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New cholesterol drug guidelines may shape your thinking.
Most of us know that high cholesterol can raise our risk of heart disease or stroke�and about a quarter of us, according to the Centers for Disease Control, are keeping our cholesterol in check by taking statins, drugs that reduce fat in the blood. But that number may soon rise. The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have written new guidelines for preventing heart attack and stroke, including new cholesterol medication guidelines, the first revision since 2002. The new treatment guidelines could as much as double the amount of individuals who take cholesterol-lowering medication. �The guidelines panel created evidence-based guidelines to answer the question for adults, �How do I reduce my risk of heart attack and stroke?�� says the panel�s chair Neil J. Stone, MD, the Robert Bonow, MD Professor in Medicine-Cardiology at Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine in Chicago. The new guidelines indicate four groups that may benefit most from statins: Adults who have already had a heart attack or stroke; Adults with an LDL, or bad cholesterol, of 190 or higher; Adults 40 to 75 years old with diabetes; Adults whose doctor determines they have at least a 7.5 percent risk of heart attack and stroke within the next 10 years. But a 7.5 percent risk doesn�t automatically mean a person will take a statin, says Stone: �The guidelines insist on a �risk discussion� between patient and clinician.� The doctor and patient weigh potential benefits, possible adverse effects, and the patient�s preferences�and only then decide whether the patient should take a statin. The New, More Inclusive Risk Calculator Your doctor�s assessment and a blood test determine your percent of risk. The factors your doctor tallies include race, gender, age, total cholesterol, HDL (good cholesterol), blood pressure, use of blood pressure medications, diabetes and smoking status--a broader assessment than previous guidelines called for. �The importance of the new risk calculator is that for the first time it assesses risk for heart attack and stroke, not just heart attack,� says Stone.� That�s particularly important for women and African Americans, who are more liable to suffer strokes than heart attacks. �If we only look at heart attacks, that would take a lot of their risk out of the equation,� says Stone. According to the American Heart Association, African Americans have twice the risk of a first-time stroke compared to white individuals.� About 425,000 women a year have a stroke, approximately 55,000 more than men, says the National Stroke Association. If a person is still unsure about whether to take statins despite the new calculator�say, in patients under age 40�several factors may shape her decision: a family history of premature heart attacks and stroke before age 55 in men and age 65 in women; and an LDL of 160 or more.� �Such people could be at high risk,� says Stone.� �Our guidelines allow them to be treated. But the new guidelines couldn�t elaborate on every single instance. Care has to be personalized, and that�s what makes the new guidelines special: Everyone should have their risk determined.� And in lower risk patients, the decision to take statins is between them and their doctor.� A Change in Targeting Bad Cholesterol Former guidelines suggested that LDL levels should be less than 100 mg/dl for heart disease patients, or less than 70 mg/dl generally.� Now, the guidelines suggest that doctors look at overall risk rather than an LDL number alone.� �LDL levels are not less important,� says Stone.� �The higher the LDL level the greater the risk.� But the panel couldn�t find evidence that targeting a specific number makes a big difference.� What�s important is to target the therapy that works, and statins have the best evidence to support their use.� Some patients may take drugs other than statins such as niacin, which raises good cholesterol, or combine an alternative drug with a lower dose of statins, particularly if a patient can�t tolerate statins. ��However, these alternatives shouldn�t be considered in most cases,� says Stone. Not a Statin Stampede Although some reports have said that the new guidelines could double the number of people on statins, that�s just not true, says Stone.� The former guidelines looked only at heart attack risk.� Including stroke risk naturally raises the number of people whom statins should protect�and might have doubled it except that doctors have been treating patients with statins more aggressively than the former guidelines called for.� �So our guidelines should not raise the number of people taking statins more than five to 10 percent, if it is raised at all,� says Stone. And the guidelines better ensure that patients who most need statins will be taking them. Statins carry a small risk of diabetes and muscle pain. �Like all medicines, you have to consider the benefits and risks with your doctor,� says Stone. Amending Bad Habits The new guidelines also emphasize that people should work on heart attack and stroke prevention through the way they live: Eat a heart-healthy diet high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat proteins like fish and chicken, and low in saturated and trans fat. Lose weight. A body-mass index (BMI) below 25 is considered healthy.� To figure your BMI, go to the American Heart Association website, www.heart.org. Cut salt to a teaspoon a day, with a goal of eventually cutting that almost in half.� Salt causes your body to retain water, raising blood pressure, which can lead to heart disease. Exercise briskly for 40 minutes three to four times a week. Quit smoking. This article originally appeared as on Spry Living


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Skip to comments.The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state
Posted on 04/23/2012 7:16:42 PM PDT by george76
The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports now it's checkpoints and roadblocks.
Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!"
now TSA is invading travel by other means, too. No surprise, really: as soon as she established groping in airports, Napolitano expressed her desire to expand TSA jurisdiction over all forms of mass transit
Airports, bus terminals, train stations, highways what's left? If you don't like it, walk. And remember to be respectfully submissive to any TSA agents or police you encounter in your travels, especially now that the US supreme court has ruled mass strip-searches are acceptable for anyone arrested for even the most minor offence in America. If you're rude to any TSA agent or cops, you risk being arrested on some vague catch-all charge like "disorderly conduct". Even if the charges are later dropped, you'll still undergo the ritual humiliation of having to strip, squat, spread 'em and show your various orifices to be empty.
Can I call America a police state now, without being accused of hyperbole?
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
But, but, but......I thought that's what the 'readers' at the Guardian want????
Note to Guardian: Please work on your OWN country that has implemented 'Big Brother'......then give me a call. KTHNXBAI.
Of course the common garden variety are a real threat via the bite only if they have rabies.
Pretty soon they'll be making surprise inspections of businesses and homes! Don't believe me? Just watch.
As long as we have free and fair elections, I'm not sure you can call America a police state, even if the police are temporarily out of control.
Now if one party managed to get hold of both parties and the press and nominate only liberal candidates, and it was almost impossible for a third party to run against them, then ....
Yep, you can call us a police state.
The State Department just said that the War on Terror is over. We no longer need the TSA, DHS or the Patriot Act.
Let me just say for the record: Bush's fault.
Of course, this is the one area that the Obama administration is reluctant to give away credit for.
"The State Department just said that the War on Terror is over. We no longer need the TSA, DHS or the Patriot Act."
Surely you jest.
Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Papa Bush need to take Obama aside and tell him to cool it on the totalitarian sh*t... We're not some creepy third world African dictatorship. After 9/11 measures were taken to protect citizens... but it's time to back off now...
"And remember to be respectfully submissive to any TSA agents or police you encounter in your travels, especially now that the US supreme court has ruled mass strip-searches are acceptable for anyone arrested for even the most minor offence in America."
