-what's up....?
- words...
- what about words
- they are meaningless when it comes to talking about love...
- is that your concern today?
-it's everybody's concern, everyday
-go ahead
- picture love, describe it...gift of life? ... Godgiven treasure...a woman, eyes that embrace, hands
that provide relief, peace,tranquility, joy,,,voice that soothes, caress your ears, embellish your soul...what an
awesome power she holds...!!!
...and you are there!!!
- at center stage, unproclaimed queen.. the hunger for love is barrier-proof...it's dispensed free of
charge...money will not ever be used to buy it. 'cause it can't be bought!!
it can't be cloned, desguised, denied,.if it is real...however it's elusive, it can't be grabbed,
grasped or wrapped...nor smoked or inhaled..or simply taken....and since it's a two-way street, it must be shared...or it is not true...
and you are still there!!!
Whose creation are you? Who brought you to me?...who put you on my way and why? I did not seek it...
it pains to love, you know.it's dormant in a world within you, a world unknown
to many...walk me thru it, please!!!
I can give myself reasons to ignore you... to even think-aloud to myself: This, what I feel - is
not love! ...or is it? My heart does not pound on my chest at her sight....have I conditioned
myself not to? ....and for my own good sake I should not refuse to accept the fact that you do not care about me...
Experience it you must!!! ...and you become alive, and fortunate...it's free of charge, but it can be
costly in pain, sorrow, anguish and anxiety ...but who cares, a self-inflicted wound could become enjoyable even
if it hurts at times...even tho you know that you die a little..
And you're still there, sitting in your high throne!!
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Inspiration...it may come from various sources, it may come from memories treasured from events dating far back in time, when you were younger...or it may be just a recent happening, an encounter, a vision, a word said....it is always associated with creation, invention, passion, love...there is always a woman's face that keeps coming to you .. a vision that you want to seize, hold tight...love...
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Everything has been said, every note played, every drum drummed... a hymn to a woman is a hymn to love; to a at times feeble human being capable of creating unearthy sensations, darts of unrelenting force and power from eyes the contemplation of which unleash visual orgasms gripping you whole and total, while in her artful, harmonious body she just sits there, unaware of its impact on you..looking at you, just being herself, quiet, in the intimate knowledge of the xquisite womanhood.that shelters her.....
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THE BRAVE, THE FEW....THE ENTREPRENEURS......
The brave, the few, the entrepreneurs...
Quien alrededor del mundo no ha bebido una Coca Cola, o no se ha comido un "Mac"
o viajado en un auto de aqui para alla...o si tiene mas suerte, en avion desde su
pais a aquel de sus vacaciones, o....para que seguir...
It is not the same type of courage as that of those,,,,but still a large, very
large dosage of ingenuity, faith, confidency and trust was required in human beings and in
their society and that was the factor that motivated their actions, all of which
is not exempt from courage of the highest degree, not unlike that of those...
Without much fuzz, or concern about whether "I'll be damned if I do it!! or
damned if I don't!! they just went ahead and created......created jobs!!!!
...
Nation's Largest EmployersH (Source: FORTUNEZ MAGAZINE)
Company Employees
1. Wal-Mart 1,800,000
2. McDonald's 447,000
3. United Parcel Service 407,000
4. Sears Holdings 355,000
5. Home Depot 345,000 h
6. Target 337,000
7. IBM 329,373
8. General Motors 327,000
9. General Electric 316,000
10. Citigroup 303,000
11. Ford Motor 300,000
12. Kroger 289,000
13. Albertson's 240,000
14. United Technologies 222,200
15. Verizon Communications 217,000
16. FedEx 215,838
17. Safeway 201,000
18, Altria Group 199,000
19. Aramark 195,000
20. Berkshire Hathaway 192,012
21. AT&T 189,950
22. Delphi 185,200
23. Bank of America 176,638
24. JP Morgan Chase 168,847
25. Yum Brands 165,920
26. HCA 165,450
27. Lowe's 164,794
28. PepsiCo 157,000
29. Walgreen 155,200
30. Wells Fargo 153,500
31. Boeing 153,000
32. Darden Restaurants 150,100
33. Hewlett-Packard 150,000
34. Gap 150,000
35. JC Penney 150,000
36. Starwood Hotels and Resorts 145,000
37. Marriott International 143,000
38. Sara Lee 137,000
39. Lockheed Martin 135,000
40. Walt Disney 133,000
41. Alcoa 129,000
42. Northrop Grumman 123,600
43. Electronic Data Systems 117,000
44. Honeywell 116,000
45. Johnson & Johnson 115,600
46. Lear 115,113
47. Starbucks 115,000
48. Emerson Electric 114,200
49. CVS 114,000
50. Tyson Foods 114,000
Source: Fortune magazine
o h j e v o u d r a i t a n t q u e t u t e s o u v i e n s , d e s j o u r s
h e r e u x o u n o u s e t i o n s a m i s..... e n c e t e m p s l a l a v i e e t a i t p l us b e l l e e t l e s o l e i l p l u s b r i l l a n t q ' h a u j o o u r d u i ...etc. JACQUES PREVERT, Les feuilles mortes.
