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One aspect of the corruption and bribery mega-scandal shaking Washington that is swirling around conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and which hasn't gotten much mass media attention: how a lot of dough from Abramoff-controlled slush funds went to leading homophobes from the religious right.
Abramoff did more than hire anti-gay luminaries as Rev. Lou Sheldon (head of the Traditional Values Coalition) and Ralph Reed (former head of the Christian Coalition) with money from Abramoff's clients and front groups to lobby for special interests. Abramoff also funded an anti-gay group close to the lobbyist's best buddy and biggest water-carrier, Rep. Tom Delay — the U.S. Family Network — with laundered money that has been traced to Russian oil interests.
Let's start with Rev. Sheldon. He's such a professional anti-gay wacko that even conservative pundit Tucker Carlson has denounced him for it. In a Jan. 4 column Carlson wrote for MSNBC's website, Carlson recounted an interview he had with Sheldon, who told him, "You want to know what the single biggest problem facing inner-city black neighborhoods is? Homosexuality."
Carlson's reaction: "Homosexuality was the biggest problem in the inner cities? Bigger than crime? And unemployment? And poverty? And broken families? And AIDS?… Nope, there was no way around it. What the Reverend Lou had said was bizarre. And creepy too."
Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition received at least $25,000 from an Abramoff client, eLottery — an online lottery company — as part of the $2 million the company spent to defeat an anti-gambling bill. (The Washington Post reported that Abramoff referred to Sheldon as "Lucky Louie.") What makes this all the juicier is that the Traditional Values Coalition has long proclaimed its hostility to gambling and crusaded against it. Thus, while Sheldon was proclaiming that it was the "homosexual agenda [which] is destroying America's moral fibre," he was secretly on the take from gambling interests whose usurious gouging he opposed in public. This sort of blatant hypocrisy scandalized even a bona-fide right-wing frother like Carlson, who wrote in his column that Sheldon was a "weirdo and charlatan" for preaching gay-hating morality while pocketing Abramoff's corrupt cash.
Ralph Reed, as head of the Christian Coalition from 1989-1997, has been widely credited for the "Republican Revolution" — the 1994 election victory that gave the GOP control of the House for the first time in five decades. How did Reed do it? He mobilized Christian right voters with an anti-gay sleaze campaign linking Democratic members of Congress to wanting gays in the military — a hot issue that year. Christian Coalition Congressional "scorecards" for voters massively distributed in every election cycle regularly targeted votes by Democrats for gay civil rights legislation to defeat them — another Reed invention.
E-mails released by federal investigators in June of last year show that Reed "secretly accepted payments," as the Washington Post put it, to lobby against approval of some Indian casino gambling competitive with the casinos owned by Abramoff's now-famous Indian gambling clients. Abramoff also recruited Reed to join Sheldon in lobbying for eLottery — on whose behalf Reed also lobbied against an Alabama education lottery. Reed, who became chairman of the Georgia Republican Party four years ago by making himself the spokesman of those who wanted to keep the Confederate flag flying on state buildings, is now running for lieutenant governor of the Peach State — where the newspapers and Reed's opponents are having a field day exposing the sordid hypocrisy of "family values" crusader Reed's secret links with Abramoff.
Grover Norquist has been dubbed "The Lenin of the Right." As head of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) — a hard-right lobbying group — Norquist convenes and presides over weekly meeting of the leaders of more than a hundred conservative organizations. It was at these meetings that the successful anti-gay strategy targeting gay marriage as the Republicans 2004 key to election victory was hatched and refined. Norquist allowed Abramoff to launder money through ATR to help an Abramoff client — which wanted to sell state lottery tickets online — whip up opposition to an anti-gambling bill that would have put Abramoff's client out of business.
