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"X-Men '92" co-writers Chad Bowers and Chris Sims answer your questions about the new '90s-powered ongoing series.
With the original Thunderbolts crew returning to the printed page, here are five '90s Marvel comics that deserve a sequel series.
Augie changes his tune on Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo's teenage mutant saga, and did Joe Casey's "Wildcats v3" predict modern day technology?
Marvel Executive Editor Mike Marts discusses the X-Men at Comic-Con 2014, the Generation X 20th Anniversary and more. Plus, exclusive art!
Marvel eXecutive Editor Mike Marts joins X-Position to discuss the current state of the X-Men, possible plans for the 20th Anniversary of "Generation X" and more.
Brian Wood answers reader questions about the latest "X-Men" arc, which sees old foes resurrected from the grave. Plus, exclusive art!
CSBG keeps counting down YOUR choices for the top 50 X-Men spinoff stories of all-time! Wolverine, X-Factor, New Mutants, X-Force, they're all here! We just hit the Top 20 so check out what's on the list!
"X-Men" writer Brian Wood joins X-Position to answer your questions about Jubilee, the reappearance of John Sublime and upcoming details for both "X-Men" & "Ultimate Comics X-Men."
Upon reflecting on his two decades of being an X-Men fan, Brett realizes the lessons he's learned from Marvel's ever-evolving group of mutant outcasts.
Brett White revisits Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo's "Generation X," a favorite from his childhood, and learned something other than fact that "chromium" can be used to describe a comic book cover.
Tom Brevoort & Axel Alonso, Marvel Comics' editorial team-up, return to CBR for a special all-fan question T&A focusing on the origin of the Five Lights, the status of "She-Hulks" and which Deadpool books are leaving.
Marvel Comics has released two new "New Generation of Hope" images by artist Greg Land which, when placed side by side, create a rather fiery image certain to lead to even more questions.
Marvel Comics has released a pair of Greg Land illustrated teaser images accompanied by the statement, "A New Generation of Hope" with the word "generation" set in the font used for the old "Generation X" logo.
This week, discover the bizarre origins of Doctor Droom! Yes, that's right, Doctor Droom, with an R! Also, was Magneto always supposed to be Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's dad? And who or what is GenX? Find out here! | <urn:uuid:ad52d69e-99d3-4b5a-8a6c-4b8713a61735> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.comicbookresources.com/tag/generation+x/7373 | 2016-07-25T12:33:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824226.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00038-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907185 | 604 |
A Virginia woman was arrested Friday night by the Maryland Natural Resources Police and charged with second-degree assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after an incident near Ocean City.
Corinne Aileen Stout, 32, of Newport News, was stopped by officers at 8:30 p.m. for speeding, after her boat was observed in the Isle of Wight Bay just south of the U.S. 50 bridge.
During the stop an officer decided to take her to shore for sobriety tests. Stout became agitated and attempted to leave, disobeying an order and pushing an officer. She was placed under arrest at which time she resisted and was handcuffed.
Stout is scheduled to appear at the District Court in Snow Hill on Sept. 23. If found guilty of all charges, she faces a maximum fine of $10,500 and up to 13 years in prison. | <urn:uuid:9b1cae97-fc26-4818-9c9a-2947d0a1116d> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2014/08/04/nrp-blotter-30/ | 2017-04-23T23:32:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118851.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00008-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981625 | 179 |
Police will set up a checkpoint at an undisclosed location within the city limits beginning at 11 p.m. and continuing until 3 a.m. Saturday morning.
Sheriff’s deputies will be stopping cars at checkpoints in Lemon Grove and Vista from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. Saturday.
The Lemon Grove checkpoint will be in the 8000 block of Broadway, and the one in Vista will be at an undisclosed location.
Both agencies will be stopping drivers to check for alcohol or marijuana impairment.
Checkpoints are routinely announced in advance because of the deterrent effect on people who might drink alcohol or smoke marijuana to excess and then get on the road, endangering themselves and others.
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The island of the Bahamas stretches across almost 500 miles along the coast of the Caribbean sea like a beautifully scattered string of pearls. With a rich history behind every one of its exquisite beaches, the Bahamas is home to a number of the world’s most amazing marine life. A tropical paradise for visitors, the archipelago of the Bahamas is made up of more than 2,000 beautiful cays and islands. For those people who are needing a fast relaxing get-away from their maddeningly busy daily lives, the Bahamas is THE place to go! A Bahamas vacation will give you one of your life’s most rewarding holidays by rejuvenating your spirits with its unmatchable, exotic charm.
A Bahamas vacation offers plenty of fun opportunities for both indoor and outdoor-oriented men and women. Cruise & vacation trips to the Bahamas islands will provide an endless list of entertainment for everybody alike, regardless of their age.
Hop on a banana boat and go about researching the islands’ astonishing marine life or select snorkeling and dive into the sea to amuse yourself with the brilliantly colorful coral reefs and thousands of species of fishes. The hotels and resorts on the beach will provide you with several casual water-sport actions to opt from. Be it jet-skiing, wildlife trapper, surfing, parasailing or skim-boarding; indulge the sports-addict in you as you splash into the crystal blue waters of the Caribbean.
When You sign up for one of those cruise & vacation trips to the Bahamas, make sure not to overlook some of these activities:
Special eco-tours on ships that will take you from one island to another.
A trip to the stunningly beautiful pink sand beaches.
A thrilling day in the famed Atlantis waterscape.
Sign up for a fun-filled Bahamas vacation and create memories which you can cherish all of your life. Book your stay with one of the top hotels & resorts on the Bahamas and set off on a holiday of your lifetime. | <urn:uuid:0f7e7810-d203-4358-8b09-79600e8220b5> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://wildlife-nature.com/2018/05/19/take-me-there-now/ | 2019-02-18T18:38:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247487624.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190218175932-20190218201932-00089.warc.gz | en | 0.902915 | 408 |
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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By the end of 1945 the United States had vanquished the threats posed by Nazi Germany and by Imperial Japan. Their defeat, however, had not been certain a decade earlier. Even as the forces of darkness were rising, a large segment of the American population urged their leaders to keep them isolated. One American who stood opposed to U.S. intervention in the late 1930s was one of the country’s greatest heroes. He had captivated the imagination of every American with his aviation exploits. He wished to keep the nation safe and fought to keep it out of war. When war came however, he could not stay out of action and did all he could to join his countrymen in combat. His name was Charles Lindbergh. This is the story of his transformation from a rabid isolationist into a defender of democracy.
Charles Lindbergh seemed to live a controversial life, much as his father had. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in February 1902 and grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota, on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1907 his father took him to Washington, D.C. when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The junior congressman’s idealistic beliefs made an impression on all, including his son. Young Charles watched his father defend the Midwestern farmers against the large eastern financial institutions. In 1913 Congressman Lindbergh decried the Federal Reserve Act, which created a central banking system. Unfortunately, Lindbergh saw his father destroy himself with his opposition to World War I. According to the congressman, intervention would only benefit the “Money Trust” of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and other financial giants. When the U.S. finally did enter the war in 1917, his father frequently attacked President Woodrow Wilson for sending “American farm boys” across the ocean to fight in a European conflict. His antiwar bombast increased to the extent that the press labeled him a German sympathizer and disloyal to the war effort. In response, Lindbergh Sr. entrenched even deeper in his views, joining a socialist organization, which alienated most of his constituents. In the 1917 race for governor of Minnesota, Charles saw his father hung in effigy and literally dragged from platforms at speaking engagements. After going down to defeat, Lindbergh Sr. retired from public office. Not long after, Charles found himself in a similar position.
It was ironic perhaps that Charles would, quite unintentionally, burst onto the national, indeed the international, scene only to fall from grace with a previously adoring populace. It was the still novel world of flying, not politics however, that would bring him fame. In the early 1920s he crisscrossed the country earning a reputation for his exploits as a barnstormer and as a wing-walker, but he was always looking for more. Then in 1927 he decided to make history by being the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic from New York City to Paris. Crowds cheered him as he and The Spirit of St. Louis left Roosevelt Field on Long Island on May 20th. Thirty-three and a half hours later a Parisian mob greeted him at Le Bourget Field. On his return to the U.S., he was the nation’s hero, but from that time on, the press hounded his every move. His efforts to discourage them did nothing but make many resent him. At the same time, he was making other powerful enemies. In February 1934 he was outraged when President Franklin Roosevelt issued a directive transferring all airmail duties from the civilian companies to the U.S. Army. As a former airmail pilot, Charles knew the dangerous conditions and the expertise that the job entailed. He believed Army pilots and their aircraft were ill qualified for the mission. He sent word to Roosevelt that the action would “unnecessarily damage all American aviation.” In return, Roosevelt’s administration accused Lindbergh of being bribed by the civilian airlines to attack the policy. Just as Lindbergh predicted, a number of crashes claimed the lives of Army pilots, and the resulting outcry forced the administration to turn control of airmail delivery back over to civilian airlines. Roosevelt and his allies never forgave Lindbergh. Two years after this confrontation, Charles made one of his most controversial decisions when he took his family on a trip to Europe.
In 1936 Lindbergh, still an internationally celebrated hero, arrived in Europe. The Germans could not wait to have the world’s greatest aviator visit their country and inspect their growing aeronautical capabilities. Lindbergh arrived in time to attend the 1936 Olympics as the special guest of Hermann Goring, the German air minister, who boldly opened the door to him to witness the might of the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe. Only a few persons were privy to the knowledge that Lindbergh had been requested by highly placed American officials to provide reports on his “inside” information. Over the next three years he visited twice more and marveled at the Third Reich’s industrial might. He spent hours touring aircraft factories and airfields in and around Berlin. As he walked the fields, he surveyed the bombers and fighters lining the runways. It was obvious they were far superior to anything the British, the French, the Soviets, or even the Americans possessed. He was further impressed after actually piloting the new Messerschmitt 109. These experiences convinced Charles that Nazi Germany “intended to become the greatest air power in the world.” Though he was less impressed with new German policies, particularly those applied to Jewish inhabitants, he was more concerned with the destructive capabilities of the German Luftwaffe. British cities could be reached and bombed from the air with little difficulty. He concluded that if Britain and France waged war on Germany it “might easily result in the end of European civilization.” He similarly realized some in America, such as Roosevelt, would want to support Britain and France, but he did not want the U.S. to suffer the same fate he was sure would now befall Western Europe. As he prepared to return to America in April 1939, he promised to do his utmost to keep his homeland out of war.
Upon his arrival, however, Lindbergh found many Americans considered him little more than a Nazi sympathizer. Reports of Nazi atrocities against Jewish inhabitants, particularly the destruction of Jewish homes and businesses during Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass,” had consumed the nation’s attention. The same newspapers had carried the half-true reports that Lindbergh was considering moving to Berlin and that he had accepted the Order of the German Eagle, one of Germany’s most prestigious medals, for his famous 1927 flight. (In reality, Lindbergh had unexpectedly received the medal at a formal dinner at the American Ambassador’s residence where he feared a refusal would breach diplomatic protocol.) Almost as soon as he stepped back onto American soil, therefore, the media attacked him as being pro-Nazi. They condemned him for his lack of vocal opposition to Nazi policies and for being a “callous coward and/or anti-Semitic traitor.” Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes said he had forfeited “his right to be an American” by accepting the medal. These attacks intensified after he took to the radio waves to warn Americans not to engage in any European entanglements. The New York newspaper PM labeled him as “the spokesman for the fascist fifth column in America,” and Life magazine called him a representative of the “far spectrum of isolationism.” The FBI even started an investigation into his “nationalistic sympathies.” As a result, public opinion turned savagely against the former hero.
Although he was under attack from all directions, Lindbergh continued to profess his steadfast devotion to the U.S. In response to charges he was unpatriotic, he responded “I would so much rather be fighting for my country in a war I do believe in.” He held a colonel’s commission in the Army Air Corps, and he declared there was “nothing I’d rather be doing than flying in the air corps.” As a U.S. officer, he believed the country needed to be on guard against an attack, including one in the Pacific where Japan was rattling its sabers. It was this belief that encouraged Lindbergh to criticize President Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease proposal before the House of Representatives and the Senate in early 1941. As a member of America First, an isolationist organization, Charles advocated keeping American military supplies close at hand rather than sending them across the Atlantic. This denunciation of policy was too much for Roosevelt, and he compared Lindbergh to a “copperhead,” a northerner who had supported the South during the Civil War. Humiliated at being called a traitor, Charles resigned his commission. Only a few months later, however, Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Upon learning of the Japanese attack, Lindbergh decided he had to get into action any way he could. He recorded in his journal, “I want to contribute as best I can to my country’s war effort,” but Roosevelt repeatedly used his power to deny Charles access to the military and to civilian aircraft companies. In March 1942 Henry Ford asked Lindbergh to serve as a technical consultant at his warplane plant outside Detroit, Michigan. For the next year he tested the B-24, insisting on improvements to the plane’s radios and armament. When those modifications were completed, he went to work testing the effects of high-altitude flying to decrease the likelihood of oxygen deprivation, hypoxia, from occurring. After a number of tests in the P-47 Thunderbolt, he discovered there was insufficient protection for the pilots. He proposed several changes to the emergency equipment the plane carried, and as a result, countless lives were saved. With his reputation again on the rise, he was invited to United Aircraft in Hartford, Connecticut to work on the Vought F4U Corsair. In Hartford he instructed pilots how to get the most out of the Corsair and even participated in simulated air combat. Lindbergh’s redemption was not complete, however, until he had braved the fires of combat.
After obtaining permission from Army superiors, Charles arrived in the South Pacific in May 1944 as a consultant. In order to advise pilots correctly, Lindbergh believed he had to experience the same conditions they did. He insisted, therefore, on flying Corsairs in combat against the Japanese-controlled islands of Rabaul and Kavieng. He flew fifteen missions before leaving in June for New Guinea to test the P-38 Lightning. There he joined the 475th Fighter Group, Satan’s Angels, in their attacks on Japanese bases. He came to be so respected by the airmen he was given command of a section, even though he was technically a civilian. The 475th commander, Colonel Charles MacDonald, later recalled Lindbergh “flew more missions than was normally expected of a combat pilot.” His greatest triumph came on July 28th when he led his section against two Japanese Zeroes over the island of Ceram. Lindbergh pointed his plane right at one of the planes and fired his guns. Moments later the Japanese Zero crashed into the ocean. Several weeks later, after flying fifty combat missions, he returned home to America. Word of his bravery and patriotic service slowly became widely known. His actions resulted in him being gradually forgiven for his pre-war rhetoric. He was finally freed from all controversy when he was laid to rest on the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 1974.
Heroes can make mistakes just as easily as any of us. The question is: should we hold their “sins” against them for the rest of their lives? Yes, Charles Lindbergh made a tragic mistake when he urged America not to become involved in World War II. But, he saw the error of his ways, repented and took his stand beside the rest of the “greatest generation” to save democracy. His pre-war views, though unpopular, were nonetheless motivated by his love for country. His later actions confirmed that. His wartime record showed he still possessed the intrepid spirit that led the “Lone Eagle” to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. Like all of us, Lindbergh should be held to account for his words and actions, but every individual, hero or not, deserves a chance to redeem himself. Certainly, Charles Lindbergh made good on that. | <urn:uuid:c088c4ed-7756-4939-b49f-b907c7240f38> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://jakes-takes.com/2015/05/24/the-lone-eagle-flies-again/?replytocom=249 | 2022-06-29T17:02:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103640328.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220629150145-20220629180145-00431.warc.gz | en | 0.985214 | 2,621 |
Mortgage Defeasance – Benefits to the Real Estate Loan Bearers
When we look at the real estate sector which is one of the most lucrative in terms of investments, we can find that the mortgages tops the list. Buying property requires a lot of money and banks and financial institution make their business by offering loans to people who can afford them. These loans are given against the house which is kept as collateral. The mortgage loans extend over a period of 15 – 30 years and anyone taking these loans pay a huge amount towards the repayment of the interest on top of the principal.
The less known- Mortgage defeasance
Mortgage Defeasance is not very popular amongst the borrowers and has never been extensively talked about in the lending sector. It is for this reason that most of the borrowers fail to exercise this opportunity to reduce their burden of the loans they have taken and the way it affects the total amount payable to the lending company. Those who have other assets which can compete with the value of the house and can offer an assurance to the lenders that they can use them to recover their losses in the event that you fail to repay them, you can easily replace your as a collateral with the other assets. One can find some online calculators which can help you calculate and understand the mortgage defeasance.
There is a lock out period associated with every loan you take. During this period the borrowers are required to make the repayments of the loans they take in the installment mode. The lock-out period of loans vary from 2- 5 years depending upon the lenders. Once the lock out period is over, one can go in for the mortgage defeasance in an attempt to replace their existing collateral which is their house with another assets. Well, there are different defeasance options available but the one which is the most popular amongst them is the Conduit loans. In fact is is preferred both by the lenders as well as the borrowers.
Process of mortgage defeasance
Anyone, be it an individual borrower or a business which has borrowed a mortgage loan from the lenders after 1998 can successfully go in for the mortgage defeasance. However, the deal will be confirmed once the lenders assess your documents and the financial viability. The method of calculation of the mortgage defeasance is a bit different and the amount and the replacement possibility of the house as liability with other assets is decided after a series of steps.
The process involved in getting a mortgage defeasance is a complex one and hence the borrower looking to get through must assign the work to the professionals who deal with the mortgage defeasance on a regular basis. There are several parties involved in the process which involves the broker, accountant, escrow agent and others. There needs to be a perfect coordination between the parties to ensure a smooth roll out of the mortgage defeasance process. The complete process takes anywhere between a week or two at the most to get completed provided the parties involved are all present. When it comes to commercial defeasance, the amount of money involved is large and so are the profits and the fees of the parties involved and thence there are chances of expediting the process.
The entire process involves legal procedures and it is therefore essential that you get in touch with an attorney who will help you understand the process and the terms and conditions involved in a much better way. The procedure when compared with the kind of savings you make on them is in no way expensive . The agencies offering these services are available in sbwire.com online and one can easily get in touch with them for a preliminary assessment of their debt and the way mortgage defeasance is going to help them. | <urn:uuid:19216e1d-2a4b-4a45-a0d3-9586e9a2526b> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://wickedlocalhomes.com/homes/real-estate/2014/01/mortgage-defeasance-benefits-to-the-real-estate-loan-bearers/ | 2016-08-26T06:35:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982295358.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195815-00022-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978517 | 742 |
Balloon Fiesta Welcomes ExxonMobil As its New Presenting Sponsor
January 12, 2022
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta® will be powered by ExxonMobil for next three years
Albuquerque, NM – The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta board, directors and staff have announced that ExxonMobil will be the event’s presenting sponsor for the next three years (2022-2024). ExxonMobil has been a sponsor of Balloon Fiesta since 2019. The official name of the world’s largest and most popular ballooning event will be the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta powered by ExxonMobil.
ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy providers and develops and deploys solutions to meet society’s needs. Today that means taking a leading role in providing the products that enable modern life, reducing emissions and developing needed technologies to advance a lower-carbon emissions future.
“On behalf of ExxonMobil and its subsidiary XTO Energy, we are honored to serve as presenting sponsor of one of New Mexico’s most well-known and enchanting events. As a major energy producer in New Mexico, we are committed to both being an industry leader and to supporting New Mexican traditions and aspirations,” said Rick Cannon, New Mexico production manager at ExxonMobil. “We look forward to joining the Balloon Fiesta team, the ballooning community and New Mexicans in lifting off the 50th Fiesta this October.”
“The ExxonMobil team has been a great supporter of our event since 2019, and we are delighted to have them join us in a larger role as the presenting sponsor for our 50th and beyond,” says Al Tetreault, President of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta board of directors. “Their employees live and work here and this sponsorship of the state’s largest tourism event demonstrates their commitment to New Mexico and its rich traditions.
About the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, powered by ExxonMobil
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, powered by ExxonMobil is an annual festival of hot air balloons that takes place every October in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It is the largest gathering of balloons and balloonists in the world. The 2019 event generated $186.82 Million into the Albuquerque and the State of New Mexico economies. For details on events, schedule, entertainment and photographs visit our website www.balloonfiesta.com and follow us on Twitter @BalloonFiesta and Facebook. | <urn:uuid:5528e666-80ac-4475-ab13-6f5b894f941d> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://balloonfiesta.com/Post/Balloon-Fiesta-Welcomes-ExxonMobil-As-its-New-Presenting-Sponsor?fbclid=IwAR11LAEmCScMcAQi4LKP_VLn7ZzHSWUv-Jnce7A7-tex-nJZzjnXfuzMgEA | 2023-12-05T00:03:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100535.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204214708-20231205004708-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.923058 | 495 |
Published October 9, 2018
In the late 1960s, UB faculty member Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and others founded UB’s Women’s Studies College, one of the first women’s studies programs in the nation. By 1972, the program offered 45 different courses, including one of the university’s most popular classes, “Women in Contemporary Society,” which enrolled about 140 students each semester.
Kennedy, now a professor of women’s studies and English at the University of Arizona, will return to UB this weekend for “Radical Histories, Radical Futures: Buffalo on the Vanguard of Feminist and Queer Thought,” the first conference presented by UB’s new Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies.
The conference, taking place Oct. 12-13, will showcase the university’s history in the field of women’s studies and the rich past of the LGBTQ community in Buffalo, as well as look ahead to the future of gender and sexuality studies.
All events are free and open to the public.
“This event is both the kickoff to an exciting new future, in which gender and sexuality studies at UB again has the institutional standing and autonomy consummate with its place in the field, and a chance to honor and reflect on the whole story that has brought us to this point, which is a story about how politically engaged and activist forms of scholarly inquiry get taken up into academic institutions,” says Christine Varnado, assistant professor in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and a conference organizer.
Kennedy taught at UB for 28 years, and is co-author, with Madeline Davis, of the award-winning “Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community,” which documents the lesbian community in Buffalo from the 1930s to the 1960s. She will join UB women’s studies co-founders Sherri Darrow, director of health promotion in the Office of Student Life, and Bonita Hampton, a professor of education at SUNY Oswego, for the conference’s keynote roundtable discussion at noon Oct. 12 in 403 Hayes Hall, South Campus. Registration and coffee will begin at 11:30 a.m.
“I have been teaching [Kennedy’s] work, and teaching about the central role UB played in the foundation of women’s studies as an academic field, in all of my Global Gender and Sexuality Studies classes ever since I arrived here,” says Varnado. “It will be amazing to hear [Kennedy, Darrow and Hampton] reminisce about getting the program started, but the discussion is also going to take on the present and future of gender studies, and the interrelated-but-distinct practices of feminist activism, university teaching and academic research.”
Following the keynote, Jennifer Wilson, assistant professor of Slavic and Eastern European languages and cultures at The Ohio State University, will present her research on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and anti-capitalist and anti-war politics in the experimental UB colleges.
Other panels will feature community activists and scholars in conversation of topics such as the radical queer subcultures of Buffalo’s present and future.
The conference will reconvene at noon on Oct. 13 at the Central Branch of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library in downtown Buffalo for “She Walked Here,” a historical street tour to commemorate the city’s lesbian bar history and working-class butch/femme subcultures. The tour, from noon to 3 p.m., is presented by the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project and Preservation Buffalo Niagara. Register for the tour online.
Following the street tour, participants will take an archive tour of the Dr. Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York from 3-5 p.m. in Butler Library at SUNY Buffalo State. Davis, founder of the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier and a pioneer in lesbian studies, will lead the tour.
A reception will follow in the library.
Varnado encourages faculty, staff and students to attend the conference, especially if they are even remotely interested in Buffalo and its history. She also says the conference is a way to bring people together and inspire an even better future through gender and sexuality activism.
“Anyone interested in Buffalo’s history will get a great deal out of this conference and learn more about a pivotal moment in Buffalo that still provides the bedrock historical foundation upon which the activist and community justice efforts of the present are built,” she says.
“This conference is a celebration and a memorialization of a moment in the past that it’s so important to learn from, but we also envision it as a meeting point, clearinghouse and opportunity for building connections and collaborations that will extend long into the future —not only at UB and the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, but across generations and communities in Buffalo,” Varnado says.
“We want it to bring together people interested in envisioning a more just future, and working in all different ways to bring it about, to be inspired by where we’ve been and to think, together, about where we’re going from here.”
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Welcome to the 19th edition of Knit Show 2019
Knit Show, organized at Tirupur, India, is posited to take a leap in terms of both the numbers and quality of the participants. This trade event is expected to host over 500 Exhibitors from different parts of the country presenting a wide range of products and services. building on the most enthusiastic response of the participants in all our events, we are already getting geared up with our long experience and best efforts to enable you take off your business to higher growth levels.
Knit Show is ideally equipped to link manufacturers and buyers, streamlining the sourcing process in order to save your valuable time and giving you an edge in the ever increasing competitive business. Thus it presents a unique promotion programme, moulding a strategic alliance between manufacturers and buyers of quality accessories, machinery and other inputs.
