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Forgive me, Bob and listeners. I'm having some problems with my equipment and a few items are complicating things on the home front.

Bob, thanks so much for clarifying things about the pigeons. I think often, that doves and pigeons get confused as well. My mom was the real bird watcher in our family, and here in Florida the birds are of the exotic type mostly.

Any information that our listeners would like to phone in or discuss would be most welcome.

It is really dark and ominous at this moment in my little world, and I am thinking about the weather and the war. Let's hear a little soothing music, folks:




I Came So Far For Beauty
Leonard Cohen
I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned
I thought I'd be rewarded
For such a lonely choice
And surely she would answer
To such a very hopeless voice
I practiced all my sainthood
I gave to one and all
But the rumours of my virtue
They moved her not at all
I changed my style to silver
I changed my clothed to black
And where I would surrender
Now I would attack
I stormed the old casino
For the money and the flesh
And I myself decided
What was rotten and what was fresh
And men to do my bidding
And broken bones to teach
The value of my pardon
The shadow of my reach
But no, I could not touch her
With such a heavy hand
Her star beyond my order
Her nakedness unmanned
I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned

While I can, folks. I will say goodnight.

guide me safely through the night; wake me with the morning light.


from Letty with love

a song for all who are troubled, and esspecially for shewolf, who is having her own tough times


Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel

When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side. When times get rough
And friends just can't be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

When you're down and out,
When you're on the street,
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you.
I'll take your part.
When darkness comes
And pain is all around,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Sail on silvergirl,
Sail on by.
Your time has come to shine.
All your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine.
If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.

Nice thought, djjd; here is another onr for shewolfnm.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you don't let show

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

L

Gogi Grant, one of the premier singers of the 50's and 60's, was born in Philadelphia, Sptember 20, 1924. She moved to Los Angeles, California with her parents and three siblings in 1936, where her youngest brother and sister were born.

Gogi began her singing career in 1952 as Audrey Brown, renamed Gogi Grant by RCA-Victor executive Dave Kapp when she was signed to that label. Her efforts for RCA failed to chart, but she continued to perfom in night clubs and hotels throughout the country until 1955 when she signed with an independent record company called Era. Her first release for Era Records was "Suddenly There's A Valley," rising to number nine on the charts. "The Wayward Wind" was recorded in the last fifteen minutes of her next studio session and in June, 1956, it replaced Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" in the number one until July 28, when Presley's "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" took the spot. The All Music Book of Hit Singles ranks "The Wayward Wind" number 36 in the United states amongst thousands of recordings over a period of fifty years.

In 1956 Warner Bros. musical director Ray Heindorf and movie director Michael Curtiz selected Gogi to be the singing voice of Helen Morgan in the studio's biopic of the legendary singer, starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman. The soundtrack of "The Helen Morgan Story" led Gogi back to RCA Victor, who released the album to much acclaim.

Between 1956 and 1970 Grant made some fifteen albums.

Until her retirement in 1967, she appeared steadily in night clubs, hotels, and concert halls, and scored of T.V. shows, including three guest solos on the Academy Awards presentations.

Following a twenty year absence, Gogi Grant returned to the music field to these reviews:

"Clearly a singer whose velvety tones were not diminished by her extended layoff."

Los Angeles Times


"...the power and beauty of a voice that is still magnificent."

Daily News


"Ms. Grant was in powerful voice, belting out hits like a woman of thirty."

London Times


Variety called her "an American Piaf," and the Los Angeles Times said, "The passage of time has enhanced her talent."

Los Angels continues to be home to Gogi Grant, who enjoys cooking and tennis, and precious time with her two children, family and friends.

http://www.gogigrant.com/Gogibio.html

the wayward wind

written by Herb Newman and Stan Lebowsky

Oh, the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

In a lonely shack by a railroad track
He spent his younger days
And I guess the sound of the outward bound
Made him a slave to his wand'rin ways

Oh, the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

Oh, I met him there in a border town
He vowed we'd never part
Tho' he tried his best to settle down
Now I'm alone with a broken heart

Oh, the wayward wind is a restless wind
A restless wind that yearns to wander
And he was born the next of kin
The next of kin to the wayward wind

The next of kin to the wayward wind

Sophia Loren
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is considered to be the most famous Italian actress of all time.

She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Italy, the illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Riccardo Scicolone and grew up in poverty in wartime Pozzuoli near Naples.