But the most bizarre and Byzantine Abramoff scam was the laundromat called the U.S. Family Network, established in 1996 by DeLay's former chief of staff, Edwin Buckham. The group, which promoted DeLay's economic and family values agenda, spent money on radio ads that targeted Democratic members of Congress for their alleged fealty to "the homosexual agenda." In 2004, the Network was found by the Federal Elections Commission to have illegally accepted $500,000 from the National Republican Congressional Committee (the House GOP's campaign arm, controlled by DeLay).
In a lengthy piece of Pulitzer-quality investigative reporting on December 31 (little-noticed because it ran on a Saturday, which was New Year's Eve day to boot), the Washington Post's Jeff Smith exposed how Abramoff arranged funding for the U.S. Family Network, routed through London lawyers, from Russian energy executives who got DeLay to support Congressional funding for an International Monetary Fund bailout of the Russian economy. These Russian oiligarchs forked over a cool $1 million for the Network. Buckman, the U.S. Family Network's guru, put DeLay's wife on the payroll of his consulting firm — for what the Post paints as a no-show job.
Other corporate interests with little stake in the "family values" agenda also lavished money on the U.S. Family Network — like the $500,000 from textile companies headquartered in the Mariana Islands, who wanted — and got — DeLay's public commitment to block legislation that would boost their labor costs. Or the $250,00 from Abramoff's biggest client, the Choctaw Indians, who got Delay's help in blocking legislation that would have taxed their casino profits.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin is the Christian right's favorite rabbi, a frequent speaker at its gatherings, an close friend of Ralph Reed, Karl Rove — and Jack Abramoff. Rabbi Lapin's 1999 book, "America's Real War," is a Pat-Buchanan-like diatribe about the "culture wars" in America that is dripping with homophobia and targets gays. And Lapin, an Orthodox Jew who moved here from South Africa in the '80s, has been a key figure in mobilizing opposition to gay marriage within the Jewish religious community through his organization, Toward Tradition (TT).
Lapin's TT received $25,000 from Abramoff and $50,000 from two Abramoff clients, including eLottery. TT then hired the wife of then-DeLay deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy — a major Abramoff scandal figure named in Abramoff's guilty plea — after receiving written instructions from Abramoff (along with e-Lottery's check) to put Mrs. Rudy on the payroll at $5,000 a month.
The great Ambrose Bierce once defined hypocrisy as "prejudice with a halo." And the decline and fall of these homophobes — who are all at the center of the biggest sewer of corruption in Washington since the S&L scandal in the '80s — gives a new meaning to their favorite phrase, "family values."
Doug Ireland, a longtime radical journalist and media critic, runs the blog DIRELAND, where this article appeared Jan. 11, 2006.


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Beer and barbeque lovers, get ready: The NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids is getting ready to host their first annual BBQ & Brew event on Saturday.
The event, which is meant to be a celebration of Iowa-produced barbeque dishes and home-brewed beer, will feature both American and international styles of barbecue along with home-brewed beer makers from across the state.
Local food critics will determine the "NewBo BBQ Boss" and "NewBo Brew Boss." There will also be a "peoples' choice" contest for the home-brewed beer.
Ten Iowa-based barbecue producers, ten home brewers and three micro breweries are scheduled to attend.
Beer tasting tickets are $25 and are available at www.newbocitymarket.com and on the day of event, if available.
Two local bands, Betty Calling and The Significance of Simon, will play on the outdoor stage from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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luckylucy456 alicekramden567 These two low lifes are married and had a baby that looked like the other end of a horse
why do you bother me? your a low life plain and simple--- get a life (luckylucy456:) I'd bet your insecure and a busy fat body with nothing to do but hide behind your computer and think your cool
luckylucy456 alicekramden567
luckylucy456: 10th that was too much last night, no reason i should have said all that (how many screen names does AliceKramden567 have???)
I got in but can't play????
alicekramden all she got is her foul mouth (and breath) and her computer
alma w you are a table bully you take all the fun out of the game
Not on this game edena
is it possible to purchase more chips ???
