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and we have another spoiler from GTC this time from Orzhov. their ability will be awesome in any multiplayer format/game.
Yeah. It also-unfortunately-doesn't seem to be a compounded effect. You need to pay W/B for each instance of Extort, believe. Though a lot will depend on the rest of the cards and their interactions. If there's a card that lets you interact with your deck/field/whatever when you gain/deal life loss...kinda like the Fathom Mage...I can see Extort being quite good.
It fits their lore, and it's cool and all, but...
I dunno, I think that a whole guild dedicated to bug bites could find a better way to make it work.
All in all, I think that, for now, Evolve is the only truly good new mechanic. Honestly the RTR guild's got the much better end of the deal. ALL of their mechanics were some level of awesome. Detain? Game breaking, much praised mechanic. Populate? There's a reason 1/1 Birds are now a thing. A tournament topping thing. Scavenge only get's shafted cause GB has better stuff to do than that but it still gets a lot of use. Unleash is effing awesome and and Overload's only flaw is the cards that carry it.
Right now, Battallion, while I do like it, doesn't have the immediate threat effect Detain had and I cant see it getting much tournament play, Extort wastes mana on a bug bite that could be much better used on a better spell, Gruul's just gives a temporary boost worthy of a glorified instant (and it's still one of the better mechanics). Evolve seems good in theory, and is probably the best of the bunch revealed, but "Build your own creature" decks are easy to deactivate with a simple Terminus, or what have you.
Dimir might get a Detain-level of awesome skill, but it still won't make Gatecrash's keywords as cool as RTR's.
Here's hoping the actual cards make up for it, though.
PS: having said that, if I do go to a pre-release event I'm most likely going as Boros.
I disagree. Hardly any of the RTR keywords are used in Constructed formats. There are a few playable Scavenge cards (Dregs Mangler, Deadbridge Goliath), maybe 1 Unleash (Rakdos Cackler), 1 or 2 Populate (Trostani?? And Sundering Growth), absolutely NO detain, and a few decent Overload cards (Mizzium Mortars--Overload also gets played in EDH via Cyclonic Rift and Vandalblast).
Detain is only good in limited formats because you'd rather just counter or remove them completely, Populate involves too much build-around, Unleash just isn't on good enough creatures, Scavenge is only rarely cost-efficient, and Overload is usually just too cost-restrictive to use in Constructed.
On the other hand, Evolve seems like a decent enough ability, especially if they put it on a mana dork or other small creatures. Fathom Mage provides very good card advantage in creature heavy decks, where card advantage is a difficult thing to come by. If Extort gets an equivalent to F. Mage things like extra life gain/loss will become more relevant. Bloodrush is basically an uncounterable instant-speed effect, which is pretty awesome.
I'm on the fence about Batallion, if only because it depends on your creature #, and that's easy to disrupt for control and tempo decks.
Still, Battalion seems like the best ability to me. Gruul doesn't seem like it'll be too good, unless each creature's keyword ability has a different effect. Orzhov doesn't seem big enough. Simic sounds fun, but I'll have to see how the other cards are before I make up my mind. Boros will be what I'm sticking with.
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Originally Posted by Seref
I was going to roll a dice when I preordered my guild thing but, now that I know the guilds I was considering (Boros, Simic, or Orzhov). I just don't know.
Except Odric already flopped. And he had the same ability except he could allow an Alpha-strike. What's worse, even the angel is a conditional lightning helix on a stick, it's right in Searing Spear range. You'll play it and it becomes an instant target for disruption or removal. Or they just remove the other creatures in play to make it a 3/3 with flying. Not that dangerous.
Bloodrush will be different, just like Batallion. The ability text is after a dash, not italicizes in parenthesis like reminder text (as with Extort, Populate, Evolve, or Unleash).
Battalion has a lot of potential... potential. Whether it will actually live up to that remains to be seen. I kind of like Extort, as long as there are cheaper sources of it (i.e. like one-drops with it).
I've just realised I misread Extort as "whenever you cast THIS spell" instead of "a spell"...
I take back everything I sad about Orzhov.
I misread it to. But I like the actual text. This will take some serious thinking when I preorder unless I can get more then 1. Might get all 3 and roll a dice to see which one I use for launch.
odric did need one additional attacker than battalion though, keep that in mind. also gore-house chainwalker is another unleash dude seeing standard play in dirty red.
i'm not sure how i feel about these mechanics, they all seem very dependent on the cards that carry them. i do hope for something with multiple instances of extort (maybe on teysa?), that would be sweet.
also i'd laugh a LOT if they didn't show dimir's mechanic today because it's a secret.
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In any case, all these cards seem to be powerful for EDH, except maybe Firemane Avenger. The best would be Fathom Mage. Whether combined with Animar of the Mimeoplasm, it makes for formidable power.
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
I have a question and I know this will be pretty stupid. When you Populate does Parallel Lives trigger?
okay thanks. Expect to see a deck in the next few days
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I might disagree. Windfall effects can always be nice when you're out of juice, it also fills your grave for Reanimation/Snapcaster/Deathrite, and fuels your hand with brand new cards. 2UB might be a bit too much, but I think with all the extra free spells it would be wonderful.
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
I'm thinking of building an EDH deck but can't settle on a general. I have 2 that I want to use but they do very different things. I'm think Glissa the Traitor or Horde of Notions. Any thoughts.
Depends what kind of deck you want. Horde of Notions is fun to play, but otherwise doesn't have much of a strategy and the Five Color Manabase is often tricky to pull off without a hefty budget.
Glissa seems better to me. You get all the ramp in Green, the tutoring in Black, and they are a lot of good artifacts/artifact creatures you can recuperate.
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
I was thinking that and the January FNM promo is Searing Spear!!!
Cypher is super awesome!
Flavour wise, it's my favourite ability. In.game wise, well, it depends heavily on the cards packing it, but since Dimir will undoubtedly have an easy time getting unblockable creatures (and we already have a lot of Blue support for that) it might be a VERY interesting mechanic indeed.
All in all, I'm pleased. Extort is, unlike what I previously said, rather good. Battallion might be disappointing once we get the full set, but I have some faith in it, and this and evolve are AWESOME.
I'm most likely not going to be able to join a pre-release, but, if I do join, I wouldn't know which guild to go under. I'd probably pick either Boros or Dimir, though.
yeah i'm really not sure which guild to choose, i might end up rolling a die or just choosing the least represented guild. since i'm going to both the prerelease and 2hg on the same day i might go with simic for the prerelease and boros for the 2hg (if you even choose a guild for the 2hg? i'm not sure), but i really don't have a preference out of these guilds since they're actually all pretty cool ones.


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Rafael Nadal is still steaming about the tennis calendar and he doesn't care who knows it - especially the ruling body of the ATP.
