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NextMovie's The male Twi-Hard , this week he's taking a look back over all of his Twilight knowledge and experiences since starting the column "Confessions of a Male Twi-Hard" ..
this is his second-to-last post,the final one will be after he watch"Breaking Dawn - Part 2...:-
I've thought long and hard on this one, and if I could date any vampire, it'd be Alice. One, she can see the future, which would really help with my sports gambling. Two, she's super cute. Ashley Greene is hot, but she never looks as goods as she does with that pixie Alice haircut.
You would think that "Twilight" bloggers are shut-ups who only eat Lipton soup, own 12 cats and cry every night in front of Access Hollywood. However, everyone I've met seems normal, social, has a sense of humor and is (very) willing to talk about other topics besides Team Jacob.
It would have been less awkward to share hot wings and beer with Carlisle Cullenthan it was with Peter Facinelli.
As things seemingly come to a close with "The Twilight Saga," a lot feels undone. I'm not saying Stephenie Meyer needs to wrap everything up in a little bow, but doesn't it feel like there should be at least one other book?
I know everyone was blown away when K.Stew cheated on R.Pattz, but I'm actually surprised the relationship lasted as long as it did. Young love is fleeting. Show business romances never last (see even Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman). And they are two of the most desired people in Hollywood — it's hard not to eat candy when you're in a delicious candy store and it's all free
The most fun I had with this column was when I attended last year's Twilight Convention in Los Angeles. However, I'm glad I had someone paying my way because that s*** is expensive as f***.
This is the feeling I had every time someone from my regular job at MTV.com, which is the editor of Guy Code Blog, would find out I also wrote Confessions of a (Male) Twi-Hard for NextMovie, located nine floors down from our office.
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Hi, nice to see an older user on here. We haven't got many active users so I'm trying to build up the community, including messages via the gone facebook page, so if you know anyone else that might be able to help out, everyone's always welcome. I like your post about categorizing all the articles, because that would definitely help build up the wiki!
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For nearly 10 years Americans wondered in amazement how the massive breadth of the U.S. government, military and intelligence community could not capture a single man: Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, Oscar-winners for "The Hurt Locker," had worked extensively on creating a film about that futile search when an amazing thing happened: The Navy's SEAL Team Six found and killed the notorious al-Qaida leader during a midnight raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
The world had a bit of closure, and Bigelow and Boal had a new ending.
Zero Dark Thirty
Who: With Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Kyle Chandler. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
Rated: R for strong violence, including brutal disturbing images, and for language.
Running time: 157 minutes.
When: Opens Friday.
Where: Area theaters.
Grade: A
"Zero Dark Thirty" is a magnificently well-crafted film that has already kicked up a storm of controversy. Some senators have questioned its veracity, particularly with its re-creation of torture scenes including waterboarding. The Senate Intelligence Committee is questioning whether acting CIA head Michael Morell and his counterterrorism chief misled the filmmakers regarding "enhanced interrogation" techniques, and the Congressional Homeland Security Committee claimed that classified information was leaked to the filmmakers.
"Zero Dark Thirty," which is military time for the beginning of the raid (12:30 a.m. in Pakistan), is not a documentary. Bigelow and Boal say that the film is based on first-person accounts and that all of the characters portrayed are based on actual people.
Bigelow smartly followed several aspects of the intelligence process: intense interrogations, unending paperwork and computer searches, super-high-tech tracking methods, and super-low-tech, old-fashioned shoe leather. There is a barrage of faces, countries and time periods, but the common thread is a no-nonsense tenacious CIA agent named Maya (the excellent Jessica Chastain). If you are tracking Public Enemy No. 1, you definitely want someone as laser-focused as Maya on your team.
Chastain is joined by a splendid cast including Jason Clarke as a fellow agent, Kyle Chandler as a CIA field chief and Jennifer Ehle as a terrorist expert. Bigelow could have been swallowed by the enormous challenge of condensing 10 years and thousands of leads into one movie, but her film is the opposite: a heart-pounding sprint even though we know how it ends. By the time we get to SEAL Team Six, we've seen the tremendous toll the politics, bureaucratic delays and Washington hand-wringing have taken on the people in the front lines.
One nit: Bigelow peppered the SEALs with a few name actors including funnyman Chris Pratt from "Parks and Recreation." She should have stuck with anonymous faces. We don't need to see sitcom stars when the film takes a crucial turn.
The final 35 minutes or so is the bang-bang blow-by-blow of the raid itself, primarily told in the half-light green glow of night-vision scopes and goggles. It is mesmerizing and a testament to great direction, cinematography, editing and sound editing.
It will be years, probably decades, before we know what really happened in the hunt for bin Laden. We may never know it all. But this version of events, and salute to the brave souls who risked their lives, certainly makes for great cinema.


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Deadheads can get pretty snobbish when they start rhapsodizing about the Grateful Dead's greatest performances. And there were many. On the other hand, there were shows that sounded akin to a train being struck by a jumbo jet, then stomped on by Godzilla. Then sprayed by Mothra's silk.
Sheer carnage, in other words.
But Aug. 27, 1972, does not fall into the carnage and cacophony category – at least not to the legions of Grateful Dead fans who still roam the planet. In fact, that show, played as a benefit for the Springfield Creamery in Veneta, Ore., is widely considered to be one of the band's greatest, tightest shows ever. It remains the most requested release of the band's entire 30-year career, which spanned from 1965 to the death of Jerry Garcia on Aug. 9, 1995.
Until now, however, that so-called legendary concert has only cropped up in bootleg form, leaving much to be desired. On Thursday, Aug. 1, on what would have been Garcia's 71st birthday, the film "Sunshine Daydream" will debut across Massachusetts and the nation, giving aging Deadheads a chance to flashback to that brutally hot August day in Oregon some 41 years ago.
For wannabe Deadheads, or those who never had a chance to see the band live, the film is a chance to sample the psychedelic musings of one of the biggest touring acts of all time. The Dead's records didn't sell so well, and they sure didn't get much FM air time back in the day. But the band's reputation for live, improvisational performances garnered Garcia and company a loyal army of worldwide followers.
Western Massachusetts screenings include 7:30 p.m. shows at Rave Cinemas, 864 Riverdale St., West Springfield (413-733-5134), and Cinemark at Hampshire Mall, 367 Russell St., Hadley (413-587-4237).
"Sunshine Daydream" originally was shot on 16mm film, with limited film festival screenings and fuzzy bootlegs. But the concert's audio has been completely remastered, while the film itself has been painstakingly restored to HD resolution for this new theatrical release. Some of the band's trademark tunes, including "China Cat Sunflower," "Dark Star" and "Playing in the Band," are among the standout songs likely to rekindle the spirit of summer of '72.
The film is expected to debut at about 500 theaters nationwide. More information about theater locations is available at FathomEvents.com.


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Thinking of going straight from your trusted old Windows XP to Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system, bypassing the poorly received Vista?
See you later, Flight Simulator
After more than 25 years of flying high near the top of Microsoft's PC game portfolio, the venerable Flight Simulator franchise has quietly expired.Perhaps making way for younger, flashier — and far better-selling — productions such as the gargantuan "Halo" series on the Xbox, Microsoft is shutting down ACES studio as part of its biggest-ever wave of layoffs, effectively killing off Flight Simulator for now and perhaps for good.The gaming world greeted the news with sadness tinged with nostalgia.Once lauded as the gaming industry's benchmark for cutting-edge games performance, Flight Simulator was born in the early 1980s and gradually impressed PC afficionados with its heightened realism and groundbreaking graphics. That realism came with a price, as the game never caught on with a mass market that in the 1990s began to hoover up more visceral, faster-moving first-person experiences such as iD's "Doom" first-person shooter.Case in point from a casual gamer: I still remember the thrill that coursed through me the day when, after reading a complex series of instructions and numerous tries over several weeks, I finally got my plane off the ground and began coasting around a flat, barren landscape of shifting pixels. About 15 minutes later, I exited the game. I never even tried to land.Nevertheless, the game — which games site Gamespot.com called "realistic enough to be used for real-life flight training" but "on most systems, at anything other than the lowest of the game's graphics settings, the simulation has significant performance issues" — commands a devoted following among a niche of hard-core simulation fans.Partly in an effort to win over more casual gamers, ACES tacked on goal-oriented missions to its last Flight Simulator iteration, such as playing the role of a stunt pilot trying to land on a moving bus or racing a jet-powered truck.Now, ACES and their game have become a little-noticed casualty of Microsoft's effort to cut 5,000 jobs to offset slowing growth in the midst of an industry downturn. Will the game ever be resurrected in another form? Is Microsoft shifting its resources toward the hot-selling Xbox, which racked up record sales in the last quarter? The firm is playing its cards close to the vest.Microsoft "is making adjustments within our business to align our people against our highest priorities, and the closure of Aces Studio is once of those changes. You should expect us to continue to invest in enabling great LIVE experiences on Windows, including flying games, but we have nothing additional to announce around Flight Simulator specifically at this time," spokeswoman Kelda Rericha said. "Xbox 360 had its biggest year ever and these changes are not directly related to the performance of the business. The realignments of headcount are directly intended to strengthen the Xbox 360 platform, including Games for Windows."(Photo: Gamespot)Writing and reporting by Edwin Chan
Oh Microsoft, how the times change!
