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Criminal Justice (CJU)
Criminal Justice (CJU)
Course provides an intense, hands-on exploration of approved Rape Aggressiveness Defense (RAD) program of personal defense. Meets Activity requirement in Liberal Arts Core.
Fifteen contact hours, one credit.
201 Introduction to Criminal Justice
An introduction to the philosophy and history of criminal justice, the development and operation of criminal justice agencies in the United States.
Three hours, three credits.
204 Fundamentals of Corrections
This course explores the development and functions of the American correctional system. The focus of this course will be on the functions of punishment and rehabilitation, historical and cross-cultural approaches to punishment, deterrence, and rehabilitation, and current theories and practices within correctional institutions.
Three hours, three credits.
220 Criminal Law
The focus of this course will be on the definitions and structure of criminal law, as well as defenses and excuses to criminal liability. Students at the conclusion of the course will be able to determine what conduct is "criminal" and understand the public policy considerations which underlie these definitions.
Three hours, three credits.
300 Dilemmas and Decision Making in Criminal Justice
The course defines the responsibilities of criminal justice personnel and explores the decision-making dilemmas faced by police, court, and corrections officials as they carry out their duties. Distinctions among basic theories of decision-making are addressed: 1) deontology, 2) utilitarianism, 3) peacemaking, 4) caring, and 5) a feminist-based approach. Controversial issues in criminal justice are also addressed.
314 Courts and the Judicial Process
Designed to give the student an in-depth study of the U.S. legal system and the judicial process. It will emphasize national structures, but also view state and local justice systems.
Three hours, three credits.
320 Deviance and Social Control
(see SOC 320)
Three hours, three credits.
330 Criminal Investigation
Explores the theoretical and practical aspects of criminal investigations and their importance in the overall criminal justice process. The course will cover recognizing, evaluating, and processing evidence and crime scenes, as well as other information sources. Prerequisite: CJU 201.
Three hours, three credits.
335 Introduction to Forensic Investigations
Forensics is the application of science as it applies to law enforcement. Topics will include physical evidence collection, fingerprinting, organic analysis, inorganic analysis, toxicology and serology, DNA, document examination, physical properties, and development of footwear and tire impressions. There will be exercises in: locating a buried body and processing the crime scene, lifting latent fingerprints, processing footwear/tire impressions, and reconstructing a crime scene from blood spatter analysis techniques. Prerequisite: BIO 101 and CHM 101 or 103.
Three hours, three credits.
340 Interviewing and Crisis Intervention
This course introduces the interview as a basic tool of criminal justice practice, and the introduction to selected theoretical perspectives and intervention approaches applicable to various crisis situations. The course focuses on developing effective communication skills, mediating conflict, and defusing violence. Prerequisite: CJU 201.
Three hours, three credits.
350 Crime and Delinquency Prevention
The focus of the course will be on the relationship between the police and the community and ways to involve both sides of the process of reducing and managing crime. Topics will include technological advances related to crime prevention and public and private responses to the crime problem. Prerequisite: CJU 201.
Three hours, three credits.
360 Police Operations
An in-depth exploration of the structure, organization, and operating procedures of American law enforcement agencies, including the ways in which they assess, evaluate, and respond to crime. The course will acquaint the student with the current state of knowledge about police officers, and the most critical problems facing the police today. The course will cover the role of the police in modern society, including the problems of today and the challenges of the future. Prerequisite: CJU 201.
Three hours, three credits.
361 Criminal Justice Administration and Leadership
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the structure, organization and operating procedures of American law enforcement agencies, including the ways in which they assess, evaluate and respond to crime. The course will review the relationship of leadership styles, communication skills and decision making on the effective performance of managers and subordinates. The class will also explore the impact of the environment and legal cases on the process of police administration. Prerequisite: CJU 201.
Three hours, three credits.
375 Crime Scene Photography
The purpose of this course is to enable students to accurately record crime scenes through the use of photography, both film and digital. The class covers the basic elements of photography as well as how photographs can be properly used as evidence in court. The focus of the course is on preparing visual images that accurately depict the subject, including photographing documents, accidents, fingerprints, tire tracks, and other trace evidence with attention to ultraviolet, fluorescent, and infrared photography.
Three hours, three credits.
404 Juvenile Justice System
Provides students with insights into the juvenile justice field with emphasis on corrective measures.
Three hours, three credits.
406 Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections
This course examines probation, parole, and community-based correctional programs and the role they play within the criminal justice system. This course will also review a variety of long-established correctional treatment practices as well as new and innovative programs.
Thirty-eight contact hours, three credits.
408 Rural Criminal Justice Issues
This course will provide students with the opportunity to critically examine the criminal justice system within a rural context. Much of the literature and analysis of the criminal justice system, that our students are exposed, is developed from the urban experience. Subsequently the rural criminal justice experience often goes unnoticed and unexamined. Students who are interested in criminal justice will benefit from this examination of the distinct characteristics and elements of the rural criminal justice process. The opportunity to understand rural criminal justice concepts and contexts will provide students with the appropriate empirical base to facilitate further study of the complete criminal justice experiences and processes. Prerequisite: CJU 201.
Three hours, three credits.
430 Specialized Investigations
Basic and advanced concepts of deviant sexual behavior and related criminal activity will be explored. At the conclusion of the course, students will recognize the different types of rapists, pedophiles, child molesters, and paraphilia. The responsibilities of law enforcement and other professions in investigations of criminal offenses will be presented. Students will have experience in criminal investigative techniques by profiling an assigned case. Prerequisite: CJU 330.
Three hours, three credits.
460 Criminal Profiling
Concentrated extension of the criminal investigative process that focuses on the evaluation of physical evidence and the reconstruction of crime scenes, with an emphasis on examining criminal behavior in order to identify the type of offender. Many crime scenes and serial offenders will be studied, including topics on victimology, cyber patterns, organized and disorganized scenes. Prerequisites: CJU 201 and CJU 330 or CJU 430.
Three hours, three credits.
475 Directed Research
Under the supervision of a faculty member with appropriate expertise, students may complete a sustained research agenda relating to a topic of current theoretical and/or empirical interest within the criminal justice field and leading to the production of a substantial research paper. The student will be directed to research problems through published materials and/or field inquiry.
Variable hours, three credits.
497 Special Topics
The content of the special topics course will change each time the course is offered. The subject matter of the course will be some highly specialized area of criminal justice which is not covered in depth in any other criminal justice course. Students may take a maximum of two different special topics courses for credit. Prerequisite: permission of the Criminal Justice Program Coordinator.
Three hours, three credits.
498 Seminar
The seminar is designed to explore and develop issues, both current and future, involving all aspects of criminal justice. It will include, but is not limited to, issues related to causes of criminal behavior, prisons, intermediate sanctions, crime prevention, the role of police, and expectations of the 21st century.
This course is designated Writing Intensive; a grade of "C" or higher in this course
is required for this course to count toward the six-credit-hour Writing Intensive
graduation requirement for Ferrum College. A student cannot earn a grade of "C" or
higher in this course unless he or she earns a "C" or better on the writing assignments
required by the course. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Three hours, three credits.
499 Internship
The internship represents the culmination of the student's undergraduate preparation for professional practice. Students are placed in approved agencies and provided a supervised educational experience. They must spend a minimum of 125 hours in the agency during the semester. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Three credits.


