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distance home run spots, is once again promote the MCI brand
image and tie it to a sporting event or activity that the viewer
can focus in on." Wayans reported that these sponsorships are
cheaper than buying and producing ads. Dean Barrett, VP/Sports
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bringing the NFL alive. It really is not an incremental cost to
the advertiser, it's really part of the overall program."
Wayans: "The bottom line is these spots are cost effective"
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TODAY looks at "Fashion at Wimbledon," the event that calls for
players to wear predominately white apparel. Agassi is
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MasterCard Int'l has reportedly signed on as title sponsor
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award program at 10,000 pro shops and an interactive mall tour
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Quaker Oats CEO Bill Smithburg is leading Quaker "into the
rowdiest marketing war of many summers, taking on the beverage
brutes Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in two categories," sports drinks
and natural beverages, according to a piece in the current
FORTUNE. FORTUNE's Patricia Sellers writes that Smithburg
deserves credit for keeping Gatorade on "top of its game," as the
brand's visibility in pro leagues like the NBA is "unparalleled."
Sales hit $1.2B in '94, but Coke and Pepsi are "applying a full-
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Shaquille O'Neal and Ken Griffey, Jr., who pitch for All-Sport.
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acquisition of Snapple soft drinks "had been failing to live
up to expectations." Quaker told analysts that sales of its
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behind last year (FINANCIAL TIMES, 6/22). In the current
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Last week Topps Co. announced that its sales dropped nearly
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the MLB players strike. But, according to Miriam Leuchter of
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purchase of Merlin Publishing, a "fast-growing, highly
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NOTTINGHAM: Australia great Shane Warne is to be inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame, the global governing body said in a statement issued from its Dubai headquarters on Thursday.
The leg-spin legend will be formally inducted into the Hall of Fame during the tea interval of the second day of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia at Lord's on July 19.
Warne, credited with reviving interest in leg-spin outside Asia, was the first bowler to take 700 Test wickets and represented Australia in 145 Tests between 1992 and 2007. In all he took 708 Test wickets at an average of 25.41.
His tally of 3,154 Test runs is the most by any player without making a hundred.
Warne also took 293 wickets in 194 one-day internationals at an average of 25.73 and was a member of the Australia side that beat Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup final at Lord's where his team-mates included fellow Hall of Famers Glenn McGrath and Steve Waugh.
His return in the final of four wickets for 33 runs in nine overs saw Warne named man-of-the-match.
“I'm very honoured and proud to be announced as an inductee into the ICC Hall of Fame later this month and I'd like to thank the voting academy very much for even considering me,” said Warne, currently in England working as a television commentator during the ongoing Ashes series, which started Wednesday at Nottingham's Trent Bridge ground.
“I'm looking forward to celebrating my induction with my friends and family in front of the crowd at Lord's during the second Ashes Test.”
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21, 2005 -- The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [NYSE:BA] a contract as Product Support Integrator (PSI) for the USAF E-4 National Airborne Operations Center fleet. This is a five-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle with one five-year option. The contract has a $2 billion cost cap.
Boeing will lead a “best of industry” team consisting of Boeing, L3 Communications, Rockwell Collins,and Greenpoint Technology Inc. in fulfilling the contract.
“This team will serve as the lead system integrator for the E-4 fleet using a total-life cycle, systems engineering approach,” said Pat Finneran, vice president and general manager for Boeing Logistics Support Systems. “This PSI contract will provide increased readiness to our national command authorities and allow us to integrate multiple contracts and activities into a single contracting vehicle, providing best value to the warfighter.”
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by James M. Clifton, 1979
14 Sept. 1814–14 Sept. 1862
William Shepperd Ashe, lawyer, rice planter, state senator, congressman, and railroad president, was born in the Lower Cape Fear plantation community of Rocky Point, the third son of Samuel and Elizabeth Shepperd Ashe, both members of prominent planting families, and grandson of Samuel Ashe, governor of North Carolina and judge. Following a course in classical studies at Washington (later Trinity) College in Hartford, Conn., Ashe read law in the office of North Carolina Judge John de Rossett Toomen. He was admitted to the state bar only two or three days after his marriage to Sarah Ann Green of Brunswick County, in January 1836.
Shortly thereafter, he was elected county solicitor on the Democratic ticket for the four counties of the Lower Cape Fear, a position he seems to have held only briefly, for, as noted later by his son, Samuel A. Ashe, "his planting interests and his social disposition, which was at variance with the exactions of a professional life, led him . . . to abandon the practice of law." Then, doubtless with more leisure time on his rice plantation for reading and thinking, he kept well abreast of the political questions and happenings of the day and apparently remained quite active in the Democratic party. In 1844 he was selected a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Polk and Dallas.
In 1846, Ashe won election from New Hanover County to the state senate. In this body, he concerned himself principally with appropriations for railroad building and, more especially, with where these railways would be built. Feeling that railroads from the western part of the state should lead to the state's ports in the east, especially Wilmington, rather than connecting with lines that served the ports of South Carolina or Virginia, he advocated the construction of a railroad from Charlotte to Goldsboro, there to connect with the Wilmington-Weldon line for passage of goods to and from the port city of Wilmington. Mainly through his influence, this railroad ultimately materialized in the North Carolina Railroad, despite advocacy of other routes by such distinguished figures as governors John M. Morehead and William A. Graham.
In the election of 1848, Ashe won not only reelection to the state senate but also a seat in the U.S. Congress, which he entered in December 1849, as a freshman member of the body that would pass the Compromise of 1850. He contributed little to the compromise efforts, however, choosing rather to side with southern extremists to the extent of advocating secession as the proper course for the South. In the Congress, where he would serve two terms, his principal interests, as in the state senate, concerned internal improvements, especially the securing of federal appropriations for improving the channels of the rivers of North Carolina. Finding the Democratic members, who held the majority, opposed on principle to such appropriations, Ashe was able to persuade a good number of them to leave the chamber long enough to allow the Whigs, who had not earlier gone on public record as opposed to such measures, to pass his bill.
In 1854, Ashe became president of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, a fitting office in the light of his earlier legislation, which had done so much to promote the railroad, and one that he would hold for the rest of his life. He immediately set about promoting for the railroad a new era of progress and profits, concluding in England a very advantageous arrangement on the road's bonded debt, developing a large Florida travel for the line, arranging through freight trains to Charlotte via the North Carolina Railroad, and perhaps most interestingly, establishing regular steamship connections with the line in Wilmington and New York. In 1858, Ashe once again became a state senator, in order to help thwart former Governor Morehead's plan to pass legislation providing for a railroad from Greensboro to Danville, which would have cut the state in two and directed half the state's traffic away from Ashe's line.
At the Charleston convention in 1860, to which Ashe was a delegate, leading North Carolina Democrats, including Governor John W. Ellis, tried unsuccessfully to present Ashe's name for nomination for vice-president. In 1861, Ashe served in the state convention, where, in addition to being one of the most vocal spokesmen for secession, he strongly supported a constitutional amendment allowing Jews in the state to hold public office. He further advocated that the state cooperate wherever possible to promote the Confederate cause. Because of this stance, he was asked in the summer of 1861 by President Jefferson Davis, a long-time friend, to assume control of the Confederate government's transportation between New Orleans and Richmond. He accordingly took a position in the quartermaster's department, first as a major and then as a colonel, for a year.
By the spring of 1862, however, with the eastern part of the state under armed invasion, Ashe was anxious to become more directly involved in the military aspects of the war. President Davis responded to his desires, first by asking him to collect guns from the citizens for the soldiers until the blockade runners could provide the needed rifles, and then by commissioning him as colonel in the field with the authority to raise his own legion of infantry, artillery, and cavalry. Hardly had he launched this latter project when fate, ironically at the hands of his own railroad, cut short his plans. In September 1862, when returning from the salt works at Wrightsville Sound that he and others had started, he received word that one of his two sons, both soldiers in General Lee's army, had been captured. Quickly commandeering a hand car, he hastened home in the hope of obtaining more information about his son's fate. During the trip, his car was struck in the darkness by an unlighted train. Ashe was mortally injured and died three days later. He was interred in the family cemetery at The Neck, near Rocky Point. Of the two sons who survived him, Major John G. Ashe moved on to Texas after the war, where he died in 1867, leaving descendants; Samuel A. Ashe would become one of North Carolina's most distinguished historians. | {
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jamesclaflin
Ive always been an apple mobile guy (dont kill me!) But ive always wanted to try android OS and have been waiting and waiting for a good deal to snag something android! Did i find it?
Any comment would be great with advice!
I dont really care about the port (i never do anything with a port anyway) But is this much better than a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2?
Darksoul13
The Z version will be out after may. Pre-orders are up in the Sony store UK. The US store has yet to update. I am waiting for another price drop. That proprietary connector is a big drawback, especially when you have to swap it out when you need to either charge or use an hdmi adapter.
Darksoul13
jamesclaflin wrote:Ive always been an apple mobile guy (dont kill me!) But ive always wanted to try android OS and have been waiting and waiting for a good deal to snag something android! Did i find it?
Any comment would be great with advice!
I dont really care about the port (i never do anything with a port anyway) But is this much better than a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2?
ejeon
jamesclaflin wrote:Thx man, it sure looks better from that in almost every way!
Now i just need to decide, 220 for this or 150 for a 7 inch galaxy tab
One thing to consider: A 7" tablet will fit in the back pocket of your jeans, or an inside jacket pocket. A 9" means having to carry a bag. I take my G-tab everywhere and use it for everything. A bigger tablet would be next to useless for me.
jamesclaflin
ejeon wrote:One thing to consider: A 7" tablet will fit in the back pocket of your jeans, or an inside jacket pocket. A 9" means having to carry a bag. I take my G-tab everywhere and use it for everything. A bigger tablet would be next to useless for me.
Thx for that, good point. But am i gunna see speed differences? Im guessing this can handle memory heavy apps better or no? Like does you tab 2 7" handle the newest store apps well?
thomas998
Has two major problems that people should consider. The wifi range sucks, I can go outside and sit and use my iPad but if I even go to another room with the Sony my signal goes to hell, no way it will even tr to work if I go outside. The other issue is the thing has a led on the right side of it that you just can't control. Doesn't matter what software you install to deactivate the light it will flash to tell you you have new messages or updates constantly, and at night when you are sleeping if it is in you bedroom it will nearly light the whole room. My wife stopped using hers because of the light and it now resides in the game room serving as a universal remote. I made the mistake of buying 3 for the family on woot about a year ago because they were so darned cheap. Well it was not a good deal then and they were about 250 a pop and new. I would never think this price for refurbs is a good deal.
pjeffy
I did a lot of research before buying my Nexus 7. My 2nd choice was the Sony Xperia Tablet. Sony seems to upgrade their Android at a decent clip vs many of the other tablets. Also, it is downright beautiful and feels great to hold. I ended up with the N7 and the pure Google experience...but it was close.
gareed
I've had the Xperia S since last Sept12. Last week Sony pushed Android 4.1/Jelly Bean. I wasn't expecting it but it was like getting a brand new tablet. Faster and it just really feels right. I rooted my Viewsonic gTablet and Galaxy I phone but I've seen no reason to root the Xperia S, yet. With the Xperia Tablet z coming out end of May, I may fool/look around for a rom... much later.
msrowyredhead
I have had this tablet for a while, and I love it, with one really infuriating exception.
It drops wifi every time you blink.. in areas where every other device is working fine. Including the 13 year old's under 100 dollar coby
dartmar
I have the 32 bit version of this tablet that I bought on woot last year. In fact I am typing this on it. I absolutely love it. I use it every day. Unless I am playing intensive games the battery still lasts all day. In fact when I go to charge it at night it is rarely less than half full. I was worried about the proprietary charger, but this hasn't been an issue, except for when my puppy chewed up the first one. It is quick and responsive. Mine has never lost the WiFi, even from quite a distance. I have used it with my home WiFi, and my crappy virgin Mobile MiFi. It has actually picked up the signal well over 100 feet away through 2 concrete walls. I do have one problem with mine that would be fixed by a factory reset or an OS update, it lost some of the features of ICS. I didn't do the reset, because I didn't want to lose my progress in a game. I haven't received the JB update yet. I will look for it this weekend. The form is nice, though I wish the fat end was on the right. Most apps only run in two or three directions not all four. You can not run apps from the ad card, but you can keep data, music and photos on it. Mine (which is the 32 bit version) has 4 gb of internal storage, and the rest as usb storage. I was concerned with this setup, but it has worked fine, and I have had no memory concerns. It does use the play store, unlike many of the devices I have stumbled across. I have only seen1 or 2 apps that won't install it. (Pogo). I must say it is much quicker and more responsive than my daughter's tablet. I also use this with my autistic students, and it has stood up nicely. It connects to my Bluetooth keyboard easily.
kschoenberg
There's another problem with this device it is made by Sony. Ask anyone that purchased a Dash about Sony's idea of continuing support. Obviously, you're in better shape with Android, but if you think you're going to require any on-going support forget about Sony.
The WiFi issues would be a killer as well.
timothyw
I have the slightly different Sony SGPT112US/S 32GB 9.4" Android Tablet S with Cradle, from a prior woot. My wife sometimes uses it instead of her iPad, so it's comparable; not better or even the same, but tolerable enough that she often won't walk into the other room to find her iPad and plug it in. The weaker points in mine are the speakers (and microphone) and camera--they do okay, but nothing great. The camera and microphone in my Droid Razr is noticeably better for taking short home videos of the kids playing piano than my Tablet S.
However, compared to my ancient ViewSonic gTablet, this thing is awesome. It's much more locked down than the gTablet, but much more functional.
I did our annual Holiday card on the Sony Tablet S using the $10 Photoshop app, and I have been pretty impressed. It's not a laptop replacement or ipad killer, but it's a solid tablet, and I haven't been disappointed.
gak0090
jamesclaflin wrote:Ive always been an apple mobile guy (dont kill me!) But ive always wanted to try android OS and have been waiting and waiting for a good deal to snag something android! Did i find it?
Any comment would be great with advice!
I dont really care about the port (i never do anything with a port anyway) But is this much better than a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2?
I am going to help you come from the dark side. Today's tablet is decent, but I would recommend this for you $350. It's more expensive, but this tablet is on a whole different level with a lot more options (just google it):
gak0090
kschoenberg wrote:There's another problem with this device it is made by Sony. Ask anyone that purchased a Dash about Sony's idea of continuing support. Obviously, you're in better shape with Android, but if you think you're going to require any on-going support forget about Sony.
The WiFi issues would be a killer as well.
You are right on about the Dash. I keep one in my bathroom to look at my calender, weather stuff, look at pictures while I'm getting ready for work- but the apps are starting to drop off 1 by 1.Flickr doesn't work any more, the calender only works sometimes. I love this device, it's a great piece of hardware with no support- perfect for what I use it for. I guess I'll just have to buy a tablet to take it's place. I agree- go with Asus, Toshiba, Acer, Samsung
morriea
thomas998 wrote:Has two major problems that people should consider. The wifi range sucks, I can go outside and sit and use my iPad but if I even go to another room with the Sony my signal goes to hell, no way it will even tr to work if I go outside. The other issue is the thing has a led on the right side of it that you just can't control. Doesn't matter what software you install to deactivate the light it will flash to tell you you have new messages or updates constantly, and at night when you are sleeping if it is in you bedroom it will nearly light the whole room. My wife stopped using hers because of the light and it now resides in the game room serving as a universal remote. I made the mistake of buying 3 for the family on woot about a year ago because they were so darned cheap. Well it was not a good deal then and they were about 250 a pop and new. I would never think this price for refurbs is a good deal.
That was NOT the Xperia. it was the Tablet S (1st Gen).
That is true of all the people saying they got it on WOOT last year NEW. It is not the same tablet.
morriea
helixro wrote:thanks for this. i was experiencing buyer's remorse and was about to cancel my impulse buy, based on reported inconsistent wifi response.
It is a common occurrence in these discussions on tablets here. People tend to write before they have enough information, or are just plain ignorant of the actual models. I have seen the mods need to remove tons of comments on the Galaxy Note 10.1 sale because people just do not know that one tablet is not the same as the next tablet.
currensb
ep11365
Darksoul13 wrote:The Z version will be out after may. Pre-orders are up in the Sony store UK. The US store has yet to update. I am waiting for another price drop. That proprietary connector is a big drawback, especially when you have to swap it out when you need to either charge or use an hdmi adapter.
The Xperia Z of US version will be released b4 the end of May and the price would be $499.
vashley2000
I bought the S tablet last year on woot! I Love love love it!!! I haven't really turned my computer on since I bought it. I am actually going to buy another one today because I want a back up!!
I did notice that it seems like one pixel is not working but it took me a month to notice it. that could have just been mine. None the less, there isn't a day that I am not on this poor tablet. I guess now I will have one for upstairs and one for downstairs!! I spoil myself!
biosylum
Got in on the S1 + cradle deal last year (typing on it now). Of course, it was a new unit, so the refurb thing is the only thing holding me back. I really enjoy this thing, and if I knew for sure the quality would be on par with the one I have, I wouldn't hesitate. I'd feel comfortable passing this unit along as a gift to someone, Seems as though Sony gave up on updates for this S1, but I've really had zero issues with mine. I use it all day long, and kinda gave up using my desktops/laptops for quite sometime after getting it. One caveat, never set CD's down on it. The screen reacts violently to them (fun to watch though - may force a reboot if you leave one on too long). Probably my most favorite Woot ever, if not hands down.
morriea
vashley2000 wrote:I bought the S tablet last year on woot! I Love love love it!!! I haven't really turned my computer on since I bought it. I am actually going to buy another one today because I want a back up!!
I did notice that it seems like one pixel is not working but it took me a month to notice it. that could have just been mine. None the less, there isn't a day that I am not on this poor tablet. I guess now I will have one for upstairs and one for downstairs!! I spoil myself!
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Dec 21: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) yesterday pledged funding of around RO 500,000 to a variety of social investment projects to benefit the community.
The Company signed 17 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with a range of municipal authorities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for infrastructure, equipment and financial support.
The agreements will pave the way for two public majlises in Barbazom and Dhahboon in Wilayat of Thumrait, a water well and accessories in Wadi Arah in Wilayat of Shaleem, a slaughterhouse in Hamra Adduru’a and two underground water channels (Falaj) in Ibri. Petroleum Development Oman is also funding additional infrastructure at Shaleem Hospital.
In addition, the Company is funding a package of measures to help NGOs, including special wheelchairs for the Oman Association for the Disabled, and equipment for the Omani Society for the Hearing Impaired.
Other NGOs to benefit are the Al Hayat Association, Early Intervention Association, Oman Alzheimer’s Society, Hereditary Blood Disorder Association, Oman Diabetes Association, Children First Association, Oman Down Syndrome Association, Environment Society of Oman and the Omani Women’s Association in Al Hamra. PDO also pledged to give further support to women from low-income backgrounds through its Banat Oman social enterprise which funds vocational training.
The agreements confirming these commitments were signed at an official ceremony at PDO’s Knowledge World Centre under the auspices of Shaikh Ali bin Nasser al Mahrouqi, Secretary-General of Majlis Ash’shura.
The eminent signatories included Almunther bin Ahmed al Marhoon, Wali of Thumrait, Mohamed Berham Ba Omar, Wali of Shaleem and Shaikh Hamed Sultan al Busaidi, Assistant Wali of Ibri in Hamra Adduru’a.
PDO Managing Director Raoul Restucci said: “PDO is committed to supporting Omani communities with targeted social investment to address specific needs. These latest MoUs will bring direct benefit to a number of people and good causes across the Sultanate and show that, even in a low oil price environment, we are staying the course on our corporate social responsibility programme.”
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JPMorgan Chase not as bad as the Nazis, report finds
An outside review of Bloomberg L.P.’s practices found that a controversial article that compared the damage in an Italian town after a bad deal with JPMorgan Chase to the fallout from the Nazis’ occupation in World War II went “too far.”
The 2011 article, which JPMorgan complained about at the time and Bloomberg declined to change, has long been a sore spot between the bank and Bloomberg and was recently mentioned in a New York Times article that focused on the friction between Wall Street and Bloomberg.
“In one of the great campaigns of World War II, Monte Cassino was completely destroyed in a wave of battles that claimed 75,000 casualties and the lives of hundreds of townspeople. To suggest that a bond deal gone sour, curtailing daycare for 60 children and services for the poor, is comparable to the terror and cataclysm of war is inconsistent with BN’s high standards,” Clark Hoyt, an editor-at-large at Bloomberg News and a former public editor of The Times, found in his review, which focused on the relationship between Bloomberg’s news and commercial operations.... | {
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Less than 72 hours before the The International Human Rights Art Festival was to premiere new work at Saint Mary’s Church on the Lower East Side, organizers were told the Archdiocese had issue with several works—in particular, Accidental Trans Anthems by trans artist Maybe Burke, and Thank You for Coming Out, an improvised piece by Alex Song (The Tonight Show) and Michael Hartney (School of Rock).
“We cannot have this kind of work in the Catholic Church,” a spokesman told festival director Tom Block. The Church offered to host the event if the two acts were rejected, but Block declined.
“The idea that some of us would go forward while others were rejected is antithetical to our mission, our belief and frankly, our faith,” Block added. “I feel fortunate in that I am not beholden to a spiritual structure that tells me who is worthy of a voice and protection, and who is not.”
Actress Kathleen Turner, slated to perform a monologue, called Dolan’s complaint “absolutely, completely wrong,” and said silencing anyone’s voice “is very much against the teaching of Christianity.”
The evening was produced in conjunction with Culture Project, and was going to inaugurate Saint Mary’s 9,000-square-foot grand hall as that group’s new regular performance space.
New Yorkers take pride in protecting everyone’s right to live and love freely. IHRAF is right at home in our city. https://t.co/cJyu0jDmLQ
Culture Project founder Allan Buchman says the archdiocese told him he’d have to sensitive about what he presented, but the example given was about profanity. Buchman insists he wasn’t told gay-themed works would be questioned.
Block similarly claimed, “It never crossed our minds that we would be banned or asked not to present certain things.”
Given the Church’s history of condemning and erasing LGBT identities, maybe it should have.
“Whenever parish property is used by an outside group of any sort… the expectation is that nothing would occur that would violate Catholic sensibilities and teaching,” said church spokesperson Joseph Zwilling.
A new venue was eventually found at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, an Episcopal church. But it’s not clear if the incident will cause Culture Project to rethink its relationship with St. Mary’s. Catholic Churches all over the country line their pockets with money from theaters and arts organizations in need of homes. How many are writing checks to an institution that actively wants to silence them?
The show WILL go on. The lovely Kathleen Turner rehearsing at the front of Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn. No thanks to Cardinal Dolan pic.twitter.com/Iyn1VTT3pY | {
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It’s unfortunate that the majority of people in the United States refuse to accept anything that’s not spoon-fed to them by the mainstream media or admitted “trustful” by politicians and business elitists. But the sign-posts of collapse are planted everywhere for anyone willing to put forth the effort to read them. I have not fully decided if the mass-engendered impulse to ignore reality is a product of sheer stupidity, slothful ignorance or willful denial.
Most people have chosen either to overlook the Jade Helm 15 exercises which “officially” begin next month and run through mid-September. Of course, there are been thousands of reports of ongoing military exercises and mass military equipment movement via rail from many States, including here in Colorado. The mainstream media is fueling the public’s determined ignorance about Jade Helm by not reporting the event, for the most part.
However, now it has been reported that Department of Defense officials are now admitting that the Pentagon has been preparing for mass civil unrest:
A new US Department of Defense (DoD) research program admits that the Pentagon has long been concerned about widespread social break down. Even more striking of an admission is the fact that they have been funding universities to create models of the dynamics, risks and tipping points that would all be part of large-scale civil unrest in the United States.
The article references source material, so it would be impossible to impose skepticism on the evidence. Anyone denying this reality is therefore hopelessly stupid or tragically naive.
I will have more on this later, but many have noticed some isolated events which indicate the global bond markets may be experiencing pre-collapse tremors. A bond market selling avalanche is the worst nightmare of the Central Banks.
Many analysts have been pointing to September as the time period when the real brown stuff begins to hit the fan. There are several possible trigger events, including the possible de-linking of the yuan from the dollar by China. Perhaps it is no coincidence the official Jade Helm exercises have been timed to end on September 15… | {
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Will Your Child End Up Crushed by Student Loan Debt?
An article in theWall Street Journal reports on the plight of heavily indebted ex-students whose lives have been disrupted by debt. They did not count the cost.
One woman went into debt for $74,000 to earn a degree in business management. Should could have earned that degree in two years by distance learning for about $11,000. But no one told her. She pays $900 a month. That is 60% of her meager paycheck.
Her fiancé, age 31, spends 40% of his paycheck on student loans. Each works 60 hours a week.
They did not count the cost. No one warned them. It’s tragic.
The total student loan money owed in 2011 was $1 trillion.It keeps rising.
Most students get little help from colleges in choosing loans or calculating payments. Most pre-loan counseling for government loans is done online, and many students pay only fleeting attention to documents from private lenders. Many borrowers “are very confused, and don’t have a good sense of what they’ve taken on,” says Deanne Loonin, an attorney for the National Consumer Law Center in Boston and head of its Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project.
Read the fine print. No one tells them.
The average debt load at graduation is $25,000. But some burdens are far worse.
This debt forces the victims — and they really are victims of bad advice from adults — from starting their families.
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They did not count the cost. No one warned them. It’s tragic. Guess we ought to be grateful for the excellent basic math skills being taught in today's union0run school system! I actually remember having to do compound interest calculations in GRADE SCHOOL. Not any more. And, not everyone had their sights set on "college". The idea of a millwright, machinist, craftsman was still not tarnished.
My child already is burderned by student loans. She clears about !400 a month, and her loans are about 200/month. I closed off my master bedroom and made her an apartment to live in to cut her housing costs. That's the only reason that she is making it. That would be a solution for everyone, if the government and the banks hadn't conspired to cause this foreclosure crisis. Living in a country with a liberal government is like playing a real life game of "Resident Evil." The government has spawned so many economic monsters in an effort to enrich Congress, its relatives and in-laws, and its ethnic constitutients that at every turn there is another monster.
Read the fine print? This is really an absurd sentence. For example, if you want to go to medical school you need close to $200,000. If you don't have the money, you need to borrow it from someplace, and at that point you cannot be choosy, you are happy to get a loan. It's good to be smart and shop around but not all of us have the luxury to pick and choose the best deals.
In 1974 I Graduated from Hight School, I had pretty good grades, but It was suggested that I should go to Community College. I did for a year, I then when to a University. It took me just six weeks to figure out that, this was not the right thing for me. I just didn’t want to be around, binge drinking, drugs and pretty much communists. So I Left School. I took a flying lesson, and decided that flying for for me. How to pay for it, well I went Commercial Fishing, Lobsters,Crab and tuna. I spent two very cold wet winters shooting coyotes for pelts. Prices for those were very good for them for some reason. I went to flight school. I live a debt free life or as debt a free life as you can live. No credit cards. The problem with most is that they want it now, not next week or until you put enough money away to pay for it or a good chunk of it. Look they taken the money, gotten degrees in basket weaving and are now complaining that gee I was lied to and write off the loans. Well you go to College today pretty much by the time you are done, two things will happen, one you will be up to your eyeballs in debt, and two, you will be more or less a communist.
And what is the Tea Party doing about it? Nothing. They are a waste of my and your time. Long live the people of America. Not Twea Partiers, or GOP Republicans and even Democrats. We the people will change things.
Just another scheme by the communists to make people indebted to Big Government and possible recruits for the Muslim-Marxist's "civilian army." The sorry "Re-PUNK-licans" are handed a campaign issue and they are not wise enough to capitalize from it. The left – communists – are in control of higher education and should be held accountable for the high cost of education but they aren't because of the lame and cowardly conservatives – amasing!
If you don't know enough to READ, you shouldn't be going to college! I knew the costs and tried to keep them DOWN and worked through my degree. Those who can't read and have been brought up with their parents paying for everything, think they should be GIVEN a degree and not have to work for it. Life is hard and it requires work. Understand that and education becomes CHEAP and useful!
The woman wanted a degree in business management and couldnt be bothered to read, or was incapable of understanding the financial implications of the loan she was taking on. I dont think she is suited to business management somehow.
Online Degrees are cheaper???? Somebody had better go do their homework. In many, too many cases, distance learning from an accredited college/university is just as if not more expensive. And to boot most of the degrees are so general or in education (if you are already a teacher) that they truly are not cost effective. Only a hand full offer online degrees in Chemistry, Math, Physics. Then they are at the undergraduate level.
In short resident and distance learning are now just revenue enhances for colleges. Just check out what disciplines most are in.
As far as student loans why is it that colleges increase their tuition to match or exceed the yearly amount you can borrow under the FAFSA program?? Is there an Educational/Government Complex now as the oft mentioned Military/Industrial Complex?
There are very few universities that are offering online courses on affordable prices like http://bit.ly/1h6Y6ID the remaining are just the other side of the regular courses charging moreover the similar amount. As far the loan part is concerned, I believe the improvement in FAFSA will help students in applying and paying off their loans. | {
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Are the WoW multiboxing rules less stringent than EVE Online? An EVE player set up totally asinine contraptions to comply with CCP's draconian rules. sites.google.com/site/khromtor
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I used Refer-a-friend and referred myself (it is legal as long as you buy
a second copy of WOW). RAF gave me a
large exp bonus so leveling went
quickly.
Dual-Boxing.com has a very good
wiki on how to get started. Since
most computers these days have enough
CPU and Memory, I ran both toons off
of my main computer. I used a free
program Hot Key Net that allowed
me to do picture in picture with both
WOW sessions up. It took some time,
but after I got it setup it was very
fun. There is also a section on
dual-boxing about the pro's and con's
of different class combination to
level.
I know you've already accepted an answer for this question, but hands down, the best software to use is ISBoxer. It will cost you a bit of money ($15 for 3 months I believe), but even as a Keyclone/Autohotkey/HotkeyNet veteran for many years, even the most complex macros that could be written can't come close to what ISBoxer does for you out of the box.
Most notable feature is mouse repeater regions. For example, I have a region with the health bars of my party near the left side of my screen as a result I can tank and DPS with the keyboard while healing with mouse clicks that are passed from the main window (or any window, for that matter) to my healer's window. This was previously nigh impossible or impractical with the other software.
Other features include FTL (Focusless, Leaderless, Targetless setup). Previously you would have to use one of these to keep track of which was the leader character, but ISBoxer virtualizes it all for you and leaves your focus and target spots free.
If you're wondering, my group setups are 5x Paladin (1 prot, 3 ret, 1 holy) and also 4x shamans. I've 2, 3, 4, and 5 boxed for several years already. Each group size and class composition offers different challenges.
As the poster above said, dual-boxing.com is your best resource for everything related to multiboxing.
To multibox all you really need is a program that will clone your key strokes to multiple instances of wow and to purchase multiple copies. I used to use Keyclone. If you want to clone your mouse as well you can use Mouseclone, though I don't recommend it.
It practice though, you'll need more than keycloning software, you'll need something which will arrange your windows nicely for you. I hear pwnboxer is excellent and will clone your keystrokes as a benefit.
Finally you're going to need a series of macro's. These will usually be:
/assist player1
/cast spell
or something similar.
It's usually good to pick the same class multiple times as most of your interactions will be identical.
If you are on a Mac (OS X) you can use CloneKeys, a free utility to achieve the replication of keystrokes.
Make macros like the one tzenes described and bind them to the numeric Keypad (for example) or to SHIFT-1,2,3,4,5 on your secondary accounts.
So when you press SHIFT-1, your other “boxes” will execute actions.
I remember having a series of “quick” help me macros (ran a rogue/mage dual box), so I had macros to poly my target, slow, etc. I was a rogue with Polymorph and frostbolts :) | {
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Qasr Ibrim is an archaeological site in the southern area of Egypt (between Aswan and Abu Simbel) that in antiquity and the Middle Ages was part of Nubia. In the sixth century CE, Nubia converted to Christianity and remained a country with a rich Christian culture till the fourteenth century when it was forced to accept Islam. The town of Qasr Ibrim had a cathedral, several churches, monasteries, and other buildings. Excavations have been going on there since the beginning of the previous century and these have yielded, inter alia, quite a number of inscriptions, both in Greek and in Coptic, not all of which have been published so far. The Polish epigraphist Lajtar and the Dutch Egyptologist Van der Vliet now present in this volume almost one hundred Christian inscriptions discovered during archaeological field work of the Egypt Exploration Society at Qasr Ibrim since 1963. All inscriptions are described in detail (in most cases with photos added), transcribed, translated, and commented upon. Since both editors have much experience in this field, they do an excellent job.
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The above
shown link is the base of the text below. Though, I will add in
blue or red
colours, what apparently is incorrect and/or incomplete, in my perception.
-.-
Jebsen was born in Hamburg in 1917 (Johann-Nielsen
Jebsen; in February), heir to the shipping firm Jebsen & Jebsen. His
parents, who both died while Jebsen was still a child, were of Danish origin but
held German citizenship after they had moved the company to the country. Early
in his life, Jebsen considered his citizenship a convenience, with deep roots
remaining in his Danish ancestry. During childhood, he visited England and
became enamoured with the country, adopting the mannerisms and the language.
Jebsen attended the University of Freiburg during the 1930s, where he became
close friends with Dusko Popov. During this time, both showed distaste for the
Nazi regime that was emerging in Germany. After graduation, Jebsen moved to
England, intending to study at Oxford University, although it appears he never
did this. Over the next few years he moved amongst the London social set,
befriending P.G. Woodhouse amongst others.
At the outset of the Second World War, Jebsen joined the German military
intelligence agency, the , largely to avoid compulsory service in the army. He
was given a vague brief as an independent "researcher" and assigned the rank of
private. In reality, it meant he could continue his normal activities as an
international businessman, so long as he was available to help the Abwehr
when it required.
In 1940, Jebsen arranged an introduction between a senior Abwehr officer
in Belgrade and Duško Popov, whom the Germans hoped to recruit as an agent. The
meeting led to Popov's recruitment, upon which he instantly offered his services
to the Allies as a double (Cross)
agent. It is likely that Jebsen knew this early on and often passed information
to Popov, who believed it was intended for Allied hands.
During the war, Jebsen travelled freely on business although it was not clear
what he did. He married Eleonore Bothilde Peterson, an actress from Frankfurt,
but had a string of mistresses across Europe. Jebsen's anti-Nazi stance led to
clashes with the SS and its intelligence office, the Sicherheitsdienst
(SD)
(AOB, lacking the evidence).
Through 1943, Jebsen, Popov and his brother Ivo (also an agent, codenamed
Dreadnought (the latter in or around Brussels)
ran an operation to recruit double agents from Yugoslavia. Ivo Popov identified
potential candidates who were told they would be working for the British. First,
they were sent to Berlin, under the care of Jebsen, for training in the spy
school, before ultimately ending up in Britain (via Spain and Portugal) to work
for MI5.
On
29 April 1944, Jebsen was abducted from Lisbon,
Portugal, and driven overnight to France. Aloys Schreiber, the head of German
counter-intelligence (I H) in Lisbon, had
invited Jebsen to his office on the pretext of discussing his pending War
merit Medal(K.v.K.Kriegsverdienstkreuz II class). After a brief
struggle, Jebsen and his friend (Heinz Moldenhauer) were overpowered and bundled
into a car.
Jebsen's disappearance was a serious concern for the Allies. He had been privy
to a great deal of information, including knowledge of Popov's double agent role
and that Agent Garbo's network of subagents was a fiction. He also, most
importantly, had familiarity with many details of Operation Fortitude. If he
talked, the entire cover plan for the Normandy landings was at risk. After much
analysis, the intelligence services decided that Jebsen had been snatched
because the
Abwehr believed he was planning to defect, rather than that he had already
turned. It is possible that Jebsen was abducted to protect Popov, whom the
Germans considered one of their most important agents. As a precaution, the
Allies suspended Popov's network of fictional subagents and his transmissions to
his German handlers.
Jebsen was first taken to the
Gestapo headquarters in Berlin where his torture and
interrogation began. After a few weeks, the Allies
were encouraged, intercepts of German communications showed the Germans were
interested in Jebsen's finances (he had been defrauding a number of SS officers)
(ifthis is really
true, where is the proof?), and there was no mention of his activities as
an agent. As time progressed, it appeared that agent Artist had not cracked
under pressure and the Fortitude deception was safe. (AOB,
Rubbish!Why should the German SD (Amt IV) be thinking that he
knew about the pending invasion, as this had happened in between the moment of
his kidnapping and the moment he was caught by Amt IV about late July 1944? And,
more significant - should have been: an agent like Jebsen have been considered
essential to be informed about the so essential invasion of the European
Continent by M.I.5 civil servants, like was Mr. Masterman? When we consider the
actual raw after Ostro’s information on the precise landing area had caused such
a turmoil within the XX Committee, it is most unlikely that Jebsen/Artist
seriously had been informed!)(His
fatal capture was also due to real amateurism on behalf of M.I.5; where they
asked, via Jebsen’s channel (Hans Brandes, then Known as: Ballhorn, whether he
could get information on the M.I. 5’s menace Ostro (Paul
Georg Fidrmuc))
After July 1944, Jebsen was moved to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. When he
arrived there, he had broken ribs and was malnourished, but still harboured
thoughts of escape. He told Allied soldiers, also held in the camp that he had
been accused of helping the British and when he had refused to talk (the
main reason of this contribution, is: to confirm that he did talk,
to what extend is not given, but at least we know that he acknowledged: that he
was once in touch with the British Secret Service. And M.I.5 Major J.C.
Masterman, at least had been informed on 24 July 1945!) his
financial fraud had been investigated (also not
according the facts; he was already under suspicion by the RSHA, and by the Leiter I Obstlt. Hansen
from late 1943 or very early 1944, and likely being a Double Cross agent of the
British Secret Service). Eventually, he got a message to London via
British Commando Jack Churchill, but the War Office had no record of Jebsen's
name and so the plea for help was ignored. In February 1945, Gestapo (SD?)
agent(s) removed Jebsen from Sachsenhausen, the last sighting of him, and he is
presumed to have been murdered soon after. Several attempts to find him after
the war were unsuccessful and he was legally declared dead on
17 February 1950.
(AOB, basically, I would like to
counter the ideological ferry tails from the very facts of Jebsen’s actual
doings in Portugal and elswhere. It became apparent to the Germans, that he
was heavily engaged in dubious financial transactions, often together with Popov
(Tricycle). For instance, the endeavour on getting an oil-tanker kept by the
Swedes; though where German permission to move this ship to Portugal was
essential. But many more irregular deals.) (A
second point of nonsense, is: that it was the Gestapo who caught him from
the beginning in Berlin . See therefore: KV
2/410 on behalf of Obstlt. Kuebart, who
between February/March up to 22 July 1944 was the Head of Ausland/Abwehr in the
context of Amt Mil; though still guided by
Obst. i.G. Hansen. In a discussion, in March 1944
held in Biarritz, between Kuebart
and Obstlt. Aloys Schreiber - was the strategy decided to keep it a legal matter
inside the Wehrmacht, as to prevent intervention of the SD)(It
was, nevertheless, the intervention on behalf of, fearful, Heinrich Müllerknown as: Gestapo Müller; who - after the
assassination attempt on Hitler of 20 July 1944, -took his chance to overrule
the O.K.W. and catching Johann Jebsen; as mediator Keitel was forced to
order that Jebsen had to be hand-over to the SD) (AOB,
additional nonsense, is, that the British services should be informed; there
exist clear evidence in: KV 2/90 – KV 2/91,
that they had been informed already in the early days of May 1944)
The real problem encountered in the Wikipedia
contributions on Johann Jebsen, is, that the editor(s) is/are lacking solid
study of the quite many KV 2/xxx file series, now available!
Hampering, maybe, is, that you have to study rather many files, as only by
this means one get knowledge of whom else have to approached as well. Currently I possess > 92,500 file pages!
AOB: I consider sadly, this Wikipedia
contribution on Jebsen, not of the regular “Wikipedia quality standards”.
The first two pages provide
briefly the explanations of the various cover-words and related matters.
The purpose of digesting
these intercepts, is, that it provides what the Secret Services knew via W/T
intercepts; which stood on the basis of many
of their analyses.
The KV 2/... serials are
the file designations, and indicating what, among other materials, has, Deo
volente, to be considered during the course of this Survey.
Understanding these files
isn't always easy, as one need some experience, which might take considerable
reading time.
I yet doubt, whether I
first should approach Kuebart (KV 2/410) or the file series on Unversagt (KV
2/90 & KV 2/91).
In respect to better
understanding of the incorrect assessments on behalf of the Wikipedia editor, I
tend to re-approach Kuebart's file first.
As Obstlt. Kuebart was in
charge of the operation versus Jebsen, and it should be again noticed what laid
behind it.
The period we deal with,
are the first 7 months of 1944, during which the German Abwehr was in a
transition process, from a purely OKW controlled Ausland/Abwehr - into a RSHA
controlled, thus in the SS environment, of Amt Mil (Mil Amt).
Albeit, that very many
former Abwehr personnel, never really saw the difference, as most stood still
under the Wehrmacht personnel organisation, but were no longer guided by the OKW.
At about
the same period in the beginning ofr middle of May, Sdf. Wrede was summoned to
berlin and interrogated by Sdf Weiss (Kuebart's
assistent), who taxed Wrede with his
failure to admit Jebsen's attempt to bribe him.
Wrede confessed that he had
not revealed this, and after a certain amount of discussion with Obst. Hansen,
who whished to avoid any further trouble over this whole question, Wrede was
sent back to Paris.
(As will
seen later, Kuebart's failure to have Wrede arrested, was brought before the
People's Court (Volksgerichtshof)
with the events of July 20 1944) (notice on Wrede also: Part_I
+ Ia)
KV 2/410-1, page 49
Sonderführer Weiss (Kuebart's assistent),
of Abwehr Eins, being an astute business man himself, discovered that in reality
Ivan (Iwan, Popov)
and Jebsen intended to sell the navicorts to the oil firm for a large sum
without the knowledge of the Germans, and that Jebsen was the one of the two who
had connected the scheme. This information was subsequently confiirmed by
a report from Brandes (Jebsen knew only
his alias Ballhorn) in Portugal.
Some
time in March 1944, Brandes visited Weiss and Kuebart in Berlin, reporting that
Jebsen had arranged to bribe both himself (Brandes) and Wrede with a share of
the profits of the scheme, were it to be successful.
KV 2/410-1, page 49
Kuebart
now became alive to Jebsen's whole scheme. in which even Wrede now appeared to
be impolicated, for he had failed to reveal to Kuebart, Jebsen's attempt to
bribe him.
At the beginning of April 1944m Jebsen was ordered by the Abwehr to report to
Biarritz, but the latter replied that he was unwilling to do this on account of
"cover difficulties" asserting that if he went to Biarritz his contact with the
Abwehr might receive undue publicity. (Kuebart's claim that this was ridiculous
as, of course, Jebsen was already known in Lisbon to have had Abwehr contacts.)
Brandes then reported that Jebsen had told him (AOB,
Jebsen apparently was not aware of Ballhorn's backgrounds. He was of half Jewish
background, and not to loose his "machine-tool factory" in Germany, he kept contacts
with the Abwehr, allowing him to travel at will in- and out of German Reich
territories) that he Jebsen had not the
intention of going to Biarritz, and on the contrary intended to desert (leaving
for England). The receipt of this
news provoked considerable excitement in Abwehr circles and the situation was
discussed with Obst.
Hansen. The latter said that Jebsen's desertation had to be
prevented at all costs, for were it to take place, the S.D. (the
SS controlled Sicherheidsdienst) would
"pounce" (jump)
on the Abwehr as they had done after the Vermehren incident. (AOB,
Husband and wife Vermehren, changed over to the Britain's on 10 February 1944 in
Istanbul (Istambul).
Hitler got knowledge and ordered: that from the 12th February '44 onwards: the
Abwehr should merge with the SS controlled Amt VI)
Moreover, Hansen told Kuebart that such action by the S.D. might put an end to
schemes he had already concocting for the liquidation of Hitler and Himmler, and
the ultimate overthrow of the Nazi party (which schemes finally culminated in
the events of July 20 ....)
KV 2/410-1, page 50
It was now decided that
Kuebart should proceed to Biaritz to meet there Major Schreiber of Eins Heer (Military
Intelligence) Lisbon and discuss the
situation with regard to Jebsen, since both Schreiber and the K.O. were
completely ignorant of the real situation.
Before leaving for Biaritz, Hansen instructed Kuebart to look into the matter of
any possible difficulties arising out of Canaris' order to the K.O. Madrid to
vacate their offices in their Embassy premises and to set up elswhere on their
own (AOB, Not entirely correct, as the
Embassy was and still is controlled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was
the Ambassador who forced the KO Spain to leave the Embassy premises. This
caused enormous troubles, as all KO employees lost their quasi-diplomatic status, and
they even necessitated a working permit. After some time this had been
solved)
KV 2/410-1, page 50
Trip to Spain.
In the beginning of April 1944, Kuebart and Weiss (his
assistent) left by air for Biarritz, where
they put Major Schreiber of K.O. Lisbon in the picture as to Jebsen and his
confederates.
Schreiber was very surprised as he had no idea of the real situation.
Kuebart then passed on to Schreiber Hansen's order that Jebsen was to be
arrested and abducted forthwith. Schreiber, however, did not know how this
action could be taken and was in great doubt concerning the difficulties of
transporting Jebsen out of Spain. It was therefore decided to continue the
discussions with the K.O. Madrid.
KV 2/410-1, page 50
Further Visit to Madrid.
After spending one day in Biarritz the three, Kuebart. Weiss and Schreiber, set
off for Madrid to see the K.O. there (such
trips were always managed by car).
Here they had discussions with Obstlt. Kiekenbusch, Leiter I, and Obstlt. von
Rohrscheidt, Leiter III (counter-espionage).
Kuebart asked the latter if he thought that Jebsen really intended to to desert.
Rohrscheidt at first replied in negative but then came round to Kuebart's
opinion that he might undertake this course. They were still unable to
decide on the means by which Jebsen was to be arrested and abducted, but agreed
to send Hansen a wire asking whether he would accept full responsibility in case
the abduction caused difficulties with the Portuguese authorities and further
asking him to absolve Schreiber in writing from all such responsibility.
Hansen replied at once accepting full responsibility and Schreiber returned to
Lisbon.
KV 2/410-1, page 51
Return to Berlin.
Kuebart and Weiss left Barcelona by car from Perpignan from whence they went by
rail to Berlin, but owing to difficulties of the journey they did not arrive in
the latter city until the end of April. Awaiting Kuebart in Berlin was a
telegram from Biarritz announcing that Schreiber had at last got Jebsen there.
Hansen, to whom Kuebart had reported fully on his journey, ordered Kuebart to
instruct the Ast Bordeaux to send Jebsen to Berlin. This order was duly
executed.
(AOB,
we learn: that both Jebsen and Moldenhauer were conveyed to Bordeaux first, and
from there, by aircraft, transported to Berlin)
KV 2/410-1, page 51
Kuebart claims not to know
the exact details of what followed, but both Jebsen and Moldenhauer were
inserted in a large box or trunks made to resemble diplomatic luggage, and
driven over the frontier without incident to Biarritz.
No direct orders had been given for Moldenhauer's
abduction, and owing to the latter's civilian status (AOB,
actually was Moldenhauer genuinely employed at Nest Cologne (Köln) though came
in some way or another in Madrid, but was frequently warned to return to Nest
Cologne, though, he moved further away to Lisbon),
Kuebart considered Schreiber exceeded his scope. However, Moldenhauer was
understood to be in the conspiracy relating to Jebsen's desertion.
KV 2/410-1, page 52
Disposal of Jebsen
and Moldenhauer:
On arrival in Berlin Jebsen and Moldenhauer were detained under military arrest
at Wünsdorf, near Zossen. Hansen made arrangements for their interrogation
by Z (Mil Amt?)(R) legal experts, but some ten days later under direct orders of Feldmarschall
Keitel, they were handed over to the S.D. (initiated
by Heinrich Müller (known as Gestapo Müller) Leiter RSHA Amt Amt IV).
Kuebart claims not to know their ultimate fate, but thinks that Jebsen "had
coming to him" as when he had previously worked for the S.D. he had been guilty
of improperly converting S.D. monies to his own use. Kuebart claims that
at the time when Keitel's orders was received, he did his best to
place difficulties in the way of Jebsen being handed over, claiming that it was
entirely a military matter and had nothing to do with the S.D. Hansen
supported him in this. No argument was put forward for the retention of
Moldenhauer.
Kuebart is at pains to point out
that he was in no way responsible for the decisions taken regarding the disposal
of these two men since Hansen alone could give a valid decision regarding
"disciplinary matters".
(Later, in August 1944, (Kuebart himself
was arrested by the S.D. & Schellenberg) because he was considered being part of the Plot against
Hitler!) as will be seen, after Kuebart's
arrest by the Gestapo, he was interrogated as to why he had placed difficulties
in the way of the S.D. in connection with the transfer of Jebsen).
KV 2/410-1, page 54
Ivan (Iwan)(=
Popov German agent name. His M.I.5. Double Cross name was Tricycle):
In the middle of May 1944, Ivan ceased making any further reports, and contact
with him was severed. Kuebart considers this may be attribute to Jeben's
disappearance. (AOB, he was suspected
within the S.D. circles already for some time)
KV 2/3568, page 9: Quote:
The Popov material was always very varied
and on the surface appeared to be good and genuine,
but in the time the
evaluating office in Berlin gained the impression that it was deception material.
Please consider next the
selected sections derived from
the one who was
responsible for Jebsen's abduction.
I had in mind another
succession, but decided that Obstlt. Dr. Aloys Schreiber had been the person
most engaged in this drama.
Hereafter, I would like to
approach Ballhorn's file, who was the one when visiting earlier in 1944 Berlin,
informed Kuebart on the bribes Jebsen was trying to manage of: Sdf. Dr.
Joachim Wrede of Sonderstab, in Paris.
This, maybe other
information as well, ultimately caused the death of both Wrede and Jebsen.
I am
sending this down to you because I think you will be particularly interested in
the references to Koessler (file no longer
existing; or being kept at unknown place elsewhere)
on page 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, XIII, XIV, XV (proving
that Koessler could have passed on quite some information),
and also references to Fanto (16-4'20:
it proved to be Hagemann's brother Hans, also engaged at Ast Brussels) on VI, XII and XXXVI.
The report on Page XLIV
(44) on the the case of Tricycle and Artist is exceptionally interesting,
and provides some positive evidence that Artist was known to the Germans to
be a traitor, and confessed to them that he had worked on our behalf.
It is surely to be presumed that he
shared Wrede's**
ultimate fate.
On Page 14 and on Page XX
there are references to Neukermans (KV
2/53) who apparently wrote a number of
letters in secret ink from this country (England).
I do not identify him, and would be grateful if you could help.
W.E Luke
B.1.a (M.I.5.)
* J.C.
Masterman was the one at M.I.5, who
dealt particularly with Double Cross.
**
Dr. Wrede. My so often referring
to: Deo volente, also in this aspect, I consider it being a real miracle. Why I don't know, but I once
started first with Dr. Wrede's file
KV
2/560, and thereafter (luckily) with
Unversagt's KV 2/90
and KV 2/91
file series. Please reconsider now the last line of paragraph 2 of the above
memo. Would you have thought that the crumbled hand-writing meant Wrede? Though,
I grasp it within a few minutes, and here we have this most relevant finding.
Please notice: that I have
decided to skip Part I (KV 2/90),
because it constitutes a Survey on who was Werner, a name rather often appearing
within Abwehr related files. Hamlet and Puppet, both operating in Portugal are
frequently noticed, but not significantly related to Werner Unversagt's case.
Nevertheless, some is
considered worth to be noticed on the Web directly:
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Photo taken at
interrogation Camp (Cage) 020, in my perception: he is full of sorrow
However, the next photo is
less sad
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Here we can learn that the
way we are looking at a same person, that it can look quite differently
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The next photo could have
been taken somewhere in the 1960s, isn't it?
I suppose, it originates
from Hagemann's private photos; which he might have had among his belongings,
when he was arrested.
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What a different
perspective can do
I nevertheless would like
to quote a single reference on Dr. Wrede', one of the reasons that I have
initiated this forensic Survey
KV 2/323-3, page 35:
(data on Sdf. Dr. Wrede)
Single, Lutheran; trustee in the Troppinwerken A.G. in Köln; father is land
owner in Bredow/Pomeranioa. Claimed to be a nephew of FieldMarshall Keitel.
Was friend of late Obstlt. Erich von Witzleben, nephew of Field Marshall von
Witzleben who had been hanged; excellent connections with the high circles
in Berlin, anti-Nazi and defeatist. Speaks French.
Since beginning 43 Leiter
of Aussenstelle of the Ast Brussels in Paris. 30 Avenue Kleber, lived
privately is a confiscated apartment on the first floor of 1 Place Victor
Hugo. The Aussenstelle was liaison office of the Ast. Brussels to the
officials of the German administration in Paris. After a visit in March
44 by Obst. Hansen and Obstlt. Huebner, Wrede went twice to Lisbon where he
was in touch with a German named “Jonny” (real
name Johannes Jebsen, British Double Cross-name Artist)
and the KO. End July 44 ordered to Wiesbaden and arrested at the office at
the office of the K.d.M. Transported to the military prison in Berlin.
Arrest reported to have been in connection with the Hansen affair. (AOB,
whatever the real
circumstances, what have counted heavily was the very fact the Jebsen had
tried to bribe Wrede, and that he did not have inform his superiors. Whereas
Jebsen had told Ballhorn this story; what was not smart, Jebsen did not
realise that Ballhorn was also an agent of KOP. This may have been regarded
as the major factor that Dr. Wrede ended his life being hung on 20 December
1944)
The next quotation makes
also sense in our context:
KV 2/324-1,page 56: Quote:
July 1944.
In July, Dr. Wrede was suddenly
summoned to K.d.M. Wiesbaden where he was arrested by two SD officials in
Major Jennewein’s office, and taken to the Military Prison, 61
Lehrterstrasse Berlin. It was common knowledge that Wrede was a personal
friend of Obst Hansen and it seems that
evidence was found on Hansen’s person, when arrested in connection with the
Hitler Plot in July (20th)
incriminating to Sdf. Wrede. Hagemann states that Wrede had previously (May)
had to answer a charge in Berlin made by Schellenberg (Leiter Amt VI
Mil/Amt) to the effect that he was negotiating in collusion with outside
sources for a post-war job with the Shell-Oil Co. in, Portugal. Wrede, on
that occasion, returned to Paris highly distraught and mentioned to Hagemann
something about threatened with torture. Wrede’s first interrogation in
Berlin, as far as Hagemann remembers, took place sometime in June 1944 (May!)
Obstlt. Von Mettenheim (see FAK 130), told
Hagemann later that he had learnt through Obst. Michael that Wrede had been
garrotted (hung by means of the
music-instrument thread) on 20th
December 1944. According to Hagemann, Fwb. Zietmann, who at the time was
employed on Obstlt. Kuebart’s office in Berlin, knows the history.
(AOB,
the Wrede’s case has been dealt with quite extensively on our KV
2/560-Wrede.. website. The main reason of Dr. Wrede’s fate - was that he had
had contacts with Jonny, the German cover-name for Johannes Jebsen, British
Double-Cross name Artist. Jebsen told Ballhorn(= Hans Brandes)
that he was trying to bribe Dr. Wrede. The latter’s main mistake was, that
he had not instantly informed his superiors! Jebsen had been abducted on 29
April 44 and arrived in Berlin a few days later. Where after about 10 days
Keitel had ordered to hand over Jebsen on to “Gestapo Müller’s” Amt IV. They
managed to squeeze Jebsen and, he had told the S.D. matters, of we know at
least, that he Double Crossed the Germans. In this context we should
consider Dr. Wrede’s ultimate fate as well as, of course, also Jebsen’s.)
This forensic Survey, is, Deo
volente, to be proceed first by the file on:
KV 2/977Major Walter von Sensburg; Leiter I Ast
Brussels Digesting this file entirely, it proved,
however, that in our forensic Survey context, it does not add enough;
therefore we have to skip it.
KV
2/2133 Major Kratzer. Like the foregoing
document, some interesting small bits and pieces, albeit notice in my major
note-file, isn't considered or relevance. Hoewever: we know now who was:
"Onkel Karl" (Major Kratzer)
KV 2/2646...
KV 2/2648
Schueddekoff (Schueddekopf?) in progress. Whether
making sense we have to digest all first. (started
16-4'20)
Unexpectedly a most
interesting finding on Jebsen and Disko Popov / Tricycle!
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KV 2/2647-1, page 17
Quoting:
The “Mandarin” Case.
This case
came to the knowledge of PW in the summer of 1944, through a report sent by
the Police LO (Local Office – or – Local Officer) (Schroeder) in Lisbon, to
Schellenberg.
The case
of “Mandrin” (Disko Popov)
concerned the Military Attaché in Lisbon, of the Jugoslav Government. PW (Schüddekopf)
is not certain of his name, it might have been Draginowitsch (=
Disko Popov!). Before the war, the
Yugoslaw Military Attaché knew Jebsen, a young business man in Hamburg.
Jebsen was sent by Amt “Abwehr” to Lisbon to renew contact the a/m Jugoslav.
In this he was successful, and “Mandrin” is said to have furnished, over a
considerable period, valuable reports of military nature on England. (AOB,
However, the OKW annalists suspected
the material already in autumn 1943 and concluded it being perception
material)
During 1944, a member of Stubaf. Schroeder’s (see notes on VI B 4)
“Diensstelle” in Lisbon, Kriminalkommissar Hentze, met Jebsen, whom he had
known earlier in Germany. The latter told him what he was doing in Lisbon*.
They agreed that Jebsen should furnish Hentze with any political information
he obtained of the benefit of Amt VI. In this connection, various questions
were put to the Juguslav (Popov KOP cover-name
Iwan I, British cover-name Tricycle), but at time time, he was only able to
furnish general replies to them and this was of little use to Amt VI D 2.
These replies however, definitely indicated that that the Jugoslav was well
acquainted with internal political conditions in England, and it would have
been worth while employing him. Nothing came out of it, however, as Jebsen
was recalled to Germany on charges of embezzlement (theft), and as a
political suspect. In this latter connection it was stated that he had
been in communication with pro-war English friends of him. With Jebsen’s
fall from grace went the only contact-man with whom the Jugostav (Disko
Popov) was willing to cooperate.
Later, Hentze and Htptm. Kurrer (of Mil/Amt ‘B’) to latter had handled and
briefed him – visited Jebsen in the Concentration Cap (Sachsenhausen)
in order to get him to write a letter to the “Mandarin”. This also proved
to be fruitless errand? As the Jugoslav did not return to Lisbon from
London.
* (AOB, we
may get the impression: - that Jebsen "couldn't keep his mouth" on aspects of
what he was secretly accomplishing with British S.I.S.). In this context, as
well as in respect to - what Jebsen discussed or told Ballhorn / Hans Brandes,
also a member of the German Abwehr, that he was, in some way or another, trying
to bribe someone (Sdf.
Dr. Joachim Wrede, described above);
albeit, that he did know what Ballhorn's background was. Nor did he know that
Hentze was a member of the SS controlled S.D.) (The Portuguese Government did
not approve the existence of German S.D. personnel being stationed in Lisbon,
therefore the S.D. personnel were accredited onto the German Legation; herewith
getting a diplomatic status.)
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KV 2/2647-1, page 46:
→Representative
in Portugal
Staubaf Schroeder as LO
(Leading Officer?) of the German Police. (The Portuguese government would
not agree to the appointment of a police attaché) Stubaf Nassenstein (two of
his agents were Baron, a German Journalist and Pilar, a Hungarian. Stubaf
Vollbrecht, who like Stubaf Nassenstein was a member of the German Legation.
(AOB,
remarks: it seems to me, that apparently
the text does not represent Nassenstein's own words, though, the interpretation
of it, through the understanding of a British interrogator)
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Brandes went to Berlin in 1944 and brought back with him special instructions
for N. (Nassenstein)
and Vollbrecht. Cramer (Fritz
KV 2/1742
and should be also considered in our forensic Survey)
subsequently found a file with instructions regarding espionage against England
signed by Schellenberg (Chief
of RSHA Amt VI)
and addressed to Vollbrecht and N. (Nassenstein)
in Vollbrecht's desk. On that same occasion he found a large sum of money
in Vollbrecht's office. (AOB,
why? Cramer was employed at KOP in an attached office, whereas Nassenstein and
Vollbrecht, as was Schroeder, where engaged on a diplomatic status at the German
Legation).
What is shown, is, that Brandes
was also engaged by Amt VI,
instead of Amt Ausland/Abwehr(KOP)
only. Or, this notice is of a later dated than 12th February 1944;
when it already had been decided: that the Amt Ausland/Abwehr
should merge with the RSHA Amt VI;
since known as Mil/Amt,
Leiter Schellenberg and up to 21th / 22th July 1944 shared
with Obst. Hansen.
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What we may derive, is, that Brandes also was to be linked onto KOP, as Obstlt.
Schreiber was Leiter I H of KOP
From the Charwoman
(room cleanser!)
of 'Büro Schroeder' the British Counter Intelligence is allegedly supposed
to have learned the nature of Vollbrecht's and N's (Nassenstein's)
work and to have obtained documents from their offices.
With regard to other outstanding personalities in
K.O. Portugal, (Fritz)
Cramer (KV 2/1742)
gives the following information:
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Brandes Hans (KV
2/3295): Had good connections with the
Swiss Legation in Lisbon and he obtained from them important military and
political information.
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Cramer Fritz (KV 2/1742):
The most able Abwehr-man in Lisbon; formerly reception-manager at Adlon Hotel,
Berlin (Still a top ***** Hotel, in Berlin).
Brandes, Hans: Nassenstein
met him in internment in Vizela (Place
north-east of Oporto, in Portugal).
Representative of the firm "Werner A.G. Waffenfabrik." (AOB,
to what we know: the factory of his father / mother concerned a tools -
manufacture)(his
father (Jewish)
had been killed in 1939/40 and his mother lived in the vicinity of Salzburg)
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N. (Nassenstein)
is not a trustworthy person. A man of strong sentiments and a 100% Nazi.
One can credit his statements with very little truth.
(AOB,
from experience for quite many years, this statement is not only touching
Nassenstein, but also is reflecting the general post-war mood - of the one who
compiled this report)
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Schroeder told Cramer once that Nassenstein gave him some good reports re
England. Brandes is supposed to have helped him in that work.
Pages 117 +
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At least we learn that there most likely existed also a contact onto the Amt VI
and SD controlled officials, accredited at the German Legation, in Lisbon.
Please notice the date of this
recording!
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Again a Popov intermediary
statement
Erich Schroeder is chief not
only of Amt IV (Ausland SD, headed by fead Heinrich Müller "Gestapo Müller" but
also of Amt VI (military
intelligence). Nassenstein is the head man
in Amt VI (military intelligence) and Vollbrecht is No.2.
Particularly of interest for Balkan historians:
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General Mihajlović
was the opponent to Tito, the Western Powers favoured more Mihajlović
Please
notice: that exact references being implemented within the photo hyperlinks.
KV 2/399
Schroeder Erich Emil; head Amt IV (incorrectly described Gestapo; should be
SD) in Lisbon.
KV 2/399-1, page 27
7. The Jebsen Affair.
Schroeder claims
that he never knew a certain Jebsen who was abducted from Portugal (29 April
1944) and returned to Germany. He recalls the name in connection with
renting a house near to the Golf Course in Lisbon, and he thinks that Jebsen
may be the person referred to in a report which Henss sent to him in 1944
while he was in Berlin. In this report, Henss told Schroeder that a certain
Johann alias Jonny had been obtaining intelligence from England and would
like to work for him. During Schroeder’s stay in Berlin, Henss is supposed
to have sent three or four of Johann’s reports to Amt VI Berlin. Henss then
lost contact with Johann.
Schroeder believes
that Johannes
alias Jonny and Jebsen were one and the same person. He says that both
Jebsen and Henss had worked for the Economic Referat of Amt VI and had met
in Berlin. Henss placed much confidence in Jebsen, and Schroeder doubts
that Henss spoke unfavourably of the man and Schellenberg or Gestapo Chief
Müller. Schroeder reports mention by Schellenberg that the Economic Referat
of Amt IV once reproached Jebsen, but Schroeder does not know why.
(AOB,
at least we notice that in some-way-or-another there existed (also) a link
between Jebsen (Popov) with the RSHA Amt VI (and Amt IV).
It isn't yet clear to what extent Jebsen knew about the background of the
Germans in Lisbon with whom he had some personal contact. What is quite confusing,
was, that since 12th
February 1944, there was
building up influence of the SS controlled
RSHA Am VI, in respect to the merging of Amt Ausland/Abwehr within RSHA Amt VI
(Amt/Mil).
(AOB, the curiosity was: that albeit that
Abwehr personnel merged with the SS controlled RSHA Amt VI (Mil/Amt), their
former Abwehr personnel were still be paid for by the OKW (Wehrmacht).
Some personnel weren't even aware whom were really in charge of them)
(The main reason was:
that personnel should not be changed in
their Wehrmacht ranking, which often was the result of a longer lasting (career)
planning or other means; the SS maintained instead their own ranking
system)
KV 2/399-2, page 39.
British S.I.S. (M.I.6)
records:
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31.3.44.
According to Artist (Johannes
Jebsen), Schroeder (Leiter
representative of RSHA Amt IV in Lisbon)
was arrested on arrival in Berlin. Schroeder now cleared and
released.
14.44.
Artist reports that Schroeder recently returned from Berlin.
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19.4.44. According to Tricycle
(Diško
Popov; Artist's friend), Schroeder, Police
Attaché in Lisbon and local head of Amt. IV and VI, personally took Tricycle's
S.D. report to Berlin. When Schroeder arrived in Berlin, for some unknown
reason, he was arrested for a few days and the report went straight to
Kaltenbrunner, although it was intended that it should be delivered to
Schellenberg.
The reason for this all:
Jebsen and Tricycle were
already, for some months,
distrusted by the Germans; as OKW annalists had already concluded that the
documents brought in from England by "Mandarin" Popov's German agent cover-name,
actually proved to be deception materials.
This aspect have been dealt
with in the previous forensic Survey Parts.
Jebsen refused to meet
Obstlt. Kuebart (Abwehr I) in Biarritz, in late March 1944.
For this reason, it is
quite understandable: that a courier of
the deception messages will be interrogated by the highest one in charge,
as Kaltenbrunner was the headof the RSHA (neglecting
Himmler himself). But also Schroeder
Sturmbannführer (Major) a section Leiter isn't someone to neglect when suspicion
arises.
Please notice that: apparently - the British S.I.S. (M.I.6) haven't
been sufficiently informed about the very suspicions arising against both:
Jebsen and Popov.
Bear in mind: Jebsen was a
German citizen; though Popov was a Yugoslav, and therefore abroad hardly
touchable.
However, S.I.S. (M.I.6)
on 31.1.44:
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Commenting on local developments in Lisbon, Artist (Jebsen)
reports that it is definite that von Karsthof will be recalled.
Among others, Schroeder's name has been put forward as successor. He has gone to
Berlin, and probably will not return except for a few days to wind up his
affairs.
AOB: How did Jebsen know
these details, which no one in KOP will have discussed it with him?
Jebsen was quite a
womanizer, and managed to get Marie Luise von Gronau as his mistress.
Fräulein von Gronau was
a secretary at the KOP offices, this
was the way Jebsen got this information from!
Ludovico von Karsthof, an
alias of Major Ludwig Kremer von
Auenrode,
was Leiter since quite some time, but Kuebart (and Obstlt. Hansen) concluded
during foregoing visits, that Ludovico wasn't running the KOP sufficiently; and
had to be replaced.
We may consider that this
did not effect before mid May 1944, and due to airline transport problems (think
of the intervening Allied invasion of France) that he did not leave (materially)
before mid August 1944; returning to Ast Vienna (Ast XVII).
KV 2/201-1, dealt with
before, shows the implications of the engagements between Frl. Craas(s)
(indirectly) and Frl. von Gronau with Johannes Jebsen; and proving that the
Germans were rather well aware of these aspects.
Selected British RSS decrypted intercepts,
especially in regard to Sturmbannführer
Erich Schroeder, in respect to his
Portuguese engagements.
1. It now appears that
Artist - possibly on the strength of the 75.000 dollars – was being
somewhat over sanguine (optimistic) in believing that the Gruppe III
check-up himself and Tricycle (Diško
Popov) was at an end. The trouble now, it
seems, it is not the General Staff nor the Gruppe I, which letter is quite
satisfied as to Tricycles bona fides. Gruppe III, on the other hand, having
given it as their opinion that Tricycle was not reliable, are now unwilling
to admit themselves wrong. (those writing
this, knew how true Referat III actually was)
2. Schreiber
(Leiter I H KOP)
has therefore gone to Madrid to discuss the question further with
Rohrscheidt (AOB, wrong!Both Kuebart and Schreiber after meeting at
Biarritz went by car to Madrid. There Schreiber insisted - that before he
could accomplish Jebsen’s abduction, he necessitated an official document
that he could used when matters would go wrong. During this gathering at KO
Spain, there took also talks place between Schreiber and Rohrscheidt! But,
the reason was the already recognition that Tricycle deliberately was
feeding the Germans with deception materials; which was the conclusions made
after serious analysing at OKW), and Artist is
confident that, as far as Schreiber is concerned, he will uphold Tricycle
before his critics. Artist thinks it possible – though this is surmise
(guesswork) – that Heinrich and Rohleder (III-F Berlin) may also be in
Madrid taking part in the talks ..
3. Asked why Schreiber
was discussing these questions with Rohrscheidt rather than with Cramer,
Artist replied that the relations between the two men (Cramer
and Schreiber) were now so bad, that Schreiber
considered it useless to go over the case yet again with Cramer.
→
2/1742-2, page 21
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Von Gronau and Craas(s).
6. Artist has
now learnt the inside story of the recall of these two (Craas(s)
and von Gronau). It appears that in Gronau’s
case the initiative originally came from Schreiber (AOB, of course, because he was the one who was
conferring with Kuebart and accordingly was informed and in corporation),
who telegraphed Berlin stating that. (KV
2/201-1, page 5 shown just below integrally),
in view of the investigations in progress and also of von Gronau’s intimacy
(mistress)
with Artist, she should be recalled for reasons of security Berlin replied
ordering the Baroness to return immediately.
(AOB,
this proves: that S.I.S. was informed, but apparently “the KOP” kept enough
secret so that S.I.S. did not get enough suspicions to respond adequately)
7. On the
strength of this success, Schreiber and Cramer decided to send Craas(s) home
without referring the matter to Berlin. (AOB,
nonsense, as KV 2/201-1, page 43 clearly proves!),
but again giving “security” as their reason. * It must be explained that
Craas(s) was generally unpopular with the K.O.P. because she was known to
have a private line of communication with Kuebart, and, previously also
Canaris, which she used to report the misdemeanours (misbehaviours)
of the various local officers. …
8. In
despatching Craas(s) home without referring the matter to headquarters. (AOB,a simple
boloney, by a Crown
Servant! Consider again KV 2/201-1, page 43: Lisbon communicating with
Berlin on 14.4.1944: …Jonny is equally au fait already with Harry’s (Schreiber’s)
order to Craass concerning further relations with Ostro (M.I.5
menace!) and remarked in this connection
thought of confirming to this order but was adhering to the instructions of
HIOB I via Ostro. (Ostro is the main
fatal reason why M.I.5. approached Jebsen (Artist) to find out information
on Ostro) As KOP cannot
continue to work in such circumstances it is urgently requested that Crass
and Gronau be immediately recalled. Giving routine reduction of staff as
justification in order not to give Jonny (Jebsen) prior warning, Signed by:
Ludovico Leiter KOP, Diaz Ii and Harry = Schreiber!
AOB,
Again: .In despatching Craas(S) home without referring the matter to
headquarters. Is the latter sentence in accordance to the foregoing message
content?
NO!
However:… the local
K.O.P. had, however, somewhat overstepped the mark. Craass had already
telegraphed from Berlin to say that the flat was to be kept on for her, as
it was possible that she might soon be returning.
(AOB, Craass at least was
in Lisbon on the day of 30 April, as she came in panic to Ostro’s wife and
told her that von Gronau had told her that when she entered Jebsen’s place
(she must have possessed a
key), that the
interior had been turned around and there existed no signs of Jebsen, what
so ever)(Paul
Georg Fidrmuc, alias Ostro PF 64447)
AOB,
Frl. Craass must at least have left for Germany say, on 1st May
44 or thereafter.
AOB:The
S.I.S. author of this document, could have never imagined, that someone
after all (76 years)knew the entire complex even the ominous omissions of the W/T message
referred onto!
“George”.
15. Cramer has
been boasting that a source of his recently opened Corlier’s safe, and was
now in a position to break Solborg’s. A few days ago, Brandes (Ballhorn)
told Artist (Jebsen)
that Cramer had “made a masterstroke” and had obtained some original Allied
material. Artist took this to meen that Cramer’s source had, in fact,
opened Solborg’s safe.
Lisbon - Berlin.
(message number)
676. To HIOB (Heer IOst Berlin)
Senior (Obst. Hansen)
through HIOB I reference our W/T of 13/4 (of
the day before) (above. According to a
communication from Jonny to Ballhorn (Hans Brandes) on morning of 14/4 Jonny (Jebsen)
has learnt from Gronau (his mistress)
and the letter on her turn from Craass, that Ostro (Paul
Fidrmuc M.I.5's menace) has been the
country for to days and has also resumed in activity in Berlin. Jonny (Artist)
asked (via Ballhorn)
whether the Ostro connections with England could be ascertained.
Jonny also knew that Hion Senior (Kuebart?)
had given permission to Ostro concerning connection of Ostro to KO
via Craass*.
Jonny is equally au fait already with Harry's (Aloys
Schreiber's) orders to Craass
concerning ban on (her)
further relations with Ostro**
and remarked in this connection that Craass has no thought of confirming to this
order but was adhering to the instructions of HIOB Ivia Ostro. A KOP cannot continue to work in
such circumstances it is urgently requested that Craass and Gronau be
immediately recalled, giving routine reduction of staff as justification in
order not to give Jonny (Jebsen)
prior warning***.
Lucovico (Leiter KOP)
DIASZ = Ii and Harry (=
Schreiber)
*
Apparently, S.I.S. did not grasp what the actual status of Ostro in the German
Abwehr was: Fidrmuc (Ostro) exceptionally possessed an extraordinary status
(since approx 1935). He was entirely independent. De factohe was not part of the Wehrmacht nor the Abwehr. However, he dedicated
his attentions in favour of the Abwehr. He was not on their personnel list.
They had to pay for his expenses and related charges. He himself decided
where and what his concerns were.
**
In some way or another, he had to pass on his gathered information onto the
Abwehr. In Portugal, this was KOP. His typed reports were handed-in in a
double-covered and sealed envelopes. Here Frl. Craass's services became
involved, as it was she who conveyed these envelopes to Obstlt. Aloys Schreiber
Leiter I H. He thereafter decided, by what means it should be passed onto to
Berlin. (diplomatic bag via a courier; or by W/T means. Unclear to me, whether
there existed a Fernschreib (FS) (telex) connection with Germany. By the way,
Frl. Craass was also a close friend of Ostro's wife.
***
Clearly herewith indicating that the Germans were already planning for an arrest
of Jebsen. Not told within this message reproduction, whether S.I.S. (M.I.6)
grasped the increasing danger of the German tactics against Jebsen, as he and
therefore also Tricycle, were suspected from late 1943 onwards - being
double-cross and delivering British deception materials.
KV 2/1742-2, page 22
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Extract
PF 55032 Popov d.d. 7.3.44
Extract from a report forwarded by S.I.S.
(M.I.6)
VIII Alexander (PF
65005)
16. Artist (Jebsen) that he had heard
from von Gronau (his mistress
engaged as secretary at KOP) that Cramer,
after his success in using Alexander @ August against the British, and then the
Americans, was now trying to plant him (Alexander (PF
65005) on the Russians. Artist
(Jebsen)
suspected that this was a paper scheme evolved for the benefit of Cramer's
prestige in Berlin and doubted whether Cramer had really got anywhere with it.
(AOB, I get
the strong impression that Jebsen is over-estimating his abilities by far)
17. Artist (Jebsen)
stated that Cramer was in direct contact with one heads of the Polish
Intelligence in Lisbon working against communists in Poland. Von Gronau (Jebsen's
mistress) had said that this was
done with London's permission; Artist did not know if that meant with permission
of the Polish Government in England, or whether the British knew about it.
The contact had originally been through a Roumanian Jew who had been Minister
for King Carol's Government and who had been a regular V-Mann of Cramer's, on
his pay-roll at a rate of 50 contos per month, of which however, (Jebsen's
imaginations) Cramer probably took a cut
for himself. Cramer contacts the Pole at the Pole's house
which is near Bianchi's house, and (Jebsen's
mistress) von Gronau is nervous that one
of her visits to Bianchi might coincide with one of Cramer's visit to the Pole.
(AOB, was Jebsen's flat perhaps in
Bianchi's premises?) (24000 (S.I.S.
agent number) told me (Major
Foley of M.I.6?)
that this story relates to Kowalkwsky) (KV
2/327-1, page 70: August Waldemar von Kotlliarewski?)
KV 2/1742-2, page 23
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VI. Hanke.
Artist (Jebsen)
gave the following additional information about Hanke. His reports to
Cramer consisted in the main in descriptions of the type of work being done by
different American Officials in Lisbon. Among other things he stated that
the Paramount Film Co. was largely used as a cover by the American Secret
Service.
Hanke got from Cramer 8,000 escudos a month, which was supposed to present
expenses rather than salary. The place where Cramer contacted Hanke
changed from time to time; sometimes he was picked up by a car at a quinta near
near the lighthouse at Carvavelos, but, according to von Gronau (Jebsen's
mistress), the last
meeting took place on 28th February (1944)
when he was picked up somewhere between Estoril and St. Joso.
Artist (Jebsen)
is nervous that if any action is taken to watch Hanke through von Gronau (Jebsen's
mistress) and this
might react upon Artiist's own position. Artist thinks, on the other hand,
that there is very little risk indeed of Hanke reporting back to Cramer if he is
approaching directly by the Americans, and told that they know he is working
with Cramer but, that he must in future do so under their (the
American's?) control.
KV
2/1742-2, page 25
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Extract from a report by S.I.S. forwarding information from Artist (Johannes
Jebsen).
..
2.The
improvement in the Artist situation is due to prompt action by Schreiber,
Rohrscheidt (Leiter III-F Madrid) and Brandes (Ballhorn).
Schreiber urged Cramer not to lay a watch on Artist's activities (oh,
dreamers) as he said
that if Artist discovered that this was going on, it would be quite in his
character to chuck up the whole game, and to go to the front. (bullshit,
from the first moment he did everything possible to prevent himself from being
called up for military service!)
Cramer therefore telegraphed to Berlin to say that he considered a ??tch
unnecessary, or words to that effect, and did not in fact carry out plans to
watch Artist, except that a servant whome Cramer had planted on him at the
Villa Golfinho handed in some reports.
...
In a
later report it is noted that Cramer is said to be still suspicious of Tricycle
on general grounds without having any proof against him, but he no longer
mentions his suspicions since Karsthof (alias
of Leiter KOP) and
Berlin feel satisfied.
AOB:
This report smells childish; truly Infantile!
Apparently not aware, that the OKW, the addressee of Tricycle's reports from
England, came to the conclusion, after analyses that Popov's Tricycle's
reports actually contained deception information!
In a
report dated 16.4.45 it is reported that Cramer considered Tricycle's (Popov)
dossier over the last three years was against him, and ...
(no
further information available)
KV
2/1742-2, page 27
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Extract from a letter from S.I.S. forwarding information given by Artist (Jebsen)
Our
Lisbon representative (Major
Foley) reported to us
as follows on 4.2.44.
Cramer
has been ordered by Berlin to give the names of Abwehr members who are believed
to be in touch with the British.
Karsthof has promised to assist Artist and has threatened to stop Cramer's
report from going to Berlin. (AOB,nonsense, as since late 1943, the Abwehr had been informed by OKW - that
Tricycle's information was deception material)
(but
it might have been, that S.I.S. did not know this, what after all - is quite
likely!)
I
would like to challenge you to draw your preliminary conclusion.
Please
notice my brief points:
Comparing what we just have been confronted with, and Jebsen's actual abduction
on 29 April 1944;
and the
disagreements about Jebsen's orders to meet Kuebart (and Schreiber) in Biarritz,
about the end of March 1944; and his pertinent refusing to obey to these German
orders.
Comparing the results of Jebsen's a bit childish optimism, with his
managed abduction from Lisbon; only a few weeks later.
And -
S.I.S. (M.I.6) representative Major Foley, likely the editor of these report
sections, who in some-way-or-another brought
everything on paper, which arrived in England.
At
least in my perception: both S.I.S. (whoever reported) and Jebsen's ignorance of
a rising conflict with the Germans;
at
least should have been less optimistic in assessing the real circumstances.
On the
other hand, the Germans well aware of the deception materials brought in by
Tricycle (Popov) (by the way: obtained for high sums of money) and the measures
to prevent Jebsen's deserting.
That
Jebsen's major informant, Frl. von Gronau his mistress (to a lesser extent Frl.
Craass), on the other hand working as secretaries in the KOP offices, was
deliberately kept out of all measures against Jebsen;
is a
proof of a set-up - as to catch Jebsen.
Astonishingly: S.I.S. actually did not grasped the dangerous implications of
their involvements!
British
intelligence generally - did not caught the facts: of the existence of a second agenda
which the German Secret Services, at least for this time, maintained in Portugal!
I suggest, and I think Miss Massey agrees, that in Madrid-Berlin message of
17.4.44 in which Werner (Unversagt
KV 2/90 - KV 2/91 PF 600055)
reports (not
traced within Unversagt's RSS intercept summary, as it stops somewhere in
1943) back to
Bergmann (real
name Major Brinkhaus whose file PF 600059 no longer exists)
reports back on 19/20th April, Kohlenklau
must be the cover-name for Hamlet (bogus!).
There seems to have been no reference under the name of Kolberg for many
months. Why this cover-name should have been used when it has
previously been used in connection with a Bolivian gentleman who has some
connections with Ast III Berlin and Brandes, but none whatsoever with
Brussels, I cannot imagine.
Yours sincerely,
T.A. Robertson (TAR)
(Lt.Colonel)
Major
F. Foley, C.M.G. (S.I.S.
(M.I.6)
representative in Portugal)
(AOB,
Kohlenklauwas the project name
given by the Germans,
for abducting Jebsen
(Artist).
In German language
Klauen = stealing
(taking something
illegally away) -
that is just what its
aim intended!)
(AOB,
just a guess:Kohle is also known in
some circles (colloquial)
as "Money" and money Jebsen inherited in a great extent; he was incredible rich.
Herewith we might have a full clue of the clever word - Kohlenklau)
(AOB, discussing this aspect with Rudolf Staritz the same day, he brought to my
attention: that "Kohlen" in Germany also stood for: "New-rich people". Jebsen's
father was the owner of a great Danish/German shipping company)
AOB:
what this letter makes clear, is - that S.I.S. in Portugal (and England)
lacked (missed) the long-planned German set-up to remove Jebsen
(Artist) from Portugal!
KV 2/2099 - KV 2/2100 - KV 2/2101 Selected papers "Washout"
AOB, I don't know yet what his real name was. This is a worthless file
series, poor reproductions and to a great extent being blanked by M.I.6
usual practices.
Next:
KV 2/1930 Weltzien (likely
Welzien) Kuno
PF 65284 Interesting - as I never heard of Weltzien, the rest does not
contributes to our forensic Survey on Jebsen
Next:
KV 2/955
Mayer Otto (PF 66190) Not of interest in respect to
our current forensic Survey on Jebsen.
Next:
KV 2/309 - KV
2/310
Lorenz Fritz Wilhelm (PF 600313) He was mainly operating as a radio
reporter in France and some time in Russia.
No sense.
Next:
KV
2/279 - KV 2/280
Alfred
Naujocks
(PF
600485)
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Alfred
Naujocks
a
rather dubious and frightening SS related person.
According to what have been noticed, Naujocks never operated from the Iberian
Peninsula, thus also excluding Portugal.
Therefore we skip his files.
Next:
KV
2/1963
Konrad
Karl
PF
600263
Actually this file is a spin-off of the Weltzien's (Welzien) file
I
cannot predict whether this file will bring us information on our forensic
Survey.
Had
that day learned that the Admiral himself (Admiral
Canaris Chief of Ausland/Abwehr)
has decided he should go down to Krumholz. He - the Admiral - has said that the
work down there (Portugal) is more important than here (Ast
Niederlande in the
Hague). Counted as promotion to be transferred there. The Major had fought
hard against the transfer. Conrad had told even the Obstlt. that he did
not want to move, but the Obstlt. said everything possible had been done
to retain him, but nothing could be done in view of the Admiral's decision.
His successor, a Oblt., comes in the following week. Conrad after handing over
will have several days in Köln.
He
thinks that in Lisbon he will be attached to the Legation or the Consulate (AOB,
KOP attached to the Legation).
He has no idea what goes on there, but imagines he has to interrogate seamen who
come ashore from the ships in port. The work should be very interesting,
but he wishes it were not so far from home (Köln) (Cologne),
and Krumholz were not there.
KV
2/1963-1, page 29 - 30
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23.2.41
Writes
from Lisbon that he has now been away from home for a week. He is living in a
hotel on the front from the town. Office hours 10 - 4 o'clock. Work very
slack and he cannot understanmd why Krumholz did not manage alone. Krumholz
seems to have made himself very disliked and does not appear to get on with
Kraemer (Fritz Cramer KV 2/1742 PF 602496; Part_X). Conrad (Konrad)
does not know which of them is in the right, but knowing Krumholz ...
Konrad
is going to await Cramer's
return before moving from his hotel. From his room can see all ships going
in and out. Sends his wife good wishes for her 50th birthday on the
following Sunday (2.3.41)
(AOB,
at least we notice Konrad's arrival at KOP III, in Lisbon.
KV
2/1963-1, page 30
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28.2.41
Conrad
is going to move from his hotel on the following week; his present hotel too
expensive. He has a residence permit for one year. Krumholz has gone to
Oport for three days. Konrad
is going there (Oporto)
in the following month.
Page 37
ending on 28.3.42 and proceeding on page 38 on 10.3.44.
Thus
leaving a gap.
The
cover-names used could only be understand by the forgoing noticed files: KV
2/1930 Weltzien (Welzien) and KV 1742 on Fritz Cramer.
KV
2/1963-2, page 47
The red
text just tells us that it concerned once Britain's most valuable secret; also
known as MSS!
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Please
digest its content yourself, but consider the explanations below
AOB,
what can we derive from these intercepts? First that in
contrast to what is suggested within the reproduced private diary on behalf of
Karl Konrad - that he was longer engaged on the Iberian Peninsula.
Not
shown, but RSS decrypt page 2 ends on 29.10.42; when he still is engaged in the
region of Algerciras, Tetuan, Tanger (Tangier).
Albeit
that that a message is recorded on 13.7.42: Berlin - Madrid For Lago.
Lopez (Konrad)
is posted to Ast Netherlands. He is to take up his post as soon as
possible. Wire date. Sommer (alias
of Leiter KO Spain)
However,
I could
have shown many more examples, though not on Jebsen and Tricycle.
?Identical
with Sonderführer Bucher or Buchner, who worked in Major Munzinger's office, the
referent for I.H. Süd-Ost. The latter no filing system in his office, and
relied on Buchner's memory. He was known to Artist, who says that he did
all Munzinger's, he possibly suspected that Artist was not genuine in his work
for the Abwehr, but would be personally loyal to him. At his request
Buchner extracted from the Abwehr files in Belgrade the adverse police report on
Meteor (Sostaric - Piscacic) which resulted later in his arrest in Greece 1942.
He also intercepted a message from Mihalovic's (opponent
to Tito) local HQ in
Belgrade, to the effect that although Meteor, was being sent out to work for the
Germans, he would in fact no do so. According to Meteor, he was introduced
to Buchner by Artist (Johannes
Jebsen) in Berlin,
just before the latter left for Athens on the 8th February 1943. Buchner
was in charge of him, while he was there, staying at the Adlon Hotel (Berlin),
he was given a telephone number to ring in case of need 21749 (?
in Berlin? if so, than the number is faulty because Berlin telephone number
counted six digits) (or,
did he have to dial first a Wehrmacht exchange and covered it a name within the
OKW internal exchange system?)
Meteor was instructed by Bucher in secret writing, but he did not seem
very expert, and was unable to answer technical questions, without first finding
out the answer, probably from a Fräulein Doktor, who was an expert in Secret
Writing, and was introduced to Meteor, by Buchner, just before he left berlin in
March. According to Artistm but apparently of equal importance.
AOB, a
query: the Adlon
Hotel in Berlin an ***** Hotel of Berlin and thus expensive.
But Jebsen himself a
rich man could easily afford to life this way.
But, may we derive
from this, that Jebsen (Artist) was employed before he went to Portugal, at the
Abwehr offices in Berlin?)
AOB:
another curious matter - using the word Artist was only known to the British,
but not directly Kraatz. Implementing this word in the text, likely implies that
the matter had been pre-cooked before.