Topics: Sewing, cutting, finishing; trend in knitting technology; printing technology; yarn, fabric labels & accessories; dyes
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On Saturday, we had our first chat for men in a caregiving role. Richard (@kreisler) and Chris (@thpurplejacket) joined for a really interesting discussion. At one point, I asked Richard if health care professionals often overlook his role as his mom’s family caregiver. Yep, he said.
So, @ejourneys, who lurked during our chat (lurking means you’re simply reading the content of an online conversation), got to thinking. And, her thinking led to the creation of a badge you wear which identifies you as the primary family caregiver for your caree. The badge includes areas for you to insert your name and your caree’s name.
The badge fits standard-sized badge holders. Just download your badge below, print it out, cut out and fill in the badge, and place it with your choice of badge holder (pin, lanyard, etc.). Wear your badge in any setting that you want others to know you are the primary caregiver for your caree.
Because you are the most critical member of your caree’s health care team, you need your own badge.
- What’s the Worst Caregiving Emotion? (caregiving.com)
- In Six Words, What’s a Caregiving Fear? (caregiving.com)
- Because We Need Help, Are We Burdens? (caregiving.com)
- The Future of Caregiving: A Community Care Squad? (caregiving.com)
- When Have You Staged a Caregiving Sit-In? (caregiving.com)
- In Six Words: What’s Your Wish for Another Caregiver? (caregiving.com)
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I don't have ADHD -
I can't read a book all the way through because I'm just that way...too hyper, too distracted and not interested
I day dream because I'm bored so sometimes my mind wonders
I read stuff over and over again and usually it's because I'm stressed or rushing and I need to go back to see it or I have to say it out loud in front of someone before I actually get it
Like I said, I think you don't have it because it would be very hard (not just "not being able to pay attention sometimes").
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Dog Walking in Clinton
Book a dog walker to give your dog a 30-minute walk around your neighborhood.
“My dog responds positively to Candice”
“Aubrey was so good with our new German Shepard puppy! Definitely will contact her again!”
“Aubrey was a great walker for Charlie. Very patient with Charlie. Charlie wasn’t easy to win over, but she did it. I’d recommend Aubrey.”
“Daisy was amazing!! This was my first time leaving my new rescue for an extended period of time and I stressed about this appointment until the moment she got to my home, but she immediately put me at ease. She took the time to meet with me and get to know my pup before their first walk and was more than capable when dealing with his rambunctious energy. The photos she sent were exactly what I was hoping to see - a happy doggo loving his time out and about with a new friend! I will be booking with Rosie again, no question!”
Kelsey & Michael M.
“Kelsey was an awesome dog walker. She made sure my fur babies were taken care of. She also cleaned up my carpet when my kiddo threw up on the carpet and made sure there food bowl and water was always filled. Thank you Kelsey! I will definitely use Kelsey again.”
“Amanda has watched my pup and my cat. She is beyond sweet and caring for my fur babies and has been nothing but helpful and reliable. I would recommend her to anyone for someone who is need of a helping hand for their fur babies.”
“Rena is seriously the best. She was able to help out on such late notice and cleaned up for our pup after he accidentally had an accident. Trust her so much in our home and she communicates great, we love using her”
“I've counted on Hayley to watch my two pups many times throughout the years. Hayley has always made sure to follow any instructions I gave her and would always give me frequent updates as to how my dogs were doing while I was gone. She cares for your pets as if they were her own. You can rest assured that your pets will be happy and healthy in Hayley's care while you're away.”
“Ever since I’ve known Kylee, she’s demonstrated her samiritan side every time she’s come across an animal, hungry or well, she’s always tended to them.”
“Hali was a great dog walker. Kind and friendly to us and Charlie. We’ll be using her again in the near future.”
“Sam did a great job keeping me updated and was flexible for my schedule!”
“Mike D. Kayla has helped me with my dogs over the last 13 years and is very caring and loving towards them. A great provider!”
“Lydia has helped care for my 2 dogs while I am at work or out of town. She is very loving and considerate of their needs. My girls love her and and are always excited to see her.”
“Rebecca is an animal LOVER. Honestly I haven’t met anyone who cares for all animals as much as she does. Rebecca has an amazing work ethic and is extremely reliable. Rebecca spoils her animals.”
“Denise is an incredible coworker! Her positive attitude, strong work ethic, exceptional teamwork skills, and big heart makes her a great candidate to care for your pets! She always goes above and beyond to support and care for all the pets we see at the clinic every day. I am grateful to have the opportunity to work alongside her.”
Alicia & Mikel H.
“Alicia has watched my dog when I went out of town for a week. She loved her as if she was her own. She is amazing.”
“Shayley did amazing with our dogs. Took care of them and walked and played with them a ton. She also sent us a lot of pictures to keep our peace of mind. Will definitely be rebooking with Shayley in the future!”
“autumn is a great dog walker. She help me a bunch with walking my dog. Trying to keep him healthy. Ghost would get so excited when I would tell him autumn is gonna pick ya up later. She made the experience stress free and easy. Definitely recommend.”
“Kiersten is ALWAYS awesome! She’s always able to work with my schedule and has been great to work with with my puppy since the very beginning. She’s intuitive and adjusts well to situations like sick dogs.”
About: I have experience with lots of different breeds of dog from big to small. I also accept cats and caged animals. I would love to care for your furry friends! I’m available for drop in care during the day and weekends. I can offer boarding any day of the week. My schedule can be flexible to meet your needs. I have a fenced backyard and two large crates inside. I have space to separate pets if required. I have extra litter boxes for cats.
Clinton Dog Walking ratings
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Last seen finishing fifth in the Dubai Sheema Classic behind Hawkbill, the Saeed bin Suroor-trained Best Solution ran saw the 2400 metres out strongly as he held off the determined challenge from Mirage Dancer.
“I'm always looking for Group One winners, but Group Twos are all right,” Saeed said.
“After he was fifth in the Sheema Classic, we talked to Sheikh Mohammed and said we would give him a bit of time.
“I'm looking for Group One options overseas in the future. We could also take him to Australia for the Melbourne Cup. Mile-and-a-quarter/mile-and a-half horses run well in that.”
“I'm very pleased with him. He's a high-class horse. He is rated 114 and it is a bit insulting he was 25-1, really,” Balding said.
“He's run a really good race and we will have to look at our Australian options now and work back from that.
“The intention was to win a nice race here (in Europe) and then go to Melbourne. It is an expensive trip and we want to make sure we have the horse of the right sort of calibre, which he seems to be.
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Carnival Cruise Line, the world’s most popular cruise line that carries more cruise passengers than any other cruise line around the globe, is offering a special sale on nearly every cruise ship in their fleet. This includes the brand new Carnival Vista and 23 other Fun Ships that sail to the most popular cruise destinations in the world.
For the next week, reserve your next Carnival cruise to the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, Bermuda, or the Bahamas and enjoy 50% reduced deposits on all stateroom types. This special sale includes the following:
- Book by Monday, November 14, 2016
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- Sailings through April 2019
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For complete terms and details of this special “Book Now, Play Sooner” sale from Carnival Cruise Line, contact your local travel professional or visit Carnival.com. In order to take advantage of the reduced deposits, cruises much be booked by Monday, November 14, 2016. Request rate code PEG/PEI. Early Saver fare is backed by a unique price protection policy (only available to bookings made in USD currency) that allows you to adjust your cruise fare to the best available fare for a like category stateroom (no downgrades allowed) advertised by Carnival and available to the general public. | <urn:uuid:035297dc-bc34-4de9-ae8c-1f5885291d3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://cruisefever.net/1107-carnival-cruise-line-reduces-cruise-deposits-50/ | 2022-10-03T15:55:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337421.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003133425-20221003163425-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.929655 | 291 |
Sometimes it is challenging to find that perfect gift. Unique handcrafted pottery for the kitchen, table and decor is always welcome.
A charming yarn bowl featuring a drawing of an elephant is a delightful gift for the knitter.
Serving dishes and trays are perfect for the host/hostess who loves to entertain.
You can find all of the above by shopping at Bale and Twine on Etsy and Amazon Handmade. Treat someone you love to the gift of handmade this year.
The holidays are coming – we have some great pieces for your holiday parties, decor and of course gifting!!! Stop by our shop and see what’s new this season!
Finally some new pottery pieces, looking ahead to the upcoming Christmas season, I have created some whimsical pieces:-) Time is zooming by and the weather cooling off. We had an abundance of peppers and tomatoes this year- hence the inspiration for my canister lids. | <urn:uuid:b7472454-3141-4488-8998-fe7b0071fc76> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://blog.baleandtwine.com/tag/handmade-gifts/ | 2019-04-24T02:05:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578624217.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20190424014705-20190424040705-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.943013 | 194 |
When we are unable to question ourselves then we straightaway enter into a world of endless suffering – it is as simple as that! There is no way that we won’t enter into a world of endless suffering if we can’t question ourselves. We might ascribe our mental suffering to other causes (we will ascribe our mental suffering to other causes!) but that is merely another manifestation of our inability to question ourselves. It’s nothing more than that same basic inability coming up time again and time again.
First we create the suffering by our inability to question ourselves and then we exacerbate it by attributing it to false causes – we place the responsibility elsewhere, in other words. We lay the blame at someone else’s door – any door but our own! A crude example of this would be a person who can never see themselves of as having done wrong and will always blame some external factor rather their own actions; such a person is (in their own minds!) always right.
In colloquial terms, such a person might be referred to as a ‘jerk’ or an ‘asshole’. There are many such terms by which we could refer to such a person! But the point that we are making is that this is only an ‘extreme case’ of a situation that is at actually universal – the unfortunate situation where we are unable to question ourselves.
A good way to look at the ‘ability’ we are talking about is to say that it has to do with our capacity to gently allow ourselves to be devalidated instead of being rigid in the fact of it and straightaway rejecting or refusing the devalidation. This is an odd sort of idea, needless to say; the usual way of thinking about it – in this politically-correct age of ours – is to say that we all have the right to be validated, and that no one should ever being accept ‘being devalidated’, as we call it.
This politically-correct attitude of ours ignores the fact that it is only through personal devalidation that we grow – if I were to be validated the whole time then I would grow alright but I what I would grow into would be a complete jerk! On another level we all know this perfectly well – imagine if we validated our children at every turn, no matter what they did. What terrible adults we would then produce!
Life itself devalidates us all the time; that’s how it works, by devalidating our illusions. That’s what the process of growth comes down to – having our illusions ruthlessly falsified, and what a wonderful thing this is! To be sure, having our precious illusions falsified (i.e. shown up to be utterly untrue) is a very painful business, but following on from this pain is a great and wonderful liberation. Being freed from the oppression of an illusion always feels good in the end. It hurts at first but frees after, whilst buying into comforting illusions (needless to say) feels good at first, but causes no end of suffering later on…
If my environment were to unfailingly humour me, and confirm my illusions at every turn, then my illusions would grow instead of me, and as my illusions grow and increase their hold on me, so too will my suffering. To not be able to question oneself is to enter into ‘a world of pain’ as we have said. There is nothing else in store for us in this case apart from pain. That’s all illusions are good for – creating suffering!
‘Questioning ourselves’ is not something that can be done on purpose however, and this is the glaring error behind therapies such as CBT. If we imagine that we can meaningfully ‘question ourselves’ in an intentional way then we simply haven’t thought it through carefully enough. We haven’t actually thought it through at all! There is a paradox here that we’re just not seeing.
The paradox is derives from the fact that if we do question ourselves on purpose, as a deliberate tactic, then the one who is doing the questioning is not himself or herself being questioned. If I am to question myself then I cannot question the validity of my own questioning, obviously! If I did that then the whole thing would fall to pieces on the spot; this would be like a barrister in court who, as well as cross-examining the defendant also cross-examines their own rights to cross-examine.
If I judge myself then I cannot at the same time ‘question my judging’ because if I did this then could be no judging. The whole thing simply dissolves into infinite relativity in this case, and nothing we say (or think) can stand up. I am chasing my own tail, very obviously. I’m trying to say that I’m questioning myself but at the same time I’m not questioning myself (because I’m not questioning my own questioning). I’m trying to do two different things at the same time and it just doesn’t work…
This isn’t really a problem at all however because – as we have just said – life itself is always devalidating us! Life (or the universe, or whatever we want to call it) is a very good and true friend to us and it is always working away at falsifying our cherished illusions. It never gives up and never will give up, no matter how much we wish it would. The ongoing ‘falsification process’ never ends, although it may be paused for a while by our resistance.
Having said this, we have to admit that there is a bit of a problem (quite a substantial one, in fact) in that we have such a prodigious talent for creating ‘validating environments’ for ourselves. Life doesn’t provide us with a nice, cosy validating environment so we create a made-up one, and pretend that this is not merely an artificial construct. We use our knowledge, our skills, and our advanced technology to provide ‘the very best in validating environments’! We call this ‘progress’, or civilisation’, or society’.
The point that we are so resistant to seeing is that ‘everything about it is a lie’, so ‘illusion falsification’ (also known as the Negative Way or Via Negativa) is the only way to go. Anything else is simply growing illusions, feeding illusions, hot-housing illusions, and this isn’t going to bring us to a good place! Pick anyone at random on the street and they’re going to assure you, with complete confidence, that they know all sorts of ‘completely true things’ about the world – these ‘supposedly true’ things are exactly what we are calling ‘illusion’, however.
The ability to gently allow ourselves to be ‘devalidated’ is the ability to learn, in other words. That’s what we’re basically talking about – no one can learn ‘when they are convinced that they already know stuff, after all! When we absolutely, unquestioningly believe in our ‘picture’ of the world, our ‘model’ of the world, our ‘theory’ of the world, then there’s going to be no learning, there’s only ever going to be ‘adding to the delusion’. This is what laughably we call ‘education’ – when we talk about education we’re really talking about ‘adding to the illusion’.
The ‘capacity to gently allow ourselves to be devalidated’ is a capacity to be soft rather than hard, yielding rather than rigid. Iris Murdoch explained this by saying that it’s like giving pain a place to rest in ourselves; we don’t send it packing but rather we give it a home, we give it a refuge. When we are hard and unyielding then we ‘bounce’ the pain away from us immediately – we ‘react’, in other words. We send it somewhere else, like someone hitting a tennis ball across the net with a racket.
We have to react, when we are hard and unyielding, because we have no capacity to bear any difficulty. We have zero capacity to bear difficulty and the reason for this is that we are not truly ourselves. We are ‘something else’; we are a rigid ‘mask’ (or ‘posture’). We simply don’t have the strength to bear any difficulty, any challenge. This is only to be expected – how could we be some kind of rigid, frozen ‘mask’ or ‘posture’, and yet at the same time have any genuine strength? Strength only comes from reality, not illusion…
This whole process of ‘questioning ourselves’, which we can’t do intentionally, is all about ‘finding out that we aren’t who we understand ourselves to be’, and it is this process that we are so very resistant to. By having the false idea that we have of ourselves challenged (or ‘devalidated’) we are freed up to find out who we really are. The illusion is stripped from us. The pain of devalidation – which we, in our superficial way, simply taken as being ‘an unforgiveable insult’ – is the means to this end. That’s how this process is facilitated, that’s how it gets to happen. The only problem is of course that we don’t want it to happen, and will wilfully obstruct it every step of the way…
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Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy appears to be the favorite for the Dolphins coaching job. Or at least he thinks so.
Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reports that McCoy took his name out of the running for the Raiders head coaching job Wednesday, telling them he no longer wanted to interview in Oakland.
The Raiders reportedly weren’t thrilled about the snub, but McCoy led them to believe he was the favorite for the Dolphins job and didn’t want to jeopardize his chances. McCoy is interviewing with the Dolphins again Thursday. He was set to meet the Raiders Wednesday.
It’s possible McCoy could be using his second interview in Miami to avoid an interview in Oakland he didn’t want to go through with, but we doubt it.
Dolphins secondary coach Todd Bowles and Packers offensive coordinator Joe Philbin did their second interviews on Wednesday. They were told by the Dolphins they went “great.”
Bowles looks like the biggest underdog. He was on the staff last year, which isn’t the type of fresh start Miami was looking for. If they thought Bowles was the guy to lead them into the future, shouldn’t they know it by now?
Salguero writes that there is a lot of “behind-the-scenes” lobbying for each candidate. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen has hinted that G.M. Jeff Ireland and advisor Carl Peterson have had different ideas about what the team should be looking for.
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Peckforton Castle Wedding Videographer
Gemma and Gareth had travelled over from the Isle of Mann and had all opted to get ready at the castle. Peckforton Castle is fantastically well run and wedding venue and all the guests were well caterd for. The venue dressers had worked their magic with an array of incredible floral displays and candle lighting. It looked like a scene from a Disney movie. Later in the afternoon the guests took drinks and canapes on the lawn whilst the wedding photographer did his thing during the family portrait shots.
Peckforton Castle Wedding Video
As the afternoon progressed we all retired into the long hall and wedding breakfast was served the speeches given. Than it was back into the Grand Hall for the party. The guest’s rocked, and I kept the pace up to get some great first dance shots. The happy couple had a ball and celebrated late into the evening of their first day of married life. Thank you Peckforton Castle for having me along once again, you guys rock.
Documentary Wedding Videography, direction free wedding filmmaking
EMAIL ME FOR THE PASSWORD FOR THE FEATURE FILM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF THIS PECKFORTON CASTLE WEDDING. | <urn:uuid:03cab7bd-8457-46d9-b33c-0ff3781e7096> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.aaronroseweddingfilms.co.uk/peckforton-castle-wedding-videography-cheshire-wedding-video/ | 2020-01-24T11:27:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250619323.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200124100832-20200124125832-00179.warc.gz | en | 0.972945 | 259 |
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IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07)
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society
July 1-4, Aveiro, Portugal
August 20, 2007 - The ISCC 2007's Keynote Presentations are now available in PDF format.
July 19, 2007 - The ISCC 2007's Photo Gallery is now available.
MediaWiN 2007 - Second Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks has been organized in association with ISCC 2007 on July 1st. (See Collocated Workshop)
May 31, 2007 - The ISCC 2007 program has been updated.
May 29, 2007 - Informations about touristic circuits are now available.
May 29, 2007 - Travel Information has been updated with details about the ISCC transfer service between Aveiro and both Lisbon and Porto airports.
May 10, 2007 - Tutorials are being sponsored by Portugal Telecom Inovacao. All students are able to register for ONE tutorial free of charge. For students who have already registered for one tutorial they can register for a second tutorial free, and for those students who have already registered for two tutorials we will reimburse them the fee for one tutorial registration.
April 30, 2007 - The complete ISCC 2007 program is now available.
March 30, 2007 - The ISCC 2007 Technical Program at a Glance is now available.
March 21, 2007 - More information about Tutorials is now available.
March 20, 2007 - More information about Aveiro hotels is now available in Travel Information.
March 20, 2007 - Detailed instructions for conference venue hotel reservation is now available.
March 6, 2007 - Information about Keynote Speakers is now available.
February 29, 2007 - The reviewing process is already finished. Submission results can be accessed directly via EDAS. EDAS e-mail notifications are on-going, and will take some hours until all authors are properly notified.
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Sometimes the best way to find a book is to browse the shelves. Below are a list of some of the most popular Classics topics and where each section can be located in the library.
Remember these number ranges are the same whether searching reference books, located on the 1st floor, or circulating books located on the 2nd (A-M) and 3rd (N-Z) floors.
Language and Literature:
PA1-6961: Greek/Roman Language & Literature
D51-90: Ancient history
DE1-100: History of the Greco Roman World
DF1-550: Ancient Greece to c. 323 A.D.
DG1-399: Ancient Italy, Rome to 476 A.D.
B108-708: Ancient Philosophy
BL700-820: Classical (Etruscan, Greek, Roman)
JC51-93: Political Theory of the Ancient State
K140-165: History of Law
KJA2-3660: Roman law
R126–127: Ancient Medical Works
R135: History of Ancient Medicine
What is CONSORT?
CONSORT is an online catalog that you search to find books, journals, magazines, maps, music, web sites and more in the Ohio Wesleyan Libraries. Searching on CONSORT will also show you what our sister schools (Denison, Kenyon, and Wooster) have in their libraries. To only see what is available at OWU, limit your search by library location.
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Taking clients to view properties isn’t just about being a chauffeur. It’s also not about smiling and nodding and praying they want to make an offer. It’s about being a professional, about knowing what to look for when your clients are glossed over at the aesthetics…and it’s about learning more each time so you are levelling up every time you take someone out.
In this episode we bring out a bunch of real life bloopers that have taken place at our showings, and the lessons we’ve taken from them (spoiler alert: you don’t want to walk in on sleeping homeowners, and you should know how to work a bidet before you try to turn it on).
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Certified Sustainable Development Professional
The Certified Sustainable Development Professional (CSDP®) program recognizes individuals with expertise in Developing & Implementing Sustainability Programs, Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy & Carbon Reduction, Sustainable Policy Programs, Energy Efficiency Technologies in Sustainable Buildings, Impact of Sustainable Development Policies, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Transportation, Water Conservation and Financial Assessments.
- To raise the professional standards of those engaged in sustainable development.
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All CSDP candidates must attend one of AEE's preparatory CSDP training seminars, submit a CSDP certification application, and pass an open book examination, which is proctored by an approved exam administrator.
The examination is based on an approved Body of Knowledge, which includes the main subject areas and the percentages of each included in the examination.
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One man arrested in connection with a fatal stabbing in St Annes has been detained at a secure unit.
Ian Dollery, 51, was found with stab wounds around 11.30pm on Thursday night following reports a man had been assaulted outside an address on York Road.
Mr Dollery was taken by ambulance to Blackpool Victoria Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police have recovered a weapon but say they are yet to establish a motive for the attack.
Two men, a 47-year-old of no fixed address and a 54-year-old from Lytham, were arrested on suspicion of murder.
The 47-year old was detained at a secure unit pending a mental health assessment on Friday night, while the other man remained in police custody.
The officer leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Jonathan Holmes, of the Force Major Investigation Team, said: “Our enquiries are on-going and Mr Dollery’s family are being supported by specially trained officers.
“At this time the motive for this brutal attack is unclear but it does not appear that Mr Dollery knew his attacker and this would seem to be an unprovoked and random attack with the most tragic of consequences.
“The circumstances are that Mr Dollery was attacked by one man who then left the scene and was arrested a short time later. A second man was then subsequently arrested.
“We know this incident must be worrying for people in the local community and we have a number of extra officers on patrol in the area to try to offer reassurance.
“If anyone does have concerns they can approach any police officer who will be able to help.”
Specially trained officers are supporting relatives of Mr Dollery.
Detectives were at the scene on Friday and blocked off an alleyway as they searched for clues.
Residents reported a heavy police presence in the area following the attack, with part of the street being cordoned off.
A post mortem examination found Mr Dollery died of “multiple stab wounds”.
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Taking a New Approach to the Guitar & Touring Like a Teenager Again
During a recent concert in State College, Pennsylvania, Todd Snider did something somewhat rare: he played a solo on electric guitar. The solo wasn’t flashy, and it wasn’t long, but it was good, bringing to mind that thin wild mercury sound Dylan spoke of pursuing – a sound Snider himself sang about on his 2006 album, The Devil You Know.▼ Article continues below ▼
As anyone who has heard Snider’s song and story “Ballad of the Devil’s Backbone Tavern” from his live album Near Truths and Hotel Rooms or has seen him pick and strum his customary Epiphone J-200 knows, Todd Snider will not soon be mistaken for Eddie Van Halen. But that doesn’t mean he’s sticking to three chords and the truth.
Speaking from his East Nashville home weeks later, Snider elaborates, “When I was a young entertainer on the road, I noticed [musicians] in the dressing rooms… if the excuse for being in the band was that they were the word-maker, that guy’s usually not as good a guitar player as the rest of the band…and then it seems like either people work on it, or they start getting really into the business side of the life. I just wanted to be one of the ones who tried to get better at the guitar.”
One listen to Snider’s most recent original release, the much-heralded Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, shows that his efforts haven’t been in vain. The bluesy riffs on “In Between Jobs” and the jazzy chord changes on “Precious Little Miracles” feature guitar work that’s more confident and adventurous than anything he has recorded before. After 11 studio albums and more than 20 years in the business, Snider is still developing.
Some of the credit for this development goes to Elmo Buzz and the East Side Bulldogs, Snider’s loosely assembled side project stocked with Nashville session players that started up a few years ago. (Snider doubles as Elmo Buzz.) “It’s a good place to practice without having to put a paying audience through it,” he says, laughing.
The band, which plays ’50s and ’60s rock and roll as well as a slew of originals (some of which are collected on their raucous six-song digital EP, Shit Sandwich), allows Snider the chance to jam along with records to practice, something he didn’t do until recently. “From the time I was 20, if I picked up a guitar, I was trying to come up with some new chords or new riffs or something I could make a new thing over. And that just became an obsession…I’d never practice. I’d just play six hours a day trying to find a new set of chords for a song.”
