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Unmanned aircraft operations are a major part of the military's mission in central Asia. But sooner or later, those forces will return to the United States and have to fly in civilian airspace for training and operational purposes.
By 2015, unmanned aerial systems will be operating from government facilities across the country, said Mary Ottman, the Army's deputy product director of unmanned systems airspace integration, at a recent conference.
Several Defense Department officials spoke at the conference about how DOD is working with the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies to develop new techniques and technologies to monitor and manage the flight of UAS across the nation. The integration effort is being driven by legislation to better integrate military and civilian unmanned aircraft into the national airspace.
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Because the robot aircraft will have to fly in commercial airspace, DOD is working with FAA to develop rules to govern the flights, Ottman said at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems Program Review 2012 conference in Washington, D.C.An important part of the effort is ongoing work with the Ground-Based Sense-and-Avoid System (GBSAA), designed to help UAS to navigate commercial airspace. Currently, when unmanned aircraft transit commercial airspace, Ottman said, they require an FAA permit and must be tracked by observers on the ground and by manned chase planes. The GBSAA also uses a triple-redundant radar to track an unmanned aircraft in flight.
"The ultimate goal is that an unmanned aerial system can 'file and fly' like a manned system," said Ottman, adding that DOD must work with the FAA to develop regulatory guidance to better manage UAS transits.
The Army-managed GBSAA system successfully tracked its first UAS flight in April 2011. The program is now working on tracking UAS transit between two points. The system will create a "tunnel" through commercial airspace for the UAS to fly through to its training area, Ottman said.
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Sense-and-avoid technology is another key part of allowing more UAS flights in civilian airspace, according to Joe Sciabica, executive director of the Air Force Research Lab (ARL), who also spoke at the AUVSI conference. The technology consists of automated air and ground monitoring systems such as GBSAA as well as software and sensors installed on robot aircraft that allow them to detect and maneuver to avoid collisions. While UAS are remotely piloted, Sciabica said that automated collision-avoidance systems are necessary.
These capabilities will provide unmanned aircraft with more situational awareness than manned aircraft. "That is critical in the air," he said.
Besides flight, the movement of UAV platforms on the ground at military and civilian airports need to be worked out. Sense-and-avoid procedures must be understood and laid out for everyone, Sciabica said.
The Army also is working with the FAA on "safe" states that will ultimately allow UAS to maneuver around any civilian aircraft that wanders into training airspace, Ottman said. Work on lateral UAS transit is not restricted to the Army. The Air Force and Marine Corps are also involved in developing these systems, she added.
Full testing of the GBSAA is scheduled to begin sometime from 2013 to 2015 at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, Ottman said. The OSD has funded a testbed platform and MIT Lincoln Labs is developing sense and avoid algorithms. Plans are also underway for a GBSAA demonstration for this summer, she said.
The goal of these tests is to certify and field the system. Each service is working on a part of the sense-and-avoid technology, with the Army the lead for the GBSAA program. But Ottman added that there is a need to coordinate and work on standards to receive FAA certification.
The ARL plans to conduct flight tests later this year on a sense-and-avoid technology that it will transition to its Global Hawk program in 2013, Sciabica said. The future goal for the Air Force is to develop an integrated live and virtual training range. This will allow the service to incorporate UAS platforms into exercises and train both UAS and manned aircraft pilots to operate in this new environment, he said.
There is also increased interest in UAS systems from state governments. Some 22 states are interested in setting up UAS test sites, said Steve Pennington, the Air Force's director of Bases, Ranges and Airspace, and active executive director of the DOD Policy Board on Federal Aviation.
The government is currently developing criteria for UAS test sites. One of the benefits of the sites would be to provide a testing area for both military and civilian use, he said.
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I'm sure appropriate measures of highly secure [remote] control mechanisms will be in place. But with the growing sophistication of the hacker (in a pejorative sense) community, it is not improbable that under certain circumstances the wrong sort of folks could gain control of a UAV. Are they armed? How much fuel do they carry at the beginning of their flights? Are their traffic monitor/controllers RIF-proof? I wonder how much of this has been considered before these 'protectors of the sky' are deployed en masse?
I hope someone is working on a method to identify authorized and "friendly" UAV flights and distinguish them from "interlopers", and potential hostile threats. If not, adding this use to our airspace could be creating another security vulneralbility to be possibly exploited by clandestine operators or criminals.
A retired police officer told me one timw, in a conversation covering many subjects, that he felt the federal government fears a potentially violent uprising from the citizens and has space-based "crowd control" weapons they would turn on us. If that is true, it is not such a stretch that they would want the citizens to get used to seeing UAVs all over the place so they could also be used for interdiction in the case of an uprising. Think about it....
The reasonable answer is: to make it simpler to spy on you ( and me, and....)
The technology being implemented is quite fascinating. Even more so when you follow the logic of it eventually finding its way into Commercial Aviation (think Jetson's style flying cars). But! I have yet to hear a reasonable answer as to why we need the UAV's flying in and around our major cities.
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I grew up in the American South, born the year before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. I came into adulthood with people who had in near memory segregation and integration, habits of and challenges to "the Southern way of life." Southern culture was and is constantly figuring out what makes up the daily practice of reconciliation. So when I moved to the upper Midwest years ago, it was with some apprehension. I worried that my new neighbors would simply wonder, "How could you stand living with all those racists?" I asked a friend whether Midwesterners would be able to see that thousands of people in the South are trying to overturn a history of injustice day by day.
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As an outsider to Minnesota, I often tripped on the half-buried roots of local history, caught off-guard. Discussions on justice for Native Americans would inevitably yield to someone sputtering some racial slur (and, predictably, another would respond, "Hey, I'm part Ojibwe!"). Treaty disputes on fishing rights provoked heat and even violence. I married into a family with Blackfoot ancestors, but know nothing about them; the elders considered the connection something "not to be discussed." Thomas Maltmann (who presents these events in the historical novel The Night Birds) says that many people of Dakota and European ancestry earnestly urged him to "get it right"—which he assumed meant to tell their side of the story alone. We still stumble through a painful history and a wounded present.
