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Balkan Crisis Report No. 363
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- WELCOME TO IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 363, August 30, 2002
MACEDONIA: AHMETI ARREST THREAT. The nationalist government has angered
the West by threatening to detain an ethnic Albanian leader. IWPR team
reports from Skopje and London.
SERBIA: SOLANA TO PUSH FOR UNION DEAL. Election fever holds up progress
on linking Serbia with Montenegro. Daniel Sunter reports from Belgrade
and Boris Darmanovic reports from Podgorica.
ALBANIA: JOBLESS FLOCK TO RIVERIA. The country's fledgling tourist
industry is being bolstered by the influx of impoverished northerners.
Denisa Xhoga reports from Vlore.
COMMENT: 500 DAYS OF DJINDJIC. Allegations of corruption and
mismanagement have obscured some very real progress by the post-Milosevic
administration. Biljana Stepanovic reports from Belgrade.
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The nationalist government has angered the West by threatening to detain
an ethnic Albanian leader.
By IWPR team in Skopje and London
Macedonia Friday risked confrontation with the West after the government
confirmed it had issued an arrest warrant for a prominent ethnic Albanian
opposition figure, in defiance of last year's Ohrid peace deal.
NATO's ambassador to Macedonia, Nicholaas Biegman, said any move to
apprehend Ali Ahmeti, a former rebel leader now heading one of the
country's biggest political parties, contradicted the terms of the deal,
which included an amnesty for former fighters.
After last year's Ohrid agreement curbed secessionist violence in western
Macedonia, Ahmeti became the leader of Democratic Union of Integration
DUI, now the largest opposition party, alongside the Social Democratic
Alliance of Macedonia, SDSM. The DUI espouses a moderate programme that
supports the unity of Macedonia.
In spite of his moderation, Macedonian protesters have been calling for
his arrest since the recent killing of two ethnic Macedonian policemen.
The arrests threaten to unravel the West's painstakingly assembled peace
strategy that centered on drawing Albanian militants into the political
If the government, comprising the nationalist Internal Macedonian
Revolutionary Organisation - Democratic Party for Macedonian National
Unity, VMRO-DPMNE, the Liberal Democratic Party, Democratic Party of
Albanians, DPA and Party for Democratic Prosperity, PDP, does seize
Ahmeti, it will almost certainly trigger a new revolt in the mostly
Albanian west of the republic.
Some analysts believe VMRO and its partners are counting on a return to
violence, and the subsequent cancellation of the election, as part of
their strategy for retaining power.
As tension threatened to spiral out of control on Friday, heavily armed
police sealed off an ethnic Albanian village where five Macedonians
kidnapped by Albanian gunmen are apparently being held.
Police said the gunmen stopped a bus on the Gostivar highway in western
Macedonia and seized several Macedonian civilians, threatening to kill
them if Albanians arrested for the murder of the two Macedonian policemen
were not freed. The kidnappers said they would kill their five hostages
by a Friday morning deadline, a police source in Tetovo said.
Large numbers of police with a dozen armoured personnel carriers were seen
outside the village of Zerovjane, halfway between Tetovo and Gostivar.
The two policemen were killed on August 26 in Gostivar. Danail Jankovski,
47, and Aleksandar Nikolic, 39, died when drivers of a car with foreign
license plates fired at the checkpoint where they were on duty, leaving
the scene at great speed.
The militant Albanian National Army, ANA, said it was responsible for the
killing. Although the group is in conflict with Ahmeti, protesters began
demanding the latter's arrest.
Within 12 hours of the Gostivar killings, Macedonians from the suburbs
were blocking roads into the city, building barricades of cars, and buses.
At a rally that followed, protesters carried placards bearing the
messages, "Stop Ahmeti and his murderers", and "Ahmeti, we'll catch you".
The public prosecutor, Stavre Dzikov, and controversial hard line interior
minister, Ljupce Boskovski, have backed the arrest calls.
The aim of the protesters was to prevent the DUI leader from reaching
Skopje and addressing a pre-election rally scheduled for Saturday.
The headquarters of two Albanian political parties in Skopje were attacked
on Thursday and the headquarters of the People's Democratic Party, NDP,
led by Kastriot Haxhirexha, was set on fire. A bomb went off in front of
Ahmeti's house in Skopje and a Molotov cocktail was also thrown at it.
There were no injuries.
Ahmeti's party described the assaults as pressure organised by the
authorities. In a letter to the international community, the party
spokesman, Agron Buxhaku, said "certain circles" in the government were
trying to "organise sabotage, media blockades and arrests of party
The NDP complained that police did not even investigate the arson attack
on their headquarters. They said the fire was organised by the ruling
parties who were jealous of their popularity.
However, the police suggested the blaze was the work of other ethnic
Albanians. The interior ministry blamed terrorist groups trying to
destabilise the country two weeks before the election.
