Rowe on the OT: VDO's film career thread said she never heard of Ten Thousand Villages, so I thought I would describe them a little more. It is a program run under the MCC(Mennonite Central Committee). They use artisans from around the globe. These people receive a fair trade price for their goods, safe working conditions, and other programs designed to build up there communities. If they inquire about Christianity they will share it with them, but it is not a requirment to recieve help and purchasing for their goods. Their stores(there are several of them) they have goods from every country. Clothing, jewerly, pottery, household items, and persian rugs to say the least.

MCC helps after natural(and man made diseasters) to rebuild the community, and help with supplies that are needed.

The MCC in Canada has done much work to build a healthy bond and seek resolution with Native Nations, as well as the amazing charity and trade work. They also offer counselling for crime victims, and training for people who work with victims. They are a very dedicated group of people who believe in positive actions helping humanity. I was exposed to them when I went to university with a New Order girl who became a great friend of mine.
Mari

That's one thing that most people don't know about the plain community, is they will not fight in wars, but they will go all around the world to rebulid what was destroyed.

I'm sure that many of you have seen this Jacquie Lawson card, but I thought it would be worth bringing out again for this Memorial Day in the USA. My wish is "Bring Them Home" ; others may disagree, but whatever our politics, we all stand in our hearts with those who serve, and remember sadly and lovingly the honoured dead.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?...mp;source=jl999

amen

An AMEN from me too, Miss B.

Just for fun...

I got this from a pal of mine, who seems to have more than his share of odd computer problems. He's always wondered, had the feeling that his computer had a life of its own, doing things while he slept. He found the link below that explains, for him anyway, what happens to his box.


Icon War

PeachyBC

Guess I should be rethinking the whole not shutting down the computer at night bit, huh?!

I watched it three times. I see the Deep Truth embedded in the light-hearted animation, but actually, I just liked it for the bang-clank-whizz-crash-zing-ping-chomp. My kinda drama. Link now sent to all far reaches of Australia, where they preesheeyate cinema verite

I'm trying to get some home improvement estimates for a roof, gutters, windows... So I get advice from family and friends. Names and phone numbers of people to call to get an idea of how much I can expect to try for with a loan or line of credit.

I'm talking to the answering machine of the first guy on the list and get to the point where I need to leave a contact number for daytime and evenings.

Brain fart! Can't remember my telephone number. Has that ever happened to you?! I never call myself. And when I do I'm never home to answer the phone! What a day I'm having!

I should be laughing out loud at your story. Instead, I'm nodding gravely. I can never remember my mobile number - a number which has no rhythm, or logical order, or any mnemonic hook on which to hang it. Many's the time I have come to that part of the conversation or message when it's time to recite it. Nothing in brain. The most pathetic thing about the situation is that I haven't learned a thing from past embarrassment. Never have it written down and ready or a business card to hand before I make a call. Ever. Sometimes in panic I leave other people's numbers. Talk about pointless.

I hear you loud and clear. Given a choice of two cell phone numbers, I don't think I could honestly pick mine from the pair. I do have it written down in my checkbook. But, how often do I have my checkbook with me with a debit card at my disposal?!

I can understand...just three months ago i spent twenty minutes writing invitations for my daughter's birthday party to 20+ of her classmates, which included including my cell number. You'd think after 20+ invites, that i'd actually remember my cell phone number wouldn't you?....nope, not a chance. My home number not a problem, cell phone, not a chance.

Yup, yup. Another head nodding in sad recognition.

I once interviewed with a job search firm. Spent 20 minutes telling the interviewer about my professional attributes, such as my organizational skills, my eye for detail and my creative problem solving abilities. Then she asked for my cell phone number. She seemed understanding enough when I admitted I didn't remember it. Less understanding when I spent a good 3 minutes pressing buttons on the phone trying to come up with that little screen that actually shows your cell phone number. (Apparently enough of us don't remember our cell numbers that the manufacturers include this dandy feature. Why, then, do they hide it like an easter egg in a video game?).

