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I was on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour yesterday, talking about self defence and sexual violence. You can listen to the programme here for the next year or so.
I am delighted to share that as of October 1st I will be starting a PhD at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol. Those who know me will no doubt be entirely unsurprised by the fact that my chosen area of study is at the intersection of multiple fields: politics, culture, gender and sexuality, fandom and the digital world. In my fully-funded PhD project, I will investigate fanfiction narratives and discourses of consent and sexuality in a political context.
After over ten years as a technology manager in the private sector, it was time for a change in direction. I have enjoyed my career so far, and I have learned a lot of from it. I have had the opportunity to lead business-critical projects, manage relationships with key business partners, analyse and leverage retail data to directly increase sales. I've recruited some great people, and I've had the opportunity to help my employer become a fantastic place to work for LGBT employees. I've worked with some amazing people, whom I will miss.
I am almost at a loss for words about how much I am looking forward to this exciting new challenge. I left my heart in research and academia, and I am incredibly privileged to be able to go back to find it. My PhD project combines many of the different strands of my interests, from the interaction between politics and culture, through LGBT issues and violence against women, to digital rights. My experience in these areas will inform my research, and I intend to continue to be an active campaigner in these areas in a variety of ways.
I will probably be fairly quiet over the next few weeks as I pack up my life and move to the other end of the country, but I expect this blog will very soon start reflecting my academic interests and research, in addition to the mix of topics you are already used to. I very much hope that you will come along for the ride.
So many times as an activist I have run into the conflict between pragmatism and idealism. One of the more useful people on the doomed Yes to Fairer Votes campaign for instance was Nigel Farage - a man whom otherwise I find thoroughly despicable. Another example is my work on QUILTBAG+ issues in the workplace. It's easy, when confronted with a corporate environment, to tackle the "low-hanging fruit" of lesbian and gay issues first and save what a friend of mine calls "the gold-plated conversation" for a "later" that somehow never comes.
I've been guilty of this myself. Last year I very nearly stood up in front of an LGB conference to talk about bisexual issues and played the respectability card of "Well, I am the good monogamous kind of bisexual." I was saved from myself at the last minute by another friend.
Read more at The F Word.
I left the country of my birth at the age of 10. For six years I was only tolerated in my new home because my father had a work visa. My mother, too, was in Austria on a family visa with no right to work. It is telling what I remember from those years. My father's present to my mother for our first Christmas in Austria was a bank card allowing her to access his account. My parents didn't often go through really rough patches in their marriage but the one time they did, when they didn't speak to each other for two months and it looked like they would be getting divorced, my mother asked me if I wanted to stay in Austria with my father or return to Bulgaria with her. I was 11, maybe 12. I knew even then that if she wanted to leave my father she had no other choice - and that I would not go with her. I remember my mother struggling to learn German with very little social contact, and then struggling again to get a work permit. I know what she bought with her first own paycheque in Austria: a dishwasher. My mother, a research chemist originally, is now on her fourth career as a result of our migration; and while her current work is reasonably skilled and highly-paid, it is nothing like her first career.
Read more at The F Word.
ETA: You now also read this article in Polish on Codziennik Feministyczny. Many thanks to translator Robert Kielawski.
Last week saw the publication of Julie Bindel's new book, "Straight Expectations", partly based on a survey which deliberately and specifically excluded bisexual people. Ruth Hunt, Acting Chief Exec of Stonewall, tweeted on Monday morning,
Finished @bindelj Straight Expectations. Don't agree with everything said (and wouldn't our world be dull if we did?) but an important book.— Ruth Hunt (@ruth_hunt) July 7, 2014
Read more at The F Word.
I am guest blogging on The F-Word this month. My first piece was on our society's obsession with the reputation of alleged sex offenders. Trigger warnings apply for the piece and most of the links in it for discussion of sexual violence.
It's been an interesting couple of weeks for sexual assault and the law. Last week Radio 4 ran an edition of the Moral Maze titled "Should the accused as well as the victim be given anonymity in the trial of sex crimes?" Panellists fell over themselves to explain how the legal system was tilted in favour of alleged victims of sexual assault, how the accused's reputation was in tatters forever even if they were acquitted. (As I have written elsewhere, there are good statistical reasons for that.) This week has of course seen the conviction and sentencing of Rolf Harris on 12 counts of indecent assault. And there it is again, that phrase, "Your reputation lies in ruins", this time uttered by the judge himself.
The New Statesman today had yet another run-in with Poe's Law. Caroline Criado-Perez apparently thinks that suggesting women learn self defence is the opposite of victim blaming.
I happen to have some personal expertise on this matter, being both a survivor of several sexual assaults and the holder of several martial arts qualifications, including a black belt in kickboxing. For the sake of accuracy, I should point out that the assaults predate my learning martial arts, but there is no correlation, let alone causation here. So let me tell you a few of the things I've learned over ten years of practicing martial arts.
- I am not a small woman and I possess a fair amount of physical strength. Particularly when I'm training regularly, I have the muscle mass that allows me to pack quite a punch. Even when I'm not training regularly, my technique is good enough to make my kicks and punches quite effective. (This is something I am proud of.)
- Men tend to be stronger than me. Obviously, most of the men I practise martial arts with are likely to be stronger. But often even the newbies have more muscle mass and a stronger grip than me. I may be able to kick head-high, but if they really want to hurt me, they can easily do so. (This took me a while to realise, and still upsets me.)
- Martial arts is not the same as self defence. I have done both, and they are very different things. Self defence moves tend to be simpler and more practical (if your instructor is any good). Martial arts moves have more potential to truly hurt - if you can get them right. Having said that, sometimes the difference is as subtle as your hand position: a fist indicates an offensive move; a strike with an open hand is legally classed as a slap and is therefore defensive. If I actually landed a martial arts kick or punch, even in the heat of the moment of a self defence situation, I'd probably get done for assault. (The reader is invited to make their own comparisons to men who "in the heat of the moment" can't stop themselves from raping.)
- While self defence moves are simpler, self defence is still fucking hard. Not the moves themselves - they tend to be straightforward. What's hard about self defence is practising it to the point where it's muscle memory - where you don't think about it, you just react. Not only do you need to be able to just react, you need to be able to get yourself out of the situation. That means disable your attacker and either run or call the police. You need to be able to deal with all sorts of eventualities. How good's your wrestling, if you both end up on the ground? How good are you at continuing to fight while injured? (I know for a fact that I'm not there.)
