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As y'all know, I'm a huge fan of K-Pop and K-Dramas, and really Korean food and culture as a whole. I have a lot of post ideas but I didn't feel like typing up any of the posts until I thought about this idea and although it's not book-related I decided that I'd go ahead and share some of my favorite Korean singers.
Some of these singers will be from groups I like and some will be solo artists – I hope y'all enjoy this list! And it's not in any particular order because how can you possibly expect me to properly rank them? It's like choosing a favorite book or author! It's impossible!
**there's also going to be a rapper version so look forward to that
I freaking love Taemin so much. He's part of the boy group Shinee, but he also has two solo albums which I have listened to and have absolutely loved. He has a more chill vibe compared to his group. Plus, he's an amazing dancer. He has a unique style that I wasn't sure if I liked at first, but I quickly got used to his style and have consumed all of the music of his I could get my hands on.
Move was the first song I heard from him. I love the way he incorporates a lot of dance moves that would usually be restricted to only females. It shows just how talented and unique he is.
Favorite Songs: Move, Flame of Love, Love, Solider, Rise.
Jeong Sewoon
Sewoon is a newbie but I've listened to both of his mini-albums that he's released since his debut August of last year. He ranked 12th place in the show Produce 101 Season 2, so he was one position away from debuting with the group Wanna One which is so surreal to think about because I couldn't imagine him in a group to be honest.
He also has a more chill vibe to him (the above song is one of his more pop-sounding tracks) but it's a much different feel than Taemin. Since he's only 20, his music isn't as mature-sounding but it's also not quite immature like you might expect from an artist his age.
Favorite Songs: Just U, Slower Than Ever, Baby It's U, Never Mind, Close Over.
I haven't listened to many of her songs (literally only like two) but I like her voice and I don't listen to female artists very often, just due to a personal preference. She's quite young as well (24) but she's been in the singing business since she was 16, I believe.
I admittedly only listened to this song at first because it features G-Dragon, but I stayed for IU's vocals. The way she sings is kinda similar to Taemin. They both have a voice that is kind of like a whisper which makes it so soothing to listen to. She's simply beautiful and I love how simplistic she is.
Favorite Songs: Palette, Twenty-Three.
Youngjae is one of the vocalists of GOT7 and he has such a strong voice. His parts are always my favorite because of his powerful voice. When I first listened to GOT7 I was so curious about who sung his parts because I loved his voice so much.
He doesn't have any solo songs that I know of, unfortunately, which is why the video I attached is a compilation of him singing but I love how whether he's singing for fun and goofing off or singing seriously his voice always sounds perfect. Basically, if you listen to a GOT7 song and you're curious about who the strong vocalist is – it's Youngjae!
favorite songs is going to just be the GOT7 songs i think his voice is able to shine the most in
Favorite Songs: Confession Song, Just Right, You Are.
Kihyun is my Monsta X bias – I first fell in love with his voice in the survival show he was on where the group was formed (the clip below). He's the main vocalist in Monsta X and his parts are usually my favorite singing parts of their songs.
rip jonghyun
He has such a soothing voice but it's also very powerful. He has a really broad singing range and can go from low to high within a matter of a few seconds. His voice also fits for a lot of different types of songs from slow to pop to hip hop – he's very versatile.
**same thing with youngjae goes for kihyun and anyone else that's in a group w/o solo work
Favorite Songs: Stuck, Beautiful, Shine Forever, All In.
I'm trying to include as many female idols as I can haha but I literally don't listen to them like at all so it's difficult, but I do like a few of BlackPink's songs and Jisoo's voice stands out a lot when I hear their music (they all have unique voices, but her's is really pretty).
She has a great balance in her voice. It's not as high-pitched as a lot of female voices are, it's more on the lower side but that doesn't stop her from hitting high notes when they come around.
Favorite Songs: Playing With Fire, her cover of BigBang's Let's Not Fall in Love – which is in the video above.
I had to include somebody from BTS! Tae has such a beautiful voice – it's really deep which isn't what you'd expect if you looked at him. He gets some of my favorite parts in BTS songs and I just find his voice really unique and calming.
Isn't it just amazing?? I love everyone's voices in BTS for different reasons but Tae's has always been my favorite because of the warm feeling his voice gives off when he sings. His voice is very versatile too. He can have the low but soothing voice (like in the Adele cover he did above), hardcore rough (like in War of Hormone) and he can also hit high notes really well.
Favorite Songs: War of Hormone, DNA (even though it's so auto-tuned – live performances are much more my preference in this case), Hold Me Tight, Boy In Luv, It's Definitely You.
I have recently within the last few months fallen in love with Vixx – they all have wonderful voices (especially live) but I think I love Leo's the most. His voice really stands out in their songs and his high notes are so powerful.
A lot of the times when someone is performing live they aren't able to hit the high notes like when they're in the recording studio, but Leo is different. He's known for being able to perform live with perfect vocals.
Favorite Songs: Error, Eternity.
He's the main vocalist of the group NU'EST and I don't know what it is about his voice that I like but it's very even. He's able to evenly distribute his vocals and has a nice balance.
**fun fact: some of the members of the group seventeen guest star in this music video as the bullies!
Since he sings like 90% of this song (line distribution who?) I decided to choose their song Face as an example of his vocals. I'm sure there are probably better examples out there but this is the first song that came to mind.
Favorite Songs: Face, Where You At, Love Paint.
Honorable Mentions:
I could really go on forever here, but this post has gotten really long, so I'll list some of the honorable mentions.
- Jimin – I feel like I'm betraying him since he's my BTS bias but I didn't want to use more than one member from the same group and I like Tae's voice slightly more sometimes.
- Woozi – I only recently mastered all of Seventeen's names so I'm not good at identifying their voices in songs, but from what I've heard from Woozi, I really like his voice.
- Hyungwon – I love all of Monsta X's vocal line but Hyungwon's voice I've found is quite unique. He barely gets any lines, though.
- Rose – BlackPink's other vocalist. These girls can really sing!
- Daesung – I haven't gotten to know the vocalists of BigBang much so I can't tell their voices apart much like I can with G-Dragon and TOP, but I'm pretty sure Daesung is the member known for his high notes.
- Sanha – All of Astro have really great vocals but I think that their maknae has my favorite vocals out of the group.
- JB – Along with his fellow member Youngjae, JB's voice is very powerful, but it's more on the softer, mellower side.
Out of the ones I mentioned, who is your favorite? Any I didn't mention that you think should be mentioned? Do you have any favorite singers? I could do a non-Korean favorite singers list but it wouldn't be as long – if you're interested let me know!
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Health Canada says cigarette packs will have to be plain drab brown with standardized layouts and lettering, starting in November.
The government says plain packages will increase the impact of graphic health warnings about the dangers of smoking, keeping them from getting lost amid colourful designs and branding.
The regulations released today also standardize the size and appearance of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products inside the packages.
Specific rules have been awaited since Parliament passed a law requiring them last fall, joining 13 other countries that have adopted similar measures.
The new rules are part of a larger strategy aimed at driving the rate of tobacco use among Canadians down to five per cent by 2035.
Federal statistics show that in 2017, 18 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 said they'd used tobacco in the previous month, an increase of 15 per cent from 2015.
The Canadian Press

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Washington (CNN) -- Americans are split over whether President Obama is taking too long to decide whether to send more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey also indicates that, by a narrow margin, Americans think that the president should listen to the recommendations of the generals in charge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The poll's release Wednesday morning comes hours before the president is to meet again with his national security advisers to discuss policy in Afghanistan.
According to the survey, 49 percent of people questioned say the president is taking too long to decide whether to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan; 50 percent do not.
"There is a gender gap on this question, with most men saying Obama is taking too long and most women willing to give him more time," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "That's due in part to the partisan differences between men and women, but gender differences on the use of military force, and maybe even differences in how the genders make important decisions, can also be contributing to the split."
The poll indicates that 52 percent think Obama should listen to the generals, with 48 percent saying the president should take other matters into account as well. But a troop buildup remains unpopular, with a separate question indicating that a majority opposes sending more troops.
Roughly one in five Americans opposes more troops, yet also thinks that Obama should pay attention to the U.S. military leaders in that country, Holland said. "That suggests that a lot of people who don't support a troop build-up are unaware of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a bigger U.S. military presence there.
"And that, in turn, indicates that the military leaders in the field might provide Obama some political cover if he decides to increase troop strength there," he said.
McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has reportedly requested as many as 40,000 additional troops.
Though the public is divided down the middle over whether Obama is taking too long to make the decision on troops, the poll suggests that there is widespread agreement that Afghanistan will never have a stable democratic government.
Only one in 10 people questioned said that will occur within a year; only one-third said that will ever happen. That may be one big reason why 56 percent of Americans oppose sending more troops, while 42 percent favor increasing troop strength.
According to the poll, four in 10 support the war in Afghanistan, with 58 percent opposing the conflict.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted October 30-November 1, with 1,018 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall sample.
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.


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For the Cause; Risks and Rewards
For the Cause, Risks and Rewards, a short story just released on Kindle, is an excerpt from the novel For the Cause; The Cold War Turns Hot in Korea and Why Young Men Went to War. The excerpt consist of Chapter 21 of the novel with minor changes. The complete short story is posted here.