It would be nice if all of you shut up and grow up. I have read the comments all the way down to the end of this page. You people need to play your games and stop with the BS.
No one wants to read this depressing stuff. Be friends or just don't talk to one another.
I have had my name changed I am gera;firstname.lastname@example.com
what does it take to get an admin on here and remove alice? Maybe for her to get a life--- 24/7 on here shows it
i am unclebenny901 wy did you cancel me with 120000
what does it take to get an admin on here and remove alice?i and im sure others are sick and tired of her rants
alice your responses on here are funny,all lies and everyone knows it.especially how you go on and on.keep making yourself look like an idiot you're doing a good job.and again i see you emailed me 10 times during the night and during the day.i dont read them so stop sending them.why would i ever email you?and if anyone wants too see the harassment i can take screenshots of my inbox and sent emails.get a life and stop harassing me and emailing me..
oh, and by the way, ur the peripheral member of ur so called group of friends in rooms. ur status there is low. if not for babe, u would be pushed out and sent on ur way. it's the same in ur actual
life. u use to talk about ur friend kevin, and once when i called ur mom said u were out. i said "oh probably with kevin". she said "who?" i replyed kevin. she said there was no kevin, and i went on
to tell her how u were such good friends. she told me kevin was a figment of your imagination and u had absolutely no friends except me. how pathetic to be in your 30s and still need imaginary
friends. so don't worry about my friends in rooms. i have a few i am v close to. i get along well with most players. in life, i enjoy the company of very good friends, some i have known since high
school. well, this should last until i return.
get real, u have sent me as many as 20 e-mails in one night. i am in bed asleep by midnight most nights and i awake to ur endless e-mails which u stay up til 4-4:30 am writing. i told u long
ago due to coke induced psychosis u lost all impulse control. u do and say whatever pops into ur head without concern for either the truth or the consequences of ur gross actions.
alice you really need to get a life.you say you have all these friends and everyone loves you,yet you spend your time playing with and harassing me and other players who dont like you.you need to stop stalking me,harassing me and emailing me.it would be nice if we could get an admin to see some of your posted comments or see what crap you say ingame.get a life and stop stalking.go play with your "friends".
ur friends? if ur talking about bev, she cursed be out in super w/out cause and then constantly denies it. if ur talking about marcmarcole, he runs to e1 and says i lie (he is bev's bf, figures), if
ur talking about tai, she is the one who can't accept being older and constantly calls me a know it all, a bitch, mental, if ur talking about phil, anytime i see him he is vulgar and nasty, if ur
talking about babe, he went on some crazy rant in these pages about me, u have told me to eat shit more times than i can count and if ur talking about ck, then stop. i am the one who has done nothing to
any of u. get real. if u don't like me and find it impossible to shut up about it, then just stay the hell away from me. there r too many enjoyable players in these rooms to listen to ur imagined bs.
OK Alice or whatever name or face you choose today. Dont know why you hate our group but I don't care. Your problem mostly is our age [some of us retired'some not ]but anyway what does it matter. You are getting OLDER 2 or retired yourself and for some reason you cant take the idea that your getting older too.
O K heres how ots going to be. Idon't care what you say about me I will play on any table i choose. My friends have done you nothing I can IGNORE YOU .
For a short while an I mean a short while I thought that you were trying to be friendly and I enjoyed playing with you but you/ but you can't be nice you had to show off again your true self. Well go ahead have fun because to me your nothing and i'll treat you like nothing.
a four colour (i spelt it 'colour, nor 'color' as i am in the united kingdom ) deck to spot flushes easier would be nice :)
so who won the rangers vs penguins game may 11th?i guess me watching it,everyone at the game and the media is wrong according to alice.get a life alice and take your meds.seek professional help.