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This complex history is what makes the Great Dakota Gathering all the more remarkable. I moved from the Twin Cities to small-town Winona: a Mississippi river town planted in gorgeous bluff land that made Mark Twain wax eloquent and loggers thirst for profit. Nine years ago, as many celebrated the 1854 Grand Excursion up the Mississippi to "open up" this land to settlers, a few local men remembered: there were others here first. Those men, hat in hand, traveled to visit Dakota leaders. They invited the Dakota to visit Winona. The Dakota accepted. From this came the Great Dakota Gathering. Dakota from across the United States and Canada come to Winona for three days each year for a celebration of homecoming, education and reconciliation. Winona has embraced this weekend, signing a covenant of friendship and welcome with the Dakota (who, technically, remain banned from Minnesota). The event is a mix of good planning and a laid-back atmosphere that invites conversation, not confrontation. Signifi-cantly, each year, there is a daily "reconciliation circle," to which everyone is invited.
This year's theme was "Reconciliation and the 1862 Dakota Uprising," no question the most challenging theme of the gathering's existence. To celebrate the Dakota people today is one thing; to test the ties of new friendship and seek reconciliation on the anniversary of such violence and its painful aftermath is another. But people decided to risk reconciliation, and the event was moved to coincide with the date the uprising began. Under a clear sky by a sparkling lake, 150 years later, hundreds of Dakota and European descendants talked rather than screamed, listened rather than killed, danced rather than hid, prayed rather than raged, learned rather than destroyed. They ate a unity feast instead of grass.
But the event was more than just pretty words. Reconciliation cannot undo the past, and how to truly make amends remains a challenge. But to make the simple decision to be vulnerable, to sit, listen and commit to a peaceful way forward draws out the poison of acts from generations past. To commit to that listening as a ritual once a year gives reconciliation weight and reality. It gives all of us a way to live with a history none of us asked for, and let that history not rule, but inform our present efforts toward friendship. We learn to be humble. We learn to listen to hard truths. We practice respect. And in so doing, we make a space for the Holy Spirit. It becomes possible to recognize, even within tragic history, that we are all members of God's family.
Reconciliation is a daily work, the work of the people. I am in awe of the townspeople who, to use Dorothy Day's words, "were just sitting around talking" and thought to invite the Dakota to their homelands. I am inspired by the Dakota, who after decades of injury, embraced that invitation. This has been what Day would call a "personalist" project of the highest order: the people are doing this. More precisely, God, through the people, is doing this: to see a people stand up and say, "We'll do something different here" is as fresh as the breeze was that September weekend. We remember evil is not the last word.
May we always remember God calls us to be reconciled before laying our gifts at the altar. May we give thanks for people who quietly risk the inbreaking of God as their everyday work.
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Essie Mae Washington-Williams was never publicly acknowledged by her father, although he lived for a century.
It just wasn't done. And Washington-Williams kept her own counsel until after her father died.
Her father was the one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. He died 10 years ago at 100; she died this week at 87.
She was the daughter of Thurmond and his family's black maid.
The man, who served in the Senate 47 years and is perhaps best remembered for his longest ever 24 hours and 18 minutes filibuster against the Civil Rights Bill of 1947, never could bring himself to publicly acknowledge his own flesh and blood. The identity of Washington-Williams' father was rumored for decades in political circles and in the black community.
She kept quiet, she said later, to avoid damaging his political career.
Such assassinations are not unknown, certainly not in American politics. It is accepted that the man who penned the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, had a decades-long relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings. A number of children resulted.
And like Thurmond, Jefferson never acknowledged his relationship or the children that resulted (although all were freed, including some before he died, something given no other nuclear slave family at Monticello).
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Subject description: Easy Multimedia Alarm Clock--really wakes sleepers!
Here's the wakeAlarm-0.04--this is an improved alarm clock.
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Simple to use. One job, one program, uses features pre-installed in OS.
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Runs from Pschedule. As written uses xine, but can be edited to use any media player, really.
I prefer xmms2, but perhaps you like pmusic?
It also depends on gtkdialog3 for the push-button control. This is pre-installed on most Puppies.
To make it ready for other players download the tgz, extract, and edit.
To install and use as-is get the pet package.
Please note, one should not have spaces in path or filenames. You can work around the limitation, but as many Puppy scripts, it is not built to handle this.
This program has been around in one or an other version since 1994/5 under msWin3.11
The original samples are still here, though as ogg not wav files.
I originally wrote this for my late wife. [Always my love, always her lover.]
Give it a spin around the block. I'm sure you'll love it.
"How now," he soliloquized at last,
withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no
longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! hard must
it go with me if thy charm be gone!
--H. Melville, Moby Dick.
Get your new versions from this page.
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Posted: Wed 17 Nov 2010, 00:55
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Subject description: a few notes
A few notes may be useful.
1. Files included:
~/wakeAlarm-0.04.tips....................[Small help]
~/ringtones/bluesbros.ogg ...........[Peter Gunn theme]
2. You can safely remove the ringtones directory and point the alarm.pls to another set of ringtones.
If using the (prefered) frugal install for Puppy move the ringtones outside your personal savefile to your actual harddrive.
3. To access folders or directory with sp aces in name &/or path (fullpath) try symlinks. Put links to data in ringtones directory, is likely tidiest.
In terminal in /root/ringtones/:
# ln "/mnt/home/Documents and Settings/source.ogg" linkname.ogg
Then in alarm.pls point to ~/ringtones/linkname.ogg, for example.
4. The MRL reference passed to wakeAlarm from Pschedule may be a playlist or single media location. For example:
wakeAlarm /root/.xine/myPlaylist.tox
It's a lot simpler than this might make it out to be.
Enjoy freedom today--it's not too late.
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Posted: Sat 27 Nov 2010, 03:25
Post subject:
Subject description: default stream outdated?
The default media stream may be outdated/expired.
It's a link through Icecast directory: http://dir.xiph.org/listen/23883535/listen.m3u
which points to Dream Factory: http://radio.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg
You can replace the old line near the top of wakeAlarm like this:
[ $# -gt 0 ] && UMUSIC=$1 || UMUSIC=http://radio.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg
That's a link from the provider site and should work longer.
