Did you know that fish like the electric eel and the electric ray can produce high voltage electric shocks as high as 700 volts.  Although these electric shocks can only be discharged in short bursts they are extremely effective as both an attack and defense mechanism. To put things into perspective the electricity levels involved with an eel could protect it from most large predators such as anacondas and crocodiles, and may even be enough to kill a human.

So how on earth do they create electricity from within their own bodies. The answer lies in the presence of specialised cells called electrocytes. On average an electric eel might have around 7000 of these cells and with each cell being able to produce 0.1 volts of electricity you can quickly see where all that voltage comes from.

The Kangaroo Hop

Did you know that the kangaroo is the only large animal that uses hopping as a form of movement. In fact the kangaroo hops so efficiently that it can easily hop at speeds of around 25mph for distances up to  2km and over short distances can hit speeds as high as 40-45mph.

Despite the kangaroo having such a fast and energy efficient hopping technique it unfortunately cannot walk in the conventional sense. Rather it uses its tail and fore limbs to help it pivot and almost crawl if it needs only move a few steps.

Water Can Crack Metal

Did you know that water can expand in volume by around 1/9th of its total composition. This means that when frozen it occupies more space than when in liquid form.

The above phenomena is very common in houses where water pipes burst over the winter due to ice forming in the pipes. The pipes which were once wide enough for water to go through are now too small when the ice forms.

The brittle nature of the metal when it feezes combined with the ice expanding causes them to crack. In fact the enormous power of frozen water is also used in quarries to loosen up huge blocks of rocks.

What Is a Light Year?

A light year is the total distance travelled by a beam of light in one year. A beam of light can travel at up to 300,000 km/sec and the approximate distance covered in a year works out to be 9,470,000,000,000 km (1 light year = 9.47 x10¹² km). So why did scientists create this new unit of measure ?

Well as you can imagine the universe is so vast that talking about the distances between stars and planets was just unmanagable with miles and kilometres. For this reason a standardised unit of measure which we call the light year was created.

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El archivo ha sido eliminado pero no antes de que muchos usuarios hayan confirmado gracias a un visor hexadecimal que el archivo es una copia del que distribuyera el grupo Reloaded. Y por supuesto funciona… aunque no creo que le paguen derechos de autor…

Todo este asunto ha sido eliminado de los foros oficiales de Ubisoft y el administrador de los mismos ha declarado que este escándalo está siendo investigado a fondo por el grupo de soporte.

Algunos usuarios llaman ya a la empresa “Noobiesoft”. De traca.

via the inquirer

No site da fonte aparece uma descrição no patch onde aparece a expressão "reloaded".

Fonte: GameVicio.com.br

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Josh Hamilton is a baseball player, currently playing for the Texas Rangers. But more importantly, he's a child of God, who once battled the addictions of crack and alcohol. He may be a beam of light to some and to others a savior, but he know who his real savior is, Jesus Christ.

Excerpts:

• How am I here? I can only shrug and say, "It's a God thing." It's the only possible explanation. There's a reason my prayers weren't answered during those dark, messed-up nights I spent scared out of my mind. There's a reason I have this blessed and unexpected opportunity to play baseball and tell people my story.

• To me, the lesson was obvious: Alone, I couldn't win this battle. With Jesus, I couldn't lose.

• And on this particular night, a little boy of about 9 or 10, wearing a Reds cap, handed me a pen and something to sign. Nothing unusual there, but as I was writing the boy said, "Josh, you're my savior." This stopped me. I looked at him and said, "Well, thank you. Do you know who my savior is?" He thought for a minute. I could see the gears turning. Finally, he smiled and blurted out, "Jesus Christ." He said it like he'd just come up with the answer to a test. "That's exactly right," I said.

Josh Hamilton Testimony Here

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Work/Life/School - I got fired from my job two weeks into January. That was depressing. Totally out of nowhere too. I was doing well. Hell, I was going great. Maybe it's cause I was too much. I don't I fit in a conservative setting, and I know that. I make it hard for old white people to relate to me, and I'm too stubborn to be proper for anyone. After some job searching, I gave up and decided to go back to school. I want my degree. Not only for myself, but I want to make my parents proud. They're old school and shit. They want to see me walk. Deal. I'll do that shit. Music industry, here I come.

My parents split not too long ago. I don't even know how to feel about it to tell you the truth. This is something that should have happened at least 15 years ago. One day while I was on a mini-vacataion, I came home, and my mom straight up said "I'm leaving your dad." and now she's gone. I'm not even sad about it. Well, I'm upset that she's gone and shit, and we're not a family anymore, but it's whatever. I'm grown, I understand. I'm gonna live with my dad for a bit, let him get on my nerves, then I'll find a nice party house to live in. Yay life.

I'm cutting soda out of my diet. Ali told me about how shitty energy drinks are for you, so I cut those out with the quickness, and I haven't had one in a month. Soda is next. I bought a 24 case of Dr. Pepper like a week ago, and I've been drinking them like a madman. I'm on my last two, and I'm sure I'll finish these tonight and then cut that out. I gotta slim down and get in proper shape. I'm tired of the love handles. Ask ya mama, she's tired of them too.

Travel - Whoa! I went to Europe with Ali and Muñoz this Spring. It was an epic trip that I will never forget. I spent most of my trip drinking, and falling in love with every woman I encountered. I think all three of us fell in love at least 82 times. Anyway, it was so fun. I smoked pot, I danced, I pissed in a river. Cool shit. The next time I go to Europe, I'm definitely going to stay longer, and visit a lot of other countries. Hopefully it's with the same two assholes I went with this year.

I also went to Canada. Toronto to be exact. This was a much shorter trip, and I spent way less time drunk..and high. haha. Okay, so I smoked pot again. It was the last time! Anyway. Toronto is a wonderful city, and I would like to spend more time there. Maybe I'm just saying that because the entire time I was there, I was surrounded by many, many beautiful women. Beautiful women that knew my name. There's a difference. hahaha. I was there on behalf of pornography, and the art of tattooing. A good reason to travel I would think.

Music - 2008's been okay so far. I've bought several CDs, most have been good. Some were just bad. Let's talk about rock!

Attack & Release by The Black Keys - Whoa, someone tell Dangermouse to stay away from rap forever, and stick to doing this. This album sounds a lot cleaner than Magic Potion's gritty ass sound, but I'm sure this was a step in the right direction. I heard "Strange Times" more than once on the radio. That's a win as far as I'm concerned.

The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta - Ah, they stopped doing hard drugs a while ago, but they continue with the weird shit. This concept was definitely the strangest yet. Supposedly Omar bought Cedric an evil ouija board from Israel while on vacation. Ouija board has magical powers, almost breaks band up, record is born. I can't imagine how the convo went when they decided to make this album..

Omar: Hey, you know that Ouija board that almost killed us?
Cedric: ...
Omar: Let's make an album about it.
Cedric: ..I'm down. Let me write some weird shit that doesn't make sense, but totally does when you think about it.
Omar: Cool, let me program some freaky ass sounds into this keyboard. You should check out these riffs I'm writing, they sound like animals dying.
Cedric: Should we tell the other guys?
Omar: No, only tell Thomas. He's going to have to drum for 3 hours straight at our live shows. By the way, how does this vest from the 1930's look on me? I couldn't find the matching top hat.
Thomas: Hey gang..

That's my attempt at humor. It may sound like I am bashing TMV, but I'm not. I truly enjoyed this album. Maybe not as much as Frances the Mute, but it's up there. My only beef with it was that although the concept seemed like it would be tighter than ever, everything just seems so unorganized. I had the pleasure of watching these gentlemen perform at UCI in January, and it was definitely one of the best live shows I've ever seen in my life. AND I'VE WATCHED DAFT PUNK PERFORM. HOW BOUT THEM APPLEZ?

Runnin' Wild by Airbourne - Motherfucking kick ass. I like beer, I like cheap sluts, I like throwing punches at nothing, I like kick ass guitar riffs. This album is like all of that rolled into one. Especially the guitar riffs part. This is a must buy if you like whiskey and girls in black.

Gods of the Earth by The Sword - I don't know my genres anymore. This is either Doom metal, Stoner metal, or Dragonslaying metal. I can never understand what their lead singer is saying, but they make up for that with their bad ass style of play. It's heavy and dirty, like my nuts.

Let's talk about rap.

Rising Down by The Roots - Hey look, someone is still making quality hip-hop music out there. I'm going to go ahead and say this is probably my favorite album of 2008 so far. It's albums like these that make me so happy to be a part of the culture. Black Thought was flawless throughout, as were the rest of them. Go out and get it if you haven't already

I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II by Killer Mike - You don't know who Killer Mike is. That's okay, he's college educated. You kinda forget that this guy was on a major label once, and had an opportunity to go to Bad Boy to get some real good exposure. Oh well, I think it's working out for him. The album is great. Everyone forgets that Killer Mike is a fucking monsterrrrrrrrr on the mic. His debut was named Monster... Dope beats, dope rhymes, some good stories, great guest spots, quality bangers and some positive messages all throughout this record. It's hard to find, but if you find it, buy it.

