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Germans Would Have Used Producer Gas Rather than Diesel Engines
Holocaust deniers say:
The Germans would have used "producer gas" engines to murder people in the gas chambers and gas vans since they produce much more carbon monoxide in their exhaust than do diesel engines.1
The American Holocaust denier videomaker offers a homemade producer gas generator cobbled together by "innovative people" from an old water heater, pipes and a pail "found lying around the backyard." Noting that this contraption can produce a much higher concentration of carbon monoxide than a regular gasoline engine, he asserts that the "Germans would have known that" since a high percentage of Nobel Peace Prize winners for chemistry before 1939 were Germans. He concludes that the Holocaust survivors, who he describes as "storytellers," described diesel engines in their accounts because they "assumed that the biggest smelliest engine would be the one that produced the most deadly gas." 2
Friedrich Berg, an American Holocaust denier, sums it up: "If the National Socialists had ever intended to commit mass murder with CO [carbon monoxide], they would doubtless have used the ubiquitous producer gas technology. 500,000 producer gas vehicles are the incontrovertible evidence that the diesel claim is totally absurd." 3
What is a "wood gas" or "producer gas" vehicle? How does it work?
- It is a vehicle with a special chamber attached in which wood is burned.
- The gases produced by the burning wood are drawn through a pipe where they are used as fuel in a modified gasoline or diesel engine.
- During the war, gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel were in short supply in the Greater Reich and needed to be reserved for military uses, so the Germans began to convert many non-military gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles to producer gas.
- By the end of the war, more than 500,000 gas producer vehicles were in service.4
Most importantly, according to Berg and the American Holocaust denier videomaker, the exhaust of producer gas vehicles contains between 18% and 25% carbon monoxide, which is a lethal amount many times over.5
Since producer gas engine exhaust is so lethal, how come the Germans did not use them instead of gasoline or diesel engines?
The major drawback to the use of producer gas technology in the gas chambers or gas vans is that:
- Carbon monoxide has a very wide flammability range. It can ignite when it exceeds as little as 12% of the volume of the atmosphere.6 Therefore, the risk of fire and/or explosion was very high with producer gas.
Berg does not mention this small problem at all, although the American Holocaust denier videomaker does note its high flammability in passing. Interestingly, in the clip the homemade gas generator is always shown sitting out in the open. The Holocaust denier and his "innovative" friends are nowhere in sight. If it is so simple and safe, why are they are not brave enough to go near their invention once it is lit?
If the gas chamber buildings had burned to the ground or the gas vans had blown up each time they were used they would not have been a very useful or dependable method of mass murder.
There are several other limitations of producer gas vehicles that made them impracticable for use in the gas chambers or gas vans:
- A producer gas vehicle cannot be started immediately. A fire had to be lit in the chamber and there was a waiting period as the burning wood or coal started to generate the gases.
- A producer gas vehicle cannot be started or run in an enclosed space like a garage without the users themselves risking death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
In Sobibor, Treblinka and Belzec the eyewitness testimony indicates that:
- The engines were housed in nearby sheds or in rooms attached to the back of the gas chambers. If producer gas engines or generators had been used the German SS or Ukrainians who ran the engines-the 'Gasmeisters' ('gas masters')-ran the very real risk of dying along with their victims.
- During peak periods in the camps the transports arrived daily, one after the other. It would have been very inefficient to have had to tinker with lighting fires, continually providing fuel, and constantly monitoring the exhaust gases-all the while risking possible fire and explosion at any moment.
- The same is true of the gas vans: it would have been impracticable to have to start a fire and wait until the gases were produced before the truck could even move.
- The efficient operation of both the gas chambers and the gas vans depended on keeping the process going smoothly and quickly at all times.
- No perpetrator, survivor or bystander ever described the use of producer gas generators but always described some type of motor (either gasoline or diesel).
However, there is an intriguing piece of evidence that at least one of the gas vans might have been converted experimentally into a gas producer vehicle:
- In a letter dated June 5, 1942 Willy Just, the foreman in the shop that modified regular trucks into gas vans, to Walther Rauff, who was responsible for the construction and deployment of the gas vans in the field, mentions an explosion of a gas van at the Chelmno death camp. Just writes the accident was an "isolated case" and was caused by "improper operation." He assures Rauff that "special instructions" have been given to avoid future safety violations.7
Just's letter is not enough proof to draw a definite conclusion about whether any of the engines used in the gas vans were producer gas. It is possible that the Germans converted one van to producer gas as an experiment and found it was not really workable. However, there is not enough evidence to be sure on this matter.
In the end, three things determined what engines the Germans used for the gas chambers and gas vans:
- Safety. Producer gas engines carried a high risk of fire or explosion and were potentially deadly to the perpetrators themselves. A gasoline or diesel engine would have been much safer to use and just as lethal in the end.
- Availability. The Germans used whatever engine technology that they could get the most easily in southeastern Poland. Captured or damaged Russian tanks and trucks-either gasoline or diesel-were readily available, as were the parts for them.
- Efficiency. The murder process in the death camps and in the East was like a factory production line. It had to run smoothly and at top speed. Using producer gas engines or gas generators would have been very inefficient and slow.
In practice, producer gas engines or generators were too dangerous and ultimately less efficient than using readily available and easily-used gasoline or diesel engines.
Berg's empty speculations on what the Germans "would have" or "should have" done and the supposed ease of construction and use of a homemade "gas generator" by the American Holocaust denier videomaker are immaterial. It does not follow that because the Germans chose to use gasoline or diesel engines and not producer gas engines or generators that the murder of some 1.5 million Jews never happened.
1. Friedrich Berg, "Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture-Absurd for Murder," Part 2, pp. 8-11/15 at http://www.nazigassings.com/dieselgaschamberb.html.
2. This video can be seen at http://www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com, Episode 4: Engine Exhaust.
3. Friedrich Berg, "Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture-Absurd for Murder," Part 3, p. 3/14 at http://www.nazigassings.com/dieselgaschamberc.html.
4. Friedrich Berg, "Diesel Gas Chambers: Ideal for Torture-Absurd for Murder," Part 2, p. 10/15. The article also contains pictures of these types of trucks.
5. Friedrich Berg, "Pat Buchanan and the Diesel Exhaust Controversy," p. 4/6 at http://www.nazigassings.com/PatBuchanan.htm.
6. Jamie McCarthy, "DThomas' Diesel Retreat," Part 3 of 4, p. 7/13 at http://www.nizkor.net/hweb/people/nyms/dthomas/diesel-retreat-03.html.
7. You may see the entire text of this letter and the translation at http://www.holocaust-history.org/19420605-rauff-spezialwagen/.

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The Deakin Signage Suite is an exciting new signage concept for Deakin University. Bold and exciting art installations will soon replace the existing signage to create memorable experiences both day and night.
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Many staff from the Geelong Waterfront Campus will remember signing and laying down a tile in March to create the design for the Deakin Cube, part of an exciting new signage concept for Deakin University. Well, the long-awaited Deakin Cube is finally on its way!
Construction works to install the new Deakin signage commenced in November and will continue until April 2014.
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Counseling May Benefit Women With Fertility Problems
May 2, 2000 -- The depression and anxiety that accompany infertility have long been suspected of contributing to the problem. Now a study from Harvard Medical School suggests that not only is this true, but that group counseling and stress management may dramatically improve the chances of getting pregnant for women undergoing fertility treatments.
The message about psychological interventions is simple -- the earlier, the better, says researcher Alice D. Domar, PhD.
"We can't say at this point that psychological counseling definitely has an impact on the success of infertility treatments, but the findings are intriguing," Domar tells WebMD. "Group therapy is noninvasive, so why not try it? That is what I would tell my sister or best friend. It's not going to hurt, and it may very well help."
Domar and colleagues at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center compared women undergoing two types of psychological intervention -- a stress-management program and group counseling -- with women who received no psychological counseling. All 184 women in the study had been trying to get pregnant for no more than two years, and about half were receiving some type of fertility treatment, either drug therapy, intrauterine insemination, or in vitro fertilization. The study appears in the April issue of Fertility and Sterility.
The stress management group participated in a version of a program offered at Harvard's Mind/Body Center for Women's Health. The 10-week course stressed relaxation techniques, including meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, imagery, and yoga. The group in counseling also met for 10 weeks, two hours each week, to discuss issues related to their infertility and treatment.
The decision to include only women with two years or less of infertility was made in an effort to rule out the depression commonly seen in those who have been trying to get pregnant for longer periods.
"We published a study a few years ago which found that depression levels peaked between the second and third year of infertility," Domar says. "So one of the goals of this study was to see if we could prevent this peak."


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Well, that's because the topic is not just wide open. The discussion concerns a very specific set of skills and the internal work that develops and allows those skills to work. Though Erick has commented extensively on many of these threads, he's said very little that compels me to think that he understands the topic at all.
That's because I am not writing to compel you. If I respond it is because I recognize something put forth in their terms and wish to work it through in mine, and it might tangentially be of value to someone looking at the physical issues involved, since I have kinda thought this through at this point. If it does not work for you -- then go with God ...
David Orange
So it's the same with Erick's comments as with Buck's. They don't relate at all to the experience of the people who have trained with the top exponents of Internal Strength training and moreover give the feeling that the elaborate wording of his posts are an attempt to obscure their relative lack of meaning.
Name anyone else who has even attempted to put this stuff in a rigorous bio-mechanical framework. Certainly not those guys -- which is again NOT a criticism, simply a point of fact. Nor even some of the technically minded people they have worked with, who have been mentioned. The reason is that the categories of information involved on either side (East and West) do not map on-for-one between data sets. The traditional terminology and concepts in the history of these arts and the more common mechanical conventions and concepts that we would use (usually force-vector or f=ma) cannot be trivially substituted. To do so is meaningless and misleading. But they are BOTH coherent and they BOTH relate -- once you break them down into parts and definitions that WILL relate correctly . There are many more than one convention available to use in defining a physical problem or dynamic state. This is what I have done, and it does not take more than a knowledge of a certain branch of 18th c. mechanics and a little late 20th c. knowledge of neuro-muscular functions to grasp the essential working points on the Western side. I am frankly constantly amazed at the resistance to trying to look at it in this way. Amazed, I say. Who knows, they might even prove me wrong....
They are working on what they are working on, by all accounts successfully and satisfactorily to those who work on it with them. I don't criticize them. I do criticize the manner of criticism of others in discussion, but that is a different issue relating more the usefulness of criticism in a discussion -- which is very valuable if done right, and pointless if done wrong.
David Orange
I'm sure Erick is well intentioned, but after all these years of discussion, I'm not aware that he has ever made any contact with anyone widely recognized to have internal strength skills.... I had read closely what they were saying and I recognized that I was "not" doing what they were talking about.
I have also read them closely.
I will leave you to judge how closely I can read.
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by Dr. Alan Sabrosky
The incident at Ft. Hood was a genuine tragedy. I'm only surprised it didn't happen sooner, there or somewhere else. It is going to take time for the details to be sorted out.
Generalizing from a single incident is always dangerous, no matter how compelling it seems. Sometimes an isolated tragedy is just that, an outpouring of individual dementia rather than a wide-ranging political statement.
But that generalization is already happening, with people across the political spectrum musing about assorted conspiracies. There is the instant and renewed Ziobabble demeaning Muslims generally and Arabs in particular, all false but popular in America today. And there are dire warnings about Mossad "false flag" operations, no matter how unlikely a candidate the shooter was for such a role.
So let's look at this issue from a broader perspective while assorted conspiracy theorists have another day in the sun. This is certainly the first incident involving an American Muslim (I am discounting the so-called "Black Muslim" sect), but in the 1960s and 1970s the US generally faced eruptions of black violence, with cities burning in the "long hot summers" and troops deployed to combat it.
Nor was the US military immune. Many units in combat in Vietnam encountered extensive racial divisions and violence, almost all of it initiated by "black power" militants. Several warships had mutinies from the same sources. US bases around the world were littered with similar racially motivated tensions and incidents for years. There were many specific reasons, but generally it was because many black Americans felt the government they served was not serving them.
To their great credit, that simply has not been the experience of American Muslims in US society or in the US armed forces. Certainly, few American Muslims in or out of uniform give even a small fraction of the political allegiance to their countries of origin, that so many American Jews give to Israel as dual Israeli-US citizens or under the false and hypocritical rubric of "dual loyalty." The allegiance of the American Muslim community has been steadfast.
But their frustration with events must be great. They have been the victims of widespread and carefully contrived anti-Muslim sentiment before and after the events of 9/11, whatever their origin. And they have been tested severely by the actions of a US Government in thrall to Israel, in whose interest it has killed, wounded or dispossessed literally millions of people to date in Iraq and Afghanistan, with comparable plans for Iran in play from the same people who brought us those wars and 9/11 besides.
At some point and in some place, someone was going to lash out. At Ft. Hood, whether alone or not, incited or not, affected by an impending deployment or interviews with returning veterans (or both), someone did.
It must be terribly difficult for American Muslims, especially those of Palestinian heritage, to serve a US Government that is an indictable accessory of Israel, a country whose abuses, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are well known and copiously documented everywhere except in the US.
In their place, I could not do so, despite a decade of service in the US Marines and a lifelong commitment to supporting the US on campuses and in public forums when it was not popular at all to do so.
But my country is more important than my government, and the American people are more important to me than a relative handful of elected and appointed officials whose words and actions violate both the letter and the spirit of their oaths.
A US Government hostage to a lobby serving the interests of a foreign country has lost all legitimacy. It is in violation not only of the Constitution, but also of the tenets of the Declaration of Independence, which is the distillation of the spirit of the land, and specifies the ends for which government is instituted.
This is the stuff of tragedy and death, and if America does not alter the way it does its business in the world, what we have experienced at Ft. Hood may well be only a portent and not an isolated event. No one likes or tolerates indefinitely a government indifferent to the fate of their families overseas, and manipulated by a foreign country that is the agent of their misery.
None of this excuses Hasan's act. Over 50 people are dead or wounded because of him, and I do not and would never condone that. I also do not and would never condone 60,000 Americans killed or wounded so far because of the 9/11 tragedy and our ongoing wars fabricated by the Zionists in Israel's interest. What Hasan did was murder, pure and simple. What the neo-cons and their allies have done and are doing is treason, pure and simple. Both are crimes, and both should be punished.
Sometimes tragedy can be a catalyst for change. What happened at Ft. Hood may open a long overdue debate that will be such a catalyst for American policy in the Middle East, transforming Obama's excellent words at Cairo into equally admirable actions that have so far been woefully absent.
Let us make it so.
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs. In December 1988, he received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of service at the U.S. Army War College as Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He is listed in WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST (23rd ed.). A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Dr. Sabrosky's teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University; while in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Sabrosky has lectured widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad.


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Eastman Kodak Company today announced it has extended its relationship with Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, to offer retail and online printing services to customers in France. The renewal of the multi-year agreement enables the two market leaders to provide consumers with a complete photo shopping experience, and designates Kodak as Carrefour's exclusive partner within the photo category for all retail and online printing solutions.
