Bug's Bleat - - GCF: The End of the Ham

Volume 9, Issue 04 Friday, January 26, 2007

Hello ALL,

I met “Mr.” Kennedy this week. A business meeting in Atlanta, TX gave me the opportunity of dropping by “Kennedy’s Leather Goods.” Nancy’s brother George runs the shop that her father ran when he was raising them.
When I entered the shop, I was met by a white haired (well, what hair there was, was white) gentleman. I asked if he was Mr. Kennedy. “No” he said. “That was my Father. I’m George.” I told him that I worked with his sister and then asked for directions to my business meeting at “Stanco.”
It was great to meet one of the characters of Nancy’s many tales of growing up.
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David is prone to enjoy practical jokes. One day he came by the house and, when he stepped into our living room, he heard the water running in the master bedroom shower.
Figuring that one of us was using the shower, David started scratching on the living room wall (the shower wall joins the north wall of the living room.) Annette, hearing the sound, thought their was a water pipe burst in the wall and came charging out of the bathroom (she did pause to dress before running out of the bathroom.) Upon seeing David standing there grinning, she asked him; "What would you have done if I hadn't taken time to dress before running out to see if the house was flooding." To which David seriously replied; "I'd have been in Therapy for the rest of my life."
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I spent a great deal of my childhood in Doctor’s offices and/or hospitals. You could almost say that I experienced a childhood of “Growing up sick”. In fact, I was in high school before I realized that not everyone spent time in the hospital every year.
I was fifteen and in the hospital again, when one of my buddies came to visit. He seemed real nervous and when I asked him what the problem was, he admitted that he’d never been in a hospital before. After he left, I asked my mother what was wrong with him. I actually thought he must be abnormal.
When I was seven years old, I spent several months in Little Rock at St. Vincent’s Hospital. (In fact, I spent most of the first grade there.) They thought I had leukemia (this was before they discovered that I had McClellan’s Disease.)
To this day, I’ve got a warm spot in my heart for the nuns there. But no matter how well your treated (and we were cared for by the finest humans on the earth) there’s just so much a kid can stand. One morning, after I’d been there for several months, they came in to take more blood, check my vitals, etc. When they put the thermometer in my mouth, I ate it.
Now, this isn’t considered proper food for a growing boy and the nurse jerked me out of the bed and started cleaning out my mouth all the while yelling for help. After they got all the glass out of my mouth and (hopefully) all the mercury, Sister Maria came in and asked me why I’d done that. I told her I was tired of the whole “hospital” thing and wanted to go home. That little act didn’t really change anything but it did break up the monotony.
I didn’t get to go home for another month or two, but the next day, the Sisters let me sneak out to the Zoo, located just south east of the hospital and that made me feel like a kid for a while.

Everyone’s got their breaking point. Sometimes, between the constant pills, blood tests, shots and other health related stuff piled on with work and other stress, it almost gets to be more than a guy can put up with.
I’m an adult now, so I won’t be eating the thermometer. What I am doing is writing it out.” And, “Praying it out.” And I remember that every day, God has a plan for my life. Even when I mess it up, he just updates it and we start fresh.
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Speaking of the hospital, another time, all the kids on the eighth floor were visited by their Fairy Godmother. When we got back to our rooms, we all had presents. Len had a fire truck. Russell had Lincoln Logs. Janie had a doll and I got a new shirt. … A SHIRT! I’m in the hospital. Where’ am I gonna wear a shirt?
To this day, don’t you let me catch you giving any of my kids or grand kids cloths for Christmas or their Birthday. Clothes are not a toy and kids ought to get toys for presents.
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Bob Johnson, owned the Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company store on the square in Magnolia. It was to his store that I ran when the hankering for a new train set overwhelmed me. It was an HO set with red boxcars. The circle of track was mounted on a square plastic layout with mountains, roads and streams. I guess that was worth trading my silver dollar collection for?
Anyway, Mr. Johnson and his lovely wife were regular patrons in the Chatterbox. He was also one of many “regulars” full of mischief and joking.
The “John Sexton” food product salesman had left an Escargot “Kit” with my dad, as a novelty item. Tammy showed it off when ever he had time. The “Kit” consisted of a can of snails packaged with a plastic bag of shells. In the fine French restaurants where this “Kit” was used, the chef would sauté the snails and serve them in the shells.
One Saturday morning, Mr. Johnson was at the counter, drinking a cup of coffee when he noticed several of his wife’s friends come in and sit at the front booth. When he finished his coffee, he stopped at the register to pay and asked my dad, in a loud theatrical voice, “Tammy, do you have those snails for my wife’s party this afternoon?” Tammy caught on immediately, and replied in a voice guaranteed to reach the front booth; “Yes, Bob, I’ve got a whole case of them for the party that Iris will deliver after lunch. Here’s a sample of the product.” At which point he held up the Escargot “Kit” so the women would be sure to see it.
Mr. Johnson left and my dad got back to the business of making “Po-Boy” sandwiches for the ladies in the front booth.
It was a week or so later he heard Mr. Johnson’s wife talking to my mother; “I just can’t understand it.” She said. “None of my best friends were able to come to the party last weekend. They all had sudden conflicts.” My mother commensurate with her about the fickleness of friends.
My father kept his mouth shut and I’m sure that Mr. Johnson never “fessed up.” as to the cause of so many of his wife’s friends missing her party.
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As Jessie George once said "I don't have any use for anything with no shoulders." Glenn Brian told me that he'd quit picking up Mayhaws because of "Mr. No Shoulders."
Now, I'm not a fan of snakes, but they don't absolutely terrify me. My mother told the story of fishing with my father once. He was holding onto a cypress limb to steady the boat when a water moccasin crawled onto his arm. Bud just held still while trying to keep my mother from upsetting the snake. Eventually, the snake crawled off his arm and back onto the limb.
When we were kids, Charlie, Dinah Sue and I delighted in killing small snakes and hiding them around our homes for the women to find. Aunt Gertrude was especially fun to play with. But we also left them in Grandmother's home. One afternoon, we were playing in Grandmother's front yard when we heard her shout "James Fort! I told you not to ... " Then she just screamed. Running into the house, we discovered a baby "ground rattler" in the hallway between the kitchen and dining room. Grandmother had assumed that it was another one of the snakes we'd left lying around. However, when she stooped over to pick it up, it started rattling. That's when she screamed. We were more than happy to dispatch the beast for her and bury it in our snake graveyard.
Steve tells a story about plumbing his house. He'd been working under the house for a couple of days when, while taking a break, he noticed a copperhead at the edge of the house. He got his 357, and loaded it with rat shot intending to dispatch the intruder. However, his first shot missed (the snake, not the house) and the snake slithered further under the house. Steve called for his wife and daughter and told them to watch where the snake went under the house (it was just below that new hole in the siding) while he crawled under the other side. Once under the house, he was able to see the snake and opened fire. After expending all his ammunition, reloading and emptying the gun again, he finally dispatched the snake ... as well as the sink drain line and the toilet water line. When he came out from under the house, his family was on the roof of the family truck. They told him that seemed to be the safest place.
Greg's friends relate the story of the slithering sound in the attic. Greg heard it during supper one evening. He climbed into the attic and saw the insulation moving in time with the slithering noises. Not one to panic, he called for his wife to bring his gun and get the kids out of the house. Once his family was clear, he dispatched the snake with only minor damage to the house (three holes in the dining room ceiling.)
Then there's the famous story of Mike and Prentis's frog gigging trip. Mike and Prentis were working evening shift at the plant. They’d parked Mikes truck and boat in front of the control room and were ready to go at shift change. They drove straight to Dorcheat bottoms where they unloaded the boat and related equipment. Imagine their disappointment when they discovered there were no flashlights in their supplies.
Somehow, they'd both forgotten this minor item. However, not to be held up, they simply removed the headlight and battery from the truck and used a pair of jumper cables to hook the light to the battery. Off they went down the creek, gigging frogs. Mike was handling the light and Prentis was handling the gig. They noticed a large water moccasin on the creek bank but tried to ignore him. Anyway, when they looked again, he was gone. So they continued hunting frogs. Suddenly Prentis heard something hit the boat and yelled for Mike to shine the light in the middle of the boat. Mike swung the light around and the light revealed that large moccasin crawling over the edge of the boat. Mike grabbed a paddle and stood up to do battle. That's when he inadvertently jerked the cables loose that were connecting the light and the battery. What do you do in the pitch dark in a boat with a large snake? Their answer was to wale away at everything within reach. Once they had run out of energy, Mike was able to hook the light back up. The snake was gone. Almost everything in the boat was damaged or destroyed. But Mike and Prentis had survived. ... Oh yeah, the battery was dead when they got back to the truck with it.
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Calhoun Volunteer Fire Dept. Chili Supper
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January 27, 2007
4:00PM - 7:00PM
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A limited number of tickets will be available at the door
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“Investigating Stupidity?”
Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.