That process has yielded some of the most highly regarded folk/Americana music of the last three decades, especially the string of albums that started with 2004’s East Nashville Skyline and culminated with this year’s Agnostic Hymns. As a lyricist, Snider has proven to be among the best in the business, and recent accolades from the likes of NPR and The New Yorker have given a little prestige to the self-described barefoot, lazy-ass hippie.
Even as someone who has befriended and learned firsthand from musical heroes including Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Jerry Jeff Walker, Snider isn’t quite ready to take on any mentees. “I don’t think I have much advice for the young people,” he says, “other than, ‘duck.’ Or, ‘the water’s freezing, come on in.’”
Despite that (somewhat joking) trepidation, Snider has taken a few younger singer/songwriters out on the road with him, such as Hayes Carll and Jason Isbell, and in recent years he has moved into the role of producer, helming Jason D. Williams’ Killer Instincts and Great American Taxi’s Paradise Lost. More than telling anyone what to do or how it should be done, Snider’s example of constant touring, cultivating a grassroots following, and being true to himself is advice enough for anyone looking for a how-to guide.
True to that ethic, Snider and his band The Burnouts (Paul Griffith on drums and Eric McConnell on bass, along with a few additional musicians on select dates) have been spending the year, in Snider’s words, “touring like teenagers.” The band accompaniment keeps things fresh for Snider.
“I like playing solo,” Snider says, “although a few years ago, that was getting boring to me. And then I got the Taxi [Great American Taxi, Snider’s backing band on a few recent tours], and that evened it out and got me really enjoying my solo shows again…and now I’ve got the new band, and it’s just nice to have a bunch of friends to come out and play.”
Deciding what band to use and when is “a good problem to have,” Snider says. The songwriter has also been backed on an occasional festival stage by the Yonder Mountain String Band, and Snider even reunites with his first band, The Nervous Wrecks, every now and then. And while he may never again play with KK Rider, the Memphis country cover band he immortalized in a shaggy dog tale on the live release, The Storyteller, he at least got an epic story out of it.
As for what’s ahead, Snider says he may just “tour and get old.” His latest original record, coupled with his tribute album Time As We Know It: Songs of Jerry Walker (Walker being Todd Snider’s inspiration for picking up the guitar), seem to be the bookends he wants to place on his recording career. “I just feel like I’ve said all I meant to say, at least in the way I’ve been saying it,” he says. “I think I want to tour, become a good guitar player, and work on learning all the songs of mine that I made up but that I don’t know.”
If past is prologue, whatever Snider chooses as an outlet for his creativity will be filled with humor, poignancy, and maybe even a few new guitar licks to keep things interesting. The water may be freezing, but Todd Snider is going to keep on swimming.
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few weeks before Easter 14 years ago I stood in the center of the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This now ancient structure is simultaneously beautiful and weary in appearance. Further, the mob scene I witnessed there was most aston-ishing. None of those words are meant to be derogatory in any way. They simply describe my impressions on entering the space.
The day was one of those brilliantly beautiful days one can imagine in Middle East. Bright warm sunshine made everything festive and everybody
exhibited warm feelings about being there. I suppose when I think of it, the
immensity of everything overwhelmed me. The building is huge, nobody is
standing still, the air is filled with incense, and the babble of the world’s
languages makes the place mysterious. I suppose in good composition size of a building, a milling crowd, and the quality of the air and sounds do not make cohesive comparisons, but all that is what I experienced the moment I went through the building’s giant wooden doors.
I should, however, step back a few minutes. Before arriving at the wooden doors I had come down from a narrow lane that led to a small gate. When I went through the gate the place seemed odd. In fact, I thought I had made a mistake. There before me the roof of a building emerged. No mistake; the gate actually led to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
Had I found the main entrance first I would not have encountered the people living on the roof of the building. Up there the Patriarchate of Ar-menian Orthodox Church had laid claim and had built a place of study or something like it. But because of the insistence of a man in a brimless lack stove-pipe hat and cassock the opportunity to explore the Armenian ele-ment had to be postponed. Standing before me the man in a brimless black stove-pipe hat and cassock beckoned and led me to a small chapel. A sign indicated here on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre monks of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, once a part of the Orthodox Coptic Church of Egypt.
In the chapel a gate prevented me from going farther. I had to stop wait for one of the monks to read from a book that had a highly decorative ceramic cover when opened formed a cross. I think the monk read in Ethiopian from the book and for some reason I understood he was reading from the Acts of the Apostles about the encounter between the Ethiopian eunuch and a follower of Jesus named Philip (Acts 8:26-40). How I knew this, I did not understand a word of what he had read; I can only surmise that is what I expected him to read. After reading the Scripture the monk raised the book then made the sign of the cross with it and I felt his blessing. How-ever, before I could leave a few shekels had to be dropped into the donation box.
Progressing down narrow spiraling steps I entered the court-yard in front of the main doors of the church building. A crowd that seemed to grow by the nano-second gathered at the door. Almost all were tourists, as I, but scattered in the crowd hawkers attempted to sell souvenirs; some thought-ful, but most gaudy. Joining the crowd I stayed alert for pickpockets and I wondered what more to expect. Up to that point I had been surprised by my experience. I had not expected to descend from the roof and to find Ethiopian Orthodox monks up there reading from Scripture and exacting shekels.
The push of the crowd moved me forward. Of course, I intended to be there and had no reason to be concerned other than I usually do not like crowds. On entering the church the first thing I noticed did surprise me; the cold air hit me and it felt like someone had turned on the air conditioner. Besides adjusting to the cold air, my eyes needed adjusting to the lack of light. After making those adjuadjustments I began to explore. I found the high altar with the silver and gold embellished figures of Sts. Mary and John.
Then I looked about to see Orthodox nuns (I presumed) cleaning out dead candles from the urns of sand and Orthodox deacons prostrate over relics. Then a procession of Roman Catholics formed and began to march about the cavernous basilica. I kept looking for beautiful stained glass but I do not recall seeing any. Then I took steps down onto the main floor and followed a path that took me below the high altar and there I found a giant granite stone, and I mean GIANT, that reminded me of the top of a skull and it was cracked down the middle. I asked myself, “Is this Golgotha?”
On returning to the main floor the crowd still milled about and the hubbub of chatter filled the air. I went to the opposite end of the main area to see the tomb of Christ. A line formed in front and an Orthodox priest seemed
to be in charge. I lined up and a few minutes later I entered the tomb on my
hands and knees.
Inside, the air warmed by hundreds of burning candles and walls glowed reflecting their light, I felt stifled; now not only have I experienced the fear of a pushing crowd but now I am dealing with claustrophobia. The priest outside did not want me stay long anyway, so out I crawled.
On emerging from the tomb I felt resurrected myself. Maybe that is the emotion one should have in a place like that. The more important emotion, however, came when I began to really look at the mob of people there. The world occupied that space and I believed myself to be a part of it. In that mob of people not only religious people in procession and Orthodox nuns, deacons, and priests caught my attention so did everyone else. Little clusters of people like Japanese tourists with their cameras, a group waving a Norwegian flag moved about as a tour group, other Americans could be heard over the clamor, and people from Africa and South America made up clusters of worshippers and tourists.
I thought and I believe that had Christ been in Jerusalem that day it is likely he would have been in that mix of humanity also. This place is not pristine, it is not a beautiful garden, and it is not a well-kept monument; it is just an old place that attracts the world to its door. It is a place where people argue over ownership and rights and privileges. That strikes me as the place Jesus would choose to be; it is the world that God loves so much he has made the ultimate sacrifice for it.
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Christ is waiting, ready to pour out his mercy to every sinner who turns to him.
Through her one-woman drama coming to Colorado this week, actress Maria Vargo is working to spread this message given to St. Faustina Kowalska in the 20th century.
“It doesn’t matter what we’ve done in our life,” Vargo said. “He wants more than anything for every soul to come to him.”
In the 90-minute performance “Faustina: Messenger of Divine Mercy,” the California-based actress portrays the life and faith of St. Faustina, known for being the start of the Divine Mercy devotion.
After entering the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy convent, the young nun saw mystical visions in 1930 of Jesus, who appeared in white garments with red and white rays emanating from his heart.
She kept a record of her experiences in a dairy, which sparked a movement of devotion to the mercy of Christ. St. Faustina was canonized in 2000, making her the first declared saint of the third millennium. St. John Paul II called her “the great apostle of Divine Mercy in our time.” He declared the Sunday after Easter “Mercy Sunday.”
In preparing for her role, Vargo delved into the saint’s dairy and life. She visited the Our Lady of Mercy convent in Dorchester, Mass. She spent a week with the nuns to learn about their way of life.
“There was also a book there I read that had some key eyewitness accounts of (St. Faustina),” Vargo said. “She was a joyful person. She wasn’t afraid and didn’t shy away from correcting people if they were doing something wrong.”
She said she learned the nun was also very prayerful.
“The diary helped me prepare interiorly,” Vargo said about her role. “And to have an understanding of whom she was in her relationship with our Lord and those around her.”
Vargo said she tries to stay as true as possible to the spirit and essence of the saint in her performance.
“Every time, I do the performance with my heart and soul in it. I’m passionate about the show, and I want everyone seeing it to get the same experience and truly feel what’s happening,” she said.
In Denver, Vargo will give the last performances on Faustina until the fall. She will give her 75th performance of the play.
The drama is directed by Leonardo Defilippis, president of St. Luke Productions, a Washington-based drama, film TV, radio and web programming companying that depicts the lives of the saints and Scripture. The company produced the film “Thérèse” and performed “Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz and Vianney” in Denver last year. The productions use actors, theatrical lighting, video imagery and original film scores to produce its dramas.
The performances of “Faustina“ are a freewill offering and suitable for ages 13 and up.
Vargo hopes that faithful will see the play to hear Christ’s message.
“We need to know that we, too, can be like Faustina and we can pray for the conversion of this world,” she said. “We all need mercy every day because we’re sinners.”
‘Faustina: Messenger of Divine Mercy’ Drama Schedule
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7:30 p.m. June 4: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 5450 S. Lemay Ave., Fort Collins. Call 970-226-1303 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
7 p.m. June 5: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 2746 E. Fifth St., Castle Rock. Call 303-688-3025 or email email@example.com.
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The prime minister has not yet bothered to explain which profound insight lies at the basis of the disengagement plan. However, it is reasonable to assume that this profound insight is Jewish-democratic. The State of Israel is about to uproot some 8,000 people from their homes in order to ensure the existence of Jewish-democratic sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
The events that took place this week on the way to and in Kfar Maimon and in Gush Katif are evidence that, even at this early stage, the disengagement process is tearing apart the Jewish-democratic fabric of Israel. The struggle between the blue government and the orange rebels is already undermining both the principle of Israeli sovereignty and Israel's identity as a democratic state.
The initial responsibility is that of the orange camp. It did not succeed in making clear that the objective of its struggle is protest rather than obstruction; it did not succeed in proving that its legitimate campaign would not turn into rebellion. It permitted its young supporters' war cries to be slogans of refusal. It brazenly adopted the ethos of breaking the law. It raised a fist against Israeli sovereignty.
The responsibility on the shoulders of the government, however, is no less heavy. The government proved this week that it has not internalized the rules of the game, that it is tainted with a deep lack of ethics and that it has dealt a mortal blow to Israel's identity as a democratic country.
In a democratic country, the defense minister does not instruct the police to tighten a siege on a civilian settlement, and military forces do not act within the sovereign borders to put down a civilian demonstration. In a democratic country, the police do not take civilians off buses at one end of the country on the basis of a claim that they may commit a (minor) offense in another part of the country.
Moreover, in a democratic country, the government does not treat its political adversaries like foes. In a democratic country, the government shows compassion toward citizens upon whom it is about to bring calamity. In a democratic country, the legal system knows how to protect the rights of a minority to which it feels moral aversion. What transpired this week between Netivot and Kissufim was a depressing paradox: At the moment of truth, Israeli nationalists rebel against the national structure while Israeli democrats desert the basic democratic values. At the moment of truth, the religious right does not hesitate to endanger Israel's sense of nationhood, while the secular center-left does not remain loyal to those very universal and liberal tenets for which it stands.
The week of Kfar Maimon is merely a prologue. But this prologue has already proven that this summer is going to be hard as hell, that Israel is in no way ready for the challenge of disengagement. The terms are not clear, the lines are not clear, the values have not been defined. Therefore, when the blue and orange camps face each other along the lines of confrontation, the only thing dividing them is bravado. While one side feels threatened and the other side feels betrayed, the conflicting ends justify the means.
There are a mere few weeks left. The blue camp must come to its senses. It must grant a humane and moral dimension to the historic move; it must give the disengagement valid significance. It must look in the eye those whose world it is about to destroy and speak to them.
The orange camp too must come to its senses. It must overcome its sense of mourning and realize that the die is cast. There will indeed be disengagement. The orange camp must now curb the rebellion, revolt and refusal spreading among its grieving members. It must ensure that the inevitable division of the Land of Israel will not tear asunder the people of Israel and will not shake the State of Israel. Under no circumstances must the orange camp cross the red line.
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10 Entertainers Who Need To Make A Comeback This Year
Every year, no matter what phenomenal album drops or which movie sweeps the nation, consumers are never satisfied. I mean, some of you are secretly anxious for Beyoncé’s next major move…already. And so it begins: So-and-so should drop an album! Where has such-and-such been? Yadda yadda yadda. That said, this year’s no different.
Bottom line: We’re insatiable. We crave the resurgence of artists (or actors!) we once loved or the times in which we loved them. Blame nostalgia if you’d like, but here are 10 artists that have a real shot at making a comeback. —Niki McGloster
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Are there any health risks involved with breast feeding?
I am 6 months pregnant and still can't decide if I want to breast feed. Is there any health risk for me or my child if I breast feed? Is it better to bottle feed nowadays?
First of all, congratulations on your pregnancy! In answer to your questions, most mothers should absolutely breast feed! All major medical associations recommend breastfeeding as preferable to bottle feeding whenever possible. There are essentially no health risks associated with breast feeding for otherwise healthy mothers and babies (in rare cases, such as HIV infection, mothers should not breastfeed). On the other hand, the benefits of breastfeeding are numerous. First of all, breast feeding is a great way to promote bonding between you and your child. It is an intimate experience that allows you to get to know your child quickly. Second, breastmilk has many advantages over formula for babies. For example, it has maternal antibodies in it which help to protect your baby from infections in the first year of their life. Also, the nutritional composition of breastmilk is ideally suited for your baby's growth needs, better than formula. If you choose not to breastfeed directly, you can still consider pumping your breast milk and giving it by bottle to your baby, which is still superior to using only formula. Talk to your OB GYN doctor to make sure that breastfeeding is right for you. I suspect it will be!
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The family of a late Iowa equipment hauler is trying to locate a collection of his pedal tractors stolen recently from a storage unit in Hamilton, Ill.
The toys were taken after only a few days, says Deborah Perry, daughter of collector Robert "Bob" Burke. They were stored after his death in April and, per his wishes, would have been sold at auction.
Burke lost his arm in a farming accident as a young boy and later became a semi and lowboy driver for Raid Bros Quarry for 27 years, Perry says. He enjoyed buying and restoring small-scale versions of the equipment he once helped transport.
In an email interview, Perry described the collection, the value it holds for the family and the action the family is taken to locate the stolen tractors.
Tell me a bit about your dad.
Only having one arm did not stop him from doing what he wanted to do. After my mother passed away in 1993, he started collecting toys - mainly farm toys or heavy equipment much like what he had hauled. He enjoyed turning a rusty and dented toy into a nicely restored piece. His greatest love was his pedal tractors. He restored many for himself as well as some for friends in Denmark.
Anyone that knew my dad knows that he had his own unique way of assembling the pedal tractors. This was in part due to the fact that he only had one arm. He developed ways of assembling that worked for him. This fact should help in locating the stolen pedal tractors.
What was stolen?
Among the approximate nine to 12 stolen pedal tractors are four John Deeres, three Farmalls, one White and one Massey. These are approximate figures, as we are still going through the collection.
What is the value of the collection, in dollars and sentimental value?
The value would be $2,000 to $3,000. The sentiment goes far beyond that amount. This was Dad's love, and he wanted them sold at auction. He loved going to auctions, where found much of his collection. To have part of his collection stolen was like losing a part of him all over again.
There was an enormous amount of sentimental value to the entire family. We would ask no questions if the person or persons were to return these pedal tractors so they can be sold at Dad's auction.
Is there a reward?
Sullivan Auctioneers, LLC publicized a $1,000 cash reward and will be placing another ad the week of June 10th. They are raising the award to $2,000 in hopes that someone will come forward with information.
What other comments would you like to make?
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CNN reports on the incredible story in which The United States and Mexico pledged Friday to redouble efforts in the war against drugs.
The $1.4 billion plan, proposed by President Bush in 2007, funds training, equipment and other assistance for Mexican law enforcement. Congress recently approved an initial $197 million, which the Bush administration made available to Mexico this month.
Could any program be more doomed to failure? Is this anything more than an attempt on the part of a lame-duck administration to spend a bunch of money before the end of the year? To me it's a pathetic joke.
"The United States and Mexico have reaffirmed a commitment to enhanced partnership, cooperation, training, assistance [and] information-sharing, built on the premise that we have a shared responsibility to confront these criminals and protect our citizens, and that success requires increased cooperation," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after the group's first high-level policy meeting.
That's the world famous Condoleezza who said that, the one whose track record speaks for itself.
We've discussed the problems in Mexico before. What's to be done? How can we diminish the hunger for cocaine that exists in America? Would legalizing the drug help? Is it really so difficult to intercept these huge shipments of coke or is it simply a matter of corruption? In which case, how can we combat the corruption that allows the drug business to flourish?
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Steven Raichlen is an American culinary writer, TV host, and most recently novelist.
Born March 11, 1953, in Nagoya, Japan in Japan and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Raichlen graduated in 1975 from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. He received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe, and was offered a Fulbright Scholarship to study comparative literature. He trained at Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris.
Since 1998, Raichlen's books have focused on the culture and practice of global grilling. His 28 books include The Barbecue Bible (1998, revised in 2008), How to Grill (2001), BBQ USA, Miami Spice, and Healthy Latin Cooking. His books have been translated into 15 languages. Raichlen also wrote Planet Barbecue!, the story of his travels to more than 50 countries in search of the best barbecue, published by Workman Publishing in 2010.
Raichlen currently hosts Primal Grill (American Public Television, 3 seasons, 2008–present). According to the show's Web site, the new series focuses on the "how-tos" of live fire cooking, employing different grills for each technique, including South American methods on large wood-fired Grillworks models. Raichlen, who holds a degree in French literature from Reed College, also hosts a French-language TV show called Le Maitre du Grill on Zeste in Quebec. Raichlen created the TV show Barbecue University (aka BBQ U, American Public Television, 4 Seasons, 2003–2006).
Steven Raichlen has won five James Beard awards for his cookbooks. High-Flavor, Low-Fat Cooking won the 1993 award for Best Light and Healthy Cookbook, and his follow-up, High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking, won the 1996 award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook. In 1999, Healthy Latin Cooking won the award for Healthy Focus. He also earned the 2001 James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award for his Healthy Jewish Cooking More recently his 780-page book, BBQ USA, won the 2004 award for Tools and Techniques
In 2003, Bon Appetit named Raichlen “Cooking Teacher of the Year," the same year that The Barbecue Bible, based on his four years of research while traveling 150,000 miles through 25 countries on five continents, won an IACP Julia Child Award.
Originally from Baltimore, Raichlen has been known to further careers of such barbecue pitmasters thanks to his writing. One being Wayne Mark Schafer, of Baltimore's Pit Beef fame Big Fat Daddy's who was featured in Raichlen's NY Times Article and 425 Fiery Recipes Book.
Raichlen has written for The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Food and Wine, "Bon Appetit" and Hemispheres magazines. He has appeared on numerous television programs and networks including Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Discovery Channel, Oprah, Regis & Kelly, The View and CNN.
In 2012, he released his first novel, Island Apart, about a Chappaquiddick hermit's developing relationship with a cancer patient.
- Miami Spice : The New Florida Cuisine. ISBN 1-56305-346-2. 1993.
- Steven Raichlen's High-Flavor, Low-Fat Vegetarian Cooking. ISBN 0-14-024124-8. 1997.
- The Barbecue! Bible. ISBN 1-56305-866-9. 1998.
- Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes. ISBN 0-7611-1979-5. 2000.
- Steven Raichlen's Healthy Latin Cooking : 200 Sizzling Recipes from Mexico, Cuba, Caribbean, Brazil, and Beyond. ISBN 0-87596-498-2. 2000.
- Beer-Can Chicken: And 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill. ISBN 0-7611-2016-5. 2002.
- The Best of Barbecue University by Steven Raichlen. DVD/Video. 2005.
- Raichlen on Ribs, Ribs, Outrageous Ribs. ISBN 0-7611-4211-8. 2006.
- Planet Barbecue! ISBN 9780761148012. 2010.
- Island Apart ISBN 9780765332387, 2012.
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- Steven Raichlen's BBQ USA: 425 fiery recipes from all across America limited preview on Google Books
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- Barbecue Bible
- Star Chefs
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- Larsen, Peter (June 20th, 2012). "BBQ expert Steven Raichlen brings first novel to O.C.". Orange County Register. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
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I thought I might blog each day of the vacation but that hasn’t happened. No biggies. It’s a vacation after all. Nearly free from rules except the 20-minute rule for getting into the pool post a hogging session.
The beach is clean, seem to have no riff-raff (none that I’ve spotted so far) and is pretty shallow so MLM and we have been able to venture pretty far in without worrying too much about turning turtle once a big wave hits.
The resort by itself is nothing over the top. It’s cozy, looks like a resort, feels like a resort, acts like a resort as it were but it’s not your run-of-the-mill filled to the brim during holiday season either.
We get enough pool time and don’t have to jostle for a good spot on the beach either.
One of the things we wanted for the vacation was an overall sense of being relaxed. We haven’t yet opted for too many activities (that’ll come with the second part of the holiday) and neither did we want to have our fill of things to feel that we’re getting our money’s worth. We wanted to relax, have some laughs, take a few pictures and have a good holiday.
Barring a smallish (well..not that small) with the luggage arriving once we landed in our destination it’s all been just dandy.
We’ve tasted the local cuisine, gone to a party, made half-assed sand castles, caught a wee mudskipper, chased crabs on the beach and seen a mangrove and it’s denizen amongst the whole of things we “haven’t” done.
MLM has been pretty social too….going up to people on the beach and in the pool, saying hello. Sometimes choosing people to interact with purely on the basis of their attire viz the boy who wore the alligator swim trunks or the lady who was just lazily floating in the pool till the little monkey swam up beside her and decided he wanted to do what “aunty” was doing 🙂
We’ve had to resort to the television only once or twice till now. The digital media is a companion during meals but we’re working on that.
All in all it’s a good way to round off a year that’s seen lots of hours in the office, lots of scoldings over handwriting and homework and plenty of time agonizing over the ironing, maids and choosing schools for the offspring.
So here we are….vegetating.
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Excessive Prices, Unfair Prices and Economic Value: The Law of Excesive Pricing Under Article 82 Ec and the Chapter II Prohibition
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Mark M. Furse (University of Glascow School of Law) has provided some thoughts on Excessive Prices, Unfair Prices and Economic Value: The Law of Excesive Pricing Under Article 82 Ec and the Chapter II Prohibition.
ABSTRACT: It is a fundamental tenet of competition law in the European Community (EC) and the UK that monopoly itself is not condemned. In the EC and the UK (and the other member states that have adopted arts 81 and 82 EC as the model for domestic competition law) it is the "abuse" committed by the undertaking in a dominant position that falls to be condemned. However, both Article 82 EC and section 18 of the Competition Act 1998 (CA98) make reference, in the list of potentially abusive conduct, to "directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices". In a number of cases this rubric has been extended to cover situations in which dominant undertakings have been attacked for charging "excessive prices". As has been long recognised, there are significant problems in applying this rubric, particularly given the terminology employed both in Article 82 EC and in the early case law. Neither the EC Commission nor the European Court of Justice, or the relevant UK authorities, has provided a robust working method of determining when a price is to be held to be excessive. Recent cases which appear on their face to provide a clearer methodology, and which have recognised the necessary separation of the core ingredients of making a finding of abuse in respect of an excessive price, have further complicated matters by accepting that, in part at least, whether a price is fair or unfair may depend on the demand for the product. The logical problems such an approach raises are dealt with in this paper.
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Can anyone guide me to the proper authority to report Dell Computers for unfair competion? It seems that everytime I get a call for computers that must be supplied by Dell, I will get a quote add a small amouth for profit and still Dell outbids me every single time. As soon as you mention government contract the price increases by $400. This is totally unfair.