Microsoft (then spelled "Micro Soft") is founded by William "Bill" Gates, a 20-year-old Harvard dropout, and Paul Allen, his 22-year-old school chum. They begin selling its first product, a BASIC programming language interpreter.
Microsoft to cut more jobs?
The world's largest software firm is cutting 5,000 jobs as it faces the worst economic crisis in its 34-year history.
There's Apple… and there's Microsoft
It's a tale of two companies in the technology world on Thursday. There's Apple, whose quarterly profit beat expectations on strong iPod and Mac computer sales. And then there's Microsoft, whose dismal earnings sent shockwaves through financial markets.
CES: Ford turns hip with Eva
Ford CEO Alan Mulally unveiled new features of its voice-command activated in-car system Sync yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, highlighting its connectivity with a driver's other devices, including cell phones and personal computers.
Obama greenlights analog TV for another season
After all the excitement, endless public service announcement ads and electronics retailers salivating over anticipated high-definition TV sales, it turns out that the United States might not be switching to digital television just yet.
Microsoft, Yahoo, restless pigeons and balloons
Have you ever watched pigeons almost take flight as someone approaches, but after a brief flapping of wings decide to sit tight? That was the sense we got from reading the stories that knocked down the latest rumor about who will buy Internet search company Yahoo.
CES: Microsoft's Robbie Bach speaks
Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, sat down to talk to Reuters at CES in Las Vegas, ahead of the big keynote address by CEO Steve Ballmer. Topics discussed ranged from the Windows 7 beta and eventual launch, Microsoft's mobile search deal with Verizon, and how the tough economic environment is affecting the company.
Google's Chrome out of beta, but only Windows-friendly
Google has decided its Chrome Web browser is all grown up-or. Or at least it has outgrown its beta label.


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Member Since: August 29, 2012
December 17, 2014 at 1:59pm
Where are the SHARKS when you need them?!?!?!?
[2] July 6, 2014 at 2:46pm
I knew it when the headline said, "these 4 words". Wishing me "a blessed day" will get you a SMILE and a THANK YOU…I need all the help I can get!
In reply to the story Four Simple Words Got Her Fired. But Was She Preaching or Just Being Pleasant?
July 6, 2014 at 2:53pm
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How DUMB was (is) that bimbo interviewer? Pretty darned dumb.
In reply to the story 'It's Not Mean, It's Not Mean, It's Not Mean': Raging Joan Rivers Storms Off CNN Set
July 6, 2014 at 3:19pm
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July 4, 2014 at 12:30pm
Darmok, You are 100% right; I've never had a problem with either UPS or FedEx.
[1] July 3, 2014 at 10:15pm
What a f@cked up parent.
[-1] July 3, 2014 at 12:07am
An act of kindness? NO. An act of stupidity. Whereas Pampers are the most expensive diaper sold, Walmart has its own brand (just as good) for a lot less money. Paying it forward does not mean paying for someone else's greed.
In reply to the story A Mom Couldn't Believe What a Stranger Did for Her at Walmart — and It Was All Caught on Camera
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June 30, 2014 at 2:35pm
Isn't this fagggottt dead yet ?????
June 26, 2014 at 4:25pm
"delayed gratification" my azz!!! She should have had her hands smacked (HARD) for stealing the donut, and then a butt whuppin' for lying. When Mom got finished with those 2 items, she should have dressed her and marched her to the nearest beauty shop, and gotten that rats nest cut down to manageable size.
[-2] June 26, 2014 at 3:55pm
Now, if that isn't about the dumbest thing I've seen in many a day. Both of their drivers licenses need to be revoked — they are dangerous to themselves and others (both pedestrians and other drivers).
In reply to the story Take a Closer Look: Notice Anything in the Viral Photo of an Elderly Man Posing Next to His Stunning Car Accident?
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I'm just wondering if there aren't tests for the guy's blood which can identify pollutants or drugs which might be causing this reaction. Can the plane's air filters be tested to hallucinogenics? Why does it seem that we hear about only JetBlue's incidents?
[9] May 27, 2014 at 1:36pm
bio, …because they are democratic-voting liberal obutthead voters.
May 27, 2014 at 1:11pm
Blaze, surely there are more newsworthy stories…
May 20, 2014 at 2:14pm
And, Blazing Patriot, I'm one of those grammas!! My kids and grandkids KNOW not to mess with the gramma!! LOL!! As my Mother used to say, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy."
May 20, 2014 at 2:02pm
Glenn, please do NOT refer to this POS restaurant as a "favorite" in Denver…it is NOT.
May 20, 2014 at 1:59pm
Well, Shiittpotleee, I never liked you to begin with….a Denver illegal alien-based company.
[2] May 18, 2014 at 12:46pm
Hi Snow!
Refreshing to see/read. We are ALL God's creatures.
May 10, 2014 at 12:13pm
The cop with the tazer got my first laugh of the day! Looks to be a great movie. God bless America.
May 7, 2014 at 4:30pm
free, that was my first thought…what a wonderful Mother's Day gift — the one she will never forget.
[1] May 7, 2014 at 4:24pm
Ms. Durant, you raised one incredible son. Congrats to you and your family, and God bless.
April 28, 2014 at 1:12pm
Just when I thought my life was hitting a rough spot…."There, but for the Grace of God, go I".
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The Devil's Star
Jo Nesbo
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Fordító: Don Bartlett
Nyelv: angol
Műfaj: Krimi, bűnügyi, thriller
Borító: puhatáblás, ragasztókötött
Oldalszám: 452
In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat - with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped dia-mond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a hated colleague who Harry believes is responsible for the murder of his partner. When another woman is reported missing five days later, and her severed finger turns up adorned with a red star-shaped diamond ring, Harry fears a serial killer is at work. But Hole's determination to capture a fiend and to expose Waaler's crimes is leading him into shadowy places where both investigations merge in unexpected ways, forcing him to make difficult decisions about a future he may not live to see.


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Alyce those puppets are wonderful! Keep us posted on your interview!
Also, where do you live in New York?
What materials did you use on that business man?
What are you doing in Texas? Is that where the studio is?
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I used mostly (all) super sculpy, which I actually would not recommend at all. It ended up being waaay too heavy. While it looks cool, it's a pain to hold for a long time. I thought since the limbs/body were relatively thin/smallish, it wouldn't be too bad, but I was wrong. I'd probably end up building the limbs and body out of wood next time, while keeping the head, feet and hands sculpy.
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The Memorial Sea-Hawks men's basketball players probably feel pretty good about themselves today, and so they should.
A 4-14 Atlantic University Sport (AUS) record is nothing to jump up and down about, but the team has played better than the record would seem to indicate. The effort was often there, but the wins remained elusive.
The Sea-Hawks had little to show for their season until this past weekend when they beat the UPEI Panthers twice at the Field House.
It was all hands on deck in this series. Getting good minutes at various times from guys like Jacob Ranton, Jake Hynes, D'vontai Moore and Noel Moffatt contributed to the effort.
Then you had the offence, highlighted by Davion Parnsalu's 32 points Sunday, including 18-for-21 from the foul line. That's not far off the AUS record held by Sea-Hawks Shane Butland, who went 21-for-21 from the free throw line Feb. 5, 2001 against Dalhousie Tigers for an AUS record.
Toss in the consistent two-game effort from Vasilije Curcic and Caleb Gould, including Curcic's five blocks, and you have an overall impressive team effort.
