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What a nice surprise to see this thread current again.
Another site for Christian music and videos is JCTV.
JCTV Christian music, music videos, and youth television
That is part of the TBN family of networks.
And to put some tech angles to this thread, here is an article about converting a network to Digital and HD.
For younger children than the JCTV audience...try this one, also from the TBN family.
These are all slow on dialup...but then everything is. Just the normal warning it will be slow.
Pat
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"Oh Say Can You See"?
Marty, try some rose colored glasses....
Though if JD is streaking I'll use sunglasses...
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In remembrance of Drew, a silent prayer for Papa and rest of family and friends on a yet another hard day for them. Calendar events always seem to bring a more intense feeling of loss.
May God give them peace and comfort.
Pat
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Thank You for that story Marty!!!
With all the storms of life that hubby and I have been through within the last year or so, I need to keep reminding myself that God is taking care of us...but never would have thought of camera flashes to take our pictures when storm clouds toss the lightening bolts our way!!! What a great way to think of it. And by the Rainbows He gives us as a sign of Hope and Promise of sunnier times to come. Praise God!!!
Pat
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Best dog I ever had was a white Belgium shepherd. He was huge. He would chase sticks until he dropped. His idea of a stick was the firewood I'd cut. If you were'nt careful, he come running up to you and take you out at the knees. I lost count of how many times I had to fix the rear door when he'd come running inside with a "stick" wider than the door
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What is it with Belgium Shepherds and their need to always be carrying stuff to play with?
My folks's dog, Angel, (which I inherited when Dad died) would grab sticks, tree branches to drag, yes even kindling or firewood as big as she could get her mouth around or by end of piece to drag or carry around. If it was an emergency such as people approaching and no sticks handy, she would grab a rock to offer them to throw for her!!! In fact she took up rock carrying and other hard materials to such an extent she ground her teeth down by her later years! Our vet said that was normal for the breed!!! And that they have twice the biting crunch force of an ordinary shepherd...about 500 psi force. Luckily they are mostly playful dogs, unless of course they have to protect their owners. Angel would bounce full size basketballs off her nose playing catch with the kids on our street and was very accurate in her tossing ball back to them. She had so many toys all over the house that if a burglar ever broke into the place he'd fall and break his neck falling over all the toys and then Angel would have stood over him with a toy football in her mouth saying get up and play with me.
To the day she died at 12 1/2 she wanted to play!!! Wonderful dog, yes best one ever!!! Though you have to be careful with them as they really will play themselves to a death because their front legs don't leave enough chest room for them to breathe deeply as they play so they can drop dead playing. Also as a shepherd breed they do tend to have hip dysplasia genetic problems and by old age they tend to have severe arthritis. But in spite of all that...they are definitely worth it.
Pat
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Happy Belated Birthday Iccaros!!!
May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity.
Pat
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Happy Belated Birthday Darkestdream!!!
May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity.
Pat
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Thanks for a good laugh!!!
(Funny thing though...when I read that to hubby he didn't laugh as hard as I did?!?)
Pat
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Thanks guys!!!
I made the mistake of marrying my ex on Valentines Day, nearly ruined a perfectly good holiday that way...but fixed it by filing for divorce from him on the third anniversary of that huge terrible mistake !!!
Now my forever and ever hubby and I married on the day after or is it the day before(?) his birthday so he wouldn't forget..but I can never remember which one is which... sigh!!! But it works out ok, I remember the year we married, he remembers the date. Ha!!!
Pat
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Ah so... agrees this old philospher!!!
Another for the list...you are automatically given 'senior discounts' when you eat out and it no longer upsets you!!!
Pat
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I think Bozodog's dogs are Great Danes, and she has said that is why she has a van/suv to haul the dogs around.
The only time I ever had any encounters with a Great Dane, was many years ago when a neighbor was 'babysitting' her son's dog...tied him to a tree but he managed to wrap himself both around the tree and in a hedge too....all during a torrential rainstorm!!! So the poor baby howled and howled and howled...until I finally went over to try to untangle it. First thing it did after I finally got it freed was knock me down in the mud of the alley and stand over me licking my face in thanks for coming to help, then it got itself tangled up again so I had to undo it again and with same doggy thanks results!!! I got up laughing and went home to clean up. No sooner got home and heard the howling again...looked over there and it was all tangled up again. So back over to untangle it and shorten the leash...got the same thanks!!! So headed home to shower and put on clean clothes. But ended up going over there to untangle it several more times that afternoon with nearly same results every time. Ha! I told the neighbor all about the mudmatch escapades when she got home from work, oh how we laughed and the now in the house and cleaned up dried off big dog stood up to lick our faces again as if to join in the fun!!! Ha! Ha! I only wish that longtime good neighbor friend was still alive to reminisce with!!!