Consequently, the text
is quite confusing as the real sequence of matters told during interrogation
might no longer being reliable, since have been typed on paper!
Nevertheless,
We
might draw a conclusion that also this office concerned had their doubts
on the reliability
of Jebsen (Artist).
Second day in Lisbon (Oct 43) went to American Embassy and was
contacted next day by our agent.
4.
Contact with OSS.
Brought to attention of OSS Lisbon in December 1943 by an
informer in whose home he was living. January - April 1944 he was contacted
through a cut-out and gave information on Abwehr organisation and personalities.
He expressed willingness to act as a double-agent and in cooperation with the
British, was given chicken-feed to pass to Germans.
During May he continued to report to OSS and to transmit chicken-feed. On
18 may he received orders to leave Lisbon on 27 May and proceed via Paris to
Bremen for re-assignment. Arrangements were made for him to contact a
representative of OSS in Paris and to report to a cover address in Lisbon.
KV
2/382-3, page 13!
Allianca Propaganda (Artist
+?) is packed into a trunk and taken
away in a automobile leaving the garage in the rear of the Buenos Aires
building. As to the reports I gave to E. (Eitel)
he is now trying to obtain sources which he can credit for this information.
He will hand the material referring to the convoys (AOB,
did the leave for Biarritz with two cars?)
to Bendixen, whereas he will hold the other two facts until the return of
Buckner (Buecking?).
E asked me who they two gentleman were who desired to speak
with him. I answered that they were both gentlemen and that I could
say nothing further. He asked me whether one of them would be a Navy man,
as this was his line or field. I replied that I could not answer his
question but if he had information of this nature to reveal, he could well give
it to me as I had some knowledge of the subject myself.
(AOB,
in my perception "Allianca Propaganda"
may well point at the couple:
Jebsen and Moldenhauer;
whom both had been abducted at the office of KOP which was situated annex the
Legation at Rua Buenos Aires, in Lisbon. They were transported in trunks that
same night (29th April 1944) to Biarritz, via Spain. Interesting to consider that maybe two cars have
got on their way to Biarritz).
Extract taken from S.I.S. (M.I.6)
Report on meeting with Artist (Johan
Jebsen) on 28.4.44 (the
day before Jebsen had been abducted)
Baumann (Dr.
Rudolf).
19. In view of Eberle's (Eitel's)
assertion that Baumann was working for I Wi, I asked Artist what he was doing at
present. Artist said that he (Baumann)
was still officially head of II (Abwehr
Referat II; sabotage),
but was deputising for Koschnick (KV 2/3159), who was on holiday ..
KV
2/384-3, page 15
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Eitel
Karl @ Eberle Karl
KV
2/385-1, page 45
Eitel.
With reference to B.1.W (Mr. Milmo's) memorandum of 30.4.45, Eitel has been
questioned and has no further information to add to that contained in the
paragraph of the report referred to.
Eitel has never heard the name Fidrmuc in connection with espionage in the
Middle east or in any other connection.
Photographs of Fidrmuc (OSTRO),
his wife, and Paul Falus were shown to Eitel, but failed to recognise any of
them.
(AOB, a good proof
that the special circumstances in which Fidrmuc
(Ostro)
operated, worked-out perfectly well)
(AOB, please bear in
mind: that Jebsen had been asked: whether he could provide information on Ostro,
the alias of Paul Georg Fidrmuc; this circumstance and his not being aware that
Ballhorn (Hans Brandes albeit half-Jewish, was also a member of the KO in
Portugal), was ultimately lethal)
These
files ending with KV 2/385-2
without
any relevant result.
I get
the strong impression, that also Eitel's interrogators were lacking sparkling
drives than repeating matters time and again.
Dr.
Lambertus Elfrink
Dutch, however,
arrived from South Africa, staying there in touch with Trompke and Dr. Rensburg
(Ossewa Brandwag)
Planned
British Double Cross name Hamlet
This
case is in our current context of no relevance.
Only of
interest is: that the
British Secret Services apparently maintained the Double Cross name Hamlet twice.
See KV
202 versus KV 2/327
Next?
KV
2/2454
Hans
Friedrich Grimm @ Grasshoff Harold
PF
600288
My
primary selection criterium being his connection with Portugal
Terminated without relevant information.
Next:
KV
2/858
Disko
Popov
PF
55032
Please
notice, that the entire files series are in numbers exceeding 4900 pages!
Vol. 14
Crown Copyright
Popov
Dusan Miladoroff
KV
2/858-1, page 9
Crown Copyright
Source Junior (Dr.
Ruser, Estoril Porugal)
Jebsen must be careful with Moldenhauer as Moldenhauer and Pepe are on intimate
terms. I remember that Jebsen told Moldenhauer too many things. And I have
warned him before I left when I last saw him as I never considered Moldenhauer
discret. now my mother tells me that she warned Moldenhauer to be careful
with Pepe and break off with him. He replied that he could not as Pepe
knew already too much about him.
The meeting between S.I.S. (Major
Foley M.I.6) and
Artist (Jebsen)
on 28.4.44 (the day
before Jebsen's abduction)
was referred to in my previous note. A written report has now been
received which slightly amplifies the information previously available.
The written report states that Moldenhauer was in Lisbon on 28.4.44 staying with
Artist. Artist had also reported that there was a chance of Brandes (Ballhorn)
being recalled of his failure to produce his agents. (rumours
only)
According to Artist, Brandes was worried that Tricycle should be so good an
agent as Brandes was afraid that Tricycle would report the date and place of
invasion and this prolong the war. Artist informed S.I.S. that although he
was convinced that Brandes was not trying to trap him into any admission.
Artist acted as though Brandes was so trying and therefore always reacted to
Brandes' suggestions as a good German should.
KV
2/858-1, page 13
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On 30.4.44 Berlin, on
behalf of (Nest) Cologne (Köln), (to which place Abwehrstelle
Moldenhauer's control seems to have been moved back from Brussels), sent a
message to Lisbon which seems to indicate that Cologne did not at that date
suspect anything unusual had happened to Moldenhauer. On 8.5.44
KV
2/858-1, page 14
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On 8.5.44 there
was a rather corrupt message from Lisbon to Berlin referring to Schreiber's
previous message from Biarritz in which he reported the success of the
undertaking Dora. (apparently
like Kohlenklau the cover-name for the abduction and conveying both captured men
Jebsen and not expected Moldenhauer too)
The corrupt message of 8.5.44 twice refers to two people by the initials J (Jebsen
= Artist) and M (Moldenhauer),
and goes on to to say that the S.D. was beginning investigations regarding their
whereabouts. The sense of the rest of the message is not absolutely clear
but probably means that Schreiber advised his superiors in Berlin to tell the
S.D. in berlin about the position, presumably so that the S.D. would stop making
enquiries, and Schreiber seems to have asked to be told the story the Abwehr in
Berlin intended to tell the S.D., presumably so that the Abwehr in Lisbon could
stick to the same story. (The initial M in the message, coupled with the
fact that Moldenhauer was staying with Artist, seems to indicate that
Moldenhauer was taken to Biarritz by Schreiber with Artist. This would fit
the earlier message about sending on J and W M from Biarritz to
Berlin, because one of Moldenhauer cover-names was Waldmann.
KV
2/858-1, page 14
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On 9.5.44 Kuebart told Schreiber in Lisbon that so far no report on the
execution (abduction)
of undertaking Dora had arrived in Berlin and asked for it to be sent as quickly
as possible.
(AOB:
we may draw the conclusion that at least Schreiber was among the convoy from the
garage in the rear of Rua Buenos Aires consisted of two cars; not unlikely to
what was being noticed as:
Allianca Propaganda
at Eitel's KV 2/382-3, page 13, where they spoke of convoys and I already
noticed the the word implied at least two cars)
(AOB: I sometimes have the
feeling that Major Foley (S.I.S.)
was a bit naive. Jebsen was heavily
engaged in all sorts of financial manipulations, also doing business with the SS;
however,
one shouldn't dare to cheat these men!)
KV
2/858-1, page 23
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9.5.44
Berlin to Lisbon. For Ludovico (Leiter
KOP) for Harry (Schreiber).
So far no report on execution of undertaking Dora (abduction
of Jebsen; also known as Kohlenklau)
has arrived. (likely
meant in Biarritz)
Please sent it as quickly as possible.
HION I (likely Obst.
Hansen, or a subordinate)
7761/44 Secret.
(AOB,
by this time Jebsen
and Moldenhauer must have arrived by aircraft in Berlin already)
I had a long talk with Tricycle yesterday evening. It is of course impossible to
tell him that we know Artist is in Germany*;
as far as facts go he only knows that Artist failed to keep an appointment with
our representative (likely
pointing at Major Foley)
on 5.5.44 and that our people in Lisbon have ascertained that Artist has not
been home since 29.4.44. Tricycle (Disko
Popov) also knows that
at the meeting on 28.4.44, when Artist sent him a letter, everything appeared to
Artist to be in good order.
Tricycle realises that there is a possibility that Artist may have been
kidnapped by the Germans, particularly because Artist himself suggested (as has
been made known to Tricycle) that the request for Artist (Jebsen)
to attend the meeting at Biarritz on 21.4.44**
was in Artist's opinion a possible trap to get Artist to occupied territory***.
#
Essential lessons:
*
This sentence shows clearly - that British Secret Services played games with
their (double-cross) agents. Therefore, is the Wikipedia story on Jebsen
such a rubbish - that Jebsen did not give away the information passed onto
him by the British, concerning D-Day. They considered painfully every word
what their agents should be informed of; quote:
of course
impossible to tell.
** 21st April
might indicate that the the meeting date in Biarritz has been changed
(postponed) several times; as to match to the fact that Jebsen would respond
on ultimatums set by Berlin I.
***
All were aware of the danger. Though, nowhere expressed
being the fact that British Secret Services feared the danger that Jebsen
could pass-on essential D-Day (Overlord)
information.
Simply, because they (Jebsen and Popov/Tricycle) weren't informed!
KV
2/858-1, page 51 + 52
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Attention is also
drawn to paragraph 6, which shows that it is clear that the other man who has
been taken to Germany is Moldenhauer. There could hardly have been a worse
coincidence than that Moldenhauer was staying with Artist at this time in view
of the partial knowledge Moldenhauer has of the true position owing to
Artist's (Jebens's)
earlier folly in discussing his fake suicide letter with Moldenhauer*.
The initial M in the message first quoted above only fits to Moldenhauer but he
is also known by the code names Mannwald and Waldmann, This may account
for the reference to W in the earlier message about taking people from Biarritz
to Berlin. It is also likely that when Schreiber referred to
undertaking Dora (= abduction or kidnapping of Jebsen (Artist)
and Compagnion (his
friend/colleague Moldenhauer)
he was meaning that he had picked up Moldenhauer as well as Artist (Jebsen)
because he had found them together. (actually
Jebsen took Moldenhauer with him as to stand stronger in any case)
We cannot expect to
get any concrete reactions from MSS as to the extent to which Garbo (Spanish;
Juan Pujol Garcia, likely Britain's the most important double cross agent!)
is compromised. We were still speculating as to the fate of Artist (Jebsen)
as late as the evening of the 6.5.44 in spite of the fact that there was
evidence on M.S.S. as early as 30.4.44 that Artist had been kidnapped and had
passed through Madrid at 2 p.m.*
that day en route to Berlin. Similarly on the 29.4.44 were convinced, as
was Artist himself, that both his position and that of Tricycle (Disko
Popov) had never been
more secure.**
This in spite of the fact that there was evidence on M.S.S. (though in a form
unintelligible at the time) that Artist's kidnapping (Dora
or Kohlenklau) had
been planned and was imminent on the 25.4.44.***
It was put in operation the same night that our confidence in him was at its
height. M.S.S. appeared to support Artist's believe that
Schreiber was his ally and was fighting his battles against the suspicions of
the High Command (Mil
Amt Berlin), the
Abwehr and the S.D. whereas Schreiber was in fact the man chosen to carry out
his kidnapping.
(AOB:don't forget:
that the Abwehr by then was part of the SS controlled RSHA; and that not only
the Abwehr played their games - but also Schroeder's Amt IV representative in
Lisbon)
KV
2/858-1, page 57
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It is difficult to speculate as to the causes of Artist's arrest****.
One can only say that this case being dealt with on the highest level by the
Germans and there is every likelihood that the S.D. (both
S.D. and Abwehr obeyed to the SS controlled R.S.H.A.)
will, as is already shown, endeavour to discredit Artist and through him the
Abwehr******.
If the Tricycle organisation (a
great word for merely nothing)
which has has for several years been suspect, could finally be proved to be
controlled there is the possibility that having won the day they will be
satisfied with their success without attempting to discredit and investigate the
Garbo organisation which in itself would be an enormous task. Any
investigation would be handicapped by the necessity of first having to convince
Felipe (Sdf
Kuehlenthal KO Spain)
that Garbo was controlled, as task which in view of Felipe's implicit confidence
in Garbo would immensely difficult. The S.D. may, or may not, be aware of
this set of facts. (AOB,
they really became aware after the event of D-Day cover-name Overlord, on
6th June 1944, where the Germans realised the misleading games played by British
Secret Services)
So far we know they have to date shown no interest whatsoever in Garbo's
activities.
#
Lesson two to be drawn
*
This fact actually is to what we know: A car convoy left the garage in the
back-yard of Rua Buenos Aires one car carrying the trunks carrying Jebsen
and Moldenhauer; new is the fact that also Schreiber joined the convoy
heading for Biarritz taking the shortest route possible via San Sebastian -
Irun and Hendaye which is situated quite near to Biarritz; arriving on
1st May 1944 in Biarritz.
**
The chicken-feed provided by British Secret Service - had been already
recognised by analysts of the OKW, and considered deception materials. In
other words, Jebsen and Popov (Artist
and Tricycle) both
were distrusted already for several months; think of late 1943.
*** Considering
the forgoing conclusions, that at some state the Abwehr had been ordered to
take, careful, but decisive, counter-actions; what ultimately happened was
the consequence of misconduct conceptions on the Allied side.
****
They weren't aware of it, because they have relied too much upon Artist's,
quite, childish assessments. Jebsen once gained a Law degree at Freiburg
University, in the 1930s; but he actually stayed to be totally weird
individual.
*****
It actually didn't work out this way as being forecasted by those losing a
"game set".
6.
Consequently, the cover plan has been to a considerable extent, though by no
means exclusively, built upon the reports of XX (Double-Cross)
agents (i.e. of all the most important of the Germans who are straight agents in
German eyes). The fact that Artist, who is fully cognisant of the Tricycle
network and who has some knowledge or at least some inkling of the other cases (parallel
games plaid with other agents),
has fallen under suspicion and been removed to Berlin by the Abwehr therefore,
prima facie, threatens the whole cover plan.
7. We cannot tell exactly why Artist has fallen under
suspicion - we only know that he is regarded as "unreliable". Such
indications as there are suggest that his "unreliability" may be connected with
his financial
operations (AOB,
I considered these manipulations already several times in the context of this
"forensic Survey"),
his intrigues with the S.D. (I
have pointed at this aspect several times before as well),
or his unwise inquisitiveness into the undertakings of Brandes (Ballhorn)
and Ostro, and not with the dealings with Tricycle at all. There is
no proof that treason on the part of Artist in connection with Tricycle is part
of the charge. But obviously ..... Artist may well betray all,
on.....******
#
Lesson three drawn
****** AOB, for the
first time British
Secret Service recognise the dubious dealing
(manipulations)
Jebsen (their
Artist) had been
engaged.
The latter
considerations painting a quite dubious acting person.
Did he really necessitate money? Not at all - he was from himself
incredible riche!
15.
This time alone makes me believe that we ought not to close down the agents,
however suspect, until at the earliest shortly before D-Day. I do not
myself think that it is at all likely that we shall have to consider seriously
the advisability of closing them down, though I do think that we shall very
likely have to switch over from the policy of the definite cover plan to that of
"confusion".
16.
My recommendations therefore are:-
i. That we continue to run the Tricycle traffic in the same
style as before and with a little change as possible - but that no Fortitude
deception is put over on it.
ii. The the other agents continue for the time being exactly
as at present.
iii. That if we get information that the situation has
deteriorated, the agents are used to fill the German mind with confusion instead
of passing over complete cover plan.
iv. That if and only if the blowing of Tricycle and Garbo is
certain, we close down all agents shortly before D-Day and deny all information
to the enemy.
B.1.a. 9.5.44
Signed J.C Masterman (Major) (AOB,
he was responsible for Double-Cross at M.I.5.)
KV
2/858-2, page 4
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Tricycle left Lisbon on 12.4.44, and there is ample evidence, even if we exclude
statements made by Artist (Jebsen)
by Brandes (Ballhorn)
that at that time all who were handling the German end of this case were
completely satisfied with him. Since then events have been taking place
rapidly which require careful consideration of all available material. It
is clear that he had persuaded those he met to agree to somewhat outrageous
financial proposals, and that Wiegand (alias
of Sdf. Dr. Joachim Wrede, KV 2/560, stationed in Paris)(He
sadly became due to Jebsen's financial dealings engaged in these dubious matters
and ultimately was also hung on 10 December 1944; the execution date of Jebsen
isn't known to me) had
omitted himself to do his best to get these proposals accepted.
(AOB,
Now I tend to consider: that the latter proposals on behalf of Jebsen,
finally leading to Dr. Wrede's death)
KV
2/858-2, page 4
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On 13.4.44 Schreiber (KV
2/3568, Obstlt. Dr. Aloys; Leiter I H KOP)
reported to Berlin that according to a communication from Brandes of 11.4.44
Artist (Jebsen)
was notionably trying to find out about OSTO (Paul
Georg Fidrmuc the ominous spy)
and his connections. In order to avoid accidents, the secretary, Lily
Craass
(Schreiber's shorthand
secretary), had
forthwith been forbidden any contact with Ostro. (AOB,
quite difficult as Lily was a girl-friend of Ostro's wife),
because through her connection with Baroness Marie Luise
von Gronau (Fritz
Cramer's secretary)
Artist learnt everything. Berlin's attention was drawn to a previous
communication, presumably by letter, referring to oral reports made by Brandes
to Kuebart
concerning Lilly Craass at a conference in Berlin. There also been an
earlier reference to a, presumably written, memorandum by Brandes on the subject
of Artist.
13.4.44
Lisbon-Berlin.
664. to HIOB (Heer
I Ost
Berlin)
I. According to a Ballhorn (Brandes)
communication of 11/4 Jonny is openly trying to find out about Ostro and
his connections. In order to avoid accidents Angestellte Craass
has forthwith been forbidden any contact with Ostro (hardly
realistic as Lilly was a girlfriend of Ostro's wife),
because through her connection with Angestellte von Gronau Jonny (Jebsen), as
proved, again learns everything. Forwarding of all Ostro's reports and
letters is still assured and will be discussed with Erbprinz (Wolff
Otto von Amerongen)
before he leaves by air. If Berlin discussion with Ostro should go against
the above ruling owing to the latest event not having, become known there, it is
requested that the prohibition be confirmed by FS (Fernschreiber
= telex) Your
attention is drawn to our No. 394 Leiter I of 11/4 concerning Craass
at the last conference in Berlin.
Ludovico (von
Karsthof(f) Leiter KO Portugal)
Harry (= Dr. Aloys
Schreiber, Leiter I H KOP)
KV
2/858-2, page 4
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On
17.4.44 Schroeder (KV
2/399, Emil Erich Schroeder Leiter Amt IV in Portugal Legation)
the head of the S.D. in Lisbon, sent a long telegram to Berlin for Enzer?
(believed to be Schellenberg head
Amt VI (Mill Amt)
and for the head of Amt IV, for Quitting?, who is the head of the counter
espionage section of Amt IV, about Artist?. The telegram stated that
according to information from Spain it had become known that Artist possessed a
German and British diplomatic passports, and also a letter of recommendation
from Rotsschil's English headquarters to the British Embassy Madrid requesting
that Artist should be given every assistance in case of difficulties with Amt
IV. (AOB, by this time
SS controlled RSHA Amt IV. In Berlin Ausland S.D.)
(AOB, Rothschild was
mainly concerned with sabotage aspects)
Artist was said to have planned to buy up French funds through nominees for the
Rothschild banks; to smuggle 30 million Swiss francs from German occupied
territories and to conclude further shady (covered)
deals S.D. Lisbon added that as regards Artist's (Jebsen's)
relationship with Rothschild they knew from Chaker??, head of Abt. III of the
Abwehr in Lisbon, that a relationship existed with the Abwehr's agreement for
reason of camouflage. The S.D. Lisbon suggested that elucidation with
Artist on that matter should be postponed until Guetting? visited Lisbon.
The Abwehr in Lisbon had not been informed, and the S.D. in Berlin were
requested not to inform the Abwehr in Berlin. (AOB,
meant Mil Amt?)
(A mythical correspondence between Artist (Jebsen)
and Rothschild has existed for some time with the knowledge of the Abwehr, its
supposed being to explore the the possibility of Artist getting to England,
apparently as a refugee but actually to run Tricycle group of agents on the
spot. There is no foundation for the suggestion that Artist is indulging??
in financial deals with Rothschild.)
KV
2/858-2, page 5 + 6
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In the meantime a
meeting took place between Artist and S.I.S. (M.I.6.
likely Major Foley) on
18.4.44. Artist was warned not to trust Brandes but the only ground
which could be given him for this advice was that we did not trust reports
Artist had previously given us for which Artist's source was Brandes. (this
is the downside of not really informing agents)
Artist reported that Brandes own position was weak because he had had difficulty
in explaining why his mystical agent could not be reproduced. Artist was
aware of the recall of the secretaries (Von Gronau and Craass),
but was unaware of the real reasons for their recall, although by 25.4.44 he had
learnt that Schreiber had von Gronau (Jebsen's
mistress) recalled in
view of the investigations in progress and Gronau's intimacy with Artist.
(AOB,
both, von Gronau and
Lilly Craass were still in Portugal on 30 April 1944; as in one of Ostro's files
Fidrmuc mentioned: that on 30 April during the day Lilly Craass came in great
panic to Ostro's house and told them that her girlfriend von Gronau found
Jebsen's apartment (apparently
she possessed an apartment key)
found everything turned upside-down and no sign of Jebsen)(I
tend to suppose: that Schroeder's men might have cleared the job)
KV
2/858-2, page 6
Maybe of secondary relevance, but it explains the wider context quite well
Crown Copyright
Artist quoted
Schreiber (KV 2/3568)
and Henss (no
file found, but an S.D. men from Oporto)
for statements that Tricycle's stock was extremely high*,
but went on that Abt. III (Leiter
Fritz Cramer; KV 2/1742, in Lisbon?)(Referat
III, was counter intelligence - just the Branch responsible)
were making a further investigation and that a series of test were likely, the
first of which had been the instructions to Artist to go to Biarritz.
Artist was confident that Brandes, as far as he was able, would keep Artist (Jebsen)
warned of future tests. (It is an open question whether the summons**
to Artist to go to Biarritz was or was not a trap, but I think it can be taken
as certain that Artist believed that it contained a trap. Artist's
statement that Abt. III were investigating may or may not be correct, but there
is no independent evidence of this. It is true , that Heinrich(?),
head of Abt. III (meant
RSHA Mil/Amt?)
was expected in Lisbon, but there is nothing to show that this had anything to
do with Artist (Jebsen)
or Tricycle.
*
This might indicate that the Germans played their game quite professionally,
in contrast to the British Services in this respect.
**
"Summons" might rightly indicate - that Jebsen had been ordered
several times previously to present himself in Biarritz. Please bear in mind:
Tricycle and therefore also Jebsen /Artist, were suspected of working for
the British Intelligence Services. We may fairly consider this was initiated
about late 1943; as Tricycle's materials proved by OKW annalists to be clear
deception materials. Since the Vermehren disaster, of early February 1944,
all alarm bells rung! According to Kuebart's statements (KV
2/410) indicate
already since late March 1944.
KV
2/858-2, page 6
Crown Copyright
On 21.4.44
Schreiber informed Kuebart in Berlin that Brandes had learned from Artist*
that the latter intended to utilise Lilly
Craass**
to a greater extent for getting his information from K.O. Portugal since
Gronau had dropped out through being given other duties. As a precaution
against further leakages Craass was was sent to Berlin on April 21st.***
*
Albeit warned several times on behalf of British Secret Services, Jebsen
proved to be ignorant for their arguments. What might have counted: was,
that the Top Secrecy of MSS forced them to express themselves so
indefinitely that Jebsen did not grasp the implications of their warnings.
**
Lilly Craass was the shorthand secretary to Schreiber Leiter I H in KOP.
Maybe not known, she was directed directly by Admiral Canaris himself,
therefore: not a simple Frl. to make a mistress.
***
Time-and-again is stated: that both women left Lisbon shortly after the
intercepted W/T messages of 13/14 April 1944. This isn't in accordance to
Ostro's (Fidrmuc's)(KV
2/196 ... KV 2/201)
statement during his interrogations by the Americans (G-2) in Germany
1946/47. Craass was a friend of Ostro/Fidrmuc's family, in particular his
wife. According Ostro/Fidrmuc: on 30 April 44 - she came in great
hurry as von Gronau approached her in panic, and told her that she went to
Jebsen's apartment (apparently she possessed a key) and discovered that the
flat had been turned upside-down. We may safely assume, the Germans had
thoroughly searched the flat. Therefore; both Frl. must have left
somewhere in May 1944. I even can imagine that both women had been
interrogated as well, before they left Portugal.
KV
2/858-2, page 7
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On
25.4.44 Kuebart (KV
2/410) (and
Schreiber Leiter I H KOP)*
in Madrid sent an
immediate message to (Obst.)
Hansen in Berlin: "According today's news the carrying out of the
threatened plan (Dora)
is imminent. Request your permission to prevent this plan even if it
should become necessary to use extreme measures. Hansen replied giving
permission**.
(It seems almost certain the notification to Schreiber that Jebsen was preparing
the way with S.I.S. (M.I.6)
for certain consequences.)
*
Schreiber's version being well covered within his KV 2/3568.
The whole matter originated from: that Schreiber insisted before his taking
action against Jebsen (Artist) - that be got a confirmation from the highest
in charge in casu Obst. Hansen; his reason was that when matters went
wrong that he is cleared from impropriated acting also against the
Portuguese authorities. It is also here clear that MSS provided much
intelligence, but sometimes just lacking essential facts.
**
Kuebart's plan was to proceed after Biarritz on to Madrid, anyway. Schreiber
joined him, as KO Spain in Madrid possessed excellent facilities to
communicate with Berlin Mil/Amt directly.
KV
2/858-2, page 8
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On
30.4.44 the S.D. in Berlin (RSHA Amt IV) warned their representative in Lisbon
to take extreme caution in matters relating to Artist (Jebsen),
in particular, whatever the course of events, the Abwehr had to be prevented
from learning of the collaboration planned between Artist and the S.D. (Previous
references had shown that the S.D., both in Berlin and Lisbon, had intended to
continue to use the services of Artist and Tricycle, and in fact it was for
reason that Artist was to be integrated on financial matters in Lisbon and not
brought back to Germany.)*
* Here we may
draw an interesting picture: first the Abwehr's interests. On 12
February 44 (just two-and-a-half months before, Hitler had been informed of
the dissertion of the couple Vermehren whom went over to the British side in
Turkey. Hitler's furious response was: that from now on the Abwehr should be
solved and merging within RSHA Mil/Amt; Canaris was dismissed and in March
44 he was proceeded by Obst. Hansen, who was becoming part of Mil/Amt headed
by Schellenberg. Hansen was also heavily engaged in the preparations for
eliminating Hitler. There were clear signs in conversations between Jebsen
(Artist) and Brandes; in which Jebsen had indicated that when necessary he
easily could desert to the British side. This information "rung alarm-bells"
as when this happened, what might be Hitler's response? Would it jeopardise
all preparation for eliminating Hitler's clan? Which attempts failed
on 20 July 1944.
KV
2/858-2, page 37
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von Gronau and Craass.
7. The fact that von Gronau continued to see Artist up to
the time of her departure*
annoyed Schreiber, who told Henss and Schroeder (Leiter Amt IV) that she and
Craass had been recalled owing to the investigations then in progress (notice
the KV 2/201-1, page 43 references).
According to Artist (apparently
S.I.S.'s sole source in Lisbon at that time)
this was not entirely true. The Baroness was in fact recalled from
Berlin*,
but Craass'
departure had already been mooted by Bendixen (I
M) for other
reasons, and the latter did a little fixing of the telegram to make it
appear that she had been recalled by Berlin instead of being sent back from
this end.
8. Cramer (KV
2/1742)
is already missing the Baroness and told Schreiber that he was contemplating
collaborating with Artist to try and get her sent out again.**
*She had been his
mistress, this often implies sexual dependency.
** Again, both
ladies (Frl.) were for whatever circumstance in Lisbon free to move!
According Ostro's (Paul Georg Fidrmuc) statements, he recalled that on
30 April 44,
Frl. Craass
came to his private home in Estoril and told him and his wife, that her
girlfriend Frl. von Gronau came to Jebsen's apartment and found everything
turned upside-down.
Please
bear in mind, that these kinds of file reproductions reflect only what was know
and/or understood by the Secret Services in England; not necessarily need to be
true.
Terminating
KV 858
series.
Next
only
for checking whether the next file series providing some of interest as well
KV
2/859
Volume
15
PF
55032
KV
2/859-2, page 9 !
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Extract from letter from Junior (Dr. Ruser in Estoril Portuga)l to Major
Masterman (responsible to Double Croos) dated 8.11.44.
Dear
Major Masterman,
Both my mother and myself, are convinced that Jebsen cannot have gone back to
Germany of his free will. He might have been extremely sporadic in his past
movements and appearances, that is to say, before he ever met him through
Moldenhauer in the summer of 1941. But, since then, things have changed
radically for him. Something, unknown to me, had turned up just before I met
him, which made it impossible for him to go back to Germany. Moldenhauer
had already referred to that before introducing me to Jebsen. And Jebsen
had left France in such a hurry, before he came to Spain, that he despatched
someone to Paris at great costs, to fetch his personal things and arrange some
urgent affairs of his. And Jebsen had, then, always showed himself
genuinely terrified at the idea of a possible order by the Nazis to go back to
Germany. He was, indeed, seriously contemplating all sorts of back-outs to
meet such an event. If he has now disappeared from the peninsular without
previously contacting you we must assume that he has been kidnapped.
The odds against me are, therefore, worse than ever. You will remember
that I have always expressed a very uncomfortable feeling at the aspect of
Jebsen carrying the knowledge of my present whereabouts around with him,
especially while engaged on so dangerous missions in Spain and Portugal.
As Pepe knew that Jebsen had frequently visited me in my hotel room just before
he fled Madrid, the Gestapo (likely
S.D.) will surely have
interrogated Jebsen on his relations to me, for whatever other reason he might
have been kidnapped. And I must say that the fact that the Nazis have no
more been searching for me, after this event, might be rather evil foreboding.
My mother is convinced that the Nazis actually did believe that I stayed in
Spain, and they have at least, until she left, always been searching for my
whereabouts. That they should have stopped that, could be taken as an indication
that Jebsen has told them where I really am (AOB,
living in Estoril Portugal)
Therefore I am more keen to go back to Spain as quickly as possible. For
only through an open reappearance in Madrid, in good time before the war has
come to a close, will be able to disprove all that what Jebsen might have said
under 'third degree' pressure.
KV
2/859-2, page 9 !
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Major
Foley (S.I.S. (M.I.6)
mainly stationed in
Lisbon) and I (Major
J.C. Masterman)
interviewed Junior (Dr.
Ruser, living in Estoril Portugal)
on 7.11.44
In order that he (Dr.
Ruser) might the
better understand the difficulties of the position, Foley, at my (Masterman's)
suggestion, told him rather more about the fate of Jebsen. Foley told him
that Jebsen had disappeared and that we had no longer any connection with him
and did not know what had happened to him. We concluded that he was
in Germany and thought that he might be in trouble over his (quite
dubious) financial
dealings. This meant, of course, that he might tell the Germans
a good deal about Junior (Dr.
Ruser) Junior
said that Jebsen, who was mine of information, had always talked too much, and
had indeed dealt very extensively on the black market, into which he had also
dragged Moldenhauer. If he were caught, in Junior's view, Jebsen would
tell the Germans everything.
KV
2/859-2, page 19
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Glusevic was aware that Artist (Jebsen) had been in trouble with the Gestapo
(read S.D.)
over financial matters since about May 1943. having facilities for
transporting currencies from one occupied country to another, where values
were different, Artist had been engaging in large-scale manipulations of
currency and gold. Glusevic was not clear for what German
service Artist was supposed to be working*,
but he knew that he appeared to receive facilities from the O.K.W. (OKW),
and believed that he was sharing the benefits**
of currency deals with some officials superiors***
who got into difficulties because it became apparent that they had more to
spend than could be justified by their paper incomes. Glusevic
believed that one of Artist's superiors, whose name was something like
Lechli, may have been arrested in Frankfurt in May 1943, and immediately
afterwards Artist's Greek friend Avramedes, who had been engaged
particularly in buying and selling gold in France and Greece, was arrested.
Artist himself was in great fear of arrest at this time, and in fact on one
occasion Glusevic had helped to hide Artist in Paris before Artist managed
to get away to Madrid. Artist had drawn quite unnecessary attention to
himself in Paris by his extravagance.****
*
From what is known it may well have concerned S.D. related entities (Please
don't think of Gestapo, because they had in France no jurisdiction!)
**
Just sharing the benefit is a quite continuous factor in Jebsen's doings.
***
I tend to believe more in individuals or a group of, than in intitutions.
****
Extravagance were rather negative aspects of both Jebsen (Artist) and Popov
(Tricycle) as can be found in these file series. Popov's expenditure, when
staying in Brittan, became so disgusting generally, that they were
pleased that he left Britain (I
have skipped the according references)
(AOB, In my perception: There exists an apparent difference, generally
speaking, in so-called: New-rich people, and "old money" attitudes.
KV
2/859-2, page 105
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In April (1943)
Tricycle had received a letter complaining, not without justification, that his
information was inadequate and pleading for him to work better. He was
also told that the money which should have been paid, and in fact his account
was credited with 187,500 escudos at the end of April (1943).
Tricycles was warned off further use of the cover addresses:- Jose Carvallo, and
(again) Artur Soares.
(AOB,
we cannot expect that Tricycle possessed a "blanco" credit in the German
perception) (Please
remember, that the zenith of
information brought in from England was Tricycle's)
KV
2/859-3, page 15
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On
16.4.44 we had no indication that there was any imminent danger of an
attempt to kidnap Artist. All we knew was that Brandes had been
reporting, apparently to Schreiber who had passed it most secretly to
Berlin, that Artist was showing noticeable curiosity about the affairs of
Ostro (Paul Georg
Fidrmuc, likely one of Britain's mysterious menace).
We had already received through Tricycle certain reports by Artist, some of
which quoted Brandes as a sub-source, and everyone who read these reports on
what Brandes was supposed to have learnt in Berlin about Tricycle* and
others, came to the conclusion that remarks made by Brandes to (about)
Artist were not trustworthy.**
* Bear
again-and-again in mind please: that the OKW thus Amt Ausland/Abwehr;
distrusted both - Tricycle and Jebsen - as the latter was an intermediate.
OKW analysts had already concluded in late 1943, that the Tricycle's
documents contained deception materials.
The
most careful consideration was given to whether we should inform Artist that
Brandes was reporting on his thirst for information, and it was accepted by all
numerous officers here who considered the position that we could not run the
risk to the source (AOB,
MSS!)
that would be involved in warning Artist (Jebsen)
that we had knowledge that Brandes (Ballhorn)
was reporting on Artist's activities.
We had considered putting this over to Artist by attributing the information to
some other agent, but had to be reject this plan because although Artist would
undoubtedly have believed that we obtained our knowledge from an agent, should
he ever be forced to confess that he had had the warning, or should he attempt
to confront Brandes, it might well have become apparent to others what our real
source was. (AOB, a
major dilemma)
KV
2/859-3, page 15 + 16
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It must be remembered that the action taken about Artist was kept on a most
secret level, so much that after Artist was removed from Lisbon neither the S.D.
in Lisbon, nor Bendixen (no
file on him remained),
then acting Leiter I.O. (Leiter
I M) Portugal, knew
what was happening, and both reported with some alarm that Artist had
disappeared. (AOB, the
entire "Dora or Kohlenklau" case had been accomplished astonishingly sound)
KV
2/859-3, pages 16 + 17
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I should like to add
that the fact that kidnapping was anticipated was not known to us until after
the event had taken place. There was a message, not mentioning Artist by
name, which, had we at the time sufficient knowledge to link up with Artist, we
would indicated about the day before the event took place that he was in danger
of some sort. Again because of the source (MSS),
even if we had realised that this related to Artist, we could not, because of
the source (MSS),
having taken the risk of giving him any additional warning.
How Schreiber tricked Artist into going to Germany we do know, but the proposed
trip to Oporto with Henss of the S.D. clearly had nothing to do with it,
because Henss knew nothing of Artist's disappearance until long after it had
taken place.
I have naturally given a great deal of thought to this matter and I am satisfied
that we went as far as we possibly could in protecting Artist in the light of
such information as we had on the relevant dates.
19 June 1944
Signed by T.A. Robertson (TAR) (M.I.5)
Directed to: Major Foley, S.I.S. (M.I.6)
Foley was mainly
stationed at Lisbon, and he maintained the main contacts with Popov and Jebsen.
KV
2/859-3, page 38
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61.
Artist was born at Hamburg of Danish parents. All four grandparents were
Danish. When Artist was twelve years old his father became a naturalised
German and and Jebsen acquired German nationality at the same time. He
states that as a youth he was inevitably caught up in the Nazi movement but lost
all regard for the party when as a University student he begab to think for
himself and made friends with other students from other countries.
62.
Artist has not suggested that he should receive any financial rewards (he
was himself very rich)
for his cooperation with us. Conditionally on our being satisfied, when we
have full information after the war, that Artist has assisted us to the best of
his ability we have assured him that, should he desire it, we will use our best
endeavours to assist him in regaining Danish nationality; that so far as
practicable he would have freedom of travel for business purposes after the war
and that, assuming the account he had given us of his part in the dealings in
forged notes was accurate, he would be protected in any charges that might arise
after the war against those responsible for the dealings. Artist was also
assured that if any genuine German agents, (not British subjects), were caught
exclusively on reports given by him, the death penalty would not be exacted, and
that should anything happen to him we would do our best to look after his wife's
interests. Artist did not ask for financial provision for his wife as she had
already taken steps to look after her financial future.
KV
2/859-3, page 50
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Another of Artist's (Jebsen's)
Madrid contacts was Franzbach (=
Paymaster of KO Spain also known as: Pago and/or ZF).
On 16.5.44 Madrid telegraphed Berlin that Franzbach was going to Berlin for
consultation by order of Obst. Heinrich. On 25.5.44 Berlin informed
Madrid that Franzbach would probably leave Berlin that evening with important
courier luggage, and on 26.5.44 Madrid was informed that Franzbach's departure
from Berlin had been delayed for a week. Whether presence of first
Rohrscheidt (Obstlt.
Leiter III Madrid) and
Franzbach in Berlin was connected with Artist is a matter of conjunction. It is
not unlikely that they might have required for consultation in Berlin upon
matters of general re-organisation arising out of the inclusion of the Abwehr in
R.S.H.A. (Mil/Amt) (AOB:
It is damm sure that Jebsen needed Franzbach as Paymaster of KO Spain, for his
many dubious financial transactions)
Date 10.6.44
Signed by Mr. Wilson (M.I.5)
KV
2/859-3, page 53
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Portuguese
Registration Card
Name: Marie Luise von Gronau
Born 20 May 1920
Dactilógrafa (Shorthand secretary) Steno-typist
Estado Soleira (Single)
For
some time she was Jebsen's mistress; at the same time engaged as a secretary at
the KOP Office, in Fritz Cramer's bureau (Referatsleiter III)
I am
still concerned at the lack of definite news about the fate of Artist. I have
given Noakes all available leads in case he has the chance of making local
enquiries. Tricycle is himself going to try and seek information from
friends of Artist known to him. There is a possibility that Artist was
early this year (1945)
in Oranienberg (Oranienburg).
I have asked Hamer of Section V (M.I.6)
to ascertain from Best (among
those captured by the Germans, due to the Venlo incident, in Autumn 1939, in The
Netherlands)
who was also at one time in Oranienburg (AOB,
wasn't it Sachsenhausen?),
whether he has any news but Best was then away on indefinite leave and Hamer
could not ascertain his whereabouts (AOB, thus after Germany had
surrendered). It
might be worth while reminding Hamer and asking him to take steps to question
Best.
Another charge
made against Wrede was that he had carried letters from Jonny (Jebsen's
Abwehr cover-name like was Artist for the British)
in Lisbon and posted them to addresses in France/ These letters,
the Germans in Berlin claimed*, were addressed to Jonny's agents in France
and secret writing was discovered in them when they had been intercepted by
the Germans.** Another accusation which he (Dr.
Wrede) could deny
was the borrowing of money from Jonny for his personal use***. Wrede
also added that on that occasion he was told that Koessler and Fanto were
also in contact with Jonny (Jebsen)
and that the message sent by Fanto were well known to Jonny****
* I suppose during there processes
after both had been in captivity in Germany
** Reason for intercept not yet
known, was it coincidental?
*** Stupid borrowing money!
**** Where did they got this knowledge from? Further down
the document, but not showed here, he expressed that his knowledge
originated from Wrede himself; he lacked further information.
KV
2/860-1, page 36
Significant, as it
noticed some of the reasons to caught Jebsen.
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On
arrival in Berlin (say
ca 2 à 3 May 1944)
Jebsen and Moldenhauer were detained under military arrest at Wünsdorf
near Zossen (Zeppelin?).
Hansen made arrangements for their interrogation by Mil/Amt
Z (III-F?)
(R) legal experts, but about the middle of May 1945 (1944)
under the direct orders of Keitel they were handed over to Amt IV (S.D.
Ausland Leiter Heinrich Müller; also known as Gestapo Müller)
despite the reluctance of the Abwehr to hand over one of their members.
The Sip and SD (S.D.)
had, as we know, for a long time been anxious to apprehend Jebsen because of
some (?)
alleged financial misdoings (amongst
cheating S.D. related financial manipulations),
and it is known that he had fallen foul (obscene)
of some of the leading members of Amt VI (Schellenberg's Mil/Amt) and Amt
IV because of the differences of views on the disposal of forged British
currencies.
KV
2/860-1, page 37 Dated 2nd August,
1945
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Steimle
(KV 2/966)
knows all about Jebsen, while Quetting was in charge of the investigation into
his financial transactions. Apparently neither Steimle
nor Quetting have yet been located although both are very much wanted for
general interrogation purposes. If either of them come to light they could
no doubt tell us what happened to Jebsen. (AOB,
why not considering also Kaltenbrunner head of the entire RSHA!)
According to Kuebart, Jebsen used to work for the S.D. in Berlin before the war,
chiefly in connection with currency matters, Jebsen had been subsequently
transferred to Abwehr I H (Certainly
not on behalf of the SD!)
to work under a certain Obstlt. Thoering, and, later, Thoering's successor
Munzinger (Muenzinger).
In autumn of 1943, Muenzinger had dispatched Jebsen to operate in Lisbon, top
deal with currency matters and the smuggling of Jugoslav agents to England via
Spain and Portugal in connection with a certain Ivan (=
Popov @ Tricycle by the Britain's),
whose activities are described below.
Jebsen was attached for certain administrative purposes only to K.O. Lisbon (KOP).
His cover employment was with the H.V.K. (H.W.K.),
an organisation connected with the O.K.W. (OKW) which probably had something to
do with raw materials (among: Wolfram,
Tungsten), but Kuebart
is ignorant of the meaning of the abbreviation "H.W.K." and its precise
significance.
KV
2/860-1, page 45
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Although Muenzinger trusted Iwan (Ivan
I), Kuebart put
little reliance on this time and states that the man "gave him an uncomfortable
feeling".
KV
2/860-1, page 48 navicerts
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Sonderführer (Sdf.)
Weiss (Kuebart's
assistant), of Abwehr
Eins, however, being an astute business man himself (most
Sonderführer possess a non-military skill),
discovered that in reality Iwan I
(Ivan) (Tricycle /
Popov) and Jebsen
intended to sell the navicerts (Nautical Certificates)
to the oil firm for a large sum without knowledge of the Germans, and that
Jebsen was the one of the two who had connected the scheme.
KV
2/860-1, page 48
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Kuebart instead sent Sdf. Wrede (KV
2/560 top)
down
to Portugal, briefed as follows:
1) That there was to be no question of Iwan I
(Ivan) receiving any advanced payment.
