I need something to help me understand the stock market. The ins & outs of buying and selling. Capital gains taxes and how to avoid them. When and how should one go about diversifying? I need a crash course. Mich

Checkout http://www.direct-stock-market.com which is a site that I helped build. And follow the links to a conference here on the Spring. Try and make your questions a bit less generic. Clay knows stock markets.

Generic? wow, I thought I was pretty specific. I guess I have more to learn than I thought. Thanks for the information.

Finding birth parents. Got a friend at work that I'm attempting to help. Already gone and got stuff off of alt.adoption.searching (I think that's right) WER

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I'm still looking for anything on Boulder, Colorado's STP Family (late 60s/early 70s commune, perhaps more infamous than famous). ANY information or comment welcome!

what is the STP Family???

I have little idea, only that they were like a commune of outcasts, heavy into drugs and with a certain proportion of Vietnam vets with psychological problems, which added to a curious mix, and many conflicts with society and the law. I learned about them in a documentaion about a coast-to-coast concert journey in late 60s, early 70s (NOT the Merry Panksters, though), where at one stop they showed up, which lead to a clash of cultures, resulting in some violence. On one side, the happy, easy hippy kids from middle class families, who can always go back (weed smokers), on the other hand people who have been kicked around and are now willing to escalate, because that's something they were trained to, and likely to, especially when on drugs (amphetamines). I would like to know more about this group - when they came together, how it ended. What happened inbetween. How public reactions were, what people say today. What music they liked, how they funded themselves. What the benefit and feeling was to be in this group, which seems to have been really tribal. You know, everybody writes about the memorable and nice things, the communities that worked (somehow), and good people. Nobody looks at the down-and-out, because they didn't contribute to an ideal, or to society... But didn't they? Isn't there perhaps something worthy to learn, even if only as "How Not to"-lesson? Maybe not acknowledging the dark sides of our Western societies is part of what causes so many problems... Maybe we need to learn more about things like this.

maybe so...

never actually read a book on the STP Family... just stories and recollections from people around here...

am still totally clueless about who they were (are?)

Oh Stacey, perhaps you would like to help me with this? I look for ANY information and/or contacts, comments, sources,... Wolf, they were drop-outs from society, cast-aways, like hippies minus the flower power, love and peace stuff. At least that's what I heard. Maybe a bit like a communard biker gang, and different drugs than hippies, too. The very antithesis to happy loving-caring hippy communities, but a proper alternative to established society nonetheless.

try this... (if you can't access it, I'll cut and paste some of it here... let me know... http://members.delphi.com/stpfamily/index.html

Thank you! Something about the murder case related to them - resolved decades later... http://www.boulderplanet.com/current/1998/040898/news/story1.html

The STP Family has found me.

is this a good thing?

Gonna see. Fella mailed me, he from the fambly, okeh? So he tell me, see the website. Did that before, tell him, too. He tell me, he did websearch "STP family" and something in a conference system came up wid mah name innit. Thaz how he's found me. Perhaps fella write article?

or come to chop yer head off... like Ree-head's threatened me!

She say, write article fer ya, and then come chop head off?

Huh?

huh?

Well, like that chap told me, said, mebbe him write piece about da fambly. Riette say, she write sumpdin? Then chop-chop?

*laugh* I get it now...

As they always tell me, better late 'n never, eh what!

I was only away for a couple of weeks and already I don't know what the hell is going on around here!!

*laugh* welcome back autumn!

All hell's broken loose since you left, Autumn, and you've ridden out the storm!

Woo-hoo!! I'm baaaaack, bay-bee!!! (spoken in my best Austin Powers voice)

Wow, you got that Austin Powers lingo down, baybeeeee!

I was friends with bishop (dead), LB, duffy, sal, gina (died of aids but had a decade clean before death - heard her at world convention 12-step program & exchanged letters for a while), knew deuty dawg (dead)& goldfinger but not friends. what I mean friends is that I didn't hang out or get fucked up with those 2. knew founder stp john a little, remember that day when he was killed & bishop avenged him, a very sad day for some of us. who wrote that shit about them & amphetamines? I was a boulder speed-freak but those guys did everything in the world BUT speed. did a lot of shit with those guys but never once shot speed with one of them & I knew all the other speedfreaks. spent time in boulder county jail at different times with wheatgerm, duffy, sal & little brother. whoever said about "amphetamines" never hung out or lived with them I garrantee you. they stayed in my attic rooms on 14th st. sometimes. they were the kind of people who you could trust your life with, to watch your back.

I am not familiar with that book...