--1961~1975' Jaguar E-type On The Road--

--Sir--

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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"I like pigs... Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals."
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

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-Sir Winston Churchill

British politician (1874 - 1965)

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--A Friend From China--

--Nice Songs Nice Beer And Local Axl Rose(Chinese)--

--The Mask and The Masked--

mask - in Oxford

· n.
1 a covering for all or part of the face, worn as a disguise, for protection or hygiene, or for theatrical effect.

2 a likeness of a person’s face moulded or sculpted in clay or wax. Ø the face or head of an animal, especially of a fox, as a hunting trophy.

3 a disguise or pretence: she let her mask of respectability slip.

4 Photography a piece of material such as card used to cover part of an image that is not required when exposing a print. Ø Electronics a patterned metal film used in the manufacture of microcircuits to allow selective modification of the underlying material.

5 a face pack.

6 a respirator used to filter inhaled air or to supply gas for inhalation.

· v.
1 cover with a mask.

2 conceal from view; disguise: brandy did not mask the bitter taste.

3 cover so as to protect during a particular process, especially painting.

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– DERIVATIVES masked adj. masker n.
– ORIGIN C16: from Fr. masque, from Ital. maschera, mascara, prob. from med. L. masca ‘witch, spectre’, but influenced by Arab. mas4ara ‘buffoon’.

Some of us had forgotten its meaning of - MASK.......

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"The Mask and The Masked"

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--Career--

--Career fields dominated by leftists :-

Hollywood

Public Education

Unions

Law (Lawyers and Judges)

Social Welfare

Psychologists and Psychiatrists

Leftist Christianity (ie, Episcopalians, elements of the Catholic Church, Presbyterians, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, United Church of Christ)and other Faiths like Unitarians

Government workers and bureaucrats

NGO's and other special interest groups

Media

Art

--Curiousity--

--Care--

--Coordination--

--Creativity--

--Creativity (or "creativeness") is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.


From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.


Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometric, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others.


The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.


Creativity has been attributed variously to divine intervention, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality traits, and chance ("accident", "serendipity"). It has been associated with genius, mental illness and humour. Some say it is a trait we are born with; others say it can be taught with the application of simple techniques.


Although popularly associated with art and literature, it is also an essential part of innovation and invention and is important in professions such as business, economics, architecture, industrial design, science and engineering.


Despite, or perhaps because of, the ambiguity and multi-dimensional nature of creativity, entire industries have been spawned from the pursuit of creative ideas and the development of creativity techniques. This mysterious phenomenon, though undeniably important and constantly visible, seems to lie tantalizingly beyond the grasp of scientific investigation.


"The Act Of Making Something NEW"
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--Concentration--

--Concentration in full :-

-The strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume.

-The spatial property of being crowded together.

-Strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material.

-Increase in density.

-Complete attention; intense mental effort.

-Great and constant diligence and attention.

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--Control--

--Corruption--

--Corruption, when applied as a technical term, is a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system's original purpose. Its original meaning has connotations of evil, malignance, sickness, and loss of innocence or purity.

Specific types of corruption include:

Political corruption, or the dysfunction of a political system or institution in which government officials, political officials or employees seek illegitimate personal gain through actions such as bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. Political corruption is a specific form of rent seeking (which is not to be confused with property rental).

Data corruption, or an unintended change to data in storage or in transit.

Linguistic corruption, or the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription or changes in the language speakers' comprehension.

Putrefaction or decomposition of recently living matter. This physical process is the primary model of the metaphorical meaning of corruption, so advanced states of corruption in, e.g. a political structure are said to result in their putrefaction.

"It is not a secret that there are problems in the use of funds."

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--Confidence--

--Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain, either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct, or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective given the circumstances.

Confidence can be described as a subjective, emotional state of mind, but is also represented statistically as a confidence level within which one may be certain that a hypothesis will either be rejected or deemed plausible. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself when considering a capability. Overconfidence is having unmerited confidence--believing something or someone is capable when they are not.

Scientifically, a situation can only be judged after the aim has been achieved or not. Confidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as those without it may fail or not try because they lack it, and those with it may succeed because they have it, rather than because of an innate ability.

Choking refers to losing confidence, especially self-confidence, just at the moment when it is needed most and doing poorly as a result e.g. in sports. This is found as a common plot device in literature and film, and is usually devised to result in a total alteration of a character's life.

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."

