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A year before Hitler was appointed chancellor, the spitaltor already sported this swastika. Coburg was the first German town to elect a Nazi mayor; in 1929, it was the first German city in which the Nazi Party won the absolute majority of the popular votes during municipal elections, hence its town slogan- Erste nationalsozialistische Stadt Deutschlands (First German National Socialist City ) Before this in 1922, Coburg became associated with the Nazis after Adolf Hitler led several hundred stormtroopers in a march through the city, fighting pitched street battles with leftists and communists. During the Nazi era, the Coburg Badge (made to honour the participants) was one of the most prestigious party medals.
Hitler's most notable propaganda success in 1922 was his party's participation in the so-called 'German Day' (Deutscher Tag) in Coburg on October 14–15 . Coburg, on the Thuringian border in the north of Upper Franconia and part of Bavaria for only two years, was virgin territory for the Nazis. He saw the German Day as an opportunity not to be missed. He scraped together what funds the NSDAP had to hire a special train – in itself a novel propaganda stunt – to take 800 stormtroopers to Coburg. The SA men were instructed by Hitler to ignore explicit police orders, banning a formation march with unfurled banners and musical accompaniment, and marched with hoisted swastika flags through the town. Workers lining the streets insulted them and spat at them. Nazis in turn leapt out of the ranks beating their tormentors with sticks and rubber- truncheons. A furious battle with the socialists ensued. After ten minutes of mayhem, in which they had police support, the stormtroopers triumphantly claimed the streets of Coburg as theirs. For Hitler, the propaganda victory was what counted. The German Day in Coburg went down in the party's annals. The NSDAP had made its mark in northern Bavaria.
Kershaw, Hitler
In fact, the rathaus in Coburg was the first official building in Germany to fly the Nazi flag on 18 January 1931. It was here in this marketplace that Hitler spoke before 10,000 people, including 1,300 holders of the Golden Party Badge during which he declared "With Coburg I made politics:"
At that time, our recipe was: if you do not want to let [us] talk of your own accord, we will use force to make you do it. [—] That battle of the force of reason versus the democracy of force lasted for two days, and after two days this reason, supported by the will of a thousand German men, came away with the victory! It was thus that the battle for this city became a milestone in the evolution of our Movement. This was the recipe we used throughout the Reich to clear the way for the National Socialist idea and thus to conquer Germany. [—]Loyalty and obedience, discipline and self-sacrifice: if the German Volk continues to devote itself to these ideals in the future as well, it will solve every problem and master every task!Back then, millions might still have been able to doubt; yet who can continue today to doubt his Volk, Germany and its future? We old fighters, we know that we have always reached our goal until now! And in the future, Germany will reach its life-goal, too, for our Movement is Germany, and Germany is the National Socialist Movement!
Overall, Hitler visited Coburg fourteen times.
Coburg fortress from page 28 of the cigarette album Kampf ums Dritte Reich - Eine historische Bilderfolge (1933) and today. Hitler visited the fortress in 1922 during the "German Day" celebration where the SA beat up their opponents. He returned again to Coburg a decade after where, on October 15, he was given the freedom of the city.
The Ortsgruppenfeier Coburg in its column of "Alten Kämpfer" down Adolf-Hitler-Straße (now Bahnhofstraße) towards Sonneberg; the view today is further down.
The Altes Schützenhaus on Schützenstraße where, on 15 October 1937 Hitler arrived from the Obersalzberg for the last time to "dear old Coburg" for the 15th Anniversary of his "train to Coburg" in which
[t]he most high-profile operation for the SA came in October 1922 when Hitler and his most loyal supporters travelled to Coburg to hold a meeting. Upon arrival at the town's station, the visit developed into a military campaign. It came as close as civilian life could to recapturing the 'Fronterlebnis' (the experience of fighting at the Front).Martyn Housden (52) Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary?
There was a deputation of the big-wigs in Koburg [sic] awaiting us at the station, all very solemn and proper in frock coats and top hats. But they got the shock of their lives, I can tell you, when they saw what sort of 'accompaniment' Herr Hitler had brought along. I was close up to them, there on the platform, and heard what they said to him.
The JudentorWe must earnestly beg you to control your following! The city of Koburg explicitly forbids these men to march through the streets in rank and file with flags flying. It would be highly provocative of disorder. Our Leader was a bit astonished at this and asked for explanations. What sort of trouble, then, did they expect? They said there's been a bit of a misunderstanding in the City over the organisation of the festival and its promoters had had to give a strict guarantee that nothing would be done in the least likely to provoke the Communists. Hitler received this with undisguised scorn. What kind of 'patriotic' day did they suppose could be held if the Communists were to have it all their own way! 'Good Lord)!' he said, 'aren't we in Bavaria? Haven't we the right to move about as we like?' Whereupon he turned sharply round, much to the discomfiture of the deputation, and gave us the word to move off. We of the 3rd Company [of the SA] marched two by two into the town on both sides of the band, and sure enough soon encountered storms of abuse from the crowds on route. Hitler led and we followed. At the fire station they were ready to turn the hoses on to us, but just didn't – at the critical moment. Stones, however, began to fly around. Then things got hotter. The Reds set upon us with iron rods and cudgels. That was going a bit too far. Hitler swung round, flourished his walking-stick (that was the signal), and we flung ourselves upon our assailants. We were unarmed save for our fists, but we put up so good a fight that within fifteen minutes not a Red was left to be seen. So we arrived finally at the place in the centre of the city where the meeting was to be held. When it was over we formed up to betake ourselves to the Schützenhalle, a big hall on the outskirts of Koburg where we were to spend the night. On the way the former racket got up again. Hitler decided once and for all to lay this Red menace here, and gave us the word of command. We counter-attacked for all we knew. It was jolly hard work, I can tell you! They rained tiles on us from the roof and windows and tore up the cobble stones for missiles. I got a thundering blow on the head which had to be attended to before I could carry on. I only found out afterwards how serious the wound was. We reached the Schützenhalle and dossed down, without undressing, on a thin spreading of straw. Hitler turned in amongst us, on the floor like the rest. But first he set the watches, and arranged for patrols. He came in quite the old soldier over this, anxious to provide against possible surprise. I was detailed, with another man, for patrol work. Our watch began at 2 a.m. We cast around a bit at some distance from the hall and found ourselves creeping through a spinney in its neighbourhood. We caught a glitter – made cautiously in that direction. Detected two of the enemy with their party- masks off. One of them had a revolver in his belt, the other carried hand- grenades.'So they'd try that dirty trick', I thought, and rage seized me at the thought of that whole barnful of sleeping men being suddenly blown sky-high into the night. At a concerted signal my comrade and I flung ourselves upon the pair, and for the next few seconds there was a beserker struggle in the underbush. We got them under, and unarmed them. We tied them up good and tight and went through their pockets. There were a few 'egg bombs' to be sequestered in the latter. Then we marched them into quarters. I could hardly stand, myself; the blood was pouring from the wound in my head, and blinding my eyes. I turned the precious pair over to Hitler and showed him the bombs. He looked ugly at that, but made no further sign. Quietly he ordered the captives to be taken to a room at the back, beckoned to a hefty couple of our chaps, furnished them with a stout stick apiece, and signed to them to get busy within. Some time afterwards the two would-be bomb throwers were seen to leave our camp, very much sadder and very much wiser men. It is to be doubted if they'll forget the whalloping and basting they got that night to the last day of their lives. On the Sunday morning we all took an oath of fidelity to the Cause, and then marched off to have a look at the Castle Koburg.
Heinz A. Heinz (pp. 151 ff.) Germany's Hitler
Adolf-Hitler-Haus on the corner of Viktoriastraße and Ernstplatz in its glory, after being bombed, and the site today- a Sparkasse. The building had been bought by the Nazi Party in October 1933 for 60,000 Reichsmarks and rebuilt according to plans by Reinhard Claassen, named after Hitler the following year and serving as the local Nazi party headquarters. It was modelled on the Brown House of the NSDAP in Munich. During the Battle of Coburg in April 1945 the building was destroyed and eventually demolished in 1955.
