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DFit is not just an amenity. It plays a key role in Deloitte's training programs, Pelster says. Some of the university's programs for top executives require participants to wake up at 6:00 in the morning and hit the gym before starting the leadership training part of the itinerary. "The intent is to get them into a good sweat," Pelster says, and also expose them to techniques for working out when they travel. At first, the leaders might complain about the early wake-up call, but most of them say, in their feedback after the program, that the fitness portion should definitely stay.
So people enjoy hitting up the elliptical before working their grey matter, but does exercise actually make people better leaders? There's evidence that it does.
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It's an extreme example, but General David Petraeus (who currently heads the CIA) reportedly said that physical fitness was the most important trait for good leadership, according to author and entrepreneur Charles Garcia's Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows. Granted, Petraeus, who was then the commanding general of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, led his troops through a 75-minute daily regimen of push-ups, pull-ups, and wind sprints designed to push the group beyond the point of exhaustion. Most of us could not keep up with that routine.
But you don't have to train under Petraeus to benefit from his strategy, which is to cultivate teamwork and toughness by putting people through a rough situation together. Leaders tend to emerge from such situations. It's something that admissions committees have known for a long time -- if you want to be a Rhode's Scholar, for example, athletic experience is a mark in your favor. Having played sports is a good indicator that an applicant has enough energy and discipline to hack it
That's because exercise that pushes a person's limits has the added benefit of showing their true colors. Anyone can seem collected in an air-conditioned office, but who still behaves like a team player when they're sweaty and hopped up on lactic acid? Those people might also have some of the skills to haul everyone through the next corporate crisis with some class. More
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May 10, 2006
Statement ofWan J. KimAssistant Attorney GeneralCivil Rights DivisionUnited States Department of Justice
Before the Committee on the JudiciaryUnited States SenateConcerningEnforcement of the Voting Rights ActMay 10, 2006
Chairman Specter, Ranking Member Leahy, distinguished members of the Committee:On behalf of the Department of Justice, I want to thank you for the opportunity to appearbefore you today. The President and the Attorney General have directed the Justice Departmentto bring all of its resources to bear in enforcing the Voting Rights Act and preserving theintegrity of our voting process. The President also has called upon Congress to renew the VotingRights Act and his Administration appreciates this opportunity to work with Congress onreauthorizing this landmark legislation.It is my privilege this morning to provide you with an overview of the JusticeDepartment's enforcement of three important provisions of the Voting Rights Act - section 5,which involves the Act's pre-clearance mechanisms, and sections 203 and 4(f)(4), which containthe Act's language minority provisions. I am also pleased to provide you today with anexplanation of the Department's use of two other provisions of the Act - sections 6 and 8, whichpertain to Federal examiners and observers. As you know, all of these provisions of the VotingRights Act are due to expire in 2007.Let me begin with the Justice Department's enforcement of section 5. Section 5mandates that all covered jurisdictions seek pre-clearance of any new "voting qualification orprerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting." This approvalcan be sought administratively from the Attorney General or through the judicial route by filinga declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Inthe latter case, the Attorney General litigates the declaratory action and either supports oropposes the court's approval of the voting change at issue. However, under both approaches, thevoting change - whether it be a new law, ordinance, regulation, or procedure - cannot beimplemented until the administrative or judicial approval is secured.In determining which jurisdictions are subject to the section 5 pre-clearancerequirements, the Voting Rights Act contains a formula that is predicated on historical voter1Specifically, a jurisdiction is covered under section 5 if (i) less than 50% of ajurisdiction's voting age population either was registered to vote or actually voted in November1964, November 1968, or November 1972; and (ii) the Attorney General determines that thejurisdiction maintained certain "tests or devices," as defined by subsection 4(c) of the Act, inNovember 1964, November 1968, or November 1972. 42 U.S.C. 1973b.2Subparagraph 4(a)(1) of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 1973b(a)(1), contains detailedprocedures by which a covered jurisdiction may secure a declaratory judgment excusing thejurisdiction from further compliance with section 5. This procedure frequently is referred to asthe "bail out" provision.328 C.F.R. Appendix to Part 51 - Jurisdictions Covered Under Section 4(b) of the VotingRights Act, as amended.4A chart denoting the number of annual submissions received by the Civil RightsDivision pursuant to section 5 each year is attached hereto.2turnout as well as the presence of certain discriminatory voting tests or devices.1 There are 16States - 9 in whole and 7 others in part - that meet this formula. The entire States of Alabama,Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia arecovered, although 10 counties and cities in Virginia have "bailed out"2 of coverage in recentyears. Meanwhile, certain counties and townships are covered in the States of California,Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and South Dakota.3For reasons of expense and timing, the vast majority of voting changes by coveredjurisdictions are submitted to the Attorney General for administrative review. The VotingSection of the Civil Rights Division receives roughly 4,000-6,000 submissions annually,although each submission may contain numerous voting changes that must be reviewed.4Redistricting plans are only a small portion of those submissions. For example, in CalendarYear 2004, we received 5,211 submissions, 242 of which involved redistricting plans. InCalendar Year 2005, we received a total of 4,734 submissions, 125 of which involvedredistricting plans. In Calendar Year 2006, we already have received 4,094 submissions (as ofMay 5), 19 of which have been redistricting plans. Perhaps not surprisingly, the number ofsection 5 submissions sent to the Department of Justice tends to reach its apex two years after thedecennial Census, the point at which jurisdictions have the demographic data necessary toredraw their political districts. For example, in 2002 we received 5,910 submissions, of which1,138 were redistricting plans. Similarly, in 1992, we received 5,307 submissions, 974 of whichinvolved redistricting plans.Our function in evaluating section 5 submissions is, in the words of the Supreme Court,"to insure that no voting-procedure changes [are] made that would lead to a retrogression in theposition of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise."Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900, 926 (1995) (quoting Beer v. United States, 425 U.S. 130, 141(1976)). Stated differently, we examine whether the purpose or effect of a voting change is to5Section 203(c), 42 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a(c).6For example, Section 203 is triggered if, in a particular jurisdiction: (i) more than 5% ofthe citizen voting age population, or more than 10,000 citizens of voting age, are members of asingle language minority, and (ii) the illiteracy rate of the citizens in the language minority groupis higher than the national illiteracy rate. Section 203(b)(2)(A), 42 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a(b)(2)(A).3put racial minorities in a position inferior to the one they occupy under the status quo, ascompared to non-minorities, vis a vis their ability to elect their candidates of choice.Impressively, the outstanding career attorneys in our Voting Section undertake this often highlycomplex examination in a brief, sixty-day period of time, as is required under the statute.Employing this standard over the last 40 years, we have found retrogression in anextremely small number of cases. Since 1965, out of the 125,885 total section 5 submissionsreceived by the Department of Justice, the Attorney General has interposed an objection to just1,402. And in the last ten years, there have been only 92 objections. In other words, the overallobjection rate since 1965 is only slightly above 1%, while the annual objection rate since themid-1990s has declined even more, now averaging less than 0.2%. This tiny objection ratereflects the overwhelming - indeed, near universal - compliance with the Voting Rights Act bycovered jurisdictions.Recently, the Supreme Court revised the standard applicable in section 5 retrogressioninquiries. See Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U.S. 461 (2003). The Court in that decision expandedthe factors to be considered in the retrogression determination by examining all the relevantcircumstances, which include a review of the minority voters' ability to elect candidates of theirchoice, the feasibility of devising a non-retrogressive alternative plan, and the extent of minorityvoters' opportunity to participate in and "influence" the political process. In implementing thatopinion, the attorneys and analysts in the Division's Voting Section continue to conduct wideranginginvestigations into all of the circumstances surrounding voting changes, includingsoliciting comments and opinions from the affected community, and undertaking complexstatistical analyses.In addition to our Section 5 work, I'd also like to explain the Justice Department'senforcement efforts regarding two other important provisions of the Voting Rights Act: sections203 and 4(f)(4), which are the Act's language minority provisions. These provisions, whichhave been in effect since 1975, mandate that any covered jurisdiction that "provides anyregistration or voting notices, forms, instructions, assistance, or other materials or informationrelating to the electoral process, including ballots" must provide such materials and information"in the language of the applicable minority group as well as in the English language."5In determining which States or political subdivisions are subject to the requirements ofsections 203 and 4(f)(4), the Voting Rights Act contains a formula that uses Census Bureau dataregarding ethnicity figures, citizenship, English proficiency rates, and literacy rates.6 Currently,With respect to section 4(f)(4), a jurisdiction is subject to the translation obligations if: (i) lessthan 50% of the citizen voting age population was either registered to vote, or actually voted, inthe November 1972 presidential election, (ii) the jurisdiction provided certain specified electionmaterials exclusively in English in November 1972, and (iii) more than 5% of the citizen votingage population in November 1972, as determined by the then-latest available Census Bureaufigures, were members of a single language minority. Section 4(f)(3)-(4), 42 U.S.C.1973b(f)(3)-(4). Essentially, section 4(f)(4) applies the 1972 section 5 coverage trigger tolanguage translation obligations.7There are 296 jurisdictions throughout the United States covered by section 203. Thereare approximately 298 jurisdictions covered by section 4(f)(4). Some coverage overlaps, mostnotably in Texas and Arizona, which explains the 496 figure in the text above.8Section 203(e), 42 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a(e).4there are a total of 496 jurisdictions that are subject to the requirements of either section 203 orsection 4(f)(4).7 The only language minority groups covered under sections 203 and 4(f)(4) areAmerican Indians, Asian Americans, Alaskan Natives, and citizens of Spanish heritage.8Under this Administration, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division hasundertaken the most extensive section 203 and section 4(f)(4) enforcement activities in itshistory. The initiative began immediately following the Census Bureau's July 2002determinations (using 2000 Census data) as to which jurisdictions were covered under section203. The Civil Rights Division not only mailed formal notice and detailed information onsection 203 compliance to each of the 296 covered section 203 jurisdictions across the UnitedStates, but it also initiated face-to-face meetings with State and local election officials andminority community members in the 80 newly covered jurisdictions to explain the law, answerquestions, and work to foster the implementation of effective legal compliance programs. Thateffort has been a continuing one. Division attorneys speak regularly before gatherings of Stateand local election officials, community and advocacy groups to explain the law, answerquestions, and encourage voluntary compliance.In August 2004, the Assistant Attorney General mailed letters to the 496 jurisdictionscovered by sections 203 and/or 4(f)(4), reminding them of their obligations to provide languageminority assistance in the November 2004 general election and offering them guidance on howto achieve compliance. The 2004 mailing to the section 4(f)(4) counties was the first blanketmailing to these political subdivisions since shortly after their original designations as coveredjurisdictions in 1975.In addition, the Division's Voting Section has been systematically requesting voterregistration lists and bilingual poll official assignment data from all covered jurisdictions,beginning with the largest in terms of population. This information is then reviewed in order toidentify polling places with a large number of language minority voters and to ascertain whether9Fifteen of the 28 language minority cases filed by the Department of Justice since theadoption of sections 203 and 4(f)(4) have been commenced since 2001.5the polling places are served by a sufficient number of bilingual poll officials who can provideassistance to voters.The Division also is systematically looking at the full range of information provided bycovered jurisdictions to voters in English - including, among other things, ballots and electionpamphlets, newspaper notices required by State law, and web site information - and determiningwhether: (i) the same information is being made available to each language minority communityin an effective manner, and (ii) necessary translated materials, such as ballots and signage, areactually provided in polling places.Not surprisingly, the extraordinary efforts undertaken by the Civil Rights Division in thisarea have been extremely successful. Since 2001, this Administration has filed more languageminority cases under sections 203 and 4(f)(4) than in the entire previous 26 years in which thoseprovisions have been applicable.9 Each and every case has been successfully resolved withcomprehensive relief for affected voters. And the pace is accelerating, with more cases filed andresolved in 2005 than in any previous year, breaking the previous record set in 2004. Thelawsuits filed in 2004 alone provided comprehensive language minority programs to morecitizens than all previous sections 203 and 4(f)(4) suits combined. The enforcement actionsinclude cases in Florida, California, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, andWashington. Among these cases were the first suits ever filed under section 203 to protectFilipino and Vietnamese voters.These lawsuits have significantly narrowed gaps in electoral participation. In YakimaCounty, Washington, for example, Hispanic voter registration went up over 24% in less than sixmonths after resolution of the Division's section 203 lawsuit. In San Diego County, California,Spanish and Filipino registration were up over 21%, and Vietnamese registration was up over37%, within six months following the Division's enforcement action.The Division's language minority enforcement efforts likewise have made a tremendousdifference in enhancing minority representation in the politically elected ranks. A section 203lawsuit in Passaic, New Jersey, was so successful for Hispanic voters that a section 2 challengeto the at-large election system was subsequently withdrawn. A Memorandum of Agreement inHarris County, Texas, helped double Vietnamese voter turnout, and the first Vietnamesecandidate in history was elected to the Texas legislature - defeating the incumbent chair of theappropriations committee by 16 votes out of over 40,000 cast.Although there is much more that I could say about the important work the JusticeDepartment is doing with regard to the language minority provisions of the Voting Rights Act,1042 U.S.C. 1973d, 1973f.11There are also 19 political subdivisions in 12 States currently certified by court order.With two exceptions, all of these certifications pertain to language-minority issues. An6there is one final area that I would like to cover with you today: the Justice Department's use ofFederal examiners and observers pursuant to sections 6 and 8 of the Voting Right Act.10Under the Voting Rights Act, Federal examiners are essentially officials assigned to aparticular political subdivision to whom certain complaints of voting discrimination can bemade. Governed by section 6 of the Act, the authority to appoint Federal examiners was firstdesigned as a congressional response to the racially discriminatory voter registration practicesthat existed throughout the South at the time of the Act's original passage in 1965. Examinersare charged with processing (or "examining") applicants for voter registration and making a listof those applicants who meet State eligibility rules; the list is then given to the local countyregistrar, who is required to put those names on the county's voter registration rolls. Those onthe examiner's list are commonly called "federally registered voters." The Voting Rights Actalso requires the examiners to be available during each of the jurisdiction's elections, and for twodays afterward, to take complaints about problems from anyone.Federal examiners can be appointed in two separate ways. The first route is throughsection 6's authorization for the Attorney General to "certify" for the appointment of Federalexaminers any jurisdiction falling within the coverage of the Voting Rights Act in which there isreason to believe that voters have been denied the right to vote on account of their race or statusas a language minority. In particular, the Attorney General must certify that either: (i) he hasreceived complaints in writing from twenty or more residents alleging that they have been deniedthe right to vote under color of law on account of race or color or because they are a member of alanguage minority and he believes such complaints to be meritorious; or (ii) in his judgment, theappointment of examiners is necessary to enforce the guarantees of the Fourteenth or FifteenthAmendments. The second method by which Federal examiners may be appointed is for aFederal court to do so pursuant to section 3(a) as part of an order of equitable relief in a votingrights lawsuit to remedy violations of the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendment. Judicialcertifications, unlike those of the Attorney General, are not restricted to those politicalsubdivisions covered by section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. Regardless of who makes theformal certification, once the determination is made, the actual selection of the examiner isundertaken by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), who then overseesthe examiner's activities.The Voting Rights Act's ban on literacy tests and other discriminatory practices hasmitigated many of the voter registration problems that made examiners so important. As a result,the need for, and role of, Federal examiners has greatly diminished over time. Although thereare still 148 counties and parishes in nine States that the Attorney General has certified forFederal examiners,11 nearly all of these certifications were certified shortly after the Votingadditional 14 jurisdictions in eight States previously were certified for Federal examiners byFederal courts under section 3(a), but the designations have since expired.12The complete list of counties certified by the Attorney General, along with dates ofcertification, can be found on the website of the Department of Justice's Voting Section. Seehttp://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/examine/activ_exam.htm.1342 U.S.C. 1973gg et seq.1442 U.S.C. 1973f.7Rights Act was passed in 1965 when conditions were radically different from today.12Moreover, many of the counties/parishes have not been the source of any race-based votingregistration complaints for decades.According to OPM, there have been no new "federally registered voters" (i.e., votersregistered by Federal examiners) added in any jurisdiction throughout the country since 1983.Nor has the Department of Justice received any complaints about covered jurisdictions refusingto register Federal voters in decades.In addition to the great advances in minority access to the franchise today as compared tothirty to forty years ago, the decline in registration-related complaints is also attributable to thepassage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which made voter registrationdramatically more accessible.13 Prior to this 1993 Act, there were few Federal standards forvoter registration. Through the NVRA, however, Congress established specific, uniformrequirements for voter registration and State maintenance of voter registration lists. All of theserequirements are applicable across the United States, not just in those jurisdictions certified forFederal examiners