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In August, Starbucks invested $25 million in Square and announced plans to let people use Square's app to pay in stores.
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The victory at the Oscars of Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker over James Cameron's Avatar was generally perceived as a good sign of the state of things in Hollywood: a low-budget, independent film overcomes a superproduction whose technical brilliance cannot cover up the flat simplicity of its story. So Hollywood is not just a blockbuster machine, but still knows how to appreciate marginal creative efforts. Well, maybe. But it's also the case that, with all its mystifications, Avatar clearly takes the side of those who oppose the global military-industrial complex, while The Hurt Locker presents the US army in a way which is much more finely attuned to its own public image in our time of humanitarian interventions and militaristic pacifism.
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But there is more to the film. The Hurt Locker brought back to Hollywood the trend which also accounts for the success of two recent Israeli films about the 1982 Lebanon war, Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir and Samuel Maoz's Lebanon. Lebanon draws on Maoz's memories of being a young soldier; most of the action claustrophobically takes place inside a tank. The movie follows four inexperienced soldiers dispatched to 'mop up' enemies in a Lebanese town that has already been bombarded by the Israeli air force. Interviewed at the 2009 Venice festival, Yoav Donat, one of the actors, said: 'This is not a movie that makes you think: "I've just been to a movie." This is a movie that makes you feel like you've been to war.' Maoz has said his film is not a condemnation of Israel's policies, but a personal account of what he went through: 'The mistake I made is to call the film Lebanon because the Lebanon war is no different in its essence from any other war and for me any attempt to be political would have flattened the film.' This is ideology at its purest: the focus on the perpetrator's traumatic experience enables us to obliterate the entire ethico-political background of the conflict.
The Hurt Locker's depictions of the daily horror and traumatic impact of serving in a war zone seems to put it miles apart from such sentimental celebrations of the US army's humanitarian role as John Wayne's infamous Green Berets. However, we should bear in mind that the terse-realistic presentation of the absurdities of war in The Hurt Locker obfuscates and thus makes acceptable the fact that its heroes are doing exactly the same job as the heroes of The Green Berets. In its very invisibility, ideology is here, more than ever: we are there, with our boys, identifying with their fear and anguish instead of questioning what they are doing there.


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Eating Planet Launches in New York City
On June 28, the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project and the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition will launch the new book Eating Planet: Challenge for Mankind and the Planet. The book examines the paradoxes of the global food system, the cultural value of food, production and consumption trends, and the effects of individual eating habits on health and on the environment.
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- Kelly Hauser, Agriculture Policy Director, ONE Campaign
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Although agriculture is more productive and efficient than ever before, more than 1 billion people worldwide remain chronically hungry, and another 1 billion people are overweight or obese. Reversing these negative trends will require a more holistic approach to agriculture and more investment in agro-ecological practices. A new book, Eating Planet, by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN), highlights promising efforts to improve agriculture sustainability.
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It's time to wrap up our January pick, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, check in with everyone over on GoodReads, and get momentarily excited for a new excerpt from GRRM...before remembering that its still going to be a long wait for Winds of Winter. Enjoy!
More on our January pick, Old Man's War:
On GoodReads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51964.Old_Man_s_War
From John Scalzi's Blog: http://whatever.scalzi.com/about/books-by-john-scalzi/
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Some of you have noticed that CNN Live recently began offering users an option to view an enhanced live video experience for their Flash video streams. The experience is enhanced by using grid delivery technology, which promises to enable more efficient distribution of live video by allowing clients to receive a single live video broadcast from both streaming servers and other clients connected to the same live video stream. This is different from P2P communication where clients communicate amongst themselves without passing the data through the server. Grid delivery is intended to provide a scalable solution for live events that helps content providers reach larger audiences and maintain a high quality of service at a lower cost than many existing solutions. For users, this should mean faster start-up times and a smoother live video experience.
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My great great grandfather was John Martin but i have no details of his date of birth,residence or spouse. Family legend has it that they originally came from Newport,Tipperary and their lands were confiscated.
Great grandparents were Thomas Martin and Bridget Hanley,married in Kilcommon in 1887. Thomas had one sister Mary married to William Moloughney. Again information from family is that Thomas was from Drumbane,Tipperary and bought the family farm in Curreeney (Knockfune).
My grandfather was John Martin married to Bridget Coffey. John had a brother Patrick who lived with his mother in Curreeney. John had sisters,one married into the Fant family of Pallas and one into the Farrell family of Cappaghwhite.