The best moment came when she suggested I do the same thing her 80-year-old mother does with her cell phone ... put a label with the number right on the phone case.

Been there, done that, lost the phone. Still haven't managed to put a label on the new one.

I can't tell you how much better I'm feeling knowing that I'm not the only one with senior cell/telephone moments.

God gave me many gifts and height and short term memory wasn't one of them!!! I'm only 5'4 which makes many things in this life a wee bit more challenging!!! LOL!!

I have a horrible short term memory in particular. I can be leaving work, and say to myself, remember to pick up a paper. In less than the two minutes it takes to go to the gas station, I forgot. If I'm talking and someone interjects something, I'll forget what I was even talking about! However when it comes to obscure facts and tid bits of info, that no one really cares about, that I remember!! Little facts I read in a book, magazine, see on TV whatever, that I can almost quote word for word. Memorizign scripts, poems, whatever all is good. This info is nothing I can use at work, or really help anyone, just enough to keep me in the dork community short bus!!

I'm exactly like that too! I have a memory like a sieve! and my husband swears its since i've had my kids. It's gotten to the point that i have to make a list of what i have to do each day or i will forget something. Usually its because i have a lot of other stuff on my mind.

My poor sister-in-law's job allowed her to be a work-at-home mom through both kids. She can sing every Dora the Explorer song, knows all the kiddie programming by sound and theme song and has two very well behaved, well adjusted kids. And she can count to 20 in Spanish, French and every other conceivable language with the kids. She cannot concentrate on anything for longer than the two minutes because that's how long each of these wonderful, educationally stimulating shows runs any one topic for. She's regressed to that point.

She's starving for adult contact. Won't you please help her?!

Boy, can I relate to this subject!! lol I'll get up and go to another room and then ask myself, "Now why did I come in here??????" I also have several pieces of small note paper that I prepare the night before of things I need to do the next day. Cause if I don't see it in black and white, it doesn't get done!!!! I have so many pieces of paper with info on them, it is unreal. I got sick of making out lists every night so I laminated my paper so I can use it every day. I definitely have CRS syndrome!! lol

Now the going into a room and forgetting what i came in for i inherited from my mom, because she is the same. I do all the note writing stuff too, especially if we need groceries because i will not remember on my own. Usually i go into a room for something, get distracted by something else and forget what i went in for. It's so frustrating LOL!!

Oh the knowing the theme tunes to every kid's tv show happened to me too, especially with Dora, The Wiggles and others...right now my six year old is addicted to Spongebob Squarepants and it is doing my head in....heeeelppp!!!!

A dear friend I have known most of my life has three boys, all under 12. Her husband is a under contract with the military dealing with computers so he is gone for weeks at a time sometimes. She told me once that sometimes she feels like she spends all her time in Romper Room!!! She longs for "adult" playdates!! LOL!!

The scene in "Cherry Red" with Bobby and Carver looking at the model cars and marveling at the craftsmanship and detail, and Eames pokes her head in the door and asks if they're having a playdate, always cracks me up seriously. We're talking bust a gut giggling.

That's exactly what my sister-in-law needs. Playtime with adults.

Lmao That was the exact one I was thinkin too.



Yah after a while you start talking like them I still say some of my oldest nieces phrases which I unfortunatley still do.. lol

Like

busterd <mustard>
sheshup <Ketchup>

Tray High <highchair>


Fork <I'll leave this one up to your imagination > Thank god she grew outta that one .lol

Yeah, I love Cherry Red and that Playdate thing makes me laugh till it hurts!! I also love where he is reving up the car looking like a kid in the candy store and Eames turns back and does a "Goren Lean" into the car and says "you have to come out now". The look on Bobby's face is priceless like no I don't wanna!!!

Maybe sad and a little disturbing but my mom and I (jokingly, no really) talk kinda of baby talk to each other sometimes as a running joke. Gives people in the store something to stare at.

Has anyone heard Fred Thompson told Dick Wolf on Wed. he wanted to resign from LOCI, due to his possible Presidential compaign! I thought I would mention this if noone has heard.