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Lightweight Download Manager
Leech gives you complete control over your downloads. You can queue, pause and resume downloads, download from password-protected servers and store your passwords in your system-wide, secure keychain. And you won't have to worry about downloads that were disrupted by a crashing browser ever again.
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Update: Their website is finally back, but the online purchasing link isn't up again yet.
Aside from its simplicity and integration with Mozilla browsers (via the popular FlashGot extension, versus a flaky proprietary one), I like that it will let you share the same license across two Macs you own, such as a "main" Mac & a "satellite" laptop you use infrequently--both Speed Download and iGetter would close themselves if opened on a second Mac as of several years ago, which is why I originally switched to Leech. Leech hasn't given me any problems under Snow Leopard, but the website (& company) itself seems to have disappeared off of the face of the earth, so it looks like new/unregistered users are out of luck.
(Version 1.1.4 Review)
Leech is a great little app â" It's lightweight, fast, stable, and most importantly it just works.
I've repeatedly tried other download managers in the past (Speed download, iGetter, Download Wizard, etc.) and I always found myself uninstalling them because their 'cons' far outweighed any 'pros'. They were everything I didn't want in a download manager: overly complex, clunky, intrusive, required excess system resources, and they were unstable to the point that it even caused other applications to crash.
- Lightweight & fast
- Stable
- Automatically integrates with Safari/Firefox's cookies, authenticated sessions, and stored passwords. In other words, downloading files from a website that you're a member of (i.e. a premium RapidShare account) automatically works without you having to mess around with setting up or configuring any tedious rules.
- Plenty of user controllable features & settings (i.e. automatically resize download window, private downloading, user definable rules, etc.)
- It just works.
- Doesn't seem to properly work on a couple sites.
- Could use a few more features.
- It'd be nice if Leech would preserve the "Where from:" URL like Safari does when you download a file. (You can view it in the Finder's "Get Info" window under the "More Info:" tab.)
- Leech (or any download manager for that matter) can always be optimized even further. It'd be great if Leech honed in on maximizing your download speed.
If you download files on a regular basis (whether it's apps, music, movies, or anything else) I highly recommend you give Leech a try!

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You could come and go as you pleased. This is the longest 2 set show I have attended. This Limb by limb is spiritual for me cuz I remember where I was standing, what I was doing, and the excitement that pierced every bone as my Europe Phish tour dreams came to fruition. This night of the 3 over all tends to be the most solid, although the next 2 nights second sets BOTH carry the weight of this run IMO. It was 10:30 pm and there was a stained glass window behind the band, above the stage, that still shown daylight. 10:30pm!!!! When you wanted a drink, you could walk outside onto the cobblestone walk-ways across the green and buy beers from this outdoor kiosk-like bar. Black-haired, blue-eyed Danish girl serving you brews as the warehouse behind you rumbled Phish music in the twilight!!!!
Phenomenal. Stash->Cities. Funky Bitch, Bowie for 1st set highlights. Moma, Wolfman's, Yamar, Mike's for the 2nd set.
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Definition of torsion in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The action of twisting or the state of being twisted, especially of one end of an object relative to the other.
Example sentences
- As the cantilever executes small torsion resonant oscillations by twisting about its long axis, the cantilever's free end and the AFM tip rotate a very small angle about that axis.
- As only library rotamers are used for heavy atom conformers, these are near torsion minima and their torsion energies are set to zero.
- The overall conformational energy of a molecular system is presented as the sum of van-der-Waals interactions, electrostatic interactions, and torsion energies.
1.2 Mathematics The extent to which a curve departs from being planar.
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- A deeper characterization of a helix is that it is the unique curve in 3-space for which the ratio of curvature to torsion is a constant, a result known as Lancret's Theorem.
- Thus, the local curvature and torsion of the ribbon are dependent on the local chemical state.
- The slope of the plot from the absolute temperature against the mean square angular displacements of Trp residues determines an averaged value of the elastic torsion that the protein exerts on its Trp residues.
1.3 Zoology (In a gastropod mollusc) the spontaneous twisting of the visceral hump through 180° during larval development.
Example sentences
- Of all molluscan clades, only the gastropods undergo torsion.
- They also questioned the relationship between torsion and muscle scar position by noting that retractor muscles form after torsion on at least some gastropods.
- Numerous hypotheses exist positing torsion as either a larval or adult adaptation, but none are entirely satisfactory.
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- The annulus has overlapping radial bands, not unlike the plies of a radial tire, and this allows torsional stresses to be distributed through the annulus under normal loading without rupture.
- The torsional stiffness of the 75 Tourer body is far higher than most equivalent class saloons and sets new standards for estates.
- The extra length is achieved simply by using longer extrusions in the construction of the body without any loss in torsional rigidity.
- Example sentences
- Those of you who relish a spirited drive will appreciate the fact that the current car's chassis is three times more torsionally rigid than the rather noodle-like old 9-3.
- But when they oscillate both torsionally - twisting - and horizontally, the bridge breaks.
- This lightweight sportscar shares the strong, torsionally stiff construction of the XJ executive saloon.
torsionless adjective
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- The transfer sheet is wound around the torsionless pipe such that stencil characters are directly inwardly.
- The conclusion is that reinforced concrete flat slabs could be designed using torsionless moment fields using the discontinuity line analysis.
- In this paper we study a condition right FGTF on a ring R, namely when all finitely generated torsionless right R-modules embed in a free module.
Late Middle English (as a medical term denoting colic or in the sense 'twisting' (especially of a loop of the intestine)): via Old French from late Latin torsio(n-), variant of tortio(n-) 'twisting, torture', from Latin torquere 'to twist'.
Words that rhyme with torsionabortion, apportion, caution, contortion, distortion, extortion, portion, proportion, retortion
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OAKLAND -- The A's 7-10 record in August is about more than just the trade of Yoenis Cespedes to Boston for Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes. It's a multiple choice of answers, and all collectively have become part of the team's woes.
For example, Stephen Vogt hasn't caught a game this month and probably won't catch again this season unless there is an emergency. He has what is being called a bad bone bruise on his right foot.
Vogt, who is hitting .322 overall but just .229 this month, says that he's at his best when catching because that's when he's most involved in the game.
"Not being able to catch does mentally take away from my game," Vogt said. "Mentally, I work hard at the scouting reports and trying to get with our pitchers. So it's kind of a mental void for me. I wish I could be behind the plate. I love catching."
As it happened, Vogt's July injury was the first brick to go in the A's pyramid of versatility. On July 28, outfielder Craig Gentry landed on the disabled list with a broken right hand. A week later, infielder Nick Punto found himself out with a hamstring strain. Starting shortstop Jed Lowrie tried for over a week to play with an injured right finger, but that turned out to be a fracture, and he's on the D.L., too.
None have returned, although Gentry started an injury rehabilitation assignment stint with Triple-A Sacramento on Monday and could be back this week.
The A's did lose much of their punch in the middle of the lineup by dealing Cespedes at the July 31 trade deadline. It hasn't helped that center fielder Coco Crisp has spent the middle of the season battling neck problems, which might be the reason for his .114 batting average in his last 19 games.
Add them up, and the lineup manager Bob Melvin has been trotting out there in August isn't quite the same as the one that was scoring at least four runs in 62.6 percent of its games before the Cespedes trade. And although the A's still have a comfortable 14-run edge over the Colorado Rockies as the majors' highest-scoring team, Oakland has been held to three runs or fewer in 13 of 17 games since Cespedes was traded.
