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Marc gave him 9 pieces of advice, here’s the list |
1. Make sure you were born to walk on water |
2. Decide that nothing can stop you |
3. Work on it for real |
4. Let the whole world know what you’re up to |
5. Value the people who value your ambitions |
6. Ignore the negative naysayers |
7. Prepare your self for the pain |
8. Enjoy the pain of your greatest challenges |
9. Never give up! Never Quit! |
5. No words needed really. |
6. Translates to self love , really: Roar. |
9. Can’t take it with you again. |
Namaste until next time , my dear friends |
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ORDERS TO KILL: The Putin Regime and Political Murder |
“Orders to Kill is a story long hidden in plain sight with huge ramifications.” |
How the Cold War Began | Amy Knight Called “the West’s foremost scholar” of the KGB by The New York Times, Knight traces Putin’s journey from the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the late 1990s to his subsequent rise to absolute power as the Kremlin’s leader today, detailing the many bodies that paved the way. She off... |
How the Cold War Began |
“Amy Knight is one of the most meticulous and ground-breaking scholars of Soviet history, and this latest work is her best yet…a gripping spy thriller, a fascinating human story, and a magisterial history of how the victors of WWII moved from four years of Grand Alliance to forty years of Cold War.” |
Simon Sebag Montefiore |
How the Cold War Began | Amy Knight On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a Soviet espionage network in North America. His defection sent shockwaves through Washington, London, and Ottawa. In her riveting narrativ... |
Who Killed Kirov? |
“A gripping portrait of one of the grimmest periods in modern Russian history.” |
The Los Angeles Times |
Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery | Amy Knight The 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov, the Leningrad Communist Party chief and a rising star in Stalin’s inner circle, marked the beginning of one of the darkest periods of Russian historyAStalin’s Great Terror, in which millions of Soviet citizens were im... |
Spies without Cloaks |
“This is easily the best book on the former KGB to appear since the end of the Cold War. Knight is a formidable researcher with an excellent reputation, which this work does everything to confirm.” |
The Sunday Times (London) |
Spies without Cloaks | Amy Knight This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world’s most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked. As Amy Knight shows, the KGB was renamed and reorganized several times after it was ... |
Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant |
“This first full-scale scholarly biography of the clever, cruel, domineering security chief whom Stalin once called ‘my Himmler’ casts valuable new light on various events of the Stalin period and its early aftermath.” |
Robert Tucker, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University |
Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant | Amy Knight This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin’s notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Uni... |
The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union |
“A well informed and sober history of the security police as a political institution.” |
The New York Times Book Review |
The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union | Amy Knight From The Library Journal: |
Recent interest in the Soviet Union has spawned a plethora of works on the KGB and its nefarious activities, but a shortage of unbiased scholarship remains. Knight, a Soviet affairs specialist, examines the KGB’s origins and evolution, structure, and functions to describe and analyze “the KGB as a political institution... |
Dead Drops are USB flash drives stuck in walls in public places. Use them to share files anonymously! A fun way to play secret agent, or perhaps share files without invoking the wrath of SJA or the MAFIAA. You can read the manifesto for the movement online or by going to a dead drop and copying readme.txt. |
If you're interested in adding more in Davis, here are some instructions. And edit this page when you add more! |
If you're going to use a dead drop, a USB cable is probably a good idea. Supporting your laptop with your hands while it is plugged into the wall isn't the easiest thing in the world. Also, plugging strange devices into your computer isn't the safest thing in the world. The standard precautions against viruses are reco... |
Dead Drops in Davis |
Make Your Own Ringtones For iPhone or Android Phone |
I found this video on how to create my own custom ringtones for my iPhone (or android). It is a little old but still works well. I’m using iTunes version |