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William Osborn Stoddard (Courtland County, 1835–1925) was an American author, inventor, and assistant secretary to Abraham Lincoln during his first term.
Ni-ha-be sat perfectly still in her silver-mounted saddle, although her spirited mustang pony pawed the ground and pulled on his bit as if he were in a special hurry to go on down the side of the mountain.
The two girls were of about the same size, and could not either of them have been over fifteen years old. They were both very pretty, very well dressed and well mounted, and they could both speak in a strange, rough, and yet musical language; but there was no other resemblance between them.
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One slim babe to rule them all! If you like tight babes she might be the one. Why am I saying this? Because she is the slim perfection. At least in my humble opinion. The problem with this beauty is that I don’t know who she is. I found her on StasyQ and her name there is FerdyQ, but I am pretty sure that this name is only used there.
But enough talking, let’s see what we have here…
I like skinny girls and if they have a tight ass then they are perfect. And this babe has an amazing piece of ass: tight round and hard as a rock. The photographer was a pro and had an eye for her sexy bum and he put accent on her booty. I applaud that! She has small perky tits, very beautiful and natural and long legs. But I am an ass man so the ass is all I want to see.
She poses in front of a big window and the light falls naturally on her sexy body. She is wearing a white shirt that keeps on almost the entire photo session giving her a very sexy look. Her panties are black and very sexy. She’s teasing us by pooling them aside and at one point she gets rid of them for good. We can see her super tight pussy as she lays down on the window’s sill. I love what I’m seeing! And that gap is out of this world. I guess all I need is one slim babe and I am happy forever.
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Watching Wisconsin sports teams is not just a pastime for Wisconsinites, I’d call it more of an obsession. We’ve had some exciting Badgers, Packer, Brewers and Bucks seasons with our teams playing long into post-season. But no worries about missing the game while you’re on vacation, we have you covered in Elkhart Lake! The game is on at any number of local hangouts with great options to cheer on your favorite team.
If a game is on during regular Club House hours, you can be assured its on at Quit Qui Oc Golf Course. You can catch afternoon Badgers and Packer games while enjoying lunch and drink specials. The Wiese family also has a few Badger alums, so be sure to wear your team colors!
The Stop Inn Tavern at Siebkens Resort , known as the Best Bar on the Race Circuit, isn’t only for race fans. The Stop Inn opens one hour before Packer kick off and offers a $5 Packer Buffet. The tavern is also open Friday and Saturday nights at 6 p.m. with a BOGO Happy Hour from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
The fire place and sofas make the Elk Room at the Osthoff Resort a great family-friendly spot to catch the game. Be sure to ask about the Lambeau Leap shot special!
When you offer a view from seven big-screens and 10 TVs throughout, you know Route 67 Saloon is the sports bar in the Village. Grab your family and friends for great food and gameday drink specials and don’t forget your fan gear.
The Brown Baer opens early for Sunday mid-day (3:00 – 3:30) games and you’ll be treated to free Brat Pizza (a local favorite) and green machine shots when the Green and Gold score. If you’re a Bloody Mary fan, you’ll love their Saturday Badger Game specials. Also mark your calendar for the Baer’s 10th Annual Kentucky Derby Party on Saturday May 2nd. Customers are all in, attending in full Kentucky Derby dress-attire while they contend for the title of “best hat”. You’re sure to have a good time as you sip mint julips and take it all in.
The Cottonwood Social at the Shore Club is open for regular dining service Fridays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Sundays 8:00 – 2p.m. and the game is on! The Tiki Bar will also be open New Year’s Day for the annual Tiki Bar Bash and Bowl Games will be on all day.
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"Two-For-One" Solution Provides Integrated Secure Data Storage And Two-Factor Authentication Technology From RSA In SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise Flash Drives
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, April 7, 2008 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced the ability to deploy, store and use RSA SecurID® software tokens from RSA, The Security Division of EMC, on SanDisk Cruzer® Enterprise USB flash drives. Now available for order, this "two-for-one" solution gives users a single device for secure data storage and two-factor authentication, an alternative to carrying both a flash drive and a separate hardware authenticator.
Cruzer Enterprise is managed by SanDisk's CMC (Central Management & Control) server software, making it easy for IT managers to provision and monitor flash drives throughout their lifecycle. At the same time, Cruzer Enterprise flash drives that contain RSA SecurID software tokens provide two-factor authentication capabilities for remote and mobile network access - requiring something users have (the one-time passcode generated on the drive, used with or without a PIN) and something users know (the drive's password).
"This is an ideal solution for employees who need to travel light and yet be fully connected, as well as for IT departments concerned with data security and regulatory compliance challenges," said Roy Ramati, Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Division at SanDisk. "Adding RSA SecurID to our management and security solutions for the enterprise is a major step forward in our mission: providing IT professionals with tools to enhance employee productivity through mobility and remote connectivity."
SanDisk has certified interoperability between Cruzer Enterprise Flash Drives and RSA SecurID technology through the RSA Secured® Partner Program, which enables interoperability partners to embed RSA technology within their products and solutions. The RSA Secured program includes a formalized certification process that puts each product through a series of tests to ensure that the end-user is getting the maximum available benefits from an interoperable solution.
"Two-factor authentication is no longer a one-size fits all solution, so we are working with SanDisk to optimize our joint customers' deployments by balancing risk, cost and convenience and offering a broad choice of authentication mechanisms," said Sam Curry, Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing, Identity and Access Assurance Group at RSA, the Security Division of EMC. "By leveraging a single device to support additional security capabilities, we are building the necessary confidence that corporate data is being accessed securely by customers, partners and employees."
SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise flash drives protect all files with advanced hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption. Users are also required to create a complex password during the set-up process. The combination of encryption and password protection makes it extremely difficult for unauthorized users to access data if the drive is lost or stolen. Cruzer Enterprise - available in 1, 2, 4 and 8 gigabyte (GB)1 capacities - is also fast, with read speed of 24 megabytes (MB) per second and write speed of 20 MB/sec2.
CMC server software provides lifecycle management for Cruzer Enterprise drives, including centralized provisioning of drives throughout the organization, password recovery and renewal through the network, central back-up and restore, central usage tracking, and remote termination of lost drives. This means data is not lost when a drive is lost, and IT administrators can provision a replacement flash drive with user files stored on the network.
CMC is also capable of working with RSA Authentication Manager to remotely provision software token seeds and, if necessary, the RSA SecurID application itself to remote employees - reducing the cost of deployment.
SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise drives with pre-installed RSA SecurID software tokens, as well as CMC software with a module to support RSA SecurID two-factor authentication, are available for order now from SanDisk and SanDisk-authorized resellers. Cruzer Enterprise drives can securely store RSA SecurID software token seeds, available for purchase and enablement from RSA or its channel partners, to generate one-time passwords directly from the drive.
SanDisk, a global leader in USB flash drives, is driving the convergence of secure portable storage, identity management and virtualization through its Enterprise Division to create a comprehensive solution for mobile professionals in enterprises and government agencies. Today, SanDisk's Enterprise Division offers solutions for more securely storing and managing enterprise data, within and outside the enterprise environment. With the upcoming introduction of virtualization and identity and access management capabilities, SanDisk expects to allow IT managers to boost employee productivity by mobilizing the corporate computing environment through flexible, secure solutions that also reduce total cost of ownership. More information is available at www.sandisk.com/enterprise.
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate) is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
1 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some capacity is not available for data storage.
2 Based on SanDisk internal testing; performance may be lower depending upon host device. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/mediakit
For more Information visit: http://www.sandisk.com/Enterprise
SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and Cruzer are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holder(s).
RSA, Secured, and SecurID are registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including specifications, applications, markets, customer acceptance and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, there may be a slower adoption rate for products in new markets that we are targeting, our products may not perform as expected, no security technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
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In 2024 more than half of phones worldwide will be eSIM-compatible. The eSIM (embedded SIM) market has experienced consistent growth in recent years, driven by the rising popularity of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, smartphones, and various connected devices. The technology behind eSIM involves integrating a SIM card chip directly into a device, eliminating the requirement for a physical SIM card. This enables users to provision and switch between mobile carriers remotely. This list includes all the smartphones (iPhone, Samsung, Google Pixel, etc) that support eSIM,. The list is inclusive of both current models and forthcoming releases.
In the European market, smartphones and consumer devices have seen early adoption of eSIM technology, with numerous mobile operators providing eSIM services to customers.
Within the automotive sector, the European industry has embraced the integration of eSIMs into connected car systems, enabling features such as real-time navigation, remote diagnostics, and in-car entertainment.
The use of eSIMs in IoT applications is experiencing increased adoption in Europe, particularly in areas like smart meters, connected industrial equipment, and asset tracking.
In the realm of travel and tourism, eSIMs have become popular among European travelers due to the convenience of easily switching mobile carriers when moving between countries.
eSIM-Ready Devices List 2024
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max
- iPhone SE (2020)
- iPhone 12, 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 13 mini, 13, 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max
- iPhone SE (2022)
- iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 16
- Samsung S24
- Samsung Galaxy S223 and S23+
- Samsung Galaxy S22, S22+ and SS 22 Ultra
- Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra
- Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20+
- Samsung S2 Ultra
- Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra
- Samsung Galaxy Fold, Fold 2, Fold 3 and Fold 4
- Samsung Flip 1, 3 and 4
- Samsung Galaxy S20 Hybrid Dual SIM
- Galaxy A55 5G
- Galaxy Z Flip 6
- Galaxy Fold 6
1.3. Google Pixel Phones
- Google Pixel 2, 2 XL
- Google Pixel 3, 3 XL
- Google Pixel 3a, 3a XL
- Google Pixel 4, 4 XL
- Google Pixel 4a 5G
- Google Pixel 5a
- Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro and 6a
- Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro
- Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro
- Google Pixel 9
1.4. Huawei Phones
- Huawei P40 and P40 Pro
- Huawei P50 Pro
- Huawei Mate 40 Pro
- Huawei Mate Xs 2
- Huawei Mate X2
- Huawei P70, P70 Pro and P70 Art
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- sony Xperia 10 III Lite
- Sony Xperia 1 IV
- Sony Xperia 10 IV
- Sony Xperia 5 IV
- Sony Xperia 1 V
- Sony Xperia 10 V
- Sony Xperia Ace III
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1.6. Xiaomi Phones
- Xiaomi 12T Pto
- Xiaomi 13, 13 Lite, 13 Pro and 13T Pro
- Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G (Japan only)
- Xiaomi 14 Series
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- Motorola Razr 2019 and 5G
- Gemini PDA
- Rakuten Mini, BigS, Big, Hand and Hand 5G
- Surface Pro X
- Honor Magic 4 Pro
- Fairphone 4
- Sharp Aquos Sense 6s and Aquos Wish
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- Dell Devices: Latitude 7210 2-in-1, 9410, 7310, 7410, 9510, 5410, 5411 and 5511.
- HP Devices: Spectre Folio 13, Elite x2 G2 and G3, Envy x2, EliteBook G4, G5 Notebook PC, Probook G3, G4, G5, Zbook G4, G5, Studio G5 and mt32 Mobile Thin Client.
- LENOVO Devices: Yoga C630, Miix 630, Yoga 520, Yoga 720, ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga 2 in 1, ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9, ThinkPad X1 Fold, ThinkPad X1 Nano, ThinkPad X12 Detachable and Flex 5G.
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- Samsung: Samsung Tab S9 and its variations, Galaxy Book 2 and 3 and Galaxy Foldable.
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Prescription drugs and college students have become a common pairing. This pairing is from the increase in prescription drug abuse among college students. Because of the attention the issue is receiving, our doctors are sharing their knowledge for different interviews and articles. But what should the public know about prescription drugs and college students?
How Does Prescription Drug Addiction Occur?
There are numerous reasons why an addiction to prescription drugs can take place. For some, an injury or chronic pain is the culprit. Opioid pain relievers have become a leading cause of addiction. Prescriptions for these medications often happen after a major surgery, serious accident, or intense chronic pain. Other addictions happen because of the high the medication causes the individual, which they wish to experience again. These drugs can cause chemical changes and imbalances in the brain, making it hard to stop. If users try to stop after extensive use, they could experience withdrawal symptoms.
Why the Connection Between Prescription Drugs and College Students?
College students are often experiencing intense levels of stress. The pressure to perform well in class, hold down a job, and begin a career can cause depression and anxiety in students. To cope with these emotions, college students will turn to prescription drugs for help. The problem is, these medications aren’t provided by a doctor. Instead, they’re finding these drugs from other peers without any type of medical guidance. While some students use these drugs to experience a calming high, others use them for alertness. Those struggling with a heavy workload tend to reach for stimulants to keep them awake and energized so they can complete their work. No matter the reason for using, an addiction is no way to live.
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When Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black took the job as the teams’ new skipper, he knew what he was getting on the surface with standouts by the likes of Nolan Arenado and Carlos Gonzalez. Now, just about halfway through Spring Training, Black has been impressed with what he has seen both out of the present and future of the organization.
“I think the overall depth in our organization is in a good spot,” Black said. “I think that’s reflected in some of the rankings of our minor league system…What I’ve seen first-hand is some guys with some skill. The skillset that looks to be [that of] a Major League player, I like that…Our guys are showing well, so it’s a good sign.”
Although former prospects Trevor Story, Jon Gray, and Jeff Hoffman have all graduated from the minors to the big leagues, Colorado’s farm system is still one of baseball’s best, loaded with young talent that the organization is optimistic will be the next wave of standouts at 20th and Blake.
However, it looks as if the Rockies depth will come into play earlier than expected this season. Already Colorado has lost four key players to injury in David Dahl, Chad Bettis, Ian Desmond and Tom Murphy.
Since the beginning of camp, players and prospects have been given the opportunity to show Black and the new regime what they are made of. Now, with spots in the starting rotation, outfield, and first base open for prospects and seasoned veterans the extent of the rox depth will show.
“It will be a critical evaluation moving forward.” Black said over the over the weekend. “There’s a number of guys who are going to be given that opportunity to show us what they can do…These next three weeks will be performance based and critically evaluated.”
The Rockies have two different sources of depth: the youth and the veterans.
Colorado has a youthful farm system loaded with talent. Players like German Marquez, Raimel Tapia and Kyle Freeland are all nearing call-ups and could be impact players for the Rockies while they deal with injuries to core players.
While the youth would be great, the logical route is to install veterans into the lineup. Luckily for Colorado, they already have those guys. With the injuries to Dahl and Desmond, vets Gerardo Parra and Mark Reynolds will get their opportunity to showcase themselves.
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Today’s message should be very helpful to you, IF, that is, you are like most violinists and can always use an insight or two to keep your right arm technique sharp.
You see, most players have four main challenges where it comes to their bow-arm; keeping it straight, keeping it horizontal, achieving clean, non-disruptive string crossings, and coordinating changes of string and direction with the left hand.
Now, you may think of disagreeing with me. You may be thinking, ‘my biggest problem is with spiccato, I can do all those other things.’
If that’s the case, I’d say, you’d be wise to pay attention, your spiccato difficulties may have more to do with these things than you think.
Actually today I’m just going to discuss the first two challenges; keeping the bow straight and keeping it horizontal. For most of us ‘straight’ is pretty well understood to mean parallel to the bridge. What is less understood, in my experience, is the need for the components of the bow arm to facilitate the horizontal travel of the bow.
And for these to happen there are exactly 3 joints we have that must ALLOW them to happen; the wrist, the elbow and the shoulder.
Take the wrist, one of the most common no-nos I see is a raising of the wrist at the frog. Raising the wrist immediately takes one component of your bow-arm out of the horizontal plane of movement that is so necessary to an efficient, seamless bow.
So how should the wrist flex. The wrist must flex forward, remaining within the ‘plane of motion’ the bow arm inhabits whilst also maintaining the bow in a position parallel to the bridge.
This idea of staying in the plane of motion extends to the elbow as well. I see a lot of players introducing unnecessary complications to their bow-arm by elevating and lowing the elbow in the course of drawing a full bow.
And then they wonder why the bow ‘chatters’ on the string, or they have difficulty with quick string crossings and such. Well, there’s just too much going on, and all that contrary energy is getting fed right into the bow stick.
And last, there’s the shoulder. Oh yea, the shoulder. How fresh is the memory of my father standing next to me tapping my shoulder to get it to relax during my early years of practice.
Though relaxed, the muscles in the shoulder must nonetheless control critical movements of the upper arm that comes into play at the lower part of the bow and during string crossings.
I’ll talk more about string crossings tomorrow, yet for now it is important to understand that although the shoulder is bearing the weight of the arm and bow, it must nonetheless be relaxed, at it plays a critical role in moving the bow straight and horizontally at the frog.
This is to say that one cannot confuse the vertical movements involved in string crossings with the lateral movements of the upper arm involved in bowing.
This morning I again made a worthwhile investment into my practice by playing Kreutzer #2 at the extreme frog. And you might be interested to know, that for me to accomplish it, at tempo, from top to bottom with a really smooth detaché bowing, I ‘belly breathed’ like a stallion in heat. You’ve got to keep the upper body absolutely relaxed to do this, and belly-breathing is a secret every violinist should know facilitates this.
All the Best,
Thank you, Clayton. I remember my high school band teacher making us all run around until we couldn't help but belly-breathe, but no one ever told me it would help my violin playing! I'll try it.
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I'm still in existence... in case anyone was wondering.
Generally when I'm absent from blogging I'm also spending horribly. These past few weeks have been an exception. I haven't been spending wisely but I haven't been spending in excess either.
I'm in this Bill Murray's "Groundhog Day" slump waiting for the baby boy to pick a birthday. I wake up, wait for baby, and then go to sleep rather disappointed that alas today was not the day. Actually there's several little boughts of sleeping thrown into that routine. And repeat. At this point everything kind of hurts (not in a horribly unbearable way but just in an "I'm uncomfortable and don't really want to move for any reason" way). I'm depressed for having been off work for so long now and yet I don't even have the little one here with me (outside of tummy that is). I'm not beating myself up too badly for being off work because I could not physically work any longer BUT it's really difficult just waiting. As every day passes by that's one more day of maternity leave gone and one less day I get to spend with the new little man. It's REALLY difficult. In fact I've yet to face anything in life that's been as difficult as these past two (almost three) weeks. It's crazy that something which will result in one of thee absolute best aspects of my life would be so very awful and draining. (on second thought that's how most grand things in life come about I guess). I feel as though I'm broken, shut down, not really entirely existing. Everyday is the same now. Everyday could be the day he arrives. Everyday I have less than ZERO motivation to do anything but hope and wait. I haven't been blogging because I've just been waiting (rather impatiently and grouchily). No one wants to hear a pregnant women whine everyday about the same exact thing and so I've refrained. This blog is bad enough as it is.
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- Create strong passwords and change them regularly so that the business is not vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
- Install security systems such as alarms and access control solutions for physical security.
- Set up two-factor authentication for all online accounts to add an extra layer of security.
- Install security software on all devices used within the business, such as computers and smartphones, to protect against malware.
- Regularly back up data to minimize business disruptions and protect reputation in case of data loss or breach.
Keeping your business secure in today’s digital age has never been more critical. Business owners and entrepreneurs often overlook the importance of maintaining security measures, leaving their businesses vulnerable to cyber-attacks and other security breaches. In this blog, we will share top tips to keep your business secure, so you can focus on building your business without worrying about potentially costly security breaches.
Create Strong Passwords and Change them Frequently.
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Train your Employees on Security Measures
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Ziel Treblinka / "Final Destination Treblinka"
By Stephen Potyondi
As part of the greater Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe, the Treblinka concentration camp was second only the the more famous Auschwitz-Birkenau in terms of deadliness. With thousands of cattle cars stocked to the gills with Polish Jews converging on it day after day for months on end, its facilities orchestrated the annihilation of at least 800,000 of them, and quite likely more. All this we know from what remains of eyewitness testimony and physical evidence despite Nazi efforts to destroy both, and most especially train schedules whose 'final destination' declarations take on a macabre connotation with the understanding of what really occurred at the end of the line.
Before continuing, it must be noted that this paper is not intended to be an exhaustive exegesis of Treblinka. I have written it to demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that Treblinka was an extermination camp devoted to the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews within the framework of the Final Solution. Any shortcomings of detail, therefore, must needs be remedied by reference to other treatises.
Massive and systematic executions at the Treblinka camp fell under the aegis of Aktion Reinhard (alternatively Einsatz Reinhard and Aktion Reinhardt), a facet of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage) devoted to physically exterminating the Jews of the Generalgouvernement of former Poland. A brief treatment is therefore in order. Its principal organiser and commander was Odilo Globocnik, a ranking member of the Schutzstaffel from 1 September 1934 onward and a recurring name in this history.
On 9 November 1939, Heinrich Himmler, both overseer of the newly annexed Polish territories and director of the Final Solution, appointed Globocnik to the position of SS and police chief for the Lublin district (SS- und Polizeiführer für den Distrikt Lublin). Globocnik demonstrated very early that he was a fervent supporter of Himmler's "General plan for the East" (Generalplan Ost) to resettle the Lublin area with volksdeutsche [ethnic German] immigrants and to extirpate its Jews to that end. So much so that on 17 July 1941, he was appointed as Plenipotentiary for the Construction of SS and Police Strongpoints in the new Eastern Area (Der Beauftragte des Reichsführers-SS für die Errichtung der SS- und Polizeistützpunkte im neuen Ostraum). His zeal is attested to by his contemporaries, including Jakob Sporrenberg, Globocnik's successor as Lublin SSPF after the former's departure for Trieste in 1943, among others.1 Rudolf Höß, kommandant of Auschwitz, wrote in his Krakow jail cell that Globocnik had concocted:
fantastic plans of bases stretching all the way to the Urals .... He didn't see any difficulties here and rejected all criticism with a superior sweep of the hand. Insofar as he did not need them for labour at "his" bases, he wanted to liquidate the Jews in these areas on the spot.2
At the same time, Himmler appointed Hauptsturmführer Hans Höfle as Globocnik's Chief of Operations in charge of organisation and manpower, an essential player in the upcoming Aktion Reinhard(t) programme.3 Globocnik was also given a staff of a few hundred men to aid him in his work, many of whom came from the T4 euthanasia programme at the behest of Dr. Viktor Brack, Oberführer in the SS.
In 1941, I received an oral order to discontinue the euthanasia programme. I received this order either from Bouhler or from Dr (Karl) Brandt [Himmler's adjutant]. In order to reserve the personnel relieved of these duties and to have the opportunity of starting a new euthanasia programme after the war, Bouhler requested, I think after a conference with Himmler, that I send these personnel to Lublin and put them at the disposal of SS-Brigadeführer Globocnik. I then had the impression that these people were to be used in the extensive Jewish labour camps run by Globocnik[sic]. Later, however, at the end of 1942 or the beginning of 1943, I found out that they were used to assist in the mass extermination of the Jews, which was by then already common knowledge in the higher Party circles.4
Although most of these men were discharged from their T4 positions on 24 August 1941, they were hastily summoned back by an emergency recall two weeks later to serve Globocnik's purposes.5 Among them was Christian Wirth, heretofore inspector of the T4 programme, who, in turn, became inspector of the Aktion Reinhard(t) operation in August 1942. Future Lager-Kommandants Franz Stangl and Kurt Franz were also among the conscripted. Himmler's designation of men familiar with the methods and technologies of gas chamber execution6 for a mass killing operation can hardly have been coincidental and was intended to facilitate the Aktion by staffing it with experienced officers
It was at some point very soon after this, in either the late summer or autumn of 1941 that the order to begin Aktion Reinhard(t) was received. No official document containing such an order has ever been recovered; however, its inception may be inferred circumstantially. Höß writes in his memoirs that in the summer of 1941 he personally received an order from Himmler to "prepare a site for mass extermination"7 because "[t]he existing extermination camps in the East are not in a position to carry out the large Aktionen which are anticipated. I have therefore earmarked Auschwitz for this purpose.8" Although either the wording or the date of this statement isn't accurate as there were no extermination camps in 1941, it is unimaginable that Globocnik was not likewise informed of the decision regarding the Aktionen being prepared for. Furthermore, during his trial, SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Adolf Eichmann, head of the department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945, submitted that Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Central Security Office, or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) in charge of "carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question"9 informed him two or three months prior to Operation Barbarossa (22 June 1941) that Hitler had ordered the physical annihilation of the Jews.10 Later, Heydrich told Eichmann "to drive to Globocnik. The Reichsführer has already given him corresponding orders. Look, see how far he has gone with this project."11 Belzec, earliest of the Aktion Reinhard(t) death camps, was in experimental operation by November or December of 1941 and the first use of gassing vans is attested to from 8 December.12 The order, therefore, must have appeared sometime before this. A diary entry by Reich Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels on 27 March 1942 illustrates all the implications of the Aktion.
Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General Government are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be used for forced labor.
