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Skip Sponsel of Emerging Tech Accelerator in Portland will discuss corporate investment in new technology at this year's Venture Forum Dinner in Ashland.
Bruce Laird, business recruitment officer emeritus for Business Oregon will moderate a panel discussion about raising corporate capital for high-tech projects. Jennifer Fox, executive director of OTRADI, Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute; Skip Rung, executive director of ONAMI, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute; Ken Vaugh, director of commercialization programs for Oregon Best; Scott Goddin, Director of the Portland U.S. Export Assistance Center; Alice Yan Qian, marketing and development for International Tech Corporation; and Greg Lemhouse, global fleet development director for Brammo Inc., will all be on hand
Sustainable Valley Technology Group and the Southern Oregon University School of Business sponsor the event at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at Stevenson Union.
The cost is $45 per person. The cost to sponsor a table is $400 and includes dinner for 8 and company logo included in promotional material.
To register for the event, go to https://ventureforum2013.eventbrite.com/.
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New NYRA Rewards customers who wager at least $5 on a single day will receive a $5 cash deposit during a promotion that begins today and runs through the end of November.
To gain eligibility for the promotion, a new customer must enroll in NYRA Rewards, fund his or her account, and make a minimum of $5 in total wagers.
By noon on the following day, $5 deposit will be automatically credited to his or her account. The customer can repeat the process for up to 29 more days.
Only bets made at Belmont Park or Aqueduct Racetrack, at nyrarewards.com, or through touch tone phone wagering, automated voice wagering and mobile wagering count toward the promotion. Bets made by telephone with a live operator are excluded.
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Whitney Tilson: I'm Shorting Herbalife, Too
Bill Ackman, you have company.
Earlier this morning, hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson disclosed he's also shorting Herbalife, the nutritional-supplement maker that Ackman says operates as a "pyramid scheme" and one in which he says he has an "enormous" negative wager against.
"I am short a tiny smidge of Herbalife…and a number of other multi-level marketers," Tilson said in an email. He acknowledged that he's short "a minuscule amount" of stock because it's tough to find shares on loan to short.
Tilson declined to say how long he has been shorting Herbalife shares. "I don't wish to comment further," he told MarketBeat.
Short sellers borrow shares to sell them with the hope of buying them back at a lower price and pocketing the difference.
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Tilson cited the analysis from Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, as the reason for his latest move against Herbalife.
"Pershing Square's analysis of Herbalife is the most remarkable piece of investment analysis I have ever seen. Simply astonishing," says Tilson, who co-manages three hedge funds and two mutual funds at T2 Partners LLC.
Herbalife shares recently were up 5.5% to $27.50. The stock dropped 38% last week and fell another 4.4% during Monday's holiday shortened trading session. Shares are off more than 45% this year.
In addition, Tilson criticized the entire multi-level marketing industry.
"Hopefully it results in massive reform of this whole sector, which has preyed upon MILLIONS of vulnerable people all over the world for decades," Tilson says. "This has been blindingly obvious to anyone who's done even cursory analysis, but for some reason regulators at the state and local level have done almost nothing to rein in the widespread abuses – it's just like subprime mortgages and student lending.
"This is one area in which China is WAY ahead of us: it's simply outlawed ALL multi-level marketing," he says. "A very good idea in my opinion."
Earlier this week, Herbalife said it has hired a strategic adviser and will hold an analyst and investor meeting next month in an effort to thwart the recent wave of criticism.
In addition, Herbalife is working with law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, according to people familiar with the matter. It wasn't immediately clear what kind of counsel Boies Schiller might provide.
Herbalife last week called Ackman's stance "a malicious attack on Herbalife's business model based largely on outdated, distorted and inaccurate information."
On Monday, the company said it's analyst and investor meeting — to be held on Jan. 10 — would offer a "comprehensive response to investor questions on its business model."
Herbalife shares tumbled sharply earlier this year after hedge-fund manager David Einhorn asked pointed questions about the company's business model on an earnings conference call in May. Mr. Einhorn's firm, Greenlight Capital, hasn't disclosed any position in the stock.
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Definition of the in English:
1Denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge: what's the matter? call the doctor the phone rang Compare with a1.
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- If he's saying we're running fifth behind the leader, I know we don't have to make drastic changes.
- During September and October the days become shorter.
- Fifteen long, dull minutes passed before the door opened.
1.1Used to refer to a person, place, or thing that is unique: the Queen the Mona Lisa the Nile
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- One could find similar stories from northern Queensland or the Amazon.
- Canonized with great ceremony by the Pope in 2002, Padre Pio was a Capuchin monk.
- Who hasn't heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
1.2 informal Denoting a disease or affliction: I've got the flu
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- A person with the mumps often looks like he has chubby cheeks.
- The whole idea gives me the creeps.
- Everyone has gone though a mild case of the blues once in their lives.
1.3(With a unit of time) the present; the current: dish of the day man of the moment
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- Has a caretaker manager in the Premiership ever won manager of the month?
- Bodega were presented with the award by Radio 2's Folk Musician of the Year, Kathryn Tickell.
1.4 informal Used instead of a possessive to refer to someone with whom the speaker or person addressed is associated: I'm meeting the boss how's the family?
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- One night, the hubby and I stopped at the next door bakery and bought some bread.
- Are you all right? How are the kids?
1.5Used with a surname to refer to a family or married couple: the Johnsons were not wealthy
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- Doubtless as a result of all the tension in the Williams household, Tennessee became a compulsive traveler.
- One of two episodes to be presented in widescreen, the pilot introduces the Browns and the rest of the Everwood folk.
2Used to point forward to a following qualifying or defining clause or phrase: the fuss that he made of her the top of a bus I have done the best I could
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- From the first of July, mothers will be eligible for a $3,000 dollar payment, going up to $5,000 by 2008.
- I headed towards the park at the corner of Palace Avenue.
- There was a tiny spot of toothpaste on the front of my shirt.
2.1(Chiefly with rulers and family members with the same name) used after a name to qualify it: George the Sixth Edward the Confessor Jack the Ripper
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- In the time of Henry the Eighth, a person who did not read Greek and Latin could read nothing, or next to nothing.
- The beginning of the Hellenistic age is defined as the rise to power of Alexander the Great.
- He carried Russia a long way from Ivan the Terrible's 'time of troubles'.
3Used to make a generalized reference to something rather than identifying a particular instance: he taught himself to play the violin worry about the future
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- Parents have to be a lot more careful about what their children are allowed to watch on the TV.
- Lots of the singles on the CD were never on the radio here.
- Becky sings with our church choir and plays the piano.
3.1Used with a singular noun to indicate that it represents a whole species or class: they placed the African elephant on their endangered list
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- A streamlined fish, the mackerel is designed for fast swimming in large shoals.
- At the turn of the 20th century, the tiger roamed free through vast parts of Asia.
3.2Used with an adjective to refer to those people who are of the type described: the unemployed
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- This trend especially threatens children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems.
- Having occupied the country from the early 1900s, the French contributed much in the way of education.
- The government doles out about $117 billion to cover the health care costs of the unfit and obese.