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Bits and pieces of thoughts coming to demand an answer from me, which I do NOT have:
would you be willing to plumb your darkest recessess in writing to a foreigner?
(like those in the preceding story reproduced from The New York Times)
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Un individuo, una nacion,.. cuantos anos hacia adelante proyecta su vida, su destino? Lo forja solo en el presente?
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The power of decision-making requires men equipped to handle the task - they are the leaders!!!!
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Do people remember what they read?...what they listen to? It is a question that I
would like to have a good, sound answer to. Some will say : It depends on what you read...or listen.... TRUE....but this is not the answer...
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Artists display confessions of passers-by...
Curiosity, inquisitiveness, challenges...are the stuff of the creators.
The following is an article reproduced from The New York Times today:
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Published: May 6, 2006
The woman in the storefront crooked her finger and silently beckoned.
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Confessions and portraits of passers-by at the "Inside/Out" installation.
"What, me?" a man on the other side of the glass asked nervously, glancing over his shoulder. "I have nothing to tell."
The woman, dressed in white like a 19th-century washerwoman, put her fingers to her lips and, with a wooden clothespin, underlined the words stenciled on the glass: "Air Your Dirty Laundry. 100% Confidential. Anonymous. Free!"
With that, the man picked up a clipboard with a blank sheet of paper and an envelope stamped "secret," and began to write. After a few seconds, he sealed his words — about a fleeting folly, perhaps? A mean-spirited act that had tormented him for decades? — and placed it in a bucket on the sidewalk. Only when he was well out of sight did the woman open the envelope (delivered to her by an unseen assistant), read the message and then tape it to a window full of secrets for the world to see.
Such exhibitionism is all part of "Inside/Out," a performance piece that opened on Thursday in a storefront at 112 West 44th Street in Manhattan. The two performing artists, Laura Barnett and Sandra Spannan, invite anyone and everyone to plumb their darkest recesses, and share.
As Ms. Barnett posted the anonymous missives, Ms. Spannan — her hair in a turban, a "third eye" pasted on her forehead and a pair of wings on her back — painted portraits from a storefront perch.
"Inside/Out" will be on view through Thursday in the window, one of several performance spaces operated by the nonprofit arts group Chashama.
It's hard to resist the temptation to compare sins.
On the first evening, there was this:
"I am dating a married man & getting financial compensation in exchange for the guilt. I'm 25 & he's a millionaire. It pays to be young."
And this:
"I make fun of this 1 friend behind her back all the time. She just enrages me! But I get freaked out when I think of what she might say about me ... I worry this means we're not really friends? Human relationships are infinitely confusing!"
The written secrets piled up, along with their odd punctuation and misspellings:
"My girlfriend & I both think Osama Bin Laden has a sweet-looking face."
"I like to be tied at my bed."
"The hermit crab was still alive when I threw it down the trash shoot."
"I haven't slept with my husband in a year & I am about to start an affair with ..."
"I want to see S.U.V.'s explode. Those people are so selfish."
"I haven't yet visited my dead parent's grave."
