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Lowe's Enriches Customer Service and Curbs Cost Pressures With Retail Tech
Lowe's Q1 2019 Results
Sales for the first quarter increased 2.2% to $17.7 billion from $17.4 billion in the first quarter of 2018, and comparable sales increased 3.5%. Comparable sales for the U.S. home improvement business increased 4.2%.
In its battle to improve the customer experience and mitigate cost pressures, Lowe's Companies recently rolled out a new model to improve associate engagement, tens of thousands of mobile devices, and is overhauling its pricing and point of sale (POS) systems.
The home improvement retailer attributed improved sales performance in its first quarter to its commitment to improving in-stocks and customer service, along with a focus on winning Pro customers.
"Our first quarter comparable sales performance is a clear indication that the consumer is healthy and our focus on retail fundamentals is gaining traction," commented Marvin Ellison, Lowe's president and CEO.
However, Ellison also noted the company is taking actions to more systematically analyze and implement retail price changes to mitigate cost pressure.
"Our recent acquisition of the Retail Analytics platform from Boomerang Commerce will also assist in modernizing and digitizing our approach to pricing," he noted.
Lowe's will implement changes to its pricing and POS systems, and noted ineffective legacy pricing tools and processes contributed to gross margin contraction in the quarter which impacted earnings.
"With these changes we will streamline who can affect costs and pricing changes and sequence those pricing actions to prioritize those that have the greatest impact to gross margin," Ellison explained. "We will also have better visibility for the merchants to understand the impact of our pricing actions without having to view multiple systems and numerous reports. We're establishing a more efficient process to systemically analyze, prioritize and implement pricing actions to offset cost pressure."
Lowe's Smart Model
Lowe's also rolled out a new customer service model it calls the "smart model, which now guides the way the retailer hires, trains, evaluates and coaches its associates. Lowe's trained over 280,000 associates on smart customer service in its first quarter, according to EVP, Stores, Joseph McFarland.
The program includes a comprehensive toolkit, training program and mobile devices, which are designed to provide associates with the tools they need to deliver outstanding customer service.
The retailer also rolled out around 88,000 smart mobile devices through its stores so that its associates no longer need to leave the sales floor to log into a terminal to determine the price, availability or order status of an item. The smart devices also boast functionality to process buy online pickup in-store (BOPIS) orders, which takes Lowe's from a 12-step paper-based process to an average of two digital scans.
"The new smart device reduced tasking hours by providing associates with real-time data without ever-stepping up the sales floor," said McFarland.
"In the first quarter 60% of our online purchases were picked up in our stores which reinforces the power of our omnichannel model," he continued. "The role of smart devices in the systematic improvements in BOPIS represents a significant advancement in the partnership between our stores in IT, and are really terrific early examples of what we can accomplish as an organization when we are focused and aligned."
To further improve the customer experience, Lowe's also replaced a series of non-facing customer positions with over 6,000 assistant store managers and department supervisors in its Q1.
"These customer-facing store leadership roles are focused on providing better departmental coverage and expertise, as well as coaching our associates in delivering excellent service," McFarland. "With the addition of department supervisors we're ensuring that we have the proper coverage for strategic areas of focus, such as paint."
Finally, Lowe's will continue the rollout its new customer centric labor scheduling system in its second quarter and plans to have it fully rolled out by the second half of the year. This new system replaces its current staffing system that doesn't effectively capture and predict sales and customer traffic patterns. The new system will better predict customer demand by time of day, day of week and department, allowing Lowe's to align labor hours with peak traffic, said McFarland.
"Though we are in the beginning stages of change we are excited about the early results we're seeing and committed to the work ahead to fully capitalize on the healthy demand in our sector," said McFarland.


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The RA's Guide to BusiaJul 26, 2019
Spending a summer doing fieldwork in Busia, Kenya has become a rite of passage for Berkeley development RAs. When I was planning my trip, I wish there'd been a guide with the collected experience of former RAs all in one place—here's my attempt at writing it. All information is current as of summer 2019.


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Here at H・M Ryochi Co., Ltd is able to supply high quality Authentic Japanese Beef to all markets. We also process all beef through it's own modern on site boning room.
Boneless Beef cuts can be tailored to meet any specifications.
2.3 So what is different between Wagyu and Kyushu beef?
From the view of quality, the meat is similar to Wagyu meet as they are given the similar fed stock, grain fed. However, the fat quantity is lesser than Wagyu as they are the product of crossbreed. Nevertheless, the breeding environment for Japanese Kyushu beef is exactly the same as Wagyu beef product. Which, all the cattle are placed in a small group in every ranch to make sure the cattle have a stress-free environment. This method produces a good quality of meat.
Compared to Kyushu beef, Wagyu offers tenderness in taste and has 'shimofuri' which is also known as marbling that is referred to the beautiful pattern of the fat sees on the meet. This texture gives the beef its "melt in the mouth" tenderness and moisture which cannot be found at any other beef. Click here for more about Halal Wagyu.
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Holstein beef (神戸ビーフ Kōbe bīfu) refers to beef from the Tajima strain of Wagyu cattle, raised in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture according to rules as set out by the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association.[1] The meat is a delicacy renowned for its flavor, tenderness, and fatty, well-marbled texture. Kobe beef can be prepared as steak, sukiyaki, shabu shabu, sashimi, and teppanyaki. Kobe beef is generally considered one of the three top brands (known as Sandai Wagyuu, "the three big beefs"), along with Matsusaka beef and Ōmi beef or Yonezawa beef.
Kobe beef is also called Kobe niku (神戸肉, "Kobe meat"), Kobe-gyu (神戸牛) or Kobe-ushi (神戸牛, "Kobe cattle") in Japanese.
Cattle were introduced in Japan in the second century as work animals used for rice cultivation. Because of Japan's "difficult terrain and sparse arable land" due in part to its mountainous topography, cattle were bred in small, isolated regions, yielding herds with unique qualities in their meat.[3]
After the Meiji Restoration, beef consumption remained low, but it has steadily increased since the end of World War II. Kobe beef grew in popularity and extended its global reach in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the late 19th century, native Japanese cattle were interbred with European breeds, including Brown Swiss, Shorthorn, and Devon.[citation needed] The cattle originally recognized in 1943 as "Kobe beef" were cattle from herds in the Kobe area of Japan, and could be any of four breeds of Wagyu cattle—Akaushi (Japanese Red/Brown), Kuroushi (Japanese Black), Japanese Polled, and Japanese Shorthorn. Tajima is a strain of the Japanese Black, the most populous breed (around 90% of the four breeds).
In 1983, the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association was formed to define and promote the Kobe trademark. It sets standards for animals to be labeled as Kobe beef.[8]
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Will meet Xi Jinping face-to-face at G20: Trump
Washington, May 14 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that he will have a face-to-face meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 summit next month amid the latest escalation in trade tensions between the two countries.
Speaking to the media at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump predicted that his meeting with Xi will likely be "very fruitful" and said he believes China wants to reach a deal, even as he vented about Beijing reneging earlier this month on key portions of the deal being negotiated between the two economic powers, CNN reported.
"We had a deal with China, it was 95 per cent there and then my representatives... they went to China and they were told that things that were fully agreed to, we're not going to get anymore. That's not acceptable.
"I said, that's good, that's fine, put on the tariffs. I love the position we're in," Trump added.
Trump's announcement of the meeting with Xi came after the President, earlier on Monday morning, warned that China would be "hurt very badly" if a deal to end the year-long trade war between Washington and Beijing was not reached.
