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  Help - Ask Newspapers To Report On Lawrence Hughes's Hearing This Week

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  please write newspapers to request them to cover the lawrence hughes.

  matter.

  lawrence hughes is scheduled to argue in court on may.

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  Fatfreek

  Besty, I like your custom search engine. It also looks like you may be right about that mystery group.

  Len
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  Help - Ask Newspapers To Report On Lawrence Hughes's Hearing This Week

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  please write newspapers to request them to cover the lawrence hughes.

  matter.

  lawrence hughes is scheduled to argue in court on may.

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  Fatfreek

  Uzzah: Speaking for myself and for perhaps thousands of like-minded folks here, a big thanks for your courage. I hope your wish for anonymity is granted. However, things like that (if they become part of public record) have a way of somehow getting around. If so, and your identity is revealed, fair-minded ones will always have the greatest respect for you.

  Sure, your name will be removed from Watchtower's Christmas card list -- oops, strike that -- they haven't had one of those since the '20s.

  IsaacAustin: What is Jah Christian movement??

  Good question and Google provides nothing on that string.

  What say you, Uzzah?

  Len
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  Help - Ask Newspapers To Report On Lawrence Hughes's Hearing This Week

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  please write newspapers to request them to cover the lawrence hughes.

  matter.

  lawrence hughes is scheduled to argue in court on may.

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  Fatfreek

  I get this Emerson email most days. He reports that he phoned Lawrence following this last hearing. Extremely compelling was a pair of last minute affadavits that were admitted. They were from two members of the Watchtower legal team (I'm guessing former members) who stated where Watchtower had been dishonest in prior trials.

  The judge set the next date as June 20 to give him time to review the affadavits.

  That's my take from memory so please forgive if I've botched certain facts. I now wish I hadn't deleted the email.

  Len
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  Break Even Miles to pay off that new Hybrid vehicle

  by Fatfreek in

  1. social
  2. current

  a day or so ago, wife and i watched this money expert on some morning show.

  she (the expert) seemed to advocate trading in your regular vehicle for one of those new hybrids in order to save money.

  it sounded like a good idea -- till i put a pencil to it.

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  Fatfreek

  Hi Robert. Our posts must've bumped into each other as they went thru cyberspace.

  Yes, you're right about the pollution and dependence on foreign oil issues. That's if, a big if, you're driving mainly city and stop-and-go.

  Len
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  Break Even Miles to pay off that new Hybrid vehicle

  by Fatfreek in

  1. social
  2. current

  a day or so ago, wife and i watched this money expert on some morning show.

  she (the expert) seemed to advocate trading in your regular vehicle for one of those new hybrids in order to save money.

  it sounded like a good idea -- till i put a pencil to it.

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  Fatfreek

  Robert: Rumor has it the 2009 Prius may get mileage in the 70's with new technology and new batteries. If so, I bet the pay-off time is much more realistic.

  You don't need to guess about it -- that's risky betting. I just plugged in (and you can too) 70 mpg and (with existing data) learned you need to drive 147,000 miles for a break even.

  Len
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  Break Even Miles to pay off that new Hybrid vehicle

  by Fatfreek in

  1. social
  2. current

  a day or so ago, wife and i watched this money expert on some morning show.

  she (the expert) seemed to advocate trading in your regular vehicle for one of those new hybrids in order to save money.

  it sounded like a good idea -- till i put a pencil to it.

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  Fatfreek

  A day or so ago, wife and I watched this money expert on some morning show. She (the expert) seemed to advocate trading in your regular vehicle for one of those new hybrids in order to save money. It sounded like a good idea -- till I put a pencil to it. The following calculation shows that you need to drive the hybrid some 310,000 miles before you break even.
  
  This link is to a calculating worksheet where you can plug in your own numbers to get your own results (let me know if you spot some calculation blunder and I will promptly fix it, calling it new light). There are 6 variables which you can play with when you do your own calculating. Your system requires Microsoft Excel in order to load it. If you don’t have that, below is a picture of what it looks like. [Sorry, you can’t edit the picture :) ] Len Miller.
  