or otherwise covered by the Voting Rights Act. The reality today is that theonly real importance of the Federal examiner provision from a practical standpoint is its functionas a statutory prerequisite to the Attorney General's ability to call upon OPM to assign Federalobservers to monitor particular elections in certified jurisdictions.At any time after a Federal examiner has been appointed to a particular jurisdiction, theAttorney General may request under section 8 that the Director of OPM assign Federal observersto monitor elections in that jurisdiction.14 These observers are full-time or intermittent Federalemployees who are recruited and supervised by OPM. They are authorized by statute to enterpolling places and vote-tabulation rooms in order to observe whether eligible voters are beingpermitted to vote and whether votes casts by eligible voters are being properly counted.The OPM observers work in conjunction with attorneys from the Justice Department'sCivil Rights Division. Department of Justice attorneys assist OPM with the observers' training,brief the observers on relevant issues prior to the election, and work closely with them onelection day. Federal observers are instructed to watch, listen, and take careful notes ofeverything that happens inside the polling place/vote-tabulation room during an election. They1542 U.S.C. 1973aa-1a.8are also trained not to interfere with the election in any way. After the election, JusticeDepartment attorneys debrief the observers, and the observers complete written reports on theirobservations. These reports are sent on to the Civil Rights Division and can be used in court ifnecessary.While most Federal observers have reported fewer irregularities than in the 1960s,problems still occur. Over at least the last decade, most of these have related to compliance withthe language minority requirements of section 203.15 Where problems are discovered, a varietyof actions may be taken depending on the relevant circumstances. On occasion, JusticeDepartment personnel will assess the situation and work with county/parish officials on electionday to clarify Federal legal requirements and immediately resolve the identified problem. Othertimes, the Department will send a letter to the jurisdiction following the election in which weidentify certain incidents or practices that should be addressed or improved in the future (e.g.,removal of certain poll workers, additional training for election-day officials, etc.). Departmentattorneys likewise may recommend further investigation. If no Federal issues are identified, thematter may be referred to State authorities. If necessary, the Department will commence a civilaction (or contempt motion if applicable) to enforce the protections of the Voting Rights Act.Notwithstanding the general overall compliance with the Voting Rights Act, theDepartment of Justice has taken full advantage of the Federal observer provisions to help avoidslippage or complacency by covered jurisdictions. In 2004, for example, the Civil RightsDivision worked with OPM to send 1,463 observers to cover 55 elections in 30 jurisdictions in14 different States. In 2005, 640 Federal observers were sent to cover 22 elections in 17jurisdictions in 10 different States. Meanwhile, already in 2006 (as of May 5, 2006), 30 Federalobservers have been dispatched to cover 2 elections in 3 jurisdictions in 2 different States.Moreover, since 2004, the Justice Department has sent more than 200 Department personnel toassist the Federal observers with their work.In addition to Federal observers, the Civil Rights Division will send Justice Departmentpersonnel, in cooperation with State and local election officials, to monitor elections if it hasreceived complaints or has uncovered credible evidence of possible violations of the VotingRights Act. In fact, the great bulk of our recent enforcement cases since approximately 1993have involved jurisdictions (e.g., Massachusetts, California, New York, New Jersey, Florida,Washington, and Pennsylvania) where there is no statutory authority to send Federal observers.We have expended substantial resources in this endeavor. For example, in 2004, the Departmentof Justice sent 393 departmental personnel to monitor 108 elections in 80 jurisdictions in 27different States. In 2005, we sent 122 departmental personnel to monitor 25 elections in 21jurisdictions in 10 different States. So far in 2006, the Department has sent 48 personnel tocover 5 elections in 6 jurisdictions in 3 different States. Those monitors helped account for therecord-setting work we have done in enforcing the Voting Rights Act in recent years.16The Voting Rights Act: Ten Years After, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, January 1975,page 43.17U.S. Bureau of the Census, I. Current Population Survey, Table 4a (2004), and IV.Historical Time Series, Table A-9.18Black Elected Officials - A Statistical Summary 2001, Joint Center for Political andEconomic Studies, Table 1, page 13.9Let me say in conclusion that the Civil Rights Division has made the vigorousenforcement of voting rights a primary objective. The fruits of our efforts in enforcing theVoting Rights Act have been dramatic. Indeed, at the time the Voting Rights Act was firstpassed in 1965, only one-third of all African-American citizens of voting age were on theregistration rolls in the jurisdictions covered by Section 5 of the Act, while two-thirds of eligiblewhites were registered. Today, African-American voter registration rates not only areapproaching parity with that of whites, but actually have exceeded that of whites in some areas,and Hispanic voters are not far behind. Forty years ago, the gap in voter registration ratesbetween African-Americans and whites in Mississippi and Alabama ranged from 63.2 to 49.9percentage points. For example, only 6.7% of African-Americans in Mississippi were registered,in comparison with 69.9% of whites.16 Yet by the 2004 general election, the Census Bureaureported that in Mississippi a higher percentage of African-Americans were registered to votethan whites (over 76% versus under 74%). In the same year the Census Bureau reported that73% of African-Americans in Alabama were registered, as compared with under 75% of whites(a difference of less than 2 percentage points). Moreover, the Census Bureau also recorded anincrease in minority turnout in the South from 44% for all non-whites in 1964 to 53.9% forAfrican-Americans alone in 2000.17Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act also has helped to increase the opportunity ofminority voters to elect representatives of their choice. Virtually excluded from all publicoffices in the South in 1965, minority elected officials are now substantially present in Statelegislatures and local governing bodies throughout the region. For example, the number ofAfrican-American elected officials has increased dramatically during the life of the VotingRights Act, from only 1,469 in 1970 to 9,101 in 2001.18 In fact, many covered States, such asGeorgia and Alabama, have more elected African-American officials today than most that arenot covered by section 5.But our work is never complete. The Department of Justice is proud of the role it playsin enforcing this statute, and we look forward to working with Congress during thesereauthorization hearings.At this point, I would be happy to answer any additional questions from the Committee.


