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The Butterfield-Odin School Board met Monday, March 18, and signed a health and safety agreement with Harbo Consulting Agency. The school will pay HCA $29,700 during the next three school years in exchange for HCA's services.
The contract with HCA is effective July 1, 2013. HCA will coordinate, develop and monitor environmental health and safety projects, conduct annual and semi-annual inspections, keep the district current on health and safety issues and address all environmental issues at the request of the superintendent. This will ensure that the school is up to code in all health and safety issues.
Board members discussed the school sports pairing briefly, specifically about the SCC conference change for football. The SCC denied the Saint's request to leave the conference just for football. It is unclear what the next step will be for Saint's athletics.
Superintendent Lisa Shellum updated the board members about renovations taking place in the school. She told the board there were a few little issues with additions and change orders, but she is working to resolve those issues.
The school developed a plan to pull out the old piping, which could be more than 100 years old, and get new fixtures for the bathrooms. With any old building there will be things that need to be fixed, but the board is working to keep everything functioning smoothly.
"We continue to be proactive," said Shellum. "Our building has been remodelled but we still have these little things we need to work on."
The kids at Butterfield-Odin are hoping to put together a talent show which will feature magicians, musicians, comedians and dancers. Shellum told the board there are many talented individuals in the school that the public probably doesn't know about, so she thinks it would be a fun afternoon.
In the meantime, the kids at Butterfield-Odin are working on their school play "You Can't Take it With You" which has been casted and begun practicing in the school gym. That play will be April 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Butterfield-Odin School continues to work with St. James High School in creating a school calendar that features events from both schools.
The Butterfield-Odin School Board wanted to thank Steve Ringen and students for the America's Farmers Grow Communities Monsanto Grant which will be presented March 27, at 1 p.m.
The students of Butterfield-Odin raised $700, and with contributions from the public, the school will be able to purchase another 10 iPads, which have already been ordered.
Dates to Remember:
Kindergarten Round-up is April 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Annual Bus/Van Inspection is April 24.
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SENIOR (2012): In just the second year that the award has been handed out, Jackson took WCC Goalkeeper of the Year honors in 2012 ... also a 2012 NSCAA All-Far West Region Third Team pick ... in conference play, Jackson led the WCC with a 0.70 goals against average and six shutouts in league play ... Jackson played and started in 18 of SCU's 19 games and posted an 8-2-1 record in WCC play and was 11-5-1 overall with seven shutouts on the year ... made 60 saves, which tied for ninth all-time in SCU single-season history ... logged nearly 1,700 minutes .. posted three consecutive shutouts, all at home, from Sept. 21 through Sept. 30 (NJIT, San Diego and LMU) ... College Sports Madness West Coast Player of the Week (Oct. 1) ... shutout three of the last four Bronco opponents, vs. St. Mary's (Oct. 31), at USF (Nov. 2) and at LMU (Nov. 9) ... made a season-high eight saves twice, first in a 2-1 win at Duke (Aug. 31), then again in a 2-1 (Sept. 16).
JUNIOR (2011): Was terrific for Santa Clara as the team's primary goalkeeper in each of the last seven games of the season ... posted a 5-1-1 record and earned All-WCC Honorable Mention honors ... he posted three shutouts in those seven games ... had backed up record-setting SCU senior goalkeeper Kevin Klasila through the first 13 games, but was inserted into the starting lineup on Oct. 16 at San Diego ... averaged over four saves per game and stopped a career-high seven shots in 4-1 home win over San Diego (Oct. 30) ... shutout back-to-back WCC opponents on the road, at Gonzaga (Nov. 11) and at Portland (Nov. 13) to close out the season and give the Broncos a chance to win the WCC title.
SOPHOMORE (2010): Was on the Broncos roster as a true sophomore but sat out the 2010 season.
FRESHMAN (2009): WCC All-Freshman Team honoree ...starter in all 14 matches he played as SCU's top goalkeeper ... had 45 saves on the year ... allowed only seventeen goals for a goals allowed average of 1.13 ... recorded four shutouts on the season to help Santa Clara tie for the league lead with five... Jackson was terrific in shutouts against Sacramento State (Sep. 13) and at San Jose State (Sep. 27) - saving shots late in the game to keep the opponents scoreless... Jackson's other shutouts included matches vs. Cleveland State (Sep. 5), vs. and vs. Gonzaga (Oct. 4) ... recorded a .726 save percentage.
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ROCK HILL, SC -- Lincoln Memorial University junior forward Vincent Bailey (Jennings, Florida) was the co-recipient of the South Atlantic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week award along with with Tusculum's Keith Jumper, the league office announced early Tuesday afternoon. Bailey was also named the Railsplitter of the Week on Monday morning for his efforts on the court this past week.
Bailey, listed at 6'6" and a forward, tallied a pair of double-double performances to lead the 18th-ranked Railsplitters to two victories in South Atlantic Conference play this past week. The big man's opening act came on Wednesday evening, as he led the 'Splitters to a 75-51 win over Brevard College in Tex Turner Arena with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Bailey finished with an 80% shooting effort from the floor (8-10) while compiling an assist, a steal and a block in the victory over the Tornados.
On Saturday, Bailey closed out the week by tallying 15 points and a game-high 12 rebounds to highlight an 82-72 overtime victory at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Vincent was, once again, strong from the field, as he notched a 58.3% mark (7-12) en route to his 15 points, while adding a block and an assist in the win in Hickory, North Carolina.
Vincent Bailey has been one of the headliners of the Railsplitters' attack this season, as the junior ranks 14th in the SAC in scoring (13.0 per), third in rebounding (9 per) and seventh in field-goal percentage (55.2%). With two-consecutive double-double outings, Bailey pushed his total to six in the 2012-13 campaign, which places him in the top-30 in all of the NCAA Division II in total double-doubles this season.
Bailey is the second member of the Lincoln Memorial University men's basketball team to earn South Atlantic Conference Player of the Week honors this season, as Wally Jones garnered that distinction back on December 17th.
The 18th-ranked Railsplitters improved to 12-2 on the season and 5-1 in the South Atlantic Conference with the pair of victories this past week. They will look to remain on track in league play with a trip to Carson-Newman on Wednesday evening (8 pm) before returning home on Saturday, January 26th to face the unbeaten Bulldogs of Wingate University (8 pm).


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SAN JOSE -- With arrests plummeting, cops fleeing and crime rising, San Jose voters may soon have the chance to beef up the police department, though it could come at the expense of other public services.
San Jose Councilman and mayoral candidate Pierluigi Oliverio on Friday proposed a June ballot measure that would require the city to spend at least 40 percent of its general-fund tax dollars on the police department each year. Currently, city leaders choose to spend about 30 percent of the city's $1 billion budget on cops -- already as big as the next three largest city departments combined.
"It's a good chunk of the budget but it's the most important part," the Willow Glen councilman said. "If it's the biggest priority then we need to fund it."
The change should allow police to restore staffing to peak levels from last decade. But it would mean cuts to other general city services unless the city gets an influx of new cash from a proposed half-cent sales tax increase that could hit the ballot this November.
Mayor Chuck Reed is against the idea, saying he wants to get more cops on the street but not at the expense of other city services.
"If this proposal goes into effect, it appears that we'd have to cut significant funding from firefighting, emergency response, gang prevention and intervention, libraries, community centers and road repairs next year just to meet (the) proposed police department guarantee," Reed said. "It's bad policy to guarantee funding for one specific service, even if it is our most critical city service, without regard to the city's fiscal situation or other pressing needs."
