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As for the Swat action's impact on militancy beyond the region, it has put militants on the defensive, halted their advance and reduced their ability to extend the war outside the NWFP. A more favourable political climate has been created to conduct counter-militancy operations. This doesn't, by any means, imply that the threat of militancy is over. The factors that fuel that threat and determine the fate of the TTP go way beyond Swat and are inextricably linked to the instability in Afghanistan, which is worsening rather than showing any sign of ending. -- Maleeha Lodhi
'It's a very powerful ideology — it's not just about bombings and hijackings. It is really about a thesis that once upon a time Muslims were a prosperous, creative power. They lost power and they want to regain power. All ideologies are stories of a glorious past, a miserable present, for which somebody else is responsible, and a glorious future when that person is got rid of. That story has knitted together a variety of local struggles in the Philippines, India and elsewhere.' Prof Desai said that Marx and Engels had called for the workers of the world to unite. There was, in fact, no working class but it had created the idea of the world working class and, in talking about the Umma across the world, Osama bin Laden had created the possibility that people would do things for it. -- David Watts
Could Mr Obama's commitment to fight the "good" war in Afghanistan be fading? Two recent developments are bound to influence his thinking. First, support for the war is declining. A national CNN/Opinion Research poll in mid-September found 39% in favour of the war in Afghanistan compared with 58% against. Embarrassingly for a Democratic president whose concessions on health reform have already annoyed many on the left of his own party, most of the support comes from Republicans. A second factor weighing heavily on the administration is the blatant ballot-stuffing that occurred during last month's fraud-ridden presidential election in Afghanistan.
NATO is running out of time in Afghanistan: On August 31st he submitted his long-awaited review to NATO leaders, saying "the situation in Afghanistan is serious, but success is achievable." The assessment is confidential (and bleak, it is said) but the commander's priorities are known, not least from a directive to his troops of five days earlier containing the bull-and-matador simile. They are: protect the Afghan population rather than kill or capture insurgents; build up Afghan forces; boost the legitimacy of the government in Kabul and improve the co-ordination of civilian aid. The Taliban and the Western-backed Afghan government are fighting for the allegiance of the Afghan people, says the general; the people will decide who wins. -- The Economist
There are three ways to change security conditions in Afghanistan. First, increase American troops. Second, increase Afghan troops. Third, shrink the number of enemy forces by making them switch sides or lay down their arms. That third strategy is what worked so well in Iraq and urgently needs to be adopted in Afghanistan. A few years from now, we can be sure that Afghanistan will still be poor, corrupt, and dysfunctional. But if we make the right deals, it will be ruled by leaders who keep the country inhospitable to Al Qaeda and terrorist groups like it. That's my definition ?of success. -- Fareed Zakaria
There's not much to show for the last eight years of Western presence in the country and there's little time to turn things around.
Western forces first went in to combat Al Qaeda in 2001. That seemed to be largely ineffective and the remnants of Al Qaeda nipped smartly across the border into Pakistan, which almost ever since has been seen as the major base for the projection of international terrorism across the world. When British combat forces were first deployed in 2006 the mission was billed as being an effort to provide security for development projects, instead that morphed into an all-out battle with the Taliban, which resulted in the British deploying heavy weapons to defend themselves at grievous cost to the Afghan population getting caught not only in the crossfire but being at the butt of search and interrogation techniques deeply offensive to their culture. Thousands were turned into internal refugees. -- Andrew Small
We almost lost sight of a profound pre-9/11 background to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. The U.S. intended to recognise the Taliban regime in Kabul in 1996. Senior Taliban officials were welcomed in the U.S. Big Oil financed the Taliban. The U.S. encouraged the Central Asian states to work with the Taliban. Key U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates generously helped the Taliban and accorded it diplomatic recognition. A major NATO ally, Turkey, kept up official consultations with the Taliban regime right till 2001...
Islamism will remain a principal instrument of geo-strategy for the U.S. towards Central Asia, North Caucasus and Xinjiang. The rehabilitation of the Taliban in Afghan mainstream politics is on the cards even without its formal disarming. India needs to factor in what the ascendance of political Islam in the region will entail for its security. Equally, there should be clarity of thinking to differentiate between shades of Islamism. The imperative of seriously engaging Russia, China, Iran and the Central Asian states on issues of regional security as powers affected by extremism emanating from the AfPak belt cannot but be stressed. -- M. K. Bhadrakumar
Potpourri of comments: Some Optimistic, a lot Pessimistic
THE August 21 Presidential election in Afghanistan will not immediately change the fundamentals of the situation there, whatever the final outcome. The deficiencies of the principal political protagonists, opportunistic alliances, the ethnic divide, warlordism, the development deficit, poor governance, the Taliban insurgency, foreign military presence, poppy cultivation, drug trafficking, Pakistan's strategic ambitions in Afghanistan — all are established realities on the ground. -- Kanwal Sibal
Whatever the outcome of last week's Afghan elections - the results are due Sept. 17 - the cruel fact is that the Afghan war is a deadly trap. It makes no difference whether Hamid Karzai or his former foreign minister Abdallah Abdallah is declared the winner. Rather than pouring in more troops, the United States and its NATO allies should urgently seek an exit strategy from that unfortunate country.The war in Afghanistan has lasted eight years, with no end in sight. It has claimed 780 American lives and more than 200 British ones. It has cost the American taxpayer $220 billion which, had it been spent on development, could have transformed not only Afghanistan but its neighbors as well. The war is being widely compared with Vietnam. The time to get out must surely be approaching. -- Patrick Seale
The West is spending a fortune
Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That's certainly one for the record books.
And it hasn't ended yet. Not by a long shot. Not with the headlines in the U.S. papers about the depredations of the Pakistani Taliban, not with the CIA's drone aircraft striking gatherings in Waziristan and elsewhere near the Afghan border. This spring, for instance, one counter-terrorism analyst stridently (and wholly implausibly) warned that "in one to six months" we could "see the collapse of the Pakistani state," at the hands of the bloodthirsty Taliban, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the situation in Pakistan a "mortal danger" to global security.
What most observers don't realize is that the doomsday rhetoric about this region at the top of the world is hardly new. It's at least 100 years old. During their campaigns in the northwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British officers, journalists and editorialists sounded much like American strategists, analysts, and pundits of the present moment. They construed the Pashtun tribesmen who inhabited Waziristan as the new Normans, a dire menace to London that threatened to overturn the British Empire. -- Juan Cole, author of most recent book Engaging the Muslim World.
Unfortunately, the United States has acted in ways that have often empowered the militants. We have lavished more than $11 billion on Pakistan since 9/11, mostly supporting the Pakistani Army. Yet that sum has bought Pakistan no security and us no good will. In that same poll, 59 percent of Pakistanis said that they share many of Al Qaeda's attitudes toward the United States, and almost half of those said that they support Al Qaeda attacks on Americans. One reason is that America hasn't stood up for its own values in Pakistan. Instead of supporting democracy, we cold-shouldered the lawyers' movement, which was the best hope for democracy and civil society. -- NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Coming Home to Roost?In addition to fighting against the regime in Algeria, Algerian militants have also been very conspicuous on jihadist battlefields such as Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq. Some studies have even concluded that Algerians were the single largest group of foreign jihadists who fought in Iraq during the height of the insurgency.One of the things we have been anticipating for several years now is a boomerang effect as foreign jihadists leave places such as Iraq and Pakistan and return home. While many foreign jihadists have been killed in such places, those who survive after fighting sophisticated foes like the American military are not only hardened but also possess insurgent tradecraft skills that make them far more lethal when they leave those battlefields than when they entered them. Indeed, we have seen a migration of IED technology and tactics from Iraq to other theatres, such as Afghanistan.With developments in Iraq over the last few years that have made Iraq increasingly inhospitable to foreign jihadists, and with Pakistan now quickly becoming less friendly, many of the Algerian militants in those places may be seeking to return home. -- Scott Stewart and Fred Burton, Stratfor