2) That the navicerts could not be obtained.
3) That they would pay Iwan I
(Ivan) after the receipt of his reports, 150,000 dollars (even
nowadays a great sum of money).
4) That they would, in addition, pay Iwan I 1,000 Swiss francs
every month for a duration of three years by way of compensation, instead of and
for Iwan's
inability to set himself up on the board of his oil firm.
Wrede duly went down to Portugal and carried out his instructions having long
talks with Jebsen and Iwan, who refused to accept Kuebart's counter-proposals.
As a result of this, frequent reports were interchanged between Berlin and
Lisboon on this subject. Kuebart held out, however. Iwan then announced
that unless his demands were fulfilled, he would abondon his work, and a
deadlock arose.
(AOB,
again keep in mind, that OKW and Hansen and Kuebart knew for months that Popov
(Tricycle) was supplying deception materials!)
KV
2/860-1, page 49
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Some time in march 1944, Brandes visited Weiss and Kuebart in berlin, reporting
that Jebsen had arranged to bribe both himself (Brandes) and Wrede with a share
of the profit of the scheme, were it to be successful.
Kuebart now became alive to Jebsen's whole scheme, in which eveb Wrede now
appeared to be implicated, for he had failed to reveal to Kuebart, Jebsen's
attempt to bribe him.
(Both
Jebsen and Wrede were assassinated late 1944 and Jebsen in 1945)
KV
2/860-1, page 50
Trip to Biarritz early
April 1944
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Trip
to Spain.
In the beginning of April 1944, Kuebart and Sdf.
Weiss left by air for Biarritz, where they put Major Schreiber of K.O. Lisbon in
the picture as to Jebsen and his confederates. (Popov
@ Iwan @ Tricycle)
Schreiber was very surprised as he had no idea of the real situation, Kuebart
then passed on to Schreiber, Hansen's order that Jebsen was to be arrested and
abducted forthwith. Schreiber, however, did not know how this action could be
taken and was in great doubt concerning the difficulties of transporting Jebsen
out of Spain. (consider,
for instance, the political implications)
It was therefore decided to continue the discussion with K.O. Madrid.
(AOB,
Schreiber wanted in case matters went wrong, and the political implications, at
least a telegram confirming that Hansen gave the orders)
(Foregoing,
we have already dealt with it in greater details)
(Kuebart's
statements do conflict with matters like that Schreiber met Kuebart again in
Biarritz delivering Jebsen and Moldenhauer in a trunk. But also Kuebart's being
in Lisbon later.)
During this period (Kuebart
had been arrested on 22 July in the early morning at the Belinde barracks; as he
was in direct contact with Obst. Hansen; who was directly engaged in the failed
assassination attempt on Hitler of 20 July 1944),
Kuebart was frequently interrogated by two Gestapo (correct)
officers, Sturmbannführer Guenther and Kriminalkommissar Baumer. (AOB,
the latter was likely also involved within Kuebart's trial)
He was also interrogated by an unknown Hauptsturmführer. During these
interrogations he was asked why he had not arrested Sdf. Wrede (KV
2/560) his
failure to reveal Jebsen's attempt to bribe him (KV
2/860-1, page 49).
Kuebart replied that he was not in charge of Wrede and considered such arrest to
be unnecessary since Wrede's omission ?coined? to be actuated by stupidity
rather than malice. He was also asked why he had made difficulties in handing
over Jebsen to the S.D. (correctly
used) after their
demand therefore. He replied that as Jebsen was a soldier he regarded it
as a matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Abwehr (correctly
Wehrmacht) (With
regard to Moldenhauer Kuebart admits that Schreiber exceeded his scope in
arresting this man, since Moldenhauer was merely concerned with Jebsen's plans to
desert, and enjoyed civilian status. (AOB,incorrect: Moldenhauer was already in 1941 engaged in the Abwehr.
Administratively he belonged to Nest Cologne
(Köln).
Both Moldenhauer and
Jebsen were keen not get to be caught for service in the Army. Madrid was no
longer secure for Moldenhauer and he had moved next to Lisbon. Both Jebsen and
Moldenhauer knew each other already in 1941, maybe already earlier)
KV
2/860-1, page 52
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Jebsen
@ Johnny (Jebsen)
Probably worked for the S.D. before the war in currency matters, in
connection with which he is alleged to have swindled them.
Subsequently transferred to Abwehr I H to work under Obstlt. Thoering and,
later, his successor Muenzinger.
KV
2/860-1, page 53
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Details of
K.O. Madrid Paymaster, Pago (known
also as ZF, real name Franzbach, he remained until after the war)
Believed by Kuebart to have belonged to Legion Condor (German
Legion fighting in favour of Franco in the 1930s);
was in very close contact with Jebsen (Jebsen
necessitated him as an undesirable aid for his dubious financial transactions)
and carried on currency business with him (Jebsen).
In connection with the "Jebsen affair", Pago was called to Berlin, as it was
suspected he also might try to escape. He was not particularly
interrogated, as the S.D. (Amt
IV) had taken the matter over.
After this, he was sent back to Madrid.
94. Jebsen was kidnapped at the Portuguese-Spanish frontier in
a trunk, by Obstlt. Huebarth (Kuebarth) and another officer
whose name Schellenberg has forgotten. Hansen had given the order for the
kidnapping. Schroeder (KV
2/399) (representative
at the Legation of RSHA Amt IV, SD)
in Lisbon aided and abetted the scheme. (I
doubt, but might have know about it)
Jebsen fell under suspicion because he sent conflicting reports to different
departments, amongst them (dangerous)
Amt IV. Jebsen was handed over to Müller (known
as Gestapo
Müller) and was
accused of working for Britain (KV 2/91-1,
page 34 on this website: confirms that
Jebsen indeed acknowledged that he was also a British agent!)
KV
2/860-2, page 20
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Wherever possible I have
been making enquiries about Johnny himself but so far I have got no further than
the fact that he was lodged in a Military Prison at the Lehrterstrasse in Berlin
after having been tricked back from Lisbon. I fear that his chances of
survival are probably not very high. On the other hand, there is nothing
to indicate that whatever may have happened to him he was forced to disclose
facts which we wanted kept secret. (AOB,
indeed this just what had happened)
Lisbon-Berlin.
99. For Ludovico (alias of Leiter KOP)
Harry (alias of Obstlt. Dr. Schreiber
Leiter I H). As the agreement
made with Ivan (German word IWAN I)
cannot at present be upheld, personal negotiation essential on 1(?)/5 (May).
Major Bohlen (KV 2/1975),
with full powers, is arriving in Biarritz for the purpose on 21/4. Request
that Harry (Obstlt. Schreiber KOP)
and Jonny (German alias for Jebsen)
who understands Ivan's (Iwan I's)
mentality best, be in Biarritz (small
beach-town not too far from the French-Spanish border)
on 21st. In this connection take special care with regard to Jonny's
(Jebsen's).
Recommended illegal crossing of frontier (often
managed and arranged by Uffz Furch alias Fuente of San Sebastian).
Time of rendez-vous must be adhered without fail, as affair cannot be brought
off at a later date. HIOB I (Heer
IOst
Berlin)
(main Abwehr W/T station-channel).
This radioed W/T message provoked a chain of events,
KV 2/860-3, page 41 RSS decrypted intercepts (translated)
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18.4.44.
Lisbon-Berlin.
No.707. To HIOB I. On the 17th Jonny (Jebsen)
told me (Ballhorn, alias of Hans Brandes)
that he had been ordered together with Harry (Obstlt.
Dr. Schreiber Leiter I H KOP) by an FS (Fernschreiben
/telex; actually it concerned a W/T message)
and was certain that his immediate arrest was intended (this
indeed was planned for) was intended in
Biarritz. In this connection even Madrid seemed too dangerous as a
rendezvous, because according to his information 2 Germans had only recently
been arrested in Madrid for treason, in collaboration with the Spanish police (there
existed a treaty between the German and Spanish Police, in cases of criminal
affairs) Jonny (Jebsen)
added that if on the part of Berlin are to be observed, he intends to draw his
own conclusions in the very next week and will inform Iwan (Popov/Tricycle)
and Guttmann (no file available)
in good time. Ballhorn (real
name Hans Brandes) Ludovico (alias
of Leiter KOP) Harry (Obstlt.
Dr. Aloys Schreiber Leiter I H both guiding Jebsen as well as Brandes!)
KV 2/860-3, page 42
RSS decrypt, translated:
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21.4.44
Lisbon-Berlin.
773. Ludovico (alias
of Leiter KOP)
DIAZ (Bedixen Leiter I
M) Harry (alias
of Schreiber Leiter I H)
to HIOB (Heer
IOst
Berlin)
I. Ballhorn (alias of
V-Mann Hans Brandes)
has learnt from Jonny that the latter intends to utilise Lilly
Craass
(shorthand secretary
to Schreiber) to a
greater extent (making
her also a mistress?)
for getting his information from the Dienststelle (KOP),
since Gronau has dropped out through being seconded to other duties. In
order to take precautions against further leakage Craass was sent to Berlin on
21.4.44 by Lufthansa. (AOB, whatever the reasons: Craass
and Gronau were in Lisbon about say 30 April 1944. Why? Because in Ostro's
(Fidrmuc's)
interrogations in 1946 he states: that Lilly Craass arrived in quite panic and
told Ostro's wife that Marie Luise
(von Gronau)
found Jebsen's apartment turned upside-down, without a trace of Jebsen).
It is not necessary to provide a substitute.4.5.44
KV
2/860-3, page 44
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4.5.44
2314 (ISBA Intelligence Service British Agent)
Berlin-Biarritz. To ANST (Abwehrnebenstelle)
Biarritz III-F
(Referat
Counter-Espionage)
Most secret. Ref our message of 4.5.44. As special
machine cannot be provided to pick up J (Jonny
= Jebsen) and W (Waldmann
= Moldenhauer), they
are to be sent to Berlin immediately under the closest supervision and with all
measures for security. Responsible officer in charge is instructed to
report time of arrival promptly so that they can be met at station in Berlin.
Abwehr I H No. 1644/44 Most secret
of 4.5.55. Signature as signed.
(AOB,
in my perception this points at, at least, partially, by means of railways)
I report that on 24th February 1947 I visited Frau Petra Vermehren,
Harvesterhudeweg 24. She supplied me with the following
additional information regarding the trial of Jebsen, Jonny.
Jebsen was taken to Berlin from Oranienburg Concentration Camp and was brought
before Sturmbannführer Schmitz. He (Jebsen)
was accused by Schmitz of having betrayed the work of the SS to the Abwehr.
Schmitz is described as being a fat and overbearing in manner./ He
is said to have been aid to Schellenberg who was Himmler's adjutant.
Jebsen according to Frau Vermehren (Jebsen's
mother), had two
enemies, who were Kriminalrat Hofmeister, Martin Lutherstrasse; Berlin, who was
responsible for everything that happened to Jebsen, and Lengeling, an SS man who
was arrested in 1943 and later released. Lengeling was at first friendly
with Jebsen and later betrayed him.
Jebsen had a friend, a Jugoslav, Michael Glouchwitsch, Frankwiedel 15, Paris,
deuxieme arrondissement. It is thought that this man can supply further
information concerning Jebsen.
The above information was supplied to Frau Vermehren by a former member of the
Abwehr, Otto Kurrer (KV
2/1962), bei Graf Gotz
(Götz?),
Brinkensen, Kreis Ahfeld and der Leine, Province Hannover.
(a) She believes that Johnny Jebsen is dead. She is
emphatic, however, that he did not die in Oranienburg Concentration Camp. (wasn't
it Sachsenhausen?)
(b) She confirms the fact that she was the last person to see
Jebsen alive, apart from his interrogators (and
related SS personnel).
(c) She believes one of the interrogators to be a man called
Lange.
(d) An escort was sent from Berlin to Oranienburg.
Jebsen and another prisoner called Moldenhauer were taken away.
Moldenhauer returned on 12th April to Oranienburg and
was surprises to hear that Jebsen had not returned.
(e) When a prisoner died in Oranienburg, his personal
belongings were taken away a few days after his death and disposed of. In
this way the inmates knew if one of their comrades had died. Jebsen had no
belongings as he had been smuggled by theGestapo
KOP personnel.
(f) The address of the wife/widow of Jebsen is as ... (AOB,
she was thereafter brought by British Service to an address in Krefeld)
KV
2/861-1, page 58
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In Oranienburg the prisoners were not allowed to shave themselves. Frau
Vermehren who says she was the only woman in the camp (Sippenhaft*?)
at the time received word from her son who was in solitary confinement (Sippenhaft?)
through the camp barber, that Jebsen had arrived in the camp. She
thereupon found the cell where he was and every day threw a stone against the
window until she attracted his attention. She first saw Jebsen in
September, though she believes that he came first to the camp in July, but that
as one of his ribs had been broken during an interrogation he lay on his bed for
the first month or two. He told her that the Gestapo (Abwehr)
had been abducted him and smuggled him out out of Spain (nonsense,
he was abducted in Lisbon and from there convey in a trunk to Biarritz)
in a box because had divulged (disclosed)
information to the British. MauldenhauerMoldenhauer
who was also a friend of Jebsen's in Spain (since
1941) arrived in the
camp. In Feb. 1945 she saw Jebsen for the last time. An escort was
sent from Berlin and both he and Moldenhauer were taken away. Though she
made discreet enquiries through the camp staff she was unable to obtain any
information as to his fate. On the 12th April, Moldenhauer returned
to the camp. He seemed surprised that Jebsen had not returned. (AOB,
bear in mind:
that on 9th April
Pfarrer Bonhoeffer and Admiral Canaris, among other, had been in a fake trial
convicted to death and shortly thereafter been hung in a cruel manner at
Flossenbürg Concentrationcamp).
He said he thought it possible that he may have been sent to Sachsenhausen.
On the 15th April owing to the advance of the Russians the inmates of the camp
were marched away. Those prisoners who were left behind were shot.
Frau Vermehren and her husband who were only held as hostage (Sippenhaft)
were not. It is thought that Moldenhauer was shot. (?) Frau Vermehren
eventually escaped and made her way first to Lübeck and finally to Hamburg,
where the husband is working as a solicitor and the wife for the Red Cross (Vermehrens).
5. Schreiber's Plans for Abduction.
* Sippenhaft
was that, for instance, in case of desertion to the enemy or other reasons,
it was quite possible that the rest of the family and sometimes even
relatives had been caught and kept in confinement, often with restrictions;
without being legally trailed.
KV
2/861-1, page 80
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5. Schreiber's Plans for Abduction.
Schreiber decided to call both Jebsen and Moldenhauer
Jebsen to his office (Rua
Buenos Aires 25)
for a meeting in the late afternoon of 3029
April 1944(totally
incorrect: Jebsen had been invited to come to the KOP office; though:
Moldenhauer lodged by him anyway. To appear with Moldenhauer he might have
thought as to stand more strong, in any case of events. Thus: Moldenhauer
appeared unexpectedly joining Jebsen. He therefore had to be abducted too,
as to keep the entire operation secret. All calculations worked out
soundly). At
that time the office would be completely deserted. They had to be
would knocked out and while unconscious placed in two large trunks in
which they could be shipped by the car the same evening over the Portugues-Spanish
and Spanish-French border to Biarritz. (AOB,
herewith making the former statements that they first had been brought to Madrid
ridiculous!)
To guard against possible surprise at the borders, Schreiber also decided to
drug them by injections.
Two assistants would be necessary to carry out the action. Schreiber chose
Bleil fnu signal officer fnu, signal officer of KO Portugal, in whose name
the car was registered and who, according to Portuguese law, had to accompany
the car on a trip across the border and Karl Meier civilian motor officer of KO,
who was thoroughly familiar with the car and and if necessary could repair it.
Schreiber sent a wire to Hansen in Berlin to the effect that the sudden
appearance of Moldenhauer supported their suspicions and necessitated his
inclusion in the affair and the planned action would be initiated without delay.
(AOB,
I am astonished, time-and-again, that the nonsense in the first paragraph
compared with the last paragraph reflected in the word: 'sudden appearance',
has not lead to an internal correction. I personally drew the conclusion
for a long time, is:, that hardly a (British)
document had critically been reviewed! The inconsistency in printing correctly
names, were even in a single paragraph several spellings can be encountered for
the same name!)
KV
2/861-1, page 80 Corrections
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At noon
30 April (29 April)
he (Schreiber)
and Meier purchased the two trunks, which Schreiber claims were large enough for
a grown person and were fitted with adequately large openings for ventilation.
The sleeping drug for the injections? Schreiber obtained in a Lisbon pharmacy.
Upon his return from Lisbon Schreiber had asked Jebsen to call at his office on
the afternoon of 30 April, using as a pretext his intention of
giving him detailed information about a decoration which Berlin wished to bestow
on Jebsen. He had also asked him to bring along his friend
Moldenhauer, ostensibly to question him on missions. Nonsense, remember the notice
"sudden appearance".
6. The Abduction.
On Saturday 30 (Friday
29) April 44 at 1800
hrs, Jebsen and Moldenhauer arrived together at Schreiber's office.
Schreiber carried on a general conversation with both of them for a short while
and then called Jebsen into another room. There he (Schreiber)
claims to have informed him of the true outcome of the discussions in Biarritz
and of Hansen's order to have him brought to Berlin by force, since he would not
go of his own free will. Jebsen made a move for the door and Schreiber
knocked him out. Meanwhile Meier had also overpowered Moldenhauer in the
adjoining room.
KV
2/861-1, page 81
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According to Schreiber, he then informed both Jebsen and Moldenhauer, after they
had recovered in the presence of Bleil and Meier, how he intended to get across
the border and both of them submitted to the injections.
The Party started out about 2100 hrs (leaving
the garage at the back of the builing at Rua Buenos Aires)
to Badajoz with the two drugged victims in the trunks and Schreiber, Bleil and
Meier as the other occupants of the Studebaker sedan. The
Portuguese-Spanish border was crossed without incident between midnight
and 0200 hrs, since Bleil and Meier knew border conditions and officials
personally from previous trips both here and the Spanish-French border in Irun (passing
the bridge).
The trip through Spain was only interrupted by a few rests in the open and the
Spanish-French border at Irun (crossing
the Bridge entering France)
border was crossed at about 2400 hrs of the following night without incident.
In Biarritz Jebsen and Moldenhauer were immediately turned over to the local
Stellenleiter Obstlt Fuchs.
A motor defect kept Schreiber and his two assistants in Biarritz until 4 May,
when the returned to Lisbon, Jebsen and Moldenhauer, Schreiber claims, were
transported a few day later to Berlin in Hansen's personal plane.
(AOB, nonsense:
not in accordance to the message KV 2/860-3, page 44, quote as shown before:
As special machine cannot be provided to pick up J (Jonny
= Jebsen) and W (Waldmann
= Moldenhauer), they
are to be sent to Berlin immediately under the closest supervision and with all
measures for security. Responsible officer in charge is instructed to
report time of arrival promptly so that they can be met at station in Berlin.
Abwehr I H No. 1644/44 Most secret
of 4.5.55. Signature as signed)
KV
2/861-1, page 81
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On the return journey
Schreiber stopped off in Madrid to report by W/T to Hansen in Berlin.
Shortly after his arrival in Lisbon he received an answer from Hansen expressing
his thanks for the accomplishment of the mission.
In June 1944 Schreiber again had occasion to confer with Kuebart and Sdf. Dr. Weiss in Barcelona.
They assured him that both Jebsen and Moldenhauer had arrived safely in Berlin,
were under military arrest, but that the investigation had not yet been
completely. (AOB,untrue,
as Jebsen and Moldenhauer had to be turned-over to Amt IV)
In the latter part of August 1944, during a short stay in Berlin, Schreiber
received the same answer from Bohlen (Ludwig,
KV 2/1975), Chief of
the Iberian Desk at that time.
KV
2/861-1, page 81
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Schreiber knew Moldenhauer only slightly. He is, however, certain that
Moldenhauer was active in economic espionage for AstNest
Cologne (Köln)
and at times for Ast Vienna and that he worked from Madrid.
KV
2/861-2, page 7
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Interrogation of Kurrer Otto (KV
2/1962) on Jebsen.
Jebsen was the son of a businessman, who had a large trade in Hongkong, Shanghai
and other parts of the world. Jebsen himself was very "international man"
man, well educated and had many important friends outside Germany, including
Colonel Lord Rothschild (AOB,
during the war he was in London, but highly interested in "sabotage' matters)
with whom he maintained correspondence during the war. At the time of his
first meeting with Kurrer in Berlin in 1942 he was approx 26 years old .
He was also said to have been strongly anti0nazi. He spoke fluent English,
French German and Danish. He was married and his wife lived in Berlin.
KV
2/861-2, page 7
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Kurrer and
Jebsen became good friends and one day the latter confided in Kurrer that he was
afraid to return to Germany as he had been involved in some money swindle with
the SS. (already dealt
with this aspect before)
His story was that some SS officials had been printing foreign currency and he
ahd taken it to the respective countries and exchanged it, whenever possible in
gold value. He was now suspected of having made much profit himself and
also the SS wanted to remove him for knowing "too much". He therefore
asked Kurrer if he could help him to prolong his stay in Lisbon. Kurrer
did this and returned to Berlin.
(AOB,
Kurrer was stationed at KOP between mid 1942 and somewhere in spring 1943; he
was sent back to Berlin due to his disfunction. But, it is typical for Jebsen,
that he exploited people around him. As he did with von Gronau, apparently
Kurrer, but sadly also with Dr. Joachim Wrede (KV 2/560, dealt with at the
begin of the Survey),
who was murdered owing to financial favours asked by Jebsen. Proven in the
"forensic Surevy" several times - mainly based upon M.I.5 internal memos and
discussions)
2. The following is the description of Jebsen, Johnny given by
von Gronau: Approximately thirty (30) tears old of age (born 1916 or
1917 at Appenrade near the Danish (according Google.de:
war von 1867 bis 1920
ein Landkreis in der preußischen Provinz Schleswig-Holstein)
border (in accordance
to what I understand is meant)
as a Danish national); appears forty (40) years years old; however approximately
5' 9'' tall; reddish, blond hair, combed back; wears a heavy moustache from time
to time; very slender; body bent forward; grey blue eyes; very pronounced
cheekbones; unhealthy, pale complexion (lung disease?); smokes about 100
cigarettes per day; has brown-coloured fingers on right hand very bad teeth from
frequent smoking; always wore dark Hamburg hat, dirty rain coat, umbrella and
constantly unpolished shoes; wore ring with large ruby; eats little and drinks
only champagne; unable to drive a car; rides horseback; studied law in
Freiburg; writes philosophical books; married to a German actress named
Petersen, Lore, who lived and probably still is living with her parents at
Leipzig, Germany (her father was a schoolteacher. Lore is seven (7) years
older than Jebsen).
3. Gronau then related that she met Jebsen in Lisbon Abwehr
office in October/November 1943. Jebsen sent telegrams to Germany on three
(3) separate occasions since he worked for the department of the H.W.K. (Handels
und Wirtschaftskrieg - Trade and Economic Warfare). Both subjects (Gronau)
and Jebsen lived at Estoril which caused Jebsen to take Subject home from the
office in his car frequently. (AOB,
as we formerly have learned that Jebsen was "unable to drive a car" that he must
have had a chauffeur).
They soon very much interested in each other for the following reasons according
to Gronau: He wanted to marry her, but she was merely fascinated by his
intelligence and wide knowledge, and tried → to gain more knowledge of
philosophy and other subjects from him. →
KV
2/861-2, page 18
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to gain more knowledge of philosophy and other subjects from him. → Jebsen also
asked Subject (von
Gronau) to take care
of his large house at Estoril and supervise the four (4) servants there, to
which subject agreed. Jebsen furthermore dictated to Subject (von
Gronau) some of his
business correspondence, but she can not recall any of it. Subject noted
the seemingly inexhaustible funds always at the disposal of Jebsen.
Subject (von Gronau)
was also impressed and somewhat influenced by Jebsen's frequent ambiguous
remarks about his idea of friendship, which must be international and across
borders of countries, regardless of a state of war or peace".
4. In February 1944 Subject (von Gronau) received a direct
order from Major Schreiber, head of her department, "not to see Mr. Jebsen, any
more under any circumstances". Subject (von
Gronau), as she
claims, had nothing better to do than to see Jebsen the same evening warning him
that he was under some kind of suspicion by the Abwehr. Jebsen ridiculed
the suspicion immediately and upon Subject's direct question if he was a British
agent, denied it first by ridiculing her telling her that he also could be
working for the Abwehr without her knowing it (in connection with his work in
the H.W.K.). Later on he made the following statement: "I am His
Majesty's most loyal enemy". Jebsen, from then on, kept
denying to her that he was aa British agent so frequently and in such a way as
to only suggest and confirm to Subject (von
Gronau) her
suspicion that he actually was a British agent. Subject (von
Gronau) to this day is
not sure whether Jebsen was a British agent but strongly suspect that he was.
When Subject went to Madrid for a week with Major Schreiber in February 1944,
she also met Jebsen there. Jebsen later told Subject (von
Gronau) that he met a
"friend" of his at Madrid (a Yugoslav named Gluschowtz?).
5. Subject (von
Gronau) continued to
visit Jebsen frequently. He told her early in 1944 that he went to the
British Embassy in Lisbon to send a telegram to one Rothschild, Anthony in
England as well as to a woman in England whose name he did not disclose.
It is known to Subject (von
Gronau) that Jebsen
received two (2) addresses from Rothschild, one in London and the other in
Scotland. Subject also remembers Jebsen making a secret to a certain "Duschko"
(Duško Popov =
Tricycle). These
meetings usually took place at night. "Duschko" was described by
Jebsen as a Yugoslav official at the Embassy of the Yugoslav Government in
London.
6. In early April 1944 Subject (von
Gronau) was shown a
highly classified telegram from the chief secretary in her office indicating the
arrival in Lisbon of an investigative mission of the RSHA Berlin under Müller (Heinrich
Müller nickname Gestapo Müller of Amt IV).
This mission was to investigate Johnny Jebsen and his activities. Subject
(von Gronau) claims → that she again informed Jebsen of the impending action
against him.
KV
2/861-2, page 16
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He
again ridiculed this threat by claiming that he had so much information of some
SD officers in Persia (AOB,
totally nonsense, as I have myself thoroughly investigated in the area of
Persia, and in 1944 there were not a single agent in that country. Even to
before then being Franz Mayr (https://www.cdvandt.org/mayr-case.htm)
Subject (von Gronau)
claims that Jebsen was also informed about the impending investigations of his
activities by the Gestapo (actually
the S.D.)
representative in Oporto (Henss)
7. About the 18 April 1944 von Gronau received a telegram from
Berlin ordering her to leave Portugal for Berlin within forty-eight (48) hours.
Suspect, after spending her last day openly with Jebsen who even escorted to the
airport, arrived in Berlin 20 April 1944. (AOB,
something is wrong:
according Ostro, because I believe him as he had no reason for changing affairs
when interrogated by the Americans in 1946 -
that Frl. Lilly Craass came to Ostro's house in great panic and told them that
just von Gronau had informed her that she went to Jebsen's apartment
(seemingly being an
real estate, and she found Jebsen's location turned upside-down)
(AOB, whatever the
events and reasons - she must have been in Lisbon/Estoril legally or illegally
on 30 April 1944)
(AOB, I do not trust
the dates referred onto!)
Subject (von Gronau)
had an interview with Grosskopf (KV
2/3426), chief of her
department in Berlin, who at that time did not know anything about an order
recalling her to Berlin. Subject (von
Gronau) from then on
was frequently questioned by Grosskopf and a certain Sdf. Dr.
Weiss (Kuebart's
assistant) (Amt VI
Mil/Amt) (AOB, please
bear in mind: - that since 12 February after Vermehren's desertion the Abwehr
was forced to merge with RSHA Amt VI due to this merging known as Mil/Amt with
Obst. Hansen in charge)
concerning Jebsen. She was accused of having informed Jebsen of the
order prohibiting her from seeing him and also of having told Jebsen about the
telegram telling about the impeding investigation against him. (AOB,
I suppose that what she told must have taken place later in May - or even June
1944) All
this, Subject (von
Gronau) claims, she
denied instantly but told her interrogators that the Gestapo (S.D.)
representative from Oporto (Henss)
had informed Jebsen of the impeding action against him.
8. Meanwhile Subject (von
Gronau) had received a
letter from one, Scholl-Poensgen, Irmgard, secretary of the actual section in
the German Embassy, Lisbon. She wrote that Jebsen, shortly before a
proposed weekend trip to northern Portugal, had strangely disappeared and had
not been heard of since (Moldenhauer?).
Miss Scholl-Poensgen described what she knew of the incident. Jebsen
wanted to tour northern Portugal with Mr. Brandes (actually
one of Schreiber's V-Männer, alias Ballhorn and by this latter name Jebsen knew
him); half-Jewish,
working as representative for the firm Werner (was
this the one owned by his mother?)
and Company. Mr. Brandes last saw Jebsen at the Yugoslav Embassy in
Lisbon. Jebsen claimed he had some work to do, and they made an
appointment to meet again at the Yugoslav Embassy within a half hour.
Thereafter Jebsen was neither seen nor heard from any more by Brandes.
Miss Scholl-Poensgen, who intensively disliked and distrusted Jebsen, assumed in
her letter that Jebsen had gone to England and that she was right after all in
her suspicion of his (Jebsen)
being a British agent (All this happened a few days before the Normandy Invasion
- 6 June 1944. (Rubbish,
as Jebsen had been abducted in the evening of 29 April 1944!).
Brandes mysteriously turned up in Berlin also a few days after disappearance of
Jebsen. Von Gronau, who was still being questioned at various intervals,
was now asked by Sdf. Weiss whether she believed it possible that Jebsen had
gone to England. To this she made a violent negative answer.
Somewhat later Subject (von
Gronau) met a
finance clerk of the Madrid Abwehr Office in Berlin (Franzbach
"Pago" or ZF?).
Subject (von Gronau)
does not recall the name of the official but maintains that he also was a friend
of Jebsen. (AOB, Then
it must have been Franzbach. Jebsen needed him for his many financial
manipulations)
KV
2/861-2, page 20
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This
official (Franzbach,
Zahlmeister KOSp.) was
recalled to Berlin for questioning as well as on the Jebsen case. This
official told Subject (von
Gronau) that Johnny
Jebsen was under arrest in a northernsouthern
suburb of Berlin Zossen charged with high treason (Hochverrat),
which hoever could not be proven. He (Jebsen)
was sentenced instead for a "Devisen Verbrechen" in connection with some
20,000,000 French francs, not reported.
9. Subject (von
Groanu) does not know
where Jebsen went after his imprisonment at Zossen nor does she have any idea
where he (Jebsen)
is saying now or whether he is alive. After the end of the war upon
Subject's (von
Gronau's) request, her
brother went to the firm, Jebson and Jessen at Hamburg for any
information on the owner, Mr. Johann (Johnny) Jebsen. He was told
that Jebsen had "died at Shanghai in 1936!" Subject (von
Gronau) also wrote to
a restaurant near Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, "G Rossadel Bylond" asking for
any possible hint on the whereabouts of Jebsen. Jebsen had give
Subject (von Gronau)
this address (proprieter, Hans Christiansen) with the following remark:
"Three days after the end of hostilities, a British pilot will report there (to
the restaurant) and if you are present, he will pick you up to bring you to
England" (implied to Jebsen).
10. The following is a list of people that Jebsen had frequent
contact with in Portugal, Spain and France who are also known to Subject:
a. "Duschko" (Duško)
(possibly Dusan as in paragraph Three of basic letter) - Yugoslav official at
Yugoslav Embassy in London; his closest friend who he met only secretly.
b. Dluschowitz (?) - Yugoslav national at Madrid
Yugoslav Embassy.
c. Oertzen, Baronin von - Used by Jebsen as a letter
drop at Madrid.
d. "Madeleine" - Jebsen's girl-friend in Paris whom he
contacted by mail through a Prince de Roan (?).
e. Brandes or Brandies (KOP
V-Mann, he informed Schreiber among everything he got knowledge of concerning
Jebsen!)
Representative for Werner and Co. in Lisbon. (AOB,
likely meant the Machinery Factory in Germany owned by his late father and,
likely managed by his mother).
11.
The following persons might be of assistance in locating Johnny Jebsen if he is
still alive:
e. Jebsen's wife, the former Lore Petersen, probably living at
Leipzig (since 1946
living at Krefeld in the British zone)
with her parents (father former school teacher).
f. Schreiber, Alois (Aloys)
the former Obstlt. Chief I/H KOP
in Lisbon, at present in Oberursel.
12. Agent's opinion: Marie Luise von Gronau probably does not
know at present whereabouts of Jebsen. She seems strongly interested in
what happened to he former boy-friend and, as she claims, has undertaken several
inquiries since the war's end. Of course this can only be veryfied by
interroghation of the indicated targets above. Von Gronau is
well-experienced in intelligence work and is very intellgent and well-educated,
making it understandable that she should have like Jebsen, who apparently was
somewhat her master in experience, intelligence and education. Von Gronau does
not know for certain whether Jebsen worked for the British Intelligence, but is
almost ready to believe it, since he repeatedly suggested this fact to her with
his ambiguous statements. Concerning Jebsen's activities for the G.I.S.
von Gronau has only a small amount of information. She merely disclosed the fact
that Jebsen was wrking for the H.W.K. and that his work, to her knowledge,
involved the purchase of jewellery and precious metals only. This
agent, although unable to find any flaws in Subjects (von
Gronau's) statements,
suggests that further inquiries be made about the truth of her disclosures in
the case of Johnny Jebsen before this case is turned over to the British
Authorities. There are four (4) personalities in the American zone at
present, who should have information on the Jebsen case:
a. Schreiber, Alois (Aloys)
- Obstlt. Chief I/H Lisbon, Technical Assistent at German Embassy , Lisbon at
present at MISC Oberursel, top held until interrogated on the above case by CIC
as of telephone conversation with Mr. Lierse, MISC-CI section, 24 Sept. 1946.
c. Steimle, fnu, SS_Standartenführer, formerly Chief Amt
VI B
and Mil-B:
last known to be at MISC Oberursel (Jan. 1946)
d. Sandberger, fnu, SS-Standartenführer, formerly Chief
Amt VI A
and Mil-A;
last known to be in the vicinity of Nürnberg as a trial witness.
KV
2/861-2, page 61 + 62
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Belongings of J.J. (Johann
Jebsen)
During my stay in Hamburg I located the following belongings of J.J.
a) Christianssen (Hans?), Gross Adelbying near Flensburg,
a school-friend of Johnny's, has a pub in Gross Adelbylung. Johnny
sent quite a few of his belongings (carpets, pictures, silver, etc. to
Christianssen to keep for him. I have no exact details but the value
of the things left there amounts to about $5000.
b) Egon Lengeling, Oberursel near Frankfurt, Hamburger
Landstrasse 105(?) has in his safekeeping 2700 gold pieces, $20.000.- and X
thousend Swiss Francs. Lengeling is not actually in Oberursel but his
wife and family are living in his house at the above address.
c) At the Frankfurter Handelsbank A.G., Deutschherrnufer
32, Frankfurt a/M. (Director: August Rub - Frau Rub is known to us
from Abwehr) Johnny had an account on behalf of his firm Hauenschild & Co.
but under his signature only. According to Johnny's partner Ahlborn,
there should be about RM. 400.000.- in the account.
d) Some of Johnny's belongings are with Count von Kageneck
Schloss Kageneck, Munzinger near Freuburg/Breisgau.
I had no time to try and collect all these belongings as it would have
necessiated travelling round Germany to do so. I suggest giving full
powers to Dr. Bruechner and instruct him to do it on his visit to the U.K.
- -
-
Johnny's Kidnapping.
Mr. and Mrs. Vermehren were arrested and put in a concentration camp
at Oranienburg (in
Sippenhaft) after
their son Erich Vermehren went over to the British at Ankara.*
In
the camp they saw and very often talked to Johnny Jebsen. He never
told them any details but made it clear to them that he had been kidnapped
and was being held and interrogated by the Gestapo because of forged English
£5 notes.**
The last time they saw him was in February when he was taken to be
questioned to Berlin and never returned. The questioning was done by a
certain Gestapo man Schmitz.
(N)* (AOB):
The according Erich Vermehren and his wife file series KV 2/956 .. KV 2/958
sadly belonging - to a scandalous and appalling chapter within the
British Secret Services past. The
Vermehren couple defected to the British, about 7 à 8 February 1944.
In March the couple was first interrogated by S.M.I.E. in Egypt. There a
servant came to the conclusion: that the "Couple Vermehren" could not be
trusted. Why? They (using my own words) pointed that they were anti-Nazi but
the good Germany was their country. Betraying British war-interest and
hospitality? Not at all. But, they were hunted by the Secret Services
as if they were traitors, since. Here the downside of Crown Civil Servants
comes to light; as they themselves consider that they can decide the lives
of these kind of poor individuals. You don't believe me? Please read
the KV 2/956
.. KV 2/958
series yourself. M.I.5.
did their best to get the couple be expelled from Britain, though only on a
fears response by the Bishop of Canterbury prevented this. Both Vermehren's
were very religious and humble people.
**
Here in some way or another Jebsen surely did not tell the Vermehren's the
truth. In this current "forensic Survey" is already dealt with the fact,
that M.I.5 and M.I.6., were well informed on Jebsen's dubious financial
doings. They rightly discussed whether his frequent manipulations was the
cause of his disappearance. But (A)
shows that Major Masterman was in Memorandum informed that Jebsen had confessed to
the S.D. that he was a traitor and a British agent.
Sadly pulling down the drain also Dr. Joachim Wrede in the same fatal fate:
KV 2/560 in respect to Johann Jebsen's doom.
A search in my archives
brought the according notice to light
KV 2/956-2, page 29
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13th March, 1944
My dear Cowgill,
You will remember asking me whether we had any objection to bring Precious (=
Vermehren) (and his wife) to this country
as an agent of your organisation (M.I.6).
I sad 'no' to your query and I still hold that there are no real security
objections to this act but I may perhaps be of interest to you to know that the
S.I.M.E. (Secret
Intelligence
Middle
East)
view of precious (Vermehren) is, that, while anti-Nazi he appears to retain
patriotic German sentiments, and they (Vermehren
including his wife) also estimate that he
or his wife may later develop patriotic or religious scruples which may
interfere with any genuine employment of them by you.
I imagine however, that you are looking for them too supply you with valuable
intelligence already in their possession and, in these circumstances, I imagine
you will not be affected by this S.I.M.E. opinion.
(AOB,
they damm were, and during the many
years the Vermehren couple made their life in England they did everything
possible to hamper the family living. Had there ever been a second
interview? No!
Put to the very end of their stay in England - they were under constant
surveillance! Reading correspondence, checking time-and-again their way of
living far in the 1950s. Only due to this
single notice!
(AOB,
similarly Guy Liddell expressed also his resentments in this way, which
only had been based upon: this single notice, just reproduced genuinely
above!)
KV
2/861-2, page 64
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Toeppen. was not shot at Belgrad. His family
lives near Hannover and he is alive but actually in a working (Arbeitslager)
in the Russian zone. Up to Popov's arrest he was all right, then he was
arrested too and taken to Berlin. When the Russians occupied Berlin they freed
him. If he gets back he will certainly contact Vermehren who will advise
me.
Brandes (@ Ballhorn,
at the end Feder)
he was ex-patriated from Portugal with the last lot and is now in the American
zone. As he was mixed up a lot with the kidnapping of Johnny I think
it would be a good idea to lay hands on him for questioning (again) (AOB,
to what I remember they couldn't trace him, since).
KV
2/861-3, page 83 as not to forget his black market engagements.
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Jebsen
was employed by the Abwehr (since
or before 1940) and
ran an important agent in Jugoslavia (Popov/Tricycle,
Iwan I) and another
who carried on espionage in Great Britain under our (British)
control. He travelled extensively in Europe and engaged, on his won
account, in Black Market activities which caused him to come in conflict with
the Gestapo (S.D.
or Sipo) on more than
one occasion. Towards the end of 1944 (1942/1943),
while he was in touch with S.I.S. and for several months provided him with
valuable information about other German agents and officers.
to get her pension (Lore
Petersen - Jebsen's widow?)
I think also that the same considerations apply to any action which might be
taken by Ian Wilson, who was in fact the officer who ran the Jebsen case
and I believe met him from time to time. Subject to your approval,
therefore, I propose to reply to Ian Wilson that there is nothing, that we can
do and which in our opinion he should do either. It does not,
incidentally, seem to me to be very meritorious (commendable)
case you will observe that the lady is proposing to marry again.
(AOB, was Jebsen once
not a very valuable friend in 1944?)
B.1.
18.8.1951
J.H. Marriott.
KV 2/862-1, page 11.
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B.1.
I am
not aware of the details of this case and I do not know therefore whether we
should as a department do what we can to assist Mrs. Jebsen in getting a
pension from the German Government, but even if the services rendered by Jonny
Jebsen to the department were such that we are under some moral obligation to
assist his widow, I still agree with the views expressed by you, that we as a
department should not give any certificate to Mrs. Jebsen, and Ian Wilson should
be so informed.
If we are to assist Mrs. Jebsen in any way, we should I think take the
appropriate action through the Foreign Office, who could in turn approach the
Bonn Government.
S.L.B.
20.8.1951
B.A. Hill
(AOB,
time passes away, so do you friend)
KV 2/862-1, page 12 .
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D.B.
With reference to Minute 1255, I have summarised the relevant points and my
summary is at 1256a. I must appologise for the unconscionable length of
summary but it has necessitated wading through some 18 volumes.
In brief my conclusions are that we have no financial and very little moral
responsibility for Mrs. Jebsen. However, if it is considered that our
slight moral responsibility is such as to make it right that we should ask the
Foreign Office to approach the Bonn Government, then this approach should be in
the terms of penultimate (last
but one) paragraph of my note at 1256a.
You may wish to pass the file to S.L.B., for his comments.
B.1.K.
3.9.1951
Courtenay Young (M.I.6.)
KV 2/862-1, page 12
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Minute 1258
Reference minute 1257, I should like you(r)
opinion on this point. My own agrees with Courtenay Young's as
expressed above. to my mind there is no objection to writing to the Bonn
Government on Mrs. Jebsen's behalf, providing we do not thereby invite the
retort (reply)
that, if Jebsen worked for us (has his
mind already deteriorated so much?), we
should bear the cost of his widow's maintenance.
D.B.
D.G. White
8.9.1951
KV 2/862-1, page 13 Very significant!
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Minute 1259
D.B.
I have considered Courtenay Young's able summary at 1256a. My view of this
matter is that if we are not very careful, any action we may now take might
react to Mrs. Jebsen's detriment rather than to her benefit. you will see
that her letter of the 8th July, annexed to serial 1250a, she states -"... I
have applied for a widow's pension. As Jonny, however, was not killed in
action but perished in a conzentration camp, a 'Sonderhilfsrente' (Special
rent) can be considered only".
The Bonn Government are under an obligation under International Law to make some
kind of retribution to persons who died in concentration camps. They are
not, however, under any obligation under International Law to pay a pension to
the widow of a traitor. If we take the action suggested in your
Minute 1258 it will result in the Bonn Government being fully aware of Jebsen's
activities, and they would be justified if they felt so inclined to refuse to
pay Mrs. Jebsen even the lower pension which they are at present apparently
considering paying her.
What I would suggest therefore is that Courtenay Young and I should call on the
Foreign Office and put the facts to them, and that we be guided by the Foreign
office as to whether any such approach should be made.
My own opinion, having read Courtenay Young's note, is that we have fulfilled in
every way the moral obligation which we assumed in 1943. We then merely
said that we would do our best to look after the welfare of the wife and made it
quite clear at the time that we have done and in addition have done may other
things to rehabilitate her.
I have discussed this minute with Courtenay Young who agrees in substance with
what I have said above.
S.L.B.
B.A. Hill
11.9.45
(AOB,were those your great friends?
Jebsen's fate was also due to TAR's query put forward on to Jebsen - whether he
could provide information upon Ostro;
M.I.5- and M.I.6's menace!)
KV 2/862-1, page 14
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Minute 1263
D.B. through S.L.B.
Mr. Hill and I saw Mr. Reilly at
the Foreign Office this morning. We explained the Jebsen case to him and
asked him whether the Foreign office would be prepared to make an approach to
Bonn Government regarding Mrs. Jebsen. Reilly said that the Foreign Office
would not be prepared to make such an approach. He also pointed out, as
did S.L.B., that any approach might well do more harm than good.
Please
see at 1262a a draft letter to Ian Wilson. I suggest that this is somewhat
revealing it might be better if it did not go through the open post and that I
should telephone to him and ask him to come round here when I could hand it to
him. If he wishes, I will then show him the summary
at 1256a,
so as to satisfy his conscience (ethics).
