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Jobs: French & App Ling: Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough
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French & Applied Linguistics: Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough, ON, Canada
Message 1: French & Applied Linguistics: Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough, ON, Canada
Monica Hretsina <hretsina
French & Applied Linguistics: Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough, ON, Canada
University or Organization: University of Toronto Scarborough
Department: Humanities
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Job Rank: Lecturer
Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; French as a Second Language, French Studies
Required Language(s): French (fra)
The Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
invites applications for a full-time appointment in French at the level of
Lecturer, starting July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2008. The position
involves teaching undergraduate language courses at all levels and
co-ordinating language course offerings.
PhD in French as a Second Language, in French Studies or the equivalent
(completed as of 1 July 2007); experience in teaching French as a second
language; experience in applying new technologies in language teaching; an
excellent teaching dossier; excellent command of French and very good
knowledge of English and an aptitude for teamwork.
Applicants should send a letter of application, a current curriculum vitae,
a writing sample and teaching materials to Professor William R. Bowen,
Chair, Department of Humanities at the address given below. Three letters
of reference should be sent directly to Professor Bowen.
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commitment and a multicultural student body speaking a wide range of
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community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group
members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of
sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further
diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply;
however Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Application Deadline: 23-May-2007
Mailing Address for Applications:
Professor William R. Bowen
Department of Humanities
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
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Those pies look decent. Dial the hydration back to 62% with straight KABF. Try 2% olive oil, 2% salt, 2% sugar and do a 48hr cold ferment. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Your next step up would be hi gluten flour.As far as too much excess flour. Once my dough gets to room temp I lightly put onto paper plate with only flour and coat both sides. Do not press down while in flour. Move ball to counter and form edges then proceed to slap around. If not all most of the flour should be gone after that. Flour on paper plate easily goes back into bag of flour.Nate
I like that tip.
About .1% IDY? The paper plate idea sounds great. I think it will help a lot. Thanks for the advice Nate and Bob. I'll post an update next week on how it goes.

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Everyone wins on Super Bowl Sunday if there�s a stellar spread of snacks.
You don�t need to know a thing about football�nope, not even which teams are facing off in this year�s big game�to love Super Bowl Sunday. Because this is one unofficial holiday that is all about the food. And while there is definitely no �I� in team, there is one in �appetizers,� which is the best recipe for Super Bowl party success. So we went straight to the source and chatted up the chefs at some of our favorite bars and gastropubs, who�ve offered up this collection of Super-Bowl-ready recipes to make at home. Super Bowl Dip x 3 Recipes: Triple Onion Potato Chip Dip, Lobster and Green Onion Dip, Cheese and Horseradish Dip Restaurant:�New England Soup Factory Location: Brookline & Newton, MA A party wouldn�t be a Super Bowl party without a dip. But Marjorie Druker doesn�t want you to stop at just one option. The co-owner of Boston�s New England Soup Company and The Modern Rotisserie, who�s also known as �The Soup Lady,� has a trio of flavorful spreads to get the party started. Iceberg Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese [caption id="attachment_294397" align="aligncenter" width="487"] T. Schauffer[/caption] Restaurant: DBGB Kitchen & Bar Location: New York, NY Renowned chef Daniel Boulud�s East Village brasserie-meets-tavern is well known for its homemade sausage and towering burgers. But those sports fans looking for a lighter bite will appreciate this crisp�and crowd-friendly�wedge salad. Gouda Tater Tots [caption id="attachment_294392" align="aligncenter" width="487"] Andrew Meade[/caption] Restaurant: Meat Market Location: Miami Beach, FL Cheese fries have got nothing on Meat Market chef-owner Sean Brasel�s cheesy take on a childhood staple. No ketchup required! Slow-Cooked Beef and Pork Chili Restaurant: Delicatessen Location: New York, NY Executive Chef and Partner Michael Ferraro has gained a legion of followers for his upscale comfort food. Diners at his popular New York City eatery have come to expect the unexpected when it comes to his menu (think lasagna made with braised pork and eggplant parmesan with burrata cheese). His slow-cooked chili gets an extra hit of depth when topped with a sliced avocado. For appetizer sized servings, serve in colorful ramekins, but we suggest going big with this recipe and serving guests hearty portions for dinner. Roasted Date Appetizer [caption id="attachment_294393" align="aligncenter" width="487"] Mark Mediana[/caption] Restaurant: Due Forni Location: Austin, TX & Las Vegas, NV Who says football food can�t be sophisticated? Chef Carlos Buscaglia is giving food on a stick a first-class touch with this utensil-less date appetizer. Crispy Hominy with Pickled Red Onion Restaurant: The Greenhouse Tavern Location: Cleveland, OH Chef Jonathon Sawyer has made a career out of elevating simple, fresh and locally-sourced ingredients to new heights of flavor. And this crispy hominy is a perfect example of that. As fancy as it may sound, it�s surprisingly easy to make. Sausage Bread and Ricotta Restaurant: The Wayland Location: New York, NY Sausage bread and ricotta is one of the most popular appetizers at this popular gastropub in Manhattan�s Alphabet City. And while the restaurant�s preparation is a bit more advanced, you can cut down your prep time by using a few store-bought ingredients. �We use fresh dough and homemade sausage that we then cook in an antique coal oven,� says owner Robert Ceraso. �But my Grandma made this recipe at home and so can you.� Fried Oysters Sandwiches Restaurant: The Social Club Location: Miami Beach, FL Chef Douglas Sisk made great use of his oceanfront locale when he created these tasty fried oyster sandwiches, which are perfect for sharing. Regardless of which team you�re rooting for. Mac and Joe with Bechamel Sauce Restaurant: Schnippers Location: New York, NY Can�t decide whether your current food craving calls for a plate of mac and cheese or a deliciously messy sloppy Joe? Let chef Jonathan Schnipper show you how to plate up an appetizer twofer with this signature dish from his New York City mini-chain. Smoky and Sweet Chicken Burgers [caption id="attachment_294395" align="aligncenter" width="487"] Steve Hill[/caption] Restaurant: Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Location: New York, NY Don�t let the name fool you: there�s a lot more than fried chicken happening at chef-owners Eric and Bruce Bromberg�s Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken. Poultry is popping up on the burger, too. A heaping helping of their smoky-sweet Pit Burger will have any football fan smiling. (Their griddled corn and bacon makes a perfect side dish.) Hushpuppies Restaurant: Swine Southern Table & Bar Location: Coral Gables, FL For a delicious taste of the South, a plate of hush puppies�served hot with honey hot sauce (as pictured) or with deviled crab, celery and smoked trout roe�can�t lose. This article originally appeared as on Relish


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Next week is [VMworld 2010], so I thought today would be a good day to write a blog post about reporting and managing virtual guest images.
As the original lead architect for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, I am no stranger to reporting and management tools. Needless to say, if you have lots of virtual guest images, it makes sense to deploy reporting and management software. I had never heard of Veeam before, but I decided to check out Veeam Reporter 4.0, an enterprise-level reporting solution specifically designed for large Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) and vSphere virtual environments that allows you to automatically discover and collect information about your VMware virtual environment. Their 90-page User Guide offered these helpful "First Steps" on page 9 which I used as the master plan for my evaluation.
- Install Veeam Reporter 4.0
The instructions appeared fairly straightforward: Download [the latest version] of the application. Unpack the downloaded archive and run the VeeamReporter.exe file. Then follow the installation wizard steps. What could go wrong?
I should have known better. Like IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, Veeam Reporter is designed to be installed on its own server-class machine with its own application web server and database. I wasn't going to stand up a new server in our lab just for this contest, so I decided to just install it on my Windows XP SP3, which Veeam had listed as a supported operating system level. I ran into a series of installation issues, including installing IIS, installing SQL server, and installing the SRSS component. I am more familiar with IBM's WebSphere Application Server and DB2 combination used in IBM's own products, and have experience with Apache and MySQL on a standard LAMP stack, so my lack of experience with IIS and SQL server made the installation more difficult. Many thanks to all the support personnel at Veeam, Microsoft, and my internal IT department to finally get all of this working.