The most significant point in the series was probably Sunday when the Sea-Hawks blew a 10-point lead with six minutes left in the fourth quarter. Normally, the fans would head to the exits at that point figuring another collapse was in the cards.
And who could blame them?
The Panthers came all the way back and tied the game 84-84 with about three and a half minutes to play. That looked to be the here-we-go-again scenario that's been the trademark of the Sea-Hawks over the past several years.
But that's not what happened. The Sea-Hawks pushed back. You could imagine everyone in a MUN jersey saying to themselves: Not in our house. Not this time.
You could see the determination in their eyes and the intensity on the floor.
You can't fake that. Heck, the crowd could sense it.
Three straight baskets by Curcic, Gould and Ranton and some good defence gave the home team a 90-84 lead and the Sea-Hawks hit a eight of nine free throws to salt the game away down the stretch.
This is what the Sea-Hawks are capable of. This is what they can produce when they keep their heads.
And, more importantly, they are starting to believe in themselves.
Parnsalu said the double wins gave the team confidence and adds to the overall team chemistry.
"We're coming hard next year. Next year, and in future years, we're going to start winning (on a regular basis)."
It's too early to say if the Sea-Hawks have really turned a corner in the team's development. A two-game winning streak is no big deal in the grand scheme of things. However, the players seem to believe they will eventually compete on an equal level one day soon, so perhaps Peter Benoite's preaching is paying off.
As Bruce Cockburn once wrote: "Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight."
There's no denying there's a hint of some daylight on the Sea-Hawks horizon.
Kelia Pond may be more valuable to the Memorial Sea-Hawks women's basketball team next year than this season.
The fourth-year Lady Hawk wing from Goulds has put up some pretty good offensive numbers since Christmas, including 31 points in the two-game split against the UPEI Panthers this past weekend.
Pond sank 20 points in Saturday's win and added 11 in Sunday's loss to move ahead of Sandra Amoah as the team's top scorer, 11.2 points-per-game to 11.1 ppg.
"I've been more confident since the break over Christmas," said Pond.
"Improving my defensive game has given me the confidence to make plays in the offensive end," she added, agreeing with coach Doug Partridge's assesment.
While MUN has been basically a .500 team all season, Pond says, "The vibe of the team this year is better than any other year I've played."
And while this year's Sea-Hawks are without consistent a go-to player, Pond feels that has only helped the team chemistry if not the bottom line.
"Having everyone contribute to our wins has brought the team together," she said.
"Everyone has a certain amount of respect for each other, and it shows on the court. We have a lot of young talent and I love where the team is heading.
"To be honest," added Pond, "once the rookies this year get into their third and fourth years, a national championship is certainly a reachable goal. It's exciting to see how much we have grown as a team this season. I love where the program is heading."
Unless there are a few huge upsets in this year's playoffs, MUN won't win the AUS title. However, with a healthy Brooklyn Wright available next year, plus a more experienced side overall, along with a fifth-year Pond, MUN could be back on top in no time given the team's overall athleticism.
Wright, a 6-3 forward from Cambridge, Ont., may be the key. She was unable to play this season due to an injury.
Of course, Partridge and his players aren't thinking about next year right now. They've got the undefeated Saint Mary's Huskies coming up and then it's playoff time.\
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HOOVER, Alabama -- The Birmingham Barons named first baseman Seth Loman and reliever Santos Rodriguez to their top awards for 2012.
The 26-year-old Loman was named Barons Player of the Year after hitting .276 with 16 home runs and 58 RBIs in 115 games. Loman really took off after the all-star break, hitting .324, and he led the club in slugging (.458). In two seasons as a Baron, Loman slugged 35 homers and drove in 123 runs.
Rodriguez, 24, posted a 2-4 record with a 2.81 ERA, striking out 60 batters in 64 innings. Taking over the closer's role the second half of the season, Rodriguez converted eight-of-nine save opportunities in his first season of Double-A ball. Rodriguez spent the final weeks of the season in Triple-A Charlotte after a promotion.


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Belcher Boasts Canyon Mother's Day Victory
Kevin Montgomery, PEORIA, Ariz. (May 7, 2011) – Terry Belcher Jr. picked up his first IMCA Modified victory of 2011 and did so in grand fashion by earning his first from the scratch position. Belcher who missed heat race action had to start at the rear of the field but was able to overcome a host of competitors to cross the stripe first and claim a Canyon Speedway win.
Belcher, a second generation Modified standout, was in good company with 2-time winner Jason Noll crossing the line in the second position and 2010 Champion Tim Ward filling the final podium spot.
Jeff Stafford and Joe Vlasity continued their dominance in Pure Stock and Bomber action while Jason George and Brian Stehr took honors in X-Mods and Dwarf Cars.
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Belcher and company will return this Saturday night for a full night of action. Joining the IMCA Modifieds will be the Super Stocks, Southwest Modlites, Dwarf Cars and Bombers. Racing gets under way when general admission tickets go on sale at 5pm for only $15 for adults, Senior and Military $13 and children 12 under are always free. Racing will begin promptly at 7:30pm.
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Prehistoric Hobbit Humans May Have Been Hunted by Giant Six-Foot Storks
Are you familiar with "hobbits," or Homo florsiensis, the wee, extinct human species thought to have lived tens of thousands of years ago? Are you aware that they might have been hunted and eaten by enormous, six-foot-tall storks?
Two paleontologists, Hanneke Meijer and the awesomely-named Rokus Awe Due, found several fossils of the winged beasts in the same cave where the remains of Homo florsiensis were originally discovered in 2003. It likely weighed around 35 pounds, and was, doubtless, absolutely terrifying. It probably ate fishes, lizards and birds, and, according to Meijer, "possibly in principle even small, juvenile hobbits."
Now, let's be clear, there is, as of right now, no direct evidence that the storks ate tiny cave-people. Just evidence that they probably lived at around the same time. And evidence that the birds were humongous, and frighteningly large, and the little miniature people were basically snack-sized. So as completely awesome, in every sense of the word, as it is to imagine a bird the size of a person, hunting and killing small fantasy creatures, just remember that it's only a conjecture! In fact, you may want to repeat that to yourself, a couple times, before you go to bed tonight.


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MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, MI -- A group of Muskegon area corrections officers were allegedly attacked by a group of men outside a Muskegon Township bowling alley over the weekend, police said.
Cops, courts and fire: Consumers Energy spokesman: Fruitport Township house fires remain under investigation
FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, MI – Consumers Energy officials are in the process today, March 13, of investigating how two fires started early Tuesday in the same block of a Fruitport Township neighborhood.
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MUSKEGON, MI – What if it happened here? It's a question local school officials asked themselves after the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. The uneasy conclusion they came to is that schools most likely aren't prepared.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- West Side Market vendors made their final preparations early Monday morning before the 7 a.m. reopening of the Cleveland landmark after a fire closed it nearly three weeks ago.
The city owed building suffered heavy smoke damage from the fire which started in Sebastian Meats and spread Foster's Meats. They are not expected to open for several months, but the rest of the market is now open. Crews from RestorX MD worked 24 hours a day to clean it up.
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Deborah Lipstadt: Bemoans ruling in libel tourism caseHistorians in the News
The N.Y. Appeals Court has ruled in the Ehrenfeld case. There are many disturbing aspects to this case, as my colleague Michael Broyde and I wrote in our New York Times oped.
[Some background: In her book Ehrenfeld charged Saudi billionaire Mahfouz with funding terrorism. She did not publish the book in the UK. Nonetheless, Mahfouz's lawyers bought the book over Amazon UK and then went to the UK court and sued her for libel. The case coined the term"Libel Tourism." She did not contest the Saudi billionaire's charges against her and therefore lost by default. ]
She tried to counter sue Mahfouz in the United States. She argued that, the fact that Mahfouz might try to collect what he won in the UK judgment against her, gave the N.Y. court jurisdiction and it should prevent that from happening.
The N.Y. Appeals Court ruled that New York courts have no jurisdiction to hear her counter suit because he has not yet tried to collect the funds awarded him by the UK court.
Ehrenfeld's lawyers had argued that just the threat that Mahfouz would try to collect the money gave American courts jurisdiction.
What the N.Y. court said was that she can't sue now. The court seems to be saying that, should, however, Mahfouz come banging on her door to collect the money, she can then go to the N.Y. court and ask them to hear the case.
