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The Supply Chain Top 25: Raising the bar
September 01, 2012
Gartner's Supply Chain Top 25, published since 2004, is an annual ranking of leaders in the global supply chain. At its core, the Supply Chain Top 25 is about demand-driven leadership. Every year, we identify the companies that push the envelope of supply chain innovation. Our goal is to raise awareness of the supply chain discipline, as well as how it impacts the business, and to catalyze the debate and the cross-fertilization of ideas about what supply chain excellence really means.
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Our methodology, detailed below, is based on a composite score for each company that is made up of a set of financials combined with an opinion component, providing a balance between objective and subjective components. In completing their ballots, voters are asked to identify those companies they believe are furthest along the journey toward the demand-driven ideal, as defined in Gartner research and on the voting website.
What does it mean to be demand-driven? Exhibit 1, on page 12 captures the organizational ideal of demand-driven principles as applied to the global supply chain. This model has three overlapping areas of responsibility:
Supply management—Planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics.
Demand management—Marketing, sales, and service.
- Product management—R&D, engineering, and product development.
Excellence is a matter of visibility, communication, and reliable processes that link all three of these functional areas together. When these processes work together, the business can respond quickly and efficiently to opportunities arising from market or customer demand. Defining characteristics of supply chains built to this design include the ability to manage demand rather than just respond to it, a networked rather than linear approach to global supply, and the ability to embed innovation in operations rather than keep it isolated in the laboratory. The demand-driven model is inherently circular and self-renewing, unlike the push supply chains of our factory-centric industrial past.
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Challengers 4-H Club
Challengers 4-H Club meeting was held at Philips County Event Center in the Biesemeier Room April 14. President Molly Brandt called the meeting to order. There were 29 members and 19 parents present.
Josie Herman read the minutes of the last meeting. Anna Jelden gave the treasurer report.
Tristen Ferguson gave a report on the Credit Union games. Grace Dille presented a report on the Highline Electric annual meeting. The club will continue with these community service projects next year. Lauren Herman gave the report about the club visit to the National Western Stock Show.
The club watched videos about how to sell cow patty bingo tickets. The club members will sell them as a county fundraiser. Fair windows sales will be sold in May as an annual fundraiser.
The meeting was adjourned. Luke Stewart gave a demonstration on building a new chicken coop. Drew Stewart presented a demonstration about showing chickens. Morganne Kumm gave a demonstration on the different types of sheep. The next meeting will be Sunday, June 9 at 6 p.m. in the Biesemeier Room at the Event Center.
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If you are in Naples this summer, check out the Madre contemporary art museum's, Child's Play, created by the 77-year-old French artist Daniel Buren.
Buren, known for his use of bold stripes in his installations, cooperated in this work with French architect Patrick Bouchain.
As his inspiration Buren used the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852), the German pedagogue who created the concept – and word - of kindergarten.
A large room on the museum's first floor is now a colourful miniature city where the guests, adults and kids alike, can walk and play and interact with the many shapes.
The installation aims to celebrate the relationship between the museum the institution and its guests, the community.
We love the intriguing vistas, the complete lack of text or explanation, the honest openness of the invitation to enter, explore and play . - Tuija Seipell.
In this children's indoor playground called Mama Smile, French-born, Tokyo-based architect, Emmanuelle Moureaux, has created a friendly and harmonious atmosphere that gives both children and parents a break from busy shopping.
Located inside a shopping mall in the town of Mito 100 miles North East of Tokyo, Mama Smile looks deliciously inviting with its soft, muted colour palette and its friendly visual language employing the simple shape of a house.
Moureaux says that the colourful space is also expected to help with the growth of the mind of the child from the viewpoint of "iro-iku", a Japanese term describing a method of using the effect of colour to bring up concentration and imagination.
Moureaux, who moved to Tokyo in 1996 and established her architecture firm there in 2003, is known for her continuous study of colour. Her colour work includes the art installation "100 colors" in Tokyo's Shinjuku Mitsui Building, and in 2014 in 51 Uniqlo stores in 26 cities in eight countries.
She has also created the concept of shikiri, a made-up word that means "dividing space using colours.". - Tuija Seipell.
In 2011, we wrote about the newly opened Shanghai Museum of Glass (SHMOG) designed by Coordination Asia's founder and CEO, Tilman Thürmer.
More recently, Thürmer's team completed the Kids' Museum of Glass located in the same Shanghai-based complex and opened a few days ago.
Cool and edgy, quite literally, the Kids' Museum has none of the typical cute and cuddly kiddie features found in spaces dedicated to children. Instead, the target audience, kids aged 4-10, enter an environment of glass, particle board and metal realized in a colour scheme of black and white sparsely livened up with lemon yellow, saturated pink and cool blue.
The museum is designed to teach kids the basics of glass in a playful and fun way. The museum mascots, Bobo and Lili, guide children in their glassy hometown through various features, including The Beach, The Circus and The Factory.
Everything is designed to be touched and interacted with. Simple actions and gestures allow children to learn how lightning can create glass, how a glass prism works or what smart glass is. Performances, films and glass demonstrations entertain them in the Fire Theater and Up-Cycling Theater.
Kids can also practice their sketching skills in one of the 'Draw Me' installations. There are also two cafes and a shop for souvenirs, as well as a separate party space for rent for school groups, birthday parties or events by family-oriented brands.
The 2000 square metre (21,530 sq.ft) Kids' Museum of Glass is located in the industrial Baoshan District of Shanghai and it is part of the massive former glass manufacturing site that covers about 30,000 square meters (322,920 sq.ft) and includes thirty existing buildings. When the redevelopment of the site was first envisioned and a 20-year plan created, the site was renamed G+ Glass Theme Park (Glass, Art, Research and Technology Park). - Tuija Seipell.
Children deserve much more attention in urban planning than what they are getting currently. As small children and toddlers are not likely to raise their voices to demand the attention, it is up to us adults to do something about it.
We need to support, demand and finance more initiatives that help children – and their parents – enjoy the outdoors, even in urban settings.
French urban planning and architecture firm Espace Libre, has created a delightful multi-functional play area for toddlers in the commune of Alfortville, located 7.6 kilometres (4.7 miles) from the centre of Paris.
Completed this fall, the 2500 square-metre (26910 square foot) play area includes features that encourage exploration, interaction and experimentation through all the senses.
It includes multiple elevations, many kinds of surface textures, many varieties of vegetation and shrubs, and multiple colors. Several kinds of lighting, interactive structures for swinging and bouncing, and interesting surfaces – such as the strip of "street" meant for chalk art – all add variety to the enjoyment of this space. - Tuija Seipell.
We love children's spaces that celebrate the creativity and freedom of body and mind. This Educational Centre, located in the Kfar Shemaryahu area of Tel Aviv, Israel, surely does that.
The 2,400 square metre (25,833 square-foot) Centre includes six kindergartens for children aged three to six years, a common play area and an empowerment centre, a social services and wellness centre that also provides psychological services for children. Three of the six kindergartens are for the children of foreign residents and diplomats.
The architecture of the building is by Shoshany Architects and the interior and furniture design by Sarit Shani Hay.
Hay's task was to create a friendly and informal integrated environment where each of the spaces functions as an independent unit.
She created individual colour and design themes for each kindergarten space based on the agricultural history of the Kfar Shemaryahu area.
The kindergartens are named Olive (Zayit), Palm (Tamar) , Pomegranate (Rimon), Wheat (Hita), Fig (Te'ena) and Vine (Gefen).
The large, central lobby area connects the kindergartens and the empowerment centre and functions as a play area with equipment that encourages physical activity and interaction. Wooden tractors, lakes, trees and other equipment refer to the life of an agricultural village.
