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Tumbleweed Kid

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  1. grown, but growing

  2. RumRunner, Thanks for the public Safety Announcement. Yes, back in the mid 90s, pictures were becoming more distant. Less ability to see faces, just crowd shots.
  3. She's in the Dallas Texas area.
  4. Avast is great. We used it on several computers at my last job and it really does a fantastic job. Macs are great too. They miss all the attacks on Microsofty. I'm seriously considering my my computer will have to be a MAC.
  5. NINE Wine Ten Den Eleven Football eleven
  6. OPPS, the tourch slipped.
  7. He said he's tough on crime. Why, I've been a criminal all my life and he's never laid a hand on me!
  8. NO I'm not Orlando, I'm looking for him and would like to know he is doing well.
  9. Rose is in Oregon. Send me your email address and I will pass it on.
  10. I'm not too keen on Vince mC4A**3n being accused of anything like that. He might be slow in the uptake for still being with the Way, but I would never put him in that category <_< Please double check your facts on that statement.
  11. I was encouraged to increase my typing speed to 45 wpm. I did. I was laid off my first winter on the field and found a job as a data entry person with Merrill Lynch. It paid $7/hour more than I was making in my previous job. Since then, I have more than doubled my salary. All starting with my ability to type. I wasn't taught to type while in the Corps, but learned in high school. I was just given the time to increase my speed while in residence. That was fifteen years ago. I'm expecting to be named to senior management of an IT company in February. java script:emoticon('', 'smid_9') :dance: God is good.
  12. See Me, I will take a signature page to work on Monday and get as many people to sign as possible. My best to the family. Tumbleweed
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    Comcast

    I've been using Comcast Internet and Cable TV services for several years. I love the speed of the Internet service. I have problems every night with the HBO channels and have to turn off my cable box and turn it back on. It's been serviced several times without being resolved. I know we pay way too much for the pay for view channels like HBO, but I must say the Internet access is excellent. I have my doubts about using the phone system. VoIP is still in its early stages. Find out what happens if someone hijacks your IP address for the phone and makes long distances calls. Also, discount privacy if you use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). I think cell phone providers will be giving long distance away soon in order to sell the other services they are planning now like Pod programming.
  14. Tumbleweed Kid

    Rosa Parks

    On another note: Growing up in Norhtern Virginia, one family owned two lots and decided to build a house on one. When the neighbors (who didn't realize they had moved into what was historically a black neighborhood, found out that a black family was building a house, they had a realtor asess the value and offered the family twice what it cost to build the house. Mr. Simon's accepted the offer and build on his second lot.
  15. Catcup, I sent for my transcript and got a blank section for academics. I guess they really don't teach the Way Corps anything usefull or that would fit in the category of academics. My date of birth was also incorrect. So much for paying attention to details. I don't know how many times I had to submit my date of birth to the Way, but on that piece of paper sent to my college so I could receive credit for my four years of work, it was blank. English for the Greek Student, not there Greek (which you could only ace because that was the only grade the professor would except) not there Physical Training (my word this should have been worth 24 credit hours) NOT THERE IN-Residence Job assignments , you guest it, NOT THERE>>> My advise to all others is save your $10 and forget about it.
  16. FEDBIZOPPS.GOV just posted a web site with links for contractors to sign up in order to receive contracts for Katrina related relief. Florida is one of the links on the web site. We are still working on Florida's events from last year as well as this. I also learned today that New Orleans did not have an Incident Response Center Trainee needed in order to establish a crisis response center, which is required my the Feds. HUMMM.
  17. Raf, Harper's Magazine had a great article about the Ohio election. John Conyers (sp) had a hearing about the Ohio mistake {okay, maybe they weren't mistakes}.
  18. I look at the news and I'm saddened by the way the media reports information. Some of the news reporters are tremendous actors. What disturbs me is the way they try to divide our country across racial lines. I know that the photos of the people finding food were not racially motivated, but the subtle way in which that was report reminds me that I'm not in a racially blind society. One of the great joys of my life was being able to go to the Rock of Ages and for one week, feel no racial attitude at all. It was almost like a sugar high. I be up and feeling great until I got home to the real world again. I would get home and see women clutching their purses as I walked down the street the week after the Rock. They weren't prejudice, but their minds were set to be afraid of a man of my color. They acted prejudice because they pre-judged me. The reporters that shot those two photos weren't prejudice, but the mere fact is, it fans the racial divide and related aspects of life. 95% of the places I travel in life, I'm in the minority. I have on occasion, taken some of my friends to places where they are the minority, and the look on their faces at first is shocking. Now granted, I live this way everyday, but the short periods of time when someone is suddenly thrust into the role of being a minority is very enlightening. I wish there was some way we could end this tool ( racial differences) of the adversary. I have to tell you that no matter how much others say it was a justified statement by the press to describe the two photos the way they did, it still stings! Am I offended, YES I read an article from the War College titled, Why Black Officers Fail. You can find it on the Internet. It pointed out differences among the races such as why Black officers cannot wear jeans if they wish to get ahead. It also pointed out such subtle things as facial hair, dockers and other issues that make a difference in the way people are viewed by their peers or our society. I know it is hard to think that this was a very poor racial event, even it the two photographers were not trying to accomplish a racial event, it had tremendous racial impact at a time when we need to be joined together in fighting the dangers of this storm.
  19. He who shall be chiefest among you....
  20. I don't have anyone personally near the devastation, however, my company has a contract with the USDA. They have (had) a payment center in New Orleans with 1500 people assigned to it. They have only been able to contact about 600 people so far from that office. How horrible!
  21. I suggest extra paper plates, and extra pots and pans. You may wish to have a large one to boil water in for washing your cooking items. Side burner on the Propane grill will boil the water. Diaper wipes are also great to have along with hand sanitizer.
  22. PersonalE Do you have a link to the magazine?
  23. I know there has been a lot of talk about greenhouse gases causes and increase in weather activities. Some of that might be true, but we never had a baseline to examine most of the theories associated with the warming predictions. Especially the ones about the hole in the ozone layer. Another item associated with this Katrina storm was the position of Mars. Reports came out stating that Mars was as close as it has ever been in 50,000 years. When I was in grade school (they did have books then) we saw pictures/drawings of the moon and the effect the moon had on tides. Why hasn't there been reports about the effect of Mars on this storm? Is it out of the question? I know if it popular to take the side of environmentalist about greenhouse effect, but most record highs that are being broken are from over 100 years ago. You would think that if the earth was truly warming, the records would be from within the last ten years. Just a thought.
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