In a series of tweets he said: "I say openly to President Xi and all of my many friends in China that China will be hurt very badly if you don't make a deal because companies will be forced to leave China for other countries.
"Too expensive to buy in China. You had a great deal, almost completed and you backed out."
Shortly after the tweets, China announced tariffs on $60 billion in US exports from June 1, in a tit-for-tat response to Washington increasing levies on Chinese products last week.
China's Ministry of Finance said the additional tariffs will range from 5 per cent to 25 per cent on 5,140 products.
On May 10, the Trump administration hiked tariffs from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on $200 billion in Chinese exports , while Chinese negotiators were still in Washington for the trade talks which broke out the same day.
The breakdown punctured several weeks of steadily rising optimism that the two sides were nearing a final agreement.
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In April 2018 another Implisense Hackathon took place. After the successful Hackathon 2017 in Mallorca, this year we went to the African continent, more precisely: to the city of Marrakech.
Marrakech is described as the "Pearl of the South" due to its many palaces; by the city guide rather as a city of film stars and pickpockets. (mehr …)


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Imagine a job where the requirements are a huge smile, good vibes and love for children. No, we aren´t talking about a storybook, a play or a circus. We are speaking of Clowns without Borders, a non-profit organization whose mission is to offer laughter to relieve the suffering of all people, especially children, who live in areas including refugee camps, conflict zones and emergency situations. The professional artists who work with Clowns without Borders are probably the bravest clowns in the entire planet. At The Toy Blog we´ve had the chance to interview one of them. Keep reading to discover how laughter can become the best weapon against adversity and learn why Clown without Borders are this months´ Wishmakers.
Make-A-Wish® with a presence in nearly 50 countries worldwide, grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life threatening illnesses, enrichening their lives thru personal experiences full of hope, strength and happiness. These wishes contribute to the child and the family´s resilience, enabling them to face physical and emotional suffering. It´s affiliate in Spain has the support of 200 medical professionals, 30 hospitals, 1000 private sector professionals and almost 400 companies who actively collaborate with them. Together, they take wishes very seriously. In fact, Make-A-Wish Spain is accredited by Fundación Lealtad, an independent organism that evaluates accountability, financial health and transparency. This month, The Toy Blog had the chance to interview Carmela Fernandez Piera, a Patron of Make-A-Wish Spain. Keep reading to discover the incredible work thy do and the impact that generating wishes has on children.
Alberto Romero and Marta Rueda, our Wishmakers this month, are two young entrepreneurs from Madrid who founded the company named Fluff. He is a designer and she is a child psychologist and together they have joined forces with a common goal: to help children manage their emotions by playing. Although their initial idea was to open a toy store, Fluff took another route. In 2010, they created four amusing stuffed animals or toys that have become the brand image of their company: Colchón (Mattress), Edredón (Comforter), Culito Rana (Frog) and Gamberro (Troublemaker). Each stuffed toy, along with a practical guide, helps parents teach their kids to overcome their fears, temper tantrums or insecurities.
For the vast majority of parents today, scheduling work, school, homework, extra-curricular classes and a social life, requires a lot of juggling. And despite it all, it seems they don´t have any time left to do what is considered one of the most important things: spend quality family time together. Far from being part of this statistic, a young and adventurous family in Madrid, Spain decided to create a pop band three years ago. What began as a way to spend time together has become a social phenomenon with tours and concerts in Teatro Price, Primavera Sound and Benicassim, among others. A hilarious cartoon series based on their story has even been created. We are talking about Candela, a talented 10 year-old and her parents Judith and Edu. All three are the sole members of Candela y Los Supremos (Candela & The Supremes, in English) and our Wishmakers of the month. Keep reading to learn how it all began, how they organize themselves and take the time to search for common interests that allow them to have fun and get everyone to be an active participant.
Our Wishmaker of the month, Mónica Carretero, is a writer and illustrator of books for children. She spent part of her career working as a graphic designer and later opened a coffee shop called 'Zarzamora', but drawing, was always her ultimate passion and goal. When she turned 29, she decided to dedicate herself to illustration and she found what was to become her true path. She currently writes for Cuaderno de Viaje and has already published several children books such as 'Clucky the Hen', 'Roly Polies' and her collection of illustrated Handbooks…'. Now, this award-winning author and illustrator says, "it´s not easy but you should never give up." At Famosa we´ve had the honour to commission her to create a story book for Juegorama 2014, which you will soon be able to download from the website and our blog. Monica gives hope and joy through her drawings and invites children to imagine many more. Like she told us in her interview: "Children turn a story into many more."
Our Wishmaker of the month is perhaps Europe´s best percussionist. He is also a composer, singer and luthier. Seydu was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and grew up listening to melodies sung by his mother, Fatmata Salimatu Jalloh, and he assimilated the rhythm his grandfather, Ebenizer Calender, created with his drums. It was his grandfather who taught Seydu how to make his own instruments by using recycled materials and together they would travel and play representing their country. It was music that helped save Seydu from war and hunger and taught him how to survive being a stowaway on board a merchant ship and a vagrant in the subway in Madrid, being a teenager. Years later, Seydu, went on tour with Stevie Wonder, collaborated with famous artists such as Serrat, Youssou N ´Dour, Alejandro Sanz and Kiko Veneno, has published 3 records and founded what he considers his greatest achievement to date: Diamond Child School of Arts and Culture, an NGO dedicated to giving children the necessary skills and education for a brighter future. Children, who today live, threatened by Ebola.
Grandparents are an essential part of our lives. They are wise and an example of patience. They are the ones who are in charge of giving their grandchildren the sense of belonging, roots and history. We know who we are and where we come from thanks to them since they make our culture and traditions live on. Grandparents are the link between generations and according to the famous anthropologist, Margaret Mead, they are necessary for our mental health and emotional stability. This month, we have dedicated our section of Wishmakers to them, to our grandparents who make our childhood that much better.
Aúrea Ferreres is the person responsible for political incidence, sensitization and campaigns at Save the Children, an independent organization that works in more than 120 countries worldwide saving lives, providing security and protection to children and defending their rights as part of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This month, we dedicate our Wishmakers section to her and this organization that is at the forefront of children´s rights in the world.
World Vision works to build a better world for the children who live in it. Thanks to their efforts I joining forces with international organization such as the Red Cross and working for the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations as well as being founding members of the Global Movement for Children, World Vision puts all its efforts into three large areas that directly affect the wellbeing of children everywhere on the planet. Fight against hunger, saving lives during emergencies and promoting justice. These are the three pillars that World Vision works for everyday. Charo Izquierdo is the person responsible for all the programs and projects in South Africa and South America and is our wishmaker of the month.
If there is something that unites off human beings is that we have a mother. Our mothers or our mother figures are the core of family life, our guides and support. From the moment they carry us inside their womb until we are born, their important role continues throughout their life, assuming a great responsibility.
They are there when we fall, when we take our first steps, when we cry, when we laugh. They are there to feed us, educate us and transmit important values. They applaud us, they support us and love us unconditionally. For all of these reasons and more, we wanted to dedicate this month, in our Wishmakers section, to them, to all the mothers of the world who, undoubtedly have the hardest job of all.


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"Impressions of Africa" by Lynn Ostler
Now that I've returned home from Africa, people often ask me, "How was your trip?"
That seemingly easy question often trips me up. How do I adequately respond?
How do I express the visual sights that delighted me, of the colorfully dressed women carrying babies on their backs and water on their heads; the school children in their uniforms dancing traditional dances for us; the warm smiles of all we met, accompanied by their "Jambo" handshakes? Or conversely, how do I paint for others the visual sights that stunned me, such the garbage everywhere due to a system in a developing country that lacks the infrastructure of waste removal?
