P20066103206	Part of the stone circle in Avebury. P20066103208	Part of the stone circle in Avebury.
Description This walk followed the Ridgeway eastwards from near Avebury as it passes many fascinating archeological sites, from Iron-age times onwards.
Condition I feel relatively okay, if tired, after this walk. Although my feet ached at times taking my boots off eased this, and by the end of the walk I could have easily walked further if I had needed to. It was a very hot day, but this did not affect me too much as I managed to drink lots of water.
Weather The day was very warm, with a nice, cooling breeze that helped keep me cool. It was a largely cloudless day, and there was no sign of rain at any time, despite forecasts of thunderstorms later on in the day.
P20066103224	The Kennet Avenue. P20066103241	The track on Overton Down.
P20066103249	Heading northeastwards along the track towards Barbury Castle. P20066103278	The path down Smeathe's Ridge.
P20066103299	Looking down over Ogbourne St George. P20066103313	Heading north from Round Hill Downs.
P20066103347	The track heading northeastwards from Fox Hill. P20066103368	The entrance to Wayland's Smithy.
One of my plans for the year was to walk the Ridgeway, and I was aware that up to now, with nearly half of the year gone, I had nothing towards meeting this target. I wanted to go away walking this weekend and I was tempted to walk the rest of the South Downs Way, but as I had been down there last weekend I thought that I may try something else. On the map I had measured the distance of the western half of the Ridgeway to be about 45 miles, and this seemed like an achievable distance in a weekend's walking. The main problem was with accommodation; there is nowhere suitable to stay at the halfway point, and this had delayed me from doing this walk so far this year. However, as my knees are now giving me very little trouble, and the weather was forecast to be very good, I decided to try camping out instead of descending from the hills to find accommodation.
The train tickets to Swindon cost me a surprisingly large �53, and after buying the tickets on Thursday evening and packing on Friday evening, I awoke at 5.00 ready to walk to the station in Shelford to catch the train. I could have got one at 05.25, but I decided to give myself a little more time to wake up and to catch the 05.55 instead. This proved to be no bad thing, as I still managed to get the same train out of Paddington, and found myself dumped in Swindon before nine. There was a little wait for the bus service to Avebury, so instead of catching it at the station I walked through the town to the bus station, where I bought some batteries and waited for the bus.
Once in Avebury I was stunned - as is always the case - by the megalithic stones that encircles the village. It is a frankly amazing sight, and I wandered about amongst the stones for a while was the sun beat down on me. The stones make a magical sight, especially when you consider that the entire village sits within the stones. I called in at the Tourist Information for a chat, and then walked down to the post office, where I bought yet more batteries and an ice lolly. While licking on the lolly I walked around the stones, heading for the start of the Avenue, a dual line of stones heading away from the village. As I walked amongst them I wondered why they were not built on a straight line; there is a distinct kink in the line, so much so that the adjacent road actually crosses the path, and a couple of stones are on the opposite verge. A short distance away on the other side of a hillock is the magnificent high mound of Silbury Hill, another sign of the importance that this area had for prehistoric man.
Once at the end of the Avenue, and having said hello to a herd of cows, I was relieved to find a permissive path that ran along the edge of a field, meaning that I would not have to walk along the road. This soon crossed the road, and angled across fields to reach the start of the Ridgeway National Trail at the side of the A4 on Overton Hill. I ran across the road to take a couple of quick photographs of The Sanctuary, a now-defunct circle of stones, the only reminder of which is some concrete posts that mark where the stones were until relatively recent times. Carefully crossing the road once again, I passed a signpost marking the start of the Ridgeway, and started a climb uphill, passing several barrows on the way, yet another sign of the prehistoric activity in this area.
The Ridgeway started with a steady, gentle climb uphill, the surface not having been too churned up by the tires of four wheel drives. I could remember when I walked down this part of the track on a previous occasion on a stroll from Swindon to the Kennett and Avon canal, and the memories cheered me as the sun shone down. In the distance I could hear rumblings of thunder, which surprised me in the near-cloudless skies. These continued sporadically, and after a couple of minutes I realised that they were the distance sounds of tanks firing shells on Salisbury Plan to the south. I was amazed that the sound could carry this far, and I found myself wishing that I could watch the tanks in action. The ascent was nice and gentle, angling away from Avebury, which I could see down the slope to the west. I strained to see if I could see Silbury Hill poking above the slopes of Waden Hill, but the latter was too high to make the top of the famous mound.
The path continued ascending northwards, and although the sun was blazing down I was not overheating too much yet. The path climbed onto Overton Down, and to the east there are some more Sarsen Stones, which are associated with the many burial mounds that are scattered around the landscape. The path approached Hackpen Hill and I ignored a trig pillar off in the field to the right, and continued walking on to cross a road above a carved white horse, which I sadly could not see. On the other side of the road there was a digger, and signs stating that the path was closed to vehicles during winter and spring, a measure to reduce the significant erosion and rutting of the chalk track that is caused during the wet seasons. The digger was sitting on top of a large pile of stones, and these were being used to repair the surface of the rutted track.
The views continued to be good, although as I walked the temperature solely increased. I had a chat on the phone to my girlfriend, Sencan, and this whiled away the next couple of miles, as the path descended to meet a road immediately to the west of Barbury Castle, an Iron age hill fort that has been reinforced many times over the years, even into the twentieth Century, when anti-aircraft guns were placed on the summit during the Second World War. It is a pleasant spot, and there were people picnicking next to the ditch, whilst others were flying kits overhead. The ringed bank that marks the fort is not too large, and I was soon outside it and walking the short distance to the car park and toilets, where I had joined the Ridgeway on a previous walk from Swindon.
Once I left the car park I soon reached the Ridgeway Caf�, a pleasant caf� situated right next to the trail. I was quite thirsty by this time as the drinking tube from my Platypus had been squashed by other contents of my pack. I stopped off at the caf� and dropped my rucksack off on a seat in the shade of an awning. There were some motorcyclists about, so after ordering a bacon sandwich I sat down and listened to their conversation as I sipped on some lovely, cold Ribena. Due to the discomfort in my feet that I had suffered on last Sunday's walk I took my boots off and gave my feet a chance to cool down in the shade. It was a very pleasant time, and although I was tempted to stay for longer I still had a way to go, and so with some reluctance I put my boots on, shouldered my rucksack and headed off.
After following a track for a short distance from the caf�, the Ridgeway headed down a gentle slope called Smeathe's Ridge, which had good views to the north and south, and was in an airy and open position. The stiff breeze that blew throughout the day helped keep me cooler, and for the first time on the Ridgeway I was walking along grass instead of track. As the ridge eventually dropped down it joined a track and the views disappeared, and soon dropped me out unceremoniously on a road. The Way only stayed in this for a few yards, before taking a track enclosed by trees before ending at another road that took me down to the A436 road at Southend, to the south of Ogbourne St George. There us a pub in the village and it was tempting to walk the half-mile to it for a rest, but I was feeling fit and so I decided to continue on.
Just across the A436 was a cottage offset from the track, and on this was a tap, and I thankfully used this to have a drink and fill up an empty water bottle. I was getting through a fair amount of water in the heat, and the tap came in very welcome. The South Downs Way also has drinking water taps intermittently along its length, apparently because they are both bridleways and also because there are few streams on the chalk geology that is common on both walks. Having resisted the temptation to spray myself with water I headed uphill along a steep track that climbed up; I had to avoid a four wheel drive coming down at one point, and I was glad for the momentary rest I got when I stepped into the hedge. Eventually the gradient slackened and I could get my breath back as I walked, and after crossing a road the Way settled on a more northerly course on a good track. My feet were starting to ache by this time, and so I decided to take a little break; I walked on looking for somewhere sheltered, and when I reached a track crossing near Whitefield Hill I sat down on the verge in the shadow of some trees.
The spot was nicely in the breeze, and this washed over me and cooled me down as I took my boots off and lay back in the sun, listening to the Saturday Play on Radio Four, a quite dark play based on the life and death of Belle Elmore, the wife of Doctor Crippen. It was a captivating piece of radio, and I set back of walking with my mind on the twists and turns of the play. The track continued northwards for a while before the Way headed off towards Liddington Hill. There is a trig pillar on this hill fort, and I ser off to walk to it using the permissive footpath. However, after a couple of minutes I turned back as the path was taking me right around the edge of a field instead of heading directly towards the pillar. I did not want to extend the walk that much, so I made my way back to the Way, which headed downhill along a track before ending at a road. The Way followed this for a while, before turning right down another road that headed eastwards towards the M4, and then curved to head to Fox Hill.
It felt strange to be walking along roads, as I had done very little of it so far during the day. I found that I could walk faster on the road, but my feet were starting to hurt. At Fox Hill there is a pub, the Shepherds Rest, the only pub on the trail for the western half of the Ridgeway. As it was still relatively early in the afternoon, there was a hill to climb immediately afterwards and I wanted to fill up my water bottles, I decided to stop off for a drink. The England world cup match had recently finished (and I was glad that I had missed it), but people were still hanging around the large screen in one of the rooms, awaiting the next match to begin. I decided to miss this and went to sit by myself in another room. As soon as I entered the building I immediately overheated despite the fact that I was out of the sun; my circulation was still going strong, and it took me five minutes after I stopped walking to start cooling down. I ordered a pint of 6X and a pint of orange and lemonade, and sat down at a table to read a copy of the Times.
I spent a little under an hour in the pub, relaxing, reading and slowly supping at my pints. I had taken my boots off, and walking around on the carpet in just my socks seemed to cure any remaining aching from my soles. It felt very good to be out of the sun, and there was plenty of interest in the paper to read as I sat back and generally relaxed. Before I left the pub I got the landlord to fill up my water bottles, and I was sure as I walked out that there was enough water to last me the rest of the day and all through the night's camp. Outside the pub there were lots of people sitting, and I was relieved to find that the temperature had decreased markedly in the hour since I had entered. I therefore tackled the climb up Fox Hill with gusto, passing a sign marking the distances to places on this half of the Ridgeway.
Once at the top of the hill I found with delight that it was a wonderful early evening, the lessening heat being wonderfully counteracted by the stiff breeze, and my feet aching in no way after the rest. I literally yomped on, and soon realised that I had not yet eaten the sandwiches that I had made last night, I retrieved these from my pack and ravenously devoured the warm, squashed but undoubtedly delicious sandwiches with delight. At Ridgeway Farm I met another walker, a Canadian who had set off from Avebury yesterday. He was walking the entire way in eight days, and was going to camp in Bishopstone overnight (apparently there is a B&B there that allows camping). We chatted for a few minutes, and it was pleasant to talk to another walker. As we bade goodbye I noticed another drinking water tap at the farm - this one was not in the guidebook, and it would have saved me carrying the water up the hill.
Throughout the day I had seen orange arrows attached to various objects by the track, pointing back in the direction that I had come. Some of these were accompanied by numbers that were decreasing and information about Maggies Centres the cancer charity, and as I passed one of these two men came walking towards me. One of these was strolling purposefully along but with a slightly tired gait, and I asked him what it was all about. It turned out that he was on the Maggie's megahike, a 15, 25 or 50 mile hike in 24 hours. One of the two men was doing the 50 mile walk, and was just over halfway through the walk. Wishing him well I set off, and before I knew it I reached Wayland's Smithy, a long barrow situated just off the path.
I sat down on the sloped side of the barrow and chatted to them for a while, and although there was still plenty of time for me to continue on, they invited me to put my tent up next to theirs, and I agreed. I was halfway through the two day's walk, I was tired, and it would be nice to have a chat for a while. I spent the next hour and a half chatting to them, and when they cycled down to the village to have a drink and meal I slowly put my tent up in the long grass next to the barrow. My little Jack Wolfskin tent looked tiny against their tents, and as it was still light I moved my inflatable mat onto the side of the barrow and lay down on it, reading as the sun slowly went down.
The exception is for the first couple of miles of the day, where the path heads from Avebury to the start of the National Trail at Overton Hill. From the Red Lion Pub in Avebury turn left and start following the A4361 road southwards as it passes some of the Avebury stones. When the road leaves the stone circle at the southern edge of the village it turns sharply to the right; here continue straight on along the B4003 road as it runs alonside a stone avenue in the field to the right.
After a mile, when the stone avenue ends, a footpath starts in the field on the right. This skirts the hedge in the field beside the road. This soon crosses the road, and heads through fields on the eastern side of the road, heading roughly southeastwards to reach the start of the Ridgeway beside the A4 on Overton Hill.
This makes a total distance of 23.3 miles, with 1817 feet of ascent and 1640 feet of descent.
I spent the night in my tent at Wayland's Smithy, a nice spot for a camp although not to be reccomeneded due to signs prohibiting overnighr camping. having said that, there were otherpeople camping there overnight, and it is a very pleasant spot to spend the night.


