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At the recent edition of Casual Connect in San Francisco, GameDuell's Creative Director and co-founder Michael Kalkowski gave an interesting lecture about the past, present and future of social games.
In the last decade the games industry has come a long way moving from one platform to another. Hypes have come and gone but with the move along platforms came many innovations in product quality, technology and business models. Michael Kalkowski shows how the champions of our industry were able to drive growth during ever-changing times and delivers a strategic view on the key business aspects for the next 12 months.
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TOREZ, Ukraine | Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders that the rebels were tampering with the site.
TOREZ, Ukraine | Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders that the rebels were tampering with the site.
The United States, meanwhile, presented what it called "powerful" evidence that the rebels shot down the plane with a Russian surface-to-air missile and training.
Although other governments have stopped short of accusing Russia of actually causing the crash, the U.S. was ahead of most in pointing blame on Moscow for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that killed all 298 people aboard.
Leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Australia spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone late Sunday, urging him to use his influence on separatists to ensure the victims could be repatriated and international investigators could have full access to collect evidence. They said European foreign ministers will meet in Brussels on Tuesday to consider further sanctions on Russia.
U.N. Security Council diplomats tweeted Sunday that the council would vote this afternoon on a draft resolution co-sponsored by Australia, France and Lithuania that would call for full access to the crash site and an independent investigation.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a blistering opinion piece for the Sunday Times, said "the growing weight of evidence" suggests the rebels shot down the plane, and if that is so, "this is a direct result of Russia destabilizing a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias and training and arming them."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country lost 28 citizens in the tragedy, said Putin "said all the right things" during their telephone conversation about ensuring an international investigation.
"I'm now going to try to ensure that as far as Australia humanly can, we insist upon these things happening,"
Abbott told Sydney Radio 2GB. "The site is being treated more like a garden cleanup than a forensic investigation, and this is completely unacceptable."
Russian officials have blamed Ukraine's government for creating the situation and atmosphere in which the plane was downed, but has yet to directly address the allegations that the separatists were responsible or were operating with technical assistance from Moscow.
The 42-square-mile crash site, spread out on farmland and villages, looked dramatically different Sunday, a day after armed rebels had stood guard while dozens of bodies lay in the summer heat. The rebels were gone, and 192 bodies were loaded into the refrigerated train cars in the rebel-held town of Torez, about 9 miles away.
The Ukrainian government said in a statement on its website that a second train with four refrigerated cars had arrived at Torez station.
Emergency workers, who the rebels have allowed to operate under their control, were searching the sprawling fields. Cranes moved pieces of the plane around, apparently to look for more bodies underneath.
By Sunday night, Ukraine's emergency services agency said the total number of bodies found was 251, with dozens of body parts.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose country lost 192 citizens on the plane, told a news conference that repatriating the bodies was his "No. 1 priority."
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said reports from the group's investigators in Ukraine suggest some bodies were incinerated without a trace.
Rebel leader Alexander Borodai said he would turn over the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders, or "black boxes," to investigators.
In the Netherlands, worshippers at church services prayed for the victims, as anger grew over the rebels' hindering of the investigation.
Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son, Bryce, and his girlfriend, Daisy Oehlers, were among those killed, said she was appalled that their bodies weren't being handed over. "Mr. Putin, send my children home," she said, speaking on Sky TV from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

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I'm ceding my space this week to my Narrator colleague Jessica Stollings. Jessica is an expert "generational translator," who is superb at helping people and organizations work through generational transitions, from workplace dynamic issues to leadership transitions all the way to donor base transitions. It's awesome to be able to offer our clients Jessica as a resource—through speaking, training, coaching, and all-out consulting.
Sometimes a key part of building for your organization's future is figuring out how to integrate Millennial staffers in a way that best taps into their strengths—and I know a lot of my clients have an even bigger problem, which is figuring out how to take an aging donor base and build into the rising generations (without alienating their existing givers). Shoot me an email if you want to chat about this stuff!
Midway through the semester, a university professor came to me very upset about her students. She had e-mailed them a homework assignment, and only one of the eight students had completed it. She wasn't sure what to do.
We looked into the situation and learned that most of the students didn't know about the assignment. Why? The professor had sent it by e-mail, while the students used Facebook messaging for their classes.
Yes, all of the students had been issued e-mail accounts by the university, but many of them had never logged in. Because they considered e-mail slow and outdated, they had instead opted for newer forms of communication like Facebook and text messaging.
Once the professor learned how her students communicated – and the students learned how their professor sent out her assignments – everyone was able to get on the same page.
After that, the students knew to check their university-issued e-mail accounts for assignments, and the professor learned that creating an account on Facebook would prove useful for collaborative discussions and project management.
The Bottom Line: Different generations often use different communication channels.
The Solution: Find out which communication channels your supporters or employees use for information, and establish clearly which channels they're expected to monitor. If the people you're trying to reach use different channels, consider adapting your message to the format they're used to.
This blog post is excerpted from Jessica's forthcoming book, "ReGenerations: Why Connecting Generations Matters (And How to Do It)."


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Weekend Reading CCXXVII
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Dan Brown is a very Bad Writer
Can 200 million readers be wrong? It seems so.
How Software Projects got their Name
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 31, 2014
Building a Twitter bot that entered—and won—1,000 online contests for me
I once won a free hamburger in a tweet, but never got around to collecting it.