For the Cause
Risks and Rewards
This short story has been excerpted from the novel;
"For the Cause: The Cold War Turns Hot in Korea and Why Young Men Went to War"
Alfred Wellnitz
For the Cause; Risks and Rewards
Copyright © 2014 by Alfred Wellnitz
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Also by Alfred Wellnitz
Finding the Way;
From Prussia to a Prairie Homestead
Deficit Triggers Hyperinflation, Terrorism
For the Cause;
The Cold War Turns Hot in Korea
And Why Young Men Went To War
Alfred Wellnitz grew up in rural South Dakota, served in the United States Navy and worked in technology as an electrical engineer. After retiring from engineering he worked as a real estate agent before deciding to become an author at age seventy-three. He has since published three novels and numerous short stories. Alfred now lives with his wife Joan in Bloomington Minnesota.
For the Cause
Risks and Rewards
In a small fishing village on the shores of Manila Bay in the Philippines, halfway between Manila and Cavite, a young man named Modesto tossed and turned in his blanket on the floor of a Nipa hut. Beside him the frequent stirring of his wife betrayed her restlessness. Only their child in the near corner slept soundly. Finally Modesto threw his blanket aside, picked his way to the doorway and let his bare feet drop to the sand still warm from the day's sun. From where he stood he could see a large portion of Manila Bay. To his right and behind him the bright lights of Manila made the sky luminous, before him the bay lay dark except for the dim lights of fishing boats that flickered and bobbed. Over to the left a cluster of lights marked Cavite and the United States Naval Air Station at Sangley Point. The lights of Cavite also backlit an array of ship superstructures protruding out of the water, the hulks of Japanese ships laying where they were sunk during the big war that ended five years ago.Modesto, small in stature, lean and muscular, had been a fisherman since he was old enough to pull nets and row a bonga boat. His jet black hair and bright brown eyes were complemented by chocolate-colored skin which still had the smoothness of youth.
Tonight being Christmas Eve, he and Carlos and Chico were not fishing. Other than Christmas and Easter or during bad storms, they would normally be out in the bay fishing at this time of night. Their families depended on them to catch fish nearly every night. No fish meant there would be nothing to barter for rice, no pesos, no centavos, and no fresh fish for the fishermen's families to eat. Modesto was a good fisherman. There were very few days when there was no fish or rice to cook in his hut. There usually were enough pesos for at least the necessities and even for some extras, like during the fiesta and at Christmas and Easter.
However, the three fishermen would be taking the bonga boat out onto Manila Bay this Christmas Eve, not to fish but on a special and unusual mission. Modesto left the hut and moved aimlessly along the beach. He recalled the events of the last three days that led to what he would be doing tonight.
Modesto and his two companions had been returning from an unsuccessful night of fishing in their bonga, a boat barely large enough for the three-man crew, their nets, and sometimes a good catch of fish. They were tired, wet, and aching from their night's labor. Intermittent rain, sometimes heavy, had combined with abnormally low temperatures to make it a bitter night. For their efforts and misery a reward of only a half-dozen lapa-lapas lay on the bottom of the boat. They paddled towards shore in weary silence. As they rowed, they could make out the outlines of the hotels and casinos along Manila's Dewey Boulevard.
The crew sat in a row from front to back in the narrow boat. Chico, the youngest, held down the middle position. He looked small even huddled under a bulky poncho. Chico, the son of Carlos the oldest member of the three men, had only recently joined the crew. Chico had been a hut boy for marines at Sangley Point; a good paying job. For reasons unknown to Modesto, Chico no longer worked at Sangley Point and Carlos had added Chico to the crew.
Chico stopped paddling and broke the silence.
"The casinos are still lit up. As they sow, so shall they reap. That's what the church tells us. Well, we have worked all night and are so tired we can hardly get back to the beach. What have we reaped? Six little fish, not enough to eat, none to sell or trade. Did we sow the wrong thing? What do those rich ones in the casinos sow? They sow money. They don't have to sweat or sit in the cold rain. Money does their work."
Carlos sat in the back, the commanding position in the bonga. Wrinkled skin that had seen many fishing seasons covered his gaunt face. He laughed softly. "That's quite a speech from someone who's cold and tired. Remember, fishermen live from God's hand, and sometimes the hand is empty. That's the way it is."
Chico replied, "You been doing this too long, don't know any better."
"Maybe," Carlos answered, "but I know complaining doesn't help anything."
Modesto listened in silence. There were times that he had felt the way Chico did, and still did, but he had a wife and child and he had to provide for them in the only way he knew how. Someday in the hereafter he would be on the same level as the good rich and above that of the not-so-good rich. Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for rich men to get into heaven. That's what the good fathers say. Such thoughts made life a little more bearable at times.
Later that day, Modesto and Carlos were repairing one of the bonga boat's outriggers. Carlos owned the boat and therefore, when the catch was successful, received an extra share of fish. Carlos had inherited the bonga, his most valuable possession, from his father. Frequent repairs kept it usable.
I wonder where Chico is," Carlos mused. "He should be helping us."
Modesto pointed down the beach. "Speak of the devil. People with him. Who are they?"
Carlos looked where Modesto pointed. "Don't know."
Two strangers accompanied Chico. One, a gaunt, small-framed young man, was unremarkable except for deep-set eyes which glowered under heavy, dark brows. His dress, typical for men his age in the village consisted of loose-fitting grey pants, an un-tucked white shirt, and sandals. He could have been a Jeepney driver or a street vendor. The other man dressed in a similar way but was taller, heavier, and had a round face with Asian eyes.
Chico introduced them. He motioned first towards the smaller man. "Pepe from Bulacan, and Wan from up north in Baguio."
The two men surveyed the boat. The one named Wan walked around it and kicked the outrigger Modesto and Carlos had been working on.
"Looks small," he remarked.
Chico gave him a worried look. "It can haul a lot of weight."
Modesto wondered what they were talking about. What did it matter if the boat was small or could haul a lot of weight? It worked for what they used it for.
Carlos also looked puzzled.
The two strangers and Chico moved some distance away and talked among themselves. After a short time they came back to where Carlos and Modesto had started working on the outrigger again.
"Pepe and Wan would like to talk about a business deal," Chico announced.
Carlos looked skeptical. "A business deal. We are fishermen with no fish to barter or sell. What kind of business are you be talking about?"
Pepe asked, "Can you keep a secret?"
"Secret?" Carlos questioned.
"The business we are talking about depends on it."
Carlos answered, "You've been talking to Chico. He can tell you."
Pepe hesitated, studied Carlos, and then began to speak. "Chico has told us that every night you and your crew fish in Manila Bay, and that almost every night you go by Sangley Point. You may have noticed a Quonset hut that sits by itself right near the shore at the tip of the peninsula. Looks like an ordinary Quonset hut, but it's different. It's being used as an armory and it's full of 30-caliber ammunition."
Pepe again hesitated, allowing time for this information to be fully absorbed.
Modesto felt a tightening of his stomach.
Pepe continued, "We will pay you and your crew a good amount of money to go in and get some of that ammunition."
Beads of sweat were forming on Modesto's forehead. He thought, this man is loco, but he held his tongue and waited for Carlos to speak.
Carlos smiled slightly. "This some kind of joke you and Chico thought up?"
Pepe didn't respond to the question. "You will be able to make more money than you have ever seen before." As if to emphasize the point, he pulled up his shirt to reveal a money belt and a pistol stuck under his waistband. He pulled a packet of pesos in large denominations out of the money belt and fanned them slowly. "We will pay you one peso for every round that you bring out. Easy money, a lot of money."
The smile on Carlos's face had disappeared and the look of skepticism returned. "Easy, why pay so much if it is easy?"
Skeptical or wary, Pepe knew he had the fisherman's attention. "You will be surprised at how lightly guarded the armory is." Pepe picked up a stick from the beach and drew a sketch in the sand of the peninsula that projected into Manila Bay, much of which was occupied by the Sangley Naval Air Station. Pepe added detail at the very tip of the peninsula to show the location of the Quonset hut being used as an armory.
"There is only one marine guarding this area, and his patrol runs from the brig on the east side of the peninsula past the Quonset hut to a point on the west side of the peninsula approximately half a kilometer away. This Quonset is right on the shore and below an embankment three or four meters high that shields it from easy observation. The closest thing to the armory is some Quonset huts where navy and marine enlisted men are housed. They are about hundred meters away."
Pepe drew the guard route in the sand. "Besides the marine, there is a large searchlight mounted here on a water tower." He pointed to a spot near the center of the base. "This light sweeps the beach all around the base. You must have seen it when you were fishing. It makes a sweep about every fifteen minutes, then goes out until they are ready to make another sweep. Those are the things you worry about, the searchlight and the marine guard. Overpower the guard, avoid the light, and you can help yourself to as much ammunition as your boat can haul."
The fishermen were familiar with the navy base as seen from the bay and were able to easily follow Pepe's description. They were also familiar with the searchlight and saw it sweep around the base's periphery many times when they fished at night.
