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Ira Levin
Personal Information
California School of Professional Psychology
Organizational Psych
San Francisco Beach St Campus
Program Director
Alliant International University San Francisco
One Beach Street, Suite 100
San Francisco CA 94133-1221
Courses, Research Interests, Publications
Capstone: Synthesizing multiple perspectives
Internship seminar
Foundations of consulting
Models of organization culture & change
Periodic electives related to consulting practice & consultant skill development
Organization transformation, organization culture realignment, leadership development, team development, ethical issues related to the consulting process/consulting relationships, and post-merger integration
Levin, I. (September, 2010). Storytelling: Launching your organization into an actionable future. Finance and Management Special Report, 21, 12-13
Levin, I. (2010). New leader assimilation: Accelerating the transition to new leadership roles. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol. 62, 1, 56-72
Levin, I. & Turner, R. (Jan/Feb 2009). Can leaders really be developed? California Psychologist
Levin, I. & Gottlieb, J. (Winter 2009) Realigning your organizational culture: Six principles and eight practices for optimizing your organization's performance. Organization Development Journal 27, 4, 31-46.
Levin, I. (May-June 2009). The Millennial Generation and the Workplace: New challenges and opportunities. California Psychologist.Vol. 42, No.3 23-24
Levin, I. (October, 2008). Solving the culture enigma: Realigning your organization's culture. Leadership Excellence. Vol 25, No. 10 7-8
Levin, I. & Gottlieb, J. (Fall 2005). The role of organizational values in providing stability during large scale change. Bay Area Organization Development Network Newsletter, Vol. 6, No.3.
Levin, I. and Gottlieb, J. (3rd Quarter, 2005). The jet stream: How six principles can help your business culture fly. California CEO Inc,. Vol. 5, No. 3, 10-11
Levin, I. (2002). Consulting with healthcare organizations. In R. Lowman (Ed.) Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco
Levin, I., Proctor, D, & Thibault, T. (May-June 2001). The making of Ascension Health: Merging two cultures. Health Progress, Vol. 82, No. 3, 48-52.
Levin, I. (Spring, 2000). Five windows into organization culture: An assessment framework and approach. Organization Development Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 83-94.
Levin, (March, 2000). Vision revisited: Telling the story of the future. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Vol. 36, No.1, 91-107.
Levin, I. & Gottlieb, J. (1993). Quality management: News practice risks for organization development practitioners. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Vol. 29, No.3, 296-310.
Levin, I. (1992). Facilitating quality improvement team performance: A developmental perspective. Total Quality Management Journal, Vol.3, No. 3. 307-322.
Levin, I. & Stokes, J. (1990). The development and validation of a measure of negative affectivity. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. Vol. 74, 752-758.
Levin, I. & Falkenburger, A. J. (January-February 1989). Managing professional staff for peak productivity: Large law firm concerns and issues.. Legal Management. Vol. 8. No.1, 43-49.
Levin I. & Stokes, J. (1989). A dispositional approach to job satisfaction: The role of negative affectivity. Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol. 74, 752-758.
Levin, I. (June, 20, 1988). More than money needed to attract, keep the best. The National Law Journal. 42-43.
Stokes, J. & Levin, I. (1986). Gender differences in predicting loneliness from social network characteristics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol. 51, No. 5, 1069-1074.
A guide for conducting prevention research in the community. First steps: Haworth Press: New York.
Turner, R. Levin, I. & Krepack, A. (August, 2010). How to use organization culture to successfully influence client systems. 118th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association Division 13, San Diego, CA
Levin, I. (March, 2009). Even change is changing. Workshop given at California Society of Association Executives. Sacramento, CA
Levin, I., Finkelman, J. & Crane, S. (April 2009). What consulting and organizational psychologists should know about business: Speaking the language of business executive clients. 2009 California Psychology Annual Convention, Oakland, CA
Turner, R., Levin, I. & Felice, L. (February, 2009). Techniques of executive coaching in consulting psychology: An evolving practice. Society of Consulting Psychology & Society of Psychologists in Management Midwinter Conference, San Diego, CA.
Blanton, J. Levin, I. & Turner, R. (April 2009). Leadership Institute. 2009 California Psychology Annual Convention, Oakland, CA.
Levin, I. (August, 2006). Culture due diligence: A key element of successful post-merger/acquisition integration. Professional Development Workshop (PDW), Academy of Management Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Levin, I. & Grossman, B. (May, 2006). Developing HR business partners: Moving from HR generalists to strategic contributors. Workshop at the Bay Area Organization Development Network's 24th Annual Best in the West Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Goldman-Schuyler, K.G., Levin, I. & Renner, J. (March, 2006). Healthy organizations: Critical components for a better future. Panel presentation given at California Psychological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Levin, I. & Gottlieb, J. (April, 2005). Organizational values: Building continuity and stability during complex organization change. Presentation at 23rd Bay Area Organization Development Network Best in the West Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Levin, I., Mack, C., Grossman, B., Wocher, D. Sibbet, D. & Rasmussen, T. (April, 2004). Means to an end revisited. Moving our professional practice in the direction of purpose. Invited panel presentation at Bay Area Organization Development Network 22nd Best in the West Conference.
Goldman-Schuyler, K., Levin, I., & Mattox, J. (March, 2004). Using 360-degree feedback for individual, team, and organization development. Panel Presentation at Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA), San Francisco, CA.
Levin, I., Felice, L., Thibault, T. (April, 2003). Post-merger integrationL Bringing together two different organization cultures. Practitioners' Forum presented at 18th Annual Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Conference, Orlando, FL.
Levin, I., Felice,L. Elliott, G., & Thibault, T. (August, 2002). Changing organization cultures: Strategies and techniques for integrating and forming new cultures. Symposium presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA
Levin, I. Proctor, D., Thibault, T, & Felice, L. (April, 2000). Merging organization cultures: An assessment and integration approach. Panel discussion at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Levin, I. (Feburary, 2000). Assessing organization culture: Getting at the deep structures and underlying beliefs. Invited presentation given at the Bay Area Applied Psychologists Group Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Levin, I. (October, 1999). Critical moments in organization consulting: Navigating consulting dilemmas. Workshop given at Organization Development Network Annual Conference (ODN). San Diego, CA
Academic History and Background
B.A. Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana., 1972
M.S. Clinical/counseling Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1973
M.S. Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984
Ph.D. Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986
Listed in Whos Who of Business & Industry, 1995-1996
California Psychological Association
Academy of Management
Division for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Division 14, American Psychological Association
Bay Area Organization Development Network
Bay Area Applied Psychologists Group
American Psychological Association
Professional Practice and Community Service
Provided ongoing consultation to executive teams and coaching to individual senior executives to improve their effectiveness and performance.
Assisted the internal OD consulting group of a global company to develop a strategy for repositioning its practice and service delivery operations.
Facilitated the organization redesign of a hight technology company to position it for future growth.
Provided consultation to global bio-technology company in their human resources transformation process.
Conducted an organizational assesses of a hospital surgical services department & facilitated a series of collaborative problem-solving sessions with staff to address issues identified that were undermining performance and morale.
Designed and facilitated implementation of a strategic organization culture realignment strategy/plan for a large national health care system to assist them in the implementation of their strategic repositioning plan.
Facilitated the organization redesign of the financial services organization for the marketing and sales business unit of a global high technology company.
Conducted culture due diligence process for a large multi-state healthcare organization related to their acquisition of another healthcare system.
Designed and facilitated the post-merger integration of the organizational cultures of two large health care systems.
Assisted a professional services firm to design a new strategic performance management system to align managers and staff to achieve business goals.
Member, Annual Conference Program Selection Committee, Division of Management Consulting, Academy of Management.
Member, Annual Conference Program Selection Committee, Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Adjunct reviewer for Academy of Management Review
Harrison, L. Individual juror decision-making: The relationship between sociomoral reflection levels and verdict choices.
Fisher, N. The engagement of virtual team members: The role of leadership and degree of disperson.
White, L. An exploration of the relation between trust and cross-boundary sales collaboration.
Margolis, B. Exploring The Factors That Influence The Development And Maintenance Of Top Management Team Alignment On Strategic Priorities
Reed, T. An examination of the relation among attachment orientation, emotional-social intelligence, and organizational climate.
Puryear, P. An investigation into perceived value of organization consulting services; A case study.
Noble, B. An exploration of relationship-centered organizational culture in health care provider organizations
Dowley, A. Learning behaviors and psychological safety in non-profit organization boards of directors: An exploratory study.
Bebb, S. Transitioning to director: The factors contributing to the successful transition of IT manager of managers to exceptionally performing functional managers
Bio and Links
Prior to the startup of his own consultancy over 5 years ago, Dr. Levin was a Principal and National Practice Leader for Organization Transformation & Culture Realignment at the global consulting firm of Cap Gemini Ersnt & Young. He also spent 7 years as the organization change practice leader with Kaiser Permanente, and 6 years as an executive with the Organization Effectiveness & Human Resources Consulting Practice with the former KPMG Peat Marwick.
Prior to becoming an organization development consultant, Dr.. Levin served as the executive director of a community based social services organization specializing in the delivery of group and family therapy.
He is also a professional jazz musician who performs regularly around North America and locally in the SF Bay area. He has a discography of over nine recordings.


