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The Italian Tomato Garden
An Old Italian man lived alone in the country. He wanted to dig his tomato garden, but it was very hard work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament.
Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me.
Love ............ Dad
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Dad,
Not for nothing, but what ever you do, don't dig up that garden!!! That's where I buried the BODIES. Love .........Vinnie
At 4 a.m.the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Dad,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love ...........Vinnie
Why, Why, Why ???
do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough money?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check by touching when you say the paint is wet?
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?
How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?"
Well, it isn't all right, so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
And my FAVORITE......
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.
A Tragedy
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD
Crawford, Texas -- A tragic flood this morning destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush.
The flood began in the presidential bathroom where both of his books were kept. Both books have been lost. A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had almost finished coloring the second one.
The White House tried to call FEMA, but there was no answer.
latest news Fed must act quickly on regulatory front: Dodd
FDA Approves ImClone Systems' New State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility
-- "BB50" Facility to Serve as Second Manufacturing Source for ERBITUX(R) --
IMCL31.59, +0.44, +1.4%) , a leader in the development and commercialization of novel cancer therapeutics, today announced that it has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a second facility to manufacture ERBITUX(R). The approval to manufacture ERBITUX in this new 250,000-square-foot multi-suite manufacturing facility, referred to as "BB50", more than doubles ImClone's total available production volume capacity for ERBITUX. This approval, in conjunction with ImClone's existing "BB36" manufacturing facility, enhances the Company's ability to meet increasing demand for ERBITUX in the worldwide market.
"The FDA approval of BB50 represents the culmination of ImClone's efforts over the last several years to establish this state-of-the-art facility. This now provides us with a great deal of strategic and operational flexibility in pursuing additional commercial opportunities going forward," said Richard P. Crowley, Senior Vice President, Biopharmaceutical Operations of ImClone Systems. "Together, our two manufacturing facilities provide us with the capacity to produce ERBITUX and future products for worldwide development and commercialization, and serve to support our initiatives for the long-term growth and success of ImClone."
Construction of BB50 was completed in the fourth quarter of 2005. This facility is designed to contain three distinct suites with a total future production volume capacity of up to 110,000 liters. The commissioning and initial validation of one of the suites was completed during the second quarter of 2006 and the Company began producing ERBITUX in this suite in June 2006. The other two suites at this facility will enable ImClone in the future to produce ERBITUX, additional ImClone products, or third-party products under contract manufacturing agreements. Both BB50 and BB36 are located on ImClone's Branchburg, N.J. campus.
About ERBITUX(R) (Cetuximab)
ERBITUX is a monoclonal antibody (IgG1 Mab) designed to inhibit the function of a molecular structure expressed on the surface of normal and tumor cells called the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR, HER1, c-ErbB-1). In vitro assays and in vivo animal studies have shown that binding of ERBITUX to the EGFR blocks phosphorylation and activation of receptor-associated kinases, resulting in inhibition of cell growth, induction of apoptosis, and decreased matrix metalloproteinase and vascular endothelial growth factor production. In vitro, ERBITUX can mediate antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) against certain human tumor types. While the mechanism of ERBITUX's anti-tumor effect(s) in vivo is unknown, all of these processes may contribute to the overall therapeutic effect of ERBITUX. EGFR is part of a signaling pathway that is linked to the growth and development of many human cancers, including those of the head and neck, colon and rectum.
ERBITUX (Cetuximab), in combination with radiation therapy, is indicated for the treatment of locally or regionally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. ERBITUX as a single agent is indicated for the treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck for whom prior platinum-based therapy has failed.
ERBITUX is indicated for the treatment of EGFR-expressing, metastatic colorectal carcinoma (mCRC) in combination with irinotecan for patients who are refractory to irinotecan-based chemotherapy, and as a single agent for patients who are intolerant to irinotecan-based therapy. The effectiveness of ERBITUX for the treatment of EGFR-expressing mCRC cancer is based on objective response rates.
For full prescribing information, including boxed WARNINGS regarding infusion reactions and cardiopulmonary arrest, visit http://www.ERBITUX.com.
Important Safety Information
An Important Message--Not a Joke
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
*****NOW****
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:08:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Montesmaxd@aol.com
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To: NRGALANO@med.umich.edu, Maxd1994@aol.com
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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:20:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: MIMALULOVE@aol.com
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To: Montesmaxd@aol.com
hi there ,hope all is good !! was sent this by one of my co-workers ,who is a mom and gr ma ~~hope u r enjoying ur summmer days !!
love carmen
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elsa Sanjurjo <joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: marie Greene <alanaimani@verizon.net>, Barbara Martucci <cebity2@aol.com>,
Casandra Hawa Mclean <cmclean78@hotmail.com>,
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez <gonzalez.rn@verizon.net>,
Isabel Malavet <imalavet3@aol.com>, Norma Filippelli <lulypelli@aol.com>,
carmen perez <mimalulove@aol.com>, Mercedez Heggs <myheggs_89@hotmail.com>,
Nora Rivera <njsr_nora@yahoo.com>, patricia rangel <psr.books@yahoo.com>,
Belinda Agyer <purpleallotey@yahoo.com>,
"Roxanne Catherine L. Updegraph" <roxanneclu@hotmail.com>,
Shirita Sanjurjo <shiritasanjurjo@hotmail.com>
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From: Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Rhondacyru@aol.com, fmccroskey@hotmail.com, BEVCHRIST1@YAHOO.COM,
Mrcocoabutta@yahoo.com, Joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com, Gwen101@bellsouth.net,
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:42:37 PM
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Subject: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
*****NOW****
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:20:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: MIMALULOVE@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Montesmaxd@aol.com
hi there ,hope all is good !! was sent this by one of my co-workers ,who is a mom and gr ma ~~hope u r enjoying ur summmer days !!
