Battery Operated Televisions

how can i plug my gameboy pocket into my gamecube? are there any adapters that allow a game boy pocket to be used through the gamecube (so you can see it on the tv and use the gamecube controller)? is there any way to plug the gameboy pocket into an adaptor through the link port and then into the tv? basically--how can i play my gameboy pocket games on the television [preferably with larger, gamecube controllers].

Does anyone know the title or artist of a Turkish or Greek song that includes the lyrics "in my pocket?"? I heard a song by a female singer while in Istanbul in January that had the lyrics "in my pocket", "of all time" and "so fine." In late April I saw it on Greek television with the female practicing for a performance while bellydancing. I really liked the song and wish I knew who the artist is! Thanks for your help :)

What PDA or Pocket PC that can transmit Powerpoint files to the projector or any television?

You have 15 coins in your pocket that are either quarters or nickels. They total $2.75. How many of each coin? Write a system of equations to model each situation. Solve by any method. Also. Your local cable television company offers two plans: basic service with one movie channel for $35 per month or basic service with two movie channels for $45 per month. What is the charge for the basic service and the charge for each movie channel?

The other day i left a pocket calculator on top of my television...? my wife changed the batteries twice before she realised what was wrong and found the remote to change to Channel 4 to see Look Good Naked with Limp Kok. My question is - is a body stocking the answer for everything?

What does the phrase "I got you in my pocket" mean? I heard it on a television show, I think it was "From G's to Gents".

I recently finished paying on a 52 inch tv thru RAC and now it doesn't work. What can I do? I just finished paying for a television that I rented thru Rent A Center, but during that time it was sent to the shop about 4 times. Now that the televison is paid for they say in order to get it fixed I have to pay out of pocket. This 52' projection television is sitting in my livingroom and I can't even watch it. Is there anything I can do about this?

Looking to build a motorized cabinet lifting a hidden television? I've decided to build one of those fancy cabinets that have a television hidden inside it with the touch of the remote. The lifts cost anywhere between $1000-$3000. I don't have that kind of pocket change, so I'm mainly looking for something that is somewhat the same components in a garage door, and should be able to jimmy that into a cabinet. Any ideas where I would be able to buy these components or the complete setup? I'm looking to spend anywhere under $150. Am I being unreasonable?

About the new television era...? Can anyone tell me what is going to happen with those miniature pocket televisions? Since TVs will get no reception without paid cable, converter box , or dish I wonder how are we going to operate those little TVs. I want one so I can carry when I go out, but need to find out first if I will not spend my money on something that will not work. Thanks for the information.

Liberals why do you hate Fox News so bad? You have just about every other television news program in your pocket. Can't you stand to have just one that does not follow the liberal line?

Editing movie captured on vaio's giga pocket with windows movie maker? i am trying to edit television footage on windows movie maker that i captured on my vaio's giga pocket tv tuner software...i have exported the file but all i get is a black screen with the sound on movie maker. i was wondering if somebody could help me or give me some suggestions for good quality free video editing software thanks

what do you think of this poem? Glory be forever to the pretty-headed heroes and heroines Who hung upside down in Soho bars and painted the floors with vomit and pocket change, Who ate fire and drank chemicals in cold-water flats, watching the apocalypse on black and white pocket televisions, Who slept naked in coverless beds tasting the metal of flesh and black delights on tablespoons, Who drew up plans to invade Turkmanistan on the back of a matchbox and lost it on the Airport bus, Who drove a car with no radio to the end of the world, pitched a tent under a Rose-bush and overthrew the Government, Reinvented their hairstyles seventeen times and got jobs at the Post Office as Cleansing Engineers, Who finally walked backwards on their hands over rough gravel with their tongues hanging out to lie on the floor of the houses of their birth and stare up at the Bathroom light without blinking, These words I write for you. It is mine, I didn't steal it from Charlie

anyone got any thoughts to share on this poem? Glory be forever to the pretty-headed heroes and heroines Unending shapes without artforms, who dyed themselves in the colours of the palette and painted their youth without adding water. Who hung upside down in Soho bars and painted the floors with vomit and pocket change, Who ate fire and drank chemicals in cold-water flats, watching the apocalypse on black and white pocket televisions, Who shaved their hair and slept naked in coverless beds, tasted metally flesh and black delight on tablespoons, Who drew up plans to invade Turkmenistan on the back of a matchbox and lost it out the window of the Airport bus, Who drove a car with no radio to the end of the world, pitched a tent under a Rose-bush and overthrew the Government, Who reinvented their hairstyles seventeen times and got jobs at the Post Office as Cleansing Engineers, Who walked backwards on their hands over rough gravel with their tongues hanging out to lie on the floor of the houses of their birth and stare up at the Bathroom light without blinking before getting it together at forty seven to paint an abstract mural of 'The Great Deluge' in three sessions as a gift for an old folks' home in Knightsbridge.

Is there a research or project about this? I know it sounds silly but is there a research in finding a wireless power source? Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to use inconvenient power cords to use the vacuum cleaner, the computer or the television? Or we could charge cellphones in our pocket without having to leave it somewhere until it charges up? Technology developed so fast in the past 100 years that I'm starting to think that this is actually possible.

What television show involves a scene where a guy shoots himself in a gun store? it may be a movie, I can't remember now. All I remember was a scene where he goes into a gun store, he tells the store clerk how he is going to use the gun for hunting. As the clerk turns to get him another gun, the guy pulls a bullet out of his pocket, loads the gun, then shoots himself. I want to say it's a detective show? I wish I could remember more, but that's all I got.

What is the name of the procedure for cauterizing under eye bags? BEST ANSWER to the right answer!? Evidently this procedure was done on network television. Good Morning America or one of those types of morning shows. I cannot find the name of it or any record of it existing... It has been a few years since the show aired, does anyone know about this? It involved inserting an electrocautery tip in to the under eye bag and cauterizing the pocket that holds fluid. BEST ANSWER to whoever gets me the info I need! Thanks in advance!

How much television do you let your toddler watch? My almost 3 yr old is addicted to TV. Well not TV, her Disney DVDs; Toy Story, Monsters Inc. Mickey Mouse Beach Party, 101 Dalmatians, etc. I've set a limit of 1 hour a day or 1 movie a day and her father doesn't agree with me. He thinks she should be able to watch them all day long! Just trying to get a few different perspectives on the idea. And maybe some ammo in my back pocket for the next time mom & dad have a discussion on this matter. Thanks!

Hypothetically, if you could bring a 16th century man to the 21st, how would he react? Let's see... Strange things that capture peoples' souls (cameras), Weapons capable of destroying a whole city (nukes), Building "as high as mountains", "Pocket Orchestra" (iPod) Witchcraft (electricity/television/computer/telepathy over cell phone or internet) Metal birds in the sky Man-made diseases (bioweapons) The list goes on...

My friend Randy is having a spell becauase they took Doctor Who off our local PBS station? We live in Maryland. He does not have cable. What recourse does he have? It aired on MPT (Maryland Public Television). When he calls the station they say thy aren't able to air the series because someone else bought the rights. Then they offer to send him a complimentary MPT pocket protector. He already has several.

Why does my Blackberry cause interference with my television? I've had my Blackberry a while now and ever since I've had it, it makes all electrical things make that buzzing sound like interference when I'm receiving text messages and it even does it when I'm not receiving them. I've also noticed I get headache's when I've made phone calls. Is it dangerous at all? I'm worried because I have it in my pocket most of the time and I really don't want it to make me infertile or something.

Does anyone else think that maybe Efren Reyes struck a deal with the Devil? First of all, I'm not trying to take a single thing away from his incredible skill. My point is, have you ever noticed how often he just tries to play a simple safety and somehow the 9-ball magically gets kicked all over the table and finds its way into a pocket? I realize that television does a disservice to pool fans by presenting the most rare situations in pool almost exclusively, but come on people. He seems to get awfully damn lucky a lot of the time. Again, I agree that he's about as good as they come, so don't start in on me for trying to be critical. M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

What would you do in this situation? Scenerio* You wake from sleeping, you step from your room, turn on the television, and try the radio, no power. You take your car to the store to get batteries for your radio, no one around, the store is empty. You step out back to your car, while looking down to pull keys out of your pocket. You look up... Zombies, everywhere.

What is your best memory from the 90s? It can be music, television, or something that everybody can relate to. Please don't mention the time that you found $20 in your pocket..........or the time that you got a pair of adidas for your birthday....or the time you made all A's.....in other words, don't make it too personal.

What is this HDTV takeover on televisions about in February? Does this mean unless we have a HDTV or satelite or cable with HD we can't watch. I have several room sizeTVs and several portable for carrying on vacation or to work or wherever. Does this mean we will not be able to watch our TV's . I can't afford to go and buy special equipment or new HDTVs just to watch TV. In fact, there are millions of people who all can't afford to buy adaptable equipment. As the world knows, television is the poor man's entertainment. There is the elderly, the shut ins and many others who depend on their TVS that use outside or tv attached antennaes. Most of my TVs rely on the attached aereal antennae. Who came up with this idea? Whose pockets is this going to pad from the changeover? and, most of all, Why do this to so many people when what we had worked and was available to everyone free, other than the electricity used. If people have satellite or cable, it is their choice to pay for it. If I am all wrong about HDTV please let me and the millions of others who don't understand, know. Thank you

why life in thailand a lot cheaper, cleaner, compare to philippines? i am asking myself why Filipinos doesn't protest about the condition in their country,the dirt, the abuse,corruption etc, they have television to see what's going on in their country but it seems they are living dead, the present government practice corruption and abuse of power in all domain and sector police always look for something to extract money from someone especially foreigners and the government has their blessing since they are in the same course, in the department of labor indirectly the staff design someone to someone for their paper procedures and after the deal done that government staff will take his commission from this someone who claimed the money for some paper work. filipinos how long you are going to swallow this kind of government you got, the thing is those who visits philippines they published their experience through travel agency and this is being published in travel agency's tabloid or inside books for travel guide, the success of thailand is through people who experience good welcome, filipinos if you don't wake up from your sleep your country will be abandon in the hands of sharks who only look their pocket gain

where can i get a television recorder ,that records straight to dvd? HD Preferably? ive been looking for television screen recorders, as i have money burning a hole in my pocket, but all ive found go straight into your pc. i want one that records to dvd, but i dont want a normal dvd player, just one that records and doesnt play back, because i assume this will be cheaper. any help would be good :)

will a pawn shop take any of these things? I was wondering if a pawn shop will take any of these things. . A vibrating pillow .Nintendo ds ( not the dsi) with two games .porcelain doll .Ipod shuffle with an apple usb cord .1972 acoustic guitar. . Massey fan. .a frost stainless steel flying falcon pocket knife 5in blade .contec television .