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Boston Fed chief to address N.H. business leaders
Eric Rosengren, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, will be in Manchester March 27 to discuss the state of New England's economy and related matters.
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With the end of the recession, its time to reap some more widespread benefits of the boom. 2011 is hence supposed to be the year of stronger demands and burgeoning business opportunities.
Common Mistakes in Starting New Business
Lack of Research The most common startup mistake is a lack of knowing the wants and needs of future customers.
Being Product Centric Rather than Consumer Centric Several entrepreneurs are so captivated by their "idea" that they focus entirely on the product and the enterprise. Later they are forced to learn that people do not automatically buy products that the entrepreneur expected them to love!
Overestimating Revenues Another common mistake people new to business make is overestimating revenues and underestimating expenses.
Being Too Trusting Most small business first timers trust everyone around them and listen to all the noise. Take the advice but don't live by it. Your two best friends in business are your accountant and lawyer!
Giving Up Easily Failure is part of owning a business. But as an entrepreneur, you have to put failure in a category that is temporary. Failure is but one of many rungs on the ladder of success.
The picture appears to be quite rosy, but it doesn't make the task of establishing a new business venture this year any easy.
On the contrary, the business environment is bound be to more competitive due to a sudden influx of new entrants who had been discouraged by economic slowdown until recent past. So, how can a novice enter the market this year? The Money Times finds out for you.
Most Promising Sectors of 2011
Though there is bound to be tough competition for anybody who enters the business, there are a few sectors that show a very high growth rate powered by a significant rise in demand.
A high growth rate hence translates into better business opportunities for a larger number of entrepreneurs. It can therefore be said that starting business in these sectors could be immensely profitable. The following is a list of these sectors:
-Management and technical consultancy service sector
-Electronic news and information sector
-Home health care sector
-Retail management
-Software publishing sector
-Freelance writers and artists
Your Business Proposition
Though economists have a strong feeling that the above mentioned sectors should do well this year, it is not the sector that so much determines the success of a business as much as its central idea.
Even manufacturing or selling a pin can be immensely successful, provided you have the right idea to do so.
Your business proposition or idea is what will determine its success or failure in the end. It's the uniqueness of your business idea that should be able to single handedly propel it, irrespective of the sector in which you wish to enter.
Branding Your Business Idea
There is definitely a lot in the name, when it comes to business. You must select a good name for your business idea. This is what will eventually sell in the market and determine your profitability.
So the name better be good, something that your target customers can easily relate to.
Financing Your Business
This is perhaps one of the most important factors in starting business. Important because, in most cases an entrepreneur would require the funding to be done by various sources outside his business, such as banks.
He would be required to write down his business plan in black and white. Such a plan should be promising, easily comprehensible, convincing and at the same time capable of adding value to an existing need to target consumers.
Banks should find funding your business a profitable venture, only then they will fund it.
Legal Procedures
There would a large number of painstaking and cumbersome legal procedures that would need to be addressed before you can actually kick start your business.
Be ready to carry them out. These legal procedures might include:
-Getting various licenses
-Getting your business name registered
-Legal issues with the form of ownership you choose, and so on.
If you have the passion, motivation and faith in your self, there is nothing under the sun that can dither you from achieving your goal. Go ahead and make your dream business a reality!


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Edneyville cafe offers country cooking favorites
Published: Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 8:50 p.m.
EDNEYVILLE — Customers can find country cooking like the Edneyville Burger, Edneyville Omelette and homemade Edneyville Sunrise jam at the new, family-owned and operated Autumn Leaf Cafe off of Chimney Rock Road.
"Just about everything here, we make from scratch," restaurant owner Sandra Lawrence said.
She also helps support local foods by bringing in meat from a local butcher and vegetables and fruit from Edneyville farmers.
Community involvement has been a priority of the Lawrence family for generations.
"That was my grandfather's," she said, pointing to a restaurant shown in a black-and-white framed photo on one of the walls inside Autumn Leaf Cafe.
The photo dates from the mid-1950s and depicts his restaurant, which was once located off Biltmore Avenue.
Lawrence began her career in the food industry when she helped open a restaurant with her father in 1970. That business was much like the Autumn Leaf Cafe, which she opened in March.
Lawrence wants to carry on that tradition of operating a family-oriented business and works alongside her husband, Jerry Lawrence, and 15-year-old grandson, Orion Lawrence.
"We are here as much as we are at home," she said.
Sandra Lawrence hopes the restaurant will become a meeting place for local civic associations, and it now hosts Hendersonville Antique Car Club members once a month.
"We want to grow with the community," she added.
For hours or more information, contact Autumn Leaf Cafe at 828-685-3100.
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
October 15, 2008
Clean Energy Projects Dodge the Global Credit Crunch
Under the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of available credit is causing projects to be delayed or cancelled, but the clean energy sector is continuing to attract substantial amounts of investment capital. Ernst & Young noted in early October that the global "clean technology" market is expected to garner 11% of global venture capital investment in 2008, up from only 1.6% in 2003. And while the clean technology market attracted $3 billion in investments in 2007, it attracted $2.2 billion in just the first half of 2008. Over that 18-month period, the United States accounted for the majority of the venture capital investments, raising a total of $4.1 billion. According to Ernst & Young, there are 549 global clean technology companies supported with $8.9 billion of venture capital, and the United States has 301 of them, representing $7.29 billion in investments. In the United States, the clean technology sector is dominated by solar energy and biofuel companies. See the Ernst & Young press release.
According to Greentech Media, Inc., the venture capital boom for clean energy continued to grow in the third quarter of 2008. Greentech Media's figures roughly agree with Ernst & Young for the first half of the year, with an estimated $2.3 billion in venture capital investments, but Greentech Media's figures for the third quarter show a record investment of $2.8 billion. The company notes that most of the investments ($1.5 billion) went toward solar energy, with innovative thin-film solar firms such as SoloPower and AVA Solar receiving more than $100 million each in venture capital. Other technologies that attracted high amounts of venture capital include energy efficiency, smart grids, geothermal energy, automotive technologies, biofuels, and wind power. See the Greentech Media press release (PDF 121 KB). Download Adobe Reader.
Given the amount of investment taking place, it makes sense that the American Council on Renewable Energy maintains a directory of financing sources for renewable energy and energy efficiency companies and projects in the United States. The Renewable Energy Finance and Investment Network (REFIN) is a listing of both financing sources and professional experts, including venture capital firms, commercial banks, private equity firms, government agencies, and foundations, as well as law and consultant firms. First released in 2004, the REFIN directory will be updated this month and quarterly thereafter. See the REFIN directory.


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Rise to the top.
When SRAM acquired Zipp, a longtime (20 plus years) composite component and wheel specialty manufacturing company, it also acquired the expertise to not just enter the wheelset market, but to offer significantly advanced, highly developed products like the Rise 60 Wheelset.
The Rise 60 uses carbon fiber for the rim to give it incredible strength and a low rotational weight. It should be noted that Zipp has been building carbon rims for road applications for some time now. This know-how is evident in the asymmetric shape and impact-protecting HS resin coating. The asymmetrical shape allows SRAM to use near equal length spokes, creating a stronger complete structure. The rim's layers and 3K weave are enhanced to provide strength where the nipples place the most stress to ensure reliability.
The Rise 60 uses Sapim CX-Ray stainless steel and bladed spokes. These spokes are incredibly strong, aerodynamic, and only weigh a touch more than titanium ones. SRAM uses two-cross lacing with 24 spokes per wheel. This reduces weight and ensures optimum stiffness to resist wheel deflection. The straight pull design eliminates stress-prone bends to which traditional spokes are subject.
The hub shell and freehub body are made of lightweight 6000 series aluminum, and they house sealed cartridge bearings for maximum performance and minimum maintenance. The rear hub uses four bearings and it has an aluminum freehub body to keep weight low. A 54-tooth drive ring gives just under seven degrees of engagement, while three pawls with a saw-tooth profile offers nine points of purchase to give the Rise 60 Carbon instant and positive engagement when you stomp on the pedals.
The SRAM Rise 60's are intended for cross-country race and marathon use. While they're not tubeless ready, they are compatible with tubeless conversion kits such as those from Stan's No Tubes. They're available with standard quick releases or with 15QR front and 12x142mm rear. The Rise 60 Wheelset is compatible with six-bolt rotors and Shimano or SRAM cassettes.
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Tubeless Ready Rear. That's what the size box claims.
Are these tubeless ready. Come with tape and valves?
The size box makes this tubeless ready rear.
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Philippine typhoon death toll could reach 10,000
A resident passes by toppled car outside an airport terminal after powerful Typhoon Haiyan slammed into Tacloban city, Leyte province central Philippines on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) by Jim GomezAssociated Press Writer TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from one of the strongest storms on record that ravaged the central Philippine city of Tacloban could reach 10,000 people, officials said Sunday after the extent of massive devastation became apparent and horrified residents spoke of storm surges as high as trees. Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla late Saturday and told there were about 10,000 deaths in the province, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings. The governor's figure was based on reports from village officials in areas where Typhoon Haiyan slammed Friday. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Lim said that the death toll in the city alone "could go up to 10,000." Tacloban is the Leyte provincial capital of 200,000 people and the biggest city on Leyte Island. About 300-400 bodies have already been recovered, Lim said. A mass burial was planned Sunday in Palo town near Tacloban.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — This past weekend Eurozone leaders surprised investors by bailing out Spain's banks to the tune of 100 billion euros. That shouldn't have been a surprise because it was in everyone's interest to make sure there wasn't a run on Spain's banks. There was no constituency for failure to avert a run. European leaders didn't, and won't, stand idly by and watch their currency and economies go down the tubes. Positive action was and is far more likely than a collapse into chaos.