I should be grateful for your views on this procedure.
B.1.
C.T. Young
21.9.1951
(we
still don't know how matters were executed)
(AOB,
maybe we should consider: that Britain's glory was long passed, and the country
lived in a recession. But still, it is quite painful know - how short-lasting
their commitments against their former agents - actually were; a Great Nation?)
(On the other hand,
these file series concerning actually Popov's files. When we notice how childish
this person behaved, once noticed: living a "Playboy" life (please
see the document reproduced when this Survey has come to an ultimate closure),
which it was; both Jebsen and Pop were
behaving rather childishand spending great amounts of money:
(No
more - no less: "Nouveaux Riches")
KV 2/862-2, page 7
Accidentally I came across a
reasonable copy of Popov's passport Popov Douchan
Aliens Order, 1920
Certificate of Registration
Crown Copyright
Name Popov Duchan
Born 10.4.1912
KV 2/862-2, page 73
In the same file we find a quite poor photograph, but as it is the only genuine
one we have access to we should use it.
Crown Copyright
Johann Jebsen
we apologise for the quite poor photo quality, but we have to the accept way it is.
Continuing with
KV 2/863
KV 2/863-2, page 60 Message sent on behalf of Popov
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Tricycle Traffic.
9th September, 1942.
Message sent 2105 GMT.
No. 117: No money has yet come. Will
probably able arrange journey London over Lisbon as courier but my situation
regarding money desperate. leaving here without regulating main debts put
in danger my return. All material I possess I will bring with me because
radio man refuses send long message. Could I meet Johnny at Lisbon?
(AOB, this
message indicates that Jebsen was in Lisbon in 1942; whether staying in the two
place Lisbon and Madrid I cannot judge)
KV 2/863-2, page 67 $
10,000
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26th August, 1942.
Message sent:
No. 116: I have not received the 10,000 dollars*.
Last money received was in April by bank transfer. Nothing since.
What has gone wrong with the plan about expert without hairs? Nobody
has come to me. You should take not carefully of what I said about
radioman. (see
previous message)
Most urgent you explain about money if he is to collaborate as before.
*
AOB: According Books.Google: In 1941 a technician with three years'
experience earned seventy-three dollars a month in the Saint John
Laboratory, with no meals. Making annually $ 876. We must consider that the
apparent difference: is mainly the consequence of Popov's exorbitant
life-style; considering the payments to the radioman might have exceeding
the salary of a US Laboratory technician.)
KV 2/864-2, page 35
Crown Copyright
i)
Original German Text of Special Questions given to Tricycle (S.I.S.
alias of Popov)
ii) Original German text of S.D. Questionnaire given to
Tricycle (Popov)
in Lisbon in January, 1944.
My only aim is,
in this case, to point at the very fact that since the couple Vermehren's
defection, the S.D. and likely Amt VI Mil/Amt was gaining significance.
KV 2.864-4, page 11 showing the chicken-feed was not always
accepted:
Crown Copyright
Criticism for Ivan I (Iwan
)(Popov).
The report about "Spartan Exercise" was not considered to be good. What
Iwan reported was also in the press. The divisional numbers and/or the
names of the commanders, commanding these divisions, should be reported.
I
would like to terminate the chapters dedicate to Artist / Jebsen derived from
Popov's large series of files which accumulated op to ca 4800 pages.
Dusan 'Dusko' Popov was the playboy son of a wealthy industrialist from
Dubrovnik. After graduating in law at Freiburg University in the
mid-thirties he returned to Dubrovnik and opened his own law firm. In 1940
an old University friend friend invited him to Belgrade, told him he joined the
Abwehr and persuaded him to work for German intelligence. Popov however
was not convinced, contrived a meeting with a member of M.I.6. The Germans
instructed him to travel to Britain via neutral Portugal in the guise of a
businessman exporting raw material from Yugoslavia to Britain. Popov
reported everything to M.I.6. and on arrival in Britain in December 1940 was met
by B.1.a's (M.I.5.)
driver and taken to the Savoy Hotel where he was introduced to
'Tar' Robertson. 'Tar' was favourably impressed - "We
have here an agent of high quality". Originally codenamed Scoot
(Skoot) by 'TAR' (who thought he might!) he was soon renamed Tricycle as a more
fitting name of this most promising of agents!
Tricycle became the centre of a
considerable network of agents, some imaginary (invented by B1a (Ian
Wilson).
After the war he was given
British citizenship and presented with the OBE (in
1947)
by 'TAR' at an informal ceremony in the Ritz bar. He continued his
flamboyant, playboy life and died in 1981 aged sixty nine.
(AOB, a critical note is, in my perception,
necessary:
The greatest part of the huge Popov
file series are dealing with all sorts of money matters.I becomes quite evident - this
he wasn't at the end so selfish; he had cost them huge sums of money. Also all
sorts of difficulties which Popov left behind, in the many countries that were
visited by Popov. His staying in the U.S. included!)
A
dark but essential document, which we have to take into account; whether we like
it or not.
KV
2/269-2, page 32
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Reorganisation of the Abwehr.*
22. Tricycle (Popov)
report to Henss (SD
representative in Oporto).
It will be remembered that it was Artist's intention that this report should
reach the hands of Kaltenbrunner. Unfortunately, Henss gave the report to
Schroeder (Leiter
representative of Amt IV (SD)
at the Embassy in Lisbon)
who has taken it with him to Berlin and has handed it to Schellenberg (Senior
Leiter Amt VI Mil/Amt RSHA).
Artist (Jebsen)
had advised Henss to telegraph Kaltenbrunner (AOB,
I doubt that his post possessed the facilities; as this was maintained in Lisbon)
to the effect that the report intended for him has been taken by Schroeder to
Schellenberg. In any case, Artist fears the desired effect of obtaining
Kaltenbrunner's support for Tricycle has been destroyed.
*The date of
extraction 30.4.44, is coincidental the day just after Jebsen's abduction.
I went
through all the according KV 2/... files related to Kaltenbrunner directly.
Disappointing, the British Secret Services chose not to raze the query onto
Kaltenbrunner's commitment in signing the order that Jebsen had to be handed
over to Amt IV.
After
have digested the entire file series, I tend to suppose - that in someway or
another fanatic Heinrich Müller directly could have approached Keitel allegedly
on behalf of Himmler; with whom Müller handled mainly business.
As not
to disappoint you too much I have selected the following rare photo:
Crown Copyright
Car
registration Pol - 4
Pol =
Polizei (Police)
Please
take a careful look at the front, just between the head-lights, and the engine
section; we clearly recognise a V shaped plate. In the first half of the 1960s I
(AOB) drove old Mercedes type cars, and I am well acquainted with the view in
front.
I
suppose since the assassination of Heydrich in June 1942 in Prague, it had
become evident that leaders at such high level should use protected cars.
Albeit,
that in the file we also might have noticed his private Mercedes cabriolet.
The
photos were among his possessions when he was arrested in Austria, by the
Americans.
On
24 May 2020
What
next?
I will
give it again a try - whether some SD related file series may be more fruitful.
KV 2655
on
Heinrich Müller
(Mueller)
also
known by the threatening nickname:
Gestapo
Müller
I has
to be noticed that it concerns a quite brief file, as it consists of 29 pages
only.
Crown Copyright
Mueller
(Müller)
Heinrich
KV
2/2655
PF
602698
AOB,
this quite high Personal File serial number,
in my
perception, points at the very fact that they haven't monitored him from the
beginning.
He his
career started with the regular police, thought he was most of the war heading
the most feared Amt IV, including Sipo, SD, Gestapa and Gestapo.
Please
notice also the many times, this file had been taken out of R 5's storage.
I must
admit, that I have no idea what we are expecting; as this file had been
downloaded on 7 December 2018, but I have not yet looked at it.
Politics: 1942. Was in S.D. (SD)
in 1938. Originally with Stapo (Staatspolizei)
München (Munich),
expert on communism. Protégé of Heydrich. "Direktor Gen" (General)
of the Gestapo (geheime
Staatspolizei) Berlin
in 1940. August 1941, went to Madrid. Jan. 42 Police Attaché at
Lisbon (AOB, the
proceeded by Schroeder; dealt with in this document).
In 1943 Head of Amt IV of RSHA (R.S.H.A.),
KV
2/2655, page 4
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Appearance: very active, gives impression of great intelligence.
Source: Ledebur
(AOB,
In one of Kaltenbrunner's file series, he explained that Müller had a poor
marriage, and additionally two of his children were handicapped, of whom one
even possessed mongoloid tendencies, and was to be kept hidden from the outside
environment)
KV
2/2655, page 5
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1942
Head of
Amt IV, rank of Gruppenführer General-Major der
Polizei Regierungsrat. report on disturbances in France was sent to
him. Visited Madrid and Lisbon end of Sept. 1942.
Source
B.1.Reg. Folder No. 33 6a (M.I.5)
KV
2/2655, page 9
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Subject: SS Obergruppenführer Müller (Muller)
Alias Dr. Leo Lange.
1.
Reference your PF 602698 / B.2.a / JC (M.I.5)
dated 3 August 1949
2.
This Head Quarters has no information to establish that Müller dies in the
Chancellery Bunker with Hitler. Various investigations have been
made from time to time since 1946 with a view of tracing Müller's whereabouts,
if alive, but without success.
3.
As regards the sinister Dr. Leo Lange we have no likely trace of anyone of the
name. (AOB, I consider
it not unlikely that he managed to hide somewhere, but he wouldn't be so stupid
using a formerly used alias as before; by the way, by no means proving this
assessment!)
4.
Enquiries are now being made on the strength of your above mentioned letter and
you will be informed of any further developments. (AOB,
why not started it much earlier?)
Signed
by: R.G. Hodges Capt.
For
Major-General Chief, Intelligence Division Müller
KV
2/2655, page 19
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Müller
(Mueller).
Christian name unknown. Lived in Berlin-Steglitz.
Married unhappily, had two children, one a boy aged 17, called up for
service just before the end of the war – the second child was much younger.
The latter child had pronounced Mongolian features, and it is believed that
on this account Müller avoided all social intercourse between friends and
neighbours. Müller spent especially all his time in his office on account of
unpleasant conditions at home. Most of Müller’s social life was confined to
those officials of his department who like himself, had risen from
subordinate positions, i.e. Hubetr, Piffrader, Geissler, Meisinger
(AOB, was the entire war in Tokyo;
but a very disgusting person), Gotthalmseder.
KV
2/2655, page 20
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Müller.
"He
was, however, polite, 'korrekt' , but perhaps too modest. He behaved in
the typical manner of those who do not know how to act in a superior position,
giving evidence of his inferiority-complex of a 'small man' at every
opportunity. He was extremely servile towards his superiors, but seemed
very hard and severe towards his subordinates. All those men, who came
from the same narrow-minded burocratic atmosphere, especially those who were
members of the Bayrische Landes-Polizei, such as Huber, Piffrader, and Meisner (he
stayed as Police Attaché the entire wartime in Tokyo, be was an extremely bad
man, that even Himmler advised to simply shoot him),
enjoyed favoured positions with him.
Müller had a remarkable memory and knew every person who ever crossed his path,
and all events. He was a living encyclopaedia for Himmler. I cannot
imagine that he ever contradicted an order emanating from Himmler or Heydrich
even it was against his own convictions. He always wanted to do everything
himself, and gave his associates no chance for independent development; in fact,
this bad habit had been criticized even by Himmler.
KV 2/22655, page 21
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20th
July attempt. All the important
officials of Amt IV were engaged in these investigations. Huppenköthen handled
the major cases, among them Fromm (Ersatzheer,
Bendlerstrasse, Berlin)
and probably Canaris (indeed,
he headed the ultimate trial on the night between 8 and 9th April 1945 in which:
Pfarrer Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Ludwig Gehre,
General-Major Oster, Dr. Friedrich von Rabenau, Generalsstabsrichter Karl Sack
and Dr. Theodor Strünck - had been convicted to death by hanging. The trial was
a "Profisorium" not worth to be called a trial. All men were hung cruelly by
means of music string-threats!)
Huppenköthen, for instance kept in close touch with Kaltenbrunner in the
investigation of from since that case involved the most delicate relations with
the Wehrmacht. Amt III was able to furnish Amt IV considerable
information about the 20 July affair.
KV
2/2655, page 8
Crown Copyright
Seemingly this page ends on 19.8.49
But
when you look closely, you can recognise that below minute 10a the page have
been covered by another blank page.
KV
2/2655, page 28
Crown Copyright
This
page should concern minute 12 - but considering the manipulated previous page,
we notice that the reference to minutes 11a and 12a have been made invisible!
What do
they have to hide? Such practice mostly originated from M.I.6 interventions.
Please
look carefully to the particulars of this page. We may see signs of various
staples holes.
May
these have previously concerned photo's or other kind of references?
We have
sadly to terminate here, as the file does not provide more evidence.
I still
regret again, that we haven't encountered references on Jebsen's fate.
The
very file concerns police, SD, Sipo and related matters in Poland and Greece; as
well as in a context Amt VI
However, as it deals with organisational Police matters, I have used the
possibilities to make enhance my collection of notes.
Next:
KV
2/104
Jost Heinz Maria Karl
PF 601879
Crown Copyright
Jost Heinz Maria Karl
Photo taken at Camp
020 in England (AOB,
KV
2/104, page 7
Crown Copyright
Prior to Nov.43
Some time prior to Nov. 43,
Artist (Jebsen) (B.1.a.case) was in Lisbon. He claims that when he found
out that Amt VI were passing British bank notes forged by Amt IV, he did all
he could to stop it. He cooperated in attacking Jost, then head of Amt VI (nonsense
that was Schellenberg), for having
authorised the use of the forgeries. Jost was dismissed as a result. Jost
still, however, has friends in Amt IV and VI who whish to take revenge
against Artist on his behalf if the can. Schellenberg replaced Jost as head
of Amt VI.
(AOB, my brief
comment: Jebsen hardly new anything of Jost, nor of Schellenberg's Amt VI; as
this message had been briefed to British Secret Services. I wonder whether the
latter weren't better informed)
What is noticed
originates from Popov's file series, but clearly had been added on behalf of the
British Secret Service.
KV 2/104, page 22
Crown Copyright
On the flight back to
Germany were quite with whom we have dealt with on our website, and some names
even within this webpage
Only Kaltenbrunner was considered being a War
Criminal, and was sentenced to death at Nürenberg (Nuremberg)
in 1946.
pob (place of birth)
born 30.08.1910 (not
noticed here: born in Essen)
emp (employment) 1932 & 1944: Army
reference PF 602765
1944: member Intelligence Service; Germany
05.10.1989: Current File Status: Red
(Why just a few days
before opening of the iron curtain?)
(all
these card are dated about like this on)
AOB:
being expected that those ones live still in the communist controlled world?
These cards are found within so files; in contrast to most file series.
KV
2/106-1, page 9
Crown Copyright
Please
notice this so-called minute-sheet
The red
stamps are encountered quite often within the KV 2/xxx series; informing us that
the genuine page retained somewhere.
What it
does not inform us, is that some has been made invisible. In my perception, this
looks like M.I.6 or S.I.S. or Section V praxis'.
KV
2/106-1, page 10
Crown Copyright
Apparently is content being considered still to be kept hidden, for historians
KV
2/106-1, page 13
Crown Copyright
Minute Sheet.
We would appreciate seven additional copies of the Report on information
obtained from PW CS/2336 Obstlt. i G.*
Ohletz (Tyrol)**,
8 May 45. C.S.D.I.C.***
SIR. 1825 11.Sept. 45. On Notes on Mil Amt C ***** and other Departments
of RSHA.
Thank
you.
V.48.F.8 (might point
at M.I.6 or S.I.S.)
*
i.G. meant "im Generalstab" implying that he went through a thorough
officers education preparing for High Commands
**
Tyrol might have been the area where he had been captured. But it also might
have been connected to the "Alpenfestung" endeavour; where selected groups
should survive and waiting for future operations. As we known: all in vain.
***
Combiner Services Detailed Interrogation Centre
****
Mil / Amt was established after the Abwehr had to merge with RSHA Amt VI.
Mil / Amt was shared between former Abwehr personnel and Amt VI personnel.
Section C (Ohletz
in command)
In our
context Ohletz file does not contain anything on the Jebsen complex.
alas!
On
26 May 2020
Next:
KV
2/964
Marcus
Carl
Double
cross name Dictionary
PF
600900
KV
2/964-1, page 4
Crown Copyright
We
spoke about this matter on 26.1.45. It seemed to me that the arrangement (he
becoming double-cross agent Dictionary)
about Marcus was somewhat outside the normal arrangement by which our accredited
agents are allowed into this country without examination at IRC. You
agreed with this view and kindly said that is any such cases arose in the future
you would see that we were informed. I think actually that in a case if
this sort S.I.S. (M.I.6)
should write to us stating their full reasons and what they intend to do with
the body (downgrading
for Mr. Marcus),
before the man is despatched. I am now in possession of the full facts and
cannot understand why this was not done. I am sending a letter in this
sense to Vivian (M.I.6).
D.B.
Guy Liddell (M.I.5)
28.1.45
KV
2/964-1, page 17
Crown Copyright
The
matter is one of very great importance, as the forgery of Bank of England notes
by the Germans has been on the whole very successful, and it is desirable to
know as much as possible about the production of them. In addition
to this it will probably be possible for the experts of the Bank of England to
tell from Marcus' replies about the production of Bank Notes whether he is
telling the truth or not.
What we
can learn that there existed an animosity between S.I.S. (M.I.6) and M.I.5
personnel.
Though,
some general information is provided but none in respect to our forensic Survey
on Jebsen.
The
second part (KV 2/965) runs into the 1950s.
It
tends to be that the British Secret Services suspected Marcus (Dictionary) being
a Russian agent in Western Germany.
Please
notice:that when you are using the
markers (x)
- that returning to where you have started from - is easily managed by pressing:
Ctr+Z
(PC users) (Apple:
Command+Z)
This
forensic Survey took me nearly two (Corona) months of rather intensive file
studies and editing, on a daily basis.
This
endeavour resulted in 19 (XIX) Parts, which successively had been published on
the web.
Part XX
should cover my conclusion.
Though,
conclusions should imply, in my perception, that every stone have been turned
'upside down' which would have blown my starting considerations: to take
into account - all British Secret Services P.F.
xxx files concerned. These serials are obtainable (downloadable) via the
British National Archives website. Luckily, 99.9 % of these files have been
filmed and provided in good reproduction quality PDF*,
for affordable expenses.
*
Archiving particular files have been straight from the beginning considered
being of historical significance and got on their jacket a red stamp
Historical.
There, however, are existing also files which weren't protected straight from
the beginning. Their reproduction quality most often is in black and white only,
and often surviving in a rather limited quality; expressing it mildly. Though,
relevant - because these often contain valuable information, essential for
completing the understanding - and/or - context of German Secret Services. Of
which, some files even originating from before the outbreak of the First World
War (<1914).
Why
have I initiated this Survey"?
Reason:
I was highly upset by what had been encountered on Wikipedia concerning Johannes
Jebsen.
(1)
The editor who once has contributed this nonsense - forced me to start up a new,
rather thoroughly documented, Survey; which I later was forced to rename it:
a
"forensic Survey".
My
objection, was, and still is, to take every source in consideration to which we
have access to - within the British National Archives KV 2/xxx file
series (>>4000).
We
possess currently > 101.000
accumulated file pages.
I omit
to repeat what someone have put on print before, because I highly doubt that
their sources being truly genuine.
But,
one never know which file actually proves to be fruitful.
As:
quite many files have been destroyed over the more than seven decades; but,
luckily quite often, some essential detail copies survived in other file series.
But you never actually know in which one.
(C)
Johannes Jebsen, wasn't born in Hamburg, as so often had been published, also at
the criticised Wikipedia contribution(1);
but according to Jebsen's girlfriend/mistress Baroness Marie Luise von Gronau
(in Lisbon): he was born in Appenrade; near the Danish border (according
Google belonging to Denmark, since 1920).
Jebsen,
was born incredible rich, and lived a playboy like life in pre-war Nazi Germany.
He, nevertheless, studied Law at the Freiburg i.Br. University, where he
graduated. Freiburg University was quite popular among none German residents. He
met there also Popov - who already, by then, became a friend of his.
Jebsen, albeit, grown-up in a Nazi environment; nevertheless, we may believe
that his fellow international student colleagues - have turned his mind and have
converted his Nazi perception into an anti-Nazi discernment.
Source
(B),
originating from Popov's file series, informs us that Jebsen apparently
already was in 1940, a member of the German Amt Ausland/Abwehr. The reason for
it might have been his aim not to become engaged within the German military
machine. An option was - to become engaged within a branch dedicated to military
intelligence abroad.
Albeit,
that he was married, he possessed in nearly all places where he went to for some
time, to become engaged with new girl-friends in casu mistresses.
Another
means were his financial engagements, which wasn't necessarily for his living,
but more for his - fun or other means (maybe even greediness). Not always smart
was his eager to be engaged within currency matters, even when he had to deal
with those of the SS, and even betraying them; but also dubious dealing
generally.
(F)
Quoting:
7. We cannot tell exactly why Artist has fallen under
suspicion -
we only know that
he is regarded as "unreliable".
Such indications as there are suggest that his "unreliability" may be
connected with
his financial
operations,
his intrigues with the S.D.,
or his unwise inquisitiveness into the undertakings of Brandes (Ballhorn)
and Ostro, and not with the dealings with Tricycle at all. There is
no proof that treason on the part of Artist in connection with Tricycle is part
of the charge. But obviously ..... Artist may well betray all,
on.....
(C)
Baroness Marie
Luise von Gronau , a girlfriend / mistress in Portugal: considered him
being a most intelligent person, but one, whom neglected is own health care. For
instance, his smoking of about 100 cigarettes a day! His teeth were poorly kept,
and even his right-hand fingers and nails showed severe brown signs due to his
heavy smoking behaviour.
AOB:
What is the difference here - between being intelligent and/or being smart? When
we compare the very facts between the warnings put forward onto him, by say, T.A.
Robertson (TAR) of M.I.5. on Ballhorn (his
real name Hans Brandes)
and his contrary believes and thus not taking the careful measures put forward
to him serious; we must come to the conclusion: that his intelligence did not
prevent him from responding rather naive and childish. In other words, he over
estimated his personal judgments - being superior to what was forwarded to him
on behalf of M.I.5. It has to be noticed though, that they (M.I.5
and M.I.6) had been seriously hampered by the very facts: that Britain's most secret asset
the information gathered by deciphering Germany's (most) secret communications,
which they gave the cover-name: Most Secret Source, or simply M.S.S. (MSS);
which was based upon continuous decrypting German machine generated secret
messages, generally known as Enigma machine codes (fore example) (think of
Bletchley Park). The failure that it went this way - was the faulty
assessments by British Secret Services, that their black spot and
menace Ostro(Paul
Georg Fidrmuc) should
be lifted desperately. And Artist (Johann Jebsen) was trustworthy and living
about the same area where Ostro lives. But Jebsen was so naive to contact
a fellow German countryman Ballhorn (Hans Brandes) who was according Jebsen a
trustworthy fellow German. But Ballhorn (alias of Hans Brandes), was a V-Mann
engaged to KOP I H in Lisbon. He informed Dr. Aloys Schreiber at KOP in Lisbon,
as well as in Berlin (Kuebart); the fact that Jebsen was "fishing" about Mr.
Fidrmuc. Please consider reference (D).
Albeit, his graduation at the Freiburg University, Jebsen apparently lacked an
adult sense for reality; in my perception, his responding proved to be rather
naive and childish!
(E)
Quoting: The meeting between S.I.S. (Major
Foley M.I.6) and
Artist (Jebsen)
on 28.4.44 (the day
before Jebsen's abduction)
was referred to in my previous note. A written report has now been
received which slightly amplifies the information previously available.
The written report states that Moldenhauer was in Lisbon on 28.4.44 staying with
Artist. Artist had also reported that there was a chance of Brandes (Ballhorn)
being recalled of his failure to produce his agents (rumours
only).
According to Artist, Brandes was worried that Tricycle should be so good an
agent as Brandes was afraid that Tricycle would report the date and place of
invasion and this prolong the war. Artist informed S.I.S. that although he
was convinced that Brandes was not trying to trap him into any admission.
Artist acted as though Brandes was so trying and therefore always reacted to
Brandes' suggestions as a good German should. (AOB,
Jebsen, apparently, did not grasp where he was talking about!)
(F)
Quoting:
7. We cannot tell exactly why Artist has fallen under
suspicion -
we only know that
he is regarded as "unreliable".
Such indications as there are suggest that his "unreliability" may be
connected with
his financial
operations,
his intrigues with the S.D.,
or his unwise inquisitiveness into the undertakings of Brandes (Ballhorn)
and Ostro, and not with the dealings with Tricycle at all. There is
no proof that treason on the part of Artist in connection with Tricycle is part
of the charge. But obviously ..... Artist may well betray all,
on.....
(G)
Quoting:
He (Kuebart*)
was also interrogated by an unknown Hauptsturmführer (late
July and/or August 44
). During these
interrogations he was asked why he had not arrested Sdf. Wrede (KV
2/560) his
failure to reveal Jebsen's attempt to bribe him (KV
2/860-1, page 49).
Kuebart replied that he was not in charge of Wrede and considered such arrest to
be unnecessary since Wrede's omission ?coined? to be actuated by stupidity
rather than malice. He was also asked why he had made difficulties in handing
over Jebsen to the S.D. after their
demand therefore. He replied that as Jebsen was a soldier he regarded it
as a matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Abwehr. With
regard to Moldenhauer Kuebart admits that Schreiber exceeded his scope in
arresting this man, since Moldenhauer was merely concerned with Jebsen's plans to
desert, and enjoyed civilian status. (AOB,incorrect: Moldenhauer was already in 1941 engaged in the Abwehr.
Administratively he belonged to Nest Cologne
(Köln).
Both Moldenhauer and
Jebsen were keen not get to be caught for service in the Wehrmacht. Madrid was no
longer a secure place for Moldenhauer, and therefore he moved next to Lisbon. Both Jebsen and
Moldenhauer knew each other already in 1941, maybe even earlier)
*
Kuebart succeeded Hansen and shared the same Belinde barracks with Hansen. Both
men had been arrested in the early morning of 22 July 1944. Considered as a
close contact with Hansen, he was also arrested. And went through all SS
interrogations. Though, Hansen who really was heavily engaged in the failed plot
against Hitler, on 20 July 1944; Hansen was sentenced to death.
Whereas Kuebart, was the first one who got a different censure (5 October 1944),
he lost his military rank, pension, and was removed out of the Wehrmacht. But,
he survived. Both men appeared for the fearful Volksgerichtshof
(People's Court).
(H)
Quoting: We cannot expect to
get any concrete reactions from MSS as to the extent to which Garbo (Spanish;
Juan Pujol Garcia, likely Britain's the most important double cross agent!)
is compromised. We were still speculating as to the fate of Artist (Jebsen)
as late as the evening of the 6.5.44 in spite of the fact that there was
evidence on M.S.S. as early as 30.4.44 that Artist had been kidnapped and had
passed through Madrid at 2 p.m.
(nonsense!) that
day en route to Berlin. Similarly on the 29.4.44 were convinced, as
was Artist himself, that both his position and that of Tricycle had never
been more secure.
This in spite of the fact that there was evidence on M.S.S. (though in a form
unintelligible at the time) that Artist's kidnapping (operation: Dora
or Kohlenklau) had
been planned and was imminent on the 25.4.44.
It was put in operation the same night that our confidence in him (Jebsen)
was at its
height. M.S.S. appeared to support Artist's believe that
Schreiber was his ally and was fighting his battles against the suspicions of
the High Command (Mil/Amt Berlin), the
Abwehr and the S.D. whereas Schreiber was in fact the man chosen to carry out
his kidnapping.
Another
great nonsense encountered within Wikipedia's contribution on Jebsen:
that he had withstand all SS severe interrogation methods- and not telling them
about where to expect the future Allied invasion would ground.
This
is ridiculous and a great nonsense:
Fortitude was Britain's highest endeavour to keep the Germans expecting an
eminent invasion everywhere - but not at the actual shores of Normandy.
(J)
Quoting: I had a long talk with Tricycle yesterday evening.
It isof courseimpossible to tell him that we know Artist is in Germany;
as far as facts go he only knows that Artist failed to keep an appointment with
our representative (likely
pointing at Major Foley)
on 5.5.44 and that our people in Lisbon have ascertained that Artist has not
been home since 29.4.44. Tricycle (Disko
Popov) also knows that
at the meeting on 28.4.44, when Artist sent him a letter, everything appeared to
Artist to be in good order.
Tricycle realises that there is a possibility that Artist may have been
kidnapped by the Germans, particularly because Artist himself suggested (as has
been made known to Tricycle) that the request for Artist (Jebsen)
to attend the meeting at Biarritz on 21.4.44
was in Artist's opinion a possible trap to get Artist to occupied territory.
AOB:
Generally speaking: The British Secret Services played their agents to
believe: being well
informed and their best friend;
which actually wasn't the full truth. They were kept convincing them, but
factually: when the spell was over, they were regarded as former agents, no more
- no less!
(K)and following
correspondences:
a rather shabby - but true story: Quotation 1:
to get her pension (Lore
Petersen - Jebsen's widow)
I think also that the same considerations apply to any action which might be
taken by Ian Wilson, who was in fact the officer who ran the Jebsen case
and I believe met him from time to time. Subject to your approval,
therefore, I propose to reply to Ian Wilson that there is nothing, that we can
do and which in our opinion he should do either. It does not,
incidentally, seem to me to be very meritorious (commendable)
case you will observe that the lady is proposing to marry again.
(AOB, was Jebsen once
not a very valuable friend in 1944?)
B.1.
18.8.1951
Quotation 2: B.1.
I am not aware of the details of this case and I do not know therefore whether
we should as a department do what we can to assist Mrs. Jebsen in getting
a pension from the German Government, but even if the services rendered by Jonny
Jebsen to the department were such that we are under some moral obligation to
assist his widow,
I still agree with the views expressed by you, that we as a department should
not give any certificate to Mrs. Jebsen, and Ian Wilson should be so informed.
If we are to assist Mrs. Jebsen in any way, we should I think take the
appropriate action through the Foreign Office, who could in turn approach the
Bonn Government.
S.L.B.
20.8.1951
B.A. Hill
J.H. Marriott.
Quotation 3: Minute 1258
Reference minute 1257, I should like you(r)
opinion on this point. My own agrees with Courtenay Young's as
expressed above. to my mind there is no objection to writing to the Bonn
Government on Mrs. Jebsen's behalf, providing we do not thereby invite the
retort (reply)
that, if Jebsen worked for us (has his
mind already deteriorated so much?), we
should bear the cost of his widow's maintenance.
D.B.
D.G. White
AOB: Mr D.G. White was during Jebsen's wartime engagements already in charge! I
would like to consider: this had not been in
Jebsen's and related minds, when they offered their services to the Allied's
future.
Now our crucial query: remained Jebsen unbroken during the SS interrogations?
No
he did not! Evidence?
(L)
Quoting: The report on Page XLIV (44) on the
the case of Tricycle and Artist is exceptionally interesting, and provides some
positive evidence that Artist was known to the Germans to be a traitor, and
confessed to them that he had worked on our (British)
behalf. It is surely to be presumed that he
shared Wrede's
ultimate fate.
At about
the same period in the beginning of middle of May, Sdf. Wrede was summoned to
Berlin and interrogated by Sdf Weiss (Kuebart's
assistant), who taxed Wrede with his
failure to admit Jebsen's attempt to bribe him.
Wrede confessed that he had
not revealed this, and after a certain amount of discussion with Obst. Hansen,
who whished to avoid any further trouble over this whole question, Wrede was
sent back to Paris.
(L) As will
seen later, Kuebart's failure to have Wrede arrested, was brought before the
People's Court (Volksgerichtshof)
with the events of July 20 1944) (notice on Wrede also: Part_I
+ Ia)
AOB: To what we so far have noticed in my current Reflections
- we may at least draw some conclusions: - that Jebsen was not the person
who was painted by the editor of the first quoted (1)
Wikipedia introduction. Dr. Wrede was also murdered by the SS machinery; though,
it was Jebsen who is to blame for it directly. Why? Because Jebsen told
Ballhorn
(alias of Hans Brandes) naively about his
bribing efforts in regard to Dr. Wrede!
Jebsen admitted ultimately during his interrogation that he had been a
traitor. And: In all countries of the world "High Treason" results during a war
inevitably in a capital punishment.
Though, of course not, the cruel way the SS controlled Germans
commenced it.
A
final, critical note, may be necessary.
Dr. Schreiber (KV
2/3568) Jebsen's German
handling Abwehr officer, at some time being interrogated, noticed that Jebsen
was also an opportunist.
He may, after all, being considered a bit this way.
As his main aims seemingly above all: concerned his financial (dubious)
dealings, which were well known to his guiding - and controlling British Secret
Service officers in England.
Another, rather embarrassing behaviour particularly in respect to Popov, but
also Jebsen, was the way they managed their expenditures.
What
to say: Popov when staying in London gave M.I.5 his recent evening-meal bill to
his handling M.I.5 officer.
He was staying at the Savoy Hotel (Strand); spending for his (own) evening meal
> £9. We must bear in mind - that in those days: British £1 stood for >10 Dutch
guilders. Implying that his dinner had cost him: > 90 Dutch guilders in 1944 (we
are not on the black market)! People
spending so much, in those days, lacked the real understanding of what the value
of money constitutes!
Jebsen in other context showed also little understanding what the value of money
implies.
My, maybe, downgrading opinion (B)
is: that both men - showed that they belonged to the so-called "Nouveaux
Riche" category;
where playboys quite often belong to.
Those who really would like to gain an opinion concerning Popov's - as well as
Jebsen's papers - which are included - please obtain yourself the KV 2/845 ..
KV 2/864 file series (ca 4900 pages); but I warn you: you most likely will
become upset by Popov's expenditures - and the troubles he caused; even quite a
long time after the end of the war.
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There was a day not so long ago when the message T-shirt was corny: a staple for sports fans, high school girls, or bachelorette parties. But as with most of fashion’s trends, it’s returned—and this time, it’s much improved. Backed by both star-power (Remember Beyoncé’s KALE shirt that went viral?) and explosive fashion-meets-fitness apparel brands, workout gear is taking a vocal and stylish stance.
So speak up and stand out in these seven options.
THINK Strength Yoga Pant, $59
Add to the conversation with classic black yoga pants that even the most simplistic yogis will love: ‘It’s all in your mind’ is printed on the back and ‘THINK strength’ down the leg. You’ll not only kick that negative voice in your head to the curb, but help you’ll others do the same. THINK donates 10 percent of profits to charities and nonprofits.
Cynthia Rowley 'Optimist' T-shirt, $55
From the runway to the treadmill, this high-fashion brand has not only made strides in a new (fitter!) direction, but it’s branded its fashion with words. So work up a sweat and let a chic “Whatever” or “Optimist” tee tell the world how you feel.
Ohmhk 'Can I Kick It?' shirt, $36
We can get behind this Brooklyn-based brand’s main message: to leave “freaky fitness” trends and diets behind in lieu of a general lifestyle of wellness. The company preaches just that through funny—and fun—gear like such as this cute play on a classic yogic phrase.
Bandier 'Believe in Miracles' muscle tank, $48
When ‘athleisure’ went mainstream, so too did a Southampton, NY pop-up fitness-fashion-music boutique. With sleek stores filled with flashy, fun, and functional clothing, Spiritual Gangster’s ‘Believe in Miracles’ tank is just one of many items at Bandier that'll look just as good in class as it does running errands after.
Liquido Active 'I Wear Adventure' tank, $43
This global fashion brand wants you to speak up—to share powerful and important emotions and feel confident doing so. How better than to that than by wearing your heart on your, well, chest? The limited edition collection of 14 ‘I Wear’ tanks has something for every mood from ‘I wear grace’ to ‘I wear adventure.’
The Upside Ramones crew shirt, $158
Jodhi Meares was both a fashion icon and a fitness buff in search of stylish gear that would support her training and her look—so she founded an Australian brand that does just that. Signature, name-bearing ‘The Upside’ tops and sweatshirts add to refined collection of body-sculpting tights, muscle shirts, and shorts but also spread a message of positivity worldwide.
Panatea x Knowlita 'Sup Up & Zen Out' tank, $30
The name Panatea stems from ‘panacea’—a cure-all or an elixir. And this company’s matcha movement matches just that, going far beyond the tea and inspiring a life of wellbeing in and outside of the kitchen. So beyond tea bags, tins, and whisks, you can sip up, zen out, and be super comfy doing it. | {
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In this talk, I will present a series of concrete situations where children make, very intuitively, connections between the past, the present and the future of media. In their play, children often “imagine” future media applications by actually applying them. Their imagination is therefore more than just a fantasy or mental fabrication; it is instead a practice or “form of activity” (Tätigkeit), to use Siegfried Zielinski’s definition of media archaeology. Especially in their act of “repurposing” media and other devices, children become true media archaeologists. In other words, I will offer some thoughts about the child’s play as a media-archaeological laboratory. For this purpose, I will also take into account some general theories about play, game, object lesson, optical toys and language. | {
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The Pole is the talk of football today after his four-goal performance in victory over Champions League opponents Real Madrid.
Much of the post-match talk was about his future - with the German media claiming that a deal to take him to Bayern Munich was virtually done, while Manchester United have long been linked with a move.
"I do not have the feeling that Robert is on the run and we are not the ones to send him away," said Klopp.
"Let's wait and see what happens next. This performance will definitely go down in history." | {
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Fact-Checking AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Latest Anti-PrEP Screed
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Just in time for gay pride, AIDS Healthcare Foundation published an ad criticizing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in various gay publications around the country. The ad, ironically entitled “The War Against Prevention,” is nothing short of a scurrilous attack on Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) as HIV prevention and on gay men’s right to protect themselves against HIV. The missive uses crafty manipulations, and select omissions, of the science behind PrEP to push the agenda of AHF’s notoriously anti-PrEP president, Michael Weinstein.
Below is a fact check of various claims Weinstein makes in the ad. At times his assertions are simply flat-out wrong, if not bald-faced lies (presuming Mr. Weinstein, who has no scientific training, comprehends the science enough to lie about it). POZ’s review was conducted under the assumption that, because AHF placed the ads only in gay publications, this particular missive only addresses the concerns of gay men.
Something of a lone, and ferocious, wolf in the public opposition to PrEP, Weinstein has tinkered with his stance over time as increasing scientific evidence has supported Truvada’s use as a tool to fight the spread of HIV. Currently, he claims not to be against PrEP, saying that he maintains a “nuanced” position by arguing that Truvada may be a worthy option for some individuals, but should not be used as a broad public health intervention.
“Mass PrEP administration is a dangerous experiment that is not supported by medical science and is currently resisted by doctors and patients alike,” he claims in the ad.
Instead, he believes that the best way to prevent HIV transmission is through behavior modification and condoms, as well as through testing for the virus and treating people with HIV in order to render them vastly less infectious. This is a standpoint that dovetails neatly with his position as the leader of the world’s largest provider of treatment for the virus, with more than 420,000 patients in 36 countries.
Fact check:
Claim: Behavior modification, while never 100 percent effective, has been a remarkable success with gay men.
This is definitely true when you look at the entire history of the U.S. HIV epidemic. In the 1980s, the use of condoms and other forms of behavior modification among American gay men were highly successful in reducing what was initially a soaring rate of HIV infection in that population. However, in recent years, as memories of the horrors of the early AIDS crisis have faded and a new generation rises that never knew those days, gay men have increasingly shifted their sexual behavior in the opposite direction. Condom use has decreased among the population while the HIV infection rate has risen once again.
Claim: The ad impliesthatthosesupportingPrEP advocate giving up on condoms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recently has become a strong advocate for PrEP, encourages using condoms with Truvada. However, there are certainly PrEP advocates who have quite publicly celebrated Truvada as a tool by which to enjoy condomless intercourse.
Claim: Truvada has not caught on with medical providers or patients.
Weinstein relies on Gilead Sciences’ report that only 5,272 PrEP prescriptions were written through 2014. There are many limitations to that estimate that make it a highly unreliable barometer for PrEP use in the United States. It is based on approximately 39 percent of U.S. retail pharmacies and less than 20 percent of Medicaid data, and does not include the many gay men receiving PrEP through a study.
Research suggests that approximately 4,000 San Franciscans are taking PrEP. In New York State, PrEP prescriptions filed through Medicaid rose 272 percent between June 2014 and February 2015, from 305 to 832. A recent POZ survey found that various medical providers across the country have seen dramatic increases in prescription rates over the past two years. About 400 people currently receive PrEP form the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City.
Claim: 95percentofHIV medical providers are “concerned that their patients would not adhere”tothedailyTruvada regimen.
This refers to a survey of members of American Academy of HIV Medicine, which the AAHIVM published in April. Indeed, 95 percent of the 324 respondents said that “concerns about adherence” to Truvada were “very important” when deciding whether to prescribe PrEP. However, as physicians have argued since Weinstein began publicizing this figure, it is only natural that a clinician should be concerned that patients will not adhere to any drug. This figure, therefore, does not necessarily imply grave reservations about PrEP in particular.
In the same survey, 79 percent of the clinicians said they were “very likely” to prescribe PrEP to MSM having sex with an HIV-positive partner, while 66 percent said they were very likely to prescribe to MSM at risk for contracting HIV.
By limiting this claim only to published research on PrEP, Weinstein leaves out the results of both the PROUD and IPERGAY studies, which each showed an effectiveness rate of 86 percent among MSM. (Effectiveness, which refers to a drug’s actual, across-the-board success, is the correct term; efficacy only refers to a drug’s potential for success.) PROUD studied PrEP among very high-risk MSM in the United Kingdom and was designed to reflect real-world use of Truvada. IPERGAY tested an intercourse-based dosing protocol of PrEP in which MSM participants in France and Canada were instructed to take Truvada only in the days surrounding a potential HIV exposure.
The iPrEX study and its open-label extension (OLE) phase, the two published studies of PrEP among MSM, had respective effectiveness rates of 44 percent (not 42 percent) and 50 percent. Weinstein has long characterized these rates as failures. On the contrary, these figures can and should be viewed as successes: The trials succeeded at lowering the rate of HIV by a considerable amount among the high-risk participants taking Truvada. A true failure would have been if PrEP increased or led to no change in HIV rates, or perhaps if the risk reduction was too small to justify a PrEP roll-out. Weinstein also omits the fact that the U.S. participants of the OLE trial adhered at a much higher rate than their international counterparts, suggesting that they enjoyed a greater benefit from PrEP than the study group as a whole.
Claim: “In the most successful of all the published studies [onPrEP] more than half of the patients did not take the medication as directed.”
According to AHF spokesperson Christopher Johnson, this claim refers to the Partners PrEP trial, which studied PrEP among heterosexual couples in Kenya and Uganda and had a 67 percent success rate. Since the study did not include MSM, its results are not particularly relevant to a gay male audience.
Johnson backed up AHF’s claim about the lack of adherence in Partners PrEP with the fact that an estimated 55 percent of the study’s participants had at least one gap of 72 consecutive hours of nonadherence. However, the same analysis showed that just 23 percent of the participants had at least one weeklong adherence gap. According to the head of Partners PrEP, Jared Baeten, MD, PhD, a professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health, Weinstein’s assertion that the study’s participants were highly nonadherent is a “very skewed” interpretation of the research. More than 80 percent of the participants, Baeten points out, had detectable study drug in their blood and 70 percent had concentrations consistent with daily use. Additionally, Baeten states that the Partners PrEP substudy that looked at the adherence gaps measured daily pill-taking through the use of an electronic pill bottle, and that 72-hour gaps may reflect people not taking PrEP while risk was low (perhaps while not having sex) or taking out multiple doses for use while traveling.
Claim: ThoseinthePartnersPrEP study who were most at risk were also the least likely to adhere properly.
AHF’s Christopher Johnson refused to provide a citation for this claim. University of Washington’s Jared Baeten asserts the claim is false. He and his colleagues have conducted a number of analyses to determine what factors affected adherence in Partners PrEP (a study which, again, did not include MSM), and found that a consistent factor linked with lower adherence was not having sex. This suggests that, in fact, being low risk was linked to low adherence, and, conversely, that higher risk people adhered at higher rates.
In iPrEx OLE, the higher-risk participants were more likely to opt to start PrEP in the first place (those who chose not to take Truvada served as a control group), and were then more likely to adhere.
Claim: Not-yet-published European research on intermittent (also known as intercourse-based) PrEPuseamongMSM has shown very high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and poor adherence.
The IPERGAY study indeed showed a very high rate of STIs among the MSM participants—35 percent of the participants contracted one during the study—which is indicative of the fact that they were at high risk for HIV, and therefore good candidates for PrEP. There was no evidence that men increased their sexual risk taking during the study, so PrEP itself cannot be blamed for those STIs.