Modesto did not want to hear any more, but Carlos asked, "You sure there is only one marine?"
"One marine, changes at midnight, next time at four."
"The armory is locked?"
"I would think so."
"We are supposed to figure out how to overpower the guard and get the ammunition out?"
"That's it."
"Why do you want that much ammunition?"
"Does it matter?"
"Are you a Huk?"
It didn't matter to Modesto if Pepe and Wan were Huks or not. He didn't want any part of this crazy idea but he could see that Carlos was seriously considering Pepe's proposition. Of course they had to be Hukbalahaps, the Huks, the Philippine communists. That was the only answer that made any sense to Modesto. They were the only ones that would have the need for that much ammunition and the means to pay that kind of money for it.
Modesto didn't know exactly what the Huks were trying to do, but he knew there was serious trouble between the Huks and the government in Manila. The Huks had been around for a long time. During the war they had fought the Japanese and were big heroes. Now they were fighting the government and weren't heroes anymore. It seemed like they wanted to fight whoever happened to be in power. Modesto didn't know if they were good or bad. Pepe looked like an ordinary Filipino, not like a revolutionary or communist, whatever they looked like. Not that it mattered much to Modesto. Modesto considered himself a pretty good Catholic, while Carlos and Chico weren't and they would admit it and that's their business. If a person wanted to be a Huk, that's their business.
Apparently Carlos had come to the same conclusion and answered his own question. "I don't suppose it matters as long as we get paid."
"If you decide to do it, a thousand pesos up front, the balance when you deliver."
A thousand pesos! That was more money than Modesto had ever seen at one time.
Carlos didn't reveal any emotion or surprise. "Sounds crazy. We will think about it."
"Someone will do it," Pepe said. "We know Chico, that's why you are getting first chance."
Carlos replied, "We need a day to think about it."
"We'll be back tomorrow."
Carlos had fished Manila Bay for a living since he was able to do it. He had no hopes or plans to do anything else and he had no hope of ever having more than a bare living as a fisherman. When Carlos became too old to fish he hoped he would sit in the Nipa hut of his son Chico until the day that they carried him out to the cemetery to lie beside the father that he had cared for so many years before. It was not a great deal to anticipate but realistic and predictable. The wild scheme they were considering now was something else.
After Pepe and Wan left, the three fishermen discussed the proposition that had been presented to them. Carlos had done the talking when Pepe made his proposal, now he wanted to know what Modesto thought of the idea.
Modesto had known Carlos since he was able to remember. Carlos's life provided a model for Modesto's life. Modesto respected Carlos's judgment in most matters but had been surprised when Carlos seemed to be considering going forward with a raid on the armory on Sangley Point. Manila Bay fishermen considered Sangley Point off limits. Even fishing near it was questionable. To land on its beach and raid an armory seemed totally loco.
"It sounds crazy and dangerous," Modesto said in response to Carlos's question.
"Maybe," Carlos replied. He walked over to the outrigger he and Modesto had been repairing, studied it, then turned and spoke to Modesto and Chico. "We need more information before making a decision. Tonight we will fish off Sangley Point near the armory and really study the layout. After that we will decide."
It was a little before midnight when they arrived at a position where they could observe the armory and the marine guard while they fished. Lights in the nearby enlisted men's hut area made the armory and guard path dimly visible.
At midnight they noted the changing of the guard and observed the marine on duty as he made his rounds. The marine moved back and forth along the beach between the guard house and some point along the west side of the peninsula. As Pepe had said, it took the guard about fifteen minutes to walk from one end of the route to the other.
They had moderate success fishing and after a couple of hours had a sack half-filled with lapa-lapas.
At two a.m. Carlos suggested that they go onto the beach near the armory and check out the door lock.
"What! Why?" asked a surprised Modesto.
"We should know what kind of lock we have to break or open."
Chico agreed. "Let's see what it feels like to walk on the Sangley sand."
They decided that both Modesto and Chico would go to the armory to check the lock while Carlos stayed with the boat.
While they contemplated making the landing, they realized they would need to time their movements carefully. They wanted to go onto the beach once the guard passed the armory and was heading away from it at the same time the light on the tower had gone dark. This combination did not come up regularly. The first time they considered going in, the tower light had gone out but they weren't sure when the guard, who was out of sight on the west side of the peninsula, would reappear. The next time the light swept the beach, they could see that the guard was moving towards the armory from the east. They were concerned the light might come on again before he would be clear of the armory area on his way to the other side of the peninsula. Finally, the light finished a sweep just as the guard was seen going towards the west end of his route. They pushed towards shore and were soon scraping the bottom of the boat on the sand.
Modesto and Chico jumped out of the boat and ran towards the armory. It took only a few minutes for the two fishermen to run to the armory and determine that a padlock secured the armory door and pry bar could be used to break the lock. They ran back to the boat and rowed away from the shore towards relative safety.
The three stayed in their fishing location until the rising sun allowed them to observe the beach in more detail. It appeared that the path the guard walked was obscured from easy observation on the land side by the embankment that ran along the full length of the route. Their attention was drawn to two large tree trunks with roots attached washed up on the beach about a hundred meters to the west of the Quonset armory. Carlos suggested it would be a good place to hide while they waited for the right time to overpower the guard. They moved the bonga boat closer to shore and could see that the attached roots held the lower parts of the trunks off the ground far enough for a person to crawl beneath them. They all agreed that it looked like an ideal place to hide while waiting to overpower the guard.
Later that morning they returned to their home beach, tired from a full night of fishing and information gathering. They would get together that afternoon after they had rested to discuss the matter and make a decision.
Modesto tried to get some rest, but his mind continued to wrestle with the proposed raid. His first reaction had been to oppose the idea, even to the point of defecting from the crew if Carlos and Chico wanted to do it. But as he became more familiar with what the raid would involve, his mind grew more at ease. A big factor in his thinking had been their ability to get on and off the beach undetected the previous night. He contemplated the prize that would be theirs if they were successful. They could buy a large power bonga and have pesos to spare. They would be able to fish outside the bay and better their chances of success. When Modesto finally drifted off to sleep, the contemplated prize loomed larger and the risk seemed to be diminishing.
When the three fishermen met the next afternoon, Carlos again asked Modesto and Chico for their opinions.
Chico of course wanted to go.
Modesto had resolved his concerns. The prize seemed too large to pass up. He now supported going forward.
Carlos said he also favored proceeding.
They started to discuss the details. Anyone observing the three fishermen huddled on the sandy beach would have thought they were mending a net or visiting, certainly not planning a daring raid on a United States military installation.
They decided to stage the raid that night. The moon would be dark, everything could be ready, and the sooner they put the plan into operation the less likely the wrong people would become aware of it. Also, early Christmas morning might find the security forces less alert than normal. They intended to go in at about one o'clock in the morning, not too long after the midnight guard change. That would give them plenty of time before another guard change took place. Their only weapons would be machetes and iron pipes. The machetes were to be used only if absolutely necessary although Chico had wanted the machetes to be the first option. He argued, "A live marine can be dangerous, a dead one isn't. Besides it takes more time to tie a man up than to cut his throat."
Modesto knew Chico had his own agenda with regards to Americans. That a former girlfriend now shared her place with a marine may have helped form his opinion. His abrupt departure from his Sangley Point job may have aggravated it.
"Taking some American ammunition is one thing, killing an American is a whole different thing," Carlos declared. "We'll use machetes only if we have to."
They continued planning. Modesto and Chico would be landed on the beach and take cover under the tree trunks. Carlos would move the bonga back out into the bay. When an opportunity presented itself, Modesto and Chico would overpower the guard and break into the Quonset hut armory. They would remove as much ammunition as the bonga could haul and stack it in the shadow of the armory to keep it out of sight of the tower. They would use a flashlight to signal Carlos to bring the boat back to the beach when they were ready to load the ammunition. To Modesto, the plan seemed simple and doable.
Later in the day, Pepe and his partner returned and learned that the decision had been made to proceed and the raid would take place that night. Pepe seemed surprised that they were moving so soon, but he had brought a thousand pesos in up-front money and they finalized the arrangements.
That night Modesto wandered along the beach, waiting for the time to pass so that he could join his companions and start on an adventure that would (pray to God, hail Mary) make them all rich. A few days ago he wouldn't have dared hope for anything more than enough food to eat and bare necessities for himself and his family. Now heady dreams filled his mind. He would be part owner of a big power bonga, a big fisherman who went after the big catches outside the bay. He would have a Nipa hut with more than one room and furnished with a bed and a cooking stove. He curled his toes in the sand. He might even buy a pair of shoes.
Although early, Modesto turned and walked slowly towards the place where the bonga rested on the beach. When he arrived, he found Carlos sitting on an outrigger silently contemplating the small waves splashing against the beach. Carlos looked up when Modesto approached. "Couldn't sleep? Me either. It happens often at my age."
Modesto squatted beside Carlos. Carlos continued, "Sometimes being old isn't so bad. I have less to lose." He hesitated, then apparently feeling a need to reassure Modesto, added, "Don't worry, it's going to work."
Modesto wanted to agree with him. "I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't believe it would work. Where is Chico?"
