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Friday, April 18, 2003
More from the Washington Post on the Museum looting:
Looters at Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities pillaged and, perhaps, destroyed an archive of more than 100,000 cuneiform clay tablets -- a unique and priceless trove of ancient Mesopotamian writings that included the "Sippar Library," the oldest library ever found intact on its original shelves...The Sippar Library, discovered in 1986 at a well-known neo-Babylonian site near Baghdad, was one of the archive's crown jewels.
Dating from the sixth century B.C., it comprised only about 800 tablets, but it included hymns, prayers, lamentations, bits of epics, glossaries, astronomical and scientific texts, missing pieces of a flood legend that closely parallels the biblical story of Noah, and the prologue to the Code of Hammurabi, the ancient Babylonian lawgiver...Iraqi archaeologists found the library in a previously unexcavated section of temple ruins at Sippar, 20 miles southwest of Baghdad... said Jeremy Black of Oxford University's Oriental Institute. "The tablets were still in the pigeonholes, intact and in place. We'd never found such a thing before." "It's very hard to absorb what has happened here," said Johns Hopkins University Assyriologist Jerry Cooper. "It as if the entire Mall -- the National Archives and the Smithsonian -- had been looted, along with the Library of Congress." And although U.S. officials have said the United States will help recover and restore the collection, it may be too late. Stone noted that cuneiform tablets, for all their longevity, do not travel well. "You put these things in the back of a truck and drive over a bumpy road, and pretty soon you have a sackful of dust."
The BBC, meanwhile, reports a third resignation from the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property identified as Richard S. Lanier, "director of a New York foundation".
Photo: Detail, 3rd Ur Dynasty Tablet, Clark Collection of Ancient Art, Ripon College, Wisconsin
Kismet at Christie's?
7th-8th Century Glazed Pot, Iran
Through this interesting site we discover that Christie's of London is having a "fresh as this morning's headlines" Islamic Art and Manuscripts auction this coming April 29th. Here is the catalogue.
According to this morning's Washington Post:
Well-organized professional thieves stole most of the priceless artifacts looted from Baghdad's National Museum of Antiquities last week, and they may have had inside help from low-level museum employees, the head of UNESCO said today...Thousands of objects were lost at the museum, both to the sophisticated burglars and to mob looting, Koichiro Matsuura, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said in an interview....one group of thieves had keys to an underground vault where the most valuable artifacts were stored..."The most important, best material" was taken by professionals who "knew what they were doing," Gibson (McGuire Gibson, University of Chicago's Oriental Institute) said. "Then mobs came in and just marauded."
Quoting a similar story in The New York Times:
``It looks as if part of the theft was a very, very deliberate, planned action,'' said McGuire Gibson, president of the American Association for Research in Baghdad.
``They were able to obtain keys from somewhere for the vaults and were able to take out the very important, the very best material,'' Gibson said. ``I have a suspicion it was organized outside the country. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was.''
Photo: Lot from Christie's catalogue
Thursday, April 17, 2003
It seems these past few days as if some independent UHF started broadcasting "Don Rumsfeld Week" on its Afternoon Movie. Has the Secretary been on every day or does it just seem that way?
At first, as I flicked power on the remote, I thought Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was having another press conference. But, then, the fresh faced young service people fronting a flag bouquet with gel light caused me to think, perhaps, something else was afoot!
I noticed the superimposed title bar, a Pentagon Town Hall Meeting, and pondered the mutually exclusive concepts while thinking that Mr. Rove's live TV event team has had a busy April.
A several hour long and tortured ad lib-packed Day with Secretary Rumsfeld aired last evening on C-SPAN, a press conference the day before yesterday, the General on Larry that evening and now this Town Hall Meeting amid the scattered "on message" soundbites drifting through the flotsom of the days news current, makes one think the Bush Administration is very very concerned that the American people are not quite "on message" as far as regarding this war as one quick perfect victory, period.
Poor Secretary Rumsfeld, except for the thickly applied mantan, he seems so stooped and careworn from all those double and triple questions from the press. After drinking in the drama it seems those old meanie henny penny retired generals and the liberal antiwar press (believe that notion, or not) have become the maguffin as credits roll in the open sequence to a possibly Hitchcockian campaign '04.
Jimmy Stewart in "Rear Window"
A Pentagon Town Hall Meeting. Subtle, Karl, very subtle.
It was a tidy little production, except for General Myers remark about scripting speech (a Nixonian "but, that would be wrong.") and a crazy zoom out that showed the tiny proportions of the room, with worshipful questions from the promotion eager audience and devoted uninterrupted coverage by all three cable nets. Mr. Rove should really take another cue from the master and occasionally insert himself unobtrusively into the scene. Maybe he did, unobtrusively. Only the President's Boy Wonder would have the chutzpah (or, the previously posted round brass objects) to make a straw man of the docile, compliant and cheerleading press coverage this war has received in the United States. The chutzpah shown here was of an altogether higher order for innocent members of the United States military were used as political props for an event whose sole purpose was to again reinforce the idea of Iraq II as a perfectly fought war while advancing the political notions of smaller, lighter and increased privatization of supply function. I'm surprised balloons didn't fall.
Additionally, no matter its selection as a Rovian summer leit motif, I grow weary with the slamming of the retired generals particularly in front of the politicized service member backdrop observed today. The Secretary made a chilling little joke about the generals having vanished due to their error over the war. And, vanished they have replaced with colonels and sergeant majors through the assistance of those helpful ratings spiked network executives. But to keep slamming men who honorably served and who were graciously giving their own best guesses at times of crisis and who were possibly unaware of political agendas, it seems to me, ill suit a Cabinet ranked official of the Federal government.
The drums cannot quite beat loud enough to cover the noise coming from the Iraq National Museum.
Mene Mene Tekel Parsin
9th Century Bronze Ewer
As shock over the looting of the Iraq National Museum ripples through the art world, the Bush administration has its first resignations over the matter.
According to today's Washington Post:
Citing "the wanton and preventable destruction" of Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities, the chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property has submitted his resignation to President Bush. Another of the committee's nine members is also resigning over the issue…"While our military forces have displayed extraordinary precision and restraint in deploying arms -- and apparently in securing the Oil Ministry and oil fields -- they have been nothing short of impotent in failing to attend to the protection of [Iraq's] cultural heritage," Martin E. Sullivan wrote in the resignation letter that he sent Monday to the White House. The second committee resignation came from Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
ArtsJournal.com has many links dealing with the Iraq Museum debacle including 296 downloadable black and white photographs (many with a side view) of the more choice missing artifacts posted by the quirky and very euro TheArtNewspaper. Patience is required for the photos…a very slow site but one's patience is usually rewarded.
The ArtsJournal site can be a bit quirky as well with the occasional non functioning link but it is updated daily and culls papers from around the globe for articles relating to visual arts, music, people, theatre, publishing, media and dance.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
When news broke of the looting of the Iraq National Museum, I recalled reading about a group of conservative US business types with shady interests in antiquities gathering in Rome and in discussion with the US over Iraq's "retentionist antiquities policy". I hadn't saved a link, could not recall further details and so did not mention the story in this space.
