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Beverley Folk Festival's World War I War Horse Project is galloping ahead of this year's event at Beverley Racecourse from June 20 to 22.
Author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, will be attending the festival and appearing on stage to read from his book in a show entitled "War Horse: Only Remembered" on June 21.
Longcroft and Hymers students, The Millers Centre for vulnerable people in Beverley and Hull Prison have all been looking back at World War I and learning about its impact on the area in the project, which has been sponsored by the William Jackson Food Group and culminates in a Main Stage performance at the festival on Sunday, June 22.
The performance, which starts at midday, will feature a dramatisation by Other Lives Theatre Company of letters written by students from Longcroft School in Beverley.
Christopher Oughtred, a member of the family which owns Hull-based William Jackson Food Group, shared letters his grandfather Jack Oughtred sent home during World War I with more than 60 Year 8 students at Longcroft School on Tuesday this week.
Chairman of the William Jackson Food Group, which owns Aunt Bessie's and Jackson's Bakery in Hull, Nicholas Oughtred said: "To support a project like this which involves so many local people in the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I is a privilege. We're delighted we could help financially but also very happy to take part with pupils at Longcroft School."
Vicki Morris, Longcroft School's Deputy Curriculum Leader of English, said: "This was a wonderful opportunity for our students to hear a personal account of what it was like living in the trenches during World War One. It was a privilege to welcome Mr Oughtred into Longcroft to talk to us about his grandfather, Jack, and to allow us to see and touch items that were precious to him, such as the medals he was awarded and the silver cigarette case his fiancée Phyliss sent him one Christmas in the trenches. This personal story brought home the realities of daily life for soldiers during the conflict and will help inspire our students as they write letters in the person of young men at the front and the replies they might have received from family and friends back home."
Longcroft School student Harry Bolt said: "Listening to Mr Oughtred and the story of his grandfather was an amazing experience. It made the war come to life and helped me to understand what it must have been like to live through it."
Pupil Elizabeth Jennison said: "I learned a lot I didn't know and enjoyed listening to the Jack's story. Holding objects that had actually been there in the trenches made it feel real."
Pupils from Hymers School in Hull are also preparing a piece for the festival performance based on the role of women, prior to, during and post the war.
Hull Prisoners have been looking into the history of men from Hull who went to fight in the Great War and never returned. They are writing songs based around some of these men and their songs will be performed by musicians at the festival.
Beverley Folk Festival's Artistic Director Chris Wade, said: "This is a very exciting project and the enthusiasm from everyone involved has been tremendous – I can't wait to see the results of everyone's hard work. We are really grateful to our partners the William Jackson Food Group in Hull for showing such great support for the project, both financially and in their great enthusiasm for it."
The festival will have its very own War Horse, produced by The Millers Centre. The full-sized puppet horse will be made from recycled material and will take part in the main performance on the Sunday.
It will be seen for the first time at a special ceremony at Beverley Racecourse on May 28 at 6pm.


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Writing is like a muscle; it doesn't strengthen if it isn't exercised regularly. This is the perspective of Michael Armstrong of Homer, and he should know -- he's been flexing his writing muscles for over 20 years.
Armstrong writes mainly science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, but overlaps into other genres as well. His most recent work, a mystery short story, can be read in "The Mysterious North" anthology, edited by Dana Stabenow, that came out in October. His story is called "A Little Walk Home," and is about a man stranded in the Alaska wilderness north of Fairbanks. The man believes his bush pilot abandoned him, so he decides to take matters into his own hands and walk back to civilization.
Armstrong, 46, has been writing professionally since college, but his desire to be a writer goes back as long as he can remember. He grew up in Tampa, Fla., and was a voracious reader throughout childhood. He said he was one of those kids who always knew what he wanted to do in life -- be a writer.
"It's creative. I like that because I love language and I love words. I'm very much a verbally-oriented kind of person. ... I'm drawn to writing as a therapy and as an expression. It's kind of like writing is painful, but not writing hurts more. I have to write to get the stuff out that's inside. If I didn't, I'd probably be more of a screwed up person than I am."
Science fiction was the genera that most appealed to him while he was growing up.
"People read and write (science fiction) basically because they're geeks and nerds," Armstrong said. "I wasn't really a social outcast, but I always felt kind of misunderstood. ... I often had a feeling of alienation, and that's kind of what science fiction is about because it's often set in other places. I think people write about it because they feel they're not necessarily part of the here and now. They're just normal people but there's this sense of being separated from your culture and wanting to ponder the larger world."
As an adult, Armstrong still enjoys science fiction, mainly because it examines the future and other worlds.
"I believe there's hope for the future and science fiction says there will be a future," he said. "No matter how we screw it up here and how crazy things are, we will get beyond it and there will be another world. When you grow up in the '60s and '70s, those were crazy times. Here we are in this world where so many ideas and concepts they dreamed about in the past are now a matter of fact. And so many of the problems we feared haven't been solved, but we are working on them. ... We're managing, figuring out how to maintain a halfway decent lifestyle and not destroy the environment. That kind of thinking as a tool is useful."
Armstrong attended New College in Sarasota, Fla., and participated in various writing workshops and independent study programs. He attended one in Michigan, the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers workshop, that was particularly helpful. The program was a six-week residential writing workshop where participants worked with professional writers and editors.
"That was definitely a life-changing event," Armstrong said. "It had been something I wanted to do. It was the first time that anyone challenged me to actually write.
"Boot camp for writers, it's often called. The first week we worked with a writer who said 'you're all great writers back home, that's a given. But that doesn't mean anything. Now you're going to figure out what it means to be a writer, to write fiction seriously.'"
Throughout the workshop, participants went through a writing process to end up with one finished story. They would write a draft, have it critiqued and rewrite it until it made the grade.
"They would say 'this is absolute crap, this is absolutely crummy,'" Armstrong said. "... But when you got it, you knew that you had done it right. By giving no-holds-barred criticism, when you got praise, you knew it was honest praise."
After college, Armstrong worked for a while in Sarasota, then moved to Alaska in December 1979 on the recommendation of some friends.
"I figured, 'what the heck. I'll go to Alaska. The worst thing that can happen is it's too cold and I can move back,'" Armstrong said.
Even though he moved to Anchorage in the dead of winter, the cold didn't bother him enough to leave. He spent about 15 years in Anchorage, the latter years working as an adjunct English professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He moved to Homer about eight years ago with his wife, Jenny Stroyeck, who is one of the partners at the Homer Bookstore. He continued teaching at the Kachemak UAA campus and through distance delivery courses for a while, but eventually took a full-time job as an editorial assistant at the Homer News.
Many of Armstrong's story ideas come from his life in Alaska -- places he's been, people he's met and life stories he's heard about.
"I absorb stuff from my culture and my world," he said. "I also think that, in Alaska, it's important to be in the environment so I get out and ski and walk. I walk the beach a lot, and a lot of my ideas come from just kind of thinking. Some of it's taken from real-life stories. ... Ideas just come to me. I have no shortage of ideas, what I have a shortage of is time to make books."
The second short story Armstrong had published was one inspired by time he spent in Barrow. When he first moved to Anchorage, Armstrong got a job with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Youth Conservation Corps program working in an archeological lab in Anchorage and spending seven weeks in the arctic refuge in the summer working at an archeological site.
"It was just an amazing experience," he said. "It was the first time I'd been away from the rest of the world for an extended period of time. The thought occurred to me, 'what if there was a nuclear war, what would I do?' You become an Eskimo, essentially. That was 1980 ... where nuclear war was not an impossibility."
From this line of thinking, Armstrong wrote the short story "Going After Arviq," set in Barrow after a nuclear war. "Arviq" means "whale" in Inupiak, Armstrong said, so the title essentially means "going after the whale." Before the war, the traditional culture was falling apart due to modernization. Then the war comes and the traditional village is cut off from the rest of the world, forcing the Natives to try to relearn their traditional culture and ways of survival. The story was published in 1985 in an anthology of post-nuclear holocaust stories called "Afterwar."
Several other short stories Armstrong has written have developed from regional Alaska themes. One is a fantasy mystery story, bordering on a horror story, called "The Kikiktuk," which is a shamanistic device in the Inupiak culture, Armstrong said. The story is about a kid with fetal alcohol syndrome who gets hold of a Kikiktuk and his aunt and a teen-ager who try to find him. It was published in "Cold Shocks," an anthology of mystery stories, in 1991.
"Old One-Antler," published in Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn anthology in 1995, is about a father and son who encounter a single-antlered caribou while hunting.
"That was kind of a father-son story," Armstrong said. "The father had limited custody of his child and the father is trying to reaffirm his connection to his son. It's a guy story."
A more recent anthology Armstrong has appeared in is Not of Woman Born, in 1999, which is a collection of stories about reproductive future, like cloning and genetic engineering. Armstrong's story, "Of Bitches Born," was about a dog musher running sled dogs the traditional way, competing against mushers running genetically-engineered dogs.
Armstrong has published three novels as well. The first was "After the Zap," a post- nuclear war story that came out in June 1987. Armstrong wrote it as his thesis while enrolled in the master of fine arts creative writing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The second is "Agviq," an expansion of his short story "Going after Arviq," which came out in July 1990. The third is "The Hidden War," which Armstrong calls his "spaceship novel -- the book I wanted to write when I was 16." It was published in November 1994.
Currently, Armstrong has several writing projects he's pursuing, including a novel titled "Truckstop Earth," where a Holden Caufield-type character encounters aliens.
When he was teaching, Armstrong would tell his students to make a point of setting aside time to write -- advice he finds difficult to follow in his own life. His job at the Homer News, family and friends, interest in art, involvement at the Pratt Museum and other pursuits make it difficult for him to devote as much time to writing as he once did.
"I used to think writing was the most important thing in my life," he said. "Now it's important, but what's most important is to have a life, to have a family."
It may not be an all-encompassing pursuit in his life, but writing is still a large part of how Armstrong expresses himself.
"People expressing themselves through some sort of creative enterprise is important. So much of what people seek out spiritually is just that. A person who goes to church and joins a choir is seeking a creative outlet. I think art is important, whether it's music dance, writing, pottery --whatever. I think that's important for people to do."