again you make yourself look foolish alice.stalking me in slots now and running your mouth.you dont realize you are only hurting yourself.get a life already and stop stalking me.i join an empty room and sure enough there you are with mustang besides.claiming we are both the same person.ive left you alone,you cant do the same like we agreed long ago.you need to get a life.you should be locked up in an asylum.i ignore you best i can.but you keep stalking me and running your mouth.and you are a yale grad?hah thats too funny.you wanna keep posting my personal info just wait.i apologize everyone for having to put this here but i will not email her.
and aol wonders why everybody is leaving
this game is shit how can I not one game out of six when there is only one other player
where the hell are my games that I mark favorits???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
@Edna19 no its not possible but someone who has alot of chips can chip you up by either taking you too a room and losing too you or buy sending you chips in your account
@ckkc556 it would take my lying about you. driver, pull over, this is where i get off.
@ckkc556 again, ur so full of it. don't u think it's about time you grew the hell up and own up to what your about and change? if you were okay with what you are you would not
waste your time on these pages denying it. you apparently do not like yourself either, do something about it. i am not making you unhappy, you are.
@alicekramden567 idiot get off this page
@alicekramden567 you kidding me?the only time i emailed you was in a reply to your countless emails stating i want you to stop harassing me.and here you are again harassing me and talking crap.if you had a life and friends you wouldnt stalk me at games.and why do you bring up family?do you hear me telling everyone how you turned your husband into a homosexual?if you were even really married.if thats true who could blame him?im surprised you had a relationship with any man ,never mind being married to a man.and dont talk to me about being a so called addict pill head.just cause you get pills from a pharmacy using multiple scripts from multiple doctors makes you an addict.you can post whatever you want about me trying to contact you.everyone knows you're a liar.multi-millionaire with no life except to harass people.yea that makes sense.now get lost and stop harassing me.
@ckkc556 yes i have friends in rooms who i enjoy playing card with and chatting. i am closer to some than others, but i never used the word love. i have in my own life whom
i love dearly, but we have a shared history in one way or another. i stalk no one. now u say the same players that don't like me are the same players tookie has accused me of hating.
ck, everywhere u go in life u create chaos, turmoil, hostility etc. u have done the same here in these rooms, as well as in my life. it was foolish to try to be a friend to help u.
as some have said no good deed goes unpunished.
@ckkc556 ur time for going to court followed by prison is approaching. u quit high school because ur peers recognized that u were a deviant. u had no friends there. u then went from
job to job only to quickly lose one after the other due to ur temper, ur shiftlessness and ur lack of regard for rules and regulation. ur a coke addict, shooting day and night, pill popping'
and drinking at a rate most of us breathe. u beat up the only 2 girlfriends who ever agreed to date u. 1 broke ur nose the other one ur tooth. both filed complaints, neither pressed charges
due to their own coke use. u never lived on ur own being content to be a 34 yr. old burden to elderly parents. u stole from every member of ur family, where now ur dad drives u to his simple
place of business so he can keep u under watch as u drink all day a shoot coke. u r useless to him, he gives u only the simplest of duties. then he drives u home. if u ever got behind the wheel of a car
the methuen police would arrest u immediately. while at home u stay downstairs shooting more coke and drink non stop. ur father and brother dom want nothing to do with u. ur dad refuses to speak
with u at home. he wants to forget ur his son. ur married brother and his wife do not allow u over to their home and do not want u around their 3 young children u are banned from all the local bars and clubs,
so even tho ur only 34, u spend all ur time playing computer games, watching tv and as u said mostly porn. ur behavior has gotten so out of control, ur parents pressed charges against u. the court
wanted to put u in jail, but ur mother dropped the charges, she was weak. at one point, this was after u pulled a gun, ur parents wanted u out. u slit ur wrists and took off running. u were delighted
it took the police 45 minutes to find u and bring u home. most ppl. would have felt shame but not ck, u felt proud.u r 34 and have no checking account or any established line of credit.
