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This year's keynote will be presented by special guest, Robert Herjavec, an investor, technology innovator, entrepreneur, hands on CEO of The Herjavec Group and media personality featured on the ABC Television series, Shark Tank. Robert will share his experience in the cyber security industry and provide insight and foresight on the cloud phenomenon. Additionally, one Dreamforce participant will have the opportunity for a one-on-one, VIP meet and greet with Robert. To learn more, please visit: http://erp.financialforce.com/robert-herjavec-meet-and-greet.html
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According to YNET,
(http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3647934,00.html)- (Hebrew)
the head of Israeli's intelligence reported today that Hamas terrorists are
hiding in hospitals and maternity wards, wearing the clothes of doctors and
nurses. They are moving rocket launchers into crowded residential
neighborhoods, and thus their success in shooting over 45 rockets into
Israeli towns this morning alone.
The difficulty of rooting out terrorists who hide behind newborn babies and
cancer patients is hard for a civilized country like
Israel to deal with. Israel allowed 100 truckloads of medical supplies and
basic food items to enter Gaza yesterday, along with
five new ambulances donated by Turkey. This morning, the Gazans requested
that Israeli hospitals take in two small children injured in the
hostilities. Israel allowed them in, even as Hamas continued to bomb.
Mr. Olmert and Ms. Livni have reportedly overruled our Defense Minister's
desire to cave in and give a 48 hour respite for "humanitarian" purposes.
In what war did you ever hear of such a proposal? Where were the
humanitarian requests for "respites" from Hamas rockets on our population
centers from France in the last six years?
Ehud Barak, our former wishy-washy noodle of a Prime Minister, who was
practically begging to sign the country away to Arafat, has a nickname in
Israel. He's known as Ehud "Barach" meaning "to run away." He ran away in
Lebanon, leading to the last Lebanese War, and now he is getting to run away
from Gaza.
We can only hope Israeli voters run away from him in the upcoming elections.
One State for one People. Thou shalt not be a victim, or perpetrator, but above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. Yasher Koach!
January 1, 2009
Hamas Hiding in Maternity Wards - Naomi Ragen
Posted by Avi at 1/01/2009 10:58:00 AM
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- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2009 at 1:09:00 AM EST
God bless Israel in the quest to defend itself and its people. We are saddened by the lack of support from the international community, but we hope that Israel's efforts will bring relief from Hamas aggression. You are absolutely right! Wars are not interrupted for "humanitarian purposes", and such a demand should not be made of Israel. Hamas should be ashamed of using women and children as human shields, but then this is nothing new. This is their standard mode of operation.ReplyDelete
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I posted my Character Bio/Sheet for my main character Blake Larkin for my upcoming NaNoWriMo novel a couple of weeks ago. I thought i'd post my bio for her father, Alister Larkin next. I know that in this sci-fi novel I wanted to tackle some father-daughter moments, or at least the tension between parents and their children when they don't seem to follow in the parent's footprints. Of course, as I began to fill in the holes on Alister's background I was surprised at some of the other possible side stories I could also include. There are still some holes, and perhaps some contradicting points, but part of me would like to keep them all in until I finish my first draft and know for sure which way he will ultimately become. (The stuff about Alister's wife was new to me when I began to write it down, I hope to play it up more in the novel).
Alister Larkin
Gender: Male
Age: 48 (Born 4024)
Hair colour: Dark Brown
Eye colour: Green
Height: 6 ft 2 in
Weight: 178 lbs
Dark brown hair coming down over Alister's eyes and ears, bushy and unruly most of the time it looks as if it has not been brushed or combed in weeks. Alister is tall, and thin, a bit lengthy and walks with a small hunch as if he has a weight on his back. His green eyes are dark and most of the time downcast and uninterested in many everyday events, even his daughter.
Passive, moody and withdrawn. Alister at times seems to float through his life, dwelling on the past, while trying his best to provide for his daughter. If he didn't have Blake, he would most likely be living in a swear. His daughter gives him enough stamina and ambition to get him through the day at a teaching job at a low-level college. As a passive person, he rarely stands up for himself or others around him, some see this as a sign of cowardice, but to Alister it is just what they want, to feed and make people stand out. Survival is to blend in.
Alister was never always this way. In his youth he was a passionate philosopher, with new and some considered conspiracy theories to the war and how it started and continued to progress. Born during the 100 year war, Alister had seen much of the suffering and propaganda on both sides to realize the political standpoints at an early age. It made for radical thinking, especially in on an Earth aligned planet. Yet the war had it's effects on him, and with the death of his wife, much of his passion left, and he became a shell of his former self.
Born on October 25, 4024, on the planet Oshion, Alister was infiltrated with war footage, propaganda and news stories from infancy. During his youth, he would watch several broadcasts around the galaxy, with a number of questions on why things were happening they way they were. His parents, a doctor and a scientists tried their best to answer them, but it was due to an elderly professor in his high school years that really helped Alister make sense of what he was seeing. He was introduced to philosophy and how war connects certain businesses, politics and other almost secretive organizations and behind the scene details that the public does not usually see. His intuition and resourcefulness intrigued the profession and helped land Alister on a scholar path.
Yet the war was still ongoing, and required bright minds to help further the development of the Enion suits, weapons and other destructive equipment. Alister, a bright and healthy young man was in-scripted against his will at the age of 18. For the next five years, Alister saw how the inside of a war worked, from soldiers, to intelligence to the politics and businesses backing them all. All the while, writing his thesis on the misguidedness of who the war started and those who he blamed and those who could now end it.
Many of his papers were regarded with both praise, respect, and hatred. It was his first taste of retribution from leaders and professors, and how he had stumbled upon a controversial subject. Thankfully in 4047, the war was officially over as a peace treaty between the two factions was created. Some claim that his papers helped the leaders come to an agreement, but nothing had been stated to that affect.
Now a scholar of philosophy and mathematics, Alister was offered several jobs and decent universities. Remaining on his home planet, Alister took a job at the highest university where he met Maya for the first time.
Maya was a student at the university, having exited a military school just as the war ended. Having to take several other courses besides her military and mechanical ones, philosophy was suggested to keep her grades relatively high. However, the two found faults with each others mind and debates grew between them both in class and out, both passionate about their believes.
During Maya's five years of studies, she and Alister grew closer together, despite their differences. A love formed and a year after Maya's graduation, they were still together and Alister proposed. The two remained on Oshion, where Maya worked at the military base, and Alister at the university. Blake was born three years later during the height of their success.