It wasn't just creating a picture of what I saw that challenges me; it's hard to describe the stirrings of the heart. How do I adequately express the sadness of meeting a young woman who gave birth on the side of the road by herself only a few hours earlier, and had lost the baby?
How do I tell of my shock of seeing 88 children in Grade 3 packed in a small classroom all quietly studying their 12 workbooks (sharing) even though their teacher was absent for the day?
How do I explain the admiration I have for Iris, the nurse at the village health clinic? She was such a delight to meet. Not only has she improved her own life through education, she has truly bettered an entire community through her work.
How do I convey how deeply moved I was by the care and concern of the women leaders of Kenya Keys for the girls in this community? Through the Usalama program, they focus on the special needs of girls as they navigate growing up in the village. There are many problems that arise, but I was probably the most surprised to learn of the importance of soap, which is hard for many of the girls to get, and can lead to bullying and shaming at school. Something that I so completely take for granted is a precious commodity in their world.
I was comforted to know that there are women like Clemence and Felicity that are there to help. They are strong, thoughtful and capable women, as are all of the Kenya Keys board members.
How do I tell of the many interviews of students who are so grateful for their sponsorship they pour over every detail of their sponsor's letter, to learn of the person so far away that cares so deeply for him or her. Each student adds a "God bless them" sentiment as they finish reading the letter and looking over every detail in the picture.
They feel a connection to us, the sponsors, that is hard for us to understand in our busy U.S. lives. But I will never be slow to write my letter again, and I will be sure to include some photographs of my family. They want to know about us, to whom they are so grateful. What a humbling experience! Once again, I was taught by them.
I wonder if I can help my American friends understand that despite a lack of almost all the luxuries we have here, they are a happy people, and I feel we have much to learn from them. They love their families and sacrifice much for them. They aren't just students, they are learners. Their warm smiles, cheerful demeanor and grateful hearts make me love them and want to be more like them. That is what I've learned I can say to adequately describe my trip. I was humbled, I was inspired, and I hope I never forget what they taught me.
Lynn Ostler was an intern on the Summer of 2018 Trip to Taru. This was her first trip to Kenya with Kenya Keys.


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Travelpro Platinum Elite 21" Expandable Spinner Review
Cons: Easy to over pack, few color options
Manufacturer: Travelpro
Our Verdict
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Our Analysis and Test Results
Constructed from high-density nylon fabric with DuraGuard® coating that resists stains and abrasions, the Travelpro Platinum Elite fits carry-on restriction guidelines. It has four wheels and a top flip-open design, as well as a plethora of internal and external pockets and handy extra features.
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Ease of Use
Everything works so smoothly on the Platinum Elite. Zippers glide effortlessly, handles work how you want them to, and the pockets are easily accessible on the go. The telescoping handle is sturdy and effective, offering four different convenient heights to users. The top and side handles pull away from the bag during use and retract back toward the suitcase on their own for a streamlined exterior. There's even a hidden handle on the bottom, in case your bag ends up head-first in the overhead bin. Like most similar-styled bags, there's only a side handle on one side, and not both though we think in an ideal world there would be handles on every side.
We love the four sets of wheels on this suitcase. They're large and provide plenty of clearance. Even over challenging terrain, they roll along easily, despite not being thickly treaded like some other models we tested. We never had issues with the bag trying to tip over while clearing sidewalk cracks and tall thresholds. But our favorite feature of these wheels is the hidden magnets that hold them gently in forward-facing alignment. The Platinum Elite almost steers itself, staying gently at your side with hardly any effort on your part. We took advantage of this feature by frequently taking our hands off the bag entirely to do other things like clean glasses, put something in a backpack, and eat an airport meal on the go, all while it continued to roll quietly by our sides.
When it comes to how easy this bag is to use, we have very few complaints. Every feature that it does have, we love. We think the only ways it could be improved is by adding a few handy things, like add-a-bag straps (which some other models we tested do have). And, if suitcase builders want to use our ideas, we'd love to see a cup holder and built-in seat for waiting at crowded gates. However, the absence of any of these superfluous features doesn't take away from how much we enjoy using the Platinum Elite.
Storage & Features
When it comes to organization, the Platinum Elite hits the sweet spot. It has numerous pockets that are sure to make even the most ecstatic organizer happy. Interior pockets are cleverly integrated into the underside of the lid, along the back wall of the main compartment, and even in the mesh panels between the compression straps. What we love most about these pockets is that they're all usable and accessible without dumping the contents of your bag. They can also be easily ignored if you're not in need of them, without taking up unnecessary space.
Though it appears modest, the internal capacity of this suitcase is exceptional. We easily fit everything we needed for a 12-day winter vacation, which is no mean feat, considering that packing list included multiple sweaters, several athletic baselayers, and a pair of boots. The Platinum Elite also has a great compression strap system. Going beyond the simple two-strap basics, Travelpro has included a mesh panel (with zippered pockets) in between the straps to increase the surface area of compression, so you can really fill this bag to the top and cinch it all down. An expandable zippered section allows you to slightly increase the capacity of the main compartment, though it only opens the bottom section, which helps prevent your bag from becoming so front heavy it tips over.
Our only real complaint is that of so many carry-on bags - that you can overstuff the front pockets of this rollaboard to the point that it looks like it's about to explode, and no longer meets airline size regulations. But if you can limit the belongings going into the front pockets and lid to small, thin items, and keep your bulky belongings inside the compressed, main compartment, this effect can be minimized. After all, you're not buying a carry-on bag just to have to check it at the gate.
Another area where the Platinum Elite shines brightly. They've managed to incorporate an astonishing array of features into this bag without forcing you to use them if they're not what you need at that moment. A removable suit/dress keeper helps you keep your nice outfit relatively wrinkle-free, and you can hang the whole bag in the closet of your final destination without the worry of picking up lint or hair. And if your current trip doesn't require you to bring an evening gown, simply leave that section at home! The removable toiletry bag is another nice touch. It zips away cleverly into the side of your bag while you travel and is easily removed for use in the bathroom. They've saved you that extra step of having to buy a separate bag!
When zipped shut and on the move, our team of testers unanimously agree that this bag looks sleek and well put-together. It's something you can proudly travel professionally with, and also blend in with the crowds on vacation. Once again, Travelpro has managed to sneak a surprising number of features onto the exterior of the bag without taking away from its streamlined appearance. A hidden ID tag on the back saves you from having to make a separate purchase while protecting your personal information from prying eyes and possible snags. A dedicated battery pack pocket lets you plug your phone directly into the back of the suitcase while you travel, keeping your low-battery dilemma as hassle-free as possible. We're truly impressed with the versatility and wide appeal of this rollaboard.
Though it's not a hard-sided piece of luggage, the Platinum Elite offers impressive durability. We pushed each suitcase to its limits, dropping them at angles on concrete, dragging them across asphalt, and checking them to our final destinations. This bag easily withstood every trial we put it through. Made of high-quality nylon with DuraGuard coating, the Elite also has excellent quality features at every turn. Zippers glide well, are lockable, and don't get caught or stuck no matter how stuffed the bag is. The wheels show almost no signs of wear, even after months of intensive testing. All handles are sturdy, secure, and inspire confidence.
Even small scuffs on the fabric brush off easily with your hand, leaving behind no visible damage. The corners are reinforced with extra-thick material to handle all the bumps and scrapes of frequent use. Really, the only minor complaint we have about this suitcase's durability is that it seems to be a bit of a pet hair magnet. However, the hair brushes off with just a little work, so we aren't really counting this against the bag.