Carlos noted it was still early. "Chico will be here. He wouldn't miss this."
Chico finally showed up, yawning, at the agreed-upon time.
Modesto asked, "You have trouble sleeping?"
"No, why?"
Modesto laughed. "The resurrection wouldn't disturb you."
Carlos stood up and started pulling on the boat. "Let's go," he said, and all hands joined in launching the bonga on its special mission.
Each person assumed his position, and soon their rhythmic paddle strokes were moving the boat smoothly through the water, the bow making a luminous splash as it broke the flat surface of the bay.
Modesto mechanically dipped his paddle. The closer they came to the base, the more uneasy he felt. Was he a coward? Modesto had never done anything like this before. He had known danger when they had been caught in storms while fishing, but that is a normal part of a fisherman's life. This would be something different.
Carlos started talking about how this raid reminded him of ventures more dangerous and not as carefully planned during the big war. There were other differences. Those raids had been mainly for food because he and his family were starving. Sometimes he had picked up other things, too, but food had been the main thing. This raid was for money, enough money to change their lives. Another difference had been that he disliked the Japanese. He didn't particularly dislike the Americans. Americans were overbearing, over-paid, oversexed, and drank too much, but Carlos believed that overall, their intentions were good.
Modesto wanted to know if Carlos would feel guilty about stealing from the Americans.
"No," Carlos replied. "Americans have more wealth than the ocean has fish and taking some ammunition out of that hut won't hurt America any more than I hurt Manila Bay when I pull lapa-lapas out of it."
Modesto had thought about the same thing. Was this really stealing, would he be breaking any of God's laws? He concluded that some of the laws of men might be challenged, but not God's laws. The commandments as interpreted by Modesto pertained to individuals, to neighbors. Who did that ammunition really belong to? Maybe Filipinos had as much right to it as Americans.
Chico's voice broke into his thoughts. "Are you afraid, Modesto?"
Modesto thought, Chico must have sensed my uneasiness. "Maybe, I guess I am, but I will be glad when we get on shore."
Maybe he would be. His mind would be fully occupied and he would not have time for imagined dangers. The thoughts of wealth and a new life he had had earlier in the evening were now crowded out by more urgent thoughts about the danger and what might go wrong. Sangley looked bigger and brighter than usual.
He turned to Chico and asked, "How about you?"
"Sure," Chico answered. "You can't be brave if you're not afraid and I keep thinking the guard could be the one that's been screwing my girlfriend."
Modesto laughed. "Used to be your girlfriend."
"That's what I mean."
"Don't do anything dumb with the guard."
"I know."
They reached the position off the point where they would wait for a chance to go in. Again they watched the changing of the guard. They waited for an hour and then began looking for the right opportunity to go onto the beach. They looked for the guard when the searchlight swept around the base perimeter. Twice they watched and did not see the guard when the searchlight swept the beach in front of them. Carlos leaned back against the stern of the boat. "No hurry, we will wait until we know where he is."
A while later the light flashed on again. This time it started at the far end of the base and moved towards the armory. As it swung around the peninsula, it caught the marine moving west away from the armory near the bend in the shoreline. As soon as the light went out, Carlos whispered, "Now!"
They rowed the bonga onto the beach. Modesto crossed himself, and he and Chico jumped out of the boat and found shelter under the large tree trunks. They carried iron pipes, machetes, and what they would need to bind and gag the guard.
Modesto knew that the marine would be armed with something better than an iron pipe. Successfully overpowering the guard had always been a concern, and the concern became magnified by the reality of their situation. Between the water and the tree trunks were over five meters of open beach, and the marine could be anywhere in that area when he passed them. What if the searchlight came on while they were overpowering him?
While Modesto contemplated these difficulties he heard the guard approaching. He was walking slowly, quietly whistling some tune over and over. In the dim ambient light Modesto could see that his carbine was slung over his shoulder and he had a soft-billed cap on his head. Good, he's not wearing a helmet, thought Modesto.
At that moment, the tower light snapped on and started sweeping the beach. The guard safely passed the tree trunks as he moved towards the armory.
"Damn," Chico whispered.
Soon after the light went out after its next sweep of the base, the marine guard could be seen coming back from the direction of the armory, still whistling the same tune. He moved steadily towards the tree trunks where Modesto and Chico were crouching.
When the marine reached the vicinity of the tree trunks, he paused, stopped whistling, and turned to look at the bright lights of Manila. Modesto and Chico made their move. The marine appeared startled by the noise Modesto and Chico made but before he could react Chico swung his pipe and hit the marine in the back of the head. As the marine fell, Chico swung his pipe at the back of his skull again. "That's for good measure, Joe!" he hissed.
They dragged the limp marine into the shadow of the tree trunks, rolled him on his stomach, and worked feverishly to bind and gag him. Chico put the gag in the guard's mouth while Modesto pulled his arms behind him and began wrapping the rope around his wrists.
Chico stood up. "You can finish this. I'll open the armory."
Chico disappeared into the darkness while Modesto began to knot the wrist binding. Suddenly, the marine gave a grunt, pulled his wrists loose and rolled over, throwing Modesto off his back. Modesto landed near his machete when he fell to the ground. He grasped the handle with both his hands, raised it over his head, and brought the blade down with all his might on the neck of the struggling marine. The blade cut through flesh and cartilage, stopping only when it hit the vertebrae.
Modesto, still grasping the machete, stood up. He started towards the armory and then paused to pick up the carbine the marine had dropped on the beach. Modesto found an upset Chico attempting to break the lock.
"The bar doesn't go through the eye of the padlock. How in hell are we going to break the lock if we can't get the pry bar in there?"
Modesto took the bar from Chico's hand, took aim and brought it crashing down on the padlock. The padlock flew off, hitting Modesto in the leg on its way to the ground.
"Jesus Christ!" Chico exclaimed. "That should wake up the dead."
They groped their way into the dark armory. Inside, they could feel boxes that must be ammunition cases. They grabbed hold and started stacking the cases in the shadow of the Quonset. They had stacked four boxes when the light came on again.
While waiting for the light to go out, Chico asked if the guard was securely tied.
"He is secure," Modesto replied without going into any further detail.
The light went out and they finished moving two more boxes, as many as they felt they could haul in the boat, and then waited for the light to go on and off again.
When the light went out the next time, they signaled Carlos. He brought the bonga onto the beach near the Quonset, and they started loading the ammunition boxes. Then for some reason, the searchlight that had just gone out a short time before came on again and swept along the beach towards them. Carlos signaled urgently for them to push off, but Modesto ran back to get the last box lying in the sand. He gripped it firmly and had started running back towards the bonga when he was surrounded by the searchlight's blinding white light. He heard someone shout "Halt! Halt!" But he kept running until he was thrown down by something hitting him in the back. He tried to get up, but he didn't seem to have any strength in his arms and legs. Something under him felt warm. Blood; his blood.
He had the sensation that he was swimming underwater, swimming hard, but was not moving.
He could hear far-off voices. "Did we get all of them?"
"The old man looks like he has had it. The young one is alive but scared as hell."
Modesto felt something on his neck; a hand? He heard a voice again. "A very weak pulse. Amazing what these Huks will do for their cause."
A dim light shone under the water. Modesto tried to swim towards it. It kept getting dimmer and finally went out.


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NEW: OTI DALI D NFC TW L in 35 and 75 W for Tunable White and HCL applications
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Weaver Livestock Leather Rubber Bands
Style #: 65-2241
- The key to perfectly braided manes.
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Weaver Leather - The Story
Our roots in the equine industry run deep. Handcrafting the highest quality products from the finest materials is in our blood. It's our heritage and our passion and we wouldn't have it any other way!
What began as a two-man harness and shoe shop in 1973 has changed dramatically through the years, but what remains the same is our unwavering commitment to your complete and total satisfaction. Our founder Harry A. Weaver built the fledgling company on a strong foundation of meticulous craftsmanship and exceptional customer service that still guides Weaver Leather to this day.
Early on, Harry saw an opportunity in the marketplace for dependable equine products that stand the test of time. He started handcrafting leather horse halters and selling them to local harness and tack shops. These halters were an immediate hit with both horse owners and retailers and demand grew for more leather products from this small business that was originally run out of a 20' x 40' garage. Harry rose to meet the challenge and changed the company's name from the Fryburg Shoe Shop to Weaver Leather Goods to better reflect the company's new direction.
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Hurricanes eliminated after Jets' comeback
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Andrew Ladd snatched the puck and snapped it past an old buddy. Just that quickly, he sent his former team to yet another spring without playoff hockey.
Ladd scored 16 seconds into overtime, and the Winnipeg Jets beat Carolina 4-3 on Friday night to keep alive their slim postseason hopes and eliminate any chance the Hurricanes had to sneak into the playoffs.
Kyle Wellwood scored the tying goal with 4:47 left in regulation and added an assist. Zach Bogosian assisted on the final three goals, Jim Slater scored and Nik Antropov added a goal in his return to the lineup for the Jets, who trailed 3-1 midway through the second period before rallying.