"Some of the versatility has been worn away," Melvin said of his lineup. "But when you get to September (when rosters expand), you'll get a lot more versatility back."
The A's, who have lost a season-high five consecutive games, can only hope so.
As for Vogt, he's not worried, the A's current troubles notwithstanding.
"It's a frustrating feeling not being able to catch," he said. "At the same time, our team is good the way it is. They don't need me to catch."


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Ashland Fiber Network will be offline from 11:55 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28 to 8 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29, so workers can increase bandwidth and reconfigure the network.
"There is never an ideal time to schedule upgrades to the AFN system," IT manager Mike Ainsworth said in a news release. "AFN customers are online at all hours of the day, but we had to pick a date and time and selected late night on a Monday hoping it would have the least impact on our customers."
AFN customers who still cannot get online after 8 a.m. should unplug their cable modem, wait a full 60 seconds, then plug it back in.
For more information, visit www.ashlandfiber.net.
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Because the former Eagle Town Board, the current town board (except for Mayor Yuri Kostick and trustee Brandi Resa), and the town manager have not thought it necessary to negotiate a permanent revenue sharing agreement with the town of Gypsum, there will be a significant deficit in the Eagle annual budget. Basically what Gypsum said was, "Congratulations on your approval of ERS. We will be ending our profit sharing agreement with you."
Gypsum's generosity was a gift, not a requirement. The dollar figure was in the neighborhood of $450,000 a year and growing. It is currently in the Eagle town budget at $485,000 income for 2012. That amount over five years (until ERS opens) would be over $2,425,000.
If part of the ERS sales tax revenue for Eagle was to be shared with Gypsum after ERS opens, then that should have been plugged into the ERS calculations and it should have been acknowledged by the former town board. Eagle is only going to get 1.45 percent (more or less) of the 9 to 10 percent sales tax revenue that will be generated when ERS is complete. Would some of that go to Gypsum in a mutual revenue sharing agreement?
Eagle River Station and the town's development agreement clearly states, "Neither the Developer nor the District (ERS improvement District) has to develop or improve the property." After the election, RED development concurred with what the "no" voters maintained all along: That there wouldn't be any revenue or permanent jobs for five more years for the town. It could be a long dry spell for Eagle.
In a letter to the editor, the ex-board members and a RED consultant, Paul Witt - a cozy unusual little group - say that they were planning on revenue sharing with Gypsum, yet no permanent agreement was put in place. When asked about that more than once at public hearings, there was never an answer. Was this going on behind closed doors and something that couldn't be acknowledged to the public? Nowhere that I could find in the development agreement or reimbursement agreement is revenue sharing with Gypsum mentioned, so why is it a concern for Paul Witt?
Eagle County Commissioner Stavney pointed out recently how important profit sharing can be. If it is not too late, the new board should reconsider and approach Gypsum about a mutual agreement so that Eagle taxpayers won't be left holding the bag and increased taxes to cover the deficit.


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United Kingdom, 2013, 98 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Drama, Family Friendly, Political, Womens IssuesLanguage: English
Based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, this film focuses on a human-interest story by ex-BBC reporter Martin Sixsmith, who was looking to get back into the good graces of his former employer.
Embracing the cause of the title character (Judi Dench), Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) launches an investigation into the barbarous practices of the Catholic Church in the 1950s, when it quarantined pregnant girls in workhouses and punished them for their promiscuity by selling their out-of-wedlock children into overseas adoption. Church doctrine dictated that the girls sign away all rights to their children and forced them to agree never to try to look for them. But Philomena, even after moving on with her life and starting her own family, searched in vain for her son for years. When Sixsmith offers his help, the unlikely duo embarks on a journey that takes them to the United States before returning them to the church's doorstep in a howl of clerical outrage. The subtext of the odd couple's collaboration is one of the film's most compelling elements. When Sixsmith bridles at the constraints of what at first appears to be anything but a hard-hitting story, the nattering Philomena is roused to the dignity of a woman wronged by an institution that claimed, and still claims, the cloak of righteousness.
Philomena was directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), who captured the grainy look of an earlier era in Super-16 flashbacks to Philomena's life in the 1950s.
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Bill Ackman Loses About $410.7 Million on J.C. Penney
The final word on Bill Ackman's ill fated investment in J.C. Penney is in.
He lost nearly half his money.
After buying more than 39 million shares for roughly $25 a share in 2010, filing show he sold his block of stock to Citi for $12.60 a share on Monday.
Mr. Ackman's original filing on the stake said his fund, Pershing Square, spent about $903 million acquiring the position. Wednesday's filing on the exit put the total at $492 million, which would mean Pershing Square lost $410.7 million.
Until now, it wasn't publicly known what Citigroup–which bought the entire stake in its role as the underwriter–had paid before re-offering the shares to fund managers for $12.90 each.
The filing means Citi made 30 cents profit, or 2.4%, on shares it sold. The bank would have made $11.7 million if it sold the entire block—though it's not clear that it did. A Citi spokesman declined to comment Tuesday on whether the offering left the bank owning any additional J.C. Penney shares.
Block trades–in which the underwriters buys the entire stake from a stock issuer and sells it for slightly more–can offer scant fees but some bankers say they're worth it for league-table credit and helping keep clients happy.
Late Monday, Citi offered to sell the shares for $12.50 to $12.90 apiece, according to marketing materials. Given the now-known price, that suggests bankers thought there was a chance the offering would leave them underwater.


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In October, an incident involving social media nearly escalated into violence at Freedom High School. Rumors surfaced at the time concerning a fight brewing between two rival gangs on the Oakley, California campus. For four days, the situation escalated over Facebook and Twitter and illustrated how dangerous social media can be used by some teenagers.
Fortunately, thanks to the swift action by Principal Erik Faulkner and fellow administrators, ironically, using the very same social media outlets that fueled the rumors, they were prepared with the help of Oakley police, and eventually defused the situation.
Still, this clearly shows how things can get out of hand if teenagers use social media for the wrong reasons. Incidents across the country have showed the terrible effects of cyberbullying and false information going over social media, mentally abusing youngsters and often times leading to a fatal conclusion.
We went to the Oakley campus recently for a roundtable discussion with senior Nenwon Gbilia, senior Alexandra Kriletich, sophomore Katherine Mosqueira, senior Rachel Wright and senior Cheyenne Duran to see how social media is viewed from the eyes of teenagers, and perhaps not only hear why these things go viral, but what can be done to help prevent this in the future.


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Understanding Medicines in the Marketplace
Understanding Medicines in the Marketplace
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Last week's op-ed in the Washington Post ("Making cancer drugs less expensive") highlighted some important issues related to progress, cost and value in cancer care. These issues are complex, and I'm hoping to use the Catalyst to continue the dialogue and delve into some of the issues they raise.
Let's start where the authors ended their commentary - on the importance of supporting "true clinical value." I could not agree more, and would argue that new medicines to treat cancer have demonstrated unmatched clinical value. In fact, researchers estimate that new cancer medicines -- each backed by rigorous clinical research prior to FDA approval -- are responsible for 50-60% of increases in cancer survival rates we have seen since 1975. According to the National Cancer Institute cancer death rates are down 20% since their peak in 1991 and they attribute recent gains to "primary prevention, early detection, and treatment." I anticipate that future advances will yield even greater gains, particularly as more advances from fields like personalized medicine start to emerge.