5,000 year old Uruk Vase, detail
Thanks to Cursor a link to pfaffenBlog who has the most detailed information I've seen about the Iraq Museum. Bryan Pfaffenberger of the University of Virginia says:
The team of concerned U.S. scholars wasn't the only group to make contact with the Pentagon about Iraq's antiquities. A group of art traders, calling itself the American Council for Cultural Policy (ACCP), recently met with Defense Department officials. Scholars fear that the meeting "was an attempt by the influential dealers to ease restrictions on Iraq's antiquities laws. The group's treasurer has called current policies 'retentionist,' and favors the export and sale of some of the world's oldest treasures to the US." According to German antiquities expert named Sonja Zekri, the ACCP's goal is to " loosen up the Iraqi antiquities laws under an American-controlled postwar regime.... In short, it's the legalized plundering of Mesopotamian culture by Americans after US bombs have already destroyed the land, and US companies have profited from reconstruction."
Most archaeologists would be alarmed if this group were involved in the post-war supervision of Iraqi antiquities. According to Liam McDougall, an arts columnist for the Sunday Herald, "among its main members are collectors and lawyers with chequered histories in collecting valuable artefacts, including alleged exhibitions of Nazi loot."
CNN has reported the Iraq Museum thieves displayed some expertise by avoiding replicas of exhibits on loan to other museums and taking only actual antiquities. CNN also reported Museum officials finding high quality foreign made glass cutters left in the debris on the museum floor.
Another media cycle ticks by and still nothing further on Colonel Joe Dowdy is to be found in the mainstream media. Meanwhile Internet search engines are humming with repeated requests for the limited information on Dowdy available.
The very telepresent Chairman of the Joints Chiefs General Richard Myers was on Larry King last evening reinforcing the heavy administration spin regarding the ground battle in Iraq and attempting again to smear any criticism of the plan.
Old Larry tried to mine for a little dirt by pressing the General on Rumsfeld's "style".
It was funny watching the General's eyes pong about as he stammered that the Defense Secretary's style was "widely known". If "widely known" means material that I too have read and not just Pentagon hallway scuttlebutt then it seems the JCS Chairman was acknowledging Rummy's go for the throat no disagreement countenanced personality.
I wish they could be honest enough with the American people to say that the decision to rapidly push on to Baghdad was made knowing the gamble would lead to potentially increased numbers of lost American lives.
Mere preliminary questioning along these lines prompted great waves of dissembling bon homme from the peripatetic Earth shoe wearing Defense Secretary at yesterday's press conference. "We have no perfect knowledge…" is a favorite Rumfeldian way of saying, "shit happens" as an argument closer. A preponderance of Henny Penny negativity grew, into "…chasing the wrong rabbit" when it came to a question on the initially trouble beset lighter ground force.
So, lets see…nothing is perfect and reporters are chasing rabbits if they look at less than perfect aspects of the "superb" plan?
Finally a question on the Iraqi National Museum and the Secretary just doesn't know "the Iraqi will have to sort this out…"
I thought it very curious that all cable "news" networks left the press conference as the Secretary was responding to the Iraq National Museum question causing this writer's flight to C-SPAN. The networks were hustling to a Laci Peterson update and, of course, couldn't wait until the Defense Secretary finished his question. Even press conference slo-poke MSNBC hopped out of the Pentagon press conference fast as a rabbit being chased!
A very interesting report in the London Guardian indicates that the US government didn't attempt to freeze or monitor Iraqi financial transactions in the weeks and days leading up to war as was done prior to Afghanistan with the Taliban.
…Before the fall of Baghdad…a far more damaging form of looting was already under way as Iraqi bank accounts were ransacked and millions of dollars were transferred into private accounts abroad, Middle Eastern banking sources said yesterday.
US investigators are scrambling to track down the missing money, estimated at between $5bn and $40bn (£3.2m and £25.bn), but some financial experts believe much of it has gone for good, and may have slipped into the hands of extremist groups such as al-Qaida. One official who has seen reports from Middle Eastern banks told the Guardian he had seen details of at least five transfers of between $100,000 and $1m going to a single bank whose name he provided but did not want published.
"We saw it pick up right at the beginning of the shooting war. Then it really peaked the day before and the day of the fall of Saddam's statue [in Baghdad]. We haven't really seen anything since," the official said.
Administration water carrier Howard Kurtz has a frightening sentiment buried in his column in today's Washington Post that most likely conveys the feelings of some in the Bush camp:
Syria? Bah. It's already being touted as "Cakewalk II".
Photo: DOD
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Speaking of Michael Wolff's Guardian article, I wondered, like most, at the identity of the "Centcom uber-civilian" who threatened Wolff's manner of questioning saying:
"A lot of people don't like you." And then: "Don't fuck with things you don't understand." And too: "This is fucking war, asshole." And finally: "No more questions for you."
Well, through Atrios I'm linked to Digby who identifies "uber" as Jim Wilkinson, "a veteran White House publicist as well as a Navy Reserve lieutenant, Wilkinson headed the anti-Taliban Coalition Information Center during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and was spokesman for the Bush campaign in Miami-Dade County during the Florida recount after the 2000 election. Digby also quotes Buzzflash, "...this entire public affairs operation is headed Jim Wilkinson, one of the thugs who protested the Florida recount. Ever the good soldier...though a civilian, Wilkinson reportedly wears a military desert camouflage uniform to work...
It is clear, certainly from this current war, that the media must broaden its continued Internet decentralization if free speech is to survive. The old broadcast media is growing feeble in its stylistic decadence and the increasing distrust of its more shaped news product.
CNN anchor Paula Zahn
I think it is of interest that CNN, not unlike most, has misrepresented what its recent war viewers were seeking. In some laughably ponderous promotion currently enjoying a healthy rotation, the Noodle Network mistakenly concludes that a war time spike in ratings confirmed a glowing cloak of trust for Larry, Paula and the whole increasingly fun "gang". I don't think so.
We tuned in for the satellite phone video embed reports that smug insiders in their usual hideously poor taste were calling war porn. It wasn't any particular reporter that lured our info hungry eyes (though I do believe NBC benefited from its often time better quality signal) for the sand and grime reduced them all to a soldierly sameness and often times to a talking blob. The lure, without minimizing the bravery or skill of the embeds, was what the industry calls "natural sound" with a silent witness Point of View camera and the reactions of someone not quite traditionally reporting so much as experiencing and participating.
Many viewers, after experiencing these reports, would rove the internet reading battlefield reports from a variety of more traditional embedded print reporters and commentary from traditional sources and internet web sites aided by the newer and more leveling blog phenomena providing some news, commentary and links to further information. The gestalt of all this old style and new made for broader deeper understanding of the war as an evolving Rubric's Cube of conflicting data and emotion with the key to understanding provided by the passive embedded camera. Michael Wolff in his widely read London Guardian commentary this week admitted that the reporters in the Press Command Center sensed that this traditional place to be was not the place to be.
The embed, man and camera, could easily become the essential ingredient: the probing finger of the giant beast that is the entire media gestalt.
Embeds not to reason why
Embeds but to view or die.
I am surprised, considering the actions of some embeds, that at least one of the reporter deaths didn't occur before the camera and happen live. What would have happened had that occurred is anyone's guess. But, aside from the moral questions involved with such a public death, the event, coldly, would have become another valid bit of relevant data added to the story of a war.