Dzikov, a VMRO member, backed the call for Ahmeti's arrest, saying if
charges were brought against any citizen "they should be arrested so that
law and order will be respected". Dzikov claimed the
internationally-brokered amnesty for rebel fighters did not apply to
anyone charged with terrorism.
Leaders of the four biggest Albanian parties on Friday, including the DUI
and rulling DPA, strongly condemned the kidnapping of Macedonian civilians
near Gostivar and the recent increase in violence.
VMRO and its Liberal Democratic Party partners have used the crisis to
demand that the opposition Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia sign an
agreement, politically isolating Ahmeti. They want all Macedonian parties
to promise not to form a coalition with the DUI after the election. "This
is not pre-election marketing, but a serious proposal for protecting the
national interests," the VMRO said.
Some of the smaller parties are deeply sceptical of the motives for such
an agreement, suggesting the killing of the two policeman was organised by
government agents to increase tension.
Incidents resulting in injuries have, however, become an almost daily part
of Macedonia's pre-election life. On 15 August, two soldiers were lightly
wounded in an attack on a barracks in Skopje. The attackers fired from
automatic guns and threw a bomb at the troops. On the same day, an ethnic
Albanian from the village of Aracinovo wounded a member of Ahmeti's party
in a fight.
On 16 August, a car full of weapons exploded on the Skopje-Blace road. On
the same day, a bomb destroyed a pastry shop in the Kumanovo region, while
in a separate incident the police said one of its checkpoints was attacked
near the village of Opae.
Various gangs on the Tetovo-Gostivar highway have been erecting placing
blockades and robbing drivers.
The pre-election violence has raised concern for the future of the peace
agreement in international circles. They fear the killing of the
policemen, the attacks on the offices of Albanian parties and the road
blockades herald a potentially dangerous escalation of tension.
Election fever holds up progress on linking Serbia with Montenegro.
By Daniel Sunter in Belgrade and Boris Darmanovic in Podgorica
Javier Solana, the EU's foreign and security policy chief, is due in
Belgrade next week to wring agreement from squabbling politicians on a new
union between Serbia and Montenegro and pave the way for admission of
Yugoslavia into the Council of Europe, CoE.
In some quarters, his chances of success are rated high, despite
politicians in both countries who were until now less concerned with
reaching agreement than on posturing before voters in the run up to
national elections.
Solana's visit comes at a time when a constitutional commission comprising
representatives of the Serbian, Montenegrin and Yugoslav authorities
stands deadlocked over what shape the new union should take.
None of the five drafts - by the DOS coalition in Serbia, the Democratic
Party of Serbia, DSS, headed by federal president Vojislav Kostunica, the
Montenegrin and Serbian governments, the Coalition for Yugoslavia in
Montenegro and the Venice commission set up by the CoE - have met with
general agreement.
The general aim is for the two republics that currently comprise
Yugoslavia to link up and later become the new Union of Serbia and
Montenegro. Failure to reach an agreement could block Yugoslavia's bid for
Council of Europe, CoE, membership at the council's parliamentary assembly
on September 23.
The two deadlines set so far by the international community have been
broken and a third, which expires at the beginning of September, has also
been thrown into question. The big stumbling block is the approach of
Serbian presidential ballot on September 29 and an early general election
in Montenegro on October 9. Politicians in both republics fear a
willingness to compromise might go down badly with voters.
The proposal for union was advanced by Solana in the Belgrade Agreement,
signed by Montenegrin and Serbian top-rank officials on March 14, under
strong EU pressure. Montenegrin president Milo Djukanovic had up to then
campaigned vigorously for outright independence but, having failed to
gather enough political support, embraced the deal.
On June 19 a commission representing the parliaments of Serbia, Montenegro
and Yugoslavia was set up to devise a draft constitutional charter based
on the Belgrade Agreement, to ask for a common market, harmonisation of
economic systems and shared federal institutions.
The option advocated by Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS,
called for a loose federation of the two republics. The Montenegrin
president faced problems at home from his former pro-independence allies -
and now must also deal with a strong pro-Yugoslavia opposition, bolstered
by the defection of his former supporters the Liberal Alliance, in the
October 9 elections.
To mollify the disgruntled pro-independence voters, Djukanovic's
government came up with a programme that steered clear of federal
institutions and budgets. For a while, it seemed Djukanovic might have
found an ally in the Serbian prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, Kostunica's
main rival.
Djindjic's government presented a draft that tallied closely with the
ideas of the Montenegrin leader and both authorities accepted it on August
26. Djukanovic's opponents, the coalition Together for Yugoslavia,
immediately opposed the idea, as did Kostunica's DSS in Serbia.
