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The Callaway ® 6' Tri-Ball Hitting Net is made with the strongest netting in golf. It's unique shape supports practice for all clubs in your bag - from driver through wedge. Easy to set up and take down. Perfect for indoor or outdoor use. Includes nylon carry bag for easy transport and storage.
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Rated 5 out of 5�by Hoover43 Excellent for backyard training Well built and holds up very well to wind conditions that may occur. I use it daily and it is an excellent and convenient backyard training tool for someone who wants to lower their strokes on the course. Striking the ball better now than ever by hitting my irons and driver daily. Great purchase for the price. May 13, 2013
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The proof is in the numbers, so we'll only briefly explain what we did before moving on to the results. In general, NOS' extremely popular Cheater nitrous system hasn't changed in the years it has been on the market. Accordingly, our upgrades here mirrored the upgrades NOS has made. We replaced Stoker's old-style 10-pound bottle and high-flow valve with a new blue bottle and high-flow valve. More importantly, as you'll see, we also ordered two sets of NOS' Precision SS stainless steel jets to replace the motley assortment of old brass jets Stoker was running.
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In our case, however, the biggest key to max performance turned out to be a simple set of jets. Unlike the worn brass jets he'd been using, the new Precision SS jets came in precisely matched sets. Using the Cheater system jet chart, Stoker was able to dial in his nitrous shot with a much greater degree of accuracy. After a day at the track, running the various combos, Stoker was rewarded with a new fast e.t. And isn't that what it's all about when you're hittin' the juice? Read on to see the results of this nitrous re-do.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — An oil painting of Amy Jamieson's oldest child, Tim, hangs in her dining room.
She likes the portrait best in the evenings. That's when the deep red and gold hues of his face and hair catch the light in a way that brings him back to her.
"I like it at night when the lights are down," Jamieson said. "It's like he's sitting in here."
A friend painted the portrait for Jamieson after Tim's death July 31, 1998.
The 16-year-old died after being hit by a drunken driver in a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 98 on Okaloosa Island. He and a friend were on their way home from their jobs in Destin.
Fifteen years have passed since Jamieson buried Tim and found herself desperate to make sense of the loss.
"It's not the natural order of things," she said.
Within months Jamieson, a Realtor, helped found a local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. She channeled her grief into fundraising, assisting other victims, helping with DUI checkpoints and anything else that would raise awareness.
She was fueled by an urgency to get all the drunken drivers off the roads so no other mothers would have to share her pain.
"After Tim died, I was like, 'We need to go get them!' " she recalled. "It was like this vigilante thing."
The vehemence has subsided, but she continues to speak and raise money on MADD's behalf.
Jamieson remains a fierce opponent of those who choose to drink and drive.
"If I see someone I think is impaired, I will follow that person home," she said. "I'd rather apologize to that person if it's just bad driving than do nothing."
That outlook is all part of her determination to make the world around her a better place and bring something good from Tim's death.
"I just keep looking at all the blessings," said Jamieson, who also serves on the Fort Walton Beach City Council. "That's what I hold on to."
She has found hope in her Christian faith, the congregation at Hurlburt Chapel and the support of close friends and her boyfriend, Rick McCullough.
Her surviving son, Ryan, lives locally and has two daughters, Lexi and Hanna.
"I love being a grandma!" Jamieson said.
But no matter how full her life has become, she hasn't forgotten the events of the morning Tim died.
"Sometimes it feels like yesterday and sometimes it feels longer," she said.
She was in Orlando when she got the call, and had to fly home not knowing if Tim was dead or alive. When she finally reached Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, he had no brain activity.
She spent an hour and a half at his bedside, able to hold his hand and talk to him before he died.
The weeks that followed were a dark time for her and Ryan, who was 15 that year.
"For the first four or five months, it took everything I had not to follow Tim," she said. "It was almost like I was the living dead, a robot, sort of."
She missed everything about her shy boy who had grown into an outgoing young man with a huge heart.
"He didn't judge people," Jamieson said. "He was part of every clique in the school."
Jamieson learned to live with the numbness, often going out of her way to avoid the stretch of U.S. 98 where Tim was hit.
"I still don't like driving in the same lane that it happened," she said. "I hate the month of July."
But she finds satisfaction in telling Tim's story. She believes it can encourage others to stop and think before making a reckless decision.
Jamieson even keeps photos of Tim's wrecked Chevy Camaro close by, pasted onto a sheet of poster board that she displays when speaking to young people. She also shows them the worn, bloodstained seat belt that she cut from the car after the crash.
"They had it at Holmes Auto Body and I went there to go see the car," she recalled. "I saw it in there and that's when I took it, not knowing that I'd be doing what I'm doing now."
Even after 15 years, it brings her comfort.
"It was one of the last things that touched him," Jamieson said. "I knew without that seat belt I wouldn't have had that chance to spend that final moment with him."
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Some of the spoils from an Atari excavation of a New Mexico landfill (yep, even E.T.) are now up for auction, but don't expect to be able to play the games.
This spring, hundreds of long-buried Atari cartridges were excavated from a landfill. Here's the full list of what was found and what's next for these plastic pieces of geek history.
Despite doubters, the first of what could be thousands or millions of buried E.T. game cartridges were discovered in the Alamogordo landfill where Atari buried them 31 years ago.
After 31 years hidden in the wake of one of the worst video game failures in history, thousands of E.T. and other Atari games were uncovered Saturday. The find ended the mystique of a great industry legend.