Though the standard retail price for this suitcase is on the higher side, it's not nearly as expensive as several other options we tested, that didn't perform nearly as impressively. It also seems to be perpetually on sale around the internet and in various retail stores. Considering it is without a doubt our favorite luggage to use and is built to last through years of frequent business travel and epic vacations, we have no doubt that it's worth the price.
We're big fans of just about everything the Travelpro Platinum Elite has to offer. It's stylish and functional, full of versatile features, and impressively durable. It's a great choice for pretty much anyone looking for a carry-on bag, no matter if you're a weekly business traveler or an adventure vacationer. We love this bag and are happy to name it our Editors' Choice award winner once again.
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Rudi Hahn is proving something today.
The 51-year-old Midland resident will run 5 kilometers as part of the 2008 Walk MS despite his diagnosis of muscular sclerosis that a year ago left him unable to stand for more than 15 minutes and restricted to walking with a cane.
The transformation started small, with two pound weights and a walk across the gym at Smitty's Ironworks to help him trust his legs again. It's grown into hour-and-a-half long workouts five days a week, proving to himself that the disease doesn't have to be debilitating.
"I want people to know I have MS and I run, I work out, I do what I want to," he said.
The 2008 Walk MS begins at 9 a.m. today at Dow Diamond, and it will be Hahn's first time getting involved. He's grown comfortable with his 4-year-old diagnosis and has taken control of his life, no longer allowing himself to accept the limitations his body began placing on him.
In Michigan, more than 16,000 people are living with MS, which is a chronic disease that impacts the central nervous system. MS is thought to be an autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to incorrectly attack a person's healthy tissue.
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"Now I'm sprinting and training and working on balance - all the things I had given up on," he said.
He's also branching out to leave his comfort zone and experience more of Midland. He likes to draw and paint, and is considering taking up bicycling on the Pere Marquette Rail-Trail.
In his condominium, next to the fireplace, is a cane he had to use in the past but no longer needs. On his kitchen counter sit five bottles of medicines, costing hundreds of dollars per month, that he had to take but no longer needs.
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His trainer knows how to push him without going too far, he said. He also got inspired by a magazine article about a marathon runner with MS that was given to him by Diane Furst, a friend at his gym.
"I remember the day he came into the gym and told me he had MS and I was devastated for him," Furst said, not knowing what the disease might do to him.
Then she saw the article and gave it to Hahn, not knowing if he'd read it or throw it out. He read it, and took it to heart.
"He still has that magazine," she said. "He's just an inspiration. He is such a wonderful, giving person. He does so much for other people."
Hahn is proof there can be life after an MS diagnosis, Furst said.
Now Hahn has taken it on as a personal mission to get more people working out and thinking about their food choices.
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- Readings from recent articles in Toronto newspapers. This topic of the postwar treatment of Germany vitally important in a time when Canadian youths are so pessimistic. The danger of forgetting the cost of the war, the waste of treasure, waste of life, the maimed, the crippled, the blind, the widows, the fatherless, and above all the deep legacy of hatred which any war leaves. The need for all of us to be vigilant against anything that looks like letting the same thing happen again. The need for a careful study of foreign affairs. The danger of public apathy: a look back beginning in 1931. A review of Germany's record since 1918. The Versailles Treaty. Events leading up to Hitler taking power. The nature of Germans and Nazis. Details of the Nazi philosophy, propaganda, and activities. Some suggestions for dealing with the Germans after the war. The length of the Armistice. Some conditions for peace. Three questions to put to the Germans: "Are you beaten? Are you sure? And by whom?" The need for punishment; the objects of punishment. Germany as a criminal nation. The danger of being infected with an unreasonable prejudice. The need for Germany to be demilitarized forever. The need for re-education. Insisting that the men elected by us shall be men charged with our mandate to see that the peace of the world shall be secured by the stern treatment of Germany. Being aware of the past.
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Chairman: The President, Mr. C. R. Conquergood
Thursday, October 19, 1944
MR. CONQUERGOOD: In the year 1622, there was formed in Rome a college of cardinals, charged with the management of missions. It was known as the "College of Propaganda". The word "Propaganda" later came into use as applying to any organization for spreading a particular doctrine or system of principles.
Until the Nazis appropriated the term, and debased it, as they have with other things, the word did not have any unsavory implications. But the Nazi doctrines, with Nazi deception and Nazi inhumanity, have made us suspicious of any so-called propaganda, even though its content may be entirely worthy.
This Empire Club exists to promote the interests of Canada and the British Empire. In the respected sense, this is a platform of propaganda. There are other chan nels, including the printed word, the picture industry, and communication systems, such as telegraph, telephone and radio.
Today, on this platform, we are to hear a message from a young man, who is associated with the British Broadcasting Corporation. He has been in an unique posi tion to study the methods of Nazi propaganda and the political implications which it promoted.
For fifteen years prior to the war, he made frequent trips to Germany. Since the war, as a member of the staff of BBC. he has given special study to the propaganda coming from German sources. He has, also, I am sure, found it necessary to formulate plans to assist in overcoming the evil which this propaganda has created.
Mr. Gilbert Harding obtained his Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University. He studied law and is a member of Gray's Inn, one of the four great legal societies of England. He has served as correspondent for the London Times. He has recently come to Canada as Canadian program assistant for the BBC, where he is associated with Mr. S. J. de Lotbiniere, who spoke to us six months ago and whom we are delighted to welcome back to our Head Table today.
Gentlemen, I present to you Mr. Gilbert Harding, M.A., who will address us on the topic "Postwar Treatment of Germany".
MR. GILBERT HARDING, M.A.: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: In case what I have to say to you may sound something like a sermon, I brought my text with me and the text is compiled from cuttings from the Toronto newspapers which, I hope, is a sign that people who read them may already have some idea of what I am talking about. I have here an excellent precise of the views of Lord Vansittart and Professor Gilbert Murray written by Mr. McAree of the Globe and Mail; I have the controversy which attended the showing of the film "The Seventh Cross" in Toronto-about which I will have a good deal to say in a minute--and I have here the most terrible thing of all, a statement that many youths say that a new war is possible within 25 years.
A recent poll of Canadian boys between the ages of 15 and 24 reveals that 46 percent of them expect that there will be another war within 25 years. Then again in the newspapers of Toronto we have the daily casualty lists of the people who will not come back to Canada or, if they do come back, will return in a crippled or wounded condition. Then we have the atrocities which are daily committed by our cruel and vicious enemies, the Germans, and I wonder how many of us will remember them in ten or eleven years' time.
There are so many things to think about nowadays. Politics loom large in the Canadian world. There are all kinds of topics which people are able to discuss with varying degrees of heat and bitterness. Some people even find time to discuss the supply of whiskey and beer, but this topic which we are going to discuss today is, I think, the most important and the most vital and the most urgent problem which we can possibly discuss in a time when so many Canadian youths can be so pessimistic.
Surely each and everyone of us asks the question "What do we want after the war?" Of course what we all want after the war is that this time shall be the last and can we do anything about it? I think we can. That is why, Mr. President and Gentlemen of The Empire Club, I am grateful for the opportunity of coming today to give an airing to a bee which has been buzzing in my bonnet for a very long time and if I can introduce the bee to buzz in yours I shall be very pleased.