There is good news that is unreported by the media. Think about it — Greek banks have lost billions in deposits as investors move their money to other more stable countries. The Spanish deposit flight has been huge, too. Yet, there has been no reported failures for those who want their money from banks. That's remarkable. Why?
Once their backs were to the wall, European leaders faced the issue and added liquidity to the system. Similar to our Federal Reserve, the ECB has the tools available to offset liquidity crunches. The leaders have shown that liquidity issues will be addressed anytime there is a problem in the Eurozone. The alternative — bank failures and a collapse of the euro — is not in their best interest.
Liquidity is not the same as solvency. Liquidity is not a concern because depositors continue to have access to their money. Countries may become insolvent, however, if they can't pay their debt.
Insolvency is harder to fix. Some countries have promised far more than they can deliver. Some (Germany, for one) want austerity measures to slow spending, others say spend even more. We're hearing the same debate here as well. The key difference is that investors are gobbling up our government's securities. Don't put me in that group.
European leadership caused the solvency problem. Can they now fix it? We'll be watching.
— David Vomund is an Incline Village-based fee-only money manager. Information is found at www.ETFportfolios.net or by calling 775-832-8555. Clients hold the positions mentioned in this article. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult your financial adviser before purchasing any security.


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GYPSUM - It was going to be a Delta doubleheader for Eagle Valley basketball at the district tournament Thursday.
And then they played the games.
Eagle Valley girls basketball earned a date with Delta at 3 p.m. at Colorado Mesa University by virtue of their 48-28 win Tuesday in Gypsum over a very game Battle Mountain squad. The boys, who thought they would get the Panthers as well, will actually face Glenwood Springs at 7:30 p.m. at Central High School in Grand Junction. (The Demons knocked off the Panthers in OT Tuesday.)
"We actually have three more chances to accomplish our goal," Devils coach Sam Bartlett said. "At the beginning of the season, our goal was to finish above .500 and make it to the state playoffs. That's still reachable."
The Huskies actually led, 6-5, with 4:05 to go in the first quarter before Eagle Valley (12-8) took control. Taylor Martin gave the Devils the lead for good. Madeline Lounsberry had the next four points with a pair of free throws and a jumper. Mariel Gutierrez converted her own steal into a breakaway layup, and then Megan Asmussen capped the period with a jump shot and a 3-pointer with four seconds left in the period for an 18-7 lead after eight minutes.
Giving credit where it is due, the Huskies, who finish the year at 2-18, played one of their better games of the season, despite suiting up only seven players for Tuesday's game.
"It was the best game we've played all year," Huskies coach Vinny Cisneros said. "We had seven players tonight. We battled through injuries. ... We played with the girls who stuck it out all season ... We walked into this game with nothing but confidence, and we gave them everything we had. You could ask them."
And Bartlett agreed.
"They were tremendously better than the last time we played them," he said. "(Taylor) Davidson did some nice things. (Elizabeth) Olivas, she really helped out their offense. They were better on defense. They really played hard and they finished their season off on a good note."
Davidson led the Huskies with 15 points, while Lounsberry finished with 14.
When the Devils head to Grand Junction, it's important to remember this is not the district tournament of old. This is not single-elimination. The top-seven teams out of the eight-team field will draw berths to state. Eagle Valley will play three games, regardless of the result of Thursday's tilt with Delta. The first goal is to win one game to get to state.
That said, the Devils don't want to wait until Saturday's third game to clinch a state spot. The focus is on Delta alone.
""It was great. We could have played a little harder," Lounsberry said. "But a win's a win and we're excited to play Delta on Thursday, and we're going to give them all we've got on Thursday."


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Police in Ada, Oklahoma, this week arrested 28-year-old Christie Dawn Harris after a search of her car yielded meth, drug paraphernalia, a pistol, and some ammo.
But it wasn't until they reached the local jail that officers learned that Harris still had a few tricks up her vagina.
Harris, who had been complaining to her arresting officers that she needed to go to the bathroom, was ordered to change into "jail clothing," but refused to do so, claiming she was on her period.
She ultimately agreed to submit to a body cavity search, at which point Officer Kathy Unbewust says she "observed at that time a wooden and metal item sticking out from her vagina area."
That object turned out to be a Freedom Arms .22-caliber handgun loaded with three live rounds and one spent shell.
That wasn't all: According to Pontotoc County District Attorney Chris Ross, "as [Harris] turned around, [the officer] noticed more plastic baggies, larger plastic baggies wedged in the crack of her buttocks."
The baggies were found to contain an unspecified quantity of meth.
Harris and an accomplice were booked on various drugs and weapons charges. They both have fairly lengthy rap sheets.
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Erika Lynn Rau,Wesley Adam Seyller
Published: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 8:38 a.m.
Erika Lynn Rau and Wesley Adam Seyller were joined in marriage on April 13th 2013. The ceremony took place at Champion Hills Golf Club in Hendersonville with Reverend Charles O'Shea officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Bruce and Marlene Rau of Hendersonville, NC. The groom is the son of Bruce Seyller of Arkansas and Denise Heric of Hendersonville, NC.
Julie Detmering, the bride's sister was the matron of honor. Audra Seyller, the groom's sister was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Michelle Walshe, Colleen Cavanagh cousins of the bride and Yolanda Detmering, niece of the bride. The best main was Jake Wright, groomsmen were Tony DellaValla, Bryon Detmering, Joel Catalano and Jessie Catalano, all friends of the groom. Ring Bearer was Jaden Seyller, son of the bride and groom.
The bride graduated from Blue Ridge Community College and is employed at Coats North America in Hendersonville. The groom is a graduate from East Henderson High School and is employed at Advanced Business Equipment.
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Thomas Douglas McNair, age 67, of Oliver Springs, passed away, Tuesday at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.
Mr. McNair was born on April 22, 1945, in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was a self employed carpenter.
Mr. McNair was preceded in death by his parents, Wilmer A. and Folabelle McNair; and by brothers, Wilmer A. Jr. and Donald R. McNair.
Mr. McNair is survived by his wife, Yvonnda McNair; children Scott Thomas McNair and wife, Denise, and Tammy Lynn Hartline and husband, Rick; grandchildren, Julie and Ashley McNair, and Myranda and Dillon Hicks; sisters, Patsy Williams of Cherry Log, Ga., Nancy Culberson of Oak Ridge, Frances Kohl of Metairie, La., and Martha Jackson of Smyrna, Ga.; brothers, William E. McNair of Nashville, Tenn., and Michael R. McNair of Oak Ridge; plus a host of nieces and nephews.
Mr. McNair wishes were to be cremated and no additional services are planned.
Sharp Funeral Home is in charge of all the arrangements. An online guestbook is available online at www.sharpfh.com.
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Apollo Posts 4Q ENI of $696.9 million
Apollo Global Management is the latest alternative asset manager to report fourth-quarter earnings this season. The New York firm posted on Friday earnings of $696.9 million in economic net income, nearly doubling the $356.6 million ENI that the Apollo reported for the same period last year.
The increase was driven by improved performance in Apollo's management and incentive businesses, which consists of management, transaction and advisory fees, and carried interest income, respectively.
Under the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, net income was $171.5 for the quarter, or $1.12 a share, up from $10.9 million, or 5 cents a share, from a year earlier.
Assets under management stood at $113.4 billion as of Dec. 31, an increase of 51% over the same 2011 level, thanks to both organic growth of the portfolio as well as acquisitions the firm made over the year, particularly in Apollo's credit business.
The firm will hold a conference call with analysts at 10 a.m. ET. Expect more updates to be posted at PE Beat.
In the meantime, you can read about Apollo's roll in a stalking-horse bid for most of bankrupt Hostess Brands Inc .'s cakes business, including the Twinkie brand here, and a September Q&A with PE Beat with James Zelter, head of Apollo's credit markets group:


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2011 (FRESHMAN): Had a strong freshman season, making 24 appearances out of the pen … posted a 2-1 record with a 5.40 ERA … surrendered just 18 hits in 20 innings, a .254 batting average against … made Islanders debut vs. MVSU (2/19) … had a scoreless outing against Indiana (2/25) … posted a shutout frame in the opener with Texas State (3/4) … punched out one in 2/3 of an inning at Texas Tech (3/15) … had two strikeouts against Houston Baptist (3/29) … had a hitless inning in the home game vs. Texas (4/5) … retired all four batters he faced at Lamar (4/9) … retired the only batter he faced at UTA (5/8) … collected the win out of the pen with 1 2/3 innings of shutout ball against Northwestern State (5/13) … tossed a perfect frame at SHSU (5/20) … picked up the win in relief with a scoreless frame at the Southland Tournament against UTSA (5/26).
