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I had a question about a special word in the Riwaayat Shu3bah from 3aasim: the word Milladnihi
Assalaamu 3alaykum dear respected teachers,
All praise is due to Allah for having provided us students with good teachers, even though they may be thousands of miles away. May Allah bless you all and grant you the highest parts of Jannah, Aameen.
I had a question about a special word in the Riwaayat Shu3bah from 3aasim: the word Milladnihii (second verse of surah al kahf). How exactly is that word read?
Baarakallaahu feekum.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Jazakum Allahu khairan for your kind dua'. May Allah accept our righteous deeds and purify our intentions always.
The word in aayah 2 of surah Al-Kahf is read as: in the riwaayah of Shu'bah. The is saakinah, but a ishmaan, or circling of the lips indicated a dhamm is done after the qalqalah of the . The that follows it has a kasrah as well as the after that, and there is on kasrah of the .
To learn to read this word properly, one needs to visually see their teacher as well as hear them and their teacher needs to see and hear the student, since the ishmaam is seen and not heard. The qalqalah of the followed by the ishmaam is indeed a challenge, and many trying this for the first time make the error of putting a dhamm on the or not making the qalqalah on the before making the ishmaam. Another mistake that sometimes occurs is making a sound during the ishmaam. This word indeed takes practice to perfect, but needs to be practiced in front of a qualified teacher who is certified in the riwaayah of Shu'bah.
Wa feekum al-barakah.
Wa assalaam alaikum
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The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department will hold a public hearing April 2 on proposed rules regarding wildlife and hunting and fishing guides.
The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, 11 Hazen Drive, Concord, N.H.
The proposed changes to the Fish and Game wildlife rules would affect information reported by moose hunters, certain trapping requirements, deer pre-damage and depredation permits, baiting permit issuance on the Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Forest, and youth pheasant hunting events at sporting clubs.
Additional proposed rules being considered at the same hearing would affect licensed New Hampshire hunting guides and persons wanting to become a licensed guide.
The complete rulemaking notices, with original and proposed rule language, can be viewed at http://www.wildnh.com/Legislative/Notices_summary.htm.
Written comments must be received by April 9. Send to: firstname.lastname@example.com (use subject line "Comments on Wildlife/Guide Rules"); or write to Executive Director, N.H. Fish and Game Department, 11 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301; or fax to 603-271-1438.

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Manchester gets tips on dealing with panhandlingBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 09. 2013 9:48PM
MANCHESTER — Panhandling is a growing problem in the Queen City, but if it's any consolation the city is not alone.
On Wednesday, Police Chief David Mara was joined by civic leaders from Portland, Maine, and Burlington, Vt., to discuss ways to address the issue. The talk was part of the first Economic Development Summit put on by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, which has taken steps recently to combat panhandling and homelessness in the downtown area.
"Panhandling is on the increase," Mara said. "And the demographic doing it, they're now a younger, more aggressive crowd. For the most part, it's not a question of homelessness. There is a homeless problem in Manchester, and there are social services ... . But the people we're dealing with don't avail themselves of those programs. They have substance-abuse problems."
Mara acknowledged that panhandling was less a criminal matter than a social problem, a point stressed by the other panelists.
Chris O'Neil, the city hall liaison with the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce, said that three of the city's council members belonged to the Green Party, and the city has been referred to as the "Berkeley of the east."
"We have a compassionate ethos in the city," O'Neil said, explaining that the city has a "Have a Heart" campaign, whereby visitors downtown are encouraged to donate at receptacles at participating businesses, rather than giving their change to people on the street.
"We have a lot of good things going on," O'Neil said. "But we're also the place people go when they're down on their luck ... . We embrace being a service center community, but like Manchester we have to manage it."
In both Portland, Maine, and Burlington, Vt., cards are distributed downtown that urge visitors not to give money to panhandlers; instead, the cards list organizations that assist the needy. Burlington and Portland have another tool in dealing with panhandling; both have "aggressive panhandling" ordinances that make it a crime to use abusive language, harass or make physical contact with someone when asking for money. The ordinances also bar panhandling within a set distance of certain business, such as banks and ATMs.
Tammy Boudah, who is part of the "street outreach team" for the Howard Center, a social service agency that serves the Burlington area, said that the cards they distribute outline the ordinance and resources available to the needy. "Panhandling is a constitutionally protected activity," Boudah said. "What we're trying to do is effect a cultural shift."
Mara said that an aggressive panhandling ordinance was something Manchester officials should consider, but he noted that it would have to comport with the laws and culture of the Granite State. "This is the 'live free or die' state," he said. "As much as I'd love to have something like that, I'm not sure it would hold up in our court system."
Manchester has recently taken a novel approach to dealing with panhandling: installing old parking meters to collect change, which goes to the homeless shelter and food pantry. While the meters have only generated a few hundred dollars since they were installed a couple months ago, Mara said he would like to see more of the meters. "It allows people to exercise compassion without feeding someone's addiction," Mara said.
The discussion focused on a related problem, the presence of vagrants and homeless people in city parks. Over the summer, Manchester police stepped up its presence in the downtown parks, in particular at Victory and Veterans parks. Officers have been assigned to the parks, and at times, a police cruiser has been parked in the center of Victory Park.
Mara said that the officers could be called away from the parks at any point to respond to a call, but he said the presence has acted as a deterrent to drug users congregating there.
The police department's efforts drew praise from Peter Ramsey, who heads the Palace Theatre.
"It's hard to have a city and not have it be safe to visit," he said. "People have to feel like they can walk around, talk, smile, go to the theater."


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In the ultra-competitive literary landscape, hundreds of debut novels are published each year to little fanfare. It's extraordinary for a new author to get one major review, let alone the string of significant acclamations tallied up for the first novel by Kelly Kerney '02. Born Again, was published by Harcourt in September and has received excellent reviews by the San Francisco Chronicle and Entertainment Weekly, was starred by Kirkus Review, and is scheduled for review by The New York Times in October. Following the often hilarious journey of a young Christian fundamentalist named Mel who comes to terms with Darwinism, Born Again has been praised by renowned authors such as Margot Livesey, William O'Rourke, and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo.
As a student, Kerney began to consider a career in writing, and the empowerment she felt from a Bowdoin professor triggered the interest. Anthony Walton, Bowdoin's Writer-in-Residence in the English department — the sole name appearing on the dedication page of Born Again — is the backbone of Kerney's budding career.
"I always loved to read and knew I wanted to be an English major in college," said Kerney. "I never thought I could write (professionally) until I worked with Professor Walton. He opened my eyes to contemporary literature, and the more I read, the more I believed that I could do it."
Walton's gentle nurturing of Kerney included reading suggestions that allowed the young author to teach herself and develop her own interests and writing style. Never one to be overly critical of Kerney's writing, Walton was a constant source of encouragement during her days at Bowdoin and while she was preparing her first novel. Professors Dave Collings, Pete Coviello, Frank Burroughs, Matt Greenfield, and Michael Harper also inspired and energized Kerney during her undergraduate years.
"She has always maximized the opportunities that have come her way," Walton said. "She worked very hard at Bowdoin, as hard as any student I have had the pleasure of working with, to get better as a writer and an intellectual. Then she lasered in at Notre Dame, taking advantage of the professors there, and even more importantly, the time that a graduate program in writing affords a young author to study and practice, growing so quickly that she was awarded the Sparks Fellowship, which gave her the opportunity to spend a year working on nothing but her fiction."
Kerney's writing blossomed as a graduate student, but the seed was planted during her years at Bowdoin, despite a rocky start. Admittedly behind when she first arrived on campus, Kerney gained ground quickly with the help of her roommate, Liz Shesko '02, and the benefit of Bowdoin's academic environment.
"I felt that I was at a bit of a disadvantage coming from the public school system in Ohio as compared to so many kids who were educated in private schools," said Kerney. "The first semester was very difficult, but [Liz] walked me through the process. I felt like I came from a sheltered background in some ways, but it was so liberating to be surrounded by so many like-minded peers. Although Bowdoin is relatively small, it seemed huge to me."
Kerney hit her stride once immersed in Bowdoin's English department as she began to sharpen her skills with the assistance of her professors. Calling upon the small class size and the numerous opportunities to interact with the professors in the department, she "felt energized by the ability to work so closely with so many talented people."
After Bowdoin, Kerney headed to graduate school at the University of Notre Dame, where she earned a fellowship and later a post-graduate fellowship from best-selling author Nicholas Sparks. In the summer of 2003, one year into her graduate work, she began her first novel, which unfolded in a way she did not expect.
