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When I first got my domain, timgallant.com wasn’t available, so I picked up timgallant.org. A few years ago, the .com domain came open, so I snapped it up, but it really hasn’t had much there. I knew for some time that I wanted to use it for my creative side, and was streaming early demos from Metanarrative there for quite a while.

Well, as of now, it’s a real site, although I still have a few things I want to do – a nice gear pics page and a contact form. Take a look and see what you think!

As noted in an earlier post, this will be the site which I will keep up info for over the coming weeks regarding my efforts in the Hockey Night in Canada anthem challenge.

As most Canadians know by now, CBC decided not to renew their rights to the traditional HNIC theme song. Instead, they are holding a contest to find a new Saturday night anthem.

And… I’ve entered! You can find my first entry, “Hit the Ice,” at the CBC site here.

I’m hoping to find time to get another entry or two in, but the deadline is August 31, so we’ll see.

I’ll try to keep this site updated, but further challenge info is at the sister site, timgallant.com, where I’m eventually planning on keying my music stuff.

If you’re a fellow Canadian, please listen and consider voting for me when the time comes!!

By George Friedman

[Republished from Stratfor with permission.]

There are many people who write history. There are very few who make history through their writings. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died this week at the age of 89, was one of them. In many ways, Solzhenitsyn laid the intellectual foundations for the fall of Soviet communism. That is well known. But Solzhenitsyn also laid the intellectual foundation for the Russia that is now emerging. That is less well known, and in some ways more important.

Solzhenitsyn’s role in the Soviet Union was simple. His writings, and in particular his book “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” laid bare the nature of the Soviet regime. The book described a day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet concentration camp, where the guilty and innocent alike were sent to have their lives squeezed out of them in endless and hopeless labor. It was a topic Solzhenitsyn knew well, having been a prisoner in such a camp following service in World War II.

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