Sorry for that
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Posted: Sun 12 Dec 2010, 14:29
Post subject:
Subject description: echo, or hiccough, avoidance
Some users reported a strange effect with Pschedule and wakeAlarm.
The alarm script was loaded in multiple copies.
This is easily avoided. If you have this problem change your Pschedule task from the simple:
It's a bit like using DoEvents? Let the Pschedule see that script is loaded.
It is better to sleep before waking, is the lesson here
"Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you
whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish
your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."
~Octavia Butler
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Posted: Tue 14 Dec 2010, 09:10
Post subject: New pet and tgz versions on mini-repository
Subject description: default stream outdated?
moB wrote:
The default media stream may be outdated/expired.
Download these at a limited-access mini-repository in a cloud near you:
If it comes up 404, try later in day or nest day.
Hourly, daily, etc.. quotas in effect..
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Posted: Thu 06 Jan 2011, 19:03
Post subject: fixed? Please confirm
Subject description: crond loads multiple copies
moB wrote:
Some users reported a strange effect with Pschedule and wakeAlarm.
The alarm script was loaded in multiple copies.
Now added a patch to stop loading multiple copies.
Download from our mini-repository (google cloud).
"Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you
whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish
your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."
~Octavia Butler
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Posted: Fri 07 Jan 2011, 05:02
Post subject:
Very naive question. I have never used pschedule.
So one tell it to wake up a certain time and then shut the computer down and it boots the same OS as one made the scedule in?????
How does it know what OS it was using when it got scheduled?
Would it not boot the OS that is first in the chain of boot order something?
Or is the computer suppose to be on the whole night?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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Posted: Thu 13 Jan 2011, 21:49
Post subject:
Subject description: bugfix
Updated to fix all known bugs.
Can customize playlist in ringtones directory properly now.
Remember, they play by alphabetical order, so name your ringtones with numbers at start of names to control sequence.
New xine can find files
Let me know if there are any new bugs!
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Posted: Thu 13 Jan 2011, 22:01
Post subject:
nooby wrote:
Very naive question. I have never used pschedule.
So one tell it to wake up a certain time and then shut the computer down and it boots the same OS as one made the scedule in?????
no question is too naive!
Pschedule is like msWin's scheduled tasks except that I don't think it can wake your sleeping system as the ms thing can.
nooby wrote:
Or is the computer suppose to be on the whole night?
If you don't like to keep your box up you need no PC-based alarm clock, it is true
Here, I need the heat.
Pschedule is a front-end for crond. I prefer to use cron directly, but this doesn't work well in Puppy... so use Pschedule to set crontab entries.
Grin away; we'll see what turns up.
--Melville, Moby dick
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Posted: Fri 14 Jan 2011, 12:52
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Subject description: Summary
Let me explain what wakeAlarm does.
Looks to see that no other windows called wakeAlarm are running.
This is to prevent crond from loading multiple copies of the alarm.
Checks to see whether user has speciifed an MRL.
If not specified it uses the builtin music stream. This allows user to choose music or video to be played after alarm is turned off.
For example, one can enjoy the morning business report or weather, music, CD, DVD, local or remote, at one's discretion.
The option is presented to the user as an alternative to simply shutting wakeAlarm off.
Builds a playlist from the ringtones directory.
New list is built at each runtime making it easy to change the ringtones to suit user preference.
The idea is to use a familiar sequence of sounds to signal one from sleep. Usually I awake before hand and listen for a minute.
When I don't wake in advance a familiar sequence rouses me easily and painlessly.
Default ringtones include short low-quality samples from Enigma, Yello's 1980 "Solid Pleasure", Blues Bros. doing "Theme from Peter Gunn", Toto, Simpsons opening from "Bart's bad day", classic cartoon laugh, & Star Trek's whistle ( just before "Star date...").
Some users have changed the ringtones to bird recordings, for example.
Plays the ringtones loop in xine fullscreen.
Delay can be set from within the script to allow for longer or shorter ringtones and control the gap between.
Loads a simple GTK interface to shut down or play MRL in new xine instance.
If shutdown's selected chimes are played. It might sound familiar to some of us
For my setup this does not use much power as the hard drives and CPU are shut down by power management.
All that is really running is the power supply and RTC (internal clock -- like a watch circuit, really).
For those on battery there is no power supply eating juce either.
Most of the package download size is samples. Comes in at around 450 KB. Takes seconds to download.
These can be replaced by symlinks to external data to save space in ones personal savefile, if one prefers.
It comes in pet and targz formats to make it easy to edit or use with other GNU/linux systems.
Semper sursum.
nooby mentioned default startup path. Usually this will lead the user to msWin.
Easily may be altered by setting "default=" enrty in boot.ini to c:\grub instead of DISC0,PARTITION0... or whatever it says.
I put an entry in menu.lst leading back to ntldr (boot.ini) in case someone intended to run it.
One could make the default setup a loop so no OS loads without user intervention.
Of course mine simply loads GNU/linux by default.
Edited for a tyop, er, typo
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Posted: Sun 26 Jan 2014, 02:15
Post subject: wakeAlarm has an update: wakeAlarm-0.06
Subject description: Alarm clock, Pschedule, Xine, pet
This update addresses comments made by a few users. The coding was done about a year ago, but not announced. Oops!
wakeAlarm for Puppy is an Xine media player script.
The Xine visualizations run while sounds are played.
[To grab a screenshot press the "t" key, otherwise all you'll get with a screen-capture is a featurless box.]
There's a choice to Stop Alarm or Play Music.
You can use your own ringtones, too. FIles may be local, on cd/dvd, or web.
Use with supplied sounds or your own sounds or video files.
You may wish to hear an hour of birdsong before some J. P. Souza marches, or morning weather and news.
The info file in the update shows you how.
To play a Youtube video enclose it in triple (nested) quotes: wakeAlarm "'http...flv'"
Download the 0.5 version and optionally upgrade to 0.6 with the 4Kb script upgrade. The update does not hold the PET, just a new script and explanatory text file.