Our favourite area is the Palm kindergarten with its orange colouring derived from ripe dates, and its motifs referring to palm trees, oasis and camels. The little play huts provide nice cozy privacy and home-like details that encourage creative play. - Tuija Seipell.
Images by Amit Geron
Once again, we find ourselves featuring the work of Masquespacio, the Valencia, Spain, -based studio with an eye for crisp, fresh interiors.
Masquespacio's principal, Ana Milena Hernández Palacios, has been hard at work completing the graphic design and interior design for a just-opened language school with a minimal budget.
The 183 square meter (1,969 sq.ft.) language school called 2Day Languages is located in a heritage building in central Valencia. Its target audience is a 20 to 30 year-old international student for whom the school offers flexible learning options, cool surroundings and even a cooking class!
The space is divided into three class rooms, a staff room and a lounge. The colours and components of each space stem from the speech bubble/flag logo of the school. The three brand colours – blue, yellow and pink – represent the three levels established by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Additional influence comes from the neoclassical architecture of the building, new and old architecture of Valencia, and parts of the Spanish language.
We love the use of pine wood and crude-looking stackable and light-weight furniture. We love the semi-domestic feel created by this furniture, the casual cushions, lighting and plants.
The entire space looks inviting and friendly, yet the lovely skeleton of the grand building is visible in the plaster moldings, the height of the rooms and the gorgeous windows.
Particularly intriguing are the 10 frames of crafty nails-and-wool-thread artwork, created by Masquespacio and involving 6400 nails and 2500 meters of wool. Tuija Seipell.
Photography: David Rodríguez from Cualiti
JMD Design of Redfern, Sydney has created a cool kids' outdoor space that makes us all want to run free and wild, with our hair blowing happily in the wind and our bodies full of positive energy.
The 20,500 square meter park, opened this summer, is located at Jamieson and Homebush Streets, in Sydney, Australia, and operates under the Sydney Olympic Park Authority.
JMD Design wanted to avoid the fenced-in, overly structure-based approach of many kids' outdoor parks. They worked with, rather than against the earth forms of cones, cuts and terraces, established earlier at this site, and created a free-flowing, open play area with surprises and distinctive activity points.
The tree house is manufactured from galvanised steel, fibrous cement sheeting floors and walls, hardwood timber batten walls and ceilings, stainless steel mesh walls and ceilings with rope floors in some areas.
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) designed the kiosk and petal roof canopy that overlook the water and sand play area. - Tuija Seipell
Ecole Maternelle Pajol, a four-classroom kindergarten on Rue Pajol in Paris's 18th arrondissement, combines so many of the things we love.
Parisian architecture office Palatre & Leclère has restored and reimagined the 1940s building , yet they have left the basic feel of the structure unchanged. We believe in repurposing and saving older buildings, but letting them tell their previous stories, even in their new guises.
We love colour, especially when it is used to brighten up an otherwise drab or monotonous environment. This kindergarten clearly speaks the language of joyful colour.
We love it when public art and public buildings and spaces are used to express joy and be playful, too, not just to parade impressive and "acceptable" art and architecture. Of all places, shouldn't a kindergarten resonate deeply with children, not just adults?
And of course we love any project that invest the same time, effort and resources into spaces and places for kids than we are used to investing into adults' play.
In Ecole Maternelle Pajol, Palatre & Leclère used colour boldly both inside and out. They also provided a variety of shapes and forms in the furniture, furnishings and on the walls, in the play areas, rest areas and even in the bathrooms. In addition, they provided a variety of textures from tile and glass to rubber and wood.
The building has kept its 1940s brick-wall feel, yet it radiates exuberance and has an up-to-date energy. Most likely its current users feel it was built just for them.
Palatre & Leclère is an architecture agency founded in 2006 by Tiphaine Leclère and Olivier Palatre. - Tuija Seipell.
Youth Factory, Factoría Joven, in Mérida, Spain, is an example of what can be done if a regional government works with the community and local designers to meet the needs of youth that may otherwise be heading down the slippery path of street life.
The structure may not be a permanent monument to architecture, but it is definitely a better place than the back streets of Spanish cities. We are all for any attempt at all to provide children and youth a place to be kids, to be creative and just have some fun.
Factoría Joven was designed by Madrid-based Selgascano Architects, a partnership between husband and wife, José Selgas and Lucía Cano.
Using recycled furniture, inexpensive building materials and temporary solutions, the designers were definitely not looking to build a monument to architecture; they were much more interested in affordable ordinariness and practical possibilities.
Factoría Joven helps attract the restless, unemployed street youth off the streets and provides them with a place to skateboard, hip-hop dance, climb rocks, create graffiti — whatever they would otherwise do in much more sinister surroundings. There are also a computer lab and a dance studio, both 800-square-meters in size. Meeting rooms and spaces for theatre, video and music are all included.
This is one of several such "youth factories" in the area; recreational centers and places that are inclusive, open and safe. - Tuija Seipell
Photography by Roland Halbe.
Most hotels are decidedly kid-unfriendly, and even more so are hotels such as Jerusalem's David Citadel Hotel, known as the home-away-from-home for the world's celebrities and political leaders.
So, it is doubly delightful that this citadel of grown-up matters of importance now has a wonderful new kids' space, designed by Sarit Shani Hay whose work we have presented before here and here.
Hay is responsible for the interior and furniture design of the 100 square-meter (1076 square-foot) space that has activity areas for little kids and computer desks for bigger ones.
We love the inclusivity of the room that is divided by clear blocks of primary colours. It has both angular and rounded forms, open and intimate spaces, soft and hard surfaces, items to interest both boys and girls, activities to draw little and older kids, and low-tech items such as wooden toys mixed with higher-tech elements such as computer stations and flat screens.
In this decidedly modern playroom, Hay has incorporated also some traditional Jerusalem themes, including the lion – the emblem of Jerusalem – and a windmill, cave and the Mahane Yehuda.
The horseshoe-shaped, 384-room David Citadel Hotel, located within walking distance from the Old City, was built in the mid-1990s by local real-estate and hotel magnate Alfred Akirov. The building architect is Moshe Safdie and the hotel designers Chhada Siembieda & Associates. - Tuija Seipell.


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While reading through the letters "From Our Readers" in the March 28 Spencer Magnet, I read a couple of things that really struck a nerve in me and am compelled to share with the community my thoughts.
Having watched and been involved in the course the county, Taylorsville and the EDA have taken since we moved here in 2005 and read about it from 2001, when I started reading The Spencer Magnet, I think I have a good grasp of things.
While Fiscal Court can't seem to produce a long term EMS building solution and new citations have been issued for serious health violations to include a fine for EMS, county officials imposed a lock down for the temporary housing for EMS. No unauthorized personnel allowed.
A chain was installed across the outside stairwell, provoking a violation notice from the Spencer County Fire Chief, for endangering the escape of EMS personnel in the event of fire.
It appears their goal is to prevent me from causing them any further embarrassment.
I have seen the face of addiction more than most, having a late family member, seeing the toil taken on families in this community as a paramedic, and suffering the insult of larceny — if we don't react soon it may be too late.
First, I would like to comment on the Spencer County Clerk's office. The few months that Lynn Hesselbrock has taken over the office, there is a nice change
The employees have always been nice and helpful. But now, it is like a weight is lifted off them. They greet you with a bigger smile and I hear laughing and talking among them. There is no tension in the air.
I wanted to thank the staff at the Spencer Magnet for the front page article about the plans for disc golf as well as the editorial that was written regarding the future of it in Spencer County.
The Spencer Magnet did not do sensationalism. One article presenting the truth of an accident as given by the police is not sensationalism. What happened in that accident was precipitated by the actions of those in the vehicle and no one else. It was their choice to do as they did and no one forced them to do it. The newspaper was simply printing the news.