"I never planned for there to be this big Darwin debate in the book," admitted Kerney. "That only entered the picture a year later, as I was reading Origin of Species on my own. At that point, I began to write a journal from Mel's perspective, which later became narrative."
What developed was a work of fiction derived from Kerney's childhood experiences. "This topic was very close to me," she said. "I didn't realize I was so different until I arrived at Bowdoin." Although it would have been easy to draw solely from her experiences for material, she was careful to avoid doing so too often.
"I didn't want to take sides on the topic," said Kerney. "Instead, I wanted to get to a level where readers can see both sides and a balance between the ideas. I wanted to show a more well-rounded view of what people are arguing about, using Mel's experiences to showcase that, because I don't think the dichotomy is productive."
"I admire the fact that she has the courage of her convictions," said Walton. "She's one of those writers who will write what she thinks and believes, and can get it on the page incisively and with elegance."
It's a challenge for any author to tackle such a sensitive topic, but for a young author to do so in such an eloquent and fresh manner speaks volumes about her talents and her future.
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PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Look up at the wall and you can see Yugoslavia's late autocratic leader Josip Broz Tito drowning in red fiery waves of hell — along with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of the 1848 Communist Manifesto.
They are joined by Adam and Eve, current Montenegro politicians and people wearing Turkish turbans. Close by, rival church priests are being gobbled up by the huge jaws of an angry beast with pointed devil ears.
It's fair to say the new brightly-colored fresco in the Serbian Orthodox Church of Christ's Resurrection in Montenegro's capital of Podgorica has triggered much attention and controversy.
The Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, the tiny Adriatic Sea nation of 600,000 people, has often been involved in politics, especially when Montenegro split from much larger Serbia in 2006. The church's hardline leader in Montenegro, Bishop Amfilohije Radovic, has often bitterly criticized the country's pro-independence leadership and is not shy in openly denouncing Islam and Catholicism.
Church leaders have already been criticized for the high costs of the vast church's lavish design.
Branko Vujacic, a 36-year-old priest serving in the church, noted that the church has seen an increased number of visitors since the fresco was finished last October.
"I don't see anything terrible in the symbolism of this fresco," Vujacic told The Associated Press.
"To be honest, I am not one of those who see Marx and Tito on it and I don't even remember how Marx looked like," he added. "But I know that the fresco depicts the spirit of the time when the battle against God was fought."
Unlike Vujacic, high-ranking Orthodox priest Velibor Dzomic clearly recognizes the personalities in the fresco.
"Yes, I see them all," Dzomic told the AP. "I see Tito, Marx, Engels and other enemies of Christ on that fresco. Everyone has the right to his own interpretation — some see them, some don't."
"Art is a miracle," he added.
The fresco has triggered controversy not only among the priests but also among believers, many of whom used to be passionate communists during Tito's 1945-1980 autocratic rule. Montenegro was one of the six Yugoslav socialist republics that abolished communism in 1991.
"I don't know what to say about the fresco," said Zoran Savovic, a construction worker from Podgorica who described himself "a bigger Christian than a communist."
"Tito's time was a golden age for poor people and workers and it will never come back again," Savovic said as he was leaving the church. "Personally, I would like to see the return of Tito's era."
AP Writer Dusan Stojanovic contributed from Belgrade, Serbia.


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Are you currently using a bar of soap to wash your face? Or even your body – or hands? If so, read on.
First of all bar soaps can harvest bacteria as you touch the same surface every time you use it and it is often left sitting on a wet surface after use. These bacteria can be spread onto your skin the next time you use the soap. Studies have shown that the bacteria risks if you have your own soap are slightly higher on bar soaps than on liquid soaps, but on shared soap it is significantly higher – kind of gross right? Most bar soaps have a higher pH level than liquid soaps which can lead to drying of the skin. Bar soaps also can contain a lot of chemicals to make the bar bind together. These chemicals give the bar soap shape, and provide the bulk of the bar – making it cost effective. Some bars claim to have added moisture – but do beware because almost all of them still contain these skin irritating and drying chemicals. You may think that you need to moisturize your hands or body frequently because you are washing them frequently – but it could actually be what you are washing them with that are making them dry!
There are some advantages to bar soaps – they are generally quite cheap and can smell quite good, or be unscented if you prefer. They also can last quite a long time and one bar goes quite far.
It does come down to personal preference but most dermatologists will recommend using liquid soap formulated for your skin type on your face and any other problem or easily irritated areas. If your skin is tough and you don't notice any extra dryness or irritation it probably won't be a problem to continue to use bar soap on your body – just don't share to keep the bacteria factor way down!


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Dir/scr: Daniel Joseph Borgman. Denmark-New Zealand. 2013. 87mins
The setbacks, sorrows and rare joys of a lonely child misfit are charted with sensitivity but also a certain dramatic contrivance in the feature debut of New Zealand director Daniel Borgman. This is one of those Scandi-style dramas where eleven-year-old kids mouth grown-up lines of dialogue, families are unhappy by default, boys automatically become Lord Of The Flies savages when left alone and the director seems so intent on his poetic vision (which is, to give him credit, captivatingly poetic) that he sometimes gets between us and the characters.
The film is at its best, perhaps, in its exploration and understanding of the spaces of childhood.
Still, The Weight Of Elephants is a dramatically efficient and good-looking widescreen arthouse package; and it's one that captures the tribulations and perspectives of a difficult age when kids start to act tough while still being vulnerable inside. However, it's by no means certain that arthouse distributors will want to come out and play with this title outside of Australasia and the Nordic countries: many will feel that there's not quite enough audience payback, in the end, for the relentless emotional mill the script puts us through.
The film – whose title is never properly explained – centres on Adrian (a brave, soul-baring Demos Murphy), an eleven-year-old boy whose mum has run off somewhere. He lives with his tough-love Gran (Catherine Wilkin) and manic depressive Uncle Rory (Matthew Sutherland) in what is clearly one of the more downmarket districts of some unnamed New Zealand town. Adrian suffers routine bullying at school, where he has formed a fragile alliance with another marginalised boy, Clinton (Finn Holden).
In the background, leeching into the consciousness of a boy who is already sorely beset by anxiety, is a long-running news story about the disappearance and probable abduction of three young siblings. A friendship that Adrian forms with a tough and angry girl of his own age, Nicole (Angie Cottrell), might perhaps be connected with these missing kids – or this could just be the imagination of a fragile 11 year-old boy running wild.
The Weight Of Elephants can be read as a metaphor for a dangerous time of passage; indeed, it pretty much insists that we read it that way. Adrian is caught between friends he can't trust and an unreliable adult world consisting almost entirely of bad carers – an absent mother, an over-stern grandmother, an unbalanced, manic uncle, a sympathetic teacher who goes on maternity leave just when he needs her most, and Nicole's frail, bedridden mother.
The film is at its best, perhaps, in its exploration and understanding of the spaces of childhood: the way houses are divided in the eleven-year-old mind into safe zones and dangerous ones; the way patches of wasteland, like the rusty, weed-infested playground that acts as a buffer zone between Adrian's world and Nicole's, can be both havens and places of exile.
Production companies: Zentropa Entertainments5 Aps, Severe Features
International sales: NZ Film Commission, www.nzfilm.co.nz
Producers: Katja Adomeit, Leanne Saunders
Executive producer: Louise Vesth
Cinematography:: Sophia Olsson
Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard
Production designer: Kirsty Cameron
Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
Main cast: Demos Murphy, Angie Cottrell, Catherine Wilkin, Matthew Sunderland, Finn Holden


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June 6, 1947 - December 26, 2013
Maybrook, NY
Joanne M. Lubrano of Maybrook, NY, passed away on December 26, 2013 at Orange Region a Medical Center, Middletown, after a long courageous battle with multiple illnesses for a very long time. The daughter of Michael and Alma Johnson Giudice, she was born on June 6, 1947 in Brooklyn, NY. She was 66 years old. She is the widow of the late Anthony Lubrano.
Joanne was a retired nurse, graduating second in her class. Other than her three daughters and her husband, her nursing career, along with her seven grandchildren, whom she loved dearly, she helped anyone she could. She was a caring, loving, giving, mother, grandmother, friend to many and most of all, one kind person. The family would like to thank the medical staff at ORMC, especially Sorya, Andrew, Therese and nursing assistant Sami for all their care, compassion and love for our Mom while she was in their care.
