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cheekyVS
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Winner? You figure.
accident proneYoure afraid to talk about love on-line because you are afraid someone might find out who you truly are.
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The above statement, although probably not a qualifying one, does bring along with it issues concerning privacy, ones own generalized availability and rights to remain anonymous.
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and yet people dont consciously think (AOL keyword : "consciously"-,..-lol)
hmmhhh, this person is using the Internet to float out ideas in a thorough long drawn out process to discover who he is , and through the emotional upheaval of his life...challenge traditional nodes of thought as towards how the Internet re-inforces traditional ways of thought, and although still a new technology, doesn't neccessarily instigate or instill others the existent and emerging possibilities of what the Internet can accomplish more than keyboard rap and clatter of increasingly thoroughly accustomed users.
What tv did for radio and recorded music, what speech and sound did for silent film, what the Internet did for tv news and journalism...sooner or later....will there be a next best thing?
What will the thing that "does" 'something' for the Internet? Will it be
blogging? Video blogging? Perhaps individually owned and operated Jon Stewart shows.
Hmmm. You think? - lol
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I once had a fuzzy notion that someone could post a marriage proposal online. I know it sounds crazy but would it work?
Take, for instance, the guy who hires a skywriter to post the message in the clouds (where his head is at the time-lol) to ask his unsuspecting beau to take formal vows to spend their lives together forever.
Of course he's considered crazy.
If there were some ingenuity to be had first in such a creative endeavour, the world sometimes needs the cool kind of crazy to counter that weird kind of crazy.
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A marine biologist is raving about his work to his friends about some important discoveries made concerning blue whales. He enthusiasctically explains that they have determined that the whale can communicate through sonar signals to another of his species over 500 kilometres away. One of his friends finds it hard to refrain from being skeptical over the discovery, after all , what could the whale be possibly trying to say from that distance? Have they deciphered it?
I dont know the marine biologist says, exactly anway, but after much research we believe its something along the lines of or closely similar to the way humans sound when we say: can you hear me now?
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These consistent and inconsistent nodes of thought challenge tradition. Even though the Internet has not even been around long enough to attach itself to ideas and notions of tradition. Its counter-intuitive to think that such a easily accessible tool would strafe people into imaginative states that impose limits by its design structure. Wik came in to being, MySpace, UTube
So right now I am trying to get people interested in a story.
A story of a life journey interrupted. Things that happened and about others that never did. A life interrupted by the Internet. A message in cyberspace that wasnt supposed to be there. And another one that was yet to exist. And never did. All set up against the background of real life. A real life few know about.
Forget the speculation. Its coming about. Into a full circle. Anyone can start off to write about how the Net has changed their lives (realizing it has made some people rich beyond their dreams)
...my challenge to my self is to write a story that be timely. One that appeals to a cultural cross current and passed single denominational popular tastes.
Through the course of history, things can be lost, I want to contribute something that starts out as a mere thread, perhaps a lost thread...something contemporary and modern but with older history lurking in the background. I dont want to try and regain what has been lost. But foster an appreciation for what has been lost.
In terms of self promotion I guess a blog or awebsite can eventually have its limits. Just like every writer has his critics. But anyone who doesnt or hasnt read an writers work, is,..... at least: a potential critic. Why be afraid of that?
But I think most of all I need to do it for me. The negative publicity thing is not something I can attach myself to but felt the need to counter it somehow.
I want to say one more time....there are some really smart students out there. From the ones that I have seen speaking.
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When we realize the staggering implication as a whole the Internet holds on us individually, of our interaction with it as just a number, an IP, a person with access...when the burden of our responsibility to tame the technology actually dawns...the entire collective is temporarily frozen enmasse.
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Wall Street Journal wins a Pulitzer.
Make that ....,- two.
The photo below also won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. The photo shows a settler struggling with security forces who were conducting an evacuation of settlements just east of a town called Ramallah. The settlers were called illegal and resulted in clashes such as this one. Feb1st file photo by Oded Balilty. Bio at bottom from War Photo Ltd.
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Oded Balilty - Associated Press photographer
We can just say that United States has always been a violent society.
