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Wow. You learn something new every day. I always wondered how people were able to post the copyright symbol in their posts. Now, I know!

Any chance of upgrading the forum software to the newly released Invision Power Board v3.0?

I haven't seen 3.0 in action yet. Is that the latest version, and does it cost?

It was just released on Tuesday, it's nice, not sure of any cost, their number is 1-800-901-5491.

3.0 is $250 right now, and it won't have all the bugs out of it for months.

I want to issue a big "thank you" to each and every person involved with citybythelake.org. From the people who just stop by to read, to the admin/mod staff here, each of you has played a vital role at making this site a huge success in 2009. Just in the last couple of months, this is the first local place to break such stories as the school closing potential, NIPSCO being rated as one of the worst polluters in the USA, Ohio Street falling apart a month after repaving, and the MC boys basketball team being asked in the the Valpo U holiday invitational. Best of all was sharing the reactions and feeling surrounding every story in Michigan City with all of you. I look forward to an even better 2010!

Thanks all!

Michael Gresham

Testing out the new 2010 version of the user name

Gotta love them Roman numerals!

I just saw that taxthedeer posted that we have hit three hundred members, which is just awesome. We also have 450 followers on the citybythelake facebook page, and a few more on the twitter page. It is awesome to see so many people following and contributing to this incredible site. This wouldn't be possible without all of the great personalities and contributions of all of the people here.

THANKS AGAIN!!!

We've had several new members join in the past couple months and it's hard to keep up with everyone, so I would like to take a moment to welcome some of our newest members to the board:


Backwoods, Burning Blood, Dawn, Dolores, Dusk, inkoteMechl, Jenna, Jesse B, John Taylor, ksmi55 08, Milldew37, praterteaches, and Wayne


There are many others who have also joined recently, but have not yet posted. To those new members, I say Welcome and we would love to hear from you guys, too. Posting is not a condition of membership here, but we value everyone's input.

Thanks, Ang!

Good morning.

Good Morning to you, and welcome to our board!

Good morning and welcome!

Happy Anniversary to ME!!! It's been one year Wednesday since I discovered the local blog site in a google search became a CTBL member, this has become one of my favorite stops on the World Wide Web, it won't be long until I make my mark as one of the overall top ten posters. Thanks everyone for putting up with my nonsense for the past 365 days.

Its been great to have you! I love the football info.

This morning was the 1 year anniversary of the ISP prison break. What was really amazing was that 160 unique users logged onto CTBL at once to find out up to date information.

Yeaahhhh......

We are proud of this little place.

Happy Anniversary to you and thanks for being a member!

Todays show from 5 to 6 pm on AM 1420 is going to cover a lot of school board and school system stuff, including the newest member of the MCAS.

With this post I proudly become one of the Top Ten overall CTBL posters. Virtual high five everybody.

:high-five:

Hmmm, this is all so strange...

We've had a bunch of new members lately, so I want to bump this up and say Welcome to the Newbies!!!

Also, I want to remind everyone that our 4th Annual Meet & Greet will be held at Matey's Restaurant in Michigan City on Monday Dec 27th at 7:00 pm.

All members are welcome to join us, you do not need to RSVP but it would be nice to let us know if you are positive you will be there.


Additionally, I would like to tell you some "fun" stuff about the board:

--When you are in a forum list, and you see a little red box next to the thread title, you can go to the last unread (by you) post in that thread by clicking the red box.

--You can bold, italicize, underline or perform any other text function in "quick reply" by simply putting a [b] at the beginning of your word and at the end put [/i]. Now, to keep from changing my font in that last sentence, I had to use different letters, but b= bold, i=italics, u=underline, etc. This also works if you want to put a paragraph in quotes. You would type [quote] at the beginning of the paragraph and at the end, use the same thing, only with the "/" symbol before the word quote-inside the brackets.

you can change the color or size of your font the same way. you would type color=red (or size=6) with the square brackets around it-- [ ] -- to have a red font and at the end you would put that little "/" symbol and just type the word color between the brackets.. [/color]




Season's Greetings, and Happy Holidays!!!