Since the ruling was announced yesterday I have received a number of despondent emails. They have expressed the sentiment that this is an awful defeat for Ehrenfeld, as well as all others who would expose Saudi funding of terrorism and try to expose extremism.
I too wish the ruling had gone otherwise but lawyers had warned me that the court would probably rule this way.
Part of the problem is that Ehrenfeld, by choosing not to contest Mahfouz's assault on her in the UK court, has a judgment against her.
I am convinced -- I may be wrong -- that Mahfouz won't come after Ehrenfeld for the money. To do so he might look like a vicious man trying to strip an American researcher and writer of her livelihood. Moreover, if she then goes to the American courts and counter sues, he might lose.
However, if he leaves things as they are now it is a win/win for him.
* He won by default in the UK court
* He has a judgment against Ehrenfeld [even though she never published in the UK]
* He leaves her hanging, not knowing if he is coming to collect"his" money while he avoids looking like an ogre.
* Above all, he avoids the risk that she will counter sue and win in an American court.
I know that Ehrenfeld did not contest these charges in the UK on principle. [It is absurd that a book that was not published in the UK can be the cause of a libel suit there.] However, because of the nature of UK libel laws, it let Mahfouz have his win [even if by default]
This made him the winner. And that is how he will probably choose to remain.
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There are 435 voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In theory, they each have one vote to cast when important matters are decided.
In truth, however, some members of the House have much more influence and power than do others.
Most of the work of the House is done in committees. That's where the decisions are made about which bills are voted on by the whole House and what provisions they contain.
Given the way congressional decisions are made, the committee assignments a congressman receives have a great deal to do with how much real power and influence that member has - and how effectively the voters back home can be served.
Iowa's 4th Congressional District is fortunate to have a congressman whose committee assignments position him ideally to assure that the interests of central and northern Iowa are heard loudly and clearly in Washington.
Tom Latham, a Republican from Ames, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. His background as a farmer and small-business owner means that he understands well the needs of a predominantly rural district. He was singled out early by his colleagues as someone whose views they respected. That led to his selection as the only Iowan on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Within that committee he serves on the Agriculture, Homeland Security, and Energy and Water subcommittees.
It's almost impossible to exaggerate how important Latham's role in the appropriations process is to his district and the whole state of Iowa. He is perfectly positioned to make certain that rural Iowa gets a fair hearing for projects in need of federal dollars. Grants to support community projects have a real chance to be funded with Latham's help. A congressman who does not sit on the Appropriations Committee can plead the case for his constituents. One who is a member of that committee helps decide which of the many worthy causes being touted get funding.
Tom Latham is not a congressman who believes in wasteful federal spending. He is, however, determined that Iowa be treated fairly by the power brokers in Washington. We need to keep him on the job protecting the interests of the 4th District and the entire Hawkeye State.
Latham has proved a judicious advocate for countless projects that have helped our communities thrive. He listens carefully to voters, and works tirelessly on Capitol Hill to explain Iowa's needs. He is a champion we can ill afford to lose.
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CONNECT211 is an online, GIS (Geographic Information System) based application that allows users to search a database of over 12,000 organizations and display and print maps and turn-by-turn directions
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CLIFTON — A Lyndhurst teen was shocked with a Taser during an attempted robbery in a Clifton shopping plaza earlier this month.
Police told the Clifton Journal that the 17-year-old girl was sitting in her car in the Clifton Commons parking lot around 9:30 p.m. on June 1 when Jamie Azarcon, a 48-year-old whose last last known address was in Florida, delivered the shock.
The girl was "temporarily incapacitated", police said, but managed to drive away once she gathered herself.
Azarcon also fled the scene, but was located five days later in a van, where he apparently lives, not far from the plaza.
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Kristin Cassell's 10-year-old daughter was drug-tested three times during the past school year.
A student at Susquenita Middle School, to participate in the school's Family and Consumer Science Club, Natalie Cassell had to submit to three random drug tests during her fifth-grade school year, which ended Thursday. And the situation has left Kristin Cassell fuming.
From fifth grade up, Susquenita School District tests all students who participate in sports and other extracurricular activities.
Other midstate districts use the tests as a deterrent, tooo. But Susquenita starts testing kids at a much younger age.
Schools typically don't introduce the tests until students reach high school, where they see the most drug violations. And some test for drugs at the middle school level, according to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Susquenita Middle School houses 10-year-old students. And per district policy 227.1, adopted in 2002, drug testing starts in the fifth grade, which Kristin Cassell believes is overkill and a waste of money.
Cassell plans to speak out against drug-testing 10- and 11-year-olds during the school board's next meeting, which will take place in the high school large instruction room at 7 p.m. on June 10.
"I don't think its necessary for fifth and sixth grades. I told the superintendent, 'if you see signs, red glassy eyes, a stupor, then I could see testing,'" Kristin Cassell said. "It's too much. (My daughter) is 10-years-old."
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2011 House Bill 4803: Transfer state fairgrounds to "Land Bank Fast Track Authority" (Senate Roll Call 195)
Passed 34 to 4 in the Senate on March 29, 2012, to transfer the state fairgrounds in Detroit to a Michigan "Land Bank Fast Track Authority" created by the legislature in 2003, which has extensive powers to assemble and dispose of tax reverted property. Alternatively, the state could sell the property itself at fair market value, or give it to a local government. The property could not be used for a horse or auto race track, casino, prison, or railroad freight yard. Part of the sale is also in Senate Bill 515.
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this is a poem i wrote several years ago. it's a nonsense poem about my brther-in-law's habit of leaving his empty mugs on fenceposts around his property
Teacups on the fence
As we worked around the place,
we'd find them here and there.
Some with Santas, some with flowers,
one with a teddy bear.
The stars and moon shown clear and bright
under the lazy summer sun,
recalling a time several months past
when we played at winter fun.
why were they here?
It didnt make sense.
How could we have forgotten,
the teacups on the fence.
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Roy Williams--check that, Hall of Famer Roy Williams--has had his moment. He's had the spotlight, which he didn't especially enjoy. He's had, most importantly, a timeless hug. He's had the highest honor in his profession. And here's what he's likely to think when he wakes up Saturday morning: The 2007-08 season begins in 34 days. (Tar Heel Blue)
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Obama-loving states hit hardest by coming tax hikes. New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland residents earning $100,000 and up will see tax hike of 6%+. These were the beneficiaries of the Bush "tax cuts for millionaires" the mob was so heated up about a few weeks ago. And for those of us lucky enough to live in the Nutmeg State, the redistribution of our riches has just begun: Hartford's honing its knives in drooling anticipation of coming back down to Fairfield County this coming year.
In its study of how the fiscal cliff would affect typical families in each state, the Tax Foundation reports that if the numerous tax provisions that are due to expire on Dec. 31 are not changed, a four-person family in New Jersey with a median income of $101,682 will see its taxes go up at a rate 6.82 percent of its income, which translates into about $6,933.
The tax issues in question are the expiration of the Bush tax rates, which also include the elimination of the 10 percent tax bracket and the reduced deduction for married filers; ending the 2 percent cut to employee-side Social Security taxes; and the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Maryland was ranked second by the Tax Foundation because a four-person family there, with a median income of $106,707, would see its taxes go up 6.74 percent as a percentage of income, or about $7,194.
Connecticut, ranked third, would see taxes for a family of four go up by 6.62 percent, or $6,653.
All five states with the top tax increases are "blue states," which President Obama won in the 2012 presidential election.
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Though mostly known by lesser hip hop heads for the street-rugged flavor he brought to mid-'00's Kanye highlights "Spaceship" and "Drive Slow", Chi-Town's GLC has actually been pretty prolific on the underground mixtape scene over the years, in 2011 alone dropping not one or two, but three mixtapes for his fellow "Chuch!" bellowers.
Cool-as-'f-word' head-nodder "What This Ism Do" comes from the former G.O.O.D. Music signee's latest tape, Eternal Sunshine of The Pimpin' Mind, and the track's smoove, soul-sample-fueled Blaxploitation tumble lands as the perfect frame for GLC's drawling flow, many catchphrase-y ad-lib asides and mack-tastic dialogue as he schools folks on the ways of his "ism", which apparently involves snatching other dudes' women with ease and lots of stress ("Sometimes this pimpin' hurts").
A remix with Bun B and Ghostface Killah NEEDS to happen for this.