The proposal also serves as Oliverio's attempt to strengthen his public safety credentials amid the crowded race to replace the termed-out mayor, starting with a primary election in June. As polls continue to show the city's crime rate and depleted police force as the biggest concern among voters, Oliverio is campaigning against four other local officials who have also been jockeying for position as tough-on-crime candidates:
Police Sgt. Jim Unland, the president of the police officers union, chalked up Oliverio's plan as a "mayoral political stunt" and said the real issue was making pay and benefits attractive for officers.
"We've got the money to hire more cops right now -- we can't hire or retain them," Unland said.
While Oliverio acknowledges his proposal will be viewed in the context of the campaign, he notes that he first came up with the idea two years ago. He believes it has a better chance of coming to fruition now because the sales tax ballot initiative is gaining steam, although the council is still discussing whether to place the tax plan before voters as polling has been mixed.
Although it's rare, voters have fixed minimum spending on priorities before. In 1988, California voters approved Proposition 98, which requires the state to spend at least 40 percent of its general-fund budget on schools.
In 2012, San Jose Library supporters proposed a measure that would have guaranteed minimum library spending in the city, but the initiative flamed out. In 1995, cops in Sunnyvale and San Jose proposed ballot measures that would have guaranteed minimum police spending tied to a ratio of cops-per-resident, but they never reached the ballot.
A City Council subcommittee will discuss Oliverio's plan on Wednesday. A majority of the full council must vote by March 4 for the initiative to qualify for the June 3 ballot, and the measure would require a simply majority to pass.
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India's coal imports may rise by half to around 16 million tonnes in January from a year earlier, trade sources said on Wednesday, helped by a spurt in heating demand due to a severe cold wave.
India's northern region has been witnessing the coldest weather in at least 44 years, which has led to the death of over 100 homeless people, according to an aid group.
Traders currently expect January imports to be up 10-15 percent from December, estimating 14.2 million tonnes last month and 13.8 million in November. Year-ago January imports were 10.7 million tonnes.
"Imports have been on the rise since October to meet the higher energy demand during winter. The trend is expected to get a big push in the first quarter (January-March), aided by the current cold conditions," said Pranav Khurana, a freight analyst with Louis Dreyfus Commodities.
India imported 90 million tonnes of thermal and coking coal between April and November, up 26.8 percent from a year earlier.
Thermal or steam coal, the fuel mainly used by power producers, accounted for nearly 70 percent of coal shipments in the first eight months of the 2012/13 fiscal year.
The trend indicates that India could import about 100 million tonnes of thermal coal alone in this fiscal year.
India's coal ministry expects production of 574.40 million tonnes in 2012/13, up 6.4 percent from a year earlier.
The gap between India's domestic coal supply and demand will be around 192 million tonnes in the fiscal year to March 2013, according to the coal ministry.
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Director Spike Lee began trending on Twitter today for an outfit he wore to a New York Knicks basketball game last night. The Knicks superfan, who has been a courtside regular for years, wore an orange puffer jacket and matching hat, long-sleeve blue undershirt and large, white-framed glasses.
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The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews: Electronic Edition, by Heinz Peter LongerichTable of Contents
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V. The machinery of mass murder in full operation (1942-1944)
1.As has been stated above, in July 1942 a comprehensive programme to systematically murder the Jews in the areas under German control had been implemented.
2.The organisation of the individual elements of this programme into a system designed for complete extermination is indisputable. It has been exhaustively described in the relevant scholarly literature, summarised for example in comprehensive texts such as those written by Gerald Reitlinger328, Raul Hilberg329 or Leni Yahil.330
3.This programme was instituted in the various countries under German control in separate intervals following different tempos: the basic elements however, were always the same. This system can be characterized as follows:
4.The Germans first assured that certain basic preconditions were met before beginning the deportations in the individual countries and areas under their influence. Jews had first been defined, ear-marked, and deprived of their rights and property. Mobility was restricted: they were either forced to live in ghettos (as in Poland) or in specifically designated housing (as in Germany). They were forced to join a designated Jewish organisation which took the responsibility for transmitting the orders of the German authorities to the Jewish population. In Germany, for example, it was the Reich organization of the Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland), in France the General association of Jews in France (Union Generale des Israelites de France) and in Belgium the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des Juifs en Belgique); the Jewish councils (Judenräte) in the Polish ghettos served the same function. In his key book, The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg has described in detail the step by step process of the isolation and the deprivation of rights of the Jews in different countries under German control; he details how the Jews came to be placed at the mercy of the German machinery of destruction.
5.When the deportations to the extermination camps began, Jews were assembled and/or arrested and forced to remain in the transit camps or collection points. This was in order to make sure that enough people were available for a transport. Collection points of this sort were set up in places like the exhibition halls in Cologne, the dance hall "Clou" in Berlin331 or in the theater "Joodsche Schouwburg" in Amsterdam332; larger transit camps were set up, for instance, in Compiegne and Drancy in France333, Westerbork and Vught in the Netherlands334 or in Fossoli de Carpi in Italy.335 These are also described, for instance, in Hilberg`s book and in numerous detailed studies about the fate of the Jews in indiviual countries.336
6.From the collection points and transit camps the Jews were deported in trains to the extermination camps in occupied Poland. The deportation from the individual countries (with the exception of Poland and the USSR) was centrally organized by the Department for Jewish Affairs of the Reich Security Office.337 The death toll during the transports -carried out mostly in freight cars- was so high that the deportation itself can be seen as part of the system of murder.338
7.Jews deemed "fit for work" were as a general rule not murdered immediately but selected either before the deportation, during the course of the deportation (when trains were stopped near labour camps - for instance in Lublin, near Majdanek339 or in Kosel, in Upper Silesia340) or at the final destination, in particular in Auschwitz.341 Jews labelled "fit for work" were usually subjected to heavy and exhausting labour under completely inhumane conditions. Life expectancy for a Jewish prisoner assigned to hard labour was generally only a few weeks, seldom more than a few months.342 The SS invented the expression "annihilation through labour" (Vernichtung durch Arbeit) for this method of exploiting people to the point of death. "Annihilation through labour", along with murder by execution commandos and in gas chambers became an important element in the comprehensive murder programme of the SS.
8.Those Jews who were not defined as "fit for work" were generally murdered immediately after arrival in the extermination camps. In the following extermination camps Jews were murdered in large numbers in gas chambers:
9.- Auschwitz-Birkenau: here between February, 1942 and January, 1945, between 900,000 and 1 million Jews murdered. They came from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Germany, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Hungary and Poland. (See details in Jan van Pelts expert report on Auschwitz).