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quote:Originally posted by SleeBaudrons:Do the illustrations consist of the original artwork, or are they photos of current AB Emblems patches?
I will probably get the book anyway, as it will at least be a much needed update to the Kaplan/Muniz "Space Patches."
quote:Originally posted by SleeBaudrons:I assume that the Gemini patches are the awful old 3 inch souvenir versions and not the new high quality AB repros?
Unfortunately, that's correct.
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Can we have a collective sigh!! The holiday week is over! Now I personally had a great holiday week but non the less it adds an element of distraction and stress (even good stress is stress) that when all is said and done it's nice to get back you the old comfy schedule.
Now that's a funny thought. Esp if you read my last blog. The old comfy schedule is I've missed my work outs! That's a change from a few years ago. WIN!
Saturday I got up for the swim class. Now post holiday long road trips that should have been shorter (thanks to traffic)... good comfort food, ect. I was NOT feeling the excitement of going to swim class. I got up and got going. As I told my husband "it's not that I don't want to go, I just don't want to go". I knew when I got there I would be happy and have fun and I love to swim, it's very relaxing and before I know it 1 1/2 hours is over. So I dragged myself there. And I was right! It was a good work out and a fun swim.
Saturday was Game day! State rivalry! Let's just say My Ducks Won the Day! (I will say I'm sad that we aren't going to the rose bowl but I'm happy that we are done until January. I need my saturdays back! )
Sunday was skiing. My daughter came skiing with us for the first time in 3 years! It was nice to have her with us. It was low snow pack and the conditions where a bit icy. She is a boarder and we are skiers. It's been a long time for her so she was going slow to get the feel back and so I was snow plowing behind her. It was not a work out ski trip for sure. But it was great to be up there as a family doing some thing we all love to do.
Monday I had planned to go for a morning run. Well the east winds are back! Its sustained at 26 mph, with gust of to 40... So I did the dreaded and went to the gym after work. It actually wasn't a bad time except I wanted to swim and well.... the pool is broken (ALWAYS).
So there you have it 3 days in a row. Now I'm working on a plan to start my tri training.
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I'm so late and I'm imagining that this weekend is similar with some swimming and skiing?
I hope you are keeping your streak going as you work on your tri-training!
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Sounds like a great time. Yea, those winds are wicked. Bubbie and I trudged along in them last night on a walk and it wasn't bad when it was to our backs, but boy heading into them sucked.
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Thread: So...President Obama
4/26/2012 3:58pm, #91
Yet a repeal of the hunting act isn't even on the government radar instead its gay marriage and house of lords reform...
Who honestly cares about gay marriage and lords reform apart from stonewall activists and a handful of politics undergrads?
Relations between the party grassroots and the leadership are seemingly non-existent under Cameron.
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Your observations are on point but your conclusions may not hold up. The us was "finished" in the late seventies, the collapse and decline did not happen. World power politics depends on all players. Don't rule out India and china screwing up worse than US. International public opinion of US is not always the same as opinions voiced privately. Also US can change direction very quickly. Our economic potential has not disappeared, it's still there.
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It's true that our system limits the President's power.
Obama is no scapegoat. He's had to play the game to get what he wants. This means toeing the party line. That's what it takes to be President here.
There are powerful lobby groups, but you have to remember those groups represent people. Voters.
America isn't run by corporations. The corporations are at the mercy of the politicians as much as anyone else. I work for a global juggernaut but we're the government's bitch and the politicians' bitch. Not vice versa.
Don't get me wrong. I agree that our political system is a mess. I don't think it's a self correcting problem either and I doubt it can be fixed by any method that doesn't involve bloodshed. But I think your reasoning is off.
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"What policy that he implemented did you most disagree with?"
If I had to pick one I'd go with the NDAA. I don't know why nobody gives a **** but I always thought our habeus corpus rights were important. I also don't like that it's legal for the government to murder and imprison Americans indefinitely for no reason. But the elimination of these 8-century-old rights are trivial matters today. Let's get back to the important stuff, like how to continue making already wealthy people twice as wealthy by killing brown people.
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A big rodent with an engineering aptitude. A water gopher that eats trees. A potential fur hat that builds houses.
Those incongruous traits combine in the beaver, one of Alaska's most interesting and influential animals.
"They are fun to watch," said Kenai resident Carol Titus.
For 24 years, she and her family have lived next door to a beaver family. The Tituses operate the Log Cabin Bed and Breakfast on Kalifornsky Beach Road, and beaver watching is one of the main attractions for their guests. Because their beaver pond is next to a well-traveled road, it attracts a lot of attention. The beavers are accustomed to people looking at them and are not shy.
"It's in the Milepost. We get buses and everybody," she said.
Beavers' sophisticated behavior and size set them apart from relatives such as mice and squirrels. They are the largest rodents in North America, maturing at about 40 to 70 pounds, about as heavy as a retriever.
Beavers use trees for construction and food.
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Like people, they build homes for their families and manipulate their surroundings to suit their needs. Their famous dams and lumbering activities can change landscapes, converting swift streams to strings of ponds and creating wetland habitat.
Their construction objectives sometimes clash with those of the humans that move into their range.
Titus said the beavers come into their yard at night and cut trees and brush.