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A 40-year-old Hanover man is believed to be dead following an early morning crash in Heidelberg Township, York County, police said.
The driver, whose identity has yet to be released, was speeding while heading west in the 6300 block of York Road when he lost control of his vehicle in a turn in the roadway, according to police.
The car left the road and hit a tree in a neighboring front yard. Following the accident, the BMW he was driving caught fire and was engulfed in flames within minutes, according to police.
The man's identity has yet to be positively identified because the body was burned beyond recognition. However, police have been in contact with who they believe is a family member, and are almost certain they know the man's identity.
The York County Coroner's office will release his name after the body has been positively identified.
A driver who passed the accident scene shortly after the crash occurred, said the BMW had passed him at a high rate of speed while driving the same direction minutes before the accident.
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It's a fact that each and every wedding gives me a daily pinch-me-please moment. And today that moment was made possible all thanks to this Secrets St. James Montego Bay Resort celebration captured by Natalie Franke. It's so alluring it has officially left me in a tasteful trance of paradise. It's the type of gallery that is tropical with a traditional twist and we're loving every minute.
From Natalie Franke… After falling in love with these two at their Baltimore Engagement Session, I knew that their American-Indian Fusion Wedding was going to take my breath away! What I didn't expect, was to be seated at Sarah's parents table for dinner… which lead to near teary-eyed moment for this veteran photographer. Oh friends, I truly couldn't believe it! Such an unexpected honor!
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Posted 29 May 2006 - 04:31 AM
If I remember correctly, Lee Odum originally said that he only met Shaw once and that the introduction was made through a man named Andy Anderson, who he said worked at the New Orleans Roosevelt Hotel.
Posted 29 May 2006 - 07:16 AM
Forgive me if this has been covered and I have missed it, but does anyone know if Barry Seal had a brother named Ben?
Yes. He was a helicopter pilot. He refused to help Daniel Hopsicker with his book on Barry Seal. He also denied Barry was in the famous Operation 40 photograph. However, Ben's son, Benjie, also a helicopter pilot, confirmed that it was "Uncle Barry" in the picture (Barry and the Boys, page 25).
See picture below: Seal is the third man on the left. It is claimed he is sitting next to Porter Goss.
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Forgive me if this has been covered and I have missed it, but does anyone know if Barry Seal had a brother named Ben?
Yes. He was a helicopter pilot. He refused to help Daniel Hopsicker with his book on Barry Seal. He also denied Barry was in the famous Operation 40 photograph. However, Ben's son, Benjie, also a helicopter pilot, confirmed that it was "Uncle Barry" in the picture (Barry and the Boys, page 25).
See picture below: Seal is the third man on the left. It is claimed he is sitting next to Porter Goss.
Thanks, John.
In the Daniel Hopsicker book, does the Sport Parachuting Center in Hammond, Louisiana get a mention?
Posted 29 May 2006 - 08:09 AM
In the Daniel Hopsicker book, does the Sport Parachuting Center in Hammond, Louisiana get a mention?
No. Just one reference to the Hammond Louisiana airport (page 128).
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The DC-4 was owned by James Boy, a known associate of the CIA. Boy's aircraft were later used to fly Oliver North's mercenaries in and out of Honduras. The man who organized the entrapment of Seal and his friends was Cesario Diosdado, an official with the United States Customs.
It took the authorities over two years to bring Barry Seal to trial. When the trial finally got underway in June, 1974, government prosecutors promptly introduced into evidence an automatic weapon that had nothing at all to do with the charges against the defendants. A mistrial was declared and Seal and his fellow defendants were released. According to Pete Brewton (The Mafia, CIA & George Bush), as soon as Seal was freed he "began working full-time for the CIA, travelling back and forth from the United States to Latin America." Daniel Hopsicker claims Seal was now "sheep-dipped" into the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as an agent for the Special Operations Group. Seal worked under Lucien Conein, who ran secret missions for the DEA. Egil Krogh, who was employed by Richard Nixon as liaison to the FBI and the DEA, later admitted that he placed Cronein in the Office of Narcotics in the White House.
According to Deborah Seal, her husband became involved in drug smuggling in 1975. On 10th December, 1979, Barry Seal and Steve Planta were arrested in Honduras, after arriving from Ecuador with 40 kilos of cocaine. Newspapers reported that $25 million worth of cocaine was confiscated and the men were charged with having 17 kilos of cocaine in their possession. Seal spent nine months in prison before being released without charge.
While in prison, Barry Seal met William Roger Reeves, a fellow drug smuggler who worked for the Ochoa family of Medellin. In 1981, Reeves, Ochoa's business manager in New Orleans, introduced Seal to Felix Bates. As a result Seal began a close relationship with the Colombians and became part of what became known as the Medellin Cartel. Established in 1980, the Medellin Cartel began when Jorge Ochoa convinced the major cocaine families to contribute $7 million each for the formation of a 2,000-man army in order to destroy the Marxist revolutionary group M-19, that was causing the drug barons problems in Colombia.
Drug barons such as Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar now began working together. It has been estimated that the cartel made up to $60 million per month and its leaders joined the list of the world's richest men. The CIA watched this development with interest. It decided that the Medellin Cartel could be used to help defeat communism throughout Latin America. According to Lesley Cockburn, CIA agent, Felix I. Rodriguez, persuaded the Medellin Cartel to make a $10 million contribution to the Contras.
By 1982 Barry Seal was bringing in drugs to the United States on behalf of the Medellin Cartel. Seal moved his base of operations from Louisiana to Mena, an obscure airport in the secluded mountains of western Arkansas. Seal told friends that he once made $1.5 million on a single cocaine flight. Seal worked directly for Sonia Atala, the CIA protected drug baron (Michael Levine, The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic). It is also claimed that Seal's fleet of planes to ferry supplies to Contra camps in Honduras and Costa Rica. His planes also made return trips to airstrips in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. According to Roger Morris and Sally Denton (Partners in Power): "His well-connected and officially-protected smuggling operation based in Mena accounted for billions in drugs and arms".
Seal also obtained two new multi-million dollar Beech Craft King Air 200s. According to Daniel Hopsicker, these aircraft were purchased by a Phoenix-based corporation that acted as a "front" for John Singlaub. This company also owned Southern Air, a CIA proprietary connected to William Casey, Richard Secord, Felix I. Rodriguez and George H. W. Bush.
Seal also owned a Lear jet. It had previously been owned by Reggie and Bill Whittington. In 1981 the brothers were arrested and charged in Florida with importing 400,000 pounds of marijuana and evading taxes on $73 million. The Lear jet was then passed on to Seal. It was registered as being owned by Intercontinental Holding, a CIA front company in the Cayman Islands that had been established by Paul Helliwell.
In March, 1984, Seal was indicted at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for smuggling Quaaludes and laundering money. Former undercover narcotics investigator Stan Hughes told Daniel Hopsicker (Barry and the Boys) that: "When Barry got busted on the Quaalude thing, and I heard about their being government intervention to save his ass, I didn't believe it at first. But talk to any smuggler, and they'll tell you: they can always buy their way out of a dope deal."
In an attempt to avoid an expected 10 year sentence, Seal made contact with George H. W. Bush. He then appeared before a secret session of Bush's Task Force on Drugs in Washington where he testified that the Sandinistas were directly involved in drug trafficking into the United States. Seal claimed that the Medellin Cartel had made a deal with the Sandinistas, awarding them cuts of drug profits in exchange for the use of an airfield in Managua as a trans-shipment point for narcotics.
This news was welcomed by President Ronald Reagan who wanted to launch an all out war on the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was now put under pressure to enlist Seal as an undercover informant with a special emphasis on the "Nicaraguan connection".
Seal agreed to organize a sting operation where he managed to get a photograph of Pablo Escobar helping Nicaraguan soldiers to load 1,200 kilos of cocaine on a C-123 military cargo plane. Soon afterwards Reagan went on television with the photograph to denounce the "Sandinistas as drug smugglers corrupting American youth".
As a result of Seal's cooperation in setting up this sting, the judge in Florida reduced his sentence from ten years to six months probation. The judge praised Seal for his work against the Sandinistas and pointing out that "when an informant puts his life on the line to help the forces of law and order, they deserve just compensation".
