Spoof Cards Something To Look Out For
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Posted:Sep 18, 2006 4:22 pm
Last Updated:Sep 18, 2006 4:28 pm
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Don't trust your Caller ID to be telling you the truth about who's on the other end of your phone. Some new technology is making it easy and cheap to alter what you see and the Investigators uncover the details.
Spoof Cards are like a regular calling card. Spoof Cards can be accessed through a dedicated toll free number where a user enters their pin number, desired Caller ID and the number they would like to call. The call is then placed instantly without the need to ever be on-line or at a computer.
Caller ID spoofing gives business professionals the ability to manipulate their identity to their choosing and stay anonymous. Caller ID spoofing is also valuable in defeating popular telephone services such as "*57 Call Trace", "*69 Last Call Return", "Anonymous Call Rejection" and "Detailed Billing". Private Investigators will find Caller ID spoofing valuable for pretext calls.
The reason for this is that telemarketers are starting to use this type of card to trick you which is against the law.
Now spoof cards are not against the law if you use it the way it is meant to be use. Here in Arizona they have been used for harassing phone calls, telemarketing, and for fraud and scrams, and praying on the elderly, lawmakers are looking into some type of bill/law that will be enforceable.
There are many, many spoof card sites here on the internet. The cost of these cards range from $10 to $40 maybe more for a certain amount of minutes, plus I believe you can renew the minutes.
Here are some basic features and the basic of entering the information.
MOST COMMON SPOOF CARD FEATURES:
* Caller ID Spoofing
* Voice Changer
* Call Recording
* Web Control Panel
No computer needed! Simply dial the toll free number from the calling card you purchase.
1. Enter your pin number.
2. Enter Destination number.
3. Enter Any Caller ID Number you wish to display.
4. Choose the voice you would like to use.
5. Your call is connected using the specified Caller ID Number.
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Part Two: Oil Industry Resists
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Posted:Aug 29, 2006 7:12 pm
Last Updated:Apr 30, 2024 3:31 pm
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Well today's story that came by email was very interesting and also I did a search and found quite a few stories from different states and also that people are up in arms and complaining plus there is several investigations going on.
Here in Arizona, Arizonans overpay at the pump, state corrects price based on temperature only for orders over 5,000 gallons. So most drivers get less gas than they're paying for.
For 1 year of "HOT GAS" cost Arizonans $115 million!
Now on to Part II;
Oil industry resists adjusting gas pumps for hot climates
Steve Everly
Kansas City Star
Aug. 29, 2006 12:00 AM
OAHU, Hawaii - Idyllic weather, pounding surf and a warm, welcoming culture help make Hawaii a unique state. So does its gallon of gas.
The Hawaiian gallon contains nearly 234 cubic inches of fuel - about 3 cubic inches more than is dispensed in the rest of the United States.
The extra volume, required by state law, helps offset the higher temperature in this tropical climate, which causes the gasoline to expand. If the gallon weren't temperature-adjusted, Hawaiians would receive less energy per gallon than called for under the government standard. That's because for nearly a century, gasoline and diesel have been measured across America as if they were being dispensed at a temperature of 60 degrees, a more condensed gallon of 231 cubic inches.
The larger gallon saves Hawaiians millions of dollars a year. But in the rest of America, consumers will lose an estimated $2.3 billion this year because of "hot" fuel. No other state adjusts for temperature fluctuations when dispensing fuel, including warm-weather states such as California, Arizona, Texas and Florida, where drivers lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
In fact, few consumers even realize that they're not getting what they pay for when they fill up at the pump. That's because no national law requires retail station owners to sell fuel at the government standard of 60 degrees, or use pumps that adjust for hotter fuel.
That omission might seem odd, especially considering soaring gas prices and record oil industry profits. As Hawaii proved, states can take action to address the hot-fuel problem. Congress can step forward to require temperature compensation. And the industry could push for the change.
But don't count on it
The bigger Hawaiian gallon, which assumes a fuel temperature of 80 degrees, was introduced during the energy crisis of the 1970s. At the time, state officials considered it a temporary measure until the United States required fuel pumps that would automatically adjust the volume of gasoline and diesel to conform to the official standard.
Instead, the energy industry has repeatedly blocked efforts in America to install retail fuel dispensers that automatically adjust for temperature change. The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the industry, contends it would cost too much to fix the problem. Moreover, it says that consumers don't want to be bothered by pumps that adjust the size of a gallon to make sure they get the same amount of energy no matter what the temperature.
Ironically, the industry takes the opposite stance in Canada, where cold temperatures give it a financial incentive to adjust the volume of gas at the pump and make more money. Nearly all fuel sold at retail outlets in Canada is temperature-adjusted.
API has argued for decades that the hot-fuel problem isn't worth fixing because the "negligible" benefit to consumers doesn't justify the "undue burden" of the industry's cost to fix the problem.
"It doesn't make sense (financially)," says Prentiss Searles, a senior associate for marketing issues at API.
The industry acknowledges that it doesn't have a specific estimate on how much it would cost to retrofit or replace the nation's pumps to adjust for temperature change.
But Searles contends that it could cost $25,000 to purchase a new pump that adjusts for temperature. At that price, he estimates that the one-time cost of fixing the problem would be about $15 billion, equal to about six years of potential savings for American consumers.
But Searles' rough estimate is more than four times as high as what the API estimated in 1979, when it pegged the cost at $3.4 billion in today's inflation-adjusted dollars.
Moreover, pump industry experts point out that oil companies and other gas marketers regularly replace pumps for various reasons. Thanks to innovations in technology, adding an automatic temperature-adjustment control to a dispenser would be just a small part of the total cost.