3.3Used with an adjective to refer to something of the class or quality described: they are trying to accomplish the impossible
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- I was not surprised to see him standing there alone, but I was hoping for the unexpected.
- Sometimes I can say the unsayable.
- Ginger and her sister Brigitte are suburban teenagers with a taste for the macabre.
3.4Used with the name of a unit to state a rate: they can do 120 miles to the gallon
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- These annual levies are only a few cents in the dollar.
- If you fly into wind you will get much less mileage to the litre.
- The Ballet School has some pianists on salary; others are paid by the hour.
4Enough of (a particular thing): he hoped to publish monthly, if only he could find the money
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- A significant 42% never get the time to take their full entitlement to annual leave.
- We had to put bins where we had the space, and that's caused our system to be scattered.
- Her only hope is to travel to Europe and receive experimental treatments - a trip she doesn't have the money for.
5(Pronounced stressing "the") used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of that name or type: he was the hot young piano prospect in jazz
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- The Marina is the place to be Easter Sunday if you enjoy quality jazz music.
- Zutty Singleton was the drummer in Chicago.
- If you'd like to understand the teenager in your family a little better then Crossroads is the film to watch.
6Used adverbially with comparatives to indicate how one amount or degree of something varies in relation to another: the more she thought about it, the more devastating it became
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- The more I learned, the more I found his theories to be flawed.
- The older Tom gets, the less he understands them.
- The sooner they declare it illegal, the better for all concerned.
6.1 (usually all the ——) Used to emphasize the amount or degree to which something is affected: commodities made all the more desirable by their rarity
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- Several of those people left the church, and we are the better for it.
- Excellent engineering makes this CD all the more attractive.
- If it were possible for them to come up with an agreed contents of the application book then the preparation of it will be so much the quicker.
The article the is usually pronounced T͟Hə before a consonant sound ( please pass the potatoes) and T͟Hē before a vowel sound ( please pass the asparagus). Regardless of consonant and vowel sounds, when the desired effect following the is to emphasize exclusivity, the pronunciation is T͟Hē: she's not just any expert in vegetation management, she's the expert.
Old English (Northumbrian and North Mercian dialects) thē; related to Dutch de, dat, and German der, die, das.
Words that rhyme with theabsentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, degree, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee
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Tom Cruise's $50 million lawsuit against Bauer Media Group may eventually include questions about journalists' rights, freedom of religion, alleged bigotry, Nazis, Nazi porn, child abandonment, and aliens.
This case may make O.J.'s trial look pedestrian.
In October, Cruise filed a defamation suit against the publisher of Life & Style and In Touch magazines, after they ran a story saying Cruise abandoned his 6-year-old daughter since his divorce from actress Katie Holmes.
Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields, called the story a "vicious lie," adding, "Tom is a caring father who dearly loves Suri. She's a vital part of his life and always will be. To say it in lurid headlines with a tearful picture of Suri is reprehensible."
According to the Huffington Post, Bauer Media still stands by the story, saying it was "substantially true." The company is countering by attempting to put the focus on Cruise's relationship with Suri.
In documents filed Thursday, lawyers for Bauer requested details of Cruise's schedule; the extent to which he was in contact with Suri after his separation and divorce from Holmes; Cruise's contact and visitation schedule with Suri and the terms of the divorce agreement; his history of separation from Suri; and Suri's mental and emotional state following her parents' separation and divorce.
This is going to get ugly.
The Huffington Post also reported that Bauer wants information about how Cruise's membership in the Church of Scientology may have played a role in his decisions regarding his visitation and communication with Suri, as well as the history of all the lawsuits the actor has filed over the years.
While they're at it, they should probably ask how Cruise ever thought he was tall enough to play Jack Reacher.
Cruise's legal team came back Thursday with an equally long list of demands for Bauer about its policies and practices regarding publishing stories about the actor, his family and the Church of Scientology. They also want Bauer to release the identities of the magazine's sources and disclose its policies and practices for obtaining information, paying sources and verifying the credibility of said sources.
Oh, and Team Cruise wants Bauer to detail its "history of bigotry and hatred toward minority religious groups and their members," which the Hollywood Reporter said may have been prompted by a recent report from the Wrap that said the German publisher holds assets in at least one magazine appealing to neo-Nazis, and is also involved in distributing Nazi-themed porn movies.
A briefing is scheduled for Feb. 28.
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Too many peopleovervalue what they are not and undervalue what they are - Forbes
Performance is the best measure of an athlete's mental game. Let'sface it as athletes move up in rankings some unexpected circumstances willappear. At that moment, athletes will be faced with a decision on how to act,or react. An athlete's mindset has a lot to do with the response and theoutcome. Traditional sports psychology primarily teaches goal setting,visualization and self talk as primary tools to overcome obstacles.
Many approaches exist to begin strengthening your mentalgame. Time is of the essence during a competitive season, athletes requirequick results. Learning new skills does not always work well during thecompetitive season. So what if there was a faster approach? Instead of addingsomething onto their training the ideal approach is to remove the obstacle causingpoor performance.
Four primary categories create performance blocks.
1. Affect has to do with feelings and emotions. Emotionsdirectly impact response and perception. This crops up as anxiety, anger,shame, fears and disappointment.
2. Cognitive explores an athletes mental process. Thisincludes perceptions, memory and problem solving. Intelligence stems from thecognitive part of the brain. Cognitive barriers are expressed by low selfconfidence, perfectionism and blaming others
3. Conative is the desire to act on thoughts and feelings.Think of this as willful action. Low motivation, conflicts between opposinginterests and extreme desire are conative factors.
4. Behavioral domain casts a wide umbrella including actions,thoughts and feelings. Athletes getting into fights, overtraining, poorcommunication and pushing either too hard or not hard enough face behavioralchallenges.
This new experiential approach requires highly specific informationand clarity concerning current challenges. After identifying the problem theathlete goes a little deeper to look at the underlying meaning. Why is thisnecessary? Well actions are the easiest way to recognize a problem, but theyonly scratch the surface. To fully understand performance issues it isnecessary to understand its root cause.
People by nature, including athletes, are storytellers. Learningthe story, and its underlying meaning, is necessary for long lasting change.When an athlete recognizes their story, then they have a choice. Keep it orchange its meaning. When something is working against an athlete, causing aninternal struggle, then it is time to modify the story.
Basically two distinct types of obstacles affect performance,external and internal. Technical problems, conditions and delayed starts aresome external problems. Physical and psychological factors lead to internalissues. Physical challenges would be injury, illness, substance abuse andfatigue. Psychological issues revolve around emotions, perceptions and actions.Any one of these factors alone will impact performance. Several occurringsimultaneously without resolution create troubled athletes.
So what's next? Changing perspective and meaning clearsperformance obstacles. Wherever the athlete is ready to get to work is the bestplace to start.
1. Discovery. Generalizations just don't work. Learn why theathlete is uncomfortable. Detect whether the problem is external or internal. Athletestaking responsibility for their actions and perspective is the first step inthe process.
2. Choice. Often several different issues occur at the sametime. It is rarely just one problem affecting an athlete's performance ormotivation. Attempting to solve several issues simultaneously is ineffective.Choose one specific problem to work on at a time. Where to start? The bestplace to start is the one the athlete is most motivated to focus on right now.