i tried to help u last summer and u were suppose to go for ur ged etc. u did none of it. because i would not send u photo, address and home # u went on a 48 hr. rampage threatening my
life. i filed a complaint against u and instead of regretting ur actions, u went on another rant. my family forwarded ur calls to the avon lake, ohio police dept. and u were so trashed u did not
realize u were screaming ur insanity to a police woman. u called there repeatedly angered that my complaint might put ur dad's business in jeopardy. for months u continued to
be hell on wheels. one thing led to another and at my family's urging i flew to logan, then made my way to the methuen police dep't and lawrence, ur county seat, and presses charges.
i foward all ur e-mails to, methuen police, prosecutors and law firm i hired to assist them. u know this, yet u continue in all ur craziness and untruths. i don't know what ur hoping
to gain, everything i have stated in these pages r true, yet u try stupidly to make it appear i am the wrong doer. what makes it so crazy is u, more than anyone else in these rooms,
knows i am being truthful. ck, u can deny it all u wish to, it will not alter a damn thing.
@tookiej38 i have no idea what ur talking about. my problem is not anyone's age or my own. i am 53 will be 54 in nov. my problem is the constant b/s that goes on. i am not retired, i still
paint. sometime ago, i simply changed my career. the last time i saw u, u were fine. now this from u. and u wonder why i tell u i think it's better we just don't talk. ur inconsistent and insincere,
and that is the primary problem with ur group. what i do with my avatar is none of ur business, what i do with my chips is none of ur business, what i think of u is none of ur business, and not that
i do, but if i had multiple screen names that too would be none of ur business. i told you a long time ago, anyone that carries on the way you all do, possess the moral compass one notch below
that of a child molester. now, go on with ur purposeless life, and leave me out of ur concerns.
@alicekramden567 finally hah! what a joke.who cares if you have money like that besides you?more than likely a lie anyways.i have something you cant buy,its class.you have none.
@ckkc556 big deal, i was wrong about a hockey score. ur wrong about life.
@donstack ppl. r leaving in droves due to the stench left behind by bev. i swear, u can smell her under water.
@donstack in a word, bots. see aceofheartstom, he is best player against bots. perhaps he will be kind enough to teach u.
@DEaster255 ask the den of thieves. they will try to swipe everything including ur good name. so don't u let them.
@TenthMarines ck, i have never made a slanderous comment about you or anyone else. i never needed to, your low character speaks for itself. the only
support you receive are from the usual scum. your continuous low level mud slinging does not warrant the attention of bright, moral players. you have gained
no ground with them. you are and have always been a dishonest, anti-social and uneducated fool and it shows with every word you speak. marcole, give it
up, your the idiot i always claimed you were. bev did in fact say as i always professed she had. you either don't care or u do not know her as well as you
think. either way, it makes you stupid and her one of the scum within your little low life group. wake up and realize no one cares about any of you or
what you think. your group are the only ppl. who think you matter.
@TenthMarines ck, i have never made a slanderous comment about you or anyone else. your low character speaks for itself. the only support you receive is
from the usual scum. your continuous mud slinging does not warrant the attention of thinking, moral players. you are gaining no ground with them. you always
have been a dishonest, anti-social, uneducated jerk and it shows. and marcole, give it up, bev did as i claimed, you either don't care or you don't know her as well
as u thought. either way, ur an idiot as i have always stated. bev is one of the scum i speak of here and so are you.
@TenthMarines ck, i have never made a slanderous remark about u or anyone else in these room. ur low character speaks for itself. the only ppl who support
you are the usual scum. ur gaining nothing here. ur comments about me are baseless and don't warrant the attention of of moral players. i hate the cliche "get
a life" every stupid player in these rooms say it to others. your dishonest, anti-social, uneducated and it shows.
@alicekramden567 @TenthMarines why are you bringing up my name alice?remove your slanderous comments and lies.someone makes a comment about you and you bring my name up.you need to get a life.