Photographs posted on social networking Web site Facebook.com showed partygoers wearing Afro wigs and fake gold and silver teeth. In another picture, a student is dressed as Aunt Jemima and carries a gun.

As Mark Twain may have said: “If it’s illegal to do stupid things, then most of congress will be in jail.”
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Calif. 1st to Ban Dry-Cleaning Chemical
Jan 26 5:18 AM US/Eastern
By SAMANTHA YOUNG
Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- When a soil test revealed a potentially carcinogenic chemical had seeped into the ground beneath his dry-cleaning store, the cleanup set Thomas De Pippo back $200,000.
After that, De Pippo began using an environment-friendly "wet cleaning" system instead of using the toxic solvent perchloroethylene. On Thursday, the market for such "green" technologies got a boost when California enacted the nation's first statewide ban of perchloroethylene by 2023.
"It cost me my entire life savings, my marriage," De Pippo recalled of the cleanup at his Orange County store, "Julie's Cleaners."
De Pippo is among thousands of dry cleaners across the country who are turning to such environmentally friendly options.
The regulation by the California Air Resources Board begins to phase out the use of perchloroethylene next year, banning dry cleaners from buying machines that rely on the solvent that state officials have said causes a variety of cancers.
The state's 3,400 dry cleaners who now use it must get rid of machines that are 15 years or older by July 2010.
"That's the wave of the future _ nontoxic, non-smog forming" said Annette Kondo, spokeswoman for the Coalition for Clean Air, a California environmental group. "We think this is going to ripple down to other states across the country."
Environmental and health advocates embraced the new rule, though they had urged the air board to accelerate the ban because of the chemical's health effects as a potential carcinogen. The solvent has contaminated one in 10 wells in California.
But cleaners say the ban threatens to drive some of them out of business because alternative methods are unproven and more costly. An estimated 70 percent of the state's dry cleaners use the solvent.
"It could shut down some mom-and-pop operations _ the little guys that can't afford it," said Bob Blackburn, president of the California Cleaners Association.
The cost of converting could be significant for dry cleaners, 85 percent of which are small businesses with slim profit margins. Replacing a machine that uses perchloroethylene can cost between $41,500 and $175,000.
The air board estimates that the additional expense of the new equipment will boost a customer's $15 bill between $1.20 to $1.60.
What alternative should be allowed in California is still under debate. Dry cleaners who switched to other systems sought to sway the board in favor of their preference.
Although the air board did not endorse a substitute, the regulation would give cleaners a $10,000 incentive to buy a machine that uses a wet cleaning system, which use carbon dioxide.
Environmentalists urged the board to ban the most common alternative, which uses hydrocarbons. Critics said it could lead to increased ozone pollution.
The board's vote follows similar action five years ago by the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern California. That agency became the first regulatory body in the country to ban perchloroethylene, forcing more than 2,000 dry cleaners to stop using the chemical by 2020.

Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned the chemical for dry cleaners located in residential buildings nationwide by 2020. But those operations are a small fraction of the nation's cleaners, said Jon Meijer, vice president of the International Fabricare Institute, an industry association based in Maryland.
California declared perchloroethylene a toxic chemical in 1991. State health officials told the air board Thursday that it can cause esophageal cancer, lymphoma, cervical and bladder cancer. The solvent, which has a strong, sweet odor, also can affect the central nervous system.
Some business owners disputed those claims.
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The photos on the front of this weeks “Bleat” include MCC’s recent “Health Fair.”
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Recipe(s) of the week - We’re sharing recipes from Shannon Voigt’s Taylor Recipe Book
This isn’t in the book yet, but I like it. - - James’s Breakfast

Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients
Eggs
Cheddar Cheese - 1 Ounce per egg
Butter - 1 to 3 Tablespoons
Pepper - to taste

Grate Cheese (I use our food processor and work the cheese until its roughly shredded.)
Heat the butter in a non stick skillet until just melted.
Whip eggs (Again, I just add the eggs to the cheese in the food processor and mix till you can’t see any white. This should be done just before pouring eggs into the skillet.)
Add eggs to skillet and stir. Continue stirring until almost done to your liking. Take them off the heat a little early as they will continue cooking. Pepper them and plate them.

Bread

Use whatever floats your boat. I like to slice day old rolls, butter them and toast them. Then add jelly (I use sugar free) as desired.

Grits.

Ingredients
I like Jim Dandy Iron Fortified Quick Grits
1/4 cup grits to 1 cup water for each person eating.
1/8 teaspoon (or less) salt per serving of grits. (Reduce this if you use salted butter.)
Butter
Cheese, grated Cheddar or “real” American slices (not that cheap rubber tasting brand.)

I cook the grits for two minutes in the microwave, stir, another minute, stir and another minute.
After taking them out of the microwave, stir again, add one or two tablespoons of butter and 1/8 to 1/4 cup cheese per serving. Cover and let the heat of the grits melt the butter and cheese. Pour up your coffee, put jelly on your toast and then the butter and cheese into the grits, pepper to taste.

Hash Browns

Ingredients
Day old baked potatoes, refrigerated overnight. Quantities depend on how hungry you are. Annette and I usually share one normal baking size Idaho potato.
Cooking oil, about 1 tablespoon per potato.
Butter, about 1 tablespoon per potato.

Heat a 10" cast iron skillet on high while your grating the potatoes.
Add the oil
Add the potatoes
Stir them up to coat with the oil
Add the butter

Cook until brown, turn over and brown the other side. I like mine crispy on the outside and done on the inside.
Plate on a paper towel and you can “lightly” salt. You shouldn’t need much. Pepper to taste.

Meat

You pick it. Bacon, Sausage, some nice, “real” ham (see Baine for the best.) Cook as desired. Quantities as desired (I like two sausage paddies or two strips of bacon or one nice slab of ham per person.)
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BreakPoint
With Chuck Colson

Loosing the Chains of Injustice
1/26/2007
The 2007 Wilberforce Award

Each year since 1989 Prison Fellowship has given the William Wilberforce Award to that one person who has made a substantial difference in the face of formidable societal problems. As I mentioned last week, this year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of William Wilberforce’s great achievement, the abolition of the slave trade, the story told beautifully in the major film to be released next month, Amazing Grace. So when the award was announced earlier this month, it was difficult to imagine a recipient more suited to it than Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission and champion of the ongoing struggle to end human trafficking.

In 1994 Haugen, an attorney, was on temporary reassignment from the U.S. Department of Justice working with the United Nations genocide investigation in Rwanda. His job was to accumulate preliminary evidence against the perpetrators. There, standing in the middle of several thousand corpses in a mass grave in Kibuye, Rwanda, Haugen stared into the swollen, machete-marred face of injustice. Returning home to suburban American life, Haugen could not purge those realities from his consciousness.

As he read through the Bible, the command for God’s people to “seek justice” leapt off page after page: Isaiah chapter 1 and chapter 59; Ezekiel chapter 22; and many others.* But what could one ordinary suburban Christian do?

With God’s help, it turns out, quite a lot.

After surveying more than sixty-five organizations representing some 40,000 overseas missionaries and relief workers, Haugen found widespread awareness of injustices, like child prostitution, the murder of street children, detention or disappearance without charge or trial, or corrupt seizure of land. And yet those Christian workers were lacking the expertise to confront these injustices.

So, in 1997 Haugen formed the International Justice Mission (IJM), a human-rights organization founded to seek justice on Christian principles. IJM’s corps of lawyers, criminal investigators, and government relationships workers today defends and rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression around the world.

In Wilberforce’s England the slave trade endured for so long because its horrors were far removed from the eyes of everyday people, most of whom had never even seen a slave. The success of Wilberforce’s movement largely hinged on how he and his fellow laborers made the invisible horrors of the trade visible to the world.

Like his predecessor William Wilberforce, Haugen is committed to bringing public awareness to the ongoing needs for justice across the world. Through his books, Terrify No More and Good News about Injustice, along with IJM-hosted talks in churches across the country, Haugen is raising that awareness and calling God’s people to respond in tangible ways to the prophet Isaiah’s call to “loosen the chains of injustice.”

Wilberforce once said, “It is evident that we are to consider our peculiar situations, and in these to do all the good we can.” Providence aptly outfitted Haugen with the skills, expertise, and even exposure to injustice that would be necessary for him to engage in his life’s work. Haugen and Wilberforce’s choices to confront the evil in their path with the gifts they had been given is a testimony and example for all of us.

*See also Isaiah 1:17; 59:15-16; and Ezekiel 22:25, 27, 30.

See BreakPoint’s Fact Sheet on the Problem of Sexual Trafficking for ideas on how you can make a difference.

For Further Reading and Information

“In Abolition Anniversary Year, Human Rights Lawyer Receives Wilberforce Award,” International Justice Mission press release, 22 January 2007.

Learn more about International Justice Mission.

Gary Haugen, Terrify No More (W Publishing, 2005).

Gary Haugen, The Good News about Injustice (InterVarsity, 1999).

Learn more about the Amazing Change Campaign, inspired by the upcoming film about William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, and sign the petition to help end modern-day slavery.

Watch a clip of the upcoming film Amazing Grace at the Wilberforce Forum website.

BreakPoint Commentary No. 070116, “Necessary Fanaticism: Combating the Slave Trade.”

Visit the website for the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Also see the Department of Justice page on trafficking.

Kevin Belmonte, Hero for Humanity (NavPress, 2002). An updated version is available in February 2007.

Kristine Steakley, “Making a difference,” The Point, 3 October 2006.

Catherine Claire, “‘Twas the Night before Elections,” The Point, 6 November 2006.

Catherina Hurlburt, “A Hymn that Will Never Sound the Same to You Again,” The Point, 8 November 2006.

David Batstone, Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It (HarperSanFrancisco, 2007).

Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (HarperSanFrancisco, 2007).

The BreakPoint Web site and BreakPoint WorldView Magazine feature Colson’s commentaries as well as feature articles by other established and up-and-coming writers to equip readers with a biblical perspective on a variety of issues and topics.
© 2004-2006 Prison Fellowship
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Words of the Week:
pettifogger: a petty, unscrupulous lawyer; also, who quibbles over trivia.
extemporaneous: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment.
censure: to criticize severely; also, an expression of disapproval.
supine: lying on the back; also, indolent; listless.
inscrutable: difficult to fathom or understand.
dissimulate: to hide under a false appearance; also, to feign or pretend.
overweening: overbearing; also, excessive.
from Dictionary.Com

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"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand." - Chinese Proverb

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraguhar Tupper

"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." - Thomas Jefferson

"I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool." - Theodore Rubin

"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." - Thurgood Marshall

"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age." - Albert Einstein
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# President Bush Proclaims National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2007
# Mother Who Defied Doctor's Urging for Abortion Does Not Regret Having Severely Handicapped Daughter for Seven Years
# Battling to Maintain Strict Anti-Abortion Laws, Portuguese Bishop Says Abortion is a Form of Capital Punishment
# What One Person, One Phone Call, Can Do: Popular Clothing Store Stops Selling "Terror Chic" Scarf

# Super Bowl-Bound Colts' Head Coach Tony Dungy Rises Out of Tragedy and Gives the Glory to God
# San Francisco Sees Huge Pro-Life Rally — Pro-Life Activists are Younger, More Diverse
# New Zealand High Court backs Right to Life on abortion evidence
# Christian Radio Helping to Transform the Lives of Colombian Guerrilla Fighters

# President Bush Addresses Pro-Life Rally—Vows to Defend Ban of Partial-Birth Abortions
# Archbishops of Canterbury and York to Lead Cross-Bearing "Walk of Witness" Through Streets of London
# Christian "American Idol" to Air Friday
# More Reasons to Grow in Wisdom and Discernment

# New Zealand Church Hands Out $100 Notes for Churchgoers to Pay it Forward
# Incomes of the Poor Rising Around the Globe, Narrowing Gap Between "Have's and Have Not's"
# As More Scientists Enter Global Warming Debate, More Concern Raised About "Overselling" Global Warming
# Futuristic Driverless Bus That "Sniffs Out Magnets in the Road" Due to be Tested

# The Push is On For a "God Clause" in EU Constitution
# CNN Poll Shows Three-Quarters of Those Who Viewed State of the Union Speech Had "Positive Reaction"
# Microwaving Household Sponges Kills Dangerous Germs, Says Scientists—May Even Kill Bioterrorism Pathogens
# Revolutionary Vaccine Skin Patch Shows Promise for Keeping Alzheimer's at Bay

# International Day of Commemoration: In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
# U.S. Supreme Court to Take Up Wisconsin Right to Life Case
# Millions Set Aside Sunday to Pray for Peace of Jerusalem on Jan. 28
# Praying for Your Favorite Sports Team to Win—AP Asks Experts to Weigh In

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GCF: The End of the Ham

Emailed to me by a friend (Thanks, Howard) -Tom

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A young woman was preparing a ham dinner. After she cut off the end of the ham, she placed it in a pan for baking.

Her friend asked her,” Why did you cut off the end of the ham"?

And she replied ,"I really don't know but my mother always did, so I thought you were supposed to."

Later when talking to her mother she asked her why she cut off the end of the ham before baking it, and her mother replied, "I really don't know, but that's the way my mom always did it."

A few weeks later while visiting her grandmother, the young woman asked, "Grandma, why is it that you cut off the end of a ham before you bake it?"

Her grandmother replied, "Well dear, otherwise it would never fit into my baking pan."
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GCF: Sensitive User

Found at The Shark Tank (Computerworld) -Tom http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4371?source=NLT_SHARK&nlid=6
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It's upgrade time for this particularly sensitive user, and the technician assigned to work with her knows the drill. "This user was known to start crying when faced with changes in her work environment," says the tech. "We were upgrading the software she used and giving everyone in her department bigger monitors, and I wanted to take extra care that she understood the changes and was dealing with them OK."

So when she calls the technician because she's having a problem, he's ready to listen patiently. But he's not prepared for what he hears. "It's going pretty well, I guess," user tells him. "But it's kind of hard to read the type in this new program."

Tech examines the smallest type on the new screens. It all looks razor-sharp to him, and easier to read than in the old software on the old monitors. "Which part of the screen are you having trouble with?" he asks.

To his surprise, she launches the Windows Notepad and starts typing. The font is set to a large size, but she says, "This stuff here looks really blurry."

"Hmm," says the tech. "It seems like you might be due for a new prescription for your glasses. When's the last time you were checked?"

"I just got new glasses a few days ago," she says.

"Do the notes posted next to your computer also looked blurry?" he asks.

After a moment of looking at them, she replies, "Yeah, I guess so. I didn't realize that. Maybe you're right."

When the tech tells the story to his boss, the boss's response is an astonished "She's been walking into walls for a week and she waits until today to blame it on our new software?"
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GCF: Community Newspaper

Emailed to me another humor list (Pastor Tim's Clean Laugh List) -Tom Subscribe to Pastor Tim's Clean Laugh list at the website: Subscribe
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The town of Glenelg, Maryland is such a small community, I was surprised that they had a community newspaper. I asked one old-timer about it.

He replied, "We all know what everybody else is doing, but we like to read the paper anyway to see who's been caught at it."
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GCF: Open House

Emailed to me from another humor list (Marty's Joke of the Day) -Tom To subscribe to Marty's Joke of the Day, send a blank email to: martysjotd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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A few years ago we were desperately trying to sell our house, which was situated on a busy thoroughfare. Our real estate agent decided to have open-house inspection nearly every day to promote the sale. We instructed the children not to talk to anyone about the house.

One evening a man took our seven-year-old daughter aside and asked if our house had any secrets he should know. Her first reaction was to smile and ignore his question. But he became more persistent and, finally, she confessed there was one secret but she could not tell it to him.

"Now we're getting somewhere," he said. "Tell me the secret. I promise I won't tell anyone."

She looked him straight in the eye and whispered, "We have monsters in our sewer."
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[GCFL.net] Getting Old

Three older ladies were discussing the travails of getting older. One said, "Sometimes I catch myself with a jar of mayonnaise in my hand in front of the refrigerator and can't remember whether I need to put it away or start making a sandwich."

The second lady chimed in, "Yes, sometimes I find myself on the landing of the stairs and can't remember whether I was on my way up or on my way down."

The third one responded, "Well, I'm glad I don't have that problem; knock on wood," as she rapped her knuckles on the table. Then she told them, "That must be the door; I'll get it!"

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[GCFL.net] Thank you thank you

Copyright 2003 W. Bruce Cameron
Please do not remove the copyright from this essay.

My resume brags that I am a "regular contributor to Time Magazine," which is true: I regularly contribute about 30 bucks a year to their subscription department.

I've also written for the magazine a few times, and am perhaps best known for an unfortunate column I wrote concerning thank-you notes. In it, I described the disappointment I felt when I purchased a gift for a nephew of mine and didn't receive an acknowledgement of any kind; I then went on to sternly lecture parents on the proper etiquette for responding to presents. To make the essay applicable for people who did not have the same nephew, I identified him merely as "a boy I know."

I should have remembered that parents are grateful for uncompromising advice on childrearing so long as it doesn't have to do with their own kid.

"Hey," an angry father accosted me on the telephone, "I don't appreciate you writing this thing about my son!"

"Do I know you?" I replied.

"All I got to say is, I'm glad you didn't send a gift, because if you had, we never would have sent you a thank-you note because you wrote this article about it," he fumed.

"Can you give me a moment to sort of think through that last sentence?" I pleaded.

"My son's crying, no thanks to you, Mr. Thank You Jerk!"

I also heard from my nephew's father: "Maybe you would get a thank-you note if you sent him something besides a sock puppet," he fumed.

"It's the thought that counts," I answered in a patient, "I'm the Expert in Time Magazine So Shut Up" tone.

"What thought? Every year for nineteen years you draw a face on one of your old socks and send it to him and he's supposed to be grateful?" he demanded.

"I'm shocked you think I'm using an old sock. Most of them I hardly wore," I objected.

But the worst reaction came from relatives who read my Time column and concluded it meant that I personally would start sending thank-you notes.

"Did you get my gift?" my sister wanted to know. "It should have been there by now."

"Yes, thanks."

"Because I haven't gotten a note from you yet. I'm really concerned."

"Didn't we talk about this yesterday?" I asked.

"Yes, but there's still no note," she advised. "I know what a stickler you are on the topic."

"Well, I got the gift."

"Okay, I'll call you tomorrow if your note isn't here yet!" she promised, ringing off.

Faced with the threat of talking to my family every day, I grimly sat down and wrote notes acknowledging all the presents I had received. "Dear Mom," I wrote, "Thank you for the sweater and for the socks. You can stop sending socks because I'm running out of things to do with them. Love, Bruce."

My mother, thrilled to support me in my quest to make America more polite, wrote back promptly. "Dear Son, thank you for the thank-you note. Glad you liked the sweater. Love, Mom."

Well, now what? Do you have to thank someone for a thank-you note? Well, if I didn't, she'd be calling me wanting to know where her acknowledgement was. I wrote, "Mom, thanks for the response. No need to write back. Bruce."

"Dear Son," she responded promptly, "thanks for your note telling me I didn't need to write back. Love, Mom."

"Dear Mom, okay stop. Thanks, Bruce."

"Dear Bruce, got your note, thanks very much. Love, Mom."

"Dear Mom, while I appreciate getting your last note, I truly think you've thanked me enough. So thanks, and let this be the last time we mention the matter."

"Dear Bruce, thank you so much for your graciousness in your last note," she gushed back.

"Dear Mom, I am sending back the sweater and the socks. Sorry that one of the socks has a face drawn on it."

"Dear Bruce, thank you for sending back the sweater and the socks."

"Dear Time Magazine: A few years ago I wrote an article about how people should always write thank-you notes. Please print a retraction of that article."

Dear Mr. Cameron: Thank you very much for writing Time Magazine....."

Received from W. Bruce Cameron.

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[GCFL.net] How'd You Know?

A young man wants to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for their first wedding anniversary, so he decides to buy her a cell phone. She is all excited--she loves her phone. He shows it to her and explains all the features on the phone.

The next day the blonde goes shopping. Her phone rings and it's her husband.

"Hi hun," he says. "How do you like your new phone?"

She replies, "I just love it; it's so small and your voice is clear as a bell. But there's one thing I don't understand though."

"What's that, baby?" asks the husband.

"How did you know I was at Wal-Mart?"

Received from Timothy Anger.

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[GCFL.net] Heavenly Baseball

Two buddies, Bob and Earl, were two of the biggest baseball fans in America. For their entire adult lives, Bob and Earl discussed baseball history in the winter and they pored over every box score during the season. They went to 60 games a year. They even agreed that whoever died first would try to come back and tell the other if there was baseball in heaven.

One summer night, Bob passed away in his sleep after watching the Yankee victory earlier in the evening. He died happy. A few nights later, his buddy Earl awoke to the sound of Bob's voice from beyond.

"Bob, is that you?" Earl asked.

"Of course it's me," Bob replied.

"This is unbelievable!" Earl exclaimed. "So tell me, is there baseball in heaven?"

"Well, I have some good news and some bad news for you. Which do you want to hear first?"

"Tell me the good news first."

"Well, the good news is that, yes, there is baseball in heaven, Earl."

"Oh, that is wonderful! So what could possibly be the bad news?"

"You're pitching tomorrow night."

Received from CyberCheeze Joke of the Day.

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[GCFL.net] Male Emotions

One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby's crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement, enchantment, skepticism.

Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband.

"A penny for your thoughts," she said.

"It's amazing!" he replied. "I just can't see how anybody can make a crib like that for only $46.50."

Received from vinninred.

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*Dog License*

During a county-wide drive to round up all unlicensed dogs, a patrolman signaled a car to pull over to the curb.

When the driver asked why he had been stopped, the officer pointed to the big dog sitting on the seat beside him and asked, "Does your dog have a license?"

"No," the man said, "He doesn't need one."

"Yes he does," answered the officer.

"But," said the driver, I always do all the driving."

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*Are You My Waiter?*

Max Greenberg was at his favorite eatery, the Second Avenue Deli, when he called over the waiter.

"Yes?" asked the busy waiter.

"Are you sure you're the waiter I ordered from?" asked Max.

"Why do you ask?" replied the waiter.

Max replied, "Because I was expecting he would be a much older man by now."

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*Road Closed*

Signs warning of closed roadways are frequently ignored in rural Minnesota, so highway workers barely took notice when a woman drove past their sign and over the hill to the trench they had dug in the middle of the road.

The workers explained the detour route to town, and she went on her way.

They were surprised, however, to see the same woman coming toward them from town a couple of hours later.

"Oh," she said distractedly as she pulled up next to the trench crew. "Is it closed in this direction too?"

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*Bell Call*

The scene: Alexander Graham Bell's laboratory.

An exciting new discovery is about to take place. In the next room sits Bell's assistant, a man named Watson, hard at work on Bell's new invention to transmit sound over wires.

As Mr. Watson toiled away in the room with the receiver, it suddenly rings -- it must be Bell!

He picks it up and hears:

"Good evening, sir. Are you paying too much for your long distance service?"

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*Searching For Witnesses*

The policeman arrived at the scene of an accident to find that a car had struck a telephone pole. Searching for witnesses, he discovered a pale, nervous young man in work clothes who claimed he was an eyewitness.

"Exactly where were you at the time of the accident?" inquired the officer.

"Sir," exclaimed the telephone lineman, "I was at the top of the pole."

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Madeleine Begun Kane Latest Columns - - http://www.madkane.com/workingstiffed.html - - Finding a new job can be a daunting challenge. But if you follow my simple 21-step plan, you'll soon be battling cranky alarm clocks, rush-hour traffic, and the "living for the weekend" daily grind.

