My question: Who is withdrawing the forces?

Most of the British troops are scheduled to be withdrawn at May 31. There are going to be 400 British soldiers left behind to keep peace and help them train their soldiers and also help with other things

British troops moving out of Iraq

British troops are finally beginning their final withdrawal from Iraq! it has been six years since the American-led invasion of the country. Most of the troops are leaving by 31 May - the official date for the end of the combat.
Four hundred troops wil stay behind to keep peace and train Iraqi forces.
My question: Who is withdrawing forces?

Blood Red Horse Chapter 5

There are two brothers, Gavin and Will. William is the main character, I think.William is younger brother of Gavin. They fight each other a lot. There is another character in the book called Ellie. She hates Gavin as much as William does. Sir Thomas went to a war, and he couldn't spend a lot of time on building the castle. So time passes, William becomes better on riding horses.

The First Crusade

The first crusade's destination was to take over the Jerusalem. In the time Pope Urban II launched the first crusade. A lot of people went to the crusade because the pope promised them that they would get a lot of money and land and will get a free pass to heaven when they die. Most of the people went to the crusade to go to heaven and to wash their sins away by doing what the pope tells them to do.

Strange salt treatment for asthma

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Sickness that irritates breathing has always been a problem. For centuries, people had been going into salt cave to make their lungs better. The tiny particles of salt is said to help stop people coughing and wheezing as much. A patient in London is now testing in a man-made salt cave.

Character Sketch Essay

My sister. She how they talk. Me and my sister, we have some things in common with the characters in the book. Paul and Norman. Sometimes I try to give her help. Not by offering money or go fishing. I just offer help. But she is quite like Paul. She knows that she needs help, but she doesn’t admit it. Like in the book, Norman’s father said to Norman, “You are too young to help anybody and I am too old,” he said, “By help I don’t mean a courtesy like serving chokeberry jelly or giving money.”
“Help,” he said. “is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
“So it is,” he said, using an old homiletic transition, “that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don’t know what part to give or maybe we don’t like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, we do not have the part that is needed. It is like the auto-supply shop over town where they always say, “Sorry, we are just out of that part.”
I think she don’t accept my help willingly because she wants to do her stuff on her own. She is not better than me in anything but some lame game that she plays on my computer. So she doesn’t get to give me any advices, like Paul and Norman.
My sister is like Paul. She likes to act strong, but she is not as stubborn as Paul. She also doesn’t gamble or go fishing. She is understanding but she doesn’t show it and I will never confess to her.
She is like combination of Paul and Norman, the not complete version. Help, she gives but was denied for most of the time. Offer, she did but was never taken.

journal 5

march 17
journal 5
Somewhere along the line she had forgotten that it was I who liked chokecherry jelly, a gentle confusion that none of her men minded.
“Help,” he said, “ is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept to willingly and needs it badly.”
Once i have been blamed for making my sister bleed when i had done nothing wrong.

journal 4

journal 4
"You have never really seen an ass until you have seen two sunburned asses on a sandbar in the middle of a river."
I feel no personal connection to this quote but i like it because it's funny. It was more fun in the movie because their was visual aid. I feel a little personal connection with this quote because it is not exactly personal. My friend had not been sunburned but kind of hurt his butt because his pants were thin and there was snow on the ground. Kind of frozen. Not sunburned.

journal 6

journal 6
march 20
“You like to tell true stories, don’t you?” he said, and I answered, “Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.”
this quote was on the last page of the story.
i feel no personal connection with this quote but i like it because i like true stories

journal 3

journal 3
"Brother," he said, "you can't catch trout in a bathtub"
this quote is kind of funny
One time, i dropped my marble in my bathtub and i couldn't fish it out so i think that is kind of similar. Kind of personal connection. It was when I was in kindergarten. My friend too. He had a similar experience. His had a frisbee and he threw it and it got caught on a rock in the middle of a river. He was unlucky. He couldn't get it out.

journal 2

journal 2
march 12
“Although I know nothing about fishing,” she said.
This was complicated statement.
i like the quotes

journal 1

journal 1
march 11
“Izaak Walton,” he told us when my brother was thirteen or fourteen, “is not a respectable writer. He was an Episcopalian and a bait fisherman.”
“The bastard doesn’t even know how to spell ‘complete.
no personal connections between my own life and events in the day’s reading.
no questions to discuss.