While these gains are substantial, the true clinical value of a new cancer treatment typically will not be fully demonstrated when it is first introduced. That is because the trials conducted to support FDA approval are done in carefully controlled settings and involve sicker patients who have often tried and failed other treatment options. A recent analysis concludes that FDA approval often marks a "starting point" for understanding true clinical value, which more fully emerges as further research is done and use of individual treatments evolves. In addition, individual treatments often build on one another to result is significant gains for patients over time. As stated by Dr. Sidhartha Mukherjee in his best-seller The Emperor of All Maladies, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes."
Last year, PhRMA President and CEO John Castellani participated in a major conference that started to tackle the complex challenges of sustaining progress against cancer in an era of cost containment. This event and a report based on it provide in-depth insights from a range of perspectives on value in cancer care, and I encourage you to review the report that came out of this conference. As we look at the cost of cancer care, it is important to do so not only in the context of gains made for patients, but also of overall health care spending. As for any patient with a serious, life-threatening disease, the cost of caring for individuals with cancer can be significant, but new medicines are just one part of this cost. According to recent data from IMS Health, spending on oncologic medicines represented less than 1% of total national health expenditures in 2010.
We will use the Catalyst to continue the dialogue and provide some insights on not only medicines and their cost, but their value in our lives (both health and pocket book). I hope this contributes to the discussion of continued innovation in an era of cost containment.


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These high-impact design tri running shoes are the latest installment in the Gel Noosa series. They boast a few improvements over past models, including a mesh upper that provides ultimate ventilation so your feet stay cool and dry. Additionally, their Dynamic DuoMax technology serves up stability and comfort so you can really go the distance.
The Asics GEL-Noosa Tri 8 GR Running Shoes have a more streamlined size and reduced bulk so you can feed your need for speed. Plus, they're so funky and fun, your competition may find themselves staring as you maintain focus and stride your way to the finish line.
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USA, 2012, 74 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Documentary, Medical/Health, Social Issues
Programs: Documentary, Spotlight on Colorado, Women + Film
In 2005, the World Bank approved $4.9 million in loans to Bahia, Brazil, to eliminate the city's slums and relocate the residents of the palafitas, shacks built on stilts in the bay. The local government agreed to clean up the water and move the residents into subsidized housing. Seven years later, not a single unit had been built. Bay of All Saints director Annie Eastman (associate producer, They Killed Sister Dorothy, 2008) filmed the people of the palafitas for six of those years and documented their daily struggle in this heartrending film.
Her guide, Norato, a friendly refrigerator repairman, takes Eastman through the slum's shacks and introduces her to three single mothers: Geni, the self-professed "mayor" of the palafitas, who works in a pizzeria for minimum wage; Dona Maria, a widowed trash picker who raised her 16 children and grandchildren in the slum's squalor; and Jesus, a laundress who never gives up hope for a real home for her family, not one built over filthy seawater and mounting piles of garbage. Norato shows Eastman how the residents must steal electricity and water from the city grid and fight off rats and flooding to survive. When Geni decides to organize the residents of the palafitas to fight for their future, the others follow. While the government fails to make progress, many of the rotting wooden palafitas fall into the sea.
To make Bay of All Saints, Eastman traveled to Brazil 12 times. She slept in the homes of the film's subjects, who became like family to her, and placed her trust in Norato for protection from the local drug dealers and street muggers.
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Tuesday night members of the Eagle Town Board painstakingly reviewed 50 proposed conditions for sketch plan approval of the Haymeadow development, but did not hone in on the biggest issue surrounding the proposal - just how many units would they allow at the 660-acre parcel?
Haymeadow developer Ric Newman has proposed 979 residential units - multi-family and single family dwellings - on the property located southeast of town in the Brush Creek Valley adjacent to the Eagle Pool and Ice Rink. He said the plan is a "conservation-oriented development" characterized by large open space tracts that comprise the major amenity of the development. Newman said 60 percent of the land contained in Haymeadow is classified as open space. The Haymeadow proposal includes 11.5 miles of recreational trails and a wildlife migration corridor ranging from 500 to 1,000 feet across runs north to south across the property.
Sketch plan is the initial step in the town's development process and it is limited in scope. In general, sketch plan determines if proposed uses and densities for a project are acceptable. If approval is granted, the town traditionally sets a series of conditions that must be met when a developer proceeds to a more detailed preliminary plan.
Before the board launched its deliberations, project representative Rick Pylman said the developer was in general agreement with all the proposed conditions. During public comment, some members of the community argued the conditions don't get to their general contention that the proposal is too dense.
Resident and former town board member Kraige Kinney presented building permit information from the town showing that there has been very little building activity since 2008 when the national recession hit.
"We already have a pretty large stock of single family units, multi-family units and duplexes," said Kinney. "Unless there is a demand, it doesn't matter what the supply is. We have a project here there is no demand for."
"I think, right now, the developer is asking for as much as he can get," said resident Dave Eckhart. He suggested a density of 200 to 300 units would be more realistic.
While town board members indicated they also believed the density for the development proposal was too high, they backed off coming up with a hard number on Tuesday night. Instead they talked more about the overall character of the plan and the specific conditions.
Most specifically, board members were adamant that Haymeadow transition from higher density, smaller lots nearer to town to larger lots and lower density as it expands southeast to the Brush Creek Valley. They also supported strong conditions aimed at preserving the view corridor down the valley.
Members debated whether it is wise to get down to details in the sketch plan discussion. "I don't believe this is going to start any time soon," said member Scot Webster. "I think over-detailing it is in the town's best interest."
While there was general consensus on that notion, town board member Scott Turnipseed argued that looking at the plan comprehensively is a wise decision.
"I believe there is a huge advantage to planning this all at once," said Turnipseed.
Additionally, Eagle Town Manager Willy Powell noted that while there is an existing inventory of larger, more expensive lots in Eagle, there are not many smaller, more affordable lots available and Haymeadow does provide that option.
"In the lots in Eagle Ranch that remain, you are not going to build $200,000 homes," said Powell.
As they reviewed the 50 conditions for sketch plan approval, the town board members agreed to the items that dealt with issues such as enhancement of riparian and wetlands areas and recreational trails, water rights and view corridors. However, they debated conditions about on-street parking, traffic improvements and financing.
While some members supported the staff condition that would not allow on-street parking, other members said that rule was too limiting at sketch plan. Town engineer Tom Gosiorowski said it was important to make that decision early because not allowing on-street parking affects overall design and density. He urged the board to place the same regulations regarding on-street parking that exist in The Terrace and in the golf course neighborhood of Eagle Ranch ,rather than the rules at the Village Homes neighborhood where such parking is allowed. "On street parking has been a huge issue for your staff," he added.
Ultimately, the board agreed to leave the condition in place.
A condition that called for "construction of signalization or roundabouts at the intersections of Sylvan Lake Road/Brush Creek Road, Sylvan Lake Road/proposed school and rec center access and Sylvan Lake Road/Ouzel Lane" was debated when Mayor Yuri Kostick recommended removing the option for traffic signals to require roundabout construction. "I think traffic signals would change the character of Eagle Ranch," he said.
"I think that would be limiting ourselves to solutions that might work better if we did that," said town board member Anne McKibben.
"My real, heartfelt feeling about this is we haven't done enough analysis yet," said Gosiorowski.
The board opted to leave both signals and roundabouts in the condition.