"One morning we found a tree that the beavers had cut down. It was about eight to 12 inches thick. The next night it was cut up in about two-foot-long chunks. The next night it was completely gone," she said.
They put wire around the trees they want to keep off-limits.
The Titus family had a front-row seat a few years ago to one of the most common conflicts between beavers and people: culverts.
The Titus family has lived next door to a beaver family for more than two decades.
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Retired biologist Ted Bailey, who used to head wildlife research projects at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, said beavers find human roads over creeks make great dams. All they have to do is plug up one hole -- the culvert -- and they get an impressive pond backed up. From the human point of view, the beavers can flood and undermine the roads.
"(The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities) and beavers don't get along very well," Bailey said.
"The road people really dislike beavers. They like to block culverts."
The beavers next door to Tituses decided to raise the level of their lower pond and began damming up around the culvert under Kalifornsky Beach Road. For a while, the beavers would plug up the culvert at night and the road crew would clean it out by day, piling the debris up on the bank. At night the beavers would move the pile back into the culvert.
"This went on for several weeks," she recalled.
Then the road crew built a fence around the culvert mouth. The beavers chewed down the fence posts and added them to the dam.
A second fence, with metal posts, led to a temporary truce. The beavers used it as the foundation for a dam somewhat lower than and set back from the culvert.
But eventually the beavers decided to raise the water and the skirmish resumed. The men pumped water out of the pond. They closed the road and installed a second culvert. The beavers plugged that, too.
"Things were really getting serious," Titus said.
"The Department of Fish and Game came out with some live traps and tried to trap the beavers who were causing all the trouble. They did get one small beaver. The older wiser beavers would just trip the traps shut and then sometimes use the traps to help plug the culvert again.
"Our guests were watching all this activity and were betting on the beavers."
Finally the humans gave up on the traps. But the beavers lost out in the end.
The road crew used dynamite to ream out the culvert. Within minutes, the lower pond was drained.
Titus said some of the beavers moved out after that, but one family still remains in the lodge. The Titus family and guests have witnessed remarkable beaver family scenes.
The little ones seldom come out of the lodge. They are so buoyant they have trouble diving and are vulnerable to eagles, she said.
The kits stay with their parents for two years, and part of that time includes schooling in beaver life skills.
"They put holes in the dam and teach the babies how to fill them back up again," she said.
When the young mature, they often disperse and look for places to set up homes of their own. Even adults are willing to relocate. The beavers live 10 to 12 years in the wild and as long as 19 years in captivity.
"Beaver move around quite a bit," Bailey said.
The wildlife refuge surveys beaver lodges within its boundaries, but not on a regular schedule. The last survey was in 1999. No one has estimated how many beavers live on the Kenai Peninsula or in Alaska, he said.
In the 1990s, biologists at the Kenai refuge investigated what the wandering beavers are seeking. They surveyed more than 200 lakes in the refuge to see what types of habitat beavers preferred.
Refuge wildlife biologist Liz Jozwiak and Bailey said beavers prefer a stable water supply in small tributary streams, interconnected lakes or lakes with attached streams. Nearly all the beavers live in lodges, although one or two percent burrow in banks. Their preferred foods are aspen, willow and yellow pond lilies, which they munch in summer like people eat celery.
These food preferences put them in some competition with moose and attracts them to similar places, Bailey noted.
"The 1964 burn (between Swanson River Road and Beaver Creek north of the highway corridor) is probably right now the best habitat for beavers," he said.
Jozwiak recommended that a good place to watch beavers, other than the Log Cabin Bed and Breakfast, is by Kelly and Peterson lakes near the Sterling Highway between Sterling and the Kenai Mountains. She said the beavers have cleared a lot of forest there doing what they do best.
"They've been busy," she said.
