She also played "Sport" in a Twilight Zone episode called "The Bewitchin' Pool."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgoA66bmby4
~Sue
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Living in the western "rich" world we are spoiled and don't understand harships! Agree?
by Witness 007 injust saw a documentary on bolivia how a woman gets up while it's dark, puts a barrel on her head and walks 10 miles to get water for the day from a filthy well we would not swim in!....thats what 1 billion or more people have to do everyday!
they also scavenge for a hand full of rice or dirty flour...meanwhile, i buy 4 litre "springwater" and run down to the supermarket to pick what fruit, vegetables, meat, i want to eat today.. our kids want nike shoes and ps 3 while there kids need food and medicine.....and clean water!
i jump in a nice car and complain about petrol prices, while they walk many miles a day to work and home......i think we are lucky but don't know it, just born on the good side of the world.. agree?.
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Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Oct 20, 8:41 am ET
WASHINGTON – The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed.
A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government's official figure.
The disparity occurs because of differing formulas the Census Bureau and the National Academy of Science use for calculating the poverty rate. The NAS formula shows the poverty rate to be at 15.8 percent, or nearly 1 in 6 Americans, according to calculations released this week. That's higher than the 13.2 percent, or 39.8 million, figure made available recently under the original government formula.
That measure, created in 1955, does not factor in rising medical care, transportation, child care or geographical variations in living costs. Nor does it consider non-cash government aid when calculating income. As a result, official figures released last month by Census may have overlooked millions of poor people, many of them 65 and older.
According to the revised NAS formula:
_About 18.7 percent of Americans 65 and older, or nearly 7.1 million, are in poverty compared to 9.7 percent, or 3.7 million, under the traditional measure. That's due to out-of-pocket expenses from rising Medicare premiums, deductibles and a coverage gap in the prescription drug benefit.
_About 14.3 percent of people 18 to 64, or 27 million, are in poverty, compared to 11.7 percent under the traditional measure. Many of the additional poor are low-income, working people with transportation and child-care costs.
_Child poverty is lower, at about 17.9 percent, or roughly 13.3 million, compared to 19 percent under the traditional measure. That's because single mothers and their children disproportionately receive non-cash aid such as food stamps.
_Poverty rates were higher for non-Hispanic whites (11 percent), Asians (17 percent) and Hispanics (29 percent) when compared to the traditional measure. For blacks, poverty remained flat at 24.7 percent, due to the cushioning effect of non-cash aid.
_The Northeast and West saw bigger jumps in poverty, due largely to cities with higher costs of living such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Census Bureau said it expedited release of the alternative numbers for this month because of the interest expressed by lawmakers and the Obama administration in seeing a fuller range of numbers. Legislation pending in Congress would mandate a switch to the revised formula, although the White House could choose to act on its own.
Arloc Sherman, a senior researcher at the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said that because the revised formula factors in non-cash government aid, the amount of increase in poverty from 2007 to 2008 was generally smaller compared to the current measure.
"Food stamp participation rose during the first year of recession and appears to have softened what could have been an even greater increase in financial hardship," he said.
Sherman said the revised formula could take on greater importance in measuring poverty for 2009 as more Americans take advantage of tax credits and food stamps under the federal stimulus program. Food stamp assistance currently is at an all-time high of about 36 million. -
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Bank robber in custody following 'religious awakening'
by betterdaze inbank robber in custody following 'religious awakening'published: 20 oct 09 08:24 cet.
police in western sweden may soon be able to close their files on a daring four-year old bank robbery after one of the thieves experienced a religious salvation during his time on the run.. .
it was back in 2005 when men on mopeds attacked two guards and made their way into the sparbanken gripen in angelholm.. .
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Bank robber in custody following 'religious awakening'
Published: 20 Oct 09 08:24 CET
Police in western Sweden may soon be able to close their files on a daring four-year old bank robbery after one of the thieves experienced a religious salvation during his time on the run.
It was back in 2005 when men on mopeds attacked two guards and made their way into the Sparbanken Gripen in Ängelholm.
The assailants then sped off on their motorbikes with several million kronor from the bank’s vaults.
Three months after the caper, an arrest warrant was issued for a 30-year-old man suspected of carrying out the daring heist.
But police ran into a number of roadblocks during the investigation’s early phases, and by 2008 it looked as if the crime would remain unsolved, the Helsingborgs Dagblad (HD) newspaper reports.
But police caught a lucky break last year when the 30-year-old suspect unexpectedly contacted Sweden’s embassy in Brazil, confessed to the theft, and then asked to return to Sweden to atone for his crime.
He later explained that he had had fallen in love with a Brazilian woman following the robbery. The couple then moved to Brazil, where the 30-year-old began studying religion.
