 response, she said.

The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers said there were now more than 100,000 people trapped on the Syrian side of the Turkish border, with 35,000 having fled in the past week from camps that had been taken over by Islamic State fighters or had become too close to the front line.

Turkey has closed the frontier to all but the most seriously ill or wounded people.

"Yet again we see tens of thousands of people forced to flee but with almost nowhere safe to go -- trapped in this bloody, brutal conflict," said Muskilda Zancada, MSF's mission chief in Syria in a statement.

Riad Hijab, chief coordinator of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), told a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday: "The regime and its allies are working on seizing Aleppo, which means seizing 650,000 citizens. The regime and Russians are using all kinds of weapons."

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by John Irish and Peter Graff)
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The United Nations expressed deep worry on Wednesday over the fate of more than 40,000 Syrians who have fled fighting near the northern city of Aleppo that has escalated in recent days as government forces press an offensive despite a truce.
German show horse killed for meat after arriving in U.S.
A beloved German show horse imported into the United States less than a week ago may have been mutilated into colt cuts.

The 12-year-old gelding Phedras de Blondel was found butchered just yards from his new Florida home on Monday — apparently to be used as meat, authorities said.

“What they did to this horse had nothing to do with his value,” the horse’s brief new owner Debbie Stephens told WTSP.

“It’s one of the cruelest things that could happen to any horse. This just turned my life around.”

She told The New York Times the horse had been “filleted.”

“The slices were so deliberate and so well done that the moment you saw it: This was a professional.”

Her husband, Steve Stephens, had a word for the crime when speaking with the Dressage News: “This was a murder.”

“We have no enemies,” he added. “We have no idea who did this.”

The marvelous mare was reported missing from his new home in Palmetto on Sunday, and investigators noticed a broken fence on the scene. The next day, they made the horrific discovery: The 1,300 jumping horse was dismembered, with all four legs sliced off.

Police are investigating the stallion slaughter as an animal cruelty case, but have not named any suspects.

Although considered a delicacy in parts of Europe and Asia, horse meat is illegal in many places in the United States, including Florida. There are no slaughterhouses processing horse meat, but because of that, a black market for meat persists, police said.

“This type of thing has been going on in our state, not here though,” Manatee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dave Bristow told WPTV.

“It's a horrible crime scene, and obviously for the owner to have to go through this is just absolutely terrible,” he said.

It’s unclear how much the equestrian couple paid for Phedras de Blondel, but competition horses can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and the horse’s last owners are now offering $18,000 just for information that could lead to an arrest.
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The 12-year-old gelding Phedras de Blondel was found butchered just yards from his new home. Endo is, quite honestly, the devil. I just want you to know that it's okay to feel the way you do and to not feel guilty for those feelings. I was very similar in high school, no acne, I was overweight, however I felt good about myself. The pain started with a fury and I went years without a diagnosis and it was unbarable. My hair stopped growing longer and I was losing so much of it and gaining more weight in short periods of time. Once some doctors finally took me seriously, they put me on BC I had the lap and in just a few months my face cleared up, my moods were more regulated, I could sleep better and I stopped packing on pounds for the most part. Every lady on here understands where you're coming from and are here to support you &lt;3Not the sun…meet Mr. Moon.
Full moon last night and it was The Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse. The lack of trees and city lights gave us a pretty good view, though I should have gotten out my good camera to capture it, it was very cold and I am pretty lazy, so I used my cell phone.
They came out ‘okay’ not great, so please bare with me here – there are much better photos and videos online.
Anyway, you get the drift. We thought it would be a little more dramatic but not so much at least from our vantage point. Plus the camera doesn’t do it justice, but we did see the slow eclipsing of the moon and it did turn in color to more of a rust.
It didn’t start until the moon was pretty high in the sky and the night was very cold, like below zero, so we didn’t set up outside. It was in and out of the house all night to view it.
You could see the stars all around the moon, the sky was nice and clear. That is what the white dots are in the upper right quadrant of the photo.
Moving on to wild life around here….
Yes, the four legged kids provide some pretty wild moments on occasion.
This is Fidget who managed to find the automatic hand soap dispenser when he got up on the counter in the kitchen. Since it is a definite NO NO!! I kind of feel a sense of justice in the whole thing, but am wishing I would have had a video camera set up.
I didn’t know he was up there until I heard the sudden crashing and yowling as he tried to escape the kitchen sink that the pump hangs over.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and a Happy Monday!Editors' Choice 2013: Adventure Appetites Reindeer Gouda Scramble Wrap
After a few days afield, sodium-packed meals with bland textures can curb appetites and curtail a hiker’s much-needed calorie intake. That’s when a fresh-tasting meal like this egg, cheese, and reindeer sausage breakfast wrap shines. “The cheesiness and the peppery meat elevated this meal to one of the best on-trail breakfasts I’ve ever eaten,” says one tester. Food this good isn’t instant: Prep requires 20 minutes and a couple of bowls for rehydrating hash browns and eggs. Chop the vacuum-sealed sausage (Alaska made, it’s tangy and chewy) and Gouda cheese (creamy and smoky), and heat the meat alongside the eggs before melting the cheese atop a pile centered on an included 8-inch tortilla (tip: BYO extra tortillas, as you’ll likely have filling left over).
“It’s a bit of a production to make, so save this tasty, filling meal for a lazy morning,” suggests one tester who enjoyed the hearty breakfast wrap between double-digit mileage days in Tasmania’s Walls of Jerusalem National Park. Some Adventure Appetites meals, like this one, have semi-fresh ingredients, so they’re not long-term shelf-stable (use it or freeze within two weeks of production); order them immediately pretrip, or freeze them to extend freshness. $15 (2 servings); 10 oz. (mfr. weight); adventureappetites.comI should have been in Algeria right now, but the obvious lack of desert and camels and the high number of pubs and fry-shacks tell me that I’m still in merry old Belgium. The people who invited me send me the paperwork for my visa-application just before Christmas. So naturally, my application drowned in the big heap of travel documents that are requested around that period. My colleagues went several times to the consulate, but they were blocked by two cunts (hence: cunt-sulate, woohah!) that just kept on saying ‘no’, without specifying why. So a number of strings had to be pulled to find out what was wrong, and the end result is that my application is slowly rising in the Algerian consulate’s stack of paperwork.
But we still had to cancel my plane ticket, and now I’m completely in the dark about when I can leave. I do have to leave and preferably as fast as possible because another mission to Niger is awaiting me somewhere in February.
Makes you really appreciate democracy and free transit of persons, goods and services. Three cheers for the Union!When discussing the GULAG era and fear in the society, people usually link [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo1WouI38rQ) (it has English subs). But Stalin's rule ended in 1953 (and anyway the peak of the persecutions was in the 1930s).  


1960s (Krushov's rule) were considered to be the "thaw period": Stalin was officially condemned as a tyrant, and the state became liberal to a degree, with freedom of speech etc. Only by Soviet standards, but still: it was