 KATRINA & THE LOST CITY OF NEW ORLEANS by Rod Amis
New Orleans is the Lost City of America.A portion of the proceeds of this book will go to the New Orleans Hospitality Workers Fund. The cooks, servers and restaurant workers of New Orleans have provided fabulous times and memories for millions. Now we must remember them in their time of need.
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 AFRICA FRESH! New Voices from the First Continent
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THE TRUTH SPEAK EDITION
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 G21 MIDEAST: For Jill Carroll by NATASHA TYNES
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Washington, DC, USA - January 09, 2006 - oh god, not jill!!
Oh my God. I'm in utter and complete shock. My hands are trembling as I'm writing this. My very good friend Jill Carroll has been kidnapped while on assignment in Iraq for The Christian Science Monitor!!
She is one of the kindest, most sincere, honest people I have ever met. She is a very motivated journalist who always went out of her way to seek the truth. I'm speechless. My words escape me at this moment. The knot in my stomach is more than I can bear. I pray to God to protect her and bring home safely. She really doesn't deserve this. She has been working hard for years to report the true side of the story.
I met Jill while working at the Jordan Times three years ago. She has become a dear friend since then. She attended my wedding and was even a supervising usher working hard to make our big day a success. Please, God, return her home safely!
For the last two days, both the husband and I have been extremely stressed out, worried about the fate of our dear fiend Jill. We are still very hopeful that she will make it, primarily because she speaks Arabic and has been in the region for more than three years. Maybe her understanding and love for Arab culture will be a key to her getting out of this horrible ordeal.
She is the sweetest, most caring, most honest person you could ever meet. What kind of a person would want to hurt Jill? Will the kidnappers have any mercy left in them for her? We are hoping and constantly praying that they will. As this story has developed, so have the reactions from the blogosphere. Here are a few thoughts from those that knew her personally. This from Baghdad Treasure:
AUSTIN, REPUBLIC OF TEJAS - Because I've decided to try to fit in more around here on my second outing as a G21.net columnist, I've noticed that besides my normal focus on The Dirt, one thang that is sorely missin' in these here pages is talking about the music. BOB POWERS did a great job of that for years, as far as the jazz scene went in particular. But since ol' Bob moved on, no body has picked up the slack.
I mean to remedy that situation starting right now. I'm gonnah open by talkin' about KT Tunstall. If y'all are broadband users you can quickly access some clips and videos at that there BBC link and get a sense of why I'm an hot for more from this musician. She is da Bomb, as far as Missus Hart's fair-haired boy is concerned
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That a small independent magazine, that survives on beggared $10 and $20 donations, should so consistently give you the real story on the ground when major outlets of the MM, with millions of dollars in resources, do not should give you pause.
The difference between our reporting and that of the MM is that we actually do it from the ground, where the story is, as opposed to from the lounge of
some hotel where all the "respectable" journalists are parroting each others' stories or those of the "official" sources to which they have access by dint of their prestige. Think about it. ... READ MORE
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KT has some of that kindah energy Bonnie Raitt has and a nice bluesy-ness about here y'all wouldn't expect from a Brit. Doin' a little research on her I found out a couple of thangs: