Nightingale

How many soldiers' children have been left without Mom or Dad?

No, we're not winning. You can't win a war against a concept. Fighting against a concept is trying to kill thoughts and ideas with bullets. You can't fight "terror" any more than you can fight "drugs". We've put a few kinks in al queda (sp?), but have we made even a small dent in the concept of terrorism as a whole? No. We're still seeing many suicide bombers, kidnapped people, and it's less safe for americans to travel now than it was in 2000.

I think it's a valid issue that needs a constitutional amendment. One that says "Legal marriage shall not be denied to any person on the basis of their gender or sexual orientation." Edited to add: as long as the government is insisting on remaining in the marriage business. I think it should butt out of it all, but realistically, that won't happen in the near future.

If you do get that organized, let me know. I won't be jumping, but I'd like to be there, hang out on the ground, and take pictures of everyone landing.

Yes, you can transfer stuff from computer to computer. you just burn it on a CD and upload it to your new computer.

I survived my first week of summer school. Normal summer school course load is 6 credits. I'm taking 14.

Glad you like your bear, Katee! I had fun making him for you.

depending on what the drugs are, she might not test positive for them, especially if she also takes any prescription medicines, and depending on on how sensitive the test is and what it's testing for.

Beautiful. Can you post the link on her myspace page also? People have been leaving messages there to say goodbye. The comic is a wonderful tribute.

Tell her husband your suspicion. He can look through her things if necessary. Also, go over your own home meticulously, on the off chance you did misplace the medicine. If you don't find the meds, tell her you don't require her assistance any further and leave it at that.

I have no idea what to say. Hell, I don't even know what to think. Shannon was one of the most awesome people I've met in skydiving. She was so friendly; it was easy to feel comfortable around her a few seconds after you first met her. She was with me on my 80th jump, and I didn't have a chance to get her to sign my logbook. I had to leave right after I landed. I tossed my rig in my trunk, unpacked, and drove home in my jumpsuit. I figured I'd get her to sign it the next time I saw her. I forgot to ask her at Byron, and I was hoping to ask her at the American Boogie. I'll be thinking of her every time I open my logbook; it's the one jump I don't have signed. Damn. Shannon, I'm gonna miss you.

He should save the money, get the free education, and then come to the US on holiday.

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I was reading it.

OMG. Um...viruses mutate whether they run into antibiotics or not, mainly because antibiotics don't kill viruses. They kill bacteria. Antibiotics weren't even discovered until 1929. "Scientists have found that the 1918 Flu Pandemic (11 years before the discovery of penicillin) was caused by a bird flu virus nutating to infect humans. By restructuring the 1918 influenza virus, scientists have discovered the deadly disease was an avian flu that advanced directly from birds to humans. The 1918 pandemic killed as many as 50 million people worldwide. Scientists reconstructed the disease from samples from lung tissue from two American soldiers and an Alaskan woman who died of the highly infectious virus. The scientists traced the genetic sequence of the 1918 virus and synthesized it using molecular biology. Avian flu is zoonotic, a disease that primarily affects animals and can be transferred to humans. It is only when the disease can transfer from human-to-human that it becomes highly contagious. Currently, avian flu has only been transferred from birds to people. The avian flu viruses act differently from ordinary human flu viruses; they infect cells deep in the lungs that would normally be immune." -NAS "A virus is a bit of genetic information (RNA or DNA) packaged in an envelope of proteins and/or lipids sometimes including sugars. Viruses cannot live by themselves but must be able to quickly get into eukaryotic (Plant or Animal) cells to survive. They use the energy metabolism and biosynthetic machinery of the cell to replicate themselves. During the phase of replication inside the eukaryotic cell, a virus makes a copy of its RNA or DNA and from that copy duplicates itself. The RNA or DNA in a virus usually encodes enzymes involved in this process in addition to gene sequences that encode the envelop proteins. Sometimes during the process of copying the RNA or DNA of the virus, small errors (substitutions in nucleotide base pairs) occur in the copy. These errors are replicated into subsequent copies. If the change isn't fatal to the virus and causes it to stop replicating, then the virus has resulted in a mutation. If that mutation results in a changed protein that enables the virus to survive, infect or replicate better the virus will become more infectious. ...In addition to these kinds of big changes in flu virus genes, there are also minor point mutation changes that cause "antigenic drift" so the virus of the same type is slightly different antigenically and can escape elimination by the body's immune response to that type's vaccine." -Art Anderson, Senior Scientist in Immunology and Pathology at USAMRIID

I think that it's such an important issue, and this alliance is recognizing that if things work out the way AT&T want them to, it will affect ALL of us in a very negative way.

an inexperienced mountain climber shouldn't be on everest in the first place.

a gentle tap on the nose and a strong "NO" works well. If it's a problem with scratching or digging, a spray bottle full of water works, and if that doesn't work, add a teaspoon of vinegar to the water. cats HATE vinegar and will go off and spend an hour licking it off their fur, which will distract them from whatever it is they were doing that got them sprayed in the first place.

Following a reserve down is not something we should all be doing. An inexperienced jumper shouldn't try to land out in a tight spot, because you're drastically increasing the chances of dealing with two injured people rather than just one.

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I'd understand if they were on their way back down. However, they still had supplies enough to reach the summit. Had they decided not to continue to the summit, perhaps they would have been able to use the supplies they would have to go up to help the guy? I have no idea. Maybe some of the experienced climbers could chime in?

drop the rig at the packer and go log my jump.

I tend to go with the philosophy that the people who are the most willing to take their clothes off are usually the ones you least want to see naked. So, no, I've never been to one.

Falls in the fish tank. Also, when I bring in clean laundry from the laundry room, I'll have two baskets of warm clothes straight from the dryer. The black cat will go sleep in the whites, and the cream colored cat will go sleep in the colors. Every single time. So, I get black fur on my whites and cream/white fur on my colors.

A bigger main?