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Almond Leadership Program
The Almond Board of California offers a one-year leadership program that encourages individuals in the almond industry to participate in leadership training and take a leadership role in the future of the California Almond industry.
Program Overview
In 2009, the Almond Board of California set out on a mission to encourage a new set of individuals with diverse backgrounds to become leaders in the industry. The result was the creation of the Almond Leadership Program. The no-cost, year-long program is designed to provide a mentored experience for the next generation, including leadership training seminars, hands-on educational opportunities, field experience and a firsthand look at the inner workings of the Almond Board of California.
Program Goals
1. Develop skills to effectively lead, manage and inspire those in the almond industry.
2. Enhance business relationships through networking and collaboration to understand all facets of leadership in the almond industry.
3. Learn about issues impacting the almond industry and effective communication strategies to use in response.
4. Master communication and leadership techniques relevant to managing or retaining a leadership position in the industry.
Eligibility Requirements
Individuals seeking to apply for the Leadership Program must:
1. Reside in the state of California.
2. Demonstrate the willingness to learn and apply leadership skills within the industry.
3. Must have been employed for at least one year in the almond industry.
4. Obtain employer permission prior to submitting an application.
5. If self-employed, establish the ability to be away from their business for all scheduled Leadership Program events.
6. Sign a Memorandum of Understanding prior to the beginning of the program.
7. Commit to full attendance at all Leadership Program events.
8. Commit to completing assignments or reports as needed to successfully complete the Leadership Program.
The Leadership Program requires approximately 75–85 hours of attendance at seminars and events, and 15–25 hours of interactive learning to complete assignments. All applicants must have reliable transportation and be available to travel to seminars and events as scheduled. Full consideration will be provided to all applicants regardless of age, gender, race or other distinguishing characteristics about the applicant.
Participant Costs
The Almond Leadership Program does not charge for participation in the program. Any costs incurred with mileage will be reimbursed at the government rate. Educational materials, meals and occasional lodging accommodations are paid for courtesy of the Almond Board of California. Please note that participants in the Leadership Program may incur small incidental expenses associated with scheduled seminars and industry events. These costs are the responsibility of the participant and should be paid for at the time of the event.
How to Apply
Please download the application, complete, and email the final version to Jenny Nicolau.
Applications for the 2016 Almond Leadership Program are due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 11, 2015.
Evaluation & Review of Applications
Completed applications will be evaluated by a panel of Almond Board staff and industry members. Applicants will be notified to schedule a personal interview with Almond Board staff, Board of Directors or committee members, and other stakeholders in the Leadership Program. If unavailable for a personal interview, applicants will be offered the option of a phone interview.
Selection & Notification
Successful applicants will be notified upon selection by standard U.S. postal service. With the letter of acceptance, applicants will receive a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that must be completed, signed and returned within two weeks after the date of the acceptance letter. Failure to return a completed MOU may void an applicant's acceptance into the program.
For questions or more information, contact Jenny Nicolau.


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This is one of those times when I really don't know what to say besides this: here is a video, currently circulating around the Internet, depicting several elementary school-aged children simulating sex during some sort of holy-sh*t-this-is-just-plain-wrong dance party. *Shudder*
Update: There's more... here's a five minute version of the video. Please be warned that many may find it disturbing (h/t Dwindle):

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It's the holiday hustle-bustle. East Contra Costa homes are alive with the sound of happy words ... words that echo off the walls in dozens of different languages. People living here are from all corners of the globe.
Contra Costa has the second most diverse population in California, a state where one out of every three wasn't born in America. Language is easy when you're raised with it. Learning a new language is something else. But most locals agree that being multi-lingual can be an important key to success.
Barry Brightwell of Brentwood learned to speak Spanish out of necessity. "I have Latino employees and communication with them is vital," he said. "It may sound strange, but learning Spanish helped me speak better English. It gave me a better understanding of grammar and word construction. Now I'd like to learn a Philippine language to talk more easily with my wife's family."
Oakley's Daniel De La Rosa sees knowing multiple languages as a way to learn about other people. "It's a big window on the world that brings people closer together. I find it a wonderful way to understand other cultures, he said. "I learned Spanish in my family and it's helped me in numerous ways."
"The easiest way to learn a foreign language is to immerse yourself in it," said Paula Carlson of Discovery Bay. "I did it with Spanish. I put myself in a situation where I was forced to learn it. I refused to speak English unless I absolutely had to. Almost any language can be learned that way in about three months."
Cedric May of Brentwood speaks only English but would like to learn Latin as a means of educational enjoyment. "I've done a lot of reading about the earth's ancient past. It fascinates me. I try to educate myself, but learning Latin takes more time," he said. "Maybe I'll learn to master Latin after I retire," he said.
Antioch's Chris Martin is another local who wants to learn Latin. "No one talks it any more, but a lot of songs I sang made a deep impression on me. There is so much beauty and depth in the language," he said. "It's unlikely that I'll ever master it. The best I can do is Pig-Latin and hardly anyone uses that any more."
Brentwood's Melanie Long is a school teacher who admits she would be better at her job if she spoke Spanish. "It would be very helpful in being able to better communicate with many of the parents," she said. "I took classes in Spanish in high school and college but it didn't stick. Learning multiple languages is a big plus in today's world."
Adrianna Pantell of Antioch agrees. "It's extremely helpful in the job market," she said. "I wish I could speak Spanish and I plan to go back to school when I have more time. I used to speak it a little. But it's easy to lose a language if you don't use it."
"I certainly plan for my son to be multi-lingual."
Julio Sanchez of Oakley speaks Spanish and now wants to add Chinese as his third language. "Language is vital for communication and better understanding of people's differences. China is on the rise as a power and being able to better communicate has to pay off big. One other thing, I like Chinese food when I eat out," he laughed.
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"In September we'll have been together for two years, but only about three months of that we were actually together," said Curt Meyers last month."The rest of the time it's over phones and computers. When we get married, we'll have to learn how to live with each other."Curt has been engaged to Claire Nelson since last December — but been deployed in Iraq as part of the National Guard almost since the two began dating.But they've known each other for a lot longer than that. Both graduated from Redwood Valley High School, Claire in 2000, and Curt in 2002.Neither can remember the first time he or she saw the other. They were always just sort of there in the background in high school."When I was a senior and he was a sophomore, my best friend got stood up for prom," said Claire. "Curt stepped up and said, 'I'll take her!'"As a result, the first-ever photos that show Curt and Claire in the same room at the same time show them with their other dates.(Also for the record, Curt was wearing a last-minute borrowed tuxedo from Bill Krinke — which fit perfectly.)Curt spoke to the Gazette on May 30, the day before his birthday, while home for rehab on his leg."I hurt my leg during training before my last deployment, and kept my mouth shut," he explained.With the deployment safely over, Curt came back to the states for surgery on his left knee, and nine months of rehab."I anticipate I'll be back in Morgan in September," Curt said, crossing his fingers. "The next time I come home, it'll be for good."After Claire graduated, the two good buds lost touch. After graduating from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, Claire went back and forth between Redwood Falls and Waterloo, South Dakota for nine years.Curt, for his part, joined the National Guard, and has been deployed several times when not working in Morgan."Whenever we'd see each other for the following 12 years, it would always be, 'How are you?' and a hug, and we'd catch up," said Claire."I'd always had a crush on her," Curt said.Claire looked at him. "You did?""I was a chicken."She moved back to Morgan in April 2011, and is currently foundation director for St. John's Circle of Care, a senior care facility in Springfield.The next she saw Curt was in autumn of 2010, while having lunch in Chumley's with her daughter Nadia, now seven."He was there, and came over to say hi," Claire said. "When he got up to leave, he gave me his phone number."A couple weeks later I was back in Redwood Falls. I gave him a call... and the rest is history."Since becoming a couple, he longest the two have been together in person is one month, from around mid-April to mid-May of 2011."We'll get a month together, then he'll be gone again for two or three months,"?Claire said.Curt proposed in late December, 2011, in the most romantic spot imaginable — the Mankato mall parking lot."We were Christmas shopping, looking at clothes and rings. It was my perfect day," said Claire."When we got in the truck, Curt said, 'Oh, I've got one more present. It's in the glove compartment.'"Claire opened the compartment and found two items: a box from Zale's jewelry store, and a can coozie."No way is he proposing. No way is he proposing when he's home on leave," Claire reasoned, and picked up the can coozie."You're giving me a can coozie?" she asked."Then I asked her to marry me, in the pickup, with the engine running," Curt said."I suppose I should give you an answer," said the stunned Claire. "I said, 'Of course I'll marry you, you (expletive deleted)!' and hit him in the arm."She added, "The weird thing is that the ring he bought me matched one I had picked out 20 minutes earlier in the mall — but he bought it a month earlier."Claire and Nadia are currently living with a friend in Morgan. Not for long, however; she and Curt have bought a house there."We put Curt's house on the market when he was on deployment, and last January, when he was on two weeks leave, we looked at another one," Claire said."It was all girls who went looking for houses," Curt said. "I just said, 'I'll trust you.'""It's been good for our relationship, having to learn to trust each other," said Claire. "We've had to learn we can rely on each other. When we got together for a weekend in Iowa, I took loads of papers for him to sign.""It's been very trying," Curt admitted. "With her job, and trying to run a household, we can't just sit down and talk.""We didn't get into a single fight during his whole deployment, but we did have some moments where we definitely had to stop talking," said Claire.Curt and Claire have set May 25, 2013 as their wedding date — depending on what the National Guard does between now and then."We were planning on August, but had to change it," said Curt. "August is when the guards have their annual training, so all my buddies wouldn't be able to go."The wedding is set for the Presbyterian Church in Redwood, hosted (as of this writing) by the team of Pastor Scott Prouty and Father Michael Doyle of St. Catherine's Catholic Church."We're having to do our marriage counseling with both of them,"?Claire said, "hopefully as soon as Curt gets home in September.""The little bits of time we have together, we get a lot of stuff done," said Curt. "There are many days when I don't want to talk about the wedding, I'm already overloaded."Sometimes when Curt was deployed in Iraq, there were literally time limitations on how long he and Claire could talk."You learn to say what you need to say when you know you might not talk for another week," said Curt.Even so, not all the phone calls had to be deadly serious."Once I called her at sunrise from the camp in Iraq, because the sky was absolutely gorgeous," said Curt.What advice do Claire and Curt have for couples having to plan a wedding long distance?"Think before you speak. So much can be misinterpreted over the phone," said Claire. "Don't be afraid to take a deep breath, take breaks, and say, 'We'll talk tomorrow.'""It's hard to be on the other side of the world, and wonder about your loved one,"?said Curt. "Things go through your mind.""It's been good for our relationship, learning to communicate," said Claire. "You learn to say weird or irrational things and not keep it all bottled up inside."Claire admitted that a long-distance engagement "can be kind of surreal. It's hard to get into the day--to-day engagement feeling when he's 600 miles away for rehab.""It'll be odd when you've been here for two weeks, and don't have to go someplace," said Claire.