HIGH SCHOOL: Earned two letters at Georgetown under head coach Danny Wallace … earned his team's Golden Arm Award … went 2-0 with a 3.09 ERA … struck out 20 batters in 31 2/3 innings … also registered two saves … helped team to two district championships.
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RICHMOND -- Leaks like the one detected by Chevron refinery operators two hours before Monday's massive fire are not uncommon within oil refineries, with their thousands of miles of pipes, experts said Friday.
In fact, the Richmond facility had three reported leaks in the two months before Monday's fire, and may have had more; plants are not required to report leaks deemed insignificant. Refinery pipes generally have shorter segments and more joints and flanges than, for example, underground natural gas transmission pipelines, creating more opportunity for leaks, one industry expert said -- an inherent risk within the behemoth refineries.
"People like to look at these operations as perfect, like they don't vent or drip a little bit," said Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline safety consultant with 20 years in the refinery business.
Such leaks, however, can become serious. In Monday's incident, fiberglass insulation surrounding an 8-inch carbon steel pipe in the No. 4 crude processing unit may have hidden a larger leak from operators, or masked a physically weakened pipe, said Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Program director Randy Sawyer.
When employees removed that pipe covering, hot liquid and vapor burst out of the pipe, and as employees evacuated, the liquid and vapor burst into flames, possibly ignited by hot equipment or a running fire truck parked nearby, Sawyer said.
"Why it happened then, I don't know. We don't know if the insulation was holding the pipe together," he said, adding the insulation piece was likely destroyed in the intense blaze.
Chevron spokeswoman Melissa Ritchie said, "We cannot speculate on the cause until a full investigation is conducted."
Investigators expect to get access to the fire site by Monday, Sawyer said.
Occupational hazard?
In the two months before Monday's fire, Chevron reported three leaks within its more than 5,000 miles of pipe at the 2,900-acre Richmond refinery. One of them had been reported just days earlier.
On Aug. 3, the Richmond refinery had a flange leak at a fluid catalytic converter feed hydrotreater, but Chevron said Monday's fire was not related to that. On July 17, four barrels of diesel spilled from a leaky pipe, and on June 19, less than a pint of an unknown liquid spilled into San Pablo Bay at the long wharf. Neither was related to Monday's fire, Sawyer said.
"We want to keep everything in the pipes," Sawyer said. "But it's something that you do have ... And all parts of a refinery handle very combustible chemicals."
Leaks are part of refinery workers' jobs, said Jeff Clark, a field representative for Steelworkers Local 5, which represents about 600 operators and mechanics at the Richmond plant.
"Leaks are not a daily occurrence ... but we probably see them more often than we'd like to see them," he said.
How to respond to a leak depends on each individual circumstance, pipeline consultant Kuprewicz said.
"It's easy for the public to come to the conclusion that if you have a leak you should shut it down, and that's not always the case," he said, saying a shutdown could exacerbate the problem. "I've seen hundreds of leaks that do not justify shutting down ... probably more like thousands."
Modernization or expansion?
Refinery pipes are often heated and cooled, causing expansion and retraction -- one reason why they sit above ground. Maintenance is key, experts say, to ensure integrity.
In 2010, Chevron's $1 billion plan to upgrade part of the refinery was stopped by a lawsuit filed by environmentalists who asserted the oil company was hiding its intent to refine dirtier crude oil. The First District Court of Appeal ruled in April 2010 that the company had failed to adequately analyze how the project would affect air pollution. In May, Chevron submitted a new project application to the city.
"We want a modernization project if it will mean old equipment will be replaced," Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said. "We've been in discussions with Chevron over the revised hydrogen renewal project.
"(Monday's fire) reminds us as a City Council and community to be strong and regulate Chevron to the highest degree," McLaughlin said.
Chevron said the Richmond Renewal Project would replace older equipment to reduce emissions and create a cleaner and safer refinery.
"With approval from authorities, we are prepared to make additional investments in the refinery that will bring updated technology, improvements to operations, reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency and bring more jobs," Chevron's Ritchie said. "The project will not change the range of crude oil blends historically processed at the refinery."
Staff writer Denis Cuff contributed to this report. Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.


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Is Adobe Closing in to Resistance?
Published on Monday, 21 January 2013 07:04 Written by TradersHuddle Wire
New York, January 21st (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) are trading very close to calculated resistance at $38.78. The stock ended the trading session at just $37.73, which is near levels that make it difficult to buy or start a position.
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) develops, markets, and supports computer software products and technologies. The Company's products allow users to present and use information across all print and electronic media. Adobe offers a line of application software products, type products, and content for creating, distributing, and managing information. The company popular Acrobat Reader allows companies and consumers to exchange a wide variety of electronic information and documents.
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If there was ever a man designated to bear the name Mark Twain other than Samuel Clemens, many will tell you it's Hal Holbrook.
His career in show business is incomparable. His reputation in Hollywood is respected highly. His admiration is solid amongst many in the acting business.
And all the while it hasn't just been the work he's done on the silverscreen, but on the work he's done for hundreds of live audiences performing as the world-famous novelist Mark Twain.
To make things more fitting, the man who portrays Hannibal's most famous son, comes to town Saturday to give this highly praised act.
"It's always different. It's always in two acts and it's always amazing fun. He has such a repertoire that he will never do the same show twice. No two shows are alike. He will pull the Twain from his memory that kind of ties in with whatever current events that are on the table," Mark Twain Museum Director Cindy Lovell said. "I have seen him perform eight different times and it's never been the same show, ever. He just does not do the same show. He'll just pick and choose as he goes along. Might be because of where he is, might be because of what's in the news. Whatever his reasons are, from his vast Twain sampler he can just pull any kind of topic and address it."
Holbrook will be starring in Stephen Spielberg's "Lincoln" which opens today and will be starring in "Promised Land" with John Krasinski and Matt Damon which opens later this year. He was nominated for an academy award for "Into The Wild" and portrayed Deep Throat in "All The President's Men."
But it's his portrayal of the man who gave the world Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn where Holbrook gets his true association with fans.
"The first time I saw him was in Iowa, when I was in graduate school, and I did not have the money for a ticket. I had just moved to Iowa for two years to do my doctorate from Florida," Lovell said. "I did not own winter boots, I had gone and purchased a pair of winter boots at Walmart for $35. This was back in the '90s. I realized I had to see him; I would never get this close (she thought at the time). I returned the boots, they were still brand new and in the bag, got my money, bought the ticket and never regretted it."
Holbrook will be performing "Mark Twain Tonight" at Hannibal High School. The show begins at 8 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are still available.
"It's a unique opportunity to see the greatest. He is the greatest Mark Twain performer to have ever lived. I don't think anyone would ever disagree with that. To have him performing in Hannibal is magical," Lovell said. "I got a message from somebody in Colorado who bought a plane ticket, booked a hotel room and bought a ticket to the performance. They not only want to see Hal Holbrook, they want to see Hal Holbrook perform as Twain in Hannibal. It's the most perfect fit."
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KKCO) Protesters demonstrated near a mobile Chick-Fil-A lunch truck on Thursday in Washington. The company's CEO does not support same-sex marriage. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said he does not support "hate chicken" in his city. Governor Tim Pawlenty said officials threatening a business for having a different political opinion is "chilling and jaw-dropping." "I have historically been a supporter of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender rights and I will continue to be so. You know, when people don't support marriage equality, it is the law here in the District of Columbia, people who don't support human rights for everybody, there just is no place for them in this city," says Gray.
"No, we don't do that in the United States. We can have civil disagreements about our view versus another view, but we don't use the power of government to try to intimidate and chill and retaliate against people for exercising their free speech rights. That's outrageous," says Pawlenty.
The mayors of Chicago, San Francisco and Boston have talked about denying business permits to open Chick-Fil-A restaurants.
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Little hearts, big problems
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:03 p.m.
February 7-14 is Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week.
According to the American Heart Association, heart defects are among the most common birth defects and are the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths.
The word "congenital" means existing at birth.
The terms "congenital heart defect" and "congenital heart disease" are often used to mean the same thing, but "defect" is more accurate.
The heart ailment is a defect or abnormality, not a disease.
A defect results when the heart or blood vessels near the heart don't develop normally before birth.
Today, it is possible to fix most defects, even those once deemed hopeless.
But to fix them, we have to know about them.
The American Heart Association wants to help little hearts with big challenges by requiring that all Louisiana hospitals conduct a non-invasive test, which costs approximately $2, as a part of the routine birth screenings.
Approximately nine people in 1,000 are born with a congenital heart defect.
In the upcoming legislative session, let's give all little hearts the same chance.
Catherine Straatmann
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Carol (Smith) Harwell, 65, of Tecumseh, passed away Friday, March 29, 2013, in Midwest City.
The family has designated Gladney Center for Adoption, 6300 John Ryan Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76132-4122 as appropriate for memorials.
Visitation will begin 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 2, and continue through service time. The family will gather from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 2, to meet with friends at Cooper Funeral Home.
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Senate Democrats' campaign arm outraised its Republican counterpart by $1.8 million last month, pulling in $8.1 million compared with Republicans' $6.3 million and ending the month with more than $22 million in cash on hand.
Both campaign committees had their best haul of the cycle last month, but the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has raised over $20 million more than Republicans since January 2013.