Why isn't this a major campaign issue? Could it be both sides are interested in control of average folks?
Could it be???
The mission of the TSA has nothing to do with airport security. It is to condition people to being groped, prodded, herded and generally treated like cattle. It is to condition us to slavery. We are already a police state. Its time to rise up and get rid of the tyrants and take our liberty back.
With mass voter fraud and a virtual one party system with a choice of "progressive" Mittens or "progressive" Obama which the elite orchestrated with their money and air time, you can say we have democracy in America?
If you have no constitutional rights and there is no limit on Federal power, you do not have a Democatic Republic anymore.
If federal agents can sexually molest you at their will, and without cause as you try to fly on airplanes, you don't even have the dignity of a free man anymore. If they make that system so that you can not use roads or any transportation without being molested, you will be like a Soviet citizen.
The elitists, who refer to themselves as the 'smart" people, hate us. It is not a mistake or a joke. It is systematic. It was launched by Bush in the name of Islamic terrorism.
I am thankful writers in other countries are condemning these abuses of Americans. Our newspapers could care less and our elite hate us.
People who object to the growth of Gov't and expansion of the nanny state are a minority and aren't prone to getting votes, ie Ron Paul.
I'm thankful writers in other countries care about us too. Freedom of the press is wasted on our self censored biased MSM.. The only - ONLY - enemy they hate is us - their fellow Americans who happen to be conservative... Shame on them.
The TSA is the most under-reported, and if Obama remains, this agency will be the most dangerous phenomena in this country's history.
The tsa/will be armed and turned against the American people. Military won't. These people enjoy doing what they do to people. That's where the 450 million rounds of jhp 40 Cal are going.
Consider we go through about 70 million rounds a year in Afghanistan. Now figure how long 450 million rounds will last tsa, FBI, IRS, dea, batfe against us citizens.
It's what a great many freepers were yelping for ten years ago. Scratch a neocon, find a Trot — then and now.
That might very well be it. I think you're on to something.
The first TSA fag that attempts to stop me from driving somewhere is not going to enjoy the experience at all.
Yup. The number of freepers who have tried to tell me that "I don't have to fly if I don't like it" would be disheartening if I didn't know how strong the tendency towards statism there is in any society.
"Can I call America a police state now, without being accused of hyperbole?"
Ya know...all you say is true but you omitted the part where We the People failed to rejected it. In fact, the electorate is the problem not the despots. As a people we're apathetic, stupid, self centered and happy for the govt to steal from someone else so we might have. If there's a problem in DC its b/c we've allowed it to fester. While we wait for DC to reform itself the noose gets tighter. Real change is going to come from an awake electorate not the pols.
TSA needs to be abolished.
We need to do what Israel does and actually use profiling to look for terrorist instead of stripping grannies and putting children through porn scanners.
Debate on these big issues used to take place in the newspapers and television news pro and con debate panels. That is not true anymore in today's brainless"gottcha news." We also had conservative and liberal think tanks arguing and educating people on such expansion and spending. Now we are dominated by radical Soros gottcha.
I can't place all the blame on the people who do not know the dangers because it is hidden from them by today's elitists who have the responsibility to deliver valid information on what is happening in DC.
We don't have free and fair elections. Voter fraud is rampant.
What is the Republican Leadership doing about this out of control TSA agency???
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Welcome TeaDrinkers! It's a new day, a day to enjoy Tea and the company of TeaChatter friends.
The last 2 days we discussed what teas you seem to drink on a regular basis. You can still vote and discuss this topic.
So, today it is Sunday, a day off of work for most of us. I would like to believe that lots of teadrinking will be happening today. Please share with us 'What type of tea did you start your day with today?"
As always, I am looking forward to sharing this TeaDay with everyone. Be sure to stop by often to let us know what teas you are enjoying.
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Slow Cooker Chocolate Fondue
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen
Using a slow cooker for chocolate fondue means there is no need to worry about burning your dip or having it go cold on you when feeding[ a crowd. Have fun with this dish by offering lots of different sweet and savory treats as dippers.]
- 12 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons bourbon or orange, coffee or hazelnut liqueur, optional
- Dippers like pretzels, pound cake, crisp bacon, potato chips, strawberries, waffles and cookies for dipping
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Put the semisweet chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, cream, milk, vanilla and salt in a 6-cup heatproof glass bowl that will fit completely inside a 3- to 4-quart slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 45 minutes.
Uncover and stir the chocolate mixture until smooth. Stir in the bourbon or liqueur if using. Continue to cook, covered, until the chocolate is completely melted and warm, 15 to 30 minutes. Whisk the mixture until smooth. Switch the slow cooker to the warm setting and either spoon the chocolate mixture into small serving bowls or serve it right out of the slow cooker with assorted dippers on the side.
Tip: While keeping the fondue warm, water will collect on the inside of the lid of the slow cooker; when you remove the lid to stir the fondue, wipe the excess water off as too much water dripping into the chocolate will eventually cause it to seize or separate.
Cook's Note: The fondue can be kept for several hours on the warm setting. If the chocolate seems to be getting too warm or starts to simmer around the edges, remove the lid and stir well to cool the chocolate slightly.