Here is a summary of the steps: |
1. Open iTunes and select a song. |
2. Right click on the highlighted song and select “Get Info”. |
3. Click on the “Options” tab. |
4. Check both boxes next to “Start” and “Stop” – This is the start and stop times you want to use as a ringtone. (I believe the tone length has to be less than or equal to 45 seconds. Anything longer will not be recognized by iPhone as a ringtone.) |
5. Click “OK” |
6. From the file menu at the top left of iTunes select “Convert” > “Create AAC Version”. This will create a copy of the file and place it directly underneath the original file. |
7. Highlight the original file and turn off the check boxes next to “Start” and “Stop” to restore the file to its original condition. |
8. Now, drag and drop the new, AAC file, to your desktop. |
9. Rename the file extension on your desktop to .mp3r or .mp4r. |
10. Delete the ACC version inside of iTunes |
11. Drag and drop the .mp3r or .mp4r file from your desktop to your “Tones” folder in iTunes. |
12. Connect your iPhone to your computer and synchronize the tones folder. (Note: Sometimes my computer recognizes my iPhone without plugging it in.) |
Let me know if you run into any trouble. |
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Friday, October 14, 2011 |
I'm sitting in my Mom's kitchen with the windows and doors open, listening to the leaves on the trees rustle. It is so peaceful at the moment! That definitely doesn't happen very often in this house! Mom went to take Doreese (closest sister to me in age) back to school. Promise (who is home schooled), Kayla (who's 5, b... |
Life is still going great :) Josh is looking for another job, since the "raise" he got when he became a manager at McDonald's was... not what we expected, he's hoping to get something ASAP. Which I am all for, lol. Kade has a slight cold, AND TWO TEETH!! She is still one of the best babies ever. Kyson is on his way to ... |
I wouldn't trade my life right now for ANYTHING. I am so incredibly blessed. |
1 comment: |
1. Staisha, I'm so happy for you. You deserve everything you want and so much more! |
Monday, April 1, 2013 |
Aprils Fools! |
Today is the first day of April, and April is National Poetry Month. I'm glad that I enjoy writing poetry after disliking it for many years from having to dissect it in college. The one poem that made me not see the beauty and emotion in poetry, and to stay away from it for so long, was The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Th... |
I am going to attempt a poem a day. They’ll be rough drafts of poems in traditional form and free verse. Here is my first attempt. Tongue Twister Poetry – Poetry that ties your tongue when read out loud. It does not need to rhyme. |
April Fools |
April Fool’s is about cruel spools of |
jokes about folks of different strokes. |
Trap a chap into a flat full of bubble wrap. |
Friends clap to see the chap collapse. |
Tweet Pete for a treat to eat |
down the street in the window seat |
then be discreet and retreat so Pete |
takes the heat for all the meat. |
Buy twelve pies for dieting Di |
and watch her weight grow times eight. |
Her thighs, bigger than Shanghai, |
with a butt the size of Kuwait. |
Play and pay this day of cliché |
for it displays dismay for the game |
of prey that make friendships decay |
because today you went astray. |
Fools and Poetry, |
1. If you pretend this is a rap, it suddenly becomes a little easier to say. A little. And also makes a pretty killer rap, I should add. You should copyright this before all of the rappers steal, "Her thighs are bigger than Shanghai." |
1. I read it as a rap and it is easier. :) Thanks for comment and tip. |
2. Replies |
1. I've been trying to say it fast, but my tongue gets twisted. |
3. Alliteration is always just the thing for getting one's tongue twisted :) Looking forward to reading your poem a day for National Poetry Month. Perhaps another book of verse is in the making? |
4. Thanks, Jeri. I don't know about another book of verse. We'll see how I hold up for the month. :) |
5. This was great! Made me smile on a morning when I don't particularly feel like doing so. |
I've been out of town for a family wedding/spring break vacation and I'm finding it hard to get back to the internet world of blogging. I'm so glad for the reminder that April is poetry month... That will help me come up with something to blog about, so thanks. :) And I'll look forward to reading your daily entries... |
1. Aw, glad I made you smile. |
I'm assuming you had a great time and I don't blame you getting back to the internet. When I'm away from a computer, I feel free. It's the day-to-day that shackles me to the computer. |
Saturday, March 11, 2017 |
The slog continues |
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