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February 12, 2016
Overton Elementary – One partner read to Overton Elementary classes as part of a program in which local leaders read to the students. She volunteered four hours.
February 3, 2016
Flag Line – One partner stood in line for Veterans at the K.E. Bushman's Center in Tyler for the funeral of a Veteran. He volunteered for two hours.
January 26, 2016
Meals on Wheels Ministry – One partner delivers Meals on Wheels every Wednesday to those in need. During the weeks of January and February he volunteered for six hours.
December 18, 2015
Spirit of Christmas Food Drive – Ten partners teamed up with West Rusk High School to raise money for the Spirit of Christmas Food Drive. They volunteered for 25 hours. The Senior Class won the competition.
December 12, 2015
Wreaths Across America – A partner participated in the Wreaths Across America, where they place wreaths on the graves of Veterans each year at Gladewater Memorial Park.
December 11, 2015
Arp Christmas Parade – Six partners participated in the annual Arp Christmas Parade. They rode on a trailer and threw candy wishing customers a Merry Christmas.
December 7, 2015
Pearl Harbor Bombing – A partner participated in a ceremony honoring World War II Veterans in Tyler.
November 11, 2015
Veterans Day Program –Each Veteran in the local nursing home was thanked for their service. The nursing home purchased several snack items from Brookshire's and invited them to participate.
October 9, 2015
ExtraPoint Promotion – Store Director Damon Nichols presented Arp High School with a $1,000 check during halftime activities.
October 6, 2015
National Night out Block Party – Five partners volunteered to set up a game with 2-liter drinks and rings. They had about 25 winners and a turnout of over 300 people.
September 26, 2015
Burn Run – One partner assisted the VA with their booth for eight hours.
September 19, 2015
Welcome Home Soldier – A partner attended a Welcome Home Soldier event for an hour.
September 19, 2015
10th Birthday Party – A young boy in Overton was born with an upper spinal issue and wanted the Military at his birthday party. One partner and six other vets showed up to give the boy a military birthday.
September 17, 2015
Vietnam Veterans at Gregg County Fair – One partner volunteered for 44 hours selling items for the Veterans event at the fair.
September 12, 2015
Golf Tournament – Three partners handed out water and Gatorade at the 9th hole. All proceeds from the tournament went towards a scholarship fund for the Overton/New London area Chamber of Commerce.
September 4, 2015
Arp Football Game – Three partners handed out ExtraPoint fliers to fans in the stands and entering the game. They volunteered for six hours.
July 4, 2015
Overton Fireworks Show – Seven partners volunteered for 32 hours setting up a booth and selling food and drinks at the park.
April 4, 2015
Easter Egg Hunt – Partners assisted in the annual Overton Easter Egg Hunt. One partner dressed as the Easter Bunny and took pictures.
March 28, 2015
Rusk County Livestock Show – Three partners volunteered to attend the Livestock in honor of area youth.
March 28, 2015
Rusk County Project Show – Four partners volunteered for 16 hours at the event. They purchased a fire pit and did 17 add-ons.
January 30, 2015
West Rusk High Home Economics Class – Two partners volunteered for five hours teaching certain techniques with decorating cupcakes with the school.
February 5, 2015
West Rusk Home Economic Class – Four partners volunteered for six hours assisting the Home Economics Class decorate cupcakes.
December 2, 2014
Christmas Parade – Eleven partners and family members participated in the Overton Christmas Parade. The theme was Disney's Frozen. They volunteered for 22 hours.
October 27, 2014
Boo In the Park – Seven partners participated in the Arp's Boo in the Park. They helped set up, take down and helped the chamber with food.
October 18, 2014
Fall Fest – Five partners volunteered for fifteen hours at the Overton Fall Fest. They hosted and judged the Halloween contest.
October 17, 2014
West Rusk's Homecoming – Five partners assisted with the concession stand during the homecoming game for eight hours.
October 10, 2014
Leveretts Chapel Homecoming – Eight partners volunteered ten hours to assist in the concession stand during the homecoming game.
October 7, 2014
National Night Out – Seven partners participated in National Night Out. The store donated hot dog supplies and cooked for over 300 people. They volunteered over 20 hours.
October 5, 2014
Chamber Meeting – Store Director Damon Nichols attended the Chamber meeting to talk about National Night Out, Fall Festival and Overton Christmas Parade for two hours.
October 3, 2014
Concession Stand – Eight partners ran the concession stand at Arp for their Homecoming game. The partners were able to run the concession stand so parents could watch the halftime activities.
September 12, 2014
Concession Stand – Three partners volunteered to run the concession stand during Overton's Homecoming game. They assisted the concession during the halftime so parents could watch the halftime activities.
September 6, 2014
Overton/New London Chamber of Commerce – Brookshire's donated water and Gatorade. Two partners volunteered for three hours.
August 21, 2014
Leverett's Chapel Teacher Lunch – The store prepared hamburgers with all the fixings and also donated two hundred kid's club bookmarks to the library.
August 20, 2014
Meet the Teacher – Two partners volunteered to pass out fliers to band boosters and athletics and donated kid's club bookmarks to the elementary library for two hours.
August 20, 2014
Meet the Teacher – Two partners volunteered for two hours at Meet the Teacher in Overton. They passed out fliers and donated Kid's Club Bookmarks to the Overton Elementary School Library.
August 1, 2014
First Responder – Partners volunteered to set up a display in the store for customers to purchase drink items to be used by the fire department in Overton.
June 14, 2014
Chit Chat Session – Store Director Damon Nichols volunteered to visit with the local Chamber of Commerce in Overton.
June 7, 2014
Arp City Council – Store Director Damon Nichols attended Arp City Council Meeting for two hours.
April 26, 2014
Basketball Tournament – Three partners played in a basketball tournament for fifteen hours. All proceeds benefitted scholarships for athletes in the community.
December 12, 2013
Christmas Float – For the annual Christmas parade partners made a peppermint factory for their float. They passed out candy gift bags to the children in the crowd.
October 12, 2013
Community Faith Based Health Walk – Partners participated in the walk that promoted healthy living along with free health screenings and booths at Woldert Park in Tyler.
June 6, 2013
Adopt A Spot – Six partners volunteered for 30 hours assisting with their downtown Adopt A Spot.
May 6, 2013
Adopt A Spot – Five partners volunteered for 10 hours planting flowers in the flower beds aside from the main road along with other local groups.
April 6, 2013
Overton Beautification Day – Three partners along with City Hall officials dug out flowerbeds in a picnic area off the main road. They volunteered for twelve hours.
November 17, 2012
St. Jude's Walk – All proceeds from the walk benefited St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Fifteen partners walked for fifteen hours at Bergfeld Park.
July 1, 2011
Arp Summer Baseball – Store partners volunteered 67 hours coaching summer baseball for area youth.
June 28, 2011
Hi-Way 80 Rescue Mission – Partners volunteered for 14 hours helping feed the hungry at the Hi-Way 80 Mission.
June 19, 2011
Juneteenth – Partners assisted with the Juenteenth Celebration in Tyler and Overton. They assisted with passing out drinks and hot dogs.
November 10, 2010
Rusk County College Night – Event was held at the Henderson Civic Center. Partners helped direct cars in the parking lot. Rusk Country High School students were able to see options of colleges.
