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the lawless barack
that's Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Lemon On The Lot" from this morning. barack tries to unload obamacare on a couple who are rightly skeptical.
and people are skeptical of barack's nonstop pursuit of whistle-blower ed snowden. this is from richard falk's piece at z-net:
yes, it is hilarious to watch barack rage on about 'rule of law' and all that while the reality is that he is willing to break international law – and already has when he forced evo morales plane down (and, yes, barack was the ultimate person behind that plane being forced down).
there are laws, there are treaties, there are agreements and barack trashes all of those as he tries to play 'there's a new bully boy bush in town.'
it's a real shame that people don't even care that barack is breaking the law.
if they'd been calling him out, that would be 1 thing. i would say, 'oh, they're tired from all their hard work.' but they haven't been calling him out. they never do call him out.
and that's where he's gotten the idea that he can get away with anything.
the cult of st. barack ensures that the pampered and spoiled child will never learn accountability.
let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'
Starting with NSA whistle-blower Ed Snowden who remains in Russia. Kasie Hunt and Kelly O'Donnell (NBC News) report US Senator Lindsey Graham "has told NBC News that the United States should consider boycotting the upcoming Winter Games if Russian President Vladimir Putin grants leaker Edward Snowden asylum — a suggestion that a top U.S. Olympic official quickly rejected." First off, Putin has no say in temporary asylum. The process involves one ministry only. As we noted Tuesday, "Putin wouldn't have a formal voice in temporary asylum. In fact, he should have no role in the decision. Again, that's per State Dept friend, however, that's how the process is supposed to work and government processes don't always work as they are supposed to." The temporary process also moves quickly. As from Graham's suggestion?
Stupidest thing in the world. Unless he's trying to get kicked out of the Senate. In 1980, the US boycotted the summer Olympics in Moscow. Jimmy Carter was President of the United States then. The decision was costly in so many ways. First off, US citizens have been training for four years. Second off, this politicizes the Olympics which are not supposed to be politicized. Third, do you realize how much money is at play right now? NBC suits will not be forgiving (NBC is carrying the Winter Olympics). That's a ton of ad revenue at stake and they've got nothing currently to plug into the schedule if the US doesn't compete. (And if the US doesn't compete, they could still air the Olympics but the US ratings would be in the toilet.)
Again, if Graham's trying to retire from the Senate, this is the way to do it. He will be publicly vilified for weeks should this take place. Chris Moody (Yahoo News) reports US House Speaker John Boehner has responded, stating, "Listen, I love Sen. Graham. We've been close friends for 20 years. But I think he's dead wrong. Why would we want to punish U.S. athletes who have been training for three years to compete in the Olympics over a traitor who can't find a place to call home?"
Traitor? A traitor would be someone, for example, in Congress who took an oath to uphold the Constitution and then worked to secretly destroy the Bill of Rights. That would qualify as a traitor. Ed Snowden? Nope. But Boehner's remarks put him in the same camp as the editor of The Moscow Times' Michael Bohm. In other words, Boehner's talking like the Kremlin. How strange it must be for his home district.
Roger Runnigen (Bloomberg News) reports the White House's stomping feet and pity party may mean that a September summit with Putin is called off, "Canceling the Putin meeting, announced in June, would deal a blow to administration efforts to bolster already strained relations with Russia and would be a direct challenge to the Russian's prestige on the world stage." Whether the meeting is on or off isn't the only thing the White House is staying silent on. Spencer Ackerman (Guardian) reports:
The Obama administration is refusing to say whether it will seek to renew a court order that permits the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records on millions of Verizon customers when it at the end of this week.
Officials declined to discuss what action they intend to take about the order at the center of the current surveillance scandal, which formally expires at 5pm Friday.
Yesterday PBS' The NewsHour (link is video, audio and text) featured a debate on the topic between whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey
DANIEL ELLSBERG, former State Department official: Pardon me, but listening to that just now, I have to smile at the thought that our friends will be very upset about the thought that Snowden had exposed that we were spying on them, which he has done.
I must say, I think a lot of them would be envious of our capability. I think Russia and China would be envious of our capability, the NSA capabilities. It's exactly what they want in countries that aren't exactly democratic.
My concern is that the very existence of this kind of capability chills free speech in a disastrous way. I cannot see how there can be investigative reporting of the national security community, when the identity, the location, the metadata, and really the contents of every communication between a journalist and every source, every journalist, every source, is known to the executive branch, especially one that has been prosecuting twice as many journalist — sources as any president before.
Moreover, my even larger concern is, I don't see how democracy can survive when one branch, the executive branch, has all the personal communications of every member of Congress, and every judge, every member of the judiciary, as well as the press, the fourth estate that I have just been describing.
I don't see how the blackmail capability that's involved there can be — will not be abused, as it has happened in the past, including to me, by the way, and to other — and to journalists.
Without that freedom to investigative or bring checks and balances, we won't have a real democracy. That's my concern.
But Snowden's whistle-blowing is having an impact on Americans. Mark Clayton (Christian Science Monitor) reports:
Roughly 70 lawsuits have been filed since 2005 alleging that secret US surveillance programs violated someone's constitutional rights, but federal judges have dismissed most of the cases before the merits of the charges were ever heard, these experts say. In particular, plaintiffs have stumbled over the challenge of gaining legal standing to even bring suit against the government, primarily because they could not identify the secret surveillance program that they claimed had harmed them.