Loren began her film career in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but she had an early brush with Hollywood in 1951 when she and her mother worked as extras in the blockbuster Quo Vadis, which was filmed in Rome. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the fotoromanzi (weekly illustrated romantic stories) billed as "Sofia Villani" or "Sofia Lazzaro' and took part in regional beauty contests, were she won several prizes and was discovered by her future husband, the much older film producer Carlo Ponti, whom she married on September 17, 1957, 3 days before her 23rd birthday. They would have 2 sons together, Carlo Ponti, Jr., and Edouardo Ponti.

Under Ponti's management, Sofia Scicolone changed her name to Sophia Loren and, after more early film roles that emphasized her voluptuous physique (she even appeared topless in the films Two Nights with Cleopatra and It's Him, Yes! Yes!), her acting career took off upon meeting Vittorio De Sica and Marcello Mastroianni in 1954.

By the second half of the 1950s, her star began to rise in Hollywood, with films such as 1957's Boy on a Dolphin and The Pride and the Passion,(in which she co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant, the latter to whom she became romantically attracted for a time). Loren became an international film star with a five-picture contract with Paramount Studios. Among her films at this time: Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins (based upon the Eugene O'Neill play), Houseboat (a romantic comedy again co-starring Cary Grant), and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).

Loren demonstrated considerable dramatic skills and gained respect as a dramatic and comedy actress, especially in Italian projects where she more freely expressed herself, although she gained profiency in the English language. In 1960, her acclaimed performance in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women earned her a multitude of awards and, along with the Cannes, Venezia and Berlin festivals' best performance prizes, the distinction of being the first actor to win a major category Academy Award (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.

Belying the typical portrayal of the beautiful actress as vacuous and emptyheaded, Loren was known for her sharp wit and insight. One of her most frequently-quoted sayings is her quip on her diet, "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti."

During the 1960s Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make popular films in both America and in Europe, acting with all the leading male stars of the time. In 1964 her career came, to an effect, full circle when she received $1 million to join the all-star cast of The Fall of the Roman Empire, directed by the same man who had directed Quo Vadis early in her career. Some of her best-known films of this period are Peter Ustinov's Lady L with Paul Newman, Charles Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando, and The Millionairess with Peter Sellers, with whom she recorded a best-selling album of comedic songs and also reportedly from whom she had to fend off romantic advances.

After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowed down and Loren moved into her 40s and 50s with acclaimed roles in films such as the last De Sica movie, The Voyage, with Richard Burton and Ettore Scola's A Special Day with Mastroianni.

In 1980, she had the rare privilege of portraying herself (as well as her own mother) in a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography bestseller Sophia: Living and Loving titled Sophia Loren: Her Own Story. (Rita Brown and Chiara Ferrari played younger versions of the actress. She made headlines in 1982 when she served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy on tax evasion charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity.

In her 60s, Loren was selective in her films and ventured into various areas of business (cook books, eyewear, jewelery and perfume - Loren was the first movie star to launch a personal fragrance) but made very well-received appearances in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear and the 1994 comedy Grumpier Old Men playing a femme fatale opposite Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.

In 1991, Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world cinema and was declared "one of the world cinema's treasures".

Sophia Loren was portrayed by Sonia Aquino in the 2004 biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, as well as by Silvia Vrij in a 1980 film entitled Dirty Picture.


Notes

* Received an Oscar for Best Actress for the 1960 film Two Women.
* Often appeared in film with Marcello Mastroianni
* Her childhood nickname: "Toothpick"
* Other notable film roles were: Jimena (Charlton Heston's love interest) in El Cid; Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire with Alec Guinness; and Aldonza/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha with Peter O'Toole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Loren

DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
Born: 9/20/1928
Birthplace: New York City


DR. JOYCE BROTHERS recounts how Joyce demonstrated a photographic memory at an early age. She received her bachelor's with honors from Cornell in 1947. A week after she received her Master's from Columbia in 1949, she married. And the summer after she received her Ph.D., she gave birth to her daughter Lisa. She quit her teaching job to stay home with her baby. The family was living on her husband's' medical resident salary of $50 a month. Joyce decided to appear on a TV quiz show to win needed money. She was accepted on the $64,000 QUESTION as a female psychologist who was an expert on boxing. She memorized a boxing encyclopedia and appeared on air for five weeks to answer every question, winning the $64,0000 jackpot and gaining instant celebrity. She went on to win the $64,000 CHALLENGE. With more than $130,000, Dr. Joyce Brothers was one of the biggest winners in quiz show history. In 1959, scandal struck and Joyce was asked to appear before a grand jury to answer questions about quiz-show fixes. After five hours of questioning, she was cleared of any wrongdoing.