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Brad Garrett tells Conan O'Brien about his incredibly small penis in great detail (Video)
In our overly sexualized, gotta-be-a-man media culture, a man's endowment is a source of pride, slight embarrassment, or utter fear. Brad Garrett, the 6'8" former co-star of Everybody Loves Raymond, visited Conan O'Brien last night and divulged information on his first frontal nude scene. Throughout the clip he openly admits to his lack of size and the discomfort that comes with taping a tube sock to his tiny member. The funniest part, as Conan points out, is that he never asked Brad to go into any of this; it's like Garrett took a drug that lowered all of his inhibitions and decided to have a private therapy session in front of millions of people.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Be My Valentine
Flourishes' February release is next week and they are giving us an opportunity to win the entire release! Got my attention! The challenge is to use black, white and one other color. So needing Valentine's Day cards I chose red.
The sketch I used is from PaperTake Weekly. The heart roses are Flourishes and the sentiment is a digital stamp from Verve. I colored with Copics and dressed it up with a few pearls and puffed red valentine hearts.
Your thoughtful comments make my heart happy!! Hugs!
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pretty coloring of the flowers, love those puffed hearts!ReplyDelete
Love the coloring on your roses! Very pretty card! Thanks for playing with Flourishes!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 7:51 PM
Woo-hoo! That gets me in the mood!ReplyDelete
Lovely work, friend.
Pretty work on the heart and love the color combo. Awesome!ReplyDelete
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That is beautiful! Good luck!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Oh I really like this valentine. Great job. Thanks for playing in Flourishes Challenge this week.ReplyDelete
This is so pretty. I love the red and black. Some of my favorite colors. Thanks for joining us at Flourishes.ReplyDelete
Lovely Linda! That heart with the roses in it looks so cool and the little hearts added to your sentiment are adorable. :-) Hugs!ReplyDelete
this card is sooo cool, love the colors, red, black and white.. you can really feel the love and the sincerity through the card.ReplyDelete
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Friday, April 14, 2017
Just A Qick Post
Good afternoon. It was 32F degrees this morning at 7:15 am. When I got up and saw that, I went right back to bed. It's a lot warmer now, 60F degrees, so I've opened the door and put the plants back outside.
There's not much happening here, except that Joe picked up his new truck. Oh my, what a beauty! And it's so big!! Here are a couple photos of him and his new truck.
Today I need to go online and order more doggie food. The only downside of this is that you don't get to have a variety of food. The cans are packed six, twelve or more of the same kind of food. I'll have to look around to see if I can find any variety packs.
Daughter Deanne is on her way here, so I'll take my leave here shortly. I'm hoping to get out to the market over the weekend. We'll see. So, till Sunday, Y'all have a fantabulous weekend.
Hugs, Edna B.
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- Annesphamily said...
Hello my friend! Good to see you here. When it is cold and yucky out I dislike getting up and getting my day started. You would be proud of us. Yesterday a teeny, tiny rabbit was lost and hiding in our backyard. Of course Leo was so busy entertaining the black lab next door having a contect of who would win the pee pee on the fence contest that he did not see him. My hubby scooped him inside a soft potting container and took him out front where he gently set him down and he hopped away. I think since we are surrounded by dogs and none of them are small, he was frightened. There is a black lab, a Great Dane, a girl beagle and a blind Huskie surrounding us. He was sure a cute fellow and I wonder if something had happened to his mother. Sigh...
We have had a busy day and are taking a little break. My hubby was off today and Nick finally decided to get his drivers permit. Yeaaaaa! We treated him to barbeque at Jim and Nick's. It was delicious. He returns to school Sunday and we have a dilemma. We have a wedding at 2 in the afternoon followed by the reception from 4-9. We are hoping one of our girls will drive Nick to meet his friend to head back to school late Sunday afternoon. The wedding is in Longmont about 30 minuted from our home.
We celebrate Easter so we are going to have an early lunch with Nick before he leaves. It has been a busy week.
It is good to see you here. Hope you and Pogo are doing awesome. Have a beautiful weekened. HUGS
- April 14, 2017 at 5:42 PM
- The Queen Jester said...
That's a nice truck. I can think of all kinds of things you might be able to haul home in it.
- April 14, 2017 at 9:46 PM
- smiekeltje said...
Getting back into my crfeative mood is one thng I will have to work on!
Glad you are feeling better almost every day.\That truck of Joe looks splendid. He must be proud of it.
And Pogo looks to haave a real great dream there on that photo OL.\
well, I caught up on your posts, glad i did that.
Now I will have to do some more catching up and also want to post.
Gosh, wonder if i will do all that today! We'll see how far I will get.
Hope yur easter weather is nice and warm so you can be on the porch a bit more.
Have a fantastic and blessed Easter weekend!
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Mandy Moore and Rodrigo Santoro have joined the cast of the supernatural drama "Falling Slowly" reports Variety.
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Mt. Fuji Tips and What not to do/
*What we have to say..
So you wanna climb Mt. Fuji? Go ahead go for it! but! Don't take the iconic mountain so lightly it is true what most people say that Mt. Fuji is not that hard of a climb and so many tourist flock to it's mountain sides to climb the historical volcano. But! like before don't take it lightly without the proper gear and preparation an accomplished 12 hour nature stroll can become a whole world of pain and suffering for the unprepared.
Our personal advice of caution to the Fuji weather
I myself am an experienced mountaineer but far from any professional having started the ascend on the great mountain many many years ago as a young child did I not remember the mountain being so harsh at times. Problem with my first thought though was I never finished the ascent many years back. Now older I am glad I did some research before humping on the famous volcano's mountain side again.