The Serbian prime minister wanted to play down the idea of a federal
structure, which he feared would improve Kostunica's chances of becoming
president of Serbia. Kostunica has presented himself to voters as the
champion of maintaining Yugoslavia as a firm federation. Djindjic argued
that the solution lay in the hands of the Serbian and Montenegrin
According to Andrija Mandic, one of the leaders of the pro-Yugoslavia Serb
People's Party in Montenegro, Djukanovic and Djindjic wished to present
themselves as serious political figures while at the same time
jeopardising the status of all their rivals - even at the cost of breaking
up the state.
The two governments agreed to submit their text of the constitutional
charter to the DOS coalition for adoption and then offer it to the
constitutional commission as the final solution. However, things took a
different turn on August 28 when, under pressure from his partners within
the DOS, Djindjic was forced to back away from his agreement with
DOS members such as Nebojsa Covic's Democratic Alternative and Dragoljub
Micunovic's Democratic Centre, whose backing is crucial to Djindjic,
concluded the text offered by the two governments differed from the
requirements of the Belgrade Agreement.
To prevent rifts within the DOS, the text was modified to define the state
as a federation and envisaged that federal deputies would be directly
elected, a formula taken to imply a unitary state. The Montenegrins found
themselves in disarray.
The coordinator of the Montenegrin delegation, Dragan Kujovic, said the
new DOS version could once again slow down the search for a constitution.
"The text adopted by DOS introduces a few new things that were defined
differently in the text adopted by the two governments," Kujovic told a
press conference in the Montenegrin parliament.
Criticising the proposal for direct elections, Kujovic said, "The state
union is not a union of citizens, but a union of member-states. Direct
elections would mean the union had become a unitary state."
Many DPS politicians concluded on Thursday that it is not possible for
Djukanovic to accept direct elections to a federal parliament, if he wants
to win the forthcoming ballot.
One foreign analyst in Montenegro said, "I presume Djukanovic will tell
Solana that it won't be possible to reach an agreement before the
elections and that the constitutional charter could be defined only after
the trial of strength in Montenegro. I believe Solana will be forced to
accept this because a compromise is impossible at this time."
Some analysts in Serbia also believe Solana's efforts are doomed because a
compromise simply cannot be reached in the heat of an election campaign.
Belgrade political analyst Ognjen Pribicevic told Radio B92 on August 28
that the constitutional charter is being used as a political football
rather than as a vehicle to achieve a solution.
But there is a growing impression that the EU is strongly determined to fi
nish the job of defining a new union, and will try to force all sides to
accept a joint formula.
The president of the CoE's parliament, Peter Schieder, expressed hope that
all parties will reach agreement before the assembly's next session from
September 23 to 27 in Strasbourg.
Following the DOS decision taken on August 28, Djindjic is also optimistic
that the issue of the constitutional charter has been resolved. He
believes the CoE's request that an agreement be reached by September 2 and
3 will be fulfilled.
Facing pressure from the international community, similar optimism is
coming today from Montenegro, despite some reservations. The prime
minister of Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, said on Friday that both Serbia
and Montenegro are ready to accept the conditions for CoE membership, "If
the constitutional chapter is not accepted by September 23, all economic
and other aid for Montenegro and Serbia will be cancelled, and we will be
the only country beside Belarus not to be members of the council."
The challenge Solana faces is great but one should not forget that he
managed to achieve the impossible back in March when he talked the
Montenegrin political elite into giving up on independence.
Daniel Sunter is IWPR's coordinating editor in Belgrade. Boris Darmanovic
is an IWPR representative in Montenegro and a journalist with the
Podgorica daily Publika.
The country's fledgling tourist industry is being bolstered by the influx
of impoverished northerners.
By Denisa Xhoga in Vlore
Families seeking to escape poverty in the remote north are boosting the
tourist industry in the southern Riviera.
Over the last decade, around 200 families have left decimated mining
districts in the north, such as Kukes, Has, Diber, Mirdite and Lezhe, in
search of work in the southern 150-kilometre long Albanian Riviera.
Rumours of north-south rivalries have been scotched by the warm welcome
the newcomers receive - with many being given the use of houses left by
people who've emigrated to Greece.
"It's enough they take care of my home because there should be someone
there to look after it," said Koço Dhimitri, an emigrant who comes back
each summer to open up his bar in the Riviera town of Himare.
There is no sign of the friction that sometimes accompanies internal
migration. "If there is any quarrel, it does not happen with the newcomers
from the north but from the people coming from Vlore for a vacation here,"
said another Vlore resident, who has built a hotel in Himare.
After the fall of communism, a large number of Albanians rushed abroad,
legally or illegally, many of them from the Riviera.
About half a million Albanian migrants live in Greece - the most popular
destination - whose remittances boost investment in the Riveria area.
"There is much construction along the Ionian coastline, bars, restaurants,
motels, roads," said Himare mayor Viktor Mato. "Consequently there is a
need for working people."