After the disastrous ratings declines for the old major networks announced at the beginning of the week, I am quite sure the networks will latch onto and mutate aspects of the embed approach certainly into the reality shows and possibly into more news programming.
I just cannot imagine an American television news executive being able to pass up someone embedded with the citizens of town X as monster hurricane Y storms up the coast. Or, even better, to ratings hungry news executive, imagine some Internet video chat group with a member present, capable of reporting and broadcasting from a future news event like a hostage situation, bank robbery or volcano. Or, maybe even long form documentary-style embedding from the state mental health facility or the high school.
I am equally sure, considering the relative low cost and manpower, that there will emerge a whole new generation of more highly trained free lance, hired gun satellite video phone reporting teams experiencing the news and relaying it to the consumer through internet streams or more traditional venues.
The toothpaste is out of the tube.
Photo: CNN via AP and NYT
Monday, April 14, 2003
A great many interesting links this morning that should stoke your outrage or broaden your knowledge base.
First, a highly interesting observation made yesterday by Josh Marshall and posted on his Talking Points Memo:
This evening CNN has been running live coverage of a firefight in which several snipers or paramilitaries were firing on US Marines near the Palestine Hotel. The CNN reporter on the scene is Rula Amin.
Just after 6:00 PM on the East Coast, Amin was having a back and forth with Wolf Blitzer about those foreign volunteers in the country to fight the US. During that conversation she said that the Saudi volunteers were a bigger deal or there in greater numbers than the Syrians. I don't have down the precise language she used. But the basic point was clear: there are more Saudis there fighting us than Syrians. (Wolf, buddy, why no follow-up?!?!)
Then an old friend from her days as a panelist on the bygone Agronsky & Company program, Elizabeth Drew reviews the new books Bush's Brain and Boy Genius for the New York Review of Books. I have always valued Elizabeth's skilled reporter's eye and remarkable political insight. That she seems out of fashion with the current media punditry, to me, adds to her credibility. Ms. Drew finds the most juice in the James Moore and Wayne Slater book Boy Genius:
Rove protests to outsiders that he's not involved in foreign policy, knowing that this would appear unseemly for a political consultant. But he does in fact take part in foreign policy decisions—as usual, from the perspective of what's in the President's electoral interests. This is probably the most tightly concealed aspect of his many activities…Moore and Slater argue that Rove has been deeply involved in Bush's policy toward Iraq and it seems altogether likely that he has; but here they are on weaker ground than in other parts of the book because much of their case is based on surmise, and they also neglect the strong influence of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz. Still, some aspects of Bush's handling of the matter have a Roveian ring. When Colin Powell was preparing his presentation to the UN Security Council on February 6, he resisted citing the alleged links between Iraq and al-Qaeda; he was forced to do so at the White House's insistence. This was the weakest part of his presentation. It has not been established that Rove was involved in the decisions about Powell's speech; but it is a safe bet that he took the view that going to war with Iraq would have more public support if people thought that it was involved with the September 11 attack and that if officials said it often enough, the public would believe it.
Sadly, an extremely depressing article in this morning's Washington Post headlined Pentagon Was Told of Risk to Museums:
In the months leading up to the Iraq war, U.S. scholars repeatedly urged the Defense Department to protect Iraq's priceless archaeological heritage from looters, and warned specifically that the National Museum of Antiquities was the single most important site in the country. Late in January, a mix of scholars, museum directors, art collectors and antiquities dealers asked for and were granted a meeting at the Pentagon to discuss their misgivings. McGuire Gibson, an Iraq specialist at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, said yesterday that he went back twice more, and he and colleagues peppered Defense Department officials with e-mail reminders in the weeks before the war began. "I thought I was given assurances that sites and museums would be protected," Gibson said.
Among the treasures:
…The 5,000-year-old alabaster Uruk Vase, which shows a procession entering a temple -- the earliest known depiction of a ritual.
…The "White Lady", the stone face of a woman that looks as if it was carved during the Greek Classic period but is 5,500 years old, one of the earliest known examples of representational sculpture.
The bust of an Akkadian king, dated 2300 B.C., is the earliest copper casting ever found.
…A spectacular cache of gold artifacts from the burial tombs of Assyrian queens in Nimrud.
…A cultural heritage that extends for thousands of years and encompasses the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Parthians, Sassanids and Muslims, to name only the best-known civilizations.
Ridiculous domestic political arguments over responsibility for this tragedy are surely cueing up on the talk agenda and, like so many, will have no meaning. Neither the excuses of neglect or omission matter in the long run for the precious historic objects are gone or destroyed. Thousands of years of careful guardianship by generations of our common forebearers erased in a few frenzied moments or spirited away to the vaults of a few twisted wealthy elitists.
What does blame matter? I am sick with the artistic and cultural loss and embarrassed that America could even be remotely connected to it.
Bold or Brass?
Here we have, as outlined in this morning's New York Times, the political impetus for the rapid advance to Baghdad and the heavy Washington spin geared toward downplaying the anarchy in Iraq.
Under the headline Rumsfeld Requests Power to Reorganize Services we learn:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is asking Congress for broad new powers to reshape the uniformed services from the highest ranking officers down to reservists and supply clerks…the proposed legislation requests greater flexibility over personnel policy affecting the very senior levels, allowing a defense secretary to extend the tenure of generals and admirals in especially important jobs, while easing the early retirement of those unlikely to be promoted further…Lower in the ranks, the legislation would clear the way for transferring a large number of military support jobs to civilian employees…increasing the numbers of combat troops without adding to the roughly 1.5 million people in uniform today.
Sunday, April 13, 2003
No matter one's political leanings, this is soothing comfort food at its very best. You will wonder why Mom didn't use Vodka in more dishes.
Chicken Vodka Pot Pie
This recipe is for the Pot Pie filling. Piecrust recipe for one crust on March 18 post. If you bake this in an unbaked pie shell with a top crust add more flour (about 3 more Tbsp) when called for in recipe. Feel free to add some chopped turnip and parsnip with potatoes and carrots. I prefer a less thick stock. In order to have the Pot Pie effect, I usually roll out a pie crust, cut it into cracker sized pieces, sprinkle with a little salt and bake on a cookie sheet. Piecrust crackers are served with the hot filling…mmm good!
5 Tbsp Butter
1 White Onion, chopped
2 Potatoes, peeled and cubed
3 or 4 Carrots, peeled and chopped
10-15 Button or Cremini Mushrooms, sliced or chopped
1/3 cup Vodka
5 Tbsp Flour
2 cans Chicken Stock
1 cup Milk
2-3 pre-roasted Chicken Breasts, cubed
1 medium handful fresh Parsley, chopped
1 Tsp Thyme
½ cup frozen Peas, thawed
Saute Onion in Butter. Add Potatoes and Carrots and cook 10 minutes. Add Mushrooms. Add Vodka and cook down (until alcohol smell mostly vanishes). Stir in Flour and add Chicken Stock and Milk. Bring to a boil. Add cubed Chicken, Parsley, Thyme and Peas. Simmer 5-10 minutes
Great news! Seven captured American servicemen have been recovered in Iraq overnight. Two are wounded.