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Two elderly sisters have been murdered in their home in Bamberg County.
It happened at 2502 Heritage Highway, in a rural part of the county.
While family members are trying to understand why someone would kill an 89 year old and a 75 year old, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has someone they want to question.
It's double murder mystery in a small town.
Late Sunday night, May 7, the home at 2502 Heritage Highway turned into a crime scene investigation.
Catherine Barnwell went to check on her 89-year-old mother-in-law, Netha Barnwell, and found Netha's body, along with the body of Netha's sister, 75-year-old Louise Smith.
"I came back out and I couldn't stay there and call, so I came back home and I told my daughter to call 911," she says.
It appeared the two had been beaten to death with an object...something that family members are trying to come to terms with.
"I don't want to believe that this happened," says Netha's son Carl. "I'm still out of it."
Family members say whoever committed these murders possibly knew the two women because there was no forced entry.
"She had to know the suspect, because she wouldn't let them in the house. They didn't break in. They was let in," Carl says.
Family members tried calling the two women all day Sunday. Carl Barnwell even went by for Sunday dinner.
He assumed when he saw his mother's car was gone that she went to run errands.
Now he believes the two were in the home all along, while the suspect used his mother's car to get away.
"They was there at that time," he says. "At that time they were probably dead."
"I knocked at the door, it was locked, so I sat on the porch for a few minutes 'cause the utility room was open and I thought she would be back home soon," Catherine says.
Netha Barnwell just celebrated her 89th birthday a week ago...and now SLED is trying to find out who robbed her of seeing her 90th.
"There was no other woman like my mama," Carl says.
SLED has a person of interest they want to talk to. His name is Charlie Beard.
He is a black male, 6'1", 250 pounds, and has a white birthmark on his chin. He was last seen with a clean-shaven head.
SLED agents believe he is driving the victim's black 1994, 2-door Toyota Camry, South Carolina license plate number 512 NXA.
If you see Charlie Beard or the car, do not approach him.
Call SLED at 803-896-7000 or your local law enforcement agency.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- For three seasons, the 49ers had every right to wonder whether they made the proper decision in selecting Michael Crabtree from a draft class full of standout wide receivers.
Crabtree's breakout performance this season ends any and all second-guessing as to whether the 49ers erred in bypassing the likes of Mike Wallace, Kenny Britt, Hakeem Nicks and Jeremy Maclin in the 2009 NFL draft.
Crabtree punctuated his season with eight catches for 172 yards and two touchdowns in a 27-13 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday at Candlestick Park.
He finished with 85 receptions for 1,105 yards and nine touchdowns, all career-highs by a considerable margin, and is headed into the playoffs with every right to lay claim to being the best receiver from his draft class.
You won't find any arguments from Crabtree's teammates.
"He's panning out," tight end Vernon Davis said. "He's doing everything that he's supposed to do, everything that the coaches ask of him, and he's becoming a terrific player."
On Sunday, Crabtree also became a 1,000-yard receiver for the first time in his four-year NFL career. He has progressed each season, going from 625 yards his rookie season to 741 in 2010 and 874 last season.
"Crabtree has been unbelievable this season," 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis said. "And that's the way it should be. Each season, you're supposed to get better."
Just don't expect Crabtree to crow about his accomplishments, made even more impressive with a receiving corps missing Mario Manningham and Kyle Williams and defenses keying on Crabtree more and more.
"My dude made it happen," Crabtree said as he turned toward quarterback Colin Kaepernick at the podium. "I'm just running routes and trying to make plays."
Even more impressive, both of Crabtree's touchdowns came against Cardinals standout cornerback Patrick Peterson, including one in which he snared Kaepernick's pass despite the visual distraction provided by Peterson's going for the interception.
He also made a nice grab of a Kaepernick laserlike throw that he turned into a 49-yard touchdown in the second quarter.
However, his most impressive catch came on a sideline pass, where Crabtree reached high for a pass over his head and hauled it in with his right hand before running out of bounds.
"Remarkable," 49ers left offensive tackle Joe Staley said. "He's a beast, a big playmaker for us. He always comes up big."
Crabtree always has had impressive hands. In fact, coach Jim Harbaugh calls Crabtree's hands the best he has ever seen. Crabtree's leap in production this season owes more to his penchant for eluding defenders and turning short reception into long gainers.
"His yards after the catch are unbelievable," Staley said. "I don't think there's a better wide receiver in the NFL as far as yards after the catch, and you can probably back that up with stats."
No need. It was on full display here Sunday once again. Several times, Crabtree caught a short pass, juked the nearest defender and rambled for a first down and then some.
By now, Harbaugh has come to expect such exploits from Crabtree.
"He's done that all season long," Harbaugh said. "He's had a terrific season. He's done it so many times. In multiple games, he's given us a big lift or a spark."
Crabtree isn't among the nine 49ers selected to the Pro Bowl. Such accolades surely are on the horizon, at this rate.
That's fine as far as Crabtree is concerned. The thing he truly covets remains in play, thanks in large part to his consistent play all season.
"I'm trying to get to the Super Bowl," Crabtree said.
That's something Wallace, Britt, Nicks and Maclin can't accomplish this season.
With Crabtree, the 49ers stand a fighting chance, Davis said.
"That's what we got to have on this team in order to win championship games," Davis said of Crabtree's consistent play. "It's just a matter of time before a guy can learn the system and get a grasp of the NFL world. That's what he's doing. He's grasping it and he's taking off."


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- If the meter box is pulled away from your house and you have no power, the homeowner is responsible for contacting an electrician for a permanent fix. In some instances, an electrical inspection may be required before Duke Energy can reconnect your service. Your electrician should be aware and advise you accordingly.
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August 15 would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. In her honor, chef Christy Rost, who hosts an annual PBS national special, "A Home for Christy Rost: Thanksgiving" from Swan's Nest, her restored 1898 Breckenridge home, paid homage to the cooking legend.
