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NVIDIA Kepler Cards Get HDMI 4K@60Hz Support (Kind Of)by Ryan Smith on 6/20/2014 10:00 AM EST
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nathanddrews - Friday, June 20, 2014 - link420 color is good enough for Blu-ray most of the time, but banding becomes and issue more often than not. I could see this as a nice option for every 6-bit, TN-based 4K TV out there that already suffers from banding. Not ideal, but nice. Of course it sounds like the manufacturer would have to put out a firmware update to make it work if it doesn't inherently support the option.
I'm not upgrading my GPU until DP1.3 hits in 2015.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/2013/12/03/display... Reply
crimsonson - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkThe primary cause of banding is color bit depth, or lack of it. Specifically, human eye can see banding at 8 bit color depth while 10 bit is almost gone.
Chroma subsampling tends to create edge bleeds and blocks because the lack of color accuracy. Reply
nathanddrews - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkYes, bit depth is the primary cause. Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, June 23, 2014 - linkYeah, with all those TN panels 4:2:0 won't matter. Reply
Dave G - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkAs an example, professional HD/SDI connections use 10-bits with 4:2:2 chroma sub-sampling. Reply
kwrzesien - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkJust knowing this difference is enlightening, thanks! Reply
MikeMurphy - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkGreat article. Too bad DisplayPort isn't the chosen successor to HDMI for all 4K devices. HDMI bitstream tech is far inferior yet the industry seems to be stuck on it. Reply
UltraWide - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkAll consumer electronics devices are entrenched in HDMI, so it's hard to make the switch to DP at this point. They just need to keep improving HDMI. Reply
brightblack - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkOr they could include DP ports along with HDMI. Reply
surt - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkOMG are you kidding, that could ad 50 or even 60 cents to the price of a device! Reply
xdrol - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkYou mean to the cost of a device. To the price, it would add the same in dollars. Reply
dragonsqrrl - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linklol, yep pretty much. Reply
willis936 - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkHow is DP phy superior to HDMI? Reply
Darkstone - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - linkIn every way except display-side hardware complexity.
HDMI requires licensing costs ($10k + 4 cent per device IF you market the fact your device supports HDMI and your device supports all anti-piracy measures), where DP is free.
HDMI supports only fixed refresh rates, where DP support any refresh rate, even variable refresh rates.
Display-size buffering, used some mobile phones, is not possible with HDMI's fixed refresh rate.
DP supports daisy-chaining, although often not implemented.
HDMI's standardization process is awful. According to wikipedia, HDMI 1.0 supports 1200p. But on at least one ivy-bridge laptop the maximum supported resolution is 1080p. HDMI 1.3 is also supposed to support to support 1440, but only two ivy bridge laptop supports that feature: the Alienware M17x with AMD GPU and M18x. This situation has increased somewhat with haswell/kepler but not much.
DP is physically smaller, it is possible to use mini-hdmi but that is usually limited to 1080p and requires an adapter anyway.
HDMI provides no support for high bit depth in most implementations. Reply
willis936 - Monday, June 23, 2014 - linkVery few of those points have anything to do with phy. Refresh rates and display buffers are closer to protocol than phy. I just don't underrated why someone would claim that dp phy is somehow superior to hdmi like the people writing the spec didn't know what they were doing. Reply
leliel - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkAs long as they give you a choice between low-hertz high-chroma and high-hertz low-chroma, this is a perfectly cromulent solution. Anyone buying a 4K setup at this juncture ought to be well aware of the limitations already, and the workaround is more than anyone had the right to expect. Reply
thewhat - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkHere's an (extreme) example of how 4:2:0 affects the image quality:
BluRay and most currently used "consumer" videos are stuck at 4:2:0 anyway. Hopefully this will change in future, with the wider adoption of new video formats. Reply
JlHADJOE - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - linkWell that's rather disappointing.
Most TV/movie content is only 24-30fps so there's really no disadvantage with the current 30Hz limit, and going to 4:2:0 pretty much compromises usability as a monitor, making 60Hz rather pointless. Reply
bernstein - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkas per samsungs spec sheet the ue40hu6900 is HDMI 2.0 compliant. yet you are implying it does not! so do you know this for a fact? thanks. Reply
mczak - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkThat's the same crap as it always was with HDMI: you are not required to support the new high-bandwidth modes to claim HDMI 2.0 compliance (in fact this makes even sense if it's not a UHD device). So these devices can claim HDMI 2.0 compliance yet miss the only truly interesting feature of it. Well ok not quite they at least support the new HDMI 2.0 ycbcr 4:2:0 feature hence make it possible to support the full resolution with ycbcr 4:2:0 format. Reply
surt - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkYawn. Wake me when I can run 4k 120p. Reply
SirKnobsworth - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkDisplayPort 1.3 will allow this, and the spec is due out some time this year. Hopefully we'll start seeing it in actual devices next year. Reply
haardrr - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - linkfunny for 120hz 4k... 12Ghz... 3860x2160x12x120... (x * y resolution) * bit depth * frame rate = 12GHz because it is digital. so unless some magic modulation scheme is applied, it's not going to happen Reply
willis936 - Monday, June 23, 2014 - linkI'd like to point out that it's 24 bits per pixel so the required bitrate is closer to 24 Gbps and with typical two state NRZ you need at least 12 Ghz. You had the right number but for wrong reasons. Reply
sheh - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkWhat about TVs finally supporting (officially) 1080p at 120Hz? I still don't understand why almost all TVs with >60Hz panels don't support it when there's no lack of bandwidth. Reply
eio - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkGreat workaround...but I wonder what would be the benefit of 60hz in video without 3D? Reply
knightspawn1138 - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkThe benefit is that the TV doesn't have to invent those in-between frames to fill the screen during those extra refresh cycles. Right now, when a 120 Hz TV gets a signal at 30 or 60 Hz, it is supposed to just re-display the same image until the next new one comes in. In a 30-120 situation, the same image is displayed 4 times in a row, until the next one comes to the TV, while a 60-120 situation displays the same image 2 times in a row. When the TV has extra processing (like "Auto Motion Plus," "MotionFlow," or "TruMotion") being done to the signal, what's happening is the TV is guessing what the next frame will look like, and filling the in between refreshes with those best guesses, instead of the same unaltered frame. So, if your computer can send more frames per second to the TV, the TV does less guessing (which means the image you see will have less mistakes), and that is where the real benefit is. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkWhat about the only scenario where this doesn't involve massive picture quality loss, i.e. 24 fps video? You only have 24 frames per second of video there, so whether you display it at 30Hz or 60 Hz (or higher), you don't get any benefit. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkIf I'm understanding correctly, you're just going to have lower panel lag. The panel switching at 60Hz will change the pixel state twice as fast as the one switching at 30Hz(naturally), so the pixels will be at the correct color sooner. You can see the effect in 120Hz monitor reviews, where the 120Hz panels have all finished changing color before the new frame comes in, but the 60Hz panels still have ghosts of the previous frame. See the following monitor review for examples.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_vg278he.h... Reply
SlyNine - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkUnless I'm mistaking. It doesn't effect the pixel response. The pixels attempt to change as fast as they can. What it changes is how many requests are made per second.
You could attempt to drive a IPS panel at 120hz. But since the pixels will be changing no faster then before ( which was barely fast enough for 60 fps) you get an old image that persists across multiple frames.
That's my understanding. Reply
Mr Perfect - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkYes, you're right.
I was thinking he was comparing a 30Hz panel(that has a pixel response that is only fast enough to support 30Hz) to a 60Hz panel(with a pixel response fast enough to support 60Hz). Reply
cheinonen - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkThat's incorrect. In a 60 Hz 4K display, the pixels are always going to refresh at 60 Hz. If it has a 30 Hz signal, then it refreshes each frame twice. If you have a 24 Hz film signal, then you have 3:2 pull-down applied and get judder. Panels that run at 120 Hz in TVs work the same way, only you can eliminate judder by repeating each frame 5 times.
The benefit here is you can do 4K video content that is at 60 Hz (like the World Cup right now) natively. Since all consumer video content is already 4:2:0 you don't lose any resolution. As many displays convert everything back to 4:2:0 (even if they receive a 4:2:2, 4:4:4 or RGB signal) before sending it to the screen, you won't notice a difference in color detail as well. Reply
Mr Perfect - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkHmm, so would the 60Hz have more or less judder on a 24FPS film then 30Hz? I'd think the higher refresh would be more likely to be ready when the frame changes. Reply
crimsonson - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - linkYou have a fundamental misunderstanding of chroma subsampling and how it works.
If you subsample a video that is already a subsample from previous, you further degrade color accuracy and quality.
And I am unsure what you mean by "onvert everything back to 4:2:0". That is now how chroma subsampling works. Reply
crimsonson - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - linkBTW - you actually lose overall resolution resolving power with chroma sumsapling. Reply
Sivar - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkInteresting stuff, and great article. Packed with useful info and an example in only 7 paragraphs. It's great to feel like I've learned something important and only spent 5 minutes doing it.
