briefing: Our scientists are being held by the Aki-Do Forces. Explore Cryston's
underground tunnel system and collect the three pass disks. These will unlock
the prision building and release the captive scientists. Defeat the Warrior
Darius and his Battle Droid to retrieve the first Core Segment.
Modus Operandi: Freedom, at last. Start shooting down the enemies right after
you land. Access your map to see where are the limits of the walls. Walk up and
get the key (it is inside the ball shaped item). Now, you can unlock triangular
locks. Unlock the door in the very front of you. But do not enter the elevator
yet. Instead, walk behind the entrance to the elevator, and keep walking up.
You will get a Missile Bonus inside one more ball shaped item. Everytime you
see one of them, you will get a goodie. From now on, I'll call them just BS.
Right after you get the Missile Bonus, keep heading up, shoot down the enemies,
and jump the red/blue flat drawing on the floor. These are Mantraps, and they
will steal energy if you walk above it. After jumping the Mantrap, keep heading
up, and you will see another BS. Get the Square Key on it. Now, it is time to
head way back to the elevator. When you get near, enter the elevator. Your view
will be switched to the 1st person perspective. Inside, avoid the Gates, shoot
down the huge red missiles before they hit you, and jump the Mantraps. You can
differentiate the enemies by watching the introduction of the game, where the
game tells you what are items, what are enemies and what are passages. If you
change to the Sonic Jet Mode, do not worry about jumping Mantraps. Anyway,
follow the linear path, until you exit the elevator.
[To be continued...]
Level 3 - Voltair - The Sky World
How to access: Finish Level 2, or input password RWXVP and select Start/Game.
Briefing: Voltair is the mysterious world of trapped asteroids. Centuries ago,
the trapped asteroids formed a speed track for racing. You have 150 seconds to
get to the end of the track before the Warrior Sparticus throws the second Core
segment into the abyss. Defeat the Warrior Sparticus and his Jetbooter Battle
Droid, then retrieve the second Core segment before it is lost forever. The
Sonic Jet is almost useless in the heavy gravity of Voltair. Fuel only lasts in
ten second spurts before you must refuel. Use the Land Burner for the fastest
Modus Operandi: Not ready yet.
Level 4 - Thermis - The Desert Planet
How to access: Finish Level 3, or input password DHLNC and select Start/Game.
Briefing: The planet Thermis is the main power source for the Aki-Do Forces.
Shut down the five reactors by solving the 5 flash locks located on the planet.
The flash locks will show a sequence of shapes, remember the sequence and enter
it to solve the lock. Shoot the matching cubes to enter the sequence. Destroy
the Warrior Alexander and his fearsome Desert Rat Battle Droid to rescue the
third Core segment.
Modus Operandi: Not ready yet.
Level 5 - Magmemo - The Lava Planet
How to access: Finish Level 4, or input password BGVRG and select Start/Game.
Briefing: It is known that a Core segment is being held in the old mine system
of Magmemo. You must reactivate the mine shaft by collecting the energy balls
scattered around Magmemo's surface. Place them in the four energy points. The
fourth Core is located in the mine tunnels but expect resistance from the
powerful Xerxes and his Magma Marauder once it is retrieved.
Modus Operandi: Not ready yet.
Level 6 - The Vortex (2)
How to access: Finish Level 5, or input password JNBTK and select Start/Game.
Briefing: The Aki-Do are heading back through the Vortex to destroy the Citadel
of Trantor. Take out as many Aki-Do craft as possible. The final Core is being
held by an ominous Warrior called Pompey in the final stages of the Vortex.
Modus Operandi: Not ready yet.
Level 7 - Trantor - Home to the Core
How to access: Finish Level 6, or input password XLQMB and select Start/Game.
Briefing: The Black Troop plans to destroy the Citadel of Trantor, home of the
Core. The Aki-Do Forces are making their last stand on the water planet. They
have locked the pathways of Trantor with their flash locks. Destroy the Aki-Do
horders, but beware of the powerful Black Troop master, Vercingetrix who is
guarding the Core housing. Be careful when using the Jet. If you run out of
fuel you will not be able to land on the water surface.
Modus Operandi: Not ready yet.
4 - Secrets
Input the following passwords to unlock the secrets:
Infinite Ammo - WSVTQ
Invincibility - HVZSM
Infinite Lives - JTTSJ
Level Switch - CTGXF
To use the level switch, start a regular game, then use UP or DOWN on the D-Pad
to change your starting level.
Source: Gamefaqs.com
5 - Credits
This FAQ is a Copyright of Simon (Thiago Simões), and you are NOT allowed to
translate, post it in your site or any other media-vehicle without my consent,
as well as rewrite this FAQ and/or sell this to ANYBODY. The only site allowed
to post this FAQ is:
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Thanks goes to:
-GOD, for All.
-Mom, for listening all my my stuff :)
-You, for reading this FAQ.
I hope you enjoyed!
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Career diplomat Alec Halsey has been elevated to a marquessate he doesn't want. His lover has decided she won't marry him after all. What's more, the suspicion that he murdered his brother still lingers in London drawing rooms. So returning to London after seven months' seclusion may have been a mistake.