10.- Belzec: here between March, 1942 and December, 1942, 500 to 6000,000 victims from Poland, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Greece were murdered.343
11.-Treblinka: here alone between July 23 and August 28, 1942 at least 245.000 victims from the Warsaw Ghetto were murdered; up to the fall of 1943 altogether more than 800,000 Jews were killed. This included apart from Polish Jews also Jews from the Bialystok area), Slovakia, Greece and Macedonia.344
12.- Sobibor: here between May, 1942 and September, 1943 between 150.000 and 250,000 Jews men from Poland, Slovakia, France, the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were murdered.345
13.- Chelmno: In Chelmno, a station for gas vans, at least 150,000 Jews, mostly Polish Jews from the Warthegau, but also Jews from Germany and the Protectorate were killed between December 1941 and March, 1943.346
14.Further, a gas chamber was built in the concentration camp of Maidanek. Among the approximate 60,000 Jewish victims in this camp, a significant number were murdered by the use of gas.347
15.The murder of the Jews in the occupied Soviet Union followed a different pattern: they were generally not transported to extermination camps but executed or murdered in gas vans.348
16.Those Jews not immediately killed or subjected to forced labour were also mostly victim to the systematic policy of annihilation. Thus for example, in the so-called "Operation Thanksgiving" (Operation Erntefest) on 3 and 4 November 1943 most of the surviving Jews in the district of Lublin were shot in the camps in this district, altogether over 42,000 men.349 Similarly, in the course of the clearing of the ghettos, forced labour camps and concentration camps Jewish prisoners were killed on the spot in a large number of cases.350
17.Further, the efforts of the Nazis to destroy all traces of the extermination programme were systematic. As of the Summer of 1943, the corpses of those murdered in the course of the previous "murder actions" were dug up and burned in a special "action" (Aktion 1005) by the Special Commando of the German police.The camps of "Aktion Reinhard" as well as the extermination camp Chelmno were methodically destroyed. Traces of the extermination process were removed when possible. The complete destruction of the concentration and extermination camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz was averted only because of the unexpectedly rapid advance of Soviet troops.351
18.The systematic character of the Nazi murder of the Jews becomes all the more apparent when it is observed how one country after the other was pulled into the policy of extermination. The first measures affected Slovakia and France.
19.In February, 1942, the Foreign Office requested that the Slovakian government make 20.000 Jewish workers available to the Reich. In March, the Slovakian government declared its willingness, in accord with a further German request, to deport the remaining 70.000 Slovakian Jews.The transports began at the end of March; up to October altogether 57 transports with 58,000 people were deported to Auschwitz and the district of Lublin; from the beginning of June the "not fit to work" prisoners of these transports were murdered directly in the extermination camps.352
20.In France, the preparations for the deportations began in December 1941. At first 1000 Jews were slated for a transport "to the East" as a reprisal for attacks by resistance organisations. At the beginning of March, allready before this first transport had left for Auschwitz at the end of March, the RSHA raised the quota to 5,000 non-French Jews- who were then deported to Auschwitz in June and July.353
21.In June the deportation programme was methodically extended to the entire area under German occupation in the West: On June 11, the RSHA set the quota for deportations for France at 100.000: this figure was modified to 40.000 on 22 June.354 Up to the end of the year 1942 approximately 42.000 people were deported from France.355
22.On 11 June, the deportation quota for the Jews from the Netherlands was fixed, also at 40.000. These deportations began on 15 July.356 The quota set on 11 June, 1941 for Belgium was 10.000. The deportations began on 4 August.357
23.In the Summer of 1942, the "Third Reich" undertook efforts in several countries to further extend the deportations. These efforts concerned first of all Croatia and Rumania, both of which had already initiated relatively radical measures in their anti-semitic policies, so that the implementation of the deportations appeared technically possible.
24.In July 1942, the German Police Attache in Croatia was ordered to convince the Croatian government to prepare for the deportation of Croatian Jews. On 13 August, the deportations began.358 Similarily in July 1942, the advisor on Jewish affairs at the German legation in Bukarest agreed with acting Prime Minister Antonescu on the deportation of the Rumanian Jews - to begin in September, 1942 This plan, however, was thwarted by the Rumanians.359 In addition, Himmler approached the Finnish Prime Minister Rangell - according to his own testimony - on the topic of the Finnish Jews; Rangell did not respond and the Finnish Jews remained unmolested.360 In September 1942 a basic decision to intensify the deportations and to extend them to all of Europe was made by the German leadership.
25.Already on 24 September Ribbentrop gave the Undersecretary of state in the German Foreign Office, Luther the, order to accelerate the evacuation of the Jews from the different European countries as soon as possible and to approach the Bulgarian, Hungarian, and the Danish governments. In view of the Italian occupation zones in Croatia the position of the Italians was to be carefully explored.361
26.Analogous moves by Germany were made towards Bulgaria, Hungary and Italy in October, 1942. These countries proved not yet ready to comply to the German request. In the case of Denmark, the newly appointed Reich deputy Werner Best did not develop an initiative for deportations. Instead, the German occupation authority undertook an "action" to arrest members of the small Jewish minority in Norway; most of these, however, were successful in escaping to Sweden.362
27.In February, 1943, the Bulgarian Commissar for Jewish affairs Belev and the "advisor for Jewish questions" (Judenberater) at the German embassy, Dannecker, signed an agreement concerning the deportation of 20.000 Jews from the territories in Thrace and Macedonia occupied by Bulgaria; this also included 6 to 8000 people from Bulgaria proper. In fact, in March, 1943, 11.400 Jews living in the Bulgarian zone of occupation in Greece were deported to the Generalgouvernement and murdered there. The Bulgarian government, however, refused to hand over the Bulgarian Jews.363
28.Similarly in February, 1943, Germany prepared for the deportation of Greek Jews. Between March and August, 1943, altogether 45,000 Greek Jews were deported from the areas of German occupation - most of them to Auschwitz.364
29.A further extension of German deportation policy can be ascertained for September and October, 1943. The suggestion of the German Reich deputy in Denmark, Best, to deport the Danish Jews was accepted by Hitler in September. Best's endeavor followed upon his successfully warning the Danish minority of the coming deportation; most were able to escape to Sweden.365
30.After the capitulation of Italy in September and the occupation of the northern half of the country by German troops, the RSHA began in October, 1943 to deport Jews from Italy to Auschwitz.366 Following the Italian capitulation, the Wehrmacht took over the Italian occupation zones in Greece and Albania as well as in Montenegro and the Dodecanese - the eastern Greek islands which had belonged to Italy since 1912. Between March and July, 1944, the Germans were able to arrest Jews living at the most extreme periphery of German control (insofar as the German side could identify them) and deport them to concentration and extermination camps.367
31.The systematic character of the German persecution of the Jews also becomes apparent by virtue of the fact that the German regime attempted to include in the deportations Jews from occupied, allied but also neutral states- those who lived outside of their home countries but within the zone of German control. The governments of Rumania, Croatia and Slovakia had already declared their willingness to accept the deportation of their Jews into the Reich as of November or December of 1941.368 A second phase of such demands came as early as the Summer, 1942; this was directly related to the above-mentioned extension of the German deportation programme.369 The German side applied to the authorities in Bulgaria, Italy and Hungary in this regard - but without success. In 1943 these efforts to further expand the deportations were continued - also in regard to other states.370
328. Reitlinger, Final solution.
329. Hilberg, Destruction (German version: Vernichtung)
330. Yahil, Holocaust.
331. Matzerath, Weg, pp. 536f; Henschel, Arbeit, pp. 84f
332. Moore, Victims, pp. 94ff.
333. Klarsfeld, Vichy.
334. Moore, Victims, pp. 92ff
335. Fargion, Italien.
336. Only a small selection of works can be mentioned here: Belgium: Klarsfeld (ed.), Endlösung; Denmark: Yahil, Rescue; France: Klarsfled, Vichy; Marrus/Paxton, Vichy; Germany: Adler, Verwaltete Mensch; Adam, Judenpolitik; Greece: Fleischer, Griechenland; Mazzower, Greece; Hungary: Braham, Politics; Italy: Fargion, Italien; Zuccotti, Italians; Netherlands: Presser, Destruction; Moore, Victims; Norway: Abrahamsen, Response; Poland: Pohl, Ostgalizien; Arad, Belzec; Gutman, Jews; Slovakia: Büchler, Deportation; Lipscher, Juden; Soviet Union: Robel, Sowjetunion; Spector, Holocaust; Dieckmann, Krieg; Gerlach, Wirschaftsinteressen; Klein (ed.), Einsatzgruppen.