Untitled by Nas - I don't want to say much cause I'm gonna write about it later. Nas, you got this album out. Please return to doing dope shit. Can you work with Premier while you're doing that?

Greatest Story Ever Told by David Banner - David Banner says this album is a classic, but I don't see it. I skipped a few songs between number 2 and 16. They're just boring. Banner needs to get his shit together, and produce everything himself. Also, how are you going to have T.I. on your album, and not have him rap on it? Eh. I'm mixed about this one. There's great songs. There's awful ones. I don't want to call it a letdown, but I'm not gonna say it's great, or really good, even. All you need to know is stuntin' is a habit. So get like me.

II Trill by Bun B - Oh look, the south put out a good album! This is nothing new, haterz. Bun B has been dope for years. I don't think I wrote a review for this. I don't want to. It's a really good album. A lot better than Trill. Take my word for it.

Let's talk about Other/Misc.!

In Silico by Pendulum - Jesus Christ. I really liked their previous effort, but this album has made me a real fan. It's such a hard album. It's become a mandatory part of my freeway driving experience. I like the direction they went on this one. It's got more of a rock influence, and there's a lot more vocals too. I ain't even talking about Tenor Fly. hahahaha. They still keep it D&B even though they changed it up a bit. Truly one of my favorite albums this year. I can't believe it was out for like two months before I even heard it.

That's my 08 so far. I'm looking forward to a lot more music, some more trips to Canada, and wherever else. I'm looking forward to school starting in the fall. It's gonna be great.

The Direct2Drive version of Rainbow Six 2: Vegas is, apparently, more broken than a prisoner after three days of being forced into stress positions. It's all down to the needlessly draconian copy protection schemes, apparently. I've only played the 360 version, and I feel a deep and great sense of sorrow for any poor individual that's had to suffer through Ubisoft's lousy PC ports. Here's where it gets interesting. In a weak and desperate move to fix the problem, Ubisoft quite shamefully (they've retracted the patch) shoehorned a crack by prominent warez group Reloaded onto the digital distribution service - hopefully taking a few seconds to marvel at their efficient coding - because coming up with their own cracked .exe probably seemed like too much work.

They didn't even bother to remove the tag that Reloaded left from the file, as this image by Ubi forum poster Twingo lovingly depicts in all its stolen glory:

Posting a crack that directly violates their own rules on piracy. Whatever next? Valve to remove their encrypted files, letting Steam apps load faster for everyone? Bioware to remove the horrendous protection from Mass Effect? Or maybe Ubisoft will decide that cd-checks are a horrible product of modern PC gaming and they'll send us all go back to the days of old DOS games where you have to enter a code by going to page fifty three of the manual and entering the first six letters on row seventeen.

Bask in Ubisoft's ineptitude by reading the original thread on their very own forums here.

La Religione Cattolica è l'UNICA religione ad avere una propria banca, la Banca del Vaticano, detta anche IOR. Lo IOR non è una banca qualsiasi, è la banca più ricca del mondo e l'unica a non essere soggetta ad alcun vincolo di trasparenza informativa. Ogni flusso finanziario non viene registrato, i suoi Bilanci sono segreti, noti soltanto una stretta cerchia di Cardinali. Una banca che è stata coinvolta nei + grandi scandali finanziari del dopoguerra e che oggi gode di un patrimonio di 5 miliardi di Dollari, completamente investito in attività finanziarie.

Come nasce? E Come fa una religione che chiede elemosine ai fedeli per opere caritatevoli a godere di un patrimonio di 5 miliardi di Dollari?

Nel 1887 Papa Leone XIII fonda lo IOR, al fine di convertire le offerte dei fedeli in un fondo facilmente smobilizzabile. Successivamente, nel 1929 lo stato Italiano versò al Vaticano 100 milioni di dollari in qualità di risarcimento per le perdite che lo Stato Pontificio aveva subito in seguito all'unificazione d'Italia. Questo ingente patrimonio venne affidato all'Ingegner Nogara che lo incrementò grazie a speculazioni monetarie e ad altre operazioni di mercato nella Borsa Valori. Investì in attività in netto contrasto con l'insegnamento cattolico, come contraccettivi ed armi, tantochè nel 1935, quando Mussolini ebbe bisogno di armi per la campagna d'Etiopia fu lo stesso Nogara a fornirgliele.

