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The idea is simple. This is something I've done in the past, mainly on the old Facebook page which no longer exists. I brought it to the forums once so you'll get a better idea of what this is about, but sometimes I'll change the type of face swap it is.
If you get it right, you'll get 500W. Eventually I'll post another swap that you can try your luck at. Luckily for me I can be lazy for a while as I've already got some swaps I never used on the forum, except this first one which you may have seen a few times. It's extremely easy, but at least it'll get us started.
I've given this Pokémon an Outlaw Star face. Which one?


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Each of these scrap metal animal sculptures were handmade in USA by me, Josh Price! My sculptures are naturally a bit rusty and occasionally a little dirty, They are made out of all sorts of recycled metal parts. The materials used often go straight from the salvage yard, landfill or yard sale to my workbench.
Also, because of the nature of the materials used, each piece is a one of a kind, no two are identical, Your sculpture will be unique and vary a bit from the one in the photograph.
My pieces would look great in any room, you can even display them outdoors. Keep in mind, they are going to continue to patina (rust). If you wish to stop or slow the process, you can treat them with a clear acrylic spray paint like Krylon® or Rustoleum®. Another option is coating with PENETROL® as it inhibits rust on metal surfaces and brings out the natural beauty.
If you have any questions please visit my contact page and call or email me.

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4 intrepid young women.
Drive 230 km.
To buy 7 pairs of shoes.
To buy 7 pairs of shoes.
50 points to the first person who correctly identifies which 2 of these are mine.
1for a recounting of what happens in Seattle when I don't avoid the 151, see here.


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Honors program
The honors curriculum challenges highly motivated students through advanced study courses, develops interest in research and scholarly activity, and provides students with an opportunity to work with renowned faculty and advanced graduate students. Departmental Honors is open to students seeking the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree. Interested students should contact their CS departmental advisor to learn more about the program and how the courses fit into their plan of work. If a student has declared a major in computer science prior to entering the Honors College, then a new declaration of major request must be completed to add Departmental Honors to the degree program.
Computer Science Honors Requirements
- Must establish and maintain a cumulative 3.3 overall GPA.
- Complete at least one Honors 4200-level seminar (typically taken in junior year).
- Complete CSC4999: Honors Thesis (three or six credits).
- The thesis is a paper presenting the results of the student's independent research. The length of the thesis may vary according to the nature of the topic and method of approach.
- Registration for Honors Thesis must be made a minimum of two semesters prior to the student's expected graduation date. A minimum of two semesters should be allowed for completion of all of the thesis requirements.
- Download the registration form for CSC 4999.
- Complete an additional three to six credits in honors-designated coursework to meet the minimum requirement of 12 credits, which includes CSC4999, and the Honors Seminar listed above.
- Visit the Honors College website for information about additional honors-designated course work available each semester, and download the Honors Option Form to earn Honors credit for a course.
*Please note: these requirements are in addition to other computer science major requirements. They may be incorporated into the Major Plan of Work. Please meet with your computer science academic advisor for further information about the Department of Computer Science Honors program.


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Coming soon! We are busy working on an exciting programme of speakers for 2020
It's the start of the gardening year! There's so much to explore and enjoy this year:
- Come to the Seed Swap tables to pick up open-pollinated and heritage seeds. You can swap your packets of seeds, or contribute 50p per packet
- While you're there, get some advice from expert seed-savers and the volunteers on the tables
- Check out the Programme of Speakers – what questions would you like to ask at our local Gardeners' Question Time?
- Enjoy some children's activities
- Grab a tasty treat at the Infinity Café
- Browse and shop for gardeners' delights at the marketplace – see the full list of stallholders
- Give us suggestions for next year and think about volunteering for Seedy Sunday 2020!
Use the map to find your way around… and have a great time!
Kate Harrison
Chair Seedy Sunday 2019
Seedy Sunday talks 2019
We have some fascinating talks at Seedy Sunday this year. All talks will take place in the Copper Café and will last 45 minutes.
11 am
Weeds as Medicine
Alice Bettany and Jessie Martelhof from The Brighton Herbalist
Join local herbalists Alice Bettany and Jessie Martelhof and be inspired about turning your weeds into medicine. Learn about the medicinal values of common weeds and cottage garden herbs. Take home a few simple recipe ideas which you can make yourself as food, medicine or cosmetics.
12 noon
Wildlife Gardening
Kate Bradbury: Author of "The Wildlife Gardener"
Kate will discuss foodchains and habitat creation, especially in urban areas like Brighton. She will also talk about the garden she created in 'The Bumblebee Flies Anyway', to show how small spaces can be transformed into wildlife-friendly spaces.
1 pm
Local Gardeners' Question Time
Chaired by Alan Phillips of Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening Group
The panel will feature: Joshua the No Dig Gardener, Chris Smith from Pennard Plants and Ros Loftin, a seed saving expert.
Come with questions!
2 pm
Open Source Seeds
Adrian Ely from University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit.
Against a background of increasing patenting of seeds and genetic resources, this talk outlines one of the responses that is emerging around the world: open source seed systems. In particular it describes the development of Bioleft, an open and collaborative system for seed innovation that has been developed by a group of organisations in Argentina.
3 pm
Stop poisoning our city! Our campaign to end the use of pesticides in Brighton & Hove
Nick Mole and Josie Cohen from Pesticides Action Network UK, and Steve Peters, the award-winning gardener at The Level
Pesticide Action Network UK will be launching their campaign against the use of pesticides in Brighton and Hove..
Steve Peters will discuss the ways in which he has managed to maintain The Level without pesticides for a number of years now.
Stay in Touch
To keep up to date with Seedy Sunday, join our mailing list via the contacts link at www.seedysunday.org. Follow us on www.facebook.com/Seedy SundayBrighton, on Twitter @seedysundaybton and on Instagram @seedysundaybton
Making Seedy Sunday happen
Seedy Sunday would not happen without the volunteer organising committee. Thank-you for all your time, energy and good spirit.
Kate Harrison – Chair
Viv Caisey: Stalls, Venue and Outgoing Chair
Sarah Goodson – Website & Social Media
Fenella Burns – Publicity
Ros Loftin – Seed Swap Coordinator
Saskia Wesnigk – Speaker Programme
James Bradley – Treasurer
In addition we have 40+ volunteers helping to make the day run smoothly. If you would like to become a volunteer for Seedy Sunday 2020, then sign up at the website or at the Info Desk today.
A word of thanks
Thanks to all our fabulous volunteers who make the day run smoothly. We really couldn't do it without you!
- Everyone who donated seeds to the seed table
- Infinity Foods for their continuing support
- Lucid Design at totallylucid.com for our beautiful poster and programme design
- Josh and all the team at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
- Barcombe Nurseries and Ashurst Organics for distributing flyers in their veg boxes
- Big Yellow Storage for their support
- Cheryl and all the team at BHASVIC
Seedy Sunday is proudly sponsored by Infinity Foods and Wholesale.
We're very lucky to have a great relationship with the team at Infinity Foods.
They generously sponsor us every year, display our posters and give away our seed envelopes in their shop on North Road Brighton. They also run a fantastic stall at Seedy Sunday selling organic seed potatoes.


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To me, being healthy is a process and a goal to work towards and maintain. It's about finding a balance that works for me and my family. As a mom of four kids, a wife, a Northern Health employee and a business owner, life is hectic. Today, it seems it's harder to balance. I'm always wondering, "How do we fit everything we need to do in a day, a week or a month anyway?"
I have listed eight points below that run through my head in my journey towards a better health balance. Being healthy, making healthy food choices and doing activities I like make it easier for me to make the healthy choice the easy choice!
- Acknowledge – Yes, there is such a thing as work-life balance and procrastination.
- Assess – I take time to sort out where I'm at with healthy eating and active living goals, thinking broader to physical, social, mental, and spiritual health. How does that compare with other family members?
- Recognize – Each family member is at very different levels of success with healthy eating versus active living activities, and each of us has our own priorities. What's key is to celebrate successes at all levels! Small changes can really help begin to balance the scale towards health.
- Identify strengths – This helps me to focus on what I may need to work on more. If I'm good at one area, it doesn't mean I'll be as good in another area. I am amazing at packing healthy lunches for work and my colleagues will testify to that. However, I'm not doing as well at getting to my morning swim or the lunch-hour walk I really want to do. My strength is healthy eating but I need to focus on my physical activity levels and getting more movement every day.
- Identify barriers – Figuring out what is supportive or what is not is pretty important. Learning about why you're not easily able to make the changes you want may help identify some solutions.
- Try, learn and try again – Understand what motivates you (internally and externally) and don't give up. Find ways to chuckle when you're not doing as well as you want but also recognize that the goal is balance, not perfection.
