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		<title>the Syrian Meleager</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/11/08/the-syrian-meleager/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8216;Then wherefore,&#8217; I interrupted, &#8216;do I see Robert Burns loitering with that lady in a ruff,&#8211;Cassandra, I make no doubt&#8211;Ronsard&#8217;s Cassandra? And why is the incomparable Clarinda inseparable from Petrarch; and Miss Patty Blount, Pope&#8217;s flame, from the Syrian Meleager, while HIS Heliodore is manifestly devoted to Mr. Emerson, whom, by the way, I am [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8216;Then wherefore,&#8217; I interrupted, &#8216;do I see Robert Burns loitering with that lady in a ruff,&#8211;Cassandra, I make no doubt&#8211;Ronsard&#8217;s Cassandra? And why is the incomparable Clarinda inseparable from Petrarch; and Miss Patty Blount, Pope&#8217;s flame, from the <a href="http://gfourtaste.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/prolific-contemporary-scholar-of-syrian-origin/">Syrian</a> Meleager, while HIS Heliodore is manifestly devoted to Mr. Emerson, whom, by the way, I am delighted, if rather surprised, to see here?&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;Ah,&#8217; said Catullus, &#8216;you are a new-comer among us. Poets will be poets, and no sooner have they attained their desire, and dwelt in the company of their earthly Ideals, than they feel strangely, yet irresistibly drawn to Another. So it was in life, so it will ever be. No Ideal can survive a daily companionship, and fortunate is the poet who did not marry his first love! As far as that goes,&#8217; I answered, &#8216;most of you were highly favoured; indeed, I do not remember any poet whose Ideal was his wife, or whose first love led him to the altar. I was not a marrying man myself,&#8217; answered the Veronese; &#8216;few of us were. Myself, Horace, Virgil&#8211;we were all bachelors. And Lesbia!&#8217;</p>
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		<title>Tusitala</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/11/06/tusitala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spoke of a rest in a Fairy hill of the north, but he Far from the firths of the east and the racing tides of the west Sleeps in the sight and the sound of the infinite southern sea, Weary and well content, in his grave on the Vaea crest. Tusitala, the lover of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We spoke of a rest in a Fairy hill of the north, but he Far from the firths of the east and the racing tides of the west Sleeps in the sight and the sound of the infinite southern sea, Weary and well content, in his <a href="http://bandungwebdesain.blogspot.com/2009/09/mass-grave-ini-gunung-leuser-national.html">grave</a> on the Vaea crest.</p>
<p>Tusitala, the lover of children, the teller of tales, Giver of counsel and dreams, a wonder, a world&#8217;s delight, Looks o&#8217;er the labour of men in the plain and the hill, and the sails Pass and repass on the sea that he loved, in the day and the Winds of the west and the east in the rainy season blow, Heavy with perfume, and all his fragrant woods are wet, Winds of the east and the west as they wander to and fro, Bear him the love of the lands he loved, and the long regret.</p>
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		<title>The broadcast propaganda source</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/11/02/the-broadcast-propaganda-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The broadcast source of the al-Zawraa network is said to be unknown, but the Egyptian-owned Nielsat satellite network currently broadcasts the mujahideen propaganda on channel 106. Nielsat&#8217;s coverage area includes the whole of the Middle East and Northern Africa. While spending time with the Military Transition Team at the Fallujah Government Center, I watched al-Zawraa [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://xxxtaste.blogspot.com/2009/10/broadcast-transmissions.html">broadcast</a> source of the al-Zawraa network is said to be unknown, but the Egyptian-owned Nielsat satellite network currently broadcasts the mujahideen propaganda on channel 106. Nielsat&#8217;s coverage area includes the whole of the Middle East and Northern Africa. While spending time with the <a href="http://colourtaste.blogspot.com/2009/10/police-and-military-sweeps.html">Military</a> Transition Team at the Fallujah Government Center, I watched al-Zawraa along with two soldiers from the Iraqi Army, sergeants Riad and Abul Zuhrih, and two Iraqi translators, &#8220;Nick&#8221; and &#8220;Wilson.&#8221; The soldiers are seasoned veterans from the 1st Iraqi Army Division and have served throughout Iraq. The interpreters (or &#8220;&#8216;terps&#8221;) must use assumed names, as they are subjected to persistent death threats. Wilson, who is from Baghdad, claims that he has had three attempts on his life.</p>
<p>They shared with me their on the propaganda in the al-Zawraa broadcast and They shared with me their views on the propaganda in the al-Zawraa broadcast and its effects on the Iraqi people, describing the meaning of the images, music and voice-overs.</p>
