Here is a shot of me just prior to the official lighting of the Olympic torch in Salt Lake City in 2002. Yes that is the torch that was used in the marathon leading up to the lighting of the Olympic Flame at the stadium.
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by dobbie ini don't think we've had one for a while, i can't find the last one anyway!
so just to satisfy my curiosity it would be great to see some of your photos, of you, your family even your pets (they're family too!
) then i'll know if any of you do look like your avatars cos that's what i'm always wondering!
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If bumble bee and sweetstuff...
by sweetface2233 inpost a goodbye thread, i will march myself up to ontario and drag their sweet asses back here!.
i was so happy when eclipse's computer was fixed.
i was already going through withdrawls from her..
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Uzzah
I thought this was going to be a "If you combined Bumble Bee with Sweetstuff, you'd get.... type of thread
I was all set to extol the virtues of BumbleStuff and SweetBee. Actually there was a threa da few weeks back about the ideal woman .... hmmmm this could be close.
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Submit your essay here! [Inspired by tula and changling's threads a bit]
by AK - Jeff ini enjoy writing as a creative outlet.
i have a few 'books' in the works.
likely they will stay in my hard drive rather than ever grace the nyt best seller list.
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I thought some might enjoy the first part of this next segment (utopian fantasy) contrasted with the stark rawness of the second, which is partially the sub plot of the novel..
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Donald Lindsay had just finished washing off the dirt accumulated during his day washing windows. His janitorial clothes discarded in favor of a 3-piece suit.
"All I can say is I am glad God is in charge and not Sullivan or any other earthly man. It will be interesting to see how god uses this to fulfill his prophecies." He says out loud sounding almost as if he is practicing lines for later.
"Well I know the Kingdom Hall is certainly going to be packed tonight. It always amazes me how many think they can just come running back to God when times are bad. I don’t know how Jehovah puts up with some of them." His wife stated as she slipped on her floral print dress, the dress forming nicely to her chest and hips, coming down to her knees.
"Gloria, are you sure you want to wear that to the meeting tonight. It is awfully short and somewhat revealing. I know you have great legs but it would be hypocritical if the Presiding Overseer’s wife doesn’t follow the counsel her husband gave to the congregation about modest attire."
"You’re right dear. I’ve got another dress I could wear. Let me go check on Rachel and Leah just to make sure their clothing is okay. Can you check on Luke? 17 year old boys cannot be expected to know what is presentable or not."
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Under a crumpled mass of wood and steel that was once the US Army barracks in Tel Aviv, a US soldier slowly wakes up covered in dust and rubble. Corporal Leon Howe awoke, coughing and spitting out the dust that had clogged his mouth and nose. The air pocket around him was no more than 3 feet highl but did stretch around him about 20 feet in each direction. Clearing his mind slowly, he remembers being down in the basement of the main administration building with several other soldiers in the lounge area when they heard the air raid sirens. Then came the explosion, then nothing … just blackness.
Now more fully conscious, Corporal Howe started to inch his way towards a flickering red emergency light. His hand touches something… a foot protruding out from under a fallen support beam. Hearing moaning from under the pile of debris, he starts to push items off to one side slowly uncovering the rest of the body of another soldier. After checking the man’s airway and pulse, he notices that the support beam has almost severed the leg at the knee.
He stops suddenly, his head jerking to one side. Voices? Two distinct voices, a male and female…. Where are they? He calls out… as a rumbling is heard and the roof of the air pocket collapses all around him. Unbeknownst to him, his relatively quick death was a blessing compared to the slow agonizing death that was starting to show in the troops above.
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Submit your essay here! [Inspired by tula and changling's threads a bit]
by AK - Jeff ini enjoy writing as a creative outlet.
i have a few 'books' in the works.
likely they will stay in my hard drive rather than ever grace the nyt best seller list.
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A short segment from a novel I started to write about three years ago
The bluish light from the TV set illuminated the Sorenson’s living room.
"All seems to be eerily quiet on the streets on Baghdad tonight. This is just hours after US President Sullivan’s promise to use nuclear weapons against Iraq should another biological weapon be released against any target. The first attack against Israel was only 12 hours ago and rumors are everywhere that a domestic US target is next. Unconfirmed reports have put Arabic Coalition militants on US soil with access to nuclear devices. I repeat however, these reports are unconfirmed. This is Justin Blakely reporting from Baghdad.
Jake Sorenson rubbed his eyes after staring at his watch wondering how many hours the family had been glued to CNN and the events going on in the Middle East. Removing his hands from his red tired eyes, he looked to his family around him.
Marie’s long blonde hair hung carelessly down over her shoulders partially hiding her face. Jake could still see his wife’s face sullen with worry, cheeks and eyes red from hidden tears. Their eyes met briefly, a silent message transmitted between them. They both strained to get up, bones aching from hours of inactivity and weary from the emotional strain the world events had brought upon them.