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Social & Business Co-Creation: collaboration for impact
Social & Business Co Creation: Collaboration for Impact - coming soon!
1/29/2014 | 3/4/2014 | 4/10/2014 | 5/31/2014 | 6/27/2014 |
1/29/2014 Competition Launch | 3/4/2014 Early deadline for Ideas | 4/10/2014 Deadline for Ideas | 5/31/2014 Finalists Announced | 6/27/2014 Winners Announced |
About This Competition
The competition Social & Business Co-Creation: collaboration for impact , developed by Ashoka, the Zermatt Summit Foundation, Fondation Guilé, DPD and Boehringer Ingelheim is looking for innovative Co-Creation projects in Europe led by social-mission organisations, traditional businesses and public institutions.
All social-mission organisations (e.g. NGO, association, not-for-profit, foundation, social enterprise), businesses and public institutions who work together to create change in Europe can apply. The competition deadline is April 10, 2014.
The 3 winners will receive coaching and a first prize of € 20,000, two runner-up prizes of € 10,000 and two early entry prizes of €1,000, and will be featured in prominent media. The prizes will be awarded at the Zermatt Summit on June 27th, 2014. Please read our Welcome Letter to learn more about the search, and visit the Eligibility & Criteria page for more information on how to enter.
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For general questions and support submitting an application, or to nominate an innovator, please contact Ana-Maria Filipescu: email@example.com
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Welcome Letter
Dear Changemakers Community,
Guidelines and Criteria
Why You Should Enter
- Join a community of like-minded organizations and individuals engaged in social & business co-creation in Europe. Your participation in the competition gives you the opportunity to forge relationships with other innovators across sectors, strategic partners, sector experts and potential investors. Several opportunities to engage with the Ashoka network and partners will be offered to the best projects.
- Gain visibility through the online open source competition and media partners.
- Attend the prestigious Zermatt Summit (June 26-28, 2014), for competition finalists.
- Monetary prizes: One prize of € 20,000 and two runner-ups prizes of € 10,000 will be awarded for the best projects. The prizes will be paid to the lead social-mission organization participating in the co-creation project.
- "Last mile" prize: one prize will be awarded by DPD to the best "last mile" projects i.e. solutions that enable the physical delivery of life-changing services to people with restricted mobility or restricted access (senior people, people with disability, remote or difficult areas, etc.). DPD will support the "Last Mile" award winner for the fine-tuning and scaling of his social and business co-creation initiative thanks to custom-made management coaching till end of 2014.
- Early Entry Prizes: two €1,000 prizes will be awarded for the best projects entering the competition prior to the early entry prize deadline of March 4st, 2014.
- Special prizes: The jury also reserves the right to grant special prizes for outstanding projects in terms of impact, exemplary leadership, pioneering partnership or other dimensions linked to co-creation.
- The competition is open to all social-mission organizations, corporations or public institutions whose co-creation projects have an impact in Europe (click here for the list of eligible countries).
- Applications must involve at least one social-mission organization (e.g. NGO, association, not-for-profit, foundation, social enterprise) and one company (of any size: from SME to multinational) collaborating on a joint project. Collaborations involving multiple partners and including public institutions are highly encouraged to participate. For practical reasons, one of the partners will submit the application on behalf of the team of partners.
- Eligible initiatives range from early stage co-creation initiatives (ideas) to projects with a proven track record and large impact.
- We seek to attract co-creation projects with the following characteristics:
- The project addresses a societal issue
- Lead partnering organizations bring complementary distinct and essential expertise to the co-creation project beyond funding only
- The project is linked to the core mission/ business of partners and should result in tangible results for each party
- The project is generating social impact and has the potential to do so at scale
- The project is a concrete illustration of how leadership, management practices and organizational structures are evolving to create shared value to multiple types of partners.
- To be considered for the financial awards, all finalist projects must be represented at the Zermatt Summit on June 25 and 27 2014 in order to participate in the jury panel and the award ceremony. All the costs will be covered by the competition organizers.
- Entries must be submitted in English. Translation support may be available on a case-by-case basis for high-quality projects led by teams who cannot write in English. Please contact Ana-Maria Filipescu firstname.lastname@example.com in case you need translation.
How to Enter:
- Please complete the entry form and submit by the deadline: April 10, 2014, 23:59 (Central Europe time).
- When applying, entrants should select the category that best fits their project:
- New products & services: Entries in this category develop and offer new and innovative products and services that address needs currently unmet
- Last mile distribution: Entries in this category focus on solutions that enable the physical delivery of life-changing services to people with restricted mobility or restricted access (senior people, people with disability, remote or difficult areas, etc.)
- Inclusive supply chains: Entries in this category enhance and implement efficient, sustainable and inclusive supply chains
- Job Creation: Entries in this category contribute to employment creation, social inclusion and talent development
- Others: If you feel that your entry does not fit any of the above categories, please suggest another category name.
- For advice about how to create a better entry and increase your chances of winning, please check carefully that your project matches the assessment criteria below. Finalists will be notified with detailed instructions on May 31, 2014.
