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Citi analyst Mark Mahaney canvassed search engine marketing firms and other digital marketers at last week's SES conference and came away with the same conclusion he drew in February and earlier this month: The SEM guys are happy about Q1 search spending. and think it will remain strong even if the economy keeps retracting. Good for Google (GOOG). But:
When pushed a little, we were able to get some of the vendors to recognise that much of the budgets they were currently working with had been secured at the end of 2007 and/or earmarked for 1H08, and that visibility into 2H08 was less clear. We also believe that the increasing attention by larger brands on organic Search Engine optimization is an indicator that return on investment for all online spending is being very closely monitored, and that there could be some risk to 2H08 budgets if the macro-economic slowdown is deeper and more protracted than expected.
We continue to think that Google (as well as the second-tier search engines) are still exposed to more potential pain, and that the search business is not magically immune from maco-economic problems.
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In this post, I, Caleb Mann, would like to talk about "Free Will of Cormax" which was my first experimental film. By first film, I mean that it was my first time using the camera to shoot a series of shots to be used in a story. (I shot with a canon 5d miii using a zoom lens) I operated the camera, played both the lead character Cormax and his nemesis, which is his dark side. I had a friend of mine, Julia Lanski, play my female counterpart.
I'm happy to say, I had no plans to make this short. It created itself. I didn't write it, everything that was filmed for this short was simply me trying to figure out how to use the camera. The story came out of circumstance, I just so happen to go shoot some footage with Julia one day, I just so happen to improvise the scene between my two selves, simply to see if I could make it work. This piece really was an accident, that's why I'm so proud of it. Because this is what I did without planning anything.
I find that the story does have an impact. When I was editing I wasn't sure what I was doing. I just continued to pursue a feeling, a sensibility. Once I established that, I knew what to do. Cormax is definitely a version of myself, and I'm almost scared to say that this film is translated from real life events into an unrecognizable form. I didn't mean for it to turn out that way. But it did, a sign that no matter what we do as artists our souls, if we are dedicated, will leak onto the page. Perhaps we could avoid it, but then I think we would be missing the meaning of what art is suppose to convey
For me, as long as I have a diversity of shots I can string them together as an editor and turn them into something interesting. That's not how I plan to shoot all of my films, only as an early director so I can create my own style and make film making a life habit. I started as an actor studying Shakespeare. Now, at 22 years old I'm taking my shot at making films.
"Free Will of Cormax" was improvised by Caleb Mann.

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Interview with HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT
The four HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT members answered our questions during a convention South of France.
Could you please introduce yourselves to people who don't know you yet?
Hiro: I'm Hiro, the guitarist.
ANZA: I'm ANZA, on vocals.
Batch: My name is Batch, I'm the drummer.
Narumi: Narumi, on bass.
ANZA and Hiro, you are both founding members of the band. How did you get the idea of HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT? And how did you meet the other members?
ANZA: Originally, I had a solo career. I needed some musicians during my tours to support me on stage and there were other musicians in the agency I was working for, one of whom was Hiro. We had the opportunity to talk together several times and we thought that it would be nice to make heavier and harder music. Narumi was originally a guitarist for another band. Just before our first show in New York, we had some trouble with our bassist, whom for familial reasons could not longer play with us. So we urgently asked Narumi to replace the bassist, though he was a formally a guitarist. (laughs)
Wasn't it difficult to learn to play the songs at such short notice?
Narumi: Actually, I was originally a fan of the band. I went to see their live and often got myself employed as staff member, (laughs) so it wasn't that hard.
ANZA: Five years ago, some members left the band. And for three and a half years, Batch was a support drummer. He was then occasionally present during lives and such, but it was only two years ago that he joined the band as an official member.
Awile back, guitarist Mar left the band, leaving you with only four members now. Do you plan to continue this way or search for a new member?
ANZA: Mar indeed ceased to make music since last year for private reasons. We have been playing together for eleven years, so unlike a new band, it's more difficult for us to integrate a new member than to carry on with only four members.
And what about the songs? Wasn't it to difficult to adapt them to this quartet?
ANZA: There were originally two guitarists, but Mar wasn't the lead guitarist since Hiro held that position. Generally, we rearranged the songs and Mar's part is now played by Narumi on the bass.
You have been active as a band for more than ten years. What do you think about the evolution of your music when you look back?
ANZA: Until now, we haven't really had the opportunity to play in Europe, except once in Sweden. We are thinking about the possibility of having a tour soon.
In so many years, you certainly have had a lot of experiences. Could you tell the us the best or worst experiences you have had?
ANZA: Hmm… there would be two. One in Japan and a second one in Europe. Overseas, fans are really hot. We can really interact with the audience there and we don't want to lose the passion they have for us. In Japan, our best experience was to participate in this rock festival in 2007 where big names like Slipknot performed. It's the biggest rock festival in Japan and we are happy to have taken part in it.
ANZA, you began your career by acting in musicals where you played roles such as Sailor Moon. How did you change from rather pop-oriented music to metal?
ANZA: (laughs) For me, it doesn't change a lot. What I wanted was to express from the deepest of my heart every kind of feeling and sometimes, in musical comedies or musicals, it's a little hard to express sadness or that kind of negative feeling. I then turned towards rock, a hard kind of rock, because it seemed more appropriate. But for me, it isn't so different. But indeed, for some Japanese fans, I've become like the Devil.
You are the only woman in the band, how does it feel?
ANZA: No problem! (in English) I'm a tomboy and the other members are like little girls. (laughs)
How do you compose your songs?
Hiro: Actually, we gather together and have jam sessions. We discuss and each of one of us comes up with his own ideas. Then, once everyone has said what he wanted to say, we shape the songs in the studio.
Don't you have lots of difficulty finding the balance between what everyone expects?
ANZA: Hmm... Sometimes with Hiro, we have some clashes. Between the guitarist and the singer, it doesn't work well. It's because each one thinks he's the leader. (laughs)
You use a lot of English in your lyrics. Is it difficult for you to sing or compose in this language?
ANZA: The lyrics are originally written in Japanese, then we translate the text like most bands do. Even if I don't really speak English, the way I structure the sentences and express myself seems closer to English than to Japanese. It's Narumi who translates what I write to English.
Musically, some of your songs are rather tribal. ANZA, you have South African blood from your mother's side. Does this influence you in any way?
ANZA: Yes, I think that my South African origins influence me somehow, but what inspires me as well is the world's music in general. I like Indian music very much for example, so some influences come from my own taste.
On stage, you have a very particular way of expressing yourself — you seem very withdrawn. However, you succeed in communicating with the audience very well. How do you do this?
ANZA: Our goal isn't to get closer to the audience and our music does not have the objective of bringing people together. We really want people to enjoy our music and have the freedom to appreciate it. We don't want to impose our music on others and what we hope for is reaching high instead of going ahead.
This is not the first time you've playing at this kind of convention, which is rather different from a rock festival or normal live. In your opinion, what are the differences and how do you manage the stage in this context?
ANZA: Unlike in Japan, there isn't a clear division between rock and animation. There are many people overseas who really like both metal and animation and it's true that it's much easier because people don't create divisions. One can like anime and rock at the same time.
Your last release, Pobl Liw, is a self-covered album. Why such a release and what kind of challenge was it to remake your own songs?
ANZA: Actually, it was made for an anime convention in Brazil that we took part in. We were told that we had to play acoustically, something that we have never done before. We then chose two songs and rearranged them for an acoustic setting. As it was pretty nice, we decided to make an acoustic album on which we covered our songs in order to celebrate our 10th anniversary.
Hiro: The arrangements were less complicated than we thought. As the song was well-structured and the composition was nice, we could arranged them easily in acoustic.
Apart from this Euro tour that you mentioned before, do you have any plans for the future?
ANZA: Firstly, when we return to Japan, we will be very busy working on our new album for which we still have to write the songs. In April and May we will be in the studio to record all this. In June we will release a new DVD as we just finished our first one-man tour.
Thank you!
HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT: Thank you.
JaME would like to thank HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT, their management and the Japan Expo staff and translator for making this interview possible.