For example, Lucy Sackett, marketing manager for Gilbarco Veeder Root Inc., a pump manufacturer in Greensboro, N.C., says adding an automatic temperature control to a dispenser would cost $1,105 to $1,975 per pump.
But a new pump isn't even necessary to deliver temperature-compensated fuel.
Officials with Kraus Global Products in Canada say the company's retrofit kits sell for $630 to $1,100 for an electronic dispenser. For mechanical dispensers, used primarily at some small stations, retailers would need electronics that would allow the automatic adjustment for temperature. Yet it would still cost $1,350 and $2,700 each to retrofit those pumps, Kraus Global says.
Based on such figures provided by pump manufacturers, the retrofit cost would roughly average $2,000 to $2,650 per dispenser, including labor. At that cost, the one-time price to fix the nation's hot-fuel problem would be $1.4 billion to $1.9 billion. And that expense would likely be spread out over several years.
API's argument that it would cost too much to fix the hot-fuel problem is echoed by the Petroleum Marketers Association of America, which represents independent gas station operators.
"You put significant cost on the industry for virtually no gain," says Dan Gilligan, president of the marketers association.
Indeed, the industry's view of the cost may also include the $2.3 billion in revenues oil companies and gas marketers take in annually from consumers because of hot fuel. Yet no matter what the true cost may be, one thing is certain: With high gas prices and record oil company profits, there is plenty of money available to fix the problem.
Five of the largest oil companies - BP PLC, Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC - recently reported combined second-quarter earnings of $34.6 billion. By way of perspective, a high-end estimate of $1.9 billion to fix the hot-fuel problem is the equivalent of just five days of those companies' second-quarter profits.
So, what would it take to make the temperature-adjustment change in the United States?
Weights-and-measures regulations have mainly been the responsibility of the states since the country was founded. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency, offers technical assistance to the states but doesn't have any enforcement powers. So states look to the National Conference of Weights and Measures, attended largely by state regulators and industry officials, to agree on model codes for states to adopt.
The conference's annual meeting in July adjourned with little optimism that anything would happen soon. The reason is simple: The conference strives for consensus, and the industry doesn't want adjustable fuel pumps.
Congress can also step in to require temperature adjustment. The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1966, for instance, imposed uniform rules on how the weight or measurement of packaged products is displayed so that consumers could more easily make an informed choice.
Constitutional law experts say a similar move by Congress to impose temperature compensation on retail fuel sales would probably be within its authority.
Such a move, however, would face a difficult path politically. Even with gas prices at record levels and major oil companies posting record profits, Congress has been reluctant to take on the industry.
Well there you have it. Another way the BIG OIL Companies screw the consumers!
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Selling Hot Fuel
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Posted:Aug 28, 2006 6:45 pm
Last Updated:Aug 28, 2006 7:36 pm
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Back in July I posted a blog about Oil Barrel/Prices, well I got a great email today and was shocked to this and as I read it, you can say it just PISSED me off more!
Did you know that the hotter the temperature the less gas you get because of expansion? But you pay more for less! Get this it is perfectly LEGAL! Yes
Gas sold at higher temps boosts Big Oil
'Hot' fuel costs U.S. consumers billions of dollars
Steve Everly
Kansas City (Mo.) Star
Aug. 28, 2006 12:00 AM
SUFFOLK, Va. - Lesley "Lucky" Duke's mood darkens with every drop of diesel that flows into his 2005 Freightliner big rig.
The 52-year-old independent trucker from Hertford, N.C., has just dropped off a load of potatoes and is topping off his tank on a sweltering summer day.
He whips out a thermometer and takes the temperature of the $2.80-a-gallon fuel gushing into his truck's tanks. The thermometer stops at 93 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Hot" fuel is costing him the price of a good lunch today, Duke reckons, and as much as $700 a year.
Duke, you see, is one of the few Americans who realize that fuel is often sold at temperatures much hotter than the federal standard of 60 degrees. It's a standard agreed to nearly a century ago by the industry and regulators but virtually unknown to the average consumer.
But you should understand it because it's costing us billions of dollars a year. An investigation by the Kansas City (Mo.) Star has found that at current prices, U.S. consumers are spending about $2.3 billion, $115 million of that in Arizona, more for gasoline and diesel this year than they would if fuel pumps were adjusted to account for expansion of hot fuel.
It works this way: As a liquid, gasoline expands and contracts depending on temperature. At the 60-degree standard, the 231-cubic-inch U.S. gallon puts out a certain amount of energy. That same amount of gas expands to more than 235 cubic inches at 90 degrees, even though consumers still only get 231 cubic inches at the pump.
Put simply, every degree over 60 degrees diminishes the energy a 231-cubic-inch gallon delivers to cars, trucks, boats, buses and heavy equipment, and forces drivers to consume more and pay more for fuel.
It is basic physics that, depending on the temperature, can amount to just a few cents a gallon. But it adds up to big money, coming straight out of consumers' pockets and going right to the bottom line of major oil companies and other fuel retailers in the energy pipeline.
Moreover, it's legal, because even though your local filling station measures out your gas as if it were stored at 60 degrees, no law requires retailers to adjust the pump to reflect the expansion of hot fuel.
In other words, no law ensures that you get what you pay for.
Pumps can be adjusted
While the problem may be costly to consumers, the Star's examination reveals that it is fixable. The technology exists to retrofit the nation's filling stations to adjust the amount of fuel pumped to reflect changes in fuel temperatures.
Even so, Big Oil has argued successfully for decades that it would cost too much to retrofit the nation's fuel pumps, particularly for independent retailers that now sell the majority of the nation's fuel. The industry also argues that consumers simply wouldn't understand fuel pumps that adjust for temperature change.
"The consumer doesn't necessarily want to be confused," contended Prentiss Searles, a senior associate for marketing issues at the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based group that represents the industry. "They're thinking, 'I just want a gallon.' "
Most major oil companies either declined comment on the hot-fuel issue in the United States or referred inquiries to the institute.