A condition regarding possible formation of a metropolitan district to defray costs of Haymeadow development prompted Turnipseed and Webster to go on the record about their no compromise issue regarding Haymeadow.
"The one thing I cannot live with is cost to the town. I am not going to be up for something that is a huge financial burden to the town," said Turnipseed.
After nearly three hours of discussion regarding the conditions, the board sent the 50-item list back to staff to tweak phrasing for some items. The board members agreed to continue their Haymeadow deliberations at the next regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
"I think the staff has a very clear idea on everything, except density," said Powell.
That statement drew some rueful chuckles from the board and members agree to come armed with various ideas and density specifics when they reconvene next month.


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- Monte Sereno slaying: Ringleader, partner convicted in Ravi Kumra home-invasion murder
- Dec 20:
- Oakland gang member gets life in prison in murder of millionaire tech investor Raveesh 'Ravi' Kumra
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It looked bad for homeless alcoholic Lukis Anderson when DNA evidence tied him to a Silicon Valley millionaire's 2012 murder.
But when Anderson's lawyer proved that paramedics who had treated him on the streets of downtown San Jose inadvertently transferred his DNA to the Monte Sereno murder scene, she didn't just clear him. The case is believed to be the first in California and perhaps the nation in which DNA evidence was shown to have falsely placed an innocent person at the scene of a crime, lending credibility to defense lawyers who struggle to convince jurors to view DNA evidence more skeptically.
"Before, we just had hypotheticals, stuff that DAs would say was smoke and mirrors," said Deputy Public Defender Kelley Kulick, who handled the groundbreaking case. "Now, there is a case to support it."
Among defendants now pointing to Anderson's case in hope of clearing their own names are former Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr., whose lawyers are challenging felony criminal charges that he was behind a fraudulent campaign mailer allegedly bearing his DNA on the stamp.
While others accused of a crime -- most famously exchange student Amanda Knox -- have used the so-called transference defense against DNA evidence with some success, those defendants weren't able to prove, as Anderson's attorneys did by establishing his alibi, that the DNA evidence had been compromised.
In the pivotal case, Anderson was arrested on murder charges after his DNA was found under the fingernail of Silicon Valley millionaire Ravi Kumra, who suffocated after thieves bound him during a 2012 home-invasion robbery at his gated Monte Sereno estate.
Despite the DNA, nagging concerns about the case persisted. The prosecution saw connections to support the DNA link -- that Anderson had a residential burglary conviction on a criminal rap sheet composed otherwise of nonviolent minor crimes such as being drunk in public, and he had spent time in the same jail dorm with a member of one of the gangs tied to the Kumra killing. But that gang member wasn't implicated in the murder. And while the others accused in the homicide belong to some of Oakland's most violent home-invasion gangs, Anderson didn't seem mentally capable of organized crime. He suffered a brain injury from being hit by a truck and could not even recall his whereabouts that November night.
Kulick pursued every avenue to prove Anderson had nothing to do with the crime, eventually discovering medical records that show on the night Kumra died, Anderson was at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he had been taken by ambulance after passing out drunk in downtown San Jose.
His DNA turned up at the murder scene only because paramedics inadvertently transferred it there, via a simple oxygen-monitoring probe they'd clipped first onto his finger and then onto the dead man's. Prosecutors dropped the charges after examining a dossier Kulick put together, interviewing the paramedics and hospital personnel, and reviewing videotape of the crime scene to make sure the paramedics had really treated both men. Anderson walked out of jail five months later.
With the tacit support of the District Attorney's Office, Kulick plans to petition a judge to wipe the Kumra murder arrest off Anderson's record via a document declaring him factually innocent. It's expected to be granted, paving the way for more defense attorneys to tout the example, using the document, at a time when DNA is playing a key role in an increasing number and variety of cases, not just rape or murder. In the near future, for instance, DNA will be immediately tested at the crime scene, using portable equipment that has already been developed in the lab.
Of course, the Anderson case alone won't be a magic bullet, both in instances where there's plenty of other evidence, and if prosecutors successfully argue the incident is an unlikely chance occurrence. The California District Attorneys Association declined to comment. In a Sacramento baby-killing trial in March, for instance, lawyer Ruth Edelstein tried to sway a jury by recounting the case, but the panel came back with a guilty verdict anyway, based in part on evidence of an alleged admission to an acquaintance. Even so, Edelstein still plans to tell other juries about Anderson.
"Because of "CSI" and a lot of other misinformation, there's a belief that if someone's DNA is there, the person was there," Edelstein said, referring to the popular TV crime drama about forensic scientists. "But the presence of DNA doesn't tell you anything about how it got there."
Before the Anderson incident, the transference argument helped defendants get off the hook in at least two high-profile cases. In Italy, an appellate court last year overturned American exchange student Knox's murder conviction in the killing of her British roommate. The defense argued that trace amounts of DNA from both the victim and Knox that were found on a knife in Knox's boyfriend's apartment could have been transferred there by Knox, who lived with the victim and was in constant contact with her. A higher Italian court, however, has reversed that decision, concluding that the slain woman's injuries suggested multiple killers.
In 2012, an English cabdriver charged with killing a prostitute based on the discovery of his DNA under her fingernails was cleared after the defense argued that he had a dry skin condition -- so severe that his nickname was "Flaky." The defense successfully contended that his DNA could have been transferred to change he gave a passenger, who later killed her.
Scientists and cops have long recognized the risk of DNA contamination -- by lab technicians, for instance -- and of transfers from one object or person to the crime scene. Law Enforcement magazine, a trade publication, even warned officers two years ago to "take great care in collecting evidence if you have a sunburn or dandruff because your DNA may fall into the evidence." In the lab, one experiment showed that it only takes 30 seconds of handling something or someone firmly for skin cells containing DNA to be transferred. Another study demonstrated that semen on one garment can contaminate another if they are washed together in the same machine.
But with Anderson, there are actual medical records proving his innocence. In Shirakawa's case, defense attorney Jay Rorty has asked a judge for those records. He's also consulted with San Francisco lawyer Bicka Barlow, who specializes in DNA and is familiar with the Anderson case, according to court documents. Rorty declined to comment.
Exactly how Shirakawa's defense would claim a transfer occurred is unknown, but there are any number of possibilities -- for instance, if Shirakawa shook hands with someone who subsequently stuck the self-adhesive stamp on the mailer.
"You could very innocently come in contact with an object, and days or months later, your DNA shows up at a crime scene you had nothing to do with," said Barlow, speaking in general, not about Shirakawa.
Prosecutors are dead set against releasing Anderson's records to Shirakawa's lawyers. They argue Anderson's DNA records are confidential, "wholly" unrelated to the case and not potentially exculpatory. If the judge agrees, the jury could still hear about the case indirectly via the testimony of an expert defense witness. Prosecutor John Chase said either way he's confident he'll prevail.
But the Anderson episode is shifting the legal landscape by forcing the prosecution in cases that rest heavily on DNA to make doubly sure there's plenty of supporting evidence, Chase said.
"It's an absolute now," Chase said. "You can't make a case solely on contact DNA."
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport


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The apartment is placed on a 2nd floor (with elevator) of a whole of 4, in a very typical building of pure Madrid from the beginning of the 20th century, called "corralas".
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My stay was very gradevole.La person who welcomed us was very friendly and affectionate.
Thanks for all.
Il mio soggiorno è stato molto gradevole.La persona che ci ha accolto è molto simpatica e affettuosa.