And the head of the German Red Cross, the Duke of Coburg-Gotha, one of the most violent Nazis, has excellent connections abroad—so excellent, in fact, that when he visited Washington in 1940, when the Germans there were already being boycotted, for the rape of Poland had aroused public opinion against them—he cut quite a figure in Washington society. The Nazis are counting on the duke's international relations to help them after the war. With him at its head the German Red Cross, they believe, will be able to survive in its present form, since the Allies, or so they fondly hope, will look upon him as a Red Cross official rather than as a Nazi. Thus the German Red Cross would form an ideal front for the coming Nazi underground.
The coat of arms was replaced during the Nazi-era, lasting 1934-1945 before reverting back
Another change was when Mohrenstraße was replaced by Straße der SA. The latter made a return briefly for a documentary, as did the Nazi-era arms. The old enamelled street sign was borrowed from the Coburg collection and attached with the approval of the public affairs office for a short time.
Crews of U.S. M5 Stuart light tanks from Company D, 761st Tank Battalion, a segregated Black-American unit, cleaning out scattered Nazi machine gun nests in the marktplatz in front of the Stadthaus and Prinz-Albert statue.
Coburg has named recently named a street after Max Brose, a wealthy businessman who was also a Nazi party member honoured by the Third Reich as a "military industry leader," a move which follows a long campaign in local government by Brose's grandson, Michael Stoschek, who is also the CEO of Brose's mega-company and largest local employer, Brose. The name was passed in a 26-11 vote. Stoschek had been campaigning since 2004 to have his grandfather honoured on a street sign, and stopped almost all of the company's charitable funding to Coburg when the name was rejected nearly ten years ago. Nevertheless Coburg has denied being put under financial pressure in accepting the name. As historian Florian Dierl noted to the Times, Coburg was the first town in Germany to elect a Nazi mayor in 1931, and warned that it should, if anything, be "particularly careful about its past." Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, condemned the naming as "irresponsible."
Crews of U.S. M5 Stuart light tanks from Company D, 761st Tank Battalion, a segregated Black-American unit, cleaning out scattered Nazi machine gun nests in the marktplatz in front of the Stadthaus and Prinz-Albert statue.
Coburg has named recently named a street after Max Brose, a wealthy businessman who was also a Nazi party member honoured by the Third Reich as a "military industry leader," a move which follows a long campaign in local government by Brose's grandson, Michael Stoschek, who is also the CEO of Brose's mega-company and largest local employer, Brose. The name was passed in a 26-11 vote. Stoschek had been campaigning since 2004 to have his grandfather honoured on a street sign, and stopped almost all of the company's charitable funding to Coburg when the name was rejected nearly ten years ago. Nevertheless Coburg has denied being put under financial pressure in accepting the name. As historian Florian Dierl noted to the Times, Coburg was the first town in Germany to elect a Nazi mayor in 1931, and warned that it should, if anything, be "particularly careful about its past." Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, condemned the naming as "irresponsible."
In the late 1980s, the cemetery of Wunsiedel became rather infamous after Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, who had died in a Berlin prison on 17 August 1987, was buried there. In the years that followed, neo-nazi groups organized memorial marches on each 17 August. The number of participants rose from 120 in 1988 to more than 1,100 in 1990. The gatherings faced protests from anti-fascist groups. Neo-Nazi marches were banned in 1991. Under the impression that the situation had "cooled down", the Bavarian Administrative Court permitted the gatherings again in 2001. The result was unexpected: neo-nazi groups managed to amass more and more people, the peak being reached in 2004, when over 4,500 participants from all over Europe assembled in Wunsiedel. The anti-fascist initiative "Wunsiedel ist bunt, nicht braun" ("Wunsiedel is colourful, not brown") organised a counter-demonstration with about 800 participants, decorating the city with rainbow flags and spraying the marchers with confetti. The initiative later received the Bündnispreis for commitment and bravery awarded by the German federal ministers Otto Schily and Brigitte Zypries
In the late 1980s, the cemetery of Wunsiedel became rather infamous after Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, who had died in a Berlin prison on 17 August 1987, was buried there. In the years that followed, neo-nazi groups organized memorial marches on each 17 August. The number of participants rose from 120 in 1988 to more than 1,100 in 1990. The gatherings faced protests from anti-fascist groups. Neo-Nazi marches were banned in 1991. Under the impression that the situation had "cooled down", the Bavarian Administrative Court permitted the gatherings again in 2001. The result was unexpected: neo-nazi groups managed to amass more and more people, the peak being reached in 2004, when over 4,500 participants from all over Europe assembled in Wunsiedel. The anti-fascist initiative "Wunsiedel ist bunt, nicht braun" ("Wunsiedel is colourful, not brown") organised a counter-demonstration with about 800 participants, decorating the city with rainbow flags and spraying the marchers with confetti. The initiative later received the Bündnispreis for commitment and bravery awarded by the German federal ministers Otto Schily and Brigitte Zypries
Rudolf Hess's former grave in Wunsiedel. In the same cemetery are the individual and multiple graves of thirty Jewish concentration camp victims who lost their lives during a death march in the last days of the Second World War in 1945. Both the gravesite at Kath. Kirche u. Friedhof and the town itself had been the focus of attention for fascists and anti-fascists alike leading in 2005 to the memorial march being banned for the first time on the basis of article 130 of the German criminal code, which outlaws incitement of the people. A complaint against the ban was rejected by the Federal Constitutional Court. Nevertheless, more than 2,500 people met on August 20, 2005, to celebrate a Day of Democracy in Wunsiedel.
The remains of Rudolph Hess, have now been exhumed after officials removed the tomb and headstone in order to prevent hoards of neo-Nazi pilgrims descending on the small community. Every year on August 17 hundreds of Nazi sympathisers commemorate the death of Hess. After being exhumed Hess's bones were taken to a crematorium, and his ashes scattered at sea. The action was taken after consultation with his remaining family. Karl-Willi Beck, 56, who has been mayor of Wunsiedel since 2002, said the cemetery administrators removed Hess's remains and his gravestone early Wednesday. "It was the right thing to do," Mr. Beck said.
As is the Brunnenbuberl and the memorial to writer Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
From page 15 of Adolf Hitler, Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers and looking at the town from the same angle today with the church and schloss in the background.
Hitler with his adjutants Wilhelm Brückner and Julius Schaub in 1936 from page 10 of Adolf Hitler, Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers in front of the war memorial between Hilpoltstein and Kappel and the site today.
Being a stronghold of right-wing parties since the 1920s, Bayreuth became a centre of Nazi ideology. In 1933 it was made capital of the Nazi Gau of Bavarian Ostmark (Bayerische Ostmark, in 1943 Gau Bayreuth). Nazi leaders often visited the Wagner festival and tried to turn Bayreuth into a Nazi model town. It was one of several places in which town planning was administered directly from Berlin, due to Hitler's special interest in the town and in the festival. Hitler loved the music of Richard Wagner, and he became a close friend of Winifred Wagner after she took over the festival. Hitler frequently attended Wagner performances in the Bayreuth Festival Hall.