Rost toured Pennsylvania and Ohio this month, giving a series of culinary tributes in honor of Child, who not only taught French cookery to generations of viewers but also made groundbreaking contributions to public television. Rost demonstrated three of Child's classic recipes and shared personal possessions of the late chef, whom she knew. Here, Rost discusses how Julia Child impacted her career:
I first met Julia Child when I attended a culinary conference in Portland in 1995. She was very interested in young culinarians -what we were doing, what our goals were, what our difficulties were and our successes - and she was very open to developing a relationship with me. So, through the years, I would speak to Julia as I progressed and grew my career.
I was certainly a fan of Julia's and the incredible influence she had on American culture and cooking at home for our families. She represents so much for all of us in American culture, from a respect for time-honored cooking traditions, to letting one's guard down and embracing the fun and adventure of cooking, undaunted by unfamiliar ingredients or culinary techniques, in order to bring delectable food experiences to the family table. Again, her spirit was inspiring because she was so comfortable with being herself, whether one-on-one or with thousands watching her on television.
Julia and Jacques Pepin were visiting Dallas on a book tour. At the conclusion of the signing, I approached Julia and assisted her off the stage, and she asked me how my TV show was doing. I replied, "It is doing very well, Julia." She continued, "Is it on PBS?" I said, "No. It is on local TV here in DFW in Fort Worth," and Julia said, "One day, Christy, you should have your own PBS show." And I never forgot that.
I would consider Julia a cheerleader, and champion of my work.
The culinary tributes to Julia Child were exciting and extremely well received by the culinary enthusiasts I met in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Everyone wanted to know about my relationship with Julia Child, the conversations I had with her, and the influence she had over my culinary career. They were especially excited about seeing the items I had from Julia's kitchen, and I think they greatly appreciated the opportunity to taste some of Julia's classic recipes, such as French onion soup and homemade puff pastry.
I brought two metal frosting spatulas, both of which are signed "JC" - one on a piece of masking tape, and one in silver ink. I also brought two pastry brushes, one of which has writing on the handle on both sides in French, and an unusually-shaped wooden spoon that appears to have been made to get into the edges of a pan. It appears to have been a well-loved piece. I purchased the items at a culinary conference to benefit scholarships for culinary students. It was a cause that Julia Child heartily supported and she donated the items for this purpose. I also brought three framed photographs taken with Julia at various stages in my career, and the audiences fell in love with the photographs.
Fans tell me they like the fact that I am real, that I am interested in them and that my passion for family and home cooking ignites a similar passion in them.
Living in Summit County has expanded my culinary repertoire in a way I could not have anticipated, and my life is further enriched for it. The readers of "Celebrating Home" will have the opportunity to fall in love with the foods that we enjoy in this part of the country.
Christy Rost's Thanksgiving program has enjoyed great success since its premiere in 2009, reaching more than 86 percent of the country, on 338 stations in 43 states. The show will air again in November. Her latest book, "Celebrating Home: A Handbook for Gracious Living," is due out in September.


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Highway 12 is now open to all traffic in both directions after a multi-vehicle traffic collision blocked the roadway west of Tower Park, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The accident occurred around 11 a.m., according to the California Department of Transportation, and closed the highway initially for nearly an hour. One lane reopened just before noon and remained open for about two hours, allowing alternating traffic in both directions to pass through.
Later the westbound lane was shut down and all westbound traffic was stopped. There are now no lane restrictions.
The accident involved several vehicles, including a big rig which was on its side and on fire. The driver of the big rig suffered minor injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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Foodborne illnesses are always a concern in the U.S. food supply. E. coli and salmonella are among the outbreaks we've become fairly used to hearing about in the news. FoodFacts.com follows food recalls on our website to keep our community notified of issues with specific products that often include foodborne illnesses. In January of 2011 the firm major reform of food safety laws in seven decades was enacted. The Food Safety Modernization Act was passed with the purpose of making food safer and reducing foodborne illness. It's been two years and the FDA has put forward a draft for the new rules which has been open for public comment.
According to the Farm Bureau, however, the new regulations may just be too broad to do this job the way it needs to be done. Farmers have very specific concerns with the new regulations and believe that the FDA seems to be unwilling to focus specifically on the commodities that are most often associated with foodborne illness.
"We urge the FDA to reconsider standards that take into account the relative risks and comparative benefits associated with individual commodities. The FDA should initially propose regulations for only those commodities with a history of microbial contamination," the Farm Bureau wrote in lengthy comments recently submitted to the FDA.
Only once those regulations are successfully put in place and enforced, should the FDA even consider expanding regulations to cover other commodities.
"We know that there have been problems with E. coli in leafy greens or with salmonella in tomatoes, for example, and the industry has voluntarily taken the initiative to curb some of those problems," said Kelli Ludlum, American Farm Bureau Federation food safety specialist. "That's where it really makes sense for FDA to focus their efforts. Unfortunately, they've chosen to go significantly broader than that and regulate a whole scope of commodities that have never had foodborne illnesses, and, because of the way they're grown and consumed, are very unlikely to have those issues."
Including low- and no-contamination risk commodities is a waste of both growers' and the governments' time and money.
"Instead of shrinking the size of the haystack in which they're looking for that public health threat needle, by choosing to regulate all produce, they're only making that haystack bigger, which neither farmers nor government inspectors and regulators have the resources for," Ludlum said.
Specifically, because considerable changes to the draft rules are expected to be made as a result of public comments, the Farm Bureau believes a second draft of the proposed rule should be put out in order to work through the regulatory process adequately. Congressional lawmakers agree and are also calling for another round of comments. 30 senators and 45 House members said they were concerned about the impact of proposed rules on farmers and businesses that an additional comment period could help alleviate.
"We encourage the FDA to release a second draft of the combined produce safety, preventive controls for human food and animal feed, foreign supplier verification program and third-party audit certification rules to allow for sufficient review as to how all the rules are intended to work together," Farm Bureau wrote.
Farmers are clearly concerned by the possibility of over-regulation that may not be necessary to ensure the safety of the food supply. While new regulation has clearly been needed and food safety is of the utmost importance to all Americans, the Farm Bureau's concerns certainly pose a significant question regarding the FDA's overarching approach to the issue. Time and money are important resources for both the government and America's farmers. We'd be happy to see a second round of public comments to help the FDA arrive at a sensible set of much needed food safety rules that work for the government, the growers and consumers.


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Building on the tradition and success of the previous Rock sponsored tournaments, Newtown Rock Fastpitch Softball is proud to announce its 1st Annual Rock Halloween Spook-tacular tournament. We will be offering both 10U and 12U divisions with teams carrying their 2011 rosters only please. Each division will play a minimum of 4 games, with 12 teams maximum per division.
This is an open tournament for 10U and 12U teams with 2011 rosters and will be played according to ASA rules, no new inning after 1 hour 15 minutes, 3 seeding games on Saturday and single-elimination on Sunday. 10U teams will be permitted to field a minimum of 8 players without the penalty of an automatic out for the 9th batter; this is as long as you do not have any reserve or bench players available. There will be free substitutions along with full team batting to give coaches plenty of opportunities to evaluate their players before they transition into the winter training phase of their season. We have four fields at our main softball complex and they are very well maintained. Our softball complex has full amenities and is conveniently located very close to I-95 near the Delaware River.
We will have a full menu provided by award-winning caterer Chef Joseph - Executive Chef & Owner of Liberty Belle Cruise Ship & Catering along with a full compliment of snacks as well. Previous Rock tournaments at our older age groups have traditionally filled-up quickly, so please register your team soon. We would like to thank you for considering this 1st annual tournament when planning you fall tournament schedule.
The tournament application form is posted on our softball organization's website: www.rockfastpitch.com/tournaments. If you have any questions please feel free to email the tournament director at: email@example.com. If you are not currently involved with your organization's 10U or 12U teams please forward the tournament information to the proper contacts that represent your teams.
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It all starts when you name them. Bessie. Sophie. Fred.
Seems innocuous enough, but once names are bestowed upon motor vehicles they start to think they're somebody, imbued with human personalities and quirks and motivations. They appear to have minds of their own, telling us our doors are ajar when we gosh darned know they're not, then heading out on the open road and careening down the slippery slope -- despite Vehicle Stability Assist systems and anti-lock brakes -- into a future with artificially intelligent computer brains crammed somewhere in the glove compartment.
It's happening, people. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation last Tuesday paving the way for self-driving vehicle technology to enter our roadways as soon as five years from now. Google has already been testing such cars, logging nearly 300,000 accident-free miles so far. They're touted as safer than those operated by poor fallible humans drivers. These capable cars can't get drunk or miss signal lights or be distracted by kids in the back seat. It's cartopia.