- Keep track – Moving plans into action and tracking them really helps me with healthy living goals – this is important for long-term behavior change. So I track my actions, challenges and try to celebrate successes. I often use my calendar for this and I find it helps me to check in on how I'm doing. I invite you to do the same and to share your ideas to connect, support and inspire others to understand that their health matters!
- Take a peek into my world – These new guidelines around healthy living (the NH position papers) are something northerners can be really proud of. I must say, as an NH population health dietitian I have a bit of a bias towards the third one: eating, activity and weight.
How do you find a healthy balance?
[Editor's note: Don't forget to enter the Week 3 Challenge for your chance to win a selection of cookbooks!]
About Loraina Stephen
Loraina is a population health dietitian working in a regional lead role for external food policy, which supports initiatives to develop healthy eating, community food security and food policy for the north. Loraina was born and raised in the north, and has a busy lifestyle. Having grown up enjoying food grown from family gardens, hunting, and gathering, and enjoying northern outdoor activities, she draws on those experiences to keep traditions strong for her family, in her work and at play. (Loraina no longer works with Northern Health, we wish her all the best.)


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Posted by Charles Arnot, Writer, Essays Chief.
Creative writing is a most prominent method to make writing popular today. Sometimes, it doesn't come and to get started, it is more like a chore now. There is actually a lot of debate around the writing styles among people across the world. Traditional style is very convincing for some people. It enables them to make their own identity through their masterpieces of writing. There are many modern writers, who have achieved a lot of success with their new style of writing. It is convincing as they use the colloquial languages to create their own phrases. The modern style of writing is more effective and a perfect way to win the hearts of youth audience.
What is the basic difference between traditional and modern writing styles?
Which one is better?
There might be a bundle of arguments on this issue when it comes to what style to select to get more praises from the audience. It is better to combine both the styles to make a stunning success in your writing.
Writers who are fond of modern language use short paragraphs and sentences.
Shorter paragraphing and sentences are easy to read and understand for the readers. But, there is also a drawback of it, because it interpreted so faster and nothing stays in the reader's mind. If you are trying to build a semblance of the mystery or want to create a perfect character with your creative writing, it can be the foremost downer for you. Thus, you need to combine your modern style of writing with the traditional one, which is more creative and artistic.
The modern writing style, at times, counted as the plain style. This style is pervasive in the nonfiction writing. Modern novelists also employ the modern writing style when they wish to make their narration transparent. Modern style is very much tech-friendly whilst the traditional style is more imaginative and perfect for all time. So, it is better to combine both writing styles to create your unique writing style.


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Always over deliver.
More is required to win in today's real estate market.
With people making real estate decisions at a stop light, in a waiting room or at their child's soccer game you need to do more than the traditional sales methods.
Selling Your Home
By understanding the strong points of your property, providing superior home marketing, engaging the audience and maximizing your reach, you can greatly increase your outcome. We have a proven methodology to find more buyers, sell your home faster, and make you more money. Period.
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Our team brings a wide array of skills to the table including listening to your real estate needs and wants. Gathering specific key information ultimately leads to finding the "one". Hudson and his team are extremely skilled negotiators that work tirelessly negotiating for the home you want at the best price.
Expect More from Your Realtor.
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Experience the difference a first-class realtor team brings to the house-buying and selling process.
Meet Greg Wand
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Greg Wand joined the Hudson Smith Real Estate Group in 2015. Before working with Hudson Smith and Coldwell Banker he attended the University of Guelph majoring in the Real Estate and Housing program. During his third year of university he obtained his Real Estate license.
As time went on his passion for residential Real Estate brought him back to Guelph and Coldwell Banker welcomed Greg with open arms. Since his days as a student he has come full circle and has returned to the University of Guelph on many occasions as a guest speaker for the Real Estate and Housing program!
Greg is ambitious, professional and highly motivated to succeed. He is an asset to our team and we are extremely grateful to have him on board!
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Sales Representative
Jordyn is the newest addition to the team, having joined in the winter of 2017. With over 20 years living in Rockwood, Jordyn is a true local and has the sort of intimate knowledge that you can only achieve from growing up in a small town and loving it. With a parent working in real estate as a kid, getting involved in the industry was always on her radar. After completing her BA at Memorial University in St. John's, NL in 2016, Jordyn returned home to stay. She took up a job at Coldwell Banker Neumann and shortly thereafter made the decision to acquire her licence and help others find their home here too. Jordyn became a licensed Realtor in July, 2018.
She is the team expert on our client relationship management system and works closely with Hudson on delivering top notch service to our buyers and sellers. If she isn't found at her desk scoring over the day's real estate hot sheet, organizing appointments and calendars, or responding to emails and phone calls, she can be found out in the field showing properties and running open houses.
Meet Shanna Howat
Administrative Office Manager
Shanna came to Guelph in 2004 to attend the University of Guelph and fell in love with the city (who wouldn't!). She has since been a proud resident and has chosen to raise her family here.
Shanna joined Hudson's team in 2015 as the Administrative Office Manager coming from a background in customer service and management. Shanna works behind the scenes, making sure that everything runs smoothly and that the client experience is a stress-free one.
From organizing the listing process, to co-coordinating the closing events and all things in between, Shanna seamlessly ensures the day to day operation of the Hudson Smith Real Estate Group is not only is efficient, but that the whole team is consistently performing at their very best.
Coldwell Banker Neumann Real Estate
Coldwell Banker Neumann Real Estate has specialized in property transactions in Guelph and the surrounding area for more than 40 years. Founded in 1973 by German immigrant Herb Neumann, the firm's reputation has grown alongside its team of staff, which now includes over 40 sales representatives. Each office is independently owned and operated but each and every one retains the core principles of Coldwell Banker: To earn rust through knowledge, respect and commitment, and to serve the best interests of clients through a professional yet personal approach that sets the company apart.


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Packman reduction
Since we introduced ffmpeg in OBS we can move most of the multimedia projects from packman to OBS. This will in turn also hopefuly improve the quality of the spec files.
As a sidequest Ismail will sync ffmpeg of Packman and OBS and I will probably punt out libav package so we have just one implementation in the distribution.
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Do you use National Instruments LabVIEW for your measuring and testing machines? Then we've got good news for you: We can save you hours of time and trouble in the configuration, procurement, commissioning and programming of your motion technology.
In addition to LabVIEW's ability to access the IndraMotion MLC control functions via Open Core Engineering - a revolutionary concept first unveiled three years ago - the two companies are now unveiling a new solution that merges the measuring and testing technology with servo-drive technology: the IndraDrive servo-drives can now be conveniently incorporated into LabVIEW and controlled using National Instruments' CompactRIO as a master control system. The commissioning of the servo-drives is then carried out using the EasyWizard in just 3 minutes - it really couldn't be easier!
Experience this jointly-developed solution at the 23rd annual NIWeek conference presented by National Instruments:
NIWeek 2017: May 22-25, Booth 210, Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas
Working together, Bosch Rexroth and National Instruments have perfectly coordinated Labview and the IndraDrive servo-drives, with CompactRIO as the master. Even better: We've put together complete drive packages for you. Simply connect the IndraDrive via "CAN over EtherCat" (CoE), download and install the "SoftMotion Drive Interface" (SDI) plug-in directly from the LabVIEW development environment – and you're done! The motor data are automatically transferred to the drive control unit via plug-and-play.
The commissioning of the IndraDrive axes takes less than three minutes, after which you can start programming directly in LabVIEW. Simply specify the required torque in a range and we will supply the appropriate kit. By the way: We can supply customized drive solutions for torques up to 631 Nm and power ranges up to 4MW – which can also be programmed directly in LabVIEW.
Your benefits:
No more looking for motor data and manually typing it in: IndraDrive automatically recognizes the Rexroth motors via the electronic nameplate and automatically parameterizes the motor data and encoder data. For the initial commissioning of the IndraDrive drives, all that's needed is to enter a few application-specific values – it takes no more than three minutes. Then transfer all the application-specific data by simply re-plugging the operating panel for convenient and secure serial commissioning.
Use the IndraDrive Safety on Board option. This simplifies standardized safety circuits by using certified safety functions. Choose the "safe torque off" (STO) and the "safe brake control" (SBC) options. These let the drives achieve Cat 4 PL e in accordance with EN ISO 13849-1 and SIL 3 in accordance with EN 62061.
Your benefits:
Bosch Rexroth makes it easier to create complex multi-axis applications in LabVIEW with the IndraMotion MLC motion logic system. Here, the programming of movements is also performed solely via LabVIEW – without a single line of PLC code.
All of this is enabled by Open Core Engineering. This award-winning solution makes it possible to seamlessly integrate all drive and control functionalities into the LabVIEW environment. This helps to increase the efficiency and accelerates the implementation of individually projected testing and measuring machines. A specific library, which can be imported into LabVIEW, enables engineers to directly access the control functionalities of IndraMotion MLC systems. It provides the LabVIEW programmer with more than 550 virtual instruments in his familiar software environment.