October 4, 2010
National Night Out – Partners helped sponsor National Night Out.
April 9, 2010
A group from the store participated in the annual Susan G. Komen event.


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Do you know what you need to do in order to be successful at work, in a relationship, with your life --- but you just put off doing it? We talked with Chicago author Rita Emmett about some things we all our feeling today--stress and procrastination! She's got answers that work, and we talked about them all.
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text: WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush today will lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling . White House press secretary Dana Perino says Bush will officially lift the ban and explain why he's taking the action in a Rose Garden appearance this afternoon. Congress would also have to lift its own prohibition for any offshore drilling to actually take place. Last month, Bush asked Congress to take action. Perino says he's making his move now because the Democratic leaders in Congress have not "even held a single hearing." She says that the White House hopes that the president's lifting of the ban "will spur action by Congress."


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Turn your iPad into a video arcade game with the iPad Gaming Wheel.
The first ever of its kind, the gaming wheel fits around your iPad and holds it in place, giving you a steering wheel grip on your gadget, perfect for playing any driving game. The wheel also comes with an attachment that clamps onto your desk and lets you turn the wheel, so you can get a more authentic driving experience while using your device. The steering wheel handles are not too far away from the tablet screen, so you can still reach it with your thumbs and tap whenever you need to.
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Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (Paperback)
Bob Dylan and his artistic accomplishments have been explored, examined, and dissected year in and year out for decades, and through almost every lens. Yet rarely has anyone delved extensively into Dylan's Jewish heritage and the influence of Judaism in his work. In "Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet," Seth Rogovoy, an award-winning critic and expert on Jewish music, rectifies that oversight, presenting a fascinating new look at one of the most celebrated musicians of all time.
Rogovoy unearths the various strands of Judaism that appear throughout Bob Dylan's songs, revealing the ways in which Dylan walks in the footsteps of the Jewish Prophets. Rogovoy explains the profound depth of Jewish content -- drawn from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Kabbalah -- at the heart of Dylan's music, and demonstrates how his songs can only be fully appreciated in light of Dylan's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish themes that inform them.
From his childhood growing up the son of Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, who were at the center of the small Jewish community in his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to his frequent visits to Israel and involvement with the Orthodox Jewish outreach movement Chabad, Judaism has permeated Dylan's everyday life and work. Early songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" derive central imagery from passages in the books of Ezekiel and Isaiah; mid-career numbers like "Forever Young" are infused with themes from the Bible, Jewish liturgy, and Kabbalah; while late-period efforts have revealed a mind shaped by Jewish concepts of Creation and redemption. In this context, even Dylan's so-called born-again period is seen as a logical, almost inevitable development in his growth as a man and artist wrestling with the burden and inheritance of the Jewish prophetic tradition.
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"Of all the influences resulting in the genius of Bob Dylan's music, far too little attention has been paid to Dylan's Jewish heritage. Seth Rogovoy corrects that deficiency by deftly weaving together his love of Dylanology with his love of Judaism."
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"Seth Rogovoy proves that he is not only a master of Dylan's music and life journey, but most significantly, of the whole idea of prophecy. Rogovoy's Dylan stays true to his core vision through an era that would have tested Isaiah. In the clarity of his own vision, Rogovoy's Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet stands with Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, and Greil Marcus' The Shape of Things to Come. Few books make that distinguished cut. This one does. It is required reading for those who seek to understand not only Dylan, but the meaning of their own life. This is serious stuff. It's also a pleasure to read. Each page is a ride with music all its own."
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"Even after almost fifty years, the language of Bob Dylan's songs remains full of uncharted territory. Seth Rogovoy is uniquely qualified to examine the connections between Dylan's songwriting and the Jewish liturgy, and Prophet, Mystic, Poet helps fill in one more piece of an endless and endlessly fascinating puzzle."
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"A book to add to the shelf of your Bob Dylan library -- Seth Rogovoy offers a unique perspective that examines Bob Dylan within the spectrum of Jewish religious history, but is never scholarly or pedantic. It's an entertaining read, with fresh anecdotes (at least to me they were!). Mr. Rogovoy culls images from religious texts and matches them with Bob Dylan's lyrics; he also points out when the lyrics preceded the events that they would seem to be about, suggesting that Bob Dylan is in fact a prophet, included in the lineage of Jewish Prophets. I enjoyed this book very much and found it thought-provoking." -- Suzanne Vega
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CKE Restaurants' Carl's Jr. chain today overhauls its image yet again with a campaign bearing the tagline, "If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face." Conspicuously free of Happy Star imagery or any reference to founder Carl Karcher, the ads from Mendelsohn/Zien, Santa Monica, show customers enjoying big, juicy burgers. Total year spending for the account is $29 million. Mendelsohn won the work from Grey Advertising, Los Angeles, in February.
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The thing that I do not understand about this marriage is that there are lots of disgusting women like this of LEGAL MARRYING AGE that Doug Hutchinson could have chosen, so what's even the point? I mean, not to get gross about it, but if you're going to marry a child, no pedo but wouldn't you want one that was at least REMOTELY childlike and did not already seem like a Leathered-Out Retired Porn Demon? So fucking gross. As a marriage! Just as a marriage. Sorry, no, don't worry, for DATING, which is what you two are doing, just have fun with it!


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- August 15, 1965 - July 5, 2013
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Today's Meditation
A highway for God
Read Isaiah 40:1-5 and
Matthew 3:1-3
A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD."
- Isaiah 40:3 (NRSV)
When the mountain road between our town and the city was undergoing major reconstruction, every motorist experienced inconvenience, dust, and incessant noise. Traffic flow was slow, and vehicles were often stopped for 20 minutes or more. Tempers flared and deadlines were missed. But now, a year later, we enjoy speeding across the mountain on a splendid highway.
As I drove the route after the work was completed, I became aware of the soft voice of the Lord telling me that this experience offered a valuable lesson. Yes, we had recently experienced frustration and irritation at prolonged delays. Nothing seemed to be happening except buffeting and chaos. But the highway reconstruction reminds me that God is preparing each of us to be a highway for the Lord's coming.
The Bible gives us an example of this in John the Baptist. John's calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah. His message was disturbing, yet full of hope. So we can take heart. Despite the disruptions and seeming chaos in our lives, the Lord is at work. Christ is reconstructing our lives so that we can be a highway for his coming into the lives of others.
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Thought for the Day: God is in the reconstruction business.
Prayer: Our Creator and our Teacher, work in our lives to make us useful instruments for your Spirit to move into the lives of others. Amen.
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Do you ever get sick of opening your closet door and finding shirts, tanks, and dresses sliding off their hanger? Well this little trick is a cure all! All you need to do is take your plastic hanger and zig-zag hot glue on the top! I did this a month ago and have tested it! I have not had one shirt fall off my hangers !!!!!! It is great! Do this to all your hangers and save yourself the hassle of always fixing the clothes in your closet!
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November 2018 Fabric Club - 5" Charms
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Welcome to my fabric club where members receive a carefully selected group of coordinating screen printed fabrics, perfect for a variety of projects. Each month you will receive different designs on differing coordinating colours.
2018 is the year of the new Kona colours. Each edition will feature 12 of the new colours.
