Edge of civil war in Ukraine

Read all about it RIGHT HERE.

Interesting article; however, where was the anti-Semitism? I tend to follow the wisdom of Eric Hoffer that I interpret as meaning that every movement has its zealots, and other followers might wind up being possibly sacrificed for the zealots' cause. I prefer an anonymous existence. But, the belief that they are "slaves" seems somewhat histrionic? I guess they do not like Russia, and its sphere of influence over the Ukraine?

You can also read about it HERE but I think you need to be fluent in Latvian to follow this story.

Thanks for this link, Andrew.

You're welcome,edgar. Google prob'ly has some other links as well. I should check.

Just listened to a piece on CBC radio about the current mess in the Ukraine. The podcast isn't up yet. Will check for it again on the weekend.

Here's the BBC take on European reaction to the crisis.

This is the one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis
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(Courtesy of the Washington Post)

Oops. A little too big. How do I shrink it?

good question (and beyond my technical abilities)

I resized your image.

So who thinks that terrorism will rear it's ugly head at the Olympics? I'm not predicting it but I just smell a rat but hoping for the best.

I know how and it's easy. I keep the link on my desktop..

Here's the quote from an early a2k blog post -


New image BBCode features (size and align)
September 13, 2008 | By Robert Gentel
We have made updates to the image bbcode to allow you to specify the size and alignment of the images you post. This can be useful if the image is too big or if you’d like the text to wrap the image. Here is how to do it.

To specify the size, use width and height attributes on the opening image tag like this:



If you want to align the image you can use “left”, “right” or “center” in an align attribute like this:



If you want to see an example of what you can do with the image align attribute see this topic.

Update: for a better example using both size and align at the same time see this topic on the Falling Man Photo


ok, this is me, I still use this, but alter the numbers given such as such a photo which migbt be vertical instead of rectangular.

It has always worked for me, but you need to pay attention re spacing.

Yipes.

Ok, I routinely resize. I'll try to describe how I do it again.
just do this -
look for photos somewhere under a thousand or about, one way and another, in the choices you get.

if you want to reproduce one, do this




If the link gives cattywampus with large sizes, change the sizes.
Me, I like within, say 800 and 400..

what is this crap?

it is easy.

First type [img width

and then type,with no space, =, and then, no space after, type your idea of width, say, 800; do one space and type height=400 or some other number.

I meant not against Andy, but what is going on that I can't ever give link to an early a2k blog how to.

I wouldn't be so annoyed except that I tried to link people to this advice in the a2k blog before. It is a simple thing.

I'll try again -

[img width=800 height=400]name of url[/img]

Vary the width and height, but keep them around those numbers.

This is another Russian glove puppet. Ukraine is caught between those who want to be part of the EU and those who want to remain in Russia's sphere of influence. The Russians are very good at demonising those who want to go their own way. Russia's not exactly got a brilliant track record when it comes to treating Jews.

And the Ukraine, from what I understand, has it's own high degree of virulent Jewish mistreatment and ingrained hatred.