Seal also offered to provide information to the DEA implicating federal officials in the Iran-Contra scandal. This included Richard Ben-Veniste, a Watergate prosecutor who played a crucial role in the successful fight to secure the secret Richard Nixon White House tapes. Ben-Veniste represented both Barry Seal and Bill Clinton in the early 1980s. Ben-Veniste served as chief counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee. However, the authorities were not interested in this information.
In December 1984, Seal was arrested in Louisiana after flying in a cargo of marijuana. After paying a $250,000 bond, Seal was released and returned to drug smuggling. In return Seal provided information that resulted in the US government obtaining 17 criminal convictions. According to Daniel Hopsicker: "Seal told investigators that between March 1984, and August 1985, he made a quarter-million dollars smuggling up to 15,000 kilos of cocaine while working for the DEA, and another $575,000 when the DEA let him keep the money from one shipment."
Barry Seal appeared before Judge Frank Polozola in Baton Rouge on 20th December, 1985. Found guilty of two drug felony convictions, Polozola was sentenced to six months supervised probation. A condition of the sentence was that he had to spend every night, from 6.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m., at the Salvation Army halfway house on Baton Rouge's Airline Highway strip. Judge Polozola barred him from carrying a gun or hiring armed guards. Barry Seal told his friends "they made me a clay pigeon".
Barry Seal was asked by his close friend, Rene Martin, if he feared being killed by the Ochoa family. Barry Seal replied that he was not afraid of the Colombians because he had not implicated senior members of the organization. Seal was more worried about his contacts within the US government. This view is supported by Lewis Unglesby, Seals lawyer. He confirmed that the man Seal was willing to testify against was George H. W. Bush.
On 19th February, 1986, Barry Seal returned to his Salvation Army hostel at 6.00 p.m. As he parked his white Cadillac he was approached by a man carrying a machine-gun. Two quick bursts hit Seal's head and body. One of Seal's friends, Russ Eakin, observed the killing. "I saw Barry get killed from the window of the Belmont hotel coffee shop. The killers were both out of the car, one on either side, but I only saw one shoot, cause Barry saw it coming and just put his head down on the steering column."
Over the next few days the police received information that enabled them to arrest several men for the killing of Barry Seal. This included Miguel Velez, Bernardo Vasquez, Luis Quintero-Cruz, John Cardona, Eliberto Sanchez and Jose Renteria. A seventh, Rafa Cardona, managed to escape back to Colombia. He was murdered later that year. Eliberto Sanchez and John Cardona were deported and never appeared in court for the crime. Nor did Jose Coutin supplied the weapons for the killing of Seal. However, he was not charged with any crime and instead testified in court against Miguel Velez, Luis Quintero-Cruz and Bernardo Vasquez. According to Lesley Cockburn (Out of Control) Coutin was a CIA asset.
One of those originally arrested, Jose Renteria, took photographs of the dead Seal in the car. When his camera was confiscated by an FBI agent at New Orleans airport, it was opened and the film inside exposed. While being interrogated, Renteria claimed that Coutin was linked to Oliver North. However, this information was never produced in court as Renteria was not charged with the murder and was instead deported to Colombia.
Miguel Velez, Luis Quintero-Cruz and Bernardo Vasquez were found guilty of Barry Seal's murder and sentenced to life terms without parole. The official story was that Jorge Ochoa had murdered Seal in order to stop him testifying at his U.S. trial. Yet Ochoa never stood trial in the U.S. Nor did Seal appear to be afraid of Ochoa. His concern was with George H. W. Bush and the CIA. For example, Barry Seal's secretary, Dandra Seale (no relation) does not believe the Medellin Cartel carried out the assassination. "The CIA people here allowed it to happen. He had a chart, he had dirt on anybody and everybody."
Further evidence comes from Dee Ferdinand. She told Daniel Hopsicker that her father, Al Carone, was a CIA paymaster and a Colonel in Army Intelligence, had been sent to Dallas to pay off Jack Ruby before the Kennedy assassination. Se also claimed that 33 years later Carone performed the same function for the killing of Barry Seal. According to FAA investigator, Rod Stich, Carone was Oliver North's bagman.
Richard Sharpstein, defense attorney for one of Seal's assassins, Miguel Velez, says: "All three Colombians who went on trial always said they were being directed, after they got into this country, on what to do and where to go by an anonymous gringo,' a US military officer, who they very quickly figured out was Oliver North,"
There was apparently another reason why George Bush wanted Seal dead. According to friends, Seal had a copy of a videotape of a 1985 DEA cocaine sting which had netted George Bush's two sons, George and Jeb, picking up kilos of cocaine at a Florida airport.
After his death, his widow, Debbie Seal, received a $29 million dollar jeopardy assessment from the Internal Revenue Service. It has been claimed that this was a strategy to keep her from talking to reporters. While defending herself from the IRS charge, she discovered a frequently-called phone number in Barry's records. When she dialed it she discovered it belonged to the Defense Intelligence Agency. She was told to "never call it again". Later that day, the DIA phoned her back. "Debbie, you're young, you have a whole life ahead of you, and you have your kids to think about... Don't call anyone in Washington again."
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Posted 30 May 2006 - 02:20 PM
It was the beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal. The C-123K cargo plane that had been shot down had previously been owned by Barry Seal. Eugene Hasenfus, later claimed it was sheer coincidence that a plane once owned by Seal was now part of a secret network led by Oliver North.
Posted 30 May 2006 - 04:43 PM
Daniel Hopsicker, The Washington Weekly (18th August, 1997)
"The biggest drug smuggler in American History was a CIA Agent."
That's the mind-boggling conclusion of a 6-month investigation into the life and death of Barry Seal, a pivotal figure of the Iran/Contra '80s. Seal's C123 military cargo plane figured prominently in two of the biggest and least-understood events of the decade, the Sandinista 'drug-sting' operation, designed to be the 'Gulf of Tonkin Incident' in a US-Nicaragua war, and the downing, six months after Seal's assassination, of his beloved Fat Lady cargo plane over Nicaragua, with Eugene Hasenfus onboard, precipitating what came to be known, mistakenly, as Iran/Contra.
We have learned that the official cover-up of Seal's CIA affiliation began before his body was cold.
Until now, the 'official version of events' retailed the popular legend of Barry Seal's assassination, with Seal being gunned down by Colombians on a Medellin cartel hit.
Three Colombians were convicted of his murder, and while their cartel connections have been revealed to the world, their connection to Oliver North's Enterprise has not. The 'shooter team' was armed by somebody with long experience with shooter teams, Miami CIA asset Jose Coutin, whose Miami gun shop also supplied weapons to the Contras.
They are part of what we call the Secret History; that is, that history of our life and times in which lone gunmen do NOT play any significant role.
Speculation has long been that Seal was assassinated, not on cartel orders, but at the behest of the CIA. But unless the Medellin cartel was giving orders to the FBI, which confiscated and then withheld evidence in Seal's capital murder investigation in Baton Rouge Louisiana of February 1986, the 'conspiracy theorists' among us may turn out to be right: the CIA ordered the hit on Seal.
The Medellin 'hit' story has always had one big flaw: who would dare to kill one of the CIA's own? Recall, for example, what the KGB did in Lebanon in the 80's when one of their agents was kidnapped in the Bekaa Valley: if you didn't hear that grisly story of Russian-retaliation-via- human-dismemberment, you were fortunate.
So a cartel hit on a CIA Agent is a dubious proposition. But the Medellin Cartel fulfilling the contract has always made a certain sense, at least to those who understand that the most important doctrine of American Foreign Policy is not the Monroe Doctrine, but the Doctrine of Plausible Deniability.
When, for example, the Gambino Family (to cite another organized crime syndicate) finds it necessary to enforce discipline by 'splashing' one of their own, they may contract it out to another 'outfit.' But woe betide the organization that takes it on itself to kill one of their own without permission.
Our investigation, with some of its evidence presented here for the first time, proves that the biggest cocaine smuggler in American History, Barry Seal, was a CIA Agent. So, would the Medellin Cartel risk the wrath of the CIA to kill Seal?
Other than those whose cars get waved through the checkpoints at Langley Virginia, there has been only one person until today in a position to find out. And he had his doubts about the cartel-hit cover story, as well.
His name is Sam Dalton, and he was the New Orleans attorney who represented the Colombian hit men who killed Seal in the penalty phase of their trial. Sam Dalton subpoenaed the CIA about what he suspected was its complicity in Seal's assassination in a court of law.