Hitler at the Festspielhaus . The Bayreuth festival was problematic at the beginning of the 1930s: in 1930, Siegfried Wagner died at the age of 61 at a heart attack suffered during the rehearsal period. The festival had now been taken over by his widow Winifred Wagner. The proximity of Winifred Wagner to Chancellor Adolf Hitler made sure that the festival from 1933 were funded by the state and all worries were removed. But it also contributed significantly to the fact that Wagner (according to the literary scholar Hans Mayer) was traded in 1945 "at the cultural exchange below zero." Thomas Mann described Bayreuth as Hitler's court theatre. Hitler last visited Bayreuth in 1940. From this time on so-called "war festival" were carried out on order of Hitler. The Nazi organisation Kraft durch Freude with its department "Urlaub und Reisen" took over the ticket sales. Head of this department was Bodo Lafferentz, who became Winifred's son-in-law in 1943 through his marriage to Verena Wagner. Lafferentz took over the allocation of the cards, which received mainly wounded soldiers with their nursing staff and armaments workers. From 1941, the festival was increasingly influenced by the war. Since in the first week of the festival in 1941 total blindness was already arranged from about 9 pm, the performances began shortly after noon. In 1944 only the Mastersingers of Nuremberg was on the programme. The last of the twelve performances of the year took place on 9th August. It was the penultimate opera performance ever in the Third Reich; the last was the public dress rehearsal of the Danae by Richard Strauss in the Salzburg Festival Hall on August 16, 1944.
The Festspielhaus decorated to celebrate Hitler's fiftieth birthday, April 20, 1939
The Haus der Deutschen Erziehung (House of German Education) and its current incarnation. Bayreuth was intended to have received a so-called Gauforum, a combined government building and marching square built to symbolise the centre of power in the town. Bayreuth's first Gauleiter was Hans Schemm, who was also the head (Reichswalter) of the National Socialist Teachers League, NSLB, which was located in Bayreuth. In 1937 the town was connected to the new Reichsautobahn.
The fresco on the Rotmainhalle, built in 1935, is from the prominent artist during the NS-zeit Oskar Martin-Amorbach.
Under Nazi dictatorship the synagogue of the Jewish Community in Münzgasse was desecrated and looted on Kristallnacht but, due to its proximity to the Opera House it was not razed. Inside the building, which is once again used by a Jewish community as a synagogue, a plaque next to the Torah Shrine recalls the persecution and murder of Jews in the Holocaust, which took the lives of at least 145 Jews in Bayreuth. During the Second World War, a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was based in the town,[9] in which prisoners had to participate in physical experiments for the V-2. Wieland Wagner, the grandson of the composer, Richard Wagner, was the deputy civilian director there from September 1944 to April 1945. Shortly before the war's end branches of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) were to have been set up in Bayreuth. On 5, 8 and 11 April 1945 about one third of the town, including many public buildings and industrial installations were destroyed by heavy air strikes, along with 4,500 houses. 741 people were also killed. On 14 April, the U.S. Army occupied the town.
Bad Berneck
13 km northeast of Bayreuth is Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge. Here is Adolf Hitlerplatz with the schlossturm then and today
The Hotel Bube in Bad Berneck where Hitler would stay during his pilgrimages to Bayreuth hasn't changed at all.
After 1933, other long-established festivals, carnivals and fairs in Germany were similarly transformed into events that openly celebrated the Nazi regime. Their host cities in turn often became loci of Nazi tourist culture. Bayreuth is a good example. Its annual Wagner Festival welcomed Hitler and his entourage every summer; by 1933, the Manchester Guardian was reporting that the event now resembled a 'Hitler Festival'. During the rest of the year, even when the Festspielhaus sat empty, it attracted Hitler devotees as well as Wagner fans. Tourist material lauded Hitler's special affection for the town and its operas. Postcards even depicted the Hotel Bube in Bad Berneck, just north of Bayreuth, where he stayed during the festival every year.Semmens (65) Seeing Hitler's Germany
Bad Staffelstein am Main
Horst Wessel Platz and today
The flags outside the rathaus have all been changed since. It was here in Kulmbach on February 5 1928 that Hitler gave a speech declaring that
The idea of struggle is as old as life itself, for life is only preserved because other living things perish through struggle. ... In this straggle, the stronger, the more able, win, while the less able, the weak, lose. Struggle is the father of all things. ... It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. ... If you do not fight for life, then life will never be won.
Bullock (36) Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
Hitlerjugend in the main square with Plassenburg castle in the background and marching down a road. In 1933, the NSDAP seized power in Kulmbach and the Imperial School of German Technology (Reichsschule der deutschen Technik) was established in the castle. As a result, Kulmbach was even given an additional motorway junction which is now the start of today's A 70 autobahn.
The Holzmarkt with the Siegfriedsäule (now moved) in front of the shoe shop owned by the Jewish Mitbürger family.
At Spitalgaße 2 was the "Damen- und Herrenkonfektions" owned by Franz Weiß and his son-in-law Georg before being 'aryanised.'
Theresienstein, located north-east of Hof an der Saale, flying the Nazi flag and today which dates from 1816 as one the oldest German citizens' parks and named after Queen Therese Charlotte, the wife of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
In 1927 a synagogue was erected on the Hallplatz near the old railway station, later to be completely destroyed at the November 1938 pogrom and its inventory burned. This pogrom in Hof began in the early morning hours of November 10 in which the chief officers of the district police officers, the ϟϟ and SA were involved. In addition to the synagogue, retailers and private apartments were the target of the attacks. Of the 80 Jews living in Hof, twelve were arrested. By 1939 only seven Jewish remained. After the Second World War none returned, but some 1, 400 Jews ended up stranded within the Moschendorf camp in Hof. It wasn't until 1998 that a former school building in Moschendorf was acquired as a community centre and established as a new synagogue the following year.
In 1945, Hof suffered minor destruction due to aerial attacks. From September 3, 1944 to April 14, 1945, an external subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp existed in the village of Hof-Moschendorf, whose 100 detainees had to perform forced labour for the ϟϟ Hauptzeugamt. The troops of the US Army occupied the city on April 15, 1945 on their advance to Eger and West Bohemia. Hof belonged to the American occupation zone until 1955.
Hohenberg an der Eger
From 1936, Castle Hohenberg belonged to the National Socialist Teachers' Association and was a school camp- NSLB Schulungsburg. At the end of World War II in April 1945, some towers, and one-third of the village fell victim to the attack American troops, as SS troops defended the town. 1951 began a gradual reconstruction by the Bavarian state.
Bamberg during the Third Reich in 1936 and the wife in front of the altes rathaus today. It was at the party conference held in Bamberg in 1926 that Hitler set about reunifying a party left fragmented by his time in gaol and organising personal meetings with senior party members from around the country.[Hitler] summoned about sixty party leaders to a meeting on 14 February 1926 at Bamberg, in Upper Franconia. There was no agenda. Hitler, it was stated, simply wanted to discuss some 'important questions'. He spoke for two hours. He addressed in the main the issue of foreign policy and future alliances. His position was wholly opposed to that of the Working Community. Alliances were never ideal, he said, but always 'purely a matter of political business'. Britain and Italy, both distancing themselves from Germany's arch-enemy France, offered the best potential. Any thought of an alliance with Russia could be ruled out. It would mean 'the immediate political bolshevisation of Germany', and with it 'national suicide'. Germany's future could be secured solely by acquiring land, by eastern colonisation as in the Middle Ages, by a colonial policy not overseas but in Europe. On the question of the expropriation of German princes without compensation (a proposal by the Left, but supported by north German Nazi leaders), Hitler again ruled out the position of the Working Community. 'For us there are today no princes, only Germans,' he declared. 'We stand on the basis of the law, and will not give a Jewish system of exploitation a legal pretext for the complete plundering of our people.' Such a rhetorical slant could not conceal the outright rejection of the views of the northern leaders. Finally, Hitler repeated his insistence that religious problems had no part to play in the National Socialist Movement.
Goebbels was appalled. 'I feel devastated. What sort of Hitler? A reactionary? Amazingly clumsy and uncertain ... Probably one of the greatest disappointments of my life. I no longer believe fully in Hitler. That's the terrible thing: my inner support has been taken away.'