3. The Story. What is the athlete experiencing? Identify anyunderlying fears or meaning. Search for the root cause. Ask questions todiscover the first time something like this was experienced. Clearing the rootcause along with its story brings about an immediate transformation. This iswhere breakthroughs happen.
4. Reframe. Changing meaning, perception and response is thedesired outcome. A great place to reframe is around black and white thinkingalso known as all or nothing thoughts. The world is rarely black and white.Building balance into the story begins to change its meaning. Rules are anotherreaction which can be readily modified. Rules sound like this: "If thishappens, then this is the response." The ideal goal is to step out of the box,developing a new response.
Moving up in rankings necessitates personal growth. Allathletes experience a psychological barrier at some point in their career.Inner conflicts create struggles leading to performance issues. Periodicallyathletes are faced with old beliefs causing them to stumble. Many timesathletes can overcome these hurdles on their own. Persisting challenges,however, affect confidence.
Athletes rarely hesitate to seek out a coach to improvephysical performance. Take the initiative to find the right support to build asolid mental game. Performance coaches are trained to work through mindsetchallenges. Making the decision to take action is a powerful first step.Reaching out for the right support frequently brings relief, recognizing it isthe first step toward a solution.
Activity: Identify a recent competition where you weren'tsatisfied with your performance. What was one which bothered you the most? Listthe reasons your performance was off. Include what prevented you from regainingfocus. Now list all the ways this challenge can be approached. If you are readyto turn things around, what first step are you willing to take now?
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Oculus Inches Closer to Launch With New Developer Kit
Oculus VR, a startup trying to popularize virtual reality with its Oculus Rift goggles, said Wednesday it will begin accepting orders for a new development kit, offering a better look at the company's eventual consumer product.
The new device, which is expected to ship to developers in July, marks an important step toward the eventual launch of consumer products, Oculus said.
The device has new features such as a higher resolution screen in the goggles. It also includes a set of infrared lights on the front of the headset that allows an external camera to track the wearer's head as it moves forward and back, as well as side to side. Past versions couldn't track forward or backward motion.
"This is a significant leap that introduces fundamental building blocks toward great VR," said Brendan Irebe, chief executive at Oculus. He added that the higher quality screen reduces blurred images that typically happen when the wearer's head turns too quickly.
Oculus will charge $350 for the new headset, $50 more than the previous version. Irebe said his company is trying to keep prices as close to cost of manufacturing as possible.
The new device comes less than a day after Sony announced its new virtual reality goggles, called "Project Morpheus." Sony's new device offers many of the same features Oculus does, and even looks similar to an untrained eye.
But one key difference between the two companies is software. Sony has a large videogam- development team at its disposal, known for turning out hits like the zombie thriller "The Last of Us" and the well regarded artistic title, "Journey." Sony said its teams have already begun experimenting with the prototype.
Irebe said he's not concerned with competition, adding that companies often follow, but don't fully fund new trends. Oculus, on the other hand, has hired a team of industry veterans such as "Doom" creator John Carmack, and is working with large companies like Valve.
"We think everyone will work on this technology, just like they are on computers and mobile devices," he said. "We're not worried, not with the talented team we have."


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Trey Anastasio Band,
Saturday, 07/21/2001
Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI
Soundcheck: Push on Til the Day, Tube Top Flop, Simple Twist Up Dave, Money Love and Change, At the Barbeque, Nothing But an E Thing, Sidewalks of San Francisco
Set 1: Push On 'Til the Day, Tube Top Flop, Acting the Devil, Small Axe, Simple Twist Up Dave, Nothing But an 'E' Thing, Cayman Review, Last Tube
Set 2: Moesha > Quantegy, Burlap Sack and Pumps[1], Money, Love and Change, Flock of Words, Mr. Completely, At the Gazebo, Drifting
Encore: First Tube
[1] Extended jam with only Trey and Medeski.
Notes: John Medeski performed on keyboards for the entire show; regular TAB keyboardist Ray Paczkowski did not perform at this gig. During "Last Tube," Trey thanked the audience, calling Alpine Valley "the best place to play in the whole world." "Burlap Sack and Pumps" contained an extended (~five minute) jam with just Trey and John Medeski.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Dave Grippo, Russell Remington, Jennifer Hartswick, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Andy Moroz, John Medeski (Guest)


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Union leaders' decision to vote on a strike that could cripple production at Boeing puzzles Chris Burleson of Columbus. "Boeing doesn't need a strike right now with all of its problems, and don't these morons realize they could potentially put the Boeing company out of business?" he wonders. "It's no wonder that BMW, Michelin, Boeing and a host of other manufacturers placed their plants in South Carolina and on Southern soil where unions are not wanted, needed or accepted. If I was an owner of a manufacturing company, I would build a plant in the southern United States without a union or I would go overseas. I have never worked for a union, and I never will. It was shot down at my present and last former job shops, and for good reason. As I have said before, if you need a union to be happy at your job, then you need another job."
PAPA'S & BEER: One of many folks' favorite restaurants in Hendersonville is Papa's & Beer, and Pat Johnson counts herself among that group. "First of all," she says, "they have good vegetarian dishes, and the service is great. It is always a pleasure when I go there. My favorite is the vegetarian enchilada."
'OH, THAT': Imagine the look on the CEO's face after reading this tale about a toothpaste factory where they sometimes shipped boxes without the tubes inside. This challenged their perceived quality with the buyers and distributors. Understanding how important the relationship with them was, the CEO of the company assembled his top people. They decided to hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem. The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated and third parties selected. Six months and $8 million later, they had a fantastic solution. Everyone was pleased. They solved the problem by using a high-tech precision scale that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box weighed less than it should. The line would stop, someone would walk over, remove the defective box and then press another button to restart the line. As a result of the new package-monitoring process, no empty boxes were being shipped out of the factory. With no more customer complaints, the CEO felt the $8 million was well spent. He then reviewed the line statistics report and discovered the number of empty boxes picked up by the scale in the first week was consistent with projections, however, during the next three weeks there were no empty boxes. The CEO had the engineers check the equipment, and they verified the report as accurate. Puzzled, the CEO traveled down to the factory, viewed the part of the line where the precision scale was installed and observed just ahead of the new $8 million solution sat a $20 desk fan blowing the empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. He asked the line supervisor what that was about. "Oh, that," the supervisor replied, "Sam, the kid from maintenance, put it there because he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang."
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: The first art exhibition of the Mentors & Students series, Art of Our Children — Elementary Student Exhibition, opens today and will be on display through Feb. 22 at the First Citizens Bank Main Street gallery at 539 N. Main St. in Hendersonville. The opening reception, from 5:30 to 7 this evening, will include a performance by the Hendersonville Children's Choir. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Fridays. There is no admission charge.