love carmen
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elsa Sanjurjo <joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: marie Greene <alanaimani@verizon.net>, Barbara Martucci <cebity2@aol.com>,
Casandra Hawa Mclean <cmclean78@hotmail.com>,
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez <gonzalez.rn@verizon.net>,
Isabel Malavet <imalavet3@aol.com>, Norma Filippelli <lulypelli@aol.com>,
carmen perez <mimalulove@aol.com>, Mercedez Heggs <myheggs_89@hotmail.com>,
Nora Rivera <njsr_nora@yahoo.com>, patricia rangel <psr.books@yahoo.com>,
Belinda Agyer <purpleallotey@yahoo.com>,
"Roxanne Catherine L. Updegraph" <roxanneclu@hotmail.com>,
Shirita Sanjurjo <shiritasanjurjo@hotmail.com>
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From: Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Rhondacyru@aol.com, fmccroskey@hotmail.com, BEVCHRIST1@YAHOO.COM,
Mrcocoabutta@yahoo.com, Joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com, Gwen101@bellsouth.net,
LStewart@WatsonRealtyCorp.com, Blacksatin1602@verizon.net
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From: AUDRA STEPHENS <aydra77@yahoo.com>
To: craig brown <browncb21@comcast.net>, dwight frost <Dweezy023@aol.com>, emma gabouet <emmagabouet@aol.com>, chrissy georges <Chris4care@aol.com>, laura green <greenvillela@aol.com>, monique lane <heaven3297@aol.com>, sissy latham <Redbone157@aol.com>, Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>, Chandra Mcneil <chmcneil@gaudenzia.org>, deondra patreese perry <poleyosa@hotmail.com>, marjorie j sneed <mjsneed654@aol.com>, james tiggs 3 <jtiggs3@aol.com>
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From: ccryder696@aol.com
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To: Betty <grmomo17@yahoo.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:42:37 PM
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Subject: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
*****NOW****
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elsa Sanjurjo <joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: marie Greene <alanaimani@verizon.net>, Barbara Martucci <cebity2@aol.com>,
Casandra Hawa Mclean <cmclean78@hotmail.com>,
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez <gonzalez.rn@verizon.net>,
Isabel Malavet <imalavet3@aol.com>, Norma Filippelli <lulypelli@aol.com>,
carmen perez <mimalulove@aol.com>, Mercedez Heggs <myheggs_89@hotmail.com>,
Nora Rivera <njsr_nora@yahoo.com>, patricia rangel <psr.books@yahoo.com>,
Belinda Agyer <purpleallotey@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Rhondacyru@aol.com, fmccroskey@hotmail.com, BEVCHRIST1@YAHOO.COM,
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From: bob barber <afbob36@yahoo.com>
To: Betty <grmomo17@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:42:37 PM
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Subject: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
=
A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
*****NOW****
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:08:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Montesmaxd@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: NRGALANO@med.umich.edu, Maxd1994@aol.com
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From: MIMALULOVE@aol.com
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To: Montesmaxd@aol.com
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elsa Sanjurjo <joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: marie Greene <alanaimani@verizon.net>, Barbara Martucci <cebity2@aol.com>,
Casandra Hawa Mclean <cmclean78@hotmail.com>,
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez <gonzalez.rn@verizon.net>,
Isabel Malavet <imalavet3@aol.com>, Norma Filippelli <lulypelli@aol.com>,
carmen perez <mimalulove@aol.com>, Mercedez Heggs <myheggs_89@hotmail.com>,
Nora Rivera <njsr_nora@yahoo.com>, patricia rangel <psr.books@yahoo.com>,
Belinda Agyer <purpleallotey@yahoo.com>,
"Roxanne Catherine L. Updegraph" <roxanneclu@hotmail.com>,
Shirita Sanjurjo <shiritasanjurjo@hotmail.com>
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From: Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Rhondacyru@aol.com, fmccroskey@hotmail.com, BEVCHRIST1@YAHOO.COM,
Mrcocoabutta@yahoo.com, Joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com, Gwen101@bellsouth.net,
LStewart@WatsonRealtyCorp.com, Blacksatin1602@verizon.net
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Subject: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
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To: Betty <grmomo17@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:42:37 PM
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Subject: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
*****NOW****
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:20:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: MIMALULOVE@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Montesmaxd@aol.com
hi there ,hope all is good !! was sent this by one of my co-workers ,who is a mom and gr ma ~~hope u r enjoying ur summmer days !!
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elsa Sanjurjo <joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: marie Greene <alanaimani@verizon.net>, Barbara Martucci <cebity2@aol.com>,
Casandra Hawa Mclean <cmclean78@hotmail.com>,
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez <gonzalez.rn@verizon.net>,
Isabel Malavet <imalavet3@aol.com>, Norma Filippelli <lulypelli@aol.com>,
carmen perez <mimalulove@aol.com>, Mercedez Heggs <myheggs_89@hotmail.com>,
Nora Rivera <njsr_nora@yahoo.com>, patricia rangel <psr.books@yahoo.com>,
Belinda Agyer <purpleallotey@yahoo.com>,
"Roxanne Catherine L. Updegraph" <roxanneclu@hotmail.com>,
Shirita Sanjurjo <shiritasanjurjo@hotmail.com>
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From: Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Rhondacyru@aol.com, fmccroskey@hotmail.com, BEVCHRIST1@YAHOO.COM,
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To: craig brown <browncb21@comcast.net>, dwight frost <Dweezy023@aol.com>, emma gabouet <emmagabouet@aol.com>, chrissy georges <Chris4care@aol.com>, laura green <greenvillela@aol.com>, monique lane <heaven3297@aol.com>, sissy latham <Redbone157@aol.com>, Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>, Chandra Mcneil <chmcneil@gaudenzia.org>, deondra patreese perry <poleyosa@hotmail.com>, marjorie j sneed <mjsneed654@aol.com>, james tiggs 3 <jtiggs3@aol.com>
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From: ccryder696@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: yvnun@aol.com, tjpetite@hotmail.com, aydra77@yahoo.com, clavellrc4@aol.com,
golatte@aol.com, lmht@optonline.net
-----Original Message-----
From: hau643@aol.com
To: Ccryder696@aol.com; NJRealesta@aol.com; CSalcedo@Weichertrealtors.net
Sent: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 8:05 am
Subject: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
-----Original Message-----
From: MLHAUSER1@aol.com
To: bandjthomas@centurytel.net; bcgrembo@optonline.net; JGC6@optonline.net; DeanH64@verizon.net; RKgrem@udel.edu; ALHAUSER@Prodigy.Net; JHauser44@hotmail.com; HAU643@aol.com; Juengld52@aol.com; LEXIEE1@aol.com; khauser79@hotmail.com; klc81060@yahoo.com; Stasia205@aol.com; piney255@atlantic.net; Lyred22@aol.com; sguandique@co.kern.ca.us; SPH92@verizon.net