But fugitive leaker Edward Snowden, who in June divulged to reporters top-secret documents about two US surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA), may have provided a way to get around that hurdle, constitutional lawyers say. Since the Snowden leak (and US officials' subsequent confirmation that the documents are real), at least five lawsuits have been filed, the latest on Tuesday, alleging that the NSA program to track all Americans' telephone records violates the US Constitution.
Ed Snowden's whistle-blowing had made a real impact. Yesterday's House Judiciary Committee hearing would not have taken place without those revelations. Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte asked near the start of the hearing, "Why not simply have told the American people that we're engaging in this type of activity in terms of gathering the information?"
Asking a simple question, it turns out, is much easier than getting an answer. Ali Watkins (McClatchy Newspapers) reports: US House Rep Jerrold Nadler stating, "The fact that a secret court unaccountable to public knowledge of what it's doing . . . may join you in misusing or abusing the statutes is of no comfort whatsoever. So to tell me you go to the FISA court is irrelevant."
The hearing was on the spying and the FISA court. The first panel was made up of DoJ's James Cole, NSA's John C. Inglis, Office of Director of National Intelligence's Robert S. Litt and the FBI's Stephanie Douglas. The second panel was Steptoe & Johnson, LLP's Stewart Baker, the ACLU's Jameel Jaffer and CNSS' Kate Martin. We covered it inyesterday's snapshot, Kat covered it in "FISA rulings," Wally covered it in "Proof that we should be thanking Ed Snowden (Wally)" and Ava covered it in "House Judiciary Committee hearing."
Ranking Member John Conyers attempted to get some straight answers.
Ranking Member John Conyers: If only relevant conversations can be secured under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, then why on earth would we find now that we are collecting the names of everybody in the United States of America who made any calls for the last 6 years or more?
Stephanie Douglas: Sir, we're not collecting names. 215 only collects phone numbers, the time and date of the phone call and the duration of the phone call.
Ranking Member John Conyers: Well how do you consider that to be relevant to anything if there is only collecting the names. I mean, look, if this is an innocent pastime we just do to keep busy or for some other reason why on earth would be collecting just the numbers of everybody in the United States of America for at least six years?
Stephanie Douglas: I can speak to the, uhm, applications against investigations and, in this case for 216, it would be specific to counterterrorism investigations, uhm, that information enables us to, uh, search against connections to other, uh, if there's a communication between a US-based phone number and a phone number that is overseas related to terrorism. And I know that Mr. Inglis explained to you the reasonable articula — articulable suspicion standard by which we have to search against those phone numbers.
Ranking Member John Conyers: Well here-here we're faced with the fundamental problem in this hearing. We're not questioning access, we're talking about the collection in the first instance. In the first instance when you collect the phone numbers of everybody in the United States for over six years, there wasn't anything relevant in those conversations. Now you have them. What I've been getting out of all of this is that they may — "This access may become valuable, Mr. Ranking Member, and so that's why we do it this way." But I maintain that the Fourth Amendment to be free from unreasonable search and seizure to mean that this mega data collected in such a super aggregated fashion can amount to a Fourth Amendment violation before you do anything else. You've already violated the law, as far as I am concerned. And that is, in my view, the problem. And of course to further document the first question that the Chairman of this Committee asked — is why didn't we just tell everybody about it — is because the American people would be totally outraged — as they are getting now as they become familiar with this — that every phone number that they've ever called is already a matter of record. And we skip over whether the collection was a Fourth Amendment violation, we just say that the access proved, in one case or two, that it was very important and that's why we did it this way.
The witnesses' non-answers and rationalizing was frustrating throughout the hearing. James Risen (New York Times) observes:
Last night, Ava noted the disrespect shown the Committee by the witnesses on the first panel. She wrote about how the Committee members were talked down to and she's correct. The witnesses were not respectful and they behaved as if they owned the House. Sari Horwitz and William Branigin (Washington Post) report, "The sharp and sometimes angry questioning stood in stark contrast to the tone of hearings on the surveillance programs by congressional intelligence committees in recent weeks."
In the House (as in the Senate), during rounds of questioning, each member of the Committee is limited to a set time. (It's five minutes in the House.) Conyers' time had expired and he wrapped up — or thought he had when he was interrupted.
Ranking Member John Conyers: This is unsustainable, it's outrageous and must be stopped immediately.
John Inglis: Sir, if I may compliment the answer Ms. Douglas gave, uh, with respect to the question of relevance, of course it must be legally relevant and it must therefore have operational relevance. I'd like to address the operational relevance and then defer to my colleagues.
Ranking Member John Conyers: Well you don't — Wait a minute. We're handling this discussion. I, uh, I asked her. Maybe somebody else can do it. But my time has expired. And I appreciate you're volunteering to help out here but it's clear to me that we have a very serious violation of the law in which the Judiciary Committee deliberately put in the issue of relevance. And now you're going to help me out and defer to somebody else?
John Inglis: No, sir, I meant to actually provide additional information. I'd be happy to take the question for the record if time is not allowing that.
Ranking Member John Conyers: Well in all fairness —
Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte: Without exception, the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute to allow another member of the panel to answer the question if he so chooses.
Ranking Member John Conyers: No, I don't so choose. I'm satisfied exactly with what I've gotten from the witness I asked the question to.
Former US Senator Gordon Humphrey wrote POLITIO about Ed Snowden, "Respectfully, I say to Sweden, '\'America has done wrong in this instance. Stand up to her. Grant Edward Snowden asylum. You will do the people of the United States a great favor to resist their government in this matter and at this moment.."
Earlier today, Fu Peng (Xinhua) reports, "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left for Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday for talks on subject of mutual interest, semi-official ISNA news agency reported." AFP's Ammar Karim Tweeted:
Four times the journalists who invited to cover the visit of Iranian Ahmadinejad under hot sun which passed over 50 degrees