1. Lose job.

2. Panic, freak out, and turn into a pulsating blob of hysteria. CAUTION: It's best to do this at home -- you'll be wanting that reference.

3. Torture everyone you've ever met with your tale of woe. Bitch about your former boss, your boss' boss, your lousy luck, the manipulative coworker who stole your job, the economy, and, of course, the world as we know it. Seriously consider buying a voodoo doll.

4. Perfect the art of sleeping late, parading about in slatternly garb, and doing absolutely nothing. Tell your spouse you spent the entire week working on your resume. When spouse says "Let me have a look," say you're still fine-tuning it.

5. Start working on resume.

6. Show spouse resume. Become defensive when asked "Where's the rest of it?"

7. Report to Unemployment. Wait in line for hours. Fill out confusing paperwork. Go home to look for missing data.

8. Return to Unemployment. Wait in line, fill out forms, be interrogated by someone half your age and one-eighth as educated. Someone who actually has a job.

9. Discover the pitiful sum you'll be getting for the next 26 weeks. That is, if you report in regularly, fill out weekly forms, and prove to the satisfaction of some bored civil servant that you've been a diligent, albeit unsuccessful, little job hunter.

10. Revise your resume. Study the help-wanted ads. Conclude you need to be more creative.

11. Compose catchy letters filled with all the latest lingo. Stuff them into envelopes with your new, "improved" resume. Receive nothing in the mail but bills.

12. Buy a new answering machine, lest you miss a call from an employer. Play back messages with great anticipation:

Three hang-ups and two salesman.

Your mother wondering if you found a job yet.

A former coworker saying your boss just got the ax.

Smile for the first time in weeks.

13. Put on your finest suit and show up at employment agencies. Try to charm them into dispensing with their "no interview without appointment" rule. Find out receptionists now double as bouncers.

14. Become depressed. Over-sleep--eat--drink--spend. Avert your eyes at the help wanted ads. Become overwhelmed with guilt and wonder what adult companionship would feel like. In a spurt of activity, answer several ads.

15. Receive call for interview. Panic. Shop for new suit. Ask spouse to pose as interviewer. Ask parents to pose as interviewer. Practice plausible, sympathetic, yet not strictly truthful explanation of why you're out of work.

16. Suffer through interview. Consider objecting to improper questions. Reconsider. Speak enthusiastically about your old job. Speak earnestly about your prospective job. Barely manage not to gag. Acquit self reasonably well, except for one accidental use of curse word. Decide to clean up your vocabulary...at least until you're hired.

17. Tell spouse, parents, and friends about interview. Disregard encouraging words. Second-guess yourself. Wonder if interviewer will check references. Wonder if references will make things worse. Wonder if you should threaten to sue for slander. Send effusive thank you note to interviewer. Become nauseated by your hypocrisy. Mail letter anyway.

18. Wait to hear from prospective employer. Leave several phone messages. Finally reach interviewer one evening after phone screener has gone home. Find out the job's been filled. You're under-qualified. Or over-qualified. Or inappropriately qualified.

19. Repeat Steps 14 through 18 except for vocabulary lapse. Repeat them again. Keep repeating them until...

20. Receive job offer. Become so excited you almost forget to ask what it pays.

21. Set alarm clock for the crack of dawn and fall asleep an hour before it sounds. Moan, struggle into consciousness, crawl into your best suit, and report to work an hour early.

Quit griping and get used to it. You should have enjoyed unemployment while it lasted.

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| Safety from the Heart |
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January 26, 2007

Today's Safety From the Heart message was submitted by Keith Black.

The Right Way to Use a Portable Fire Extinguisher-Part 1

Do you know how to extinguish a fire? According to OSHA regulations, no one at a workplace is supposed to use a fire extinguisher unless they have been trained to do so. Though this may seem awfully restrictive, there are several good reasons for this rule. If an untrained person tries to extinguish a blaze, some serious mistakes can happen. Any of these mistakes can cause the fire to become worse, or injure or kill the individual. This Safety Topic features instructions on proper use of portable fire extinguishers.

There are four things to remember when it comes to using a fire extinguisher: Use Your Judgment, Communicate, Ready the Extinguisher, and Use It. You must also know what to do if your efforts fail.

Use Your Judgment --When you see smoke or fire you should use your own good judgment before you decide to extinguish the blaze. Ask yourself these questions:
Is the fire limited in size and spread?
Will you have an escape route if something goes wrong?
Do you know the location of the nearest fire extinguisher?

If you are confident the fire is controllable and your safety is ensured, attempt to put it out. If the answer to any of these questions is no, evacuate the area immediately.

Communicate -- Once you have decided to extinguish the blaze, make every reasonable attempt to tell at least one other person what you are doing. This person should report your activity to someone else as soon as possible.

Ready the Extinguisher --You must select the proper extinguisher. Fire extinguishers are classified according to the type of fires they extinguish. It is very important to use the proper extinguisher. Some extinguishers are rated for more than one class. Some are for only one type of fire. Just be sure the extinguisher you're using is rated for the fire you're extinguishing.

Class A: Use on ordinary combustibles such as wood, cloth, paper, rubber, and many plastics.

Class B: Use on flammable liquids such as gasoline, oil, grease, tar, oil-based paint, lacquer, and flammable paint.

Class C: Use on energized electrical equipment including wiring, fuse boxes, circuit breakers, machinery, and appliances.

Class D: Use on flammable solids such as magnesium.

In part two we will discuss the remaining steps to Ready the Extinguisher, as well as how to actually use the extinguisher and what to do if your attempts to extinguish the blaze aren't successful.

The Right Way to Use a Portable Fire Extinguisher-Part 2

In part one we discussed the first steps in using a portable fire extinguisher. We reviewed Use Your Judgment, Communicate, and part of Ready the Extinguisher. The next steps to Ready the Extinguisher are these:

Ready the Extinguisher --
Quickly but carefully remove the extinguisher from its mounting
bracket. It may be heavy, so use caution when lifting it.
Stand about six feet from the fire.
Extend the nozzle toward the fire.

Use It --Once the extinguisher is ready, you are ready to release the extinguishing agent. This must be done properly. For example, if you squeeze the handle before you have aimed the nozzle properly, valuable time and extinguishing agent will be wasted.
A technique to remember for using an extinguisher is published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). It is known as the P.A.S.S. Technique.

The P.A.S.S. Technique:

Pull out the pin that secures the handle.

Aim the extinguisher nozzle at the base of the fire.

Squeeze the handle. (Do not be startled by the noise or velocity of the agent as it is released.)

Sweep the agent stream from side to side across the base of the fire until it is completely out. Be alert for re-ignition. If this happens, douse the fire until the extinguisher is empty.

Once the fire is out, back carefully away from the scene. This will enable you to know immediately if the fire re-ignites.

Knowing how to use a fire extinguisher the right way is an important skill. Sometimes, though, in spite of your best efforts, your attempt may fail. The last point to remember about using a fire extinguisher is what to do if your efforts fail. It is really quite simple. If you cannot extinguish the blaze or it recurs repeatedly, evacuate the area immediately.

The best time to familiarize yourself with potential fire hazards in your work area is before a fire happens. Knowing the hazards that exist, and what types of fires could occur are critical skills to working safely. You can also use this knowledge to make sure the proper type of fire extinguisher is available should the need arise.
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January 25, 2007
Avian Flu Update

Today's Message is from Stuart Turnbull (a Houston Albemarle employee).

Update on Avian Flu Pandemic: On 1/14/07 The World Health Organization warned Europe of a seasonal resurgence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in Asia that could easily spread to Europe, again, this year. ''We are convinced that we're in a repeat of last year and the year before when the virus began to get very active again [in the northern hemisphere winter] and spread from Asia into the Middle East and beyond,'' said Peter Cordingley, the WHO spokesman for the Pacific region.

To date the H5N1 strain has been identified in 46 countries, with the latest being Spain in July 2006. A total of 265 Human infections have been confirmed, in 10 different countries, with a total of 159 deaths recorded. The world is currently in phase 3 of the 6 phase WHO pandemic alert system. Phase 3 means that a new influenza virus subtype is causing disease in humans, but is not yet spreading efficiently and sustainably among humans.
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January 24, 2007
Symptoms of a Blood Clot or Heart Attack

Today's Safety From the Heart message is from Dale Mann.