Alec's foreboding deepens when a nobody vicar drops dead at a party-political dinner, he witnesses the very public humiliation of an up-and-coming portrait painter, and his rabble-rousing uncle Plantagenet is bashed and left for dead in a laneway. When the vicar's true identity is revealed, Alec suspects the man was poisoned. But who would want a seemingly harmless man of God murdered, and why?
Lucinda Brant's Alec Halsey mysteries explore the darker side of her deliciously romantic 18th century world. Along with trademark wit and high drama there are deeper subplots and even quirkier characters that will have you shuddering and laughing in equal measure!
2012 Australian Romance Readers Awards finalist
©2013 Lucinda Brant (P)2015 Lucinda Brant
"Deadly Smart and Sexy to Boot!"
I read this book when it first came out and what I said then still holds true. While Lucinda Brant is a modern author her writing is fresh and always well researched, but she writes with shades and shadows of historical romantic fiction of a generation or two ago. Minus the purple prose, thank God! She doesn't shy away from those facts of 18th century life which as modern readers we wince at. She stays true to the social morays of that period, and explains without info dumping about the politics of the time, and that is why I enjoy and respect her work so much.
I love the Alec Halsey mysteries, and the great cast of supporting characters. They are all here from Selina the love of his life and their complicated long time love for one another, to his irrepressible Uncle Plantagenet, with his unrepentant Republican view point. Of course his Godmother the indomitable Duchess Romney-St.Neots, who always makes me laugh and who I want to be like when I am a woman of a certain age. Please let's not forget Tam his loyal young valet and brilliant young Apothecary student. But with the returning characters, you also have new characters some so loathsome you want to slap them, and others who you root for, and in this one the mysterious young woman at the heart of the matter.
While I love all Ms. Brant's novels the Halsey series has a special place in my heart, Alec is one of my book boyfriends and I love spending time with him. The 18th century is such an opulent time and Georgian London and Bath had it all, from all that glitters to grinding poverty and Ms. Brant portrays this brilliantly.
As for Mr. Alex Wyndham's performance. He's wonderful, and I just think that he adds so much to the story. As most anyone that listens to books regularly, as I do, you know how important that is. It can't be easy to nail not only the regional accents, but make female voices sound feminine without sounding ridiculous. So BRAVO Mr. Wyndham I can't wait for Deadly Peril!
"Wonderful story, cliff hanger ending"
An intriguing mystery. I usually do not read mysteries but since I have become a big fan of Lucinda Brant I decided to purchase this book and it was a very wise decision. I am a huge fan of romance but the well developed mystery and the fine web will seen together had me attached to the book until it I finished it all in a day. Alex Wyndham's performance was fabulous as usual.
"4-5 stars: Great Character Development"
I'm torn whether to give this 4 or 5 stars. I want to give it 4 1/2 just because there were times when I felt like I was getting lost in the details of the characters and who was connected to whom. HOWEVER, it was an excellent book. Ms. Brant is a great writer and absolutely knows her characters and the time period. (SPOILER: From my own personal perspective, if I understood the implications, Selina apparently 'ended' previous pregnancies due to her understandable hatred for her husband did take away from my appreciation of her as one of the main characters --- which was a disappointment to me in this book.) I "LOVE" Tam/Thomas and Uncle Plant and, of course, Alec. I look forward eagerly to the rest of the series and would recommend this series to most anyone who enjoys historical fiction with a strong dose of reality woven through it.
The narrator absolutely gets 5+ stars.
"What a plot! !!!!!!"
Book number two, what can I say? This one had me hooked from beginning to end. The storyline was brilliant. The author has me salivating for more of Alex, Tam, Uncle Plantagenant and Selina. This was a really good book. Bring on books three and four!!!
"Awesome again"
Brilliant book, brilliant audio book.
as always I recommend this to anyone who loves a great mystery.
"Intriguing , a great mystery"
Lucinda Brant seamlessly combines romance and mystery in this second of the Alex Halsey's series. Suspense and surprise abound and I love the passionate relationship between Alex and Serena. All of his characters are complex, with flaws and strengths brought to light as the story continues. The concept of being open to new ideas and the necessity to know the facts before making a decision, espoused by both Alex and his uncle is clear throughout the series. Alex is loyal to friends but able to expand his understanding of less than friendly characters like Lord Cleverly and even change his attitude towards him. The narration is amazing, clearly separating and making unique each character.
"You won't be disspointed ..."
Yes! - because it has everything! - a great mystery, a great romance but not of a generic nature, it's not that kind of romance that has a token plot wrapped around it to provide a wishy washy chance for a roll in the hay. This is so much more - it's a fine mystery, one that would stand against the best mysteries without a doubt. It's a romance that is sweet and deep, complex and simple. All together makes for an awesome read/listen.
When the Vicar dies. Oh boy. It's memorable because it's not just an Agatha Christie styled scene of someone falling over the dead body and exclaiming "Oh no, he's dead" - there is a very intricately written death scene that I had to refer back to when the story unfolds for the clues I missed. Talk about hiding in plain site! Bravo!
Yes I have, I have listened to other writers works narrated by Alex and I am so grateful for the opportunities I get to listen to him bring a fictional work to life.
