Re: [scifinoir2] True Blood Star Pacquin Comes Out on Video
Swingers are not poly. They are 180 degrees different than poly. Poly people have on going lasting relationships, swingers are in it for the sex. Anything over 15 minutes is a long time for a swinger. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: I have friends who are poly, and they manage to work it out nicely. I personally think that an equal triad is the most stable poly relationship out there, and with few exceptions they seem to thrive on relationship drama with one person bouncing to a new person repeatedly for the NRE (new relationship energy) that they crave when they get bored with someone else. I don't mean to be cynical; there are a lot of genuine, stable poly relationships out there. But I also have met people who are poly for all the wrong reasons and really ought to either be called swingers or casual daters. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The term open relationship is not what I was talking about. Open relationship implies that the partner is sleeping around. Which is not what I was talking about. That is more like swinging which is sex without emotional attachments. I was talking about the creation of a triad (A couple plus one) relationship where there is a steady woman for Pacquin and she remains married. Poly (in its various forms) create a relationship bond between multiple people. A couple examples of this was used in scifi recently. Dr.Flox from Enterprise, and the teacher on Caprica. Basically the person spends time with another person other than her husband on an emotional level and may or may not include sex. With the teacher on Caprica they are all married. That is a polygyndry relationship or group marriage. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Oh, I get that works for some people. I'm just from the one person at a time/one person for life school... Personally I think unneeded complications can enter when people start into sharing partners, having so-called open relationships, etc. But again, that's just not my thing. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2010 11:06:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] True Blood Star Pacquin Comes Out on Video Sexual attraction does not equate to love, however it is possible to love more than one person at the same time. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure if that is normal or not, but it was my point, in cases where this is desired. My personal belief is in long term marriage for me and one other person. Hence, I'd be concerned if getting with someone who finds someone on the other side of the fence attractive: if those needs grow and must be met, that relationship to me is over. My views, for myself. This is no advice, judgement, or disapproval for anyone else's lifestyle... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2010 6:18:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] True Blood Star Pacquin Comes Out on Video This is something that needs to be discussed at the beginning of the relationship so there aren't any surprises. If one's partner is bi then there should be arrangements made that allows him or her to be with a person that they are interested in outside of the marriage without reprisal. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: There's insecurity, true. But, as I asked in my long post to Adrianne, if a straight person were to get into a relationship with a bi person, is it realistic or fair to expect that bi person to be happy forever? Let's leave judgement and prejudices about gay or bi promiscuity out of it, as I don't subscribe to those thoughts. What I'm saying is, if my mate finds women as attractive as men, can she really be happy with just me for the rest of her life? I believe in marrying for life; again, not a judgement or moral standing. It's just my preference. I absolutely think marriage isn't for everyone. But if I'm in it for the next 40 or 50 years, can I be assured my wife, who is bi, will be cool living the straight life only for that long? Isn't that asking her to deny a whole half of her needs? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent:
[scifinoir2] (Non-sci-fi) the movie Cadence, song End of My Journey'
I've never seen nor even heard of this movie 'Cadence' until about 2 hours ago, I came across this clip on Youtube while searching for something else. I'll buy it this week. Does anyone know whatever happened to Harry Stewart? This song/performance is emotional...he took it to the cotton field...Last I heard he never had the song published and was homeless...Story goes that Martin Sheen met Harry on the street in LA, he wasn't a professional musician or actor, asked if he wanted to be in the film, gave him a few lines, yet Harry wrote this song and sang it live in the movielove to know what happened to him... 'End of My Journey' movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMre6qM9TrUfeature=related Said Yenga Kakese Dibinga Director General, Bayindo Group SA POB 1782 Los Angeles, CA 90078-1782 em: s...@bayindogroup.com skype: saiddibinga
Re: [scifinoir2] (Non-sci-fi) the movie Cadence, song End of My Journey'