- And then there's the small matter of the practicality of self defence when dressed for a night out. I have yet to see (and I have occasionally looked) a self defence class that asks participants to wear high heels and tight skirts; or for that matter to show up tipsy; or to practise in anything other than a safe, well-lit environment on a flat and even (and sometimes cushioned) floor. Any and all of these factors are likely to affect how you react, even if you have practised to the point where you can do the moves in your sleep. (Reality, alas, bites.)
Armed with this knowledge, let's think our way through a few scenarios. [Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse]
You're a 15-year-old girl. The man who's abusing you is your uncle. You have trusted this man your entire life. He's the one you ran to every time you had a fight with your parents as a child. "If you don't like it," he says, "all you have to do is slap me. I'll stop." Yes, that young woman is me, minus the martial arts training. But all that was "required" was a slap, right? You don't need any training for that. I couldn't do it - physically and mentally I couldn't get myself to do it. And do you think he would have stopped if I had? Even if I had had any martial arts of self defence experience, my mind was so disassociated from my body I couldn't actually feel anything, let alone lash out and hit him.
Let's do another one. You're a black belt in karate. The man forcing himself on you is your husband. Your children are in the next room. What do you do?
Another. You fall asleep at a party wedged on a sofa and wake up to someone pulling your underwear off and pushing your legs apart. What self defence techniques would you apply?
Another. You're walking home from the bus stop after a night out. You've had a couple of drinks, you're wearing high heels and a cocktail dress. Do you stop to take off your shoes before trying to kick the guy harassing you in the balls?
Another. You fight back. You use all your techniques, perfectly. You kick, you scream, you claw, you punch. You end up with a broken arm, broken jaw, and still raped, for all your trouble. How do you feel about yourself? At least you tried? Not good enough? All your fault?
I have days when I am so angry I imagine kicking in my abuser's face - in defense or in revenge, I don't particularly care. But I also know that is not an option - was never an option. I can see the attraction of trying to take control of a situation that's beyond our control; of doing things that make us feel less at the mercy of others, even if it means investing two nights a week over years and years to learn and then keep up your self defence skills. But in a world where - as Ms Criado-Perez acknowledges - our attacker is much more likely to be our uncle, our father, our brother, our partner, our friend rather than a random stranger, let's not kid ourselves that this actually makes us in any way safer.
By all means, take up martial arts. It's a great way to learn to love your body, to stay fit and healthy, to learn how to kick in your front door when it's jammed, to burn off excess energy and emotion. It's also a hell of a lot of fun. But don't feel that it will make you safer from sexual assault and street harassment; don't feel that if you are attacked you have to physically fight back for it to not be your fault; do not, even for a second, think that it is (in Ms Criado-Perez's words) a solution. To suggest otherwise is, indeed, victim blaming.
Max Clifford has been found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault. I must admit, I am surprised that the criminal justice system has finally managed to deliver justice to the victims in a high-profile sexual assault case where the perpetrator is still alive.
Of course, had the verdict gone the other way (by far the more likely outcome), we would today be treated to a parade of Clifford's friends and the man himself declaring in the media that the case was an outrage, what a lovely man the accused was, how false allegations of sexual assault should result in harsher punishments for the accusers, and how the accused's legal fees should be paid by someone else. They would be bemoaning how the accused can never clear their name as people tend to think there is "no smoke without a fire", how this terrible ordeal will forever be a stain on their life and reputation, how they had been dragged through the dirt.
I have a simple suggestion for the likes of Bill Roache and Nigel Evans (only the two most recent high-profile defendants to be acquitted of sexual assault charges) if they truly want to clear their names. Instead of grandstanding, explaining how you are the victim, sending in your friends to tell everyone how you wouldn't hurt a fly, throw your energy and considerable resources into ensuring that the criminal justice system is actually fit for purpose when it comes to sexual assault and rape cases.
Right now, regardless of the actual court verdict, statistically [US data, the UK data is similar] there simply is no smoke without a fire with regards to sexual assault allegations. The vast majority of sexual assaults are not reported, of those that are, the vast majority do not go to trial, and of those that do, the vast majority result in acquittals after the victim has effectively been put on trial and dragged through the mud. So yes, even if you are cleared of all charges, the most probable scenario is that you are guilty but got away with it, not that someone made up the allegation.
Having a criminal justice system that can actually deliver just that - justice - in sexual assault cases would therefore be in the interests of anyone who has ever been falsely accused. Lowering the odds that an acquittal means you probably did it anyway should be good news for anyone wanting to truly clear their name. I look forward to the day when Nigel Evans campaigns to make reporting of sexual assault easier, to sack judges who think it's "inevitable" for the jury to laugh during the testimony of a victim, to re-examine what kinds of "evidence" should be admissible as defence ("He's a nice bloke guv" just doesn't quite cut it), to look at whether "beyond reasonable doubt" is a sensible standard of evidence for a crime which generally happens in private between two people, and which affects about one third of the population.
Until that day, I'm afraid, there will continue to be no smoke without a fire, regardless of what conclusion the jury reaches, and I will continue to be surprised at every guilty verdict. My thoughts are with the victims and survivors of sexual assault everywhere. I believe them.
The first time I crossed a border, I was ten years old. I was in the back of my father's car, wedged in between a significant chunk of my family's earthly possessions, with the book I was reading at the time stored securely in the microwave oven at my feet. We were leaving Bulgaria for good. We were going to start a new life in Austria. I have a couple of very specific memories about that first border crossing.
I remember setting my watch to CET. And I remember my Dad telling me how he'd picked up some East German hitch-hikers in their late teens or early twenties and how crossing into Bulgaria had been the first time they had crossed time zones. He wanted me to understand what a privilege it was for me to be doing this aged ten.
I remember, in the lead-up to our emigration, my grandmother telling me how Bulgaria was the most beautiful country on earth. If you've never driven through eastern Serbia (then Yugoslavia) and western Bulgaria, there are some stunning landscapes and geographical features there. And if it wasn't for the queue and border guards and document check and strip of no-man's land and then another queue with border guards and document check, there's no way to tell whether a particular tree or rock or hill belongs to Bulgaria or to Serbia. I remember very clearly thinking how beautiful that landscape was on the "wrong" side of the border and wondering if it was okay to think that.