"New York make me feel lonely."
Ms. Spannan and Ms. Barnett began their individual halves of the project five years ago but have worked together since last June, first in a trial run at Chashama's former West 42nd Street gallery and then in Berlin, where Ms. Spannan grew up.
"The Germans were so dark," said Ms. Barnett, who was born in Manhattan. "It was like they had been waiting for us to come."
Though they arrived at their collaboration from separate points, they shared a goal.
"From Germany, I came to New York because of the diversity, and I used to sit on the subway and wonder who these people were," said Ms. Spannan, 35, who supports herself as a decorative painter for clients like Chanel.
"For me, that really was an important point," said Ms. Barnett, 41, who works as a casting director and producer, and teaches theater at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn. "I used to ride the subway and think: What if everyone had a cartoon bubble coming out of their head? What would their thoughts be?"
In search of answers, Ms. Spannan took her easel to the city's streets and painted portraits of whoever caught her attention. After Sept. 11, she set up shop across from ground zero and captured indelible grief.
"All these posters everywhere said 'Missing' and 'Wanted,' " she recalled. "My angle was to make people obsessed with images of people who are alive and that are sitting next to you, and you're ignoring."
Ms. Barnett decided to collect secrets by offering a makeshift confessional to anyone who might happen by.
"My goal was to have people reveal their innermost thoughts and in a way that is entirely confidential," she said. "What I found through this project is that no matter how much corporate culture tries to homogenize its citizens, people to the core try to reveal themselves on a basic level."
Ms. Barnett, too, gathered secrets at the World Trade Center, and in the rapidly changing Dumbo section of Brooklyn.
"There was a lot of questioning of identity, or impostor terror, a lot of anxiety about real estate, and super-duper amounts of bisexuality," she said. "There were major amounts of guilt in Dumbo, I'd say."
On West 42nd Street, "you got the feeling there were a lot of stories that went untold," Ms. Barnett said.
Clearly, that has changed. In the last five years each woman has collected thousands upon thousands of portraits and secrets, archiving every last one.
Some are obvious, pertaining to sexual infidelities, the workplace, AIDS, death. Others, not so: a fantasy about glass figurines and Arabian horse etchings. And body parts, especially feet.
"Some children's secrets really go under the skin," Ms. Spannan said, adding that some people write of having been sexually abused in their youth. "It's a way of feeling, 'I'm not alone,' " she said.
Then there was the person who said he had killed a man in 1957.
What did they do?
"I'm glad you asked that," Ms. Barnett said. "I take it in, and for me as an artist, after listening to all this, it can be extremely draining. I'm like a blank slate, with open pores. But do I go to the police? No."
Not that the women aren't often overwhelmed.
"Every single day," Ms. Barnett said firmly. "Because we go there, and the window is empty, and we're wearing all white. And at the end, the window is full and we're covered with paint. It's exhausting."
"Some of those things are really, really sad," she said, finally. "And afterwards, I need to take a bath."
FIGHTING CRIME.....ETC....
Reproduced from The New York Times today....
SEIZE THIS Detective Lee Reiber is the cellphone recovery specialist for the police department in Boise, Idaho. After a suspect's phone has been confiscated, Detective Reiber tries to copy everything stored on it onto a desktop computer, where he can analyze the information.
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By NOAH SHACHTMAN
Published: May 3, 2006
THE case against Dan Kincaid was strong. A homeowner in northern Boise, Idaho, had identified Mr. Kincaid, 44, as the person who had broken into his suburban house. But eyewitness testimony isn't always rock solid, and Mr. Kincaid was refusing to talk. The police wanted more. So they searched Mr. Kincaid's BlackBerry e-mail-capable phone electronically, and found all the evidence they needed.
"Just trying to find a way out of this neighborhood without getting caught," Mr. Kincaid wrote to his girlfriend on Aug. 1, 2005, shortly after he had been spotted. "Dogs bark if I'm between or behind houses. ... "
"Cops know I have a blue shirt on," he continued. "I need to get out of here before they find me."