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This sample uses the .NET Standard Service Bus management library to show how users can dynamically create Service Bus namespaces as well as entities. The management library can be consumed by both the full .NET Framework and .NET Core applications. For more information on .NET Standard see .NET Platforms Support.
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Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory- used to authenticate with Azure Active Directory.
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Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectorylibrary ```csharp var context = new AuthenticationContext($"https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantId}");
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"We're a club that's about two years old now and we've had some great success," Gentile said. "When you bring in new officers you hope that they can hold up that tradition and continue and build on that success."
Assemblyman Mike Miller presented Di Troia with a citation and Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley gave her a City Council Proclamation for her efforts.
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As a past lieutenant governor of Kiwanis himself, Assemblyman Miller expressed his gratitude for Di Troia's work and wished the club the best of luck for the upcoming year.
"It is a lot of work in a club, in getting new members, getting members to go to events and getting members to volunteer to come out and support," Miller said. "You did a tremendous job."
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Brazil captain Fabiana: "We made some mistakes, but toward the end we were doing quite well. Japan has good speed and defense, so we will have to receive and defend well against them."
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Rochelle is confident in every aspect of her teaching, which allowed me to let go and follow her guidance. She gives perfect cues that enabled me to perform the movements while being in touch with my physical and mental being. Qoya is very freeing and allows us to get out of our daily patterns and truly dance! I feel very blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from a true Mastress. After going back to my regular yoga class, I realized how much I REALLY dig Qoya and the movement/energetic part and the Awesome Music that fit so perfectly to what we were working on emotionally. And did I mention how much I appreciated the class that gets rid of ego and encourages unconditional love to flow?!"
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We will start with the simple one.
You first want to start out with the journaling card that you want to work with. In photoshop click file, open, and then locate the right journaling card that you want to journal on.
Your screen will look like this.
Now we need to add some journaling. For this card I wanted to tell the story about Katelyn and her playgroup.
Click on the type key on the left hand side(It has a capital T) and start your journaling.
It will look something like this.
Now I do want to add a title for this card so I will pick another font and type it on my title. I underlined it to make it stand out.
It's ready to print. Now there are a few ways you can go about this. If your printer will allow you to feed it through like you would a sheet of paper you can just print it like you normally would. (If your printer can accept the smaller cards and you would like to have me go through the steps for printing leave me a comment and I will make a tutorial on that as well.)
Most of you will have to print this way. There might be other ways you have figured out how to print as well. But this way is the one of the simplest ways that I know. It is all shown to you on the paislee press blog as well. Click here to see the blog post.
You will want to print out the page with the journaling block from her website. Click HERE to download the page.
******* UPDATED ***** There is a new template for the new journaling cards. (the bigger sized journaling cards. Just look for the new size when you click on the link.
Also you will need to pull up that file in photoshop to add your journaling onto. ***Make sure when you pull up the file in photoshop that it is the one labeled paislee-3x4 journaling card-template. Don't pull up the actual photoshop file. It is the wrong size for printing on a 8.5x11. ***
It will look like this.
Next step is to move your journaling card, your journaling text box, and your title over into the box. The move tool is the very top one on the left hand side. (I realize most of you know this but trying to help the newbies).
Now in reality the first step you would have done was to open the journaling box template first. Then put your journaling card in and your text, and so forth. It will be easier the next time you do this process. And if you do all your cards at once it will be a breeze !!
Now you will have to delete the layer that says "your text here".Also delete the layer that says print guide.(It is the one that has the box on it) So the box won't print out onto your journaling card.
Next is to remove the journaling card. Delete the journaling card layer. **Very important step***
.Again - make sure that you delete the layer that says print guide.(It is the one that has the box on it) So now your screen should look like this. **Very important step***
The next step is to adhere the physical journaling card to the paper with the box on it. I like the mounting square for projects like this.They are easily removable.On the paislee press blog she used double sided tape.
Put your paper through the printer.It should now have your journaling on it.
And now you can slide your finished card into your album.
I hope that has helped answer some questions for you all. It might seem like a lot of steps but it really isn't all that bad and if you journal on all your cards together you can be done super fast. If you have further questions or something was not clear please feel free to ask. Leave a comment and I will do my best to answer.
I also wanted to show you how I use the digital extra elements and also how I incorporate my other embellishments onto my journaling cards.