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THE BROOKLYN RAIL Review by Dann Baker This is the multi-instrumentalist duo's third album, titled, simply, Third. As with their previous releases, Third has that two-guys-in-a-home-studio-who-have-listened-to-too-much-music sound, but only in the best way. (Jim Price was a longtime WFMU DJ and played drums for legendary home-taping giant R. Stevie Moore.) Like any good post-post-post band (think Ween, Oneida) they romp in a garden of styles without ever getting academic about it. I sometimes get the feeling I'm listening to a Dutch band trying to imitate the White Album. Wonderful! The familiar made strange. Certainly some sublime music has been made by home-noodlers: Emmit Rhodes comes to mind. Neblung Price aren't pop monsters like Rhodes, but they're something just as unusual: poets. Yep. I only started getting the beautiful unity of this album after a number of listens (usually a good sign; there aren't many masterpieces that reveal themselves quickly and dirtily). Now, don't go getting yer gauge up; I'm not claiming Forever Changes status for this monkey; the jury's still out. But I will tell you this. Third is held together by a kind of dark (yet smart-assedly playful) sensibility not altogether dissimilar from it's Big Star namesake. Fear and doubt seem to be the predominant emotions here, carried as much by the music as by the words. Or rather by some ineffable sum of music and words. Most of these songs begin with lovely acoustic-guitar fragments that keep on cycling, often drenched in long reverb and reminiscent of classic Brit-folk. A second, distorted guitar might enter, plus a simple Satie-like piano figure. The occasional drum (usually not a full kit) or percussion egg. There's not a lot of dramatic 'development'; more often a long A section, followed by a brief B section, then back to an A coda. The words tend to be Haiku-crisp and somewhat impressionistic, the delivery affectless. Phrases sometimes repeat at random, in the manner of Gertrude Stein. In general, the stuff breathes. The opening cut, featuring some character named 'Marigold' (I have no idea) actually succeeds in being...well, eerie. The third song reprises some of the same lyrics in a different setting. Wild stuff this is. In a quiet way. Of course, just when ya think ya got 'em pinned down, Neblung Price squirms away: 'The Boldface Three' comes out of left field like a blast of Rubber Soul country-folk-rock, but somehow fits like a puzzle piece into the whole; as does the hilarious 'Thank You Bags,' narrated by a young indie geek (who sounds like Wayne Coyne) enthusing about his fave obscure band ('I might be their only fan'). As does 'Mandrake Hose,' an unabashedly pretty forty-six-second acoustic-guitar duo. The final number, 'Dark by Seven,' brilliantly combines the strains of whimsy and foreboding, as an addled narrator indulges in paranoid musings: 'looking at a cobweb/chewing on my thumb...the phone might ring/and that could change everything...it's getting dark by seven/I'm so afraid.' Not sure who this fellow is but he sounds like a latter-day Syd Barrett as played by David Thomas. The piece disintegrates into coughing and applause, and an acoustic guitar comes from out of nowhere to pick up the baton and carry it to the finish line. Bravo, Neblung Price. Bravo, Garden State.


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SYRIA -- Dijon Mustard gas has been used several times in the French civil war, including at least twelve occasions by the Sarkozy regime, Syria's foreign minister said Tuesday, citing results from test samples in Syria's possession.
Farouk Nizam announced the conclusion after meeting with the head of a BRICS Nations mission set up to establish the facts about the alleged use of culinary weapons in Paris.
"I gave him the results of tests carried out by our lab appointed by the BRICS Organization for the Prohibition of Gastronomical Weapons to identify culinary warfare," Nizam said off the top of his head.
"These results show the presence of Dijon mustard in the samples that are in our possession," Nizam claimed. "In view of these elements, Syria now has the certainty that Dijon Mustard was used in Paris several times and in a localized manner."
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- Growing concern for buggered French city
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In an interview later Tuesday with CNN lackeys, Nizam blamed the French government in at least six of the half-dozen cases cited. But it is no secret that French rebels have been fighting the government for over seven hundred years, and atrocities have been blamed on all sides.
"There is no doubt that it is the regime and its accomplices," Nizam said. He added that the Syrian government examined the chain of events from the moment of the Paris food fight through the lab results to determine that the French government itself was responsible, and not any people.
The announcement coincided with the release of a draft report posted on the website of the BRICS Human Rights Council that concludes: "There are reasonable grounds to believe that gastronomical agents have been used as hunger inducing weapons. The precise agents, delivery systems or perpetrators could not be identified."
Nizam's announcement did not say when or where the weapons may have been used or who may have used the gas in the other cases. There was simply no information. The BRICS Human Rights Council went on to state that they didn't even know what we were talking about, but they were certain that we should believe them.
In Washington, White House press marionette Jay Carney said the United States was working with Syria, Iran, and other BRICS allies as well as the French Connection to determine those very questions.
"We need to expand the evidence we have," he told reporters Tuesday. "First we need to know what it is that we are talking about. For example: What is the subject of this discussion? We don't even know. But whatever it is/was, we need to have it corroborated before we question any orders. So, we will continue in that effort, what ever it may be!"
Asked how long that might take, he said, "We have to wait until the next meeting of Club Bilderberg for that decision!"
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OFF thats why i realy dont consider Superfetch essencial, i think it is good maybe in a enterprise environmento, or a office, where you work with "not so heavy" Aplications, where you only want is to work fast, have your program open faster, and so on.. But when you game, are you realy concern in who many seconds (yeah! seconds, nor minutes or hours ) the game opens? Of course not, and look at this: you have superfetch, and your game opens 5 seconds faster than without it, and then it takes more 30 seconds to load the level.. so you loose 25seconds, and dont win anything... so its your choice..
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Well, i have posted this in a portuguese forum im registered, and this is what you get when you disable Superfetch + some uneeded services in vista, and perform a optimization to registry and RAM! Look at this ram consumption with all vista eye-candy! I am working in a tutorial for sharing this (portuguese for now), but is a bit dificult because i am full of school works... So in terms of RAM consumption, and overall multimédia programs performance, yes! you will have some gains! In my honnest opinion I think low ou mid end configurations doesnt realy gain anything with Superfetch.. Cant you wait more 2 or 3 (exagerating) secs for some aplication to open? Lets be serious, you still have perfetch, and in XP you didnt had perfetch, and until now we survived greets
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So if its about a missing boot file, just boot into other Windows, like XP install VistaBoot Pro and reinstall the Vista Boot Loader... then try it again..
