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Part 1
Traitors, Type One
..........When a once-noble free republic enters its death-throes isn't a time when timidity of response remains useful or meritorious any more than does a continued insistence upon good manners—especially when "manners" serve as much as barriers to truth as they do aids to a civility that might once have done more good than harm.
..........For these reasons, I use the crass, blunt, impolite, and leaden declarative sentence, "Frank Rich, Arianna Huffington, & Dwight Garner Are Liars, Deceivers, and Traitors," as title for this essay.
..........And the truth is that the same flat-footed declarative sentence could and should be rephrased to apply to leagues of other American writers, journalists, thinkers, and cultural analysts from both high estate and low, all the way from the Huffingtons and Riches topping the visibility stakes down to someone I know who has an education from the most elite of eastern universities, whom I've been fairly close to for thirty-five years or so, who has proven herself both as literary scholar and socio-cultural historian—and yet who, on the historical subject of 9/11, remains stuck in an Archie Bunker cocoon of ignorance so thickly woven that she still actually thinks that the moronic and malignant phrase "conspiracy theory" explains everything there is to be explained about 9/11 truth-seekers—that, in short, they're "conspiracy nuts" (in Frank Rich's elegant phrase) and therefore blinded by zeal, steered by desire, and beyond the guidance of reason.
..........The truth, though, is exactly the opposite—my old acquaintance is among those who cling like mussels in their dreamland of "belief," while those who are examining 9/11 truth are the real empiricists, looking at evidence and drawing logical conclusions from it.
..........I'll admit I'm shocked by this particular manifestation of settled refusal, if only because my old acquaintance is a highly and most impeccably trained, long-serving professional intellectual—and yet even she has fallen for the cheap disinformation campaigns that have been employed for years to malign and smear the movement. (If you don't believe me about the disinformation, click here and do a page-search for "Sferios," or just click here). Even worse, she has glibly written off other highly trained scholars and writers—including yours truly—as being incapable of objective thought or analysis and therefore as being, unlike her, victims of conspiratorial crazy-think.
..........Well. Not only am I puzzled as to why this colleague, who for thirty-five years has been gratifyingly generous with praise for me as a writer, should suddenly now relegate me to the realms of the Frank Richian "nuts." And there's another thing. I've know this person for three-and-a-half decades, and I've watched—and admired—her quickness to criticize those who claim expertise of one kind or another (usually in a literary field or genre, or simply in an argument or discussion) but have failed to read or study the basic relevant texts.
..........In other words, there can't be expertise without homework. And there can't be wisdom without roots. In this, my friend is perfectly correct and has been perfectly correct for all these years. Now, however, she shows absolutely no inclination to acquaint herself with the basic and relevant texts that might justify her posing as a critic of all of us who are part of the 9/11 truth movement. Do you smell a rat? Well, I sure do.
..........I wrote my friend—as I have every New York City resident I know and have an address for—urging that she look at the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative site and give serious thought to signing the petition (which I attached) that, if enough signatures are collected, will put a referendum question on the ballot in November whereby residents of the city can vote yes or no to empower the commission in a new and non-partisan investigation into the truth of the events that took place on 9/11 and immediately afterward.
..........Here is part of what she wrote back:
As for the ballot initiative. . . : I can not sign the petition. If the investigative commission—whoever or whatever it is—finds no conspiracy, the conspiracy theorists will add that finding to the conspiracy. . . [sic] and so it goes with such theories. . . [sic] everything becoming grist for the mill...........This adult, professional, practicing American literary intellectual, in other words, can't or won't be bothered so much as to glance at a web site before slurring "whoever it is" she'd find out about there. Slur first, do your homework second. No. Correction: Do your homework not at all. This kind of prideful, blind, cavalier bigotry is all too often met and expected in some of the lowlier regions of our graceless and anti-educated so-called society. But to find it in the most highly educated and most thoroughly trained is to despair at once of the American character and of American education.
..........It's obvious that this person hasn't read even one of the major scholarly books on 9/11 itself, on the history leading up to 9/11, or on the covering up of the facts about 9/11.
..........Now, god knows that there's no written law saying that anyone whatsoever must read any of these books if they don't choose to. On the other hand, there is a law of another kind that pertains in this case. It's a law from the realm of ethics, and it's a law that pertains with a special visibility, if you will, among intellectuals and other professionals. It's the law of professional ethics that says, just as my friend always said, that if you're going to claim expertise about something, you'd better actually be expert in it.
..........Take a medical doctor. What if she claimed expertise in gall bladder removal but had never studied surgery? Take an attorney. What if he practiced divorce law but had no law degree? Take a professor. What if she claimed expertise in literature of the Elizabethan period but had read no literature, history, or criticism from or pertaining to any theme, figure, or literature earlier than Fielding?
..........The person in each of these examples would be a fraud, and the person in at least two of the cases could be punished by law.
..........I'm certainly not interested in a law suit, but I do have a question that I think is an important one: What, if anything, distinguishes these three examples of fraud from the example of my friend who claimed expertise about something—the nature of people and their scholarship in search of 9/11 truth—that she has no training in and knows nothing about?
..........The answer, of course, is that no difference is to be found. My friend is a fraud. I won't even admit that there's a difference in degree between the case of her fraud and the cases of the others, as I can imagine many people arguing. They would say, for example, that in the case of the fraudulent physician, actual physical lives cold be lost, and in the case of the fraudulent divorce lawyer, the lives of entire families could be harmed and unsettled.
..........And I would say in return that in the case of the fraudulent intellectual, the free republic could be lost, habeas corpus could be lost, and anyone—anyone, for no demonstrable or definable reason whatsoever—could be sent to any of the many concentration camps already waiting throughout the country, could be sent there, first, and then, second, forgotten forever. They could die there.
..........Flip, shallow, inattentive, smug, uninformed, self-involved, presumptuous Americans—including American intellectuals, even leading American intellectuals—are the second-greatest danger in the world today. The greatest danger is the rogue "government," or the shadow "government," or the "over" or the "deep" government that the blindness and ignorance of this American citizenry, because of their having abandoned¹ every shred of their true responsibilities as citizens, have allowed in the first place to come into existence all around them and within their very midst; have allowed in the second place to metastasize into the conscience-less, rabid, flesh-eating global disease it now is; and, finally, have allowed to become very possibly unstoppable altogether unless it be at the cost of the destruction of life, health, and earth itself on scales never before imagined in human history, not even during, say, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century or the Holocaust of the twentieth.
..........And exactly who has destroyed the United States—is it the military-corpo-government? In other words, is it those actually wreaking the destruction? Or could you just as well say that it's the citizens of the United States, the multi-millions who in their ignorance and myriad fatuous complacencies have allowed the destruction to begin, grow, and now proceed unchecked?
..........And what about the world—who is it that's responsible and has been responsible over the past sixty years for the destruction of other nations, other peoples, other races, other economies, other populations? Is it the corpo-military "rogue" or "over" government itself, the conscience-less, rabid, flesh-eating disease of conquest and empire that programmatically rapes, murders, tortures, irradiates, imprisons, starves, and ruins whatever peoples or nations it chooses elsewhere in the world? Or, again, does the fault for the unleashing of so great an evil lie with those who failed to prevent its birth, its growth, its long-time crushing implementation, and, now, in the power-vacuum after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its ruinous lunge for the jugular of peoples everywhere?
