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Does India need anti-satellite capability? - Rediff

The number of US jobs supported by the space industry was around 729,000 while the US satellite radio subscribers were approximately 13.65 million. Going by these sheer numbers, it is no wonder that space occupies a significant part of our lives.

In Flatbush, Pirate Radio - CityLimits.org

(Sep 21, 2009) It's the afternoon before the annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade, which draws some 2 million revelers to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn each Labor Day. Across the borough, weeks of anticipation have now given way to vibrant ...

Ask AP: Super Bowl ads, reporters in disasters - FederalNewsRadio.com

To support these staffers, the AP brought in three small cargo flights of supplies, from electric generators to dishes to satellite phones and walkie ... hired local drivers and translators who badly needed jobs. The tougher question for journalists ...

Republican leaders balk at tax increases to save employee jobs - TMCnet

... the $21.9 million it raises would keep 85 state troopers and 56 driver license station workers from being laid off and also help the agency replace its problem-plagued radio communications ... response to a lawsuit filed by satellite television ...

Getting To Know Sirius/XM Radio Personality Angela Yee - Baller Status

If you're in the entertainment biz, you probably know who Angela Yee is. If not, she's a rising radio personality who has the Sirius/XM airwaves, and Internet, going nuts. She has two popular shows on satellite radio -- Lip Service and The Morning ...

Sideshow: Brangelina cuddle, cheer for the Saints - Philadelphia Inquirer

The aging schlock jock, whose contract with Sirius satellite radio is up at the end of the year, yesterday said on his show ... Howard has publicly mulled a number of non-Sirius jobs. But is he serious, or angling for a lucrative new contract?

Sideshow: Brangelina cuddle, - Philadelphia Inquirer

Missouri News - KOMU

KANSAS CITY (AP) - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has announced a major gift from dozens of patrons, including its single largest donation. The 400 donated works from 75 patrons are in honor of the museum's 75th anniversary and the ...

Megadeth Reunite With Founding Member - antiMUSIC

am- Kid Rock Bon Jovi- Gilby Clarke Update- Tom Aerosmith Jones - Red Chord Reunion and more Howard Stern told his satellite radio listeners Monday morning ... Unsigned musicians are no longer forced to keep their day jobs to make ends meet.

Who is your favorite Orioles announcer of all time? - Weblogs.baltimoresun.com

Many did great jobs, but it ... don’t listen to baseball on the radio anymore. I have a 50-minute ride home from the stadium after every game at Camden Yards, so I invariably listen to a West Coast game or two on my satellite radio.

Voting Question: Need Information on the Warcraft3 Custom Map "Real Life [for morons]"? #2?

my little brother is infatuated with this map and he says he will only play with me on b.net if i play with him on this map. it gets VERY boring and i would like to know some stuff to get ahead of him. He always kills me and gets all the stuff. what are some things and strategies to do to do well. Here are the rules we play by: 1. Nobody can own the farm 2. Absolutely No Bug abuse (if you find a bug that i dont list tell me cause i might be able to slip it in or make an exception with him) 3. If you have a problem try to work it out (just dont quit or kill someone) 4. If you cannot work it out kill them but you have to tell them that you are going to unally them 5. If you kill someone they have to give you thier items and or sell you thier property. 6.No sherrif's badge 7. Limit 1 bodyguard/ex marine, 1 damage pet, 1 alien 8. we play with 3 people and on clover day the most you can get is 3 and you cannot get 3 if someone has gotten 3 already that day. 9. no robbing the bank in any way. 10. you start teenager and cannot grow up till lvl 10. 11. we increases the max level to past 20 and added tomes +1 for 1k gold 11.(b) i found a problem with tomes, once u reach a ceartain amount of stats using tomes you will lose all tomes bonuses when you use your free stat from leveling up. 12. No maids Medalion 13. No exp tomes that are scattered 14. No healing alien to increase it's mana 15. No unequip- equip weapon for more mana 16. No trapping people in houses (this rule hasnot been made but if it is done then it will be made lol) 17. Questions: 1. where is the robot chip (got answer on previous ask) 2. where are all 3 kodos (found them) 3. where does the nighstalker go after he goes invis a few times( we chase the attacks but never find him again)(got answer on previous ask) 4. how to get the sea creature event?(got answer on previous ask) 5. What other abilities exist except: Heal, Evasion, Sleep, Ground pound, Frenzy, (summon cop), ? 5b. how to get them? 6. how to do the mafia job 7. will the kracken soup recipe work if you have not done the quest? 8. what do the pets evolve into when fed super pet food (i only know what happens to frog)(tested this) 9.What is the best job for making money? (no cheats aka no bodyguards in hunting job or aliens in hospital) 10. what is the best job for bonus checks (cannot use lugages or any other units on dock job) 11.how much faster is uzi then no gun attacking. (how much fater is uzi then having no weapon at all equiped) 12. what is best item, are there any + stats items(other than bear hide and sherifs badge and maid's) 13 any other helpfull info pls My strategy is to max strength and do doctor job during day then go to haunted mansion during night. i realize that you become int bases with a gun but with 50 str you have insane hp regen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Is My Previous Best Answer, please expand on it if you can or corect it if it's wrong. 1. Robot chip is in the bar talk to the old man and fulfill his quest to get it. (yet to test) 2. I know where only 2 kodo's are. 1 is in the park near the Movies and 1 is near Mafia HQ (found other one yesterday its above park in trees) 3 Use candle to find him or boss tracker from orange kid (yet to test, awesome if it works and what do u do in quest btw?) 4 I havent done this but I think you have to work at dock for awhile. (twas my suspicion but i havnt confirmed) 5. Hunter you can use a net I think and stripper allows you to give mana... [hunter gives Slam(War Stomp) and stripper gives striptease(sleep) these are 100% confirmed) 6. Talk to the troll near the playground bellow the school and fulfill his quest then talk to the old man at the church then talk to the mafia boss I think *The old man should be in the Mafia* (yet to test) 7 Dont know(i could test this but i havnt yet) 8 Dog turns into wolf I think and baby dragon into dragon.. I think. (dog, yes drag, no. i tested em all and i like frog best) 9. I say... Banking job.. (if you can do a banking JOB thatd be cool, never noticed it. does it give ability or what is it good for. if u meant robbing bank then this defies my family custom rules.) 10 Doctor Job (doctor job does not give bonus checks) 11 Uzi is the best choice while rocket launcher is slow and dangerous (i know, not what i wanted as an answer tho) 12. Bear Hide is good and Token of good and the satellite Button Boss tracker is also useful. (bear hide is good, what does token of good do?!?i thought it was pointless... o0 is satelite button boss tracker same as weather radio?) 13. I know alot about this game if you want any help Add me to your friends list and talk to me and I will help you out (cool) User Name : KitsuneShade (i hope u play us west o0) Source(s): Experience (me to! lol) --------- more

Resolved Question: Do Morning Shows Have a Laugh Problem?

I've had to listen to different morning radio shows in the office I'm on temporary assignment in. They change the channels a lot because of the reception coming and going. It seems to me that ALL of the "laughter" on morning radio shows sounds horribly forced. The "sidekicks" laugh at anything and everything the "host" says, even if it's the weather report. Most of what they say isn't funny, but the "sidekicks" laugh all the same. Has anyone else noticed this? Are they trying to keep their job in this era of satellite radio or do they really think they have to laugh (like the old "laugh tracks" on television) to cue the listener? more

Resolved Question: Is my mom delusional or what?

About three years ago my older brother passed away suddenly in his sleep. He was 23 years old. Then a year after that on Christmas eve, my father passed away from a heart attack. He was 49 years old. After that my mom got really into work. She would work 12 hour days as an assistant principal. Then a year later, she had a heart problem of her own. She was in the hospital for a few days. When she got out, she quit her job and took time off from work. Then she met this guy who she really feel for. The hooked up one night. He thought it was a one night thing, but my mom is really into him. She has become obsessed with him. She thinks he has people following her because he want to keep an eye out for her. One night, my sister called me and said that my mom left a note saying that someone was after her and was going to kill her. She then went to the church to pray. Ever since then she has been seeing signs. She got into a car accident one time because she was looking at the sign of a semi-truck. She sits at home and watching cars pass our house. She also thinks that people are listening to all of her conversations. She threw her cell phone in a forest people someone passed her on a bike. She has this think about the radio. The radio is broadcasting all of her information from her life. She feels that it is being transmitted through the satellites in space. We don't know what to do anymore because we can't take her to a hospital. They would evaluate her and she wouldn't tell them anything. And its not like she is a harm to herself or others. And she is not taking any drugs or drinking. She won't listen to us. She believes that we are out to get her. What should we do? And what is wrong with her? more

Resolved Question: How can I prevent the microwave from messing up my Satellite radio signal?

I have satellite radio at my job and everytime someone uses a the microwave it blocks the signal. DO anyone know a way to prevent this from happening? more

Resolved Question: Will satellite radio or internet radio through a cell phone work in a concrete building?

I recently got a job at the dept of revenue, and have run through my ipod, and am tired of the radio. I have sirius in my car and love it and was wondering if the stiletto would work inside my work. If not could i get an iphone or something, and would that be able to receive the internet it needs? more

Resolved Question: I have Sirius Satellite Radio Car Kit and want to hook it up inside the house instead?

Do I have to buy the home kit to install it in my house? The unit I bought comes with the car kit, but I'm home more than I am in my car now since I changed jobs. I don't want to spend the money to buy the home kit if I don't have to. What if I have a stereo already in the house, can I use that as my speakers to play the radio on in my house or it is required that I buy the home kit to hook the radio up in my house? Thanks so much!! I do award best answer points! more

Resolved Question: Air force jobs and the waiting list?

My husband went to MEPS in April and he still doesn't know what his job is going to be. he picked 9 different job that where all had to do with computers, communications, or Intelligence and he scored very high on the ASVAP. some of the jobs i believed he picked he picked where: Satellite, Wideband, And Telemetry Systems.. Operations Intelligence.. Network Intelligence Analyst.. Electronic Signals Intel Exploitation.. Electronic System Security Assessment.. Communications-Computer Systems Operations.. Ground Radio Communications.. So I guess I wanted to know when he could expect to get a ship out date and if these job are in high demand or not. more

Resolved Question: Should I get the civic lx 2009 or corolla s 2010?

I am planning on getting new car and I cannot decide for the life of me. I currently have a 96 civic which I love, but wanted to treat myself since I am done with college and have a good job. I test drove both and they both feel really nice. Pros about the civic: digital odometer, reading on percentage of oil so you know when to change it, lots of space, like the middle console space, mp3 capable, anti theft, auto windows and locks, cruise control Pros about the corolla: 2010 model, cruise control, large glove compartment, mp3 and satellite radio capable, anti theft, power windows and locks Cons on the civic: a bit pricier, brakes feel like you do have to push it in a little more. Cons on the corolla: the temp and time is in a strange awkard position, a bit smaller, I don't like the spoiler on the trunk but that can be taken care of. The corolla doesn't use power steering fluid so I don't know if that is a good or bad thing? I've read that corollas sometimes it's difficult to steer on highways and comfort not very good on long trips. Civics I have heard some stuff about the brakes. It's so difficult to decide. I have heard pros and cons about both. They both feel awesome. Both have good resale and reliability. Any opinions or experiences please help me. more

Resolved Question: 13 year old author what do u think of my book?

im 13 soon 14 and since the beginning of the year ive been writing a book. please tell me what u think and if i should carry on? In a world were everyone had a power – a special power, you could imagine how much mayhem there could be. But there was one person, one boy inperticuler who had a power so strong he could rule the world, no the universe, but instead he used his power for good he was a super hero, well super boy. His power … well his power was amazing; out standing it was a one of a kind. He could shift shape. The only boy known to have this power was a boy named Scott. But got the nickname shifty. Scott was 15 and still had a lot to learn about life and as a typical 15 year old boy Scott was laid back and didn’t do much with his life but is was an important day for him tomorrow because it was time for his final lot of GCSE’s he had to sit. Thursday 16th May. Scott had his GCSE’s a tough day for him. His school had these special rooms that when in them your power was cut off and cancelled out by these special electric walls that send sonic impulses that can not be heard to the ear. So if the Children could not use there powers this help a lot encase of cheating. It was a long hard day but eventually it was over. Scott got stuck in the traffic jam – you know, when you’re walking out of school and everyone was to just get out, and it’s like a bundle through the door. Scott finally got to the entrance and took a run and jump and shifted into a hawk. Scott wasn’t a very popular kid but was well known for his power. When Scott reached home he got dressed and went on his Xbox 1263. This is the story of a boy named Scott and how his whole life changed in just one week. Scott’s parents, Tom – dad and Sue – mum also had powers. His mum worked as a traffic warden it just helped that her power made her job a lot easier, her power could make her grow extra body parts like arms and legs. His dad on the other hand was a police man but were now could police troopers. His power was simple, super speed. Later when Tom got bored he went to watch T.V. but for some reason he could get any signal. It was strange because he had satellite and was in a perfect range to receive radio waves and it had never happened before. But tom came up with another idea. To start shifting into things for fun. Meanwhile on the other side of the planet a villain named Flame was working on an evil machine that could control most people’s powers. Flame was a strange man. Not many people had ever seen him before. It’s said that Flame appeared on Earth through a Black hole and wouldn’t stop talking about a boy named Alex wheeler and a war. When Flame came through the black hole his armour he wore was all scratched and tattered, with paint coming of and dirt smeared all over it. People could see he was too much of a threat to put in a mental institution, so they dumped him in some wasteland in the middle of no were. Flame searched the waste land for anything, food, water, just something to keep him going, but instead he found something better, something he just needed. An abandoned lab. No one was there and you could see its been years maybe even 12 years or so. This was clear to the eye from the shattered windows and green gunk all over the walls. Flame went in for look and there were plenty of things to use. Enough for a crazy experiment. Flame worked and worked and about 5 years later he was nearly finished. Scott had never heard or seen Flame but had a lot to do with him. You see Flame was crazy but he was right about some stuff. Such as the war he thought (and lost) and this mysterious boy named Alex wheeler. 10 years ago, roughly, Flame came across a boy named Alex wheeler and did fight him. Alex was strong. Too strong. Alex destroyed Flame, or so he thought. Alex knew that he had to pay with his life to beat Flame because he was so strong. But when Flame came through that black hole Scott was there and Scott was struck by a strange silver line of almost lightning. But this silver line was actually what was left of Alex. When the remains of Alex hit Scott they made a connection. And since then Alex has been living in Scott, as his soul. Alex was a young boy too. But had the right about of brains, power and strength to beat any foe. But Scott can’t remember any of this because Alex deliberately wipe that day from his brain so Scott could live a normal life. 1 year later, the year 2231 Scott was 16, had finished school and today was the day, today he found out about Alex. It was a Saturday Scott got up like normal and got breakfast. He then noticed a not on the table. Scott, gone out for a bit. Be back soon Love Mum and dad Scott thought great on my own. He watched T.V. then went into his back garden and practiced some skills on his hover board. When he got bored of that he went to get a shower. As he walked past his mum and dads note a gust of wind followed him blowing the note more

Resolved Question: 6/08/09...should I become an OTR truck driver?

Like many, I find myself in the boat now of worrying about layoff's. I see in the local paper a lot of people are becoming truck drivers. I've always thought it may be a good career for me, but never pursued it. I have a chance now that my current company may pay for me to get my Class A CDL. I was wondering more about truck driving. I spent a lot of time in a car as a kid, so stopped at a lot of truck stops...I have a feel for those. The environment, attitudes, amenities, lot lizards, etc etc Todays fuel price is about $3/gal. I see truckers start pay at about $0.33 a mile, works out to about $20/hr or so. What it it like being a modern truck driver? What expenses come out of the drivers pocket? What are the job prospects in this crappy economy? What is the life like in the truck? I imagine cell phones and Sirius satellite radio help a lot. How much will I really take home in $ per week my first year? Assume I am able to drive as much as legally possible. Thanks all... more

Resolved Question: Pleaseeee Helpppp!!!!!!!!!! :(?

1.) Why did President Franklin Roosevelt create the Office of War Mobilization? to replace the Office of Price Administration to centralize agencies dealing with war production to build up wartime morale to reduce the government's role in war production 2.) Establishing the first peace-time draft in the United States, the Selective Training and Service Act required military service registration for all males between the ages of 18 and 40 21 and 35 21 and 40 18 and 56 3.) After World War II, what organization was formed on the basis of promoting world peace? the Yalta Alliance the United Nations the League of Nations the Warsaw Alliance 4.) What prevented Americans from spending the high wages they earned in wartime jobs? shortages in consumer items fear of going into debt desire to save money inflated prices 5.) Which of the following best describes "code talkers"? aides to Roosevelt and Churchill who relayed messages between the two leaders German-Americans who served as translators for the Allies women who worked as airfield control tower operators Navajo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific 6.) During World War II, many Japanese Americans went back to Japan were interned in camps in isolated areas were elected to political office moved to the Northeast 7.) Which of the following best described satellite nations? nations in debt to the World Bank nations who belonged to NATO nations west of the Iron Curtain nations dominated by the Soviet Union 8.) The Berlin airlift was President Truman's respose to the reunification os East and West Germany German development of the atomic bomb Soviet blockade of West Berlin construction of the Berlin Wall 9.) What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society? He encouraged a widespread fear of Communism He strengthened the United States Army He encouraged Americans to stand up for their civil rights He created opposition to United States involvement in Latin American affairs 10.) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of free trade collective security appeasement isolationism more

Resolved Question: What's So Good About Satellite Radio?

I was listening to a radio commercial today for Sirius Satellite Radio. Since my birthday's in a month I'm running through a list of options to ask my parents, but for one thing I barely know what Satellite Radio is. So your job: Convince me to ask for it. Or not to. Pick a side, any side. more

Resolved Question: Opie and Anthony canceled on K-rock, they're on satellite but are they on any other radio stations?

I've heard they're on another radio station but I can't find out that info. I've heard that the satellite stations are going bankrupt so it makes sense that O&A would try to have a back up job with another station. BTW I'm in the North-east. more

Resolved Question: Mechanical or Electrical engineering?