However, Anne Peebles, a spokeswoman for Shell Oil Co., said in a statement that the value of automatic temperature correction "may be limited. . . . Temperature correction is not something one company can do on its own, it would have to be a regulatory requirement that puts all facilities on the same page."
Standard is a century old
The 60-degree standard was set by mutual agreement of the oil industry and weights and measures regulators roughly a century ago. At the time, those involved reckoned that figure roughly matched the average air temperature in the United States.
While the industry changed and technology improved over time, the 60-degree standard remained, quietly protected by Big Oil. The issue simmered briefly in the 1970s, when fuel prices soared during two major oil crises. While drivers sat in long lines to pay high prices, a few government weights and measures officials pushed to adjust gas pumps for temperature variations.
Big Oil pushed back. The American Petroleum Institute dispatched Harold Harris, head of Exxon's (as it was known then) office of engineering operations, to defend the status quo.
In 1974, Harris told a group of weights and measures officials meeting in Washington, D.C., that his study found that average fuel temperatures were below 60 degrees. His analysis claimed that consumers were getting the energy equivalent of 242 million gallons of extra fuel a year that they weren't paying for.
Harris, retired and living in Houston, acknowledges now that the 1974 study was wrong.
Times have changed for the worse for consumers.
First, the retail price of gasoline has more than tripled since the late 1990s, worsening the financial impact of fuel expansion.
The fuel being sold now also is hotter than in the past because of fundamental changes in how fuel is hauled, stored and sold.
And much of the fuel-retailing industry has been consolidated from small corner stations into much larger outlets in recent years. At modern stations, which average eight hoses, fuel is sold in such massive daily volumes that the fuel in underground storage tanks turns over long before it has time to cool to ground temperature.
Finally, a population shift from cooler Rust Belt states to hotter Sun Belt states means that more people are buying hotter fuel than ever before.
A database of fuel temperatures at 1,000 retail stations compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, obtained by the Star, reveals that fuel is sold at nearly 65 degrees when averaged year-round and across the country.
When state-by-state temperature and consumption patterns are calculated, the Star estimates that U.S. consumers are being shorted the energy equivalent of roughly 760 million gallons a year of gas and diesel because of fuel expansion caused by heat, fuel worth about $2.3 billion at current prices.
In car-crazed California, the state that consumes the most gasoline, the cost to consumers for not adjusting gasoline volumes for temperature is more than $500 million a year. In the three largest gas-consuming states - California, Texas and Florida - the total is more than $1.2 billion. In Arizona, the loss to consumers is $115 million.
No national code pushed
In a windowless ballroom at the Chicago Marriott Downtown, more than 100 business executives and government officials gathered in July to discuss the country's weights and measures regulations.
The National Conference of Weights and Measures is charged with establishing model codes for states to follow in regulating all forms of commerce.
Weights and measures professionals take pride in their work. Regulators say the integrity of daily commerce hinges on the basic trust that consumers know what they're buying. Consumers don't have to worry whether a gallon of milk is a pint short or that a pound of hamburger weighs 15 ounces.
Even so, the conference never has formally endorsed a national code for temperature compensation of fuel at the pump. But this year a report on it was on the agenda.
Michael Belue, a consultant for the American Petroleum Institute, argued that it would be too costly to adjust the nation's fuel pumps.
"API recognizes the importance of temperature compensation at this conference," Belue said, adding that any policy to deal with fuel temperature should be strictly voluntary.
The weights and measures conference took no action.
Big Oil adjusts own fuel
While fighting against temperature-adjusted gas for consumers, Big Oil long ago made certain that its crude-oil transactions before the refining process were made on a temperature-adjusted basis.
Temperature compensation also is a fixture in pipelines. The Explorer pipeline, which transports gasoline and diesel from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest, has a provision in its contract that requires fuel volumes to be adjusted for temperature.
Wholesale fuel-transaction measurements also are routinely adjusted for temperature. Even measurements of imported gasoline on tanker ships are adjusted for temperature.
Indeed, temperature adjustment occurs at almost every step in the energy pipeline, just not to retail consumers.
Even the government protects itself. Some large-volume buyers of fuel are able to negotiate deals to buy fuel that is temperature-adjusted. One is the U.S. military, which has required temperature adjustment for decades.
"It ensures we're getting the quantity of fuel we are purchasing," said Lindsey Hicks, a chemist for the Defense Energy Support Center at Fort Belvoir, Va.
Not reflecting reality
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is the federal agency in charge of advancing measurement science, standards and technology.
One of its 2,900 employees is Richard Suiter, a weights and measures coordinator with 37 years of experience.
Suiter had long believed that fuel needed to be adjusted for temperature simply to ensure fairness in the marketplace. But he wasn't convinced that it would make a large net difference for the industry or consumers. After all, he reckoned, fuel is largely stored in underground tanks with a ground temperature close to 60 degrees.
But he began to have doubts after hearing anecdotal reports of fuel temperatures well above 60 degrees. The chance to find out more came during a training visit to a back room at an Illinois gas station.
The room contained monitoring equipment required by the Environmental Protection Agency to help detect fuel leaks in storage tanks. Among other things, the equipment tracked temperature to calculate changes in fuel volume.
The discovery led to a study in which Suiter retrieved average monthly fuel temperatures from 1,000 stations in 48 states and the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2004.
The results, which offer the most thorough analysis ever of fuel temperatures nationwide, were stunning.
The nation's average fuel temperature was almost 5 degrees higher than the standard, amounting to a multibillion-dollar shift from consumers to the industry every year. The American Petroleum Institute studies that had held sway since the 1970s did not reflect reality.