Nella seconda guerra mondiale il vaticano si dichiaro neutrale e, come la Svizzera, fece affari con la Germania e con Hitler permettendo ai Nazisti di depositare presso di loro i propri beni sottratti agli Ebrei. Il Vaticano non risarcì mai le vittime dell'olocausto, restituendo loro i preziosi che i nazisti avevano trasformato in lingotti. Ancora oggi il Vaticano si riufiuta di rendere pubblici gli archivi relativi alla II guerra mondiale.

A fine guerra, mentre l'Europa era ridotta in Brandelli, il Patrimonio dell'IOR era ENORME e diventò una vera e propria Banca dotata di un'autonoma personalità giuridica che investiva in qualsiasi mercato promettesse rendimenti. Rendimenti sui quali non pagava alcuna imposta grazie ad una concessione dell'allora Ministro alle finanze Paolo Thaon di Revel.

Negli anni '70 la Banca del Vaticano è fra le più potenti al mondo con aggangi ovunque: Credit Suisse, Hambros Bank, Morgan Guarantee Trust, The Bankers Trust di New York (di cui Nogara si serviva quando voleva comprare e vendere titoli a Wall Street), Chase Manhattan, Continental Illinois National Bank. Nogara assicurò al Vaticano partecipazioni in società che operavano nei settori più diversi: alimentare, assicurativo, acciaio, meccanica, cemento e beni immobili. Un susseguirsi di successi finanziari senza precedenti per la Chiesa cattolica nei cui consigli di amministrazione sedevano i "fedelissimi" del Papa, come i 3 nipoti di Pio XII.

Tutti i proventi derivanti da queste attività sono TOP SECRET: Lo stato Vaticano non vincola l'IOR ad alcuna legislazione e tantomeno a legislazioni internazionali. Non pubblica nenache un bilancio annuale che rende pubblici i resoconti delle attività. Resoconti obbligatori in qualsiasi altra nazione del mondo, democratica e non.

A ogni cliente viene semplicemente fornita una tessera di credito con un numero codificato: né nome né foto. Con questa si viene identificati: alle operazioni non si rilasciano ricevute, nessun documento contabile. Non ci sono nemmeno libretti di assegni intestati allo IOR!

Con il Banco Vaticano possono investire ed aprire conti solo esponenti del mondo ecclesiastico: ordini religiosi, diocesi, parrocchie, istituzioni e organismi cattolici, cardinali, vescovi e monsignori, laici con cittadinanza vaticana, diplomatici accreditati alla Santa Sede. A questi si aggiungono i dipendenti del Vaticano e pochissime eccezioni di cui non si conoscono i criteri di scelta.

Un altro particolare possibile solo nella Banca Vaticana (e vietato nel resto del mondo) è la valuta con cui aprire il conto: qualsiasi. Senza alcuna differenza. In questo modo il cliente può ricevere o trasferire soldi in qualsiasi momento "da" e "verso "qualsiasi banca estera senza alcun controllo. Per questo, negli ambienti finanziari, si dice che lo IOR è l'ideale per chi ha capitali che vuole far passare inosservati. I suoi bilanci sono noti a una cerchia ristrettissima di cardinali, non esisitono ricevute o registrazioni alcune dei flussi di denaro: qualsiasi anagrafe bancaria è IMPOSSIBILE.

Dietro questa segretezza si celano i fatti più sconvolgenti: come lo scandalo del Banco Ambrosiano, a cui seguì addirittura una schiera di omicidi.

Lo IOR era negli anni '70 l'azionista di maggioranza del Banco Ambrosiano che dichiaro' bancarotta condannando migliaia di cittadini Italiani alla perdita dei propri risparmi. E' stato lo scandalo finanziario più grosso dal dopoguerra, anche superiore al recente crack Parmalat.

Grazie alle dichiarazioni di Vincenzo Calcara (pentito di Cosa Nostra) furono svelati i contatti fra Marcinkus, uno dei massimo dirigenti dello IOR, Licio Gelli, esponente della P2 e altri membri di Cosa Nostra, e i modi con cui lo IOR riciclava denaro mafioso. In seguito a queste dichiarazioni il presidente del Banco Ambrosiano Roberto Calvi fu trovato impiccato a Londra, Michele Sidona, finanziere in stretti rapporti con lo IOR fu avvelenato in carcere, il Capo della P2 Licio Gelli fu arrestato.
I restanti indagati erano Paul Marcinkus, Luigi Mennini e Pellegrino de Strobel, ai Vertici dell'IOR e diretti controllori del Banco Ambrosiano, che essendo funzionari e rappresentanti di un ente centrale della Chiesa cattolica, furono considerati coperti da immunità penale e non vennero mai processati.

