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Wake up! series Vol. 1 Lights out & other poems

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:25:46 PDT
A first short collection of poems, prose poems, short poems & experimental forms. Includes an experimental form I created called: Cleave poetry. One of the poems: ‘A portrait of death as an artist’ was first published in the winter 2008 issue of Poetry News. It also came a close second in the Hamish Canham Poetry Prize for that year.

Say It Ain’t So - “Lethal Weapon 5!”

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:37:11 PDT
As we have been reporting all summer long, Hollywood’s obsession with rebooting franchises knows no bounds. No old franchise is safe with the latest news is that writer Shane Black is preparing to bring back “Lethal Weapon.”

PAX Announces Fatal1ty Not Welcome

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:19 PDT
In response to the news from earlier today where E For All announced that Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel would be returning to E For All this October, Gabe from Penny Arcade has issued a release stating that Fatal1ty would not be appearing at PAX this year and...

Bob Herbert and Keith Olberman Don’t Know Dick

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:09:00 PDT
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TwentySomethingJournalist.com

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:23:33 PDT
The changing face of the news business now has its own site.

Ravens Camp Updates

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:54:21 PDT
Diehard101 sanctioned Ravens blogger Lee Tilman dishes the latest Ravens news as the team heads into the first preseason game against the Patriots.

A Tyranny of True Believers-America's Political Center Fades

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:46:24 PDT
WaPo's Robert Samuelson illustrates the dwindling political center in America, calling on historic trends and polls from the present.

CBS News Poll: Obama +6

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:44:08 PDT
Permalink | Email Author New CBS News poll (July 31-August 5, 904 RV) shows the race unchanged from the last survey taken nearly a month ago: Obama 45 (nc) McCain 39 (nc) Undecided 13 (+1) Obama's lead in the RCP National Average is now up to 3.5%. Sphere It! | August 6, 2008

What the Doctor Said

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:38:09 PDT
I meant to write this last night but was so tired I could hardly keep my eyes open, so I opted for spending time offline with the kitty and an early bedtime. Both were needed. Yesterday I had my appointment with my primary care doctor to talk about WLS. But naturally, since it had been five months since my physical, I trotted out a few other things. Of course the visit started with taking vital signs and getting my current weight. I hate this part but at least I knew it was coming, and I

The competition is heating up!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:58:01 PDT
There is a new trend of kid battling for the term coolest kid on the planet! check it out!Can you be the next number 1??? try it for yourself!


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Source: Washington Post

Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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