The former Gauleiter of Vienna whom Goebbels mentions as being the head of the operation is no other than Odilo Globocnik, the man whom Himmler put in charge of Aktion Reinhard(t) - Globocnik had been Gauleiter of Vienna until 1939. Deportations to Belzec extermination camp had begun on 17 March 1942, ten days before this entry was written.
To move forward to the Treblinka death camp. There were two and a half million Jews in Poland at the end of 1941,14 far more than could have been killed using the firing squad tactics of the Einsatzgruppen15 or recently experimented-with gas vans16. As Governor Hans Frank stated in a remark to a session of the GG government on 16 December 1941, "We cannot shoot these 3.5 million [sic] Jews, we cannot poison them. Yet we'll be able to take measures to destroy them that will somehow result in success."17 The answer was found in stationary execution camps designed to kill en masse using gas chambers. Dieter Wisliceny, Hauptsturmführer-SS and subordinate of Adolf Eichmann from 1940 to 1944 "as expert for AMT IV A 4 in Slovakia dealing solely with the Jewish question,"18 elucidated in 1946: "According to Eichmann's own statements to me, Globocnik was the first to employ gas chambers for mass extermination." 19
Among these first employments was Treblinka-II, a concentration camp built between May and July of 1942 in the north-eastern part of the Generalgouvernement, in a remote and sequestered location ten kilometres from Malkinia Gorna, a railway junction on the main Warsaw-Bialystok line.20 Of all the Aktion Reinhard(t) camps, Treblinka was the most streamlined and sophisticated as it drew on experience gleaned from the operation of its predecessors.
In apprehension of Treblinka's completion, Victor Brack - who had supplied the T4 labour for the earlier Aktion Reinhard(t) projects, including Belzec and Chelmno - wrote to Himmler regarding additional personnel being prepared for accelerated operations due to to begin in late July on account of the anticipated purging of the Warsaw ghetto.
The sum of Brack's "own experience" at the time amounted to taking charge of and running the T4 operations for two years, euthanizing approximately 70,000 mentally and physically handicapped persons with poison gas, which tells us why he considered speed and secrecy to be of the essence.22 Just one month prior to writing this letter, Brack had visited Globocnik in Lublin to discuss plans for the Final Solution:
At the beginning of May 1942 SS-Oberführer Brack from the Führer's Chancellery suddenly came to Lublin. With Globocnik, he discussed resuming the extermination of the Jews. Globocnik said that he had too few people to carry out this programme. Brack stated that the euthanasia programme had stopped and that the people from the T4 world from now on would be detailed to him on a regular basis so that the decisions taken at the Wannsee conference could be implemented.23
Given his knowledge about Aktion Reinhard(t) at the time, therefore, Brack's request that 2-3 million Jews be "preserved" from Globocnik's "special mission" for the sake of slave labour is a casual suggestion that only the other 7-8 million be killed in the extermination camps.24 Finally, Treblinka was declared "ready for operation" on 11 July 1942 in a communiqué sent from its first commandant Dr. Irmfried Eberl to Dr. Heinz Auerswald, Nazi Commissioner for the Warsaw Ghetto.
Dr. med. Irmfried Eberl
Contrary to the wording of the message, the 'work camp Treblinka,' or T-I, had been completed in 1941, a year earlier. The new camp, T-II, was built a short distance from the original.26 Its dimensions were approximately 600m x 400m according to the Düsseldorf County Court which tried many of the perpetrators involved,27 giving it an area of 240,000 square meters which was divided into three sections of more or less equal size:
i) The Wohnlager or Living Camp;
features among others sworn to be "absolutely correct" by Lager-Kommandant Franz Stangl at his trial in 1970.28 The extermination area was generally referred to as the 'upper camp' and the rest as the 'lower camp.'
According to eyewitnesses and camp personnel, the living camp, composing the 'left' or northernmost portion of Treblinka contained barracks for the Totenkopf-SS guards and Ukrainian Trawniki who operated the facilities, along with storehouses, infirmaries, a kitchen, utility shops (carpenter, tailor, etc.) and the like. The receiving camp (SW portion) consisted of a counterfeit train station and sorting square (Transportplatz) where shipments of Jews were first admitted to the camp. It also contained a small area in the south-eastern corner called the Lazarett where invalids and Jews otherwise unable to be herded into the gas chambers were shot instead.29 Finally, the 'upper' death camp (SE quadrant) contained the gas chambers and burial pits. All these sections were hidden from one another by tree branches woven through barbed wire fences.30 Unlike other camps, there were no permanent, large-scale residence facilities for Jewish arrivals; they were told that they were at a transit camp and were killed almost immediately after admittance.31 Soon after the camp's inauguration, it was discovered that it had insufficient capacities to kill the number of Jews arriving from the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere every day. At the end of August or beginning of September, therefore, the decision was taken to build a new set of gas chambers just north-west of the old ones.32
At nearly the same time as the camp's opening - a week later - each man involved was made to sign non-disclosure forms by Globocnik's second in command, Höfle, swearing them to absolute secrecy about the project even after its termination.
July 18, 1942
This constitutes a second official instance of activities surrounding Treblinka and Aktion Reinhard(t) being classified top secret, with others to come. The reasons for doing so could not be clearer: on 19 July 1942, the very next day, Heinrich Himmler ordered the completion of the Final Solution in the Generalgouvernement.34
I herewith order that the resettlement of the entire Jewish population of the Government-General be carried out and completed by December 31, 1942.
Three days later, the "Great Resettlement Action" (Große Umsiedlungsaktion) of the Warsaw Ghetto began, under the auspices of SS- und Polizeiführer Warschau Ferdinand v. Sammern-Frankenegg, Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes in Warschau, Dr Ludwig Hahn and - most significantly - now SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle who acted as representative of Odilo Globocnik, head of Aktion Reinhard(t).35 It entailed massive deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, but not for resettlement to the Russian east. A letter sent on 28 July from State Secretary of the Reich Transport Ministry Ganzenmüller to the then chief of Himmler's staff, SS-Obergruppenführer Wolff tells us where the transports were really going.
This document tells us the following:
i) People were being taken to Treblinka at a rate of 5,000 per day beginning 22 July 1942;
ii) Treblinka was the final destination of these transports
A glimpse of their fates can be gleaned from a posterior document, the Stroop Report of 1943. It is relevant insofar as its references to "T-II" (Treblinka death camp) tell us that Jews were sent there to be "destroyed," i.e. killed.
24 May 1943
By the end of a two and a half month-long period, Stroop placed the number of Jews sent to Treblinka for extermination at over 310,000.
It soon became clear that not all dangers had been banished by confining the Jews to one district. Security considerations necessitated that Jews be completely removed from the city of Warsaw. The first large removal occurred during the period from 22 July to 3 October 1942, when 310,322 Jews were removed. In January 1943, another resettlement operation was carried out, which encompassed a total of 6,500 Jews.38
District governor Dr. Ludwig Fischer reported that 400,000 Jews had been deported from the city and its environs during the same period of time.39 This was not all, however, as contemporary train records indicate that additional shipments of Jews from Lublin, Radom and Bialystok carrying nearly 900,000 individuals (total, including Warsaw deportations) were being sent to Treblinka as well, until they ended on 19 August 1943 (coinciding with the uprising).40 These shipment records also usefully demonstrate that Treblinka was not a transit camp for 'resettlement to the east' as the language of Nazi correspondence implied, since Jews were, beginning 19 August, actively being sent from the east (backwards, from Bialystok!) westward there to die on the very railway which was supposedly being used to 'evacuate' them to the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Oberfeldkommandant of the Lwow ghetto made it clear in spring of 1942 that Jews were being transported westward from Galicia to the Lublin district and not the other way around.
Within the Jewish population of Lemberg a noticeable unrest has spread in regard to a deportation action that has begun, through which some 30,000 elderly and other unemployed Jews shall be seized and allegedly transferred to a territory near Lublin. To what extent this evacuation can be equated with a decimation remains to be seen.41
Their fate was also made abundantly clear by the same:
The resettlement actions continue undiminished. The Jews are informed of their fate. Indicative is the statement of a member of the Lwow Jewish council: We all carry our death certificates in our pocket--only the date of death is not yet filled out.42
The Jews could hardly have been unaware of what awaited them. In spite of their precautions, these murder operations were not always as discreet as the Nazi high command would have liked. According to one of the weekly reports of the Lwow propaganda division
The resettlement of the Jews (which partly assumes forms not worthy of a cultured people) directly provokes comparison of the methods of the Gestapo with those of the GPU. The railway wagons are said to be in such a bad state that it is impossible to prevent Jews from breaking out. The result is that at wayside stations there occur wild shootings and regular man-hunts. It is also reported that corpses of shot Jews lie on the streets for days. Although the Reich Germans, as well as the foreign population, are convinced of the necessity of liquidating all Jews, it would still be more appropriate to carry this out in a manner that causes less sensation and offence.43
To dispel any lingering doubts, a work report from German Military Police operating in Bulgaria unequivocally puts paid to the lie of resettlement by unambiguously naming Treblinka as the final destination of Jewish transports. That geriatrics and infants numbered among them also makes it impossible that they were sent there for labour purposes.
An ancillary document intercepted by the British decoding service at Bletchley Park, the so-called Höfle memorandum, corroborates the increased death tolls.
13/15. OLQ de OMQ 1005 83 234 250
This document tells us that 713,555 Jews from the Polish General Government arrived at "T" (Treblinka) until 31 December 1942, Himmler's deadline for the "total cleansing" of the Generalgouvernement. It also tells us where one of the key figures in the report of Himmler's statistician Richard Korherr came from. The Korherr report, prepared at Himmler's request, were actually two, a "long" one for Himmler and a "short" one for Hitler himself, meant to give a comprehensive account of the Holocaust to its directors.46 A translation yields the following passage:
"4. Transportation of Jews from the
The "camps in the Warthegau" was Chelmno and the "camps in the General Government" were the aforementioned Aktion Reinhard(t) camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka and the Lublin-Majdanek camp, the latter obviously because it was considered more practical to send Jews from Lublin to Majdanek as soon as that camp had extermination facilities instead of sending them to far-away Belzec or Sobibor. The figure of 1,274,166 Jews mentioned in that report is evidently the figure from the above quoted Höfle memorandum, which means that Korherr's figure is broken down as follows:
On 9 April 1943, Himmler wrote to the heads of the Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst that he found Korherr's report "excellent for camouflage purposes," and forbade its dissemination.48 In the original version of the report, Korherr used the term Sonderbehandlung, i.e. "special treatment", with regard to the Jews mentioned in this section of his report. This term, which was a bureaucratic euphemism for killing commonly used in the context of the Final Solution,49 must have become too worn and thus transparent by the time Korherr submitted his report to Himmler, for which reason Himmler's adjutant Karl Brandt, in a letter dated 10 April 1943 required Korherr to refrain from using the term Sonderbehandlung and to phrase the quoted paragraph as it was finally worded.
The Reichsführer SS
A final document, though it gives no exact indications of numbers, is illustrative when it comes to giving an idea of just how many Jews were being killed. It is the remark of the Wehrmacht commander of Ostrow recorded in the first war diary of the General Quartermaster of the Military Commander in the Generalgouvernement on 24 October 1942.
It reads: "OK Ostrow reports that the Jews in Treblinka are not sufficiently buried and therefore an unbearable smell of corpses befouls the air."51
Ostrow, it is significant to point out, was 20 kilometres from Treblinka.
More than 800,000 Jews (and likely far more as many train records are incomplete or lack head counts) were shipped to Treblinka in the space of a year for 'special treatment'; 'evacuation'; 'liquidation'; 'resettlement'; murder; with only a handful ever seen again. Such creative language had long been used to attempt to disguise killing operations of Jews in the east, most notably by the Einsatzgruppen but also by the Gendarmerie.52 In this light, a decision arrived at in Lublin on 17 October 1941 by Hans Frank and Odilo Globocnik among others helps us place the birth of the extermination programme, guessed at above.
All Jews, with the exception of indispensable craftsmen and the like, are to be evacuated from Lublin. Initially, 1,000 Jews will be transferred across the Bug River. Responsibility for this is placed in the hands of the SSPF. The Stadthauptmann will select the Jews to be evacuated.53
The term 'transferred across the Bug River' was a watchword in use from before the German invasion of Russia and hence anachronistic at the time (territory across the Bug being Soviet in 1939/40), its meaning therefore not intended literally, especially in the context of the Jewish extermination plans which were already being adumbrated.54
As SS-Sergeant and camp guard Franz Suchomel put it, "Treblinka was a primitive but efficient production line of death. Understand? Primitive, yes. But it worked well, that production line of death."55 We know that Jews were being sent to their deaths, but the question of how remains. Much allusion has been made up to this point to use the use of gas chambers. Eichmann, in a paper he submitted for his defence entitled "Götzen," wrote that "Globocnik had established gassing camps at Treblinka and Belzec upon instruction from Himmler and Krüger."56 Reference to the testimony of those present best describes what was occurring inside the camp all the while.
Testimony of Treblinka's kommandant, SS-Unterscharführer Franz Stangl, who replaced Eberl in September 1942:
Michel [the sergeant-major of the camp] told me later that Wirth suddenly appeared, looked around on the gas chambers on which they were still working, and said: 'right, we'll try it out right now with those twenty-five working Jews. Get them up here'. They marched our twenty-five Jews up there and just pushed them in and gassed them. Michel said Wirth behaved like a lunatic, hitting at his own staff with his whip to drive them on...57
Testimony of SS-Unterscharführer Willi Mentz, stationed at Treblinka from July 1942 to November 1943 and assigned by Christian Wirth to supervise the Lazarett:
When I came to Treblinka the camp commandant was a doctor named Dr. Eberl. He was very ambitious. It was said that he ordered more transports than could be "processed" in the camp. That meant that trains had to wait outside the camp because the occupants of the previous transport had not yet all been killed. At the time it was very hot and as a result of the long wait inside the transport trains in the intense heat many people died. At the time whole mountains of bodies lay on the platform. The Hauptsturmführer Christian Wirth came to Treblinka and kicked up a terrific row. And then one day Dr. Eberl was no longer there...
Testimony of SS Oberscharführer Heinrich Matthes, chief officer commanding T-II and of the gas chambers:
During the entire time I was in Treblinka, I served in the upper camp. The upper camp was that part of Treblinka with the gas chambers, where the Jews were killed and their corpses laid in large pits and later burned.
The testimony of Auschwitz camp Kommandant Rudolf Höß on 1 April 1946 in Nuremberg is also instructive:
Q Didn't you visit any of the three existing extermination camps?
Höß confirms the capacity estimates of the new gas chambers built in the middle of 1942 made by Willi Mentz as being 200. Given six chambers (there were possibly ten, according to some witnesses), 1,200 people could have been gassed at a time. Assuming, therefore, Matthes' estimate of thirty minutes for each operation, to execute a trainload of 5000 would have taken just over two hours, certainly a little longer when removal of the bodies and cleaning up are considered, but nothing that would take anything approaching a whole day. 800,000 Jews could have easily been killed in 160 days at this rate (the date for the statistic of 713,555 listed in the Höfle memorandum is 31 December, 163 days from the commencement of arrivals), leaving enough time to gas a further 1,235,000 before arrivals slowed drastically in August of 1943, should they have been shipped there. Other estimates place the capacity of the chambers at 300 each and the duration of the gassing at 15 minutes, which would increase the efficiency of the killing operation even more.61 Obviously, the killing capacity of Treblinka is beyond questioning. Even if the demands on the Treblinka staff and their facilities had been more than doubled, the trains would have continued running on time.
A significant portion of witness testimony about the murders converges on the point of collection of Jewish valuables both before and after gassing. Unlike other extermination centres, Aktion Reinhard(t) camps did not report to Heydrich's RSHA but rather to the Economics and Administration Office or WVHA (Wirtschafts und Verwaltungshauptamt). On 15 June 1941, in anticipation of the imminent Operation Barbarossa, the "Nürnberger Gesetze" (Racial Laws) became valid in the eastern occupied territories, article two of which stated:
As millions of Jews were being killed, the WVHA took an interest in such affairs with regard to their economic aspect, that being 'confiscation of property' from murdered persons. An undated report by Odilo Globocnik conveying the value and volume of valuables accrued during these seizures gives an idea of their extent.
All economic aspects of Aktion Reinhard(t) fell under the auspices of the Chief of the WVHA, SS Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl. According to the USMT II, "[o]n 4 July 1944, Pohl, in a communication to the Main Office chiefs, announced the names of officers responsible for the property seized in several areas, and stated: 'As a matter of principle, it has to be kept in mind that the entire Jewish property is to be incorporated into the Reich property.'"64 In his affidavit of 2 April 1947, Pohl explained that he was working under the direction of Himmler and directly over Globocnik to manage the economic aspects of Aktion Reinhard(t)65. He went on to declare that he was completely aware of where the valuables were coming from and of what activities they were a result.
It was never doubted that this loot was taken from Jews exterminated in the concentration camps. * * * As I learned in 1943, gold teeth and crowns of inmates of concentration camps were broken out of their mouths after liquidation. This gold was melted down and delivered to the Reich Bank. * * * When I received all the vouchers, setting out the economic assets received, I realized the extent of the operation. I realized that the greatest part of the textile goods listed in these reports had been taken from people who had been violently put to death and that the purpose of the operation had been the extermination of the Jews."66
In addition, "[i]n his interrogation of 13 June 1946 (NO-728, Pros. E. 693), Pohl was confronted by Kaltenbrunner's testimony before the International Military Tribunal that, 'there were only a handful of people in the WVHA who had any control or knew anything about concentration camps,' to which Pohl commented: 'Well, that is complete nonsense. I described to you how these were handled in the WVHA. As for instance, in the case of the use of textiles and turning in of valuables, and also from Gluecks and Loerner right on down to the last little clerk, must have known what went on in the concentration camps, and it is complete nonsense for him to speak of just a handful of men.'" 67
Particularly illuminating is a report Pohl made to Himmler on 6 February 1943 containing a detailed list of items seized. Among them were 221 train cars' worth of appropriated clothing sent to the Office for Germanisation, useless to the dead but otherwise essential to any who would have actually been transported to the east, i.e. none.
[...]2. Office for Germanization [VoMi]
Pohl apologised for the unexpectedly low numbers(!) and excused himself in the following way: "In this connection special consideration must be given to the fact that the delivery of rags is very high. As a result, the amount of usable old garments, especially men's clothing, is naturally diminished. It has therefore not been possible to satisfy the demand for men's clothing to its full."69 Aside from demonstrating the sheer enormity of the Aktion, Pohl's reports also shed light on just how lucrative the extermination camp system was for the Nazi state. Another economic bulletin from Globocnik to Himmler from December 1943, seemingly anterior to the one above, lists Aktion Reinhard(t) revenues of approximately 178,000,000 Reichsmarks, where "minimum values are assumed, so that the total value probably reaches twice as much..." .70 One year, the overwhelming wealth of watches and fountain pens seized from dead inmates, along with the spirit of Christmas, prompted Pohl to request that several hundred of each should be distributed to each SS division as well as thousands to the submarine service.71 Himmler approved of the plan and suggested that another 15,000 women's watches be given to volksdeutsche entering the Greater Reich from Russia at the time.72 Over and above simply (and tragically) financing their own deaths, then, Jews were inadvertently swelling the coffers of the Third Reich. The executions were more than paying for themselves, which does much to explain why they continued despite the resources they claimed which might have otherwise gone toward the prosecution of the war in the east.
By this time, it was well-known in Allied government circles that the Germans were mass-murdering Jews in the camps, prompting initiatives to conceal and eradicate all traces of the Final Solution in Poland.73 Aktion 1005 was the result, a Sonderkommando effort to exhume and cremate the contents of the mass graves in the east headed by SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel. Another motivating concern was the health hazard posed by such extensive extermination operations, especially that of the "insufficiently buried" Jews at Treblinka whose stench must have been intolerable. Consequently, following a visit by Heinrich Himmler to Treblinka in February or March of 1943, the decision was made to cremate the bodies that had been buried.74 "At Treblinka there were no crematoria with furnaces, but there was a primitive arrangement of grates made from rails placed on supports of reinforced concrete, which could hold 2,500 corpses. Mechanical excavators were used for digging the pits and later for the exhumation of the corpses."75
In December 1959, at the time of his arrest, a photo album entitled Schöne Zeiten was discovered by west-German investigators in the flat of Kurt Franz, assistant commandant of Treblinka. The album shows numerous photos of Treblinka, such as of a brick tower, of the bakery, of the menagerie and zoological garden and of the commandant of Treblinka, Franz Stangl.76 Comparison with an aerial photo and the maps drawn by survivors of Treblinka and Stangl and with eyewitness descriptions indicates that the pictures to follow are showing the extermination site.77 The following is a photograph of one of the Menck & Hambrock type "Mb" excavators used during this operation, the buildings and trees in the background corresponding best to a picture taken from the 'concealed burial pit' towards the old gas chambers in a north-westerly direction with either the water pump shelter or the guard house slightly obscuring the view.78 Note also the two men in the bottom, left-hand corner carrying a stretcher between them.
Once the industrial machinery was no longer needed for exhuming bodies and demolition of the camp, it was sent away, having no other purpose to fulfil. "In the waybills for the wagons sent from Treblinka at the time of the final 'liquidation' of the camp three excavators are mentioned. One of them was dispatched from Treblinka on June 29, 1943, to the firm of Adam Lamczak, Berlin-Neukölln, Willy Waltherstrasse 30-3 Tr."80 The gravel quarry at T-I, it should be noted, continued operating well into 1944.
United States Reconnaissance air photographs reveal that by 15 May 1944 (and long before then), physical traces of the camp were all but eradicated.81 Odilo Globocnik wrote to Himmler on November 4, 1943: "On October 10, 1943: I concluded Operation Reinhard which I had conducted in the General Government and have liquidated all camps."82 Upon their arrival in 1945, the Soviets found a lunar wasteland of recent excavations by scavengers complementing other scars in the landscape left by the obliteration of the camp's building foundations. Most tellingly, they found among the upturned soil, alongside clothing and personal articles, innumerable human remains83.
In November of 1945, Poland sent its Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes to investigate the remains of the camp. Commission member Rachel Auerbach reported that:
in the north-eastern part [of the Totenlager, presumably], over a surface covering about 2 ha. (5 acres), there are large quantities of ashes mixed with sand, among which are numerous human bones, often with the remains of decomposing tissues.
In 1959, Third Reich historian Martin Gilbert visited the camp and came away with this recollection: "From Treblinka village we proceeded for another mile or two, along the line of an abandoned railway through a forest of tall trees. Finally we reached an enormous clearing, bounded on all sides by dense woodland. Darkness was falling, and with it, the chill of night and a cold dew. I stepped down from the cart on to the sandy soil: a soil that was gray rather than brown. Driven by I know not what impulse, I ran my hand through that soil, again and again. The earth beneath my feet was coarse and sharp: filled with the fragments of human bone."85 All present in the vicinity, even fifteen years after the fact, discovered literal heaps of sinister evidence pointing to what had occurred there.
If there is a dearth of primary documents surrounding an operation of such magnitude, it is because of assiduous efforts by Odilo Globocnik and others to cover their tracks: "[w]ith regard to the complete final accounts of 'Operation Reinhard' I must add that all vouchers should be destroyed as soon as possible, as has been done in the case of all other documents pertaining to this operation."86 Anything that he or Himmler might have missed was combed over by subsequent Nazi officials: "All files, particularly the secret ones, are to be destroyed completely. The secret files about ... the installations and deterring work in the concentration camps must be destroyed at all costs. Also, the extermination of some families, etc. These files must under no circumstances fall into the hands of the enemy, since after all they were secret orders by the Führer."87 That the few we have left survived at all can only be attributed to bureaucratic confusion in the face of imminent collapse before the inexorable march of the Red Army. Likewise, our paucity of eyewitness testimonial can be attributed to the fact that the vast majority of those who witnessed the exterminations were also killed by them. If the hundreds of thousands of Jews supposedly resettled to the east really had been sent to Russia, we would today have no end of confessions to that effect. As it stands, the fragmentary evidence we hold before us, though incomplete, paints an undeniable picture of a ruthless industrial slaughterhouse performing its task with heartless efficiency in broad strokes. Confronted with this bleakness, I am reminded of my Shelly:
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
An unfair testament to the countless who lost their lives, but perhaps the dead find solace in the downfall of their own Ozymandias.
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Stephen Potyondi is an undergraduate student of history at the University of Alberta.
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When I first came to studying John’s gospel, I was armed with two things: a concern to pay attention to the details of the text; and the knowledge of all earnest Christians (thanks to C S Lewis) that there were four words for ‘love’ in Greek (eros, storge, philia and agape) pointing to the four different meanings, four different uses of ‘love’, and four different ways humans are drawn to others. (If any of that is right, then the slogan ‘Love is love’ is, of course, meaningless.)