Here are my interests: computers, radios, music systems, communication systems TVs, cell phones, and power generation. However, I also have an interest in cars, airplanes, satellites, and robotics (the mechanics of it). I dislike chemistry, subjects that are just theoretical, routine, and teeny-tiny things. Also, I don't want to design any manufacturing line. I prefer things I can work with physically and is hands-on. I don't want to be in front of a computer all day (although engineering has quite a bit of it), but I like versatility and everyday know-how. I'm best at learning through practice. Also, I'm looking at job prospects, competition level, and salary. Am I more an ME/EE guy? My school doesn't offer mechatronics, so should I major in EE and take ME courses or vice-versa? Finally, what are the prospects for each individual field?A trade wouldn't cut it. I'd take more computer time if it meant that I can use physics/math. A trade wouldn't satisfy me intellectually, personally. Also, by manufacturing line, I'm not into working on the production line; I want the product. more

Resolved Question: Could I somehow mesh Electrical and Mechanical Engineering?

Here are my interests: computers, radios, music systems, communication systems TVs, cell phones, and power generation. However, I also have an interest in cars, airplanes, satellites, and robotics (the mechanics of it). I dislike chemistry, subjects that are just theoretical, routine, and teeny-tiny things. Also, I don't want to design any manufacturing line. I prefer things I can work with physically and is hands-on. I don't want to be in front of a computer all day, but I like versatility and everyday know-how. I'm best at learning through practice. Also, I'm looking at job prospects, competition level, and salary. Am I more an ME/EE guy? Also, could I somehow mesh them? My school doesn't offer mechatronics, so should I major in EE and take ME courses or vice-versa? Finally, what are the prospects for each individual field? more

Resolved Question: Satellite Communication and Ground Radio?

I heard that SatCom and ground radio in the Air Force were combining into one job, and that tech school would just be at Keesler AFB. Does anyone know if this is true and when the change will take place if it is? Also how long training will be? more

Resolved Question: Do you tip the guy who installs your car stereo equipment? ?

I had some work done on my car stereo (installed Sirius satellite radio, and AUX input, hard-wired my navigation, and cleaned everything up so that I didn't have wires running all over the place). Is it typical to give the installer a tip? He did work on my car for 2.5 hours and I feel like he did a good job. more

Resolved Question: i don't have a T.V.. What am i missing ?

i work all the time, and i am not allowed to listen to the radio at my jobs. (they just play satellite stations with nothing but music) and i can't afford cable, satellite and the tv that i do have dosen't even pick up regular stations i feel in the dark most of the time about events going on i know we have a black prez elect now. (it's about time, if u ask me) and that we are in a bad economical state, and alot of peoples jobs are in jeopardy (i see that all around me) but what else should i be aware of? more

Resolved Question: is fox news really fair and balanced or full of ?

In recent years, Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch has used the U.S. government's increasingly lax media regulations to consolidate his hold over the media and wider political debate in America. Consider Murdoch's empire: According to Businessweek, "his satellites deliver TV programs in five continents, all but dominating Britain, Italy, and wide swaths of Asia and the Middle East. He publishes 175 newspapers, including the New York Post and The Times of London. In the U.S., he owns the Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Fox Network, and 35 TV stations that reach more than 40% of the country...His cable channels include fast-growing Fox News, and 19 regional sports channels. In all, as many as one in five American homes at any given time will be tuned into a show News Corp. either produced or delivered." But who is the real Rupert Murdoch? As this report shows, he is a far-right partisan who has used his empire explicitly to pull American political debate to the right. He is also an enabler of the oppressive tactics employed by dictatorial regimes, and a man who admits to having hidden money in tax havens. In short, there more to Rupert Murdoch than meets the eye. In 2003, Rupert Murdoch told a congressional panel that his use of "political influence in our newspapers or television" is "nonsense." But a close look at the record shows Murdoch has imparted his far-right agenda throughout his media empire. MURDOCH THE WAR MONGER: Just after the Iraq invasion, the New York Times reported, "The war has illuminated anew the exceptional power in the hands of Murdoch, 72, the chairman of News Corp… In the last several months, the editorial policies of almost all his English-language news organizations have hewn very closely to Murdoch's own stridently hawkish political views, making his voice among the loudest in the Anglophone world in the international debate over the American-led war with Iraq." The Guardian reported before the war Murdoch gave "his full backing to war, praising George Bush as acting 'morally' and 'correctly' and describing Tony Blair as 'full of guts'" for his support of the war. Murdoch said just before the war, "We can't back down now – I think Bush is acting very morally, very correctly. " [New York Times, 4/9/03; Guardian, 2/12/03] MURDOCH THE NEOCONSERVATIVE: Murdoch owns the Weekly Standard, the neoconservative journal that employed key figures who pushed for war in Iraq. As the American Journalism Review noted, the circulation of Murdoch's Weekly Standard "hovers at only around 65,000. But its voice is much louder than those numbers suggest." Editor Bill Kristol "is particularly adept at steering Washington policy debates by inserting himself and his views into the discussion." In the early weeks of the War on Terror, Kristol "shepherded a letter to President Bush, signed by 40 D.c= opinion-makers, urging a wider military engagement. " [Source: AJR, 12/01] MURDOCH THE OIL IMPERIALIST: Murdoch has acknowledged his major rationale for supporting the Iraq invasion: oil. While both American and British politicians strenuously deny the significance of oil in the war, the Guardian of London notes, "Murdoch wasn't so reticent. He believes that deposing the Iraqi leader would lead to cheaper oil." Murdoch said before the war, "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." He buttressed this statement when he later said, "Once [Iraq] is behind us, the whole world will benefit from cheaper oil which will be a bigger stimulus than anything else. " [Guardian, 2/17/03] MURDOCH THE INTIMIDATOR: According to Agence France-Press, "Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of 'The Simpsons' over a parody of the channel's right-wing political stance…In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Matt Groening recalled how the news channel had considered legal action, despite the fact that 'The Simpsons' is broadcast on sister network, Fox Entertainment. According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance with headlines like 'Do Democrats Cause Cancer?'" [Source: Agence France-Press, 10/29/03] MURDOCH THE NEWS EDITOR: "When The New York Post tore up its front page on Monday night to trumpet an apparent exclusive that Representative Richard A. Gephardt would be Senator John Kerry's running mate, the newspaper based its decision on a very high-ranking source: Rupert Murdoch, the man who controls the company that owns The Post, an employee said yesterday. The Post employee demanded anonymity, saying senior editors had warned that those who discussed the Gephardt gaffe with other news organizations would lose their jobs. " [NY Times, 7/9/04] Just as Fox claims to be "fair and balanced," Rupert Murdoch claims to stay out of partisan politics. more

Resolved Question: THIS 96' ECLIPSE TO MUCH?

yo im lookin to buy this car 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse, just rolled over 100,000 miles. Only 23,000 miles have been put on the car in the last six years. It is automatic and non turbo. The car has always been garaged during winter and hardly sees rain. Gets around 25-30 mpg. Modifications include custom katzkin Italian leather seats (the same seats that are used on the TV show Overhaul'n), all black interior with a brand new black carpet, car has a full body kit with an immaculate paint job, it has been lowered with 2" eibach springs and kyb struts and shocks, full magnaflow exhaust, $400 clifford alarm system with paging remote, 17" exel chrome rims, brand new kumho tires with less than 1500 miles on them, sirius satellite radio. http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg238/cdawg2308/?action=view&current=291082064_988032169_0.jpg $7900 to much for it? more

Resolved Question: is anyone scared at the type of people voting for obama based only on race?

actually the people voting for obama are mostly uneducated. Ex; this morning on the howard stern show they played a clip of sal the stockbroker interviewing people in harlem and who they would vote for. The line of questioning went like this. Q: who r u voting for A: obama Q: do you agree with his position of pro life and of keeping our troops in iraq indefinately until the job is done? A: yes i agree with that. Q: do you think his vp pick of sarah palin is a good one and do you feel shell do well if he wins? A: Yes i feel she will do great as the vp she is great. " I am not making this up people this really was on the show this morning and what is scary is that the 3 clips they played all had the same answers from men and women...note howard stern is for obama. Source(s): Howard stern show on Sirius satellite radio. by the way I am not white and I stand for what I believe in and on the facts. when faced with a decision I wish I had the options obama has had during his time in office. When an issue is up for a vote I wish i could vote present 94 times as he has done. For those who dont know what that means it means that he just said i am here but i wont vote for fear of insulting someone since i am running for president and dont want people to know what i stand for. more

Resolved Question: Should James Hansen be forced to resign..... or be fired from NASA?

June 24, 2008 James Hansen: Abusing the Public Trust By Brian Sussman "Hansen now seems to be calling for the chief executives of Big Oil to be tried for high crimes against humanity. Their crime? Spreading doubt about global warming. Actually, it is Hansen who is guilty. Guilty of abusing the public trust. James Hansen is the recognized international arbiter of the global temperature record-past, present and future. Armed with a network of thermometers, state-of-the-art satellites, computers and a huge chunk of NASA's near $18 billion budget, Hansen is the man who is deemed the final authority on Al Gore's constant claim that "the earth has a fever." All this despite the fact that GISS' own data clearly illustrates that the Earth's temperature has been flat since 1998 and recently has been dipping downward. Hansen's shenanigans on Capital Hill are not about climate-they are about money. As is the case with all government agencies, maintaining a budget is critical. The bureaucrats at NASA boast of their obvious needs for cash: [for] preventing the world from spontaneously combusting in a ball of flames. Hansen …. has been able to keep the funds flowing-both into NASA, as well as into his personal pocket-to study the world's climate. A slick marketer, Hansen possesses an insatiable appetite for media attention -- as long as the person asking questions is favorable to his point of view. As a NASA Director, his role should be collecting data and truthfully sharing results, not trying to influence policy and legislation. Government bureaucrats should not be allowed to use their job as a soapbox; nor should they be allowed to receive huge sums of cash for work they have conducted on the taxpayer's dime, from private, liberal interests with a global warming agenda. Examine the largess culled by Hansen. In 2001, the Heinz Foundation "awarded" James Hansen with a payment of $250,000 for his work on global warming. According to the foundation: The quarter of a million was just a tease of additional monies to come. In 2007, Hansen split a $1 million prize from the Dan David prize category of "Future Quest for Energy" (layman's translation: a world without oil). In addition he also reported to have acted as a consultant to Gore's global whining slide show, which was the impetus to the Prince of Peace's film, "An Inconvenient Truth. Topping it all, Hansen has allegedly received hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to further politicize the issue of global warming. According to Investors Business Daily, "How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely ‘NASA whistleblower' standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by [George] Soros' Open Society Institute (OSI), which gave him ‘legal and media advice'? That's right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship ‘philanthropy' by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's ‘politicization of science' program." Hansen denied any relationship with OSI, but Investor's Business Daily refused to back off on their story, "claiming the funding first passed through the Government Accountability Project, which then used it to package Hansen for the media." With that kind of cash allegedly lining his pockets, do you think that Hansen will ever allow the data that he is charged with maintaining to point to anything but disaster? James Hansen needs to be relieved of his NASA duties. Show Mr. Hansen the door -- for the sake of humanity." Brian Sussman is a radio talk show host on KSFO-AM in San Francisco and formerly an award-winning television meteorologist. He is currently writing, "Global Whining, a Denier's Handbook", a book represented by WordServe Literary Group, Ltd. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/james_hansen_abusing_the_publi.html Dana, Sussman has a heck of a lot more expertise in the field than that 'game-show host' character...... Al Gore. I think that maybe you should stay in the shallow end of the pool on this one. more

Voting Question: Help buying a car. Best sites to compare?

Hi! I recently graduated college and I've been using my mothers car to get around. Now that I have a good job, and a large savings, it's time to get my own. Now, here are my requirements: White/Silver Exterior AC SUV/Mini van (I'm very tall and can't drive anything smaller) Sirius Satellite Radio Light Interior (White/Gray/Tan) Good MPG (High teens and above) Cannot be GMC (Bad history with this type) Any ideas what cars fit into this category? Or can any of you give me a website(s) to visit in order to see a list? Price isn't really an object but I don't want to get something super expensive. Probably nothing over 50k. I'll be keeping this car for a long time and I want it to last. I'm currently driving a Dodge Caravan but it's pretty bad on gas, so I don't want another. Thanks for the help! more

Resolved Question: Satellite Radio, is it worth it?

My parents just bought me a car and it comes with 3 months free of XM radio. I basically listen to a rap station that gives me a bunch of songs i've never heard of. And Espn radio (which I love) At times i'll listen to a different rap station or some other talk radio. Now, with Sirius I would get NFL but I would more than likely just be watching the games on tv. Theres 2 rap stations, and ESPN radio that I would also listen to. Although none of those two rap stations I like more than XM. QUESTION 1: Should I get XM or Sirius? QUESTION 2: Is satellite radio worth it? I dont have a job (nor can I get one) and get about 80 bucks a month allowance. Parents pay for food/gas, all I pay for are video games (which I do get often) or something dealing with sports/tech. Should I get it?I forgot to add that I have an ipod that can connect to the car more

Resolved Question: american history....?

11: Why did President Franklin Roosevelt create the Office of War Mobilization? to replace the Office of Price Administration to centralize agencies dealing with war production to build up wartime morale to reduce the government's role in war production 12: Establishing the first peace-time draft in the United States, the Selective Training and Service Act required military service registration for all males between the ages of 18 and 40 21 and 35 21 and 40 18 and 56 13: After World War II, what organization was formed on the basis of promoting world peace? the Yalta Alliance the United Nations the League of Nations the Warsaw Alliance 14: What prevented Americans from spending the high wages they earned in wartime jobs? shortages in consumer items fear of going into debt desire to save money inflated prices 15: Which of the following best describes "code talkers"? aides to Roosevelt and Churchill who relayed messages between the two leaders German-Americans who served as translators for the Allies women who worked as airfield control tower operators Navajo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific 16: During World War II, many Japanese Americans went back to Japan were interned in camps in isolated areas were elected to political office moved to the Northeast 17: Which of the following best described satellite nations? nations in debt to the World Bank nations who belonged to NATO nations west of the Iron Curtain nations dominated by the Soviet Union 18: The Berlin airlift was President Truman's respose to the reunification os East and West Germany German development of the atomic bomb Soviet blockade of West Berlin construction of the Berlin Wall 19: What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society? He encouraged a widespread fear of Communism He strengthened the United States Army He encouraged Americans to stand up for their civil rights He created opposition to United States involvement in Latin American affairs 20: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of free trade collective security appeasement isolationism more

Resolved Question: 13: After World War II, what organization was formed on the basis of promoting world peace?

13: After World War II, what organization was formed on the basis of promoting world peace? the Yalta Alliance the United Nations the League of Nations the Warsaw Alliance 14: What prevented Americans from spending the high wages they earned in wartime jobs? shortages in consumer items fear of going into debt desire to save money inflated prices 15: Which of the following best describes "code talkers"? aides to Roosevelt and Churchill who relayed messages between the two leaders German-Americans who served as translators for the Allies women who worked as airfield control tower operators Navajo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific 16: During World War II, many Japanese Americans went back to Japan were interned in camps in isolated areas were elected to political office moved to the Northeast 17: Which of the following best described satellite nations? nations in debt to the World Bank nations who belonged to NATO nations west of the Iron Curtain nations dominated by the Soviet Union 18: The Berlin airlift was President Truman's respose to the reunification os East and West Germany German development of the atomic bomb Soviet blockade of West Berlin construction of the Berlin Wall 19: What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society? He encouraged a widespread fear of Communism He strengthened the United States Army He encouraged Americans to stand up for their civil rights He created opposition to United States involvement in Latin American affairs 20: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on the principle of free trade collective security appeasement isolationism 21: Both President Truman's Federal Employee Loyalty Program and Senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings aimed to fight disrcrimination in government jobs defend Americans' civil liberties reinvigorate the American economy expose Communists in the United States 22: During the postwar years, the Gross National Product of the United States more than doubled returned to Depression levels shrank by half stayed about the same 23: The beatniks of the 1950s promoted traditional social patterns family values segregation of African Americans spontaneity over conformity 24: How did the gross national product (GNP) and per capita income change in the 1950s? The GNP increased while per capita income decreased Both GNP and per capita income fell sharply Both GNP and per capita income increased dramatically The GNP decreased while per capita income increased 25: What major effect did the transistor have on technology? It made nuclear power possible It ended the popularity of radio It reduced the size of electronic appliances It temporarily slowed the development of new technology 26: Which of the following best describes the beatniks of the 1950s? They rebelled against conformity and traditional social patterns They worked to revive organized religion They organized campaigns against racial injustice They valued American middle-class culture above diverse cultural heritages 27: To achieve victory in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr encouraged a policy of armed confrontation nonviolent protest lawsuits national strikes 28: After watching television coverage of the brutal tactics used against protestors by the Birmingham police, even opponents of the civil rights movement were appalled by the police violence angry with the peaceful protestors supportive of the actions of the police uninterested in the confrontation 29: The black power movement taught that African Americans should separate from white society and lead their own communities strive to end segregation emigrate to Africa use nonviolent protest to bring about change 30: How did the National Urban League help African Americans? by helping newcomers to large cities to find homes and jobs by providing legal support to defend them in court by providing them with good medical care by helping them integrate lunch counters more

Resolved Question: please briefly explain the following article cause it was little bit long!?