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text: This photo gallery takes you on a tour of the winning hotels and resorts selected by the readers of the subscription-based luxury travel newsletter, Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report. Hideaway Report readers voted the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, Calif., the No. 1 hideaway in the USA. This coastal resort's perched along a bluff directly above the Pacific, 45 minutes south of Carmel. You'll find just 39 ocean-view lodgings, including the Cliff House, which has a deck suspended over the cliffs. Visitors go for the cliff-top basking pool, spa services, guided nature hikes. Kodiak GreenwoodBlackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., took the No. 2 spot in the Top U.S. Hideaways category. This family-owned country house is set on an estate that borders Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 25 minutes south of Knoxville. It features 22 Estate Rooms decorated in English country house style, and 33 suites and two private homes with fireplaces, whirlpool baths and covered terraces. Guests can enjoy an outdoor heated pool, tennis, spa services and Orvis-endorsed fly fishing. Beall and Thomas PhotographyThe No. 3 U.S. hideaway is Twin Farms in Woodstock, Vt. This rustic country retreat - 15 minutes north of Woodstock, N.Y. - has 20 lodgings and is decorated with handpainted murals, rich maple and pine woodwork and American folk art. Guests will find a raftered library housed in the original barn, and a recently expanded indoor/outdoor restaurant. Jim WestphalenItaly sweeps the top three spots in the Top International Hideaways category. Readers voted Villa Feltrinelli, two hours east of Milan, the No. 1 property. It's a restored neo-Gothic villa in Gargnano on the scenic western shore of Lake Garda with ceiling frescoes, antique furniture and rare books. Expect 21 suites with luxurious touches such as bathrooms with heated marble floors and large soaking tubs. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportReaders voted Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole the No. 2 top international hideaway. A manor house located two hours from Siena and Rome, Il Pellicano has 50 rooms in a vine-draped villa and cottages. You can dine at the two-Michelin-star Il Pellicano restaurant, swim in a heated clifftop saltwater pool or go waterskiing. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportLe Sirenuse in Positano takes the No. 3 spot. This glamorous hotel is built around a palatial 18th-century villa overlooking Positano's colorful harbor. The property is decorated with antique furnishings and notable paintings. The best of the 59 guest rooms feature vaulted ceilings and handpainted tile floors. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportIn the Hideaway Report's Favorite Beach Resorts category, the Cloister at Sea Island in Sea Island, Ga., grabbed top honors. This family-oriented resort and golf community sits on a 10,000-acre island estate connected by a causeway to St. Simons Island, midway between Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla. Expect a variety of restaurants, a full-service spa, a variety of sporting activities and a five-mile beach. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportReaders voted Rosewood Little Dix Bay in the British Virgin Islands their No. 2 favorite beach resort. This classic resort is set on 500 acres curling around a scenic beach. Expect 105 lodgings crafted of native stone and purpleheart hardwood, with rattan furnishings - and no TV set. Activities include snorkeling tours, yacht day-sails, tennis and a spa with cliff-side treatment rooms. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportReaders' third-favorite property in this category is the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on Hawaii's Kohala Coast. One of the largest properties in this gallery, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel has 258 rooms. It recently underwent a $150 million renovation following a hurricane, yet it retains most of the original charm planned by Laurance S. Rockefeller more than 40 years ago. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportReaders voted Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., the No. 1 top food and wine resort, in addition to voting it the second-best United States hideaway. It's known for cuisine rooted in the region. Beall and Thomas PhotographyIn second place is Meadowood Napa Valley in St. Helena, Calif. This luxury resort - featuring clusters of cottages in a private, forested setting - boasts cuisine from chef Christopher Kostow, who's earned three Michelin stars for his Modern American food. Hotel amenities include two outdoor pools, a 9-hole golf course, tennis courts and a spa. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportThe No. 3 top food and wine resort is Auberge du Soleil in Rutherford, Calif. Executive Chef Robert Curry runs the recently renovated restaurant, which specializes in a combination of California ingredients and Mediterranean techniques and flavors. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportReaders voted the 339-room Peninsula Chicago No. 1 in the Favorite City Hotel category. The hotel, with its opulent lobby and classic guest rooms, overlooks North Michigan Avenue in Chicago's fashionable shopping district. The hotel recently renovated its rooftop spa and fitness club, which includes an 82-foot indoor pool and outdoor sundeck. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportThe elegant Lowell in New York's Upper East Side ranks as the No. 2 favorite city hotel. Set on a tree-lined street between Madison and Park avenues, the Lowell has a residential atmosphere. It has just 72 rooms, with 23 on the small side - but of the 49 suites, 33 have woodburning fireplaces and 14 come with private terraces. The Post House restaurant serves American classics. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportThe Stafford in London earned the No. 3 spot on the favorite city hotel list. The Stafford, a Kempinski Hotel, has 105 rooms in three buildings surrounding a 17th-century courtyard in the heart of St. James. Each building has a different guest-room style, with the most traditional found in the hotel's Main House and the most contemporary in the Stafford Mews building. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportArizona spa resorts swept the top three spots in the Favorite Spa Resort category. Canyon Ranch in Tucson earned the No. 1 favorite spa resort title. Located in the foothills of Santa Catalina mountains, Canyon Ranch has 160 lodgings housed in one-story Southwestern buildings. Expect a daily menu of aquatic and aerobic exercise classes, Pilates sessions, yoga and other options. The restaurant serves low-calorie cuisine - but no alcohol. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportIn second place: Sanctuary Camelback Mountain in Paradise Valley. This boutique resort sits on the nothern slope of Camelback Mountain, halfway between Phoenix and Scottsdale. Formerly John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, it has been transformed into a contemporary retreat with a large, infinity-edge pool and chic spa. Most of the 105 rooms have views of the desert landscape. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportIn third place: Sedona's Enchantment Resort, which has a dramatic location surrounded by red-rock formations. Having recently underwent an extensive renovation, Enchantment has 218 accommodations done in Southwest-inspired style. Many feature log-beamed ceilings, beehive gas fireplaces, scenic decks and spacious baths with soaking tubs and shower stalls. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportHideaway readers voted California's Lodge at Pebble Beach their No. 1 favorite golf resort. The resort has panoramic views of Carmel Bay and the 18th green of the famed Pebble Beach links. Its 161 rooms have large baths, and most have fireplaces. Besides its famed golf facilities, expect to find five restaurants, a spa, 12 tennis courts and riding stables. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportIn third place: The Lodge at Sea Island in Sea Island, Ga. The oceanfront hotel - reached by passing through a tunnel of antebellum oaks - is near the recently renovated 18-hole championship Plantation links. It features 40 rooms designed to resemble an English manor house. Guests receive 24-hour butler service. Tee times for all three of the resort's golf courses can be reserved by guests in advance. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportHideaway readers voted The Cloister at Sea Island in Sea Island, Ga., their No. 1 favorite family resort. This hotel has 175 rooms and suites, plus interesting public areas such as a solarium where exotic birds are kept. Rooms are available within The Cloister in three settings: The Cloister (main building and wings), The Cloister Beach Club Suites, and The Cloister Ocean Villas. All guests have access to five miles of private beach and amenities such as the spa, boating, tennis and squash. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportThe Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., took the No. 2 spot in this category. The Greenbrier is a national historic landmark nestled in the Allegheny Mountains that has hosted guests since 1778. In the last three years, new owners have renovated the fabled resort and added a casino. The property has 710 rooms, including 33 suites and 96 guest and estate houses. Guests can choose from over 50 recreational activities, including three championship golf courses, tennis courts and a 40,000-square-foot spa. It is not an Andrew Harper-recommended property. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportThe No. 3 favorite family resort is The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort on Kiawah Island, S.C. Set along a 10-mile beach on a private island 35 minutes from Charleston, The Sanctuary contains 255 rooms. Dining options include Jasmine Porch, which serves traditional Lowcountry specialties, and the formal Ocean Room, which serves New American cuisine. Guests will also find two seaside swimming pools, a spa and fitness center with a 65-foot indoor pool, tennis facilities and five championship golf courses. Andrew Harper's Hideaway ReportLike this topic? You may also like these photo galleries:Replay1 of 232 of 233 of 234 of 235 of 236 of 237 of 238 of 239 of 2310 of 2311 of 2312 of 2313 of 2314 of 2315 of 2316 of 2317 of 2318 of 2319 of 2320 of 2321 of 2322 of 2323 of 23Last SlideNext Slide


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Skip to comments.Castro forged papers
Posted on 04/07/2013 6:19:38 AM PDT by Liz
Democrat used trickery for gaining power, court papers show. Now resigned, state Assemblyman Nelson Castro---a Dominican Republic native---schemed to illegally register dozens of latino voters, and forged signatures on petitions to seek office earlier as a Democrat district leader. The revelations were spelled out in a deal in which feds agreed not to prosecute in return for Castro's wearing a wire to nail his shady Democrat colleagues. Castro admitted to lying about dozens of (illegals) registered to vote using his address.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I think I'm going to start collecting these stories to keep them on my phone for rebuttal of the "it hardly ever happens" lie. "Oh no? Pick a state."
