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  Typically How Much $$$ Do You Spend Going Out To Eat Each Week?

  by minimus in

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  i don't cook so i usually eat one meal a day out.

  i pobably spend a couple of hundred a week with food an d drink.

  what about choo?.

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  Uzzah

  I know I spend far too much money eating out. But it is just me and while I do enjoy cooking, I don't find it all that rewarding to just cook for me.

  So I eat out at least 4 dinners per week averaging $40-50 including the bar tab. So that is about $200/week.

  With my crazy schedule (I travel a lot for work) I get so pissed off throwing out produce that goes bad before I can use it. Even getting a bunch of bananas. If I go away for three days ultimately a couple of bananas will be over ripe. A guy can only make so much banana bread...

  So I eat out. Food quality is important so I scope out several places, find out what they are good at and thus get a range of options. Since moving into my house I am BBQing a lot more so that provides fewer reasons for eating out but really should cut back... not to mention the coffee and breakfast sandwich each morning (another $30 per week).
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  swine flu is armageddon ! anyone else heard that one ?

  by looloo in

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  my friends mum is a dub , and she has told her grandchild to come back to meetings as armageddon is coming in the form of swine flu and its going to kill everyone in a month because a member of the congregation had a dream , the problem is the month has passed !

  what a lovely grandma telling her grandchild such bedtime stories ,physological child abuse i would have thought it really pisses me off that these people get away with putting such fear into kids heads and have the damn nerve to look down on "worldley people " poor kids .

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  The current forecasts for an Influenza Pandemic Resurgence of H1N1 mutating with a seasonal flu strain is just less than 0.5% of the population (for 'First World' Countries).

  For example, Canada is predicting about 112,000 deaths in the above scenario with a population of 27 million. This death rate would be over the course of a 3-6 month period meaning approx 20,000-40,000 deaths per month averaged across the entire country. This is essentially double the number of people that die annually from regular or seasonal flu.

  A sad and sobering figure for certain but definitely not the stuff of 'armageddon' type predictions.

  Uzzah
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  2009 CHILDREN DISTRICT CONVENTION NOTEBOOK....BARF ALERT!!!

  by whereami in

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  you gotta be kidding me!

  this is one of the weirdest things they've come out with.. .

  http://www.theoshare.com/40d0772f1d4b/notebooks/2009_children_dc_notebook.pdf.

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  Note copyright info on Page 23. Not produced by the Watchtower or Christian Congregations. Gave credit to them for the illustrations but clearly not a sanctioned soicety publication. That would require them to actually care about children
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  Louisville had 6" of rain in 90 minutes!

  by AK - Jeff in

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  http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/national/midwest/nat_cnn_louisville_official_6_inches_of_rain_in_90_minutes_200908041247_2724790.

  look at the video - hope everyone down that way is dry.. jeff.

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  Uzzah

  We just got hit here (just west of Toronto) with a wicked storm this afternoon as well. Storm sewers were not able to handle the water flow and in about 45 minutes we had a puddle in our work parking lot (big enough to hold about 70 vehicles) about 5-6 inches deep. That is a lot of water in a short period of time to make that happen.

  But the sun is now shining (trying to maintain a positive approach today...)
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  Should Flu Shot be Mandatory?

  by cameo-d in

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  from uk area:.

  http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/07/30/a-million-swine-flu-jabs-to-region/.

  nurses assoc.

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  Calibre:

  I have heard this thought before... all I can say is quite a number of years ago both the wife and I got our one and only flu shot... within one hour we were both severly sick with flu like systoms. I never get any flu's but that year I did !

  Considering most if not all flu virus usually takes 48-72 hours from time of exposure before someone would have any symptoms, it is likely you had some form of allergic reaction (or psychosomatic) rather than 'getting the flu'. I am not discounting your experience but it is not scientifically sound that you got 'the flu' from the flu shot.

  In order to get sick from a bacteria or virus, there has to be enough of the bug inside of you to overwhelm your immune system so it goes into full attack mode. This and a weak immune system (often caused by lack of sleep, poor diet, stress) are usually the components required to be sick. Thus even if the vaccine contained a live virus, it would take at least two to three days for it to reproduce in sufficient quantity to make someone ill.

  Allergic reactions require an existing sensitivity such as to eggs (contained in most vaccines) so that upon even limited exposure the body's immune system goes into overload/high gear.

  There are plenty of well researched web sites that can do a better job explaining the science behind the above statements. I encourage everyone to do their own research from reputable sources (aka not Jim Carrey & Oprah).