For the next ten years, Aliser noticed a concern drawing on his wife's face. Being part of a top secret project on the military base had caused her to withdrawal much of her usual lively self. One night Maya finally confronted Alister about her project, and worried that it could start another war, as tensions were still high despite the period of peace and prosperity that was happening. Breaching many unethical rules, Maya and Alister planned on leaving Oshion with their daughter to a planet further away from Earth in one of the many deep quadrants for their safety. However, Maya was killed in a lab accident before they could finalize their plans.
Devastated, Alister doubted it was an accident at all. And kept much of his wife's research hidden while the military tried several times to search their house and intimidate him on his wife's classified information. He grew weary and worried over his own daughters safety as they began to watch her too. Frantic Alister moved Blake and himself as soon as he could to Cavis. Not as far as he liked, but a planet where he hoped to hide himself and Blake away until he could decide what to do with the information he had.
His attitude and passion for his job sank, money became an issue and he was unable to find the right person to communicate his concerns over the Earth Forces. Fear of being caught, fear of being found, Alister's health seemed to deteriorate, along with his relationship with his daughter. It seemed his wife may have died for nothing until he was approached at work by an individual who knew more than he should.
With some new hope, and the chance to finally get away from the Earth Forces, Alister accepts the offer in exchange for the 16 year old information he still possessed.
Was it worth the trade?
It's been difficult to find a suitable image for Alister in the current time the book will bet taking place, and being an Anime geek, I had to find an anime style image to best portray him. lol. I stumbled on one that looks that it could work for his younger years… okay make that two.


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Phony Israeli Crackdown On Violent Settler Zealots
By Stephen
|Violence and/or vandalism committed by extremist Israeli settlers against
West Bank Palestinians occur almost daily. Theyre not isolated incidents.
Nor are multiple daily Israeli security force attacks - breaking into homes pre-dawn, terrorizing families, making lawless arrests, other times attacking peaceful protesters threatening no one.
These are systematic acts of racist hate - along with Israel asserting its ruthless might, maintaining militarized occupation harshness long ago declared illegal.
International law requires occupying powers to ensure the security, safety and welfare of populations they control.
Israeli soldiers, police and other security forces ignore their responsibility. When violent incidents occur, rare investigations follow. When conducted, theyre nearly always whitewashed.
On rare occasions when Israelis are charged and convicted of criminality against Palestinians, sentences are minor - mere hand-slaps.
Justice is systematically denied. Violence against defenseless people continues out-of-control - pandemic across Palestine.
Israeli leaders earlier promised crackdowns on settler violence. Netanyahu vowed to treat radicalized Israelis the same way as alleged Palestinian militants.
Pledges proved hollow. Netanyahu calling the immolation of 18-month old Ali Dawabsha abhorrent is meaningless rhetoric. So is saying Israeli policy is zero tolerance.
Claiming hes determined to vigorously fight manifestations of hate, fanaticism and terrorism from whatever side is pure rubbish. Nothing matches the ruthlessness of longstanding Israeli state terror - especially under its current fascist leadership.
Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev lied saying (o)ne of the criticisms of Israel is that there are two systems of law in the West Bank, one for Palestinians and a second for Israelis. Now rioters from both will be tried under the same system.
False!! Longstanding Israeli apartheid jurisprudence remains unchanged. Jews charged with crimes face civil justice. Palestinians are tried in kangaroo military courts. Guilt is automatic. Innocence is no defense.
Regevs comments changed nothing. Ruthless Israeli business as usual continues. Netanyahu refused to call violent settlers terrorists - the way he and other Israeli officials routinely designate nonviolent Palestinians engaged in legitimate resistance for their rights.
They ludicrously claim settlements on stolen Palestinian land arent the problem. Netanyahu arrogantly blames a handful of violent outliers alone. They dont represent settlers loyal to the state and its laws, he says.
Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea took issue with his comments saying:
This criminal behavior must be rooted out, and everyone knows where the roots are: in the incitement of the settler rabbis, in the Israeli governments that over and over again approved the settlers illegal acts, in the leniency of the judges and in the powerlessness of the Shin Bet, the army and the police.
Israeli law enforcement agencies have plenty of power. They dont use it against violent settlers. They target innocent Palestinians repressively - for political and racist reasons, not for criminality.
Ultranationalist infrastructure minister Uzi Landau supports extremist settlers. He calls Palestinians critical of their radicalism anti-Semites seek(ing) to undermine our right to exist here. He claims violent elements are few in number - ignoring near daily incidents.
Will settlers responsible for murdering 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha and his father, Saad, days later from third-degree burns too severe to save him be held accountable?
Dont bet on it. And will it matter if any settler is held accountable? Will it stop many others from near daily rampaging throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem?
So far, Israeli authorities claim theyve uncovered no evidence to charge anyone with the Dawabsha family murders. Perhaps they havent sought any.
They perfunctorily detained an unannounced number of alleged suspects (Haaretz reported nine) - then released them the next day without explanation.
Israeli security force crimes against defenseless Palestinians continue multiple times daily. Settler violence and vandalism routinely goes unpunished.
Despite public anger over the Dawabsha family killings, extremist settlers set Palestinian agricultural land ablaze near Nablus on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses said they fled to nearby settlements. Soldiers attacked Palestinians rushing to extinguish the fire - attacking them with tear gas and stun grenades, igniting additional fires.
Separately, Israeli soldiers lethally shot 20-year-old Anas Taha - claiming he stabbed a settler. Instead of arresting him and assuring due process, they murdered him in cold blood.
Longstanding Israeli policy reflects vindictive injustice. Historian Tacitus described Romes conquest of Britain as creat(ing) a desolation and call(ing) it peace.
Palestine under militarized Israeli rule reflects harsh Roman occupation - with shameless Palestinian collaborators serving as willing enforcers for special benefits they derive.
Peace is a convenient illusion. So is justice for long beleaguered people. Israeli ruthlessness remains unchanged.
Dawabsha family deaths at the hands of racist settlers reflect longstanding Israeli ethnic cleansing and slow-motion genocide to make historic Palestinian as free as possible from its original inhabitants - so racist Jews can have it all for themselves.
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You have the opportunity to take a negative situation and transform it into positive value. You have the opportunity to take an ordinary moment and make it into an extraordinary experience.
You have the opportunity because you can make a difference. You have the opportunity because you care very deeply about life, and have the ability to put that caring into action.
Life can unfold in many different ways, creating an unimaginable variety of situations. In every one of those situations, there is opportunity.