Peachy, where did you get that Snoopy Dog? I love to see that thing dancing all around!! Is it hard to do something animated like that?

No, I hadn't heard that. Has he already said he wanted to resign from the original Law & Order too?? He seems to be on that show more than the other two. He's an okay actor but since he's not a major character, my meter is on zero about it....lol

Hey gorenpal! I thought Fred was a good DA on the show, but I really want to see him clean house at the White House!!! IMO!

I know I love that scene.



Or this look Awwww do I have hafta .


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LOL Honey you're not the only one .

Mom and me do that all the time .


and I don't go out enough so I'm safe .lol
that and I have to work really hard when I write on here or a letter so i don't talk to any of my friends or stars like that .lol

Can you imagine.

I read a review for a book (The Book of Bunny Suicides) the other day that had me nodding my head vigorously in agreement. That reviewer had said that she hated it when she visited book stores and someone glancing through a book would laugh out loud at something they had just read. As if daring her to take a look at the book and not feel exactly the same way. She picked up a copy of Bunny Suicides at a store and didn't just laugh out loud, but honked while doing so and made her husband read parts of it as well. She wound up buying the book and its sequel, More Bunny Suicides.

I hate that too.

That's why I appalled myself when I couldn't stop crying while laughing (actual tears) through the first two essays in Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" while waiting for a hair appointment this morning. The woman is just drop dead witty, dry, just a bit off-center and so totally in geek love with American history that she makes you want to lay out driving vacations to all the great historical sites and monuments within 24 hours of your current location. Which, since I live in NJ, would encompass some seriously dense Trip-Tiks from Triple A. I finished most of the rest of the book in the afternoon.

If you're still able to breathe after reading "Patriot" you'll also want to pick up "Assassination Vacation" and "Take the Cannoli". Read them in any order, but be forewarned. If you've recently had abdominal surgery, you may want to wait a bit before opening any of these books because you may injure yourself and pull some stiches laughing.

Useless dinner table trivia - Raindrops

The National Weather Service has declared a flood watch for my part of the state because they're predicting anywhere from one to four inches of rain within the next 12 hours.

One to FOUR?! What kind of range is that?!!!!!!!

Fully expecting to have to bail out the swimming pool that is the floor of my basement AGAIN, I thought I would pass along some useless trivia while I watch the rain begin to fall.

The upper limit for the diameter of a raindrop is about 8 mm, 1/3 of an inch. Most drops are much smaller than that upper limit. If you've been hit by anything bigger than that it may have been something dripping off of an overhanging telephone/electrical line, tree branch or from the back end of a passing bird. Check the color.

Drops can't get any larger because of friction with the air as they fall through the atmosphere. That friction would tear the drop apart into smaller pieces until that optimum size is reached.

Raindrops aren't teardrop shapes. They're round, wee orbs. Perfect, tiny spheres and that's why they can produce rainbows if lit from the right angle and refract the light just so. If you can see a rainbow, look closer. You may be able to see the secondary rainbow that runs over the top of the first and in reverse color. Roy G. Biv is Vib Gyor. Not nearly as poetic but no less cool to see.



Lastly, all rain starts as frozen precip in the clouds. It'll melt on its way to the ground as it passes through warmer air. Rain in the summer will still feel cool to the skin because it was only just recently a pellet of ice or a flake of snow. If it bounces around enough times in the clouds before it makes its way to the ground it can actually build into a mighty impressively sized hailstone. Right now, the largest recorded hailstone on record with NOAA is a seven inch monster with a circumference of 18.75 inches. Hope that puppy didn't hit a car cause "Act of God" isn't covered in most insurance policies.

What a fascinating chunk of information, Linda! I've saved this one to HD.

Rainbows - very beautiful. Hail - my kind of off-the-wall weather phenomenom. In Sydney, we frequently get summer hail. Big, heavy, car-pocking and human knock-out stuff. Here's the freaky fun bit: you can be standing outside in broad sunlight, and suddenly the balls of ice begin to hurl themselves from the sky. Like being in the crossfire of tennis ball machines, except that the balls are rock ice. Huge things, too. Can't outclass that 7-inch monster, maybe, but these are indeed tennis balls, not ping pong balls. I did claim insurance for the car one year, so in Oz this (quite regular) occurence is classed as an accident, not an act of God.