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To: Cherylynn Barber <magicsocks04@yahoo.com>; Colleen <cpksmile@optonline.net>; dbarbarulo@optonline.net; Nancy De Vries <devries@warwick.net>; Beth FAria <faria6@earthlink.net>; Elizabeth Ficken <armyfootballfan@yahoo.com>; Doreen and Bob Grembowitz <dgrembo@optonline.net>; tracey halatin <ctadeliv@warwick.net>; mary lou hauser <MLHauser1@aol.com>; Tammie Horsfield <horsfield@nac.net>; JESSICA <queenfairy304@aol.com>; Lauren <HorsfiL770@Cobleskill.edu>; Laurie <lobb714@ptd.net>; cindy mc keon <Familyheating@aol.com>; Lydia Neal <nealhm@aol.com>; Pat Nyhan <PN320@yahoo.com>; Mona Petrobono <beachhouseonosprey@hotmail.com>; paula porter <nosnowporter@yahoo.com>; Marc Press <mip51@optonline.net>; Joyce Sunshine <sunsh525@optonline.net>
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From: bob barber <afbob36@yahoo.com>
To: Betty <grmomo17@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Frank Niader <FrankNiader@msn.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2007 12:42:37 PM
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Subject: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
*****NOW****
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elsa Sanjurjo <joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: marie Greene <alanaimani@verizon.net>, Barbara Martucci <cebity2@aol.com>,
Casandra Hawa Mclean <cmclean78@hotmail.com>,
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez <gonzalez.rn@verizon.net>,
Isabel Malavet <imalavet3@aol.com>, Norma Filippelli <lulypelli@aol.com>,
carmen perez <mimalulove@aol.com>, Mercedez Heggs <myheggs_89@hotmail.com>,
Nora Rivera <njsr_nora@yahoo.com>, patricia rangel <psr.books@yahoo.com>,
Belinda Agyer <purpleallotey@yahoo.com>,
"Roxanne Catherine L. Updegraph" <roxanneclu@hotmail.com>,
Shirita Sanjurjo <shiritasanjurjo@hotmail.com>
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From: Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: Rhondacyru@aol.com, fmccroskey@hotmail.com, BEVCHRIST1@YAHOO.COM,
Mrcocoabutta@yahoo.com, Joyfullnoise2004@yahoo.com, Gwen101@bellsouth.net,
LStewart@WatsonRealtyCorp.com, Blacksatin1602@verizon.net
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From: AUDRA STEPHENS <aydra77@yahoo.com>
To: craig brown <browncb21@comcast.net>, dwight frost <Dweezy023@aol.com>, emma gabouet <emmagabouet@aol.com>, chrissy georges <Chris4care@aol.com>, laura green <greenvillela@aol.com>, monique lane <heaven3297@aol.com>, sissy latham <Redbone157@aol.com>, Annette mcnear <athemac@hotmail.com>, Chandra Mcneil <chmcneil@gaudenzia.org>, deondra patreese perry <poleyosa@hotmail.com>, marjorie j sneed <mjsneed654@aol.com>, james tiggs 3 <jtiggs3@aol.com>
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:09:26 -0700 (PDT)
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From: ccryder696@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
To: yvnun@aol.com, tjpetite@hotmail.com, aydra77@yahoo.com, clavellrc4@aol.com,
golatte@aol.com, lmht@optonline.net
-----Original Message-----
From: hau643@aol.com
To: Ccryder696@aol.com; NJRealesta@aol.com; CSalcedo@Weichertrealtors.net
Sent: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 8:05 am
Subject: Fwd: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
-----Original Message-----
From: MLHAUSER1@aol.com
To: bandjthomas@centurytel.net; bcgrembo@optonline.net; JGC6@optonline.net; DeanH64@verizon.net; RKgrem@udel.edu; ALHAUSER@Prodigy.Net; JHauser44@hotmail.com; HAU643@aol.com; Juengld52@aol.com; LEXIEE1@aol.com; khauser79@hotmail.com; klc81060@yahoo.com; Stasia205@aol.com; piney255@atlantic.net; Lyred22@aol.com; sguandique@co.kern.ca.us; SPH92@verizon.net
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To: Cherylynn Barber <magicsocks04@yahoo.com>; Colleen <cpksmile@optonline.net>; dbarbarulo@optonline.net; Nancy De Vries <devries@warwick.net>; Beth FAria <faria6@earthlink.net>; Elizabeth Ficken <armyfootballfan@yahoo.com>; Doreen and Bob Grembowitz <dgrembo@optonline.net>; tracey halatin <ctadeliv@warwick.net>; mary lou hauser <MLHauser1@aol.com>; Tammie Horsfield <horsfield@nac.net>; JESSICA <queenfairy304@aol.com>; Lauren <HorsfiL770@Cobleskill.edu>; Laurie <lobb714@ptd.net>; cindy mc keon <Familyheating@aol.com>; Lydia Neal <nealhm@aol.com>; Pat Nyhan <PN320@yahoo.com>; Mona Petrobono <beachhouseonosprey@hotmail.com>; paula porter <nosnowporter@yahoo.com>; Marc Press <mip51@optonline.net>; Joyce Sunshine <sunsh525@optonline.net>
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From: bob barber <afbob36@yahoo.com>
To: Betty <grmomo17@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Frank Niader <FrankNiader@msn.com>
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Subject: Fw: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
Subject: GREAT WARNING FOR KIDS/GRANKIDS/PARENTS
MYSPACE: A Must Read for All
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!
After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!
GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?
ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!
GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL
GoTo123:
What is your team called?
ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.
GoTo1 23:
Did you pitch?
ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile.......GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.
Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.
He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.
Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.
Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.
"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."
Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon ?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan !"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan ?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"
She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line.. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"
"It's a promise!"
That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
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Nothing funky. The naked shorters see the end of their illegal activity looming-drop dead date is 15 Oct 2007.They are wringing out the last pennies they can at this timee.
I think this will help--
On October 15th, all 'Naked Short' positions in public companies must be covered.
The long awaited removal of the "Grandfather Clause" has today been officially posted in the Federal Register for removal.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-15708.htm
And yet we see more dilution looming on the horizon!!!
The current market turmoil and attendant drop in stock prices is directly attributable to the lack of supervision over the hedge funds. If these gluttonous groups had not been so eager to buy up sub prime mortgages this would not have happened. Of course the real basic cause was the issuance of sub prime mortgages in the first place. Most of these borrowers never had any chance of repaying their loans, but the loan originator didn't care. He sold the mortgage as soon as the signatures dried on the paper and took his money out of it.But if he knew he had to hold that paper he never would have given the loan to begin with.,
Amazing Elephant Story
(I don't usually pass these along, but this one seemed truly interesting.)
In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Mbembe was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing.
The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant.
Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe' s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same elephant.
Watch Red Button's Last Show
Only in America. Sometimes I feel we are our own worst enemy!
Bonuses on Wall Street will be largely unaffected by turmoil'
Of course they won't be affected because the bulk of the earnings these firms divy up come from naked shorting. It's just the common folk like us that take the beating because they also shoveled out mortgage money to many who had no real chance of ver paying off their debt.