With Xbox Originals, Microsoft is well under way to begin delivering the first of 12 different TV shows in June. The elephant in the room: What's it going to cost consumers?
Filmmakers planned to excavate millions of the cartridges, buried as part of Atari's 'corporate shame,' but New Mexico regulators say an environmental report is required first.
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The exclusive series will air only on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, starting with a film about the infamous Atari video game ET: The Extra-Terrestrial.
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But that was over 5 years ago. He hasnt been near that weight in so long. But he does have experience at that weight and was handling bigger guys his whole life. The transition to LHW, fighting smaller guys wont be an issue. In fact the only guy at LHW who may have the speed advantage on Cormier would be Rashad. It will be interesting to see who he matches up first with and how he handles them.


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I've been a bit remiss at updating bike journal... But I passed 10k on Robbie's grand Fondo last week.
I did 12500 last year... Won't go quite so far this year.
Once you can climb hills on a bike it's all downhill.
Hopefully I'll know what that's like..... one day.
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I updated bike journal to match strava been 900 km's since my last confession.
Would love to say I will tick over the 15k mark before the end of the year but I some how doubt it... Maybe the weather will be very kind .
Well done to everybody making their targets ( and plus some! ) .
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just got over 10k on sunday, target was 12k for the year. it looks unlikely but im happy with my progress
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Great to see everyone kicking goals I've give up with BJ, can't be bothered but should do
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I've just rolled through 12,000K and have been knocked off No.10 position by Crawf. That's what happens when you get the man flu and miss ouit on a couple of 100K rides.
Looks like I'm on track for my goal though.
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Don't give up! (Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel )
It's hard but you've just gotta stick with it.
Consider my daily routine: Up at 5:45, breaky and a few quick household chores then stretching then a flying 14km commute to start work at 7:15. Leave work at 15:45 for a 100km or so ride home. Arrive home at 19:15 for dinner (mostly prepare and serve meal and sometimes wash up) plus a few other household chores thrown in, then there's AUDAX admin work, and maybe some quick bike maintenance, more stretching then bed at 22:30-23:00. On my night off I do a complete grocery shop and often cook dinner as well. I also prepare all lunches for the 5 day working week for the wifey and myself. We haven't got kids thank dog!
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I'm topped out, just made 33, will not make 34, it's getting too hot in Brisbane to stay too far.
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I'm assuming that's 33 with three zeros behind it????
Impressive work...here I was hoping to get close to 10k.
I'm tired just thinking about that amount of k's
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Just passed 11,500. 1000km to go. With the office closing down in 3 weeks I will lose two weeks of commuting so I'll have to do some longer rides to make sure I don't lose 500km and end up doing a mad ride on new years eve to meet my goal for the year!
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Havent posted much in here but...I am about to pass 11 000 k's commuting today, with a total of nearly 11600 in overall riding.
Given that I would have been lucky to ride 2000 k's in a year previously I am pretty chuffed. Have to take into account 5-7 lost weeks to injuries and only a four day commuting week I think I have done ok.
If everything goes well, am hoping to do another 1500- 2000 k's next month.
I am pretty amazed at all the people who are doing more k's...takes a big effort and congrats to them all.
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Gonna try and get another 2k in before the end of the year but not phased if I don't. Got a couple of 200km+ rides booked in which will help.
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Getting close.
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Big weekend of ridding, smiles all round except for the Mercedes 4WD which stalked me for half a k beeping and reving behind me
Has anyone else's signature vanished....
Will miss the 20k but it'll be close(ish)
Looks like a hot summer so Giddy up
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ridding? of what? Have you put on weight?
Not adding those kms to BJ? - pretty poor form for the organiser of the ACF club isn't it?
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Looks like I'll hit my target sometime next week. If the weather gives TLL a hard time I might even get a sneak attack in on him before the line (unlikely)
I might be able to get a few decent rides in between Christmas and New Year to achieve this!
@TLL - here's hoping for a really, really white Christmas!
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Doh.... Ok ok I'll upload just damn lazy
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I may do the 10K club next year BUT I won't be trying to do the distance I've done this year.
My first goal this year was to take out #1 on the BJ site, about mid year my target was to stay within 5K of 1st, now I don't think I'll stay within 10K of 1st & 3rd place will probably pass me in the next week or 2.
Why? I have had constant pain in my lower back for the last 6 months (I usually have lower back soreness so this wasn't too big an issue), my cods (balls, testies, whatever) have been constantly numb for about the last 3 months, I've had saddle sores that haven't healed since around August, my hat goes off to the guy leading BJ because I'm destroying myself trying to stay in the same state little less the same town.
But the straw that broke the camels back was-
On the weekend, riding with my usual group, I went to put just a little hurt on them, whilst I could accelerate away, I couldn't lay down any kind of decent sprint, if I was racing, my sprint was that weak I would have been easy swamped, yesterday I went for a ride & found I just have no juice in my legs. I have been going through a tube of 2 different anti-inflammatory's every month, just to keep my legs in good enough condition to function off the bike.
From here to the end of the year, I'll be doing the 25km daily commute, the Saturday group ride & just easy 30-50km rides on Sundays & Mondays.
Next year I will set maybe 15K, but I won't be chasing that target, I'll be riding for the enjoyment, I know from past years I'll probably knock out somewhere over that mark, but I'm not going to actively going to chase any point.