KLT Fabric Club is available every other month starting in January. I produce 6 editions a year.
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Canada demolishes Venezuela at women's FIBA Americas
Kendel Ross leads charge in 89-45 win
Canada's women's basketball team took another step closer in its quest for a world championship berth.
Kendel Ross scored 16 points to lead the undefeated Canadians to an 89-45 rout of Venezuela at the FIBA Americas Championship on Tuesday, assuring themselves a spot in the semifinals.
But after three lopsided victories, Canada knows it faces a much tougher test Wednesday in Cuba for top spot in Group A.
"They play hard when they need to and when they have a lead, they kind of coast," Canada's coach Lisa Thomaidis said of Cuba. "So we need to have some realistic impression of what they're going to bring and overestimate what we've seen from them so far."
Kim Gaucher, Kia Nurse, and Natalie Achonwa added 12 points apiece for Canada, while Tamara Tatham grabbed a game-high eight rebounds.
The world No. 9-ranked Canadians opened the tournament with a 75-37 win over Jamaica, then cruised past Chile 93-51.
The 14th-ranked Cubans have won by similarly lopsided scores, while Brazil and Puerto Rico have dominated the other side of the draw.
The Canadians shot 47 per cent from the field against Venezuela, outrebounding their opponent 52-25, and outscoring them 16-4 on second-chance points.
Still, Thomaidis wasn't pleased with her team's performance.
"We just weren't very sharp, our offensive precision was not there. We didn't think we brought a lot of defensive energy," Thomaidis said. "It's one of those tough games, the result should be a foregone conclusion. However you still want to maintain that level of intensity and energy heading into our most important game, which is [Wednesday]."
The lopsided games have allowed Thomaidis to rotate her roster, giving key players such as Gaucher and guard Shona Thorburn some rest. The team had talked before the tournament began about the importance of maintaining their focus when they're not playing.
"When we're on the bench, you have to be engaged, whether you're bringing energy by talking to your teammates or just cheering your teammates on," Ross said. "That's really what you have to do, you have to stay in the game, you can't just be on the bench kind of looking around wondering what's going on in Mexico. You really have to keep yourself focused and be ready for your number to be called."
Canada is gunning for its third straight world championship appearance, and needs to finish top three in Mexico to earn a spot in the 2014 world tournament in Istanbul.
The semifinals are Friday, with the medal games scheduled for Saturday.
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Continuing with the Rites of Passage series, this time with Handfasting. My husband joins me for a breif recounting of our own handfasting and I discuss my hunting plans for the year. Blessings!
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The following activity occurred Monday, Jan. 13, to Sunday, Jan. 19, as reported by the Lewiston Police Department. LPD logged a total of 108 response calls during this period.
Monday, Jan. 13
•Devil's Hole State Park/Robert Moses Parkway northbound, attempt to locate. LPD on location to assist Niagara Falls Police Department on a stolen vehicle call. Pennsylvania registration listed on vehicle.
•University Drive, rollover accident. LPD assisted Town of Niagara Police Department on a call near the New York Power Authority access road. Female extricated from vehicle before it caught fire. Woman taken to Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center for treatment.
•400 block of River View Drive, Youngstown, burglary. LPD assisted Niagara County Sheriff's Office.
•South Seventh Street, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 41, arrested for driving while intoxicated. Blood alcohol content testing performed; BAC result, .13 of 1 percent. Suspect released on appearance tickets for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•Addresses on the 5200 block of Chew Road and on the 2800 block of Niagara Street in Sanborn, check welfare. Calls handled by patrol.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
•Dana Drive, suspicious person. Handled by patrol.
•900 block of Pletcher Road, check welfare. LPD assisted Lewiston No. 1 Volunteer Fire Co. EMS with a transport.
•Stacy Drive, suspicious persons. Subjects working on a house; vehicle plate number logged. All OK.
•900 block of Balmer Road, assist. LPD on location with NCSO for a warrant execution.
•900 block of Elliott Drive, barking dog, two responses. Report filed.
•5100 block of Oak Hill Drive, trespass. Investigation to continue.
•Niagara University campus, larceny. LPD advised complainant to contact hometown bank regarding larceny as incident did not occur in Lewiston.
•4300 block of Williams Road, fraud. Statement taken from a male; investigation to continue.
•100 block of North Fourth Street, unauthorized use of motor vehicle complaint. Statement taken from a female, 62, regarding a female suspect, 26, who was subsequently placed under arrest on charges of UUMV, third, and aggravated unlicensed operation, third. Suspect remanded to Niagara County Jail. Key returned to complainant on follow-up. Report filed.
•Pomeroy Avenue/John Street, Town of Niagara, suspicious person. LPD assisted Town of Niagara Police.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
•Town of Niagara Town Park, vehicle/traffic stop. LPD assisted Town of Niagara Police with a vehicle on park paths.
•1500 block of Ridge Road, suspicious vehicle at a business. Patrol reported vehicle unoccupied. Plate number logged.
•700 block of B Street, Dorwood Park, mental health response. LPD assisted NCSO on call.
•Town of Niagara Town Park, assist. LPD assisted TNPD with a suspicious vehicle that went into woods. Call unfounded.
•2900 block of Saunders Settlement Road, two-vehicle accident. Statements taken from drivers; no injury. Report filed.
•700 block of Onondaga Street, assist/mental health response. LPD on location with Lewiston No. 1 on a call of smoke coming from an apartment. Female, elderly, removed; Crisis Services on location and subject taken voluntarily to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center by Rural Metro. Report filed.
•5800 block of Buffalo Street, property-damage accident. Parties to handle matter civilly.
•LPD office, civil report. Male reports purchasing an iPhone via E-bay, and then sending in two payments and not receiving the follow-up payment back. Report filed.
•Cayuga and South Ninth streets, two-vehicle accident. Statements taken; property damage only. Report filed.
•1300 block of Upper Mountain Road, larceny at a gas/convenience business. Male, 18, listed as complainant and male, 49, listed as person involved. Suspects, unknown, reportedly took money from cash registers while clerk was in bathroom. Investigation to continue.
•Walmore and Mount Hope roads, agency assist. LPD assisted NCSO with a stolen vehicle pursuit from Niagara Falls Boulevard. Vehicle recovered; NCSO to do report.
Thursday, Jan. 16
•Saunders Settlement Road, vehicle/traffic stop. Female, 53, arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation, third. Jail/bail of $250 assigned and driver remanded to Niagara County Jail. Vehicle secured. Report filed.
•LPD office, aggravated harassment complaint. Statement taken from female, 46, who reports receiving unwanted calls on her son's phone. Complainant handled by patrol.
•2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, Niagara Wheatfield Middle School, injured person. Male, juvenile, with head injury taken via MercyFlight to ECMC.
•800 block of Hillside Drive, check welfare. Male, elderly reported missing.
Friday, Jan. 17
•Niagara University campus, intoxicated person. Subject taken to Mount St. Mary's EM-Star by Upper Mountain Volunteer Fire Co.
•Military Road, three-vehicle accident. Statements taken from all drivers. Report filed.
•2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, harassment. Female, juvenile, listed as victim, and female, juvenile, listed as suspect. Report filed.
