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                            News & Entertainment Weekly   9-5-2005
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                                           Katrina Information Map
This a great site for hearing from Hurricane survivors and those looking for them.
This map is intended for the use of people affected by Hurricane Katrina
who have or are trying to find information about the status of specific locations affected by the
storm and its aftermath. Katrina Information Map - http://www.scipionus.com/

                            How they built the Katrina Information map
This is a Wired News interview with Jonathan Mendez & Greg Stoll who conceived
and created this great mapping tool of the nations worst natural disaster.

                                             Katrina Scams
Of course you want to give help for Katrina victims.
But don't get scammed. The Better Business Bureau has set up a Katrina Checklist web site.
If you have any questions about the charity, check here before you write the check.

                                            Bad Joke Monday
It was 18 years ago that the cellular phone was introduced.
Before that, drivers had to keep their hands busy with just a radio.

It's amazing how your kids stop coming back home
once they get their own washer and dryer

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                                          Instructions For Life
Gentle words fall lightly, but have great weight.

                          Quote Of The Week
He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny

                               Thoughts While Shaving

The National Football League first made the wearing of helmets mandatory in 1943.
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A choice is always possible, even without any options.
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A clear conscience is indicative of a faulty memory.
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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There are 6 pounds of pennies in the average American home.
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The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. Duncan
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All good things arrive to them that wait
and don't die in the meantime. Mark Twain
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Cut out all these exclamation points!
An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

                              Jokes That Go Over Like A Lead Balloon

Can you tell me why so many Civil War battles were fought in national parks?
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Do you have any books with photos of dinosaurs?
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I need to find out Ibid's first name for my bibliography
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How come we never hear any father-in-law jokes?

                  Montana Facts & Fun Service Tip Of The Week
Laugh! Laughter from whatever source is known to have healthful effects.
Finding humor in a problem means you are on the road to solving it.

                          Classics From The Capital City
"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything:
"I will try" has accomplished wonders. George P. Burnham
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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us,
but to call out our courage and strength. Anonymous
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There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which
lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles
up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving
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The aim of an argument or discussion
should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have
those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

                          Montana Facts&Fun Web Site Of The Week - Rand McNally
Like Mapqwest Only It's Rand McNally http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/road/rtgHome.jsp

                              Oh Thank You. Thank You, I needed to know this.
You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
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Life is like a mirror; we get the best results when we smile at it.

                                                    Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

                               O W I M (Oh Well It’s Monday)
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln
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People used to live lives of quiet desperation--now they go on TV talk shows
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Bumper Sticker: Honk if you love peace and quiet.

                     The Fortune Cookie
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking. Mencken

                    The Writer's Block
Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the
truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly,
honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine.
That's an honorable position. Salman Rushdie

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                                                The Final Word From Treebranch
How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented,
but just didn't have anything to jot it down on?

Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins
with All Fool's Day and ends with cries of "May Day!" ?
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion
to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their
chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi
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If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing
it like your wife told you to?
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler

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