Author Mailer dies at 84

BOSTON: Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was a dominating presence on the US literary scene across seven decades, died yesterday of kidney failure, his family said. He was 84.
Known for his biting prose, penchant for controversy and as an antagonist of the feminist movement, Mailer had struggled with his health for months, undergoing lung surgery in October and spending five days in a Boston hospital in September.

Rice, now 52, was just starting out as a writer when she met Mailer in the late-1980s. He invited her to join him for a drink, they talked, and over the years she said he became a mentor and father figure to the budding writer.
Detractors considered him an intellectual bully and he feuded with fellow authors like Truman Capote, William Styron, Tom Wolfe and Norman Podhoretz.
Feminists like Germaine Greer and Kate Millett considered him the quintessential male chauvinist...
Some of the feuds even turned physical for the former college boxer, who stabbed one of his six wives at a party and also decked writer Gore Vidal.
Mailer lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and had an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. In Provincetown, he was known as a generous public figure in his later years who loved to play poker and often held games at his Provincetown home.
He is survived by his wife Norris Church Mailer, and nine children, the family said. His son Stephen was at his side when he died at 4.30am.
They planned a private service and interment to be announced next week, and a memorial service in New York in coming months.

Canadian Kahnawake Gaming Commission investigation absolute poker AbsolutePoker cheating incident

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September 12, in absolute poker championship to be held on a network, a user name Marco players that another user called Potripper Championship players might exist cheating, then e-mail to absolute poker consultation. Absolute poker staff mistook a XLS format of the internal documents to mail information to this player.

Marco received the documents themselves can not read, he did not mind, until two weeks after he and other players As to this matter content of the document only when told other people.

After other players and professional analysis of the seemingly chaotic is actually a document containing all users Championship each hand detailed historical record, which also contains the accounts of all users, landing IP addresses and e-mail addresses.

Historical records show that users document entitled Potripper players can see other users seems to be the hand, often appear in the game against the common sense moves, but the results always win, the fact that he simply watching other players playing the cards in hand.

Meanwhile, the document also recorded Potripper IP addresses and e-mail were, after analysis, Potripper in the e-mail address is absolute poker server, but also Potripper landing IP address that this installation of the broadband network is absolutely Tom Scott, former chairman of poker.

Players final analysis that Potripper absolute poker accounts belonging to the former operations director AJ Green, he is the best friend Tom Scott, AJ Green betting company in another serving.

Internal documents mistakenly sent to the player s absolute poker staff has been dismissed.