She leaves behind to cherish her memory three daughters: Cathy Banks and her husband, Kenneth of Port Jervis, Christina Watson and her husband, Richard of Maybrook, Lucille Butler and her husband, Bill of Bloomingburg; brother, William Giudice of CA; two sisters, Irene Guidice and Kathy Lewis both of Monroe; seven grandchildren Devin, Shawn, Austin, Mikael, Theo, Jaiden and Madasyn; nieces and nephews.
A visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, December 29th at the Gridley-Horan Funeral Home, 39 Orchard St., Walden, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Monday, December 30th at the Church of the Assumption in Maybrook. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Montgomery, NY.
Contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
Arrangements are by the Gridley-Horan Funeral Home, Inc. www.gridleyhoran.com


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Werkbundarchiv-Museum der Dinge (Archive - Museum of Things)
Oranienstrasse 25, Berlin-Kreuzberg
October 30 - November 16, 2008
This travelling group exhibition displays in Berlin 38 Moleskine notebooks designed by artists, writers, designers and illustrators and musicians of international acclaim.
Amongst 38 notebooks some works contain extensive stories; others are turned into pieces of contemporary art and design. All of them deliver an intimate insight into the artists' creative process.
Museum der Dinge is the museum of industrial design and mass culture and is well known for its focus on artistic procedures in combination with everyday goods.
It is surrounded by a very vital, international scene, which reflects the cosmopolitan background of Moleskine.


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December 11. 2013 12:36PM
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Top NH political pros to head new Boston office of nationally-known consulting firm
By John DiStaso
Senior Political Reporter
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11: DEMERS, GRIFFIN HEADING "PURPLE STRATEGIES NEW ENGLAND." Two veteran New Hampshire political, media and government relations experts have joined a nationwide strategic communications and consulting firm as it expands into New England.
The Granite Status has learned that Jim Demers, president and CEO of Concord-based Demers & Blaisdell, Inc., and Patrick Griffin, chairman emeritus of Manchester-based GY&K Marketing, will lead a new Boston office of Purple Strategies when it opens on Jan. 15.
A formal announcement is expected on Thursday.
Purple Strategies, founded in 2008 and headed nationally by Republican consultant Alex Castellanos and Democratic consultant Steve McMahon, is based in Washington, D.C. and also has offices in Chicago and Houston.
Its name reflects the bipartisan nature of its founders and of its broad reach in strategic communication, public affairs, issue advocacy, public opinion research, advertising, media relations and new media for corporations, trade associations and non-profit organizations.
"After Purple's successful growth in Chicago, we took a look at where we needed to grow to best serve our Fortune 500 base," Purple Strategies chairman Castellanos says in a statement provided exclusively to the Granite Status.
"With the impact of the health care, technology, energy and financial sectors, we knew New England was the right move," Castellanos said.
For Griffin, the move marks the end of a chapter in his own professional career and the firm he founded many years ago.
The long-time Republican advertising executive and political and media consultant has sold his remaining interest in GY&K, the largest communications/advertising firm in northern New England, to current company president Travis York, effective early next year. Griffin, though, will continue to provide consulting services, according to GY&K.
Griffin said GY&K "will always be family to me," while York cited his "strong personal and professional relationship" with Griffin.
Democrat Demers will continue as president and CEO of the lobbying firm Demers & Blaisdell, and will take on co-leadership of Purple Strategies New England as an additional venture.
He called the launch "an exciting next step."
Long-time friends Griffin and Demers have rich political histories in the first-in-the-nation primary state on opposite sides of the partisan divide.
Demers was the co-chair of President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in New Hampshire and was involved in the earlier presidential campaigns of President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and former U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt.
Griffin has been a media consultant for Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, Sen. Lamar Alexander and Mitt Romney, in addition to former U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass. He has also authored several books, including the recent "Primary Columns," which reviews the 2012 Republican presidential primary campaign.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11: NHDP: "SHADOW LOBBYIST" BROWN. In advance of former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown's next appearance in New Hampshire next week, the state Democratic Party is launching web ads, an online petition and "organizing tools" challenging him to disclose his client list.
Brown joined the law firm of Nixon Peabody earlier this year and although he is not a registered lobbyist, the firm said he would use his Washington contacts to create business for the firm.
The NHDP says that makes Brown a "shadow lobbyist."
Brown has not ruled out the possibility of running for the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, has sold his home in Massachusetts and is expected to eventually become a resident of New Hampshire. He has long owned a home in Rye.
He has set up a political action committee in the state and has helped raise money for Republicans.
Although Brown is not a candidate for office in the state, the Democrats say "the people of New Hampshire deserve to know which special interests are lining shadow lobbyist Scott Brown's pockets since he left the Senate."
The party is "calling on Brown to release a list of his post-Senate clients that he has been working for" since he lost the Senate seat to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in 2012.
During that 2012 campaign, Brown called on attorney Warren to release a list of her legal clients.
The NHDP says it will be using "paid advertisements and online organizing tools," including an online petition, "to convince Brown to disclose whose side he's on and tell New Hampshire how he has been getting rich selling his government experience and influence to corporate special interests."
The NHDP said its ads will begin today and run until Brown visits the state on Dec. 19 to speak at a New Hampshire Republican Party fund-raiser in Nashua.
Brown did not immediately respond to the Democrats.
State Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn said the Democrats were "desperate to distract attention" from Democratic U.S. Rep. Ann Kuster and what Horn called Kuster's well-publicized "embarrassing attempt to dodge" a citizen's question about the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
A video of the Nov. 25 question-and-answer session at the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire, taken by a former Republican state lawmaker, had received nearly 270,000 views by Wednesday afternoon.
Horn also cited Kuster's former "career as a highly paid corporate lobbyist."
"For over 20 years, Congresswoman Kuster lobbied for big corporations and even for a foreign pharmaceutical company that manufactures 'roofies' – an illegal drug that has been used to sexually assault women," Horn said. "Nobody can take the Democrats desperate attacks seriously given Congresswoman Annie Kuster's lobbying record."
The Republicans also noted that Bill Shaheen, the husband of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is a self-described "government relations and lobbying attorney," which "would make him a 'shadow lobbyist' according to the New Hampshire Democrat Party," said NHGOP executive director Matt Mowers. "Nobody can take the Democrats seriously given the glaring hypocrisy of their desperate attacks."
(An earlier Granite Status report follows.)
TUESDAY, DEC. 10: FRIENDS OF HILLARY. A group of key Granite State Democrats were in the audience last Friday when former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was honored by the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice with its Lantos Human Rights Prize.
It's no surprise the Granite State was well-represented given that the foundation is the product of Katrina Lantos Swett of Bow, the daughter of the late U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos of California, and given that 2008 first-in-the-nation primary winner Clinton has friends and supporters in high places in New Hampshire.
Among those on hand were state Democratic Party chairman Ray Buckley, former party chair Chris Spirou, former state Supreme Court Chief justice and current UNH Law School Dean John Broderick, Executive Councilor Chris Pappas, state Sen. Donna Soucy and (of course) Katrina's husband, former Ambassador and U.S. Rep. Dick Swett.
The award recognized Clinton for her "tireless efforts to promote human rights for women around the world," according to the foundation.
Buckley attended a small Lantos Foundation breakfast, also honoring Clinton, prior to the event.
It's also White House Holiday Party season. Buckley attended one last Friday, personally hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and attending separate White House parties this week will be state Senate Democratic Leader Sylvia Larsen and Concord political strategist and long-time Obama supporter Jim Demers.
(See earlier Granite Status reports elsewhere on this page or by clicking on "Granite Status" above.)


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Chris Evans fans should not expect to see their hunk on the big screen as anyone other than Captain America in the foreseeable future, because the actor says he's pretty much quitting his day job.
Why? Well, as they say, what he really wants to do is direct.
"I've known for a while ... ," the 32-year-old actor told Variety. "But [time] never really opens up. There's another movie to do, there's another acting job. It just got to a point where I was like, you know what — I have to do this."
He told the magazine that he'll of course fulfill his six-film Marvel contract, which means he'll suit up for at least three more "Captain America" or "The Avengers" flicks in coming years, possibly into 2017, but noted that he "can't see" himself pursuing acting gigs beyond that.
The "What's Your Number?" actor has already tasted life behind the camera: During his winter hiatus from the world of Marvel, he spent 19 days shooting a $3-million love story about a woman who misses her ride home at New York's Grand Central Terminal and spends the night talking to a street musician, conveniently played by director Evans.
