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Haven't a clue - not my PC. BTW - can I convert .flv files into something else so as to use a subtitle format along with it?

Only there is a problem - I can't seem to have downloaded the file beyond the first 3 minutes - glitch.

Opened the file via Riva FLV Player - courtesy of Aubepine.

OK - I found the file. Dang hidden folders.

This is it... Only I can't even figure out how to access the temporary internet files on this PC to save it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogcVJ_MU9Ew

Slowing down would be OK. Then again maybe I should handle the mouse. Thanks. On a different note - I have found on youtube a recording of Rakel Dink's eulogy to her husband. I thought it would be great if I could subtitle it with my translation of the speech. What software do I need for that, anybody know?

There's also this... http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?titl...Genocide_Photos

What is the most comprehensive photo collection on the Armenian genocide out there? So far this one seems ok - http://www.armenian-genocide.org/photointro.html ... But I want more.

LOL... Well, unfortunately, such is the intellect of the average Turkish citizen there for you. Excuses, excuses, excuses...

I'm not quite sure Dink did that per se. In fact, he got rused because of an article in which he was actually addressing problems in the Armenian community!

My thoughts exactly. Sadly, Dink achieved more in his death than he could have dreamed of being and doing in life. And the symbolism that the moderator of the funeral ceremony and his wife used in her eulogy to the crowds, I could not help but notice - it spoke of sacrifice for peace like you don't find elsewhere, except when in church about Jesus Christ. That is the conviction they shared with him. I likewise heard that he had been offered a chance of asylum through an NGO closely affiliated with the Swedish government, but he had turned it down. Likewise the newspaper Agos is now on the rebound - apparently at some point it had actually been boycotted by the Armenian community because of his fallout with Mutafyan - just what about I don't know the details. Agos is now preparing to publish monthly in English as well, I think. Hopefully his "sacrifice" was not in vain. I can't be optimistic, though, as a-holes the world over kill him again and again and again.

Cruel and barbaric, yes. In punishment, certainly yes. But punishment and racism, nah, I don't see the connection. I don't see what's racist and discriminatory in Cele Kula, other than that it is the only example I know of. Not everything that is cruel is racist. Likewise I'd be hard-pressed to use a blanket statement and call Genghis Khan "racist"... To tie it up and whatever the case may be - the Ottoman Empire got its fair share of nationalism and racism, albeit perhaps a bit later than most other "millets" in the empire.

It certainly was far-removed from today's values, but "racist" somehow doesn't seem right. When I hear "racist," I think of the pre-Civil War America, the Middle Passage, apartheid South Africa, the Third Reich, the Hindu caste system...

Did Akcam say anything about Dink? Just curious. Boy, I'm getting the goosebumps. They're only growing bolder, getting more acknowledgement. That's good, good.

To outright reject the existence of racism in the Ottoman Empire in the heydays of nationalist movements is a fallacy. And of course we know better, that there is more to it than that, unless one suffers from self-inflicted selective memory syndrome. SISMS... Hey I like that.

I have this pilates CD which I would like to put on and follow. The problem is, the moves from exercise to exercise are pretty quick, and I can't complete my reps before each one is over. So I was wondering if there should be software that would allow us to slow down the track some. I'm not aware of such in the conventional.

Today, Armenia is a Tashnak dictatorship. But it dares to urge us to expand freedom of expression. Not a single book that denies the genocide claims is sold in Armenia. Denies? Do denialists use that word per se to describe what they're doing? I would have thought something more dignified, such as "fighting for the truth," or something. Freudian slip?

There is not a single Ottoman monument left in Armenia. Not a single Turk or Azeri lives there. You could think that the Ottoman Empire's Revan province never existed. However, we invited the Armenian diaspora to restore the Akhdamar Church. Since there was no reply, Turkey did the restoration as a gesture. In return, the infamous bill was introduced to the French Parliament and a resolution introduced at the U.S. Congress. As if the church HAD to be restored or else.

Best of luck to you! Especially since you seem to live in the age of the Old Testament.

Yes, had I not known better I would have thought they must be one of them Turco-barbarians to censor like that... Funny, that.

Most eloquent. Thank you.

By the way, take the discussion about the Montreaux Convention, which like the Treaty of Guarantee should be done away with, elsewhere.

Please be reminded that those who have in one way or another had anything to do with Dink in the past and who continue to write about him in their public commentaries receive threats themselves. These are Etyen Mahcupyan, Baskin Oran, and now Can Dundar http://www.candundar.com.tr/index.php ... Can Dundar's TV programme had been the last one Dink had participated in. Can Dundar has also continued to write about the aftermath of Dink's assassination. Note these names well. And of course there are Orhan Pamuk, Elif Safak, and Taner Akcam. Have I missed out on anyone else?

Come to think of it I had never thought whether a translation would exist or not. Still, I am opposed to translating from translations. I've come close to losing my wits on a couple of occasions when I had the opportunity to find and compare with the original against my own translation-of-a-translation. You risk too much deviation - too much from my perspective, anyway. It should have been translated from the original Arabic, not the Farsi! Consulting an Iranian translator is not nearly enough.

I'd say it is a must-not-miss. Not because he is such a brilliant scholar but because people must show their support for people like him. Overall I think it could also turn out interesting.