3 students go into a shop to buy a television? The manager says to the assistant "they are only students,knock £5 off the price the assistant puts £2 in his pocket and tells the students that there is a reduction of £3 So the students pay £9 each and the assistant pockets £2 Total= £29 What happened to the other pound

Which of the following do you consider a necessity in your life? 1. sleeping with more than one pillow 2. sunblock lotion 3. television 4. toe or fingernail clippers 5. vitamins 6. pocket protector 7. computers 8. toilet paper or wet wipe cloths 9. jello 10. music More than one answer is cool....=) thanx~

Aliens, Voices, Invisible forces, The answer? I was sitting in a park watching a pocket television, two men were approaching, one said "Watch this" and the television picture started tearing up, thinking they were doing it I decided not to react, when they had passed I heard him say "He must know what we are doing" my conclusion was the voices were in my head and the interference was invisible forces. These invisible forces can interfere with anything I am using such as cameras recorders, computers. Another thing is in a betting shop, a voice tells me I cannot win they will stop me, several times I know my horse should have won. conclusion This intelligence is in every living thing and it is either Demons or God himself.

is an extended television warranty worth it? I recently purchased a televsion from circut city. The sales representative told me that I needed to purchase a 5 year extended warranty because the television may malfunction in 5 years. Now, I worked for a former electronics shop (Radio Shack, and now I do legal services), and I remember we use to sell those extended plans for extra money in our pockets. I didnt think back then it was needed, and I dont think now it is needed. But the way technology is today, would it be neded for a flat panel LCD Television?

Those charities on the television, the ones with that fat fellow and a poor child? arm in arm and all that, talking about how your money will sponsor them, is it much too cynical of me to think that they are just scam artists, lining their own pockets with your money while simultaneously exploiting the poor to do so?

This is a dual question. Can I use my Visa debit card while in Morocco? It is supposed to be the same as a? credit card and you know all those television advertisements say they are accepted world wide. Is this true of Morocco? I am taking some cash, but since I'll be there for 90 days I don't want to take that much cash and don't want to pay the fee to have it sent by Western Union if I can avoid it. Second part: besides my clothes and shoes of course, and shampoo, soap, hair dryer etc. I am also packing wet wipes, pocket kleenexes and hand sanitizer thanks to the previous questions and information about the bathrooms. I've got my mp3 player, dvd/cd player, cds, videos for my long layover in London. I've purchased gifts for his family, taking artificial sweetener(I'm a diabetic) cuz not sure I can get it there. My meds, passport and documents to get married. Can anyone think of anything important I haven't listed that I will need cuz I'm gonna be there for 90 days. Any suggestions are appreciated as long as I can do it quickly cuz I'm leaving on Tuesday, August 28th. Yes I did mean to use the debit card at an ATM for cash, not to make purchases at stores.

Have you ever considered masterminding a hoax to get a t.v. reality show? I once told the sheriff's department that a nerdish extraterrestrial stole my pocket protector before subjecting me to a painful anal probe. All the networks passed on my reality show that I wanted to call, "Nerd Alien Violates The School Bully of Wimpy High". Go figure. It would surely have been a hit with viewers wanting something different on television.

Why does the news call the Iraq oil invasion segment the "War on Terror" segment? Why does my local news go from local news, to national news, to a segment that is called "The War on Terror" that talks about what's going on in Iraq, when in fact what's going on in Iraq has more to do with lining the pockets of Big Oil and contractors and lobbyists, and passing various neocon agendas through American fear, than _fighting_ any sort of terror? Why fight it when it makes so much money for politicians? I don't really watch television too much, but my spouse does, so I know that at least two local news shows call that segment, "The War on Terror." Why?

My finished essay on money tell me what you guys think? i suck at grammer so any help on that would be lovely just tell me what i need to edit and if i screwed up anywhere thanks for all help will rep Does The Size of Our Pocket Matter? Do you want to be a millionaire? Many people dream about it every night. Sure, it would be great to acquire nearly anything you want, but is it more important than a healthy cheerful life. Many people are unaware of the problem and responsibilities money can bring to a person life. Although money is an important factor of living, one must not give up his or her life chasing the million-dollar dream. In historic times, people used gold and silver as a source of trade, which was truly inconvenient. This sequentially brought the concept of money as a way of trade to citizens. Money can change the way a person looks at things. There are many sayings present explaining how money is the root of all evil. It is what makes one-do awful and regrettable deeds. Money makes you get away from the things you love, and your proper friends that actually care about you, not your capital. This wealthy person starts acting, speaking, and even thinking differently. This concept of money brings an entirely new personality to the person. Not only can this push your friends away from you, but can also make your family disgusted of all the arrogance wealth has brought you. As if change was not enough for this wealthy man, this person also experiences problems. A common person has the belief that big numbers will resolve all their troubles and bring them a life of happiness. This might be true to some sense but truth is they just are not satisfied. In fact, wealthy people are more likely to suffer from depression and stress due to the amount of responsibility money brings. The wealthy will also have to watch each move they make, because the spotlight will be always on them. Just as if one may see on television nowadays, many of the wealthy celebrities are prone to be caught of their mistake and maybe even thrown in jail. The phrase “with great power comes great responsibility” comes into play tremendously with this wealth since that money gives you tremendous power, and you must manage it responsibly. All eyes will be on you all the time because of your pocket size. In my opinion, money should be viewed more as a concept rather then something you require in order to be successful. It is a form of barter for goods not a form of who is superior or inferior. This is the original reason why our ancestors even came up with this idea. Wealth will also make you acquire more revenue. This can be one of the worst problems one may ever experience. Seeing all the funds you have in your bank, it will come naturally for you to invest that money and grow bigger and more powerful. There are many downsides in investing some of them being stress, freedom, and time. For example, if someone invests in the stock market that person is applicable to lose large amounts of money. This in turn will bring him downhill and put a lot of stress on him. If the person invested in a business, it will bring lots of work to their table and will eventually put gray hair on their skull. Another deed Investing will make you do is step over lots of modest people showing them no mercy and no heart. This greed of becoming richer will not only bring you down but will place you on numerous hit lists. Many people think money is all you need in this life and money will heal all wounds. In my opinion, money is bound to bring you more problems, many uninvited changes, and a greed for more. The money will also attract many awful human beings who will love to get their hands on the wealth. Theses factors make money not as important as what you currently surround and adore. This brings me to my original question. Do you want to be a millionaire?

POLL: Doesn't anyone hate when you're broke, not having any cash in your pocket with no food in the house and? when you turn on television, commercials keep showing delicious, mouth watering, and scrumptious food like from Burger King or restaurant favorites like Red Lobster, and such like that. Even when you keep changing the channel, they keep showing food advertisements and it's stuck in your mind? It's not about being poor. You don't have to be poor when you run out of money for a short while. I mean just get at that moment when you're like, F**ck why are they showing this on mad channels?! Even some rich people run out of money and end up getting pizza or something. @stratus-uuuum, any u are? :-/ I'm not your girl either. I don't even like country music lol.

how do these pads they sell on television work, and do they really work,? these pads they advertise on television, how do they work, to remove toxins from the body, don,t the vitamins and minerals leave the body also, wth the toxins, so aren,t these pads that are supposed to remove harmful toxins, really work?? they on work as far as putting money in the pocket of the people who sell them, right?? Kinoki, is one of these brands, do they really work???

WHY CAN The GOVERNMENT HAVE LEGAL GAMBLING? WHY DO THEY MAKE IT ILLIGAL FOR US TO GAMBLE UNLESS IT IS THEM WE ARE GIVING OUR MONEY TOO. wHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?? AND WHY IS EVERYTHING THEY DO LEGAL AND THEY BUST EVERYONE ELSE FOR IT. I JUST SAW THIS GAMBLING BUST ON TELEVISION AND FRANKLY I THINK THEY ARE JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE THEY WANT OT MAKE ALL THE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES SO THEY CAN TELL US IT IS GOING TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. RIGHT!!! I BELIEVE THAT LIKE I BELIEVE THEY DON'T POCKET OUR MONEY.

Can u please check this paragraph? Can u please check this paragraph please ....grammar mistakes, sentence st., suggestions etc...thanks In the short story, “The Parsley Garden,” William Saroyan shares the same poverty problem with the Al Condraj’s family. Poverty is having lack of money or material possessions but not lacking kindness, generosity and a heart. Poverty is prevalent throughout the world around us. We watch television and see famous people pleading us to sponsor a child for only ten dollars a month. We think in our own minds that ten dollars is only pocket change, but to those children and their families, those ten dollars is a large portion of their annual income. We see images of starving children in far away countries, and our hearts go out to them. For example, William Saroyan has been through those cruel times. His mother worked at a cannery similar to Al mother’s workplace. And he continued on supporting himself by taking jobs such as postman, retail store, manger of a store etc. Likewise, Al Condraj family also suffers with poverty. We see an evidence of that in the story is when Al “cut[s] his bare feet.” Al’s mother is poor like the William’s family. Both of the mothers had to do labour work to support their children.

What program/ episode is this?? Will give instant best answer!? Right I remember watching this program probably about 3 years ago (I think it was the BBC television series "Hustle") and Basicly 2 people have a competition in who could make the most money in a day conning people into their money one guy beats the other thanks to the £2 coin the other put in his pocket earlier in the episode. I have been looking for ages to find this episode please help!

Is my landlord ripping me off? I recently found out due to past agreement with lease or payment, my landlord end up have a four bedrooms apartment to himself for 350 a month. He rented out three rooms for 350 each per month. So basically he's making 1,050 a month beforehe even pay his part for lease. So he make 700 in profit a month. However he pay all ulities include multi channels television and high speed internet. I confronted him about it, I was shocked he didn't even make any attempt to hide this. He straight out say yes he pay only 350 for lease and rest of the tetants rent goes to ulities or into his pocket. I tried to talk him into charge everyone only 100 while he can pay 50 or so a month. He refuse to have any of it. He simply say "well I got all neat furnitures for all of you. I let everyone use shelf full of books and my playstation 2 and 360 x box on my big screen television. I'm not greedy when it come to foods, I cook and leave out huge breakfast or dinner once or twice a week. I have extra blankets that you're allows to use. I have a maid come in once a week to keep this place super clean. I let all of you use internet, and more. I also even let you slide away with not pay full rent last month. So I think you should be really grateful for all of this. If you doesn't like it, well you know where the door is, no one is keeping you here" I admit he's right about those, but I can't help it but feel like he rip everyone off. Is he ripping people off or not? Oh and I forgot to add this, he do work too. I'm not sure how much he make, but he does make somewhat decent moneys. The lease end in 8 months.