So when I came to read John 21 (the gospel lectionary reading for this Sunday) and Jesus’ threefold questioning of Peter after the great catch of fish (echoing Luke 5) and the evocative breakfast on the beach, I was immediately alert to the changes of words used in Jesus’ question:
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me — agape love — more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you — phileo love–.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me — agape love — ?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you — phileo love –.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me — phileo love –?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me? — phileo love –” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you — phileo love –.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. (John 21.15–17)
And, of course, I was not alone! Many a preacher also comments on the different words used, and this example is typical:
Why the difference in words for “love” in this conversation? Why did Jesus use agape and Peter use phileo? Jesus was asking Peter if he loved him with the love of God, a love that may require sacrifice. After all, Jesus had just gone through horrendous torture for Peter’s sake (and ours), something he did not want to do but did anyway because of his agape love. In contrast, Peter avoided possible torture by denying Jesus.
Jesus twice asked Peter, “Do you agape me? [That is, are you willing to do things for my sake that you do not want to do?]” Peter, on the other hand, still felt the sting of having denied Jesus, and was hopeful that their friendship was intact. Did Jesus hold Peter’s denial against him? Would he still treat Peter as a close associate and companion? Peter was not sure where he stood with Jesus, so he was trying to let Jesus know that he was still a true friend, and had phileo love for Jesus.
The third time Jesus spoke to Peter, he came to Peter’s level and asked if Peter were indeed a true friend (phileo), which grieved Peter. Nevertheless, it was important, because Jesus knew what Peter did not know—that Jesus would ascend into heaven, and Peter and the others would be left to carry out his work on earth, which would require that they all be his good friends and do his will even when it meant hardship.
This does not just give insight into the episode in the text, but potentially has implications for life situations and pastoral practice:
My dad has Alzheimer’s disease and every day my mom goes to visit him at the care facility. She sits with him, she shares a meal with him and she speaks to him. He’s not giving back in any way and isn’t in a state where he can physically take care of himself. She loves him with both ‘agape’ and ‘phileo’ love. She loves him unconditionally, but she also loves him relationally and intimately after years and years of living life together. Recently, while visiting my dad, I noticed a man who was taking care of his wife in the same way and with the same level of devotion. She was in a far worse state than my dad and yet, he remained steadfast. When I asked him about his wife, after engaging him in casual conversation, he replied, “I made a pledge, a vow to be there. That’s not conditional on anything. I’m gonna live that out.”
Distinguishing between these kinds of love has real plausibility, since we can see for ourselves that different motivations that lead us to care for others. And it appears that the approach of C S Lewis has been re-expressed by D A Carson in his The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (which I have recently bought, and now realise I must soon read!).
But there are several serious problems with this way of reading John 21. The first is that, if there was a significant difference between the two terms, why would Jesus make the progression that he does, from the ‘higher’ form of love to the ‘lower’? Surely he should start asking Peter about the most undemanding form of love, and then progress to that which will sustain him through the trials that Jesus says he is to face? And the use of these two synonyms also needs to be put in the context of Jesus’ synonyms for ‘feed’ and ‘my sheep’. The order is as follows:
|Jesus’ question||Peter’s answer||Command||Object|
I am not aware of any commentator who makes much of the synonyms for ‘feed my sheep’ as a progression, so why should we think that the changes of synonyms for ‘love’ is important? Moreover, Peter does not respond to Jesus’ question ‘Do you agapao me?’ with ‘No, Lord, but I do phileo you’—he responds ‘Yes!’ And he is grieved in verse 17 not because Jesus has changed the verb he uses, but (as John tells us quite explicitly) because Jesus asked him ‘a third time’, a phrase John repeats for emphasis. Is this because Peter naturally feels that he has given an adequate answer already? Or is it because he is now wincing inside at the threefold question that he was asked in the courtyard by the fire, and this third question of Jesus is both a painful reminder of that failure, and the excruciating process of healing that wound, just as we wince in pain as someone pulls a splinter or thorn from our hand that has embedded itself in the skin? The act is painful, but without it healing cannot come. (Bultmann is just about alone in all the commentators in history who does not see the parallel here.)
I was first disabused of my belief in the ‘love’ difference by reading the commentary of C K Barrett, and initially found it hard to be persuaded. Even if words are close synonyms, they never exactly overlap, and surely there is some nuance of difference? Barrett is having none of it (p 584), and brings to his defence the parallelism earlier in John:
Anyone who loves (agapao) me will obey my teaching. My Father will love (agapao) them, and we will come to them and make our home with them (John 14.23)
No, the Father himself loves (phileo) you because you have loved (phileo) me and have believed that I came from God. (John 16.27)
Barrett also notes that the two verbs appear to be used interchangeably in the Greek version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint (LXX), citing as an example Prov 8.17 ‘Those who love (phileo) me I love (agapao), and those who seek me will find me’, both Greek verbs here translating the same Hebrew verb ahv—and this fact is crucial for our understanding of how words are used in the New Testament, since both its writers and readers will have been reading the LXX.
Vineyard scholarJohn uses the agape word-group (in various forms) about 37 times (including Jn. 3:16, 3:19, 3:35, 8:42, 10:17, 11:5, 12:43, 13:1, 13:1, 13:23, 13:34, 14:15, 14:21, 14:23, 14:24, 14:28, 14:31, 15:9, 15:12, 15:17, 17:23, 17:24, 17:26, 19:26, 21:7, 21:15, 21:16, 21:20), and this includes the saying that people loved (agape love) the darkness rather than light in Jn. 3:19 and that the Pharisees loved (agape love) the approval of men more than the praise of God in Jn. 12:43. On the other hand, John uses phileo (in various forms) about 13 times (Jn. 5:20, 11:3, 11:36, 12:25, 15:19, 16:27, 20:2, 21:15, 21:16, 21:17), and this includes the Father loving (phileo-love) the Son in Jn. 5:20, Lazarus, whom Jesus loved (phileo-love) in Jn. 11:13 and 11:36, Barrett’s example of God’s love in John 16.27, and the disciple whom Jesus loved (phileo love) in Jn. 20:2. John’s actual uses does not sustain the common differentiation between the two terms in his gospel—whatever usage elsewhere might look like. (It is worth noting that C S Lewis’ differentiation might well have applied in different contexts—and that his main point is not about linguistics, but about theology, and that point stands.)
So is there any significance to the structure and variation in Jesus’ three-fold questioning of Peter? It seems to me that the central point here is the restoration of Peter, and it is characteristic of John to make connections backwards (known as ‘analepsis’, ‘looking again’) and forwards (‘prolepsis’, ‘looking ahead’) throughout his gospel; the reference to ‘feeding my sheep’ takes us back to Jesus’ claim to be the good shepherd in John 10—and John has already made a connection between this teaching and Peter’s betrayal by using the same word (aule) for both the sheep-pen of the good shepherd (John 10.1, 16) and the courtyard of the failed disciple (John 18.15). The theme of restoration is in fact one that has already occurred, especially if we see the great catch of fish earlier in the chapter as a conscious repeat of the episode in Luke 5 which began the ministry of Peter and the others; here is another new beginning, but one in the light of Jesus’ resurrection life.
At the level of John’s use of language, there is further significance. Mark Stibbe argues against the widely-held view that John 21 is an appendix to the gospel, probably written by someone else at a later date, by noticing 16 features of John 21 that are characteristic of the earlier chapters—including the use of synonyms for ‘love’, ‘sheep’ and ‘know’ (in the Sheffield Readings commentary series, 1993, pp 207–208). (Richard Bauckham offers a quite different argument related to the numerology of the 153 fish and the connections with numerological structure in the opening chapter.)
But what does this meaning for our reading, preaching and pastoral practice? For me, there is still a question to be resolved about the use of these terms in John and the differentiation between the four terms for love in wider Greek usage. But the lesson about language is that words are not simply packets that carry meaning, and dictionaries are not magical keys which give us unassailable answers to questions. Words find their meaning in their context, and dictionaries simply sum up the way that words have been used in the range of different contexts that they occur—the direction of movement is from language use to dictionaries, not the other way around! As Burchard protests:
This is what we may call “Strong’s Concordance” Greek. It’s done by lots and lots of people who have learned to look up the lexical forms of Greek words in their Strong’s Concordance without knowing much of anything about Greek grammar, or the ways in which word usage is a primary aspect of determining word meaning in Biblical literature (just as it is in our own language and literature). These gaps in understanding often lead to these kinds of exegetical fallacies that come off sounding deep and insightful to others who are just as uninformed. Additionally, these Greek gymnastics actually lead to missing the actual point of a text that is often right in front of our faces in favor of more “oooh-aaaaah deep and insightful” conclusions that are really not good conclusions at all.
Good preaching needs an understanding of languages—and good preachers need to refer to commentaries, and not rely solely on internet resources, helpful though these can be.
(This was first published in a slightly revised form in May 2018, the last time John 21 was the lectionary gospel.)
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Henry Ford’s ideal schedule for employees may no longer be relevant in today’s knowledge economy.
From the summary:
What this report finds: An ongoing structural shift toward more intensive use of part-time employment by many employers is driving the elevated rate of involuntary part-time work. Over six years into an economic recovery, the share of people working part time because they can only get part-time hours remains at recessionary levels. The number working part time involuntarily remains 44.6 percent higher than it was in 2007. This growth is being driven mainly by a few industries.
Why it matters: 6.4 million workers want full-time jobs but are working only part-time hours. Involuntary part-time workers are not only earning less income than they would prefer, but suffer because part-time jobs offer relatively lower wage rates and benefit coverage, and have more variable and unpredictable work schedules.
How we can fix the problem: In addition to traditional expansionary policies that would heighten demand for more hours of labor, here are seven policies that would help curb the excessive use of part-time employment and address the harmful effects of involuntary part-time working.
A good day’s sleep for night-shift workers is essential to health, safety and productivity.
From the summary:
Previous research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has estimated as many as 7% of all crashes, 13% of crashes that result in hospital admission, and 21% of fatal crashes involve driver drowsiness. However, the relationship between specific measures of sleep deprivation and crash risk has not been quantified in the general driving population. The results of this study indicate that drivers who usually sleep for less than 5 hours daily, drivers who have slept for less than 7 hours in the past 24 hours, and drivers who have slept for 1 or more hours less than their usual amount of sleep in the past 24 hours have significantly elevated crash rates. The estimated rate ratio for crash involvement associated with driving after only 4-5 hours of sleep compared with 7 hours or more is similar to the U.S. government’s estimates of the risk associated with driving with a blood alcohol concentration equal to or slightly above the legal limit for alcohol in the U.S.
Source: Lori L. Wadsworth, Rex L. Facer, Public Personnel Management, Vol. 45 no. 4, December 2016
From the abstract:
In 2008, the State of Utah implemented a 4-day workweek for their employees. This article examines the impact on employees using a postimplementation survey. For employees on the 4-day schedule, there were no significant differences by gender on work–family balance or on the impact of the schedule. However, women did demonstrate slightly more positive attitudes toward the 4-day schedule. Employees with children at home reported lower work–family balance and greater impact of the 4-day schedule. In contrast, no difference in attitudes toward the 4-day schedule was found by age, although work–family balance differed among age groups. There were differences in work–family balance between employees on the 4-day schedule and those on traditional schedules; however, the more substantial factor was whether an employee selected his or her schedule. The current study highlights the importance of engaging employees when making significant organizational changes, such as transitioning from traditional work schedules to alternative schedules.
….Night shifts are a health hazard in either case, but for different reasons.
Would it be better not to keep throwing your body back and forth from diurnal to nocturnal? Cleveland Clinic, for one, tells patients both to “avoid frequently rotating shifts,” and also to “decrease the number of night shifts worked in a row.”
What? That’s scary if you have to work nights. Newly discovered health risks of working night shifts keep coming out: higher risks of coronary artery disease, diabetes, weight gain, and some cancers. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has listed night shifts as “probably carcinogenic.” Among people who’ve worked a decade of shift work, their brains show cognitive decline years in advance.
But these findings are almost always in people who do shift work—bouncing back and forth between nights and days. There’s even something called Shift Work Sleep Disorder (or Shift Work Disorder), defined by increased accidents, work-related errors, irritability, or mood problems…..
From the abstract:
The American labor market is increasingly unequal, characterized by extraordinary returns to work at the top of the market but rising precarity and instability at the bottom of the market. In addition to low wages, short tenure, few benefits, and nonstandard hours, many jobs in the retail and food service industries are characterized by a great deal of instability and unpredictability in work schedules. Such workplace practices may have detrimental effects on workers. However, the lack of existing suitable data has precluded empirical investigation of how such scheduling practices affect the health and wellbeing of workers and their families. We describe an innovative approach to survey data collection from targeted samples of service sector workers that allows us to collect previously unavailable data on scheduling practices and on health and wellbeing. We then use these data to show that exposure to unstable and unpredictable schedules is negatively associated with household financial security, worker health, and parenting practices.
….Many employers and employees love the thought of a four-day workweek. Supposedly, a four-day work schedule allows workers extra time to pursue leisure activities and family togetherness. Spurred on by visions of spending more time at the beach, many people are now encouraging businesses to adopt this kind of work plan.
There are many purported advantages. Some authorities say that a four-day work schedule facilitates the ability to provide child care and assistance for the elderly.
Proponents of such “compressed” work schedules − those in which employees work longer hours for fewer days of the week – point to gains in productivity that result from decreased overhead costs, such as not having to keep the lights on when nobody is working. Additional cost savings can be obtained from reducing total weekly commuting time…..
….This is an issue in which I have considerable experience. I have been studying the health effects of long working hours for nearly 30 years. All the studies point to the potential dangers that can occur as the result of the additional risks created when work demands exceed a particular threshold. Most of the studies I have performed suggest that the dangers are most pronounced when people regularly work more than 12 hours per day or 60 hours per week….
Source: Byung-Mi Kim, Bo-Eun Lee, Hye-Sook Park, Young-Ju Kim, Young-Ju Suh, Jeong-youn Kim, Ji-Young Shin, Eun-Hee Ha, Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, First Online: August 22, 2016
From the abstract:
Background: Previous studies have identified a link between gender and the various risk factors associated with obesity. We examined obesity risk factors in working adults to identify the effects of differences in body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) between women and men.
Methods: A total of 1,120 adults agreed to participate in the study. Data from 711 participants, including 411 women and 300 men, were analyzed. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the effects of risk factors on obesity and being overweight. In addition, the least-squares (LS) means of both BMI and PBF were estimated by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in a generalized linear model.
Results: Increases in BMI and PBF were significantly related to an age > 50 years and long working hours in women after compensating for confounding factors. Using the PBF criterion, the odds ratio (OR) of being overweight or obese in women > 50 years of age who worked for > 9 h a day was 3.9 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05–11.00). For BMI, women who were > 50 years of age and worked for > 9 h a day were 3.82 times (95% CI, 1.31–11.14) more likely to be overweight or obese than those who were < 50 years of age and worked for < 9 h a day. Conclusion: Obesity in working adults was associated with > 50 years of age and long working hours in women. Further studies are needed to investigate the underlying mechanisms of this relationship and its potential implications for the prevention and management of excess weight and obesity.
Source: Christin Mellner, International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 9 no. 2, 2016
From the abstract:
Modern working life is characterized by increased expectations for employees to be available to deal with work issues outside regular work hours and by using new communication technology. This implies more individual freedom in organizing work in time and space, but also places increased demands on employees to manage the boundaries between work and personal life. This, in turn, can be expected to be crucial to their ability to mentally detach from work during free time. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether individual perceptions of boundary control moderate the impact of after-hours availability expectations and work-related smartphone use during off-work hours on psychological detachment
The study population comprised 2,876 gainfully employed professionals from four large organizations in both the public and private sector, representing various businesses and occupations. Univariate correlations and multiple, linear hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed.
High after-hours availability expectations, high frequency of work-related smartphone use, and low boundary control were associated with poor psychological detachment. Furthermore, boundary control moderated the relationships between both after-hours availability expectations and work-related smartphone use, respectively, and psychological detachment. As such, boundary control mitigated the negative effects of both after-hours availability expectations and work-related smartphone use during leisure on psychological detachment.
Modern work organizations would benefit from introducing availability policies and helping employees reduce their work-related smartphone use outside regular work hours, thus helping them achieve successful boundary control and subsequent psychological detachment.
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Library virtually books timely programs
Library virtually books timely programs
November 4, 2020
By Elissa Andre
2020 has been quite the year for our community – everyone has felt the impact of COVID-19 in some way or another.
That’s why Johnson County Library is committed to supporting our friends and neighbors during this unprecedented time, whether through books, music or film that transport you to another time or place, virtual events that safely connect you to those who share your interests, or resources and workshops that expand your horizon.
Here’s a little behind-the-scenes knowledge about the library: when planning our programming, we split our year into trimesters – spring, summer and fall. Each season, we study both patron feedback and current events to choose themes on which to align our programming.
This fall, three main topics stood out: non-partisan election resources and civic engagement opportunities, which have included debate watch parties and refreshers about topics like the Electoral College; an exploration of issues surrounding racial justice in the Kansas City area, such as our Past is Prologue events focusing on local history and November’s two-part workshop Talking to Preschoolers about Race; and, due to the pandemic, a renewed focus on career development and personal finance resources. After all, as Benjamin Franklin famously stated in his 1758 book The Way to Wealth, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest!”
Johnson County Library offers several upcoming workshops for people in every stage of life. Looking for a career change or new opportunity? Networking isn’t just something for those just starting out – refresh your skills and get tips for modernizing your approach at our Networking for Professional Success event on Nov. 9.
For those just looking for a fresh approach to budgeting, especially as the holiday season approaches, we offer a course on 21st-century budgeting using the platform Mint. com on Nov. 12. Attendees can also schedule one-on-one coaching sessions for tailored assistance with your budget.
If you are nearing Medicare eligibility, or have questions about the maze of coverage options, our Nov. 16 program Making the Move to Medicare covers Parts A, B, C (Medicare Advantage), D and Medicare supplements (Medigap) and will help you navigate enrollment and deadlines.
All workshops are taught by local professionals in partnership with Johnson County Library. Events do require registration and are subject to change; visit jocolibrary.org/ events or call 913-826-4600 for more information and a full schedule of events.
While our librarians miss seeing your faces in person, this new virtual world does have a few benefits. If you can’t attend a live session that piques your interest, many of our online programs are recorded and posted on youtube.com/ jocolibrary for you to watch at your convenience, from the comfort and safety of your home. Plus, fewer weather delays and cancellations to worry about as the seasons change!
Finally, in addition to our monthly general newsletter, The Open Book, which highlights events and resources across Johnson County Library, we’ve also kicked off a specialized Career & Finance newsletter for those who opt-in. Once a month you’ll receive notice of upcoming events, reading recommendations, and eResource spotlights available with your library card – such as access to the Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports and online courses through Udemy – straight to your email inbox. Sign up by visiting jocolibrary.org/event-types/career-and-finance.
We’re already dreaming of spring here at the library, planning for the new year ahead despite the continued uncertainty. We’re so grateful for your support over the last several months, whether you’re visiting us online or in one of our branches and we look forward to serving you in the months and years to come. In the meantime, “Happy Holidays” from all of us at Johnson County Library!
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The closure plan originally submitted by Rhodia in 2006 was rewritten purposefully as part of the legal requirement to officially “close the site” by March 2014.
A freedom of information request revealed these rewritten documents. Comments from John Davis of the Environment agency (Technical specialist groundwater), were submitted against the original plan, as revealed in emails related to the closure plan for the site and its adequacy.
THESE CAN BE READ HERE.
There are many facets of this original plan which were obviously not detailed enough, but which had largely lain dormant since 2006 until the regulator considered it prudent to incorporate additional monitoring. This really only highlights their lack of Environmental management monitoring over a long period of time which is why the site is where it is today.
Also updated were the stability risk assessment and the hydrogeological risk assessment, written by environmental contractors URS, with the former appearing to be hastily rewritten in April 2013, when works at the site to lay the geotextile had begun. It is fairly obvious that as the original scheme for the site did not encorporate any reprofiling of the Northern embankment (this was not at any time suggested would happen at the “public exhibition” in January of that year), that the original URS document could not be relied upon at all about the failing stability of this slope. Allied to this however is the real issue behind why this work was chosen to be carried out- the contamination of the North embankment from historic waste dumping from canal boats, as well as whatever other materials were tipped unofficially by British Waterways before site licensing. A site still viewed as “contaminated” cannot be sold off after all. Works on this slope had nothing to do with “protecting wildfowl”, this was about protecting Solvay from corporate risk. We will look at the rewritten slope stability report below.
The comments of John Davis
These were originally written dated 8th January 2013, and updated after the works were drawing to a close on 9th October 2013. They review adequacy of the original and ammended documents but “limited to the operational work area of the Groundwater and Contaminated Land Team.” A meeting took place on 8th May 2013 at Trinity Street between Rhodia, the environment agency and the environmental contractors URS. Notes of this meeting can be read below.
In blue below we show what was agreed at this meeting and the agreed actions that were included in John Davis’ comments. These actions were then supposedly added to the updated p44 rattlechain site procedures, by now in its 14th version.
- Groundwater Monitoring frequency
“Agreed – annual frequency for groundwater (shallow and deep BH’s), lagoon water and discharge.
Monitoring procedures are incorporated in to a Rhodia Ltd operational document; “RHODIA LIMITED OLDBURY SITE. HSE PROCEDURE P44. Rattlechain Landfill Site Management Procedures”
All locations, Canal discharge, u/s & d/s of canal, lagoon water and 6 groundwater boreholes are to be sampled on 6 monthly basis. Which exceeds EA minimum requirements, so accepted – 09/10/2013.
Groundwater Monitoring Suite
Elemental phosphorus is recommended (a bit bloody late!), and also benzene based on the fact that it was found where previously it had not been considered. We assert the presence of this chemical to the contents of AW bombs, though the EA are keen to try to play this down. Well they would wouldn’t they as a UK Government agency, covering up a UK Government agency agent’s war work that could have a detrimental effect on human health.
“Agreed – suite in ESID report will be adopted. Benzene also to be added – see note below
“Monitoring procedures are incorporated in to a Rhodia Ltd operational document; “RHODIA LIMITED OLDBURY SITE. HSE PROCEDURE P44. Rattlechain Landfill Site Management Procedures”. The monitoring suite discussed and agreed has been incorporated in to this document. Accepted -09/10/2013.”
Groundwater Monitoring Infrastructure
There is the statement made that Rhodia should proove the structure of the present boreholes. As it was borehole BH5, (the one which it is claimed monitors the mysterious unproven offsite source of pollution), had not been monitored since 2007. This is stated in the revised hydrogeological risk assessment by URS on page 15. (see below).
“Agreed – boreholes will be investigated and report produced including any proposals for replacement/maintenance.
Monitoring procedures are incorporated in to a Rhodia Ltd operational document; “RHODIA LIMITED OLDBURY SITE. HSE PROCEDURE P44. Rattlechain Landfill Site Management Procedures”. Table 1 in this report confirms the total depth of these boreholes and has provided separately geological logs and construction details for all boreholes. Confirming the minimum requirement of 3 in each system and their current functionality. Accepted – 09/10/2013.”
- Groundwater Control and Trigger Levels
“I would recommend that SO4, Ni, Zn, P2O5 are added to the list of C&T Levels as they are all shown to be present at detectable concentrations within the lagoon water
(ref 2). Also recommend that Pb and Mn are removed as there is no evidence of these contaminants being present at significantly elevated concentration in lagoon water and are likely to be associated with an historic or off-site source.”
IT HAS YET TO BE ESTABLISHED THAT ANY OFF SITE SOURCE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTAMINATION WITHIN THIS HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE. ALBRIGHT AND WILSON CARRIED OUT LEAD BURNING AT TRINITY STREET WHICH COULD EASILY ACCOUNT FOR HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF LEAD IN THE SEDIMENT.
“Agreed – list of C&T levels to be amended as above. In addition benzene is to be added to analytical suites as it has been detected up to 0.23 ug/l on occasions. Benzene will also be added to C&T list initially as a precautionary and inclusive measure (resulting from rumoured early disposal at the site pre-dating disposal licensing).”
THIS MENTION OF BENZENE IS A DIRECT REFERENCE TO AW BOMBS.
There is a long contemplation on Rhodia’s methods of monitoring control and trigger levels. The over complication of this discussion makes it possible for the site opearator to control what results are reported, insomuch as they could take corrective action before reporting a serious breach. In practice this would probably be adding chemicals to correct what the company did not want to report as being “triggered.”
There is reference to the River Tame but monitoring of this tributory is ignored. Given that this watercourse is below the lagoon level, the integrity of the ground between the sewer system in John’s Lane never appears to be considered. The entire structure of the Western bank is entirely manmade when this ground was raised in the 1970’s.
“Agreed that only the canal discharge will be sampled, same suite as groundwater plus D.O., TSS & Temperature, as above. EA monitor u/s & d/s of discharge.