The defending Barcelona champion publicly lashed out at the ATP again for the action-packed calendar this year including a shortened (by a week) clay-court tour and the Olympics saying Europe and its players are being 'destroyed':
These people are destroying Europe and Europe used to be the foundation of the tour. I think it's completely impossible to play at one's best level for all four tournaments -- Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome and Hamburg.All players and fans know the calendar is over-scheduled but it seems Rafa is taking it very personally - as if it was created just to mess up his run on his favored clay surface. He's definitely feeling the pressure of not defending all of his points - or if he does, he'll be spent at the end.
You just have to accept this situation, all the players will be the same, they will not be able to play at their high level for all four, I think it's totally impossible. I think that when a player loses in the first round or pulls out -- and they get criticized -- the tournament should ring these people (the ATP) and tell them that it is their fault.
I have some email conversations with these people but it is true that they end up doing what they like and I am getting tired of it all.
One question: Why didn't he just opt out Barcelona, the one non-Master Series tourney here, to give himself a break? Surely he could save energy and make up the points somewhere else.
The more that is said about the calendar this year the more I respect Andy Roddick's tough decision to skip the Olympics. He seemed to realize you can't do it all and tough choices need to be made - so he made the right one for himself regardless of any criticism. Smarty-pants.
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She said, eh, tweeted it not me. I may have thought it lots though. Fine, it's my mantra.
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I wonder if there is a person alive who doesn't agree?
*blows...kiss...to Richie*
Sveta rocks. I'm so glad she's on twitter now. She's hilarious.ReplyDelete
I saw that too and decided to just leave it be. But I'm glad Sveta is choosing to tweet, it might give us some insight into her mind. Some.ReplyDelete
Sveta is def BFF material. I'm sure she and ReRe throw down when they hang out.ReplyDelete
Well ReRe and V used to braid Sveta's hair back when Sveta was really into hip-hop. So yeah they're probably BFF'sReplyDelete


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Homestead, FL (November 18, 2012) – Three strong weeks preceded Germain Racing's visit to south Florida for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season finale. After a few tough weeks, the GEICO team's resilience prevailed when they righted the ship in Martinsville and entered Homestead with three consecutive Top 25 finishes.
Casey Mears got out of the gate quick on Friday when he landed 20th on the speed chart before heading into qualifying later Friday evening. He turned a lap of 31.385 seconds, at a rate of speed of 172.057 miles per hour, and would start from the 28th position when the Ford EcoBoost 400 got underway on Sunday afternoon.
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"It was certainly not the finish we were looking for, but you take chances and sometimes they pay off and sometimes they don't. This was the last race of the year, so we were taking every opportunity we could to get up front," Mears said. "The 29th place finish doesn't take away from our effort today, or the results we've had over the course of the season. We put together a nice year after making the switch to Ford in December/January. We have a tremendous sponsor in GEICO and their support, along with Bob Germain's commitment, have allowed us to achieve desired results this season. The heart and character of the people on our team are immeasurable; we're in a good place heading into 2013."
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we'll take all the help we can get in the bullpen. the last few years have been ridiculous
I dont believe it.
I'm a huge KW fan and have seen him asking 2 years at 6-7 mill per.
There is no way the Cubs can afford that.I wish they could .
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Hope its true!! I missed Kerry!
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Hope its true!! I missed Kerry!
I do too. We hung out a few times before he ever went up to Chicago. Good man!
Make it happen! My second favorite cub of all time!!! BRING BACK KID K!!!
Should never have let him go in the first place. Welcome back Kerry! i have seem him in town and he is a very nice guy.
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i could really see him taking a big hometown discount to come play for the cubbies again. he loves the cubs, and the fans love him. makes all the sense in the world if he's looking for more than just money
So you guys want to pay a setup man 6 mill per year?
I love Kerry but the Cubs dont have the cash.
Ricketts needs every dime for future marketing...or whatever he's calling it .
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I couldnt be happier if true.
I've had my heart broken too many times........................................................
My guess is he will get a 2 year 8 million contract. I'm fine with that. He is a quality set up man.
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My guess is he will get a 2 year 8 million contract. I'm fine with that. He is a quality set up man.
I hope you are right Andy...that would be great.
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Venus + Serena Williams are meeting up again but this time it's not for a place in tennis history.
The Sisters Sledge, looking strong + confident wielding racquets in designer gowns, are appearing together in the pages of Glamour magazine for their "The 11 Greatest Bodies on Earth" feature which spotlights 11 of the top female athletes heading to Beijing for the Summer Olympics.
About V, the magazine says:
Venus Williams made history when she won her fourth Wimbledon last July: She became the first woman in the 123-year-old event to earn the same prize money as the guys. (The year before, the pay gap was nearly $60,000). Williams, who had been seeded twenty-third in the tournament, was thrilled. "It wasn't about the money," she says. "It was just about being treated as equals." Heading into Beijing, she's playing as strong as ever--last year she set a new record with a 128.8 mph serve. "I'm glad I never had to play Venus," tennis legend Martina Navratilova once said. "She's just too long, too fast."The mag had this to say about ReRe:
She's won eight Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold, but Serena Williams believes she hasn't "accomplished all that much" in tennis. "I feel like I'm just getting started," she says. After an injury forced her to pull out of the 2004 Olympics, she publicly vowed not to miss Beijing. But by 2006 her ranking had plummeted due to injuries. Still, Williams never gave up. Now she's ranked fifth and headed to Beijing. "What defines a person's character is not how you are when you're on top. It's how you are when you're on the bottom and working your way back," she says. Besides, she adds, "I love proving people wrong."Love, love, love it...
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Ambassador Eizenstat back with us 15 years later. Unfortunately, we still have
some issues that are unresolved.
We were very heartened when the Czech government agreed to host a conference to
examine outstanding issues relating to Holocaust-era assets. I introduced a
resolution in the Senate specifically commanding the Czech government and
supporting the goals of the Prague conference. Separately, I cosponsored, with
Sen. Nelson, a resolution on specific problems of restitution or on
compensation for property seized in Nazi and Communist eras.
I do want to take a minute to express my concerns about two countries that were
mentioned by name in the Senate resolution. First, let me talk about Poland.
Successive governments in Poland have promised to adopt an effective general
property compensation law, but no government to-date has been able to do so.
I understand that this is a particularly complex problem in Poland. Poland
probably had greater border changes and more population transfers or expulsions
at the end of the war than any other country in the region. And the
confiscations carried out during the Nazi occupation were compounded by
confiscations undertaken by the Polish Communist regime.
In other words, addressing this issue in Poland may be especially challenging.
But I do not believe it is impossible. Indeed, the adoption of a limited
property compensation law in 2005, for Poles who were originally from
territories beyond the Bug River was a useful start to addressing private
property claims, but it should not be the end. Every major political party in
Poland has supported draft legislation on property compensation and I hope the
prime minister will be able to carry through on his stated commitment to see a
general property law adopted.
Second, the resolution we introduced last year also drew attention to the
situation in Lithuania. Unfortunately, Lithuania's 1995 law on the return of
property to religious associations is needlessly restrictive. I hope the
government of Lithuania will fulfill promises it has made to revisit the legal
framework and ensure that community property – not limited to houses of worship
only, but also including, for example, schools – is returned. I might tell you
that last year, we brought these issues directly up to the Lithuanian
government when our annual meeting was held in Vilnius.