The top 10 Hotter States Pay The Price For Gas
I have listed the top 10 below. To read you will see state name, Average Temp., Effect on retail gas consumption in millions of gallons, Consumers gain or loss in millions of dollars (using different color)
California-75, 158, -$509
Texas-78, 143, -$416
Florida-82, 122, -$367
Arizona-82, 39, -$115
Georgia-72, 41, -$123
Louisiana-77, 28, -$81
N. Carolina-69, 25, -$74
Alabama-72, 22, -$63
S.Carolina-73, 22, -$61
Tennessee-70, 21, -$60
Now I went through the entire list and not one state has a gain under the column of Consumers gain or loss in millions of dollars. Paying $0 to $5 million less. In fact the lowest state is:
Vermont-54, -1.4, -$4
Alaska-47, -2, -$7
I can hardly wait to see what Tuesday email will be about when I get it title below!
Tuesday: What can be done? Hawaii already adjusts for temperature.
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Ghost Riding
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Posted:Aug 18, 2006 6:18 pm
Last Updated:Aug 18, 2006 6:37 pm
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As I get emails about news from many different agencies, this one came from ABC News and after reading this, I just had to copy and paste this.
Now how many of you all have teenagers that drive say your vehicle? How many of you know what your teenagers are doing when they are with a bunch of friends with your vehicle?
I was shocked and had to go to some sites and check out the videos! Shocking isn't the word for this, it is completely stupid and tells me these teenagers don't give a damn about their life or the life of others or property.
New Car Craze: Ghost Riding the Whip
Run or Dance Beside a Moving Car and Often Videotape It to Post on Internet
Aug. 15, 2006 – - Young people have always been drawn to risky behavior, and the latest dangerous thrill is called "ghost riding the whip."
Ghost riding involves leaving the wheel of a moving car and walking, running, or dancing beside it.
It's a craze that's catching on, especially on the Internet, with young people making and posting hundreds of ghost-riding videos online.
Teens ghost ride on suburban roads, in parking lots, and on the freeway.
Some of the stunts are highly choreographed, with jumping in and out of moving cars.
One tape of a ghost-riding stunt shows a wrapping up his stunt just as a school bus approaches.
Another shows a ghost rider losing control completely, his truck crashing into a fire hydrant and a utility pole.
"First thing a parent should say to their is, 'Don't participate in that activity,'" said Mark Helms, the assistant chief of the Stockton, Calif., police department. "It's extremely dangerous."
Goal Is to Fail
Ghost riding is an updated version of car surfing, which has been going on for decades and has killed young people across the country.
A group of teens from Nashville, Tenn., who made a ghost-riding tape acknowledged that it probably wasn't that smart, but that they would do it again.
"Ghost ride was started not to see people succeed, but to see people fail," Jonathan Lovecchio said. "They want to see people run into trees, run over their foot."
Ghost riding appears to have taken off as a result of popular rapper E-40, who has a song where he repeatedly chants, "Ghost ride the whip."
"Whip" is slang for car. E-40's song is the backdrop for many of the ghost-riding videos on the Web.
"We would have never done this without the song that we were playing," Lovecchio said. "If you don't play that song, you are not a ghost rider."
In cities like Stockton, officials say ghost riding is a growing problem, especially when it is part of what's called "sideshows" -- illegal group gatherings characterized by loud music and automobile acrobatics.
Sideshows have reportedly resulted in eight deaths.
"Parents need to be responsible and know what their are doing," Helms said. "It's very likely that your could get hurt out there."
Stockton police say in the last four months, they've arrested 171 people and impounded 482 cars at sideshows.
Rapper E-40 and his record label, Warner Bros., had no comment when asked about the song.
Copyright © 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures
I be interested in your comments about this new craze!
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If I Had My Life to Live Over
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Posted:Aug 8, 2006 6:24 pm
Last Updated:Apr 30, 2024 3:31 pm
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Today I had my mind and eyes opened while I was talking with someone(a co-worker) who asked me if I wanted to read something very special and I said sure, after reading it I had to type this out and sent it to everyone I know and for those who have touched my life in ways they will never know how much their friendships mean to me and how I treasure them. As I read this and thought back it is the small things we tend to forget in our life's. i know I have forgotten these little things. So please enjoy this.
So have you forgotten these little things that make our life's so full or make a difference?
IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER
By Erma Bombeck
(written after she learned
she was dying of cancer.)
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.
I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have sat on the lawn with my grass stains.
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.
I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
When my kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner." There would have been more "I love you's." More "I'm sorry's."
But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it ... live it .and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff.
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.
Let's think about what we have been blessed with. And what we are doing each day. I hope you all have a blessed day.
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Oh Yeah, Don't You Just Love Our Government
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Posted:Jul 20, 2006 4:54 pm
Last Updated:Jul 20, 2006 5:03 pm
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I just love the way our government spends and waste our tax money. here is part two of the GAO report on Post Katrina and Rita.
Homeland Security Department Is Accused of Credit Card Misuse
By ERIC LIPTON
Published: July 19, 2006
WASHINGTON, July 18 – Flat-bottomed rescue boats at double the retail price, $68,500 worth of unused booties, hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of computers that somehow disappeared and a $227 beer brewing kit.
These are just a few of the questionable purchases that Congressional auditors have found by digging through half a year of credit card records from the Homeland Security Department, including records for the months immediately after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year.
The audit, by the Government Accountability Office, which is due to be released Wednesday, concluded that the credit card misuse could probably have been avoided had the department completed a long-planned rulebook for its more than 9,000 employees who spent $420 million last year using government-issued credit cards.
Instead, “due to a lack of leadership” at the department, the draft manual has never been finished, creating accounting weaknesses that “leave D.H.S. highly vulnerable to fraudulent, improper and abusive activity,” the audit says.