If unsure as to where to move the new script find it installed in Puppy:
find ~/ -name wakeAlarm
or try
find / -iname wakealarm*
Shuffle playlist option added. Cleaned code up.
The command line options and use are better explained. Options do not require fiddling with the script.
Security enhancement for Puppy users explained, too (running as Spot).
wakeAlarm still depends on gtkdialog3 and Xine. You can probably rewrite it for Amarok or other players, too.
Kind regards.
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Christmas is a time for giving.
But for one McPherson family, the spirit of the season isn't about giving gifts. It's about fostering community and a sense of belonging.
Christmas is a time for giving.
But for one McPherson family, the spirit of the season isn't about giving gifts. It's about fostering community and a sense of belonging.
For about 15 years, the family of Verla Thomason has traded time in their own homes to organize McPherson's annual Community Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner.
Each year, various members of the family will coordinate volunteers, count inventory, prepare the food and welcome individuals and families to what may be the attendees' only holiday celebration.
Along with other volunteers, the family prepared food for over 600 people. On the menu was ham, salad, potatoes, beans, dessert and other food, all of which was prepared or stored in mass quantity at the McPherson Senior Center.
"This is a way we could work together and give back to the community what they've given to us," Thomason said, secretary of Community Thanksgiving, Inc., event organizing entity. "It's very rewarding because you feel like you have reached out to those needed somewhere to go for Christmas."
Although they might not have what some may consider a traditional Christmas gathering, the preparation has been come traditional for four generations of the family.
Avery McCormick, Thomason's great-grandson, has been involved since he was in elementary school. His job has always been to cut fruit."It's not what you're doing, its more the spirit of everything else....being able to give back what they've given us," he said. "We like to help other people."
The people that attend all have their own reasons for attending.
"It's all walks of life," Kimba McCormick, Thomason's daughter said, whose favorite jobs is to greet individuals at the door. "It doesn't matter if you're financially struggling or if you have money. It helps give people someone to visit with on the holidays."
Mike McCormick, in-law to Thomason, is president of the Community Thanksgiving, Inc. He said he enjoys organizing these events with his family.
"It's kind of fun to get them all together," he said. "We're a close knit family and try to do lots of things together."
And in some ways, the McPherson community has become an extension of their own family.
"We know what the giving thing is," he said. "It is better to give than receive. And we like doing it."


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O my heart goes out to you. I nurse a 4 1/2 year old but he generally just nurses once to go to sleep only some nights when he is upset or has bad dreams he still nurses more. And I have no baby to look after and nurse in addition.I am at the end of my patience with my 4 yr 2 mo old and his extreme attachment to breastfeeding.(...) He knows I will give in to him so he just waits. I am completely afraid that weaning him cold turkey will cause such emotional and psychical turmoil for him that I won't be able to do it! This is not how I wanted our breastfeeding relationship to end! Smack some sense in to me that weaning is not going to destory him or me and we'll get through it!
What I think is you need to do this slowly. I know this is hard but from what you write about him he does not seem to be a child able to cope with sudden changes. Room change and no night nursing I think is too much at the same time. I would say go for night weaning first and then end co sleeping but not both at the same time. If he is in some developmentally different this is important. The book mommal describes sounds great. I reduced the nursing by limiting where we nurse (first at home only and then only in cetain places at home). My son also does not like change (i have wondered at times if he is somewhere on the spectrum) and is very sure he will nurse until age 6. So we made a pact to only nurse at certain times and places. This took a while, despite him being very verbal and communicative so I think if he is challenged in communication this may be hard.
Also, from own experience I would seriously leave out all the "big boy" talk. I noticed in my son, the "big boy " pep talks make him behave more babyish, they do not at all help him, but rather have the opposite effect: suddenly he wants to nurse mornings again, wants baby food and generally acts the baby even more.
I think small and slow changes are much more appropriate.
my husband also is a boundaries enthusiast and blames every issue we have on my lack of settign boundaries. I have come to the conclusion this is rubbish. The boundaries we speak about should not be boundaries set for the child but MY personal boundaries made clear to the child. What I mean is talking about your own limits instead.Yeah my DH has been getting on me about boundaries for a LONG time. It really is quite pathetic on my part. He has a lot of Asperger like characteristics and I used breastfeeding as a parenting tool far too much. I stopped nursing in public a long time ago so we set the boundaries for outside of the house, I just had trouble when we were just sitting at home everyday not to mention he woke up to nurse multiple times during the night for years, so I was always so drained of energy and motivation. This whole experience has really developed me as a person, and I will definitely do better with my 2nd.
Actually I think you did fine with using bf as a tool - there are not that many other tools which work so well. Talking about boundaries is great in theory but you need to find some workable solutions.
We tried to nightwean a few weeks ago with giving him his own room and having DH sleep with him, but neither one of them were getting much sleep, so we didn't know what to do but to let him back in our room (on his twin bed next to ours). I definitely want it to be a process, but he has trouble understanding things, and communicating his feelings, when I say 'you are a big boy now and don't need 'nuns' all the time anymore' he doesn't acknowledge that he understands what I'm even saying. He just keeps saying 'I love nuns'. So maybe I just need to figure out how to get through to him in a way he understands.Dont get me wrong this is not meeant as criticism at all simply it strikes me that you tell him he does not need it and he responds (but) i love it - he may simply not want to acknowledge he does not "need" nuns because to his mind he DOES need it.'you are a big boy now and don't need 'nuns' all the time anymore' he doesn't acknowledge that he understands what I'm even saying. He just keeps saying 'I love nuns'.
Maybe try saying things like: I know you love nuns. I am tired at night, nuns are tired at night and need to sleep. so lets have nuns when you go to sleep and then again when the sun is up (or whatever time). But I would definitely stay away from the "big boy" stuff and also not tell him he does not need them. Because obviously to his mind he does need them.
Also, I think doing both at the same time - changing the location he sleeps and night weaning is too much, especially if you think he is in any way on the spectrum. Work on night weaning first i suppose, to avoid having to get up.
