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  Do you charge your 18+ kids rent?

  by tall penguin in

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  i've been wondering what people think about this.

  as soon as i turned 18 and had an income (it was disability but income just the same) my parents began to charge me room and board.

  is this common practice?

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  Buster

  Like I told my daughter when she went to college, "no way you're doing to my money what I did to my father's"

  I told my her after she had a lousy Freshman year that she would now start paying rent. Not only that, she still had her work to do around the house. And, and this was the kicker, she was not allowed a social life until she was working 40 hours per week.

  I was serious and she believed me. She took an apt. with a friend and got a P-T job. She lost both of them, but has no intention of moving home. She's mooching around with friends. I'm a bit proud of her attitude. But she still doesn't get the whole 'no one cares about your excuses' part of adult life.

  And if she decides she needs to move home, she faces rent, chores, and restrictions until she is working F-T. Even then, she won't be allowed to live like a disinterested boarder.
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  Another gun thread.

  by Low-Key Lysmith in

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  let me begin by saying that while your opinion is respected, i did not intend this thread to be a gun control debate.

  i simply want to know who owns and enjoys shooting guns on this board.. with that out of the way, i have:a springfield armory 1911 .45 acp in two-tone stainless with all the trimmings.a romanian ak-47 (sar-1) with all-black polymer stocks, 5 30-round magazines, a picatinney rail with a holographic sighting system.

  (this one's a real hot rod).a mossberg 590 12 ga. with a pistol grip, top folding stock, heat shroud, maglight on the forestock, and a side saddle.a remington 710 chambered for .300 win mag with a nice bipod and a nine round cartridge holder on the side of the buttstock.

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  Buster

  Low Key, nice to hear from my neighbor up the street.

  • Beretta 682 12g with tubes for 20g, 28g, and .410 that I use for Skeet competition
  • Beretta A391 Technys 12g semi for Sporting Clays and skeet
  • Beretta A391 Urika Youth Model that I picked up this summer for my 10-yr-old son.
  • Beretta A303 I use as a loaner when I take someone shooting
  • Remington 1100 28g that I use to teach and hunt pheasant (though I rarely get to go hunting)
  • Ithaca .22 single shot, drop block that I got when I was seven

  Hillbilly: you got some nice-sounding stuff there.
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  God save us from the Yankees...............could be worst year yet!

  by confusedjw in

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  dear red sox nation,.

  it looks like we will go into the weekend series 2 games behind the yankees, which means we will need to sweep in order to win the division and if we don't.......we won't win the wild card either.

  this could be worst than bucky effing dent and aaron effing boone.

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  Okay, so they're only one game behind. Still not good enough. Even with a good, healthy pitching staff they still need to win three of four - against the Yankees - when the damnable ones are playing their best and the Sox need a bit of darning.

  But unless it comes down to some last crack off the bat off some guy that hit two home runs all year, this will be no B. F. Dent event.
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  This One Is For Scholar And His Celebrated WT Scholars

  by Honesty in

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  2. bible

  i have some quotes from several respected bible linguists regarding the new world translation: .

  dr. julius mantey - "a manual grammar of the greek new testament" calls the new world translation "a shocking mistranslation".

  dr. bruce metzger, late professor of new testament at princeton university -"a frightful mistranslation", "erroneous", "pernicious", and "reprehensible".

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  has been sharply unsuccessful in keeping doctrinal considerations from influencing the actual translation

  In the 70's I remember hearing a tape recording of good ole Freddy answering questions about the NWT. When questioned on a very specific word, he was quite proud of the fact that one should, and needed to understand the scriptures in order to translate them. He had no concept that he was proudly promoting circular logic.

  Funny how it made perfect sense to me then.
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  The story of my life (part 1)

  by onacruse in

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  in my totally overwhelming 53 years of human existence, i've finally learned that "it isn't what you think you know; it's what you've been through" that matters to most other people.

  so, as an unwilling, though also willing, participant in that cycle of life and death, belief and unbelief, i will offer more to you more than i've ever said to any group of folks than i've ever known.

  that's jwd .

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  This is gonna be good. Craig, I've lonng considered you perhaps the most intersting person on this board. To have gotten out, so recently mind you, of that maelstrom with your feet underneath you is remarkable.

  I'm looking forward to reading the background.

  (And hi Katie!)
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  Turn off that car alarm!!

  by jillbedford in

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  david owen rye, 48, was arrested in los angeles 10 days earlier for allegedly firing at least three bullets into a toyota camry in an apartment-house parking lot because its car alarm wouldn't shut off.. www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/08/10/man_fires_gun_at_car_to_silence_alarm/.

  comments?

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  Shoulda got a medal.

  Car owner shoulda got a fine.
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  Can someone explain the generation change?

  by feelinglost in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after being on here now for a little while, i decided to ask my mother this weekend about whether armageddon is still supposed to come before the generation of 1914 is gone.

  so this leaves me a little confused- is this right, is this what they still teach?

  or has something changed?

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  Buster

  Very nice set of quotes: http://quotes.watchtower.ca/generation.htm

  The change was published in a 1995 WT. It reads like so much hemming and hawing. But what it boils down to is that the generation lasts as long as the generations lasts.

  My jaw hit my keyboard whn I first read that.
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  Hospitals Markeintg to JWs

  by Buster in

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  2. friends

  for some reason there are a inordinately large number of dubbies in the tacoma wa area.

  the ceo of one of the area's largest hospitals is looking for a method to track bloodless surgeries.

  he wants to know how much his hospital does.

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  Buster

  The national standards do not provide a method for capturing bloodless versions of surgical procedures. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to develop authoritative conclusions from historical data.

  The hospital may only be able to record such procedures going forward.

  But once the data is collected at the Center for Health Statistics, it is publicly available, including costs and lengths of stay, medications, supplies etc.
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  Hospitals Markeintg to JWs

  by Buster in

  1. jw
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  for some reason there are a inordinately large number of dubbies in the tacoma wa area.

  the ceo of one of the area's largest hospitals is looking for a method to track bloodless surgeries.

  he wants to know how much his hospital does.

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  Buster

  For some reason there are a inordinately large number of dubbies in the Tacoma WA area.

  The CEO of one of the area's largest hospitals is looking for a method to track bloodless surgeries. He wants to know how much his hospital does. He wants to compare costs and complications with the procedures' with-blood counterparts.

  It is an honest effort to serve a significant part of their population.

  Perhaps they want to use it to expand market share.
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  Researchers use light to extract hydrogen from water

  by Elsewhere in

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  if they could get this working at a reasonable percent of efficiency it would solve all of the worlds energy problems.

  just imagine exposing a container of water to light and seeing lots of hydrogen come bubbling out.. http://www.physorg.com/news6084.html.

  researchers shed more light on conversion of water to hydrogen gas .

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  Buster

  The value of the basic reserach may be fairly interesting. But unless I miss the point, the value of having the hydrogen around is in its burning and using the heat output for energy. - Yes? Isn;t the byproduct water?

  Seems to me that whatever energy comes out in the making of water must be put back in to separate the hydrogen and water.

  Otherwise, sounds like a perpetual motion machine to me.