Together with we planned our new adventure to Fuji by booking a guided tour. My wife who has no experience in mountaineering at all made the right call by picking the tours that let you stay at a lodge (if you can call it that) for a few hours before going back on the trail for another few hours right before the sunrise. Visiting the website I started to get a bit skeptical as it recommended that you bring boots, thick jacket for cold weather and a headlamp. Our climb was going to be in the end of July and summer was still at its peak so bringing all the thick cold weather gear had me doubting the companies sanity, although the other items made sense headlamp as we would be trekking at night and boots because the rocks on Mt.Fuji can do a real number on your feet when you make your way down if you don't keep them protected. I then started thinking did they make a mistake on their site or did my childhood memories deceive me? No matter I was determined to do some research online and to my surprise they were right! The Mt. Fuji summit EVEN in the summer can go to freezing temperatures I found large blocks of ice while we were up there! If you take anything away from this post believe when they say prepare for freezing temperatures!
Do not be inconsiderate
We signed up for a group tour with an overnight stay in a lodge at the 8th station. At the beginning of our climb, we were instructed to give ourselves a name.. We named our group the Fuji Fighters! After a brief orientation, we set off to start our climb. If you are in a group, you will automatically notice who are the experienced, newbies, and the show offs. Show off are the ones that will climb so fast, sometimes faster than the tour guide, and have no consideration of other people climbing the same path. If somebody is having a hard time climbing, offer help. Do not overstep cause the person right beside you might make a wrong step and fell down. Again, offer help. Be kind.
When we arrived at the 8th station, the lodge was already packed with exhausted climbers like us. We ate our dinner quietly then head outside for a few minutes to take a short video. We were assigned our own sleeping bags, but the lodge was 3 stories fully packed. We were packed like sardines. I thought that people would be considerate of others in this kind of setting, but i was wrong. i actually don't know how to phrase it, but if you don't want to sleep, just simply turn off your lights and make as little noise as possible or please step outside and let others rest. Do not be rude.
Do not climb with someone you don't like
Climbing Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest and most visited mountain can make a lifelong memories. Do you want to remember climbing Mt. Fuji with a smile and a little bit of warmth? Of course! Climbing for 6 hours on the first day and another 10 hours on the second day with barely 3 hours of sleep, for the lack of a better word, is extremely exhausting. It could bring out the best or worst in a person, so if you are already annoyed with the person you are with on normal sea level, imagine what you would feel 3776m above sea level combined with sweat, exhaustion and extreme weather.
As we sat on top of the summit, waiting for the sunrise, i rested my head on his shoulder and i knew that i will always remember this moment. Not only I had seen many wonderful things with in 24 hours, but i had enjoyed them with the person that i love the most.
Traveling, exploring or climbing can open your world a little bit wider, so try to bring somebody you want to be with you.
About Station 5
Station 5 is were most Fuji trekkers taking the Yoshida trail begin their ascent towards the great summit that is Mt.Fuji. A total of 9 stations plus the summit is what's in store for you if you so choose this trail which what most tours take you on including the one we took.
Station 5 has
rental gear
All at your disposal before you long hike towards the top of the mountain. Here you can buy the famous walking stick souvenirs you get for climbing Fuji-san. Each stop/station will brand your walking stick for a fee of 200/300 YEN meaning you've completed the climb thus far at the end you want to have all stamps branded on your stick as your bragging trophy to show off when you leave for home.
What to wear
If you plan to do a day hike 12 grueling hours trekking is what's in store for you. In our case a two day hike we get dinner and a place to sleep after getting to station 8 then start walking again in the darkness until we make sunrise. The best part about a day hike is it doesn't get as cold but you need to make a faster pace if you intend on getting back to station 5 before or the bus leaves and you're stuck there. The good thing with the two day hike is you have to leisurely make your way to station 8 to sleep but the worse part about is trekking at night to reach the sunrise this is where the freezing temperatures come into play.
Here is a side by side of what the guide was wearing during the beginning (left side) and the night trek (right side). The guide who is used to the ordeal doesn't seem to have changed much but for newbies like my wife and I we were transformed into Eskimos.
We may not look too cold in the photo but believe me we were freezing and hoped we brought more layers like everyone else.
A few things to bring
Energy Drink
Walking stick
Warm clothes
Rain gear
Sun hat
Head lamp
From our two day hike experience I recommend bringing these items above some may seem like you wouldn't need them but better safe than sorry.
Do not forget to snack or drink water
One of the best things about having a tour guide is he knows when to stop and take a little break. He would also inform us if we will be heading to a difficult path so we can be prepared. Take this opportunity to sit, to stretch, to drink water and to take a little bit of snack to help you on your way. We were instructed to bring at least 2 Liters of water, but if you cant carry that much water don't worry you can buy water or energy drinks at each stations. Just be prepared to pay extra.
Do not forget to breath
If you are not an experienced hiker there is a real possibility of altitude sickness which includes, dizziness, headache and even vomiting. (We saw this happened to one of the climbers in the lodge where we stayed). Our body will let us know if we need help. Please do not ignore the signs, slow down, drink water, take a deep breath or even take a few breaths from a portable oxygen if you have to. Better safe than sorry.