What I learned

What I learned about the life of people living in Scotland were bad except for the British. People were randomly picked on, slaughtered, raped and taken against their will. All does farmers and other people waged war for freedom against them. The people were badly treated. Kind of like slave but not exactly.

What I know

After the Romans were gone, the protection that they had once provided was gone and so most of the trading stuffs were stolen. And the Roman Empire fell, so the money was no more. They had to find a new money system. At first they just traded stuff. Like 'I give you a sheep, and you make me a boat.' Another thing is, when the Roman Empire fell, the center was reestablished by the Catholic Church, so that was a big difference. More and more people started to depend on the the Church more than any other people. The economy also got bad, because there was no cash coming in their pockets, some was left with nothing to trade with but maybe a few pieces of money that doesn't mean anything after the Empire fell.

My favorite place

My favorite place is Korea in the winter, because there are snow and stuff. The lake turn into beautiful mirror and you can step on to some of them. But what I like the most is the skiing and snow boarding part. Sometimes I fall down couple of times while going fast, but it is still very fun playing on snow. My favorite place in the summer is Singapore. I don't know why. I just like the place.

Why do you think the novel is titled The Sun Also Rises?

I don't know why it is titled The Sun Also Rises. I don't have a clue why it is called that. Maybe I don't know because I didn't read carefully enough, but I just don't get the meaning of the title.

Passport Reflection Question

The Traveling Nitrogen Passport we finish today was easy. Most people didn't go to the same station in the same order because they roll differently, which means they get to travel to other places by other means.
I went to two stations right after each other. Atmosphere and Soil. I thought me that nitrogen can repeat the cycle in midway. Like for example, a real nitrogen stuck in a coal might be release back into the air but then breathed in by some plant then turned into part of the stem then be turned into a coal in million of years after.
Atmosphere seemed to have the most nitrogens. I think it is because that all of the nitrogen stuck below the atmosphere in form of either liquid, gas, or solid returns back to the atmosphere to start the whole cycle again, only the stations will be different.
I think the point of activity (Traveling Nitrogen Passport) was to let us understand the movement of nitrogens in the air. The stages of nitrogen. The form that all nitrogens could take, and that the nitrogen could repeat the stages a lot of times. Like for example, Surface Water nitrogen gets sucked up by a tree then be turned into a leaf, then falls back into the river, then pressed down by a rock, decompose in water, then repeat the cycle again.

Feudalism

Feudalism arose at a time when central governments were weak or nonexistent in Europe, and kings used the system to exert control over their subjects and secure military strength throughout their lands. In the absence of a strong monarchy and rule of law, the feudal relationship between the lord and his vassal was the glue that held medieval society together.
"http://historymedren.about.com/od/feudalism/a/feudalism.htm"

This is the simplified version of definition, and there are a lot more better explanations and exceptions that go along this medieval history. It is fair to say that this is the explanation you read from the textbooks and the dictionary.
But the problem is.......
Nearly none of them are accurate.
Feudalism was NOT the "dominant form of political organization in medieval Europe.
"http://historymedren.about.com/od/feudalism/a/feudalism.htm"
I read something similar like this before somewhere and there was no "hierarchical system" of lords and vassals like we like to think. Manorialism or Seignorialism was not part of a Feudal System.
Kings did NOT use Feudalism to exert control over their subject, and the feudal relationship was NOT the "glue that held medieval society together.
"http://historymedren.about.com/od/feudalism/a/feudalism.htm"

Isolating the SMASH variable & the science of Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button TED Talk
The people making Benjamin Button's face went through a lot of steps. The science of Benjamin Button. They had to make the person acting Benjamin Button wear blue hats. (I think for the blue screen.) They took picture of every thing that Brad's face was able to do and use some kind of technology that uses white ball stuff to make the 3D face of Brad ((old),(Benjamin Button)).
They had a lot of different actors for Benjamin Button as person then they will stick the head of older Brad's.

Blood Red Horse

Blood Red Horse Chapter 5. There are two brothers, Gavin and WIll. William is the main character, I think.William is younger brother of Gavin. They fight each other a lot. There is another character in the book called Ellie. She hates Gavin as much as William does. Sir Thomas went to a war, and he couldn't spend a lot of time on building the castle. So time passess, William becomes better on riding horses.