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DIAL has engaged UK based Mott MacDonald Limited as their Lead Technical Advisors for preparation of Master plan and major development plans. As part of this, LTA has carried out traffic forecast, Site survey, Obstacle study, Environmental audit and Geotechnical investigations. The Masterplan has been developed with particular emphasis on the following considerations:
Maximizing the lifespan of the airport system
Optimum utilization of the available airport land resources and existing facilities Minimum impact on existing operational areas and physical encumbrances (within the initial phases)
Safeguarding future unconstrained development by means of a coherent and comprehensive phasing strategy
Maintaining a balanced airfield system at every stage of the development, whereby the available capacity of each constituent part is commensurate with the capability of the system as a whole.
Balancing airside and landside demand and capacity in each phase of development.
The phased development sequence is in five-year increments. The initial phases provide a new runway system in the southern sector of the airport site, linked to the existing northern runways (10/28 and 09/27) by a pair of taxiways. New passenger terminal development is focused on the south-western corner of the airport, which has the benefit of no existing encumbrances. The entire new system, including runways, aprons and taxiways is fully compliant with Code (F) aircraft requirements. The new passenger terminal building (Terminal 3) accommodates the bulk of the full service international and domestic traffic streams operating at the airport. The masterplan anticipates that Terminal 2 will remain operational in tandem with the T3 facility, supplementing the legacy contact stand supply, until such time that the Terminal 4 construction programme will necessitate its demolition. Terminal 1 is dedicated to the Low Cost Carrier market.
Subsequent phases develop the terminal envelope, aprons and landside pavements in a manner, which provides maximum flexibility, in terms of a response to a fluctuating market, as well as an under-one-roof terminal environment. Although the ultimate, saturation scenario site build-out anticipates a configuration of four discrete passenger terminal processor modules,the overall layout permits a free flow of passengers throughout the system, with minimal level changes. This has benefits in terms passenger convenience, optimized transfer logistics (MCT's) and optimized capital investment. The guiding strategic concept of the development is to focus and consolidate the passenger product in the central airport area, bounded to the north and south by the runway system. This entails the gradual displacement of the other core functions to adjacent areas, within the airport estate.
The existing cargo facilities are permitted to grow within their current location, relying on both the provision of additional gross floor areas and operational improvements (mechanization and control processes) to meet the demand forecast within the initial three phases. The demand profile for both the freight and passenger sectors within the 2026 capacity timeframe necessitates the relocation of the cargo product to the northern sector. This migration is facilitated by the provision of new-dedicated LCC facilities in the central area (Terminal 6) and the realignment of the existing runway 09/27, parallel to runway 10/28. The enhanced northern runway system will be compliant with Code (F) aircraft requirements.
The aircraft maintenance provisions are equally able to grow within their current location, concurrent with parallel incremental focusing of this product sector in the eastern part of the airport site. Some further line maintenance facilities may be desirable at the west end of the site close to the western terminals and space has been safeguarded for such facilities.
The existing General aviation facility to the north of runway 10/28 is supplemented, in the initial phases, by a new apron and dedicated terminal area provided to the immediate east of the existing ARC compound. Following the re-alignment of runway 09/27, the northern airport sector will accommodate enhanced G.A apron and aircraft maintenance facilities in the form of a dedicated FBO facility.
The areas located between the eastern link taxiway system and the NH8 highway are predominantly dedicated to commercial development. Additionally, aviation related development opportunities are available within the central landside zone, bounded by the four passenger terminals and linking pier systems. A spinal transportation corridor, located on the central axis of the development, accesses the landside zone. In additional to a multiple lane highway system, linked to the NH8, the transportation corridor also defines the alignment of the high-speed metro link from Connaught Place and the location of two metro stations (ultimate build out). The provision of car parking areas, airport terminal hotels and complimentary retail/food court areas complete an integrated multi-modal transportation network.
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Terminal 3 has state- of- the- art complex that features Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE) and an advanced 5 level in-line baggage handling system with explosive detection technology for greater efficiency and security. The check-in area features more than 168 check-in counters. Passengers would greatly benefit as check-in and security clearances would be faster and less obtrusive. For international passengers more than 95 desks will facilitate immigration procedures. In addition, the terminal also features 78 aerobridges.
The two tier terminal building feature the departure complex on the upper level and the arrivals on the lower level. The roof of the building has been stylized incisions to allow daylight and has been angled to protect the interior from direct sunlight. The effect creates a calm environment and maximizes the sense of volume, space and light inside. The use of natural light will reduce the dependency on artificial light during day-time.
The arrival hall features both standard and wide-body baggage reclaims belts. Passengers can emerge from bag reclaim into the Internal Landside Arrivals Concourse from where transit passengers could use elevators to proceed towards the Departures level. 4 piers will provide access to the aircraft from the terminal.
Access to the new terminal would be via a 6 lane approach road. The Airport has been connected through dedicated high speed Metro line connecting to the city centre.
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Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council; Notice of Meeting
Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (92) thatthe Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council will meet on Wednesday, September 7, 2005. Themeeting will convene at 6 p.m. at the New England Aquarium Conference Center, Central Wharf, Boston, MA.
The Advisory Council was appointed by the Director of National Park Service pursuant to PublicLaw 104-333. The 28 members represent business, educational/cultural, community andenvironmental entities; municipalities surrounding Boston Harbor; Boston Harbor advocates; andNative American interests. The purpose of the Council is to advise and make recommendationsto the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership with respect to the development and implementation ofa management plan and the operations of the Boston Harbor Islands national park area.