Prensa Latina notes, "The president's agenda includes interviews with Vice President of the host country, Khuder al Khuzaie, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, reported IRNA news official agency." Al-Manar explains Ahmadinejad was greeted on the red carpet by Shi'ite Vice President of Iraq Khudayr al-Khuzaie. AFP reports, "The Iranian president was invited by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, but will be hosted by Khuzaie, as Talabani is abroad for medical treatment." Last December, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani suffered a stroke. The incident took place late on December 17th (see the December 18th snapshot) and resulted in Jalal being admitted to Baghdad's Medical Center Hospital. Thursday, December 20th, he was moved to Germany. He remains in Germany currently.
Adam Schreck (AP) points out, "Ahmadinejad is just weeks away from handing over power to president-elect Hasan Rouhani, who is expected to be sworn in in early August." Mu Xuequan (Xinhua) reports:
Ahmadinejad, who arrived in Iraq's capital Baghdad on Thursday afternoon, said "The Iran-Iraq relation is outstanding and exceptional, which is significant for spreading progress in the region."
"We believe that if the Iranian and Iraqi peoples put their potential together in one path, they would lead the way to solutions to the problems in the region," he said in a briefing after talks with Iraqi Vice President Khudair al-Khuzaie.
NINA reports Ahmadinejad also met with Nouri al-Maliki:
A statement issued by the Prime Minister's Media Bureau quoted Maliki saying during the meeting that Iraq seeks to develop its relations with all countries of the world, especially its neighbors, "We continue to overcome the old burden, on both regional and international levels."
Maliki added, "Iraq supports peaceful solutions to all of the area's problems; in its relations, it adopts open door policy, based on mutual respect and interests." He pointed out that long borders with Iran require more cooperation in all fields.
The Iranian leader's visit was planned in advance but kept secret. Prensa Latina explains, "Days ago an Iraqi official source refuted versions about the visit, apparently for security reasons due to the attacks and terrorist attacks especially against areas in which the majority Shiite community lives."
Through yesterday, Iraq Body Count counts 480 violent deaths in Iraq so far this month. Monday, AKE's John Drake noted the increase in violence:
The last time I recorded so many weekly #Iraq deaths was August 2007. My figures are not definitive or final but this needs investigation.
By my count at least 290 people were killed and 499 injured in #Iraqviolence last week. I'd like to know what figures other people have.
Last night, Elaine noted the lack of coverage on the violence from the US press, "The US press helped the US government unleash all the hell that has followed in Iraq. How dare they think they can walk away."
The violence continues today. All Iraq News reports a battle in Anbar Province left 2 Iraqi soldiers and 3 rebels dead, 4 police officers were killed and twelve people injured when "police patrols in Aitha village" (near Tikrit) were attacked, 1 Ministry of Oil employee was shot dead in Mosul and his nephew was left injured, and a Mosul bombing claimed the life of 1 Iraqi soldier while leaving another injured. Alsumaria adds that, south of Tikrit, a farmer was shot dead and when police arrived to investigate a bomb went off and they were shot at resulting in four of them being injured. AFP reports it was 2 farmers (husband and wife) killed in the attack (by a bomb, not gunfire) and they note a Wajihiyah bombing claimed the lives of 3 "young men." Alsumaria notes a Tuz Khurmatu bombing claimed the life of 1 police officer, that gunmen stormed a Kirkuk home and killed 1 woman, and a Kirkuk bombing injured one civilian. That's 18 reported deaths and 19 reported injured.
Mustafa Habib (Niqash) reports one result of the ongoing violence:
We'll come back to the violence in a moment. Right now, we'll note this Tweet from theWashington Post's Liz Sly:
"The U.S., as a superpower, can change the equation in Syria in 30 minutes" a Syrian refugee tells Kerry in Jordan http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kerry-meets-with-syrian-refugees-at-camp-in-jordan/2013/07/18/3464b752-ef7f-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html?hpid=z4 …
Really? The way they 'improved' Iraq? Don't pin that on Bully Boy Bush. Not only did numerous Dems vote for authorization of war but Barack's had five years as president to 'help' Iraq and all he's done is nullify the will of the people (by insisting Nouri get a second term as prime minister after the Iraqi people said no. Iraq is in shambles and what the State Dept does there, spending billions, is kept from the American people either due to indifference or secrecy. Jason Ditz (Antiwar.com) noted Kerry yesterday:
"You had an extraordinary situation in Egypt of life and death, of the potential of civil war and enormous violence, and you now have a constitutional process proceeding forward very rapidly," insisted Kerry, warning against a "rush to judgment."
So a coup is now a good thing? These are the values the State Dept and White House want to espouse?
John Glazer (Antiwar.com) notes reports that US President Barack Obama was warned against arming the so-called 'rebels' in Syria, that White House lawyers told him it would be illegal. Glaser points out, "First, this is a case in point for anyone who wonders whether the federal government is guided by the rule of law or operates on the basis of perceived interests. As can be consistently demonstrated throughout U.S. history, even if it's illegal, the Executive Branch (which has usurped essentially all of the governments war-making powers) will still do it if they want to."
Meanwhile Defense Industry Daily notes the remarks of Lt Gen Robert Calsen (formerly in charge of the Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq — as of Wednesday, he's now in charge of West Point) to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction:
"We have 479 separate FMS [DID: Foreign Military Sale, where a branch of the US armed forces acts as Iraq's project and contracting agent] cases valued at $14.8 billion: 166 are pending cases valued at $2.3 billion, 152 are active Iraqi-funded cases valued at $11 billion, and 161 are closed cases valued at $1.5 billion. Of the closed cases, 85 were funded with $750 million from the Iraq Security Forces Fund (U.S. money) and 76 were Iraqi-funded cases valued at $750 million. We currently have 73 cases in development. OSC-I continues to push the total-package approach, which is equipment, training, maintenance, and sustainment for each case. We have FMF [US-funded Foreign Military Financing]… at $850 million, with $566 million obligated and $284 million still available."
DID has covered ongoing and planned requests for F-16 fighters, C-130J medium aerial transports, and M1 tanks, among others. These American buys have been accompanied by multi-billion deals for Ukrainian transport aircraft and armored personnel carriers, and for Russian attack helicopters and point defense anti-aircraft units. According to Lt.-Gen. Caslen, There's more to come for the Americans [. . .]