Hitler had reasserted his authority. The potential threat from the Working Community had evaporated. Despite some initial signs of defiance, the fate of the Community had been sealed at Bamberg. Gregor Strasser promised Hitler to collect all copies of the draft programme he had distributed, and wrote to members of the Community on 5 March asking for them to be returned. The Community now petered out into non-existence. On 1 July 1926, Hitler signed a directive stating that 'since the NSDAP represents a large working community, there is no justification for smaller working communities as a combination of individual Gaue'. By that time, Strasser's Working Community of northern and western Gauleiter was finished. With it went the last obstacle to the complete establishment of Hitler's supreme mastery over the party.
Hitler was shrewd enough to be generous after his Bamberg triumph. By September, Strasser himself had been called to the Reich Leadership as Propaganda Leader of the party, while Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (Gauleiter of Westphalia, a former army officer who had subsequently joined the Freikorps, participated in the Kapp Putsch, and been active in opposition to the French in the Ruhr) was appointed head of the SA. Most important of all, the impressionable Goebbels was openly courted by Hitler and completely won over....
The Bamberg meeting had been a milestone in the development of the NSDAP. The Working Community had neither wanted nor attempted a rebellion against Hitler's leadership. But once Strasser had composed his draft programme, a clash was inevitable. Was the party to be subordinated to a programme, or to its leader? The Bamberg meeting decided what National Socialism was to mean. It was not to mean a party torn, as the völkisch movement had been in 1924, over points of dogma. The Twenty-Five-Point Programme of 1920 was therefore regarded as sufficient. 'It stays as it is,' Hitler was reported as saying. 'The New Testament is also full of contradictions, but that hasn't prevented the spread of Christianity.' Its symbolic significance, not any practical feasibility was what mattered. Any more precise policy statement would not merely have produced continuing inner dissension. It would have bound Hitler himself to the programme, subordinated him to abstract tenets of doctrine that were open to dispute and alteration. As it was, his position as Leader over the movement was now inviolable.At Bamberg, too, an important ideological issue – the anti-Russian thrust of foreign policy – had been reaffirmed. The alternative approach of the northern group had been rejected. The 'idea' and the Leader were coming to be inseparable. But the 'idea' amounted to a set of distant goals, a mission for the future. The only way to it was through the attainment of power. For that, maximum flexibility was needed. No ideological or organisational disputes should in future be allowed to divert from the path. Fanatical willpower, converted into organised mass force, was what was required. That demanded freedom of action for the Leader; and total obedience from the following. What emerged in the aftermath of Bamberg was, therefore, the growth of a new type of political organisation: one subjected to the will of the Leader, who stood over and above the party, the embodiment in his own person of the 'idea' of National Socialism.
Kershaw (169-171) Hitler
In front of a memorial to Claus von Stauffenberg on the anniversary of the so-called July plot to assassin Hitler on July 20, 1944 in Operation Valkyrie. within the enclosed bridge leading to the rathaus. Stauffenberg had a relationship to Bamberg. In 1926, he joined the family's traditional regiment, the Bamberger Reiter- und Kavallerieregiment 17 (17th Cavalry Regiment) in Bamberg. Stauffenberg married Nina Freiin von Lerchenfeld on 26 September 1933 in Bamberg.
The wife in front of the Portal des Böttingerhauses and as it appeared during the Third Reich
The Altes Volksschulgebäude on Adolf-Hitler-Strasse then and now
This was built in the mid 1930s to honour the war dead of the Great War. The Nazi eagle has long since been removed.
Adolf-Hitler-Strasse then and now
Adolf Hitler Straße and today, renamed Kulmbacher Straße. Hitler's success in power also led to far-reaching political and social changes in Burgkunstadt. One of the first was the appointment of the dentist and NSDAP politician Leo Feuersinger as mayor and the exchange of the city council by a "municipal order" of ten NSDAP parliamentarians. As part of the Jewish boycott on 1 April 1933, some Jewish-owned shops were plundered and destroyed. In the following years, as in Germany, the Jews were suppressed and harassed as often as possible in Burgkunstadt. Through the anti-Jewish legislation several Jewish enterprises had to close, others were barred or expropriated. The majority of the inhabitants of St. Joseph's Institution were affected by the law for the prevention of offspring, who were kept in closed institutions from July onwards. A high wire fence was erected around the property. In the Reichskristallnacht from the 9th to the 10th of November 1938, the synagogue was plundered and devastated in the suburbs. "For traffic reasons" the synagogue was completely removed by the end of the year and replaced by a green area.
In contrast to the Franco-Prussian war and the First World War, the enthusiasm of the local population to the war was limited, and only occurred with absolutely convinced national socialists. "Within the framework of the civil aviation measures" all schools in the district of Lichtenfels remained closed between September 1 and 11. The first flight bombs fell by English aircraft in the night from the 27th to the 28th of August 1940 northwest of the St. Josephs-Anstalt. The St. Josephs-Anstalt was completely cleared in the spring of 1941. Many inhabitants were murdered in other homes and psychiatries; only a few were released home. The institution was converted into a National Social NGO for mother and child.
|The town synagogue in 1935
On April 24, 1942, the last twelve Burgkunstadte Jews, including the five-year-old Hans-Peter Steinbock, came first to Bamberg and the next day via Nuremberg to Krasnyzin. Up until April 28th, they were taken to the Majdanek concentration camp in Eastern Poland. In the following days most of them were transported to the extermination camps Belzec and Sobibor, where they were murdered in the gas chambers in the summer of 1942. This action ended the 700 year history of the Jewish community in Burgkunstadt. As more and more workers from the local shoe factories were forced to go to the front, the jobs were occupied by belligerent Russians, Lithuanians, Poles, French and Vlasslow soldiers. From March 1945 the refugee flows from Eastern European countries also began to accumulate. In addition to this, more and more unarmed, dilapidated soldiers came. This made it increasingly clear that the war was about to end. In the course of the Nerobefehl, all the main bridges were blown up on the 10th of April. The Lichtenfels Tagblatt appeared last time on April 10, the stream fell from the 11th of April, so that one could not listen to any radio and was cut off from the outside world. In addition to this circumstance, the poor food supply led to numerous looting at this time. On April 12, 1945 the American Panzerspitze reached Horb, whereupon Burgkunstadt surrendered on the same evening. There was only a single group of soldiers who were able to be expelled by the Burgkunstadter population. In the days and weeks that followed, most of the East workers, Vlasov soldiers and the evacuees also made their way home from German cities. On 8 May at 23:01, barely four weeks after the surrender of the town, the Second World War ended by the unconditional capitulation of the Wehrmacht. Including the new citizens (refugees, displaced persons, etc.), 242 Burgkunstadter soldiers died on the fronts. Many more were missing. Of the Jews born or staying in Burgkunstadt, 84 died in the labour camps and extermination camps.


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State Investments in Successful Transitions to Adulthood, 1970-2000 (ICPSR 34373)
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Kevin Leicht, University of Iowa; Dennis P. Hogan, Brown University
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This research investigated the relationship between ascribed characteristics, family resources, personal circumstances, and public policies as these affect the transition to adulthood. The transition to adulthood has been extensively studied during the last four decades using a variety of well-established approaches and methods. Changes in the structure and pace of youth-to-adult transitions have been extensively documented, along with the increasingly complex lives young people lead as they negotiate the transition to adulthood. Relatively less attention has been devoted to the factors leading to these changes, and a variety of public policies related to state economic development efforts, education, and financial support for higher education have yet to be examined in any detail. This project built on the principal investigators' prior work on life course transitions and state economic and political contexts to estimate behavioral models of the late 20th and early 21st century transition to adulthood.
Specifically, this research:
- Defines and describes the successful transition to adulthood in terms of human capital accumulation, attainment of economic security, and partnership and life satisfaction.
- Identifies group and individual disparities in successful transitions, defined by ascribed characteristics, family resources, and personal circumstances.
- Measures the impact of the social and economic environments where these transitions occur and the effects of state structures and policies on the successful transition to adulthood, specifically examining whether the impact of these state policies differs by race/ethnicity, immigrant status, and disability status.