Senate Democrats also have about $6 million more in the bank than Republicans. Neither committee has any debt.
This marks a trend for Democrats, who have consistently outraised Republicans each month. The DSCC outraised the National Republican Senatorial Committee by about $16 million in 2013. A Wall Street Journal analysis in January of Senate candidates' individual fundraising efforts showed vulnerable Democrats had amassed sizable war chests, but that several GOP rivals had begun to close the gap by outraising Democrats in the final stretch of 2013.
Republicans are targeting Senate Democrats in several states that President Barack Obama lost in 2012 in their quest to take back the Senate majority this November. NRSC Vice Chairman Rob Portman said these latest numbers put them in good shape to do so.
"Another record month shows that we are building momentum and that Republicans across the country are highly energized," he said in a statement. "Republicans are one step closer to bringing back the Senate this fall, but there is still work to be done."
DSCC Executive Director Guy Cecil emphasized the contrast between the committees' fundraising strategies in a statement Wednesday, offering harsh words for Charles and David Koch, two conservative billionaires who Democrats have targeted in recent months.
"Republican Senate candidates up and down the map have chosen to advocate for the Koch agenda that's good for billionaire special interests but bad for middle class families across the country," Mr. Cecil said. "As a reward, the Koch Brothers are pouring unprecedented millions into false attack ads aimed at boosting these Republicans, but Democrats have a strong grassroots network and thousands of generous donors across the country helping us raise the resources we need to fight back."
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What started as a second-place finish in Day One of racing turned quickly to a disappointment for young Filip Niemkiewicz, of Breckenridge, who found himself disqualified in the final day of go kart racing in the Rotax Challenge of the Americas series, which concluded March 10.
An air filter that had been previously approved by officials in the 9-year-old's go karting career caused the disqualification. He'd finished in second place in the second day of racing, just .05 seconds behind the leader. He raced to the fastest time on the track of the whole weekend - 56.95 was Filip's time and the fastest before that all weekend had been 57.2. And he and the leader were far ahead of the rest of the pack - we're talking about 8 seconds.
"Filip drove so incredibly fast, only one guy could stay with us, the leader - he was right with him everywhere," Filip's father, Sebastian Niemkiewicz, said. "If only he had not gotten that disqualification at the end."
In the final race of the series, Filip led four times before finishing second, only to be disqualified.
"Filip was really devastated," Niemkiewicz continued. "He gave 110 percent over that weekend. He drove incredibly. Others were way behind him. Usually, it's close by a few hundredths of a second, but the leader and Filip were running away from anybody else by up to 8 seconds."
Though disappointed, Filip's spirits perked up when the third-place finisher, who was bumped into second with Filip's disqualification, handed the second-place trophy over to his competitor, Filip.
"He said, 'This is really your trophy you won on this track,'" Niemkiewicz said, explaining that Filip's peers saw him as a winner, even if the officials did not. The boy's name was Anthony Willis, from Arizona.
Filip and his father kick off the spring season with the Rocky Mountain Series in Centennial in April before attending the U.S. Grand Nationals in Mooresville, N.C., to try to earn points for the Rotax World Finals in New Orleans. The disqualification cost Filip 110 points that would have qualified him for World Finals, his father said. For the first time in the history of the world finals race, the micro max go kart will be allowed to compete, and Filip and his father plan to attend.


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17 October 2005
If Dickens Were Alive Today, He Would Be Me
To say, "If Dickens were alive today, he would write soap operas," is nonsense, not because it's unlikely, but because if Dickens wrote soap operas, he wouldn't be Dickens. Dickens wrote lots of things, but we remember him for his novels. If he didn't write novels, he would have been doing something very different from what the entity we celebrate as Dickens did. What Dickens did was expand and exploit the possibilities of the novel. Change that, and you change everything. A truly great writer's greatness depends on an unlikely convergence of many different qualities, and the greatness usually comes from the writer finding the perfect form and style of expression for what is expressed.
Would Shakespeare be a screenwriter if he were alive today? Maybe. Probably. He liked making money and suing people, so I'm sure he'd find Hollywood more appealing than many other places. His scripts would have been chopped up, put through development hell, and rendered "accessible to a wide audience". Nobody but film buffs would know his name. And what he wrote probably really would have been closer to Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter than anything else, because screenplays don't have much room for poetry. In other words, he wouldn't be Shakespeare-the-greatest-writer-in-English writing screenplays, he'd be some guy named Bill Shakespeare with a nice house in Beverly Hills.
Yes, Shakespeare and Dickens wrote popular art. So did Mary Johnston, Harold Bell Wright, Gertrude Atherton, Mika Waltari, and Henry Morton Robinson. Defenders of genre writing need to whine less and spend more time arguing the specific merits of whatever writing they are proclaiming to be masterpieces. Or they need to stop caring what the literary world they so dislike thinks of them, because in my experience, it's the genre-only readers who are more ignorant and disdainful of the world of mainstream fiction than vice versa.
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Oh, but wanking about how much litfic sucks is so much easier!ReplyDelete
Man, you make everything hard.
I know, and it's a wank I like myself at times, but, yknow...ReplyDelete
And I do think in some ways they've got a case, which is why I wish they'd make it better. To take just one example, it's odd that Harrison's Light didn't at least make the Booker longlist. (Unless it did. I haven't checked, but I think I'd remember if it had.) (And if I knew the mystery field better, I could also point out some of those.) Like it or not, the burden of proof is on the side of people who maintain that there are genre novels that are as good as mainstream novels, but it's not an impossible burden to meet. In fact, it gets easier and easier to do.
On the other hand, there are reasons to ignore the whole literary establishment altogether. But I think I'm going to save all this for another Strange Horizons column....
I agree exactly. I was just talking over at Vandermeer's blog about the same thing. He had interviewed a book publishing house, publishing a genre antho attempting literary ideals.ReplyDelete
All well and good, but then he went on a tirade and started name dropping those "literary genre writer" names we've all heard a thousand times (Orwell, Borges, etc) and I was rolling my eyes.
The sad thing is that the literary world pushes this idea. I was getting into an argument with some postmodern writers I met about genre and fantasy. They argued it was escapism and pop crap. Genre garbage.
I hated myself for saying it, but I said the name Borges and they all nodded in agreement that his fantasy was allright, and it it was like Borges it was good.
Which is just bullshit.
Well, my latest SH column invokes Borges, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka, so I'm not entirely on the same page with you, Paul. Those are three of my major touchstones for what fiction can accomplish. At the same time, I recognize that most SF writers are not aiming to be in that company, but rather are working from a different set of values. If that's the case, then there's no point in judging them as if they're trying to be Borges, Dostoyevsky, Kafka. But then to whine and complain that you're not being accorded the standards of the most literary of literatures doesn't make much sense. Some SF can be judged against those standards, but most can't, and probably shouldn't be, because the writers are working within a set of standards created by Asimov, Heinlein, Dick, Tiptree, Gibson, etc. I don't sit down and read most SF novels and wonder if they can compete with Dostoyevsky; to some extent, I do wonder that about every literary novel I read, because that's the tradition the writers are working out of, so that's what I set them up against in my mind (or Turgenev or Faulkner or, for short stories, Alice Munro). Not that there's any shame for a book to seem good, but not as good as Faulkner. (Faulkner sometimes wasn't as good as Faulkner.)ReplyDelete
That is a very excellent point. One I had not considered.ReplyDelete
I just read your article, and see how our points differ. I guess i didn't really delve into what I was saying.ReplyDelete
What I meant was, I was sick of people name dropping certain writers in order to give credence to the field. Most people who drop these names don't even read the names they drop, but understand that by dropping them they can get respect from the "literary field".
I do think it's a great thing that there is a sort of resurgance in fantastic writing that holds itself to literary standards. I feel that in the future, more and more writers will try and move out of the ghetto and try to bring the themes, stylaziations and wonderful writing of The Brother's Karamazov or As I lay Dying into a fantastical mold.
- Anonymous10/18/2005 4:16 PM
I just think that even if an editor's manifesto is questionable, the antho engendered by it can still be valuable.
- Robert Cook10/19/2005 6:50 AM
To be fair to Peter Preston, who penned the Guardian article in question, he is actually quoting Andrew Davies, a Dickens-to-TV adaptor, about Dickens writing soap operas 'if he were alive today' (which seems like a likely sort of thing for a Dickens-to-TV adaptor to say). Preston also says that it is a 'fantasy debate' with a 'deeper point', ie. what makes genres inferior in the eyes of the 'literary' world and specifically of the Booker judges?ReplyDelete
Preston himself seems to think that Dickens - if he were alive today, of course - would be more likely to write gritty crime dramas a la Ian Rankin and Dennis Lehane. Which, you could argue, is what Dickens did a lot of the time anyway when he was actually alive. Drop Sykes into a Rebus novel and no one would bat an eyelid. So that doesn't seem too far off the mark, taking into account that the whole debate is fantasy anyway...
And from the point of view of SF, Preston seems to agree with Rankin, that SF is 'dealing with some of the biggest ideas, where we are going to go as a race - but for some reason it's not taken seriously'.
So, that's my two pence worth: Preston, usually a very 'Literary' man, is actually defending genre, and so probably doesn't deserve to be attacked at all. (Not by Us, anyway. Only by Them.)