Indeed, the newcomers mainly work in construction and have built nearly
all the new bars that are springing up from Sarande to Butrint.
Originally from Peshkopia in the north-eastern Diber district, Bekim, who
did not want to give his full name, has operated a refrigerator repair van
in the area for the last five summers. "The summer months are good for me.
People want to rent out their properties - and this provides a lot of
work," he told IWPR.
Local attitudes to the newcomers appear fairly relaxed. Agim Shorti, who
works at the local Butrint museum, said, "There is enough work for
everyone", adding that the jobs go to those who have the best skills,
regardless of where they come from.
Museum head Auron Tare has employed 35 of the newcomers at the area's
UNESCO-recognised archaeological site, to act as guards, cleaners and help
in the restoration and maintenance of the castle and its amphitheatre.
Tare describes the northerners as good, hard working people. "They should
feel themselves at home because they take care of Butrint. It has visitors
only in summer and in winter they are the guards of this museum," he said.
One group of Catholic families from the north has even created a new
village called Shendelli, beside the 28 km-long Butrint Lake.
Tare added that with the help of a Japanese grant, they have built an
elementary school that's one of the best in the area.
Life may not always be easy for the newcomers, but they are slowly turning
their quest for a better life into reality.
Denisa Xhoga is an editor with the Albanian Shekullli newspaper.
Allegations of corruption and mismanagement have obscured some very real
progress by the post-Milosevic administration.
By Biljana Stepanovic in Belgrade
While many criticisms can be levelled at the government of prime minister
Zoran Djindjic, it does represent an undeniable break with the past and a
move towards democracy and free markets.
>From the ruins left by former leader Slobodan Milosevic, the newgovernment has laid a basic foundation for economic reform and for the
country's eventual accession to the European Union in its first 500 days.
This worthy achievement has often been overshadowed by an incessant feud
between Djindjic and his political rival, Yugoslav president Vojislav
According to Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, DSS, and opposition
parties - who are former Milosevic supporters - the Serbian government has
not made a single step towards promised reforms; is solely preoccupied
with its own political image; and is mired in corruption.
Another of the Djindjic's problems is the legacy of poverty bequeathed by
the former regime. According to 2000 study, more than a third of the
population were on or below the poverty line and 18 per cent lived in
absolute destitution.
Under Milosevic's rule, the average monthly salary was 107 German marks
(53 euro) and the average pension 75 marks (37 euro) - an 80 per cent
decline compared to 1990. The average monthly salary today remains low
but has increased to around 130 euro, with the average pension at 100
Pensions have fallen ten per cent compared with December, as they are no
longer tied to salary increases - but at least they are paid regularly.
It is difficult for the public to let go of the illusion that there is a
quick fix to Serbia's economic crisis and that living standards could soon
return to 1990 levels, when Yugoslavia enjoyed a Gross Domestic Product,
GDP, of 2,700 US dollars per capita. By the end of the Milosevic era, per
capita GDP barely reached 1,000 dollars.
Faced with waves of criticism in the run-up to Serbian presidential
elections scheduled for September 29, Djindjic has argued that his
government has ushered in an indisputable rise in living standards.
He has also pointed towards international support for his government's
reforms, which has generated crucial loans and financial assistance.
Economic analysts agree that the Djindjic government has pushed through
three vital laws - on taxes, privatisation and the labour market - in a
timely manner. These reforms, alongside the issue of cooperation with The
Hague tribunal, were crucial to persuading the international community to
start negotiating aid and loans for Serbia's economy.
A whole host of revenue legislation was overhauled in March and April last
year, only two months after the government was formed. Tax is now paid on
total revenue, closing the loophole that allowed evasion through
fictitious reporting of minimal earnings and profits. Moreover, all budget
income is publicly documented and no citizen is exempt, which was most
certainly not the case during the corrupt Milosevic era.
The Serbian government also adopted a ground-breaking law on privatisation
at the end of June last year that enabled the scrapping of "socially-owned
property", an unworkable form of ownership created in the old Yugoslavia
and unknown anywhere else in the world.
The primary goal of the privatisation legislation is to see firms managed
by their real owners. Up 'til now, a firm's workforce was formally in
control, but in reality the system gave rise to incompetent executives who
carried no responsibility. That bizarre arrangement saw many factories
effectively pillaged by unaccountable managers, leading to the virtual
collapse of the industrial system.
Foreign investors were not ready to enter the Serbian market as long as
they were prevented from sacking a single employee - even those who had
been given permanent leave.
The new government has mustered the courage to lay off 15,000 workers from
the Kragujevac-based Zastava car factory. Some 10,000 were made redundant
as a result of the National Bank of Yugoslavia's decision to liquidate
four of the country's biggest banks.
Economists estimate that out of 1.5 million people officially employed in
the country, around a third are holding "surplus" jobs that are
unnecessary and obsolete. According to some reports, about 350,000 to
500,000 people work unofficially in the so-called "grey economy".