We are honored today to have before us today Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat. His
full bio is available and I will not go through citing or embarrassing him on
all of his accomplishments. Ambassador Eizenstat is our former U.S. ambassador
to the European Union. In the 1990s, he led the negotiations for the United
States with the Swiss, German, Austrian, and French private sectors and their
governments on Holocaust-era bank accounts, slave and forced labor, unpaid
insurance policy, immovable property, and the restitution of or compensation
for stolen communal and private property. Last year, he led the U.S.
delegation to the Prague conference and he has just returned from follow-up
discussion in the Czech capital.
As Lord Janner said of him at the conference in Prague last year, Stuart
Eizenstat has "labored through the endless complexities to secure tangible
results." Ambassador Eizenstat, it's truly a pleasure to have you once again
before the Helsinki Commission. And we are joined by Congressman Smith, who is
working his way up. And if you would just wait for one moment, I would like to
give Congressman Smith an opportunity, if he would like, to make some opening
comments before we get started.
(Off-side conversation.)
SEN. CARDIN: I'm going to let Congressman Smith catch his breath for about 30
seconds and then we'll resume. He has come in between votes and we appreciate
it very much.
REP. CHRIS SMITH (R-NJ): Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I thank you
for calling this very important hearing. And I'd like to welcome Ambassador
Eizenstat and everyone and thank them for joining us this afternoon.
I'm sorry to note that one of the witnesses from one of the commission's
earlier hearings on the Holocaust assets, Jan Sammer, passed away just a few
months ago. He was a principled and tenacious advocate for property rights in
the Czech Republic. And I along with, I know, everyone in this room am deeply
saddened that the Czech Republic did not resolve its unjust and discriminatory
practices before his death, and indeed, has not done so yet.
Mr. Chairman, our government must pursue justice for those robbed by the Nazis
and their accomplices and still defrauded by governments who connive at the
Nazis' crimes by refusing to make them right. Each year, we lose more
Holocaust survivors and that precious generation of witnesses will soon be
gone. The failure to return their properties is tragic proof of the axiom
justice delayed is justice denied.
Very often, the failure to return properties is morally incomprehensible and
impossible to justify and reflects very poorly on the government concerned.
Let me mention just one such case: Three years ago, I joined with other
members of our commission to write to the Hungarian foreign minister regarding
artwork looted from the family of Martha Nierenberg during World War II.
The Hungarian government does not dispute that these paintings were unjustly
taken from the family. In fact, the family's paintings had been on display in
Hungarian museums with signs stating as much. Yet, the Hungarian government
refuses to return the paintings to their rightful owner. This is blatant and a
gross injustice.
Mr. Chairman, many wrongs of the Holocaust can never, ever be undone, but this
one can. The Hungarian government has the legal authority to return these
stolen paintings and has the moral responsibility to do so. Likewise, other
governments in Europe have a serious moral responsibility to return property
stolen during the Holocaust.
Really, is it hard to imagine how some people sleep at night living in homes
stolen from Jewish families during the Holocaust, enjoying paintings and real
estate stolen from those victims while the victims' descendents are cut off and
shut out? How do the government officials that enable this injustice sleep at
Ambassador Eizenstat, welcome again and I thank you for your extraordinary
leadership and vision in demanding justice for those who are unjustly deprived
of their property. Thank you.
SEN. CARDIN: Thank you very much, Congressman Smith. Appreciate very much you
coming by. Ambassador Eizenstat?
STUART EIZENSTAT: Thank you very much. I'm really honored to be here but even
more pleased with the fact that you and Congressman Smith and Congressman
Hastings and others are elevating this issue again because it's very important
to do so.
I'd be remiss if I didn't begin by saying that the Office of Holocaust Assets
at the State Department, which was created in the Clinton administration and
continued in the Bush and now Obama administration does an enormous amount of
work with very few people. They're all excellent; they're dedicated.
Christian Kennedy is just ending a three-and-a-half year tenure as special
envoy of Holocaust issues; Douglas Davidson, a very experienced and excellent
career Foreign Service officer is taking his place and Basil Squirellus (ph),
John Becker (ph), Liz Naikan (ph), Greg Matheson (ph), some of whom work only
part-time, get a tremendous amount done on this issue.
I have, as you mentioned, just come back from Prague for follow-up negotiations
to the fifth of five international Holocaust-related conferences – the first
being in London in 1997 on Nazi looted gold; the Washington Conference on
Holocaust-Era Assets, which focused on art in '98; the January 2000 Stockholm
conference; and the December 2000, Vilnius conference, all of which were aimed
at belated justice for Holocaust survivors and their families but also for
other victims of Nazi oppression.
All of these were in the context of negotiations I led during the Clinton
administration in which $8 billion in revenues were obtained for Holocaust
victims and other victims of Nazi aggression – the majority, by the way, of
that money from non-Jews – from Swiss and French banks, German and Austria
slave labor and forced-labor companies, insurance companies and others, leading
to the return of thousands of pieces of looted art and many other properties.
We are indebted to the Czech government for hosting and providing leadership
for the historic Prague conference, which is by far the most ambitious of the
five conferences in which I have participated. It has covered the widest array
of issues, some of which, remarkably, were not considered before, like the
social welfare needs of survivors and private property compensation or
restitution. It also has provided new momentum on issues such as art recovery.
And it's the first, Mr. Chairman, of the Holocaust-related conferences to
provide a follow-up mechanism. The Czechs have just created, and in Prague, I
helped inaugurate with the foreign minister, the European Shoah Legacy
Institute, which will ultimately be located in Terezin.
During the conference, we also managed to build a consensus around a series of
nonbinding moral commitments for action. Embodied in something we call the
Terezin Declaration, in which all 47 participating states accepted and which
we're now trying to develop specifically private property guidelines and best
practices. I'd like to submit a copy of that declaration for the record and
focus on three of those commitments: improved social welfare benefits for
survivors, private property compensation and art restitution.
On social welfare: Elderly Holocaust victims have unique social welfare needs.
Many survivors lost their entire families in the Holocaust and have no family
support network in their old age. Recent studies by the Jewish Claims
Conference indicate that some half of the world's 500,000 Holocaust survivors
live in poverty – 35 percent of those in Israel do so; 25 percent of Holocaust
survivors in our own wealthy country live in poverty; in New York City, our
greatest financial center, over 33 percent do.
This is an unacceptable situation: that those who suffered so grievously in
their youth should now have to sustain in their declining years deprivation and
poverty. Hundreds of thousands of survivors around the world face significant
health problems and they are in such dire financial circumstances that they
simply cannot live out their remaining years in dignity. They need many things
– in particular, home care.
As the Terezin Declaration noted, focusing for the first time on their social
needs, several states have begun to use a variety of creative mechanisms to
provide assistance both to those needy Holocaust survivors and to other victims
of Nazi persecution. This includes, for example, special Social Security
benefits to nonresidents.