The Agenda for this meeting is as follows:
1. Call to Order, Introductions of Advisory Council members present
2. Review and approval of minutes of the June meeting
3. Youth Program Report
4. Peddocks Island-Fort Andrews Preservation and Adaptive Reuse Project
5. Review of Summer Season
6. Report from the NPS
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"Basketball grew in its popularity, because of Julius Erving, and Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan. The shoe companies poured tons of money into marketing that sport in the inner city. So youth gravitated toward that sport, especially in urban America. There were more and more courts and fewer and fewer diamonds, because the cost of maintaining courts is far less than maintaining diamonds.
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Expectations will — and should be — high when the Kittery Town Council holds a community forum Saturday concerning the resignations of the town manager and police chief, and everything that led up to them. Residents have a right to know what happened that caused the two most senior employees of the town to leave office less than a year after assuming their duties. As taxpayers and citizens of a town they care about dearly, councilors also have a vested interest in making sure their town government is as transparent as possible, now and going forward.
Residents have learned some pretty unsettling things during the past several months. They learned that Town Manager Robert Markel submitted his resignation because he said he was receiving undue pressure from three councilors who wanted him to fire former Police Chief Paul Callaghan. In his letter of resignation, Markel said councilors George Dow, Jeff Brake and Leo Guy were micromanaging him, a charge Dow has denied.
Residents learned that the town's police officers took issue with Callaghan almost from the day he took office on Jan. 3, 2012. Grievances included everything from changes in staffing to firearms training. In response, Callaghan maintained he was instituting established police practices, something he said had been missing under the previous police chief, Edward Strong. And then, barely nine months after Callaghan took over as police chief, residents learned the officers sent a letter to Markel detailing a vote of no confidence in him.
Residents have heard a lot of charges and countercharges, accusations and denials. The unvarnished truth, however, has remained elusive; and unfortunately, it may remain so even after Saturday's forum.
Two items that might shed significant light on the issue remain sealed to the public. A report detailing an investigation into the vote of no confidence is under seal as part of Callaghan's confidential personnel record. While Callaghan could have released the report, he chose not to. It is fair game for residents on Saturday to ask the councilors what they knew about problems in the police department and when. Markel and town attorney Duncan McEachern both should be at the meeting and should be accountable as to the confidentiality of the report.
Callaghan, whose final day on the job was Dec. 21, can't be compelled to attend Saturday as he is no longer employed by the town. However, interim chief Theodor Short would do well to be there himself and to require representatives from the police force to attend. Officers should be prepared to answer questions about why they privately taped a meeting with Markel and what was said. This is the second item that remains under wraps. Why are officers choosing to keep the tape secret? Do not taxpayers who foot the bill for virtually every dime of their salaries have a right to know what was said?
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Steven Neil Proctor, 55, of Barlow, passed away on Tuesday (Oct. 9, 2012) at his home.
He was born on Feb. 17, 1957, in Marietta, a son of Richard and Nelma Fortney Proctor. Steve was a 1975 graduate of Warren High School. He was employed at Dupont for 26 years until his retirement and loved to do wood carving and enjoyed his garden and greenhouse and playing guitar.
He is survived by his parents, brother Phil (Amy) Proctor of Barlow, sister Jill (Keith) Frame of Little Hocking and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Jessica.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said Thursday that insider-trading is a "problem of tremendous magnitude" and that her agency is in the middle of "many cases and investigations" in that realm.
Ms. Schapiro's remarks came at a hedge fund industry conference in New York hosted by the Managed Funds Association. Ms. Schapiro was questioned by Harvey Pitt, a past SEC chairman himself, who asked her for her views on expert-networks firms, which have been at the center of the government's broad insider-trading investigation.
Hedge funds have questioned whether regulators have set out clear rules as it relates to insider trading and expert-networks. "There is a line — I think it is pretty bright line — when you cross over into insider trading," Ms. Schapiro said, adding that insider-trading is not a "victimless crime" and saying it is a "problem of tremendous magnitude."
"It absolutely undermines the confidence and integrity in our markets," she said. Over the past year, the government has heightened its interest in determining whether some firms and traders profited improperly from inside information.
The SEC and Justice Department have charged more than a dozen people at other companies stemming from an investigation focused on expert networks. Ms. Schapiro said the cases brought so far have underscored the need for hedge funds to have robust compliance policies.
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Ms. Schapiro did not address any specific investigations. In a wide-ranging discussion, Ms. Schapiro also discussed new regulations that are beginning to impact hedge fund managers. She said final rules governing systemic risk reporting would be voted on next week by the SEC.
Systemic risk reporting is expected to prompt investment advisers to submit reams of data of the SEC and other regulators, including information about trading exposures. Some have raised concerns about whether regulators will be able to prevent the data from leaking.
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Ms. Schapiro has expanded its scope as it relates to inspections and examinations of investment advisers, but she said more work needs to be done. She said that only about one-third of investment advisers have been examined by the SEC – a figure she called "unacceptable."
She said she doesn't anticipate the SEC following Europe's lead in banning stock trades that pay off when shares decline in value. "It is hard for me to imagine the SEC doing any kind of short-selling ban again," she said.