The result is that in the five months examined, the investigators found that 45 percent of purchases did not have appropriate preauthorization by supervisors and that 63 percent did not include documentation stating whether the goods or services had been received.
Congressional leaders, who requested the investigation, said they were once again disappointed at the lack of oversight of taxpayer dollars at the Homeland Security Department, which has already been blamed for up to $2 billion of waste and fraud related to the hurricanes last year.
“It seems no matter where we look at Homeland Security, we find a pattern of waste, fraud and abuse,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and the chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
One employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is part of the department, spent $7,790 on a 63-inch plasma monitor, which sat for six months, unused, in its original carton.
Another FEMA employee spent $68,442 on the 2,000 boots, which were intended to protect the paws of search dogs on rescue operations; the boots ended up in a FEMA warehouse and have not been used.
A Coast Guard cardholder bought the beer brewing kit, which officials explained was “a quality product for official parties attended by cadets, dignitaries and other guests,” but which the auditors called “abusive and questionable.”
The small flat-bottomed boats, the audit said, were bought from a Texas company for a total of $208,000. That was about twice the retail rate for the boats, which were supposed to be used in the rescue and recovery effort in New Orleans.
Auditors also found that officials from Customs and Border Protection spent $2,492 on rain jackets for use at a firing range, even though the firing range is usually closed when it rains. And Secret Service officers spent $7,000 on iPods, which the agency explained were intended to serve as data storage devices, an explanation the auditors found unconvincing.
Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the department, said it would soon be issuing credit card rules, which he agreed were needed to avoid some of the problems.
“We are still a young department, a little over three years old,” Mr. Knocke said, adding that the total value of the purchases questioned by the auditors represented only a tiny share of the amount charged on the government cards.
He also said that the department had found many of the more than 100 computers bought with the credit cards that investigators said had disappeared.
“More resources have been spent on investigating these anomalies than the amount of resources actually lost,” he said.
Brewing kit, plasma TV among government Katrina purchases
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government "purchase cards" were used to buy a beer brewing kit, an $8,000 63-inch Samsung plasma screen television, hundreds of laptop computers that are now missing, and 20 flat-bottom boats at greatly inflated prices, according to a government audit of spending associated with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
The new audit, also done by the Government Accountability Office, {GAO}, looks at purchases made by DHS employees during a five-month period beginning in June 2005 using "SmartPay" purchase cards, intended to give government employees a more flexible and efficient way to purchase goods and services. Typically, government employees can make purchases up to $2,500 with the cards, but Congress increased the threshold to $250,000 for Katrina-related purchases.
But the GAO's Gregory D. Kutz will testify to a Senate committee Wednesday that weak controls at DHS exposed the department to "fraud, waste, and abuse," according to prepared testimony.
A previous government audit showed that about $1 billion FEMA gave to Hurricane Katrina and Rita claimants were fraudulent.
WHY DOES DHS NEED A $227 BEER BREWING KIT? Flat-bottomed rescue boats at double the retail price, $68,500 worth of unused booties, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of computers that somehow disappeared and a $227 beer brewing kit.
These are just a few of the questionable purchases that Congressional auditors have found by digging through half a year of credit card records from the Homeland Security Department, including records for the months immediately after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita last year.
The audit, by the Government Accountability Office, which is due to be released Wednesday, concluded that the credit card misuse could probably have been avoided had the department completed a long-planned rulebook for its more than 9,000 employees who spent $420 million last year using government-issued credit cards. New York Times: Homeland Security Department Is Accused of Credit Card Misuse.
DHS updates status of those missing laptops
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Just two hours before they were to receive a public tongue-lashing on Capitol Hill for losing scores of laptop computers, a dozen flat-bottom boats and other gear during Hurricane Katrina recovery operations, Department of Homeland Security officials Wednesday said they had located many of the missing items.
But federal auditors remained skeptical, saying DHS needs to "touch" the objects to assure they had been located, and not to rely on "paper" assurances.
As noted earlier, a GAO audit concluded that weak management practices at DHS had led to widespread misuse of purchase cards, which were supposed to give government employees a more efficient way to purchase goods and services.
Auditors cited a variety of apparent misuses of the cards. In many cases, DHS could not locate items purchased with the cards, suggesting the items were lost, stolen or misappropriated, the GAO said. Among the lost items were 107 of 200 laptop computers, 22 printers and 12 flat-bottom boats.
But shortly before a Senate hearing on the matter, DHS said it had found some of the missing equipment.
"I do want to note that at 7:52 this morning, DHS informed the committee that it had miraculously found the missing boats and some of the missing
computers," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Reform. DHS said it had located some 74 of the 107 missing computers.
Auditors also voiced skepticism. "I am a little taken back, quite honestly," GAO Special Agent John Ryan told the committee, noting that earlier efforts to locate the items were fruitless. "I would ask them to touch the item and make sure they're really testing the serial number."
I love getting these email alerts and seeing what goes on in our nations capitol.
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Granny Gets Even, Don't Mess With Granny!
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Posted:Jul 19, 2006 5:31 pm
Last Updated:Sep 18, 2006 3:34 pm
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Here is a very interesting story I got in my email today, you go Granny!!!
DEPORT HER TO AMERICA..
The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia
Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down - - and shot off their testicles.
The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -- and when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way, said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp. Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be:
'Those bastards will never anybody again, by God.' Cops say convicted and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.
The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. The one guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won't be using it the way he used to, Detective Delp told reporters. Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through.
The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row. "When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself 'cause I figured the Law would go easy on them," recalled the retired library worker. "And I wasn't scared of them, either-- because I've got me a gun and I've been shooting' all my life. And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one."
So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description of the sickos', tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place till she spotted the ill fated entering their flophouse hotel.