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Prime Minister Hun Sen
»Phnom Penh
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»Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
»181,035 km2 (88th)
»15,205,539 (65th)
»$49.960 billion
» Per capita
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»$43.20 billion
» Per capita -$2,776
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Cambodia and once known as the Khmer Empire, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. Its total landmass is 181,035 square kilometers (69,898 sq mi), bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.
With a population of over 15 million, Cambodia is the 69th most populous country in the world. The official religion is Theravada Buddhism, practiced by approximately 95 percent of the population. The country's minority groups include Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams, and 30 hill tribes.
The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh, the political, economic, and cultural center of Cambodia. The kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with Norodom Sihamoni, a monarch chosen by the Royal Throne Council, as head of state. The head of government is Hun Sen, who is currently the longest serving non-royal leader in South East Asia and has ruled Cambodia for over 25 years.
Cambodia's ancient name is "Kambuja" (Sanskrit: कंबुज). In 802 AD, Jayavarman II declared himself king and marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire which flourished for over 600 years, allowing successive kings to dominate much of Southeast Asia and accumulate immense power and wealth. The Indianized kingdom built monumental temples including Angkor Wat, now a World Heritage Site, and facilitated the spread of first Hinduism, then Buddhism to much of Southeast Asia. After the fall of Angkor to Ayutthaya in the 15th century, Cambodia was then ruled as a vassal between its neighbors.
In 2011 Cambodia's per capita income in PPP is $2,470 and $1,040 in nominal per capita. Cambodia's per capita income is rapidly increasing but is low compared to other countries in the region. Most rural households depend on agriculture and its related sub-sectors. Rice, fish, timber, garments and rubber are Cambodia's major exports. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) reintroduced more than 750 traditional rice varieties to Cambodia from its rice seed bank in the Philippines. These varieties had been collected in the 1960s.
Based on the Economist, IMF: Annual average GDP growth for the period 2001–2010 was 7.7% making it one of the world's top ten countries with the highest annual average GDP growth. Tourism was Cambodia's fastest growing industry, with arrivals increasing from 219,000 in 1997 to over 2 million in 2007. In 2004, inflation was at 1.7% and exports at $1.6 billion US$.
China is Cambodia's biggest source of foreign direct investment. China planned to spend $8 billion in 360 projects in the first seven months of 2011. It is also the largest source of foreign aid, providing about $600 million in 2007 and $260 million in 2008.
Oil and natural gas deposits found beneath Cambodia's territorial waters in 2005 yield great potential but remain mostly untapped, due in part to territorial disputes with Thailand.
The National Bank of Cambodia is the central bank of the kingdom and provides regulatory oversight to the country's banking sector and is responsible in part for increasing the foreign direct investment in the country. Between 2010 and 2012 the number of regulated banks and micro-finance institutions increased from 31 covered entities to over 70 individual institutions underlining the growth within the Cambodian banking and finance sector.
Cambodia is ranked 120 with an Economic Complexity Index (ECI) of -0.936727
Top 5 Products exported by Cambodia
- Postage Stamps (14%),
- Knit Sweaters (12%),
- Knit Women's Suits (7.7%),
- Non-Knit Women's Suits (5.5%),
- Non-Knit Men's Suits (5.3%)
Top 5 Export destinations of Cambodia
- United States (28%),
- Hong Kong (14%),
- United Kingdom (7.9%),
- Germany (7.9%),
- Canada (5.2%)
Top 5 Products imported by Cambodia
Refined Petroleum (10%),
Light Rubberized Knitted Fabric (10%),
Other Synthetic Fabrics (3.6%),
Raw Sugar (2.1%),
Gold (2.0%)
Top 5 Import origins of Cambodia
China (25%),
Thailand (22%),
Vietnam (17%),
South Korea (5.5%),
Hong Kong (5.4%)
The tourism industry is the country's second-greatest source of hard currency after the textile industry. Between January and December 2007, visitor arrivals were 2.0 million, an increase of 18.5% over the same period in 2006. Most visitors (51%) arrived through Siem Reap with the remainder (49%) through Phnom Penh and other destinations.
Other tourist destinations include Sihanoukville in the south west which has several popular beaches and the sleepy riverside town of Battambang in the east, both of which are a popular stop for backpackers who make up a large of portion of visitors to Cambodia. The area around Kampot and Kep including the Bokor Hill Station are also of interest to visitors. Tourism has increased steadily each year in the relatively stable period since the 1993 UNTAC elections; in 1993 there were 118,183 international tourists, and in 2009 there were 2,161,577 international tourists.
Most of the tourists were Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Americans, South Koreans and French, said the report, adding that the industry earned some 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, accounting for almost ten percent of the kingdom's gross national products. Chinese-language newspaper Jianhua Daily quoted industry officials as saying that Cambodia will have three million foreign tourist arrivals in 2010 and five million in 2015. Tourism has been one of Cambodia's triple pillar industries. The Angkor Wat historical park in Siem Reap province, the beaches in Sihanoukville and the capital city Phnom Penh are the main attractions for foreign tourists.
Cambodia's tourist souvenir industry employs a lot of people around the main places of interest. Obviously, the quantity of souvenirs that are produced is not sufficient to face the increasing number of tourists and a majority of products sold to the tourists on the markets are imported from China, Thailand and Vietnam. Some of the locally produced souvenirs include:
- There are many temples around Cambodia for you to see. Both men and women should make sure to have their shoulders and knees covered – and head uncovered – when entering the temples out of respect.
- Explore the Cardamom mountains for jungle trekking and waterfalls. Walk in S.E. Asia's largest mangrove forest. Hang out on white sand beaches, all in Koh Kong
- Laze on the beach in Sihanoukville.
- Enjoy the river and peace in Kampot
- Visit the temples of Angkor near Siem Reap
- Get far off the beaten track with a motorcycle tour which will take you into some of the most remote parts of the country.
- Visit the Royal Palace, National Museum and Toul Sleng Museum In Phnom Penh
- Enjoy one of the last natural Island, Rabbit Island of Kep
- Koh Rong, Sihanoukville (1.5hrs by boat from Sihanoukville). The islands of Cambodia are what Thailand was 15 years ago. Currently, Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloeum are the only islands accessible to the public with any development. Koh Rong, the bigger of the two, has a growing backpacker presence but, to date (December 2014), still has 78 sq. kms of jungle, 30 untouched beaches, 4 fishing villages, and fewer than 10 bungalow guesthouses. Koh Rong Samloeum is just as beautiful as its bigger cousin, but quieter and less developed and caters more to mid-range tourists. $30/day.


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The Post-War World
By ERNEST M. HOPKINS, President, Dartmouth College
Delivered at Taft School, February 6, 1942
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 364-369.
I COUNT it a very great privilege to be invited here for this function tonight. I would gladly have come if for no other reason than to renew acquaintance and contact with Mr. Taft. I am appreciative of what Taft has done in rendering service to Dartmouth in the fine men that have come to us from the School. But tonight I am particularly glad to talk, because I am happy to talk to the men of your generation, in regard to the situation that exists at the present time, and the situation that I believe will exist during the major part of the lives that you are to live.
Assuming that the average age of a man going to college is eighteen, and that he graduates from college at twenty-two,—the averages for most of you—, there is over half a century of life available, in all probability, in what we call the post-war world. Churchill was everlastingly right when he said the first responsibility was to survive, and all sorts of things are having to be done in the world at the present time in order that we may survive. There is no use in counting on a post-war world if such a world is not going to exist. So it becomes our responsibility to accept, in schoolsand colleges, and everywhere else, the necessity of existence, of survival.
But war is not going to last forever, at least the military part of it is not. Nevertheless the duration of effects of this war is going to be something which will radically alter the lives of every one of us. It not only will alter our lives during the immediate years after the war, but it will alter the life on this planet throughout your lives and the lives of your children. And whether it is going to be the kind of a life in its influences and in its developments that you want it to be, and is going to be the kind of a life that will give you the most satisfaction in having lived—(and insofar as we know, we do not have but one chance of living), that is going to be dependent on how you utilize these years that are right here now—on your understanding of what are the necessities of a post-war world after a catastrophe such as this is.