The other two potentially serious big dog adventures (besides my own Belgium Black Shepherd years ago) were also "interesting'!!! The first one occurred on a walk in a nearby parklike area, a Doberman came running down the field to me and planted feet on my shoulders nearly pushing me over while doing it...just a halfgrown 'puppy' the owner said as I cleaned off my face from being thoroughly licked!!! I had never met the dog but clearly it thought I was a friend then and every time I saw it thereafter. The second one was on the sidewalk in front of our house while visiting with a neighbor who was scared of dogs while she and another neighbor showed off that lady's tiny baby and they tried to get me to hold it....no way...well let's just say I'm nervous around kids. So while they were talking babies, a huge rottweiler (sp?) pulled loose from owners walking way down the sidewalk from us and came charging up and yepppp you guessed it...right up to me and firmly planted feet on my shoulders and proceeded to plant doggy kisses all over my face. Nope never had met that dog before either!!! And yes it was still a growing pup...good thing it wasn't any bigger as it nearly knocked me down when it landed on me as it was. Owners chasing after it and calling it by name to stop and were so very apologetic. I laughed and said sure glad it's a friendly dog!!! My scaredycat neighbor ran across street in fear of that big lump of puppydog love!!! HA!!! So later told her we were even, baby versus dog, of who was afraid of which!!!
My hubby is always amazed when the big/medium sized dogs search me out for special attention everywhere we go, but oh the little ones are a terror... those yippy little ankle-biters!!! Ha! I guess the others just know I love most dogs and that I'm never scared of the big ones either!!!
Pat
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Happy Birthday Matt.
May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity.
Pat
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Bless you for going to all that work in order to help others get out of trouble!!!
May patience and a good memory for detail always be with you in this new endeavor!!!
Pat
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I wasn't sure this was of importance to anyone over here....but will post it just in case anyone is interested.
The article was in the Oregonian business section on Jan 23rd, 2007. The online article may not last for long as Oregonian had a 14 day free access time limit to articles ...or they may have changed free policy on archived articles...don't know.
Anyhow here is the link.
Merger marks open-source milestone
Pat
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TT do take it easy for a few days to recuperate from all that you have been doing!!!
Mac, here is a fat cat story that made national tv and internet history of being stuck in a doggie door after being lost and then overeating at new place. Happily the news showcased the funny story, because that helped him be found by real owner.
I'm not sure the first one will load completey....didn't on my dialup. But next two did ok in spite of being over 14 day limit for free access. Enjoy.
Video Fat Cat Gets Stuck in Doggy Door
Thief couldn't flee with all that booty
Will check out links after supper, hubby calling me.
Pat
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P.S. Decided to copy/paste the stories here as may not last on the online site for the Oregonian very long. Links to each other have disappeared just since I first checked them.
Jan 11, 2007 Oregonian newspaper.
"Thief couldn't flee with all that booty
Feline prowler - A "stocky" 20.2-pound cat gets stuck after one food raid too many Thursday, January 11, 2007KATY MULDOON
The cat burglar was a repeat offender.
His MO: Slither in through the doggie door. Chow down. Slither out.
Jadwiga Drozdek of Gresham had nearly caught him more than once in her garage, where she leaves food for her six felines, but he always escaped. One day last month, though, the stranger slipped up. Made it easy. Got stuck, head and shoulders on one side of the doggie door, gut and tail on the other.
Felled by his own fat.
Drozdek, a kind woman with a keen sense of justice, didn't call the cops. She simply helped the 20.2-pound tomcat out of his predicament and -- why not? -- fed him.
Drozdek had seen the short-legged cat with the sweet personality and a head the size of Alaska around the neighborhood for a while. If she befriended him, she figured, she could stuff him into a cat carrier and deposit him at the Oregon Humane Society.
Right.
The first time she tried, Drozdek pushed with both hands and her knee. The beefy beast wouldn't budge.
"I thought he'd run but he didn't. He just looked at me," she said, as if he was saying: "What are you trying to do?"
Drozdek bought a bigger carrier.
Wednesday, she delivered the cat to the Oregon Humane Society, where the staff dubbed him Goliath.
"He's not the fattest cat we've weighed in," said spokeswoman Barbara Baugnon, "but he looks like it."
The fattest tipped the scales last year at 29 pounds.
"This cat feels stocky," Baugnon said. "That cat was just obese."
Goliath had no tags or identifying microchip. If no one claims him in three days, he'll be neutered and go up for adoption.
The Humane Society will toss in a bonus: a free bag of low-calorie cat food.
Katy Muldoon: 503-221-8526; [email protected]"
One down now to find the other one.
Ok here goes...
The Oregonian January 12, 2007
"Pair of survivors reunited
Man recovers from surgery to find his cat alive -- on TV Friday, January 12, 2007KATY MULDOON
Found: one happy cat owner.