337. Safrian, Eichmann-Männer.
338. Hilberg, Sonderzüge; Adler, Verwaltete Mensch, pp. 431.
339. Büchler, Deportation (for the transports from Slowakia).
340. Konieczny, Zwangsarbeit; Klarsfeld, Vichy (details for the transports from France).
341. Adler et. al. (eds.), Auschwitz.
342. Kaienburg, Vernichtung;; Hilberg, Vernichtung, pp. 994.
343. Arad, Belzec, pp. 68ff, 126f
344. Arad, Belzec, pp. 81ff.
345. Arad, Belzec, pp. 128ff.
346. Kogon et. al. (eds.), Massentötungen, pp. 110ff.
347. Ibid. pp. 241ff.
348. Spector, Holocaust; Robel, Sowjetunion.
349. Grawitz/Scheffler, Spuren.
350. Arad, Belzec, pp. 125ff; Pohl, Ostgalizien, pp. 179ff, pp. 211ff, pp. 246ff.
351. Spector, Aktion 1005; Hilberg, Vernichtung, pp. 1046ff; Kogon et. al. (eds.) Massentötungen, pp. 188ff.
352. Lipscher, Juden, pp. 99ff; Bücher, Deportation.
353. Klarsfeld, Vichy, pp. 42ff.
354. Documented in Klarsfeld, Vichy, pp. 379ff.
355. Klasrfeld, Vichy, p. 474.
356. Moore, Victims, pp. 91ff.
357. Longerich, Politik, 501f.
358. Hilberg, Vernichtung, pp. 761ff
359. Browning, Solution, pp. 115ff; Longerich, Politik, pp. 523f. This is documented in the files of the German Foreign Office: PAA, Inland II g 200.
360. Rautkallio, Finland, pp. 82f.
361. Note Luther for Weizsäcker, 24.9.42, PAA, Inland II g 208; Longerich, Politik, pp. 527f
362. Herbert, Best, pp. 330ff.; Abrahamsen, Response, pp. 104ff.
363. Chary, Bulgaria, pp. 129ff; Hoppe, Bulgarien, pp. 285ff.
364. Hilberg, Vernichtung, pp. 739ff; Fleischer, Griechenland.
365. Yahil, Rescue.
366. Fargion, Italien; Michaelis, Mussolini, pp. 342ff..
367. Fleischer, Griechenland, pp. 260ff.
368. Browning, Solution, pp. 67f.
369. Longerich, Politik, pp. 518f.
370. Ibid., pp. 543ff.
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The Saints lost one of their greatest fans when Denny Kaus passed away last week. He was not only a fan of St. James sports, but sports period.
He also participated in teaching young kids about athletics.
I only knew Denny for a little more than a year as he was the Saints home basketball game announcer, but in that time I realized he was a great human being and a big, big sports and Saints fan.
He was also a big help to me in learning about the history of St. James athletics in the times before and after games. That also included learning about his kids and family.
I talked with Athletic-Activities Director Les Zellmann and he said, "Denny was a great guy and he had a great passion for St. James High School sports.
"He's the kind of supporter you want to have. He truly loved sports."
Les said Denny had been announcing Saints games for the last 18 years or so, and he was involved with St. James sports since the 1980s.
Head Basketball Coach Steve Walker added these thoughts, "Since I came here in 1988 and I'm sure long before that Denny has been a huge part of our Community. From attending benefits to show support as well as school activities - he was not only a major supporter of our basketball program but a SAINT supporter in many to all sports."
Coach Walker continued. "He ran our grades 3-6 elementary basketball program for years and also later coached 4th, 5th, and 6th grade traveling teams - even when his own kids were not a part of those teams.
"In the late summer he would organized a Sunday afternoon baseball league affectionately called 'Denny's League' by the kids where he would be the all time pitcher.
"Denny loved interacting with kids, players, coaches and officials. He always had a story to tell. "He was the long time clock keeper and announcer for many sporting events as well as long time football stat keeper.
"I could go on for a long time as to the great things he has done for our school and community. He will be greatly missed by me as a friend and also by the whole St. James Community."
First year girls basketball coach Adam Schroeder said, "I really only knew Denny for the seven years that I've been here at St. James, but he's truly a man that I will never forget.
"His one liners on the football field when the game was out of reach always lightened the load for me, and just his jolly attitude every night at basketball games made my first year as girls coach entertaining.
Page 2 of 2 - "With Denny's passing, the world definitely got a little less exciting."
Les Zellmann also sent me this message, "The passing of Denny Kaus has saddened many of us due to our relationship with Denny, Sally, and family. He was a contributor to our district in many ways. Many of those contributions came through his love of sports. "He volunteered and contributed many hours of coaching Saturday morning basketball, youth baseball, doing stats for football, basketball timer, basketball announcer, baseball announcer and I am sure that I missing a number of other contributions.
"We could count on him helping out. We could also count on his support of school activities as an integral part of education."
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By the summer of 1841, when Wagner successfully pitched his idea to the Paris Opera while simultaneously working towards a possible premiere at the Berlin Hofoper, he had already completed three drafts of the DUTCHMAN score. His Berlin and Paris hopes came to nothing, however, at which point the Dresden Hofoper agreed to stage the opera. Wagner made the aforementioned alterations to the score, switched the setting from Scotland to Norway and scandinavianised some of the characters' names. The Deutsche Oper Berlin now presents a concert performance of the original version, whose unfamiliar instrumentation is not dissimilar to French opera and omits the transfiguring conclusions in the overture and at the end of the opera.


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Arroyo Drive will be closed from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, for the Eagle Ranch Classic Bike Race.
Arroyo will be closed between Haystacker and Fourth of July Road.
There are no residences on Arroyo and the only access blocked is to the trail head (which can still be accessed on foot and is the location of the race itself). No vehicular traffic will be allowed on Arroyo during the stated times other than emergency vehicles or those vehicles closely associated to the race itself.
Participants and spectators are encouraged to park in the Eagle Ranch Business District and either shuttle or ride to the race start location, which can be accessed from either Haystacker or Fourth of July Road.
Limited on-street parking in the area of Fourth of July Road and on Haystacker Drive will be available, and expected to be on one side of the road only. This will be enforced by the Eagle Police Department.
A link to the race map is here: http://www.vailrec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/eagle%20classic%20MTB%202012.pdf.
Eagle Police responded to a call from a local church two weeks ago when an employee noted that someone had damaged a chain located on one of the doors to the building.
The woman stated she had participated in a yard sale at the church the previous weekend and after the event she locked up the building. She noted at that time, there was no damage. However, when she reported to work on the following Monday, she discovered one of the exterior doors was unlocked and the chain lock was damaged.
The officer noted the damage was on an exterior door and the chain lock was destroyed and useless. There were no other signs of damage to doors or to the building's exterior.
The officer searched the inside of the building but did not see any signs or damage of theft. The staff at the church reported that nothing seemed to be missing or damaged.
There are no suspects in the case.
On May 7, a town of Eagle employee found an abandoned purse at Eagle Town Park. The purse contained a wallet with a driver's license and a bank card inside. No other valuable items were found.
Eagle Police contacted the owner, who then arrived at the police station to collect her property. She told the officer the purse was actually taken from her vehicle on May 5.
The woman said she had parked her car on the north side of the park, behind the stage, at around 4:30 p.m. She could not recall if she had locked the vehicle. She returned to her car at around 9:30 a.m. on May 6 and initially did not notice any items missing She later realized her purse was gone.