Monitoring procedures are incorporated in to a Rhodia Ltd operational document; “RHODIA LIMITED OLDBURY SITE. HSE PROCEDURE P44. Rattlechain Landfill Site Management Procedures”. The Canal discharge and monitoring points 50 m u/s & d/s of canal discharge are to be sampled on 6 monthly basis. Which meets EA minimum requirements, so accepted – 09/10/2013
“I would recommend that lagoon water, as it is in intimate contact with the deposited waste body, is sampled on an annual basis (similar to groundwater).”
Monitoring procedures are incorporated in to a Rhodia Ltd operational document; “RHODIA LIMITED OLDBURY SITE. HSE PROCEDURE P44. Rattlechain Landfill Site Management Procedures”. Lagoon water is to be sampled on 6 monthly basis, which exceeds EA minimum requirements, so accepted – 09/10/2013″
- Hydrogeological Risk Assessment
Initial comments on the original URS report mentioned the lack of evidence concerning the rumoured “off site source” of contamination into the lagoon, as well as the age of the report which should have been reviewed more frequently. We have looked at the new Hydrogeological risk assessment from URS below.
“Agreed – a full HRA review will be undertaken in accordance with EA guidance (current) with an emphasis of characterising the lagoon source term and separating out external groundwater quality issues. To allow focussed future monitoring of performance at this site.
A full HRA review has been undertaken by URS on behalf of Rhodia;”
This report consists of 60 pages and was supplied by the environment agency in our freedom of information request. We have looked at the sloppy and conflicting history of waste disposal offered by Rhodia and their consultants previously here, and this document does little to correct these inaccuracies, though is certainly more weighty than the original document.
This revision however no longer refers to the smaller lagoon as “the clean side” lagoon as it did in 2004. This nonsense has been dropped at least with it now being refered to as “the small lagoon”. We also fundamentaly do not accept their claim that there are no “engineered barriers” beneath the lagoon. They can offer no evidence of this nor has any consultant that Albright and Wilson and Rhodia used.
WE KNOW THAT TIPPING WAS ALLOWED INTO THE FORMER BRICK WORKS FROM THE NEW BRICKWORKS PIT , VIA A PLANNING APPLICATION PERMISSION.
Rhodia apparently submitted what URS term “extensive” borehole monitoring data to URS, which when scrutinised does not add up to very much extent at all. In fact it is difficult to draw any real observations or inferences from such a limited data set. Monitoring was only carried out once per year, which does not show trends, nor what Rhodia may have been doing to influence the readings that they took, baring in mind that it is they who also decided when to take the readings.
“Since 2004, routine sampling of lagoon water and groundwater from monitoring wells at the Rattlechain site has been undertaken annually by Rhodia. The data was supplied to URS in electronic format (MS Excel) from Tom Dutton at Solvay-Rhodia.”
We are also told, and are supposed to believe that URS have undertaken groundwater sampling and lagoon water sampling between 2011-13.
By far the biggest failure of this report is any scientific evidence to prove that there is any pollution arising from an off-site source, (THE MINTWORTH OWNED FORMER DUPORTS TIP), which is frequently proffered by URS to try to explain their clients exceeded heavy metal readings. In fact we are supposed to believe that monitoring from the nearest borehole to this site BH5 was conveniently not undertaken from 2007 onwards.
“The BH5 data set ends in 2007 due to the borehole being lost.”
It is noted that URS highlight a rise in Orthophophate (P4 IS NOT TESTED FOR WHICH IS IN THIS MATERIAL HOWEVER), and also to certain heavy metals.
“This rise is considered to represent the effects of an agitated water column due to current dredging activities.”
Rhodia’s consultants shoot themselves in the foot here with the sugestion that a causal relationship with elevated levels of substances and dredging exists. If this is correct then the dredging activities carried out by Albright and Wilson/Rhodia at the behest of the Environment Agency, disturbed this contaminated sediment and allowed the p4 contained within it to poison wildfowl. Yet URS make no mention of p4 in this report, nor monitor for it. It should not be forgotten that URS also previously tried to offer the most ridiculous suggestion concerning bird mortality at the lagoon during this period in the report about “bird management” for their chemical poisoning clients.
At the time of the most recent sampling (June 2013), ERM and contractors Klaar were adding flocculant to the material being dredged on site, which supposedly would have reduced any such increases by binding the material together. No rise is shown in the smaller lagoon at this time, given that in June they had supposedly started to dredge material from this side. In fact we still wonder whether any material other than algae was actually dredged from this side at all.
We are also told that ph levels are declining, yet lately we have seen Solvay adding aluminium sulphate to the smaller lagoon, and were then pumping this chemically treated water back into the larger lagoon a couple of months later supposedly to “reduce” the ph concentration.
- Landfill Gas
It is recommended that Rhodia monitor for landfill gas, even though they had failed to for many many years since the inception of the site. This also highlights the failure of regultors to address the issue of historic contamination. We already know that the arms of the canal where waste was dredged contain high levels of methane as well as many other chemicals not allowed to be deposited at the site after waste licensing. What went in before, which would be nearer the groundwater, is not really ever addressed.
Agreed – made ground boreholes will be monitored as above.
John Davis then makes comments concerning the “limited” potential for generation of phosphine gas. As stated previously we do not believe the company, their contractors nor the environment agency have really taken this concern with the robust monitoring required. We do not accept that the monitoring for this gas was conducted adequately following the geotextile cap laying. We now see evidence of what we believe to be this gas being evolved from below the water.
If it can vent to air we also do not see why it cannot vent towards the boreholes for monitoring.
“Agreed – it was felt there is a very small possibility that phosphine gas could be generated (Data from HPA review and update review will be used as an evidence based risk assessment in report form and initially monitoring for phosphine will be incorporated into the monitoring plan for the site).”
- Stability of Northern slope
“Agreed – an updated risk assessment with final design will be submitted for review and once approved be incorporated in to closure plan.”
As stated above, this document is dated April 2013 and is written by ERM and DC group- Rhodia/Solvay’s partner contractors for the site works. Work had already started at the site in February. This 37 page report offers a number of calculations and cross sectional drawings of the North Embankment, but is particularly keen to point out that any works carried out would not be a risk to the integrity of the canal and railway line. In reality at this point we had contacted The Canal and Rivers Trust about the serious slope excavations that were being undertaken, (that were not originally publicly stated would be taking place).
It is clear that they were completely unaware of the works taking place. Sandwell council planning department were also contacted. Quite how this reprofiling exercise of moving hundreds of tonnes of material around the site escaped any form of formal planning permission is testament to the failed planning system rather than anything else- particularly when the risks involved about this work are not publicly advertised or consulted upon. Then there are the health risks associated with the contaminated material- which as we have made clear before are not adequately assessed in the HPA report or by the so called “monitoring” during the works.
According to the report
“The stability risk assessment of 2004 and the yearly Rattlechain lagoon slope monitoring reports show that there is evidence of ground movements and some local instability. Some slope angles are steeper than the angle of repose of the waste and these areas of slope are likely to have unsatisfactory factors of safety (i.e. are marginally stable). Progressive failure is still a possibility, and therefore URS recommended that the inspection of the slope was continued annually to ensure that the localised failures do not propagate (Ref. Rattlechain lagoon slope monitoring report of 2011).”
Reference is also made to the soft material underlying the Northern slope and that the original access way had had to be reconsidered given that it would not create a stable lasting surface.
“Due to the fact that the base of the Northern slope at the edge of the lagoon was not seen as sufficiently stable to create the access/anchor path at its base (lagoon level) it was decided to create a work path higher up on the Northern slope in order to construct in a safe way the access/anchoring path and allowing the anchoring of the geotextile.”
There appears to be no assessment of the base of the northern embankment slope failure in the original URS stability risk assessment.
The report suggests three option for reprofiling of the Northern slope
Option A: Compaction and vegetation,
Option B: Reinforced with MacMat-R; and
Option C: Reinforced with Geocells.
“The current material coming out of the slope is not a fertile soil but a mix of materials including ash, bricks, rubble and loamy materials that does not serve as a fertile substrate and will limit vegetation growth.”
The loamy materials mentioned are not elaborated upon, but as we directly observed during the works, smoking p4 was exposed by the mechainal diggers excavating in the area that had been used as a disposal point from the canal.
The details of the lagoon base investigation works are missing from this report. In reality the methods employed by ERM encompass spreading the contaminated soil around the rest of the site or underneath the water followed by covering it up with some soil and then further covering this with a matting followed by more soil and greenery. This makes the site more asthetically suitable for sale than a slipping steep slope which is what the Northern embankment had been for many decades.
THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Perhaps the most revealing aspect of our freedom of information questions concerning the closure of the rattlechain lagoon site, was the revelation that the name “Rhodia UK Limited” as site operator would be changed to “Rhodia Limited.” The Solvay brand is obviously not to be tarnished with past misdemeanours concerning toxic waste dumping in the environment.
Having looked into the company directors of this “new” company, we are aware that there are just two, and only two employees in the said company. These are Tom Dutton, HSE site director at Solvay, and John Moorhouse, Site Redevelopment manager at Solvay. (AND BOTH EX ALBRIGHT AND WILSON). YOU COULD SAY IT IS A “TOM AND JERRY” COMPANY.
At some point in the future no doubt, these directors will step down and into the pictorial equation will come the new directors of this imaginary facade, who will by then have bought the site for something like £1 and use it to pursue a new agenda for infilling the lagoon with whatever crud they can shift for profit. | <urn:uuid:820b666a-9c8a-4715-a0f4-21ff1fb3b882> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.whatliesbeneathrattlechainlagoon.org.uk/?page_id=5405 | 2021-11-29T16:54:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358786.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129164711-20211129194711-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.962549 | 4,156 |
Now that the prequel trilogy is over, we must carry on our Star Wars obsession on discs — DVDs, CDs, and Video Games. Definitely not the most realistic of Star Wars games, Lego Star Wars ($18) provides a different kind of Star Wars experience: teamwork. As you play through levels recreating scenes from Ep. I, II, and III, you’ll need the help of a friend (or, if you’re really lonely, computer AI) to control over 30 different Star Wars characters and save the universe — or not. Great graphics, fun puzzle-solving, and the ability to blast enemies back into the Lego pieces from whence they came — what more could you ask for? Oh, yeah, you get to collect credits that look like Lego pirate treasure. | <urn:uuid:af5ed53a-3729-4511-b12a-d5adfd302a16> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://uncrate.com/stuff/lego-star-wars/ | 2013-12-06T11:42:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163051509/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131731-00055-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915165 | 161 |
- Outstanding Native Plants for the Landscape (1 hr. +)
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- Native Plant Identification Hike
- …OR another “green gardening” topic as requested.
- $200 for 1.5-2 hour presentation or workshop, plus 50 cents/mile outside the Gig Harbor area.
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By Bob A.
Occasionally over a six-month period, we had reboots with our rolling mill control system that caused production headaches but the crews learned to clean up the mess and proceed. Then, suddenly the problem got worse, occurring multiple times a day. So now, it was a dedicated priority to find out what was going on.
So first thing in the morning, we are all gathered up to examine the entire control system. Right off the bat, at a time when the crew is typically planning out the day’s work, it happens. After that, nothing. Late in the day, as we were cleaning up all the electronic monitoring equipment, it happened again, but no one was watching. This went on for several days until about the third day, when the foreman observed that it happened every morning when he brought out the schedule. We were all scratching our heads.
Later that day, as I’m leaned over the new schedule printer and peered into the control panel, I noticed that the big outlet down below for the printer, was not being used. So I traced out the line cord for the printer and discovered that it was plugged into a strip that had previously be used for a small desktop line printer years before. Every time this huge printer/copier was used, it would warm up and overload the isolation transformer for the control system. Upon checking, we found that there had been a smaller one there for a few months, but it was needed somewhere else, so the larger one was placed here. The smaller one only occasionally caused the problem where as the larger one always caused the problem.
As a courtesy, the cold mill superintendent sent a bill to the IT department for all the lost production. After that, all plant IT activity was scheduled through the operations automation personnel. | <urn:uuid:7c5307ee-ca9f-48ee-b572-954da915f9ca> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1368&doc_id=212153 | 2014-03-12T15:19:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394021889832/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305121809-00044-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978436 | 369 |
This past week I started a new volunteer project at the Tennessee State Library and Archives. You may recall the last project I worked on was scanning and creating a database for bible records found in surname vertical files. This new project is proofreading an index/database created from Acts Passed at the Regular Session of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee. Specifically, this week I worked on the Sixteenth General Assembly and what they produced in 1825. It turns out that it is pretty fascinating stuff, and your ancestor (if they lived in Tennessee) could be named in it.
There are a lot of individuals named in these Acts. One man was declared an "idiot", that his slaves (listed by name) would be sold, and the proceeds from the sale would be used to care for him. Other people are listed as changing their names. If there were issues regarding land, that couldn't be resolved at a local court, then your ancestor may be mentioned. Slaves are listed by name to be freed, surveyors are listed, individuals owing money for various reasons are listed, commissioners for turnpike roads are listed... you get the idea. Your ancestor could be listed!!
The point is, you should check out your state's Acts to see if your ancestors are listed. Even though they may have been simple farmer folk, there could have been land disputes. Maybe your ancestor was hired as an additional road commissioner, or maybe your ancestor was once a slave owned by a legally declared "idiot." You never know. | <urn:uuid:326af518-2386-4cd7-a72b-26d407981dfb> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://misadventuresofagenealogist.blogspot.com/2012/10/your-ancestors-and-law.html?showComment=1350211796588 | 2016-12-06T17:55:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541950.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00501-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979144 | 309 |
Totally Thames – an annual festival celebrating the River Thames – is set to return to London this September with a series of events including installations, exhibitions, screenings and performances.
This year’s programme is based around the issue of plastic pollution in rivers and oceans, and includes an installation by artist Maria Arceo called Future Dust.
For the past year, Arceo has been collecting plastic from over 40 beaches along the Thames towards the North Sea, which forms the basis of the installation.
After colour-coding the plastic debris, she will create a large-scale artwork in response to the volume of plastic litter found in the Thames, which will be illuminated at night by Dutch lighting designer Tim Scheffer.
A series of exhibitions will also bring the history of the Thames and its boatyards to life through spoken word history, film and photography.
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Aldi, which we predominantly know as a supermarket here in the UK, is spreading its wings in Germany and taking on Amazon. It has already launched a music streaming service called Life Musik called by Napster.
And this week, to coincide with the Frankfurt Book Fair, they are launching an ebook service with one million e-books at hand and a tablet too. According to reports the primary reason for this venture is to build its digital subscriber base and connect with younger consumers.
The tablet Aldi will sell from Thursday is a Medion E6912. This 7 inch tablet costs 129 euros and that includes a €10 voucher for eBooks and Life Musik free for 60 days. | <urn:uuid:24a44091-c180-4d16-a709-561587c94d7f> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://channelx.world/2016/10/aldi-joins-the-ebook-market-in-de-with-a-e129-tablet/ | 2023-05-28T22:06:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644571.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528214404-20230529004404-00127.warc.gz | en | 0.961698 | 141 |
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Writing about myself in a plain and simple form has always been somewhat strange to me. Most people would click on a page like this to find maybe a bulleted list of credentials, overstating how qualified and talented of a writer one may be. Or maybe a list of bubbly points, embracing authenticity and weirdness for empowering one to their true self, but I'm not good at either of those things.
I've probably written and re-written this page on my blog multiple times over the years for two main reasons. Number 1) Because I am definitely a perfectionist and 2) because I myself have changed over the years. I only hope for this blog to be somewhat of an escape, an outlet and mostly a creative space for me to write down the thoughts I gather from every day experiences or hard life lessons. I believe in sharing things that are either uplifting, necessary or provides a meaningful message.
One of the biggest things I love about life is that every single day can turn into a lesson. Every single day, we decide who we are and who we strive to be. Now as I am 24, I wouldn't have imagined myself in the position I'm in now, I imagined something very different from when I was younger. The beautiful part is that I love it. Even though my future wasn't what I was planning on, I wouldn't change a single event or person. So, maybe life isn't all about having a perfect plan, maybe it's more of an understanding that it was perfect to begin with. | <urn:uuid:db3a091f-08fa-4873-8173-941691e287c4> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://thoughtsfornicole.blogspot.com/p/about-nicole.html | 2018-08-17T17:33:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221212639.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817163057-20180817183057-00481.warc.gz | en | 0.979913 | 312 |
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Webinar Alert: Venture into the Arctic with IMAX® and BrainPOP
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Celebrate Earth Awareness Month with IMAX and BrainPOP! Joined by Shaun MacGillivray, filmmaker of the new IMAX® film To the Arctic, we’ll discuss the changing Arctic wilderness, its effect on the polar bear’s ability to thrive, and what you and your students can do to help protect their habitat. Free educational materials inspired by the film along with BrainPOP movies will help you further in classroom teaching and learning. We’ll also share details of the To the Arctic contest in which you can enter to win the ultimate prize pack from BrainPOP and IMAX! Look for To the Arctic exclusively at select IMAX® 3D and IMAX theaters. Want an opportunity to see To the Arctic with your students? Enter the BrainPOP To the Arctic lesson plan contest and get a chance to win tickets! | <urn:uuid:78e95c71-4184-4063-b9ad-0de273d44b15> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.brainpop.com/educators/community/2012/04/24/webinar-alert-venture-into-the-arctic-with-imax/ | 2015-03-02T01:04:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462577.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00317-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919745 | 218 |
As many as 1,000 people who used ATM cards to buy gas at a Redondo Beach service station have become victims of thieves who intercepted their personal information and withdrew $200,000 from their bank accounts, police said Wednesday.
Theft reports began trickling in to the police station on May 12, but ballooned as the week progressed. The common denominator: Each victim had used a automated teller machine card at the Arco station at Prospect Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway.
“Some of our own police officers have been victims,” Redondo Beach police Sgt. Phil Keenan said. “I would recommend to anybody who has gone to the Arco at Prospect and PCH: `Scrutinize your bank statements.”‘
Although police have not named any suspects, the owner, manager and other employees at the Arco station suspect a cashier who worked there for eight months and then disappeared.
He called himself Erick Volonski with a phony address in Redondo Beach. He purported to be 32 years old.
“We’re not sure if that’s his real name or not,” said manager John Wartanian, who lost $800 from his own account.
Department of Motor Vehicles records showed the driver’s license Volonski used when he was hired for the minimum-wage job contained a number matching someone else.
The Russian-speaking Volonski disappeared April 25. Workers suspect he is responsible for taking 1,500 packs of cigarettes, two digital video recorders, a laptop computer and $1,000 in cash.
“He doesn’t answer his phone,” said Phil Malik, the smog check technician at the service station.
Police have not determined how the ATM card and PIN information was stolen, but found the Arco station was compromised from October to April 20.
Keenan said investigators believe the thieves used the information to create fictitious ATM cards to make withdrawals throughout Southern California.
None of the thefts occurred until the last two weeks. Victims began hearing from bank representatives last week.
“They’ve been taking $300 to $500 out at a time, whatever the limit is, and they do it for a two- or three-day period until the bank realizes there is fraud going on and shuts the account down,” Keenan said.
Police received 20 theft reports on May 12 and 13. Officers received 45 telephone calls Tuesday morning, Keenan said.
Detectives are working with bank fraud investigators and Arco officials.
“It’s a high-level investigation at the Redondo Beach Police Department,” Keenan said.
Redondo Beach resident Marcie Long said someone from the Wells Fargo fraud department called looking for her 18-year-old son, David, at 8 a.m. on Mother’s Day after his account attracted attention.
“Someone had tried to use his account,” Long said. “Someone made up a plastic credit card and attempted to take $303 at a Bank of America ATM.”
The theft attempt at a machine in Baldwin Hills failed because the account did not contain enough cash.
About two hours later, the bank called again when thieves failed in an attempt to steal cash from her 20-year-old son Jamie’s account.
Long said she went to church and, when she returned, learned someone had removed $303 from her business account at a machine in Paramount.
Redondo Beach resident and Daily Breeze employee Lisa Martini said bank officials told her that nearly $2,800 was removed from two accounts belonging to her and her husband over two days.
The withdrawals occurred at Bank of America machines in Hermosa Beach, Sylmar and Northridge.
Michelle Pienkos said she was called immediately by the bank.
“I’m just really happy how Wells Fargo handled it. They caught it right away,” the Redondo Beach resident said. “I’m not going to be using a check card for gas anymore. I’m going to pay cash.”
Each of the victims was reimbursed by his or her bank.
Arco workers said police examined the service station’s equipment, but did not find any devices used to intercept the numbers.
Similar crimes – known as “skimming” – have been increasing throughout the nation.
In San Jose last year, thieves placed a skimming device at an Arco station and stole $200,000 from 180 victims. The device was on the pump for a month.
San Jose police spokesman Jermaine Thomas said thieves placed a device on top of the key pad that recorded the PIN at the same time it copied the card’s magnetic stripe.
Thieves then used the information to created a new magnetic stripe to go on a blank credit card.
“They used them at banks throughout the county,” he said.
Wells Fargo spokeswoman Edna Silva said “skimming” is an industry-wide problem.
“Wells Fargo regularly reviews cardholder activity to identify unusual purchase and ATM transaction patterns,” she said. “We test new security devices and technology to safeguard our ATMs, PIN pads and other devices from fraudulent activity. We take customer reports of unusual activity seriously.
Cindy Wymore, a spokeswoman for BP, which owns Arco, said the company is cooperating with police to “find out who is responsible for compromising the systems.”
“We think it’s absolutely deplorable that somebody would victimize our customers,” Wymore said.
Arco recommends that franchise owners check their pumps every hour to make sure devices have not been placed on the card slots. Wymore said customers should jiggle their cards when they use them in the slot to make sure nothing unusual is connected.
“It used to be all you had to worry about was somebody seeing your PIN number,” Wymore said. “Now you have to worry about readers.”
If you’re a victim
Anybody who sees unusual activity on his or her bank account in Redondo Beach should contact Redondo Beach police Detective Mike Strosnider at 310-379-2477, extension 2480.
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Deontay Wilder will visit one of the most acclaimed champions in heavyweight history before training camp for his third fight versus Tyson Fury.
Wilder disclosed during the newest episode of “The PBC Podcast” that he’ll meet in person with George Foreman to get some advice on how to defeat Fury, who won their heavyweight championship rematch by seventh-round technical knockout. Foreman and Wilder had “a great conversation” recently, according to what Wilder told co-hosts Kenneth Bouhairie and Mike Rosenthal.
“It was good talking to George,” Wilder said. “You know, George is one of the guys that been trying to get in touch for a good little bit. But, you know, you be moving so much, and everybody have a schedule and stuff. But, you know, during this time, you know, everything is shut down. You know, so it’s always good to have great conversations at this moment in time.
“And, you know, we had a great conversation. You know, it was a real, real good conversation. We talked about a lot of things that went on in his career, you know, good and bad. A lot of, you know, different tricks of [the] trade that used to happen, and certain things that he saw in this fight, and a lot of knowledge that he applied to me.”
Wilder wants to add two people to a training team led by Jay Deas, who has worked with Wilder throughout his amateur and pro career. The former WBC heavyweight champion didn’t say if Foreman would be one of those two additions.
“I am looking to bring someone in, for sure,” he said. “We don’t have it down yet, but I’m definitely gonna bring – I’ve got two people I’m bringing in. You know, one of them, he always come to camp on some basis or whatever. He always around. He in and out anyway. But we’ll see what happens. I think we’ve got a great team that’s gonna be formed. Once everything goes back to normal, hopefully it’ll be sooner than later, and I can get my team in order and we can move forward with our game plan for the third fight.”
The Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native nevertheless is looking forward to learning some things from Foreman, who became the oldest champion in the history of the heavyweight division when, at the age of 45, he knocked out Michael Moorer in November 1994 in Las Vegas to win the IBF and WBA titles.
“He was telling me how he wanted to show me some methods of strengthening certain parts of my body, and stuff like that,” Wilder said. “But he definitely dropped a couple of gems down for me, you know, and it was good to [speak to] him. I think I’m gonna, once everything clears up or whatever, I’m gonna go out and go see George, see him face to face, spend some time with him, and intake some of that good, ole’ knowledge that he have up there.”
The 34-year-old Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) and the 31-year-old Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) are expected to meet a third time October 3 at a venue to be determined. Fury floored Wilder twice, once apiece in the third and fifth rounds, before their one-sided rematch was stopped in the seventh round February 22 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. | <urn:uuid:8f4663d8-9f42-4bec-b84b-d3896898d36c> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://boxingafrica.com/2020/04/wilder-to-be-mentored-by-foreman-adds-two-new-coaches-to-team/ | 2021-08-03T00:26:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154408.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802234539-20210803024539-00331.warc.gz | en | 0.976169 | 779 |
"Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum.."