BIOGRAPHY: DR. JOYCE BROTHERS tells how the young psychologist went on to become a nationally recognized sensation. Her pioneering TV shows about love, marriage, sex and child rearing ran for twenty-one years. She also offered advice in a syndicated daily newspaper column, a monthly column in Good Housekeeping and a daily radio call-in program. Over the years she has published seven books, two of which became best sellers.

http://www.biography.com

Red Auerbach
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (born September 20, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is president of basketball operations for the Boston Celtics, an NBA basketball team, and was its coach from 1950 to 1966, including a stretch from 1959 to 1966 when the Celtics won eight straight NBA championships. During his twenty years as a coach, he won 938 regular season games, a record that would stand until Lenny Wilkens broke it in the 1994-95 season. Auerbach holds the record for the most NBA championship rings as a coach with nine. This record has been tied by Phil Jackson of the Los Angeles Lakers. He also won the NBA Executive of the Year award with the Celtics in the 1979-1980 season. Auerbach remains the best-known NBA executive, and was named the greatest coach in the history of the NBA by the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America in 1980. Prior to coaching in the NBA, Auerbach was an assistant coach at Duke University.

Red Auerbach is still working with youngsters, coaching at the Red Auerbach Basketball School.

In recent years, Auerbach has been in and out of hospitals for unspecified health problems. (Auerbach's family has requested that information on his condition not be released.) In the summer of 2005, he was unable to attend his own basketball camp and in September, he was hospitalized again. He is getting better though as of September 19th, 2005 and should be released from the hospital soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Auerbach

Good morning WA2K radio.

First, I would like to thank dj and Diane for playing music that stimulates the soul and gives hope to those in times of trouble.

It seems that shewolfen and her family are experiencing some difficult times, and having read through her journal of problems, I can certainly understand why, listeners. Although we can do nothing more than offer encouragement, that, I think, can be helpful.

Well, here's our Boston Bob with his daily bio bits. I am particularly fascinated with Dr. Joyce Brothers' credentials, as I have always wondered about photographic memory. There's another name for it, folks, but I can't recall it at the moment. Perhaps one of our listeners can.

I also recall Gogi Grant, and especially that one song. Thanks. Boston.

Back later after some hot liquid. <smile>

Good day WA2K:

Today's birthdays:

1599 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
1842 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)
1853 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (d. 1944)
1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer and politician (d. 1968)
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1917 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and
executive
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 - Gogi Grant, American singer
1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1927 - Rachel Roberts, English actress (d. 1980)
1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
1929 - Anne Meara, American comic and actress
1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1947 - Chuck Panozzo, American musician (Styx)
1948 - George R. R. Martin, American writer
1951 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian hockey player
1956 - Gary Cole, American actor
1965 - Robert Rusler, American actor
1967 - Kristen Johnston, American actress
1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1971 - Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress and singer
1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
1978 - Jason Bay, Canadian Major League Baseball player
1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player

There's our Raggedy, listeners. Thanks, gal, for the celeb updates. I also saw that today is Peter White's birthday, and I did some research on him as I became interested. That particular search led me to George Benson, and I was surprised to find this song among his greatest hits:


(harry warren, mack gordon)

This is our last dance together,
Tonight soon will be long ago.
And in our moment of parting,
This is all I want you to know...

There will be many other nights like this,
And I'll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing,
Another fall...another spring...
But there will never be another you.

There will be other lips that I may kiss,
But they won't thrill me,
Like yours used to do.
Yes, I may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be another you?

~interlude~

Yes, I may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be...
Another you?

I also found the term for photographic memory which is "eidetic". More about that later, listeners, and a brief review of Peter White.

Oh no! They're running out of names. Maybe they can borrow some of ours. Hmmm -- how about Hurricane Boston Bob.

Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names

Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Mon Sep 19, 1:00 PM ET

Before the 2005 hurricane season is done, you might read about Hurricane Alpha.


Each year, 21 common names are reserved for Atlantic Basin hurricanes, with the list arranged alphabetically and skipping certain letters. Rita is the 17th named storm in the Atlantic Basin this year. There are only four left.

So what will officials do after tropical storm Wilma develops, assuming it does?

"We go to the Greek alphabet," said Frank Lepore, spokesman for the
National Hurricane Center.

This gives the
World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the
United Nations agency responsible for choosing hurricane names, 24 more names to work with, from Alpha to Omega, and including such names as Omicron and Upsilon.

Could happen

"The August update to Atlantic hurricane season outlook called for 18 to 21, so I would hope it doesn't go any higher than that, but it's a possibility," Lepore said.