•Mohawk Street, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 60, arrested for driving while intoxicated, aggravated driving while intoxicated, disobeying a stop sign and failure to keep right. Blood alcohol content testing performed; BAC result, .29 of 1 percent. Appearance tickets issued for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•Saunders Settlement and Mayflower roads, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 28, listed. No further details.
•800 block of Center Street, suspicious male. Subject taken by patrol to a Hyde Park Boulevard location.
Saturday, Jan. 18
•4500 block of Washington Drive, check situation. Defective garage door at residence.
•Saunders Settlement and Chew roads, Male, 18, listed as driver. Second male, 18, listed as suspect. Patrol reported an unknown substance was seized and sent to a lab for testing.
•700 block of Mohawk Street, disturbing the peace. Underage party listed.
•Lewiston Road, assist. LPD on location with State Police for an intoxicated driver. Patrol transported subject to State Police Niagara substation.
•1700 block of Ridge Road, two-vehicle accident. Statements taken from drivers; property damage only. Vehicle towed; report filed.
•Robert Moses Parkway, hit-run accident. Vehicle located on Blairville Road. NCSO handled arrest/report.
•400 block of Center Street, officer requested. Female, 51, listed as complainant and female, 67, listed.
•Locations on Lewiston Road and on Ridge Road, separate reports of two-vehicle accidents. Statements taken from drivers; property damage only, MV forms issued. Reports filed.
•Mount St. Mary's EM-Star, assist. Patrol assisted staff with an unwanted person, 55.
•300 block of South Second Street, two responses, grand larceny and larceny complaints. Two females, both age 21, listed as complainant/victims and male, 22, as a suspect on both calls. Male arrested on charge of grand larceny, fourth-degree. No further details. Reports filed.
Sunday, Jan. 19
•800 block of Center Street, open container violation outside a bar. Male, 26, arrested and issued an appearance ticket for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•5500 block of Niagara Street, Sanborn, arraignment. Male, 22, arraigned by Town of Lewiston Court on larceny charges from an earlier incident on 300 block of South Second Street. Bail of $1,000/$2,000 assigned.
•400 block of North Fourth Street, mental health response. Male, 30, taken to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
•Locations on 300 block of Merrie Road, 5100 block of Townline Road and 5700 block of Lewiston Road, reports of one- and two-vehicle accidents. Statements taken; property damage, reports filed.
•School House and Ransomville roads, hunter complainant/trespassing. Handled by patrol.
•LPD office, harassment. Statement taken from a male, 55; incident occurred on the 4800 block of Eddy Drive West. Handled by patrol; report filed.


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2 Corinthians
This letter continues the correspondence which Paul undertook with the wayward, disoriented Christians of Corinth. As with 1 Corinthians, there is no serious dispute concerning Pauline authorship. The date of the book is somewhat harder to pin down because it seems to have been composed over a period of time. Yet it must be dated within a few years of 1 Corinthians, so that a date for the whole series around the year 58 CE is not out of the question. Some scholars have suggested that what we call 2 Corinthians is actually a collection of two or three letters that have been combined over the course of time. Rudolf Bultmann, a very important New Testament exegete from the first half of the 20th century, suggested that 1 and 2 Corinthians actually consist of 4 letters plus one that has not been preserved:
Letter A- 1 Corinthians
Letter B- "The Tearful Letter" (now lost)
Letter C- 2 Corinthians 2:14-7:4, 9:1-15, 10:1-13:14
Letter D- 2 Corinthians 1:1-2:13, 7:5-16, 8:1-24
Bultmann saw 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 as a non-Pauline interpolation.
The intriguing thing about Bultmann's suggestion is that if these 4 letters are read in this sequence, they show a progressive improvement in Paul's relationship with the Corinthians. If they are not read in this order, they are confused and "rollercoaster" like in the respect that they move swiftly from one idea to another without any cohesion or order. I think that Bultmann is correct in his reconstruction of the order of these letters. It seems that an early scribe simply combined Letters C and D, while ignoring (or not having access to) Letter B.
The possibility exists, nevertheless, that 2 Corinthians is not a composite as suggested above, but an integrated letter as 1 Corinthians is. In light of that possibility, the following outline is offered which may show the purpose of Paul in writing this document:
1- Greeting and Personal Remarks (1:1-11)
2- Bad Relationships with the Corinthians and the Letter of Tears (1:12-2:13)
3- Personal Defense! (2:14-7:16) (with 6:14-7:1 interpolated by another writer)
4- The Collection for Jerusalem (8-9)
5- Paul Responds to those who Challenge His Authority (10:1-13:10)
6- Conclusion (13:11-13)
Paul's letter(s) to the Corinthians contained in 2 Corinthians is his most personal and tragic. In this document (or set of letters) we have a quite humeen hurt and who is resentful of challenges to his authority. He is scorned by the very people he has preached to, and he does not appreciate it at all. This book should be read by every Christian to gain an insight into the difficulties and trials of the ministry- but it should also be read by every cleric to see that he or she is not alone in the struggle for authentic ministry.
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us (also known as All Your Base, AYBABTU, or AYB) was one of the earliest Internet memes. The phrase, a flawed Japanese translation, is from the opening dialogue of the European version of Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis to those in the United States) video game, Zero Wing. Though most AYB fans have never played Zero Wing, the meme became popular by way of message boards and fan-made Flash videos. In 2000, Overclock.org posted a dubbed version of the intro in Wayne Newton's voice. Know Your Meme cites this as "most likely the first instance of a response video." Toward the end of 2000, AYB found its way to the SomethingAwful forums, a popular place for nerds with topnotch Photoshop skills. Over 2,000 Photoshopped AYB images were added, and the meme soon spread to Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, MetaFilter, and USA Today.
The meme continues to make intermittent media appearances. When YouTube was down temporarily for site maintenance in 2006, site visitors got the message "All Your Video Are Belong to Us" as a placeholder. YouTube users who didn't know their memes thought the site had been hacked, so the site added, "No, we haven't been hacked. Get a sense of humor."


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Why 4 of 5 autistic children are male. What new science tells us about how our brain works. Is this mysterious and sometimes devastating condition just an extreme version of normal male intelligence? That's one provocative new theory. Behind autism's gender gap.
September 8, 2003
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Andrew Bacalao has a good, sharp mind. At 13, he's a decent pianist, a devotee of Frank Lloyd Wright, a master at videogames and jigsaw puzzles. He remembers phone numbers like a Pocket PC, and he can dismantle a radio or a flashlight in the time it takes some people to find the power switch. But drop in on Andrew at home in Oak Park, Ill., and you quickly sense that something is amiss. "Can you look at her?" his mom, Dr. Cindy Mears, prompts, as a NEWSWEEK correspondent greets him in the living room. He stays on the couch, feet up, mesmerized by a handheld game called Bop It Extreme. Soon he's making soap bubbles and running outside to bang on the windows. Andrew does eventually talk, but conversation doesn't come easily. When his mom asks him not to burp, he tells the guest, "I'm going to unbutton your outfit." He's merely offering to take her jacket -and he seems to think his choice of words is just fine.