Why is an Aussie anthropologist coaching American generals on how to win wars? David Kilcullen, an Australian army reservist and top adviser to Gen. David H. Petraeus during the troop surge in Iraq, has spent years studying insurgencies in countries from Indonesia to Afghanistan, distinguishing hard-core terrorists from "accidental guerrillas" -- and his theories are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the West. Kilcullen spoke with Outlook's Carlos Lozada on why Pakistan is poised for collapse, whether catching Osama bin Laden is really a good idea and how the Enlightenment and Lawrence of Arabia helped Washington shift course in Iraq. Excerpts: David Kilcullen: Pakistan is 173 million people, 100 nuclear weapons, an army bigger than the U.S. Army, and al-Qaeda headquarters sitting right there in the two-thirds of the country that the government doesn't control. The Pakistani military and police and intelligence service don't follow the civilian government; they are essentially a rogue state within a state. We're now reaching the point where within one to six months we could see the collapse of the Pakistani state, also because of the global financial crisis, which just exacerbates all these problems. . . . The collapse of Pakistan, al-Qaeda acquiring nuclear weapons, an extremist takeover -- that would dwarf everything we've seen in the war on terror today.
In my mind, this is one of the big problems with using the phrase "war on terror." It gets people in a frame of mind where they're thinking of analogies like "what would I do to a Nazi tank column?" rather than "what would I do to a crime-plagued neighbourhood?" And when trying to figure out the right approach here, the right thing to do isn't to ask yourself whether international terrorism is "really" a kind of warfare or "really" a kind of crime. The right thing to do is to ask yourself what kind of strategic goals you have and what kind of tactics are likely to achieve them. What we want is for Muslim communities around the world to cooperate with various governments around the world to smoke out and apprehend would-be violent extremists. That's more like a crime-fighting mission. -- David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum
…now that the Pakistani security state has strictly been ordered by its paymasters to stop its own creation and its children from the mayhem they were at, it is imperative for the government to immediately order an extensive probe by a high-powered commission to investigate the delay in taking on the Yahoos and related matters to do with their sudden rise. This is imperative because the intelligence failure and the consequent delay resulted in the Yahoos getting stronger, which in turn allowed them to look for other prizes after Swat i.e. Buner which they took in a matter of days, and which "victory" in turn spread fear and despondency across the land because districts like Haripur and Hazara were next in line, some villages in Haripur already in their thrall. The body, set up on the lines of the Hamoodur Rehman Commission, should be made up of the many eminent gentlewomen and men we have in Pakistan….The commission must go into the details of the Commando's and his coterie's handiwork: from giving Sufi Mohammad refuge in the Dera Ismail Khan jail in 2001 when his own people wanted to lynch him for getting their innocent children killed in the American assault on Afghanistan, to the rise of Fazlullah and Baitullah and Mangal Bagh and other such Yahoos, to the complete detriment of the country.It must be noted that the security establishment will oppose this investigation (for that is what it will be, and will seek to apportion blame) with all its might but the political leaders simply must take the bit between the teeth and go for it. Let me add here that the commission might well find that politicians are to blame, or civil servants. Well, so be it, but it is high time that all those that have made the country a plaything to kick about as it takes their fancy be held to account and be firmly told that this is the end of the line for them. -- Kamran Shafi
Unless the U.S. President can break his hard-line posture, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan could prove his Vietnam. -- Pankaj Mishra
Let us, not, therefore depend on the US to deliver on Pakistan unless we show much greater determination and will ourselves. We have concentrated far too much and too long on verbosity, when reciprocity should have been the keyword. When Hillary Clinton arrives, we need to tell her that we will resume the dialogue with Pakistan in our own time, when our security concerns have been met, not just US security interests. We need to assert that if another Mumbai-type attack takes place, when US state department advisories claim is possible, then it would be politically unacceptable in India to respond only with a diplomatic response. In such an event, we expect the US and the West to warn Islamabad in no uncertain terms that India's reaction would be justifiably harsh. In fact, it may be wiser to send messages to Pakistan in advance, advising restraint. The onus of preventing another war lies with Pakistan, not with India. Good relations with the US is important for us and also for Americans (though in their present state of confusion they might not think so); but this cannot be at the cost of India's security. Kashmir is not on offer, and India is not willing to be the sacrificial lamb. -- Vikram Sood
Yep, it all comes down to black gold and "blue gold" (natural gas), hydrocarbon wealth beyond compare, and so it's time to trek back to that ever-flowing wonderland -- Pipelineistan. It's time to dust off the acronyms, especially the SCO or Shanghai Cooperative Organization, the Asian response to NATO, and learn a few new ones like IPI and TAPI. Above all, it's time to check out the most recent moves on the giant chessboard of Eurasia, where Washington wants to be a crucial, if not dominant, player.
We've already seen Pipelineistan wars in Kosovo and Georgia, and we've followed Washington's favorite pipeline, the BTC, which was supposed to tilt the flow of energy westward, sending oil coursing past both Iran and Russia. Things didn't quite turn out that way, but we've got to move on, the New Great Game never stops. Now, it's time to grasp just what the Asian Energy Security Grid is all about, visit a surreal natural gas republic, and understand why that Grid is so deeply implicated in the Af-Pak war.
Every time I've visited Iran, energy analysts stress the total "interdependence of Asia and Persian Gulf geo-ecopolitics." What they mean is the ultimate importance to various great and regional powers of Asian integration via a sprawling mass of energy pipelines that will someday, somehow, link the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, and China. The major Iranian card in the Asian integration game is the gigantic South Pars natural gas field (which Iran shares with Qatar). It is estimated to hold at least 9% of the world's proven natural gas reserves.
As much as Washington may live in perpetual denial, Russia and Iran together control roughly 20% of the world's oil reserves and nearly 50% of its gas reserves. Think about that for a moment. It's little wonder that, for the leadership of both countries as well as China's, the idea of Asian integration, of the Grid, is sacrosanct. - Pepe Escobar
Afghanistan is not Iraq
In a country already teaming with militiamen, more militias are being set up. But just as the existing Afghan militias took to terrorism after being armed during the Ronald Reagan presidency to fight Soviet forces, the new militias will begin terrorising local populations before long. Yet such is the rush to establish new militias that in an unusual decision to remove a wartime commander, the Obama administration last week fired the top American general in Afghanistan, David McKiernan, because he was overly cautious in creating such militias.
It is unlikely that the dubious Iraq experiment can work in Afghanistan, whose mountainous terrain, myriad tribes, militants operating from across national frontiers, patterns of shifting tribal and ethnic loyalties, low level of literacy, lack of natural resources, special status as the global hub of poppy trade and a history of internecine civil conflict set it apart from any other Muslim country. Also, unlike the internally confined Iraq conflict, the AfPak belt already is the springboard of international terrorism. -- Brahma Chellaney
ALL THE components of the state seem to have finally come out of the state of confusion and ambiguity.
They seem to have all determined that the Tehreek- e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is the gravest danger to the Pakistani society. The government has called on the military to take action against the rapidly advancing Taliban, in spite of the much touted deal between the provincial and federal governments and Sufi Mohammad's Tehreek Nifaz- e- Shariah Muhammadi in Malakand Division.
The deal stipulated that in return for enforcing the Sharai Nizam- e- Adl ( Islamic system of justice), the dreaded Taliban would not only cease their activities in the division, but would lay down their arms. Instead, of disarming themselves, the Taliban pushed into the nearby districts of Buner and Shangla. There they did exactly what they had done in other places. They extorted money from the locals, closed down schools, barber shops, CD and video shops, and eliminated anyone who tried to resist them. -- A. H. Nayyar, Pakistani scholar
Pakistani elite now willing to counter militants with force
The Obama administration counts on pinning down Pakistan to a military campaign against extremists. On the eve of the Washington consultations, the Pakistan military launched a high-profile operation against the extremists in the Swat region. The operation commenced against the political backdrop of an apocalyptic threat posed by the Taliban to the Pakistani state. Senior U.S. officials underscored the threat perceptions in existential terms as threatening Pakistan's survival. Yet, they apparently fell on deaf ears. What probably swung the case was the ultimate threat on April 30 by Centcom commander Gen. David Petraeus of dramatic changes in U.S. policy if the Pakistani government and military did not take more concrete action within the next two weeks. The "psywar" helped. The slide in the Pakistani thinking is supposed to have been sparked by an ill-advised slur against democracy by Sufi Mohammed, which ended his détente with Pakistan's Islamist politicians (who enjoy links with the security establishment) and set the stage for a war of words that questioned the Taliban's religious legitimacy. At any rate, the Pakistani elite is no longer questioning the wisdom of countering the militants with force. -- M.K. Bhadrakumar
'Islamic Terrorism' receives consistent support from the West