With an 86 percent effectiveness rate, the dosing strategy in IPERGAY was actually a great success, indicating that adherence was quite good. It is not clear whether the specifics of the protocol itself led to such a high risk reduction or just the fact that the men wound up taking PrEP often enough to enjoy a significant risk reduction regardless of the exact timing of the pill taking. (The iPrEX OLE results suggest that taking Truvada four times a week offers maximum protection against HIV.) The two participants given Truvada who did contract HIV had apparently stopped taking PrEP several weeks before becoming infected.
Claim: Concerns about the effectiveness ofPrEP in the clinical trials would be “nonexistent if the patients wore condoms.”
PrEP is most strongly urged for MSM who are already not using condoms. In a perfect world, all those men would use latex for every potential exposure to the virus. PrEP acknowledges the reality that these men may not be willing or able to change their behavior, but that they may indeed have the capacity to follow a drug regimen that will lower their risk.
PrEP’s HIV risk reduction benefits can complement those of condoms; the two prevention techniques are not mutually exclusive, and indeed are often used together.
Claim:AccordingtotheCDC, threeoutoffourMSM used condoms during their last sexual encounter.
True, but highly misleading. The same 2011 CDC report states that, out of 8,000 MSM in 20 U.S. cities, 57 percent reported having anal sex without a condom during the previous year.
Claim: “The entire body of scientificdatademonstratesthatTruvada will not be successful as a mass public health intervention.”
The PROUD study strongly suggests otherwise: It examined PrEP’s use among high-risk MSM in a real-world setting and had an 86 percent success rate.
Claim: Weinstein insinuates that “the condom culture that has been so hard fought since the [beginning] of AIDS” will disappear.
This is a worthwhile concern to raise. At this time, none of the studies of PrEP among MSM support the notion that Truvada will lead to a reduction in condom use among that population. However, anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise: that PrEP may indeed contribute an already dropping rate of condom use among MSM. It is possible that one of the reasons that men in the PrEP studies don’t use condoms less while on Truvada is that they already weren’t using them much to begin with; being at high risk for HIV is a qualification for entry into the studies.
Claim: The condom is the most effective prevention method for an individual who has multiple partners or whose partner has multiple partners.
If an individual gay man takes PrEP daily, Truvada’s 99 percent or greater effectiveness likely offers superior protection against HIV than regular condom use. (And of course he may use condoms in addition to Truvada.) It’s very hard to pin down exactly how effective condoms are when used for anal sex; research is scant, and a recent CDC paper claiming condoms are only 70 percent effective when used consistently and correctly by MSM is based on highly questionable reasoning. But in a nutshell, it’s simpler to use Truvada correctly—you swallow a daily pill—than condoms. Condoms may fail due to putting them on wrong, improper lubrication, or not keeping them on for the entire act of intercourse, a common practice. Psychologists have also argued that it is easier to adhere to a drug that is taken as a part of a daily routine than it is to use a condom during moments when that sense of personal responsibility may be challenged by sexually and emotionally charged experiences.
Weinstein’s argument here seems to contradict his claim in the previous paragraph that “Truvada can absolutely be the right decision for specific patients.”
Claim: IfeveryonewithHIV in the United States knew their status, went on treatment and had an undetectable viral load, there wouldbenonewHIV infections.
This sweeping claim is categorically false because of the impossibility of alerting everyone to their HIV status the instant they contract the virus. During the first few months of infection, viral loads tend to be very high, making an individual highly infectious. Additionally, acutely infected individuals may be engaging in the same high-risk behaviors that led them to contract the virus in the first place, allowing them to transmit the virus to others before they are tested. Estimates vary, but scientists believe a considerable proportion of new HIV cases transmit from people recently infected with the virus.
Furthermore, as Weinstein points out in the ad, just 30 percent of Americans living with HIV currently have an undetectable viral load. So his vision of treating our way to zero HIV transmissions is a long way off, to say the least. In the meantime, the scale-up of PrEP among high-risk populations will hopefully help reduce infection rates, in particular among MSM.
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Periphery scholars face the challenges of exclusion and
linguicism
in research and academic publication. As the great majority of mainstream academic journals are written in English, multilingual periphery scholars often must translate their work to be accepted to elite Western-dominated journals.
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Multilingual scholars' influences from their native communicative styles can be assumed to be incompetence instead of difference.
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is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication. Usually, the peer review process involves experts in the same field who are consulted by editors to give a review of the scholarly works produced by a colleague of theirs from an unbiased and impartial point of view, and this is usually done free of charge. The tradition of peer reviews being done for free has however brought many pitfalls which are also indicative of why most peer reviewers decline many invitations to review.
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It was observed that publications from periphery countries rarely rise to the same elite status as those of North America and Europe, because limitations on the availability of resources including high-quality paper and sophisticated image-rendering software and printing tools render these publications less able to satisfy standards currently carrying formal or informal authority in the publishing industry.
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These limitations in turn result in the under-representation of scholars from periphery nations among the set of publications holding prestige status relative to the quantity and quality of those scholars' research efforts, and this under-representation in turn results in disproportionately reduced acceptance of the results of their efforts as contributions to the body of knowledge available worldwide.
The open access movement assumes that all information generally deemed useful should be free and belongs to a "public domain", that of "humanity".
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This idea gained prevalence as a result of Western colonial history and ignores alternative conceptions of knowledge circulation. For instance, most indigenous communities consider that access to certain information proper to the group should be determined by relationships.
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There is alleged to be a double standard in the Western knowledge system. On the one hand, "digital right management" used to restrict access to personal information on social networking platforms is celebrated as a protection of privacy, while simultaneously when similar functions are utilised by cultural groups (i.e. indigenous communities) this is denounced as "access control" and reprehended as censorship.
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Proportion of permanently deleted articles created from January 1, 2016 onwards.
Using these methods to measure article quality, we find a significant reduction for the indicators associated with unencyclopedic content: permanently deleted articles, and articles not flagged as "OK" by the draft quality model (Hypothesis 20
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). This finding is echoed in our analysis of reasons for why articles get deleted (Hypothesis 18
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We also made a similar analysis of pages created in the Draft namespace (Hypothesis 19
[h 15]
). Given the shift in creations to that namespace, it is important to know whether the content created there is different from what we previously saw in the article namespace. Here we find a small but significant increase in permanent deletions, an increase in the rate of deletions, and that some of this increase comes through deletion of unencyclopedic content (e.g. advertisements). This increase in deletions is not commensurate with the increase in draft creations, meaning that we see a lot of created drafts that appear to not warrant deletion.
In summary, we see a significant reduction in deletion of unencyclopedic content during ACTRIAL, but otherwise no change in content quality. Some of the unencyclopedic content appears to have moved to the draft namespace. To what extent ACTRIAL discourages disruptive contributions is unknown and would require further study.
A key question for the community following the trial is: what should Wikipedia’s publishing model be? The Wiki Way is to publish instantly, but make it easy to undo. The restrictions on article creation made by ACTRIAL shifts the model to review-then-publish for many accounts. Research on AfC has found that going through that process means drastically less collaboration than creating an article directly in the main namespace.
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Is that beneficial to Wikipedia? If the community decides that article creation should be restricted, is autoconfirmed status a good threshold? One example where that restriction hinders contributions is if an experienced contributor comes in from another Wikipedia. Where they previously could create an article (e.g. a translation of one of theirs), it would now have to go through AfC or be created as a draft in the user namespace and later moved, both reducing the opportunity for collaboration and improvement. | {
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Despite 114 Day Occupation Victory, Dump Project Still Scheduled
Anti-nuke protesters and members of local Native American tribes continue to keep vigil in Ward Valley at the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump. In June, the 114 day occupation of the site ended when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rescinded an eviction notice issued on February 13. At the same time, the BLM dropped preparations for further soil tests at the site. According to the Save Ward Valley office in Needles, the outcome of the 12 year effort to halt the desecration of Ward Valley is once again in limbo. A hearing is scheduled in Federal District Court in Washington DC for sometime in August. The hearing is to consider a lawsuit filed by the state of California to force the US government to transfer the land to the state so the dump project can go ahead. Campers are still needed in Ward Valley. Call the Save Ward Valley office at 760-326-6267. And stay tuned. N. Sandy Crab | {
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The numbers in any row of the hexagon above sum to 38,
e.g. 9+14+15, 11+1+7+19, 3+7+5+8+15,
making this a magic hexagon (by analogy to magic squares).
If you already know why this size is the only possible size (outside of the trivial single digit "hexagon"), but aren't content to just take someone's word that no other arrangement (not counting rotations and/or reflections) of integers 1 through 19 is magic--then the C++ program below is for you.
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm
we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage
and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
tags: courage, mindfulness, pain, self-awareness, truth
“Feelings,
whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized,
and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves.
The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are
me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the
kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a
bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In
mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are
all sacred.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
tags: mindfulness, miracle, of
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
tags: attention, happiness, joy, mindfulness, peace, present-moment
“In the end, just three things matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”
― Jack Kornfield
tags: inspirational, mindfulness
“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
tags: mindfulness, philosophy, present-moment
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
tags: act, last, life, mindfulness
“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s
fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better
to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your
heart...”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
tags: awakening, buddhism, mindfulness
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but
the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out
you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson
tags: altruism, happiness, mindfulness, philosophy
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa
tags: happiness, mindfulness, moment
“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are
precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite
possibility. (17)”
― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
tags: acceptance, mindfulness, now, possibility, present, this-moment, time
“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L'Amour
tags: life, mindfulness, present
“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
― Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
tags: buddhism, health, inspiration, inspirational, mindfulness, suffering
“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Psychotherapy East and West
tags: mindfulness, psychology
“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
tags: awareness, identity, mindfulness, spirituality
“In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully,
nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not
tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no
agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking
at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are
opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.”
― David Richo, When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships
tags: mindfulness, mystery, relationship
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now
without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding
on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without
fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz”
― James Baraz
“You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the
day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether
we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this
moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each
stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent
luminosity.”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
tags: confidence, death, joy, life, mindfulness, rebirth, reincarnation
“Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will
lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent
upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with
the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.”
― Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
tags: desire, mindfulness, objects, questions
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the
tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an
attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to
delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of
wisdom.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
tags: evolving, life, mindfulness, peace
“If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has
kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It
isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or
as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to
create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday
lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg, The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness
tags: buddhism, change, inspiration, meditation, mindfulness, wisdom
“It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well.
The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and
brave, and keeping a sense of humor. ”
― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
tags: bravery, dying, humility, humor, living, mindfulness, present-moment, sense-of-humor
“When
even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and
tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will
automatically be meditating always.”
― Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
tags: meditation, mindfulness, tranquility, virtue
“Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space.”
― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
tags: mindfulness, sacred-space, space
“As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we
discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it
will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whever
happens does not really matter.”
― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
tags: mindfulness
“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
tags: compassion, health, meditation, mind-training, mindfulness, social-media, technology
“With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error.
trans by Robert Thurman”
― Huston Smith, Tibetan Book of the Dead
tags: death, error, life, mindfulness
“Patience has all the time it needs.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
tags: buddhism, compassion, mindfulness
“Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
tags: buddhism, mindfulness, psychology-spirituality
“One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.”
― Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
tags: buddhism, health, inspiration, mindfulness
“It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
― Orna Ross
tags: life-and-living, mindfulness
“Mindfulness,
also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our
experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
tags: buddhism, compassion, inspiration, mindfulness
“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything
that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your
apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and
unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if,
being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is
nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
tags: love, mindfulness
“.
. . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open
book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some
wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily
activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures?”
― Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
tags: learning, living, mindfulness, scriptures
“Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
tags: buddhism, healing, health, meditation, mindfulness
“Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
tags: health, meditation, mindfulness, psychology
“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of
ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
tags: buddhism, mindfulness, psychology, suffering
“Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and
subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with
finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to
steady the wandering mind.”
― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
tags: body, mind, mindfulness, practice, yoga
“Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray
tags: inspirational, mindfulness
“Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
tags: buddhism, mindfulness, psychology
“Like
a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's
no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need
to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are -
as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.”
― Bo Lozoff
tags: being-present, mindfulness, reality
“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor
motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath
them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Revenants
tags: life, mindfulness
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Senin, 16 November 2015
Many people understand that advertising your business on search engines is a vital part of success in today's business world. However, most of us only look through the first page or two of hits after we've conducted our search. This article serves to provide you with tips to help with your search engine optimization.
Take care when using your social media presence to boost your main site's PageRank. The data you provide on your social media pages (e.g. Facebook and Twitter bios) should dovetail with the main keywords of your website. This establishes a relationship between the two that can help improve the positioning of both your social media presence and your main site.
Linkages are incredibly important to search engine optimization. Post on tools like twitter, become an expert in your field and provide advice that pertains to your product. Post a link to your website in your tweets. This will bring more clicks to your site, which will improve your page rank.
On your website, always include an address where people can send letters, questions or concerns about your company. The more feedback that you get, the better understanding you will have of what your customer's preferences are. This will allow you to maximize your productivity and appeal to your client's interests.
Add new content to your website in a consistent manner. This will keep your search engine rankings up because it will keep people coming back to your site to see what's new on your pages. Additionally, new content that is well written with SEO in mind will attract the search engine bots. Adding great content to your website is a win-win proposition all around.
Don't use generic words in your key words list, like "computers" and "books". This will generate too many results and will most likely, not show your site at the top. Instead, using more specific words and phrases like "buy cheap computers online," can be less competitive and be more effective for your site.
Do not obsess over your page rankings on the search engines. Your content is more important than your rank, and readers realize that. If you focus too much on rank, you may end up accidentally forgetting who your true audience is. Cater to your customers, and your rank will rise on its own.
Take advantage of free code validation programs on the web. You do not want your site to be coded incorrectly, but paying to have it checked could be expensive. Luckily, there are several coding sites available free of charge, to ensure that your website will appear exactly how you want it to, every time.
When you write an article that is SEO friendly, make sure you do not forget to make it enjoyable to read, too. You never know who will come across your article and it will reflect poorly on you as a writer and marketer, if your piece reads like straight, SEO spam.
Make sure your keyword density isn't too high or too low. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that the more times their keyword is mentioned, the higher in the rankings they will go. Doing this actually causes the engines to tag your site as spam and keep it low. Try to aim for using your keyword in no more than 7% of the content on your page.
Attempting to optimize your search engine results will be an exercise in frustration if you pick keywords that are too general. Use specific keywords to restrict your competition and increase the effect of your optimization efforts. For example, it is much harder to raise your ranking on "auto sales" than "used luxury auto sales in Lexington KY."
If you have set up the same keyword tags for every page on your website, you need to fix that immediately. The multiple tags will not help your business, and you could find yourself flagged as a SEO spammer for doing this. Keep different keyword tags for every webpage.
To maximize your SEO potential, remember to write not only to your human audience, but also for the search engine. That means including things like keyword rich titles and description fields and headers that are formatted as h1 and h2. Also make your content interesting and interactive to promote more bookmarking of your content.
When it comes to blogs, try submitting them to directories. These may not be as popular or as widespread to viewers as social networking sites, but they can provide you with some high-quality backlinks you can use for your site. Make sure to research the directories first because you don't want to submit to one that isn't doing well.
The next step in online advertising is the competition for the number one spot on search engine hits. With most people only viewing the first few hits, if your business isn't among the top hits, then it's like you aren't there at all. By applying the tips from this article, you will be able to optimize your search engine results.
Selasa, 03 November 2015
Search engine optimization. You should not be afraid of this term if you want to increase the traffic your website generates. Optimizing your site's search engine performance does not require any black magic or even technological expertise. You can use simple techniques to raise your website's search engine standing. Here are just a few of them:
Getting your website to the top of a search page can be aided by posting regularly on your site. If you consistently contribute useful information to the online community, then search engines will note this and promote your site for it's unique and meaningful content. In addition, you will likely have more visitors to your site to read the fresh content that you post, and this will help promote you in search results as well.
Utilizing social media is a great way to gain more exposure to your site and to rapidly improve your rankings. Join social communities that are the most relevant to your site to reach a targeted audience. With "like buttons" and similar type widgets, your traffic has the potential to improve exponentially.
Flash can help you create a very attractive website, but you need to be careful when using this. Search engines today can index Flash content, but that doesn't mean they can do it easily. True optimization means you need to make your site efficient for a search engine, so go easy with the Flash features you're adding.
When you are first starting a website, avoid using sub-domains. Google treats sub-domains as their own site for purposes of assigning them PageRank. Directories from the main site, however, have the same PageRank as the parent site. This means, for instance, that mysite.com/store will have the same PageRank as mysite.com, but store.mysite.com won't.
Prove to your audience that you are an expert in your niche. This can really boost your Internet marketing success. Creating a website that is designed around a niche of buyers is absolutely critical. Then, use search engine optimization tools to help buyers find your services and products. You have to give your customers what they actually want to buy, not what you believe they want.
Keep an eye on where your site stands in the search engine results. By knowing this, you will be able to tell if any efforts at raising your ranking are working at all. You can also use your referrer log to see how your visitors are arriving to your site and what search terms they are using.
Pick the right URL shorteners. You want to make sure the search engine still gets credit for finding you, but some URL shortening companies do not allow that to take place. Search out the right ones that give credit where it is due, and your search engine will thank you.
Do not spread yourself too thin. Use a limited amount of keywords throughout your entire website. Some search engines recommend no more than twenty. If you do more than this, you may end up not getting the searches you want, because the search engine recognizes you are overdoing it. Keep it simple!
As much as possible, stay away from frames in your website. Search engines can't index framed pages. The best that they will be able to do is to index your home page. This means that, if the majority of your site uses frames, then the majority of your site will not be indexed.
Do not expect to optimize your website once and be done with it. Expect to spend time each day working with search engine information. This is not a one step process and should not be looked at as such. Keep researching new methods and implementing them. Your visitors will appreciate the time and attention.
Search engines hate frames, so if you need to use them make sure to include a noframes tag and to create a full version of your site for the noframes client. If the search engines spiders can't read your site then you are never going to move anywhere in the ranks. Creating a noframes site will ensure that you can even be indexed in the search engine.
If you're building a website for your business from scratch and the perfect domain name has already been taken, consider some alternatives. Adding a hyphen or two sometimes allows you to keep the same term that you originally intended to use. If the name has been taken by a dot com website, see if it's available as a dot net domain. If possible, use a synonym for one or more of the words. As a last resort, consider purchasing an existing domain.
Hopefully, this article has helped to de-mystify the search engine optimization process for you. SEO is not an obscure or arcane process. Any webmaster can improve his or her site's search engine rankings with easy tactics like those presented above. Increased traffic is something you probably want, no matter what kind of website you run. Basic SEO techniques like these can help you find the wider exposure for which you are looking. | {
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Ebay sued in California over PayPal unit
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EBay Inc.
EBAY, +1.95%
said Wednesday that it faces a purported antitrust lawsuit in California over its PayPal unit, alleging that the company improperly monopolized the forms of payment sellers can use on its popular online auction Web site.
EBay, of San Jose, Calif., said the plaintiff filed the suit this month and seeks treble damages and an injunction. EBay believes it has "meritorious defenses" and intends to defend itself "vigorously," according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company has come under criticism for PayPal, an online payment service that eBay owns. Last September, PayPal signed an agreement with 28 state attorneys general involving accusations of misleading business practices. It also reached a preliminary settlement agreement with a proposed class of PayPal customers.
PayPal has faced competition recently from search giant Google Inc. (GOOG), which rolled out a rival online payment service in June. Ebay said at the time that it wouldn't allow its customers to use Google's Checkout on the eBay site.
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What the future holds for the Ukrainian IT market: the latest news?
IT industry in Ukraine has been distributing the influence and strengthens its position in the global IT arena. Since the beginning of 2017, local tech market has undergone several interesting events that would prove the promising forecasts related to the IT sector growth.
UNIT.City – the innovation park of the future
UNIT.City is viewed as one of the main large-scale projects of the kind in Ukraine. It’s buildings and planning resemble of the campuses global tech giants like Google and Apple have. The investors and directors of UNIT.City claim that their project is an innovation park that would make a unique “town in the city” with everything necessary for the appropriate functioning of the tech companies and creative industries. Moreover, the aim of the projects is to establish the brand new branch for the Ukrainian economy that would only add to the country’s growing IT industry. The funders and investors expect the representatives of both Ukrainian and international product companies would use the UNIT.City as the place for their R&D centers; start-ups will have a great place for growing and developing.
UNIT.City is located on the territory of the former moto-factory in Kyiv. The overall territory is quite impressive – at about 25 hectares to be packed with a business campus, sports complex (free of charge for the residents of the park), and a café. Another part of UNIT.City is occupied by the UNIT Factory Programming School, which is considered the main educational element of the park. The School is actually viewed as the milestone for further establishment of the territory into the innovation park. There is also another educational project – Bionic University that successfully functions nearby the School.
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I’ve been busy with life…and trying to figure out how to write this post too.
I met a lovely young lady. Barely knew her except a few light exchanges while playing sport together. We started messaging each other. Long story short we ended up hanging out with some lite/heavy petting. No serious stuff really. Just some hugging and hand holding…it was proceeded by innuendo laced conversations..always a pre-cursor.
SO, I was concerned about my path. My 2 year journey. Had I broken my promise to myself?
I had said from the beginning that I could have female relationships, but nothing too “serious”. I think this crossed over that line…just.
A couple of days later I had to explain to her why we never went any further than she had expected. I knew it was pretty heavy info to share with her so early, but I needed to make sure, from my perspective, that I wasn’t leading her on. Even if she didn’t care about that. Just trying to keep the whole honesty and respect idea going.
She was great about it. She asked me what I expected from her. I told her “nothing”. I explained to her that I had not expectations from her and just wanted to see where our friendship/relationship may end up.
We have discussed how we are at different points in our life’s, she’s much younger than me too…That’s not why I wanted to start anything with her. She just happened to be younger than me. I just think I’m fortunate that younger women are attracted to me!
She knows all about my daughters too, which is something I am proud about. It’s something that I couldn’t tell another female I met…which I still can’t understand myself. It’s just not the first thing I tell potential girlfriends, unless they ask. I’m obviously not ashamed of my beautiful daughters!
So. This lovely young lady I have semi-started a pseudo-relationship with knows pretty much most details about me. I have spared her the long story about A. I don’t feel she needs to know about any of that. Yet. Sometimes I’m just too honest!
What’s even madder is that I am typing this while sitting in a motel in Muscat, Oman. How did I get here? I was picking up said lady from AD airport…she had visa complications…couldn’t leave the airport…I felt bad for her…she was gonna be stuck in the airport for 20 hours until her next flight to her home country. Cue crazy me. I booked a flight to Muscat…Then spent 6 hours hanging out with her at the airport until she flew home…now I’m here.
Here’s the strange thing. Yes, I did it to score brownie points with her. That’s obvious! BUT I was also looking for a crazy distraction from my homesickness that I am still recovering from…created by my holiday with my girls. I miss them immensely. And something like this situation has done that…well shifted my focus slightly. I have to admit, it is one of the BIGGER crazier things I have done.
Which actually leads me back to something else. The reason I started this blog. A. For the past few weeks I have had these strong feelings for her come back. I have no reason why. Except for maybe me being in Aus. Maybe knowing that I’m in the same country got my mind ticking over things and thinking about how she is and what she’s doing? Maybe. Probably.
What it did show me was the fact that I still have strong feelings for A. What puzzles me is that I have never tried to deny this either. Matters of the heart can be very strong and obviously last for a lifetime. I know I’ll never be over her, but I also know that it’s never gonna hold me back either. That’s all part of the journey. It’s all part of my new life. It’s been a while. It’s been a while since I reminded myself about why I’m on this journey. It’s been a while since I read through my old posts to see how far I come.
It’s almost 3 months to go. I have to admit it’s started to go really fast now. keeping the faith and keeping focussed. | {
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The secondary Condorcet winner (the new Condorcet winner if the Condorcet winner is eliminated), if one exists, is ranked second.
The tertiary Condorcet winner (the new Condorcet winner if the Condorcet winner and the secondary Condorcet winner are eliminated), if one exists, is ranked third.
etc.
and
The Condorcet loser, if one exists, is ranked last.
The secondary Condorcet loser (the new Condorcet loser if the Condorcet loser is eliminated), if one exists, is ranked next-to-last.
The tertiary Condorcet loser (the new Condorcet loser if the Condorcet loser and secondary Condorcet loser are eliminated), if one exists, is ranked third-to-last.
etc.
Often the definition of a Condorcet ranking is generalized so that candidates with pairwise ties with each other are ranked equally i.e:
2 A
2 B
1 C
A and B pairwise tie (2 vs. 2), but both beat C (2 vs. 1), so a generalized (or perhaps "weak") Condorcet ranking would be A=B>C.
When there are Condorcet cycles, there won't be a Condorcet ranking (though it may still be possible to fill in certain parts of the order of finish i.e. if 5 candidates pairwise beat all others, with 3 candidates in a cycle and pairwise beaten by the 5, but otherwise pairwise beating all others, and 2 candidates pairwise beaten by all others except pairwise tied with each other, then the 5 candidates are in the first 5 places of the Condorcet ranking, with the 2 candidates both in 9th place, with the 3 candidates in the cycle guaranteed to be ranked either 6th, 7th, or 8th, depending on which Condorcet completion method is used).
The most direct generalization of the Condorcet ranking to handle Condorcet cycles is the Smith set ranking, which is meant to ensure that anytime the candidates can be divided into two groups such that everyone in the first group beats everyone in the second group, then everyone in the first group is ranked higher.
The fastest way to find the Condorcet (and Smith) ranking is to find the Copeland ranking. If every candidate at a given rank has only one more pairwise victory than all candidates at the next-lowest rank (i.e. the number of pairwise victories per candidates incrementally decreases as you go down the order), then there is a Condorcet ranking, otherwise there is only a Smith ranking.
An example of finding the generalized Smith set ranking using the pairwise matrix. One way to better visualize it is to imagine the arrow starting from the top left and traveling down one cell at at a time, creating a box around a group of candidates any time there are only pairwise victories to the right of the cells that are enclosed by the arrow. For further visual clarity, imagine a green background on the cells with pairwise victories; the arrow tries to cover the fewest cells necessary for there to be an all-green background to the right.
A Smith ranking (Smith set ranking) is the same as a Condorcet ranking, except instead of being defined in terms of the Condorcet winner and Condorcet loser, it is defined in terms of the Smith set and Smith loser set. When there is a multi-member Smith set, the candidates in the Smith set may be ranked in any order so long as they are all ranked above non-Smith set candidates, with the same applying for the Smith loser set candidates with regards to being ranked lower than non-Smith loser set candidates.[1] Each consecutive Smith set can be referred to as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. or the primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. Smith set.
When there is a Condorcet ranking (one doesn't always exist), the Smith ranking will be the same as the Condorcet ranking. There will always be at least one Smith ranking, and it is possible to have more than one (each of which will differ only on the order in which Smith or Smith loser candidates are ranked). The simplest way to find a Smith ranking is to find the Copeland ranking (the ranking of all candidates such that the candidates with the most (pairwise victories minus pairwise defeats) are ranked first, the candidates with the second-most (pairwise victories minus pairwise defeats) are ranked second, etc.)
The generalized Smith ranking is a Smith ranking where all candidates in each consecutively ranked Smith set are equally ranked and the same holds for each consecutively ranked Smith loser set; for example:
2 A
2 B
1 C
The generalized Smith ranking is A=B>C, meaning A and B are tied for 1st place, and C is in 2nd place. Note that any of A>B=C, B>A=C, or A=B>C would be valid Smith rankings, but only the third is a generalized Smith ranking; this is because the generalized Smith ranking assumes neutrality as to who is superior within the Smith and Smith loser sets. This may make it an appropriate tool to demonstrate how various groups of candidates would compare across all Smith-efficient methods. There will always be one and only one generalized Smith set ranking. There is an ambiguity to consider in that if, for example, there are five candidates, with three in the 1st Smith set and two in the 2nd Smith set, then the two 2nd Smith set candidates can be considered to either be in 2nd place (because they are worse than all the 1st place candidates but better than all other candidates) or 4th place (because in order for them to be the best candidates in the election i.e. 1st place, at least 3 candidates considered better than them must be removed from the election).
Another example:
1 A>B>C
1 B>C>A
1 C>A>B
1 D>E
1 E>D
1 F=G
Pairwise comparison table (candidate on left is preferred by # of voters in their cell over candidate on top)
Pairwise victories are bolded, defeats are underlined, ties are struck through
Groups of candidates who pairwise beat all other lower groups are italicized; every odd group's numbers are made bigger and even group's numbers smaller
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
-
2
1
3
3
3
3
B
1
-
2
3
3
3
3
C
2
1
-
3
3
3
3
D
2
2
2
-
1
2
2
E
2
2
2
1
-
2
2
F
1
1
1
1
1
-
0
G
1
1
1
1
1
0
-
The generalized Smith set ranking can be found by sorting the candidates in the pairwise comparison table based on their Copeland scores (or in any way that follows a Smith ranking), and then starting at the top left cell comparing two candidates, checking if all the cells to the right of the cell that is being looked at show pairwise victories; if so, the candidate to the left of the cell being looked at is in the Smith set, if not, repeatedly go one cell down and one cell to the right until at the cell directly below the cell furthest to the right in the top row with a pairwise tie or defeat, covering all cells from the top left cell to the bottom right cell, and checking again. Once all the cells to the right of the cells being looked at (the "covered" cells) show pairwise victories, all candidates to the left of the covered cells are in the Smith set. Go one cell down and one cell to the right, ignore all of the previously covered cells, and repeat the process to find the secondary Smith set, then repeat for the tertiary Smith set, etc. Then rank all candidates in the Smith set 1st, all candidates in the secondary Smith set 2nd, etc.
As an example, here, starting at the top left pairwise comparison cell (the A>A cell), we see a pairwise defeat or tie furthest to the right in the 3rd cell in the top pairwise comparison row (the A>C cell), so we cover all cells from the top left cell to the 3rd cell down and 3rd cell from the left:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
A
-
2
1
3
3
3
3
B
1
-
2
3
3
3
3
C
2
1
-
3
3
3
3
and we now see only pairwise victories to the right of all the covered cells (all the cells from A>A to C>C, here shown in larger font), so A, B, and C are in the Smith set. Going one cell down and one cell to the right, we ignore all previously covered cells and so now the top left cell of the covered cells is the D>D cell. We see a pairwise defeat or tie furthest to the right of this cell in the D>E cell, so we go one cell down and one cell to the right, making the E>E cell the bottom right cell of the covered cells.
D
2
2
2
-
1
2
2
E
2
2
2
1
-
2
2
Now, all cells to the right of the covered cells (the covered cells are all cells from the D>D cell to the E>E cell, which are the cells from the 5th cell in the top row to the 6th cell in the bottom row) show pairwise victories, so D and E are in the secondary Smith set. Going one cell down and one cell to the right, and again ignoring all previously covered cells, the top left cell of the now-covered cells is F>F. The only cell to its right shows a pairwise tie, so we automatically know that whichever candidate is in the row below F is also in the tertiary Smith set with F.
F
1
1
1
1
1
-
0
G
1
1
1
1
1
0
-
F and G are in the tertiary Smith set.
Thus, the generalized Smith set ranking is A=B=C>D=E>F=G, or (A, B, C) tied for 1st, (D, E) tied for 2nd, and (F, G) tied for 3rd place. In terms of pairwise comparisons, this is because 3 voters prefer (A, B, C) over all others (and at most 2 voters prefer any other candidates over (A, B, C)) but no smaller subset of (A, B, C) can say the same, 2 voters prefer (D, E) above all others when ignoring (A, B, C) (and at most 1 voter prefers other unignored candidates over (D, E)) but no smaller subset of (D, E) can say the same, and 1 voter prefers (F, G) above all others when ignoring (A, B, C, D, E) (and no voters prefer any other unignored candidates over (F, G)) but no smaller subset of (F, G) can say the same. Notice that when looking at the pairwise comparison table for the generalized Smith ranking that the consecutive Smith sets can essentially be seen by looking at which groups of candidates have pairwise victories over all other candidates when ignoring the pairwise matchups between candidates in the group.
One way to design the pairwise comparison table to show the generalized Smith set ranking would be to put all candidates in each consecutive Smith set on their own line, like so:
A, B, C
D, E
F, G
A, B, C
-
Win
Win
D, E
Loss
-
Win
F, G
Loss
Loss
-
Another way to find the generalized Smith set ranking is to find the Copeland ranking, put all candidates ranked 1st by Copeland in the Smith set and thus equally rank them 1st in the generalized Smith set ranking, and then check if any other candidates can pairwise beat or tie any of the candidates in the Smith set; if any of them can, then all candidates ranked at the lowest rank of any of them based on the Copeland ranking or above is also in the Smith set, and the process repeats until at some point, none of them can, then the candidates at the next Copeland ranking after the lowest-Copeland-ranked Smith set candidate are all part of the secondary Smith set and thus equally ranked 2nd in the generalized Smith set ranking. Repeat until all candidates are equally ranked within their consecutive Smith set.
So for example, if 3 candidates are ranked 1st in Copeland, they are part of the Smith set, and if there are several candidates ranked lower than them by Copeland who pairwise beat or tie any of them, take the lowest ranked of them based on Copeland (suppose that candidate was ranked 5th by Copeland) and add all candidates ranked 5th or above by Copeland into the Smith set. Supposing no candidates pairwise beat or tie any of the candidates newly added into the Smith set, all candidates ranked 6th by Copeland are part of the secondary Smith set, and the process repeats to see who is part of the secondary Smith set, then tertiary Smith set, etc.
Smith set rankings can be given additional context by showing for each Smith set the weakest pairwise victory anyone in that Smith set has against anyone in a lower-ranked Smith set; one generalized way to show strength of victory is by % of votes earned in the matchup, which will always be over 50% for the pairwise winner. So, for example, if there are 4 candidates, with 3 of them in a cycle and each of them having a 65%, 60%, and 55% victory respectively against the fourth candidate, then 55% could be used to describe the minimum strength of all of the candidates in the set against the lower-ranked candidate.
The generalized Smith ranking can also be found by finding all candidates in the Smith set, equally ranking each of them, then eliminating all of them and finding the secondary Smith set (the Smith set now that the original Smith set has been eliminated) and equally ranking each of them lower than the candidates in the Smith set, and repeating until all candidates are ranked.
Smith or Condorcet rankings can be visualized in the following form:
wi
JS
DS
KW
BK
AM
AM
Andy
Montroll (5–0)
5 Wins ↓
BK
Bob
Kiss (4–1)
1 Loss →
↓ 4 Wins
4067 (AM) –
3477 (BK)
KW
Kurt
Wright (3–2)
2 Losses →
3 Wins ↓
4314 (BK) –
4064 (KW)
4597 (AM) –
3668 (KW)
DS
Dan
Smith (2–3)
3 Losses →
2 Wins ↓
3975 (KW) –
3793 (DS)
3946 (BK) –
3577 (DS)
4573 (AM) –
2998 (DS)
JS
James
Simpson (1–4)
4 Losses →
1 Win ↓
5573 (DS) –
721 (JS)
5274 (KW) –
1309 (JS)
5517 (BK) –
845 (JS)
6267 (AM) –
591 (JS)
wi
Write-in (0–5)
5 Losses →
3338 (JS) –
165 (wi)
6057 (DS) –
117 (wi)
6063 (KW) –
163 (wi)
6149 (BK) –
116 (wi)
6658 (AM) –
104 (wi)
With generalized Smith rankings in particular, some rows would have to be groups of candidates, rather than solely individual candidates. Hypothetical example:
Pl
Sq
Sp, Pa, Sa
Sp, Pa, Sa
SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy (2-0)
2 Wins ↓
Sq
Squidward (1-3)
3 Losses →
1 Win ↓
Minimum of
51% margin
Pl
Plankton (0-4)
5 Losses →
10 (Sq) –
9 (Pl)
Minimum of
62% margin
This makes it more ambiguous as to how to record the exact margins of some pairwise matchups where groups of candidates are involved, as even if all candidates in a group of candidates pairwise beat all candidates not in the group, they may each do so with different margins. One way to do so is to show the minimum % of votes each candidate gets in the head-to-head matchups against all lower/worse Smith set candidates i.e. if A, B and C are in the Smith set, with D in the 2nd Smith set, and C has the smallest-size majority by %, say, 54%, then 54% can be used to indicate the minimum quality of all the 1st Smith set candidates against D.
Several defeat-dropping Condorcet methods' rankings can be computed. For example, Schulze works by looking for a Schwartz set ranking. Within each Schwartz set, the weakest defeat (as measured using defeat strength) is turned into a pairwise tie, a smaller Schwartz set is found if possible, and repeat until all remaining candidates pairwise tie. These candidates are sorted to the top of the original Schwartz set, and the process repeated to find the ranking for any other candidates.
Smith//Score and Smith//Approval order the candidates in each Smith set by number of points/approvals. This can be easily done by showing each candidate's points in the cell comparing them to themselves.
Note that a variant of generalized Smith rankings can be created to address the unanimity/Pareto criterion. For example:
34 A>B>C>D
33 B>C>D>A
33 C>D>A>B
A pairwise beats B pairwise beats C pairwise beats D pairwise beats A, so all candidates here are in the Smith set. However, C is unanimously preferred to D, so the Pareto-satisfying generalized Smith ranking would acknowledge that D must be at a lower rank than C, whereas the regular generalized Smith ranking would simply be A=B=C=D.
↑"AN EXTENSION OF THE CONDORCET CRITERION AND KEMENY ORDERS". A first objective of this paper is to propose a formalization of this idea, called the Extended
Condorcet Criterion (XCC). In essence, it says that if the set of alternatives can be partitioned in such a
way that all members of a subset of this partition defeat all alternatives belonging to subsets with a higher
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Judge: Tulsa violated Civil Rights Act in 2010 – Columbus Ledger
A federal judge has ruled that the city of Tulsa violated the Civil Rights Act when it retaliated against a black police officer who objected after being ordered to march in a Martin Luther King Day parade.
U.S. District Judge John Dowdell ruled in favor of Capt. Walter Busby Jr.’s retaliation claim on Thursday, calling the police department’s race-based actions “repugnant,” the Tulsa World reported.
The judge’s decision comes more than two years after her denied the city’s request to dismiss the lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act.
“Title VII makes it unlawful for an employer ‘to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,’?” Dowdell said in the 2015 ruling.
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Dowdell has ordered the city to remove Busby’s unfavorable performance evaluation, credit him with 453 hours of combined vacation and sick leave he took following his reassignment, and pay his attorney fees. He also ruled against Busby’s allegations of discrimination.
Busby’s attorney, Louis Bullock, said he thinks that portion of the ruling means Dowdell determined that the racial discrimination didn’t get to a level of being actionable.
In a statement Tulsa officials said they were pleased that Dowdell “found the city and its employees did not discriminate against Cpt. Busby on the basis of his race.”
The city had argued that it had legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for ordering Busby to participate in the parade because it was a “legitimate community policing event.”
The city said participating in the event “reinforces TPD’s commitment to treating each citizen of Tulsa equally, regardless of cultural differences and background.”
Busby filed the lawsuit in 2011 against the city, Police Chief Chuck Jordan and two other superior officers. He alleged he was ordered to march in the 2010 parade by his then superior, Maj. Walter Evans. He said he objected to participating in the parade and asked for time off, but was denied.
Evans, who is also black, denied that the order was based on race. But in a memo to Busby regarding his decision, Evans said he was “embarrassed that few African American officers participate in department-sponsored ceremonies,” including the parade.
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Doug Harmon, owner of The Casual Pint in the Vista section of Columbia, will open his second location in Lexington this Friday.
Lexington, SC, July 12, 2017 --(PR.com)-- New “Casual Pint” Location to Open in Lexington.
Fastest Growing Craft Beer Franchise Opening off of Sunset Blvd.
The Casual Pint, the craft beer industry’s fastest growing franchise, will open its newest location in the Lexington area next week. The upscale-casual craft beer store and taproom will host its grand opening on Friday, July 14, 2017.
Doors will open at 4:00 PM and the first 50 people in the door will receive a free glass “growler.” The event is free and open to the public.
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The Casual Pint’s visitors can choose from a selection of 32 constantly-rotating craft beers (and two wines) on tap. In addition to the taps, patrons can also purchase growler fills or choose from over 400 different beers available for carry-out. Beer Lovers can sit at either the bar, tables and lounge chairs inside, or on the open-air patio.
“I’m thrilled to be opening The Casual Pint where we are,” said Doug Harmon, the store’s owner. “I live in Lexington, and what I love most about it is the people. So we see this store as a way to build into this city’s awesome community.”
Many of the beers for sale will come from regional and local breweries and the store will also serve traditional pub food. There is indoor and outdoor seating for 118.
Harmon built the new Saluda Springs Plaza with The Casual Pint as its anchor store.
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"During the day yesterday some one came by and picked up all the boxes.I dont know who it was but I thank them.Now I can move on with working on the house and getting things I need to do out of the way."
Since I can no longer build due to my own medical problems and my wifes recent death .I no longer need all the Cb boxes I had in stock.I have 2 very large boxes full, running over with cigar boxes that some one thats close is welcome to come by and pick up.I'd like to see some one be able to use them.Otherwise I'm going to have to dispose of them.If any interested leave a message and I'll get with ya.See More
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My Wife lost her battle with Cancer today at 3:30 PM. She died in my arms just after I whispered it was OK to go to sleep.They took her away in a beautiful White Hearse .We've been together at work and at play, side by side for almost 35 years.It's a very empty world right now.
Just as I seemed to get better with my medical problems my wife seemed to falter as she took care of me.We now find she has lung and bone cancer,stage 4.We tried chemo and radiation but she was already so weak we had to stop treatments and bring her home.Hospice is now helping me care for her and I'm on medical leave so I can stay home with her.As it stands ,although we know the eventual outcome we try to keep things here at home as normal as possible.But ,its hard,very hard.
This is to all my customers and friends I've made over the years building and selling CBG's I am (at least temporarily) going out of the CBG business due to health issues that will not allow me to do the wood cutting needed to build.I have an illness that causes my arms and legs to spasm or jerk making it impossible to safely cut wood now days. I'll still be in the site here from time to time and hope to stay in contact with all the great folks I've met.
With this being our "busiest" time of the season, (not this year).No crowds like a normal year.
But I've managed to pull out a much better year then I expected building and selling my CBG's and DB's.
I took 5 DB's and 2 3 stringers in yesterday ( Fri at 2 pm and by 4 pm had sold 3.Sold another little experimental DB made out of a Tea tin that came jazzed up with purple shaded paint and was titled "Groovy Blue by the tea company.It just SCREAMED DB.
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The blue knobs came off of ebay, I just typed in blue guitar tuner knobs. If you are talking about the blue hole covers, I just sprayed a couple of curtain grommets blue and then sprayed the window screen that I glued under the openings orange.
Hi Roger,
Just wanted to say "thanks." You've been more than generous with your comments about what you do and how you do things. It's been very helpful to me. I belong to an "art guild" in Mesa, Az. I used to make pens on my lathe, but now I make CBG's. I will be selling them at our street 2nd Friday art exhibition and street selling thing. Your info has been invaluable to me. I only sell my CBG's to finance my passion, I make dulci-guitars for kids with autisim. These kids get 'music therapy' which is good, mostly clapping and rhythm, but with a dulci gutiar, they can't play a wrong note, instant success for kids who have a hard time communicating. Selling CBG's pays for the dulci's I give to the kidfs. Your info is gold. You've taught me A LOT about retail and how to make this work. Thanks, pardner.
Well Roger, Girlfreind LOVED the box,even more than the gold heart i got her too, in the good books for ages now. So i guess i will keep her around a bit longer, Her son is getting in the CBG's now too so its 2 against one...
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Climbers practice a variety of techniques to warm the hands, and possibly offset the onset of the dreaded Screaming Barfies (the perfectly descriptive term for when your hands – or toes, whew, that one really sucks – get frigid and then re-warm). Some things are obvious, like keeping your belay parka on for as long as possible (a post on that here), bringing a hot thermos to the crag, shoveling-down calories, or saying “fuck this” and going home to drink booze.
Active techniques include the well-known Speedskater, and my personal favorite, the lesser-known Penguin. Whereas the Speedskater is easy to perform, it carries the risk of throwing you off balance, which can lead to your cruel and untimely death, and it requires space – won’t work at hanging belays, for example. The Penguin, on the other hand, is technique-intensive (including the facial expressions, of course), but it’s worth it. Don’t know how it works, but it does. For me, it’s a magical instant handwarmer. I’m dead serious. Got my technique down and everything – which is more than can be said for my video editing skills. Anyway, it helps make ice climbing less miserable and more fun. I hope it helps, and feel free to post-up any good tips you have.