..........The answer is clear. The United States is a ruined and failed society—or a very carefully destroyed one, as A Nation Gone Blind argues. The "over" government commands the Nazis of today—the Nazis of today being "our" forces—but the enablers of the "over" government are us, we the negligent, ruined, intellectually lobotomized, visionless "people" of a visionless republic. We, this visionless "people," will (as long as the party-to-the-death lasts) continue to be exploited, as will much of the world, by this monstrous, unaccountable, destructive power that controls us, the same unaccountable and destructive power that controls "our" "nation," and the same unaccountable and destructive power that controls that nation's "foreign policy"—including that part of its "foreign policy" that we now call "9/11." This power I'm speaking of, this morally and ethically hollow force, is the force that was conceived in the United States and that developed gradually throughout the long empty years beginning with 1947 and stretching ever more grimly onward toward the end of the 20th century. Today, this force has at long last achieved its mature existence, has at last emerged fully-formed out of its stinking womb of death, deceit, lust-for-profit, and absence of humanity. So shrewdly, carefully, and maliciously has this great force been brought from conception through birth and now to full maturity that it exists seemingly beyond the reach of check, brake, or hindrance, but takes as its right the laying waste of all earth and all humanity that may stand in the way of its ravening, bowel- and anus-connected (but neither heart- nor conscience-connected) maw.
..........This is the force that America is today. This force is the character of America today. This force of amoral, ravening bestiality, destruction, and murder is the entirety of what America is and has become at this present moment in its sometimes hope-engendering, often colorful, but now depraved and perhaps also wholly irredeemable history.
..........How did such a thing happen? How could it have come about? How could criminality have become lawfulness? How could "invasion" have become "pre-emption"? How could international law or crimes against humanity have become matters of no consequence to the ravening American "will"? How could torture have become standard practice, as it was in the Gulag and among the Nazis? How could habeas corpus have been taken away? How could the principles of law as established in Blackstone's Commentaries have given way to the cruelties of Benthamite law, making pre-emptive detention as well as trial—and conviction—for "thought crimes" potentially commonplace?
..........It can be argued that every American citizen is complicit in bringing into existence the state of criminality that is what America has now become. And it can therefore be argued that every American is complicit in every crime that this state commits. It can be argued that everyone is complicit who has done nothing to oppose the transformation of America into a criminal state. Thinking about such awful matters, I'm reminded of Mickey Z. asking recently, in "Ashamed to be American," the equally awful question, "How much are you willing to endure before you take serious, sustained action?"
.........."Serious, sustained action." How bad does it have to get before a person takes action, let alone "serious and sustained action"? This is a question that, cast in different situations and settings, has been popularized in dramatic form amid the popcorn and Jujubes in ten thousand grade B movies about World War II. How bad did it have to get before a person in, say, Berlin or Düsseldorf or Munich, or Paris or Toulouse or Marseilles, took serious, sustained action?
..........A word long lost to the nostalgic realms of a vital but old-fashioned history: Resistance.
..........We don't need to think of that word as a meaningful one to us, now, here in America. The "resistance." Oh, that was way back in history, someone says, a typically American notion about history, possibly spoken by an anti-educated high school kid who doesn't know the difference between the final exam and the Final Solution. On the other hand, the kid is right enough: The 1930s and 1940s in many ways have been transformed into remote antiquity, the nostalgic stuff of film noir and one-piece bathing suits, a time when men's pants were almost as baggy as the ghetto-hipsters' blue jeans are now. But at the same time, we must all agree that such soft-headed swoon-thinking as this is a cultural, philosophic, and political disaster. Mickey Z's question—"How much are you willing to endure before you take serious, sustained action?—is like a boomerang that swoops far out in front of you and then returns to whack you in the jaw: And as it knocks you cockeyed, it whispers to you, You idiot, can't you see that the late 1930's have come back again, that they're now, that they're here? And the boomerang is right. It's telling the simple but unbelievable truth: Mickey Z's question says, reveals, speaks, hammers home the brute fact that America is now the enemy, that we are now the Nazis, that we, every one of us living in America today, we, without excuse or escape, that we are all Germans now.
..........No point in quibbling about it, since the facts are there. The only significant and pressing question is what to do. All the way back in February of this year, opening an essay called "What Do We Stand For?" Paul Craig Roberts used these words:
Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the US and Israel as the two greatest threats to peace...........The moral conscience question is a great one, but, to my way of thinking, a vitally related and equally important question is whether we have any brains.
..........We'll come to the moral question in a moment, as we move on to the second part of this essay, but I can hardly leave this part without returning for a moment to my old friend, acquaintance, colleague, whatever you may choose to call her, the one who "couldn't" sign the 9/11 truth petition because she knew that all 9/11 truth investigators are what she calls "conspiracy theorists," that all conspiracy theorists are indistinguishable from one another, that none of them will accept facts but instead will adhere adamantly to beliefs, that they are therefore uniformly unreachable through the language of reason, and that they therefore should under no circumstances be encouraged in their "work" and should instead simply be ignored.
..........But, dear divinities in non-heaven! is my old acquaintance, as she speaks, not doing exactly those same things that she's lacerating and belittling the "conspiracy theorists" for doing? Is she not, in other words, firmly making conclusive assertions about things that in actuality she knows not the least thing about but that she'll stick by no matter what?
..........Has she, this old professional literary intellectual colleague of mine, not even read Plato's "Apology"?
..........Readers will remember the story, or at least the essence of it. A man named Chaerephon once traveled to Delphi for the purpose of asking the oracle there whether any man was wiser than Socrates. The oracle responded in the negative, saying that indeed it was true, no man was wiser than Socrates.
..........When he learned what the oracle said, Socrates found himself baffled. And now, years later, he explains before the court of Athens (where he is being tried on the charges of atheism and corruption of the youth of the city) how he went about finding the actual meaning of the oracle and how his discovery ended up over the intervening years creating for him the powerful dislike of many, many eminent Athenians.
When I heard the answer, I said to myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation of this riddle? for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a god and cannot lie; that would be against his nature. After a long consideration, I at last thought of a method of trying the question. I reflected that if I could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might go to the god with a refutation in my hand. I should say to him, "Here is a man who is wiser than I am; but you said that I was the wisest." Accordingly I went to one who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed to him-his name I need not mention; he was a politician whom I selected for examination-and the result was as follows: When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is-for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him. Then I went to another, who had still higher philosophical pretensions, and my conclusion was exactly the same. I made another enemy of him, and of many others besides him.
..........·..........·..........·..........And now at last, thanks in good measure to Plato (and Socrates), we've got at least part of an answer to one of our three toweringly important questions. For clarification, let me cite what these three questions are. The first is Paul Craig Roberts' question, "Do we have a moral conscience?" The second is mine, "Do we have any brains?" And the third is the question of exactly what one is to do in response to Mickey Z's appeal for resistance against American global crimes, his appeal for "serious, sustained action."