With presidential elections scheduled for September and early
parliamentary elections in sight, it is difficult to imagine the
government taking the risk of allowing more redundancies, no matter how
much sense it makes for economic reform.
On taking office, the Serbian government defied a powerful lobby that had
grown rich through petrol imports, by issuing a decree on the oil
derivatives trade. This permitted only crude oil imports and obliged
importers to use local refineries, eliminating petrol smuggling.
The authorities also made significant changes to construction laws,
threatening prison sentences of up to three years for owners of buildings
built without valid permits.
Permit fraud was a visible example of the lawlessness of the Milosevic
years, depriving the state of tax revenue and enabling the growth of a
powerful "construction mafia".
The government has yet to succeed in defeating a chronic and corrupt
bureaucracy that deliberately prolongs the granting of building permits.
Another success for the Djindjic government has been reducing the rate of
inflation that grew to lethal proportions under Milosevic.
At least part of the credit for controlling price rises belongs to the
governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia, Mladjan Dinkic, who has
reformed the system, shut down the worst banks, provided for the dinar's
convertibility and ensured that the exchange rate has remain static for
two years.
A firm hand on monetary policy is crucial for a country that has lived for
years under the constant threat of hyperinflation. In 1993, Serbian
citizens survived inflation of several million per cent. This year its
forecast to reach just 20 per cent.
Djindjic's government has brought international financial assistance into
Serbia for the first time in more than a decade. From October 2000 until
the end of June 2002, the country received and spent around 1.2 billion
dollars of aid.
The authorities have secured a new three-year standby arrangement with the
International Monetary Fund, new loans from the World Bank and 280 million
euro for the overhaul of the energy sector. Thanks to this international
injection, Serbia has survived two winters without serious power
But along with the successes of the past 500 days, Djindjic's government
has made some serious mistakes.
Many of the opposition's criticisms are valid. For instance, the
government has failed to convincingly fend off accusations of corruption,
which has cast a long shadow over the leadership and frustrated its
Djindjic has been unable to account for the decline in industrial
production, which has fallen by 0.8 per cent in comparison to last June.
Nor can it explain why exports are up only ten per cent and are worth 882
million dollars, while imports have shot up by 30 per cent to 2.4 billion
Opponents claim the authorities lack the political will to enforce
legislation designed to tax profits made illegally under Milosevic's rule.
In May last year, an ambitious law was adopted to do so, amid claims it
would secure a billion euro worth of revenue. Only 50 million euro has
been collected so far.
Foreign investors say the judiciary is the weakest link in economic reform
efforts. Inefficient, outdated and still favouring debtors over creditors,
the courts are far from the kind of fair arbiter needed in a competitive
There are other missing pieces in the reform puzzle. The government has
failed to adopt a number of laws needed to complete the economic reforms
already launched, including legislation on mortgages, bankruptcy,
denationalisation and the financing of political parties.
Considering the mess that it inherited and the economic reforms it has put
in place, Djindjic's government has no reason to fear the early
parliamentary elections that the DSS and the opposition are insisting on.
This government has secured concrete results that should be presented to
voters in a clear, convincing manner.
If the government acknowledges that it has fallen short on some promises
but explains why, Djindjic's adversaries may find the ground shifting
under their feet, as the opposition is yet to show what it would have done
differently or more efficiently.
Kostunica's DSS decided to hand over its role in decision making and
resigned from the government. As for the other opposition parties, they
were in power for the last decade, and they left the former Yugoslavia in
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"Malabar spinach holds up to warm ingredients without losing its texture." — Rick Bayless,executive chef–owner of Frontera Grill in Chicago
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- 8 thick slices bacon
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- 0.50 tsp. salt
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Mixed Media - Painting On Cardboard
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July 8th, 2011
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Bendigo, Vi - Australia
beautiful colours and abstraction v
Burnaby, BC - Canada
Wonderful colours and composition. I really like the texture of this. Very cool. v
Southampton, Ha - United Kingdom
Great use of bold, simple colours and strong forms, yet is so clear about its subject and very pretty. Great to read about the materials used in its creation! v
Pueblo, CO - United States
Another vote! Love this.
Columbus, OH - United States
Beautiful design and graphic image! vf
Sarasota, FL - United States
Great feel!
Sydney, Ne - Australia
Another one of my favorites of yours, Xueling, back to give it a V&F :)
Springfield, MA - United States
Brilliant work!!! So creative!
Dortmund, NR - Germany
Very appealing colors and style........ a lovely work Xueling - thanks Chris :-))
New Orleans, LA - United States
This a beautiful piece, love the balance and color!
