en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:48:09 -0500 info@apa-raleigh.com 60 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/blogrss.asp APA Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill Member Blogs http://apa-raleigh.com/ http://apa-raleigh.com/common/forumimages/APALogoLrg.jpg 200 148 srj11957 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1682 Member Personal Blogs Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:21:25 -0500 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1682 Congratulations goes to our [9]-ball team - "HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE" - playing out of On The Snap, for winning a hard fought playoff match and making it to the City Tournament.

Thanks to Mike and April Tabler, Brandon Emery, Kelly Allison, Ellen Walden, Sawyer Gould and Scot Kirby.

Of course not forgetting my wife, Gill Jeffery, for her great support of the team, and helping me drown my sorrows by buying me Newcastle Brown when I lost any matches. She also bought me a Newcastle Brown when I won a match !! [;)]



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February 2nd, 2010

False start on [9] Cities, reasons are pretty obvious...so as I was saying...

OK - This weekend is it !!...we're starting [9] Cities at Baileys (Hmmm Baileys goes nice with me coffee on a Sunday morning), must be an Omen [;)]

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Friday/Saturday 5th n 6th Feb 2010

Great job team...we scraped through the 'first round'.
We lost the first match at BAILEYS to DREAM KILLERZ ( The Omen didn't work [8)] ) they wiped the floor with us, we didn't even play the 5th match...good luck guys.

The next match was at OSCARS on Saturday night ( loser bracket [~)] ) we manged to pull out a win against ??
With the after effect of the Jager bomb shot I forgot their team name ....

The match went down to the wire in the last game with Scot playing a very close match indeed, but he pulled off a great win !!!.

Nice job Scot for getting an under pressure come from behind victory !!!


Kelly Allison cruising to her win


Side line support from daughter Sarah and my team mate Sawyer



So it's on to 'Round Two' back at Baileys...

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Saturday 20th February 2010 @ Baileys

Flippin heck !! that was a close match...down to the last game... down to the last two balls...we were just edged out of Cities [|]...

Once again, thanks to our team to Mike and April Tabler, Brandon Emery, Kelly Allison, Ellen Walden, Sawyer Gould and Scot Kirby.

Nice try guys ... We'll be back !!

Good luck to he remaining teams...

See ya'll next time..

We'll be back !!]]> Marc Lancaster http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1631 Member Personal Blogs Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:14:08 -0500 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1631 We have a new Captain/Co-Captian cash Tournament each session now. The "Best of The Rest" qualifying Tournament for Cities in now in place, and new patches were just introduced.
APA Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill is now the 6th largest league in the USA. Way to go!]]> Bob Swauger http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1605 Member Personal Blogs Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:03:22 -0500 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1605 AVATARS!

Yes, we heard you!!! We've heard those calls to further personalize the forum and allow members to have an avatar appear when they post. Until recently we've resisted the idea for a number of reasons; the primary being members could not upload images and cross linking slows down page loading because the website has to go out and get the image.

Well now everyone has the ability to create their own personal gallery on the website and post their own member blogs. We thought "What better way to encourage the use of these features!!"

You'll notice both the forum and blog now show avatars for the poster and the those who reply. Clicking on the photo will bring up a full size version without taking you away from the page! The arrows below the picture will allow you to scroll through the Avatars of other members. Now you can get a visual of who is posting... put a face to a name... get a glimpse of who they are and maybe find out if it's someone you know or have seen... or someone you WILL know the next time you see them.

The avatar is actually your profile picture, and while you can still remotely link, we suggest you create your personal gallery and upload an image for your profile. Once uploaded you'll see an icon below the image to set it as your profile picture. You can also use the regular photo gallery the same way. Simply search for your member number and use the same icon.

BLOGS!

To further enhance the blog module we've given members the ability to control the blog a little more. The Author can now lock their blog, and not allow comments (they will have to unlock it to edit it too, but they can prevent members from posting to it!). Members can also delete posts from other members (not admins or moderators) if they don't like them. The blog is yours!!! You can also delete a blog once it's been replied to (the only caveat is you have to delete the replies first - if there are any). Yes, we know there are some limitations here, but they were necessary. We hope you understand.

You can also easily link images from your member gallery into you blog! In the post Format: Options look for the () Icon. You can also post YouTube Videos in your blog using the() icon.

When reading a blog, at the very top to the right you'll see a few more icons and a list of websites you can share the blog on. If you find a member's post interesting share it on your favorite website or email it to a friend. You can also search for blogs by specific players and get a list of blogs by date.

Comments, questions and bug reports are always welcome!

Enjoy everyone!


Bob Swauger
APA-Raleigh Web Admin

]]> ktrivette http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1613 Member Personal Blogs Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:08:53 -0500 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1613 Bob Swauger http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1578 Member Personal Blogs Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:44:03 -0500 http://apa-raleigh.com/forum/log.asp?log_id=1578
Aside from the obvious visual changes to the site there are quite a few new features for you to use and enjoy... and there could be many more on the way, so stay tuned!!!

Here are just a few of the new features:

Personal Photo Galleries - use the link in the left menu and click the folder icon in the upper right to create your own gallery and upload images. Each member has 3 megs of space, or approximately 85 images! You can even select one of these uploaded images into your member profile!

Member Friends list - Integrated into the private message system you can now invite members to be your friends, similar to Facebook. At present it isn't much more than a list that will appear below in your member profile, but there are big plans for this feature, so stay tuned!

Restyled Stats Area - At present there are no new stats. The stats are just re-organized into collapsible tables that are printer friendly (just use your browser's built in print function).

Member WebLogs - You can now blog about your team and your APA experience in your own personal weblog! Your blog has it's own RSS feed that anyone can subscribe to it and post comments as well... you can even link it to your MySpace or Facebook account. We all know lots of interesting things happen during league play! Now you can share those experiences with others; we just ask that you keep it positive. Enjoy!

... and there are many other changes. Please take some time to look around and let us know what you think!

Enjoy everyone!


Bob Swauger
APA-Raleigh Web Admin

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