Where others see misfortune and mourning, the defense industry sees potential profit. Al Mada reports that the Iraqi Ministry of Defense has put out a request for members of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army to help them in locating lost weapons and lost weapons contracts. Nouri's government has spent the last 7 years demonizing these people but now they want their help. Why? Again, the profit motive. Iraq, out of Chapter VII (but now in Chapter VI), is eager to see that contracts were enforced fairly and that any monies owed the former government be quickly paid to the current one. Weapons also figure into where Iraq stands on Syria, it turns out. John Hudson (Foreign Policy) reports:
For months, the Obama administration has tried and failed to persuade Iraq to block flights over its territory from Iran to Syria — a corridor the U.S. believes is sustaining Syria's military advantage over the rebels. Though U.S. officials insist Iranian flyovers present a critical lifeline for the Assad regime, Iraqi officials say they can't stop Iran's military airlift: Iraqi air defenses are too weak. Now, Iraq's newly-minted ambassador to the U.S. has a plan to bridge the diplomatic impasse: Help me help you.
In an interview on Wednesday, Ambassador Lukman Faily said he's busy trying to convince U.S. officials that if they agree to bolster Iraqi air defenses, it will improve Iraq's ability to halt weapons coming from Iran. "We don't have full control of our airspace because we don't have an Integrated Air Defense System in place and this is why I'm talking with Capitol Hill, I'm talking with the State Department and the [Pentagon] because we already have a request for an Integrated Air Defense System plus Apache helicopters which total $10 billion," he told The Cable. "It's beneficial for the United States."
We'll note Rajiv Chandrasekarn's important article for the Washington Post tomorrow. We'll also note that Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Lemon On The Lot" went up.
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Today's Word "Pseudophake"
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affable \AF-uh-buhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Easy to speak to; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner. 2 : Gracious; benign.
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voluble \VOL-yuh-buhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Characterized by a ready flow of speech. 2 : Easily rolling or turning; rotating. 3 : (Botany) Having the power or habit of turning or twining.
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legerdemain \lej-ur-duh-MAIN\ (noun) - 1 : Sleight of hand. 2 : A display of skill, trickery, or artful deception.
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aesthete \ES-theet\ (noun) - One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
"Steve was an aesthete with a connoisseur's eye for anything designed with a modern twist or a contemporary bent."
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flout \FLOWT\ (transitive verb) - To treat with contempt and disregard; to show contempt for.
(intransitive verb) - To mock, to scoff.
(noun) - Mockery, scoffing.
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bellwether \BEL-weth-uhr\ (noun) - A leader of a movement or activity; also, a leading indicator of future trends.
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Russia Declares Itself Ready to Make Peace With Georgia
Israel: We recognize Georgia's territorial sovereignty; White House: Russia risking U.S ties.
Russia declared itself ready to make peace with Georgia and United Nations officials confirmed Sunday that Georgia is prepared to negotiate with Russia by withdrawing troops from the breakaway province of South Ossetia and creating a safe travel zone.
The UN Security Council met Sunday for the fourth time in as many days trying to resolve a conflict that began when U.S.-allied Georgia tried to control South Ossetia, then said its troops had retreated in the face of Russia's tanks and aircraft.
Council members broke off their three-hour meeting with plans to return either later in the day or Monday.
The U.S. was preparing a draft resolution that would have the council call for an immediate cease-fire and condemn the Russian action. France also had a draft text in the works. The U.S. and Europeans planned to huddle among themselves later Sunday.
Russia, which called the first meeting late Thursday night hours before its tanks rumbled into Georgia, will only act in self-defense said Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
"Let's state clearly that we are ready to put an end to the war, that we will withdraw from South Ossetia, that we will sign an agreement on non-use of force," Churkin proposed.
However, diplomats said major fighting continued in many areas. Russia also has deployed a naval squadron off the coast of Abkhazia, and its aircraft bombed the outskirts of Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
Israel: We recognize Georgia's territorial sovereignty
The Foreign Ministry said earlier Sunday that it "recognizes the territorial integrity of Georgia," calling for a peaceful solution to the conflict that began raging with Russia late last week.
The ministry said in a statement it was following with concern the events of the past few days which saw heavy fighting between Russian and Georgian troops.
The statement came just as Georgia notified Russia that its troops have halted military action in South Ossetia, the site of the weekend battles, and was ready to start immediate negotiations with Russia on a cease-fire and ending hostilities.
Russia said shortly after that it had received a Georgian note declaring an end to its military activities South Ossetia, but said fighting was still proceeding in the area.
"We have been handed a note that from 5 A.M. Georgia stopped firing and is withdrawing forces from the conflict zone, but our information does not confirm the Georgian statement," Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Foreign Ministry sources as saying.
"There are indications that exchanges of fire are continuing and the Georgian forces have not been fully withdrawn from the conflict zone."
As the announcement was released, Russian forces took over the South Ossetian capital of Tbilisi and bombed a military airport on the outskirts of the city. Witnesses said that Tbilisi International Airport was also hit in the strike, 200 meters from a runway.
A few hours later, Russia's navy sank a Georgian boat carrying missile launchers after a skirmish at sea, news agencies quoted the defense ministry as saying.
Georgian boats had made two attempts to attack Russian ships which "returned fire, as a result of which one of the Georgian boats launching the attack sank," agencies quoted the ministry as saying.
The reports gave no indication which ships were involved in the incident or where it took place.