I don't remember crossing the Yugoslav-Hungarian border that day. What I do remember is arriving at the Austrian border at 9 o'clock that evening, July 31st 1991. My father had been living in Austria for a month already at that point, but my visa and my mother's didn't start until August 1st. The Austrian border guard was very nice about it (or at least he was the way my father translated him), but he wouldn't let us enter the country until midnight. We slept for three hours in no-man's land.
My early and mid teens were characterised by crossing borders bearing a passport that marked me out as the undesirable kind of immigrant. Travelling east, "home" ostensibly, was relatively painless. I don't know how many times I crossed those borders, collected the relevant stamps: Austria to Hungary, Hungary to whatever successor state of Yugoslavia was flavour du jour, that to Bulgaria. In cars and in coaches, sometimes relatively quickly, often after four or five hours of waiting. Travelling west remained a near-impossibility for years. Nothing came of the plan to go to Berlin to see the Reichstag wrapped by Christo - I would have needed a Schengen visa for that. I did manage to get a visa for a school trip to the UK, but not one for a yearbook editors' training event in Amsterdam. It was as if the Iron Curtain had simply moved a few hundred miles to the west.
And then I was Austrian: citizenship applied for with years to go before we met the minimum residency requirements, and granted - I suspect - based on some nebulous concept of "integration" and how well I in particular spoke the local dialect. (Thank you, former classmates who made me say "jo" instead of "ja" and wouldn't put up with my misguided attempts to speak Hochdeutsch.) I was a citizen of the European Union, of a Schengen member state. My passport gave me the right to be anywhere in Western Europe. The freedom was almost unimaginable.
Border crossings were different after that, yet for me no less noticeable. They stay with you, those borders you couldn't cross for years. There was the time I flew to Greece from Munich airport. Part of the journey to Munich involved a train that had started out in Slovenia. Schengen or not, you bet that train got checked at the German border. I was wearing branded clothes and had been on the train for two hours, rather than twelve like my fellow passengers. I was the only person in that carriage to not get asked for a passport. There was the epic "going home by train for Christmas - UK to Germany via Belgium, France and Austria" trip of 1999: only two years earlier I couldn't have dreamed of that! There were regular trips to Ireland to see my then-boyfriend, complete with getting sniffed for drugs when getting off the ferry at 7 a.m., not having slept in 24 hours. One memorable weekend shortly after the introduction of the Euro, I found myself, completely unexpectedly, going from Austria to Germany to the Netherlands and back to Germany in the space of a couple of days - no border checks and even more startlingly no currency exchanges.
Bizarrely, for a time going east became an issue. I needed a visa to study in the Czech Republic for three months. The Czech embassy in London was confused by the Austrian living in the UK with no entry stamp in her passport. In mid December, I withdrew my application in order to get my passport back, so I could travel to Germany for Christmas. A trip in person to the consulate in Bonn on one of those ungodly days between Christmas and New Year sorted it all out eventually.
These days, my more adventurous border crossings tend to be outside of Europe. I check my sense of humour at the US border. Russia - as expected - is not that different. Europe is still good for a few surprises though. Entering Schengen at Schiphol continues to be a bane of my life as I invariably get interrogated about what I'm doing there. Last time I cleared immigration at Newcastle, an Asian-looking woman got pulled out of the EU passport queue in front of me, presumably because people like her couldn't possibly be EU citizens. Perhaps my favourite recent border crossing though was an unintentional one: there is a length of road somewhere in central Europe one side of which belongs to Austria and the other to Slovenia. I like that the Iron Curtain has become a three-letter country code either side of a dotted line.
It won't have escaped people's attention that I am a queer, foreign woman. It sort of goes with the territory that occasionally, I will be exposed to microaggressions, or outright instances of harassment - on the street, in media, from friends and acquaintances, and sometimes in the workplace. Frankly, I am mouthy enough that most people who know me know to behave around me and when they slip up it's genuinely that - an honest mistake - and not intentional harassment. But over the years, with various employers, I have accumulated my fair share of "colourful workplace experiences" - from my boss making blow job jokes, to strategy deployment videos containing jokes about violence against women, to people casually informing me that something is "so gay" (and no, the fact that they rephrased it to "camp" and then "awful" did not help their case).
I want to give you an insight into what goes on in my head when I'm cheerfully going about my business and I'm suddenly blindsided by one of these things. Perhaps because in most workplaces I've worked at these instances have been mercifully few and far between, my first reaction is always one of disbelief and surprise. The workplace culture is such that it is clear these things are unacceptable, and so when someone does slip up, I tend to do a double-take and think, "Did they really just say that?" At which point my brain enters "fight or flight" mode.
That may sound slightly dramatic, but I literally have two choices here. I can say nothing and live with the knowledge that I to an extent sanctioned and enabled the behaviour in question. More likely than not, the person doesn't even realise what they said or did and that it was wrong; or if they do, they think they got away with it. Either way, they are likely to do it again - to me or to other people. Again, I am mouthy, I've been in workplaces for 15 years, I have some experience with these things and broadly speaking can look after myself. But there are people around me who either witnessed the incident or who may be exposed to similar future incidents who aren't as mouthy, haven't been around as long, or who for other reasons are more vulnerable than me. In many cases, I simply cannot let it go because I have an obligation to other people. By not challenging the bahaviour I am setting a tone where it becomes acceptable, and that's not a culture I want others to work in. Over the years, I have let a few things go - and I still remember, and regret, every single one of them.
My second choice therefore is to call out the behaviour. There are different ways to do this, and depending on the situation one may be more appropriate than another. Over the years, I have done everything from casually asking people to rephrase their comment to taking formal complaints to HR, and all of these have generally yielded good results for their respective situations. I have got company policies and promotional materials changed, I've got people to change their language and understand why something they said was inappropriate. Whatever I do though, chances are it will leave me a bit shaken (and often physically shaking), emotionally drained, and unable to focus on my work for at least a couple of hours as my brain processes the conflict.
I want to make it clear that this is what goes on in my head. But one thing I can guarantee you: that fight or flight choice is something everyone who experiences or witnesses workplace microaggressions or harassment is faced with. And there isn't a right or wrong choice here. All sorts of factors play a role in whether we choose to challenge the behaviour or not: concerns for our safety, how much the issue in question affects us personally, whether we feel the structures around us are such that our action would lead to genuine change. Neither choice is wrong. You are not wrong for "making a fuss", and neither are you wrong for "standing by". What is wrong is that we are having to make the choice in the first place - that we've been put in a situation by someone else where we are forced to pick the lesser evil out of two pretty horrible options.