Do not forget about the descent. (There are no stores to buy from on your way down)
People might think that the hardest part of Mt. Fuji is climbing the summit, but in our case it was the descent. It felt like a never ending downhill which consist of thick volcanic sand and stones that you have to slide, slip, or shuffle to reach the 5th station. a very good footwear is a must because you want your ankles to be fully supported. We only have a little bit of water left after we reached the 8th station on our descend. Thinking that the descend would not be as bad as the climb and there would be a store that we can buy water on the way down, we set off to start our journey down. We were not prepared at all. The sun was up, no trees, no clouds or anything to cover us, we were thirsty. Nowhere to buy water and nowhere to hide from the sun. It was horrible. We ended up extremely exhausted and thirsty with swollen feet and swollen ankles. (We forgot that we started the second day of our climb at 1 am and only stopped for 40 mins at the summit to watch the sunrise, after that we didn't actually have a proper break)
Happy climbing!


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Slight delay for each "remote control" press. Only works with the Slingbox Pro-HD and the Slingbox Solo.
Bottom Line
Sling Media does it again with its Kindle Fire version of SlingPlayer; if you've got a compatible Slingbox and Amazon's color tablet, you need this app.
Want live TV on your Amazon Kindle Fire ($199, 4 stars)? SlingPlayer (Kindle Fire Edition) is a $29.99 app that lets you stream live TV or control your DVR from your tablet, providing you have a Slingbox attached to your living room TV. Since the Kindle Touch is Wi-Fi only, this SlingPlayer app doesn't have a cellular mode the way some of the company's SlingPlayer Mobile apps do. Like those other apps, though, SlingPlayer for the Kindle Fire lets you change TV channels, set up new recordings on your DVR, or just stream live TV and recorded programs to your tablet. The best part: It worked exactly as expected in our tests.
System Requirements and Setup
For this review, I tested SlingPlayer version 1.3.7. It's a 3.6MB download, and requires both a Kindle Fire and at least one Slingbox connected to a home TV. Sling Media hasn't introduced major new hardware revisions in several years, but the Slingbox Pro-HD ($299.99, 4 stars) and Slingbox Solo ($179.99, 4 stars) still sell, and still function well.
Unfortunately, you'll need one of those two models in order to use this app, as changes in the codec used in older Slingbox firmware render the Pro, the Tuner, the AV, and the Classic models incompatible. The company is offering an upgrade discount to older Slingbox owners, which helps mitigate this somewhat, but we would have still preferred it if Sling Media found a way to enable the older boxes to work with this app.
Launch SlingPlayer, and you'll see a title screen that lets you call up a directory of available Slingboxes for your account, either on the local Wi-Fi network or remotely across the Internet. First, you'll need your Slingbox login; if you've already set up a Slingbox for remote access using its 32-character ID and password, then you'll see it from the Kindle Fire once you log in. You can also set the app to auto-connect to a specific Slingbox and begin streaming as soon as you fire up the app.
Tap the screen on the TV view, and you'll see a "play" button on top as well as buttons to activate the remote, a numeric keypad, and a miscellaneous set of controls that mimic various buttons on your TV or DVR remote control. Tap the screen again below the icon bar, and a volume slider appears immediately below the four main controls at the top. At any point, you can also tap the bottom arrow to bring up a separate bar with shortcuts to your cable or satellite TV guide, your DVR's home screen, the current aspect ratio, a list of devices connected to your Slingbox's inputs, a video quality toggle, and a Disconnect button.
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In his book, Writing Popular Fiction, bestselling author Dean Koontz lists seven possible character motivations in fiction:
- Love
- Curiosity
- Self-preservation
- Greed
- Self-discovery
- Duty
- Revenge
Sometimes you will have characters that are driven by a combination of the above listed motivations, but for the vast majority of fiction that we will read and write, this should do. In our Write Club session last weekend, Pavan brought up this topic and gave us a couple of exercises. The aim is to build a scene in which the character starts off with a 'simple' motivation, and then as we go deeper into it, reveal a certain complexity.
So a private detective, who would generally be driven by curiosity and duty (like Hercule Poirot), could also be acting out of greed (for financial gain or for fame). The hero of a thriller story, who begins in a mad rush for self-preservation, could find on deeper scratching that he's also being goaded on by a thirst for revenge. A lover may find that his intentions were not so pure as he first imagined. And so on.
There were a bunch of specific prompts that were given out to warm up our creative muscles, but I'm not giving them out here. The more important thing, I think, is to understand the purpose of the exercise.
My prompt: A scene involving a private detective who gets employed by a mafia don whose wife is missing. Hopefully you will find that the main character's motivations become 'deeper' and more layered as the scene progresses.
I wake up at my desk, smelling of Mansion House. There's someone knocking on the door. Not the banging of the fist that you would expect from the common folk. This is crisp, as though the guy's using the tip of a cane. Or his knuckles. Probably has a monocle. Suited up. From the gap under the door a tiny whiff of cigar smoke floats in. Expensive cigars.
There's a pause. Then another knock. I finish off last night's grub, run a hand through my prickly beard. If Anita had been alive, she would have wanted me to shave. 'You look like shit,' she would have said. Well. I do. No denying that. As the stuff slides down my throat, my stomach rumbles. A shadow moves across the door. A third knock, this one more frantic.
'Come in,' I say. The knob turns, and in walks Bade Bhai. Even with bees buzzing inside my head I sit up straight. This is not just another rich asshole. He's the asshole of all assholes. He flicks the cigar into the corner. Lets the door slide shut. After the click, he waits for a moment. Holds his gaze. Blinks. Then smiles. It's the smile I've seen on the faces of thieves, child molesters, murderers, politicians. A smile of love. Compassion. Brotherhood.
'Pavan ji, good morning!' he says, even though it's late evening. 'I have some work for you.'
I want to tell him I'm retired. Even if I wasn't, I wouldn't work for someone like him. But with people like Bade Bhai, you either say yes at the first instance, or you say yes after he's beaten you into a pulp. So I say, 'Yes.'