The analysis used discrete hazard modeling and hierarchical generalized linear modeling (HGLM) to build a general model of the transition to adulthood on a wide variety of dimensions (from educational attainment to stable employment in a full-time job, employment in a job with health insurance, to independent residence and life satisfaction) and examined systematic changes in the process leading to adulthood across cohorts and across race/ethnic, immigrant, and disability groups.
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The aggregated state-level data in this release can be linked to the Contextual Data files from the National Adolescent Longitudinal Study, 1994-2008 (Add Health). The Contextual Data files contain geocode information and other geographic indicator variables, which can be linked to this data release using the State variable. The Contextual Data files can then be linked with other individual-level respondent surveys of interest that are part of the Add Health Study. Individual-level respondent surveys can be used in conjunction with this state-level data to assess the effects of political and economic contexts on different dimensions of social stratification, economic opportunity, and educational opportunity.
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To provide important insights into the rapidly changing context surrounding transitions to adulthood by examining a broad spectrum of life-course transitions across three decades (the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s). The analysis identifies significant differences in the pathways leading to successful adulthood, with special attention given to differences in transitions and determinants by race/ethnicity, immigrant status and disability status, and the growth or decline in these differences over time. The purpose was to gain was a better grasp of the ways that state political and economic contexts modify the effects of ascribed characteristics, family resources, and personal circumstances on transition to adulthood, so as to identify youth who are especially susceptible to contextual changes as these affect the ability to become functioning and productive adults.
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The data for this project are drawn from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Young Men and Women, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth. These data were concatenated to provide for a monthly analysis of successful transitions to adulthood. These data were also merged with an extensive and unique data set with assembled yearly indicators of state-level political and economic contexts covering the years 1970-2004 (see Jenkins, Leicht, and Wendt, 2006).
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State-level data on a variety of economic and political measures for the years 1970-2000.
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Research Articles and Other Data Sources
- Amenta, Edwin, and Drew Halfmann. 2000. Institutional Politics, Social Policy and WPA Wages. American Sociological Review 67:506-28.
- Berry, William D., Evan J. Ringquist, Richard C. Fording, and Russell L. Hanson. 1998. Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the States. American Journal of Political Science 42:327-348.
- Beyle, Thad. 1983. "Governors", in Virginia Gray, Herbert Jacob, and Kenneth Vines, eds., Politics in the American States, 4th ed. pp. 180-221. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; Council of State Governments. 1973-93. The Book of the States. Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments.
- Fortune. 1971-91. Top 500 Manufacturers. New York: Fortune.
- Hecker, Daniel. 1999. High Technology Employment: A Broader View. Monthly Labor Review (June): 18-28.
- Hunter, Kenneth G., Laura Anne Wilson, and Gregory G. Brunk. 1991. Societal Complexity and Interest-Group Lobbying in the American States. Journal of Politics 53:488-503.
- Klarner, State Partisan Balance Data files.
- Leicht, Kevin T. and J. Craig Jenkins. 1993. Three Strategies of State Economic Development: Entrepreneurial, Industrial Recruitment, and Deregulation Policies in the American States. Economic Development Quarterly 8:256-269.
- Morehouse, Sarah McCally. 1981. State Politics, Parties and Policy. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.; Thomas, Clive S., and Ronald J. Hrebenar. 1982. Interest Groups in the States. pp. 88-132, in Politics in the American States, edited by Virginia Gray, Herbert Jacob, and Kenneth Vines. Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman.
- Ranney, Austin. 1976. Parties in State Politics. In Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis, 3d ed., ed. Herbert Jacob and Kenneth N. Vines. Boston: Little, Brown.
- Riche, Richard W., Daniel E. Hecker, and John U. Burgan. 1983. High Technology Today and Tomorrow: A Small Slice of the Employment Pie. Monthly Labor Review (March) pp. 50-58.
- Squire. 2007. Measuring State Legislative Professionalism: The Square Index Revisited. State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 7:211-227.
- Venture Economics. 1978-91. Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Resources. Wellesly Hills, Mass.: Venture Economics.
National/State Statistics
- U.S. Census Bureau, Company Statistics; See "1988-2006 SUSB Totals for U.S. and States".
- U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey.
- U.S. Department of Defense Atlas/Data Abstract for the United States and Selected Areas.
- U.S. Statistical Abstracts.
- U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- U.S. Department of Commerce, ES-202 Files.
- U.S. Department of Justice.
- National Association of State Development Agencies. 1986, 1991, 1994.
- The Directory of Incentives for Business Investment and Development in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
- NSF Science and Technology Indicators.
- National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES).
- Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development. 1988. State Technology Programs in the United States. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Dept. of Trade and Economic Development.
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- Gini Index of Income Inequality
- State Index Crime Rate - United States Department of Justice
- Democratic and Republican Party Strength - Ranking based on the Ranney Index (Ranney, 1976)
- Average SAT Math and SAT Verbal Scores
- State Governor's Powers - Coded from State Constitutions (Beyle, 1983)
- Legislative Professionalism (Squire, 2007)
- Entrepreneurial Scale, Deregulation Scale, and Industrial Recruitment Scale -- Constructs from a confirmatory factor analysis of State Economic Development Programs (Leicht/Jenkins, Economic Development Quarterly, 1993)
- State Institutional Ideology Scale and State Citizen Ideology Scale (Berry et al., 1998)
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- Leicht, Kevin, and Dennis P. Hogan. State Investments in Successful Transitions to Adulthood, 1970-2000. ICPSR34373-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-03-07. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34373.v1
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Gibby and Grimes Tuesday Night Handicap League(Handicap - Singles League)Start date: Tentative start is April 9th, 2013 and will be the same schedule and course as the doubles league, just the night before doubles. (See Doubles Schedule on front page). I will update after I confirm with Jason that we are set with the PDGA sanctioning.Entry fee ($5); optional Ace ($1); optional PDGA sanction ($1); CTPs (2 or 3 CTPs @ $2 each). CTPs will be designated as Prize Fund & Club Enhancements. The payout will be the top 30% with a minimum of $5 for last cash. $0.50 from each entry fee will pay the hot round of the day.Players will still have the option of playing leagues as a PDGA Sanctioned event. They will receive official ratings and points.Handling of non-rated players: If you do not have a PDGA rating, your first 3 rounds at the handicap leagues will be free to establish your handicap. You will only be allowed to participate in the Ace Fund, CTPs, and Bag Tags (Bag Tags will be determined on the scratch score). Another option to acquire your handicap: if a club officer is willing to play those three rounds outside of league night, they will "sign off" that your scores are valid to use to develop your 3 round minimum for getting your "handicap". After you accumulate more rounds, your rating will be taken from your last 5 rounds. Frank Grimes, Rob Gibson, and Dean Bingham will be running Handicap League. Jason Poole will be handling the PDGA sanctioning and results.
Why April 9th, why not April 2nd?? or March 26th??Just curious...Thanks!Kev
Is it possible if an official can post a couple scheduled rounds before then. This way it will be easier to set something up. Just a thought.
I believe he is refering t o doing s couple of rounds with an official to establish his handicap prior to leagues.


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Family transportation
I suppose I've posted a dozen photographs of Mennonite buggies on this blog, but this is my very first photo of a New Order Amish tractor and wagon. We see these rigs around Guthrie and Crofton, Kentucky, where we have thriving New Order Amish communities.
I saw the tractor and wagon above at a restaurant in Hopkinsville. The owners probably drove in from Crofton to pick up farm supplies and to shop at WalMart (which is just a short distance from this restaurant.)
The man of the family drives the tractor, and the passengers ride in the wagon along with any freight. The wagon is always made from the back-end of an old pickup truck.
Around Guthrie and Elkton in Todd County, I've occasionally seen tractors with a man and woman riding together in the cab. I've even seen a woman driving a tractor down the road, with a couple of small children in the cab. However, I've never seen a woman driving a tractor that was pulling a wagon.