Austria provides for all of its survivors regardless of where they live,
special homecare benefits; the use of assets from heirless property. And some
countries are also proposing to adopt other methods of support, such as making
all concentration camp survivors eligible to receive a pension as war veterans.
I believe France is doing that.
The Federal Republic of Germany, of course, provides perhaps the most prominent
example. It designated in 1951 the Conference on Jewish Material Claims
against Germany as a successor organization for unclaimed property in former
East Germany and to negotiate what is now $100 billion of payments over the
past 60 years for the benefit of Holocaust survivors. That is by far the
single-largest source of funding. It goes through the claims conference to
meet unmet social needs.
The second issue is property restitution, to which you referred in your
eloquent statement, Mr. Chairman. And let me turn to that. In 1994,
then-Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, when I was ambassador to
the European Union, asked me to take on a dual role as a special representative
on Holocaust issues to try to encourage the new democracies to which you
referred in the former Soviet/East bloc to restitute communally owned property
for Christian and Jewish communities.
They are communities that were unable to practice their religion either because
they were devastated during World War II or because of restrictions under
Communism, and they needed the physical infrastructure to rebuild not just
religious but also their cultural life. And so we encouraged the return of
churches, synagogues, schools, community centers, even cemeteries in order to
give them that physical infrastructure to rebuilt their shattered lives,
shattered by the twin tragedies of the 21st century, Nazism and Communism.
I found in going through virtually every country in Central and Eastern Europe
that there was a complete lack of a comprehensive, systematic way of handling
immovable property claims except in the Federal Republic of Germany. We're
going to submit, with your permission, in the next several weeks, a
country-by-country analysis of where things stand. But let me focus on three
countries where long-overdue improvements are necessary.
The first is Poland, to which you referred, Mr. Chairman, whereas you mentioned
for several years, governments have been making efforts to enact legislation
governing private property restitution. After several attempts, the Polish
government, we understand, has now prepared new legislation, which in due
course it intends to submit to parliament.
This new law would benefit not just current residents in Poland but also all
those living abroad who were either themselves or their families resident in
Poland at the time of the taking both by the Nazis and by the Communists
thereafter. Unfortunately, in our view, the proposed legislation still falls
short in certain ways. For example, it does not include property in Warsaw,
which is home to the largest pre-war Jewish population in Poland. And we hope
that this draft law can be improved.
However, we do understand that there is a plan which has some promise for the
city of Warsaw to fill this void with a city law that will provide a
compensation program funded by the sale of city-owned property. And we're
hopeful that the best practices that we're now negotiating and which the Czech
prime minister has indicated he will declare if our negotiation is successful
on June 9th, will add an additional impetus.
Poland has been participating in these talks and we hope that this will
encourage them. It is, as you say, an extremely difficult issue. They were
victims themselves as well as the Jews. They suffered a double loss because of
the Communist taking. And we understand and support the notion that non-Jews
whose property was taken by the Communists should also benefit.
Another area of potential progress in the near future is communal property in
Lithuania, a country where not enough has been done to return communal
property. And we understand the government, with the tacit agreement of the
local Jewish community, may be submitting a communal property proposal to the
parliament soon.
And finally, Romania, which has established a fund to pay compensation for
property claims. But that fund, Mr. Chairman, was created in 2005; it's sill
not operational. At the same time, there is some modest array of hope because
they've hired a major-fund manager, and that fund manager is there to manage
the fund. Presumably, that indicates their willingness to move forward.
The Terezin Declaration urged participating states to implement their own
national programs to address these unresolved immovable property issues and
recommended an intergovernmental effort to develop nonbinding guidelines and
property processes for the return of communal and private property, something
that has not been done in any of the previous conferences. And this is all
being done under the auspices of the newly created European Shoah Legacy
Institute, which will be at Terezin.
Last is artworks: Since the adoption of the Washington Principles on Nazi
Looted Art, in 1998, which I helped negotiate, the major art markets have
radically changed. Art auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's have
established their own full-time, in-house experts to look at the provenance of
any art they handle from the 1933-to-1945 years passing through Europe.
Our own American museums have created a central search engine so a claimant can
put a particular claim through that search engine and it goes to scores of
museums around the country. There have been hundreds of pieces of art
returned. Austria, for example, has actually incorporated the Washington
Principles into domestic legislation. So has Russia but they have not
implemented their own lay.
The Terezin Declaration reiterated national commitments to the Washington
Principles and also emphasized two issues of particular importance since those
original principles were negotiated in 1998, and that is the need to develop
the provenance of artworks through careful research and scholarship, and to
resolve disputes based on the available records about the location and
ownership of works during the Holocaust period whenever possible through
alternative dispute resolution processes.
It urged the courts, Mr. Chairman, and other fora that decide art restitution
cases to base their cases on the facts of the individual case rather than
relying on technical legal grounds such as a statute of limitations. And here,
permit me to be very frank: The momentum following the 1998 Washington
conference to return looted art to its rightful owners has significantly
It has generated into lengthy, costly litigation in which the holders of art
increasingly use technical defenses like statutes of limitation rather than
making a decision on the merits. For sure, every claimant is not making a just
claim but those claims ought to be. And that's what the Washington Principles
and Terezin encourage; based on the merits and not on technical defenses.
The Washington Principles called for the establishment of commissions or other
fora to handle these cases rather than going to court. The United Kingdom,
Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands all have established such
commissions; we in the United States has not. To try to address that issue,
the State Department has held a series of what we call town-hall meetings with
all the stakeholders in the American art world.
We have not yet come up with a model for a commission – what qualifications
commissioners should have, how they would be appointed, who would pay for their
cost, how it would be structured, what their responsibilities would be – but
we're still studying it; we're very interested in continuing to look at it and
we certainly would welcome your ideas and those of the commission on this
Let me conclude with the following: Where do we go from there? Our job in the
State Department is to work with the states that participated in the Prague
Conference to convert the moral commitments in the Terezin Declaration into
action. And that's what we're doing with the best practices that we're now
negotiating. And that is the job that the European Shoah Legacy Institute has
likewise committed itself. They are, for example, talking about having a
possible conference in 2012 to look at the implementation.
But I want to close with two issues that I feel very, very strongly about.
The first is that elderly survivors or their families are often at wit's end in
knowing how to seek the return of their real, immovable property; their artwork
or other possessions brutally taken from them; so by force, say, by the Nazis
or their collaborators. They're simply stymied.
There is only one place in the United States of America where anything
systematically is being done to try to help them. They can't hire lawyers;
they don't know the language abroad. And so the only place is the New York
Banking Commission's Holocaust Processing Office under the inspired direction
of Anna Rubin with a small, paid staff with whom I've met, paid for by the
taxpayers of New York.