An excellent piece that walks Washington's political tightrope while relating important factual details about the drive to Baghdad appeared in this morning' Washington Post under the headline Confused Start, Decisive End.
This report confirms that the rapid push for Baghdad originated in Washington (or, specifically Camp David) and that the impetus was political:
The president also had another agenda, said this official (described as a presidential advisor). Several people close to Bush said the calculated risk of plunging ahead was driven partly by the realization that it was important for Rumsfeld's ambition of transforming the military into a lighter, more agile force. Slowing down on the battlefield threatened to suggest a reversal of the administration's key defense policy.
Ouch! Secretary Rumsfeld certainly cracked the whip over a babbling Tim Russert and a stoic Tom Friedman on Meet The Press and Face the Nation respectively this morning. It is clear, particularly from the Meet appearance that there is little love lost between the Defense Secretary and the Secretary of State. Imagine, for the sake of discussion, that the presidential advisor responsible for the above Camp David quote in the WashPost this morning is the Secretary of State. It puts a different spin to Mr. Rumsfeld's deliciously nasty remark to Russert that Cap Weinberger was the real author of the Powell Doctrine.


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"Garúa" by Pedro Laurenz y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Podestá in vocals, 1943.
Enrique Cadícamo
Poet, lyricist, composer, writer and theatral writer
(15 July 1900 – 3 December 1999)
"An everlasting boy —wrote León Benarós—, Cadícamo seems to live counter clockwise. He keeps his hair intact, of a pale blond color, that becomes square at the back of his neck and rather long in a juvenile fashion… He wears light-colored ties —once we saw him with one of a subtle yellow color— and his sports coats add him youth. He wants to forget about time because he knows that time —"that dark enemy that sucks our blood", according to Baudelaire's lines—, feeds on our illusions, on our life…" Continue reading.
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Yugoslovia's President sent federal army units today to a small town in the Republic of Croatia after reports of violent clashes between Croatian security forces and Serbian villagers who had seized the local police station.
There were conflicting reports tonight about casualties. The Belgrade radio quoted a reporter on the scene as saying that at least six people had been killed. Croatia's Interior Ministry said no one had been hurt. All accounts agreed that shots had been fired.
A statement issued today by Borisav Jovic, the Yugoslav President, made no mention of deaths, but said the army had been deployed to prevent "the escalation of interethnic violence" in Pakrac, which is about 60 miles southeast of Zagreb, the Croatian capital.
The use of federal troops in Croatia is likely to fray further the tenuous ties binding together this nation of ethnically based republics. It marks the first time that the army, whose officer corps is dominated by Serbs, had been used in Croatia presumably to protect the Serbian minority there.
For the last several months, both Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia in northern Yugoslavia have been edging toward a showdown with the federal Government. Nine days ago, the Croatian Parliament passed legislation invalidating federal laws, shortly after Slovenian lawmakers approved an even tougher measure.
Last month, Croatia and the army were at the brink of a confrontation when the republic balked at disarming its local security forces. With the army poised to take the weapons by force, Croatia announced that it was disbanding the militia units. Recently, however, Serbian officials have contended that Croatia reneged and that the local forces have retained their arms.
Deployment of the army in Croatia was initially welcomed by Milan Brezak, the republic's Deputy Interior Minister. Mr. Brezak said in a radio interview monitored by the Tanyug news service that the troops "had contributed to calming the situation."
Mr. Brezak also insisted that no one had been killed or wounded and said the situation in the village was now quiet. He said that 30 people had been arrested and that there had been no clashes today between Croatian forces and the federal troops. Serbs a Majority in Town
According to accounts carried by Tanyug, the Belgrade television and the Croatian's news service, the violence in Pakrac broke out early this morning.
Serbs, while a minority in Croatia, are a majority in Pakrac, just as they are in a number of other communities scattered across the republic. In all, about 550,000 of Croatia's five million citizens are of Serbian origin. In Pakrac, a town of about 10,000, 60 percent of the people are Serbian.
Tanyug said a referendum had been scheduled for Sunday in which about 50 Serbian villages near Pakrac were to vote on whether to join that municipality.
On Feb. 22, according to a statement by the Croatian Interior Ministry, armed Serbs in Pakrac took control of the police station and disarmed 16 Croatian policemen. The police station then refused to respond to orders from local commanders, prompting Croatian security forces to storm it this morning.
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Twitter reacts after Millwall fan punches a Spurs fan
Tensions were always going to be running high as Tottenham played their last FA Cup game at White Hart Lane against Millwall. The final cup game before it's demolition was marked by a massive police presence, with stewards in the away end forced to take precautions before and during the match. However, while the game passed without any major violence, the attacks by the Millwall fans were verbal and came as racists abuse at Heung-Min-Son, who silenced them brilliantly.
The 24-year-old scored a hat-trick, along with goals from Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli and Vincent Jassen helped Spurs into the semi-final of the FA Cup with a 6-0 win over the Lilywhites. But Millwall being Millwall, lived up to their infamous chant of "no one likes us" and decided to teach a few Spurs fans a lesson. Having just reached the last four in the FA Cup, Spurs fans were celebrating and basking in the glory, while provoking the Millwall fans after the match with their chanting.
But what no-one expected was the reaction – especially with a Police van standing right next to them, and a Lilywhite fan walked up and punched the chanting Tottenham supporter. The video went viral on Twitter and prompted quite a reaction from nearly everyone, including a few Tottenham fans!!


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Action & adventure, Sci-Fi, Short stories
Though this is a direct prequel to Starblade, there exist many connections to both published Neo-human stories, and those yet to be released.
I see angels, angels in this very room. Now, I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I'm not right. Because there's another force at work here. There always has been. It's undeniable. We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain by rational means. Puzzles deciphered in prophecy. Dreams given to a chosen few. Our loved ones, dead, risen. Whether we want to call that "God" or "gods" or some sublime inspiration or a divine force we can't know or understand, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's here. It exists, and our two destinies are entwined in its force.
Eyesight, digitized. The world became an ugly lime green, pixelated fog, as her heads-up display tried to compensate for the recursive feedback, induced by the node jacked into her right temple. The node worked perfectly with most human interfaces. Yet, thanks to Frederika's 'enhanced' nature, it presented a conflict. Oberon Kreis, her guardian, assured Frederika, those very superhuman improvements however allowed her entree, and the skill to avoid Omicron.
Omicron attempted to align Frederika to its overmind. Only passively aware of her, its next scan, Frederika could be sure, the great machine would accomplish its connection. Not a whole lot of time to pilfer those gel circuits.
Frederika harrumphed, ran her fingertips across the cool ceramic alloy wall. HUD restored on retinas, that belonged to big emerald cat-eyes. Thus far, she'd managed to avoid both humanoids, or Techla. Sooner or later, she'd encounter a member of the Techatron Union. That's why she wore the implanted node, so as to appear as if she were a novice cultist.