What do you make of such a kid? A generation ago, he might have been written off as a discipline problem or a psychopath -someone who insists on misbehaving even though he's smart enough to know better. But we now know there are different kinds of intelligence, which can crop up in unusual combinations. The world, as it turns out, is full of people who find fractal geometry easier than small talk, people who can spot a tiny lesion on a chest X-ray but can't tell a smile from a smirk. Most of these folks qualify as "autistic," but not in the traditional sense. Classic autism is a devastating neurological disorder. Though its causes are unclear, it has a strong genetic component and is marked by rapid brain growth during early childhood. Many sufferers are mentally retarded and require lifelong institutional care. But autism has many other faces. The condition, as experts now conceive it, is like high blood pressure-a "spectrum disorder" in which affected people differ from the rest of us only by degrees. The question is, degrees of what? Can autistic tendencies be measured on some scale? If so, is there a clear boundary between normal and abnormal? And is abnormality always a bad thing? What promise does life hold for people like Andrew?
Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen has a thesis that bears on all these questions. In a bold new book called "The Essential Difference," he defines autism as an imbalance between two kinds of intelligence: the kind used to understand people (he calls it "empathizing") and the kind used to understand things ("systemizing"). Though most of us have both abilities, studies suggest that females are better than males at empathizing, while males have a stronger knack for systemizing. By Baron-Cohen's account, autism is just an exaggerated version of the male profile-an extreme fondness for rule-based systems, coupled with an inability to intuit people's feelings and intentions. The truth may not be quite that simple, but the concepts of "E" and "S" offer a powerful new framework for thinking about boys, girls and autism. If Baron-Cohen is right, autism is not just a disease in need of a cure. It's a mental style that people can learn to accommodate. Sometimes it's even a gift.
It's no secret that autism affects boys more than girls. Males account for more than 80 percent of the million-plus Americans with autistic disorders. Are these conditions partly an expression of male thought patterns? Do boys live closer to the autistic spectrum than girls? Not in every case. But when researchers study groups of people -infants, toddlers, teens or adults- an interesting pattern emerges. Newborn girls gaze longer at faces than at mechanical mobiles, while boys show the opposite preference. By the age of 3, girls are more adept than boys at imagining fictional characters' feelings, and by 7 they're better at identifying a faux pas in a story. The disparity is just as striking when adults are asked to interpret facial expressions and tones of voice. Women rule.
Males aren't hopeless, though. They show a lifelong advantage on tests of spatial and mechanical reasoning. In fact they're nearly twice as likely as women to score more than 700 on the SAT math test, and four times as likely to become engineers. Social conditioning may account for some of that gap. It may also help explain the thrill that 2-year-old boys get from trucks, blocks and other mechanical toys. But there has to be more to the story. Consider what happened when psychologists Gerianne Alexander and Melissa Hines tried out six toys on vervet monkeys at UCLA's Non-Human Primate Laboratory. Male monkeys favored the boy toys (a ball and a car). Females spent more time with a doll and a pot. And the gender-neutral toys (a picture book and a stuffed dog) got equal attention from both groups. The findings suggest that sex hormones may sculpt our brains as well as our bodies, priming males and females for different styles of thought-what Baron-Cohen calls a "Type E" style and a "Type S" style.
It's not hard to see how autism fits into this scheme. In its classic form, the condition leaves people virtually devoid of social impulses. Autistic kids have trouble communicating, and games like peekaboo leave them cold. They seem to perceive people as unpredictable objects. Yet they often excel at systemizing. "Even young autistic children love to classify and order things' says Dr. Bryna Siegel of the University of California, San Francisco. "They're interested in categorical nformation." Siegel recalls a mother's story about taking her autistic son and nonautistic daughters to see "Finding Nemo," a movie about a clown fish who loses his mom and gets separated from his dad. "The little girls wanted to know if Nemo was scared," she says. "The autistic boy wanted to know exactly what clown fish eat."
Autistic people are famous for collecting such facts, and many can recall them with breathtaking precision. Patricia Juhrs, director of a Rockville, Md., group called Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children, has an adult client who has memorized every top-10 song list Billboard magazine has published since 1947. Tell him which day you were born, and he'll tell you what was playing on the radio. Even when they lack such savant skills, autistic people often excel at mundane, detail-oriented tasks. "I maintain that we should have autistic people running the scanners at airports," says Catherine Johnson, an author and activist whose two autistic sons amuse themselves by putting together jigsaw puzzles with the picture-side down. "No normal human being can process that much detail."
She's half joking, but studies support her contention. As you'd expect, autistic people score even lower than typical males on tests that involve predicting people's feelings and interpreting their facial expressions. But when challenged to find the triangle embedded in a complex design, or predict the behavior of a rod attached to a lever, they fare as well as normal males, if not better. The same pattern holds when autistic people are polled directly about empathizing ("I can pick up quickly if someone says one thing and means another") and systemizing ("I am fascinated by how machines work"). In a recently published study, Baron-Cohen's team found that mildly autistic adults trailed normal women and men on a 40-item empathy test, but trumped both groups on a systemizing survey. In short, they were more male than the men.
The findings square nicely with Baron-Cohen's model, but the model takes us only so far. As it turns out, autistic people are not just extreme systemizers. They systemize in a distinct and unusual way. When normally developing kids draw a picture of a train, they start with a gestalt, or general idea: a series of long, flat rectangles with wheels underneath. Autistic kids often start with peripheral details and expand them into
dazzling 3-D renderings. "They don't do it in a logical order," says Siegel of UCSF. "They do it as you would if you were tracing." Stephen Wiltshire, 29, had never spoken when he started sketching at the age of 5. He still lives with his mother in West London, but he has since achieved world renown for his visionary portraits of buildings and vehicles. "Cadillac, Chevy, Lincoln," he says when asked about his passions. "Sears Tower, the Frick, the Chrysler building." His speech, like his work, is virtually free of generalizations. As a friend once observed, he is "rooted in the literal, the concrete."
Wiltshire may have Type S tastes, but his avoidance of abstractions can't be passed off as a typical Type S tendency, It gets at something more specific, says neuroscientist Laurent Mottron of Montreal's Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies. It reveals a preference for parts over wholes, a tendency to process information one piece at a time instead of filtering it through general categories. Most of us simplify the world to make it more manageable. Whether we're taking in sights, sounds or sentences, our brains ignore countless details to create useful gestalts. Autistic people make generalizations, too ("it's a train," "it's a blender"), but studies suggest they work from the bottom up, attending doggedly to everything their senses take in. That has nothing to do with maleness, but it helps explain various aspects of autism-the encyclopedic memory, the lightning-fast calculation and the extreme sensitivity to sounds, lights and textures. It also ties in neatly with recent studies linking autism to super-fast brain growth during the first years of life. Researchers believe that process may generate more sensory neurons than the brain can integrate into coherent networks.
Baron-Cohen doesn't dispute any of this. The E-S model may not capture all the nuances of autism, he says, but it sheds new light on the narrow interests and repetitive behaviors that people across the autistic spectrum display. "Consider the child who can spend hours watching how a glass bottle rotates in the sunlight but who cannot talk or make eye contact," he says. "The old theories said that this was purposeless repetitive behavior. The new theory says that the child, given his or her IQ, may be doing something intelligent: looking for predictable rules or patterns in the data." In other words, the E-S model may be incomplete but it's still valuable-for it reveals the sanity and dignity of autistic behavior. "People with Asperger's syndrome [a mild form of autism] are like saltwater fish forced to live in fresh water," a patient once explained to Baron-Cohen. "We're fine if you put us into the right environment. But when the person and the environment don't match, we seem disabled."