No idea, Said. If I do find him, though, I'll build him a house and recording studio... ([?] tears of [?]) On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Said Kakese Dibinga s...@bayindogroup.comwrote: I've never seen nor even heard of this movie 'Cadence' until about 2 hours ago, I came across this clip on Youtube while searching for something else. I'll buy it this week. Does anyone know whatever happened to Harry Stewart? This song/performance is emotional...he took it to the cotton field...Last I heard he never had the song published and was homeless...Story goes that Martin Sheen met Harry on the street in LA, he wasn't a professional musician or actor, asked if he wanted to be in the film, gave him a few lines, yet Harry wrote this song and sang it live in the movielove to know what happened to him... 'End of My Journey' movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMre6qM9TrUfeature=related Said Yenga Kakese Dibinga Director General, Bayindo Group SA POB 1782 Los Angeles, CA 90078-1782 em: s...@bayindogroup.com skype: saiddibinga 33A.gif330.gif
RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. _ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5
[scifinoir2] Re: OT: Newark Records First Murder-Free Month in Decades
It is Newark's fate that when they should be touting a murder-free month this is what predominates the news regarding Newark: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/03/5-charged-in-gang-rape-of_n_524501.html TRENTON, N.J. Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state's capital, police said. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Wow, how sad that this is a good statistic, but how great it is to read it. I know the so-called War on Drugs has rightfully been attacked as a mistaken label and direction, but in cases where known drug dealing is directly related to murder, something has to be done. I've been impressed with Mayor Booker. he seems like the real deal. I'm sure those of you who live up that way will disabuse me of that notion if it's incorrect! * http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/newark_officials_police_credit.html Newark officials credit first homicide-free month in 44 years to 'large-scale' drug sweeps By Star-Ledger Staff April 02, 2010, 8:00AM newark.JPGAristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger An aerial photo of the city of Newark. NEWARK -- When the clock struck midnight on April 1, Newark reached a milestone: its first homicide-free calendar month in 44 years. While police and city officials say thatâs a solid benchmark, they say thereâs more work to do. I just think its amazing. Four consecutive weeks without a murder, Police Director Garry McCarthy said. The program strategies and policies are working and weâre going to stick with them, but the goal is zero (homicides). Itâs going to take us a while to get to zero, but right now these are big changes, he said. McCarthy credited large-scale sweeps at some of the cityâs most notorious drug strongholds â in one case nearly 150 arrests during a six-month operation â as well as increased police presence on city streets at night with helping keep the city without a homicide from Feb. 28 through tonight. City officials also said community safety caravans as well as the installation of the ShotSpotters gunshot detection system and surveillance cameras in high-crime neighborhoods has helped. The last time a calendar month passed without a homicide in the stateâs largest city was May 1966. McCarthy said his goal is to keep the streak going as long as possible. In 2008, the city went 43 days in March and April without a homicide, the longest span since 1961. The reason this is happening is because of the takedown at (Garden) Spires , the reason why itâs happening is because of the takedown at Stephen Crane, Pennington Court, McCarthy said, referring to several housing projects known as havens for drug dealers. Step by step, thereâs a systematic clean-up of all these traditional locations ...Weâre attacking and holding on to those locations. There have been 10 homicides in Newark during the first three months of the year, matching the total for the same period a year ago. Thatâs the second-lowest first-quarter total since 1941, police said. Since taking over the Newark Police Department in 2006, McCarthyâs approach to reducing the cityâs homicide rate has been simple â fewer shootings will result in fewer deaths. That strategy appears to have held true in March, with only eight reported shootings. In March 2009, there were 11 shootings, resulting in three homicides, according to police records. McCarthy said the arrest of 149 suspected drug dealers at the Garden Spires apartments during a six-month undercover operation may have helped stifle the homicide rate by preventing narcotics disputes that often turn deadly. That group of drug dealers was responsible for an inordinate amount of violence, he said. This drug gang was involved in violent acts in a lot of other places too, not just Garden Spires. Overall, Newarkâs crime rate has dropped 13 percent compared to the first-quarter of 2009, with shootings, aggravated assaults, robberies and carjackings all lower than a year ago, police said. We have made major strides in reducing crime in Newark and providing our residents with a safer, stronger, and prouder community, Mayor Cory Booker said today. This has been the result of new alliances, 21st-century technology, innovative approaches to protecting our city, groundbreaking efforts to prevent recidivism, the support of our residents, and the courage and valor manifested by Newarkâs police officers.