The beginnings of Omicron were shrouded in rumor. Far as could be determined, Omicron predated The Singularity. Which didn't make much sense. Those so called, self-aware computers that followed were not at Omicron's level. There were no true AIs. Only extremely good mimicries of the human brain. Sentient, but not sapient. Tantamount of beast to man. Nothing like Omicron. The technological rapture itself well-nigh obliterated Omicron and its followers. The event scarred, or killed many members of the Union. Those who hadn't yet uploaded into Techla bodies were said to have been resurrected by Omicron. Living dead, animated by nanites.
Two pallid, bald humanoids, known as Tors, garbed in utilitarian gray overcoats, eyes hidden behind thick black lenses, went by, gave no acknowledgment to Frederika's person. A male and female. For whatever gender counted among these people. Neither so much as ogled Frederika's generous cleavage, or admired her honey blonde mane, that she presently wore in Punk braids, a plait loose, over her left eye. To be remade into automatons. The whole idea offended Frederika. Yet the Techatron Union seemed never lacking recruits, eager to join up and get the First Stage Node. What for? What did they get out of it? A near loss of individuality.
Heads-up display presented a schematic that guided Frederika down a descending, labyrinthine passageway. Lower into the complex, it became colder. Advanced eyesight aside, at her every exhalation, Frederika could behold streams of her own breath, coming out in crystalline particles. Temperature variations seldom bothered her. yet, she'd an aversion to genuine iciness, as her advanced body tended to lock up, heat proved much less of an issue.
Beyond a side archway, Frederika glanced in, and eyed a hive of Techla. Ovular tentacled bodies hovered, and burst with gel synapses, congregated close to a giant, levitating black globe, that brandished a fiery red eye. The Omicron core. Bright scarlet caught her attention, jarred with the otherwise dull silver decor. A Budjah Monk? What was a Budjah, doing here? They were hardily affiliated with the Techatron Union.
The monk moved, and talked at the Omicron core, in a grating, synthesized voice, surrounded by Techla, hands inside the folds of his voluminous, crimson frock. From a thick beaded rope, swung a hefty crucifix. Yet most striking to Frederika, his golden robotic bucket-head, that featured a singular black rectangular sensor plate. Could this Budjah, be a Mecha?
Neither the Omicron core, or this odd, perhaps, mechanical monk, were why Frederika had come to Argentina. She required the gel circuitry.


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July 11, 2013
Hi guys! Sorry I've been MIA for a couple of weeks now. I'm still suffering from post-viral effects of the longest running cold I've had all my life. I've seriously been sick since middle of May!!! Now I have dry coughs that actually keep me up most of the night, NOT fun.
Anyhuw, time for another baby update, the 10 months one:
Baby stats: I have no idea how much she weighs, I would say around 22lbs. We did switch to size 4 Pampers a month ago and she's in 12-18 months or 18months plus clothing.
Health: Sofia also suffered with on and off cold this past month. Poor thing even has the post viral cough but not quite as bad as mine.
Eat/Weaning: Sofia has an amazing appetite. Her most preferred food is still meat but she eats everything we eat. I'm also still weaning her off the boob and right now she's only breastfed in the morning and has three bottles of formula for the rest of the day (at noon, 4 pm and 6:30 pm).
Sleep: still good, she sleeps through from 7 pm to around 6:30 am. When the cold was at its worth, I did hear her cough through the night but not enough to wake her up (just woke me up, waaaa). She also has two daily naps.
Teeth: still only the bottom two. No sign of any others.
Milestones: Let me see...
- more words: mama, dada, hi (all in context), also baba, nana, duh, poo
- cruising between furniture
- imitating everything we do and trying to say what we say.
- plays music on her walker and starts to sway (dance) from side to side. Gets psyched if I tag along :D
- waving hello to everyone and their moms, she even waves to dogs, pigeons,...
How I'm doing:
- I'm back to work in 2 weeks, eeeek! I'm excited but also sad. Made all daycare arrangements this past weekend and everything is ready to go. I will be doing two weeks of part-time before switching back to full-time work.
- Exercise is still on full force. I'm at my goal weight of 148lbs and have achieved a 6 pack (it's faint but it's there). I'm in the best shape of my life and happy that my efforts have paid off.
- I've been off sleep meds for nearly 2 months now. I still decently most of the time now but the cold/dry cough has put a bit of damper on that. I admit I'm tired about 50% of the time.
There you have it. Hope you guys enjoyed this post. I'm faaaar behind in my makeup/hair/nail posts but will try to squeeze a few in this coming week, Hope you all have a great weekend!
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In order to broaden the frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, EDII has established a Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CREED), to investigate into a range of issues surrounding small and medium enterprise sector through its publication, "The Journal of Entrepreneurship". CREED also establishes a network of researc
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in an unusual meeting on Wednesday with a small group of Egyptian civic group leaders and other activists, was told that American backing for political reform in the region would only truly gain momentum if Washington pushed for a fair settlement to the Israeli-Arab dispute.
Mr. Powell, who left Egypt for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and was expected to continue on to Kuwait on Thursday, is visiting the region for talks on a broad range of issues, including the proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the stability of Iraq, fighting terrorism, and possible sanctions against Sudan, as well as political change in the Arab world.
There are widespread doubts in the region that the Bush administration is serious about pushing political change. Many in the Arab world view the effort as a bargaining tactic to pressure longtime Arab allies into unpopular decisions, like pushing the Palestinians to come to unfavorable terms with Israel and supporting changes in Iraq.
Part of the problem was evident in the meeting with Mr. Powell, participants said, in that he did not appear to have much to offer beyond verbal support for civic groups.
''Although America is talking about reform and democracy in the Middle East, it still lacks a comprehensive vision regarding the issue,'' said Hala Mustafa, editor in chief of the quarterly Democracy Review and one of the participants at the meeting, held in the restaurant of a luxury hotel. ''That is why sometimes we find one item on the top, civil society, another day technology, then human rights.''
Participants in the meeting, billed by the Egyptian news media as the first of its kind, and generally welcomed by civic groups here as a sign of support, stressed to Mr. Powell that the United States lacks credibility because it is seen as fundamentally biased against Arabs.
''If the Americans want to be more effective in the process of reform, they must make a greater effort to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict,'' said Osama el-Ghazaly Harb, a noted Egyptian political analyst who also took part in the meeting. ''This will make the environment easier for reform. The American image is poisoned by the Arab-Israeli conflict.''
Asked about the issue at a joint news conference with Mr. Powell, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Abul Gheit, said the recently appointed Egyptian cabinet is eager to pursue reform.
''Egypt has been developing over the last 200 years, we are embracing modernity, we are working on our plans to generate resources in our society, to develop economically and socially,'' he said. ''The new government is determined to pursue that objective. If you call it reform, I call it energetic development.''
In Saudi Arabia, the subject was also raised at a news conference the secretary held later with Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister. Mr. Powell said the two sides had discussed various reform measures, including municipal elections scheduled for the fall, but that the United States accepted the idea that each nation must change according to its own traditions.
As for the Saudi side, ''the whole country is working on this issue,'' the prince said.
In Cairo, on the main regional issues, there were differences of emphasis between the United States and Egypt.
On Iraq, Mr. Powell said the United States was continuing to lobby for Arab and Muslim countries to send troops to help protect United Nations workers who are expected to begin working in Iraq soon to organize elections to be held in January 2005.