The naming of Hurricanes has a long and interesting history. For many centuries, hurricanes in the West Indies were named after particular Catholic saint's days on which they occurred. Hurricane "San Felipe" struck Puerto Rico on September 13, 1876. When another hurricane struck Puerto Rico on the same day more than fifty years later, it was christianed "San Felipe the second."

Later, latitude-longitude positions were used, but this method quickly proved cumbersome.

Military weather forecasters began giving women's names to significant storms during WWII, then in 1950 the WMO agreed to an alphabetical naming system, using the military's radio code. The first named Atlantic hurricane was Able in 1950.

Name change

Officials soon realized the naming convention would cause problems in the history books if more than one powerful Hurricane Able made landfall. So, in 1953 the organization adopted a rotating series of women's names, planning to retire names of significant storms.

Feminists urged the WMO to add men's names, which was done in 1979. The boy-girl-boy-girl naming convention evolved to include French and Spanish names in the Atlantic system, reflecting the languages of the nations affected by Carribean hurricanes.

The twenty-one names reserved each year (the letters q, u, x, y and z are not used) are recycled every six years, minus those retired (such as Hugo and Andrew and, you can bet, Katrina). When a name is retired, the WMO chooses a new name to replace it.

The year with the most documented tropical storms was 1933, when there were 21 in the Atlantic Basin, but this was before hurricanes were routinely named.

Some studies have suggested that global warming may be causing increases in hurricane intensity and frequency, but many scientists are skeptical.

Bio Boston Bob would really give the prognosticators a fit, right, Robert?<smile>

Can you imagine what ramifications would occur should they begin with Alpha?

" I am the Alpha and Omega." UhOh, listeners.

Now for a little techie talk:

If this info doesn't work here, I'll take it to another station.

Does it change things to make another site your home page? Or does uninstalling ZoneAlarm make a difference to one's pc?

Well, the following song is perfect, because I don't understand either:

O-Zone song.

Crede-ma, ce-am pastrat in suflet
Este numai, numai pentru tine
Am gresit, stiu, dar iarta-ma iubito
Vreau din nou sa crezi in mine
Stiu ca te-a ranit
Stiu ca fara mine mult ai suferit
Dar crede-ma, n-a fost nici o clipa sa nu te fi iubit.




Crede-ma,
O lume va sti
Ca viata mea e in tine
Crede-ma,
Oricat vei iubi
Nu vei iubi ca mine.

Nu mai rezist, simt ca te pierd
Si totul plange in mine
Nu vreau nimic, doar sa ma petreci
In lumea fara tine.

Crede-ma ca luna de pe cer va fi numai, numai a ta
Si crede-ma, in lumea toata doar eu iti voi da toata viata mea
Crede-ma, soarele pe cer va luci numai, numai pentru tine
Si crede-ma, vreau sa crezi in mine!

In visurile mele te voi iubi cand vei lipsi,
In gandurile mele doar tu vei fi cand voi muri.
arta-ma, iubeste-ma
Crede-ma,
Oricat vei iubi
Nu vei iubi ca mine

Perhaps, with Francis on holiday, Walter will take a try at that one, folks.

Hi Letty, just dropped in to say hello. ehbeth sent me an email wondering if I was okay…I didn't know I was missed. I have been enjoying the summer…be back later on my friend :wink:

This year's fast-forming hurricanes buck trend, puzzle meteorologists

By Robert Nolin
Staff Writer
Posted September 20 2005

This year, hurricanes just aren't acting like they used to.

The major storms are bucking traditional patterns by forming in the western, rather than eastern, Atlantic Ocean. Instead of taunting worried residents for days, they materialize, it seems, overnight.


The trend has baffled scientists and ratcheted up panic levels for South Floridians.

"It's crazy," said Robin Wagner, 45, of Hollywood. "They come so quick. With Katrina, before we knew it, it was on us."

Hurricane Katrina swept through Broward and Miami-Dade counties last month as a Category 1 storm -- a scant two days after developing in the Caribbean. Storms typically come to life in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, often near Cape Verde, then pinwheel westward for several days, their ultimate course studied with dread speculation by those in its path.

This year's nine hurricanes have formed west of 55 degrees longitude, said meteorologist Jim Lushine of the National Weather Service in Miami-Dade County. Rita, for example, was but a soggy blob hardly worthy of notice on Saturday night. Sunday morning, it was a threat.

A speedy arrival can bedevil nervous homeowners, but overall it's a good thing.