Really? Haven't we all learned from Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King and pretty much every "Star Trek" episode that machines with such "brains" will inevitably malfunction, develop malevolent tendencies and/or become possessed by the devil and plot a course to kill us all? Didn't anybody see "Christine?" That was King's 1983 cautionary tale in which a really evil Satan-possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury gets in a jealous snit and starts running down friends of her beloved owner and crushing would-be drivers against her steering wheel. Or what about the big rigs that come to life -- allegedly at the behest of extraterrestrial conquerors -- and push Emilio Estevez around in "Maximum Overdrive"?
Or look at "Cars," for crying out loud. Sure it's all Disney/Pixar happy-happy. But really look at it. The autos have a whole town to themselves. There are no people there -- anywhere -- probably because the vicious vehicles have killed them and stuffed them in their ample trunks or buried them under their driveways. That's probably what happened to Hoffa. And it's not just a movie anymore. It's come to life in a theme park ride at Disney's California Adventure, luring humans to their doom in the place next door to the happiest place on earth.
Next in line
Even while humanity still exists, the future world of driverless cars will make "driver" cars seem so quaint. There will probably be a classic 2012 Honda Civic installed in the Smithsonian and parents will explain to their children how people actually used to operate those things, moving a wheel and pushing on little pedals with their feet. "Why, Papa?" a future child will ask, and a future father will say, "I don't know, son. I don't know." Then they'll shake their heads and move on to the iPhone exhibit.
Of course, there could be a silver lining: no more DMV. Sure, it'll be around for a while, keeping itself busy with new driverless-car regulations. But there will be no need for eye tests or questions about the distance for engaging a turn signal when approaching a street corner. Is it 500 feet? Or 300 feet? How do you know what 300 feet is? It's three football fields. But I don't drive on football fields!
Apparently the person sitting in the gratuitous "wheel" position will still have to have some kind of operating permit, but that, too, will fade into the rear view mirror of the past. Patty and Selma will be out of a job and unable to afford cigarettes, but cigarettes will be illegal and/or self-smoking by then anyway.
You go, girl
I got a taste of self-driving cars last week when my husband and I ventured into the aforementioned Cars ride. Oh, it's totally cute. Too cute. We were strapped into a little green sports car (hmm, no steering wheel -- curious) then gently rolled around bluffs and cacti and into the adorable people-free town of Radiator Springs, arriving at the racetrack where we were supposed to ... go! And ... go! And ... why aren't we going? Oh, guess what. There was a "malfunction." A 15-minute one. And oh, guess what. They sent us through again, and there was another malfunction. A 20-minute one. Maybe the adorable little car just didn't feel like moving. Maybe she had a mind of her own.
Maybe her name was Christine.


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Book Review: Ignorant Yobs? – the education and training of 'low attainers'
January 3, 2013
Robin Richardson
What is to be done, asks Sally Tomlinson, about low attainers? The question refers to about a fifth of the children and young people in countries such as the UK, Germany and the United Sates and refers not only to education and training systems but also to social, political and economic policies. It is also, clearly, a moral question.
Polite and apparently objective alternatives to the term 'low attainers' include or have included less able, backward, retarded, slow learners, below average, special needs. Terms which are rather less polite and neutral appear daily in the media and in middle-class conversations – yobs, chavs, feckless, lazy, plebs, underclass, dull, thick, shirkers, scroungers. Either way the language is pejorative, and the attitudes are at best paternalistic and patronising and at worst fearful, demonising and punitive.
What to do about low attainers has been a question for western governments at least since the start of compulsory education some 150 years ago. When unskilled or semi-skilled work in agriculture or manufacturing was readily available, the answers were not too difficult to find. Now that such jobs have declined or disappeared in western countries, and that enterprises operate in global not national contexts, the answers are much more elusive. Sally Tomlinson explores the difficulties and dilemmas with regard to five countries in particular – Finland, Germany, Malta, United Kingdom and United States. Her analysis and conclusions are relevant for a wide range of countries, not for these five only. Read more of this post


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(B)Irving's misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the sources: the Goebbels diary entry of 27 April 1942 and Hitler's table talk of 15 May 1942
1. In his table talk on 15 May 1942, as recorded by Henry Picker, Hitler stated that the Jews were being deported to the East, and admitted that there was apparently some opposition to this policy among the German population:
Our so-called bourgeoisie is lamenting today over just the same Jew who back then [in 1918] carried out this stab in the back, when he is pushed out to the East. The remarkable thing about it is that this bourgeoisie didn't however concern itself with the fact that 250,000 to 300,000 German people were emigrating from Germany a year, and about 75 per cent of the German emigrants to Austalia already died during the journey. No stratum of the population is more stupid in political things as this so-called bourgeoisie. If for reasons of state one renders a definite racial pest harmless, for example by beating him to death, then the entire bourgeoisie cries out that the state is a violent state. If however the Jew drives the German person with juridicial chicanery tobs the German person of his professional existence, takes his house and home from him, destroy his family, then finally drives him to emigration and the German person then loses his life on the journey to his emigration destination, then the bourgeoisie calls the state in which that is possible a state founded on the rule of law, because this entire tragedy has indeed been played out completely within the context of the possibilities offered by the law.
That the Jew as a parasite is the person on earth most able to withstand any climate, and in contrast to the German settles down in Lapland just as in the tropics, is considered by not a single one [of the people] who weeps his crocodile tears after a Jew transported off to the East. In this case, as a rule, however, we have to do in the case of this philistine with a person who imagines he stands firmly on the basis of the Bible, although, however, he does not know that according to the reports of the Old Testament, the Jew cannot be harmed either by a sojourn in the desert nor a march through the Red Sea.30
2.A related statement was recorded by Goebbels on 27 April 1942 in his diary. Here, Hitler spoke about 'pushing Jews out of Europe', which since the failure of the Madagascar plan in the autumn of 1941 had meant deportations to the East into the former Soviet territory:
I talk through the Jewish question extensively once more with the Führer. His standpoint with regard to this problem is unrelenting. He wants to force the Jews out of Europe absolutely. That is also right thus. The Jews have brought so much suffering upon our part of the earth that the hardest punishment that one can impose upon them is still too lenient. Himmler is pressing ahead at the moment with the great resettlement of the Jews from the German towns to the Eastern ghettos.31
3. These quotes do not show, as Irving has claimed, that Hitler was completely ignorant of the extermination of the Jews at this time. In this diary entry, Goebbels describes Hitler as radical and unrelenting, just as he does in his diary entry of 27 March 1942. By this time, Goebbels already knew that 'resettlement' meant that the Jews were being exterminated in the East (as proven by his diary entry of 27 March 1942). So it is unlikely that he would have characterised Hitler's views as "radical,"(27 March 1942 and "unrelenting" (27 April 1942) if Hitler in reality had only been aiming to push the Jews out of Western and Central Europe, and not to kill them as well. This characterisation of Hitler as radical and unrelenting makes sense only if Hitler, like Goebbels, also knew that 'pushing the Jews out of Europe' meant killing them when they got to the East.
4. This conclusion suggests that at his table talk of 15 May 1942, some three weeks after Goebbels diary entry of 27 April 1942, Hitler was well aware of the fate of the Jews in the East, despite his suggestion that Jews were able to 'withstand any climate'. For, whatever Hitler's reasons were for this absurd and cynical claim (which he had already made in similar form on 4 April 1942)32, Jews transported to the East faced a much worse enemy than a hostile climate: they had to face the Einsatzgruppen, the SS gassing facilities and other agencies of the Nazi killing machine, all hell-bent upon exterminating the Jews. In his table talk, Hitler even hinted at the violent fate of the Jews when he referred to 'racial pests' or 'Volksschädlinge' being beaten to death. The context of this remark, with its juxtaposition to the (completely unfounded) claim that Jews had driven Germans from Germany in conditions in which many German emigrants died, clearly indicates that it was intended to refer to the killing of Jews.
5. Even this brief investigation makes clear that Irving's claim that these sources show that Hitler was ignorant of the extermination of the Jews is untenable. This conclusion is supported by further examination of the documents. What the Goebbels diary entry of 27 April 1942 and Hitler's table talk of 15 May 1942 have in common is that Hitler speaks about the concrete fate of the Jews in rather general terms. Thus, he refers to Jews being 'pushed out to the East', Jews being 'transported off to the East', and Jews being forced 'out of Europe'. What did these terms stand for and why were they employed by the Nazis? There was a central ambiguity in both Hitler's recorded private conversations and in his and Nazi propaganda. Genocide and extermination were invoked and justified in general terms, while the political reality and the detailed mechanics of the extermination programme were treated as a state secret and generally only referred to in coded language such as 'transported off to the East'. There are a large number of instances where Hitler spoke openly about exterminating the Jews, at a time when these mass killings were already taking place.