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Trey Anastasio Band,
Thursday, 04/27/2006
The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
Set 1: If You're Walking[1], Burlap Sack and Pumps[2] > Mr. Completely[2], Shadow[1], Dragonfly, Plasma[2], Let Me Lie, Spin, Cayman Review[2], Shine
Set 2: Heavy Things, Simple Twist Up Dave[2] > Low, A Case of Ice and Snow[1], 46 Days, The Way I Feel, Come As Melody
Encore: Mud City > First Tube
[1] Debut.
[2] With Russel Remington.
Notes: This show featured the debuts of "If You're Walking," "Shadow" and "A Case of Ice and Snow." "Burlap Sack," Mr. Completely," "Plasma," "Cayman," and "Simple Twist." featured Russell Remington on saxophone. During "Heavy Things" Trey pointed out that the real Mary (from the song) was in attendance. "Low" contained a "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" jam.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Jennifer Hartswick, Raymond Weber, Ray Paczkowski, Christina Durfee, Tony Hall, Russell Remington (Guest)


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- Great PerformerSure is a great gun. I totally agree - feels more like it shoots around 375-380fps. Definitely a great performer...high amount of metal makes it feel more realistic which is one HUGE plus for me - I go for realism. Hop-up & accuracy is pretty awesome as I take a CQB Specialist role in-team. Still good accuracy at 100-150 feet. I highly prefer this gun to my KWA KM4 & KG36C in CQB situations
Decent Price
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Battery Life is pretty good
High-Cap Mags (200 ) are not widely available
- Don't know for sure...I got this gun from a friend to fix up. It has a nice solid metal gearbox. The problem with it right now is the motor. You might want to spend a little extra and get a nice motor and even a new spring because this gun's gearbox can handle it. Great gun, a little spendy, but it has a nice feel to it.
- My Best GunMostly metal, accurate, the hop up is great, and it feels more like 375 fps. It's better than some 300$ Airsoft gun.
- come and get me... I dare youThis gun is an absolute beast. I use this gun in every match and have become a surgen with it. I am all about the realistic feel and this gun is as real as they come. This gun has exceptional attention to detail. I must say I love this gun.
What cons?
- Freaking awsomeOk this gun is awesome, I don't own this gun but i have used this gun a lot as my sniper side arm/personal defense weapon and I have to say, this gun is beast. We used this gun with a 8.4 4800mah battery and we thought that it worked great until we used electrical tape and strapped a 9.6 4800 or 6400mah (can't remember which) nunchuck to the rails and I swear that this gun was shooting at 1300 rpm at least. All i saw was a white stream of bbs coming out of the muzzle and hitting the target with .25g at 140ft every time. The only problem that I have found with the gun is that it is a little front heavy with a bigger battery in it. Also, it would be nice if the manufacture made it with rails on top so you could mount a red dot sight on the top, not a big deal but would look kinda cool.
Great quality
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- awesome!!! must get!pro's great rate of fire 16 bbs a second
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con's battery is hard to get in
things to know... don't use cheap bbs from local store they jam bad
if there isn't a bb in the chamber the blow back will not work the same
- Its actually a G&G made AEGI've had this gun for a while now, extremely satisfied every way you can be with this gun, only thing you may not like is if you're trying to be sneaky, you can only be sneaky up until the point you shoot the gun cause once you pull the trigger your position will be given away due to the loud blow back, however, it will scare the piss out of unsuspecting peeps and they will scramble in terror. I bought a raptor 2 mock suppressor (barrel extension) for the bit of extra accuracy over longer distances in non CQB situations. I use .25g bb's and the hop up is so great it's amazing how straight they go over long distances. I've only had one problem with the gun so far, I gently tossed the stock hi cap mag in my van after playing and it wrapped the side of my gun pretty lightly and there was a little weight that broke off inside, it looked like it was cemented in kinda crudely but I fixed it with some impact resistant gorilla glue :/ and it works fine now. Last note: I'm not sure why top tech is listed but if you take apart this gun the lower receiver has G&G engraved on it.. might be something shorty would want to change cause I did a G&G search and this gun didn't even come up.
Editors note: Top-Tech is partnered with G&G as mentioned in this items description. It uses G&G parts but Top-Tech is the correct brand label.
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Fans of Incarceron by Catherine Fisher and Variant by Robison Wells won't want to miss this magnetic first book in a gripping dystopian sci-fi series. Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of the Legend trilogy, raves that Taken is "an action-packed thrill ride from beginning to end. More, please!"
Gray Weathersby has grown up expecting to disappear at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. They call it the Heist—and it happens to every boy in Claysoot. His only chance at escape is to climb the Wall that surrounds Claysoot. A climb no one has ever survived . . .
There are no men in Claysoot.
There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends . . . and he's gone.
They call it the Heist.
Gray Weathersby's eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he's prepared to meet his fate—until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he's been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets, the Heist itself, and what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot—a structure that no one can cross and survive.
Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken—or risk everything on the hope of the other side?
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In 2014, when HH Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and the Ruler of Dubai, unveiled the Dubai Strategic Plan 2021, he defined a new focal point for the emirate's governance: the happiness of its people.
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Mushrooms of the genus mycena grow on a log recently at Sycamore Grove Park in Livermore. Wild mushrooms at this park are for viewing and not consuming, as some mushrooms are highly toxic to people and dogs. The Bay Area Mycological Society will partners with Livermore parks ranger Amy Wolitzer at 1 p.m. Jan. 20 for "Mushroom Madness," which is a search for various kinds of mushrooms found at Sycamore Grove. For details and directions call the office at 925-960-2400. A donation of $2 per person is suggested.


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There are already lot of custom builds but I suppose one more will not hurt anybody.
My build includes some addons missing from official builds, some were already merged to official build by Shagrath or Subjunk, so maybe also others will be merged some day...
My custom build was one of the first custom builds posted here in forum by anybody but it was always attached to specific thread so it always lost in time
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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Baseball team will get a tough test in the opening game of the 2013 Kleberg Bank College Classic on Friday night, taking on New Mexico in a 6:00 p.m. game at Whataburger Field. The Islanders and the Corpus Christi Hooks work together to host the tournament each year in the Coastal Bend.
Starting for the Islanders (3-2) on Friday night is Tim Keller (1-0, 1.80 ERA) in his second outing of the year. Keller held Texas – Pan American to just one run on two hits over 5.0 innings last Saturday to give his team the victory. He will face off against A.J. Carman (0-0, 2.25 ERA) of the Lobos in the tournament opener for both teams. Carman pitched 4.0 innings while giving up just one run and one walk while striking out three against Oklahoma State in the opening series.
The Lobos were ranked as high as No. 21 coming into the season, but dropped out of the rankings after going 1-2 against the Big 12's Cowboys last weekend. They are still receiving votes in the national polls from both USA Today/ESPN and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi comes into the series hitting .298 as a team, with Brad Porras leading the way at .474 with four doubles. Porras is the younger brother of former New Mexico player Trey Porras.
Eric Weiss is second on the team with a .353 average, a double, a triple and six RBI, while Jordan Lee is hitting .316 with four doubles and Stafford Brantley rounds out the list of Islanders above .300 with a .312 batting average.
For New Mexico, Mitch Garver is tops on the team with his .462 average, and is one of four players hitting at .400 or better. The Lobos also boast two others hitting above .300 as the team is batting .314 for the year.