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		<title>The Iraqis Ramadi and Americans</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/11/02/the-iraqis-ramadi-and-americans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqis and Americans working together in Ramadi have no doubt that they can prevail in this fight. But privately, they wonder if Baghdad and Washington have that same vision. One U.S. officer told me, &#8220;the Iraqi security forces have plenty of courage but some of their troops and cops out here haven&#8217;t been paid [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Iraqis and <a href="http://idiotaste.blogspot.com/2009/10/americans-troops-torture-and-sexual.html">Americans</a> working together in Ramadi have no doubt that they can prevail in this fight. But privately, they wonder if Baghdad and Washington have that same vision. One U.S. officer told me, &#8220;the Iraqi security forces have plenty of courage but some of their troops and cops out here haven&#8217;t been paid for three months. Their problems are getting beans, bullets, band-aids and bucks from Baghdad.&#8221; Helping the Iraqis overcome those &#8220;five Bs&#8221; must become a priority for Braveyoung American Helping the Iraqis overcome those &#8220;five Bs&#8221; must become a priority for Washington. Brave young American riflemen have shown the Iraqis how to fight and protect civilians. Now the civil leadership in Baghdad needs to be shown how to keep their own troops fed, equipped and paid. Only then can U.S. troops be sure that they really are winning.</p>
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		<title>The Roman general Pompey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At that time the Roman general Pompey was making wars in the East, and also threatened the empire of Odin. Meanwhile Odin and his wife had learned through prophetic inspiration that a glorious future awaited them in the northern part of the world. He therefore emigrated from Tyrkland, and took with him many people, old [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At that time the <a href="http://w4h.bakawan.com/who-am-i-gnaeus-pompeius-a-roman-general.html">Roman</a> general Pompey was making wars in the East, and also threatened the empire of Odin. Meanwhile Odin and his wife had learned through prophetic inspiration that a glorious future awaited them in the northern part of the world. He therefore emigrated from Tyrkland, and took with him many people, old and yOung, men and women, and costly treasures. Wherever they came they appeared to the inhabitants more like gods than men. And they did not stop before they came as far north as Saxland.</p>
<p>There remained a long One of his sons, Veggdegg, he appointed king of Saxland. Another son, Beldegg, &#8220;whom we call Balder,&#8221; he made king in Westphalia. A third son, Sigge, became king in Frankland. Then Odin proceeded farther to the north and came to Reidgothaland, which is now called Jutland, and there took possession of as much as he wanted. There he appointed his son Skjold as king; then he came to Svithiod.</p>
<p>Here ruled king Gylfe. When he heard of the <a href="http://w4h.bakawan.com/how-alexander-the-greats-military-expedition-effect-the-ancient-world.html">expedition</a> of Odin and his Asiatics he went to nieet them, and offered Odin as much land and as much power in his kingdom as he might desire. One reason why people everywhere gave Odin so hearty a welcome and offered him land and power was that wherever Odin and his men tarried on their journey the people got good harvests and abundant crops, and therefore they believed that Odin and his men controlled the weather amid the growing grain.</p>
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		<title>free web services</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/11/02/free-web-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are now many free web services suitable for sharing digital media collections of research and teaching materials with teachers, students, and lifelong learners all over the world. This report compares the relative strengths and weaknesses of the following web services: Internet Archive, Apple Learning Interchange, Connexions, Flickr, Wikiversity, WikiEducator, Yahoo! Teachers, YouTube, and Curriki. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are now many free web <a href="http://tentastestory.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/web-services-architecture/">services</a> suitable for sharing digital media collections of research and teaching materials with teachers, students, and lifelong learners all over the world. This report compares the relative strengths and weaknesses of the following web services: Internet Archive, Apple Learning Interchange, Connexions, Flickr, Wikiversity, WikiEducator, Yahoo! Teachers, YouTube, and Curriki. To test these services, we uploaded the same collection of photos (jpegs), videos (mov), articles (text), and classroom activities (text and pdf) to each web service. We then compared usability, unique features, licensing-options, and resulting traffic.</p>
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		<title>Getty Center</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/getty-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The museum&#8217;s permanent collection includes &#8220;pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs&#8221;. Among the works on display is the painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh. The Center, which opened on December 16, 1997, is also well-known for its architecture, gardens, and view (overlooking Los [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The museum&#8217;s <a href="http://w4h.bakawan.com/what-is-permanent-secretary.html">permanent</a> collection includes &#8220;pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs&#8221;. Among the works on display is the painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh. The Center, which opened on December 16, 1997, is also well-known for its architecture, gardens, and view (overlooking Los Angeles).</p>