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Friday, June 17, 2011
Beautiful yet finite
Hamlet, who crossed the Bridge today, after bringing his family so much love and happiness during his time on Earth. Life is so beautiful yet so finite.
Later in my ride, I checked a wildlife camera. The bear family had visited - yet another glimpse of the beauty and wonder of this finite life.
First, mama bear (a.k.a. "Mabel" in our family) and her obedient cub walked side-by-side past the camera. The independent cub lagged behind.
I'm trying to come up with names for these cubs... It seems like their strikingly different personalities should be inspiration but I'm having trouble. Any ideas?
I've been surprised not to have captured any photos of this sow's last pair of cubs since their family breakup last spring. Perhaps both of those cubs were males and have left the area to find their own territories. They both had distinctive white patches on their chests (rare around here) so I think that I'd recognize them if I saw them.
The world goes round and round, and we are but specks in the larger universe. But, that universe is miraculous and beautiful. I think that it's worth soaking up every tiny bit of its beauty.
15 comments:
- Mr. Pip said...
I feel like a broken record, but what stunning pictures! Gosh, the cubs' fur is much lighter than their mom's fur - I assume it darkens as they grow up?
Glad you liked my post today. In regards to your question, nope, I don't have fleas. Being a city, mostly indoor dog, I thought it was best to be prepared for the great outdoors! BOL!
Your pal, Pip
- June 17, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- ♥I am Holly♥ said...
Beautiful pictures!!! Love all of them....love the name Mabel for mama bear!! The little one is so cute looking at the camera!! Lots of love, Debbie & Holly
- June 17, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Berts Blog said...
My vickie says Thank you so much for the columbine picture.
this made her day.
- June 17, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- Benny and Lily said...
great pictures as usual
Benny & Lily
- June 17, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- houndstooth said...
Oh, Columbine! I always love it when it blooms! I tried planting some here, but it only came back a couple of years before it disappeared.
Those cubs are so cute! I don't know about the good cub, but that independent one looks like he ought to be called Rebel!
Thanks for your tip, too! I have got to look for one of those! ;)
- June 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM
- Stella said...
I am too dopey tonight to think of any names. Did you like my name for the Cinnamon bear?
Wonderful pix as always!
- June 17, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- 24 Paws of Love said...
I love you way you think and believe. There must be something to that mountain air. :) As always, such beautiful pics.
- June 17, 2011 at 9:58 PM
- Siku Marie, White Dog said...
Your post today reminded me of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Maybe it is the beautiful ephemeralness of it all.
- June 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM
- rottrover said...
I really agree -- when we recongize the finite we begin to appreciate all the subtleties. Yesterday's post brought that home to me as well.
- June 18, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Angus said...
The eyes of a bear cub. Great photos and a great introduction to a Saturday mornimng .
- June 18, 2011 at 1:27 AM
- browndogcbr said...
Hi Y'all,
Does the distinctive white on Goodie Two Shoes muzzle fade as she grows up and gets her adult coat?
Mr Inquisitive looks so different when you get a close up full face shot like that. :)
My Human loves the Columbine pic, but I like K against the mountains and sky and trotting through the Aspen grove.
Y'all come back now,
Hawk aka BrownDog
- June 18, 2011 at 7:04 AM
- The Thundering Herd said...
Thanks for the kind words earlier this week. We really appreciate our blogging friends.
The inquisitive cub makes me smile every time.
- June 18, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Louise said...
Spring in the mountains must be so overwhelming. All that glory, packed into such a short period of time.
The bear cubs are adorable. It seems I've been missing a lot.
- June 18, 2011 at 4:36 PM
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
Oh how we would love to walk along your trails. The columbines are so gorgeous,, we love them too and have them growing in our yard, but the deer eat them.
I too,, have been thinking about life and Hamlet, how fragile life and world is.
The bears are so beautiful, and I think they love having their photos taken.
- June 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM
- Kristin G. said...
I love the color of the Columbine. I planted some laat year. They are pink, and I was happy to see them return again this year. I'm looking forward to seeing more of yours as they bloom. :)
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As mentioned in my last blog entry, I attended this year's Williamsburg conference "Working Wood in the 18th Century". The theme of the conference was Asian and Oriental influence on 18th Century furniture. I was surprised to learn that the cabriole leg probably came from an earlier Chinese version.
Therefore, the conference included several tables and chairs with cabriole legs and other Asian influences. Phil Lowe was one of the main speakers at the conference and demonstrated his procedure for creating a Queen Anne chair. In the following steps, I've tried to mimic his procedure in developing the cabriole leg. He was using all hand tools - I'm using SketchUp.
Step 1: Develop the full size design and template of the front leg. (On stage was Phil's full-size drawing of the chair). I've attempted to re-produce that shape and design as shown here.
Step 2: Phil used a 3 x 3-in. blank, and as a first step chucked it up into the lathe to turn the foot. The centerline is somewhat offset as shown above and also below.
Step 3: While Phil used mostly a skew chisel, I used a shaped turning cutter. After creating a circular path for the Follow Me, I clicked on the tool's profile shape.
Step 4: After the Follow Me, I used Intersect, then cleaned-up the waste with the Eraser Tool.