  
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  Father Days -- or is it Father's Day? What's the diff? They're on sale!!

  by Fatfreek in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our calhoun county weekly newspaper is taking ads for father days -- oops -- or is it father's day?

  this is a copy, fresh from my mailbox.

  this is par for the course.

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  Fatfreek

  Our Calhoun County weekly newspaper is taking ads for Father Days -- oops -- or is it Father's Day? This is a copy, fresh from my mailbox.

  This is par for the course. Last week a page was dedicated to the graduating high school seniors, listing their photos and their names. One of my wife's kin had the honor of having his name -- both first and last names -- spelled incorrectly.

  

  Hey, they're on sale! How many do want to buy?

  Len Miller
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  Quick, smart searching Watchtower PDFs, 1879 thru 1949

  by Fatfreek in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i, like many here, have searchable pdf files of older watchtower magazines.

  the russell series, 1879-1916, which is available free to download from freeminds.

  the other years, 1920 thru 1949 watchtowers in three sets (available for $30 each online).

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  Fatfreek

  fokyc: The program will run for 15 days starting from the day of installation. During the trial period, you can process up to 50 pages in total and save or send to an external application only one page at a time.

  Thanks.

  Len
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  Quick, smart searching Watchtower PDFs, 1879 thru 1949

  by Fatfreek in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i, like many here, have searchable pdf files of older watchtower magazines.

  the russell series, 1879-1916, which is available free to download from freeminds.

  the other years, 1920 thru 1949 watchtowers in three sets (available for $30 each online).

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  Fatfreek

  Perhaps I can recap my problem, that is, if I understand it correctly. The following paragraph from the April 1, 1920 Watch Tower I copied, can serve to illustrate. As you can see it's obviously full of errors.

  Some of the brethren ha~e held that the Watch Tower
  Bible and Tract Soc’iety is the ehamwl used by the Lord
  for disttensing or t,’ansmitting the message of pre~nt
  truth to the household of faith. Others have taken
  exception to this statement and have insisted that the
  Society is assumin~ a position that is un-Seriptural and
  contrary to the divine arrangement. We think the dtifterence
  of opinion has been due entirely to a misund, erstan<
  ling, tIen<’e we here e<mdder the question with a
  hope of clarifying it.
  
  In that short paragraph of some 86 words, the following 12 words (you can only distinguish many of them as you read the context of the page within your Adobe reader) are misspelled:

  have, Society, channel, dispensing, transmitting, present, assuming, un-Scriptural, difference, misunderstanding, hence, consider.

  That's a 14% failure rate.
  
  So what? To test its importance I searched for those same strings on that April 1, 1920 Watch Tower page using my Adobe 8 reader. Not one was found.
  
  That means if you have one of those Watchtower CDs between 1920 thru 1949, and based on my unscientific analysis, your string searches also have a potential failure rate 14%. That doesn't give me the warm fuzzy feeling I like to enjoy.

  If you search for words like Russell, 1874, 1914, pyramid, sodom, resurrect, etc., and etc. -- you may also have a failure rate of some 14%. There's no guarantee they'll be any more findable than those 12 words above them.

  As to the original premise of this thread -- finding some indexing software to allow for quick and smart searches of these Watchtower PDFs, it looks as if that's pretty much a hopeless task to do it on the cheap. It all seems dependent on the OCR capability of the software(s) that reads the PDF file and of that which creates the index .

  Len
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  Quick, smart searching Watchtower PDFs, 1879 thru 1949

  by Fatfreek in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i, like many here, have searchable pdf files of older watchtower magazines.

  the russell series, 1879-1916, which is available free to download from freeminds.

  the other years, 1920 thru 1949 watchtowers in three sets (available for $30 each online).

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  Fatfreek

  What an experience, AuldSoul. Yes, I'll bet you're kicking yourself today for declining that offer.

  It makes total sense that they've done that with all their pubs so they (their help desk?) can defend against the malicious misquotes that have made their way onto the internet.

  Hey, their digitized publications (at least their Watchtowers) are made public to the rank and file, with copies going back to 1950. They obviously have the technology. Barbara confirms they have all publications in their library. Why not go all the way, at least for the priveledged few.

  Len