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1079.html
FIRE!!! (Please Leave the Building in an Orderly Fashion)
by Mark Faulk
August 9, 2007
There has been a whirlwind of activity in our financial markets over the past few days. While the stock market itself has been experiencing an ugly downturn, the events that precipitated it continue to be ignored. Rampant regulatory failures within the SEC have been setting this up for years, and even the President’s so-called Plunge Protection Team hasn’t been able to stem the outflow from our markets.
After years of criticism from the investing public and market reform advocates, the recent scandals, coupled with the meltdowns of one hedge fund after abother, have begun to finally force Congress to shine a light on the SEC and Wall Street in general.
Read the rest of this article at:
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1079.html
3 Old Guys
"Sixty is the worst age to be," said the 60-year-old man. "You always feel
like
you have to pee and most of the time you stand there and nothing comes out."
"Ah, that's nothin," said the 70-year-old. "When you're seventy, you don't
have
a bowel movement any more. You take laxatives, eat bran, sit on the toilet
all
day and nothin' comes out!"
"Actually," said the 80-year -old, "Eighty is the worst age of all."
"Do you have trouble peeing, too?" asked the 60-year old.
"No, I pee every morning at 6:00 . I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no
problem at all."
"So, do you have a problem with your bowel movement?"
"No, I have one every morning at 6:30."
Exasperated, the 60-year-old said, "You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap
every
morning at 6:30 . So what's so bad about being 80?"
"I don't wake up until 7:00 "
Not a joke. Story from newspaper. Actually it is pitiful.
3 Old Guys
"Sixty is the worst age to be," said the 60-year-old man. "You always feel
like
you have to pee and most of the time you stand there and nothing comes out."
"Ah, that's nothin," said the 70-year-old. "When you're seventy, you don't
have
a bowel movement any more. You take laxatives, eat bran, sit on the toilet
all
day and nothin' comes out!"
"Actually," said the 80-year -old, "Eighty is the worst age of all."
"Do you have trouble peeing, too?" asked the 60-year old.
"No, I pee every morning at 6:00 . I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no
problem at all."
"So, do you have a problem with your bowel movement?"
"No, I have one every morning at 6:30."
Exasperated, the 60-year-old said, "You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap
every
morning at 6:30 . So what's so bad about being 80?"
"I don't wake up until 7:00 "
Young Republican Leader Has Mouth-on-Dick Disease By Ann Rostow
Published: August 9, 2007
Yet another sleazy closeted Republican operative has busted into the news this week, this time the newly elected head of the Young Republican National Federation, 33-year-old Glenn Murphy Jr.
Murphy, who was elected last month after a six-month campaign for the position, resigned unexpectedly in an e-mail to his supporters a few days ago. The smarmy text informed his “dearest friends” that he’d had a “crazy weekend” trying whether to decide if he should accept a “life altering” business contract that obliged him to step down from the position he had so recently won.
“I spent the majority of my weekend shaking with anxious indecision,” he wrote. “I didn’t want to disappoint people. I didn’t want people to be angry. But I prayed with my family and we determined that I have to take this opportunity for my long-term security.”
What Mr. Murphy didn’t mention was that he was very likely about to be charged with criminal deviate conduct, a class B felony, after allegedly forcing oral sex on another man who was asleep at the time.
According to a police report, Murphy, the victim, and the victim’s sister had crashed at the sister’s house after a drunken Young Republican party on July 28 in Indiana. The victim awoke to find Murphy “holding my dick with one hand and sucking my dick with his mouth.” The man shoved Murphy aside, asking, “what the hell are you doing?” Murphy said nothing and the victim grabbed his clothes and left.
According to the report, Murphy later called the man and wanted to explain things. Murphy claimed he had found himself on the floor by the victim’s bed, and that the victim had started to run his fingers through Murphy’s hair while still asleep. Murphy, in turn, responded by caressing the unconscious man’s leg, and well, one thing led to another! The victim, who did not accept Murphy’s implausible scenario, told police that Murphy called him several times begging him not to report the matter. Murphy then hired a lawyer, Larry Wilder, who visited the victim to see if the situation could be “resolved.”
It couldn’t.
Making matters even more interesting is a police report from the same location, Clark County Indiana, from nearly a decade ago. Back in 1998, a different victim told police he had been sleeping, “when an acquaintance he had just met, Glen Murphy [sic], awoke him while doing oral sex on him while he was asleep.” The victim said he shoved Murphy backwards, “jumped up and ran to the restroom where he attempted to clean himself off.” The victim’s girlfriend was in the same room at the same time and woke when her boyfriend started yelling. She told police she saw Murphy extricate himself from under the covers and run out of the room.
I’m assuming no charges were filed, since Murphy went on to found the Clark County Young Republicans that same year. He served two terms as the chairman of the Indiana Young Republicans and was Clark County’s GOP chairman since 2001.
As for his national goals, he told the press last month that his goal was to double the membership of the Young Republican National Federation by November 2008. “I will essentially be the mouthpiece and effective leader for the tens of thousands of Young Republicans, 18 to 40 across the country,” he said.
But will they be awake at the time?
Bob Allen: Blacks Made Me Do It
Speaking of closeted Republicans behaving badly—an increasingly vast subject area—have you heard how Florida state representative Bob Allen explained away his rendezvous with an undercover cop in the men’s room of a Titusville public park the other day? You recall that Allen walked in and out of the facilities at Veteran’s Memorial Park several times, drawing the attention of some undercover cops who were on the lookout for a burglar. Finally, one of the cops went into the men’s room and sure enough, back popped Allen, who looked into the officer’s stall and said “hi.”
I won’t dig up the police report from the other week, but suffice to say that Allen, a married father of two girls, agreed to pay $20 if he could perform oral sex on the officer in a remote part of the park.
Now, Allen claims he was intimidated by the officer, “a pretty stocky black guy,” and scared of the “other black guys around in the park.” Afraid he was “about to become a statistic,” Allen told police he came up with the solicitation scheme in order to get away. “I certainly wasn’t there to have sex with anyone and certainly wasn’t there to exchange money for it,” Allen blustered insanely.
It’s not clear in his account why Allen was roaming the park at 3:30 in the afternoon. Nor did he explain why he entered the men’s room three times, let alone why he initiated a conversation with the frightening black dude in the next stall. And in a new detail, the Sun Sentinel reports that when Allen was taken under arrest, he asked “if it would help” that he was a state representative. The answer was no.
Fire Fighters Pissed Off At Pride Duty
Now, here’s an interesting tale.