Here are a few things that employers can learn from this. Firstly, if your workplace is an environment where microaggressions and harassment - on whatever grounds - thrive, your company is losing out because a significant proportion of your employees is spending time and energy either being upset by the harassment and trying to dodge it, or trying to call it our and change things. All the time and energy spent on dealing with harassment is time and energy not spent being productive. This is a lose-lose scenario - don't let it happen.
The way not to let this happen is to create a workplace culture in which harassment and microaggressions are clearly unacceptable. It's not enough to just have an HR policy gathering dust in a filing cabinet that says "Don't harass people." Start with the identity of your organisation - think about what it is that you want to stand for, and how that relates to the experiences of your employees, customers and other stakeholders. Make sure everyone knows this. Then move on to policy. Make it clear in your policies what harassment looks like - be specific, give as many different examples as you can think of, but also keep it open so people can relate their own lived experience to your policy. A clear statement in a policy that the situation I am experiencing definitely counts as harassment will give me confidence to report it. A clear statement that this is not an exhaustive list will also give me confidence to report things that fall outside it. Use your people: make sure that senior leaders are role models and set the right tone; enable people managers to set that tone in their own teams and to challenge inappropriate behaviour when they see it; train everyone on diversity and inclusion - and not just on the "legal" bits but also on the awesome bits, on why having a diverse organisation is valuable and exciting. Ensure that your values and your policies permeate every level of the organisation.
Finally, recognise that people will occasionally get things wrong - and have strong processes in place for dealing with it. The one thing that has consistently enabled me to call out inappropriate behaviour has been the certainty that it will be addressed appropriately by management and HR. The first time, that confidence comes from the company values, and policies, and training - and that's great. However if someone is encouraged by all of these to make a report, and it gets mishandled, all that credibility and confidence you'd built up vanishes in an instant. So make sure that managers and HR know how to handle issues, that they do so quickly, effectively and sensitively, and that feedback about the outcome is always given to the individual. This way, you enable everyone in your organisation to create a harassment-free workplace, and you end up with people who are motivated and focused on their work rather than on distractions.


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Day 30-32: Myrtle Beach/Huntington Beach
... campground to the first air-conditioned diner we could find for some breakfast! We spent the day at Myrtle Beach enjoying the tourist life. The wind and heat made it very hard to lay on the beach. The water was really rough and the wind was so bad it buried our stuff in sand in less than an hour. Blake swam out past the breaker (the deeper water past the first few whitecaps) and played in the waves for a bit. He would begin at our towel and after ...
Day 26 - Myrtle Beach
... the sunshine so many wearing their red white and blue bathing suites :-). Bryan watched the tennis then joined me at the pool, too bad we didn't win.
We we decided to go back to Ruth's Chris again tonight it's so close and handy we can walk from the boat.
Happy Friday evening to everyone!
Day 25 - Myrtle Beach
Good morning
The rain woke me up at 5:30 but it settled down, now 7:55 it has settled down. It's not cold, lightly raining light wind. I've attached a radar photo for you so you can see the storm activity....you can see the bad wind should hit us if at all in a couple of hours. All the locals here say it's a really protected area. By the time we leave on Saturday morning it will be past where we are and were we are going :-)
Our incredibly long day yesterday didn't end until 1 am when we found a SAMs to park overnight. Tommy slept in a little later, we grabbed breakfast at McDonald's, and southward we drove. A L L D A Y!! We made up our minds yesterday to stay on I95 to Surfside instead of heading straight home. Our plan was to surprise my entire family who was already there for the holiday weekend. Oddly ...
Day 24 - Myrtle Beach
... it is 1.2 miles long, built in 2010 is apparently a must see, I'm looking forward to that...hoping the weather holds off.
Bryan enjoyed a vistit to the West marine store and I spent some fun time at the outlet mall some great deals! The weather stayed hot all afternoon and evening, we made our way to the boardwalk it was a real tourist haven. Never have I seen so many tourist surf shops and bars it was really ...
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Most widely held works about Klaus Maria Brandauer
Most widely held works by Klaus Maria Brandauer
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen ( Visual )
55 editions published between 1985 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 2,657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people, and a mysterious white hunter
White Fang by Randal Kleiser ( Visual )
32 editions published between 1990 and 2003 in 6 languages and held by 1,879 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A young man tries to fulfill his father's wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon Valley of Alaska. Along the way he befriends a veteran gold miner and a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang
Never say never again by Irvin Kershner ( Visual )
33 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
From the luxury yacht the length of a football field, Largo oversees a master plan of mayhem involving stolen cruise missiles, nuclear extortion, deadly video games and all the other evils in SPECTRE'S arsenal. James Bond, Agent 007, goes into battle with a fabulous flying motorcycle and other ghastly gadgets, including a fountain pen that can write you off with a bang
Bonhoeffer ( Visual )
8 editions published between 2003 and 2008 in English and held by 761 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German theologican who was one of the first to openly resist Adolf Hitler. Features photographs, archival footage, and interviews with family members, friends, students, and associates of Bonhoeffer, including the last interview with Bonhoeffer's close friend and historican, Eberhard Bethge
Mephisto by István Szabó ( Visual )
68 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 747 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A drama set in Germany before and during the Nazi period. A young provincial actor makes a bargain with the officials of the Third Reich. He betrays his wife, his mistress, and eventually his art, in exchange for fame. Eventually the circle of evil around him constricts, and he can no longer escape
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 661 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy Dandridge still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds, she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of Carmen Jones, becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award
Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola ( Visual )
6 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and French and held by 486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Naive, 17-year-old Bennie goes to Buenos Aires to search for his older brother whom he has not seen for ten years. With the success of their father Carlo, a renowned symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, Tetro, he is surprised to find that he is not the person he remembered. While staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their shared past
Druids ( Visual )
6 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in English and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 60 B.C., Vercingétorix is a strong, peaceful Gallic chieftain with a legacy to protect his fellow Druids in the Celtic Isles. But when Julius Caesar and his Roman army declare war, Vercingétorix has no choice but to fight. Reunited with his childhood love and armed with little more than raw courage, Vercingétorix unites his people and prepares them for the battle of their lives
The Russia house by Fred Schepisi ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1990 and 2006 in English and German and held by 327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Russian physicist wants a derelict English publisher to publish defense secrets, but the British Secret Serviceand the CIA have other ideas