I choose this card
I wanted to add something else to the plain card so I choose to add this circle LOVE THIS embellishment from the Turquoise kit.
I do try to stay in the same color scheme for the entire week and that is what it is so great about the digital elements. You can change the color of them, and also make them any size that you want. I moved it to the top corner of the journaling card and change the color to match the green in the journaling card.
I want to now add my title. I wanted the title to be home grown. I have part of a brush with the word Home in it. You can find it here from Ali Edwards.
In this case I just wanted to use the word home instead of the whole phrase which was home = heart. So I used my rectanglar marque tool located on the left hand side. It looks like a dotted line box. Just click on the corner of the image you want to cut and drag it to the other side of your image. I will make a box. And just cut that part out and moved it over to my journaling card. You can see the part that I want to move is highlighted with the dotted lines.
And now it is moved over and in place.
I am going to leave some room on the journaling card for my letters that i want to add. Next I add my journaling.
I also wanted to add something to the bottom so I found the word priceless from Ali Edwards Hand Drawn Spring Words. Changed the color to the green and I am done.
Hide the journaling card layer or delete it(click the eye right next to the layer and it will hide it for you. Your ready to print. Follow directions from above.
It's ready for some more embellishing or to go right into your album. You see here that I added the letters to my title. Love it and super easy.
Also want to mention that google can be a great tool when it comes to learning photoshop. If you need to know how to do something or where something is, just google it !!
If you need some more hints and help with photoshop check our Ali Edwards website and also Jessica Spraque. They both have wonderful tutorials on using photoshop.
Again. If you have any questions please leave a comment. And happy scrappin'.
Q : I want to know what kind of ink you use and price? Also, photo paper? Do you feel it is worth it printing at home? I'm toying with the idea of buying a photo printer. Would love your thoughts.
A: I have the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Ink Jet Printer (which is now discontinued and the R2000 is in its place) and so I use Epson Ink. I choose to stay with the Epson ink as it is the best quality. They run from 6.00 - 15.00 depending on the color for each cartridge. There are eight cartridges in the printer. My printer is pretty good on ink. For me it is definitely worth it to print at home. For a lot of reasons, I print daily. When I get a few minutes I will go and print a few pictures or a journaling card for my PL album. It is a convenience thing. Plus you won't have any excuses not to work on your album if you have a printer available. I could not imagine not having my printer. It is a little more money in the long run but I don't have time or the patience to be running to Costco every few days with my three small children.
Q: I am getting the digital elements as part of my Christmas present but was wondering if you also will be buying any of the new Colbolt/Clementine products via Amazon and if so how you incorporate both. Thanks!
A:I am absolutely going to be purchasing the new core kit, actually already did. I went with Clementine this year. It was a real toss up between the two though. I plan on using most of the items that come in the physical core kit, the journaling cards, extra cards, and probably the numbers that come along with the kit. I prefer the traditional scrapbooking aproach but love to add some digital elements into the mix. So I will be using the digital journaling cards as a guide for my journaling cards so that I can print onto the physical journaling cards. Also going to be adding the extra digital elements onto my journaling cards. And possibly using some of the digital paper. They are going to be a great mix and so excited about the possibilities.


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(a) Recommendations regarding size, time, or location of proposed lease sales
Any Governor of any affected State or the executive of any affected local government in such State may submit recommendations to the Secretary regarding the size, timing, or location of a proposed lease sale or with respect to a proposed development and production plan. Prior to submitting recommendations to the Secretary, the executive of any affected local government in any affected State must forward his recommendations to the Governor of such State.
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The Secretary's determination that recommendations provide, or do not provide, for a reasonable balance between the national interest and the well-being of the citizens of the affected State shall be final and shall not, alone, be a basis for invalidation of a proposed lease sale or a proposed development and production plan in any suit or judicial review pursuant to section 1349 of this title, unless found to be arbitrary or capricious.
(e) Cooperative agreements
The Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with affected States for purposes which are consistent with this subchapter and other applicable Federal law. Such agreements may include, but need not be limited to, the sharing of information (in accordance with the provisions of section 1352 of this title), the joint utilization of available expertise, the facilitating of permitting procedures, joint planning and review, and the formation of joint surveillance and monitoring arrangements to carry out applicable Federal and State laws, regulations, and stipulations relevant to outer Continental Shelf operations both onshore and offshore.
