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North Stonington - State police will issue an infraction to Donald L. Oat, the grandson of the original owner of the embattled 96 Button Road property who allegedly trespassed on that land earlier this month.
According to a report filed Jan. 14 by Resident State Trooper David Greene, one of the employees of Firefly Farms - the farm that owner Van Brown established there with his son and wife in 2011 - reported an "incident" with Oat on Jan. 11. The employee said she was "scared," though not harassed, threatened or assaulted.
The report concludes that Oat will be receiving an infraction for creating a public disturbance and simple trespass.
The town of North Stonington and Brown are engaged in a legal battle over the future of the property, which was originally a gift to the now-defunct Norwich YMCA. Oat's grandfather and two other landowners deeded the property to be given to North Stonington in the event the YMCA ceased to use it. After a series of apparent land record errors, the property was sold to Brown.
The town is now seeking to claim 35 acres of the property and place restrictions on the other 90 acres. The state also has an interest in whether an earlier settlement offer from Brown satisfies the "charitable intent" of the original deed, and whether his farm suits any open-space requirements.
A court date for the case, in which the attorney general will be a party, is pending.
Oat and Brown declined to comment on the police report.
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|April 17, 2013, 12:28 AM
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Obama Wants to Cut the FFDO Program
The FFDO (Federal Flight Deck Officer) program is the one instituted after 9/11 to arm pilots of commercial airliners, and Obama wants to cut it completely (I know you're probably all shocked to the core) in his proposed budget for FY14. Please write your politicians to oppose cutting the program!
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|April 17, 2013, 12:44 AM
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So, if it really is just $15.00 per flight as they say in the article why not just pass the cost on to the passengers. Unless I'm missing something here it would seem fair to let the folks benefiting from the service subsidize it as opposed to tax payers that may not fly.
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|April 17, 2013, 12:45 AM
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Having worked for TSA for quite a while, I can say that program, as a whole, was one of the best Counter Terror programs implemented after 9-11. Even though no FFDO, to date, has intentionally fired his weapon in a plane, I believe it has quite a deterrent effect on many types of attack. I wonder, are they just afraid of having a gun on a plane? Do they realize that the pilot with the gun can cause far more destruction simply by pushing forward, than he does with the gun?
Really though...not shocking in the least.
|April 17, 2013, 01:03 AM
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An FFDO is the last line of defense of the flight deck and while everyone hopes they'll never be tested, their presence places a significant obstacle in front of anyone trying to gain control. Removal of FFDOs means that if that door is breached, it's all over. $15 a flight seems a small price to pay for that bit of extra insurance.
There was one idiot FFDO who cranked one off into the side of the flight deck, but that was years ago. Most people have forgotten about him.
|April 17, 2013, 01:22 AM
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Having a last line of defense is an acknowledgement that the previous lines might fail. (of course they might, the last line might fail too) They have so much invested in all the TSA bs they can't admit any possibility of failure.
BTW, do they still have air marshals, or did that program get trashed already?
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|April 17, 2013, 04:44 AM
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And to think that as recently as the early 1960's pilots carrying US Mail (which were most airline pilots, since mail was carried on almost every airline flight) were *required* to carry a "Mail Gun", which was a .38 caliber revolver, in order to "protect the mail". This dated back to the 1920's and the beginning of air-mail.
As a corporate pilot, I travel armed in the cockpit, for a variety of reasons having to do with dignitary protection, carriage of unknown charter passengers, etc. Yes it's a hassle with the multitude of jurisdictions we enter, which include many overseas flights as well as many "unfriendly" states. Many pilots are shooters, the progam ought to cost the Government essentially zero, and I would offer that if it's really costing $15.00/flight then someone is being paid way too much to administer the program and the training.
Little known fact: When we fly into Washington National as a corporate aircraft we not only need to submit our passenger list in advance and depart from one of only a few airports where we can be checked before we take off, we also need to carry an "armed professional" in the cabin, who is assigned the job of shooting any passenger who might threaten the aircraft crew, or to shoot the flight crew if they try to turn the jet into a kamikaze. No kidding.
|April 17, 2013, 09:39 AM
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|April 17, 2013, 10:39 AM
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The FFDO program comes under the Dept of Homeland Security. Over the last 2-3 years the "powers-that-be" have done everything in they can to discourage pilots from participating in the program. It costs pilots a lot of their own time and money.
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|April 17, 2013, 11:15 AM
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But hey, an FFDO hasn't had to fight off a bad guy, so it must be unneeded. But Air Marshalls haven't had to fight a bad guy either, so let's cancel that program too. Working for TSA for so long was frustrating. One of the things we used to do in our downtime was to talk about how we would change airport security if we were in charge. We'd come up with a plan that would require half the number of screeners in the workforce, would be FAR less invasive to passengers, AND speed up screening. And it was all common sense stuff. Unfortunately, as a Government employee, common sense was prohibited. You were expected to be a robot with flesh.
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|April 17, 2013, 12:11 PM
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The program should be cut and the Airlines should be allowed to perform security on their aircraft in any manner they chose.
Even including arm pilots or a security officer or whatever. Take the federal gov't out of the equation and ask for more individual and corporate responsibility.
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|April 17, 2013, 01:14 PM
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Re: Obama Wants to Cut the FFDO Program
Do you know why your flight is occasionally delayed because the crew is getting food? Because they showed up to work 10 hours ago and have been given no breaks or food by their airline. Do you know why they aren't fired when they finally say enough and get something to eat? Because the federal government is watching.
Do you know why your crew got 6 hours of sleep last night instead of 3? Because when they got in 5 hours late last night, only the federal government prevented the airline from forcing them to show up as scheduled.
Do you know why the airlines reinforced the flight deck door after 9/11? Because the federal government forced them to.
I'm not saying the feds are perfect, far from it, but rest assured that the only thing the airline cares about is money. Nothing else.
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|April 17, 2013, 03:46 PM
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I for 1, think the FFDO program should be on the books but to me, the weapons & safety SOPs are *******, .
There are a few videos online, www.youtube.com that explain it.
To my limited knowledge, the FFDOs are authorized to carry HK USPc pistols in .40S&W. They use the LEM(law enforcement modification) format.
I agree with the pilots & air crews, they are grown men & mature adults, many US armed forces veterans/pilots. They don't need dumb SOPs or hassles.
I do think the FAMS, www.tsa.gov , needs to go. They waste $$$ of tax dollars every year. Yes, there have been a few documented events of passengers who wig out or violent outbursts but trained "Sky Marshals" or FAA Special Agents(1800 series, www.OPM.gov ) can fly on selected aircraft.
I've read a few media items that many FAMs quit after 2/3 years due to stress, health problems or conflicts with the mgmt.
The entire system should be cut or re-designed to address the REAL counter-terrorist & homeland security threats.
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And do you really put that much faith in federal responsibility and bureacracy?
I'd rather trust a corporate that can fail than a government that can tax or devalue its currency out of failing. The way a government stops itself from failing is by taking from its citizens. That is the only way.
And it sounds like you have no faith in humanity or individual responsibility, but are okay letting the government run our very lives. You are the first step of becoming a socialist.
And more importantly, if the airline has policies that doesn't allow its employees to eat: People wont work there
If enough people dont work there, then the airline will have to adjust or fail.
If the airline cant get their planes in on time to make their consumer happy, then they will get a bad reputation and will lose revenue.
Do you not understand how markets work?
When they impose new regulations, they borrow the money and pay the bureaucrats more money. In order to pay for the borrowed money they tax the american people or they borrow from foreign countries or the fed or banks.
All of which slowly inflate the currency and weaken the average american's pocketbook. We in fact end up ALL paying for it. Instead of just the airline.
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|April 17, 2013, 06:43 PM
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My sources? I'm an airline pilot. I deal with those situations every time I go to work.