[scifinoir2] Re: (Non-sci-fi) the movie Cadence, song End of My Journey'
I have seen Cadence. Saw it on the big screen in 1990. Own it on VHS. I don't remember it for this song, however. I remember it for the performances of Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach and John Toles-Bey. What I remember most vividly is the step, call and response of the cadence performed by the black soldiers imprisoned/enslaved in an army stockade. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAi-77fonAfeature=related The movie can easily be deconstructed as a trenchant allegory about being black in America or as yet another movie where what should be a black man's tale is high-jacked by the less compelling journey of a white man (Charlie Sheen). It occurs to me how brave Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Story (1984) was and is. If Story had not begun as a play (or, if the play had been written by a white man), the lead, Army Investigator Captain Davenport played by Howard E. Rollins, Jr., would have been played by a white actor from the Gregory Peck school of acting. The movie is unsatisfying on many levels because it concentrates on Charlie Sheen's rebel without a cause who is just passing through instead of on the real men doing hard time (primarily for being black in a white man's army). ~(no)rave! Said Kakese Dibinga s...@... wrote: I've never seen nor even heard of this movie 'Cadence' until about 2 hours ago, I came across this clip on Youtube while searching for something else. I'll buy it this week. Does anyone know whatever happened to Harry Stewart? This song/performance is emotional...he took it to the cotton field...Last I heard he never had the song published and was homeless...Story goes that Martin Sheen met Harry on the street in LA, he wasn't a professional musician or actor, asked if he wanted to be in the film, gave him a few lines, yet Harry wrote this song and sang it live in the movielove to know what happened to him... 'End of My Journey' movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMre6qM9TrUfeature=related Said Yenga Kakese Dibinga Director General, Bayindo Group SA POB 1782 Los Angeles, CA 90078-1782 em: s...@... skype: saiddibinga
[scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
I'm old (53 and 11/12ths) so when I saw the first of the Burger King King commercials I was like WTF? Later, I discovered the commercials weren't aimed at me (go figure!), they were aimed at super users, those young, 18 to 30 year olds who frequent their local Burger King establishment 3 to 4 times a week (often late at night). These super-users are the backbone of the Burger King business and are the target of the current campaign. ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... wrote: I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. _ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5
[scifinoir2] Re: OT: Newark Records First Murder-Free Month in Decades
My bad. I guess what is truly sad is that I read an article about TRENTON, N.J. and ASSUMED it was referring to Newark. Wow. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: It is Newark's fate that when they should be touting a murder-free month this is what predominates the news regarding Newark: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/03/5-charged-in-gang-rape-of_n_524501.html TRENTON, N.J. Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state's capital, police said. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: Wow, how sad that this is a good statistic, but how great it is to read it. I know the so-called War on Drugs has rightfully been attacked as a mistaken label and direction, but in cases where known drug dealing is directly related to murder, something has to be done. I've been impressed with Mayor Booker. he seems like the real deal. I'm sure those of you who live up that way will disabuse me of that notion if it's incorrect! * http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/newark_officials_police_credit.html Newark officials credit first homicide-free month in 44 years to 'large-scale' drug sweeps By Star-Ledger Staff April 02, 2010, 8:00AM newark.JPGAristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger An aerial photo of the city of Newark. NEWARK -- When the clock struck midnight on April 1, Newark reached a milestone: its first homicide-free calendar month in 44 years. While police and city officials say thatâs a solid benchmark, they say thereâs more work to do. I just think its amazing. Four consecutive weeks without a murder, Police Director Garry McCarthy said. The program strategies and policies are working and weâre going to stick with them, but the goal is zero (homicides). Itâs going to take us a while to get to zero, but right now these are big changes, he said. McCarthy credited large-scale sweeps at some of the cityâs most notorious drug strongholds â in one case nearly 150 arrests during a six-month operation â as well as increased police presence on city streets at night with helping keep the city without a homicide from Feb. 28 through tonight. City officials also said community safety caravans as well as the installation of the ShotSpotters gunshot detection system and surveillance cameras in high-crime neighborhoods has helped. The last time a calendar month passed without a homicide in the stateâs largest city was May 1966. McCarthy said his goal is to keep the streak going as long as possible. In 2008, the city went 43 days in March and April without a homicide, the longest span since 1961. The reason this is happening is because of the takedown at (Garden) Spires , the reason why itâs happening is because of the takedown at Stephen Crane, Pennington Court, McCarthy said, referring to several housing projects known as havens for drug dealers. Step by step, thereâs a systematic clean-up of all these traditional locations ...Weâre