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Dinwiddie, a three time winner on the European Challenge Tour, and Manley were tied for the lead after the opening day but the Englishman stole a march on his fellow Briton after teeing off in the morning groups.The 29 year old birdied the par four 12th hole before three consecutive birdies from the 14th were followed by another gained shot at the par three 18th, where he sank a 35 foot putt from the fringe at the back of the green.
He followed that with another birdie at the first before a run of six pars and a birdie at the eighth hole to move to 14 under par as he completed the first two rounds without a single bogey."The key today was to follow yesterday's round with a good start and I did that," said Dinwiddie, who had just 25 putts for each of the first two rounds. "I played the 10th well but didn't quite make the putt. I made a great putt for par at the 11th which was key to keeping the momentum and then I birdied the 12th which got it started.
"The putt at the 18th is certainly not one you'd expect to make. All in all though, my goal was to shoot seven under again today and the start helped that."Obviously you have to putt well too. I read the greens well on the first day and did it again today. I just need to keep more of that for the weekend."
Manley was well aware of what Dinwiddie had done before him and took to the Gainsborough Course on a mission in the afternoon groups, birdieing the 12th hole - his third - before bouncing back from a bogey at the 13th with an eagle at the par five 14th.A birdie at the 16th hole was followed by a double bogey at the 17th but the 33 year old was unperturbed and he battled for his four under par round with a birdie at the 10th and another eagle at the par five fifth, which came courtesy of an incredible 45 foot putt from the back of the green.
"I saw that Robert went crazy again today so I knew I needed to try and at least get to double figures to give myself a chance for the weekend," said Manley."I didn't play as well as I did the first day, there were a couple of loose shots that I need to work on, but my putter was superb today. I holed from off the green a couple of times for birdies and eagles.
"I hit out of bounds at the 17th for a double bogey which hit me for six and I just gathered myself and tried to get back in the game and holed two huge ones at the first and fifth and that really kept me going."I don't see why I can't catch up with Robert. He's a good player but if I go low at the weekend I have every chance. It's going to be a fun weekend. I have no worries and I just have to go out and enjoy it."
At 11 under par, Manley lay three further shots clear of England's Chris Paisley in third place. The 26 year old got off to a positive start when he birdied the tenth, his opening hole, before another gained shot at the 12th. He followed that up with a bogey, however, before a birdie at the 15th and a bogey at the 16th meant he reached the turn in one under par.An eagle at the second hole, after his second shot with a hybrid dropped to within 15 foot before holing the putt, and a birdie at the fifth gave him a second consecutive 68.
"I got off to a really good start over three tricky opening holes which was nice," said Paisley. "I made a good save then on the 14th for par. It wasn't great for a few holes then but I played really solid on my back nine and it could have been a few shots lower but overall I'm happy with that round."The course is set up really well. It's a bit different from the last few years. There's a bit more rough which I think is good. I've been playing well recently so I feel good.
"Obviously there's a long way to go and Robert is playing well so I have a lot of work to do to catch up but I've still got 36 holes to try and do that."
There were six players a shot further back on seven under par, four of them Englishmen, while Australia's Daniel Gaunt carded a seven under par round of 65.Bjorn Åkesson, meanwhile, carded a hole in one at the Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf and Spa thanks to an eight iron tee shot to the 172 yard par three.


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Doran Grant picked off Danny Etling's first pass, returning it for a touchdown, and Braxton Miller threw for 233 yards and four touchdowns to lead the fourth-ranked Buckeyes to a record-breaking 56-0 victory at Purdue.
Ohio State (9-0, 5-0 Big Ten) kept its national title hopes alive by extending the nation's longest winning streak to 21 in a row – and they did it in a venue where they had lost three of their last four.
Coach Urban Meyer, who hasn't lost in 34 1/2 months, tied his personal best by winning a 22nd straight game, a streak that includes his final victory at Florida. Meyer also won 22 in a row with the Gators in 2008-09.
Ohio State won this one in dominant fashion, too, scoring the most points and producing the most lopsided victory in the history of this 56-game series. Both of the previous marks came in 2010 when Ohio State beat Purdue 49-0. Miller was 19 of 23 despite not playing in the second half.
Backup Kenny Guiton threw for one TD and rushed for two more on a day that five Buckeyes receivers caught touchdown passes.
Freshman quarterback Danny Etling was 13 of 29 for 89 yards and was sacked six more times. He's now been sacked 19 times in four games. Purdue (1-7, 0-4), meanwhile, has lost six straight and endured its second straight shutout for the first time since 1953.