"We're trying to develop a culture here of showing up and working your (rear end) off ... every day," Ladd said. "It's one of those things that ... it's got to become an everyday thing where everyone shows up, knows they have to work hard or they're not going to play."
The decisive sequence started when Carolina rookie Justin Faulk slipped in the corner at the start of overtime.
"From there, it was a breakdown," Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller said.
The puck made its way to Bogosian at the blue line. He tossed it toward the net and an uncovered Ladd -- Carolina's first-round draft pick in 2004 who spent three seasons with the Hurricanes -- whipped it past Cam Ward.
"It's always fun to score against Wardo,'" Ladd said. "We're good buddies, but we're very competitive with each other and it's fun to get the upper hand. I'll have bragging rights for the summer, at least."
Eric Staal scored his 250th career goal and Derek Joslin and Brandon Sutter added goals for the Hurricanes.
Chris Mason stopped 30 shots for the Jets and improved to 4-2 against Carolina this season. Ward finished with 31 saves.
The Hurricanes were playing at home for the first time since going 1-2 on a trip that put them on the brink of elimination, and both teams needed Pittsburgh to beat Buffalo, which the Penguins did, to keep alive their dwindling playoff hopes.
A Buffalo win and a Winnipeg loss in regulation would have eliminated the Jets. Carolina needed wins in its final five games and plenty of help throughout the league to slide in for just the second time since winning the 2006 Stanley Cup.
Though the Hurricanes salvaged a point in overtime, with four games left, the best they can do now is tie Buffalo and Washington for eighth place at 86 points. The Capitals would claim the tiebreaker over Carolina because they already are assured of having more combined wins in regulation and overtime.
"It was 3-1. We have a chance to bury a team and move forward, and when you keep teams hanging around, generally, they're going to get a second life," Muller said. "And they did. They scored at the right times and we just dropped our level of intensity."
Slater started the Jets' rally when his goal on an odd-man rush made it 3-2 with 9:35 left in the second. Wellwood tied it at 3 when he chipped in the rebound of Antii Miettinen's shot on a late power play, after Jiri Tlusty was issued a double minor for high-sticking.
"Between the second and third period, we just said we're going to throw it all out there," Slater said. "The guys did a good job of throwing pucks on net. We drew a key penalty there to get us tied up, and our penalty kill was fantastic tonight, too."
Staal's milestone goal came on one of his prettiest sequences of the season. With teammate Tim Gleason serving a double minor for unsportsmanlike conduct, Staal stole the puck from Wheeler near the blue line. The Carolina captain skated in on Mason with Tim Stapleton on his hip, spun 360 degrees and whipped the puck into the net to make it 2-1 with 3:14 remaining. His milestone goal also was the team's 12th short-handed score.
"I was trying to get body position, maybe cut it across the front of the net," Staal said. "I think the goalie might have gotten caught out of position as well, and I was able to slide it underneath him."
Staal tied current Florida coach Kevin Dineen on the club's goal-scoring list and trails only Hall of Famer Ron Francis -- who scored a club-record 382 goals in two stints with the Hartford-Carolina franchise.
Sutter gave the Hurricanes a two-goal lead when he scored off a rebound early in the second.
NOTES: Winnipeg D Grant Clitsome rang the right post with a blast from the blue line late in the first, Dustin Byfuglien drilled the left post late in the second and Ron Hainsey hit the pipe late in the third. ... Carolina RW Tuomo Ruutu skated in his 300th game with the club. ... To make room for Antropov, the Jets scratched C Ben Maxwell.


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Bell response to illegal access of small-business customer information at third-party supplier
MONTREAL, Feb. 2, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Bell today announced that 22,421 user names and passwords and 5 valid credit card numbers of Bell small-business customers were posted on the Internet this weekend. The posting results from illegal hacking of an Ottawa-based third-party supplier's information technology system.
In line with our strict privacy and security policies, Bell is contacting affected small business customers, has disabled all affected passwords, and has informed appropriate credit card companies. We continue to work with the supplier as well as law enforcement and government security officials to investigate the matter.
Bell's own network and IT systems were not impacted. The issue does not affect Bell residential, mobility or enterprise business customers
With more than 21 million customer connections, Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing consumers and business customers with leading TV, Internet, wireless, home phone and business communications solutions. For more information, please visit Bell.ca .
SOURCE Bell Canada
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Jean Charles Robillard
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I've been resisting it for years but when my daughter came home raving about the french fries she had at her friend's house, I caved in to the peer pressure and bought a deep fryer, in fact the DeLonghi 3 Lb. Stainless Steel Deep Fryer (to purchase for your family, please go to SHOP) This is not your mother's deep fryer. Not only does it have built-in safeguards to prevent accidental burning (nothing can guard against stupidity – keep it away from the counter's edge and from small children!) but the food is actually lighter. It is not saturated with oil. It doesn't have that deep-fried heaviness.
Besides the ever-popular fries (my husband now makes them almost every Motzei Shabbos and anything that involves my husband cooking is good by me!) this product is terrific for that all-time Chanukah favorite, Sufganiyot, and for our Italian variation, Zepolles.
Zepolles are made with pizza dough and are super easy, especially if you buy the dough from your local pizza shop. Otherwise make the dough from one of the recipes on the site. Heat the oil to 375 degrees. Pinch off the dough in 2 tablespoons-size balls and drop into the hot oil. Fry until golden brown – 3 to 4 minutes. Roll immediately in powdered sugar. You can inject jelly into them but they are great as is!


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Government auditors are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to take a closer look at the wireless industry, concluding in a report released this week that the agency needs to step up its data-collection practices to evaluate a host of market conditions including competition and pricing.
The Government Accountability Office report, commissioned by a trio of House Democrats, surveyed the wireless market over the past decade, finding that over a period of extensive consolidation in the industry, consumer prices have fallen by roughly 50 percent while coverage has improved.
At the same time, the study raised questions about several industry practices, including the early termination fees and handset exclusivity agreements that make it harder for consumers to switch providers, as well as the prices — known as special access rates — that large, nationwide providers charge smaller carriers for access to their facilities.
The report also highlighted the ascendancy of the wireless sector, noting that industry-wide revenue now tops $150 billion a year, while nearly 40 percent of households rely primarily or exclusively on their mobile devices.
In particular, the GAO report recommends that the FCC improve its methods of collecting data that inform the annual report on wireless competition that it is required to deliver to Congress. The auditors noted that the FCC has recently made efforts both to broaden its collection efforts and to obtain more detailed information about industry practices, but more still needs to be done.
"While FCC recently undertook steps that significantly improved this report, it still does not fully assess some key industry inputs and outputs," the auditors concluded. "FCC generally has not collected data on many industry investments or consumer switching costs because of the complexity and burden associated with gathering these data."
The three lawmakers who commissioned the report, Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who chair the Energy and Commerce Committee and two of its subcommittees, respectively, hailed the report for providing direction to the FCC to look more closely at key areas of the wireless industry that have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years.
"Over the past decade, consumers have benefited from significantly lower prices for wireless services and better coverage," Markey said in a statement. "Still, issues such as early termination fees charged by carriers — which raise concerns both from a consumer protection and a competition standpoint — handset exclusivity arrangements, acquisition of spectrum and industry consolidation all should be closely examined."
While the GAO report noted the significant consolidation that has reshaped the wireless market over the past decade, and relayed the concerns of local and regional providers that they have difficulty attracting consumers amid competition from four nationwide providers, it did not make specific policy recommendations for the FCC to intervene in the market.
CTIA, the principal trade association representing wireless carriers, responded to the report in a statement reiterating its view that the industry is marked by vibrant competition.
"With more than 91 percent of Americans being able to choose from four or more carriers, competition for subscribers is fierce," CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent said. "If a consumer doesn't like something about one provider, he or she has many others from which to choose."
CTIA had a more pointed reaction to the FCC's most recent report on the wireless industry, in which the agency concluded that competition in the sector was less than effective and hinted at the use of "policy levers" to remedy the situation.
In response to that report, Largent warned against any "misguided and harmful" regulations that might emerge from FCC intervention.
Kenneth Corbin is an associate editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.


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This post is written for the 57th Carnival of Genealogy on the theme: I read it in the news!
Our family has always been big on cutting out newspaper articles that relates to anything having to do with someone in the family. I've located small clips on people who have applied for marriage licenses, obituaries, and even larger articles. As I began my genealogy quest almost 10 years ago, I once again perused some scrapbooks at my mom's house. I found the following clipping:
I knew that my parents, my brother and my sister all learned to fly when my dad was stationed in Japan, but I didn't realize they had been in a movie! Even if it was for the Aero Club of which they were members. They flew quite a bit while in Japan and continued once back in the states. My parents took me up once (that I remember) as a young child, but I wasn't a very good airplane passenger. I passed out once in the air and woke up in the car on the way home. I do much better in commercial airlines.
Another news article my mom clipped and mailed to my grandparents contained information about Japan "Asthma". Mom suffered from this while they were overseas and it was hard to explain what it was so she sent this news article.
I also found my grandparents' wedding announcement which I think is a pretty good treasure since they were married in 1916 in a small town in Indiana.