It will be the first meeting between the teams in Corpus Christi, with the only previous meeting coming in 2003 at the Lobos home stadium in Albuquerque. New Mexico earned three wins over the Islanders in the only meetings between the teams before Friday night.
On Saturday, Trevor Foss is slated to start against Oklahoma and pitcher Jonathan Gray, while Adam Hoelscher will get the ball against Iowa and Calvin Matthews on Sunday.
Tickets for the event are on sale at the Hooks box office, with single days tickets selling at $10 for adults and $5 for kids ages 4-12. Tournament packages can be purchased for all three days at a cost of $24 for adults and $12 for kids ages 4-12. Tickets can be purchased online at the Hooks website (www.cchooks.com), calling the ticket office at 361-561-HOOK (4665) or by visiting the box office at Whataburger Field.
Live video and stats will be available for all games during the weekend, with fans being able to log on at www.GoIslanders.com for all the action.
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After two years in the planning, nine months searching for the best musicians and four months in rehearsal, it all comes down to a debut show June 25 by what can only be referred to as a lake area "supergroup." The i-Berrys band is a nine piece Celtic, Irish, Pop, Funk, Country, Rock band from Osage Beach.
Band founding member Roger Hulett says the mix of music sounds complicated but really isn't.
"You hear a song on the radio, and it either fits the i-Berrys or it doesn't," Hulett said. "The band definitely has a distinct personality that will be apparent in the first live set that some songs just wouldn't fit."
Hulett along with fellow founding members Shawn Campanini, and Kyle Miller came up with the concept for the band over two years ago. Through those discussions they decided to come up with not just a group of players playing songs. They wanted a "show". A show that was vocally, musically and personality driven. Not a simple task when looking for musicians.
The i-Berrys are comprised of Hulett, Campanini, Miller and also Melissa Carroll, Missy McPheeters, Monty Laffoon, Darin Puppel, Daniel Gibbs, and Jake Hanselman.
Campanini, the band's musical director, says "many of these band members have been playing music for over 20 years. They were the perfect mix of talent, and personality that we were looking for."
Hulett goes on to say, "we don't really care for the tag supergroup that has been thrown around about us, but there is no disputing that this mix of players is the best of the best. We are blessed to have all of them in this one group."
Kyle Miller said, "Another cool thing about the music this group plays, is the different instrumentation that the audience will see on stage. These are instruments you don't normally see from a "Missouri" based band. We have Irish Bodhran drums, full percussion island, pedal steel, fiddles, mandolins, melodicas, tin whistles and even a few surprises. And of course the standard guitars, bass, piano and drums."
The i-Berrys were formed as a major event band based out of Osage Beach. This is not your typical every Friday and Saturday night group.
The i-Berrys band will make their live debut on June 25th at the Sports Pub 2107 in Lake Ozark from 8pm-11pm. This debut is a media showcase and debut for various club owners from Springfield to Kansas City and St Louis.
The event is also open to the public as well. Following the debut show, the i-Berrys Band will announce more show dates as they become solidified.
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Michelle Nunn Enters Georgia Senate Race
By Cameron McWhirter
ATLANTA—Michelle Nunn, daughter of former centrist Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn, filed Tuesday to run as a Democrat in the race to succeed Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is not seeking re-election.
In an email to supporters Tuesday, she praised her father and his work for compromise between Democrats and Republicans while a senator from 1972 to 1997, and bemoaned current Washington partisanship.
"[T]he Washington that my father worked in not so long ago is a place that just doesn't exist anymore," Ms. Nunn, 46 years old, wrote. "Instead of searching for common ground and working together to create solutions, too often our political leaders are simply trying to win the latest battle. Meanwhile, we are running up our national debt and failing to make tough choices to secure our economic future."
Ms. Nunn has close ties to Republicans as well as Democrats. For years she has headed the Points of Light Foundation, a nonprofit promoting volunteerism, founded by former Republican President George H.W. Bush. Ms. Nunn, President Barack Obama and Mr. Bush were on hand at the White House last week [July 15] at a Points of Light awards ceremony.
Ms. Nunn's candidacy has been anticipated since early May, when Rep. John Barrow, the only white Democratic congressman in Georgia, announced that he would not seek the seat and would run instead for re-election to the House.
Ms. Nunn has never held political office, but her 74-year-old father, once a political powerhouse in Georgia and national politics, has strong ties with Democrats and Republicans in Washington. He is chairman of the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies, a bipartisan international policy institute that focuses on various world problems, including nuclear weapons-proliferation.
Democrats are looking for opportunities around the nation to pick up seats in 2014 in their bid to maintain control of the Senate. Georgia is a GOP stronghold, with Republicans holding the governor's office, both Senate seats and majorities in both houses of the state legislature. But Democrats are hoping to capitalize on the state's rapidly changing demographics, including more African Americans and more Hispanic voters, as well as a crowded GOP primary.
Three congressmen, Phil Gingrey, Paul Broun and Jack Kingston, as well as former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel are among those vying to run as the Republican Senate candidate.
Chris Crawford, spokesman for Mr. Kingston, was unimpressed by Ms. Nunn's entrance into the race.
"Hardworking Georgians are not looking to send [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid and President Obama another vote in Congress," he wrote in an email to the Journal.
Another candidate, Branko Radulovacki, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, also has entered the Democratic primary.
Democrats hoping to hold their Senate majority next year will be defending seats in seven states that often support Republicans or that are turning friendlier to the GOP: West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas, South Dakota, North Carolina, Louisiana and Alaska.
With Republicans needing to gain six seats to take control of the chamber, Democrats are looking for any pickup of a seat now held by the GOP. Aside from Georgia, Democrats also are expected to make a big push to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.


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There were 63 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,399 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Assault with a deadly weapon: An intoxicated man told police he was beaten with a baseball bat about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday while walking in the 5400 block of Governor Circle. The victim said he was attacked by someone who got out of a four-door Nissan Sentra. The assailant struck the victim with a baseball bat three times and fled in the vehicle, which was last seen going west on Governor Circle. He was described as a Latino man about 25 years old standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds with a white T-shirt, long black hair and a ponytail.
The California Highway Patrol did not submit an incident report Thursday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 104 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, including eight vehicle accidents, 77 medical calls and one structure fire.
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Saturday's letters: Federal spending
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To the editor: Is it just me or are other readers confused? Recently Congress raised the debt ceiling to a new level. This seems to happen every year. Makes me wonder why we even have a ceiling.
I guess its like my borrowing limit with American Express. If I have a credit limit of $10,000 and Im getting close to that figure, I can request AMEX raise it. If I have been making my payments at least minimum payments each month, they will probably raise it, allowing me to continue to charge things (meals, hotel rooms, plane tickets, etc.) This may be OK in the short term. But any prudent person certainly any financial planner would urge me to reduce this credit card debt. Its not sustainable. It could ruin my credit and possibly cause major problems with my financial future. On a personal financial level, this makes perfect sense.
So, what am I missing at the federal level? Im thinking there are really only two choices spend less or make more. The government has limitations on making more. How about spending less? But thats just me thinking again. Guess I shouldnt worry. Those folks in Washington are pretty smart, arent they? You decide.
