ISIL closes in on border town with Turkey
Kurds, on the Turkish side of the border, say President Erdogan's government is not doing enough to stop the assault. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have closed in on a key Kurdish town in Syria, right next to the border with ...
Preview: Jim Henson’s The Musical Monsters Of Turkey Hollow By Roger Langridge
I got a good glimpse of this at San Diego Comic Con (before my hotel room was flooded, washing it away…) Wild muppets, discovered in the autumn landscape who respond to music and slowly begin to integrate themselves in the human town of Turkey Hollow ...
Turkey ecomonic growth to be stifled by rising domestic interest rates in 2014
(live-PR.com) - Although we view positively Turkey´s long-term growth potential, our real GDP growth forecasts remain well below consensus in 2014 and 2015. Rising domestic interest rates, in line with developed state yields, will stifle credit growth, an ...
Refugees Watch Battle in Hometown From Syria-Turkey Border
ABC News' Terry Moran is on the Turkey/Syria border as ISIS fighters battle Syrians.
IS closes in on a Kurdish area of Syria on border with Turkey
ISLAMIC State militants were closing in on a Kurdish area of Syria on the border with Turkey - an advance unhindered so far by US-led coalition air strikes. Islamic State fighters pounded the city of Kobani with mortars and artillery shells, advancing ...
Theme Food Week: Fall Flavors Week {September}+ a bonus recipe
{cooking} Theme Food Week: Fall Flavors If you remember (or saw) in a previous post I had mentioned the "theme food" weeks that I was going to start doing and make a regular feature on the blog. In case you don't remember (or didn't see) here's the basic idea..... One week of every month will be "Th ...
Khorasan: Not Quite Out of Nowhere
In a post this weekend, to which both Jack and Ben have already written responses, Glenn Greenwald suggests the Khorasan group is a “wholesale concoction” that appeared “seemingly out of nowhere” in the press in the run-up to the current campaign. In contrast to Greenwald’s claim, the Long War Journ ...
Lazy day
Laid back day. Went to the orthodontist. Went to the grocery and to the dollar store. Then had a long leisurely lunch with an old old friend who is in the klezmer band that Bert was in and she said they haven't been getting many gigs, so she asked me to throw a party of people who might want to hire ...
The Holidays are coming....
My favorite holiday is almost here, it's Halloween, I guess its my Bff because I can dress up and pretend I am someone else, like Jack Sparrow for example or Capt Kirk...Who, I ask, can not love that? So I decided to get down and dirty with the holidays because they are all fixin to hit us and hit u ...
Bolt Out of the Blue 16
Family Day at the Palace I hung up from talking to Seifer after promising I’d be over on Sunday to help the Almasy family cook a proper feast. Laguna overheard and might have been slightly disappointed I was leaving earlier than originally planned. He should have known better than to threaten me wit ...
Small Parking Spaces. Big Cars.
The German newspaper, Die Welt (the world), ran an article, in August 2014, about a growing problem involving parking spaces, particularly in Germany: the parking spaces are too small. Spaces in many parking facilities were on the small end of the size spectrum when built. As car sizes continue to i ...