Years ago, when Henry Ford was fulminating against woman suffrage in his weekly journal, The Dearborn Independent, he put an item one morning in a box, in the middle of the front page, to this effect that a woman putting a baby to sleep was a hundred times more attractive than a woman putting an audience to sleep. The incomparable Don Marquis came out the following day in The New York Sun with the observation that the woman putting the baby to sleep had an infinitely harder job—unless by chance the audience happened to be teething.
Well, I think that American audiences are teething at the present time. They are teething for various reasons. They are teething because they now recognize that in the past they fumbled great opportunities; they are teething because they recognize that what is going to be the result of this war must depend largely on them; and moreover, they are teething because they are uncertain as to whether the generation coming up at the present time is being given the education to afford it competence and the will to prepare itself for the kind of life it has to live.
All of us have been more or less isolationists. Some of us have been theoretically opposed to isolation, but have accepted the proposition that we were apart from the rest of the world and were free to decide what obligations we would accept. For, we have been blessed as other peoples have not been blessed. We have the Atlantic on one side and the Pacific on the other. We have had all of this protection plus material prosperity and the hope of the beginning of a new age. We were going to have a couple of chickens in every pot, a couple of cars in every garage, and a margin above necessity on all material things.
Some have argued—and have believed—that isolation was possible. But realization is just beginning to come, and the country is beginning to understand as it has never done before, just what this present emergency all means. Things are happening that could not have been imagined a few months ago.
There are great fleets at sea, but what do we know of the ports to which they go? Yet that is one of the vital points. American boys are up in the Arctic regions somewhere, as they are close to the equator, ready to resist German invasion. They are all over the world—individuals followed by groups, and groups to be followed by armies in armadas of ships. And there is one thing perfectly clear: that we must for the peace and organization of the world work hereafter in understanding and cooperation with England for the preservation of principles of freedom. It was England, which started definitions of what freedom was about and whichlit the flames of liberty, even though at times these shone with a flickering light. It was England which kept the lamp of liberty burning century after century. It is England which has been the unceasing guardian of liberty. Between seven and eight hundred years ago she started with the Magna Charta. More than seven centuries!
England has made her great mistakes. She has made the mistakes of imperialism and of class society; she has made all of the mistakes that a country assuming the foremost responsibility in the world would be likely to make. Nevertheless, she has been the guardian of principles which she has transmitted down through the centuries to us, and which we have developed into the thing which we call American democracy.
What then does American democracy mean in influence upon world affairs? It has meant, up to the present time, that we have spent most of our time speaking about our internal life, and so far as world matters go, occupying ourselves with provincial affairs which we thought had to do with ourselves alone without regard to their effect upon the world as a whole.
I remember when I was in college one of the lecturers on political science said that England had the best colonial government in the world because it was always consistent; and that America had the worst, because America had a different idea every year about how colonies should be governed and what should be governmental attitude toward her colonies. England had learned that the thing people wanted to know most of all was that what was done one time would be done the next, that consistency was a jewel so far as government went, and that her recognition of this accounted for England's prestige.
So England has sat at the crossroads; England has governed the world, or dictated how it should be governed; England has collected toll economically, has decided how great crises should be solved. She has held the balance of power in Europe and in the large has exercised this for the good of Europe. This same country, which through centuries has done all of these things, now has spent her life blood and has exhausted her material wealth to defend a world against gangsterism and to hold her part until such time as somebody should get interested enough to do something about it. Now, thanks to the discriminating judgment of the Japs, the United States is unified,—something it probably could never have been so completely except for the Japanese.
At last we are in the war, and we are beginning to understand that we are in the war to protect something that is infinitely valuable to us, though until recently we did not realize it was valuable enough to us to do anything about. But we have not yet realized that with the changed conditions existent in the world, in those remote places on this planet where at the present time we are setting up airplane bases, and are establishing centers of influence, we are going to remain responsible.
Not only that, but the power England has lost and the economic controls she has sacrificed must come into our hands or those of the Axis, and what this world is going to be throughout the time of your lives is going to be determined by one of two nations—either Germany or the United States. And if it is to be the United States, as our loyalty and faith and confidence demand that we believe that it should be, then it is necessary for us to understand how unprepared we are for such responsibilities and how dependent we are on groups like yourselves to make yourselves competent to undertake these.
What are you thinking of doing? What are you getting educated for? Are you thinking simply of your education in terms of going back home and settling in your father's business, or getting good jobs with somebody else Or are you thinking of getting a good job in Wall Street? Or are you thinking in terms of new obligations and of doing something about this thing which is called government and which, as a matter of fact, inevitably is going to be world government when the United States takes over, as it is going to have to take over? Consideration of such questions is the basis of this meeting tonight, that we may begin to think in terms of our relationships to world problems.
Let us think for a few minutes and try to get a background on this situation. I was told in college that the world had changed more since the beginning of the industrial revolution than it had changed in the previous centuries since the birth of Christ. I never for a moment doubted this, but in later years I have realized how emphatically true the statement was. As a matter of fact, in talking with an eminent medical authority the other day he said that the science of medicine had progressed more in the past twenty-five years than it had previously since the beginning of civilization.
"What do you mean by such comparisons?" somebody says. Well, take two or three things. In the town of Union, New Hampshire, there was a settler in the late sixteen hundreds, the forefather of a man I knew intimately and who had the diary of this early settler. The pioneer went into the wilderness, cleared the ground, and built a house and barn. But one morning, years later, after another settler had moved into the brook valley below him, his wife said to him: "What are you doing, getting things ready in the barn?" He replied: "We are going to move North." She asked: "Are we going to leave all of this?" He answered: "Yes, the world hasn't got so damned small that I have to see some other man's smoke every morning." That was five miles down the valley, that smoke.
But this was the individualism of the pioneer, a great spirit for its time, the spirit that drove American settlers across the Appalachians, across the prairies, over the mountains, to the Pacific coast; the spirit that made this country great; but a spirit that has now to adapt itself into modern trends and to translate itself into strength of the intellect as compared with the physical hardness indispensable in olden times.
There is a record, or there is said to be a record, of a trip which Caesar made from Rome, to the vicinity of what is now Paris, in 54 B. C. About 1800 Napoleon made the same trip from Paris to Rome and they took identically the same time, at a speed of about three miles an hour, the speed that a horse could go. You can go on indefinitely along that line. Peary took five months to get word back to us in regard to his discovery of the North Pole; Byrd later by modern invention radioed back to the United States, and his account was received the instant he arrived over the Pole.
I was saying tonight to Mr. Taft that I was talking with a man in Washington a couple of weeks ago, in regard to a matter that we couldn't close that day. "Well," said the man, "I will be back in ten days, but first I have to go to London!"
That is the kind of a world we live in. Then there is the story of Charles Dickens coming to Boston. It tells of his amazement at the small boats that pulled out from the shore as the ship neared Boston Harbor. He was mistaken in thinking that they were coming out to meet him and surprised to learn that they carried reporters coming outto get first copies of European newspapers, which they were to take back to their respective offices, where, in turn, the news was to be spread after weeks of elapsed time to the whole of America.
You can take any field that you want to. Take medicine, I am not a physician. You know the facts in regard to that as well as I do. I had occasion to be in a hospital for a time a few months ago. One day the doctor came in to see me and he said, "Do you know what a wonderful thing this sulfanilamide is?" I said, "No." "Well," he replied, "every day you have been in this hospital we have saved a life that a year ago we would have lost." This he said was literally true.
We have made scientific advancement beyond what could have been imagined. Everything that has to do with scientific development in the world of today is immeasurable compared with anything that has happened in the past.
But, meanwhile, we have progressed little in perfecting a science of government or of learning about or doing anything about world affairs!
When President Wilson, at the end of the World War, stated, in his depth of despondency at the rejection by the American Congress of the terms he had made for participation in the League of Nations, that if those promises were repudiated, the heart of humanity would be broken, a United States Senator flippantly said that if the promises were kept the financial back of the United States would be broken.
Well, in comparison, according to present day expenditures, our back wouldn't even have been bent, and we lost out on perhaps the greatest opportunity ever offered to any people to have a part in saving a world. Now, the opportunity is inevitably to be made to us again. But the temper of the people hasn't changed, unless it has in the last few weeks. In 1932 Mr. Stimson protested about the Japanese going into Manchukuo and said that if that thing was allowed to pass, it opened the door to aggression everywhere. The English Government at that time, however, held that it was not practicable for it to do anything about it. Nor would his own government support Mr. Stimson. All of which makes a record of at least one man's perspicacity. And what happened after that? Well, you know the story. The following October the Japanese, in full force, went into China.