Why does 4:2:0 work so well in video if not on the desktop? Is it because the video quality is already compromised at 4:2:0 or that video inherently needs less color information because of the tendency for smooth gradations and fast motion, compared to the sharp contrasts in desktop video? Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkFor a better explanation I recommend the Wikipedia article on chroma subsampling, but basically when it comes to images/video the human eye is less sensitive to chroma information than it is luma. Whether someone's skin is sampled 4:4:4 or 4:2:0 is unlikely to be noticed except in extreme circumstances.
However as you correctly note, text and GUIs have sharp contrasts that natural images do not. This is further exacerbated by the fact that we use subpixel rendering techniques (e.g. ClearType) to improve the readability of text on these relatively low DPI displays. Since 4:2:0 reduces contrast at the edge, it essentially blurs text and makes it harder to read.
Also of note: JPEG also uses chroma subsampling. Which is part of the reason why it's so hard on text, especially at higher compression ratios where 4:2:0 is used. Reply
dmytty - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkI was surprised that there were no active display adapters shown at Computex '14 for DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 with support for 4k 60 fps. Any input? Reply
Ryan Smith - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkThere's a multitude of potential reasons. At the end of the day the HDMI 2.0 spec was finalized less than a year ago (you usually need a year to bring new silicon like that to market) and I'm not sure if one could do it with just the power provided by DP; you may need to use external USB power, like DL-DVI adapters (which would drive up the cost significantly). Reply
dmytty - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkThe HDMI 2.0 tx/rx silicon has been ready for some time. As far as power goes, Thunderbolt would have that solved...and think of all those Retina loving Mac fans with Thunderbolt and Retina display needs. Reply
dmytty - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkI was surprised that there were no active display adapters shown at Computex '14 for DP 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 with support for 4k 60 fps. Did any 'journalists' look for these kinds of novel little things or were they too busy filing the press releases for another 28" LCD monitor? Seriously, coverage from IT websites has really been a letdown (and that includes this site).
Regarding the active adapter, it seems that with a few hundred thousand tv sets and computer monitors being sold with HDMI 2.0, there would be a nice market for enabling PC connections to these monitors.
Me thinks there might be some underhanded dealings in Taiwan and Korea whereby the big display manufacturers (and the HDMI cartel) are restricting the use of TV's as computer monitors...and limiting refresh rate has been the way to do it.
Of course, we can also thank AMD and Nvidia for selling $1k+ GPU's which are handicapped by a little HDMI transmitter chip.
To those who wonder, I'm typing this on LG's 2014 55" 4k entry (55 UB8500 series). Desktop GTX 570 and laptop GT 650m in Asus NV56 both handle things well via DP 1.2 to HDMI 1.4 active dongle and straight HDMI output on laptop (both at 30 hz).
Sitting 40" from the screen, my eyes have never felt better. Yes, it's 30 hz, but I'm doing zero gaming. Lots of CAD work and web research. CAD productivity has improved (worked on a 30" monitor prior). Firefox, Autodesk Inventor 2014 and Onenote 2010 are great with massive screen real estate and the resulting <90 PPI (yet still 'Retina' at 40") means everything works pretty well via simple Windows 7 scaling at 150%.
Still gotta find me that adapter just to see the difference between 30 Hz and 60 Hz. To those who are hesitating though, please don't. Sitting close to a 4k screen is awesome. Reply
Pork@III - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkDammit! hdmi 2.0 it is already for use at 1 year. Nvidia play fucking games with consumers. Reply
OrphanageExplosion - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkNeat solution. 4:2:0 is around half the bandwidth of 4:4:4 and RGB24, so a good match for HDMI 1.4. Not a good idea for the desktop, but in a living room where you're situated some way off the screen, you won't notice the difference. Reply
crimsonson - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - linkYou won't notice the difference because human vision is comparative. So unless you see the original video you will not be able to tell.
Second, subsampling do the worse damage with video that is already degraded. It exacerbates noise, blockiness and other quality symptoms.
Hisma1 - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkArticle title is slightly misleading. Maxwell-based cards (750 ti) also support this feature, not just kepler. I have confirmed it working with my UHD TV connected to an HTPC with a 750ti on board.
Still testing, but so far so good. The display does appear "dimmer" and less vibrant though, which is a slight concern. Reply
Nuno Simões - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkIt's not implying that only Kepler will get this, it's informing that Kepler will get it. Reply
godrilla - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkBest 4k tvs are have about 3 times more input lag than sony's bravia full hd tvs. Gaming on a 4k TV is still far far away from perfect, which would be an hdmi 2.0 ( with new codec ) tv at 65 inches to appreciate those extra pixels and then there is the hardware to process all that is still way too expensive, I'm predicting another few years post maxwell to be closer to an ideal experience. Reply
Hawk269 - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - linkI have tested this as well and it does work. On desktop use, the first issue I noticed is that my mouse pointer, which is a white arrow with a black outline, the outline was not apparent. So on a white back round it was hard to see where the mouse was. However, upon booting up a game, it looked fantastic. 4k at 60fps was a real treat.
I currently own a Sony 4k Set and a new Panasonic AX800 in my gaming room. The Panasonic has a Display Port and I am using 2 GTX Titan Blacks to get 4k/60fps in games. Comparing the image in a game (Elder Scrolls On-Line) they look almost identical. But when going to desktop, it is apparent that one using HDMI is not of the same quality as the Display Port which is sending a true 4:4:4 image to the screen.
I am going to test more and compare them some more. My Panasonic suffers from Banding issues, so I need to decide if I will exchange it or get a refund. I had last years Panasonic 4k due to them being the only ones including display port, but I went through 2 sets with really bad banding issues, so not sure I want to get another one now. Reply
kalita - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkI have Samsung F9000 UHD TV (with updated connect box that supports HDMI 2.0)and a NVidia 750Ti connected to it. Once I updated to 343 beta driver, the 4k 60Hz resolution appeared. When I switch to it, both the TV and card report 60Hz. Unfortunately I can see that the display is still updated at 30Hz.
I did some testing by writing a simple Direct3D program and figured out that only every other frame is displayed. Basically, the refresh rate is 60Hz but only every other Present call is visible on the TV. I don't know whether it's the card or the TV dropping half the frames.
Has anyone actually tried enabling this 4:2:0 mode and experienced smooth 60Hz in UHD? Reply
Semore666 - Sunday, June 28, 2015 - linkHey mate, I've got the same TV as you and a GTX 780 OC. I've connected it up with a few different HDMI cables including one from eBay claiming to be 2.0 and I'm only getting 30fps. I'm going crazy! whats the solution to get 60fps since there doesn't seem to be any display port to hdmi 2.0 and the TV doesn't take display port. Thanks in advance. I've currently got driver 353.30 - surely this would support it a year later... Reply
R1CHY_RICH - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkCan anyone please help me with this question?
Currently, lets say the GTX680 2GB can run Metro 2033 (4k Max settings) at only 12 FPS (4:4:4). Now with this driver update and the output colour reduced to 4:2:0, would you expect to have a better FPS? If so, what could you realistically expect? Reply
blah238 - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkThat would have absolutely no bearing on the framerate. Reply
R1CHY_RICH - Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - linkOkay, thank you. Reply
smygarn - Monday, September 15, 2014 - linkI've got some strange issues with my new UHD TV..
I didn't Think it was 420 problem. Looked like a pixel mapping issue.
Can someone verify this issue? Thanks. Reply


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Cuban-American celebration of the patroness of Cuba is Sunday
Published: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 6:18 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 6, 2013 at 6:18 p.m.
Lauren Fortunato has attended the traditional Cuban-American celebration of the patroness of Cuba, Our Lady of Charity, at St. Patrick Catholic Church since she was a child.
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What: Our Lady of Charity Celebration (Misa Solemne en Honor a Nuestra Señora de la Caridad Del Cobre)
When: Sunday; 3 p.m. rosary, 3:30 p.m. Mass
Where: St. Patrick Catholic Church, 500 NE 16th Ave.
Information: www.saintpatricksparishgnv.org
Now, as a 20-year-old college student, she said she tries to stay involved in the event. It's what her grandmother would have wanted.
Fortunato's grandmother, Mirise DeCastro, helped organize the event in the late 1980s after DeCastro and her family moved to Gainesville. DeCastro would bring her children to the event that was a link to her native Cuba. Then her daughter, Rosi Fortunato, Lauren's mother, had children of her own and brought them, too.
This year's event begins at 3 p.m. Sunday with a recitation of the rosary at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 500 NE 16th Ave. Mass begins at 3:30 p.m. The service is in Spanish, and a reception with traditional Cuban food, such as picadillo chicken and fried plantains, will follow.
Rosi Fortunato said the tradition was important to her mother because it was something from her homeland that she wanted to pass on to her children.
The celebration honoring Our Lady of Charity, or Nuestra Señora de La Caridad del Cobre, as she is known in Cuba, began more than 400 years ago.