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At our dog park, there is a small collie who loves to chase cars..up and down by the side of the road he goes, whenever he is there.
He does stay on the boulevard, but only within inches of the road. Problem is, the drivers don't know he stays off the road. Nor do the dogs who are lured by his activity necessarily stay on the road.
The owner of this dog says there's nothing she can do, as the dog's been doing it for five years. She also deliberately walks next to the roadside so is obviously not bothered.
But as one who's nearly had a crash, and seen many other near-misses as a result of psycho road-collie (my nickname!) I need some advice.
We talked to her tonight and she has no interest in reigning in her dog or retraining it. I'm concerned there is going to be an incident/accident and the anti-dog park people are going to out in droves to try and close the park again.
Suggestions? Comments?
luckypenny
November 13th, 2009, 11:40 PM
Are there no leash laws in Edmonton? Report it :shrug:.
Frenchy
November 13th, 2009, 11:41 PM
Call the police. Tell them it's dangerous for the drivers. Usually police will move if it involves people security ..... than if you say you're afraid for the dog's well being. :sad:
14+kitties
November 13th, 2009, 11:47 PM
If he is doing it at the dog park he must be doing it at his own home too. Too bad you can't find out where she lives. Definitely a safety hazard to drivers and to himself. Dumb owner! :yell:
rainbow
November 13th, 2009, 11:55 PM
I agree that you should report it to the police, your city hall and also to the SPCA ......good luck and keep us updated. :fingerscr :goodvibes:
Bailey_
November 14th, 2009, 12:00 AM
If this is happening at the park I think it's happening at (the one by the zoo?) this might be difficult to have it stopped, mainly because the park is at the end of the road. (The reason I ask is because I have seen a few dogs get excited by cars passing the park and turning into the zoo's parking lot, it sounds like a similiar situation.)
But I agree with the above suggestions to report it. If nothing else, continue to voice your thoughts when you see this woman at the park. Stupid owners!! :wall:
Gail P
November 14th, 2009, 12:18 AM
When you have spoken to the woman, have you brought up the liability issue? If there is an accident caused because of her dog (even if it doesn't actually run in front of a car, someone might think it is about to and loose control if they swerve), she might find herself being sued. Might be worth bringing it up to her, sometimes money speaks louder to some people than anything else.
Etown_Chick
November 15th, 2009, 06:17 PM
Gail,
we've spoken to her and she doesn't seem at all interested. We did bring up the issue that her dog is going to cause an accident. I figured out what she's driving, so will report her to bylaw first, and see what happens. I suspect it will take an accident for her to take it seriously, and an accident will be more ammunition for the people who want the park closed..sigh.
Bailey, no it's not Laurier. I always leash Scruffy before the parking lot at Laurier for exactly that reason. It's Grand Trunk park, and it's an unfenced park beside a fairly busy road.
Thanks for your support gang, will keep you all posted.
Bailey_
November 15th, 2009, 08:14 PM
Oh, I don't think I've been to that park. Keep us posted and let us know what happens!
rainbow
November 15th, 2009, 08:22 PM
Good luck again ....I hope something can be done before an accident happens. :fingerscr :goodvibes:
mona_b
November 15th, 2009, 08:36 PM
So this woman has her dog on a leash while he is doing this?
If so, I really don't think the bylaw(animal) will really do much. If the dog is not on a leash, that may be a different story.. You can call the Ploice Station and talk to someone there..Explain what has been happening and what this dog is doing..Tell them what the dog is doing is causing near miss accidents and someone is going to get hurt. See what they can do.
Good luck.
Etown_Chick
November 15th, 2009, 09:26 PM
mona ya it's offleash, on the sidewalk next to an offleash park...legally I think the mutt should be leashed at that point...will keep you all posted.
mona_b
November 16th, 2009, 08:35 PM
If you have a leash law, then yeah, he should be on a leash...But then again, leash law or not, all dogs SHOULD be leashed.
Can't wait to hear the outcome of this.
Etown_Chick
November 17th, 2009, 11:41 PM
Well, as I arrived at the park yesterday, I noticed a bylaw van and two officers. Road Collie and owner were leaving. She flipped out on my friend, the one who had asked her to keep her dog away from the road.
Neither my friend or I actually called bylaw, and I don't know if she was charged or not, but it was pretty funny!
Anyway I hope it put a scare into her, as she's convinced she is not responsible for anything that happens as a result of her dog running loose by the road...sigh.
The more humans I meet, the more I love my dog.
rainbow
November 18th, 2009, 12:40 AM
Well if they didn't charge her, then let's at least hope that they convinced her to keep her dog leashed. :fingerscr
Macomom
November 18th, 2009, 09:38 AM
My friends dog ran out into the road and was hit by a car.
The owner of the car _almost_ sued my friend for the damage caused by the dog. At the time it sounded so strange to me :shrug: The vet bill for the dog was $5000, and the owner was going to sue her for damages to his car as well.
She managed to settle it out with the owner of the car. I had no idea there was so much liability...
Live and learn, I guess.
Love4himies
November 18th, 2009, 10:22 AM
Well, as I arrived at the park yesterday, I noticed a bylaw van and two officers. Road Collie and owner were leaving. She flipped out on my friend, the one who had asked her to keep her dog away from the road.
Neither my friend or I actually called bylaw, and I don't know if she was charged or not, but it was pretty funny!
Anyway I hope it put a scare into her, as she's convinced she is not responsible for anything that happens as a result of her dog running loose by the road...sigh.
The more humans I meet, the more I love my dog.
This is the same type of human that thinks their children are perfect and are entitled to everything and it is OK for everybody to be inconvienced by them. :rolleyes:. I feel sorry for the dog, it doesn't know any better and this person obviously doesn't care about it. :sad:
mona_b
November 18th, 2009, 08:13 PM
Maybe calls came in from people fed up with Road Collie and owner...If they were smart, the would have fined her for the dog being off leash.
Ohhhhh I'm sure this won't be the last of this situation....:)
Equla
November 18th, 2009, 08:58 PM
Here's the thing that gets me about the situation. Even if it is an off-leash area, you still have to have control over your dog... at least that's the law in my area.
Example: There is a guy in my neighborhood who has 3 dogs (shephard, border collie, and curly mixed something). I see him in our neighborhood park with his dogs off-leash playing fetch. They also run with him while he is riding his bike. Saw him at a convenience store near a very busy street and the dogs were waiting for him while he was in the store. Never once have I seen a leash on these dogs... or maybe it's an invisible one. They are incredibly well behaved and I don't think they even notice their surroundings. Their attention is 100% focused on him. All of these areas he is in are technically leashed areas and he COULD get a ticket if someone reported him, but I doubt anyone ever would as he has perfect control over them.
Example: There is a boxer in my neighborhood who runs free at all hours of the day and night. Comes to my house an picks fights with my dogs through the gate or window. Poos in the neighborhood park (no one picks it up), and darts into traffic constantly. I also don't think the owners have a leash for the dog. Their method of control over the dog is to let him run around and do what he wants and then when it's time to go inside they run down the street trying to catch him. Those owners need the ticket.
Moral of the story, if you have control over the dog, let him off leash... but only if there is complete control. If you don't have 100% control, keep them leashed. The dog doesn't understand where the boundaries of the un-fenced off-leash area are. I don't care if it's fenced. If the dog doesn't come when called, you shouldn't have them off-leash anywhere but your own house. What happens if there is a dog fight (they happen to the best of dogs)?
Oy! Ignorant owners annoy me.
Longblades
November 18th, 2009, 09:15 PM
My friends dog ran out into the road and was hit by a car.
The owner of the car _almost_ sued my friend for the damage caused by the dog. At the time it sounded so strange to me The vet bill for the dog was $5000, and the owner was going to sue her for damages to his car as well.
She managed to settle it out with the owner of the car. I had no idea there was so much liability...Yep, happened with people we know too. The dog, a big GSD who was allowed to run loose and was known to chase cars on the highway, was killed. When her owner went out to tell the driver not to worry about it the driver pointed out all the damage to his car and insisted it be paid for. The only good thing is that this made the bad owner think twice about getting another dog and he didn't.
Frenchy
November 18th, 2009, 09:51 PM
the driver pointed out all the damage to his car and insisted it be paid for.
I would also sue the owner , not for damaging my car , but for the damages to ME ! Because if I ever hit a dog , I won't forgive myself. And I know it would give me nightmares for a long time :sad: all of this because a stupid owner who didn't care about the well being of his dog ....
There is a reason there are leash laws. For the safety of all involved.
It really irks me that I am a law-abiding citizen that drives the speed limit (much to the chagrin of those driving around me), pay my taxes (oh, don't we all love THAT joy), and keep my dogs on a frickin leash! Why do some people think they are above the law?
Good lord, I get stressed when I pass a cop if I'm not paying attention and go 5 miles over the speed limit!
Once again, it's all how you are raised, I guess.
Etown_Chick
November 19th, 2009, 10:34 PM
Y'all are right, the lady is clueless, she has no control over her dog and may not be as attached to it as some of us are to ours. I tend to walk in the middle of the park just IN CASE scruffy even thinks about going near the road...
Equla,
we have a roaming dog like that in our 'hood as well. This one is small and loves to rip everyone's garbage open. People just toss their ripped up garbage in his back yard, and he still doesn't get it...some people! | {
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Our History
Capital Insurance Agency. Inc. was incorporated for the purpose of marketing and servicing mass market groups, both in the private sector as well as the governmental market.
Capital Insurance Agency, Inc., was founded by David M. Moore, Sr. and his wife Kacelle Moore in September 1970. They began by operating the company out of their spare bedroom. Through the cooperation and assistance of long-time Tallahassee insurance executive Nat Polak, who marketed American Defender Life Insurance Company’s credit life insurance, Capital Insurance got its first break. Polak agreed to share office space with Moore and helped him obtain an agency agreement with American Defender Life. More importantly, Polak was also instrumental in helping Capital Insurance secure its first payroll account, the Florida Department of Legal Affairs, which pointed the way for its growth.
1970 – THE BEGINNING; A FAMILY IN THE MAKING
Shortly after its inception, thru David's community involvement came our second partner, Dalton Tate, Jr. Our third founding partner, Dale Lauer, also started within the first year of Capital Insurance's birth. These three partners affectionately known here as "The Three D's", began their journey and friendship as a few highly motivated insurance agents traveling around the State of Florida.
Before Capital Insurance's inception, the State of Florida had no central purchasing agreements, contracts or supplemental employee benefits contracts. State employees needed and wanted additional benefits other than the ones they were currently buying. Therefore, Capital Insurance Agency systematically established agency by agency contracts and predominately solicited business in the voluntary group term life, group disability income and supplemental health insurance marketplace.
1974 – CAPITAL INSURANCE'S FIRST REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT
Dalton Farmer, a former employee of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, was Capital Insurance's first detached agent. Farmer later became Capital Insurance's first Regional Vice President. Farmer's knowledge of the ins and outs of the state system served Capital Insurance very well and helped its growth in this sector and by the middle of the decade Capital Insurance was American Defender's number one agency!
1978 – THE CIA REGIONAL CONCEPT WAS CREATED AND THE REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD WAS CREATED
In keeping with Capital Insurance Agency's basic philosophy of, "providing State of Florida employees a complete portfolio of superior, highly competitive, non-contributory employee benefits through a network of professional local sales representatives dedicated to service while selling the products needed by each employee", we knew it was necessary to establish statewide access. Therefore, the Capital Insurance Agency's regional concept was created, establishing regional and satellite offices throughout the state in effort to provide better service for our existing clients while securing additional accounts.
The Dalton P. Farmer Regional Vice President of the Year Award was named in honor and memory of Capital Insurance Agency's first Regional Vice President.
1980 – EXPANDING THE MARKETPLACE
Capital Insurance Agency has always been in the spotlight with its primary life carriers. During the late 1980's, Capital Insurance experienced it's largest growth in years, growing to $2,000,000 in new life insurance sales. This success prompted the decision to expand the marketplace further by placing more emphasis on life insurance. Doing so necessitated a restructuring of Capital Insurance Agency's management team. This restructuring would enhance Capital Insurance Agency's philosophy of providing "a complete portfolio of insurance products."
1991 – POLITICAL CRISIS BEGAN
Since Capital Insurance Agency's inception, we have survived numerous governmental reorganizations as well as the political crisis, which began in 1991. Florida Legislature passed a "pre-tax program" which enabled state employees to pre-tax premiums for supplemental programs. However, as it was originally written, it did not allow employees the option of keeping their existing insurance programs and including them in the pretax program. After an extensive effort, these legislative bills were amended to include existing insurance providers.
1992 – GRANDFATHERING OF PROGRAMS; A BIG WIN FOR CIA!
In addition to the "grandfathering" of these programs, 1992 Legislative action directed the Department of Administration to establish a comprehensive package of insurance benefits for state employees. This resulted in a bidding process for supplemental health insurance, dental care, vision care and cancer & intensive care programs. Capital Insurance won, which gave Capital seven approved pre-tax programs. Capital Insurance Agency had then been awarded grandfathered and bided plans programs.
1997 – HONOR AND MEMORY OF CIA'S "GODFATHER"
The NAT POLAK "GOYA" AWARD'S CLUB was established in honor and memory of Nat Polak.
Nat was known as Capital Insurance Agency's "Godfather" while on this earth. We hope he's now our "Guardian Angel". When Nat was unhappy with an agent's production, he would look them in the eye and yell "GOYA"…… his nice way of saying "Get off your ____"!!
2000 – A SMALL "BUMP" IN THE ROAD
DSGI eliminated two of Capital Insurance Agency's dental plans and further tried to ban insurance agents from soliciting and servicing programs for state employees. Again after extensive expenses and efforts, Capital Insurance Agency was instrumental in creating a coalition which lead to a settlement agreement and subsequent contracts to allow continued marketing of a dental program to state employees.
2014 – A BRIGHT FUTURE; THE PASSING OF THE TORCH
Today, ninety percent of Capital Insurance Agency's business is conducted with State of Florida Departments and agencies. Capital Insurance is extremely proud of the accomplishment made throughout their forty years in business.
The "Three D's" have partnered with their family members to continue our success by focusing on the future, while not forgetting those difficult lessons learned in our past. Capital Insurance is carefully implementing the transition of ownership to Douglas Moore, David Moore Jr., and Andy Tate. In 2014 our succession plan has now been in place for the past 5 years. In addition to this transition, and keeping with our underling philosophy of focusing on our "Capital Family", we have created an Employee Stock Ownership Program for our home office employees.
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A new joint study between the U.S. Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Interim Reanalysis (ERA-Interim) reveals that fire seasons have lengthened between 1979 and 2013. Moreover, the researchers also discovered that tough fire seasons have become more frequent during this period.
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Better Perl
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:19:18PM +0200, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
>> My thinking was following: We need other people to use Perl (positive
> externality and all that) - and it looks that Perl does not attract
> any new developers (nor any new startups). To counter that trend we
> need some new excitement in Perl.
I've heard people saying that for over 10 years.
Perl still isn't dead, it's still kicking, and it will be around for a while.
Furthermore, I do not believe a language needs a "killer application",
nor a myriad of shops using said language as their main programming
language. Neither duct tape, nor post-it notes have a "killer application",
nor are the products consisting mostly of duct tape or post-it notes.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Richard Bauckham on the Gospels as (Reliable) Historical Biography
Richard Bauckham Lectures – What Sort of History are the Gospels?
This week Dr. Richard Bauckham (Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple) was in Louisville, Kentucky, to deliver the Julian Gay Lectures at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I had the privilege of taking in all four of his lectures, two on Tuesday, two on Wednesday. They were fruitful, illuminating, and enjoyable. I wanted to share some thoughts from Bauckham’s lectures, particularly the first one, but with some insights from the second and third ones as well.
Bauckham spent the first lecture discussing the genre of the New Testament Gospels. He examined Richard Burridge’s argument (Burridge, What Are the Gospels? [Eerdmans, 2004]) that the Gospels most closely fit the ancient genre of bioi, or Greek biography. Bauckham asserted that Burridge’s thesis has widespread (though not universal) acceptance amongst Biblical scholars. He stressed that bioi was not a strict, iron-clad genre, but was rather flexible and porous, with considerable overlap with proximate literary genres—particularly historiography (accounts of historical events) and encomium (training manuals). The Gospels, then, according to Bauckham, are best classified as “historical biography.”
Bauckham then examined the different types of biography in extant Greek literature—intellectual biographies (focusing on philosophers and their thought-systems), military biographies (studying generals, e.g. Plutarch’s Life of …), and hagiographies (biographies of religious figures and ‘holy men’, e.g. Life of Apollonius of Tyana; Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus). Bauckham noted that this last type of biography (hagiography) is actually difficult to distinguish, and he rejects the distinction altogether.
Bauckham then examined a key distinction that the ancient Greeks made between contemporary and distant biographies. Contemporary biographies involved writing while the subject was still alive, or within living memory—e.g. Lucian’s Life of Demonas. Distant biographies recounted the lives of individuals long-since dead—e.g. The Life of Aesop, the Life of Homer. According to Bauckham, non-contemporary history and biography was not esteemed to the same extent as that close to the events they narrated. Along the same lines, contemporary history was expected to rely on personal eyewitness testimony; indeed, to be considered “reliable” or “good”, history had to rely on eyewitnesses.
Bauckham then discussed the work of Samuel Byrskog (Story as History, History as Story [Brill, 2002]). Byrskog contends that in history both ancient and contemporary, the ideal witness is not an unbiased, dispassionate observer, but rather one who was socially involved (or an active participant) in the events narrated. Bauckham proceeded to list factors that tend to heighten both memory and the reliability of eyewitness testimony. (1) Personal involvement, engagement, or investment in the events remembered/narrated. (2) Attaching significance or importance to the events remembered/narrated. (3) Retelling/rehearsing the events. Bauckham noted if an individual recounts an experience that they have witnessed, the account soon takes on a relatively fixed form, and does not diverge much from it afterward. In other words, the most reliable memory and trustworthy eyewitness account comes from someone who was personally involved or invested in the events, believed the events to be of tremendous significance to themselves and others, and has recounted or told the story regularly since the original occurrence. That is why, even 18 years later, I will still recount and retell my conversion to Christianity is remarkably similar terms. (Indeed, one good friend used to tell me that he found my testimony boring, because it was always the same. But that’s simply the nature of eyewitness testimony—the story doesn’t change!)
This leads naturally to a discussion of the reliability of memory in eyewitnesses. Several researchers, among them Dale Allison and John Dominic Crossan, have suggested that human memory is inherently unreliable. Crossan recounts several examples; one of the most interesting being recorded memories of the events of September 11, 2001. A class of college freshman was given a questionnaire within a week of 9/11, asking several questions: (1) where were you when you heard; (2) what were you doing; (3) what was your immediate reaction or response? Three years later, as college seniors, the same group of students was given an identical questionnaire. Responses to the two questionnaires were very different. This leads Crossan to discount the reliability of memory in general, and to suggest that the Gospels as “eyewitness testimony” does not increase their trustworthiness as historical accounts.
The analogy fails, however. Students may have remembered their own physical location, occupation, and even immediate responses to the events of 9/11 differently three years later; but they remembered the actual events of 9/11 similarly. That is, the key historical event, the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and other targets, was remembered accurately, even while the extraneous details (where were you, etc.) were not. This is neither surprising nor remarkable, and it certainly does nothing to undermine the thesis that Bauckham is defending.
To the conclusion of the matter, then. Bauckham argues that ancient history was esteemed when it was written within living memory of the events it narrated; and that reliable history had to record the accounts of eyewitnesses. Hence, eyewitnesses would have been prestigious individuals within the early church. They would have remained authoritative sources and guarantors of the Jesus tradition in the early church.
The New Testament Gospels in particularly were written at a time when (1) eyewitness testimony was still available; but (2) was becoming unavailable as the original generation of eyewitnesses began to die out. Even on relatively liberal/critical dating, Mark’s Gospel (the earliest) is written around 70; Matthew and Luke by 85, and John by 95—the original generation is almost extinct by the time John writes, but there are still living eyewitnesses to the events the Gospels narrate. The presence of living eyewitnesses has two significant effects upon the Gospel accounts: (1) there is a negative check, in that false accounts would be corrected by the eyewitnesses; and (2) there is a positive check, in that eyewitnesses could affirm the truthfulness of the Gospels.
Thus, Bauckham argues, the Gospels are historically reliable as (1) historical biography, (2) written close to the time of the events they narrate, (3) relying on the testimony of personal eyewitnesses, (4) who were personally present and involved in those events, (5) found those events to be of incredible significance, and (6) retold and rehearsed the events of the gospels regularly and repeatedly in oral form.
That’s a basic summary of Bauckham’s first lecture—God willing I will return later this week to share some of the latter three lectures. | {
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Employment-office cutbacks will hurt rural Kentuckians
You are unemployed, you no longer have transportation, and the job market has collapsed in your region. How do you find new training? How do you access face to face counseling to better your resume, improve your interview skills, learn about employers who may be interested in your skill set?
You visit the Kentucky Career Center in your area.
For many people in rural areas, this may now mean you are on the road three or more hours to make a round trip to that office.
The Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet is pulling employees out of 31 unemployment offices across the state in an effort to save millions of dollars.
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This decision comes after the Office of Unemployment and Training has struggled financially and, after applying for federal grants, still faced a deficit of $4.6 million for the fiscal year of 2016.
The cabinet will now focus on 12 hubs and eight satellite sites which will make it more difficult for those in rural areas with no public transportation to have access to the much-needed services offered. Many have been unemployed beyond the reach of unemployment insurance benefits and are now struggling to make ends meet.
Miners who have lost their jobs and are now being forced to fall back onto jobs paying minimum wage, which we all know is far from a living wage. There are union miners who have lost their pensions and are at risk of losing health care. There are factory workers laid off as the companies moved their operations in order to pay lower wages and increase profits.
Kentucky’s unemployment rate has been higher than the national average for 2016. For those in rural areas, access to employment is even more scarce. Some do not have access to personal transportation, telephone or internet. So how will these people now access the training needed to move forward in life? They won’t.
We can all agree that operating with a deficit is not an option and that cutting education, training and access to those resources is not an option for our state either. We must demand that our state work harder to focus on the things that matter to us as citizens. Ask your representative, governor, senator and local affiliates to focus on the problems at hand and to work toward opportunities that can give all citizens prosperous opportunities.
In the first week of 2017, the legislature voted on legislation categorized as an emergency vote. They were in session on a Saturday to vote these bills through. None of those bills focused on job creation or training for constituents in rural areas.
Now, as our unemployment offices close and are moved to hubs that are out of reach to many, we must demand that our leaders focus on all of their constituents and create a prosperous future for all of Kentucky. | {
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Last mission to repair the Hubble telescopeHubble space telescope discoveries have enriched our understanding of the cosmos. In this special report, you will see facts about the Hubble space telescope, discoveries it has made and what the last mission's goals are.
For their own goodFifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
NBA
Hornets camp will open in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - The Hornets, homeless since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city, will begin training camp at New Orleans Arena on Oct. 3.
"I'm thrilled to be able to officially begin the 2006-07 season by holding the first week of training camp in New Orleans," owner George Shinn said.
The Hornets are scheduled to practice through Oct. 6 before moving to Tulane for a weekend practice. The team plans to return to Oklahoma City for two home preseason games.
"Players can use the trip as a way to become familiar with the surroundings of the Arena and the city as well as come together as a team and build chemistry," general manager Jeff Bower said.
The Hornets open their regular-season home schedule in New Orleans against the Houston Rockets on Nov. 5. Six games will be played in New Orleans this season.
WOMEN'S WORLD TEAM: Forward Candace Parker, center Michelle Snow of the Houston Comets and center Cheryl Ford of the Detroit Shock were added to the U.S. roster to reinforce the frontcourt after forward Lisa Leslie withdrew because of family reasons. The championships are Tuesday through Sept. 23 in Brazil.
SAMPSON PLEA: Former NBA star Ralph Sampson agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud and serve two months in jail, his attorney said Wednesday. Sampson, 46, is to enter the plea in U.S. District Court in Richmond today. Attorney James C. Roberts said Sampson will serve the jail term in Atlanta, where he lives. Roberts said prosecutors will drop charges of perjury, making a false claim and making a false statement about his finances in a child support case. Sampson faced a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 on each count if convicted.
HEAT: Guard Gary Payton signed a one-year deal to return, meaning the defending NBA champion has every player from last season's regular postseason rotation under contract. Payton, 38, was expected to get about $1.2-million. He averaged 7.7 points in the regular season, then 5.8 in the playoff run. He made 25 regular- season starts, plus often was the point guard of choice in the fourth quarter - and could be valuable early this season, with Jason Williams recovering from offseason knee surgery.
GRIZZLIES: Forward Pau Gasol is scheduled to have surgery Friday to repair a broken bone in his left foot, sustained last week while playing for Spain during the World Championship. He is expected to be sidelined up to three months. The regular- season opener is Nov. 1.
LAKERS: Guard Danilo (J.R.) Pinnock, who was traded to Los Angeles after the Mavericks made him the 58th pick in the draft, signed. Terms were not announced. Pinnock, out of George Washington, played for the Lakers in the Summer Pro League and averaged 10.6 points and 2.3 assists in 24.5 minutes. | {
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APPLICATION-AWARE VECTOR PACKET PROCESSING (VPP)
VPP is a high performance, virtual switch module, which runs on commodity CPUs. By combining VPP with Qosmos ready-to-use DPI software, developers can work in a DevOps mode to accelerate time to market for new, high-performance and application-aware VNFs.
SERVICE CLASSIFICATION UP TO LAYER 7
In competitive markets, with rapid innovation at the application layer, telecom operators need to strengthen their ability to address emerging use cases and business models. They are looking for fast and easy service creation at a lower cost. A key factor in achieving these goals is intelligent, dynamic, service chaining. | {
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Short Breaks
Please see our full range of Short Breaks offered by the Buzz Network ranging from One2one Support, Play Schemes and Community Based Activities offered at subsidised rates.
Short Breaks provide children and young people with disabilities or additional needs an opportunity to spend time away from their parents, engage in fun activities and enjoy time with their friends. They offer parents/carers a break from their caring responsibilities and time to spend with other family members and to catch-up on other daily tasks.
Short breaks are provided at two different levels:
The Buzz Network - this is funded and run by the council and offers play/activity schemes, 1:1 individual support (called the One2One service) and access to a range of community based activities such as youth, sports and leisure schemes. The eligibility criteria for the network is quite wide so that as many children and young people can benefit from the network as possible.
Specialist, social care assessed short breaks - these are assessed and funded by the Jigsaw service and provided to those children and young people with the highest need for support in the city.
The main difference between these two levels is that the Buzz network has a self-assessment eligibility whilst the specialist short breaks are allocated on an individual level, following a more detailed social care assessment.
You can currently only be assessed for specialist short breaks if your meet the Jigsaw eligibility criteria.
The Southampton 'Short Break Statement' provides more detailed information on the current range of short break services, the eligibility criteria and how to access them. Southampton City Council working in partnership with Southampton Parent Carer Forum are currently reviewing the Short Breaks Offer and will update this document, early in 2018.
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DC Vacant Properties
The principle behind opposed possession is simple: If somebody occupies land they don’t personal with out the owner’s permission, the true owner should take action to eject the trespasser within a sure period of time (as prescribed by the relevant state statute of limitations). During signing the sale and buy settlement, ask the land owner to symbolize other essential documentation in front of your brokers and brokers. Survey Official during finishing their job adopts several stage operations for fixing up land possession. What clouds the difficulty is the perception that all land possession is essentially violent – ‘may is true’.
Land brokers work in the identical method as estate brokers, however deal exclusively with building plots and land, with or with out planning permission. Ryan, one other consideration is to search for land where new interstate tasks are going via. Another factor to examine on is whether town you reside in requires a allow to host a sale. Purchased for resale property – real property to be flipped, land that is to be developed, and merchandise stock purchased to be resold in a reasonably brief amount of time. This state-of-the-art seaside property villa for sale in Paphos will make you fall in love all over again!
A contract for deed also known as (relying on the state) land contract, guarantee deed, or agreement for deed, is a contract in which the owner retains legal title to the property until the client pays off the entire steadiness owed on the property. And fur for craft initiatives or sale (unusual colours can fetch 3.00 per pelt wholesale, and the bones, after being boiled and floor, make good fertilizer). Good managers even look to sell chunks of your timberland if a real property developer comes along and provides a sky-high premium on your land.
You also can go to their web site for requirements to grow to be and work as a licensed real estate agent in Texas. Were you to buy a rural property from the NCT, you will join a community of private land house owners who are passionate about private land conservation and dedicated to making a community of personal nature reserves throughout NSW. This luxury villa for sale in Limassol is situated roughly 50 metres away from the Mediterranean Sea and is surrounded by timber and natural vegetation and when the moonlight shines upon them it creates a way of equanimity. And if you include the address, Kijiji can even show the Mapquest location of your property for sale. | {
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In 1932, Erik Ljungberg established a record label, AB Sonora, produced entirely in Sweden. Sonoras were sold originally at 2 krone but the price was reduced to 1.65 krone during 1933. Ljungberg sold the label to Philips in 1958. The company also produced a portable gramophone.
Although all that’s interesting, what really grabs my attention about this record sleeve is the fabulous design. There are two fonts in classic black and red. I particularly love the uppercase E & S and lower case f & r of the script font. The contrasting blocky font has just a few subtle serifs and is mainly used in uppercase. One text block reads “Giv arbete åt svenska arbetare” which translates as “Give work to Swedish workers”.
And just look at that great little logo at the foot of the sleeve. Feet like musical notes and a disc-shaped body – but what’s with the little flag apparently flying from the bridge of his nose? Who cares when it’s designed with such flair?
007? Q will see you now
How else to begin? Q has always had a certain cachet, a quirkiness unmatched by humbler members of the alphabet. Not least because it’s rarely seen without U. Technically, that’s called a digraph and although in English the two letters have separate identities, in Czech they are conjoined twins – and Turkish simply has no digraphs at all. (Incidentally, my favourite Q in the Bond films has to be Desmond Llewelyn.)
The concise OED (you remember – I can’t afford the shelf space for the Complete) has 9½ pages of quintessential Q words. A good number of those I regard as cheats – words and phrases borrowed from other languages. Personally, I think those people at Oxford get away with murder – they are the keepers of our beautiful mother tongue but really, is anyone keeping tabs on them? They could be Johnny Foreigner infiltrators for all we know.
Ed: Thank you Colonel Barrett-Plympton, we’ll take that under advisement, now if you’ll go with Nurse, I think she has some nice warm milk for you.
Before I go on, I’m going to get something out the way. I’m reluctant to mention it, but not to do so would be boorish. It would also unmask me as a person who has never read any of the Harry Potter books. I am unrepentant. The Q in question is Quidditch, a fictional game from the pen of JK Rowling. I caught a glimpse of a scene in one of the films when they were playing this game. It appeared to be a kind of airborne polo match minus the quaffing of Bolly or long legged girls in pretty frocks ruining their shoes on Smith’s Lawn. Couldn’t see the point myself.
Ed: You’re going to alienate a lot of our readers with this paragraph, you do know that, don’t you? I mean, how can you NOT have read Harry Potter?
Talking of Her Majesty the Queen, have you ever considered how many things will have to be changed upon her demise? We’re not just talking about the carpets at Sandringham and the thorny question of what will Camilla be called. Royal warrants by the thousand must be revised and all those pumped up lawyers will cease to be QCs and become KCs. All in all quite the printing nightmare – although I imagine printers will do very nicely out of it, thank you.
Ed: I’m going to ignore the fact that you jumped straight from fiction to monarchy but I am going to remind you that Mrs E Windsor is held in a great deal of regard in this country so it would behove you to be more respectful.
I thought when I began researching this article (yes, I do research things, is that so hard to believe? No, don’t answer that) that most words beginning with Q would concern questions, hence the title of this piece. But that’s simply not the case.
How much do I love the letter Q? Well, I’m glad you asked, because I could just as well have asked ‘Quantum do I love the letter Q?’ because the Latin for ‘how much’ is quantum. And if there’s anyone out there who can explain to me what quantum physics and quantum mechanics are all about without me having to attend night classes for six months, I’d be glad to include those subjects here. Suffice to say that my understanding of quantum physics and mechanics is heavily influenced by years of Star Trek viewing. All I need to know is that when Jean-Luc says ‘make it so’, I get a tingle.
Ed: Ramble ramble ramble.
I’ve picked eight toothsome words beginning with Q so let’s begin the beguine with Quark. Putting aside the Quite Interesting fact that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has a marvellous barkeep named Quark, here’s some science. A quark is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons,
the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic
nucleii. There are six types of quarks (known as flavours) and they are up,
down, charm, strange, top and bottom. Quarks were only really discovered in
the 1960s, but they’ve stood the test of time, so it can’t all have been
magic ‘shrooms in the physics lab.Trouble is, I imagine the different
flavours of quarks as ice cream cones – “Can I have two scoops of strange
please with charm sprinkles please”. But instead of ice-cream, it turns out
(actually I knew this one from back in the days when I was a health food
freak) that quark is also a cheese. A curdy creamy cheese which originated
in Eastern Europe. The echt version is like a weighty fromage frais. In
Germany, it’s the equivalent of yogurt, packed with fruit (and preservatives,
no doubt) but it can also be enjoyed on bagels. It contains no salt and has
a low fat content, but that don’t let you put you off – actually, it’s delicious.
The Quince (Cydonia oblonga) is an orchard fruit native to southwest Asia. Although rather out of favour nowadays (only quince jelly is widely made), the fruit was as popular in 17th and 18th century cookery as apple and pear are today. This recipe would surely delight even modern cooks.
Sir Hugh Platt’s Quidini of Quinces
Take the kernells out of eight great Quinces, and boile them in a quart of spring water, till it come to a pinte, then put into it a quarter of a pinte of Rosewater, and one pound of fine Sugar, and so let it boile till you see it come to bee of a deepe colour: then take a drop, and drop it on the bottome of a sawcer, then let it run through a gelly bagge into a bason, then set it in your bason upon a chafing dish of coles to keep it warm, then take a spoone, and fill your boxes as full as you please, and when they be colde cover them: and if you please to printe it in moldes, you must have moldes made to the bigness of your boxe, and wet your moldes with Rosewater, and so let it run into your mold, and when it is colde turne it off into your boxes. If you wette your moldes with water, your gelly will fall out of them.Sir Hugh Platt Delights for Ladies (London: 1600)
There are two very different meanings of quire. First is the archaic name for a choir. In non-conformist country churches of the Georgian era, groups of musicians, both singers and instrumentalists, would play for services, often seated in the wooden gallery above the congregation. The London Gallery Quire carries on that tradition to this day. The second meaning of quire is of course to do with paper. A quire is 24 sheets of paper comprise a twentieth of a ream or a collection of leaves of paper, folded one within the other. The word has come down from the Latin quaterni (four each) through the Old French quaier to the word we use today. A quire is also an old word for a quiver of arrows and, bizzarely, the collective noun for a group of cobras (see, I find it hard to visualize cobras in a group: they just don’t strike me as especially companionable animals). And I can’t leave quire without mentioning something I found on the wilder edges of my research. Quentin Quire, also known as Kid Omega, is a Marvel Comics character created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely!
Ed: Comic book characters now? Oy…
There is one word where U does not follow the letter Q and some might say it’s not a real word at all. But it is in the dictionary – honestly. It’s Qwerty.
We have C.L. Sholes of Milwaukee to thank the keyboard layout we all love to hate. Although his first typewriting machines were arranged alphabetically in two rows, they were prone to jamming during typing. Sholes knew that to solve this problem, the typebars would have to hang at safe distances. The QWERTY keyboard was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside.
Now, did you understand all that? Personally, I struggle with the technicalities, despite having learned to type on a 1920s typewriter which looked not unlike Mr Sholes’ machines of the 1870s.
Mr Sholes and his financial backer James Densmore went to Remington (at that time an arms manufacture) and in 1874 the first Type-Writer appeared on the market, offering, incidentally, only capital letters. In 1878, Sholes secured the patent for his QWERTY keyboard and the Remington No 2 was released complete with a shift key enabling upper and lower case type. There have been many attempts to improve on the QWERTY layout but none have shaken its place in the market.
My next word isn’t an object, it isn’t a place, it’s – well, it’s a quiddity. The dictionary gives three definitions. The first is that quiddity is the essence or nature of a thing. Second that it’s a quibble, a trifling point. And third that it’s an eccentricity or odd feature. Putting those definitions aside for a moment though, isn’t it just the most marvellous word? The kind of word that might inspire a verse or two, the kind of word that Proust could turn into an entire chapter. Saul Bellow deals with the word in his characteristically full-bodied way “I began to give some thought to the memoir I had promised to write and wondered how I would go about it – his freaks, quiddities, oddities, his eating, drinking, shaving, dressing and playfully savaging his students.” The origin is from Medieval Latin quidditas meaning essence and from that deceptively simple word what (or quid).
There is no rational explanation for choosing quipu as the next Q word. I saw the word and thought ‘oh yes, isn’t that the rather lovely South American forest bird I saw on a David Attenborough documentary?’ Well, I was right about South America but quipu is definitely not a bird. It’s altogether more fascinating. As used by the ancient Inca civilisation of Peru, Quipu is the use of knots in strings to record numerical information. The Inca had no written records so the quipu played a major role in the administration of the Inca empire. As an example of how a basic quipu worked, if the number 586 was to be recorded on the string, then six touching knots were placed near the free end of the string, a space was left, then eight touching knots for the 10s, another space, and finally 5 touching knots for the 100s. The strings were made of the wool of the alpaca or llama and dyed in various colours to represent different information. Those responsible for creating and deciphering the quipu knots were known as Quipucamayocs.
Ed: Did you make that word up? Quipucamayocs? Sounds like something on a Tex-Mex menu.
And now for a dance. The quadrille – a square dance of French origin in 6/8 or 2/4 time first introduced to England in 1808 and performed by four couples. It comprises five parts (or figures) which are called Le Pantalon, L’Été, La Poule, La Pastourelle and Finale. As can be seen in this cartoon of 1817, the complexities of the dance sometimes gave rise to mishaps!
The quadrille must be one of the few dances to be performed not only by humans but also by horses. In fact, the equine quadrille preceded the dance by a couple of centuries. It began as a highly effective military manoeuvre and evolved into a display of skilled horsemanship for four horses and riders. Nowadays, equine quadrille is a choreographed dressage ride usually performed to music. A minimum of four horses are used but the number can be many more. There is also a version which includes the use of carriages. In 18th century French society, paired dancers replaced paired horses and the quadrille de contredanses was born.
Ed: There’s a suspiciously large number of French words in this article – have you been taking unauthorised trips on Le Eurostar?
And lastly from quadrille to Quadrivium. Meaning the ‘meeting of four roads’ (from the Latin), the Quadrivium was the higher division of the seven liberal arts taught in medieval universities. These studies were based on those pursued in the Classical world. The Liberal Arts divided into the Trivium (the lower division) consisting of Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic; and the Quadrivium (the higher division) which consisted of Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy.
To finish on a less erudite note, Quadrivium is also a flamboyant font (what, you thought I’d get through a whole article without mentioning a font? Not a chance.)
Ed: I don’t understand your obsession with fonts. Can I give you the number of my shrink?
Postscript: This is how this article looked when I tried it out in In-Design. Now if only I had the coding ability to make it look like this on a web page! | {
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NUBYA & TODAY’S JAZZ WARRIORS
In England, a jazz revival is currently in full throttle, with reverberations being clocked well beyond the confines of inner-city London. One of its prime movers, saxophonist NUBYA GARCIA visits Sydney on June 10. Eastside Radio’s PARIS POMPOR caught up with the band leader on the eve of her debut downunder dates.
Asked to put her finger on what makes Britain’s latest jazz movement sound unique even to outsiders, Garcia says: “All the bands are wildly different [but] the energy is what’s noticeable”.
Talking during a brief touring break in Los Angeles, on the opposite coast of America, New York’s Rolling Stone Magazine have just dubbed her tight knit vanguard of compatriots the “new British invasion”.
Having visited the US earlier in the year to play New York’s Winter Jazzfest (with one of her main advocates, Gilles Peterson) and again in March for shows in New Orleans and Texas, what’s not lost on the 26 year-old Garcia on this latest Stateside trip is the comparative scale of America. It’s a country so vast, it makes touring England seem like a walk in the park.
“Oh my god, it’s ridiculous,” chuckles Garcia. “It takes so long to get anywhere, I’ve just been permanently running late!”
Nevermind, I assure her. Right now, everyone seems willing to wait for her, even if it’s just to snatch a few moments.
“London’s kind of full, it’s vibrant, it’s busy, there’s a lot going on,” Garcia continues, highlighting the differences between home and the continental birthplace of jazz. “It must come through in what we do.”
It does.
“In terms of what we’re exposed to, definitely every night of the week you can go and hear completely different, completely brilliant music [in London].”
When I tell her I’m jealous given the state of affairs in Sydney, Nubya simply issues a well meaning invite, punctuated with a welcoming chuckle: “You should come!”
It was in “tiny little warehouses” in London, Garcia tells me that she and her friends “cut our teeth.” Nights where“anywhere between 50 and 700 people crammed in.”
Born to parents whose Caribbean heritage now finds some outlet in her freewheeling jazz, Garcia had to search out that rhythmic DNA as it wasn’t music she heard growing up. Instead when it came to music, Garcia’s parents encouraged in her a steadfast commitment. The list of instruments she studied before finding saxophone, impressive: viola, piano, violin, clarinet, flute.
“My mum is from Guyana, which is at the top of South America right next to Venezuela and my dad is from Trinidad,” Garcia explains. “I think when you’re from England, but your parents are not from England, you want to connect to that.I discovered, or wanted to connect with [the music of their homelands], a lot later in life, trying to piece together bits about the Caribbean. So even reggae, from all across the Caribbean islands, and soca, that was a link to something that I hadn’t experienced. I went back, to Carnival in Trinidad [held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday] and got into the soca vibe and calypso. It’s an amazing breadth of music. It’s just so good! It makes you think of sunshine.”
Given saxophone wasn’t her first instrument, does she still, from time to time, pick up the viola for example?
“No I haven’t touched it in years! Basically the deal with my parents was: you have to get to grade eight and then you can finish. So I got to grade eight and didn’t touch it again. I literally put it in its case and never picked it up again!
“That was eight years ago,” she adds with a satisfactory laugh. Sax is definitely her thing.
Just ten years old when she began mastering saxophone, like many of her contemporaries in this new “British [Jazz] Invasion,” Garcia came through a program run by an organisation called Tomorrow’s Warriors.
“Basically that’s where we all met,” explains Garcia. “It’s definitely a community hub and has been for generations. Shabaka Hutchings, Peter Edwards, Binker Golding – who plays with Moses Boyd – Zara McFarlane – lots of us. It’s a youth development organisation that focusses on Black and ethnic minorities, and women, bringing them through music, and specifically the jazz idiom.”
Not everyone in the complex, far reaching web of Britain’s youthful jazz renaissance has come through the Tomorrow Warriors program, but its ethos of sharing opportunities and promoting improvisation as a gateway to trust, appears to have influenced many of Garcia’s contemporaries. Many of the scene’s star players collaborate on each other’s records and guest in each other’s bands. A recorded snapshot of the central scene can be found on the Brownswood label’s ‘We Out Here’ compilation, for which there’s now also a film: ‘We Out Here: A LDN Story’. The film screens in Sydney for free prior to Garcia’s arrival.
“We all want each other to do well, be happy and to be making music that we want to be making,” says Garcia cheerily. “It’s not really ever been about being better than each other. We all want to do well.”
London has been the epicentre of previous jazz buzzes before this one, and even before Ronnie Scott founded his still-thriving Soho club in 1959. In the 1980s, Courtney Pine, Cleveland Watkiss and friends led a Black movement centred around a teeming group called The Jazz Warriors, while the following decade ushered in the somewhat misnamed and dance-oriented ’Acid Jazz’ scene which had long-lasting, global repercussions and constantly seems to threaten a come-back.
In contrast to Acid Jazz, this latest renaissance is far more musically progressive. Like the earlier Jazz Warriors period, it also appears to be more political and socially conscious.There’s little evidence of pop-chart aspirations in the avant-garde, freeform blowings of Garcia and fellow horn playing contemporaries like Theon Cross, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Jurd, Emma-Jean Thackeray and Shabaka Hutchings. In fact Hutchings seriously bent Sydney audience’s ears recently at The Sydney Festival with his all-male, but resolutely feminist group, The Ancestors. Even more refreshing is the number of women instrumentalists involved, quite a few of them listed above.