Some advocates insist that conditions like Asperger's syndrome are not disorders at all, just personality variants that have been misconstrued as defects. They believe that people at the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum should be spared psychiatric labels. But when the labels are applied without stigma, they can be liberating.
Dave Spicer had never thought of himself as autistic until 1994, when his 8-year-old son, Andrew, got a formal diagnosis and he was diagnosed too. Spicer, then 46, was a computer programmer and system designer, but his social ineptitude had cost him two marriages and blighted his career. He recalls leaving business meetings thinking all had gone well, only to discover that he had annoyed or offended people. "A social situation is like a square dance where the caller is speaking Swahili," he says. "There will be a cue and I won't get it, and I'll stumble into people." Spicer's son is now thriving in a mainstream high school after several years of special education, and Spicer himself has learned to play to his strengths. He has gone back to college. He socializes on his own terms, and doesn't berate himself for being different. "My favorite story about autism is 'The Emperor's New Clothes'," he says. "The boy didn't understand social norms, but he spoke the truth. I think society needs us."
Gifted geeks aren't the only ones saying that. Juhrs, the social-service organizer, has found that even profoundly autistic adults are often highly employable. "If they're matched properly with work they enjoy," she says, "they can do as well or better than people who aren't disabled."
In seeking out jobs for her clients, Juhrs never appeals to employers for charity. She asks if there are jobs they've had trouble filling. As it turns out, the Type S tasks that her people thrive on-inspecting garments, coding inventory, assembling components for the fuses on nuclear submarines-are often the same ones that ordinary people can't stand. "Once our folks get into going to work, they don't want to miss a day," she says. "We have to talk them into holidays."
Tapping these strengths makes obvious sense, but the deficits associated with autism are just as real. Are people like Spicer destined to fail in love and the workplace, or can their social handicaps be conquered? Unlike systemizing, empathy involves snap, intuitive judgments that you can't always make by following a recipe. "Most people learn to interact socially just by observation," says Stephen Shore, a mildly autistic Boston University doctoral student who heads the Asperger's Association of New England. "People on the autistic spectrum regard things as a set of rules. We have to figure them out or be taught." Like Tom Hanks in "Big," Shore thought sleepover the first time a woman invited him to spend the night. But through painstaking study and practice, he has developed a good enough social repertoire to sustain a career and a 13-year marriage.
Was Shore just lucky, or is there a lesson to be drawn from his experience? Can people on the autistic spectrum learn to compensate for their lack of natural empathizing ability? The answer depends on the person and the condition. Siegel estimates that 25 percent of classically autistic children respond to intensive interventions and that 7 percent do well enough to attend mainstream schools and lead normal lives. The response rates are much higher among mildly affected kids, and experts agree that early intervention is the key to success. "The earlier you can get into a treatment program," says Andy Shih of the National Alliance for Autism Research, "the better the prognosis."
The programs go by different names -applied behavioral analysis, discreet trial training, pivotal response treatment- but most of them use simple conditioning exercises to open lines of communication. "With an average child, you can point to something red and ask what color it is," says psychologist Robert Koegel of the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Autistic kids are screaming, trying to get out of it. But what if they love M&Ms? When we ask which one is red, they take a red one. They're highly motivated." Naming colors is simpler than decoding social signals, but they, too, can be mastered by unconventional means. Baron-Cohen's team has developed an interactive computer program that pairs 418 emotions with distinct facial expressions. Preliminary studies suggest that anyone, autistic or not, can develop a better eye for flattery, boredom or scorn simply by practicing for 10 weeks with these electronic flashcards.
As fate would have it, some of the best natural readers of feelings and faces are themselves profoundly disabled. People with a rare genetic disorder called Williams syndrome are often severely retarded. Yet they're hypersocial, highly verbal and often deeply empathetic. "In some ways' says research psychologist Teresa Doyle of the Salk Institute, "Williams syndrome is almost an opposite of autism." Ten-year-old A. J. Arciniega will never play Bop It Extreme the way Andrew Bacalao does, let alone dismantle a radio. But he shakes hands eagerly when greeted by a NEWSWEEK correspondent, and gladly engages in conversation, asking about the visitor's children and their interests. Settling in with a wordless picture book, he pages through the story of a boy and a dog who lose their frog and set out to find him. There is no plot in A.J.'s telling, but his feeling for the characters is irrepressible. "Ron! Ron! Where are you?" he exclaims when the boy is shown calling for his frog. "'Woof! Woof!' the dog moans." Neither Andrew nor A.J. is in for an easy life -as Baron-Cohen might say, things are simpler in the middle of the E-S spectrum. But the world will be richer for both of them.
With ANNE UNDERWOOD, ANDREW MURR, KAREN SPRINGEN and SARAH SENNOTT


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Our system of cleaning your tiled roof is not that far removed from the way we would wash your house. A four part cleaning and mould removal solution is applied to the roof. We leave it to dwell and rinse the roof clean. All with little more pressure than a garden hose. Our system not only protects you roof and interior from potential damage. It will far outlast cleaning done with a rotary machine.
Lichen is an organism made up of fungi and algae that is found mostly on terracotta roofs. It's sometimes found on a tin or tiled roof. I describe it as looking like a small flat cabbage so it's easily identifyable. Lichen has roots that take hold on a tile and is almost impossible to remove whilst alive. Using our "Treat it first" philosophy, we can remove lichen with a realatively low pressure rinse.
A tin roof is usually much easier to clean than a tiles or terracotta. Tin is strong, rarely leaks and time is about the only thing that will remove paint. Over the past year or so, with the weather the way it's been, we are now using a similar system to tile cleaning. We now chemically treat the surface of the tin, resulting in a much better finish and added longevity..
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Weymann Style 6 Plectrum Banjo
H.A. Weymann and son, a full-line instrument distributor, was established in Philadelphia and 1864 and started making banjos in 1900. Although the Weymann name may eventually be best-known as the maker of a custom guitar for Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music, the company's most commonly seen products are Jazz Age banjos, such as this Style 6 plectrum (inv. #JE2449) from around 1930.
Style 6, was one of the fancier models in the Weymann line, with walnut neck and resonator, engraved, gold-plated hardware, the "megaphonic" rim and a carved neck heel. It also sports Weymann's unusual hook-fastening system, with the tension hooks going through a "lip" extending from the rim rather than through the flange.
This banjo is in excellent condition. With original hard case it is priced at $4000.
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Hi to the group. Rather than speculate on the status of FO-29, perhaps someone with some Japanese/English ability could monitor the Japanese pages of the JARL site, http://www.jarl.or.jp/index.html as the English pages are not in sync with the Japanese. Specifically this page that may be FO-29 related as it has a FO-29 graphic and is dated 23 Apr 07 http://www.jarl.or.jp/Japanese/2_Joho/2007_news-4.htm#0423 I have not been successful installing the Japanese language pack into IE7. Even then, I don't know if a cut and paste into Babelfish http://babelfish.altavista.com/ would give us anything understandable. 73, Alan VE4YZ AMSAT 35968 <http://www.mts.net/~ve4wsc/> http://www.mts.net/~ve4wsc/ AMSAT A-485 _______________________________________________ Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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A Twist on a Classic: Everything Bagel Pizza with Smoked Salmon
First: hello November, whatever are you doing here? It seems a bit impossible that we're officially in countdown to the holidays mode. I mean Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I haven't even figured out what pies I'm going to make. And pies are SERIOUS BUSINESS in my family. Instead of working on my pie game I decided to work on the most epic of brunch / lunch / dinner ideas


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To bar or not to bar?