He recently finished editing a rough cut of the film, which is tentatively titled "1:30 Train," he told Variety. Alice Eve, whose credits include "Entourage" and "Star Trek Into Darkness," costars.
Evans didn't rule out changing his mind about acting, say, five years down the line, but said he's firmly on the directing path now.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier," Evans' third effort as the title's superhero, opens April 4.
"Without these movies, I wouldn't be directing," he said.
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Kathryn Lee Wollam died at the age of 70, of serious lung and heart problems that came on rather suddenly. She died Feb. 16, 2009, at her home in Hood River, Ore., surrounded by her loved ones.
A service is planned for 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, at the Hood River Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 18th and May streets. Bishop Gary Hornbeck, a family friend, will conduct. Graveside rites will follow at Idlewilde Cemetery. Please contact Anderson's Tribute Center for viewing and visitation times.
She was born Kathryn Lee Halley on March 21, 1938, to Lester Lee and Fyrn Kathryn (Miller) Halley in Deepwater, Mo.
The Halleys moved here before Kathy was 5 years old. She went to the Hood River schools, graduating from Hood River High School in 1956.
Following graduation, she went to work for Diamond Fruit as a packer.
She met the love of her life, Bob Wollam, and they were married June 21, 1958, in Stevenson, Wash. They built their home on Belmont Drive in Hood River. Kathy went to work at Duckwall's where she was a packer and supervisor. She retired after 35 years with them.
One night, she was coming home from work when a big cow appeared in the middle of the road. It went right through the windshield on the passenger's side. The cow wasn't hurt. She pulled her head out, shook herself and walked away. Kathy was MAD.
She enjoyed keeping a journal for years. This helped the family sort out events many times. She liked doing craft projects, reading, including the Bible, shopping, and spending time with the family. She told her sister, Nelma, that she, Kathy, was the shopper and Nelma was the buyer.
In June 1993 the Wollams bought a place in Pine Hollow, Ore., right on the lake. The family spent many weekends there through the years until it was sold recently. They all miss the peace they felt there, the family time together, and the water activities.
In 2002 Kathy needed a kidney transplant. The match was found miraculously with her adopted son, Jeff, who willingly made the donation. It was a complete success.
Bob and Kathy both joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 18, 2004. This changed their lives. They remained strong members. She was a very loving person who would help in any way possible. She will be missed by her many friends and family.
Kathy was predeceased by her parents and Joni Lee Wollam, an infant daughter.
She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Bob Wollam, of Hood River; her daughter, Jeannie (and Jeff) Abbe, of Portland, Ore.; a son, Jeff Wollam, of Vancouver, Wash.; a granddaughter, Joni Ball, of Portland, Ore.; a grandson, Shawn Ball, of Hood River; a sister, Nelma (and Dick) Minard, of Seattle, Wash.; and a sister-in-law, Velma (and Jesse) Villafana, of Hood River. She also leaves a beloved dog, Ziggy.
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The Great Who Dunnit - the assassination of JFK
Who do you think offed JFK and why?
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the KKK - didn't like civil rights stance
the mob - didn't like his bro cracking down on them
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Castro - got upset when JFK smoked a Cuban on US soil
Israel - was upset JFK was not going to give them nukes, but LBJ might... and did...
Knights of the Templar - JFK stole a cup that was their property
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The problem is that you are a hitler wannabe who has your head up your own ass.
Do you deny the holocaust? Just curious because nothing surprises me anymore coming from someone like you.
You do think Israel was behind 9-11 don't you? Any other conspiracy theories you blame on Israel?
Why would I cheer when the USS Liberty crew was attacked? I also didn't cheer when Pat Tilman was killed, or any other case of friendly fire or accident for that matter. Why am I not surprised you think differently?
So, you think Israel killed the US president of their biggest ally in '63, and then attacked our navy in '67? Then came back in '01 for 9-11? Not their biggest enemy, but their biggest ally?
They wouldn't do anything to Germany or other europian nations that were involved in the Holocaust. They wouldn't do anything to all the arab nations that attacked them and swore to their demise. Let's hit America?
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IMO Nixon was a big guy behind this... as well was LBJ, who had a lust for power.
One of the head's of the Warren Commission was... Gerald Ford. And GHW Bush was part of the CIA at the time.
No one will really know what really happened. But Lee Harvey Oswald didn't do it. Whoever believes that is a blind sheep.
Nixon HATED Kennedy. That is who I think initiated it.
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The Nixon-Bush Connection
To The Kennedy Assassination
by Paul Kangas
Note: All references to "George Bush" refer to George Herbert Walker Bush, Father of George "Dubya" Bush who was "elected" pResident by a 5 to 4 vote of the Supreme Court.
A newly discovered FBI document reveals that George Bush was directly involved in the 1963 murder of President John Kennedy. The document places Bush working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruiting right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush's CIA job to organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion. The Cubans were trained as marksmen by the CIA. Bush at that time lived in Texas. Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent 1960 and '61 recruiting Cubans in Miami for the invasion. That is how he met Felix Rodriguez.
You may remember Rodriguez as the Iran-contra CIA agent who received the first phone call telling the world the CIA plane flown by Gene Hasenfus had crashed in Nicaragua. As soon as Rodriguez heard that the plane crashed, he called his long-time CIA supervisor, George Bush. Bush denied being in the contra loop, but investigators recently obtained copies of Oliver North's diary, which documents Bush's role as a CIA supervisor of the contra supply network.
In 1988 Bush told Congress he knew nothing about the illegal supply flights until 1987, yet North's diary shows Bush at the first planning meeting Aug. 6, 1985. Bush's "official" log placed him somewhere else. Such double sets of logs are intended to hide Bush's real role in the CIA; to provide him with "plausible deniability." The problem is, it fell apart because too many people, like North and Rodriguez, have kept records that show Bush's CIA role back to the 1961 invasion of Cuba. (Source: The Washington Post, 7/10/90).
That is exactly how evidence was uncovered placing George Bush working with Felix Rodriguez when JFK was killed. A memo from FBI head J. Edgar Hoover was found, stating that, "Mr. George Bush of the CIA had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination of President Kennedy. (Source: The Nation, 8/13/88).
On the day of the assassination Bush was in Texas, but he denies knowing exactly where he was. Since he had been the supervisor for the secret Cuban teams, headed by former Cuban police commander Felix Rodriguez, since 1960, it is likely Bush was also in Dallas in 1963. Several of the Cubans he was supervising as dirty-tricks teams for Nixon, were photographed in the Zagruder film.
In 1959 Rodriguez was a top cop in the Cuban government under Batista. When Batista was overthrown and fled to Miami, Rodriguez went with him, along with Frank Sturgis and Rafael Quintero. Officially, Rodriguez didn't join the CIA until 1967, after the CIA invasion of Cuba, in which he participated, and the assassination of JFK. But records recently uncovered show he actually joined the CIA in 1961 for the invasion of Cuba when he was recruited by George Bush. That is how Rodriguez claims he became a "close personal friend of Bush."
Then "officially" Rodriguez claims he quit the CIA in 1976, just after he was sent to prison for his role in the Watergate burglary. However, according to Rolling Stone reporters Kohn & Monks (11/3/88), Rodriguez still goes to CIA headquarters monthly to receive assignments and have his blue 1987 bulletproof Cadillac serviced. Rodriguez was asked by a Rolling Stone reporter where he was the day JFK was shot, and claims he can't remember.
George Bush claims he never worked for the CIA until he was appointed director by former Warren Commission director and then President Jerry Ford, in 1976. Logic suggests that is highly unlikely. Of course, Bush has a company duty to deny being in the CIA. The CIA is a secret organization. No one ever admits to being a member. The truth is that Bush has been a top CIA official since before the 1961 invasion of Cuba, working with Felix Rodriguez. Bush may deny his actual role in the CIA in 1959, but there are records in the files of Rodriguez and others involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that expose Bush's role. The corporations would not put somebody in charge of all the state secrets held by the CIA unless he was experienced and well trained in the CIA. (Source: Project Censored Report, Feb 1989, Dr Carl Jensen, Sonoma State College).