Should Television Ministries Have Independent Oversight? People donate money, while the leaders of the ministries get richer and richer. Christ did not work like that, but many so-called Television Evangelists have made several millions off of widows, the elderly and other vulnerable people. An Independent oversight will at least make sure that money donated goes towards its independent purpose, instead of going into these religious con man's pocket. I personally think that there should be an Independent Oversight Committee that has no religious ties to ensure that all Churches are working for the people, rather than robbing the people blind.

should I be worried about my husband always having his wallet and phone on him at all times? my husband always has his wallet and phone on him, he never leaves any of those two things laing around. When he goes to the bathroom he takes them with him, when he is in the living room he has both of them in his pocket. And when he goes to bed he hides his wallet and leaves his phone charging next to him but turned off. I have tried to look for his wallet but never can find it, and when I asked him about this issue he told me that he does not know why I am asking him this. I am worried that he is hidding something. I am worried cause the other day we went to his job and he told me to wait in the car, I waited over 15 minutes, he said it was to talk to his boss, when I finally got tired of waiting I went inside and his boss came over to me and asked what I was doing there I told him I was waiting on my husband and he responded that he had not seen him, when I went to the bar area he was talking to the bartender which happens to be a woman, the same woman he always talks to when we go to his job, I did make a scene about it at his job and asked her what the fuck was going on and she simply ignored me. He told me I was over reacting. I am still worried about the whole wallet and phone thing always being on him. I mean why would you always has your phone and wallet in your pocket while your watching television or eating at the dinning room table??? very weird to me. In the past about three years ago he left his wallet by it self on the dinning room table and something came up that he left quickly with out his wallet, I waited 5 minutes and he did not show up, so I took a look and found a condom and the passwords to his accounts ( facebook, my space and yahoo email) i copied the account passwords. later that day i looked at his accounts and he had ben talking to his ex girlfriend, sending messages which included the I LOVE YOU words. I confronted him about it and he denied it, when I showed him the messages he said that yes he does talk to her but just because she says I love you does not mean that he loved her back. I will confront him about this issue cause I have invested to much time into this marriage for this kind of shit to happen. As for his phone I never can get a chance to check it cause he turns it off and puts it right next to him when he goes to sleep and I have noticed that when he turns his phone on it has a code, and if he were to go to the bathroom and forgets it he comes back for it before I can even get up from the couch.

Am I getting ripped off by my landlord? I recently found out due to past agreement with lease or payment, my landlord end up have a four bedrooms apartment to himself for 350 a month. The apt cost 1,080 a month. He rented out three rooms for 350 each per month. So basically he's making 1,050 a month beforehe even pay his part for lease. So he make 700 in profit a month. However he pay all ulities include multi channels television and high speed internet. I confronted him about it, I was shocked he didn't even make any attempt to hide this. He straight out say yes he pay only 350 for lease and rest of the tetants rent goes to ulities or into his pocket. I tried to talk him into charge everyone only 100 while he can pay 50 or so a month. He refuse to have any of it. He simply say "well I got all neat furnitures for all of you. I let everyone use shelf full of books and my playstation 2 and 360 x box on my big screen television. I'm not greedy when it come to foods, I cook and leave out huge breakfast or dinner once or twice a week.I have extra blankets that you're allows to use. I have a maid come in once a week to keep this place super clean. I let all of you use internet, and more. I also even let you slide away with not pay full rent last month. So I think you should be really grateful for all of this. If you doesn't like it, well you know where the door is, no one is keeping you here" I admit he's right about those, but I can't help it but feel like he rip everyone off. He have a career that pay decently. The lease last 8 months. Is he ripping people off or not?

TEN POINTS!! Please please help me re-phrase this pharagraph!? I tryd over and over but I do not no how to make it sound better. I do not like how this pharagraph from the "body" part of my essay turned out. PLEASE re-write it in your own words! I am not able to do so. Best pharagraph will be awarded ten points! It may all sound trivial, "So what if elderly people can't work their televisions?", and perhaps it would be trivial if the scope was limited to these “luxury items". However think of the elderly house-bound man who, not knowing how to use a portable telephone never bothers to buy one. Instead of having something he could carry with him in his pocket, he has no connection to the outside world should he fall or have any other distress that doesn’t allow him to reach his wall-mounted corded phone. These sorts of technological advancements that might allow the elderly to remain at home and out of convalescent centers further in to their lives are not being utilized. Likewise, since the elderly are not a marketable demographic in the technology industry, limited funding for research and development is set aside by corporations to develop products geared towards them.

Please correct my essay! Have no one else to do it!? Please give me as much advise about this college essay as you can. Anything will help, but it is xmas vacation and i have no one else to grade it. Thanks Cell phones and computers run many peoples’ lives. If I could choose one topic to research for a semester it would be the effect of modern technology on the everyday lives of people. I am interested in this topic because even during my seventeen year lifespan I have noticed many changes. People can now communicate through buttons and cameras which really decreases human interaction and can put a person’s social life in the palm of their hand. I would like to know if there is a connection between the United States’ recent drop in the world’s educational standings and technology. Sometimes I find cell phones and video games distracting from my homework or even in class. People have become accustomed to knowing what everyone is doing at all times because of social networking and mobile devices. This may distract students from their work because it is more interesting at the time and their cell phone is always right there in their pocket. During my research of this topic, I would survey different students asking them how often they use technology each day and how they believe it affects their ability to achieve their full potential in the classroom. I would compare students who don’t use these gadgets with those who do and see how they compare. With divorce rates extremely high, and 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce could this be related to new advanced technology? Do communication devices make it easier for a husband to find women to have an affair with? These are some questions I would pursue during research. I may ask various men and women who have been through a divorce recently if they believe that any form of technology has affected their decision to get divorced. There seems to be too many overweight and obese citizens all over the country these days. Could televisions, computers, or video games have any impact on the amount of obese people in the U.S. lately? I would like to ask some overweight people if the use of any of these items plays any role in their weight gaining. Maybe they watched too much T.V. and were too lazy to go out and get some exercise. On the other hand, technology may be playing a bigger role in weight loss than weight gain. Maybe the fast food industries are to blame for this issue and not the electronics. I would clarify these issues with my research. Since these devices are new and exciting, people want to use them. My main question for this research essay would be to evaluate as best as possible if all this new technology has had a negative affect on society. I do not know the answers to these questions. I would be looking for any kind of link between the negative current events of our country and the world and the technology used by these people.

Constructive criticism for the opening of my story? I once again ask this just for feedback-- I wish to be an aspiring author one day :) My eyes flashed open. Sunlight crept through my window, and my back ached. I pushed the violet lace comforter back as I stepped out of bed. I flinched as the cold vinyl floor met my warm toes. The dream I had had seemed so real. What could it have meant? My death… could it be so close? I shook my head; get a hold of yourself, Charlotte! I staggered to the bathroom, sloppily undressing. I stepped in the shower letting hot water splash on my face, waking me up. My chocolate brown curls bounced on my shoulders. The hot water soothed me, making my head hurt a little bit less. I couldn't remember last night, but it must have been unusual. All I had was a blurred memory and blood dried in my hair. I yanked a brush through my fine strands—then rushed through the job with a hairdryer. I examined my face in the mirror, finding scratches & bruises along my neck and finished up around my wrist. I didn’t usually wear makeup, but I felt eager today. Opening a drawer, I grabbed the first thing I saw—foundation— and tossed it in my bag. I fitted on a red button up shirt with yesterdays navy blue jeans. I wandered over to my abandoned computer sitting in the corner to distract myself. There were several email alerts notifying me: “New message from Trever”. I scrolled down the long list of them, deleting a few, and spotting the different spam letters, even replying to a few friends. Then I saw a new one, from only a few hours ago. I clicked on the message and Trever’s words launched out of the screen. Charlotte, What happened last night was too much for us. We have to stay away from it for awhile, or at least until you heal up. You’re lucky my mom was a nurse… or it could have ended badly. Anyway, get well soon. Look happy, for Sean at least. You’ll be jumping with joy tomorrow. Hopefully. Trever My mind tried to uncover the secrets from the night before, but had no luck. I snatched a look at the clock in the corner. It blinked green and black, 7:53. “I’m late!” I shouted at myself. I slung my bag over my shoulder and burst out the front door. I rushed into my faded maroon Audi and shoved the key in the ignition. I revved it a couple times. “Come on!” I yelled again. It quickly started humming with intense energy. I swerved into the parking lot forty-three seconds later. I stopped in the nearest frost covered space I could and then stuffed my keys into my pocket. I slammed the doors harshly and grabbed my bag. “Ah, Charlotte, I see you are present to class.” Ms. Gillette spoke to me; her eyes were piercing. I could feel a draft of cold air slowly curl around me, raising goose bumps all over my skin. I combed my curls behind my ear and sat at the last seat on the far right. I took out my journal and French textbook and dropped it on my desk. I opened both, then whipped out a number 2 pencil as Ms. Gillette pulled out one of the school’s televisions and slid a tape inside the VCR. I didn't pay any attention to the culture of the French or how many French words are used in the English Language. I silently tore a page out of my journal and began doodling. I began to dream. Thanks... and PLEASE tell the truth.. use a lot of mental things too, like who would be interested or what you think would happen next. Thanks again! This is not the first chapter. There is more, however but it cannot all fit.

What if we taxed the poor 100%? I've seen numerous people make the argument that welfare is morally acceptable because people NEED things like food, shelter, and medical care. They go on to say that if they can't afford these things on their own (usually due to an oppressive society rather than poor life choices) then it is the government's responsibility to provide it, utilizing the tax dollars of the more affluent. Okay, so why don't we then tax the poor 100% instead of 0%? Every dollar that they spend on something other than the necessities is a dollar that will eventually come out of my pocket. So let's take every penny they make, and then give it back to them as food stamps, housing, etc. No beer. No movies. No cable television. Your money will be spent wisely on the things you actually need so as to minimize the burden on your fellow man. Anybody see any problems with this arrangement? Sorry folks but I'm not running for president, and you'd probably hate me if I did. I'm a Libertarian, and asked this question just because I'm in a really, really bad mood this morning. I wanted to see if anybody would recognize that under this plan there would be little incentive to improve your situation unless you were on the very edge of the upper boundary. There would actually be a perverse disincentive for everybody on this program to do as little as possible and make as little as possible. Throw in the cost of the administration and it would become a government nightmare. Tincoatr recognized the problem with this system, although he then jumped 180 degrees with his solution. What kind of incentive would NO welfare provide? And I can't believe that somebody actually made the argument that we must have welfare because people would turn to crime if they didn't have it. That's OPEN robbery instead of being subtle about it. "Give me money or I'll start stealing from you."

What does "nostrils opened wide" mean? I was listening to a song awhile ago, and this woman saw this guy she thought was attractive, and she said he had her "nostrils opened wide".... Then I was watching a television show one day, and this mother was upset because she found condoms in her teenage sons pockets. She then muttered to herself, "I wonder what girl has my son's nostrils opened wide...." What the heck does this phrase mean exactly?!?!?! I know it has something to do with sexual attracttion....but I don't quite get it............

I slipped up with my last question and caused confusion . Let me start again? Three students go into a shop to buy a television. The TV cost £30 The shop manager says to his assistant"they are only students here's £5 just charge them £25" But the assistant puts £2 in his pocket, and tells the students that it is reduced by £3 Each student pays £9 the assistant pockets £2 what happened to the other pound.? Beam me up Scotty I 'm confusing myself

I don't get it! Is Telemundo for ignorant Americans that can't speak English or for Mexican tourists? Are Americans becoming too illiterate to speak English where they have to settle with Telemundo or is Telemundo for Mexican tourists that forget their pocket translators? Every time I pass Telemundo on the television I realize that people are never going to learn are they? That's very sad and I sure feel sorry for them. There are far too many ignorant people in this world. We need a publisher to design an English learning program that would be easier for Spanish speaking people:) That would be the answer.