We can just say there have always been school shootings and that no matter how many draconian laws are set up, no matter how many watchful vigilant eyes can exist in a land of +300 million people, no matter how much effort is made to try and float the cork to the top of the bottle, no matter how much surveillance is enacted, we may as well concede that events like these that shock and horrify a campus, a town , a nation and a country and the world...will always be with us and that we may as well negate our efforts to at first understand what creates homicidal maniacs, to ask what are the various types of motivations for these killings, how many differnet varied backgrounds can you think of at the top of your head? A student who had been abused by his father, a man seeking revenge from a jilted relationship, a student ostracized and unaccepted who was abused by his parents who blindly vents his rage on a roomful of women, a group of kids influenced by video games and Nazi-ism, a washout from the Army given to dark gothic persuasion, a heavily medicated naitve kid with a disciniplary father. Why always the young? Why always and always a school? We may as well neglect to summon rationality and instead return to our deep basic primeval impulses and instincts. You can Google "deaths guns africa statistics" in the NEWS right now and return zero hits. None. You can also Google 'deaths guns africa' and Google will also actually ask you in italics:
Did you mean: deaths guns america
??????
Watching the news broadcast from CNN on this side of the border strikes a peculiar chord in me. I am struck by the amazing tenacity within the constructs of the media empire to remain coldly defiant as merely a sqwuak box out of which television news erupts and is not delivered. To its inbred inherent use and tool as both a slash appliance and device; a box that can keep us entertained but also numbed for hours on end. Faster than the speed of thought, CNN marches passed our shock our horror, passed the time it takes for thorough detailed assesments, past questions of who when why what. Too late for that. A nation is in instant mourning over the sudden loss of more that 30 of its brightest most aspiring minds.
Within minutes of the lock down order on the dormitory campus, students are being emailing updates and instant messaging one another to keep informed and up to date from one point on the campus to the other. The area covered by the Uni covers 22 acres.
I feel so sad and sorry for the parents of these students.
(God bless America; today.)
I read with interest that comments from the usual crowd at the Black Flag Cafe, the group of message baord affciandos who for one reason or other gravitate towards the dangerous seamy side of things to trade views on politics and occasionally diverge into a discussion about travel. Its kinda like arguing over a window seat.
I was shocked and dismayed as well as enlightened at the reactions.
In the back of my mind I held the thought of how nice it would have been, if there was such thing as even a moment of silence on the Flag or even hours of it. Within minutes and hours of the shooting the board is kaboshing with misinformation, calls to counter gun control advocates who havent said a thing, spurious assumptions and shoot from the hip responses.
Thats fine. This is what the Internet allows us to do.
By early evening the thread had blossomed into nearly 200 replies and 11 pages and I had only waded to page 3 before my compulsion to write overtook me.
I have this to say. That I think people in general are going to grow weary and wearier than ever of merely being accustomed to yet another school shooting.
I dont agree thats theres more that American society can do to help itself, whether its through gun control, increased surveillance or whatever. There are too many interchangeable variables at work here from one shooting to the next.
This latest shooting might even stiffen up calls for not neccesarily tighter restrictions on immigration or better screening but more watchfulness and not wariness about people who wish to live in America; the so-called land of endless dreams and opportunity yet still riven with death and beset with violence.
I dont agree that we can "finish the job" for our young people. I dont believe that we can odd out the whack jobs any society can produce (no advanced society is immune) and arm ourselves in an effort to curb/prevent/lesson violence. Why? The answers are delicately laid out for us in history books while at the very same time that armed shooters disrupt our navigaton through life through their own inability to find wayfinders, anchor themselves and manage each station in life with social support the way all students should. History has lessons in it beginning with shots heard round the world that were in the year 1914 in a place called Serbia. Serbia. And yet, all it takes is a single killer on a murder spree to unlock us from our deeper rationality and unseat us from our thrones, so that we return to that page in history, only after being so subsequently shocked with news of another school mass murder..a little smarter than we were before.
How? What lessons are there left to be learned? Do we literally "know it all"? How many school shootings will I live through over the next 20 years. 20 years is an awfully short period of time compared to a whole lifetime even though and even if its (still!) only one fifth of its mass index max.
I think that a time will dawn where events will turn so much that parents, teachers, principals and vice principals, board of education directors and chair people will have to do something fearful. Not something drastically scary nor through a fear imposed upon them but from a relinquishing of those fears, a letting go of them. We will all get tired of living and breathing in fear, fear for our lives and childrens lives as they grow up; go to school, go to University.
"Oh my , -...another campus shooting". Tsk tsk tak.
Maybe the time has arrived to put just a little more faith in our young people. This world we have created, been a part of..with its ceaseless wars from everything from a war on drugs to a war on in Iraq to a war on this and to that...obesity, bulimia...we cant fix and patch up this world for them. We have to open our minds our hearts and most importantly our ears to really listen to the voices that come out.
Theres probably not a single better gift of device that we can give on laon to our kids than that ability to listen so that we too can instill that in them as well.