The Spencer County community was hit by a large and destructive hailstorm on Friday, March 2. After such an event it can be difficult to separate the legitimate local contractors from the out of state storm chasers. Here are some steps that you can take to avoid accepting offers from roof contractors that may not be up to standards nor supportive of local workers and our local economy.
I am writing this letter in honor of my granddaughter, "Mikie." She cannot deny or defend because her words are lost forever.
Only the family and friends are left to hear comments and whispers and accusations made by not knowing.
Apparently some decided she had been glorified in her death, so it was their duty or obligation to put her in her place. I guess the media agreed — they were the ones who called, texted anyone they could to find out more and more. One media outlet even went as far as sneaking a camera in a camo bag into the funeral.
This letter will express my disappointment with the media and especially our hometown paper, The Spencer Magnet. The article (from Feb. 22), "Speed, DUI among factors in fatal crash," had no place on the top front page.
It's a prime example of sensational journalism for profit of selling papers with no regard for the parents, community and reputation of two wonderful children.
Enough is enough. [It was] another article printed at the expense of other peoples' misery.
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The Spencer Magnet is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Spencer County, KY and the surrounding area.


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Chronic thyroiditis is swelling (inflammation) of the thyroid gland that often results in reduced thyroid function (hypothyroidism).
Hashimoto thyroiditis; Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis; Autoimmune thyroiditis
Chronic thyroiditis or Hashimoto disease is a common thyroid gland disorder. It can occur at any age, but is most often seen in middle-aged women. It is caused by a reaction of the immune system against the thyroid gland.
The disease begins slowly. It may take months or even years for the condition to be detected. Chronic thyroiditis is most common in women and in people with a family history of thyroid disease.
In rare cases, Hashimoto disease may be related to other hormone problems caused by the immune system. This condition can occur with adrenal insufficiency and type 1 diabetes. In these cases, the condition is called type 2 polyglandular autoimmune syndrome (PGA II).
Less commonly, Hashimoto disease occurs as part of a condition called type 1 polyglandular autoimmune syndrome (PGA I), along with:
Symptoms of Hashimoto disease may include any of the following:
Laboratory tests to determine thyroid function include:
Imaging studies are generally not needed to diagnose Hashimoto thyroiditis.
This disease may also change the results of the following tests:
A lack of thyroid hormone may develop. You may receive thyroid hormone replacement therapy (levothyroxine) if your body is not producing enough of the hormone. Or, you may receive it if you have signs of mild thyroid failure (such as elevated TSH). This condition is also known as subclinical hypothyroidism.
If there is no evidence of thyroid hormone deficiency, you may just need to be seen regularly by a health care provider.
The disease stays stable for years. If it does slowly progress to thyroid hormone deficiency (hypothyroidism), it can be treated with thyroid replacement therapy.
This condition can occur with other autoimmune disorders. In rare cases, thyroid cancer or thyroid lymphoma may develop.
Call your health care provider if you develop symptoms of chronic thyroiditis.
There is no known way to prevent this disorder. Being aware of risk factors may allow earlier diagnosis and treatment.
Brent GA, Davies TF. Hypothyroidism and thyroiditis. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS, Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM, et al. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 13.
Garberg JR, Cobin RH, Gharib H, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for hypothyroidism in adults: cosponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association. Thyroid. 22;12:1200-1235.
Kim M, Ladenson P. Thyroid. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 233.
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A Baroque jewel nestling along the banks of the River Elbe, Dresden, the capital of Saxony, is often referred to as the Florence of the Elbe. This monumental city is graced by ceremonial staircases, panoramic terraces and huge squares adorned with statues of solemn-faced saints and monarchs. Almost entirely destroyed following the fall of the Reich in 1945, Dresden has experienced an extraordinary renaissance – its main monuments and former GDR buildings have been tastefully restored and its historic centre pedestrianised.
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Zwinger Palace
Sophienstraße D - 01067 Dresden
Augustus the Strong's initial idea was to build an orangery on the site of an old fortress. His architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann embellished the original project to create this vast esplanade surrounded by galleries and pavilions. This Baroque ge..
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Taschenberg 2 D - 01067 Dresden
The jewellery and gold work collected by Augustus II are now once again on display in the historical green vault of Dresden Palace, which takes its name from the emerald green colour of its main room. The 3,000 items are exhibited in nine magnificent..
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Theaterstr. 2 D - 01067 Dresden
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In this former gas turbine construction hall with its spacious, high-ceilinged rooms and industrial design, a committed young couple have found an ideal location for their good contemporary cuisine. Service in the DELI is a little faster but just as ..
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The 2008 Santa Margarita Ranch Time Trials - Just Four FunWritten by on January 1, 2009 Contributors: Bob D'Olivo The 2008 Santa Margarita Ranch Time Trials
When we talk about the roots of hot rodding going back to the Thirties, we can't help but wonder how that sounds to the ghosts of the old timers who'd raced the first automobiles a century ago or longer. Cars weren't owned by ordinary people back then, so early competitions couldn't really be called grassroots racing. It didn't take too long for that to change. Ford's Model T made car ownership a reality for a lot more people, and hillclimbs and time trials were their way to race. This type of racing grew in popularity in the first half of the century and again in the '50s. There was something of a hillclimb revival in the '70s. Nowadays, time trials and hillclimbs have made another comeback with four-banger fans. Groups like F.A.S.T. (Ford "A" Speed Technology) are keeping history alive, racing the way our go-fast forefathers did. All you need is a few cars and trucks, some timing equipment, and a hill. In fact, you don't even need the hill. This summer's F.A.S.T. Santa Margarita Ranch Time Trials took place at a private airstrip halfway between LA and San Francisco-not much incline but lots of fun. The event was open to streetable, stock, or modified '34 and earlier vehicles, built in the pre-War style and running vintage Ford T, A, or B four-cylinder engines. The cars are raced one at a time on a timed tenth-mile course, starting from a dead stop. The day attracted just over a dozen competitors and a large crowd of spectators. The action lasted from about 9 o'clock and finished up around 3 o'clock, after everybody had a chance to make as many passes as they wanted.
To find out more about F.A.S.T. and for information about upcoming events around the country, go to their website at www.hotforhotfours.com.
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No self-respecting hot rod race can start without an enthusiastic leaping flagman. In this case, Dennis Howland handled starting duties and did a great job keeping things moving and making sure the drivers were safe and ready to run.Built from a new Brookville '29 Model A roadster body, an original A frame, and milk cartons full of parts, Jack Dewar's highboy turned out beautiful. It's powered by a Forties-era Gemsa engine. Joe Gemsa, "King of the Four-Bangers," was a Sprint car racer who specialized in four-cylinder performance. A Chevy carb connects to a homemade manifold. The V-8 trans spins a quick-change rear.David Wheeler started working on this T speedster when his son, also David, was in grade school. That was a while ago. Here, the younger David did most of the driving. The '23 Model T block is topped with a Rajo overhead valve cylinder head and overhead exhaust-"true overhead." A Model A crank and cam were adapted to the block, fed by a single Winfield carb. The aluminum body wears a grille shell from a '15 Maxwell.Cap Weir ran a garage in the teens and '20s, which his grandson Jim Weir advertises on the bed of his '24 Ford pickup. Jim bought the Model TT truck (a C cab and Express Body bed on a 1-ton chassis) three years ago and overhauled the whole thing. The 176ci T engine makes 20hp at 1,900 rpm. The suspension is stock and the rear gears were swapped from 7.25s to 5.25s. This was his first time racing, but Jim's learning quick. The hay bale in the bed, "is to keep from spinning the rear tires."This close-to-stock '29 Model A sedan delivery was driven approximately 250 miles from Orange County to race in Santa Margarita. "Cigar Larry" McCullah (seated) owned his first Model A delivery when he was 15 and has had this one for three years. It runs a stock block with a Winfield head and Riley intake, with a Mitchell synchro transmission with overdrive. The interior features '65 Mustang seats.That morning, Marcel Davignon said his '30 coupe does 70 mph in the quarter-mile and might go 60 here (it went 50.59). The flathead is modified with insert bearings, an Isky cam, Winfield head, and a pair of 97s on an old Jackson manifold. The transmission is a C4, and the quick-change is from New Zealand. Marcel has owned the coupe for 10 years and driven it almost every day for eight.