Dream Meaning about door lock removal? In my dream, I am asleep in my condo. I awake because of my cell phone ringing. I look around and both of my pets are asleep on the bed (as normal) and Seinfield is on the television. My grandfather's mini pocket knife is lying out (which is in a safety deposit box in a bank in real life). I pick it up and fidget with it while on the phone. I then notice that it looks like the microwave has turned itself on. It is sparking. I open it and there is a metal mixing bowl in it. I panic and run to check the lock to the complex hallway but the door is already ajar. I look outside and no one is there. I then try to call the front desk or the cops but I can't lock the door as the deadbolt and chain have physically been removed. Knowing that I have all wood floors and all furniture on sliders, I realize there is no way to brace the door. I walk around with the little pocket knife (odd because I am a proud gun owner) and just practice holding it as if to stab anyone who comes in. Is this a normal dream? I awoke fully awake and sweating. I also then had to check the microwave and the door. Maybe I should mention that the sparks in the microwave were more like cobalt blue orbs than sparks and the microwave was vastly larger than mine. It was the size of an oven door. Also, the door is not my door. Instead of my heavy woodenish door - it is an old heavily painted white door. Looks like it has about 40 layers of paint on it and old school locks (like skeleton key locks). Anyone got any ideas on the meaning? Should I be reading into this or am I just being silly?

Does anyone think who is truly benefiting from the campaign money spent? Millions and Millions are spent on television adds. The comercials are repetitive and generic. I for one follow what they say when this very same media covers them for free. Those millions of dollars are ending up in the pockets of owners of the television networks. Call me stupid but in the future couldn't that money somehow benefit people who need it?I'm not saying give it away but are you voting for a candidate because of a TV ad? How about spending most of the money at colleges to promote their agenda to voters who don't normally watch TV or vote? Infuse campaign money into colleges who would use it help students improve ther education.

Do Think He Doing It For His Own Benefit!? P- Diddy have allot of entertaining shows on Television right now. Star searching. Do you think he really interested in finding stars making them famous are more money in his pocket? I really do appreciate the shows and regardless what his motive is. but I was wondering what you thought

Please Help me with my analogy homework!? Analogy Homework HELP PLEASE!!! its due Fri. so hopefully all of u out there can help me finish! 1. Curb:Street 2. Worm:Fishhook 3.Wand:Magician 4.See:Saw 5. Static:Radio 6. Racket: Court 7. Crow:Rooster 8.Cup:Golf 9.Sergeant:Estrange 10. Crack: China 11. Flake:Snow 12.Pea:Queue 13.Razor:Beard 14.Wonder:Underway 15.Pitcher:Catcher and the words u have 2 work with are bank,baton,bat,bay,bear,bore,callbox,cheese, conductor,diamond,drop,enlarge,general,mousetrap,pillbox,pocket, pool, rain,river,run,scythe,snow,stocking,tea,television,weeds,wolf,wrecks,x-ray,and you *THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT IN HELPING ME WITH MY HOMEWORK*

Is television advertising prompting a shift in power in relationships between the sexes in British Society? With particular reference to adverts such as Maltesers (woman thinks malteser is 'naughty'..realises its only so many calories and so flashes her breasts at a male colleague), and Toyote Corolla adverts (1 - woman flying mans remote controlled plane..crashes it on purpose but pretends its a mistake, goes to 2 DAYS EARLIER - where man kicks womans car door shut as he has full hands) and (2 - man in dressing room of shop trying clothes on while woman puts article in his jacket pocket, he walks out of shop and gets arrested - 2 DAYS EARLIER - he brushes crumbs onto her car floor) and (3 - male window cleaner falls off ladder, is hanging for life by window ledge, woman notices, rushes downstairs and moves her car out of the way of his fall and smoothly walks off)

What do you think 3d tv at home or movie hall is best for children? A debate arise that if you have 3D TV in your house then children will be fond of television rather than studies. On the contrary, if you allow your children to visit movie hall to watch 3D pictures then it will not save your pocket. What do you say?

What type of jeans have red tabs on the back pockets OTHER than Levi? Specifically, I'm trying to identify a pair of pants worn by a character in a British television show. They have a red tab on the back pocket, but NOT in the same place as typical Levis. The red tab is on the top right of the pocket instead of the inner side. Unless Levi put their red tag in a different spot for this style, this has to be a different brand. These jeans also appear to have two belt loops close together towards the front, one is thicker than the other. Here are some pictures I captured from the show (sorry they are such poor quality and you can see so little of the jeans): http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/CallistaZM/vlcsnap-134687.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/CallistaZM/vlcsnap-135530.png Any ideas?

I am looking for comedians (amateur) in Atlanta, Ga. Does anyone know where I can find them? I have a project I am doing. Let me start by saying I am a Video Producer. I am wanting to film a comedy show and air it on public access. This would give an amateur the chance to get there name out there and also some money in his pocket. Later after airing this on public access I will then shop some major television channels like MTV, VH1, etc. If you are a comedian or know someone in the ATL let me know. I am also taking anyone willing to travel to the "A".

I'm not sure? Does anyone know if the games you buy for the children's v-smile console (which plugs into the television), can be used on the v-smile pocket which is new out or do you have to buy separate games, i am thinking of buying it for my daughters birthday but just wondered about the games

How Much Does a Celebrity in the USA Make? For instance, I forget who, but a teenage boy actor making 180,000 USD per television episode. How much of that goes to taxes and other things? How much money would an actor end up actually pocketing of that amount?

ANALOGRAMS!!!!!!! (if you already tried to answer this is#20:Pitcher is to catcher as _is to _? If your up to it, fill up these blanks usiing the following words Airplane bank bat baton bay bear bill bore callbox cheese clay conductor diamond drop duck enlarge fish general hand hangar mousetrap pillbox pocket pool potter rain river run chool scythe snow stocking tea television weeds wolf wrecks wrist x-ray you 1. Ankle is to foot as_is to_ 2.Flock is to bird as _is to_ 3.Curb is to street as_is to_ 4.Baker is to dougn as_is to_ 5.Worm is to fishhook as_ is to_ 6.wand it to magician as _is to_ 7.see is to saw as_is to_ 8.Static is to radio as_ is to _ 9.Racket is to court as_ is to_ 10.Crow is to rooster as_ is to_ 11Car is to garage as_ is to_ 12.Cup is to golf as_ is to_ 13.Sergeant is to Estrange as _ is to_ 14.Pig is to snout as_is to_ 15.Crack is to china as _is to _ 16.Flake is to snow as_is to_ 17.Pea is to queue as_is to _ 18.Razor is to Beard as scythe as_is to_ 19. Wonder is to underway as_is to_

Nike Air Jordan Shoes - A Long Living Sneaker Epidemic? During this period of time, many individuals were attached to their television screens whenever the word sports came out of the mouth of an announcer. Therefore, in order to capitalize on the sports epidemic that was sweeping the nation at that point and time, the wonder company introduced the great sneakers to the world - and the fashion began! These shoes became an instant hit from the moment that they hit the shelves in 1985, and for the past twenty five years are still generating an immense amount of attention. The shoes were made to commemorate an amazing basketball star, none other than Michael Jordan himself, kids around the world saved up their pocket money! There were a lot of things that set these sneakers apart from their competitors. The Nike Air Jordan shoes were made with a leather base and were offered with either a high top or low top appearance. Their design was also something that caught everyone's attention. Before, the Nike Air Jordan shoes made their appearance onto the market; no one had ever seen a pair of sneakers such as these. Therefore, the demand for the shoes was actually quiet intense. To help keep the demand for Nike Air Jordan shoes alive, the Nike Corporation has been avidly releasing a new pair of Nike Air Jordan shoes every single year. There are still a plethora of children as well as adults that count down the days until new pair of Jordans are released to the public. Talk about a sneaker epidemic that will never die. You are invited to see more about Nike air Jordan shoes at website: - http://www.voguewiki.com/nike-air-jordan-c-15355_19.html .

My 3 top career choices...what do you think...? 1. Dental hygentist 2. Cosmetologist 3. Child development I wanted to be a fashion designer, I watched all these shows on television, and that's a hard life to live. I wanted an easy job with excellent pay. I want to do hair on the side for a lil extra $ in my pocket. OPINIONS PLEASE or what schools are good for what i want to do....? THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS!!

Do You Understand The Magnitude Of This Crisis? Magnitude of the Crisis ATTACK ON A GENERATION Today's teens are being attacked by popular culture like no other generation. Hollywood, the music industry, advertisers, and even the mainstream media are using their arsenal of tools to win the battle for our teens' hearts- and so far they are winning! In order to defeat our enemy, we must know how it thinks and understand the weapons it uses. It is critical that we realize how far-reaching the crisis is- and then we must work together to stop it. TELEVISION This generation views 16 to 17 hours of television each week and sees on average 14,000 sexual scenes and references each year. That's more than 38 references every day. INTERNET This generation spends three hours a day online and is the first to grow up with point-and-click pornography. Almost 90 percent of teens have viewed pornography online at one of the 300,000 adult websites, most while doing homework. MUSIC More than 25 percent of teen-targeted radio segments contain sexual content; 42 percent of the top selling CDs contain sexual content ADVERTISING With more than $128 billion dollars in their pockets, this generation has been targeted by corporate America, who does everything it can to grow brands and profits without any regard to the moral decay of a generation.