The "conspiracy theorists" among us (you know who you are) were right.
"We were trying to subpoena the CIA because we felt like they had documents, exhibits, and evidence that would indicate complicity in Seal's assassination," Dalton says slowly.
Through discovery, his investigation gained access to something more valuable than gold, the contents of the trunk of Barry Seal's Cadillac on the night he died, and discovered that a cover-up was underway before Seal's body had grown cold in the Baton Rouge morgue.
"The FBI went into the Baton Rouge Police Department and literally and physically seized the contents of that trunk from the Baton Rouge Police. In fact, the Baton Rouge Police probably would have had to draw their guns to keep possession of that trunk," Dalton says today, in an explosive interview on the just-released 2-hour TV special "The Secret Heartbeat of America."
His voice slows further, his words growing more deliberate. "And, actually, by law, the Baton Rouge Police should have done that, but they didn't."
Why didn't they? What was there about Barry Seal that led the FBI and the CIA to refuse to cooperate with state officials in the most publicized assassination in Louisiana history?
Dalton wanted to know. And so he began a legal battle to gain access to the evidence seized. Even he sounds surprised that he was, eventually, at least partly successful.
"They (the CIA and FBI) wouldn't even honor the subpoena," he states, about the demands of the trial judge for the return of the seized evidence.
But then a wild card entered the picture, as wild cards often do in America, even today, in the form of a courageous state judge. "It wasn't until a state judge really backed them up, and threatened to hold them in contempt, that they partially complied."
Dalton described the brinkmanship necessary to gain access to what the defense should have had as a matter of course during discovery.
"If it hadn't been for a good state judge, with enough courage to back the federal government up," Dalton stated, "we'd have never gotten inside that trunk. He (the judge) made them give us that trunk back."
And when the FBI finally did turn over the contents of the trunk they had obviously ransacked it first, Dalton says. "Some of the things that had been in it we didn't get back."
Then Dalton's voice turns positively gleeful. "But they had missed a few things that indicated just how valuable that trunk was. Because that's where that phone number was. That's where we found George Bush's private phone number. "
"They were regularly talking to each other very seriously over what was probably a secure phone," he states.
"Barry Seal was in direct contact with George Bush."
Barry Seal and George Bush? Could they have been, secretly, one of Washington's Fun Couples of the '80's?
Lewis Unglesby is today one of the most powerful and well-known attorneys in Louisiana. But back in 1986, he was just a 36-year-old lawyer who represented Barry Seal, and who, Unglesby himself admits, was made by Seal to operate on a "need-to-know basis."
"I sat him down one time," recalls Unglesby, talking about his relationship with Seal, "and said: I cannot represent you effectively unless I know what is going on. Barry smiled, and gave me a number, and told me to call it, and identify myself as him (Seal.)
I dialed the number, a little dubiously, and a pleasant female voice answered: 'Office of the Vice President.'"
"This is Barry Seal," Unglesby said into the phone.
"Just a moment, sir," the secretary replied. "Then a man's voice came on the line, identifying himself as Admiral somebody, and said to me, 'Barry, where have you been?'"
"Excuse me, Sir, "Unglesby replied, "but my name is Lewis Unglesby and I'm Barry Seal's attorney."
There was a click, Unglesby relates. The phone went dead. "Seal just smiled when I looked over at him in shock, and then went back to treating me on a need-to-know basis."
(The Admiral in question might well have been Admiral Daniel Murphy, assigned to work in the Office of the Vice President, from which numerous reports state Contra operations were masterminded.)
But this is not just a case of (yet another) official cover-up of the murder of a quasi-public official, Barry Seal. There is strong evidence that the murder was not just covered-up, but orchestrated by the very same people who later trooped dutifully up Capital Hill to lie to the United Stages Congress about what became known as the Iran/Contra. Scandal.
Consider, for example, the simple mathematics of the hit team. Seven people were arrested in connection with Seal's assassination. But only four men were charged with the crime, and only three were convicted. The fourth Colombian charged, although presumably guilty at the least of conspiracy to commit murder, was extradited to Columbia.
And what are we to make of the evidence of George Bush's personal phone number in Seal's possession at the time of his death? Is this some historical anomaly, upon which experts will eternally disagree? What was George Bush's knowledge and involvement in cocaine smuggling under the pretext of national security carried out in Mena Arkansas?
The complete answer waits another day, but consider this: pretend that your unlisted phone number had been found with the body of the biggest drug smuggler in American History. What sort of questions might the police ask you?
The story of Barry Seal, drug smuggler, is well known today, at least in its outlines. What hasn't been known before now is much about the story of Barry Seal, CIA Agent.
We spoke with one of the three government witnesses in the penalty phase of the Colombians' trial whose testimony was so damning about Seal's activities on behalf of the federal government that two jurors attempted to change their verdict to 'not guilty.'
In our television special, Sam Dalton has this to say about this man: "If all our government people were as courageous as he was, we wouldn't have the problems today in this country that we have."
Ten years ago, this man knew as much about Barry Seal's drug-smuggling activities as anyone alive. Today this man holds an important and sensitive government position requiring anonymity, and thus requested anonymity when we interviewed him.
Attorney Sam Dalton offers another bombshell. "Lieutenant ______ caught Seal smuggling drugs red-handed at the docks, and the DEA and the CIA showed up, and told the state police to butt out, and took over the operation." Its not known if the DEA or CIA ever made efforts to charge Seal for this crime, but we wouldn't bet on it.
"Barry's involvement in Contra re-supply began way before the commonly accepted date of 1983," this source told us in a matter-of-fact tone.
We asked him of his knowledge of Seal's CIA connections. "Barry's been a spook since 1971," he stated calmly. "In fact, Barry goes all the way back to the Bay of Pigs."
Ten years ago, honest state law enforcement officials in affected states like Louisiana and Arkansas were outspoken in their condemnation of what they saw as officially-sanctioned drug smuggling in Mena Arkansas.
Yet, ten years ago, the cocaine continued to flow.
Today, courageous San Jose Mercury News journalist Gary Webb has been relegated to writing obituaries in Cupertino, California for his refusal to "get with the program."
But others have stepped forward to continue the fight to expose the scandal that swirls around the CIA, the Contras, and cocaine, and particularly on the Mena, Arkansas front on this battleground to know the truth.
Today, new sources like Sam Dalton are coming forward with forthright testimony to add to the voluminous evidence and testimony that already exists, testimony ranging from US Congressmen (former Ark. Rep. Bill Alexander) to state police (Arkansas State Criminal Investigator Russell Welch), to former drug pilots, that have testified that the CIA operation Barry Seal set up in Mena was used, and is still being used, to smuggle drugs with official sanction into the United States of America.
Today, all this is already known.
And today, the cocaine continues to flow.
Posted 30 May 2006 - 05:52 PM
Forgive me if this has been covered and I have missed it, but does anyone know if Barry Seal had a brother named Ben?
Yes. He was a helicopter pilot. He refused to help Daniel Hopsicker with his book on Barry Seal. He also denied Barry was in the famous Operation 40 photograph. However, Ben's son, Benjie, also a helicopter pilot, confirmed that it was "Uncle Barry" in the picture (Barry and the Boys, page 25).
See picture below: Seal is the third man on the left. It is claimed he is sitting next to Porter Goss.
Something in this photograph has always caught my attention.
In the now-famous CAP photo showing Ferrie-Oswald there is a youth bending forward who bears a remarkable resemblance to Goss.
Was Goss ever in a CAP program?
Posted 30 May 2006 - 06:07 PM
Was Goss ever in a CAP program?
Very interesting question. I have put up a page on Barry Seal here:
Posted 31 May 2006 - 05:03 AM
So much for the "war on drugs".
Edited by Mark Stapleton, 31 May 2006 - 05:11 AM.
Posted 31 May 2006 - 05:13 AM
Posted 31 May 2006 - 06:54 AM
I believe that this image below appears in the book, 'Barry and the Boys'. That is Adler 'Barry' Seal on the left, but can anyone confirm that the guy wearing the hat is New Orleans Mayor Victor Schiro?
According to Daniel Hopsicker it is definitely Victor Schiro. He thinks that other man is a Teamsters' union boss.
Posted 31 May 2006 - 07:46 AM
Rivetting information. The CIA, DEA, Colombian drug cartels, Central American contra groups, a first class PR man named Reagan and the Bush family. One big happy outfit. All Americans should read this.