The story that has been passed down from generation to generation begins with three boys who were sent to gather salt to preserve the meat of their town's slaughterhouse near Santiago, Cuba. While on their way across the Bay of Nipe, their boat encountered a storm.
Suddenly, as the story goes, the waters calmed, and the boys saw a bundle floating on a piece of wood. It was a small statue of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. The words "Yo soy la Virgen de la Caridad" were inscribed on the statue. The phrase translates to "I am the Virgin of Charity."
The boys brought the statue back to their village, and a chapel was built to honor the image. The original statue still resides in Cuba.
It was a miraculous event that saved their lives, said Rosi Fortunato, who added that she had the honor last year of carrying her church's statue to the altar.
The tradition of celebrating the day of Our Lady of Charity was brought to Florida by Cubans who fled to Miami to escape Fidel Castro's communist regime.
In Cuba, the Our Lady of Charity celebration includes a parade of boats floating to shore with the statue.
Maria Llinas, who helps organize the event, has been involved in the preparations since she came to Gainesville in 1975.
Back then, the celebration was a small one, she recalled. Now the event draws 100 to 200 people, including people from other Latin American countries.
"It's like a tie to my country," Llinas said.
Cuban-Americans account for 2.3 percent of Gainesville's population — or about 2,880 people — according to 2010 census data, the most recent data available. About 10 percent of Gainesville's population is Hispanic, according to the 2010 census.
Lauren Fortunato said she invites her friends to the event, and they always enjoy the upbeat Spanish music and say that they wished they had music like that at their churches. The Spanish choir at St. Augustine Catholic Church usually provides the music for the Our Lady of Charity Mass.
The event keeps the Cuban culture alive, Lauren Fortunato said. When she has her own children, she said, she plans to bring them to the celebration just like her mother did with her, and her grandmother did with her children.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adichie's brilliant historical novel follows the fortunes of five characters living through the tumultuous 1960s—a time when the Biafran-Nigerian War raged in southern Africa.
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"This is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs, most notably its depiction of the impact of war's brutalities on peasants and intellectuals alike. It's a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing." (Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review)
"Adichie has written an ambitious, astonishing novel that succeeds on all levels." (Bookmarks Magazine)
"Brilliant narration of a captivating story"
History comes alive!
I quickly became attached to the complex characters of this novel. I felt I was an intimate witness to their life struggles, traumas and transformations. In the process, I learned about a painful chapter in the history of Biafra/Nigeria. At the centre, the story is about the writing of a book, which examines the complicity of the world community in these terrible events and suggests that personal relationships are intricately tied to international relations.
Robin Miles performed the characters accents beautifully.
Chimananda Ngozi Adichi has written a masterful work of historical fiction. I look forward to reading more of her novels.
"a very human, universal story."
While this story was set during the war in Nigeria, it had more to do with the characters and their relationships with each other. I was hesitant to listen after reading some of the other reviews. This is not a quick story with something constantly happening or a lot of drama. The author kind of stays in a moment. However, ,I really loved this audiobook. It was very realistic...not sugarcoating the bad or over dramitizing. The more I listened, the more the Nigerian civil war sounded so much like any other civil war and the responses and behavior of the people the same of anyone else put in the same situation. It really illustrated, to me, how very similar we all are in our humanity, no matter our culture or country.
"Horrifyingly human - mandatory reading"
Beautiful, ugly, horrifying and to be permanently etched in your head. Should be mandatory for every white person, especially if you've ever thought that something going on too far away from your own world can be scary for just a minute but forgotten before your next meal. Robin Miles does some sort of magic with her reading of this book and the author is to be praised for the amazing job of being able to write something so real. I can't remember the last time I was this impressed with a book.
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This beautiful and sad book provided me with an insight into the Biafran/Nigeran war that I was previously ignorant of. The narrator is wonderful - I have listened to many books by her and she is consistantly excellant.
The characters are developed slowly but gradually you gain an insight into their personalities and emotions. The descriptions of the war are heart rendering. I became very attached to the main characters and actually cried at the end of the book.
Highly recommended
"A good book, very well narrated"
I remember reading about the Biafran war - but nothing was ever presented from this perspective. I cared about the characters and their fate and wondered how such rifts can be healed. Very well narrated.
"Amazing Writer, Fascinating Part of the World"
I love Adichie's writing. Her prose is beautiful--she often has a turn of phrase that makes me stop and say "Wow!" I know very little about Nigeria, and less about the civil war, so learning about that part of the world, and that part of history was very interesting, especially embedded in a compelling storyline with interesting characters. I am a big fan!
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The narrator was spot on. Her accents. Her emotions and her voices. The story of a devastating war told through the eyes of very human characters.
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"Beautiful and painful story of Biafra"
I did not know this book would take me through the Nigerian civil war when I bought it. But I am so glad I learned about it through this stunning story of an upper class African family that eventually found themselves on the losing side. The story is well written, beautifully narrated, and delivers the war gently. No clobbering with gruesome gratuitous violence and no battle scenes. This is simply the experience of a few individuals who lived through it. I loved the characters and especially the twin sisters whose difficult relationship is finally healed because of the war.
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I was in my middle teens when Biafra was in the headlines--I knew it was in Africa and involved starving children, but that's all. This book is wonderful on so many levels--the history, the politics, the culture and as already mentioned, the complex characterization. It's not just about the atrocities of a war that happened almost 50 years ago, it is relevant to issues we struggle with everyday. The differences of culture, religious values, things we hold as important to ourselves or within our group. The narration is superb--I really can't say enough about how much I enjoyed this book.
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'How-to' Camping Program Coming to Northeast Texas State Parks
AUSTIN — Outdoor recreation specialists with the state's Texas Outdoor Family program will be sharing their camping, cooking and various outdoor skills on Feb. 20-21 at Caddo Lake State Park and March 6-7 at Tyler State Park.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department program, which is in its second year, has taught hundreds of adults and children throughout the state, most of them from urban environments, how to safely enjoy the great outdoors.
TPWD launched the Texas Outdoor Family workshops in 2008 in an effort to eliminate barriers to families wishing to share the outdoor experience together. The campouts are designed for persons who have never camped before or may not have camped for many years, as well as for those who don't have the necessary equipment or see the outdoors as being boring or dangerous. By providing quality gear to be used for the overnight stay and park-specific programs and activities, TOF's outdoor specialists show how anyone can enjoy camping with no hassles. Texas state parks, with ample campsites and a law enforcement presence, prove the ideal setting for the structured campouts.
The overnight campout at Caddo Lake State Park will teach adults eco-friendly Leave No Trace principles and how to pitch a tent and use camp stoves and lanterns, while establishing a base camp for the weekend. Youngsters will learn environmental ethics, how to fish and take guided tours along park trails to see nature up close. They also will have the chance to explore the park through the use of Global Positioning System devices and geocaching, a high-tech version of a scavenger hunt.
During the evening, TOF participants will learn how to build a fire and cook on open flames and outdoor grills, and receive a primer on those scary night noises typically heard in a park. On Sunday morning, a park ranger will share coffee and conversation about nature, state parks and how to best enjoy the great outdoors.
Dutch oven cooking will highlight the weekend campout TOF festivities at Tyler State Park the first weekend in March. Dutch oven cooking is an ideal way to use hot charcoal to cook peach cobbler, lasagna and other tasty treats in a cast iron pot. Other outdoor activities during the weekend will include those typical of most TOF workshops.
Participants will be welcomed on Saturday morning to the host state park, where they have a reserved campsite and receive assistance with pitching camp and how to operate various camping equipment. After an afternoon filled with fun outdoor activities and cooking an outdoor meal, participants will enjoy an evening presentation on night sounds to prepare them for what they might hear while snuggled in their tent.
The weekend campout costs $55 per family of six or fewer people. The program caters to all people and is not limited to the traditional nuclear family. TOF participants bring their own food for the two-day workshops, and receive a checklist of what they need to bring along with a suggested shopping and packing list for meals and personal items.
The Texas Outdoor Family outdoor workshops are designed to combat "Nature Deficit Disorder," a phrase coined by Richard Louv in his 2005 book, "Last Child in the Woods." Louv cites studies that show that playing outdoors strengthens a young person's mind and body, leading to better performance in school and interactions with others.
Since its inception, the TOF program has impacted more than 500 families. The first-of-its-kind Texas program has gained national attention from such national organizations as Leave No Trace and theNational Association of Interpretation, spurring spinoff programs in other states.
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Thanks to Thomas G. Atkinson, many San Diego structures are safer, including the Hotel del Coronado and the Mormon temple overlooking Interstate 5. Charitable organizations like the San Diego Rescue Mission are more stable because of his philanthropy and volunteer efforts.
Mr. Atkinson coupled his commitment to serve those in need with his thriving career as a structural engineer specializing in earthquake engineering.
"He was highly respected," said fellow engineer Lee Biggers. "Tom was a meticulous person, a model structural engineer and a model man."
At La Jolla Lutheran Church, Mr. Atkinson was active for decades, serving often as president of the church's Board of Elders. He was instrumental in the church's assistance to one of many Vietnamese refugee families who came to Camp Pendleton in 1976.