Italy looked on, and decided it was easy going for anybody that wanted something, and wanting something, they planned to go into Ethiopia. In January 1936 I came across the bay from Sicily; the whole harbor was ablaze with light, and filled with troop ships with men marching aboard. Passengers were supposed to stay in the sleepers, but we had a friendly conductor who let us out. And next day in Rome I read Mussolini's denial that the Italians had any troops on transports or that he was making any moves towards war.
Italy went into Ethiopia due to the fact that the League of Nations was too weak, was in fact entirely powerless to make her sanctions effective. This in turn went back to the refusal of the United States to go into the League of Nations. Thus Italy was well on her way to war and nobody did anything but talk about it.
An Austrian paperhanger, who watched the whole thing, and figured that he could take exception to the conscience of the world, decided that nothing should be allowed to restrict him in any way and determined that the time had come to go into Austria or anywhere else that he might wish to go. He was building up a following and he realizedthat if he could for the time make good the self-respect and pride of Germany by a demonstration of force, then he would be on his way to what he wanted to do—become the gangster boss of the world, though I don't suppose that was the way he phrased it to himself.
Well, then, along came Spain, excepting that Spain did not come along. Spain had no particular desire for revolution. However, the Latin nations had always been susceptible to revolutionary tendencies, there had been revolutions in France, and Germany decided that Spain would be an auspicious place to try out new theories in regard to warfare. In reply to this, Russia said, "Me too." Both, therefore, went in and made a private practice ground of Spain.
Again the United States said, "This is none of our business; this is only a foreign, a European quarrel. France with her leftist tendencies in government and England with her Tory inclinations accepted common ground in regard to this affair and said that it was no war for either of them to get mixed up in. Again it was proved that perhaps the greatest of all fallacies periodically thrust on presumably intelligent people is the fallacy that one can escape war by refusing to fight.
Many of you are old enough to have heard it repeated again and again that war never settles anything. On the contrary, war always settles something and generally it settles that which it started out to settle. This war we are in at the present time will settle something—whether the Nazi dictatorship or the principles of democracy will dominate the world of our time.
This whole question of peace and war is particularly susceptible to fallacy and paradox. We have, for instance, been told continuously that propaganda is iniquitous and false, while on the other hand, none of us has had any disposition to dispute the contention that peace is desirable. Some difficulties have imposed, however, when realization has been had that the most heavily propagandized thesis of recent years has been for peace. Which end of that dilemma was one going to take? Nobody pointed out very effectively, though some tried to do so, that in the expanding dynamics of despotism in a changing world a continuing and expanding war was always imperative. Consequently, for those who really wanted peace, there was no alternative except to go to war.
The real fact is that the whole theory of isolation has made for war and the withholding of the United States from participation in world affairs and from making its influence for peace operative has allowed the world to get into the situation in which it finds itself at the present time. Practically the only hope for peace in days to come is that we as the most powerful people upon the face of the earth shall demonstrate our capacity to exert force sufficiently so that we shall assume leadership in world affairs. England isn't going to be capable of exerting as much in the way of influence and power as she has in the past but she still retains enough of her prestige and enough of her economic resources so that the United States and England in combination would be unconquerable. For the first time in history, likewise, it would appear that England would be willing to yield leadership to the United States under agreements by which the two should make themselves responsible for the peace of the world.
There are those who have argued in the past that the United States was entirely self-sufficient and that she could produce everything needful for her domestic economy. I might say in passing that I spent some months in Washington undertaking to find out where there were enoughraw materials even for a defense program, and they were not existent excepting in one or two cases. The theory of self-sufficiency becomes an absurdity the minute that any serious consideration is given to the facts. For instance, we produce plenty of iron ore presumably for our own needs but in order that iron ore shall be worked into steel, manganese is necessary, the principal supply of which comes from Russia. We have a particular facility for the manufacture of machine tools but in order that machine tools shall be of maximum effectiveness, tungsten is necessary, a large proportion of which comes out over the Burma Road from China. So one could illustrate indefinitely. The affairs of the world are intertwined beyond any possible untangling them, and as time goes on, this will be more and more true.
Shifting to an entirely different field, you very likely have read of the work which has been carried through to such a brilliant accomplishment in Brazil in eliminating the particularly deadly form of malaria which came from the jungles of Africa, transmitted by the gambiae mosquito. Until recently, however, there has never been any hazard in regard to this matter, for the effective life of the mosquito was barely more than forty-eight hours. When, however, the speed of airplanes was stepped up, it was perfectly possible for one of these gambiae to be brought across from Africa to Brazil and to infect the natives of Brazil within the span of the few hours of the mosquito's life.
Wherever we turn, we find the transformation that has been made in life by the shortening of distances and the constricting of areas by the speed of modern transportation. Now the time has arrived where one's knowledge is limited and his understanding is restricted who lacks information in regard to the economies, the social customs, and the political organizations of all of the different peoples of the earth. We not only have to know where peoples live and how they live but we have to understand likewise their aspirations and their racial characteristics. For America henceforth, if she is to assume the responsibilities which once before she repudiated, must furnish the advisers, the diplomats, the economists, and the financial resources of the world.
Incidentally, may I say likewise that for these critics of liberal education who argue that vocational and technical training are the only indispensable subjects for study today, some advantage might have accrued to the world if people, for instance, had knowledge of their Tacitus, who centuries ago said of the Germans: "The German mind cannot brook repose. . . . To cultivate the earth and await the regular produce of the seasons is not the maxim of the German. . . . In a word, to earn by the sweat of your brow what you may gain by the price of your blood is, in the opinion of a German, a sluggish principle, unworthy of a soldier."
On the other hand, in view of Hitler's reiterated expressions of admiration for Frederick the Great, it might be illuminating to consider Macaulay's characterization of this patron saint of the Fuehrer: "The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the Coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America."
It is well for us to think from time to time of just what it is that makes the distinction between barbarism and civilization. It is, of course, an understanding of the significance of law and an acceptance of the principle of law. John Locke covers this matter comprehensively in his essay
Of Civil Government". He talks a lot about man in the state of nature, calling attention to the fact that man in this state is equal to anybody and subject to nobody. He then raises the question why should man give up this independence of action and submit himself to what a group of men say be should do, for that is what man does when he first accepts the principle of civil law. Locke goes on to amplify his argument by saying that although men are independent and are free to hold themselves to be as good as anybody else, nevertheless convictions of these men may destroy the independence of any individual, and that it is when recognition of this fact becomes existent that men seek an organization which we call government. Man in the state of nature lacks three things necessary for civilization and three things that man early in his social development comes to recognize as necessary. In the beginning, he lacks any standard of what practises and procedures should be established for the common good; he lacks in the second place any appointed officer to say when these practises or prescribed procedures have been violated; he lacks in the third place any enforcing agency to substantiate and support decisions of recognized agents. In recognition of the need for these things, men are driven together to take sanctuary under established laws.
lt is one of the surprising facts of history that time and again peoples have reached a level of material prosperity and have attained standards of culture which would seem to have enabled them to go on into a civilization finer and richer than anything which the world has ever known, only to be so overcome by the self-indulgence and softening process of these conditions as to fall subject to barbarians who fell upon them. There is a peculiar effect of material welfare that makes men high above the subsistence level far more unwilling to give up a portion of that which they have than is true of people who are but little above this level. So it has been through all history, and the people who can discover a way to counteract the effects of this law will have discovered the way to carry civilization on to levels undreamed of previously.
Benjamin Franklin thought that we had arrived so far in our progress toward civilization that we could regulate war and reduce the waging of war to a set of rules. He called attention to the fact that in the beginning, war was extirpation of the foe; then later that instead of murdering all of those who are vanquished, they were taken prisoners and subjected to slavery; then later that under an international code, there was an exchange of prisoners; and finally that a distinction was made between the appropriation of public and of private property. Franklin suggested that there should be an international congress of nations who should agree that during wars there should be no interference with agriculturists because they raised the food upon which the people lived; that the same should apply to fishermen; that exponents of art and culture shouldn't be interfered with; and that other protections should be afforded.