Congratulations on recently registering your 400th member and have over 1000 "likes" on your Facebook page.

Every thread should have a post in it once a year or so.

I'm a chat junkie from way back. I used to go by Bongwater Q. Liberalstein but have mellowed out a bit since those days.

Really nice site -- well-designed, easy to navigate.

Can I use regular bb code? IMG tags for photos?

What's the procedure for posting video links? flash?

Um....we don't really have a protocol for that. If you can make it work, do it. Welcome to the site. I love your input!

IMG tags work for sure. I don't think flash is supported. For video links you need to turn html on. bb code I am not sure about.

I've now surpassed the 1000+ post count.

Get a life.

Oh, wait....

Just want to let everyone know that I've been trying to update the calendar of events. Anyone can post in the calendar, the link is at the top of the page. If you know of something coming up, or a special activity you want to share with the rest of the group, please feel free to add....
I include links to websites with more information, but feel free to post however you want.
Also, if you're looking for something fun to do, please check out our calendar. This is something I just started doing, so if I've missed anything, please show me some mercy and add it yourself. I promise, as time goes on, I will get better at it.

Also, if you add something to the calendar, please PM an admin or mod as events have to approved by one of us before it will appear on the calendar. Thanks.

Don't forget to check out our calendar of local events.....lots of fun stuff going on around La Porte County, and a lot of it's free!

Go Have Fun this weekend!

We've had several new members sign up over the past couple days, so I want to use this thread to welcome all the Newbies.
We thank you for joining our board and look forward to your input.

Please remember to be respectful of others as that is our number 1 rule. It's ok to disagree, but play nice.

You can scroll through old comments in this thread to learn tips and tricks to navigate this board, also you can ask if you have questions. In City Living, there is a thread called CBTL: Catch all anything thread. You can post your questions there and someone will answer them.

Again, Welcome to City By The Lake!

Don't forget to check out the calendar of events. There is a lot of fun stuff going on over the next several weeks. Get a jump on your friends and be "in the know" about what's going on!
I've got September updated through the 15th. If there is anything I missed, please PM me, or you can add it to the calendar yourself, just let an Admin know so we can approve it and make it viewable by all.
Thanks!

I see we have had a few new people sign up lately. Again, I want to welcome all the newbies to our site and remind everyone that our number one rule around here is PLAY NICE-lest ye be censored.

Please remember to check out the calendar of events--upcoming events are listed at the bottom of the home page. I've been working hard to keep up with it. If I missed anything, please feel free to add and PM (personal message) me so I can approve it for public viewing.

If anyone has editing or formatting questions, you can either PM a member of the mod/admin team, or simply post your question the Catch All Anything Thread located in City Living.

Thanks to the Newbies for joining the board. We have been around longer than I anticipated and am thankful to all of our members for making this place what it is and keeping us alive--this December we will be celebrating our 6th birthday!

I've updated the October calendar--lots of fun stuff going on for all walks of life....be sure to check it out.

We've had a couple new members join in the past couple weeks and I'd like to extend a big Welcome to our newbies!

Hey All!

Season's Greetings to everyone. No matter what your religion, or your preference for Holidays in the upcoming months, I wish you all the very best!

The December Calendar has been updated. Check it out and see all the fun stuff that is going on around here. Lots of concerts, plays, and free stuff happening around LaPorte County.

If you know of anything I haven't posted to the calendar, please PM me and I will get it added right away!

I'm hoping to add a Lazer Band holiday show - nothing confirmed yet, but it's in the works!

Do you all ever meet for coffee or anything? I belong to a few other forums and we have actually had parties where people have traveled 2,000 miles or more to rub shoulders with each other. Just wonderin. . .

We have in years past. If people are interested, we could definitely gauge interest and have another sometime soon. They are fun times.

I'm in! I won't have to travel so far as the last one we did.....

I'd go to these meet ups.. .but I drink too much.

Haha I've been there too hi everybody.