Successivamente a questi fatti nel 1982 Papa Luciani, appena eletto, propose di rimuovere dai vertici dell IOR Paul Marcinkus. Dopo soli 33 giorni di pontificato Luciani morì in circorstanze misteriose e non fu più eletto un papa Italiano.

Ancora oggi lo IOR non aderisce alle norme bancarie internazionali sulla trasparenza dei conti. Si sa solo che ha un patrimonio di 5 miliardi di Dollari e che a tutti coloro che detengono conti presso l'unica sede della banca vaticana esistente (in Vaticano appunto) viene garantito un interesse pari al 12.5 % una somma ALTISSIMA, il triplo rispetto agli interessi promessi dalle più floride banche mondiali.

E se i clienti guadagnano il 12% medio annuo, vuol dire che i fondi dell’Istituto rendono ancora di più. Quanto, però, non è dato saperlo perchè il Vaticano è l'unica banca al mondo ad avere bilanci segreti: l'unico a tenere i conti è il Cardinale Angelo Sodano e Ada, Joseph Maida che siede nel collegio di Vigilanza dello IOR e che ha sede, guardacaso, nelle Isole Cayman, noto paradiso fiscale.

I ricavati degli investimenti effettuati dalla banca vaticana vengono SEMPRE reinvestiti in altre attività a reddito, siano esse finanziarie (tanto la Chiesa non paga alcuna tassa sui dividendi accumulati) o Immobiliari (tanto non è soggetta al pagamento di ICI o altre tasse). Se fossero destinati ad opere di beneficenza o missioni umanitarie senza scopo di lucro non potrebbero MAI promettere e garantire interessi del 12,5% agli investitori, che comunque sono enti ecclesiastici.

Cio' significa che la maggior parte delle donazioni che i credenti devolvono a questi enti, invece di essere destinati ad opere umanitarie come promesso, vengono puntualmente investiti in attitività finanziarie a unico vantaggio dello stato del Vaticano, unica religione ad avere un Papa che è sovrano di uno stato, che gode di una propria banca di cui egli è l'unico azionista.
E non una banca qualsiasi: la più ricca del mondo.

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• «Tutto quello che sai è falso», Nuovi Mondi Media Di Jonathan Levy
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Would you like to read a sad story.  Well here it is.  One day, it rained. My cardboard house, got destroyed.  It's so sad.  But How will I live, well I have to find some place that will have a cardboard box.

L'iPhone 1.0 era stato crackato in tutto il mondo (in Italia la versione crackata girava da mesi). Forse Apple sperava che il nuovo iPhone 3G resistesse un po' di più. E invece niente da fare: anche il secondo modello dell'iPhone è stato crackato. Crackare l'iPhone è tornato di moda: un video mostra un gruppo brasiliano che è stato capace di sbloccare anche il nuovo iPhone, per farlo funzionare con operatori mobili alternativi, mentre hacker hanno fatto girare applicazioni indipendenti sullo smartphone di Apple. Tutti i dettagli tecnici dell'iPhone 3G crackato sono stati spiegati a Gizmodo, e coinvolgono modifiche hardware per sovrascrivere l'International Mobile Subscriber Identity. Crackare l'iPhone serve ad accedere ad altri operatori telefonici, oltre a quelli a cui Apple ha concesso l'esclusiva (in Italia, per esempio, Tim e Vodafone). Ma crackare l'iPhone può far perdere garanzie di Apple eccetera.

Inoltre, il gruppo di hacker, noto come iPhone Dev Team, è riuscito a rimuovere i controlli software di Apple che impedivano l'installazione di applicazioni indipendenti, fuori da quelle su App store. In un video gli hacker mostrano come sono riusciti a far girare applicazioni non autorizzate accanto ad applicazioni approvate da Apple.

Secondo una ricerca di fine gennaio, ben un quarto degli iPhone risultava sbloccata o crackata.

fonte: http://www.vnunet.it/articles/printView/it/vnunet/news/2008/07/17/iphone_3g_e_gia_crackato

The symbol of America's freedom, the Liberty Bell, bears the inscription from the words of the Old Testament book Leviticus 25.10:

     "Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants."

The next time you look at the bell, look at the crack.  It appears to point to the word 'proclaim.'  Is this the work of Providence reminding each American of our duty to proclaim there is liberty - freedom - in this land for everyone?