Those people who choose to see the opportunities, and to do something about them, are the people who enjoy the best life has to offer. You are never more fully alive than when you are transforming what is possible into what is real.
Every day is an opportunity to express your purpose and your love of life in new and valuable ways. Every moment is an opportunity to give something of yourself and by so doing, to taste a flavor of life's richness that cannot be experienced in any other way.
You have the opportunity right now to do something truly beautiful. Take that opportunity, and find delight in making it count.
-- Ralph Marston
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An abandoned high-rise building occupied by squatters in downtown Sao Paulo caught fire and collapsed on Tuesday, sending chunks of fiery debris crashing into neighbouring buildings and surrounding streets.
Firefighter Lieutenant Andre Elias told Brazilian news channel Globo TV that emergency personnel expected to find victims, but were unsure exactly how many to expect.
Globo TV reported some 150 people lived in the building, but most were not inside at the time of the fire and subsequent collapse.
A spokesperson from the fire department said the second building wasn't in danger of collapsing.
Trump signals willingness to meet N. Korea's Kim in DMZ
Trump's embrace of the site could carry some risk given that a "celebration" during his summit with Kim could be premature. Command and the commander of the "Chinese People's volunteers", who were not officially claimed by Beijing at the time.
São Paulo Governor Márcio França said the building was an accident waiting to happen but that its residents had resisted leaving.
Sao Paulo is Brazil's financial capital and the most populous city in Latin America, but suffers huge economic equality, with poor families often squatting in disused buildings or plots of land.
"There was no security, there were not adequate electrical installations, there were no safe staircases, there were piles of rubbish - there was everything you need to start a major fire", he said.
A few hours later, as flames engulfed the building of at least 20 stories, it collapsed.
Is iPhone X really a flop? We'll know for sure tomorrow
The information mentions that the company could use the Cover Glass Sensor technology for all of its iPhone releases next year. According to the reports , 6.1in LCD model might not get the 3D touch because of the screen technology used in the phone.
Evacuees told the police that part of the building's inhabitants managed to escape on time. Most likely there are victims, it is still not known how much. At least two others are missing, according to a spokesman for the Sao Paulo Fire Department.
Brazilian President Michel Temer visited the ruins early Tuesday morning, but rushed away after victims began throwing rocks and debris at his auto.
Former Sao Paulo Mayor Joao Doria aggressively cracked down on these communities. Fair-housing activists, on the other hand, argue that the area could offer affordable housing to tens of thousands of people.
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Intriguing start to the series
When a book combines some of your favourite things, shifters, vamps, witches, tarot cards, as well as bikers, add in a sassy leading lady you know your in for a ride. 'Caged Wolf' was that ride! Book 1 in S.M. Reine's "The Tarot Witches" series, it had me wanting to keep reading... Ofelia has had a traumatic past, please be patient when finding out just how she receives her scars, it takes a while for her to open up, but once she does??? You may wish she didn't tell. The minute Trouble & his brothers walk into her bar in Lobo Norte, she's instantly drawn & doesn't know why. It did take a little to piece together all the snippets of information I received whilst reading, but when you put it all together... WOW.... I need to read the next book in this series.


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This is the 2nd book in the Chicagoland Vampires series by Chloe Neill.
Book Blurb:
The story of a young heiress's initiation into the dark society of the Chicagoland Vampires continues.
Ten months after vampires revealed their existence to the mortals of Chicago, they're enjoying a celebrity status usually reserved for the Hollywood elite. But should people learn about the Raves - mass feeding parties where vampires round up humans like cattle - the citizens will start sharpening their stakes.
So now it's up to the new vampire Merit to reconnect with her upper class family and act as liaison between humans and bloodsuckers, and keep the more unsavory aspects of the vampire lifestyle out of the media. But someone doesn't want peace between them - someone with an ancient grudge.
Due Out October 6, 2009
And it looks like Chloe Neill has an upcoming YA book (series?) in the works. The first Novel of the Dark Elite series is called Firespell.
Book Blurb:
As the new girl at the elite St. Sophia's boarding school, Lily Parker thinks her classmates are the most monstrous things she'll have to face…
When Lily's guardians decided to send her away to a fancy boarding school in Chicago, she was shocked. So was St. Sophia's. Lily's ultra-rich brat pack classmates think Lily should be the punchline to every joke, and on top of that, she's hearing strange noises and seeing bizarre things in the shadows of the creepy building.
The only thing keeping her sane is her roommate, Scout, but even Scout's a little weird—she keeps disappearing late at night and won't tell Lily where she's been. But when a prank leaves Lily trapped in the catacombs beneath the school, Lily finds Scout running from a real monster.
Scout's a member of a splinter group of rebel teens with unique magical talents, who've sworn to protect the city against demons, vampires, and Reapers, magic users who've been corrupted by their power. And when Lily finds herself in the line of a firespell, Scout tells her the truth about her secret life, even though Lily has no powers of her own—at least none that she's discovered yet…
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Imitation of Life
The Boys in the Band
If you have read my previous postings, you already know that I was a black child who grew up in a white neighborhood. You will also know that I allowed homophobia to cloud some of my youthful decisions. So I guess you could say that I am no stranger to what society refers to as an "identity crisis."
However, before I begin the discussion of the above movies, I would like to point out that I have always been comfortable in my skin. I never doubted my racial identity; my parents – and, unbeknownst to them, my neighborhood friends – made sure of that. Also, I never doubted my heterosexuality; I've found untold joy in kissing females other than family members since I was six years old. Additionally, I've always found it easy to make friends and never particularly cared about their race or sexual orientation. But I have to admit that at times as a child and as a young adult, I feared that people might mistake me for a homosexual – apparently an easy thing to do because I am an educated black man who can speak English without any trace of ghettoese.
As I grew older, however, I learned to stop worrying about other people's misconceptions. In fact, I began to enjoy them. It amused me that I could see the apprehension and fear in the eyes of whites, especially women, when we passed on the street. And once, I was coaching my son's soccer team when a drunken black man asked me, through a chain-link fence, if I was "you know, funny," I asked him if he would feel threatened by it if I were. He replied simply, Yes." I replied, "Good" and then turned and walked away. My son, who was with me during this exchange, said as we returned to the team, "That guy was stupid, Daddy." I had to agree.
An identity crisis also can make people ask themselves – and others – stupid questions. And if those questions are not answered satisfactorily, they could lead a person to do stupid, self-destructive things – as I will demonstrate with the help of the movies Rain (released in 1932 in black and white), Imitation of Life (1934, b&w) and The Boys in the Band (1970, color).
