I've been trying to get in at least one blog per month just to make sure I do something here. Sure I check in every day, read a bit on Fridays, all that, but I wanted to do a bit more. So this serves as my self-mandated August post, just in under the wire.

What I want to talk about is something new but with an old origin, and given my in ability to finish projects, it's rather fitting. So let's start with a picture from mid-September 2012 which requires some explanation.

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The average Russian does not want war with Ukraine. The Ukrainians certainly don't want war. But the tragedy of war has come to them, and even if peace comes soon, it will only have been bought by the blood toll of all too many lives.

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