I couldn't help it. That's what you get for naming a color after a Christmas song. I can't help but sing it. Since I was unable to hold off from posting my Xmas background to a more appropriate time (I know Nov 1 was early), I figured I would hold off on posting Xmas colors until after Thanksgiving. I somewhat contained myself. I LOVE this time of year. I'm excited they started up the 24/7 Christmas radio station. Despite the 80F degree weather and humidity.. I am in the Christmas spirit!
Little Drummer Boy
I love dark blues. I think this one is great! I think this particular shade is very different from anything I have. I know this one doesn't scream "holidays", but it does remind me of a the night sky possibly on winter evening? There I go with my imagination again. That probably made no sense. This color just seems to suit winter to me. I'll stop there before I start talking about other wintery things or break out into another Christmas carol! | <urn:uuid:74b9b1f9-4cbf-41e3-983a-57c2a34792cc> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | http://www.imperfectlypainted.com/2010/11/china-glaze-little-drummer-boy.html | 2019-12-07T08:31:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540497022.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20191207082632-20191207110632-00023.warc.gz | en | 0.974609 | 231 |
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How many knew what Venetian masks were ten years ago? Not many, but these masks have so much history, art, and culture surrounding them that they can’t be kept a secret. Television certainly found Venetian masks and made a statement with them. Paris Hilton’s finale had everyone wearing one, Vampire Diary did the same, and movies like Eyes Wide Shut helped make Venetian masks a household name.
Visit Venice and fabulous masks will take your breath as shop after shop shows their artistic masterpieces, revealing more than ever thought possible in mask making. Venice is the home of this art and the roots go back to the Middle Ages. A form of theatre developed during the Renaissance called Commedia dell’arte—a comedy performed in the market place with stock characters.
The popularity took Commedia dell’arte all over Europe and the characters developed and sometimes evolved into other characters. All the male characters in the theatre wore masks. Originally the masks were molded in leather, but with time these characters became the inspiration for fabulous works of art that used paper mache’ and became well known as Venetian masks.
The stock characters had their own personality and characteristics and it was the actors’ job to present the character within this framework. Subject matter was a parody of the times and the performance sometimes had written lines, but often was improvised.
Some of the best known characters are the inspiration for today’s Venetian masks. Perhaps the best known is Arlecchino, the servant of Pantalone, presented in masks with the familiar patch-work quilt design, representing patched clothing. He is acrobatic, but dull witted and has an attraction for Columbina, a female servant. Arlecchino has a wooden sword with two pieces separated by a block of wood that makes a slapping sound when he smacks someone with it. From this comes the word “slap-stick”.
Zanni are other servants. They are portrayed with long noses because the longer the nose, the dumber the character. Many believe Zanni is a corruption of Gianni, a common name from Lombard, an area that mainly relied on farming. When Venice turned to imports for most of its food, many from Lombard were unemployed and went to Venice to work as servants. Zanni is a parody of these servants and the Zanni mask has a long nose.
Pulcinella is perhaps the character in the Italian comedy that reaches back farthest in history. A Pulcinella mask has a long curved beak and the derivative of the name is little chick. He is a short hunch-backed character that is sometimes master and sometimes servant. Some believes Pulcinella dates back to the Roman theatre, called Atellenae, performed in Rome in the late Fourth Century.
Women characters were unmasked in the Commedia dell’arte, but the artisans in Venetian masks applied a mask to Columbina, the most famous female servant of the Italian comedy. Arlecchino was always pursuing Columbina who, in turn, was always trying to change him, but eventually she has to accept him just as he is. Columbina masks are rather simple eye masks.
The characters of the Italian Comedy were exaggerations of personality traits. II Capitano is one of those exaggerations. He claims to be a Spanish soldier with a history of courageous feats, while deep down he is really a coward. Capitano masks often include the military hat and superb masks for men.
II Dottore actually claims to be a university professor rather than a medical doctor. He misuses words and expounds useless knowledge in an ostentatious way. The mask has a bulbous nose, bushy eyebrows, and a furled brow.
The jolly mask, also referred to as the joker mask is extremely popular in Venetian masks and if we connect it to a character, it would have to be Arlecchino because he is acrobatic and often considered more of a jester than a servant. These are some of the most fabulous Venetian masks and are used as wall hangings as well as full faced masks. The mask usually includes the curled horns of a jester hat and come in styles for men and women.
The Bauta mask actually dates back to public masking in Venice rather than the Italian comedy. Masking went on year round and promoted promiscuous behavior before the Church stepped in and set the dates for masking between the Feast of the Epiphany (Jan 6) and the day before Ash Wednesday (Mardi Gras Day). The Bauta mask was popular because it not only covered the face, but the long chin area covered the mouth and muffled the voice, making it difficult to identify anyone acting up. This mask became traditional for Carnival and is often seen during Carnival in Venice.
Some Venetian masks are simply beautiful works of art and do not find their beginnings in characters of the Commedia dell’arte. VM72 is such a mask with white and silver or gold color and a crown of flowing white ostrich feathers. The mask come on a stick and is a top selling mask for Venetian weddings. VM71 offers the same style that stays in place with elastic bands.
Venetian masks are one breath-taking work of art after another. Anyone glancing through the category has to be impressed. Many retailers are a little reluctant to branch into Venetian masks because price points are higher than feather masks or masquerade masks. Don’t be reluctant because of price. Start slowly and test the waters with your customer base. Most retailers that have done this get a good response and return for more inventory to widen their selection. Venetian masks are just too gorgeous for customers to ignore. | <urn:uuid:a23ce027-dc33-47f2-a832-d1c210afa90f> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.awnol.com/wholesale-fashion-blog/2011/02/09/venetian-masks%E2%80%94art-for-mardi-gras-and-masquerade/ | 2017-04-25T00:58:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120001.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00623-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975752 | 1,209 |
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I will travel with my motorbike (BMW GS 1200) from Alaska until Tierra de fuego (Ushuaia). Target: friends, travelers and social media users. Also I want to leave my stickers all around my travel.
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I would like to obtein the design of my stickers. The stickers goes in front and laterals of muy motorbike.
In the sticker I would like that appears : PA WORLD TOUR ("PA" is my nickname), AMERICAN CHALLENGE, pablofernandez1200.com and ALASKA & TIERRA DE FUEGO (I made a draft design with my idea). The world, the roud and a motorbike. Thank you for your time and effort. Cheers. Pablo
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I love motorbikes, travel, technology, space, nature and animals. The name of my motorbike is: ALIEN
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William J. Hedden MD
About the Practice
Dr. Hedden's career is guided by a philosophy of helping people, eliminating pain and guiding patients to a more beautiful appearance and a true sense of inner happiness. I believe my sculpting background allows me to see and achieve the best result possible. We want to help you look as good as you feel. I treat every patient as if they were part of my family because once I operate on someone they do become part of our family. We even make house calls. Our office is uniquely designed to provide comfort, privacy, and confidentiality for each patient. Our staff has years of experience with all aspects of plastic surgery and will be available to answer any questions or concerns that might arise before or after surgery.
Aesthetic Surgery of the face, breast and body.
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Background & Certification
American Board of Plastic Surgery — Dr. Hedden is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS)
American Board of Surgery — Dr. Hedden is board eligible in general surgery an a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery?index (ABS), which is also a specialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).
Broward*Community College* — Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Associate of Arts (with honors), 1984
University of Florida — Gainesville, Florida
Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, Majoring in sculpting and anatomy (with honors), 1987
University*of South Florida* — Tampa, Florida
Doctorate of Medicine, 1993
Louisiana State University Medical Center — Shreveport, Louisiana
Resident in Surgery, 1994-1999
Diplomat to National Board of Medical Examiners, 1994
Chief Resident, 1998-1999
University*of Alabama at Birmingham* — Birmingham, Alabama
Resident in Plastic Surgery, 1999-2001
Publications and Presentations
1) Natural History of Venous Repair for Penetrating Venous Trauma.
Presented at the Louisiana Chapter of American College of American Surgeons (1996). Winner of Physician In Training Award.
Winner of the Region VI Resident Trauma Competition (1995)
Presented at the American Association of Surgical Trauma (1995). Under review for publication.
2) Arterial Repair of Penetrating Carotid Injury.
Presented at the American College of Surgeons National Conference (1996).
3) Skin Homografting Between Identical Twins; 84% Total Burn Surface Area Grafted with 5000 cm2 from a Six Antigen Matched Twin.
Presented at the Southern Medical Association (1996).
Physician In Training Competition Scientific Paper Recognition Award.
Published in Southern Medical Journal (1996).
4) Expression of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 in MRL/Mp-1pr/1pr Autoimmune Mice.
Presented at the National Conference for Experimental Biology (1997).
Submitted for Publication.
5) Expression of P-sel in MRL/Mp-1pr/1pr Mice.
Presented at the American College of Rheumatology National Meeting (1997).
6) Expression of E-sel and P-sel in C-57 Mice After Treatment with Cyclosporine.
Currently processing for publication.
7) Expression of E-sel and P-sel in C-57 Mice After Treatment with FK506.
Currently processing for publication.
8) Tracing of Afferent Pathways from the Femoral-Saphenous Vein to the Dorsal Root Ganglia Using Transport of Horseradish Peroxidase.
Published in the Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System (1987) Vol. 20.
Awards & Honors
St Clair Art Scholarship
Top Surgical resident for 1994-96
Winner of region VI resident trauma competition
Physicians In Training Award at the Louisiana
Chapter of the American College of Surgeons 1996
Physicians In Training Competition Award at
Southern Medical Association national meeting
Division of Plastic surgery
Affiliations & Memberships
Trinity Medical Center
Baptist Health system
Brookwood Medical Center
All Children’s Hospital
Medical Center East
Lake Martin Hospital
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Alabama Society of Plastic Surgery
Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgery
Fellow of the American College of Surgery
American medical Association
Alabama Medical Society
Jefferson County Medical Association
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Everyone is talking about Ted Kennedy's death today, and rightly so. He was a hugely important figure in American life for much of the last 40 years. But we also lost someone else today who brought a lot of joy to the world -- songwriter Ellie Greenwich, who wrote many of the great pop songs of the 1960s, mostly with her songwriting partner and then-husband Jeff Barry. Greenwich was a contemporary of Carole King and because she wasn't as successful a performer, she was often forgotten. That's too bad, because she wrote some great songs. A lot of the songs were Phil Spector productions, but she ranged beyond that. Here are just a few of the great songs that she gave us:
Be My Baby, by the Ronettes
River Deep, Mountain High, by Ike and Tina Turner
Da Doo Ron Ron, by the Crystals
Leader of the Pack, by the Shangri-Las
Do Wah Diddy, by Manfred Mann
Chapel of Love, by the Dixie Cups.
Six great songs, six different performers. And it's hard to imagine the early 60s without these songs. RIP. | <urn:uuid:599238dd-4efc-43a8-9b77-cbc7c2d1da28> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://mrdilettante.blogspot.com/2009/08/be-my-baby.html | 2015-05-29T08:10:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207929956.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113209-00282-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987115 | 237 |
Pashtrik mountain, located in the border between Kosovo and Albania is a legendary mountain, because of the last war in Kosovo, in 1999. A lot of hostilities were made in this territory.
This mountain is one of the most beautiful free-standing mountains, and it can be seen from the city of Prizren, Gjakova in Kosovo and Kukes in Albania. What makes this peak more special for me, is the fact that I was born in Prizren, from which city this mountain looks gorgeous.
How to get there
There are a lot of paths to climb this mountain, from Albania and Kosovo. From Albania, you can climb the mountain from the village of Kishaj, Has district and from Kruma. From Kosovo, you can climb it from Kushnin village, and from Planeja village. Below, I will explain the path from Kushnin to Pashtrik peak 1987 m/alt.
Reaching Kushnin is very easy. You can reach this village from Gjakova or from Prizren. From Prizren you can go there by car, just following the Maps. Prizren to Gjonaj (Has) then to Krajk, Romaja, Dedaj, and Kushnin. There are several buses going from Prizren to Kushnin every day.
When you arrive in Kushnin, you follow the road to the school in the village. There is the start of the trail.
If you have a 4×4 car, you can continue with it through the trail. The path is unpaved but passable.
About the Kushnin – Pashtrik peak hike
It is a moderate hike, but a very long trail. First, you will go through a forest, until you go to the border between Albania and Kosovo. There you can enjoy the meadowy terrains and very beautiful 360-degree views. After that, you will go again through another forest. After that forest, you will follow a beautiful rocky path, until you reach a mountain hut. There you can have a rest before summiting. From that mountain hut, only one hill is left to climb. I think that is the most difficult part! When you reach the summit the views are amazing. You can see the city of Prizren and Kukes, Gjallica and Koretnik mountains. Also, a part of the Sharr Mountains range. It is great. At the top of the Pashtrik mountain, it is Pashtrik shrine. Very famous for that zone. The distance of this trail is 28.36 km.
This is a very dry mountain, therefore please take around 2-3 liters of water. You can climb this mountain in any season.
Points of interest:
Starting point: Kushnin Has, Kosovo
Starting altitude: 488 m/alt
Highest altitude: 1’987 m/alt
Elevation gain: 1’499 m/alt
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Fresh off of a win from the recent Las Vegas race, the Ron Capps Motorsports team continued to dominate at the NHRA SpringNationals, claiming the No. 1 qualifying spot for the second event in a row, and the third time in Ron Capps’ first five events as an NHRA team owner.
After laying down the quickest pass of the open qualifying session, Capps and the NAPA AUTO PARTS team rolled into Houston Raceway Park on Saturday ready to continue their stranglehold on the competitive Funny Car category. While nearly every nitro-burning car struggled to even make it down the tricky Baytown track in the heat of the day, the challenging conditions were no match for NAPA crew chiefs Dean ‘Guido’ Antonelli and John Medlen, who tuned Capps to a stout 3.931 E.T. at 321.96 mph in Q2. With six ‘low E.T.’ bonus points under their belt, the NAPA team closed out qualifying with another impressive blast, clocking a 3.879 E.T. to collect two more bonus points.
“That Q2 run in the heat was a big deal and only one other car made it down in Funny Car besides us,” said the 69-time Funny Car winner. “To run a 93 in the heat, in the right lane that has some bumps in it, it surely changes things. Tomorrow will be hotter and those bumps tend to rear their ugly heads even more in the heat, so it gives me confidence knowing we can get down it no problem. I have so much confidence in my team knowing the car we have, and things are just clicking.”
Capps’ Las Vegas victory was won from the pole, and he appears to be in a good position for a repeat performance in Baytown. The two-time and defending world champion’s race day will begin with a Bye run but with the competition tighter than ever, Capps knows a second consecutive Funny Car triumph will be hard-fought on Sunday.
“The competition has been so bunched up in Funny Car lately and that carried into this season,” explained Capps, a four-time Houston event champ. “Robert Hight’s car has been so consistent, and in these conditions, he’s definitely our biggest threat right now but, you can’t count anyone out. You never know when someone like Dickie Venables or Del Worsham, or John Force or J.R. Todd will sneak back up on us. We’ve seen that so many times over the last several years. Right now, that Robert Hight/Jimmy Prock car is really good, but you can’t count anyone out, and to be honest, I always feel a little weird when I start naming names because the whole class is just so tough. Anyone can win it tomorrow. And, it’s Houston, you just never know. Sundays here in Houston have a tendency to be bizzare-o, and this is one of those places where you feel like you’ve raced two-to-three races in one day. It literally takes everything out of you.”
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The circle is nearly complete: Apocaplexy lastly releases Breach's infamous album 'Venom' on vinyl. Originally released by longtime conspirators Burning Heart closely prior the new millennium it is probably the bands most well received work. Through a connection to Neurosis it even saw a US licensing by Relapse Records. This deal wasn't built to endure for a long period. About the time Relapse started to show bigger interest in working closely with Breach, the band and it’s internal relations started to deteriorate.
'Venom' was the breaking point for Breach. The steps away from the classical hardcore into a heavier, darker and more complex approach were taken slowly but steady – 'Venom' was the defining moment for what this band was capable of and what made them so unique. The heavy riffing, meditative and almost tribal rhythms, the overall claustrophobic atmosphere alongside the trademark vocals and apocalyptic lyrics made this record one of a kind. This record even brought a full-on music video in form of the instrumental 'Diablo' with airplay on global music programs. Still Breach unfortunately only made a small impact in the overall picture of heavy music, only gaining a small circle of loyal fans. Over the years this group of loyal admirers grew in numbers and Breach's influence on contemporary heavy music is unmistakable – and 'Venom' was the main reason for this.
Now for the first time in years the record will be available on vinyl again. After bringing 'Godbox' and 'Kollapse' to vinyl, Apocaplexy is proud to announce the second coming of 'Venom' in it’s full glory, licensed by Epitaph Europe, remastered by Karl Daniel Lidén, cut on 45rpm, pressed on 180g vinyl and with a newly designed LP artwork by Pierre Johansson, which is printed full colour & Pantone on heavy gatefold jackets. | <urn:uuid:49fb1c8c-1b1c-4166-ace5-aa1946f88227> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://apocaplexy.blogspot.com/2014/09/breach-venom-2xlp.html | 2021-10-25T17:33:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587719.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025154225-20211025184225-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.942666 | 394 |
Fergie has been 'incredible' and is a 'loss' to English football, says Mancini in secret goodbye note he sent to Manchester rival
Roberto Mancini sent a handwritten note to Sir Alex Ferguson in recognition of his fierce rival’s ‘incredible’ Old Trafford reign.
Though often at odds with the Manchester United manager since taking over at the Etihad three-and-a-half years ago, Mancini had no hesitation in hailing the retiring Ferguson as the best of a generation and a ‘loss’ to English football.
‘I wrote a letter to Sir Alex, because I was very sorry to hear he was retiring,’ said the Manchester City manager.
I can't see you... Mancini will want to keep his eyes firmly on the prize tomorrow at Wembley
Expectation: Roberto Mancini walks out onto the damp training ground one day before the FA Cup final
It's supposed to be summer: A less than amused Mancini standing outside in the rain
'The contents of it are private and confidential, but I can honestly say it has been a great honour to have competed against him for the past three years.
‘Good luck to him in whatever he does now. I have fantastic memories of our time together in Manchester. Of course, it is normal to think of the derby game when we went to Old Trafford and beat them 6-1.
‘Winning by that score at Old Trafford has never happened before and could never happen again.
Momentary spat: Ferguson and Mancini have had mixed relations since being rivals in Manchester
Joke time: Joe Hart shares a laugh yesterday at Manchester City's training
'It’s difficult to say if he is the
best manager of all time. But for one manager to stay 27 years at one
club and win every major trophy in that time is just incredible.
‘I don’t think there will ever be another manager like him.
‘It is his decision to retire and we
have to respect that. But he is a top manager and it is a loss to the
game that he is stepping down.’
Final team-talk: Mancini addresses his players on the FA Cup preparations
Mancini is expecting no let-up from United under new boss David Moyes, given the way City have struggled at Goodison Park in recent seasons.
‘I don’t think it will be easier for us next season,’ said the Italian.
‘At a top club like United you can change the manager, even one as important as Sir Alex, and still remain a top club.’
Bouncing defenders: Costel Pantilimon, City's possible starting keeper, gets in between balloons
Up for it: Vincent Kompany and Micah Richards were both out training on Thursday
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co subsidiary Hollister has confirmed it will enter the Australian market in 2013.
The plans were revealed during an annual earnings conference call, where Australia was listed among 20 international chain store openings for the year.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co EVP and CFO Jonathan Ramsden said most openings are aimed at tapping new markets.
“Overall these openings will be focused on underpenetrated markets where we expect minimum cannibalization,” he said.
“They will include our first stores in Australia and likely the Middle East.”
Hollister has 28 stores in the UK, 17 in Germany and 12 in Canada.
Hollister has yearly sales of $485.6 million.
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Private Equity firm Palatine has appointed the former CEO of St Tropez, Michelle Feeney, to its Executive Advisory Board.
Feeney has enjoyed a long career in the beauty industry, working on high profile launches such as MAC and Tommy Hilfiger at Lauder before her high profile role at St Tropez. Following the tanning brand’s sale to PZ Cussons in 2010, Feeney joined the FMCG giant, and was responsible for setting up PZ Cussons Beauty in London, New York and Melbourne.
“We are delighted to have Michelle on board,” said Gary Tipper, Managing Partner at Palatine Private Equity. “Not only has she been involved in shaping some of the world’s biggest beauty brands, but she has been instrumental in developing exceptional management teams. Her expertise of growing highly successful branded businesses both in the UK and overseas will be invaluable to our advisory board.”
“Palatine is the type of business I wanted to get involved with when I stepped down from my role at PZ Cussons,” said Feeney. “The firm has an excellent track record of backing ambitious management teams. For me, joining a business that had a strong culture was important and I’m looking forward to working with the team to find more exciting investment opportunities.”
Palatine’s portfolio includes restaurant and bar brands The Alchemist and Gusto, financial advisory business Wren Sterling and healthcare business Vernacare. With Feeney on board, could a cosmetics brand be the next? | <urn:uuid:219d26cd-21fb-427d-812a-ee156996ce5b> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.globalcosmeticsnews.com/palatine-private-equity-appoints-beauty-heavyweight-michelle-feeney-to-its-board/ | 2021-05-18T04:18:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989820.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20210518033148-20210518063148-00485.warc.gz | en | 0.967836 | 332 |
The tracks on Max Layton’s new album, “2 The Max,” are more stories than songs. Influenced by two of Canada’s greatest poets, his father Irving Layton and his close family friend Leonard Cohen, as well as his own interesting 66 years of existence, the singer-songwriter shares some hard-earned lessons on life and love set to a musical backdrop.
In this year, the centennial of his father’s birth, the Ontario-based Layton looks to the past and the future as he celebrates restored eyesight. It was a sudden onset of legal blindness a few years ago that prompted Layton to retreat into a private darkness to write his first album, “Heartbeat of Time.” His new album is a response to the restoration of his sight, thanks to “the miracles of modern medicine” as he writes in the CD’s liner notes.
Layton was taught as a young child to play guitar by Cohen, and has been playing and singing his whole life.
“My one constant was the guitar. I learned new songs wherever I went and played in coffee houses and on street corners whenever I got the chance,” he writes on his website.
After leaving home at 16, he worked at various jobs and professions as he put himself through college and later graduate school. He’s done everything from logging, picking tobacco, laying railroad tracks and cutting bedspreads to running a publishing company and a bank. Ultimately, he became a high school English teacher, a position he loved and only recently retired from.
Layton’s collaboration with producer David Woodhead is fortunate, as the old-time country, folk and blues music helps compensate for Layton’s sometimes wobbly and off-key voice, as well as for occasionally weak lyrics (for instance: “I’ve always been a loner, and I see you are a loner too. I’ve always been a loner. I’d like to be alone with you”). It’s the intimacy and the urgency of Layton’s storytelling that grows on you — if it doesn’t grab you right from the beginning.
Among my favorite songs on this album are “Miss You The Most” and “John Hornby.” The former is a melodic ballad in which Layton tells his love (presumably his wife of 20 years, Sharon) that he’ll miss her more than anything when he has “given up the ghost.” The latter song is a plaintive telling of the exploits of an early 20th-century British explorer of the Arctic. Its chorus goes: “I wish to God I’d never seen this country, whose beauty can steal your very soul. It’s a land of feast or famine, where I starved before I froze.”
Another standout is “My Colouring Book,” in which Layton nostalgically and heartbreakingly goes back to his early childhood. He takes on the perspective of his young self as he describes his white house and willow tree (in Cote St. Luc, Quebec), and more painfully the breakup of his parents (his mother was the artist Betty Sutherland) when he was 13.
Finally, “The Jesus Song” grabbed my attention, not so much for its lyrics about the Christian savior (“a rabbi who worked with his hands”), but for what sounds like a minor-key Hassidic nigun. Perhaps that’s the pintele Yid in Max Layton. | <urn:uuid:840efbec-ef48-4948-b870-654eb0182d19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/157356/he-was-blind-but-now-can-see/ | 2013-05-23T23:09:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704054863/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113414-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983579 | 757 |
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We at NIST are proud to declare that one of our candidate secured first position in NEBOSH International General Certificate (IGC) and 33 of NEBOSH International Diplomas candidate passed out with flying colors. To recognize the hard work and commitment of successful Diploma candidates NEBOSH will hold an annual Graduation and Award Ceremony on 25th June 2018 at University of Warwick. When our candidates will be receiving their award and recognized for the high academic we ensure to take one step ahead by offering them the sponsorship to fly to the grand event.
NIST is also one of the proud sponsors who will contribute to stage this grand event. To add colors to this event, our beloved Director of operation Ms. Priscilla Arulsamy will share the stage along with other great minds across the globe and award the best candidate for the NEBOSH International Technical Certificate in Oil and Gas Operational Safety.
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This October, help UNC Lineberger and its community partners "Turn the Town Pink" to benefit the UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program. It's 31 days of full out, fuchsia filled fun! Start making your pink plans now!
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I am Posting a Accounting document in R/3 though Idoc FIDCCP02.
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