Ouch We've seen accidents like that here In indiana .

Not a pretty sight seeing a car look like swiss cheese after a hail storm .



I love rainbows especially when they double up .

Glad to be of service, B. Hail fascinates me too.

I had a basset hound who was the couch potato's potato and showed little interest in playing, unless there was a hail storm. Then that dog came alive like no other time! He would race around the yard collecting the hail stones in his mouth and dropping them in a pile where he would play with them endlessly. Until, of course, they melted.

I tried to interest him in ice cubes thinking I could cheat him into exercise. He was no one's fool. Wise beyond his forelorn appearance and his years, the harrumph was plain and the look he would give me spoke volumes.

On several Sunday morning talk shows it seems the topic of the day was Fred Thompson running for president. Looks like Fred is definitely gonna make a run for it. Probably takes some of the headache of who to cut from the fast off of Wolf's shoulders but then there is that odd problem of potentially having all the episodes of L&O, SVU and CI with his character Arthur Branch get pulled from rerun rotation cause of the old "equal time" problem for all the rest of the presidential candidates who aren't actors.

I think it's silly but it has caused problems for other candidates who used to be actors during campaign seasons in the past. I'm just thankful he was only on 2 episodes of LOCI.

Yeah, I already told NS that I joined his headquarters here in K-Town, and Fred's gonna try to get me an auto from Bobby!!! I told her when i do get it, I;ll be sure she's the first to see!!!

I'll tell ya what kath after I send my letter and get reply and you get yours how about we swap stories .

Absolutely NS!! Boy, that will make a good topic!!!

We have several small streams, and creeks so whenever we get a dourpour or just a continious steady rain there is plenty of flooding involved. At the station we had to build a concrete (very high) wall along the creek next to the building, because the parking lot was frequently flooding. In some cases endangering the vehicles parked there.

We get tons of calls for water related rescue because some people are beyond dense. They drive around barriers, or even get out of their car and move the barriers so they could keep driving. Then when the cars are sweep into the swollen creek they looked surpised, like what happened!!

Hey NS, recieved an e-mail from Fred's campaign today, getting a news letter soon!!! Whooo!!

FYI, Marlee Maitlin will be joining Fred Thompson's campaign as of June 1. 2007. She as well as Mr. Thompson has been On L&O, SVU as a guest star several times. I'm sure he has alot of the L&O team on his side. That's great news, IMO.

Anyone here got Yahoo .

if ya do and want to chat some time just pm me your id .

might be one this weekend .

Hey NS! I don't even know what that is,what is it, I'm old, remember?

Its an instant messenger .



Like MSN or AOL

I'm gonna ask my husband, I'm really technically stupid!!

The ancient and the new come together.


Ancient Egyptian City Spotted From Space
By Heather Whipps

"(June 6) - Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say.

Images captured from space pinpoint telltale signs of previous habitation in the swatch of land 200 miles south of Cairo, which digging recently confirmed as an ancient settlement dating from about 400 A.D.

The find is part of a larger project aiming to map as much of ancient Egypt's archaeological sites, or "tells," as possible before they are destroyed or covered by modern development

"It is the biggest site discovered so far," said project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya..."

Full AOL news article at:

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/an...S00010000000001

PeachyBC

Soooooooooooooooo cool.

I have google NS, PM me anytime here or by e-mail!!

The urgency of the project is very real. If this had been available, for example, before the wholesale destruction wrought by the building of the Aswan Dam, imagine the wealth of finds that could have been part of the rescue. This is a great development, thank you very much for posting it, Peachy!
Mari

I wonder how many L&O cast and writers are backing Fred Thompson in his Presidential Campaign? I'm sure he evidently has many friends from all L&O series!!! 'NotSaying', maybe I'll call him up to see if he'll give me the scoop!!!