It appears you can set this up as a client/server environment, where the Veeam Reporter server runs IIS and SQL Server, and then you have a browser on your client machine point to that server. In my cases, I have client browser and server all on one machine.
- Create and run a collection job
This step also seemed fairly standard for reporting tools. Once you launch Veeam Reporter 4.0 for the first time, you need to retrieve data from your virtual infrastructure to be able to generate reports. To start the created collection job, select it and click the Start button on the toolbar. If you have a vCenter server in your VI environment, we recommend that you create a job for it to immediately collect data for all objects in its hierarchy. After that, you will be able to select VI objects that were engaged in the performed job using the Workspace, and generate reports for it.
I signed up for this contest August 7, but step 1 above took me two weeks to resolve all the installation iissues. I wanted to get my blog post entry for the contest BEFORE the start of VMworld. Since I am in Dallas, Texas this week for the IBM Storage Solutions University, I had to go through several firewalls for my laptop to tunnel through and get to my VMware Center back in Tucson.
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I was able to create and run a collection job. I have a WMware ESX 3.5 host running five guest images and 14 datastores. This seemed to be enough to evaluate the basic features of this reporting tool. Veeam Reporter let's you run the collection process manually, or set a "periodic" schedule to collect data every hour.
- Generate reports manually or create a reporting job
Finally, I get to the fun part: To generate report manually, click the Workspace tab, select a necessary VI object from the tree view, date and collection job session, choose reports and click the Create Report button.
At this point, I am reminded of a famous poem:
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
When evaluating products, try to imagine what the reports would look like with hundreds of virtual guest images. Certainly, I can see some potential, even though I had rather limited data to work with. In theory, the tool can create Visio output files, but you need to have Microsoft Visio installed. I have only "Visio Viewer" so I was unable to create any visio files with this product.
The reports can be exported to PDF, Word or Excel formats. Here is an example of an Excel spreadsheet export. While it has 14 bars for the 14 datastores, there are no labels, and the misleading details link in the lower right corner is non-functional. The only way for me to figure out what each referred to was to go back to my vCenter client, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a separate reporting tool.
This same report exported to PDF spanned across four pages, leaving the re-assembly to be done with a pair of scissors and celophane tape.
When you create reports, you can use SRSS or Veeam's internal proprietary format. Only SRSS reports can be put on the dashboard, so I recommend that.
- Customize your dashboard
The fourth and final step is to configure your own dashboard: To add reports to the Dashboard, you should first create and save them using Workspace of Veeam Reporter 4.0. Keep in mind that you can add to the Dashboard only saved SSRS-based reports. To customize the Dashboard, click the Dashboard tab and then click the Edit Dashboard button. Customize the layout by dragging blue borders from the right and the bottom of the screen. Then, drag reports from the Reports list and drop them onto the created cells.
The "Free Edition" only allows you to put a single report on the dashboard, so as in step 3, you have to use your imagination of what the potential of the full license would looke like with multiple reports are on a single pane of glass.
(FTC Disclosure: I work for IBM, the leader in server virtualization worldwide, and the number #1 reseller of VMware. In this post, I review [Veeam Reporter 4.0] as my official entry for their blogging contest. IBM and Veeam do not have any business relationshiop that I know of, other than both being VMware business partners, so I am treating them here as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Veeam has not compensated me in any manner for this review, this review is not to be taken as an endorsement of Veeam or its products, and I was not provided any full or evaluator license keys. The review is based entirely on my experience using the "Free Edition" available to all for download. None of this blog post was pre-reviewed by anyone from Veeam. IBM, of course, also offers similar software, which I mention below for comparison purposes.)
At this point, you might be thinking, "Doesn't IBM offer something like this?" Of course it does! IBM is the leader in infrastructure reporting, monitoring and management software. Last October, [IBM unveiled IBM Systems Director VMcontrol] software. Not only does IBM Systems Director VMcontrol provide similar support for your VMware environment, it also manages Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen deployments, PowerVM on POWER-based serves, and even z/VM guest images on the System z mainframes. Combined with the rest of the IBM Systems Director, you can manage all of your physical and virtual servers with a single tool from a single pane of glass. How cool is that?
IBM VMcontrol comes in [three levels]:
- [Express Edition] offers the easiest way to manage virtual machines
- [Standard Edition] adds the ability to manage complete libraries of virtual images
- [Enterprise Edition] creates and enables the management of system pools – dynamic collections of computing resources used to support multiple virtual images running concurrently
To learn more, see the [VMcontrol Implementation Guide], take it for a test drive, with a [trial download], or talk to one of the many IBMers at [VMworld 2010] in San Francisco, August 30-September 2.
I would like to think Doug Hazelman, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam, for organizing this awesome blogging contest. If you liked this blog post, click here to [vote for me] to get counted for this contest.
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by Anton Shilov
Consumer electronics maker Panasonic said this week that its fully-rugged Toughbook 30, 19 and U1 mobile computers had passed new tests for the new MIL-STD-810G standard for environmental conditions. By passing the tests, the Toughbook products proved their ultimate reliability, something that is crucially needed on the battlefield or in other extreme conditions, e.g. during construction works.
MIL-STD-810G is a series of testing standards and procedures issued by the United States Army, in order to recognize products accepted for use by all agencies and organizations within the Department of Defense. While these procedures were initially created specifically for the military, they have since become an important benchmark for numerous public and private sector organizations to verify if products will withstand challenging conditions throughout their service life.
The Toughbook 30 laptop, Toughbook 19 convertible tablet and Toughbook U1 ultra mobile handheld replacement have passed 20 critical MIL-STD-810G tests applicable to mobile computers, as well as IP65 ingress protection and ASTM D4169-04 vehicle vibration tests. Testing was conducted and certified by an internationally respected third-party laboratory.
Mobile computing environments are often more demanding than what is laid out in military standard testing criteria. Because of this, Panasonic had its Toughbook 19, 30 and U1 tested beyond MIL-STD-810G, based on its fifteen years of customer experience managing mobile deployments in extreme conditions. In particular, all of the products were drop tested 26 times at four, five and six foot levels.
"Many companies will use multiple devices to pass the 26 angle military standard drop test method. This level of slack means that some products can be identified as mil-spec, yet not reflect real-world performance needs, said Kyp Walls, director of product management at Panasonic Computer Solutions Company.
While MIL-STD-810G allows up to 5 samples to be used, Panasonic only used one unit for the Toughbook 19, 30 and U1. Even more noteworthy, the same unit was used for the 26 drops at 4 feet, then the same unit was dropped again 26 times from a height of 5 feet, and then the same exact unit was dropped 26 times from a height of 6 feet. In short, each unit tested survived 78 drops between heights of 4 to 6 feet.
"There's a common misconception that products can receive a blanket 'military standard certification' verifying the device is rugged in all respects. This is not the case. There are numerous tests and each test is broken down into different procedures. Tests can be modified, which is generally used as an excuse by vendors to make them easier to pass. However, Panasonic did not modify any MIL-STD-810G tests to try to water them down or make them easier. Rather, Panasonic has modified a test to make it more challenging and indicative of something a product could face in the real world," added Mr. Walls.
Panasonic fully-rugged mobile computers and the Toughbook U1 ultra-mobile-rugged computer are sealed and can be used in rain, snow, dust, desert storms and other hostile environments. Other unsealed devices can have internal components exposed to contaminants, which then introduce a point of failure in mission-critical environments.


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Vegetarian Recipes and Food
There's no mystery to creating deliciously satisfying vegan meals. Tasty alternatives to the animal ingredients that you may be cooking with are easier to find than ever, and many are as close as your corner supermarket. We've put together a shopping guide to help you find the perfect ingredients to make mouthwatering vegetarian meals and quick-and-easy snacks.
If you're just getting started, you may want to try simply "vegging up" your favorite recipes. Try tofu or seitan instead of chicken, ground vegetable burger crumbles instead of hamburger, marinated portobello mushrooms instead of steak, and soy milk instead of cow's milk or cream. We have a stockpile of vegetarian recipes to help you on your way to becoming an expert vegetarian chef.