One of the most remarkable hot rods on the scene was Max McLain's original steel '29 roadster. Pat Gary built the remarkable engine, finished at midnight before the event. In addition to the custom manifold, Gary built the custom cam, and billet rods and pistons. And check out the air horns on the Strombergs. The Jenkins heads came from Australia and are similar to Riley heads, but with a single center valve instead of two valves.Before Bill Garnett bought this '29 roadster pickup in 1965, it was a black, full-fendered Pacific G&E work truck. The Weiand flathead engine (built by H&H) features dual Stromberg 48s on a Burns manifold. Bill sits on a Chrysler minivan middle seat; a pair of boat jumpseats was added to the bed. This is another almost-daily-driven car and, in addition to Santa Margarita, Bill participates in the Pasadena Reliability Run. "This is what my father wouldn't let me have when I was 16," Bill confessed.In addition to helping organize the Time Trials in Santa Margarita, Phil Farber is an avid competitor, racing his T roadster in the class for flathead-powered speedsters. It's a '27 body on top of a '29 Model A chassis, with a '32 mill. The engine has a pair of 97s atop a Thomas intake, with a Winfield head. The car was built by Model T racer Rosie Roussel, who used this as his street car. Phil bought the car earlier this year.Keith Loomis used Mark Dees' history of Harry Miller as his guide in building this '25 Miller-inspired car. The wheelbase is the same as a '25 Miller and the Hartford friction shocks are true to the inspiration, but Keith had to build a bigger cockpit. It's all-Ford, with no Miller parts. The Model T four-banger has a homebuilt four-port head and Winfield carbs that Keith's owned since 1950.


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Hawkeyes Defeat Cyclones In Iowa City
IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Cyclones (21-30, 4-11 Big 12) traveled to Iowa (27-23, 5-15 Big Ten) for the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series game, falling, 8-3.
Junior Sarah Hawryluk went 3-for-4 at the plate and collected her 26th stolen base while teammates Sara Davison and Aly Cappaert drove in runs for the Cyclones.
Both teams got off to a hot start at the plate, combining for nine runs in the first three innings, seven scored with two outs. In each of the first four innings, each team put at least two runners on base.
With two outs in the top of the first, Lexi Slater hit a fly ball to right, but the ball was dropped by the Hawkeye defender, putting runners at first and third for a Cappaert RBI-single for the first run of the game before Michelle Zoeller gave the Hawks a one-run lead with a one-out, two-run double to right center in the bottom of the first.
Getting crafty with runners at the corners in the top of the second, Iowa State pulled a successful double-steal for the 2-2 tie. On first base, Brittany Gomez took off for second, idling between first and second and drawing a throw from Iowa's defense, allowing Maddie Reese to come home from third.
Iowa State hurler Taylor Smith got two quick outs in the bottom of the second before a walk to Ashley Akers and a single by Johnnie Dowling set up an RBI-single from Bradi Wall for the 3-2 Hawkeyes lead. However, the home team halted its momentum and ended the inning as Dowling tried to advance two bases on the play and was thrown out by a strike thrown from Gomez in center to Tori Torrescano who applied the tag at third.
Davison evened things again briefly in the third with a double to drive in her 17th run of the season, but Iowa came back with one out in the bottom of the inning, getting a run on pitcher Kayla Massey's double to left that glanced off the outstretched glove of Jorden Spendlove and added two more on RBI-singles from Brianna Luna and Akers.
Luna was back at the plate to lead off the Iowa fifth and hit a home run to dead center field, extending the Hawkeye lead, and Zoeller drove in her third run of the night, getting hit by a pitch from reliever Torrescano for the 8-3 Iowa lead.
Iowa State had a chance to close the gap on the Hawkeyes with two outs in the sixth, loading the bases with the help of two defensive errors. Erica Miller, who entered the night 7-for-9 with the bases loaded, grounded out to second for the final out, ending the threat.
Smith (8-10) worked two and two-thirds innings on Wednesday, allowing 10 hits, six runs and walking two batters with no strikeouts.
Massey (15-12) recorded the Iowa with a complete game, giving up three runs, two earned, on nine hits. Massey walked two and tallied one strikeout.
The Cyclones are back on the road on Thursday, headed to UNI for a 6:30 p.m. CDT first pitch.


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June 23, 2011 05:00 AM by Megan Thompson
Tonight ABC will premiere its new show – Expedition Impossible. Viewers will watch as 13 teams take on an adventure of a lifetime in Morocco. Executive Producer of Expedition Impossible is no other than Mark Burnett. Mark is known for producing great shows such as; Survivor, Shark Tank and The Apprentice. Keep reading to learn more about the new shown and its cast!
Viewers will watch as 13 teams, made up of three members each, travel through the beautiful land of Morocco. Teams will navigate through Morocco on horses, camels, boats and donkeys! There will be ten legs of the race, each one putting the contestants through a challenge of epic proportions. Only one team will make it to the end and claim the $150,000.
Expedition Impossible promises to show drama in the challenges and among the teams. So who makes up the 13 teams? One team is known as the "No Limits" team. The "No Limits" team is made up of three friends; Erik Weihenmayer, Jeff Evans and Aaron Isaacson. Many teams will face challenges in Morocco, but this team has a very unique challenge – Erik is blind. Erik became blind very early on in his life, but that has never stopped him from doing what he wants in life. In 2001, Erik reached the summit of Mount Everest, with the help from his teammate Jeff. Jeff has been Erik's climbing guide for over 20 years!
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Rebecca Says:
July 28th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
I love this show… The team no limits is my favorite. Their team member that is blind is so inspiring, i have a friend that is also blind and i could so see her doing this. If she was younger, may God be with u all as u finish ur expeditions.


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Awesome deck plan, and I love the logo.
This is not a 2300AD ship.
Why? Because the plans obviously assume artificial gravity, which does not exist in 2300ad.
1st post. I've been doing some work for Mongoose, I have been creating maps for Traveller and 2300AD.
This is one I did for my self. Done in Sketchup and Illustrator. Its very much in the classic GDW Traveller, so no frills, which means it is easier to read.
Also created the flight patch too, but thats the old one.
Awesome deck plan, and I love the logo.
This is not a 2300AD ship.
Why? Because the plans obviously assume artificial gravity, which does not exist in 2300ad.
That is a cool plan. =) Nice job. I'd also be interested to see a side view, either flat elevation lines or full body render with materials. The first might fit better with your style, though a render would be sweeet.
Love the ship but bartmoss makes a good point. Awesome for CT, though!
Not having direct access to all my old 2300 AD stuff at the moment...were any classes of stutterwarp-capables able to safely make planetfall?
While the mass ratio appears way off for real life (needs to be 90+% fuel), I am too unfamiliar with 'Shutterwarp' and 2300AD tech in general to pass an informed judgement on how much fuel 2300 magic drives require.