Rain is the first talking version of the story of Sadie Thompson. The story's first cinematic production was made toward the end of the silent era in 1928 and was titled Sadie Thompson. A color version, titled Miss Sadie Thompson, was made in 1954. But my favorite is the 1932 version. It is a story in which we see two people dealing with issues of identity.
The story begins when a ship arrives at a South Seas island. Among those embarking are Sadie Thompson, a woman with the reputation of being a loose and unsavory, and a supposedly pious missionary named Alfred Davidson and his wife. Davidson makes it his mission to turn Sadie into an honorable woman and spends most of the movie haranguing her about her evil ways. Sadie, naturally, resists the attempts to save her soul. Davidson eventually threatens to have the governor of the island send Sadie to San Francisco, where she is apparently wanted by the police. Sadie has other plans – Australia. While the two argue about her fate, she has an epiphany, of sorts, and decides that she should change her ways and return to San Francisco to face the music, after which she can become a virtuous woman.
Ah, but Davidson proves not to be the man he thinks he is. After the conversion of Sadie, he rapes her. Then, unable to face his own duplicity, he commits suicide. And Sadie? She reverts to her old self and accepts the invitation of a man named O'Hara, who has been wooing her throughout the movie, to go with him to Australia.
Imitation of Life was remade in 1959 in color. Again, if I have a choice between a black and white movie or a remake of that movie in color, I'll usually chose the black and white version. But there is another reason I prefer the older telling of this tale; it includes a rare display of racial equality that the color version lacks. The story is about two women – one white, named Beatrice Pullman; one black, named Delilah Johnson; both heterosexual – who decide to live together and raise their children, two girls (Jessie and Peola, respectively), together. Now when I say "raise their children together" you should understand that Delilah is considered by the primary caregiver by both children. But in the original version, the two women become business partners who make their money by marketing Delilah's pancake recipe. In the color version, the black woman appears to be more of a servant that a partner.
Neither of these women have a husband. Beatrice is a widow and I don't remember any mention of Delilah's. However, I assume the father of Delilah's child is white because her daughter Peola's fair skin suggests as much. And Peola's fair skin creates the girl's identity crisis.
The first sign of Peola's crisis arises when Delilah shows up at her daughter's class. When the teacher asks her why she's there, Delilah tells the teacher that she is bringing her daughter her lunch. After the teacher tells Delilah that she doesn't have any colored children in her class, Delilah points out "her baby" – which surprises both the teacher and the students and embarrasses Peola. When they return home, Delilah tries to console her daughter and tell her that she shouldn't try to pass for white. But Peola refuses to listen and refuses to return to that school.
When Peola is old enough to leave home, she also leaves town to start a new life as a waitress in a whites-only restaurant in Virginia. Delilah eventually tracks her down and confronts Peola at the eatery. Peola denies any relationship to Delilah in front of her boss and customers, but they do go home together after the incident. Once home, Peola announces that she plans to leave again and tells Delilah that she doesn't ever want to see her again. Delilah, heartsick by her daughter's rejection of her and her race, becomes gravely ill, losing her will to survive. On her deathbed, Delilah asks Beatrice to take care of Peola, should she ever return.
Well, Peola does return, just in time for Delilah's funeral. She throws herself on her mother's casket, sobbing uncontrollably and filled with regret for that way she treated her mother.
The Boys in the Band is about a birthday party attended by a group of gay men. Before the party begins, Michael, one of the party planners, receives a phone call from Alan, a heterosexual college classmate who wants to pay Michael a visit and agrees to come to the party.
During the visit, Alan is visibly uneasy about being surrounded by the group of gay men. But then again – to my eye, anyway – they all seemed somewhat uneasy with each other, with one possible exception. Don't get me wrong: These admittedly gay men appear to have genuine affection for each other. However, they also relentlessly hurl insults at each other. This affection tinged with contempt tells me that there is a lot of self-loathing at that party. And the presence of Alan, who we are told had rejected Michael's advances during their college days, left me believing that he, too, was wondering about his own sexual identity. Michael's accusation that Alan was hiding his own homosexual desires confirmed my suspicions.
The boys play a party game that involves calling the person they loved the most and telling that person how they feel. A couple of the callers make feeble attempts to fulfill the game's requirements, but one caller – Hank, who came to the party with Larry, his apparent lover – calls Larry's answering service to leave a message that he (Hank) does love him (Larry). This call showed me that Hank was probably the only one of them who was comfortable with his sexuality. And although Alan called his former wife to tell her how much he loved her, which seemed to upset Michael, it didn't convince me that he was completely sure of his sexuality.
The questions "Who and I" and "What am I" created havoc and pain in all three movies. In Rain, Davidson's sudden realization of who he really was resulted in his suicide and absolved Sadie of the guilt that led to her epiphany. After all, if even pious missionaries were lecherous pigs, how was if fair that she should be chastised for being the party girl who she enjoyed being. In Imitation of Life, it took the death of Delilah to make Peola realize that despite her fair features, she was her mother's child and she was wrong to try to deny that. As for The Boys in the Band, the only violence was the verbal abuse and hurt feelings that they heaped upon each other.
Ironically, Rain – the oldest of the three movies – is the one that would be most believable in today's setting. Because of societal advances – including the election of a black man as president of the United States and the widespread acceptance of interracial and gay relationships, marriage and civil unions – fewer light-skinned blacks feel the need, or desire, to pass as whites; and fewer gays feel conflicted about their sexual identities. And that's a good thing.
But remember that even though the times they are a changing, it always helps to take a look back and remember that things weren't always as they are now.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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Best late-night eats, according to bartenders
Because if there ever was a group of people who know where to satisfy post-, post-midnight munchies, it's them.
Because if there ever was a group of people who know where to satisfy post-, post-midnight munchies, it's them.
Bartenders usually end their shifts while we're sleeping. After a night of stirring, shaking, muddling and everything else in between, the best of us would get peckish (if not ravenous), too. So who best to clue us in on the city's best hidden gems that stay open till the wee hours? We call up our bartending buddies to get some good recs on where to eat before calling it a night.