Step 5: Now to cut-out the shaped upper part of the cabriole leg. Phil cut into the waste with a hand saw, then used a wide sharp chisel to quickly remove waste close to the line. Then he used a spokeshave and files to make the final shape.
I will use Push/Pull and the Intersect to remove the waste.
Step 6: Here it is shaped in one direction.
Step 7: Mark out the shape from the other direction using the full-size template. Again Phil used hand tools, and I will use Push/Pull and Intersect.
Step 8: Here's how it looks after rough shaping from two directions. There is quite a bit of shaping needed at the foot transition area. Phil would use various hand tools to round this area.
Step 9: I'm using a much harder method, by raising up the top face of the turned foot, then using Intersect and the Eraser.
Step 10: Here's the results, but there is much more final shaping required in SketchUp. This would be very hard to do, so I stop at this point.
Phil could have done two front legs with hand tools in the time that it took me to create this one in SketchUp.
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'Scandal' Recap, Season 3, Episode 7, 'Everything's Coming Up Mellie'
For such a female-driven show, this week's "Scandal" really put them through the ringer. Affairs, imprisonment, murder and rape were just a few of the obstacles thrown our characters' way.
This episode also turned the attention on Mellie. I've made no secret of my admiration for this character. Bellamy Young has been an amazing scene stealer for two-and-a-half seasons, and this time she finally got her chance to shine. It's just unfortunate it had to happen in such a harrowing scene.
"Do you feel like you lost a piece of yourself when you got married? That you made sacrifices to join the Grant political dynasty?" an interviewer asks Mellie at the beginning of the show.
Mellie is intelligent, sophisticated woman who just so happened to fall in love with a political prodigal son. In the beginning, as seen in flashbacks, she and Fitz were blissfully happy and trying to make a baby. They were also staying with Fitz's father, Big Jerry, and working out campaign strategies with a bearded, funky-haired Cyrus so Fitz could run for governor of California.
The episode was intercut between present day and those days 15 years ago. At both times, Mellie was making herself small to make Fitz look bigger. Instead of talking about her firm or planned charity work, she had to talk about the paintings in the White House. Instead of keeping her career going while helping Fitz get elected, she had to make him her full-time job.
And instead of being able to reason with Big Jerry, he rapes her. That scene was both disturbing and disgusting. Most shows will give viewers a warning, either at the beginning of the show or even right after the commercial break, that there will be strong sexual content. I—along with lots of viewers on Twitter—was not prepared. Mellie fought with Big Jerry and tried to push him off, but he pinned her down, raped her and may have fathered Fitz's first child…named Jerry.
There was no indication of this in previous episodes. As viewers, we've been told repeatedly that Big Jerry was a big dirtbag. He continuously cheated on Fitz's mother, he berated his son at any given opportunity and he had no respect for anyone. But the first time we meet Big Daddy Rapist, in season two's "A Criminal, a Whore, an Idiot and a Liar," he and Mellie embrace like the family they are during Fitz's presidential bid. That Big Jerry's that low-level kind of scum, I'm not terribly surprised. That Mellie would allow him even to touch her after that seems disingenuous. While I get that Mellie's character needed a flushed out backstory, trotting out rape at the hands of her father-in-law was not the way to do it. It just doesn't jibe with what we'd seen of them in the past.
What we'd seen from Mellie is a woman never comfortable in background but able to stand behind and support her husband no matter what. To use that trait in conjunction with rape in order to guilt Big Daddy Rapist into supporting his son makes a mockery of the act. Mellie didn't even get a chance to shower afterward. But she's able to break bread with the man the next day and guilt him into standing behind Fitz? I just don't buy it.
Post-rape scene, we jump back to present day where Drunk Mellie is walking across the presidential seal in the Oval Office. After all she's done for her husband, she deserves a little respect, and she lets him know that. "I am tired of doing everything myself," she tells him. The next day, he supports her in the interview, defending his wife from the people's attacks on her for calling out Fitz as a philanderer. "I made the mistake," he tells the interviewer.
Mellie's story, especially the rape scene, cast a large shadow over the rest of the show, but the plot did move forward.
This Livvie-lite episode saw the Gladiators looking into the crash that killed Mama Pope. They figure out that Big Daddy Rapist signed the paperwork on the investigation into the crash and that the air traffic controller is still alive. She leads the gang to a passenger who was escorted off the plane by a federal Marshal.
While all of this is going on, Quinn is getting close to Charlie. Since her sensei in espionage is shunning her, I guess Charlie's the next best thing. They're having mini-dates at the gun range, she's stalking him in the bushes. It's the spy version of "Annie Hall." Charlie calls Quinn up to help him on a case, since he's a private investigator now and he's so trustworthy. She has to go into the lobby of an office building and sedate the guard. But the drug she had was lethal, killing the guard who just so happened to be the passenger escorted off of Mama Pope's plane.
Charlie finds her in an alley trying to call Huck, but he shows her the surveillance footage and tells her she belongs to B613 now. "Welcome to Wonderland," he tells her.
But that's not the end of the trail because Rowan, who Fitz has just found out is Papa Pope, has his own secrets, including keeping Mama Pope locked up in a cell.