He takes my chair. Crosses his legs. His emerald ring catches a beam of the streetlight and glints. One of his front teeth is made of gold. 'My wife,' he says, and stops. In his eye I see a flash of hesitation – or is it fear?
What can I say? Even mafia dons fear their women. I offer him a cigarette. To show him I understood. He shakes his head. Probably not expensive enough for him.
'My wife is missing,' he says. Not a smidgen of love in his voice. His eyes have that liquid ruthlessness about them. 'She ran away with dosh worth fifty crores.' His right cheek twitches as he says this. If you want to hurt a drug peddlar – really kick-him-in-the-balls hurt – you steal his dope. Fifty crores – heck, this guy would gouge his mother's eyes out for a couple of pennies.
'Look,' I say, 'I don't know who sent you to me. I've been out of business -'
He smiles, wide this time. His big canines twinkle like stars. 'I'm not used to hearing the word 'no', Mr Nair.'
'But 'no' is exactly what I have to say.' I pick up my cigarette packet. My fingers are shaking. 'I don't want to bring your wife back to you.' She has fifty crores and her freedom. Let her be, I think yo myself.
'I don't want you to bring my wife to me.' Bade Bhai looked lovingly at his emerald ring. 'I want you to find her and kill her.'
I let out a long breath. I entwine my fingers to stop them from shaking. But he sees it and grins. 'I don't do that work any more.' I think of Anita's final scream, the look of horror on her face. The dagger in my hand. The spots of blood on my shirt. She had already died by the time I'd rushed to her and gathered her in my arms. She had taken no final oath from me. But she would asked me to give up killing. Yes. She would have.
'No,' I say again. I lick my lips and taste salt. 'I won't.'
'They say there's none as good as you.' He reaches into his coat pocket and brings out a photograph. Places it on the table face down. 'In case you change your mnd.'
'I won't.'
He turns it over and holds it in front of him, so that I can see. The drone in my head goes quiet for a second. The colour of the eyes was different. They were light brown, almost like sand. Anita's were coal black. But everything else – the pout, the mole under the right eye, the waves in the hair, the fingernails – everything else…questions flew into my head one after the other. Did I not see Anita die in my arms? Did I send not her body myself to Kishanpur for the funeral? When did Bade Bhai get married? All these months I'd heard of this mysterious woman who bowled over the mafia don, and I'd never bothered to check who it was. Could it be her? Or did she have a long lost twin sister?
Bade Bhai is looking at me with a frown, his head tilted toward his right shoulder. 'So?' he said, letting the picture drop.
And I said, 'I will do it.' My voice sounds dead to my own ears.
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4 comments:
- Lavinia Ladyslipper said...
Oh Debby, steer clear of the snakes....you know, not even Indiana Jones can tolerate them...(ha ha).
- June 29, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- Bush Babe (of Granite Glen) said...
Oh well done Deb... so proud of your progess. I should point out that I am not particularly calm when snakes are in close proximity to me or mine. If I have given you that impression, I apologise. I just accept they are in my world, and hope I don't actually have to SEE them.
- June 29, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- Mary Paddock said...
You can be lauded for not killing it, that's for sure. :) Too many people react to that kind of fear by killing them.
I've never understood that response.
- June 29, 2008 at 7:15 PM
- debby said...
Mary - I have this idea that you don't kill what you don't eat, so I no. Not doing any snake killing.
Oh, great, BB. After using you for my 'bravery' pin up girl...
Lavinia - Indy doesn't go to Australia either does he?
- June 30, 2008 at 3:21 AM


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- Ministerial code of conduct to improve standards of accountability in government. (No more Bushesque/Howardite secrecy where ministers often refused to allow advisers to appear before parliamentary committees)
- Implementing changes now ... right now. Dismantling Workchoices, Kyoto, hospital reforms etc. Called in his team to fly to Brisbane for meetings on a Sunday, less than 24 hours since Howard officially conceded defeat.
- The bright star for me personally, Julia Gillard has already hinted at saying "sorry" to the indigenous people of Australia.
- A few reports have suggested Rudd is a rationalist and very much for reason based politics leaving his religious/moral views behind. One could only hope.
Monday, 26 November 2007
New Start?
Friday, 23 November 2007
Libs, Labor ... what's the difference?
...and so we are going to get more of the same!.
A friend wrote to Nicola Roxon, the Labor shadow minister for health and asked if they were going to follow the Liberal Party's lead of a "War on Drugs" type policy. I should of known the answer but for some reason I had a slither of hope. Politicians are animals of self interest and most of them deserve to be jailed for crimes to humanity. The pain and death they cause us is criminal and I truly, truly despise these worthless flesh carcasses. I wonder if they got sick ... real sick, real slowly and suffered what many millions suffer worldwide, if then they might understand the pain and hurt they inflict on so many people with the policies they create and support.
Anyway the questions asked via an email:
- What is the ALP policy on health & drug reform? I did not find any clear indication from the ALP website.
- Is a new Labor Party government going to follow Howard's outdated U.S. Lead 'War on Drugs' approach or is the Labor Party going to use health & science as their basis for treating drug addicts?
- Is your party supporting 'harm minimisation' or supporting Bronwyn Bishop's latest report findings. After Bronwyn Bishop's report, I read so many negative opinions and nearly every health professional who commented on it, was scathing of the contempt The Prime Minister and Bronwyn Bishop had for harm minimisation.