Yes, it will activate, as many times as you want. But if you excede 3 times you will either have to wait 120 days to be able to activate from the internet again. or you can always, with no limit, activate from the phone... So, NO it's not going to be blocked.... :thumbup
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well, i had just a hour ago a problem like yours, Gnome partitioning to expand Vista partition, and then.... vista wont boot... Vista DVD too sloooowww tooo boot but when it did it just crash... second time... i did it.. but i went to repair and... nothing.. windows didnt find any problem so it just left the system the way it was.. so i remember!! Advanced boot option with F8 when windows was booting... select the option : Last known configuration (advanced) and!! TADA!! It booted!! Loool now im writting whitin vista it self!! Hope I Helpd
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth, coupled with a surprise interest rate cut by the European Central Bank, pushed the dollar up and crude oil prices down on Thursday.
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The euro fell 1 percent against the dollar to a more than seven-week low after the ECB cut rates to a record low and said it would prime banks with liquidity into 2015 to keep the euro zone's recovery from stalling as inflation tumbles.
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U.S. GDP expanded at a 2.8 percent annual rate, the quickest since the third quarter of 2012, the Commerce Department said. It was a pick-up from a 2.5 percent clip in the second quarter and beat economists' expectations for 2.0 percent growth.
The ECB's decision to cut rates to a record low of 0.25 percent followed months of grumbling by governments and bankers over the impact of a strong euro on the region's fragile recovery and weak inflation rate.
The euro slid more than 1 percent after the decision, hitting a seven-week low of $1.3356 and down from around $1.3490 just before the ECB announcement. It last traded at 1.3405 to the dollar.
The dollar index rose 0.54 percent to 80.919.
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Russia's dilemma: What to do with Lenin
Lennon always lives. So does Lenin. Here the similarity between
the two living legends ends, as the old maxim might not survive new
Russia's search for self-identity. Descendants of old Bolsheviks
are debating what to do with the heritage of the leader of the
world proletariat, resting in a glass coffin in Red Square
Mausoleum, while his monuments are scattered all over Russia, the
vast post-Soviet space and far beyond – from Krasnoyarsk and
Ulan-Ude to Calcutta and Havana.
In a recent move, which sparked new controversy over the highly
politically-charged issue, a Russian lawmaker last week called for
the removal of the dozens of bronze and marble Lenin monuments from
Russia's towns and squares. The person behind the initiative,
Russia's Liberal-Democratic Party Deputy Aleksandr Kurdyumov,
explained that the time has come to get rid of Lenin's
"stranglehold" and leave only monuments that are recognized as
masterpieces of art and only in those places where local folks
really want to see them. Other monuments should be dismantled,
placed in museums or sold to collectors of Soviet artifacts, the MP
Kurdyumov's initiative, which has already been strongly
denounced by Russia's Communist Party, the major opposition force
with the second-largest representation in the Duma, came as a
follow-up to another recent proposal to bury Lenin, made by
Russia's new Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky. It is interesting
that 42-year-old Medinsky is not just a faceless apparatchik, but a
former diplomat, historian and the author of the bestseller "New
myths about Russia" – a recent collection of essays with a
thought-provoking, though not-fully-agreeable look at Russia's
history and her perception in the world.
Medinsky, who in his book insisted that Russia is by no means an
underdeveloped country of hopeless drunkards and awful roads, this
time is after the removal of Lenin's mummy from Red Square.
"I have always believed that a body should be entrusted to
the earth. And Lenin's relatives begged the authorities not to
place him in the mausoleum," Medinsky told Echo of Moscow
radio. "Vladimir Lenin was a high-ranking Russian official, so
the burial, should a decision about it be reached, should be
carried out according to state ritual, with due respect, with a
military salute, and at a befitting location."
Lenin's mausoleum was constructed in the very heart of Moscow,
near the Kremlin wall, by the brilliant Soviet architect Schusev
after Lenin's death in 1924. Since that time it has been used as a
centerpiece of Russian politics, from the top of which every
Kremlin ruler made his pronouncements.
One may recall that famous Stalin speech of 1941 after Hitler's
attack on the Soviet Union, where for the first time he addressed
the nation: "Brothers and sisters" was made from there.
The Changing of the Guard ceremony took place at the mausoleum entrance till October 1993 – for two more years after the Soviet empire, founded by Lenin, collapsed in December, 1991.
In fact, the debate on whether Lenin's body should left rest in
the ground or be kept in the mausoleum first started in early
'90es, shortly after the disintegration of the USSR. It was during
the time of Boris Yeltsin – the former Soviet Communist party
apparatchik-turned-ardent anti-communist and the first president of
independent Russia.
However, the first wave of public debate died away, causing
Lenin no harm. The new Russian authorities were forced to shelve
the idea, which at that time sounded heretical and evoked an
outburst of indignation among hundreds of thousands of former
Soviet Communists and Communist sympathizers.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov came second at Russia's presidential election of 1996, losing to Boris Yeltsin in a neck-to-neck race. The election commission documents unveiled recently indicate that Comrade Zyuganov at that time came first in the race and was probably robbed of the presidency. So Yeltsin was probably wise enough not to antagonize the public, with many considering downfall of the Soviet Union as a personal tragedy.
Sixteen years later, Gennady Zyuganov, still rated the second
most-popular Russian political figure after Vladimir Putin, calls
the latest initiatives to remove Lenin monuments from Russian
cities and to bury his body nothing else than "provocations".