I also have been blessed that many of my relatives and distant cousins have shared news articles with me – either a scanned copy or a regular copy. I also feel very lucky that many of these articles have survived over time – especially with standing moves across oceans and across country not to mention just across town.


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5 Things to Watch in the Primaries
With the presidential campaign heating up, here are things that could separate the winner from the losers
"Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
As 2012 dawns, the question posed by Ronald Reagan in 1980 is still relevant, especially to the seven Republicans who would like to take President Barack Obama's place in the White House. The race for the presidency shifts into high gear on Jan. 3, when Iowans cast the first votes of the presidential nominating season. A primary marathon unfolds after that, with votes cast state by state, well into the spring. While the Republicans fight to the finish, Obama has drawn a bye in the primaries with no Democratic opposition.
See also: Meet the GOP presidential candidates.
AARP's coverage of Election 2012 includes profiles of the candidates, with an emphasis on where they stand on issues that most matter to older Americans, and video interviews with some of them that cover four of those issues: Social Security, Medicare, jobs and the economy, and retirement security.
Now it's time for the voters to speak. Here are 5 key things to keep in mind as the presidential primaries unfold:
50-plus voters count. It's a political truism that older Americans turn out to vote in much higher percentages than younger voters. It's even truer in primaries and caucuses. That leaves the nominating process in the hands of the most politically active and engaged citizens, most of whom are older and vote regularly. In Iowa in 2008, 73 percent of caucus-goers were 45 or older; in South Carolina, 68 percent of primary voters were over 45. That's clout.
It's all about delegates. The Republican and Democratic parties have elaborate rules that guide their nominating processes. National polls show former House speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at the head of the GOP pack, running just about even, with Rep. Ron Paul in third position. All the other candidates are in single digits.
But guess what? The national polls don't matter because the byzantine nominating process is a state-by-state endurance contest. The results in each state determine how many delegates are pledged to each candidate, and while some states allocate delegates on a proportional basis, others are winner-take-all contests. According to AP Elections Research, it will take 1,144 delegates to clinch the GOP nomination, which will be bestowed at the Republican National Convention in August.
Next: Why money matters. >>
Gingrich, Romney and Paul all appear to have a shot at the nomination based on polls in the early states: Iowa on Jan. 3, New Hampshire on Jan. 10, South Carolina on Jan. 21 and Florida on Jan. 31. These four states will shape which two or three candidates are likely to survive into the grueling contests that follow. As part of its Election 2012 coverage, AARP will be keeping track of the delegate count.
Money is king. What's come to be known as the political-industrial complex will raise and spend at least $8 billion in the 2012 campaign, experts say. Obama has already raised at least $86 million for his re-election campaign, and his campaign has quietly set a fund-raising target of $1 billion. The Republican candidates combined have raised about as much as Obama. Much of this money will be poured into television ads, which are likely to start out positive in tone and gradually go negative. (Attack ads, history tells us, work.)
Individual contributions to a presidential candidate are limited to $5,000 ($2,500 for the primaries and $2,500 for the general election). But the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allows unlimited amounts of money to flow into the political process. The ruling, undoing key post-Watergate campaign finance reforms, allows corporations, nonprofit organizations (such as AARP and the National Rifle Association), labor unions and wealthy individuals to spend whatever they want on political advertising and activities, as long as they do not coordinate with candidates or their campaigns.
So-called "Super PACs" (political action committees) have sprung up to haul in multimillion-dollar contributions. Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, for example, reportedly is planning to give a jaw-dropping $20 million to a Super PAC that's backing Gingrich. Adelson, however, has denied that he's made a specific commitment. Other groups hide behind IRS rules as tax-exempt charities and do not disclose their donors. One example is the 60 Plus Association, a nonprofit organization that's' been described by PR Watch as "a corporate assault in 'good-for-seniors' clothing." It spent $7 million in the 2010 elections, most of it on political attack ads.
"Voters can expect a steady barrage of ads run by unfamiliar groups with patriotic-but-generic names," says Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. "Unfortunately ... more and more of their donations come from secret sources."
Next: Issues matter, too. >>
It's (still) about the economy, stupid. Two decades after Bill Clinton's strategists coined the phrase, tough times again haunt voters. People are worried about the nation's economy and about their own personal financial situation. Seven in 10 Americans think the country is on the "wrong track."
In poll after poll, respondents name jobs and the economy as the top issues. There was a bit of welcome news when the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent for November, and to 6.4 percent for workers over 55. But for older people seeking work, the length of their job hunt grew to 58 weeks. There's a warning for Obama in these numbers too: No president since World War II has won re-election when the unemployment rate was 8 percent or higher.
Issues do matter. Americans overwhelmingly think that Social Security and Medicare have been good for the country, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, a cautionary sign for Republican politicians eyeing those programs as a way to cut the budget deficit. Two-thirds of people 50 and older think that keeping those benefits the way they are is more important than reducing the deficit. Status quo sounds good to them.
Some GOP proposals would ask Medicare beneficiaries to pay for more of their health care costs. But more than six in 10 Americans who are 50 and older, including lower-income Republicans, think Medicare beneficiaries already pay enough.
Social Security is often called the "third rail" of politics, so damaging has it been to politicians who dared suggest changes in it. Indeed, 56 percent of those surveyed by Pew — including two-thirds of those ages 50 to 64 — said it was more important to avoid future cuts in Social Security benefits than to avoid tax increases to pay for them.
"What we've seen is that older people rank entitlements as important an issue as they do jobs," says Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center. "There is some vulnerability for the Republican Party on this issue. It's the only issue where they don't dominate the Democrats among the Silent Generation, which has been pretty loyal to the GOP in recent elections."
Sandy K. Johnson, a veteran Washington journalist, has covered presidential politics since 1984.


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No. 14 Miami pulls away, tops Georgia Tech 45-30
MIAMI GARDENS (AP) — Stephen Morris threw for three touchdowns, Duke Johnson rushed for 184 yards and No. 14 Miami remained unbeaten after shaking off a problematic opening quarter to beat Georgia Tech 45-30 on Saturday.
Phillip Dorsett, Clive Walford and Allen Hurns caught scoring passes for Miami (5-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), which scored 21 points in the final 7:15. Dallas Crawford ran for two scores in the fourth quarter, and Ladarius Gunter added a 30-yard interception return for another touchdown with 1:08 left.
David Sims had two rushing touchdowns for Georgia Tech (3-2, 2-2), which wasted a 17-point lead against Miami last season and blew another double-digit advantage Saturday — plus missed a fourth-quarter extra point that would have tied the game. The Yellow Jackets led 17-7 after controlling the first quarter, then wound up losing to Miami for the fifth straight time.
It's Miami's best start since opening 6-0 in 2004.
Crawford got his sixth rushing TD of the season midway through the fourth, then added an 18-yarder to seal the win for the Hurricanes, who dominated the second half and now get 12 days off before heading to North Carolina on Oct. 17.
Hurns' 69-yard catch-and-run put Miami on top for good, on a play that had a high level of difficulty. Morris threw the ball from the sunny side of the field to the shadowed side. Hurns controlled it, beat one defender and took off down the left sideline, pulling up only while waiting for Dorsett to block Louis Young. Dorsett did his job, Hurns scored and the Hurricanes had their first lead.
After Dorsett fumbled a punt away to open the fourth, Georgia Tech answered with Sims' second score of the game. But Trevor Stroebel's snap on the point-after attempt was low, Harrison Butker's kick went left, and Miami held a 24-23 lead.
After that, it was all Miami, which overcame four turnovers for the second straight week and still scored plenty.
The teams were tied at 17-all after an odd first half in which the Yellow Jackets held the ball for almost 22 minutes and were outgained anyway. The Yellow Jackets got 243 yards on 43 first-half plays, while Miami got 254 yards on only 19 plays.
Sims' 7-yard run opened the scoring, marking the first time since the Virginia game last season — 47 calendar weeks ago — that Miami faced a deficit. It lasted a mere 32 seconds.
Johnson returned the ensuing kickoff to the Miami 27, ran 33 yards on the Hurricanes' first snap, and Morris found Dorsett for a 40-yard score on the very next play.
Two-play drives would be an early trend for Miami, and that wasn't necessarily a good thing. The Hurricanes' next two possessions were capped by second-play giveaways, with Johnson fumbling the ball away on one — leading to a touchdown that gave Georgia Tech a 17-7 lead on Charles Perkins' 31-yard run — and Morris having a pass intercepted on the final play of the opening quarter.
Georgia Tech ran 25 first-quarter plays to Miami's six, and Hurricanes linebacker Denzel Perryman recorded 10 tackles before his team's offense took its seventh snap of the day.
A winded Miami defense needed a break, and got it when Georgia Tech starting quarterback Vad Lee fumbled the ball away early in the second quarter.
The Hurricanes capitalized when Morris connected with Walford on a 4-yard TD pass to get within 17-14. Miami tied it on Matt Goudis' 24-yard field goal just before halftime, starting a run where the Hurricanes would score 38 of the next 44 points.


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Wednesday's release by the Los Angeles Times of photos showing U.S. soldiers posing with what the newspaper says were insurgents' bodies in Afghanistan has launched the latest in a string of recent investigations into U.S. military members' conduct in that country.