"Our church helped the family of pharmacist Trang Kin," recalled Pastor Dick Mattson of Idaho, who headed the congregation at the time. "The Atkinsons were remarkable in their personal involvement and encouragement of the Trangs. Tom was a constant strength. When in a leadership position, he would take charge but never in an overwhelming way, always considerate of everyone involved."
Mr. Atkinson died of heart failure on Feb. 25 in San Diego. He was 93.
Thomas George Atkinson was born in South Bend, Ind., on Jan. 11, 1920. He moved with his family to Altadena in 1926 and graduated from Elliott Junior High School in Altadena, studied two years at Pasadena City College and earned a civil engineering degree from California Institute of Technology in 1942. After becoming an officer in the U.S. Navy's Fourth Construction Battalion, he served in Okinawa and Guam. Mr. Atkinson remained a reserve officer until the end of World War II, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
On his return to California, Mr. Atkinson started his civilian engineering career. In 1948, he married Eleanor Brunsman. In 1951, during the Korean War, he was recalled and deployed to Miramar Naval Air Station to help develop the base. He and his wife moved to San Diego during that period, and Mr. Atkinson established his own company in 1953.
Mr. Atkinson was the structural engineer for many major projects, including Muir College Apartments and other UC San Diego buildings. His other prominent work includes the Mission Bay Visitors Center, Torrey Pines High School, various piers, bridges and U.S. Navy structures. His expertise in earthquake engineering was critical in the seismic retrofitting of the Hotel del Coronado and other edifices. A founding member of the Structural Engineers Association of San Diego, he served as its president in 1971 and president of the statewide organization in 1972.
Also in the 1970s, Mr. Atkinson was appointed to the governor's panel that updated the Uniform Building Code in California to integrate earthquake design into all types of structures.
In the 1960s, Mr. Atkinson served on the board of Lakeside's Home of Guiding Hands, a residential facility for the developmentally disabled. He lent his expertise to the planning and construction of its campus, which opened in 1967. He spent seven years on the San Diego Rescue Mission board, starting in 1992. A longtime Clairemont resident, he was a San Diego Lions Club member since 1962, serving on several committees and editing the weekly newsletter.
The Boy Scouts also were important to Mr. Atkinson and his two sons, who all became Eagle Scouts.
"Being a scout was a formative experience for him as a boy," said his younger son Daniel Atkinson of San Diego. "The scout oath and some of the tenets of personal conduct very much influenced him, and he passed that along to us.
"If I had one word to describe him, it's integrity – a human quality that is applied to buildings as well. Integrity as a person – and integrity in the work he did – were of one piece."
In addition to Daniel, Mr. Atkinson is survived by Eleanor, his wife of 64 years; his older son, David, of Dana Point; and two grandsons.
A memorial service for Mr. Atkinson will be held at La Jolla Lutheran Church on March 23 at 11 a.m. Donations may be made to La Jolla Lutheran Church or San Diego Rescue Mission.


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Last week Google Translate announced that it now has over 200 million monthly users. As Alexis Madrigal noted in the Atlantic, this means that Google is now translating as much in a day as a human being would in a year – an amount of text equivalent to a million books.
Google Translate is far from perfect – its garbled prose, creative grammar and bizarre word substitutions have been dubbed "Dada Processing" – but it is one of the few Google products one can unequivocally say does more good than harm. Because of Google Translate, millions of people access ideas that would have once remained impenetrable. The default dismissal of foreign media is gone.
Since its inception in 2006, Google has added 65 languages from every region in the world, with two notable exceptions: Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. No languages from Central Asia make the Google cut, despite the fact that they have far more speakers than many of the languages that do. Pashto (50 million), Uzbek (21 million), and Uyghur (9 million) are not included. Neither are the African languages Hausa (40 million), Yoruba (19 million), or Zulu (10 million). The sole inclusions from sub-Saharan Africa are Swahili and Afrikaans, a language which derives from Dutch. In contrast, Icelandic (310,000), Welsh (480,000), and Irish (60,000) – as well as every other European language – are represented.
Translation has the potential to shift the politics of perception. Here Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa share something else in common: they are already on the losing side of this game. These two regions are the least likely to be covered by the international media and the most likely to be dismissed as barbaric, obscure or irrelevant by non-specialists.
Political scientist Laura Saey recently wrote about the problems that plague media coverage of Africa: the paucity of international correspondents, the callous framing of tragic events, the echo chamber of repeated coverage, the tendency to ignore regional diversity, the casual racism and condescension. These practices mark Central Asian media coverage as well. "If it takes hundreds of deaths or a revolution to make you report on a country, don't cover its 'humorous' political and economic failures," Matthew Kupfer wrote last week on Registan, bemoaning the international media mockery of Kyrgyzstan's inability to pay its bills.
Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa share another important similarity: their events are framed through the languages of colonization. Most international coverage of Central Asia is written by people who speak Russian. Similarly, sub-Saharan Africa is covered by speakers of English, French and Arabic. This is not the fault of the reporters: when bureaus assign so few people to such large regions, one cannot reasonably expect them to know all the local languages, and so it makes sense for them to rely on a lingua franca. But such reliance is problematic when it comes to the internet, because there is so much room to do better.
It is increasingly common for news agencies to cover a country by reprinting claims made online. This is why CNN films Facebook pages and why complex conflicts get reduced to "Twitter revolutions". But without an ability to translate local languages, reporters rely on whatever material they can understand – meaning that, to give one example, Russian-language content is often used to represent what is going on in Uzbek communities. Internet content created by speakers of languages like Uzbek – often preferred by citizens of Uzbekistan even if they do know Russian – is ignored.
As a result, important insights and debates remain invisible to the outside world. "There is another internet, a secret internet, in which meaningful political conversations take place in Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Turkmen, and Tajik, yet the majority of the world remains none the wiser," I wrote in 2010, countering Evgeny Morozov and others who found Kyrgyzstan's online media irrelevant. This is as true today as it was then.
Google is moving in the right direction: translation for Kazakh and Kyrgyz is being developed, and Google Africa is soliciting contributions from Africans interested in expanding the site's capabilities. One hopes that these additions will increase the regional knowledge necessary to write with depth and compassion. Nothing substitutes for human translation, especially of Central Asian and African websites filled with jokes, idioms and poetry. But Google Translate can give a sense of what people are concerned about, which may help shift coverage away from the trivialities and biases cited by Saey. Moreover, it allows citizens who only speak regional languages to access foreign media and translate their own works for a broader audience – a feat which the excellent Global Voices has achieved on a more selective scale. For citizens involved in politics or international affairs, this is an invaluable gift.
"There is never interpretation, understanding and knowledge when there is no interest," Edward Said wrote in Covering Islam, critiquing media bias toward the Muslim world. Central Asia and sub-Saharan countries face a related but arguably more severe problem: it is hard to create interest in places that most do not consider as individual, complex entities. In the digital era, impenetrable means invisible; invisible means irrelevant. Adding more local and national languages to Google Translate is a small step toward remedying this problem.


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BRANDI Chastain ripping off her shirt after scoring the final penalty in the USA's 1999 World Cup victory remains the most famous celebration in women's soccer. But Samantha Kerr's joyous somersault after scoring the second goal for Sydney FC in Sunday's W-League grand final deserves a place in the hall of fame.
It was a symbolic moment. Resonant of the athleticism that Kerr had shown just moments before in executing a perfectly timed diving header. An example of the passion shown by both teams in an engrossing final. And, inevitably, merely the most obvious expression of Sydney FC's joy after its 3-1 win.
Kerr is the sister of West Coast Eagles star Daniel. Although, as she tumbled exuberantly through the air, it was more apt to say that he is her brother.
Sydney FC's triumph victory left the clash of Australian soccer's biggest brands locked at one-all. To the Victory, the spoils in Saturday evening's ''big blue'' in the A-League. To the Sky Blues a second W-League trophy. The aggregate score, appropriately, 4-4.
But if the emotions were mixed, it was another good news weekend for a game enjoying a golden period. One benefiting from a strangely muddled cricket season.
There is a chicken-and-egg debate about the media's coverage of women's sport. Does a lack of exposure mean it is unfairly left in the dark? Or does the relative lack of interest from the public dissuade the commercially driven media from devoting column inches and air time?
Whatever the answer, the W-League grand final was - to borrow a hackneyed phrase - ''a great advertisement for the game''. One that at least should tempt many in the crowd of 4181 to come back for more.
Kerr's winner was far from the lone highlight. Petra Larsson's free kick which brought Victory level just before half-time was even more stunning. The work of both goalkeepers was heroic.
Finesse and skill are heightened in the women's game. Yet there was no lack of aggression. In the first minute, Victory's Jessica McDonald and Sydney's Elizabeth Ralston clashed heavily while competing for a high ball. The clash was as bone-jarring as anything seen on the same turf the previous evening, although McDonald and Ralston got to their feet much more quickly.
