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Eleanor Boardman (August 19, 1898 December 12, 1991) was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boardman was originally on stage but, after temporarily losing her voice, in 1922, she entered silent films. There followed months of fruitless effort until one day Rupert Hughes saw her riding a horse and gave her a part in a film and she quickly began to attract audiences. She was chosen by Goldwyn Pictures as their "New Face of 1922," through which she signed a contract with the company. After several successful supporting roles, she played the lead in 1923's Souls for Sale.
Her growing popularity was reflected by inclusion on the list of WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923. She appeared in fewer than forty films during her career, achieving her greatest success in Vidor's The Crowd in 1928. Her performance in that film is widely recognized as one of the outstanding performances in American silent films.
Unable to make the transition from silent to talking pictures, Boardman retired in 1935, and retreated from Hollywood. Her only subsequent appearance was in an interview filmed for the Kevin Brownlow and David Gill documentary series Hollywood in 1980.
Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.
Davies was already building a solid reputation as a film comedienne when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies pictures, promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels, and pressured studios to cast her in historical dramas for which she was ill suited. For this reason, Davies is better remembered today as Hearst's mistress and the hostess of many lavish events for the Hollywood elite. In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht when one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, died.
In the film Citizen Kane (1941), the title character's wifean untalented singer whom he tries to promotewas widely assumed to be based on Davies. But many commentators, including Citizen Kane writer/director Orson Welles himself, have defended Davies' record as a gifted actress, to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. She retired from the screen in 1937, choosing to devote herself to Hearst and charitable work.
In Hearst's declining years, Davies provided financial as well as emotional support until his death in 1951. She married for the first time eleven weeks after his death, a marriage which lasted until Davies died of stomach cancer in 1961 at the age of 64.
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I removed the "First Fruit Tree" post this morning. A commenter pointed out that the link for the post pointed to absolute crap. The commenter was right.
Please make sure, if you post, that your link goes to an actual article and not a page full of ads and spam.
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Do not attempt to blame ipad's, technology, etc. Your Affordable Healthcare Application is now on administrative hold. This is your last warning. :-P
MOGADISHU -- Several bomb explosions targeted trucks carrying the Somali Federal Government soldiers in Yaqshid district of Mogadishu on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports. At least five soldiers died in the explosions which were landmine attacks on two separate convoy, according to witnesses.
The first roadside bomb was timed to go off when the first truck touch it, after few minutes lapsed another bomb went off; we have seen five bodies dressed in military uniform, said a nearby resident.
Nobody claimed the responsibility for the attacks but Mogadishu has been hotbed for violence, planned assassinations, military-style ambushes and bombings which made the security situation extremely volatile and poor.
Despite looming threats of instability in Mogadishu, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed announced a National Security Council which is tasked with introducing security plans in Mogadishu on Tuesday.
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[Libya Herald] Three men were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... today in Benghazi on suspicion of involvement in the campaign of booby-trapped vehicles, which has seen present and past-serving military and coppers assassinated or seriously injured.
The front man for the city's Joint Security Room, Abdullah Al-Saidi told the Libya Herald that not all of the suspects were Libyan. He said that one of the men was injured during the arrest but did not give details of how, nor where this had happened. He did say however, that the arrests had come about in part because of information supplied by members of the public.
It is unclear if there is any connection between the capture of these individuals and yesterday's pursuit of a vehicle thought to have been used by the two masked killers of Col Mustafa Agela Almugrbi, shot outside the Al-Ansar mosque as he left Friday prayers with his ten-year old son.
Last night, Sunday, the four occupants of a white Mitsubishi Lancer with tinted windows were chased until they abandoned the vehicle, reportedly, along with weapons and a phone, and fled into "wild country". The security forces were said to have then surrounded the area.
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[Al Ahram] Two supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi were reportedly rubbed out on Tuesday evening as military forces attempted to disperse a pro-Morsi rally in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Suef.
An eyewitness told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website that hundreds of Morsi supporters had gathered in front of a mosque to begin a pro-Morsi march when a passing military patrol attempted to disperse the crowd, leading to violent festivities.
Medical sources said that the two slain protesters had sustained gunshot wounds and that two out of eight other injured protesters, who are all suffering from bullet wounds, are in a critical condition.
A senior military official in Beni Suef told Ahram Arabic that security forces had not fired at protesters.
The last week has seen comparatively few violent festivities between Morsi supporters and security forces, following the upheaval spurred by the violent dispersal of the pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on 14 August which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
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[Al Ahram] On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecution levied a new charge for incitement of murder against Islamist preacher and Moslem Brüderbund supporter Safwat Hegazy.
Hegazy, who was nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Wednesday pending an investigation that started on Saturday, was slapped with a fresh incitement charge regarding the 15 July festivities between supporters of ousted President Morsi and police forces in Ramsis Square, Downtown Cairo.