Relaying this as it personally happened to me. Want others to be aware that sometimes what you don't want to believe is happening, is in fact happening. My case may have been a little odd. I don't recall seeing any others explained like this, but a lot of heart attacks do happen in cold weather.

One cold Friday in 2002 I came to work as normal. I had a small ache in my right shoulder, a nagging hurt. I thought to myself, all these doggone clothes I am having to wear I've likely wrenched my shoulder. Throughout the day the ache kept getting worse, til it finally hurt like the dickens, but I was able to work the whole day.

Got home Friday evening and took a shower, Advil, Tylenol, aspirin, a lot of everything. I think I even used some alcohol, don't think it was rubbing alcohol. Anyway, couldn't hardly sleep. I remember thinking, I don't suppose this is a heart attack? Nah, not me, I know better. I got up Saturday and couldn't do anything. Water line froze on Friday; it thawed out Saturday afternoon; line busted. I could barely make it out with the tool to cut the water off. When I did that I said to hell with it til Sunday.

Come Sunday I felt a little better but it was still a nagging, sharp pain in my right shoulder; didn't seem quite so severe though. Got the stuff out of my shed and fixed the busted water line. Took another dose of Tylenol, aspirin, Advil and alcohol,and that was all I could do, laid back down. I remember as clear as today thinking around 11 pm Sunday evening if it wasn't any better come Monday morning I was going straight to the doctor.

Right after I had this thought, my heart started racing like it was about to jump out of my chest; I'm talking really racing. I thought about another dose of all the above, but I was feeling ill and kind of clammy. I said maybe I should go the emergency room. So I got in my truck and drove to the emergency room, noting that the pain in my right shoulder was gone. That was a relief.

When I got to the emergency room, my heart was beating so fast, they kind of snatched me up rudely, started an IV, and then a Dr came in there with a long needle. I was feeling pretty good and asked him what his intentions were with that contraption. He didn't answer, then nurses came in and strapped me down. I was calm but still thought this was out of the ordinary, then he plunged that contraption directly into my heart. Whhheeeeewww, I wasn't that sedated and started raising cain. Thought they were trying to kill me. Lucky they did strap me down. It did slow down my heart from 200 and something beats a minute to where I went to sleep. I think they gave me something else too, had a real relaxed peaceful outlook for awhile. Seemed like life was going pretty well the right way.

Anyway, the point to this story is do not tough it out. If I had gotten help earlier, the blood clot wouldn't have done as severe a damage as it did, or it may have sent me on to Glory, who knows? Because I ended up waiting so long, eventually had to end up having open heart surgery to put in a mechanical valve, maize procedure, etc, now that really like to killed me. We use check valves at the plant, and guess what. We don't trust them and shouldn't. The mechanical valves they put in your heart work the same as a check valve out here. Guess what, I was in recovery when they realized my check valve was leaking through. Had to go back through the same ordeal, cut the chest back open, lay your heart on a table and go at it.

Pay attention to what your body is telling you. If something aches strangely, a pain you haven't had before, get it checked promptly. Same as chemical burns or ligament damage we saw in the movie, the faster you can get treatment, the better off you are.
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January 22, 2007
Attack

Today's Safety From the Heart message was submitted by Pam Kemp.

I live in what is, I think, a safe, family-oriented neighborhood where almost every afternoon you hear children playing and laughing, riding bikes and neighbors chit chatting across the yards.

That image was crushed by an incident that happened yesterday (Thursday) morning around 8 am. One of my neighbors was getting ready to go to work, had run out to start her car in order for it to be thawed before hitting the normal daily routine... however, it was far from normal for her. As she walked out of her door and down her sidewalk to her car, a young man was waiting for her, hidden from her sight because he was leaning as closely to the house as possible not to be seen.

When she saw him she started screaming and running as fast as she could away from him. He went after her with his gun drawn and pointing at her and at one point after she fell he held the gun directly at her. She continued to scream when my daughter-in-law, inside her house next door getting the children ready for school, thought she heard someone and yanked open the front door quickly and yelled for my son to come see what was happening.

My son ran to the door and screamed out, "WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE" to which the guy started running. Out goes my son after him, unarmed but if he had caught him I'm sure he would have used his fist as a weapon (glad he didn't catch him at that point since the man was still armed). When he couldn't catch the man, he returned to his house and got in his truck to search further for the criminal. In the meanwhile, my daughter-in-law had taken the woman into her house to warm her and dry her and aid her in any emotional or physical way needed until her husband could get back home from his job he had left for only a short time before the crime took place.

I spoke w/the lady yesterday afternoon and she was very much shaken still over the possibility of "what could have happened."

It was a very dangerous situation for her that turned for the better...Weather was bad so the schools delayed an hour in opening, hence my son was still home. My daughter-in-law startled the attacker by letting him know she had seen him and was yelling for my son to come look. My son, though maybe to others acted foolishly by chasing the armed man, at the least helped to possibly save the neighbor's life..It was a very serious situation that had been foiled by someone paying attention to strange sounds and irregular activities.

Do angels exist? I think so..sometimes taking on human form to help another in danger...ask the lady who was attacked and I think she would agree.

Moral to this occurrence: SCAN your yard and house and all around in the early hours of morning, late evening and during the day. Be a police of your neighborhood and home... It's sacred to you but some others won't care to see it as your haven of rest but rather a means of helping themselves to whatever you have.

Start a Neighborhood crime watch: as of yesterday this is being established as I write.
Let your neighbors know when you are not home; know your neighbors first and LAST name and phone #.
Watch out for your neighbors' safety if you know they are alone..Warn them of any potential danger you see. Strangers in the neighborhood?? Stop them and ask them who they are looking for ..If they hang around more than a few minutes...call the police... better have them question him before the crime ..than after.

Are you your brother's keeper?? .......you bet you are... you never know what heartache, pain and physical well-being you can supply just by taking a minute to look around your neighborhood...you aren't being nosey, just a Good Keeper of Safety and maybe keeping someone from going through a horrible irreversible tragedy.
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Our Church, Magnolia Christian Center, has the following mission statement. Our purpose is to build a great church for the glory of God through the great commission and the great commandment. MCC' Vision - That MCC will be a place hopping with children, energized with teenagers, balanced with diversity and transformed by the power of God! We want to turn uninterested people into interested people and win the lost to make fully devoted followers of Christ. www.mcc2000.net
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I've been reading a book called "Living God's Love: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality." In the chapter titled Rivals to the Beloved, there is this thought:

If Israel had only obeyed the first two commandments, how different their [our] story would have been. They are simple teachings to understand. "Have no other gods before me" and "Do not worship idols." but Israel continued to fall short of honoring the exclusive relationship demanded by God.

We shake our heads in disbelief! How could Israel follow the pagan nations in worshiping idols made by human hands? How could they commit spiritual adultery with pagan gods when God had shown his power and faithfulness in so many ways? How could they be so foolish to trust an idol carved out of dead wood. But take that same piece of wood, turn it into strips of paper with large numbers and pictures of dead presidents on them, and we find ourselves guilty of the same sin. We worship, pursue, and trust that which represents great value to us. The idol of the mighty dollar stands tall in many of our homes. It is tragic irony that we inscribe our idols with the words "In God We Trust." (emphasis added).

Thanks to Joe Tudor
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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---God, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car

The sand is everything else---the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled and said, "I'm glad you asked."

The coffee just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

Thanks to David Kirkpatrick
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Anti Virus 101 - Computer Virus Software and Protection
Last year my Anti-Virus 101 series was published in TOURBUS, and it was extremely popular. Since the past few weeks have brought us news of so many new computer viruses, I've updated and combined those articles and made the entire text available here. If you think the advice is helpful, please feel free to forward this issue to a friend.

---> HOW TO PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER FROM VIRUSES
I have an unorthodox strategy for dealing with computer viruses. It doesn't involve the use of firewalls or anti-virus software. But if everyone understood the simple virus safety tips I'll outline here, the virus writers would get very bored very quickly.

Sooner or later you WILL receive an email that contains a computer virus. Perhaps you got one today with M-y-D-o-o-m attached. But if you understand a few simple concepts about email and viruses, there is really nothing to worry about. I've been using email for twenty years, and I receive hundreds of messages daily. Even though I get viruses in my inbox every day, I've NEVER been affected by one.