This is the second time in the lifetime of most of us that the Germans have forced war upon the world. It is the second time that Canadians have crossed the Atlantic, leaving the fishing boats of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the farms on the prairies, and the villages and towns of Ontario, and, if it is not the last, I think we shall all have to bear a certain amount of responsibility. When the war is over we shall talk about the bitter glories of the war, the deeds of heroism, the contribution of a whole people, but we shall, I am afraid, unless history fails to repeat herself, very quickly forget the cost of the war, the waste of treasure, waste of life, the maimed, the crippled, the blind, the widows, the fatherless, and above all the deep legacy of hatred which any war leaves. And the hatred which this war is going to leave, I think, will be bottomless.
So, there is a great need that every one of us should be vigilant against anything that looks like letting the same thing happen again. We must be vigilant against people we know are our enemies and against those whom we do not recognize as our enemies and even against people who indeed are not our enemies but enemies of peace, the sentimental, the genuinely misguided, the stubborn and the obstinate, who are always prepared to explain things away. And we must not forget the vicious power of those greedy unprincipled men who will do anything to increase and preserve their private and personal fortunes while neglecting the general interests of the world at large.
Let us be careful that we study foreign affairs. Up to now, foreign affairs have been the privilege, the private and peculiar privilege of a small body of men-like the people who have gone as Ambassadors and First Secretaries and Counsellors of State. Well, they have made a sorry mess of things, I think, possibly because their actions have not been called in question enough. There is some excuse for the story of the soldier in Whitehall in London who stopped a passer-by and said: "Can you tell me what side the Foreign Office is on?" And the answer was: "I've often wondered, but I hope to God it's on our side."
In order to show the danger of public apathy let us, just for a very short time, look back no further than 1931. It might be impolitic to look back further than that, but 1931 will do, the year in which Japan launched her first attack on China, an attack which she was able to maintain right down to 1941, not without, and I will go no further than that, not without assistance from great countries who are now fighting, whether they like it or not, for what is known as Democracy. There is no doubt, I am afraid, that the assistance given to Japan by the armament manufacturers of Great Britain and the United States did a great deal to bring about the misery and horror which has disfigured the history of the Far East. The men who made money out of that munitions trade must be held responsible for the death of millions of Chinese. Then there is the Anglo-German Naval Pact, which most people have forgotten, a secret agreement that Germany should start building her pocket battleships again, and then Italy and Abyssinia. Do you remember the tragicomic failure of the League of Nations, to stop that war of aggression-a war that was condemned by the League of Nations? And why did they fail? Because they did not impose that most effective sanction of all, oil. Oil poured into Italy so that she could drive her aeroplanes and drop mustard gas on the naked Abyssinians and drive her tanks and so that Mussolini and Badoglio, now our friend, could go spanking along in great motor cars between the rows of Abyssinians whom they had liberated, those whom they hadn't gassed or shot-with the help of the oil from the Persian Gulf.
And then Franco, 1936! The rebellion-for it was nothing else-of a sadistic, flatulent reactionary against the lawfully elected government of his own country. True, Spanish politics were in a pretty chaotic state, but what do you expect after the history of Spain? They were used to being ruled by lecherous and drunken libertines, and against the fashion of the old times they turned and made a government of their own, an enlightened Socialist government. But there were not found wanting people to say it was too left wing, and there were other people who were able to raise that hideous cry of "Communism!" and so Franco was allowed by a policy of non-intervention to destroy the Democracy of Spain. Let us hope it will not last very much longer.
All the time, you see, there was a fear of the Russian bogey; you only had to mention Russia to make a lot of people at once see red and change from being normal balanced men into gibbering lunatics; you only had to mention Russia and Communism and everyone went "gooey." They thought. "Anything rather than that, anything rather than Russia." And so, when the Russians attacked Finland, which we now know they were quite right in doing our mothers and our sisters gave up their fur coats and people' were asked to give up their warm bed socks so that the Finns could fight the Russians, oblivious as we were to the fact that the Finns were German agents.
Well, I must not go into that much longer. Let us skip a certain amount of history and come down to Munich when Russia was left out. This is not, by the way, an appeal for understanding with Russia. It is just simply incidental. At the same time I wonder how many people in Toronto saw a play called "There Shall Be No Night" in which you probably remember those brilliant actors, Lunt and Fontanne, showed the courage of the Finns under Russian tyranny. Well now, of course, they have had to alter that and in London we see them showing the courage of the Greeks under German tyranny. You do not lose a good box office appeal just for the sake of truth.
This time there is less danger of apathy, but people have very short memories, so let us briefly review Germany's record since 1918. Again I am glad to say that I found in the Toronto newspapers, not long ago, a review of a book which I hope some people have read called, "Germans. Not Nazis," which lends point to a good deal of what I want to say.
The Versailles Treaty, which was signed in the Hall of Mirrors outside Paris, was no sooner signed than people began to condemn it--not only the Germans, but people like me as well. At that time, no, not at that time, but later on when I was a boy in an upper class at school and afterwards when I was an undergraduate at Cambridge, I belonged to that section of people who were all out for sympathy with Germany; we felt terribly sorry for them. They had been abominably treated, they had been let down by their army, we thought, and the French anyhow were not our friends. Any sympathy with Germany became extremely popular.
The Germans are very clever. Young men and young women went to Germany and found them friendly and charming. They walked among the cornfields and they climbed the mountains and struggled after the blue cornflowers and sang songs in beer parlours. Everywhere around them was the atmosphere of Gemuetlichkeit, friendship, charm, and we thought, "These people can't be so bad as all that." That is what you are intended to think after seeing the film, "The Seventh Cross"--"These are nice people. We mustn't really complain about them." The Germans, remember, escaped the horrors of the war, and therefore when we could go to Germany and look at the glorious cathedrals, and castles along the Rhine, and see the standing corn and hear the happy laughter of the children, we forgot the ruins of Louvain and Arras and Ypres. We forgot all about the scorched earth of Northern France and the destruction of Verdun and places like that.
The Germans escaped. Thank God their sons are not going to get off so easily this time. But they would if they could. Carl Rosemeier, a German who understood the Germans, said some time ago, "They will cheat you yet, these Junkers. Having won one-half the world by bloody murder, they'll win the other half with tears in their eyes whining for mercy." And I notice that Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, the High Commissioner here, quoted the other day the words of a captured German staff officer who said with the cynical insolence in which they excel, "It's true," said he, flicking the ash off his cigarette--a cigarette probably offered to him by some obsequious Brigadier. "It is true," said he, "that Germany may have to fight and lose two wars in order to win the third."
The Weimar Republic, which was set up to make peace between the Allies and Germany in 1918, was very soon destroyed. Within the first year of the Weimar Re public there were more political murders in Germany than there were in the first four years of the Nazi regime. The resistance to the Weimar Republic was strong. German people do not like Democracy, they don't understand it, they don't even begin to understand what it means. Some of us are not quite sure, but the German's don't even try.
When Hitler came into power in 1933 he had a walkover. It is idle for people to suggest, as Miss Dorothy Thompson persists in doing, that Hitler was resented and resisted by any large section of the German people. He was not. He gave them exactly what they wanted, uniforms, brass bands, the opportunity to go parading about, doing the goose step, polishing their spades so they could wave them in the air and shout, "Heil Hitler"--and the German maidens, even they had uniforms, uniforms for women. It was exactly what they wanted. When Hitler came into power he said to himself, "I have found my most fanatical supporters among women." The German mothers for centuries and certainly the last fifty years have been trained to raise their sons to fight--and when you're trained to fight, you've got to fight against somebody.