Its not sometihng we take easily too. We were all once young ourseles. We remember the fire through our own veins. That rushed insisntence to grow up and validate ourselves as adults. Be heard, recognized, appreciated. We didnt like being told what to do. So I suggest that the time has come to allow ourselves to depart from the scene for a while. To quit acting like we automatically know whats best for our kids. What proof of that do we have anyway really, when for the past 30-50 years, this has been nothing but a recurring and consistent problem.
"Oh my , -...another campus shooting" . Sigh.
I watched some of the interviews on tv with some of the students. I heard even more over the radio interview and long distance phone call. What surprised me the most was the level of steadfastness to remain characterable, to remain human, no playing to the cameras or the mic, to allow feelings to soak in live, to even laugh with a nod towards how inane it is to combat rising feelings to the surface while faced with the unimaginable and dreaded horror that the majority of us will never experience. (How crazy is that? To be trying to contextualize your personal feelings while relaying your emotions to assist the media? To be human while navigating a terrain so foreign but where composure is paramount to the testimony of your take on live events that have happened. To serve people so that they feel informed. So that their curoisity is satisfied. Their burning desire to know: quenched.)
But I was amazed to see such sparkling intelligence brimming in our young people. Just by the way some of them understood the conditioning we have been placed into. They seemingly contradicted the norms of what we have been given to expect from events such as these.
Its there that I carrried , from that point there and to hereon in, that perhaps its time to quit trying to steer. Maybe its time to release the reins. Maybe its time we quizzed our students more and graded them not with how many answers they get right on a history exam and fail them at that, but maybe we should quiz them on why it is they think we have failed them all and so miserably on this issue.
I dont believe myself that the answer relies on more gun control. The answer is independent to the right to bear arms. I dont believe the answer lies in more policing and more sherrifs or training to quicken response time. I think the answer is independent of our efforts to improve procedure. I dont think the answer is to allow our students to further arm themselves. I think the answer is independent of our desire to help students feel safe and protected.
I think the answers we al seek to crave and hear lie within the minds of the young peoples themselves, and not we adults, all of us who are supposed to know better. What proof do we have?
"Oh my , -...another campus shooting". This was the one that made me change my mind about what we can do for our kids in schools and Universitys. What can we do, but expand the boundaries of our awareness to include a forethought that if we put some faith in them that they can possibly look after us, look after themselves, instead of us looking out for them, that we can reply on their insights and help us get along..we will have taken a grand leap of faith that just might disprove our theories about how to solve long standing problems and be shocked and amzed indeed. Not in a horrific way as we have seen today, but in a grander unexpected way.
I may wait my 20 years and it may be supremely naive to hope so. Unassailable . Unrealistic. My hope can be an undistinguishable thing.
And I can always count out the next 33 days of my life...trying to imagine a world for each day, what might have become of those bright and aspiring lives that the worlds light was robbed of thereof.
In that way, I am trying to imagine the world that might have been. And those same 20 years might go a little slower, last a little longer.
My condolences to the people of America on your sudden and tragic loss.
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a-okWho wouldnt be fed up with the constant failure forecasting of world bodies and organizations about the fate of our planet. Every other day and every other week theres another hullaboo or impressive number of pre-eminent scientists who have themselves warmed the planet via air travel in order to congregate and issue their dire warnings.
At a time when a distraught world is unrelentingly
beset with multiple crises of one kind or
another
and warnwd daily that unless we can find solutions
for a number of problems
of staggering proportions, we face
certain extinction, it is a relief to come
upon a book which is not content merely
to present a problem , but goes on to offer
a common sense solution -, or at least a
a substantial contribution towards a solution.
- C.W. Weiant, D.C., Ph.D
from the
foreword in book by Dr. Julius Dintenfass
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"There is much talk of the health crisis, rapidly rising costs, personnel shortages,
long waits to get into hospitals, nursing homes, doctors' offices, Medicare and MedicAid.
There is less talk of the disorganized, ineffecient, fragmented, no system through which the Americans,
rich and poor, get their medical care. It accounts, in part, for the medical crisis...."
Dr. Leona Baumgartner, New York Citys first female health commisioner
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Dr. Julius Dintenfass was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
Dr. Dintenfass received the first chiropractic license in New York .
In his spare time he collected original American historical manuscripts
and was a charter member of the Manuscript Society.
The quote from his book above attributed to C.W. Weian
was published in 1970, the quote from Dr. Leona Baumgartner
is from a Dec 20th 1969 article published in the New York Times.
Dr. C.W. Weiant is an anthropologist and archaeologist.