Seem to remember why I don't really like things like strava or BJ, you can get too focused about minor things & forget the major ones (like really enjoying cycling).
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Got there at last!!!
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Incredible effort Wal42!
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How many days a week do you have off the bike?
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holy crap Wal..
i reckon i would have knocked out ~16k this year (i only got a garmin in june), that is a phenomenal figure
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Friday before last was the first day I haven't ridden in about 2 years, I'm taking 2 weeks off in Feb & not taking any bikes with me, going fishing, playing golf, sight-seeing, it's not something I've done in the last 20 to 25 years.
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Wal, that is amazing.
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Since his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2001, Jeff Miller has reveled in his status as one of the nation's most conservative lawmakers.
As recently as 2011 Miller, the Republican from Chumuckla in Santa Rosa County, was ranked by the prestigious National Journal as tied with several others for the title of "most conservative in Congress."
But in 2013 with the emergence of the tea party and a group of 20 or so firebrand conservatives, Miller's credentials seemingly have slipped.
"Rep. Miller has a reasonably conservative voting record overall, but he's not as conservative as he used to be because a lot of conservatives have run to the right of him," said Tom Nelson, chairman of the Fort Walton Beach Tea Party.
Nelson said Miller, chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, has failed on more than one occasion to take the conservative stand his organization supported.
He blames Miller's leadership ties to House Speaker John Boehner for that.
"I've had a lot of trouble with Mr. Miller over the years. I wouldn't define Miller or Boehner as conservatives," Nelson said.
Ron Webb, an officer with the Okaloosa County Republican Club, said he noticed at a recent event attended by Miller that "he was taking a rather lax look" at the potential for a government shutdown.
"He seemed like he sort of had the mindset of go along to get along," Webb said. "I think that turned a number of folks off. I got the impression a lot of Republicans think he's too moderate for them."
During the budget battle between the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic Senate that resulted in Tuesday's partial government shutdown, Miller, Boehner and the firebrand coalition have remained stalwart in opposing a "clean" continuing resolution.
Miller has voted consistently with the GOP majority to pass budget resolutions that would delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act and cut out selected pieces of the legislation.
He also has steadfastly opposed any Senate bill that would not include some ObamaCare compromise, and blames Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid, who "continues to display the height of arrogance" for the prolonged shutdown.
A clean resolution, while allowing the government to reopen, would exact no concessions from Democrats on the Affordable Care Act. That is something the House firebrands, and for now the leadership, find unacceptable.
"I don't see a clean resolution being brought to the House floor for a vote," Miller said Friday.
Miller — who noted that he's never heard anybody say he isn't conservative enough — said, "I answer to the people I represent and I'm proud of my record."
But Bill Readdy, another local Republican, said he actually was "surprised" Miller has stayed strong in his opposition to a budget resolution containing no concessions on ObamaCare.
"I did not think he would hold up through the battle," Readdy said. "And I think we really needed to."
Miller's office said no breakthrough that will end the government shutdown and put thousands of furloughed federal employees back to work is expected before next week.
But a looming battle over the federal debt ceiling has the potential of fraying what some pundits say is a tenuous relationship between the House leadership and the firebrand coalition.
Rick Harper, the senior policy adviser on economic affairs for state Senate President Don Gaetz, has concluded that failure to act on the debt ceiling before an Oct. 17 deadline could throw the country into a recession.
Boehner has been quoted as saying he will not allow the country to go into default, a position that could perhaps finally lead to confrontation with the ultra-conservative wing of the GOP.
Miller didn't address a possible split among House Republicans. He said the discussion over default is "an example of where the Democrats have woven two different issues into the conversation."
He said that by bringing all issues together, including that of raising the debt ceiling, "there is a greater opportunity to make a difference" and take budget action that actually improves the economy.
"ObamaCare is only a very small part of the discussion," Miller said.
"I'm looking to a long-term solution to a serious problem that will involve a myriad of issues, including things like entitlement programs and tax reform, things that will stimulate the economy and move things forward," Miller said.
He noted that the Budget Control Act, enacted during the last debt ceiling crisis, resulted in total federal spending being reduced for two years in a row for the first time since the Korean War.
"The Budget Control Act was the largest spending reduction bill of the last 25 years (and perhaps ever) — $630 billion in savings over five years all from the spending side," Miller's office said in an email. It was "the largest deficit control bill since 1981 not to contain a penny in tax increases."
Miller said he expects the next debt ceiling discussion to include a Republican call for further spending cuts.
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BEST Italian Restaurant
This Porter Square gem won us over with its chewy, emmer-flour-based farro casarecce alone, tossed with red-wine-braised duck, sweet cherries, and foie-gras butter on the night we tried it. But in truth, any of chef Michael Pagliarini's pastas—painstakingly crafted on… read more»
Drawing on his Piedmontese heritage, Charles Draghi turns out elegant northern Italian-inspired fare with a delicate touch—homemade pappardelle with cubed beets and speck; butternut-squash broth with spicy shrimp; and wild boar with a Concord-grape mosto, all designed to pair with… read more»
One of the biggest misconceptions about Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette's South End enoteca is that it's for hard-core meat eaters only. Sure, the restaurant was named after a cured cut of pig and boasts some of the best meatballs… read more»
Franklin Cafe
No need to consult with a wardrobe stylist when prepping for a classy date night at the Franklin. Just come as you are, slide into a black leather booth, and let the low lighting, art-covered walls, and excellent wine list… read more»
The city's Italian-dining scene skews either reasonably authentic (yet undistinguished), or posh (but not quite legit). Rialto bridges the gap with seasonal, from-scratch cooking (strands of bucatini with lobster and saffron; salumi with house-made ricotta) and attentive, special-occasion-worthy service. Chef… read more»
Okay, so the guy went and named a restaurant after himself. Clearly, chef Dante de Magistris is focusing his subtlety elsewhere—on, for example, his nuanced dishes. In actuality, each is served with a side of humility; he and his brother… read more»
Trattoria Toscana
We're reluctant to give up this little storefront gem, but its ribbons of house-made pappardelle and tender raviolis are just too delightful not to share. The bubbling braised tripe and perfectly charred tagliata are right out of Nonna's Tuscan kitchen—which… read more»
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Oh wait no...he didn't.
For Easter 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation that invited members of all other faiths, including atheists, to the resurrection party. Throughout the year he fawned on Muslim holidays, which he apparently let them keep to themselves.
This year for Easter President Obama gave Jesus a big thumbs up and told him to sit on it.
That's right, our "obviously Christian" president didn't find the time to hat tip our savior to the nation on His (and everyone else's) most important day of the year.
Ok, he did have lunch with some pastors, and he also went to church, which is a clear indicator of his sincere faith...right....
Far be it from me to judge another's faith, especially when I don't know Obama as well as Friar Suck up there does, but when do "obviously Christian" people find the time to praise every faith but their own?
Conservatives aren't casting his faith in doubt, his actions are.
Why no Easter proclamation? Did his printer run out of ink? Did his copy of Word crash when he tried writing it in Arabic font (because NASA's outreach efforts just aren't good enough).
Liberals get in such a tizzy when polls show people think he's Muslim. The man has been quackin' like a Muslim, and this is a shock to them?!?
There's a reason we have labels, and nobody appreciates or exploits that better than liberals. In fact, their labels are their identity. Obama has always been liberalism's man of mystery, and they don't want the seduction to lose its magic...which may be why they are so allergic to the truth that he's not "obviously Christian."
Lets put it this way, when Barney Frank is in a room full of coeds does anyone doubt which kind of cleavage he's checking out?
Then Obama needs to stop giving the elevator eyes to Mohammed, because I'm not a big believer in coincidence, and the American voter isn't the only one taking notice...
That was from Easter Sunday night! No joke, you can see a couple more pictures of this "random" event here.


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Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. Its remains are located in Poland approximately 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers south from Warsaw. The camp took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German). Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka, refers to the many birch trees surrounding the complex.
The camp commandant, Rudolf Höß, testified at the Nuremberg Trials that up to 3 million people had died at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has revised this figure to 1.1 million, about 90 percent of whom were Jews from almost every country in Europe. Most victims were killed in Auschwitz II's gas chambers using Zyklon B; other deaths were caused by systematic starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, and purported "medical experiments".
In 1947, in remembrance of the victims, Poland founded a museum at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. By 1994, some 22 million visitors — 700,000 annually—had passed through the iron gate crowned with the motto "Arbeit macht frei".
The three main camps were:
There were also around 40 satellite camps, some of them tens of kilometers from the main camps, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand. See list of subcamps of Auschwitz for others.
Like all German concentration camps, the Auschwitz camps were operated by Heinrich Himmler's SS. The commandants of the camp were the SS-Obersturmbannführers Rudolf Höß until the summer of 1943, and later Arthur Liebehenschel and Richard Baer. Höß provided a detailed description of the camp's workings during his interrogations after the war and also in his autobiography. He was hanged in 1947 in front of the entrance to the crematorium of Auschwitz I.
Command of the women's camp, which was separated from the men's area by the incoming railway line was held in turn by Johanna Langefeld, Maria Mandel, and Elisabeth Volkenrath.
Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Oświęcim was annexed by Nazi Germany and renamed Auschwitz. Auschwitz I was the original camp, and it served as the administrative center for the whole complex. It was founded on May 20, 1940, on the basis of an old Polish brick army barracks (originally built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire). A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów became the first residents of Auschwitz on June 14 that year.
The camp was initially used for interning Polish intellectuals and resistance movement members, then also for Soviet Prisoners of War. Common German criminals, "anti-social elements" and 48 German homosexuals were also imprisoned there. Jews were sent to the camp as well, beginning with the very first shipment (from Tarnów). At any time, the camp held between 13,000 and 16,000 inmates; in 1942 the number reached 20,000. The entrance to Auschwitz I was—and still is—marked with the sign "Arbeit Macht Frei", or "work makes (one) free". The camp's prisoners who left the camp during the day for construction or farm labor were made to march through the gate to the sounds of an orchestra. Contrary to what is depicted in several films, the majority of the Jews were imprisoned in the Auschwitz II camp, and did not pass under this sign.
The SS selected some prisoners, often German criminals, as specially privileged supervisors of the other inmates (so-called: kapo). The various classes of prisoners were distinguishable by special marks on their clothes; Jews were generally treated the worst. All inmates had to work in the associated arms factories, except on Sundays, which were reserved for cleaning and showering and upon which there were no work assignments.
The harsh work requirements, combined with poor nutrition and hygiene, led to high death rates among the prisoners. Block 11 of Auschwitz (the original standing cells and such were block 13) was the "prison within the prison", where violators of the numerous rules were punished. Some prisoners were made to spend the nights in "standing-cells". These cells were about 1.5 metres square, and four men would be placed in them; they could do nothing but stand, and were forced during the day to work with the other prisoners. In the basement were located the "starvation cells"; prisoners incarcerated here were given neither food nor water until they were dead.
Also in the basement were the "dark cells"; these cells had only a very tiny window, and a solid door. Prisoners placed in these cells would gradually suffocate as they used up all of the oxygen in the air; sometimes the SS would light a candle in the cell to use up the oxygen more quickly. Many were subjected to hanging with their hands behind their backs, thus dislocating their shoulder joints for hours, even days.
The execution yard is between blocks 10 and 11. In this area, prisoners who were thought to merit individual execution received it. Some were shot, against a reinforced wall which still exists; others suffered a more lingering death by being suspended from hooks set in two wooden posts, which also still exist.
On September 3, 1941, deputy camp commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritzsch experimented on 600 Russian POWs and 250 ill Polish inmates by cramming them into the basement of Block 11 and gassing them with Zyklon B, a highly lethal cyanide based pesticide. This paved the way for the use of Zyklon B as an instrument for extermination at Auschwitz, and a gas chamber and crematorium were constructed by converting a bunker. This gas chamber operated from 1941 to 1942, during which time some 60,000 people were killed therein; it was then converted into an air-raid shelter for the use of the SS. This gas chamber still exists, together with the associated crematorium, which was reconstructed after the war using the original components, which remained on-site.
Construction on Auschwitz II (Birkenau) began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. It was designed to hold several categories of prisoners, and to function as an extermination camp in the context of Himmler's preparations for the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, the extermination of the Jews. The Nazis had committed themselves to the Final Solution no later than January 1942, the date of the Wannsee Conference.
The first gas chamber at Birkenau was "The Little Red House", a brick cottage that was converted into a gassing facility by tearing out the inside and bricking up the walls. It was operational by March 1942. A second brick cottage, "The Little Red House", was similarly converted some weeks later. By July of 1942, the SS were conducting the infamous "selections", in which incoming Jews were divided into those deemed able to work, who were then admitted to the camp, and those who weren't, who were immediately gassed.
In early 1943, the Nazis decided to greatly increase the gassing capacity of Birkenau. Crematoria II, originally designed as a mortuary, with morgues in the basement and ground-level furnaces, was converted into a killing factory by placing a gas-tight door on the morgues and adding vents for Zyklon B and ventilation equipment to remove the gas. It came online in March. Crematoria III was built using the same design. Crematoria IV and V, designed from the start as gassing centers, were also constructed that spring. By June 1943 all four crematoria were up. Most victims were killed during a period afterwards.
The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of whom were selected to be kapos (orderlies) and sonderkommandos (workers at the crematoria). The kapos were responsible for keeping order in the barrack huts; the sonderkommando prepared new arrivals for gassing (ordering them to remove their clothing and surrender their personal possessions) and transferred corpses from the gas chambers to the furnaces, having first pulled out any gold that the victims might have had in their teeth. Members of these groups were killed periodically. The kapos and sonderkommandos were supervised by members of the SS; altogether 6,000 SS members worked at Auschwitz.
Many people know the Birkenau camp simply as "Auschwitz"; it was larger than Auschwitz I, and more people passed through its gates than did those of Auschwitz I. It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and of the killing of over one million people, mainly Jews but also large numbers of Poles, and Gypsies, mostly through gassing.
Prisoners were transported from all over German-occupied Europe by rail, arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau in daily convoys. Arrivals at the complex were separated into two main groups - those marked for immediate extermination, and those to be registered as prisoners. The first group, about three-quarters of the total, went to the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau within a few hours; they included all children, all women with children, all the elderly, and all those who appeared on brief and superficial inspection by an SS doctor not to be fully fit. SS personnel told the victims that they were to take a shower and undergo delousing. The victims would undress in an outer chamber and walk into the gas chamber, which was disguised as a shower facility, complete with dummy shower heads. After the doors were shut, SS men would dump in the cyanide pellets via (depending on which crematorium) holes in the roof or windows on the side. In the Auschwitz Birkenau camp more than 20,000 people could be gassed and cremated each day. At Birkenau, the Nazis used a cyanide gas produced from Zyklon B pellets, which were manufactured by two companies who had acquired licensing rights to the patent held by IG Farben. The two companies were Tesch & Stabenow, of Hamburg, who supplied two tons of the crystals each month, and Degesch, of Dessau, who produced three-quarters of a ton. The bills of lading were produced at Nuremberg.
Those deemed fit to work were used as slave labor at industrial factories for such companies as IG Farben and Krupp. At the Auschwitz complex 405,000 prisoners were recorded as slaves between 1940 and 1945. Of these about 340,000 perished through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.
Sonderkommandos yanked gold teeth from the corpses of gas chamber victims; the gold was melted down and sent back to the Third Reich. The belongings of the arrivals, both those gassed and those admitted to the camp, were seized by the SS. They were sorted in an area of the camp called "Canada". Many of the SS at the camp enriched themselves by pilfering the confiscated property of the Jews. The name "Canada" was very cynically chosen. In Poland it was used as an expression used when viewing, for example, a valuable and fine gift. The expression came from the time when Polish emigrants were sending gifts home from Canada.