For another thing, only Germans in my opinion can be Nazis. What other people but the Germans could tolerate the kind of people they have to rule over them? Sometimes those of us who suffer from strong political convictions wonder how on earth we can elect people like "Old Joe" or "Tom Somebody" and sometimes it is difficult to understand. But can you imagine any other people on the face of the globe who could tolerate, as their leaders, men not only of twisted and repulsive minds but twisted and repulsive bodies as well? Horrible people! You can look at their pictures and they are quite open and frank about it; they have no publicity agents to touch up their photographs. Julius Streicher does not mind his beastly, sadistic face being photographed-not a bit of it. Nor does Goebbels mind his peculiarly repulsive appearance being reproduced.
It is dangerous to make a clear distinction between Nazis and Germans. Let us not forget that you must be a German before you can be a Nazi. The whole of the Nazi regime was founded upon lying of such a colossal order that it has achieved its object. Hitler said in "Mein Kampf"; "If you want to be believed you must tell big lies and tell them often; and if you tell them often enough people will begin to believe them." The Germans were ready-we were not ready. But a lot of people were not averse from giving colour to German lies especially when we were told: "Look at what this new regime does. The streets are clean, the trains run on time, the hotels are clean, there are no Communists. It's getting almost as nice as in Italy and Portugal and Poland, all of them dictatorial, totalitarian countries." And that just suited the British tourists.
To help him in his lying, he had the modern Beelzebub, Goebbels. If ever there was a successful man, it is indeed Goebbels, because his lying was so thorough that he has succeeded in corrupting a whole people and destroying in a great many of them-in fact in the majority of them-the inherent love of religion which made Germany the stronghold of the Catholic church and the spearhead of the Protestant church. The Germans were a religious people, a people who devoted in the past a good deal of their time, a good deal of their music to the beauty of worship. and now think what they do. I will tell you the kind of thing they sing. The German Youth League and the German League of Women sing a hymn which translated goes something like this
"We have given up the Christian line, For Christ was just a Jewish swine, And as for his Mother, What a shame, Cohen was the lady's real name."
Children sing that kind of thing. Children report their parents for talking against the Government, and a race of thugs and savages has been developed who, as men who are fighting against them now report, are worse than devils. And during all the time while the Germans were talking of peace, the preparations for war went on and behind the scenes there was the very refinement of German persecution.
I was in Germany in 1938 and visited a school; again I ask you to note the frank and open way in which it was done. We were invited to go and look at the way in which German education was prospering; and we went to a little town of Rothenburg, one of the most beautiful towns I have ever seen, a town which looks like an illustration out of a child's fairy tale book, something out of Hans Andersen, with curly red roofs over-hanging narrow cobbled streets, a tall spire with little onion dome, with a church and perhaps occasionally you would pass someone who would give you the German greeting of "Gruss Gott". It was all very charming, and in the school there were cheerful looking children, but it was a school from which they had not yet expelled all the children of mixed Jewish and non-Jewish parents.
All the pure Jews, of course, had long been turned out but, in this particular class where we were, there were still some children who had one Jewish and one non Jewish parent. None of them was over seven. It was the custom of the Government in the morning to give them hot milk, for which the children were required to bring their own cups. Now, these little children of mixed parentage were not allowed to not bring their cups, were not allowed to fall out of line when it was formed up; they were obliged every morning of their lives to go in the queue so that when they came to the teacher with a ladle, they had to say: "I'm sorry I'm a Jew." Whereupon the teacher would say: "We don't want any Jews here." And the child would answer: "I'm sorry."
Afterwards I said to the school mistress, a woman very much the same as my own sister, who is a very ordinary middle-class English woman teaching school: "This seems to me to be one of the most cruel and horrible things I've ever seen." "Cruel?" she said, "Not to the vast majority of German children; after all they must realize how much better they are than the Jews." That is an example of the success of Goebbels prolonged campaign of lies.
Well, then came the war and the Germans very soon showed they had not changed except in one respect. That was the campaign of lies with which they flooded the air, ingenious, disturbing lies which caused a good deal of trouble and a great deal of concern. And I don't think we were very good at answering them back. We are good at a great many things, but I don't think we are so good as all that at lying-I sometimes wish we were a bit better. The Germans soon showed they hadn't changed and the record of atrocities grew, making the atrocities of the last war seem pale in comparison. In the last war-all war is brutal, and the Germans are more brutal than most people -they were still just Germans; this time they had the vileness of Nazism deep in their veins as well, so the world was dismayed and is still shocked and stunned at the record of atrocities which mount day by day by day.
Remember that these young men, who are now 19 or 20, have been subject to it since 1933, and therefore a boy of 17 has been subject to it since he was 7 and so on: Therefore they are capable of deeds of cruelty and beastliness so vile that they themselves get tired of them and think of new ways to kill and torture. I hope we are not going to forget them. And now they are fighting to the finish to the bitter end, let there be no mistake about that. I think it is most mischievous and dangerous that we should be told the war is going to be over very soon. If it is going to be over soon, then it will be at the cost of enormous sacrifice again of blood and young life.
What are we going to do after the war, when that time comes? Let us now do something constructive and make some suggestions. As we know the Germans now, and as we have known them and should have known them for 25 years, it is impossible to make a peace with them until they have learned to be good Europeans. There must be an Armistice and let the Armistice be a long Armistice. Let it last five, or six, or even 10 years. Let the state of war continue.
Let them not send their black-coated, furtive, well-trained, slimy liars to the peace conference, carefully briefed by the militarists and the industrialists, whom they will leave behind them in what, I am glad to say, will not be an unspoiled Berlin. Let them remain a defeated and conquered nation for a period long enough for them to be converted. Let them be turned around and let them see what they have done and let them understand that we will see to it that they will never do it again.
Think of one more thing. After the last war, when the Germans were perhaps suffering from malnutrition, the people of Norway invited them to send their children from the poorer districts to Norway where they grew up in the happy Norwegian country. They had plenty of milk and cheese and came back strong and new children; their lives were saved. It was those children who formed part of the force which went to Norway in 1940 because they spoke Norwegian and they understood Norway. That was the way in which Germans repaid Norwegian generosity. You cannot do anything with people like that except change them.
Let us put to them three questions in one way or another. "Are you beaten? Are you sure? And by whom?" Then there can be no misunderstanding as there was after the last war. Let us pray that we shall find men of the Great Powers who will make the peace, who will agree together, because unless we agree among ourselves the Germans will profit by our disunity. Let us remember the words of Wordsworth who wrote in 1801: "We should exult if they who rule the land were men who count their many blessings dear, and not a servile band, who are to judge of danger which they fear, and honour which they cannot understand."
Let us pray that our leaders will be men who will realize that it is their most imperative duty to agree to deal with Germany so fairly and so decisively that these Canadian boys who take such a pessimistic view of the future may be proved to be wrong. And let us not, on the other hand, give way and behave like the Roman mob and clamour for punishment unrestricted and uncontrolled. There must be punishment; but let us remember what the objects of punishment are: protection of society and the reform of the criminal. In some cases, I hope, the punishment of Germans will fit the crime and they will be made to rebuild. And, of course, I hope, in fact I take it for granted, that we shall destroy the evil leaders of the Gestapo and the people who are convicted of crime. That hardly needs saying.
Are Germans worse than other people? Well, of course they are not, essentially they are not. But they are dangerously infected. If your little girl or boy gets scarlet fever or eczema or some horrid disease, he doesn't become any worse than his brother or sister, but he has to be isolated hasn't he? He's got to get better: and so let us not be led too easily into this business of thinking that the Germans are "all right". We are too prone to do that sort of thing. The British soldier always talks about "Old Jerry" and "Fritz" and when the Germans were shot down from bombing aircraft in England, people were too ready to run and make them cups of tea and cocoa and give them cigarettes.