The crown prince ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Archduke Rudolph, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, begins a fateful affair with the Baroness Mary Vetsera. She, along with the other women who influenced his life, paint the revealing portrait of an empire unable to adapt to modern times
The Bible, Jeremiah ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1998 and 2004 in English and held by 287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dramatization of the story of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah
Between strangers by Gérard Depardieu ( Visual )
10 editions published between 2002 and 2009 in English and German and held by 274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Natalia is a photojournalist whose powerful image of a young girl has just been printed in a magazine. Catherine is a concert cellist whose wife-abusing father has just been released from jail. Olivia is a housewife who has devoted her life to caring for her wheelchair-boung husband. Each of these women have visions of the same small girl at moments when they are each forced to confront their pain and each finds a way back to salvation through living out a dream
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6 editions published between 1987 and 2004 in German and English and held by 258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of Alfred Redl, the son of a poor railway worker who, through driving ambition, became the head of military intelligence and commander of the 8th Army in Prague
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30 editions published between 1988 and 2011 in German and No Linguistic content and held by 215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1920's Berlin, Erik Jan Hanussen (Klaus-Maria) is a charismatic magician and clairvoyant whose compelling stage show turns him into a star. His uncannily accurate predictions make him a celebrity. Soon, when he looks into the future, he can see a rising storm of hate, destruction and war. When the Nazis seize power, he is forced to choose between joining them and standing alone
The Bible stories ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jeremiah, son of Chelkia, remembers the glory of Judah from his childhood. It is he who has been given the authority to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem. Will the Israelites, and their new king, listen to the words of the prophet, or will Jeremiah's pleas fall on deaf ears and hardened hearts? Includes previews
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8 editions published in 1996 in German and No Linguistic content and held by 110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Set in Austria before World War I.A story loosely based on Alfred Redl's life from his childhood in military school to his mysterious end amidst rumors of treasonous activities
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Amidst the terror of the Second World War, Maria Von Gall organizes the evacuation of Jews from France using funds deposited in Swiss bank accounts. Sensing her freedom is being threatened, Maria trains her brilliant 11 year-old son Thomas in survival tactics and entrusts him with a secret list of bank codes. Thomas soon becomes the target of ruthless professor Gregor Laemelle, a Nazi collaborator who will do anything to gain possession of the codes
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The storm-tossed, suffocatingly close world of a lightship is the setting for the age-old struggle of good and evil. The captain must protect his men against an invading gang led by a man without scruples
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The Craziest Things People Register ForFrom over-the-top crystal to personal grooming items, wedding registries can run the gamut, but here are 10 shocking items real couples have actually registered for.
1. PediPaws. Yes, the nail clipper for dogs.-- LaBellaVita23
2. A bike. What?!?! -- marryingafootballcoach
3. A deck of Uno playing cards. -- BunnyChii
4. My brother and his wife registered for a Shake Weight. And no, it wasn't a joke. -- cwaggoner07
5. Diapers and other baby items (apparently just to see what people would think!). -- NcsuPsych
6. An Xbox.-- jennipea382
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7. Glassware service for 50! They registered for 50 wineglasses, margarita glasses, martini glasses, champagne glasses, beer mugs and highball glasses, for a total of 300 pieces of glassware! -- jemmini6
8. A Chi flatiron and hair dryer. -- marriedfilingjointly
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9. A volleyball net set. -- Christina Nunez
10. Frozen pizza. -- Melanie Hamm Toole
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7 of the sweetest wedding proposals we've ever seen
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Ranking the American League East: Who has the best first baseman?
As Buck Showalter began preparing the Orioles for the 2013 season, he made clear to them the No. 1 priority.
Showalter says he put the names of the other four teams in the American League East on the board down in Sarasota, Fla., and told his players that they can forget about everything else -- the primary objective is to find a way to finish above the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays in the standings.
As part of that, the manager told his players to look at the guys in the division at their specific position and find a way to be better than them.
So, how does the division -- likely the deepest in baseball -- stack up from position to position? This spring we're giving you an opportunity to vote for who has the edge at each spot.
Today, a look at the first baseman.
(If you missed our first poll on the catchers, click here.)
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Tampa Bay Rays - James Loney( James Borchuck, MCT / February 19, 2013 )
James Loney is by far the least explosive bat of the AL East first basemen. Playing with the Dodgers and Red Sox last year, he batted .249 with just 6 homers and 41 RBIs in 434 at-bats.
The Rays signed him to one-year, $2 million contract in the offseason hoping that his glove will improve their infield defense, which was sub-par last year.
A successful season for Loney would entail him improving his average and peppering the gaps with doubles. But he's never hit more than 15 homers in a season (and that was back in 2007), so don't expect the 28-year-old to suddenly become a long ball threat.


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Friday, 22 March 2013 00:00
When there is a presidential election, there is usually a "buzz" about it. Folks seem to get excited about national, state and even county elections. However, when it comes to local politics, particularly school issues, the interest level seems to be one of apathy. Many complain about school taxes, but it seems that few actually attend their school board meetings and participate in them. This is perplexing as school boards and the budgets they pass often have the greatest impact on property taxes as well as the quality of education afforded to children.
Therefore, it was quite inspiring to see how well attended last week's school board budget discussion was. It is important for the community to get involved in these matters. By coming out and getting involved, Massapequans are sending a message that they care about the quality of the education being offered in Massapequa and also about how the budget will impact them. Well done to everyone who attended and got involved.
- Ron Scaglia
Friday, 29 August 2014 00:00
In a typical Long Island community packed with houses and backyards, there are a couple of acres of open land of community gardens where people are growing basil and dahlias and roses and cabbages—people like Terry Dunckey of Westbury and Peg Woerner of Great Neck, tending their small plots and helping to promote sustainable and organic practices.
East Meadow Farm, off Merrick Avenue, is owned by Nassau County and operated by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Nassau County. Previously it was a family-owned farm that was purchased by the county through the Environment Bond Act Program, a $150 million program that called for, among several mandates, the preservation of 400 acres of open space. In 2009, CCE of Nassau was awarded the lease to the land and in January 2012 took possession of the property. East Meadow Farm is a place where we can get the best advice on how to make our gardens grow without harming the earth. Part of the CCE's original proposal was the establishment of a farmer's market and, now, the market is open two days a week, a place to purchase organic vegetables and flowers during the growing season.