The busiest time for Auschwitz as a murder factory was April through June 1944, when Auschwitz was the center for the massacre of Hungary's Jews. Hungary was an ally of Germany during the war but had resisted turning over its Jews to the Germans until Germany sent troops to occupy Hungary in March 1944. In 56 days From April to the end of June 1944, 436,000 Hungarian Jews, half of the pre-war population, were deported to Auschwitz and to their deaths. Jews continued to arrive from other parts of Nazi Europe as well. The incoming volume was so great that the SS at Auschwitz resorted to burning corpses in open-air pits as well as the crematoria. The total of over 400,000 Jews gassed during the Hungarian Action in the spring of 1944 represented some two-thirds of all the 600,000 Jews exterminated in that year and a third of all the Jews killed at Auschwitz in the 2 1/2 years that it operated as an extermination camp.
The surrounding work camps, of which there were approximately forty, were closely connected to German industry and were associated with arms factories, foundries and mines. The largest work camp was Auschwitz III Monowitz, named after the Polish village of Monowice. Starting operations in May 1942, it was associated with the synthetic rubber and liquid fuel plant Buna-Werke owned by I. G. Farben. 11,000 slave laborers worked at Monowitz. Seven thousand inmated worked at various chemical plants. Eight thousand worked in mines. Approximately 40,000 prisoners worked in slave labor camps at Auschwitz or nearby, under appalling conditions. In regular intervals, doctors from Auschwitz II would visit the work camps and select the weak and sick for the gas chambers of Birkenau. The largest subcamps were built at Trzebinia, Blechhammer and Althammer. Female subcamps were constructed at Budy, Plawy, Zabrze, Gleiwitz I, II, III, Rajsko and at Lichtenwerden (now Světlá).
The most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mengele, who was also known as the "Angel of Death". Particularly interested in "research" on identical twins, Mengele performed cruel experiments on them, such as inducing diseases in one twin of a pair and killing the other when the first died to perform comparative autopsies. He also took a special interest in dwarves, injecting twins, dwarves and other prisoners with gangrene to "study" the effects.
Information regarding Auschwitz was available to the Allies during years 1941–1943 by accurate and frequent reports of Polish Army Captain Witold Pilecki. Pilecki was the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, spending 945 days at Auschwitz not only actively gathering evidence of genocide and supplying it to the British in London by Polish resistance movement but also organizing resistance structures at the camp. Pilecki escaped on April 27, 1943, but the claims of mass killings were generally dismissed as exaggerations. This changed with receipt of the very detailed report of two prisoners, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler who escaped on April 7, 1944 which finally convinced most Allied leaders of the truth about Auschwitz in the middle of 1944.
Detailed air reconnaissance photographs of the camp were taken accidentally during 1944 by aircraft seeking to photograph nearby military-industrial targets, but no effort was made to analyse them. (In fact, it was not until the 1970s that these photographs of Auschwitz were looked at carefully.)
Starting with a plea from the Slovakian rabbi Weissmandl in May 1944, there was a growing campaign to persuade the Allies to bomb Auschwitz or the railway lines leading to it. At one point Winston Churchill ordered that such a plan be prepared, but he was told that bombing the camp would most likely kill prisoners without disrupting the killing operation, and that bombing the railway lines was not technically feasible. Later several nearby military targets were bombed. One bomb accidentally fell into the camp and killed some prisoners. The debate over what could have been done, or what should have been attempted even if success was unlikely, has continued heatedly ever since.
There were also international plans for a general uprising in Auschwitz, coordinated with an Allied air raid and a Polish resistance attack from the outside. Author of this plan was Witold Pilecki who organized in Auschwitz an underground Union of Military Organizations (Związek Organizacji Wojskowych, ZOW). Pilecki hoped that either the Allies would drop arms or troops into the camp, the Home Army would organize an assault on it from outside and airborne landing by the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, based in Britain. By 1943, however, he realized that no such plans existed. Meanwhile, the Gestapo redoubled its efforts to ferret out ZOW members, succeeding in killing many of them. Pilecki decided to break out of the camp, with the hope of personally convincing Home Army leaders that a rescue attempt was a valid option. He escaped on the night of April 26–April 27, 1943 but his plan was not accepted by the Home Army and the Allies did not believe his report about the Holocaust.
Since the Nazi regime was designed to degrade prisoners to the standards of animals, maintaining the will to survive was seen in itself as an act of rebellion. Primo Levi was given this very teaching from his fellow prisoner and friend Steinlauf: "[that] precisely because the camp was a great machine to reduce us to beasts, we must not become beasts; that even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that, if we want to survive, then it's important that we strive to preserve at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the external shape of civilization.
In 1943 the 'Kampfgruppe Auschwitz' was organised with the aim to send out as much information about what was happening in Auschwitz as possible. They buried notes in the ground in the hope a liberator would find them and smuggled out photos of the crematoria and gas chambers.
The exact number of victims at Auschwitz is impossible to fix with certainty. Since the Nazis destroyed a number of records, immediate efforts to count the dead depended on the testimony of witnesses and the defendants on trial at Nuremberg. While under interrogation Rudolf Höß, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1943, said that two and a half million Jews had been killed in gas chambers and about half a million died "naturally". Later he wrote "I regard two and a half million far too high. Even Auschwitz had limits to its destructive possibilities".