I wonder where the democratic outrage is?
Not sure if you saw this related story
see my post #9
"Everything about socialism is sham and affectation." - 23.11 Ch23; Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
Thanks for following/posting, Liz.
Good post/link, Roccus. Socialist constructs beget socialist fraud and we pay for it all. Go figure ($).
Here's more on that Queens case.
How presidential of him.
WEB SITE http://danr.org/category/featured/page/2/
DANR sponsored Conference on Dominican Republic Affairs--feb 17, 2013
Rutgers School of Law--Center for Law and Justice
123 Washington st Newark, NJ 07102
Highlights Included viewing of Documentary The Dominican List,
Featuring Alipio Cocco Cabrera, Dominincan Republic Congressional Representatives in USA,
Dominican Republic Consul General in NY, Maestro Rafael Solano,
National Dominican/Latino Leaders, and Dozens of Panelists & Hundreds of Attendees
DOMINICAN AMERICAN NATIONAL ROUNDTABLE seeks nominations of Dominicans to be included in "The List"---(its publication and documentary of Dominican Fifth Column colluding inside the US.)
Criteria for nominees: 1. must be of Dominican descent or birth---residing in the United States. 2. A minimum of 10 years contribution in nominated category. 3. Three accomplishments reflecting body of work in chosen field
THE GIMME ZOMBIES Even non-political Dominican Republic travel brochures belittle the impoverished do-nothing Caribbean Third World satrap---noting that the do-nothing govt provides no social safety nets for its largely impoverished citizenry. The cunning Dominican govt survives on billions of our tax dollars from its illegal residents here---riding the US gravy train---send back home
OOPS--SENOR MENENDEZ "FORGOT" TO TELL US---The Dominican Republic is highly organized inside the US-- and has ordered its govt to save Democrat Menendez's degenerate a**.
Senator Menendez (on The List?) maintains he never underpaid Dominican prostitutes for sex. Menendez sought---not US justie---but corrupt Dominican Republic courts fixing the system to save his degenerate a**.
Menendez, D-N.J., told reporters at the Capitol, referring to published reports that he paid prostitutes for sex in the Dominican Republic. "I look forward to seeing whatever the Dominican courts have that prove what I've said all along."
Vincio Castillo Seman, a Dominican Republic lawyer (on The List?), told reporters at a presser in the Dominican Republic that the prostie "never went to bed with" Menendez and never actually met him. Castillo, the son of a Dominican presidential adviser (on The List?) and the brother of a member of the country's Congress (on The List?, has been entwined in the scandal himself, accused of hosting sex outings on his yacht in which Menendez used the services of prostitutes.
Like Menendez, he has strongly denied the allegations. Castillo said he would seek a criminal probe into the source of the reports. Castillo distributed copies of the woman's sworn statement to reporters. The woman did not attend (busy decorating their brand new beachfront condos?). Castillo said the two women recited the accusations on a video that was recorded without their consent.
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down).
HOW DO YOU SAY QUID PRO QUO IN SPANISH? Clearly, a deal was made. IF (BIG IF) the Dominican Republic saves Menendez's degenerate a** (and prevents the dreaded Christie appointment), Obama will write the foreign aid check w/ plenty of zeros.
DOMINICAN MEDDLING IS AN OUTRAGE---an unconscionable travesty against representative US democracy---to have the corrupt Dominican Republic meddling in US affairs---cooking the books to help Menendez stay in power.
BOTTOM LINE Menendez has TWO governments protecting him----Americans have not even one government looking after our interests.
Collect enough of these stories, do the math, and pretty soon it will become obvious that Obama lost the election.
EDITED/ EXCERPT The NY-BASED Hispanic Federation has a $22 million treasure chest of public monies. The "non-profit federation" mysteriously pays out small amounts, from $400-800, to individuals---but fails to detail on official documents the purpose of the outlays---as required by law.
An unnamed Hispanic Federation insider told the NY Post that the payments subsidize votino scams. The insider confided: "I use Hispanic Federation funds (public monies) to pay a lady for bringing latino seniors to a Democrat political event. The Hispanic Federation promised to send the lady and her family to her homeland----the Dominican Republic----in exchange for rounding up votes.
VOTINO SCAM COVER-UP---A federation spokesman called the allegations simply untrue, saying it ONLY provides funds for those in need of disaster relief. The Hispanic Federation spokesman explained the unrecorded payments were for families of victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001, or "other people in need."
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/twi_ted_web_in_bx_Fxatn1KxaBpb4reW6SaeqI#ixzz24f02JyRG
HERE'S OW HE GOT REELECTED----IMPOVERISHED THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES W/ VOTINO GROUPS INSIDE THE US (here illegally):
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico (stateside), Salvador, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela.
LET'S LOOK AT THE TAX-EXEMPTS (1) The National Association of Latino Electoral and Appointed Officials, (2) La Raza (receives billions), (3) Voto Latino, (4) The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (receives billions), (5) state Hispanic Federations,(6) latino PAC's, etc ,etc, etc (all pushing free-for-all amnesty).
These people need to come clean WRT quid pro quo deals. We need to see their financial records-- copies of (1) checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) bank account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, employment contracts, loan agreements, (8) any other books or records.
Scrutinize n/p bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) request for withdrawals, (D) offshore activity. Also lists of monies n/p paid to (a) brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers, and the like.
REFERENCE Taxpayers could then sue banks holding tax-exempt monies that cover-up tax fraud. Under the Bank Secrecy Act passed by Congress, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering, tax evasion, govt fraud and other financial crimes.
The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the tax-paying public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, govt fraud, tax evasion, and other unlawful activities, explained the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations.