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The folks over at Fordham & Grand like to stay a little closer to their bar's vicinity. Sharon Chio recommends this old-style-grandma's-cooking restaurant (25 Neil Rd., 6223-1633) for their delicious Dinosaur prawn noodles. Whether you have it dry or with soup, between the huge prawns, pork bone or springy egg noodles, we simply can't get enough of the rich broth. "It's a little rough around the edges but I've converted so many people to these noodles, especially after a heavy night," said Chio. Open until 4am daily
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Still 'buzzin' about yesterday. Also still sore, but hey, the way I roll, no wonder right 🙂
You'll be glad to hear I've decided to shut up about my Birthday now. I've talked about it in the last three posts, four, if you include the fact that I've just mentioned it again in saying I'm not going to mention it again haha. I love Birthday Week 🙂
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Do you remember me telling you, back in June, about Active Sefton asking me to become an Ambassador for the programme. You don't hey, don't worry, read the post, or, read the abridged version which goes like this:
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More news…
NFA8 is still going great, although I did eat later on my Birthday (Arrrggghh, mentioned the 'B' word again, sorry).
I'm looking forward to going to the gym tomorrow. I feel like I've not been for ages. I've done lots of exercise 'stuff', just not in the gym. Even tomorrow, I've promised myself I'm not going to hammer it. Snowdon took a lot out of me.
Talking of Snowdon, I'm going to put a page up with all the photography. I'll let you know when I've done it.
Right, I need a wee.
Adios amigos,
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37487607.post1953280648964343564..comments2018-07-05T05:53:00.890-05:00Comments on Element II: A Wharram Tiki 26 Catamaran: Element II Sold Last AugustScott B. Williamshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37487607.post-55193097597465296722013-08-27T18:32:46.422-05:002013-08-27T18:32:46.422-05:00Hi Scott, thanks for updating us. I was really won...Hi Scott,
thanks for updating us. I was really wondering what course Element II was taking, whether you had completed, and just stopped posting, or what. So, it is good to know that all is well, you are happy, and the boat is taken care of.
You really did a good job on it. And I thank you for your detailed documentation. Despite not building a Tiki, I have learned a lot from your blog. The last thing was the gluing in of the windows/portholes. But I could give other examples.
Well, I just thought you might enjoy to know that, and wanted to say thanks.
All the best,
Peter - From Arpex Enter Mileshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37487607.post-61271626885353574082013-08-05T10:28:45.928-05:002013-08-05T10:28:45.928-05:00Ed, Thanks but no need to feel sorry. I enjoyed ...Ed,

Thanks but no need to feel sorry. I enjoyed the building process very much but as a but boatbuilder, I have built and sold many boats. i was very happy to get a good price for this one that allowed me to move on and do other things.

The CD27 has long been among my favorite Alberg designs and is just the right layout and size.Scott B. Williamshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37487607.post-39032403538067992062013-08-05T10:09:47.220-05:002013-08-05T10:09:47.220-05:00Hello Scott, Sorry to hear that after so much hard...Hello Scott,
Sorry to hear that after so much hard work Element 2 wasn't going to work for you. The CD27 is a beautiful boat and was on my short list when I finally found the Triton 28. I hope the new owner of Element 2 sets up a blog to document the completion and sailing adventures. Best of luck with the CD27!!!
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25 Most Devastating Moves in WrestlingAugust 5, 2011
25 Most Devastating Moves in Wrestling
After watching WWE Money in the Bank and seeing the painful bumps that Sin Cara and Big Show took, I starting thinking about what other moves look painful.
The result of that thought, is this list.
I am providing a video link to all of the maneuvers because words can not express them. Some moves may look more impressive than painful, but I think we can all agree we wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any of them.
Now, onto the videos!
25. RVD's Van Terminator
I remember the first time I saw Rob Van Dam perform the Van Terminator. I was at a live event that a friend made me go to. I was a youngster at the time and had never heard of ECW.
Needless to say, I was a fan from then on.
24. The Legion of Doom's Doomsday Device
This may not be the best quality video, but you can't argue that this wasn't one of the all-time great tag-team maneuvers.
I wouldn't want to take this one, one mistake and it's a broken neck from landing wrong.
23. Razor Ramon's The Razor's Edge
I was a huge Razor Ramon fan when I was younger and the Razor's Edge is one of those moves that I always marked out for. People rarely got up from it, and it just looks painful.
Hence its spot at No. 23.
22. AJ Styles' Styles Clash
To show just how dangerous this move is, I'm going to link a video where AJ botched the move. Words can't do it justice.
21. The Undertaker's Tombstone Piledriver
No one does a piledriver better than the Undertaker in my opinion. To show how truly devastating this move is, John Cena actually sold it! (There is the obligatory jab at Cena.)
20. Yokozuna's Banzai Drop
I would never want to take this move. Just look at it in slow motion. I cringe watching this video.
19. Tajiri's Buzzsaw Kick
A lot of wrestlers have used this move: Daniel Bryan, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk, Low-Ki...the list goes on forever.
However, no one quite ever did it like Tajiri. Just look at the snap in it.
18. The Spanish Announce Team's Spanish Fly
Long before Sin Cara was doing it every week on SmackDown, the Spanish Announce Team was doing it all over Mexico and TNA.
I simply love this move.
17. Victoria's The Widow's Peak
At No. 17 comes our first (but not last) entry from a female wrestler.
I remember this because it was one of the first moves performed by a Diva that I always marked out for, and I had never seen a chinbreaker performed quite like this.
Years later, she is still performing the move in TNA as Tara.
16. Kharma's Implant Buster
Never before has a single move taken out so many wrestlers in such short order.
Kharma's WWE stint may have been short-lived, but the implant buster will always live on in my memories of things that make me say ouch.
15. Stan Hansen's Western Lariat
Stan Hansen is a forgotten legend of wrestling. Hailing from Texas, Hansen is one of the first American wrestlers to achieve fame in Japan.
JBL's clothesline from hell was a tribute to Hansen.
Many others have used the move, but to me, no one quite does it like Stan Hansen. That's why he checks in at No. 15.
14. Madoka's Ranhei
In the U.S., Kofi Kingston has popularized this move, but it simply doesn't hold a candle to the original.
Simply amazing.
13. Justin Gabriel's 450 Splash
This just looks like it hurts and no one does it better than Justin Gabriel. Sometimes, I think he hurts himself more than his opponent.
12. Ruckus' Itz a Done Deal
Unfortunately for him, Ruckus is an independent wrestler that most people haven't ever heard of.
Unfortunately for his opponents, his finisher looks just devastating.
Unfortunately for me, I couldn't find a video of just Itz a Done Deal.
Unfortunately for you, Youtube won't let me embed this video. So just click the link, fast forward to the 1:06 mark and prepare to be like "damn!".