An assistant archaeologist on the first National Geographic-Smithsonian
Institution Expedition to Southern Vera Cruz , he participated in the discovery
of the oldest dated work of man in the Western Hemisphere.
Heres an old letter written to Dr. Baumgartner, it has
been pointed out to the reader that of note is how
much trouble it is to be a woman and wishing to apply ones self in studies
without such encumbrances as pregnancy and / or marriage
http://www.countway.harvard.edu/rarebooks/images/BaumgartnerHendricks.jpg
caffeinatedOkay, this is it. I have had it! I have had it with this Coldharvest character so I am going to fill him in on somehting. Cold, you would not know a celeb stalker if one came up behind you and kicked you in the butt!
Look at what this official dipstick has to say, for instance.
http://perezhilton.com/topics/elizabeth_hurley/shout_your_mouth_hag_20061210.php
Another thing I forgot to mention. You know all those PM's ("private" messages) you have been sending?
Forget the word private! They are about as public as any conversation you would find at any doughnut shop, cafe, bus stop, taxi ride, club, etc, whatever and wherever you can think of that is rightfully called public
Its because you guys thought you could invent the rules for the rest of the Internet, that every PM you send is your public discussion, and everything you write on-line and post on your messageboard is your own little "private" thing.
a-okThis is funny for a photo to me, although I have no idea why really.
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7752/olsentwinswh5.jpg
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Where to get some. ...
http://www.list4all.com/oohlala
Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) is set to launch her own line of clothing which will include jeans, lingerie, casual wear and accessories.
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Looks like the Mayor of Coquitlam has his sex and the city mixed up. Too many lunch hour martinis? Worse.
BC mayor faces string of criminal charges
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Are you paying attention?
Designer Jon accused of assaulting 4 more women
Reuters Canada, Canada - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A celebrity fashion designer accused of luring young women and girls with promises of modeling work and then raping or sexually
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Today was the first day
LA trial begins for alleged serial killer
Day two
Victim's nephew testifies in South LA serial killing case
suaveBut now Coca-Cola and L'Oreal are partnering to create a new health-and-beauty beverage to launch in 2008, sources said.
Currently called Lumae, the nutraceutical drink has trademarked as a tea-based ready-to-drink beverage by Coca-Cola's Beverage Partners Worldwide division. The drink, which is still in the early stages of development, is expected to contain ingredients that will help women care for their skin, per a source.
Ladies and gentleman
The moment you have all been waiting for
...after much anticipation
...and patient longing
the moment has arrived
http://www.mendisbrandy.com/blog/index.html
Like, hmhhh.
We here at Machs Cafe cannot guarantee ANYTHING!
A person who has a hamburger and a soda, for example, doesn't eat less of his or her hamburger, or fewer fries, than a person who washes the burger down with water.
Translation? Soda pop makes you fat.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/08/health/webmd/main2551429.shtml
happyIts black on black, just like Black on black should be. Yuck yuck !
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“People have turned off from religion, mosques are empty. But in the West, where there is total freedom, Muslims have become more religious.”
An Indian-Muslim becomes the Canadian equivalent of ‘Tan Sri’ for his outspoken opinions against Western fairy tales about Islam and the Third World.
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March 31 in History
1993 | UN Security Council increases international pressure on Bosnian Serbs by authorizing NATO warplanes to shoot down aircraft that violate a ban on flights over Bosnia
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PEC, Serbia - Dragica Besovic and her sister-in-law were back in Kosovo last week on a sad and macabre mission: to dig up their dead relatives and rebury them ...
http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01454.shtml
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At the end of the 1990s, Boris Berezovsky was Russia's richest man and now he wishes to introduce the
But just across the way from the U.S. Embassy, where Litvinenko is thought to have ingested the polonium.
Litvinenko had visited the London office of Erinys shortly before his death
according to this article from CorpWatch.
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Government prosecutors admitted they had lost a videotape of an interrogation of
Jose Padilla
accused of plotting to set off a radioactive bomb in the United States
then
March 26th
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16240430.htm
...new evidence
http://www.fox12news.com/Global/story.asp?S=6295915
Actual Serbian paperclip
March 11 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his prison cell in The Hague. March 12 was the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. The consequences and debates over their roles and their legacies continue to this day.
celebratoryI wonder how long till we see fashion designers going into music? Like take home along with your eau de toilette (sorry!)...a recording CD by Versace or WHATEVER(lol!)
....if this is the trend, (50 cent into book publishing, Fergie with her own line of purses, of course J-lo and her clothing line).....
maybe its all a matter of time
meanwhile I guess
http://www.contagiousclubwear.com
Uber.