WHAT KIND OF FOREIGN POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL DEALS will vote-crazed US politicians get in exchange for yes votes on amnesty? And who are their co-conspirators?
I first saw headline and thought "well that Commie SOB Fidel is at it again"......
Then I read article... and find only thing different is that it was a Commie not named Fidel... LOL
THIS JUST IN---The FBI is on the tail of NY state Sen. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), and his penchant for sucking up tax dollars for so-called needy latino community groups.
Espaillat sucked up 100 member items as an assemblyman, including $500,000 public monies for his nonprofit, the grandiously named, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Economic Development. (NOTE: Member items is a nauseating extortion scam for greedy NY state legislative members).
DOMINICAN KNOWN AS SENATOR PORK--FBI agents want to know about Democrat Espillats use of public monies for needy groups that employed a covey of Dominican Republic natives including Espaillats sister-in-law, a Democratic district leader and several campaign consultants.
FBI scrutiny comes as Espaillats former chief of staff (elected to the Assemblynow resigned in disgrace) admits he got wired for the FBI. Nelson Castro, a Dominican Republic native, got wired to save himselfhe lied to the FBI WRTa parade of Dominican Republic illegals corrupting the US election systemunlawfully registered to vote using Castros address. Espillat zipped his lips when asked whether vote-buying Castro assisted in FBI probes of Espaillat.
The implication is that the Dominican Espillat used the same corrupt votino scam to get into office.
BTW, Espaillats economic development scam closed down in 2011 (member items became extinctthe needy Dominican Republican commuity has to do without (/snix) ). But Espillat appointed the n/ps executive directorDominican Republic native Nurys de Oleoto a $50,000-a-year job as Sen Espaillats special assistant.
(Sure would like to see de Oleos job description up against his (ahem) actual duties.)
Hope he gets good dental care in prison (cackle).
Thanks a lot for the information. BTTT!
Careful! How can we hope to win back the Latino vote if we keep cracking down on Latino vote fraud?!? /s
Thanks Liz.
Good point----we must demand (and get Repubs--IF they ever get a spine---to demand) that any and all border-violators who illegally register to vote or who voted illegally or used multiple identities to vote....are personna no grata---and are denied a path to citizenship.
Dominican Republic native, and avid immigration
advocate, Nelson Castro, after being outed as snitch.
IS CASTRO A LEGAL US CITIZEN? Considered a "rising star" by some in the Bronx political scene, Nelson Castro grew up in the Dominican Republic, came to the U.S. when he was 11 years old, and later became the first Dominican to be elected to public office in the Bronx.
Castro made immigration issues one of his focuses, and was madechairman of the NY state Assembly Task Force on New Americans.
"Here was a young man with a great future ahead of him, but the people deserve honest and transparent leadership," state Sen Adriano Espaillat said of Castro, who served as his chief of staff when Espaillat was in the Assembly.
Castro lied to L/E WRT illegals using his address to fraudulently register to vote. To save himself skin, Castro got wired and worked with the feds for more than a year, feeding them information that ultimately led to the arrest of his Albany colleague, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, and four others on bribery charges Thursday.
It appears Castro is now spilling the beans on his former boss and fellow Dominican Republic native---NY state Sen Adriano Espillat.
I read they're civil charges. Isn't that correct? I am 1000% opposed to that but if that's civil there no way they take the steps you mention,wise steps i might add, until the act of voter fraud is treated with the seriousness it should be.
Didn't they already say what his sentence would be? Isn't that why he flipped?
THE ACT of registering illegally might be a civil charge-—but Castro clearly has a lot more problems dogging his corrupt a**-—that certainly entail criminal charges.
REFERENCE---CASTRO'S VOTINO SCAM SHOULD SPARK NEW INQUIRIES---AND PROSECUTION----L/E should rigorously investigate the votino criminal uderworld---corrupt parasites undermining the US political system----proof-positve here that govt documents were falsified to hide the corrupt use of tax dollars. L/E might find the votino underworld doled out tax funds to finance votino scams, and other illegal conduct.
NY Hola. Hispanic Federation honchos--Roberto Ramirez (left) and Luis Miranda--look like they have a BIG secret. Must be the $22 million in STATE funds lining their pockets.....and the pockets of politicans doing their bidding. The Hispanic Federation has an interesting history---and ties to latino nonprofits---which the NY Post found are corrupt political machines.
Twi$ted web of political nonprofits in Bronx, NY /
By CANDICE M. GIOVE w/ Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
--SNIP--Miranda launched the Hispanic Federation in 1990, the year Ramirez won an Assembly seat in Fordham. The group often pays out small amounts, from $400 to $800, to individuals without detailing why on official documents as required by law. A source in the group said these are sometimes payments for favor. "I have to pay a lady who is bringing latino seniors to a political event, the source said. They promised to send the lady to the Dominican Republic with her family in exchange for rounding up votes. An Hispanic Federation spokesman said the payments were used for families of victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001, or "other people in need."
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/twi_ted_web_in_bx_Fxatn1KxaBpb4reW6SaeqI#ixzz24f02JyRGS---
Thanks for the link. You nailed it WRT pol thievery.
The conniver to end all connivers was Democrat Pedro Espada. Ex-tate senator Espada of the corrupt Bronx was finally convicted of looting $545,000 from his non-profit (probaly much, much more).
He formed a federally funded health clinic for the (gag) "needy"——and looted the place for lavish vacations, parties, sushi feasts, etc...then used $1 million to cover his legal fees.
Votino fraud in the corrupt Bronx must be obscene. God knows how many illegals these corrupt indivuduals register at one address.....to get and keep power.
Now we know why Democrats go ballistic when voter ID comes up....would reduce their vote count considerably.
Votino vote scam artist-—Bronx Democrat Nelson Castro, a Dominican Republic native-—led a life of crime before landing in the Albany legislature.
IS HE A US CITIZEN? Nelson Castro, the Bronx state assemblyman at the center of NY's latest political corruption scandal got into office even though he had a record of criminal arrests in two states and had lied in court about voter registration fraud at his Bronx apartment.
BACKSTORY Bronx Democratic Party leaders anointed Castro-—a former staff member for State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, a Dominiocan Republic native; party bosses were eager to elect a young Dominican politician in the South Bronx, where the Dominican population was growing rapidly.
He was a candidate who had led a life of crime:
<><> a 1989 felony arrest in Michigan for larceny. Michigan court records show that 19-year old Castro pled guilty to a misdemeanor conspiracy and was sentenced to 180 days probation.
<><> In 2003, Castro was arrested again in New York, this time for grand larceny. He was accused of pocketing $4,900 in unemployment checks while holding a job. He pled guilty to petty larceny, repaid the money and was slapped with three years probation.