Faced with his e-mailed admission, Mr. Kincaid agreed to a deal with prosecutors over that crime and a string of others. In February, he pleaded guilty to five counts of grand theft, resisting arrest and burglary.
"We seized his phone," said Detective Jeff Dustin of the Boise Police Department, "and instead of a jump shot, this case is a slam dunk."
Cellphones are everywhere: 825 million were sold last year, according to the market research firm IDC. And the phones do more than just dial numbers. With expanded memories, increasingly sophisticated organizer tools and sharper cameras, they are playing ever larger roles in the lives of almost everyone — including criminals. Drug dealers, rapists and murderers across the country have been caught based, at least partly, on the electronic gadgets they carry around.
But extracting clues and leads from mobile electronics is no cakewalk. Unlike personal computers, 90 percent or more of which use the Windows operating system, cellphones rely on a confusing jumble of software that varies from manufacturer to manufacturer and even phone to phone. Data is often hidden or encrypted. And as long as a phone is connected to its cellular network, there is always a chance that its call histories and text messages will be erased, deliberately or otherwise.
Police departments have only recently begun training investigators in the delicate art of mobile-electronics forensics.
"It's a gold mine of information," said Detective Lee Reiber, the Boise officer who extracted the messages from Mr. Kincaid's phone. "But law enforcement is still way behind the curve."
Detective Reiber, 34, a former minor league catcher and longtime computer programmer, has been the Boise department's resident cellphone recovery specialist for about a year.
He usually begins an investigation by isolating the electronic device believed to be involved in the crime. Suspects or their accomplices sometimes flood captured phones with messages or calls, resulting in the deletion of incriminating notes or numbers from the device's memory, which can only hold so much information at once. Connecting to the network drains battery life. So when Detective Reiber arrives on the scene, he places the phone in a "Faraday bag," a container made of triwoven copper, nickel and silver that keeps the phone from making or receiving calls.
Back at his office, Detective Reiber tries to copy everything stored on the cellphone onto a desktop computer, where he can analyze the information. It can be a tedious process. Mobile devices lack standard cables and ports, and manufacturers use dozens of different cables. Detective Reiber must maintain a stockpile, hundreds deep, to keep up with the staggering variety.
The assortment of operating systems running these devices is as varied as the cables that connect them, so there is no single software tool that an investigator can use to communicate with the operating system to extract the data. Amber Schroader, a cellphone and palmtop expert and chief executive at Paraben Forensics, which makes the best known of the extraction programs, said the company could crack a new operating system in about a week.
"But still, there are just too many phones," she said. "And the manufacturers work like families. Just because you can speak with me doesn't mean you can speak with my cousin in Switzerland. She probably speaks a different language."
But even with the right forensics program and the right cable, extracting cellphone data can be tricky. Several mobile phone companies use a six-digit code, called a Master Subsidy Lock, to prevent the devices from connecting to other companies' networks. The code has the effect of rendering many of the phones' files invisible to investigators. The same is true if a suspect has locked his phone with a personal identification number, or PIN.
"When that happens, it's like a six-foot cement wall with barbed wire goes up," Ms. Schroader said. "There's no looking through it."
With a court order, investigators can usually get a code from the manufacturer that unlocks the PIN. Inside the phone, there is often an astounding amount of information: deleted text messages; lengthy call histories; pictures and movies taken so long ago that the owner may not even remember taking them. In February, the police in Merrimack, N.H., recovered a Porsche and a $120,000 red Ferrari 355 Challenge from what the police described as a "chop shop" after finding pictures on a suspect's phone. Also in February, officers in Atlantic City found a stolen AK-47 submachine gun the same way.
"They're these oracles of information," said Richard Mislan, a professor at Purdue University's cyberforensics center. "We can predict so much about you, based on what's inside."
Detective Reiber recently helped catch a suspected local drug dealer, after he found pictures on a hand-held device of marijuana plants and growing equipment — as well a message telling the suspect that "we want the same as last time. can you do it? 40 dollars." Phone in hand, the officers searched the suspect's car and home, finding three ounces of marijuana, bags and scales.
"If there's no cellphone, there's no vehicle, no home, no bust," Detective Reiber said. "The phone was the key."
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