Looks like Dennis the menace is schedule to visit the Florida
Panhandle and surrounding area.  Hope everyone is safe and will be
safe as the storm moves inland.  Good luck thoughts and prayers are
with you especially after the hurricane season you had last year and

Hi Gang,
First a short update.  Dad is still doing well at the retirement
center.  Niki is healing well from her fall.  I haven't gotten her back
to respite yet, but hope that will happen soon.

I decided I needed some cheering up, so I borrowed a gimpfest photo,
and well:
http://thedunktank.com/v.php?id=b8e4befbb79fa488a203763d887edb18
Hope you don't mind Joe, guess you won't, you'll be used to water

Man, every time I leave ASA for a period of time, when I come back I
find that we've lost another person that had given me good advice over
the years.  I just now, through looking back at posts, found out that
DonnaH passed away.  Lori V, BBay Larry, DonnaH, all great people that

My big dog (pound puppy) has suddenly become ill. Vet says something
wrong with the liver, could be minor could be worse...please pray for
my sweet buddy Smokey

The very software that is supposed to protect you often has flaws.
A study from Yankee Group found that the number of holes and
other vulnerabilities in anti-virus or firewall programs nearly
doubled in 2004 and is on track to increase 50% this year.

NuVasive, a medical device manufacturer developing
products for minimally invasive surgical treatments for
the spine, said that it had filed for an investigational
device exemption of its CERPASS cervical Total Disc

I was thinking about this group over the weekend, and is it just me or are
there more people missing than usual?  There were a few in particular I
wondered about, but thought maybe a general roll call might be in order.
I'd love to be able to breathe a sigh of relief for those ...

This was posted in another NG, but I think it worthwhile posting here
for UPSA members to see.
http://www.cnhw.co.uk/ice.cfm
I think it's a great idea.

Marold.........
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/food/features/12071/index.html
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Andy

Hi Cooley,,,,  I am sooo sorry to say that I had a mental fart when thinking
of where Missouri City is.   It is not down my road at all.
It is where my youngest son used to live down highway 59 which your daughter
is going to drive each day to get to the zoo unless she uses ...

I've added the pictures Steven took while on the Jet Boat trip up the Rogue
River from Gold Beach.  I wish I'd sent him with a better camera!
http://tinyurl.com/7bhy8
Jo

"No wonder Johnny can't read," e-mails a reader.
His 11th-grader's report card arrived in the mail.
It bore the following instructions for opening:
       FOLD AMD TEAR HEAR

 Dr. Bill Treiger, a ret ired obstetrician. is recovering
from surgery.
 On Monday he was assigned a nde nurse, Cheryl
Patterson, who immediately recognized the patient's