Adil said officers with machine guns told him to put his hands up, grabbed his wrists and tied his hands behind his back while pointing guns at him. They told him he was being arrested as a terror suspect. He was taken to police station where he was kept for several hours before being released. Adil, who came to Britain two years ago, said his experience had changed his view of Britain. "They are clearly identifying Muslim students. It's a big insult…The first thing I will do is leave this country as soon as possible," he told The Guardian. So, thanks to the police, we have another "alienated" young Muslim out there. Which is exactly what the extremists need. -- Hasan Suroor
Tomgram: Filling the Skies with Assassins
In 1991, after 73 years, the Soviet Union, that Evil Empire, simply evaporated, leaving but a single superpower without rivals astride planet Earth. And then came the unexpected thing: the arms race, which had been almost a century in the making, did not end. Instead, the unimaginable occurred and it simply morphed into a "race" of one with a finish line so distant -- the bomber of 2018, Earth-spanning weapons systems, a vast anti-ballistic missile system, and weaponry for the heavens of perhaps 2050 -- as to imply eternity.
The Pentagon and the military-industrial complex surrounding it -- including mega-arms manufacturers, advanced weapons labs, university science centres, and the official or semi-official think tanks that churned out strategies for future military domination -- went right on. After a brief, post-Cold War blip of time in which "peace dividends" were discussed but not implemented, the "race" actually began to amp up again, and after September 11, 2001, went into overdrive against "Islamo-fascism" (aka the Global War on Terror, or the Long War).
-- Tom Engelhardt
The future of Afghanistan is inextricably linked to the future of its neighbour, Pakistan. In the nearly eight years since 9/11, al Qaeda and its extremist allies have moved across the border to the remote areas of the Pakistani frontier. This almost certainly includes al Qaeda's leadership: Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. They have used this mountainous terrain as a safe-haven to hide, train terrorists, communicate with followers, plot attacks, and send fighters to support the insurgency in Afghanistan. For the American people, this border region has become the most dangerous place in the world. ...
A campaign against extremism will not succeed with bullets or bombs alone. Al Qaeda offers the people of Pakistan nothing but destruction. We stand for something different. ...
There is an uncompromising core of the Taliban. They must be met with force, and they must be defeated. But there are also those who have taken up arms because of coercion, or simply for a price. These Afghans must have the option to choose a different course. That is why we will work with local leaders, the Afghan government, and international partners to have a reconciliation process in every province. As their ranks dwindle, an enemy that has nothing to offer the Afghan people but terror and repression must be further isolated. And we will continue to support the basic human rights of all Afghans - including women and girls. -- President Barack Obama
Support for the Taliban, as well as other militant groups, is coordinated by operatives inside the shadowy S Wing of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. The Taliban's widening campaign in southern Afghanistan is made possible in part by direct support from operatives in Pakistan's military intelligence agency, despite Pakistani government promises to sever ties with militant groups fighting in Afghanistan, according to American government officials. The support consists of money, military supplies and strategic planning guidance to Taliban commanders who are gearing up to confront the international force in Afghanistan that will soon include some 17,000 American reinforcements. Support for the Taliban, as well as other militant groups, is coordinated by operatives inside the shadowy S Wing of Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, the officials said. There is even evidence that ISI operatives meet regularly with Taliban commanders to discuss whether to intensify or scale back violence before the Afghan elections. - Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt
The 'Minimalist' Path Is Wrong for Afghanistan
Let there be no doubt: The war in Afghanistan can be won. Success -- a stable, secure, self-governing Afghanistan that is not a terrorist sanctuary -- can be achieved. Just as in Iraq, there is no shortcut to success, no clever "middle way" that allows us to achieve more by doing less. A minimalist approach in Afghanistan is a recipe not for winning smarter but for losing slowly at tremendous cost in American lives, treasure and security.
Yes, our vital national interest in Afghanistan is to prevent it from once again becoming a haven for terrorists to plan attacks against America and U.S. allies. But achieving this narrow counterterrorism objective requires us to carry out a far broader set of tasks, the foremost of which are protecting the population, nurturing legitimate and effective governance, and fostering development. In short, we need a comprehensive civil-military counterinsurgency approach backed by greatly increased resources and an unambiguous U.S. political commitment to success in Afghanistan over the long haul. -- John McCain and Joseph Lieberman
Ironically, the real X-factor in how the Afghan War will be pursued in the years to come probably lies nowhere near Afghanistan. Just how severely, and for how long and in what complex ways, the global economic collapse will affect the United States and Washington's revenues may be the true determinative factor in whether the Obama administration slowly makes its way further into, or out of, the war. Will this president, with so many giant programs and problems on his plate, really be capable of fighting an Afghan war at more intense levels and in more expensive ways for long? Certainly, the Europeans and the Canadians, who think they've seen which way the wind is blowing, doubt it. According to an unidentified "senior French official" speaking to Agence France Press, "We are lowering our ambitions... The Americans are now looking for a way out; they no longer regard Afghanistan as strategic. It'll take two to five years, but we're in a logic of disengagement."
Whatever the truth of the matter -- and the Obama administration may be the last to know what that is right now -- here's the saddest thing: When it's all over and we finally do leave, as Pratap Chatterjee, the author of a new must-read book, Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War, discovered on a visit in November, the Afghans of Bamiyan Province will be at least as poor as they ever were in what will remain a devastated country. It's rare for us to get a view of the areas of Afghanistan where Americans are
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So, Drew ordered the trombone of his dreams –quite some time ago. And it came, and that's what I was referring to in the last post. We did ORDER a case, they decided to just pack it up and ship it with bubble wrap. Now, I'll remind you all that we've been saving for almost an entire year for this trombone so all my savings flying across the US with just a very flimsy cardboard box and some bubble wrap at its disposal makes me very nervous.
However, it was unharmed.
I can not say the same for the supervisor who was able to speak with me this AM about our missing case. Needless to say it's coming to us UPS 2 day (I wanted overnight, but I gave in — I am a pansy). Until then, we have the office locked. I'm even nervous to go in there.
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A Call to Reverse the Justice Committee's decision.(Opinion &Amp; Editorial)
HOW could the representatives in the House Committee on Justice be so blind to the serious accusations hurled against Comelec Commissioner Luzviminda Tancangco.
Let me cite here the principal charges as gleaned from the Impeachment Complaint Against her filed on 04 August 2002 before the House of Representatives.
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Graft and Corruption. 1.) Commissioner Tancangco authored a change of policy directions of the Comelec but failed to disclose that Comelec would not be able to comply with Republic Act 8436, the law automating the counting and canvassing of the elections. She instead prioritized projects on the voter registration where retail cheating occurred and where Comelec's own data on multiple registrants did not justify going into such project.
In so doing, she ignored dagdag-bawas that caused wholesale cheating up to hundreds of thousands of votes manipulated at the counting and canvassing processes.
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2.) Used staff and Comelec resources to promote an overly sophisticated Voter Registration and Identification System (VRIS) project, which is not supported by any law.
3.) Her pet project, the VRIS was awarded at the cost of P6.6 billion when the budget was only P1.2 billion.
On September 18, 2002, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in GR No. 151992 that the VRIS contract was void from the start because the amount exceeded funds that were available.
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4.) On 12 January 2002 she recommended failure of bidding on the Automated Counting and Canvassing of Results (ACCORS) Project, which was her concept of compliance to R.A. 8436, because all three bids exceeded the budgeted amount of P500 million. Why did she not recommend a failure of bid on the VRIS project?
5.) She and three other commissioners attempted to suspend the 26 November 2001 ARMM elections in Sulu by circulating an undated resolution on the eve of the elections even if no actual en banc meeting was called or convened to pass the resolution.
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6.) On 30 June 2001, she wrote the en banc resolution of case SPA No. 01-327, which was raffled to Chairman Alfredo Benipayo on 26 May 2001, who, therefore, had all the original records of the case. Those in the Judiciary and in similar institutions know that this does not happen and the system does not allow this to happen.
7.) As commissioner-incharge and without justifiable reasons, she transferred the registration of voters of Marantao, Lanao del Sur to Marawi City, outside of the territorial jurisdiction of Marantao, during the ARMM registration in 1998. …


