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Hidden Video Cameras: Update

Video cameras were, for the longest time, the stuff of dreams. Super spies had them and master villains. Then, reality caught up with fiction. The problem was at first that they were very expensive and just about the only ones who could afford them were the police and the very rich. Now, hidden video cameras are inexpensive, produce an extremely clear image and are small enough to be hidden anywhere.

Security cameras have no match when it comes to proving your point. Whether you want video proof of someone’s pet doing something it shouldn’t, pictures of someone doing or saying something they shouldn’t or proof that someone near and dear to you is doing something with someone they shouldn’t be, a hidden video camera can prove invaluable. Nobody can argue with a video recoding.

The business environment is really tough right now. Profits are slim or not there at all. If you own your own business, you cannot afford employee theft. One well placed hidden security camera can end all that. An excellent example is someone I know. He owns a liquor store. A lot of stock was disappearing. Try as he might, he couldn’t find where it was all going and who was doing it. One day, he installed a hidden video camera in the exit sign above the rear door. That day, he caught the janitor taking some bottles out in a garbage bag. End of theft.

The hidden video cameras mentioned above are called dvr cameras. They are wireless and have their own on board memory which records to something called an sv card. They are motion activated. If animals or little kids might be around, you can program it to avoid movement in the lower quarter of the field of view. When you think you’ve got your prey imaged, you take the camera to your computer and download the memory.

What you’ve seen here is just the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with hidden video cameras.

Probably the greatest feature of these devices is that you don’t have to worry about placing them where a radio signal can get through to a central receiver of some sort like the first wireless devices that came out. Locate it, hide it, plug and play. Kids and pets can be programmed out.

The imagination runs wild at the prospects of where to hide them, doesn’t it? How about in wall clocks, alarm clocks, exit signs, light fixtures, coffee makers, water coolers or candy bar displays?

Warning! These hidden video cameras will not prevent a crime, just record one happening. To stop crime, use cameras that are highly visible. That’s the subject for another article.

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The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, the sounds, the fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into their lives, to becoming a giant of the streets. A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, “Pimp” is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.

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Black players: The Secret World of Black pimps

Iceberg Slim is probably the best known and also the least known Superpimp of all time.

“Best known” because his autobiography “Pimp: The Story of My Life” was a surprise underground best-seller in the 1960s, when it sold in the millions, especially to a vast audience of black street hustlers. “Least known” because the talented, reclusive writer and self-confessed psychopath found redemption in later life as a doting father — who zealously protected his daughters from the kind of abuse he had routinely dished out to his own whores (ho’s). Repeated jail sentences, the last time in a “steel casket,” cured him of any further hunger for “The Life.”

Iceberg’s self-examination and incisive observations of the underdog ghetto culture that spawned him constitute a saga of American society’s underbelly, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. His stories, told in accurate street language, influenced rap and hip-hop culture down to our own day. One lame rapper audaciously appropriated his name, and mainstream entertainers like Ice-T and Snoop Dog acknowledge him as the idol of their youthful “gangsta” years.

Now British author and editor Ian Whitaker has taken meticulous pains to track down the “lost” interviews with Iceberg from almost impossible-to-find magazines and newspapers, along with new interviews with those who knew him, including his daughter Misty. Richard Milner, co-author of the anthropological study “Black Players; The Secret World of Black Pimps,” contributes a new reminiscence of his contentious encounter with the King of Tricksters. Whitaker also reprints Milner’s original classic 1969 interview with Iceberg in full.

“The Lost Interviews” is an entertaining, fast-moving, and enlightening read. If you ever wondered about what goes on in the mind and the life of a warped genius who was “totally dedicated to pimping women,” here’s your opportunity to find out.

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Taking up where “Trick Baby” left off, White Folks moves up to Canada after the death of his partner and mentor, Blue Howard. There, he hooks up with the Vicksburg Kid, who completes his con education. Together they form a formidable duo, playing for the highest stakes in the Unhappy Virgin Game.

Long White Con

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This novel charts the rise of White Folks, a white negro who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks was a successful con man, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survived.

Trick Baby

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The story of Chicago’s Mafia, and the power struggle that ensues when the greedy Don, Jimmy Collucci, attempts to become the king pin of Chicago’s “Honored Society”. Collucci has a lifelong hatred of dedicated “Black Warrior” Jessie Taylor, whom he has faced in turf wars in the streets of Chicago.

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These short stories are a collection of soul-bearing confessions in which Iceberg Slim presents the wisdom gained through a life of serious excess and violence. Robert Beck is the author of “Pimp”, “Trick Baby” and “Mama Black Widow”.

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