If you take a few minutes to read and apply the following concepts to your own email handling, you can have the same protection and peace of mind without buying any expensive anti-virus software. (There ARE some good reasons for having anti-virus protection, and I'll mention those later.)

---> FACTS ABOUT COMPUTER VIRUSES
If you keep your email software updated, you CANNOT get a virus just by opening or reading your email. This is true even if your Cousin Vinny has a friend who swears it happened to his neighbor in a major city, and his wife was abducted in a mall parking lot. Many widespread virus hoaxes have circulated the Net for years, claiming that if you open an email with a certain Subject line, then untold horrors will beset your computer. It's just not true.

A virus cannot leap out of your inbox and infect your computer without some help from you! Here are some facts you should know:

+ Some emails have attached files, in addition to the message body

+ Email attachments can be good (photos, music) or bad (a virus)

+ It is safe to open and read the message body of ANY email, even if that email has an attached virus.

[ NOTE: Before you write to tell me that some viruses can be activated simply by opening an email, PLEASE remember I said "IF YOU KEEP YOUR EMAIL SOFTWARE UPDATED." If you have an old, unpatched copy of Microsoft Outlook, then all bets are off. ]

In order for a computer virus to affect you, it requires some explicit action on your part. Let me explain with an analogy: Imagine someone has mailed you a loaded gun. You can't get hurt just by looking at your mailbox. You can't get hurt just by taking the package out of the mailbox. You CAN get shot if you take the gun out of the package, aim it at your head, and pull the trigger.

---> HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF
So what is the "explicit action" required to activate a virus that arrives in an email attachment? It's as simple as clicking on the attachment. Depending on your email program, this will either save the file to your hard disk or activate the virus immediately. It really is that simple... don't click on attachments and your inbox will be safe from computer viruses.

How can you tell the difference between good attachments and those that contain a virus? In some cases, you can't. Anti-virus software may help, but if the virus is very recent, your anti-virus package may not be able to detect it. Case in point: The recent S-o-B-i-g and M-y-D-o-o-m viruses infected thousands of computers worldwide in just a few hours, even though they had anti-virus software.

Here are some practical tips to help you decide whether or not to open an attachment:

+ If you get an email with an attachment from someone you don't know, delete it. You don't take candy from strangers, and you should behave the same with email attachments.

+ If you get an email with an attachment from a friend, don't assume it's harmless! Many viruses spread by automatically sending themselves to the addresses found in the victim's address book, and they often include something in the message body that looks like a personal message from your friend.

+ Unless you are very computer savvy, and you can tell for sure from the name of the attached file that it's not a virus, then CALL or EMAIL your friend and ask if they meant to send you an attachment.

+ If they say yes, AND they can explain what it is (photos of the family picnic, etc.) it should be safe to open the attachment.

+ If they say no, then obviously you should delete the message and let them know THEY might be infected with a virus. It's also quite likely that the virus didn't come from your friend at all. Many viruses spoof the "From" address in the emails they spew out, so it's hard to learn the true origin.

SEMI-TECHNICAL NOTE: Take care when checking the filename of an attachment as a guide to whether or not you should open it. The standard (bad) behavior of Windows is to hide the file extension (the last three characters) when filenames are displayed. Some virus writers take advantage of this and create files with names such as HAPPY.JPG.EXE, which will display as HAPPY.JPG. It appears to be a harmless JPG (photo) file, but is really a nasty virus.

To force Windows to display the entire filename, open My Computer then click on Tools/Folder Options/View (on some systems, click on View/Folder Options/View) then UNcheck the "Hide file extensions for known file types" option. But even this may not be enough. Uzi Paz explains in much greater detail in his "Security and Filename Extensions" article how Gatus of Borg has deigned to hide certain file extensions even when they are supposed to be unhidden; along with instructions for revealing ALL potentially harmful file extensions, without using run-on sentences or improperly-placed punctuation marks, here:

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1131/eng/safe.html


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If you remember nothing else about computer viruses, try to keep these three facts in mind:

+ You can't get a virus just by reading your email.

+ A virus cannot attack without your help.

+ Never open an attachment unless you're sure it was sent on purpose, and the sender can explain what it is.

---> AM I ANTI-ANTI-VIRUS?
Am I saying that anti-virus software is useless? For many people, yes! If you follow the guidelines in this article, and you handle only attachments that contain photos, anti-virus software is a waste of money and can make your computer slower and less reliable.

If you deal with word processor files or spreadsheets, if you download software, use a "file-sharing" program such as Kazaa, your computer is shared by others (especially children) who are prone to clicking, opening or downloading almost anything, despite repeated warnings, threats and knuckle-whacking, or if you have a nagging suspicion that Cousin Vinny might be right after all... then you SHOULD use an anti-virus program.

I don't discount the fact that people do make mistakes. If using anti-virus software makes you feel safer, if you understand that it's not a GUARANTEE to keep you safe, if you don't mind spending the money, then maybe it's right for you. You can find a bunch of popular anti-virus packages here:

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=anti-virus

But be aware that it can only protect you from the viruses it KNOWS about. I've heard from LOTS of people who faithfully kept their anti-virus software updated, but they still got a virus because of careless email handling.

You should also check for email, browser and operating system software updates at least once a month. (If you use Windows, you should have Windows Update take care of this automatically.) Older versions may have security flaws that allow unauthorized access to your system. Here are some links that may help you to find new versions, upgrades or security patches:

+ WINDOWS UPDATE - http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

+ FIREFOX - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

+ NETSCAPE - http://home.netscape.com/smartupdate

+ EUDORA EMAIL SOFTWARE - http://www.eudora.com

---> MORE HELPFUL RESOURCES
Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends at Rob Rosenberger's excellent Vmyths.com site.

http://www.Vmyths.com

Try Trend Micro's Free Online Virus Scanner.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

Symantec AV Center offers information on the lastest virus threats, removal tools, and a Virus Encyclopedia.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter

I understand that some people will disagree with my advice about the best way to protect yourself from computer viruses. But I believe that education is the key, rather than software that gives a false sense of security.

That's all for now, I'll see you next time! --Bob Rankin
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Activities and Events of Interest
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The Emancipation Proclamation will be on display at the Clinton Library September 22-25, 2007.
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"September 11 WDYTJWD" W. P. Florence
Justice first, then peace."
"September 11" Never forget.--Tony Moses
"ONE NATION UNDER GOD ...the only way"--Phillip Story
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Keeping my head down but face toward Heaven" - - Jody Eldred, ABC News Cameraman in Kuwait
"Remember Pearl Harbor? Remember 9/11!" --"Bug"
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. - - George Carlin
"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your God is!" - - Queen E. Watson
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NEVER FORGET! We're listing the names of our soldiers killed weekly. These records can be found at http://www.defenselink. mil/releases/

01. Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph D. Alomar, 22, of Brooklyn, N.Y., died in a non-combat related incident Jan. 17, 2007, at Camp Bucca, Iraq, where he was assigned to the Navy Provisional Detention Battalion.

02. Spc. Jason J. Corbett, 23, of Casper, Wyo., died Jan. 15 of injuries sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire during combat operations in Karmah, Iraq.
Spc. Corbett was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.

03. Cpl. William J. Rechenmacher, 24, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Jan. 18 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations.
Cpl. Rechenmacher was assigned to the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

04. Sgt. 1st Class Russell P. Borea, 38, of El Paso, Texas, died of injuries suffered in Mosul on Jan. 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations.
Borea was assigned to the 2d Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.

05. Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer A. Valdivia, 27, of Cambridge, Ill., was discovered deceased on Jan. 16, 2007, in Bahrain. Valdivia was assigned to the naval security force for Naval Support Activity, Bahrain.

The Department of Defense announced the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
06. Cpl. Jacob H. Neal, 23, of San Marcos, Texas, died Jan. 19 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Neal was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Grand Rapids, Mich.
07. Lance Cpl. Luis J. Castillo, 20, of Lawton, Mich., died Jan. 20 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Castillo was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Lansing, Mich.