There are people who come out of college with $200k of debt who will jump at the chance to fly a shiny jet airliner for less than $20k a year. Do you think they care that they are going to work a 14 hour day with no food? Do you think they even considered that? No. They don't care if they're getting the shakes, because they're chasing the all important turbine PIC that will let them land a job at a bigger and better airline (the grass is always greener). The term is "paying your dues" to get qualified for that better job.
When you fly on a regional airline, there's a high likelihood that the pilot sitting in the right seat qualifies for food stamps. The companies get away with this because they have a stack of resumes a foot tall on their HR desk of people literally begging to let them fly their airplanes.
It's not unusual to fly 8 legs in one day with 20-30 minutes between each leg. It's scheduled that way, you think that's enough time to go get food? Flight attendants have it even worse, most places have policies that prohibit them eating in front of passengers, so even if they could get food, how are they going to eat it?
I haven't even scratched the surface, and yet there are people banging down the doors of the HR department screaming and crying to let them come fly airplanes.
There were companies that actually charged people to sit in the right seat of an airliner. Look up TAB Express and Gulfstream (the airline, not the manufacturer). Yes, you as a passenger would purchase a ticket to fly on this airliner and the first officer was also paying to be there. How much experience do you think he had?
The only reason you don't have airplanes falling out of the sky due to shoddy maintenance and overworked crews are because of federal regulations, most of which came to pass because somebody died.
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|April 17, 2013, 07:40 PM
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The man who made the last post knows of what he speaks. Got that T-shirt. Flying as a career is like acting, but worse.
That kid on the right seat of the small commuter airliner that you fly into a hub on just might be living in his or her car as well as being on food stamps. It is very common for 4 or 5 pilots to share an apartment once they have been on the job long enough to make subsistence money.
And then there is the whole airline goes chapter 11 and ditches the pension plan nonsense. You and my taxes are paying for a lot of reduced airline pilot pensions through the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp after the airlines decided they didn't want to pay their bills any more.
Getting back to the FFDO program, all of the pilots that I know would prefer to carry on the job. The program and the company makes it hard.
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|April 17, 2013, 08:38 PM
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Doc Big Bird, they are correct. Most airlines default to FARs for crew rest; many push the FAA to allow longer workdays; I do not know of any which require their crews to have more rest than what the FAA mandates.
IE, no more than 14 hours scheduled working; no more than 8 hours actually flying. However, that 14 hour day can be extended to 16 if weather or maintenance cause delays - but not if the company adds a leg. And the 8 hours flying can go longer, legally, if delays occur in flight that were not expected prior to takeoff.
Rest overnight ranges from 8-10 hours minimum between flights, depending on other factors.
If the FAA allowed more, part 121 and 135 operators would push crews even harder.
Ralgha, are you an FFDO as well as a pilot? FFDO buddies have told me that one discharge was the direct result of the lock the TSA mandatd for use, that was locked through the case AND trigger guard. Were they incorrect?
|April 18, 2013, 07:04 AM
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Posts; FFDO pistol video...
On youtube was the clip of a demo showing how the SOPs can cause a AD with the HK USP .40S&W LEM(law enforcement modification/DA only).
It puts the problems & complaints in perspective.
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I know less than nothing about the airline industry. I have, however, lived long enough to know that a strict laissez-faire approach does not work in critical areas of our economy, like the airline industry. I have also lived long enough to see the damage that over regulation and agenda pushing can do. Finding the right balance is often the difficult part.
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Without regulation, we had seven year-old children losing fingers in textile mills, we had widespread open-pit mining with arsenic and other deadly chemicals used as leaching agents, and we had actual fires on the surface of the Cuyahoga river from the sheer amount of industrial waste that had been dumped into it. We had tapeworms sold as diet aids, and patent medicines that contained high levels of alcohol, mercury, or worse.
For good or for ill, any private company is motivated at least in part by profit, so it's naive to think that if the well-being of their customers or the general public were to come into conflict with the company's profitability, that the company would willingly sacrifice profits.
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Obama sure doesn't like firearms.
He wants passengers in the air just as defenseless as those on the ground.
|April 18, 2013, 02:36 PM
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Cutting a program like that makes absolutely no sense. The government spend more money than that on entertainment.
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The FFDO program is generally popular with the public and with Congress.
By threatening to need to cut it due to (ridiculously minimal) funding, he pulls another pre-sequestration stunt to try to force a tax hike by threatening a program people, and particularly his political opponents, want to keep.
Standard, cynical Chicago racket ploy.
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Does anyone have any links to share to sites that offer tutorials, ideas, a forum, etc.? I would like to learn more and improve my paper skills.
Does anyone have any links to share to sites that offer tutorials, ideas, a forum, etc.? I would like to learn more and improve my paper skills.
Well, I think paper crafting is such a broad category that it is hard to point to just one or two sites to get the whole spectrum of what you can do. However, there are places I tend to go.
I go to youtube when I'm looking for a specific tutorial. I like watching someone else do something, it gives me inspiration. Half the time I don't come up with anything close to what they made but there will be one element that is the same or similar.
A few years back I stopped buying almost exclusive Stampin' Up paper craft supplies. I think they're great quality plus I really like their company so I like to support it. Anyway, because of that I started going to Stampin' Up's website to get ideas. They have a digi scrap forum but not a paper scrap one so if you see their forums, it's all digi scrap.
Since I'm an avid Cricut user, I will often go to Cricut's site to see what they have going on. I haven't been there in a while and I know they changed their site but they use to have oodles and oodles of tips, trick, ideas, etc.
I used to use Splitcoast Stamper and Two Peas in a Bucket from time to time. They can have really cool tutorials and they are forum type sites but I just never got into it.
I also like to go see what Ranger and Tim Holtz are up to. Tim Holtz does things with paper I didn't realize paper could do. To me, he's one of the most amazing paper artists out there. (And he's good looking to boot. lol)
I feel like I'm forgetting something and if I think of something more I'll add it. Really though, your best bet is to just google things. Like if you want to learn how to do paper flowers google paper flower tutorial and you'll find a lot of different options. I found that onces I got a few techniques under my belt I started to get more adventurous and daring. It was quite fun! Let us know what you come up with!
I agree, paperscrapping is very broad, and there are a ton of different styles. That said, I love Shimelle Laine. She does Youtube videos as herself, and she also does "Glitter Girl". Shimelle does a lot of sketch to page videos. Glitter Girl helps solve dilemmas that scrappers have like using old supplies, or a old photos, or using a new trend, etc. You can find her on YouTube (youtube.com/user/shimellelaine) or at shimelle.com. I also love her accent (she's in England).
What is your style like? Do you like more artsy? Or more story oriented? What skills are you trying to improve? I find there's a lot of overlap in digital and paper. The difference is just the process, taping verses pasting, cutting versus cropping, etc. I like to listen to the Paperclipping Podcast. Noell Hyman hosts it, and she has different scrappers guest on it. They always refer back to their websites, or 'where you can find them'. I like to hear different opinions, and it's helped me find a few other scrappers (like Monica Bradford, Lain Ehmann, and Mercy Tiara) to broaden my views. Plus, if you are more of a visual person, you can check out Pinterest, and see what styles you resonate to. I use an eClips machine, so I also check out Sizzix ideas, and svg sites (svg is a file type). This has led me to Kerri Bradford, and A Vegas Girl at Heart. Once you start looking, you may get lost forever! Just kidding
The biggest one's I can think of are Scrapbook.com and UKScrappers.co.uk. I like the community at a Canadian site called Scraptures.ca. Scrapbook.com is a huge site with thousands of members, but I'm not too involved with that community. UK Scrappers is huge too, but I was usually just involved there for the Craft Robo forum. You may get some good information there about cutting machines too, but it will be biased to the Silhouette (since they took over the distribution rights from Graphtec who sponsors the Craft Robo forum).
I'm rapidly falling in love with Pinterest and have found tons of links to tutorials and videos there. This is one of my favorite Pinterest sites http://pinterest.com/crafty123/scrapbook-tutorials/
The only problem I've found with this site is I can never leave! Once I find something I like it leads me to something else I like and it just never ends!
Wow! So much awesome info. and leads! Thank you so much to each one of you for sharing your ideas and sites!
I'd agree scrapbook.com is a good one, though it's almost too big. I also visit twopeasinabucket.com a lot, but I'm kind of annoyed with them right now because they're restructuring their digital side, and losing a lot of designers. Their paper-scrapping side is good, though.
Thank you for the links, Brandi!
I used to like Twopeas as well, but they have been on a moderation kick lately and I find that encourages 'naughtiness' as people try to get away with things, or see how far they can push the envelope. I prefer here.
Plus, the whole digital mess is obnoxious.
Courtney, I haven't really ever used the forums on Two Peas, just bought things there and subscribed to their newsletters. I don't like big communities because I find that unless you've been there since they were small it's kind of hard to break into the community.
Check out this blog and sign up for their newsletter
They have great design tips and sketches for paper scrapping
Thank you again to you all for your great ideas, tips, and links! I agree about the larger communities, and I'm interested in broadening my paper scrapping skills, learning new techniques. All this info. is a great help!
i can think of two: http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/ & http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/index.html. They both seem to offer the same things but I think scrapbooks etc. seem to have a few more tutorials. I hope this helps some!
Thank you for the links and inspiration. Will for surely be checking all this stuff out. I myself am considering buying a Silhouette Cameo but not for scrapbooking but for card making and other various craft projects.


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Client-side continuations for web programming
A blog entry summarizing the September 21, 2006 meeting of the Vancouver Lisp Users Group (lispvan), in which James Wright gave a talk on client-side continuations for web programming. The document in...
Episode 1: HTTP Client and Server
Screencast by Sven Van Caekenberghe about using an HTTP client and server in Common Lisp to create a simple Reddit clone.
Episode 2: (Re)writing Reddit in Lisp is 20 minutes and 100 lines
Screencast by Sven Van Caekenberghe on building Web applications with the KPAX framework to create a simple Reddit clone. It is based on the interaction with LispWorks under MacOS X. QuickTime format.
Hunchentoot Web Server Installation with SBCL on WindowsXP/Vista
Quick guide to install Hunchentoot on windows with SBCL implementation.
Installing TBNL on Linux and Windows and creating a web application
A tutorial on installing the TBNL toolkit for dynamic Lisp web sites and creating a simple application.
LISP Deserves a Fresh Look
Article by Peter Coffee published on the February 7, 2006 issue of eWeek. It discusses the potential of Lisp, particularly Common Lisp, for developing web applications "using fewer lines of code, and ...
Lisp and Web Development
A web site with a collection of essays on why or why not use Lisp for web development, and what Lisp needs to "come from behind in the web application development language race".
PCL Allegroserve Examples with mod_lisp
Short tutorial on running the Allegroserve examples from Practical Common Lisp with mod_lisp and Apache (for newbies)
Rebel With A Cause
"Rebel With A Cause - Building Web Applications with Common Lisp - Deploying on an Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server". Article by Sven Van Caekenberghe, October 2003, First Revision. The document "...
Sven Van Caekenberghe's s-http-server Tutorial
How to get started with Sven's minimal Common Lisp s-http-server.
The Blog
A tutorial which describes how to develop a blogging framework in Common Lisp based on TBNL and Hunchentoot.
UCW intro
A tutorial on the UnCommon Web application framework. It covers installation, configuration, the environment, basic techniques, templates, and more.
UnCommon Web video
Screencast by Marco Baringer. It demonstrates using the UnCommon Web application framework and the Emacs-based SLIME IDE to create a simple, "hello world" web application. It is based on the interacti...
Using Common Lisp to Build Web Applications
"Using Common Lisp to Build Web Applications - Can a 40 year old Computer Language do Web Applications?". Paper by Nicky Peeters, 20 June 2003. After a short introduction to Lisp, the document discuss...
Wiki list of websites powered by Lisp
List of websites and other web applications built using Lisp. Entries are strongly encouraged to be listed with the other software components used to build the site such as the web framework used or o...
A mailing list for discussing the use of languages in the Lisp family, including Common Lisp, for web development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, interfacing Lisp runtimes with we...


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How to Make an iPad Case (or any other case for any other device really)
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Great project and good call on painting the edges! Love that button too. Ooooh, I have some button making kits I bought a while ago that you just reminded me about. Might just have to do that today now! (btw, any electronic of mine looks just like that with the sticky finger marks - gross)ReplyDelete
Super cute! I like the finishing touch of adding paint to the edges - gives it a really sharp look!ReplyDelete
Great tutorial, thanks such a useful project. I especially like the button.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for this cool tutorial - so easy, pretty and practical! Hope you had a wonderful Valentines day!ReplyDelete
Very cute and easy! I would love to make one for myself. Thanks for this tutorial Cheri! :-)ReplyDelete
I loved this when I first read it and knew that this was what I wanted to do for my Kindle! I finally got around to making my version of it, and I posted it on my blog, of course directing everyone back here to you!ReplyDelete
Thanks for all of the fabulous inspiration!
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ABC has revealed the new cast of Dancing With The Stars will be announced during The Bachelor finale, set to air March 1st.
DWTS host Tom Bergeron will make the announcements throughout the dramatic two-hour finale of the dating show. Immediately following the primetime unveiling, ABC.com will also post the cast list online.
The Spring 2010 season of "Dancing with the Stars" will premiere Monday, March 22 (8:00 – 10:00pm). The stars and their professional partners will then perform again during Week 2 on Monday, March 29, and the first elimination will occur on the Tuesday, March 30 results show. The team with the lowest combined judges' scores and public votes for both performances will be eliminated from the competition on the first results show.
No word yet on who will be joining the cast, but as we previously reported, ABC has made a substantial offer to Paula Abdul in hopes of getting her on the show this season.


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STOCKTON - A little more strength behind Dwayne Lee's final shot and the Bear Creek boys basketball team would have won on Friday at the Bruin Shoot-Out.
STOCKTON - A little more strength behind Dwayne Lee's final shot and the Bear Creek boys basketball team would have won on Friday at the Bruin Shoot-Out.
In the final 5 seconds of the game, the Bruins' guard raced the length of the court and lofted a floater from inside the free-throw line that bounced off the front of the rim, and Clovis-Buchanan escaped with a 50-49 win.
Bear Creek (8-5) plays Tokay (6-9) at 3 p.m today for seventh place, and the Bears (5-4) play Lincoln (9-3) at 4:30 p.m. today in the consolation championship.
The Bruins committed a costly turnover with 14 seconds left to play leading 49-48. Buchanan forced a bad pass up the floor after an inbounds play, and Cade Alcorn scored on the ensuing possession on a putback and led his team with 16 points.
"This is a really tough one to take," Bear Creek guard Jadon Henry said. "We felt like we played horrible in the first half and then played so much harder in the second half only to have it end like this."
Steven Martinez led Bear Creek with 16 points, including 10 in the third quarter. Henry came off the bench and scored all 10 of his points in the second half, including eight in the fourth quarter. He drove to the basket at all costs, helping the Bruins recover from 22 percent shooting in the first half.
Henry made layups and drew fouls three times and twice converted the free throw. His first gave the Bruins their biggest lead at 35-31 in the fourth quarter.
Taylor Smith, a 6-foot-10 center for the Bears, had nine points. He had four of Buchanan's six points off putbacks in the fourth quarter.