That said, the ship appears to have a ducted fan system to provide VTOL lift and control (note the ducted exhaust), a rear mounted MHD reaction thrust system to provide aircraft-like thrust in atmosphere and rocket-like thrust exo-atmospheric (just like the Shuttles main engines), and a 'Shutterwarp' drive for (deep space travel?).
Forgive my unfamiliarity with 'shutterwarp', but could a shutterwarp drive propel the ship straight up (perpendicular to the floor) at 0.5 G while travelling between worlds or stars in deep space?
Upon approach to a planet, the ship enters orbit leaving the crew operating in zero G (like the ISS or an orbiting shuttle). The MHD drive accelerates (or more likely slows) the ship to a stable orbital velocity and initiates a reentry burn at the desired 'reentry window'.
The ship enters like the shuttle – aerobraking and thermal protection coating on the belly – until final approach where a flare could initiate a stall and the vectored ducts transition to hellicopter-like flight and a gentle belly landing.
For a launch, the ducts lift the ship off the ground while the reaction thrusters accelerate forward until the wings and body can provide lift. The thrusters continue to accelerate and climb in the atmosphere and eventually transition to rocket mode and accelerate to escape velocity.
As the ship places enough distance between itself and the world, it rotates 'belly down' and the shutterwarp 'magicly' propels it through deep space at a constant 0.2-0.5 G acceleration creating the necessary 'artificial gravity'.
For the record, I acknowledge that three different drives make it a bit of a 'Rube Goldberg' system … I simply question whether it is necessarily 'broken' under the 2300AD rules.
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Stutterwarp does not provide real acceleration (it is a series of tiny "jumps", each very short, giving the ship pseudo-acceleration - it looks like the ship is moving through space like a regular rocket, but it isn't - it is "tunneling" through space very rapidly - if you know what I mean?). Besides Stutterwarp, 2300AD is supposed to be "hard" science, so if a ship's design is way off, it shouldn't have a place in the 2300AD universe. And just to reiterate, I think this ship is way cool - it just doesn't work in 2300AD.


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I planned on working a bit more on this map prior to posting it, but ended up not having enough time before being separated with my desktop for five days. With no tablet, scanner or properly working mouse, it would take me too long.
The current version of the map is the result of possibly two years of occasionally working on it. The landmasses have changed dramatically, continents have come and gone and rivers have still not made their return. I do have an idea of where I want the mountains and tectonic plates, but they are not included.
The last few days before leaving were spent clumsily wrapping a 2D map around a real-life globe and painting the oceans and landmasses. It took me more tries than I care to admit, but I was finally able to tape an interrupted sinusoidal outline that actually fit the sphere and trace the rough coast. After scanning I've only cleaned it up a tiny bit and quickly colored it to see what's what.
A while ago, I decided that the planet would be larger than Earth. Now that I actually look at the map and see how large the continents ended up, it feels strange to imagine it as that big...
I really don't know how realistic the landmasses are, so if anyone have an opinion regarding that, I'd love to hear it. Also, I don't know how to get from this projection to equirectangular. If you know how or have an idea of where I could possibly find out, please share.
The planet is called Niam Keri (a name I'm not all that happy with. It was originally not intended to be the final name, but I ended up buying the domain to have somewhere to store information. Now I feel kind of stuck with it). It orbits the smallest of two suns in a binary solar system. I have the system saved in Universe Sandbox, if anyone knows what that is. The thought of having to sort out what the climate is like frustrates me...
Basically, this is a fantasy world. So yes, that means there is magic. I have six sapient species that are going to inhabit it, though none of them are even remotely finished. The fact that the actual planet they live on is so unfinished pretty much makes it impossible to get much further with them. How am I supposed to know their history if I don't even know where they live?
There are no plans to use this world for anything in particular; I just enjoy creating my own little fantasy setting (most of the time, anyway). And now it just feels like I'm blabbing, so I'll just go ahead and post it. If you have any constructive criticism, I'd appreciate it.


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(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), will hold a hearing on "The Museum of the History of Polish Jews" on Thursday, March 13 at 2:30 p.m., in room B-318 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
During the hearing, the witnesses will address the vision that led to the decision to establish the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, its mission, and what it means for Poland – a country that was once home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world.
Testifying before the Commission will be:
Sigmund Rolat, Chairman of the Board of Directors, North American Council, Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Polish-born survivor of the Holocaust
Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, Undersecretary of State, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
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Testimony :: Mark Meyer
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Mr. Chairman, and members of the Commission:
Thank you for affording me the opportunity to testify before you today concerning the status of the claims by American citizens for restitution of properties that were abusively seized by the Communist Party of Romania, or by the Romanian government, during the period between 1945 and 1989, when the Communist Party controlled the country.
I am Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce based in Washington, D.C. I am also an attorney admitted to practice before the New York and Bucharest Bars, and a member of the law firms of Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., located at 40 Wall Street in Manhattan, and Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, sca, having its offices at 7, Strada Putul cu Plopi in Bucharest. Since February 1990, I have represented many of the largest foreign investors in Romania, and both of my firms currently represent American claimants with some of the most significant claims for restitution in Romania. I have also been Special Advisor for legal and economic issues to the Presidents of Romania and the Republic of Moldova; Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Universitatea Creºtinã Dimitrie Cantemir in Romania; Vice President of the Congress of Romanian-Americans, (although I am not a Romanian-American); and the author of numerous articles in international publications on Romanian legal, economic and political issues.
My testimony is offered on behalf of the victims of abusive state-sponsored confiscations in Romania, which violated their basic human rights, and in support of the Romanian people in their desire to continue the development of their democracy. A nation of law and justice cannot be built upon the stolen property of its citizens. No matter how difficult or costly the task may be, Romania must fully and fairly restore all property seized by the State for which no fair and just compensation was paid. Unlike some former communist nations in the region, Romania has at least begun to address the issue of restitution. However, before it can take any pride in its efforts to provide restitution to the victims of communism, Romania will have to amend its current restitution law in ways that I will describe though my testimony.
Restitution is a difficult problem for Romania both financially and in the determination of the validity of claims made for abusively confiscated properties. Since corporate shareholder records were mostly destroyed by the communists, identification of shareholding interests is very difficult, if not impossible; and few records exist for personal property seized from citizens during the communist era.
Currently, charitable institutions, government offices, foreign embassies and ambassadors, political leaders, former high-ranking members of the communist elite, and ordinary citizens occupy the homes of people who were literally forced out of them often at gun point in the middle of the night by the communists. The museums and government houses are filled with confiscated art works, and the government openly offers for sale corporate entities whose former owners' identities are well-known. Indeed, most Ministry offices and the Parliament sit upon land stolen from people by the Ceauºescu regime when it destroyed one-fifth of old Bucharest, creating a title nightmare that makes it very difficult to proceed with the private redevelopment of the area.
Until 1995, Romania had no law concerning restitution. Some owners of real property sought judicial intervention for the return of their real property in instances where the seizure of their property had not been recorded and title therefore remained in their name or in the name of those persons from whom they inherited rights to such property. In such instances, which were quite common, owners simply were thrown out onto the street without resort to any legal niceties. Ownership never actually changed, so a few former owners were restored to their residences without upsetting newer titles.
Where legal action was taken and resulted in a favourable ruling, these cases were invariably appealed, including a final appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice of Romania. When the State is involved, even after the appellate process has been exhausted, past governments often resorted to further litigation to seek compensation from the restored owner for "real estate management fees" for the State's unlawful occupation. This was akin to a thief asking the victim of his larceny to pay him for taking care of the victim's property during the period of the theft.