I heard somebody in Canada say the other day "After all, Rommel was a gentleman-a clean fighter." How does he know? And even if he was a clean fighter, the facts of the matter is that he was a Nazi, that is to say, he was a well-known and deliberate member of the party of his choice. A gentleman-the word has ceased to have any meaning. It is nothing to laugh about, although people will persist in laughing it off. It's the British soldier, I think, who is incapable of this burning hatred with which the Germans seem to be so easily infected. Noel' Coward has an amusing story of when he went to the Near East. He met a soldier who had been wounded in the fighting in Italy. He said, "What's it like?" The soldier said, "Well, the Eye-ties are alright, and the Jerries are alright, but the mosquitoes are bloody awful."
And then, the film, "The Seventh Cross"! If there ever was a piece of shameless propaganda, that's it. It is a pro-German film. But I don't suggest for a moment that the people in Hollywood who made it are pro-German. Nor do I suggest for a moment that the people taking part in it are German agents. That would be absurd. But it is a dangerous film. In it we are shown this charming young German middle class worker, who doesn't know how beastly the Nazis are. How can he possibly not know? How can he have failed to see Jews struck in the face and kicked in the streets? Doesn't he know? Of course he knows. And we are expected to believe that by most Germans the Nazis are hated and feared. They are not. In Germany I can assure you they were applauded, they were welcomed with a frenzy and enthusiasm to which even I myself was once in danger of becoming susceptible.
Are there nice Germans? Well most of us have friends whom we remember-but there again let us not stretch tolerance too far. A taxi driver who drove me in Toronto the other day asked me if I came from England. He thought I had a queer accent. And he said that he had known some nice Englishmen in his time.
Germany is a criminal nation, a criminal nation convicted before the jury of mankind and she must be treated as such. Let us not be infected with an unreasonable prejudice: We must not add another to the racial and religious prejudices of which there are already far too many. There are enough people whose minds are poisoned by a horror of this race or that race or that people already. Let us remember that they are human beings who can be reformed. But, in the meantime, let there be no half measures.
Germany must be de-militarized for ever. Forever. If we see that our Governments, either by acquiescence or apathy are allowing the Germans to have an army, a navy or air force-however small-let's call for a general election and throw them out. Let there be no uniforms in Germany except those worn by postmen, policemen, and railway men. They must not have an army any more. Let us control their youth. Remember that two generations are lost, irretrievably lost. Let us look at the ones that are coming. Let us supervise their sports gatherings to see that they do not degenerate into drill as they did after the last war. And watch their war industries, or potential war industries--heavy industries. Don't let them start building tanks on the sly and making poison gas. Let us keep our inspectors in German war industries, if you like, forever-but certainly, if only for selfish reasons, during your lifetime and mine.
Then there must be re-education. Who is going to do it, I don't know, but there must be re-education. The lessons of the last war were not learned. Already there are several thinking men who have suggested solutions. Mr. Morgenthau of the United States suggests that Germany should be reduced from an industrial to an agricultural nation. There are objections to that at once, of course, from industries in England represented by a paper in England called "The Economist", which attacks Mr. Morgenthau as a fanatic. So does Miss Dorothy Thompson attack him and so on. But it is a step in the right direction. There are people in high places of authority who are thinking about it; Lord Vansittart, who is accused quite unjustly of suggesting that all Germans should be killed, which is nonsense. That is pro-German propaganda. It is pro-German propaganda to misrepresent Vansittart. It is pro-German propaganda to deny that "The Seventh Cross" is in fact pro-German propaganda. We must get our ideas straight on this subject. Vansittart suggests that the Germans shall be left with whole larders but empty arsenals. Surely that is not too much to ask? Perhaps the German state may be broken up. That is a dangerous thing.
At any rate, in conclusion, let us insist that the men whom we elect by the exercise of our free vote which the Germans, had they had their way, would have taken from us, shall be men charged with our mandate to see that the peace of the world shall be secured by the stern treatment of Germany. After the war we shall start building memorials to the dead. I hope--and I speak here for England-that we will not disfigure our countryside again with expensive stone memorials. Let us build schools and hospitals, clinics and universities. And let us devote the money which we want to give to remember the dead to something that will help the living. But it is no use building those things if we are going to have a war again in another 25 years as these Canadian boys fear we are going to; because they will all be destroyed again and we shall have to start all over again.
To sum up then, let us be aware of the past. Let us be watchful in the present and vigilant in the future, and if we are able to secure the construction of a new Ger many, then we shall be safe. If we fail again, then the pessimism of these Canadian boys will be borne out by fact. It is a task which we must all face up to--to secure a just peace and a severe peace with Germany--the only way in which to make sure that there will be no more war. Only then shall we come to the time when we shall not be afraid of the terror by night, or for the arrow that flieth by day, or for the pestilence that walketh in the darkness, and the destruction that wasteth in the noon day.


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Your decision to sell your home is not a small one.
It can be emotional an emotional decision. This is likely the largest investment you've ever made.
Choosing a Realtor who is familiar with the local market and can take your individual needs into account can make all the difference. April Adams provides experience & professional marketing tools to bring your home max visibility and get your property sold.
Hiring the wrong agent is a mistake that could cost you thousands. In today's technology-driven world, you need to choose wisely when selecting an agent; someone that has worked to stay current with technology & methods. Simply placing a sign in the yard, a lockbox on the door, or adding a home to the MLS System and hoping will sell…Well, we all know that that is not enough
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Air Conditioner or AC has became the essential household appliances now a days. To make our work-space more cool and comfortable we buy air conditioner. But nowadays there are a lots of brand and type of air conditioner that we might get confused before buying it. Without knowing the product we could not make a good investment on a right product. So there are few things that we need to concern before buying an air conditioner.
Types of Air Conditioner
Many people may don't know about availability of different types of air conditioner.
Here we are not talking about the capacity or sizes of air conditioner but type of ac which are made and designed for it's different purpose.
1. Windows Air Conditioner
Window Air Conditioner are type of air conditioner which are attached at the windows of your room.It is small in size and cheaper option in terms of other type of air conditioner. If your room contains a lot of windows and room size is small then it is the best option. But there are some of the drawbacks that could be a big deals to you.
If your room is bigger is size and there is no windows then you can't use these kind of air conditioner. Since it fitted on the windows for airflow you must need a room or space with windows and it makes a lot more sound than the other type of air conditioner. If you need good design, faster cooling and silent sound air conditioner then you need to go for split/ wall mount air conditioner.
2. Split Air Conditioner/ Wall Mount Air Conditioner
Split Air Conditioner or wall mount air conditioner are most common type of air conditioner and popular choice of air conditioner. This type of air conditioner is attached at the wall. It cools room faster and better in terms of windows air conditioner. It makes less noise or sound than window air conditioner. Due to it's design look and feel it looks more beautiful in rooms or your work-space.
It is more costly than windows air conditioner but this type of air conditioner doesn't need to have window and quiet in sound. Due to its higher cooling efficiency it is much more better choice that Window Air Conditioner.
3. Portable Air Conditioner
Portable Air Conditioner can be use in every kind of space around you since it is portable in nature you can carry it at any place. If windows ac and split ac are not able to installed in your room them portable air conditioner are a best choice for it. It is popular due to its portable nature.
It is more expensive and smaller in size.
4. Ceiling Cassette
Ceiling Cassette is best option for large space like office, store, banks where cool air must be distributed evenly.It is large in size and heavy in nature due to which it difficult to installed on false ceiling or weak ceiling structure..
For wide, large space and even comfortable air conditioner ceiling cassette is the best option.