Friday, 29 August 2014 00:00
Drivers—get ready to slow down. Nassau County is currently in the process of installing school zone speed cameras in an effort to enhance safety by encouraging drivers to travel with caution, as well as support law enforcement efforts to crack down on violators and prevent accidents caused by speeding.
Nassau County officials say they're still investigating locations in the Mineola School District, while leaning towards installing cameras near the North Side or Willets Road schools in the East Williston School District. Cameras could begin operation in September.
Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:00
Nobody wants to make excuses, but sometimes when the injury bug hits, it's impossible to overcome. Mineola Mustangs football head coach Dan Guido, entering his 28th season at helm, knows the injuries were the cause for their first-round defeat at the hands of the West Hempstead Rams last November.
"There was too many injuries on the offensive line last season," said Guido. "It was supposed to be our strength and it ended up being a weak link by the end of the season."
Even with those injuries, the Mustangs went 4-4 during the regular season.
Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:00
The BU15 Mineola Revolution were crowned champions of the Roar at the Shore Tournament 2014 in West Islip on Aug. 10. After dropping the opener 2-0 against North Valley Stream, Mineola bounced back to beat Freeport Premiere 2-1.
The Revolution's offense exploded in the third game as they beat West Islip 7-0. Mineola's final game pitted them against Quickstrike FC, which entered the contest without a loss and within a point of winning the tournament.
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Food reliable like any IHOP you've been to. Only 2 blocks from the Courtyard by Marriott Bristol. But the service is painfully slow so if you're in a hurry this is not the place to go.
The breakfast platter was loaded with food. Gravy and biscuits , eggs , sausage and hash browns. really filling !!
Nicer than the average IHOP. They had a smaller seating section next to the main dining room and we ate there. The waitress was funny and friendly and patient - did a great job bringing more tea, heated up the syrup (tasted like real maple syrup, but that couldn't be, right), didn't rush us. The food was really good. I...
We were traveling and stopped for breakfast. They have the best french toast just the way I like it. Husband had an omelet. It was huge. Very good breakfast.
Everyone knows IHOP but we went there when we were in Bristol, VA food was great, price was great! Easy in and easy out near the interstate.
Slow food preparation. Pancakes were cooked on a griddle that was too hot hence the dark, burned pancakes. I did not have time to send back and wait for new order. So I just soldiered on and ate the least burned part of the burned pancakes.
We eat here just about every time we come to the Bristol (exit 7) area. Same as every IHOP, good food, good prices, open all hours, and in a great location!
The service was fast; good servings; excellent waitresses; clean; and a great place to eat anytime of the day.
Nice convenient place to grab a bite. Expansive menu will please everyone. Great, friendly service adds to the enjoyment.
The waitress was rude and impatient. The table was dirty. They cram too many people into an already small section. even the greater seemed to be in a hurry to be rid of us :-(
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11 questions about health careMarch 28,2013Gov. Peter Shumlin signed Act 48 into law in 2011, and Act 171 in 2012. Together they promise the achievement of the longtime liberal goal of a universal and unified health system, that is, a government-controlled health system rationally designed, managed, and enforced by five government experts titled the Green Mountain Care Board. The governors target date for launching the single-payer health system is 2017.
Here are 11 questions a citizen might want answered about the approaching single-payer revolution.
1. Has Vermont sought outside expertise to create this universal system?
After the Legislature spent half a million dollars on two earlier studies, the Shumlin administration paid $300,000 to the University of Massachusetts to explain the needed amounts and mechanisms to finance Green Mountain Care, and the impacts of various tax increases on taxpayers, businesses and the economy.
2. So how did they recommend that Green Mountain Care be financed?
We may never know, because two months before the reports due date (Jan. 15, 2013) the Shumlin administration told UMass to withhold any recommendations on how Vermont taxpayers could be made to produce the $1.6 billion a year three times the states income tax collections! needed to make Green Mountain Care viable. Gov. Shumlin now says the public doesnt need to know those details until, most likely, after the 2014 election.
3. Will every Vermonter be included in this new system when implemented?
Ideally yes, but actually no. Medicare and Veterans Administration health care, plus the coverage of federal employees in Vermont, will remain under federal control. More than 100,000 employees of larger businesses with self-insured health plans cant be forced into Green Mountain Care, per federal law (ERISA). So the single payer plan will be very far from universal, and the vast savings predicted from having only one payer state government largely disappears.
4. What is the health benefits exchange?
The Obama Affordable Care Act of 2010 pays participating states to establish insurance exchanges where households and businesses can go to purchase government-approved coverage. Alone among the 50 states, Vermont mandates that all individuals and all businesses with one to 50 employees must buy only through the exchange. Businesses with 51-100 employees will be mandated in by 2016. The Obama administration has paid the state of Vermont at least $126 million to create this exchange. (This is not a misprint.)
5. Whats the incentive to purchase through the exchange?
An approved exchange offers federal income tax credits to defray the expense of the premiums. Gov. Shumlin wants as many lives as possible to receive tax credits through the exchange, so in 2017 he can get the federal government to cash out the tax credits and write the state a big check to help finance Green Mountain Care. In fact, the state is aggressively encouraging employers to drop coverage, pay a federal penalty, and send their employees off to the exchange, to increase the tax credit total.
6. What if those employees dont have enough money to pay the higher cost premiums of the policies in the exchange, even with the federal tax credit?
Theyll become uninsured.
7. If the exchange isnt functional by Oct. 1, and individuals and small businesses are forbidden to purchase insurance outside the exchange, what will become of their health coverage?
When their current contracts expire, they will be uninsured, unless the administration waives the mandate requirement.
8. What will become of the exchange in 2017, when single-payer Green Mountain Care springs to life?
Under Green Mountain Care, there will no longer be any major medical health insurance. So the exchange will abruptly vanish after taxpayers spent some $160 million to create and operate it for three years.
9. How does Gov. Shumlin think the Green Mountain Care Board will solve the cost containment problem?
Mainly through payment reform. It will replace the predominant fee for service medicine with some new arrangement, whereby the GMC Board pays money to a provider group that agrees to provide more efficient care. In March the GMC Board got another $45 million federal grant to figure this out. The most familiar model to Vermonters is managed care, in one guise or another.