It is important to note that to this day, Romania has made no effort to restore any personal property abusively taken from its people. Art, furnishings and cash were confiscated pursuant to communist era laws that permitted such actions. Currently, no claim is available for recovery of such property because it was confiscated pursuant to the Constitution of 1948. It may have been immoral and contrary to the human right of property as accepted by Romania in 1994 when it signed Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but it had legal and constitutional support in Romania when it occurred. Manifestly, the personal property claims need separate attention. However, at this time, my testimony concerns restitution in Romania only in regard to real property and buildings.
Law No. 112/1995
In 1995, the Romanian Parliament enacted Law No. 112/1995 regarding resolution of the legal status of residential property appropriated by the State during the communist period. This law applied only to former owners of residential property appropriated by the State or other legal entities after March 6, 1945 with valid title, or of such property held by the State, or other legal entities, as owners as of December 22, 1989. It applied to all real properties used as residential quarters and confiscated by the State in compliance with the laws and decrees in force at the date of seizure, such as Decree No. 92/1950, regarding the nationalization of certain properties, Decrees Nos. 111/1951, 142/1952, and 223/1974, and Law No. 4/1974. The residential properties seized by the State in violation of the legal provisions then in force or appropriated by the State in the absence of a legal text entitling it to do so were deemed as possession without title and, therefore, were not regulated by the law. Any claims regarding such properties were subject to common law. Former owners of residential properties seized by the State and assigned to a different use (such as educational or medical establishments, commercial or office space) were entitled only to monetary compensation.
The most dubious aspect of Law 112/1995 was the right that it provided to tenants of formerly seized properties to buy those properties from the State. Homes that were stolen from the victims of communism, where sold for next to nothing to the very people who had benefited from those thefts. Far from rectifying the injustice of 112/1995, the Romanian Parliament in Law 10/2001, provided that those sales to tenants have precedence over the rights of the real owners of those properties. This was done in the name of the social protection of the tenants. Ordinarily, social protection for tenants would entail a grace period in which to move or renegotiate a lease. But, is there any justice in permitting tenants to buy villas that they never owned for a tiny fraction of their value while the real owners of those houses receive nothing or next to nothing?
The law provided that such houses could not be resold for ten years after the purchase, but many such houses have been illegally sold for large profits. Surely those illegal sales can and should be reversed with no social impact to the wrongly enriched former tenants. One might question why such properties were sold to the tenants six years before the former owners were given the right to make their restitution claims.
Law 10/2001
It took Romania eleven years after the fall of communism to produce a restitution law, albeit covering only real property, which is more than some former communist nations in the region have done. Indeed, Romania has not restricted restitution to only its current citizens, as have some of those nations, but since the Romanian Constitution provides that only Romanian citizens can own land, in kind restitutions are effectively limited to Romanian citizens.
Law 10/2001, effective as of February 14, 2001, is not much more than a series of declarative statements shrouded in exceptions and procedures that, unfortunately, thwart genuine restitution and prolong communist misappropriations. The first article of the Law misleadingly proclaims restitution in kind of abusively confiscated real property (meaning the return of actual confiscated realty) as the paramount goal of the Law and equivalent remedies as an alternative to be used only when restitution in kind is not possible. However, there are so many exceptions to the right of restitution in kind, that the remedy by equivalent virtually prevails throughout – a remedy burdened in the Law by a lack of substance and the need for further regulations. Among those yet to be issued regulations — one and a half years after promulgation of the law — are those with regard to the method of valuation for cash and cash equivalent payments.
A most unwarranted aspect of the Restitution Law makes it virtually impossible for victims to recover real estate presently occupied by health, educational, cultural or public interest institutions, headquarters of political parties, diplomatic missions, consular offices, offices of international organizations accredited in Romania and residences of diplomatic staff. While it is somewhat arguable that real estate occupied by hospitals and schools should not be restored in kind to the former owners, the decision not to return property occupied by political parties, diplomats, et al., protects no social interests, and flaunts the inalienable right of ownership.
For inexplicable reasons, property which belonged to legal entities, in almost all cases, except if the property was a residence owned by a family-owned entity, will not be returned to a claimant. Restitution by equivalent is also the exclusive remedy if the building no longer exists, except for buildings destroyed by natural calamities; if the building was transformed into a new one, or if the building was disposed of in favor of the former tenant under Law 112/1995.
Claimants are entitled to cash payments only for residences that are not returned in kind. The Law refers to regulations not yet enacted. The government must appoint an inter-ministerial commission within 6 months from the effective date of the Law. Within one year from the expiration of such 6-month term (i.e. within 18 months from the date when the Law became effective), the Parliament must adopt a "special law" which will regulate the procedure to be followed for obtaining cash compensation, as well as the amount of compensation to be granted. The Law further provides, with no other details, that cash compensation "may be limited", i.e. the "special law" to be adopted may provide that cash compensation cannot exceed a certain amount of ROL. (This would be similar to the provisions of Law 18 regarding land restitution that initially provided that no matter how much agricultural land a claimant once owned, the maximum a claimant could get back was 10 hectares. Law 18 was later amended to allow for more substantial restitution.)
All other restitution is to be made in vouchers or shares of yet to be privatized companies. Although the Law required that within 30 days of February 14, 2001, the Ministry of Finance must present regulations regarding the issuance of a new form of voucher to be used as compensation for claimants, no such regulations have yet been issued. The Law stipulates that the vouchers may circulate on the market and may be used exclusively in the privatization process by the claimant in lieu of cash. State agencies involved in privatization must accept them as currency for the purchase of shares and assets of companies undergoing privatization. But the reality is that with only very few worthwhile companies still to be privatized, these vouchers may be of little real value.
Procedural Experiences of American Citizens Under Law 10/2002
The original filing deadline of August 14, 2001 for all restitution claims was extended until February 14, 2002. I would not quarrel with this one year statute of limitations, although others have said that the filing period was too short and the notice thereof was inadequate. Quite rightly, Prime Minister Adrian Nastase felt that some outside date was required to put an end to all future claims for confiscated real property in order to create some semblance of order in the Romanian property market. His government was most cooperative in agreeing to two extensions — a cooperation that this Commission should seek in regard to revising Law 10/2001 in the other aspects suggested by my testimony.
Instead of providing the smooth administration of justice through the rapid return of most confiscated properties, Law 10/2001 creates a morass of procedures that are costly and utterly frustrating to the claimants. Law 10/2001 procedural requirements are labyrinthine and time consuming, which makes them costly for claimants to pursue and, consequently, unfair in the circumstances. The process to obtain restitution under Law 10/2001 started with an application by the former owner (or the heirs) for restitution for each separate parcel of real property claimed. The Law rightly requires a great deal of evidentiary proof. But most claimants do not have written proof of ownership since those papers were either confiscated by the communists or were never in the possession of the claimants. Indeed, the communists destroyed most corporate shareholder records as a matter of course and few people kept stock certificates in companies that had been confiscated from them. In any event, no one was permitted to leave Romania with such documents in their possession. Moreover, it is not unusual for claimants to be only vaguely aware of the full scope of real properties once owned by their progenitors.
Although, the Law allows claimants a total of two years from the date when the Law became effective (February 14, 2001) to submit evidence of title to their properties (as well as evidence of their inheritance rights where applicable), obtaining such evidence can be quite difficult. Claimants without proper documentation must seek to obtain documents from the State Archives in the appropriate jurisdictions where the land is located and, wherever possible, extracts from the land rolls. Although the right of freedom of information is enshrined as a constitutional right in Romania (Article 31), the ability of claimants to obtain documentation in support of their claims from the State Archives is severely impaired by bureaucratic inefficiency, lack of manpower and lack of interest. Romania cannot expect claimants to file within prescribed deadlines, and then not provide them with the means to obtain the proof of their claims from the government's own records. As with the claims, such evidence, once prepared, must be filed with the authorities at the site of each claimed parcel when the property involved was a residence or non-commercial parcel, and also with the Ministry of Privatization (APAPs), when the property claimed was real estate owned by a business.