Geoff Earnest caught the tail end of a TV newscast Wednesday evening -- a story about a rotund tomcat delivered to the Oregon Humane Society after he'd chowed down inside a Gresham garage, then gotten stuck exiting through a doggie door.
"Wait a minute," Earnest remembered thinking, "that looks like Hercules. I thought he was dead."
Hercules lives. Earnest reunited with his long-lost cat Thursday morning at the Oregon Humane Society, proving ownership by sharing photographs of his furry friend.
"There was no doubt in our minds," said the Humane Society's Barbara Baugnon. "It was obvious these two belonged together."
Earnest and his cat have tales to tell. Hercules declined to give details, but Earnest was forthcoming.
The 5-year-old, double-wide tabby that those at the Humane Society had dubbed Goliath, but whose real name is Hercules, started hanging around Earnest's Gateway-area home three or four years ago. He belonged to a neighbor but seemed to prefer Earnest, and when Earnest asked the neighbor if he could adopt the cat, the neighbor agreed.
Earnest, who is 30, has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the mucus lining of the lungs and leads to breathing problems. As his illness worsened the past three years, Hercules would rub against Earnest, lie on his stomach and play with his oxygen tubes. Except for the cat's inclination to spray, he was one fine companion.
When Earnest traveled to Seattle on June 5 for a lung transplant at University of Washington Medical Center, he asked a housesitter to look after Hercules. The housesitter, Earnest said, opened the door one day to find a stranger holding one big, mangled cat. The details get sketchy here, but the cat apparently looked so beat up that the housesitter assumed that the stranger then took Hercules off to be euthanized.
Earnest's parents kept the news from him for two months. They didn't think he needed the heartbreak as he recovered from transplant surgery.
"He'd been through all my hospitalizations with me," Earnest recalled. "I loved that cat."
Thursday the two found one another again at the Oregon Humane Society's cattery, where Hercules will remain for a couple of days to undergo surgery of his own: neutering.
In the meantime, the beast's brush with fame fluffed up with help from the Internet. A video of Hercules schmoozing with Humane Society personnel had nearly 2,700 hits on YouTube by midday Thursday.
Earnest took a little umbrage with those who describe his cat as corpulent. In fact, since he last saw Hercules, the 20.2-pound feline had lost about 5 pounds.
"He's all muscle," Earnest said. "He's not fat at all."
Katy Muldoon: 503-221-8526; [email protected] "
As for the video, never could get it loaded on my slow dialup.
I hope you all saw Hercules on the news...what a stocky/fat cat he is.
Sure glad this story had such a good ending for both cat and owner!!!
Pat
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Thank You Marty for posting such delightful pictures!!!
Those cubs are so adorable!!!
Now that is one population explosion that is good news!!!
Pat
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Sultan taught me how to find and save IE favorites a long time ago. Thanks Sultan!!!
And Pete taught me about organizing and renaming stuff. Thanks Pete!!!
After doing all the reorganizing into well named folders even doing folders within folders to help organize things via click organize and then create new folders (naming them as you want) and clicking to move them to desired location and then dragging and dropping various favorites into the new folders. Then checking things out such as renaming site names so they make good sense to you for faster finding later, and if running on Fat32 be sure the characters in name are allowed or rename without characters. Check also for sites that are still good but don't just delete one right away that appears to not display as it may be a temporary site is down thing just make a note to check it out again later.
Oh I also do another step too, do a computer scan with your antivirus/antispyware before backing up anything just to be on safe side.
Then go to Start, Run and then type in Favorites, hit ok. It brings up the favorites page. Go up to the very very top left corner of it to the yellow folder icon next to favorites title name. Right click on the folder, then click on Send To...I send it to My Documents where I rename it with date I am doing backup. Then I do a copy/paste of that folder to one of my flash drives and I alternate flash drives every time I backup so if one fails the other ones will be fairly current within a couple of weeks or so. This way is easy enough to do often enough so as to not chance losing stuff if computer crashes permanently.
Pat
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Happy Belated Birthday Sultan!!!
May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity.
Sorry this is so late my friend. I just have to figure out a better schedule setup so I can get over here more often and not miss important stuff like your birthday!!! Please forgive me for being so late?
Pat
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Brrrrrrrrr!!!
I got the chills just reading about all that miserable severe cold and snow!!!
I hope it turns to better weather soon for all that have endured such bitter cold/snow!!!
And no more falling/skidding on frozen stuff please.
TT, I got a kick out of the dog having to have private place to go....HA! One of our dogs used to have problems with me taking her out when it was raining hard, she would give all passerbys and neighbors a look that said loud and clear "mean mommy made me come out here in this"! But she loved snow!!! Go figure!!!
Sorry Mac for your gf's loss of her grandma...glad you went with her to help.