Prosecutors extended Hegazy's detainment for 15 more days following Tuesday's accusations. He had already been given a 15-day extension on Monday.
Hegazy was accused of inciting an attempt to storm Al-Azbakeya cop shoppe near Ramsis Square, as well as for targeting coppers with firearms.
He currently faces several charges, including attempted murder and incitement of violence against opponents of deposed president Mohamed Morsi within pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo's Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square and Giza's Al-Nahda Square, as well as for his role in earlier festivities between supporters and opponents of Morsi at the Presidential palace in December.
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[Al Ahram] On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecution formally charged tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohey Hamed with inciting murder and arming supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi during the deadly festivities that broke out near Cairo University on 30 June.
Hamed was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Saturday after he was found in an apartment in the east Cairo district of Nasr City. He is a member of the Brotherhood Guidance Bureau, the highest authority in the 85 year-old group's hierarchy.
On Monday, Egyptian prosecutors implicated the Islamist group's second-in-command, Khairat El-Shater, and Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazi in the same investigation.
At least 16 died during the festivities near Cairo University, close to Al-Nahda Square, where a pro-Morsi sit-in was being staged.
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[Al Ahram] Two attacks by suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... snuffies have killed 24 people in Nigeria's northeast in the latest violence believed to be in Dire Revenge™ against vigilantes, residents and officials said Tuesday.
A survivor and a hospital source spoke of 18 people killed in the town of Bama on Sunday. A resident and a military source said six people were killed in Damasak on Monday.
The two locations are in Borno state, but are some 200 kilometres (124 miles) apart.
The military has encouraged the formation of vigilante groups to help it track down Boko Haram members as it pursues an offensive in the northeast aiming to end the Islamist hard boys' four-year insurgency.
"They came in military uniform and pretended to be members of the JTF," survivor Mallam Bakura Module said of the attack in Bama, referring to a security task force.
"They asked after members of the vigilante group ... but they opened fire on members of the group as we assembled for an address, killing 14 persons and injuring 10 others."
An official at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital said on condition of anonymity that four others had died on Monday night, bringing the corpse count to 18.
In Damasak along the border with the neighbouring nation of Niger, relatives said vigilantes were traced there after travelling to the community to sell goods at the local market.
"They were shot in the middle of the night while sleeping in the (guest) house," said one relative, Mallam Ali Abdullahi.
A military official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... confirmed the attack.
The violence was the latest in a spate of such attacks apparently targeting vigilantes and local residents' cooperation with them.
Vigilantes have been credited with helping to push the snuffies out, but security analysts have warned that the situation risks spiralling out of control and resulting in further violence in the future.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Chihuahua state, click here
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
A total of six individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in southern Chihuahua in two separate incidents, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news account in the online edition of El Diario de Juarez reported that five men were shot, four of them found dead near the village of San Ignacio de los Almanzan in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality Sunday.
Citing the source, a spokesman of the Chihuahua state Fiscalia General del Estado, or attorney general, state police were advised via an anonymous phone call that the victims had been wounded near the San Ignacio de los Almazan River on Sunday.
The victims were identified as Gonzalo Alvarez Lopez, 38, Obier Macías Carrillo, 30, Saul Lopez Macias, 28, Jesus Noel Cardenas Macías, 43 and a fourth unidentified man. Cardenas Macias was not present at the scene because reportedly his family had taken him to receive medical care, but he died before reaching help.
The five victims were all shot with AK-47 and AR-15 rifles.
According to a separate account in El Diario de Juarez, southern Chihuahua Fiscalia Jesus Chavez said that the five were killed in an armed encounter between two local rival criminal groups.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality a 60 year old man was found strangled and beaten to death, according to a news account which appeared on the website of El Sol de Parral news daily.
Tomas Garcia Zuñiga was taken from a residence during a home invasion in Hiela Mucho Sunday. Hewas later found dead nearby.
The news report said that four armed suspects carrying AK-47 and AR-15 rifles broke into the residence and threatened to take everyone present prisoner. The family members instead fled, so the suspects took Garcia Zuñiga.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[WSJ] A pro-Syrian government group appeared to attack more than 10 websites, including Twitter, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... [NYT -2.93%] and HuffingtonPost.com, said security researchers citing digital evidence.
The attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that supports Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , come as the U.S. is considering action against Syria. In the past, the group has taken action against media organizations and websites it believes are sympathetic to Syrian rebels.
The websites, including the Huffington Post's U.K. website, appeared to be compromised Tuesday by the group, said a security researcher who had seen digital evidence. HuffingtonPost confirmed the attack and said there was a "minimal disruption of service."
The hackers, meantime, repeatedly claimed they had taken over Twitter's Internet address, though they appeared to be unsuccessful.