A U.S. soldier provided the photos to the Times, saying that the photos reveal a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compromised troops' safety, and that he hoped that the photos' publication would stop those shortcomings, the Times reported. Times Editor Davan Maharaj said the paper decided that "publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan."
NATO's International Security Assistance Force has blasted the photos, saying they represent "a serious error in judgment by several soldiers who have acted out of ignorance and unfamiliarity with U.S. Army values."
The Pentagon is investigating the photos, which allegedly were taken in 2010.
"An investigation that could lead to disciplinary measures is under way," Pentagon spokesman George Little said. "Anyone found responsible for this inhuman conduct will be held accountable in accordance with our military justice system."
The photos are just the latest of several high-profile U.S. military incidents in Afghanistan prompting U.S. investigation this year. Among the others:
March: Soldier accused of killing 17 civilians in two villages
On March 11, a U.S. solider left an Army outpost in Kandahar province's Panjwai district, walked into two nearby villages and killed 17 Afghan civilians, U.S. authorities allege.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is charged with 17 counts of murder with premeditation, for which he could face the death penalty. He also faces six counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault and is being held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after being flown from Afghanistan a few days after the killings.
U.S. officials haven't publicly suggested any motive in the slayings. An Afghan general charged with leading Afghanistan's investigation into the killings told reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia's SBS network that villagers have alleged that Bales was upset over an injury to a U.S. colleague. In response to these suggestions, a U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN last month that a soldier at Bales' base had lost a leg in an explosion three or four days earlier, but that there was no reason to believe Bales had been present at the scene of that blast.
The U.S. government in March paid more than $800,000 to the families of the victims, Afghan officials said - $50,000 for each of the dead, and $10,000 for each of six wounded.
Bales' attorney, John Henry Browne, has accused U.S. military prosecutors of blocking access to information in the case, including witnesses.
February: Qurans burned at Bagram Air Base
Afghanistan erupted in violent protests in February after U.S. troops burned religious materials - including Qurans - that had been removed from the detainee library at the Bagram Air Base's prison.
U.S. officials have said the destruction of religious materials was inadvertent, and that books had been removed from the library because there were writings in them from detainees that officials believed were potentially extremist messages.
But days of protests and attacks in the country followed, leaving dozens of people dead - including at least four U.S. soldiers - and hundreds of others wounded.
U.S. President Barack Obama apologized for the incident in a letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The Taliban Islamist militia rejected the apology and called on Afghans to take revenge "until the doers of such inhumane actions are prosecuted and punished."
This month, an International Security Assistance Force official said that investigations by U.S. and Afghan authorities were finished, and that it wasn't yet clear what actions Gen. John Allen, the ISAF commander, would take. Possible decisions include taking no action; recommending criminal charges; and issuing written reprimands, the official said, according to CNN's Barbara Starr.
January: Video shows U.S. Marines urinating on bodies
In January, a video surfaced on YouTube showing U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of slain Afghans.
In the 39-second video, one of the men says, "Have a great day, buddy." A voice asks, "You got it on the video?" to which another voice responds, "Yeah." Another jokes, "Golden, like a shower."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the U.S. government to investigate and hand down the harshest punishment possible. The Marine Corps at the time said it was investigating the actions, and news reports in February indicated Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who called the video "utterly deplorable," was briefed on the findings.
In a radio message posted to jihadist websites in March, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri used the incident to call on Afghans to rise up against Western troops.
"This act represents their values," al-Zawahiri said,"and this is their view toward other people in general and the Muslims in particular, and this is their way of treating us."
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Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Governors in the U.S. don't usually brawl, but this year seems to be the exception.
When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proudly scheduled a two-day sales-tax holiday for his citizens this month, just in time for back-to-school shopping, Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire punched back with a reminder that New Hampshire levies no sales tax at all. To rub it in, Governor Lynch travelled to Baron's Major Brands, an appliance retailer located practically within inches of the Massachusetts state line. Citizens of Massachusetts, Lynch bellowed over the border, ought to remember that "in New Hampshire, every day is a sales-tax holiday."
A similar contest rages between Governor David Paterson of New York and Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell. The New York State legislature had a plan to treat any carried interest earned by hedge-fund employees who commute into the state as income, subject to the state's high income-tax rates.
As Bloomberg has reported, Rell penned hedge-fund executives a smarmy letter inviting them to put their offices in the Nutmeg state. "I would like to convey a simple, yet, heartfelt message: Connecticut welcomes you."
There are other contests across the nation, statistically documented by the Tax Foundation. As Bill Ahern of the Foundation notes, "Nevada plays New Hampshire to California's Massachusetts."
Tax Brawls
What's up here? Many economic experts, including conservative ones, have long contended that marginal changes in tax rates don't weigh as heavily as other aspects of economic decision-making. The environment has changed. If you study the 2010 state tax brawls, you can see their import stretches far beyond their respective regions, even beyond U.S. borders.
The most visible reason for the escalation is the increase in federal-tax rates that will come in 2011. Barack Obama's administration has made it clear it will raise the statutory top rate to 39.6 percent, with all the additional taxes going up, including a wicked health-care-related levy on unearned income.
The federal government is itself, of course, thinking of taxing carried interest as income shortly. That likelihood is what originally emboldened Governor Paterson. As a result of the federal push upward, any diminution in state taxes becomes precious to companies, employees and consumers.
Time Is Cheaper
The second aspect at work here is recession. When you have less money, you care more about the sales tax or taxes paid on behalf of employees. When you have no job, your time is cheaper, and a drive across a border to get a break on a new washing machine suddenly begins to make sense.
The third aspect is political identity. States are like siblings. They have trouble remembering who they are unless they are competing with a brother or a sister. To feel good, states need someone else to feel better than. A tax race provides that opportunity to beat someone else.
And that state competitiveness results in a benefit for all citizens, not just those who live in the tax-cutting state. Other topics preoccupied Governor Rell this spring. But espying Paterson's weakness, and the readiness of the hedge funds to pack up their terminals and ergonomic chairs, Rell couldn't resist some tax fun. Paterson and his income-tax blunder made her political day. Her constituents won, too, for their carried-interest cash was now less likely to confront a tax increase.
Competitive Moves
Rell won't want to look like a hypocrite. She may have even helped New York because Paterson, wounded by his Rell battle, retreated from the plan for carried interest. Maybe not permanently, since Paterson doesn't believe in low taxes as a creed. He only moved due to the competition. Still, Paterson will be warier next time.
There is no doubt state taxes would be higher if the states didn't have each other breathing down their tax necks.
And states don't merely compete with each other. They compete with their own federal government, sometimes over revenue, but mostly political concepts. I wrote about this in last week's column, too, in reference to another battle, that between Maine and New Hampshire.
New Hampshire isn't just better than Maine, and Massachusetts; it is also in tax terms, better than Washington. The Granite State represents a kind of "woulda, coulda, shoulda" version of the country the U.S. isn't. This is as the country's framers intended. Down the centuries, individual U.S. states played the Tea Partiers, fighting back against Washington and reminding it of its fiscal limits. The check has worked, for low-tax politicians' success on the state level has often won them a place on the national stage, where they kept taxes from going up, and sometimes even cut them.
Best Match
This leads us to the most important competition of all, that involving nations. Britain has played the competitor role for Europe at times, and played it well. But the U.S. has also mattered. Though corporate taxes are high, the general tax burden in the U.S. is lower than the levels in the European Union. In economic heft and population terms, the U.S. is the best match for Europe.
When President Obama and Congress raise taxes, they make Europe's day. But they don't make Europe's decade, or its century. For without the U.S. to goad them, Europe's politicians -- like Paterson, hardly tax-cutters by temperament -- will surely raise taxes eventually. And they will do so because they don't have the U.S. to beat them.
(Amity Shlaes, senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)
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Honors for Rockford daughter, dad from Special Olympics family
ROCKFORD — Michele and Mark Panozzo will celebrate 25 years of Special Olympics this weekend, and they'll do it as they've done the past two decades: together.
The father and daughter have been anchors of the Rockford Red Hots for 20 years — Mike serving as a coach for up to 45 athletes from the region, Michele competing in events ranging from track and field to bocce.
The Panozzos will be honored Saturday — Mark, 57, as Coach of the Year; Michele, 32 as Athlete of the Year — at the opening ceremonies of the annual Northwestern/Area 1 Spring Games at Harlem High School.
And while the recognition is thrilling, Mark said, nothing compares to the experiences he and Michele have been able to share over the years, the friendships they've made and the community they were welcomed into and helped grow.
"We wouldn't trade it for the world. There are the health benefits and the social aspect of it, but what I like most is how it involves entire families. ... It becomes much bigger than sports and individual competitions. It's more like a big family."
From there to here
Michele's accomplishments in Special Olympics can fill two tables at her dad's home — one for medals and ribbons and team trophies, the other with photos and newspaper clippings.
Her participation began at age 8. Mark proudly shows off a photograph of Michele at her first games — her long brown hair in pigtails, her face filled with joy.