..........And what is that partial answer? It's this: Don't be like my old acquaintance. Don't be like the prominent Athenians Socrates interviewed in order to let them reveal that they in fact knew nothing about things that they claimed to know about, that they weren't wise in matters that they believed themselves to be wise in—a belief that their followers and underlings made them adhere to all the more firmly through flattery and officiousness.
..........I'm shocked, as I admitted pages ago, by my friend's behavior. This shock comes partly from seeing anyone behave as she has, but it comes even more from seeing a purported intellectual behave in such a way.
..........What will happen to me as a result of my saying these things about my colleague? In Socrates' case, the penalty was death for having led the prominent Athenians to expose what was false in themselves. Socrates proposed regular free lunch at the city hall as "punishment" for what he'd done, since what he'd done was a good thing, but the angered prominent Athenians preferred death instead and put Socrates in prison and gave him the hemlock to drink.
..........I don't know whether my old intellectual acquaintance will advocate death for me, or, god knows, make an effort to bring it about. But I do know two things, and I know them very well. The first is that the general population of America, through behaving in ways similar to the way we've seen my colleague behave—through claiming or even believing that they know much about things that in truth they know nothing about—have brought the republic already near the door of death, and themselves along with it. Patriotism, for example, or citizenship. Clearly, most Americans know nothing whatsoever about these things, although they behave with the absolute certainty and conviction of trained and true experts in them. But with every Jose Padilla³ that's allowed, with every Zacariaa Moussaoui that's permitted, with every Maher Arar, with every Guantanamo prisoner, with every case of torture, with every casualty or fatality from genocide brought about through the use of depleted uranium, with every permitted departure from the law of Blackstone and every embrace of the law of Benthem—with any and all such things as these, things that Americans in general accept or remain blind to and fail to resist, things that Americans ignore because they think they know what republican government is or what elections are, because they think they know what conspiracy is, because they think they know what citizenship is—with every such case of blindness or acceptance or neglect, America sinks only further into death; and with every such case of blindness or acceptance or neglect, Americans themselves sink only further in the same direction, , being no longer republican citizens but nothing more than hollow men pacing blindly on the empty walks of death.
..........And the second thing I know and know very well is this: That what its ignorant and ruined citizens have allowed America to metamorphose into is the most treacherous agent of ruin, death, destruction, and despair ever to have been known on the face of the earth.
......................................................................—Eric Larsen
......................................................................—June, 2008
¹..........Or, in fairness, by merit of being conditioned to abandon, etc.
².......... "Apology," trans. Benjamin Jowett
³..........The jury, of course, had no idea of what was at stake. It was a patriotic jury that appeared in court with one row of jurors dressed in red, one in white, and one in blue (Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post, Aug. 17, 2007). It was a jury primed to be psychologically and emotionally manipulated by federal prosecutors desperate for a conviction for which there was little, if any, supporting evidence. For the jury, patriotism required that they strike a blow for America against terrorism. No member of this jury was going to return home to accusations of letting off a person who has been portrayed as a terrorist in the U.S. media for five years. `


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Flash: Berkeleyans in Ohio
Report Obama Victory
Berkeley's Jackie DeBose, temporarily living in Akron, Ohio, has been working hard for Obama there for the past few months. She reports that in her area there have been long lines in the predominantly African-American precincts all week--so local Democrats are sure they've carried the state. It's been a hard struggle, with extensive voter suppression efforts by the Republican-dominated state government. Early voting has been proceeding under court order, but Jackie says that opening and closing hours have changed every day, making it hard for voters to know when they could vote. Nevertheless, when I talked to her at 6 o'clock, she and her husband, CSU Emeritus Professor Charles DeBose, were on their way out the door to a couple of victory parties. And Ohio is the key swing state that Obama needs to win nationally.
UPDATE: She's right, he won!


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Seth writes, is hot
Nothing sexier than a sense of humour. And a smart dude. Seth Meyers – funny, sharp, writes, love.
My friend Michelle and I discovered a while ago that we have the same man taste. It started with Seth. Then it was Troy Dyer. Now it's back to Seth.
Seth appeared on The View Monday, was asked about SNL's stellar season so far thanks to election interest and his approach to writing the sketches. You probably know but just in case – Seth writes the Palin/Tina Fey material. Seth writes weekend update. Seth also raises the roof. As he said during the interview, on how they got Governor Palin to raise the roof, Seth explained:
As with most women, if I raise the roof, they follow.
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Seth on The View below. Note what he says about Governor Palin's future even before last night's outcome was obvious. Elisabeth was remarkably restrained. And also, because it was so f-cking brilliant, Amy Poehler's Palin rap. Take a closer look at how Seth moves. His white guy vibe is kinda cute, non?
PS. If you haven't already, Seth in the back of the cab in Nick & Norah is the best.
PPS. Remember when Seth kissed Ben Affleck?
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As the start of the new league year approaches, the indications are getting stronger and stronger that free-agent running back Reggie Bush will make Detroit the first stop on his first-ever free-agency tour.
But there's an unexpected possible bidder for Bush's services.
In addition to the Lions and Cardinals, there's a chance the Redskins will get into the mix.
Why the Redskins? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, quarterback Robert Griffin III wants Reggie on the team.
Potential impediments include the Redskins' cap situation, thanks to the $18 million that was removed this year for the decision to regard the term "uncapped year" literally in 2010. Also, the presence of Alfred Morris will make Washington, D.C. as appealing to Bush as Seattle, Washington, where Marshawn Lynch is the lead dog.
Yes, we're told the Seahawks also had interest at one point, likely before the Harvin trade. But Bush wants to play, and if he's on the depth chart with Morris or Marshawn, the number of total touches will drop.


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Collage inherently involves nothing less than altering existence. By taking found imagery, Mario Zoots makes changes both hand-made and (occasionally) digital to alter the perception of the everyday, and continue their evolution towards new definitions. The Denver, Colorado-based Zoots is on the forefront of the modern collage movement, and was featured in Gestalten's recent The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, the definitive investigation into how collage has become one the most vital forms of current visual expression. Separate from the concerns of any loosely-affiliated movement, Zoots describes his own practice from a more personal perspective, "I would like to think that my work is about tapping into the unconscious and setting up parameters to allow chance to work its magic."
Typically focusing on the human figure, and often in portraiture genre, Zoots utilizes geometric pattern, layers, and physical manipulations like scratches, drips, and tears to obscure, thereby creating new faces to interpret. In an interview with Monster Children, Zoots describes his attention and focus on the face of his subject, "It's really about the eyes for me. When I disrupt someone's gaze, I find some mysterious, surreal quality. It makes you forget who you're looking at. I try to create collages from dreams. When I dream I know who the people are, but I usually can't see their faces. There's a real energy behind that."
Mario Zoots will take part in the upcoming travelling exhibition INTERNATIONAL WEIRD COLLAGE SHOW (IWCS) at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York. The 8th Edition of the IWCS opens Saturday April 19, 2014, from 6 to 10pm, and runs through May 11th, 2014.


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NEW ORLEANS — There should be only so many different ways for one player to make you jump off the sofa.