"Having eachother's backs tonight was important," Buchanan coach Steve Dittmann said. "There were a bunch of times when one person would pick another one up after a mistake."
Joseph Harrison led Lincoln (9-3) with 16 points and nine rebounds and Wesley Dulan scored 12 points.
The Tigers (6-9) cut an 11-point halftime deficit to as low as six points in the final minutes. Yonic Flores scored 15 points and Kyle Rivers had 12 points for Tokay.
Jordan Kron and Jacob Danhoff each scored 15 points for East Union, which remained unbeaten at 11-0 and advanced to the championship game against Alameda-St. Joseph Notre Dame at 7:30 p.m. today.
Enrique Flores and Marcus Cotton led McNair with 12 points each.
The Eagles (6-8) did not make a field goal in the first 4 minutes of the fourth quarter and made 1 of 11 from 3-point range. McNair plays Fairfield at 6 p.m. for third place.
Marcus Harris led St. Joseph (8-4) with 15 points and Justin Brown had 13 points. DeMoriaye Hart-Spikes led Fairfield (4-7) with 15 points.


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Reading AIDS
Introducing The Body Positive Book Reading Club
December 2000
Of course, many books are now outdated. And some were never very good to begin with -- badly written, badly researched, or both. Yet among the mountain of books, there are also more than a few gems to be found. That's why, with this issue, we are launching a new feature of Body Positive magazine, called "Reading AIDS: The Body Positive Book Reading Club." We may never be as big as the Book of the Month Club, or as influential as the New York Times Book Review, or as popular as Oprah's book club. But we do hope to bring interesting and informative books to the attention of you, our readers, that you might otherwise miss.
This issue is fortunate to be able to highlight two such books. The first is The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present by Peter L. Allen, Ph.D., a cultural critic and former associate professor of French, comparative literature, and media studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California. The second is Youths Living with HIV: Self-Evident Truths by G. Cajetan Luna, M.A., who is the executive director of the San Joaquin AIDS Foundation in Stockton, California. You'll have the opportunity to read all about these books, plus some excerpts. New books will be added from time to time in upcoming issues of the magazine. To ensure that books are accessible, we've chosen only ones that are reasonably priced (generally $25 or less, usually in paperback) and that are still in print and thus available either through bookstores or on-line booksellers, and in many cases also at libraries. Not every person will be interested in every book we feature, but we will try to select enough of a variety that many of you will find something of interest.
A unique feature of the Body Positive Book Reading Club is that we will be including introductions written by and excerpts chosen by the authors or editors of the books themselves specifically for the readers of Body Positive. These introductions are intended to let you know some extra background about how and why the books were written, and to provide the author's or editor's direct insight. (When authors or editors are unavailable, or deceased, an expert on a particular book or subject may write the introduction.)
These authors and editors (or other experts) have also agreed to respond in writing to questions, comments and queries from readers right here in Body Positive. This will be an important part of the book club process, and we hope that if a particular book sounds of interest to you, that you'll go out and read it and then write in with your thoughts or questions. Also, if you are the author or editor of an HIV/AIDS-related book (or an expert on a book) that you think would be a good choice for the book club, please let us know.
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We hope to have a lively conversation through the magazine. If there's interest, we would also be happy to arrange for in-person discussion groups to meet in New York (so let us know if that's something you'd like to be involved with). Happy reading -- and let us hear from you!
The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and PresentBy Peter Lewis Allen
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
2000, Cloth. 202 pp. $25.00
Facing the arrival of bubonic plague, one seventeenth-century English writer called it "a broom in the hands of the Almighty, with which he sweepeth the most nasty and uncomely corners of the universe." Sound familiar? I thought so. The hyper-religious rhetoric of modern-day conservatives like Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, it turns out, has a long and sorry heritage.
I started working on The Wages of Sin in the early 1990s. I wanted to understand why so many Americans were playing the "blame-the-victim" game with AIDS. At the time, I was a college professor with a specialty in classics and medieval literature, and a natural bent for trying to understand things by exploring their historical roots. The American response to AIDS, it turned out, was a remarkably rich field to explore.
The urge to explain sickness by attributing it to sin -- especially sexual sin -- goes way back to the early days of Christianity. From the very beginning, Christians were wary of the body and its dangers: even Christ had proclaimed that, after the Resurrection, "men and women do not marry: no, they are like the angels in Heaven" (Matthew 22). Sickness was often viewed as a sign of divine disapproval, and the combination of sickness and sex was theological dynamite.
The Wages of Sin traces the evolution of this concept by looking at a series of diseases, each tied to a specific historical period. Authorities in the Middle Ages, for example, often viewed lepers as sexual sinners, and condemned them to wander the earth in solitude, cut off from all society. Performing a religious ceremony over the patients, who stood in freshly dug graves, priests pronounced them dead to the world. Spouses were free to re-marry; no further human conversation was allowed. Lepers were sometimes even buried outside the churchyard for fear of contact with the bodies of the uninfected dead.
Syphilis was quickly condemned as "the just reward of unbridled lust" when it hit European shores in the 1490s. Syphilitic patients were treated with red-hot irons and noxious mercury 'cures' that made their teeth fall out, their throats close up, and their kidneys shut down. The remedies doctors prescribed for wealthy patients were often as painful and deadly as the disease. Poor patients, on the other hand, were simply tossed out of charity hospitals to die on their own.
The strangest and most disturbing sexual "disease" the book discusses is "onanism," or masturbation. From about 1700 to about 1950, doctors and the public alike were convinced that to spill one's seed was disgusting, immoral, and fatal to boot. John Harvey Kellogg, the nineteenth-century American doctor who invented the cornflake, warned that "the most loathsome reptile, rolling in the slush and slime of the stagnant pool, would not bemean itself" by masturbating. To cure or prevent this filthy practice, patients willingly swallowed strychnine and hydrochloric acid, ate ground glass, tied their genitals up in spiked harnesses, and even underwent circumcision and clitoridectomy (sometimes with anesthesia, sometimes without). At the recommendation of the U.S. government, parents tied their babies' arms and legs to the sides of their cribs so that the infants would not be "wrecked for life" by self-abuse. Pretty grim stuff.
While some moralists were lashing out at the sick, however, others saw it as a religious duty to care for them and cure them. The tradition of Christian healing goes just as far back as the tradition of loathing and fear. Most of the New Testament's miracles, for example, were miracles of healing. In the fourth century, a Christian saint, Basil of Caesarea, founded the first hospital in the Western world. This is the tradition out of which grew such leaders as former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, the conservative Christian who opened America's eyes to the need to respond to AIDS. This is the paradox I tried to solve in this book: how religion could foster both condemnation and care, both hatred and love.
By writing The Wages of Sin, I hoped to accomplish several things. One was to lend my voice to the fight against AIDS, and to create a memorial to my friends and lovers who have died. Another was to explore and understand the tangled relationship of religion and medicine, sex and sin. But beyond all this, I wanted to open a dialogue on these crucial topics between religious Americans (especially conservative Christians) and the gay community and people with AIDS. Each side needs to understand what this twenty-year epidemic has meant to the other, for better and for worse, and to see what we can learn from the other's point of view. In America and, even more so, in the rest of the world, the AIDS crisis is far from over. In the era of the Ebola virus and HIV, we need to recognize that other unknown diseases inevitably lie in wait. Next time, with any luck, we'll be a little more ready to respond to them as medical problems, not moral ones, and maybe we can make it a little faster to a cure, with less suffering along the way.
I suspect that many of the readers of Body Positive have run into some of these attitudes along the way. The presence of anti-AIDS prejudice in America (including the medical profession) was well documented by studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some of you may want to get some of these experiences off your chests in a discussion; others may be interested, and perhaps even in some way relieved, to find out why the Bible-thumpers said the things they did.