The Open Core Interface library gives the LabVIEW program direct access to the motion kernel commands on the MLC, without the need for PLC code. This allows commands to be sent to the motion control on the MLC directly and then the MLC closes the control loops on the control system according to those commands, providing high precision movement for LabVIEW applications. Instead of commanding the individual servos positions on a robot kinematic, as an example, LabVIEW sends the XYZ coordinates of the tool path and the MLC resolves the position internally.
The Open Core Interface for Drives library for LabVIEW is available now on the Open Core Engineering Engineering Network. Similar to the SoftMotion solution for the IndraDrive, this is a non-real-time drive control library for simpler applications, communicating over a standard TCP/IP connection. Will we be introducing it on the NI Tools Network soon!
Experience Industry 4.0 – Bosch Rexroth
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The great Armenian persecutions—The system of Talaat and Enver—A denunciation of Germany as a cowardly and conscienceless accomplice.
In spite of all, I returned to Constantinople from my first visit to the Dardanelles with very little diminution of friendly feeling towards the Turks. My first experience when I returned to the capital was the beginning of the Armenian persecutions. And here I may as well say at once that my love for present-day Turkey perished absolutely with this unique example in the history of modern human civilisation of the most appalling bestiality and misguided jingoism. This, more than everything else I saw on the German-Turkish side throughout the war, persuaded me to take up arms against my own people and to adopt the position I now hold. I say "German-Turkish," for I must hold the German Government as equally responsible with the Turks
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for the atrocities they allowed them to commit.
Here in neutral Switzerland, where so many of these unfortunate Armenians have taken refuge and such abundance of information is available, so much material has been collected that it is unnecessary for me to go into details in this book. Suffice it to say that the narration of all the heart-rending occurrences that came to my personal knowledge during my stay in Turkey, without my even trying to collect systematic information on the subject, would fill a book. To my deep sorrow I have to admit that, from everything I have heard from reliable sources—from German Red Cross doctors, officials and employees of the Baghdad Railway, members of the American Embassy, and Turks themselves—although they are but individual cases—I cannot regard as exaggerated such appalling facts and reports as are contained for example in Arnold Toynbee's Armenian Atrocities.1
In this little book, however, which partakes
1 This and other works on the subject came to my notice for the first time a few days before going to press. Before that (in Turkey, Austria, and Germany) they were quite unprocurable.
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more of the nature of an essay than an exhaustive treatise, my task will be rather to determine the system, the underlying political thought and the responsibility of Germany in all these horrors—massacres, the seduction of women, children left to die or thrown into the sea, pretty young girls carried off into houses of ill repute, the compulsory conversion to Islam and incorporation in Turkish harems of young women, the ejection from their homes of eminent and distinguished families by brutal gendarmes, attacks while on the march by paid bands of robbers and criminals, "emigration" to notorious malaria swamps and barren desert and mountain lands, victims handed over to the wild lusts of roaming Bedouins and Kurds—in a word, the triumph of the basest brutality and most cold-blooded refinement of cruelty in a war of extermination in which half a million men, and according to some estimates many more, have perished, while the remaining one and a half million of this most intelligent and cultured race, one of the principal pioneers of progress in the Ottoman Empire, see nothing but complete extinction staring them in the face through the rupture of family
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ties, the deprivation of their rights, and economic ruin.
The Armenian persecutions began in all their cruelty, practically unannounced, in April 1915. Certain events on the Caucasus front, which no number of lies could explain away, gave the Turkish Government the welcome pretext for falling like wild animals on the Armenians of the eastern vilajets—the so-called Armenia Proper—and getting to work there without deference to man, woman, or child. This was called "the restoration of order in the war zone by military measures, rendered necessary by the connivance of the inhabitants with the enemy, treachery and armed support." The first two or three hundred thousand Armenians fell in the first rounding up.
That in those outlying districts situated directly on the Russian frontier a number of Armenians threw in their lot with the advancing Russians, no one will seek to deny, and not a single Armenian I have spoken to denies it. But the "Armenian Volunteer Corps" that fought on the side of Russia was composed for the most part—that at least has been proved
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beyond doubt—of Russian Armenians settled in Transcaucasian territory.
So far as the Turkish Armenians taking part are concerned, no reasonable being would think of denying Turkey as Sovereign State the formal right of taking stringent measure against these traitors and deserters. But if I expressly recognise this right, I do so with the big reservation that the frightful sufferings undergone for centuries by a people left by their rulers to the mercy of marauding Kurds and oppressed by a government of shameless extortioners, absolutely absolve these deserters in the eyes of the whole civilised world from any moral crime.
And yet I would willingly have gone so far for the benefit of the Turks, in spite of their terrible guilt towards this people, as perhaps to keep my own counsel on the subject, if it had merely been a case of the execution of some hundreds under martial law or the carrying out of other measures—such as deportation—against a couple of thousand Armenians and these strictly confined to men. It is even possible that Europe and America would have pardoned Turkey for taking even stronger
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steps in the nature of reprisals or measures of precaution against the male inhabitants of that part of Armenia Proper which was gradually becoming a war zone. But from the very beginning the persecutions were carried on against women and children as well as men, were extended to the hundred thousand inhabitants of the six eastern vilajets, and were characterised by such savage brutality that the methods of the slave-drivers of the African interior and the persecution of Christians under Nero are the only thing that can be compared with them.
Every shred of justification for the Turkish Government in their attempt to establish this as an "evacuation necessary for military purposes and for the prevention of unrest" entirely vanishes in face of such methods, and I do not believe that there is a single decent German, cognisant of the facts of the case, who is not filled with real disgust of the Young Turkish Government by such cold-blooded butchery of the inhabitants of whole districts and the deportation of others with the express purpose of letting them die en route. Any-
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one with human feelings, however pro-Turkish he may be politically, cannot think otherwise.
This "evacuation necessary for military purposes" emptied Armenia Proper of men. How often have Turks themselves told me—I could mention names, but I will not expose my informants, who were on the whole decent exceptions to the rule, to the wrath of Enver or Talaat—how often have they assured me that practically not a single Armenian is to be found in Armenia! And it is equally certain that scarcely one can be left alive of all that horde of deported men who escaped the first massacres and were hunted up hill and down dale in a state of starvation, exposed to attacks by Kurds, decimated by spotted typhus, and finally abandoned to their fate in the scorching deserts of Northern Mesopotamia and Northern Syria. One has only to read the statistics of the population of the six vilajets of Armenia Proper to discover the hundreds of thousands of victims of this wholesale murder.
But unfortunately that was not all. The Turkish Government went farther, much farther. They aimed at the whole Armenian
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people, not only in Armenia itself, but also in the "Diaspora," in Anatolia Proper and in the capital. They were at that time some hundred thousand. In this case they could scarcely go on the principle of "evacuation of the war zone," for the inhabitants were hundreds of miles both from the Eastern front and from the Dardanelles, so they had to resort to other measures.
They suddenly and miraculously discovered a universal conspiracy among the Armenians of the Empire. It was only by a trick of this kind that they could succeed in carrying out their system of exterminating the entire Armenian race. The Turkish Government skilfully influenced public opinion throughout the whole world, and then discovered, nay, arranged for, local conspiracies. They then falsified all the details so that they might go on for months in peace and quiet with their campaign of extermination.
In a series of semi-official articles in the newspapers of the Committee of Young Turks it was made quite clear that all Armenians were dangerous conspirators who, in order to shake off the Ottoman yoke, had collected firearms
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and bombs and had arranged, with the help of English and Russian money, for a terrible slaughter of Turks on the day that the English fleet overcame the armies on the Dardanelles.
I must here emphasise the fact that all the arguments the Turkish Government brought against the Armenians did not escape my notice. They were indeed evident enough in official and semi-official publications and in the writings of German "experts on Turkey." I investigated everything, even right at the beginning of my stay in Turkey, and always from a thoroughly pro-Turkish point of view. That did not prevent me however, from coming to my present point of view.
Herr Zimmermann, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has only got to refer to the date of his letter to the editorial staff of my paper, in which he speaks of my confidential report to the paper on this subject which went through his hands and aroused his interest, and he will find what opinions I held as early as the summer of 1916 on the subject of the Armenian persecutions—and this without my having any particular sympathy for the Armenians, for it was not till much later
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that I got to know them and their high intellectual qualities through personal intercourse.
Here I can only give my final judgment on all these pros and cons, and say to the best of my knowledge and opinion, that after the first act in this drama of massacre and death—the brutal "evacuation of the war zone" in Armenia Proper—the meanest, the lowest, the most cynical, most criminal act of race-fanaticism that the history of mankind has to show was the extension of the system of deportation, with its wilful neglect and starvation of the victims, to further hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the Capital and Interior. And these were people who, through their place of residence, their surroundings, their social status, their preoccupation in work and wage-earning, were quite incapable of taking any active part in politics.