Side thoughts:
* After last week's I Am Woman speech from Josie, this episode left me longing for some of that feminist action. Hopefully there's more girl power next week.
* Cyrus was married? To a woman? And had horrible late-'90s hair and beard? It would have been the focus of my recap, had the rape scene not happened.
* And in another sexuality reversal, Sally Langston's husband doesn't have a wandering eye for pretty women, but handsome men. Mellie and Cyrus have new leverage over the presidential hopeful, who just wants her husband to tow the family line.
* The number of people in the loop about the plane crash is getting wider, as Big Daddy Rapist told Mellie before violating her.
* It was nice to see Abby just give Liv a hug. After all she's been through, I wonder why she's so hug averse.
So what did you think? Will Fitz and Liv reunite over their shared daddy issues? How long will it take for Mellie's rape to come back up (because Shonda Rhimes can't leave that just hanging out there)? And can Cyrus stop belittling James and be just a little more supportive of his unemployed husband?
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Quite a few WV government employees register as Independent so they don't automatically lose their jobs when a new administration of a different party takes control. Civil service designation has relieved some of this turmoil but other jobs are still at the will of the Governor.
Posted 1202 days ago.
Why is everything that goes wrong under the Obama Administration still Bush's fault? When is Obama going to take ownership for his actions, particularly when there are lies as proven these are?
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aarons, you probably would be dismissed from a jury selection before the initial inquiry ever began.
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It would seem that this person could direct this particular flex of irs muscle, tiredofit .
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It must have been a Bush appointee at the State Depaetment that's covering up Benghazi.
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It seems that the irs official responsible for this 'indiscretion' was a BUSH appointee.
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"Can't independents and other parties have candidates? What was Ross Perot?"
Yes they can have candidates IF they jump through all hoops put up by the 2 parties. Ross Perot was the exception that had the money that allowed him ballot access in all 50 states but it cost him millions of his own money.
Posted 1203 days ago.
Ross Perot was why Clinton won the election. Of course they blame Ralph Nader for Gore's loss.
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I think the current process is destroying America Harry. You have to satisfy the base, extremist on both sides to win a primary. The candidate is pandering to ~25% of the registered party and end up making statements you spend months trying to defend. Yeah, it's broken.
Posted 1203 days ago.
Can't independents and other parties have candidates? What was Ross Perot?
Romney was an honest and competent candidate. What we need is honest and fair media coverage. Not Benghazi type cover ups.
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Betsy's gem of the day is saying Christians and muslims are alike. Yeah Sharia law is like the laws Christians obey. You betcha.
Sharia : • " Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand (above). • Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death. • Criticizing or denying Muhammad is a prophet is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death. • A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old. • A woman can have 1 husband, but a man can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more. • A man can unilaterally divorce his wife, but a woman needs her husband's consent to divorce. • A man can beat his wife for insubordination. • Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape." Etc etc.
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Maybe you're right. Is it fair to say that we both find the current process destructive?
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I've been a registered independent for over a decade Harry. I don't share your optimism because I've seen good people on the local and state level put back in their place for not supporting the agenda of the two established parties.
Too many times, the rules are such that if you don't have enough money or support from the parties, you don't move forward. That's simply how it is and as much as Republicans and Democrats dislike each other, they're in agreement in retaining a 2 party system.
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At least I'm hoping. We have to stop tearing ourselves apart or perish.
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And, as I pointed out before, the 2 parties have entrenched themselves so deeply in the process that independents will have to be very assertive, even should they become a majority.
If independents grow larger and vote more effectively, I'd guess that the 2 major parties will move away from their recent highly partisan stances
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That's true for now because independents have not yet demanded candidates who reflect their views. Maybe independents aren't naturally hysterical and loud, so they're not the squeaky wheels who get the grease.
Here's hoping that truth-seekers and reasonable people will begin to assert themselves.
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It doesn't matter how many people register Independents if Republicans and Democrats supply the Candidates?
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House rules perpetuate the power of the majority. Here's what we're paying for: a House Oversight Committee that refuses to investigate malfeasance when the President belongs to the same party that controls the House, but conducts a permanent witch hunt when the President belongs to the party that doesn't control the House.
Since Congressional rules freeze even large minorities out of the rulemaking process, lone independent Congresspeople confront an insurmountable mountain blocking their path to legislation .
It's wrong. Is it any wonder that people have no confidence in Congress and that independent-minded voters are deserting the 2 parties in droves?
But I have hope that the American people will wake up, vote independently, drive these power-mad parties out of Congress, and institute more reasonable rules.
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I feel the same way as Aaron—the two parties are driving Americans apart. I don't, however, think we need a "viable third party" to solve the problem. I think voters have begun addressing this problem by deserting the two parties and registering as independents.
However, the two entrenched parties have powerful weapons to keep their power. They have extensive fundraising networks, for example.
The most egregious power grab, in my opinion, results from Congressional rules that give the majority party complete control over the agenda, particularly in the House.
This past week, we witnessed a House leader's unconscionable use of "majority rule" to promote a partisan agenda. House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa is making good on his 2010 promise to tie up Administration by using the subpoena power.
Issa abuses his power, just like his predecessors. Henry Waxman did it to Bush, and Dan Burton did it to Clinton.
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I agree with that observation.
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