Personally, I'd be interested to hear whether anyone has been able to enter into a dialogue with religious and political conservatives about AIDS, or even link AIDS and religious belief in any way. It seems to me that it might be possible to cross over some of the breach between the two sides of this argument. It might be beneficial. It would certainly be interesting; it would certainly be difficult. I'd like to hear about this, and also about whether you'd like to use The Wages of Sin to start some conversations, both within the AIDS community and outside of it.
Youths Living with HIV: Self-Evident TruthsBy G. Cajetan Luna
New York: Harrington Park Press (Paperback)
$18.95, 195 pp. 1997
In the early 1980s when I started working with disenfranchised, homeless and gay youths, they were generally thought to be at risk for a variety of health challenges. Surprisingly from the hindsight of 2000, few AIDS interventions at that time and into the early 1990s targeted these specific groups. Little was known about their sexual behaviors and few systematic investigations had been conducted on the life circumstances of gay and lesbian youths, or those "club kids" who frequently used methamphetamines. Very little information existed on the lives and behaviors of heterosexual or parenting youths living with HIV and AIDS.
This book, Youths Living with HIV: Self-Evident Truths, was written to provide this information. It was the result of a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded study conducted in three sites, on both coasts, and over two years to qualitatively document the risk behaviors and lifestyles that led to HIV infection in youth. I welcome the opportunity to find new readers for my book, and to discuss the underlying, or related, issues.
A team of interviewers conducted extensive audiotaped interviews with youths living with HIV and or AIDS. Transcriptions of the interviews were made. We produced a number of papers for scientific or professional journals on the results. Subsequently, effective behavioral interventions targeting youths were developed by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus and her colleagues at Columbia University and at UCLA. During the later stages of the NIDA study, it became clear to me that the rich detail that we had gathered, including the poignant and insightful first hand experiences of youths living with HIV would be lost in written products targeting only AIDS experts or scientists.
I found vulnerability and rationales in the youths' free-flowing recollections. There was truth. The other papers we produced on the "issues" seemed to me, removed from the young people themselves. Their voices oftentimes went unheard, were muted or intentionally silenced. My primary objective in producing the book was to provide a way for their voices to be heard. An ethereal quality to the issues they discussed and identified as important was evident. It was clear to me that the challenges they recalled and faced within their life contexts had less to do with their HIV infections or to living with AIDS than to circumstances that occurred in coming to an understanding of themselves and comfort with their sexual preference or activities. For new readers, a number of underlying issues while not explicitly discussed in the book, were implicit and are important for me to emphasize.
First, our understandings of why young people engage in self-harmful acts traditionally have been described in terms of their risk-taking behaviors. One developmental task shared by all young people is the ability to weigh risk. Substance use, unprotected sexual activity, and contact sports all involve risk. For the informed or experienced, risk-taking involves a calculation of the costs and benefits of certain behaviors. We consider and internally ask ourselves, what will happen if we do what we would like to do? Is what we can gain, worth more than what we could lose? Can we survive the consequences? Obviously, some activities are riskier than others are, and conscious self-determinations are made. All of the youths whose lives we studied took risks, many with little concern for, or knowledge of, the consequences.
Unfortunately, according to recent research reports from San Francisco the number of HIV infections are increasing among young gay men. High-risk behaviors are becoming more frequent. This is discouraging, but understandable and even explainable, especially if you consider the reasons and rationales for these behaviors. For those who know the consequences of unprotected behaviors, some are willing to risk infection, and subsequently bear the responsibility for their actions, including years of taking antiviral medication, and the associated costs.
Second, since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, succeeding generations of youth and young adults have come of age, and many since the mid-1990s have been targeted with prevention information since their early adolescence. Many have changed or altered their behaviors as a result of focused outreach. For others, the provision of HIV/AIDS prevention information has not resulted in behavioral change. Many of the youth and young adults who we interviewed were more characteristically described as risk-seekers than as risk-takers. They did not consider the outcomes of their behaviors, but instead sought independence, and new and exciting experiences regardless of the consequences. Peer pressure and hormonal influences including the adrenaline rush characteristic of youth, clouded informed decision-making.
Third, health interventions infrequently targeted or reached these young people, especially those who believe they have nothing to gain or lose. Nevertheless, the rationales behind their risk-taking and risk-seeking behaviors are often self-evident and easy for people to understand if they will only listen. Why is it important to distinguish between risk takers and risk seekers? It is important because the success of behavioral interventions depends on tailoring the interventions to individuals and groups whose behaviors we seek to change.
I would like to learn from readers infected in their adolescence about their own experiences and from service providers and recipients about successful interventions targeting youth. What approaches can be successful with youths such as those whose lives are presented in this book? What are those turning points or life events experienced in youth that can bring about behavioral changes, and why?
I hope readers living with HIV will find some of their own circumstances and struggles accurately represented. I hope those uninfected will find the seeds for understanding. I believe the truths young people speak in this book will remain relevant long after HIV and AIDS have passed. I did not intend the book to be a historical documentation of the disease as it affected a specific population. Instead, I wanted to present, in their words, the obstacles that young people face in self-discovery, and the reasons for their high-risk behaviors. This made the telling all the more meaningful for me.
Back to the December 2000 Issue of Body Positive Magazine.
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Caught on video: Burglars smash truck into store
Caught on video: Burglars smash truck into store
WATERLOO, Iowa —
Security images captured a daring smash and grab burglary in Waterloo.
KCRG-TV reports that the store manager at the Kwik Stop on Texas Street in Waterloo says three burglars crashed a truck through the convenience store around 4 a.m. Monday.
It appears the three were after money in a video poker machine. The store owner installed extra security cameras about three weeks ago.
Police are using them to try and make some arrests.
Nothing else in the store was stolen and no one was injured.


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Community Engagement Fellowship Awarded to DAHS Student Research Team
The Carolina Center for Public Service has awarded a Community Engagement Fellowship to an interdisciplinary team of student researchers from the Department of Allied Health Sciences: Tyson Harmon (PhD student in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences), Mei-Ling Lin (PhD student in the Division of Occupational Science), and Gabrielle Scronce (DPT student in the Division of Physical Therapy).
In collaboration with the Triangle Aphasia Project (TAP), the research team will seek to establish a mentoring experience between people with aphasia and graduate students in their three divisions.
"Research has indicated that an important quality of life aspect for people with aphasia is participation in meaningful activities, but that can be difficult to address in therapeutic service-delivery post-stroke," said Harmon. "We hope to establish an ongoing program whereby people with aphasia can act as mentors to student by sharing their personal recovery experiences and answering student questions. We believe that such a program will be mutually beneficial as it will provide future clinicians with immediate exposure to people with aphasia, while simultaneously giving individuals with aphasia an opportunity to serve students by offering a personalized perspective of disability and rehabilitation."
Assessments will be conducted pre- and post- participation in the program to measure impact on quality of life across various domains. The program itself will also be evaluated to determine its contributions to educational, therapeutic, and research goals.
The Carolina Center for Public Service's Community Engagement Fellowship program awards a maximum of five fellowships of up to $2,000 each year to develop and implement engagement or engaged scholarship projects that (1) employ innovative, sustainable approaches to complex social needs and (2) have an academic connection. Returning, full-time graduate students (individuals or teams) at UNC Chapel Hill are eligible to apply.


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DCCADV collects cell phones as well as baby diapers for survivors of domestic violence. We partner with our member programs to give these items out to survivors as needed. The cell phones do not come with active cell phone plans but they can still be used to call 911 in emergencies. We have new unopened packages of diapers in sizes ranging from newborn to toddler. All survivors of domestic violence are eligible to receive emergency cell phones or diapers. To request an emergency cell phone or to obtain baby diapers for your child contact a local member domestic violence program.


