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Ian Tonkinson - The Art Of Photography - Learning Log (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since my last post things have changed significantly. On a technical front I have a wireless hub which allows me to access the web from my Mac without wires trailing everywhere. Initially this was the main reason for the gap between posts. However at the same time I have had a lot of time to think about and reflect on my photography. I have started to consider what I really want to get out of it. Some...
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BestCovery (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ginsu Hanaita Damscus Series cutlery is crafted from 33 layers of high carbon and low carbon Japanese Stainless Steel with VG-1 core to form a superior Japanese Damascus blade. The blade is sharpened to a razor sharp Asian knife edge angle of 10°, and then cryogenically cooled in our proprietary processs. This process utilizes liquid Nitrogen to draw the molecules of the steel closer together...
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Paul Owen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newsflash: Unlike David Aaronovitch (see last post) even the king of self righteousness George Monbiot in his Guardian column accepts that those leaked e-mails don't look good, that scientists have tried to keep data out of circulation and tried to prevent sceptics from having their own reports published. Of course he then goes on to try and downplay the whole thing, puts it down to one or two rogues...
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Noah Pollak says Israel has to stop letting Hamas and Hezbullah (and Iran and Syria) dictate where its battles take place. The only way to stop proxy wars is to go after the principal. The new strategy of creating proxy terrorist groups endowed with the potency and sophistication of armies, but with none of their restrictions or responsibilities, is racking up points. The goal is not to defeat
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The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Mother Nature seems to have been an especial bitch on this day throughout history. A list of the devastation: 1343 An earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea created a tsunami that destroyed much of Naples 1667 An earthquake near Shemakha, in the Caucasus, left 80,000 dead 1703 The Great Storm of 1703 devastated southern England. The storm began on 24 November, but reached a climax on 26/27 November, with...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Bill Roggio: US intelligence officials are concerned that Syria is becoming an al Qaeda haven, as the terror group becomes increasingly intertwined with Ba’athist groups operating from Iraq's neighbor to the west. Al Qaeda has refocused its efforts to build an infrastructure in eastern Syria after its network in Iraq was decimated by Iraqi and US security forces from 2007 to 2009, and now the...
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Aljazeera.net Israel rejects to free 40 Palestinians, delaying prisoner exchange: source Xinhua GAZA, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Israel refuses to release 40 Palestinians whom the Islamic Hamas movement demands for freedom in a prisoner exchange deal a well-informed Palestinian source said on Tuesday. The Israeli reservations on the 40 names delayed the ... Report: Top Hamas officials in Damascus to discuss...
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Brian's Study Breaks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Several years ago, I heard a senior historian of the modern Middle East express surprise that there were still topics left unstudied in the history of what, borrowing a European term but changing its meaning, we call the medieval period. Far from it - in fact, I'd say we're just getting started approaching the era at the level that other fields of history with similar issues take for granted. This...
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riverrim (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Saturday last, The Woodland Weavers and Spinners Guild had a meeting in Damascus. They invited Fred and Grace Hatton to speak about Antique Spinning Wheels...I was invited to do a demonstration on the Walking Wheel. The guild members brought some of their own antique wheels to display and inquire after repairs etc. They also brought covered dishes and cookies. There were two signed
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
France-brokered talks between Syria and Israel are unlikely to provide an avenue for peace – neither is offering anything new A glimmer of hope in the moribund Middle East peace process surfaced in Paris recently when Nicolas Sarkozy separately hosted both the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. Reports suggested that Netanyahu passed on a message...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cairo/Damascus/Gaza City - - Negotiations between Israeli officials and Hamas over a possible deal to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit now hinge on whether two imprisoned Palestinian leaders would be freed but allowed to remain in the oc...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Deal for captive soldier Gilad Shalit may include return of the one man able to rebuild Fatah and unite the Palestinians: Marwan Barghouti Prisoner exchanges have been part of the terms of trade of the Middle East conflict for the past 60 years. If the reports , rumours and speculation of the last few days turn out to be correct, the deal swapping Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for hundreds of jailed...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"The positive reception of the novel encouraged Munif to leave his dreary job in the Oil Ministry in Damascus and move to Beirut, working as a journalist. He arrived with an unpublished second novel, Sharq al-Mutawassit (East of the Mediterranean), which Munif held back from publishing for three years. Its subject was political torture and imprisonment, a theme that would become one of the most...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gaza/Jerusalem/Cairo/Damascus - Israel and the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas were cautious Tuesday over efforts by a German mediator to conclude indirect negotiations on a prisoner swap. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday tha...
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