But there's Anthony Davis posterizing Joel Freeland of the Trail Blazers with a tomahawk dunk; there's Davis reaching up and back and nearly to the top of the backboard to get a one-handed throw down on Luis Scola of the Pacers; there he is roaring down the lane with the force and ferocity to make Glen Davis of the Magic hit the deck like a bowling pin at the end of an alley.
Then there's the defensive end, where Miami's Chris Bosh seems to have him pinned down on the low block and tries to go up for an easy bucket once, then twice. Both times, Bosh has to eat the ball. When the Lakers' Pau Gasol gets an offensive rebound and whirls away from traffic, Davis goes right along, a figure skater in tandem. At the finish of the 360 spin, Davis slaps the ball back with disdain. And there he is suddenly sprinting way out into the left corner to reach up and slap away a 3-point shot by an utterly shocked Tobias Harris of Orlando.
"How many times have I seen a 'Wow!' moment out of A.D.?" ponders teammate Ryan Anderson. "Let's see, how many games have we played and how many times have I been out there on the same floor at practice? Every day he's doing something that makes me shake my head."
VIDEO: Brent Barry breaks down Anthony Davis' game
The No. 1 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft officially became an NBA All-Star when commissioner Adam Silver tabbed him to replace Kobe Bryant on the Western Conference team. Davis' ascension to that elite level of play has been there since opening night this season, when he scored 20 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked three shots against the Pacers.
Except for a period of two weeks in December when he was sidelined by a fractured bone in his left hand, Davis has been everything the Pelicans had hoped. Yet he's also shown he is a unique player, one no one could have imagined even with the advance hype that he brought out of his one college season at Kentucky.
His most identifying physical mark remains The Brow, which crawls like a single entity over one of his large, curiosity-filled eyes to the other. But at 6-foot-10 with a wingspan of 7-foot-5 1/2, those long, lethal, larcenous limbs enable him to cover space on the court like a basketball version of the four-armed Hindu god Vishnu.
VIDEO: Davis scores 22 points, grabs 19 boards and blocks seven shots against Orlando
"He knows what he's doing on offense and he's a smart, aggressive player on defensive," said Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown. "Anthony Davis will shine in the NBA for years and years. I'm telling you, he's the truth."
Numbers don't lie
The statistical truth is this:
* Davis' player efficiency rating is fifth in the NBA, behind only Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Kevin Love.
* The last player to average 20+ points, 10+ rebounds, and 3+ blocks was Shaquille O'Neal in 1999-00.
* Since 1985-86, only four players have 1,500 points, 200 blocks, and 100 assists in their first 100 games: Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Chris Webber and Davis
* Davis has had a streak of eight consecutive games with four or more blocks.
* Davis' PER is the highest for a player 21 or under since the 1951-52 season.
The truth is that Davis won't be able to have a drink in the French Quarter until March 11. Legally, he's still a boy. Yet he's excelling against the strongest, toughest, best men that the NBA has put in his path.
A rookie season filled with nagging injuries limited him to just 64 games a season ago. An overprotective coach, Monty Williams, held Davis down to just 28.8 minutes per game and led a few to wonder if the rookie was all he was said to be. A few, that is, who must have been wearing blindfolds.
Even dealing with the aches and pains and the learning curve and the handcuffs placed on him by his coach, Davis, at 19, became the youngest player in NBA history to get 800 points, 500 rebounds and 100 blocks in fewer than 65 games. The second-youngest player to reach those plateaus was 22-year-old Tim Duncan in 1998-99.
"A lot of last year was me," Williams said. "I just didn't feel like he was ready for that kind of pressure to carry the whole load for the whole team every night. So I took a lot of hits last year because I didn't play him as much. I didn't play him in certain situations. But I made a commitment to his growth the right way.
"I'm not trying to take the credit for what he's doing now. I just didn't didn't think it was prudent for him to be out there and get dominated. Most people say, 'Throw him out there and let him figure it out.' To me that was counter-productive for a guy that was the No. 1 pick, has all this talent. To throw him out there and have him play against all the bigs in Chicago or to throw him out there to guard Dwight Howard in his rookie season? I mean, who does that? I've seen it done with other No. 1 picks. And they're bigs. And it didn't work. So why was I gonna do that to him?
"There are so many No. 1 picks who were bigs and didn't work. Not at all. You can try to build that confidence by playing them and instead destroy it for years. Maybe for good.
"So instead of everybody writing articles about him maybe not being able to do it, they wrote articles about me not being able to coach. And that was basically what I wanted, because the focus wasn't on him. It was on me and my inane ability to coach. Which is true, but the goal was to keep him from having to deal with, 'Well, why can't he play against Dwight? Why can't he play against Bynum?' Because they outweigh him by 70 pounds. So why would I put him in that situation where he would fail?
"To his credit, he was frustrated. He wanted to play. But I just told him 'You gotta trust me. I'm not the brightest guy in the world but I do know this. If I put you out there in some of those situations, you might get hurt and that could destroy confidence like nothing else. You're going out there and getting hurt because you're not strong.
"So he just got in the weight room and we had a conversation this summer. I called him and said, 'OK, I'm taking the handcuffs off.' And he was like, 'I'm ready, Coach.' And I said, 'It doesn't matter if you're not ready. I took heat all last year. Now you're gonna get your chance to go out there and show everybody what we know. You gotta prepare yourself to go out there and play 35 minutes every night. I can play him for 40 minutes and he takes it."
VIDEO: Davis talks to the GameTime crew after a big win over Memphis
Game still growing in always-ready Davis
When he injured his hand in December, the prognosis from the team doctors was that Davis would miss four to six weeks. But after just two, Davis was hounding Williams to get back onto the floor.
"Hurt or learning or whatever," Davis said. "Players want to play. I had enough with injuries in my rookie year and I didn't want to miss a significant amount of time again.
"I understand that [Williams] had the best long term interest of me and for the team in mind last season. I wasn't really upset or mad. I had to get stronger. Had to work on my game. Get that jump shot. Post defense. Post offense. Overall game. This is league is a lot different than playing the game anyplace else and you've got to rise to it.
"But now I want to get out there every night and play. Get out there and get after it."
Davis believes much of the credit for his rise goes to his experience with Team USA last summer in London.
"Playing with guys that are in my age group, the up-and-coming stars in the league, playing with guys I'm gonna be going against during the regular season, finding out what they're doing, what they like to do. It was a learning experience and also fun."
"I've watched how Coach K [Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski] is with these elite guys," Williams said. "He builds such a base of confidence. He talks to them about who they are, what they can be. He gave me some pointers on dealing with certain guys. I think a lot of it has to do with Coach. What he brings to the table. Coach K did a lot to help him. I was there and watching and talking a little bit, but staying out of way and letting him do his thing. When he came to us, you could see and almost feel how he'd grown."
He's not a dominant, overpowering low-post force, but Davis has found a way with his wiry strength to survive — even thrive. He reaches over over tall, stronger, more massive bodies, but as in the give-and-go from guard Brian Roberts that led to the takedown slam on Orlando's Davis, he doesn't shy away from it. He's improved his mid-range jumper. And the way he carries himself on the court clearly is different from his rookie season. He understands and accepts that he's supposed to take the Pelicans to the level of playoff team and beyond.