Apart from that, I agree with Matthew - that by and large 'it's the genre-only readers who are more ignorant and disdainful of the world of mainstream fiction than vice versa'. Which is why I always like to mix a little Nabokov with my Moorcock. I mean, don't we all..?
I just think that even if an editor's manifesto is questionable, the antho engendered by it can still be valuable.
No doubt. No doubt at all. I plan on picking up that antho when I have some spare change. Veniss Underground comes first, of course. (wink, wink)I guess I just have a problem with manifestoes in general and idealism.
Maybe it's the petty cynical existentialist in me. I dunno.
Dickens - if he were alive today, of course - would be more likely to write gritty crime dramas a la Ian Rankin and Dennis Lehane.
And if Aeschylus were alive today, he'd be writing courtroom dramas for Law and Order.
Matt, nothing much profound to add, just wanted to say I agree with you. Well said.ReplyDelete
There's a pretty good argument, actually, for caling Dostoyevsky a genre writer. The Double is straight-up fantasy and Crime and Punishment a detective story, just one told from the POV of the perp.ReplyDelete
The genre/mainstream division is obviously anachronistic looking at 19th c. Russian lit but I think it also just doesn't apply to Russian literary consciousness in general. Edgar Allen Poe is considered a mainstream canonical writer over there. And just about every Russian canonical writer from Pushkin onward has written fantastic literature of one sort or another, though those don't tend to get taught in this country (USA) as often. I had a Russian language asst. in college, a Soviet literary exile type whose bent was fantastic lit, so that's what we read. Then you get into the 20th century and the Soviet era, where the list of great canonical novels includes We and Master and Margarita. These aren't exceptions admitted into the canon like Borges; they're straight-up mainstream.
There is a distinct Russian genre called nauchnyi fantastik, science fiction, where the Strugatsky brothers belong. I don't know that We would be classified as such.
As someone who has intermittently read a fair amount of the canon (and who has large gaps as well), I'd agree that more people in the genre community should read outside of it. But as a genre writer with literary aspirations I also experience the ghetto with considerably frequency.
One other thought: there was that Atlantic article a few years back (in the same issue as the Mark Twain story) about, among other things, the change in attitudes over the 20th century as to what is accepted as good writing, and the possibility of popular writers (Somerset Maughm was given as an example) winning major literary prizes (he did, would not now). Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain and Dickens wrote to make a living, and they wanted as many readers as they could get. I suspect (albeit from the wrong side of the ghetto wall) that storytelling prowess is not now considered a significant literary quality by the juries who award the Booker, or most other such prizes.
I'm not sure how much it helps either Dostoyevsky or the mystery genre to label him as such, except to point out that just because a story involves a crime and investigation, that doesn't limit it to being only one sort of book. Actually, in some circles that's a revolutionary statement, though one that fits SF/fantasy even better -- just because a book includes space ships or elves doesn't limit it to being only escapism (or whatever pejorative term happens to be popular).ReplyDelete
Oh, and as for attacking Preston -- I don't have feelings about him one way or another, just the article, which I think is, on the whole, pretty bad, regardless of whether there are points I'd agree with.ReplyDelete
- Judith Berman10/20/2005 2:52 PM
I'm not sure how much it helps either Dostoyevsky or the mystery genre to label him as suchReplyDelete
Well, I think this is something pretty deeply wrapped up with Dostoevsky's intention (prestupleniye, transgression, is not just part of the title but it's what Raskolnikov was up to). I would say C&P is not a mystery so much as a detective story, perhaps a slight distinction--but meaning by the latter focusing less on the whodunit aspect (never in question in C&P anyway) and more on repairing the injury to moral order that has been inflicted. Again, that reparation (nakazaniye, penalty) is both the other half of the title and a fundamental part of the narrative structure, Raskolnikov's moral journey.
But I'd agree that a book doesn't have to be just one thing, and probably the better the book the more that's true.


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LDoms IO Best Practices & T4 Red Crypto Stack
By Stefan Hinker-Oracle on Jan 14, 2013
In November, I presented at DOAG Konferenz & Ausstellung 2012. Now, almost two months later, I finally get around to posting the slides here...
- In "LDoms IO Best Practices" I discuss different IO options for both disk and networking and give some recommens on how you to choose the right ones for your environment. A couple hints about performance are also included.
- In "T4 & the Red Crypto Stack", Heinz-Wilhelm Fabry and I show how to use encryption and other security mechanisms throughout the red stack to deploy a quite well secured database.
I hope the slides are useful!


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The St. James Cyclones Wrestling team participated the Annual St. James Kids Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 5.
A total of 227 wrestlers with 52 being from St. James patriciated in the tournament. Youth wrestlers ranged in age from pre-K through sixth grade.
The Cyclones' coaches this year are Troy Meyer and Matt Durheim.
Cyclones who wrestled and the places they finished were:
Alek Anderson, 3rd Place
Erick Avila, 4th Place
Teagan Erickson, 4th Place
August Goenning, 1st Place
Beck Johnson, 1st Place
Reed Johnson, 3rd Place
Keyan Boutwell, 4th Place
Denis Campbell, 3rd Place
Hunter Johnson, 4th Place
Austin Nommensen, 4th Place
Damian Ramirez, 3rd Place
Dylan Reid, 3rd Place
Talyn Tande, 1st Place
First Grade
Jordan Anderson, 4th Place
Kollin Anderson, 2nd Place
Joshua Carreon, 2nd Place
Willie Curry, 2nd Place
Jerrett Durheim, 1st Place
Kaiden Goenning, 3rd Place
Gage Jones, 2nd Place
Trenton Kettner, 2nd Place
Deegan Koch, 2nd Place
Levi Miest, 2nd Place
Austin Spitzner, 4th Place
Second Grade
Gavin Anderson, 4th Place
Derek Fast, 3rd Place
Mason Lundberg, 4th Place
Amin Tobar, 2nd Place
Third Grade
Daniel Avila , 3rd Place
Fourth Grade
Logan Carlson, 2nd Place
Samuel Garcia, 2nd Place
Austin Knickrehm, 3rd Place
Andres Morataya, 2nd Place
Michael Suarez, 1st Place
Teresa Tobar - 1st Place
Fifth Grade
Austin Clabaugh, 1st Place
Peyton Engelking, 2nd Place
Alex Hanson, 4th Place
Tallin Johnson, 3rd Place
Jackson Miest, 3rd Place
Dominic Morataya, 3rd Place
Troy Parulski, 4th Place
Seth Pierson, 3rd Place
Fransisco Suarez, 2nd Place
Wyatt Westcott, 3rd Place
Sixth Grade
Jacob Brey, 2nd Place
Cole Durheim, 1st Place
Brayden Hennis, 4th Place
Landon Hoppe, 4th Place
Alex Knickrehm, 4th Place
Samuel Kulseth, 2nd Place
Noah Sykes, 1st Place
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About the Book
Bestselling author Jim Marrs steps once again to the cutting-edge of research into conspiracies and hidden truths. In Our Occulted History, Marrs goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda and illustrates how human civilization may have originated with non-humans who visited earth eons ago...and may still be here today
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? is an extensive survey that includes a mass of well-documented scientific and historical texts and sources. It will change the way you view the origins of mankind and the current state of society.
No subject is too controversial for Marrs, an award-winning journalist whose other investigative works include Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, the basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK; Rule by Secrecy; and The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy.
We are not alone.
And we never have been . . .
For years we've been taught that human progress has been a long, slow climb from the primordial ooze to hunter-gatherers to empires. But what if that's only part of the story?
Bestselling author and legendary conspiracy researcher Jim Marrs, who has investigated the recent financial crisis, the JFK assassination, and the national socialist takeover of America, now takes on his biggest subject: the history of mankind. Offering mind-blowing information that will radically alter the way we think about the world and our place in it, Marrs goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda, interweaving science and authentic archaeo- logical finds with provocative speculation to show how human civilization may have originated with nonhumans who visited earth eons ago . . . and may still be here today.
Our Occulted History overturns conven-tional knowledge and beliefs, presenting com-pelling evidence that the earth once hosted prehistoric civilizations using technologies that very well may have surpassed our own. Sound unbelievable? Just a few hundred years ago, so was the concept that the earth revolved around the sun.
Marrs sifts through the historical, scientific, and cultural record, showing how numerous ancient texts and tablets tell of visitors from the stars colonizing the earth. From the flying vimanas of the Hindu Vedic literature and the flying shields reported by the Romans to the mysterious airships of the 1800s and the UFOs of today, he argues that someone other than us is still present on this planet. But are these visitors simply observers—or do they play a much more active and controlling role? Jim Marrs raises this shocking question and more in the provocative and persuasive Our Occulted History.
The truth is out there . . . and in here.
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Yarn Profile: 2nd Time Cotton
First Impressions
This eight-ply cotton/acrylic blend is available in seven heathered colors, all of which you'd expect to see in a much-beloved jean jacket. Although blues prevail, you also can choose from a deep purple, two shades of tan, and the Tahiti red you see here.
Knitting Up
I feared snags from the eight strands, which seemed to come unplied at the end of each row, but I encountered only one snag. Stitches appeared consistent and the finished fabric cohesive, thanks to the yarn's smooth evenness.
