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Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Huk...do you remember ChilliWilli? She first turned me on to that site when we were having that wildfire here. I have relied on it many times since then. It's the ginchiest. Thanks for posting it!!

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
http://tinyurl.com/yll2s35

From parent dish.com

Web Game Creator: Buying Condoms, Adopting Orphans is 'Stylish' Fun

An online game designed to let young girls create a character based on breast size, adopt third-world orphans a la Angelina Jolie and take "anti-baby pills" has parents up in arms.


Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
A couple of interestig sites I came across.
http://www.brainyquote.com/
http://www.brainyquote.com/
http://www.newsmap.jp/
http://www.makeuseof.com/

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, February 12, 2010 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I have been following the blog of quite a heroic young lady from Canada. Her name is Eva and she is dying from Cystic Fibrosis. She posted a video today with her Mom, Dad, and a good friend, telling us that the end will come within a couple of days. She had a double lung transplant and was doing well for some time. What an inspiration and a beautiful young woman. She named her blog "65 Red Roses" because when she was a child, she thought that's what her parents were saying when they said Cystic Fibrosis. I'm just so incredibly sad for her and her family

http://65redroses.livejournal.com/2010/02/11/

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Friday, February 12, 2010 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
Juju, I know you probably have your license by now, but for the next time, you can apply for a dreiver's licene on line if you went in person the last time. Just go to the Texas Department of Public Safety and follow the links.

I was in California several years ago when I realized mine would expire before I got home. My niece told me to go online and renew it. I did and they allow you to print out a temporary copy to use until you recieve the new one in the mail.

The reason you can't renew on line two times in a row is because they use the same picture and it would become too outdated.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, February 12, 2010 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Allietex, I have a WA state drivers license, and yes, I could have renewed online, but I could not have received the drivers license, as they will not mail it anywhere but the address on the license, and the envelopes are marked as non-forwardable, so it doesn't work on WA state licenses if one is out of town for months. I have a temporary extension, and no, I do not have the license yet, as I am still out of state. Out of the state of Washington.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I can't find the darned thread where we were talking about the cost of the US census mailings.
Here's what I got:
1. Letter saying "the census is coming, watch for it in your mailbox"
2. The census
3. The postage paid return envelope for the census
4. Today I got a postcard, "remember to mail in your census if you haven't already"

OMG! 4 mailings to tell them there's ONE person living here. What did this cost us as a nation?

Geesh, at minimum wage, going to 60 houses on my street door to door would have been cheaper than 4 mailings to each address. If nobody was home, leave a form for them! If they don't return it, fine THEM, don't spend like we have a bottomless wallet in this country!

OH I'M MAD @&%)($*(&(%$

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 9:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Hukd, I got the same postcard today.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Monday, March 22, 2010 - 9:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I work for the Census. You have no idea how insane the government is. NO IDEA!! I always heard that the govt. spent a lot of money needlessly, but until I actually worked for them (on and off for a few years now) I had no idea.

Waste-waste-waste-waste. And they do not work "smart" at all. Really it is a damn shame how much $$ is wasted. And this is just on the Census part of the govt.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 4:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Hukd, it is supposed to cost the government something over $14 billion dollars. That equals about $47 per person. (I received the first postcard, and the census. But I'm traveling so don't know if the follow up postcard has been received yet.) I'd guess that includes the costs for advertising and sending people out to those homes that don't respond.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 5:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
And it's not even accurate for heaven's sake! There are plenty of people who live on the streets, there are babies born every day, people who die every day, blah blah. What a friggin waste of money.

Riviere
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09-09-2000

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 5:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Riviere a private message Print Post    
Such a skimpy census in 2010, with emphasis on the "hispanic origin" instead of more personal info useful to genealogy. This will be useless to any descendants seeking me in 72 years. Older censuses were a tremendous help! States parents were born, how many total kids living or deceased, occupations, property value, even if family owned a radio. They say within a few years my race will be the new minority. Whites are not going forth and overpopulating fast enough to keep up! The 1980 census had missed me and I reappeared in 1990 with a new name. In a couple years the 1940 census will be public so my Dad will be listed, but Mom wasn't born yet.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Riv, that is because so many people are so so so so very sensitive about giving out personal info. To me, I could care less about telling anyone anything--like how much we make, what nationality we are, birthdays, etc. (Anything but credit card numbers or SS#'s.) But most people are very very secretive. It really will make getting info in the future very hard. But then there is always the internet so that may make up for some of the difficulty.

Rosem4243
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06-27-2005

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosem4243 a private message Print Post    
My co-workers and I were discussing this very thing yesterday, Huk'd!