Nonetheless, Garcia told The Guardian recently, she still gets asked if she’s a singer quite often. The assumption being, if you’re a woman, you can’t possibly be a towering instrumentalist, soloist or… goddess forbid, the bandleader!
Yep, the patriarchy is alive and kicking.
“I do it find it very frustrating,” admits Garcia. “I think as we continue to change the narrative around it, I have to get used to it. Everyone like me, who plays music, vocalists or instrumentalists, it’s the same frustration as people assume that you are something, whether you are it or not. I don’t think men get the same assumptions, so I think we have to get used to it – realise it’s a frustration but not let it get the better of you – and tackle it head on. It’s happened from the beginning of time, [but] hopefully my goal – in however many years it takes – is that it’s not going to be such a surprise, so that no one has to ask anymore. It’s the same in any industry, there’s a huge gap between women and men. It’s a constant fight that we just have to do. That’s our generation’s task. Those who have gone before us have gone this far and we’ve made it a long way, but we have far to go.”
With many of Garcia and her colleagues independently released vinyl LPs selling out very quickly, I finish up by asking her why they don’t press more.
“We’re all still building slowly, so I think smaller numbers are great for now because you do not want to store thousands of vinyl records in your house. You know, getting that delivered to my house, I was like: God damn! And they went – thank God! The runs will get bigger as we go along, but at the same time, when you’re your own boss and in control of your own budgets, you just want to take care rather than spend thousands and not sell [them]. That would be the worst thing that you could do.”
So it’s not about exclusivity?
“They are exclusive, but they’re not meant to be.”
Nubya Garcia performs exclusively in Sydney at Cake Wines in Redfern, Sunday June 10, part of the venue’s Vivid program [TICKETS]. It’s an intimate venue, so we suggest grabbing any remaining tickets fast.The documentary featuring Garcia and friends called, We Out Here: A LDN Storyscreens May 24thfor free at the same venue. Garcia also performs at the Melbourne Jazz Festivalin June alongside Terri Lyne Carrington, Sun Ra Arkestra, Madeleine Peyroux and Brandford Marsalis.
Live stream and Radio On-Demand provided by Nick La Rosa | nicklarosa.net
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Sudan's vice-president dies in helicopter crash
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Sudan's vice-president and former rebel leader John Garang has
died in a helicopter crash, according to a statement from President
Omar al-Beshir read on state television today.
Earlier, Ugandan officials said all passengers and crew aboard a
Ugandan helicopter carrying Garang died in a crash near the Kenyan
border.
Garang, the head of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement,
became vice-president only three weeks ago following a peace deal
that ended 21 years of civil war between north and south Sudan.
"The presidency has followed the reports about the disappearance
of the aircraft of Sudanese Vice-President John Garang and it is
confirmed beyond doubt that it crashed in the Amatonj mountains,"
the statement said.
"It resulted in the death of John Garang and six people
accompanying him as well as seven members of the crew of the
Ugandan presidential aircraft."
The Amatonj mountains are in the Eastern Equatorial province of
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Facebook is now Koobface-free, and security researchers have publicized information about the five perpetrators behind the massive botnet.
Security researchers have
publicly unmasked five people they believe are behind Koobface, a botnet that
spreads on social-networking sites and directs users to Websites selling fake
antivirus and other scams.
Facebook has been fighting
the malware for the past year and successfully took one of the
command-and-control servers controlling the botnet offline last March, the
social-networking site proclaimed Jan. 17 on the Facebook Security blog.
Facebook has been Koobface-free for more than nine months, according to the
post.
"Facebook Security was
able to perform a technical takedown of this 'Command & Control'
mothership," the company wrote. | {
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Marketing your small business can be difficult. Depending on your product or service, any particular strategy may or may not be the best fit for you. So how do you know where to begin?
Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. Online resources such asEntrepreneur provide quick ways for you to assess your marketing needs so you can get started quickly. Here are some ideas from Entrepreneur that are tailor-made for six general types of businesses: home services, fitness, food and beverage, personal services, professional services, and retail.
Home Services
Those who provide services to homeowners have their work cut out for them. Whether you’re a plumber, a handyman, or an electrician, competition in this space is fierce. Consider building your search engine optimization by posting high quality articles online in your area of expertise. With permission, you might also send your customers and leads a regular newsletter to build your credibility and keep you on their minds.
Fitness
Fitness clubs and personal trainers have a unique service to sell but must keep their clients on track. That’s why you should focus on helping your clients remain engaged with their personal progress. Consider reviews of fitness-based apps, books, and online resources. Showcase your expertise by engaging with your clients via social media and/or blogging. Make a direct connection by using personal stories and pictures (with consent, of course).
Food and Beverage
Those in the food and beverage industry can create the most bang for their marketing buck by targeting repeat business. Think about using opt-in email marketing to keep your restaurant on the tip of your customers’ tongues. And make sure that the communications you are sending out are engaging, entertaining and fun, so your customers are happy to receive your emails. You may also consider working with online providers, such as Google or Facebook, to develop low-cost marketing campaigns which drive traffic to your restaurant’s website.
Personal Services
Businesses in the personal services industry put the focus on the customer by providing salon services, massage therapy, or alternative medicine (to name just a few). The key to success in this area is building customer loyalty. Consider punch cards, referral bonuses, freebies, and discounts for regular customers. And, definitely be sure to stay top of mind with a regular email newsletter, like this one, that features personal stories and pictures of you, your pets, and your family, which is what your customers really want to see.
Professional Services
Companies that provide professional services, such as lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents, work in a very competitive climate. Success depends on carving out your niche, and then establishing yourself as a thought leader in that arena. Posting regular, quality content online is a solid start. This will help drive website traffic by increasing your website’s relevance when potential customers conduct online searches. Repeat business is also important, so consider reaching out regularly to your clients using a newsletter like this one (with consent).
And remember, people hire people they know, like and trust, more often than they do faceless, nameless businesses. So keep your content entertaining, educational and personal. Pictures of you, details about your travels and life activities will help.
Retail
Many retail establishments combine traditional brick-and-mortar with online services. It is vitally important to host a professional, customer-friendly website. If designed well, your online presence will also help you to gain a wider audience for your product.
Small business owners have to work hard to compete in today’s economy. We can help. Whether it’s advising you about the consent needed to send out email newsletters to clients and prospects or helping to ensure your intellectual property is protected, we will be a valuable partner in ensuring your company’s success. | {
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*Please note: Orders less than $100 worth of product (p) are subject to a $15.00 (p) less than minimum charge. Most products that appear in the 12 piece column are indeed subject to the $15.00 less than minimum charge. | {
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A homeowner in Buffalo New York failed to maintain her patio in a clean manner and neighbors decided to help her out by cleaning the patio while she was away on a trip. In return for their help, Ms. Taylor called the police and filed multiple lawsuits including claims that the Association had violated her rights under the Fair Housing Act. Ms. Taylor first made claim with the state division of Human Rights and HUD. Both the DHR and HUD determined that there was no violation by the Association but Ms. Taylor then filed her case in federal court. After three years of litigation a federal Court of Appeals decision awarded $107,322 to the Association finding that Ms. Taylor’s lawsuit was frivolous and without merit and that she should have known that when both DHR and HUD said so. For more information on Fair Housing violations, read our article entitled, “When Does an FHA Violation Occur?” | {
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TODAY! – Get Into Rugby
24 January 2017 – Get Into Rugby will be held today at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Rungkup, Bagan Datuk, Perak darul Ridzuan today. This is one of the series after the previous session held successfully. The first edition was held at the SK Putrajaya, Percint 8(1) and was launched by Malaysia Rugby Union President, Dato’ Shahrul Zaman bin Yahya
All the participant will also have a chance to meet and receive lesson as well as advice from the Malaysia Seven’s Sea Game Team who will also be there. Azwan Zeri, Zulkifli Azmi and Wan Izzuddin Ismail are among the player who will feature at SMK Rungkup.
The programme is scheduled to start at 3.00pm
Get Into Rugby (GIR) is an introduction program to all the young rugby enthusiasts age 6 to 17 years old. It is a module developed and issued by World Rugby back in 2014 since Rugby Seven’s was re-introduced into the Olympic Games. | {
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Good news and bad. First the bad - new US developed adventure games are few and far between these days (but you knew that). Now the good - a number of other countries (where adventure gaming seems to be more popular) ARE producing quality adventure games.
Good news and bad. First the bad - new US developed adventure games are few and far between these days (but you knew that). Now the good - a number of other countries (where adventure gaming seems to be more popular) ARE producing quality adventure games.
Produced in Italy - three years in the making - The Watchmaker has been dubbed with English dialog and has recently been released in North America. When I started playing the game, I was struck by its quality. The engine reminded me ofGabriel Knight III, and the game play reminded me a lot of the Tex Murphy games. Since I loved those titles, you can imagine I liked this one from the git-go. The Watchmaker is an epic 3D point and click graphic adventure with many animated cut scenes. The graphics are exceptional, the music average, and the English voice acting is good to poor. But, hey, the game play is right up there with the best of any US produced titles. I was very pleasantly surprised.
The game begins with a lengthy cinematic which takes place in a law office in London. There, our protagonists, Darrel - an expert in parapsychology, and Victoria - an attorney, are briefed on a potential earth shaking situation. Some goons have apparently stolen a dastardly device (a large pendulum with special powers) and human survival may hang in the balance (please excuse the lousy pun). Soon thereafter, the two are whisked off to an Austrian castle where it is believed the stolen device may be hidden. The rest of the game is played in the castle and on the surrounding gated grounds. Easy enough, huh? No way. The castle is very large and it will take you some time to get to know your way around (if you played Shivers, you know what I'm talkin' about). You arrive at the castle at 9am and have until midnight to find the device and foil the fanatics' plans. The game employs a timer, but it is not incremented in real time. It periodically increments the time based on your successful progress in the game. No sweat.
By using the F8 key, you may change characters - from Darrel to Vic or vice versa. When operating independently (which is most of the time), you may summon the other character to your position. It is also possible to exchange inventory items between characters. The inventory system is a delight. When you click on an object, a fully rotatable 3D picture is shown. By clicking on the picture, the character says exactly what it is. Character movement is accomplished by mouse or keyboard. An "automatic" camera is used when in third person play and, although I sometimes got disoriented as to direction, it does an excellent job of providing you with the optimum view. First person mode is invoked by using the space key. Basically, it shows a close-up view (you'll need this for some puzzles). So far as I could tell, the game has no limit on saves. Game play is quite non-linear, and is sometimes very challenging. Dialog trees are used with NPCs and some subjects must be discussed in order to advance the plot or provide access to inventory items. Pixel hunting is sometimes problematic…on a par with most games of this genre. The graphics are really excellent. One thing Trecision threw in that I loved was large mirrors. Your character walks by a large mirror (say in the exercise room) and you see a perfect reflection of the character. It's cool, and speaks volumes of Trecision's desire to produce a quality game.
Okay, now to the bad news. Occasionally during the game, I'd click on an area ahead for character movement and the character would head off somewhere else. GRRRR. One or two clicks later, I'd get the desired movement. Shoot, I can live with that. However, the last 5-10% of the game involves action sequences where the character is dodging hot lead (being shot at). Unfortunately, I found that the problem of character movement became more pronounced during this time. This led to dying every minute or so. Don't you hate it when that happens? For me, character control became nil (read "dead duck").
This is an excellent game and it's a shame that at the very end the characters (for me at least) became virtually uncontrollable. UGH! | {
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Titusville, FL Teeth Whitening
As a person ages, mineral exposure causes the teeth to gradually darken. Over time, some food, drink, or tobacco products also create unattractive yellowish-brown stains. Less commonly, you may experience discoloration due to some medications or bacterial infections.
Whitening procedures are not a solution for all discoloration (e.g. darkening caused by cavities). Similarly, whitening does not work on all stains. Dr. Spagnoli will discuss your options for care with you. Some cases that are not appropriate for whitening procedures can be effectively treated with restorative options such as Veneers.
At Home Whitening
You may also choose to chemically whiten your teeth at home. In this case, Dr. Spagnoli will fit a tray to your bite, and provide you with a mild whitening gel. Over a course of weeks or months, you regularly apply the gel to your teeth using the tray.
This method is more gradual, and less noticeable to others. In rare instances, some patients experience gum sensitivity or discomfort in response to the gel. | {
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Arthur West, well known to those who follow open government issues in Washington State, had another of his lawsuits rebuffed by the Court of Appeals. In an unpublished decision, Division II rejected his Public Records Act and Open Public Meeting Act claims against the Washington Public Ports Association. The Court also declined to decide whether or not the Association is a public agency for purposes of the Public Records Act. While this case does not add much substantively to Washington's open government jurisprudence, it does serve as a reminder that detailed facts are a plaintiff's strongest ally in open government cases. The Court of Appeals was unwilling to let the OPMA or case go forward because Mr. West's allegations showed him to be a concerned citizen, but did not identify a specific injury. Similarly, Mr. West did not document a specific Public Records Act issue, so the Court of Appeals allowed the trial court's summary judgment in favor of the Ports Association to stand. Contrast this scenario to many recent Washington Public Records Act cases where the appellate courts have been quite harsh with public agencies that fail to meet their duty to provide access to citizens.
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Get ready for the big gimmick' state budget
An approximately $29 billion state government operating budget under negotiation in the Legislature is likely to be based on a fast-growing amount of one-time cash items to avoid the prospect of a tax increase that would split the House’s and Senate’s Republican majorities.
The one-time items — derided by critics as gimmicks — include raiding off-budget programs, postponing bills and cleaning out reserves.
And this year, with a massive and unexpected collapse in tax collections, Republicans have shied away from putting off business tax cuts or increasing taxes on the booming natural gas industry or sales of tobacco products advocated by Democrats. Instead, they have looked to push one-timers past $2 billion.
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That is the highest they have ever been, not counting the $6.9 billion in federal recession bailout dollars that came to Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2011.
“This will be precedent-setting in one-time revenues,” said Randy Albright, the Democrats’ top staff aide on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Some Republicans acknowledge that the trend toward a tax increase is inevitable.
Last November, the nonpartisan Independent Fiscal Office projected that Pennsylvania’s state government has a structural deficit that will hit nearly $2 billion in four years — and that was before this year’s tax collections fell behind by $600 million.
When Tom Corbett, a Republican who campaigned as a fiscal conservative, became governor in 2011, his office calculated that the $28 billion budget he inherited was built on $4.1 billion in one-time items, including $2.65 billion in federal recession bailout funds.
The one-timers that Pennsylvania will require this year will be far less than that, Corman said.
“For now, it’s OK,” he said. “But the more you do it, the more you set yourself up for problems down the road.”
That problem down the road is that those one-time items are not always available the next year and, right now, Pennsylvania’s state government obligations are rising by more than $1 billion a year. Primarily, that is a growth in Medicaid driven by the elderly entering nursing homes and the bill that is coming due for delaying past payments into public employee pension funds.
Nobody in state government has found an answer for those rising costs, despite considerable debate about it since Corbett took office.
“Sooner or later, a broad-based tax increase will be necessary to pay for it,” Corman said. “Whether that’s next year or the year after that, I don’t know. But they’re increasing at a billion dollars a year and revenues aren’t keeping up.”
It also sets up what some Democrats are warning will be an even more brutal budget next year. The budget for the fiscal year ending Monday is built on nearly $900 million in one-time items, according to estimates by the Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee. The majority of that was an infusion of cash reserves carried over from the 2010-11 fiscal year surplus.
One-time items well in excess of $2 billion will be required to prop up a budget of $29 billion without a tax increase for the 2014-15 fiscal year that begins Tuesday, according to Democrats.
Those one-time items will probably include transfers from small business loan funds, a state forests and parks improvement program, lottery profits meant to enhance programs for the elderly and cash meant to fight tobacco addiction and cancer.
Lackawanna County Sen. John Blake, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee and a former secretary of the Department of Community and Economic Development, said the transfers will endanger money that can benefit crucial economic development funds. Other one-timers are built on flimsy assumptions, he said, such as the expectation that speeding up a seizure of unclaimed assets from banks and other institutions will net $150 million.
“We’re out of space and time here,” Blake said. “We have an obligation to guarantee that public education is properly funded, that our safety net is properly funded, right? That our corrections continues to be properly funded, that our debt service continues to be property funded, and one-time transfers are not the solution set. It’s no way to govern.” | {
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Indian Child Welfare Act and the Supreme Court
An important case involving the Cherokee Nation and the Indian Child Welfare Act is being appealed to the United States Supreme Court from South Carolina. Indians tend to fare pretty badly in the Supreme Court, particularly in the last 30-40 years. Hopefully, this time the Justices will instead do the right thing and preserve and strictly apply ICWA. | {
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Mousa Dembele has tried to explain his eye-gouge on Chelsea’s Diego Costa by saying his emotions got the better of him.
The Tottenham midfielder received a six-game ban from the FA as punishment for his part in the ugly incident in the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge last month.
It was a game Spurs went into knowing they needed a victory in to keep alive their hopes of winning the Premier League, but they threw away a 2-0 lead to instead hand Leicester the title.
Dembele admits he was “disappointed” with the long ban, which means he misses the first four games of next season after already sitting out the last two of this campaign, but said he acted in the heat of the moment in what was an emotionally-charged evening where both sides were guilty of ill-discipline.
“Things happen and my intention was not to do something bad to him,” Dembele told Sky Sports. “It’s an emotional game, you react to things and now I have to learn from this. I’m not proud of this, it’s not my habit to be that emotional.
“I’m very disappointed about the six-game ban, I know [the FA] wants to leave a message, but I can’t keep on being disappointed about that.”
Chelsea were fined £375,000 and Spurs £225,000 after both clubs were charged with failing to control their players in the bad-tempered affair. | {
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How to find out and what to do if land is contaminated
This page explains how to find out and what to do if you suspect land may be contaminated.
If I suspect my land is contaminated what should I do?
If you suspect your land is contaminated, first contact your regional council [Local Government New Zealand website] for advice about what you should do.
Any investigation of your property should be carried out by an experienced contaminated land (or environmental) consultant. Your regional council may be able to recommend a consultant.
If an initial site investigation finds that the concentration of hazardous substances exceed acceptable levels, you may need or wish to remediate or manage your site. You should discuss the most appropriate action with your consultant and your regional council.
How do I find out if my land is contaminated?
If you want to find out if your land is contaminated you should employ an experienced environmental consultant to determine whether the land needs to be investigated, managed or cleaned up. However, there are some initial things that you can do yourself:
Check for physical signs
Look for any physical signs commonly associated with contamination: including odours, stains, or the presence of storage tanks, or and structures (eg, sheep dipping trenches).
Check the current and historical land uses for HAIL list activities
One of the easiest starting places is to determine if your land has previously or is still undertaking one of the activities described in the HAIL list.
Obtain a LIM or a PIM
You can obtain information about your property by requesting a Land Information Memorandum (LIM) or a Project Information Memorandum (PIM) for your property from your local district or city council. When a LIM, or PIM is requested for a parcel of land the district or city council is required to disclose information on the land, including the “likely presence of hazardous contaminants”. A LIM or PIM may show whether your property is on a HAIL site (see question 2).
Please note: It is not a requirement for councils to show HAIL sites on a LIM or PIM. A LIM or PIM may not have all the relevant information about your site.
More information
Check the council’s property files and regional council registers
To gather more information from councils you should talk to someone within your local district or city council to see whether they have any further information about your property that is not included on the LIM or PIM. You should also contact your regional council or unitary authority, as regional councils usually will hold registers of contaminated and potentially contaminated land.
Anecdotal evidence
Talking to previous owners, workers and neighbours is often the easiest way to determine the nature and location of historical activities on a site.
Old aerial photographs
Old aerial photographs can be used to identify structures often associated with historical activities and their location, eg, sheep dips, storage tanks and warehouses.
How do I find what an acceptable level of contamination is?
If you suspect your land is contaminated, you should employ a qualified contaminated land or environmental consultant to carry out a site investigation and determine the acceptable level of contamination.
To help practitioners determine the acceptable level of contaminants the Ministry has produced soil guideline values for common contaminants of concern, including:
What do I do if my LIM says that my property is on a Hazardous Activities and Industries List (HAIL) site?
If your property is on a Hazardous Activities and Industries List (HAIL) site, it is not necessarily contaminated. The list shows land where activities or land uses have been carried out that may cause contaminated land. In addition, the HAIL activity may only have occupied a small part of the site.
You will need more information to determine whether your land is contaminated. To gather more information:
contact your local district or city council to see if they have any information on your site through your LIM or other means
contact your regional council or unitary authority to see if they have any information on your site
carry out a site investigation with help from your regional council and/or environmental consultant.
Is there any money available to help me investigate or remediate contaminated land?
The Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund is administered by the Ministry for the Environment to assist regional councils to investigate, plan and remediate contaminated sites in their regions. A total of $2.78 million has been made available for 2010/11 and is divided into two parts.
One part is available to regional councils and unitary authorities on a contestable basis ($0.89 million). The second part is available to regional councils and unitary authorities to address priority sites ($1.89 million). Sites that are prime candidates for the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund are those that are:
posing or likely to pose a high risk to human health
located in environmentally or culturally sensitive areas
sites where the landowners do not have the financial resources to undertake the work themselves but want to do something about the problem.
If you would like to apply to the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund contact your regional council, or email [email protected] for more information. The regional council will assist you with your application, inform you of the information required and submit an application to the Ministry.
What guidance is available for managing contaminated land?
The Ministry has developed guidelines to assist and support council staff and practitioners manage contaminated land. If you suspect your land is contaminated, you should first contact your regional council about what you should do.
How can land be prevented from being contaminated?
Substances with hazardous properties can contaminate land especially if they are not properly managed.
Each hazardous substance, based on its hazardous properties, will have associated controls. These are determined by the Environmental Protection Authority [EPA website] when the substance is approved for import or manufacture, or when it is transferred to the HSNO control regime.
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A contemporary dressed wall in the kitchen
Blank walls are not my favorite thing to stop and stare. No matter if they have been colored or not, walls (for me) are meant to be decorated. Either with paper or accents they speak of the people that live around them; what their lifestyles are like and even allows us to get an intimate look at their possessions.
In our house we used to have one of those mute walls in the kitchen. It really made me feel desperate each time I went by it and saw that blank space. I knew I needed something that, besides bringing in some life, would also be functional. I’ve thought of painting it all with chalk paint but having this only wall in our small kitchen painted, probably would’ve make the space feel smaller. Then I thought about a gallery wall!
These types of walls allow us to be creative but also generate a personal statement in the room. Because this wall was in the kitchen, a place for writing was a must. I found at Birchlane an industrial blackboard that had the perfect dimensions for this wall. To balance the size of this piece and to add the decor factor, I added 2 wood art pieces of different sizes: a world map and an utensil kitchen print (both also from Birchlane). The round mirror in the center brought some clarity to this whole composition besides allowing us to take a quick peek before going out.
Some other accessories made this wall gallery picture perfect and me, a happy cook! Do you have a wall/art gallery in your home? What wall did you used for it?
I’ve received compensation by Birch Lane. The opinions stated here are my own. For more updates on their products and decor ideas, you can always follow them Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram. Remember to take advantage of their free shipping when you buy $49 or more. | {
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Bloomberg: State Should Follow NYC on Soda Size Rule
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spearheaded a first-of-its-kind crackdown on supersized, sugary drinks — and now he'd like the state to follow the city's example.
Starting next month, the city plans to bar restaurants, delis and many other eateries from selling some sugar-laden beverages in more than 16-ounce portions. Supermarkets and convenience stores are exempt because they're regulated by the state, not the city.
Bloomberg said at an unrelated news conference Monday that "the state should do exactly the same thing in stores."
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office had no immediate comment.
The city says its soda size limit will curb obesity and save lives and medical dollars. | {
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East meets west. Fact meets fiction. Illusion meets reality. When a powerful French diplomat becomes enchanted with a divine Peking opera star, little can quell the thirst of their intoxicating desire—but this diva is hiding more than her true identity. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this season, David Henry Hwang’s torrid and timeless Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly brings hide-and-seek to the stage in a gripping fable that proves the allure of fantasy and the power of obsession are a recipe for betrayal. | {
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Five become four - the great contenders
11 Nov 2010
Over the last 18 races, five different drivers from three different teams have won races and the lead in the drivers championship has changed hands a staggering nine times. As we head to the season finale in Abu Dhabi there are still four men with a shot at the title - a first for Formula One racing. With Jenson Button having dropped out of the running in Brazil, we take a closer look at the remaining contenders and weigh up their odds as they prepare to enter the ring for the final time this year
Fernando Alonso, FerrariCareer statistics: 156 race starts; two drivers titles; 26 wins; 63 podiums; 20 pole positions; 18 fastest laps; and 823 points.Season statistics: Two DNFs; five wins; 10 podiums; two pole positions; five fastest laps; and 246 points.Worst moment of 2010: Though his frustrating mid-season dry spell ended with a win in Germany, the ensuing controversy over his easy passage past team mate and race leader Felipe Massa took the shine off the victory. Arguably worse, though, was Alonsos Belgian Grand Prix - a poor qualifying performance, a collision in the race with Rubens Barrichello and finally a crash of his own making that brought his miserable Spa weekend to an end.Best moment of 2010: His excellent victory at Ferraris home race in Italy. As well as bringing the Spaniard right back into title contention, the win showcased the positives in the teams strategic good sense. Strengths: Experience, Experience, Experience. Not just his own, but also the teams. If anybody has the determination, ruthlessness and canny wiles to beat the Red Bull drivers at their own game and claim the title, its this pairing. And hes in the lead.Weaknesses: Alonso may be heading the standings, but he and Ferrari couldnt muster enough against Red Bull to clinch the title in Brazil. Are they on the back foot? Have they missed their chance?
Mark Webber, Red BullCareer statistics: 156 race starts; six wins; 20 podiums; six pole positions; six fastest laps; and 407.5 points.Season statistics: Two DNFs; four wins; 10 podiums; five pole positions; three fastest laps; and 238 points.Worst moment of 2010: His race-ending mistake in Korea was a close second, but it has to be his collision with Vettel in Turkey. Although he was able to continue to third, the fallout, especially in terms of relations with his team mate, could prove to be his undoing. Best moment of 2010: Finally shaking off years of struggle with several victories at Formula One racings blue ribbon events, including the race all drivers want to win - Monaco. Following hot on the heels of his victory in Spain, Webber left Monte Carlo revitalised and leading the standings alongside team mate Vettel. Strengths: He may not have Alonsos accolades, but Webber has just as much experience and determination as the Spaniard. Finally finding himself in a championship-contending car has been the making of the Australian. Weaknesses: Arguably Webber wants this more than any of the others. Alonso is just loving being in the running again, whilst Hamilton and Vettel know they have many potential titles ahead of them. For Webber this could be a last-chance saloon and the pressure could get to him.
Sebastian Vettel, Red BullCareer statistics: 61 race starts; nine wins; 18 podiums; 14 pole positions; 6 fastest laps; and 356 points.Season statistics: Three DNFs; four wins; nine podiums; nine pole positions; three fastest laps; and 231 points.Worst moment of 2010: His ungainly attempt to overtake team mate Webber at Istanbul Park ruined an almost certain one-two result, and soured relations with his Australian team mate. A recent engine failure in Korea was just as shattering.Best moment of 2010: His sparkling qualifying performances. Nine pole positions (and a further four front-row slots) from 18 races, is a phenomenal achievement. He hasnt started lower than sixth, and while hes sometimes struggled to convert grid position into wins, his Saturday pace in the RB6 has been pretty much untouchable. Strengths: Last year he came very close to pinching Jenson Buttons crown and when his hopes dwindled, his smile never faltered. Whatevers come his way this season hes remained just as upbeat and behind his grin, is a mental strength that belies his youth and could win him the championship. Weaknesses: The least experienced of the contenders, Vettel has less to draw on as he faces his first real glimpse of a title. He also has a team mate who is seven points closer to the championship than he is. Will he have to forsake his own hopes for the greater good of the team? Watch this space.
Lewis Hamilton, McLarenCareer statistics: 70 race starts; one drivers title; 14 wins; 35 podiums; 18 pole positions; seven fastest laps; and 478 points.Season statistics: Four DNFs; three wins; eight podiums; one pole positions; four fastest laps; and 222 points.Worst moment of 2010: A hideous Japanese Grand Prix, which saw him crash out in second practice and suffer gearbox problems on Saturday and then again in the race. A weekend to forget. Best moment of 2010: Septembers Belgian Grand Prix was a showcase for Hamiltons talent. Whilst all about him rivals lost their heads in the wet weather, he remained cool, calm and collected to take victory and with it the championship lead. Strengths: He is the rank outsider, and as such can arrive in Abu Dhabi with all guns blazing. Its too late for the softly, softly approach, and if anyone loves a challenge its Hamilton. You only need to look back to his 2008 title triumph, when he won it at the death from Ferraris Felipe Massa, to see that. His team mate Buttons own hopes of defending his 2009 title have already fallen by the wayside, so he also has a very capable wingman.Weaknesses: Hamiltons energetic optimism seemed to finally give out in Brazil after a lacklustre Interlagos race. He is 24 points behind leader Alonso and his success depends on his rivals not scoring well - and him winning the race. Its a tough ask.
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How to use Oracle Dump Function
DUMP returns a VARCHAR2 value containing the datatype code, length in bytes, and internal representation of expr. The returned result is always in the database character set.
The syntax is:
DUMP(expr[,return_fmt[,start_position[,length]]])
The argument return_fmt specifies the format of the return value and can have any of the following values:
8 returns result in octal notation.
10 returns result in decimal notation.
16 returns result in hexadecimal notation.
17 returns result as single characters.
By default, the return value contains no character set information. To retrieve the character set name of expr, specify any of the preceding format values, plus 1000. For example, a return_fmt of 1008 returns the result in octal, plus provides the character set name of expr.
The arguments start_position and length combine to determine which portion of the internal representation to return. The default is to return the entire internal representation in decimal notation.
If expr is null, then this function returns a null.
Examples
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Open Source Code Used in Mobile Payments May Put Banks at Risk
“Financial organisations that do not build quality into their mobile payments applications will fail to meet increasing demand to roll out mobile payment services quickly, at a reduced cost,” believes Julian Brook, Associate Director at SQS UK.
He presented his opinion during the “Mobile Payments” seminar in London on 1st October. The event saw speakers from VocaLink, The Payments Council, Pinsent Masons and SQS discuss how open source software can help deliver mobile payment solutions quickly, while reducing intellectual property risks, potential brand damage and exposure to security vulnerabilities.
The event was opened by Julian Brook, from SQS, the world’s leading specialist in software quality. Brook warned: “With £1.5 billion mobile payments anticipated by 2022 – five times the number made in 2012 – banks that do not yet have mobile payments on their roadmap, are at risk of missing out on a lucrative market.”
For financial institutions implementing mobile payments, there is a general lack of awareness of the open source software being used. Brook added: “Very few of the organisations will have sufficient controls in place to accurately quantify the amount of open source they are using with any confidence. There is 50% visibility at most.”
Addressing an audience including in-house legal practitioners, product managers, system development leaders, Heads of Quality, and IT security, Brook underlined the risks associated with not having an effective open source governance process in place within mobile payments services. “Despite the projected growth in mobile payments, a lack of governance and controls mean banks do not have full visibility of open source software used. This opens banks up to potential security concerns associated with non-licensed code being used, which could put them in danger of exposing commercially sensitive information.”
He also highlighted the benefits of using open source to drive down development costs and improve efficiency, explaining how financial organisations can achieve quicker time to market using open source thanks to the code already being used and tested by other organisations worldwide.
Pinsent Masons associate Angus McFadyen’s presentation noted that of the 60 to 70 billion apps downloaded this year, 80 per cent will use open source. He then outlined the legal and compliance aspects of mobile payments, and how these can be managed by ensuring software such as open source is correctly licensed, whether it is developed in-house or comes from existing code. McFadyen also highlighted the risks of open source software that financial institutions should be aware of: from non-standard code hampering interoperability and uncertainty over enforceability of licenses and copyright when code comes from many contributors, to dealing with potential IP and copyright infringements.
Following the presentations, Nick Daniel, Head of Business Development at VocaLink, and David Picton, Senior Project Lead with the Payments Council, joined Julian Brook and Angus McFayden, as part of the panel answering attendees’ questions. The panel focused on The Payments Council’s upcoming Mobile Payments Service, which is due to launch in April 2014, and how it will enable customers to make secure account-to-account transfers using only a recipient’s mobile phone number. Picton believes this new service will be ideal for users transferring money between accounts while on the move – a point confirmed by Daniel, who stated that VocaLink anticipates the number of people using mobile payments to reach 25 million by the end of 2014.
Eight financial institutions, including Barclays, Cumberland Building Society, Danske Bank, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Santander have already committed to offering the new service from spring next year. This ‘launch group’ represents 90% of UK current accounts and Brook believes that almost every financial organisation that is developing mobile payment software will be using open source code to some extent.
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A BIRMINGHAM girl was left distraught after heartless vandals burned down her favourite swing.
But Laura Hunt, aged eight and from Northfield, has vowed to take on the bullies and campaign for the much-loved attraction in West Heath Park to be re-built.
Laura and her mum Helen were shocked when they discovered the swing burned to the ground over the Christmas holidays.
Helen, aged 37, a primary school teacher at St Dunstans school in Kings Heath, said: “My son goes down to the park all the time to play football and he came back one day and told us it had been burned down.
“I didn’t know it would be possible to do that but the vandals managed it and my daughter was devastated.
“It’s just so frustrating, I don’t know what is happening, to the youth in this country.”
Laura was equally upset, but insisted she would not rest until the swing was rebuilt.
She said: “I think the person who burned down the big swing in West Heath Park is very cruel.
“I want to know why they did that. They are just bullies who have ruined everybody else’s fun.”
Coun Reg Corns (Con, Northfield) said he was bitterly disappointed to hear of the arson attack.
He said it was all the more frustrating because councillors in Northfield and the neighbouring Kings Norton ward had campaigned long and hard for children’s play facilities.
“It beggars belief that someone would do this,” he said. “I hope that if they catch the culprits they are made to face local people and see the upset and devastation their selfish actions have caused.”
A spokeswoman for Birmingham City Council said the blaze had caused considerable damage to the swing and also the supporting mechanism. “It will require considerable expense to reinstate the facility. Resources are limited and sufficient funds have not yet been identified,” she said. “It is hoped that funding can be found.” She said officials were hoping CCTV footage would help them identify the arsonists. | {
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Moderating Heat in a Woodfired Oven
Most woodfired oven owners only use the oven once a week or so to bake pizza or bread at fairly high temperatures. There’s another level of cooking available, at lower and constant temperatures, which requires pulsing the oven with small fires. This is useful knowing about both to protect the oven from unnecessary cracking from cold firing and also to expand your cooking repertoire.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when many home ovens were fueled with either wood or coal. These ovens were used every day, and never lost their warmth. My father remembers his mother stoking the fire at the crack of dawn to bake the daily bread. Even today, I hear through this website of people in Greek villages and Eastern European towns using wood or coal as their main source of cooking fuel.
In order to replicate this method of everyday cooking, you have to commit some time. In order to roast a chicken today, I had to find three different times yesterday – in amongst a busy schedule – to light and maintain fires. If you can find the time, however, the benefits are astounding. When I was ready to roast the chicken (see Woodfired Roast Chicken), my oven maintained a stable temperature in the 350º range for 2½ hours with no active flame throughout the cooking time. With this ability, all kinds of baked goods, casseroles, roasted meats and fish become possible.
First Fire burning well
Pulsing your oven: The trick is to ‘pulse’ your oven with small fires over time, in order to slowly heat all of the masonry components – the walls, the floor and the bed of sand beneath the floor. The operative word here is ‘slowly’. After a cold spell in which your oven has lain dormant, this will prevent the components from cracking. For more normal cooking or baking operations, this will raise the temperature of your oven into the range of a conventional oven, with very little charring or direct smoke.
How to do it:
Use a piece of newspaper, a handful of kindling, 2 or 3 pieces of hardwood the thickness of your thumb and 2 thicker pieces of hardwood that weigh about 1 ½ pounds each (2 ½ inches thick) to build successive fires in the center of your oven. Maintain the fire for an hour, relighting and adding a bit more kindling if necessary.
After the hour of active fire, put the door in place as tightly as possible. You may have to put a wood wedge under the handle, as I do. Let the oven rest for 3 hours. This rest time can be variable in length.
Light another fire using the same amount of wood as above, and maintain for an hour. Let rest again.
With each subsequent fire, there will be more unburnt wood from the previous fire. Leave this in the oven and continue to add to it, building your fires on top.
Light a third fire in the early evening, maintain for an hour and let rest. During this rest period, you can move the coals to one side in order to cook beans or a casserole, if desired.
Close up the oven and let rest overnight.
On day 2, start a fire with the same amount of wood, maintain for an hour and let rest. By this time the parts of your oven are hot enough to maintain a temperature of about 350º. From here, you can safely and quickly take your oven much hotter (for pizza, say), or you can build another small fire to maintain low to moderate heat for roasting or baking.
Just the facts: Here are the temperatures I measured in my oven. As atmospheric conditions and your oven will likely be different, you will probably have different results, particularly during the first few fires.
Starting temperature: 52º, which was approximately the overnight low air temperature in Seattle (measured with an accurate thermometer).
After the first fire: 150º (measured with oven thermometer, as are all others)
After the second fire: 225º
After the third fire: 350º (I baked a pot of pinto beans for 2 ½ hours when fire was almost finished)
Starting temperature, 2nd day: 160º
After the fourth fire: 375º (I baked dinner rolls after this fire)
After the fifth fire: 425º (I let the oven cool to 350º and roasted a chicken. After 2 ½ hours, the oven temperature was 325º and the chicken was perfectly cooked.)
Final note: I just checked (10 a.m. on the third day) and, with no active fire since yesterday’s noontime fire, the temperature of the oven is 160º. Hmm. I could just keep this whole thing going. Flame on!
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I’d never gotten around to seeing the latest James Bond movie – Spectre – when it came out, so I took the opportunity one night when it was on over the Christmas holidays. Amidst scenes of car chases I found myself musing on that well-known Bond catchphrase ‘Shaken not Stirred’, and a quick Google search revealed that many have (over)analysed this now well-known phrase. Cocktail experts have long debated, it seems, on whether or not shaking is a good thing for a martini (apparently not - it bruises the gin!) Biochemists at the Western University have studied and concluded that the antioxidant properties of a shaken gin or vodka martini were better than a stirred one!
But, James Bond aside, the phrase popped up again at the opening reflection at our UCAN Directors’ Board meeting last week. The context concerned King Herod’s response to the Magi’s visit. Herod was shaken by news of a potential challenge to his own authority and security. The possibility of a new king so disturbed him that he sought advice from priests, teachers and information from the Magi. But at no time did his fear and insecurity translate to any stirring in his soul, that news of the Messiah could be a good thing for him personally. He was definitely shaken but not at all stirred to seek what God was doing in the current circumstances. He sent others to see Jesus and experience the joy of worshipping Him and he remained in his own shaken, fearful insecurity. He epitomised the Collins dictionary definition of ‘Shaken not Stirred’. ‘If someone has been shaken but not stirred by an experience, you mean that they have been slightly disturbed by it, but not deeply enough to change their behaviour or way of thinking’.
There is a large degree of shaking going on around us currently. As I type this we are on the eve of a significant vote in the houses of parliament. News cycles are full of the potential shaking that may result economically, politically and nationally. How do we respond to this as Christians? Amidst insecurity and national shaking let us be stirred to look afresh to Jesus and ask what He can do in the midst of this. God’s people have a long history of experiencing upheaval and shaking and also experiencing the faithfulness of God throughout those times. After a difficult time, God reminded his people through the prophet Haggai ‘I am with you’ declares the Lord (Haggai 1:13). It may well be that those around us will notice that as Christians we remain solid and unshakable because we know God is with us and that ‘the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds’ (Phil 4:7).
How do we respond to this ‘shaking’ as Christians AND church administrators? The months ahead may feel financially insecure for some of our churches. It may be tempting with our ‘administrator hat on’ to become risk adverse and counsel our church leaders to curtail plans for mission and growth. But if those outside of the church feel shaky, it is more urgent to ensure that our churches are actively sharing the good news of the gospel – many revival moments come out of prayer and national upheaval.
‘The Lord stirred up the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord’ (Haggai 1:14). Our prayer for you and for all of the UCAN churches is that you are stirred. Stirred to pray, stirred to spend time with God so that you can be reassured that He is with you and is faithful. Stirred to ask God what He is plans to do with and through the church at this time. Stirred to encourage our clergy colleagues and ministry leaders that the church has a good news story – the gospel – to share in the national picture at this time.
If you feel at all shaken, then I pray that you are also very much stirred. | {
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Apprenticeships for learners aged over 25 should be scrapped, says IPPR
Apprenticeships should be restricted to learners under the age of 25, according to researchers from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in a new book launched today.
Proposals include increasing the funding for pre-apprenticeship training by applying an age limit to all apprenticeship starts.
Tess Lanning, a research fellow at IPPR and Tony Dolphin, IPPR’s senior economist argue that while training adults is important, it’s damaging to call it an apprenticeship.
“Increasing the number of apprenticeships that are offered to people aged 25 and over has diluted the important role that they should play in socialising young people and preparing them for the world of work,” The report states.
“Adult apprenticeships cannot exist by definition and the government should limit them to young people. Apprenticeships should not be just another form of on-the-job training; they should be something special, easing the transition of young people into work through a mix of on-the-job specific training and more general off-the-job learning.
“People who have already been in the labour market for a number of years require other types of training. There is a case for the government to create a stronger adult skills system that supports people to cope with economic change, but apprenticeships are not the appropriate vehicle.”
The pair add that pre-apprenticeship training should be used to help young people who are unemployed and “lack even the most basic skills required by employers” to get onto an apprenticeship scheme.
“The apprenticeship ‘brand’ should be reserved for young people developing the skills they need to flourish in the labour market.
“We are sceptical about the quality of some apprenticeships offered to older workers and believe they offer a poor return to the government, compared to helping young people prepare for an apprenticeship.”
‘Rethinking apprenticeships’ was launched by John Hayes, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning at the AoC Annual Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham.
Mr Hayes has written a chapter in the book outlining new government priorities that will ensure apprenticeships are ‘no longer to be seen as the poor relation of academic study’.
The Minister states that training in new areas such as advanced engineering, information technology and the creative industries will help re-establish apprenticeships as the ‘primary form’ of practical training.
The report also says that level 2 apprenticeships need to be clearly branded as an ‘intermediate’ qualification to learners in order to encourage them to progress to higher levels.
“I want many more apprenticeships to be at higher levels, up to degree level and even above. The government has announced a higher apprenticeship fund, worth £25m, which will support up to 10,000 more advanced and higher apprenticeships,” Mr Hayes said.
Mr Hayes also said FE colleges are the ‘great unheralded triumph’ of the education system, and would be given even greater freedoms by the coalition.
“We are replacing the costly regime of centralisation with genuine devolution of power within the system.
“The government’s primary role is to create a framework that helps individuals and their employers to get the learning they want or need.
“An indispensable part of achieving this goal is removing the barriers in the way of learning providers’ efforts to respond to what their customers are demanding.”
Other contributors include Martin Doel, Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC), who published the book in partnership with the IPPR.
Mr Doel said apprenticeships should take influence from the German ‘meister’ model and teach young people generall skills, as well as English and maths at FE colleges.
“Particularly for young people, an apprenticeship’s value in the labour market lies as much in its teaching of general skills as its occupational training,” Mr Doel said.
“There is a good case for a strong core offer, delivered in partnership with colleges, for young people, not just those under 19 but perhaps up to the age of 25.
“Those aged under 19 should certainly enjoy time off-the-job for learning equivalent to that in Germany, so they can learn not just English and maths but also the generic skills that will stand them in good stead in an economy where adaptability scores highly.”
Mr Doel added that learners aged 25 and above need a completely different apprenticeship model in order to become a ‘meister’, or a highly skilled craftsman or woman.
“Apprentices aged 27 may have been working for a decade, and have gained many of the personal, learning and thinking skills that are so essential in the SASE framework.
“They may want, not just level 3 courses, but highly advanced level 4 and 5 apprenticeships where they either learn the skills needed to become a manager or to become what the Germans would call a meister.”
Mr Doel added that a qualification equivalent to the meister currently does not exist.
“It is something akin to the master craftsman diploma that we should seek to incorporate within our apprenticeship programme, recognising it as an alternative to the management route,” Mr Doel said.
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Jane Lever
I think this view ignores the fact that many of the 25+ people who apply for apprenticeships do not have the previous work experience and necesary employability skills that seems to be taken for granted; so creating a master craftsman diploma as an alternative route for post 25 yr olds may not be a realistic option for many. I strongly agree with the suggestion that pre-apprentice training should be available for those that “lack even the most basic skills required by employers” – however this should available regardless of age. | {
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