It does afford a venue to help claimants navigate foreign records and judicial
or administrative proceedings but it's a very tiny office. It's funded with
the generosity of New York taxpayers and, by the way, they handle claims all
over the world; not just New York residents. We do not have any other vehicle
to do this. I call on the Helsinki Commission and your leadership to consider
how to establish a process similar to or augmenting or supporting the New York
office with the resources to research and facilitate claims.
Just again on a personal basis, you cannot imagine how many poor people call me
asking for help: Where do I go, who do I see, how do I understand the local
language, what lawyer in Poland or the Czech Republic or Slovakia can help me?
We need to have a method of doing it. The State Department, Mr. Chairman,
cannot do it because of the espousal doctrine. We do not espouse claims for
people who were not American citizens at the time of the taking. That's a
long-established fact. So we need to try to find ways, perhaps, building on
the New York office, to support that. Time is running out and the hourglass is
fast ending.
Second and last, as a former U.S. ambassador to the EU, I want to say
something. I am a great supporter of the European Union. It's one of the
great exercises in shared sovereignty. It has united East and West Europe in a
harmonious, democratic and free-market project. It's really quite amazing.
But, while some individual members of the EU have done good work in restituting
property and providing compensation and social justice for survivors of the
Holocaust and other victims of Nazi oppression, the EU as an institution which
regards itself as a moral power in the world has done very, very little
collectively to right particular wrongs of the past.
It was, after all, not in the United States, it was in Europe where these
heinous crimes against Jews and non-Jews were perpetrated. It is in Europe,
not the United States, where property was confiscated. It was in their
member-states. Even so, they continue to take a hands-off approach to those
member-states who do not live up to obligations, some of which they voluntarily
accepted in acceding to membership; nor has the EU committed any funding, for
example, to the European Shoah Legacy Institute.
It seems to me that it's time for the European Union not to simply leave
Holocaust-era issues to the United States but to deal with them as well with
their own member-states and with their own financial resources in the European
Commission, and to assume their proper place in a partnership with us and other
countries to resolve the many outstanding Holocaust-related problems that still
confront the continent 70 years after the Shoah.
Again, with your permission, we would like to submit, later, a
country-by-country assessment of where the property restitution issue lies.
Thank you again, and thank you, again, for your leadership.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, Ambassador Eizenstat, thank you for your testimony. Your
entire testimony, along with the supplements and country-by-country will be
made part of our record. I just want to underscore the difficulty that people
have in pursuing claims. My office was contacted many years ago concerning a
claim in Romania for the return of property that was wrongfully taken.
And they had been through the Romanian courts several times with successful
results, but no property. And this was going on for many years, and the only
way we were able to get it successfully handled was putting a spotlight on it,
causing a lot of international attention, and ultimately, the property was
I mention that because I don't know how many people, how many families can go
through that type of a process. It was very costly. It took a lot of travel,
a lot of time. And there needs to be a more streamlined approach. So we
certainly will take a look at your concerns, and we applaud the state of New
York for what it's doing – or city of New York, whatever government it is –
AMB. EIZENSTAT: It's the state.
SEN. CARDIN: Is it the state? For what it's doing on processing claims for
their citizens. But there should be some process here in the United States to
deal with so many of our citizens who have open matters. And we'll take a look
at that and see whether we can't help that along.
You mentioned the Terezin Declaration several times, and I just came back from
a follow-up meeting. There was originally, I think, either 46 or 47 countries,
I believe that were a part of it. In the follow-up conference, it is my
understanding, only 30 states participated. Is there anything to be read into
the fact that you didn't have quite the same level of interest in your most
recent meeting?
AMB. EIZENSTAT: I don't think so. It's a good question, but I don't think so.
And the reason is that when I look back to the run-up negotiating sessions
that we had to the Prague conference, and then the ultimate Terezin Declaration
which came from it, we did not have all 47 countries in the working group.
There is a core group that we call friends of the chair – the chair being the
There have been four or five negotiating sessions with the friends of the
chair. And then we had the broader negotiation with 30 countries just last
week in Prague. Again, that's basically the same number we had in the run-up
sessions before. The Czech prime minister, Prime Minister Fischer, is
personally going to send a letter to the heads of government and heads of state
of all 47 countries asking them to come to Prague, or send a representative,
for the declaration of these principles. And I would hope to get very close to
the full complement of these countries.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, that's encouraging. Do you want to just explain to us what
is meant by "legally non-binding and without prejudice to applicable
international laws and obligations," which is, I understand, the language in
the Terezin Declaration?
AMB. EIZENSTAT: Yes, sir. Senator and Chairman, going back to the Washington
principles on art, we learned a very hard lesson in negotiating those
principles, and that is that if we tried to establish what in effect would be
an international treaty – a binding, legal document – that we would never get
anywhere. We made these, therefore, moral principles, legally nonbinding.
It's a sort of contradiction of terms, but it is meant to mean that each state
can act within its own national laws, as it sees fit, but that these are moral
principles that should guide it.
Now the fact is, one would say, well, if that's the case, what good is it? I
can assure you that the Washington principles, although not legally binding,
have, as I mentioned in my testimony, dramatically changed the entire art
world. It's created a context. Everything we've done has been non-binding.
The $8 billion we negotiated wasn't done by fiat or by mandate; it was done by
using the moral force of the United States of America to help mediate these
That's what we're trying to do, together with the Czechs and the other friends
of the chair countries, with property restitution. I believe once we have
these principles outstanding, it will give us a litmus test, a standard, by
which to judge actions that will allow you, as chairman, and the Helsinki
Commission, to ask countries to live up to those standards, even though they're
not legally binding. If we tried, again, to make them legally binding, we
wouldn't get to first base.
SEN. CARDIN: No, I agree with the strategy. I just want to make sure people –
it is an anomaly to say non-legally binding. I mean, it just seems, as an
inconsistency, to use those terms – legally non-binding – but I fully
appreciate that it's the only way –
AMB. EIZENSTAT: It's meant to reinforce the fact that they're non-binding.
SEN. CARDIN: Right, right. You've mentioned several times the European Shoah
Legacy Institute. I believe the United States has committed to making a
contribution to that institute. You've indicated Europe has – EU has not been
willing to do that. Can you just explain how the European Shoah Legacy
Institute fits into the framework of what was accomplished in the Czech
AMB. EIZENSTAT: Let me first say that this was entirely, at its inception, a
Czech initiative. They wanted to have what would be the first follow-up
institution from any of our conferences. There's never been a connective
tissue between London in 1997 and Prague in 2009.
So their notion was to create an institute – ongoing – staffed by the
government, and contributed to by other countries. We have indicated we would
contribute $150,000 a year for five years; the state of Israel, I think,
$75,000 a year for the next several years; and they're looking for other
contributions. It would have a permanent staff. It's now temporarily in
Prague; it will be in Terezin.
And its job is to see to it that it acts as a voluntary forum by which
survivors, survivor groups and other Nazi victims and NGOs can look at the
latest developments in the area. They will encourage the implementation of the
commitments in the Terezin Declaration – in particular, private and communal
property principles. They will have central databases that will be available.
So it's really a very thoroughgoing effort.