It seems that the firefighters who volunteered to ride in the San Diego Pride Parade on July 21 had to cancel because one member of the team had a death in the family. I’m not sure why the rest of that unit couldn’t participate, but at any rate, the battalion chief ordered a different four-man team to represent the city fire department in the annual event.
The problem was that this particular division consisted of a bunch of homophobes, who strongly objected to riding in the parade, who complained about the assignment, and who refused to comply without a direct order. They were given a direct order, and they reluctantly donned their suits and drove their truck over to the staging grounds.
During the parade, their worst fears were realized when gay men blew kisses, rubbed their crotches, yelled provocative comments, and stuck out their tongues. To complicate matters, they were also given grief by Christian protesters who told them they were going to Hell. And finally, their colleagues ribbed them unmercifully.
The finicky foursome is now poised to sue the San Diego Fire Department for failing to protect them from sexual harassment on the job. Fire Chief Tracy Jarman, a lesbian, has apologized and promised to ask the San Diego Equal Employment Investigative Office to look into their complaints.
I guess my problem with this whole affair is this. I’m always pleased to see police officers and firefighters in the parade, displaying their solidarity with the GLBT community and making us feel as if we’re part of the larger life of the city etc. etc.. But the last thing I want is a crew of hard core gay haters, parading under protest, and barely containing their revulsion along the route. It’s an insult to the gay community to force a hostile contingent of firefighters to join our Pride celebration.
And how would gay or lesbian firefighters like it if they were ordered to show the colors at a parade or festival devoted to traditional family values?
Of course, firefighters and police can’t bring their political views to bear on their jobs when people’s lives are at stake. But showing pride and support for gay rights must be voluntary, otherwise it’s a worthless, if not counter-productive gesture, don’t you think? I’m not saying that their suit is valid or not valid. I’m just saying that disgust has no place in a pride parade, period.
In other firefighter news, the New York Post reports that a naughty video has led the Fire Department of New York to cut its ties with the annual firefighter calendar, even though the fund raising item generates $150,000. Apparently, 2008 calendar cover man Michael Biserta appears on a video displaying his “enormous member” in a hotel shower. And for those of you who must know, the video is called Guys Gone Wild, and is available somewhere on the web.
Department spokesman Francis Gribbon told the Post “we will no longer be participating in this. There will be no more calendars.”
Maybe the San Diego force can pick up the slack.
Bush Will Veto Hate Crime Bill
In other news, George Bush has pledged to veto the hate crime bill, even if lawmakers manage to attach it to the defense appropriations bill. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the president will veto any bill that contains the hate crime language, because: “The qualifications [in the bill] are so broad that virtually any crime involving a homosexual individual has potential to have hate crimes elements. The proposals they’re talking about are not sufficiently narrow.”
This is utter nonsense. In fact, as Matt Foreman of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force pointed out, “the provisions of this legislation are identical to those that have been on the books since the 1960s. Just as those provisions have not led to any crime committed against a black person or a Jew constitute hate crimes, this legislation would not make any crime committed against an LGBT individual a hate crime.”
I, for one, would like to see Bush veto the defense appropriations bill. How the hell would he explain that to the American people?
As a matter of fact, there’s a ruling just this week out of New York that clarifies the use of the Empire State’s hate crime law. Three men with robbery on their minds deliberately picked a gay man to lure to a remote area, using a gay chat room because they thought it would be easy to convince a gay man to meet them somewhere. Indeed, Michael Sandy rendezvoused with the young thugs, who beat him up and chased him into traffic on the Belt Parkway. Sandy, 29, later died of his injuries.
Charged with hate crime enhancements as well as murder, the defendants claimed they didn’t “hate” gays, but simply thought they might be easy targets. But despite its name, the judge ruled that hate crimes don’t punish emotion, they punish criminals who select their victims based on race, sexual orientation, and the like.
“The grand jury evidence shows that this is not a case where hate crimes are charged simply because the victim just happened to be of a certain sexual orientation,” wrote Justice Jill Konviser. “Rather, this is case where the defendants deliberately set out to commit a violent crime against a man whom they intentionally selected because of his sexual orientation. Thus, the hate crimes charges in this case are consistent with the intent of the Legislature.”
Apparently, selecting victims based on sexual orientation is just fine with this administration. We wouldn’t want to hamper the free expression rights of violent robbers and killers.
Brits Tinker With Moth Sexuality
There’s more, but I’m running out of time and space. Our Gay Bishop Gene Robinson has come out in favor of Barack Obama. There’s a dust up in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, where dozens of clergy came out of the closet at a national assembly in order to protest the denomination’s requirement that gay ministers remain celibate. And Rex Wockner just sent me an e-mail about a gay moth. Hang on a second.
Apparently British scientists have developed a technique to trick brown-tailed moths into having homosexual sex in order to lower the population of the noxious pests and their poisonous rash-inducing larvae. The biologists douse the breeding grounds with female moth pheromones, and the males go crazy for all the new hatchlings, regardless of gender. The resulting confusion is enough to keep the unpleasant creatures in check.
Brown-tailed moths, we learn, are in fact white. With their “voracious appetite” they can strip an area of its greenery in a twink, causing skin irritations in the process. Lately, they’ve wrecked havoc on a lifeboat station at Spurn Point on the Humber estuary, home to seven itchy crew members and their disgruntled families.
Two Old Jewish Virgins: A Yiddish Tale
There were two alter maidel shvesters (old sisters), both of whom were virgins.
It was Saturday night, & Sadie looked at Molly & said, "Ich vilt nisht shtarben a virgin
(I don't want to die a virgin).
Ich gayen arum & ich nisht kimpt ahaim until I've been shtupped!" (I'm going out,
& I'm not coming home until I've been laid).
Molly replies, "Vell, make sure you're home by 10:00, so I shouldn't worry about you."
Ten o'clock rolled around, and there was no sign of Sadie ...11, 12 and then 1 o'clock
... Finally about 1:15 AM the front door flew open & in came Sadie, and she headed
straight for the bathroom.
Molly went and knocked on the door. "Do bist goot, Sadie?" (Are you ok, Sadie?)
No answer, so she opened the bathroom door, and there sat Sadie with her pants
around her ankles, legs ousgeshprait (wide apart), and her head stuck between her
legs looking in her "knish" (You figure it out).
"Vous is de mair (what's the matter), Sadie? Vat's wrong?" asked Molly again.
"Molly," replied Sadie, "it vuz 10 inches long ven it vent in, and only 5 inches ven it
ousgehkimpt (came out). Ven I find the other half, you're gonna have the time of
your life !