Looks like a trend, right? The top of each bar gives a point estimate of the percentage at each time. But to evaluate whether the apparent trend is more than the play of chance, we need to consider the precision of the estimates. So I often recommend showing confidence intervals around the point estimates, like this:
The overlap of the confidence intervals is considerable, which suggests that the data are consistent with there being no trend at all. In SPSS, the chi-square trend test ("Linear-by-Linear Association") gives a 2-sided p-value of 0.229, so it's clearly not statistically significant. (The reason is that the proportions are based on very small denominators.)
At a blog called Junkcharts there was a recent posting titled When not to use bars. I added a comment (which I've edited a bit below):
"I think that one of the reasons the bar chart is so popular is that it paints broad strokes of ink (particularly striking when color is used), giving the figure a kind of visual punch. A bar chart can be seen from halfway across a room, whereas the traditional figure favoured by statisticians nearly disappears (admittedly I'm not wearing my glasses, but I think the point holds). However, one could achieve a similar visual effect to the bar chart using vertical colored boxes with light horizontal lines indicating the point estimates."Here's what I meant:
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"People meters still measure traditional media. I don't know if we'll see much of a shift from TV and radio to other forms, although we may see money shift within TV and radio and the meters may help us understand brand selection. This is also another way for advertisers to check on media accountability. It's limited in scope right now, but it's a great theory, and it obviously has potential for further application."
Brad Adgate/senior VP-director of research/ Horizon Media/New York
"I speak from the vantage point of someone who doesn't want all these things strapped to me, watching everything I do. I can see what the objective is and it is an inventive way to collect `real' information, but I am doubtful of implementation. I think it will still be very difficult to measure what is actually being absorbed by the brain and turned into a purchase."
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In Battlefield 2 you play a soldier from either the United States Marines, Middle East Coalition, or China. This is not another shoot'em up game -- the focus is on team play and coordination between the players on the team. One nice feature in the game is that the size of the maps over which you battle is dynamic, adjusted according to how many players are logged on to the server.
Why would you want to set up your own server? Sometimes Battlefield players may wish to have administrator capacities on a server in order to practice or to play clan fights against other clans. To get admin privileges you can rent a dedicated public server at EA Games for $8 per slot per month or you can host your own server.
Why choose FreeBSD instead of Linux? If your BSD skills are stronger than your Linux skills, it may be more convenient. You won't pay a performance penalty -- I haven't been able to detect any differences in system response times in FreeBSD compatibility mode vs. native Linux style.
According to EA Games, the minimum server requirements for 16 players is a 1GHz processor and 256MB RAM. For up to 64 players EA Games recommends a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM at a minimum. Those are minimums -- you should use the best server hardware you can afford to get the best gaming experience. Your Internet connection must be 2.5Mbps or better in order to avoid long response times, a.k.a. lags, on the server.
Setting up FreeBSD
If you are not already running FreeBSD, you'll need to install it. If you've installed Linux in the past, the FreeBSD installer will not be that difficult, and there's a good handbook online to guide you through the process.
The installer asks if you'd like to install Linux compatibility. Be sure to say "yes" to this question. If you already have FreeBSD installed, but Linux compatibility is not enabled, you can enable it by loading the Linux Kernel Loadable Object (KLD) by running
kldload linux as root. See the FreeBSD handbook section for more on enabling Linux binary compatibility.
Install the Battlefield 2 Linux server
Once you've enabled Linux binary compatibility, it's time to install the game server. Download the Linux Battlefield 2 server and unzip the file with the command
unzip bf2-linuxded-1.1.2551.0-installer.zip. This will give you an unpacked shell file, bf2-linuxded-1.1.2551.0-installer.sh. To run it, change its permissions with the command
chmod 755 bf2-linuxded-1.1.2551.0-installer.sh and run it from a regular account --not root -- to install the server.
You must review and accept two license agreements. One is from the developers of the Linux server, and the other from Gamespy. After accepting the licenses, you'll be prompted for the path to install the Battlefield 2 server to. Specify something like /home/user/battlefield2/, and that's all there is to it.
Tweak the settings for maximum performance
Once the installation is finished, you can edit the server configuration file, atmods/bf2/settings/serversettings.con, to improve its performance. The Battlefield 2 server has a number of configuration options, but we'll touch on just a few of the important ones.
The first is sv.serverName, which is the default server name. You'll want to change this to your preferred server name. For example, if your server name is "battlefield.mydomain.com," you would use:
sv.serverName "battlefield.mydomain.com"
You will also need to set the IP address for the server using the
sv.serverIP parameter. If you want to password-protect your server, put your chosen password between the empty quotation marks in
sv.password "". The next step is to allow Internet players to join games. If
sv.internet is set to 0 (the default), the server will allow players only from your local network to join. Change the parameter to 1 to open the server to Internet players. You will need several ports open in your firewall if you want the server to be reachable from the Internet.
One tweak we can make to
improve performance is to limit the number of players allowed. As an example we
will take the "kubra_dam." In the configuration file, you'll find several lines with the name of the map; they are identical except for the numbers, which specify the maximum the number of allowed players on the server.
MapList.append kubra_dam gpm_cq 16 MapList.append kubra_dam gpm_cq 32 MapList.append kubra_dam gpm_cq 64
Change all three settings to the number of desired players. For example, if your maximum server capacity is 16 players at one time, change them to
MapList.append kubra_dam gpm_cq 16. This can be particularly useful if you're running a server that only meets the minimum hardware requirements. Some server admins have posted to the online forums to say that deleting the MapList lines have ruined the overall configuration, so just adjust the number of players rather than deleting the other lines.
Another way to ensure a good gaming session is to use the sv.bandwidthChoke setting. This setting states how much bandwidth, in Kbps, the server can actually use, so the server does not have to do any bandwidth polling. This will also save non-gaming LAN users some bandwidth to check email and browse the Web. Setting it to 0 means that bandwidth is not throttled at all.
If your server is very busy, one last hint to gain better performance is to install the Voice over IP (VoIP) teamspeak function on another server. Change
sv.voipServerRemote 0 to
sv.voipServerRemote 1 and enter the IP address of the external server in the
sv.voipServerRemoteIP setting.
Now you're ready to start playing. Start the server with the command
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Sherwood Park woman's painful condition is motivation to help others in pain
Linda Hoang, CTV Edmonton
Published Thursday, April 4, 2013 4:39PM MDT
Last Updated Thursday, April 4, 2013 5:30PM MDT
A Sherwood Park woman is using her painful past dealing with a medical condition as motivation to help others.
Prenaka Ram knows all about pain.
For years, the woman suffered severe ab pains due to a condition called endometriosis.
"It would be so painful, you'd be hitting the ground almost clenching your teeth, become a ball and just want to cry. After awhile it just got more and more intense," Ram says.
