vegetablebelay

If you go to topozone.com, you can look up the peak and it'll tell you the quad. Then you could go wherever and buy it. Just a thought....

Try infospace.com

We should all take this opportunity to send Erik a friendly pm.

DOOMED I TELL YOU!

The sun is going thru it's death throes. We are doomed.

Cashmere Mountain is top choice for U.S. lab By Seattle Times staff LEAVENWORTH, Chelan County — A group of scientists considering sites for a $300 million underground national science laboratory has picked a mountain in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness west of town as its top choice. Another nearby Cascades peak is No. 2, though further study is needed before a final decision is made. The group, led by University of Washington physicist Wick Haxton, is looking at 12 sites in the West for the National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. The lab would conduct research in physics, astrophysics, earth science and geomicrobiology, studying particles from the sun, the formation of minerals and hydrology in the earth and microbial life deep underground. Topping the list is Cashmere Mountain nine miles west of Leavenworth, said Kaleen Cottingham, a project consultant and former deputy state lands commissioner. Cannon Mountain, nine miles southwest of town, is the second choice. Both mountains are on U.S. Forest Service land with their summits in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, a 390,000-acre area where motorized vehicles, roads and logging are banned. Continued Here: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=lab05m&date=20031105

Well, that's all well and good, but the underlying assets are still stocks and the institutions are not going to give up on stocks and go to cash. They won't fire a manager without hiring another to cover that particular asset class. Certainly Putnam is in trouble if noone wants them to manage money anymore, but it's not the end of the mutual fund industry.

He said FOX News is #1. This is separate from FOX Sports and FOX programming.

But if they do fire a manager who has to liquidate positions to generate the cash, they will then hire another manager who will then reinvest....effect on market and economy = nil.

Yeah, who?

And I guess I'll have to admit... vegetablebelay is only my middle name.

Or, go get lives....

Wow, scott'teryx beat out Jens. Scott, you should open up a guide service.

New Program Lets Fliers Help U.S. Troops Get R&R Thursday, October 23, 2003 By January W. Payne WASHINGTON — A program that began Thursday could make the ride home a little smoother for some soldiers. Under "Operation Hero Miles (search)," people will be able to turn their frequent-flier miles over to their airlines, which in turn will make them available to soldiers trying to get home for their brief leaves. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (search), D-Md., said he got the idea after he visited troops passing through Baltimore-Washington International Airport. "Our men and women risking their lives serving our country in Iraq deserve our support," Ruppersberger said Wednesday in a prepared statement. Thousands of soldiers who have been flown to BWI since the Defense Department began granting leaves from Iraq last month have had to dig into their own pockets to buy a plane ticket the rest of the way home. In early October, Spc. Josh Fansler flew on the Army's dime from Iraq to BWI to begin two weeks of leave, but getting home to Colorado became an inconvenient expense. Fansler got lucky — he landed a round-trip ticket to Colorado Springs, Colo., for $223. Not everyone has been so lucky. "When this whole leave program started out, people were Continued here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101051,00.html

"Ok, turn your head for me and cough..."

If that is all you're getting out of the story, I take pity on you and I apologize for calling you stupid yesterday.

Girls pummel man who exposed himself Friday, October 31, 2003 Posted: 11:06 AM EST (1606 GMT) PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A man described by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police said Friday. Rudy Susanto, 25, who had exposed himself to teen-age girls on as many as seven occasions outside St. Maria Goretti School, struck again on Thursday just as students were being dismissed, police said. But this time, a group of girls in school uniforms angrily confronted Susanto with help from some neighbors, police said. When Susanto tried to run, more than 20 girls chased him down the block. Two men from the neighborhood caught him and the girls took their revenge. "The girls came and started kicking him and punching him, so I wasn't going to stop them," neighbor Robert Lemons told The Philadelphia Inquirer. Susanto was later treated for injuries at a local hospital. Police said he would be charged with 14 criminal counts including harassment, disorderly conduct, open lewdness and corrupting the morals of a minor. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/10/31/crime.girls.reut/index.html

The one time I was in a snow cave, we went by the book and thought we did everything you're saying, but when we woke up the ceiling had dropped to within about 6-8 inches of our faces. Freaky.

Man are you stoopid.

The idea is giving j_b a woody. Too many Democrats are shrill, hopeless, undersexed squares

This sucks too: U.S. Troops in Iraq Have Limited Body Armor Friday, October 24, 2003 By Peter Brownfeld WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense has provided thousands of top-of-the-line protective vests to coalition forces on the ground while some U.S. troops in Iraq have been asked to take their chances with inferior flak jackets, sources told Foxnews.com. The American military has certified the use of body armor that can stop rounds from a Kalashnikov rifle, a 9-millimeter handgun and fragments from a grenade. The material used is lightweight and not too restrictive. So far, more than two dozen soldiers in Afghanistan credit the vests with saving their lives. The only problem with the life-saving equipment is getting hold of it. Congress has allocated funds for all U.S. troops to wear 16-pound, ceramic-plated Interceptor body armor (search), but as many as 51,000 American soldiers and civilian administrators in Iraq have not yet been equipped with the gear, and have been asking friends and families at home to purchase and send them off-the-shelf models for protection. Continued in a fair and balanced manner...

Or Martha Stewart.

Those are the numbers numbnuts. Did you object to the term "lavishly" or something?

"I got meal costs down to 40 cents a day per inmate. It costs $1.15 a day to feed the department's dogs. Now, I'm cutting prisoners' calories from 3,000 to 2,500 a day," the sheriff said during a recent tour of his tent city.

Consumers in the third quarter spent lavishly on big-ticket items, such as cars, boosting such spending by a whopping 26.9 percent rate. And, they also spent briskly on "nondurables" such as food and clothes, which grew at a 7.9 percent pace, the strongest showing since the first quarter of 1976. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101680,00.html