I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them, the oldster recalled.
So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door and the minute the big one, , opened the door, I shot 'em right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know.
Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.
Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny. What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison, Det. Delp said, especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.
DEPORT HER TO AMERICA--- WE NEED HER !!
I added her photo!
Nothing more to add!
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Marriage
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Posted:Jul 14, 2006 2:54 pm
Last Updated:Jul 18, 2006 6:43 pm
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A few days ago I was listening to a radio show about marriage. This was quite interesting.
The host had a professional researcher on and I was amazed by what she found out.
How many of you have found your soulmate? I bet not to many of you. I know I didn't. She went on to say that people who married out or in high school more than likely have met their soulmate and marry. (63% between the age of 50-70 years old)
Now I know that my mom and dad (both have passed on)where married for 25+ years, than when my dad passed, my mom remarried a short time later and that marriage lasted 26 years.
Now my real dad and mom to this day in my memory I can not find anytime that they were angry, unhappy, I never seen them fight, they were always happy.
Now with my stepdad, they had their times both were angry and sometimes unhappy, but they worked it out.
So I have talked with others and found out that quite of few to include close friends have been marry out of high school, several for more than 50+ years others 30+ years. Yes each one stated that they both felt they were soulmates and were meant to be together for life.
Most have been from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. Today it is hard to find anyone married 15+ years, there are some but they are not soulmates and their marriages have been rocky and sometimes spit-up. Most marriages she stated last anywhere from 2 to 6 years on average. If your in the military it's more than 1 to 3 years. Today the divorce rate in the military to higher than the general population.
I know both of my marriages didn't last but 8 years each. yes I made it past the 7 year itch but right after that it was pure hell!
She went on to say that most will be 5+ years and if you can get pass the 7 year itch well than the rocky road will be coming up quickly.
She states that we haven't met our soulmates! Most people we married have some things in common and we think we understand each other, how wrong we are.
She states in her research that when we grow up together and go to school we learn about each other and start dating and become so familar with each other. This is because we have learned from being together and understand each other, we know each others habits, feelings, just from hanging out and playing and can put together a successful relationship and marriage. Most of the women questioned put down they knew from a very young age that they were going to be together for life and stated they found their soulmate. Hmmm...is there any truth to this?
Is it because of the way our parents were raised? Is it because of their values back than.
I wonder.....
So is there any truth to this soulmate thing?
Be very interesting to hear what you all think,
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Oil Barrel/Gas Prices
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Posted:Jul 14, 2006 2:05 pm
Last Updated:Jul 14, 2006 2:58 pm
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In Feb I got an email telling about the future of oil prices and if you read the article below it looks like your heading in this direction. I believe that when oil hit $78.00 a barrel today for a brief spell that by the end of this month or in August we will see oil over $80.00 a barrel, it wouldn't even surprise me to see oil hit $100.00 a barrel byt he end of the year.
Than on a radio talk show I heard some professionals say we (Americans will not change our habits until it hit $4.00 at the pumps)! I have made changes already today here in Phoenix at my favorite station it was at $2.90 a gallon and they are saying here it will go up by .10 cents this weekend or next week.
Can you guess what the big 3 oil companies will be ranking in profits this quarter? More than last year and more than this past quarter.
Ready for $262/barrel oil?
Two of the world's most successful investors say oil will be in short supply in the coming months.
By Nelson Schwartz, FORTUNE senior writer
January 27, 2006: 4:40 PM EST
DAVOS, Switzerland (FORTUNE) - Be afraid. Be very afraid.
That's the message from two of the world's most successful investors on the topic of high oil prices. One of them, Hermitage Capital's Bill Browder, has outlined six scenarios that could take oil up to a downright terrifying $262 a barrel.
The other, billionaire investor George Soros, wouldn't make any specific predictions about prices. But as a legendary commodities player, it's worth paying heed to the words of the man who once took on the Bank of England -- and won. "I'm very worried about the supply-demand balance, which is very tight," Soros says.
"U.S. power and influence has declined precipitously because of Iraq and the war on terror and that creates an incentive for anyone who wants to make trouble to go ahead and make it." As an example, Soros pointed to the regime in Iran, which is heading towards a confrontation with the West over its nuclear power program and doesn't show any signs of compromising. "Iran is on a collision course and I have a difficulty seeing how such a collision can be avoided," he says.
Another emboldened troublemaker is Russian president Vladimir Putin, Soros said, citing Putin's recent decision to briefly shut the supply of natural gas to Ukraine. The only bit of optimism Soros could offer was that the next 12 months would be most dangerous in terms of any price shocks, because beginning in 2007 he predicts new oil supplies will come online.
Hermitage's Bill Browder doesn't yet have the stature of George Soros. But his $4 billion Moscow-based Hermitage fund rose 81.5 percent last year and is up a whopping 1780 percent since its inception a decade ago. A veteran of Salomon Bros. and Boston Consulting Group, the 41-year old Browder has been especially successful because of his contrarian take; for example, he continued to invest in Russia when others fled following the Kremlin's assault on Yukos.
Doomsdays 1 through 6
To come up with some likely scenarios in the event of an international crisis, his team performed what's known as a regression analysis, extrapolating the numbers from past oil shocks and then using them to calculate what might happen when the supply from an oil-producing country was cut off in six different situations. The fall of the House of Saud seems the most far-fetched of the six possibilities, and it's the one that generates that $262 a barrel.
More realistic -- and therefore more chilling -- would be the scenario where Iran declares an oil embargo a la OPEC in 1973, which Browder thinks could cause oil to double to $131 a barrel. Other outcomes include an embargo by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez ($111 a barrel), civil war in Nigeria ($98 a barrel), unrest and violence in Algeria ($79 a barrel) and major attacks on infrastructure by the insurgency in Iraq ($88 a barrel).