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they were perfect... the front said katelin's bachelorette party and the back said... roses are red violets are blue all the boys are so said 'cause only 13 days til katelin says i do! Adam and Katelin May 21, 2010
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i vote for the bachlorette party for katelin......the pole dancing seemed to be a lot of fun and very unique......


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Edward Thomas "Tom" Hardy (born September 15, 1977) is an English actor who usually shows up in action or gangster films. Best known for his collaborations with Christopher Nolan, and for radically changing his body for his roles.
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- Bishōnen: He tends to be this when he isn't packing on muscle for his roles.
- Career Resurrection: He's been a hot property again since Inception.
- Dyeing for Your Art: Hardy got enormous for Bronson, then used that experience to land other muscle-bound roles in Warrior and The Dark Knight Rises.
- He actually had to bulk up for Bronson twice. The first time he gained the weight, production was delayed and he had to lose all of it (and then some) for his role as a drug addict in Stuart: A Life Backwards. After that film was completed, he put all of his Bronson weight back on in just five weeks.
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- Mean Character Nice Actor: Hardy's performance as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises provides an example.
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CHICAGO — Reinvestment in struggling neighborhoods — from educational opportunities to jobs to health care access — could give young people a sense of hope and help stem violence plaguing Chicago and other cities, according to those who attended a summit today on urban violence.
CHICAGO — Reinvestment in struggling neighborhoods — from educational opportunities to jobs to health care access — could give young people a sense of hope and help stem violence plaguing Chicago and other cities, according to those who attended a summit today on urban violence.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus sponsored the "emergency" summit, held at Chicago State University on the city's South Side, and said they would prioritize the suggested solutions as they look for ways to create opportunities.
"We want to examine the methods and best practices that we can implement," said US Rep. Robin Kelly, a Chicago Democrat.
She said the summit was convened because of "the unbelievable bloodshed" in Chicago streets this summer. City officials say homicides are down from last year, but acknowledge that media coverage and the ongoing gun violence has put a spotlight on the city. That included the high-profile slaying of a 15-year-old Chicago girl about a mile from President Barack Obama's Chicago home just days after she attended inauguration festivities in Washington.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the issue of gun violence is national, but said he was glad the caucus brought the summit — which he called "long overdue" — to Chicago.
"If we're going to do what we need for our city, for our nation, we have to work together to make sure we get there," said Emanuel, who stressed "common sense" gun laws and more spending on jobs for youth. He also said that parents and police have a role to play in stopping violence.
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Lawmakers, clergy, academics, neighborhood organizations and the public broke into discussion groups to talk about the causes and solutions to domestic, youth and gun violence and gang crime. Some said that children in neighborhoods with chronic violence feel hopeless and assume they're going to be shot someday. So they don't envision a different life for themselves.
Karol Mason, assistant attorney general for the US Justice Department's office of justice programs, said another problem is that black youth are disproportionately kicked out of school or end up in court compared to white students who commit the same infractions.
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Ronald Webb, 48, moved to Chicago's Englewood neighborhood nine years ago, and said he clearly sees the effect that the foreclosure crisis and lack of youth activities has had. But the Portland, Ore., native and personal chef also said he was shocked by the generations of families living in poverty because of a lack of opportunity.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89294322015-11-28T08:28:55.211-06:00maggies meanderings and shameless plugsmaggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-54134592062563021232015-11-21T19:45:00.000-06:002015-11-21T19:45:54.216-06:00where doest his go?been unpacking the house all day. got the office fairly organized and got lucky cats out of boxes. anyway, still working quite a bit, ended up taking a day off last week cause I was worn out. Saw Diana Krall in concert last week, it was good. Turkey day is coming and we're having people come here because I have to work the day after. yippee!maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-59966568053084273372015-11-08T20:26:00.004-06:002015-11-08T20:26:30.849-06:00just so you have an idea...If you had told me a couple months ago I'd be working 60 hours one week and go into the office on a weekend, I would have laughed in your face. but I still kinda like my job.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-75588048622259322662015-11-01T17:32:00.000-06:002015-11-01T17:32:16.790-06:00another month gone byand I've read all of two books, it think. Work is keeping me very busy, I've had to work one Saturday so far, although that turned out weird and I was only there about 45 minutes.