But there's no reason to stop there. By investing in some good vegetarian cookbooks (you might borrow some from your local library first to see which recipes you like), you can broaden your horizons to a whole new way of cooking. Americans tend to center their meals around animal products out of habit or custom, but cuisines from other parts of the world focus more on grains, vegetables, and beans. Think about it—there are far more types of vegetables than there are types of meat, so why limit yourself?
Whether you've gone vegan "cold turkey" or just want to add more healthy, plant-based meals to your family's diet, we have the secret—and not-so-secret—tips you need to take the guesswork out of vegan cooking. Use our resources to find the perfect meat, dairy, and egg replacements. Then try some of our recipes to make vegetarian dishes that you and your whole family will love!
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I am so much healthier as a vegan. When I slip at the coffee hour at church and eat something with sugar and hidden saturated fat my fingers swell. I gave blood yesterday and I feel just fine. I drank tart red cherry juice "over the rocks", cold water, (It is hot, was 98 degrees yesterday and the humidity was high for UT), and a cup of peach herbal tea in the evening.


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This feature is only available for calls that you received on your Google Voice number. It won't work for calls that you placed.
To switch phones in the middle of an incoming call you must first enable the call switch feature. To enable it, simply:
- Click the gear icon and select Settings.
- Click the Calls tab.
- Select the checkbox next to Call Options.
Once you've enabled it you can use it by pressing * while you're talking, and your other phones will ring.
For example, if you're talking on your home phone and you're about to head out, simply press * and you can pick up the call from your mobile phone. There are no passcodes or PINs to enter and, best of all, your caller won't even hear the switch.
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Monday, October 20, 2008
I'm Loving this Right Now...
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- Wes said...
My MAC Goldmine e/s, any ONE of my lip glosses, MAC Prolash, my boyfriend too lol, and The Shield- I got him the 1st 5 seasons on DVD last year for xmas.
- October 20, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- yummy411 said...
i'm random so i love random posts! ahhahaaha! so funny we both love the volcano tacos at taco bell!
can i tell you that brash is my new bff? love it! i just did a post on two things that i'm loving right now.. beyonce's new song and some nars eye shadow!
- October 20, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Kimberly Tia said...
i am loving fall weather!!!
boots, leggings, cute pea coats and just coats -- bundling up and warm cocoa..
and i loveeee that chocolate MAC quad!!!
- October 20, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- Askmewhats said...
awww..I'm looking at Taco Bell, I am getting hungrier every minute and it's almost midnight here! LOL
I love MUFE e/s too! super pigmented! And that purple is so pretty on you, I can still remember the YT tut you did on that color :)
- October 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM
- Ethereal Prey said...
AHHH Oz! Damn i miss that show! LOL! I <3 the tricks they do at benihanas, so sad that the guy who started it died a couple of months ago.
yay more vids!
- October 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- PBW said...
You shouldn't have done food first. Now all I can think about is getting one of those TACOS!
- October 20, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- Vanessa said...
I love Forever21's cardigans and open knit tunics right now!!!!
- October 21, 2008 at 3:42 AM
- Dominican Enigma said...
Random things i like: My boyfriend (sometimes), Dexter, my booties, st. germain infused cocktails, Linda Mason's book eye candy (teaches me how to apply eyeshadow right, although ren, I watch your videos like crack.) uhmmmm,,,,, that's all for now. Hugs,
- October 21, 2008 at 8:14 AM
- Brown Girl Gumbo said...
That taco looks delicious!! I love anything spicy too!
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Put it in the fridge for a couple hours the next time it acts like that, or the freezer for 30 minutes.
Did you have a really high finshed dough temp?
This time I used Craigs dough and followed The recipe 100% with 2 x 24 hours fermenting.Dough looked fine, however it almost opened to easy.Just by thinking of lifting it, it broke.When I Got my peel under, it would not come off again.Result after 5 mistanken tries; i rang for The pizza man.Any ideas what Went wrong?


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Well, I think we need to christen this experiment "The StewieG Invitational Home Run Derby Contest," based on his correct prediction of Brent Lillibridge's first home run of the year in yesterday's Indians victory.
Today's starters: John Lester (L) for them, Cory Kluber (R) for us.
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Every Thursday, 30-year-old Spencer Rudin joins his father, Ralph, and his 92-year-old grandfather, Arnold, for lunch near their 120,000-square-foot factory in downtown Los Angeles. Last year they celebrated the centennial of the upholstery and window treatments workshop that Spencer's great-grandfather Morris, a Russian immigrant, founded in 1912.
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Skip to comments.EXCLUSIVE: Obama's DOJ Forces University to Allow 38 Year Old Male To Use Women's Restrooms
Posted on 05/23/2012 5:42:21 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
A letter from the Department of Justice (DOJ) caused the University of Arkansas at Ft. Smith (UAFS) early this month to reverse policy and allow a 38-year old anatomically male-student permant use of women's bathrooms on campus despite opposition from female students.
The university made the reversal on "advice of counsel" after receiving a letter the DOJ sent in response to a complaint that a single, self proclaimed "transgender" student filed with the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.
"Because of the stance we took, the individual filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Justice," Mark Horn who is the vice president of university relations explained in an interview with Campus Reform on Tuesday.
Jennifer Braly, the student who filed the complaint, calls himself "transgender" with a "gender identity disorder." Braly, however, remains anatomically a man and is currently raising money online for Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS).
Braly filed the complaint with the DOJ after the university initially told him to use the campus's several gender-neutral bathrooms instead of the women's restrooms.
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we are turning into bizarro world.
there should not be gender neutral bathrooms either.
They will bringing this to elementary schools soon.
I want to see the NAGs hold protests over this, but will they?
They just need to call one for the SHE'S, one for the HE'S, and one for the IT'S. Third bathroom would be for anyone who is gender confused.
All this jiveass sexual disorientation BS is getting out of hand.
New can the women file sex discrimination or sexual harassment charges against the university? How about direct charges against the man if he exposes himself or does anything offensiive to the women in the womens' restroom?
Whoever approved this "person" for admittance to the university should be severely disciplined.
Whoever approved this "person" for admittance to the university should be severely disciplined.
New = Now
Most of the time, these "gender neutral" bathrooms are just single-person bathrooms (one toilet, one sink, locking door, etc). Nothing wrong with those, though it's a bit silly to call it "gender neutral"
Most of the time, these "gender neutral" bathrooms are just single-person bathrooms (one toilet, one sink, locking door, etc). Nothing wrong with those, though it's a bit silly to call it "gender neutral"
symbol of crossed eyes
Had another Jennifer (Gale?) at the City of Austin who used the women's restrooms. He/She would take the paper and sit a spell as he/she did as a man previously. Pretty gross!! Most women just went to another floor to avoid the It.
We are a sick world right now.
There have always been people who fancied themselves Napoleon. What we haven't had up to now are societies that give them armies to lead.
Better looking than my ex-wife!
The feelings of one fruit neutralises the feelings of thousands of normal people.
you think crap like this would be below the Department of Justice's pay grade
I don't think the Lord is going to put up with this crap much longer.
if he visits an elementary school he can sit next to little girls.
The Washington DC Metrorail system has "gender neutral" toilets ~ into which only one person at a time will fit!
Mooning can get one potentially branded a sex offender if a child sees. If a little girl walks in the ladies room and this guy has 'it' pulled out and the child sees it, what will happen? Where will the DOJ be on this?
Not on the child's side, that is for sure.
There already are gender neutral bathrooms in many places, hospitals, airports are two. They are called family bathrooms. There is only one toilet and one sink and they are big. There is a sign with the figure of a man a woman and if I am remembering correctly, a child.
Regardless, I think this fellow should have his surgery forthwith!!
"Bailiff, whack his pee-pee!!!"
(Obscure Cheech and Chong ref.)
There's no reason for him to have his penis showing. There are no stand-up urinals in ladies rooms.
At least, not yet... OMG....
I'd have to try.
They're going to have to add a urinal to the ladies room then.
So the Administration is pandering to mental illness. Which should not surprise us.