Maslenitsa is one of the most popular and cheerful religious holidays in Russia. It originated from pagan times before Russia was converted to Christianity. At first, this holiday was a symbol of the spring solstice[source?] but nowadays it is considered a Christian holiday which goes right before the Great Lent. During Maslenitsa people enjoy almost any food, except meat. Usually Maslenitsa lasts for seven days and on the last day of this holiday people burn a doll which is made of branches and straw and dressed in bright clothes. This doll is called "Maslenitsa" and it symbolizes the cold and severe winter. By burning "Maslenitsa" people say goodbye to winter and greet a warm spring.
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Although the population is still falling, people are starting to flock to Detroit. Large amounts of youngsters in particular are heading to the city for its myriad cool neighborhoods. So whether you're looking to move or just planning to visit, these are the coolest areas to check out.
The oldest neighborhood in the city is undoubtedly one of the coolest. It got the name Corktown when many Irish immigrants settled there in the middle of the 19th century, but today it is famous for great places to eat and drink, like Slows Bar BQ and Astro Coffee on Michigan Avenue. In 2017, ground was broken on Corktown's largest development in decades, which is sure to bring even more life to the area.
Hamtramck is actually a separate city itself, entirely surrounded by the city of Detroit, but we're still going to talk about it. It was once a Polish neighborhood and is now among the most multicultural areas in the state, proudly captured in the city's tagline: "the world in two square miles." Unsurprisingly, it has great authentic food from around the world, and a vibrant music scene.
It may be obvious but Downtown Detroit has a lot to offer, being the part of the city that has been most heavily invested in during recent years. History, architecture, art, music, retail, sports, culture and nightlife; it has it all. And while property prices and rent may be high for the city, compared with most US cities it's great value.
Alongside the city's favorite market, one of the oldest and largest in the US, Eastern Market has become an increasingly lively and diverse neighborhood. Many murals demonstrate its strong artistic reputation, while close proximity to the market has certainly helped its growing restaurant scene. It's well connected too, with the brand new Dequindre Cut greenway connecting the neighborhood to the river to the south and Hamtramck to the north.
As home to the Detroit Medical Center, the Cultural Center and Wayne State University, Midtown has become a bustling neighborhood that's popular for young professionals, and cool and established businesses have thrived. The DIA, Third Man Records, Avalon International Breads and Motor City Brewing Works are just a handful of the cool places to check out.
North of Midtown, New Center was once home to General Motors before it moved downtown in the 1990s. However, the area has bounced back, building around the iconic art deco Fisher Building and Cadillac Place with the Henry Ford Medical Center and premier retail, dining and entertainment options. The newly opened QLine Streetcar also means it's now conveniently connected to Midtown and Downtown.
As you can tell from the name, Mexicantown is home to Detroit's largest Mexican community, and that means amazing, authentic restaurants like Taqueria El Rey and Los Altos, delicious bakeries like MexicanTown Bakery and La Gloria, colorful murals and distinctive shopping. It's also where Jack White grew up and once had an upholstery shop.
Over on the east side, Indian Village is another historic Detroit neighborhood, famous for its impressive and eclectic architecture dating back to the turn of the 20th century. It's also home to a number of nice food options, with Sister Pie on Kercheval Ave and side-by-side Detroit Vegan Soul and Craft Work on Agnes St, all popular.