House is a mess right now. both living areas and the dining room/kitchen are under plastic while they paint. and they seem to be taking their sweet, sweet time. RTO's family is supposed to come for Thanksgiving, hopefully we'll have the house together by then. currently we're living in the guest and master bedrooms. probably would be just the master, but the TV doesn't quite work in there. and we've boarded the cats after coming home to little white paw prints on the floor the first day.

Had a few trick or treaters last night. not as many as I expected so we had candy left over. yay!

I've almost made it a year tracking what I eat and I have nothing to show for it except losing and regaining about 10 pounds. and the holidays are coming. I have started walking the dog again. at five in the morning. but it's preferable to going to the office gym and working out there.

sooooo, hopefully it won't be another month until I finish another book.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-12963254064564718372015-10-03T14:20:00.000-06:002015-10-03T14:20:36.433-06:00work, work, and more workwhich is the answer I gaave to "what expectations do you have for year end?" just hit the end of a quarter so it's been busy. and work has really cut into my reading time. so the last George Elliot novel, Daniel Deronda, took me forever. anyway, really not supposed to talk about work for Big Payroll. it keeps me busy, and awake.

We managed to sell the Texas house and move into the OK house, now we're waiting to unpack more stuff after the painters have done their thing, which will be at the end of the month. It's nice to have critters again anyway. and sleep in my own bed.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-68512974422000685742015-08-21T07:12:00.000-06:002015-08-21T07:12:29.677-06:00Has it really been a month?I guess so. I usually try to post when I finish a book, cause I come here to update my list, but I've skipped the last couple, I think. Anyway, things are moving on both house fronts. Don't want to get too optimistic, it could still all fall apart (it is Friday after all) but if things go as planned we should be in our new house in about a month.

I start a new job Monday, was supposed to start this week, but when they did my background check it pulled a felony conviction for some other"maggie katzen". She had a different middle initial and the arrest was before my name was even "katzen" but they had to wait to get it all sorted out. guess I will have to move my animal visiting to Saturday.

anyway, I'll be off now to see what book the trunk stash offers up.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-43646730313433538862015-07-21T14:16:00.005-06:002015-07-21T14:16:56.095-06:00just shoot me naowhouse is still on the market. ugh. I'm starting to worry about not seeing it on a regular basis. on the plus side, I'm one step closer to getting all my stuff together so I can maybe go back to work. Not a whole lot happening. We visit the animals on Fridays. and I've been reading a lot.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-25216378929832668232015-07-13T11:54:00.001-06:002015-07-13T11:54:30.115-06:00stupid monththought we'd sold the house twice now. but nooooooo. anyhoo, originally thought we had to be out by July 6th, so when they cancelled we went ahead and put our stuff in storage. so we're currently living at my mom and dad's in Edmond. it's good that the house we're interested in is going to take forever to close, cause selling our house is becoming a problem. We were going to ask for less and not fix things, but now it's looking like we'll have to make some repairs. which is really fun from over 200 miles away.

Anyhoo, Ella was taken to the Humane Society to find a new home. Everyone else is currently boarding in Norman. They will let us go visit, which RTO plans on doing every other day. transporting them wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, they were relatively quiet.

finally getting some reading done, though, so there's that.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-1199893607426978842015-06-14T19:08:00.000-06:002015-06-14T19:08:13.673-06:00crazinessso on top of selling the house, Ella has decided she can't stand Sophie and they've had a few altercations. Ella is currently in quarantine at the vet because she bit me, and we've posted on some pet sites that she needs a home where she'll be the only dog. In the mean time, Sophie seems to be getting paranoid.

so I'll be in OKC some soon to look at houses. and RTO will be "home" finally starting tomorrow. if things work out we won't be here much longer. I've been trying to pack more stuff, but it's slow going, cause I'm just lazy I guess. or a little overwhelmed, take your pick.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-19077984243754895782015-05-30T13:33:00.002-06:002015-05-30T13:33:44.950-06:00insert title herenot much going on. RTO has started annual training. The realtor sent out a couple to clean and help pack up the house. so most of the books are now out in the garage. I kept a box o' records so I have something to do for the next month or two before we move.

still can't walk dogs, but I have been given permission to do some light stationary biking. finally got around to that today. keeping the brace for another three weeks at least.

we've had some plumbing adventures here the last week, had water in the living room near the wet bar because the drainage line backed up. emptied that out and then found roots in the line out front.

having a quiet saturday here, just finished The Paris Wife. Makes me think I should give Hemingway a second chance. also went to the store for lunches for the week and cereal. probably gonna take a nap and start the next/sixth Nikki Heat book later, haven't included those on my "things I'll admit to reading" list cause they're pretty light, like reading an episode of Castle really except the names are changed. oh well, fun stuff.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-66606620654532740692015-05-14T15:25:00.001-06:002015-05-14T15:25:44.426-06:00Now it can be told...RTO was fired a few weeks ago, but he's already accepted a new job. only thing is it's in Oklahoma City, so we'll be moving. I think he'll really like this job, it's with the Oklahoma Military Department, and my family is up there too.