The use of the tractor, the use of normal tires on the tractor, and the use of the tractor on the road are some of the practices that distinguish New Order Amish from other Amish groups. The New Order Amish around this area have gone a step farther in permitting the use of the tractor to make short trips.
The basis for the various restrictions on tractor use is explained by Donald Kraybill and Marc Alan Olshan in The Amish Struggle with Modernity. In The Riddle of Amish Culture, Donald Kraybill relates the history of the New Order split from the Old Order. Tractor use is just one of many differences between the major Amish groups, but with the New Order Amish, it's one of the most visible differences.
Cultural Change and Survival in Amish Society, a paper by Brian Lande for his class, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.


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Hi all, I've been missing for quite a long time...hehe! I'm back!! I've been quite busy with other stuffs but I'm back into my baking world now...^^
Since the mooncake festival is coming soon, I'll be very busy with those mooncakes!!
Well, today I'll like to post this special cookies made by my daughter and me few weeks back. She wanted to bake this so much for her friends in her school for the English subject. So I came up with this simple and yet really delicious cookies for her.
Well, it looks not so attractive, but it really taste good!
200g unsalted butter
180g sugar
1 egg
300g plain flour
60g cocoa powder
few marshmallow - cut into small pieces (just enough for the cookies)
some melted white chocolate ( for the top decoration)
~ Preheat oven at 190'C.
~ Prepare a tray with non-stick baking paper.
~ Cream butter and sugar till pale and fluffy.
~ Add in egg and beat well.
~ Sift flour and cocoa powder over mixture.
~ Stir with a wooden spoon, then clean with hands, pressing the mixture together to make a fairly soft dough.
~ Roll out about half the dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of about 5mm.
~ Using a 5cm biscuit cutter (any shape you prefer) cut out the dough and place on the prepared baking sheets.
~ Place the marshmallow onto the cut dough (like above).
~ Roll out the remaining dough and cut out as before and place on top of each of the marshmallow.
~ Press the dough edges to seal.
~ Bake for 10-12 mins until the cookies have risen well.
~ Cool completely and drizzle with some melted white chocolate onto the cookies.
If the dough is too sticky to roll, chill it for about 30 minutes, then try again.
The cookies was so crispy and when you bite it, the marshmallow will be sticky like eating a pizza!! Interesting right?!!
My daughter told me her friends love it so much and wanted to make this again. You have to try this!!


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Our guest blogger today is Barbara Wilson. She is an astronomer at the museum's satellite facility, The George Observatory. Today she is writing about the Perseid Meteor Shower, which can best be seen the night of August 11 through the dawn of August 12.
Looking at the summer meteor showers are an all time favorite hobby of mine. For the past few years I have always planned on being somewhere away from the city lights so I can fully enjoy the "Night of Falling Stars" in August. Some years the meteors are sparse, but sometimes there are so many that you can't possibly see them all. Part of the fun is just not knowing what to expect. But I think that this will be the best meteor shower of 2008. On the morning of August 12, just before dawn on Tuesday is when we should see the most meteors.
The George Observatory, a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science located in Brazos Bend State Park, will host an all-night viewing of the annual Perseid meteor shower on the observing deck from 9 p.m. on Monday evening, Aug. 11 through dawn on Tuesday, Aug 12.
Here are some common questions about the shower.
What time will we see the falling stars?
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The meteors (also known as "falling stars") should become visible as early as 10 p.m. Monday evening, Aug. 11. We should see many more per hour after midnight when the "radiant" gets higher by each passing hour. The moon will set around 2 a.m., leaving a darker sky for meteors, and I hope we will see as many as 60 to 90 meteors per hour between 2 a.m. and dawn on Tuesday. The peak of the shower is estimated to happen close to dawn for us here in Houston.
Where do I look?
A quick answer: the northeastern sky.
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Meteor showers are named for the constellation where the meteors appear to be falling from. This spot in the sky is called the "radiant" by astronomers. So the Perseids appear to come from the constellation "Perseus the King," hence the name.
Perseus rises in the northeastern sky. But you will notice meteors all over the sky, not just in the north. In fact, if you face south, west, or look overhead, you will see the longest meteors. The closer you look to the radiant the shorter the meteors are. It is a perspective effect.
Where should I be to see the most meteors?
Quick answer: Away from the city.
Many more meteors are seen when you travel away from city lights. Bright lights affect the amount of meteors seen. A few of the meteors are very bright and visible, even in big cities, but most are not.
Meteors are bits of dust and debris left in space by comets that have passed through our solar system. Here's a bit of science on meteors from Dr. Phil Plait's book, "A meteoroid, moving at 33,500 mph (15 kilometers a second) or more compresses the air in front of it violently. The air itself gets very hot, which is what heats the meteoroid, as a result we see the light from the meteor." Despite the heated air and bright streaks, the meteor light is still much dimmer than the lights of the city around us.
As a result only the very brightest meteors can be seen from cities. So we invite people to join us at the George Observatory as the skies are many times darker than in Houston or surrounding cities.
What should I bring to be comfortable?
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It should be loads of fun, so bring your lawn chairs, blankets to lie on, mosquito repellant, a late night snack, and hope for clear skies! You can bring a red filtered flashlight, but please do not bring bright white flashlights, as the bulbs are just too bright and will interfere with seeing the meteors. Binoculars are not necessary, your eyes are all you really need.
The state park will charge a $5.00 per person entry fee, with children under 12 free of charge.
Please note: There was a date misprint in Museum News, (Vol 13, # 4 Ice Worlds) the George Observatory will not be open on the night of August 12/13th.


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Media Statements & Speeches
Commissioner Tony Clark Statement
March 21, 2013
Docket Nos. ER13-198-000, ER13-195-000 & ER13-90-000
Item No. E-1
PJMs Order No. 1000 Compliance Filings
"There is a good deal in these Order No. 1000 compliance filing orders that I could support. Unfortunately, I find myself today in the position of needing to dissent.
A primary goal of Order No. 1000 is to speed along the development of needed electric transmission projects in an efficient manner. This is especially true for those projects that are required for matters of reliability. I fear that some of the logistical calls in todays order are at cross-purposes with that goal.
One major source of contention involves the nonincumbent transmission developer reforms that were approved in Order No. 1000. In todays final order, the Commission found that allowing the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) to acknowledge the reality of certain state and local laws in its planning process was a violation of these Order No. 1000 reforms. I disagree.
Effectively, the Commission asks PJM to ignore the very state and local laws that the Commission itself has acknowledged. As this is the case, PJM will be compelled to approve projects that may have no legal possibility of ever being built. The Commission would allow an after-the-fact examination if the selected facility ultimately is not successful. It is not until this autopsy report, that PJM can acknowledge the state and local lawsonly then will PJM be allowed to evaluate viable alternative transmission solutions.
The Commissions decision puts PJM on a collision course for litigation, as opposed to a pathway towards transmission development. Whether or not the Commission agrees with these state and local laws, requiring regions to make plans that do not factor them in is a waste of time and resources. This is especially troubling when the projects under consideration are reliability projects. Such a convoluted process fails to comport with Order 1000s main goal of more efficient and cost-effective regional transmission planning.
Beyond the logistical problems with this approach, it raises broader policy questions about where the Commission may be heading in terms of the philosophical underpinnings of Order No. 1000. One of the core stated principles of Order No. 1000 is to ensure regional transmission planners take into consideration the various state and local public policy requirements. Yet the Commissions decision here seems to be arbitrary and capricious by directing transmission planners to take into consideration only those legal requirements favored by the Commission, such as transmission to meet state renewable portfolio mandates, but not those less favored such as state and local laws that may limit who is and who is not eligible to construct facilities within that states borders.
Such an implication is a slippery slope for a Commission whose authority in these matters stems only from the Federal Power Act.