When Kyah Simon sealed victory with a late penalty, she put her fingers to her lips to silence the Victory fans. In the W-League, as in the A-League, the inter-city rivalry is alive.
On Saturday evening, Melbourne's Italian community turned out en masse for the Del Piero Road Show. Astutely, the Victory ''leveraged'' the visiting star, drawing a big crowd of businessmen and civic leaders. Indeed, the beautifully cut suits worn to the chairman's function were worth as much as some of the players.
Among those drawn by the chance to see the great Alessandro Del Piero were some self-confessed ''Euro-snobs''. Those who turn up their nose at the local product because it does not compare favourably, in their eyes, with the best played elsewhere.
But even the most ardent Serie A fan would have left AAMI Park entertained by the match and engaged by the electric atmosphere. The A-League needs them to return, preferably with the corporate dollars desperately needed by a now vibrant, but still financially precarious league.
Del Piero performed admirably in a losing cause, despite his obvious agitation at the Victory's tight marking. But, with matches televised live in Italy, the greatest benefactor was Melbourne's Marco Rojas. ''Kiwi Messi'', as he has become known, was responsible for an own goal deflected into the net, and scored another.
So add another zero to the contract he will most likely sign with a European club at the end of the season. And continue to curse the sporting Gods that the A-League's most exciting talent was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. Not the Hamilton in Victoria's Western District.


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Okay, okay, so I missed 'Monday Morning Eye Candy.' I received so many messages and emails about how sad your were that you didn't get to wake up and see a bunch of hot guys that I decided to give you ONE super hot guy AND you can watch him playing his guitar, singing you a love song, and taking his shirt off. It doesn't get any better than THAT!


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Dr. Goodword wrote:• importunate •
Pronunciation: im-por-chê-nêt or -tyê-nêt • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Insistently and urgently besetting someone with a request. 2. Troublesome, bothersome, frustrating, annoying; impertinent.
Notes: Today's Good Word has such a unique meaning that it cannot be replaced. It is the adjective of the verb importune "to beset anxiously and urgently with a request", as in "Could I importune you for the key to my office; someone seems to have changed the lock since Friday." Since we usually importune those we know only with important issues, we must be careful to differentiate today's word by its ending and the additional UN before it. The noun is a rather common and boring importunateness.
In Play: Children tend to be more importunate than adults: "When a 6-year-old comes to your desk with an importunate request to go to the restroom, it is best to honor the request." However, importunateness is not strictly a phenomenon of childhood: "Matilda, how importunate of you to ask for your paycheck while I'm doing my nails!"
Word History: Today's word was traced almost perfectly from French importuner "to importune" from Old French importun "inopportune", a word French inherited from Latin importunus "unsuitable, unfit, inconvenient". This Latin word is made up of in- "not" + portus "port, refuge", the source of English port (again, via French). The same root is found, of course, in opportune, which some etymologists believe underlies today's word, going back to Latin in + opportunus with a subsequent loss of the prefix op- in opportunus.
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I find it interesting that the Bible urges us to be importunate with God. In Luke 18:1-8 the parable of the importunate widow is shown to be a parallel to importunate prayer. I don't think we should say, "God do this for me or I will hold my breath, turn blue, and die." But I do think we should let God know what we think of things and what we want to happen. God then answers. Usually for me it is, "You don't know what you are asking."
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About UH Mānoa
Founded in 1907, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi System. Take a glimpse at all we offer our students. Contact us if you'd like to learn more or come visit us and experience our campus aloha.
- Beautiful Mānoa Valley, just outside downtown Honolulu, Hawaiʻi on the island of Oʻahu
- Campus size: 320 acres
- Climate: semi-tropical weather with year-round temperature ranges from 65°F-85°F
- Academic Year: semester
- Colleges & Schools: 14
- Degrees
- Bachelor's degrees in 97 fields
- Master's degrees in 85 fields
- Doctoral and Professional degrees in 57 fields
Special Academic Opportunities
- Freshman learning communities
- First-year advising
- Honors program
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UH Mānoa is accredited by the Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). In addition, 28 professional programs are accredited by appropriate agencies, including the NAAB (architecture), AACSB (business), ADA and CODA (dental hygiene), NCATE (education), ABET (engineering), and NLNAC (nursing).
- Undergraduate students: 14,499
- Graduate and professional students: 6,311
- Male/female ratio: 44:56
- Average class size: 24
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- African American: 1.2 percent
- Asian: 45.8 percent
- Caucasian: 25.8 percent
- Hawaiian: 9.8 percent
- Hispanic: 2.5 percent
- Mixed: 9.2 percent
- Pacific Islander: 3.9 percent
- Other: 1.9 percent
- Percentage of faculty with doctoral degrees: 83
- Full-time instructional faculty: 1,306
- Student-faculty ratio: 16:1
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- About 3,500 students live on campus
- Student organizations: over 200 cultural, media, social, service, and professional organizations
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I will admit that my BBQ experience is limited, but this is one of the best BBQ places I've been to. Man vs. Food was here last year to experience Pappy's and Adam loved it. It's relatively new, but already a hit.
If you are in town, and looking for some good BBQ, check it out.


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Part 3: "My owner's attitude is, `If it's broken, why didn't you fix it?'"
By Kim Kavin — August 2003
Some owners see such gifts as unnecessary perks, but to the crew, one gesture of appreciation is worth a thousand greenbacks. "That was worth more to me than any money," Simcox says. "When somebody takes the time and thought to say, 'What would mean a lot to this person' that really means something."
Beyond respect and appreciation is trust. This can be difficult to develop—especially if you've suffered with crew who siphoned money or ruined property—but it's necessary. Good crew need to know you trust their financial decisions and abilities. When crew feel they can be left alone to do their jobs well, they usually do just that.
"My owner's attitude is, 'If it's broken, why didn't you fix it?'" Young says. "If you have to call the office for every $200 or $500 you have to spend, the owner's going to get aggravated because you're going to be calling him a lot."
Simcox says a big problem is owners who lack trust in the crew's processes. "I can't imagine that in a large corporation, the boss would micromanage everyone in the building," he says. "When you start questioning the person, you're questioning whether they're capable." Crew have checklists, steps they follow to find solutions. Simcox cites an example of an engineer trying to figure out why the heads weren't working. Imagine the engineer, sweltering in the machinery space, methodically checking hoses and pumps when the owner strolls in and says, "Did you think of this? And did you think to check this?" The approach can leave the engineer feeling the owner lacks confidence in him.
In the end, keeping good crew is really about treating them the way you would like a boss to treat you. "Keep it friendly, keep it fun, but you're still the boss," the longtime owner says. "You can't sit back and expect it to work. You have to put yourself into it, understand what kind of people they are and their needs."
And by all means, don't ask crew to do things you wouldn't feel comfortable doing. If, for example, you wouldn't find it particularly appealing to pass out Viagra to multiple couples in a darkened saloon, don't ask your employees to do it.
That captain, by the way, has long since moved on to another megayacht where he hopes to serve out his career. The owner bought the boat, in part, because the crew cabins are sized to allow for humans to move about comfortably (no good worker will be happy sleeping in a coffin-size berth and sharing a head with six others). On this particular boat, the crew quarters are even finished to the same standard as the guest accommodations, in deference to the owner's belief that crew are not second-class citizens.
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i am suprised no answers yet, i know it's not something essential but anyhow..it also saves some time from booting
ok after i install it using the real installation , the 2700 when backtrack starts i don't see the cool menu it showed before with the iso image
i saw the plain old one it had one bt2 also where i have to put root and toor to login .
i really liked the menu . is it possible to have it after the installation also ?
i am suprised no answers yet, i know it's not something essential but anyhow..it also saves some time from booting
Properbly because know one understands excactly what you mean?!?
he talks about login screen. I guess it is missing on his machine...
i am sorry if i wasn't clear enough but i am talking about the screen you get when you boot where u can choose which mode will the interface will be loaded ( kde/flux/compiz etc )
after i installed backtrack in vmware machine using real installation that screen doesn't appear anymore
I too am trying to install backtrack 3 beta but as a dual boot with XP. I've already looked at some posts and installed it yesterday however I don't know whether its been installed or not now because there is no boot options screen from lilo and it boots straight into windows. I'm a bit new to fiddling with the LILO boot loader and don't even know where it is so I can edit it. I did pick live install because it was default in the pop up screen and not real, have no idea what the difference is. It came up during the install do you want to install the SLAX bootloader this is lilo isn't it? and a line about taking offline any existing operating systems I aborted because I was unsure of what to do but I didn't want anything overwritten. I'm very new to linux. I would appreciate your guidance on this as it would be good to get it all up and working.
not exactly sure what your conditons are but for me:
...BT3 Beta ISO is on my hard drive
...VMware 6.02 is installed on my XP Host o/s on the PC
...BT3 is my guest o/s on the PC
...I start BT3 from the BT3 iso via VMWare
...I get the initial screen you are referring to with the boot choices
Are you doing anything similar to the above? Or something else?