Communist Soviet and Polish authorities maintained a figure "between 2.5 and 4 million". The figure "4,000,000" was used on the original Auschwitz memorial plaques. The plaques did not specify the ethnicities of victims.
In 1983 French scholar George Wellers was one of the first to use German data on deportations to estimate the number killed at Auschwitz, arriving at 1.613 million dead, including 1.44 million Jews and 146,000 Catholic Poles. A larger study started around the same time by Franciszek Piper used timetables of train arrivals combined with deportation records to calculate 1.1 million Jewish deaths and 140,000-150,000 ethnic Polish victims, along with 23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies). This number has met with "significant, though not complete" agreement among scholars.
According to Harmon and Drobnicki, relevant estimates range from 800,000 to five million people. List of estimates in millions: 0.8-0.9, 1, 1-2.5, 1.1 1.1-1.5, 1.13, 1.2-2.5, 1.5-3.5, 1.6, 2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.5-4, 2.8-4, 3 (only Polish victims), over 3, 3.5, 3.5-4.5, 4-5.
After the war the camp served until 1947 as an NKVD and MBP prison camp. The Buna Werke were taken over by the Polish government and became the foundation for the region's chemical industry.
The Polish government then decided to restore Auschwitz I and turn it into a museum honouring the victims of Nazism; Auschwitz II, where buildings (many of which were prefabricated wood structures) were prone to decay, was preserved but not restored. Today, the Auschwitz I museum site combines elements from several periods into a single complex: for example the gas chamber at Auschwitz I (which had been converted into an air-raid shelter for the SS) was restored and the fence was moved (because of building being done after the war but before the establishment of the museum). However, in most cases the departure from the historical truth is minor, and is clearly labelled. The museum contains very large numbers of men's, women's and children's shoes taken from their victims; also suitcases, which the deportees were encouraged to bring with them, and many household utensils. One display case, some 30 metres long, is wholly filled with human hair which the Nazis gathered from the people before and after they were killed.
Auschwitz II and the remains of the gas chambers there are also open to the public. The Auschwitz concentration camp is part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The ashes of the victims of the SS were scattered between the huts, and the entire area is seen as a grave site.
Most of the buildings of Auschwitz I are still standing. Many of them are now used as museums. The public entrance area (with bookshop, etc.) is outside the perimeter fence in what was the camp admission building, where new prisoners were registered and given their uniforms, etc.
Most of the buildings of Birkenau were burnt down by the Germans as the Russians came near, and much of the resulting brick rubble was removed in 1945 by the area's returning Polish population to restore farm buildings before winter. That explains the "missing rubble" cited as evidence by Holocaust deniers. By the site of its gas chambers and incinerators are piles of broken bricks which were thrown aside in the search for fallen re-usable intact bricks. Today, the entrance building remains plus some of the brick-built barracks in the southern part of the site, but of the wooden barracks, some 300 in number, just nineteen are still standing, eighteen of these in a row near the entrance building and one more, on its own, further away. Of most of the others just chimneys remain, two per barrack, one each end with a raised duct linking them, remnants of a largely ineffective means of heating. Many of these wooden buildings were constructed from prefabricated sections made by a company that intended them to be used as stables; inside, numerous metal rings for the tethering of horses can still be seen.
At the far end of Birkenau are memorial plaques in many languages including Romani.
In 1979, the newly elected Polish Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass on the grounds of Auschwitz II to some 500,000 people. After the pope had announced that Edith Stein would be beatified, some Catholics erected a cross near bunker 2 of Auschwitz II where she had been gassed. A short while later, a Star of David appeared at the site, leading to a proliferation of religious symbols there; eventually they were removed.
Carmelite nuns opened a convent near Auschwitz I in 1984. After some Jewish groups called for the removal of the convent, representatives of the Catholic Church agreed in 1987. One year later the Carmelites erected the 8 metre (26 ft) tall cross from the 1979 mass near their site, just outside block 11 and barely visible from within the camp. This led to protests by Jewish groups, who said that mostly Jews were killed at Auschwitz and demanded that religious symbols be kept away from the site. Some Catholics have argued that the people killed in Auschwitz I (as opposed to Auschwitz II) were mainly Polish Catholics (including at least one Catholic saint, Maximilian Kolbe). The Catholic Church told the Carmelites to move by 1989, but they stayed on until 1993, leaving the large cross behind. In 1998, after further calls to remove the cross, some 300 smaller crosses were erected by local activists near the large one, leading to further protests and heated exchanges. Following an agreement between the Polish Catholic Church and the Polish government, the smaller crosses were removed in 1999 but the large papal one remains. See Auschwitz cross for more details.
In 1999, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien caused controversy in relation to his arrangements to visit Auschwitz. He visited the camp with representatives of Canada's Jewish community, of Polish background and otherwise, but excluded non-Jewish members of a Polish-Canadian group that accompanied him on his visit to Poland. These persons were identified as "leaders of Canada's Polish community". Chretien justified the exclusion by saying that the non-Jewish Polish-Canadians were invited to join his business mission to Poland "because he normally includes ethnic groups on trade missions". The business mission commenced one day after Chretien's visit to Auschwitz. The Canadian Polish Congress, which apparently has no Jewish members, said that it was offended and insulted by the refusal of Prime Minister Chretien to include it in the visit to Auschwitz. Approximately two weeks prior to the Auschwitz visit by the Prime Minister, The Canadian Polish Congress had requested to be included in the visit, after having learned that Chretien was inviting publicly identified "Canadian Jewish leaders", of Polish background and otherwise.