This year is my 20th college reunion. (eek!) Just look how much things have changed: if there would have been a person with a penis in the women's bathroom, he would have been expelled, no matter what he called himself. I guess women's safety was only all the rage then. Now if you dress as a female you can go in the women's bathroom? Does this include the dorm bathrooms that contain showering females? I could see a few Ted Bundy's dressing as females for easy access. I dragged a couple of drunk guys out of our hall bathroom in college, they meant no harm, just a little confused. But they would have faced serious problems if found in there.
after receiving a letter the DOJ sent in response to a complaint that a single, self proclaimed "transgender" student filedI'm a man trapped in a man's body!!!
It's Islam. Women are not allowed out of the home without a male relative.
The problem with "gender neutral" bathrooms is men and boys peeing on the seat! I know, I have a few in my house!
The usurper has an identity disorder. It trickles downhill.
So does every commercial airline.
Well, you went and opened this up. Now they'll have to have them or someone's going to get pizzed. Don'cha know, it's discrimination, whaaaaa!!!!!
I suppose it is akin to believing in unicorns that one would think there is one college campus left on Earth that would tell the idiotic Feds to pound sand.
This is the scenario I've described to people when they argue for homosexual marriage, etc. I reply ok, then what's the next frontier? They've traditionally scoffed at the notion.
I told them so.
i've heard you can get more than 2 people into the airline toilets.
Gender Neutral is Marxist social engineering—with language. It is twisting the language-—control words and you control the ideas and make everything meaningless and irrational.
It will cause chaos and ignorance and inability to transmit culture (traditional) to the children.
This normalizes the term and concept, especially for children. The idea of "gender" being "neutral" is Marxist twisting to make language irrational and meaningless when applied to human beings. It is trying to make mental illness normal.
They have done it for a century—it is to destroy Natural Law Theory which is the basis of our Constitution—Marx threw out Natural Laws so we have no absolutes and whoever has power can reshape human beings. They want to eliminate mother and fathers-—destroy marriage so children will be given up to the state to raise and mold.
Homosexual "marriage" is the same thing—making the word marriage meaningless. Pro-Choice, Gay, all to confuse children and normalize nonsense and evil.
Marx is for destroying the natural family and God. Then society will always collapse for one world government.
The bathrooms on the Washington DC Metrorail system are about the same dimensions. Certainly no more cramped.
38 year old male in the female restrooms? How many of those freshman are minors? My daughter started college at age 16!
There is one. Hillsdale College.
a little pepper spray will fix that,
This is the same as the so called woman that wanted to be in the beauty pageant recently (think Trump`s deal)
A person is born male or female, that`s it! Freakish surgery followed by freakish drugs, does not change the fact that someone is male or female.
Maybe you can fool some people, but you can NOT fool God
Celebrate perversity, embrace your inner deviate and never, ever bar a guy in a skirt from using the women's restroom.
You may have just coined a phrase for our side...
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the fruit."
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Roseman, Mark. The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration. New York: Picador, 2002. 172pp. ISBN 0-312-42234-2.
It is always difficult for the common man to wrap their mind around the Holocaust. The thought of a government creating a national policy of destroying a singular sect of their own citizenry is almost inconceivable. Yet there are many examples of such genocidal policies throughout history. The Nazis policy of extermination of the Jews is the most prolific and well known of such government policies. However, the transition of the Nazis policy of exclusion to eventual extermination is not a clear one. There is no set list of orders that show clearly when Hitler and Himmler made the decision to embark on a quest of Jewish extermination. This has led to many studies that try and determine when the Final Solution, as it will be known, was decided upon.
One marker towards the Final Solution was a conference held in a lush section of Berlin on the shores of Lake Wannsee. This meeting was conducted by Heinrich Himmlers right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich. In this meeting he calls together not only members of the SS, but others from the civilian government side to coordinate details as to what the fate of Jews under German rule as well as those outside German borders. This conference, which will be called the Wannsee Conference, was held on January 20th, 1942. Clearly, this conference cannot be considered the beginning of a policy of mass murder since large scale killings had already begun long before this actual meeting. However, a look at this conference may show the effort to solidify national policy on Jewish extermination as well as put any dissenters to the policy on notice to fall in line.
In Mark Rosemans book, The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration, another look at the significance of this conference is taken. Roseman takes an analytical approach to exploring the purpose of this conference from not only the players involved in the conference itself, but in general policy that would occur as a result of the conference. The author is quick to point out the fact that just knowing about this meeting at all is an exception instance in history. The Nazis went to great lengths to destroy as much of the evidence to the Holocaust as their position in the war became more desperate. Of course the scope of the Holocaust was so large that this was a largely impossible task and as a result much evidence was left behind. A copy of the minutes from the Wannsee Conference was one of these items that slipped through the cracks. Initially there were only 30 copies of this document made for a very limited distribution list. Of those 30, only one survived to be found by Allied prosecutors just as the Nuremberg Trials were underway.
An important aspect of Rosemans evaluation of the Wannsee Conference is in his evaluation of the individuals who were involved in the conference itself. From an overall perspective this could be broken into two groups; Hitlers government secretaries, and SS hierarchy. However, Roseman shows the importance of one section of the participants that almost places them in their own category. Representatives from the Generalgouvernement present at the meeting, including Hans Franks right hand man Josef Bühler had a particularly strong investment in the issue of the Jewish question. Roseman points to Franks desire to make the Generalgouvernement into a jewel of the German occupied areas. This desire would include ridding the land of the 2 million plus Jews that were already there or shipped to the region as a result of other efforts to relocate the Jews. As the policy of evacuation was discussed, which really was just a euphemism for extermination since there really was no set plan as to where to evacuate these Jews to, Bühler was quick to volunteer the Jews in the Generalgouvernement to be among the first evacuated pointing out the proximity of these Jews would make them easier to transport to wherever they were to be sent in the east.
Another primary issue of the Wannsee Conference that the author takes time to look at in detail is the fate of the Mischlinge. These were individuals who were only part Jewish, being either half-Jew (first degree Mischlinge), or a lesser percentage (second degree Mischlinge). These individuals were discussed in terms of who would be treated as full Jews and evacuated and who would be sent to the so-called old-age ghetto in Thereseinstadt. Roseman points out that this policy was only a temporary salvation since most of the occupants of Thereseinstadt would eventually end up in Auschwitz. However, he also shows the degree of detail in which this very grey area in the Nazi policy was addressed with the conference itself showing a clear shift against the Mischlinge in question.
This book is truly designed for the academic reader and not the casual history fan. The source material used for Rosemans work is extensive and mostly consisting of original Nazi documentation. Because of this, the individual who is seeking out his sources will find that the vast majority of them are in the German language. Included in Rosemans sources is the Wannsee Protocol itself, which he attaches in total at the end of his book to allow the reader to go over the primary source, used by the author and capture the context in which he refers to it. If you are a casual reader, this book may not be for you. It is an analysis of a single meeting held by the Nazis and is not designed to be gripping reading. However, for those who are just interested in obtaining a better understanding of the Nazi mindset that led to a national policy of murder, this book will provide a very revealing look at this progression. The Wannsee Conference shows an official jump from oppression to slaughter and Roseman does an extremely good job at analyzing the nuances of this progression.
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Sunday, June 22, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union, begins. Despite the massive preparations spread over many months and the numerous indications Stalin receives from many sources, the Soviet forces are taken almost completely by surprise and lose very heavily in the first encounters. The Germans have assembled almost 140 of their own divisions, including 17 Panzer and 13 motorized divisions. These forces are organized in three army groups: Army Group North (Field Marshal Leeb), Army Group Center (Field Marshal Bock) and Army Group South (Field Marshal Rundstedt). Altogether, the Germans deploy over 3,000,000 men, 7100 guns, 3300 tanks, 625,000 horses and 2770 aircraft. The Red Army has 230 divisions (170 of which are in the west, 134 facing the Germans). The Soviet forces are organized into Northwest Front (Kuznetsov), West Front (Pavlov), Southwest Front (Kirpono) and South Front (Tyulenev). They include 24,000 tanks and 8000 aircraft. On the first day of the attack almost everything goes the German way. The attack begins at 0300 hours with advances on the ground and simultaneous air strikes. The Luftwaffe begins its operations very early in order to be over the Soviet bases exactly at zero hour. By noon the Soviet Air Force has lost around 1200 planes. The land battle is equally successful. The panzer spearhead Army Group North advances 40 miles during the day and Army Group Center captures most of the Bug River bridges intact. Army Group South forces based in Hungary and Romania do not attack during the day.