@ckkc556 @alicekramden567 my husband and i divorced, because we grew apart. he is not or ever has been a homosexual. u labeled him that because he enjoys the
what u called ladies things. he is also an architect and an award winning one at that. he owns a lodge in sun valley idaho where he goes to fish, hunt ski etc. none of which i enjoy. he is active member
of both the fin, fur and feather club and ducks unlimited. so while in some respects he is considered a man's man he also is a refined, learned man and possesses too much class to
ever make someone feel bad about himself. we raised 2 wonderful daughters and now r blessed w/4 delightful grandchildren. i do not know what meds. u r talking about but have
never had multiple scrips written as u suggest. u e-mail constantly without my ever e-mailing u.the only one between us that talks crap is u. he is literate and enjoys lit. that does
not make him "gay" as u say. whenever u told me such things i retorted u were too silly to be real.
@alicekramden567 @ckkc556 you are a very sick women who does nothing but lie.seek professional help and leave me alone and stop harassing me and others
@alicekramden567 @DEaster255 in that case u alice got
nuttin' to worry about
@alicekramden567 @ckkc556 If your husband is so refined, no wonder your divorced !
@ckkc556 @alicekramden567 btw, i have done and accomplished more in the last 5 mos. than u have done in ur entire life.
@ckkc556 @alicekramden567 i am fine. take ur wart ridden finger and point to urself. i have been asking u since sept. to let me be. then u came up with one insane
lie after another. 1st u were diagnosed with brain cancer. then it was vertigo. both ur knees were out, the best was that u had to go into hiding, cause some might lose
their lives over a drug deal gone bad. please. ur the sick and dsyfunctional one. i better what? and if i don't what the hell are u gong to do about it.
@alicekramden567 @ckkc556 yea you better keep deleting your comments


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A Lawrence County Jury has worked hard to decide the fate of a former Chief Deputy. Harold Knighten was on trial for two counts of fraud, both are felonies.
While Knighten was Chief Deputy in 2012, investigators said he used the Law Enforcement Tactical System database to try and get information on the man sleeping with his wife. In Alabama, adultery is a misdemeanor, and Knighten's defense attorney claimed since he had probable cause that the affair was going on, what he did could be technically called part of a criminal investigation, but the jury didn't buy it.
Colbert County District Attorney Gary Alverson was brought in to prosecute the case. He argued that Knighten's intent was not investigative, it was personal, and that what he did was an abuse of power. An ABI investigator testified Friday that Knighten told him it was not part of an investigation.
Investigators testified that Knighten sat in a parked sheriff's vehicle within Chris Hoods Town Creek Home multiple times. They also testified that while the affair was going on, Knighten entered the LETS database searching Hood's background, and that he ran license plate tag checks on people who visited Hood and contacted them on Facebook.
There are laws against adultery still on the books in Alabama. Eight other states, as well as the US Military, also have statues still in place. However, the last conviction on any adultery charge happened in Massachusetts in 1983. Legal experts said recent Supreme Court rulings made it virtually impossible to prosecute adultery as a crime.
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BizTalk 2006 deftly connects enterprise apps
Boasting across-the-board improvements, BizTalk 2006 carries on product line's rich EAI heritage
Suppose you're the new CIO at an enterprise-scale company that has "islands of automation" for accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory control, sales, support, and HR, and your goal is to integrate all business processes.
Make the nightmare more realistic: Your 35 major suppliers use a variety of ordering and billing systems, hosted on every operating system and database that has been in use for the past 10 years. They don't even all use the same data exchange standards. Cap that all off with a mini-rebellion by your independent customer representatives, who have started to use Salesforce.com for customer relations.
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What to do?
If you have your IT department build custom point-to-point connectors for every current pair of internal and external systems that needs to be integrated, it might be finished sometime in the next decade -- and by then most of the end points will have changed. What you need is some kind of hub-and-spoke or bus architecture to make the tangled problem manageable.