Alex Wyndham MUST be Alec Halsey!
Bring on the next one please....!!!!!!!
"Really enjoying Alec Halsey's story"
This series has been fun to listen to. Enjoying the narrative, he brings the book to life.
"Another Great Story!"
Another great story & multiple plots from Lucinda Brant & expertly narrated by Alex Wyndham...he really is Alec Halsey. So many twists & turns & multiple emotional upheavals...this book has everything you could want...part romance & part mystery...I just loved it & am anxiously looking forward to the next in the series!
"Lovely Historical Mystery"
I'm enjoying this series but just don't like the abrupt 'to be continued' at the end. This leaves you with a cliff hanger of an ending. I enjoy everything about this book except the way the author is bring forth Mrs. JL
I really don't see why every one has to give her so much slack for spreading her legs like that, and her excuse being that she was married to the horrible Mr. JL. Is everyone forgetting or blind to the fact that she choose this JL over ALEX, just cause he didn't have a title!!
"Definitely an affair to remember!"
I would recommend this book to anyone! The story is the second in the series, the first being Deadly Engagement. It's an exciting murder mystery that keeps the reader guessing right to the end Also the love story between the main character Alec Halsey and Selina is intertwined within the plot which makes this a truly enthralling read.
My favourite character in this book Plantagenet Halsey, the main character's uncle.He's a lovable old rogue who injects a touch of humour to the story.
Alex Wyndham narrates both books in the series so far. I can't imagine the characters with anyone else breathing life into them. He really does act out the whole story. From elderly gentlemen to young girls, Alex has the talent to make you forget it's the same person speaking for all the characters.
I found Tam's love for the old vicar very touching.
Lucinda Brant has a true gift for writing historical drama that is truly believable. She describes the scene in intricate detail, this makes the reader feel as if they were there in Georgian London.
"Perfect Story with the Perfect Narrator"
Yes I would listen to Deadly Affair again because I find that if I read or listen to a book more than once I sometimes pick up on things I missed the first time around. Forgetting that though, listening to Alex Wyndham performing the book will always be a pleasure and that in itself would make me listen to this book more than once.
Funnily enough although there are many likable characters, especially of course the main character Alec Halsey, I actually think Tam, Alec's Valet and apprentice apothocary is my favourite character. He is so sweet, helpful, and so modest. He helps in so many ways, be it looking after injured people, spying on people, or even being a midwife. He deserves so much more in life than he has, and in this book he starts to get it which I love.
Rather than ask what I liked about Alex's performance, the question should be what DON'T I like about it. It's much easier to answer that one, because there is absolutely nothing that I don't like. Alex is the perfect narrator, in fact he doesn't just narrate books, he performs then. His acting background makes his story telling amazing. He is an absolute pleasure to listen to because he makes each character come to life. Lucinda made the perfect choice in hiring Alex to make her books even better.
Alex Halsey, accused yet not guilty of murdering his brother, now finds himself a suspect in another murder. Can he prove that he is not the culprit.
Yet another perfect combination of a Lucinda Brant novel with Alex Wyndham's performance/narration.
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2) Weddings are more fun and exciting to plan when there is a theme involved.
3) Theme weddings are more entertaining for guests, and they are sure to remember how much fun they had.
Once you decide to incorporate a theme into your wedding, the next step is choosing what type of theme to go with. When you picture your wedding, what themes come to mind?
Here are several possible wedding themes for you to use, and how wood or acrylic invitations can enhance your theme:
– Seasonal wedding themes, such as Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer, allow you to incorporate seasonal ideas into your wedding. For example, when you think of Fall leaves, pumpkins and apples come to mind. Use a maple wood save-the-date to match a warm sandy summer theme, cherry wood for a bright Fall theme or blue pine wood for a colorful Spring theme; or incorporate acrylic invitations to set the mood for your frosty magical Winter wedding.
– Christmas weddings get everyone into the holiday spirit, and you may even be able to take advantage of your reception location's holiday decorations. Our frosted clear acrylic invitations or elegant engraved mahogany wood invitations make the perfect wedding announcement for this time of year.
– Medieval wedding themes offer you the opportunity dress in garb in addition to decorating your reception site. You can even choose to get married in a castle to make it more authentic. What better way to match this theme than a custom engraved crest onto your wooden invites?
– What better place to get married than on a beach? Beach wedding ideas are fun, laid-back and offer many different theme possibilities including seashells, pirates and lighthouses. Our maple wood is the prefect sandy natural color for a beach theme.
– Western wedding themes are the perfect fit if you are into country music, cowboys or line dancing. What more can we say than engraved cherry wood invitations that start with "WANTED:," or save-the-dates with cowboy boots?
– For the sports-minded bride and groom, consider incorporating a sport like golf or your favorite team into your wedding. Use your teams colors in your invitations, printed to wood for a much more interesting and memorable invitation than printing to paper.
Although a theme is not a requirement for a great wedding, there are many good reasons for having one. If you are creative, have the motivation and really want to wow your guests, consider incorporating a theme into your big day; and set the mood for your theme with creative and unique save-the-dates and invitations!