08. Pfc. Allen B. Jaynes, 21, of Henderson, Texas, died Jan. 20 in Iraq of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

09. Capt. Brian S. Freeman, 31, of Temecula, Calif., died Jan. 20 in Karbala, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his meeting area came under attack by mortar and smalls arms fire. Freeman was assigned to the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion, Whitehall, Ohio.

10. Pfc. Ryan J. Hill, 20, of Keizer, Ore., died January 20 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee.
Hill was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany.

The Department of Defense announced the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Jan 20 in Karma, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Humvee. The soldiers were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Killed were:
11. Sgt. Sean P. Fennerty, 25, of Corvallis, Ore.
12. Sgt. Phillip D. McNeill, 22, of Sunrise, Fla.
13. Spc. Jeffrey D. Bisson, 22, of Vista, Calif.
14. Spc. Toby R. Olsen, 28, of Manchester, N.H.

The Department of Defense announced the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Jan 20 in Karbala, Iraq, from wounds sustained when their patrol was ambushed while conducting dismounted operations. The soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Killed were:
15. 1st Lt. Jacob N. Fritz, 25, of Verdon, Neb.
16. Spc. Johnathan B. Chism, 22, of Gonzales, La.
17. Pfc. Shawn P. Falter, 25, of Cortland, N.Y.
18. Pfc. Johnathon M. Millican, 20, of Trafford, Ala.

The Department of Defense announced the death of 12 soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 20, when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were in crashed. Killed were:
19. Col. Brian D. Allgood, 46, of Oklahoma, who was assigned to the 30th Medical Brigade, Europe Regional Medical Command, Heidelberg, Germany.
20. Staff Sgt. Darryl D. Booker, 37, of Midlothian, Va., who was assigned to the 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, Sandston, Va.
21. Sgt. 1st Class John G. Brown, 43, of Little Rock, Ark., who was assigned to the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 185th Aviation Regiment (Air Assault), 77th Aviation Brigade, Camp Robinson, Ark.
22. Lt. Col. David C. Canegata III, 50, of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, who was assigned to the Virgin Islands Army National Guard, Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.
23. Command Sgt. Maj. Marilyn L. Gabbard, 46, of Polk City, Iowa, who was assigned to Joint Forces Headquarters, Iowa Army National Guard, Camp Dodge, Johnston, Iowa.
24. Command Sgt. Maj. Roger W. Haller, 49, of Davidsonville, Md., who was assigned to the 70th Regiment, Regional Training Institute - Maryland, Maryland Army National Guard, Reisterstown, Md.
25. Col. Paul M. Kelly, 45, of Stafford, Va., who was assigned to the Joint Force Headquarters of the Virginia Army National Guard in Blackstone, Va.
26. Sgt. 1st Class Floyd E. Lake, 43, of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, who was assigned to the Virgin Islands Army National Guard, Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.
27. Cpl. Victor M. Langarica, 29, of Decatur, Ga., who was assigned to the 86th Signal Battalion, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
28. Capt. Sean E. Lyerly, 31, of Pflugerville, Texas., who was assigned to the Texas Army National Guard’s 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, 36th Infantry Division, Austin, Texas.
29. Maj. Michael V. Taylor, 40, of North Little Rock, Ark., who was assigned to the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 185th Aviation Regiment (Air Assault), 77th Aviation Brigade, Camp Robinson, Ark.
30. 1st Sgt. William T. Warren, 48, of North Little Rock, Ark., who was assigned to the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 185th Aviation Regiment (Air Assault), 77th Aviation Brigade, Camp Robinson, Ark.

30. Cpl. Darrel J. Morris, 21, of Spokane, Wash., died Jan. 21 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Morris was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

32. Lance Cpl. Emilian D. Sanchez, 20, of Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., died Jan. 21 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

The Department of Defense announced the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
33. Lance Cpl. Andrew G. Matus, 19, of Chetek, Wis.
34. Sgt. Gary S. Johnston, 21, of Windthorst, Texas
Matus died Jan. 21 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Matus was assigned to Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Johnston died Jan. 23 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Johnston was assigned to 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force Okinawa, Japan.

35. Staff Sgt. Michael J. Wiggins, 26, of Cleveland, Ohio, died January 23 in Balad, Iraq, of a non-combat related injury. He was assigned to the 79th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

36. Sgt. Jonathan P. C. Kingman, 21, of Nankin, Ohio, died January 20 near Baji, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 41st Engineer Company, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

37. Sgt. Michael M. Kashkoush, 24, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, died Jan. 23 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Kashkoush was assigned to 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.

38. Spc. Brandon L. Stout, 23, of Grand Rapids, Mich., died Jan. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Stout was assigned to the 46th Military Police Company, Michigan Army National Guard, Kingsford, Mich.

39. Staff Sgt. Jamie D. Wilson, 34, of San Diego, Calif., died Jan. 22 in Fallujah, Iraq, from wounds suffered while conducting security operations in Karmah, Iraq. Wilson was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.


40. Spc. Nicholas P. Brown, 24, of Huber Heights, Ohio, died Jan. 22 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Brown was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.

41. Staff Sgt. Hector Leija, 27, of Houston, Texas, died Jan. 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered during combat operations. Leija was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.

42. Sgt. 1st Class Keith A. Callahan, 31, of McClure, Pa., died Jan. 24 of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting a combat patrol south of Baghdad, Iraq. Callahan was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

43. Cpl. Mark D. Kidd, 26, of Milford, Mich., died Jan. 25 from wounds received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Kidd was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Mount Clemens, Mich.

The Department of Defense announced the death of three sailors who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
44. Lt. Cmdr. Jane E. Lanham, 43, of Owensboro, Ky., died from natural causes Sep. 19, 2006, in Bahrain. Lanham was assigned to Naval Branch Health Clinic, Bahrain.
45. Petty Officer 3rd Class Roger A. Napper, 20, of Greensburg, Pa., died of trauma from a single motor vehicle accident Oct. 7, 2006, in Bahrain. Napper was assigned to Mobile Security Squadron Three, Detachment Bahrain.
46. Seaman Sandra S. Grant, 23, of Linwood, N.C., died from natural causes Dec. 31, 2006, in the Arabian Sea. Grant was assigned to the USS Eisenhower.

47. Pfc. Darrell W. Shipp, 25, of San Antonio, Texas, died Jan. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx
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Please remember to pray for the American soldiers stationed everywhere around the globe and especially in Iraq. Times have been and are very tough and it would be nice if you would all just say a prayer for their safety and for their families.
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Scheduled Activities
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Columbia County Amateur Radio Club meets Every second Thursday @ 7:00 p.m. Union Street Station. And YOU'RE invited. Net is every Sunday at 20:30 on 147.105.
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MCC - "Faith Builders" Small group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays, 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm.
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MCC - Mom's Day Out - Every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 2.$10 for the first child, $5 for the second. Call 234-3225 for reservations.
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MCC - Nursing Home Ministry - Meadowbrook Every Tuesday from 10 to 11 am. Taylor, the last Thursday each month.
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Men's Prayer Breakfast held every Tuesday morning at 6 AM in Miller's Cafeteria. If you aren't a regular participant at the Men's Prayer Breakfast, you're missing some great food, fellowship and inspired teaching of the Word. Hope to see you there.
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Emergency Phone Number 911
(Fire, Police, Ambulance, Sheriff, etc. )
Central Dispatch 234-5655
(Non - Emergency Number)
Direct Numbers
Ambulance - 234-7371 (24 Hour)
Jail - 234-5331 (24 Hour)
Poison Control - 800-222-1222 (24 Hour)
http://www. aapcc. org/
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"There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one candle."
"Laugh whenever you can and cry if you need to." -- "Bug"
"I read the end of the book. We win!" -- "Bug"
"We may not be able to cure the world, but we don't have to make it sicker." -- "Bug"
"There just ain't enough fingers for all the holes in the dike." - - "Bug"
"It's no big deal doing what God tells you to do. A big deal would be NOT doing what God tells you to do. Just ask Jonah." - - Paul Troquille
"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... and how many want out." - - Tony Blair
"Information is the currency of democracy." - Jefferson
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Hope you enjoy the newsletter.
Again, thanks to all our contributors this week.

God bless and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Phil 4:11-13 1 Cor 9:20-22 Psa 19:12-14 John 2:4-6 http://www.e-min.org/
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