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All the dumb arrogant insensitive people on this board.

Watch out that studd has a nasty kick. I won't ever touch the stuff again! (insert green puking gremlin here...)

Good to see we're back on the assigned topics for spray. We've had the trash Erik thread (amazingly he started it) and now it's morphed into the we hate everybody psychoanalysis thread. Maybe this place will get more interesting in the next couple days.

Excessive dehydration if you don't drink a lot of water with it. If I remember the discussion from my nutrition class last winter correctly, a few body builders' and I thought a football player's deaths were linked to its use.

I'm usually pretty scared if I'm up 15 feet or so with no rope and there's any exposure. And I am still terrified of climbing anything taller than my 4 step stepladder. I used to hate when it was my turn to climb up onto the roof in winter and clear the snow from around the stovepipe.

Yes, some (primarily vegetarians) need iron supplements during the time in their life where they are having monthly reproductive cycles. But if a woman eats a well-balanced diet they can generally get eough iron through dietary sources or by cooking in cast iron. With calcium that can be different unless you eat a lot of dairy products. Some of us just can't stomach the stuff.

Thanks j_b. Very interesting when you look at the actual figures. I somtimes wonder if Bush et al. thinks leading the country like CEOs lead a corporation is the appropriate way to use information and make policy. I used to see this sort of spin all the time in my corporate consulting days. Execs only taking from survey data the parts that support their "story" or "strategy" for their pet project...then spinning it out to the ranks in hopes to rally support for the next great thing that will produce profit. Unfortunately, most of the time this backfires in corporate America and I'm thinking in the government too. The behavior (on the part of Iraqi citizens) doesn't follow the spin by our "executives". People are starting to figure this out.

Trask - good to see a hardcore conservative like yourself thinking about this sort of thing. 1) I'm not an economist and don't know whether we can absorb these costs without significant impact to the US economy. What does cause me to be concerned is that we are spending so much money over there when there are a lot of domestic issues at home that also need attention. I think it will be hard to tackle both things, particularly now that the administration is admitting they will need to request more money in the future. 2) It is a necessary investment for the future. We bombed their country and have to at least get it back to where it was before that. However, doing only that and walking away would be insufficient and would likely create resentment on the part of the people of Iraq. We need to help get them to the point of stability and independence, which will hopefully help the middle east region. Unfortunately there is no guarantee that rebuilding Iraq will create stability in the region, nor create strong allies with any country including Iraq. And the current foreign policy has not really focused on creating allies and long lasting diplomatic ties. 3) I think we have set many precedents as a country through this war and how it has been dealt with at home and on the world stage. I only hope that some of them will be lessons learned that will not be repeated should the leadership of this country feel the need to preemptively take out a potential foe in the future.

Heard that late last night on the radio. I don't think I'd heard his music 'till they played 3 songs just before 1 am when they announced it. I liked it. What strikes me most is that he was the same age as me and died by suicide. How very sad. Makes me wonder what troubled him so much.

If you are eating a well balanced diet and include MANY of the different colors of vegetables and fruits, you shouldn't need to spend money on supplements. Except maybe a multivitamin. Or calcium if you're a woman. Overloading on specific supplements can create a lot of really expensive pee and poop. And some supplements can also create health problems (BTW creatine is one of them). Not sure what that guy has to say specifically on the subject, but you can literally flush a lot of dough chasing the supplement-yourself-to-get-the-body-you-want dream.

Thanks for the article. I'm certainly going to do more checking for cheaper books overseas next quarter. Too bad copyright doesn't apply to climbing gear though. The American manufacturers have done a good job of making sure foreign sites sell their gear at prices close to US prices...

I wish I were heading there. Have fun.

Yeah, CA seems like a joke of a state to live in right now, but for teachers it's a great place to be. Starting salary for a new teacher right out of school is about $40k. The cost of living is high in a lot of places, but at least they're getting paid a living wage. Starting pay in teaching is one reason why I have opted for nursing rather than teaching.

That's really awful. My condolences to the families. Please everyone, be carful out there. Jay_B makes some excellent points about anchors and placing gear above an anchor to help prevent this from happening.

The sun is so bright out right now that I wish I had brought my sunglasses to school. The air smells so nice and clean too.

You probably support cultural homogenization too.

From the looks of your photo earlier today you're an old stodgy fart. Older than me that is.

Now that I am a student again I am remembering how many stupid bureaucratic policies and people there are at colleges/universities. I got a letter from one of the schools I am applying to for January stating that my transcripts do not show that I meet the necessary requirements for entry. One of which is the fact that I didn't send them my high school transcript. Thought the fact I already have a BA would negate the need to see my transcripts from 16 years ago. Another was that I hadn't met their Algebra requirement. I guess the person doesn't realize that a person needs to successfully complete algebra before completing Calculus. I guess if I had sent the HS transcript I would have gotten credit for that one. I don't meet their requirement for psychology classes taken, but my BA is in psych. Are these people actually reading the information I sent them? There are many more...The letter suggests I meet with an advisor to discuss any concerns I have and to do some academic planning. After finally getting in touch with a real person, I find out that I can meet with an adviser ONLY after I sit through a 2 hour information session on Nov. 17th so that my general questions will be answered. "I don't have any general questions, just ones specific to my application." Doesn't matter I will not get an appointment until I have been to the session. I think I'll call back tomorrow and hope I get a different person and then I'll lie and say that I've already been to a session. And I'm crossing my fingers that I get into the school of my choice so I can tell EverettCC to

already tried that Klenke and it just named the file .gif.bmp Anyways another kind user sent me the file via email so problem temporarily solved.

Hopefully this campaign will have some affect this time. Unfortunately there are no reps from WA on the list...

http://www.geocities.com/naddame2/tree11x.gif or http://www.fg-a.com/flowers13.shtml Both don't seem to let me 'drag and drop' images.

I have IE 6, XP is my op system. I find the image and use the right mouse button to get a save option. The box pops up and the only file type option is .bmp

The only option that appears when I click on Save As is .bmp. Any suggestions?

It would be pretty cool looking if not book-ended by stale brick buildings that look like entrances to some kind of manufacturing plant in the midwest.