From London... Churchill broadcasts saying that help will be given to the Soviet Union. He says, "Any state who fights Nazism will have our aid... It follows therefore that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia."
In Syria... There is heavy fighting in and around Marjayoun (June 22-29th) in which the Australians eventually drive the Vichy French forces into retreat.
June 22nd, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: London: In a broadcast speech, Churchill promises to give all possible technical and economic help to the USSR. He says: "Any state who fights nazism will have our aid ... It follows therefore that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia."
Figures published today reveal that since the start of the war the British armed forces have lost 18,627 killed, whereas civilian casualties are 35,756 killed. Proportionally the RAF has lost more than either the army or navy, and that its ration of killed is higher than that of other categories of casualties. The toll for the air force is 6,326 dead, 1,338 wounded, 1,879 missing and 408 prisoners.
Minesweeping trawler HMS Beech sunk by German aircraft off Scrabster, Scotland. (Dave Shirlaw)
The Wehrmacht High Command announced:-
Since the early morning hours of today, we have been engaged in hostilities along the Soviet Russian border. An attempt by enemy aircraft to fly into East Prussia, has been repelled with heavy losses. German fighter planes shot down large number of Red bombers. In the struggle against the British Isles, powerful German aerial formations bombed the harbour installations of Southampton last night. Extensive fires broke out in the docks, warehouses and food manufacturing works. Further air attacks were aimed at airfields in northern Scotland and the Midlands. A large British freight vessel was severely damaged by bombs north of Sunderland. Yesterday afternoon a small number of British bombers with powerful fighter cover flew against the French Channel coast. German fighter planes shot down 26 British aircraft in violent dogfights. German flak and naval artillery brought down two more enemy aircraft. [German ace] Lt. Col. Galland won three air victories in these struggles.
U-467 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
MOSCOW: The NKVD requests all members of the German Embassy to leave their private residences and to assemble in the embassy chancellery. (Greg Kelley)(274 pp. 337-338)
SLOVAKIA severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
ROMANIA: 12 He 112s of Royal Romanian Air Force Grupul 5 escort a flight of Potez 63 light bombers on attacks on the Soviet airfields of Bolgrad and Bulgarica early in the morning.
During this attack Sublocotenent Aviator Teodor Moscu became Romania's first fighter hero of the War, shooting down two Polikarpov I-16 fighters with credit for a third "probable"; Moscu's Heinkel was badly shot up in the ensuing air battle where the Romanians were outnumbered nearly three to one, making a wheels-up emergency landing from which he walked away from. Moscu soon added a pair of additional victories to his aerial score, while his Heinkel was eventually repaired and returned to frontline service with Escadrila 51. (Greg Kelley)
FINLAND: Officially Finland is neutral in the Russo-German war, but in all practical respects Finland has committed herself to join the Barbarossa. Finnish Defence Forces are fully mobilized and stationed along the eastern border. In northern Finland German ground forces are already operating against the Soviets, and Luftwaffe is freely using designated Finnish airfields to attack Soviet targets.
But Finns are not just waiting for a proper excuse to start military operations. Early tonight, Finnish submarines lay mines in the Gulf of Finland. One infantry regiment and a light artillery battalion occupy the demilitarized Ahvenanmaa (Aland) islands in the Baltic Sea. Soviet planes attack the Finnish armored ships in nearby waters, but make no damage.
A sixteen-man Finnish long-distance patrol, clad in civilian clothing, is flown by two German He 115's to the Soviet rear. Their mission is to destroy locks in the Stalin canal. The locks prove too well guarded, but on its way home the patrol cuts the Murmansk railway. It returns back to the Finnish lines on 11 July, with losses of two men. (Mikko Härmeinen)
U.S.S.R.: Operation Barbarossa: The German attack on the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, begins. The Soviets are taken almost completely by surprise. The Germans have 140 of their own divisions, including 17 Panzer and 13 motorized divisions.
There are also 14 Rumanian, two Hungarian, and 21 Finnish divisions. Facing them are the 230 division of the Soviet Army. 170 divisions are in the western part of the Soviet Union and 134 are directly opposing the Germans. The attacks today begins at 0300 hours with ground and air attacks. Most German operations run according to plan.
A most significant setback is the taking of the citadel within the town of Brest Litovsk. This slows the use of the German communications network planned to be centered here.
The Finnish Army in June 1941 comprised of 16 (infantry) divisions, three brigades (two light infantry and one cavalry), and numerous independent units, among them two infantry regiments. (Mikko Härmeinen)
Moscow: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov made the following declaration in the name of the Soviet Government. (Entire speech)
At 4:00 A.M. German Fascist and Rumanian forces crossed our borders without any notification of cause and without a declaration of war. Kiev, Sevastapol, Kovno and other cities were bombed. More than 200 people have been killed or wounded according to reports so far.
Germany attacked the Soviet Union along an 1,800 mile front from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The Germans have thrown 151 divisions into the battle, accompanied by tanks, guns and aeroplanes.
Stalin, despite the warnings given to him by Churchill and his own spies, seems to have been taken completely by surprise. The first that the Russians knew of the invasion was when the guns fired. At 4.00 A.M. Vladimir Dekanozov, the Soviet ambassador to Berlin, was called to the Wilhelmstrasse to be told that Germany had entered Russia in response to "border violations".
In fact, the invasion is the culmination of months of planning by the German general staff, acting on Hitler's orders. Operation Barbarossa is designed to destroy the Soviet Union and Bolshevism. Hitler is certain of success. he has told General Alfred Jodl: "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." In a proclamation broadcast this morning Hitler boasted that the German army's movements were "the greatest the world has ever seen." First reports indicate that the Finns and Romanians are fighting alongside the German.
Six transport Gruppen are allocated to provide the Luftwaffes air transport component.
1., 2., and 3 Staffel of the OKL's Aufklarungsgruppe are present with the high-alititude Ju 86Ps.
7 Stukagruppen are placed at the disposal of II. and VIII. Fliegerkorps, II. and III./St.G 1 with 70 aircraft, I. and III./St.G 2 with 83 aircraft, and the whole of St.G 77 with 122 aircraft. In addition, IV.(St)/LG 1 is operational in northern Norway with 42 Ju 87Bs.
The Luftwaffe's fighter force consists of JG 3 under Maj Gunther Lutzow equipped with the Bf 109F; II and III./JG 27 under Maj Wolfgang Schnellmann with the Bf109E; JG 51 under Molders with the Bf109F, II and III./JG 52 under Maj Hans Trubenbach with the Bf109E; JG 53 under Maj Gunther von Maltzahn with the Bf 109F; JG 54 under Maj Hannes Trautloft with the Bf109F; and JG 77 under Maj Bernhard Woldenga with the Bf109E. There is a single Bf110 equipped Zerstorergeschwader, ZG 26 Horst Wesel.
The Luftwaffe claims 1,811 Soviet aircraft for the loss of 32 of its own machines.
The attack started at 03.15 hr with strikes against Russian airfields in an attempt to wipe the Red Air Force out on the ground. The airfields were so widely dispersed that it is only possible to allocate three bombers to attack each. Many of the Ju88s and Do17s carry 2kg SD 2 and 10kg SD 10 fragmentation bombs, the latter being dropped from high altitudes in bundles of four. These prove extremey effective against aircraft and personnel but have an unfortunate habit of failing to release from the aircraft's bomb racks. The bombs would become fused and a slight jolt would cause them to detonate and blow the aircraft to pieces.
The initial attack on the Soviet airfields is followed by the bombing of Moscow, by Ju88s of KG 3 and KG 54 and He 111s of III./KG 26, part of KG 28, KG 53 and Kgr 100. 127 bombers take part in the raid dropping 104 tons of HE and 46,000 indenciary bombs.