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The language of the other is ideally suited for exploitative entities bent on political and economic self-interest. Perhaps the age-old political strategy of divide and conquer is given special traction in a selfie-oriented culture marked by its participants' relentless ambition to assert oneself above others for a daily dose of 15 minutes of fame – measured by numbers of thumbs-up on an otherwise generic template of existence. Paradoxically, this obsession with "I" coexists with a loyal subjugation to the divine commands of branding, where inner checks and balances are handed over to the cult of brand identity. Are you a MSNBC person or are you a FOX person? Reactionary lines are carved deeper and choosing sides between regurgitated oppositional narratives seems paramount. The sides are clear. They are quickly learned by surfing your friends' face book pages. They are black and white. They are simple. They are nonnegotiable. They are protected and nurtured by the feared other, onto which we project our worst nightmares, our secret desires, and from which we claim our virtuousness. Gradations of being – the potentiality of a complex self – is flattened and compartmentalized, the fullness of a human being condensed to a demographic, an avatar, a profile, a brand, a party. There is a war on difference even as arbitrary differences are created, made significant and recruited for war against the other. Homogenizing mythologies are made brutally real, simply by acting as if they are. They are constructs, but nonetheless, they are fully realized constructs and pointing to their arbitrariness or stating that we are in a "post-" anything does not fill the trenches or level the mountains made by the absurd languages we've used to distinguish our selves from others, to place ourselves above others. We've expanded our vocabularies in a search of freedom, only to find that each new generation's language of liberation so often becomes a cage for the next as it hardens, becomes institutionalized and resistant to embrace emerging subjectivities. As long-held and solidified definitions of identity expand and language evolves alongside our emerging selves, pronouns are revealed as mere assumptions encoding subjects to reconstruct the prisons, guards, and inmates of by-gone generations. And yet, even in this liberation of self, there remains the sacrosanct "I" and "you", "us" and "them". Is there a way we can linger in the space between spaces, where walls might soon be erected? Is there a way to hack the very language in which the (re)creation of "us" depends on the (re)creation of "them"?
Wanted is a looping video installation and meditation on the flawed pronouns "I" and "you", which on a social scale are often violently expressed as "us" and "them". The title evokes a double meaning, eluding to both the negative use of "wanted" in a criminal sense and "wanted" as an expression of the human need for belonging, for love, which so often expresses itself as a merging of "you" and "I".


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Comparing war poems: Harold Begbie "Fall in" and "Who's for the game? "by Jessie Pope Essay
Category: Poem
In World War 1 Britain had a small army and they needed to get men to join up, they did this mainly by using recruiting poems, which appeared in newspapers and music hall songs. In the recruiting poems the poet usually uses either street language, catchy rhythm, simple rhyme scheme and easy to understand and remember. In my essay I will look at some pro-war poems and see how they are countered by the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen. The first poem that we looked at was a pro war poem by Harold Begbie called Fall in. In this poem the poet does not mention the bad things about the war e. . that you could get killed.
The poet focuses on the good points and says that it is good to go to war he said "But I went, thank God, I went? ". He also mentions if you don"t go what will happen he says "With a girl who cuts you dead" he tries to shame them. The second poem that we looked at is another pro war poem by Jessie Pope it was a poem used to recruit people in World War 1, the poem is called Who"s for the game?. The poet has no idea about war, she thinks war is just a big game, she starts off by saying "Who"s for the game, the biggest that"s played".
Games are usually meant to be fun but she must think that the war is just fun and games, but it is not. Jessie Pope also compares war to a show she says "And who wants a seat in the stand? " this also shows that Jessie Pope has know idea about the war. The country is compared to a female in the poem so that it will make you feel sorry for it. What also shows Jessie Pope"s lack of knowledge about the war is she says "who would much rather come back with a crutch than lie low and be out of the fun" this means that the worst that can happen is that you would come back with a broken leg when actually you could die.
I am now going to look at three anti-war poems by Wilfred Owen called Dulce Et Decorum Est, Disabled and Exposure. I am going to comment on what he says about war, the first poem I am going to look at is called Exposure. Wilfred Owen says at the start of Exposure that the soldiers need to be awake at night incase people attack, he says "Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent".
He also describes the atmosphere and also makes people feel sorry for the soldiers by comparing wind like soldiers stuck in barbed wire, we know this because he says "Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, like twitching agonies of men among its brambles". Wilfred Owen describes the weather as war he says "We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy" I think that this either means that you can"t stop the war or that they know very little about the war.
In the beginning of Exposure Wilfred Owen uses sibilance"s by using lots of S"s this increases the effect and makes the poem seem more sharp and cold, he says "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us". He also uses personification to increase effect, he describes the whether to a person by saying "Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces". Owen also shows how pointless the war is by saying "what are we doing here? " he also shows that war is very boring and that nothing ever happens by saying "Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curios nervous But nothing happens".
He says that bullets are less deadly than the snow by saying "Sudden successive fights of bullets streak the silence. Less deathly than the air that shudders black with snow" in this sentence he also uses alliteration and in the poem he describes the whether as mainly being more deadly than the snow. Wilfred Owen makes us pity the soldiers by saying that they always worry about the next day and he uses a very moving word which is "poignant" he says "the poignant misery of dawn begins to grow".
The poem that I am going to look at now by Wilfred Owen is called Disabled it is a moving poem about a boy who got disabled in the war he lost both his arms and his legs Wilfred Owen is trying to say what war can do to you. We know that he has lost both of his arms and both of his legs because it says "Legless, sewn short at elbow". The poem shows what the disabled boy used to be able to do and it makes people feel sorry for the boy, it says "Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasure after day".
Wilfred Owen also talks about how everything used to be when he wasnt't disabled he says "About this time Town used to swing so gay When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees, And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim, In the old times, before he threw away his knees. ". Wilfred Owen also tries to make us have pity for him when he says about what the disabled person used to be able to do when he wasnt disabled and he describes him as a strange disease he says "Now he will never feel again how slim Qirls waist are, or how warm their subtle hands;
All of them touch him like some queer disease. also when Wilfred Owen is comparing his old life to his new life it makes the whole war seem pointless because the disabled persons life has been ruined because he used to be able to do so much things and now he cant do anything just because of the war. In Disabled Owen blames the boy and his friends for what happened to himself because it was his and his friends fault that he joined up because he lied about his age and he wanted to join up we know this because it says "Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years.
Germans he scarcely thought of; all their guilt". In Disabled Owen tries to shock the readers with graphic descriptions for example when he says "Now, he is old: his back will never brace: He's lost his colour very far from here ,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry" these are effective because they give the reader an image of what could happen to them if they joined the war. The last poem I am going to look at is called Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
In the first section, British soldiers are leaving the trenches after an exhausting span of duty and Owen compares them to old beggars by saying "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks". In the second section there is a gas attack, Wilfred Owen makes the gas attack seem real for the readers by using detailed descriptions and he also describes the atmosphere he says "Dim, through misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning" also seems real because he describes it as if he was someone in the gas attack.
He also uses an excellent description when he sais "as under a green sea" because it means that there is a lot of gas. I think Owen was successful in his aims in some ways because a lot of people didn't sign up for the war when they read his poems because his poems describe what the war was like but a lot of people still joined up for the war. His poems were so powerful because of his use of language and brilliant his choice of words.
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Yulia Volodímirivna Timoshenko (; Dnipropetrovsk, 27 de noviembre de 1960) es una política ucraniana. Fue primera ministra en dos ocasiones: del 24 de enero al 8 de septiembre de 2005 y nuevamente desde el 18 de diciembre de 2007 hasta el 3 de marzo de 2010.