attacking and holding on to those locations. There have been 10 homicides in Newark during the first three months of the year, matching the total for the same period a year ago. Thatâs the second-lowest first-quarter total since 1941, police said. Since taking over the Newark Police Department in 2006, McCarthyâs approach to reducing the cityâs homicide rate has been simple â fewer shootings will result in fewer deaths. That strategy appears to have held true in March, with only eight reported shootings. In March 2009, there were 11 shootings, resulting in three homicides, according to police records. McCarthy said the arrest of 149 suspected drug dealers at the Garden Spires apartments during a six-month undercover operation may have helped stifle the homicide rate by preventing narcotics disputes that often turn deadly. That group of drug dealers was responsible for an inordinate amount of violence, he said. This drug gang was involved in violent acts in a lot of other places too, not just Garden Spires. Overall, Newarkâs crime rate has dropped 13 percent compared to the first-quarter of 2009, with shootings, aggravated assaults, robberies and carjackings all lower than a year ago, police said. We have made major strides in reducing crime in Newark and providing our residents with a safer, stronger, and prouder community, Mayor Cory Booker said today. This has been the result of new alliances, 21st-century technology, innovative approaches to protecting our city, groundbreaking efforts to prevent recidivism, the support of our
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
Happy nearing birthday, Rave! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:19:34 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group I'm old (53 and 11/12ths) so when I saw the first of the Burger King King commercials I was like WTF? Later, I discovered the commercials weren't aimed at me (go figure!), they were aimed at super users, those young, 18 to 30 year olds who frequent their local Burger King establishment 3 to 4 times a week (often late at night). These super-users are the backbone of the Burger King business and are the target of the current campaign. ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... wrote: I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. __ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 _ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1
Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
Aubrey, then you'll *love* that video. I checked my Yahu files for it, but I've lost it, thanks to their notion of fixing what isn't broken. Wait... let me use this magnificent thing known as the Internet... Well, this isn't the whole thing (pun unintentional, I assure you), but the punchline is still there. NSFW, and the title might offend some as well.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fshdNeM9DfU On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com wrote: I love the creepy king! *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Dime/exact_match=exact Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. -- The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Newark Records First Murder-Free Month in Decades
Well, it still speaks to the regrettable image that the state of NJ has as a whole... - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 9:24:03 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Newark Records First Murder-Free Month in Decades My bad. I guess what is truly sad is that I read an article about TRENTON, N.J. and ASSUMED it was referring to Newark. Wow. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: It is Newark's fate that when they should be touting a murder-free month this is what predominates the news regarding Newark: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/03/5-charged-in-gang-rape-of_n_524501.html TRENTON, N.J. — Two men and three teenage boys were charged Saturday with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building in the state's capital, police said. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: Wow, how sad that this is a good statistic, but how great it is to read it. I know the so-called War on Drugs has rightfully been attacked as a mistaken label and direction, but in cases where known drug dealing is directly related to murder, something has to be done. I've been impressed with Mayor Booker. he seems like the real deal. I'm sure those of you who live up that way will disabuse me of that notion if it's incorrect! * http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/newark_officials_police_credit.html Newark officials credit first homicide-free month in 44 years to 'large-scale' drug sweeps By Star-Ledger Staff April 02, 2010, 8:00AM newark.JPGAristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger An aerial photo of the city of Newark. NEWARK -- When the clock struck midnight on April 1, Newark reached a milestone: its first homicide-free calendar month in 44 years. While police and city officials say that’s a solid benchmark, they say there’s more work to do. I just think its amazing. Four consecutive weeks without a murder, Police Director Garry McCarthy said. The program strategies and policies are working and we’re going to stick with them, but the goal is zero (homicides). It’s going to take us a while to get to zero, but right now these are big changes, he said. McCarthy credited large-scale sweeps at some of the city’s most notorious drug strongholds †in one case nearly 150 arrests during a six-month operation †as well as increased police presence on city streets at night with helping keep the city without a homicide from Feb. 28 through tonight. City officials also said community safety caravans as well as the installation of the ShotSpotters gunshot detection system and surveillance cameras in high-crime neighborhoods has helped. The last time a