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Although entertaining can be extremely rewarding and merry, hosting meal parties during the holidays can also be quite daunting. Whether you're planning a Christmas Eve brunch or a Christmas Day brunch, sticking with a theme is very important in executing the perfect event, and we've got all of the holiday brunch ideas you'll need. From elegant dinner parties to a "Naughty or Nice" cocktail soiree, here at Southern Living, we love a holiday party!
Event planners, Mary Alice Sublett and Amber Housley demonstrate sticking to a theme perfectly. They have created a vintage Christmas brunch, complete with retro-inspired details like invitations to go along with the theme, a colorful Christmas tablescape, and several dramatic floral touches. Another vintage decorating tip is to always remember to utilize old jars. In this case, Mary Alice and Amber chose to pre-make desserts to serve from the jars. While acting as a serving dish, it also serves as a classic decorating piece. Our holiday brunch ideas will help you entertain through this upcoming holiday season!


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Industry exceeds 250 million Java-enabled device shipments using ARM Java acceleration technology
WHAT: ARM announces a new, industry-leading product, the ARM® Jazelle® MobileVM for enhanced Java acceleration on mobile handsets. As a result of ARM's continued commitment to improving performance, Jazelle MobileVM technology introduces up to a 40 percent increase in performance of mobile Java applications such as games and video. In addition, Jazelle MobileVM technology offers advances in on-target debug, enabling developers to quickly debug applications on production handsets. It also allows network operators and handset vendors to easily customize the technology for their developer communities, bringing new services and features to the mass market faster and at a lower cost.
This new product underscores ARM's momentum in the Java market with JBenchmark ACE detecting eight out of the top ten performing Java handsets and the top five handset vendors shipping handsets using Jazelle DBX technology. This is evidenced by the growing adoption rate of its Swerve 3D graphics and Jazelle Java acceleration technologies in mobile and emerging technology markets.
ARM also announces the following new licensees for its Java and 3D graphics software:
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Hello everyone,
I want to touch upon the reasons why I decided to write this guide.
1. I wanted a source with comprehensive information that discussed the first 3 Promyvions (Dem, Holla, Mea) in depth.
2. I wanted a guide that would help any person who was interested in leading a Promyvion, to have the resources available to them.
3. I wanted a quick look-up that would give players who were participating in a Promyvion, a place with solid answers to there questions.
4. I wanted a wealth of information that changes with the updates that are targeted to Promyvion.
[Black]? -------------------------------------------------- ?
The flow of topics in this resource will be chronological as to my experiences involving Promyvion.
1. Preperation
2. Promyvion
4. Beastiary
5. Extras
As I open with this guide, I wanted to make clear that these are my experiences with a Promyvion. I am well aware that there are ENDLESS possibilities to doing any mission in this game. I have no intention of belittling any job, method, or strategy. I welcome your thoughts, reactions, comments, critisizm, and anything you may want to add.[/White]
1. How many partys are you going to bring?
? You may bring as little as 1 party. The smaller amount of people you bring, the less dangerous your trip will be.
? You may bring as many partys or alliances as you wish. Though you may feel very safe, your organization of the "Group" will be troublesome at times
? Only bring increments of 6 people. Any less then 6 and they will most likely have to skip out on the final fight.
2. Set a meeting place for your "Group"
? I personally recommend on top the Auction House in Lower Jeuno. You may look for party members, it is less congested up top, and you have an AH close by that you will need to use.
? Another place is Ru'lude Gardens infront of the AH. A lot less people and you still have access to items.
3. Start inviting people
? You may want to start with your LS first to see who needs them completed. Many people will be appreciated that you thought of them initially.
? Ask friends
? Start a non-annoying spam in Jeuno areas.
? Choose "party leaders" that are going to take this event seriously. You will be putting responsibilities on them.
? As you are making your party, you need to keep in mind that you must fight a BCNM with your party you are forming now. You can read countless threads on what jobs are "Good" and what jobs are "Bad". My opinion is that ALL jobs have something to offer to the final fight. I have heard, seen, and experienced countless partys with limitless possibilities for jobs. Do NOT count a job out just becuase someone may have told you otherwise. If you bring in a "Balanced" group to the fight, you will be able to make your own idea of what YOU think will work.
4. Requirements of party members
? Ask every person you invite if they have a copy of "Chains Of Promethia" the expansion for Final Fantasy XI. You may think this is common sense, but many players think that Promyvion is just part of the game when you hit 30.
? Ask every person if they have "activated" CoP for there computer by typing in there "Access Code" provided in the new manual.
? Ask every person if they have the missions that are required to enter the Promyvions. The mission names are "Below the Arks" and "The Mother Crystals". If they have not done this yet, read further. If they have, then skip to the next step. The first cutscene that you are requred to get is located in Lower Delkfutt's Tower. All you need to do is to Zone into the entrance. The second cutscene is when you zone into Upper Jeuno. The third cutscene is located in the Upper Jeuno infurmery. You must talk to the NPC sitting on the chair in order to start cutscene. The fourth cutscene is located in Ru'lude Gardens. You must head to the Knight's Quarters in the Western part of the Northern building on the map. It is NOT up the stairs. You will just be required to talk to the few Knights that are in that room for the cutscene to initiate. Now you are ready to start the Promyvions
? Ask every person if they have the next 2-3 hours available. I say this because different groups take different amounts of time to complete this mission. It is very troublesome for people to leave mid-way and spoil it for there group members that they left.
? Ask every person if they have lvl 30 equipment. These Promyvions are capped at 30. So a lvl 75 character who wants to help, needs to buy lvl 30 equipment or lower also.
? Ask every person if they have attempted a Promyvion before. If they had attempted and failed there last Promyvion, then they MUST go back to that location, and "Erase" there memory in the "Hall of Transference". They walk up to the "Large Apparatus" and select the option to do so. They will then leave the "Hall of Transference" and are ready to join your party.
5. What to bring in terms of Medicine, Food, and Drink.
? This of course varies on your party setup and what you will assign each person to do during the BCNM fight at the end. But I will give what I feel is a "Basic Guideline" on what to bring, though it will vary depending on how it is run.
? Any person even related to casting spells or dependent on MP: 2-3 Yagudo Drinks, 2 Hi-Ethers, and 2 Echo Drops.
? Any person even related to melee or dependent on HP: 2-3 X-Potions, 2-3 drinks of your choice to life regeneration.
? If you are doing Promyvion-Dem: Extra medicine from above jobs.
? If you are doing Promyvion-Holla: 5 Holy Water, and 4 Poison Potions.
? If you are doing Promyvion-Mea: 5 Antidote
6. Animas
? Animas are items that you throw at the BCNM during the Final Fight in a Promyvion.
? There are a series of steps you must follow to obtain an "Anima". Animas are created from "Drops" in a Promyvion. Any creature located in one may "Drop" the specific item. These items are named as follows:
Recollection of Pain
Recollection of Guilt
Recollection of Fear
When you obtain one of these Rare/Ex items, you may bring it to Ru'Lude Gardens and trade it to the Scientist in the North most building. His name is "Harith". You will also have to give him 2k. The "Anima" will be done immediatly.
? Depending on which "Recollection" you traded, you will get a specific Anima.
Recollection of Pain = Hysteroanima - NM will be unable to use special attacks for 20-30 seconds
Recollection of Guilt = TerroAnima - NM runs around for 20-30 seconds and does little to attack.
Recollection of Fear = PsychoAnima - NM will not use basic attacks very well for 20-30 seconds
? The effects of each "Anima" are as follows when thrown at the BCNM.
7. End of Preperation
? After you feel you have talked with everyone about all steps in the Preperation, then get everyone gathered at your location you chose in the earlier step.
? If you have a WHM in your party, and all memory that needs to be erased is erased, then Teleport to your desired Promyvion you chose to do.
