Newsletter January 18, 2005

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                      RIVERS, RAILS and BACKROADS
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                       Tuesday January 18, 2005
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           Don’t Miss the January Alle-Kiski Today Magazine
           Now available at area outlets ~ Read these great
                Stories and watch the interviews online
                                   
     * An Intimate Story on Sgt. Lonny Wells Courageous Sacrifice
        * Read the Varsity Girl’s Basketball Coaches Interviews
            * The New Kensington U. S. Army Reserve Center
             * Highlands School District Excellence Award
             * New Kensington Church Expands Its Ministry
               * Locally Manufactured Handcrafted Stone
                  * How One Person Makes a Difference
                                   
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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
     
       1.   TODAY IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY ONLINE
           * Valley Sports Complex Offers Much To Community
       2.   WEATHER FORECAST
       3.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * Poodle Pup Toy & Poodle Pups Standard
       4.   COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
           * Fake shipping messages
       5.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * The utopian Harmony Society
       6.   OUR HEALTH WEB SITES THIS WEEK
           * Medical glossary and cancer information
       7.   TODAY’S SPORTS SITE
           * CDC Healthy Swimming
       8.   TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITE
           * Terrorism   Groups,   NASA’s  Fast   Scramjet,   State
               policies
                                   
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     TODAY IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
     
     Valley Sports Complex Offers Much To Community
     http://alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1709
     
     Don Abel, Managing Partner The Valley Sports Complex is barely
     a year old and it already is a big hit with the community.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     Tuesday. Partly cloudy. Highs around 16. West winds  5  to  10
     mph.  Lowest  wind chill readings as low as 11  below  in  the
     morning.  Tuesday  night.  Mostly cloudy.  A  chance  of  snow
     showers after midnight. Low around 10 above. South winds 10 to
     15  mph. Chance of snow 50 percent. Lowest wind chill readings
     as low as 6 below after midnight. Wednesday. Mostly cloudy.  A
     chance  of  snow  showers in the morning.  Then  snow  showers
     likely  in  the afternoon. Light snow accumulations  possible.
     Not  as  cold with highs around 30. West winds 10 to  20  mph.
     Chance  of snow 60 percent. Lowest wind chill readings as  low
     as 6 below in the morning. Wednesday night. Mostly cloudy with
     a  50 percent chance of snow showers. Low around 20. Thursday.
     Partly  cloudy.  Highs  in  the mid 20s.  Thursday  night  and
     Friday.  Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 15. Highs in the  mid  20s.
     Friday  night. Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow after midnight.
     Lows 15 to 20. Chance of snow 30 percent.
     
               Alle-Kiski Today weather is a direct feed
              From the National Weather Service. Be sure
          To check it online for your latest weather report.
     
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     Gloria’s  Kitchen  and Healthy Eating bring  you  hundreds  of
     recipes  to  help  you prepare meals for your  family.  Gloria
     Myers  and  Amy Myers are busy bringing you new recipes  every
     month. Check their recipes out today at:
                           Gloria’s Kitchen
             http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1574
                            Healthy Eating
             http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1576
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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/
     
     Poodle Pup Toy & Poodle Pups Standard
     AKC, toy poodle pups, reds ready now. Standard pups ready  1-
     22-05,  tail docked, dewclaws removed, will be vet checked  &
     1st set of shots. 1 yr old male toy poodle for sale also.  E-
     mail  or  give  a  call. Linda Knupp Phone:  724-478-2606  or
     tezoe@highvision.net
     
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     COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
     
     Fake shipping messages
     With  more  sophisticated junk mail filters  and  savvy  email
     users   the  subject  lines  on  messages  have  become   more
     misleading  to  entice you to at least glance at  the  message
     before  deletion. An example of this is the spate of messages,
     usually for prescription medicines, that have message headings
     that  appear  to  be about tracking a parcel. A  real  courier
     company  name is used with a sincere but fake tracking number.
     For   example:  *  DHL  Ship  Notification,  Tracking  Number:
     QH1245689-0000.  In  the same category  are  subject  headings
     like:  *  RE: info you requested; and, * Re: Foxnews coverage.
     And  many,  many  more.  [Source:  Woody's  EMAIL  Essentials,
     December 5, 2004]
     
        “Computer~Internet Tools And Tips” is at your Own Risk.
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/8
     
     Butler  County: The utopian Harmony Society resided here  from
     1804  to 1814. Butler was an Underground Railroad station.  An
     oil  boom  occurred briefly during the mid-1860s, followed  by
     natural gas production. Bituminous coal mining later developed
     and  is  still strong. By World War II, the county was  making
     railroad  cars,  military vehicles, rolled steel,  glass,  and
     gasoline. Defying the decline of industry and population  that
     western  Pennsylvania has seen since the  1960s,  Butler  goes
     right  on producing light metal, rubber, printed, and  optical
     items.  The  value  added to the economy  by  Butler  County’s
     manufacturing increased by 50 percent between 1987  and  1992.
     Farming continues to be financially successful. The population
     growth  is associated with Pittsburgh’s residential population
     exodus. Read more interesting history at Our Local Heritage at
     above site. Click on “Archives” for a list of history tidbits.
     
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     OUR HEALTH WEB SITES THIS WEEK
     
     Medical Glossary
     http://www.medicalglossary.org/
     
     This  site  is  designed  as a free, browsable  resource.  The
     medical  terms  and  definitions are not intended  to  replace
     medical    information   provided   by   licensed   healthcare
     professionals.  Please  see  a  doctor  if  you  need  medical
     assistance. The current list of medical terms is over  26,000.
     Data  sources  include the U.S. National Library of  Medicine,
     2004 Medical Subject Headings.
     
     Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs
     http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/
     
     The   Cancer   Mortality  Maps  &  Graph  Web  Site   provides
     interactive  maps, graphs (which are accessible to  the  blind
     and  visually-impaired),  text,  tables  and  figures  showing
     geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates  for
     the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.
     
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     TODAY’S SPORTS SITES
     
     CDC Healthy Swimming
     http://www.cdc.gov/healthyswimming
     
     Learn   about  CDC's  recommendations  for  healthy   swimming
     behaviors   needed  to  protect  you  and   your   kids   from
     recreational water illnesses (RWIs) and will help  stop  germs
     from  getting in the pool in ... yourself and your family when
     swimming.
     
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     Notices” at http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/
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     TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
     
     Terrorist Group Profiles: Index of Groups
     http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/tgpndx.htm
     
     Brief  profiles  of terrorist groups from around  the  world:
     Groups  profiled  include  Al-Qaida,  Basque  Fatherland  and
     Liberty  (ETA), Hizballah (Party of God), and Peru's  Sendero
     Luminoso (Shining Path).
     
     X-43A: NASA Goes Hypersonic
     http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html
     
     "NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books
     [in November 2004], demonstrating an air-breathing engine can
     fly  at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. Preliminary  data
     from   the   scramjet-powered  research  vehicle   show   its
     revolutionary engine worked successfully at nearly Mach  9.8,
     or  7,000  mph." The site includes information about scramjet
     technology, mission news, articles, photos, and video  clips.
     From   the  National  Aeronautics  and  Space  Administration
     (NASA).
     
     GrassCatcher: A Daily Roundup of Policy News Clippings
     http://ncsl.org/programs/press/grasscatcher.htm
     
     This  site  by  the National Conference of State Legislatures
     delivers  online news items on policy issues from around  the
     country. Site also allows you to search by broad category  or
     by state.
     
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