Vilnius, LT - Lithuania
this is fascinating, great work!~~Tautvydas
Mequon, WI - United States
This is lovely, Xueling! Marvelous what you were able to create with recycled materials... you gave them new life. f/v
Northridge, CA - United States
Great colors and mix of materials..for me it looks like it's been drawn using plum juice colors..so natural and inviting..very natural feel and earthly connected..V,P,T)
Palm Bay, FL - United States
So simple, ... beautiful lines. f/v
Rishikesh, Ut - India
Beautiful work.---------------Anand
Pueblo, CO - United States
This is new to me~Love it! Gorgeous. v/f
Tallahassee, FL - United States
Lovely, and creative use of materials, Xueling!! v
Sioux City, IA - United States
Fabulous art work Xueling, wonderful colors!! f/v
Cedar Rapids, Ia - United States
Love this so much.second time comment I think. You are a great artist,as I always said. Thanks for comment on tree. Hugs,Marsha Vote/Fav
Liverpool - United Kingdom
lovely very romantic really!
Culleoka, TN - United States
This is gorgeous, Xueling. If you haven't already joined, there is a new group called Abstract and Abstract Realism. I'll bet Nana would love to have this one in her group. Vote.
Long Beach, CA - United States
So beautiful, Xueling! Love the colors! voted
Woodbridge, VA - United States
Nice. Peace, O.
Castrop - Rauxel, NR - Germany
Wonderful colors, composition and style Xueling, wonderful work - Chris :-))
Pe�aflor - Chile
Wow!!! Great artwork. Love the colours, textures and composition...all !!F/V..............Thank you so much your support, my friend!!
Sharjah, SH - United Arab Emirates
very very nice :)
Miami, FL - United States
Another great artwork, Xueling!! Dramatic use of colors and I love the moon!!
Melton Mowbray, Le - United Kingdom
This I like - the colour palette and blend works so well.f/v
Silicon Valley, CA - United States
Thank you for the nice feedback! I really appreciate it!!
Scotia, , NY - United States
I love the tone on tone and the way you used the cardboard...the "white space"...so earthy and authentic. How did you get that pink moon so opaque...perhaps cut paper. It's just lovely, Xeuling.
Miami, FL - United States
Splendid artwork, Xueling! Very expressive!
Male - Maldives
Love this Oriental touch and elegant simplicity of this art work, stylish and beautiful, Xueling!
Miami (USA), Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) - United States
I agree with Oiyee, what a awsome mixed media, beautifuly done composition!
Toronto, ON - Canada
Very creative, Xueling! This beautiful mixed media is like Chinese inkwash on rice paper!
Smithers, BC - Canada
This is very pretty Xueling!
Sydney, Ne - Australia
Beautiful, Xueling. I love the variation in the red tones, and the trunk silhouette.
Los Angeles, CA - United States
I really enjoy your art as well. This is so pretty, peaceful. I do love mix media, the chance to reinvent an exsisting image, while incorperating your own..So cool, and fun.
Lower Beechmont, QU - Australia
So delicate, yet so strong. The fragile plum blossums laden on thier strong dark branches sway under the full have such a joy of life.
Castrop - Rauxel, NR - Germany
Like this beautiful work Xueling.......great choise of colors and composition - thanks or your nice feedback on Way to The Beach - Chris.
Santa Rosa, CA - United States
Xueling, unusual and exciting. Always appreciate your art. Antonia!!!
Smithfield, VA - United States
OH, this is soooooooooooo beautiful. It is like magic. I love to look at this over and over.
WICHITA, KS - United States
Gorgeous art...as always, Xueling! this is very lovely indeed! thank you so much for your visits and comments, too..always appreciated!
Dubai, DE - United Arab Emirates
Dear Xueling, as usual very beautiful new work, i love the warm wine color you used here, very good finishing. Thank you very much for your nice comment on my paint (dancing with lights)
Franklin, ME - United States
Peaceful, yet passionate. Lovely Xueling!
Castrop - Rauxel, NR - Germany
Beautiful colors and expression ......great image Xueling - thanks for your kind feedback on Red Planet II - Chris.
Kamloops, BC - Canada
This is a gorgeous painting in every way - great composition, style, and colors. Love the way you painted the blossoms. Fav, vote, and SU :)
Lachine, QC - Canada
A wonderful minimalist painting that captures the time of the year and the essence of the blossoms in a very Oriental way - Thank you for your very kind feedback on '....Springtime', Xueling.....Chris R
Cedar Rapids, Ia - United States
Xueling,FAV FOREVER> LOVE This is so gorgeous. I want to do this type.I don't want to copy,then it is not mine. Thanks hun for encouragement always. Hugs,Marsha
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Outstand work. This is so warm.
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"We've overlooked the point in time that is crucial to understanding the development of our government," said Edward C. Papenfuse, the state archivist. Lawmakers meeting in the old House chamber expanded voting rights, adopted the constitution of 1864 that ended slavery and, three years later, approved a new constitution that still governs Maryland today.
