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Awesome, and a big hug to welcome you back.

It has been a topic for yuears, especially amongst advocates for the blind. I believe I heard Prius now has an option for some noises, but the difficulty has been determining what noise people most often associate with being a nearby car. Fanbelt? engine? what is it that sends the message? Anyway, no, you are not the only one to notice this, and a solution is being sought and perhaps legislation will follow if the manufacturers don't get it together. Just the same, I rented one down in Albuquerque this summer, and was awed by the 56 mpg we tweaked going up Sandia and out to Madrid and back. We got the 57 driving the highway up to Raton, with the AC running, but my son sent me a pic of the dashboard reading 68mpg for his return trip back to Albuquerque where he played around to get the most he could while still maintaining Interstate speeds.

Well, as for the Property Tax exempt thing it appears to be based on being a church residential property, not for being an an educational one. Here is the link to the County Assessors office records. If you can't open the link you can Google- Gunnison CO property records - and get there from that. http://qpublic5.qpublic.net/co_gunnison_display.php?KEY=369900000025&account=R008876 Ownership is by: Way International, The Parcel number (the main property): 3699-000-00-025 Account number: R008876 Mailing address: Legal Department, Box 328..... (yadayadayada) I forgot last year was the year for reassessment of property values (done every 2 years in Colorado). The county now shows the 129 acre main property value at $ 5,622,640. That might be closer to correct than I thought, it is up $1,200,000 from 2007.

I do not know for sure about them renting it out, but when I was up there last year, I was denied access. I talked to a few native gunnies when I was there, old friends, one of who is an exwayfer and they had not heard anything about it being available to anyone outside of TWI people for vacations or anything. I think that rumor arose from a site which searched places to set up camping vacation rentals. They wrongly picked up Camp Gunnison from the word "Camp" in its name. Nobody in town that I know of has ever heard of any visitors who were not part of TWI, I did verify that the properties (there are actually several different pieces) are all listed as tax exempt from property tax. The valuations seem low and outdated, but since they are exempt I assume the assessor really doesn't give a flip.

This is about Westboro Baptist, but sounds oh too familiar. The Mark and Avoid revelations start about 5:15 into the video. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r0CnKq7_k?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r0CnKq7_k?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r0CnKq7_k?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

We didn't pay any rental for the charts and tapes during my time (72-86). We did have to sign them out, and had to travel sometimes to pick them up from whatever location the few sets were currently located. There was an IRS reason for not allowing us to write a check for the cash in ABS. They were afraid someone would claim that amount as a tax deduction. Sometimes I would save the cash for several weeks rather than go get a money order each week. (Yeah, I just reported "no cash" on the blue form- bad bad twig coordinator) When that was questioned by the BC, I began to take the 50 cent Money order fee out of the cash ABS. sigh, no wonder I never had the abundant life while in TWI. It just seemed silly for me to use my own 50 cents to get a money order for sometimes as little as a $1.50.

oh come on...everyone knows it was by revelation....they both served the same god. Your job should you choose to accept it, is to decide which god.

I didn't know her, but ther is an accomplished bassist by that name at : http://hcd.hartford.edu/faculty/Powell.htm Graduated from Julliard in 74/75 so it seems the dates are right. I do remember TWI had a few Julliard trained violinists didn't they? VP tried to pass them off as fiddle players at the Grand Old Opry. :D I hope you find her Garth.

I am a little foggy on the details of the Buckstove thing, however..... The time frame was late 70s or very early 80s. It was suggested that Buck Stove franchises could be a great way to employ believers (installation paid well) I think it was the pellet stove rather than the later "corn stove" that was being pushed. Here in Colorado the Sta@da#es (Bill and some of the boys) had a franchise. I am not certain that either Rick or Jamie ever participated, but it does seem possible, mostly about Rick, as the time was right and he was around and ..... money making schemes was Rick's forte. I think Jamie was selling cars at the time, but it is possible he got involved too. At some point the Buckstove was marketed as Dovestoves. (wonder how they came up with that name :D ?) Carroll Buckner held the patents on several of the innovative stove designs, and has been successful and whupped several times in his career. A search of his name will reveal some disgruntled customers, but mostly he seems to try to make things right with them. I did meet him once, seemed a likeable fellow. Like many other successful businessmen recruited by TWI, I felt he was being used and abused, and he probably was.

9 in chat right now, who will make it 10?

people might need to try out Chat before they really want to be there. I had several warnings pop up trying to get in. First I got a thing from Firefox that said Meta 3 was not enabled. I deleted Viewpoint and that cleared that up. Then I got a few Unsigned or expired Certificate warnings- I said I didn't care about them. Once I got in I had a great time with Shell and then Gen2 :)

isn't that bar closing time over there?

PM, you silly Iwish wabbit.

take a break from Facebook?????? yeah, you bet......I will come. setting my cell phone reminder alarm now.

I am sure one of the several former TWI musicians who drop in here can clarify the Starship question. As several have mentioned there were a number of nationally recognized musicians and athletes who dropped in from time to time. Some like Gar@b*^di are icons in their field. Skip M recently passed away as was noted here at GSC I personally know one of the featured athletes in that 1980ish campaign, and I can assure you he was NOT paid for the use (or rather ABuse) of his name by TWI. As far as I know, Dave Br~b~ck was not himself involved with TWI, other than by way of love and attachment to his wonderful daughter. One of her corps family might stop here and verify. He did attend at least one day of a ROA, possibly about the time she graduated from the Corps, and I have a sweet pic of him sitting next to the leechmeister, VPW

I too am saddened by this news. My condolences to his kids (of whom he spoke proudly and often), and to Dooj, and his life-long friend Groucho.

this sucks...the already struggling Rockies offense lost Tulo for 6 weeks with a broken bone in his wrist. sigh.........

hmmm that is what we want...radioactive ocean currents. It would make night fishing easier, the creatures might glow in the dark. ;) In the movie with John Wayne...was it "Hellfighter's"? They set an explosive device shore 'nuf. But it was to blow out the FIRE so that the well could be capped wasn't it? The explosion did not close the well (as was seen when they all got black with the stuff. I knew a guy you thought he could fix his sewer clog with an M80....that wasn't a very good idea either.

Hey Lingo, I see it is your birthday today. I'll buy you a bottle of hooch, but you have to share it with Clay Jay. Make sure he gets half. greetings to you both

Lest we forget their names: ALISON KRAUSE JEFFREY MILLER SANDRA SCHEUER WILLIAM SCHROEDER

Roy- If you are referring to a song called "ship those ni-----s back" it was not Johnny Cash. The story has been making its way around the Internet for a long time, and recently went viral with a youtube or something. Cash never recorded that song. Most likely it was Johnny Rebel (aka Clifford Joseph Trahan) a white supremest country singer, but it most certainly was NOT Johnny Cash.

click on the number on the top right corner of the post (it is on the same line that the poster's name is located). a box pops up and has the link to that post which you can copy

"Tinfoil hat" guy is Pope Pius the 1st, I am so far lost as to the bold 29 on the right

so now this thread is open for posting solutions! Let's get it on! What is common to each of the pics Paw posted?

and Self Portrait is Dylan