“He had studied with the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which caused him to reassess his life. Now he sees that he must follow the country’s laws in order to be a Jehovah’s Witness and as a result wants to pay for his crime,” the 30-year-old’s defence attorney, Niclas Elison, told the newspaper.
The extradition process has taken a year, but on Monday the man stood before the Helsingborg District Court and listened as a judge ordered him remanded into custody.
While the robbery is more or less solved, authorities are still working to recover the 2 million kronor ($288,000) taken in the heist.
They are also hoping the 30-year-old man will help them locate his accomplices in the crime, despite his reluctance to do so.
“He’s willing to confess to his part of the crime, but isn’t willing to speak about any accomplices or about the money,” said Elison.David Landes ([email protected]/+46 8 656 6518)
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Letting my hair down.........
by angel eyes inwell today for the first time ive felt i can finally let my hair down and laugh and joke with you guys.....yup....you shall see the funny mad side of me too, that way you'll know im human (not a vampire) lol...... thanks guys......today was a huge turning point for me :) and im happy, real happy...xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
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well today for the first time ive felt i can finally let my hair down and laugh and joke with you guys.....
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Watchtower Acquires Additional Property Near Wallkill, N.Y.
by Bryan innot sure if this has been posted, but..... http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=31423.
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Watchtower Acquires Additional Property Near Wallkill, N.Y. by Linda Collins ([email protected]), published online 10-20-2009 Won’t Comment on Rumors of Possible Move of Headquarters Out of Brooklyn Heights By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily EagleBROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Reports of an additional acquisition of property near its Wallkill, N.Y., printing plant complex have been confirmed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
However, rumors that the religious group, also known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, will move its world headquarters from Brooklyn Heights to that location were not confirmed.
“It’s so early in the process, it’s not possible to say,” said spokesperson Richard Devine, who is in charge of real property for the organization.
David Semonian, in the public information office, confirmed the new acquisition for the Eagle, saying in an e-mail, “I can verify that we have acquired additional property outside of New York City in New York State, in the Town of Warwick in Orange County. This is in addition to property recently acquired by the Witnesses in the Town of Ramapo, in Rockland County.”
As reported in the Eagle in March, the Ramapo property is a 248-acre site (291 acres with a perpetual conservation space) where the Watchtower plans an administrative complex with about 850 volunteer workers onsite.
“It will be a live-in and work complex similar to what we have in Brooklyn Heights so there will be both residential and office space. Everyone who is assigned there will live there,” Devine said at the time.
The organization’s plan submitted to the town of Ramapo has not yet received its final approvals, requiring zoning change and environmental reviews, as well as a religious-use tax exemption.
“It’s moving along. But it tends to be a long process,” said Devine.
Plans for the new acquisition in Warwick are similar.
“We have applied to the town for an office and residential complex,” he said. It will also have to go through a similar review process.
He describes the property as a 253-acre site with structures originally built 50 years ago for the International Nickel Co. (now known as INCO) for its research and development division. The company closed that division in 1983.
King’s College owned the property for awhile in the 1980s and had received approvals for its plan to develop a 1,600-student campus there. But the college dropped those plans and the property had changed hands several times since then, according to Devine.
“We actually bought it from Touro College,” Devine said.
According to Semonian’s statement, the Watchtower’s primary objective in acquiring the two properties is to locate complexes in closer proximity to its Shawangunk/Patterson printing plant complex in Wallkill. Devine said the sites are only one and a half miles apart.
Even if all approvals fall into place in Ramapo and Warwick, there’s still a matter of the current state of the real estate market.
“We have eight smaller buildings [in Brooklyn Heights] we have yet to sell,” Devine said. “Because of the market we are not actively promoting their sale. We’ve even started using the Bossert [Hotel] again on a limited basis.”
As previously reported in the Eagle, the Bossert was going to be acquired by Robert Levine, president and CEO of RAL Companies & Affiliates, and developer of the former Watchtower shipping complex at 360 Furman, but he backed out of the deal.
The other buildings still on the market include 165, 161 and 183 Columbia Heights, 105 Willow St. and 34 Orange St., all residential buildings that are now vacant except for some tenants that pre-existed Watchtower ownership.
As regularly chronicled in this newspaper, the religious organization has been reorganizing and consolidating a number of its operations in Brooklyn Heights and transferring some to Walkill since 2004, when the printing and shipping operations were moved.
“Those adjustments resulted in a decrease in our Brooklyn staff, reducing our need for residential space,” Semonian said at the time.
Like the 12-story, 960,000-square-foot former shipping complex on Furman, the world headquarters and administrative offices at 25 and 30 Columbia Heights are also massive buildings — they are 13 and 10 stories, respectively, and 304,650 and 402,300 square feet.