Fact also seem to be of no interest to you also BY BY
I better check this one out on Snopes!!!!!!
Fantastic thanks.
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TECHNOLOGY ALERT
from The Wall Street Journal.
Aug. 7, 2007
Former Brocade CEO Gregory L. Reyes was found guilty of fraud and other charges, giving the government a much-needed victory in its probe into illegal backdating of stock options. Mr. Reyes was found guilty of all 10 counts against him, including securities fraud, conspiracy and filing false financial statements. More than 140 companies have come under federal investigation for stock-options irregularities, and the outcome of the Brocade case was seen as key in determining how aggressively the government will pursue other executives.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, see:
http://online.wsj.com/technology?mod=djemalert
If you truly believe what you posted I strongly urge you to sell out-take your losses and move on.
In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of
government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good old-fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of:
MOUNT &DO.
Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
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My stomach wrenchin g has been ongoing for far more than a few months but I still expect Verges to score real big for us and hiumself. Not only is he the largest shareholder but every member of his family is also totally involved in this effort.
NMKT UPDATE ON REVENUE GROWTH & DIVDENDS
Dear Fellow Shareholders –
Recently, NewMarket trading volume and share price is down. For a relatively small company listed on an exchange with some notoriety for less than stellar transparency, such trading activity can be cause for concern. Understandably , we received a number of calls and emails inquiring if some operational or strategic issue yet unknown to shareholders might be to blame for of the share price dip. I will elaborate in the following paragraphs, but the simple answer is no. NewMarket has not experienced any operational or strategic issues that would account for the current trading activity.
The stock market exhibits some seasonality on trading activity. That seasonality is arguably more pronounced on the over-the-counter exchanges. Summer time is usually a period of lower average trading volume and often share prices, especially on the OTCBB exchange.
NewMarket's operational performance continues to be robust. NewMarket has reported increased revenue every quarter compared to the same quarter for the previous year since the Company's new business plan launched in the summer of 2002. NewMarket expects to continue this trend for the second quarter of 2007.
Growing from $1 million in annual sales in 2002 to $77.6 million in annual sales in 2006 has resulted in an array of growing pains. As a public company, those growing pains have been very public. Most recently, we listed two subsidiary operations (according to plan) which tested our public reporting capacity. The unfortunate result was delayed and restated financial statements. This particular growing pain certainly impacted shareholder confidence as reflected in the communications we received from shareholders and as reflected in the share price.
As from previous growing pains, we are learning and improving. Among other enhancements, we are increasing staffing in our finance and reporting department. We are also behind on our announced intention to issue dividends in our publicly listed subsidiaries. Please keep in mind that our internal resources responsible for the issue of dividends are the same resources responsible for our public reporting. In reaction to our issues with reporting on our first subsidiary public listings, all of our related activity has been impacted. However, we are adjusting to these demands and are making the changes necessary to get back on track with our dividend strategy.
NewMarket is continuing to expand aggressively throughout the Company's regional operations. NewMarket 's financial reports and project backlog will demonstrate the Company's continuing aggressive expansion. Issuing dividends in publicly listed subsidiaries remains central to NewMarket 's business plan. We have not deviated from our plan to issue dividends to shareholders. We are working diligently to be able to announced a stock dividend as soon as possible. NewMarket fully intends to list on an upgraded exchange, but will continue to participate on the OTCBB with our subsidiary listings. In addition to our previously announced plans for continued revenue growth, dividends and an upgraded exchange, NewMarket continues to expand its business model into new geographic regions. NewMarket has recently completed initial projects in Eastern Europe and we will be presenting our business model in Nairobi, Kenya later in the month of August.
It is my belief that NewMarket's fundamental value is not recognized by either its 52 week low or high share price. With a market capitalization of under $60 million, our 2006 revenue of $77.6 million gives NewMarket a price to sales ratio of 0.76. So, I understandably believe that a meaningful opportunity exists on the OTCBB for near and long-term returns for NewMarket. I believe an even greater return can be achieved in conjunction with NewMarket 's future listing on an upgraded exchange.
I appreciate the current shareholder concerns resulting from the recent trading activity. I am, in turn, ever the more grateful for your patience and commitment. I can not adequately express my commitment to NewMarket within this letter. However, I want you to know that for me, NewMarket is more than a good business opportunity.
Our business model has generated millions of dollars of investment in developing economies around the world and promises to generate millions more. NewMarket has created jobs in global regions in need of new jobs. NewMarket has injected cash into global regions in need of investment. NewMarket has done so and has concurrently built a sound company with a promising future. Central to the developing economic benefit and sound business that NewMarket has created is our micro-cap specific business model. We are essentially becoming a conglomerate of micro-cap listed companies. The vision of NewMarket is to exponentially expand this business model and to even see this business model replicated by other companies.
Most of you know I graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point . Some of you understand the seriousness of the oath to public service taken by West Point graduates. At the very real risk of sounding corny or less than sincere, it is NewMarket's potential to establish an exemplary business model that stimulates sustained economic growth in developing economic regions that drives my personal commitment to NewMarket. At the same time, NewMarket is firmly committed to creating a profitable, rapid growth, global company which will in turn, benefit the Company's shareholders through an increase in shareholder value from both a rising enterprise value and periodic stock dividends.
I am asking for your continued patience and commitment. I am offering the promise of a sound business building a strong foundation in both the emerging market and emerging technology market place. If you share my interest in generating public benefit, particularly in places around the world that could use a lift, while economically benefitting from a healthy projected investment return, then I am asking for your support in that cause in addition to my promise of building a sound business with a strong foundation.
Thank you,
Philip Verges
Be Careful How You Ask.
A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of
ten million dollars.
His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first
place.
It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he
might have to testify about in court.
When the Godfather goes to confront the bookkeeper about his missing $10
million, he brings along his attorney, who knows sign language.
The Godfather tells the lawyer 'Ask him where the 10 million bucks he
embezzled from me is.'
The attorney, using sign language, asks the bookkeeper.
The bookkeeper signs back: 'I don't know what you are talking about.'
The attorney tells the Godfather: 'He says he doesn't know what you're
talking about.'
The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to the bookkeeper's temple
and says, 'Ask him again!'
The attorney signs to the bookkeeper: 'He'll kill you if you don't tell
him!'
The bookkeeper signs back: 'OK! You win! The money is in a brown
briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin Enzo's backyard in
Queens!'
The Godfather asks the attorney: 'Well, what'd he say?'
The attorney replies: 'He says you don't have the balls to pull the
trigger.'
: The nude runner
*A woman was having a daytime affair while her husband was at work. One
rainy day she was in bed with her boyfriend when, to her horror, she heard
her husband's car pull into the driveway. **
'Oh my God - Hurry! Grab your clothes and jump out the window. My husband's
home early!'