This is an exasperating task when dealing with claims for multiple real properties, such as those owned by a corporate entity formerly owned by a claimant. An actual example may help clarify the problem: a US citizen with a claim for real properties of a company owned by his father, filed one notice with the Ministry of Privatization and one notice with a Transylvanian city where the company had its headquarters. Thereafter, information obtained from the State Archives indicated that the land holdings of the former company were actually divided into over two hundred separate parcels of land. Consequently, the claimant had to file one notice for each of the separate parcels that made up the original claim. That generated over two hundred notices for just this one claim. The notices were addressed to each of the city/town/village halls at the sites of the properties in three Prefectures.
If restitution in kind is "denied or not available" (Art. 24), the legal entity holding the property must make a counter-offer for compensation by equivalent within 60 days from the registration of the former owner's claim. These counter-offers are made in separate filings for each parcel claimed. However, city/town/village halls have rarely responded or have made requests for more details, documents, and specifications, or raised collateral issues. My firm has filed over 400 claims for restitution, most for American citizens, but we have had only a few responses and those were all requests for additional documentation. In the case of the American citizen that I just mentioned, on one such claim, the State insisted upon evidence that the claimant did not receive compensation from France in one of the various treaties signed by Romania in the late 1940's and early 1950's with Western nations in regard to Romanian properties confiscated by those countries in response to the Romanian confiscations of foreign nationals' properties in Romania. Proving a negative has its challenges, but it can be done if the assertion is made in regard to the claimant's country of nationality.
However, in the case of this American citizen, the Romanian authorities requested verification that the claimant did not obtain restitution from France, a country to which the claimant had no association whatsoever. The French government refused to issue an official document attesting to the fact that it did not pay anything to an American citizen back in the 1950's. Since the Romanian government has a complete list of all such former restitution awards, one might wonder why its subdivisions are asserting unfounded challenges to claims, the legitimacy of which it knows or at least should know. As for the Ministry of Privatization, we have not received a single response from it to any claims filed with it.
When the claimant responds, he must do so with new documents, many of which must again be obtained from the State Archives – but this time, within a very short time frame of sixty days – or forfeit the claim. Non-compliance with the time limitations might entail a loss of the right to compensation. In the event that restitution in kind is not approved or is impossible, the holder of the property must make a counter offer for compensation equivalent to the real estate's value. The Law provides for a 60-day term from receipt of the compensation offer for the claimant to accept or refuse it; failure to express an option is deemed a refusal. Should the offer be refused, the claimant can appeal the decision in court within 30 days from notification. Although the right to acceptance or refusal can be theoretically exercised within 60 days, in fact the right to sue is barred after the first 30 days.
In March 2001, the Minister of Justice, Mrs. Rodica Stanoiu, issued a directive asking judges to pay special attention to the "social consequences" in cases concerning the restitution in kind of nationalized homes in those very few cases that do not fall within the exceptions of Law 10/2001. Was this a communication to the nation's judges of the Ministry's less than sympathetic view of the rights of the victims of abusive confiscations? It has heralded the start of a process that will force claimants through the three-tiered Romanian court system at no minor expense to them for each claim of what could well be many separate claims for each claimant. Hence, of the 188, 297 claims that the Romanian government reports were filed through February 14, 2002 (113,543 involving in kind restitution), only 2,268 claims have been resolved as of July 2002. The self-imposed burden on the claimants -- and on Romania -- of resolving so many claims through the current process must be lifted.
What Can The United States Congress Do?
Fortunately, Romania can fix the negative aspects of Law 10/2001 without harming the interests of the current occupiers of confiscated properties or seriously depleting its national treasury at this time. The US Congress can assist the Romanian government in redesigning its restitution law and the regulations promulgated under it in the following ways:
1) Broaden In Kind Restitution
The express purpose of Law 10/2001, according to Article 1 (1) of the Law, is to make restitution in kind of nationalized real property and, whenever such in kind restitution is not possible, to make restitution in an equivalent consisting of cash for residential properties and vouchers to be used in exchange for shares of state-owned companies or "services" (without specifying what that actually means). This faultless principle is then shattered by so many exceptions to it that it becomes virtually inapplicable. Those exceptions should be drastically curtailed and the espoused principal underlying Law 10/2001 should be respected.
Obviously, there are legitimate circumstances where in-kind restitution is impossible, not practical or not in the best interests of the nation. One can argue that returning a hospital building to a claimant might result in great hardship for the citizens of a municipality. On the other hand, there is no earthly reason why a diplomatic residence or the offices of a political party should be immune from restitution in kind.
What are the consequences of such unwarranted social protection? Here is an example: an actual claim has been filed by an American citizen for the return of a residence in Bucharest now occupied by an ambassador from a Latin American nation. The building is worth US $8 million on today's market. Under the Law, however, the claimant cannot have his former residence returned to him. Instead, he is entitled to a cash payment. Why can't he have his home returned to him? Why can't the law provide for a five year period after restitution in which the Ambassador rents the building from the claimant -- instead of the State — before the Ambassador finds a new residence to lease or leases the current residence for fair value? Can the Romanian State reasonably be expected to pay the American claimant the fair and valid sum of US $8 million as a cash equivalent so that the Ambassador can remain in the claimant's residence? Instead, Romania will likely woefully under-compensate the claimant who in turn will sue in the Romanian courts. There he may well lose. While this claimant's house is worth the expense of even further litigation before the European Court of Human Rights for the violation of his property right by gross under-compensation, how many claimants will have claims sufficiently high enough to warrant such protracted litigation? The answer, of course, is very few, and that translates to very few claimants receiving justice in Romania under the current law.
Law 10/2001 should be amended to substantially eliminate the exceptions which make in kind restitution impossible. The Law should establish an obligation to maintain the formerly protected use for some of the properties listed in Article 16 (1) for a number of years. In the meantime, it would be the owners rather than the State who would receive the rent for those properties. The cost to Romania is the loss of rental income from stolen properties that it has no business holding. The benefits are in the pride of justice done in a new democracy, as well as the financial benefits of putting more private real estate onto the tax rolls.
2) In Kind Restitution for All Shareholders
Article 18 (a) of the Restitution Law contains a provision which states that in kind restitution is not available if the claimant is a former shareholder of a company which used to own the property, unless the claimant was a sole shareholder or if the shareholders were members of the same family. Why can't properties be restituted in-kind to shareholders, whether or not they are members of the same family or were sole shareholders? Indeed, the clear and manifest result of this provision is to make it virtually impossible for there to be any significant restitution of industrial properties.
Many pre-communist Romanian companies reached a high degree of development and sophistication and most of them were owned by more than one shareholder and they were unlikely to be members of the same family. Some of the companies were quoted on the stock exchange. The companies had immense wealth but their shareholders are now unable to obtain in kind compensation simply because of Article 18 (1). Instead, can the Romanian State afford to pay the fair cash equivalent of all such properties? Because the answer is no, the Law should be amended to provide that shareholders are entitled to pro-rata in-kind restitution when it is physically possible. Nothing should prevent, for example, the in kind and pro-rata restitution to the former shareholders of the huge areas of land which used to be owned by pre-communist companies.
3) Procedural Changes
The entire restitution process needs to be streamlined and provision made to consolidate multiple claims by the same claimants into a single proceeding.
The Law requires claimants to provide evidence of title attesting to their ownership rights. The language of the Law may lead to the conclusion that failure to provide such documents within the deadline set by the Law results in the loss of the right to claim compensation. The State Archives is truly understaffed and is suffocated by many thousands of applications. Instead, the Law should provide that claims are properly made within the deadline fixed by the Law as long as an application has been made to the State Archives. The Law should also stipulate penalties for the State Archives if it fails to respond in due time.