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To the editor: The recent stances taken by Sen. Tom Apodaca qualify him to be known as the after-the-fact senator.
Referencing the Duke Energy Eden Plant spilling of coal ash into the Dan River, Sen. Apodaca said the coal ash ponds at the Duke plant in Arden have always been a concern (Times-News, Feb. 14) being close to I-26 and the French Broad River, and he wants a permanent solution to this potential problem. Funny thing its been a concern, but he did nothing until Duke Energy gets caught with a major coal ash spill.
Could it be that because Duke Energy is a major political contributor to candidates of the Republican Party that his concern about the safety of those Arden ponds can be set aside while Duke contributions keep coming in and then surface only when Duke gets caught?
And then there is a matter of teacher pay. Funds were not available in 2013, but after protests in front of his office and Moral Monday marches, he now supports some form of increased teacher pay. Could it also be that 2014 is an election year and he now has a real opponent in the person of Rick Wood?
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To the editor: We the people have lost our power.
It is obvious the vast majority of politicians have only one constituency: their own political party. Each decision or vote is initially passed through the filter of their partys agenda. The Constitutions preamble mandate, We the people of the United States, in order to promote the general Welfare to ourselves and our posterity has been replaced by the welfare and power of political parties and their own re-election (or legacy) supported by pork and free stuff sliced from the treasury for their political base.
Forgotten is We the people and our posterity as increasing national debt and means-tested entitlements swamp our ability to be a productive nation with a balanced budget. Also obvious, there is no change in sight.
Republicans have long espoused a principle of financial responsibility. Then they recently allowed the food stamp and farm bill to be passed. This was followed by disregarding their responsibility by abrogating the purse strings to the executive branch again. The Republican elitists have failed us again.
All Democrats, on the other hand, think increasing the national debt and entitlements are the natural order.
We the people must wake up!
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Certainly laughing at how some young black kid talks cuts right through any pall that an attempted rape should cast over anything.
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Snowmakers and groomers saved the extra-lean 2011-12 season, and this time around the formerly hidden heroes are taking a starring role.As snowmaking guns begin blowing this month, the state's snowmakers are employing the latest techniques, strategies and equipment to lay down the initial base that will anchor ski runs for the next several months. Last year's dismal snow - 50 percent of normal - honed those snowmaking tactics by revealing gaps and holes typically concealed by Colorado's ample snowfall."We discovered a couple key areas during last year's lack of snow and extraordinary wind events, and we are going to fix those areas this year," Arapahoe Basin chief Alan Henceroth said.A-Basin this past summer built 700 feet of 8-foot-high snow fence at the top of the ski area. The fences filter blowing snow into huge piles that groomers then farm across the mountain, covering thin spots.Snowmakers had a banner fall last year, with perfect conditions thanks to a wet summer that left mountain creeks swollen and icy early-season temperatures. Many resorts opened early in a season that surged to a hopeful start but staggered to a sad finish.This drought-stricken year, late-summer rains have helped, but creeks are low. Still, temperatures are dropping, and many resorts have started making snow.This year, the all-night snowmakers are relying on innovations tapped last year. At Vail Mountain, for example, snowmakers scraped together systems to cover areas not traditionally blanketed with man-made snow, using snowmobile gas tanks to fuel pumps and power fans. Groomers who typically rake snow strapped buckets to their rigs' blades so they could move snow to thin areas."These guerrilla snowmaking tactics allowed us to cover areas that needed an extra hand," Vail spokeswoman Liz Biebl said. "Our snowmakers were able to come up with innovative ways to make snow in areas where permanent snowmaking doesn't exist and hadn't been needed."To read this article in its entirety, go to http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_21773752/last-years-lean-snow-fueled-snowmaking-innovation-this
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The Oak Ridge High School tennis teams got back to their winning ways with a well-deserved victory over the Campbell County Cougars, improving their season's record to 4-2.
Tuesday's match up against the Cougars marks the midway point of the 2014 season for the Wildcats, one that has so far seen a few disappointments be rightfully overshadowed by many more thrilling moments.
As if to prove the point, the Lady Wildcats posted an electrifying come-from-behind, 5-4 victory over a very talented Cougars squad, after coming out of singles play down 2-4.
For the Lady Wildcats, the match looked certain to be lost.
In singles play, the only bright spots were the victories posted by seniors Natalie Cross and Jenna Beckler, 8-1 and 8-4, respectively.
Consistently smart play has marked the impressive seasons for both Cross and Beckler.
Unfortunately for senior "Koko" Kaczocha, junior Sabrina Sauter, and sophomores Bonnie Moon and Jessica Ford, winning was too elusive against very formidable competition from the Lady Cougars. All four Lady 'Cats lost their respective singles matches at 5-8, 6-8, 7-9 and 2-8.
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David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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(F) False attribution of conclusions to reliable sources: the Heydrich telex
1. Other evidence, too, points to Irving's claim about Hitler ordering a stop to the destruction of synagogues and Jewish shops being completely false. This becomes obvious if one investigates the orders given to the German police in the night of 9-10 November 1938. In his book Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving claims that the Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police, Heinrich Himmler, was 'totally unaware' of the pogrom until 1 a.m. on 10 November 1948. According to Irving, once his immediate subordinate Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the German Security Police (including the criminal and political police) heard that the Munich synagogue next to the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten had been set ablaze, he 'hurried up to Himmler's room, then telexed instructions to all police authorities to restore law and order, protect Jews and Jewish property, and halt any ongoing incidents'.62 The only historical truth in this account is the assertion that Heydrich sent a telex to the German police authorities. Everything else is a blatant manipulation of the historical record.
2. On 10 November 1938, at 1.20 a.m., Heydrich transmitted orders given to him by Himmler further down the chain of command to the leading police officials and members of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst or Security Service) all over Germany instructing them not to prevent the destruction of Jewish property or get in the way of violent acts committed against German Jews. The telex told officials that 'demonstrations against the Jews are to be expected in the course of this night - 9th to 10th November 1938 - in the entire Reich....the demonstrations which occur are not to be hindered by the police'.
3. On Himmler's instruction, there were, to be sure, some restrictions placed on the action:
a) Only such measures may be taken as do not involve any endangering of German life or property (e.g. synagogue fires only if there is no danger of the fire spreading to the surrounding buildings),
b) The shops and dwellings of Jews may only be destroyed, not looted. The police are instructed to supervise the implementation of this order and to arrest looters.
c) Care is to be taken that non-Jewish shops in shopping streets are unconditionally secured against damage.
d) Foreign nationals may not be assaulted, even if they are Jews.63
4. Thus the police were explicitly ordered not to intervene in the destruction except in these four very particular, exceptional circumstances. The telex, in other words, ordered the exact opposite to what Irving claimed it did. It would be hard to find a clearer example of the false attribution of a conclusion to a legitimate historical document in the interests of the manipulation of the historical truth.
5. But Irving's manipulations in this case go further than this falsification of the content of Heydrich's telex of 10 November 1938. Irving's account of the actions of Heydrich and Himmler on this particular night have to be seen in the overall context of his claim that Hitler was furiously angry about the pogrom and ordered it to be stopped as soon as he found out about it. There is strong evidence that Himmler and Hitler talked together about the pogrom well before midnight on 9 November. This evidence suggests strongly that Hitler was not 'furious' about the pogrom and that he did not give any orders to bring it to a halt. For if Himmler had had contact with Hitler before Heydrich's telex relaying his (Himmler's) orders to the German police at 1.20 a.m. on 10 November 1938, and Hitler had indeed ordered a halt to the destruction of Jewish property, it is inconceivable that Himmler and Heydrich would have sent out instructions that the pogrom was 'not to be hindered by the police'.
6. This becomes clear in the light of the evidence of SS-Hauptsturmführer Luitpold Schallermeier to the Nuremberg war crimes trial and the witness statement of SS-Gruppenführer Karl Wolff now preserved in the files of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History. Of course, both these statements have to be examined critically in the light of the obvious interest in self-exculpation on the part of those who made them. For instance, in his desire to distance the SS from the pogrom and thus avoid possible prosecution by the German courts, Schallermeier untruthfully claimed that Himmler had ordered the SS in the early morning of 10 November to help protect Jewish persons from attack, a claim flatly disproved by Heydrich's telex of 1.20 a.m. quoted above.64
7. Schallermeier reported that when Heydrich received news of the pogrom, he sent Karl Wolff to Hitler's apartment. Wolff arrived there at about 11.30 p.m.. Himmler was already present in the apartment. After the swearing-in of SS troops on the Odeonsplatz at midnight by Hitler and Himmler, the latter returned to his hotel, where Heydrich was waiting for him. Himmler told Heydrich that Hitler had forbidden the SS and police to intervene in or stop the pogrom, and then gave Heydrich his orders to telex to police forces in the rest of Germany, which he did at 1.20 a.m.. Later on the same night, Himmler dictated a short note to Schallermeier in which he blamed Goebbels as the main instigator of the pogrom.65
8. Schallermeier's account of these events is supported by Wolff's testimony, given in 1948:
Shortly before the swearing-in of the SS forces - roughly just before 23.20 hrs, - I heard about synagogue fires and excesses. I thereupon went straight away to Hitler's private apartment, where Himmler was present, and reported the events. Both had not yet been informed and were completely surprised. In my presence, Hitler gave Himmler the order that the SS itself must in all circumstances keep out of these events.66
9. These accounts can also help to interpret another key document which is completely ignored by Irving in his biography of Goebbels. On 9 November 1938, at five to midnight, almost an hour and a half before Heydrich's telex, SS-Obersturmbannführer Heinrich Müller had already sent a telex from Berlin to the German police officials with instructions about the pogrom. Müller was the head of Section II of the Security Police, dealing with internal political policing, and a direct subordinate of Heydrich.67 In this telex, Müller warned German police officials that
Actions against Jews, in particular against their synagogues, will very shortly take place across the whole of Germany. They are not to be interrupted. However, measures are to be taken in co-operation with the Ordnungspolizei for looting and other special excesses to be prevented...The arrest of about 20-30,000 Jews in the Reich is to be prepared. Propertied Jews above all are to be chosen. More detailed instructions will be issued in the course of the present night.68
10.It is unthinkable that Müller, a Bavarian career policeman who had been employed in the German police administration since 1919,69 would have sent this telex without having been instructed to do so by his superior, either Heydrich or Himmler or both. Just as Hitler, according to Schallermeier and Wolff, had told Himmler to order the police not to intervene, so too did Müller. Thus it seems likely that the content of this telex was transmitted by Himmler or Heydrich to Müller in Berlin after the former's conversation with Hitler.
11. Müller's telex is the only document sent by a leading police official that states the number of Jews to be arrested, a number which tallies with the figure which Goebbels's diary notes was personally and directly ordered by Hitler himself. The coincidence of the two figures named by Müller and by Goebbels is another strong indication that Hitler and the police leadership had been in contact with one another before Müller sent out his telex. Irving, for his part, cites the Goebbels diary entry, only first to cast doubt on its validity as a source, then to falsify it by reporting on the basis of this reference, not that Hitler ordered the Jews arrested, but that he failed to prevent them being taken to concentration camps. In fact, Hitler's direct and personal responsibility for the mass arrest of Jews which formed such a central part of the pogrom seems quite beyond dispute.70
12. The suggestion that Hitler met with Himmler on the night of 9 November 1938 before any orders were issued to the police is further confirmed by another important contemporary document. On 11 November 1938, the British Consul in Munich reported to the Foreign Office that
I learn from a reliable source that Dr. Goebbels at a meeting here of the "old Guard" on November 10th on hearing that vom Rath had died in Paris announced that Jews were now beyond the law and that the S.A. could do anything to them short of looting and plundering. The old Guard were prominent in attacks on Jewish shops which followed. Herr Hitler and Herr Himmler were in consultation on the same evening and the latter subsequently issued an order forbidding all Jews to carry arms under penalty of twenty years imprisonment.71
13. The information of the British diplomats in this case was remarkably accurate. Their summary of Goebbels's speech is broadly confirmed by other sources, such as the Nazis' own internal inquiry into the pogrom. Also, the circular sent out by Heinrich Müller on 9 November 1938 at 23.55 did indeed contain instructions for the police regarding armed Jews, just as the British diplomats had noted.72 Irving is familiar with the report of the British Consul. He cites some parts of it in his account of 'Kristallnacht' and even comments on the reliability of the document.73 Yet, in his attempt to distance Hitler from the pogrom, he completely suppresses the information that Hitler and Himmler met on the evening of 9 November 1938.