The navy earlier said Russian warships originally said to be near Georgian waters had put into Novorossiisk, a Russian Black Sea port to the north.
Israel's Foreign Ministry over the weekend recommended a complete halt to the sale of arms and any security-related equipment to Georgia in light of the recent fighting with Russian forces in the Caucasus.
This would be a further tightening of an arms boycott on Tbilisi around a year after a decision had been made in Jerusalem to limit exports to Georgia only to defensive equipment.
White House: Russia risking ties with U.S. in Georgia offensive
Meanwhile, the United States is preparing to submit a UN Security Council resolution later on Sunday condemning Russian military action against Georgia as unacceptable, a U.S. spokesman said.
The spokesman for the U.S. delegation at the United Nations told Reuters: "We will offer a resolution today that makes clear that the Russian actions in Georgia are unacceptable to the international community."
The White House earlier Sunday warned Russia to halt its attacks on Georgia or risk significant and enduring damage to its relationship with the United States.
Russia expanded its bombing blitz Sunday against neighboring U.S.-allied Georgia. Georgian troops pulled out of the capital of the contested province of South Ossetia under heavy Russian shelling.
The U.S. has called on Russia to stop its military offensive.
Jim Jeffrey, President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser, said the U.S. has made it clear that, "If the disproportionate and dangerous escalation on the Russian side continues, that this will have a significant long-term impact on U.S.-Russian relations."
Meanwhile, Russia on Sunday accused Western countries and media of a biased pro-Georgian position in the conflict in South Ossetia and said this might hamper future relations with Moscow.
"Western countries behaved strangely in the first hours of aggression towards South Ossetia, they were silent," Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told a news conference.
"This raises very serious questions about sincerity and their attitude towards our country and will of course be taken into account in the future when we hold talks and talk about global issues," Karasin said.
Earlier Sunday, Georgia's interior ministry said that the country had withdrawn its forces from breakaway South Ossetia, where they had been fighting Russian troops for control.
The pullout followed three days of fighting in a Georgian push to take control of the pro-Moscow enclave from separatists, which prompted Russia to pour troops into South Ossetia and launch air strikes inside Georgia.
A Georgian military convoy carrying troops and towing heavy artillery was seen withdrawing from South Ossetia through the village of Ergneti, just inside Georgian-controlled territory south of the separatist capital Tskhinvali.
"They have been withdrawn, completely," Georgian interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told Reuters.
A Kremlin spokesman said: "We saw media reports and are now examining the real situation".
Israel fears Russia would retaliate against Jerusalem
Israel's recommendation to halt defense sales to Georgia stems from concern that Russia would choose to retaliate against Jerusalem for its continued military support of Georgia by lifting restrictions on its arms transfers to Iran and Arab states.
"Israel needs to be very careful and sensitive these days," said a senior political source. "The Russians are selling many arms to Iran and Syria and there is no need to offer them an excuse to sell even more advanced weapons."
The source noted that Israel is particularly interested in the transfer of advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, and therefore Jerusalem must show restraint in its arm sales to Georgia.
"The day we will want to prevent a future deal with Iran, our hands must be clean," the source said.
Last Wednesday discussions were held at the Foreign Ministry on the crisis in South Ossetia. At the end of the meeting a decision was made to recommend to the Defense Ministry that Israel would avoid the sale of any military equipment to Georgia because the country was now a "combat zone."
The Foreign Ministry also recommends that the issue be revisited after the situation stabilizes and the fighting ceases.
But a final decision on the matter will be made by the Defense Ministry in the coming days.
About six months ago, the Defense Ministry imposed significant limitations on the arms transfers from Israel to Georgia, in view of the growing friction between Tbilisi and Moscow.
The decision followed strong protests by Russian officials over the growing involvement of retired Israeli military and security experts, and the increased procurement by Georgia of Israeli technology and hardware.
According to instructions issued by the office charged with supervising military sales abroad, all sales of offensive equipment were stopped, but defensive equipment and advisers were allowed.
Existing contracts were not canceled, but a long list of new contracts whose negotiations had been completed were not approved.
The decision resulted in protests by Israeli arms exporters, and since then the defense ministry has issued restrictions on the role Israeli advisers can play in Georgia.
One of the firms involved announced on Saturday that all its personnel have been evacuated from Georgia.
Israel is not considered to be one of the main arms suppliers of Georgia. The scope of the defense deals between the two countries stands at $200 million. The two largest suppliers to Georgia are the United States and France.
However, the security ties between the two countries have received a great deal of media attention, in part because of the capture, on film, of a Russian jet downing an Israeli-made drone in Georgian service, and the role that senior retired Israeli officers have played as advisers to the Georgian security forces.
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Spills from ships – federal or provincial?
A Québec court has confirmed that spills from ships into navigable waters are subject to both federal and provincial spill control rules. In Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c. Alcan inc., 2009 QCCQ 1638, Alcan defended provincial charges of causing a spill while unloading a ship containing caustic soda. Alcan argued that shipping is governed exclusively by federal regulations, e.g. the Fisheries Act and the Canada Shipping Act, as well as the Transportation of DangerousRead more
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Hrishitaa also said that such paring is acceptable as far as it is viewed "normally" and not "technically".
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In recent times, Shah Rukh has worked with much younger Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" and "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi", respectively.
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 O Deutsche Bank vai lançar laboratórios de inovação neste ano, em parceria com empresas de tecnologia, para desenvolver soluções financeiras para seu próprio uso, e gastará até € 1 bilhão em desenvolvimento digital nos próximos 5 anos.