I read it 3 times and i still don't get it!! What is the author's point? Can someone help me summeraize it? MEASURING AMERICA Confessions of an ex-pollster The Times' Op-Ed editor details his four years gathering public opinion for political hopefuls. By Nicholas Goldberg, NICHOLAS GOLDBERG is editor of the Op-Ed page and Current section of The Times. February 11, 2007 THE WEEK I became a pollster, the following paragraph appeared in a New Yorker article about President Clinton, written by the magazine's then-political columnist Joe Klein: "The president [is] an absolute slave to data: nothing is left to chance (or sadly, to moral imperative). Each new idea is market tested before it is presented to the public…. Other presidents have been poll-obsessed, but none quite so microscopically as this one…. Such micromarketing may be remembered as this president's most lasting, and most dubious, contribution to the art of governance." Some people might have been disheartened, but I was delighted. At last, I was entering a field just as it was coming into its own! From its earliest days, political polling had its critics — those who thought it was too intrusive or too unscientific, or who worried (like Klein) that political candidates would become excessively dependent on public opinion at the expense of their personal principles — but I was inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. I knew, of course, that candidates might take polls too much to heart — and might even cynically change their positions based on them. But I tried to keep in mind what Abraham Lincoln supposedly said: "What I want to get done is what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly." In retrospect, my understanding of the business when I began the job in early 1999 was extremely unsophisticated (though perhaps not as unsophisticated as that of my mother, who suggested at one point — perhaps in jest? — that she thought I was becoming an "upholsterer"). I believed, as most Americans probably do, that polls are simply a tool for finding out where people stand on issues and who they are going to vote for. What I failed to grasp was that the primary purpose of our business was not to learn what voters think — but to determine how they could best be persuaded. The surveys I created in the years that followed would have little in common with the public opinion polls I had read in newspapers all my life (the kind that tell you, as Arianna Huffington once put it, that "59% of all Americans think 'Ed' is an 'OK' name, while 64% put on their pants left leg first"). Yes, our clients wanted to know whether the voters would support them. And they certainly needed to know what were the most important issues to voters — schools, taxes or crime. But at their core, our polls were not about taking the proverbial pulse of the voters. As we used to explain in our pitch letters, we had no interest in providing clients with a useless "data dump." We were seeking "actionable" information to prepare a detailed, quantitatively tested "blueprint" that in turn would help us craft the arguments that would resonate most forcefully with voters. What did that mean exactly? It meant pinpointing how the public felt about our clients — and then figuring out how to transform those perceptions among the voters we needed most. It was about driving up our candidate's positive attributes while inoculating him or her against potential attacks. And the same with our opponents: We'd probe for their vulnerabilities and determine how they could be exploited. Say, for example, our client was a 20-year veteran of the House of Representatives who wanted to run for the Senate. But after two decades in office, he wasn't sure whether he was perceived as an energetic fighter for his constituents or as a lazy, aging political hack. Enter the pollster! Could we buff up our client's image by leveraging his votes in favor of healthcare coverage and his vehement opposition to raising taxes (which we would hammer home in uplifting televisions ads set against a background of comforting guitar music and photos of him with his kids)? Or would his opponents be able to outmaneuver us by harping on the 25 House votes he missed last year while vacationing in Bermuda? Our goal was to run the campaign in theory before it started. To call 600, 800 or 1,000 test voters on the phone and begin to play out the arguments that would later be heard in union halls, direct-mail attacks, candidate forums, public debates and — most important by far — in millions of dollars of paid television ads to be aired in the closing weeks of the campaign. A typical poll would open by screening out representatives of the media and screening in likely voters. We'd ask which issues were most important. We'd ask the critical "horse race" question: "On Nov. 3, there will be an election for U.S. Senate. Who are you going to vote for, Democrat John Smith or Republican Tom Jones?" We'd ask about our candidate's "image": Would you say he "cares about people like me" and "is effective," or is he "in the pocket of the special interests"? I learned the rules for writing questionnaires. Avoid loaded wording that encourages a particular answer ("Would you prefer to go to the movies or just stay home and watch television?"). Don't "double-barrel" the questions so that they include more than one idea, confusing the respondent. ("Do you favor welfare reform if it requires an increase in taxes?") Keep questionnaires short; respondents will only stay on the phone 15, 20, maybe 25 minutes — and every hang-up is money down the drain. But at the heart of our polls were the "messages." These might include, say, a paragraph touting the candidate by naming all the environmental groups that endorsed him. A separate paragraph explaining that he "shares our values" because he voted against raising taxes. Another telling the story of his hardscrabble upbringing. Still another laying out his universal healthcare proposal. After each message, we'd ask whether it was a convincing or unconvincing reason to vote for our candidate — and we'd retest the horse race after each one. Maybe we'd also try out some negative arguments against our guy ("lazy, aging hack!"), and maybe some positives and negatives about our opponent. Then we'd look at the results: Which messages were the most persuasive to voters — especially the elusive swing and undecided ones? Which messages moved the vote most? If message A ("won't raise taxes") moves the race six points in our favor but message B ("backs universal healthcare") moves it 12 points, then it's a no-brainer, right? By asking a series of demographic questions at the end of the poll — including, but not limited to, age, income, race, religion and party registration — we ensured that all the messages could be broken down by category: Do older African Americans respond to positive message A, but independent women respond to attack message B? Then maybe we need to put a 15-second ad on black drive-time radio making one point, while sending a four-color, glossy piece of mail into the homes of independent women saying something else? Tailor the message! During the years I was a pollster, I worked for gubernatorial candidates, U.S. Senate candidates and mayoral candidates across the country. I worked on political races in Serbia, South Korea and South Africa, among other countries (on the theory that our fundamental methodology would be effective anywhere democratic elections were held — and occasionally even where the election was anything but democratic, as in Serbia). I wasn't always pleased with what I was doing or with the candidates I was helping. But I didn't feel that my work was terribly sinister either. Politics is like football: At the end of the day, you win or you lose. It's a high-stakes game and often a nasty game, in which a lot of money, a lot of jobs and a lot of important policies are on the line. Few candidates will turn down the help they need to hone their messages effectively. Besides, we didn't (usually) encourage candidates to betray their principles. Mostly, we helped them plot a strategy, marshal their best arguments and target the audience they needed to reach to win the race. Did it work? Not always, and not with scientific precision. But we won a lot more races than we lost. I worked for some slimebag politicians, but I worked for some smart, dedicated and effective ones as well. Most of my clients, frankly, fell somewhere in between. I lasted four years, and then I left the business. I don't regret at all having tried it and, despite the turmoil in my current line of work, I rarely regret the decision to quit. Since this is an opinion article do you agree or disagree with the author. You can give examples from the articles and you can also use quotes but it has to relate with your explainaton AND WHAT IS THE MAIN IDEA OF THE ARTICLE