Global media is such a large machine that much of the world's population is employed by it. On the surface, it seems like media refers only to reporters or newscasters, but behind the front lines there is a huge network of human beings making sure that it is run efficiently and non-stop. Consider that news is a 24 hour, 7 day a week institution. It doesn't take a holiday when it is Christmas, nor does it take a summer holiday in July as students do. It doesn't sleep because when it is night in Toronto, it is day in Hong Kong or Japan. News follows the sun as it goes from New York, to Los Angeles, to Australia, then Europe, the Far East and back to North America. There is always something happening and there is always an audience hungry to know what is going on locally and around the world. In each city hundreds if not thousands of people maintain the television stations, cameras, computers, or drive the trucks in search of news. There are people translating news from many different languages to other languages. There are fact-checkers and editors who make sure the news sounds professional. There are lawyers on hand to make sure that what is said does not result in any lawsuits. There are wardrobe consultants to suggest what to wear in front of the camera. There are technical staff to fix things if they are broken. More importantly, there are satellites and fibre optic networks which send the news all around the globe seconds after it happens. All of these activities is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what is necessary for you to be able to watch that news program when you get home from work, or read that article in the New York Times as you eat your breakfast, or read a up to the minute website posting on a famous website, www.forbes.com, for example. The media employs many people and hosts many different careers and as a result, students who study media will benefit from this exposure to the true nature of media. Media is a never stopping engine that employs millions of people to deliver news on the more than six billion people of the earth to the more than six billion people of the earth. By studying media we not only think about how we think, but we also explore the career possibilities once we as students leave school behind and enter the work force. Aside from job prospects and details, media is also about communication. When we watch TV, the newscaster is communicating information to us. It is the same with radio, newspapers, and magazine. More recently with the Internet, this communication process has become two sided and as a result, has evolved. For example, blogs on the Internet have recently become one of the most popular sources of news for most individuals. The importance of blogs are a result of many countries like China who regularly censor or lie about what happens when they report the news. The remarkable thing about blogs is that anyone can start one and write in one. The term blog is shortform for web log. One of the key features of a blog is that you can leave comments about what was written and quite often the writer of the blog responds to your comments just as others can respond to your comments. This makes for a dynamic news mechanism. For example, a blog writer, also known as a blogger, might report an item of news. Other people may leave comments on his blog to clarify or provide more information. Others may provide opposing comments to suggest that the news is not entirely correct. Currently, with China blocking all news about what is happening in Tibet, many people around the world are turning to blogs to find out what is going out with the citizens of Tibet and their struggle with the Chinese government. Finally, another benefit of studying media which as we said is about communication is that it makes us better communicators. Newspaper headlines for example, summarize the story and capture attention with just a few words. People who read content on websites, another example, are not interested in lots of useless information. They don't have the patience to search through paragraphs and paragraphs of text. Let's not forget how well reporters and newscasters are at public speaking. When newscasters speak they use proper vocabulary and never speak in slang. Their speech isn't filled with "ums" and "ahs". They look directly at the camera when they speak and always look professional. Students have a lot to learn about communication from the media. more

Resolved Question: Job in Radio have long term stability?

My husband wants to go into radio, and I support him to the fullest. But I have heard that the radio industry right now isn't a good field to get into because of the consolidations between stations and the growth of satellite and automated stations. If he were to start out now is there any job stability or security in this right now or is the risk high for him being laid off in the future do to the switch to other formats? Thank you for your time and answers. more

Resolved Question: random-trini joke...u no ur trini if....?

You refer to all salt crackers as "Crix". You recognize the names Dave Elcock and Rennie B. You know the meaning of the word "obzokie". You point with your lips...and you give directions with your hands... even if it's in another state (yuh jus go up de road and when yuh see...) You go to parties for the food... and the word free never quite had the same meaning. You nod your head upwards to greet someone... and sideways when the joke stale. Your recipe for making orange juice is plenty water, plenty sugar, plenty ice and only 2 orange... and "ah pak ah red kool-aid tuh stretch it..." You say "boy" at the beginning of a sentence and "man" at the end of it... and the words "yes we" doesn't refer to any people... You hate to wait in long lines, a habit you adopted from the days of pushing to get into "pit" to see a movie. 'Priority' doesn't have anything to do with what you have to do right away. You always turn around when someone says "Psssssssst"... except for when you make out the person first and you're duckin' them. You say "Soooo looooong" instead of "Yes, I'm done" when somebody asked you if you finished the job already ...even if you don't even know what job that person is talking about. You have "knick knacks" all over your home... and a glass cabinet or a space saver to put them in. You put ketchup and peppersauce on your pizza. Anchovies? Yuh lossin it or what? You make a drink and ice cream with peanut butter but you never put it on bread with jelly... but you might put it on your dixie biscuits You think eating salted cod fish and fried bread is a great morning meal. Your cupboards are full of canned corned beef, pepper sauce and red beans and baked beans ...and a dry coconut for the pelau. You think steak is a waste of good meat. You rather cut it up and stew it with some potatoes instead ... or curry it and make roti. You use your finger to measure the water when cooking rice. . You have shares in kool-aid. You bring home food from a party. The word "storm" has nothing to do with the weather. . You hate the saying "Today is a beautiful day" from someone who don't know where you came from. "What goin on these days?" and "I jus dey" mean "Hello, how are you?" and I'm fine" respectively. You think your rum and Carib beer are the best in the world and you hate it when nobody heard of them ...and you'll probably have some in your cabinet at home...wherever you may live. You put ice in your beer ...and you chew the ice when you're finished with the beer. Drinking wine is too sissy ...wine is for fruits. You still say "Father Christmas" and "Old Years' night" ...and "dis August holidays" actually start in July. . You show disappointment by sucking on your teeth (steupsing) ...and you can conjugate "ah steupse" by age four (three if yuh smart ) You still call a soda a "sweet drink" and an avocado, a "zaboca". .and you go to the shoprite clerk and ask them "whe allyuh have de breez?" meaning "where is the laundry detergent?". You say "whappenin" even at a funeral. You tell the host "Good Night" when you arrive at someone's home in the evening. You wash the "wares" after having dinner. When someone pays you a compliment, you say "Doh mamaguy meh". . When someone sympathises with you, you comment "Yuh think it easy?". You refer to all sweet coloured juice as "Kool-Aid".. . You call a quarter a "schilling" when this really means 24 cents. You know that using "blue" makes white clothes whiter. Just because something is called a "bake" you don't assume that it indicates the way it was cooked. . You have at least one relative living in either England, Canada, or the US. . You either see, speak to, lime with, or hear about at least one of your "ex's" regularly. You know that a washy-kong bears no relationship to King Kong. You know about straightening, pressing, S-curls and Gherri curls regardless of your ethnic background. You have cancelled plans because of rain even when you're going to be indoors ...Rain is also a legitimate reason to be late for a rendez-vous... or to miss work. You know someone with a gold tooth. You know someone with their name either on their belt buckle or their chain. All vaccinations are called injections. You are able to recite at least one (or several) line(s) from Sesame Street. You have been to at least one party where you have seen the sun rise. You know someone named after either: flora:- Flora, Fern, Rose, Lily, Petal, Holly (B.) or colour:- Blackie, Blue, Pinky, Violet, Hazel or maybe even a car:- Cressida, Nissan. You know the meanings of: "washing wares"; "straightening a room"; "bodice"; "sucking yuh teeth"; "cut-eye"; "hot foot"; "bouff". All dish washing detergents are called "Squezy". . You still give people (youself included) "meggies". A rubber is an eraser. You know of at least one person who wakes up at 4am to LISTEN to cricket from Australia / New Zealand on the RADIO. On at least one occasion you have: been told that you have a cold in some part of your anatomy other than your head or chest and/or had a virus named after something popular with the times eg. Bionic, Ninja, the Hijab, the Hangman and the Sting. Despite lack of interest, someone has tried to convince you of the benefits of taking a purge, or becoming a born again. You can feel cold when it's 25°C. No matter how old you are, you still call your parents Mummy and Daddy. You use baby powder. You still eat fries with ketchup AND MUSTARD. You call fries "chips". You pronounce words in plural, even though it's meant to be singular, eg."gimme ah COKES" or "ah GRAPES". You say "FLIM" (film), "AXE" (ask) or "PITIAH"(picture), "STATELLITE" (satellite), "CUTLASH" (cutlass). . You know what "Wukking a 10-days" is, and know darn well it's going to take much longer than 10 days. . You know the meaning of several Indian words, eg. "dahl", "bahgee", "channa", "bharra", "chunkae", "bowgee" and use them in every language ...and actually believe them to be the correct English terms. . You know that a lime is not necessarily a fruit. You call little kids "po po" or "betah" and your girl/boyfriends "daahlin" or "pungkin". . You eat "wild meat" - stuff that some people keep as pets or may consider disgusting animals; like Iguana, Lappe, Matte, Tattoo (not the skin paintings) or Manicou. You call any 'older' woman "Tantie" and any 'older' man "Uncle", regardless of whether or not they are related to you or even know you. You could sing an entire Parang song in Spanish word for word, but don't speak or understand a word of Spanish. You know who "Anansi" and "Papa Bois" are. You can't bring yourself to using the correct "scientific" names of sensitive body parts because you think it sounds vulgar. Instead you use child-like words such as "tot tots", "totie", "bam bam" or "bumsy" and "tun tun" or "toonie". . You love Soca and know the meanings of RAMAJAY and DINGOLAY. When in doubt of how to prepare something to eat ... CURRY is the always the solution. You know Trinis will curry any and everything (not just meat) even mango, fish, conch, chataigne, etc... You can call your fellow "countryman" by an ethnic name and it would be ok, eg. chinee-man, creole, doegs, or pyol. When you ask for PEPPER you don't mean ground black pepper. more

Resolved Question: What do you think of this idea??

Volunteers keep eye on border using their Web cams Sean Holstege The Arizona Republic Apr. 4, 2008 12:00 AM It's not just the government doing high-tech surveillance of the border anymore. And it doesn't take a huge defense contractor and a satellite, either. Two volunteer groups, one a splinter from the well-known Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, have cameras in Cochise County pointed at the Mexican border up to 200 yards away and at busy smuggling routes. Anyone with a fast-enough Internet connection can sign up to work the cameras remotely, although one of the groups first submits volunteers to a background check. The volunteers report any sightings of smugglers or immigrants to the Border Patrol. advertisement The small-scale operations may seem quaint, but the border groups maintain that their cameras, which transmit wirelessly to the Web, have led to the arrest of hundreds of border crossers in recent months. The efforts highlight how, in the groups' view, a fairly simple system can work as well as the government's approach, which is a sophisticated, high-tech satellite-surveillance operation called Project 28. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's "virtual fence" experiment was delayed eight months by glitches, and questions linger about how well the $20 million system works. Sen. John McCain called the project "a disgrace"; another Republican congressman introduced a bill to scrap the experiment. "We are building a model that already works better than Project 28," said Jon Healy, founder of the TechnoPatriots, a commercial venture and offshoot of the Minuteman group. Federal officials said they haven't seen the volunteer cameras and couldn't comment. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff insists that Project 28 near Sasabe is effective, although contractors are refining how the 28-mile pilot system of cameras and sensors beams data to Border Patrol agents via satellite. "I think this Project 28 will be good once we get to tweak it," Border Patrol spokesman Ramon Rivera said. "We want to see who's crossing the border, what they're carrying and if they have a mole on their face." Armchair volunteers The non-profit American Border Patrol, based in Sierra Vista, launched remote-controlled cameras on the border in 2005, allowing armchair volunteers to log in and view the border from the safety of their homes. Volunteers are given a background check before being allowed to work the cameras. Since November, the non-profit TechnoPatriots, based in Palominas, has operated a long-range camera that can be remotely panned, tilted and zoomed, plus a thermal camera that monitors the border by night. Volunteers must pay $10 when they sign up on the Web site. Healy said he plans to get more cameras, sound monitors, ground sensors and software that weaves it all together. His group says its volunteers have reported 160 sightings to the Border Patrol, resulting in 116 arrests. The Border Patrol could not confirm the number because it does not track whether callers belong to such groups. But agents said they are grateful for any help from the public. TechnoPatriots invites volunteers to sign up for 30-minute shifts to watch the Web, manipulate the cameras and report illegal border crossings. The volunteer groups say they can do the job more cheaply than Project 28 because their systems use high-speed wireless Internet, not satellites. "If I had the money Boeing had, there would not be one single person walking through there undetected," said Mike Christie, operations director for American Border Patrol. By day, the cameras show the windswept beige grass and brush landscape of Cochise County, punctuated occasionally by movements of people on smuggling trails. By night, volunteers watch a dark, murky image for the ghostly shape of humans emitting body heat. On a limited scale, the groups' efforts parallel those of the Border Patrol. For years, Border Patrol dispatchers have forwarded information from agents' observations, static cameras and sensors to roving agents via radio. The government's Secure Border Initiative, including Project 28, will add a network of cameras and sensors to help agents better know the situation in advance. Boeing contract The virtual fence is a string of towers that beam signals via satellite into the trucks of agents and the command center. The idea is for agents and supervisors to have common, precise information and to move cameras remotely to get a better read on border crossers. The problem is agents still find themselves in dead spots, and for months, government contractor Boeing Corp. had to work out the kinks in the relays. After accepting Boeing's work, Homeland Security agreed to pay the $20 million contract even though government auditors and Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar testified to Congress that Project 28 didn't meet the 95 percent detection standards. Homeland Security officials overseeing the project said the next phase will be pushed back three years as Boeing refines the technology. Still, officials insist the system is effective. Project 28 has resulted in 2,400 arrests in its first month of operation, agency spokeswoman Laura Keehner said. Border Patrol agents say it already gives them improved capability. Rivera said the technology can distinguish people from animals, count them and give agents a good idea if they are armed. The trick now is to get that information piped directly to their patrol trucks. Homeland Security went to Boeing looking to cover communication dead spots via satellite. Rivera acknowledges that wireless would work well but would also mean persuading property owners to allow easements to build and maintain cell towers. Based on the prices and ranges of equipment bought by volunteer groups, if cameras and cell towers were installed to cover the entire 1,950-mile border, it would cost roughly $40 million to $250 million. The government's technology plan for the border is estimated at $1.2 billion.I think i will join them more

Resolved Question: Look how many?

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Resolved Question: elvis alive?

