Jin raps back to the "Miss Jones in the Morning"

Download Jin's MP3 Tsunami Response Here

Here is what my friend Jason says
"It's good having a rapper of your own race! Like having a public mouth."

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Radio Wave of Anger Over Asian Slap
by John Mainelli, New York Post

January 22, 2005 - NEW YORK

A popular hip-hop radio show is in hot water over a parody that mocked victims of the South Asian tsunami catastrophe, calling them "screaming chinks" and "little Chinamen."

Yonkers-based Asian Media Watch accuses the WQHT/Hot 97 "Miss Jones in the Morning" show of "repeated racist attitudes" and demands the program's "elimination."

"The host broadcasts a horrifying song that mocks the dead South Asian tsunami victims, uses the racial slurs 'chink' and 'Chinamen,' and calls the drowning victims 'bitches,' said AMW director Kai Yu in a letter to Hot 97's John Dimick.

Station-owner Emmis Communications issued an apology late yesterday.

"We apologize to our listeners and to anyone who was offended," Dimick said. "[The show's entire seven person staff] has agreed to contribute one-week's pay to the tsunami-relief efforts."

VA Prescriptions Have a Lot to Say

According to the American Society of Health System Pharmacists recent newsletter, there is no law or regulation that requires prescription drug labels be decipherable by blind or visually impaired patients—and therefore no compelling reason for insurers and pharmaceutical firms to improve the use of medications for the blind and visually impaired.

However, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has finalized its plan to provide audible prescription reading devices to more than 33,000 blind veterans.

The VHA purchased the ScripTalk Audible Prescription System, which uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The patient positions the battery powered hand held RFID reader to within a few inches of the specially printed label, which has an embedded microchip and antenna. A synthesized voice gives the patient’s name, drug name, instructions for use, special warnings, expiration date, prescriber’s name, pharmacy phone number, and prescription number.

A printer in the pharmacy produces readable information and encodes the RFID microchip in the label.

Department of Homeland Security to Deploy RFID Technology

Posted Jan 26, 2005, 1:48 PM ET by Michael Sciannamea

The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to deploy RFID technology. According to Homeland Security’s undersecretary for border and transportation security Asa Hutchinson, the technology will be tested at a simulated port this spring to determine if the technology will help to improve secruity. Beginning July 31, testing will begin at the ports of Nogales East and Nogales West in Arizona, Alexandria Bay in New York, and Pacific Highway and Peace Arch in Washington.

Last week, the Postal Service awarded a multi-million dollar contract to I.D. Systems Inc. of Hackensack, N.J., to implement the firm’s RFID-based Wireless Asset Net industrial equipment tracking and management system at postal facilities nationwide.