Need your help- Writing first draft of novel need some feedback here is part of a chapter-? Chapter 4 A Chance of a Lifetime “Aaron, where is everybody?” I asked as I saw Aaron sitting alone in front of the whaleback ship.“You know how it is Kyra—they had their own things to do. Last night they came because they were curious who I was, um interested in. That’s all.” Alone at last! Alone—with a dragon! Mister caramel lightly dipped in dark chocolate eyes! The eyes that I felt I could meld into…“Kyra. Kyra!”“ Huh?” “ Am I so boring that you have to day dream when you’re with me?” he smirked, gently caressing my cheek.“No! No! I was just thinking.” Whew, if he only knew the affect his eyes had on me. “So Aaron, what are we going to do tonight? Jump in the lake, cascade over mountains, or talk.” I was so busy staring into his eyes that I he had already changed into his dragon form and was flipping me onto his back.“ Aiii…” I screamed, surprised.“Let’s talk” I heard him say in my head as we flew low over the water.“Boat! Boat!” was all I could scream as a boat quickly appeared in our path. I closed my eyes not wanting to see the impact. Instead, I felt the slight shift in Aaron’s body as he coasted out of its path.“You can open your eyes now.” he gurgled and snorted. Was he laughing!“Ya go ahead and laugh at me” I fumed, “You wouldn’t think it so funny if we would have crashed.” His gurgling and snorting continued, he was laughing so hard his body was shaking, tickling me as I hung on.“Stop.. hahaha… that!” We landed at top of the Aerial Lift Bridge. The glow of the Duluth/Superior lights were all around us as I gawked at the pristine beauty of the lights, lake and the night. I could see small white shapes floating, reflecting the city lights on the lake. “Those are seagulls.”“Seagulls? I thought they would find some warm, dry place to sleep on land.” “ Seagulls are opportunists. They sleep in their nests when the have young otherwise they sleep anywhere they are away from their predators, and I don’t think Lake Superior has many predators that can eat a live healthy seagull.”“ Do you eat seagulls?”“ Na, some of the others do but for me they’re too feathery. Yuck! Last time I tried one it took me weeks to get the feathers out of my teeth!” I hope he brushes his teeth! Yuck! Carefully, he set me down on the beam he had been standing on—changing back. The winds off the lake scared me, as they blew I had to struggle to maintain my footing.“Aaron!” I cried as my feet slipped out from under me. I was falling!“Gotcha!” he said in my ear. We were both sitting down, me in his lap, and his strong-arms tightly around me. We sat there in silence—watching. Watching—together—in his arms—clouds float by, the ships cast in darkness on the lake- rolling with a glimmer of light. “Kyra, what did you want to ask me?” His breath tickled my ear.“Huh? Oh!” I said as his voice seeped through the fog of my mind. “I wanted to know why are there dragons here and why this area? In all the books I read, dragons exist everywhere but here!” “ Dragons like humans are everywhere. It’s just we choose to live hidden—if most humans knew we really did exist, they would try to put us in zoo’s and dissect us; trying to find out whether we were more like lizards or snakes. Through history we have learned that humans kill what they are afraid of, even themselves…” I kissed him. On the cheek- I couldn’t help myself- he seemed so, sad. “We would rather live in our dragon form, but with humans, living almost everywhere on the earth—if we wanted to survive—we didn’t have a choice.”I started to think about what might happened if someone, anyone who was not willing to keep their secret proved Aaron and his kind existed and who they were as humans.“Aaron, can you choose what you look like as a human?”“No, we can only choose the age.”“Your age! How old are you, as a dragon?” I never thought about how long the legends said dragons could live. I guess I just assumed he was my age even in dragon. “Hmm.. about 225 years old. Give or take a couple years.”“ 225! Than why are you hanging out with me? I’m a little young aren’t I?”Aaron explained to me how dragon age and human age is not the same; just like a dog’s age is not really the same as a human. That in approximation of dragon age he was about the same age as me and had as much to learn about the world as I did. “Feel better?” he laughed, hugging me tighter.“Yes much better, I was starting to think all I was to you was a plaything.”“Never! Are you hungry?”“ A little. Why are you?”“ Famished!” Did he say famished? Oh no! I never asked him if he ate humans! “Umm—you don’t eat people do you?” “Only those that annoy me.” He laughed, teasingly. Whew, that was a relief. Feeling playful—I leaned close to his ear and whispered, “I don’t annoy you do I.” Aaron grabbed me and threw me up into the air of the brisk moonlit night. My scream lost in my throat. He won’t let me fall to my death- right? I was only teasing. I felt the wind blow against my body—suffocating me as I tried to scream-I was going to pass out! I watched as the ground rose to meet me. “Aaron WHAT did I do?” I tried to scream when all of a sudden I was jerked hard upright, thrown into the air once again and landed safely on Aarons back. “I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to scare you. Let’s go eat!” Eat—eat—does he think I feel like eating after almost crashing to my death because of him?“I’m NOT hungry. Humph…” I said, kicking him in the side.“I said I was sorry—what more do you want?” Does he think I am going to talk to him, after what he did?“Kyra, I was just playing. Please, please believe me when I tell you I would have never let anything happen to you!”“ PLAYING, PLAYING! YOU call that playing?”“ I guess to someone who can’t fly, I can understand how they wouldn’t think that as playing.”“ You got that right!” We landed in a secluded area on the rocky shores of Canal Park.“Where to?”“Follow my lead.” Aaron said once he changed in human form, holding my hand in his and led the way. We only had to walk a little ways before arriving at a restaurant. “Have you ever eaten here Kyra?” “Ya, the food’s yummy.” “Yummy?” “Yes, yummy.” He looked confused. Hasn’t he ever heard the word yummy before? He ordered a big steak with all the works, and I politely said, “The same!” as the server took our order. He looked surprised but not as surprised as I was for how bold I was being. Why not? Didn’t he throw me off the top of the Arial Lift Bridge? A girl can really work up an appetite once the shock wears off a near death experience. “I guess you’re afraid that this might be your last meal?” Aaron said as he laughed from across the table.“Aaron, what do people think when at school you’re in a wheelchair and out of school your not?”“I just make sure to avoid them. Usually after school I am at places they aren’t—unless of course they can change into birds.” “ Why the wheel chair? You don’t need it?”Aaron explained to me how he chose to be in a wheelchair at school; that he couldn’t walk—even if he tried. “Why? How can you walk one minute and than not the next? I don’t understand.” “We all do—sometime during our lives.” He looked so uncomfortable—as if he was telling me a deep dark secret. “So—how about those Twins,” I chirped. “Twins, aren’t they baseball? We’re in football season now.” I smacked my head with the palm of my hand. How could I forget it was football season? I lived on the Wisconsin-Minnesota border—all the rivalry going on between Packer and Viking fans was almost as interesting as the sport itself. Our talking ebbed as our food arrived— shoveling bite after bite as if we were starving in our hungry mouths. “We have to hurry or you’re going to be late!” Aaron said after he paid for our food and left a sizable tip for the server.We rushed out the door, running down the street towards the white and black lighthouse on Canal Park. “Why—are—we going there?” I asked Aaron when we were half way there.“People on the rocks,” was all he said as he grabbed my hand and hurried me along. With a flick of his wrist, I was cast into the air, landing on his back with a thud. I hadn’t even realized Aaron had changed into a dragon all ready. “How do you do that!” I called to him as the wind whipped my voice away, making it a whisper.“How do I do what?”“Change into a dragon so quickly? Isn’t it difficult?”“ It is more difficult for me to change into human form than it is my original form-think about it?” I suppose it would be just as difficult for a human to change into a dragon—the scales instead of hair, big pointy teeth, and razor sharp claws instead of finger nails. I could name a few people who probably wouldn’t have any difficulties with the claws, since they always seem to have them bared and ready to use. “Ha ha ha,” I was laughing so hard tears streamed down my cheeks—Aaron had to shift to balance me—I almost fell off Aaron’s back.“What’s so funny that you could have fallen to your doom?”“Claws!” I cried and laughed even harder.“Claws? What is so funny about claws?” As we landed in the alley behind my house, I tried to explain to him how some people seemed too always have their claws out. He did not understand until I used a few examples using some kids from school. “Oh, I get it!”I wasn’t sure he did, but I think he understood a little better before I told him goodbye and gave him a quick peck on the cheek – running into the house so I would not be late. “Kyra! I was worried about you. I tried to call you on the cell phone for the last hour and you did not answer. Well, young lady?” My dad stood in the kitchen with his feet firmly planted shoulder with apart; with his hands on his hips, and glared at me as if I had committed a cardinal sin. He only acted like this when I was seriously in trouble.“Hi Honey. Did you have a good time tonight?” Mom said as she walked in the kitchen and stood next to my dad. She must have heard him because before I could answer she asked for her cell phone back.“Here you go mom.” I said sheepishly as I unclipped the cell phone from my belt and handed it to her. She flipped her phone open, checking it, holding it up for my dad to see than whispered something in his ear as she mouth to him the words ‘sorry’. “I’m sorry Kyra. Your mom just informed me that she forgot to turn the ringer and vibrate on, before she gave it to you. Next time you use her cell phone-- please check that it is on.” I stood there in disbelief, how lucky I was at that moment. If the ringer or vibrate had been turned on I would have been grounded to my room for at least a week.“Kyra, I was just worried something happened to you. I love you.” I hadn’t run up to my dad in years and hugged him, tonight was an exception. “I love you too dad.” I said as I squeezed him as tightly as I could. He had been so busy much of my life I had almost forgotten how worried he got when I wasn’t safe at home. When I was in sixth grade, I went to my first sleep over at a friend’s house for her birthday. She lived a long way out in the country, on a farm. While I was getting my stuff ready to go to her sleepover, there was a breaking news report on the television about a recent bear attack in the area. My dad had been so worried that a bear might break into her house and maul me that he forbade me to go to the sleep over. It wasn’t until my mom’s reassurance that I would be safe-- that the news report said, “the attack was from a bear attacking campers in their tents- who did not secure their food properly- not their homes; did my dad finally lift my restriction on going to the party. As my mom and I walked out the door to drive there, he hugged me as if he was never going to see me again. I laughed when the next day my mom told me my dad had dreamed that he was fighting off bears all night, which made it impossible for her to get any sleep out of concern that he might mistake her for a bear. I dragged myself up the stairs to my room-- dead tired-- I guess all this flying around as a passenger is starting to wear me out. I still had the riddles to solve—tonight I did get some answers only to find more questions. “Goodnight Kyra,” my mom said softly as she pulled my quilt over me, kissing my forehead gently goodnight. “G--night mom.” I mumbled as I drifted off to sleep. It was still dark when I woke up; my heart pounding in my chest as I jumped to my feet—ready to protect myself from the threat I felt. I glanced defensively around my room, noticing nothing out of the ordinary. That was until I saw a blurred reddish brown –what looked to be a weird handprint on my glass outside my window. As my eyes adjusted to the dim light, I could see that the print was indeed of a hand—a hand just like Aarons in dragon form. “Aaron!” My mind screamed out his name. It was all I remembered as I woke to the sun shinning through my still scarred window, waking me up for a new day. Chapter 5 The Note “Nothing’ but a little late fall house cleaning,” I told my mom as she stood in my doorway watching me clean my window. The windows of our house tilt in for cleaning otherwise I would be frantic about how I was going to hide the bloody print sticky solidly to the middle of the glass. I could only wonder if Aaron was playing some sort of prank, was he injured somehow, or if one of the other dragons did this. “Kyra, I know I usually harp to you to clean your room. It’s forty degrees outside this morning and I do not think now is a good time to clean outside windows.” I knew she was right. It was getting chilly in my room from having my window tilted open but I was sure she would be freaked out if I had left it the way it was. I got dressed quickly, and ran downstairs to the kitchen. My mom was in her usual spot at the table – cup of coffee in hand—no dad in sight. “Where’s dad?” I asked her as I finished pouring a bowl of cereal for myself. She looked up from the book she had been reading, “Did you forget he had to go to work this morning as usual?” Now I did it! I made her mom radar go off by asking her something I should have known. Nervously I Sloshed the milk, I was trying to pour, over the count top “Oops! I’ll clean it up.” I said as I quickly grabbed a towel. “What is wrong with you today Kyra. First you’re up this morning cleaning your window than forgetting your dad has to work today- it’s not like you- what’s wrong?” I wanted to tell her about everything. Aaron and his friends being dragons, flying and about the bloody claw print—I was afraid. I was afraid if I did tell her and she believed me she would ground me forever or if she didn’t believe me I would feel betrayed- betrayed that she didn’t trust me enough not lie to her about something this serious. So-- I did the best thing I could do at the time. Shrugging my shoulders as I spooned mouthfuls of globules into my mouth I mumbled, “I don’t know.” A safe response that most children learn as soon as they can talk to defend themselves from things they do not want to answer. I felt guilty as I watched my mom silently get up to pour herself some more coffee. My mom like some adults never forgot what it was like being an adolescent; she knew exactly what I was doing. As I glance over to her empty seat I saw the book she had been reading, ‘Norse Mythology’, it was identical to the one I saw Aaron reading in school. “Mom! Where did you get that book?” Startled by the urgency in my voice she turned quickly, knocking her cup off the counter and onto the floor. “Calm down,” she said as she stooped to clean up the mess. “I found it in your backpack. I’m sorry if I upset you—I didn’t think you would mind.” “Oh, no mom, I don’t mind—I just forgot I had that book, that’s all.” I said as I shoved the book roughly into my backpack. I glanced cautiously at her to see if she believed me—she did. My stomach felt like it was churning as I realized—she believed me and this time I had lied to her. What was I doing? I never lied to my mom before—we had an honesty policy. Our ‘honesty policy’ was an agreement my mom and I created together when I was a little girl. It said that we were never to lie to one another unless it was extreme circumstances like the year dad planned a surprise party for my mom and I wasn’t supposed to tell her—because if I did, it would have wrecked the surprise. Otherwise, we were to be honest with each other. I didn’t really lie though-- I just used the word forgot rather than didn’t know-- Maybe I really did forget with all the things happening. Just maybe, Aaron gave me the book and I unconsciously put it in my backpack. Great! Now, I was lying to myself. “Oh this fell out of your book,” she said handing me a tattered folded piece of paper. “In case you’re wondering,” she continued, “I didn’t open it. I respect your privacy.” This morning was turning out to be one of those days when you wished you stayed safe in bed. Filled with guilt for the partial lie and now her declaration of how she respects my privacy I did the only thing I could do. I smiled an uttered a “Thanks mom,” stuffing the note in my back pocket as I leaned in and kissed her on the cheek before I grabbed my coat and out the door, walking quickly to the bus stop. Once at school, I scanned the hallways in between class, hoping to catch a glimpse of Aaron, Andrea or some recognition of any of the other dragons I saw in human form my first night at Barkers Island. Class after class went by without seeing any of them—I was hopeful, that at lunch Andrea would be there, for my mind was consumed by theories about the bloody hand/claw print. “That maybe it wasn’t blood at all but red clay. Aaron could have gotten it on his hands/claws before he put the book in my backpack when I was sleeping” or “it was just a prank one of the other dragons was pulling to scare me.” Though my theories were plausible—I could find loopholes in all of them—except two--, one that Aaron was hurt and the other that it was a prank. If only I could find Aaron or Andrea, they might know. Lunchtime came and I decided to buy my lunch. The line wasn’t very long—grabbing an apple, a salad, and a bottle of water—I proceeded to the cashier. She looked bored as she said, “$2.20” while she held out her hand for the money. I reached in my back pocket pulling out the cash I had stashed there when I noticed the note that had fallen out of the ‘Norse Mythology’ book this morning. Hanging on to my two one-dollar bills and fishing in my front pocket for the twenty cents- finding two dimes. I dropped the money into her hand, snatched up my tray, scanned for a seat where Andrea (if she was at school) could find me, and a little privacy to look at the tattered folded paper. I found the perfect table. It was close to the cafeteria doors—so that Andrea wouldn’t miss me—as well as the space was busy enough for now one to care about what I was doing. I opened the paper carefully; afraid if I hurried I would tear it, and spread the note out in front of me.       I know I have seen symbols like this somewhere, but where; maybe in history class when we were studying ancient Egypt. “Hey, I heard their serving ‘wing dings’ today!” A student said loudly to his pal as they walked to the lunch line, disrupting my thoughts. All through lunch, I studied the note trying to decipher any of it, while automatically taking bite after bite out of my apple. The salad was forgotten.Br-i- ng….the bell rang out; time to move on to my next class. Disappointed, I jammed the note in my backpack, stuffed the leftover lunch in the trash, hopeful that Aaron would be in Biology to ease my fears and explain what was going on. In the hallway my head started throbbing, at first a dull pain just behind my ear, it steadily increase as I made my way to class. “Stress headache,” I muttered, trying to comfort myself as the pain in my head amplified. “Kyra.. Kyra…” I heard someone behind me whisper, I turned around towards the sound to see who said it, but all I saw were a sea of faces bobbing to their next class. I must be imagining it, I thought. Until I heard my name, being whispered again only this, time more urgent. “What!” I replied, frustrated as I abruptly spun around and smacked into Mr. Wilson my biology teacher, almost knocking him off his feet. He was so shocked he could only sputter and shake his head as I offered him a quick apology and scooted off to my next class hoping the time would go by quickly. As I sat in class waiting for it to be over; the thrum in my head worsened, I started to shiver from the pain. “Just a little bit longer,” I coaxed myself trying to hold out until biology. Than I would ask Mr. Wilson for a pass to go to the nurses office, but only after I talk to Aaron. “KYRA!” I heard someone scream, as I started trembling uncontrollably as an intense pain tore through my head. Blinding me as my body plummeted off my chair down to the cold tiled floor. I never heard the bell ring for biology. “Kyr.. ra..,” a ghostly voice whispered in the night; the moon lighting up everything around me in an ethereal blush; I saw waves undulating far below me, embracing the rocks that jutted maliciously out of the water, reaching for me, calling my name. I teetered on the edge of the precipice imploring my body not to reply. I could only watch, feeling the alarm rise up in me as my arms reached out to them. “Ky…ra” they called, “come to us..” I wobbled, resisting, as my feet stirred moving closer to the edge. Amongst the waves, sitting on the largest rock I could see a gloomy figure, battered and bloody looking up at me with big sad eyes. “Kyr.. Ra” it called up at me, “RUN!” The dark silhouette’s command shocked me out of my stupor. Regaining control over my body and mind, I spun around and ran howling “Noooo…!” as I realize the broken figure on the rocks, had been Aaron in his dragon form. I found myself running through the wood, branches slashing, grabbing at me trying to stop my plight. When I could run no more, I tumbled to the ground and sobbed. I wept for Aaron, wondering if he was still alive or if the crashing tide washed him away. I cried for myself, lost, afraid, and confused. Wondering how I got to the cliff when my last memory was of me sitting safe in my class at school, waiting for the bell to ring, for my next class was biology. The only class I had Aaron in; who might hold the answers that I needed. A shadow flickered across the ground. Looking up I saw a large dark shape looming just above the trees, directly over my head. I crouched lower, burying my head in my arms, trying to shield myself from its view. “Kyr.. ra,” it sang to me, it words vibrating through my mind, “don’t be afraid.” I heard the rustling of branches as it made its decent. I looked up, startled to see Andrea, my friend, looming over me. She was more beautiful than I remember, as the moonlight shimmered in waves off her dark lavender scales. I tried to find the words to tell her about Aaron, to ask her what was happening, as she gently picked me up and placed me on her back. “Hang on,” she called, her voice soft as a lullaby “I’m here to bring you home.” Oh I almost forgot it is young adult fiction Over the last three months I have had no feedback on it- I am up to 30,000 words and another probally 30,000 until it is completely finished. This is not my first attemp at a novel, the others I tried to force from short stories I had written into novels- this became a novel from the beginning. Its taken me 20 years to start writing again..... I need honesty - critique - for a publisher is not out there just to be nice to everyone. exert first chapter- to help clarify.... My world is falling apart. The world I thought I knew. The world where I felt apart of instead of the outcast I feel like now. How did this happen? I kept asking myself. How am I so different from my peers? My wants, needs, desires... My reactions to them over stepping my boundaries- the boundaries of humanity, while they talk to me and treat me anyway they please. Expecting me to roll over and play dead or abide to their wishes as if I am some genie in a lamp. Cutting me off with anger when I do not abide or struggle to tell them no. Why do I have to be like them? Why do I have to be like everyone else? As if, I was to be supposed to be created in their image instead of my Gods. Doesn’t it say we are supposed to turn the other cheek to find understanding of one another, compassion, acceptance…?

