hi sandy! i totally feel your "pain." frost is a marbled bengal. my late sarge was also. high energy cats! you can occasionally find one with personality quirks that some people can't deal with (ie, preferring to use water sources for bathroom duties). generation could make the difference between not a lap cat and a lap cat. sarge was a total lover and glued to me at all times. frost refuses to be picked up but you better sit down and pay attention to her when she tells you! she is very vocal while sarge was only vocal when i went to bed or was gone. he carried my red sock around in his mouth and mrawed awhile. there are a lot of bengals in rescues just like other purebreds, as well as retired breeders. from the bengal rescue website: "Often, people want a Bengal solely because of its exotic looks, not aware that its active and dominating personality could be completely opposite from what they want!" active and dominating? oh yeah! sarge made my old man's life miserable, poor old guy was always on edge. frost drove him insane wanting attention and when he wouldn't give it to her, she would attack him. sarge and frost had a remarkable bond, however. rescue for our region is http://www.greatlakesbengalrescue.com/ i want to be a foster so bad, but dh has a problem with that. Here is a link that might be useful: bengal rescue

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I can't recall where I saw a similar problem but it concerned a capacitor in the power supply. In my experience I have also seen where a fusible resistor just needed replacing. I don't know how old your unit is but many of the newer Phillips/Magnovox electronics are made by Funai which is a Communist China product.

I had to take two years of a language when I was in high school I took three years of Spanish. Still don't speak much Spanish although I can understand a bit living where I do. Spanish in high school was more about written Spanish. I could conjugate verbs in Spanish today with a little brushing -up but conversational Spanish was not really part of the curriculum. The rules that were enforced when I went to high school were that if you came from a language speaking home you had to get a strong B or better to pass the course. When DD entered high school she decided to take French. She found herself one of only two kids in the class that were not from a French speaking culture. The teacher was also from Vietnam. Of course these kids who had the language at home excelled and left DD and the other non speaker way behind. She toughed it out for the semester. The other dropped the class immediately. It was a waste of time for DD. When DS entered high school I asked and was assured that the Spanish class he would be enroled in was for non speakers only. Once again in his school most of the class was Hispanic. On back to school night the teacher actually gave his presentation in Spanish first since the room was filled with parents who didn't speak English at all. Non speaking students class, my ass. DS dropped the class. So much for high school language. English is my second language. My brother, myself and my cousins are first generation. I have almost entirely forgotten the first but I could pick it up. Not being spoken to in English at home really hurt my older brother. He struggled through out his school years. To this day he struggles socially and is somewhat of a hermit. Since we were not familiar with the idioms etc. that American kids used it made it difficult for us both. Especially socially. I remember to this day a seatmate getting angry at me for not "scooting over" I had no idea what "scoot over" meant. Those things count when you are 5 and leave a lasting impression. I spoke English as a child but having two languages made it hard. It was my English pronunciation that suffered and to this day I am a far better writer than a speaker. It wasn't until I helped the lady next door learn to drive that I learned why. Russian puts the accent on completely different syllables within than English does. So I tend to put the accent on the wrong place. and that often "invents" an entirely new word simply through that process. I grew up hearing duck and dog pronounced as "dug" in my family. I heard "dese" and "dose". This despite the fact that my mother was fully schooled in America. But back then the people sent their kids to Catholic schools to be taught but they mingled with their own culture. They spoke English in the classroom but avoided it out of class. BTW my mother had beautiful penmanship her entire life. When I was a child I did also, got top grades in penmanship, but mine has now been reduced to a scrawl. I decided it was more "cool" to print my notes in high school. Now my Uncle insisted his kids be raised as Americans first. Thier English is excellent. My cousin took up the Russian language in college and now reads, writes and speaks fluently in Russian. The same thing happened to my Godmother's grands. Thier Russian father insisted on English first. One of them became interested in Russian culture as an adult and also now speaks, reads and writes fluently. So much for childhood immersion. In fact my brother and I had such a rough time of it that we rebelled against our culture for may years. it was too painful to be seen as so different.