Romanians enter Bessarabia to retake it. Making a maximum effort, the Romanian Air Force also loses 11 planes on this day. Specifically four Blenheims, two SM-79Bs, two PZL P.37s, one Potez 63, one IAR-37 and one IAR-39. The Romanians in turn claim eight Soviet aircraft plus three to their anti-aircraft artillery and claim 37 Soviet aircraft destroyed on the ground. (Mike Yaklich)
ITALY: Rome: Italy declares war on the Soviet Union.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: A surface encounter takes place during the night between the Vichy French super-destroyer GUEPARD and the light cruiser HMS LEANDER. The GUEPARD is damaged by a 6" shell from LEANDER. (Peter Beeston)
SYRIA: After evacuation of Damascus, Colonel Keimes weary French force of V/1st Moroccan, I and III/17th Senegalese, III/24th Colonial and I and III/29th Algerian battalions withdraw through the mountains to the Barada Gorge, dominating the Beirut-Damascus Road. At Palmyra, Habforce (4 Cav Bde, 1/Essex and Arab Legion) is under persistent French air attack. Maj-Gen Clark calls for urgent air support. Nine Gladiators arrive but airfield cannot be defended and they withdraw to Iraq. On the central axis, 6th Aust Cav have formed a horsed troop from captured French cavalry horses, which patrols from Merdjayoun. (Michael Alexander)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Saskatoon arrived Halifax from builder Montreal, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)
NEWFOUNDLAND: US Marines sail from Argenta bound for occupation duty in Iceland. (Dave Hornford)
U.S.A.: In baseball, the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees complete their three game series at Yankee Stadium in New York. Yankee star Joe DiMaggio goes 2-for-5 against Tiger pitchers Hal Newhouser and Bobo Newsom. DiMaggio's home run and single extend his hitting streak to 35-games. (Jack McKillop)
At 0329, the Calabria, dispersed from Convoy SL-76, was torpedoed and sunk by U-141 about 100 miles 280° from Inishtrahull lightship.
At 2236, the weather ship Arakara was torpedoed and sunk by U-77 east of St John's. The U-boat misidentified the ship as the Greek steam merchant Alexandra. The master, 32 crewmembers and 12 Admiralty personnel were lost. (Dave Shirlaw)
Things are really starting to heat up on the international front now.....
BTW, surely question #13 deals with "legal" aliens?
It is amazing that the Times has such extensive coverage on the very morning of the attack on Russia.
The Germans are about to find out that the Soviets have some very good tanks as this account from one Soviet offier:
"The Germans started bombing the column...A shell from a German anti-tank gun bounced off the tank's heavy armour...Gudz, who was the tank's gunner as well as its commander, fired a single shot in return and the gun was destroyed. He and his platoon went on to knock out five German tanks, three armoured personnel carriers and several cars...After lunch the Germans attacked again. Gudz knocked out three more tanks. His driver Galkin rammed another German tank, dislodging its caterpillar track and forcing it into a ditch. the fields were covered with burned-out tanks and dead Germans." - Report on junior Soviet officer Lieutenant Pavel Gudz commanding 5 KV-1s and 2 T-34s on the first day of war with Germany.
Panzer Group 3 also noted that the resistance was more tenacious than expected:
"Where the enemy appears he fights tenaciously and courageously to the death. Defectors and those seeking to surrender were not reported from any position. The struggle, as a result, will be harder than those in Poland and the Western campaign" - Panzer Group 3 War Diary.
From the Kremlin Minister of Foreign Affairs Molotov makes a radio announcement of the German invasion, but is still unwilling to believe that total war had begun. But this will not prevent Stalin from issuing Directive No. 3 which ordered a general counter offensive against the Germans.
NKO Directive No. 3
NKO Directive No. 3 to the Military Councils of the Northwestern, Western, Southwestern and Southern Fronts.
Concerning Force Missions on 23-26 June
2115 hours 22 June 1941
1. Delivering main attacks from the Suvalki salient to Olita and from the Zamost'e region to the Vladimir-Volynskii and Radzekhov front and secondary attacks along the Til'sit, Shauliai and Sedlits, Volkovysk axes, during the course of 22 June the enemy has achieved considerable success while suffering great losses.
In the remaining sector of the stat border with Germany and on the entire state border with Rumania, the enemy attacks have been beaten off with heavy losses to him.
2. I assign the forces [the following] immediate mission for 23-24 June:
a) Encircle and destroy the enemy's Suvalki grouping by concentric, concentrated attacks by the Northwestern and Western Fronts and capture the Suvalki region by day's end of 24 June.
b) Encircle and destroy the enemy grouping attacking in the direction of Vladimir-Volynskii and Brody by powerful concentric attacks by mechanized corps, all southwestern Front aircraft and other forces of the 5th and 6th Armies. Capture the Lublin region by day's end on 24 June.
a) The Norther Front's armies to continue to protect the state borders firmly. The left boundary - as exists.
b) While firmly holding on to the coast of the Baltic Sea, the Northwestern Front's armies will deliver a powerful counter stroke from the Kaunas region against the flanks and rear of the enemy's Suvalki grouping, destroy it in cooperation with the Western Front and capture the Suvalki region by day's end on 24 June.
The left boundary - as exists.
c) While containing the enemy on the Warsaw axis, the Western Front's armies will deliver a powerful counterstroke with a force of no fewer than two mechanized corps and frontal aviation against the flank and rear of the enemy's Suvalki grouping, destroy it in cooperation with the Northwestern Front and capture the Suvalki reion by day's end on 24 June.
The left boundary - as exists.
d) While holding firmly to the border with Hungary, the Southwestern Front's armies will encircle and destroy the enemy grouping advancing on the Vladimir-Volynskii, Krystypol' front with concentric attacks in the general direction of Lublin with the 5th and 6th Armies, no fewer than five mechanized corps and all of the front's aviation, and capture the Lublin region by day's end on 24 June. Cover yourself reliably along the Krakov axis.
e) The Southern Front's armies will prevent an enemy invasion of our territory. In the event the enemy attacks along the Chernovtsy axis or forces the Prut and Danube Rivers, destroy him by powerful flank attacks by ground forces in cooperation with aviation; concentrate two mechanized corps in the Kishinev region and the forests northwest of Kishinev on the night of 23 June.
4. I authorize crossing of the borders along the front from the Baltic Sea to the state border with Hungary and operations without regard for the borders.
5. The Aviation of the High Command:
a) Support the Northwestern Front with one flight from the 1st Long-range Aviation Corps and the Western Front with one flight from the 3rd Long-range Aviation Corps while they are fulfilling their missions of destroying the enemy's Suvalki grouping.
b) Assign the 18th Long-range Aviation Corps to the Southwestern Front and support the Southwestern Front with one flight from the 2nd Long-range Aviation Corps while it is fulfilling its mission of destroying the enemy's Lublin grouping; and
c) Leave the 4th Long-range Aviation corps at my disposal in the readiness to assist the Southwestern Front and, wioth part of its forces, the Black Sea Fleet.
The People's Commissar of Defense.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko
Member of the Main Military Council
Chief of the Red Army General Staff
Army General Zhukov
Sent at 2115 hours 22 June 1941
Along with this directive the Supreme Soviet drafts most of its reservists born between 1905 and 1918 into the Red Army.
Homer and I were discussing this the other day and I figured that the artillery barrage which started at 0315 would have been at 1915 Pacific Time on the 21st. Afterwards when I was thinking about it I realized that I was using Greenwich Mean Time to make that calculation and the Soviet frontier would actually have been in a later time zone (GMT+2). If the Germans also exercised Daylight Savings Time like the Americans and British did, that would put the start of the war with Russia at about 1715 Pacific Time, 2015 Eastern. So basically, around supper time last night, well within press time for the late edition.
Bump for later read.
As though a gigantic switch had been thrown, a huge flash of lightning rent the night.
Guns of all calibers simultaneously belched fire. The tracks of tracer shells streaked across the sky. As far as the eye could see the front on the Bug was a sea of flames and flashes. A moment later the deep thunder of the guns swept over the tower of Volka Dobrynska like a steamroller. The whine of the mortar batteries mingled eerily with the rumble of the guns. Beyond the Bug a sea of fire and smoke was raging. The narrow sickle of the moon was hidden by a veil of cloud.