Conservative wins in France, French Resistance to Jihadism? French Resistance to Jihadism The broad implications of Sarkozy’s election. By Walid Phares When I was leaving Paris at the end of October 2005 after a visit to France, I had two things in mind: First, I had seen the beginning of the urban intifada, which would soon engulf about two hundred cities and towns. Second, I was able to have my book Future Jihad received by Minister of Interior Nicolas Sarkozy. And as my plane was taking off, I concluded that the jihadi “invasion” of France’s cities would lead to a French popular response. This Sunday’s presidential election epitomized this reaction, and Nicolas Sarkozy embodied it. This striking electoral victory by the son of an immigrant is the result of the French public’s rejection of a slow decay that has been eroding the foundations of the Fifth Republic for years, some would say even since its inception in 1958. Without any doubt, the country’s economic insecurity and a need for change were among the reasons for Sarkozy’s electoral success. He promised a third path between the rigid left-wing agenda and Chirac’s stagnant economics. Many civil societies in Europe wish to escape the choice between Socialism and capitalism. European voters and French ones in particular, have desperately been trying to communicate this to their politicians since the end of the Cold War. But Sarkozy’s victory is also a response to another desperate plea from the peoples of Europe, and from the French silent majority in particular: Please resist the rise of terror that is the urban jihad. This Sunday’s vote, and the presidential primaries, were also — even mostly — about this latent worry, even if the political and media elite attempted to ignore it. When given the opportunity, French electors responded to the elite’s tergiversation on the perceived threat to democracy and security. THE RISE OF TERROR Since the 1970s, France has been a target for terrorist activities. Left-wing, right-wing, and Middle Eastern-rooted groups attacked the country and were fought fiercely by the government. As of the early 1990s, French urban centers began to witness the rise of radical Islamist networks. Migrating from the Maghreb (northwest Africa) and other regions, Salafi clerics and militants promoted jihadism around Paris and many other cities. By the end of the decade, many suburban zones were practically ruled by powers parallel to the state. Inaugurated by Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s, the “politique Arabe de la France” (Arab policy of France), meant in practice an accommodation by Paris to the wishes of foreign powers providing cheap natural resources to the country’s industrial complex. Very smartly, the domestic jihadi web positioned itself under the umbrella of the French Oil interest and multinational corporations; radical clerics were financed by Saudi and other Arab regimes, spreading Wahhabism and Salafism across the country. Any interference by French authorities would “hurt” the relations with Petrol-regimes and thus would have a negative effect on the “economic benefits” to the country. Moreover, high-profile politicians, including President Chirac, were accused of becoming personal friends with Middle Eastern financial empires. The silent majority in France was powerless against the rise of the extremists in the banlieues (suburbs) and throughout the provinces. The average French voter grew frustrated with these two political options and was not willing to support Le Pen’s extreme positions. Popular dismay was exacerbated as the “parallel society” of radicals expanded in urban France. Within those enclaves, the Salafis were profiting from the void. Wherever French police and social workers couldn’t go, jihadi cells would mushroom. The combination of areas ruled by Imams and migrant terror-networks was explosive: In the fall of 2005, it did explode, right in the face of French citizenry. THE FAILURE OF APPEASEMENT After the September 11 attacks in the U.S., most Europeans worried that the same could happen to them. The European elite, however, largely dismissed the possibility, arguing that America brought the attacks upon itself by means of its foreign policy. Soon enough, Western Europe felt the ire of al Qaeda and its ilk: the Madrid train attacks on March 11, 2004, the London subway killings on July 7, 2005, and the assassination of Van Gogh on November 2, 2004, in Amsterdam were the most visible of the continental ghazwas (Jihadi raids). In France, President Jacques Chirac, taking the Gaullist doctrine to its extreme, thought he could spare his country from the “holy wars.” By opposing the removal of Saddam and leading the criticism of Washington, the French political establishment, led by the Élysée (the presidential palace) and endorsed by Rue Solferino (the headquarters of the Socialist party), pitted itself against the United States. Between 2003 and late 2004, French diplomacy fought a fierce battle against America’s involvement in Iraq. The more Paris aligned itself with Berlin’s Schroeder and with anti-American governments worldwide, the more Chirac’s politicians felt safe at home and overseas. But the Jihadi powers, Salafists, and Khomeinists had different calculations. Their message to the French was: Either you are with us or you are against us. During the Iraq war and in its aftermath, Salafi combat-cells continued to spread in France. Not supporting the U.S. in Iraq didn’t shield France from this domestic threat. Al Qaeda doesn’t reward infidels for not joining other infidels in the fight. Nor did Iran and Syria protect the French president’s interests and friends in the region, despite his political war with the Bush administration. In 2004, the Syrian regime went after Chirac’s allies and partners in Lebanon, most notably after Chirac’s friend Rafiq Hariri. In September, Paris reacted by introducing, along with the U.S., a resolution to get Syria out of Lebanon. In retaliation, the Assad regime launched an assassination campaign, killing many politicians, including Hariri. France’s “Arab policy” was collapsing. By the fall of 2005, France’s national soil was transformed into a battlefield. UNREST IN FRANCE On October 27, in Clichy-sous-Bois, an eastern suburb of Paris, “youth gangs” began torching cars and destroying property. The vandalism was purportedly instigated by the death of two young men who were being chased by police. But there was clearly more to it: The uprising spread to dozens of cities and similar graffiti appeared simultaneously across the country. By November 8, 2005, a state of emergency was declared. Ten thousand cars had been burned. The French public took this as a warning. The media, government, and academia insisted on the unemployment-youth-socio-economic paradigm. But the silent majority didn’t buy it. People living close to the “insurgents” and interacting with them, including the security agencies, understood what was happening: Large urban zones around France’s cities had slipped away from national sovereignty. The radicals had built a “société parallèle,” concluded the average citizens. If the police couldn’t go into the suburbs, it was because they had become Taliban-like pockets. A national leader had to step in. SARKOZY ARRIVES Moving swiftly and energetically, Nicolas Sarkozy, the minister of interior, took charge in what was the most sensitive aspect of the French collective psychology. After having organized the Islamic Federation of France in an attempt to whisk it away from the radicals the year before, Sarkozy became the target of attacks by the Salafi clerics, many of whom were preaching Jihadism in the mosques. Sarkozy used French laws to deport a number of them who were non-citizens. In 2003, Sarkozy had organized a state backed Council for Islamic Faith to contain the rise of the Islamists. The November 2005 intifada was a response to the Sarkozy counter-Jihadi measures. In response the minister of interior pushed for the deportation of the radical clerics he accused of incitements. Nicolas Sarkozy embodies important sociological characteristics of French political culture. Being the son of immigrants, he can’t be attacked by the ideological users of the “immigrant shield.” He comes from a conservative background to assure the French that the national identity has to be protected, and he promotes progressive change, integrating the views of the French who are concerned with environmental and economic reforms. Yet the collective consciousness of the French public today is primarily concerned with survival. This goes against the dominant paradigm, the official speech, and the intellectual rhetoric. French people took heed of the warning they saw on their televisions, the terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid, and London; they were shocked by what they saw from their own balconies happening on their streets. They were looking for someone to do something about this, and they found their man in Sarkozy. This is not just one more European election; it is a benchmark in French politics and, subsequently, in the Western struggle to win the war on terror. The change will affect France deeply, but also its relations on the Continent, across the Atlantic, and in the Greater Middle East. Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to bring France back to itself after decades of Gaullist erring. His statement about being a friend of the United States doesn’t mean only that he will listen to what Washington has to say about the world, but also that he will make known to our politicians his experiences with a common enemy. As is clear, America’s establishment could well use the advice of this newly arrived friend on the world stage. After he was elected, Sarkozy pledged that France would support the oppressed and persecuted around the world. In other words, France is committed to helping weak societies struggling for liberties against dictatorships. This statement is a prelude to what could become a new era of French solidarity with the global resistance to ideological jihadism. In this respect, Sarkozy’s victory can be viewed as a first step in the return of the French Resistance, this time against jihadism.