The woman said there was no damage to her car and the only item missing was a bank debit card. Officers advised her to report the loss of the card to her bank.
• A woman who participated in the Eagle Pub Crawl on May 5 reported her bike was taken from outside one of the stops. She parked the bike outside a local bar, but did not ride it home that night. When she returned to the bar the next morning, the bike was gone. It is a gray and white Huffy brand mountain bike valued at $150.
• After clocking a pickup traveling 36 mph along a 25 mph stretch of Chambers Avenue, Eagle Police pulled over the driver. When asked to provide his driver's license, vehicle registration and proof of insurance, the man said he did not have a license because he had just received a proof of service. When the officer contacted dispatch, he learned that the mans' license was suspended due to unpaid insurance. He was issued a ticket for speeding and driving under suspension. The man told the officer a friend would come collect both him and his truck.


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Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will arrive in movie theaters Dec. 14. And, as most Middle Earthlings know, it is based on the beloved book by J.R.R. Tolkien in which a most excellent and audacious hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys with a pack of oft-cantankerous dwarves to reclaim treasure stolen by the plundering dragon, Smaug.
Not an easy task, to be sure. But if by some curious chance local hobbit lovers emerge from their holes and desire such an adventure, they can easily find themselves doing altogether unexpectedly hobbity things right here in our very own Shire of the Bay Area, a wide and respectable country inhabited by decent folk.
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Whether it's an expedition to the green and quiet of Muir Woods, hidden gardens in Los Altos or the shadows of old Antioch mines where dragons may slumber, the following thoughts on local spots may serve as a guide.
A loaf or two
Hobbits, small though they are, are very fond of feasting and need a full stomach or they can become cranky. In fact, a normal day in the Shire might include breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, dinner and supper.
By now, after such long and exhausting sentences, it's surely time for a second breakfast. A good place for this is 900 Grayson, conveniently located at 900 Grayson St., in West Berkeley, 510-704-9900, www.900grayson.com. They have a special Hobbit Midday Meal menu. Contrary to what trolls might desire, the items are not made of minced or squashed hobbits themselves. Rather, chef and co-owner Anthony Saulnier, an admitted Tolkien fan, says the restaurant offers things for hobbits, such as a Gandalf Burger with double smoked bacon and The Gollum, a coriander-crusted tuna steak that's surely precioussss.
Curiously, Denny's restaurants, www.dennys.com, are also offering limited-time hobbit fare with 11 special menu items such as "Build Your Own Hobbit Slam," which includes "Pumpkin Patch Pancakes" and "Shire Sausage."
Much like home
One might explore spots that evoke the whimsy and serenity of the Shire.
In Half Moon Bay, try Alena Jean's Flower Shop & Nursery, 340 Purissima St., 650-726-3662, www.alenasdesigns.com. It's housed in a 135-year-old barn surrounded by garden nooks, swings and miniature railroad tracks and is bursting with whimsical animals, pots, flowers and even garden gnomes with secret compartments for hiding hobbit-hole-door keys.
Or step into Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, in Los Altos Hills, www.hiddenvilla.org. It's a nonprofit educational organization with 1,600 acres of organic farms, wilderness, paths, animal barns, small gardens and a deep sense of community.
Or in the East Bay, visit the Tilden Nature Area and Little Farm, 600 Canon Drive in the Berkeley portion of Tilden Regional Park, 510-544-2233, email@example.com.
Some suitable spots
Stop in at The Other Change of Hobbit, a sci-fi/fantasy bookstore at 3264 Adeline St., Berkeley, 510-654-6224, www.otherchangeofhobbit.com. All things Tolkien are currently on display.
Then, with book in hand, a fire and a pipe might be nice. But with nonsmoking ordinances popping up all across the land, a hobbit who enjoys a fine puff should find solace at The Pub and Schmidt's tobacconist, a tiny converted house at 1492 Solano Ave., Albany, 510-525-1900.
"If there were hobbits in the Bay Area, they would surely be here," said a clerk at The Pub last week. There's no website, and it's cash only. Lounge in an overstuffed chair in front of the fireplace, play a board game, sip an ale or purchase sweet-smelling pipe tobacco -- there's one blend called Red Dragon -- then head to the smoking room and blow Gandalf-style smoke rings to your heart's content.
Over hill and underground
It's easy to imagine that a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm or two might lurk in the depths of the Black Diamond Mines near Antioch, www.ebparks.org/parks/black_diamond. Or perhaps it's a place where ancient dwarves mined and tunneled and made huge halls and great workshops. Either that or it was a coal mine in the late 1800s. That's cool, too. Just leave your sword at the door and go on a tour.
In woods and wild
Over the water and over the hill is Muir Woods, www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm, where trails meander through ancient groves of old-growth redwoods -- possibly Ents? -- free of evil and dreadful things that infest the Mirkwood or the Misty Mountains. There are places to sit alone a long while silent, in the quiet of less noise and more green. Or explore what may be the fair and secret valleys of Rivendell. There might be spiders about, but they generally keep to themselves and won't leave you dangling from a tree.
A warm welcome
At last, it's time for dinner or supper or both, and the Pelican Inn -- not far from Muir Woods off Highway 1 at Muir Beach -- is just the place a chilled hobbit would go for a pint and a warm fire after a long journey, 415-383-6000, www.pelicaninn.com. You might easily imagine Beorn there, offering up some loaves with clotted cream and honey. More likely, you'll dine on bangers and mash or shepherd's pie and rest by the roaring fire.
It is a good day to be a hobbit. Farewell, wherever ye fare.
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NEW MATAMORAS - Reading and 'rithmetic may get the most time among the traditional three "R's" in schools these days, but writing hasn't been forgotten. That's certainly true in the Frontier Local school district, where a pair of New Matamoras Elementary students and one from Newport received special recognition in a national handwriting contest.
"I was pretty excited. I told just about everyone in my family," said Newport sixth-grader Owen Price, who won second place in the manuscript category out of about 100 national entrants for the Nicholas Maxim Award, part of the 22nd annual Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.
Every student from first grade up at Newport and New Matamoras entered the contest, and school winners were submitted to the national contest, sponsored by Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of research-based handwriting, reading, spelling, writing and vocabulary programs. Price, along with New Matamoras fourth-grader Isabella Stock and third-grader Chase Cline, won honors in a category for special needs students on individualized educational plans. Cline took third place in manuscript, while Stock was awarded third in cursive.
"It's pretty awesome," Cline said.
Carol Armann, an occupational therapist who works in the district and is a consultant and trainer for Zaner-Bloser, said the three students don't require therapy from her and she actually has Cline and Price model handwriting for other students.
"You had to do your best," Stock said of competing.
Price said he practiced his writing every day.
"My mom usually writes down sentences for me to write, and I'd write them down three times," he said.
The entries consisted of writing a sentence - "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" - containing every letter of the alphabet, then answering a question about why handwriting is important.
"When you write better, people can read," Stock said. "Say it was all sloppy, you can't read at all."
One of the criticisms leveled at the new Common Core educational standards adopted by many states, including Ohio, is that it does not require cursive writing to be taught, causing some schools to cut down on resources and courses devoted to penmanship, according to The Associated Press. But Armann said that would be a mistake.
"Research tells us that kids, particularly in manuscript, that write by hand, it lights up the language portion of the brain," she said. "Why would you take handwriting out of the curriculum when it's helping kids learn to read?"
Armann added that additional research has shown hand-writing notes allows a person to recall information better than typing them out.
New Matamoras Principal Bill Wotring said schools' emphasis on penmanship has been declining over the years, but it will continue to be taught there.