"By forming farther west, they don't have quite the potential for strength as if they came all the way across" the ocean, Lushine said. "It hasn't had enough time to build up."

Hurricanes feed on warm water, but West Atlantic storms don't stick around long enough to be energized by the Caribbean's tepid currents. Like Katrina -- and Rita's expected track -- they can brush by or through Florida as weaklings, then spin into the Gulf of Mexico and bulk up into highly destructive Category 4 or 5 storms.

Why this season's storms are appearing so far west is a matter of speculation for forecasters.

Chris Landsea, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade, said, "It's not something we predicted, and I'm not sure it's something we can anticipate way in advance."

One comparable year was 1969, Landsea said, when 10 of 12 hurricanes formed west of 55 degrees longitude.

The ingredients needed for a hurricane -- warm water, an unstable atmosphere and lack of wind shear -- have been present in the western, not eastern, Atlantic this year. "Why further west? We don't know," Landsea said.

It might have to do with the dusty Sahara, said Stanley Goldenberg, a meteorologist with the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Key Biscayne. Dry air from the massive African desert could have blown out over the eastern Atlantic.

"Those outbreaks of dry air can tend to inhibit hurricane formation," Goldenberg said. A predominant atmospheric trough could also make conditions unfavorable for storm development in the eastern ocean. But that doesn't translate into fewer storms, Goldenberg cautioned.

"Even though they're not developing there, you still have this energy, and they're going to develop one way or another," he said.

Still, the appearance of an "instant hurricane" can unnerve homeowners used to having days to prepare.

"It makes people frantic," said Holly Markert, 28, a county employee from Fort Lauderdale. "We need more notice than this."

Besides compressing prep time, pop-up storms mean supplies come up short because stores don't have time to re-stock. More residents in the target zone lack the goods they need to endure floods or power outages.

"All of a sudden, all you've got is a day to prepare," complained Del Dacks, 37, of Fort Lauderdale. Broward emergency manager Tony Carper said:"Anytime you have less time to react and operationally to respond, it's a problem."

Not for Doreen Gargano, 61, who has a home in Fort Lauderdale and a boat in Islamorada.

"Once it's coming, you're moving quickly, you don't have time to think about it," she said. "When you watch it for days and days, I think it's really more nerve-racking."

Staff Writer Buddy Nevins contributed to this report.

colorbook. How wonderful to see you back in our studios. We were truly concerned. (even Gus)

Color us happy listeners and a big thanks to our ehBeth for getting in touch.

How about a welcome back song for our C.B. <smile>

Perhaps another station is needed, or certainly more information.

"Does it change things to make another site your home page?" Why, yes ... it will make the new site your home page. That changes things, don't you think? Or perhaps I didn't understand the thurst of your question ....

"Or does uninstalling ZoneAlarm make a difference to one's pc?" Same problem here ... yes it makes a difference, and if you don't have another firewall installed, it could make a big difference. The software firewall is good protection from Internet nasties. ZoneAlarm is generally thought highly of, I believe.

If I were Not a Rainbow Girl...

If I were not a Rainbow Girl as happy as can be,
If I were not a Rainbow Girl a... motorcycle driver I would be
Got my helmet, Got my goggles, Ride baby Ride
Got my helmet, Got my goggles, Ride baby Ride

If I were not a Rainbow Girl as happy as can be,
If I were not a Rainbow Girl a... Life Guard I would be
Save one here, Save one there, Oops that one drowned
Save one here, Save one there, Oops that one drowned

If I were not a Rainbow Girl as happy as can be,
If I were not a Rainbow Girl a... Farmer I would be
Pick um here, pick um there, pick um, pick um everywhere
Pick um here, pick um there, pick um, pick um everywhere.

If I were not a Rainbow Girl as happy as can be,
If I were not a Rainbow Girl... I don't know what I would be.

Ah, Bob that is a perfect song for our color us happy girl. <smile> Thanks, BBB. Hee hee!

Tico, I lost my other report due to malfunction of the database, so I'll try and explain the problems later. Thanks, Mr. Cigar man.

She's a quicksilver girl
A lover of the world
She spreads her wings
And she's free

She's a quicksilver girl
A lover of the world
She's seen every branch
On the tree

Ah, ah, quicksilver girl
Ah, ah, quicksilver girl
Ah, ah, quicksilver girl
Ah, ah, quicksilver girl

Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh
If you need a little lovin'
She'll turn on the heat
If you take a fall
She'll put you back on your feet
If you're all alone
She's someone to meet
If you need someone

She's a quicksilver girl
A lover of the world
She spreads her wings
And she's free