The social media site never appeared to lose service. (The hackers used their own Twitter account to claim they had hacked the social-media website.)
But for a brief time Tuesday evening, twitter.com, one of the most trafficked U.S. websites, at least appeared to be owned by a group called SEA, also the hacking group's acronym. The website appeared to be registered to sea@sea.sy, according to a security researcher with knowledge of the digital evidence.
Multiple security researchers with firsthand knowledge of digital evidence said all of the websites hacked shared a common feature: They were registered through a company in Australia.
The firm, Melbourne IT, said the credentials of one of its resellers were used to access its systems. The hackers were then able to change the records for several websites, a company front man said.
The company then locked those records from future changes after the problem was resolved, the front man said.
Similar digital evidence showed the New York Times's website had been hacked by the SEA, said Johannes Ullrich, a cybersecurity expert at the SANS Institute in Washington. Ullrich, who doesn't work for the Times, found digital evidence that shows the newspaper's website was redirecting to a different server. When Ullrich, who has tracked the hacker group in the past, checked which new server nytimes.com directs to, he received the message "Hacked by SEA. Connection closed by foreign host."
The Syrian Electronic Army has targeted several media organizations in the past, including the Washington Post, Rooters and the Onion, a satirical newspaper. When the SEA hacked the Twitter account of the News Agency that Dare Not be Named earlier this year, it posted a false headline to the account that said the White House had been attacked. The hoax caused U.S. stock markets to briefly lose $200 billion in value.
The website was down for several hours. As of Tuesday night, the Times was publishing on a different Web address.
Whats about to happen, if the United States and allies do go through with the strikes, is less of a war and more of a ritual. This isnt about defeating Assad, its about punishing him. And that calls for being really precise about how much punishment the United States imposes.
This is what the Clinton administration did in 1998 with Operation Desert Fox, when it and the United Kingdom bombed Iraq as punishment for cheating on weapons of mass destruction disarmament. The strikes were also intended to degrade Iraqs WMD production capacity. The 100 or so targets were, as now with Syria, telegraphed ahead of time. Many of them were empty. Iraq knew it was coming and was mostly unsurprised, which meant that it didnt escalate. The campaign was limited in scope and, although the history of Iraq and WMDs is obviously a thorny one, appeared to be largely successful at least at punishing Saddam Hussein. The writer has a very strange definition of "success". Here's my 2 cents on what the big O is going to do: nothing. He'll find some way to punt. From now on they're on double secret probation!
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Right. "Mr. Big" from Chicago doesn't even get how street violence works, where the gun is waved around immediately on the slightest pretense and usually is fired in short order, even if just for show...
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[BREITBART] North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, a Japanese daily said Tuesday, as the US threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack.
A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti Sar, left North Korea for Syria earlier this year with the consignment, the Sankei Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources from the US military, Japanese and South Korean intelligence.
The US military, which obtained the information, was tracking the ship in coordination with other countries, the daily -- which is known for its North Korea coverage -- said in a detailed report.
The vessel sailed through Dardanelles in Turkey on April 3 and was searched shortly after by Turkish authorities, who had been tipped off by the US.
Turkish officials seized 1,400 rifles and pistols and some 30,000 bullets as well as gas masks apparently for chemical protection, the daily said.
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If confirmed, Pyongyang could face additional UN sanctions over the shipment.
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You know Obullshit, it'l never "Be Confirmed".
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[Al Ahram] Obama has not made decision to take military action against Syrian government after chemical weapons attack
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See also WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA CAN NOT CONTINUE TO TOLERATE "SMALL COUNTRY [e.g. Japan, Philipines] BULLYING BIG COUNTRY" [China] PHENOMENON.
Come on, now, Regional power RISING IRAN has only given Global Superpower OBAMERIKA a mere three "red lines" thus far - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???
To paraph KRAUTHAMMER = SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.
FYI as per WW2, We all know NOT-CHINA Adolf Hitler + Wehrmacht Boyz took over VICHY FRANCE anyway as the Allied invasion of Europe loomed.
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I think since they have the extra help and resources they should send NSA, IRS and a few Hollywood types. OH, that might not work. They would forget which side they're on. Make for a long term infestation however.
Gas prices skyrocket.
White House scandals disappear from the news.
Stick in the eye to the US Congress in recess.
Stick in the eye to Vlad.
Cookies and milk to the AQ and the Broederbond.
White House scandals disappear from the news.
Polls could level off or escape the news.
White House scandals disappear from the news.
Debt ceiling rises to cover cost of strike/war.
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I'm kinda hoping McCain goes in with the first wave in a Skyhawk, with Lindsay Graham in the rear seat, and just enough fuel to make it over Damascus.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Ahram] Two supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi were reportedly 
[Al Ahram] Two attacks by suspected 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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[Al Ahram] Obama has not made decision to take military action against Syrian government after chemical weapons attack