4) Settlements
Recognizing that in-kind restitution may not be available in a number of legitimate situations, the government should be empowered to swap comparable land or buildings that it holds for the land or buildings that are the subject of the claim. So, for example, if the old family homestead now has a chemical plant on it, the State could cede a comparable parcel of land somewhere nearby. This entails no cost to the State and would be eminently fair under the circumstances.
Claimants with multiple claims should be able to negotiate a comprehensive resolution with a single government agency and that settlement could then be confirmed in a government decree. If a settlement is not possible, then all of the claims should be consolidated into one action before one court.
The concept of settlement of multiple claims, noted above, could be enshrined in the administrative norms that have yet to be published in full. Indeed, much of the recommendations set forth in this article could be accomplished through a liberal tweaking of the methodological norms and thereby avoid the delay entailed in amending the Law outright in Parliament.
5) Fair Valuations
In attempting to deal with wholesale destruction of property as in the case of the one-fifth of Bucharest that was demolished by the Ceausescu regime in the 1980's, Article 10 (6) of the Law provides that the value of a demolished building is to be established according to the legislation in force on the date when they were demolished plus a sum increased by the inflation index. This may seem fair at first blush but, in fact, the legislation valued the properties at a pittance of what they were worth even at that time. These low communist-era valuations were confiscations disguised as an exercise in eminent domain. Why should the victims of these abusive acts be deprived once again of their property rights by offering them an amount calculated under communist-era laws? The fair thing to do, and by far the easiest, is to provide them with compensation based upon a fair calculation of the value of the property on today's market.
6) Fair Cash Equivalents
Art. 40 of the Law provides that a special law, not yet enacted, will provide for the procedure required to grant cash compensation and states that such cash compensation "may be limited." This suggests that Romania may enact legislation which puts a ceiling on the amounts given to claimants regardless of the value of the confiscated property. In other words, the American claimant with a legitimate and proven claim for the cash equivalent of the value of that US $8 million residence in our earlier example, could be given no more than a fraction of that amount. Indeed, any reduction in value of the legitimate sum due is tantamount to another taking of property in violation of the human rights of the victims of communism.
It surely was not the intent of Parliament to engage in mock restitution. Rather, Article 40 may be a hapless attempt at dealing with the problem of cash flow. Romania does not have even US $100 million to allocate to restitution, let alone the billions of dollars that Law 10/2001 would, presumably, require in order to be fair. That is one reason why in kind restitution should become broadly obtainable and land swaps utilized where that is not possible. That is also the reason why some form of fairly valued long-term bonds should be considered for compensation in lieu of any cash payments by the State when in kind restitution or land swaps is not possible. Such long-term bonds should be indexed to inflation and immediately tradeable. In other words, pay today with a promise to pay in the future when Romania would be financially capable of doing so.
7) Rescind Law 112/1995
Law 112/1995, which allowed tenants of stolen properties to buy those properties instead of returning them
to their original owners, should be rescinded in respect of any properties to which claims have been filed, and the monies paid should be returned to the tenants. These properties should then be restituted to the rightful owners, subject to provisions safeguarding the tenants for a reasonable period of time to allow for relocation.
8) Restitution for Personal Property
Romania must provide restitution for stolen art works, furnishings and cash that were confiscated pursuant to communist-era laws.
The express purpose of Law 10/2001 is to make restitution in kind. Its provisions, however, do not accomplish this just goal. Because of that, Law 10/2001 neither satisfies the moral obligation of a democratic society to return property it wrongfully received, nor satisfies the demands of claimants for justice. Romania can change this and, in the process, enhance its reputation as a just and democratic state. Romania can fulfill the unfulfilled promise of restitution to the victims of communism without harming the current occupants of the properties and without further impoverishing the treasury. It can create a long-term plan for restitution in kind wherever possible and a structure of payments through long-term bonds in cases where in kind restitution is truly not feasible. It can most certainly streamline and centralize the system of filing and resolving claims.
Indeed, Romania can satisfy the demands of justice for wholly practical reasons — if it fails to amend Law 10/2001 or implement the recommended changes through a liberal interpretation of the Law in the underlying regulations, the country will be overwhelmed by the financial costs of compliance. Romania does not need to embarrass itself, exasperate its friends, demean the victims of the past or impoverish its treasury by maintaining Law 10/2001 in its current form.
NATO Enlargement
If I may be permitted one final comment. The Senate may be asked after the Prague Summit in November 2002 to advise and consent to the enlargement of NATO to include Romania. NATO membership has become — rightly or wrongly — a statement of unity and acceptance. The people of Romania through their history, their culture and their political institutions are as European as any other nationality. They have proven themselves worthy of NATO membership through their adherence to the democratic principles which NATO safeguards. The alliance would benefit strategically from Romania's accession, and the reforms sought by the United States would occur more rapidly if Romania were part of the western pact. Firmly embracing Romania in the arms of NATO will facilitate more immediate and positive change.


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Final Weekend Wrap Up…
As you all know, the season ended for the club Sunday. So, we thought we'd share a rundown of what happened around Kauffman as the Royals wrapped up 2007…
Scoreboard Powers Down: No one knows the ins and outs of the crown scoreboard quite like Roger Moorman. For 33 seasons, Roger has helped to operate the 12-story high scoreboard that was installed when Kauffman Stadium opened in 1973. Now, after 35 seasons, the original crown scoreboard is coming down as part of the Kauffman Stadium renovation project. The NEW high-definition crown scoreboard will be twice the size of the old one! Also on Sunday…fans said their final goodbyes to the left field Sony JumboTron, which was added in 1990.
Sweeney and the Royals: First of all, there has been no news on whether Mike Sweeney will wear Royal Blue again. However, yesterday, the Royals Captain and five-time All-Star expressed his love for Kansas City and, in return, Kansas City expressed its love for Sweeney and his family!
Buddy Tribute: As mentioned yesterday, Buddy Bell hung up his manager's hat following Sunday's game. Before the game, Buddy received a standing ovation from the crowd as well as a framed No. 25 jersey from the organization. The most impressive part of the pre-game tribute: when the ENTIRE roster ran out to home plate to show their respect for the Royals skipper. And – don't forget – tomorrow you can chat LIVE with Buddy on royals.com. Register here.
Bannister Receives Honor: Brian Bannister added to his A.L. Rookie of the Month collection on Saturday. The rookie hurler collected the award for both June and August, while teammate Billy Butler took home the award in July. Banny, who went 4-1 with a 2.90 ERA in six August starts, received the award from GM Moore during Saturday's pre-game ceremony.
Mustard Is Big Dog: For those following the Hot Dog Derby closely, mark Mustard down as the 2007 champ! The Yellow Dog took home the "Golden Hot Dog" on Saturday with 30 derby wins. Thanks to all the fans who raced during the last weekend…and be prepared for the LIVE Hot Dog Derby races to return in 2008.
Moustakas and Futures…Again: Wanted to share some more photos of first-round pick Mike Moustakas, who was out at Kauffman this weekend, as well as point you to a photo gallery highlighting Friday night's Futures Night. Moustakas, who attended both Friday and Saturday's game, took BP with the club on Saturday.
Offseason Begins: Most of the players and coaches took off either last night or today for their offseason homes. The rest of us? Well, we're still around, getting ready for the renovations, FanFest, Caravans and more here in Kansas City. Throughout the offseason, we'll try to keep you as informed as possible on all of that as well as roster moves/additions, Winter ball stats and community appearances.


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