From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

muryan~Thank you, I haven't been around here as much but I'm still trying to post. Recently I've been caught up in "free styling" at local poetry hang outs.  It's been fun, the thrill of walking up to the stage and not knowing what you are going to say or talk about and then all of a sudden start "free styling" for minutes on end is such a natural high. <BR>
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I somewhat agree with what you said about whats been going on here lately. I mean these are KIDS we are talking about and even if they are writing utter crap it's still a call for help or a way for them to relieve themselves of whatever may be going on in their lives. We all forget how hard it is to be a kid in this day and age. I'm not saying they should post more of that stuff, I'm just saying that this is a love poetry website. The internet is a huge place, and if they really need to express themselves in that manner a love poetry website is not the place to do it. Sure we can sympathize and offer them help, but that does not mean we should have to read about it. There is a difference between posting on the board and asking for personal advice and posting on the latest submissions page and begging for attention.<BR>
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My 2 cents<BR>
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-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

gala - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.02.04.18294">Say No...a fictional Exhange</a> - mmmm. Why are such things lost to fiction?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Sister Gala; Oh yes, you tempt the senses with that one woman, very nice one.<BR>
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John; I agree with you, I do have compassion for these people but this is not the time nor place just as you say. Professional help is needed and that I know I'm not capable of anything other than an opinion and all it is is DON"T, STOP, RUN, Get Away from anything that would hurt you, and GET HELP if you want to hurt yourself. SURVIVAL is everything! Every two and one half days the moon arrives up in another phase, everything changes and you might just like the new cosmic air. <BR>
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John I really liked your last piece. It was wonderful.<BR>
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Chances; I loved Tarzan, your writing and the shows ha. Sorry it's 5am and I'm still half asleep or I would get the link codes. <BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Misti Wench! So glad to see you again woman...and you have been missed, Chica...<BR>
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I know my last post was not precisely poetry...but I was feeling a might perverse...<BR>
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Thanks guys...for putting up with my flitting...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Wait a minute, Misti ~ I totally missed that post about Tim Robbins until this morning! I can't believe you met him. He is my god of literature. Any chance you got a photo with him? I am truly envious ;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1040">empyrean</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Gala - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.02.04.18294">Say No...a fictional Exhange</a> ... This is sensational :-) "How the hell did you say no, when every part of you was giddy with a yes?".... *sigh*<BR>
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Ladyinwaiting - Thanks for your thoughts.  I am getting there.<BR>
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~empy~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1050">Kase</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

SCQueen-- Is the work force sucking the life out of you?  lol  Haven't seen you name in a while.  I'm planning to go to Charleston in a few weeks...want me to send you a South Carolina seashell?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1038">blue</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

ad
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1038">blue</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

<BR>
COURTESY-NASA<BR>
<BR>
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR ALL OF YOU IN HERE. <BR>
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.<BR>
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.<BR>
<BR>
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Greenhouse effect<BR>
&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;<BR>
The warming of an atmosphere by its absorbing and reemitting infrared radiation while allowing short wave radiation to pass on through. Certain gaseous components of the atmosphere, called greenhouse gases, transmit the visible portion of solar radiation but absorb specific spectral bands of thermal radiation emitted by the Earth. The theory is that terrain absorbs radiation, heats up, and emits longer wavelength thermal radiation that is prevented from escaping into space by the blanket of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As a result, the climate warms. Because atmospheric and oceanic circulations play a central role in the climate of the Earth, improving our knowledge about their interaction becomes essential.<BR>
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Greenhouse gas<BR>
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A gaseous component of the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse gases are transparent to certain wavelengths of the sun's radiant energy, allowing them to penetrate deep into the atmosphere or all the way into the Earth's surface. Greenhouse gases and clouds prevent some of infrared radiation from escaping, trapping the heat near the Earth's surface where it warms the lower atmosphere. Alteration of this natural barrier of atmospheric gases can raise or lower the mean global temperature of the Earth. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and water vapour. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have significant natural and human sources while only industries produce chlorofluorocarbons. Water vapour has the largest greenhouse effect, but its concentration in the troposphere is determined within the climate system. Water vapour will increase in response to global warming, which in turn may further enhance global warming.<BR>
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Geographic Information System (GIS)<BR>
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A system for archiving, retrieving, and manipulating data that has been stored and indexed according to the geographic coordinates of its elements. The system generally can utilize a variety of data types, such as imagery, maps. Table, etc.<BR>
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Global positioning system (GPS)<BR>
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A system consisting of 25 satellites in 6 orbital planes at 20,000 km altitude with 12 hr periods, used to provide highly precise position, velocity and time information to users anywhere on Earth or in its neighborhood at any time.<BR>
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Bandwidth<BR>
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Biosphere<BR>
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Blackbody<BR>
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Climate Change<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Gala.  Wow!  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.02.04.18294">Say No...a fictional Exhange</a> Fictional?  Yeah, right, uh-huh.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Blue's antics = proof that Kirk is AWOL for most of the month...<BR>
<BR>
I mean, these kids get slammed for being, well, KIDS, and this dude gets to ramble on about atmospheric science with impunity. Go figure.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

sush~ you missed something along the way that others didn't. Do you ALWAYS go adding fuel to a fire before you know what's actually burning? ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Fine. Tell me what I missed then.<BR>
<BR>
Sheesh.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

&lt;doesn't think he missed ANYTHING&gt;
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Well for one Blue's not cutting himself or too young to be trying the things he's trying or saying he'd like to off himself.<BR>
<BR>
He's giving us valuable information that we all need to know. Granted Blue it's not love related but somehow I think it is...ha (strange I know but it is)<BR>
<BR>
Misti; I meant to say welcome back this morning too. Hope you will come plant some poetry.<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