"If we don't teach some penmanship, we just have everything and some of it is just illegible," he said.
Wotring also noted penmanship can be a source of self-confidence for students like those who placed in the Zaner-Bloser competition.
"It is something that virtually anybody can do, and then it's something that you can be proud of," he said.


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After graduating from Jesuit High school at the age of 17, Peter Finney began his career as a journalist covering sports for the Times-Picayune (The States Item). During the course of his career, Finney has chronicled the history of the New Orleans Saints. The Nov. 1966 edition of the paper trumpeted the arrival of the franchise: "N.O. Goes Pro!" The byline was Finney's. He also covered the Saints Super Bowl title in 2010. In addition, he has given fans of New Orleans sports an on-going perspective of LSU football, including the national championships in 1958, 2004, and 2007. Finney has interviewed numerous legendary athletes, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and Mohammed Ali. During his tenure, Finney served as the Sports Editor at the Times-Picayune and his 67-year career continues today as a columnist for the Times Picayune. As a student-athlete at Loyola University New Orleans, Finney was a starter on the basketball team as a junior and senior year for the Wolf Pack. After graduating as a two-year letter winner, Finney took the helm as head coach of the "Wolfpups", Loyola's freshmen basketball team. He led the squad to be the New Orleans SAAU Champions. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Finney served as the Sports Information Director for the Wolf Pack, providing game results and stats to local media outlets. Finney received the Dick McCann Memorial Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010. He has also been inducted into the Loyola Athletics Hall of Fame (2013), the LSU Manship School of Communications Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Writer's Hall of Fame. He has been named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Columnist of the Year four times and in 1989 he received the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism. He was also named Sportswriter of the Year for Louisiana from the National Sportscasters and Sports Writers Association 17 times. In 1971, he was named the Jesuit High School Alumnus of the Year.


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7 Snacks That Taste Fatty But Keep You Skinny
These quick and delicious snack foods are finger-lickin' good for you
When is snacking not fun? When you reach the bottom of an empty bag. When you wipe a greasy hand down your pants and feel immediate guilt and regret. When you notice you've mindlessly eaten so much that the top button of your jeans has made a distinct red indent above your belly button.
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Unfortunately, many of the snacks we love so much -- chips, popcorn, cookies, the list goes on -- are anything but healthy. And the result of overindulging in these foods is showing up in our ever-growing waistlines.
This doesn't mean that snacking is inherently evil. Many scientific studies actually prove that people who snack regularly eat less at mealtimes, helping to maintain a healthy weight. Snacking, or eating several small, balanced meals a day instead of three large ones, keeps your metabolism revved because your stomach and body have to continually work to digest food, says Alyse Brennecke, RD, regional director in the nutrition division of MenuTrinfo. That means you'll burn more calories throughout the day.
It's the salt-laced, carb-heavy, "empty calorie" snacks we all typically eat that are busting our seams.
So, what's the best way to keep snacking without the sad side effects and subsequent guilt? Make your own.
And before you utter that "Puh-lease! Impossible!" hear us out. Healthy snacks can be delectable -- you just have to know what to make. Enter Canyon Ranch's "Nourish" by Scott Uehlein and his "indulgently healthy cuisine" philosophy. These seven easy recipes fill you up with fiber, keep added sugar and salt to a minimum, balance portions of protein and carbs, and keep healthy fats in moderation. So go ahead -- snack on these.
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I love coconut macaroons -- and these are gluten free!
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Looking forward to trying them all!!!!
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Wonderful alternatives to fat- and salt-packed foods!
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Love it
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I love coconut macaroons!! I am going to try some of these snacks out because they look good!
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I tried out some of these, great alternatives!! thanks!
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All of these recipes look great but except for the fruit parfait they don't tell you what the portion size is. Seems like an important detail.
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Good suff!
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very interesting. I might try some of these, especially the coconut macaroons.
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Over the next year, the City will be working on improvements to the Community Development Code to make it more clear, concise, adaptable and user-friendly. The project will continue the work of the 2010 Community Development Code Audit and the Phase 1 Code Reorganization completed earlier this year, and support the Comprehensive Plan update.The project consists of three main components:
1. Updates to Commercial & Mixed Use Zoning
- Simplification of commercial/mixed-use zoning districts
- Streamlining the commercial/industrial use table
- Removing barriers to mixed-use development
2. Establish Clear and Objective Housing Standards
- Amending the code to ensure that all housing types have the opportunity to be reviewed under a clear and objective review process (a state requirement)
3. Updates to the Adjustments, Alternatives and Variances and Non-conforming Structures and Uses code sections.
How do the City and community benefit from this project?
The development code streamlining will make the code easier for the public to navigate, use and understand. The process will eliminate repetitive, confusing and out-of-date standards, resulting in time and cost savings for staff, creating more benefit for tax-payers and community members.
Removing barriers to mixed-use development will support the 2035 Community Vision and Map by facilitating the development of future housing and job growth in existing commercial and mixed-use areas, rather than in low-density neighborhoods. Providing a clear and objective review track for housing development will meet state rules by providing greater certainty and helping to prevent unreasonable cost or delay.
All updates should increase predictability in how the code applies, while respecting neighborhood differences.
How can I get involved?
Along with the advice of staff and a planning consulting team, Lake Oswego residents and stakeholders will have multiple opportunities to participate in the process. The project will benefit from local knowledge as well as national best practice expertise.
Public input will be sought through a focus group, advisory committee meetings, open houses, Planning Commission & Development Review Commission meetings, and public hearings. We encourage you to participate!
For the latest project information and opportunities to participate, visit this web page or email Jessica Numanoglu or call her (503) 635-0283 or email Sarah Selden or call her (503) 697-6524.
What is the project schedule?
The project is expected to be completed in the summer of 2013. The general schedule is as follows:
A. Project Kick-off (August 2012)
- Code evaluation/research
- Focus group meeting with commercial development and business professionals
B. Draft and revise code concepts (September 2012 – January 2013)
- A code concepts report will be prepared that lays out various options to address the project components
- Advisory committee meetings, public open houses, and work sessions with the Planning Commission and City Council will be held to review the code concepts and identify the preferred alternatives
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- Draft code amendments will be prepared to implement the preferred alternatives
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- The final code amendments will be drafted
- Work sessions with the Planning Commission and City Council will be held
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Published: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
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ENGLEWOOD - Nearly 300 Englewood teens received instruction last week in boating safety.
Charlotte County Sheriff's Deputy Greg Sutton and Cpl. David Stefanni taught the course for 280 Lemon Bay High School students in teacher Kim Pinkham's health class.
State law now requires anyone born after Dec. 31, 1987 to take an eight-hour boating safety course and pass a test to legally operate a boat in Florida. The Lemon Bay students will take the test this week.
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Sara wrote: Sorry if I came off like a complete and utter bitch --- I suppose I do perceive there to be quite a bit of Sage Ecock sucking going on around here and I feel compelled to snap some reality into people occasionally.
In closing, I could honestly care less what his does with his AIM name.
Thanks for the debate -- it held my interest for sure :).


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Well done Our lads won 3-2 in this semi-final so through to final think it's against Man U or Liverpool
Hear hear - our youth teams are looking really exciting at the moment; think the other semi's being played today.
We've also had Adam Smith, Andros Townsend, Steven Caulker & Danny Rose all called up to the U21 England squad for the summer championship - thought Tommy C might get a look in too & possibly Kane, but no.
Update on that; MU won, and they've been our nearest second for much of the season (although quite far down). Final's at OT next Monday eve, 7pm ko to be precise.