As previously reported, there are currently about 1,500 volunteer workers at the Brooklyn Heights headquarters. If the Ramapo plan for 850 volunteers goes forward and the Warwick plan, too, with its unknown quantity, it seems obvious there would no longer be a need for offices in Brooklyn Heights.
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Police To Question Jehovah's Witness Members In Burglaries
by betterdaze inpolice to question jehovah's witness members in burglariesposted: 2:11 pm edt october 14, 2009. updated: 6:29 pm edt october 14, 2009. north versailles, pa. -- police in north versailles are exploring all possible connections to burglaries that have been happening recently.. .
that includes trying to locate a group of jehovah's witness members who were in the area at the time of a burglary reported on tuesday at a home along upper heckman road.
investigators said women were seen with jehovah's witness flyers along with two well dressed black men with silver car.. .
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People Posing As Religious Group May Be Behind North Versailles Burglary
Big-Screen TVs Stolen After People Knocked On Door
POSTED: 5:36 pm EDT October 14, 2009?
UPDATED: 10:49 am EDT October 15, 2009Wendy Nowading speaks with Channel 4 Action News reporter Sheldon Ingram
NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. -- Burglars posing as a religious group may be the scheme behind a break-in at a North Versailles home.
Neighbors on Upper Hackman Road said they saw people who appeared to be Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on doors.
Then, two men dressed in suits showed up at one of the houses while no one was home. Police said 52- and 32-inch televisions were taken from that house, which belongs to Wendy Nowading.
"It's rather creepy," Nowading told Channel 4 Action News.
"The males were here," North Versailles Police Chief James Comunale said. "They were all dressed in better clothes, so one would assume they were all together. We know the males were at this house."
Police want to question nearby places of worship to see if they can help with the investigation.
"We would like to talk to whichever kingdom hall they came from," Comunale said. "I know there's a McKeesport branch and a Braddock branch."
Police said this incident came after a series of burglaries last month, but they do not believe there's any connection. -
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Police To Question Jehovah's Witness Members In Burglaries
by betterdaze inpolice to question jehovah's witness members in burglariesposted: 2:11 pm edt october 14, 2009. updated: 6:29 pm edt october 14, 2009. north versailles, pa. -- police in north versailles are exploring all possible connections to burglaries that have been happening recently.. .
that includes trying to locate a group of jehovah's witness members who were in the area at the time of a burglary reported on tuesday at a home along upper heckman road.
investigators said women were seen with jehovah's witness flyers along with two well dressed black men with silver car.. .
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Police To Question Jehovah's Witness Members In Burglaries
Posted: 2:11 pm EDT October 14, 2009
Updated: 6:29 pm EDT October 14, 2009NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. -- Police in North Versailles are exploring all possible connections to burglaries that have been happening recently.
That includes trying to locate a group of Jehovah's Witness members who were in the area at the time of a burglary reported on Tuesday at a home along Upper Heckman Road. Investigators said women were seen with Jehovah's Witness flyers along with two well dressed black men with silver car.
Apparently, no one saw them all together, but police said they are investigating the lead anyway.
Chief James Comunale said police still have not found the group, but said they'll head to Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses to interview people.
"We're unsure if this group was together," Comunale said. "We just don't know who did the burglary. We're investigating the people who were seen."
Homeowner Wendy Nowading said she feels violated, saying the robbers stole Nike socks, her grandmother's antique ring and a large flat-screen television.
“I suspect they slid the screen over, opened the window and slid themselves in,” said Nowading. “Why did they have to take my stuff?”
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Top fav boys and girls names!!
by angel eyes inwhat's your favorite gairls name and fav boys name?.
jessikah and nathan (love joshua and samuel close 2nds).
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Linda for a girl.
Trevor for a boy.
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Let the children decide.
by angel eyes inok, im putting my neck on the line here but ive always believed that children should be raised to make their own choice, if to serve jah or not.. i wasnt ever forced to believe in anything, any religion etc, although my background is very complicated.. anyway, hubby and i have always thought that how can a child decide if they dont know what other things are, ie birthday partys, halloween etc.
so, our children are allowed to choose if to go places etc.
last year our little boy said he didnt want to go to a halloween party, this year he said he might.
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Do you feel thats right or wrong?
Inconsistent parenting is wrong, period.
Raising children in the Watchtower cult, yet allowing them to go ahead and celebrate pagan, worldly holidays — ESPECIALLY demonic Halloween — sets them up for major guilt trips before Jehovah.
Some might even call it emotional child abuse.
"This world is passing away and so is it's desire." And what about "Quit touching the unclean thing?" Those scriptures were inculcated into us as mere babes! We were instructed to "write them on our heart."
How can you drag your children back to the Kingdom Hall after allowing them to participate in THE MOST Satanic of holidays?From where I stand, it's not just the height of hypocrisy, but utter cruelty to mess with their little heads and hearts like that.
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