Still haven't been able to walk the dogs. I see the doc again on the 19th, so we'll see if I can start up again soon. I have a gigantic brace on my leg at the moment, and people ask me what happened. hard to believe it's been over a month since it happened. The dogs haven't gone as crazy as I thought they might, thankfully. RTO walks them when he's home.

oh yeah, RTO's already working in OKC so it's making things... interesting. anyhoo, I'm busy worrying about things that haven't happened yet, like, what happens if our house sells before we find one in OKC, where will our dogs and kitties go? cause I looked at rent houses and if they even allow pets they want an arm and a leg for each one. and how much can RTO help pack. oh, gotta find a mover. yippee. hopefully Carlos will be helpful this time as well. (I joke that his liking one of the moving estimators was why I picked that company for our move to Garland from Tulsa)

maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-74617262165798783152015-04-29T17:29:00.001-06:002015-04-29T17:29:34.831-06:00wrong!Dr. Tiny Katzen was wrong. turned out to be deep bone bruising and a sprained other ligament.

Anyway, things happening here I don't think I'm allowed to talk about yet.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-48134242157411794182015-04-24T07:34:00.001-06:002015-04-24T07:34:36.117-06:00Dr. Tiny Katzendoing internet searching, I'm guessing torn ACL.

supposed to get an MRI so we'll see if I'm right.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-76816333469490893232015-04-15T11:18:00.002-06:002015-04-15T11:18:29.380-06:00show's overnothing on the radar. going to catch up some at home.

knee is still hurting... it was better when i didn't walk for a week, but then I walked and striking the set Sunday made it worse. so not walking dogs again.

started a new cross stitch project.. some bird ornaments. not nearly as difficult as the eagle thing, except there's gold metallic thread involved, ,which I hate. oh well.

oh, and I have a new niece, Scout. she was born the 1st and I went to OKC last week to see her. tiny. I've been told most babies are. ok.

got the front room painted and got rid of some high voice/soprano music in the process. freed up some space for all the stuff piled on the piano. guest bathroom is next. Matt came by last night to help get the mirror down. prolly waiting till the weekend to paint though.

we've started talking about possibly moving somewhere closer to where RTO works. but there's a lot that needs to be done. Funny how all the projects we've put off will be done just so we can leave. eh, we'll see.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-2650901296991397012015-04-01T17:23:00.001-06:002015-04-01T17:23:47.082-06:00limping over the finish line...made it through the first weekend of Mousetrap in spite of the dogs.

last Tuesday they took off after some ducks and I was determined not to let them go so they dragged me a few feet and I bent my right leg kinda funny before letting them go. so a week later it's still a little hurty, I had someone look at it, nothing broken but it will probably take two months to heal completely. I'm not limping as pronouncedly as I was the first couple days at least, so by opening night I was fine.

anyhoo supposed to lay off the knee for the next week or so and got some drugs for the pain. Dogs will have to walk separately from now on. This will eat up a bit more time than usual, but on the plus side I'm finally starting to lose some weight.

maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-33812429226612378412015-03-20T19:20:00.001-06:002015-03-20T19:20:28.617-06:00one weektil opening. had a good board preview so I don't have to go back til Monday! still am really slow at reading though.

finished my 20th book for the year last week, Inside of a Dog. or week before last, I don't remember. it seems like forever ago.

finished the eagle needle point and immediately took it to Hobby Lobby to frame it. should see it in April. yay! so I think I'm going to try a tiny sweater next. we'll see.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-26976246716369987432015-03-05T15:01:00.003-06:002015-03-05T15:01:55.721-06:00plugging alongto the point I should have my show memorized. have been trying to record, but the computer is not cooperating. have been watching tv and working on the flag/eagle thing. got the flag done and started on the eagle wing and filling in when I get tired of thinking.

Oh, haven't mentioned the new dog. Her name is Ella and she's a black lab mix about three years old. already knew sit, though I think we use it more than she was used to. anyhoo, she quickly learned not to mess with the cats. or not to chase them at least. she still stares at them and sometimes whines cause they don't like her.

still reading a bit.

and I'm turning 40 here shortly. yay!maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-20329982799178477122015-02-15T18:25:00.005-06:002015-02-15T18:25:55.966-06:00Mousetrap!got cast in this show and rehearsals have already started, although I haven't been to one yet. oh well. starting tomorrow I'll be trying to memorize lines again.

Trip to IL went fine.

made a little progress on the flag/eagle thing.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-36758114018808362342015-01-31T10:38:00.002-06:002015-01-31T10:38:51.886-06:00busy, busyfor me anyway.... RTO's grandmother died earlier this month. they had a service here in TX and there will be another in IL in February. we've been to Florida and back. I haven't been able to get back into my routine. Food tracking is going about as expected, which is not so great. I mean, I'm tracking things okay, it's just I keep blowing through my calories for the day. RTO gave me a fitbit also, walking the dog is about all the walking I do. oh well.

finished Laura's blanket and keep staring at the eagle needlepoint, but not making any progress. it just looks so complicated I can't decide where to start. I need to take an afternoon to just concentrate on it. It's actually pretty close to done... about 3/4 of the way done, just a wing and flag left before I can fill in.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-38532966510465549632015-01-06T21:40:00.001-06:002015-01-06T21:40:47.031-06:00two books down...and happy new year! mine's been kind meh so far. slept a bit much yesterday and ran around all day today. have a dentist appointment tomorrow. w007!

managed to keep up with the daily short journal only missed a couple of days last year. and this year of course, I'm still writing 14 in the blank space.

won't be much going on here till later. we're going to Florida and I haven't seen any audition notices that have grabbed me. I'm thinking I may just retire. but then I always hit that mood at some point. we're still catching up on the dvr from the last two shows I did in October. I think we've finally made it up to December at least.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-41511360275132989792014-12-31T20:55:00.003-06:002014-12-31T20:55:42.685-06:00Mom RecsThe Girl You Left Behind
The Hour I First Believed
The Tilted World
One Thousand White Women
The Round House
The Giant's House
What Is Visible
The One I Was
The Promise

and to make an even 10 yet again... um, Schindler's List.