The Boilermakers still have not beaten a Football Bowl Subdivision team in coach Darrell Hazell's first season as coach, and they haven't taken a snap in the red zone since late in a Sept. 28 loss to Northern Illinois.
This one was ugly right from the start.
On the game's second snap, Grant stepped in front of B.J. Knauf, picked off Etling's pass and sprinted 33 yards to make it 7-0.
Miller then threw a 40-yard TD pass to a wide open Jeff Heuerman on the Buckeyes' second offensive play to give Ohio State a 14-0 lead. Before the first quarter ended, Miller threw an 8-yard TD pass to Nick Vannett and a 2-yard shovel pass for a TD to Corey Brown to make it 28-0.
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Guiton threw a 1-yard TD pass to Chris Fields midway through the second quarter, and Miller hooked up with Ezekiel Elliott on a 10-yard scoring pass later in the first half to make it 42-0 at the half. And it could have been worse. Brown's 60-yard punt return for a score was called back on an illegal block.
Guiton ran for two scores, breaking the scoring record on a 1-yard TD run with 10:37 left in the game.


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Surely you've taken pictures with Flat Stanley, a tool used to advance children's literacy – But, did you know that you can now take a shark on your adventures? Grab a Shark Stanley printout and show your support for shark conservation by participating in this initiative of the Shark Defenders. Help them reach their goal of collecting at least 5,000 photos! It's important to gather these photos in time for the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in March. Check out all the places Shark Stanley has been on the Instagram and Facebook pages!
Why is shark conservation important?
Sharks are in peril and overexploited due in major part to a voracious demand for shark fins, especially in Asian markets. Shark finning is the removal and retention of shark fins and discarding the body at sea (The animal is often alive when tossed back into the water!). The Pew Environment Group estimates that "Up to 73 million sharks are killed every year to primarily support the global shark fin industry". The underlying problem is that sharks grow slow, mature late, and produce few young over their long lifetime – meaning their populations recover slowly once depleted. Depleted populations affect the health of the entire ocean ecosystem. Here are some examples on how it's all connected:
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- Sharks are the #1 draw for many divers providing a booming tourism industry to remote places that might not otherwise have a good economy.


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Last week, the Republican-led House Committee on Energy and Commerce released information claiming only 67% of enrollees in insurance exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act made their first premium payment. The data was paraded around as a talking point ahead of the Obama administration's final release of stats from the law's first open enrollment period.
On Wednesday, that talking point blew up.
Three of the country's largest insurers — Aetna, WellPoint, and Health Care Service Corp., which operates Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in several states — said between 80-90% of new customers who enrolled through Obamacare paid their first month's premiums. Executives from the companies announced the news in testimony before the very same House Committee on Energy and Commerce where Republicans touted the contrary data last week.
WellPoint said the number of customers who paid their premiums by the deadline was 90%. For Aetna, it was in the "low-to-mid 80s range." Health Care Service Corp. said their number was at least 83%.
Since the Affordable Care Act's enrollment numbers ended up better than preliminary forecasts, Republicans, who initially wanted to make attacks on Obamacare a key part of their strategy in this year's midterm elections, latched onto the possibility that a good chunk of enrollees wouldn't pay their premiums. On Wednesday, the insurance executives directly criticized the House committee's previous study.
"WellPoint was pleased to provide the committee last month with enrollment data from Oct. 1, 2013, through April 15, 2014, for states where we participate in the Federally Facilitated Exchange. As we stated to the committee at the time of submission, this data is not final and only represents a snapshot in time," said Dennis Matheis, the vice president of exchange strategies at WellPoint.
" As outlined in our prior submissions to the Subcommittee, these are dynamic figures and do not reflect final enrollment numbers," added Paul Wingle, the executive director of exchange operations and strategy at Aetna.
Insurers and health-policy observers blasted the House GOP's study upon its release last week, saying it was based on incomplete data — specifically from plans whose premium deadlines had not passed when the committee sent out its survey.
The committee surveyed insurers for the total number of enrollments and premium payments as of April 15. That number, insurers said Wednesday, was about 70%. However, the surge in April enrollment was not reflected. Almost 1 million plan enrollments occurred in April after the Obama administration extended the sign-up deadline for people who had already started the process. For those people, the first premium payment wasn't due on April 15, but the committee counted them as unpaid enrollees.
In essence, the House GOP's talking point will only be true if virtually none of the enrollees in April pay their premiums. That doesn't seem likely, given that insurers reported a steady premium payment percentage throughout the year.