10. Is all this believable?
Gov. Shumlin staunchly maintains that it is. But longtime single-payer advocate Hamilton Davis has observed, The structural reforms that we need to get the rest of the way payment reform and system integration have not yet moved beyond the early planning and pilot project stage. These two initiatives sound reasonable enough, but they in fact presume a huge technical and cultural shift in the whole warp and woof of the delivery of health care, so that even 2017 will be a considerable stretch.
11. What will happen if this grand scheme doesnt work?
Chaos, probably.
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Disney World has re-introduced an early year ticket deal for Florida residents. The "Wild for 3" pass offers three days in its theme parks for $99.
There are limitations. The tickets must be purchased by May 21 and used by May 24 — and not during the blackout periods of Feb. 18-20 and April 1-13. The tickets are not park-hoppers — that is, you are limited one park per day. They are valid for all four Disney World theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom.
A fourth day can be added — make that "Wild for 4" — for an additional $30. (All prices are plus tax.)
Child and adult prices are the same in this deal.
Proof of Florida residency is required for each adult age 18 and older.
The offer is a variation on previous deals in January. In 2011, Disney presented the "4 Day Wild 4 Disney" deal, which was $119 for four days in the parks. In 2010, the same offer was $99.
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David Archuleta Opens Up About Having Patience
David Archuleta's fans practiced patience while they waited for David to return home from his 2-year Mission, and now David has to work on his own patience. David shared some thoughts with his fans, via Twitter, posting:
I'm finding out each day… how slow of a person I am. I like things done right here and now! So I am realizing my need to learn patience.
After receiving some messages from his fans, David added:
Hey, thanks for all of your insights! Now going to get back to getting some song ideas moving, along with some other things. Let's do this.
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Colts running back Ahmad Bradshaw is contemplating having season-ending surgery on his injured neck or letting the injury heal on its own, a person with knowledge of the medical options told The Associated Press on Monday night.
The person requested anonymity because the team has not provided specific information about the injury.
Bradshaw signed with the Colts in June after having surgery on his right foot, but he was expected to be a key cog in Indianapolis' new power-running game. He inherited the starting job when Vick Ballard tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee at practice three weeks ago. He was injured early in the San Francisco game, returned later and wound up with best day with the Colts. But he hasn't played since then.
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Nuns fight strip club going up next to convent that houses sick and elderly sisters
The opening of a strip club in a Chicago suburb may be the start of a holy war because of its placement next door to convent.
'What are we trying to teach the children in the neighbourhood?' Sister Marissonia Daltoe told the Chicago Sun Times.
Approval for the club, which will be called 'Get It', has already gone through and there is little that the neighbouring Roman Catholic nuns can do even though certain regulations were not properly followed.
Objecting: The Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo-Scalabrians are trying to raise public awareness of their concerns about a strip club opening next door
Full steam ahead: The club, which will be called 'Get It', was approved in 2010
The Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo-Scalabrians are now trying to raise public awareness of their objections and see if there are legal grounds to keep the club from opening its doors.
'Get It' would not be the first strip club in the area, as another venue called 'Scores' is down the street, but the proximity to such a religious home only serves to highlight the moral differences in establishment.
The $3million club was built only two feet away from the nun's property line, leading those involved to wonder if that fails to follow city zoning laws.
There is also an added layer of insult because the nuns only heard about the project through neighbourhood chatter and were never officially informed by local officials.
Holy: The property houses retired nuns and young nuns-in-training
Typically neighbors are sent a letter when there is construction or a major change on their block, but no such letter arrived at the convent.
Unfortunately, there was a logistical error in that step because the county had incorrect property records for the convent and the nuns' letter was sent to the wrong address.
'I'm upset to learn this, but at that point, there was really nothing we could do,' Stone Park Village attorney Dean Krone told The Sun Times.
This is not the first hiccup in the development of the strip club. The city was sued by the developers of the club in 2010, with them charging that business associates of the mayor tried to get a financial cut of the deal when it was being approved.
Spreading the word: Sister Marissonia Daltoe is spearheading the public campaign to attempt to stop the building of the strip club
Grand aspirations: Developer Bob Itzkow says that the $3million complex will not merely be a strip club but a gentlemen's cabaret
Mayor Beniamino Mazzulla vehemently denies this charge, and says that while he himself is not a big fan of the club, he has come to accept it.
'By law everything was done correctly,' he said.
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Developer Bob Itzkow has assured neighbours that he and his organizers have taken pains so that the club- which they call a gentlemen's cabaret as opposed to a strip club- will not cause problems once in place.
They have soundproofed the building and arranged the light displays in a way that it won't reflect out onto the neighbouring properties.
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Anna Paquin isn't the jealous type.
In the July/August issue of Men's Health, her husband of 10 months (and "True Blood" costar) Stephen Moyer reveals that he's not afraid to get up close and personal with fans -- with his wife's permission, of course.
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"I get to sign boobs a lot. I get to bite boobs, occasionally, when I'm allowed," Moyer, 41, says. "If my missus is there and she approves of the person I get to bite boobs...and necks."
In the interview, Moyer also recalls the time he first realized his feelings for Paquin, 28 (who plays his love interest on the HBO vampire drama).
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"I was intrigued by her. She was very open about work. But she was withdrawn [personally]," he says. "I was like, 'Here I am; here's everything I got.' I remember leaving the screen test and thinking, 'God, I'd like to spend more time with her.'"
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Two months later, while filming the show's the pilot, Moyer got his chance. "I remember getting back to London [after the pilot] and just going, 'I have to keep speaking to this person,'" the actor says. "We began speaking every night on Skype for two or three hours." Two years later, the couple tied the knot at a private residence in Malibu, Calif.
His love life aside, Moyer notes that unlike his costars Alexander Skarsgard, Ryan Kwanten and Joe Manganiello, his body wasn't always built for nude scenes.
"I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen," he says. "My working out was with my right arm and it involved a pint glass."
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Still, Moyer points out that there are perks to having a ripped physique. "I didn't want my kids to look back at the show in 20 years' time and go, 'Who's that slobby git? Oh, it's you, Dad.'"
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Police investigating Boston suspect's ties to Dagestan
Detectives in Boston are looking further afield as they piece together their case against Marathon suspect Dzohkhar Tsarnaev.