Pelicans' star a dual-threat leader, too
"There's different leadership styles," said general manager Dell Demps. "Some guys are example, some guys are vocal. I think he's a little bit of both. He goes out and shows it and his commitment at every level is contagious. His unselfishness is contagious. He's not afraid to talk to guys. I think his parents did a great job with him. He has great communication skills. He can talk to people. His ability to just be him is a great for our coaches."
The difference between the phenoms with the physical gifts and the great ones who battle for championships and eventually turn into legends is comprehending the game and you fit into and how you affect it.
"That's a between-the-ears things, where young guys mature and understand the effect they can have," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "He's starting to figure that out and he's doing a great job. You can tell what guys understand the game, to play it and he understands it inherently.
"I think it depends on the individual. He happens to be, fortunately, not a stubborn individual, someone of high intelligence and he accepts coaching. He wants to get to the point where he's doing it every night. It's a two-way street.
"The coach can plan all these things out and put a kid in the environment, but the kid has to do something, too. And Anthony has done that. With other people, it's a little tougher because they expect it to happen so quickly. Sometimes you just have to be patient."
At first blush, Davis seems a sapling trying to stretch toward the sky. But Davis is already so effective. Is it the height? The extraordinary reach? The versatility? The athleticism? The defensive instincts that lead him to the ball for a blocked shot and then enable him to control it and start a fast break?
It's the entire package.
The comparisons have been made to Duncan, to LaMarcus Aldridge, to Kevin Garnett and it's all there. But Davis might be like nothing we have ever seen.
The Brow simply raises up into singular arch. Anthony Davis shrugs his shoulders.
"I don't try to figure it out," he said, "just play."


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Found this on todays BBC News website, it is quiet true as a friend of mine (a while back) had this happen to him. He got the Virus on his Samsung Tablet and couldn't get rid of it, i have come across this Virus before (several years ago). I told him it was a "SCAM" and he brought the Tablet to me and we reset it to "Factory Settings" this (as far as I know) is the only way (on Tablets) to get rid of it.
If you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35091714
you can read the full article, I am just picking up the highlights in it.
Ransomware is the fastest growing form of computer malware, experts warn.
It's a malicious virus that locks the user out of their computer and demands a fee to return their files.
"For the most part, we've seen ransomware delivered through drive-by downloads - it pretends to be a popular app, increasing the chances that you'll click on it," he explains.
"To avoid these threats, users should be very careful about what apps they install, and where they come from - read the reviews on Google Play, and avoid side-loading from untrusted sources."
Once the computer is effectively locked down, it demands a fee - often in bitcoins because it is less easy to trace - for the return of the files.
The fee is generally one or two bitcoins - the equivalent of about $500 (£330).
It is less common now, but in the earlier days of the malware - about five years ago - the ransom note could take the form of a law enforcement notice.
The user was directed to a web page that appeared to be from, for example, the FBI, falsely claiming illegal images of children had been been found on the machine and a fine was payable.
There is generally a time limit to comply, after which the ransom increases.
"You could risk paying them - but it's a bit like paying a blackmailer. We would only recommend it as a last resort.
"You don't know whether they'll come back for more, you don't know that they'll clear the infection."
Cybersecurity expert Prof Alan Woodward says paying also leaves you vulnerable to further cybercrime.
"As soon as you pay up, you get on a suckers' list and you'll probably get contacted again," he says.
Ransomware is lucrative for criminals because so many victims pay rather than face the shame of false accusations
Recent research by Palo Alto Networks and industry partners suggested one family of ransomware known as Crypto Wall had generated about $325m (£215m) for the gang behind it.
I hope nobody get the Virus, but, at least you now know it's a "Scam"
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The aerial photograph on the cover of a new book about the Lake Macatawa Watershed was chosen not just because it presents an inviting view of the lake on a picture-perfect summer day, but because of what it shows, literally, beneath the surface.
Taken from high above Lake Michigan and facing eastward, the image shows how the deep blue of Lake Michigan turns green near the channel, an effect of eroded topsoil washed into the big lake through LakeMacatawa. The sight is just one indication of man-made problems with the 179-square-mile watershed that have endured for years and will continue if left unchecked, according to Dr. Graham Peaslee of the Hope College faculty, who edited the book, "An Environmental History of The Lake Macatawa Watershed," which was co-authored by area high school teachers Carl Van Faasen and Jennifer Soukhome.
The book, published through funding provided by the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council (MACC) and Hope, is intended for a general audience. It is based on the trio's research together concerning the watershed, and has been written to help those living in the area to understand the watershed, how it came to be the way it is and how it can be healed.
"We hope that it will be part of the education initiative of the Watershed project to enlighten the community about how we arrived at the current state of the watershed," said Peaslee, who is a professor of chemistry and chairperson of the department of chemistry and also a professor of geology/environmental science at Hope. "If because of this book more people understand why LakeMac is polluted, then it will be well used in my opinion."
Peaslee has been conducting research focused on the watershed for more than a decade. Soukhome has taught science at Zeeland West High School for 12 years, and Van Faasen, who is a 1991 Hope graduate, has taught chemistry at Holland High School for 15 years. Reflecting their own longstanding and ongoing interest in the watershed, which has included integrating related lessons into their teaching, Soukhome and Van Faasen each spent multiple summers working with Peaslee, from 2004/05 through 2007.
"An Environmental History of The Lake Macatawa Watershed" takes the long view, charting the watershed's development from its formation through the present. It points out features such as the ridges and plain east of Zeeland that mark the course of the "Glacial Grand River" that ran through the area thousands of years before. It discusses the massive bogs that once made it impossible to travel from Holland to Zeeland in a straight line. It presents an overview of early human presence that included the Ottawa Indians, French fur traders and failed communities like Superior on the north side of Lake Macatawa.
Most of the book, though, is devoted to the past 160 years, since the Dutch pioneers who arrived in the 1840s began carving out settlements throughout the watershed and shaping and affecting the land and its resources accordingly.
However, even as they chronicle the negative impact of development on the watershed, the authors emphasize the context of the settlers' decisions. Seeking literally to insure their survival, they note, the pioneers understandably felled trees and drained wetlands to create their communities and farmland that could sustain them.
Thus, the book's emphasis is not on lamenting the pioneers' choices but instead on considering the current state of the watershed and how some of the decisions and practices of the past and present might be mediated to bring the watershed to a healthier condition and, ultimately, to enhance the quality of life in the area.
As one example, the book explains how draining the area's bogs to gain arable land - and to cut down on the mosquito population and related diseases - removed a natural filtration system that had helped limit the amount of soil and pollutants that washed into Lake Macatawa. The pollutants include nutrients such as phosphates that encourage algae and discourage other types of plants. The change in plant life and related changes in the amount of oxygen in the water, in turn, reduce the variety of species of fish that can survive in the lake.
Among other solutions to the phosphate problem, the Upper Macatawa Restoration Project has devoted more than 576 acres to create new wetlands and readjusted the flow of the river to a more natural meander to help limit runoff. In 2006, OttawaCounty limited the use of phosphate-containing fertilizers. And the MACC is working with area farmers to work on reducing runoff.