Assessment criteria:
Winners of the Social & Business Co-Creation: collaboration for impact competition will be those that best meet the following criteria:
- Innovation: The best entries will be those that transcend traditional boundaries to build transformative partnerships that truly create new value. They will demonstrate a substantial difference from other initiatives and should describe how they are driven by original, ground-breaking ideas. Innovation does not necessarily involve something entirely new. It may comprise of new products, processes or collaboration models.
- Social Impact: The entries have a powerful outcome on society – positively and directly impacting the lives of people and/ or having a positive impact on the environment. The best entries will have clear potential for scale and replication, to transform industries and markets. The best projects will simultaneously demonstrate the creation of economic value and competitive advantage for the for-profit partners involved in the collaboration (see sustainability).
- Sustainability: Entries should be based on a sustainable model. They should have a clear plan for reaching long-term goals and securing financial backing. They should describe not only how they currently finance their work, but also how they plan to finance it in the future. The strongest entries will outline how their solution can be sustained without reliance on philanthropic donations or aid for core funding. As far as the corporate partner is concerned, we will look for projects that represent a high stake such as a new market, cost savings or a clear competitive advantage to ensure the highest commitment of the corporation over time.
- Interaction model: Entries will also be evaluated on the quality of the interaction that has been established between the partnering organizations. How is it going beyond a traditional partnership? How is the interaction transforming the partnering organizations and its employees/ leadership in terms of creating a new vision, new management practices, new skills and new organizational structures? Has it changed hearts, minds and business models?
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Amazon could justify a higher price for Prime by adding more features, but that would hurt its bottom line.
Amazon could justify a higher price for Prime by adding more features, but that would hurt its bottom line.
When it comes to holiday shopping, more and more consumers are heading to their computers rather than the mall -- and it's a smart move.
It pays to ask for what you want: I snagged a lower price on the new coat I'd already ordered by having a quick webchat with customer service.
Customers want Amazon to go back to its old free-shipping minimum of $25. A petition on Change.org is gaining steam, but may fall on deaf ears.
For the first time in more than a decade, Amazon.com is raising its minimum purchase cutoff. Here's why.
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Monday was Free Shipping Day. So is Tuesday. In fact, every day is. No, not officially: The official event is Dec. 17, the last day retailers will guarantee a pre-Christmas delivery. But so many retailers always offer ways to get free shipping, they need a new gimmick -- like free returns.
Today is Free Shipping Day, and almost 1,600 retailers are offering shipping deals to online shoppers. It's also the last day they'll guarantee regular delivery by Christmas Eve. We asked the folks behind Free Shipping Day to share their 10 favorite deals of the day: Here are their choices.
The battle for your holiday spending dollars is well under way, and it's not too soon to start handicapping 2012's likely winners. Some may be obvious (like Amazon), but others may surprise you. Here's how the holiday shopping season is shaking out across the retail landscape.
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Amazon (AMZN) quietly made a big change to its Prime service this week, allowing some customers to subscribe on a monthly basis rather than committing to a full year.
Amazon has a new plan to get consumers to buy more: Its "Add-on" program enables the e-tailer to offer free delivery on "thousands of items at a low price point that would be cost-prohibitive to ship on their own." But wait -- isn't that just like Amazon Prime? Not exactly. Here's why.
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Here's a bit of good news for Best Buy shoppers and shareholders. Lost in last week's dreary announcements of job cuts and store closures was a plan to beef up its customer loyalty program, Reward Zone Silver.
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Black Friday, the Super Bowl of the holiday shopping season, is upon us. Deal pros cut through the barrage of bargain-hunting tips with a pared down -- and doorbuster-free -- list of simple ways to save during the shopping blitz.
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While Nordstrom has yet to find a suitable location in New York City, online shoppers can now get any item delivered for free. On Monday, Nordstrom announced it will offer free shipping and returns for all U.S. orders -- making it the first department store chain to do so.
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As the reigning Miss Rodeo Montana, she first sat in the saddle when she was a month old. She started competing in rodeos at age 6 and did so well over the years that she attended Montana State University-Bozeman on a rodeo scholarship. She was chosen in January 2000 to be the state's rodeo queen.
"My job is to serve as ambassador for the sport of rodeo, mostly the professional rodeos throughout Montana and the Northwest," Holland said during a year of parades, rodeos and rodeo-related events.
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The biotechnology program and its emphasis on research "definitely" helped Holland get into veterinary school, Jutila said.
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NFPA's Chief Technician Remembering Robert S. Moulton
NFPA Journal®, January/February 2008
By Art Cote
Much has been said about NFPA's first full-time employee, Franklin H. Wentworth, who was Secretary of the association from 1909 to 1930 and Managing Director from 1930 to 1939. But the man who was hired second has had no less an impact on NFPA's fire protection and life safety role today.
Robert S. Moulton may be less well known, but from the moment he was hired as Assistant Secretary on March 15, 1920, he was nearly as instrumental to the evolution of NFPA into a premier developer of technical information on fire protection and prevention.
In just three years after his start, Moulton set NFPA down the path of using scientific research and discovery to save lives. In 1923 in a report delivered at the NFPA Annual Meeting, he noted that "there has never been attempted any comprehensive compilation of statistics on loss of life and injury by fire." He proposed that NFPA undertake this statistical effort, launching one of the fundamental services provided to this day by NFPA's Fire Analysis Division.
Moulton also forged NFPA's close connection with the fire protection engineering community. The following year, he proposed to the NFPA Executive Committee that it create a special section of the association specifically for fire protection engineers. The proposal was presented to the membership at the 1924 Annual Meeting, but after a lively debate was tabled. While not successful at that time, he refused to let the idea die. Finally in 1948 at Moulton's urging NFPA appointed a special committee "to consider the professional status of fire protection engineering and to report to the Board of Directors their recommendations as to what actions, if any, the association should take to promote recognition of fire protection engineering as a profession." As a result of that report, in 1950 the Society of Fire Protection Engineers was organized as a section of NFPA, and Moulton was appointed as the Society's first Secretary.
