My grandmother had the radio through most of her life. My grandfather bought before WWII; she had her in kitchen, so when she cooked, she could listen to the music or announcement. My father told me that as kids they listen illegal broadcast BBC from London during WWII. What I know, this radio had two knobs on the either side, and middle there was tube with green color and we could adjust between stations. It was functional for years, because my grandmother listened to it well to the 1980's. Back prior TV, family sit by radio and listened to the broadcast. I think it was made by Phillips. If anyone in my family still has this radio in the attic or basement, it must be 80 years old.
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9The audio recorder days -- remember those 1950s luggable cases?
by FatFreek 2005 ini don't remember why they met at our new bedford, ma, tenement, a $5 weekly cold water flat.
mom took home some $37 per week and dad was disabled.
there were no food stamps, no ssi.
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The audio recorder days -- remember those 1950s luggable cases?
by FatFreek 2005 ini don't remember why they met at our new bedford, ma, tenement, a $5 weekly cold water flat.
mom took home some $37 per week and dad was disabled.
there were no food stamps, no ssi.
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Electronics was big and expensive at that time. I still remember we had TV on legs with a rabbit ears. My mom managed to brake the TV during vacuuming by knocking out one of the leg, and the TV crashed and broke. Also my grandmother had old radio. It was from 1920/30's or so and it was still functional in 1980's. There was registration sticker on it by German occupational force as back then it was required to register all radios. My mom still has the type recorder from 1900's. My great-great grandfather was a city lawyer and it been in our family for over 100 years. It is not functional, but my mom still has it at her study. I do no know what happens to that radio, but we threw the tape player out in the 1980's. We got cassette player, and I had my first walkman in mid 1980's. -
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The audio recorder days -- remember those 1950s luggable cases?
by FatFreek 2005 ini don't remember why they met at our new bedford, ma, tenement, a $5 weekly cold water flat.
mom took home some $37 per week and dad was disabled.
there were no food stamps, no ssi.
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Ouch, memory of the childhood. We had one audio case like this, in brown color, and it was heavy. My elder had two, because he was copying tapes all time. That thing was expensive. I think my dad paid two months of salary for it. -
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Cecil the Lion deserved what he got...That's right. I said it.
by cappytan inlions are notorious murderers of beautiful zebras, antelope and other graceful exotic animals.
cecil probably contributed to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of animals.
what happened to him was justice.. you reap what you sow.
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I am not knowledgeable of English laws, but poaching was crime in Czech lands since 14th century. It has to do for overall protection as overkill became a huge problem in medieval times and caused extension of many species in Bohemia (wolfs, European bison, lynx, bears, and elks). Poaching was also defined as hunt outside legally defined hunting season (Sept-Nov). Even wealthy noblemen were fined for violating laws until 1627. Fishing was also on permit where hundreds of ponds across Bohemia were publicly owned, often by municipality, not by manor or landlord. Poaching was problem, because it destroyed expected source of food in medieval times where fish was important staple diet. Again, laws were implemented to regulate and to benefit a greater community. Anti-poaching and forest preservation laws in Bohemia are actually one of the oldest legal documents in that country.
Yes, the lion was living in reserve and was lured out by bait out, so he could be hunted and killed.
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
annoying no?.
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Obligated is the word, and many countries you can be compliant to the crime by not reporting it. Regardless, JWs do not live in theocracy in their own world, but are subject and citizen of the respective country, and thus they must obey laws or face felony charges. There is no excuse. This has nothing to do with freedom of religion. Can you imagine if someone in AU would start to stone people because his or her religious conviction says so. Either way, he will be charged with a murder, and religious freedom nothing to do with it as it is criminal to stone people to death. While religious organization can handle the problem within their theocratic boundaries, but ultimately, JWs in AU are the subject of the laws of the country and not of the WT HQ. So anyone who shield rapists and enabled their behavior should be prosecuted. No excuse. -
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
annoying no?.
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The law enforcement and the AG should do thorough investigation followed by arresting and prosecuting real offenders and the people who shield them and protect them. I do not know what are the laws in AU, but the idea that any organization would shield child-rapists and enable their crime for years makes me disgusting. -
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Cecil the Lion deserved what he got...That's right. I said it.
by cappytan inlions are notorious murderers of beautiful zebras, antelope and other graceful exotic animals.
cecil probably contributed to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of animals.
what happened to him was justice.. you reap what you sow.
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What I have read, he returned to Minneapolis and published pictures from his kill within the USA. I think it was reported by MN Star Tribune. They also leaked the story that he had previous run with the law for poaching and killing bear outside approved region in WI, was fined for perjury by lying to Dept. of Interior, and had lawsuit by one of the female patient that he touched her in private parts during the dental procedure. I think more of the sh!t will be eventually reported. A guy, who claimed that he can shoot a card from dozens of feet in the air, and said that he could not see protective collar on the lion is lying. He knew what he was doing. The tormented the big cat for 40 hours or so, just for fun. As lover of big cat I hope he serves time for poaching in Zimbabwe. Poaching was crime in the medieval times, today, and will stay a crime in the future. The lion was living on reservation and they had lured him outside into the nature, which tells you that there are NOT many of them in the wild left. -
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Those aussie elders may escape repercussions after all....RC day 3
by Witness My Fury indamn those tricky state laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeg1omfumk 15:30 on.
annoying no?.
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In Czech Republic, castration is generally surgical, because is it prevents for men to have erection. Chemical castration was not effective, had side effects, and was costly. Surgical procedure takes two hours or so. It has been done since 1970's or even longer, and decades of the Czech crime statistics showed that was very effective. The biggest critics of this procedure is UK; Germany had never voiced criticism of it.
Similar procedure is also done in Poland. I am not sure on Slovakia since they are independent and have different laws and political structure than Czech Republic.
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Back again!!
by Sweetp0985 inback again since about 10yrs ago.
last year attended the international convention in new orleans and was feeling some type of way afterwards.
went to a couple of meetings and then the thrill was gone.
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I do not have urges to come back at all. I am out for 21 years, and I do not miss it. In first year, I felt bad for skipping memorial, but I realized that I am not the anointed so, the memorial does not associate with me as I do not partake. -
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JW Volunteer Who Died Translating Sign Language - How was he not missed for 48 hours??
by cultBgone inthis may have been discussed before, but this article just now popped up in my online search for "jw news": .
man at jehovah's witness facility died of natural causes.
does it not seem really, really strange that he would not have been missed all day saturday and sunday?
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He was lucky to be find after 48 hours. At my old KH we had elderly woman in her 60's who was not regular attendee, free thinker, but deeply spiritual. She dropped from the face of the Earth until months later DO visited and made a comment to look out for people who stopped to attend. In my KH nobody knew where she lived, but they had an general area of the neighborhood, where they find that this older lonely woman was not only dead (discovered by stench of body decay), but she was already buried at the city expenses... Nobody in my KH missed her for several months....