One does not need to say much upon this subject beyond calling attention to the modern theory of total war as exemplified by the Axis. If one is to meet the Axis on equal terms, it is necessary to accept the principle of the machine-gunning of life-boats, of the bombing of hospitals, of unprovoked attack or unarmed vessels and upon unarmed cities, and of the creation of an atmosphere as well as the fact of terror. Whether the extermination of a people, as is the intention in regard to Poland, or the quieting of an individual, as in the case of Pastor Niemoller, the principle is the same. Fear is to be developed by every conceivablemethod and terror is to walk abroad. Atrocities, knowledge of which in times past it has been the effort to suppress, are now to be played up and even exaggerated. Movie films are to be made, and when the horrors of actual operations are not sufficiently defined, scenes are to be invented in order that fear and terror shall be made the more contagious and the more widespread.
The net result is that we are now facing a war in which our victory must be won against millions of people in racial groups—whole generations who have been brought up with the theory and the practise that everything which we consider good is bad and everything that we consider as evil is to be held as good. There is no authority to be recognized excepting the authority of the state and any competing authority, whether of the home, the educational institution, the race, or the religion, is to be ruthlessly suppressed.
What then to us actually constitutes goodness? Janet Flanner has said that it takes a great many very good people to make a democracy, while it takes only one man to make a dictatorship. Who, then, is democracy's "good man"?
Everybody has his own idea in regard to goodness, but sooner or later, the question has to be answered, "Good for what?"
A few years ago I was fishing in the northern Maine woods. There was a neighboring height called Bald Mountain from which the view was said to be particularly impressive and some of us felt that we would like to go up there some morning and see it. One day the guide suggested that we should get up and climb the mountain before sunrise the following day, which we did. In the course of the climb the guide repeated over and over, "This is a good day," and it was a good day, so far as seeing the view from the top of the mountain. Visibility was at its maximum and we could see hills and streams and lakes miles away. In the middle of the day we came down and went to the headwaters of a stream where we had been told it was particularly good fishing and where we found a beautiful lake but from which we secured no fish. The next morning, we got up and there was a drizzle; a mist was on the lake and the guide repeatedly said the same thing that he had said the day before, "This is a good morning." The fact of course was that one morning was good for viewing an extended landscape while the other was good for fishing. The two mornings were entirely unlike, and if our program had been reversed, no one would have felt that either morning had been good.
The German says that the good man is the man who reverts towards barbarism and adopts all of the principles of a life which we call evil. The German says that the man is a weakling who believes in righteousness and civilization. To him the good man is the man who possesses himself of qualities of force and violence and deceit for overcoming men not as strong as he. The good man is the man who laughs at the idea that there is any such thing as truth and who contends that the argument which justifies those things which you want to do is good, as compared with any of the restraints of truth.
On the other hand, the interpretation of goodness in a democracy, as among ourselves, is the goodness of the civilized man, blessed with some of the refinements of culture and eager for knowledge of the truth. The good man is the man who wants to know what things are really so and is willing to modify his own convictions and to conform his own actions to the demands of reality as against falsehood, when the distinctions between these are made plain.
The youth of America, such men as you are, who are given the blessings of educational opportunity, as offered in
a school like Taft, have a particular responsibility in this matter. In no country in the world has it ever been held before that what we call higher education is a privilege which should be made available to every one who wants it. Someone has said that the door of democracy lies in the corrupting theory of privileges without obligations. To you, in common with American youth in general, privileges are offered such as have never been offered anywhere in the world to generations of youth before. To your generation opportunities for governmental service will be available greater in magnitude and importance with anything which any previous generation has known. You are going to be citizens in a world where the impact of the ideas of other peoples upon us and of our ideas upon other peoples will be of inestimable importance to the development of civilization. Are you ready to face the responsibilities which aregoing to be yours? Do you want to preserve for yourselves and for your children and children's children the privileges which have been yours, of dreaming your own dreams, thinking your own thoughts, and living your own lives? I do not believe there is a man among you who does not.
In Maxwell Anderson's play "Valley Forge", he has General Howe's emissary, Mary, look at Washington after she has seen the destruction of his camp and has sensed the situation which must have created deep discouragement in his own mind. Very humbly then she says, "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit—till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."
There must be many such if we are to save this world of ours. This must become an objective of all our schools and colleges—to produce good men for democracy. (This I am sure is the objective of Taft.)


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New Year's Super Bubble with Art Guffaw - Millibo Art Theatre
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"I want to be in a soap bubble!", It's possible as we ring in the New Year with big laughs, giant bubbles and the traditional gleeful cry of "CABBAGE". World class clown Jim Jackson is the perfect entertainment for all ages no matter what time of year!
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Islam is nearly always in conflict with democracy: both historically and today. There is one single contemporary phenomenon which exemplifies this perfectly. Bizarrely, it's occurring in the West, not in the Muslim world.
In the UK, Muslims – from Mo Ansar, Tell MAMA, MCB and the Muslim Parliament – have carried out systematic and sometimes effective campaigns to bring about what amounts to sharia blasphemy law in the country. (Indeed a Liberty GB radio host is due to appear in court in March for the "hate crime" of criticising Islam and Muslims.) These campaigns have focussed on everything from books (Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses), to cartoons (the Danish cartoons), to pages on Facebook and even Twitter posts.
One fundamental aspect of all democracies is free speech. It's crystal clear, then, that very many Muslims – even here in the West – have carried out a systematic campaign against the freedom of speech. Now if that's happening in the UK and the West generally, what are the chances that the Muslim world as a whole will embrace the neo-con dream of "democracy for all"?
The term "neoconservative" seems to have been invented, in 1973, by a socialist by the name Michael Harrington. In any case, it's certainly become a Leftist soundbite. Leftists use it at the drop of a hat. (Or at least they did until they adopted "neo-liberalism" instead a few years ago: after the fire from the "neo-cons' war in Iraq" had burned out.) What I mean by that is that the vast majority of Leftists or "progressives" seem to use the term "neo-con" (as they do "Islamophobe", "bigot", "neo-liberal", "far right", "racist", "fascist", etc.) as a kind of ad hominem or as a literal substitute for thought.
Democracy For All?
There were a handful – or less – of Muslim countries which were democratic in the 20th century. For example, Turkey after the First World War and Malaysia today. (Malaysia is a tricky example primarily because Muslims only make up 61% of a population which includes a very productive and large Chinese, usually Buddhist, contingent. In other words, Malaysia is only just "a Muslim country".)
You will find that these few Muslim countries were democracies in spite of Islam, certainly not because of it. Indeed these countries became democracies to the extent that they managed to erase Islam from the state and, to varying degrees, from the social sphere as well. The less manifest Islam there was in these countries, the more democratic they became. Similarly, the more they become Islamic (as with Turkey and Syria today), the less they will be democracies.
"[Authoritarian regimes] do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations."
This is all about how the state in these countries doesn't really impinge on areas of everyday life. However, what if "the habitual rhythms of work and leisure" and the "habitual patterns of family and personal relations" themselves are not conducive to democracy or thoughts of freedom and liberty? What if habitual rhythms of work, leisure, family and personal relations are – at least to some extent – Islamic in nature?
In other words, in Islamic societies it's not all the fault of the state. It's not even all the fault of the dictators either because they too are often tapping into various Islamic and therefore tribal strains within Muslim countries.
Jean Kirkpatrick also offered us a classical account of totalitarian states. She wrote:
"[National Socialist and International Socialist states] claim jurisdiction over the whole life of the society and make demands for change that so violate internalized values and habits that inhabitants flee by the tens of thousands."


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Conservationists and rangers are real heroes working to protect tigers and their habitat. In May, we asked young MyZoo magazine readers to create their own thank you posters and we'd send them straight to our colleagues in the tropical forests of Malaysia.
Drum roll please…
Suhyeon Choi, age 8, won the Grand prize (ages 7-10) which includes a zoo Overnight Adventure on August 15, 2015. Congratulations Suhyeon! This is what Suhyeon had to say about tigers, "I love tigers because they are cute yet fierce and I love animals all the same". We couldn't agree more. Suhyeon's creativity and her rainbow palette really stood out to the judges.