6. These statements by Hitler are recorded in a great number of different sources, ranging from comments he made in private meetings to statements he uttered in public speeches. Irving either ignores these examples, or distorts their significance (as this Report has already demonstrated in its examination of Irving's account of the Goebbels diary entry of 27 March 1942 and Irving's account of the Hitler table talk on 25 October 1941), or disputes their veracity. These statements clearly suggest that Hitler was not ignorant about the fate of the Jews and that he did not merely assume that they were being transported to the East. Despite the fact that Hitler was careful not to mention any specifics or details about the extermination programme set up in the East or give anything away about its manner of operation, what he said was quite clear in its general reference to what was going on.
7. Already on 19 August 1941, almost two months after the murders of Soviet Jews by the SS task forces had begun, Goebbels noted in his diary:
We speak about the Jewish problem. The Führer is convinced that his former prophecy in the Reichstag, that, if Jewry succeeded once more in provoking a world war, it would end with the annihilation of the Jews, is being confirmed. It is being rendered true in these weeks and months with a certainty that seems almost uncanny. In the East the Jews have to pay the price; in Germany they have paid it already in part and in future they will have to pay yet more. Their last refuge remains North America; and there they will also have to pay some time, sooner or later.34
8. In Hitler's table talk on 25 October 1941, as we have already seen, the following statement was recorded:
In the Reichstag, I prophesied to Jewry, the Jew will disappear from Europe if war is not avoided. This race of criminals has the two million dead of the [First World] war on its conscience, and now hundreds of thousands again. Nobody can tell me: But we can't send them into the morass! For who bothers about our people? It's good if the terror that we are exterminating Jewry goes before us...I'm forced to pile up an enormous amount of things myself; but that doesn't mean that what I take cognisance of without reacting to it immediately, just disappears. It goes into an account; one day the book is taken out. I had to remain inactive for a long time against the Jews too.35
9. In a meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on 28 November 1941, Hitler explained (according to the official minutes) that 'Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews' and that when the German armies had reached the southern exit from the Caucasus, 'the Führer would on his own give the Arab world the assurance that its hour of liberation had arrived. Germany's objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power.'36 On 12 December 1941, a few days after the first Jews had been killed at the extermination camp set up in Chelmno, Hitler spoke about the Jews in front of the Gauleiter (noted down by Goebbels):
With reference to the Jewish question, the Führer is determined to clear the decks. He prophesied to the Jews that if they should once more bring about a world war, they would experience their own annihilation in doing so. That was no mere talk. The world war is there, the annihilation of Jewry must be the necessary consequence.37
10. Only two days after this speech, Hitler met with Alfred Rosenberg, the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern territories, who showed him the manuscript of a speech he planned to make. As Rosenberg noted down on 16 December 1941, he [Rosenberg]'took the standpoint of not talking about the extirpation of Jewry. The Führer approved of this position and said, they had forced the war on us and they had brought destruction, it was no wonder if the consequences affected them first.'38
15. In his table talk on 25 January 1942, Hitler expressed sentiments similar to the ones at the table talk on 15 May 1942 discussed above:
If I take the Jews out today, then our bourgeoisie becomes unhappy: what is happening then with them? But have the same people troubled themselves about what would become of the Germans who had to emigrate? One must do it quickly, it is no better if I have one tooth pulled out by a few centimetres [sic] every three months -, when it is out, the pain is gone. The Jew has to get out of Europe. Otherwise we get no European understanding. He incites people the most, everywhere. In the end: I don't know, I'm colossally humane. The Jews were maltreated at the time of the Pope's rule in Rome. Up to 1830 eight Jews were driven through the city every year with donkeys. I am just saying, he has to go. If he collapses in the course of it, I can't help there. I only see one thing: absolute extermination, if they don't go of their own accord. Why should I look at a Jew with other eyes than at a Russian prisoner of war? Many are dying in the prison camps because we have been driven into this situation by the Jews. But what can I do about that? Why then did the Jews instigate the war?39
16. Hitler came back to his 'prophecy' of the extermination of the Jews in a widely-transmitted speech in the Reichstag on 30 January 1942. Irving merely comments that in his speech, Hitler 'reminded his audience of his "prophetic warning" to the world's Jews in 1939'.40 In fact, Hitler was much more explicit:
I have already pronounced it in the Reichstag on 1 September 1939 - and I guard myself against premature prophecies - , that this war will not end as the Jews imagine, namely that the European-Aryan peoples will be exterminated, but that the result of this war will be the annihilation of Jewry. For the first time the truly old Jewish law is being applied this time: 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!'.41
17. Hitler came back to these same sentiments in the following month. In his diary on 15 February 1942, Goebbels recorded a conversation he had had the previous day with him:Nor was this the only such statement.
The Führer gives expression once again to his opinion that he is determined to clear out the Jews in Europe. One must not have any sentimental moods here. The Jews have earned the catastrophe which they are experiencing today. They will also experience their own annihilation. We must speed up this process with a cold ruthlessness, and we are thereby performing an inestimable service for humanity, which has suffered and been tortured by the Jews for millennia. This clear attitude of enmity towards the Jews must also be implemented in our own people against all rebellious groups. The Führer emphasises that explicitly, also again afterwards amongst the army officers, who can just remember that.
The great chances which this war is offering us are recognized in their entire import by the Führer. He is conscious today of the fact that he is fighting a battle of gigantic dimensions, and that the fate of the whole of civilized humanity depends on the outcome of this struggle.42
18. At Hitler's table talk on 22 February 1942, the following statement was recorded:
It is one of the greatest revolutions there has ever been in the world. The Jew will be identified! The same fight that Pasteur and Koch had to fight must be led by us today. Innumerable sicknesses have their origin in one bacillus: the Jew! Japan would also have got them if it had remained open any longer to the Jew. We will get well when we eliminate the Jew.43
19. On 24 February 1942 a statement by Hitler was announced to NSDAP party members in Munich which again made a reference to his 'prophecy':
Today the idea of our National Socialist, and that of the fascist revolution, have conquered great and powerful states, and my prophecy will find its fulfilment, that through this war Aryan humankind will not be annihilated, but the Jew will be exterminated. Whatever the struggle may bring with it or however long it may last, this will be its final result. And only then, with the removal of these parasites, will a long period of understanding between nations, and with it true peace, come upon the suffering world.44
20. These statements, made between the late Summer of 1941 and February 1942, clearly suggest that Hitler was well aware that Jews were not merely being deported to the East, but were being killed there. When he talked about the Jews, Hitler frequently referred to their murderous fate: as we have seen, he spoke repeatedly of their 'annihilation', 'destruction', 'extermination' and 'elimination' and also referred to the Jews going 'kaputt' and experiencing a 'catastrophe'.
21. Clearly, he gave no detailed descriptions of the killing programmes. It is important to note that leading Nazis, including Hitler, rarely spoke openly about the extermination of the Jews, but rather used euphemistic or coded language, such as 'resettlement in the East' when referring to the details of the extermination of the Jews. After the realisation that the Madagascar plan was unrealistic because of Britain's naval dominance, leading Nazi officials in spring 1941 apparently advanced the plan to transport the Jews 'to the East' into the territory of the Soviet Union, once it had been defeated by Germany. There, they would slowly die of hunger, or be worked to death.45 However, these plans were never realised, and by the spring of 1942 Jews from both Eastern and Western Europe were being systematically exterminated, mainly in the newly established extermination camps. Despite this reality, many Nazis continued to use terms like 'deportation to the East', when they were really talking about mass murder. This terminology no longer stood for the plan of actually transporting Jews to the former Soviet territory, but for extermination.