Here's a chart from Health Care Service Corp. The percentage of premium payments received from people covered through Obamacare exchanges was similar to those who were not:
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Though the White House was quick to criticize the committee's report last week, the Department of Health and Human Services has yet to release figures of its own. Last week, a spokesperson said it doesn't plan to do so until "later this year."
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Iraqi soldier who fought with Americans says decision to flee left him feeling ashamed
On Day Four of clashes in Mosul between encroaching jihadists and Iraqi security forces, two officers visited an outpost of the Iraqi 2nd Division's logistics battalion with bad news: they said that all senior commanders had fled.
Stunned and confused, the men called headquarters and received the same information, that all officers colonel and above had abandoned their posts. This evaporation of the officer corps, followed quickly by the rank and file, gave wide berth to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the extremist group whose capture of northwestern Iraqi territories has brought the country once again to the brink of civil war.
For the ordinary Iraqi soldiers who followed their officers in flight, the unraveling of their nation also brought a deep sense of personal shame and betrayal, said Pvt. First Class Mohammed al Nasseri, who insisted he be identified by a pseudonym because the government has threatened to prosecute deserters.
"I wish I'd been killed rather than live with the humiliation of this return," Nasseri said.
He shared his account by telephone from his southern hometown of Nasariya, where he was still struggling to come to terms with his decision to flee even as he braced for a stream of friends and relatives to show up as part of a tradition to welcome loved ones back from an arduous journey.
Nasseri's anger was fresh, and he couldn't help but compare the performance of the Iraqi officers with that of the U.S. military leaders who trained him and the U.S. forces he fought alongside as part of a quick-response team in the insurgent flashpoint of Fallujah years ago. His account, detailed but impossible to independently confirm, painted a picture of a corrupt military leadership that shook down soldiers for cash, kept nonexistent service members on the payroll, and showed up to standard only on the rare occasion Baghdad sends an inspector.
Had the Iraqi military brass in Mosul been chosen because of competency rather than cronyism, Nasseri suggested, perhaps the Islamic State's march toward Baghdad could've been halted, or at least stalled.
"I know what I need to know about fighting in a city," Nasseri said. "I fought side by side with Americans. Their military has leaders that tell the soldiers what the plan is, and fight. We don't. There were many more terrorists in Fallujah and the fight was over in a month. (Mosul) wouldn't have been a big problem if we had leaders."
Five days after Mosul's fall late Monday, Iraq on Saturday remained a country spinning apart. While spokesmen for the Iraqi military insisted that the army had halted the ISIS advance at such key towns as Samarra, 70 miles from Baghdad, there was scant evidence of any significant combat and little sign that ISIS and its allies from a collection of Sunni Muslim militias had been pushed back in any significant way.
The Reuters news agency reported fighting at Udhaim, 60 miles north of Baghdad, and Peter Bouckeart, the emergencies director for the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, posted on Facebook that ISIS was receiving mortar fire in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Baghdad. Reuters, citing Tikrit residents, said ISIS forces had booby trapped the entrances to the city in preparation for an assault from the Iraqi military.
In an email to McClatchy, an Iraqi journalist reported that the capital remained "stunned" at ISIS's rapid advance. Thousands of Shiite Muslims have mustered in the city, answering a call from the country's most important Shiite cleric, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, to bolster the Iraqi army. "If the fight comes to Baghdad there will be carnage," the journalist wrote, asking not to be identified by name out of security concerns.
Nasseri's account of his flight makes it seem unlikely that the Iraqi army would soon gain the initiative.
Nasseri said his battalion was supposed to be focused on supplies and transportation, but that the Iraqi military is so poorly organized that he and other logistics soldiers often were sent on raids and other combat-related missions. Nasseri, who said his unit was made up almost exclusively of Shiite Muslims from the fairly homogenous south, said he had spent the past seven years in Mosul and had come to know well the diverse city of Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs and Kurds.
Nasseri served on the east side of Mosul, in a district named "Saddam," a vestige of the former regime of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. On June 5, the first day of the jihadists' foray into Mosul, a commercial city of 2 million that had long been an Islamic State cash cow and recruiting ground, Nasseri's unit got word of suspicious men openly carrying arms in the Saddam district.
"We gathered in the division's headquarters and we headed there," Nasseri recalled. "I saw two of the gunmen upon our arrival. We fought from street to street as we chased them. They went into a house, but we didn't go after them."