Recently I interviewed former CIA liaison officer L. Fletcher Prouty. He is a consultant for the excellent new movie on how the CIA killed JFK, being made by Oliver Stone. He told me that one of the projects he did for the CIA was in 1961 to deliver US Navy ships from a Navy ship yard to the CIA agents in Guatemala planning the invasion of Cuba. He said he delivered three ships to a CIA agent named George Bush, who had the 3 ships painted to look like they were civilian ships. That CIA agent then named the 3 ships after: his wife, his home town and his oil company. He named the ships: Barbara, Houston & Zapata. Any book on the history of the Bay of Pigs will prove the names of those 3 ships. Again, this is more finger prints of George Bush's involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Yet Bush denies his role in this great adventure. Why would Bush be so shy about his role in this war? What is the secret? Is there something dirty about this war that Bush & Nixon don't want the public to know about?
Answer: Yes there is. The same people involved in the Bay of Pigs were the people involved in the Watergate burglary. Why was the Watergate burgalarized [sic]? The CIA was trying to plug up a possible news leak. They were trying to stop the Democrats from publishing the photos of Hunt & Sturgis under arrest for the murder of JFK (May 7, 1977, SF Chronicle.)
Presently, there is a law suit attempting to force the government to release the records about the Bay of Pigs invasion. Why are those documents still secret? Why are they locked in the National Archives along with all the photos from [the] Dallas assassination of JFK? Why are the 4000 hours of Watergate tapes in which Nixon is babbling about the mysterious connections between the Bay of Pigs, Dallas and Watergate also being sealed in the National Archives? Is it because all three incidents are connected?
Yes. We must demand the secret files on these 3 cases be released now. For a copy of the petition to release the files, please write to: Paul Kangas, private investigator, POB 422644, SF, CA 94142. Thanks to Oliver Stone's blockbuster new movie on JFK there is now sufficient national movement to reopen all these cases. The White House fears Stone's new movie so much that they have hired more CIA journalists to slander the movie & Stone. Don't fall for it. Every serious investigator now agrees that Oswald did not shoot JFK. That James Earl Ray did not shoot Dr. Martin Luther King and that Sirhan Sirhan did not shoot Robert Kennedy. These cases must be reopened so that Sirhan and Ray can be set free. The only bar that keeps Sirhan in prison is the tremendous anti-arab racism in Americans: in both blacks & whites.
According to a biography of Richard Nixon, his close personal and political ties with the Bush family go back to 1941 when Nixon claims he read an ad in an L A. newspaper, placed by a wealthy group of businessmen, led by Prescot Bush, the father of George Bush. They wanted a young, malleable candidate to run for Congress. Nixon applied for the position and won the job. Nixon became a mouthpiece for the Bush group. (Source: Freedom Magazine, 1986, L.F. Prouty).
In fact, Prescot Bush is credited with creating the winning ticket of Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952.(Source: George Bush, F. Green, Hipocrene, 1988).
Newly discovered FBI documents prove that Jack Ruby has been an employee of Richard Nixon since 1947. That that [sic] FBI document Ruby is listed as working as a spy & hit man for Nixon. On Nov. 22, 63 Ruby was seen by a women who knew him well, Julian Ann Mercer, approximately an hour before the arrival of JFK's motorcade, unloading a man carrying a rifle in a case at the Grassy Knoll from his car. Ruby later was seen on national TV killing a witness who could link Nixon & Bush to the killing of JFK: Oswald. On the Trail of the Assassins, Garrison, p xiii.
Richard Nixon was Vice President from 1952 until 1960. In fact, Nixon was given credit for planning Operation 40, the secret 1961 invasion of Cuba, during his 1959 campaign for President After Batista was kicked out by the starving people of Cuba, and Fidel Castro came to power, Castro began telling American corporations they would have to pay Cuban employees decent wages. Even worse, Pepsi Cola was told it would now have to pay world market prices for Cuban sugar.
Pepsi, Ford Motor Co., Standard Oil and the Mafia drug dealers decided Fidel had to be removed since his policies of requiring corporations to pay market wages was hurting their profits. So the corporations asked then Vice-President Nixon to remove Fidel. Nixon promised he would, just as soon as he'd won the 1960 elections against some underdog, an unknown Democrat named John Kennedy. It would be an easy victory for Nixon. The polls had Nixon winning by a landslide. Besides, Kennedy was a Catholic, and Americans would no more elect a Catholic President than they would elect a woman, a black or a Jew. This was 1959.
Nixon told Pepsi, Standard Oil and other corporations who lost property given back to the farmers of Cuba, that if they would help him win, he would authorize an invasion to remove Castro. To further impress contributors to his campaign, then Vice-President Nixon asked the CIA to create Operation 40, a secret plan to invade Cuba, just as soon as he won.
The CIA put Texas millionaire and CIA agent George Bush in charge of recruiting Cuban exiles into the CIA's invasion army. Bush was working with another Texas oilman, Jack Crichton, to help him with the invasion. A fellow Texan, Air Force General Charles Cabel, was asked to coordinate the air cover for the invasion.
Most of the CIA leadership around the invasion of Cuba seems to have been people from Texas. A whole Texan branch of the CIA is based in the oil business. If we trace Bush's background in the Texas oil business we discover his two partners in the oil-barge leasing business: Texan Robert Mosbacher and Texan James Baker. Mosbacher is now Secretary of Commerce and Baker is Secretary of State, the same job Dulles held when JFK was killed. (Source: Common Cause magazine, 3-4/90).
On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the "smoking gun" conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussed how to stop the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate burglary. They were worried that the investigation would expose their conection to "the Bay of Pigs thing." Haldeman, in his book The Ends of Power, reveals that Nixon always used code words when talking about the 1963 murder of JFK. Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the assassination as "the Bay of Pigs."
On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush's partner, Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes Nixon keeps refering to the "Cubans" and the "Texans." The "Texans" were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy assassination.
In the same discussion Nixon links "the Cubans," "the Texans," "Helms," "Hunt," "Bernard Barker," Robert "Mosbacher" and "the Bay of Pigs." Over and over on the Watergate tapes, these names come up around the discussion of the photos from Dallas that Nixon was trying to obtain when he ordered the CIA to burglarize the Watergate. (Source: Three Men and a Barge", Teresa Riordan, Common Cause magazine, March/April 1990, and San Francisco Chronicle, May 7,1977, interview with Frank Sturgis in which he stated that "the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking related to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.")
After Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he knew he had to centralize all power into the White House to keep his faction in power, not only to hold power, but to prevent the media from digging into how he secretly shot his way into the White House, just like Hitler shot his way into control of Germany. The first thing Nixon did was to demand signed resignations of his entire government. "Eliminate everyone," he told John Ehrlichman about reappointment, "except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause." (Source: Pledging Allegiance, Sidney Blumenthal.)
The reason why Bush will 'do anything" is because his hands have as much of Kennedy's blood on them as do Nixon's, Hunt's, Sturgis's, Felix Rodriguez's and Gerald Ford's. This White House gang fears that if the public ever realizes how they shot their way into power it could set off a spark that would destroy their fragile fraud and land them in jail.
Other famous Watergate members of the CIA invasion that Bush recruited were Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker and Rafael Quintero. Quintero has said publicly that if he ever told what he knew about Dallas and the Bay of Pigs, "It would be the biggest scandal ever to rock the nation."
Meanwhile, in 1960, Prescot Bush was running Nixon's campaign. Nixon was sent to South Vietnam to assure the French-connection government there that if France pulled out, the U.S. would step in to protect the drug trade from the GoIden Triangle. (Source: Frontline, 1988, "Guns. Drugs and the CIA"; Alexander Cockburn; "Cocaine, the CIA and Air America," S.F. Examiner, Feb. 2, '91; The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred McCoy, 1972.)
In 1959, Vice President Nixon was flying all over the world, acting just like presidential material. It was an easy race for Nixon. Congressman Jerry Ford was doing a great job fundraising for Nixon, as was George Bush. The rich loved Nixon. The media picked up every bone Nixon tossed out to them. The biggest problem was that Nixon was afraid to speak openly of his plan to invade Cuba. The plan was a secret. No sense in alerting Cuba to the coming invasion. But Kennedy was taking a harder line on Cuba than Nixon, because Kennedy was not aware of the corporate/CIA planned invasion.
Nixon lost the 1960 race by the smallest margin in history. At first Bush, Nixon, Cabel and Hunt decided to just go ahead with the invasion, without informing President Kennedy. Then, at the last second, at 4 a.m., just two hours before the invasion was set to go, General Cabel called JFK and asked for permission to provide U.S. air cover for the CIA invasion. Kennedy said no.
The CIA was furious with JFK but decided to go ahead with their private invasion anyway. Due to poor intelligence, the CIA landed at the worst possible beach. A swamp. The invasion failed. The CIA lost 15 of its best men, killed, with another 1100 in Cuban prisons. It was the worst single blow the CIA ever suffered. (Source: F. Howard Hunt, Give Us This Day.)