<><> Then in March 2008, Castro was arrested a third time for driving in East Harlem with a revoked license and as a scofflaw who owed more than $3,000 in parking tickets.
Even more disturbing revelations followed.
<><> During the hearing before Special Referee Mary Lynn Dlabola, evidence emerged that 10 people registered to vote from Castro's one-bedroom apt including Castro's fiance, his cousin, his aunt and uncle, two relatives of his fiancée, and three people who were key figures in Nelson's Castro campaign. Most had registered to vote only months before.
But Castro lied-—and testified that he had no idea all those people were registered there. Asked why so many people were claiming to live in the same tiny apartment, Castro's lawyer claimed at one point that it was a "common practice in the Dominican community for families to take in relatives."
ARE THE REGISTREES US CITIZENS? Unbelievably, Castro also told the court he "did not know" a man who was actually his coordinator of volunteers. That campaign coordinator was a votino scam artist, and had 15 other people registered to vote at his home address, as well.
The investigation led to a sealed indictment against Castro for perjury. To save himself-—he got wired-up and allowed to run again-—and be elected. (NY Daily News factoids.)
Nelson Castro / by Victor Chu for New York Daily News
This convicted Dominican criminal in our midst does not seem to have any visible means of support. L/E needs to determine how many identities this hardened criminal has---and how many are riding the gravy train. And is he getting a cut of the gravy train looting from all those Dominican "voters" registered at his address.
UNDERWORLD KINGPIN LOOTING TAXPAYERS? In a cruel joke on taxpayers, this shyster Castro chaired NY state Assembly's "Task Force on New Americans." Every govt budget, agency, committee, and bank account under Castro's control should be examined with a fine-tooth comb for govt fraud, racketeering, conspiracy, collusion, nepotism, secret LLC accounts, and money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, etc, etc, etc.
The super-secretive criminal latino underworld is now infesting the US political system. The collusive tight-knit coterie of conspiratorial political operatives have one goal----to loot the public treasury, and act as a pressure group to advance Third World ambitions. All attempts to lift the veil of criminality is met with cries of foul. But that should not be a deterrent
TAKE A GUESS---ARE ILLEGAL BRONX DOMINICANS ENGAGED IN GOVT FRAUD? Taxpayers must demand that L/E subpoena copies of Castro's legislative district (1) checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) bank account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, employment contracts, salary agreements, and, (8) all legislative district financial books/records.
Scrutinize Castro's legislative district bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) request for withdrawals.
REFERENCE Under the Bank Secrecy Act passed by Congress, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering, govt fraud and other financial crimes. The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the tax-paying public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, govt fraud, tax evasion, money laudering and other unlawful activities, explained the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations.
CASTRO'S CORRUPT VOTINO SCAM SHOULD SPARK NEW INQUIRIES---AND PROSECUTION----L/E should rigorously investigate the latino criminal uderworld---corrupt parasites undermining the US political system----proof-positive that govt documents were falsified to hide the corrupt use of tax dollars. L/E will likely find that Castro and the latino underworld doled out tax dollars to finance votino scams, and other illegal conduct.
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Our work has also won global recognition. Receiving multiple international awards in 2012 and in previous years means more than just a perfunctory pat on the back. It is important validation of Ecological Footprint work, and a measure of how far the world has come in understanding the consequences of resource limitations.
In January, we learned that the Swiss-based Global Journal has named us one of the world's best 100 NGOs for the second year in a row. The honor is in part a recognition of our accomplishments over the past year. In 2012 alone, we engaged with 18 national governments and several international institutions, conducted numerous presentations and workshops and received multiple awards (the Blue Planet Prize, the Binding Prize for Nature and the Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award).
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards, the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany.
In a country where the headquarters of the secret police could become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informing on their fellow citizens, there are thousands of captivating stories. She meets Miriam, who, as a 16-year-old, might have started World War III; she visits the man who painted the line that became the Berlin Wall; and she gets drunk with the legendary "Mik Jegger" of the east, once declared by the authorities to his face to "no longer to exist."
Each enthralling story depicts what it's like to live in Berlin as the city knits itself back together - or fails to. This is a history full of emotion, attitude, and complexity.
©2003 Anna Funder; (P)2009 Audible
"A brilliant and necessary book about oppression and history...Here is someone who knows how to tell the truth." (Evening Standard - Books of the Year)
"A journey into the bizarre, scary, secret history of the former East Germany that is both relevant and riveting." (Sunday Times Travel Books of the Year)
"Important book"
Anna Funder visits what was East Germany, armed with fluent German and knowledge of international law. She listens to the stories of those who endured immense pain at the hand of the Stasi, the regime which replaced Hitler as dictators of this part of Germany. She also listened with undisguised amazement and horror, to the world view and self justifications of some of the Stasi themselves. In Stasiland she portrays a society imprisoned by the notorious Wall as well as webs of betrayal, lies, mental and emotional torture.
This is neither sensationalist or a horror story. It is an intelligent, measured exploration of the extremes of human nature, from bravery and the capacity for endurance, to the self delusion and cruelty of dictators. It reveals the insidious ways that a people can be controlled through their minds -- in effect, life was simple if everyone capitulated without question to the arbitrary, contradictory, the blatantly ridiculous. In return, citizens were given apparent certainties in housing, employment and health, certainties which some now mourn.
This is a shared personal journey and the narrator, Denica Fairman, offers a reading that works as an outstanding partnership with Funder.
Stasiland not only delves into recent history, but places before the reader the realities of human nature that contribute to human society -- from small communities to whole nations.
"Author's narcissism blights otherwise good account"
This book is indeed laced with riveting accounts from ex-Stasi and the people they oppressed. You'll hear tense stories of teenage girls sneaking past dogs to jump the wall, meet with greying old ex-Stasi pensioners who reminisce about striking fear into the hearts of their neighbours and get an intimate sense of the surreal details of East German life that are even now being forgotten. But to get to these portions, you'll have to spend hours listening to Ms. Funder describe the inside of her Berlin apartment, detail her urban malaise, outline the workplace tensions at her public broadcasting job, etc. These plodding (and frequent) sections read like passages from a teenager's travel blog, and it's frustrating to think that Ms. Funder decided that the minutiae of her Berlin existence deserved equal billing beside the incredible stories told by her various sources. If a better (and more humble) writer had had access to the sources available to Ms. Funder, this book could have been a Pulitzer Prize winner. But as it stands, this is not the definitive account of East German life you're looking for.
"Small people crushed by the events of time"
This book is a valauble addition to the Audible line of books. It depicts how ordinary people - none of them really political activists - acted against the oppression of Communist East Germany. At times it is more suspensful than many suspense novels, even without having had that intention. The portraits are great and you really get to know these people - or at least you wish that you had known them.