His influence was also marked on NFPA Building Exits Code. One of the key architects of this landmark document was its Staff Secretary, Bob Moulton. Now known as NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, this Code continues to be one of NFPA's most influential documents.
In July of 1928, Moulton became NFPA's first Technical Secretary, a title that clearly indicated his role within the association and one that he would keep for the next 33 years until his retirement in 1961.
The next year Moulton organized, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, an NFPA conference in Washington, D.C. on spontaneous heating and ignition. This 1929 conference attracted 150 attendees and resulted in the government's request for NFPA to form the Spontaneous Heating and Ignition Technical Committee. Thus began NFPA's ongoing cooperative efforts with the federal government to provide technical information on fire safety for use by the various federal agencies—efforts that included the development of NFPA codes and standards for the government's use and adoption.
In 1934, NFPA was given by its authors the rights to the Handbook of Fire Protection. (The authors were Everett U. Crosby, Henry A. Fiske, and H. Walter Forster.) First published in 1896, the year of NFPA's birth, the Handbook was by 1934 well established and in its seventh edition. All three authors were active in the NFPA and were confident that the association would carry on their legacy of technical excellence. To ensure that the Handbook would be compatible with NFPA standards, the Board of Directors appointed a special committee to review the text and named Moulton editor.
Under Moulton's leadership extensive revisions and additions were undertaken for the eighth edition published in 1935. Moulton greatly expanded the number of technical contributors to the Handbook with over 100 fire protectionists involved as authors, text reviewers, or technical sources.
Over the next 20 years he served as editor of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh editions of NFPA's Fire Protection Handbook as it became the premier reference source for fire protection and prevention information in the U.S. and around the world. It was Moulton who insisted that the Handbook provide the history and rationale for the burgeoning fire protection technology.
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I have frizzy hair, with little volume- however, I found this shampoo made my hair limper. I have been using Giovanni's Smooth as Silk Deep Moisture Shampoo- with great success- love how my hair feels with this particular product- and will return to using it. Giovanni's products are one of my favorites.
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On Monday, AMC announced plans for a companion series that is set in the same world, but will follow new characters, which will offer a different perspective on the zombie apocalypse. With those parameters in mind, TVGuide.com came up with six ideas for the series, which will be executive-produced by Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert. Keep in mind that introducing new characters doesn't mean that familiar faces couldn't take center stage in the spin-off. Take a look at our list: (Warning: Comic book and series spoilers below!)
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At the center is Kable (Gerard Butler), the superstar and cult hero of "Slayers," the savage, ultraviolent first person shooter game. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle's ruthless technology.
Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind (Hall).
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- NAME: Telly Savalas
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Talk Show Host
- BIRTH DATE: January 21, 1922
- DEATH DATE: January 22, 1994
- EDUCATION: Armed Forces Institute, Columbia University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Garden City, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: Universal City, California
- Full Name: Aristotelis Savalas
- Full Name: Aristotle Savalas
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Telly Savalas was an American actor best known for his role as a tough, New York City detective in the 1970's television series Kojak.
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Telly Savalas was an American actor born on January 21, 1922, in Garden City, New York. In the 1950s, Savalas gained production experience on ABC radio's Voice of America and then became the executive producer of his own award-winning talk show, Telly's Coffee House. Often casted as a villain,
"We're all born bald, baby."
"Who loves ya, baby?"
in 1962 Savalas earned an Oscar nomination for Birdman of Alcatraz. One of his more popular roles was playing a New York City detective in the hit TV series Kojak (1973-'78). After the show ended, Savalas continued to act in smaller roles in television and film. He died on January 22, 1994, in Universal City, California.
Early Life
Actor Telly Savalas was born on January 21, 1922, in Garden City, New York. The son of Greek immigrants, Savalas and his brother Gus sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family. In 1941, he joined the army and served in World War II, from which he was discharged with a Purple Heart disability.
Acting Career
After his release, Savalas attended the Armed Forces Institute where he studied radio and television production. He went on to enroll at Columbia University where he continued his studies in psychology. During the early 1950s, Telly worked for ABC radio, the Voice of America, and eventually became the executive producer of his own popular talk show, Telly's Coffee House, for which he earned a Peabody Award.
In 1959, Savalas attended an audition for the CBS anthology series Armstrong Circle Theatre, intending to prompt an actor friend who was up for a role. Instead, the casting director took Savalas' sinister demeanor into account and cast him in a character part, which led to other TV assignments and movie roles. A performance in Matter of Conviction impressed actor Burt Lancaster, who cast him in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Savalas earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for his role as solitary row prisoner Feto Gomez.
The bald-headed actor became known for his sinister character roles, often as sadistic or psychotic types. In 1973, he landed the part of tough-talking New York City detective Theo Kojak in the TV movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders. His incorruptible, lollipop-sucking character was so popular that a spin-off series resulted, which ran from 1973-'78 on CBS. The show catapulted Savalas into icon status as the very image of the hedonistic '70s. This clout allowed him to hire brother George (professionally named "Demosthenes") in the role of Detective Stavros. And to this day, Kojak's catchphrase, "Who loves ya, baby?" can be heard around the globe. Savalas won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for his role on the series.
After Kojak ended, Savalas embarked on a globe-trotting existence involving several forgettable European films and a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle. Though he periodically revived the character of Kojak in a few 1980s TV movies, his new role as credit card spokesperson likely earned him more air time.