The Double Bind was interesting after having read Gatsby this year, but I don't know how much mystery/trippiness mom can handle. ;Dmaggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-393617558608884302014-12-31T15:19:00.001-06:002014-12-31T15:19:55.302-06:002014 reading list1. The Girl You Left Behind
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
3. The Great Gatsby
4. Beloved
5. Bellefleur
6. The Remains of the Day
7. Zelda: A Biography
8. Eva Luna
9. The Serpent and the Staff
10. The Hour I First Believed
11. Cauldstane
12. The Road
13. The Tilted World
14. The Changeling
15. Death in Venice and Seven other Stories
16. How Evan Broke his Head and Other Secrets
17. Not Cool
18. The Group: A Novel
19. Lost
20. Wivenhoe Park
21. Unequal Childhoods
22. Daughter of the God-King
23. Skinwalkers
24. The Casquette Girls
25. Big Trouble
26. Think and Grow Rich
27. One Thousand White Women
28. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
29. The Tattooed Girl
30. The Good Luck of Right Now
31. Summerland
32. Exodus 2022
33. My Sister, My Love
34. An Uncommon Education
35. The Mists of Avalon
36. The Round House
37. The Daughter of Time
38. The Great Santini
39. The Giant's House
40. What is Visible: A Novel
41. Mozart's Sister
42. On Repeat
43. The One I Was
44. Oryx and Crake
45.The End of the World Running Club
46. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
47. Yellow Crocus
48. American Wife
49. The Sound of One Hand Clapping
50. Homeland and other stories
51. Tricky Business
52. Love in the Ruins
53. The Introverts' Way
54. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
55. The Promise
56. Schindler's List
57. Hold the Dark
58. The Young Lions
59. Shanghai Girls
60. Ancillary Justice
61. The Double Bind maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-15756484327775565272014-12-22T10:59:00.001-06:002014-12-22T10:59:19.066-06:00Merry Christmas!a little early, but knowing my current posting habits it may be next year before I think about posting again.

speaking of early, I've been up since about 5:30 this morning. had the dog walked before I usually get out of bed. (10 ish) so now the rest of the day will be all "What should I do now?" rake the living room floor for one. Sophie has spread stuffins all over. Read the Smithsonian magazine. Hoping to get at least one more book in for the year, then I'll be at an even 60. Less than last year, and I didn't even read a monster sized book that took me a month to read. oh well. Here's hoping you (hi mom!) have a pleasant holiday.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-71095945232208196022014-12-06T12:06:00.001-06:002014-12-06T12:06:14.437-06:00it seems I used to write a lot more....I went looking for pictures of Roxie on here last week because we had to put her to sleep and I knew we got her around the same time I started blogging. anyway, not so many picture of her here. not sure where they ended up.

so we buried Roxie out at RTO's parents' place along with other family dogs. Sophie seems mopey or maybe she's always been this way, it's weird to pay so much attention to her now. Roxie required a lot of attention. Sophie, not so much.

anyway, Roxie never let on that she was sick until she just quit eating last week so thing seemed to happen very fast. and now we've been Roxie less for a week.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-4945676927903832592014-11-07T17:58:00.001-06:002014-11-07T17:58:35.108-06:00maybe not so normal yetthis week has been doctor visits. just check ups, nothing new. I did have some trouble getting my blood drawn. The guy stuck me in one arm and that didn't work so he ended up using the back of my left hand. and then I tried to pass out. they make kinda a big deal about it at the lab. had to lay down and wait for them to check my blood pressure before they would let me go.

anyhoo, went shopping today. I have about half of my Christmas stuff done, trying to push RTO to help with his family. apparently Thanksgiving is kinda late this year, so there's only three weeks between it and Christmas. (at least that's what my therapist told me, looking at it, it's like three and a half.)