22. The element of secrecy surrounding the Final Solution was a central motive for this linguistic camouflage. All officials in the extermination camps were sworn to secrecy.46 The SS leader Heinrich Himmler referred to the extermination of the Jews on 4 October 1943 as 'a glorious page in our history and one that has never been written and can never be written'.47 On 25 September 1941, Hitler had decreed the 'Fundamental Order Number 1', which ordered that no member of a party, government or military agency was to be informed or seek to know more than was required for the enactment of his or her duties.48 This order for secrecy clearly covered the operational details of the 'final solution'. As Henry Picker, who had recorded many of Hitler's table talks, noted: 'Over state secrets, Hitler was totally uncommunicative. He told us nothing in his table talk about the extermination of the Jews in the concentration camps...His conversations nevertheless revealed his deep-rooted and fanatical hatred for all other races.'49
23. Historians have put forward various reasons why the Nazi leaders tried to keep the operational details of the extermination of the Jews secret. For instance, regarding Hitler's private conversations, the late Martin Broszat, for many years director of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History, pointed out that Hitler avoided speaking about the exterminations, and indeed did not have to, as he knew, 'what he could expect of his entourage'.50 The use of coded language at Hitler's lunch and dinner table avoided uncomfortable discussions and maintained a harmony among the guests which would have been disturbed by an admission of the detailed arrangements for the extermination of the Jews. As far as any public announcement was concerned, leading Nazis had become more careful about the impact of public statements of murder actions after details of the 'euthanasia' killings of the mentally and physically disabled had become known to a wider audience. In this case, the public disquiet about the killings had contributed to the temporary stop of the 'euthanasia' programme in 1941.51
24. Thus, in general, leading Nazis and other officials used coded terms when describing the programme for the extermination of the Jews. However, there are various known examples where the individuals involved themselves revealed what these terms really stood for. For instance, in his notorious speech to SS leaders in Posen on 4 October 1943, the SS leader Heinrich Himmler spoke of 'the Jewish evacuation programme, the extermination of the Jewish people', using the two as synonomous.52
25. Another example can be found in a statement by Adolf Eichmann, one of the leading bureaucrats in the Reich Security Head Office dealing with the extermination of the Jews. Eichmann was examined in 1961 by his defence lawyer during his trial in Jerusalem, and gave evidence on the use of technical language or euphemistic terms by the Nazis to avoid open reference to the killing of the Jews. Asked about the minutes of the Wannsee conference of 20 January 1942, which he had drawn up, Eichmann explained:
The minutes reproduce the essential points factually and correctly, but of course they are notword for-word minutes, because the, shall we say, certain excesses, a certain jargon that was used, had to be clothed in official words by me, and these minutes, I believe, were corrected 3 or 4 times by Heydrich.53
26. Thus, while the participants in the discussion openly talked about 'killing, elimination, and annihilation,54 the minutes drawn up by Eichmann refers only to the 'evacuation of the Jews to the East' and the 'final solution of the European Jewish Question'.55 Camouflage language was also used in the various reports by the Einsatzgruppen, which carried out the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet territory. However, in some of these reports, euphemistic terms like 'resettlement', 'deportation' and 'special treatment' are used interchangeably with terms like 'liquidation', 'executed', 'shot' and 'extermination'.56
27. Another such example is Goebbels's diary entry of 27 March 1942, which this Report has already examined above. Here, Goebbels had first noted that the Jews were being 'pushed out to the East', only to then explain later that this meant that 60% of these Jews were being exterminated (while keeping quiet about the details of the methods of extermination), and the rest 'put to work'. In his table talk on 15 May 1942, Hitler used precisely the same words as Goebbels. He spoke of Jews being 'pushed out to the East' and 'transported off to the East'.
28. In the light of Goebbels's diary entry of 27 March 1942, as well as the general comments made above on the use of coded language by leading Nazis, it is highly likely that Hitler knew perfectly well what the term stood for. Such language cannot be used as proof for Hitler's ignorance of the extermination. The evidence points very strongly indeed in the opposite direction to Irving's theses, and Irving is unable to deal with it except by blatant manipulation and suppression.
30. Das Bemerkenswerte daran sei, daß dieses Bürgertum sich seinerzeit aber nicht darum gekümmert habe, daß jährlich 250 000 bis 300 000 deutsche Menschen aus Deutschland auswanderten und ca. 75 Prozent der deutschen Auswanderer nach Australien bereits auf der Reise starben. Keine Bevölkerungsschicht sei in politischen Dingen blöder als dieses sogennante Bürgertum. Wenn man von Staats wegen einen ausgresprchenen Volksschädling unschädliche mache, zum Beispiel totschlage, dann schreie das ganze Bürgertum, der Staat sei ein brachialer Staat. Wenn aber der Jude den deutschen Menschen...zur Auswanderung treibe, und der deutsche Mensch dann auf der Fahrt nach seinem Auswanderungsziel sein Leben verliere, so nenne das Bürgertum den Staat, in dem das möglich sei, einen Rechtsstaat...'Um eben denselben juden, der damals diesen Dolchstoß geführt habe, lamentiere heute unser sogenanntes Bürgertum, wenn er nach dem Osten abgeschoben werde. 'Um eben denselben Juden, der damals diesen Dolchstoßgefürht habe, lamentiere heute under sogenanntes Bürgertum, wenn er nach dem Osten abgeschoben werde.'Das Bemerkenswerte daran sei, daß dieses Buürgertum sich seinerzeit aber nicht darum gekümmert habe, daß jährlich 250 000 bis 300 000 deutsche menshen aus Deutschland auswanderten und ca. 75 Prozent der deutschen Auswanderer nach Australien bereits auf der Reise starben. Keine Bevölkerungsshcicht sei in politischen Dingen blöderals dieses sogennante Bürgertum. Wenn man von Staats wegen einen ausgesprochenen Volksschädling unschädliche mache, zum Beispiel totschlage, dann schrei das ganze Bürgertum, der Staat sei ein brachialer Staat. Wenn aber der Jude den deutschen Menshen... ihn mit juristichen Spitzfindigkeiten um seine berufliche Existenz bringe, ihm Haus und Hof nehme, ihm seine Familie zerstuore, ihn so schließlich zur Auswanderung treibe, und der deutsche Mensch dann auf der Fahrt nach seinem Auswanderungsziel sein Leben verliere, so nenne das Bürgertum den Staat, in dem das möglich sei, einen Rechtsstaat... weil sich diese ganze Tragödie ja völlig im Rahmen juristischer Paragraphenmöglichkeiten abgespielt habe. Daßder Jude als Parasit der klimafesteste Mensch der Erde sei und sich im Gegensatz zum Deutschen in Lappland genauso wie in den Tropen einlebe, das bedenke natürlich kein einziger, der seine Krokodilstränen hinter einem nach dem Osten abtransportierten Juden herweine. Dabei handlet es sich bei diesem Spießaber in der Regel um einen Menschen, der sich auf seine Bibelfestigkeit etwas einbilde, trotzdem aber nicht wisse, daß nach den Berichten des Alten Testaments dem Juden weder ein Aufenthalt in der Wüste noch ein Marsch durchs Rote Meer etwas anhaben könne'; H. Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führenhauptquartier (Berlin, 1977), pp. 434-436.
31. 'Ich spreche mit dem Führer noch einmal ausführlich die Judenfrage durch. Sein Standpuckt diesem Problem gegenüber ist unerbitterlich. Er will die Juden absolut aus Europa herausdrängen. Das is auch richtig so. Die Juden haben unserem Erdteil so viel Leid zugefügt, daß die härteste Strafe, die man über sie verhängen kann, immer noch zu milde ist. Himmler betreibt augenblicklich die große Umsiedlung der Juden aus den deutschen Städten nach den östlichen Ghettos'; E. Frölich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Geobbels, Teil II, Vol. 4 (Munich, 1996), p. 184. In his translation of this passage, Irving fails to translate the alst sentences; see Irving, Hilter's War (London, 1991), p. 465.
32. Picker recorded Hitler as saying that Jews were 'das klimafestete Wesen' and 'gediehen überall, sogar in Lappland und Sibirien'; Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche (Berlin, 1997), p. 262
33. See D. Banker, 'The Use of Antisemitism in Nazi wartime propaganda', in M. Berenbaum, A. J. Peck (eds.), The Holocaust in History. The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (Bloomington, Indianapolis, 1998), pp. 41-55; V. Ulrich '"Wir haben nichts davon gewußt" - Ein deutsches Trauma', 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 4 (October 1991), p. 11-46.
34. Wir reden über das Judenproblem. Der Führer ist der Überzeugung, daß seine damalige Prophezeiung im Reichstag, daß, wenn es dem Judentum gelänge, noch einmal einen Weltkrieg zu provozieren, er mit der Vermichtung der Juden enden würde, sich bestätigt. Sie bewahrheitet sich in diesen Wochen und Monaten mit einer fast unheimlich anmutenden Sicherheit. Im Osten müssen die Juden die Zeche bezahlen; in Deutschland haben sie sie zum Teil schon bezahlt und werden sie in Zukunft nich mehr bezahlen müssen. Ihre letzte Zuflucht bleibt Nordamerika; und dort werden sie über kurz oder lang auch einmal bezahlen müssen' E. Frölich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Geobbels, Teil II, Vol. 1 (Munich, 1996), p. 269.
