Newsletter January 18, 2002

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                       Friday, January 18, 2002
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              ___I N   T H I S   W E E K S   I S S U E___
                                   
     1.   WHAT'S NEW IN COUNTRY HOMETOWN THIS WEEK
          -    CHT People
          -    CHT Sports
          -    CHT Photo Spot
     2.   PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
     3.   TECH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION
          -    Windows 95 Emergency Recovery
     4.   COOL E-ZINES - E-MAIL NEWSLETTERS
          -    Grammar Check
          -    USA Today
     5.   INTERNET NEWS
          -  AOL Instant Messenger Vulnerable
          -    Trouble for Microsoft
          -    Harvard University E-mail Rejected as Spam by AOL
     6.   FEATURED SITE OF THE WEEK
          -    Toilet World (That’s right – you’ve got to read this)
     7.   COOL SITES OF THE WEEK
          -    General Sites
          -    Christian Magazine Sites by Category
          
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               WHAT'S NEW IN COUNTRY HOMETOWN THIS WEEK
                                   
     
     CHT PEOPLE
     Besides  running  two  businesses,  Muff’s  Window  Cleaning  and
     Weather-Teck East, Inc., Greg Muffie also spends a  lot  of  time
     working  with  the youth in his community.  To  read  the  entire
     story, go to:
     http://www.countryhometown.com/frontpage/people.shtml
     
     
     CHT SPORTS
     Check out the current sports photos!  Go to:
     http://www.countryhometown.com/features/features.shtml?feature=c
     htsports
                (cut and paste address in address bar)
     
     CHT  is accepting sports photos from your school or organization.
     Please contact Mary Gess at 724-567-2302 for more information.
     
     
     CHT PHOTO SPOT
     Great  photos of Hyde Park Elementary School in 1937 sent  in  by
     Roy Kunkle Jr.  Go to:
     http://www.countryhometown.com/frontpage/photo.shtml
     
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                      PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
     
     
     
     FERDINAND THE BULL
     http://www.countryhometown.com/topics/theater.shtml?community
     =0&category=0&.submit=Submit+Query
                (cut and paste address in address bar)
     
     
     A WEEK IN JULY AT CLUB LAGA
     http://www.countryhometown.com/topics/music.shtml?community=0
     &category=0&.submit=Submit+Query
                (cut and paste address in address bar)
     
     
     SESAME STREET LIVE-LET’S BE FRIENDS
     http://www.countryhometown.com/topics/music.shtml?community=0
     &category=0&.submit=Submit+Query
                (cut and paste address in address bar)
     
     
     DAWN UPSHAW AT KATZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
     http://www.countryhometown.com/topics/music.shtml?community=0
     &category=0&.submit=Submit+Query
                (cut and paste address in address bar)
     
     
     LEONARDO DA VINCI LECTURE SERIES
     http://www.countryhometown.com/topics/culture.shtml?community
     =0&county=0&category=0&.submit=Submit+Query
                (cut and paste address in address bar)
     
     
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              EFFICIENT, UP TO DATE AND EARNING YOU MONEY
                                   
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                      TECH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION
     
     Windows 95 Emergency Recovery
     
     If  you use Windows 95 look for a Microsoft utility, on  your
     original  Win 95 CD, called ERU.exe - the Emergency  Recovery
     Utility. Look for the folder:
     
     d:\other\misc\eru
     
     (where  'd:'  is the letter of your CD drive) and  copy  that
     folder  to  your  hard drive. No particular  installation  is
     needed. The associated text file explains how ERU.exe  can be
     used  to  back  up,  and  in  troubled  times,  revert  to  a
     previously backed up instance of your key configuration files
     (the registry and so on).
     
     The  Emergency Recovery Utility was dropped from  Windows  98
     but the files from Windows 95 still work with Windows 98.
     
     A  tip:  Don't  accept the default and try to back  up  to  a
     floppy  disk  - the disk probably won't be big  enough.  Just
     select  the  hard drive back up alternative and  back  up  to
     C:\ERD.  Why  is  this default not C:\ERU?  Ask  the  not-so-
     logical programmers.
                                           [Source: Woody’s Watch]
     
             [Any Tech Support advice is at your own risk]
                                   
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                    FEATURED COOL SITE OF THE WEEK
                                   
                          TOILET PAPER WORLD
                    http://www.toiletpaperworld.com
                                   
     It  had  to  happen.  Now you can buy toilet  paper  on  line!
     Consumers  Interstate  Corp., a leading distributor  of  paper
     products  throughout  New  England and  the  Northeast,  today
     announced  the launch of ToiletPaperWorld.com,  a  new  online
     retail  destination  offering  business,  institutional,   and
     residential shoppers the Internet's most comprehensive variety
     of  paper  products and industrial supplies for the  home  and
     office. Who said the Internet wasn’t useful?
     