Bush, Nixon and Hunt blamed Cabel for asking Kennedy and blamed Kennedy for saying no. They were livid with anger. Nixon's corporate sponsors ordered JFK to make any deal necessary to recover the 1100 CIA agents imprisoned in Cuba. JFK did. Once the CIA had its well-trained Cubans back, they decided to continue the invasion of Cuba just as soon as they could get rid of that S.O.B. Kennedy.
The 1964 election was fast approaching. Nixon was running against Kennedy again. Bush, Ford and Nixon knew that they had to get rid of JFK now, or else the Kennedy clan, with Robert and Ted in the wings, could control the White House until 1984. They decided not to wait until '84 to get back in the White House. The Cuban teams of "shooters" began following Kennedy from city to city looking for a window of opportunity to shoot from. They came close in Chicago, but couldn't get the cooperation of Mayor Daley.
But in Dallas they had an ace. The mayor was the brother of General Cabel, whom the CIA blamed for the failure of the invasion. The general prevailed on his brother, Earl, and the motorcade was changed to pass the grassy knoll at 7 m.p.h. Hunt and Sturgis shot JFK from the grassy knoll. They were arrested, photographed and seen by 15 witnesses. But the media turned a blind eye to the photos, and for 25 years the world has been searching for the truth.
On the day JFK was murdered, Nixon, Hunt and some of the Watergate crew were photographed in Dallas, as were a group of Cubans, one holding an umbrella up, like a signal, next to the President's limo just as Kennedy was shot. The Cubans can be seen holding up the signal umbrella in the Zapruder film and dozens of stills taken during the assassination. After the murder they can be seen calmly walking away.
Nixon denied he was in Dallas that day, but new photos and stories prove he was there. Nixon claimed to the FBI he couldn't remember where he was when JFK was killed. (Source: FBI memo, Feb. 23, 1964, published in Coup d'etat in America, Weberman & Canfield). Bush, too, claims he can't remember where he was. Jack Anderson did a TV special in 1988 proving beyond any shadow of doubt that two of the tramps arrested in Dallas behind the grassy knoll were Hunt and Sturgis.
After the murder, former Vice President Nixon asked President Lyndon Johnson to appoint Nixon's friend, former FBI agent Jerry Ford, to run the Warren Commission. Nixon also asked LBJ to appoint Nixon's long-time supporter, Judge Earl Warren, to head the Commission. LBJ agreed. Ford interviewed all the witnesses and decided which ones would be heard and which ones eliminated. It is no coincidence that Nixon selected Ford as his Vice President after Spiro Agnew was ousted. When Nixon himself got busted in the Watergate scandal, Earl Warren offered to set up another special commission if it would help get him out of trouble again. Ford, of course, pardoned Nixon for the Watergate burglary but Nixon is still not out of the woods. There are 4000 hours of Watergate tape. On the June 23, 1972, discussions with John Ehrlichman and Haldeman there is clear evidence that Nixon is openly "confessing" to hiring Hunt to kill JFK. That is why the Watergate "investigation" went into secret session after Congress heard some of the tapes. This is why only 12 hours of 4000 hours have been released to the public.
Did Congress realize that Nixon and Bush had openly discussed killing JFK for stopping the air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba? Remember, Nixon taped virtually every discussion he had with anyone in his inner circle, including Bush, in order to blackmail people later. There is a photo of Bush reporting to Nixon in the White House in 1968. It will be interesting to see what they were talking about on that day, when the full 4000 hours are finally released. The key to unlocking the secrets behind the 1963 murder of JFK is hidden in the 3988 hours of unreleased White House tapes. Bush was in Dallas the day Reagan was shot. (Source: George Bush, F. Green, 1988.) That must have given Bush a flashback to November 22,1963.
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As far as Oswald goes, if Carlos Hathcock couldn't do it, then there is no way Oswald could, and Hathcock said as much.
It's the equivalent of thinking a mid-level high school sprinter would beat 1984 Carl Lewis.
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"Do you deny the holocaust?"
This is the sub human boiler plate response to any criticism of holy Israel. For the 46th time in the past 500 posts in three different forums, no...
Notice that I answer your questions, but you didn't answer mine...
"You do think Israel was behind 9-11 don't you?"
Absolutely false, and indicative of the level of reading comprehension of those obsessed with shouting down any factual criticism of Israel. You clearly have not read anything I've posted here. Your purpose is to shout down and toss cards and lie...
"Not a priority" Al Qaeda was behind 911, and thanks to your fellow sub human traitor W, Al Qaeda is still alive...
"Why would I cheer when the USS Liberty crew was attacked?"
See above...
"So, you think Israel killed the US president of their biggest ally in '63, and then attacked our navy in '67?"
Are you denying that it was Israel that attacked the USS Liberty??
Is your reading comprehension level above that of Dexter Manley???
Until you admit Israel did attack the USS Liberty, you mock the deaths of the crew, all to suck up ever more to all that Iscariot silver flowing into your sub human pockets....
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New York: Police say an officer shot and killed a 14-year-old boy on a New York City street after he refused to drop his gun and pointed it at them.
Shaaliver Douse died of a single gunshot to his jaw after the confrontation early today in the Bronx.
Police say two officers were on foot patrol when they heard gunfire at around 3 am.
Authorities say the officers found the boy with a 9mm handgun, identified themselves and told him to drop the weapon.
Police say one of the officers shot him after he pointed his gun at them.
Authorities say Douse was arrested in May in the shooting of another teen and charged with attempted murder.
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The organisers of WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival have recently announced that metalheads who will go to W.O.A 2014 will get a Full:Metal:Bag after changing their tickets into the wristbands at the wristband exchange.
Check out all items of the F:M:B 2014:
1. Postcard – can be send directly from the festival ground.
2. Patch – patch with current WOA Logo.
3. Sticker – sticker with current WOA Logo.
4. History Pass Laminate – laminated pass with 2014 poster layout
5. Magnet – Magnet with W:O:A 2014 layout (can be used on freezers for example)
6. Rain Poncho – rain protection
7. Ear Plugs – ear protection
8. Condom – Safer Sex
9. Ball Pen
10. Foldable Water Bottle (new!) – (not only) for the stage areas.
11. FMB Backpack – Includes the FMB Items and can be used as backpack during the festival.
Also the organisers have announced the Wacken FanMail as the The worldwide first and only HeavyMetal mail service! They posted the following statement:
Become a member of the HeavyMetal community "Wacken" now and save your personal Wacken FanMail adress following the pattern "firstname.lastname@example.com" and costs 0,99€ per month.
Certainly all functions you know from other mail clients like inbox, calendar or contact list are included. But there are also a few extra features like the current weather forecast for Wacken or a newsfeed from http://www.wacken.com to keep you up to date.
Your advantages in a short summary:
– Unique E-Mail adress "email@example.com"
– E-Mail attachments with a cpaticity of 100mb (for example music and pictures)
– mobile usability for smartphones via POP3 & IMAP
– modern spam & anti-virus safety
In addition there are lots of pictures from W:O:A, which will decorate your desktop at home.
But that´s not all! The profits of the incomes will be split and donated to the first half to the parish Wacken and to the second to the Wacken Foundation which has devoted itself to support newcomers from the hard and heavy metal music sector.


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Friday night I was checking email and this press release came through. It's a good match for the man and the company. I'm impressed that the founder was humble enough to bring in a person who knows more about building a dealer network than himself. So, I predict good things for Bullfrog spas
Hi-Tech Hot Tub Company Welcomes New CEO
Hot tub industry veteran, Jerry Pasley named Chief Executive Officer at Bullfrog Spas. Plans to lead innovative up-and-coming spa manufacturer to the next level.
New Bullfrog CEO – Jerry Pasley
Salt Lake City, UT (Vocus/PRWEB) February 25, 2011
Bullfrog International, LC, is pleased to announce the hire of Jerry Pasley to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Pasley was formerly the Executive Vice President of Sales at Jacuzzi Hot Tubs and Sundance Spas.
Mr. Pasley will assume responsibility for the general leadership, sales direction, and day to day decisions at Bullfrog Spas. David Ludlow, former CEO, Founder, and the inventor of Bullfrog's patented JetPak System, will remain with Bullfrog Spas as President and will focus on further Product Research and Development and Business Development. Ludlow welcomed the addition of Pasley to the executive team and, in fact, was instrumental in his acquisition.