Es la líder del partido Batkivshchyna (Батьківщина, Patria) y del Bloque Yulia Timoshenko. Anteriormente, era una exitosa mujer de negocios en la industria del gas, por lo que pronto se convirtió en una de las personas más ricas de Ucrania.

Antes de llegar a ser primera ministra, fue considerada la aliada más significativa del líder de la oposición, Víktor Yúshchenko, y fue extremadamente visible durante las elecciones ucranianas de 2004. Fue una de las cabezas más importantes de la Revolución Naranja, la cual trajo al poder a Yúshchenko. Durante ese periodo, los medios de comunicación la apodaban la "Juana de Arco de la Revolución Naranja".

El 3 de marzo de 2010, fue destituida de su cargo de primera ministra por la Rada Suprema, en una moción de censura a su Gobierno. A partir de mayo de 2010, se iniciaron varios procedimientos legales en su contra. El 5 de agosto de 2011, fue arrestada por haber "violado en repetidas ocasiones su interdicción de salir de Kiev y obstruido la investigación que se llevaba a cabo en su contra" debido a abuso de autoridad. Según la Corte, ello llevó a la firma de contratos de gas, desventajosos para Ucrania, con Rusia en enero de 2009. El 11 de octubre de 2011, fue condenada a 7 años de cárcel después de haber sido declarada culpable de los cargos anteriormente expuestos.

Orígenes
Sus orígenes han estado sujetos a varios debates. Su padre, Vladímir Abrámovich Griguián, nació el 3 de diciembre de 1937. En el pasaporte soviético estaba escrito que era de nacionalidad letona, pero claramente tenía raíces armenias. Su madre, Ludmila Nikoláievna Nelépova (que luego llevará el apellido del segundo marido, Teléguina), nació el 11 de agosto de 1937 en Dnipropetrovsk. Vladímir abandonó la familia cuando su hija tenía tres años.

Antes de graduarse en 1977, adoptó la versión femenina del apellido de su padrastro: "Teléguina". Se casó con Oleksandr Timoshenko, hijo de burócratas comunistas soviéticos, en 1979, y empezó a ascender a numerosos puestos del sistema gubernamental soviético. Se graduó en la Universidad Estatal de Dnipropetrovsk en 1984 con un título en economía, y tiempo después, en noviembre de 1999, defendió el título de doctora con una tesis titulada La regulación del sistema fiscal por parte del Estado. Desde entonces ha escrito más de 50 artículos académicos.

En 1989, fundó una cadena de alquiler de películas, que resultó tener éxito. Animada por ello y aprovechando el fondo vacío normativo y el desorden general postsoviético, funda junto a su esposo y su suegro la Corporación de Gasolinas Ucranianas, que con el tiempo adquirió el monopolio de la venta de combustible a las granjas colectivas que el Estado tenía en su óblast. Esta y otras operaciones posteriores le permitieron amasar una fortuna considerable entre 1990 y 1998. De 1995 a 1997, Timoshenko fue presidenta de Sistemas Unidos de Energía de Ucrania (YESU), una compañía privada que importa gas natural ruso desde 1996. Esta operación convirtió a los Timoshenko en multimillonarios y a Yulia se le ofreció el estatus de oligarca y el apelativo en la prensa internacional de la 'princesa del gas'.

Como Timoshenko se crio en una zona de mayoría rusófona, su lengua nativa era el ruso, pero cuando entró en 1996 a la política, decidió dejar de pensar en ruso y hablarlo lo más mínimo. Ahora, el idioma ucraniano, que como ella reconoce, empezó a hablar a los 36 años de edad (en 1996), es su lengua diaria; aunque aún emplea el ruso cuando habla con su madre, quien escasamente habla ucraniano.

Carrera política

Timoshenko entró en el mundo político en 1996 cuando fue elegida representante del óblast de Kirovohrad, ganando con el 92,3 % de los votos en su distrito. Fue reelegida en 1998 y de nuevo en 2002. En 1998, fue nombrada presidenta del Comité Presupuestario del parlamento ucraniano. De 1999 a 2001, Timoshenko fue nombrada vice primera ministra a cargo de combustibles en el sector de energía del país, bajo el gobierno de Víktor Yúshchenko.

Fue cesada por el presidente Leonid Kuchma en enero de 2001 bajo los cargos de falsificación de documentos y contrabando de gas natural ruso durante su tiempo como presidenta de Sistemas Unidos de Energía de Ucrania entre 1995 y 1997. Fue arrestada en febrero de 2001 pero puesta en libertad y los cargos fueron sobreseídos semanas después. Cuando el líder del partido de Hromada, del que formaba parte Timoshenko, Pavlo Lazarenko, huyó a los Estados Unidos en febrero de 1999 para evitar las investigaciones por malversación de fondos, varios miembros de la facción dejaron Hromada para unirse a otros grupos parlamentarios, entre ellos Timoshenko.

Los críticos de Timoshenko han sugerido que, en tanto que oligarca, su propia fortuna fue adquirida de manera indebida. Especulan con que su familiaridad con los negocios ilícitos comunes en Ucrania la descalifica para combatir la corrupción. Su antiguo socio de negocios, el ex primer ministro de Ucrania Pavlo Lazarenko, está en trámites de extradición a Ucrania tras haber sido acusado de abusar de su posición en el gobierno para enriquecimiento personal. Además, el esposo de Timoshenko, Oleksandr, está oculto fuera de Ucrania después de haber sido acusado de corrupción, supuestamente de manera irregular, por la administración de Leonid Kuchma. Se cree que sus abogados están preparando una acción legal para combatir estos cargos.

Su transición de oligarca a reformista es considerada como genuina y efectiva. Bajo su liderazgo, el presupuesto industrial se elevó en más de un mil por ciento. También eliminó la práctica de trueques en el mercado de la electricidad, requiriendo que los consumidores pagaran por su electricidad en efectivo. Sus reformas se tradujeron en una mayor recaudación del Estado y, así, en la disponibilidad de más fondos financieros para poder pagar a los funcionarios y aumentar sus salarios. El 26 de septiembre de 2005, la Oficina del Fiscal Militar Principal de la Federación Rusa retuvo los pasaportes de Yulia Timoshenko y canceló la decisión sobre una medida preventiva en forma de detención en un caso iniciado en 2001 por cargos de soborno de funcionarios del Ministerio de Defensa ruso en 1996, cuando Timoshenko encabezaba la UESU. Sufrió una fuerte baja en las encuestas cuando su exsocio de negocios, el ex primer ministro ucraniano Pavlo Lazarenko, fue condenado por cargos de lavado de dinero, corrupción y fraude, cuya magnitud ascendía a miles de millones de dólares.

Líder de la oposición

En febrero de 2001, fue arrestada en Rusia, pero liberada poco después. Los rumores afirman que fue retenida por el gobierno ruso acusada de delitos financieros. Tras su liberación, Timoshenko se convirtió en una de las líderes de Ucrania, atacando al entonces presidente Leonid Kuchma, al que acusaba de estar detrás de la muerte de Gueorgui Gongadze, un periodista de la oposición que había sido secuestrado y asesinado en 2000. Fundó el Bloque Yulia Timoshenko (Блок Юлії Тимошенко), un partido político que recibió el 7,2 % de los votos en las elecciones parlamentarias ucranianas de 2002.