Instead, Nasseri said, a brigadier general called in reinforcements that specialize in defusing bombs; he said he thought a helicopter gunship also attacked the house because of fears that the extremist fighters were strapped with explosives. For the next four hours, Nasseri said, his unit moved from rooftop to rooftop as gunfire crackled around them.
"By the end of the night, we secured the neighborhood," he said. "We stayed there until the fall of Mosul."
Nasseri said that a local man would come out to check on the soldiers – he was welcomed because he was a Kurd from the Birwari tribe, not like local Sunni Arabs who are more hostile to what they view as a Shiite sectarian military. But the Kurdish stranger's in-depth knowledge of the military's Mosul operations was unsettling, Nasseri said.
"He knew too much," Nasseri said, recalling that the man knew of an attack on a general, which soldiers had been killed and insider scuttlebutt from the division. When questioned about his sources of information, Nasseri said, the man explained that he was friends with a captain from the division.
Then, on the night Mosul fell, the Kurd returned to the unit and made an unusual request.
"He asked me to leave," Nasseri recalled. "He said, 'Go back to your children and wife. Everything is over. Protect your life.' He kept insisting on this for four hours that night."
The man gave Nasseri his phone number and made him promise to call.
Later, the two officers visited and told the soldiers that they were the last commanders who hadn't deserted. "The skies were filled with bullets; the sky turned red," Nasser said of his last night in Mosul. "I told my fellow soldiers, 'Don't be afraid, these are our bullets. Our guys are retreating.' We shoot everywhere to secure ourselves."
Nasseri said he stopped a Humvee and asked the soldiers inside what had prompted them to leave: Did you see gunmen? Did you engage in clashes?
"They said no, but that all the generals had fled and no one was left," Nasseri said.
His unit linked up with a nearby battalion of the Kurdish militia known as peshmerga. Nasseri said he still couldn't figure out the mass flight _ from where he stood, he saw no gunmen, the army's posts were standing and the clashes seemed concentrated on the west side of Mosul.
Nevertheless, he said, he handed his uniform, military ID and rifle to a friend in a small Christian village, asking him to keep it safe. Nasseri then set off on an uncertain path south, a journey that typically cost him 60,000 Iraqi dinars, about $50, but this time would require 1 million dinars, around $860, all the funds he had on him.
Nasseri said the Kurdish fighters wouldn't allow the fleeing soldiers to escape through their territories, so they were forced to go back through Mosul. He harbors bitterness toward the Kurds for denying the Iraqi troops access and said that rumors abound of Kurdish complicity in the assault on Mosul, which could strengthen their case for an independent state if the central government in Baghdad collapses.
"I took a cab, then rode in the back of a pickup truck from village to village, and then walked for miles and miles," Nasseri recalled, rattling off some of his stops, including Kirkuk and Khaniqin. "I can't recall the names of all the towns; there were so many. I was thirsty, tired and afraid."
Nasseri said he saw no gunmen, just an eerie tableau of abandoned police vehicles, discarded uniforms and Humvees whose operators had left in a hurry. Opportunistic drivers charged deserters exponentially more than the usual fares: "They knew we would pay, and we did."
Only now that he's safely back home in Nasariya has he had a moment to go over those heady events and realize the implications for the country. He called the Kurdish stranger who'd tipped him off about the collapse; he said the man finally admitted that he was a major from the Kurdish intelligence apparatus.
Nasseri said he'd return to the fight, but only because of Sistani's call to arms _ not for Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki or for the "corrupt" Shiite political elite he holds responsible for the military's collapse.
"We felt that we were sold off. The army is broken," Nasseri said. "I'm still in shock. I can't understand it _ how did all of this happen, and so fast?"
"It is true I was there for the salary," Nasseri added, "but I was honored to fight the terrorists."
Dulaimy is a McClatchy special correspondent. He reported from Colombia, S.C., Allam, from Plano, Texas. A McClatchy special correspondent whose name is being withheld for security reasons reported from Baghdad.


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'Phantom Of The Opera' A Bedazzling Spectacle
Article Date: December 22, 2004 | Publication: Local6.com | Author: Tim Lammers
Four out of four
You don't have to be an opera fanatic to love "The Phantom of the Opera," a hauntingly beautiful screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic stage musical that hits all of the high notes from its quiet beginning to its bedazzling conclusion. It easily ranks among the year's best movies.