? Have ALL participants wait in the "Hall of Transference" so all can be together.
? The "Hall of Transference" can be reached by "Touching" the broken Crystal at your respected Promyvion. If members are unable to "Go in". Then please review the steps in step 4.
Your role in Preperation:
[Black]? Congratulations on getting enough courage to Lead this great undertaking. In fact, there is nothing wrong if you wanted to Co-Lead this expedition with someone else. Make sure both of you have assigned tasks that each will do.
? You must be constantly moving this along. Large amounts of "waiting time" will just make people impatient, and feel they are wasting there time. Be talking about each step and give concern that ALL should be listening. Keep tabs on where each person is, who is on mule, and what your next step is going to be.
? My advice to you is just have the Preperation steps done as quickly as possible. When you are finished, help other people along. This will show that you know what you are doing and others will trust your judgement in the future. You will also take A LOT of stress off of the Leader.
? Reiterating the steps even after the Leader has done so, will just move things along even more, so don't be afraid to step up to the plate.[/Black]
1. While in "Hall of Transference"
? Everyone should understand right now that the key to success is listening, and organization.
? Everyone should turn unneccesary filters on. You do not want to see things that do not require your immidiate attention.
? Delete unneeded /p in macros to control the Battle Chat spam.
? Toggle your damage to screen so that you do not see 16+ peoples damage on your Chat Log. It will make it impossible to read the orders given by the Leader.
? Take off your Linkshell.
? The Leader will talk to the other "Party Leaders" to review there responsibilities and jobs while in the Promyvion. Please Read "Black" section at end of "Promyvion" chapter.
? Leader: Read briefing 1 in the "Black" section at the end of "Promyvion" chapter
2. Enter the Promyvion
? When you first enter the world. Tell everyone to NOT move and just scan around for a moment.
? Leader: Go over Briefing 2 in "Black" section located at the end of "Promyvion" chapter.
? When you are done with briefing and there are no Questions, then tell everyone to "Buff up".
3. Searching for the Memory Recepticle
? At this time, while all are getting there bearings, you will will have your RNG use WideScan to find the first MR.
? Remember to avoid aggro whenever possible.
? If you want to elect someone to be a "Scout" to find the safest path to MR, do so.
? Especially avoid the monsters that are specific to each Promyvion. They are inherintly harder.
Promyvion-Dem = Gorger
Promyvion-Holla = Thinker
Promyvion-Mea = Craver
? When you do find the MR, be sure to make Camp and clear out any possible aggro within it. Remember that any mobs you kill can and WILL pop up later.
? Any fights you encounter, you want the mages to STAY BACK from the fight. All creatures have AOE attacks. 90% of them WILL emit harmful status effects that can easilly kill an entire alliance if not dealt with correctly.
4. Memory Recepticle Battle
? Be sure and make a Camp in a well thought out place.
? Be sure to remember everyone's specific job at an MR battle.
? The MR spawns mobs known as "Strays". These "Strays" hover around and protect the MR. Strays will quickly move to the biggest threat against the MR.
? A good tactic is to destroy all of the "Strays" before the fight against the MR even begins. This will allow you to keep up with the "Stray" spawn time as well as giving massive damage to the MR itself.
? Spam the remaning life of the MR every 10-15 seconds. Example "MR 50%"
? When the MR is destroyed, remind everyone that they are on a time limit for the portal. And the "Strays" must all be destoyed before anyone teleports.
? If the "Strays" are attacking any players when they are in the teleport, those players will NOT be allowed to go to the next area.
5. Moving on to the next lvl of Promyvion
? Tell everyone to Rest
? Everyone "Rebuff"
? on the 2nd lvl on to the last, there is a possibility that the MR you destroy will not turn into a teleport. These are called "Fakes". If that happens, immediatly yell "Fake" and disengage the attack on the remaining "Strays".
? Each lvl of a Promyvion gets Harder. Not only by the envirnment having more obstacles, but the mobs get tougher as well.
? Promyvion-Holla has "Fences" on the second Floor which make it difficult to move around.
? Follow the same strategy up until you get to the Last floor.
6. The Final floor of a Promyvion
? This floor has NO MR to fight. You will Zone for this.
? The creatures on this floor mean certain death to a party of 1 if not planned out entirly
? Any links in a 1 party group and it will spell catastrophe.
? You are now searching for the Castle like structure that you saw in the begining. You will zone in at the Castle entrance.
Your Role in Promyvion:
Leader: You have a LOT to do in this portion. You will be typing the entire time and need to be concrete in your decisions. Please read your briefings below in your "Group" chat at the desired times marked.
Briefing 1:
[Black]? You will need to cover each topic I discuss below in detail. Say it how you would like to say it, everyone wants to come off differntly.
? Organization is key to victory
? Everyone needs to listen and keep chatting to a minimum
? Do not walk infront of Leader
? Only attack what Leader says to "Attack"
? Aggro from mobs can mean doom if you are not careful
? Only "Move" when the Leader says "Move"
? Set down the rules about either killing aggro on the spot if it is safe, or pull aggro to the Leader position, out of range of possible link.
? Tell your "Party Leaders" to check with you when party is full MP, HP, and ready to go. Have them also tell you when there entire party is through the MR portal.
? Remind everyone NOT to use there 2HR until BCNM fight.
? Ask "Group" if there are any Questions as to what you just said.
? Move into the Promyvion
Briefing 2:
? In this section you will be going over the MR fight, and everyones specific jobs. Make sure everyone understands what they are doing.
? RNG: Will be pulling 2 "Strays" at a time per a party. When party is fighting the "Strays". RNG will be spamming MR with Arrows. In the event that 1 arrow kills a single "Stray", you will order the RNGs to only spam MR with arrows. This will cause the "Strays" to attack the RNGs.
? BLM: Nuking MR from safe distance, backup heal if party needs it.
? RDM: Nuking MR from safe distance, backup heal if party needs it. Also Dia the MR if possible
? WHM: Heal party
? SMN: Send pet in to attack the MR. I recommend summoning Ifrit. Use his "Double Punch" Blood Pact on the MR. Back up heal if neccesary.
? Melee related jobs: Must stay in "Camp" and voke the "Strays" off of the RNGs and any mages. They must NOT get close to MR.
? BRD: MP regeneration song, and HP regeneration songs.
? When the MR is destroyed, the teleporter to the next floor is only opened for 3 min. You must kill ALL strays before you enter. People being hit by "Strays" will be left behinde.
? If the MR is not engaged, and it goes to a Neutral enemy that has not been attacked. It will regenerate life in 20% increments VERY quickly. If you have to have some down time to regroup, sleep it. The MR does NOT aggro until you attack it. That being said, you could kill ALL strays in the area, before you worry about it actually attacking you.
? Ask everyone if there are any Questions over what you just said.
? If no Questions, tell everyone "Good luck" and start buffing.
? Please be a model player and help keep the partys quite while the Leader gets his/her message out.
? You need to be ready for a change of plan at a moments notice. Aggro, Death, DC, or just something unexpected will happen. Keep a cool head and understand that nothing goes perfectly. Just be ready to suggest something constructive and get the group moving.
1. You Zone into the Spire on the last floor
? You will NOT be capped while in the Spire. But you WILL be capped while fighting the BCNM.
? Everyone should take a 5min break when all arrive.
? Stay in "Group" chat to discuss everyone's plan for the BCNM. This also gets the questions out that people need answered about the fight.
? After everyone has a "Basic" idea of what the BCNM is, and you discussed "Basic" strategy, break off into seperate partys of 6. You will then Talk about your party's plan specifically.
2. Prepare your party
? All members need to know there jobs during the fight.
? Discuss what "Can" and "Cannot" be used against the BCNM.
? Make sure Food and Medicine is evenly dispersed amongst party.