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		<title>Kurdish villagers</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/10/26/kurdish-villagers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its of &#8220;an upsurge in the rate of returns&#8221; of displaced Kurdish villagers gave a more optimistic picture than warranted. The conclusion, apparently based on official Turkish government pronouncements, was not borne out by Human Rights Watch investigations. The State Department&#8217;s Trafficking in Persons Report stated that Turkey did not meet the minimum standards nor [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its of &#8220;an upsurge in the rate of returns&#8221; of displaced <a href="http://w4h.bakawan.com/how-the-process-kurdish-recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide.html">Kurdish</a> villagers gave a more optimistic picture than warranted. The conclusion, apparently based on official Turkish government pronouncements, was not borne out by Human Rights Watch investigations. The State Department&#8217;s Trafficking in Persons Report stated that Turkey did not meet the minimum standards nor had it made significant efforts to combat trafficking of women and girls to Turkey for forced prostitution.</p>
<p>Technical <a href="http://banned.bakawan.com/blogging-systems-issues.html">issues</a> slowed contractual negotiations on the sale of 145 attack helicopters to Turkey by U.S. manufacturer Bell Textron. This class of equipment was implicated in past human rights violations in Turkey, making the pending sale, which is subject to U.S. Congressional approval, highly controversial in the United States.</p>
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		<title>F-type prison guards</title>
		<link>http://baka.edublogs.org/2009/10/19/f-type-prison-guards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The operation left twenty-eight prisoners and two gendarmes dead. Some prisoners burned themselves in protest, but others were deliberately killed by security forces. Gendarmes beat and tortured prisoners during transfer and on arrival at the F-type prisons. Eight male prisoners formally complained that gendarmes anally raped them with truncheons on arrival at Kandžra F-type Prison, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The operation left twenty-eight prisoners and two gendarmes dead. Some prisoners burned themselves in protest, but others were deliberately killed by security forces. Gendarmes beat and tortured prisoners during transfer and on arrival at the F-type prisons. Eight male prisoners formally complained that gendarmes anally raped them with truncheons on arrival at Kandžra F-type Prison, but they were not medically examined for three weeks. Complaints that <a href="http://jamutaste.blogspot.com/2009/10/revolutionary-guards-corps.html">F-type prison guards</a> maintained discipline through beatings were corroborated by <a href="http://humanhealthtaste.blogspot.com/2009/10/paediatrician-and-medical-paediatrics.html">medical evidence</a> in several cases.</p>
<p>In February, Sabri Diri made a formal complaint that guards at Tekirdag F-type Prison twice beat him and subjected him to falaqa (beating on the soles of the feet) in his single cell. A medical examination delayed for a week showed no signs of ill-treatment but a June medical examination using scintigraphy, an imaging technique, revealed evidence consistent with Sabri Diri&#8217;s allegation of falaka and beating. As of October 2001, thirty-three prisoners and eight relatives had died in hunger strikes in protest at the F-type regime. More than fifty other hunger strikers suffered severe and permanent brain damage.</p>
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		<title>the false Emperor Warriors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It&#8217;s the year seven hundred and thirty-one, if that&#8217;s any help.&#8217; It wasn&#8217;t. Marlus&#8217; hands moved to on either side of his head in shock. he shouted. &#8216;We must have gone about four hundred to five hundred years into the future!&#8217; &#8216;&#8230; In the fourty first Millennium.&#8217; Augoth added. &#8216;Die, followers of the false Emperor!&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s the year seven hundred and thirty-one, if that&#8217;s any help.&#8217; It wasn&#8217;t. Marlus&#8217; hands moved to on either side of his head in shock. he shouted. &#8216;We must have gone about four hundred to five hundred years into the future!&#8217; &#8216;&#8230; In the fourty first Millennium.&#8217; Augoth added. &#8216;Die, followers of the false <a href="http://banned.bakawan.com/the-emperors-new-clothes.html">Emperor</a>!&#8217; an Iron Warrior shouted as he jumped around a corner and pointed his bolter at them. It barked as it fired a bolt-round at them. Augoth ducked as the bullet ricocheted off Marlus&#8217; armour and bounced around the corridor, back to where the Iron Warrior was. He dived as the round finally detonated behind him. Several more Iron Warriors came into view behind him. Marlus raised his storm-bolter. If the Warrior&#8217;s bolter had barked, then Marlus&#8217; storm-bolter sounded like the primordial bawl of a creature older than time.</p>
<p>The Sergeant of the squad said to the 3 other <a href="http://tatisttaste.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-and-off-duty-of-marines.html">Marines</a> and they followed Fakanthulau. The forth one slowly got up and stumbled after them. Also, Marlus and his retinue were looking for the commanders of the ship and thus would at some point go down the same corridor as the Iron Warriors are going to. As this would be the most likely event to happen, I&#8217;m telling you about it since there&#8217;s no point about trying to keep suspense. Brother Ialyte was twiddling with his MP3 player, his gauntleted hands dwarfing the tiny machine. The lead to the headphones disappeared below his helmet. He set it to Cliff Richard&#8217;s latest Candlemas release, which was an old Terra song done to the rhythm of a prayer to the <a href="http://w4h.bakawan.com/who-is-justinian-the-last-emperor-of-united-roman.html">Emperor</a>.</p>
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