- Is Labor going to follow the European lead and use science, heath and experts to determine this serious issue of drug addiction and not use fear or morals to enforce a law & order policy. It has not worked for 30 years now and in fact only drives up crime, repression and misery.
Dear XXX
Labor strongly condemns illicit drug use and supports a "tough on drugs" approach as a means of protecting Australians from the terrible consequences of drug use and abuse. This is evidenced by a series of recent Labor policy announcements.
Labor has committed to a National Strategy to crack down on methamphetamines or "ice." This included:
a ban on importing ice pipes and other drug paraphernalia; and
either further restrictions or a complete ban on sale of pseudoephedrine - a key ingredient of methamphetamine - to minors;
work to restrict or ban the sale of pseudoephedrine over the internet; and
the extension of the special reference to the Australian Crime Commission to conduct a national investigation into the criminals engaged in the manufacture, sale and use of methamphetamine.
Labor has also committed to boost Australian Federal Police numbers by 500 including tackling the importation of illicit drugs.
Labor supports the aim of helping those who use illicit drugs become drug free. It must be recognised that illicit drug use and drug addiction in particular can be complex. Despite the best efforts of families, Governments, health professionals and community groups such as churches, a small number of people still engage in drug taking behaviour. This is a tragedy that families across the social spectrum face.
How best to deal with those who are resistant to intervention is not an easy task but society should not give up on trying to engage them in treatments that will see them become drug free and minimise the harm they do to themselves and their families. Labor believes that health professionals need to be able to use a range of prevention and intervention approaches and that these must be seen as part of a continuum that has freedom from drugs as an end goal.
Thank you for writing to Federal Labor about this important issue.
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Interestingly, something I have thought about for a while now was echoed by everyone's favourite 'legitimate' righty, Tim Blair who wrote the usual pro Howard rant in the Daily Telegraph titled Sweet Taste of Defeat".
"The fun might even begin tonight, if you're a conservative cornered by some lefty commie atheist in a dire Don's Party-type scenario. Ask him to reflect on the fact that the Left's new hero is a millionaire Jesus-boy whose policies place him further to the Right than any previous Labor leader and possibly further to the Right than John Howard was in 1996."
Very true.
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Ho Hum ... oh and my heroin trial
Diary: Another day, another depressing day...
It's been a while since I had had my medication of choice. Well, less than a week but that can be a long time some weeks. I am not particularly hanging out but just flat. Living in methadonia does that. I am trying to get my dose down to about 20ml and then switch to buprenorphine for a week. I can then do the one day detox and then I am officially clean.
Sounds simple. The problems are getting my dose down to about 20ml, switching to buprenorphine and of course ... staying clean. But ahhhh, the taste of that sharaz, the joys of waking up horny, going out and enjoying Australia's stunning autumn mornings etc etc etc. These are normal events for most of you but just a memory for me.
Diary: My Heroin Trial
I am always trying to get clean in one way or another. My dose regularly drops but when I feel doomed it goes up again. As more and more research results show that heroin addiction is not because of being weak or having no will power, I have slowly changed my views. Maybe I need heroin? I have very low serotonin levels and have unusual cravings for sugar which started to make sense when I found out that most drug addicts have been found to be hypoglycemic. To add to this an Australian university recently discovered that heroin addicts and methadone patients have had a part of their brain diminished. This part of the brain controls your will power! It would explain how seemingly normal people will do anything to get a hit / self medicate (the terminology is dependant on whether your a mate of Piers Ackerman or not).
So, I went off methadone for 7 days and used heroin as a replacement. I had the money saved so I wasn't having to focus on how I was going to pay for it. The difference was incredible. My taste buds came back, my sex drive reappeared, my taste for red wine returned, my appreciation of going for a walk with my pets grew, my love of cooking returned, I slept properly for the first time in 10 years, I woke each morning without the 'methadone aches', I was much more alert, my depression was almost non existent, I was smiling and pleasant and more. Interesting enough was that a doctor friend supported my trial as he based his beliefs on science/medical evidence and NOT moral judgement.
I wish I had more evidence to show you and had the links ready, but they are there. This information is available easily if you want to find it. Why can't politicians or so called journalists find it? I suppose we have been brainwashed into believing the religious and moralistic viewpoint that addiction is a sin.
Major Brian Watters of the Salvation Army actually said that. "Heroin addiction is a sin!" He said this as the chairman for the Australian National Council on Drugs in 1998. (ANCD) BTW: he was handpicked by John Howard.
No Shit!
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007
The Scourge of Conservatism
No Dole for Drug Addicts!.
This was the headline that stopped me dead cold in my tracks. The 2007 Australian election is getting desperate for neo-con Howard and his Liberal Party. God that name is deceptive, Liberal Party ... the most non-liberal bunch of rabble I have encountered in Australian politics. Anyway, as usual during an election, Howard always plays the "bigot" card. It usually is a race issue to attract the many rednecks and racist right wing whackos e.g. children overboard, immigration, detention centres etc. They tried it again with the Mohamed Haneef case and since that backfired the "Tough on Drugs" issue was raised. The coalition's drug policy was pushed to new heights with an announcement that people convicted of drug offences would have their welfare payments handled by the Government. This means food stamps instead of cash, interdiction of purchasing smokes and alcohol etc. I was stunned to say the least and so were many welfare agencies. Even the AMA denounced it but it was too late because the message had got out. I read many comments from readers from various newspapers and although there were not as many pro-hate comments as previous elections, there were enough to keep me reminded of the millions of Australians who believe in Howard's Australia. No one with any common sense would think this could work. Many readers comments stated the obvious with comments like "now there will be a black market in food stamps" or "these addicts will just go into business of burglary or drug dealing to pay for their habit ... who said the Government doesn't support small business". I guessed there was about 80% against the policy and about 20% for it. How low will this dickhead go? He makes my skin crawl. I have been fairly relaxed during this diary but this has made me so mad. So for the record, I am just going to say it:
John Howard is a Brain Dead Freak.