"To live with pain, it's not just a physical thing, it's mental, it's emotional and it's virtually just affects you in every way possible."
Endometriosis occurs when tissue which lines the uterus grows outside the uterus, which can cause severe pain and in some cases – infertility.
Ram says she had to undergo surgery every six to 12 months to try to remove the tissue.
"What happens with endometriosis is it grows and it spreads. The more it grows, the more it spreads, the more painful it gets and the more hard it is to control," Ram said.
"So going through surgery every six months to a year helps to clean that up and keep you going so I did that but after about two or three years the pain was getting worse."
Ram says her endometriosis affected her work. She says she often had to call in sick because of the pain.
"You're literally having what I call attacks," she said.
She was sent to a chronic pain specialist and put on medication.
"For about two to three years I was on very strong medications. When I think about it now, it kind of scares me a little bit," Ram said.
"I'm surprised I even remembered my name."
Ram says while her friends were having babies, she was dealing with infertility.
"It's not always easy to answer people, why we don't have children," she said.
After the emotional toll of surgeries and medications, Ram decided enough was enough – and she underwent a hysterectomy – surgery to remove her uterus.
After that, Ram opened up the Namaste Wellness & Day Spa with her husband as a way to help others.
"I got certified as a massage therapist, started by my journey helping people, coaching people and now I have this beautiful spa I've created," she said.
"We focus on helping people who are suffering with pain. It doesn't have to be endometriosis, it could be MS, it could be fibro, it could be anything."
No 'new, new' treatments
Endocrinologist Dr. David Cumming says it's estimated about 2 per cent of women are affected by endometriosis. It's also suggested that endometriosis is the cause of about 20 per cent of infertility.
There's no cure for the condition and although there are treatments to help deal with endometriosis, Dr. Cumming says no significantly new treatments are being developed.
"Most of the drugs that have been around have been around for a long time. We're not getting any new, new drugs. They're just variations on old drugs," Cumming said.
"There's nothing startling different to treat endometriosis. We're still stuck with drugs that block estrogen, reduce estrogen, shut off the reproductive system. We haven't really gotten much beyond that."
Ram says it hasn't been an easy journey and although dealing with infertility was difficult, she says she did end up having a baby – her spa.
"If I had children I wouldn't' be able to do what I'm doing today. I'm completely dedicated to helping others," Ram said.
"I have my beautiful spa. This is my baby. She's crawling right now and one day she's going to walk. We're very happy."
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Statoil has been declared the provisional winner of the U.S. government's wind lease sale of 79,350 acres offshore New York.
Statoil will now have the opportunity to explore the potential development of an offshore wind farm to provide New York City and Long Island with a significant, long-term source of renewable electricity.
Statoil submitted a winning bid of $42,469,725 during the online offshore wind auction concluded this week by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
The lease comprises an area that could potentially accommodate more than one GW of offshore wind, with a phased development expected to start with 400-600 MW. The New York Wind Energy Area is located 14-30 miles (30-60 kilometers) offshore, spans 79,350 acres (321 square kilometers) and covers water depths between 65 and 131 feet (20-40 meters).
Statoil plans to conduct studies to better understand the seabed conditions, the grid connection options and wind resources involved in the lease site.
The State of New York projects that offshore wind will be a significant part of the renewable energy generation needed to meet its Clean Energy Standard in 2030.
In Europe, Statoil is developing an offshore wind portfolio with the capacity of providing over one million homes with renewable energy. Statoil currently holds a 40 percent share in the Sheringham Shoal wind farm in the U.K., which has been in production since 2012. The Dudgeon offshore wind farm, also located offshore Norfolk in the U.K., and the world's first floating offshore wind farm, Hywind Scotland, will come in production in 2017. Earlier this year, Statoil acquired 50 percent of the Arkona offshore wind farm in Germany, which will come in production in 2019.
Read More http://maritime-executive.com/article/statoil-wins-new-york-offshore-wind-bid
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Winter Survival In Your Car
The news from New York these last week was frightening to me. I'm a Florida native and I have to admit that with our temperatures in the 30s at night and barely reaching 60 during the day, I was freezing. I'm sure readers in New York are outraged, but my blood in as thin as water and not designed to deal with anything lower than 70 comfortably. Even so, I love cold weather and look forward to temperatures chilly enough to warrant hot chocolate and flannel. I started to think of what people do when they are stranded in their vehicles in a snowstorm. This isn't likely to happen to me, but it does happen. Do people up north prepare for it? Do they have emergency kits in their cars? What's in them?
Unfortunately there are few answers online. The first site I looked at seemed to assume that you would be aware that you were about to be stranded with no help available and that you had packed accordingly. It listed things like a pillow and blankets, non-perishable food, a snow shovel, and extra gas on its must-have list. Also things you would be likely to have, like a flashlight, matches, your cell phone, and jumper cables. Prescription medications showed up too, which is scary. What if you only have a once a day medication? You aren't likely to bring it on a trip to the market.
While not on the basic supply list, the site also suggested having a "car kettle" which runs on gas or solar power. This is for boiling the water you need to stay alive. It is not recommended to eat snow. Snow should be gathered, melted, strained (in the fine mesh colander you should also keep in your vehicle), and then boiled to make it safe to drink.
I did manage to find a couple of sites that actually had some useful information. Basically, if you are caught unawares in a snowstorm or blizzard, there's not much to do but try to keep warm and wait for help. Of course the first thing to do is call for help and give your location using your phone's GPS. Then wait. And don't die. Don't leave your vehicle unless you can see better shelter, such as a hotel or truck stop from where you are. If it's dark or still storming you could freeze before you find some place you can't see. Your car is better than nothing for shelter.
As tempting as it may be to run your car with the heat on until it's out of gas, it's much better to run it for about 15 to 20 minutes per hour just to knock the chill off. Crack the window to let in oxygen and prevent carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Finally, tie something to your antenna. This makes it easier for rescuers to determine that your vehicle hasn't been abandoned. The first responders to a large group of stranded vehicles will be focused on people and not vehicles, so it pays to alert them to your presence.
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A lack of funds plagued the expedition, with so much of its budget dependent on public donations. Many people couldn't see the point of going to the Antarctic at such expense. "I call it scientific cheek to come along when there are so many thousands of unemployed and ask £50,000 for such a purpose," ran one letter in the Sussex News. [1]
Teddy Evans, admirably suited to what he called "beating up funds", found himself travelling up and down Britain wheedling audiences. "It's no good talking to business men about magnetism, geology, meteorology or any of that scientific stuff," he decided. [2] "Scott, himself, when he could be spared from the Admiralty, worked Newcastle, Liverpool, and the North, whilst both of us did what we could in London.... It was an anxious time for Scott." [3]
By the spring of 1910, Scott and Evans had collected the first £10,000, and the then-Liberal government granted another £20,000.
[1] Sussex News, 19 February, 1910, quoted by Diana Preston in A First Rate Tragedy (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998, c1997), p.116.
[2] E.R.G.R. Evans, in Reginald Pound's Scott of the Antarctic (1968), quoted by Ranulph Fiennes in Race to the Pole (New York : Hyperion, c2004), p.147.
[3] E.R.G.R. Evans, South with Scott, quoted by Diana Preston in A First Rate Tragedy (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998, c1997), p.116.
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