To correct the oversight, the Maryland State Archives is proposing a partial restoration of the old House chamber to the high Victorian style of the late 1800s. It's the key element in a plan to make the State House more friendly to visitors, giving them a better understanding of the momentous events that took place in Annapolis since the original building was constructed between 1772 and 1779.
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The recent kerfluffle over Israeli government video ads and billboard posters, designed to entice wayward yordim to return home, instead exposed the troubled psyche of American Jews.
One might say – if verbal treif is permitted – that a ham-handed attempt by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption to guilt-trip wandering Israelis into leaving their American promised land backfired. The ministry had good reason for concern lest American society continue to corrode the loyalty of Israelis to their homeland and culture. The benefits of assimilation, as American Jewish history (and the current intermarriage rate) reveals, exact high costs.
In the ministry videos a young Israeli woman solemnly contemplates Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers, while her American boyfriend is clueless. A sleeping Israeli father does not awaken while his youngster calls "daddy," but not "abba." The child of Israelis, Skyping with grandparents back home, is oblivious to the meaning of their Chanukah candles and imagines that it is Christmas.
For months these ads elicited no discernible response, either from wayward Israelis or American Jews. But once the video clips appeared on the Jewish Channel, prompting a tirade from Atlantic blogger Jeffrey Goldberg, gevalts resounded throughout the land.
Goldberg was appalled: "I don't think I have ever seen a demonstration of Israeli contempt for American Jews as obvious as these ads." Their message was clear: "it is impossible for Jews to remain Jewish in America." He added, gratuitously, that Israel has its own problems: many rabbis "act like Iranian mullahs." And intermarriage can be "understood as an opportunity" – although for what he did not specify.
The Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America was furious. Rejecting any notion that "American Jews do not understand Israel" (which hardly was the primary thrust of the ads), they warned that "this outrageous and insulting message could harm the Israel-Diaspora relationship." Anti-Defamation League National Director Abe Foxman found the videos "demeaning."
There may also have been a political subtext to the belated outrage. The New York Times noted gratuitously that the Israeli ministry responsible for the ad campaign is headed by a Russian immigrant named Sofa Landver. She belongs to "the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party [that]…takes a hard line on the peace process with the Palestinians and advocates exchanging parts of Israel heavily populated by Arab citizens for Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank." Therefore, presumably, the ad campaign must be a bad idea.
With some 500,000 Israelis estimated to be living in the United States, it is no small problem that the Immigrant Absorption Ministry tried to address – if too bluntly for American Jewish insecurities. The Ministry, expressing its respect and appreciation to the American Jewish community, reiterated the obvious: the ad campaign targeted Israelis who had succumbed to the allure of American enticements, not American Jews.
But Prime Minister Netanyahu, responding to the squall of outrage from American Jewish precincts, quickly aborted the ad campaign. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, engaging in damage control, appeared on CNN for an interview with John King – on Shabbat, no less – to apologize for the failure of the Immigration Ministry to "take into account American Jewish sensibilities."
As Jerusalem-based journalist David Hazony perceptively observed about the video ad fracas, "in the hysteria of the response, the insecurity of American Jewish life is laid bare." That is the real story of the video ad contretemps, which the fury of American Jews inadvertently confirmed.
Israel has long been an integral part of that story. Two years after Israel's founding, American Jewish Committee President Jacob Blaustein wrested his famous agreement from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion that Israel would neither presume to speak for American Jews nor attempt to entice them to make aliyah.
More recently, whenever Israel has incurred the wrath of an American president for permitting another settlement in its biblical homeland American Jews have writhed with embarrassment and hastened to distance themselves from Israeli "zealots."
Assimilated American Jews remain ever anxious lest they be held guilty by association with Israel's perceived misdeeds. Their loyalty to the United States must never be impugned. Any implication that American Jews are without a sustainable Jewish identity is infuriating. They seemed shocked that exposure to Jewish life in their promised American homeland can corrode the Jewish identity of Israelis.
Israeli yordim are the proverbial canary in the mineshaft, warning of imminent danger ahead. Yet the ads were intended as a warning to Israelis, not to the American Jews who quickly jumped to the conclusion that it is "about us" – a clear indication, as Hazony wrote, that Israelis "stepped on a live wire in the American Jewish psyche."
For American Jews of a certain persuasion, Israel once again was the big bad Jewish bully whose reckless actions jeopardized their deep yearning for recognition as good Jews and acceptance as loyal Americans. But when an Israeli and an American Jew are paired, the ads suggested, the Jewish deficiencies of American Jewish life become glaringly apparent. That stung – precisely because there is truth to it.
American Jews have always needed, above all, to defend their loyalty as Americans. They must also fend off disparagement of their Jewish identity, especially when Israel is its source. But Israelis, too, have cause for concern: the United States will welcome them but its enticements will exact their price – as assimilation inevitably does.