Even while knitting, however, I had to stop periodically to remove loose pills from the fabric—a byproduct, I suspect, of the yarn's recycled heritage. Finished materials that have been re-blended together normally don't hold together as cohesively as something that has been spun straight from raw fibers.
But if you know about this ahead of time, you can maximize the effects by using the yarn for a garment you want to look comfortable and weathered.
The yarn depicts stitchwork beautifully, especially seed stitch and cables. Because of cotton's innate inelastic quality, you'll only want to use ribbing for visual effect and plan for it to stretch out as soon as you don your garment.
Blocking / Washing
After blotting them dry, I reshaped my swatches on a towel and waited for them to dry. And waited. And waited. (Hint: Don't wash a handknit cotton garment unless you have a few days to spare.)
There was no change in gauge, and even those swatches that had been washed in warm water showed no sign of color fading.
Pills and loose fibers manifested themselves in tiny small waves across the fabric. I should note, however, that the yarn's heathered coloring helped conceal signs of wear except from up close, and that the overall integrity of the knitted swatches was never in question.
The swatches softened and relaxed like old jeans, but thanks to the presence of acrylic, they never lost their fundamental shape and form. Some cottons can look like sad limp rags after extensive wear, but this one didn't.
This yarn is composed of brand new marketable materials that were not usable in their existing form. Knit One Crochet Too has simply repurposed these materials into yarn, where they can finally achieve their dream of clothing a deserving wearer.
The price is reasonable: Each 180-yard skein costs $6.50, which means a medium-sized woman's long-sleeved sweater with some textured stitching will require only six skeins. That's less than $40 for a new garment that makes an earth-friendly fashion statement.
Yarn name
2nd Time Cotton
Knit One Crochet Too
Fiber content
75% cotton
25% acrylic
17 stitches per 4 inches on US 8 needles
Average retail price
Where to buy online
Weight/yardage per skein
100g / 180 yards
Country of origin
Suggested wash method
Machine wash cold, dry flat.
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Color used in review
231 (Tahiti)


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"Temple Grandin" Premiere in Los Angeles
Many parents viewed Temple as a model of inspiration, the independent adult we all hoped our children would become. We listened rapturously as she recalled her childhood, not speaking until she was four, and how vividly she could talk about certain subjects. I remember her saying that when something as simple as a ship was mentioned she had to visualize a specific ship that she had heard about in order for it to become concrete. Then pictures of many ships passed through her mind. She also talked about how the concept of love was difficult. Although she read about it and understood what it was intellectually, emotionally it was foreign to her.
I have not read her books but I was excited to attend a preview screening of the "Temple Grandin" movie premiering on HBO this weekend. It was beautiful for many reasons, and not always easy to watch. Claire Danes was incredible in capturing Temple's mannerisms, fears, frustrations and ultimate optimism. Director Mick Jackson managed the wonderful feat of vividly bringing the audience inside Temple's mind. When she was over-stimulated by light or sound, it seemed as though we were having the same experience. When the film was over many people remarked how much they enjoyed it and how moved they were. Definitely have tissues nearby.
Just as impressive for what Temple has done and represents, it may be more phenomenal when the time period is factored in. This year, Temple will be 63. We talk about the continued need to raise awareness now, but consider for a moment the immense challenges, obstacles and prejudices both she and her mother had to endure over 55 years ago. In the film Temple's mother (an excellent job by Julia Ormond) is told to put her in an institution and essentially forget about her. The teasing Temple endured at boarding school and how she was misunderstood in college were painful to observe on the screen. And even after earning her degree she faced immense sexism in the overwhelmingly male-dominated cattle industry of the 1970's.
We have it so much easier with more people knowing about autism now, but it's still not enough.
A few months ago I was at a fundraising and community event for another autism organization. I was at our booth telling people what Autism Speaks does when a young man who was a volunteer for the day walked up and asked, "What is autism?" He was probably in his late teens, helping out at an event about autism and didn't know what it was. I point this out not to castigate him, but it was a pivotal moment for me.
For the progress we've made, we still need to keep moving forward. I work with and constantly meet parents whose children are at various points along the autism spectrum. They are stressed. They can't do it alone – and they shouldn't have to. With the numbers constantly rising, it's obvious that autism is not the domain of just parents and the devoted professionals who work with them.
I hope that people not directly affected by autism who watch "Temple Grandin" take away multiple messages, with one of the key ones being how serious an issue it is. Please don't be just an observer. Take action. And for those of us who are directly affected, keep letting others know.
This guest post is written by Phillip Hain, Executive Director of Autism Speaks' Los Angeles Chapter.
If you have a story you wish to share about your personal experience with autism, please send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. Autism Speaks reserves the right to edit contributions for space, style and content. Because of the volume of submissions, not all can be published on the site.
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The Warren and Fort Frye Local boards of education will know within a couple of weeks whether they need to start looking for new superintendents.
Tom Gibbs, who has been Warren's superintendent for eight years and took on those duties for Fort Frye last year as well, has had discussions with the Athens City school district about taking a position there. No offer has been made and no action by that district's board of education has been taken, Gibbs said Friday.
"The Athens City school district and I will have come to an agreement or not by Warren's May board meeting," he said.
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That's slated for May 20, but the Warren Local board has scheduled a special meeting for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the administration office to discuss how to proceed if Gibbs leaves, among other personnel matters. The meeting may include a closed, executive session.
If Gibbs does step down, "we want to take action quickly and get somebody in there," Warren board member Bob Allen said.
Gibbs said the opportunity he's exploring is the only one that would motivate him to leave his current position. He cited Athens City's proximity and close relationship with Ohio University, where he has taught school law, finance and other classes in the College of Education for more than 10 years. Working for Athens, he said, would give him a chance to continue in a job he loves, while doing more with the university.
Fact Box
6:30 p.m. Wednesday - special Warren Local Board of Education meeting, administration office, Vincent.
6 p.m. Thursday, May 16 - regular Fort Frye Local Board of Education meeting, Beverly-Center Elementary School.
6:30 p.m. Monday, May 20 - regular Warren Local Board of Education meeting, administration office.
"If we were to work out an arrangement (with Athens), the immediate position would be something akin to a business manager or associate superintendent," said Gibbs, who lives in Athens County. While some would consider that a step down from being superintendent of two districts, he noted that "sometimes professionally it's not uncommon for people to take a step back in order to position themselves to potentially take a step forward at a later date."
Gibbs said he's had excellent experiences at both Fort Frye and Warren, and would look forward to serving both districts if the Athens opportunity doesn't materialize. Although he has been the target of heated criticism from some community members as Warren placed multiple bond issues for new schools on the ballot in recent years, he said that isn't a factor in his considerations.
Fort Frye Local Board of Education Vice President Charlie Schilling praised the work Gibbs has done in his year at the helm there.
"Tom's done a fantastic job; there's no doubt about that," he said.
If he takes an opportunity to better his situation, "that's good for Tom," Schilling said. "We'll hire another superintendent and we'll move forward."
Fort Frye's next board meeting is May 16, the same evening as the Athens City school board is scheduled to meet. Schilling said no special meeting has been planned yet, but the board may set one up to assess its options later in the month.
Allen said Gibbs has served the Warren district well, but added that, if he does leave, "turnover can prompt new growth and more opportunities."
Earlier this year, both the Warren and Fort Frye boards approved new five-year contracts for Gibbs, each paying him $75,000 a year.
Barring specific incentives or penalties, superintendent contracts generally do not prevent the individual from leaving before the term is up. Allen said he is frustrated with the fact that such contracts are more binding on boards than employees.
"Unfortunately, they can just walk away from that contract at any time," he said, adding that Gibbs wouldn't be doing anything unprecedented by leaving. "I would be very hesitant to offer a five-year contract to anyone in the future."
Gibbs said if he does leave, he would serve out the rest of the contract year, which runs through the end of July. Allen said he would like to see a successor hired in time to work with Gibbs before he leaves.
Warren board President Sidney Brackenridge said the board can take no action "until and unless a change occurs." If a replacement is needed, the district could be in good shape.
"We have probably more (possible) internal candidates than a lot of other schools," he said.
It is not known if the districts would consider continuing to share a superintendent. While members of both boards have been pleased with the arrangement, they have also noted one reason for its success is the long working relationship between Gibbs and Treasurer Melcie Wells, who also serves both districts. Some members have said they don't think the concept would work with just anyone.