3. Rematch against the BCNM ?
? There is always the option to zone out through the back of the Arena. Also, with the update, if you entire party is dead within the BCNM, stay there for 5min and your bodys will be transported outside to the respective Spire. You will still be dead.
? If you do this tactic. Make sure NO 2HRs were used during fight. That will just make the rematch that much more difficult. Discuss your plan of action if you are going to DC and rematch BEFORE your first fight.
Your Role in BCNM:
[Black]? Go over seperate jobs and what you reccomend. Be sure to hear everyone out before you break off into seperate strategy. Everyone has something to offer that the "Group" may not of thought of.
? If you are fighting in Promyvion-Dem: BCNM named Propegator. Is from Gorger family.
1. Spirit Absorption - 200 damage and drain to single target.
2. At 50% life, it will start using an ability called "Fission" which spawns pets. Kiting will stop pets from spawning.
3. Promyvion Barrier - Special ability to make the "Pets" have a defense boost.
? If you are fighting in Promyvion-Holla: BCNM named Wreaker. Is from Thinker family.
1. Trinary Tap - Ability that steals status effects from the targeted player.
2. Shadow Spread - AOE Sleep and Curse
3. Impaler - Single high damage attack
4. Material Feud - Evasion boost
5. Promyvion Wind - Dispels negative effects on itself
? If you are fighting in Promyvion-Mea: BCNM named Delver. Is from Craver family.
1. Murk - AOE Slow and Sleep
2. Caroussel - AOE Damage, resets hate, and adds poison (12dmg a tick)
? Share any information that you may know about the BCNM. Everyone wants to win, so keep the knowlege flowing.
? Listen to your party leader during the fight. Know when everyone is going to 2HR, and such.
? You MUST stop moving the NM if the SMN is going to 2HR. Otherwise, it will miss.
? If someone dies, bring them back to life. If someone DCs, just leave the Promyvion through the back, and wait for them. Keep a cool head and many possibilities will be open to you.
Important Note:
? ALL mobs in the Promyvion have a specific elemental property to them. Each mob has a "Glowing Ball" located on its own body. This color signifies the "Elemental" base property of that creature. If you see a mob with a red "Glowing Ball" then its elemental base property is Fire. You will then use your attacks accordingly to implement any weaknesses to Fire.
? All mobs increase in difficulty as you rise in the Floors. There HP, MP, Damage, and statistics ALL go up.
1. Wanderer
? Vanity Strike - Weapon Skill with single target damage.
? Empty Balegaur - Weapon Skill with AOE damage
? Aura of Persistance - Defense boost
? Mirage - Evasion boost
2. Weeper
? Empty cutter - Weapon Skill with single target damage
? Auroral Drape - AOE silence and blind
? Vacuous Osculation - single target damage with poison and Plague.
? Hexagon Belt - Defense boost
? The weeper will use an elemental AOE damaging ability depending on which element it is. Use the chart to know what attack.
Memory of Fire - AOE fire damage
Memory of Ice - AOE ice damage
Memory of Wind - AOE wind damage
Memory of Earth - AOE earth damage
Memory of Water - AOE water damage
Memory of Thunder - AOE thunder damage
Memory of Light - AOE light damage
Memory of Dark - AOE dark damage
3. Seether
? Only appears after 1st floor
? Lamentation - AOE damage and dia effect
? Wanion - AOE dispel all magic and abilites on party. That includes shadows
4. Gorger
? Only found in Promyvion-Dem
? Stygian Flatus - AOE Paralyze
? Promyvion Barrier - Defense boost
? Vanity Dive - Single Damage Weapon Skill
? Quadratic Continuum - Single Massive Damage
5. Thinker
? Only found in Promyvion-Holla
? Trinary Tap - Steals 3 buffs from selected target
? Promyvion Wind - Dispels status effects on iteslf
? Binary Absorption - Steals 2 buffs from selected target
? Negative Whirle - AOE Slow and Damage
? Stygian Flatus - AOE Plague
6. Craver
? Only found in Promyvion-Mea
? Brainspike - Single target damage
? Murk - AOE Gravity and Slow
? Promyvion Bune - AOE Damage and Poison
7. Memory Recepticle
? Does not aggro until it is directly attacked
? Spawn rate of "Strays" are MUCH lower until the MR is attacked
? Empty Seed - AOE Damage and Knockback. If you are 15 steps away from the MR, you will most likely avoid this attack
1. How do I obtain a map for the Promyvions?
? The map is obtained by recieving a certain "Drop" from a mob in Promyvion. The NM not including the BCNM has the ability to drop the item. Also the mob Promyvion specific mob has a low chance of dropping this item. Even on the first floor of the Promyvion.
? After you recieve the specified drop. You then take it to the specified floor on the Promyvion.
? Trade your item to a randomly placed "???" spot that has locations around glowing memory matter. These spots are always gaurded by 5-6 strong IT++ mobs.
? Promyvion-Dem - Beryl Memodrop
? Promyvion-Holla - Teal Memodrop
? Promyvion-Mea - Indigo Memodrop
2. Notorious Monsters
? There is a NM in every Promyvion that is NOT including the BCNM
? The NM is located on the 3rd floor in every Promyvion
? This NM takes the form of the "Special" creature that is proprietary to the Promyvion itself.
? Promyvion-Dem - Satiator
1. Possible Map drops, Rare/Ex
2. Remenant of Satiator, Rare/Ex
? Promyvion-Holla - Cerebrater
1. Possible Map drops, Rare/Ex
2. Remenant of Cerebrater, Rare/Ex
? Promyvion-Mea - Coveter
1. Possible Map drops, Rare/Ex
2. Remenant of Coveter, Rare/Ex
I wish you the BEST of luck against whichever Promyvion you decide to attepmt. This guide will be changing when people learn more about each creature, special tactics, or just some good advice. I am constantly adding new sections and want your experiences and feedback as well.
I THANK YOU for taking the time to read this Guide. Many people helped make this guide possible. I want to thank my LS [Holy]. I thank the several people who let me join there partys as support. And Dogbreath who spent all his time and money helping me.
Side Note: I will "Rate up" for ideas, information, battle experiences, or anything that could help people doing a Promyvion. This Guide is to help people get through these missions in the easiest and most effective manner.
Edited, Wed May 4 03:41:29 2005 by Darkprayer


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Wait, there's more: City police, others save ChristmasEDITORIAL
December 28. 2013 1:00AM
As much as tragedy and human frailty filled our newspaper pages in the year now ending, random acts of human kindness caught our attention as well. Sometimes, they were in the same story.
The one last week here in Manchester was among them.
"Christmas restored....and then some'' was the perfect headline for staffer Mark Hayward's report of the little things that a lot of people did to make up for a Grinch who tried to steal a family's Christmas.
The Grinch, perhaps with help, walked off with the wrapped presents of the family of Laurie Charest. As the police explained it, they had no clues as to who entered an unlocked basement of the multi-family dwelling on Somerville Street and made away with the loot.
Realizing the gifts were unlikely to be recovered, at least in time for Christmas morning, police officers on the case passed the hat. Soon, Manchester police unions, the Salvation Army, the Welfare Department, and Child and Family Services chipped in.
But, as the commercial says, wait, there's more.
When police officers went shopping for replacement gifts for the family, the local Sears, Target, and Market Basket stores gave them big discounts. Some store employees also made personal donations.
When Charest was called to the station community room, she said she thought she was going to recover a couple of the stolen gifts. Instead, she was greeted with two tables full of gifts, all wrapped.
Charest and her fiancee, Rudy Van Der Putten Jr., who are to be married on New Year's Day, have bigger challenges ahead. Rudy faces major cancer surgery.
But they do so knowing there are some wonderful people who had their backs at Christmas and whose good deeds made for a wonderful Christmas story in Manchester this year.


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