He's saying that he actually went through the install on his virtual drive I'm assuming. So the answer so far is NO you cannot get that boot screen back and you dont need it. In compiz you can switch window mangers and If you want command line only the don't startx. What else from that menu do you really need except the l33tness of the way it looks?


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A little before noon today I stopped by Main Street Music in Beacon to talk with David Bernz, who runs the shop with his son. I wanted to talk to Bernz about Pete Seeger, who died Monday night at age 94. Bernz had known Seeger for decades, played countless songs with him and collaborated with Seeger on a pair of Grammy-winning albums.
We talked for a short while, with Bernz eloquently explaining to me what made Seeger different. Here's some of what he said:
"Every performer arrives with a subtext," he said, adding that ego is one of the most common. "With Pete, the subtext was always, 'Look at these wonderful songs that we can all sing together.' You always felt like you were in it together. Even if it was in Carnegie Hall, it felt like you were in your living room."
"You felt included and optimistic whenever Pete was there, and that earned him a lot of goodwill."
"All of Beacon will miss him. Pete was also a world citizen and made the world a better place," Bernz said. "But for me, I'm going to miss a great friend and a surrogate father."
More remembrances will surface in the coming days, I'm sure. As they do, I'll share them here.
For anyone in the Beacon/Cold Spring area, here are a pair of events to keep in mind: Tonight, musicians will gather at the offices of Philipstown.info, in Cold Spring, to play and sing Seeger's songs. That's slated to start at 8 p.m. And on Wednesday, the Towne Crier, in Beacon, will host a musical tribute to Seeger.


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Good afternoon,
I'm trying to redirect a web page into a different one in case someone gets to it using IE6. I'm a real beginner in js and I found this through google:
<script >
if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
It seems to work ok for MSIE. ¿Any simple way to make it specific for IE6 only?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance...
to check for a specific version use the .appVersion method like this:
if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer" && navigator.appVersion == "6.0 (Windows)") {
Microsoft has something called conditional comments that are used for such a task. It's much more reliable than sniffing the app name and version, as those can be easily faked.
Conditional comments are ignored by all other web browsers, and only obeyed by Internet Explorer.
Here's how a conditional comment would work, where you're checking if the IE version is less than or equal to 6:
<!--[if IE lte 6]>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.redirect.html/">
That's great stuff Paul.
I knew about the conditional comments in order to lead to different CSS files depending on the IE version the user is using, but I didn't know they could be used for redirecting purposes. It really simplifies the problem. Excellent article the one included in your post on Conditional comments
Thanks a lot for the tip.
@ emiljan, thanks very much for the information.
Aaaaand... the conditional comment trick is not really working. May be there's something I'm not doing right.
Here is the comment I used:
<!--[if IE lt 7]><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.ficoprieto.com/tartaruga/index.html/"><![endif]-->
I took it this should be placed within the <head>, like the rest of conditional comments, and I placed it just after the <head> opening tag, right before the charset META tag, so it would be the first line read after the DOCTYPE statement.
¿is it necessary for this specific conditional comment to be placed anywhere else?
Thanks in advance.
What is "not really working" with it?
What is it?
If you have trouble diagnosing such things, let's us check it out. Where is a test page where you have it, for the sake of testing purposes.
I'll never let my dog handle my slippers!!
Well, it's not working meaning that it's not doing what it was expected for it to do, that is, redirecting to a different page. You could say it fails to do anything.
I ended up using a piece of js (it was my second best bet) that seems to be working fine, since I was in a bit of a hurry (my client was starting to despair).
I found the js piece of code here: JS REDIRECT CODE
And here is the URL for the website, not officialy "on the air" yet since there's still a couple of things left to do.
I´d be interested anyway in a way of sorting the conditional comment thing, if you have the time. I like it a lot better as a solution for redirecting after detecting the IE version. As I said, I placed it right after the opening <head> tag.
Here is the comment again:
<!--[if IE lt 7]>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.ficoprieto.com/tartaruga/index.html">
Thanks again.
Let's get them back for you.
The syntax here is incorrect:
<!--[if IE lt 7]>
The lt should come before the IE
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
Yep, that was it, I got my slippers back
It worked just fine.
Thanks a million!!


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In all seriousness Missing, you might think about editing this one. Seems a bit over the top dont you think.
You can have your doggies, they eat their own crap, then lick your face. Buy some peanut butter for your doggie.
In all seriousness Missing, you might think about editing this one. Seems a bit over the top dont you think.
Read the post, the dude removed cat from face cat scratched dudes eye, nothing in there says anything about throwing a cat in the Post. I still say they can fly.
Throw, toss, fly, what's the difference[?] Besides, I would have a farm full of all kinds of animals if I could[^]. Wow, that would be a lot of work:(!
You already do we are living in it.
What seriouiness Wayne? I don't get it. I wonder if Alan will be n the dog house tonight?
Didn't intend to start a cat vs. dog war here. I wont participate in stuff that is just gross. I still think you should edit your post Missing, it is not appropriate.
We have a dog run and a kennel. Got some stout out there so things are not that bad, at least I won't be spitting up hair balls.:D:D
They are raffeling this adorable play house at work. someone built it. It even has an upstairs, and a T.V. I think it would make a good dog house, James would probably move in!
I can't help it if dogs eat crap!


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DUST 514 tournament prize includes renaming a planet
The universe shared by PlayStation 3 shooter Dust 514 and PC MMO EVE Online will be permanently altered at the end of an upcoming tournament.
Tournament headlines
Black Ops 2 MLG spring season detailed
Major League Gaming has released dates, times and all details for its spring season of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
StarCraft 2 World Championship Series returns with $1.6 million in prizes
Blizzard has announced big changes for this year's StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, including a whopping prize pool of $1.6 million.
Austin: Street Fighter 25th Anniversary tournament this weekend
Street Fighter fans in and around Austin, Texas will be the first to take part in Capcom's 25th Anniversary tournament series, which boasts a number of popular titles from the fighting franchise's history. The first round of the touring event runs July 28-29, so if you're keen to participate get on it, fast – it's […]
StarCraft II World Championships UK nationals set for June 30-July 1
The UK national arm of the Starcraft II World Championships takes place this weekend in London. The Electronic Sports League will broadcast all the action, with 16 players battling it out for a prize pool of $15,000 and a seed for the European finals. For more information and to secure tickets, visit the event's Facebook […]
Record attendence expected at EVO 2012
Registrations for this year's EVO World Finals have shattered previous records, with competitors from over 40 countries signing up for a slice of the annual event's largest prize pool to date.
League of Legends Season Two finals front $3 million prize pool
Riot Games has $3 million to give away during the League of Legends Season Two World Championships.
Soul Calibur V Impact Finals livestreamed at 4:00AM GMT
A must see for any aspiring tournmanet fighter, the SoulCalbur V Impact Finals kick off in a few hours and can be viewed from the comfort of your web browser.
Brazillian visitor takes Australian leg of FIFA Interactive World Cup
Five time FIFA Interactive World Cup competitor Samuel Lage Liberato has won his way into the global finals – as Australia's champion.
Battle.net World Championship detailed, 28 countries involved
The ultimate tournament of the Starcraft II World Championship Series is starting to take shape.
Melbourne: Fighters Festival kicks off tomorrow
Head down to the Solei bar and Lounge in Moonee ponds tomorrow after noon to see the nation's finest try to beat each other up – and even throw a few punches yourself.
FIFA Interactive Cup 2012: Azzi ousted from Aussie qualifiers
Eight champions have been chosen from 256 competitors and over 1,000 registrants in the Australian leg of the FIFA Interactive World Cup qualifiers.
LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD offers $21,000 prize pool
Street Fighter fans in and around Los Angeles should visit the Belasco Theater this Saturday, where from 11:00AM to 6:00PM the LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD tournament will be in full swing. The competition is one leg of the global Street Fighter championships, so there's sure to be some excellent bouts. You can register […]
Canada Cup 2011 livestreaming now
Hit the break to check out all the action from Canada Cup 2011, one of the nation's foremost fighting tournaments.
Battlefield 3 tourney offers $1.6 million prize pool
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$5 million offered in next League of Legends season
Riot Games has announced that Season Two of League of Legends will rank among the most lucrative of Western eSports, with a $5 million prize pool.
Australia: Battle of the Clans entry now open
GAME Australia and Turtle Beach are calling on the best Aussie Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops teams to compete in the Battle of the Clans, with a sweet prize pool offering corporate sponsorship.
$1 million up for grabs in DotA 2 gamescom tourney
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Australia: Register for next week's Call of Duty XP tournament
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Pokémon Black and White Championship Series tourney begin in May
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StarCraft II World Championships UK nationals set for June 30-July 1
League of Legends Season Two finals front $3 million prize pool
Brazillian visitor takes Australian leg of FIFA Interactive World Cup
Battle.net World Championship detailed, 28 countries involved
FIFA Interactive Cup 2012: Azzi ousted from Aussie qualifiers
Australia: Register for next week's Call of Duty XP tournament
Pokémon Black and White Championship Series tourney begin in May
Castle Crashers tourney grand prize is a gold plated Xbox 360
European MGO tournament confirmed, trip to Tokyo up for grabs


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Happy New Year from Bethblog! We look forward to sharing the latest news about our games and what we're up to in 2009. It should be a fun year.