As a related matter, these orders also present the first opportunity for me to weigh in on Order No. 1000s revocation of a transmission providers federal right of first refusal. I concur with the assessment of my colleague, Commissioner Moeller, who has previously written about these matters.
Order No. 1000 did maintain a federal right of first refusal for local projects where the incumbent does not seek to share the costs of those projects, upgrades to existing assets, and projects on existing rights of way. I would have also preserved a federal right of first refusal for projects selected for cost allocation in the Order No. 1000 planning process that are (1) determined by the regional planning coordinator as necessary to satisfy NERC reliability standards and (2) located entirely within the transmission providers franchised service territory.
The Commission should have maintained a federal right of first refusal for the reasons Commissioner Moeller mentionedreinforcing the Commissions commitment to reliability and avoiding the need for a blanket penalty waiver in the case that a competitor failed to build a necessary reliability project. Additionally, a federal right of first refusal for reliability projects would have recognized the need for speedy development of these reliability projects and greatly simplified the Order No. 1000 compliance process.
For these reasons, I respectfully dissent from this order.


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There are a lot of trendy exercise fads that pop up every now and then, and I'm not above admitting that I'm always curious to try. Take for example, the SuftSET Fitness waterless surfing class I took back in April. The class may not be a national sensation like your average zumba session, but it was a fun experiment when I had the chance. This Fit Wet cycling workout that combines a stationary bike with a hot tub, however, I just cannot get into. In fact, it just looks so awkward and uncomfortable, I'm not sure anyone could take it seriously especially given the promotional video below.
According to Fit Wet's philosophy, users can experience 12 times the intensity because water adds a stronger resistance than air, forcing the pedaler to work harder to push through. Okay, logical. Acting as a hot tub hybrid, the Fit Wet is also able to massage your body while you work out so you're relaxed and invigorated — something most exercises never do. The water jets streaming at your ass while you pedal also help to reduce the appearance of cellulite, rubbing your skin into the perfect, springy consistency it was when you were a wee teenager. Yeah, I don't know about that. If all it took was some water guns shooting at my thighs, I would be spend all my days in a backyard with a hose, water massaging the living crap out of my legs.
We've seen water exercises where you can jog around the edge of a swimming pool against the current, but just the social aspect of the Fit Wet makes it even more awkward. "Are you a couple or a group of friends?" Why, yes, I'd love to cycle in my bikini while staring into the eyes of my best buddy as we pedal in what looks like an aquarium's bathroom. How is it even possible that you can spin hard in a tub of water firing into your butt cheeks without making a total, splashy mess? And how does one control their bladder drinking water while submerged in water?
As much as we'd like the Fit Wet to stay a concept, the device recently unveiled a prototype at the Interbike expo in Las Vegas. Fit Wet, if you're reading, I've yet to be converted to a believer. If you can prove otherwise, I'd love to face my fears, take this oddball project out for a spin, and see with my own eyes whether I walk away with an 800 calorie deficit or a pool of sweaty tub water.


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2013 Mercedes CLC rendered - Baby CLS coming to the 2012 New York Auto ShowThere are conflicting reports on what the name of this vehicle will be. CLC is what is being reported but it may be BLS as well. Regardless, the baby CLS will be making its debut next year and it will be made in North America at the 2012 New York Auto Show. The renderings below clearly are inspired by the new SL. Expect the vehicle to have Mercedes new turbo 4 cylinder under the hood with an all wheel drive option. No word on an AMG version but we hope that happens.
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting
Let me preface this by saying that I am a little uneasy with making caramel. Most people are quite aware of how dangerous caramel can be but I really learned the hard way. Let me set the scene. I am making 'creme caramel' at culinary school, and am at the stage where you melt the sugar, turn it into amber caramel and pour the liquid into the bottom of ramekins that will then be filled with custard. In an effort to get a perfectly even layer of caramel, my finger slipped in the boiling hot caramel.. and I lost more skin that I ever thought possible. The whole class stared, I had to be sat down (I was pale and livid and it seemed that I might pass out).. and was obliged to wear a 'finger condom' for the next couple weeks. Restaurant kitchens all have a stack of these tiny little finger condoms (they are literally minuscule latex tubes meant to fit your finger)that cooks wear when they hurt themselves to make sure that they don't infect the food. It's not exactly the most flattering accessory and a clear (and visible!) reminder that you did something wrong. That was by far the worst injury I ever experienced while cooking and probably the most pain I've ever been in!
However, my love for cooking and trying new things has always forced me to go beyond my fears, and when I saw this month's Daring Bakers challenge from Shuna Fish Lydon , I knew it was a great time to face the (delicious)caramel monster again. I had already made caramel a couple weeks ago to accompany a pear clafoutis, and everything had gone smoothly..so why not with this cake? Oliver helped me in the kitchen for this one, and he insisted that he would pour the water in the amber-colored sugar to finish off the mixture. I felt like I was standing in the lab of a mad scientist for a couple seconds, as the sugar started to bubble furiously, the pot fumed to the ceiling, and Oliver jumped back with a somewhat shaky empty glass.
The rest of the cake was easy to make, so easy in fact that I was worried it might taste quite ordinary. Quite to the contrary, the cake was moist, rich in caramel flavor combined with a subtle mix of sweet and salty.
Recipe (found here)
10 Tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
1 1/4 Cups granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/3 Cup Caramel Syrup (see recipe below)
2 eggs, at room temperature
splash vanilla extract
2 Cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk, at room temperature
Preheat oven to 350F. Butter one tall (2 – 2.5 inch deep) 9-inch cake pan.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream butter until smooth. Add sugar and salt & cream until light and fluffy.
Slowly pour room temperature caramel syrup (recipe found below) into the bowl. Scrape down bowl and increase speed. Add eggs/vanilla extract a little at a time, mixing well after each addition. Scrape down bowl again, beat mixture until light and uniform.
Sift flour and baking powder.
Turn mixer to lowest speed, and add one third of the dry ingredients. When incorporated, add half of the milk, a little at a time. Add another third of the dry ingredients, then the other half of the milk and finish with the dry ingredients. {This is called the dry, wet, dry, wet, dry method in cake making. It is often employed when there is a high proportion of liquid in the batter.}
Take off mixer and by hand, use a spatula to do a few last folds, making sure batter is uniform. Turn batter into prepared cake pan.
Place cake pan on cookie sheet or 1/2 sheet pan. Set first timer for 30 minutes, rotate pan and set timer for another 15-20 minutes. Your own oven will set the pace. Bake until sides pull away from the pan and skewer inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool cake completely before icing it.
The cake will keep for three days outside of the refrigerator.
Caramel Syrup
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1 cup water (to "stop" the caramelization process)
In a small stainless steel saucepan, with tall sides, mix water and sugar until mixture feels like wet sand. Brush down any stray sugar crystals with wet pastry brush. Turn on heat to highest flame. Cook until smoking slightly: dark amber.
When color is achieved, very carefully pour in one cup of water. Caramel will jump and sputter about! It is very dangerous, so have long sleeves on and be prepared to step back.
Whisk over medium heat until it has reduced slightly and feels sticky between two fingers. {Obviously wait for it to cool on a spoon before touching it.}
Note: For safety reasons, have ready a bowl of ice water to plunge your hands into if any caramel should land on your skin.
Caramelized Butter Frosting
12 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 pound confectioner's sugar, sifted
4-6 tablespoons heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2-4 tablespoons caramel syrup
Kosher or sea salt to taste
Cook butter until brown. Pour through a fine meshed sieve into a heatproof bowl, set aside to cool.
Pour cooled brown butter into mixer bowl.
In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle or whisk attachment, add confectioner's sugar a little at a time. When mixture looks too chunky to take any more, add a bit of cream and or caramel syrup. Repeat until mixture looks smooth and all confectioner's sugar has been incorporated. Add salt to taste.