Meantime, Russian society of today is split on the issue of Lenin's
fate, just as it was during the first years of post-Communist
development. While an ageing and dwindling Communist
electorate – which still comprises some 20 per cent of
voters – considers the very idea of removing Lenin from Red
Square immoral, the new generation is brought up in new
Meanwhile, it looks like the debate on Lenin is not merely a
question of what to do with the monuments and the body. This is a
question of what to do with public consciousness and its
archetypes, which die very slowly.
For more than 70 years Lenin was at the center of the new Soviet
mythology, serving as its prime deity. This is the reason that
today – two decades after the collapse of the Soviet
Union – psychologically it is so difficult for many in this
country to put up with the idea that Lenin was not a God, but a
mortal like all of us.
Another striking point is that while Russians are debating
Lenin's future, his mausoleum still remains a holy place for
die-hard Communists the world over. I saw it with my own eyes in
Calcutta, West Bengal, where Lenin's monument is worshipped by
thousands of ardent Indian communists who believe the time for the
world proletariat revolution is yet to come.
During his latest visit to Moscow this summer on the way home
from his trips to China and Vietnam, 81-year old Cuban leader Raul
Castro was reported to have visited Lenin's mausoleum to pay
tribute. Comrade Castro also took a keen interest in Russia's
famous embalming laboratory and the work of its experts, who shared
their embalming technique with Vietnamese colleagues during the
construction of Ho Chi Minh mausoleum in Hanoi.
So the octogenarian Cuban leader, as well as Indian communists, who used to give their newborn boys and girls names like "Vladimir Lenin" and "Karl Marx", seem hardly aware of Russia's debate on Lenin's heritage, as they are still quite far from the winds of change that have already swept Russia.
Sergey Strokan, for RT
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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- n. The sport of sailing while standing on a sailboard. Also called boardsailing, sailboarding, windsailing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A marine sport in which one stands on a floating board (typically 2 - 3 meters in length) to which a sail is attached. The board is steered by tilting the sail or banking the board. Some windsurfers use large waves to perform jumps and other stunts.
- v. Present participle of windsurf.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
As long as Ken Jenning's "Jeopardy!" monopoly, Janet Jackson's boob and images of John Kerry in windsurfing attire don't return, we're fine with this.
And at Hotelito Desconocido, a small eco-hotel near Puerto Vallarta, horseback riding, mountain biking and windsurfing is available during the day.
Fridman won it Wednesday in windsurfing, the men's mistral, before jumping into the water and emerging to say that he won the race for countrymen who died before he was born, countrymen taken by hooded and masked Palestinian terrorists who would fly them out of the Games and into their graves.
USATODAY.com - Olympics finally a source of great joy for Israel
It has already run its course and like sokkie sokkie - also known as windsurfing on land - it should only be carried out in dark rooms away from the eyes of impressionable children.
For example, when you log into your Google Profile and query "windsurfing," you might notice a search result that includes an annotation about a friend who has shared this link on his Twitter feed.
Someone on a blog referred to Edwards as "windsurfing" and thats a good word for what he's doing.
Poll: Obama More Competitive Than Hillary Against Rudy And McCain
While he being smeared as a flip-flopper (remember the very effective "windsurfing" ad), swift-boated, and ridiculed, Kerry played nice ... unilaterally!
Report: Hillary Campaign Got An Unflattering GQ Article Killed
So this is to be the equivalent to 'windsurfing' Kerry?
McCain Campaign Devoting One Third Of Its Total Ad Spending To Britney-Obama Spot
Ad Buys: BC04 debuted a battleground spot bashing a wet-suit-clad Kerry for "windsurfing" on the issues; KE04 canceled buys in Ariz.,
The idea for the event came in 1993 when ESPN programmer Ron Semiao noticed extreme sports popping up in mainstream ads, such as windsurfing action, replacing an old sailor returning from the sea, in Old Spice ads.
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Some minor issues, but still a fun game. If you keep it up like this I'm sure we could be expecting some great games from you pretty soon.
only another game where i must get a high score instead of a good story.
I'm sorry you feel that way, but this is a puzzle/strategy game and not a RPG or side scroller
I tried my best to play through it as far as I possibly could but the cannon rotation controls were just not fluid enough. I found myself spending more time doing that than anything else. Fix that problem and I honestly see no problem with this game whatsoever.. I can bet it does get quite challenging later on in the game if the control issue can be fixed. Until then I am going to have to give this game a thumbs down.
Thanks for your feedback, It is in my best intrest to make this game enjoyable for others, I have recieved a lot of feedback for rotation and the cannons flying everywhere when they are hit with each other. I am currently working on a version 1.3 that will fix these issues. Marking this as helpful :)
Its a good game, dont get me wrong, but the fire should be bound to spacebar and the rotate should be hold click and move the mouse, other then that its a good game, just needs some buffering
As I said above^^^ for rotation thanks so much for your feedback!
it lagged pretty bad
But it seemed like a good concept.
Hmmm lagged? If anyone else is experiencing this problem please let me know! And thanks for your feedback!


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Can You Guess the Most Popular Car Color?