Grazie di tutto.
It was a tiny app., But everything was there and everything worked fine. It was very clean and comfortable. The area was what you call in the dutch: cozy. Overall a good location in a great Madrid.
We have enjoyed anyway.
Het was een piepklein app., maar alles was aanwezig en alles werkte prima. Het was heel schoon en comfortabel. De omgeving was wat je in het hollands noemt: gezellig. Kortom een prima lokatie in een geweldig Madrid.
Wij hebben in ieder geval genoten.
Great apartment, everything was very clean. Walk to everything easily accessible, otherwise the Metro is right outside the door - it can only recommend.
Tolles Apartment, war alles sehr sauber. Zu Fuß alles problemlos erreichbar, ansonsten befindet sich die Metro direkt vor der Tür - kann es nur weiterempfehlen.
The apartment is small but nice and clean, located in a typical district of Madrid. It is close to two underground stations: Embajadores, which is also connected to the airport train station Renfe and Acacias. Both stations are close to those of the center and the Prado and Reina Sofia museums.
L'appartamento è piccolo ma carino e pulito, situato in un quartiere tipicamente madrileno. È vicino a due stazioni della metropolitana: Embajadores, che è anche stazione di treni Renfe collegati all'aeroporto e Acacias. Entrambe le stazioni sono vicine a quelle del centro e ai musei Reina Sofia e Prado.
The apartment is great (from 8 to about 10) and the hostess who greeted us was so friendly.
The only but is unheated, so you must book in summer as in winter should be pretty cool.
However, we will try to repeat.
El apartamento está genial (de 8 a sobre 10) y la anfitriona que nos atendió fue de lo más amable.
El único pero es que no tienen calefacción, por lo que hay que reservar en verano, ya que en invierno debe de ser bastante frío.
No obstante, procuraremos repetir.
The location of the apartment was very good, close to downtown, close to subway and shopping. The apartment was cozy and good for holiday accommodation for 2 people.for repeating. Contact owner was also fine.
De ligging van het vakantieappartement was heel goed, dicht in het centrum, vlak bij metro en winkels. Het appartement was gezellig ingericht en goed voor vakantieverblijf voor 2 personen.Voor herhaling vatbaar. Contact met eigenaar was ook prima.
The apartment is tiny and fine for a weekend with friends. It has a metro stop (with two lines) next. In addition, the treatment from the hosts is very correct.
The trouble was that the hob (one reason to take the apartment) was broken and although there was a camping, cooking was very uncomfortable there. There was also no extractor and some smoke filled ...
Another drawback is that much listening to the neighbors.
Despite these last two things, I recommend this apartment for a short stay with friends.
El apartamento es pequeñito y está bien para un fin de semana en pareja. Tiene una parada de metro (con dos líneas) al lado. Además, el trato por parte de los anfitriones es muy correcto.
Lo malo fue que la vitrocerámica (uno de los motivos para coger el apartamento) estaba estropeada y, aunque había una de camping, era muy incómodo cocinar allí. Tampoco había extractor y se llenaba un poco de humo...
Otro inconveniente es que se escucha mucho a los vecinos.
Pese a estas dos últimas cosas, recomiendo este apartamento para una corta estancia en pareja.
Great location with convenient transportation network, just 2 mins to metro "Embajadores" or "Acacias" station, "Embajadores" is also a train station that connects Madrid airport and Atocha train station.
Nice decor, very clean, but there were a few things that I was not happy with....
1. The wall between apartments are too thin that you can here the TV sounds from next door clearly...... and unfortunately it was 3am!! I was sleeping with ear plugs so that's fine for me... but my friend heard it loud and clear. Besides of the TV noise, she heard some other sounds by a man....... okay, I don't describe in detail.... just imagine what will be going on in midnight by a man .......
2. No hair dryer provided.......... it's really a necessary for girls...... especially those with long hair ........... anyway, I did not read the amenities carefully.... but it would be great if you can provide
3. No wifi also..... again, I did not aware before I booked.....
Besides of the above, it's a great apartment and I still recommend it ...... and I hope the operator can talk to the neighbor lives at next door to keep quite at night.... PLEASE and THANK YOU
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Just because Dianna Agron isn't on Glee anymore, doesn't mean she's given up singing. In fact, she steals the spotlight from Brandon Flowers in The Killers' new music video for "Just Another Girl." She even sports a fake mustache!
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Irving'e karşı Lipstadt
Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
|(B) Pressures on Hitler'... >
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(A) Irving's misrepresentation of Hitler's staff as 'ordinary people'
1. For the sake of simplicity we can distinguish between three main groups in Hitler's intimate circle:
- Hitler's own personal staff of valets, servants, secretaries, body guards, and chauffeurs.
- His social circle, including many well-known Nazi socialites and dignitaries.38
- Hitler's adjutants and representatives from the various military, ministry, and party organisations.
2. The distinctions between the three groups were in reality often blurred. As the war ground on Hitler increasingly limited his social circle to his immediate surroundings. Adjutants not only attended official conferences and discussions, but joined Hitler's evening table alongside visiting officials like Reich Marshal Hermann Göring or Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The extent to which members of one of the three groups were privy to larger or smaller aspects of Hitler's world varied from individual to individual, according to the position and confidence they enjoyed with Hitler.
3. Distinct from these three groups were those who dealt with the logistics of running of the Führerhauptquartier: technicians, stenographers, wireless and telephone operators, and the like. They enjoyed a lower security clearance and formed no part of the 'inner circle', save when exercising their official duties.
4. As early as 1978 Anthony Seldon brought Irving's attention to a very simple but crucial point regarding this group: 'What your so-called "witnesses" recount 30 years after Hitler's death is namely neither original nor spontaneous. These people have had time, at least 30 years long, to justify themselves. Besides they were often in a position where they had to justify themselves.'39 In notes provided by Irving on the craft of oral history he warned only of the danger that witnesses might exaggerate or boast of their own role, or that of their own organisation. He left unmentioned the constant danger with Nazi witnesses that they might have good grounds to do exactly the opposite, namely to deprecate their own role or deny any knowledge or complicity. 40 Yet it is incumbent on the historian to consider the ulterior motives which a particular witness might have for relating that which he or she has done in the past. A number of aspects of the collective biography are apposite here, aspects which Irving wilfully ignores.
5. Irving is at pains to represent the group as being composed in some sense of ordinary people. To the journalist Ron Rosenbaum he said
what struck me early on [...] is that you're dealing with people who are educated people. [Hitler] had attracted a garniture of high-level educated people around him. The secretaries were top-flight secretaries. The adjutants were people who had gone through university or through Staff College and had risen through their own abilities to the upper levels of the military service. So they were educated people with insight. [...] This is the point. These people without exception, spoke well of him. Coming as I did with an as-yet-unpainted canvas, this was really the seminal point, the seminal experience - to find twenty-five people of education, all of whom privately spoke well of him.41
6. Yet all of these people worked for years amongst the top echelons of the Nazi State. A shared quality amongst Hitler's staff was a fervent loyalty, reverence and personal devotion towards the person of the Führer, bordering on the sycophantic and fawning. Many of Hitler's servants and adjutants were 'old fighters' from the 'Time of Struggle' [Kampfzeit] from 1919 - 1933. Irving himself described Otto Günsche as 'Hitler's most faithful bulldog.'42 Max Amann was an old First World War comrade of Hitler's.43 Wilhelm Brückner and Fritz Wiedemann were both provided for in Hitler's will of 2 May 1938.44 Many of them likewise enjoyed high ranks within the SS.