Ella Gruner, age 6, won the Grand prize (ages 3-6) which includes a tiger ZooParent adoption and plush! When asked why she loves tigers, Ella said, "I love tigers because they live in one of my favorite places, the jungle." We really loved her delicate tiger drawing as well as the amazing penmanship and tiger font! Way to go, Ella!
Thank YOU for supporting Woodland Park Zoo and our conservation partners in Malaysia and all across the globe who protect wildlife and wild spaces.
Reece Holberg, age 8 and Hannah Harms, age 6 were our two lucky runners up and will each receive a Woodland Park Zoo t-shirt and giraffe feeding tickets.
Thanks to all the awesome entries, we have a beautiful stack of "Thank You" posters to send to our colleagues who are dedicated to protecting tigers. We will send copies of ALL of the entries to our field partners in Malaysia to thank them for being tiger heroes.
|Field researcher Wai Yee checks a camera trap used to study tiger populations in the area.
It takes a team of heroes.
Thank YOU for supporting Woodland Park Zoo and our conservation partners in Malaysia and all across the globe who protect wildlife and wild spaces.
|Andrew Barrett, age 9. Your collage skills are fantastic, Andrew!
|Jamison Oleksy, age 8. Two tigers, two mediums and one fine masterpiece!
|Sophia Lee Honton, age 7. These are the best tiger gifts we'd ever seen! She even labeled each package.
|Artist unknown, but we love that purple!
|Vivian Anschell, age 7, a little collaboration with her grandmother Janelle Loewen. We think they make a pretty awesome team!


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In the first of a series of blogs, Vic Citarella considers the crucial role of the workforce in Fulfilling Lives for people with multiple and complex needs. Vic is keen to start a dialogue with projects on this topic. You can get in touch with him using the details below.
"The CFE and University of Sheffield 2nd annual report into the national evaluation of Fulfilling Lives: Supporting people with multiple needs programme has chapters on 'interventions and approaches' and on 'working the frontline'. The report says it raises as many questions as it answers but without doubt it pinpoints the workforce and what they do as the mission critical factor in the projects. More is promised by way of research and future evaluation. That means, among other things, dialogue with the practitioners, the managers, the stakeholders and the customers of the services.
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Opposition leader Henrique Capriles called for unity among Venezuelans and offered condolences to Hugo Chavez's family and supporters after the president's death on Tuesday.
"At such a difficult time, we must show our deep love and respect to our Venezuela," he Tweeted. "My solidarity to all the family and followers of President Hugo Chavez. We appeal for unity among Venezuelans at this time."
Capriles, 40, is governor of Venezuela's second most populous state, Miranda. The state, which includes part of Caracas, ranges from the huge Petare shantytown to fishing villages and beaches on the Caribbean coast.
A law graduate, Capriles became Venezuela's youngest legislator at 26, then won the mayorship of a Caracas municipality before beating Cabello, a die-hard Chavez loyalist, to become Miranda's governor in 2008. He retained the post in December by beating another heavyweight, Elias Jaua, who was Chavez's vice president at the time.
In the Oct. 7 presidential election, Capriles was the candidate of the Democratic Unity coalition of more than two dozen parties and organizations that make up the bulk of Venezuela's opposition. He lost, but received 44 percent of votes, the opposition's best showing against Chavez.
In Miranda, the charismatic and energetic governor is known for riding a motorcycle and heading into slums to supervise projects and talk to working-class voters. On the campaign trail before October's presidential election, he visited hundreds of towns and villages, seeking to project an image of energy, youth and attention to grassroots problems.
Some say Capriles has deliberately cultivated an almost Chavez-like image of being on the street and in constant contact with the poor. While campaigning, he blows kisses and pumps his fist in a Chavez-like, man-of-the-people style.
Capriles' maternal grandparents, the Radonskis, fled anti-Semitism in Poland at the end of the Second World War and arrived in Venezuela with just a suitcase stuffed with clothes. Two great-grandparents died in the Treblinka concentration camp. "Imagine that some people in the Chavez government are so ignorant they actually call me a Nazi," he has said.
His grandparents set up a lucrative cinema business in Venezuela and, through them, Capriles once met legendary Mexican comedian Mario Moreno - best known as "Cantinflas."
A basketball player and sports lover, Capriles says he relaxes by finding some friends for a game or going for a quiet run after dark. He drinks Red Bulls to keep his energy up, and is a regular at half-marathon races in Caracas.
Like Chavez, Capriles has been jailed. He was imprisoned for four months on charges of fomenting a protest at the Cuban Embassy in 2002, although he says he was mediating. He was acquitted of the charges at trial, though there is chatter in political circles that the charges could one day be revived.
If he were to lead Venezuela, Capriles says, he would copy Brazil's "modern left" model of economic and social policies. On the campaign trail last year, he sought to appeal to traditional Chavez supporters, and hammered the government on grassroots problems from pot-holes to electricity cuts, rather than engaging in more nebulous debates over socialism versus capitalism.
Despite his Jewish roots, Capriles is a devout Catholic, who says his faith deepened in jail. He wears a rosary and likes to visit a shrine on Margarita island each year.
The governor is single. He receives a torrent of marriage offers via Twitter and Facebook. He says he will find a wife and start a family in his own good time.
Though describing himself as center-left, Capriles belongs to the more conservative Primero Justicia (First Justice) party, which he helped found in 2000. Foes say he is really an "ultra-right" politician in the pocket of Venezuela's pro-U.S. traditional elite, but masquerading as a progressive.
To try to discredit him, government officials have targeted his wealthy background, association with conservative politicians linked to Venezuela's pre-Chavez rulers, and his role in the Cuban embassy affair.
If he had won the October election, Capriles would have become Venezuela's youngest president. He often uses the slang of Venezuela's young and frequently wears informal clothes and a baseball cap.
This story "Venezuela Opposition Leader Offers Condolences Over Hugo Chavez Death" was written by Reuters.


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Izzy's Pizza & Classic Buffet can be found at Mohawk Blvd 1930. The following is offered: Fast Food. The entry is present with us since Sep 10, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Springfield there are 16 other Fast Food. An overview can be found here.
Izzy's Pizza Bar & Classic Buffet is located at 1930 Mohawk Blvd, Springfield, OR. This business specializes in Pizza.


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J.P. Bowie is back. This time his topic is all about the questions he has been asked and what the answers are. 🙂 Since I did the big introduction for his first post, all I will do this time is tell you that when you have his longevity in publishing it means that he's doing a lot of things right.
Jim has almost 40 books to his credit and he writes stories that range from mysteries, paranormal, historical, westerns, and gay fiction.
Some time ago I was asked this question in an interview: If you had a movie adapted from any of your novels, which famous movie stars would you like to see play the roles?
First, I thought of the movie stars I wouldn't want to cast in the movie—Tom Cruise immediately sprang to mind. Not that he's a bad actor, he's been okay in several movies, but he's made it clear on several occasions he's no friend of the gay community.
Hollywood's penchant for casting straight actors in gay roles has long been a bone of contention for me, so the answer to the question had to be, I couldn't really think of one famous movie star I'd want to cast. Okay, maybe I'd make an exception for Hugh Jackman. I've always thought he was a gay man in a straight man's body anyway. His portrayal of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz was remarkable.
So who would I choose? Cheyenne Jackson hasn't really made a blockbuster movie but he's proven himself a terrific actor and singer. He's a definite first choice. Neil Patrick Harris, Chad Allan, Rupert Everett, Robert Gant are all up there in my cast list. Why? Because they're gay, and being gay means they understand what it is to love another man, not just pretend or act their way through scenes of intimacy.
As good as Brokeback Mountain was, I could never really convince myself that Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal were actually enjoying those open mouthed kisses. And that's the problem. In gay erotic romance generally there is a lot of kissing. There's a lot of other stuff as well, but for me, kissing is where lust, eroticism, love and affection can all come together and be expressed in that one blissful moment. If it's not done with conviction that moment can be ruined. The guys have got to look like they're into one another or they'd be better off just shaking hands.