He is an evil, narcissistic, lying, senile, flatulent, brain dead freak.
I hate this spaz so much it's embarrassing. This so called man who stopped the heroin trials because of his personal morals against the advice of numerous drug committees has forced me into the world of methadonia. I am a prime candidate for the heroin prescription plan that is part of some countries health plans ... and soon to be part of many countries health plans. Each day I wake up with pain and depression. I take my methadone and about an hour later I start to feel better. This lasts for about 2 hours and then I am flat out trying to feel normal again. This normal can mostly be achieved via a great medication called heroin. Why do medical experts, welfare workers and scientists understand this but not certain people especially politicians? I will tell you why - CONSERVATISM.
CONSERVATISM. The term itself is repressive. The opposite to progressive. Did society get here today by being conservative? No. It actually was the factor that stopped women voting, minority groups voting, Gay rights getting acknowledged, climate control etc. Howard is pushing the agenda that he and his merrymen are economic conservatives. Rudd also attributes himself as an economic conservative. WTF? This is not good, this is bad. This means budget surpluses which is an oxymoron anyway because a budget is suppose to balance. Surpluses just means that the Government is not spending our tax we pay on services. If Australia had perfect hospitals, schools etc. then a surplus would be good but this irresponsible Government just wanted to have a surplus to boast economic conservatism.
Paul Keating came out and hammered Costello for being the "laziest, most indolent, unimaginative treasurer in our post-war history". I actually had time for Costello once but Keating is God when it comes to economics and it made me think. Keating went on to say how it was actually the unions that started the low inflation trend that Howard attributes to the Libs great handling of the economy via economic conservatism. Keating produced some notes from May 1995 that showed it was the ACTU secretary Bill Kelty who suggested a limit on inflation of just 3 per cent, which was taken up by the Reserve Bank chief Bernie Fraser. This again proves Howard is a liar and indicates that Costello is not what he is cracked up to be. If lying, surpluses or doing nothing is the fundamentals of conservative economics then Rudd, the self appointed me-too economic conservative will probably not be much better.
FYI: A Neoconservative (Neocon) is someone who follows the political view that was made popular by Leo Strauss, an American Political Science Professor from the University of Chicago. Strauss had a dedicated group of students and followers including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. The neoconservative ideologies were strengthened in the U.S. by George Bush Snr., Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney during the presidency of Gerald Ford and were responsible for the first neocon president, Ronald Reagan. The pinnacle of the neocon agenda is with the current Bush adminstration and has had many neo-cons including G.W. Bush, Scooter Libby, Richard Armitage, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams. The basic philosophy is that the U.S. should be seen as the setter of moral standards worldwide and it should enforce it's democracy on other countries. The people should not question their government and should be more concerned with nationalism via patriotism and morals via christianity. Liberal views deflate social morality and individualism only distract from nations goals. Neocons who follow the Strauss ideal is best summed up in this paper by Shadia B. Drury:
The trouble with the Straussians is that they are compulsive liars. But it is not altogether their fault. Strauss was very pre-occupied with secrecy because he was convinced that the truth is too harsh for any society to bear; and that the truth-bearers are likely to be persecuted by society - specially a liberal society - because liberal democracy is about as far as one can get from the truth as Strauss understood it
Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives
John Howard is a neocon in that he supports the Bush administration's agenda. He shares many ideals with G.W. Bush and blindly supports the U.S. e.g. The War on Terror, The War on Drugs, Israel occupation and human rights abuse, anti-abortion, pro christian moral propaganda, religious rhetoric, forced U.S. style democracy via military intervention, executive power overriding courts and constitutions, extreme secrecy, loss of civil rights, tax cuts for the wealthy etc.
Saturday, 17 November 2007
The Problem with Silly Procedures
Diary:A few days ago, my take-away dose of methadone was knocked over and I lost over half. Because you cannot go a day without your full dose you have to go through a procedure to have the dose replaced. Luckily I have a great doctor and normally he would write a replacement script but this day he had left work early and that was that. A methadone patient is regarded by many as scum and it is extremely hard to get a chemist or practically anyone to bend the rules because of an emergency. It doesn't help that addiction causes desperation and often patients will lie to get an extra dose. I imagine that if it was diabetics or some other situation that relies having a regular dose of something, the chemist would do whatever it took to treat the patient or there would be safe guards built into the system. Since my prescribing doctor was not available, I had no way of getting my replacement dose. The actual reply from the chemist was "just come back tomorrow, easy". True, it was very easy ... easy to say but the reality is that I was in for one hell of a day and night.