11. Bryan Danielson's Cattle Mutilation
Here is the golden boy of the IWC making his first appearance.
Daniel Bryan/Bryan Danielson has quite a few devastating moves from his days in the independents and I'm sure CM Punk can tell you how much this one hurts.
10. CM Punk's Pepsi Plunge
At No. 10 we have CM Punk and his utterly devastating Pepsi Plunge.
This is a move so damaging that Punk had to quit doing it himself as he is rumored to have said it's simply too hard on his knees, and he wanted to have a long career.
I can only hope that someday we will see CM Punk give his to HHH to show him just how dull a normal pedigree is.
9. Bryan Danielson's Danielson Special
Not only is this a sick way to get someone into an armbar, it's also a pretty sick armbar. Just look at that torque he gets.
This move alone is why I would love to see Danielson try his hand at MMA.
8. KENTA's Go to Sleep
I love CM Punk as much as the next guy, but not even he can do the Go to Sleep justice like KENTA can.
When KENTA delivers it, it just simply can cause stars. Either that, or the guy he is wrestling should get a gold medal for selling.
7. Goldberg's Jackhammer
As a child of the 90's, I can't tell you many things that looked more painful than the Jackhammer.
I also can't tell you how many wrestlers that Goldberg also legitimately injured doing it.
6. Mike Awesome's Awesome Bomb Through a Table
This is just simply the sickest looking bump I have ever seen in my 30 years of watching professional wrestling.
Words can't do it justice and even though the video quality is horrible, I think you'll agree with me.
5. Low-Ki's The Warrior's Way
I simply don't understand how Low-Ki/Senshi/Kaval hasn't managed to truly kill someone yet. I've seen him perform this move live, with front-row seats, and I still simply don't get it.
Jumping on someone's chest, feet first, from that height should break every bone in their torso. This is one move where I have trouble accepting wrestling is fake.
This one has just gotta hurt.
4. Homicide's Cop Killa/Gringo Killa
Since we just watched Low-Ki kill someone, it's only fitting that we watch someone do the same to him.
The thoughts of what could happen if Homicide botches this move are truly frightening. That's why it lands at No. 4 on my list.
3. Kenta Kobashi's Burning Hammer
If I told you a guy does John Cena's Attitude Adjustment inverted, would you care?
I certainly wouldn't...until I saw this video. That's gotta hurt.
2. Mistico's La Mistica
Okay, Sin Cara botches a lot in the WWE and doesn't really have a true finishing move.
Regardless of that, he was truly awesome in Mexico. If you don't believe that, just watch the above video.
La Mistica is one of the truly great moves in all of wrestling to me and I don't understand how he hasn't broken someone's arm performing it.
He gets so much momentum and torque that in my opinion this has to be one of wrestling's most devastating moves.
1. Petey Williams' Canadian Destroyer
This is without a doubt the most innovative, coolest and devastating move in wrestling history to me.
This is also why I quit watching TNA when Petey Williams left. The head being spiked with that much momentum is simply breathtaking.
I've seen Petey perform it off the top rope, through a table, through a ladder, while running, from standing position, off the side apron and about any way you can truly think of.
It looks painful and beautiful every single time. To me, it is what a finisher should be.
Thanks for reading and watching videos with me. It was a long list, but we got through it. I hope you saw some moves and wrestlers that you've never ever heard of, remembered some of your long forgotten favorites, or even viewed a current wrestler in a new light.
This list is by no means definitive, it's just my personal opinions and moves that have stuck out to me over the years.
What about you? What are some finishing moves that you think are absolutely devastating?


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Carrier Selection Based on Cost Comparison
Original Publication Date: 2005-May-18
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2005-May-18
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Disclosed is a method for carrier selection based on cost comparison
Carrier Selection Based on Cost Comparison
The purpose of this invention is to provide the subscriber with advance information about the billing consequences of mobile device use before the service is rendered.
With this information the subscriber may then choose to either proceed to place a call or wait for another time when the rates are lower. Furthermore, using the method described in this invention, the subscriber will have the ability to select service from among several service providers. This is analogous to selecting which gasoline to fill up with based on advertised prices.
Factors that affect mobile charges include: Calendar (e.g., weekend rates), Time of day (e.g., after 9:00 PM), Location (e.g., metropolitan or rural), Type of data to be transmitted (e.g., voice, text, images, audio, other), Quantity of data to be transmitted (e.g, number of bytes to be transmitted.)
The rate structure is well known and is regulated. However, because many factors can affect the specific charge, most subscribers cannot compute it easily at the moment they are trying to complete a data transfer.
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I heard that the library in Ft. Smith Arkansas has a green roof though I haven't checked it out yet. On the green roof topic, this just came into my email.
The American Society of Landscape Architects Library and Education Advocacy Fund (ASLA Fund) will receive a $22,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for outreach and education programming surrounding the Society's new green roof demonstration project.
The grant will fund an exhibit, a student workbook, and a discovery program to help raise awareness of how green roofs improve air and water quality, reduce the urban heat island effect, manage stormwater run-off, replace bio-habitat, and provide esthetic amenities to tenants and neighbors and economic benefits to developers and building owners.
"One of the main reasons ASLA decided to build a green roof on our headquarters was to show people what a green roof looks like and demonstrate the many environmental and economic benefits," said Nancy C. Somerville, executive vice president/CEO of ASLA, who also serves as president of the ASLA Fund. "Not only will this grant enhance the experience for our green roof visitors, it will enable us to reach audiences of all ages across the country and around the world who may not be able to visit our project in person."


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Episode 130 – Hyperinflation Series Part 2 – Preparing For Hyperinflation Part A
Okay, I know this is a little confusing. I didn't plan on this being long enough to split into two podcasts, so I didn't structure the series that way. It's important to call this podcast 'Preparing For Hyperinflation' so that the podcast is more descriptive about what its content is in the future.
Thus, this is the second podcast in the hyperinflation mini-series, but also the first part of how to prepare for hyperinflation.
Preparing for Hyperinflation – What You Can Do To Prepare To Survive Hyperinflation
Notes for this podcast:
What To Expect During Hyperinflation – Expect The Worst, Hope For The Best.
- In a nutshell, life will still go on, just differently. Hyperinflation will be bad, but it won't be forever.
- It's not going to be a Mad Max scenario. Life will be much like it is now, but it will be more difficult.
- What do I mean by that? Well, you still need to live, eat, raise your children, earn a wage, pay bills, etc.