The only time I feel alive... is when I'm in front of my audience, my people. That's the only time I really feel like I'm human." "Long after I'm gone, what I did today will be heard by someone. I just want them to get the best of what I had." (Elvis Presley) Is Elvis Alive ? There are many reasons to believe that Elvis Presley is dead. When the only arguments to believe otherwise come from crazed fans and supermarket tabloids, it is easy to dismiss the possibility that Elvis is still among us. However, the circumstances surrounding Elvis' alleged death are quite mysterious and beg closer attention. As it turns out, there are many concrete reasons to believe that Elvis is still alive. The Gravesite. Elvis' name is misspelled on his headstone. Elvis' full name is Elvis Aron Presley, but on his grave his middle name is spelled incorrectly with two a's. His father would not have let this happen. When Elvis was born, his name was misspelled on his birth certificate, and his father went to great lengths to get it put right. The unique spelling of Elvis' name was important to his family. Elvis' current "resting place" is in between his father and his grandmother and not next to his mother where he had adamantly requested. It is doubtful that the people close to him would allow these things to happen. Elvis is a superstitious man, enough so that he wouldn't tempt fate by putting his real name on a tombstone, or violate the ground next to his mother until he was ready to be placed there for good. Death Certificate. Elvis was very vain, and he was embarrassed about his recent weight gain, an astonishing 50 pounds in the month before his so-called death. Even though he weighed about 250 pounds at the time of his "death," his death certificate lists him at a spry 170 pounds. The original death certificate disappeared, and the current death certificate is dated two months after his alleged death. The Wax Body Theory. This argument is very convincing when the facts are considered. Elvis' coffin required several pall bearers because it weighed 900 pounds. Attendants of the funeral reported that the air around the coffin was rather cool. It is suspected that the coffin contained an air conditioning unit to keep a wax body cool, a wax body that was a replica of Elvis designed to fool funeral-goers. And how did the Presley family get a 900 pound, custom made coffin ready for a funeral that was held on the day after his death? It takes a lot of time to build such an elaborate coffin. And why was the funeral so quickly? Some say that the immediacy was intended to make it as difficult as possible for the people who were Elvis' biggest fans to attend the proceedings. It could be a concern that they might recognize the flaws in the wax replica. Elvis was an 8th degree black belt whose hands were rough with calluses, yet the body in the coffin had hands that were soft and pudgy. The body in the coffin had a pug nose and arched eyebrows {unlike Elvis} and most importantly, one of the sideburns on the "corpse" was loose and falling off. A hairdresser later reported gluing the sideburn back on the body. Unusual Behavior. Two hours after Elvis' death was announced publicly, a man who reportedly looked remarkably like Elvis purchased a ticket for Buenos Aeries, paid in cash, and used the name John Burrows: the same name Elvis had used as an alias several times before. Elvis had a few books that were considered to be his most prized possessions. He had a bible, several pharmaceutical books, books on death, and most importantly Chiro's Book of Numbers and The Autobiography of Yogi which I will explain more about later. After Elvis's death was announced, these books disappeared and were never recovered. In the weeks preceding his alleged death, Elvis' actions were not those of a man who was about to embark on an extensive US tour. He ordered no new suits despite having gained 50 pounds since his last tour, and he bid "adios" at his last show in Hawaii. He had never done this before. Adios, like the French adieu, has the significance of being a final good-bye as opposed to an "I'll be seeing you on my next tour" kind of good-bye. Others were intrigued by Elvis' decision to sign a lucrative TV deal with NBC that would cover the tour. It was unprecedented for a network to pay such a large amount up front, in cash, for such a deal. Many wonder why Elvis even agreed to the deal since his vanity discouraged him from making public appearances due to his weight gain. RCA showed uncanny and unbelievable foresight by mass producing millions of Elvis' current and previous recordings and merchandise. This is standard practice for an act that is about to go on tour, but the numbers in this case were beyond reasonable expectations. The announcement of Elvis' death caused record sales to skyrocket. Elvis did other unusual things that created suspicion. First, he fired several employees that he had relied upon for a long time. Also, two days before his alleged death, Elvis telephoned a friend of his named Miss Foster. He told her that he wasn't planning on going on the upcoming tour. She asked him if he had canceled it, and he said that he had not. When she asked if he was ill, he said that he was fine, and that she should not ask any more questions or tell anyone anything, and that she should not believe anything she read. He told her that his troubles would all soon be over, and that he would call her in a few weeks. The author of Elvis Where Are You? writes that Miss Foster took a polygraph test regarding this story, and that she was not lying. The day after Elvis' alleged death, a woman named Lucy De Barbon, a former lover of Elvis, received a single rose in the mail. The card indicated that the flower was from "El Lancelot." This had been her pet name for Elvis, and it was a name that no one else knew. Flowers can't be sent from beyond the grave. This was Elvis' way of letting her know that he was not dead, even though he didn't want to be found. Chiro's Book of Numbers. Elvis had a fascination with numerology, an interest he fed by reading Chiro's Book of Numbers. The theory that Elvis orchestrated his death is further supported when considering the significance of the date of his alleged death. The date in question is August 16, 1977. By adding the numbers in the date, 8, 16, and 1977, you get 2001. This is the title of Elvis' favorite movie in which the hero plans his immortality in the bathroom. Elvis spent a considerable amount of time doing the same: planning his afterlife on the toilet.. Elvis spent so much time in the bathroom that he had his toilet converted into a reclining comfy chair. Coincidentally, the bathroom is also where Elvis' body was reportedly found. Given Elvis' religious beliefs, he had a fascination with things that come in threes, for example, father, son, and holy ghost. The sum of the digits from his favorite film (2+0+0+1) is three. Let's consider the triad of the repetition of the number 24. 2001 (favorite film) less 1977 (year of death) is 24. The two numbers from the day of death (8/16) when added up equal 24. The sum of the digits in the year of death (1+9+7+7) also equals 24. That is 3 occurrences of the number 24 which is divisible by 3, and when divided by three the result, 8 has a perfect cubed root (2x2x2=8). Elvis loved numerology, and when you consider the numeric significance of the date of his alleged death, it is clear that if indeed he did plan to fake his death, he could not have chosen a better date. Reason Elvis had many reasons to fake his death.It has been said that Elvis' life was in danger. He had recently lost $10,000,000 in an airplane/real estate deal with a California based organization called the "Fraternity" that had links to the Mafia. It is speculated that he corroborated with the government to expose the organized crime ring in exchange for protection, perhaps in the form of a new life and identity compliments of the Witness Protection Program. Elvis was a prisoner of his own fame. He had many other reasons to leave his life behind. Because of his incredible popularity he recieved several death threats, and he was concerned about the safety of his ex-wife and daughter. Sometimes when he wanted to leave Graceland he would send look-alikes out to distract would be followers. Elvis was also known to ride in the trunk of someone else's car to avoid being seen. Once, when he fell ill in Las Vegas, he couldn't get proper medical attention because the hospital was overwhelmed by fans. At the time of his alleged death, Elvis thought he was nearing the end of his career. He saw his self as 42 with greying hair, overweight, and he thought his voice was starting to weaken,. He was going down hill, and he was too proud to go out with a whimper. He would never want his fans to see him in such an unhealthy condition. Elvis had shown a fascination with death on several occasions. In the days leading up to his alleged death he was reported to have visited funeral homes at odd hours of the night with close friends. Was he doing research? Elvis once faked his death by setting up an elaborate shooting in which a would be killer fired blanks at Elvis who had a blood pack which he discharged. It was Elvis' intention to see how the people closest to him would react to his death. Perhaps what he learned convinced him to do it for real. Finally, one of Elvis' favorite books is the spiritual Autobiography of Yogi. One of the central themes of this book is the relinquishing of one's wealth and earthly possessions to achieve spiritual oneness. Elvis could do this, as well as address his other concerns of sanity and safety by faking his death and living in exile. Means. Elvis had the means to fake his own death. He is accused of destroying himself with drugs. In reality, Elvis was a pharmaceutical expert. He took a lot of drugs, but he knew what he was doing and was extremely careful. He knew what drugs he could self-administer to create a deathlike state. Also Elvis' experience with the martial arts was such that he could slow his heart rate and breathing in order to feign death. Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had once created a new identity for himself. He came to America as an illegal immigrant from Holland, but through various connections managed to create a new identity complete with a passport, birth certificate, drivers license, and social security number. He would have known how to give Elvis a second life. Aswell as Elvis' ties to the government through his testimony against the "Fraternity", Elvis was known to interact with the President of the United States. He was reported in government documents to use the name John Burrows as an alias when he wanted to travel. Some people believe that Elvis worked for the government as a drug agent. He did, after all have extensive contact with many people in the music business who, as we know, tend to dabble in illegal substances. And, of course, we must allow that Elvis' connections to the government gave him access to the Witness Protection Program. If they can turn the Simpsons into the Thompsons, they can relocate anybody. Orion? Many believe that Elvis couldn't have given up performing completely. Just imagine, after a while the desire to perform would grow once he started his life in exile. The story of Orion supports the theory that Elvis attempted a secret comeback. Shortly after Elvis' alleged death, a masked singer by the name of Orion emerged on the scene. He was big like Elvis, and he sang just like Elvis. Because of the mask no one could tell his true identity. One fan described seeing Orion from near the stage. She claims that Orion left the stage between songs, and when he appeared moments later the sweat was gone from his armpits and back and she thought that his costume looked slightly different. After the song he left the stage, and the original Orion returned. Another fan described how she rushed into a tour bus at an Orion show only to see two Orions in the back of the bus. She claimed that one ducked into the bathroom before she could get a good look at him, but he appeared to look like Elvis Presley. What's even more remarkable is the fictional story called Orion that was written by Gail Brewer-Georgio about a legendary performer who had several identities and wanted to fake his death. The story was written and submitted to the William Morris Agency for publication consideration after Elvis' alleged death and before the real Orion ever performed. As it turns out, there are many ways in which the real Orion mimicked the events as described in the book. For example, the performers' managers had the same name. Also, without knowing it, Brewer-Georgio wrote of events in Orion that had actually taken place in Elvis' life. It was a case of life imitating art. Picking up the Pieces. In 1981, 20/20 did an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged death of Elvis Presley. The investigative report was very convincing. Oddly enough, within two weeks of the report, the singer, Orion, disappeared and was never heard from again. The book, Orion disappeared from shelves across the country. It had been recalled by the publisher which was associated with the William Morris Agency. Incidentally, the William Morris Agency is the same agency that represented Elvis. It seems that Elvis Presley is worth more dead than alive. By faking his death and relocating with a new identity he is safe from his fans and the "Fraternity", the government can make a solid case against the organized crime ring, and RCA, Elvis' family, and Elvis' management can all reap immense financial benefits from the attention. That is... except for one benefit....after nearly 25 years no one has collected on his life insurance policy. Why ????? During his last concert tour in 1977, Elvis spoke of "not looking good tonight", but, he would look good in his coffin. He made comments of being tired of living as he was and how it was going to change. He told of how he would like to be just himself instead of an "image". On August 16th 1977, at 8:00 A.M., Elvis told Ginger Alden that he was going into the bathroom to read. (This bathroom/lounge had it's own back entrance.) For the next six hours no one saw him. Elvis signed for a special delivery letter at 9:30 A.M. At 2:00 P.M. Ginger Alden found the apparent body of Elvis lying on the floor in front of his chair, where he had been reading. She called Al Strada who in turn called Joe Esposito. George Nichopoulous (aka Dr. Nick) was then telephoned. Joe called the fire department, unit 6. The ambulance arrived at Graceland at 2:33 P.M. Paramedics administered CPR, despite rigor mortis. The body was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital at 2:48 P.M. By 3:00 P.M. Elvis' family members and friends were informed of his "death". Public announcement was given at 3:30 P.M. August 17th, the body was brought back to Graceland for family viewing. The public viewing was from 3:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. On August 18th,1977. Tennesse Governor Ray Blanton ordered flags to be flown at half-mast for the duration of the funeral procession. At midday the Graceland gates swung open, a white Cadillac hurse rolled through them, followed by sixteen white Cadillac limousines. QUESTIONS BEGIN How could it take twenty minutes for paramedics to drive sixteen blocks to Graceland if the call came in at 2:33 P.M.? The Medical Examiner's Report states that the body was found with rigor mortis, while the police report states "unconcious". Why would anyone try to give CPR to a rigor mortised body ? The ME report listed the body as weighing 80 pounds lighter then Elvis' actual weight. How could Elvis have passed a physical exam just prior to August 16th if his heart was so enlarged ? How could he have played raquetball for several hours on August 16th, just before his "death" ? ABC's 1979 program on the cover up of Elvis' death stated that all the stomach contents were destroyed. Bill Burkin in his book Elvis World states that officials at Babtist Memorial Hospital had assured him that the stomach contents had been shipped to a California lab to be examined and then on to a lab in Utah, and then ? There are rumors of Elvis' "death" being caused by a heart attack, drug overdose, suffocation in carpeting, suicide and even cancer ! Persons in attendance at Graceland at the time of "death" don't agree on the color of pajamas Elvis was wearing or the posistion of the body. Why did Vernon ask many people NOT to attend the funeral but to come a week later ? Why did Vernon refuse to accept the flag which is usually given to dead war veterans ? Why didn't Elvis have any new jumpsuits made during 1977 ? The handwriting on the death certificate matched Elvis' own writing ! Elvis was very aware of which presribed drugs did not mix well with others. Elvis had glaucoma, and Dexedrine, a drug not to be taken with that condition, was listed as being in his system. Who would prescribe it and why would he take it ? Whose body was autopsied ? Funeral homes don't usually keep solid copper coffins in stock. These coffins weigh in the area of 300 pounds and usually take two months to receive once ordered. This coffin seemed to have been ready. Monte Nicholson, a nineteen year veteran of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, wrote a novel called The Presley Arrangement. This novel tells the story of a body that is autopsied, a man resembling Elvis. The man had died of cancer. The body is later returned for private burial, to the man's own family. The man's family are paid to remain silent about the incident. Nicholson explains a government connection. In a 1989 radio interview Nicholson said that even if he knew there was an FBI connection and was told not to say anything, he COULD NOT say. Nicholson also claimed that if he knew the answer to the question, and says he does, he will not disclose his knowledge. He said that if Elvis is alive that his book is pretty close to the truth of what REALLY happened. Was Elvis a DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) agent ? Elvis can be seen wearing a DEA Staff jacket in several photographs, including one taken in June of 1977, approximately six weeks before his "death". Also Elvis was wearing a jogging suit with the DEA logo on it during the early morning hours of August 16th 1977. When Elvis met with President Richard Nixon he said he had been "studying" the drug culture for over 10 years, he could get into any culture group and be accepted. Elvis said he had gotten alot from the country and he wanted to repay in some way. It would have been a dangerous job and one that an entertainer such as Elvis would not have HAD to do unless he chose to. Many DEA agents pose as "drug users" and "pushers" in their undercover work. Elvis could get to anyone if he appeared to be a "user". In the book Elvis: What Happened? one of the guys wondered if Elvis was ever as whacked out as he seemed to be. Maybe he is a "great" actor after all. Perhaps he deserves an "Oscar". Death threats were issued against Elvis and his family. Those who had leveled those threats had actually broken into Graceland. At times, the FBI were called. Deputy Narcotics Director John Finlator arranged for Elvis to come to his office under the name of John Burrows. Finlator didn't want to give Elvis a badge but the President reversed the decision. On December 21st of 1970, Elvis met with President Richard Nixon in the oval office, Washington, D.C. Elvis had written a letter requesting a meeting and expressed his concerns about the drug culture, hippie elements, the SDS and other groups who were against the establishment. When Finlator finally gave Elvis the badge and promised to issue him consultant credentials, Elvis was overcome with emotion and his eyes became misty. Ten days later he met with the FBI. On the same day, President Nixon wrote Elvis a thank you. Elvis wrote to the President and said, "I can and will do more good, if I were made a Federal Agent at large, and I will help out by doing it my way." Elvis was known to be in his bedroom for weeks, seeing no one. (There was a back staircase at Graceland.) Elvis could sneak out whenever he needed to. Department of the Treasury-Bob Pritchett says that during the years of '74, '75, and '76 "Mr. Presley provided one of our undercover agents, who was a musician, a job cover. Undercover agents appear to have other occupations. None of Elvis' group of friends knew of this agent and the role he played in setting up his cover. Since he had an undercover agent in his group from '74-'76, when did he find time to use drugs himself? Elvis was very good at keeping secrets and living a "double life". Elvis spoke with President Carter two weeks before his death. It involved aid to a friend. On August 16, 1977, President Carter issued this tribute: "Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique and irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense and he was a symbol of good humor of his country." This was a formal statement, when a celebrity's death is usually only commented on. He had spoken to Nixon and Carter both shortly before the day he died. In the September 1988 issue of American Karate magazine, Ed Parker tells of a time when a terrorist group threatened Elvis' life to make him an example of how they could get to famous people. They threatened to plant a bomb in one of the gifts offered to Elvis at a concert. This was a threat as long as he was "alive", and his family were targets also. Elvis always had law enforcement officials around him. John O'Grady, who was earlier in charge of NARC Divisions of the LAPD, was one of them. He also hired Dick Grob, a former sargeant with the Palm Springs Police. He was surrounded by at least two lawmen in top security positions. Elvis was in danger. The "hoax" may have been the only way out! History will prove Elvis to be an American hero beyond being an American entertainer. SIGHTINGS With all the Elvis lookalikes, he could actually walk around using disguises and get away with it. Who would be looking for him anyway, when he is supposedly dead? Before 1977, there was an "Elvis lookalike, sound alike" at a Memphis theatre. Elvis put on his best "Elvis outfit", strolled in and mingled with the clones, doing his best "Hey, baby". Afterwards, he came back to Graceland laughing. He tried out and lost! Elvis and his mother's bodies were moved to the Meditation Gardens for burial, after three men tried to break into the crypt. Graceland was rezoned to permit burials at the estate. In the 1989 Orion's "Farewell to the King", the King says "I died once. I had to be willing to give up everything, even the will to live." The last recording session at Graceland was The Last Farewell. There have been many sightings at various places including Graceland. There are some escape routes at Graceland that people don't know about. In a syndicated newspaper across the nation on June 5, 1990, an article headlined "Elvis Lives, At Least On Census Form." The Census Bureau reported in 1990 that Elvis returned a questionaire to the bureau office in Huntsville, Alabama. It was noticed by census workers who were screening forms for completednesss. Late Night with Ross Shafer (August 1988) had a survey that showed that out of 30,000 people polled, approximately 84% believe Elvis is alive. On Monday, August 22, 1988, Harold Schuitmaker, in an item of the Detroit News, said "Elvis is Alive and Living in Kalamazoo." Schuitmaker was a well known Michigan politician and resident of Paw Paw (15 miles from Kalamazoo). The masked singer Orion was at the McMinnville Civic Center and a fan said that she felt that the man onstage and the one who signed autographs were different people. People have reported that someone sounding like Elvis called them on the phone and some hung up because they couldn't believe it. A book titled Elvis: Where Are You? came out of Wilton Manors, Florida around August, 1982 under the name of Al Jefferies. The premise of the book was that Elvis hoaxed his death. Kelly Burgess, a former assistant editor and feature writer with the Detroit News, claimed to have seen Elvis in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is not living now. In 1988, Heartbreak Hotel starred David Keith as Elvis. (The film had the support of EP Enterprises.) A soundtrack album thanked Jerry Schilling and a special thanks to J.B. In 1987's Robo Cop, a cop is killed, but didn't die. He returns as Robo Cop-a superman hero. It was filmed in Michigan. During that time radio stations got calls from a man sounding like Elvis Presley. There have been lots of sightings there and it was also on his final concert tour. Is this possibly a "message" film? March 18, 1990, an article on Robo Cop, in the Detroit News told of Robo Cop speaking to a Boys and Girls club against drugs. It was a three month long anti-drug campaign organized by the FBI, Orion Home Video of New York, and the Boys Club of America. This Robo Cop was not the same actor as in the movie-his true identity was not revealed. he was a special agent helping the FBI fight the war on drugs. His suit was bullet-proof. During filming, some people saw a man looking like an older Elvis. In Mac and Me, a film from 1988, a young alien is lost and at the end the family drives away in an old pink Cadillac convertible. A balloon caption says "We'll be back". The sound track is on Curb Records, which is the same label as "Spelling on the Stone". There were some song lyrics which were: "Tired of being myself, being different from everyone else, somehow you knew I needed your help, be my friend forever. I never found my star in the night; living my dream was far from sight." There was a scene in the movie where Eric asks Debbie "Why didn't you tell him that you saw him (the alien)?" She says, "Because no one would believe me." Elvis has become a mythic figure, and there have been frequent rumors that he is still alive. Elvis remains the single most influential and respected figure in the history of Rock music. Elvis was the first Rock/Pop singer to have a single record sell a million copies, the first to go platinum with an album in less than two weeks, the first singer to pre-sell a million records before it's release, the first entertainer to earn a million dollars for one concert performance, and the first young, white, southern male to bring international attention to the importance of black rhythm and blues. He was the first singer to get a million dollar screen contract. He was the first music personality to have a TV performance broadcast worldwide via satellite. In 1993, he became the first rock'n'roll star whose picture appeared on a commemorative U.S. Postal stamp (the largest stamp printing in history). Elvis is a landmark in almost everyone's life, going back to distant memories of watching him above the waist on Ed Sullivan or hearing "Hound Dog" for the first time. His image continues to mesmerize: witness the appearance of 200 Elvis impersonators at Liberty Weekend in 1986. There was a time when he was merely the most popular entertainer in history. He is more than that now. He is a symbol of America as recognizable as the flag. Elvis opened the 'window of his soul' to his fans all over the world. Thank you, Elvis! Remember you are always on our minds. "TCB FOREVER! Any Comments on this ? E-mail Mei found this on the internet weird more

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There was a pop song in the year 2000 maybe came out in Oct 1999 - Feb 2000. It was played on the radio once in a while, but I use to hear it everyday at my job on the Muzak satellite radio. I also heard it being played a Six Flags a few years back. The song has a female vocalist and a female chorus. The vocalist talks or almost raps the words and every few seconds the chorus says a 5 syllable phase. They sounded like white girls and it was not classified as a rap song, but rather a pop song. The insterments had kind of a twangy sound to them. I seem to remember her saying “you” allot during the song. It was a more up beat song. Might have been a one hit wonder, but not sure. My mind is blank, please help. more

Resolved Question: Looking for a pop song from the late 1999 or early 2000?

There was a pop song in the year 2000 maybe came out in Oct 1999 - Feb 2000. It was played on the radio once in a while, but I use to hear it everyday at my job on the Muzak satellite radio. I also heard it being played a Six Flags a few years back. The song has a female vocalist and a female chorus. The vocalist talks or almost raps the words and every few seconds the chorus says a 5 syllable phase. They sounded like white girls and it was not classified as a rap song, but rather a pop song. The interments had kind of a twangy sound to them. I seem to remember her saying “you” allot ding the song. It was a more up beat song. Might have been a one hit wonder, but not sure. My mind is blank, please help.Nothing close to TLCI downloaded a couple of the pussycat songs and they are too pop sounding. This song was a more white feminist sounding song if that makes sents more

Resolved Question: 24 Season 7 Idea?