 O maior banco alemão, que está renovando sua infraestrutura, disse que trabalhará com três parceiros de tecnologia, incluindo a Microsoft em Berlim, a HCL, em Londres, e a IBM, no Vale do Silício.

 O anúncio confirma os rumores de que o Deutsche Bank estava se preparando para lançar os laboratórios até o fim do ano em resposta às necessidades em rápida evolução do setor bancário e de seus clientes.

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 No Brasil, o Banco Itaú tomou recentemente uma decisão semelhante. Em parceria com a empresa de investimentos focada em tecnologia Redpoint e.ventures, lançou um espaço, na Vila Olímpia, na zona sul de São Paulo, para abrigar startups e eventos de empreendedores.

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 São Paulo - SP - 07 de janeiro de 2013 - Em resposta ao aumento do uso de smartphones e tablets no mundo, a ADATA Tecnology anunciou na CES 2014 o lançamento do PV100,um carregador externo ultra-slim de 8mm , projetado para atender a necessidade de recargas de energia da atual geração de dispositivos móveis , mas com a vantagem de caber confortavelmente em um bolso ou bolsa.

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 Document capture improves customers' experience at the bank

 These days customers expect their branch banking experience to be like their other retail activities - quick, efficient, and seamlessly interwoven into the smart phone-based tempo of their lives. To stay competitive, a bank must deliver a snappy, iPhone-like experience, even in the context of a walk-in customer. While walking into a bank branch is not the same thing as using an on-demand service from Google and Facebook, many bank customers, particularly the younger ones that banks are always seeking to attract, expect immediate and accurate responses to their requests.

 Since documents - like loan and new account applications, signature cards, and changes of address - are central to bank operations, the ability to process those documents quickly and accurately is key to meeting today's consumer expectations. And meeting or exceeding those expectations is the route to a happy customer experience.

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 I've recently worked with one of our banking customers in Europe. When I first met with them a year and a half ago, they were determined to improve their customers' in-branch experience, particularly when the customer would come in for a paper document-related transaction (as opposed to simply depositing or removing money).

 Before Datacap, the customer would sit with a bank officer who would review the documents for completeness, thank them, and instruct them to come back the next day. Then the officer would type content from the documents into the relevant bank system, as well as faxing or sending the physical documents to a central location.

 Now the process has been revolutionized. The paper documents are still there, the customer is still sitting with the bank officer, but once the officer takes a quick look at the document, they drop them into a document scanner at their desk. Then they wait (see my blog about that wait and why it is important and a challenge!). The goal is a turn around time of around 15 seconds, but at peak times it might take a minute.

 While the bank officer and the customer are having a quick chat, a lot is happening in the background:

 - document images are sent from the branch to central servers

 - OCR and ICR, document classification, image enhancement, data validations all take place

 - the results are sent back to the branch

 Then the officer can review the electronic document, sign off and complete the transaction.

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 Speed doesn't help if the data being capture is riddled with errors. A mistake on a loan application can be devastating - a denied loan and a potentially desperate search for alternative financing. The manual process of entering data has always been a weak link in banking transactions. Automated data extraction using optical character recognition and related techniques and technologies can reduce errors, particularly when those technologies are paired with skilled workers, such as a bank officer, who reviews the results of automated recognition.

 Accuracy is improved because the software will flag problem fields for review. So the bank officer looks only at fields with suspected problems. Worse case scenario: they review every field and it takes as long as it would to do manually. Either way, accuracy is improved because you have one pass of automated data entry and one pass of review by an experienced human.

 Fast and accurate transaction make for happier customers

 Document capture helps make sure the customer's high expectations are speedily met, so they can leave feeling good and maybe even with some additional money in their pocket! Happier customers make for happier banks who can more easily acquire new customers more easily and retain their existing ones.

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 I've been on my high horse – or more accurately, my bicycle – for a while about looking at the benefits of document capture from a different point of view: the customer's customer, and how it affects them. I summarized these ideas in a video tribute to the Tour de France which ended in Paris yesterday… Tour de Office...

 But let's look at the details. How does document capture fit into a strategy of improving customer satisfaction, better customer retention, and acquisition? Let's think of it from the point of view of a bank and their retail customers. Banking globally is still one of those businesses where paper plays a crucial role in many customer interactions. Capturing data off of a new account application or a loan origination form is crucial to the bank's business - and doing it accurately and in a timely manner will have a big impact on customer satisfaction.

 But these metrics, no matter how significant, do not tell the whole story of the way that document capture and imaging can improve a bank customer's experience. It goes beyond the simple ability to turn a document around, i.e. to process the information on it.

 Take a look at this quick video from PT Bank Internasional Indonesia (also known as Maybank) in Indonesia. As a rapidly growing bank, they faced daunting obstacles in scaling up their paper processes, particularly as they surveyed the market for international expansion. Account opening, for example, was a manual, paper-based process, delaying the sharing of information between branches. The goal, for Maybank was a central repository to store documents so that branches and departments that previously faced massive hurdles in sharing information could start to do so effortlessly.

 Digitizing and electronically capturing customer documents helps Maybank simplify and iterate account-opening and remittance processes, which reduces turnaround time and improves customer satisfaction. The solution also allows them to update customer records and transactions in real time and then share this information across multiple systems for accurate decision making.

 In other words, a significant benefit, and one that has a direct impact on customer satisfaction, was the ability to break down some of the barriers within the bank itself. (I've explored this theme in an earlier blog on Smarter Commerce.)

 And let's not forget that by "truncating" (scanning and destroying) the paper early in the process - at the branch - there is a huge benefit to the customer of increased security for their personal information. The loan application they fill in, instead of floating around the branch, and being sent as unencrypted paper around various bank departments, with sensitive personal information, including income and dates, now becomes an electronic document, all access to which is strictly controlled and tracked.

 This is just one, real-world example illustrating some of the indirect benefits of document capture. Of course, capturing a document is really just the beginning of a process, most commonly associated with document imaging. It's an academic question whether the true value is in the capturing or the storing (and retrieval!) of documents. The point is that when combined, capturing and imaging documents can play a central role in a customer-centric document strategy, which both improves internal processes and customer satisfaction.

 Learn more about IBM's Production Imaging Edition which features a unique bundle of document imaging and capture technologies here.

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Impact of Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Regulatory Pressure on your IT Risk and Governance Model.

 In the recent IBM CIO survey, the earlier released Reputational Risk and IT Study and Global IT Risk Study, topics such as Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Regulatory pressure are top of mind for many CIOs.

 How can we understand the impact of all this on the business processes that the CIO must support these days? Why are so many organizations struggling with implementing IT GRC programs?

 Simply, the impact of all these topics is huge and cannot be handled in silos any more. Not because of the high cost it will bring and not because you cannot consolidate the risk impact over these silos. I have clients that spent over 140 hours per week on manual control testing in different systems. This can be automated and reduced near to zero. The effect of having it in one system will give you a consolidated view on your IT risk landscape at any time.