35. 'Vor dem Reichstag habe ich dem Judentum prophezeit, der Jude werde aus Europa verschwinden, wenn der Krieg nicht vermieden bleibt. Diese Verbrecherrasse hat die zwei Millionen Toten des Weltkrieges auf dem Gewissen, jetzt wieder Hundertausende. Sage mir keiner: Wir können sie doch nicht in den Morast schicken! Wer kümmert sich denn um unsere Menschen? Es ist gut, wenn uns der Schrecken vorangeht,daß wir das Judentum ausrotten...Ich bin gezwungen, ungeheuer viel bei mir aufzuhäufen; das bedeutet aber nicht, daß in mir erlischt, was ich ohne gleich zu reagieren, zur Kenntnis nehme. Es kommt auf ein Konto; eines Tages wird das Buch herausgezogen. Auch den Juden gegenüber mußte ich lange tatenlos bleiben'; cited in W. Jochmann (ed.), Monologe in Führerhauptquartier 1941-44. Die Aufzeichnungen Heinrich Heims (Hamburg, 1980), pp. 106-108.
36. Record of the conversatoin betwen the Führer and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on 28.11.1941; Documents on German Forwign Policy 1918-1945, Series D, Vol. XIII, pp.881-885.
37. 'Bezüglich der Judenfrage ist der Führer entschlossen, reinen Tisch zu machen. Er hat den Juden prophezeit, daß, wenn sie noch einmal einen Weltkrieg herbeiführen würden, sie dabei ihre Vernichtung erleben würden. Das ist keine Phrase gewesen. Der Weltkrieg ist da, die Vernichtung des Judentums muß die notwendige Folge sein. Die Frage ist ohne jede Sentimentalität zu betrachten. Wir sind nicht dazu da, Mitleid mit den Juden, sondern nur Mitleid mit unserem deutschen Volk zu haben'; cited in E. Frö hlich (ed/), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, Vol. 1 2 (Munich, 1996), pp. 498, diary entry for 13.12.1941.
38. 'stände auf dem Standpunkt, von der Ausrottung des Judentums nicht zu sprechen. Der Führer bejahte dies Haltung und sagte, sie hätten uns den Krieg aufgebürdet und sie hätten die Zerstörung gebracht, es sei kein Wunder, wenn die Folgen sie zuerst träfen': Vermerk über Unterredung beim Führer am 14.12.1941, gez. Rosenberg v. 16.12.1941, BDC, SL 47 (F); cited in C. Gerlach,Krieg, Ernährung, Völkermord (Hamburg, 1998), pp. 121-2.
39. Wenn ich heute den juden herausnehme, dann wird unser Bürgertum unglücklich: was geschieht denn mit ihnen? Aber haben sich die Gleichen darum gekümmert, was aus den Deutschen werden würde, die auswandern mussten? Man muss es schnell machen, es ist nicht besser, wenn ich einen Zahn alle drei Monate um ein paar Zentimenter herausziehen lasse -, wenn er herrausen ist, ist der Schmerz vorbei. Der Jude muss aus Europa heraus. Wir kriegen sonst keine europäische Verständigung. Er hetzt am meisten überall. Letzten Endes: ich weiss nicht, ich bin kolossal human. Zur Zeit der päpstlichen Herrschaft im Rom sind die Juden mißhandelt worden. Bis 1830 wurden acht Juden jedes Jahr durch die Stadt getrieben, mit Eseln. Ich sage nur, er muss weg. Wenn er dabei kaputt geht, da kann ich nicht helfen. Ich sehe nur eines: die absolute Ausrottung, wenn sie nicht freiwillig gehen. Warum soll ich einen Juden mit anderen Augen ansehen als einen russischen Gefangenen? Im Gefangenenlager sterben Viele, weil wir durch die Juden in diese Lage hineingetrieben sind. Aber was kann denn ich dafür? Warum haben die Juden denn den Krieg angezettelt?': Hitler table talk on 25.1.1942, recorded by H. Heim; Third Supplemental Discovery List by Irving, folder 51 (b).
40. Irving, Hitler's War (London, 1991), p.464.
41. 'Ich habe am 1. September 1939 im Deutschen Reichstag es schon augesprochen - und ich hüte mich vor voreiligen Prophzeihungen -, daß dieser Krieg nicht so ausgehen wird, wie es sich die Juden vorstellen, nämlich daß die europäisch-arischen Völker ausgerottet werden, sondern daß das Ergebnis dieses Krieges die Vernichtung des Judentums sein wird. Zum erstenmal wird diesmal das echt altjüdische Gesetz angewendet: "Aug' um Aug', Zahn um Zahn!"'; Cited in M. Domarus, Hitler. Reden udn Proklamationen, Band II, Zweiter Halbband (Wiesbane, 1973), p.1829.
42. Der Führer gibt noch einmal seiner Meinung Ausdruck, daß er entschlossen ist, rücksichtslos mit den Juden in Europa aufzuräumen. Hier darf man keinerlei sentimentalen Anwandlungen haben. Die Juden haben die Kastastrophe, die sie heute erleben, verdient. Sie werden auch ihre eigene Vernichtung erleben. Wir müssen diesen Prozeß mit einer kalten Rücksichtslosigkeit beschleunigen, und wir tun damit der leidenden und seit Jahrtausenden vom Judentum gequälten Menschheit einen unabschätzbaren Dienst. Diese klare judenfeindliche Haltung muß auch im eigenen Volke allen widerspenstigen Kreisen gegenüber durchgesetzt werden. Das betont der Führer ausdrücklich, auch nachher noch einmalim Kreise von Offizieren, die sich das hinter die Ohren schreiben können./ Die großen Chancen, die dieser Krieg uns bietet, werden vom Führer im ihrer ganzen Tragweite erkannt. Er ist sich heute bewußt, daß er einen Kampf von gigantischer Weite ausficht und daß von dem Ausgang dieses Kampfes das Schicksal der gesamten gesitteten Menschheit abhängt': Goebbels diary entry of 15.2.1942; in E. Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil II, vol. 3 (Munich, 1994), pp.320-1.
43. 'Es ist das eine der größten Revolutionen, die es je gegeben hat in der Welt. Der Jude wird erkannt werden! Der gleiche Kampf, den Pasteur und Koch haben kämpfen müssen, muß heute von uns geführt werden. Zahllose Erkrankungen haben die Ursache in einem Bazillus: dem Juden! Japan würde ihn auch bekommen haben, wenn es dem Juden weiter offen gestanden hätte. Wir werden gesunden, wenn wir den Juden eliminieren.' Hitler table talk on 22.2.1942; cited in Jochmann (ed.), Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-44, p. 293.
44. 'Heute haben die Gedanken unserer nationalsozialistischen und die der faschistischen Revolution große und gewaltige Staten erobert, und meine Prophezeiung wird ihre Erfüllung finden, daß durch diesen Krieg nicht die arische menschheit vernichtet, sondern der Jude ausgerottet werden wird. Was immer auch der Kampf mit sich bringen oder wie lange dauern mag, dies wird sein endgültiges Ergebnis sein. Und dann erst, nach der Beseitigung dieser Parasiten, wird über die leidende Welt eine lange Zeit der Völkerverständigung und damit des wahren Friedens kommen'; Cited in G. Aly, 'Endlösung' (Frankfurt a.M., 1995), p. 404; see also VB, 26.2.1942, Domarus II, 1844.
45. Aly, 'Endlösung', 278.
46. R. Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York, 1983), 619.
47. Cited in J. Noakes, G. Pridham (eds.), Nazism. 1919-1945, Vol. 3 (Exeter, 1988), 1199.
48. Document 112, Grundsätzlicher Befehl; in M. Moll (ed.), "Führer-Erlasse" 1939-1945 (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 201.
49. H. Picker, H. Hoffmann, The Hitler Phenomenon (London, 1974), p. 8.
50. M. Broszat, 'Hitler und die Genesis der Endlösung', in Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 1977 pp. 739-775, here 765.
51. Burleigh, Death and Deliverance; Friedlânder,Origins of Nazi Genocid, for the full story.
52. Cited in J. Noakes, G. Pridham (eds.), Nazism 1919-1945, Vol. 3 (Exeter, 1988), 1199.
53. 'Das Protokoll gibt die wesentlichen Punkte sachlich, korrekt wieder, nur natürlich ist es kein wortgetreues Protokoll, weil die, sagen wir mal, gewissen Auswüchse, gewisser Jargon der vorgebracht wurde, in dienstliche Worte von mir zu kleiden waren und dieses Protokoll ist, glaube ich, 3 oder 4 Mal von Heydrich korrigiert worden...'; questioning of Eichmann by his attorney, 23 June 1961; cited in K. Pätzold, E. Schwarz (eds.) Tagesordnung Judenmord (Berlin, 1992), p. 186.