Ludlow expressed his support and approval of this move: "Jerry Pasley is not only a seasoned pool and spa industry veteran, but more than that, he shares the vision of what Bullfrog can become and he has the ability and industry influence to propel Bullfrog into a leadership role in the marketplace."
Mr. Pasley has nearly 30 years of experience in the hot tub industry, with a focus on sales management and sales strategy. He has served on the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals' Hot Tub Council and has considerable experience in the development of retailer and distribution networks. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP) as a Director at Large.
When asked about the decision to leave one of the major hot tub manufacturers in the industry, especially considering their history and recognizable brand, Mr. Pasley replied, "In making this decision, I was not concerned about what Bullfrog Spas is, or is not, at the present time but what it can become. I can see enormous potential at Bullfrog going into the future. The track record of impressive growth is already there and with their patented technology and quality Bullfrog will soon be an industry leader."
Mr. Pasley's goals for Bullfrog include securing solid financing plans for Bullfrog dealers and the establishment of enhanced sales and marketing programs to expand the influence of Bullfrog Spas and the JetPak System. Pasley commented on these plans, "I'm confident that we can explore and implement plans to allow dealers to show more spas. Along with the expansion of sales networks, this will simply allow many more people the chance to discover the unique benefits and the reliability that you get with a JetPak-powered Bullfrog Spa."
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Mary-Louise Parker, John Leguizamo and Cheyenne Jackson will be among the new faces joining the nominating committee for next year's Tony Awards. The committee decides on the Tony nominees by seeing all of the productions for the season and then voting for the various categories.
The committee's new members will also include playwright Rick Elice, composer Adam Guettel, author and journalist John Darnton, choreographer Donald Byrd, projection designer Wendall K. Harrington and costume designer Ann Hould-Ward.
In all, the Tony nominating committee will have 42 members. Parker received a Tony in 2001 for her role in the play "Proof." Leguizamo received Tony nominations for his show "Freak" in 1998.
This year's Tony Awards, held on June 10, saw the musical "Once" and the play "Clybourne Park" take home top honors. The awards for revivals went to "Death of a Salesman" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess."


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James Franco in a scene from "Oz: The Great and Powerful," which is due in theaters March 8. (Disney)Link
A scene from "Evil Dead," due out April 12. (StudioCanal)Link
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as Tony Stark in "Iron Man 3," due out May 3. (Zade Rosenthal / Marvel Studios / Disney)Link
A scene from "Star Trek Into Darkness," due in theaters May 17. (Paramount Pictures)Link
Henry Cavill as Superman in "Man of Steel," due out June 14. (Warner Bros. Pictures)Link
Brad Pitt in a scene from "World War Z," slated for a June 21 release. (Paramount Pictures)Link
Gipsy Danger in a scene from "Pacific Rim," due in theaters July 12. (Warner Bros.)Link
Hugh Jackman reprises his role as the title character in "The Wolverine," expected out July 26. (Fox)Link
Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium," slated for an Aug. 9 release. (Sony Pictures)Link
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"Thor" actors Chris Hemsworth, right, and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their roles as Thor and Loki, respectively, for the Marvel sequel "Thor: The Dark World," due out Nov. 8. (Marvel Studios)Link
Jennifer Lawrence will take up Katniss Everdeen's bow and arrow again for the sequel "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," which is expected out Nov. 22. (Lionsgate)Link
Martin Freeman returns as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," the second in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of the book by J. R. R. Tolkien. The film is due out Dec. 13. (Warner Bros.)Link
With "The Avengers," "The Dark Knight Rises," "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" and more sci-fi and fantasy films, 2012 was a landmark, record-breaking year for spectacle entertainment. But 2013 looks just as promising with a host of big, anticipated sequels — including "Iron Man 3" and "Star Trek Into Darkness" — and such smart new offerings as "Pacific Rim" and "Elysium" on the calendar.
With that in mind, here's a look at Hero Complex's 13 must-see movies in 2013.
"Oz: The Great and Powerful" (March 8)
Sam Raimi's upcoming "Oz: The Great and Powerful" promises viewers a journey down the yellow brick road that will include a breathtaking array of dazzling visual effects. The Disney film stars James Franco as the man who will become the Wizard of Oz, and takes place well before Dorothy arrives in the faraway fantasy land somewhere over the rainbow.
It's clear that the studio is hoping for a repeat of the success it enjoyed with Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," which opened in March 2010 and like "Oz" was produced by Joe Roth. It will be interesting to see Raimi, with his first feature since 2009′s "Drag Me to Hell," offer his take on the much beloved mythology created by L. Frank Baum.
"Evil Dead" (April 12)
When Bruce Campbell debuted footage from the "Evil Dead" remake at New York Comic-Con in October, the crowd went wild — but there are still plenty of fans for whom the idea of a new incarnation of Sam Raimi's landmark 1981 cult horror favorite is, well, horrifying. But Raimi, who like Campbell and fellow "Evil Dead" producer Robert G. Tapert has a producer credit on the new movie, says he can't wait for genre audiences to have the chance to see first-time feature director Fede Alvarez's update.
"I instantly sensed that he was a great storyteller, really sharp, funny, sincere, wanted to really entertain the audience in a new way," Raimi told Hero Complex of Alvarez. "I never saw so clearly in my life the right guy for the job when I met him."
"Evil Dead" stars Jane Levy (TV's "Suburgatory") as a young woman who becomes stranded in a remote cabin with four others — a group that's terrorized by an ancient demonic force. Campbell, of course, starred in the original film and its two follow-ups — "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness" — as the beleaguered hero Ash, the central character whose getaway with some pals turns deadly.
"Iron Man 3" (May 3)
Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark, the self-proclaimed "genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist," won't have such an easy time of it in the next big Marvel release. The most recent trailer for the film, directed by Jon Favreau's former "Iron Man" and "Iron Man 2″ consultant Shane Black ("Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"), sees Stark potentially losing everything he values — perhaps including his girlfriend and levelheaded counterpart Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) — at the hands of supervillain the Mandarin, brought to the big screen for the first time by Ben Kingsley.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" (May 17)
J.J. Abrams' much anticipated follow-up to his 2009 reboot of the landmark television series beams into theaters May 17, and fans got a taste of what to expect with the nine minutes of the movie that played before Imax screenings of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." But the question remains, who is the villain that Benedict Cumberbatch is playing?
Some fans seem convinced that Cumberbatch would appear as Khan Noonien Singh, the character made famous by Ricardo Montalban on the original TV series and in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." Others appear certain that he would play Gary Mitchell, a villain with psionic powers first played by Gary Lockwood in the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the second "Star Trek" pilot filmed and the first to feature William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk.
Damon Lindelof, who penned the movie's script with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, said that the filmmakers intend to keep the character's identity a mystery for as long as possible.
"Benedict doesn't even know who he's playing," he joked.
"Man of Steel" (June 14)
Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" is set to take flight June 14, and in terms of visuals, Snyder seems to be painting with a beautiful, muted steel brush as he tells Kal-El's story, the striking yet subdued hues possibly speaking to the elegant influence of producer Christopher Nolan.
Snyder told Hero Complex late last year that "Man of Steel" takes the Superman mythology quite seriously. "He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes," Snyder said. "What was it about him that cracked the code that made pop culture embrace this other mythology? What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes. I wanted to be sure the movie treated it respectfully."
"World War Z" (June 21)
Fans who were disappointed that the release of Paramount's big-screen version of "World War Z" was delayed from its original December date and rescheduled to open June 21 had reason to feel some cheer with the gripping first trailer for the Marc Forster-directed adaptation of Max Brooks' acclaimed zombie novel.
The clip plays like a taut thriller that taps into modern fears about the fall of mankind and the ongoing fascination with the idea of the zombie apocalypse. "World War Z" stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a United Nations fact-finder and family man who desperately races around the globe to determine the origins of a zombie pandemic that has toppled civilization in short order.
"Pacific Rim" (July 12)
Guillermo del Toro hasn't directed a film since 2008′s "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," but he's set to return next year in a very big way with "Pacific Rim." The robots-versus-kaiju film promises near nonstop spectacle, or, as Del Toro said in an interview with Hero Complex, "the biggest wrestling matches on Earth."
Set in the near future, the film posits that a race of kaiju has entered our world, rising up out of the ocean, and humans, struggling to survive the onslaught, have invented 25-story tall robots called Jaegers to fight them off. Charlie Hunnam stars as the troubled Raleigh Becket, who along with Rinko Kikuchi's Mako Mori pilots Gipsy Danger, pictured in the gallery above; the film's cast also includes Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Del Toro regular Ron Perlman as the fabulously named, nattily attired black market businessman Hannibal Chow.