Peace was dead. War was drawing its first terrible breath.
Directly opposite the citadel of Brest stood the 45th Infantry Divisionformerly the Austrian 4th Divisionunder Major-General Schlieper. The 130th and 135th Infantry Regiments were to mount the first assault against the bridges and the citadel. Still under cover of darkness the units composing the first wave had carefully worked up to the Bug. Like a black phantom, the railway bridge straddled the river. At 0200 a goods train chugged over the bridge, puffing, lamps brightly lit. It was the last grain train which Stalin sent his ally Hitler.
Above them, by the little wooden hut at the end of the bridge, reigned an atmosphere of peace and unsuspecting normality. The two German customs officials climbed on to the train. The sentry waved his hand to the Russian engine-driver. If any mistrustful eyes were watching from the far side they would see nothing suspicious or unusual. Slowly the engine puffed on towards the station of Terespol on the German side.
Then here too the minute-hand jumped to 0315.
"Fire!" And the hell dance began. The earth trembled.
The 4th Special Purpose Mortar Regiment with its nine heavy batteries lent a particular note to the inferno. Within half an hour 2880 mortar-bombs screamed with terrifying howls across the Bug into the town and the fortress. The heavy 60-cm. mortars and 21-cm. guns of 98th Artillery Regiment lobbed their shells across the river, into the ramparts of the fortress, and against pin-pointed Soviet gun positions. Was it possible for a single stone to be left standing after this?
It was possible.
That was to be the first of many nasty surprises.
Second Lieutenant Zumpe of 3rd Company, 135th Infantry Regiment, had watched the last few seconds tick away before 0315. At the very first crash of gunfire he leapt out of his ditch by the railway embankment.
"Let's go!" he shouted to the men of his assault detachment. "Let's go!" Steel helmets rose up from the tall grass. Like sprinters the men tore across to the bridgethe second lieutenant in front. Past the abandoned German customs hut. The gunfire drowned the clatter of their boots on the heavy planks of the bridge. Ducking along the high parapet on both sides, they ran across. Always at the back of their minds was the fear: will the bridge go up or not?
It did not go up. A single burst of fire from his sub-machine-gun was all the Soviet sentry had time for. Then he heeled over forward.
At that moment a machine-gun opened up from the dugout of the bridge guard. That had been expected. Lance-Corporal Holzer's light machine-gun sprayed the Russian position. Like a handful of fleeting shadows the obstacle-clearing detail of the 1st Company, Engineers Battalion 81, assigned to Zumpe's assault detachment, rushed to the spot. A dull thud; smoke and fumes. Finished.
Zumpe's men raced past the shattered dugout. They flung themselves down to the right and left of the bridge by the railway embankment, their machine-guns in position. The second lieutenant and the sappers ran back on to the bridge. The charge was fixed to the central pier. Out with it. Zumpe ran the beam of his flashlight over the pier, to make sure no other infernal machine was hidden anywhere. Nothing. He slid the green shield over the lens. The green light. Like a station-master he waved it above his head towards the German side: bridge clear! And already the first armored scout-cars were racing across.
But what would happen if the Russians attacked the bridgehead with armor?
How would the Germans oppose them? Tanks and heavy equipment could have been brought across only with the greatest difficulty in barges or over emergency bridges. That was why an interesting new secret weapon was employed here for the first timeunderwater tanks, also known as diving tanks. They were to cross the river under water, just like submarines. Then, on the far bank, they were to go into action as ordinary tanks, smashing enemy positions along the river and intercepting any counter-attacks.
In the sector of 18th Panzer Division fifty batteries of all calibers opened fire at 0315 in order to clear the way to the other bank for the diving tanks.
[General Nehring, the divisional commander, has since described this as "a magnificent spectacle, but rather pointless since the Russians had been clever enough to withdraw their troops from the border area, leaving behind only weak frontier detachments, which subsequently fought very bravely."]
At 0445 hours Sergeant Wierschin advanced into the Bug with diving tank No. 1. The infantrymen watched him in amazement. The water closed over the tank. "Playing at U-boats!" Only the slim steel tube which supplied fresh air to the crews and engine showed above the surface, indicating Wierschin's progress under water. There were also the exhaust bubbles, but these were quickly obliterated by the current.
Tank after tankthe whole of 1st Battalion, 18th Panzer Regiment, under the battalion commander, Manfred Graf Strachwitzdived into the river.
And now the first ones were crawling up the far bank like mysterious amphibians. A soft plop and the rubber caps were blown off the gun muzzles. The gun-loaders let the air out of the bicycle inner tubes round the turrets. Turret hatches were flung open and the skippers wriggled out. An arm thrust into the air three times: the signal "Tanks forward."
Eighty tanks had crossed the frontier river under water. Eighty tanks were moving into action.
Their presence was more than welcome in the bridgehead. Enemy armored scout-cars were approaching. At once came the firing orders for the leading tanks: "Turretone o'clock armor-piercing800 yardsgroup of armored scout-cars fire at will." The monsters fired. Several armored scout-cars were burning. The rest retreated hurriedly. The armored spearheads of Army Group Centre moved on in the direction of Minsk and Smolensk.
South of Brest too, at Koden, following the successful assault on the bridge, the surprise attack of XXIV Panzer Corps, under General Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg, had gone according to schedule. The tanks crossed the bridge, which had been captured intact. Advanced units of Lieutenant-General Model's 3rd Panzer Division crossed on rapidly built emergency bridges. The skippers stood in the turrets, scanning the landscape for the rearguards of the retreating Soviet frontier troops, overrunning the first anti-tank-gun positions, waving the first prisoners to the rear, moving nearer and nearer to their objective for the day Kobrin on the Mukhavets.
On the morning of June 22, 1941 German troops cross a damaged bridge over the River Bug.
North of Brest, near Drohiczyn, where Engineers Battalion 178 lay close to the Bug in the area of 292nd Infantry Division, in order to build a pontoon bridge as soon as possible for the heavy equipment of the divisions of IX Corps, everything went also according to plan. The reinforced 507th and 509th Infantry Regimentswith the 508th farther to the right raced across the Bug in rubber dinghies and assault craft under heavy artillery cover. Within half an hour the Soviet pickets on the far bank were wiped out and a bridgehead was established. At the first artillery salvo the sappers had leaped to their feet and moved their first pontoons into the water. For a quarter of an hour the Russians fired from the far bank with machine-guns and rifles; then they fell silent. By 0900 exactly the bridge was finishedthe first within the area of the Fourth Army. The heavy equipment rumbled over the swaying pontoons. The 78th Infantry Division was already lined up in close order to cross the river.
Of all the coups planned against the frontier bridges along the five-hundred-mile-long Bug not one went wrong. Similarly all the envisaged bridge-building operations across the frontier river succeeded, with the sole exception of one within the area of 62nd Infantry Division, which, belonging to the Sixth Army, was already part of the northern wing of Army Group South.
On the southern wing of the Army Group, where the frontier was formed by the river San, the divisions of General von Stülpnagel's Seventeenth Army found things more difficult. The bank of the San north of Przemysl ; was as flat as a pancake without woods, without ravines, without any cover for whole regiments. That was why the assault battalions of 275th Infantry Division, from Berlin, could not move out of their deployment areas until the night of 21st/22nd June. "Not a sound" was the order of the regimental commander. Weapons were packed in blankets; bayonets and gas-mask cases were wrapped round with any soft material that was handy. "Thank God for the frogs," whispered Second Lieutenant Alicke.
Their croaking drowned the creaking, rattling, and bumping of the companies making their way towards the river.
At 0315 precisely the assault detachments leaped to their feet on both sides of Radymno. The railway bridge was seized by a surprise stroke. But in front of the customs shed the Russians were already offering stubborn resistance. Second Lieutenant Alicke was killed. He was the division's first fatal casualty, the first of a long list.
The men laid him beside the customs shed. The heavy weapons rolled on by him, over 'his' bridge.