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Defense Documents
Evidence for the Implementation of the Final Solution: Electronic Edition, by Browning, Christopher R.Table of Contents
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5.5 Documentary Evidence concerning Aktion or Einsatz (Operation) Reinhard (alternatively spelled Reinhardt)
The deportation of Jews to and killing of Jews in the camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, as well as the confiscation of their property, became known as Operation Reinhard, under the command of Odilo Globocnik, the SS and Police Leader in the district of Lublin. The expression Operation Reinhard appears in only a few German documents. So little documentary evidence explicitly dealing with Operation Reinhard survived because it was intentionally and systematically destroyed in 1943 and 1944. This is clearly revealed in a letter from its director, Odilo Globocnik, to Heinrich Himmler of January 5, 1944. It was a cover letter for Globocnik's submission of a final financial accounting of the program, for which Globocnik wanted a quick confirmation of financial propriety, given the "odium" (Globocnik's own expression) that attached to his past reputation in financial matters. Globocnik gave another reason for urgently concluding an audit of the financial side of Operation Reinhard, namely that its "records must be destroyed as soon as possible, after the documents of all other work in this matter have already been destroyed."154
An early document mentioning "Einsatz Reinhard" dates from July 18, 1942. It is a form on which the personnel specially authorized "for the carrying-out of the work of the Jewish resettlement within the framework of 'Operation Reinhard' with the SS and Police Leader in the Lublin district" acknowledged having been oriented to specific rules of secrecy by SS-Hauptsturmführer Höfle on Globocnik's staff. They were forbidden to make any communication, verbal or oral, concerning the "Jewish resettlement" (Judenumsiedlung) under any circumstances to anyone outside of Operation Reinhard. Moreover, there was "an explicit prohibition against photography in the camps of 'Operation Reinard.'"155
One surviving file of Aktion Reinhard documents (partially burned) concerns the camp personnel at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.156 Two letters date from April 13, 1943. The first of these, addressed to SS-Obersturmführer Kuno Ther of the SS Central Office for Personnel, proposed promotions of the officers and men of Aktion Reinhard. It noted: "The Reichsführer-SS [Himmler] had approved in principle the promotion of the most deserving officers and men after his visit to the Sobibor camp." It identified Christian Wirth as Inspector and Gottlieb Hering, Franz Reichsleitner, and Franz Stangl as "camp commanders." (Lagerführer) The remaining non-commissioned officers on the list "had been employed in Aktion 'Reinhard' since the beginning and had proven themselves in the best possible manner."157
A second letter of the same date, from Globocnik to Gruppenführer von Herff of the SS Central Officer for Personnel of the same day and sent by courier, was slightly rephrased. It did not mention Himmler's visit to Sobibor specifically but stated that Himmler "on the occasion of his visit in March had visited installations of Aktion 'Reinhard'" and approved promotions. The enclosed promotion list was for "members of the SS-Special Commando 'Einsatz Reinhard'."158 Subsequent correspondence in the file concerning the recommended promotions of Aktion Reinhard personnel confirmed Himmler's visit and inspection of Sobibor but dated it precisely to February 12, 1943.159
On October 27, 1943, Globocnik confirmed to Herff in the SS Central Office for Personnel that included on his staff of 434 men were 92 men "from the Führer's Chancellery for the carrying out of Aktion Reinhard."160 These were the men who formerly staffed the institutes of the "euthanasia" program for killing mentally- and physically handicapped Germans and were subsequently assigned to the camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, where they could continue to use their expertise in gassing.
Another surviving file of documents that mention Aktion Reinhard concern the audit of Operation Reinhard following Globocnik's transfer from the General Government to Triest in the fall of 1943. On September 22, 1943, Himmler wrote to Oswald Pohl, head of the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the SS, and Globocnik that, in view of Globocnik's transfer, the latter should turn over an audit of the "'Reinhard' account" (Konto 'Reinhard') to Pohl.161 On November 4, 1943, Globocnik wrote Himmler from Triest: "As of October 19, 1943, I have terminated Aktion Reinhardt, which I directed in the General Government, and dissolved all camps."162 It is only at this point in the fall of 1943 that the alternative spelling of "Reinhardt" rather than "Reinhard" first appeared in the documents.163
On January 5, 1944, Globocnik submitted his final report on the "economic part of Aktion Reinhardt." (Wirtschaftlicher Teil der Aktion Reinhardt) This report made clear that alongside the seizure and utilization of Jewish property, Aktion Reinhardt also dealt with "the evacuation itself" (die Aussiedlung selbst) and "the utilization of labor." (die Verwertung der Arbeitskraft) In a brief section of the report devoted to the evacuation, Globocnik reported that the "installations" (Einrichtungen) created for the operation had been "entirely cleared away." (zur Gänze weggeräumt) Moreover, "for purposes of surveillance a small farmstead had been founded in each camp," and the occupants had to be paid continuously to maintain the farmsteads. Concerning the utilization of labor, Globocnik noted that he had had a workforce of some 52,000 working in 18 enterprises, but on November 3, 1943, all the manpower had been withdrawn from the work camps, and the factories had been idled.164 (In this regard it should be noted that on November 3-4, 1943, some 42,000 Jews in the work camps of Lublin, Trawniki, and Poniatowa were shot in an SS killed action code-named "Fall Harvest" or Erntefest.) Among the recipients of the Jewish property collected during Operation Reinhard were the Ministry of Economics and Reichsbank as well as the Ministry of Finance.
Several conclusions can be drawn from this miniscule remnant of Operation Reinhard documents. Operation Reinhard was directed by Odilo Globocnik, the SS and Police Leader of Lublin, and the SS "special commando" of Operation Reinhard was made up of personnel who staffed the death camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka and who had earlier worked in the gassing institutes of the "euthanasia" program in Germany. The deportation of Jews to and the gassing of Jews in these camps was the central purpose of Operation Reinhard, and every effort was made to erase all physical traces of the three camps. The exploitation of Jewish labor and property were collateral aspects of Operation Reinhard, and the Finance Ministry was only one of a number of recipients of Jewish property. Staatssekretär Fritz Reinhardt of the Finance Ministry is not mentioned in any of the documents, and the spelling of Operation Reinhardt with a "t" as in his name begins only in late 1943. The notion that Operation Reinhard was a program for collecting and exploiting Jewish property and was named after the state secretary of the Finance Ministry, Fritz Reinhardt, is farfetched and finds no support in the surviving documents. Nothing in the surviving documents, however, explicitly indicates that Operation Reinhard was named for the assassinated Reinhard Heydrich.
154. Nürnberg Document 4024-PS, Globocnik to Himmler, 5.1.44, printed in IMT, v. 34, pp. 70-71. (Belege baldigst vernichtet werden müssen, nachdem von allen anderen Arbeiten in dieser Sache die Unterlagen schon vernichtet sind.)
155. 'Einsatz Reinhard' secrecy pledge, 18.7.42, printed in: Faschismus--Getto--Massenmord: Dokumentation über Ausrottung und Widerstand der Juden in Polen wärend des zweiten Weltkrieges, ed. by Tatiana Berenstein, Artur Eisenbach, Bernard Mark and Adam Rutkowski (East Berlin, ), p. 500. (bei der Durchführung von Arbeiten bei der Judenumsiedlung im Rahmen des "Einsatzes Reinhard" beim SS- und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin... ein ausdrückliches Photografier-Verbot in den Lagern des "Einsatzes Reinhard")
156. This are reproduced in facsimile in: Archives of the Holocaust, vol. 11, Berlin Document Center, ed. by Henry Friedlander (New York, 1992).
157. Archives of the Holocaust, vol. 11, part 2, pp. 333-34, Doc. 429: letter to the SS Central Office for Personnel, 13.4.43, signature burned. (Der Reichsführer-SS hat nach Besichtigung des Lagers Sobibor, einer Beförderung der verdientesten Führer und Männer grundsätzlich zugestimmt. ...sind seit Beginn bei der Aktion "Reinhard" eingesetzt und haben sich bestens bewährt.)
158. Archives of the Holocaust, vol. 11, part 2, pp. 335-7, Doc. 430: Globocnik to Herff, 13.4.43, and promotion list. (anlässlich seines Besuches im März Einrichtungen der Aktion "Reinhard" besucht...Angehörige der SS-Sonderkommando "Einsatz Reinhard")
159. Archives of the Holocaust, vol. 11, part 2, pp. 339-49, Doc. 432-439.
160. Archives of the Holocaust, vol. 11, part 1, p. 260, Doc. 144: Globocnik to Herff, 27.10.43. (von der Kanzlei des Führers zur Durchführung der Aktion Reinhard)
161. Nürnberg Document NO-3034: Himmler to Pohl and Globocnik, 22.9.43.
162. Nürnberg Document 4024-PS, Globocnik to Himmler, 4.11.43, printed in: IMT, v.34, pp. 68-9. (Ich habe mit 19.10.43 die Aktion Reinhardt, die ich im Generalgouvernement geführt habe, abgeschlossen und all Lager aufgelöst.)
163. Himmler adopted the Reinhardt spelling in his letter of November 30, 1942, acknowledging Globocnik's previous letter. IMT, v. 34, pp. 69-70.
164. Nürnberg Document 4024-PS, Globocnik report on the economic aspects of Aktion Reinhardt, printed in: IMT, v. 34, pp. 70-89. (Aus Überwachungsgründen ist in den Lagern je ein kleiner Bauernhof entstanden)
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HOUSTON (February 24, 2013)—U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, may be the newest irritant to many of his U.S. Senate colleagues, but his return to Texas was nothing short of a victory lap.
In just two months on the job, the brash freshman senator is making good on promises to be absolute in his adherence to conservative principles.
In the process he's run afoul of GOP mainstays for his prosecutorial-style questioning of Defense Secretary-nominee Chuck Hagel and voted against nearly everything of significance.
His approach was unusual for a freshman in Washington, and its effectiveness long-term far from certain.
But the reaction at home in Texas is effusive.
Speaking last week in Houston, Cruz, 42, said the flurry of attacks at him is an attempt to draw attention away from Hagel.