Welcome to the wonderful worlds of EAI and b-to-b e-commerce, two areas for which Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 was designed.
BizTalk acts as a hub to connect many different systems through a central XML-based messaging and orchestration engine. Through the use of adapters, messages can be connected to the various systems, represented as different shapes below the Messaging box. BizTalk 2006 ships with about 23 (see "Highly Adaptable" infographic). Additional adapters -- for Salesforce.com, for example -- can be purchased from Microsoft ISVs.
BizTalk has functionality for many different roles. Developers build BizTalk applications in Visual Studio 2005, consisting of a number of artifacts, including XML schemas, mappings, orchestrations, pipelines, and business rules. IT professionals deploy, configure, and monitor BizTalk applications using the BizTalk Server Administration Console, and possibly Microsoft Operations Manager. Business users can view business activity through a customizable Web dashboard or through an Excel add-in.
The bundling of BizTalk artifacts into deployable applications is one of the major improvements in BizTalk 2006 over BizTalk 2004. Others include significantly easier installations and upgrades, a management console for IT, the aforementioned business dashboard, and integration with SharePoint. BizTalk 2006 ships with a much enlarged suite of adapters, including adapters for many line-of-business applications. It also takes full advantage of 64-bit processors, and it leverages the improved performance of SQL Server 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 over their predecessors.
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Hank for Vezina NHL.com thinks so
i read this article and it got me thinking. i know the topic has been discussed here before but with the way hank has played down the stretch and in response to this new piece from the NHL (love that they're finally paying some attention to us) i wanted to hear some new thoughts. i personally think when you examine how many more starts hank has than the other two, he NEEDs to be in the vezina conversation, maybe even closer to leading the battle than people are giving him credit for. idc what little run thomas had to start the season, hes still a split time goalie, same reason i dont like picking him up in fantasy: his numbers are never as good as they seem.


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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Koreaby Barbara Demick
"Demick focused her interviews on people who came from the city of Chongjin, which enabled her to check their stories and experiences against each other....Through their interwoven personal stories, Demick shows us the lives of ordinary citizens as they navigated the ravages of the last two decades, a time of social disaster, famine, and economic collapse." Andrei Lankov, The Wilson Quarterly (Read the entire Wilson Quarterly review)
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A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens.
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years — a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today — an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.
Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects — average North Korean citizens — fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.
Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature of totalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance.
"A fascinating and deeply personal look at the lives of six defectors from the repressive totalitarian regime of the Republic of North Korea, in which Demick, an L.A. Times staffer and former Seoul bureau chief, draws out details of daily life that would not otherwise be known to Western eyes because of the near-complete media censorship north of the arbitrary border drawn after Japan's surrender ending WWII. As she reveals, 'ordinary' life in North Korea by the 1990s became a parade of horrors, where famine killed millions, manufacturing and trade virtually ceased, salaries went unpaid, medical care failed, and people became accustomed to stepping over dead bodies lying in the streets. Her terrifying depiction of North Korea from the night sky, where the entire area is blacked out from failure of the electrical grid, contrasts vividly with the propaganda on the ground below urging the country's worker-citizens to believe that they are the envy of the world. Thorough interviews recall the tremendous difficulty of daily life under the regime, as these six characters reveal the emotional and cultural turmoil that finally caused each to make the dangerous choice to leave. As Demick weaves their stories together with the hidden history of the country's descent into chaos, she skillfully re-creates these captivating and moving personal journeys." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years — a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic, hard-drinking exsubmarine officer named Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested sailors in their teens and twenties.
On a frigid January morning while eavesdropping near the port of Wonsan, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more patrol boats, shelled and machine-gunned, and forced to surrender. One American was killed and ten wounded, and Bucher and his young crew were taken prisoner by one of the worlds most aggressive and erratic totalitarian regimes.