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Big Lie
The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.
Hitler's use of the expression[edit]
The source of Big Lie technique is this passage, taken from Chapter 10 of James Murphy's translation of Mein Kampf:
But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice.
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.—Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X[1]
In that same chapter, Hitler accused "the Jews" of what he claimed was their use of the Big Lie.[1]
Goebbels's use of the expression[edit]
Later, Joseph Goebbels put forth a slightly different theory which has come to be more commonly associated with the expression "big lie." Goebbels wrote the following paragraph in an article dated 12 January 1941, 16 years after Hitler's first use of the phrase. The article, titled Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik (English: "From Churchill's Lie Factory") was published in Die Zeit ohne Beispiel.
The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.[2]
Jeffrey Herf maintains that Goebbels and the Nazis used the Big Lie to turn long-standing anti-semitism into mass murder.[3] Herf argues that the Big Lie was a narrative of an innocent, besieged Germany striking back at an "international Jewry", which it said started World War I. The propaganda repeated over and over the conspiracy theory that Jews were the real powers in Britain, Russia and the U.S. It went to state that the Jews had begun a "war of extermination" against Germany, and so Germany had a duty and a right to "exterminate" and "annihilate" the Jews in self-defense.[4]
Usage in Hitler's psychological profile[edit]
The phrase was also used in a report prepared during the war by the United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological profile:[5][6]
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.[7]
However, according to Michael C. Moynihan (Sept. 7, 2012) in Tablet Magazine, it has become common in contemporary US politics to criticize an opponent for [allegedly] being guilty of using the idea of [the "technique" of] the Big Lie. Moynihan's main point there is that it is misleading and incorrect to imply that any such opponent is therefore somehow "similar to" or "analogous to" (i.e., "as bad as") either Hitler or Goebbels.[8] ("See also" Association fallacy.)
In popular culture[edit]
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four refers to the Big Lie theory on several occasions. For example:
- "The key-word here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts."[9]
- Definition of doublethink: "To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed...."[10]
In Roald Dahl's novel Matilda, Ms. Trunchbull makes a habit of tormenting the schoolchildren so outrageously that one character remarks that she may be doing this in order that any children who report their mistreatment would not be believed.
Frank Zappa continually referred to "the Big Lie" in his book, The Real Frank Zappa Book. He used it to describe organized religion, government, and the music industry. The song "When the Lie's So Big" from Zappa's 1989 album Broadway the Hard Way also dealt with the concept.
Richard Belzer defines The Big Lie, in his book UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have To Be Crazy To Believe, this way: "If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap."
In Six Days of War, by Michael Oren, "The Big Lie" is used in a similar context to describe the widespread accusation (primarily by Syria and Egypt), that the Arab defeats during the Six Day War were a consequence of direct United States and United Kingdom military intervention, especially from their air-posts in Libya. According to Oren, the use of this falsehood by Syria and Egypt further alienated the US and also critically worsened relations with the Soviet Union, which wished to avoid further escalation.[citation needed]
Marillion's 1994 release Brave opens with a song titled "Living with The Big Lie", about propaganda in the Western world.
In 2002, French journalist Thierry Meyssan wrote a controversial book called 9/11: The Big Lie, which argued that the 9/11 attacks were the result of a conspiracy by the United States government.
Ian Fleming referenced the "Big Lie" in his James Bond book On Her Majesty's Secret Service when he had the pilot of a helicopter, who had flown it through French airspace illegally, respond to the flight controller's question as to who authorized the flight that he (the flight controller himself) had authorized it.[11]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Project Gutenberg of Australia - Mein Kampf tr. James Murphy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
- ^ Joseph Goebbels, 12 January 1941. Die Zeit ohne Beispiel. Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP. 1941, pp. 364-369 [original German: Das ist natürlich für die Betroffenen mehr als peinlich. Man soll im allgemeinen seine Führungsgeheimnisse nicht verraten, zumal man nicht weiß, ob und wann man sie noch einmal gut gebrauchen kann. Das haupt-sächlichste englische Führungsgeheimnis ist nun nicht so sehr in einer besonders hervorstechenden Intelligenz als vielmehr in einer manchmal geradezu penetrant wirkenden dummdreisten Dickfelligkeit zu finden. Die Engländer gehen nach dem Prinzip vor, wenn du lügst, dann lüge gründlich, und vor allem bleibe bei dem, was du gelogen hast! Sie bleiben also bei ihren Schwindeleien, selbst auf die Gefahr hin, sich damit lächerlich zu machen.]
- ^ Jeffrey Herf (2006). The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II And the Holocaust. Harvard University Press. p. 211.
- ^ Jeffrey Herf, "The 'Jewish War': Goebbels and the Antisemitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, (Spring 2005) 19#1 pp 51-80,
- ^ A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler. His Life and Legend by Walter C. Langer. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Washington, D.C. With the collaboration of Prof. Henry A. Murr, Harvard Psychological Clinic, Dr. Ernst Kris, New School for Social Research, Dr. Bertram D. Lawin, New York Psychoanalytic Institute. p. 219 (Nizkor)
- ^ Dr. Langer's work was published after the war as The Mind of Adolf Hitler, the wartime report having remained classified for over twenty years.
- ^ Hitler as His Associates Know Him (OSS report, p.51)
- ^ Moynihan, Michael C. (Sep 7, 2012). "Hitler on the Campaign Trail". Tablet Magazine. Archived from the original on Sep 7, 2012.
- ^ George Orwell. 1984 (edition?) p. 221
- ^ George Orwell. 1984 (edition?)
- ^ Fleming, Ian (1963). On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Signet. p. 229.


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