I met, when I was in Prague just a few days ago, the new executive director and
the chairman of the board, who, the chairman is himself a Holocaust survivor
from Auschwitz. It's really a quite remarkable undertaking. They're going to
also encourage, in cooperation with the Holocaust Education, Remembrance and
Research Taskforce, Holocaust education. So it's a very thoroughgoing,
across-the-board effort to really put meat on the bones of the Terezin
SEN. CARDIN: Any other European countries, other than the Czech Republic,
indicate a willingness to help and support this? Germany and Austria have
indicated that they would help on a project-by-project basis. They've not yet
made a decision on whether to commit general funds for staff, but they have
indicated that they would consider project-by-project support. And this is
where the European Commission comes into play.
The European Commission has a very, very large cultural budget. This is a
perfect thing for them to support, as well as to do more to encourage member
states on property restitution. But I really hope that they will do so. They
came to the Prague conference. One of the commissioners gave an eloquent
statement about the importance of what we were doing. And I would hope that
eloquence would be translated into funds and to support.
SEN. CARDIN: And we'll follow up with our contacts with the European
community. You mentioned several times this country-by-country analysis. Who
prepared that?
AMB. EIZENSTAT: The country-by-country analysis was prepared by, again, the
small-but-excellent staff of the office of Holocaust assets, now under Doug
Davis, and previously, Christian Kennedy. And it's done by a quite exhaustive
effort going to groups like the American Jewish Committee, to the Jewish Claims
Conference, to others who work on the ground, touching base with local Jewish
communities in those countries, touching base with the governments, looking at
what state of the law exists in those countries.
So it's a major effort. I don't want to, frankly, exaggerate this. If you
look at other reports the State Department does – the human rights reports, for
example – these are, oftentimes, much more detailed with a much larger staff.
But given the very small staff – and at that, some are working part time – it's
quite remarkable how much they can turn out. So they go through all of these
efforts to try to develop a country-by-country analysis.
SEN. CARDIN: I'm just curious as to whether it may have more attention if it
were sponsored by an institute or a group coming out of the Terezin Declaration
so that it gets more acceptance among the European capitals. But is this
report going to get – is this country-by-country analysis going to get the
attention it needs in Europe?
AMB. EIZENSTAT: I hope so. I mean, one of the things that the European Shoah
Legacy Institute can do is serve as a repository for that kind of a report,
disseminate it to countries and urge that they take action based on that
report. So that would be, actually, something quite interesting for us to
propose to the Shoah Legacy Institute.
SEN. CARDIN: It's also a matter of the credibility of the report. And I'm not
at all challenging the quality of this country-by-country report, but it needs
to have international credibility. When the State Department issues its
reports on the status of human rights or on trafficking issues, it is taken
very seriously in the capitals around the world because they know the quality
and objectivity that is being put into this.
And I think it's important, also, if this country-by-country report is going to
be used as the yardstick to measure progress being made in capitals that still
have yet to do what is necessary.
AMB. EIZENSTAT: I agree with that. There is one difference, however: The,
for example, human rights report gets much more press attention. It's very
difficult to get press to focus on this issue. So that's, again, why I'm so
grateful that you're holding this hearing.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, I have another suggestion on that, and that is, you talk
about best practices, and we all like to use best practices. I guess that's
our human nature, to showcase what countries are doing well. But I've found,
in Helsinki, the way you get the most attention is to bring out those that are
the worst cases, rather than the best cases, and calling them out by name.
And it seems to me that if we expect to make progress, it's the way we made
progress on violations of human rights, by calling out specific countries and
practices against specific individuals – that, that's necessary in regards to
these issues. That we also have to bring out those countries that are not
doing what other countries are doing, and are deficient.
AMB. EIZENSTAT: But if I may – that's a very good point – if I may offer one
other thought, and that is that you and Co-Chairman Hastings consider a joint
resolution in which you attach the report, call attention to it, urge that
countries take it seriously. It would be a way of also elevating congressional
attention, but also the attention of the countries mentioned here.
I think if Congress were to do that, it would be very much appreciated. And
you could also attach the Terezin Declaration. Hopefully, by then, we will
have our best practices and guidelines completed for immovable property, and
that would form the basis, perhaps, of something that could be referred to in a
joint resolution.
SEN. CARDIN: We'll certainly try to give it higher visibility. You mentioned
Lithuania's moving forward with communal property laws; are they going to
correct the concerns by the Jewish community on the returns of educational
AMB. EIZENSTAT: This is as issue I've been working on for 15 years. At
Prague, and I think induced by the Prague conference, they did make a specific
monetary proposal to try to monetize this so it wouldn't be just a
property-by-property issue. The figures that they mentioned at that time were
conditional, spent over many, many years, and at that point, at least, there
wasn't a broad acceptance among survivor groups and Jewish organizations.
I can't speak for them in terms of their views now, but I think that there is
some willingness to try to come together with the government of Lithuania and
reach an agreement. And I think Lithuania's interested in resolving this
issue, finally. And again, hopefully, our new best practices will be a further
encouragement for Lithuania to complete this.
SEN. CARDIN: I think our expectations are that Lithuania will get this job
done. I mean, they're taking on major responsibilities in international
organizations. In the OSCE, they're taking on a leadership position – the
leadership position. And they have been very forthcoming in acknowledging that
they have to do better, and now, it's time for them to get the law passed and
implement it.
AMB. EIZENSTAT: I agree, and there's someone who's been very interested in
these issues who's now in the parliament in the ruling party – Emanuel Zingeris
– and I hope that his leadership will also help.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, we'll be following that carefully. I want to just
underscore the point you raised about the impoverishment of Holocaust
survivors. I mean, it's absolutely heart-wrenching when you see the status of
so many people who were victimized during World War II living in extreme
poverty, including in nations that are wealthy nations. And what is the
strategy? I mean, time is running out. Congressman Smith, in his opening
statement, pointed out that the victims are getting old. They're old! I mean,
and if we don't act now, it's going to be too late. What can we do to really
make an impact – a significant impact on the quality of their life so that they
can at least get some of the benefits from these restitution issues?
AMB. EIZENSTAT: Well, I appreciate the sense of urgency, which we certainly
share with you. For one thing, if we can deal with the immovable property
issue, particularly communal property, and that can be sold, it will create a
real opportunity for funds, because almost 100 percent of the Nazi victims who
are living in Central and Eastern Europe are in or close to poverty level.
And so this would be a very excellent way of dealing with it. There are other
ways. For example, in Austria, they have a very creative program in which
they've now located, in their national library, several thousand Holocaust-era
books which were stolen. They're selling it to their national museum. The
national museum is paying money, which will then be distributed through their
national fund for victims.
It's very difficult to deal with the social issue, given budget constraints.
But if I may, just to give a sense of urgency to this, as of – and this is
taken from the November, 2009 report of the conference on Jewish material
claims against Germany. I think these figures are valid. The total Jewish
Nazi victim population, as of December 31, 2010 – end of this year – is
expected to be 516,700. It is estimated that, at the end of this year, of that
number, 259,000 will be living in poverty.