So wasteful, it's a disgrace especially in this economy.

As far as people being secretive - that should no longer even be an issue in this day and age of computers and social networking.

My bank and netflix know more about me than I do!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Knowledge is power.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 2:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
In the early days of Amazon, people were so worried about having their purchases tracked. Huh??? That is so common with computers. To some extent even pre-computers, paper records would track purchasers' purchases in businesses.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 2:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
There's one question about Hispanic origin. The other question about race, which includes Asian, is just as detailed. Actually, more detailed; there are four options listed for Hispanic/Latino but seven for Asian and four for Pacific Islander.

There is as much genealogical information on this census as I've found in others. In researching my mother's family, we found the original census records that showed two people whose relationship we were tying to verify living in the same house -- no relationship listed. It took me paging through church records to finally establish that they were father and son. On this census, you list any other person other than yourself and you provide their relationship to you.

Congressional districts, federal education money, infrastructure support, etc. are all apportioned based on census data. Besides, it's in the Constitution.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I noticed that the hispanic origins had their own questions, separate from the others, where as the others were lumped together.

Was that maybe just a California thing?

Like: If you aren't spanish of some sort, then what are you....

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 7:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I don't know, but it was the same on the 2000 census short form.

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/d61a.pdf

The 2010 short form actually includes a couple of more questions than the 2000 short form.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
BTW, there is a document that explains why the census asks the questions it does and the way it does.

http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/03b_ba.pdf

Basically, it asks the race questions in two parts to get a better picture of the "racial" make-up. The Hispanic/Latino question is asked separately to clarify between white - Latino and white - non-Latino.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1325

76-year-old mystery Valentine's card surfaces at Duke University
Earlier this month, as Mike Trogdon was going about his routine as director of operations for postal services at Duke University, he ran across something rather startling: a letter from Salem, Va., postmarked Feb. 12, 1934.

He told Yahoo! News that his first thought was "Where in the world could this have been for all these years?"

The letter — which bore a 2-cent stamp and a 1-cent stamp — was addressed to a "Miss Margaret Davey c/o Duke Hospital, Duke University."

Trogdon checked the university’s records for any mention of that name in the employee database. When that came up empty, he decided to open the envelope. Inside he found a Valentine's Day card adorned with numerous hearts and a giraffe.

The message read: "In the race for my affection, you win by a long neck, so be my valentine!!"

At the bottom of the card was a signature: "Joyce."

Trogdon contacted the school's alumni department to see if anyone named Margaret Davey had attended Duke in 1934, and indeed she had.

Davey had graduated from the Duke School of Nursing in 1935, went on to enjoy a long career as a registered nurse in Virginia and Florida, and married a World War II veteran. Together they raised a son and daughter.

But sadly, the dig for information about Margaret Davey revealed something rather unfortunate: She died in January of this year at the age of 96 — just two months before her Depression-era valentine caught Trogdon’s eye.

Still, Trogdon was determined to get the word out. He contacted Leanora Minai, the school's director of communications and editor of its employee newsletter. She tracked down a few of Davey's surviving family members, including her son, and they set about trying to crack the other mystery of the card: Who had sent it? Eventually, they established that in 1934, Margaret Davey had a 6-year-old niece named Joyce living in Salem. Joyce — now Joyce Galbraith Colony — turns 82 in April and lives in Charlottesville, Va.

"My mother wrote both the envelope and the 'Joyce' signature inside," Joyce Galbraith Colony told Minai in a piece for Duke Today. Colony's mother, Florence, was Davey's older sister. "She was my favorite aunt."

One mystery will probably remain unsolved, though: just where the card has been hiding these past 76 years. Trogdon’s best guess is that it fell behind a mail counter, where a vigilant postal worker finally retrieved it.

But that doesn’t account for another recent revelation: A second envelope addressed to Margaret Davey at Duke University has also recently surfaced at the U.S. Postal Service’s Processing and Distribution Center in Raleigh, N.C. — and it, too, was signed by someone named Joyce. The missive was postmarked in Salem on Jan. 15, 1935 — nearly a year after Joyce had sent off her valentine. Postal officials sent this wayward letter to Margaret Davey's other niece, and included an explanatory note.

"We believe it may have been left in a mailbag and overlooked by our personnel who emptied the contents," the note read. "Occasionally, an envelope may stick to the seam inside a bag."