Marie turned to her two youngest children, Michael and Jennifer. She had to remind herself so often that they weren’t children anymore. Michael was about to graduate High School and had been accepted at Stanford University in the Fall. Jennifer was already a very mature 16 year old, her 17 th birthday coming up in two weeks.
The thought of a family birthday without John caused her eyes to burn yet again. Forcing herself to be strong, she starts fussing around the living room, cleaning up the empty glasses and half eaten dinners. "Come on kids. I think it is time we all called it a night." She managed to speak without the strain showing in her voice. I have to be strong she kept repeating to herself.
Jennifer, never one to let something remain unsaid, "Mom. Dad. Do you think John was stationed in Tel Aviv when the missile struck?" Silence hung in the room like a thick fog. Jake put his arm around his daughter, half for support for himself and half for her, his voice scratchy, "Well hun, we just don’t know. I am as scared as you are about where he was but I know this. John loves this country very much and would do anything to protect his country and us. He was willing to make a sacrifice if needed but John is too much like his mother..too damned stubborn. He isn’t going to let some germs bring him down. He needs to feel that we still believe in him and what he is doing over there."
His speech finished, Jake picked up some of the dishes off the table and went into the kitchen. He wanted to leave before his family really saw the terror in his eyes as he thought of his eldest boy surrounded with death over there. As proud as he was of his son, he longed to have him back home safe in the rural towns of northern Massachusetts.
Marie followed Jake into the kitchen, seeing him staring out the window into the dimly lit cul-de-sac. Her hands slipped around his waist and he turned into her hug. Not a word was spoken between them. After twenty years of marriage they knew each other’s feelings.
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Uzzah
If anyone is a mechanical engineer I have an idea. A good knowledge of hydrolaulics would be good too.
I only ask for 5% ownership. 3% paid in cash/profits, 2% paid in shares
I'll 'give away' another 'invention' and if someone can run with it and make some bucks, we can discuss appropriate compensation. Here we go:
A self directional water jet for use in hot tubs. Ever been in a hot tub and you start scrunching down to have the water jet hit that really spre spot on your back/neck?
Here's the invention: Basically one end attaches to the existing jet. Have a length of tubing leading to another jet. Attached to the tubing is a suction cup that can adhere to the wall anywhere in the hot tub. This way you can have the jet hit you anywhere you want including your neck above the water line. Of course it could also be sold as an adult novelty item (wink wink).
What do you think? Viable idea? Anyone want to manufacture it and go into partnership?
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Iranian leader's opening rant...sounded like a JW
by restrangled init was a total sermon about their (islam) version of god and how he feels about the entire scientific and academia communities.
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your take on the whole thing?.
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While I agree his rant was voer the top, the introductory comment by the President of the school were rude and completely inappropriate and disrespectful of another Country's leaders, even if it is the Leader of the next country you are planning on
attackinginvadingsaving. It seems the School Official was playing more to the audience than hoping for meaningful dialogue.I can't help but feel the Iranian leader modified his opening comments based on the introduction received.
Here is a slightly less biased news report on the event:
NEW YORK (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty and cruel dictator.”
Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying the “insults” and “unfriendly treatment.” Columbia President Lee Bollinger and audience members took him to task over Iran’s human-rights record and foreign policy, as well as Ahmadinejad’s statements denying the Holocaust and calling for the disappearance of Israel.
“Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger said, to loud applause.
He said Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust might fool the illiterate and ignorant.
“When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous,” Bollinger said. “The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history.”
Ahmadinejad rose, also to applause, and after a religious invocation, said Bollinger’s opening was “an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience here.”
“There were many insults and claims that were incorrect, regretfully,” Ahmadinejad said, accusing Bollinger of falling under the influence of the hostile U.S. press and politicians. “I should not begin by being affected by this unfriendly treatment.”
During a question and answer session, Ahmadinejad appeared tense and unsmiling, in contrast to more relaxed interviews and appearances earlier in the day.
In response to one audience, Ahmadinejad denied he was questioning the existence of the Holocaust: “Granted this happened, what does it have to do with the Palestinian people?”
But then he said he was defending the rights of European scholars, an apparent reference to a small number who have been prosecuted under national laws for denying or minimizing the Holocaust.
“There’s nothing known as absolute,” he said.
He reiterated his desire to visit ground zero to express sympathy with the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, but then appeared to question whether al-Qaida was responsible.
“Why did this happen? What caused it? What conditions led to it?” he said. “Who truly was involved? Who was really involved and put it all together?”
Asked about executions of homosexuals in Iran, Ahmadinejad said the judiciary system executed violent criminals and high-level drug dealers, comparing them to microbes eliminated through medical treatment. Pressed specifically about punishment of homosexuals, he said: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”
With the audience laughing derisively, he continued: “In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have this.”