The idea for the book, Peaslee noted, originated with Soukhome and Van Faasen. Although they originally envisioned developing a textbook for use in high school classes, they opted instead to produce a more generally accessible "coffee table book" that they hope will be enjoyed by and inform a broader audience.
"I hope people will learn what they can do to help be a solution to the problems in our watershed and then take action to do their part," Soukhome noted.
"By learning the structure and history of our watershed, we can learn from our mistakes, and make sure that decisions made in the future keep the health of this resource in mind," Van Faasen said.
With their initial classroom goal in mind, Soukhome and the other two co-authors have developed a companion laboratory manual that features 12 watershed-related investigations, some of which are inquiry-based and some involving field work. It will be published this spring by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Press.
Copies of "An Environmental History of The Lake Macatawa Watershed" are available for $15 at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore. The bookstore is on the ground level of the DeWittCenter, which is located at 141 E. 12th St. on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street, and is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. as well as until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.


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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb from crown, glabrous to hairy; hairs sometimes forked at base, branches parallel with leaf surface, sometimes very unequal
Stem 0 or prostrate to erect
Leaves odd-1-pinnate; leaflets generally jointed to midrib; stipules membranous, sometimes fused around stem at stem base
Inflorescence: raceme, axillary, sometimes head- or umbel-like; flowers 2many
Flower bilateral; calyx 5-lobed; banner outside wings in bud, keel blades with small protrusion at base locking into pit on adjacent wing; 9 filaments fused, 1 free; ovary (and fruit) generally sessile, style slender, stigma minute
Fruit generally 1- or ± 2-chambered, often mottled, generally becoming ± dry; placenta on upper suture
Seeds 2many, smooth, compressed, ± notched at attachment scar
Species in genus: > 2000 species: ± worldwide (380 in North America, 94 in CA including many rare taxa)
Etymology: (Greek: ankle-bone or dice, perhaps from rattling of seeds within fruit)
Reference: [Barneby 1964 Mem NY Bot Gard 20:11188; Isely 1986 Iowa State J Res 61:157289]
Very difficult; both flower and fruit needed for identification; many good species appear similar; some species complexes need study. Taxa near province boundaries may appear in > 1 key. Varieties keyed under species for simplicity; species with vars. so identified in key. Fr length includes beak and any stalk-like base unless fruit body specified.
Perennial (sometimes flowering first year or annual), moderately leafy, ± glabrous to silvery-strigose
Leaf 115 cm; leaflets linear to widely ± ovate
Inflorescence: flowers 3± 50, ascending or spreading
Flower: petals purplish, cream, whitish, or mixed purplish and whitish, keel 0.650.8 X banner, banner recurved 3050°
Fruit ovoid or spheric, widely grooved above and below, generally ± bladdery, ± papery, deciduous; beak generally triangular, flat; chambers 2 below beak
Chromosomes: 2n=22
Ecology: Generally dry, open places
Elevation: -303600 m.
Bioregional distribution: n High Sierra Nevada, s Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area,Inner South Coast Ranges, Great Basin Floristic Province, Desert
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, n Mexico
Highly variable; vars. often very distinct, yet intermediates common; flower, fruit both needed for identification.


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Rams Fall to Mount Saint Mary in Skyline Championship
Mount Saint Mary - 86, Farmingdale State - 56
NEWBURGH, NY – Led by 24 points from the
Skyline Tournament's most valuable player, junior Meredith
Paggi (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), the Mount Saint Mary College
women's basketball team defeated Farmingdale State College,
86-56, for their tenth consecutive Skyline Conference championship.
The Blue Knights improved to 23-4 overall and advanced to their
tenth straight NCAA Tournament. The Rams dropped to 17-9
With the Blue Knights leading 38-31 with 16:05 to play in the game, Paggi took over. She nailed a three-pointer at the 15:50 mark to extend the lead to ten and then hit a breakaway layup on the next possession for a twelve point advantage. After a Farmingdale miss, Paggi knocked down another triple to make it fifteen and then hit another layup to extend it to seventeen. Junior Jess Tice (Altamont, N.Y.) followed the ten consecutive points from Paggi with a three-point play, capping a 13-0 run that made the score 51-31 with 13:46 to play.
The Rams pulled back to within fifteen points near the eleven minute mark, but wouldn't get any closer for the rest of the way. The game got out of hand at the 1:32 mark when the Mount scored nine points during a single trip. Tice made a layup and was fouled, the fifth foul for Farmingdale junior Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y.). Miller received a technical foul on her way out of the game, sending junior Chrissy Zrowka (Brick, N.Y.) to the line for a pair of free throws. Then, the Farmingdale assistant coach received a pair of technical fouls, allowing Zrowka to convert four more attempts from the line. Finally, Tice completed her three-point play with a free throw, the ninth point of the possession.
A closely contested first half featured six ties and nine lead changes, but it was Mount Saint Mary who used a late surge to take an eight point advantage into the locker room. Up by one at the two minute mark, the Blue Knights closed the half on a 7-0 run to make the halftime score, 34-26. Junior Shannon Sangster (Syracuse, N.Y.) kicked off the run with a layup at the 1:54 mark and freshman Amanda Horvers (Kingston, N.Y.) ended the half with a big three-pointer.
Paggi led all scorers with 24 points while shooting 10-for-22 from the field. Sangster closed with 17 points on 7-for-11 shooting and also collected 9 rebounds. Zrowka filled out the stat sheet with 16 points, 6 rebounds, and a game-high 9 assists. Tice also put in a strong effort, tallying 14 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 blocked shots.
Farmingdale junior Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y.) finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds, but shot just 5-for-24 from the field. Miller totaled 15 points and 11 rebounds before fouling out in the closing minutes. The Rams shot just 26.8-percent for the game and were 3-for-21 from behind the arc.
Mount Saint Mary, the second-ranked team in the NCAA Atlantic Region, awaits their first-round opponent and destination in the NCAA Tournament. The tournament field will be released during the morning of Monday, March 2.
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Joe sez: If you've missed the previous guest blogs, they've been fascinating and informative.
You can read Patrick Balester talking about how he learned to love e-publishing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-patrick-balester.html
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First of all, a huge THANK YOU to Tess and Joe! In all honesty, I probably wouldn't have made a donation without the kick in the ass Joe provided, but as soon as I clicked "submit" I felt great. And, like most of us, I know people affected by the devastation of Alzheimer's.
I've been a writer for a little over 50 years, since my senior year in high school. When I look back at my early fiction, I can't believe I had written such immature crap. But I sent it out, and got rejection slips from paying publications, and occasionally got some ink space from non-paying markets that felt sorry for me. Quick story: as a 17-year-old, I submitted what I had thought was a really great short story to Playboy Magazine. I told all my friends I was going to be published in Playboy. Naturally, it was rejected. But, around the same time, I had sent $50 to join the Playboy Club, and received a $50 refund check from Playboy, since I was too young to join. SO, I showed my friends the check and told them I had received an advance on the article Playboy was going to publish! I suppose that lie was my first successful fiction.