24 Season 7 Idea Jack has attempted to start a new life by dating a woman named Freesia Collins. He has also moved to Quebec, Canada. As a twist, Jack discovers Freesia works for CTU Minneapolis in Minnesota and that she lied about her job as a teacher. He learns this when he checks the messages from the house they live in. Jack is upset about her lies, but she says that CTU Los Angeles has come upon some intel that suggests that terrorists are attempting to pull off something like 9/11. They are going to hijack a plane from Quebec into New York in about two hours, and they will attack the newly built Farrell Building there. Jack doesn’t care. He wonders when Freesia was going to tell him this, she says she wasn’t, she was just going to break up with him that day and leave the house. Jack is astonished, then he realizes she asked to move to Quebec last month just because of this intel, and he also realizes she was going to be the agent to go on the plane and attempt to stop this. She then receives a call from Bill Buchanan and he asks if she is ready to go on the plane. Out of impulse Jack grabs the phone and demands that he goes on the plane so that Freesia doesn’t die. Bill is stunned to learn that Freesia had been dating Jack, but he says he will let Jack go. Freesia asks Jack not to go for her, but he says he is going because he doesn’t want her to possibly die. He also says he cannot stand another painful relationship with lies involved and so he breaks up with her. Over time Jack gets on the plane with a gun that he buys. He gets on with the gun because he explains the situation and that his mission is to be covert. After the plane takes off and Jack manages to establish contact with CTU Los Angeles and CTU Minneapolis things switch back over to Freesia. It is revealed when she gets a phone call from a terrorist that she was supposed to get on the plane and initiate the attack. She turns out to be a Canadian separatist and a terrorist. While Jack is on the plane Chloe, who is still pregnant, begins searching names on the ticket list of the plane and then she will cross-reference their names with their known terrorist archive. As the search for the terrorist continues Freesia, who is really named Jeanette Bordeaux, meets with three men who have stolen a U.S. Military plane that is very, very fast. Apparently it could get to New York before the plane does. Their Plan B is that once she gets there she will use a device to cause the attack. It is later revealed once she gets to New York that the U.S. will be forced to shoot down the plane because that will be the only way to stop the possible hijacking, and her device will override the missiles they will shoot and cause them to hit the Farrell Building, and this will be better because it will look like the U.S. attempting a false flag attack on themselves. In the middle of Chloe’s search she realizes her water has broken and Morris has to rush her off to the hospital. Bill doesn’t know how to run the search and so he has to quickly get two replacements from Division. After the replacements come the search continues and the replacements learn that no one on board has any terrorist history. Jack suddenly realizes that Freesia was going to be on the plane, and he asks them to search her name. They begin to, but then Wayne Palmer, who is still the president and has managed to recover, orders them to shoot the plane down. To make a long story short things go according to Jeanette’s Plan B, and she overrides the missiles and the Farrell Building is blown up. Jack realizes that he was set up to distract the U.S. while Freesia set up the missile override. He has his theory confirmed when the replacements reveal that Freesia was an alias and that her real name is Jeanette Bordeaux. Back in New York, as the citizens panic with what looks like another 9/11, Jeanette manages to escape. She enters a gas station and she asks a man there if his car is the Corvette outside that was just filled outside. He says it is and she says she is turned on by Corvettes. She then lures this man into the bathroom and says she will have sex with him, when he gets in the bathroom she drowns him in the toilet. Then she leaves with his credit card. She manages to get the gas pump next to the Corvette going with the card and she pulls out a lighter and causes an explosion with the pump. This kills herself and it blows up the entire gas station. Jack manages to be grounded and he begins showing cops Jeanette’s photo from his wallet at the airport. He learns from one cop that amidst all of the panic at the moment someone in his unit managed to spot this woman. He gets a report back from this cop who says the gas station she just went into just blew up. Jack knows this was no accident. Simultaneously the people in Washington D.C. see the attack on the Farrell Building as a false flag since the news reported that the missiles came from American fighter jets. They begin a riot outside of the White House. Wayne and his staff escape in a helicopter that is being sent immediately to New York to get a hold of the situation. The rioters manage to get inside the White House and they start a fire. Jack calls CTU Los Angeles and tells them that Jeanette caused an explosion at a gas station and thus committed suicide. The replacements, Gerald Perish and Erica Amos, reveal to Jack that Jeanette works for a group of Canadian separatists. The leader is named Pierre Fache. Jack wants background information on Fache. Back in Quebec, Fache is aptly watching events occur on the television. He receives a call and is told to start some shooting at the White House. Fache then calls a SWAT person who is at the riot at the White House and he tells him to start a shooting. This SWAT person then starts shooting as many rioters as he can. This triggers more shootings and more deaths. In the midst of all of this a fire truck team manages to put out the fire on the White House. Some SWAT agents move in on the house and receive orders from the agent who Fache called to shoot all of the rioters who are on the inside. They begin shooting everyone. As the riot gets hotter one rioter sees Wayne’s helicopter and grabs a SWAT agent’s gun and shoots up at it. The pilot of the helicopter says the engine has been shot from the ground. Slowly the helicopter begins to go down. Jack is aptly watching the news at the airport and hears of the breaking news that Wayne’s copter is going down. He quickly calls Wayne’s cell phone and he directs Wayne in how to safely land the helicopter. He then tells Wayne that he will need to keep running from the White House because the rioters will try to kill him still. The SWAT agent calls Fache and tells him that Wayne managed to land the helicopter, Fache is outraged and demands that he goes and kills Wayne so that it looks lie not even SWAT thinks the attack on the Farrell Building was an accident. Jack demands that he get a helicopter so he can get to Washington D.C. and attempt to stop the fighting. Meanwhile, an agent from CTU Minneapolis, who is named Phil Anders, is sent by Bill Buchanan to go into Quebec and see if he can locate and capture Fache. Jack is in the helicopter he requested and is heading to D.C. Quickly, Fache receives another call; it is revealed that the person on the other line is ex-Vice President Noah Daniels. Daniels says that he did not fund this attack to be failed; he demands that Wayne be found and killed. When Daniels hangs up it is seen that out of the window of his house a sniper is watching from some bushes. Daniels gets on a radio and says into it, “There! Fache is handling the assassination of Wayne Palmer! Happy?” And the sniper answers back, “It is good to know that threatening your life has made all of this happen!” Meanwhile, Wayne enters a restaurant with the pilot of the helicopter. Here he demands to speak to the manager. The manager asks what could possibly concern the president. Wayne tells him there are rioters outside of the White House and he wishes to hide out here, disguised as a waiter, so that the rioters can’t find him. The manager gives him a waiter’s uniform and comments on how the safety of this country is a fantasy. Soon, the SWAT team agent comes into the restaurant and shoots up the ceiling. He says he saw the president walk in and demands to know where he is. He says he must either kill the president or kill everyone in the restaurant. Wayne jumps out along with the pilot and they attack the agent. Wayne manages to stab the man’s hand with a fork and this causes him to drop his gun. Wayne then begins to interrogate the agent. Panic has of course broken out at the restaurant. The agent will not say whom he is working for, and Wayne says he knows who can help them get information out of him. When the pilot guesses Wayne means Jack, Wayne says no. Wayne says he is going to go to Noah Daniels’s house and see what Noah can do. They get the SWAT agent’s keys and get into his car. Meanwhile, Phil Anders lands his helicopter in Quebec near a cabin. Phil goes into the cabin with his gun drawn and a suitcase in his hand. After a little search of the cabin Phil finds Fache. Fache asks if Phil brought the package. Phil opens the suitcase and it is revealed that this is one of the suitcase nukes Fayed had threatened to use. “Fayed failed at using this. It is time to finish the job!” says Fache. Phil says that some CTU agents may have followed him here since he took the nuke and they probably noticed. Fache tells him to shoot any agents who come while he gets in another plane like the one Jeanette used to fly over Chicago and then blow up the city. When Phil asks what he should do if there are too many agents Fache says, “A bullet to the head will fix that problem.” He then leaves the cabin. Wayne gets to Noah’s house in the car. On the radio, the sniper asks who has pulled up. Noah says he doesn’t know. When the sniper sees that it is Wayne he says he will shoot Wayne. Quickly Noah runs out into his driveway and runs in front of Wayne and takes the bullet. Wayne sees what’s going on and he gets down. Wayne begins firing at the sniper with the gun he got from the SWAT agent. As Noah is dying he says that the sniper threatened to kill him if he did not cause Wayne’s death. Wayne manages to shoot the sniper, but not fatally. As he goes over to the sniper Jack sees Wayne on his PDA in the helicopter via satellite and he begins to land. When Jack touches down Wayne tells Jack about everything that has happened. Jack demands to interrogate both the sniper and the SWAT agent. Jack calls Bill and tells him about the sniper and everything. Bill tells him to interrogate the captured men. Bill then receives a call from CTU Minneapolis. They tell him Phil Anders stole the suitcase nuke they had possessed from CTU Los Angeles and they believe he gave it to Fache. Bill says this is great Déjà Vu. After he hangs up he suddenly begins to twitch and to fall over. The other CTU agents see this and they call in the medical team. Meanwhile, Jack is interrogating the sniper. The sniper says he wants immunity before he says anything. Wayne grants it because he doesn’t know what else to do. The sniper says an Asian man that he only met once hired him and he doesn’t know his name. Jack asks if the sniper ever had any pictures of the man that he could send to CTU to locate the man who hired him. The sniper says he has photos at his house. Jack says he wants to be brought to the sniper’s house, but first he wants information from the SWAT agent. Jack then gets a call from CTU. They inform Jack that Bill just had a heart attack and that he’s just gone to the hospital. Jack asks if anyone knew of Bill’s heart condition. No one knew about it, and they suspect it was stress-related. Jack is in a state of shock. They also Jack who he thinks is qualified to run CTU. Jack says Mike Doyle is. This is the end of the call. Jack then demands that the SWAT agent tells him whom he is working for. After Jack threatens to use a chainsaw he finds in Noah’s garage to saw off one of the SWAT agent’s arms he reveals he received phone calls from Fache that were orders. He was hired by Fache to start shootings at the White House and then to assassinate Wayne. When Jack asks what caused Fache to attack the U.S., the SWAT agent says Fache is a terrorist extremist who was funded by Noah to cause these attacks. The sniper says that Noah funded Fache because he had started watching his house and threatened to kill him. Jack realizes that everything revolves around him finding the man who hired the sniper and then arresting him. Meanwhile, Mike Doyle is instated as CTU Los Angeles’s Director. He then receives a call from CTU Minneapolis. The CTU Minneapolis Director, Carl Francis, tells him that Phil Anders was captured up in Quebec. They were told that Fache escaped with the suitcase nuke. Mike was not aware of any of this, and says he wants a recap. He tells Carl that he is the new director since Bill had a heart attack. Carl informs Mike about everything. Then as Jack as driving to the sniper’s house Mike calls him and informs him of the suitcase nuke. Jack also comments on the Déjà Vu. Jack tells Mike to locate the plane Fache escaped in and to shoot it down. Mike says this wouldn’t be the best idea since this could trigger the nuke to go off. Jack says he’ll come up with something and call back. Jack pulls up to the sniper’s house. Jack tells Wayne to wait in the car, since he has gone with him. Jack and the sniper enter the house. Suddenly Jack sees a bomb. In his haste he jumps out of the window as the bomb goes off. Wayne is shocked to see this, but before he can react two vans come by and armed men jump out. They shoot both the pilot and the SWAT agent, but they grab Wayne and kidnap him. Jack wakes up a little too late. At the hospital Bill is seen awake. A doctor comes in and tells him he had a near fatal heart attack. He will for now need to stay away from CTU because the stress-level could cause him to have a second attack that could kill him. The doctor recommends rest and so Bill is left to sleep. Jack comes to and sees that the house was indeed blown up. He then finds an ashen photograph in the debris. He sees that this photo is of Cheng Zhi. Jack realizes Cheng hired the sniper and thus was behind everything that happened today. “Son of a bitch!” Jack says. Jack calls Mike and has him confirm that Cheng is indeed in holding in Africa. Mike says that after looking at the archive it looks like Cheng’s file was destroyed. Jack tells Mike about what he found. Things switch over to Africa where Cheng is seen waling calmly through a village there. He pulls out a satellite phone and calls someone. It’s Fache. Cheng tells Fache to bring the nuke to him as promised so that he can retrieve the circuit board and thus aid China against Russia lie he had planned before. Fache says he doesn’t care about what Cheng wants; he just wants to blow up Chicago as he had planned. Cheng demands that Fache does as he’s ordered to do. Fache asks Cheng how he can stop him when he’s in Africa. Fache then hangs up. Cheng calls some mercenaries and tells them that Fache is no longer working for him. He tells them to stop Fache’s plane and to obtain the nuke. They can blow up any city they want with it, but they must get the circuit board back to China where it can be analyzed and thus it can be decrypted for Chinese Military use. The mercenaries are already in a plane. They are right next to Fache’s plane. Fache sees how Cheng could stop him from Africa. Quickly Fache shoots the mercenaries’ plane down and it crashes. At CTU Los Angeles Mike hears about Fache’s plane crashing in Chicago from Carl. Mike tells Carl to send a TAC team from CTU Chicago to the crash site along with a HAZMAT team. Carl goes ahead and does that. Fache climbs out of the plane alive with the nuke in hand. He immediately opens it. Out of nowhere comes the CTU Chicago TAC Team. They ask that he step away from the device. He refuses and is about to detonate the bomb when suddenly the mercenaries show up and kill Fache. A gunfight ensues and the TAC Team is taken out. As the HAZMAT team arrives the mercenaries escape with the nuke. The HAZMAT Team calls Carl and tells him about the mercenaries and their escape with the weapon. Carl hangs up and then receives another call. It is from Cheng. Cheng says that he is upset with Carl because he organized Cheng’s escape, but failed to coordinate his trip back to the United States. Carl apologizes and hangs up. Carl then calls Jack. Carl reveals to Jack that he coordinated Cheng’s escape, but now he wants to help Jack stop the terrorists by sending Cheng to Washington D.C. where Jack can question him and get some more information. Jack is grateful for this opportunity and asks Carl if he knows where the mercenaries are bringing the nuke. Carl says he will call Cheng and find out, but first he must reveal himself to his co-workers and explain the situation. Cheng then calls the men in the vans that have kidnapped Wayne. He tells them to allow him to talk to Wayne. When Wayne finds out Cheng is behind everything he is shocked. Cheng says his men have control of one of the nukes Fayed had used before and that Wayne must let Cheng get away with the circuit board or he will order the men to kill him. Wayne refuses and as a shocking twist Wayne is killed then and there. Jack is driving and he sees the vans that took away Wayne. Quickly, Jack shoots the vans’ tires and a gunfight ensues. Long story short, Jack kills all of the men and finds Wayne’s corpse. Jack yells out “Why did this have to happen? Why does everybody I care about die?” In surrender, Jack points his own gun at his head; he is about to commit suicide when the phone rings again. Jack throws away the gun and answers it. It’s Cheng and he asks if Wayne is dead. Jack reveals himself and tells him he knows about him being the mastermind of today’s attack. Cheng quickly hangs up. To make this story short Cheng calls Carl back and lets him know that the attack will take place in Washington D.C., then he calls the mercenaries who have the nuke and he tells them the nuke must go off in order to distract America so that Cheng can have the package delivered. When he hangs up a supersonic plane lands nearby. Inside the pilot, who is attached to Carl Francis back in Minneapolis, brings Cheng. Cheng grabs a gun and shoots him. Then he flies the plane by himself. Things twist some more, more plot would need to be written, but eventually the mercenaries arrive in Washington D.C., they manage to get in the White House. As a twist, they need the bomb activated properly by an engineer, who turns out to be Charles Logan, who has changed his name and grown a lot of hair to change his appearance. Jack finds out that after Logan was brought to the hospital in the last season he was saved by the doctors, and he managed to escape. He’s been living under the name Mitchell Flanders. The TAC team from Secret Service who will help him deal with the bomb meets Jack, but Jack soon gets a call from Cheng. Cheng tells him that “things are not as they seem” and that “soon there will be more deaths across the globe.” Cheng also tells Jack that his mercenaries have managed to compromise CTU Minneapolis and that Carl Francis is dead. While Cheng is on the phone Jack manages to trace Cheng’s phone, and it appears Cheng is not anywhere near Washington D.C., but he is actually in New York. Jack has Mike send a plane to bring him to New York. While the Secret Service TAC team surrounds the White House, where the terrorists have managed to bring the bomb, and military tanks show up, something goes wrong and Logan sets off the bomb. Washington D.C. is nuked. Logan had become suicidal, a side-plot, before this because he had lost his life, his wife, and his presidency. Cheng then lands his plane in New York and meets someone in a building. We do not see this person’s face until he is actually in a room with this person. The person is Kimberly Bauer, Jack’s daughter. She has with her another one of the nukes. Cheng manages thanks Kim for her hassle. Then he removes the circuit board and leaves Kim. Then he tells her, “What you have done here today will help change the world. Soon, China will rule the world!” Somehow Jack makes to New York just in time to watch Cheng’s plane get away. After all of this confusion, the Vice President, who has been instated as the new president, Jacob Gary, arrives on the scene and on the news announces that because Jack failed to stop Cheng that America will have no choice but to conduct war with the Russians as they had feared they might last season. At the end of all of this Cheng calls Jack again and tells him of how Kim helped him get the second nuke and thus, getting him the circuit board he desired. Jack soon finds Kim, and Mike tells Jack to shoot her right then and there, because if he doesn’t know she will most likely be sentenced to death anyway. Kim says she got into aiding the Chinese when Chase died, and she had gone to China for help. Instead she had ended up being recruited by Cheng. The season ends with Jack having to shoot Kim, and then he screams at himself for a minute, then a TAC team from CTU New York City shows up and one agent tries to stop Jack from committing suicide. The agent wrestles Jack for his gun and Jack is accidentally shot in the leg. This is not a serious injury, but for Jack’s own safety the handcuff him as they drag him off in an ambulance to receive immediate attention.My idea could not be posted because it was soooo long, but can someone name a good forum for me to post this on? more

Resolved Question: Yo mama jokes?