Bollinger was strongly criticized for inviting Ahmadinejad to Columbia, and had promised tough questions in his introduction to Ahmadinejad’s talk. But the strident and personal nature of his attack on the president of Iran was startling.
“You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated,” Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the leader’s Holocaust denial.
During his prepared remarks, the Iranian president did not address Bollinger’s accusations directly.
Suzanne Maloney, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Ahmadinejad’s softer tone on Israel in this speech may reflect backlash in his own country.
“There’s been widespread commentary in Iran, even on the far-right, that Ahmadinejad’s position on Israel has hurt the country’s diplomatic relations,” said Maloney. “The fact that he was frankly unwilling to go as far as he has in the past suggests there may have been some consequences for him at home.”
President Bush said Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia “speaks volumes about really the greatness of America.”
He told Fox News Channel that if Bollinger considers Ahmadinejad’s visit an educational experience for Columbia students, “I guess it’s OK with me.”
Other American officials were less sympathetic.
On Capitol Hill, conservatives said Columbia should not have invited Ahmadinejad to speak. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said “there is a world of difference between not preventing Ahmadinejad from speaking and handing a megalomaniac a megaphone and a stage to use it.”
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., said he thought Columbia’s invitation to Ahmadinejad was a mistake “because he comes literally with blood on his hands.”
Thousands of people jammed two blocks of 47th Street across from the United Nations to protest Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York. Organizers claimed a turnout of tens of thousands. Police did not immediately have a crowd estimate.
The speakers, most of them politicians and officials from Jewish organizations, proclaimed their support for Israel and criticized the Iranian leader for his remarks questioning the Holocaust.
“We’re here today to send a message that there is never a reason to give a hatemonger an open stage,” New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said.
Protesters also assembled at Columbia. Dozens stood near the lecture hall where Ahmadinejad was scheduled to speak, linking arms and singing traditional Jewish folk songs about peace and brotherhood, while nearby a two-person band played “You Are My Sunshine.”
Signs in the crowd displayed a range of messages, including one that read “We refuse to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism.”
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"In all the congregations let the women keep silent."
by senoj53 inat 1 corinthians 14:33-35 paul writes;.
"in all the congregations let the women keep silent, for it is not permitted for them to speak, but let them be in subjection, even as the law says.".
if in fulfilment of joel's prophecy god's spirit was poured out on both men and women at pentecost 33 ce giving them the ability to prophesy, why did paul say that women should keep silent?.
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Uzzah
Paul was obviously afraid of women.
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This is not a goodbye thread.
by eclipse injust letting all you fine folks on jwd that i will be going offline for a while.
not for personal reasons, just technical issues.
i will be completely offline and unable to access the net.. so i will not be able to contact anyone via email either.. i dont know when i will be back.
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Uzzah
Get your cute little djibouti back here soon.
Be well
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How many of you have food stored in case of an emergency??
by Lady Liberty ingood evening everyone,.
another topic here made me think of the mormons who are counseled to have a years worth of food on hand in the event of an emergency.
food, water, money and gas are all things suggested to save.
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Uzzah
Brings back memories of all the whack jobs that built shelters and hoarded supplies when facing the Year 2000. I am a firm believer in being prepared. You should see my trunk, trauma bag, blankets, tool kit, flares, water, O2, kitty litter (Traction and spill control), a change of clothes, etc. But I think having a year's worth of food is unrealistic for most.
In developed areas a more practical suggestion IMO is to be able to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours or even better one week.
After a large scale emergency where the infrastructure has been destroyed or significantly damaged, it will take time for authorities to establish new systems for food/water/medical distribution. The more self sufficient you can be the less you will be impacted by the crisis.
There will be food/water available through NGO's and the Red Cross but that supply is limited and the lines lengthy. For pyscho/social benefits it is far better to wait it out with your family in your own home rather than living in an arena full of cots.
Here is a link to one publication "Be Prepared Not Scared" that discusses personal preparedness
http://www.redcross.ca/cmslib/general/prepared.pdf
This is the Government of Canada's 72 hour Guide to Personal Preparedness:
http://www.redcross.ca/cmslib/general/epweek72hour_guide_e.pdf
Also keep in mind seniors and those with disabilities also have unique challenges that need to be considered for Personal Preparedness. This is a Guide prepared by Emergency Management Ontario on the topic:
http://http://www.mcscs.jus.gov.on.ca/English/publications/comm_safety/6350_EMO_V2.pdf
Personal Emergency Preparedness is great thing but don't let doomsday advocates convince you to go overboard.
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Does anybody on here remember me by any chance?
by Stiffy ini used to post here several years ago... just checkin to see if anyone here remembers me.
safe4kids, naeblis, bitter mango, anyone here by those names still?
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Uzzah
Hey Stiffy. I was Kismet way back then. Welcome back!