- Some people will become very destitute. This does and will happen, but not everyone is suddenly going to be without a job. There will still be commerce, and thus some people will still be working.
- There will still be opportunity for business, you'll just need to find what it is. Even in a depression, there will still be businesses and opportunities for businesses that full a niche market.
Here's an overall summary for some of things we can expect:
- From this point forward, it's going to get worse, but probably not before it seems like it's getting better. You need to make sure that you're not fooled by this, and take advantage of this time to prepare.
- Then the bottom will drop out.
- Honestly, though, we don't know how bad it's going to get. We could see only mass inflation, that below 30%, but above 10%.
- Even if we don't "officially" get to hyperinflation at 30%, mass inflation would be bad enough.
- Increasing debt will put increasing financial pressure on social services. This leads to reducing services because of higher costs of providing these services (inflation).
- Services like road repair, US Postal Service and garbage collection will probably be scaled back.
- If it turns into an extreme event, we'll be looking at lack of water and electricity, due to either the lack of or inability to pay for required materials needed to keep these services going.
- Additionally, there will be less workers available due to layoffs.
- Gas prices will increase to painfully high prices, making it difficult for people to move around and for things to be shipped.
- Some trucks will stop running due to no money for fuel.
- Lack of inventory on shelves means there will be less available to buy, and most won't be able to afford the prices for those items that are available.
- Right now, there are millions on some form of welfare. At some point, this welfare will stop, simply because the government can't afford it anymore.
- When this happens, there will be a lot of angry people who suddenly can't get food and medical care.
- Great article on this by Matt Bracken.
- You need to read this article for the very grim reality that we may be facing soon. It's 100% plausible and only a few short steps from what is going on right now when there is no hunger.
- Another resource is FerFal's blog:
- Ferfal is the internet name for Fernando Aguirre (pronounced: ah-GEE-ray). Ferfal lived through the economic collapse of Argentina in late 1990s and early 2000s.
- He also has a book on the same topic:
- The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
- His blog has some good info in it, but I didn't find the book as informative as I had hoped. Still, though, if you're looking for every scrap of info from people that have gone through hyperinflation, this would be one of the resources.
- Crime and violence will increase, as it is now, but when the welfare stops, expect violence to increase even beyond that.
- There will be mass riots and looting, much like we've seen in Greece and Spain. When most of the population cannot afford even the basics of food, the entitlement culture will riot, pillage, loot and burn.
- This increase in crime will prevent police and fire fighters from helping people. Many places will simply be allowed to burn. Bracken points out that no stores in these areas will be restocked during this violence, which will, in turn, create more violence.
- Suburban and rural areas can expect to see some of this violence spill over into their areas, as there will be some that "forage" out from the cities, looking for basic supplies.
- Recently, there was a bank robbery in L.A., where the robbers drove through an impoverished neighborhood and threw the money out the window onto the streets. This money was quickly snatched up by the residents while they tried to shield the bank robbers from the police.
- Was this planned or just an impromptu move? Who knows, but how many others are looking at that and thinking the same thing, only with food? (Like, for example, hijack a truck carrying food and drive it through their poor 'hood, spilling its contents for the residents?)
- Recently, there was a bank robbery in L.A., where the robbers drove through an impoverished neighborhood and threw the money out the window onto the streets. This money was quickly snatched up by the residents while they tried to shield the bank robbers from the police.
- The Thin Blue Line can only control a populace when the vast majority of people behave, and at most times, most people do. But when you have a population that is hungry, and their family are hungry, we're going to see many people do whatever they think is necessary to survive. This makes regular people threatening, and criminals even more dangerous.
- As things get worse, we'll see squatter camps and shanty towns pop up all over the place, as more people have no place else to go. You'll see these pop up anywhere there's free land (i.e., no rent) and where there are resources close by (water, food scraps/garbage cans, etc.).
- Here's a good, basic article that explains what it is and why it's going to happen. It's a good one to send to friends and relatives that might be on the fence about this.
- Hyperinflation is inevitable: How you can prepare, By Aaren Humpherys
- http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705389291/Hyperinflation-is-inevitable-How-you-can-prepare.html?pg=all


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Posts Tagged 'Brave New World'
"The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience"*…
In 1949, George Orwell received a curious letter from his former high school French teacher.
Orwell had just published his groundbreaking book Nineteen Eighty-Four, which received glowing reviews from just about every corner of the English-speaking world. His French teacher, as it happens, was none other than Aldous Huxley who taught at Eton for a spell before writing Brave New World (1931), the other great 20th century dystopian novel.
Huxley starts off the letter praising the book, describing it as "profoundly important." He continues, "The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it."
Then Huxley switches gears and criticizes the book, writing, "Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World."…
Read the letter in full at "Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours."
See also Neil Postman's and Alan Moore's agreement.
* Aldous Huxley, in his letter to George Orwell
As we question authority, we might recall that it was on this date in 1966, the date that LSD was declared illegal, that The Love Pageant Rally was held in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The first big free concert of it's sort in the park, it was organized by Allen Cohen and artist Michael Bowen, the creators of the San Francisco Oracle, which first hit the streets in September 1966, to mark the banning of the drug– which effectively created a neighborhood of outlaws in the Haight, where acid was a staple of community culture. Music was provided by the Grateful Dead and by Big Brother and the Holding Company; Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters were on hand.
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition"*…
The idea that American life is increasingly transient and uprooted is a myth: people are moving less, but worrying more.
In 1971, the great Carole King sang: 'So far away/ Doesn't anyone stay in one place anymore?' Thirty years later, the editors of The New York Times explained that families in the United States are changing because of 'the ever-growing mobility of Americans'. And in 2010, a psychologist argued that 'an increased rate of residential mobility played a role in the historical shift' toward individualism. It's a common US lament that human bonds are fraying because people are moving around more and more. Americans fear the fracturing of communities that constant moving seems to bring.
Yet when King sang, Americans had been moving around less and less for generations. That decline was even more obvious when the Times editorial appeared in 2001, and it has continued to decline through the 2010s. The increasingly mobile US is a myth that refuses to move on…
More on this widespread misapprehension– and what it means– in "The great settling down."
* James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
As we tend the roots we've put down, we might recall that it was on this date in 1963 that we lost two greats of imaginative literature:
C.S. Lewis, the novelist The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, and others), poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist (Mere Christianity).
And Aldous Huxley, the writer, novelist, philosopher best remembered for Brave New World.