I think perhaps if you can figure out why he wakes so often at night, and what he uses bf for at night perhaps this may help. Does he wake up from vivid dreams perhaps?


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MORAGA, Calif. - Junior Lauren McLaughlin posted her eighth double-double of the season with 23 kills and a season-high 20 digs to lead the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team to a 26-30, 26-30, 30-28, 30-27, 15-12 win over Saint Mary's Thursday evening at the Gael's McKeon Pavilion. The win snapped the Gauchos six match losing skid and improved their record to 3-7 on the season while Saint Mary's fell to 5-4.
In addition to her team-leading kills and digs, McLaughlin posted a team-best three solo blocks in addition to three block assists in the match. Senior middle blocker Brett Quirarte notched a season-high 21 kills on 36 attempts with just three errors for a .500 clip. Quirarte also had four block assists and one solo block in the match.
Rebecca Saraceno rounded out the double-digit kill performances with 16 kills and also tallied seven digs and three block assists. Freshman setter Dana Vargas posted 56 assists in the match and also had eight digs and two blocks. Junior libero Leigh Stephenson collected 14 scoops and two aces while freshman Caitlin Saxton had 10 digs and an ace. Freshman Kasey Kipp chipped in five block assists in the win.
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Trailing 12-10 in the final game, UCSB staged a 5-0 run that included three Gael attack errors, to capture the 15-12 victory.
UCSB will continue action in the Bay Area on Friday when they open the Santa Clara Invitational with a match versus Notre Dame at 4:30 pm at Santa Clara's Leavey Center.


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American Power Conversion (APC), a global provider of UPS systems, uses SQL Server as the back end for a number of applications, including Siebel call center, sales, and field-service modules; Web infrastructure; and homegrown manufacturing software. Worldwide, the company has more than 60 SQL Servers containing databases exceeding a total of 1TB in disk storage. Each SQL Server runs approximately 10 jobs every day, so the whole system runs close to 600 jobs daily, performing a variety of functions that include database backups, script transfers for Web sites, and auditing. To perform daily routine checks, DBAs had to log into every server. Thus, a DBA would spend an average of an hour every day checking different SQL Servers for failed jobs. APC needed a centralized management tool that would keep track of failed jobs, alert DBAs worldwide, and publish the alerts on the Web. The company also needed to monitor front-end Web servers not only for failed jobs, but also for performance metrics such as CPU utilization, memory utilization, and status of services. In addition, internal and external auditors wanted to see daily reports of jobs running on all SQL Servers globally and their status. To meet all these needs, I decided that I needed to build a monitoring and alerting tool to centrally monitor all tiers of our Web and customer relationship management (CRM) infrastructure, which includes hardware load balancers, Web servers, the OS, and databases. Our solution would also let internal and external auditors see from a centralized location all jobs running on all tiers and their success or failure.
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The solution wouldn't be easy, but it was possible. The tools I used to create this monitoring solution were SQL Server, Visual Studio .NET, T-SQL, Data Transformation Services (DTS), and SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. To bring information from all these parts together, I created a centralized monitoring Web site that had several links that would display the information DBAs needed about SQL Servers, Siebel applications, APC's Web infrastructure, and OS scheduled tasks. Figure 1, shows what the monitoring site's home page looks like.
SQL Server monitoring. To create a comprehensive SQL Server monitoring solution, I used SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) to create a Windows Service that polls all APC SQL Servers worldwide every 10 minutes. The service stores information—such as failed jobs, time of failure, and reason for failure—in a SQL Server table. Then, per auditor requirements, the service pulls status information for all jobs running on all SQL Servers globally and stores the information in a different table. After the information is in the database, the solution groups the servers by region and sends an email message to the DBAs who are on call at that time, notifying them of the jobs' status. Finally, the service publishes the information on the central monitoring Web site.
Siebel monitoring. I created this part of the solution a couple of years ago. My Seibel monitoring tool gathers information about Siebel jobs by using a combination of Windows NT batch files that run commands to send status information to text files. I used DTS T-SQL scripts (because they weren't delimited) to parse the text files and store them in a SQL Server table. Because the data wasn't delimited, I had to take the raw data and parse it to get meaningful information from it.
Another important part of my Siebel-monitoring tool is monitoring replication of Siebel data between geographically dispersed servers in the United States, Ireland, and Singapore. The only way to do this was to monitor specific folders in the Siebel installation that contained .dx files (native Siebel replication files).
If the number of files was greater than 50 at any location, the increase would indicate a backlog in the replication process. To capture this information, I used Visual Basic .NET code that runs in a Windows Service and stores the required information in a SQL Server table, just as I did with my SQL Server monitoring tool.
Because I already had the Siebel monitoring tool, all I needed to do to integrate it with my new monitoring solution was to take the data from the SQL Server table, send alerts, and publish the information on the monitoring Web site. The Siebel page contains information not only about jobs running in Siebel, but also the status of outbound email messages to field service engineers that workflows (Siebel application processes) running within Siebel generate.
Web infrastructure monitoring. I subdivided the Web monitoring part of the solution into three categories: hardware load balancers, Web servers, and SQL Server back end. APC's six hardware load balancers maintain a workload balance for several servers in a farm (or group of servers) that have a unique farm name. Each of these servers has its own IP address, and at any time, users might be connected to servers that are active in a farm. Servers around the world are divided into two regions: EMEA (Europe) and NAM (North America). I could get all the information our DBAs needed about a hardware load balancer by using the specific Management Information Base (MIB) commands. However, the information is in separate text files. I used T-SQL to combine the text-file information into one table, which I then published on the central monitoring Web site. The Web page shows DBAs each farm, the servers in the farm (servers can be in more than one farm), and each server's status, IP address, number of attached users, and region.
The second part of Web monitoring was getting information about Web servers. I set up a Windows Service that polls all Web servers every 2 minutes. The service gathers data about CPU utilization, memory utilization, Microsoft IIS connections, and the status of Web Services and Cold Fusion Services and stores this data in a SQL Server table. The Windows Service then uses T-SQL to aggregate the information and publish it on the monitoring Web site. DBAs use the published information to calculate resource availability and usage. I also created another Windows Service that gathers similar information from the Web back end for reporting purposes. I used Reporting Services to compile the information the Windows Service collects into graphs and charts for trending. Reporting Services automatically publishes the charts on the monitoring Web site every month so that management can access them.
OS scheduled tasks. Monitoring OS tasks—such as scheduled batch-file executions and custom data-transfer jobs—was the last piece I added to APC's monitoring solution. I gathered task-status information from Windows NT scheduler, Macromedia Cold Fusion Task Scheduler, 24X7 WinPro Scheduler, and NSI Double-Take scheduler, primarily in the form of log files and COM-based access. Then, I used T-SQL to parse the information I'd gathered and compile it into scheduled DTS packages and store the information in SQL Server. The monitoring Web site gets OS information that the DBAs need from SQL Server.
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Once we'd successfully deployed the complete monitoring solution, APC saw the benefits immediately. Support calls logged at our Help desks for problems related to Siebel, SQL Server, or the Web dropped by 80 percent because we were alerted to problems well before end users noticed them. APC could regularly meet its service level agreements (SLAs). Availability of the SQL Server and Siebel platforms increased to 99 percent. Before this tool was in place, jobs sometimes failed repeatedly, and the failures would often go unnoticed because of the sheer number of servers DBAs had to monitor. Now, failed jobs are detected and fixed immediately. Our Web commerce revenue is directly tied to the availability of our commerce Web infrastructure, so this solution has helped increase the overall revenue for the company—which, in the end, is what really matters. Overall, we had happy end users, increased revenue, and increased platform availability.
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Shaheen vs. sugar: The senator's good fightEDITORIAL
February 16. 2013 2:53AM
If U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen succeeds in reforming the absurd and costly U.S. sugar subsidy regime, Americans will save billions of dollars on sugar and sweetened foods and beverages. She came close two years ago, and everyone should hope her new effort succeeds.

Last Thursday, on Valentine's Day, Shaheen introduced a new version of her bill, written with Sens. Mark Kirk, R-Il, and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., to reduce federal price supports for U.S. sugar producers. In the past, Shaheen has tried to end the price supports entirely. This bill does not go that far, unfortunately, but it probably has a better chance of passing because of that.
The federal government has developed a crazy system of regulations and subsidies that artificially inflate the price of sugar sold in the United States. In the 30 years from 1982 to 2012, the average price of sugar in the USA was more than twice the world price (29.1 cents vs. 14.4 cents per pound), University of Michigan economist Mark Perry noted in an analysis for the American Enterprise institute last week.
Last year alone, the price supports cost U.S. consumers $3 billion.
The protections supposedly save jobs in the sugar industry. But a 2006 U.S. Commerce Department study concluded that "(f)or each one sugar growing and harvesting job saved through high U.S. sugar prices, nearly three confectionery manufacturing jobs are lost."
That is, to protect a handful of major sugar producers, the government hurts candy makers like Lindt in Stratham, as well as every U.S. consumer who buys anything containing sugar.
Shaheen has taken the lead in the Senate in fighting these subsidies.
Though she continues to support other wasteful subsidy programs, such as those for "green energy," she deserves credit for coming to the aid of Lindt and American consumers by going after the unjustifiable sugar price supports.


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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Greenpeace director Kumi Naidoo has a packed agenda at the World Economic Forum; the South African human rights activist, who a decade ago faced down riot police in Davos with thousands of other protesters, is being courted by big business.
"All my meetings with the CEOs are requested by them and not by me," Naidoo told Reuters inside the WEF congress centre, between constant interruptions as delegates stopped to greet the head of the world's biggest environmental group.
Naidoo said one CEO told him why he is in such demand: "He said 'Some of my peers are desperate to get you at the table because they hope that they then might not be on your menu'."
A survey by public relations company Edelman released this week shows non-governmental organisations (NGOs) remain the most publicly trusted of institutions, scoring 63 percent, beating business and government, which polled 58 percent and 48 percent.
"NGOs are now themselves superbrands. The global ones are now working not as a protest movement but as consultants with big companies," said Richard Edelman, who heads the firm.
Even Greenpeace, which has built its reputation on daring stunts to publicize corporate misdeeds, has started working with big business in recent years, for example teaming up with Coca-Cola to develop more environmentally friendly refrigeration.
Naidoo, who posted a blog defending his attendance at Davos in response to incredulous messages he received ahead of the meeting, denies that this kind of collaboration is a sell-out.
"Ethically there is no contradiction in it. If a company does something positive, then we should push them, work with them, share expertise," he said. "Greenpeace has a policy. No permanent friends. No permanent enemies."
As Naidoo schmoozed with executives, Greenpeace activists shut down a Shell petrol station near Davos to protest against the oil firm's drilling program in the Arctic by chaining themselves to fuel pumps. Others dressed as polar bears prowled the streets and tried to get into the WEF conference centre.
"Frankly, I'd rather be risking arrest and taking part in an act of peaceful civil disobedience," said Naidoo, who has participated in several risky protest occupations of oil rigs.
"But if we are going to make it through the unelected, unrepresentative, super-powerful people prowling the corridors of Davos, we will need to be inside," he wrote in his blog.
Militants opposed to the WEF claimed responsibility for small explosions on Thursday that broke a window at a Zurich branch of Credit Suisse CSGN.VX and blew up the postbox of Glencore (GLEN.L) boss Ivan Glasenberg.
But protest has been less visible this year compared with the igloo camp set up by "Occupy" activists in 2012.
"Occupy Wall Street has diminished, but the frustration and uncertainty that motivated that is still there," said Don Baer, head of public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, adding that Davos was a good platform to build trust between CEOs and NGOs.
"What's most important is not what happens at Davos but what happens afterwards," he said.
Greenpeace announced in Davos that an online public vote had chosen Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) as this year's Public Eye award for "worst company", while a jury award went to U.S. bank Goldman Sachs (GS.N). www.publiceye.ch/en/vote/
"It is wrong for environmentalists to assume villainy," said Mark Tercek, a former Goldman Sachs banker who now runs The Nature Conservancy, a U.S. environmental non-profit organization that works closely with companies from Dow Chemical to Rio Tinto.
"It makes good business sense to care about the environment," Tercek said. "It doesn't cost that much more to do it right. It might even speed you up."
David Jones, chief executive of advertising firm Havas EURC.PA, said most companies had moved beyond the "green-washing" epitomized by oil giant BP's (BP.N) attempt to rebrand itself Beyond Petroleum that ultimately crumbled after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
"The more progressive CEOs get the fact that business needs to change," he said. "In the new world, the price of doing well is doing good. My advice is move fast, be honest and don't think for one second you can cover things up."
Rhonda Zygocki, responsible for government and public affairs at oil major Chevron (CVX.N), agreed: "The social performance of our companies is becoming much more important than our operating performance."
But Barbara Stocking, head of British-based anti-poverty group Oxfam, which has partnered with Anglo-Dutch consumer goods group Unilever (ULVR.L), says NGOs still have to be on their guard.
"You have to be very clear about your principles or there is a danger of being co-opted," she said.
Tercek of The Nature Conservancy shares those fears: "The world needs skeptics, it needs watchdogs. We might be taken advantage of. I don't think you can wear both hats."
And Naidoo of Greenpeace still has his reservations about the merits of pacing the overheated corridors of the WEF.
"On the inside, we are challenging the narrative. How successfully? I would say marginally so," he said.
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CRESTVIEW � Northwood Elementary School, with the Okaloosa County School Board's approval, soon will become Northwood Arts and Science Academy.
CRESTVIEW � Northwood Elementary School, with the Okaloosa County School Board's approval, soon will become Northwood Arts and Science Academy.
The academy, more than two years in the making, reflects the school district's focus on S.T.E.A.M. � Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. The former curriculum, S.T.E.M., added the arts component following evidence that arts education spurs success in the other areas, Northwood assistant principal Barry Blackburn said.
"First, we're looking at an arts integration programming � putting that art into the curriculum," he said. "When they do that, it typically raises test scores. That's what we're trying to look at first and build on that: build arts, drama, dance and music curricula, as well as advanced sciences."
Northwood Arts and Science Academy will accept students from other north county schools, school superintendent Mary Beth Jackson said, indicating that at least 80 spots could be available for students from outside Northwood's zone, including Baker and Laurel Hill School students.
Fostering a love of arts
When the former Richbourg Middle School moved out of the complex it shared with Northwood in 2008 and became Shoal River Middle School, it left behind refurbished visual and performing arts studios and science labs. Then teacher Glen Neese brought violins and guitars with him when he began a music program at Northwood.
Until his retirement last June, Neese's classes grew to include vocal and instrumental music and performance art basics. His classes annually presented school programs for holidays including Christmas, Martin Luther King Day and Memorial Day.
Crestview native Penni Byrd continued the program.
Her second-grade students demonstrated instrumental and vocal skills as they performed "Rain," a piece incorporating African drums, rain sticks, xylophones and other percussion instruments, at the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce�s March breakfast.
Students provided musical and vocal accompaniment to Byrd's reading of the Lisa Wheeler children�s book, �Ugly Pie.�
"We have a lot of parents in Okaloosa County who don't realize the impact that having an arts program makes, keeping their kids engaged at school," Blackburn said. "We have great music programs in our (middle and high) schools, and I think we could have even better ones if we could just catch them at a young age.
�That's why it's important to get the arts going at a young age and foster that love."
Want to help?
Northwood Arts and Science Academy�s next organizational meeting is 6 p.m. April 11 in the Northwood Elementary School art room. Contact Principal Jacqueline Craig for more information, 689-7252.
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- Or at least entanglement. Remember you get +1XP for killing slowed critters. So at least entangle before you kill any lvl 1s
- WHAT!? Killing plants? At least you realized it.
- Engtangle, entangle, entangle.
- Why did you Plantation > Clearance immediately? At least look to see if there are any plants in your way.
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Edge of existence
Review "Save the Ark, or escape it?" The choice initially offered to players upon loading up Brink, Splash Damage's latest first-person shooter. What's the Ark you ask? A last bastion of humanity, following worldwide flooding caused by the rising of the oceans – darned global warming!
Hit and miss
After a period of peace the Ark has split into factions, a result of the rich living in their ivory towers, high above the slums of the poor. Before you can mutter the word 'uprising' the Resistance has formed, vowing to escape the Ark in the belief that not all of humanity has perished in the flood after all. The Founders, those in charge of the Ark, don't fancy losing the cheap labour which so cushions their hedonistic lifestyle, and so battle lines are drawn.
Not the most original plot then, but Brink is a game of action and strategy rather than allegory; most aptly demonstrated by the fact that this is a multiplayer game only, without even a hint of a single-player campaign. Sure, it's possible to practice against bots offline, but it's online where the game is meant to be played – if you've never bothered to network your console, this isn't the game for you.
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Once you've picked which side you want to be on – don't worry you're free to swap sides at your leisure – you're faced with the character creation screen. Given Brink's cartoon style it's actually quite fun to mix and match styles, with progress unlocking ever more crazy clothes, hair styles, etc., too. Right now, my avatar looks like something out of Swamp Thing, decked out with green dreads and matching mask; striking I think you'll find.


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McRae, Emma Montgomery (1848-1919) | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Emma Montgomery McRae, born February 12, 1848, at Loveland, Ohio; died September 21, 1919 at Newton Center, Massachusetts.
Mrs. McRae was born at Loveland, Ohio, and at five years of age she moved with her parents to Indiana. Her early education was obtained from private tutors, among whom her father, who was a Methodist minister, held a prominent place. Later she attended private and public schools, and finally took a course in Brookville Academy. She was granted the degree of Master of Arts from Wooster College in Ohio. Mrs. McRae began teaching in the public schools of Vevay. From there she went to Muncie, where she served as principal of the high school from 1867 to 1888. It was in Muncie that she married Hamilton S. McRae, who was superintendent of Muncie schools. In 1887 she came to Purdue to take the position of professor of English Literature and lady principal. Mrs. McRae spent twenty-six years at Purdue. In 1913 she retired under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation, where she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. S. Hardy Mitchell of Newton Center, Massachusetts.
In addition to the work Mrs. McRae did in the classroom, she deserves special mention for what she did among the teachers of the state. She was a pioneer in the work of the institutes. She was the only woman so honored in Indiana to be chosen the President of the State Teachers' Association.
Socially she occupied a very high position. She was a delightful hostess and was never so happy as when her apartments in the Ladies' Hall were the scene of some social gathering. Her annual Easter Monday reception was always brilliant and the invitation list was always large.
No one had more devoted friends among the people of Lafayette. But, naturally, it was at Purdue that her influence was strongest. Her fine literary sense, the very essence of her idealism, was always in evidence; her wonderful judgment was always ready, and her sympathy was swift. As a public speaker, she won not only by the power of her thought and the eloquence of her manner, but also by the sweetness of her soul.
Her funeral was held in Muncie at the home of Miss Elizabeth Willard. It was the same home that had received Mrs. McRae when she went to Muncie as a teacher.
President Stone represented the University and began his address with the words: "At this moment the flag at Purdue University hangs at half-mast in memory of Mrs. McRae."
And this, it must seem to all of us, is the heart of the whole matter, silence - more eloquent than words - and the flag at half-mast - the flag that she had lived to see thrice assailed, thrice triumphant.
Mrs. McRae loved the flag, loved her country. She loved the State of Indiana - she was proud of being a Hoosier. Mrs. McRae loved Purdue, and when she found last June that she would not be able to come to us, she wrote: "It breaks my heart not to be with you." And we know that Mrs. McRae died with the Purdue love in her heart.
From her son-in-law we have the account of her last conscious utterance. He had performed some kindly service for her, and she had rallied for the moment: "O, bless your sweet soul!" And thus passed out of her midst this gentlest and sweetest of souls, that had walked with us and talked with us, as teacher and friend.
This was taken from the Memorial for Mrs. McRae, written by Dean Carolyn Shoemaker, and appeared in The Purdue Alumnus, vol. 7, no. 1, October 1919, p. 5.


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Kuntz to raise funds for fire department Saturday
PUNXSUTAWNEY — A local car dealer is holding a fundraiser Saturday in order to raise money for the Punxsutawney Fire Department.
Geoffrey Brackman, general manager of Kuntz Chevrolet Buick in Punxsutawney, said he's had an idea for a while to hold a special benefit for the fire department.
"Bill Williams, a Punxsutawney volunteer firefighter who works with me here at Kuntz's, would always tell me about the various needs that the fire department has," Brackman said, adding that one day, while traveling to work, he came up with an idea to put on an annual benefit for the fire department.
"I didn't know what it was going to look like or how it was going to shake out," he said.
"I just thought with all the space I have over here, and with not much happening on the East End of town, I thought I could do something that would benefit the fire department and also benefit the community at the same time," Brackman said.
He said Williams proposed the idea to the other members of the fire department and, eventually, they had a meeting with all three of the fire companies.
"We sat down; we talked; and we worked through some ideas," he said.
"The whole purpose of this event — regardless of what type of entertainment that we have — our goal is to raise $1,000 for each fire company, Central, Elk Run and Lindsey," Brackman said.
"So we are trying to raise $3,000 total through direct donations from businesses, and the community can give on the day of the event," he said.
Brackman said Kuntz's will have buckets located throughout the area for people to donate, with the proceeds going to the Punxsutawney Fire Department.
"We're asking that people come out with their pocket change, dollar bills and checks made out to the fire company," Brackman said, adding that the second way people can give back to the fire company is by purchasing hot dogs and hamburgers.
Kuntz Motors will provide all of the food, with the proceeds to go toward the fire company, he said. The cost is two hot dogs for $1, a hamburger for $1 and pop and water for 50 cents, he said. The food will be available from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Kuntz's.
"We want the price to be low enough that families can come out and have a good time," Brackman said.
The fire department will be bringing some of its apparatus, which will be on display in the used car lot, he said.
Brackman said Kuntz's will have some special activities during the event:
• 11 a.m. — A presentation on what drivers should do when they are involved in an accident; and how to change a tire.
• 1 p.m. — Free trade-in evaluations. Drivers should park their vehicles along Elk Street if they want Kuntz Motors to evaluate it.
"I need the community to come out and help us, so we can make this an annual event," Brackman said.
The fundraiser is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Kuntz Motors on East Mahoning Street in Punxsutawney.


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The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy men's and women's swimming and diving teams will compete in the Landmark Conference Championships this Friday through Sunday, February 10th-12th at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
For the women's team, Freshman Jacqueline White, (pictured right) from Oradell, NJ has been a standout performer all season long for the Mariners. Kings Point looks to improve their rank in the conference standings in an attempt to break a variety of Academy records.
On the men's side, USMMA has enjoyed another dominant regular season and could be poised to claim an unprecedented fifth consecutive Landmark title and 11th Conference title. The Mariners boast a great deal of depth and have many competitors ranked at the top of the seed times entering the meet. The duo of Senior Frank Vita and Freshman Kevin Lindgren (pictured left) has performed well in a variety of events and the team has reloaded its diving corps led by Sophomore Devan Bailey. The Mariners won the title by 125.5 points over Susquehanna last season.
Below is a schedule of this weekend's events:
(Subject to Change)
Friday AM - Preliminary Swimming - 10:30am
Friday PM - Preliminary Diving - approx 1:00 pm
Friday PM - Swim/Dive Finals - approx 6:00 pm
Saturday AM - Preliminary Swimming - 10:30am
Saturday PM - Preliminary Diving - approx 1:00 pm
Saturday PM - Swim/Dive Finals - approx 6:00 pm
Sunday AM - Preliminary Swimming - 10:30am
Sunday PM - 1650 - approx 1:00 pm
Sunday PM - Swim Finals - approx 6:00 pm
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