Revolución Naranja y primera ministra

Apoyó a Víktor Yúshchenko en la campaña presidencial de 2004. Se acusó al gobierno prorruso de Kuchma de orquestar un fraude electoral a favor de su candidato Víktor Yanukóvich,  lo que desencadenó la Revolución Naranja, acontecida de noviembre de 2004 a enero de 2005. Timoshenko fue una de los principales líderes. A consecuencia de la Revolución, el Tribunal Supremo de Ucrania anuló los resultados de las elecciones, y se convocaron otras para diciembre de 2004, en las que Yúshchenko ganó la presidencia del país, cargo en el que fue investido en enero de 2005, designando a Timoshenko como primera ministra el 24 de enero de 2005. Después de prolongadas negociaciones sobre la composición del Gabinete, Yulia Timoshenko fue ratificada el 4 de febrero de 2005 por el parlamento ucraniano (Verkhovna Rada) con una mayoría abrumadora de 373 votos (con 226 votos de 'sí' requeridos para ser aprobada).

Tras diferencias con los partidarios de Yúshchenko, Timoshenko fue destituida de este cargo el 8 de septiembre de 2005.

Nuevo ascenso
En las elecciones parlamentarias de marzo de 2006, la coalición de Timoshenko, junto a los aliados de Yúshchenko y del Partido Socialista de Ucrania (PSU), ganó la mayoría. Se esperaba la reelección de Timoshenko como primera ministra, pero el PSU traicionó a la coalición democrática y se unió inesperadamente a la coalición contraria del Partido de las Regiones y Partido Comunista a cambio de altos puestos en el gobierno. Así, Timoshenko se vio obligada a pasar a la oposición, declarando ilegal al nuevo gobierno y exigiendo a Yúshchenko la disolución del Parlamento.

Tras haber disuelto Yúshchenko el Parlamento, Timoshenko ganó el 30 % de los votos en las elecciones anticipadas del 30 de septiembre de 2007, por lo que pasó a ser primera ministra el 18 de diciembre de 2007.

Elecciones presidenciales de 2010

Perdió las elecciones contra su rival Víktor Yanukóvich, nuevamente acusándolo de fraude, esta sin embargo, sin fuerza propia. Esta vez dijo que no llamaría al pueblo a masivas protestas como lo hizo cuando impugnó con éxito las elecciones de 2004 en la Revolución Naranja.

En prisión

En 2011 fue detenida en el marco de un proceso judicial por la presunta comisión de un delito de abuso de poder cuando era jefa de Gobierno; concretamente, por la firma de un contrato de compra de gas a Rusia en 2009. Los partidarios del entonces presidente, Víktor Yanukóvich, sostuvieron que el contrato iba contra los intereses ucranianos por el alto precio al que se adquirió el gas. Timoshenko negó haber cometido abuso de poder y subrayó que el juicio era una venganza política del presidente Yanukóvich, que intentaba neutralizarla políticamente de cara a las elecciones parlamentarias de octubre de 2012.

El juicio contra Timoshenko estuvo marcado en las primeras semanas por el cruce de acusaciones entre la ex primera ministra y el tribunal, al que la opositora ucraniana acusó de ser una "marioneta" del presidente Yanukóvich. En agosto, el tribunal ordenó la detención de Timoshenko por desacato, lo que provocó las protestas de cientos de seguidores, que se agolparon durante días a las puertas de la sede judicial del centro de Kiev. Los abogados de la ex primera ministra solicitaron al tribunal de apelaciones la puesta en libertad de su clienta por considerar que su detención fue "ilegal", pero la jueza Olga Yesímova lo rechazó. El abogado de Timoshenko, Yuri Sújov, calificó públicamente la decisión de "extraña": no parece que los abogados tengan derecho a cuestionar un arresto; así es la democracia en Ucrania, afirmó.

Tanto Estados Unidos como los países miembros de la Unión Europea solicitaron a las autoridades ucranianas que pusieran en libertad a Timoshenko, mientras que el presidente (Yanukóvich) aseguró que no intervendría en el proceso judicial contra la líder opositora.

El martes 11 de octubre de 2011, la ex primera ministra y líder opositora ucraniana Yulia Timoshenko fue condenada a siete años de prisión tras ser declarada culpable de un delito de abuso de poder. De igual manera, fue inhabilitada por tres años para ocupar cargos públicos, tal y como lo había solicitado la Fiscalía, por lo que teóricamente no podría participar en las siguientes elecciones parlamentarias y presidenciales.

El 20 de abril de 2012 inició una huelga de hambre (dijo haber sido maltratada por un celador y difundió fotos con hematomas en su vientre) que finalizó el 9 de mayo cuando le aseguraron que sería tratada por un médico alemán.

Protestas internacionales
Diversas instancias internacionales reprobaron la forma en que estaba siendo tratada por las autoridades ucranianas. Así Ucrania se vio obligada a suspender una cumbre de países del Este y Centro Europa que debía celebrarse del 10 al 12 de mayo en Yalta, después de que 14 de los 18 dirigentes invitados se negaran a asistir al evento.

Asimismo, algunos de los países que participaron en la Eurocopa 2012, como Gran Bretaña, Alemania, Francia y España, no enviaron representación oficial a los partidos que sus selecciones de fútbol jugaban en Ucrania, en señal de protesta por la situación de Yulia Timoshenko, aunque sí lo hicieron cuando jugaban en Polonia (como la canciller alemana Angela Merkel o el presidente del gobierno español Mariano Rajoy o los príncipes de Asturias).

Euromaidán y liberación

El 22 de febrero de 2014, el gobierno de Victor Yanukóvich fue depuesto y Timoshenko fue liberada luego del éxito de la segunda revolución de Ucrania en una década. En su primera aparición pública Timoshenko anunció su candidatura para la próxima elección presidencial.

En una conversación telefónica mantenida el 18 de marzo, filtrada por los servicios secretos rusos y divulgada por la televisión estatal rusa RT, Timoshenko habría amenazado de muerte a los ocho millones de rusos que viven en Ucrania. Posteriormente, confirmó la autenticidad de la grabación, pero negó haber amenazado a los rusos y afirmó que dicha parte estaba editada. Algunos observadores opinan que la filtración «sirve a los intereses de Moscú de avivar las llamas separatistas en Ucrania, especialmente en el sudeste», aunque también se ha especulado con que podría haber aumentado la popularidad de Timoshenko entre el electorado del oeste de Ucrania para las elecciones presidenciales del 25 de mayo.

Véase también

 Revolución Naranja
 Euromaidán

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Portal oficial del Gobierno de Ucrania, Biografía de Yulia Timoshenko (en inglés)
 Sitio personal de Timoshenko (en inglés, ruso, y ucraniano)
 Perfil de revista TIME
 Biografía en español por Fundación CIDOB

Políticas de Ucrania
Primeros ministros de Ucrania
Diputados de Ucrania
Empresarios de Ucrania
Políglotas de Ucrania
Personas del Euromaidán
Políticos condenados por delitos
Ucranianas del siglo XXI
Nacidos en Dnipró
Jefas de Gobierno
Ucranianas del siglo XX
Políticos de Ucrania del siglo XX
Políticos de Ucrania del siglo XXI

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Biomedical evidence – details improve psychiatric interventions. Dr. Hedaya spells out important biomedical details that change brain function – and are too often neglected by extant standards that target behavioral appearances. He's actively involved in both practice and research, and in this episode shares some interesting new brain and pain perspectives that arise from measurable inflammation.
Dr. Adams uses Microbiota Transfer Therapy to demonstrate a valuable connection and therapeutic process anticipated for years by many researching autism.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy – RSD – recovery from pain and marked debility takes determination, time and a plan.