Neither passing was much remarked at the time, as they happened on the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
"Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information"*…
Stuart McMillen's glorious illustration of [a] seminal passage from Neil Postman's glorious Amusing Ourselves to Death…
From McMillen's site, Recombinant Records (via)
* Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
As we recommit to being careful what we wish for, we might send prudent birthday greetings to Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (Maria Josepha Amalia Beatrix Xaveria Vincentia Aloysia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal Anna Apollonia Johanna Nepomucena Walburga Theresia Ambrosia); she was born on this date in 1803. The youngest daughterof Prince Maximilian of Saxony and his first wife, Princess Carolina of Parma (daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Parma), she was raised in a German convent to a fervent Catholicism.
Maria Josepha became the Queen of Spain when Ferdinand VII, still childless after the death of his second wife, chose her as his consort. But feeling the burden of her religious upbringing, Maria Josepha refused to consummate the marriage. It took a personal letter from Pope Pius VII to convince the queen that sexual relations between spouses were not contrary to the morality of Catholicism; still, she died young (at age 25) and childless. The King's fourth wife, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, eventually gave birth to the future Queen Isabella II of Spain.
In October of 1949, a few months after the release of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, 1984, he received a letter from fellow author (and Orwell's French tutor at Eton) Aldous Huxley — who had, 17 years earlier, published his own grim vision of society's future, Brave New World. What begins as a letter of praise becomes a comparison of the two novels– and an explanation of why Huxley believes his own, earlier work to be the more realistic prediction…
Wrightwood. Cal.
21 October, 1949
Dear Mr. Orwell,
It was very kind of you to tell your publishers to send me a copy of your book. It arrived as I was in the midst of a piece of work that required much reading and consulting of references; and since poor sight makes it necessary for me to ration my reading, I had to wait a long time before being able to embark on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Agreeing with all that the critics have written of it, I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals — the ultimate revolution? The first hints of a philosophy of the ultimate revolution — the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at total subversion of the individual's psychology and physiology — are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, the consummator, of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. I have had occasion recently to look into the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, and have been greatly struck by the way in which, for a hundred and fifty years, the world has refused to take serious cognizance of the discoveries of Mesmer, Braid, Esdaile, and the rest.
Partly because of the prevailing materialism and partly because of prevailing respectability, nineteenth-century philosophers and men of science were not willing to investigate the odder facts of psychology for practical men, such as politicians, soldiers and policemen, to apply in the field of government. Thanks to the voluntary ignorance of our fathers, the advent of the ultimate revolution was delayed for five or six generations. Another lucky accident was Freud's inability to hypnotize successfully and his consequent disparagement of hypnotism. This delayed the general application of hypnotism to psychiatry for at least forty years. But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war — in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.
Thank you once again for the book.
Yours sincerely,
Aldous Huxley
Source: Letters of Aldous Huxley, (via Letters of Note); image: George Orwell (via) & Aldous Huxley (via).
* George Orwell, 1984
As we reach for the Soma, we might recall that it was on this date in 1919 that Benito Mussolini reformed the Milan fascio (literally, "bundle" or Sheaf"; here, a small political party) as the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (Italian Combat Party). Its 200 members, answering Mussolini's call for men "ruthless and energetic enough to make a clean sweep," were the seed from which the Italian Fascist Movement grew.
Brave New 1984…
Readers may well have seen this photo, which has been making its way across the web:
If the irony seems too perfect, it's because it is… It is a crop of this photo:
… one of Steve Ullathorne's "Restyles of the Dead and Famous," a collection of subtly– and pointedly– altered photos.
So, if the image isn't, after all, an "actual" evocation of Orwell's Oceania, it is a pretty powerful portrait of "Big Brother"…
Still, it may be that Orwell's worries, while all-too-prescient, were less valent than Huxley's– that our challenge isn't so much the fear-infected world of 1984 as it is the soma-laced, desire-driven future of Brave New World:
Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.
As we practice our newspeak, we might recall that it was on this date in 1943 that the "White Rose," a student protest group, painted "Freedom" and "Down with Hitler" on the walls of the University of Munich. The leaders of the group were arrested two days later, and beheaded on February 22.
Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst- leaders of the White Rose (source)


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South Carolina freshman Rakym Felder remains indefinitely suspended after his arrest last week.
"Whenever that changes, I'll speak about it," coach Frank Martin said on Thursday.
Felder, a freshman from Brooklyn who played his first year of high school at Indian Land, was charged with six offenses, including simple assault, on Oct. 24. As per USC athletic department policy, he was immediately suspended from all team activities.
It has been reported that Felder has retained Neal Lourie as his attorney. Lourie did not immediately return a call seeking comment. All of the charges are misdemeanors.
New blood
Martin's bulging eight-man recruiting class will add another player after football season. Freshman tight end Evan Hinson, who is redshirting this year, will join the team after football concludes.
"He's actually practiced more than Bruce (Ellington) would have at this time of the year, because he's redshirting," Martin said. "He's a pretty good basketball player."
Hinson averaged 23.5 points per game as a junior, when he was named the Daytona Beach News-Journal's Player of the Year, and 20.6 points as a senior, when he was named Male Athlete of the Year by the newspaper. A first-team all-state basketball player as a senior, Hinson signed with USC with the intent of playing both sports.
Football coach Will Muschamp is fine with it and Hinson, because of practicing but not playing football, has been able to practice with the basketball team some days. Because he is on scholarship for football, he'll stick with the team until the season is over.
With the Gamecocks back in contention for a bowl game, he could be with them through December. But he could join the basketball team in time for the SEC season.
Hinson is a 6-foot-4 guard.
Getting closer
Freshman forward Sedee Keita will not play in Sunday's exhibition due to a wrist injury.
"Sedee's close," Martin said. "The vision is for him to start engaging, preparing for the following weekend. Will he play or not that weekend? I don't have that answer yet."
Game information
The men's team will play Newberry in the second half of an exhibition doubleheader on Sunday. The USC women's team plays Benedict at 1:30 p.m., with the men's tipoff set for 4:30 p.m.
The games are free and open to the public at Colonial Life Arena. The games will not be broadcast on TV or radio.
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Health: Study Uses Video Games to Fight Obesity
Video games to fight obesity? Next up cigarettes to battle cancer. Stay tuned.
Jones is one of 85 children being recruited by the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency to participate in an at-home study using the video game Dance Dance Revolution to increase activity. He lost about 10 pounds by changing his diet. Now after two weeks playing the game, he's lost another 10."


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