Egyptian officials said Cairo was not contemplating sending troops and questioned an apparent attempt to build a force from Islamic or Arab countries.
Contributing troops to any such force would likely be wildly unpopular in any Arab country, as the public would view it as propping up what is still considered an American occupation.
In Jidda, Prince Saud said the two sides had also discussed dispatching a Muslim force to Iraq. It would presumably not include any Saudi troops, given that the Iraqis have repeatedly stated that they do not want any troops from any neighboring states.
On the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, Mr. Powell expressed somewhat less patience than his Arab counterparts with the attempts by the Palestinian Authority under Yasir Arafat to bring calm to Gaza in advance of any potential withdrawal.
Mr. Arafat pledged on Tuesday to give the prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, greater powers to consolidate the security forces and gain political control, long an American demand.
''We hope that this is in fact what has happened and that the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority will have the necessary influence,'' Mr. Powell said in Cairo.


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Scotland 115 for 3 (Iqbal 30, Young 30) beat Papua New Guinea 114 (Lyons 3-33) by seven wickets
Scotland booked their place in the semi-finals of the Plate Championship, after cruising to a seven-wicket victory over Papua New Guinea at Chittagong. PNG batted first but could only muster a meagre total of 114, and Scotland needed barely half their overs to reach their target.
Scotland will now face the winner of tomorrow's Group 2 showdown between Ireland and Bangladesh. Although both of those sides have already qualified, there is plenty at stake in that game - the loser faces the unpalatable prospect of taking on Australia in the semi-finals.
Scotland's decision to bowl first was quickly justified as PNG slumped to 39 for 3, with two wickets falling to Scotland's captain Kyle Coetzer. Vivian Kila attempted to mount a recovery with 34 from 46 balls, but he found no lasting support as Ross Lyons and Moneeb Iqbal scythed through the middle order in 32.2 overs.
Scotland made light work of their target, with Ian Young and Iqbal grabbing 30 runs apiece, and their coach Willie Morton was delighted with the resolve they had shown, after their terrible start to the tournament. "Our boys have done well to keep their heads up," he said. "They played very well today and looked confident. We are very happy to be in the semi-finals."
PNG's captain Chris Amini was disappointed to be leaving Bangladesh without a win. "We wanted to win at least one game but defeat today means we have failed," he said. "This is the first time we have experienced these conditions or played in such a big tournament but the experience will serve us well."
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JASPER - On Thursday, March 8, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Bevill State Community College-Jasper Campus Cafeteria located in the Wade Math and Science building, the Woods-Smith Post 9 of The American Legion Department of Alabama will celebrate the American Legion's 99th anniversary, which will occur March 15, 2018.
JASPER - On Thursday, March 8, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Bevill State Community College-Jasper Campus Cafeteria located in the Wade Math and Science building, the Woods-Smith Post 9 of The American Legion Department of Alabama will celebrate the American Legion's 99th anniversary, which will occur March 15, 2018. Carrying the Legacy Forward is the theme for the nation's largest and most influential veterans service organization with a membership of 2.4 million men and women.
The American Legion was born in Paris, France, in March 1919, after which a caucus in St. Louis was held. The organization was chartered in September and held its first convention in Minneapolis in November 1919
Virtually unknown due to its infancy, The American Legion had more than 843,000 dues paying members by the end of its first year. This was an especially remarkable feat in a world without the internet, televisions, cellphones and other media that we take for granted today There was no interstate highway system and car ownership was still not widespread.
Yet, people went through great lengths to become part of this special organization. And while the language of the time certainly reflected a male-dominated culture, The American Legion was open to all eligible wartime veterans; regardless of gender, race or religion. Women veterans could vote for the National Commander of The American Legion before they could legally vote for the President of the United States.
Nearly a century later, Denise H. Rohan would become the first female national commander. Through her Family First agenda, Commander Rohan reminds us to serve relatives of veterans, who also have unique needs that were caused by military service.
Service is nothing new to The American Legion.
The American Legion's founders served in World War I and they were "still serving" when their successors fought in the second world war - just as every generation of Legionnaires has served its comrades from all wars since.
But, serving fellow veterans is just one of the many ways that The American Legion assists in communities throughout the land.
The American Legion serves the youth of America with outstanding programs such as American Legion Baseball, Junior Shooting Sports, Boys State and Boys Nation. The American Legion has supported the Boy Scouts of America since 1919 and today charters 2,400 Scouting units comprising more than 61,000 young men and women.
The American Legion High School Oratorical Contest awards scholarships to young men and women who can most effectively communicate the ideals of the U.S. Constitution.
Moreover, the Legion feels a special obligation to the children of those who died or were severely disabled while on active-duty since 9/11 Military parents can take comfort in knowing that The American Legion's Legacy Scholarship Fund will help pay their children's college educations if tragedy should occur while they serve.
The American Legion does these things not because it can, but because it's who we are.
The author of America's greatest legislation, Past National Commander Harry Colmery, knew that it was right for America to remember returning war veterans by making it possible for them to obtain college educations and purchase homes.
While others scoffed that such a benefit would "break the treasury," The American Legion held firm and ensured the passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the GI Bill of Rights.
As the years passed, the GI Bill diminished in value. Once again, The American Legion fought hard for a new GI Bill that would allow veterans of the post 9/11 generation to transfer their benefits to family members. The benefit increased even further when the new "Forever GI Bill" was passed and usage deadlines were eliminated. It was officially named the Harry W Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 20 17
The American Legion has wielded considerable influence in Washington since our founding, when there was not yet a Veterans Bureau, Veterans Administration and certainly not a Department of Veterans Affairs.
The American Legion believed from the beginning that veterans earned quality health care from a grateful nation. A nation that sends its military to war had a special obligation to make its heroes whole upon their return.
After decades of American Legion efforts, a cabinet-level position was created to serve those who served us - the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Today, The American Legion is the greatest supporter of the Department of Veterans Affairs. But when VA falls short, The American Legion is also its biggest critic.
Another founding pillar of The American Legion is Americanism. As the lead organization responsible for the U. S. Flag code, Legionnaires can often be found teaching flag etiquette in classrooms across the country Along with the proper folding and display of the flag, Legionnaires understand the importance of respecting Old Glory
Also, members of local American Legion posts provide volunteer funeral details to render military honors for veterans. Woods-Smith Post 9 in Jasper has a Volunteer Ceremonial (Honor/Color) Guard. Veterans honorably discharged and/or serving in the active/reserve, are eligible to participate in the Post 9 Ceremonial Guard. For more information, contact the Post's Ceremonial Guard Commander, Dalton Banks, at 205-239-7718.
The Legion has been working to make sure that the flag of the United States is constitutionally protected from desecration. The greatest tragedy in flag desecration is the disrespect it symbolizes. This disrespect not only sends a harmful message to children, it is a slap to those who have sacrificed for the values that the flag represents. Disrespect is the genesis of hate.
Our organization stood boldly against hate in 1923 when delegates at our National Convention in San Francisco passed Resolution 407, which condemned groups that fostered religious, racial and class strife as "un-American" and "inconsistent with the ideals and purposes of The American Legion."