(lays out chopsticks ... pours sake ... lights candles ... listens to ocean waves ... gets out Little Book of Zen wisdoms but can't find addy of enlightenment there ....)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Translation: Blue's in the Club. Who says cliques die out after high school?<BR>
<BR>
-SUSH, outsider & iconoclast
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

(.... sends sush back to the rice p'addy to learn how to translate :)) 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=911">Inflatable Sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.15.46.18218">Tao of SUSH</a> What part of "Blah blah blah blah blah" did you NOT understand?  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1176">aparajita</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

wow!!!  a girl goes away for a week and topsy-turvy goes the board....  again.  *groan*<BR>
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pam...  i am so sorry to hear of the tragedy for your family.  death at any age is tough, but especially of the young.  i will be praying for your son and all the related family and friends.  facing times like that, as lady so eloquently pointed out, gives perspective to so much in life.  i have been a hospice nurse much of my career and there is no way to describe the loss of a child.  even greater than my fear of dentists and things that sting is my fear of losing my daughter.  my deepest sympathy to you and yours and his.<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1176">aparajita</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

sushi...  you make me laugh out loud!!!  you are wickedly funny and deliciously clever.  i loved and absolutely basked in <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.08.32.28328">A Case Of The Blahs</a>!  how could you have captured my day so perfectly???  thanks for the laughter *tugs on ear, with a wink and a grin*<BR>
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jon...  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.31.01.24.30130">slice of life</a> made me smile and dream and hope.  i am glad she is home and even more glad for her that she has such a wonderful man that can express so much.<BR>
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gala...<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.02.04.18294">Say No...a fictional Exhange</a> left me breathless, i love it when a man convinces me to say yes to that which i had wanted all along (at least as far as memory serves i loved it).<BR>
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lady...  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.26.18.58.5904">A Moments Passion</a> girlfriend, as usual, you are on a roll!!  loved this psychedelic flashback.  you go girl!!  i am so happy that life is treating you well.<BR>
by the way, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.24.08.43.28475">Lost Control</a> was just way too cute.  you are also a clever one.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

aparajita--<BR>
Thanks! I would have to agree with you... Now, what was that about...Blah? I think I'm hearing voices again.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

I have lived on the lip<BR>
Of insanity, wanting to know<BR>
the reasons,<BR>
Knocking on the door. It opens.<BR>
I've been knocking from the inside<BR>
<BR>
Rumi
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

aparajita~ :D, you are so right. (hopefully taking this another direction) Sush is a great writer. I want to be the next president (afraid to ask what happened to the first) of his literary fan club. Oh, Tao-etically, I want to have my coin ready at his Gate as I enter his stephen kingish mist ..... love, Eurydice 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Hey Sush; You pull so many trips on us, but if you really wrote this it's absolutely beautiful and the best thing I have seen of yours yet! <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.01.17.58.27104">The Turquoise Trader's Wife: a Letter</a> <BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">Cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

To the Blender Board....Enjoy!<BR>
Some people have too much time on their hands, but I must admit,<BR>
this is kind of fun.<BR>
Wait for the entire screen to load up with all four horses and a fence<BR>
in front of them. Then click on each horse. Make sure your sound is on.<BR>
Re-click on any horse to make it turn off or turn it back on again. Somebody<BR>
did<BR>
some real wizardry of programming to coordinate this! Try clicking on the<BR>
horses from left to right then right to left then just one or two at a<BR>
time...<BR>
<BR>
Go to this site...<BR>
<a href="http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf">http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf</a><BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

I call bullshit. Indeffensible Sush is right. Blue is a huge annoyance with his/her off topic posts. Giving us "valuable information"?! Hell, he's/she's IMPOSING it on us, though I don't read it, it's still a waste of space that Kirk pays for. Blue is a sick puppy in need of some attention, not unlike the teenagers I've been commenting upon. I was hoping if Blue was ignored, he'd/she'd go away. He/she probably will.<BR>
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Happy Sunday<BR>
<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

teej~ kirk should be able to deal with that copyright infringement on NASA issue easy enough ... was another issue we were making comments on ... sorry something wasn't more clear on that ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

If you do recall teej, sush himself has spammed us with more than his share of infantile crap. This if you read it is something we could at the very least learn from ha. And Rennie is right the point was something entirely different.(it acutally sits on top of sush's head)hahahahah (We do love you Sush or we wouldn't pick on you.)<BR>
<BR>
bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Kase ~ Hi! Yes, my job keeps me too busy for computer time anymore. I just got back from Charleston a few weeks ago! My roomate from college got married there and honeymooned with my family on Edisto Island. It was a wonderful trip. I also have read bits and pieces about your health and am sending well wishes your way. Take care and get better :-) and thanks for saying hello!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=911">Inflatable Sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

BK~  Just be sure to get your Sushi's straight.  There is the "Inflatable" one (the original) and the "Indefensible" one (the copycat, or fake).  "Indefensible" is some friend or acquaintence of the original Sushi...just be sure your notice which one your are writing.  Two seperate peoples...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Teej.,Sushi, yeah you guys are my heroes....<BR>
<BR>
~~~remember, "DO NOT fry bacon in the morning w/out wearing pajamma tops...."<BR>
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love <BR>
bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 1 June 2003<P>

Thanks, BK! Yes, I actually did write it. Several months ago...absorbed it thru the car window and finally decided to write it down. And, yes, we love you too. ;) Now...two different sushi? Hmm. Well, there does seem to be a marked difference in the quality of writing between them (one posts original material, the other appears to find things on the Net and post them as original material), but I dunno...I wouldn't make much of it. To paraphrase some Famous Dead White Male: "Sushi is sushi is sushi."
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