"Michele always has the biggest smile on her face at competitions. It's not about the winning. It's about participation and friendships."
Michele, who has Down syndrome, graduated from Jefferson High School in 2001 at age 21. She's been working at the Barbara Olson Center for Hope ever since, Mark said, working in the community three days a week at food pantries, delivering meals to the home-bound and sorting clothes at a donation center.
Athletically, she's tried everything from basketball and bowling to running and softball throw. She'll compete in the 50-meter run and softball throw this weekend, vying for a gold medal in one or both categories to advance to the state competition in June at Bloomington.
Panozzo sees a direct correlation between Michele's participation in Special Olympics and the quality of her life.
"I'd recommend this for anyone wanting to see a special-needs child or adult reach their full potential, become more physically fit, improve motor skills and build self-confidence. They learn about training and rules, and they take all of these benefits with them into their daily lives. ... The experience, for us, has been priceless."
Regional contests
About 1,500 athletes are in Area 1, a nine-county region in northwest Illinois.
There are 18 areas in the state, and each runs its own competition. It also hosts a number of tournaments throughout the year in basketball, bowling and volleyball.
The variety of sports allows athletes of all levels to participate in some way. Area Director Debbie Kelly said she's proud to honor the Panozzos along with the Jim and Mary Thompson family (Volunteers of the Year) this weekend.
"Mark and Michele are showing people what individuals with disabilities and their families can do," Kelly said. "We've always said, 'This is about family.' They really show what that's all about."
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If you go
What: Special Olympics Illinois Area 1 Spring Games
When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday
Where: Harlem High School, 1 Huskie Circle, Machesney Park
Where from: Area 1 athletes represent Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside and Winnebago counties


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Trust, but verify. That was the motto of President Ronald Reagan. It also ought to be the motto of everyone who uses email.
Security vendors Sophos and Kaspersky Lab both have in recent days warned of scam emails using the names of well-established companies to try to lure victims to malware sites. The scheme is obvious, or ought to be -- they figure if they use a trusted name, victims will trust the link.
The scams have been present virtually since email began, but security experts say they are increasing at an accelerating pace.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, reported early last week on a "widespread malware campaign that has been spammed out, disguised as a communication from DHL Express." He said it claims to be a tracking notification.
A few days later, Cluley reported on emails claiming to be from companies like British Airways, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google and Amazon. "The truth is that the headers are forged, and the emails have been specially crafted to look like legitimate communications from online firms, he wrote.
"Clicking on the links could send your computer to Canadian pharmacy-like spam sites offering to sell you Viagra, or even webpages hosting malicious payloads," he wrote.
On Kaspersky Lab's Threatpost blog, Brian Donohue wrote: "Criminal hackers launched an attack campaign earlier this week in which they sent a slew of emails purporting to come from the financial software developer Intuit. The emails contained links that led to sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit in an apparent attempt to infect the machines of corporate users."
There are multiple other examples, purporting to come from American Express, Microsoft and others.
There are mixed opinions about whether this means that malware attacks are now more focused on email than web searches. Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser with Sophos, said web infections still impact more users than any other method.
"There has been an increase in malicious email, but it hasn't approached the amount of infections sourced from the web," he said. "It really is just a change in how email infections work. They used to be attached EXEs and SCRs that were simple Trojans. Most organizations are smart enough to block executables from entering through their email gateways, so criminals have moved on to HTML, PDF and RTF files."
[See also: After 40 years, email security still elusive, experts say]
But Bogdan Botezatu, senior e-threat analyst at Bitdefender, said web search malware "has now lost ground in terms of email spam bundled with malicious attachments or malicious links."
Botezatu said a Bitdefender study earlier this year found that of 264.6 billion spam messages sent daily, 1.14% carry attachments. "That means that, every day, about 300 million spam messages carry a malicious payload. We expect this trend to increase by 2% to 6% from one year to another," he said.
Cluley said it is difficult to compare the two types of attacks strictly in numerical terms. "Many attacks these days will incorporate aspects of both. An email may contain a link to a malicious website, or an email with a dangerous attachment may then download further code from the web," he said.
"I think we can safely say that neither web nor email threats are going away," Cluley said.
The best way to avoid all this trouble is to adopt some version of Reagan's motto. In his blog post, Cluley advises users to always be careful about clicking on links in unsolicited emails. "Hover over links with your mouse to tell where it's really going to before clicking, and keep your antivirus and anti-spam protection updated," he said.
Stephen Cobb, a security evangelist at ESET, said to "'Be intelligent,' together with 'Be informed' and probably 'Be suspicious.'"
"I would also say that running good antivirus at all times adds a strong line of defense in addition to anything your browser, browser add-on, or email service is doing to keep you safe," Cobb said.
Another way to spot scams is to recall the grammar you learned in elementary school. Scams are frequently littered with grammatical mistakes.
One scam email circulating Monday, purporting to be a sweepstakes award from Microsoft, declared in a sentence fragment: "Where your email address (XXXX) emerged as one of the online Winning (sic) emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of 350,000.00 Euros (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros Only) and a (sic) HP laptop."
Cobb and others say some email providers are better than others at screening out scams. "Gmail is pretty good, largely because it can leverage Google's vast amount of traffic to spot malicious activity," Cobb said.
"But, of course, pretty good is not always good enough," he said. "I run Gmail in parallel with an unfiltered email app on some accounts and clearly Gmail learns about new malicious email campaigns pretty quickly, but I sometimes see infected documents and malicious links coming through Gmail, and these are usually first-of-a-kind attacks."
Bogdan Botezatu said while Gmail and Yahoo Mail block potentially malicious attachments, "it would be unreasonable to assume that any e-mail service could block these attachments with 100% accuracy."
J. Wolfgang Goerlich, an information security manager for a Michigan-based financial services firm, agrees that technology is part of the solution. "Organizations need to utilize and update spam filters to reduce the likelihood of scam emails getting to the end user," he said.
But he said given that signature controls always lag behind the scammers, "people become the last line of defense. It is important for an organization help its employees develop the equivalent of email street smarts," he said.


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Space and Time
Space and Time was a science fiction, fantasy and horror fanzine by Gordon Linzner.
Space and Time was a long running fanzine that began in 1966 and was published in Kew Gardens, NY, U.S.A. It featured comics, science fiction, fantasy and horror writing, poetry and art work.
Contributors of writing included Fred Adams (Spoor), Allen Ashley, Blythe Ayne, Steve Behrends, Amy Benesch, Edward Paul Berglund (Nyctalops), Ruth Berman (SH - sf Fanthology), Richard Lee Byers, Llewellyn M. Cabos, Al D. Cockrell (Wyrd, Wax Dragon), Brad Cahoon, Marion Cohen, Lillian Csernica, Don D'Ammassa (Mythologies), Andrew Darlington (Ludd's Mill), Gene Day (Dark Fantasy), George C. Diezell II, Denise Dumars, Steve Eng (as himself and as John Bredon), Janet Fox (Scavenger's Newsletter), Joey Froehlich, W. Paul Ganley (Eerie Country), Norman Hartman (Viewpoints), Vaclav Hazel, Connie Hirsch, Gerard Houarner, Jon Inouye, Charlee Jacob, Phyllis Ann Karr (The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror), Millea Kenin (Owlflight), Judy Klass, C.C. Klingan (The Diversifier), Mitya Kornedeplov, Randall Larson (Threshold of Fantasy), Mary Soon Lee, Lisa Lepovetsky, D.F. Lewis (Nemonymous), Megan Lindholm, Angus MacLeod, David Madison, Marcia Martin, Mark McLaughlin (The Urbanite), Ed Newby, Andrew J. Offut, Wilum Pugmire (Midnight Fantasies), William P. Robertson, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Fantasy Macabre), Susan Anne Santo, Charles R. Saunders (Stardock), Alex Saviuk, Ann K. Schwader, Darrell Schweitzer, Josepha Sherman, Marge B. Simon (Star*Line), Judith Johnson Sherwin, Charles T. Smith, David C. Smith, Steve Sneyd (Data Dump), Irvin L. Wagner (Wyrd, Wax Dragon), Robert E. Weinberg, Ron Wilber, and Neal Wilgus.
Contributors of art work included Barb Armata, Jill Bauman, Sheryl Birkhead (The National Fantasy Fan), Cathy Buburuz (Champagne Horror), Steve Coronel, Dan Day, Gene Day, Seth Dogramajian (Exile), Brad Foster, Jack Gaughan, Jim Garrison, Mark Gelotte, Chet Gotfried, Earl Johnson, Jr., Gary Kato, Allen Koszowski, Tim Lynch, Ken Meyer, Jr., Pat Morrisey, John Romita, Jr., Stephen Schwartz, Gene Simmons (as Gene Klein) (Faun), Marge B. Simon, Denis Tiani, and Augie Wiedemann.
Also included is the complete comic story "The Hellsman" by Gordon Linzner and Alex Saviuk, with ink work by John Romita, Jr.
Space and Time, during its run, published a number of works by authors whose stories include H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Gordon Linzner also published special 'theme' issues, devoted solely to Horror (# 20) and Swords and Sorcery (# 27).


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