7. Far from being ordinary people, the term 'old Nazi' is apt for many of the survivors of Hitler's circle. Astrid Lang defined 'old Nazis' thus:
Three of Hitler's adjutants will suffice to illustrate this point.
People who were functionaries under National Socialism, or to be more precise in the NSDAP and its subsidiary organisations (e.g. the Hitler Youth) as well as former members of the so-called elite units (SA, SS). Most of this circle gloss over the National Socialist era and deny participation in the crimes, if not the crimes of the regime themselves as a whole.45
Three of Hitler's adjutants will suffice to illustrate this point.
8. First, Irving has submitted Julius Schaub's statement at Nuremberg.
Hitler never spoke of the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question or about the destruction of the Jews in my presence. Such subjects were never talked of in Hitler's surroundings; neither in the Führerhauptquartier nor elsewhere. Conversations about the KZs [concentration camps] never occurred. I myself learnt nothing of the so-called Jewish Question or a destruction of the Jews until the capitulation.46
9. Julius Schaub was imprisoned with Hitler in Landsberg after the attempted Putsch of 9 November 1923 and was Hitler's personal servant from 1925 onwards. By all accounts he was one of Hitler's most loyal and trusted confidants. Christa Schroeder described Schaub as 'a mystery-monger par excellence amongst the adjutants. Naturally he was informed about what was happening and he quite obviously enjoyed such situations.'47 Already in his last will and testament of 2 May 1938 Hitler had provided for Schaub in the event of his death with an intended lump sum of 100,000 Marks and a monthly pension of 500 Mark.48 His loyalty to Hitler was such that Hitler entrusted Schaub to burn his documents in the Berghof after he realised that the war was lost. Questioned at Nuremberg in March 1947 Schaub confirmed that he was still loyal to Hitler.49 He was also directly involved in killing operations himself.50 He thus had every reason to minimise Hitler's knowledge of the Holocaust, as well, of course, as his own.
10. Secondly, Franz von Sonnleithner was a Foreign Office adjutant to Hitler and party to the deportation of the Jews of Denmark and Rome to extermination camps in the east.51 In his post-war memoirs he made little effort to disguise his antisemitism, his resentment at any tarnishing of the German past, and his belief that Nazi crimes were equalled by those of the Allies. 'Today the ability of the Germans to judge has been so distorted that everyone who was loyal to Hitler is considered stupid if not criminal.'52 His memoirs have a thoroughly tendentious tone.53 Choosing his words with some care von Sonnleithner implied that the Nuremberg Trial was a Jewish revenge tribunal. He noticed the number of allegedly Jewish names on office doors at Nuremberg and commented:
I thought to myself at the time that I would have considered the Jewish people cleverer than to take such a prominent role in the prosecutor's office as, so to speak, a chorus of revenge. I felt sorry that there were people who would never learn how to conduct themselves so as to get rid of pent-up aggression. The German people were so affected at the time that they would have jumped at the chance to let bygones be bygones.54
12. Elsewhere he wrote:
In Ossweil we were led into a gym to be shown a film about the horrors of the German concentration camps. [...] As humans we naturally felt sorry for our fellow human beings who had suffered any horrible fate, but we equally knew precisely that not only we had conducted the war harshly but that the other side had done a few things which amongst us would certainly have been labelled as war crimes. Besides only a very few of us were responsible for the resulting action.55
13. Here too, therefore, we are dealing with an unrepentant, active Nazi who continued after the war to justify the crimes of Nazism and deny all responsibility for them.
14. Thirdly, Heinrich Heim was not only one of earliest of Hitler's followers (old party membership number 1782), but a man his editor described as 'a convinced national socialist'.56
15. In notes on Heim made by the Munich Institute for Contemporary History, following the above conversation, the author recorded that '...Heim lives in a dream world and still reveres Hitler in a completely unrealistic way.'57 Francois Genoud, the copyright holder of many major Nazi documents and himself no stranger to Nazi apologetics, described Heim to Irving in 1971 as 'an old Nazi' [einen alten Nazi].58 Heim apparently wanted to use some of the proceeds from the sales of his book to form a museum in Hitler's memory in Linz, and continued to be unashamedly antisemitic in his political writings.59 Again, therefore, his loyalty to Hitler after the war was an important factor in predisposing him to exculpate his leader.
38. Hitler's regulars at the Berghof included his doctor Theodore Morell, his court photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, his press speaker Otto Dietrich, the Munich Gauleiter Otto Wagner and the Vienna Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach and his wife Henriette von Schirach. The wives of the top elite were also regular fixtures such as Anni Brandt, Maria von Below, Margret Speer, Gerda Bormann, and of course Eva Braun,
39. Hitler heute, p. 90.
40. Document 882, Anthony Seldon to Irving, 7 February 1983, (labelled as Irving to Anthony Seldon).
41. Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler. The Search for the Origins of his Evil (London, 1998), p. 228.
42. Ibid., p. 229.
43. Robert M. W. Kempner, SS im Kreuzverhör. Die Elite die Europa in Scherben Schlug (Nördlingen, 1987), p. 341.
44. Gerd Sudholt (ed.), Adolf Hitler's drei Testamente. Ein Zeitdokument (Leoni am Sternberger See, n.d.), pp. 29 and 31.
45. Astrid Lange, Was die Rechten lesen. Fünfzig rechtsextreme Zeitschriften. Ziele, Inhalt, Tatik (Munich, 1993), p. 21.
46. Document 1856, Staatsarchiv Nürnberg, KV Prozesse, Fall 11, Akte G15, Dietrich Dokument Nr. 279, Affidavit Julius Schaub, 8.6.1948.
47. 'Ein Geheimniskrämer par excellencce in der Adjutantur war Julius Schaub. Er war natürlich informiert über das, was gerade anstand, und genoß solche Situationen ganz offensichtlich.' (Crista Schroeder, Er war mein Chef. Aus der Nachlaß der Sekretärin von Adolf Hitler ed. by Anton Joachimsthalter (Munich/Vienna, 1985), p. 48). Henceforth Er war mein Chef.
48. Adolf Hitlers drei Testamente, p. 29.
49. Kempner, p. 343.
50. A.L. Rüter-Ehlermann and C.F. Rüter (eds.), Justiz und NS-Verbrechen. Sammlung deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen 1945-1966 (Amsterdam, 1970), Vol. 2, pp. 149-55.
51. NG-5027, telegram no. 1645, 9.10.1943; Ulrich Herbert, Werner Best. Biographische Studien über Radikalismus, Weltanschaung und Vernunft 1903-1989 (Bonn, 1996).
52. 'Heute ist das Urteilsvermögen der Deutschen derart verdreht worden, daß jeder für dumm, wenn nicht für verbrecherisch gehalten wird, der Hitler die Treue hielt.' (Franz von Sonnleithner, Als Diplomat im "Füuhrerhauptquartier" forward by Reinhard Spitzy (Munich/Vienna, 1989)., p. 230). Henceforth von Sonnleithner.