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"Very Interesting"
I read this right after reading "The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989" by Frederick Taylor in the hopes that it would give me more of a people's view rather then a politician's view of life - and it did. I could have done without author's story of how she went about writing the book itself, but still – I got what I wanted out of it and enjoyed it very much.
"an excellent book"
Maybe it is because I too moved to Germany rather spontaneously, and ended up finding so much meaning here, that this book is not only one of the best I have ever ordered from Audible, but is also one of the best books of my experience. For anyone with an interest in modern German history, this book brings so much life and so many thought-provoking examples to the facts and figures of communist East Germany. The book is both emotionally and intellectually superb.
"A stunning achievement."
This penetrating look at life in East Germany, seen from the perspective of an outsider, is saturated in heartbreak, courage and a fractured senses of safety.
"Peeking behind the curtain"
I don't often read non fiction so this was a real surprise - it has to rank up there with the best eye-witness accounts of the life experiences of people surviving in such different circumstances from my own. The generosity of of people to disclose such painful, sometimes humiliating experiences is a testament to the Anna Funder's capacity to retell - and in another language!
Walking through the Stasi prison with a victim-guide kept my emotions dancing on hot coals all night.
What made the performance so good was the excellent pronunciation by Denica Fairman - getting things right. More often a story has been spoilt by the laziness of a performer failing to pronounce names and places correctly. The tone and spareness of the narration fully enabled the engagement of an over-active imagination like mine.
I had to hold my breath when Anna, with brutal insight and honesty, met with each informant.
I had heard Anna Funder interviewed on radio a couple of times and it took me a few years to tackle the book. Brilliant.
"So interesting"
I seldom read anything twice.
When one of the main persons are taken in for interrogation about her love letters to a long gone boyfriend.
The great something watching over you
The narrator is really fantastic.
"Personal Interviews with former GDR citizens"
Conversations with citizens of the former GDR. Very little statistical information of the former East Germany. Leaves you wanting much more. "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea " is a much more interesting book in my view. Beware, Stasiland has some content not suitable for children.
"Great stories, great writing"
Was headed to Berlin for a couple weeks and trying to capture a bit of the vibe of the city. No WWII stuff, more contemporary. This book was an excellent and synchronous choice. Funder is full of magic moments and the varied stories of former GDR citizens and authorities paint a good range of sentiment and perspective. Also rife with geographic reference, museums, etc. that I enjoyed tracking down as well. It really made my trip that much greater with some background on the gravity of certain places and situations. Funder's writing is excellent throughout and while keeping a generally straightforward approach, there are liberal flourishes of beautiful insight and stolen moments.
"Great project, well written but underdone"
I'm glad to hear that Ms. Funder is now writing fiction, because I think she's a good writer but not a great researcher. There has been a trend in the last decade to embrace the inevitable subjectivity of any research by confronting and including researcher's subjective experiences into the account of the investigation. Ms. Funder does this to such an extent that she becomes a central character in the narrative and her reactions, which she writes about very eloquently, tend to overshadow the product of her research. So the book becomes, not a documentation of the experiences of people who were either in the Stasi or victims of it, but of her reaction to meeting them.
I felt this book was okay, but simply did not have enough meat in it.
"A little disappointing"
Frankly there wasn't much in this book that I didn't know already. In fact I have heard a great deal more in German magazines.
You cannot change the story, but as another reviewer already elquently stated, there needs to be more meat on this particular bone.
This really is something that I fail to understand. If I was the author or publisher or indeed the narrator, I would take the trouble of finding out how to pronounce German words. One of the key characters is Uwe. Every time the narrator got it wrong it irritated the hell out of me.
No, the whole Stasi story is peculiar to the Germans but the book did not tell me anything new
No, I really wanted to tlike this book and it disappointed me somewhat.
"More of a diary than a study"
Well written and read but the book is more about the writer and her time in Germany trying to be a non fiction writer. Way too much filler where the writer describes how she feels, what she's thinking or how the light shines on this and that. There is some interesting stuff in there but its not detailed and not based on fact in the main.
"Different approach"
This is a great read and uniquely written. Whilst you do learn much of the Stasi workings and general DDR state it is told by way of interesting encouters between the author and former East German subjects and Stasi members. Despite the nature of the subject matter it flows and is not the heavy read you may expect. You would need some level of interest in the times but it is a fresh take on the historical text. Highly recommended.
"Not great"
Narration was very poor which make the story poor also. Almost unbearable to listen to which is a shame because it could have be a good story
"Ominous, thought-provoking, horrifying"
This non-fiction work is a remarkable journey through the archives and, mostly, memories of people who lived through one of the world's most repressive states. It traces the experiences of ordinary people and of agents of East German State Security (Stasi), throughout that sickening Communist regime, which employed or coerced people to spy on citizens, to an estimated one 'spy' for every 6.5 others.
The book tells of attempts to escape the government strangle-hold on everyone's daily life, of the inhumane methods the Stasi used to force people to spy on their friends, neighbours, and acquaintances... and of the dire consequences of refusal.
This well-written book will open your eyes to a true Orwellian state.
My only criticisms of the audiobook are that the reader, who does an excellent job, doesn't pronounce the German words correctly, missed out at least one sentence, and occasionally misspeaks 'a' for 'the', and the author's Anglicisation of 'Straße' as 'Street'.
All in all, this book is excellent. It's definitely worth reading.
"a little slow to start but soon addictive..."
The ferociously inhumane efficiency of the STASI is terrifyingly delineated by Anna Funder. Her focus on the effects of this regime on ordinary people is a great way to humanise and universalise this dreadful regime's activities.
"Gripping account of the real people"
Good pace. Engaging. Very keen to continue listening
The story about her landlady and how her career seems to have been influenced by the Stasi
Well read and acted
Lives made and lost behind the iron curtain!
Amazing narration. Great writing, sad but real stories.
Recommend to anyone interested in modern history, especially Cold War and Berlin during the wall.
"Very good, and excellently performed"
I would, and indeed have, because as well as telling a good story, there is some excellent, descriptive writing, and I wasn't surprised to hear that the author has since published some fiction.
Not technically a character as she's a real person, but the most complex was Julia, the author's landlady. However, I think part of the reason that she had so much depth was because of the excellent way in which she was narrated.
As above.
Unsurprisingly, the stories of some of the former East Germans evoked sympathy, but I was a little more surprised that another major emotion that came through was the author's frustration at certain aspects of living in modern day Germany. A scene when she goes swimming at a public pool, only to be told that she cannot swim because she has come at the wrong time, or the right time of the wrong day, could have been something out of the BBC programme 'From our own correspondent', which is a favourite of mine.