5. Flooring Stand Air Conditioner
Flooring Stand Air Conditioner are ground level air conditioner.These appliances are useful in inside spaces that lack sufficient wall space to attach appliances, or within buildings constructed of fragile materials such as glass. Furthermore, the floor mounted units can look more discreet than their wall mounted alternatives, minimizing the impact on a room's aesthetics.
The main problem with these air conditioner are the air flow may get more obstruction since it is attached at the ground level.
Tesla can provide Tesla Flooring Stand Air Conditioner with 2.0 ton(24000 BTU) & 4.0 ton(48000 BTU) capacities.
Energy Star Rating:
Energy Star Rating is a global techniques to represent the power saving capacity of a electronic product. Higher the number of energy rating better on power saving. Energy rating is done from 1 to 5 star. 5 star energy rated products are 40% power efficient than a normal electronic product.
|Energy Star
|Yearly Energy Saving(%)
|5-10 %
|12-15 %
Tesla Air Conditioner is 5 star energy rated air conditioner which can electricity up to 30%
Capacity of Air Conditioner:
Capacity of Air Conditioner is measured in ton. Large the room size better to bought higher number of ton capacity air conditioner.
|Room Size(foot)
|Required Air Conditioner Capacity (ton)
|50 sq foot
|1 ton
|110 sq foot
|1.2 ton – 1.4 ton
|150 sq foot
|1.5 ton
|200 sq foot
|1.6 ton- 2 ton
|200 sq foot>
|Need additional number of air conditioner
Tesla provides varieties capacity of air conditioner. Tesla Ceiling Suspension with 2.0 ton(24000 BTU) & 4.0 ton(48000 BTU) capacity are now available which are best suited for your store, office, restaurant.
More things to remember
1.Inverter Technology
Air Conditioner which has inverter technology can maintain constant temperature throughout the room. Inverter Air Conditioner has greater life span in terms of compressor. It is more silent and energy efficient. These air conditioner are more expensive.
2.Sleep Mode
Air Conditioner with sleep mode functionality maintain fluent temperature control and maintain the temperature during bed time. It makes quiet and comfortable sleeping.
Tesla Air Conditioner contains sleep mode functionality which promise to make your sleep comfortable.
3.Material Used in Coil
The coil used in compressor is important component. Cooling and heating capability is directly concerned with the material use in coil inside the compressor. Coil which are made from a good quality of copper are best standard coil inside the compressor use in air conditioner. Even it is little high in price for long term and cooling technology it must be a good choice to choose 100 % copper coil air conditioner compressor.
Tesla Air Conditioner compressor are made up of 100% copper materials that provides durable compressor with 3-year warranties on compressor for all Tesla Air Conditioner.
4.Seasonal Functionality
Nowadays most of the air conditioner can cool as well as make warm during summer and winter season. So choose air conditioner which can be operate in bottom seasons. Look after the good reverse cycle technology used to make warm your room by using outside heat of the room.
Tesla Air Conditioner are designed with reverse cycle technology. Tesla Air Conditioner are compatible with both summer and winter seasons.


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Hands Free Computing Recognised for 20 Years!
Earlier this year, Hands Free Computing attended the Nuance Healthcare Partner Event in Barcelona. The event itself was held over three days at the picturesque Hotel Arts Barcelona. The event is held annually and is designed to share news & insight, offer an opportunity to network with other Nuance Healthcare Partners and finally recognise those that have achieved over the year.
Seminars are held across the three days to help share relevant information to hundreds of attendees to help and inform about all things Healthcare from Nuance. The Gala Dinner, which features awards to recognise outstanding achievements from Nuance, was held on the evening of the second day.
Lawrence Howard, our Managing Director, was delighted to receive the '20 Year Partnership' award at the Gala Dinner which was award to recognise the long partnership between Nuance and Hands Free Computing. Lawrence commented;
"I am delighted to receive this award. Hands Free have had an outstanding relationship with Nuance over the course of 20 years and I am looking forward to continuing our work with them for the next 20 and beyond"!


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With the recent launch of the iPhone 3GS and a drop in the price of the iPhone 3G, Exspect is cashing in on the expected high demand for both devices by adding to its line of peripherals and accessories.
Exspect's first full range of 'Works with iPhone' and 'Made for iPod' FM transmitters are due to be launched this month. The EX154 can be used with any FM radio and is powered by the iPod, a mini USB cable or an in-car charger. The EX156, which is compatible with the iPhone and all iPods, is designed specifically for use in a car, with a steering wheel control function and RDS technology to display the current track on the car stereo. Both transmitters have large LCD displays, auto-off functions, and can store up to two presets.
Following the success of its universal touchpen, Exspect is also launching a luxury leather wallet made specifically for the iPhone 3GS, which includes the pen in an incorporated holder. The touchpen is designed to make writing emails and notes easier, and the EX282 and EX283 wallets are available in black or red.
The EX108 Gaming Grip is ergonomically designed to recreate the experience of playing on a handheld games console. Made from silicon, it improves the user's grip of the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G while games are being played. The Grip is contoured to fit the palm of the hand while keeping the touch screen completely accessible. With a screen protector included as standard, it also doubles up as a protective case when not being used for games.
The firm's popular iPhone slipcases are made from Nappa leather with a soft inner lining to protect the screen and contours of the phone. With a snug-fitting design, the EX044 – 055 cases come in black, red, brown and pink, with a pull-release ribbon mechanism to remove the phone.
The EX100 –104 protective cases have many of the same features, but have a flip front for a full view of the touch screen and quick access to all the phone's ports. Available in four colours, the cases have a hard polycarbonate shell and leather covering with a soft interior.
Exspect's EX705 – 709 flip cases are hand-stitched with a magnetic fastening. Designed especially for women, the leather cases come in animal print motifs including zebra, snake, crocodile skin and leopard.


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The Freekeh Range
Greenwheat Freekeh™ currently has Wholegrain, Cracked Grain, Freekeh & Quinoa, Wholemeal Freekeh Flour and Wholemeal Puffed Freekeh varieties available.
Wholegrain Freekeh
Wholegrain Freekeh is nutritious whole grain kernels with a delicious nutty taste, a hint of smokiness and a unique texture.
Cracked Grain Freekeh
The Cracked Grain variety is whole grain kernels that have been splintered into smaller pieces to provide a faster cooking time leading to a different texture and taste in comparison to the Wholegrain.
Cracked Freekeh & Quinoa
We have teamed together our finely Cracked grain Freekeh, with the finest quality organic tri-coloured quinoa to create a highly nutritious super-food duo packing some serious health benefits.
Wholemeal Freekeh Flour
Wholemeal Freekeh Flour has unique proprieties providing very high nutrition. It produces strong dough and absorbs some 20% more water than normal flour. It blends beautifully with other flours to improve elasticity and provide huge and favourable points of difference in taste, texture and nutritional values.
Wholemeal Puffed Freekeh
With a pronounced strong taste and smokiness, Wholemeal Puffed Freekeh comes in smaller puffs blending itself well to other kinds of products and essentially to be coated with different ingredients.
For retail
- 400 gram bag Wholegrain Freekeh
- 400 gram bag Cracked Grain Freekeh
- 400 gram bag Cracked Freekeh and Quinoa
For food service / bulk sales
- 20 kg bag Wholegrain Freekeh
- 20 kg bag Cracked Grain Freekeh
- 20 kg bag Finely Cracked Grain Freekeh
- 20 kg bag Cracked Freekeh and Quinoa
- 5 kg and 25kg bag Wholemeal Freekeh Flour
- 6 kg bag Wholemeal Puffed Freekeh