calendar month passed without a homicide in the state’s largest city was May 1966. McCarthy said his goal is to keep the streak going as long as possible. In 2008, the city went 43 days in March and April without a homicide, the longest span since 1961. The reason this is happening is because of the takedown at (Garden) Spires , the reason why it’s happening is because of the takedown at Stephen Crane, Pennington Court, McCarthy said, referring to several housing projects known as havens for drug dealers. Step by step, there’s a systematic clean-up of all these traditional locations ...We’re attacking and holding on to those locations. There have been 10 homicides in Newark during the first three months of the year, matching the total for the same period a year ago. That’s the second-lowest first-quarter total since 1941, police said. Since taking over the Newark Police Department in 2006, McCarthy’s approach to reducing the city’s homicide rate has been simple †fewer shootings will result in fewer deaths. That strategy appears to have held true in March, with only eight reported shootings. In March 2009, there were 11 shootings, resulting in three homicides, according to police records. McCarthy said the arrest of 149 suspected drug dealers at the Garden Spires apartments during a six-month undercover operation may have helped stifle the homicide rate by preventing narcotics disputes that often turn deadly. That group of drug dealers was responsible for an inordinate amount of violence, he said. This drug gang was involved in violent acts in a lot of other places too, not just Garden Spires. Overall, Newark’s crime rate has dropped 13 percent compared to the first-quarter of 2009, with shootings, aggravated assaults, robberies and carjackings all lower than a year ago, police said.
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: (Non-sci-fi) the movie Cadence, song End of My Journey'
Keith, that travesty you speak of was Sunset Park, and basketball was the sport. I name it only in the hopes that good folks everywhere will AVOID it.. On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I completely agree. The white man saves the day angle is so overplayed it's driving me away from many movies. Last night I had trouble sleeping, and surfed the tube. There was a movie with Rhea Perlman about a lady who helps a bunch of tough, inner city kids succeed. I can't remember if she's their football or basketball coach, or just their teacher. At any rate, I saw a scene where a hardened young brother told her it couldn't be done (whatever it was) and then stomped off. I just know later on she'd not only help the young men do it, but that same brother would probably be the first one to hug her and say thank you for believing in us. I turned the channel in disgust. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 9:14:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: (Non-sci-fi) the movie Cadence, song End of My Journey' I have seen Cadence. Saw it on the big screen in 1990. Own it on VHS. I don't remember it for this song, however. I remember it for the performances of Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach and John Toles-Bey. What I remember most vividly is the step, call and response of the cadence performed by the black soldiers imprisoned/enslaved in an army stockade. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAi-77fonAfeature=related The movie can easily be deconstructed as a trenchant allegory about being black in America or as yet another movie where what should be a black man's tale is high-jacked by the less compelling journey of a white man (Charlie Sheen). It occurs to me how brave Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Story (1984) was and is. If Story had not begun as a play (or, if the play had been written by a white man), the lead, Army Investigator Captain Davenport played by Howard E. Rollins, Jr., would have been played by a white actor from the Gregory Peck school of acting. The movie is unsatisfying on many levels because it concentrates on Charlie Sheen's rebel without a cause who is just passing through instead of on the real men doing hard time (primarily for being black in a white man's army). ~(no)rave! Said Kakese Dibinga s...@... wrote: I've never seen nor even heard of this movie 'Cadence' until about 2 hours ago, I came across this clip on Youtube while searching for something else. I'll buy it this week. Does anyone know whatever happened to Harry Stewart? This song/performance is emotional...he took it to the cotton field...Last I heard he never had the song published and was homeless...Story goes that Martin Sheen met Harry on the street in LA, he wasn't a professional musician or actor, asked if he wanted to be in the film, gave him a few lines, yet Harry wrote this song and sang it live in the movielove to know what happened to him... 'End of My Journey' movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMre6qM9TrUfeature=related Said Yenga Kakese Dibinga Director General, Bayindo Group SA POB 1782 Los Angeles, CA 90078-1782 em: s...@... skype: saiddibinga
Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
For me, Keith, Option C as well, with the addendum that I have a sword I purchased for 20 bucks at my bedside. All I can do is hack with it, bad wrist being what it is, but hacking does the job. [?] On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see that plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop the body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer you food. Do you: (a) Jump for joy and say, Hey, King! Thanks for the burger! and then invite him to share it with you in your bed? (b) Say, Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the window on your way out, then roll over and go to sleep... or (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball bat/golf club/mace/pepper spray? Me? Option C all the way baby! - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group I love the creepy king! *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Dime/exact_match=exact Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. -- The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 330.gif
RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;) Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover Dime Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see that plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop the body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer you food. Do you: (a) Jump for joy and say, Hey, King! Thanks for the burger! and then invite him to share it with you in your bed? (b) Say, Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the window on your way out, then roll over and go to sleep... or (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball bat/golf club/mace/pepper spray? Me? Option C all the way baby! - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. _ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4
Re: [scifinoir2] Missing link between man and apes found
Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: The screaming you hear is from every fire-and-brimstone preacher south of the Mason-Dixon, lest anyone wonder... Seriously, this is amazing stuff. Fuel for part of the story I'm working on. Thanks again, Brent! Story? Of what variety? Inquiring minds... Brent On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/7550033/Missing-link-between-man-and-apes-found.html Missing link between man and apes found. A missing link between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered
[scifinoir2] Movies that make you love them
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/movies-that-make-you-love-them/article1521282/ Movies that make you love them Filmmakers are searching out new ways to mine your celluloid sweet spot Liam Lacey From Saturday's Globe and Mail In the future, instead of going to movie theatres and staring at giant screens, perhaps we will attach a cable to our computers, plug it into the sides of our skulls - and get lost. That could be the eventual outcome of neurocinema, an emerging technology that promises to shape films to maximize brain excitement, allowing Hollywood studios to know exactly what you want better than you do. As columnist Scott Brown sardonically noted in Wired magazine last month: Movie houses will become crack dens with cup holders, and Ill lie there mainlining pure viewing pleasure for hours. The concern that movies may take over our brains goes back at least to 1931 and Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, which featured an entertainment system called the feelies inspired by Huxleys horror at watching his first sound movie. Novels made into such movies as The Parallax View and A Clockwork Orange show heroes brainwashed by film. But could brain research also make films better? Neurocinema is an offshoot of neuromarketing, a term coined by Dutch marketing expert Ale Smidts in 2002. It, in turn, is a branch of advertising research that uses brain-imaging techniques, including the functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (or fMRI, which measures blood flow to parts of the brain) and electroencephalography (EEG, which measures electrical activity) to peer into our brains - and, more specifically, into the subconscious thoughts, feelings and desires that drive purchasing decisions as branding guru Martin Lindstrom writes in Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy. Its no longer the stuff of science fiction: Coca-Cola, Unilever, Campbells Soup and Levi Strauss have used brain scanning to develop advertising strategies, and marketing jargon is full of excited talk about finding the buy button in consumers heads. Neuromarketing buzz has influenced the move industry, too. More than a year before Avatar hit screens, James Cameron boasted that fMRI machines would show the brain was much more active while watching his 3-D film than while taking in a conventional movie. This months South by Southwest festival in Austin played to the film-geek crowd with a panel called Big Brother in Your Brain: Neuroscience and Marketing. And last fall, such media outlets as Wired, CNN and National Public Radio carried the story of a San Diego company called Mindsign Neuromarketing, which announced it was revolutionizing films by using an fMRI machine to test scenes from a horror movie called Pop Skull. But on closer inspection, it didnt take a brain scientist to diagnose a bad case of neuro hype. The test involved only one subject, a 24-year-old woman who watched two scenes from the movie, three times. According to film producer Peter Katz, this was the first step in a brave new filmmaking world where filmmakers will be able to track precisely which sequences/scenes excite, emotionally engage or lose the viewers interest based on what regions of the brain are activated. From that info, a director can edit, reshoot an actors bad performance, adjust a score, pump up visual effects and apply any other changes to improve or replace the least compelling scenes. Most brain-movie research to date makes more modest claims. For example, in 2004, Professor Uri Hasson and his New York University colleagues showed five subjects different scenes, lasting about 30 minutes, of the Sergio Leone 1966 western, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and discovered the brains of different individuals show a highly significant tendency to act in unison. No big surprise there. But later, in a 2008 test, the same researchers looked into how moviegoers experience different films. This time, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly aroused about 45-per-cent similar brain reaction among the subjects. By contrast, the loosely structured TV comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm hit only 18-per-cent common brain activity, while an episode of the vintage television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents scored a whopping 65-per-cent uniformity, confirming the Master of Suspenses claim that he played his audience like an instrument. After Hassons initial experiment, Hollywood executives commissioned Steven Quartz, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology, to try to improve the effectiveness of movie trailers. Quartz claimed to have discovered an area of the brain, at the base of the orbitofrontal cortex, that indicates how much people are anticipating a movie when they are watching a trailer or how much liking they have. Other researchers are dubious. Neurologist Richard Restak, author of The Naked Brain: How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love, points out that a large area of the brain
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[scifinoir2] You Are Not a Gadget
http://www.straight.com/article-301207/vancouver/q-jaron-lanier-author-you-are-not-gadget Q A: Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget By Brian Lynch Theres plenty of people raising warning flags about adverse cultural effects of the Internet, but few of them have the credentials of Jaron Lanier. Back in the digital eras Cretaceous period, in the 1980s, the New Mexicoborn Lanier was one of a small group of pioneering Silicon Valley programmers working on virtual reality and other technologies that bordered on science fiction. He was also a founding contributing editor of the hugely influential tech magazine Wired. Hes worked in the field ever since, designing sophisticated applications for university networks, as well as computer simulations for medical training and research. But as the years have passed and computers have shaped more and more of our lives, Lanier has become increasingly wary. His new book, You Are Not a Gadget (Knopf, 209 pp), is a manifesto that sets out a searing critique of Web idealism. Much of it is aimed squarely at whats sometimes called Web 2.0 - Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, and the like, to name just a few of the most famous and widely used sites that rely on user interaction and information-sharing. Lanier argues that the effect of these Web-based phenomena on who we are and how we see ourselves is often dehumanizing. Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks, and lightweight mashups may seem trivial and harmless, he writes, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned interpersonal interaction. The Straight caught up with Lanier by phone, during a brief visit he made recently to Toronto. Georgia Straight: You argue in the book that the design of the information systems we now use constantly - especially the design of social networks and other examples of whats called Web 2.0 - alters basic things about us as humans, and not always for the better. Jaron Lanier: What Ive observed is that slight changes in technology can really change the way people behave and the way they conceive of themselves. For instance, if in Facebook youre given a set of categories to choose from that describes something about you or your life, like romantic status or something like that, you tend to start thinking of your life in terms of that system, because youre interacting with everybody via it, youre planning things via it. So at a certain point it just becomes real for you, even if otherwise you might have thought about things slightly differently. And the slight differences are really where the core of meaning is. So these slight adjustments shouldnt be discounted. If I can give you one other example, one of the ways that behaviour modification is being most effectively offered on-line is that we dole out little dollops of useability or ease of use. So, for instance, right now, if youre a programmer, if youre digitally skilled, then you do have a shot at controlling your privacy settings on Facebook. But if youre a normal person, if youre not technical, you really dont . And so people change their ideas about privacy rather than having to learn to be programmers, given that choice. In other words, if you just tell somebody, Hey, why dont you give up privacy so this company thats operating like a spy agency can gather all the information about your life in order to help advertisers reach you better? youd say, Are you kidding? No way. But if its given to you as a choice - like, Either learn to be a programmer, so you can control it, or just accept that youre going to have less privacy, and that youre going to grant all this power to this other company - you know, if its put as a choice that way, people say, Well, I dont want to learn to program. So all of a sudden their standards change. GS: This is a gradual process, then, as if you dont really notice your own attitudes shifting in these ways. JL: Right. Well, actually, more to the point, its as young people come up - its a generational process. And were presenting a set of choices to a younger generation as if theyre normal. Furthermore, were telling that younger generation that they should identify with them, so that anybody who disagrees with it should be treated as an old fogey, when in fact the people pushing those choices on them are as old or older than anyone who might criticize them. In my case, theyre the same age, because the people who are pushing it are my old friends. Its like one circle of people who are both opposing it and pushing it. GS: One way you sum up your argument about Facebook is in the idea that information underrepresents reality by turning us into these fields of factoids. But isnt that underestimating the services users? Isnt there enough of the old, personal part of their identity that they recognize theres a difference between who they are and these lists of facts? JL: It depends how old