  Uzzah
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  Should Flu Shot be Mandatory?

  by cameo-d in

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  from uk area:.

  http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/07/30/a-million-swine-flu-jabs-to-region/.

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  Of interest:

  On July 29, ACIP met to consider who should receive H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available. The details are available at CDC web site http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/acip.htm -- however for your ready reference I have extracted out the relevant section: It should be noted that the H1N1 vaccine (when available) is not intended to replace the seasonal flu vaccine – it is intended to be used along-side seasonal flu vaccine. The groups recommended by ACIP to receive the H1N1 influenza vaccine include:

  1. Pregnant women because they are at higher risk of complications and can potentially provide protection to infants who cannot be vaccinated;
  2. Household contacts and caregivers for children younger than 6 months of age because younger infants are at higher risk of influenza-related complications and cannot be vaccinated. Vaccination of those in close contact with infants less than 6 months old might help protect infants by “cocooning” them from the virus;
  3. Healthcare and emergency medical services personnel because infections among healthcare workers have been reported and this can be a potential source of infection for vulnerable patients. Also, increased absenteeism in this population could reduce healthcare system capacity;
  4. All people from 6 months through 24 years of age
     • Children from 6 months through 18 years of age because we have seen many cases of novel H1N1 influenza in children and they are in close contact with each other in school and day care settings, which increases the likelihood of disease spread, and
     • Young adults 19 through 24 years of age because we have seen many cases of novel H1N1 influenza in these healthy young adults and they often live, work, and study in close proximity, and they are a frequently mobile population; and,
  5. Persons aged 25 through 64 years who have health conditions associated with higher risk of medical complications from influenza.
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  Should Flu Shot be Mandatory?

  by cameo-d in

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  from uk area:.

  http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/07/30/a-million-swine-flu-jabs-to-region/.

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  Normally I would say it is up to each individual.

  This current situation is different. I would STRONGLY suggest that anyone between the ages of 10 and 25 receive the vaccine for the current H1N1 as well as the vaccine that will likely come out in December or January for any mutated version (the more deadly anticipated strain)

  More than 50% of the current people being impacted by H1N1 are in this age group. This vaccine is an opportunity to provide some immunity to this potentially lethal flu strain.

  In Canada, they are calculating 112,000 fatalities if this strain mutates with any of the typical seasonal flu strains.

  Any connection with an illness post flu shot is purely coincidental. Dead virii cannot make someone sick. All seasonal flu vaccines contain nothing living that can reproduce and make someone ill.

  Thay are now discussing school closures if there is a resurgence of a more deadly strain in the Fall. The more we can protect our kids the better. Remember the Society once said vaccines were evil. Don't fall into the same mindset.

  Uzzah
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  MY B-I-L IS IN THE HOSPITAL

  by Mary in

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  here's another update on my brother in law:.

  my sister and b-i-l went to the cancer center in toronto earlier this week to see about getting the stemcell transplant for his disease.

  it was actually an encouraging visit as the oncologist there said that they did not feel his condition had progressed into the acute myloid leukemia yet and that he had longer---up to 2 years---than what his local oncologist had said.

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  {{{{{{{{{Mary}}}}}}}}}

  Keeping you and your family in my thoughts.

  Let me know if I can be of any support or help

  Uzzah
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  RUSSIA deports and bans JW Attorneys

  by skeeter1 in

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  his article was published by f18news on: 23 july 2009. russia: jehovah's witness lawyers deported for defending extremism cases?by geraldine fagan, forum 18 news service <http://www.forum18.org>.

  four lawyers defending jehovah's witnesses have been deported since march, forum 18 news service has learned.

  a leaflet by a traditional mari el pagan priest is among the latest additions to the federal list of extremist materials, meaning it is banned throughout russia.

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  Uzzah

  Knowing the two Canadian lawyers fairly wll I admit to snickering at their experience. For John Burns not to even have a chance to say a word...that is amazing since he usually has more to say than most. Shane thinks of himself as untouchable and god's gift so for him to be roughed up a bit would do him good.

  Only trouble is this situation just makes him more of a hero in the eyes of the Witnesses. It will only increase his god complex
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  Is human death permanent?

  by The Berean in

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  the age old question ... is this all there is?.

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  Uzzah

  I am content in believing that this life is all there is. I live my life with that in mind. Being worm food is guaranteed nothing after that is.

  If there is something else after this, I can just be pleasantly surprised ... hmmmm ... I hope pleasantly .... wouldn't be too happy to come back as a goldfish or the like