In the intervening years since college, all of my published work has been nonfiction. Publication in magazines massaged my ego, but didn't earn me much money. Last year, I decided to try my hand at fiction again and write about my experiences as a pilot in Vietnam, with names changed and stories embellished. In truth, I've always been terrified of dialog. All I could think of was "he said", "she said", etc. But I really wanted to open a vein and spill my guts. And I wanted to tell some war stories, both mine and those of my friends. In case you're not familiar with the difference between a war story and a fairy tale, a war story begins "This is no shit", while a fairy tale begins "Once upon a time". After that, there's not much difference!
A funny thing happened when I started writing the novel. I didn't think about dialog, or plot, or anything else. I just started writing, and my characters just started talking and doing things on their own, things I had never anticipated. They went rogue! And my Kindle novel, Hamfist Over The Trail, turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. It's a free download the 3rd and 4th of July. It's received over a hundred reviews in the year since I wrote it, with an overall rating of 4.4 stars. I'm really thrilled with the cover image. It's a picture I had seen on the internet, and it totally captures the mood of an airstrike in Vietnam. I searched far and wide to locate the artist. Virtually all of the internet postings had omitted artist attribution. I finally located the artist, Tony Stencel, and commissioned him to make a cover from his painting.
There was what some people considered a problem: the book has a cliff-hanger ending. I planned it that way, because : a) I wanted to sell a sequel and, b) I felt that it was the right place to end the book. There had been action, conflict and conflict resolution, so it was time for the book to end. Some of my favorite movies and shows have cliff-hanger endings, like Dexter, Mad Men and Back To The Future, Part II. And I already had the sequel pretty much finished. Hamfist Down! Was published in Kindle format two months later. I think it's better, much better, than the first book. And the next sequel, Hamfist Over Hanoi, was written as a NaNoWriMo project and was published two months later. Each ebook sells for less than a latte at Starbucks. And I've also published all three in paperback through CreateSpace. I don't sell a lot of those, but having a dead tree version has a certain cachet.
Most of my readers have been clamoring for more, but some of them have been unbelievably hostile. The negative reviewers view the cliff-hanger ending as simply a ploy to sell a sequel. When I read the first negative review, I was devastated for several days. But I got over it. I finally realized that my books are not for everyone.
Besides the aforementioned kick-in-the-ass to make a donation, Joe provided the same KITA for me to start writing my first novel. I discovered Joe's blog in early 2012, and got the feeling like I used to get when I would learn how a magic trick was performed. I could envision that it was possible to actually make money publishing ebooks. And perception became reality. My first book sold pretty well, the second one sold better, and the third better yet. Now all three hover pretty much full-time in the top 10 for their genre, and, best of all, royalties have more than paid the mortgage every month this year. So, another THANK YOU to Joe!
I've consolidated all three books into one Kindle download, Hamfist Trilogy, and also have sections from the second and third book as a 99-cent download, Happy Hancock, (free download July 1st and 2nd) to showcase my writing and hopefully stimulate sales of the main books.
Right now I'm working on another first-person Hamfist book, and a third-person spinoff novel. I'm toying with the idea to occasionally release the Hamfist sequels as free downloads also, but I'm really apprehensive about giving away all my stuff! But, then again, it may help spur sales of previous books in the series if readers discover my sequels. So, I just need to screw up the courage to take a leap of faith.
This past year has been a great journey. And I finally feel like an author!
Joe sez: I love stories like this.
First of all, thanks for your service to our country, George.
Second of all, there is so much joy, optimism, and life in this post that I can't help but download all three of your books. If your novels are like this blog post, I bet they'll be wonderful.
G.E. is proof positive that it's never too late or too early to start a career in fiction. That you're paying your mortgage with your writing at the young age of (66? 67? 68?) and that my blog played a part really makes me happy.
I get lots of emails from folks thanking me for the self-pubbing evangelism I've spewed on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing. So many that I can't answer them all. But I do take each one to heart, and it's nice to have a guest post success story.
My first rejection letter was when I was 18 years old. It was also from Playboy. A Harry McGlade short story (it was later contained in my ebook Banana Hammock). Harry later became a mainstay in my later novels.
I'll never forget getting that rejection letter. Like Stephen King in On Writing, who put all of his rejections on a nail in the wall above his bed, I kept every one and considered them badges of honor.
Here's a pic of my rejection book.
It used to be in a smaller binder, but I had to get a bigger one when I passed 500 rejections (that sucker is 4 inches thick).
The irony of the picture (which I just took seconds ago) is that the rejection book sits atop my Twilight Zone pinball machine (I have seven pins, two arcade cabinets, and a bar dart machine). It's ironic because I bought all that crap with money I made from selling my rejected books on Kindle.
Last week I also bought my house. Cash.
My point? Paying your mortgage with self-pubbed books is awesome. But there is no limit to success. Four years ago, I was making $1400 a month. Now I make $90k-$130k a month.
I never could have imagined this happening, and it's my job to imagine things for a living.
Will every writer be able to buy a house filled with arcade surplus from their ebook sales? Hell no. I got really lucky.
But look at that pic of my rejections again. It's a paean to the past. Writers are no longer required to jump through hoops to reach an audience. No more querying agents and publishers. No more onerous, unconscionable contracts. No more waiting 18 months for publication after signing a deal.
We can do it all ourselves, without obstacles. Even if we're in our 60s and beyond.
If that doesn't inspire hope, I don't know what does.


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In an interview with Italian media, Israeli Christians from Nazareth once again debunked assertions that Israel is an apartheid state with their own powerful testimonies.
The report started off by noting that there is a growing rift in the Israeli Christian community between those who choose to side with the Jewish state and those who choose to identify with the "Palestinian" narrative.
But that the problems facing Christians are not coming primarily from Jewish Israel, but rather from the Muslims, is evident in even a cursory investigation of Nazareth.
In Jesus' hometown, Muslim intimidation has been on the rise, leading many Christians to pack up and head to nearby Christian-only villages or even Jewish-dominated towns, such as Upper Nazareth.
To gain a deeper understanding of the situation, and the standing of Christians in Israel in general, the Italian newspaper spoke to Shadi Khalloul, spokesman for the Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum and an Israel Today contributor.
Pointing out what is happening to Christians in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the region, Khalloul insisted that by comparison, "Israel is the paradise for Christians from the Middle East."
The Italians also spoke to a young Israeli Christian who, under the tutelage of Khalloul's movement, intends to volunteer for Israeli army service. He echoed Khalloul's remarks, adding that Christians in Israel "live in peace and security; we are not discriminated against and we enjoy our freedom."
The young man said that even in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories, such as Bethlehem, "Christians are subject to discrimination, racism and oppression," and that they were much better off when Israel was in full control of the so-called "West Bank."
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Beyonce isn't the only one who has made a dramatic hair transformation — so has model Coco Rocha! Short hair is trending everywhere and Coco's hairstylist is letting us on his tricks to master the chop! Keep reading to find out all about Coco's new hairstyle!
Coco Rocha, 24, stepped out in New York City on August 12 debuting her new chop! Coco's famous long locks are no more, and hairstylist Anh Co Tran takes us through the steps on how to perfect your short hairdo! If Coco can do it, so can we!