Others of them, again, belonged to families of high social standing and culture, bound to the land by a thousand ties, coming of a well-to-do, old-established stock, and from traditional training and ordinary prudence holding themselves scrupulously apart from all revolutionary doings. All were surrounded by a
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far superior number of inhabitants belonging to other races.
This diabolical crime was committed solely and only because of the Turkish feeling of economic and intellectual inferiority to that non-Turkish element, for the set purpose of obtaining handsome compensation for themselves, and was undertaken with the cowardly acquiescence of the German Government in full knowledge of the facts.
Of this long chain of crime I saw at least the beginning thousands of times with my own eyes. Hardly had I returned from my first visit to the Dardanelles when these persecutions began in the whole of Anatolia and even in Constantinople, and continued with but slight intermissions of a week or two at different times till shortly before I left Constantinople in December 1916.
That was the time when in the flourishing western vilajets of Anatolia, beginning with Brussa and Adabazar, where the well-stocked farms in Armenian hands must have been an eyesore to a Government that had written "forcible nationalisation" on their standard, the whole household goods of respectable fam-
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ilies were thrown into the street and sold for a mere nothing, because their owners often had only an hour till they were routed out by the waiting gendarme and hustled off into the Interior. The fittings of the houses, naturally unsaleable in the hurry, usually fell to the lot of marauding "mohadjis" (Mohammedan immigrants), who, often enough armed to the teeth by the "Committee," began the disturbances which were then exposed as "Armenian conspiracies."
That was the time when mothers, apparently in absolute despair, sold their own children, because they had been robbed of their last penny and could not let their children perish on that terrible march into the distant Interior.
How many countless times did I have to look on at that typical spectacle of little bands of Armenians belonging to the capital being escorted through the streets of Pera by two gendarmes in their ragged murky grey uniforms with their typical brutal Anatolian faces, while a policeman who could read and write marched behind with a notebook in his hand beckoning people at random out of the crowd with an imperious gesture, and if their papers
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showed them to be Armenians, simply herding them in with the rest and marching them off to the "Karakol" of Galata-Seraï, the chief police-station in Pera, where he delivered up his daily bag of Armenians!
The way these imprisonments and deportations were carried on is a most striking confutation of the claims of the Turkish Government that they were acting only in righteous indignation over the discovery of a great conspiracy. This is entirely untrue.
With the most cold-blooded calculation and method, the number of Armenians to be deported were divided out over a period of many months, indeed one may say over nearly a year and a half. The deportations only began to abate when the downfall of the Armenian Patriarchate in summer 1916 dealt the final blow to the social life of the Armenians. They more or less ceased in December 1916 with the gathering-in of all those who had formerly paid the military exemption tax —among them many eminent Armenian business men.
What can be said of the "righteous, spontaneous indignation" of the Armenian Govern-
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ment when, for example, of two Armenian porters belonging to the same house—brothers —one is deported to-day and the other not till a fortnight later; or when the number of Armenians to be delivered up daily from a certain quarter of the town is fixed at a definite figure, say two hundred or a thousand, as I have been told was the case by reliable Turks who were in full touch with the police organisation and knew the system of these deportations?
Of the ebb and flow of these persecutions, all that can be said is that the daily number of deportations increased when the Turks were annoyed over some Russian victory, and that the banishments miraculously abated when the military catastrophes of Erzerum, Trebizond, and Erzindjan gave the Government food for thought and led them to wonder if perhaps Nemesis was going to overtake them after all.
And then the method of transport! Every day towards evening, when these unfortunate creatures had been collected in the police-stations, the women and children were packed into electric-trams while the men and boys were compelled to go off on foot to Galata with a
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couple of blankets and only the barest necessities for their terrible journey packed in a small bag. Of course they were not all poor people by any means.
This dire fate might befall anyone any day or any hour, from the caretaker and the tradesman to members of the best families. I know cases where men of high education, belonging to aristocratic families—engineers, doctors, lawyers—were banished from Pera in this disgusting way under cover of darkness to spend the night on the platforms of the Haidar-Pasha station, and then be packed off in the morning on the Anatolian Railway—of course they paid for their tickets and all travelling expenses!—to the Interior, where they died of spotted typhus, or, in rare cases after their recovery from this terrible malady, were permitted, after endless pleading, to return broken in body and soul to their homes as "harmless." Among these bands herded about from pillar to post like cattle there were hundreds and thousands of gentle, refined women of good family and of perfect European culture and manners.
For the most part it was the sad fate of
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those deported to be sent off on an endless journey by foot, to the far-off Arabian frontier, where they were treated with the most terrible brutality. There, in the midst of a population wholly foreign and but little sympathetic to their race, left to their fate on a barren mountain-side, without money, without shelter, without medical assistance, without the means of earning a livelihood, they perished in want and misery.
The women and children were always separated from the men. That was the characteristic of all the deportations. It was an attempt to strike at the very core of their national being and annihilate them by the tearing asunder of all family ties.
That was how a very large part of the Armenian people disappeared. They were the "persons transported elsewhere," as the elegant title of the "Provisional Han" ran, which gave full stewardship over their well-stocked farms to the "Committee" with its zeal for "internal colonisation" with purely Turkish elements. In this way the great goal was reached—the forcible nationalisation of a land of mixed races.
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While Anatolia was gradually emptied of all the forces that had hitherto made for progress, while the deserted towns and villages and flourishing fields of those who had been banished fell into the hands of the lowest "Mohadjr"—hordes of the most dissipated Mohammedan emigrants—that stream of unhappy beings trickled on ever more slowly to its distant goal, leaving the dead bodies of women and children, old men and boys, as milestones to mark the way. The few that did reach the "settlement" alive—that is, the fever-ridden, hunger-stricken concentration camps—continually molested by raiding Bedouins and Kurds, gradually sickened and died a slower and even more terrible death.
Sometimes even this was not speedy enough for the Government, and a case occurred in Autumn 1916—absolutely verified by statements made by German employees on the Baghdad Railway—where some thousands of Armenians, brought as workers to this stretch of railway, simply vanished one day without leaving a trace. Apparently they were simply shipped off into the desert without more ado and there massacred.
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This terrible catalogue of crime on the part of the Government of Talaat is, however, in spite of all censorship and obstruction, being dealt with officially in all quarters of the globe —by the American Embassy at Constantinople and in neutral and Entente countries— and at the conclusion of peace it will be brought as an accusation against the criminal brotherhood of Young Turks by a merciless court of all the civilised nations of the world.
I have spoken to Armenians who have said to me, "In former times the old Sultan Abdul-Hamid used to have us massacred by thousands. We were delivered over by well-organised pogroms to the Kurds at stated times, and certainly we suffered cruelly enough. Then the Young Turks, as Adana 1909 shows, started on a bloodshed of thousands. But after what we have just gone through we long with all our hearts for the days of the old massacres. Now it is no longer a case of a certain number of massacred; now our whole people is being slowly but surely exterminated by the national hatred of an apparently civilised, apparently modern, and therefore infinitely more dangerous Government.
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"Now they get hold of our women and children and send them long journeys on foot to concentration camps in barren districts where they die. The pitiful remains of our population in the villages and towns of the Interior, where the local authorities have carried out the commands of the central Government most zealously, are forcibly converted to Islam, and our young girls are confined in Turkish harems and places of low repute.
"The race is to vanish to the very last man, and why? Because the Turks have recognised their intellectual bankruptcy, their economic incompetence, and their social inferiority to the progressive Armenian element, to which Abdul-Hamid, in spite of occasional massacres, knew well enough how to adapt himself, and which he even utilised in all its power in high offices of state. Because now that they themselves are being decimated by a weary and unsuccessful war of terrible bloodshed that was lost before it was begun, they hope in this way to retain the sympathy of their peoples and preserve the superiority of their element in the State.
"These are not sporadic outbursts of wrath,
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as they were in the case of Hamid, but a definitely thought-out political measure against our people, and for this very reason they can hope for no mercy. Germany, as we have seen, tolerates the annihilation of our people through weakness and lack of conscience, and if the war lasts much longer the Armenian people will have ceased to exist. That is why we long for the old régime of Abdul-Hamid, terrible as it was for us."
Has there ever been a greater tragedy in the history of a people—and of a people that have never held any illusions as to political independence, wedged in as they are between two Great Powers, and who had no real irredentistic feelings towards Russia, and, up to the moment when the Young Turks betrayed them shamefully and broke the ties of comradeship that had bound them together as revolutionaries against the old despotic system of Abdul-Hamid, were as thoroughly loyal citizens of the Ottoman Empire as any of the other peoples of this land, excepting perhaps the Turks themselves.
I hope that these few words may have given sufficient indication of the spirit and outcome
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of this system of extermination. I should like to mention just one more episode which affected me personally more than anything I experienced in Turkey.
One day in the summer of 1916 my wife went out alone about midday to buy something in the "Grand Rue de Péra." We lived a few steps from Galata-Seraï and had plenty of opportunity from our balcony of seeing the bands of Armenian deportees arriving at the police-station under the escort of gendarmes. Familiarity with such sights finally dulled our sympathies, and we began to think of them not as episodes affecting human individuals, but rather as political events.
On this particular day, however, my wife came back to the house trembling all over. She had not been able to go on her errand. As she passed the "karakol," she had heard through the open hall door the agonising groans of a tortured being, a dull wailing like the sound of an animal being tormented to death. "An Armenian," she was informed by the people standing at the door. The crowd was then dispersed by a policeman.
"If such scenes occur in broad daylight in
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the busiest part of the European town of Pera, I should like to know what is done to Armenians in the uncivilised Interior," my wife asked me. "If the Turks act like wild beasts here in the capital, so that a woman going through the main streets gets a shock like that to her nerves, then I can't live in this frightful country." And then she burst into a fit of sobbing and let loose all her pent-up passion against what she and I had had to witness for more than a year every time we set a foot out of doors.
"You are brutes, you Germans, miserable brutes, that you tolerate this from the Turks when you still have the country absolutely in your hands. You are cowardly brutes, and I will never set foot in your horrible country again. God, how I hate Germany!"
It was then, when my own wife, trembling and sobbing, in grief, rage, and disgust at such cowardliness, flung this denunciation of my country in my teeth that I finally and absolutely broke with Germany. Unfortunately I had known only too long that it had to come.
I thought of the conversations I had had about the Armenian question with members of
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the German Embassy in Constantinople and, of a very different kind, with Mr. Morgenthau, the American Ambassador.
I had never felt fully convinced by the protestations of the German Embassy that they had done their utmost to put a check on the murderous attacks on harmless Armenians far from the theatre of war, who from their whole surroundings and their social class could not be in a position to take an active part in politics, and on the cold-blooded neglect and starvation of women and children apparently deported for no other reason than to die. The attitude of the German Government towards the Armenian question had impressed me as a mixture of cowardice and lack of conscience on the one hand and the most short-sighted stupidity on the other.
The American Ambassador, who took the most generous interest in the Armenians, and has done so much for the cause of humanity in Turkey, was naturally much too reserved on this most burning question to give a German journalist like myself his true opinion about the attitude of his German colleagues. But from the many conversations and discussions
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I had with him, I gathered nothing that would turn me from the opinion I had already formed of the German Embassy, and I had given him several hints of what that opinion was.
The attitude of Germany was, in the first place, as I have said, one of boundless cowardice. For we had the Turkish Government firmly enough in hand, from the military as well as the financial and political point of view, to insist upon the observance of the simplest principles of humanity if we wanted to. Enver, and still more Talaat, who as Minister of the Interior and really Dictator of Turkey was principally responsible for the Armenian persecutions, had no other choice than to follow Germany's lead unconditionally, and they would have accepted without any hesitation, if perhaps with a little grumbling, any definite ruling of Germany's even on this Armenian question that lay so near their hearts.
From hundreds of examples it has been proved that the Germany Embassy never showed any undue delicacy for even perfectly legitimate Turkish interests and feelings in matters affecting German interests, and that
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they always got their own way where it was a question, for example, of Germans being oppressed, or superseded by Turks in the Government and ruling bodies. And yet I had to stand and look on when our Embassy was not even capable of granting her due and proper rights to a perfectly innocent German lady married to an Armenian who had been deported with many other Armenians. She appealed for redress to the German Embassy, but her only reward was to wait day after day in the vestibule of the Embassy for her case to be heard.
Turks themselves have found cynical enjoyment in this measureless cowardice of ours and compared it with the attitude of the Russian Government, who, if they had found themselves in a similar position to Germany, would have been prepared, in spite of the Capitulations being abolished, to make a political case, if necessary, out of the protection due to one poor Russian Jew. Turks have, very politely but none the less definitely, made it quite clear to me that at bottom they felt nothing but contempt for our policy of letting things slide.
Our attitude was characterised, secondly, by
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lack of conscience. To look on while life and property, the well-being and culture of thousands, are sacrificed, and to content oneself with weak formal protests when one is in a position to take most energetic command of the situation, is nothing but the most criminal lack of conscience, and I cannot get rid of the suspicion that, in spite of the fine official phrases one was so often treated to in the German Embassy on the subject of the "Armenian problem," our diplomats were very little concerned with the preservation of this people.
What leads me to bring this terrible charge against them? The fact that I never saw anything in all this pother on the part of our diplomats when the venerable old Armenian Patriarch appeared at the Embassy with his suite after some particularly frightful sufferings of the Armenian population, and begged with tears in his eyes for help from the Embassy, however late—and I assisted more than once at such scenes in the Embassy and listened to the conversations of the officials—I never saw anything but concern about German prestige and offended vanity. As far as I saw, there was never any concern for the fate of the Ar-
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menian people. The fact that time and again I heard from the mouths of Germans of all grades, from the highest to the lowest, so far as they did not have to keep strictly to the official German versions, expressions of hatred against the Armenians which were based on the most short-sighted judgment, had no relation to the facts of the case, and were merely thoughtless echoes of the official Turkish statements.
And cases have actually been proved to have occurred, from the testimony of German doctors and Red Cross nurses returned from the Interior, of German officers light-heartedly taking the initiative in exterminating and scattering the Armenians when the less-zealous local authorities who still retained some remnants of human feeling, scrupled to obey the instructions of "Nur-el-Osmanieh" (the headquarters of the Committee at Stamboul).
The case is well known and has been absolutely verified of the scandalous conduct of two German officers passing through a village in far Asia Minor, where the Armenians had taken refuge in their houses and barricaded them to prevent being herded off like cattle.
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The order had been given that guns were to be turned on them, but not a single Turk had the courage to carry out this order and fire on women and children. Without any authority whatsoever, the two German officers then turned to and gave an exhibition of their shooting capacities!
Such shameful acts are of course isolated cases, but they are on a par with the opinions expressed about the Armenian people by dozens of educated Germans of high position -not to speak of military men at all.
A case of this kind where German soldiers were guilty of an attack on Armenians in the interior of Anatolia, was the subject of frequent official discussion at the German Embassy, and was finally brought to the notice of the authorities in Germany by Graf Wolff-Metternich, a really high-principled and humane man. The material result of this was that through the unheard-of cowardice of our Government, this man -who in spite of his age and in contrast to the weak-minded Freiherr von Wangenheim, and criminally optimistic had made many an attempt to get a firmer grip of the Turkish Government -was
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simply hounded out of office by the Turks and weakly sacrificed without a struggle by Berlin.
What, finally, is one to think of the spirit of our German officials in regard to the Armenian question, when one hears such well-verified tales as were told me shortly before I left Constantinople by an eminent Hungarian banker (whose name I will not reveal) ? He related, for example, that "a German officer, with the title of Baron, and closely connected with the military attaché," went one day to the bazaar in Stamboul and chose a valuable carpet from an Armenian, which he had put down to his account and sent to his house in Pera. Then when it came to paying for it, he promptly set the price twenty pounds lower than had been stipulated, and indicated to the Armenian dealer that in view of the good understanding between himself (the officer) and the Turkish President of police, he would do well not to trouble him further in the matter! I only cite this case because I am unfortunately compelled to believe in its absolute authenticity.
Shortsighted stupidity, finally, is how I characterised the inactive toleration on the part of our Imperial representatives of this policy
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of extermination of the Armenian race. Our Government could not have been blind to the breaking flood of Turkish jingoism, and no one with any glimmer of foresight could have doubted for a moment since the summer of 1915 that Turkey would only go with us so long as she needed our military and financial aid, and that we should have no place, not even a purely commercial one, in a fully turkified Turkey.
In spite of the lamentations one heard often enough from the mouths of officials over this well-recognised and unpalatable fact, we tolerated the extermination of a race of over one and a half million of people of progressive culture, with the European point of view, intellectually adaptable, absolutely free from jingoism and fanaticism, and eminently cosmopolitan in feeling; we permitted the disappearance of the only conceivable counterbalance to the hopelessly nationalistic, anti-foreign Young Turkish element, and through our cowardice and lack of conscience have made deadly enemies of the few that will rise from the ruins of a race that used to be in thorough sympathy with Germany.
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An intelligent German Government would, in face of the increasingly evident Young Turkish spirit, have used every means in their power to retain the sympathies of the Armenians, and indeed to win them in greater numbers. The Armenians waited for us, trembled with impatience for us, to give a definite ruling. Their disappointment, their hatred of us is unbounded now—and rightly so—and if a German ever again wants to take up business in the East he will have to reckon with this afflicted people so long as one of them exists.
To answer the Armenian question in the way I have done here, one does not necessarily need to have the slightest liking or the least sympathy for them as a race. (I have, however, intimated that they deserve at least that much from their high intellectual and social abilities. One only requires to have a feeling for humanity to abhor the way in which hundreds of thousands of these unfortunate people were disposed of; one only requires to understand the commercial and social needs of a vast country like Turkey, so undeveloped and yet so capable of development, to place the highest value on the preservation of this restless,
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active, and eminently useful element; one only requires to open one's eyes and look at the facts dispassionately to deny utterly and absolutely what the Turks have tried to make the world believe about the Armenians, in order that they might go on with their work of extermination in peace and quiet; one only requires to have a slight feeling of one's dignity as a German to refuse to condone the pitiful cowardice of our Government over the Armenian question.
The mixture of cowardice, lack of conscience, and lack of foresight of which our Government has been guilty in Armenian affairs is quite enough to undermine completely the political loyalty of any thinking man who has any regard for humanity and civilisation. Every German cannot be expected to bear as light-heartedly as the diplomats of Pera the shame of having history point to the fact that the annihilation, with every refinement of cruelty, of a people of high social development, numbering over one and a half million, was contemporaneous with Germany's greatest power in Turkey.
In long confidential reports to my paper I
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made perfectly clear to them the whole position with regard to the Armenian persecutions and the brutal jingoistic spirit of the Young Turks apparent in them. The Foreign Office, too, took notice of these reports. But I saw no trace of the fruits of this knowledge in the attitude of my paper.
The determination never to re-enter the editorial offices of that paper came to me on that dramatic occasion when my wife hurled her denunciation of Germany in my teeth. I at least owe a personal debt of gratitude to the poor murdered and tortured Armenians, for it is to them I owe my moral and political enfranchisement.
Source: Stuermer,
Harry. Two War Years in Constantinople. USA: George H. Doran Company,
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Here's a quickpic of the masterbuilder (James Cohen) fine tuning some trolley motors.
Every time I see this man I learn something I didn't know. Just watching him wind these motors is a lesson in electronics. The man has so many standard gauge parts it's amazing. This guy has forgotten more than I will ever know.
Here's the thing too: I've seen his wheels (for say, 10 series trucks) work and I have seen some replacements on the market as well as gear made by other manufacturers. There is really something to be said for a craftsman.
Jim's wheels work. Now that may sound silly but not all wheels are created equal. Trust me, I watched his on trains and I have watched others and the trains act differently. They sway differently and even make a different noise. It has something to do with the flanging and type of metal. Whatever it is, this guy has the recipe down to a science.


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Well I found myself with a problem what can I cook with 4 lamb leg steaks. After a search through a couple of cook books I got an idea to make a Lancashire Hot Pot. I didn't use a specific recipe, but I went with what I thought would work. It is very simple, not many ingredients required, the hardest part was peeling the potatoes.
Lancashire Hot Pot
4 lamb steaks, enough potatoes sliced 1cm thick to cover base and top of of dish, 2 cups chicken stock, 2 tsp chopped fresh thyme, 2 bay leaves broken in half, salt and pepper, 6 juniper berries flattened
Layer the base with with potatoes sprinkle with salt and pepper, place on 2 bay leaf halves. Place steaks in a single layer, sprinkle with juniper berries, salt , pepper and bay leaves. Cover with potato slices. Carefully pour over stock sprinkle some salt and pepper ontop.
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Orange-fronted Parakeet (Eupsittula canicularis)
French: Conure à front rouge German: Elfenbeinsittich Spanish: Aratinga frentinaranja
Other common names: Orange-fronted Conure
Psittacus canicularis
Linnaeus, 1758,
north-western Costa Rica.
Probably closest to E. aurea. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution
E. c. clarae
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Noun, pl. isthmi, isthmuses
1. (Anatomy) Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures. (wiktionary.org)
2. A narrow organ, passage, or piece of tissue connecting two larger parts. (Google Dictionary)
3. (Geography) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the isthmus of Panama; the isthmus of Suez, etc. Isthmus of the fauces. (biology-online.org)
Word origin: From Greek isthmos "narrow passage, narrow neck of land," especially that of Corinth, of unknown origin, perhaps from eimi "to go" + suffix –thmo (cf. ithma "a step, movement").


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An American man opened fire on an Indian engineer and his colleague, after yelling "get out of my country (according to local media reports). In the firing, the Indian engineer was shot dead and the other one got severely injured.
Police are identifying this incident as a "possible hate crime". The victim has been identified as Srinivas Kanchibhotla, a 32-year-old employee at the Garmin headquarters in Olathe, and the one who got injured as Alok Madasani.
The accused, Adam Purinton, 51, was arrested on Thursday morning, five hours after the incident.
(The Accused) (Source: ndtv)
Purinton was also charged with shooting Ian Grillot, a white man who, according to witnesses, had tried to stop the shooting.
(Ian Grillot) (source:twitterom)
The accused reportedly also told the bartender that he had killed two "Middle Eastern" men.
The accused has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and his bond has been set at USD 2 million.
The Indian Embassy is looking into the matter. Two senior officials of the Indian Consulate Consul Ravindra Joshi and Vice Consul Harpal Singh have been sent to Kansas to assist the victims' families.
(Joshi meeting Alok Madasani) (Source: twitter)
According to Garmin, Kuchibhotla and Madasani worked in the company's aviation systems.
The company said in a statement - "We're saddened that two Garmin associates were involved in last night's (Wednesday night) incident, and we express our condolences to the family and friends of our co-workers involved. Garmin will have grievance counsellors on-site and available for its associates today and tomorrow."
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The Treasure of Serena Madre is the 11th episode of the third season and the 54th overall.
Thanksgiving began when the pilgrims and Indians came together to share the bountiful harvest. On the Upper East Side, that tradition is upheld with a bountiful harvest of secrets, lies, and scandals. -G.G.
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side if there wasn't a serving or two of some major drama for the holiday. Blair suspects her mother, Eleanor, has been keeping a big secret from her. Vanessa is supposed to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, but has a fight with her estranged mother and shows up on Dan's doorstep. Meanwhile, Rufus learns that Lily has been lying to him about her mother, Cece, and about her whereabouts during the summer. Chuck tells Nate that he has some potentially damaging information about one of their friends. Jenny learns that Eric was behind her very public embarrassment at Cotillion and Serena is put in a very awkward position when her mother invites Tripp and his wife Maureen to join them for Thanksgiving dinner.
The episode begins with Rufus handing out tasks for Thanksgiving dinner. Lily announces Serena is going to be volunteering at a soup kitchen for the holiday and she would rather buy a ready made dinner instead of cooking. Rufus pretends to be okay with it and Lily goes to order it. When she's gone, Eric suggests the invite CeCe to come over video chat so she can be there without traveling. Rufus agrees it's a great idea and Eric goes to retrieve his laptop with Jenny following closely behind. She asks if he Jonathan can come, and he admits they broke up but won't say why. Afterwards, she sends Jonathan a text asking if he wants to come anyway. At Tripp's, Serena arrives and he tells her Maureen agreed to a divorce. Serena asks what the real reason is, not wanting to be responsible. He assures her it has nothing to do with her, and she insists they can't be together until he's not married anymore. He then asks if they could spend Thanksgiving together, and she replies that she already told Lily she has to work so she could be free.
At The Empire, Blair and Chuck are headed out for the day while she complains about Eleanor's arrival; and how she thinks she is keeping a secret from her. She announces her plans to figure out what it is before they go back to Paris together, and then they run into Serena outside, who is looking for Nate. Blair quickly denounces her and gets into the car, followed by Chuck. Upstairs, Nate and Dan talk over the threesome and Olivia leaving. Dan explains how Olivia thinks she saw a certain look during, and Nate tells him to relax. Dan asks if he's going to be around for Thanksgiving, and he replies that he's headed to William's to avoid dealing with his feelings for someone. When they hang up, Serena enters and asks if he wants to go for a walk. At the loft, Vanessa arrives to see Dan, saying she got into a fight with her mother and can't stay in the dorms. She then asks if she can stay for awhile, and he agrees. At the VDW's, Rufus and Eric video chat with CeCe and ask her to be present for dinner, but she replies that she's fine and willing to make the trip to see them. She asks them to keep it as a surprise and hangs up. At the Waldorf's, Blair arrives home and finds Dorota avoiding calls from Vanya. While looking through the mail, Blair finds a thick envelope addressed to Eleanor from her attorney, and realizes she's changing her will. Before she can open it, Eleanor arrives and takes the envelope away. Elsewhere outside, Nate confronts Serena about Tripp's divorce. She admits they kissed once and she doesn't intend on taking it any further. While they talk, Tripp calls to cancel their plans for Thanksgiving because Maureen was a mess when she arrived and wants to spend the holiday together. Serena hangs up and asks Nate if he has plans for Thanksgiving, and she asks him to come to Lily's. Meanwhile, Lily runs into Maureen on the street, and they're surprised to see they're wearing the same coat. Lily asks why Tripp has Serena working on Thanksgiving and Maureen quickly plays along, saying his schedule has been busy lately. Lily asks if they would be willing to have Thanksgiving dinner with them and Maureen accepts the invitation.
At the loft, Vanessa tells Dan that she and her mother are fighting over the holiday and she doesn't have anyone to vent to since Olivia left. She asks if he's talked to her since she left, and he says no. She notices he's been quiet and that he keeps giving her a weird look. Before they can talk more, Gabriella arrives to make things right with Vanessa. She apologizes for earlier and says Rufus invited them to come for dinner. Vanessa agrees to give her one last shot but that's it. At The Empire, Serena runs into Tripp, who wants to talk since she's avoiding his calls. He informs her that him and Maureen were invited to Lily's and they'll be seeing each other the next day after all. Serena is shocked and asks if it's weird. He says all he cares about is spending time with her, and they pull the emergency stop button to make out. At the Waldorf's, Blair is still trying to find out what's in the envelope. Dorota comes back from the store, and Eleanor says she's headed to bed. She grabs the envelope, but Blair quickly suggests they spend Thanksgiving with the VDW's. Eleanor agrees to call Lily and ask, but leaves the room with the envelope. Blair complains to Dorota that she knows the secret is int he envelope, then notices her clutching a bag really close. She grabs it and finds a pregnancy test inside, then realizes Eleanor is pregnant. At The Empire, Chuck tells Nate that he found out from his security team that Serena and Tripp stopped the elevator to make out. Nate realizes he isn't leaving Maureen over the scandal, and Chuck confirms that by telling Serena that, he can leave when he wants. Nate says someone needs to get through to her, and Chuck goes to his room. When he's gone, Nate calls security.
The next day, Lily is surprised when CeCe shows up for dinner. Right after she does, Gabriella, Vanessa, and Dan arrive. Out of earshot, CeCe tells Lily that everyone, especially her and Rufus, seem to have a lot to talk about. Outside, Blair tries to trick Eleanor into revealing her pregnancy or catching a symptom. She asks Eleanor if she's nauseous, but she answers that she's jet lagged. Chuck reveals he brought her favorite champagne, but Eleanor replies that she isn't in the mood for it. Upstairs, Tripp and Maureen arrive and are greeted by Serena. When Maureen goes to say hi to Nate, Tripp tells Serena the hardest part is over and they'll get through it. After, Blair, Chuck, and Eleanor arrive. Blair is surprised to see Tripp. She walks off with Eleanor, and Chuck tells Serena and Tripp that if they ever play grab ass in his elevator again, Serena will be kicked out of the hotel. Meanwhile, Nate and Maureen talk and she asks if Tripp is having an affair. Nate admits he is, but he has a way they can end it quickly and quietly. He shows her that he has a tape, and she is willing to see it if it ends their relationship. Elsewhere, Jenny pulls Blair aside and demands the truth about what happened at Cotillion. Blair asks what she's talking about, and Jenny says Jonathan texted her saying he's surprised she and Eric are still friends after what happened that night. Blair reveals that Eric's plan was solid and stealing her escort and leaving her alone onstage was his idea. Rufus then calls everyone to the table. Before dinner starts, Lily excuses herself. Gabriella asks CeCe for all the details on Rufus and Lily's wedding, and she says she wasn't there because Rufus didn't want her there. He says Lily said she was too sick to travel, but she says she's been in remission since August. Confused, Rufus reminds her that Lily didn't come home until October and she quickly recants her statement. Vanessa tells Dan her mother always sticks her nose in everyone's business, but Dan defends her. She asks again about the face, but directs it at Jenny, what takes the opportunity to blame Eric. She reveals she knows what happened at Cotillion and he doesn't deny it. On the other side of the table, Maureen asks Tripp and Serena how they can be so happy despite doing such a bad thing. Nate tells her to quiet down, but she reveals she has a copy of the tape and will release it unless they end the affair. Chuck realizes Nate stole the tape from the hotel. While she's showing it to them, Lily looks over Serena's shoulder and realizes what she's been doing. Blair tells Eleanor she knows she's pregnant, but the look on her face tells Blair she was wrong. Jenny excuses herself from the table, followed by Blair, then Vanessa. CeCe then tells Rufus that she's glad she was invited.
Upstairs, Serena tries to explain things to Lily, who asks if she knows what it's like to be left. Serena tells her it's not like that since Tripp really cares about her. Lily replies that he's hurting someone who believed the exact same thing, and finishes by saying she isn't welcome at their home again until she ends it. In Jenny's room, Eric tells her that she lost any rights to honesty when she chose being queen over their friendship. He explains Jonathan was sick of his constantly trying to excuse her behavior, and that's when he tried to take her down, hoping that if she could be taken down once she would realize what she had become. She replies that he lost Jonathan because he tried to oust her, and he says he lost everything and it's her fault. Finally, he says that she has to watch her back, same way as she told Kira to watch hers. In the lobby, Blair is eating pie alone when Eleanor comes down to tell her she isn't pregnant; but she is moving to Paris full time, as she and Cyrus bought a beautiful penthouse. Blair asks who the pregnancy test was for, and then they're approached by Vanya, who asks why Dorota is avoiding him. They realize who the pregnant one is. Upstairs, Gabriella tells Rufus that it's weird that Lily wasn't honest about CeCe going into remission. He excuses himself, and Vanessa tells her again to lay off. She reminds her of the time she bought them tickets to a show and she spent the whole time talking to a homeless man instead of spending time with her. Gabriella replies that she cares about people, but is starting to think coming was a mistake and she should leave. Vanessa agrees, and she does so. Serena then comes downstairs, breaks up with Tripp, and apologizes to Maureen. Later, Blair goes to sit with her in her old room, and says Chuck filled her in on what happened. They make up, and Blair asks her to come to Paris with her for the weekend. Serena decides to go, and they go to find her passport. Upstairs, Rufus asks Lily why she stayed with CeCe when she was better instead of coming home. Lily admits that while she was sick, CeCe became kind and loving and she wanted to enjoy her company while she could, and lied because she felt selfish leaving him alone with the kids. CeCe then enters after overhearing, and Rufus goes to clear the table. Lily thanks her, and CeCe asks if he knows about her little trip. She says no, and CeCe reminds her that not all secrets can stay hidden. Downstairs, Eleanor and Blair give Dorota a plate of off for Vanya, and tell her she needs to talk to Vanya right away. They send her down and wish her luck.
At the loft, Dan catches Gabriella before she leaves. He tells her that Vanessa is giving and kind the same way she is, and that she is truly an amazing person. Gabriella tells Dan that he is in love with her, and that it's all over his face. Vanessa then comes in, and he lets them talk alone. Back at the VDW's, Tripp confronts Nate about revealing the affair, saying he's angry that he can lose everything. Nate replies that just now realizing that he is losing everything makes him pretty sure he did the right thing. Tripp leaves, and Chuck comes up to Nate. Chuck asks why he didn't tell him the truth, and Nate says he did; and that Serena deserves someone who would sacrifice anything to be with her. Chuck asks if that includes stealing a tape from his best friend's business, then advises him to tell her how he feels to give her the chance to be with a guy who does deserve her. Upstairs, Serena is rooting through the safe to find her passport. Before she can, Tripp comes up to tell her that he doesn't care about losing Maureen or his career since she is all he cares about. He tells her that he's going to be downstairs and he wants her to join. Blair admits she didn't think he had it in him, and Serena asks what she should do. Blair tells her to go, and they hug. Before she closes the safe, she spots a letter addressed to her from her father postmarked from weeks ago. Eleanor calls up to Blair, and Serena tells her to go so she can be alone. She begins reading the letter, and then heads down to the elevator. Lily asks where she's going since everyone is gone. Serena tells her that Tripp is leaving Maureen and that they're going away together. Lily tells her she is still responsible for breaking up a marriage and it's a huge mistake. Serena asks her what she knows about mistakes, and hands the letter over before leaving.
Back at the loft, Gabriella excitedly tells Dan that she and Vanessa are on good terms now and are moving to a hotel for the weekend. Dan offers to let them stay, and she decides to give him some advice. She tells him that unless he's sure he wants to be with Vanessa because their friendship won't survive another heartbreak. Vanessa emerges from the back, and says Paul Hoffman texted asking if she and Gabriella would want to meet with him and his parents for a drink. She asks if she wants to go, and Gabriella asks Dan if she does. Dan says yes, since Vanessa really likes him. She tells Vanessa they'll go. Back at the VDW's, Nate catches Serena before she leaves and begs her not to go, revealing his feelings for her. She debates it, but ultimately chooses to leave with Tripp. Back at the loft, Vanessa and Gabriella leave for a hotel. On the way out, Vanessa hugs Dan and thanks him for everything. Back at the VDW's, Dorota tells Vanya she is pregnant and he is overjoyed. Upstairs, Eric texts Kira that Jenny knows about Cotillion and they need to strike as soon as possible. In the coat closet, Lily rereads the letter but quickly shoves it aside when Rufus comes down looking for her. He asks where their wedding album is, then notices she looks weird. He asks if she's okay and she says yes, then goes to get it. Downstairs, Blair, Chuck, and Eleanor leave to get in the car for the airport. He notices a heartbroken Nate, and asks if she minds if he stays. She kisses him, and leaves with Eleanor. He goes over to Nate, and offers to get drunk with him and they walk off. In their car, Serena and Tripp leave the city together. Back at the VDW's, Maureen arrives to get her coat she forgot when she left. She asks Dorota to tell Rufus and Lily everything was wonderful and gets into the elevator. Right after she does, she discovers the letter from Dr. van der Woodsen in her coat pocket.
Main Cast
- Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen
- Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf
- Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey
- Chace Crawford as Nate Archibald
- Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass
- Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams
- Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey
- Kelly Rutherford as Lily van der Woodsen
- Matthew Settle as Rufus Humphrey
Recurring/Guest Cast
- Connor Paolo as Eric van der Woodsen
- Margaret Colin as Eleanor Waldorf
- Caroline Lagerfelt as CeCe Rhodes
- Zuzanna Szadkowski as Dorota Kishlovsky
- Aaron Schwartz as Vanya
- Aaron Tveit as Tripp van der Bilt
- Holley Fain as Maureen van der Bilt
- Gina Torres as Gabriela Abrams
- The Only Exception by Paramore
- Last Dance by The Raveonettes
- Whatcha Say by Jason Derulo
- White Sky by Vampire Weekend
Memorable Quotes
Eric (on Lily wanting a hassle free holiday): Sorry, Rufus, but you can't really blame her. Our Thanksgivings tend to end with french fries in a diner and someone having been in a mental institution.
Nate (to Dan on his threesome): If this is not your next story for The New Yorker, I am sending it out to an entirely different magazine.
Dorota (clutching a bag): Ms. Eleanor ask me to pick up a few things for trip to Paris. It's private.
Blair: You know what isn't? The INS tipline.
Chuck: How often does the other woman get a happy ending?
Eleanor: Is it just me, or does my daughter just seem to get crazier and crazier?
Jenny: You don't have anything to say to me?
Eric: Your sweet potatoes are bland.
Blair: Doing the right thing takes courage and strength. At least that's what I've heard.
Serena (to Lily after finding the letter): You don't get to judge me. Ever again.
Chuck (to Nate): Come on. Let's get drunk.
- The episode title is based off the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
- CeCe's phone number is revealed to be (805) 555-1046.


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Alternative Solutions to Synthetic Surfactants
Time: 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Date: Tuesday 14 May
Market dynamics are driving customers to search for alternative solutions to surfactants derived from synthetic based feedstocks. Innospec has developed a range of ingredients to offer alternatives to this customer need: short chain ethoxylates and alkyl sulfates from vegetable origin.
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Water is essential to everyday life and yet, in 1990, 24 percent of the world's population did not have access to clean drinking water. This paved the way for stronger efforts to battle the world's water woes and the lack of access to clean water was addressed in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. One goal was to reduce by half the number of people who lived without access to adequate drinking water. Recently, it has been determined that this goal has finally been achieved. This achievement marks the first goal to be accomplished and means that the health and well-being of communities around the globe should greatly increase.
What strikes me most about this major achievement in world health is the relatively little fanfare it has received. Water is taken for granted so much in the United States; we tend to forget that there are others that have no access to clean water. Accomplishing one of the goals set out by the United Nations years ahead of schedule is a major accomplishment and yet, it is an accomplishment that no one knows about. Could it be the remaining huge disparities in access to water that has the international community unwilling to celebrate?
There are now 6.1 billion people (89% of total population) who have access to clean water. This access is essential to the health of communities. Water-borne illnesses, such as typhoid fever, cholera, and hepatitis A are all transmitted through dirty water. Other diseases, such as guinea worm, are also associated with lack of access to clean water. Millions of deaths in children under five year of age are linked to diarrhea – a disease commonly caused by unclean water. By giving people easy access to clean water, health risks such as these will greatly diminish.
Throughout the developing world there have been many NGOs and governments that have devoted a lot of time and money to digging wells and coming up with other creative solutions for communities lacking easy access to water. This push for water has led to the number of people without water being cut in half in a decade.
This is a huge accomplishment for the international community. It shows growth and progress in developing countries. Most importantly it shows that the world is serious about the goals it set out to accomplish at the beginning of the decade. So why isn't everybody celebrating?
Of the almost two billion people that gained access to clean drinking water in the past decade, more than half have been in China and India. In Sub Saharan Africa, only 61 percent of people have improved access to water. Also, although 89 percent of the world has gained access to water, only 63 percent of the developing world has improved access. Of all the countries not on track to meet the goal, only seven of them are not in Africa.
The disparities in success of this goal must be thoroughly examined before the world can claim absolute victory in guaranteeing access to clean water. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to struggle compared to the rest of the world, and they are not making much headway in addressing the problem for the 39 percent of the population that still does not have good access. Many of the water-borne diseases still have a huge impact on populations in Africa and the under-five mortality rate due to diarrhea is still extremely high in some countries there. Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in the quest for clean water. Much more can be done, and much more needs to be done before the world can be truly assured that there is access to clean water for all.


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(Crain's) — The clock has run out on the Glen Town Center.
After nearly three years of trying to coax more lenient loan terms from its lender, the developer of the Glenview mixed-use complex now faces a $55.6 million foreclosure suit on the project's 267,000 square feet of retail space. The developer, a venture of San Diego-based developer OliverMcMillan LLC, has not made a loan payment since July 1, 2009, according to the complaint, filed last week in Cook County Circuit Court.
Part of the Glenview Naval Air Station redevelopment, the project opened to great expectations in 2003, offering shoppers a pedestrian-friendly, Main Street experience and retailers including a Von Maur department store and a 10-screen Crown movie theater. The village of Glenview invested heavily in the shopping center's success, cutting a $12 million revenue-sharing agreement with OliverMcMillan when the developer bought the land from the village.
Yet the retail property has not generated enough cash flow to cover its debt service since 2006, according to a loan report from Bloomberg L.P. It was appraised at just $36.4 million in March, well below the $55.6 million in principal, interest and fees the foreclosure suit aims to collect.
In a statement, OliverMcMillan says it hopes to work out a "mutually agreeable" solution with Houston-based Situs Cos., a so-called special servicer overseeing the loan. The parties had been in discussions about restructuring the mortgage since at least 2009 and last summer even talked about selling the property.
Related story: Owner, lender mull sale of Glen Town Center
"While we are disappointed that the Special Servicer has opted to begin foreclosure proceedings, we are committed to continuing to work closely with the Special Servicer to restructure the debt on the retail portion of The Glen Town Center," the statement says.
A Situs spokeswoman did not return calls.
The lawsuit names the village as a defendant and seeks to establish the village's interests in the property as junior to the mortgage, a move that could wipe out the revenue-sharing agreement between OliverMcMillan and the village.
The developer paid the village more than $38 million for 45 acres of land for the redevelopment, says Donald Owen, Glenview's deputy village manager.
As part the sale, both sides agreed that if OliverMcMillan's annual return on the project exceeded 13 percent, $200,000 would be shared with the village, Mr. Owen says. Subsequently, if the return exceeded 13.5 percent, the village would take in another $200,000, up to a total of $12 million, according to Mr. Owen. But Glenview has not received any payments under the agreement, and it seems likely the village will never see those funds.
"It is our expectation that we will not have any revenue sharing," Mr. Owen says, declining to discuss the foreclosure suit.
While the Glen Town Center is 92 percent leased, according to real estate data provider CoStar Group Inc., it has been unable to generate enough funds to service its debt. In 2010, the last year for which data is available, annual debt service on the property was more than $2.9 million, but the mall generated just $1.4 million in both net operating income and net cash flow, according to the Bloomberg loan report.
The lawsuit does not include the Von Maur store, the movie theater or the project's residential component.
The Glen Town Center is a compelling redevelopment, but the retail space is a bit out of the way, says Steven Baer, a principal at Metro Commercial Real Estate Inc. in Highland Park.
"There are great demographics there and there's a great built-in customer base," Mr. Baer says, referring to the project's residential component. "However, it's kind of confined to the people who live there. You really want to have to go there. It's not on a major thoroughfare."
Glenview's Mr. Owen believes the shopping center has a strong future, whether OliverMcMillan continues to operate it or another group takes over.
"We are not concerned about the viability of the project," he says. "We understand with the recession great projects have had issues."


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