"The Wolverine" (July 26)
Hugh Jackman returns as the mutant with the adamantium claws in James Mangold's Japan-set "X-Men" movie, which borrows its scenic story line from Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's moody tale of love, revenge and isolation.
The movie marks Mangold's first time at the helm of a comic-book-inspired tale — he's best known for films including 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," which earned Angelina Jolie her Oscar, 2005's Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line" and the underrated Western "3:10 to Yuma."
"Elysium" (Aug. 9)
In the future, Matt Damon toils on an overpopulated, diseased and polluted Earth, while the one-percenters — or .00001-percenters — luxuriate on a space station paradise where cancer is cured at the touch of a button. That's the premise of "Elysium," South African director Neill Blomkamp's mystery-shrouded follow-up to his 2009 Oscar-nominated sci-fi film, "District 9."
Blomkamp envisioned a dusty, Third World Earth for the year 2159 — much of it shot in a giant garbage dump in Mexico. The filmmaker, who also wrote the screenplay, said he was taken with "the idea of this habitat in space being a metaphor for rich and poor, thinking about haves and have-nots."
The cast includes Damon, Jodie Foster, who plays a government minister on Elysium, and actor Sharlto Copley, who worked with Blomkamp on "District 9."
"Ender's Game" (Nov. 1)
After more than two decades of waiting, fans of Orson Scott Card's 1985 sci-fi novel will see a big-screen adaptation. Asa Butterfield, who won over critics with his performance in Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," plays the title character, young Ender Wiggin. The film, directed by Gavin Hood ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "Tsotsi") follows Ender and other child recruits as they fight each other at an outer-space military Battle School. The book tackled some weighty themes, and Hood has said the film will retain its tragic ending.
"Thor: The Dark World" (Nov. 8)
The hammer-wielding God of Thunder is no stranger to the big screen after Kenneth Branagh's "Thor" in 2011 and last year's box-office smash "The Avengers," but the upcoming sequel takes the muscle-bound Avenger (reprised by Chris Hemsworth) back to his own turf – Asgard.
"Thor: The Dark World" pits the Asgardian prince against an ancient race of Dark Elves, led by the villainous Malekith (Christopher Eccleston). In the comics, Malekith possesses superhuman strength, stamina, speed and smarts, and he can also teleport, fly and cast illusions. Whether those powers will present themselves in the movie remains to be seen, but fans are hopeful that director Alan Taylor ("Game of Thrones") will bring some grit to the shiny world of gods.
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (Nov. 22)
Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen in the sequel to one of the biggest hits of 2012. In the new film, directed by Francis Lawrence, the enterprising archer and her unlikely co-victor Peeta Mellark are summoned back into the arena for a special anniversary edition of the lethal Games, in which two dozen previous victors must face off as unrest begins to sweep through the districts of Panem.
Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta, told The Times last year that he found working with Lawrence refreshing and especially appreciated her authenticity. "When you are acting with her, when you look into her eyes, you see that she is being that character," he said. "There is no lying."
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (Dec. 13)
Maybe it was to be expected, but the first installment in Peter Jackson's planned three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," is closing in on $1 billion worldwide box-office take, signaling that there was indeed a rabid fan base thrilled to see what the "Lord of the Rings" filmmaker had in store for his return trip to Middle-earth. Part two of the journey commences at the end of the year — and this part of the quest is certain to feature some major screen time for Benedict Cumberbatch's ancient, lethal dragon.
We're guessing this one will set the box office on fire too.
— Gina McIntyre, Noelene Clark, Rebecca Keegan, Patrick Kevin Day
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BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Seventh-seeded Sabine Lisicki posted a straight-set win as the 2014 WTA season kicked off Sunday at the Brisbane International.
Lisicki, a finalist last summer at Wimbledon, defeated Magdalena Rybarikova 6-3, 6-4 behind a seven-ace attack. She won 69 percent of the points on serve and saved all three break points she faced.
Rybarikova only had to deal with four break chances overall but Lisicki cashed in one in each set to advance.
Andrea Petkovic completed Sunday's schedule with a 6-4, 7-5 decision over Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Petkovic had a pair of breaks in each set and moves into a second-round match against defending champion and world No. 1 Serena Williams.
U.S. players were 0-3 Sunday. In addition to the loss by Mattek-Sands, Elina Svitolina stopped Varvara Lepchenko 6-3, 6-3 by piling up six breaks and Stefanie Voegele dropped her serve just once in getting past Madison Keys 6-4, 6-3.
Also Sunday, Kimiko Date-Krumm used two breaks in each set in beating Olivia Rogowska 6-3, 7-5.
No. 6-seeded Caroline Wozniacki withdrew from the tournament with a right shoulder injury but said she expected to play in next week's event in Sydney, which is the final tune-up before the Australian Open.


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WASHINGTON - California's new voting rules contributed to the election of 14 new faces to Congress, but at the cost of nearly 300 years of congressional experience.
WASHINGTON - California's new voting rules contributed to the election of 14 new faces to Congress, but at the cost of nearly 300 years of congressional experience.
The new members - 11 Democrats and three Republicans - include a prosecutor, a consumer attorney, a retired Marine Corps Colonel, a high school teacher and two farmers.
Two Congressmen who represent San Joaquin County, Democrat Jerry McNerney and Republican Jeff Denham, have returned to realigned districts. Calaveras County will be represented by incumbent Republican Tom McClintock in a realigned district.
The influx of new members - the largest the state has experienced in 20 years - was among the chief aims of those who pushed for the top-two primary system and an independent commission to redraw congressional districts.
The reforms have drawn praise in Washington for shaking incumbents' hold on power, some referring to California as a "laboratory for democracy." But the delegation shake-up could weaken California's clout in the Capitol, where members of Congress from other states will move up the seniority ladder.
California will remain the House's largest and the most influential delegation. But it is giving up two committee chairs and several subcommittee chairs, and it is losing the most senior member of each party.
Among them is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, who was elected in 1972, the same year President Richard Nixon won re-election. Six of the 14 members who will not be returning in January served during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
Among the members leaving:
� Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, who lost a hard-fought campaign against Democrat Ami Bera. Lungren had served three terms in his district, which included Calaveras County before redistricting.
� David Drier, R-San Dimas, is retiring after 16 terms. He is chair of the Rules Committee as well as the California Republican Congressional Delegation.
� Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys, was defeated by fellow Democrat Brad Sherman after serving 15 terms. He is the highest ranking Democratic member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
� Stark was also defeated by a fellow Democrat after serving 20 terms. He is the senior Democrat on the House committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid.
� Jerry Lewis, R-Redlands, the former chair of the House Appropriations Committee, is retiring after 17 terms.
� Scott Peters, D-San Diego, defeated Bill Bilbray, R-Solana Beach, who had represented his San Diego-area district for three-plus terms.
Some new members have no congressional experience but they are not novices in the world of politics. Five members have served as state assemblymen and four as state senators. They share 72 combined years of experience in the state legislature.
Moreover, a new primary system that places the top two qualifiers on the general election ballot, regardless of party affiliations, created the opportunity for changes to the state's delegation.
Of the 530 Congressional elections held over the past 10 years, only two incumbents seeking re-election had lost their seats. Five incumbents lost Nov. 6.
California's 53 member delegation remains by far the nation's largest. It is only the second time since state joined the union that it has not gained congressional seats after a census.
With an overwhelming majority of Democrats - the delegation comprises 38 Democrats and 15 Republicans - California's clout is dependent on which party controls the House.
"It's more evolution than revolution,'' Pitney said of the high turnover. "If there had been a change in party control, things would be changing more fundamentally," said John Pitney, a professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College.
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West Ham boss Sam Allardyce has admitted he fears Mohamed Diame will still leave the club in January, with both Arsenal and Tottenham linked with the Senegal midfielder.
As exclusively revealed by Goal.com last week, the Gunners are preparing to make the former Wigan man their first signing of the transfer window, whilst north London rivals Tottenham have also shown interest in the 25-year-old.
And, despite rejecting claims Diame would switch to the Emirates Stadium earlier in the month, Allardyce has since admitted "confusion" surrounds the player's future, fueling suspicisions he could exit Upton Park in the final three days of the transfer window.
Speaking to reporters, the ex-Bolton boss said: "It is total confusion. I'm as confused as anyone. We might lose him. I hope we don't."


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