The bell and its inscription have set the moral and ethical tone for the country.  We are to put forth the claim throughout the land that there is liberty.  And seeds from the Liberty that sprouted in Colonial soil in 1776 are being scattered around the world.

(c) Patrotic Expressions and Patriotic Minute 2008

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                   Posted by Jane

So I'm looking for a flat at the moment as I'm just staying with friends until end of next week. I need to find a place fairly quickly. And since my first viewing didn't even constitute as an actual viewing ( I left before I even got to the door due to its obvious crack den charm and the guy selling actual crack on the corner) It seems there are lots of dodgy places in London I wasn't aware of...but my recent budget is forcing to my attention. 

The next place I attempted in Camden only resulted in a nasty mass email including a list of why we shouldn't visit the flat. Number 1. It's small, concluding in Number 10. Did I mention it was small? 

Flat attempt number 3 was almost altogether disappointing, though I met 2 lovely rather geeky Irish guys in the process. As I arrived at the flat, I noticed no one was responding to the doorbell. So I tried to give this guy, Michael, a call on his mobile, and in a slightly Northern Irish drunken stupor he replied, 

"Oh so sorry bout tat, I completely forgot, yeah? Want to pop over to the tavern down the road and I'll buy you a pint?"

I thought for a moment, and then realized what have I got to lose besides a free pint? So I headed down there. The tavern turned out to be extremely posh and nice, with a gorgeous outdoor balcony area with a garden. We sat and chatted with the other roommate, Western Irish bloke Simon, who was also lovely. Later on a couple girls who use to live in the flat joined and we had a proper group just talking and 'shootin the shite.'  Michael continued to rant about his play he had written in college called 'The Orphan at Midnight.' I made him aware of how 19th century Sherlock Holmes chapter that sounded. But apparently it was a 'farce of a farce.' I bet it was. 

He is now a pending lawyer. 

However, then there was....the actual flat....which was crap, apart from Michael's charming reaction to my reaction to all of his Indian cookbooks.

"I do love to have a go at good Indian food. Though I'm not Indian...clearly." He is by the way, as Irish looking as they come. 

Though the company was nice, the price was thrice. Which clearly won't suffice. I'm done rhyming.

Ces't la Vie.

I knew it was too good to be true. So I trotted off on my long commute back, not giving them an excellent amount of hope, but left it as a last resort possibility. I sort of hope we become friends though in an odd way.

In other news, the illusive Mr. Grey has decided to respond to my inquiry and says he's free Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Every time I'm about to write him off entirely....he goes and makes it hard for me. Will keep you updated on our rendezvous which is sure to have lots of sexual tension yet jovial conversation off the River Thames.

Bastard.

Retroblogging from June 22, 1989:

...A couple of weeks ago, cops raided 1060 St. Nik - bust down the door, but did not get their man, who lived on the third floor - a dealer who had shot his girlfriend in the head, then fled. Left behind dope galore, over $1200 cash (who knows really how much more), 15-20 guns, 3 VCRs, dozens of lawbooks, and a toilet seat with his name, "Mickey," on it.

I ran into the maintenance man Joe, who said I should take the furniture if I needed it, and anything else I wanted. As we moved furniture over the roof to my place, we discovered a false bottom to one drawer - $260, mostly in very old bills. Also an arrow, several pairs of expensive new men's socks, and a piece of 1/2" thick plate glass (covered with coke at the time, but very useful for painting). So, my indirect thanks to the lousy heroin/coke-dealing bum. Good riddance.

The super, a few days later, slaps a bag of pot into my hand after calling me to his door. A dime-bag which he won't let me pay for - tells me it's a $15 bag and wants favours from me instead. No shit. This guy is too old to be my father. Seems he and Joe have targeted me somewhat - so I put a firm end to any ideas he was entertaining and only hope that he doesn't get crazy or spiteful. I doubt it, but one never knows with people how they will react. I tried to handle it carefully and respectfully, but strong.

Bruce Bailey was brutally murdered last week. A shock too great for me, after all the hours spent with him over the 109th St case in housing court. It seems it was probably related to his pressuring the landlords of a building around the corner from me on 164th Street to get crack out of the building. No need to describe it here. I already have enough fuel for nightmares. But now, after such a murder, who will have the courage to help others fight and organize? Who will have even the courage to fight for themselves? The dealers & the landlords are one and the same, knowing only greed, breeding avarice, which nourishes itself with death and depravity...

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