So much for the "war on drugs".
In many ways this story is more disgraceful than the assassination of JFK. How has it remained "secret history"? Despite the efforts of people like Peter Dale Scott, Daniel Hopsicker, Robert Parry, Garry Webb, Alfred McCoy, etc. this story has not entered the American consciousness. One of the reasons is that the Democrats have been reluctant to make anything of the story. The reason for that is that they are implicated in this scandal via Bill Clinton. As a result, a deal has been done, and it remains "secret history". Come on America, wake up.
Posted 13 June 2006 - 02:55 AM
I believe that this image below appears in the book, 'Barry and the Boys'. That is Adler 'Barry' Seal on the left, but can anyone confirm that the guy wearing the hat is New Orleans Mayor Victor Schiro?
Victor Hugo Schiro served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1961-1969.
is it implied that this man was somehow involved in Drug running?
Also note the following:
The Jet Ranger civil mod 206A, powered by a 235kW (317shp) Allison C18A, first flew on January 10 1966. Deliveries of the first production Jet Rangers began late in that same year. (1966)
In the early 1970's production switched to the Model 206B Jet Ranger II [u]with a 300kW (400shp) 250C20 turboshaft, while conversion kits to upgrade earlier As to the new standard were made available.
The third major variant of the JetRanger is the 315kW (420shp) 250C20B powered JetRanger III, with first deliveries commencing in late 1977.
In the Berry and the Boys picture of Seal and implied mayor "Victor Hugo Schiro" of New Orleans is a Jet Ranger Two. (mfg 1972)
How could this be if the picture in question was taken in 1963 or there abouts? And the helicopter was not even in production at that time. Can anyone explain this?
For picture and history of the Ranger go to:
Also can someone explain how the Registration N-6284? was issued to this helicopter in the 1960's when FAA record shows it being assigned to a helicopter in the early 70's.
The picture at the night club is said to have been taken a few months before the assassination in 1963 and as I understand the helicopter picture of Seal and the mayor was taken about the same time.
Is this a mistake in research or the publisher/editors? If so, what other mistake can be found in this work?
Anyone care to comment?
Edited by William Plumlee, 13 June 2006 - 03:10 AM.
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The Gates Transition
In an interview with the BBC which is being widely linked, I recently said "claims by Microsoft that people were buying their software because it was good are pretty self-serving." The BBC didn't run the rest of what I said about Microsoft's success, probably because they were looking to find someone to set up opposite Bill. Fine. These days we have blogs, so here's my unfiltered side of the story.
What I said to the BBC, as I've said on many occasions about Microsoft's competitors, which was that 20-25 years ago none of us (Lotus included) applied the same combination of business and technical rigor as Microsoft, and we paid the price. Bill makes this point in his interview, and I agree. I also speculated that had Microsoft stayed inside the foul lines in its conduct it might well have triumphed anyway, but we'll never know.
It's classically Gatesian for Bill to emphasize how hard he tried to get Lotus to do a Windows version of 1-2-3 and omit entirely that he was leading Microsoft simultaneously in a massive effort to destroy Lotus 1-2-3 and all of the other competitive productivity applications he was evangelizing on behalf of Windows.
Lotus was in a tough spot in the transition from DOS, and neither strategy of supporting IBM OS/2 (which it did – though after my tenure at the company) or moving quickly to support Windows (which it did not) was a strong one. As I said, Microsoft had the strategic upper hand and the will to exercise it, through its control of the operating system and its knowledge of what to do with that advantage, while I was CEO (through 1985) and afterward.
I have tremendous respect for what Bill and Melinda have chosen to do with the great wealth that Microsoft afforded. The Gates Foundation is tackling some huge challenges in global health with courage, innovation, and persistence, the same qualities which represented Microsoft at its best. But it doesn't mean that the great Gates fortune was acquired in an entirely fair way or that Bill should be held up uncritically as a model of a successful businessman for doing so. To do so is to rewrite history and endorse a way of doing business which is harmful both to consumers and markets.
To judge from his speech at the 2008 World Economic Forum, Bill has begun to rethink some of his business philosophy, motivated by an interest reducing global inequality. "Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both."
As Bill completes his transition from being singularly focused on winning at business to solving global problems, including those caused or exacerbated by a win-at-all-costs mentality, a fitting close would be his taking responsibility for the ways Microsoft's success failed to live up to the higher standard he now espouses.


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4.25.13 – Nationals 8, Reds 1
Stat of the Game: Gio Gonzalez allowed just one hit over eight innings of work, striking out seven to earn his second win of the season.
Under-the-Radar Performance: While Danny Espinosa homered and plated three on his 26th birthday, Denard Span also had three RBI, collecting three hits as well.
It Was Over When: Espinosa's two-run shot in the third opened up a 6-0 lead from which Washington would never look back.


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In response to Mr. Greenwood's piece on Nov. 12 ("The Pa. Senate should act on prescription drug bill"), Alder Health agrees that our "lawmakers have a chance to vote on legislation that can help expand medicine options at potentially lower costs" and supports legislation that provides safety measures like patient and physician notification.
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Because of those experiences of our patients, Alder Health Services has taken a strong position opposing therapeutic substitution of any kind. We firmly believe that treatment choices should and must be made between the medical practitioner and the patient.
Biologics show great promise for a host of diseases for which there were few treatments in the past. We are looking forward to their increased availability and use in treatment for unmet medical needs, but we need to ensure that those individuals who are living with their illnesses every day and the medical practitioners who know their entire medical history are the ones making treatment decisions.
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KALAMAZOO, MI -- P.J. Fleck didn't have all of the specifics, but the Western Michigan football coach said on Friday the prognosis didn't look good for senior cornerback Garrett Smith.
Smith suffered a major knee injury during the first day of practice on Monday and has been sidelined since with his knee wrapped and in a brace.
Fleck said he hopes Smith can return at some point this season, but the 5-foot-9, 170-pounder could miss the season.
Smith played in 10 games with three starts last season as a backup to Donald Celiscar and Ronald Zamort. The Pompano, Fla. native was likely to have the same role this season.
Fleck said the injury is a tough one, but said the Broncos should be able to make up for the loss of Smith with their depth.
Early favorites to see the field at corner are fifth-year Indiana transfer Brian Williams and sophomore junior college transfer Tyree Stone-Davis. WMU also brought in freshmen Asantay Brown, Deontae Brown and return Logan Oce and Justin Motley.
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After months of waiting, loyal customers and coffee-lovers streamed into the new Beaverton location of Jim & Patty's Coffee, which opened Wednesday in the space formerly occupied by Coffee People.
The new coffee shop was hopping with customers late Wednesday morning, as the staff served up freshly-baked goods and the special Black Tiger blend, which packs an extra punch of caffeine.
Myrna Long, of Aloha, said she and her son had been going to the business's other location on Northeast Fremont Street every Sunday. Now, they can get their brew a little closer to home.
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The St. John the Baptist Parish Council has awarded contracts for several projects, including a major renovation to the Parish Courthouse in Edgard and a pipeline to St. Charles Parish that will help provide water for St. John during emergencies.
The council awarded the contracts during its regular meeting Tuesday night in LaPlace.
The construction contract for the Edgard Courthouse expansion and renovation project was awarded to Foret Contracting Group, LLC of Thibodaux for $2.1 million, and is funded in part through a 2009 bond issue. The interior and exterior of the courthouse will renovated, and a juvenile services wing will be added to the facility.
All offices in the courthouse will remain open during construction, which is expected to begin in July.
The council also awarded a $74,460 contract to WGS Contractors, Inc. for completion of the St. Charles-St. John Interconnecting Waterline Project, which will allow St. John Parish to receive 1 million to 1.5 million gallons of water per day from St. Charles Parish in the event of a loss of water during emergencies. Construction of this project is expected to be completed in 60 days and will begin once the water level in the Mississippi River is below 11 feet.
The council also heard a presentation from engineer Rob Delaune on short- and long-term plans for improvements to the parish's water system. The interim action plan to improve the parish's water system -- made up of the Ruddock well, the Lions Water Treatment Plant on the east bank and the Edgard water treatment facility on the west bank -- includes valve replacements at four elevated storage tanks, to be completed in August of this year; and installing new filters at the Lions Treatment Plant, to be completed in December of next year, among many others.