In 1996, Germany made 27 January, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, the official day for the commemoration of the victims of 'National Socialism'.
The European Parliament marked the anniversary of the camp's liberation in 2005 with a minute of silence and the passage of this resolution:
For many years, a memorial plaque placed at the camp by the Soviet authorities stated that 4 million people had been murdered at Auschwitz. The Polish communist government also supported this figure. In the west, this figure was accepted, but some historians had their doubts.
After the collapse of the Communist government in 1989, the plaque was removed and the official death toll given as 1.1 million. Holocaust deniers have attempted to use this change as propaganda, in the words of Nizkor:
Recently the Polish media, and the foreign ministry of Poland, have voiced objections to the use of the expression "Polish death camp" in relation to Auschwitz, as they feel that phrase might misleadingly suggest that Poles (rather than Germans) perpetrated the Holocaust. Most media outlets now show awareness of the offence this may cause, and try to avoid using such expressions (or issue an apology after using them). On 1 April 2006, a Polish Culture Ministry spokesman said that the government requested that UNESCO change the name from "Auschwitz Concentration Camp" to "Former Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau" to emphasize that the camp was run by German Nazis and not by Poles. On 12 July 2006, UNESCO deferred a decision on Poland's request, pending further consultation. On 28 June 2007 the United Nations World Heritage Committee officially announced that the new name is Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945).
The Polish film directors Andrzej Munk and Andrzej Wajda were both given permission to film in Auschwitz for the films Pasażerka and Krajobraz Po Bitwie respectively. The TV-miniseries War and Remembrance also shot the Holocaust scenes in Auschwitz. However, permission was denied to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List. Subsequently, a "mirror" camp was constructed outside the infamous archway for the scene where the train arrives carrying the women Schindler was trying to save.
In February 2006, Poland refused to grant visas to Iranian researchers who were planning to visit Auschwitz. Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller said his country should stop Iran from investigating the scale of the Holocaust, which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed as false. In Poland, denying the Holocaust by propagating "public and contradicting facts" is a crime punished by a sentence of up to 3 years in prison (article 55, Dz.U. 1998 nr 155 poz. 1016).


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Aug 25, 2010
Low Cost Smart Wheel Chair
Daniele Benedettelli has been working on several new projects with the NXT lately. One of them is a robotic wheel chair with that uses the NXT. On his website he says:
"The aim is to realize a robotic wheelchair that will allow disabled people to gain mobility and independency. The motivation of this project is that existing smart wheelchairs are very expensive and they are not so smart.
The idea is to realize such a vehicle using low cost hardware such as LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, a netbook, other off-the-shelf technology, and custom sensors."
You can watch Danny's project presentation and several other videos using this link.
Posted by: Laurens Valk at 5:13 PM
Labels: disabled, High mobility, wheel chair
5 comments:
- Jordan Gray said...
I can't figure out how to register in the NXTstep forums... When I click the Register link (http://thenxtstep.com/smf/index.php?action=register), it just tells me "An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry, registration is currently disabled."
When/How can I make an account?
- Aug 27, 2010, 1:17:00 AM
- Jordan Gray said...
P.S. about the registering for the forums:
An email notification to let me know when registration is back open would be nice
- Jordan Gray
- Aug 27, 2010, 1:18:00 AM
- Laurens Valk said...
I emailed the person who decides about the forums :)
I'll let you know,
- Aug 27, 2010, 5:05:00 PM
- Jordan Gray said...
Thanks so much! I felt really bad about posting my question here, as it was sorta spam. Thanks for your help, though!
- Jordan
- Aug 29, 2010, 6:58:00 AM
- Jose said...
It looks like a nice project! I wonder I could colaborate in it!
- Aug 31, 2010, 8:30:00 PM
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Born in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias, the doctor Manuel Amador Guerrero came to Panama to develop his profession as a medical intern in the provinces of Colón, Santiago, and Panama.
On April 15, 1856, an man named Jack Olivier, visibly intoxicated, along with three or four other fellow Americans, decided to buy a slice of watermelon from José Manuel Luna. Olivier proveeded to eat it, but then refused to pay its cost of a real (5 U.S. cents). This caused a big argument, which ended when Olivier pulled out a gun, shot a local man, and then fled the scene.
Lorenzo was a popular commander who led guerrillas against the Conservative government starting in October 1900. After the defeat of the Liberals at Calidonia Bridge, he set up barracks at Negrita (Coclé) and from there ventured to overtake various villages in the countryside and fight the government on the railway.
José Agustín Arango
José Agustín Arango was born in Panama City on February 24, 1841, to a Cuban father and Isthmian mother. He died on May 10, 1909, as Secretary of Foreign Affairs of what is today the Republic of Panama, which was born of his spirit and efforts.
Panama's national flower is the orchid known as the Flower of the Holy Spirit, whose scientific name is Peristeria Elata. A small white dove with open wings that appears in the center of its petals makes this orchid particularly charming.


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It's unclear to me how to use the textholderHeight option of the Carousel. Does the command go in a JSON file or does it go between the script calls in the html? I haven't been able to get either to work successfully.
If it does go in a JSON file, do I call that file using the within the script section after the call to the plugin, like this:
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