14. So there is a very strong likelihood that Hitler met Himmler before midnight on 9 November 1938 and issued him with instructions for the police in connection with the pogrom. Hitler did not, as Irving claims, order a stop to the pogrom once he found out about it, otherwise such an order would have been passed on in the telexes sent out by Heydrich and Müller. Indeed some SA leaders were already informed late on 9 November 1938 that Hitler wished the police not to intervene against the pogrom. This is obvious in the order given from Munich by the leader of the SA-group Nordsee in the evening of 9 November 1938. He instructed the local SA to destroy all Jewish shops and businesses, and to burn down all synagogues. The SA Group leader added the statement, quoted above, that Hitler himself did not wish the police to interfere.74
15. In Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich', Irving either ignores or dismisses the evidence contained in these various documents. As this Report has already noted, he suppresses the fact that the British diplomats reported that Himmler met with Hitler on 9 November 1938, before instructions were issued to the police.75 Irving also simply dismisses Wolff's testimony, claiming on the basis of no evidence at all that Wolff was 'evidently wrong...in placing Himmler in Hitler's apartment at this time.'76 Moreover, while Wolff states quite clearly that he had been in Hitler's apartment before midnight, Irving deliberately falsifies this testimony by implying that Wolff claimed to have been there at around 1 a.m.. Finally, Irving fails to mention that Wolff's testimony is supported by Schallermeier's; indeed he does not mention Schallermeier's evidence directly at all, he only uses the parts of it which fit into the story he is trying to construct, while actually disguising the fact that he is using Schallermeier as a source (because, obviously, the assiduous reader, in following up a footnote to Schallermeier's testimony, would immediately discover that it includes evidence which fatally undermines the account of these events given by Irving). Thus Irving fails to mention that Schallermeier reports Himmler as present in Hitler's apartment before midnight, but on the other hand he does cite the brief note which Himmler dictated to Schallermeier in the early hours of 10 November blaming Goebbels for having instigated the pogrom. Irving, of course, has extracted this note from Schallermeier's affidavit; but he disguises the fact by referring in the footnotes merely to a 'Himmler memorandum, cited by Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York, 1973). This mysterious 'Himmler memorandum', of course, when checked through Hilberg's source references (a lengthy business since Irving fails to provide a page reference, and Hilberg's book is very long indeed), turns out to be none other than Schallermeier's affidavit.77
16. Irving's persistently partial and manipulative use of such sources leads to increasing contradictions in his work. In The War Path, for instance, Irving writes that after the dinner at Munich's old Town Hall on 9 November, Hitler was in his private apartment with Himmler, where both were informed before midnight by Karl Wolff of the start of pogroms. This clearly contradicts Irving's later claim that Hitler never met Himmler and only found out about the pogroms after 1 in the morning.78
17. In 1995, Irving also admitted that Hitler was with Himmler on the night of the pogrom, though in an account that otherwise consists of nothing but fantasy and invention:
Hitler was furious when he heard, during the night, about the anti-Jewish outbreaks. Throughout the night, telephone calls came in reporting synagogues blazing across Germany. Hitler sent for Himmler and asked: "What the hell is going on here, Reichsführer?" Himmler replied: "Send for Goebbels, he knows". Hitler summoned Goebbels and raked him over the coals.79
18. Irving nowhere supplies any evidence, not even tainted or manipulated evidence, to authenticate this alleged conversation between Hitler and Himmler and this supposed meeting between Hitler and Goebbels. In fact, of course, it never happened. The entire account is pure invention, plucked out of thin air to convey a completely distorted version of events. No new evidence has emerged by the time Irving changes his story in his Goebbels biography; all that has happened is that he has decided to suppress and manipulate evidence he earlier relied upon in order to skew his account of these events even further.
62. Irving, Goebbels, p. 276. The footnote refers mistakenly to Nuremberg Docment 3052-PS instead of 3051-PS.
63. 'Im Laufe der heutigen Nacht - 9. auf 10.11.1938 - im ganzen Reich Demonstrationen gegen die Juden zu erwarten... sind die stattfindenden Demonstrationen von der Polizei nicht zu verhindern - /a) Es dürfen nur solche Maßnahmen getroffen werden, die keine Gefährdung deutschen Lebens oder Eigentums mit sich bringen (z.B. Synagogenbrände nur, wenn keine Brandgefahr für die Umgebung vorhanden ist), /b) Geschäfte und Wohnungen von Juden dürfen nur zerstört, nicht geplündert werden. Die Polizei ist angewiesen, die Durchführung dieser Anordnung zu überwachen und Plünderer festzunehmen. /c) In Geschäftsstrassen ist besonders darauf zu achten, dass nicht jüdische Geschäfte unbedingt gegen Schäden gesichert werden. /d) Ausländische Staatsangehörige dürfen - auch wenn sic Juden sind - nicht belästigt werden.'. Both quotes in: Heydrich an alle Staatspolizeileit- und Staatspolizeistellen, an alle SD-Oberabschnitte und SD-Unterabschnitte, 10.11.1938, 1 Uhr 20; in Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof Vol. XXXI, ND 3051-PS.
64. Obst, 'Reichskristallnacht', pp. 87-88.
65. See Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher, Vol. XLII, pp. 510-512; ibid., Vol. XXI, p. 392; IfZ Zs 526: Vernehmung des Luitpold Schallermeyer, 23. 6. 1947.
66. 'Kurz vor der Vereidigung der SS-Verfügungstruppe - etwa gegen 23.20 Uhr -erfuhr ich von Synagogenbränden und Ausschreitungen. Ich bin darauthin sofort zur Privatwohnung Hitlers, in der sich auch Himmler befand, gefahren und habe die Ereignisse gemeldet. Beide waren noch nicht informiert und völlig überrascht .... In meinem Beisein hat Hitler Himmler den Befehl erteilt, dass die SS sich unter allen Umständen aus diesen Ereignissen herauszuhalten habe: IfZ, Zs 317/II: Karl Wolff, 22. 3. 1948.
67. J.Tuchel, 'Gestapa und Reichssicherheitshauptamt', in G. Paul and K.-M. Mallmann (eds.), Die Gestapo. Mythos und Realität (Darmstadt, 1995), pp. 95-96.
68. 'Es werden in kürzester Frist in ganz Deutschland Aktionen gegen Juden insbesonders gegen deren Synagogen stattfinden. Sic sind nicht zu stören. Jedoch ist im Benehmen mit der Ordnungspolizei sicherzustellen, dass Plünderungen und sonstige besondere Ausschreitungen unterbunden werden können... Es ist vorzubereiten die Festnahme von etwa 20-30.000 Juden im Reiche. Es sind auszuwählen vor allem vermogende Juden. Nähere Anordnungen ergehen noch im Laufe dieser Nacht': Müller an alle Stapostellen und Stapoleitstellen, 9. 11. 1938, in Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher, Vol. XXV, pp. 377-38, ND 374-PS.
69. A. Seeger, 'Vom bayrischen "Systembeamten" zum Chef der Gestapo', in Paul and Mallmann (eds.), Die Gestapo, pp. 255-68.
70. 'Der Führer hat angeordnet, daß 2(5)-30.000 Juden sofort zu verhaften sind': Goebbels diary entry for 10 November 1938, in B. Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Vol. 116 (Munich, 1998), p. 181. Other editions of the diary, however, interpret the missing digit not as a five, but as a zero: 'Der Führer hat angeordnet, daß 20-30 000 Juden sofort zxu verhaften sind', Der Spiegel, 29 (1992), p. 128.
71. PRO, FO 371/21637, Telegram from G. Ogilvie Forbes, 11.11.1938, No. 673, transmitting telegram No. 38, 11.11.1938, from the Consular officers in Munich.
72. 'Sollten bei den kommenden Aktionen Juden im Besitz von Waffen angetroffen werden, so sind die schärfsten Massnahmen durchzuführen'; Müller an alle Stapostellen und Stapoleitstellen, 9.11.1938, in De rProzess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher,Vol. XXV, pp. 377-8, ND 374-PS.
73. Irving, Goebbels, pp. 274, 276.
74. Telephonisch aus München erteilter Befehl des Führers der SA-Gruppe Nordsee vom 9. November 1938; reprinted in K. Pätzold, I. Runge, 'Kristallnacht'. Zum Pogrom 1938 (Cologne, 1988), pp. 112-3.
75. Irving, Goebbels, p. 612, note 30.
76. Irving, Goebbels, p. 613.
77. Ibid., p. 614, note 73.
78. lrving, The War Path, p. 279.
79. Irving, 'Revelations from the Goebbels Diary', The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 15 (1995)
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