Scientists Unravel Secret World Of Elephant Communication

South African Elephants (enlarge)
Source: Stanford University
Date: 2005-05-26
Over the next five years, Hart, Aranson and O'Connell-Rodwell conducted experiments with captive elephants in the United States, Zimbabwe and India. Using geophones buried in the soil, the scientists were able to confirm that low-frequency rumbles and mock charges do, indeed, generate measurable seismic waves that travel along the surface of the ground. In 1999, the UC-Davis team developed a mathematical model predicting that low-frequency vibrations have the potential of traveling up to 20 miles in the ground--potentially three times farther than airborne calls. more

Memorial Inscription (enlarge)

With deep gratitude and honor, we remember all whose who have taken a stand for our freedoms.

Andretti Family Finally Return to Victory!

"No more curse!" shouts Michael Andretti.

Andretti Luck Finally Holds at Indy 500
By MICHAEL MAROT

INDIANAPOLIS May 29, 2005 — Michael Andretti was feeling lucky and thirsty. After decades of being shut out by mechanical problems, crashes and just plain bad luck at the Indy 500, an Andretti finally returned to Victory Lane on Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Mystery as Big Ben falls silent for an hour

Big Ben Glitch
The chimes of Big Ben were silenced for over an hour on Friday night but the cause remains a mystery, an engineer said today. The Palace of Westminster's 147-year-old clock, considered to be one of the most reliable in the world, stopped at 10.07pm. It was thought the hot weather may have been to blame...

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How the Man in the Moon was born

THE MAN

Richard Ingham
Agençe France-Presse
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An international team of scientists says this Late Heavy Bombardment is also linked to the formation of the solar system's two giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn.

It may also explain why some planets in the solar system have circular orbits and others elliptical ones

Senator John McCain, "Why Courage Matters."

SAMUEL ADDAMS Sept.27, 1722

The First Democratic-Republican-Party

The overthrow of British rule in the thirteen colonies and the establishment of the United States of America.

For as long as Political Revelations have held their roots, the struggles to be "free-to-be-free" have never left priority ONE. Throughout the centuries of our misunderstood Land of Liberty, "Of thee they Sang, while shots Rang, and for Freedom they sprang, all transpired to form what was know as a Democratic-Republican Party .

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Quote by Samuel Adams
(September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803)

1998 Bulworth's strategy resurfacing: A purveyor of truth?

Beatty takes on Schwarzenegger in stars war

Dan Glaister in Los AngelesSaturday May 28, 2005The Guardian
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Beatty's words should speak for themselves: "I don't want to run for governor," he told his audience at the University of California. But he went on to say, "I'm an opponent of his muscle-bound conservatism with a longer experience in politics than he has ... I'd do one helluva lot better job than he's done."

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Beatty's claim of "a longer experience in politics than Schwarzenegger" only flaunts his inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
What's worse, is his innate ability to deliver egotistical self-promotional dribble, and pass it off as useful for a young graduate.

Seems to me that Martin Sheen went through something simular to this, at one time?

Ayez un beau jour !

Malibu Mensa Barbie

Yea!! I'm off to the beach for a couple of days! (((. ^.....^ . )))

(will link up with you, later) ha

"FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!"

U.N. Forces Using Tougher Tactics to Secure Peace
N.Y.TIMES: By MARC LACEY
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 22 - The United Nations, burdened by its inability to stave off the mass killings in Rwanda in 1994 and by failed missions in Bosnia and Somalia, is allowing its peacekeepers to mount some of the most aggressive operations in its history.
The change has been evolving over the last decade, as the Security Council has adopted the notion of "robust peacekeeping" and rejected the idea that the mere presence of blue-helmeted soldiers on the ground helps quell combat.

(New York TImes)
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Wow, I can't even imagine how "mere blue-helmeted soldiers" (I mean, mere "Dead" blue-helmeted soldiers) did not somehow raise this censorious situation to IMMEDIATE red-flag!

Talk about procrastination! FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE! I guess this pathetic bureaucracy never went to boys camp. (Uh-come to think of it, neither did I) ha.

So, what's the bottom-line for a decision a decade in the making? Can they expect "robust peacekeeping" in like what? -2015?

"How Much is That Child in The Window?"

"Heh, depends upon how cute one thinks a front page story of a defiant brat kid climbing into a Wal-Mart vending toy-crane machine (with an abating. dismissive parent looking the other way) is.

When you're little it's *maybe* cute for some, but somebody please try to convince him that later-on, it's 2 to five.

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(FOX NEWS must be 'going with the flow?)

Did You Know?

* Pesticidal maniacs are responsible for the extinction of on average six species of insect every day?

* The maximum number of cats you can juggle is fourteen, after which you can juggle no more?

* Some species of turtle are remarkably resistant to centrifugal force, and can reach upwards of 5000 rpm before their wee little flippers fall off?

* That Helium was invented by the Nazi scientists during World War II as a central strategy for their 98th Balloon Inflaters Infantry?

* Afghanistan's primary export, after hard drugs, is dental floss?

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SADDAM'S P.R.

"THE SUN" *news* reminds me of "THE GLOBE" *tabloid*.
You know, that supermarket Enquirer-style Publication which reads: "Man gives birth to 40 pound Space ailen?"

Well, this time it's: "Bush Probes Saddam's pants."

"BIZARRE" & Crass SUN NEWS, is filled with six letter words like "Wanker" and "Bonker."
This is a rag, but do they desire to rise to level of Journalists? If so, they've made it!

Just makes you wonder, what blatantly tacky attempts to desperately engage the 'not amused' public, will rear their ugly heads next?

Now that I think of it, this does seems a little *too* much like public hostage taking.

Ah-yes, the P.R. Work of the Torture-Tyrant himself, SADDAM.