While we were away, here's some new awards Fallout 3 earned. We begin at UGO, who gave the game their top honor saying, "Fallout 3 grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go for about 50 hours. It is one of the most complete, satisfying and enjoyable games in years."
The game has also taken GOTY awards at GamesRadar (image above), 411Mania, Philly.com, GayGaymer, Xbox360Achievements, Next Gen Player, and Voodoo Extreme.
At both Gamervision and SoftPedia, the game recently received honors as the top RPG of the 2008. TGR handed out two awards for the game — Best PC Game and Studio of the Year.
Last but not least, the game was also acknowledged as one of the top games of 2008 at ABC News, Variety, The New York Daily News, and Joystiq. Here's a snippet from the latter:
"There are so many things you'll miss if you don't get out and explore. We'd never have gathered up parts and made a railway rifle that pinned enemies to walls, or a flaming sword from a lawnmower blade. Or become obsessed with tracking down every last Vault Boy bobblehead, pre-war book, human finger … or any of the myriad items that seem pointless, yet have a purpose."
To see some of the other awards, head to the Fallout 3 Official Website.


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Xbox 360
Collectors Editions are presently in shortage at both online and b&m stores. Your best options for grabbing a CE:
You can try calling Gamestop, Walmart, or BestBuy and see if they have any extras beyond the pre-order batch. Make sure to see if they are doing a midnight launch. If not, go first thing in the morning
Stores that will NOT have CEs at all:
Target - $10 gift card with purchase
K-Mart/Sears - $20 gamer coupon with purchase
Newegg - Confirmed to be shipping out regular editions but is giving a $20 coupon in compensation
If you had preordered with release day shipping but the expected delivery date is anything later than 10/4/11, it would be in your best interest to contact Amazon CS and complain :P
While supplies last - receive a FREE upgrade to the Collector's Edition of Dark Souls when you pre-order the Standard Edition at no extra cost.
Immerse yourself in the Dark Souls experience with the Collector's Edition, which comes wrapped inside a collectible custom designed metal case with protective sleeve, the highly anticipated Dark Souls game, a mini-strategy guide, unique art book packed with exclusive, high-quality imagery, the original soundtrack & behind-the-scenes videos taken with Dark Souls game development studio FromSoftware.
Dark Souls Collector's Edition Includes:
In stores October 4, 2011
- Special Designed Metal Tin Case & Protective Sleeve
- Dark Souls Game
- Mini-Strategy Guide*
- Custom Art Book
- Original Game Soundtrack*
- Behind-The-Scenes Videos*
*The Mini-Strategy Guide, Original Game Soundtrack & Behind-The-Scenes Videos are provided for digital download via a uniquely redeemable online code printed on a specially marked card inside each Collector Edition box.
Amazon Bonus Offer:
Pre-order Dark Souls and trade-in any video game between September 22nd and October 3rd, and get a $5.00 gift card.
NOTE: Both PS3 CE and 360 CE lately show as out of stock
NOTE2: The product info for both CE and regular pages almost look the same
PS3 Collector's Edition $59.99 ASIN: B00542ZQJO
PS3 Regular $59.99 ASIN: B004NRN5EO
Xbox360 Collector's Edition $59.99 ASIN: B00542ZR4I
Xbox360 Regular $59.99 ASIN: B004NRN5DU
Edited by hlaalumaster9, 13 May 2011 - 02:09 PM.


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This article was published 14/9/2013 (1438 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Globe, Grant Park. PG. 98 minutes.
Woody Allen splices the Bernie Madoff affair with A Streetcar Named Desire and creates a potent drama utilizing the formidable Cate Blanchett as the frail, increasingly unhinged Blanche DuBois-like wife of a high-rolling Wall Street fraudster (Alec Baldwin). After his misdeeds are exposed, she journeys to San Francisco to live with her unpretentious sister (Sally Hawkins) to make a fresh start -- but a life based on lies dies hard. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Polo Park, St. Vital. G. 98 minutes
This sequel to the 2010 hit sees Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) enlisted to save the world. It's a gag-filled delight from start to finish, with more laughs in its first five minutes than Monsters University managed over its entire length. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö 1/2 (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Grant Park, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 110 minutes.
This science-fiction epic takes place in the year 2154, when a dying man (Matt Damon) realizes his only hope to live is to escape the wretched, toxic confines of a polluted Earth and invade the titular paradise-like space station occupied exclusively by the very rich. It's wonderfully pertinent, simultaneously evoking the immigration debate currently raging in the U.S., as well as the widening divide between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us. Pity writer-director Neill Blomkamp can't resist the lure of techs and violence with all those robotic smackdowns. 'Ö'Ö'Ö 1/2
Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 112 minutes.
This very odd comedy stars Robert De Niro as a mafioso hiding out in France with his family, for whom sociopathic criminality is a hard habit to break. Director Luc Besson's weird tonal shifts between comedy and violence go well beyond the tropes of the usual dark comedy and create a crashing dissonance. It's like listening to gangsta rap and La Vie en Rose simultaneously for two hours straight. 'Ö 1/2
Globe. 14A. 85 minutes.
This pertinent docu-drama examines the last day in the life of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) before he was inexplicably killed by a cop at an Oakland train station on New Year's Day in 2009. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Towne. PG. 90 minutes.
Ethan Hawke is a race-car driver forced to commit mayhem in Bulgaria at the behest of a sinister online puppetmaster, with a teen punk (Selena Gomez) along for the ride. The car action may be fast, but when it comes to smarts, this thing is definitely driving in the slow lane, and Gomez's character is so awful, she may make us wistful for Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, now unseated as the most obnoxious movie heroine of all time. 'Ö
Grant Park. PG. 93 minutes
Lake Bell wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy about a vocal coach who attempts to break into the big time world of movie trailer voice-overs, where her biggest competitor turns out to be her own dad. This slight and exceedingly sly indie stands as an entertaining first crack at what should be a long career for Bell behind the camera. 'Ö'Ö'Ö 1/2 (Reviewed by Betsy Sharkey)
Grant Park, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 106 minutes.
This sequel to the low-budget 2010 chiller carries on with the story of a family (including Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) besieged by malevolent forces from an unseen spirit world. While not as shriek-inducing as the commercials would have you believe, it does sustain director James Wan's admirable lo-fi approach to the material. When it does scare, it does so as a result of solid acting, writing, directing and editing, not digital trickery. 'Ö'Ö 1/2
Polo Park, St. Vital. 18A. 103 minutes.
This sequel to the 2010 comic-book movie sees Dave/Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Mindy/Hit Girl (Chlo´ Grace Moretz) face a new menace in the form of Chris D'Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who has gone the route of the supervillain with an assembly of serious bad guys in his thrall. Alas, as the first movie's shock-of-the-new appeal has worn off, a sense of the familiar has blanketed the franchise, making for a harsh, disagreeable combination of ultra-violence and outr© high school hijinks. 'Ö'Ö
Globe. 14A. 95 minutes.
This eccentric comedy-drama focuses on three teen lads who decide to buck parental authority and build a house in the woods where they can initiate their own passages into manhood. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and screenwriter Chris Galletta bring a freewheeling energy and enjoyably snarky-witty dialogue to a mash-up combining John Hughes teen melodrama with the studied eccentricity of a Wes Anderson: Ferris Bueller's Moonrise Kingdom. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Globe, Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park. 14A. 133 minutes.
Lee Daniels (Precious) directs this drama starring Forest Whitaker as a sharecropper's son who grows up to become a White House butler in service to every U.S. president from Eisenhower (Robin Williams) to Reagan (Alan Rickman). The stunt casting is off-putting and Daniels prefers seamy melodrama to insights into the varying characters of presidents, but the central idea still manages to provoke. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. PG. 130 minutes.
A stilted, silly mish-mash of earlier fantasy franchises, starring Lily Collins as a young woman who learns she is the latest in a long line of "shadow-hunters," descendants of an angel, born to do battle with sundry demons, vampires, witches and warlocks. If you love exposition and shapely if bland young actors in leather, skinny jeans, knee boots, goth cocktail dresses and heavy eye makeup, this may be the movie for you. 'Ö'Ö 1/2 (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Kildonan Place, Polo Park, St. Vital. G. 93 minutes.
The Brit boy band created by Simon Cowell get their own 3D concert film/love-in directed by Morgan Spurlock. It's not that different from the Justin Bieber doc, or the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus concert films -- sanitized and packaged -- presenting these five British and Irish boys, ages 19-21, as paragons of pop virtue while others vouch for what "rebels" they are, and that they have "edge." 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Kildonan Place, Polo Park, St. Vital. PG. 106 minutes.