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Yo Momma so poor when I ring the doorbell she says, "DING!" Yo Momma so poor her face is on the front of a food stamp. Yo Momma is so poor when she heard about the last supper she thought she had ran out of food stamps. Yo Momma so poor she was in K-Mart with a box of Hefty bags. I said, "What ya doin'?" She said, "Buying luggage." Yo Momma so poor she drives a peanut. Yo Momma so poor she waves around a popsicle stick and calls it air conditioning. Yo Momma so poor she does drive by shootings on the bus. Yo Momma so poor you put RoundUp on the weeds and she said, "There goes breakfast, lunch, and dinner!" Yo Momma so poor you asked her where the facilities were, and she said, "Pick a corner, any corner." Yo Momma so poor I walked into your house and 3 roaches tripped me & tried to take my wallet! Do you know the story about the little old woman that lives in a shoe? Well, Yo mama so poor she live in a flip flop! Yo momma like a shot gun, two cocks and she blows! Yo momma like Domino's pizza -- Something for nothing. Yo momma like spoiled milk, fat and chunky! Yo momma like cake mix, 15 servings per package! Yo momma like a bowling ball: She's picked up, fingered, and thrown in the gutter. Yo momma like a Toyota: "Oh what a feelin'!" Yo momma like Orange Crush: "Good Vibrations!" Yo momma like a hockey team...changes her pads every three periods! Yo momma like chinese food: sweet, sour and cheap! Yo momma is like a racing car...chick burned four rubbers in one night. Yo momma like castlebury stew: servings are family size. Yo mommas teeth are so yellow, traffic slows down when she smiles! Yo mommas teeth are so yellow, she spits butter! Yo mommas teeth are so yellow, I can't believe its not butter. more

Resolved Question: Was Imus set-up by his producer?

I never liked Don Imus and I'm glad to see the man lose his job for going too far with his stupidity; However, his producer was first to use the slur to refer to the Rutgers ladies team and Imus simply went down the path to destruction. Imus will likely wind up on satellite radio where no one can touch him (just like his nemesis, Howard Stern).Stern has hated Imus from day one which is why he went into radio to destroy him - which he pretty much did. Imus finished himself off but his producer may have likely been a Stern plant. Stern may do offensive things on the air but he's never stooped to Imus' level. more

Resolved Question: A new kind of politics?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0704060020apr06,1,1855420.story?coll=chi-news-hed&?track=sto-topstory MEXICANS IN CHICAGO: A NEW KIND OF POLITICS Influence on both sides of the border Activists' political power is rising in Chicago and their homeland, as they seek reforms through marches and money Advertisement By Antonio Olivo and Oscar Avila Tribune staff reporters April 6, 2007 To outsiders, the men and women gathered inside a sleepy West Side restaurant may have seemed unlikely power brokers: a janitor, a real estate agent and others hardly known outside their circuit of neighborhood dances and back-yard barbecues. Jose Luis Gutierrez, who plotted strategy with the group as a soccer match flickered on a nearby TV, was himself a wholesale grocer until last year. But Gutierrez is now a top aide to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and he was joined at the table by leaders of Chicago-area Mexican immigrant clubs, the engines behind a new political movement that is making itself felt from Illinois to Michoacan. Gutierrez received smiling nods when he likened the political muscle of the region's 563,000 Mexican immigrants to the power of Irish-Americans in the 19th and 20th Centuries, who came to control the Chicago machine. In May, the strength of Mexicans will be on display when many of the region's 300 immigrant clubs -- known as "hometown associations" -- will help organize a march in downtown Chicago a year after their political coming-out party, demonstrations that flooded the Loop last spring and charged the national immigration debate. For decades Mexican hometown associations have functioned as social networks whose members pooled their money earned here to help build new schools or churches back in Mexico. But leaders in Chicago's largest immigrant group have a more ambitious worldview than their predecessors, even more than the ethnic blocs that preceded them decades ago. Some, like Gutierrez, wield growing influence in both countries. One morning, he's unveiling a blueprint for more immigrant services in Illinois as director of the state's Office of New Americans Policy and Advocacy. The next night, he's brainstorming with activists in his home state of Michoacan about a slate of candidates for Mexico's congress. An active role in Mexican politics might seem at odds with building political influence here. But Gutierrez and others say they form a budding new political consciousness among Mexican immigrants -- a "third nation" of sorts that transcends the border, advancing the community's cause on both sides. "The nation-state concept is changing," said Gutierrez, 46, who came to Chicago in 1986 and led one of the Midwest's largest federations of hometown associations. "You don't have to say, `I am Mexican,' or, `I am American.' You can be a good Mexican citizen and a good American citizen and not have that be a conflict of interest. Sovereignty is flexible." That concept worries some U.S. officials and scholars who see the dual loyalty as undermining the assimilation of Mexican immigrants. Irish, German and Polish immigrants eventually melded into Chicago's landscape, their ties to their native soil largely sentimental. But Mexican immigrants today are linked to their homeland like no group before, scholars say, connected by NAFTA, satellite TV, the Internet, cell phones and cheap non-stop flights. In Mexico, their power stems from the nearly $25 billion these immigrants send home every year, the country's second-highest source of income behind oil. Their political influence surfaces in places like Teloloapan, far up in the cactus-filled hills of the state of Guerrero, where a Chicago restaurateur helped build new roads and business. Grateful townspeople elected him mayor in a landslide. In the U.S., immigrants' power is driven by numbers and a growing deftness at the levers of this country's political machinery. That recently manifested itself in a fledgling political action committee called Mexicans for Political Progress, which raised $23,000 for Blagojevich's re-election and rallied volunteers to walk precincts during November's election. An unfolding movement Fabian Morales, a soft-spoken Realtor with a well-clipped mustache, stands at the center of the unfolding movement. He handled logistics for three massive immigration marches in Chicago last year -- including a four-day walk to suburban Batavia -- and co-founded Mexicans for Political Progress. After coming to Chicago in 1970, Morales helped launch one of the city's then-few hometown clubs, devoted to his tiny native village of Xonacatla, Guerrero. Back then, Xonacatla was without roads, potable water or electricity. It was a slow journey from other towns by foot or horseback, Morales said. The club members in Chicago resolved to change that. Collecting $50 to $100 at a time, Morales and others raised enough through barbecues and door-to-door soliciting to replace a house used for worship services with a towering marble church that rises from the green hillside. Morales has since helped develop CONFEMEX, an umbrella organization for most of the hometown clubs in the Midwest. Among other things, the group is a central voice in economic development in Mexico, representing an estimated $340 million in projects generated by U.S.-based hometown associations in the last five years, according to Mexican federal officials. "We want to focus on creating more jobs there so they don't have to think about emigrating," Morales said. The rising activity of hometown associations caught the eye of the Mexican government, which eventually created a "3-for-1" matching project, where federal, state and local governments split the cost of a new bridge or computer center with the U.S.-based groups. Those projects have given Mexican immigrants "a great moral authority" in their homeland, as well as political cachet, said Carlos Gonzalez, executive director of the Institute for Mexicans in the Exterior, or IME, a Mexican federal government agency that fosters stronger ties with expatriates. "During the 1970s, [Mexicans] called the people who left Mexico and acclimated to the U.S. 'pocho,' which, if you look in the dictionary, means 'spoiled fruit,' " Gonzalez said. "The change we've seen in the public perception of Mexicans in the exterior has been 180 degrees." In 2006, citizens abroad were allowed to vote in Mexican presidential elections for the first time. Leaders are also pushing for changes that would allow expatriates to vote in local elections and even hold elective offices while residing abroad. Recently, Gutierrez and others persuaded Michoacan to become the first state in Mexico to extend voting rights to expatriates. Their rationale: Almost half of those born in Michoacan, Zacatecas and several other Mexican states now live in the U.S. Timoteo "Alex" Manjarrez, 44, is among a small but growing number of Mexican immigrants making a bolder claim in their motherland. Arriving from his native town of Teloloapan, Guerrero, in 1980, Manjarrez spent 19 years in Chicago. The stocky, boyish-looking immigrant worked for years as a dishwasher at the Columbia Yacht Club and, eventually, became owner of three Mexican restaurants in the city. Fulfilling a desire shared by many immigrants, Manjarrez moved back to his native town in 1999 with enough money for his family to live comfortably. But the place he had longed for all those years was still frustratingly poor, despite the investments Manjarrez's hometown club made in new roads and other improvements. Manjarrez, who holds both Mexican and U.S. citizenship, settled in and quickly built a new health club and a hacienda-style restaurant named La Condesa, after the three he still owns in Chicago. In 2004, he ran for mayor of Teloloapan. With long-distance backing from his hometown club friends in Chicago, who sent money and telephoned friends and local officials on his behalf, Manjarrez won handily. 'The city that works' Since taking office, the man who sees Mayor Richard M. Daley as a political role model has pushed to remake Teloloapan into a Mexican version of "the city that works." The effort includes newly paved streets, a recreation center that replaces a local swamp known as "black waters," and a towering hotel being built privately by Manjarrez's family. Next to a new medical clinic, a donated Chicago ambulance sits in the parking lot. Its emblem has been painted over, but it serves as a reminder of the continued links Manjarrez has to his former city, where he maintains a home near Midway Airport, votes in U.S. elections and checks in on his businesses. Aurelio Santamaria Bahena, mayor of a town near Manjarrez's called Tlapehuala, labeled such changes "a blessing" for an area of Mexico dominated by crumbling lean-to houses and children in bare feet pulling bone-thin donkeys. But, as with other parts of the country where the immigrant handprint is deepening, the introduction of U.S.-style governance has also bred resentment. Local leaders of Manjarrez's own Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) are trying to drum him out of office, arguing he is too brash and condescending. The mayor counters the fight is about his efforts to take away "a plate of corruption that they've been able to eat from for years." The conflict was an uncomfortable backdrop during a recent PRD strategy meeting at a restaurant in Chilpancingo, Guerrero's capital. Headlines that morning featured a march against Manjarrez, orchestrated by his opponents. "People see you as an outsider," a worried Santamaria cautioned Manjarrez. "People don't think you see things as they are here." Manjarrez, wearing a black "La Condesa" windbreaker, patted his friend on the back and smiled. He had a media plan, one that might have made Daley proud. "We'll publish photos of the streets of Teloloapan before and after I came into office," Manjarrez said. "And, we'll ask the people: `Which would you prefer?' " That same week, Mexican immigrants from the U.S. and Canada met in Mexico City, as members of an advisory council created by the Mexican government. With a brash American style, they soon escalated their advice to demands, the members' voices echoing through the meeting hall. Morales, the Chicago Realtor, and about 100 other council members pushed Mexico to lobby the U.S. harder on immigration reform. They chastised their hosts for not creating more jobs. Buttonholing federal legislators in hallways, they reminded elected officials how much their districts relied on money sent from the U.S. They want 'results now' Gregorio Luke, a blond member of the council from Los Angeles partial to designer suits, observed that this kind of behavior wouldn't exist in a purely Mexican forum, where deference toward authority guides nearly all dialogue. "These people come here speaking Spanish, but they're negotiating as Americans," said Luke, a museum director who once oversaw cultural affairs at the Los Angeles Mexican Consulate. "They want to see results now." The meeting of the advisory council also illustrated the provocative overlap of Mexican and American political action. In addition to all-day strategy sessions on how to improve Mexico, council members brainstormed over late-night drinks on next moves in the fight for U.S. immigration reform. Many members had used their existing e-mail network to coordinate simultaneous demonstrations in Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities. Though not active participants in the U.S. immigrant movement, Mexican officials urged their compatriots to keep on fighting. "Let there be no barriers or walls between Mexicans here on the inside and the outside," former Mexican President Vicente Fox told the group, referring to a 2006 U.S. law that allows for a 700-mile fence to be built at the border. The audience stood and cheered. The idea that the Mexican government might be helping its nationals shape U.S. politics has raised red flags, both in the halls of academia and in the more volatile world of talk radio and the Internet. Robert Leiken, director of the immigration and national security program at the right-leaning Nixon Center in Washington, argued that binational activism among Mexican immigrants is bad for both countries. In the U.S., the meetings in Spanish and the often-passionate interest in Mexico's future hinder assimilation, he said. In Mexico, the relationship to hometown associations fosters an unhealthy economic dependence on U.S. remittances. "If I went out to Pilsen and spent some time with people from a hometown association, I'd think these are really cool people," Leiken said. But, "Standing back and looking at this from a social policy standpoint, I see some real problems." James McCann, a Purdue University political science professor, found that immigrants interested in Mexican affairs were more likely to participate in U.S. politics. He helped interview about 1,100 Mexican immigrants and found that hometown clubs promoted activism. "The conventional wisdom is that any transnational engagement is going to suck the oxygen out of your civic life in the States," McCann said. "But it seems that if you open a new avenue of expression in Mexico, that new avenue might pay some other dividends in the U.S." Some of those dividends went directly to the Blagojevich campaign last fall, when the governor found himself being serenaded by a trumpet-playing mariachi band inside the Hacienda Tecalitlan restaurant on the Near Northwest Side. Near a trickling courtyard fountain, Morales praised the governor in Spanish at the kickoff dinner for the Mexicans for Political Progress PAC. While Morales once raised money for his hometown with $1 tamales, the price here was as much as $500 a plate. "Let us demonstrate our political power by voting in the election, by voting for our friends interested in the prosperity of Mexicans. Friends like Gov. Rod Blagojevich!" Morales told the crowd. Blagojevich, who speaks a hint of Spanish, took the microphone and shouted: "Viva Chivas!" a reference to a popular Mexican soccer team. When the laughter and applause subsided, he switched to English and added: "By organizing, you are empowering a community. Your voice will be heard." The mood is darker in northwest suburban Carpentersville, where a growing Mexican community has rallied in large numbers in the face of a local backlash against undocumented immigrants. Last fall, about 3,000 Mexican immigrants and their supporters turned up outside Carpentersville's City Hall in an unexpected show of opposition to a proposed ordinance that would penalize landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and employers who hire them. The crowd was so riled a vote on the ordinance was postponed and has yet to be taken. The quick response came largely due to the hometown association representing the village of La Purisima, Michoacan, local activists said. The club turned to its telephone list of 400 families, said Salvador Balleno, the group's president. The turnout was a victory, but it has not deterred Carpentersville trustees from other proposals that would allow local police to trigger deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants and make English the village's official language. And as Balleno has struggled to register voters and rally volunteers for this month's village elections, even sympathetic politicians have seemed hesitant to link themselves too closely with the hometown association. Balleno now fears the village's hard-liners have the upper hand, intimidating some of the immigrants who protested last fall. "The [club] members know that if these people stay [in office] it is going to affect their kids," Balleno said, sounding anxious that an opportunity was slipping through his fingers. Jose Artemio Arreola, a key organizer of next month's march in Chicago, has been actively monitoring the battle in Carpentersville. He sees the activity there as part of a plan to create a political empire for Mexican immigrants, one linking hometown associations in Chicago and other cities to labor unions and Mexico's congress. His strategy includes moving back to his native state of Michoacan to run for congress there, something Arreola never imagined doing when he left a town overrun by poverty and ruled by local drug kingpins. He got his start in Chicago working in a plastics factory. Frustrated by the union representation there, he ran for shop steward and won. Unable to speak English, he relied on his bilingual co-workers to help him negotiate union contracts. He has since become a school janitor in Oak Park. The position pays little, but it has allowed Arreola to climb the ranks of the Service Employees International Union, where he has become key in that union's national efforts to tap further into the country's exploding Mexican immigrant workforce. All the while, Arreola has used the sharp elbows and old-school union tactics acquired in Chicago to become a power broker in his hometown of Acuitzio del Canje. He started in 2004 when the local mayor refused to back projects proposed by his hometown association. Arreola, a burly backslapper partial to gold neck chains, recalled thinking: "I need to take them out." He recruited a teacher to run for mayor in the Mexican town. Arreola then brought back a town phone book and, with others in Chicago, called voters one by one, promising a stream of U.S. investment if his candidate won. The incumbent opted for traditional rallies and car tours through town with a bullhorn. More than two years later, sitting in a Pilsen restaurant, Arreola opened a laptop computer and showed off the fruits of what proved to be an easy victory. Pictures of a new retirement home popped onto the screen, one featuring a grinning Arreola at a groundbreaking ceremony. Another showed a new computer lab with 40 computers for local schoolchildren, an investment in the future of Acuitzio del Canje. The town's name comes from an 1865 decision to make it the site for a "canje," or exchange of prisoners between warring Mexican and French troops. Sitting deep in the dusty mountains of Michoacan, it was neutral ground back then, Arreola explained, territory that didn't fully belong to either country but, in some ways, belonged to both. ---------- aolivo@tribune.com oavila@tribune.com - - - IN THE WEB EDITION Jose Artemio Arreola is one of several Mexican hometown association leaders in Chicago with multiple connections in Mexico and the U.S. From helping organize last year's massive immigration marches to slating political candidates in his home state, he wields influence on both sides of the border. To learn more about Arreola, watch videos and see photo galleries, go to chicagotribune.com/mexicansinchicago. Copyright © 2007, Chicago Tribune more

Resolved Question: Repeater system for pagers?

I work at Shasta Community Health Center. We have a main clinic and 3 satellite clinics in other nearby towns. They just built a new building up in Shasta Lake City. Metal walls, metal studs, metal roof. The signals for the pagers are not getting through, so doctors are not getting important pages. There is signal in the area though, if you walk outside of the building, you have a signal. So, they are planning on putting up a pager repeater system at the building. Here is where I need help though. They are looking at two systems, the company is recommending a 500 W transmitter, but there is also a 250 W transmitter. The pagers operate on the 900 MHz band. The building is about 70 feet by 140 feet. They want to know if we really need the 500 W or if the 250 W would do the job. Any help is appreciated. Someone found out that I was an amateur radio operator so they came to me for help. Great... Anyway, thanks in advance guys. D. Michael Johnston - KG6RPIHere is the site with the ones they are looking at. That huge amount of power didn't make sense to me either, I can hit UHF repeaters with my hand held on 6 W that are miles away... http://www.gtesinc.com/products/rf.shtmlThey are trying to get the signal to the pagers inside the building. more

Resolved Question: Radio DJ Question?