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--Communism--

--Before we answer the question, “What is Communism?” it may be good to first compare it to communism with a small “c.” The system of thought called communism is an ideology summarized in the neat-sounding maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” A study of communism could lead one into the fascinating and divergent attempts throughout history by groups to walk in the light of the above principle -- attempts both secular and religious, some benign and some malignant. Like the big elephant examined by the group of blind men in the old Indian story, our understanding of communism would vary greatly depending on which portion of the beast we touch.
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But if we think of communism as that bulky beast of the jungle with many strange parts, Communism with a capital “C” would be the tusk- perceived as a sharp and dangerous spear by its fearful examiner. Modern day Communism is based on the writings of two German economists, Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, who answered the question “What is Communism?” in their collaboration, “The Communist Manifesto” published in 1848. In it they declare that many problems in society are due to the unequal distribution of wealth.
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To bring about happiness and prosperity for all, the distinctions between the rich and poor of society must be eliminated. And since the rich will never give up their goods or status voluntarily, a rebellion of the poor -- the working class -- is necessary. Thus, Communism is a distinct socio-political philosophy that is willing to use violent means to attain its goal of a classless society.
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If capitalism is defined as a social system based on individual rights (and individual wealth), then communism is its direct opposite. Communism believes in equality through force. In its system, individual rights are ground to powder and used to build its idol of absolute government control. It is indeed like the tusk of the elephant. It is sharp. It is dangerous. And it has gored millions of men in its rage through history.
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Communism embraces atheism and dismisses religion as “the opiate of the masses,” a system designed by the rich and powerful to keep the poor in their place. But Communism’s quest for a classless society is bound to fail. As Frank Zappa, ‘60s rock star, succinctly said, “Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.” Furthermore, someone has to hold the money bag even in a communist-style society.
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And whoever holds the bag becomes not only a target for those looking on but for the subtle interior demons of pride, avarice, and self-preservation. If there will always be the poor, then there will always be the rich. There will always be division, the haves and the have-nots, and any attempt to establish a classless society this side of heaven, particularly through the violent and godless ways of Communism, is destined to frustration and failure.


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--Waiting...Right Time...Right Place--

Wait for me, and I'll return

Only wait very hard

Wait when you are filled with sorrow...

Wait in the sweltering heat

Wait when the others have stopped waiting,

Forgetting their yesterdays.

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Wait even when from afar no letters come to you

Wait even when others are tired of waiting...

And when friends sit around the fire,

Drinking to my memory,

Wait, and do not hurry to drink to my memory too.

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Wait. For I'll return,defying every death.

And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky.

They will never understand that in the midst of death,

You with you waiting saved me.

Only you and I know how I survived.

It's because you waited, as no one else did.

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~ Konstantin Simonov

"Right Attitude..Mind and Soul"

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-http://www.links2love.com/poetry_92.htm

--Somewhere Over The Rainbow--

Can you touch a rainbow;

Hold it in your hand.

Would you ride a rainbow;

High above the land.

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The rainbow of colors;

So merry and bright.

Each color has a purpose;

Even black and white.

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The blue is for Forget-me-knots,

Yellow for My Dandelion,

Red is for My gladiolas,

Green creates the leaves in millions.

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You shouldn't hide and you shouldn't be shy;

Nobody's gonna laugh at your lovely lines.

Oh, beautiful rainbow, your beautiful sign;

Forever having her by my side.

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--Nice Songs, Nice Beer and Nice friend from Zimbabwe--

--The Hunter and The Hunted--

"The Hunter and The Hunted"

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"Have you caught any yet this year?" I asked.

The hunter whose path I'd happened to cross.

"A few," he answered, self-assured.

As he looked straight ahead at the trees.

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"What did you do with the ones you caught?"

I questioned him further while we walked along.

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"I did what I could,"

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He said to me as he smiled and dodged the branches with ease.

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In silence we traveled for nearly a mile,

my rifle was poised and ready to fire.

But there was no sign of the game we were hunting;

No sounds, no traces, no glimpses...........nothing.

When we were exhausted we sat on a rock

and watched the geese fly overhead in a flock.

"You never did tell me," I reminded him,

"what you did with your catches,or was it too grim."

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"I'm sorry,"

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he said as he turned to meand looked in my eyes so familiarly.

In an instant I knew Him and whispered His name,

knowing that I'd never be quite the same.

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"You let them go, didn't you?"

That's just what you'd do. I guess I would to if I had to, like you.

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"No, that's not how it's done.

I saved them, my Child. Every last one."

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-http://www.speedyadverts.com/SATopics/html/poem10.html

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--Happy BirthDay--

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on 20 April 1889. The son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria, the young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child. Moody, lazy, of unstable temperament, he was deeply hostile towards his strict, authoritarian father and strongly attached to his indulgent, hard-working mother, whose death from cancer in December 1908 was a shattering blow to the adolescent Hitler.

On 29 April 1945 he married his mistress Eva Braun and dictated his final political testament, concluding with the same monotonous, obsessive fixation that had guided his career from the beginning: 'Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry.'

The following day Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself through the mouth with a pistol. His body was carried into the garden of the Reich Chancellery by aides, covered with petrol and burned along with that of Eva Braun. This final, macabre act of self-destruction appropriately symbolized the career of a political leader whose main legacy to Europe was the ruin of its civilization and the senseless sacrifice of human life for the sake of power and his own commitment to the bestial nonsense of National Socialist race mythology. With his death nothing was left of the 'Greater Germanic Reich', of the tyrannical power structure and ideological system which had devastated Europe during the twelve years of his totalitarian.

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http://www.thirdreich.net/Hitler_Biography.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/3300/Hitler.html

http://history1900s.about.com/od/hitleradolf/Adolf_Hitler.htm

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--The Eye of The Universe--

--HUMMER behind "DONT LOOK BACK!!!!"--

--"DONT LOOK BACK!!!"

CL.

--True Friendship--

--X'mas '07 in The UK--

--Double Imaging of GOD?--

--23rd ~ 25th Aug '07 Songkhla Thailand--

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