This sequel to Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief sees our demi-god hero (Logan Lerman) and his friends attempting to save their refuge by going on a mission to the Bermuda Triangle to discover the Golden Fleece. The saga gets points for attempting to illuminate the world of Greek mythology for young audiences, but it's too bad the result is largely lacklustre. 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Claudia Puig)
McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital. G. 92 minutes.
A humble crop-dusting plane named Dusty Crophopper (voiced by Dane Cook) aspires to be a racer and enters an around-the-world contest in this Disney spin-off of Pixar's Cars franchise. The movie earns a few bonus air miles with some exotic locales and a few genuinely funny moments but a wartime flashback is a tad too grim for the presumably juvenile crowd. 'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, Polo Park Imax, St. Vital, Towne. 18A. 119 minutes.
Vin Diesel returns as the titular psychopathic fugitive going up against predators and bounty hunters on a hostile planet. After the bloated PG-13 middle instalment The Chronicles of Riddick, the big guy returns to his Pitch Black roots for some gratifyingly gory B-movie hijinks. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
St. Vital, Towne. G. 105 minutes.
The wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria), needing some Smurf magic, conjures up a couple of Naughties (elfin Smurf-like entities of dishonest disposition) to kidnap Smurfette (Katy Perry). Filled with Smurf wholesomeness, Smurf puns and posi-Smurf messages about "never giving up on family," The Smurfs 2 still sucks Smurfberries. 'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
McGillvray, Polo Park. 14A. 109 minutes.
A couple of bank robbers (Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg) accidentally steal $40 million from a small-town bank, leading to the slow unravelling of a massive conspiracy involving the DEA, the CIA, the navy and a Mexican drug cartel. It all feels like a '70s throwback (specifically recalling the '73 classic Charley Varrick) and Washington and Wahlberg have a bit of charisma, which helps with an otherwise rote action movie. 'Ö'Ö 1/2
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 110 minutes.
Jason Sudeikis is a lowly pot dealer forced to assemble a bogus wholesome family to get a huge shipment of marijuana across the border from Mexico. A twist on the snobs-vs.-slobs comedy formula -- call it straights-vs.-reprobates -- this is a pleasingly raunchy summer farce with Sudeikis ideally cast as a lowlife with a wholesome facade and Jennifer Aniston gleefully tearing apart her Friends image as the sensible good girl, in the role of a desperate stripper at the end of her G-string rope. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Polo Park. 14A. 126 minutes.
The feral, adamantium-boned loner Logan (Hugh Jackman) is summoned to Japan by a man whose life he saved during the Second World War, only to find himself rendered physically vulnerable for the first time in his life. This gets points for going somewhere new in a superhero movie, where the norm is to get stuck in the fertile but familiar mud of the origin story. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 109 minutes.
The world ends not with a bang but a whimper and so too does director Edgar Wright's otherwise riotous "Cornetto trilogy" (also including Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). Simon Pegg is a stuck-in-the-past party animal who convinces four of his old mates to complete a 12-stop pub crawl unsuccessfully initiated in the '80s. Alas, the old hometown is now populated with robots. In the previous films, Wright and Pegg took the mickey out of genre movies and contemporary life. This movie, while not without some rewarding comic bits, indicates encroaching middle age has taken the mickey out of them. 'Ö'Ö'Ö


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Life in a typical Polish DP Camp
Northwick Park
and Information on other family
and CEMETERIES
to some Polish camps
Polish Boarding Schools
Ships' Names and passenger lists
from Africa, India and Europe.
List of Polish Resettlement Corps Camps
book documents the experience of living in Polish resettlement
camps in England and Wales after WW2. It is a photographic
record of events in the camps brought to life in personal
stories by past residents. In 75,000 words and 700 images the
book covers thirty camps and six Polish boarding schools.
Second and third generation descendants researching their
past, find little or no information about how or why their
parents or grandparents came here, how they lived and
integrated in the British community. Similarly, English
communities are increasingly aware that military camps in
their neighbourhood emptied after WW2 then filled with
displaced persons. They find few records about who these
people were, where they came from or their personal and social
lives. This book recreates the spirit of that period and fills
a historical void. Available
only in the UK
Why were they here after WW2?
the defeat of the Polish army by the joint forces of Hitler's
Germany and Stalin's USSR in September 1939, an order went out for Polish soldiers to make their way, as best they
could, to France where a Polish Government in Exile was formed
under the premiership of gen. Sikorski and a Polish army was
being assembled to continue fighting alongside Poland's allies –
Britain and France. The army that formed in France participated
in the abortive Narvik campaign and, following the defeat of
France in 1940, evacuated to Britain. Those that didn't make it
across Italy to France headed for Syria where they were formed
into the Carpathian Rifle Brigade which later fought at Tobruk.
In the meantime Stalin was consolidating his hold on the part of
Poland that the Soviet Union had annexed under the Ribbentrop –
Molotov pact by deporting to Siberia anyone thought likely to resist the
annexation . By the time Hitler attacked the Soviet
Union on 22nd
June 1941 close to a million Poles had been deported.
Germany's attack on the Soviets brought them into the Allied
camp together with Britain and Poland, consequently, Stalin
agreed to a Polish army being formed in the USSR. A so
called "amnesty" for all Poles in Prisoner of War Camps, NKVD
Prisons and in Soviet Exile was declared and all those who heard
of the "amnesty", and were able to undertake the journey, set out
for the recruitment centres. In 1942 the army and its
dependents left the Soviet Union for Persia (Iran) to be
re-equipped and made ready for battle. The Polish Armed
Forces in Exile thus became the third largest fighting force in
the West after Britain and America. Their Battle Honours
include Narvik, the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Atlantic,
Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Normandy and Arnhem.
The political settlement between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill
meant that when the war ended the Soviets annexed Eastern Poland
and incorporated it into the Soviet Union while the rest of
Poland became a puppet state with a communist government imposed
by Russia. The vast majority of Poles rejected this
settlement and chose to remain in The West where they could
continue the political struggle for an independent Poland while
maintaining their language, culture, and traditions for an
eventual return to their homeland.
Some 250,000 chose to remain in Britain and were joined by
their families and dependents from wherever the fortunes
of war had left them. By far the largest number were those who, having escaped from
Siberia with the Polish Army in 1942, had spent the war in
Displaced Persons camps set up by the British in India and
West Africa. The only way such numbers could be
accommodated was by placing them in camps recently vacated
by the Americans and Canadians.
There were many such
camps in the UK most were built in the early 40s in rural
areas, often in the grounds of large country estates, as
Military Hospitals, Army Bases and Airfields. A Polish
Resettlement Corps (PRC) was raised in 1946 as a corps of
the British Army into which Poles were enlisted for the
period of their demobilization up to 1948.
The camps in the UK were
given up by the MOD for housing Polish Families and they
were administered by a number of organisations; National
Assistance Board, Local Authorities and the National Service Hostels
Corporation being the principal ones.
Some were hostels
for single working men and a handful were Polish boarding
schools run by the Committee for the Education of Poles. There
were also a number of Polish Hospitals, the best known was Hospital no.3 in
Penley North Wales.
As people were finding their
feet, many moved out of the camps in search of better
work and accommodation. A large number, with help from the
authorities, emigrated to the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada
and Argentina. The camps were slowly closing and families
were moved from camp to camp so that by the mid 1950-s the 200 odd camps had dwindled to around 50 and
by the mid 1960-s there were just a handful left.
Northwick Park camp in Gloucestershire closed in 1970 when the
last family was moved to Stover Park camp which became a
hospice and home for the elderly.
I lived in a DP camp for 15
years and you can follow my experience by clicking on the
Life in a typical Polish DP Camp I am particularly
interested in camps that were home to
Polish families and you can see
the information that I have been able to gather on
List and information of other CAMPS
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Visit Sedo at events & trade shows
Whether as sponsor, speaker or exhibitor: our international team is routinely represented at events all over the world. We would also be happy to meet with you personally on location to discuss your opinions, your strategy, and your portfolio.
Meet us at these events
Just contact us. We are looking forward to discussing your domain strategy face-to-face.
11th - 12th September, 2017 | Las Vegas, USA
Tropicana, 3801 Las Vegas Boulevard South
On location:
Dmexco 2017
13th - 14th September, 2017 | Cologne, Germany
Koelnmesse, Messeplatz 1
On location:
The European Summit
14th - 17th September, 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic
Vienna House Diplomat Hotel
On location:
Domain-Stammtisch München
23rd September , 2017 | Munich, Germany
Biergarten zum Flaucher, Munich
On location:
Bits & Pretzels
24th - 26th September, 2017 | Munich, Germany
The event's location is still to be announced
On location:
NamesCon China
12th October , 2017 | Shanghai, China
Andaz Shanghai Xintiandi
On location:
14th - 18th October, 2017 | Orlando, USA
Orlando Marriott World Center
On location:
28th October - 3rd November, 2017 | Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre
On location:
Web Summit
6th - 9th November, 2017 | Lisbon, Portugal
MEO Arena and FIL
On location: