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The Cowboy Novels that Inspired Hitler
The adventure stories of Karl May set in the American Southwest have charmed millions of Germans, but especially Hitler,who patterned Nazi policies on their plots.
The aura of Indian names—Massachusetts, Monangahela, Arapahoe County, Mississippi, Minnesota—hangs over
America, even after the indigenous people are often gone.
A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native
Americans in history texts and the media. From silent
movies until the '60s, "cowboys and Indians"—
John Wayne as a hero, "Apache blood" as a sign of
"savagery"—were fixtures and fixations of Hollywood
films, the last bastion of the ugly, 19th century military
watchword Manifest Destiny.
A Founding Amnesia has long erased the stories of Native
Americans in history texts and the media. From silent
movies until the '60s, "cowboys and Indians"—
John Wayne as a hero, "Apache blood" as a sign of
"savagery"—were fixtures and fixations of Hollywood
films, the last bastion of the ugly, 19th century military
watchword Manifest Destiny.
Thanks to the resistance of the American Indian Movement, however, the record has been corrected, at least in part, to reflect the actual stories of white America's encounters with native people: tales of expropriation, admirable resistance, and genocide from coast to coast. Nonetheless, the Smithsonian still has a collection of 20,000 indigenous skulls, cut off in massacres, the flesh boiled down. Many had initially been sent to Dr. Samuel George Morten to concoct 19th century anthropometry, a pseudo-science of "racial" measurements alleging "Anglo-Saxon" superiority. But in 1990, Congress at last passed NAGPRA, the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act. Slowly, slowly, body parts are being returned to indigenous communities for burial.
The U.S. is not alone, however, in whitewashing its encounters with Native Americans. Most remarkably, perhaps, the ethnic cleansing of the "Wild West" has long been an exotic theme in Germany for more than a century thanks largely to the novels of a very strange man named Karl May—which were beloved by none other than Hitler.
Born in 1842, May was the fifth child of an impoverished weaver from Saxony. He was also a fluid imposter. In 1859, after pilfering candles and then a watch, May was deprived of his first job as a teacher. He then masqueraded as a police lieutenant investigating counterfeiting: May would say a householder's treasured 10 Thaler note was fake and make off with it. He also posed as a doctor and a notary's assistant living in a hotel, ordering fur coats and other expensive, hand-sewn apparel, and abruptly stealing off without paying.
May was captured by the police but escaped. He lived in a cave in the woods near his home—material for his later suspenseful tales—and narrowly evaded 500 would-be captors.
His elusiveness came to an end, however, when he was jailed from 1865 to 1869 in Osterstein Castle in Zwickau, a reform institution. There he spent much of his time in the prison library reading fantasy novels about America—James Fenimore Cooper and the like—histories, and travel books. He was again imprisoned in Waldheim, Saxony between 1870 and 1874. In 1876, after telling people he had been traveling abroad, he reinvented himself prolifically as a travel writer, a Catholic novelist—his five books sold on horseback by colporteurs—and an author in boys' magazines.
Equipped with a gorgeous imagination, May conjured fantasies of the Orient and with himself dressed up as the hero, Kara Ben Nemsi [Karl from Germany]. Between 1880 and 1888, he published an Orient cycle of six volumes. Prefiguring J.K. Rowling, he had made a list of plots to write, and at the age of 51 began to compose what could be called the Harry Potter books of Germany: the Winnetou novels, the first of which was published in 1893.
Set in an Aryanized American Southwest, these books center on the blood brotherhood of Old Shatterhand, a German surveyor, and Winnetou, a noble Mescalero Apache. Unsurprisingly, "Shatterhand's" German name was Karl.
For the past 123 years, generations of German children have re-enacted the exploits of these heroes. May's books, still in print, have sold 200 million copies. The '60s Winnetou movies, which starred French actor Pierre Brice as Winnetou and American actor Lex Barker (a former Tarzan) as Shatterhand, resuscitated the post-World War II German film industry. At Bad Segeburg, every summer since 1952, 300,000 fans attend a Karl May festival, as many as celebrate the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.
May's young German narrator was treated by other cowboys as a "greenhorn" who, like May, had only read about the West. But Old Shatterhand, as the narrator would soon be named, would surprise you. He could kill a grizzly bear or a maddened buffalo by himself where others scattered like leaves. He could shatter your jaw with a blow. He was no drunkard. And he had German efficiency compared to "shiftless American cowboys."
May contrasted Winnetou's nobility, too, to "untrustworthy Kiowas." Winnetou's skin is not dark but a "subdued, light brown with [but] a tinge of bronze"—and to drive home the point, the series is subtitled "The Red Gentleman." As he is dying, Winnetou is converted to Christianity, while settlers sing "Ave Maria" over this frontier Christ-figure. In Edward Said's phrase, he is an "Orientalized" indigenous person (May also set novels in the Middle East) as imagined by a predatory Occidental culture. In May's novels, as in so much American history teaching, indigenous people do not speak diversely for themselves.
A wide variety of Germans, including Karl Liebknecht, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, and Hitler, loved the May novels. Even today, many young people, notably women, are drawn to Winnetou.
Aping the horrific beliefs of American Manifest Destiny, which saw the "Anglo-Saxon race" push its frontier all the way to the Philippines, May imagined indigenous Americans as romantically—and inevitably—doomed, with Winnetou's nobility passing away irrevocably.
Klekih-Petra, another German who flees into the American wilderness, also loves Winnetou and dies with the Apaches. He sees the hopelessness of their struggle:
I saw the Indian desperately resist his destruction. I saw the murderers tearing at his intestines, and my heart filled with anger, compassion and pity. He was doomed; I could not save him. But I could make his death easier; I could bring the radiance of love and reconciliation to his final hour.
Shatterhand was drawn to Nsho-tshi, Winnetou's sister. He describes her beauty, too, as European:
There was no trace of the high cheekbones common among Indians. The soft, warm, and full cheeks came together in a chin whose dimples would have suggested playfulness in a European woman… When she opened her beautifully shaped mouth in a smile, her teeth glistened like pure ivory. The delicate flare of her nostrils seemed to point to Greek rather than Indian descent. The color of her skin was light copper-bronze with a touch of silver.
Nsho-tshi tried to go to St. Louis to learn about white women, to become good enough to marry the Aryan hero. But she was murdered by the grasping Yankee Santer on the way. May allowed no sex or "race-mixing" between "superior" and "savage."
Like indigenous Americans, Shatterhand values wild nature: Unlike white American frontiersmen, he does not slaughter the buffalo with repeating rifles. And that, too, with humans being the bizarre exception, was an important Nazi value.
But however strong, Shatterhand does not kill people. Yet Winnetou takes revenge and scalps Parranoh, the murderer of a woman he loved. Shatterhand is bemused by this sign of Winnetou's "savagery." For, like his German hero, May himself was a man of peace, a Christian who eschewed killing.
In 1893, at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, historian Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin famously lectured on settlers killing Indians across the United States as they extended an ever-westward American frontier and how that frontier was coming to an end. He was in touch with Friedrich Ratzel, the German historian who coined the terms Biogeographie (biological geography) and Lebensraum (a large, conquered space for an otherwise constricted German life). This was to be continental expansion and ethnic cleansing of "lesser" peoples.
Lebensraum was explicitly Turner's idea of an American-defining Western frontier transposed to a German-defining East in Poland and Russia. For both Turner and Ratzel, this was transcontinental, settler colonialism, not some distant empire across the seas. Ratzel was a founder of the Pan-German League, which had unhappily seen German immigrants settle in the Wild West, and imagined Germans surging eastward in conquest during World War I like 13th century Teutonic knights invading Poland. As Turner reciprocally put it, "American colonization [of the West] has become the mother of German colonial policy."
Karl Haushofer, Ratzel's student, taught Rudolf Hess, who became Hitler's secretary. When Hitler and Hess were jailed for the Munich putsch of 1923, Haushofer would give them five-hour tutorials on geopolitics each week. It was then that Hitler began to speak of Lebensraum, and Haushofer would subsequently propagate the idea of Lebensraum widely in the Third Reich.
The Karl May novels had long possessed Hitler's imagination. As he recounts in Table Talk, I've just been reading a very fine article on Karl May. I found it delightful. It would be nice if his work were republished. I owe him my first notions of geography, and the fact that he opened my eyes on the world. I used to read him by candle-light, or by moonlight with the help of a huge magnifying-glass…The first book of his I read was The Ride Through the Desert. I was carried away by it. And I went on to devour at once the other books by the same author. The immediate result was a falling-off in my school reports.
As Fuehrer, Hitler kept the whole collection of May's works in his bedroom, and they inspired his ideas about the frontier. To Hitler, Lebensraum meant settlement and bread: "For a man of the soil, the finest country is the one that yields the finest crops. In twenty years' time, European emigration will no longer be directed towards America, but eastwards."
Of Ukrainians, Hitler insisted, "There's only one duty: to Germanize this country by the immigration of Germans, and to look upon the natives as Redskins."
Astonishingly, Hitler's idea of settling the eastern European frontier even came decked out in the clichés of Western conquest: "We'll supply the Ukranians with scarves, glass beads, and everything that colonial peoples like."
In Ukraine, Nazi allies led by Stefan Bandera (whose statue still looms in Kiev) murdered some 184,000 out of 187,000 Jews. The Nazis exported the killing of Jews to the "Wild East."
To justify the slaughter of Poles, Hitler conjured North America: "I don't see why a German who eats a piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil that produces this bread has been won by the sword. When we eat wheat from Canada, we don't think about the despoiled Indians."
German novels by Clara Viebig in the early 20th century made Poles "blacks" because of their dark hair, Polish women "seductresses."As opposed to "blond" Aryans, the latter were even imagined as "vampires." Two leading genocidal impulses in America, toward Indians and blacks, became one in German racism.
When Nazi troops were losing to the Soviet resistance, Hitler sent 300,000 copies of Karl May novels to the officers, who may have shaken their heads in disbelief. That was Hitler's leading strategic thought: "The struggle we are waging there against the [Soviet] Partisans resembles very much the struggle in North America against the Red Indians. Victory will go to the strong, and strength is on our side."
Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, proclaimed, "The East is a plantation of pure Germanic blood, the melting pot of all German and Germanic tribes." Hitler's idea was to kill 30 or 40 million Russians, confine the rest on reservations, and settle Aryan farmers on the soil. Some 20 million Russians died in the Nazi onslaught. Heinrich Boll, a wounded soldier and later Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dreamed of "a colonial existence here in the East after a victorious war." Nazis commissioned books to "acquaint small children with the ideas behind the settlement plan and transfer the cowboys-and-Indians romanticism of the 'American West' to eastern Europe."
They settled some 400,000 Germans in Ukraine and Crimea. Settlers took the keys to Ukrainian houses. But partisan resistance was too fierce.
Jews, said Hitler's Governor General for Poland, Hans Frank, were "flatfooted Indians," and in 1939, Hitler forced 90,000 Jews into the Lublin-Reservat[reservation/camp] in Poland—a maneuver modeled on Kit Carson's 1863 driving of the Navajos to the inarable Bosque Redondo.
Hitler advocated eugenics or Social Darwinism. Focused on anthropometry and IQ testing, eugenics was also the basis of the American immigration law of 1924 that aimed to preserve the "pure Nordic stock" of the United States, where 30 states had laws against "miscegenation" (interracial marriage). Between 1909 and 1979, California would sterilize 20,000 immigrant women for being "feeble-minded"; Hitler would murder some 25,000 "defective" "Aryan" children and 300,000 mental patients as "wertlos" (devoid of value). There is considerable interplay and overlap in American and German academic life, politics and law between racist ideas and practices—parallels that exist to this day. In Imperial Grunts: on the Ground with the American Military (2006), Robert Kaplan eerily traces a 1931 map of the German Ost by Karl Haushofer as parallel to the vast American empire of bases today in what soldiers often name "Indian country." Donald Trump's repeated refrains from the Right are drawn from the Klan, Britain First, and the American National Alliance, whose president, William Pierce, author of the Turner Diaries, considered Hitler the greatest leader of the 20th century.
But the driving idea behind Hitler's conception of Social Darwinism was the extermination of American Indians in the "Wild West." And the vehicle for this was Karl May's fantasy novels. When Hitler went to celebrate at May's gravesite in Radebeul, he discovered that May's best friend, buried next to him, was Jewish. The Nazis dug up that corpse.
During the Cold War, American students, myself included, were taught the silly idea that the Soviet Union and Germany were the same, as opposed to the American "open society." Eugenics and the similarity of American and Nazi laws were whited out. Yet students and some faculty have long fought American eugenics. Only recently has there been scholarly recognition of colonial genocide, brought home to Europe in the "Wild East."
American scholars, diplomats, and politicians did not read Hitler or put out of their minds any mention of Indians. They did not notice the Karl May craze in Germany, much less connect it, as Europeans do, to Hitler: there was, despite Indians dancing on the German screen, no "Wild East." They "forgot" all this because settler-genocide was too close to home. And in Israel, the idea of settler-colonialism, including comparison of Palestinians to American Indians, also seized the imagination of leaders. They do not know—I speak here as a Jew—the close connection to this central Nazi idea and World War II.
Ever the imposter, May dressed as the cowboy Shatterhand and named his house Villa Shatterhand. He had beautiful rifles made like Shatterhand's Baerentoeter—bear-killer—and told his listeners that he himself, a shrimpy 5' 5," was Shatterhand. He also possessed the dead Winnetou's rifle, a Silberbuechse/Silverbox (in November 2015, Pierre Brice's "Silberbuechse" from the movies was auctioned on German television for 65,000 euros). When asked for the hair of Winnetou, May gave a happy visitor to his house black strands from a stallion's mane. He told large audiences he was an Apache chief. He was fluent, he said, in some 40 languages: "I speak and write French, English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Rumanian, six dialects of Arabic, Persian, two dialects of Kurdish, six dialects of Chinese, Malayan, Namaqua, some Sunda idioms, Swahili, Hindi, Turkish, and the Indian languages of the Sioux, Apache, Comanche, Snakes, Utes, Kiowas, and three South American dialects. I won't count Lapplandish. How many nights of work this cost me? I still work three nights through each week—Monday from 6 AM until 12 AM Tuesday, and so Wednesday to Thursday, and Friday to Saturday."
For these impostures, the fantastic Karl May was no longer arrested. It was, we might say, performance art.
In 1899, wealthy and at age 57, May, at last, visited Egypt. He found it dirty and distasteful. In 1908, four years before his death, he set foot at Niagara Falls and met a Tuscarora chief. In a photograph with Karl, the Tuscarora wore suspenders. If only Hitler's fantasies about the Wild East had similarly remained…fantasies.
In 1911, shortly before his death, May sued a defamer who called him a "born criminal." A German court ruled in his favor: "But such things would not be a crime in a poet, and I think Karl May is a poet."
May's house and grave are now a museum at his birthplace in Radebeul. The public relations director, Andre Koehler, conjures himself, as many do, an avatar. He wears a white shirt with an Indian-head bolo tie, Wranglers, a mustang belt buckle, and leather moccasins. With unintentional hilarity, Koehler intones: "I was born a hundred years and one week after the death of Winnetou."
The May museum also featured scalps of Native Americans as late as 2014, when, after years of protest, some were at last returned to indigenous Americans for burial.
Alan Gilbert is John Evans Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, and author of Democratic Individuality, Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy and Black Patriots and Loyalists; Fighting for Emancipation in the War of Independence.


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How To Add Details to Skirt Patterns
Add an eye-catching touch to a button closure by adapting the placket into an interlocking scallop design.
Tip: Select light- to mediumweight woven fabric, such as linen, cotton or silk. Natural-fiber fabrics are easier to press into a scallop shape than synthetic fibers.
Alter the Pattern
Cut out the pattern pieces.
On the front pattern, mark the finished waist seam along the center front line. Mark the center-front line 1 1/2" below the first mark to denote the uppermost button placement. Mark six more button placements at a 3" interval along the center-front line. To denote the scallop inner curves, make a smaller mark halfway between each button placement mark (1).
Download the scallop template. Position the template over the front pattern, aligning the placement marks. Trace the template curved edge (2).
Draw a line 1/4" beyond each scallop right edge to account for the seam allowance (3). Cut the pattern along the line.
Draw a vertical line 2 1/2" from the scallop outer curve to denote the facing inner edge. To make the facing pattern, position paper over the front pattern. Trace the outer scallop edge, inner facing-edge line, and skirt upper and lower edges (4). Cut out the facing pattern.
From the fabric, cut one front and one facing. Turn over the patterns to cut the opposite front and facing.
From the interfacing, cut one facing, using the inner scallop line as the cutting line. Turn over the pattern to cut the opposite interfacing piece.
Follow the pattern guidesheet to cut the remaining skirt pieces.
Position one interfacing facing on one fabric-facing wrong side, aligning the straight edges. Fuse, following the manufacturer's instructions. Repeat to fuse the remaining interfacing to the opposite facing.
With right sides together, align one facing scalloped edge with one front scalloped edge; pin, and then stitch. Grade the seam allowances, and then turn the facing right side out; press. Repeat to stitch the remaining facing to the opposite front.
Follow the pattern guidesheet to construct the skirt, omitting the front closure instructions.
Position the skirt right side up on a flat work surface. Position the scallop template over one skirt scalloped edge; mark the button placements on the skirt. Repeat to mark the opposite scalloped edge.
Interlock the skirt scallops by alternating one above and one below (5).
Center one button over each upper scallop; mark the buttonhole placements. Remove the buttons, and then stitch the buttonholes on the upper scallops.
Cut open the buttonholes, and then mark the button placements on the lower scallops. Stitch a button at each lower scallop mark.
Hand stitch the hook and bar at the skirt waistband opening.
Top Transformation
Use this technique to add a zigzag closure to a blouse or jacket.
Select a pattern with an overlapping front closure. If the overlap is too narrow to draw the scallops, widen it by taping a pattern paper strip along the center-front edge.
Follow the skirt alteration instructions to trace the scalloped edge onto the blouse pattern overlap, adjusting the scallop size as desired. Make sure the button placements are aligned with the pattern center-front line.
Create a front facing pattern and construct the blouse front closure according to the skirt instructions.
Tip: For a different look, use an alternate shape, such as a square or triangle, to draw a shirt placket edge.
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Amazon Drops 9% on 4Q Earnings Dud
Wall Street sent shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) sliding 8% Friday morning after the e-commerce giant revealed holiday season results that badly missed the mark.
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The earnings dud from the largest online retailer late Thursday triggered a mixed reaction from the analyst community.
Cantor Fitzgerald kept a "buy" rating on Amazon's shares, but trimmed its price target to $415 from $425, leaving little upside from its Thursday close at $403.01. Still, the commentary from the firm was largely positive.
"Amid signs of slowdown in U.S. e-commerce, Amazon continues to grow materially faster than the overall market, as it benefits from strong demand, driven by a superior consumer value proposition" and a "robust" Amazon Web Services offering, Cantor analyst Youssef Squali wrote in a note to clients.
Amazon's fourth-quarter EPS of 51 cents was not even close to the Street's view of 66 cents, while the 20% jump in revenue to $25.59 billion came up shy against consensus calls for $26.06 billion.
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) maintained its "buy" rating on Amazon and was one of several firms that raised its price targets on the company's shares. Goldman now has a 12-month price target of $460, up from $450 previously.
"While growth slowed this quarter, we continue to believe the value being created by Amazon's innovation in retail and the cloud should continue to drive stock price outperformance, particularly as the company leverages ongoing infrastructure investments into faster growth and higher returns," Goldman analyst Heath Terry wrote in a note to clients.
Terry noted that favorable investments include ones in distribution and data center infrastructure around the world, the Kindle device, digital media offerings, and in China and other emerging markets.
During a conference call with analysts Thursday evening, Amazon execs hinted at hiking the price of its two-day "Prime" membership program by 50% to help counter shipping and fuel costs. Such a move would be the first price hike in the popular program's history.
Squali said a potential price increase "should contribute to higher profitability and/or further investments to re-accelerate top line growth."
Shares of Seattle-based Amazon.com fell 8.13% to $370.06 Friday morning.


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That H28 sure has that 'antiqued' look about it. More work than it looks I'll bet.
Canoe club xmas bash yesterday at a local 5th generation professional fishermans' place. He wasn't there, out fishing of Tassy's west coast in 20M swells. In his tiny creek was a Couta boat, restored but it was built by his great grandfather and used for 40 years by 2 generations to make their living. No pics, no camera but very simple and spartan. He has the original rig but no sails.


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BERLIN - Germany is proposing that debt-ridden Greece temporarily cede sovereignty over tax and spending decisions to a powerful eurozone budget commissioner before it can secure further bailouts, an official in Berlin said Saturday.
The idea was quickly rejected by the European Union's executive body and the government in Athens, with the EU Commission in Brussels insisting that "executive tasks must remain the full responsibility of the Greek government, which is accountable before its citizens and its institutions."
But the German official said the initiative is being discussed among the 17-nation currency bloc's finance ministers because Greece has repeatedly failed to fulfil its commitments under its current €110 billion ($145 billion) lifeline.
The proposal foresees a commissioner holding a veto right against any budgetary measures and having broad surveillance ability to ensure that Greece will take proper steps to repay its debt as scheduled, the official said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are confidential.
Greece's international creditors — the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank — already have unprecedented powers over Greek spending after negotiating with Athens stringent austerity measures and economic reforms in return for the first bailout.
The so-called troika of creditors is currently negotiating another €130 billion rescue package for the heavily indebted country. German news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday cited an unnamed troika official as saying Greece might actually need a €145 billion package because of its prolonged recession.
The German proposal, first reported by the Financial Times, is likely to spark controversy in Greece.
Despite the quick rejection from the EU Commission, Germany's demand underlines the frustration of the eurozone with Greece's slack implementation of the promised reforms, spending cuts and privatizations. During every verification mission last year, the troika found huge implementation shortfalls, which in turn increased gaps in Athens' budget and intensified the need for a second bailout.
A powerful budget commissioner would further diminish the political leeway of Greece's government, just as politicians there are gearing up for an election set to take place this spring.
A government official in Athens said a similar proposal had been floated last year but got nowhere. Greece would not accept such a measure, he added. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal proposal has been made by the EU or Germany yet.
The unprecedented and sweeping powers for creditors would indeed deal a huge blow to Greece's sovereignty, but they could help mobilize more support for the government in Athens from its European partners.
Several German lawmakers have repeatedly said that giving more money to Greece is unthinkable without stricter enforcement and control of the conditions attached to the rescue packages.
Greece is currently locked in a twin effort, seeking to secure a crucial debt relief deal with private investors while also tackling the pressing demands from its European partners and the IMF for more austerity measures and deeper reforms.
Failure on either front would force the country to default on its debt in less than two months, pouring new fuel on the fires of Europe's debt crisis.
In that case, Greece would likely leave the eurozone, which would bring disaster to the country, destabilize the currency bloc, fuel panic on financial markets and ultimately threaten the fragile world economy.
Despite two weeks of intensive talks, a debt relief agreement with private investors worth some €100 billion has yet to be reached.
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos met anew with representatives of international banks and other private institutions Saturday, with a final deal being very close, officials in Athens said.
A statement from the creditor representatives said the two sides are "close to the finalization" of the voluntary writedown that would roughly halve Greece's privately held debt. "We expect to conclude next week as discussions on other issues move forward," they said.
The statement also referred to a previous framework agreement which indicated that the creditors have accepted an interest rate below 4 per cent for the new bonds to be issued in place of the old ones — a very favourable rate that will make it easier for the Greek government to service its debt.
With the current troika mission still ongoing and no final deal with the private sector creditors, Greece is unlikely to feature prominently at a summit of the EU's 27 leaders Monday, according to officials in Brussels.
Demetris Nellas in Athens and Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels contributed to this report.


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The "Dancing With the Stars" celebrity and professional pairings were announced today on "Good Morning America."
Reality television star Kate Gosselin, actress Shannen Doherty, "The Bachelor" star Jake Pavelka and Olympic figure skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek are among the stars who will show off their fancy footwork during the show's tenth season.
One new professional ballroom dancer, Damian Whitewood, joins the show this year. Whitewood will be paired with actress Pamela Anderson.
The pros will begin training their celebrity partners as the teams prepare to hit the dance floor on the "Dancing With the Stars" two-hour season premiere on Monday, March 22 at 8 p.m. ET.
Donny Osmond was the winner of the coveted Mirror Ball trophy on the last season of the show.
CLICK HERE for photos of the cast!Buzz Aldrin, Legendary Astronaut
Aldrin will be partnered with dancer Ashley Costa (formerly DelGrosso), who returns for her fourth season.Pamela Anderson, Actress and Model
Anderson joins professional dancer Damian Whitewood, who makes his "Dancing with the Stars" debut this season.Erin Andrews, ESPN Host
Andrews teams up with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who returns for his eighth season.
'Dancing With the Stars' Celebrity and Pro Pairings Season 10Shannen Doherty, Actress
Doherty will dance with two-time "Dancing with the Stars" champ Mark Ballas, who returns for his sixth season.Kate Gosselin, TLC Star
Kate Gosselin has the joy, frustration and honor of raising eight children -- twins and sextuplets -- in central Pennsylvania. Gosselin teams up with Tony Dovolani, who returns for his ninth season.Evan Lysacek, Olympic Figure Skating Champion
Lysacek will dance with Anna Trebunskaya, who returns for her fifth season.Niecy Nash, Comedienne and Host
Nash joins Louis Van Amstel, who returns for his sixth season on "Dancing With the Stars."
'Dancing With the Stars' Celebrity and Pro Pairings Season 10Chad Ochocinco, NFL Star
Ochocinco will hit the dance floor with two-time champion Cheryl Burke, who returns for her ninth season.Jake Pavelka, "The Bachelor" Star
Pavelka joins Chelsie Hightower, in her third season.Nicole Scherzinger, Pop Star
Scherzinger teams with Season 7 champ Derek Hough, who returns for his sixth season.Aiden Turner, Soap Star
Turner will partner with Edyta Sliwinska, the only pro to compete in all ten seasons of "Dancing with the Stars."


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This from HSUS Oregon state director Scott Beckstead:
RULING TODAY BY THE OREGON COURT OF APPEALS: The Oregon Court of
Appeals has ruled that the emergency aid exception to the search and
seizure warrant requirement applies to animals. This is a case that
originated in Douglas County, Oregon, and involved Grace, the little
brown mare who became a worldwide celebrity for her will to survive
after being horribly abused. Combined with the ruling in State v. Nix,
which held that individual animals are crime victims just like people, I
must say Oregon courts are definitely moving in the right direction....
The case is State v. Fessenden.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Big Oregon ruling!
Posted by A at 10:10 AM
1 comment:
- Julia Gile said...
Way to go, Oregon! I am heartened by the inclusions of animals as crime victims. this needs to be codified and nationalized. Thanks for your research.
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Photo of Victoria Lippert courtesy of Gil Talbot.
Freshman Victoria Lippert was named Ivy League Women's Basketball Rookie of the Week after leading Harvard to a pair of wins on the weekend.
Lippert paced the Crimson in scoring in a weekend sweep of Brown and Yale. The starting guard averaged 24.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.0 blocks per game and shot 67.9 percent from the field, 60.0 percent from downtown and 1.000 percent from the free throw line. She scored a game and career-high 27 points on a 9-for-15 effort from the field and a perfect 7-for-7 performance at the free throw line against Brown. She posted a game-high 21 points, three rebounds and three assists in win over Yale.
Lippert, who is third on the team in scoring with 12.1 ppg., was honored with rookie of the week title Dec. 14.
The Crimson gears up for the second round of Ivy League round robin play with a trip to New York this weekend.


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I find that I want to eat only very small portions. The only thing that has been difficult is getting used to my new appetite. I've been throwing out a lot of my food because I physically feel like I cannot eat that much, and if I do eat too much then I don't feel so good. However, I'm learning to keep all my meals small and frequent (just like I should have been doing all along!).


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As the A.F.L.-C.I.O. prepares to endorse President Obama on Tuesday, labor leaders say they will mount their biggest campaign effort, with far more union members than ever before — at least 400,000, they say — knocking on voters' doors to counter the well-endowed "super PACs" backing Republicans.
The same Supreme Court ruling in 2010 that set the stage for these political action committees to accept unlimited donations also allowed unions to send their foot soldiers to visit not just union members at home, but also voters who do not belong to unions — a move expected to increase labor's political clout significantly in this year's elections.
Unions first used their expanded ability in a big way in Ohio last November to educate and mobilize both union and nonunion voters in a battle to repeal a law that curbed bargaining rights for Ohio's teachers, firefighters and other public employees. Spurred by 17,000 union volunteers, labor won in a blowout, with Ohioans voting 62 percent to 38 percent to repeal a law that the Republican-dominated Legislature had enacted seven months earlier.
"That was a pretty big wake-up call to the Republican Party and also to the Democratic Party, because it showed what labor unions can do when they're motivated and can reach out to voters across the board," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
With numerous super PACsexpected to broadcast a flood of TV spots in support of the Republican nominee, the Obama campaign is looking to organized labor to play a major role in offsetting that. Labor leaders say they expect unions to spend $400 million this year on national, state and local elections — including $100 million by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — but they say their ground troops, not money, is labor's signal contribution.
Union officials assert that the elections this November, at the national and state levels, are vital to labor's future because Republicans have made repeated efforts to undermine unions, whether through Wisconsin's legislation to curb public sector collective bargaining, Indiana's "right to work" law or Congressional efforts to weaken the National Labor Relations Board.
Labor leaders voice confidence that they can rally millions of blue-collar voters behind President Obama in battleground states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
"Look at what we've already seen this year — the super PACs have spent tens of millions of dollars," Richard L. Trumka, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, said in an interview. "We're going to counter that by getting people out. We'll never be able to match them with money."
The Service Employees International Union, with two million members, aims to mobilize 100,000 of its members this year — twice as many as in 2008 — to make phone calls and knock on doors.
"What's different in our approach this year is massive investment in activating member volunteers," said Brandon Davis, the service employees' political director.
With unions representing 11.8 percent of all workers, labor volunteers canvassing in previous elections could often just knock on one in 10 doors. They might knock on a door and then have to walk two blocks to the next union household. But now they can knock on every door in a neighborhood.
"Their ability to be totally unified and focused on their message will make them ultimately the most decisive single player in the political landscape this year," said Stephen J. Law, president of American Crossroads, a Republican super PAC whose founders include Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser. "Groups like us, we don't have millions of members that we can readily deploy. We tend to be more active on the airwaves and mass communications."
In Wisconsin and Ohio last year, Republican governors pushed through legislation to curb bargaining by public employees, a move they said was needed to balance their budgets. But labor leaders viewed those efforts as part of a nationwide Republican strategy to weaken unions, long among the G.O.P's most effective adversaries. In recent months, some 20,000 union volunteers collected more than one million signatures to hold a vote to recall Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, probably in the next few months.
"We've seen a systematic plan to go after Republican enemies," said Michael Podhorzer, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s political director. "They've clearly tried to weaken unions and drain our treasuries. But the consequence has been more like kicking a hornets' nest than draining our resources."
Union strategists predict that their expanded reach will make an important difference in angling this year for white working-class voters. Labor leaders say a strong voter education campaign may swing many in this group away from Mitt Romney, the expected Republican nominee, and toward Mr. Obama.
According to a 2008 Hart Research poll, white blue-collar men over all voted for John McCain over Mr. Obama by an 18-point margin, but, in large part because of unions' politicking, white blue-collar men in unions backed Mr. Obama by a 23-point margin.
Mr. Law of American Crossroads agreed that much of this year's campaign would focus on the white working class. "It's a demographic that President Obama has significant vulnerability with," he said.
Mr. Law said American Crossroads and its sister groups, which hope to raise $300 million, are merely trying to keep up with organized labor's war chest and ground troops. Some Republicans say labor's campaign spending will exceed that of Republican super PACS.
"They're lying," said Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. "Citizens United will give them access to far more money than we have," he said, referring to the 2010 Supreme Court decision.
The service employees will focus in part on voter registration and turnout in Hispanic neighborhoods (especially in Colorado, Florida and Nevada) and African-American neighborhoods (particularly in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.)
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has created its own super PAC, Workers' Voices, which plans to spend the $3.7 million it has collected largely to finance labor's efforts to reach out to nonunion voters.
"The concept was never to be a force on TV and try to match what Karl Rove and the Koch brothers can do, because that's a fool's errand," said the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Mr. Podhorzer, referring to the billionaire industrialists and supporters of conservative causes. "We firmly believe that person-to-person contact moves the percentages our way."


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Published May 21, 2015
A closer look at the community of Ferguson, Missouri, where 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed:
HISTORY: Incorporated in 1894 by founder William B. Ferguson as a railroad depot, the town quickly grew into a hub for freight and passenger traffic and a bedroom community for city workers. It also attracted many freed slaves looking for a home after the Civil War.
Before school desegregation, Ferguson and other parts of north St. Louis County were predominantly white. The racial makeup changed as many white suburban families moved to outlying areas such as St. Charles County, parts of which are more than 40 miles from St. Louis. Today, Ferguson is nearly 70 percent black.
POPULATION AND POVERTY: By 2010, the census counted about 21,000 people in Ferguson, which is about 10 miles north of downtown St. Louis in the broader area known to locals as North County. Fewer than half of the approximately 9,100 homes are owner-occupied, and about a quarter of residents live below the federal poverty level.
COMMERCE: Ferguson is home of the global headquarters of Emerson Electric Co., a Fortune 500 company that employs more than 130,000 workers worldwide. Just outside the city limits is Express Scripts, the nation's largest company that manages pharmacy benefits. Earlier this year, the corporation announced a $56 million expansion that will add 1,500 jobs. Ferguson's former rail depot is home to a redevelopment effort aimed at promoting small businesses in a pedestrian-friendly corridor, with a weekly farmers market and outdoor concerts in the summer.
SCHOOLS: Several North County school districts — including the Normandy system from which Brown graduated — lost state accreditation because of declining test scores and other academic shortcomings. Some students from the failing districts were bused to better-performing schools in other districts.
RACIAL CONCERNS: A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson police department, jail and court.
The report could be released as soon as Wednesday and appears to bolster allegations from some Ferguson protesters who have said members of the city's predominantly white police force disproportionately target black motorists during traffic stops. A 2013 report by the Missouri attorney general's office found that Ferguson police stopped and arrested black drivers nearly twice as frequently as white motorists but were also less likely to find contraband among the black drivers.


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Loudon County Museum/Carmichael Inn – 501 Poplar St., Loudon, 37774. Museum includes Civil War exhibits showcased in the Carmichael Inn, a circa 1810 two-story log cabin used as a stagecoach inn. A self-guided tour of downtown Loudon and the county tells of the town's early years and Civil War history. Open daily. Admission is free.Located behind the courthouse in Loudon is one of the area's oldest homes. The Carmichael Inn is a two story log structure which served as a stopping place for stage coach travelers enroute from Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Travelers would be ferried across the river to spend the night and then resume traveling the next morning by the next stagecoach. Although the exact date of construction is unknown, the first stage of construction is thought to have been completed around 1810. The log house was built by John Hudson Carmichael (1780-1840). His sons operated the Inn, the ferry, and the stagecoach. Two of his sons, James and Dan, fell in love with and married two sisters who were traveling on the stagecoach from Georgia to the Tate Springs Resort.
The Carmichael Inn can be described as an "I-house" as it is two stories tall, one room deep and two or more rooms long. It has a central chimney which opens into fireplaces in the two downstairs. The structure has a gable roof and two front and two rear doors. A two-story porch runs the length of the house. The Carmichael Inn is currently being used as a museum and visitors center.
November 11, 1889 Roane County, Tennessee
October 25, 1953 Loudon County, Tennessee
Lenoir City, Tennessee
Left to right: Arch, Ben, Ulysis, Maude, Henry Estel, and Buck
Picture made before 1953.
Schubert and Wells Genealogy, written by W.B. Howerton Kingston, Tennessee,
September 1987, p. 26:
SHUBERT, John, head, 33, b. Dec. 1866 m. 13 yr.
Sarah, wife, 34, b. Aug. 1865, m. 13 yr., 6 chld., 5 living
Fred, son, 12, b. May 1888
Henry, son, 10, b. Nov. 1889
Maude, dau, 6, b. Apr. 1894
Buck, son, 1, b. Sep. 1898
Ben, son, 1, b. Sep. 1898
Deceased: Infant child of J.H. and Sallie Shubert.*
Nancy Morenan, dau. of J.H. and S.J. Shubert, b. 18 July 1901, d. 26 July 1902*
*On gravestone in Durham Cemetery, near Laurel Bluff, in Roane Co., TN
DEATH CERTIFICATE NUMBER: 55091 Name: Sarah Shuberd Date of Death: 9/26/09 Sex: Female Color: ----- Age: 40 Married or Single: Married Place of Death: Roane County Cause of Death: Cancer Place of Birth: Roane County Occupation: Farmer's wife
DEATH CERTIFICATE NUMBER: 54644 Name: Cacil Shubert Date of Death: 6/4/12 Sex: Female Color: White Age: 6 months Married or Single: ----- Place of Death: Lenoir City Cause of Death: Toa bactas (?) Place of Birth: Lenoir City Occupation: -----
1920 U.S. Census Roane County, Tennessee, [http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/census/1920/snames.html] accessed:February 15, 2009.
Loudon County Death Certificates, [http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/dcerts/dc5.html#snames] accessed:February 15, 2009.
"Carmichael Inn", Loudon County TnGenWeb [http://www.tngenweb.org/loudon/history/cinn.htm] accessed:February 15, 2009.
Loudon County Museum/Carmichael Inn, Digital Format, Originals belonging to Judith Richards Shubert, 2009.
Shubert, Henry Estel. Digital Format, Original photograph belonging to Robert Allen Shubert, 2009.
Shubert, children of Henry and Sallie Shubert, Digital Format, Original photograph belonging to Robert Allen Shubert, 2009
Howerton, W. B., "Schubert and Wells Genealogy," Kingston, Tennessee, September 1987.


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Oscar winning music director A.R. Rahman has said that he is not taking any new Bollywood project at the moment. He is totally busy with what he has already taken up and he would not involve in any new films before finishing the jobs in hand. Mr. Rahman is currently working in Mani Ratnam's Raavana, Rajnikanth's Sultan and Tony D'Souza's Blue. A.R. Rahman won two Oscar awards for his music composition this year for the movie Slumdog Millionaire. After winning the Oscars, A.R. Rahman has reached at the peak of his career and found offers coming in a flurry from big banners production houses.
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Could dogs be the doctors of the next generation?
Labradors in Japan have identified cancer patients with a 95 percent accuracy rate, according to Sky News. It turns out certain cancers evoke chemical compounds in breath and stools – compounds your dog's highly sensitive nose can detect.
Scientists used a Labrador to sniff out samples from more than 300 volunteers, and the dogs were nearly perfect in identifying cancerous breath and stool samples. While the study focused on early-stage bowel cancer, scientists say dogs may also be able to sniff out lung, breast, skin and ovarian cancers.
The dog's overall success rate was 95 percent, but it was even better at detecting cancer in stool samples, with a 98 percent accuracy rate.
This is a striking difference in the 10 percent identification of early bowel cancer that the current screening method – a blood test – yields.
Does this mean we can expect to see labs in lab coats anytime soon? Probably not. But the study may lead to more accurate cancer screening tests in the future.


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Erin Andrews shares fall football fashion tips
When Erin Andrews goes to a game, she's got to look good. It's her job. Whether she's covering the World Series or the Super Bowl — or any other event — the Fox Sports broadcaster has to be camera-ready, but casual, too.
And it's not easy, she says.
"Men are watching me," explains Andrews, 35. "I have to be careful that it's not too provocative, not too sexy, but also something a typical sports fan can relate to." She adds, "If it's too high fashion, my demographic won't get that."
She's been working with stylist Lee Harris since she moved to Fox from ESPN last summer. "I concentrate on sports. I never know what the cool things are to wear," she says, but Harris has found pieces that work well for her. It's a "preppy ... very Kate Middleton" look, she says.
Now, men will ask her, "'Where is that coat from?' It's really funny," she says.
The weather, of course, is a factor in her sartorial choices, says Andrews. And football means sweaters and coats. But the place to start is having comfortable, durable, good-looking shoes, she says.
"If you're a fan, there's a lot of walking. You could be standing and tailgating or going up stairs." For Andrews, covering a game means she's on grass or dirt, and often on uneven ground.
"I want to be comfortable. Tory Burch has these awesome riding boots and they hit you right below the knee and they're flat. I wore those all throughout the World Series. ... Even the baseball players and coaches, they'd be like, 'Nice boots!'"
With the boots, she likes jeans.
"It's not like I'm sitting pretty up in the booth like the guys are. I'm usually eating a hot dog in the dugout," she says. But that doesn't mean you can't look nice. "There are some great jeans that you can make look dressy. I love Citizens (of Humanity)."
She adds that you shouldn't be afraid to break away from the standard denim. "You can go so many different colors, the waxy ones that make it look dressy. There are some great lighter grays and darker grays. ... When I interviewed (Redskins head coach) Mike Shanahan I wore two-tone denim … darker and lighter, two different fabrics."
Having a variety of dressy jeans, she says, "(makes) my job easier."
And under those jeans?
Don't get all excited. "Thermal underwear is my favorite," Andrews says. "I can throw them on under skinny jeans. A lot of the thermal underwear out there is very close to your body. I'm big into layers."
She says her stylist was "doing cute little collared shirts" under "really cute sweaters from J.Crew, which are so affordable."
On top of that, she says, "We got a ton of blazers from Ralph Lauren." One of her favorites has patches on the elbows. "It's very fall. All-American preppy. When you put it together, collared shirt, sweater, fun fall blazer, it's very equestrian."
Andrews laughs as she tells of how she went to watch her boyfriend, Los Angeles Kings Center Jarret Stoll, play hockey and Victoria Beckham was there wearing a collared shirt and a sweater. She remembers thinking, "Oh my God, we got it right!"
While Andrews has to be impartial for most of her sporting events as a reporter, fans can show their team spirit, she says.
"I've gone through the stages where I've been decked out with a hair bow with the team logo. I can't wear that stuff anymore. I love the fans that get all crazy because they make it so much fun." She adds, "For the longest time, for females there was nothing to wear. It was all so boxy. There are so many brands out now. You have a lot more options."
And when it's cold, she says, bundle up. She uses hand warmers in her pockets, foot warmers in her boots and blankets for her seat. And, she says: Don't forget to wear a hat. "I love wearing hats. It doesn't matter how messed up your hair gets. I think the most important thing for me, I don't like to be cold. Those are long days in your seat and outside tailgating. I don't want to be cold at all."


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A report from the National Audit Office said that ministers had not thought through the possibility that the huge investment would have to be paid for by consumers.
It said that "there is the possibility of a failure to take into account the cumulative impact on consumers of funding those infrastructure projects where the costs are recovered by charging users.
"Increasing the burden on consumers may increase the risk of financial hardship, or the need for unplanned taxpayer support."
The NAO criticised the Government for failing to carry out an "overall assessment" on the "full impact of spending on economic infrastructure in the years ahead".
Chancellor George Osborne unveiled plans at the Autumn statement last month to spend £310billion over the next two years and beyond on new infrastructure projects such as energy, rail, road, water and flood defence schemes.
Two thirds of this investment likely to be funded by private companies "the burden of funding [is] likely to shift towards the public as consumers rather than taxpayers".
It warned that train users could have to cover the cost through higher fares, while vehicle and road tax could go up to pay for new roads. Of the £310billion, more than half - £176billion is being spent on energy projects, with £123billion due to go on electricity schemes.
The NAO added that it was most worried about the impact on people's energy bills because this was "where affordability pressures are the greatest".
It said that "novel infrastructure projects have no track record of comparable data on likely demand" which meant forecasting demand for projects was difficult.
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said the Treasury, departments and regulators should "provide greater clarity on the costs which taxpayers and consumers will bear" from the construction programme.
Last night Margaret Hodge MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee which oversees the work of the NAO, said: "Economic infrastructure is essential for our society to function.
"It gets people from A to B and keeps shops stocked and homes heated. It lies at the heart of encouraging the growth we desperately need to boost our flagging economy and promote the UK as an attractive place to invest.
"A shift towards relying on private investment will inevitably see consumers picking up the tab through higher energy and water bills, internet charges and train fares.
"Consumers will be exasperated to hear that the government has not even made the effort to assess the future impact this will have on their already hard pressed household budgets."
She added that the Treasury could not just "hope for the best" when it came to finding the money to pay for the schemes. She said: "Demand forecasts must be rigorously tested to avoid taxpayer exposure to the costs of flawed projects.
"The Treasury's proposal to issue guarantees to encourage new finance will need careful monitoring to ensure the taxpayer does not get hit with extra expense."
The report makes clear that "ensuring affordability for consumers is a key concern for Government. Value for money and affordability are key considerations in all Government policy as set out in the Green Book".
A Treasury aide added: "As the NAO recognises, investing in economic infrastructure is vital to ensuring Britain can compete in the global race.
"The Government has set out an ambitious infrastructure strategy, for the first time making clear what we need and how much it will cost, and has brought in the former Olympics CEO, Lord Deighton, to deliver it.
"We're on track to reduce the cost of infrastructure delivery by £2-3 billion which will save consumers money, as well as making services more affordable across sectors including the Energy Market Reforms and rail sector reforms.
We're as sweeping away red-tape and developing new finance initiatives to get vital projects moving.
"We have increased infrastructure investment by around £4bn a year above plans we inherited from Labour to £33 billion, boosting growth, creating jobs and supporting businesses and homeowners alike."


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January 31, 2014
YoungYou International Recalls Mega Slim Herbal Appetite Management Pills Due to Presence of DMAA
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of Mega Slim Herbal Appetite Management, one pill a day, sold from September 15, 2013 through January 23, 2014 at the consumer level. The product was found to contain DMAA.
DMAA is also known as 1,3-dimethylamylamine, methylhexanamine or geranium extract. DMAA is commonly used as a stimulant, pre-workout, and weight loss ingredient in dietary supplement products. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that DMAA is potentially dangerous to health as it might cause a rise in blood pressure or other cardiovascular problems such as shortness of breath, tightening in the chest or heart attack. The FDA has also warned that DMAA is an unapproved dietary ingredient. To learn more, please review the FDA's advisory on DMAA: http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/qadietarysupplements/ucm346576.htm.
Mega Slim Herbal Appetite Management is packaged in White Bottles with 30 white capsules. The affected lots include the following Bar Code 736211614094 and expiration date of June 2014.The product can be identified by Mega Slim Herbal Appetite Management. Mega Slim Herbal Appetite Management was made available to consumers only through the YoungYoucorp.com website.
The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm383925.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.


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WALTHAM, Mass.—Junior Kathleen Conway (Simsbury, Conn./Simsbury) pitched a complete-game shutout and helped her own cause with a solo home run, leading Babson College to a 3-0 win over the Brandeis University softball team. The Beavers improved to 28-11, while the Judges fell to 23-18.
Babson scored all of its runs in the first two innings, and all on home runs. The second batter of the game, senior ss Catie Funk (Scarborough, Maine/Scarborough), blasted a two-run shot to right-center field to give the Beavers the early lead. Conway led off the second inning with a solo blast that cleared the scoreboard in right field.
The contest then turned into a pitchers duel, with Conway being matched by Brandeis junior Melissa Nolan (Windsor, Conn./Loomis Chaffee) and senior Casey Ducinski (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury). After Nolan finished out the second inning, Ducinski came on and pitched five shutout frames. In her final regular season contest for the Judges, Ducinski gave up just three hits and allowed only one runner to reach third base.
But the story of the day was Conway. The Babson ace gave up three hits and no walks, striking out 12 batters in seven innings of work. Conway moved to 17-5 on the season, and lowered her ERA to 0.96, moving her into the top 10 in Division III. She also finished 2-for-2 with a walk at the plate, including her first home run of the season.
Nolan had two of Brandeis' three hits at the plate, but also earned the loss to fall to 9-7 on the season.
Sophomore cf Amanda Genovese (North Haven, Conn./North Haven) went 1-for-3 at the top of the Brandeis order. She was held without a stolen base for just the ninth game this season and caught stealing for just the second time in 58 attempts. Her 56 stolen bases so far this season still place her fourth all time in Division III.
It was Brandeis and Babson's second meeting in just over a week. In the first contest, which was played last Wednesday, the Beavers defeated the Judges 6-2. Conway was the star then as well, striking out 13 in seven innings of work and chipping in two of her team's eight hits.
Today's game concluded regular season play for Brandeis. The Judges will find out if they earned an ECAC Tournament berth on Monday.
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Rubber product company doing well in Merced, Calif.
BALLICO -- It's a long way from almonds to rubber mulch for playgrounds, rubber picnic tables and rubber stall mats for horses' hooves.
So you'd think.
But it was no distance at all for Jana (CEO) and Rob (sales) Nairn, who run a truly homegrown "green" company, Rubber Bark, in the north county. This family-owned enterprise sprang from another family-owned company (her parents, Jim and Karen Barstow, run Golden By-Products Inc. with the help of Jana's brother, Brett, and his wife, Amber).
Together they have become the No. 1 company for rubber products on the West Coast. Golden By-Products has processed more than a billion pounds of rubber in the past 12 years. Most of that rubber originally came from cast-off tires from all over Northern California and as far south as Tehachapi.
Ag Link Inc., which employs 10 workers, does business as Rubber Bark. Golden By-Products has 75 employees. They share a 39-acre operation nestled within 200 acres the family owns, thick with almond trees.
The Jana-Rob team came up with the idea of converting those blow-outs and retreads into a soft, safe surface for playgrounds and landscaping. They met as students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Jana's family had long been in the almond business, and she studied agribusiness, figuring she'd wind up in the almond orchards.
But after they got married in 1997, the couple decided to see whether recycled tires could be used for another purpose -- artificial mulch. "I thought I'd be selling almonds," Jana recalls. "You have to be able to adapt and transform your business."
Did they ever.
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When BlackBerry's PlayBook Tablet emerges early next year, it will boast speeds that will be the envy of its chief competitor, RIM CEO Jim Balsillie said Tuesday.
Balsillie, the CEO of RIM, said he is confident the 7-inch tablet computer will find widespread adoption, particularly among corporate users. Part of the device's appeal will be its speed, he said, speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit downtown.
"It's like three to four times faster than an iPad," Balsillie said, crediting the device's multi-core processor with its ability to quickly render Web pages and applications.
As evidence, Balsillie pointed to a demonstration video posted by the company on YouTube. In the demo, a prototype PlayBook appears to render some Web pages faster and more smoothly than an iPad.
"Go to You Tube — see it. It runs fast," he said.
The PlayBook will emerge some time in the first quarter of 2011, Balsillie said. RIM has set internal sales targets for the device, he said, but declined to share them.
"We feel pretty good about pent-up demand," he said.
Balsillie indicated that technology within the tablet, including its ability to render Flash content, would soon find its way into BlackBerry handsets.


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Frank Zappa
He used his prodigious musical talent to challenge the status quo.
Frank Zappa was an outspoken critic of everything from the herd mentality of the middle class to censorship of rock and roll. In his career he worked with every genre from rock to jazz to classical music and produced sixty radical, groundbreaking and irreverent albums.
Frank Zappa was rock and roll's sharpest musical mind and most astute social critic.
He was the most prolific composer of his age, and he bridged genres—rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde and even novelty music—with masterful ease. Under his own name and with the Mothers of Invention, Zappa recorded sixty albums' worth of material in his fifty-two years. Many were double albums or CDs, making his output even more impressively huge.
Not surprisingly, he was occupied nearly every waking hour by the composing, recording, editing and performing of music. He also found time to produce and collaborate with acts as widely varied as Captain Beefheart, Jean-Luc Ponty, Grand Funk Railroad, Wild Man Fischer, the London Symphony Orchestra and Berlin's Ensemble Modern.
Zappa challenged the status quo on many fronts. As a plainspoken curmudgeon, he confronted the corrupt politics of the ruling class and held the banal and decadent lifestyles of his countrymen to unforgiving scrutiny. He pioneered the artist-run independent record label, launching his Straight and Bizarre imprints back in 1969 and later founding the Zappa, DiscReet and Barking Pumpkin labels. In the Sixties, he mocked middle-class mores in "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" (from Absolutely Free, 1967) and sang about the climate of racial inequality and discord on "Trouble Every Day" (from Freak Out!, 1966). In the Seventies, he satirized everything in sight, including disco music ("Dancin' Fool," from Sheik Yerbouti, 1979) and new-age movements ("Cosmik Debris," from Apostrophe ('), 1974). In the Eighties, he enjoyed his one and only Top Forty hit, "Valley Girl," and took on the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), delivering memorable testimony about the First Amendment at a congressional hearing.
He was born Frank Vincent Zappa in Baltimore, Maryland. Gifted with a keen interest in music from an early age, he became conversant in everything from doo-wop—to which he cast an affectionate nod on the album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets (1968)—to the "serious" music of classical composers Bartok and Stravinksky and avant-garde pioneers Varese and Shoenberg. In 1965 Zappa joined the Mothers of Invention (previously the Soul Giants and later, simply the Mothers), who were deliberately and diabolically unconventional. From the way they dressed to the music they played, Zappa intended the Mothers to be provocative, controversial and unafraid of the consequences. He often quoted mentor Edgard Varese's credo, "The present-day composer refuses to die!"
Zappa brought a high degree of compositional sophistication to a genre that had typically taken its cues from the simplistic chord progressions of songs like "Louie, Louie." At the same time, Zappa freely acknowledged the naive genius of "Louie, Louie" and the unalloyed brilliance of Fifties doo-wop and R&B, even incorporating them into his program material. Zappa greatly extended the range of rock, composing oratorios, symphonic pieces, ballets, digitized extravaganzas for the Synclavier keyboard and satirical musicals. A brilliant guitar soloist who recruited similarly adventurous musicians, Zappa helped further the art of improvisation in a rock context. Over the years, his ensembles included such notable musicians as keyboardist George Duke and guitarist Steve Vai.
Throughout his career, Zappa darkly but humorously depicted a landscape of wasted human enterprise largely driven by Pavlovian desires for consumer goods, sports and sex. His brutal jibes began with the first release by the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out! (1966), and continued to the posthumous release of his final recorded work, Civilization Phaze III (1994). He reserved some of his keenest insults for rock journalists, which he once described as "people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." But mainly he vented against mindless hedonism and the dumbing down of popular culture.
Rock's foremost satirist tempered his borderline misanthropy with a high regard for human potential and a fierce belief in free speech and the ideal of democracy. Zappa frankly hated much about what America had become in the late twentieth century, expressing deep disgust in this couplet from the 1968 album We're Only In It for the Money's "Concentration Moon": "American way, try and explain / Scab of a nation driven insane." His finest hour as a songwriter/satirist may have been "Brown Shoes Don't Make It," a seven-minute suite from a self-described "underground oratorio" that appeared on the second Mothers album, Absolutely Free (1967). In this audacious indictment of the American Dream gone awry, Zappa foresaw coming trends, equating political power with personal immorality ("A world of secret hungers perverting the men who make your laws"), reproving the vapid pastimes of a dim-witted citizenry ("Do your job and do it right / Life's a ball! / TV tonight), and pointing out the stultifying effects of the corporate state upon the individual ("Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care").
Zappa's work sold largely to a core audience who faithfully attended his concerts and bought his records. His popularity with a broader audience peaked in 1973 and 1974 with the albums Over-Nite Sensation (1973) and Apostrophe ('), which married crude humor and virtuoso playing; both went gold (500,000 copies sold). Zappa finally infiltrated the Top Forty in 1982 with "Valley Girl," a keenly observed satire of California "airhead" culture, complete with slang-driven repartee from daughter Moon Unit. This song's title subsequently became a national catchphrase. At last being given some overdue recognition by the music industry, Zappa also went on to win a Grammy for his 1986 album Jazz from Hell.
With an unswerving conviction in his own rectitude, Zappa remained an often brilliant voice of dissent until the end of his career. When the music industry began branding albums with voluntary warnings about offensive content under pressure from the PMRC in the mid-Eighties, Zappa wrote a disclaimer of his own, which he stickered on his releases:
"WARNING! This album contains material which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress. The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business. This guarantee is as real as the threats of the video fundamentalists who use attacks on rock music in their attempt to transform America into a nation of check-mailing nincompoops (in the name of Jesus Christ). If there is a hell, its fires wait for them, not us."
In 1993 Frank Zappa died at age 52 of prostate cancer, but not before culling, mixing and sequencing enough material from his vast archive to ensure the release of even more albums long after his passing.
Inductee: Frank Zappa (guitar, keyboards, Synclavier, vocals; born December 21, 1940, died December 4, 1993)


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When you think of all the advancements in medical technology, it can blow your mind. To prove that, we're bringing you the story of Brad Carter, a 39-year-old musician and actor. Carter has appeared on various TV shows, including "CSI." Carter had brain surgery recently, and you have to see it to believe it. Thanks to Vine, Twitter, and the power of the Internet, now you can.
Carter was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2006. He started experiencing hand and eye tremors, which caused him to lose his ability to play the guitar. Doctors at UCLA Medical Center performed a deep brain-stimulation surgery, which involves implanting an electrode emitter to affected areas of Carter's brain. Surgeons had to awaken Carter during the surgery to make sure they were implanting the electrode emitter in the right part of his brain.
The surgery turned social when doctors in the operating room tweeted six-second Vine videos of the procedure. We watch as doctors prep his head. Once the electrodes were in place, Carter was able to write and hold a cup of water without shaking. He even sent a message to his family: "Hi mom. Hi dad. Hi Kristie."
As if by magic, Carter is also seen strumming the guitar and singing a song while doctors are still operating on him. His surgery was the 500th of its kind performed at a hospital. Doctors insist that placing the electrode emitters in Carter's brain is not a cure, but a way to control the patient's tremors and stiffness. Carter seems especially grateful to have music back in his life.
Thanks to the power of social media, now we all get to share in his experience, too.
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I don't think anyone can be in any doubt that we are in the season of "Back To School". The Scrap World is overfloading with school equipment in bright colours, kid's alphas and funny word art. But surfing around all that, I realized something significant... What if you go back to school as an adult?
The reason for such an interest is simple: Tomorrow I'M GOING BACK TO SCHOOL!
Yes, that's right. OK, it's not "real" school - just a 6 week course, but I found out that if I was ever to have any chance of getting a job in my line of work, I had to catch up with the latest trends and techniques. So I signed up for a course in "Online Marketing". And I think many adults do the same, so since there is no "adult school kits" out there, I decided to make one myself.
Use it, if you are among those who find leaning a life long process, or maybe find inspiration in it to go back to school yourself. It's NEVER too late to LEARN!!!
Age = Experience = Knowledge
As it is a rather large kit, I have split it up in 3 parts, but if you have the connection for it you can also take the full kit in one go. And to spare my limited space on the different storage sites, I have also chosen to upload ONLY to Mediafire - hope it wont cause you problems. You find the download links below the image.
I hope you can find use for it - student or not.
For your information: This studying thing will probably make it a little difficult for me to make freebies for you for the next 6 weeks, so don't worry if you don't hear from me. I will, however, do everything I can to find time.
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MYDATA automation may lay off 24 in Stockholm
Sweden based MYDATA automation has notified 24 employees of their Stockholm unit of a possible lay off.
The global market for Surface-Mount machinery has been weak for a long time. The financial crisis has escalated these developments. MYDATA's sales have been affected negatively by the slowdown, but have nevertheless evolved considerably stronger than the market, through the introduction of our new product platforms - MY100 and MY500. The company has notified 24 of approximately 200 employees in Sweden. The ambition is that ongoing development projects will largely continue as planned and that delivery capacity is to be adapted to the expected demand. Besides staff cuts the company is also implementing numerous saving schemes and will review of all costs. The program is estimated to be in full effect from Q1 2009. Negotiations with the union organizations have started and the staff has also been informed.
ABB partners with Exeger to speed up transition to clean energy ABB has entered into a new partnership with Sweden's Exeger Operations AB. The partnership will enable Exeger to enhance the production quality its photovoltaic material at the company's Stockholm factory and also develop automation solutions for its new fully automated factory which will begin construction in the near future.
Rehm Thermal Systems intros 3-in-1 reflow solution Michael Hanke from Rehm Thermal Systems shows off the results of the company's development work.
Intel to reclaim No.1 semiconductor supplier ranking in 2019 IC Insights says that only three among the top-15 semiconductor suppliers are forecasted to show growth this year.
Veoneer joins Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium Veoneer has joined the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) to speed autonomous driving vehicle development.
Sponsored content by Z ElektronikaZ Elektronika opens new factory in Pécs To keep up with rapid growth of the company, on the 13th September Z Elektronika celebrated the grand opening of its new electronic design and manufacturing facility close to the highway in Pécs, Hungary, which adds new features and production site to its nearby location.
Ongoing trade issues have opened up Chinese market for Viscom According to Carsten Salewski, Chinas move towards more independence has resulted in more customers from the region; especially within the automotive sector.
Don't forget about human inclusion in industry 4.0 Michael Ford from Aegis Software is reminding the industry in the midst of connectivity that our most powerful asset is still the human employee.
East West Manufacturing acquires Adcotron EMS East West Manufacturing has acquired Adcotron EMS, a provider of specialized electronics manufacturing services, including advanced printed circuit board assemblies, box-build assemblies, testing, and new product introduction services.
Benchmark's Thailand facility earns MedAccred PCBA accreditation The EMS provider announces that its facility in Ayutthaya, Thailand has earned the MedAccred Printed Circuit Board Assembly accreditation.
Sponsored content by EsemdaContract manufacturer Esemda opens new facility in Vilnius and expands EMS The new facility has been built with reserved space for future expansions. As Esemda constantly grows, it is of great importance to be able to rapidly increase production capacity in large volumes.
HZO unveils larger HQ in North Carolina HZO, known for protective nano coatings designed to help electronics withstand corrosive liquid environments, held an open house at its new headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina this week.
Luminator Technology relocates some production to Texas Luminator Technology Group has relocated production of its Apollo Video Technology RoadRunner mobile video security solutions to Luminator's headquarters in Plano, Texas.
Kurtz Ersa invests heavily in development to stay on top With more than 30 percent of its employees involved in research and development, the company is making sure that it is able to respond to its customers needs at all times.
BMW's new battery cell centre to handle everything from material to prototyping The BMW Group is looking fortify its position in the world of electric mobility and has pooled its many years of experience with battery cells and extensive knowledge in the field in a new Competence Centre.
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Cicor selected as production partner for drug delivery system Cicor announces that it has won a major new customer in the medical technology sector, one of the company's strategic target markets.
Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek to collaborate Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek, have formed a joint plan to provide an advanced photonics on-wafer testing solution to include automated alignment, simultaneous optical-optical and optical-electrical device tests.
Wireless Telecom buys Holzworth Instrumentation Wireless Telecom Group Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Holzworth Instrumentation Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based provider of specialty phase noise analyzers and signal generators.
NCAB Group acquires Altus-PCB in USA Altus-PCB is a full-service supplier of PCBs based in New Jersey, USA, that has a business model similar to NCAB's. The US company has a high level of technical expertise and sells mainly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Mycronic's Thomas Stetter looks back at a successful year As the company is moving more and more towards becoming a full solutions provider, business is taking off and the numbers show very much confirms that the Mycronic's strategy is working.
IBL Löttechnik reviews 2019 IBL Löttechnik GmbH is staying on top of the market thanks to continues R&D investments.
Second install for EFI at Mid America Display Silicon Valley's EFI will install a second EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass inkjet, direct-to-board printer later this month to Mid America Display.
Ron Jakeman of Electrolube looks back at a successful 2019 Electrolube has been growing, both in terms of its footprint and financially, for a number of years not; Ron Jakeman details the company's progress.
Etteplan and Scanfil to start strategic cooperation in joint customer projects Engineering company Etteplan and contract manufacturer Scanfil have today agreed to enter a strategic partnership in Finland.
The lovechild of ACE Production and InterSelect Carlos Bouras of Nordson Select gave us the rundown of the result of the integration and combination of ACE Production and InterSelect GmbH - the new Integra.
American Battery Metals, U.S. lawmakers convene American Battery Metals Corporation has completed a series of meetings with lawmakers and personnel in the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., to discuss issues critical to the domestic battery production and storage industry.
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(Phoenix, Ariz. - Aug 4, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today issued the following statement:
"Words cannot express how saddened I am by the loss of a community hero, Chandler Police Officer Carlos Ledesma. My Office had the fortunate opportunity to have worked with Officer Ledesma, and to learn first-hand of his courageous dedication to law enforcement. Officer Ledesma died doing the work he loved.
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The National Security Agency used law enforcement agencies, including the Baltimore Police Department, to track members of a city anti-war group as they prepared for protests outside the sprawling Fort Meade facility, internal NSA documents show.
The target of the clandestine surveillance was the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, a group loosely affiliated with the local chapter of the American Friends Service Committee, whose members include many veteran city peace activists with a history of nonviolent civil disobedience.
Under various names, the activists have staged protests at the NSA campus off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway every year since 1996.
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, members of the group say, their protests have come under increasing scrutiny by federal and local law enforcement officials working on behalf of the NSA.
An internal NSA e-mail, posted on two Internet sites this week, shows how operatives with the "Baltimore Intel Unit" provided a minute-by-minute account of Pledge of Resistances' preparations for a July 3, 2004, protest at Fort Meade. An attorney for the demonstrators said he obtained the document through the discovery process from NSA.
"****UPDATE: 11:55 HRS. S/A V------- ADVISED THE PROTESTORS LEFT 4600 YORK ROAD EN ROUTE TO THE NSA CAMPUS ... S/A V----- REPORTED FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE IN A BLUE VAN WITH BLACK BALLOONS, ANTI-WAR SIGNS AND A POSSIBLE HELIUM TANK," reported an internal NSA e-mail.
Later, those shadowing the peace group reported on their arrival at the NSA's Fort Meade headquarters.
"****UPDATE: 1300 HRS. THE SOC WAS ADVISED THE PROTESTORS WERE PROCEEDING TO THE AIRPLANE MEMORIAL WITH THREE HELIUM BALLOONS ATTACHED TO A BANNER THAT STATED "THOSE WHO EXCHANGE FREEDOM FOR SECURITY DESERVE IT, NEITHER WILL ULTIMATELY LOSE BOTH," the NSA's somewhat garbled account of the event reported.
Ellen E. Barfield, a veteran peace activist from Hampden, was one of three Pledge members detained and cited that afternoon, charged with creating a "disturbance." The charges were later dropped.
Barfield called the effort law enforcement agencies put into monitoring this act of civil disobedience "totally absurd."
"We have a history of nonviolence," she said. "We are absolutely no threat to anyone, and they know it. And they're wasting tons of money and tons of time doing this."
An agency spokesman said protests are routinely monitored by the NSA Police, who are responsible only for the installation's security, not the code breakers and eavesdroppers who monitor international electronic communications.
The only reference to technical information-gathering in the three public NSA documents -- two e-mails and an internal "Action Plan" -- is a reference in to an NSA employee's effort to check on the protesters' plans by browsing the Web.
"Security at NSA serves to protect the agency and its employees," NSA spokesman Don Weber said in a statement. "Like any security force, they maintain documentation to include activity logs and action plans used in response to potential activities impacting the agency.
"Furthermore, they partner with state, local and federal law enforcement agencies to assess these activities and the potential impact on the agency and its personnel," Weber continued. "All these activities are conducted in a lawful manner. The allegations that NSA is spying on local peace groups is simply not true."
James Bamford, a lawyer and journalist who has written two acclaimed books about the NSA, said the agency has a right to protect itself from external threats. "But it would be an entirely separate thing if the NSA tried to monitor communications" from the Baltimore anti-war group, using the agency's sophisticated technology.
There is no evidence this happened. But the documents have surfaced at a critical time for the NSA.
The New York Times reported in December that after Sept. 11, the NSA began monitoring the electronic communications of Americans suspected of contacts with terrorists, without first obtaining court orders. President Bush authorized the program in 2002 and has defended it as necessary to protect the nation.
Some legal analysts and administration critics say the agency's actions violate the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In some ways, Independence Day weekend protests by members of the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance have become an annual ritual.
Every year, protesters demand to talk with NSA officials. Some try to slip in one of the entrances and get arrested. Even before Sept. 11, Bamford said, the NSA overreacted, "considering the scale of the protest."
An NSA e-mail contained in court files shows that before the Pledge of Resistance's Oct. 4, 2003, protest, which coincided with the agency's annual "family day" picnic, NSA relied on a detective working for the Baltimore Police Department's Criminal Intelligence Unit to monitor the demonstrators' movements.
That unit handles some of the city's most politically sensitive investigations, including threats to public officials.
The city detective, the 2003 e-mail said, "advised that they will have someone working this weekend who will scope out their departure from the American Friends Service Committee 4806 York Rd. Govans. The Baltimore City PD counterpart will give [name of an NSA official blacked out] a heads up as to the numbers departing from the Govans location."
The NSA e-mail regarding the July 2004 protest does not make clear who conducted that day's surveillance on the agency's behalf. While it refers to the "Baltimore Intel Unit," the chief of the city's Criminal Intelligence Unit, Major David Engel, said he had no record that any of his officers participated.
"We have absolutely nothing in our files related to it," he said, referring to the protest in 2004.
Max J. Obuszewski, a veteran Baltimore anti-war activist who works for the American Friends Service Committee, said protesters have been trying to publicize the two documents since they were released in Federal District Court in August 2004.
The NSA July 2004 e-mail and the NSA's "Action Plan" for the October 2003 protest were finally publicized this week by Kevin B. Zeese, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, on the Web sites "rawstory.com" and "democracyrising.us."
The NSA disclosed them as part of the discovery process in the prosecution of two Baltimore Pledge of Resistance members, Cynthia H. Farquhar and Marilyn Carlisle. Both were detained during the October 2003 protest and convicted of failing to obey a police officer's orders. They were fined $250, according to federal court records.
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Can I Buy Your House, Pretty Please?
With inventory tight and prices rising, buyers in competitive markets like Silicon Valley and Seattle are returning to a boom-era tactic: writing heartfelt letters to sellers explaining why they should win the house. Signing with a paw print.
Rob and Julia Israch won a fierce bidding war for a three-bedroom townhouse in Mountain View, Calif., late last year even though their $750,000 offer—while $92,000 above the asking price—was topped by 11 rivals and was several thousand dollars below the highest bid.
A key reason: The seller, software engineer Lev Stesin, was moved by a letter in which the Israchs said they worked in the technology industry and explained how the home's spacious layout would be perfect given the imminent arrival of their first child. Among...