Although, historians have questioned the true source of the classic quote, "American is great because America is good," there is no doubt that America's goodness is on display at nearly 13,000 American Legion posts throughout the world. It's on display when a Legionnaire volunteers at the local VA hospital. It is on display when The American Legion feeds the homeless, provides an honor guard, conducts a blood drive or supports a job fair
The American Legion truly is a large organization of men and women who have stood to defend our nation in times of war and who continues to stand for a strong national defense in a changing world. These members steadfastly work to preserve the fabric of the United States of America.
For 99 years, the American Legion has been a force for good in America. With God's grace, our best years are still ahead. God bless America and God bless the American Legion.
The Woods-Smith Post 9 meets the 2nd Thursday of each month on the Jasper campus of Bevill State Community College in the Wade Math and Science Building at 805 14th Street. Meetings are preceeded by a "Meet and Greet" at 5:30 p.m., with meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m.
For further information, contact The American Legion, Woods-Smith Post 9, P.O. Box 1204, Jasper, AL 35502, Attention: James W (Jay) Snow, Adjutant, 205-527-7090; legion. email@example.com.


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Fiction, Monologues, Plays & More
by Jeff Folschinsky
I stay, because they don't know the danger. I stay, because if I don't they'll die. They think they're alone, but they're not. I'm here, so the rest don't dare come. I feel them though, just on the outside looking in. I feel their hungry eyes lusting after them.
They dare not enter though. This place is mine, and they know it. My piece of heaven, my piece of hell, my piece of death, and I am god here. Here I make the rules. So I stay, so that they will be safe. I stay, so no other will die.
That voice in your head.
It's not yours.
There's a ghost in the machine.
You are the machine.
Who is the ghost?
Ask yourself,
Who thought that?
Who is doing the thinking here, after all?
(A dark room. A dark room. A dark room.
Me, my eyes closed.
So and so is dead now, you know.
and you, too, will be soon.
So and so is dead now, you know.
And I will be, too.
And you, too.
Soon enough.
Scared, yet?
It doesn't matter. It's still true.
Scared, yet?
I am.
It's coming…
We're the ghosts.
by Mark Bate
This is the year I stop the eerie clatter taking up what should be my restful nights. I couldn't take the skittering in the attic anymore. I abhorred the chittering noises from walls. I detested the breaking of the beautiful urn housing my mother, God rest her soul, as it slid off the roof and took a cannonball right into the driveway, exploding into a million pieces and a puff that resembled a tiny Hiroshima. With much ire and my life savings I caught the ghost… of a squirrel… that now sits on my mantel… God rest his little soul.
by Sean M. Kozma
Well, fuck. I guess I'm a ghost now.
I mean, I think I'm dead. Nobody I knew seems to see me anymore, even when I'm yelling right in their faces. And I have extreme difficulty interacting with solid objects. More specifically, I no longer appear to be solid. Let me tell you, that's disconcerting.
Here's the kicker: I don't know why I'm a ghost. Being recently deceased doesn't come with a handbook any more than being recently alive did. Don't remember what happened, either. I was going about being me, and then… this. Don't even remember when I noticed. Or what not this was like.
But here I am. Life goes on, I guess.
Or, you know… not.
By Taylor Ashbrook
Halloween 1976. Sixteen, and I could finally drive. Car full of friends. Excited, laughing, searching for the costume party. Completely lost, my eye catches a ghostly sheet at the gate atop a narrow drive. Hallelujah! Crept up in first gear. Friends chanting, "Trick 'r Treat…"
Serious man in white robe and pointed hood, holding a large black rifle, explains we are in the wrong place. Edged the car back down the hill, drove away. In silence. The American Centennial, and we faced armed KKK in the suburbs of San Diego, California. Haunts me to this day.
by Tyler Tanner
He saw her on aisle 7.
The familiar thrill jolted through his body, like so many times before. Only this time, he made the decision to act on his impulses. He'd been a good boy. He deserved it. All he had to do was wait. To move to another aisle would be folly. She might leave and therefore be gone forever! So he waited ….and waited. He could smell her scented hair from here. It was intoxicating. He made a casual pass by her and could glimpse the tattoo peeking from her flank. Someone was approaching. Too close. Too Close! He mustered up all of his strength swatted a box from the top aisle with his katana, making it crash. He knew the way of the blade and it paid off now.It startled the interloper, who left confused. "Good riddance, filthy Christian!" he muttered under his breath..The announcement said that the store was about to close in five minutes. She hadn't moved! It was like she wanted him to take her. Lights started to shut off. His fingers twitched in anticipation. The overhead music stopped playing. And now they were alone. He adjusted and smoothed his trench coat and made his way toward his prey.
"Hello Milady" he said in a deep baritone voice. Bowing low with one leg outstretched and doffing his fedora.
Snowdrop Swirl was his for the taking. The guys in his subreddit were going to be soooo jealous! Nobody had seen one before! Only in pictures found on the internet. It should not have been here. You can only get them in Europe. Wal mart must have screwed up! He had the colors for the mane and tail. Even though Snowdrop part of the extra long hair series, he had enough. The trick was going to be the tattoo. If he got the tattoo right, his cosplay would be all the rage at the convention next April. He brushed aside the tail to get a better look.
He missed.
He tried again.
He missed again.
The recollection of his death pierced though his soul like the Sword of Gryffndor replica that took his life. Dammit Ethan! I told you it wasn't a toy. Now he was destined to walk these endless aisles and forever be alone. For there are no bronies in purgatory…..
by Chelsea Sutton
When does something start to breathe?
An inanimate object.
A house, let's say.
There's a moment when a house stops being a house and takes a breath.
What do you call it?
And what about when a house is emptied out suddenly, when it is ripped open, when it is stripped of its function? What is the word?
Haunted. Maybe.
When I was little, I rode my bike past this word every day. It sat with cracked shutters and weeds winding themselves up its walls. Hornets buzzed above the front door. This word watched me as I rode to school and back, to the store and back, to a friend's house and back.
Its weeds overgrew the sidewalk and moved toward the street, as if it were reaching out for me, spindly arms of giant foxtails wanting something.
I thought it was angry at me. The house.
For being in the world. For moving around.
For not paying it a visit.


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Written By: Kisatchy Le'stelle Owens / As Seen On: The FROCK Blog
Golden Globe winner, Jessica Chastain looked effortless as she made appearances in New York a couple days ago wearing a classic black & white ensemble. This famous color duo will continue to make an impact in the upcoming season and of course we want you to take full advantage.
Our VANESSA dress (www.shop.frockla.com) makes for the perfect selection to be paired with a simple black blazer, strapped heels and complimenting bag. Here the gorgeous Chastain has left accessories to a minimal which really works for this look. But of course if you're one who needs an extra dose of glam, by all means bring in a necklace, ring or bracelet, but don't go overboard for the clothes are statement of their own.


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DALHART - Harold Loy Newman, 83, of Dalhart died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Park Cemetery in Dalhart with Robin Robertson officiating. Arrangements by Horizon Funeral Home.
Mr. Newman was born Feb. 13, 1928, in Weatherford, Okla., to O.D. and Fern Wease Newman. He moved with his family to the Bunker Hill area when he was 2. Mr. Newman was raised in the Bunker Hill area and farmed near Sedan, N.M., and Bunker Hill before retiring in the early- to mid-1990s. After he retired, he raised cattle and enjoyed playing dominoes.