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PARKERSBURG - With a number of events converging at the same time, officials with the Camden Clark Medical Center have decided not to continue the St. Joseph's Heart Ball.
The last Heart Ball was held in February 2011 before the merger between Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital under the West Virginia United Health System became official. Hospital officials recently announced the planned closure of the St. Joseph's Campus in the next few years.
The Camden Clark Foundation's Charity Gala is held in December and many felt it was too soon after the December gala to hold another hospital fundraiser, Camden Clark officials have said.
Last year, the Heart Ball was replaced by the King and Queen of Hearts Reception, which was an event to welcome new physicians and residency program doctors to the Camden Clark Medical Center.
The decision to bring back the ball remains with the hospital administration, said Tim Brunicardi, director of marketing and public affairs for the Camden Clark Medical Center.
"Currently there is no plan that I know of to continue the Heart Ball," he said.
Brunicardi said the physician reception for new doctors will probably be held later in the year when they have a sufficient number of new doctors to recognize.
During its 14 years, the St. Joseph's Hospital Heart Ball raised more than $200,000 for heart health programs and equipment and the Francis DeSales Health Foundation.
The ball funded the purchase of AEDs (automatic external defibrillators) for the cities of Parkersburg and Belpre, St. Joseph's Ambulance Service, the Parkersburg YMCA and Parkersburg South, Parkersburg, Parkersburg Catholic, Williamstown and Belpre high schools.
The Ball also helped fund the Francis DeSales Health Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization which supported health activities and cardiac wellness in the community.
Brunicardi said the Foundation Gala is now the hospital's major fundraising event. It was held Dec. 1, 2012 at the Parkersburg Country Club
"It occurs in December and makes it unnecessary to hold an additional event only two months later in February," he said. "The good news is that the Gala raises funds for all of our service lines, including the cardiac program which was the sole recipient of the Heart Ball funds in the past."
The 2011 Gala helped to raise money to purchase a $200,000 3-D ultrasound unit to perform transesophageal echocardiogram procedures on the heart at the St. Joseph's Campus.
This was the third year for the Gala, said Kim Couch, executive director for the Camden Clark Foundation.
"Our theme was 'Mistletoe and MagnoliasA Southern Inspired Christmas,"' she said. "We raised $25,000 which is designated for the Diabetes Wellness and Education Fund."
About 180-230 people attend each year. They sold around 200 tickets for the last Gala.
The black-tie optional event has featured live music, local entertainment from the PHS Red Wings, PSHS Southern Belles, Schrader Youth Ballet Company, and PACE as well as heavy appetizers and a "signature cocktail" in keeping with the theme. Past themes have included Christmas in the Big Apple and Christmas in the City of Light Paris, Couch said.
"We also have a fabulous silent auction with everything from jewelry, to trips to Cabo and Las Vegas, to original artwork for sale," she said. "This year we also offered horse and carriage rides to the guests."
The next gala is scheduled for Dec. 7, 2013, at the Parkersburg Country Club.


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Ala.— Secretary of State Beth Chapman encourages Alabama voters to check their
voter registration status and also their polling location prior to the March 13th
Primary Election. Due to the process of redistricting this year, polling
locations may have changed because of the new district lines.
have been doing a great job of notifying voters of these changes by sending out
voter registration cards, but it never hurts to check. We want everyone
to be where they are supposed to be on the day of the election to exercise
their right to vote." Chapman said.
office has made the process of checking on voter registration status and
polling location easy with the website, www.alabamavotes.gov.
An Alabama voter can log on to find that information or to find other facts
regarding how to register and also how to obtain an absentee ballot.
voter may also call or visit the county Board of Registrars to get any
information they need about registration or polling location for Election Day.
a citizen is not registered to vote, the deadline is fast approaching to do
so. March 2nd is the last day to register before the
primary. A citizen may download a registration form from the website
mentioned above and mail or hand-deliver it to the county Board of
Registrars. A citizen may also register to vote when applying for or
renewing a State of Alabama driver's license or identification card, at state
and local Department of Human Resources offices, Department of Health WIC
offices, Medicaid and Department of Rehabilitation offices. Mail-in voter
registration forms can be found at public libraries, armed forces recruiting
stations, local probate offices, universities, public schools and colleges.
encourage every citizen who is eligible to be registered and be at the polls on
March 13th to let their voice be heard," Chapman said.
find out more information, please visit www.alabamavotes.gov
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JERUSALEM (WOMENSENEWS)--As a Woman in Black, Gila Svirsky says she has been pushed by passersby, called a traitor and a whore, and even targeted with flyers advertising her contact information and urging harm to the "black widows."
During the last two decades, she has received telephone calls threatening her children and heard gun shots echo as a warning of a caller's alleged plans for her.
But the 61-year-old Svirsky says she is no longer afraid of such "empty threats," and she continues to stand every Friday in a Jerusalem square--dressed in black to mourn both Israeli and Palestinian victims--holding up signs that call for an end to Israel's 40-year military occupation.
Women in Black demonstrations began in Jerusalem weeks after the first Palestinian uprising erupted and soon spread to dozens of locations throughout the country. Dec. 28 marks two decades of weekly protest vigils by a movement that has turned global, with women congregating to fight violence and injustice all over the world, Svirsky says.
The Israeli dissidents--most of them Jews, but also some Arabs--will mark the 20-year anniversary with a special mass vigil in Jerusalem.
The "damn occupation continues and we still have to go out there every Friday because we are trying to remind people that it's not over," Svirsky says. "A lot of people think . . . we own the West Bank and we are going to keep it forever. For us, it's really important to remind people that it's not ours; it's Palestinian. We are not going to get peace until we give it back."
That view is widely disputed here.
"I think there is an occupation. I think there is an occupation by Arabs . . . of the land, which belongs to the Jews, which has been (the case) for thousands of years if you read the Bible," says Ruth Matar of Women in Green, which formed in 1993 to oppose territorial concessions.
Ambitious Peace Talks
Women in Black's anniversary coincides with a new round of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, an ambitious effort to sign a peace deal that would resolve nearly 60 years of conflict before President George W. Bush's term ends late next year. The last talks stalled in 2000 after the eruption of a second Palestinian uprising.
Negotiations have been complicated by Israeli plans to build homes on occupied land in the area of East Jerusalem--which Palestinians hope to make their capital of a future state--as well as near daily rocket fire that Palestinian militants launch from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Israeli retaliatory strikes and assassinations.
Both Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are considered weak in their respective societies, affecting their ability to close a deal.
When Islamist Hamas forces violently routed rival Fatah forces from Gaza in June, Israel sealed its borders with Gaza to all but humanitarian aid and has imposed economic sanctions in response to rocket and mortar attacks.
At its peak, Women in Black vigils were held in more than 30 Israeli cities but today vigils remain in only six.
Jerusalem, one of the most active sites, once boasted between 100 and 120 members but today the city's vigils draw around 20 to 30 participants. Despite the sharp drop-off, activists say their message is more important than ever.
'Destroying Israel From Inside'
"This occupation has to end because it's destroying Israel from the inside," says Women in Black member Aliyah Strauss, 72, an emigre from Ohio. She and her husband fulfilled a Zionist dream when they arrived in Israel 50 years ago and now live in Tel Aviv. "We cannot remain a healthy democratic society and at the same time have brutal control over another people."
Over the years, Women in Black has undergone a transformation, becoming more of an international peace network focused on a range of issues falling under the general anti-militarization theme, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to Neo-Nazism to the Iraq War to the violence of organized crime.