I'm 14 And I am Wondering What is some good links to learn about being a DJ. I'm thinking I might be interested in doing something like that or being a Program Director. I would like to be a program Director for Satellite Radio someday. If you don't have any links can you tell me some pros and cons of this job? I'm more interested in Being a program Director. I've talked to some Program Directors from XM Radio and Sirius. more

Resolved Question: My cheap parents! Any advice?

It's not like we're poor, but we do live in a one-story house with a tiny TV and a small kitchen. The computer goes in the guest bedroom, all that. Anyway, I used to not think much about it, but at our church, almost all the people are extremely well off, while we aren't. They have iPods, cell phones, DVD players in cars, satellite radios, enormous vans, stuff I could only dream of having. So, I really want a Sidekick 2, not a Sidekick 3 (too much money), not to mention I bought my gamecube as well as my digital camera and a lot of stuff on my own! My parents keep on saying it's too much money per month! (Only $20!) and I asked if I could start working at Krogers (I'm 15, COME ON NOW!!!) and they said they'd have to talk it over. I get so pissed. I feel like I'm behind everyone else. All I want for Christmas is a Sidekick, 4 CDs, a DVD Drive, a Mic, and 7th Heaven on DVD. That's what I want. Is that really too much to ask? SIGH! I even asked if I could buy myself a laptop and they start going on this, "Well, even if you have the money, I WANT YOU TO FREAKIN GET A JOB FIRST BEFORE YOU GET A LAPTOP! ....and I have the money that I've been saving for years! I'm so mad right now! I insisted on starting Driver's Ed so I FOUND THE FORM ON THE INTERNET, filled it out, and I sent it off! WHAT THE HECK? It's been like 5 months and they haven't bothered teaching me! I'm an ethical person and they'll almost never by electronics because they keep coming down in price! IF YOU FREAKIN KEEP WAITING, THE GOOD STUFF WILL COME DOWN IN PRICE, THE STUFF YOU WANTED YOU WON'T WANT ANYMORE, AND YOU'LL WAIT FOR THE EXPENSIVE STUFF THEN TO COME DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg - I'm so ticked! How can I persuade them to get me a SIDEKICK? I've never even had a cell phone and this is less per month! more

Resolved Question: Ghosts? Paranormal? Happenings? Spirits? What is happening?

We used to get at least one these each week but for for years now nothing new of this nature has been reported. So what has happened to our Ghosts and Spirits and who or what is stopping them? You may laugh or disbelieve but that is not the point. Nothing is being reported. Why. Does anybody know the reason? I have a theory. The wavelength of our brain is around 1.72 Ghz The spirits operate on the same wavelength in order to communicate. That and other wavelengths are being blocked by the World's recent madness to subject us all to Radio Waves. We are being fried by the minute, and just as Global Warming shows us the signs this is the Spirits' sign to warn us. It could be the answer to all modern day stresses or mental problems. Murdock and his satellite mates together with Jobs and Gates are killing of our ability to operate and the Drug Companies are having a field day.Hannar Yes but are you stll seeing them?To Everyone My wife and I were both transported over plough fields twice and on seperate occasions in our car.Lillirose. Between Abridge & Stapleford Bridge Essex. Ongar Road and Hook Lane The two roads run East to West about two miles apart more

Resolved Question: Snippets of latin hits online anywhere?

I hear a latin tune at my job, thru MUZAK satellite radio, that's pretty good. Anyone know of a way to find out what the tune is? Are there any websites that let you listen to the top latin radio hits? more

Resolved Question: Anybody like these songs or bands?

10 - Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi 10 - Ray LaMontagne - Forever My Friend 10 - Beatles - I Am The Walrus 10 - Rico - Midnight in Ethiopia 10 - Hooverphonic - Renaissance Affair 10 - Lemon Jelly - '64 (Go) 10 - The White Birch - Beauty King 10 - Sister Flo - White Noise 10 - Cornershop - We're In Yr Corner 10 - John Stanford - The Edge 10 - Porcupine Tree - Point 3 (.3) 10 - James McMurtry - Levelland 10 - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Live) 10 - Ganga Giri - In the Jungle 10 - Ours - Here Is The Light 10 - Doves - Firesuite 10 - Longview - Further 10 - Soundtrack of Our Lives - Sister Surround 10 - Placebo - This Picture 10 - Jesse Colin Young - Ridgetop 10 - Iggy Pop - The Passenger 10 - Chorus of Tribes - Into Morocco 10 - Nighthawks - Hace Mucho 10 - Marc Moulin - Day Fever 10 - Cure - Purple Haze 9 - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather 9 - Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway 9 - Television - 1880 Or So 9 - Modest Mouse - Float On 9 - Beck - Soldier Jane 9 - Deus - What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love) 9 - Donovan - Barabajagal 9 - Elbow - Station Approach 9 - The Real Tuesday Weld - Turn on the Sun Again 9 - Bob Marley - Exodus 9 - The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) 9 - Beatles - Revolution 1 9 - Joni Mitchell - Coyote 9 - Morphine - Buena 9 - Beck - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime 9 - J.J. 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Resolved Question: Is carbon-14 dating accurate? (read the whole article or dont answer)?