Hi to everyone....no I haven't given up on BT in spite of new board upgrade just haven't had any spare time to get over here to fix some stuff and catch up. Seems like time is just flying lately with so much stuff to take care of offline. Plus sharing computer with hubby tends to limit my online time due to dialup's time limits. Yeah I know...solve it someday Pat...soon I hope to get that isp changed folks... and all the other computer problems fixed too... in the meantime it is as it is...sigh!!!
We have had a long unusual streak of nice weather last couple of weeks of Jan, and into Feb. But rains to come in tonight, I think, so will be back to normal soon.
Stay warm, well, and safe everyone!!!
Love to all.
Pat
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Happy Birthday Robroy!!!
May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity.
Pat
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Hiya Pat and everyone else.
If you are still getting notices that your PMs are not going through, it is because the recipient accidentally has you blocked, regardless if you have unblocked them
To disable this go to your profile, click Settings. Look for Notification Options. There, you can choose whether or not to be email alerted for certain things.Is there an option to not have such useless stuff sent to our email?As for you being logged out, that seems very strange to me. I'm not an Admin, so I don't know how the cookies are set on the forums, but are you sure that was an issue on the site's end? I doubt the login cookies would have a setting to expire in of just a couple hours. I may be wrong, but are you sure you didn't log out by mistake? Do you choose the 'remember me' option so you're logged in whenever you come to BT, or do you manually login every time?
Matt
Hi Matt, only have a couple of minutes before Cfaith cuts me off on allotted time, so will check back in tomorrow to try to disable the email notification thing (which I'm sure I previously disabled a long time ago).
As for the other, no didn't log off BT even by accident...and usually when I'm totally done I do log out though the remember me part works to remember my screen name and password when I come back...but this time the system logged me out even with pages still up ready to use as I have many times before with clicking on new posts red square thingy on thread but it didn't have it this time and I was a guest. so will try not logging out tongit.
Gotta go. Thanks
Pat
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I had to post this for all to read.
***The following passage is from a sermon by John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio:
I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands. He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle, and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war. He stands though, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this ...
“I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution, and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it.
I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote, and now you stay at home because it rains!
I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech, and now you remain silent on critical issues because it might be bad for your business.
I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you, and now it has stolen democracy from the people.â€
Remember:
It’s the soldier, not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.
It’s the soldier, not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.
It’s the soldier, not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.
It’s the soldier, who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
“Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.â€
Amen to that prayer!!!
Pat
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I read this thread to Hubby earlier tonight, he said sounds exactly like Intel was...!!!
They laid off a lot of good hard working people, to make it look like 'reorganization' (code name: lay off 10 thousand people worldwide though here in Oregon they wont even tell the real amount of how many were really laid off....or how many have quit due to not being able to take the stress anymore) would actually make the stockholders happy...so how come it didn't? Stock still going down so they will continue to lay off people until only upper upper management is left sitting on their golden parachutes!!!
Corporations cant continue this nonsense of being beholden only to stockholders' whims per quarter. I read in US News recently that that's why so many companies are going back to private ownership so they can actually do what is needed long term to be a viable working company!!!
Sad to see the way things are going downhill with our country's corporations.
P.S. JD, you forgot to mention layoff good workers after you have them train their subcontractor replacements.
Pat
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Hi everyone,
Sure has been a wierd winter so far!!! More like the ones I grew up with in the late 1940's and 50's.
We have recently had cold, about 4 inches of snow one day, some wind, some ice (luckily missed out on freezing rain so far), some rain with the now moderating temps that feel like springtime even some sunshine to boot. This has been such a wild winter, including a couple of small earthquakes here and there, with a little of nearly everything except Mt Saint Helens blowing her top and if that happens I'm leaving!!!
Was cold enough to use the wood stove some of the time....(I hate east winds bringing cold down the Columbia Gorge). Brrrr! Glad to have the wood stove to ease the electric bill and keeps house warmer too!!!!
Also the silver lining of hubby being unemployed is he isn't out on the roads playing bumper cars like everyone else, with me worrying about him at home.
Instead of repeating all I said about the weather we've had in NW, on another forum thread I'll just link to it to save my dialup time from cutting me off pretty soon for being over alotted time. (Sorry about running upset and amuck there because I'd had troubles with mod locking Marsh's thread to Spaztech that I was trying to post to...so ignore that part).
This thread's first post at G4 gives a good description of our terrible weather in NW
Stay warm and safe folks.
Pat
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Thanks Marty,
When they get the site finished it sure will be nice to use!!!
Of course it's choppy on dialup!!!
Crawler mid-screen says only 1965 to 1984 available. And I also didn't find anything on some subjects. Though was pleased to find both Gospel and Christmas songs. I use IE and site worked just fine.
Pat
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