Global warming- why is it political? The issue is federal funding. Why? Because there's no other source for the money! Why do they want the money if the research is going to lead nowhere? It doesn't matter. They want the money. Everybody needs a living. Hey, if you could live off the federal government with grants instead of working, would you do that? Why don't these researchers go out, if they're so brainy, why don't they borrow the money? If it's so promising, do what everybody else does: go borrow money. But no, there's in assumption the government must pay for it. "Why this is health! Why, this is medicine! The government must pay for this." Well, no, the government shouldn't, especially if it's a black hole. Its' the same thing here with global warming. It's all about funding, and the people who want funding from the governments that believe this thing will write reports saying human beings are the sole cause, the primary cause, whatever, of global warming. There are others who, on the basis of their own research, say, "No, you can't prove it yet," and so the clowns that are running around trying to get government money from all over the world then turn what they're doing around, they say, "Ah, these people are being funded by Big Oil, these people being are being funded by people that pollute and want to keep polluting so that they don't have to be held accountable for the global warming." The bottom line is there's no consensus in science on this, and there's nothing in science that says embryonic stem cells show promise. So what we have here is the politicization of medicine. This is the sad and shocking thing. We used to approach the cure for diseases in a truly bipartisan way, but now we don't. Now we've got Democrats and their allies with commercials all over saying certain Republicans are against curing this disease that you have or your friends have or other Americans have. They don't want people to get better, and so what we have, Democrats lying to sick people in this country, creating false hope (which is truly cruel) that this line of research will lead to something substantive, when it won't. Even the people who say it might, say we need 15 to 20 years. Where have we heard that? In 1994 I heard we need 20 years to prove global warming, but we can't afford to wait because if we're wrong, it will be too late to stop it. Well, it's 20 years, and they still say, "We need more time. We can't afford to wait." Others are saying it's too late. They're all over the ballpark. Others are saying, "We can't fix global warming." Well, if we can't fix it, how the hell could we have caused it? It's just simple logic. If we're the reasons for it, and it's happening, then we ought to be able to stop what we're doing. But no, no, no, the problem's gone so far, the earth is now more powerful than we are. It wasn't 20 years ago we had the power to totally destroy the climate on this planet, but we don't anymore because it's gotten so bad, we've so destroyed it, there's nothing we can do to fix it. That's what some of them say. They're all over the ballpark. But this is all about funding. Now, they've already politicized science, and let there be no mistake. We've talked about this. There's a presumption just like there is with law enforcement, they never lie, they never falsely accuse. They never go after the wrong guy. Why would they? They're the good guys. They're the guys with white hats. They're trying to spare us and save us from all the evil that's out there. "Science? Why, these are these guys in white coats and the lab coats, and they're out there trying to cure disease and so forth. They wouldn't lie!" Yes, they will. They will lie for money; they will mislead for money. They politicize the arts; they politicize the English language. The liberals have politicized everything, and I just have to laugh when I listen to the liberals talk about how partisan conservatives are and how divisive Republicans and conservatives are. How the hell more divisive can you be than to run ads on television accusing Republicans of not wanting to cure people who have terminal diseases? How much more divisive can it be than when it's a flat-out lie. When their spokesman hasn't even read the constitutional amendment in Missouri on which they're based, how in the world are you supposed to trust anything? That amendment, in fact, everybody gets caught up talking about it as a stem cell amendment because they very cleverly titled it stem cell research and whatever it is. It's a pro-cloning amendment, and the embryonic stem cell people say, "We're not killing embryos, we're cloning them! We're cloning embryos, and we're not going to kill any embryos. This is not an abortion issue." They're doing everything they can to obfuscate what they really want to do, but it's nothing more than your typical liberal money grab. All money is theirs, as long as they can get somebody to get into your back pocket and take it out of your back pocket and hand it over to them, and that's what global warming is all about, that's what embryonic stem cell research is all about, and we see this massive new green tax increase being proposed for the UK, sit tight, folks. With the right people in Washington, it'll happen here.

3 people each have 10 dollars? 3 people have 10 dollars they buy a television for 30 dollars they leave the shop the clerk realises the price is 25 he takes 5 dollars gives each person 1 dollar back keeps 2 dollars in his pockets so each person has spent 9 dollars. 9*3 is 27 plus the two dollars in his pocket is 29 where did the dollar go

rate this poem from one to ten? charles mingus was an uncle tom. i wish elvis would've died sooner. draw a circle with chalk,stand in the center,and shut the f*ck up! you and i would feel better if your face was on fire. i may as well be from pluto because intelect is alien here. your faux scholarly ways are a painful joke to me. you make me laugh so hard i lose grasp on my sanity temporarily. praying for someone to murder kayne west and destroy MTV. video killed my ambition to seek worthwhile works of art. i saw a new coke commercial starring jesus christ and whats her name. i have an inflatable pool in my living room in front of the television. i masturbate and eat hot pockets filled with broccoli and hatred. i need medication to do anything human so the world doesnt stare at my weakness. i have an extensive collection of gap brand turtle necks and wicker flip flops. kurt cobain's greatest accomplishment was the painting he made with his brains and fragments of his skull. you should work that hard. capitalization is for chi-chi-men. and your existance makes me want to cry. look up the definition for NIHILISM and tell me to be more organized. just so you all know a poem BY DEFINITION is anything that a poet writes and calls a poem. this work is obviously completely un-serious however i am a poet in reality and if i call it a POEM then it is a POEM. case closed.

A good mind boggler? good luck? Three men walk into a shop and ask the man behind the counter "how much is the second hand television? The man replies £30. So the 3 men put in £10 each and leave with the television. All of a sudden the shopkeeper comes out of the back room and asks the man "where is the television? He told him he had sold it to the 3 men for £30. The shopkeeper told him he only wanted £25 for it. So he gave him 5 one pound coins and told him to return it to the 3 men. So the man put 2 of the coins in his pocket and gave the men back, one pound each. Therefore the men have only paid £9 each for the television. Three 9s are 27 and the two pound in his pocket is £29, where is the other pound?

Do you ever think about your past loves? I drift back in time to the days in the field. We'd end up walking for hours in the snow....I'd end up with frozen feet...and Lisa, would pick a nice spot under a tree....rake back the snow to uncover the leaves, and build a fire....I'd take off my shoes, and she would hang my damp socks over the fire to dry them out....and, we'd sit there in the snow by the fire...and we would tell stories about romatic butterfly kisses...and how we would make rabbit boxes to catch rabbits...un doing our jingly zippered pockets that glisten in the sun....and then, the inevitable "ex lover" story would be told...you know the one....the Fay Wray/Marlon Brando story like on some 50's television show...

How much should I sell my Toshiba 56" HDTV 1080p for? I have a Toshiba HDTV with an in Home Waranty. My only problem is that the Warranty Company does not have a contract with any repair people in a 60 mile radius of me. They said we could get it fixed out of pocket and they would reimburse. The only thing they would need is for the work and price to be ok prior to the repair. They said the repair company can call them on the spot to ok it. We don't have the money to even pay for a service call out here let alone to pay for the repair up front. I was told by different repair people and the warranty company the color wheel needs to be replaced. We thought about selling it. It is in the way and really need the money for the holidays!! The buyer would receive the television, remote, manuals, and the transferable warranty (has about 3.5 years left on it.) I listed it on Craigslist and I have had a ton of people email wanting to know how much I want for it. ( As much as I can get hahah!!) Seriously, I have researched to find out how much a fixable tv with a warranty is selling for. Cant really find anything. I find broke ones and working ones. None really with warranty unless they are new. I don't know how to put a price on it that is reasonable to others. I can tell you that I would not consider $200-300 reasonable. This television can be repaired and the cost reimbursed (or if you are in an area they have technicians, repaired at no out of pocket at all!!) and have a working WONDERFUL 1080p HDTV Toshiba 56" Television with a warranty still good for 3.5 years. What is that worth????

Brain Teaser!? Three pensioners go into a television shop with £10 each to buy a new TV between them. The assistant feels sorry for them and charges them £25 instead of £30. But he puts £2 in his own pocket and gives them back £1 each. That means they have each paid £9 instead of £10. 3 times £9 is £27 - plus the £2 he has in his pocket is £29. What happened to the missing one pound????

Want to know 336 useless facts? Useless Facts For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h). If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life." A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world. Starfish have no brain. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E". Bulls are color blind. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Lip stick contains fish scales. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown. Women blink twice as many times as men do. The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A. The life span of a taste bud is ten days. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9. The first 100 numbers of Pi are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679. Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi! A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Emus can't walk backwards. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of bears is called a sleuth. 12 or more cows is called a flink. A baby oyster is called a spat. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too! The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Pinocchio was made of pine. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states. There was once a town in West Virginia called "6". Singapore only has one train station. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT. Popeye was 5'6". Howdy Doody had 48 freckles. The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay". Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. The average American eats 2 donuts a day. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties. A baby is born every 7 seconds. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day. Blue and white are the most common school colors. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla. American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year. American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises. India has 50 million monkeys. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. You breathe about 10 million times a year. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am. The doorbell was invented in 1831. The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight. A squid has 10 tentacles. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose. The word "AND" appears 46,277 times in the Bible. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "horn". The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes. Napoleon was terrified of cats. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner. The oldest known vegetable is the pea. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. Stainless stell was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913. A scallop has 35 blue eyes. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday. An Oscar weighs seven pounds. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly. America once issued a 5-cent bill. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed? The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head. Coca-Cola was originally green. Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royce's per capita. Alaska is the state with highest percent of people who walk to work. 28 percent of Africa is wilderness. 38 percent of America is wilderness. A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why. It costs $6400 to raise a medium size dog to age of 11. Average number of people airborne over the U.S. during any given hour: 61,000. 70 percent of Americans who visited Disneyland/World. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet and was developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only "mobile" National Monuments. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter "uncopyrightable." Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and learned how to walk up standard staircases. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because, when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people (without killing them) used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know his voice was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Butterflies taste with their feet. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca Cola was originally green. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. There are more collect calls made on Father's Day than on any other day. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The world's youngest parents were 8 & 9 and lived in China in 1910. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the bubonic plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores (Ring around the Rosey...). These sores would smell very bad so people would hide flowers on their bodies in an attempt to mask the smell ("pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned to reduce the spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.