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The phones have been ringing of the hooks this morning in the UT1992 family (across the US and around the world). It is official that my nephew (oldest brother's son) is being shipped out to Afganistan. My nephew called us this morning to break the news. Although we are all a solid military family, with family members having served in the military and/or seen action in every war/conflict since the civil war, it is still difficult news to hear. He told me told he was scared, but knows that it is his duty and that he is proud to serve....

Freeper Techies...need your help. As I may have mentioned in a previous post, I am technically challenged when it comes to computers. So hopefully someone can assist me. Is there something "wrong" with the internet today? I have been having problems all day with accessing internet sites; i.e. I keep getting "server taking too long to respond". Its odd. I can open FR, but can't pull up google.com or my work ISP to check email. I was able to listen to Rush with no problem on WLSAM.com via streaming radio(as it is the only station I can remember), however, I...

Ok Freepers, the following is for those Margaret Thatcher fans. I stumbled across the following speech in both audio and transcript of the speech Baroness Thatcher gave on March 9, 1996, at Westminster College (Fulton, MO) on the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech”. I had read the transcript of the speech before, but have never heard it in her own words. It is long but enjoyable to listen to and very relevant today.

Ok guys, need your assistance. As I've probably mentioned I am not very computer savey. I've started getting a stupid error message while on the net. It doesn't happen all the time, or on all websites; e.g. when I'm on FR I don't get it but do when I'm on other site such as LGF or RWN. The error message I'm getting is "A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug? Line: 10 Error: Object expected." It asks if I want to Debug and I hit yes and it starts going through motions, but then always stops when...

My fellow FR's, I didn't think I would ever do this, but I need your help. My dear brother, very best friend and mentor was diagnosed yesterday with testicular cancer which has spread into his stomach. He is 1.5 weeks shy of his 45th b-day. The phone rang last night about 10:45 and on the other end was my brother and he was crying. As I haven't seen/heard my brother crying since he was a kid I immediately thought somebody in the family had been in a terrible accident or had died. He finally told me that about the cancer...

Ok guys, this is my first post so please forgive any mistakes I make. I am wondering if any FR's could possibly recommend an Angel investor group or VC that is geared towards non-tech enterprises (still eCommerce, but not software development). Does anyone have experience in securing funding?