so routine was blown this week only walked the dogs today and didn't get much cleaning done. haven't dusted in weeks. oh well.maggie katzenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929432.post-89634097093879881872014-10-24T10:45:00.001-06:002014-10-24T10:45:21.641-06:00coastingmade it through my show last weekend. been trying to get back into my no show habits. haven't started cleaning the house yet, but I am back to recording albums. dog walking never really went away. and I'm getting a bit more read. not sure if I'll try to add some singing/piano time into the schedule, I just really don't care at this point.maggie katzenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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This kit comes with three separate thermal fuses and is usually used with clothes dryers that have a fan mounted on the motor shaft. Included within this kit is the high limit (Limit: 258) the gas high limit (Limit: 240) and the gas and electric high limit thermostat (Limit: 300).
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woot 1st comment xD
Im predicct, Ray will use sth to get away from Kizaru and will join the SHs again. Kuma will get punished for helping the SHs sometime later. I guess in the next chapter we wont hear much from the SHs, rather WB x Shichi.
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OK.. from the translation.. isn't the first 11 pages a rehash from the last chapter?
i think kuma will send Silver to where Zoro is
i also think kuma explained to Silver what Zoro did for luffy
Man, that's a though moment for the SHs (well excepted for Chopper since he's actually unconscious in that form:amuse)
But again, after dramatic moments, the SHs always raise up and kick some ass, so I guess it'll be the same now. I hope they're not scattered...if we see the SHs next chapter, I think there will be quite a lot of jokes in order to balance this, er, "tragical" moment
I think they've been sent to an island we've never heard about
I think that the story may switch to 3 days after this incident and see where the SH are. they wil head back to SA to find it completly destroyed(caused by WB against the shichibukai).Or we will stay on SA and see what happens to Rayleigh and the supernova and Kizaru and Ace's fate and see the war as a flashback(kind of similar to ace versus BB)
that was so emotional, Luffy screaming for each and every of his nakama and yet failing to save any - that's another realization of a man encompassed by Kuma.
that opens up so many possibilities it's just not true. I hope they didn't get seperated too much. it would be pretty difficult to handle nine storylines and them all restarting their journeysomewhere. as sento said it might be the other side of the ocean...
I don't know if anyone thinks the same, but I'm actually dissapointed with the Rayleigh/Kizaru fight. What did we see so far? Silver blocking Kizaru's attack on the SHs twice, then 2-3 swordsclash(and we don't actually see the clash, all we see is the two of them sword against sword), and that's it. I was expecting more real action, but I guess there must be a good reason for Oda not to show Ray's real abilities right now. But still...:(
Maybe it's not over though
Guy's ...if you look careful you ill see that kuma stay on his knee's when him gonna talk with Ray....
Dunno what to think after read this charapter...really unpredictable....
But...dunno....what the hell....first time i really dont know what is happening....All i know is that they are all with life.
I noticed that sento answered to luffys question, where the people are going after being teleported away by kuma. He said "that any man sent flying by those paws will fly through the sky for three days and three nights". How many days were the strawhats supposed to wait until their ship should have been coated? 3 days, isn't it? maybe it has something to do with it...
The fight between Kizaru and Rayleigh seems to be just to give us a hint the potential of exceptionally strong people.(just like it was the case for Shanks, WB, Mihawk and Dragon). Seems Oda will show us a complete fight only when the SH will reach that level.:( That's why I believe we will only see the aftermath of WB against the Shichibukai. I just hope that the SH won't be back at the entrance of Grandline. Like Akainu, I also believe that the SH are together(well PX1 should be with them). The fact that Zorro cannot move will be helpful as he will be the first to reach the destination and would not be able to get lost before the others reach him:D
Maybe the SH were sent to Vegapunk as guinea pigs for his experiment. Hopefully they will be near SA.
Yes, an utter defeat! And for the whole crew! We're about to witness a big upgrade in strenght for the Strawhats when the next arc ends! For all the others I can kind of imagine how they can get stronger but Luffy's a real mystery. I don't think Gear 2 and 3 at the same time will cut it. And Gear 4 sounds wack. Something else, like a technique they will all master or something. Nice they needed that defeat.
Kuma whispered something to Ray(which Ray was unsure of...) and Ray asked him where he was sending them....
i just wanna know what kuma and dark king discussed, its obvious kuma wasnt trying to hurt the crew.
probably moved them to meet someone.
like a favored was asked of kuma
and why is kuma so huge, kizaru looks to be like 10 feet, den kuma towers over him.
but kuma is way over powered for the strawhats and there direct fight methods seem not to be tactic that will work in the new world.
looks new techniques and strategies for opponents will be needed .
and oh yea i dont see the strawhats jumping strength levels anytime soon, i see them taking loss trying to get better or stronger but not like sudden leap to which they could take on kizaru or kuma for that matter. they probably continue on same path and gradually "level up"
and for that matter they need way more than a some new shit , i they need like some devil fruit users, and teachers or something.
cause there make up as we go approach definitly fell threw in the worst way.
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so i guess next chapter, war at worlds end, ace, white beard and whole sh!t load of pirates.
see the last admiral finally in the next chapter and see what marines are really working with.
cause besides thie victory from kizaru ,
they have been looking kinda lame understatement,
they have looked unorganized , under powered and waste of world governments money.


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Johannesburg - Acting Eskom chief executive Collin Matjila has stepped down as chief executive of Kopano ke Matla (KKM) investment company, Cosatu said on Wednesday.
"The federation thanks him for all the work he has done for KKM over many years and wishes him well in his new position," Congress of SA Trade Unions spokesman Patrick Craven said in a statement.
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Matjila assumed the Eskom acting chief executive position on Tuesday, after the resignation of Brian Dames, who was at the helm of the power utility for almost four years.
Craven said Cosatu's national office bearers were working to ensure a smooth management transition at KKM.
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Dennis Martin's mild manner and indelible but gentle sense of humor are both reasons he was hired 10 years ago to direct Zeeland's Howard Miller Library and Community Center.
Dennis Martin's mild manner and indelible but gentle sense of humor are both reasons he was hired 10 years ago to direct Zeeland's Howard Miller Library and Community Center.
This week, the former teacher and public school librarian is embracing retirement for a second time. By all accounts, he made the library and community center "the heartbeat of Zeeland."
People gathered Wednesday in a community center room over cake and soft drinks to wish him well. They recalled Martin, 62, waving greetings to library visitors from his desk, visible to anyone walking through the library doors and his enthusiasm for his job and the city he served.
"What we received is tenfold what we saw in that interview," said Zeeland Mayor Pro Tem Sally Gruppen, just before presenting Martin with the city's lengthy and praise-filled city proclamation of gratitude.
Martin said he decided to leave because his personal priorities are changing and he didn't "want to be the guy who stays two years longer than he should."
Among his fondest memories: Raising $13,000 in a library auction by inviting artists to decorate some Howard Miller Company clocks.
Sarah VanLente and fellow librarian Leann Parker helped serve Wednesday's refreshments and agreed they felt both happy and sad.
"He was always able to defuse any upset person," Parker said. "He'd have them smiling and laughing on the way out."
"His ability to reach everybody was so much larger than any other library director in the past," said Janet Poppema, who helps run the community center.
Beth Bahnsen, a 27-year library veteran named Monday by city officials as interim library director, said Martin's "great sense of humor," coupled with an even-keeled temperament and constant effort "to find the win-win in any situation," made him an outstanding boss and coworker.
Zeeland Councilwoman Mary Beth Timmer recalled hiring Martin during her tenure as library board president.
"He has really fulfilled the vision we had, with his openness and his willingness to jump into this new venture," she said.
Former library board member Laura Sumrall, of Holland Township, said Martin brought a sense of enthusiasm and inclusiveness to the library.
Martin's wife, Jody, said she and her husband of 42 years are planning some adventures, one of which will be visiting their younger son, Michael, 22, who leaves next week for a year of language study in Russia. Their older son, Matt, 30, is a patent attorney in Washington, D.C.
When the city hired him in 2003, Martin accepted a role that combined leadership of the library and community center as well as a major construction project to blend the two entities. City officials are now considering a permanent replacement, and have included Martin in the interviewing process.
Page 2 of 2 - In addition to working in education for 31 years in Petoskey and Fennville, Martin was elected Isabella Township's youngest supervisor at age 28 and later, Fennville mayor. He grew up in Fennville and graduated from Fennville High School in 1968. He'll continue his connection to libraries as a member of Fennville's library board.
Martin's love of libraries seems matched by a love of public service. Local government, he said, is filled with people who want to do "what's best for the community and I see that in Zeeland."
In an interview with The Sentinel, Martin said he looks forward to more time on his motorcycle and gently joked about being "a flaming liberal" in a conservative community. More seriously, he said he had "no qualms with people whose opinions differ from mine ... our country's history is one of conflict and difference of opinions and it's the compromise, coming up with some kind of common good, that's made this country great."
On Wednesday, looking at a crowd of family, librarians and friends, he said, with a characteristic smile, "Thank you for the experience. Thank you for 10 years. And now, I'll go fishing."
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