The missing-mail saga is already causing a stir around the Duke campus — even as the student body is obsessed with how far the school’s famed Blue Devils basketball squad will go in this year’s NCAA tournament. Davey no doubt would have enjoyed hearing her name crop up amid all the hoops mania, Minai suggests.

"Margaret was an avid Duke basketball fan," Minai told Yahoo! News, proudly noting that she kept "a poster of the team, signed by Coach K, above her bed in the nursing home."

— Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.


Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Petition for US broadcast of 65_RedRoses (from a comment on Eva's livejournal-- http://65redroses.livejournal.com)

A vibrant, inspiring young woman named Eva Markvoort died on the morning of March 27, 2010, just four days shy of her 26th birthday. Eva had a genetic disease called Cystic Fibrosis that causes thick mucous to build up in the lungs and digestive tract, causing severe medical complications for virtually every system in the body and often leading to early death. Oftentimes, a lung transplant is required, as the mucous diminishes lung capacity and severely deprives the body of useful oxygen. Eva received a double lung transplant in October 2007 and lived two remarkable years until being diagnosed with chronic rejection in late 2009. She was placed back on the organ transplant list, but her health deteriorated, requiring her to be on oxygen full time, and eventually move back into Vancouver General Hospital while she waited for a new set of lungs to become available. They would, however, take longer than her old lungs would hold on, and she lost the battle.

What is noteworthy about Eva, however, isn’t the disease that killed her - the CF or the rejection, her age at death, or the suffering she endured - although any of these three are enough to rend your heartstrings. What made Eva stand out to those who knew her, either in person, or through her blog (http://65redroses.livejournal.com) was her vivacity for life and her determination to always work to help others. In the two years after her first lung transplant, Eva ran a marathon, nearly finished at her university, raced in a dragon boat, and went cross-country skiing. But everything she did, and every effort she made supported her cause, and constantly worked to develop her legacy of advocacy. Even as she lay dying, she urged others to become organ donors and sang Christmas carols online to raise funds for cystic fibrosis research.

Now that I have introduced you to Eva Markvoort, I want to ask for your help. Both for my interests, and Eva’s legacy. While Eva was awaiting her 2007 lung transplant, film makers Philip Lyall and Nimisha Mukerji were creating a documentary about her incredible struggle, her vibrant personality, and the importance of organ donation. This documentary, entitled “65_RedRoses” after Eva’s online alias, premiered at the Hot Docs 2009 Film Festival and went on to win the audience award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Since then, it has been selected for over a dozen other screenings and is being shown on Canada’s CBC News Network.

It has yet, however, to reach U.S. audiences. Eva’s remarkable story - her joy for life, her determination to succeed, her fervent advocacy, and her overflowing love - remains untold on American television networks. She is often quoted as saying, “if this film convinces one person to become an organ donor, it was worth it.” According to Donate Life America (http://www.donatelife.net), 18 people die every day while waiting for an organ transplant in America alone, and over 100,000 Americans are currently on the organ donation waiting list. A new name is added to that list every 11 minutes. Airing Eva’s documentary would have a profound impact on the legacy she fought her entire life to leave, and would save countless lives, in American and abroad, as the message of organ donation spreads. This is as much about sharing Eva’s incredible life as it is bearing witness to organ donation as it is even watching an award-winning documentary.

On February 11, 2010, Eva posted a heartbreaking video to her blog informing her loyal online followers that her life was coming to an end. She fought for the life she loved so much for another six and a half weeks. In that time, she was awarded her bachelor’s degree, as well as the Summerhayes award for cystic fibrosis awareness and advocacy. Each time, her message remained the same - fight for a cure, and sign up to donate life. Her legacy is in this documentary, and I urge you to let it speak to Americans as it has to Canadians, as it has to those of us who followed her blog, and as it will to those who see it in the future.

More information on the film can be found at http://www.65redroses.com/ as well as on Eva’s blog, which is still being maintained by her relatives. If you have any doubts or reservations that this is a story that needs to be told, that deserves to be heard - please, read her blog. Understand her message. Share in her legacy.

For information about purchasing the rights to broadcast 65_RedRoses, please contact Rob Bromley, Executive Producer of 65_RedRoses and President of Force Four Entertainment at rob@forcefour.com or via phone at 604.669.4424.

I thank you for your time and eagerly await an American viewing of this incredible documentary.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
omg, I have followed Eva's blog forever! I was so sad to read the other day that she had passed away. Every time I clicked on her blog, I was hoping so hard that she was off to the operating room and getting another pair of lungs. What a wonderful young woman she was!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
I was so sad to read of her passing. She was such an inspiration

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 9:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I agree. Thank you for posting that Julie.