 Many organizations struggle to implement IT GRC programs because:
 - there is no centralized repository to hold all the standards, policies and regulations
 - it is impossible to prioritize risks across the IT organization and to report on it
 - there are many redundant controls, and a complex risk and control infrastructure
 - there is no relation / correlation between standards, policies, procedures, laws and regulations
 - there is a lot of manual data collection, and impossible to cosolidate
 - there is no mapping and no understanding of IT resources, threats & vulnerabilities and incidents

 To give you an idea of some of the benefits of the breaking down these silos:
 1. IBM decreased its own IT risk cycle by 30% by implementing an integrated IT risk platform.

This 30% decrease was established by optimizing and automating the risk process, end users are now able to complete the whole risk cycle in one platform with risk identification, risk assessment, risk management, risk reporting (real time!) and risk monitoring.

2. Customer decreased their manual IT control test effort with 140 hours per week only for Segregation of Duties and access management. This was done by automating control tests.
 The regulatory pressure (Cobit, ISO27k, ITIL) on information security forces organizations to perform hundreds of IT controls in different IT systems. IBM has developed a set of 100 controls in user management, access management, segregation of duties and change management and has automated these controls which reduce the manual work near to zero and gives instant overview of compliance status and the issues that were found. The controls can reside in disparate systems but are all reported back into one platform.

 As you see there is a lot to win if you take an integrated approach to IT Governance, Risk and Compliance.

 Why IBM?
 IBM has always set the standard in IT Goverance by supplying its customers with solutions in (cyber)security, identity management, access management, scalability, failover, disaster recovery, business continuity management, IT process optimization, and IT Governance. All this is now being complemented with IT Goverance, Risk and Compliance documentation, monitoring and reporting in Business Analytics (through IBM OpenPages).

 What can we bring to the table?
 IBM can deliver one integrated platform for

IT GRC operations management and optimization

Data governance

 IT GRC execution

IT GRC management

 IT GRC analytics

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 Based on discussions and interactions with clients, a common theme has emerged - the gap between development and operations groups (people, processes and technologies). This gap diminishes business agility, the ability to respond to market demands quickly with new applications or solutions. It can also lead to quality problems with deployed applications resulting in higher costs, service disruption and service quality issues. Some of the root causes for these challenges are:

Lack of visibility across the teams hinders collaboration and causes inconsistent manual handoffs as well as configuration and infrastructure mismatches

Deployment requirements are difficult to validate and it is tough to mimic production in dev and test environments

Moving applications from development to staging to production is a complex series of steps. Deployment engineers often execute manual steps which are not repeatable, and prone to error

It is extremely difficult to integrate and automate these processes, as well as standardize maintenance and reuse given the heterogeneous nature of the environment with products from different vendors and open source tools.

Together Rational and Tivoli have been working with customers to address some of these challenges and we have introduced capabilities which include; Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) for Agile development and delivery, Deployment Planning and Automation (DP&A) for constructing deployment topologies and deployment automation and SmartCloud Provisioning for quickcloud deployment and automated provisioning.

By way of example, Danske Bank deployed these capabilities and reduced their average time of development projects from 14 months to 9 months while improving efficiency by 15%. Through automation, Sun Trust improved hand-off times by 98% while cutting deployment related issues by 93 %. And a leading tire manufacturer moved to agile processes and accelerated their development models by 30%

Based on these and other deployment scenarios, we are now working with a few select clients on a more integrated lifecycle management solution for Continuous Delivery, which we plan to make it available to a wider set of customers as part of a managed beta program in April. What does it mean to have continuous delivery? It means that the applications built by our clients are production-ready throughout the lifecycle and can be released to end users at any time, reducing the cycle times significantly. These capabilities are built leveraging open standards, enabling clients to leverage existing investments and the cloud. Some of the capabilities planned for the beta include:

A customizable common software delivery workflow spanning Dev and Ops teams

Automated release management for highly scalable, ultra-fast application deployments Continuous integration and testing of software in production-like environments

Release readiness dashboard provides visibility and enables collaboration between dev and ops throughout the entire delivery lifecycle

 We believe that these capabilities will help provide you with end-to-end feedback loop from your customers, from development, to operations, rapid release of new versions, increased velocity of change while reducing risk, leverage real-time planning, enable in-context collaboration, ensure lifecycle traceability and apply development and operational intelligence.

 My Rational colleagues and I will be discussing these customer patterns and the solutions in more detail at Pulse. Looking forward to the discussion! The Pulse blog is pleased to present today's guest blog by Kristof Kloeckner, General Manager of Rational Software, IBM Software Group Based on discussions and interactions with clients, a common theme has emerged - the gap between development and... 0 1 8183 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-102381fe-1511-4787-bfa2-03ff45c6be9a Pulse conference community blog 2015-10-29T05:21:43-04:00