That includes 73,000 in Israel, 25,000 in Central Europe, 90,000 in the former
Soviet Union, 45,800 in our country. This is very difficult. The question of
whether there should be special compensation funds for victims here – we've
talked to members of the House – former Congressman Wexler. It would be very
difficult, at a time when there's a lot of poverty here, to say that there
should be an extra complement of funds for these victims. Again, I think the
best thing we can do is to try to provide things like home care.
The Germans, at the last negotiations in March of 2010, agreed to $55 million
in home care, worldwide. That is a crying need. If you can keep people from
being institutionalized and giving them help with their daily medicines and
their daily needs, that would be a very good thing. And again, if we can make
progress on property restitution, that is one real area where, by selling those
properties, something can happen. Let me give you an example, if I may.
There are several hundred synagogues that, to its credit, Poland has returned.
They've actually done a commendable job on communal property. There are
several thousand claims that have been made. They've processed about 30
percent of them. We hope they'll do it faster and more. But they are at least
going through a process. Hundreds are returned, but they're returned in areas
and in a dilapidated state where there are no people to keep them up.
If a process could be developed by which those properties, which are on real
property and which have some value, could be translated into cash, rather than
burdening the community with the upkeep of synagogues that won't be used and
that they can't maintain, it would be an enormous contribution. And if one
could do that for not just Polish survivors in Poland, of whom there are a
couple of thousand, but Polish survivors around the world, of whom there are
tens of thousands, that would do wonders.
So trying to be creative with the use of communal property would be, I think,
one excellent way of dealing with this problem. But you know, we're talking
about people whose average age is well, well over 70. Thousands are dying
every year – in fact, really hundreds every month. So we all have to have a
sense of urgency and creativity about this.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, I thank you and I agree with that conclusion. You have
obviously made this one of your priorities in life, and we appreciate that, and
you raise this issue at every time you can. You're a person of principle, but
also one accomplished – get things done and be able to combine the strong
advocacy with effective results.
I get the feeling that the priority of this issue is not always shared by
everyone in the government – our government – that when bilateral meetings take
place between world leaders and the United States, property restitution issues
may never get on the agenda, even though it's an issue of importance in that
Do you have any advice for us – to the Helsinki Commission – as to how we can
make this a higher priority among those who set up the agenda in the State
Department so that we can follow up on some of these things? It seems to me if
you got a friendly push from the administration in some of these countries that
are close to enacting law, it would certainly expedite things. But at times,
it sort of gets pushed down to, as the administration believes, more urgent
issues. How can we make this a higher priority?
AMB. EIZENSTAT: May I say first that Secretary Clinton has raised this issue
with Lithuania herself.
SEN. CARDIN: And I didn't mean to make this to this administration.
AMB. EIZENSTAT: No, I understand.
SEN. CARDIN: I mean, this has been a historical problem that predates the
Obama administration.
AMB. EIZENSTAT: But just for the record, I think it is important that she did
raise this with Lithuania. Undersecretary Hormat's successor, plus several –
the undersecretary of economic affairs has raised this very directly with
Poland. You're quite right: The more it's raised, the more it will be paid
attention to, and when it's not raised – when there are other issues which take
priority – and you know, with Poland, they're a major contributor to NATO
troops, and so forth – we understand that. So the more it can be raised, the
better, even if it's the last talking point in a long list of talking points.
In terms of what role the Helsinki Commission can play, it is encouraging
senior members of every administration to raise this issue when they are
meeting with their counterparts. Again, it doesn't have to be the number one
issue; it's not going to be the number one issue. But if it can be raised, it
will have an impact. And I think, perhaps, Secretary Clinton raising this with
Lithuania, Bob Hormats with Poland – hopefully, that will begin to give the
signal that the Obama administration is very, very serious about this issue.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, it's certainly helped that Secretary Clinton, not too many
years ago, was sitting on this side of the dais asking witnesses the same
questions I'm asking about property issues. So I think she's extremely
sensitive on this issue and has been a great friend of the commission, as a
former member of the commission. And we do raise these issues. It's on our
agenda in every meeting that we have with parliamentary officials and
government officials from the relevant countries.
AMB. EIZENSTAT: Let me suggest one other thing, again, and to come back to my
last point: We have, now, a new EU ambassador, who's just come. Either
publicly or privately, if he could be encouraged to get a message to Brussels
that this is of great importance to the Senate of the United States, to the
Helsinki Commission – House and Senate – by letter or otherwise, and urge him
to intervene with the (European) Commission to support these efforts – if the
commission – you know, it's not just always the United States – if the
commission, the European Union, the European Council, would go to their member
states and say, this is an issue which has to be resolved.
We believe in the rule of law, under the EU; we believe in private property
rights in the EU; we believe that European citizens – European citizens – were
deprived of their rights when they were European citizens. European property
is involved; European principles and moral values are involved. I think that
it would make a difference. They have gotten a pass on this issue.
SEN. CARDIN: Well, I think that's good advice, and we will certainly follow
through on that. You've given us a lot of good advice, particularly in working
with our counterparts in Europe. Let me say I know this has been frustrating
that it's been a long time and too many people have been denied the restitution
and compensation that they're entitled to, but I must tell you, I give you a
lot of credit for the progress that we've made.
It is encouraging to see that this is being taken seriously by 47 countries and
that they're coming together in a strategy, an action plan, to bring about
results, and they're prepared to have a process for review to share best
practices. I can assure you this commission will work very closely with the
various countries and with the leaders of this effort to offer our
encouragement and do what we can to put a spotlight on it, and particularly to
work with our government leaders to continue to make this a priority. Thank
AMB. EIZENSTAT: It's much appreciated, and thanks again for your leadership.
SEN. CARDIN: Thank you. With that, the commission will stand adjourned.


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Heat In The Street - Goodguys Nationals & Street Machine of the YearWritten by Steven Rupp on October 13, 2005 Contributors: Johnny Hunkins PHR Heads To Columbus, Ohio For The Goodguys PPG Nationals And The Street Machine Of The Year
There are car shows and then there are car events so huge that they dwarf all others. The Goodguys Nationals is such an event. Once a year, over 6,000 street machines, rods, g-Machines, and everything in between descend on Columbus, Ohio, for the mack daddy of all car shows. This is also where some of the best cars around vie for not only the title of Street Rod of the Year, but also for the coveted Street Machine of the Year award. Cars that would normally clean house at any normal show are lucky to get in the Pro's Pick area in Columbus. The competition is harder than a forged crank, which is why getting the title is such an accomplishment. Because we like a beautiful car almost as much as one going around a road course, PHR decided to brave the crowds and the heat for a chance to check out some of the coolest cars around.