53. Von Sonnleithner, pp. 246-7.
54. 'Ich dachte mir damals, daß ich das jüdischen Volk für klüger gehalten hätte, als sich so stark in der Anklagebehörde gleichsam als ein Chor der Rache zu beteiligen. Ich bedauerte, daß es Leute gibt, die nie lernen werden, wie man sich benehmen muß, um aufgestaute Agressionen abzubauen. Das deutsche Volk war damals so getroffen, daß es gerne die Gelegenheit ergriffen hätte, verflossene Zeiten vergessen zu machen.' (von Sonnleithner, p. 266).
55. 'In Ossweil wurden wir auch in die Turnhalle geführt, um uns einen Film über die deutschen Konzentrationslager-Greuel zu zeigen. [...] Als Menschen taten jedem natürlich alle Mitmenschen leid, die irgend ein schreckliches Schicksal erlitten hatten, aber wir wußten so genau, daß nicht nur wir den Krieg hart geführt hatten, sondern auch die auf der Gegenseite einiges getan hatten, was bei uns sicher als Kriegsverbrechen bezeichnet worden wäre. Außerdem waren die wenigstens von uns für das jetzt so bestandete Tun verantwortlich.' (von Sonnleithner, p. 241).
56. Werner Jochmann (ed.) Adolf Hitler. Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1944. Die Aufzeichnungen Heinrich Heims (Hamburg, 1980), pp. 12 and 15. Henceforth Monologe.
57. '...Heim lebe in eine Trauwelt und verehre heute noch Hitler in einer gar unrealistischen Weise.' (IfZ ZS-243/I, protocol of a conversation between Heinrich Heim and Dr. Mau, 17 July 1952, p. 9.)
58. Document 290, note on an interview of M. Francois Genoud, Lausanne, 21 June 1971.
59. See the accout in Schroeder, Er war mein Chef and Joachim von Lang, Der Sekretär.
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How to drink Scotch Whisky NOV 29 2012
Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master whisky blender, shows us the proper way to enjoy Scotch. It gets a little messy.
Here's another video from the same guy in which he demonstrates what to do when a bartender hands you a Scotch on the rocks. (via the new yorker)


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Auditions set for Spartanburg Little Theatre's 'Streetcar'
Published: Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 1, 2013 at 5:05 p.m.
Auditions for the Spartanburg Little Theatre's production of the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" will be March 11-12 in the David W. Reid Theater at the Chapman Cultural Center. The production will run May 3-12 and will be directed by Dan Harvey.
Roles are available for 10-12 adult males and females, age 25 and older, and one younger male, age 17-21. Auditions will consist of readings from the script.
One of the masterpieces of American theater, Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" follows the fading Southern belle Blanche Du Bois as she arrives on the doorstep of her sister, Stella, and her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Over the course of one hot New Orleans summer, Blanche's fragile facade crumbles as she meets her match in the brutish Stanley, who sees through her and is determined to expose her.
Rehearsals will begin immediately after casting. Production dates are May 3-5 and May 10-12.
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A proposal for a long term development plan involving a quarry received a final denial from the Camden County Commission Sept. 19 after a lengthy review process that bounced the rezoning and special use permit cases among the Camden County Planning Commission, the Camden County Board of Adjustments, the Sunrise Beach Planning Commission and the Sunrise Beach Board of Trustees.
All three county commissioners were present and all voted against the rezoning case.
The denial was expected as all of these entities had reviewed the plan and recommended against the proposal which included rezoning a 30 acre property from agricultural-residential to medium impact commercial and an special use permit (SUP) to mine the site for 15 years. The county board of adjustments denied the SUP Aug. 28.
Mark Magruder and Charles and Phyllis Turner had applied to quarry the Turner property to grade at Highway 5 and Tree Lane in Camden County. The proposal included stopping mining operations at an adjacent existing 30 acre quarry in the Village of Sunrise Beach.
With an Urban Services Boundary Agreement between Sunrise Beach and Camden County, the village was also allowed to officially comment on the cases.
The stated intent by Magruder was to create one large 60 acre flat site at an elevation of 730 feet that would be marketed for commercial development.
According to Magruder, he made the proposal to end quarry operations early at the existing quarry and leave a more useable property once mining is done. When quarry operations are finished, the state requires little in the way of land reclamation.
Magruder, owner of Magruder Limestone, has estimated that there is another 30 years of mining that can be done at the Sunrise Beach location.
Other property owners in the area were opposed to the proposal over concerns about blasting and have testified against it at the county commission hearing as well as the hearings held by the other local boards.
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[ 19th Annual Extravaganza Under Way ]
Snowbirds Gather: Extravaganza Draws Crowd to Lakeland Center
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 11:57 p.m.
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LAKELAND | Snowbirds flocked to The Lakeland Center by the thousands Tuesday for the first day of the Canadian Snowbird Association's 19th annual Snowbird Extravaganza.
"Crystal Gage is just great. But all the artists here are so much fun."
Sharon Bulmer, Ontario
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The event, which will continue from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today, features Canadian musical acts, 70 exhibitors, door prizes, food, Internet training sessions and bingo.
Last year's extravaganza drew 35,000 people, and Michael MacKenzie, executive director of the Canadian Snowbird Association, said the organization expects about the same number this year.
Snowbird Victor Warren, who was among those in attendance Tuesday, said he has been coming to Florida for 15 years, and — while his wife had a balloon animal made — he reminisced about his favorite musical acts of the morning, especially the Toronto All Star Big Band.
"I loved the guys from Toronto, in the style of Glen Miller. Real '40s-style stuff," he said.
Warren is Canadian, but now resides in Michigan when he's not enjoying the sunshine at his Lakeland home in Schalamar Creek.
"I love it down here," he said.
The Toronto All Star Big Band was joined by many others, including recent Canadian Country Hall of Fame inductee Michelle Wright, Grammy award-winner Walter Ostanek and the charismatic Jimmy Flynn, known as Canada's Ambassador of Good Cheer.
Visitors browsed through halls filled with exhibits and trade booths, stopping by a remake of Disney's Magic Kingdom castle to have photos taken with cardboard cut-outs of classic Disney figures.
Snowbird Sharon Bulmer of Ontario has been volunteering at the event for 12 of the 17 years she's been making the trip south to Lakeland.
Bulmer joked she is called the Wicked Witch of the West for her job of keeping the aisles clear during singer Crystal Gage's dance-inspiring crooning.
"Crystal Gage is just great," Bulmer said.
"But all the artists here are so much fun."
Gage enticed one woman up on stage during her rendition of the classic "Twist and Shout," a fan favorite.
Bulmer stays at Holiness Campground off South Florida Avenue from November through March, where she directs the campground choir.
"There's so many of us there during the winter," she said.
"A choir of 75 old people. It's a lot of fun."
Many Canadians, the most frequent international visitor to Florida, are attracted to live part time in the state because of the increasing value of the Canadian dollar, not to mention the warm weather.
Since 2002, the Canadian dollar has improved by almost 40 cents compared with the U.S. dollar.
It was worth just more than the U.S. dollar at the end of the banking day Tuesday, according to Bank of Canada statistics.
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Congratulations to 30-year-old Justin Knapp, aka Wikipedia user "koavf", on becoming the first Wikipedia user to make 1,000,000 edits. The Indiana University grad has been editing since 2005, specializing in topics of politics, philosophy and religion. Under the "convictions" section of his user profile he writes "My entire world view is based on the assertion that God exists, and created humanity in His image."
College professors throughout the world may be familiar with Knapp's work, via their students' plagiarism of it. This may be a once-in-a-lifetime achievement, given that Wikipedia is steadily losing editors.
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