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Machine gun ammunition is the ammo used for the different types of Machine guns in the Resident Evil series. Some RE games depict ammo in magazines, other games show them as boxes.
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PSX era Resident Evil titles like RE2 have huge machine gun magazine capacities which are shown in percentage values: 100% for a full clip which contains a couple hundred rounds. Very few spare magazines can be found in these games.
It is first seen in Resident Evil Zero as an unlockable item. It is obtained by completing the Leech Hunter minigame after collecting 1-29 leeches.
In Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, it is frequently dropped by enemies or found in crates.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City however, does not feature its own machine gun ammo but instead uses ammo stashes found throughout the game to replenish ammo.
In Resident Evil Revelations, instead of being dropped off by enemies, the player needs to find it throughout each location. The game limits the amount for carrying Machine Gun Ammo. However, the limit can be extended by finding an Ammo Bag specifically for the Machine Gun Ammo. This also applies in Raid Mode but the Machine Gun Ammo Bags can only be bought in the store.
In the Resident Evil Outbreak series, the Submachine gun uses the same 9mm ammunition of handguns, instead of custom SMG ammo.
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|Resident Evil 5
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Our hugely popular yarn, Fettuccini, is finally back in stock after blowing off the shelves and selling out several weeks ago. And just in time! Earth Day may have been yesterday, but all of April is Earth Month, and every day is a great opportunity to be eco-friendly. As many Fettuccini enthusiasts already know, this unique yarn is made with remnants of jersey fabric used to create garments. The remnants would otherwise be discarded, so we're thrilled to breathe a little new life into this special fiber. In honor of its (re-)arrival, I've rounded up a handful of the great items you can knit, crochet or craft with this yarn. Click here to learn more about Fettuccini, browse colors and place your order today!
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In continuation of celebrating spring here on the blog, I have a new giveaway that I'm excited to announce. One lucky winner will have the chance to win a set of 5 Vanna's Choice® Baby yarns, and 2 pairs of scissors, courtesy of Fiskars (The World's #1 Scissor Brand™): The Original Orange-Handled Scissors™ and the 4″ Folding Scissors™ to make the Bright Stripes Baby Afghan (Crochet Pattern).
The Vanna's Choice Baby colors included in the giveaway are sure reminders of the beautiful flowers and blooms currently decorating gardens and yards. This afghan will be a pleasure to make, especially if you sit outside and enjoy nature as you work!
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*Update 5/3/2013*: Congratulations to Eva Yee who has won this wonderful prize!
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Earth Day is less than a week away, and that means sustainability, eco-friendliness, and recycling is at the forefront of many people's minds. While crafting is by definition the creation of something new, there's no reason not to be sustainable while doing so! Lion Brand has an array of different fibers that are eco-friendly, whether that means all-natural, organic fibers or recycled materials. I'll be featuring all of these great green products over the next week. Today, let's take a look at Recycled Cotton! This worsted weight blend is made with 72% recycled cotton that is sorted by color to minimize the amount of dye needed to churn out the finished product. The cotton comes from leftover fabric from the production of tee shirts that would otherwise be discarded, much like our Zpagetti yarn. Ready to get started? Here's a round up of my top ten favorite patterns using Recycled Cotton.
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Spring has finally sprung, and it feels great to transition into a different wardrobe. Spring is a fun season because you can show off multiple pieces with layered outfits, play around with bright and bold colors, or add just a touch of color with soft and sophisticated pastels. Pastel colors aren't just for babies, as they have become quite popular this season, and they're an easy family of colors to incorporate into your knitwear.
Pastels add classic sophistication to an outfit, and they pair great with neutrals like gray, white and beige. Below, I've gathered a few patterns already knit or crocheted in pastel colors to help you determine what kind of pastel piece you'd like to add to your wardrobe. I personally love the Eyelet Swing Cardi in LB Collection Cotton Bamboo; it would pair very nicely with slim fitting khaki pants and a white top/tank. Take a look at some of the options below for more pastel inspiration (click on the photos to access the patterns on LionBrand.com):
Knit Ballet Wrap
Superwash Merino Cashmere: Seafoam
Crochet Spring Pastel Scarf
Nature's Choice Organic Cotton:
Petits Fours
Crochet Modern Lace Shawl
Martha Stewart CraftsTM/MC Extra Soft Wool Blend:
Gerbera Daisy
Crochet Pearl's Cardigan
Microspun: Blush
Crochet Beach Cover Up
Cotton-Ease: Seaspray
Knit Eyelet Swing Cardi
LB Collection Cotton Bamboo: Gardenia
*For more pastel palettes, check out the colors in: LB Collection Angora Merino, Baby's First and Babysoft
Thinking of incorporating a pastel piece into your knitwear? Share your thoughts on what type of pastel project you'd like to work on in the comments!
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Designer and teacher Heather Lodinsky joins us to share tips on reading your knitting.
For the last two decades, I have been a freelance designer writing patterns for knitters and crocheters. For just as long, I have taught knitting at my local yarn shop three times a week here in Buffalo, New York. These two jobs of mine have always complemented each other. Knitters (and want-to-be knitters) walk in for instruction and help with their projects. I always want the knitters that come to my class to be happy with their knitting and not feel the urge to throw their projects in the back of a closet to become a so-called "UFO" (Unfinished Object). From the very start, I like to get students familiar with "reading" their knitting, so that they can identify what stitches they are working, understand what they have already done and know where they are going with their knitting. Think of this "reading" or identifying your stitches as your own knitting "GPS"…or compass for those of us "pre-techies".
Probably the most amazing revelation for me as a knitter was when I realized (after many years of knitting) that the knit stitch and the purl stitch are the exact same stitch—but they are done on the opposite sides of the fabric. We are taught as knitters that if you knit every row you will get that wonderful, reversible ridge fabric named "garter" stitch—shown below.
So, what happens when we purl every row? Garter Stitch again!
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Yeovil Railway Centre
Yeovil Railway Centre is a small steam and diesel Railway Centre that was formed in 1994 to preserve the original Southern Railway turntable (British Rail decided to remove it), and provide facilities for operation of the main line steam.
There is a Visitor Centre that was once an 1864 built GWR transfer shed, plus a 15,000 gallon water tower. Everything has been restored to working order for the servicing of the steam engines. This is an excellent place for an old fashioned family day out that everyone will love.
The centre holds regular events between March and October, including Train days, where the turntable is demonstrated and steam train rides are operated using a brake van, providing a great opportunity to watch steam at close quarters! See 'Pectin', a Peckett steam engine, and 'Lord Fisher', an Andrew Barclay steam engine, one of which is used on the train days to provide the rides!
Additional attractions include the Train and Tractor Day, an Easter egg hunt, a Teddy Bear's picnic in the summer, a Halloween Evening with Steam, and Santa Specials in the winter!
Yeovil Junction Station
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