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On August 12, Coco arrived at New York City's Chris Chase Salon where stylist Anh cut off all of her hair! Not only is Coco sporting the latest hair trend, but she is styling it to perfection with Oribe hair products, which were specifically requested by Anh. Anh explains why he chose to cut off Coco's hair:
"Because she is a model, I wanted her haircut to play out all the roles that she takes on during shoots and shows," he said. "Being able to switch the style effortlessly was my goal. I wanted her hair to be easy, yet able to perform."
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Anh used Oribe products to style Coco's hair. Now, he's letting us in on insider tips on how to get the look.
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Janajyoti Lower Secondary School, Ugratara-8, Janagal, Kavre - the Department of Education, Ministry of Education had already provided us the name of school where it'd be best to do a pilot. But the real work began as we received 25 B4 XOs sent in by OLPC International. It was almost at the beginning of the month, but we decided to keep the news little low. Afterall it was just a pilot and not a major distribution. All we wanted was to make it work rather than have big publicity. However, all the active volunteers knew about this and we had the news quite goin in our IRC too.
As the project started to heat up, we started getting help from everybody. Department of Education provided us the computer for School Server. Sastra Net helped us with wireless AP. Our community volunteers were excited more than ever. Our Development Lab became home. IRC channel was busier than ever.
We approached Curriculum Development Center (CDC), and they agreed to provide us books in digital format too, but due to upcoming election, the person in charge wasn't available. However they provided us with hard copies of the books, which volunteers from Kathmandu University did a great job of scanning and converting them into pdf books. We're getting the digital copies of the book immediately after election is over.
Similarly we also received a lot of help from Help Nepal Network LTSP eLibrary guys. They provided us all the contents they have been using for their eLibrary to put in our school server. This contained a cache of Wikipedia, HowStuffWorks website, Doctor Na Bhayema Website and lots of other stuffs. The collection of content was simply incredible.
Volunteers from Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus did a incredible job of arranging all these contents into one place and making a nice searchable web interface to access them on XO via wireless connection.
Even the volunteers not physically available but have been close to the community via IRC did a great job preparing the questionnaires and preparing lots of other documents.
The build we put on the XO was Joyride 1774. There was a huge discussion among us for using this instead of the current stable build, but in all our tests the Joyride build turned out to be stable enough. We did the following customization to the build:
- Firmware: Q2D14
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- Keyboard layout: Romanized Nepali (Fixed version. The standard Romanized keyboard distributed with any linux distribution is broken)
- Little hack to olpc.fth file to display the rotating XO sign at startup
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- Increased Font Size. We seriously felt that the font size is too small, especially when Nepali glyphs are displayed.
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White supremacist fliers surface in Milford
MILFORD -- Early risers in the city's northern section got a surprise Monday upon walking down their driveways to get the morning newspaper.
Lying nearby, for many, was a sandwich-size plastic bag weighted down by white rocks. Inside each bag was a folded letter bearing the logo of the United Klans of America, the largest functioning Ku Klux Klan operation in the nation.
The letter announced the group's efforts as a neighborhood watch organization.
"You can sleep well tonight knowing the UKA is awake," read the note. It contained a contact phone number in Alabama and the UKA's website.
The bags landed in driveways on Wheelers Farms Road, Herbert Street and Coram Lane -- mostly white, middle-class neighborhoods leading to the Great River Golf Course. However, residents also include Catholics, minorities and Jews -- all Klan targets.
"It's shocking," said one area resident, who like many in the neighborhood, did not want his name published. "Nobody wants that here."
Why that area was targeted was unclear, although it has experienced an uptick in car break-ins.
John Vecchitto, a dentist, found the packet near his mailbox after arriving home from work Monday. He opened it and shook his head.
"They want to get their name out there and hope people will call," he said. "But it's something that lasts about two seconds in my hands before being tossed in the garbage."
Scot X. Esdaile, state president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a member of its national board, said distribution of the fliers is notable.
"Anytime we hear of any type of activity or people conducting themselves under those symbolic hatred organizations, we have very much concern," Esdaile said. "A lot of people have been killed, murdered. A lot of families have been destroyed over the years in the North and in the South."
Vecchitto suspected that the UKA's actions might be related to the ongoing George Zimmerman trial in Florida. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, is accused of second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager.
Eric Krieger, "imperial kleeper" of the UKA and a spokesman for the group, denied that. Though he did not provide specifics on the group's effort in Milford, he said UKA neighborhood watches began "long before" Martin's death.
"We don't condone any sort of violence," Krieger said. "A member would have to go about it just like any other citizen would in the community if they see something wrong. The difference is we would be those eyes watching, so other people can go ahead and sleep."
Greta Stanford, one of three Milford aldermen who represents the city's First District, was surprised at being told of the flier, and said she intends to contact Police Chief Keith Mello and Mayor Ben Blake, neither of whom could be reached for comment Monday.
"I'm concerned that these people seem to think they need to protect our citizens," Stanford said. "We don't need their protection. We have a wonderful police department."
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the UKA, headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., has been "notorious for its many brutal acts of violence, including a number of murders."
Asked about that violence, Krieger said that "what happened in the past is the past ... We're trying to break that stigma that's attached to the big, bad Klan and let people know that we're not a hate group. We defend the Constitution of the United States and citizens of it and that would be the idea of the neighborhood watch."
Esdaile said he did not know how active the UKA or similar groups are in Connecticut, or whether the organization had held recent rallies in the state -- "Obviously they don't invite me," he said.
He did point out, however, that white supremacist groups have made their presence known in eastern Fairfield County, particularly in Stratford, in recent years.
"We've had issues in the past in the Stratford area with the (White) Wolves and other white supremacist activity," Esdaile said, adding that the state's NAACP chapter has held rallies against that kind of activity over the years.
Esdaile said the NAACP's offices in Connecticut, including its Bridgeport office, have received hate mail littered with swastikas and racial slurs in the last few years. He said he intended to forward information about the UKA leaflets in Milford to the NAACP's national office, as well as to the FBI and the Milford Police Department.
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Everyone knows the "secret" to getting a high score in Whack-a-Mole. That's right, getting a second or even a third set of hands to help! If you're lucky, one of the mallets won't be tied down to the machine and you can use that. Hitting the moles bare-handed stings a bit.
Bring the fun of the arcade home to your kitty with Whack-a-Mouse! Choose your game board first: one side is a paw with five openings, the other is a grid of nine openings. Then use the patented mouse-on-a-stick to pop the rodent through holes to taunt Kitty. Your cat will be thwapping the mouse in no time. Scoreboard not included, but we figure you can do the math in your head by now.
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Glucose, commonly called blood sugar, is the body's main energy source. Your body breaks down the food you eat and converts it to glucose. Your cells take glucose from your blood and use it to make energy.
What is hyperglycemia?
Hyperglycemia occurs when you have a higher than usual level of glucose in your blood. This can happen shortly after you have eaten a big meal and is not a problem if your glucose level returns to normal.
Cells remove glucose from the blood in response to insulin. If your pancreas doesn't make enough insulin, glucose can't enter the cells and remains in the blood. Blood glucose levels can also get too high if cells are unable to respond to insulin properly (insulin resistance). Without glucose, your cells are unable to make energy and can't function properly.
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