The same holds true in writing erotic fiction. If the reader isn't convinced the characters are enjoying the hell out of themselves when they're having sex, the writer has failed to convey the emotional level needed to steam up the reader's glasses. A visual of two men, two women or a man and woman kissing can be a visceral, titillating experience. A writer should project that same degree of sensuality with some well chosen (hot) descriptive words and phrases.
Another question I've been asked is, Where do you get your ideas for the storyline? I have no hard and fast answer for that one. Sometimes ideas just come at me out of the blue—I know, I can hear some of you saying, 'Yeah, and they read that way too.' But seriously folks, that can happen, though at other times the plot might come from an idea that's been mulling about in that increasingly muddled mind of mine for some time.
For instance, when I started writing My Vampire and I it was to be a short story, one in a collection of erotica I'd been thinking about putting together—that's the mulling thing. But halfway through the first short story, the characters seemed to have a lot more to say and do than I had anticipated, so it became a full length novel, and the first of a series I had never, back then, imagined writing. I expect that's the out-of-the-blue thingy.
Now, other authors I've spoken to tell me, "Oh, I always intended this book to be the first of a series." I only wish I could be that certain I'd come up with a bunch of plots involving the same characters. My hat goes off to those authors who do just that, and manage to make each sequential story better than the previous one. That's the secret to a successful series. Each story has to make the reader want more…and more…and sometimes, more.
So all of you out there ready to take the plunge into m/m romantic fiction series, here's what you do. Dream up two fabulous male characters that every reader is immediately going to love and can't get enough of, throw them into hair raising situations that has the reader gasping for air, indulging in mind blowing sex that has the reader slack jawed with awe, then follow it up with another and another, and you've got a winning series. Easy, eh?
And don't forget Rick Reed's sage advice about finding simpatico publishers. A supportive publisher is a bonus in this business. I was fortunate enough to find not one, but two I wouldn't dream of leaving, along with a fleet of terrific authors who have become what I like to call my cyber family. Writing any kind of book can be rough and tough. Rejection and rotten reviews sting no matter how long you're in the business, so it's nice when you have consolation from your family of authors who've been there, understand that.
So onward and upward, into the fray we go, waiting for that plotline to smack us up the back of the head, and be the first of a fantastic series that readers will want more and more of – or maybe even a movie director will fall in love with… Cheyenne, I'll be calling you.
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Fresh, crispy, golden, melty, saucy, cheesy, spicy. These are all words that come to mind (some less made up then others) when I think of Mexican cuisine. Glorious Mexican cuisine! I crave every incarnation of mexican ingredients – tacos, burritos, enchiladas, quesedillas, flautas, nachos etc. etc. etc. I really love cooking it too….the ingredients are so adaptable. You can throw in a little of this, little of that, pretty much whatever spices you have lying around, and it will turn out great. The huge variety of flavours all work really well together.
This is a savoury and cheesy enchilada recipe that would be amazing on the side of a fresh green salad. Dunking the tortillas really adds a layer of flavour and sauciness, and who doesn't want more flavour and sauciness in their life.
Bring some Enchilada sauce to a slow simmer…
Next, mix up the ingredients for the highly delicious vegetarian filling.
Grab some corn tortillas, and lightly pan fry them until they are just golden brown.
Dunk the tortilla in the enchilada sauce.
Load it up with the filling mixture, some spicy rice, and beans. Whatever you have in the pantry will work fine, but I usually go for black beans when making mexican. (I'm aware those are kidney beans in the photo.)
Place the rolled up enchiladas (folded part facing down) in a row in a baking dish, and top with lots and lots of cheese. Pop the whole thing in the oven @ 375 degrees for 15 – 20 minutes.
After some time in the oven it will look like this:
Serve with a dollop of guacamole and go for it.
Sour Cream Enchiladas Recipe
12 whole Corn Tortillas
Canola Oil, For Frying
2-3 Cups Enchilada Sauce
2 cups Sour Cream
3 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Grated
1 cup Sliced/chopped Green Onions
½ teaspoons Ground Cumin
¼ teaspoons Cayenne Pepper
1 Can Black Beans, rinsed
2 Cups Mexican Spiced Rice
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix together sour cream, green onions 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar, cumin, and cayenne pepper.
Heat canola oil in a skillet over medium heat. Heat enchilada sauce in a separate skillet or saucepan.
Using tongs, fry tortillas one at a time, for only about five to ten seconds per side (don't allow to crisp.) Remove from oil, then dunk tortilla in enchilada sauce. Lay tortilla on a plate, then spoon a good two or three tablespoons of the sour cream mixture in the middle. Top with spiced rice and black beans. Roll tortilla, then place face down in a baking dish. Repeat with remaining tortillas and sour cream mixture.
(If there's any sour cream mixture left over, use it as a dip for tortilla chips!)
Cover the dish with the remaining cheese, then bake for 15 to 20 minutes until bubbly
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When you get bored online, there's a million ways to keep yourself distracted. You could head over to your favorite social network, read the news, watch YouTube videos, play online games, and tons of other things. What we don't usually do is head to web apps designed to be whimsical and entertaining. Turns out, though, there's quite a few developers that have put together some fascinating web apps that, while not useful, will be sure to keep you entertained, at least for a bit.
Here are 15 websites that I stumbled upon that are weird, funny, or even scary, but they're all quite interesting. You just might find a new favorite way to distract yourself online!
Ball Droppings
Ball Droppings
Nothing, except a black screen and white balls falling out of emptiness into emptiness. But, that's not all. Turn your system volume up and draw lines on the black screen blocking the balls and you can see that they bounce with a sound. Keep drawing lines to bounce the balls and you've got yourself a sinister sounding concerto. Enjoy the music.
Neon Bible
Eerie and expressionless
The Indie Rock band Arcade Fire, wanted to promote their album "Neon Bible" and they used the internet to their advantage in a different weird way.
Visit the website and you will find yourself listening to the title song, staring at Win Butler's face and hands, with which you can interact during the song. Be warned as this website will pull you in and you will be so engrossed that you won't realize the hours flying by.
Digital Beatbox
Ever dreamed of having your own music band? Or are you just bored? Then this is a "Must Visit" website for you.
With Incredibox you can create your own beatbox complete with effects, beats, melodies, chorus and vocals. Simply click and drag the role on to the cartoon performers and watch them transform into a funky acapella band.
Once you have had mixed, matched and unmatched the voices and had your fill of this digital beatbox, you can record and share your compositions. This website is available in English and French.
Bank Of Imagination
Bank of Imagination
Our imagination knows no bounds and often we find ourselves in a dream world chasing the stars.
This website allows you to note and save your imaginations and fancy thoughts. The first thing I felt when I visited this website was peace and calm and I was transported to a dreamy state with soothing music playing in my ears. Move your mouse over the ever moving boxes and listen to the melodious piano. Click 'em to view the fantasies of other users.
Check out this website during the evening with a cool breeze caressing your face (Oh no, this website has gotten me all philosophical!).
Google Gravity
Thus fell the Mighty Google
This is the question that many of us would never have thought of. What would happen to the Google search engine if the earth stopped spinning? Well, don't wonder no longer. Visit Google Gravity and watch the mighty Google fall, literally.
Do you wish to blow up stuff without wanting to spend for it? Then FontBomb is for you. Visit the website, click anywhere on the page to plant bombs. It uses a nice bit of javascript code to scatter the content in the website and make it look as if it is exploding.
ASCII Art
Asciifi is an ASCII art website where you can convert images that you upload or drag and drop from other websites into ascii art. Specify an image and choose the ASCII variant and you are good to go. It would have been better if this site had an option to save the output.
Google Map Cube
This is a Google Chrome experiment where in you play a game navigating through a Google map cube whilst you get to know about the features of Google Map.
Interact with five environments
Enter Echogenesis to explore five natural environments and interact with the flora and fauna to a soothing music playing in your headphones. You interaction with the elements of the environment manipulates the background music by changing the tracks, the volume levels and more.
Staggering Beauty
Hardly beautiful but interesting
No, it is not a beautiful woman having had too much to drink. What you'll see is a finger shaped balloon like thingy with blinking eyes. Shake the finger man vigorously and watch what happens.
