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to latvia, i was born in 1948 over there. when i left already i felt, early in my 20's i realize how miserable their life was. they lived under a huge july. -- huge lie. they spent years and years in the country, latvia, the soviet republic, they did not know the language. they did not know why they were there. my father was a party member. he was a pretty high military officer under the jr. colonel. he was a total stalinist. he had a streak of anti- semitism and a very strewed man and a nervous man. remember when stalin died, i was 5. i remember he cried. four days. -- for days. when we realized who the hell joseph stalin was, my father was christ. totally -- crushed. totally crushed. i felt i would never forgive that country for what they went through. we lived there until i was 12 or so with a communal apartment with five families. the same kitchen. my brother and me and parents. it was a hell. but it was a common thing. my father was not a general or admiral but he was a colonel. he was teaching in the military academy ty
to latvia, i was born in 1948 over there. when i left already i felt, early in my 20's i realize how miserable their life was. they lived under a huge july. -- huge lie. they spent years and years in the country, latvia, the soviet republic, they did not know the language. they did not know why they were there. my father was a party member. he was a pretty high military officer under the jr. colonel. he was a total stalinist. he had a streak of anti- semitism and a very strewed man and a...
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in latvia.just under 15,000 american airlines miles for a beer-tasting tour of brussels. >> a leather vest signed by george clooney will cost you about 177,000 air canada miles. >> that's worth saving up for. >> that's worth saving up for. "save 500 bucks over here!" "no, save 300 bucks over here!" "wait, save 400 bucks right here." with so many places offering so much buck-saving, where do you start? well, esurance was born online, raised by technology, and majors in efficiency. so they're actually built to save you money... and time... and whiplash. esurance. insurance for the modern world. click or call. used dishcloths. they can have a history that they drag around with them. try bounty extra soft. in this lab demo, one sheet of bounty extra soft leaves this surface 3 times cleaner than a dishcloth. the cleaner way to clean. bounty extra soft. . >>> deadly accident leaves a community in mourning. the crash that has taken the lives of a father and child and has a 17-year-old driver facing pri
in latvia.just under 15,000 american airlines miles for a beer-tasting tour of brussels. >> a leather vest signed by george clooney will cost you about 177,000 air canada miles. >> that's worth saving up for. >> that's worth saving up for. "save 500 bucks over here!" "no, save 300 bucks over here!" "wait, save 400 bucks right here." with so many places offering so much buck-saving, where do you start? well, esurance was born online, raised by...
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>>stuart: you have installed the system in nigeria and latvia? >>guest: yes. and in south africa.hey delayed if we have almost 10,000 bird strikes a year, now, i can see if your system was if place you would have a lot of delays. >>guest: not necessarily you thing of 10,000 strikes a year and you look at number of airport movement on any airport each day and thant of time it take we are talking millions of operations so, no, there is not a lot of day. south africa the delays there are a number of minutes a number of days a week or a number of months so we are not looking at something that will handcuff the traffic control but it will be when the system has a serious set of conditions we delay. a minute or two. >>stuart: you can tell the difference between a flock of greece or starlings. >>guest: generally. >>stuart: you can build into the system if it is a threat but that takes the judgment away from human beings and puts it in the hand of a computer. >>guest: it does, but if anything it can start the process, we can let the computer, the radar, detect and call the hazard. and if
>>stuart: you have installed the system in nigeria and latvia? >>guest: yes. and in south africa.hey delayed if we have almost 10,000 bird strikes a year, now, i can see if your system was if place you would have a lot of delays. >>guest: not necessarily you thing of 10,000 strikes a year and you look at number of airport movement on any airport each day and thant of time it take we are talking millions of operations so, no, there is not a lot of day. south africa the delays...
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he had fled poland which was his homeland and gone via latvia and lithuania. he was working here in 1944 when he coined this term. he tried to get it into webster's and the o.e.d. and all the dictionaries but recognized -- he was a lawyer -- he recognized a free-floating word that canoted evil wasn't enough. what he did after coining the word was draft the first u.n. human rights treaty which was the genocide convention. he died in 1959. he tried to get the genocide convention through the u.n. general assembly and most crucially through the u.s. senate which he failed to do. >> what does genocide mean? >> very controversial, obviously to this day. the definition settled upon in the u.n. treaty is a systematic attempt to destroy in whole or substantial part a national, ethnic or religious group as such. the idea here is that you don't have to exterminate every last member of the group to commit genocide. if you intend to wipe out the group as a meaningful entity on a territory, that's enough. it's more expansive than our associations which are with the holocaus
he had fled poland which was his homeland and gone via latvia and lithuania. he was working here in 1944 when he coined this term. he tried to get it into webster's and the o.e.d. and all the dictionaries but recognized -- he was a lawyer -- he recognized a free-floating word that canoted evil wasn't enough. what he did after coining the word was draft the first u.n. human rights treaty which was the genocide convention. he died in 1959. he tried to get the genocide convention through the u.n....
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all you need is 13,000 points, sam, on air baltic to win a dog-sledding adventure this latvia. win george clooney? >> you win a vest signed by him. turns out, by the way, you can get all of that for far less money if you just buy it. >> not george clooney. >> he's wheels up. >> this is true. i wanted to race through that. >> lara has to do pop news. i've had plenty of the pie since last week. >> why, i would love to. >> i will wait. >> get right to it. >>> good morning to you all, thanks for the pi. hello, let's do "pop news." who saw sofia vergara kill it on "snl "? she showed us how to do it right? her spot-on portrayal of fran drescher. look at this one. >> how are you? >> wow, your voice is really loud. >> i know. the guy from the nanny used to call me the bull horn. it was said with anger. >> she summed up her evening saying, forgive me if you don't understand what i say. i forgive you for staring at my chest all night. >> moving right along. wow. >> her words. very funny. >>> good news for fans of keith urban. the risky surgery he had a few months ago to remove a polyp fr
all you need is 13,000 points, sam, on air baltic to win a dog-sledding adventure this latvia. win george clooney? >> you win a vest signed by him. turns out, by the way, you can get all of that for far less money if you just buy it. >> not george clooney. >> he's wheels up. >> this is true. i wanted to race through that. >> lara has to do pop news. i've had plenty of the pie since last week. >> why, i would love to. >> i will wait. >> get right...