                         [Source: PC Magazine]
     
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                             INTERNET NEWS
     
     AOL’S INSTANT MESSENGER VULNERABLE
     eWeek  is  reporting that Version 4.7.2480 of AOL's  popular
     Instant  Messenger client software has a security hole  that
     leaves  the  client  PC vulnerable to attack.  According  to
     eWeek,  "When an attacker sends a specially crafted  message
     to  another  user, the message can overrun the buffer  space
     that is allotted for such requests and allow the attacker to
     execute  whatever code he chooses to embed in the  message."
     [Source: PC Magazine]
     
     
     TROUBLE FOR MICROSOFT
     Microsoft's legal troubles looked as if they were  about  to
     come  to  an end last fall, but with more than half a  dozen
     states refusing to go along with the proposed resolution  of
     the  vast anti-trust case, it's beginning to look like  2002
     will,  in  some ways, look a lot like 2001 for the  software
     giant. [Source: PC Magazine]
     
     
     HARVARD E-MAILS REJECTED AS SPAM BY AOL
     Dozens of Harvard University applicants didn’t get admissions
     notices   by  e-mail  last  month,  because  America   Online
     computers read the messages as spam and kicked them  back  to
     the  school.  Harvard sent the e-mail notices to about  6,000
     applicants  seeking early admission, explaining whether  they
     had  been admitted, rejected or deferred. AOL flagged between
     75  and 100 of the messages as e-mail “spam” and bounced them
     back to the college. An AOL spokesman said he’s not sure why.
     Harvard  said it would post a message on its Web site telling
     applicants to make sure their e-mail provider allows messages
     from the school. [Source: AP]
     
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                C O O L   S I T E S   T H I S   W E E K
                                   
     
     ___GENERAL SITES___
     
     Pennsylvania Farm Show
     http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Agriculture/bureaus/farm_sh
     ow/2002/welcome/welcome.htm
     It’s  a long URL, but worth the visit. The Pennsylvania Farm
     show  ran January 5th through the 10th. A 16-acre farm show,
     it is the largest farm show in the United States.
     
     Epenndot Official Information
     http://www.epenndot.com/#
     Thus  is a fine example of a state agency using the Internet
     to  communicate information. If you travel in the Pittsburgh
     area and want to know about construction sites with updates,
     go  here.  This is not only a smartly designed site,  but  a
     very practical one. Be sure to sign up for e-mail updates.
     
     ___CHRISTIAN MAGAZINES AND SITES___
     
     ALIVE MAGAZINE
     http://www.alivemagazine.com.au/
     
     CHARISMA & CHRISTIAN LIFE
     http://www.charismamag.com/
     
     CHRISTIAN READER
     http://www.christianity.net/cr/current/
     
     CHRISTIANITY TODAY
     http://www.christianity.net/ct/current/
     
     CHRISTIAN WEEK
     http://www.christianweek.org/
     
     CONNECTION MAGAZINE
     http://www.connectionmagazine.org/current/contents.htm
     
     FAIR DINKUM
     http://mail.iweb.net.au/~dinkum/default2.htm
     From Australia
     
     FOCUS MAGAZINE
     http://www.focusmagazine.org/
     All issues are in Adobe's Acrobat Reader format.
     
     MARANATHA CHRISTIAN JOURNAL
     http://www.mcjonline.com/
     
     NATIONAL OUTLOOK ONLINE
     http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wfnev/
     From Australia
     
     NET 153 CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE
     http://www.net153.com/
     
     THE ULSTER CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE ONLINE
     http://www.ucmag.com/default.asp
     From Northern Ireland
     
     VIRTUAL CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE
     http://www.kubik.org/vcm/
     
     ___DISCIPLESHIP & CHRISTIAN GROWTH___
     
     BEYOND MAGAZINE
     http://www.beyondmag.com/
     
     
     OUTREACH
     http://www.coc.org.au/outreach/magazine.html
     All issues are in Adobe's Acrobat Reader format.
     
     PROCLAIM IT!
     http://www.proclaimit.org/
     
     QUADLIBET
     http://www.foutz.net/quodlibet/index.shtml
     
     THE ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINE
     http://homepages.tesco.net/~AlternatMag/
     
     THE EXPOSITORY FILES
     http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4051/
     
     THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE
     http://www.m2g.com/hitchhike/
     
     THE UPPER ROOM ONLINE
     http://www.upperroom.org/
     
     WORLDWIDE CHALLENGE
     http://www.wwcmagazine.org/index.html
     
     ___MARRIAGE & FAMILIES___
     
     ALL ABOUT FAMILIES
     http://www.allaboutfamilies.org/
     
     CHRISTIAN PARENTING TODAY
     http://www.christianity.net/cpt/current/
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
     http://www.family.org/fofmag/
     
     MARRIAGE PARTNERSHIP
     http://www.christianity.net/mp/current/
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     ___WOMEN___
     
     CHRISTIAN WOMEN TODAY
     http://www.crusade.org/wto/
     
     GENTLE SPIRIT
     http://www.gentlespirit.com/
     
     SPIRIT LED WOMAN
     http://www.spiritledwoman.com/
     
     TODAYS CHRISTIAN WOMAN
     http://www.christianity.net/tcw/current/
     
     VIRTUE
     http://www.christianity.net/virtue/current/
     
     ___MEN___
     
     NEW MAN
     http://www.newmanmag.com/
     
     MEN OF INTEGRITY
     http://www1.christianity.net/menofintegrity/
     
     THE PROMISE KEEPER
     http://www.promisekeepers.org/PromiseKeeper/
     
     ___TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS___
     
     BOUNDLESS WEBZINE
     http://www.boundless.org/
     
     BREAKAWAY MAGAZINE
     http://www.family.org/teenguys/breakmag/
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     BRIO MAGAZINE
     http://www.family.org/girls/briomag/index.cfm?r=y
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     CAMPUS LIFE
     http://www.christianity.net/campuslife/current/
     
     CHRISTIAN YOUTH NEWS
     http://www.christianteens.net/cyn/
     
     HOSANNA
     http://www.metroevents.com/limaweb/hosanna/
     
     THE WORD
     http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/focus/TheWord.html
     
     WEB JUMP
     http://ntl.webjump.com/rock
     
     YOUTHWALK ONLINE
     http://www.youthwalk.org/
     
     ___CATHOLIC___
     
     CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS
     http://www.cwnews.com/
     
     CULTURE WARS
     http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/archives.htm
     
     DAILY CATHOLIC
     http://www.dailycatholic.org/enter.htm
     
     EDGES MAGAZINE
     http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~edges/online/index.htm
     
     ST. ANTHONY MESSENGER
     http://www.americancatholic.org/sam_home.html
     
     THE CATHOLIC WITNESS
     http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/7606/
     
     COMMONWEAL
     http://commonwealmagazine.org/
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     US CATHOLIC
     http://www.uscatholic.org/
     
     SPIRITUALITY FOR TODAY
     http://www.spirituality.org/
     
     ___PROPHESY___
     
     NEWSWATCH MAGAZINE
     http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/
     
     DI PROPHETIC DIGEST
     http://www.reapernet.com/di/did/index.html
     
     ___HOME SCHOOLING___
     
     CHRISTIAN HOME & SCHOOL
     http://www.gospelcom.net/csi/chs/9905/index.html
     
     ECLECTIC HOMESCHOOL ONLINE
     http://eho.org/
     
     HOME SCHOOL DIGEST
     http://www.homeschooldigest.com/hsd.htm
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     HOMESCHOOLING TODAY
     http://www.homeschooltoday.com/home.htm
     
     ___MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT___
     
     EXITZINE
     http://www.exitzine.com/
     
     JT'S CHRISTIAN RECORD REVIEW
     http://www.comteck.com/~tinklejw/
     
     7BALL ONLINE
     http://www.7ball.com/
     
     CCM MAGAZINE
     http://www.ccmcom.com/ccmmag/99aug/
     
     ___COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY___
     
     CHRISTIAN COMPUTING MAGAZINE
     http://www.gospelcom.net/ccmag/
     
     COMPUTING TODAY MAGAZINE
     http://www.christianity.net/compt/current/
     Quasi-online edition of print publication
     
     ___SPECIAL SUBJECTS___
     
     LEADERSHIP
     http://www.christianity.net/leadership/current/
     
     BOOKS AND CULTURE
     http://www.christianity.net/bc/current/
     
     CHRISTIAN HISTORY ONLINE WEEKLY MAGAZINE
     http://www.christianity.net/christianhistory/current/
     
     COMMUNIQUE
     http://www.communiquejournal.org/
     A quarterly literary and arts journal
     
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