Jerold S. Auerbach is Professor Emeritus of History at Wellesley College. His blog is www.jacobsvoice.tumblr.com.
About the Author: Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of "Jewish State/Pariah Nation: Israel and the Dilemmas of Legitimacy," to be published next month by Quid Pro Books.
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Latvia, July 4, 1941 they forced many Jews in the shul putting it on fire; everyone was burned alive
There's blood on the reporters' hands AND New Israel Fund for funding groups feeding lies to the UN
Respect & appreciation for our country is not only a civic value but an essential Jewish one as well
When words lose meaning, the world becomes an Orwellian dystopia; a veritable Tower of Babel
Israel, like the non-radical Islamic world. will be happy see the ISIS beheaded for once.
Kids shouldn't have "uninstructed" Internet access, better to train them how to use it responsibly
What if years from now, IS were to control substantial territory? What world havoc would that wreak?
Rambam writes the verse's double term refers to 2 messiahs: first King David; 2nd the final Mashiach
The Gaza flotilla has been rightfully and legally blocked by Israel's Navy, with greetings from Bibi
The president described the attack as "an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches, not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress…"
"The only [candidate] that's going to give real support to Israel is me," said the 69-year-old Trump.
And whereas at the outset the plan was that Iran would have to surrender most of its centrifuges, it will now be able to retain several thousand.
Now oil independent, US no longer needs its former strategic alliances with Gulf States-or Israel
In addition to the palace's tremendous size it was home to the "hanging gardens," which were counted among the seven wonders of the ancient world.
For nearly sixty-five years national self-definition has been the skeleton in the closet of Israeli politics and culture.
Times reporter Anne Barnard reported (7/15) that Israel was to blame (so her Palestinian sources asserted) for its continued "occupation" of Gaza – which, Barnard failed to note, ended nearly a decade ago.
During much of the 20th century, elite American colleges and universities carefully policed their admission gates to restrict the entry of Jews. Like its Big Brothers – Harvard, Yale and Princeton – Wellesley College, where I taught history between 1971 and 2010, designed admission policy to perpetuate a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite.
Yossi Klein Halevi's Like Dreamers (Harper) explores the lives of seven Israeli paratroopers in the Six-Day War who, his subtitle suggests, "Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation." It offers a fascinating variation on the theme of Israel at a fateful crossroads, in search of itself, following the wondrously unifying moment at the Western Wall in June 1967 when Jewish national sovereignty in Jerusalem was restored for the first time in nineteen centuries.
In death as in life, Menachem Begin remained who he had always been: a proud yet humble Jew.
Eighty years ago, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Barely a month later Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated president of the United States. For the next twelve years, until their deaths eighteen days apart in April 1945, they personified the horrors of dictatorship and the blessings of democracy.
One of my searing early memories from Israel is a visit nearly four decades ago to the Ghetto Fighters Museum in the Beit Lohamei Hagetaot kibbutz. The world's first Holocaust museum, it was built soon after the Independence War by survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Nearly sixty-five years ago Israel declared its independence and won the war that secured a Jewish state. But its narrow and permeable postwar armistice lines permitted incessant cross-border terrorist raids. For Egypt, Syria and Jordan, the mere existence of a Jewish state remained an unbearable intrusion into the Arab Middle East. As Egyptian President Nasser declared, "The danger of Israel lies in the very existence of Israel."
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|Lean pork tenderloin
|1 1⁄4 Pound
|Pork fat
|10 Ounce
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried thyme
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried sage
|1 Teaspoon
|Grated nutmeg
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Freshly ground pepper
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|French bread
|14 Cup (224 tbs), crusts trimmed (1/4-Inch Day-Old)
|Unsalted butter
|10 Tablespoon (1 1/4 Sticks)
|Peeled finely chopped tart green apple
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The potentialities of rotating coiled columns in countercurrent chromatography (CCC) and centrifugal field-flow fractionation (CFFF) are demonstrated. A rotating coiled column is a fluoroplastic or steel coil wound around a rigid cylindrical drum, which revolves about its axis and, at the same time, revolves around the central axis of the device called planet centrifuge. The stationary (liquid, solid, or heterogeneous) phase is retained in the column because of the centrifugal force field, and the mobile liquid phase is continuously pumped through the column. The methods for recovery, separation, and preconcentration of various trace elements in geological samples and high-purity substances with the use of two-phase liquid systems (CCC) are developed. Procedures are proposed for the continuous sequential extraction of various element species from soil and for the recovery of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from sewage sludge with the use of natural suspensions or solid particulates as stationary phases. It is also shown that rotating coiled columns can be used in a new field, microparticle fractionation by CFFF.
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Journal of Analytical Chemistry
Volume 57, Issue 10 , pp 928-934
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- O. N. Katasonova (1)
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