Detectives in Boston are looking further afield as they piece together their case against Marathon suspect Dzohkhar Tsarnaev.
The uncle of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev described his recent visit to Dagestan in Russia and his great shock at the attacks.
Both men were enrolled in a school in Dagestan, a neighbouring region that was drawn into Chechnya's violence during the 1990s.
The mother of the two men suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings has claimed that they were set-up.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said it was "impossible" for Tamerlan, 26, and Dzhokhar, 19, to carry out the attacks.
Tamerlan was killed during a gunfight with police and Dzhokhar was captured after a manhunt.
The elder Boston bomb suspect, who died last night in a shootout with police, was apparently interviewed by the FBI two years ago following an international tipoff.
According to a US law enforcement source, an unidentified foreign government requested the agency speak to Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The source, who remained anonymous, said no "derogatory" information was found against the Chechen and the matter - the nature of which is still not known - was put "to bed" by officials.
US authorities said the official's claim is the first indication that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, were known to security officials prior to Monday's bombings.
The militant group responsible for the Chechen insurgency denied it has any link to the Boston Marathon bombings and claimed the investigation is part of an anti-Chechnya "PR campaign", NBC News reported.
The Chechen mujahideen's media operation, the Kavkaz Centre, published a blog post in which it mocked the "lightning speed" that suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were identified, according to a translation.
It questions the logic that the Tsarnaev brothers could be terrorists, saying, "The news that the brothers attacked police officers, carjacked a man and did an array of other things, instead of going into hiding, looks strange at the very least".
The Kavkaz Centre also suggests that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - who remains on the run - was "very far from your typical 'Islamic terrorist'".
"What's more, he just logged onto his Russian social networking site a few hours ago", it added.
The aunt of two brothers suspected of planting the Boston Marathon bomb said "everything was perfect" in their family.
Maret Tsarnaeva told reporters her brother Anzor was "a very loving, soft-hearted father."
A man who claims to be the Boston bombing suspects' father has alleged the pair were framed and urged police officers not to kill Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is still at large, Reuters reported.
Speaking in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, Anzor Tsarnaev reportedly said, "Somebody clearly framed them. I don't know who exactly framed them, but they did. They framed them. And they were so cowardly that they shot the boy dead".
"I can't reach anyone [on the phone]. I want to know about my children. I'm scared for my boy - that they will shoot him dead too somewhere. And then they'll just say, 'He had weapons'. Where can kids get weapons for God's sake?", he added.
An aunt of the Boston terror suspects has suggested that her two nephews are innocent and have been set up.
Maret Tsarnaeva told media she believed the photo showing Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing was a fake.
"I am suspicious that the picture was staged. They could not have done this. Where is the evidence?" she said.
When asked who she thought was behind the alleged set-up, the Toronto-based Tsarnaeva replied, "whoever is looking for someone else to be blamed".
Two former classmates of 19-year-old Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the Washington Post that the Twitter account @J_tsar belonged to the fugitive.
On Wednesday 17th April, two days after the Marathon, he tweeted that he was "stress free":
I'm a stress free kind of guy
On Tuesday 16th April, a day after the bombing, he posted the following messages:
Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people
So then I says to him, I says, relax bro my beard is not loaded
The Boston bombing suspect who is still on the run became a US citizen on September 11 last year, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, had a Massachusetts driver's license and was living in Cambridge, near Boston.
Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly told a Massachusetts newspaper in 2004: "I like the USA".
Speaking after winning a novice boxing match, Tsarnaev told the Lowell Sun: "I like the USA ... America has a lot of jobs. That's something Russia doesn't have. You have a chance to make money here if you are willing to work."
According to the 2004 article, Tsarnaev grew up in Grozny, Chechnya, and moved to the US with his family in 2003.
It is thought that the brothers who have been identified as suspects in the Boston marathon bombing, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are from a Russian region near Chechnya, having moved to the US around 10 years ago.
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12:46pm Saturday 31st May 2014 in News By Flossie Mainwaring-Taylor, Reporter
MORE than 13,000 people are expected to flock to this weekend's annual Country Fest.
The festival at the County Showground, Crooklands, got off to a flying start today (May 31) and will continue to run until Sunday (June 1).
Christine Knipe, Chief Executive, said: "We had 13,000 people last year and we're hoping to match that, if not more, this year.
"There's a bigger lay out, more exhibitors and additions of a cross country trail and a baking competition tomorrow."
Now in its 6th year, there were also more historic cars and classic motor bikes, sheep shearing and plenty to do for the kids with 'have a go' kite flying.
On offer for food-lovers was an array of deliciously tempting tasters provided by local producers in their pop-up stalls.
Joanne Hunter, owner of the region's famous Grasmere Gingerbread, said: "It's our first time here as we usually go to Holker Garden Festival.
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Judith Wren, of Kin Toffee Vodka at Newby Bridge, said: "We've been working till very late to get the vodka bottled and there's been lots of interested people from all over.
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"The idea is that it's a sanctuary right here in town," said Garrett Pohl, with Dow Chemical and the Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy.
Living in a city often means a bit of a hike to explore nature, but the Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy is trying to change that.
With more than 100 Dow volunteers, Monday began the renovation of Discovery Preserve. It's a park formerly known as Euclid Linear Park on the west side of Bay City.
"We're trying to get more people outside to see what our own backyards have to offer really," Pohl said.
By renovating the 12- to 14-acre linear park, it will become an escape in the middle of Bay County for bike rides, nature walks, bird watching and more.
"People say, 'Yeah I love nature! I go up north all the time!' But that's not really necessary, you've got plenty of nature right here in Bay City," Pohl said.
The volunteers will be planting native plants and removing invasive species, along with fixing the boardwalk, putting up educational signs and making wildlife boxes.
One of the main objectives for renovating the trail is to make it a good environment for birds and a prime location for bird watching.
"Birding is a huge business. This is not only a nature story, but an economic development story," Pohl said.
The park is in a good location to serve as a central spot for the Saginaw Bay birding trail. The conservancy also hopes the renovations will attract elementary school field trips where students will learn about nature.
"We've been out here this morning, we've had bikers go by, dog walkers go by, people who already are utilizing this space and only stand to benefit from it when we rehabilitate it back to what it must have been," Pohl said.
Once the renovation is complete, the park will open to the public.
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