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Answers, the new Bible-affirming magazine from Answers in Genesis, is now shipping! Answers features articles on a variety of topics that impact Christians today, and includes a detachable chart, a pullout children’s magazine, excellent layman and semi-technical articles and bonus content from the AnswersMagazine.com website. Our writers, scientists and publishing team believe you’ll be thrilled with Answers. So why wait? Subscribe today! What about carbon dating? by Don Batten (editor), Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, and Carl Wieland First published in The Revised and Expanded Answers Book Chapter 4 How does the carbon ‘clock’ work? Is it reliable? What does carbon dating really show? What about other radiometric dating methods? Is there evidence that the earth is young? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related articles: Radiometric Dating Questions and Answers RATE research reveals remarkable results—a fatal blow to billions of years RATE group reveals exciting breakthroughs! Rating radiodating Radiometric dating breakthroughs The parable of the candle Recommended Resources: Thousands … Not Billions Thousands … Not Billions (DVD) Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth— Volume 1 & Volume 2 & DVD The Revised and Expanded Answers Book Refuting Evolution People who ask about carbon-14 (14C) dating usually want to know about the radiometric1 dating methods that are claimed to give millions and billions of years—carbon dating can only give thousands of years. People wonder how millions of years could be squeezed into the biblical account of history. Clearly, such huge time periods cannot be fitted into the Bible without compromising what the Bible says about the goodness of God and the origin of sin, death and suffering—the reason Jesus came into the world. Christians, by definition, take the statements of Jesus Christ seriously. He said, ‘But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female’ (Mark 10:6). This only makes sense with a time-line beginning with the creation week thousands of years ago. It makes no sense at all if man appeared at the end of billions of years. We will deal with carbon dating first and then with the other dating methods. How the carbon clock works Carbon has unique properties that are essential for life on earth. Familiar to us as the black substance in charred wood, as diamonds, and the graphite in ‘lead’ pencils, carbon comes in several forms, or isotopes. One rare form has atoms that are 14 times as heavy as hydrogen atoms: carbon-14, or 14C, or radiocarbon. Carbon-14 is made when cosmic rays knock neutrons out of atomic nuclei in the upper atmosphere. These displaced neutrons, now moving fast, hit ordinary nitrogen (14N) at lower altitudes, converting it into 14C. Unlike common carbon (12C), 14C is unstable and slowly decays, changing it back to nitrogen and releasing energy. This instability makes it radioactive. Ordinary carbon (12C) is found in the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air, which is taken up by plants, which in turn are eaten by animals. So a bone, or a leaf or a tree, or even a piece of wooden furniture, contains carbon. When the 14C has been formed, like ordinary carbon (12C), it combines with oxygen to give carbon dioxide (14CO2), and so it also gets cycled through the cells of plants and animals. We can take a sample of air, count how many 12C atoms there are for every 14C atom, and calculate the 14C/12C ratio. Because 14C is so well mixed up with 12C, we expect to find that this ratio is the same if we sample a leaf from a tree, or a part of your body. In living things, although 14C atoms are constantly changing back to 14N, they are still exchanging carbon with their surroundings, so the mixture remains about the same as in the atmosphere. However, as soon as a plant or animal dies, the 14C atoms which decay are no longer replaced, so the amount of 14C in that once-living thing decreases as time goes on. In other words, the 14C/12C ratio gets smaller. So, we have a ‘clock’ which starts ticking the moment something dies. Obviously, this works only for things which were once living. It cannot be used to date volcanic rocks, for example. The rate of decay of 14C is such that half of an amount will convert back to 14N in 5,730 years (plus or minus 40 years). This is the ‘half-life.’ So, in two half-lives, or 11,460 years, only one-quarter will be left. Thus, if the amount of 14C relative to 12C in a sample is one-quarter of that in living organisms at present, then it has a theoretical age of 11,460 years. Anything over about 50,000 years old, should theoretically have no detectable 14C left. That is why radiocarbon dating cannot give millions of years. In fact, if a sample contains 14C, it is good evidence that it is not millions of years old. However, things are not quite so simple. First, plants discriminate against carbon dioxide containing 14C. That is, they take up less than would be expected and so they test older than they really are. Furthermore, different types of plants discriminate differently. This also has to be corrected for.2 Second, the ratio of 14C/12C in the atmosphere has not been constant—for example, it was higher before the industrial era when the massive burning of fossil fuels released a lot of carbon dioxide that was depleted in 14C. This would make things which died at that time appear older in terms of carbon dating. Then there was a rise in 14CO2 with the advent of atmospheric testing of atomic bombs in the 1950s.3 This would make things carbon-dated from that time appear younger than their true age. Measurement of 14C in historically dated objects (e.g., seeds in the graves of historically dated tombs) enables the level of 14C in the atmosphere at that time to be estimated, and so partial calibration of the ‘clock’ is possible. Accordingly, carbon dating carefully applied to items from historical times can be useful. However, even with such historical calibration, archaeologists do not regard 14C dates as absolute because of frequent anomalies. They rely more on dating methods that link into historical records. Outside the range of recorded history, calibration of the 14C clock is not possible.4 Other factors affecting carbon dating The amount of cosmic rays penetrating the earth’s atmosphere affects the amount of 14C produced and therefore dating the system. The amount of cosmic rays reaching the earth varies with the sun’s activity, and with the earth's passage through magnetic clouds as the solar system travels around the Milky Way galaxy. The strength of the earth’s magnetic field affects the amount of cosmic rays entering the atmosphere. A stronger magnetic field deflects more cosmic rays away from the earth. Overall, the energy of the earth’s magnetic field has been decreasing,5 so more 14C is being produced now than in the past. This will make old things look older than they really are. Also, the Genesis flood would have greatly upset the carbon balance. The flood buried a huge amount of carbon, which became coal, oil, etc., lowering the total 12C in the biosphere (including the atmosphere—plants regrowing after the flood absorb CO2, which is not replaced by the decay of the buried vegetation). Total 14C is also proportionately lowered at this time, but whereas no terrestrial process generates any more 12C, 14C is continually being produced, and at a rate which does not depend on carbon levels (it comes from nitrogen). Therefore, the 14C/12C ratio in plants/animals/the atmosphere before the flood had to be lower than what it is now. Unless this effect (which is additional to the magnetic field issue just discussed) were corrected for, carbon dating of fossils formed in the flood would give ages much older than the true ages. Creationist researchers have suggested that dates of 35,000 - 45,000 years should be re-calibrated to the biblical date of the flood.6 Such a re-calibration makes sense of anomalous data from carbon dating—for example, very discordant ‘dates’ for different parts of a frozen musk ox carcass from Alaska and an inordinately slow rate of accumulation of ground sloth dung pellets in the older layers of a cave where the layers were carbon dated.7 Also, volcanoes emit much CO2 depleted in 14C. Since the flood was accompanied by much volcanism, fossils formed in the early post-flood period would give radiocarbon ages older than they really are. In summary, the carbon-14 method, when corrected for the effects of the flood, can give useful results, but needs to be applied carefully. It does not give dates of millions of years and when corrected properly fits well with the biblical flood. Other radiometric dating methods There are various other radiometric dating methods used today to give ages of millions or billions of years for rocks. These techniques, unlike carbon dating, mostly use the relative concentrations of parent and daughter products in radioactive decay chains. For example, potassium-40 decays to argon-40; uranium-238 decays to lead-206 via other elements like radium; uranium-235 decays to lead-207; rubidium-87 decays to strontium-87; etc. These techniques are applied to igneous rocks, and are normally seen as giving the time since solidification. The isotope concentrations can be measured very accurately, but isotope concentrations are not dates. To derive ages from such measurements, unprovable assumptions have to be made such as: The starting conditions are known (for example, that there was no daughter isotope present at the start, or that we know how much was there). Decay rates have always been constant. Systems were closed or isolated so that no parent or daughter isotopes were lost or added. There are patterns in the isotope data There is plenty of evidence that the radioisotope dating systems are not the infallible techniques many think, and that they are not measuring millions of years. However, there are still patterns to be explained. For example, deeper rocks often tend to give older ‘ages.’ Creationists agree that the deeper rocks are generally older, but not by millions of years. Geologist John Woodmorappe, in his devastating critique of radioactive dating,8 points out that there are other large-scale trends in the rocks that have nothing to do with radioactive decay. ‘Bad’ dates When a ‘date’ differs from that expected, researchers readily invent excuses for rejecting the result. The common application of such posterior reasoning shows that radiometric dating has serious problems. Woodmorappe cites hundreds of examples of excuses used to explain ‘bad’ dates.9 For example, researchers applied posterior reasoning to the dating of Australopithecus ramidus fossils.10 Most samples of basalt closest to the fossil-bearing strata give dates of about 23 Ma (Mega annum, million years) by the argon-argon method. The authors decided that was ‘too old,’ according to their beliefs about the place of the fossils in the evolutionary grand scheme of things. So they looked at some basalt further removed from the fossils and selected 17 of 26 samples to get an acceptable maximum age of 4.4 Ma. The other nine samples again gave much older dates but the authors decided they must be contaminated and discarded them. That is how radiometric dating works. It is very much driven by the existing long-age world view that pervades academia today. A similar story surrounds the dating of the primate skull known as KNM-ER 1470.11 This started with an initial 212 to 230 Ma, which, according to the fossils, was considered way off the mark (humans ‘weren’t around then’). Various other attempts were made to date the volcanic rocks in the area. Over the years an age of 2.9 Ma was settled upon because of the agreement between several different published studies (although the studies involved selection of ‘good’ from ‘bad’ results, just like Australopithecus ramidus, above). However, preconceived notions about human evolution could not cope with a skull like 1470 being ‘that old.’ A study of pig fossils in Africa readily convinced most anthropologists that the 1470 skull was much younger. After this was widely accepted, further studies of the rocks brought the radiometric age down to about 1.9 Ma—again several studies ‘confirmed’ this date. Such is the dating game. Are we suggesting that evolutionists are conspiring to massage the data to get what they want? No, not generally. It is simply that all observations must fit the prevailing paradigm. The paradigm, or belief system, of molecules-to-man evolution over eons of time, is so strongly entrenched it is not questioned—it is a ‘fact.’ So every observation must fit this paradigm. Unconsciously, the researchers, who are supposedly ‘objective scientists’ in the eyes of the public, select the observations to fit the basic belief system. We must remember that the past is not open to the normal processes of experimental science, that is, repeatable experiments in the present. A scientist cannot do experiments on events that happened in the past. Scientists do not measure the age of rocks, they measure isotope concentrations, and these can be measured extremely accurately. However, the ‘age’ is calculated using assumptions about the past that cannot be proven. We should remember God’s admonition to Job, ‘Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?’ (Job 38:4). Those involved with unrecorded history gather information in the present and construct stories about the past. The level of proof demanded for such stories seems to be much less than for studies in the empirical sciences, such as physics, chemistry, molecular biology, physiology, etc. Williams, an expert in the environmental fate of radioactive elements, identified 17 flaws in the isotope dating reported in just three widely respected seminal papers that supposedly established the age of the earth at 4.6 billion years.12 John Woodmorappe has produced an incisive critique of these dating methods.13 He exposes hundreds of myths that have grown up around the techniques. He shows that the few ‘good’ dates left after the ‘bad’ dates are filtered out could easily be explained as fortunate coincidences. What date would you like? The forms issued by radioisotope laboratories for submission with samples to be dated commonly ask how old the sample is expected to be. Why? If the techniques were absolutely objective and reliable, such information would not be necessary. Presumably, the laboratories know that anomalous dates are common, so they need some check on whether they have obtained a ‘good’ date. Testing radiometric dating methods If the long-age dating techniques were really objective means of finding the ages of rocks, they should work in situations where we know the age. Furthermore, different techniques should consistently agree with one another. Methods should work reliably on things of known age There are many examples where the dating methods give ‘dates’ that are wrong for rocks of known age. One example is K-Ar ‘dating’ of five historical andesite lava flows from Mount Nguaruhoe in New Zealand. Although one lava flow occurred in 1949, three in 1954, and one in 1975, the ‘dates’ range from less than 0.27 to 3.5 Ma.14 Again, using hindsight, it is argued that ‘excess’ argon from the magma (molten rock) was retained in the rock when it solidified. The secular scientific literature lists many examples of excess argon causing dates of millions of years in rocks of known historical age.15 This excess appears to have come from the upper mantle, below the earth’s crust. This is consistent with a young world—the argon has had too little time to escape.16 If excess argon can cause exaggerated dates for rocks of known age, then why should we trust the method for rocks of unknown age? Other techniques, such as the use of isochrons,17 make different assumptions about starting conditions, but there is a growing recognition that such ‘foolproof’ techniques can also give ‘bad’ dates. So data are again selected according to what the researcher already believes about the age of the rock. Geologist Dr Steve Austin sampled basalt from the base of the Grand Canyon strata and from the lava that spilled over the edge of the canyon. By evolutionary reckoning, the latter should be a billion years younger than the basalt from the bottom. Standard laboratories analyzed the isotopes. The rubidium-strontium isochron technique suggested that the recent lava flow was 270 Ma older than the basalts beneath the Grand Canyon—an impossibility. Different dating techniques should consistently agree If the dating methods are an objective and reliable means of determining ages, they should agree. If a chemist were measuring the sugar content of blood, all valid methods for the determination would give the same answer (within the limits of experimental error). However, with radiometric dating, the different techniques often give quite different results. In the study of the Grand Canyon rocks by Austin, different techniques gave different results.18 Again, all sorts of reasons can be suggested for the ‘bad’ dates, but this is again posterior reasoning. Techniques that give results that can be dismissed just because they don’t agree with what we already believe cannot be considered objective. In Australia, some wood found in Tertiary basalt was clearly buried in the lava flow that formed the basalt, as can be seen from the charring. The wood was ‘dated’ by radiocarbon (14C) analysis at about 45,000 years old, but the basalt was ‘dated’ by potassium-argon method at 45 million years old!19 Isotope ratios or uraninite crystals from the Koongarra uranium body in the Northern Territory of Australia gave lead-lead isochron ages of 841 Ma, plus or minus 140 Ma.20 This contrasts with an age of 1550-1650 Ma based on other isotope ratios,21 and ages of 275, 61, 0,0, and 0 Ma for thorium/lead (232Th/208Pb) ratios in five uraninite grains. The latter figures are significant because thorium-derived dates should be the more reliable, since thorium is less mobile than the uranium minerals that are the parents of the lead isotopes in lead-lead system.22 The ‘zero’ ages in this case are consistent with the Bible. More evidence something is wrong—14C in fossils supposedly millions of years old Fossils older than 100,000 years should have too little 14C to measure, but dating labs consistently find 14C, well above background levels, in fossils supposedly many millions of years old.23,24 For example, no source of coal has been found that lacks 14C, yet this fossil fuel supposedly ranges up to hundreds of millions of years old. Fossils in rocks dated at 1–500 Ma by long-age radioisotope dating methods gave an average radiocarbon ‘age’ of about 50,000 years, much less than the limits of modern carbon dating24 (see pp. 65–69 in The Revised and Expanded Answers Book for why even these radiocarbon ages are inflated). Furthermore, there was no pattern of younger to older in the carbon dates that correlated with the evolutionary/uniformitarian ‘ages’.24 This evidence is consistent with the fossil-bearing rock layers being formed in the year-long global catastrophe of the biblical Flood, as flood geologists since Nicholas Steno (1631–1687) have recognized. Even Precambrian (‘older than 545 Ma’) graphite, which is not of organic origin, contains 14C above background levels.25 This is consistent with Earth itself being only thousands of years old, as a straightforward reading of the Bible would suggest. Many physical evidence contradict the ‘billions of years’ Of the methods that have been used to estimate the age of the earth, 90 percent point to an age far less than the billions of years asserted by evolutionists. A few of them follow. Evidence for a rapid formation of geological strata, as in the biblical flood. Some of the evidence are: lack of erosion between rock layers supposedly separated in age by many millions of years; lack of disturbance of rock strata by biological activity (worms, roots, etc.); lack of soil layers; polystrate fossils (which traverse several rock layers vertically—these could not have stood vertically for eons of time while they slowly got buried); thick layers of ‘rock’ bent without fracturing, indicating that the rock was all soft when bent; and more. For more, see books by geologists Morris26 and Austin.27 Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some (unfossilized!) dinosaur bone. But these could not last more than a few thousand years—certainly not the 65 Ma since the last dinosaurs lived, according to evolutionists.28 The earth’s magnetic field has been decaying so fast that it looks like it is less than 10,000 years old. Rapid reversals during the Flood year and fluctuations shortly after would have caused the field energy to drop even faster.29, 30 Radioactive decay releases helium into the atmosphere, but not much is escaping. The total amount in the atmosphere is 1/2000th of that expected if the universe is really billions of years old. This helium originally escaped from rocks. This happens quite fast, yet so much helium is still in some rocks that it has not had time to escape—certainly not billions of years.30 A supernova is an explosion of a massive star—the explosion is so bright that it briefly outshines the rest of the galaxy. The supernova remnants (SNRs) should keep expanding for hundreds of thousands of years, according to physical equations. Yet there are no very old, widely expanded (Stage 3) SNRs, and few moderately old (Stage 1) ones in our galaxy, the Milky Way, or in its satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. This is just what we would expect for ‘young’ galaxies that have not existed long enough for wide expansion.31 The moon is slowly receding from the earth at about 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year, and this rate would have been greater in the past. But even if the moon had started receding from being in contact with the earth, it would have taken only 1.37 billion years to reach its present distance from the earth. This gives a maximum age of the moon, not the actual age. This is far too young for evolutionists who claim the moon is 4.6 billion years old. It is also much younger than the radiometric ‘dates’ assigned to moon rocks.32 Salt is entering the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for billions of years. Even granting generous assumptions to evolutionists, the sea could not be more than 62 Ma years old—far younger than the billions of years believed by the evolutionists. Again, this indicates a maximum age, not the actual age.33 Dr Russell Humphreys gives other processes inconsistent with billions of years in the pamphlet Evidence for a Young World.34 Creationists cannot prove the age of the earth using a particular scientific method, any more than evolutionists can. They realize that all science is tentative because we do not have all the data, especially when dealing with the past. This is true of both creationist and evolutionist scientific arguments—evolutionists have had to abandon many ‘proofs’ for evolution just as creationists have also had to modify their arguments. The atheistic evolutionist W.B. Provine admitted: ‘Most of what I learned of the field [evolutionary biology] in graduate (1964-68) school is either wrong or significantly changed.’ 35 Creationists understand the limitations of dating methods better than evolutionists who claim that they can use processes observed in the present to ‘prove’ that the earth is billions of years old. In reality, all dating methods, including those that point to a young earth, rely on unprovable assumptions. Creationists ultimately date the earth historically using the chronology of the Bible. This is because they believe that this is an accurate eyewitness account of world history, which bears the evidence within it that it is the Word of God, and therefore totally reliable and error-free. Then what do the radiometric ‘dates’ mean? What do the radiometric dates of millions of years mean, if they are not true ages? To answer this question, it is necessary to scrutinize further the experimental results from the various dating techniques, the interpretations made on the basis of the results and the assumptions underlying those interpretations. The isochron dating technique was thought to be infallible because it supposedly covered the assumptions about starting conditions and closed systems. Geologist Dr Andrew Snelling worked on dating the Koongarra uranium deposits in the Northern Territory of Australia, primarily using the uranium-thorium-lead (U-Th-Pb) method. He found that even highly weathered soil samples from the area, which are definitely not closed systems, gave apparently valid ‘isochron’ lines with ‘ages’ of up to 1,445 Ma. Such ‘false isochrons’ are so common that a whole terminology has grown up to describe them, such as apparent isochron, mantle isochron, pseudoisochron, secondary isochron, inherited isochron, erupted isochron, mixing line and mixing isochron. Zheng wrote: Some of the basic assumptions of the conventional Rb-Sr [rubidium-strontium] isochron method have to be modified and an observed isochron does not certainly define valid age information for a geological system, even if a goodness of fit of the experimental results is obtained in plotting 87Sr/86Sr. This problem cannot be overlooked, especially in evaluating the numerical time scale. Similar questions can also arise in applying Sm-Nd [samarium-neodymium] and U-Pb [uranium-lead] isochron methods.37 Clearly, there are factors other than age responsible for the straight lines obtained from graphing isotope ratios. Again, the only way to know if an isochron is ‘good’ is by comparing the result with what is already believed. Another currently popular dating method is the uranium-lead concordia technique. This effectively combines the two uranium-lead decay series into one diagram. Results that lie on the concordia curve have the same age according to the two lead series and are called ‘concordant.’ However, the results from zircons (a type of gemstone), for example, generally lie off the concordia curve—they are discordant. Numerous models, or stories, have been developed to explain such data.38 However, such exercises in story-telling can hardly be considered as objective science that proves an old earth. Again, the stories are evaluated according to their own success in agreeing with the existing long ages belief system. Andrew Snelling has suggested that fractionation (sorting) of elements in the molten state in the earth’s mantle could be a significant factor in explaining the ratios of isotope concentrations which are interpreted as ages. As long ago as 1966, Nobel Prize nominee Melvin Cook, professor of metallurgy at the University of Utah, pointed out evidence that lead isotope ratios, for example, may involve alteration by important factors other than radioactive decay.39 Cook noted that, in ores from the Katanga mine, for example, there was an abundance of lead-208, a stable isotope, but no Thorium-232 as a source for lead-208. Thorium has a long half-life (decays very slowly) and is not easily moved out of the rock, so if the lead-208 came from thorium decay, some thorium should still be there. The concentrations of lead-206, lead-207, and lead-208 suggest that the lead-208 came about by neutron capture conversion of lead-206 to lead-207 to lead-208. When the isotope concentrations are adjusted for such conversions, the ages calculated are reduced from some 600 Ma to recent. Other ore bodies seemed to show similar evidence. Cook recognized that the current understanding of nuclear physics did not seem to allow for such a conversion under normal conditions, but he presents evidence that such did happen, and even suggests how it could happen. Anomalies in deep rock crystals Physicist Dr Robert Gentry has pointed out that the amount of helium and lead in zircons from deep bores is not consistent with an evolutionary age of 1,500 Ma for the granite rocks in which they are found.40 The amount of lead may be consistent with current rates of decay over millions of years, but it would have diffused out of the crystals in that time. Furthermore, the amount of helium in zircons from hot rock is also much more consistent with a young earth (helium derives from the decay of radioactive elements). The lead and helium results suggest that rates of radioactive decay may have been much higher in the recent past. Humphreys has suggested that this may have occurred during creation week and the flood. This would make things look much older than they really are when current rates of decay are applied to dating. Whatever caused such elevated rates of decay may also have been responsible for the lead isotope conversions claimed by Cook (above). Orphan radiohalos Decaying radioactive particles in solid rock cause spherical zones of damage to the surrounding crystal structure. A speck of radioactive element such as Uranium-238, for example, will leave a sphere of discoloration of characteristically different radius for each element it produces in its decay chain to lead-206.41 Viewed in cross-section with a microscope, these spheres appear as rings called radiohalos. Dr Gentry has researched radiohalos for many years, and published his results in leading scientific journals.42 Some of the intermediate decay products—such as the polonium isotopes—have very short half-lives (they decay quickly). For example, 218Po has a half-life of just 3 minutes. Curiously, rings formed by polonium decay are often found embedded in crystals without the parent uranium halos. Now the polonium has to get into the rock before the rock solidifies, but it cannot derive a from a uranium speck in the solid rock, otherwise there would be a uranium halo. Either the polonium was created (primordial, not derived from uranium), or there have been radical changes in decay rates in the past. Gentry has addressed all attempts to criticize his work.43 There have been many attempts, because the orphan halos speak of conditions in the past, either at creation or after, perhaps even during the flood, which do not fit with the uniformitarian view of the past, which is the basis of the radiometric dating systems. Whatever process was responsible for the halos could be a key also to understanding radiometric dating.44 Conclusion There are many lines of evidence that the radiometric dates are not the objective evidence for an old earth that many claim, and that the world is really only thousands of years old. We don't have all the answers, but we do have the sure testimony of the Word of God to the true history of the world. Recommended resources Thousands … Not Billions (DVD) Christians no longer have to puzzle over the seemingly glaring contradiction between dating methods and the Bible's account of earth history. Radioisotopes & the Age of the Earth (DVD) Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth—Volume 1 (Hardcover) Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth—Volume 2 (Hardcover) Results of a young-earth creationist research initiative Does Carbon Dating Disprove the Bible? (Booklet) The Young Earth (Softcover) Explains in easy-to-understand terms how true science supports a young age for the Earth. Evidence For a Young World (Booklet) Contains a dozen natural phenomena which conflict with the evolutionary idea that the earth is billions of years old. The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods (Softcover) References and notes Also known as isotope or radioisotope dating. Today, a stable carbon isotope, 13C , is measured as an indication of the level of discrimination against 14C. Radiation from atomic testing, like cosmic rays, causes the conversion of 14N to 14C. Tree ring dating (dendrochronology) has been used in an attempt to extend the calibration of carbon-14 dating earlier than historical records allow, but this depends on temporal placement of fragments of wood (from long dead trees) using carbon-14 dating, assuming straight-line extrapolation backwards. Then cross-matching of ring patterns is used to calibrate the carbon ‘clock’—a somewhat circular process which does not give an independent calibration of the carbon dating system. K.L. McDonald and R.H. Gunst, ‘An Analysis of the Earth's Magnetic Field from 1835 to 1965,’ ESSA Technical Report IER 46-IES, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., p. 14, 1965. B.J. Taylor, ‘Carbon Dioxide in the Antediluvian Atmosphere,’ Creation Research Society Quarterly, 30(4):193-197, 1994. R.H. Brown, ‘Correlation of C-14 Age with Real Time,’ Creation Research Society Quarterly, 29:45-47, 1992. Musk ox muscle was dated at 24,000 years, but hair was dated at 17,000 years. Corrected dates bring the difference in age approximately within the life span of an ox. With sloth cave dung, standard carbon dates of the lower layers suggested less than 2 pellets per year were produced by the sloths. Correcting the dates increased the number to a more realistic 1.4 per day. J. Woodmorappe, The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods, Institute for Creation Research, San Diego, CA, 1999. Ibid. G. WoldeGabriel et al., ‘Ecological and Temporal Placement of Early Pliocene Hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia,’ Nature, 371:330-333, 1994. M. Lubenow, The Pigs Took It All, Creation 17(3):36-38, 1995. M. Lubenow, Bones of Contention, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI, pp. 247-266, 1993. A.R. Williams, Long-age Isotope Dating Short on Credibility, CEN Technical Journal, 6(1):2-5, 1992. Woodmorappe, The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods. A.A. Snelling, The Cause of Anomalous Potassium-argon ‘Ages’ for Recent Andesite Flows at Mt. Nguaruhoe, New Zealand, and the Implications for Potassium-argon ‘Dating,’ Proc. 4th ICC, pp.503-525, 1998. Note 14 lists many instances. For example, six cases were reported by D. Krummenacher, Isotopic Composition of Argon in Modern Surface Rocks, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 6:47-55, 1969. A large excess was reported in D.E. Fisher, Excess Rare Gases in a Subaerial Basalt in Nigeria, Nature, 232:60-61, 1970. See note 14, p. 520. The isochron technique involves collecting a number of rock samples from different parts of the rock unit being dated. The concentration of a parent radioactive isotope, such as rubidium-87, is graphed against the concentration of a daughter isotope, such as strontium-87, for all the samples. A straight line is drawn through these points, representing the ratio of the parent:daughter, from which a date is calculated. If the line is of good fit and the ‘age’ is acceptable, it is a ‘good’ date. The method involves dividing both the parent and daughter concentrations by the concentration of a similar stable isotope—in this case, strontium-86. S.A. Austin, editor, Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe, Institute for Creation Research, Santee, CA, pp. 120-131, 1994. A.A. Snelling, Radiometric Dating in Conflict, Creation, 20(1):24-27, 1998. A.A. Snelling, The Failure of U-Th-Pb ‘Dating’ at Koongarra, Australia, CEN Technical Journal, 9(1):71-92, 1995. R. Maas, Nd-Sr Isotope Constraints on the Age and Origin of Unconformity-type Uranium Deposits in the Alligator Rivers Uranium Field, Northern Territory, Australia, Economic Geology, 84:64-90, 1989. See note 20. Giem, P., Carbon-14 content of fossil carbon, Origins 51:6–30, 2001. Baumgardner, J.R., Snelling, A.S., Humphreys, D.R., and Austin, S.A., Measurable 14C in fossilized organic materials: confirming the young earth creation-flood model, Proc. 5th ICC, pp. 127–142, 2003. Ibid. J. Morris, The Young Earth, Master Books, Green Forest, AR, 1994. Austin, Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe. C. Wieland, Sensational Dinosaur Blood Report, Creation, 19(4):42-43, 1997, based on M. Schweitzer and T. Staedter, The Real Jurassic Park, Earth, pp. 55-57, June 1997. D.R. Humphreys, Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field During the Genesis Flood, Proc. First ICC, Pittsburgh, PA, 2:113-126, 1986. J.D. Sarfati, The Earth's Magnetic Field: Evidence That the Earth Is Young, Creation, 20(2):15-19, 1998. L. Vardiman, The Age of the Earth’s Atmosphere: A Study of the Helium Flux through the Atmosphere, Institute for Creation Research, San Diego, CA, 1990. J.D. Sarfati, Blowing Old-earth Belief Away: Helium Gives Evidence That the Earth is Young, Creation, 20(3):19-21, 1998. K. Davies, Distribution of Supernova Remnants in the Galaxy, Proc. Third ICC, R.E. Walsh, editor, pp. 175-184, 1994. D. DeYoung, The Earth-Moon System, Proc. Second ICC, R.E. Walsh and C.L. Brooks, editors, 2:79-84, 1990. J.D. Sarfati, The Moon: The Light That Rules the Night, Creation, 20(4):36-39, 1998. S.A. Austin and D.R. Humphreys, The Sea’s Missing Salt: A Dilemma for Evolutionists, Proc. Second ICC, 2:17-33, 1990. J.D. Sarfati, Salty Seas: Evidence for a Young Earth, Creation, 21(1):16-17, 1999. Russell Humphreys, Evidence for a Young World, Answers in Genesis, 1999. A review of Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science, National Academy of Science USA, 1998, by Dr Will B. Provine, online at http://fp.bio.utk.edu/darwin/NAS_guidebook/provine_1.html, February 18, 1999. See Woodmorappe, The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods, for one such thorough evaluation. Y.F. Zheng, Influence of the Nature of Initial Rb-Sr System on Isochron Validity, Chemical Geology, 80:1-16, p. 14, 1989. E. Jager and J.C. Hunziker, editors, Lectures in Isotope Geology, U-Th-Pb Dating of Minerals, by D. Gebauer and M. Grunenfelder, Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 105-131, 1979. M.A. Cook, Prehistory and Earth Models, Max Parrish, London, 1966. R.V. Gentry, Creation's Tiny Mystery, Earth Science Associates, Knoxville, TN, 1986. Only those that undergo alpha decay (releasing a helium nucleus). Gentry, Creation's Tiny Mystery. K.P. Wise, letter to the editor and replies by M. Armitage and R.V. Gentry, CEN Technical Journal, 12(3):285-90, 1998. An international team of creationist scientists is actively pursuing a creationist understanding of radioisotope dating. Known as the RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) group, it combines the skills of various physicists and geologists to enable a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject. 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