To begin with, the music is sweeping and the singing by its leads -- Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson -- sends shivers up your spine. On top of that, the cinematography is breathtaking, the costumes are lavishly detailed and the atmosphere -- created by a combination of the film's gorgeous opera house and its stark, haunting surroundings -- is completely engrossing.
Based on the classic novel by Gaston Leroux, "The Phantom of the Opera" is set in 1870, where a disfigured musical genius (Butler) has become legend by terrorizing the residents of Opera Populaire, a premiere Paris opera house.
Apart from a ballet mistress (Miranda Richardson) who knows his tragic past, the half-masked Phantom leads an otherwise lonely existence in the catacombs of the opera house. He's been deeply longing for the love of Christine Daae (Rossum), an orphaned chorus girl he has been teaching. But their relationship is hardly conventional, for the naive singer believes that her dying father his fulfilled a promise of sending her the unseen mentor as an "Angel of Music."
Teetering on the edge of madness, the Phantom is willing to take extreme measures to fulfill his desires. He first aims to make Christine the star of the opera by displacing the company's obnoxious diva, Carlotta (Minnie Driver). But even when he succeeds, the Phantom's plans only result in a rage of jealously and path of destruction: For her elevated status has attracted the attention of a potential suitor in Raoul (Wilson), a former childhood sweetheart of Christine's, who has grown up to become a wealthy and dashing aristocrat.
Of course, the major difference between the old films and this "Phantom" that it's the music of composer Webber and lyricist Charles Hart that drives the narrative along. Also, the compassionate tone is different than many of the previous film Phantoms. After the tragic love story that was1925 film version starring Lon Chaney, the character came to be portrayed more as a monster than a tragic figure.
Without question, this "Phantom" is more emotionally complex than previous film versions of the story. While I can't reference the stage version of the musical because I haven't seen it, I can tell you that co-writers Schumacher and Webber expanded the backstories of the characters from Webber's original musical, which now, among other things, includes the Phantom's tragic beginnings.
While the film is compelling throughout, it's at it's best, emotionally, when the love triangle between the Phantom, Raoul and Christine starts to heat up.
And while Rossum's soprano voice is enough to make your hair stand up, she takes her performance to the limit as an actor as well. Rossum is amazing in that one minute she convinces you of her innocence in the company of Raoul, but the next she exudes passion in the company in seductive clutches of the Phantom. There's no question that the Rossum, who starred in the summer smash "The Day After Tomorrow," has a promising career ahead of her. Let's just hope she's able to use her singing voice a lot more.
Despite their characters decidedly different backgrounds, both Wilson and Butler have great chemistry with Rossum. Wilson, the star of Broadway's "The Full Monty," brings light and warmth to the film's dark narrative with his dashing looks, a likable persona and silky tenor voice.
Butler, who has a rougher delivery to demonstrate his angst, benefits by his natural charisma, which makes him mesmerizing as Christine's mad, musical mentor. And, like any great gothic film character, like Chaney's Phantom or Frankenstein's monster for example, Butler's Phantom also begs for our compassion as a creature that is misunderstood. His performance is truly heartbreaking.
The film boasts a wonderful supporting cast, from Driver as the playfully over-the-top Carlotta (while she's the only cast member who doesn't do her own singing in the film, she does contribute the film's heartfelt end title song, "Learn to be Lonely"), to Richardson's subtle portrayal of the Madame Giry to Simon Callow and Ciaran Hinds as the amusing new owners of the Opera Populaire. The chorus that backs up the main players is nothing short of brilliant.
Schumacher has proven many times with his films that he's a great visual storyteller, so it's almost a given that the film is a wonder to look at. Told in flashback, the film's present is effectively shot in grainy black and white, while its past (which encompasses most the film) is vibrantly played out in color.
As visually stunning as it is, Schumacher's opus becomes further realized, of course, with Webber's classic music. The songs -- which include beautiful interpretations of the classics "Music of the Night," "Think of Me" and "Angel of Music," among others -- aren't just musical numbers to help make a transition from one scene to the next; Webber's music helps convey the emotions and Hart's lyrics help spell it out.
The film is different from its most recent musical counterpart, "Chicago," in that it has far less dialogue. But like "Chicago," the characters to tell the story through their interactions during the songs, and its fairly easy to interpret what's going on.
And like "Chicago," "The Phantom of the Opera" has all the makings of Oscar greatness. Academy members should start making their reservations now for a night at the "Opera." It's one film that can't be missed.
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