Winning Street Machine of the Year is quite a feat. First, the herd of 6,000-plus cars is culled down to a hundred or so Pro's Picks. Then, the best of the best slug it out to be in the top five. From that handful of cars, the top dog is crowned the winner.This massive car show is about more that just the Street Machine of the Year, though. Outside the area reserved for the high-dollar stuff we saw quite a few homebuilt rides that budget-conscious builders were showing off with deserved pride. We also cruised the vendor booths and spied some of the cool new products that are about to hit the market. It was also good to see that many of these products catered to the g-Machine and pro-touring segments. If you ever get the chance to attend this event, you won't be disappointed.
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Hail to the king! Or in this case, to Roy Pigford from the great state of Texas, whose '66 Nova was crowned Street Machine of the Year. Roy's Nova is a work of art and was featured in the September 2004 issue of PHR. Even a full feature can't show the enormous amount of detail in this ride. Best of all is that Roy did almost all the work himself. Congrats, Roy!Lots of people were checking out Chuck Hamly's '70 supercharged GTO. It looked familiar to us, and then we remembered giving it a Top Ten award at the Hershey, PA, show. Nice to see it gets around.Here we found couple of g-Machines parked together. Mark Turner's '69 LS1-powered Camaro and Danny Griffin's '66 flamed Nova with a 540-inch big-block were just too good to pass up without snapping a picture.This bright-blue '63 Ford Galaxy really caught our eyes. It had all the right g-Machine stuff, and it was nice to see something different.People wonder why we feature so many '69 Camaros. Well, it's because there are so many top-notch ones out there. This one belongs to Elmer Cole, Jr. and features a 434-inch motor and enough electronics to make NASA dizzy. This '69 stood out among the others enough to get it a PHR Top Ten award.If you like the '67 fastback built by the Ring Brothers of Wisconsin, then you are not alone. Not only did it make the top five for Street Machine of the Year, but it was one of PHR's Top Ten picks, too. With a fuel-injected stroked-out 392 engine, this Mustang really got noticed due to its attention to detail and just plain badass looks.We can't do justice to this beautiful '64 Pontiac GTO with just one picture. Built by Steve's Auto Restorations in Portland, Oregon, it features a long list of inventive body mods and a 502 Ram Jet motor. It quickly moved to the short list of cars we want to feature in PHR.
Manufacturers love the chance to press the flesh with so many car enthusiasts in one spot. Year One came out in force with a slew of cars, including Scott Whidby's red '69 Camaro, Year One's high-tech Nova and LS1-powered Innovator Camaro, and Rick Hudson's red '67 fastback (featured in this issue).Unique Performance brought out a sampling of its hot cars that can be bought ready to hit the road. The GT-500E is cool, but we were really digging Unique's prototype road-race '65 fastback with an all-aluminum 427 engine. Unique also unveiled its Foose-designed '69 Camaro that will not only be next year's giveaway car, but it's also a car that you can order direct from Unique.In the Pro's Pick area, '69 Camaros were even more noticeable. Of the five cars chosen for Street Machine of the Year, two were '69 Camaros. We love the '69s as much as anyone, but it gets to the point where you are almost numb and one has to be crazy nice just to get your attention. These two fine examples are owned by Roger and Kevin Jennings.It was nice to see familiar faces and rides at the show. Here we found Michael Cooper's street fighter Nova hanging out in the "homebuilt hotrods" section. If you missed the feature on Michael's killer ride, then just find an August 2005 issue of PHR and see how he built this car for around $10k. (Photo by Joshua Stratton)The name of this ride is NASTRUCK, and the title fits it well. It sounds as mean as it looks, and we were happy to give Russell Tilkes and his unique NASCAR-inspired truck one of our Top Ten awards.It is always nice to see well-done cars that are outside the box. This small-block Chevy-powered Volvo P1800 is beautifully done, and the owner can be proud that he had the nicest one at the show. Okay, it was the only one at the show, but it was still a very nice ride, and the only Volvo we've ever seen that we would put in our magazine.A growing trend we have seen is the anti-establishment segment called rat rods. The inventive use of old parts, both automotive and otherwise, makes them fun to check out, but we don't think our life insurance policies cover actually driving some of them.The award ceremony for Street Machine of the Year brought out a lot of big names. Waiting for the announcement and enjoying some brews is Art Morrison, Bobby Alloway, Alan Johnson, and Craig Morrison. Bobby's Challenger didn't win, but that doesn't diminish what an outstanding work of automotive art it is. With a dialed-in suspension, his Mopar should handle as well as it looks.Here are the top five contenders for Street Machine of the Year: Roy Pigford's '66 Nova, Scott Whidby's black '69 Camaro, Steve Cook's yellow '69 Camaro, Bobby Alloway's Hemi '70 Challenger, and the Ring Brothers' black '67 fastback. They were picked from the thousands of cars at the show, but in the end, the '66 Nova was given the nod and the title of Street Machine of the Year. Who will step up to the plate next year? Bobby Alloway and Alan Johnson both have their eyes set on the prize in 2006.


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|Storm Chasers stop in town with 'Dominator'
|Written by Chris Lee
The Dominator storm chasing vehicle from the Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers show made a brief stop in Holyoke Thursday, June 10. The unique vehicle drew quite a crowd of people stopping for a quick photo and finding out what the unusual vehicle was all about.
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The Dominator vehicle from the show Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel made a brief stop in the Holyoke city park Thursday, June 10.
Reed Timmer and his team parked their armor plated vehicle near the tennis courts and enjoyed a pick up game of basketball before preparing for a night of storm chasing. Timmer said they don't usually stop for long periods of time like they did last Thursday, but they needed to install a radar on the vehicle.
They were in the area preparing for possible storms in northeastern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska and southeastern Wyoming.
Timmer predicted Thursday morning the storms would build near the front range.
The Dominator vehicle is covered by Rhino Lining, is equipped with a complete roll cage and has the capability of lowering itself down to the ground with hydraulics to prevent wind from getting underneath. Timmer said the vehicle could be hit with a sledge hammer and it would just bounce right off.
The Dominator is used for collecting data and filming tornados. Timmer said they had already been in four tornados this year with the vehicle. The fastest wind speeds recorded with it were 155.2 m.p.h., he said.
Timmer also said they are capable of shooting transmitters from the vehicle into the tornado to capture data. The Storm Chasers website also says Timmer is experimenting with a remote-controlled flying drone.
Other units the show uses are the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and the Vortex 2 team. A newer unit nicknamed the Doghouse is used by the Twistex team.
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A Civil Air Patrol Cadet is moulaged and attached to a stability board during a National Disaster Medical System exercise at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., May 14, 2014. The 315th Airlift Wing hosted the NDMS exercise to enable active, reserve and guard service members along with civilian agencies the ability to demonstrate medical rescue and treatment skills. The event took place at both Joint Base Charleston, S.C., the location of the simulated earthquake incident where patients received initial treatment, and Greenville, S.C., where patients were evacuated to for follow-on care. The NDMS is designed to augment the Nation's medical response capability in a way that assists State and local authorities dealing with the medical impacts of a major disaster during peacetime while also providing support to military and the Department of Veterans Affairs medical systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kenneth W. Norman)
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