I won't try to explain the pain because you can't. Just think about why heroin addicts are notorious for doing ANYTHING to get a hit ... because the pain is that bad. What would drive someone to risk jail? What would drive someone to risk their job, their reputation, their friends or even their family just for a hit? Surely some logic must prevail here and the wallies who create government policy should ask medical or scientific opinion before creating laws and procedures that belong in the 1900s. Anyway, my only option was buy alternative medication. mmm, what is available to me. That's right, there's a place that sells just what I need. It's expensive though but I need medication so I purchased some heroin. I have several options to buy heroin and it is easier to get than shoes. In my area there is only one shoe shop but 3 heroin dealers I know of. If you looked carefully, I am sure there are no more shoe shops but at least 10 more heroin dealers. I usually go to my preferred vendor. Much more flexible than the shoe shop because he is open 24/7 and there is no waiting in queues. There is also no age restrictions, no quality control and no tax. In fact because of the silly laws the criminals and drug dealers have full responsibility of the heroin industry. They control the employees, the product quality, the sales locations etc. Here's the real beauty though ... when you arrest a dealer, another one replaces him immediately. Even better, there is an unlimited supply of dealers. Every cent spent "cleaning up the streets" is for nothing. The U.S. spends 69, 000 million dollars a year for fighting drugs. Australia's budget is unknown but no drug operation here has a made a dent EVER! Don't you think the big operators build in a certain percentage for loss?
What if heroin was registered as a prescription drug? Would there be an explosion of new users and would we be stepping over junkies in the street? The politicians sure think so... or do they?FYI: In 1913, the estimated number of drug addicts in the U.S. was 1.3%. It was so bad according to religious groups that they forced the government to ban them using drug prohibition. During the 1950s, the official estimate of drug addicts in the U.S. was 1.3%. In 1971, President Nixon declared the "War on Drugs" which is just aggressive prohibition. Before the "War on Drugs" started, the estimated number of drug addicts in the U.S. was 1.3%. In 1996 the estimated number of drug addicts in the U.S. was 1.3%. After 36 years of this absurd "War on Drugs" and over 1000 billion dollars later, the estimated number of drug addicts in the U.S. was still 1.3%.
The Howard government has declared they support the U.S. styled "War on Drugs" and proclaimed their own "Tough on Drugs" policy. Is this really an intelligent policy that was researched? Obviously not. Sadly, I feel the Labor Party is going to blindly follow the same approach. Rudd as declared that his faith is very important to him and that usually means, his morals have to be pushed on everyone else. The Democrats and The Greens both support a heroin trial and agree that addiction is a health issue and that people should not be locked up for having an addiction. Yet these parties are classed as 'radical' or 'whacky'. WTF? These parties seem to follow the line that Australians come before self interest and the government is for the people, not our moral conscience.Related Links: The Greens Drug Policy The Democrats Drug Policy
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Damn! I screwed up again. I came into some money yesterday. Not a lot but just $100. It was cash for a software upgrade for a client. I was feeling pretty tempted and I crumbled. I rang my dealer and went to score. Now I have more money to pay back. The cycle of money is scary and it is so obvious why drug crime is so high. There are 2 types of dealer. The main kind is a user-dealer who wants to pay for their own habit. They have a few choices;1 - Go to university, get a degree and become a high paid professional. Have a nice big wage.2 - Become a street criminal and rob people or break into houses.3 - Become a paper criminal and forge cheques, get involved in internet phising scams or credit card fraud.4 - Become a heroin dealer. A heroin user-dealer is usually not a sleazy fucker who hangs out at schools. They have decided to avoid crime and sell to support their habit. You often strike up a bit of relationship with your dealer so you can get credit if you're short of the cash sometimes. Usually if you're short, the dealer will allow you get "tick" of $10-$50 out of $150. To get the whole deal on tick requires you to know your dealer really well and he has to be in a position to do so. Many user-dealers buy 1-3 times a day and if they don't have enough they can't pick up. User-dealers are more human than the business dealer. If you are trying to quit, they are genuinely happy for you knowing how hard it is. They will never refuse your money but still they understand. The second type of heroin dealer is different. They do it for money. They don't use and have no empathy for a strung out junkie with no money. These people are NOT your friend but often are able to give a bit extra now and then to keep you sweet. It is a business relationship only. To get credit is hard and usually requires a security chattel. A good mobile phone or a gold ring will normally do it. My dealer is Vietnamese and I have known him since a year after I started using. He is nice enough but has a junkie wife and a child to support so the deals are a bit light. The biggest problem apart from money is timing! His 10 mins is 20-30 mins or "I'll be back in 5" means 15mins to 2 hours. Trying to balance a business and hiding my using to my partner requires delicate timing.
Monday, 12 November 2007
Diary: Depression
Sunday, 11 November 2007
Diary: The Weekend with No Money!
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Diary: Melbourne Cup Day
DIARY: I hate horses! That's right, horses ... and Melbourne has a public holiday for a horse race. Can you believe that, a holiday!
I don't know why but I have always just hated horses. I also don't think much of gambling so if you add horses and gambling you get ... HORSE RACING! foooeee.
FYI: Horse is common name for heroin. It's not used much now though.
Anyway, a holiday is usually reward time e.g. Xmas or my birthday so the Melbourne Cup holiday gives me the false feeling of a reward. mmm I've got to be strong here. I got throught the day only thinking of heroin 349 times until I lost count ... just after breakfast. I worked instead. I sat in front of my beloved Mac and worked on a database for a client.


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Thanks to Cathee Boswell for the identification. Danise Johnson Watson writes: I grew up right down from Conine's (on Hwy 84), and can't tell you how much the memories of that store and the family mean to me! One precious memory was when my daddy would take me down there and sit me up on the old drink case. I'd enjoy my ice cold coke while listening to the men talk! When I was older, I could ride my bike down to pick up whatever my mama needed. In those days Mrs. Ruth granted all the local folks a charge account. Ah, all the goodies I wanted with just a stroke of her pencil! It breaks my heart to see the store as it (barely) stands today. But all I have to do is close my eyes and once again I'm perched on that old drink box, surrounded by people so precious to me!!
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