'I can't jump out the window. It's raining out there!'
'If my husband catches us in here, he'll kill us both!' she replied. He's
got a hot temper and a gun, so the rain is the least of your problems!'
So the boyfriend scoots out of bed, grabs his clothes and jumps out the
window!
As he ran down the street in the pouring rain, he quickly discovered he had
run right into the middle of the town's annual marathon, so he started
running along beside the others, about 300 of them.
Being naked, with his clothes tucked under his arm, he tried to blend in as
best he could. After a little while a small group of runners who had been
watching him with some curiosity, jogged closer. *
*'Do you always run in the nude?' one asked. **
'Oh yes!' he replied, gasping in air. 'It feels so wonderfully free!'
Another runner moved a long side. 'Do you always run carrying your clothes
with you under your arm?'
Oh , yes' our friend answered breathlessly. 'That way I can get dressed
right at the end of the run and get in my car to go home!*
*Then a third runner cast his eyes a little lower and asked, **
'Do you always wear a condom when you run?'*
*'Nope........just when it's raining.*
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 6:18 PM Subject: WALMART
A very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walked into Wal-Mart with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.
The Wal-Mart Greeter says "Good morning, and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?"
The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, "Hell no, they ain't.The oldest one's 9 and the other one's 7. Why the hell would you think they're twins? Are you blind, or just stupid?"
I'm neither blind nor stupid," replied the greeter. "I just couldn't believe you got laid twice. Have a good day
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Date: Jul 30, 2007 1:20 PM
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To: Nancy Sexton <nesexton@gmail.com>, Joan Glickman <BubbieG@aol.com>
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Date: Jul 29, 2007 5:43 PM
Subject: Fw: (no subject)
To: eschattman@gmail.com
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From: Bawtest@aol.com
To: Bawtest@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: (no subject)
THOSE born 1920-1979
READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this ON!
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Date: Jul 30, 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: Fwd: Fw: (no subject)
To: Nancy Sexton <nesexton@gmail.com>, Joan Glickman <BubbieG@aol.com>
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From: blissm1@optonline.net < blissm1@optonline.net>
Date: Jul 29, 2007 5:43 PM
Subject: Fw: (no subject)
To: eschattman@gmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Bawtest@aol.com
To: Bawtest@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: (no subject)
THOSE born 1920-1979
READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.
For the rest of us...pass this ON!
The Man Rules
At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down
Finally , the guys' side of the story.
( I must admit, it's pretty good.)
We always hear "the rules"
From the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side.
These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered "1"
ON PURPOSE!
1. Men are NOT mind readers.
1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
1. Sunday sports It's like the full moon
or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.
1. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
1. Crying is blackmail.
1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!
1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become Null and void after 7 Days.
1. If you think you're fat, you probably are.
Don't ask us.
1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
1. You can either ask us to do something
Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials..
1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A colo r. Pumpkin is also a fruit . We have no idea what mauve is.
1. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.
1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.
1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine... Really .
1. Don't ask us what w e're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball
or golf.
1. You have enough clothes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
1. Thank you for reading this.
Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;
But did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.
Pass this to as many men as you can -
to give them a laugh.
Pass this to as many women as you can -
to give them a bigger laugh
Birmingham Airport
You gotta love this one even if you've never lived in the South. Southerners can be so polite!!!!
Birmingham ATC (Air Traffic Control): "Tower to Saudi Air 811 -- You are cleared to land eastbound on runway 9R."
Saudi Air: "Thank you Birmingham ATC. Acknowledge cleared to land on infidel's runway 9R - Allah be praised.
Birmingham ATC: "Tower to Iran Air 723 --You are cleared to land westbound on runway 9R."
Iran Air: "Thank you Birmingham ATC. We are cleared to land on infidel's runway 9R. - Allah is great.
Pause: Static...
Saudi Air: "Birmingham ATC - Birmingham ATC!" Birmingham ATC:
"Go ahead Saudi Air 811?"
Saudi Air: "YOU HAVE CLEARED BOTH OUR AIRCRAFT FOR THE SAME RUNWAY GOING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. WE ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE. INSTRUCTIONS, PLEASE.
Birmingham ATC: "Well bless your hearts. And praise Jesus. Y'all be careful now and tell Allah 'hey' for us -- y'all hear?"
Male bashing, Kabul style! SJB
A point of view... Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. From Miss Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom. Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?" The woman looked Miss Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation, said, "Land Mines." MORAL OF THE STORY: BEHIND EVERY MAN IS A SMART WOMAN
One night, after the couple had retired for
the night, the woman became aware that her husband
was touching her in a most unusual manner. He
started by running his hand across her shoulders and
the small of her back. He ran his hand over her
breasts, touching them very lightly. Then, he
proceeded to run his hand gently down her side,
sliding his hand over her stomach, and then down the
other side to a point below her waist. He continued
on, gently feeling her hips, first one side and the
the other. His hand ran further down the outside of
her thighs. His gentle probing then started up the
inside of her left thigh, stopped and the returned
to do the same to her right thigh.
By this time the woman was becoming aroused
and she squirmed a little to better position
herself. The man stopped abruptly and rolled over to
his side of the bed.
"Why are you stopping darling?" she
whispered.
He whispered back, "I found the remote!"
LEADING RADIOLOGIST BUYS 11TH AND 12TH FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) MRI
AND AGREES TO PURCHASE FOUR MORE
MELVILLE, NEW YORK, July 24, 2007 - FONAR Corporation
(NASDAQ-FONR), The Inventor of MR Scanning(TM), reported
today that Sana Khan, M. D., Ph.D., a leading radiologist
and Chairman of TrueMRI, headquartered in Anaheim,
California, has purchased two more FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) MRIs
and has agreed to purchase four more. The two purchases were
part of the group of seven sales in the announcement of July
10 that did not elaborate on the buyers themselves and the
reasons they gave for purchasing FONAR's UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-
Position(TM) MRI and the specific need it meets in their
particular clinical practice. For more information on
TrueMRI, visit: www.truemri.com
Dr. Khan said, "We founded TrueMRI with the mission to
leverage emerging medical technologies that break the
boundaries of traditional diagnostic imaging, and to capture
pathology with precision. That is why we selected the FONAR
UPRIGHT(TM) MRI as the centerpiece for our business. It
enables TrueMRI to deliver True Positives and True Negatives
of a patient's True Condition."