Less than forty-eight hours before the Pueblos capture, North Korean commandos had nearly succeeded in assassinating South Koreas president in downtown Seoul. Together, the two explosive incidents pushed Cold War tensions toward a flashpoint as both North and South Korea girded for war—with fifty thousand American soldiers caught between them. President Lyndon Johnson rushed U.S. combat ships and aircraft to reinforce South Korea, while secretly trying to negotiate a peaceful solution to the crisis.
Act of War tells the riveting saga of Bucher and his men as they struggled to survive merciless torture and horrendous living conditions in North Korean prisons. Based on extensive interviews and numerous government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, this book also reveals new details of Johnsons high-risk gambit to prevent war from erupting on the Korean peninsula while his negotiators desperately tried to save the sailors from possible execution. A dramatic tale of human endurance against the backdrop of an international diplomatic poker game, Act of War offers lessons on the perils of covert intelligence operations as America finds itself confronting a host of twenty-first-century enemies.
About the Author
Barbara Demick is the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club's award for human rights reporting as well as awards from the Asia Society and the American Academy of Diplomacy. Her coverage of Sarajevo for The Philadelphia Inquirer won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. Her previous book is Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood.
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Though Dallas Mavericks reserve center Brendan Haywood was listed as a game-time decision for Game 3 of the 2011 NBA Finals against the Miami Heat, head coach Rick Carlisle announced an hour before game time that Haywood will not play on Sunday night, reports David Aldridge.
With Haywood out, the Mavericks will need Tyson Chandler to stay out of foul trouble and hope that 24-year-old Ian Mahinmi can step up after receiving limited playing time during the regular season and the playoffs. SB Nation Dallas offers some thoughts on what this means:
He will have to keep from getting too amped up as he has a tendency to pick up quick fouls. Which puts a ton of pressure on Chandler to stay out of foul trouble. If Chandler is not able to stay out of foul trouble, the Mavericks will have to go small and that has proved to be disastrous against the Heat through two games.
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Are you annoying people with your behaviors on Twitter? This week's Twitter annoyances story focused on the technical aspects of Twitter, but some people with whom I spoke had plenty to say about Twitter etiquette - of the lack thereof. The problem has only gotten worse as the popularity of Twitter's service has climbed. Here's what bothers Margaret Wallace, CEO of online game software development company Rebel Monkey.
Calling yourself a "guru." Ever notice how many "gurus" are dispensing advice on Twitter? Wallace has. The most common: life coaches, and self-described experts in search engine optimization and social networking. But Wallace takes it all with sense of humor. "I take great comfort in the fact that there is a guru on Twitter for every aspect of my life."
Posting too many Tweets in rapid succession. "When I see folks posting 10 or 15 tweets all at once, and these are links to upsell something or point back to some Web site, I do find that a bit annoying," Wallace says.
Here are a few that bother Michaela Vorvoreanu, assistant professor at Purdue University's College of Technology. She studies the impact of Twitter and other communications technologies on the culture and society. In her own words the top annoyances are:
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ANDERSON, Ind. —
Julia Florence "Judy" (Collins) McNabb, 91, of Anderson, went to be with the Lord on April 9, 2013 from her residence.
She was born February 21, 1922, in Rossville, Ga., to Michael and Grace (Balch) Collins.
She was retired from Saint John's Hospital where she worked as a nurse.
She was a member of New Life Church of the Nazarene.
Survivors include her son, Mike (Sue) McNabb; daughter, Teresa (Bill) Shirley; five grandchildren, Sean Shirley, Mike Shirley, Ty McNabb, Eric Reyes and Rachel Reyes; five great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Clyde McNabb.
Service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at New Life Church of the Nazarene with Pastor Alvin Dayton officiating. Burial will be in Anderson Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be two hours prior to the service at the church.
Rozelle-Johnson Funeral Service handled the arrangements.
Post online condolences at www.rozelle-johnson.com or www.theheraldbulletin.com.