In 2005, more than 700 Women in Black members from nearly 40 countries attended the movement's Jerusalem conference, said Svirsky, who is originally from New Jersey.
"I think our main achievement has been to foster a huge international network of Women in Black who oppose the Israeli occupation and other injustices around the world," she says. "It's important for us to help people understand that conflict has to be addressed politically, not by violence."
Tactical Question
Gadi Wolfsfeld, a political science and communications professor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, questions the group's dedication to public protest.
"These are obviously committed women and I respect that but I don't think it's the most effective way of bringing about political change," he says. Rather than conduct public vigils, groups that monitor and issue reports on incidents of abuse or violations appear to be more effective in influencing decision-makers and the public, he says.
A sociology professor at Israeli's Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva disagrees. Sara Helman says Women in Black blazed a trail by crossing national boundaries during the first Palestinian uprising and calling for an end to suffering of both Israelis and Palestinians.
"You can live in Israel your daily life as an Israeli Jew perfectly and forget" about the occupation, she says. "What Women in Black did, they didn't let the issue of occupation be ignored . . . They brought it to the fore. They brought it to public attention."
A 1997 study that Helman co-authored with Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Tamar Rapoport found that Women in Black's protest methods "embodied an open challenge to deeply ingrained notions of femininity in Israel" and offering an alternative interpretation of a woman's place in Israeli politics and society.
Each woman, they found, created a new space that challenged and subverted the political, social and cultural categories that relegated women to marginality.
"They brought women's bodies into the public sphere," Helman says. "They stood there in the public sphere outside, quietly, silently with only signs that said 'Stop the Occupation.' The only means to protest was their bodies. That was also path breaking."
On Dec. 21, Efrat Halper, 31, participated in the Women in Black vigil near downtown Jerusalem with her mother and 3-year-old daughter.
Her mother, Shoshana, joined Women in Black shortly after the group was established and Halper, a nurse, started coming to the square while she was in high school. The weekly vigils are for her, she said, a way to relieve her own conscience as someone who resists her government's military occupation of the West Bank.
Halper, who also volunteers with Physicians for Human Rights, never expected that there would be a need for Women in Black to exist in Israel for 20 years.
After Israeli and Palestinian leaders signed the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords--which outlined principles for an interim period of Palestinian self-rule and a timeline for permanent status negotiations--she and others in the group stopped protesting, thinking that peace was on the horizon.
But nearly 15 years later, she is still waiting for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She hopes her daughter, Zohar, won't participate in the same vigil her mother and grandmother have long attended. "But I'm not optimistic," she says. "I see what's going on."
Brenda Gazzar is a freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.
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At some point, it will become clear whether Steve Kerr worked out as the Warriors coach. Is starting anew with another rookie coach the right move? That will have to play out on the court.
But for now, the Warriors got their man. Improbably. Again.
When management knew they were parting ways with Mark Jackson, Kerr was on the shortlist along with Stan Van Gundy. And even though Phil Jackson and the big stage of New York were knocking at Kerr's door, the Warriors won him over.
Sure, they had to pay big bucks. Kerr's five-year, $25 million contract is a pretty penny for a guy who's never coached at any level. The New York Knicks, where most thought Kerr would land, reportedly would offer him only a four-year deal.
The Warriors set their sights on a guy, and they made it happen. They knew who they wanted and went all in.
They have a penchant for doing that, landing the against-the-odds coup. They got Andrew Bogut for Monta Ellis, pulling off a center-for-a-guard trade rarely seen in the NBA. They've managed to procure a first-round pick in each of the past two drafts. They got Andre Iguodala with no cap space and few valuable assets to trade.
Perhaps this trend was foretold when Joe Lacob and Peter Guber bought the Warriors, surprising a fan base that just knew Larry Ellison would buy the team.
It doesn't always work out as planned, and they have overpaid at times. Sometimes their stubbornness about pulling off a plan they've hatched can work against them. (See: Piers 30/32).
But there is something to be said for a front office that can execute a plan even if it contradicts feasibility.
The Warriors don't always get their man. They weren't serious players for LeBron James' infamous decision. They didn't get Dwight Howard last offseason.
But based on their history, can they be counted out if they set their sights on Kevin Love? If they're determined to move David Lee's cumbersome contract, can such be ruled out?
The Warriors' ability to target, plan and execute proved clutch this time, as it saved them from an elongated coaching search. It won't end the scrutiny that came with firing Jackson, but it moves the conversation forward. The Warriors desperately needed that to happen.
Until they landed a coach, the Jackson era wasn't over. The aftertaste of 98 wins in two seasons still made the Warriors' decision to fire Jackson the prime subject. If they didn't land Kerr, or the third choice, or the fourth, this would've become an ugly soap opera that would've undone the credibility the Warriors have worked so hard to accrue.
Wednesday's Knick-jacking was a pretty defiant message to the naysayers. The Warriors had no shortage of critics after ousting a winning coach, but this is a shot fired back at those who doubt they can adequately rebuild what they'd torn down.
They wanted an advanced offensive mind, someone to usher them into the new era of basketball and metrics. Kerr has been identified in executive circles as such a mind.
They wanted a coach who could mesh into the chemistry of the front office and embrace their management style. Kerr is reputed for being an amiable personality, and he already has a relationship with the Lacobs as a foundation.
They wanted a credible hire to signify they still meant business about winning, they were still relevant and an ascending franchise. Kerr was regarded as arguably the hottest commodity on the market.
And they got him. Will it work? No way that can be known right now.
There will be plenty time to pontificate on whether Kerr can keep the defense among the best in the league. His plan for maintaining, or improving, team chemistry, and his coaching style will unfold over time. Whether he can handle the pressure or a combustible Joe Lacob sitting courtside when things don't go well is fodder for down the line.
But for now, it's worth noting the Warriors got their man. Improbably. Again.
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Terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay prison like to read "Fifty Shades of Grey," according to a congressman.
I realize there have been allegations of torture when it comes to these inmates, but letting them read "Fifty Shades of Grey?" That has to represent a new low.
The erotic trilogy is one of the most popular library books among the "high-value detainees" at Camp Seven, Rep. Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat, told the Huffington Post. That part of camp is reportedly where the "high value" suspects are kept.
"They've read the entire series in English, but we were willing to translate it," Moran said, after returning from a congressional tour of the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. "I guess there's not much going on, these guys are going nowhere, so what the hell."
This just doesn't seem like a good idea all around. Especially when some politician starts talking about it.
According to USA Today, Guantanamo officials have said that erotic content is censored before books or magazines circulate. No word on how "50 Shades" is affected by this.
Camp Seven, which is off-limits to journalists, has been compared to a super-maximum federal prison, according to the newspaper. The Pentagon doesn't offer details about the facility or its prisoners.
There are reports saying there are 15 or 16 "high value detainees" at Camp Seven, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the purported planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"We don't discuss our high-value detainees except in the most generic terms. Further, we do not discuss the assertions made by members of Congress," a prison camp spokesman said.
The "Fifty Shades" series has sold more than 70 million copies worldwide. The movie is set for release in August 2014.
According to USA Today, Moran was joined on his tour last week by three fellow Virginians: Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, and Reps. Frank Wolf, a Republican, and Gerry Connolly, a Democrat. They were also accompanied by the Pentagon's chief of detainee policy.
Reuters has reported that the lending library that provide books, magazines and movies to the 166 prisoners still at the base's several camps includes "Star Trek" novels, Agatha Christie mysteries, stress-reduction workbooks, the Greek classic "The Odyssey," and "The Hunger Games," the book and the movie.
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