54. Eichmann trial, 24.7.1961; cited in G. Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution (London, 1984), p. 92.
55. Cited in P. Longerich (ed.), Die Ermordung der europäischen Juden (Munich, Zurich, 1989), pp. 85-87.
56. See Expert Report by Prof. Browning
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I notice it's missing one rather important thing: An adventure? We can't even use Caves of Chaos from packet 1 because the monsters are different.
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Disappointment at only having the four classes, but from the discussion in the PA podcasts, the other classes are still in very early development.
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A local disposal company says transporting brine from fracking operations in Pennsylvania to New Matamoras by barge is a better method than trucking, but the U.S. Coast Guard must sign off on it first.
Some people are concerned about the risks of moving the wastewater on the Ohio River, but John Jack, vice president of business development for GreenHunter Water, a division of Triad Hunter in Reno, said the process is safer and better for the environment.
"For every one barge accident, there are 2,100 accidents by truck," he said. And "just think of all the emissions you're saving."
GreenHunter Energy leases a site on Ohio 7 south of New Matamoras to keep the material in before taking it to one of the company's Class II injection wells. Bringing brine to that facility by barge instead of truck will significantly reduce wear and tear on roads, he said.
"Every one barge tow removes 1,050 trucks from the road," he said.
The Coast Guard, which regulates the nation's waterways, will have the final say on whether it's allowed.
"It may be hazardous," Commander Michael Roldan, chief of the Coast Guard's Hazardous Material Division, said in a December Associated Press article, stressing the word "may."
In hydraulic fracturing, a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is used to "fracture" shale formations deep underground and release the oil, natural gas and other minerals within. The water that comes back up can be more than six times as salty as seawater. Although mostly water, the AP says the waste liquid can also contain heavy metals, natural radioactivity and some of the chemicals used.
Jack said the water GreenHunter transports is tested extensively and is non-hazardous.
"We don't have any radioactive materials," he said. "We do heavy analyticals."
Jann Adams, a member of the local Southeast Ohio Fracking Interest Group, has reservations about moving brine on the river.
"(There) is always a possibility of accidents, no matter what you do," she said. "A spill on land is one thing, but a spill on water ... that would just be monumental."
Roldan told The Associated Press there is no timetable for a decision on allowing brine transportation on barges. It's undergoing "a higher level of review" than requests to transport other individual chemicals or substances, since fracking wastewater can contain a mix of natural and man-made compounds that vary by well, he said.
For now, trucks are still bringing about 3,000 barrels a day of wastewater produced in hydraulic fracturing to the New Matamoras site, Jack said.
Adams also expressed concern about what is in the wastewater, since drilling companies often claim proprietary information to shield precisely what chemicals are in fracking fluids.
Jack said the fluid is no longer proprietary when GreenHunter takes possession of it, and it is tested by the company to determine what is in it. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources also does periodic, unannounced testing of brine trucks, he said.
"They are governed. They are looked at," Jack said.
Jack added that 80 percent of the water GreenHunter has transported in the last month-and-a-half has been nothing more than rainwater that collected at mining sites.
A number of hazardous materials are already transported on the river, Jack said. The oil and gas industry should simply be treated the same under existing rules, he said.
The impact of increased heavy truck traffic on local roads has been another concern related to the recent shale boom. Washington County Engineer Roger Wright said that while companies involved in horizontal drilling must work out arrangements to repair damage to roadways, there isn't a requirement like that for trucks hauling brine. That's because their loads do not exceed state limits.
"With the injection wells, they're all legal loads, so the state hasn't stepped in," Wright said.
GreenHunter's switch to barges likely won't have much impact on county and township roads, he said, since the storage facility is along Ohio 7. The trucks traveling to injection wells from the site would likely make more use of those roads, Wright said.
"The ideal situation would be if there was some sort of pipeline so there wouldn't be any trucks on the township and county roads," he said.
Wright said he welcomes the oil and gas industry in the area, but is just looking at logical issues that arise from the increased traffic.


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Q Recently my wife and I drove up to Bear Valley and decided to bring our beagle along. Our plan was to crack open the windows and let her stay in the car on a 46-degree morning.
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Q Our beagle is older, but still looks like a puppy and goes absolutely nuts when left in the car. She initially whines loudly, jumps from front to back continually. In short, until she calms down in about 10 minutes, she is quite noisy.
We left her around 8:30 a.m., and were on the slopes by 9. I'm pretty sure she had quieted down by then. I quit around noon and walked to the car. Once she saw me she started yowling.
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Q As I was walking to the car, I heard a car alarm going off and realized it was my car. Standing right beside it was a highway patrolman. Apparently people had been complaining about how I was abusing the dog, she was going to overheat and die and he somehow opened up the door and the emergency alarm went off.
As we spoke, people milled around giving me dirty looks. He told me that people were pretty upset with me and that they were convinced the dog was dying. To which I pointed out that two windows were cracked almost 4 inches and that it was 46 degrees. He shrugged and said: "I'm just telling you what people are telling me."
As I thanked him (although I started to question just what exactly I was thanking him for), an older man walked by and muttered something to which I said: "What did you say?"
He said loudly: "I can't believe you did that."
"Did what?" I continued.
"Leave him in the car. You could have killed him. I can't believe you did that!"
Still trying to be polite, I said: "Well, maybe you don't know the entire story (like the windows are down; I just checked on her)."
"No, I know exactly what is going on," he said.
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Q At this point I started to lose my temper, and won't bother to recount what I said. When I returned to the car, another "concerned" citizen had penned a long note also scolding me and saying that he or she certainly hoped my dog was "going to make it" and that I was a pretty poor dog owner.
My question: Is an officer justified in opening up a locked car door when an animal is barking? Particularly when it's clear that the animal isn't in any danger? What's your take? Am I missing something?
Steve Gospe
A Perhaps. If your beagle was making a loud ruckus, bystanders could think it was in distress. Yes, it was a cool morning, but the action of your pet obviously caused some folks to react.
Q My take: There is a huge difference between a dog parked in a car with windows all of the way up on a 60- or 70- or 90-degree day relative to parking with windows partially open and cold enough that you could see the dog's breath as she barked. Think a bit before you judge so quickly and harshly is the request I'd like to give some of the busybodies from that day.
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A What do you think, folks: Were they busybodies or legitimately concerned?
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Shares of the computer maker Dell Inc. are soaring and were briefly halted on word of a report by Bloomberg News that the company is in talks to go private.
Bloomberg's chatty banker sources say Dell is in talks to do a deal with at least two private equity firms. However the discussions are preliminary and could fall apart at any time. Several larges banks have also been tapped to help finance the deal, the story says.
Dell shares rose nearly 14 percent by 2:20 PM New York time to $12.51 on the news.
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Tech Tip 06
Magnetic Fields Can Distort Computer Screens
- Distortion of characters on computer screen
- Magnetic fields (EMF) affecting screen
- Electric fan near screen
- Screen is near power transformer or other "heavy" electrical distribution
- Relocate monitor away from EMF source
- Relocate EMF source
- Shield monitor from fields
- Change monitor refresh rate
An individual reported a computer monitor screen was "jumping around". An investigation revealed that an Electromagnetic Field (EMF) of 11 mG was interfering with the screen. The distortion appeared as a wavy screen and oscillating of text primarily around the edges of the screen. A similar screen is illustrated in figure 1. Measurements in the area suggested that the EMF was due to electrical distribution circuits running under the floor.
Magnetic field interference to monitor screens does not usually occur until a level of roughly 10 mG. Some high resolution screens have detected image distortion at 3-4 mG.
Magnetic field strength decreases rapidly as you move away from the source. Making use of this principle may assist in eliminating monitor screen distortion without the need for shielding.
Additional measurements revealed that the magnetic field strength was about 7-8 mG near an empty workstation. Relocating the monitor to this table eliminated the screen distortion.
Magnetic field strength will vary with the amount of current flowing in the source of the EMF. Relocating sensitive monitors may not always provide a permanent solution. In some cases it may be necessary to install a shield made of a ferromagnetic material around the monitor. A shield for a typical monitor costs approximately $800.
When applicable, changing the monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz has decreased image distortion. The change will place the monitors CRT in synchronization with the 60 Hz current induced magnetic field.
Figure 1: Wavy screen caused by an electric fan held close.
The information and diagrams presented herein are for general educational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as instructions for customer self-wiring. Customers should at all times seek the assistance of qualified electricians or utility personnel for all wiring projects.