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On July 21 Dusty turns 15! He's my guard dog and companion, and has been pals to all the other critters that we've had in our house over the years. And he's so darn cute!
Dusty likes to guard with a toy nearby.
In honor of Dusty's 15th birthday, we not only made a birthday cake . . .
No sense waiting for the candle to be blown out!
. . . we also decided to offer free downloads of Dusty, the Angel Pup, a rhyming photo e-book about Dusty and told from Dusty's perspective. Just go to Smashwords.com, click on Dusty's book, ADD TO CART and use the coupon code XU89L. This offer is good through the end of July, 2013. In return, I'd appreciate it if people would comment about the book on Smashwords and Amazon. And while you're there, you might also check out my three other photo e-books and Something Furry Underfoot, my humorous, touching memoir about the dozens of pets that we raised over 18 years: ferrets, hedgehogs, mynah birds, hamsters, two dogs, a cat, a rabbit and more!
Some proceeds for all my animal books will support animal rescue organizations.
Thanks for helping us celebrate Dusty's birthday!
Mark and I have placed many wooden nest boxes around our small yard in the hopes that birds or squirrels will take up residence. We've witnessed enough squirrels over the years that we know a mother squirrel keeps her babies in their nests–or in our case, wooden nest boxes–until the babies are about 3/4 the size of the parents. Unbeknownst to us, a mother fox squirrel and her two babies had made a box in our front yard their home. May 16 was the first time I saw one of the babies.
Squirrel part way in, part way out of the nest box in our front yard.
Nearby was the squirrel's sibling.
Sibling of the first squirrel I saw, already exploring the tree.
We guessed that the mother of these two squirrels was one of the ones we'd seen stuffing her face on the mountains of sunflower seeds we pile on our deck for birds and squirrels. And sure enough, the next day, we saw the mother squirrel guide her babies out of the box, up the tree, onto our roof, and onto the fence on the one side of our deck.
Mother squirrel with her two babies on the deck fence.
Since we'd seen the mother squirrel enjoying our sunflower seeds, we suspected she was showing the babies where they would always find food. She climbed onto the deck, and, when the babies didn't immediately join her, she went back up to reassure them.
After touching both of them, she returned to the deck, ate some sunflower seeds and waited. I watched both babies for several minutes and noticed the one on the left seemed to start shaking or shivering. The mom noticed, too, and ran back up the fence. It was only after I snapped this photo that I saw the baby on the left was missing part of its tail.
Mom returns to check on her babies.
The mom reassured the first baby, then turned her attention to the one with the chopped off tail. She licked his wounded tail and then put her arms around him to comfort him, to get him warm?
Mom wrapping her arms around her baby.
We watched a moment longer and realized the same baby with the wounded tail also was holding up its right front paw, as if it, too, was injured.
Shortly after I took the above photo, the mom led her two charges back up the fence and to the roof. The healthy baby leaped and hopped along, while the wounded baby walked carefully, slowly, stumbled a bit, and barely put weight on his front right paw.
For days afterwards, we didn't see any baby fox squirrels outside our front yard; we did see one on our deck, and it was the healthy baby with the healthy tail. Days went by as we wondered what happened to the wounded squirrel. Then on June 1, we looked out in the back yard and the squirrel baby we bravely named Stumpy was eating corn!
By June 22, Stumpy had braved the deck and was eating sunflower seeds.
Stumpy on the deck eating sunflower seeds.
For the last few days, each morning, we wake up at 6:30 to see Stumpy outside on the deck eating seeds. And each morning I see Stumpy, I think of Stumpy's mom and that tender moment on our deck.
A few years back, we got these live traps for trapping mice in our basement, and every now and again we set them. Two weeks ago, we set two live traps and the first night, we captured a mouse whose tail was about half as long as it should be–the tail had been chewed off, perhaps in a narrow escape. Mark released the mouse into the backyard.
A few nights later Mark lifted the bar-b-que and inside was a mouse whose tail had been chopped off. We got a plastic cup, pushed the mouse into the cup, lowered mouse and cup to the surface of the deck and the mouse wobbled off. Three nights later–last Sunday–we grilled again and once again, came face to face with a mouse with a chopped off tail.
We found it hard to believe there was more than one mouse with a chopped off tail, and since we'd had three encounters with a mouse with a poor strategy for survival, the second time it showed up in the bar-b-que we eased the mouse into the cup and put him in an aquarium. Having raised numerous small rodents over the years, we happen to have in our house a coconut ball for the mouse to hide in, an exercise wheel, some tubing from a hamster cage, a wee dish for food, a water bottle, and in case he was a bit challenged and couldn't figure out a water bottle, a milk jug cap with water. We added some sunflower seeds and hamster food. Hours later, Willi, a.k.a. kid #4 called, suggesting Smokey Joe for the name of our mouse.
In addition to a shortened tail, Smokey Joe's right ear was a bit tattered and he had a patch of fur missing on his back.
Smokey Joe on his exercise wheel.
Smokey Joe immediately adapted to his new surroundings. He took up residence in the coconut ball and came out in the evening to eat and to run on the wheel. In fact, he not only runs on the wheel like most small rodents, he also stops mid-run sometimes and hangs onto the wheel while momentum takes him around three or four times before the wheel comes to a stop. It is quite fun to see.
Smokey Joe also knew what to do with the bits of tissues and made a nice nest for himself inside his coconut.
Smokey Joe peeking out from his coconut.
We don't know how old Smokey Joe is, but we figure whatever time he has left he can spend inside our house instead of in a bar-b-que or in the yard. He's shown he can take some hard licks in the real world and we figure there's no harm in an old mouse retiring to the life of luxury. Welcome to retirement, Smokey Joe.
After 25 years working in an environmental program, I have to say that one of the best things I get to see is the annual celebration of Earth Day at my place of work in downtown Lansing. For one day a year, we open the doors and allow kids to come inside to learn about what they can do for the environment.
Entrance to my building, with cheery posters.
Around the atrium were posters kids made for Earth Day.
Inside the building were dozens of booths where kids could interact with turtles, frogs, snakes, and other critters. Most of the critters were live except this one.
Even Nemo showed up for Earth Day.
In one of the conference rooms, kids got to touch a sea lamprey. Some were more excited about this than others.
Kids reacting to a sea lamprey.
In another room, kids got to hold a parrot or two.
Docents from the Potter Park Zoo brought in a variety of critters, including a large snake that spent most of its time coiled around itself, and a tarantula that seemed content just to hang out on a lady's hand.
Tarantula posing for a photo.
The Potter Park people also brought a blue-tongued skink. I got to touch the skink.
Another nifty creature from Potter Park Zoo was a European eagle owl, which, the nice lady said, is the species of owl seen in Harry Potter movies. Now, I spent 10 minutes trying to photograph this owl, and most of the time he avoided looking at me.
Potter Park docent with her owl pal.
Mostly, the owl looked out the window in the opposite direction. This is the only moment he actually looked right at me.
Owl finally looking at me.
The Zoo folks also brought a black chinchilla. He had really soft fur. I wanted to take him home but the lady said no.
Okay, so I'm just like all the other kids that like to interact with critters. But clearly, it's one of the best things we do each year. I mean, just look at the smiles.
Check on Chip–take her out to play?
Around 2 p.m. Got to bird room. Shut door behind you.
Shut both doors behind you.
Around 4 p.m. Return to bird room. Open cage doors.
Wait for bird to go in. Shut and lock cage doors.
At 6 or 7 Go into bird room. Pull down blankets.
Double check all hamster cages. Fill bowls.
in balls. Check water bottles.
Turn lights on big fish tank.
Around 8 or so Feed fish in both fish tanks.
Check on Chip; play if not played with earlier.
Let Dusty out and back in again.
Before 10:00 Let Dusty out and back in again.
Oh, and please feed the sea monkeys (brine shrimp) once or twice while we're gone. And bring in the mail now and again. And the trash goes out on Tuesday mornings. And Dusty would appreciate your shoveling any snow off the front porch. He also likes daily rub-downs and…. Okay, you'll do fine. Oh, and about the outdoor critters we feed….