In the south the Soviet alarm system functioned with surprising speed and precision. Only the most forward pickets were taken by surprise. The 457th Infantry Regiment had to battle all day long with the Soviet Non-commissioned Officers' Training School of Vysokoye, only a mile beyond the river. The 250 NCO cadets resisted stubbornly and skillfully. Not till the afternoon was their resistance broken by artillery-fire. The 466th Infantry Regiment fared even worse. No sooner were its battalions across the river than they were attacked from the flank by advanced detachments of the Soviet 199th Reserve Division.
In the fields of Stubienka the tall grain waved in the summer wind like the sea. Into this sea the troops now plunged. Both sides were lurking, invisible. Stalking each other. Hand-grenades, pistols, and machine carbines were the weapons of the day Suddenly they would be facing one another amid the ryethe Russians and Germans. Eye to eye. Whose finger was quicker on the trigger? Whose spade would go up first? Over there a Russian machine pistol appeared from a foxhole. Would it score with its burst? Or would the hand-grenade do its work first? Only with the fall of dusk did this bloody fighting in the rye-fields come to an end. The enemy withdrew.
The sun set behind the horizon, large and red. And still from amid the grain came the voices, despairing, anguished, or softly dying away: "Stretcher! Stretcher!" The medical orderlies hurried into the fields with their stretchers. They gathered in the bloody harvest. The harvest of one day, of one regiment.
It was a big harvest.
The German troops were beginning to realize that this was not an opponent to be trifled with. These men were not only brave but also full of guile. They were masters at camouflage and ambush. They were first-rate riflemen. Fighting from an ambush had always been the great strength of the Russian infantry. Forward pickets, overrun and wounded, would wait for the first German wave to pass over them. Then they would resume fighting. Snipers would remain in their foxholes with their excellent automatic rifles with telescopic sights, waiting for their quarry. They would pick off the drivers of supply vehicles, officers, and orderlies on motor-cycles.
The 126th Infantry Division, from Rhine-Westphalia, fighting alongside the men from Schleswig-Holstein, also learned a bitter lesson from the tough Soviet frontier troops. The 2nd Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, suffered heavy losses. Parts of a Soviet machine-gun picket had hidden themselves in a cornfield and allowed the first wave of the attack to pass by. In the afternoon, when Captain Lohmar unsuspectingly led his battalion from reserve positions to the front, the Russians in the crops suddenly opened up. Among those killed was the battalion commander, among the seriously wounded was his adjutant. It took an entire company three hours to flush the four Russians out of the field. They were still firing when the Germans had got within ten feet of them, and had to be silenced with hand-grenades.
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In the area of General von Manstein's LVI Panzer Corps, in the wooded country north of the Memel, there was not much room for large-scale operations. That was why only the 8th Panzer Division and 290th Infantry Division were earmarked for the first thrust across the frontier. The forward line of pillboxes had to be pierced. And it had to be pierced quickly. The corps was scheduled to drive 50 miles right through the enemy on the first day, without stopping, without regard to anything else, with the object of capturing intact by a surprise stroke the big road viaduct across the Dubysa valley at Ariogala. If they failed in this the corps would be stuck in a deep and narrow river valley, and the enemy would have time to re-form. But most important of all, any idea of a surprise stroke against the important centre of Daugavpils (Dvinsk) would have to be dropped.
The companies of 290th Infantry Division suffered heavy casualties even while crossing the frontier streamabove all in officers. Second Lieutenant Weinrowski of the 7th Company, 501st Infantry Regiment, was probably the first soldier killed by the bullets of Soviet frontier guards up in the north during the first minute of this war. The burst came from a pillbox camouflaged as a farm cart. But the Russian frontier troops were unable to halt the German attack. The llth Company of 501st Regiment led the assault ahead of the spearheads of 8th Panzer Division, clearing tree-trunk obstacles under Russian fire, sweeping through the wood, past a small village. First Lieutenant Hinkmann, the company commander, was killed.
Second Lieutenant Silzer ran forward. "The company will take orders from me!" They reached the Mituva, a small river. They captured the bridge and, as instructed, established a bridgehead.
Presently General Brandenberger's 8th Panzer Division drove up. General von Manstein, the GOC, was accompanying the division in his command tank. "Keep going!" he urged them. "Keep going!" Never mind about your flanks. Never mind about cover. The Ariogala viaduct must be captured. And Daugavpils must be taken by surprise.
Manstein, a bold but coolly calculating strategist, knew very well that this gamble of a war called Operation Barbarossa could be won only if the Germans succeeded in knocking the Russians out during the very first weeks of the attack. He knew what Clausewitz knew before him: this vast country could not be conquered and occupied. At best it might be possible, by risky surprise strokes, by swift and hard blows at the military and political heart of the country, to overthrow the regime, to deprive the country of its leadership, and thus to paralyze its vast military potential. That was the only way in which it might be doneperhaps. Otherwise the war would be lost that very summer.
At 1900 a signal was received at 8th Panzer Division headquarters from its advanced units: " Ariogala viaduct taken." Manstein nodded. All he said was: "Keep going."
The tanks were moving forward. The grenadiers were riding through clouds of hot dust. Keep going. Manstein was executing an armored thrust such as no military tactician would have thought possible. Would his corps succeed in taking Daugavpils by surprise? Would he be able to drive straight through strongly held enemy territory for a distance of 230 miles and yet take the bridges across the Daugava by a surprise stroke?
That this tank war by the Baltic was not going to be a light-hearted adventure, no easy Blitzkrieg against an inferior enemy, was painfully clear after the first forty-eight hours.
The Russians, too, had tanksand what tanks!
The XLI Panzer Corps, operating on the left wing of Fourth Panzer Group, was the first to make this discovery.(In the next couple of days.)
Hitler Moves East by Paul Carell
Although there were a number of tactical errors, Hitler's three biggest mistakes in Operation Barbarossa were these IMHO:
1) Failure to take Moscow and Leningrad early in the campaign when they had the chance.
2) Failure to provide winter clothing for the troops.
3) Failure to treat locals better than the Communists did who initially welcomed the Wehrmacht as liberators.
Especially the Ukrainians, they would have joined the Nazis in fighting the Soviets. All Hitler had to do was to set up a puppet Ukrainian regime, along the lines of say, Slovakia.
And by taking Moscow, it probably would have lead to Stalin's removal, and perhaps a complete overthrow of the Bolshevik regime, by the Russians themselves.
There is not much news from the front lines during these first hours of the invasion. I was interested to learn, as I prepared subsequent posts, that the main stories about the eastern front will originate with Daniel T. Brigham in Berne, Switzerland. During the invasions of Poland, Norway and France and now in North Africa there were a few articles written with bylines like with the British Forces or even with the German Army. (Example: Look up Harold Denny in the index on my profile. That guy likes to show up where the action is.) During Barbarossa there may not be any stories filed by journalists embedded with the Wehrmacht or the Red Army. The Germans wont be eager for the outside world to learn about some of their policies related treatment of civilians in occupied territory and the Red Army is too busy trying to survive to accommodate foreign newspaper men. Thus, Berne. I guess neutral Switzerland serves as a sort of international clearing house for information from the Eastern Front. It will be interesting to see how accurate and/or timely the news is from that source.
Day 661 June 22, 1941
Operation Barbarossa. At 4.15 AM, Germany invades USSR, breaking their non-aggression agreement, in the largest military operation ever. 3.5 million German and Romanian troops (with 3,350 tanks, 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses) cross the border along an 1800 mile front from East Prussia on the Baltic Sea, Poland in the middle and Romania on the Black Sea. Soviet border troops have some warning of the attack but they are overwhelmed. Soviet response is weak due to poor communications and dispositions which hold the main Soviet forces back from the border. Using classic blitzkrieg tactics, Luftwaffe bombs supply dumps, railways and airfields. 2000 Soviet aircraft are destroyed neatly lined up on the ground for the loss of 35 Luftwaffe aircraft. Stalin is paralysed by the attack and, at 11 PM, Foreign Minister Molotov addresses the Soviet people.
At 3.29 AM 100 miles off the North coast of Ireland, U-141 sinks neutral Swedish SS Calabria (3 dead and 21 survivors escape in a lifeboat). At 10.36 PM 550 miles East of St. Johns, Newfoundland, U-77 sinks British SS Arakara being used as a weather ship (all 33 crew and 12 Royal Navy meteorologists lost).
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