Regressions analysis may be mathematical but it's an art, not a science. And some of these scenarios are quite dubious, like Venezuela shutting the spigot. (For more on Chavez and Venezuela, click here.)
Energy chiefs at the World Economic Forum in Davos downplayed the likelihood of a serious oil shortage. In a statement Friday, Shell's CEO Jeroen Van der Veer declared, "There is no reason for pessimism." OPEC Acting Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said "OPEC will step in at any time there is a shortage in the market." But then no one in the industry, including Van der Veer, foresaw an extended run of $65 oil -- or even $55 oil -- like we've been having.
It's clear that there is very, very little wiggle room, and that most consumers, including those in the United States, have acceded so far to the new reality of $60 or even $70 oil. And as Soros points out, the White House has its hands full in Iraq and elsewhere.
Although there are long-term answers like ethanol, what's needed is a crash conservation effort in the United States. This doesn't have to be command-and-control style. Moral suasion counts for a lot, and if the president suggested staying home with family every other Sunday or otherwise cutting back on unnecessary drives, he could please the family values crowd while also changing the psychology of the oil market by showing that the U.S. government is serious about easing any potential bottlenecks.
Similarly, he could finally get the government to tighten fuel-efficiency standards and encourage both Detroit and drivers to end decades of steadily increasing gas consumption. These kinds of steps would create a little headroom until new supplies do become available or threats like Iran's current leadership or the Iraqi insurgency fade.
It's been done it before. For all the cracks about Jimmy Carter in a cardigan and his malaise speech, America did reduce its use of oil following the price shocks of the 1970s, and laid the groundwork for low energy prices in the 1980s and 1990s. But it would require spending political capital, and offending traditional White House allies, and that's something this president doesn't seem to want to do.
So what do you think?
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From The World Of Strange & Unheard Of
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Posted:Jul 7, 2006 10:25 am
Last Updated:Jul 14, 2006 7:22 pm
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From time to time I get one of these email newsletters from the World Of Strange and Weird, today was no exception.
'Breast ironing' to stunt girls' growth widespread
1 in 4 girls in Cameroon suffer this abuse to protect against
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) -- Worried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even , their mother Philomene Moungang started 'ironing' the girls' bosoms with a heated stone.
"I did it to my two girls when they were eight years old. I would take the grinding stone, heat it in the fire and press it hard on the breasts," Moungang said.
"They cried and said it was painful. But I explained that it was for their own good."
"Breast ironing" -- the use of hard or heated objects or other substances to try to stunt breast growth in girls -- is a traditional practice in West Africa, experts say.
A new survey has revealed it is shockingly widespread in Cameroon, where one in four teenagers are subjected to the traumatic process by relatives, often hoping to lessen their sexual attractiveness.
"Breast ironing is an age-old practice in Cameroon, as well as in many other countries in West and Central Africa, including Chad, Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, just to name a few," said Flavien Ndonko, an anthropologist and local representative of German development agency GTZ, which sponsored the survey.
"If society has been silent about it up to now it is because, like other harmful practices done to women such as female genital mutilation, it was thought to be good for the girl," said Ndonko.
"Even the victims themselves thought it was good for them."
However, the practice has many side effects, including severe pain and abscesses, infections, breast cancer, and even the complete disappearance of one or both breasts.
The survey of more than 5,000 girls and women aged between 10 and 82 from throughout Cameroon, published last month, estimated that 4 million women in the central African country have suffered the process.
"You ask me why I did it?" said Moungang. "When I was growing up as a little girl my mother did it to me just as all other women in the village did it to their girl . So I thought it was just good for me to do to my own ."
Common in town
The practice is now more common in urban areas than in villages, because mothers fear their could be more exposed to sexual abuse in towns and try to suppress outward signs of sexuality, the survey said.
Its findings have prompted a nationwide campaign to educate mothers about its dangers and to try to eradicate it. A similar campaign some years ago helped drastically to reduce rates of female genital mutilation in Cameroon.
"A girl...has to be proud of her breasts because it is natural. It is a gift from God. Allow the breasts to grow naturally. Do not force them to disappear or appear," said a leaflet from the campaign.
Moungang said she stopped ironing her daughters' breasts after one girl developed blisters and abscesses.
"I took her to the hospital and the doctor scolded me and advised never to do it again because it could ruin my ," she said.
"When Mariane married and delivered her first baby, it took a long time -- about a month -- for her breasts to start producing milk and the almost died. I was told it was because I had ironed her breasts. I was frightened."
The younger a girl develops, the more likely she is to have her bosom ironed -- 38 percent of girls developing breasts under the age of 11 had undergone the procedure.
The practice is most common in the Christian and animist South of the country, rather than in the Muslim North and Far North provinces, where only 10 percent of women are affected.
The survey found that in 58 percent of cases breast ironing was carried out by mothers worried that the onset of puberty could provoke sexual harassment, inhibit their daughters' studies or even stunt their growth.
Many mothers were alarmed because an improvement in nutrition and living conditions had caused ' breasts to develop earlier than ever.
Destroying breasts
"Massaging the breasts with hot objects is painful, very painful, and can completely destroy the breasts," said Bessem Ebanga, executive secretary of women's rights group RENATA, herself a former victim.
"Some girls could be traumatized throughout their lives and their sexual behavior could be disturbed forever."
Thirteen-year-old Geraldine Mbafor could not hold back her tears as she narrated her ordeal.
"I had just finished doing my homework when my mother summoned me to the kitchen. She boiled water and in the water she put a grinding stone. She then removed the stone holding it with a thick cloth to protect her hands, and placed it my breasts and started ironing them," she stated.
"I felt so much pains that I started crying. After that she bandaged my breasts with a band called breast-band ... She did this to me for two and a half months."