For all pet lovers out there, hampy holidays!
Pumpkin the hamster and our Happy Holidays train.
Enjoy yourself and eat lots and lots.
Pumpkin after stuffing her cheeks with pumpkin seeds.
And don't worry about the little things, like how good you might or might not look.
Scrinch letting it all hang out.
And look forward to 2013 with the enthusiasm of a hampster.
The problem with having a good digital SLR camera is that sometimes it needs some TLC. Take mine–it's a Nikon D300 and had a little dust-spec problem I was tired of trying to crop out of photos, and it needed a new rubber cover to replace the one that should be covering the input/output ports but instead was just flapping around on tiny hinges. With a trip to the Amazon planned a couple of months from now, I wanted to make sure I sent the camera off for its TLC in plenty of time for our big trip. So, two and a half weeks ago I sent my camera off to Nikon. I hadn't heard from Nikon, so two days ago I called them and learned it will be another week before the new rubber cover comes in. They are THE Nikon repair place listed on Nikon's official web site and they didn't have a rubber cover in stock??!!
But surely I'm over-reacting, because surely, my old Nikon D100 could fill in for anything exciting that might happen while the D300 was in the shop. And surely nothing exciting would happen in my backyard during the weeks my D300 was away. Surely, I wouldn't look out my bay window yesterday and see two deer near the lake hiding behind our brush pile, pine trees and tall native grasses, and surely what we first thought looked like a doe and a fawn wouldn't turn out instead to be a doe and a buck whose antlers blended into the brush pile. And surely the doe wouldn't come out from behind the vegetation into the open, flick up her white tail and wiggle just so. And surely the buck wouldn't emerge to reveal his 8-point rack and sniff and mount her. Right in our backyard.
I, of course, was clicking away with my Nikon D100, but when I went to download the photos later, only one photo was captured. It's the one below, which I took when I realized the buck and doe were leaving our property, and ran next door to shoot photos from behind my neighbor's trees.
The only photo of the buck that my old camera captured.
I don't know why my old camera didn't capture the other photos I took. Perhaps in my attempt to snap so many photos, I overwhelmed the old camera somehow. Perhaps the memory card is so new in comparison to the camera, the camera couldn't translate the information correctly. Perhaps the deer cast aspersions against me for intruding on their private moment. Whatever the reason, it was bad timing on my part to send my D300 off for some TLC. Of course, if I only had bad luck, I would have no buck at all.
When it Rains, it Pours . . . Mynah Birds?
Mark had no answers then and spent the rest of Tuesday trying to find the little mynah bird. He talked to the Lansing Post Office, the Okemos Post Office, the Haslett Post Office, and to Todd. Even after making a bunch of calls, Mark and Todd could not redirect the bird and send it back to Florida, or to Alabama which is where the bird was supposed to be delivered. Todd said he felt horrible, because a trip for the bird to Alabama would have been much shorter than a trip to Michigan.
Mark and I waited around our house Tuesday night, hoping the Lansing Post Office folks would call to tell us the bird had arrived. We went to bed wondering if the little bird would survive.
On Wednesday morning, after I got my blood tested, passed out, and was home recovering, Andy, from the Okemos Post, called to tell us the bird had arrived. We asked Andy if he could tell if the bird was alive–it had been in a container, after all, for 38 hours. Andy assured us the box was wiggling.
Within 10 minutes, we met Andy.
Andy handing Mark the box the mynah bird was shipped in.
Mark held the container on his lap all the way home.
Mark holding the container on his lap.
Once home, we went into Little Buddy's bedroom. She sat on top of the big flight cage to check things out.
Little Buddy checking out the container.
Mark cut open one corner of the strangely-shaped box. . .
. . . and out flew a brown and yellow mynah.
The new bird on a hamster cage.
After so many hours in a container with no water and what smelled like some pretty nasty fruit, we thought it best to get the new bird some fresh food and water. So Mark gently grabbed her and put her in Little Buddy's cage. Little Buddy came right over to watch the new guy drink big gulps of water and eat.
The new bird inside the cage; Little Buddy on top.
About ten minutes later, the new bird came to the door of the cage and looked around. Mark brought over a mynah favorite–a dried mealworm–and caught the attention of both birds.
Mark with Little Buddy (on the left) and the new bird (right).
Soon the new bird was hopping about the floor. Then she took her first bath.
The new bird taking a bath.
Now, the thing about this bird is that we weren't expecting it, because if we had, we'd had asked Todd to sent it by airplane like he did Little Buddy because that was faster and less stressful on the bird. Knowing the new bird had been in a container for 38 hours, we couldn't bring ourselves to put the little bird back in the container it came in and ship it back to Todd or to the nice folks in Alabama who were expecting it. Mark checked with Todd and he said he had another baby mynah he could send to the nice folks in Alabama. We learned they weren't happy about all this, but we hope they'll understand that we did what we thought was best for the little bird.
We named the new bird BOGO–Buy One, Get One–in spite of the fact that we sent Todd a check for the little bird, and for its lovely ride inside numerous US Postal Service trucks.
Mark with Little Buddy on his head (parting his hair?) and a wet BOGO on his shoulder.
Surely a bird on the head is worth two in the . . . something.
This posting is to share a few images from the Great Outdoors taken the last couple of weeks. First, my friend the tussock moth caterpillar. This fella was munching on a milkweed plant. I like its colors, the fact that it looks sort of like a fly I'd use to try to catch a trout, and also because word tussock is the only word I've found that sort of rhymes with buttock.
This fella made himself comfortable in a red cup attached to a pole under our bird feeder.
Red squirrel in a cup eating sunflower seeds.
This is a baby cardinal taking a bath in our water dish.
She was apparently quite dirty and spent a fair amount of time correcting that problem. I took several photos including this one where her head is turned sideways.
A few days ago, I found this unfortunate moth outside in my front yard. I usually don't pick up dead things, but thought it was cute. So, I, took it inside for a photo or too. On our kitchen table, of course.
Moth on my kitchen table.
LeptoMan, a moth/butterfly guy at work, identified this as an underwing moth (Catocala relicta) that hangs out on birch trees. We don't have a birch tree, but our neighbor does, which means it's all my neighbor's fault that the moth died, I'm sure. Luckily, as I had hoped, my moth friend had a really cute face. It's one reason I like moths.
Close-up of my moth pal.
And then I ate the moth because I wanted to know what it tasted like. Not really. I took the moth back outside, said, "God bless the fuzzy moth," and buried it. I also wiped the table off.
So there you have it. A few critters from the Great Outdoors. Some, like the caterpillars and moths, will be pretty scarce soon, so get outside NOW before it sNOWs.
It took Little Buddy a little over a week to get out and safely back in her cage by herself, and one thing that helped her along was putting a yellow washcloth on the door of the cage to give it a firmer feel. Once she figured out the yellow wash cloth was safe to land on, we moved the wash cloth onto Mark' s leg.
Little Buddy on the yellow wash cloth on Mark's leg.
Well, once Little Buddy was comfortable on Mark's leg, she started checking out the book he was reading.
Little Buddy checking out Mark's book.
She found his book about 18th Century navy life to be fascinating.
Little Buddy reading along with Mark.
Little Buddy quickly moved right on to the next page.
Little Buddy reading faster than Mark.
She even helped Mark turn the pages.
Little Buddy helping turn the page.
She soon grew impatient with the pace of Mark's reading.
Little Buddy grabbing Mark's book mark.
Then she walked off with Mark's book mark and, with a clumsy flutter of her wings, almost got the book mark inside her cage.
Little Buddy walking off with the book mark.
In truth, our mynah bird can't read books. And Mark hasn't gotten much reading done in her company, either. But Mark is sure having a good time with his curious Little Buddy.
Oh, if any of you are looking for a mynah bird of your own, you need look no further than Todd from Milton, Florida. It's where Little Buddy came from, and we hear he has a couple more baby mynahs looking for new homes. Todd loves his birds and he's called a couple of times to check on Little Buddy and make sure she's doing whatever mynahs are supposed to do. Or maybe he's checking on Mark to make sure Mark's doing what mynahs like Marks to do. Hm.


