Monday, August 8, 2011

nazrudin tertangkap pas mau nonton bola

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID,JAKARTA--Mantan bendahara umum Partai Demokrat Muhammad Nazaruddin tertangkap petugas kepolisian Cartegena, Kolombia, Ahad (7/8) pagi waktu setempat. Nazaruddin ditangkap saat sedang duduk di Bandara Cartagena menunggu pesawat ke Bogota, ibukota Kolombia.

Saat ditangkap, Nazaruddin hanya seorang diri dan tidak ditemani para pengawal ataupun istrinya. Lalu sedang ada Nazaruddin di Bandara Cartagena?
Wakil Duta Besar Bidang Politik KBRI Bogota, Johanes Subagia Made, menerangkan, sesuai keterangan Nazaruddin kepada petugas polisi Cartagena yang menangkapnya, Nazaruddin berniat menonton pertandingan sepak bola.
“Di Bogota kan sedang ada kejuaraan dunia sepak bola U-20, nah Nazaruddin ingin ke Bogota untuk menonton pertandingan itu” ujar Subagia melalui sambungan telepon kepada Republika, Senin (8/8). “Itu keterangan dia kepada polisi di Cartagena,” lanjut Subagia menegaskan.
Dia mengatakan, saat ini KBRI Bogota masih terus mendampingi Nazaruddin yang tengah mendekam di tahanan khusus kepolian di Bogota bersama para tahanan lainnya.
KBRI, kata Subagia, akan melakukan langkah-langkah diplomatik selama dua hari ke depan guna kepentingan pemulangan Nazaruddin ke tanah air. “Intinya kita akan melindungi keselamatan yang bersangkutan.”
Ihwal proses penangkapan, Subagia menerangkan, berdasarkan keterangan petugas polisi Cartagena yang menangkap Nazaruddin, mantan bendahara umum Partai Demokrat tersebut sempat melakukan perlawanan.
Nazaruddin tidak terima ditangkap petugas lantaran merasa tidak mempunyai kesalahan apa pun. “Makanya dia melawan, tapi dia hanya sendiri tidak ada pengawal atau orang lain yang membantu dia,” kata Subagia. EH Ismail

Bad Girls



Bad Girls are not necessarily femme fatales here, but a female presence in a book or movie that wreaks havoc. There have been plenty of elderly ladies that have done such a thing. (Arsenic and Old Lace comes to mind). Or the teenager in The Childrens' Hour. Or the child in The Bad Seed.



In Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Gene Tierney plays a woman so obsessed with her new husband, she will destroy anyone she perceives to be a threat to her marriage.



I was scared to death of this movie seeing it on The Late Show as a kid.

It still scares me today. I think it might have been the first time I saw a movie where someone with the face of an angel did such hideous things.



The title is a quote from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In Act I, Scene V, the Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to "leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her."



Who is your favorite Bad Girl? Characters from books, tv or the movies .

How I Came to Write This Story" Jane Hammons



HOW I WROTE THIS STORY



Mapping the Territory

published in Shotgun Honey.

By Jane Hammons

When I was about 10, I was goofing around with some tin cans (don’t ask) and almost cut my thumb off. After the stitches healed, I thought if I was ever fingerprinted, I’d have a pretty cool thumbprint. In the early 80s, long before laparoscopic surgery, I was a kidney donor for my older sister. When I told people I was having the surgery, they often made comments like, “Wow, your bikini days are over.” A big fuck you was usually my response. I’d wear a bikini if I wanted to, scar or no scar.

So when I read the “I don’t really mind the scars” challenge here at pattinase, I remembered that anger. This reminded me of an article by Jessa Crispin I’d read in The Smart Set that better expresses than I can some of my concerns about representations of the female body in crime fiction. But there’s no better way to kill a story than to burden it with a bunch of “isms” and a personal axe to grind. I didn’t make the deadline to post a story for the challenge because it took me a while to get off my hobbyhorse.

Then the character—a woman who begins cutting herself as a child—came to me. My grandmother used to talk about family members who “show their Indian,” a phrase that refers to skin color, which, depending on her mood was either something to be proud of or a cause for shame. I thought of this as a “scar” that my Cherokee grandmother dealt with most of her life. I remembered that I kind of liked my thumb scar. And that helped me understand the kind of tension I wanted in this story between impulses that are deadly yet also creative. Once these things started bumping up against each other, I began looking at maps and working with Indian place names. From a long ago anthropology class on body art, Hunapo, a Maori skilled in the art of skin packing, showed up. At that point, what had been a big noisy collision in my head, started making a strange kind of sense, and I began “Mapping the Territory.”

Jane Hammons teaches writing at UC Berkeley where she is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award. She has work included in Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (W. W. Norton 2010) and The Maternal is Political (Seal Press 2008). She recently received a Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Story Society for Best Flash Story 2011. Her most recent crime fiction has appeared in A Twist of Noir, Crimespree Magazine, Powder Flash Burn, Pulp Metal Magazine, and Verbicide Magazine.

gambar HOT dan seksi





Sunday, August 7, 2011

Sunday Writer's Forum

A terrific interview with Megan on Memphis Public Radio can be found here.







Question 2.

What is the average length of time it takes you to finish a polished story?

P.A. I would say a month. I might also be working on another story and go back and forth, but probably a month. I like rewriting more than writing and I think that slows me down.

Michael Bracken: Actual writing time? From a few hours up to about 10 hours, Rarely more. Rarely less. However, years may pass between the time I make notes for a story I'd like to write and when I actually write it.

Question 3

Do you outline your stories?

Michael almost never outlines and if he does, it's just a sketch.

I never do either. Even at my attempts at a novel, I just kept track of the characters birth dates on a chart. None of the plot.

How about the rest of you?

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Throwing in the Towel

I wrote last year about how the library in Troy Michigan was closing due to a no vote on a library millage. Well, this week the voters of Troy (population 80,000) came out and reversed that decision and the library is safe for five years. Sanity reigns.

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Jeff Meyerson and I have been discussing how long we stick with a book before throwing in the towel. He mentioned a fifty-page rule; I wish I was that generous.

If a book has very good reviews, or word of mouth, or I have liked other books by that author, I might stick with it that long even if it wasn't interesting me.

But I have closed books after 5 pages, 20 pages, 200 pages. And once or twice within ten pages of finishing.

I have a friend who has finished every book she started except one. I can't imagine this because I am a very careless chooser. Especially with library books. I have a table full of them now, all due in two weeks. Like the cover: pick it up, Like the title: pick it up. Read a good review, pick it up. See where I am going. Incidentally THE SISTER BROTHERS was a sure pick-up for me. Terrific title, terrific cover. But will I like what's inside?

What about you? How long do you give a book?

Mia from Michigan



Mia is the daughter of good friends and is making her way in the big city of New York. Aside from making delectable pastries and selling them at Three Tarts in Chelsea, she is making wonderful jewelry.

Check out her inventory above.


New York seems to call to our kids. Mia has studied the culinary arts in Italy. Stop by or give her website a look. Isn't she the prettiest girl?