According to 14-year-old Amelia, who would not give her family name, her breasts started developing when she was 9. Her elder sister decided to massage them every evening with a towel soaked in hot water.
"This was very painful, and every evening before I slept, she would put a big elastic belt well fastened round my chest to flatten my breasts."
"Six months later the flesh that held my breasts was already weak. At 10, I already had fallen breasts and each time I undress I'm ashamed and it is a big complex."
Nevertheless, support for and opposition to the tradition remains evenly balanced. According to the survey, 39 percent of women opposed it, while 41 percent expressed support and 26 percent were indifferent.
For Ndonko, the campaign is a battle to respect the physical integrity of -- with broader implications for human rights.
"If nothing was done today, tomorrow the very parents may even resolve to slice off the nose, the mouth or any other part of the girl which they think is making her attractive to men."
Now I have heard about genital mutilation, but I never heard of this, I am quite upset and angry that parents (mothers) would do this to their own flesh and blood.
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Nothing Lasts Forever
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Posted:Jul 5, 2006 5:05 pm
Last Updated:Jul 14, 2006 7:24 pm
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6 Things Left Behind As Technology Marches On
I found an article in our local paper and was totally amazed by what I read. I than thought about it and found it to be very true.
Can you guess what those 6 things are that have been left behind as technology took it's place?
Not your car, your most comfortable and broken in tennis shoes. However, technology is hastening natural obsolescence, yep that's right.
Icons we have clung to for decades are fading away as we find other, more convenient ways to find addresses, find maps, heck even tell time and pay our bills.
Ok, how many of you have written a letter, I mean actually sat down with a pen and paper?
The pen and paper letter has been eclipsed by it's electronic cousin, the computer. You know each day around 131 million of us write and send an emails, This was done by a survey conducted earlier this year in Washington by the Pew Internet and the American Life Project. Emails are the most popular activity among Internet users, they say by 65% of those online.
Any body know what the 6 others are?
Number 1- Encyclopedias/Dictionaries -
I can remember when I had that 26-volume set and I can also remember when the salesman came to the door selling them and my Dad and Mom brought the set.
Now we have the Internet or we can buy the CD-ROM and in some cases comes with the purchase of a new computer.
Number 2 - Wristwatches -
This one I find hard to believe, but there are quite a few companies that don't allow employees to wear watches, rings, and bracelets for safety reasons.
But heck all we have to do is pull out the good old cell phone and there you have the time or if your on the computer you have the time right there in the lower right hand corner. Plus most cellphones also sync with local time so should you travel overseas you can get the time instead of learning the phase "Excuse me, can you tell me the time?"
Number 3- Checkbooks -
This is so true, I hardly ever write a check now. About 53 million people or about one-quarter of all US adults are banking online according to a survey done in February of this year by the same group mention earlier. According to Chase Bank about 80% of it's customers bank via the Internet.
So no more waiting in line at the grocery store, just pull out your Credit Card or Debit Card and slide it through the card reader slot. But there are those who still use the check book holding of the line while the cashier writes down all that important information.
Plus the debit card is so popular according to Chase Bank that 98% of their customers use them.
Number 4- CDs -
In what was it 1982 the compact disc was the new cutting edge of Audio Technology which reached the US.
In 2000, 942.5 million CDs were sold according to the Recording Industry. But as the times, tunes have changed, CDs remain the most purchased form of music, but sales have dropped in 2005 to just 705.4 million.
Music downloads from the Internet is now the thing today. We have purchased and downloaded 139.4 million singles songs in 2005, a 163% over 2004, the first the Recording Industry tracked downloads. Album downloads totaled 4.6 million, up 198% in the same period.
They say much of the growth is to the iPODs and other digital players that can store up to 15,000 songs on a device smaller than a deck of cards.
Did you know in the first quarter of this year that watch sales have dropped or fallen by 15.6%? Yep that right.
Number 5- Phone Books -
Sometimes when your home and just sitting down reading or something you hear the big thud outside your door, or you come home from work or shopping and in front of your door are the big and latest phone books.
But as we say times have change we have the Internet now, where before we had the pay phones with the big books and the numbers weren't available anywhere else.
Now we let, hmmm...what was that saying? Let the fingers do the walking. Now we let our computer mice do the walking with just a few clicks of the mouse at sites like DEX or the Yellow Pages.
The phone book will always be here, but much thinner as time goes on, so instead of the big thud you may have just a tap at your door. Hey if the power goes out or your palm pilot goes out due to dead batteries, you will need that phone and you will be thankful that you didn't throw it out.
Number 6- Glove-compartment Maps -
How many of you remember buying that map at the gas station or in the drug store? I know I use to have quite a few in my glove box.
Now thanks to the Internet we can get online maps, plus we also have GPS navigation systems. Plus there are the web sites like mapquest, maps.yahoo or maps.google. This has taken the time to stop at that gas station and ask for directions.
Oh yes what would we do without TECHNOLOGY today.
I know I would be lost for I haven't done any of these things in many, many years.
How many other things we have used yesterday and not today?
I can name one or two.
Oven/Stove - I use the mircowave, with what you can purchase in a mircowave combo you can do anything.
Pay-Phone - They have just disappear, you can use cellphones, I haven't seen one on a corner or at a store or gas station.
Can you name any?
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4th Of July
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Posted:Jul 4, 2006 8:14 am
Last Updated:Jul 4, 2006 8:19 am
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Independence Day
Happy 4th of July
I am taking this time to wish everyone a happy and safe 4th of July and to remember those that are away from their families and friends in a far away land protecting our rights and freedom.
Please keep the faith as for the first time in our history that the Space Shuttle may lift off today, what a way to go, a launch on Independence Day a great day to return to space.
I am very proud to have served my country.
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