Caution: This website contains flashing images.
Dustbuster Derby
Run! Run! Run!
OMG! A monster sucking machine is behind you! It's hunting you down and it is getting near! Run! And don't look back! Be careful to avoid the food the humanoid aliens have left lying around.
Stop 'em Sheep
Test your reflexive skills
This is a game that tests your reflexive skills. Five of the ten sheep in your flock plot to escape and you've got a tranquilizer gun to stop them. They will try and flee, that you know for sure. But you know not when they will. So you lie in wait hoping to put them to sleep before it is too late.
Bio Bak
Weird and enchanting
Bio Bak scores high when it comes to weirdness and fun. This website will leave you puzzled but will pull you in. Drag the mouse over a seemingly endless piece of artwork and interact with various odd characters.
Rational Keyboard
Music and mathematics
The Rational Keyboard is essentially a piano with many keys, one for each rational number, and the keys move around and resize based on what sounds good. Anyone who likes music or mathematics, enjoy.
Infinite OZ
Deep down the rabbit hole
Visit this website to to experience the phrase "Tumbling deep down into the rabbit hole". Get pulled into an endless wormhole, exploring artistic worlds envisioned by nine acclaimed artists such as Philip Straub and Martin Lisec. Exploring the fantastic worlds that replace each other infinitely is a quite relaxing and somewhat hypnotic pastime.
Wrapping Up
That's all folks! If you know of websites that you've found interesting and funny or captivating in some manner, be sure to share them with us!
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From Acai Palm Trees nestled deep within the lush Brazilian rainforests of the Amazon grows one of our planet's most remarkable and nutritious fruits. Acai berries (Euterpe oleracea) have remained highly esteemed throughout history by Brazilian natives based on their generous nutrient content, pleasant taste and unmistakable ability to promote health and vitality. NOW Acai Juice has a refreshing berry taste, offering 6,500 mg of Acai concentrate per 1 oz. serving.
Antioxidant Protection
Acai berries contain Vitamin C, and are an excellent source of polyphenols, including rutin, anthocyanins, and catechins. Acai is naturally rich in ellagic acid. These and other antioxidant compounds protect delicate tissues from free radical attack, a key factor in healthy aging.
Immunomodulatory Activity
The nutrients and antioxidants in NOW Acai Juice help support healthy immune and inflammatory response through its modulatroy effects on Nitric Oxide (NO) production.
Cardiovascular Support
In addition to its powerful antioxidant properties, Acai Juice modulates NO production and healthy vascular response to stress. Each of these effects is important for the support of healthy heart and blood vessels.
|Acai Liquid Concentrate - 32oz
|Serving Size: 2 Tablespoons (1fl. oz or 30 mL)
Servings Per Container: 31
|Amount Per Serving
|% Daily Value *
|Calories: 15
Calories From Fat 0
|Total Fat 0g
|Saturated Fat 1g
|Trans Fat 0g
|Cholesterol 0mg
|Sodium 20mg
|Total Carbohydrate 4g
|Sugars 2g
|Protein 1.5g
|Dietary Fiber 2g
|Potassium 35mg
|Acai Berry (Euterpe oleracea) (Fruit) 6.5g (6500mg)
|Other Ingredients: Acai Juice, Triple Filtered Water, Blueberry Juice Concentrate, Raspberry Juice Concentrate, Pomegranate Juice Concentrate, Citric Acid, Natural Flavor and Potassium Sorbate (as a preservative).
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The Guillow's range of balsa gliders and rubber powered planes offer an easy but rewarding introduction to the hobby of balsa modelling. All balsa wood pieces are pre-cut and slot together so may be constructed without the need for glue or paint.
Despite their price and size, these Guillow's models offer very pleasing flight performance.
The Sky Streak aeroplane has a wingspan of 30 cm (12 in) and features a rubber band powered propeller giving large flight distances.
Warning! Not suitable for children under 36 months. Choking Hazard, contains small parts.


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NVIDIA Shield now selling for $249.99 after a $50 discount
The NVIDIA Shield gaming console hasn't exactly been a runaway hit among gamers. But if you were ever taken aback by the steep pricing of this handheld gaming console, then you might want to have a look at this new deal being offered by NVIDIA and other retailers. The console which previously retailed for $299.99 is now selling for just $249.99, which is a flat $50 discount on the asking price. This according to NVIDIA is the Ultimate Gift This Holiday. It's almost apparent that NVIDIA wants to drive sales of the Shield as it hasn't done exceptionally well so far and this is certainly one way to do it. NVIDIA is also offering free shipping with the console as an added bonus.
The Shield console sports a 5 inch 720p display along with a complete set of gaming controls including a D Pad and dual analog joysticks. Internally, the console packs the NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset with the 72 core GeForce GPU, 2GB of RAM and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. This deal is an almost repeat of the Black Friday prices where NVIDIA and other retailers were selling the console with a $50 discount, so if you missed out back then, now is the time to get one.
Source: NVIDIA
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Best Breakfast Spots in Union Square
It's time to refresh our list of favorite breakfast spots in Union Square! Whether you're a local looking to grab a delicious pastry and a hot cup of coffee before a long work day or a visitor who has time to sit down to a leisurely meal, we have it all. Read on to see who made our top 10 breakfast picks in the neighborhood.
1. 398 Brasserie (398 Geary St.) – This rustically charming eatery knows how to please your taste buds! People can't get enough of their Huevos Rancheros with fried eggs, Cotija, black beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, and avocado on a flour tortilla, and their almond French toast with seasonal fruit and whipped cream. And we know you'll never have anything like their green eggs and ham with green chili grits and tomatillo salsa, which is our personal favorite.
2. Aveline in the Warwick Hotel (490 Geary St.) - This chic spot is perfect for meeting up friends and enjoying a morning meal together. We know you'll love their house granola with figs, mixed berries, almond butter, honey and Greek yogurt, ortheir smoked salmon benedict with poached eggs, spinach, red onions and hollandaise.
3. Bartlett Hall's Brewroom and Café (272 O'Farrell St.) – Located right next door to Bartlett Hall, this café serves up Four Barrel coffee and Firebrand artisan pastries every weekday morning! Short on time in the morning? No worries, these guys have got your breakfast needs covered!
4. BDK Restaurant and Bar (501 Geary St.) – We love to haunt this modern pub in the mornings for their bacon, egg and cheese croissant, and their smoked salmon bagel with cream cheese, capers, onion and tomatoes, and we know you will too!
5. Caffe Central (170 O'Farrell St. & 845 Market St.) – This is where locals go to get their Blue Bottle Coffee fix. While you're there, grab one of their many house-made pastries (we're partial to the Nutella twists) or a mini sandwich and fresh squeezed juice for the perfect start to your day.
6. Café la Taza (470 Post St.) – This may be a pint-sized locally owned café, but they have some big breakfast options. Our favorites include their Valencia egg scramble with homemade chorizo, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jack cheese, and their Sausalito egg scramble with smoked chicken mango jalapeno sausage, balsamic onions, sweet peppers, sage and provolone cheese.
7. The Turn Café at the Axiom Hotel (28 Cyril Magnin St.) – Designed for those on the go, this is a great place to grab a yogurt parfait or if you have a few extra minutes, a tasty Union Square omelet with sautéed spinach, mushrooms, caramelized onions, tomatoes and feta, or a Belgian waffle with powdered sugar and strawberries-yum!
8. Sear's Fine Foods (439 Powell St.) – This Union Square classic has been serving up their famous Swedish silver dollar pancakes, with warm syrup and whipped butter, since 1938! You can also order other diner classics like New York steak and eggs, eggs benedict or an omelet with all the fixings.
9. Bio (75 O'Farrell St.) – If you're opting for an inexpensive and healthy morning meal, you've got to stop by Bio. We recommend their steal cut oatmeal with hemp milk and quinoa, or their homemade yogurt with seasonal berries.
10. Scala's Bistro (432 Powell St.) –This classic Italian bistro pulls out all the stops for breakfast. Try Scala's corned beef hash with potatoes, cheddar cheese, spring onions, gypsy peppers and poached eggs, or their polenta with sunny side up eggs, braised pork belly, Espelette-tomato sauce and black trumpets.


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