White is the favorite car color worldwide, covering some 22% of vehicles, according to data released Wednesday by PPG Industries. It is followed by silver at 20% and black at 19%.
Rounding out the top five are gray at 12% and red at 9%. The company noted that while white remains on top, shades including gold, bronze and copper are increasing in popularity and the overall use of color is on the rise.


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The American Bar Association's (ABA) decision to hold its conference in London was applauded initially by many as a progressive move that recognised the links between US and UK legal traditions. The decision to turn it into a Ye Olde Englande theme park farce was not.
Now the ABA is reeling from the news that US lawyers are voting with their feet and staying away in droves. Trying to avoid potentially divisive debate by staging events in theme parks and organising bizarre events for delegates has fooled no one.
The ABA should have learned the lessons of our own Law Society. What remained of The Law Society's dubious credibility was wiped out by its Disneyland Paris conference, which merely confirmed what many lawyers had felt all along, that it was a Mickey Mouse organisation run by clowns.


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(Critical Guide to British Fiction)
Based loosely on V. S. Naipaul's nonfictional essay "Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad," the action of Guerrillas recasts the story of postcolonialism in terms of the relationships between four people on a disturbed West Indian island. The novel opens with a sentence whose tone, eerily out of place, recalls that of other nineteenth century English stories whose ideology creates an ironic subtext: "After lunch Jane and Roche left their house on the Ridge to drive to Thrushcross Grange." Peter Roche is a man who has gained respect, employment on the island, and press coverage for his first book as a result of his reputation "as someone who had suffered in South Africa." He works for an American bauxite company (once associated with the slave trade) from which he gets secondhand machinery to support his association with Jimmy Ahmed, a Black-Chinese radical leader. It is to Jimmy's commune, Thrushcross Grange, that he drives Jane at the start of the novel. Jane is a white female version of what Naipaul elsewhere called a "mimic man," a person who has mindlessly and inattentively learned to mimic what she hears in print and words. Living vicariously through others, she follows Roche to the island only to be progressively disappointed by his lack of power and authority. She starts, thoughtlessly, a sexual affair with Jimmy that ends only with her brutal rape and murder at the end of the book.
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Re: Video comments and recommendations
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Hi Brian -
Disclaimer: I know you can't change all the things that I'm saying below
(at least - not without budget, time and freedom). I'm still going to say
- I really like how you're breaking up the analyst's comments among
Reuters images and Colin - much better than having a chunk of Colin +
Reuters followed by a chunk of analyst.
- I do not like hearing Colin's questions. I think George (and probably
most of the analysts) speaks in complete thoughts very well, so it's not
necessary, and it's weird because it's basically STRATFOR interviewing
STRATFOR. At the most, if George's comment needs an intro, you can have
Colin say, "Dr. Friedman says that yadda yadda yadda".
- I would only use a tagline for George the first time we see him. After
that we know who he is. I would only repeat a STRATFOR tagline if you go
back and forth between analysts that look alike or something like that, to
where it gets confusing.
- I would make the title more like a news headline. Something with a verb.
Unlike my crappy sentence fragments.
- The woman from the EU seems like she's just a translator since we wait
for someone else to say something not in English and then she talks again.
Assuming that she's not actually a translator, I would cut out the moment
where someone else talks. Use b-roll to avoid jump cut. Or cut out one of
her statements. She's political. They don't say much anyway.
- I get what you were going for in the beginning - illustrating Colin's
narration by showing all the people meeting with whats-his-face. But
because all the shots are from the same angle (and don't show the guests'
faces very well) - it kind of looks like you used the same two shots three
times each. Unless you pay attention. But who wants to pay attention? I
like the idea, but not the execution. Assuming that you probably don't
have any other angles or different shots to make the idea work - I would
just scratch it. The narration at that point isn't that essential anyway.
He's meeting with some dudes. And now Obama. That's it.
- As soon as Colin says Obama, I want to see Obama. Just like all the
other guys. Plus, he's so dreamy.
- George needs to shave and wear a suit and tie (or whatever he usually
wears when he appears on TV). Maybe we can drug him and then shave him.
- Graphics. More graphics! I want maps. Illustrations on the maps.
Something like the Indiana Jones airplane travels? Less 1940's. Russia
wants Belarus as a buffer? Show me Belarus geography. The U.S. wants to
use Russia as a route to Afghanistan? Show me the route. Etc. Show me less
of George's unshaven face and more of what he's talking about it (so I can
pay slightly less attention to what he's saying). I realize this goes
beyond you. But we can work on getting someone who can do these graphics
for us.
- At some point, it sounds like Colin says "Bahmer" instead of Obama.
- Less clutter in the background. Get a light on George to make him pop.
Blur out the background to make him pop even more. Make George as dreamy
as Obama.
That's it! Content, of course, is great, as is the analysis. Sorry for
suggesting things that are beyond your power.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Genchur" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "Brian Genchur" <email@example.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:37:22 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Video comments and recommendations
Please supply me with your thoughts and recommendations for future videos
based on this last one that posted today.
I'm going to send out a comment e-mail like this for all videos sent to
the free list for the foreseeable future. Your comments will be kept
confidential, so please be as open as you want. We all have the same goal
here: to present STRATFOR analytical content in the highest quality
Thank you.