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Obituary of Karl E Barge
Karl Erik Barge (Named after Karl Erik Larsson) ————————————————————————————————————————————— Karl was born at Princeton Hospital, Princeton, New Jersey, on November 11/1/1959. He was named Karl Erik after a Swedish friend of the family that his father, David A. Barge, worked with at Princeton. Karl was 61 when he died on January 9 from weakness of his body and organ failure primarily due to a number of different issues related to COPD. Karl was the son of the late Pastor Jean Barge and of Dr. David A. Barge, deceased. His father worked at Princeton University developing transistors. Later, he was involved in research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, on Long Island. In Farnham, Karl's brother, Marc, (also deceased) met and married Ruthann Militello and they had one girl, Megan Elizabeth Barge, now 31. Ruthann had two previous sons from her former marriage, Matthew, age 40 and Marc, 38. Karl was an employee of Hi-Temp Fabrication and worked at the company for 17 years. He played a pivotal role during the transition when Hi-Temp was acquired by Peerless Hi-Temp Fabrication and contributed as a hard-working machinist for 3 years. Karl was loyal and highly dedicated to the company and I know would want deep thanks extended to John and Shelley McKendry and John Gentile.


Have you tried Louboutin Nails before?
I really do like your nails but I just have to wonder how much of a pain clean-up is... might be worth it, though!
Those are some HOT nails! I saw the first pic and immediately thought of those heels before reading or scrolling. Great translation into nail art!
<3 I imagine if I were to try this I would end up with polish all over my fingers!
The fact with the polished back of the shoe really makes a circle complete =).
It looks really great =).
So hot and fierce! I love this!
OMG! Love it! I don't know how anyone could not love this nail design or Louboutins?! I keep my nails pretty short, so I wouldn't be able to pull this off! Great idea!!!
I have seen this trend around and just love it! But my nails will never be long enough to do it!! So awesome!
I was going to ask how time consuming/bothersome the cleanup was.
Thank you ladies! I like this trend and can't wait to try it in other color combos.
The clean up was a bit of a mess. I would certainly recommend using a color that doesn't stain the skin or you will have a hot mess on your hands. Also, while I used the brush that came with the polish this time, my next try will be using a small detail brush for better precision.


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What is in a name? If you ask me ...... Everything! I fully understand how important reputation is to a person, an organisation and even a country. In the global village that we now live in, reputation couldn't be more important if we are to see our economic growth maintain a steady upward trend.
There's no doubt that Kenya continues to gain credibility around the world year on year. Like any nation we suffer set backs and require attention to progress in many areas. I believe there's still a lot to be done to get us to where we ought to be.
With a background in journalism I have experienced the power of the media in moulding opinions the world over. As part of my Masters Degree in Multi Media Journalism, I wrote a thesis on the negative reporting of Africa by the western press. One of the conclusions confirmed that we need to protect our name/reputation/brand!
I believe that the Face of Kenya UK 2014 will provide me an opportunity to correct any false perceptions, positively push forward the Kenyan brand and showcase the wonders of which Kenya is inherently proud.
Born in Malindi, I lived and breathed the Kenyan experience for over 20 years before relocating to the coastal town of Bournemouth in the UK. I visit my parents in Nakuru annually to where they have retired. By holding a solid understanding of the two very different worlds I confidently feel that Kenya has a lot to offer the world.
As the face of our great Kenyan nation in the UK, I will represent the true image of Kenya. From the offset I will roll up my sleeves and assist Brand Kenya to the standing within the world it rightly deserves. Your support in achieving this incredible opportunity is warmly appreciated.
I support support support!!! U go gal! All the best hon!
Way to go darling.... I love you and am very proud of you!!!!!!!!
Congrats!......Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
You go girl, we love you Lissa....Brand Kenya!!!
Bravoooo Lissa......We love you dearly en we are proud of u .keep going siz.
i support u liss, We love u bby.
Liz my niece bravo for the good work you are doing. Tell them the truth and nothing but the truth. I support you full. you are my hero.
PLEASE VOTE FOR TEAM LISSA THIS JUNE !!


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Tight security for Pak cricket team: Shinde
Against the backdrop of Shiv Sena's threat to disrupt the upcoming Indo-Pak cricket series, the Centre on Thursday said it would provide the best possible security to players and spectators of the neighbouring country.
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that sports and politics should not be mixed as the cricket series will pave the way for improving bilateral ties between India and Pakistan.
"When cricketers from other countries come to India, not only from Pakistan, it is our duty to protect them. We will discuss and provide best possible security. We are going to be very alert," he said when asked about Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's threat.
Mr. Shinde said there would be no compromise on the security of Pakistani cricketers and spectators.
"We should not mix sports and culture with politics.
There should be different views. This series will pave the way for the revival of better ties between the two countries," he said.
The Home Minister said the limited over cricket series should not be mixed with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, which was carried out by Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT.
The Shiv Sena chief had on Monday had called upon "staunch Hindus and patriotic people of India" to disrupt cricket matches between India and Pakistan due to be played in the country next month.
Mr. Thackeray also lashed out at Mr. Shinde for his statement "to forget the past" and play cricket with Pakistan.
The series would comprise three ODIs and two Twenty20 Internationals between December 2012 and January 2013. The ODI matches will be played in Chennai, Kolkata and New Delhi and the Twenty20 games in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
The two countries have not played a bilateral series since Pakistan's tour of India in 2007. Cricket ties between the two countries were snapped following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his then Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani had watched the high-profile World Cup semi-final in Mohali last year.
Asked about Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik's proposed visit to India for operationalisation of the new India-Pakistan visa pact, Mr. Shinde said when he met Mr. Malik in Rome on the sidelines of the Interpol General Assembly meeting, the Pakistani leader conveyed that he may come on November 22—23.
"We are yet to finalise the dates. We will give our response. They will also give their response. Then the dates will be finalised," he said.


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London Stock Exchange today announced several important changes to its International Order Book - the world's leading trading venue for Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) - to bring it in line with the SETS market, home to FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 index constituents.
The changes below, which follow a market-wide consultation, will be implemented from 10 February, 2014.
"These important changes recognise the exceptional growth and development of the IOB market. Many of its securities trade as heavily, if not more so, than the most liquid FTSE 100 stocks and it's appropriate to provide our customers with a market structure that matches its status as the world's leading GDR market. These improvements will mark the next stage of the IOB's development and support the strong interest we are seeing from new issuers and international investors."
There are 207 GDRs listed on the International Order Book with issuers from over 44 countries. Since its launch in 1998, more than $110bn has been raised by companies on the market which sees an average annual daily turnover of more than $700m. High profile IOB securities include: Lukoil, Sberbank, Samsung, Reliance Industries (India) and Gazprom.