I can understand the comments that some reviewers have made about the relatively large amount of material about the author's life, rather than that of her subjects. But I didn't find that these sections made it a worse book, because those sections were well-written.
One minor criticism is that I don't believe that the author was really able to get into the heads of the former Stasi officers that she interviewed. But this would obviously be a very difficult thing to do, and perhaps impossible given the very different upbringings and characters that the author and the interview subjects would have had.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 14, 2012) – The two U.S. women's beach volleyball teams competing at the World University Championships in Maceio, Brazil will play each other in the quarterfinals on Saturday while the men's teams are still alive in consolation.
The U.S. women's team of Emily Day (Torrance, Calif./Loyola Marymount) and Summer Ross (San Diego, Calif./Pepperdine) opened play on Friday with a 21-17, 21-17 victory over Russia's Elizaveta Ryabova and Maria Ushkova in the second round.
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The U.S. women's team of Caitlin Ledoux (Phelan, Calif./Long Beach State) and Geena Urango (Los Alamitos, Calif./Univ. of Southern California) opened Friday by beating Kaila Ng and Alexandra Hudson of Canada, 21-11, 21-13 in the second round.
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The semifinals are also scheduled to be played on Saturday with the finals on Sunday. The team that loses on Saturday will move to the consolation bracket.
On the men's side, both U.S. teams lost their second-round matches on Friday, but will play consolation matches on Saturday.
The U.S. team of Jeremy Casebeer (Santa Barbara, Calif./UCLA) and Will Montgomery (Santa Barbara, Calif./UC Irvine) fell to Brazil's Benjamin Álvaro Filho and Luciano Gilmário, 2-0. The U.S. pair will play Switzerland's Fabio Berta and Alexei Prawdzic in consolation on Saturday.
The team of Adam Cabbage (Rio Rancho, N.M./Univ. of New Mexico) and Connor Hughes (Costa Mesa, Calif./UC Irvine) lost to Bergmann and Stiel of Germany, 2-0.
The U.S. duo will face Simon Fecteau-Boutin and Cameron Wheelan of Canada in consolation on Saturday.
More than 40 teams representing 17 countries from the Americas, Europe and Asia are participating in this International University Sports Federation (FISU) event. Players from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Paraguay, Japan, Poland, China, Slovakia, Thailand, Russia, Spain, United States, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, Austria and Chinese Taipei are competing.
The U.S. women's team of Chrissie Zartman and Tracy Lindquist won the gold medal at the World University Championships in 2004. The U.S. men's team of Mark VanZweiten and Joey Dykstra won the bronze medal at the 2008 Championships while John Mayer and Matt Prosser took bronze in 2006.
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Ulrickson named Souris Basin Planning Council director
The Souris Basin Planning Council has named Lyndsay Ulrickson as its new executive director.
Ulrickson, a Minot State University graduate, has been an economic development specialist with the council since September 2011. Ulrickson is a member of the Minot Sertoma Club, Ward County Advisory Council, Minot Area Chamber of Commerce Junior Achievements Committee, North Dakota Planning Association and co-chairperson for the Northwest North Dakota Grant Writer's Roundtable. She's also a participant in the Center for Technology & Business 2013 Women's Leadership Program.
"Souris Basin is embracing the changes and growing economy throughout our region. We have an excellent staff on board and work closely as a team. We intend to maintain that team-oriented atmosphere," Ulrickson said.
The Souris Basin Planning region is made up of Bottineau, Burke, McHenry, Mountrail, Pierce, Renville and Ward counties. The Souris Basin Planning Council is the Economic Development District as assigned by the federal Economic Development Administration and serves as an economic development liaison for the seven-county region.
The council provides technical assistance, project planning, development resources and programs to counties and communities, including economic development, community development, business development and infrastructure development activities.
'Remember Our Fallen' exhibit in local communities
"Remembering Our Fallen, " a photo memorial of the 21 North Dakota military who have died in a war zone since Sept. 2, 2001, is being shown in Minot and area communities.
The current schedule is as follows:
Saturday-May 11: during business hours, Bottineau Chamber of Commerce, 519 Main St.
May 13-31: Scheels, Minot.
June 16-29: First International Bank (NDAL state convention), Williston.
The North Dakota Department of The American Legion is responsible for moving the exhibit from community to community.
Since late March and early April, the traveling display was in Rolla and Belcourt.
The exhibit is open to the public.
Anyone who would like to host the display, should contact David Johnson, adjutant, North Dakota Department of The American Legion, at 293-3120 or email him at email@example.com.
More information about currently scheduled viewing sites, can be found at (www.rememberingourfallen.org).
Fort Berthold cultural hall of fame to induct 9 members
NEW TOWN – The Fort Berthold Cultural & Western Heritage Hall of Fame, formerly known as Fort Berthold Cowboy Hall of Fame and located inside 4 Bears Casino & Lodge, west of New Town, will induct nine new members this month.
This year, the new inductees include: Pete Fredericks, Leonard Driver, David Little Swallow, Delvin Driver Sr., Frank Whitecalfe, Eugene White, Roy Bird Bear, James Hall Sr. and Burnie Johnson.
4 Bears Casino will be hosting the Adrian Foote Saddle Bronc Spectacular April 25-26. On April 26, the new inductees will be announced during the event and family members will be allowed to say a few words.
The areas in which nominees can be nominated are rodeo, ranching and Native heritage. The nominees can be living or deceased.
The mission of the Fort Berthold Cultural and Western Heritage Hall of Fame is to educate the public about the history of the Fort Berthold Reservation and to recognize selected members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation who have made a positive impact on the cultural and western way of life and also to serve as an inspiration for the future generations.
4 Bears Casino and Lodge will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer and will have a number of special events.
The facility, owned and operated by the Three Affiliated Tribes, is located four miles west of New Town.
Pioneer Daughters open house celebrates 75th year
The Pioneer Daughters at Towner are observing their 75th year and will host an open house on April 23 at 2 p.m. at the fellowship hall of Zion Lutheran Church. The public is invited to join in the festivities.
Pioneer Daughters was formed in April 1938 as a member of the Federated Women's Club. The initial project of the group was the stone arches and stiles at Union Cemetery. Dedicated in 1938, they are still standing as entrance sentinels.
The club had many activities during the years, including World War II drives, donations to children's homes at Fargo and Jamestown, as well as donating to several area organizations.
Any woman who is interested in Pioneer Daughter membership is asked to contact Erna Garnant at 7539-5th Ave. N, Bantry ND, 58713-9033.


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I really wanted to be creative with it...but screwed up because of bad eyes.
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