"Our first UPRIGHT(TM) MRI was installed in Southern
California in June 2002," continued Dr. Khan. "At that time,
it was our premise that position and weight-bearing impact a
patient and consequently the radiology reading. Now we have
seen thousands of cases where the differences are
undeniable."
Dr. Khan continued, "We have performed over 50,000
Positional MRIs and I believe we have more experience than
anyone else in the application and interpretation of
weight-bearing kinetic MRI. The freedom of the design and
application of the technology allows patients to be scanned,
not only in a weight-bearing position, but also in lateral
flexion, rotational and flexion/extension studies. Often
pathology is revealed that would otherwise be undiagnosed.
The only MRI machine in the world that does all that is the
FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) MRI."
"TrueMRI has created innovative applications and software
that allows us to provide our referring physicians with
anatomical measurements needed for clinical decisions in
their practice. TrueMRI can also perform AMA Impairment
Rating measurements on images obtained with the FONAR
UPRIGHT(TM) MRI . This is a great benefit in medico-legal
cases where the doctors need to perform very tedious and
time consuming measurements on flexion and extension images.
Previously, this could only be done with x-rays, but that
did not reveal the soft tissue anatomical relationship to
the bony structures, and it also involved radiation. This is
one of numerous innovations that the UPRIGHT(TM) MRI has
allowed us to do," stated Dr. Khan.
"Our passion is to provide evidence-based, objective
analysis of an injury by quantifying the patient's pathology
through our proprietary software revealing the `true state'
of a patient's anatomy," said Dr. Khan.
"Another important reason why we continue to purchase FONAR
MRIs is the support and service that we receive from FONAR.
The machine is an absolute work-horse and the applications,
services and the daily interactions that take place with
FONAR have allowed us to grow our business without any major
interruptions," exclaimed Dr. Khan.
About FONAR
The 2007 National Inventor of the Year Award was presented
to president and founder Raymond Damadian, M.D., by the
Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation
(www.ipoef.org) for the INVENTION of the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM)
Multi-Position(TM) MRI (also known as the STAND- UP(TM)
MRI). It's the world's only whole-body MRI that scans
patients in numerous weight-bearing positions, i.e.,
standing, sitting, flexion, extension, and lateral bending,
as well as the conventional lie-down position. An abundance
of peer-reviewed literature reporting the essentiality of
Upright Imaging for accurately diagnosing the human body can
be found at: www.uprightmripublications.com and
www.fonar.com/research_index.htm
With one half million patients scanned, the patient-friendly
FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI has a near zero
claustrophobic rejection rate by patients. Approximately 85%
of patients are scanned sitting while they watch a 42" flat
screen TV. Another MRI, the FONAR 360(TM), is a room-size
recumbent scanner that optimizes openness while facilitating
physician access to the patient.
FONAR has the most accomplished history of any company in
MRI. The company's heritage helps to document the quality of
its products and distinguishes it from all other MRI
companies. A timeline of its achievements follows. It
includes the groundbreaking discovery of the principle that
makes MRI imaging possible, the patent for the first MRI,
and the sale of the world's first MRI.
1969 - Original Idea for MR Scanner (Grant Application to
Health Research Council of the City of New York)
1969 - Realizes Need for a Compelling Application to Justify
Building Human Scanner. Decides on Cancer Detection
1970 - Key Discovery Makes the MRI Possible Discovery of the
marked T1 and T2 signal differences among the normal tissues
and also between the normal tissue and cancer tissue.
Discovery enables soft-tissue detail previously absent from
medical imaging, and early cancer detection; used today to
detect cancers worldwide. "NMR developed into a laboratory
spectroscopic technique capable of examining the molecular
structure of compounds, until Damadian's ground-breaking
discovery in 1971." MRI From Picture to Proton, Cambridge
University Press, 2003)
March 1971 - First Article Published (Science)
Spring 1971 - First Ever Method Proposed (Downstate
Reporter)
March 1972 - First MR Patent Filed (3D Serial Voxel Scanning
Method). Patent Issued 1974. 1976 - The Struggle Begins.
Expert Declares, "Any further discussion of scanning the
human body by MR (NMR) is visionary nonsense."
1976 - Construction of First Human MR Scanner Commences
1977 - Construction Completed; First Human Scan Achieved:
Thoracic Image at T-8
1980 - FONAR Installs First Commercial MRI; Initiates MRI
Industry
1997 - Patent Upheld by High Court on U. S. Patents and the
U. S. Supreme Court. (1.1 Million Pages of Documentary
Evidence Scrutinized and Argued; No Prior Art)
2001 - Introduction of the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-
Position(TM) MRI
2007 - National Inventor of the Year Award for the
UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI.
More about the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI.
The FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI is a dramatic
advance over all other MRI's, which can only scan the
patient in a recumbent- only, non-weight-bearing position.
The UPRIGHT(TM) allows the patient to be imaged upright,
with the weight of the body on the spine.
Most patients are scanned sitting, while they enjoy watching
TV. Patients can also be scanned in flexion, extension,
rotation, as well as lying down. This positional imaging
allows surgeons and radiologists to see patients in the
position of their symptoms. Studies and physician experience
show that diagnosis using the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) changes
surgical protocols and provides better surgical outcomes in
approximately 20% of the cases.
The FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI is also
unrivaled in patient comfort. It has a near zero
claustrophobic rejection rate by patients. It can scan obese
patients who cannot fit into a recumbent MRI, and it allows
imaging of children while they sit in their mother's lap.
Over a half million patients have been scanned by the FONAR
UPRIGHT(TM) MRI.
To date, 152 UPRIGHT(TM) MRIs have been sold. The
superiority of the technology is achieving wider recognition
every day.
Another New FONAR MRI: The FONAR 360(TM)
FONAR has invented another breakthrough MRI, the FONAR
360(TM). It's a room-size recumbent scanner that optimizes
openness while facilitating physician access to the patient
during surgery.
FONAR is headquartered on Long Island, New York, and has
approximately 400 employees.
____________________________________________________________
The Inventor of MR Scanning(TM), Full Range of Motion(TM),
STAND- UP(TM), UPRIGHT(TM), pMRI(TM), Multi-Position(TM),
True Flow(TM), and The Proof is in the Picture(TM) are
trademarks of FONAR Corporation.
Be sure to visit FONAR's Website for product and investor
information: www.fonar.com
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No argument with me at all on your statement/
So be it. Why not sell your shares and move on if this sticks in your craw??? Were common shareholders asked to vote on his emplyment package I'd vote him an even larger salary. Remember he holds a substantion percentage or all outstanding shares and it is in his own, as well as shareholders,interest to increase the value of these shares.Anything common shareholders can do to incentiveize him further is to our advantage.