Survivors include a son, Alan Lee Newman and wife Marilyn of Forgan, Okla.; a daughter, Angela "Angie" McClellan of Dalhart; three granddaughters, Timarra Hodges of Edmond, Okla., Stephanie Urban of Van Alsytne and Susan Sandoval of Amarillo; two grandsons, Benjamin Newman of Oklahoma City and Kurt Newman of Denton; two sisters, Marlena Kerns and Maxine Trollinger, both of Amarillo; and 10 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Harley Newman; a sister, Loretta Stovall; and a grandson, Alan Loy Newman.
Sign the online guest book at www.horizonfuneral.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 26, 2012


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"Crisis Help Radio Show"
– a monthly show on WVOX 1460AM on the second Tuesday of each month, from 7pm-8pm. Call-in number is 914.636.0110. Facebook Live connection is under Kelly Sisco or Francis Sisco.
A. Overview – Our show is broadcast on WVOX at 1460 AM Radio live on the second Tuesday of each month from 7pm to 8pm EST. And worldwide on http://www.wvox.com. The WVOX studio is located at Whitney Media (for WVOX AM and WVIP FM – 93.5) at 411 Fifth Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801 (near Potter Ave.) The call-in number is 914.636.0110.
Each month, co-hosts Frank Sisco, Tom Sullivan, and Kelly Sisco (and periodically Ken Kline) moderate lively discussions among guests in the New Rochelle, NY studio and call-in guests on a wide variety of topics related to the crisis and stress people are experiencing in their lives, in areas that include financial problems brought on by loss of job or business, relationship problems include divorce and separation, health problems including death, disability, sickness, aging, disease, etc,. physical such as fire, floor, accidents, injuries, acts of God, etc.
Live video also can be seen on wvox.com. Prior shows are (1) a few are shown at the below links (2) on youtube (by searching on Crisis Help Radio Show and Fran Sisco and Tom Sullivan), and (3) on Facebook under Francis Sisco. The show was begun in 2008 during the nation's financial crisis. The show focuses on themes and helpful strategies that are discussed on the show include staying positive, getting the help of others, seeing the silver lining even as you face adversity, teamwork, spirituality, appreciating that the flip side of crisis is opportunity, expressing your authentic self, using creativity and creative endeavors (e.g. music, writing, poetry, performance, acting, painting, sculpture, teaching, etc.) to develop new solutions and giving fully of yourself to others. Our shows often include specific suggestions provided by our in-studio guests and phone guests who are experts or have particular experience and points of views in the areas being discussed. If you would like to be a guest to share about your coping strategies with crisis and stress, or you are an expert on such matters, please contact Fran Sisco via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you would like to sponsor or advertise on our show, the fees are modest, and the impact quite good, especially after considering the post-show coverage via social media, email blasts, websites, etc.
In addition, older shows can be accessed through a problematic older webpage, at the following link: (Do not use this link as all mp3s will load concurrently, causing delays).
B. A sample of a few radio shows are at the following:
1a. Episode on "Children – Reducing Their Stress and Crisis" – Recorded on 10/9/19 –
1b Episode on "Feeding the Hungry and Homeless" and discussion with several call-in guests – Recorded 11/14/17.:
1. Episode on "The Power of Collaboration in Dealing With Stress and Crisis" and using as examples the collaboration of musicians, singers, writers, producers etc. to create the songs that are written or co-written by Fran Sisco – Recorded 10/10/17.
2. Episode on "Dealing with loss – including about 911" – Recorded on 9/12/17
3. Episode on "Therapy Dogs & Pet Rescue" – Recorded on 12/13/16
4. Episode on 1/9/18 on musicals, with a focus on the Anne Hutchinson musical by John Taylor Thomas which played on 1/14/18 at St. Paul's Church in Mt. Vernon (897 South Columbus Avenue)
5. A small sample of our shows on youtube.com are at the following youtube link:
"Other radio shows" –
Videos and mp3s are available of Fran Sisco's other prior radio shows including "Senior Musings," "A Question of Money," "Videos of Cars," and appearances on others' shows.


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At Rapid Fire Bunker, we enjoyed sharing our experience of emergency preparedness and knowing first-hand the importance of quality & instructional services within the Firearm Industry. We had the pleasure of working with thousands of customers and their families over the past ten years, setting the customer service bar higher within the Colorado firearm industry. Each of you touched our hearts and provided lessons that we in turn shared with others.
Providing services to protect and prepare our loved ones, allowed us to make a difference in the lives of every customer that walked through our doors. The smiles and stories that each of you entrusted with our staff etched the very fabric that made Rapid Fire Bunker memorable.
Seek out experiences that uphold your constitutional rights and demand others in the Firearms Industry respect your privacy with all personal information.
Steve, Dawn and the entire staff at Rapid Fire Bunker wish all your future endeavors be filled with adventure and integrity. You will be missed.


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The company said in a statement it would provide services in the areas of ISMAC (Internet of Things,Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) and ERP-EAI (Enterprise Resource Planning &Enterprise Application Integration) among other IT services.
The company said it would step up its hiring efforts in Ireland and Europe to help support its aggressive growth plans for the European market.
Niranjan Chintam, Founder & Chairman, Kellton Tech, said, "Launching this office is central to our strategy of foraying into the European market and beyond. Given our strong presence in the US and India, expansion to Europe has always been a part of our strategic plans.
"The new office will offer improved proximity and service to European customers and will serve as the springboard for further global growth of Kellton Tech."


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Probably you know someone who has created a web site all by himself or herself. So if they can do it why use a professional at all? Can't you create your own business or organization's web site in your spare time and without the services of a professional web site designer? The answer is probably, yes. But following are some reasons why it may not be a wise idea for you.
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Microsoft Great Plains: Interest Calculation Example
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When Great Plains Software was designing and developing Great Plains Dynamics/Dynamics CS+/eEnterprise – it placed several fundamental principles into the system


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"These are some elevations we haven't seen or don't typically see. So, we don't know what the corresponding flow is, yet and we're working with some modelers and trying to get some better information."
The department plans to go before the Sacramento City Council and ask for $3 million for rental and installation of pumps.
"It's a much bigger challenge just because of the design of the intake on the Sac River. So, April 8th, we're going to City Council. I'm asking probably between two-and-three million dollars worth of upgrades for that intake so we'll be able to get water out at lower elevations."
The American River is running at 12 feet, which is right at the level the City says is necessary for the main pump to operate. The Department of Utilities is spending $22,000 per month to rent four pumps to be used on the American River if water levels drop below the intake there.


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Grandma and Grandpa
Show your special love for grandma and grandpa on Grandparent's day using one of these free printable cards. Grandparents Day is an important time of year as it gives you a chance to thank your grandparents for being in your life and helping out. Our elders deserve recognition for the simple things they do and these printable greeting cards let you to do just that. This card features a set of grandparents on the front and their smiling faces on another side. This simple card can be extra special if you're going to add a loving message for them. You can also add your own picture too, so print now!
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