30 comments:
- HoneyB said...
Looks delicious!
- November 29, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- Engineer Baker said...
I've been lucky enough to avoid caramel burns, so kudos for being able to make caramel after such a painful experience. Your cake looks wonderful, and I'm glad things went off without a hitch.
- November 29, 2008 at 8:25 AM
- Life for Beginners said...
This is the first time I've heard of these "finger condoms" but judging by the little kitchen mishaps, I guess they sure are necessary.
Here's to conquering more culinary fears en route to more recipes and experiments! :D
- November 29, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Matin said...
I dread making caramel but you made it sound so easy:-) The cake looks great. Thanks for sharing
- November 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Renee said...
Ouch on the injury! Your cake looks yummy.
- November 29, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Your cake is beautiful - kudos to you for not being afraid of the caramel after such an unfortunate happenstance!
- November 29, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- Lauren said...
Ooo, your cake looks amazing! Great job!
- November 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- Candice said...
Ouch to the injury! I'm also familiar with 'finger condoms' with what I do: I'm a massage therapist, and occasionally have to wear one at work if I cut my finger. Luckily for me I don't do that very often.
Your cake looks fantastic!
- November 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Angela said...
Your cake looks fabulous!
I'm glad to hear that you got through this caramel experience unscathed. I've had a few little splatters of caramel land on me in the past, but nothing as bad as a whole fingerful. Ouch!!
- November 29, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- dolcigine said...
Yummy ... your cake looks great :-)!!! I love this picture!!!
- November 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- Diana said...
You poor thing, that sounds so traumatic! I too have experience with finger condoms, they're so awkward. I'm glad you had someone to help in facing your caramel fear, your cake is awesome.
- November 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM
- Joeli said...
Oh my goodness, your caramel accident sounds horrible! I'm glad it turned out better this time. Your cake looks delicious and I love your photos.
- November 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Carly said...
Your cake looks wonderful! This is my first time to your blog and it is fabulous. I will be stopping by often and am excited to make about 20 things I just saw on your blog!
- November 29, 2008 at 3:16 PM
- Eat4Fun said...
Very nice looking cake! Wonderful job!
- November 29, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- Dawn said...
I can only imagine how much that burn must have hurt. I am always uneasy about making caramel.
I also would love to go to the french culinary...someday I imagine. Wonderful cake!!
- November 29, 2008 at 5:01 PM
- Amy said...
Way to face the fear and come out standing tall - your cake looks lovely.
- November 29, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- miri said...
Oh GOD, that burn sounds so painful! The cake looks wonderful though, glad you overcame your caramel drawbacks.
- November 29, 2008 at 5:25 PM
- Thip said...
sorry for the injury, but the cake looks delicious!
- November 29, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Youch! Caramel burns? No wonder you're wary.
Your cake is lovely!
- November 29, 2008 at 5:50 PM
- Dana Treat said...
Oh ouch. I once burned a bunch a caramel but thought it might be salvagable. I wanted to taste it to make sure so I put my finger onto the wooden spoon I had been stirring it with. Thank god I didn't just put my tongue directly on the spoon, or I would never have tasted again! As it was, I had a second degree burn on my finger and also had to wear a finger condom. Anyway, the cake is gorgeous!
- November 29, 2008 at 6:00 PM
- prettytastycakes said...
Very elegant cake! I'm glad you were able to face your fear of caramel...I was hoping I wouldn't burn myself for this challenge, but ended up cutting myself instead!
- November 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM
- Shari@Whisk: a food blog said...
That's quite the story from culinary school! Looks like your cake turned out perfectly!
- November 29, 2008 at 10:37 PM
- November 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM
- Ingrid said...
Sorry about your previous mishap. I never really realized how extremely dangerous caramel making was.
Your cake looked great!
- December 1, 2008 at 3:04 PM
- Deborah said...
I can't imagine how bad that would hurt - no wonder you are scared of caramel! Your cake looks beautiful!
- December 1, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- Claire said...
Wow...that sounds horrific! Glad you survived with your finger. Your cake looks wonderful!
- December 2, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- Y said...
Ouch! I feel your pain! And those finger condoms are annoying.. if not necessary at times. Glad it didn't completely put you off working with caramel, as your cake looks fantastic.
- December 3, 2008 at 4:32 AM
- bee said...
i'm proud of you for conquering your (legit) fear of caramel. i thought of you last week as i was making caramel sauce for thanksgiving.
- December 4, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Dolores said...
Ouch! I'm glad that all ended well with this batch of caramel. Thanks for baking with us.
- December 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM
- Chloe said...
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this recipe - I made it today and it turned out so great. Because the recipient loves salt, I filled the cake with a buttery, slightly saltier version of the frosting, poured ganache and some of the extra caramel to coat, then sprinkled some fancy salt on top. Looked like a big salted caramel - YUUUUM!! Thanks again!
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Associated Press, Fargo-Moorhead Forum, August 6, 2013 – After spending the last year focused on improving the financial stability of Minnesota public schools, Gov. Mark Dayton shifted the conversation Tuesday to boosting graduation rates and reading proficiency for younger learners.
Dayton challenged a roomful of school superintendents to recommend ways to make sure children obtain a diploma and, ideally, spring ahead to college in a society that places an increasing premium on both. Dayton's speech offered no concrete proposals, but said the objectives would guide future education debates.
"It is clear education is going to be the great divide between those who are successful and take advantage of all the opportunities in terms of employment, in terms of standard of living, in terms of what you can do all over the world now," Dayton said, "and those who don't are going to be consigned to less earnings and menial task and dead-end jobs."
He cited statistics showing those with a college degree earning double that of someone with only a high school diploma and three times more over their lifetime than a high school dropout.
In Minnesota, slightly more than three-quarters of students graduate high school within four years. The figures are lower among ethnic minorities.
The Democratic governor said the path to education success is set early. Children unable to read at grade level midway through elementary school can become disengaged and fall further behind. To that end, he stressed new state financial commitments to preschool and all-day kindergarten in the recently passed budget.
One superintendent, Dennis Carlson of the Anoka-Hennepin School District, said the state could encourage more children to aspire to a college degree by reducing barriers to earning postsecondary credits while still in high school. Carlson said class-size restrictions on the so-called "college in the schools" programs leave some students out.
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Barring inspiration from yours truly or Buzz Bissinger, "3 Weekends In July and August" isn't likely to join the annals of golf literature anytime soon.
It's not that the St. Charles Men's Tournament isn't fit to have a book thrown at it, but with the event's longstanding layout under initial review, another working title works better.
The 2013 men's tournament at Pottawatomie Golf Course begins with qualifying rounds Saturday and Sunday. After that, the field will be flighted before match play tournaments determine the city's various champions over the next two weekends.
No doubt that's a grueling but fair test to award such accolades. The matter on Pottawatomie pro Ron Skubisz's mind is whether it's a viable one.
"Everything is questioned not because you wonder if it's right or wrong, but whether it's relevant to today," Skubisz said. "That's certainly not just relegated to the golf course. Every business and every place and every home and everybody. The only thing we know for sure is that there's change."
Skubisz, in his third year since taking over for retired longtime Pottawatomie pro Jim Wheeler, isn't out to assail the old guard. The city's golfing clientele simply isn't entering the tournament the way it has in past summers, a frustration that's also seeped into the course's similar events for women and juniors.
A field of 76 men will play 18-hole qualifying rounds this weekend, down from 88 in 2012 and the tournament's full capacity of 112.
"The weekends of having to give that up, it's hard for us economically, but it's hard for people to justify that anymore," Skubisz said. "If you have kids and you're at the golf course Saturday-Sunday, Saturday-Sunday, Saturday-Sunday in the middle of the summer, it's getting hard for people to be able to make that commitment, too."
Assistant pro Bill Ogiego coordinates each tournament, from collecting entry fees to masterfully writing players' names on the leaderboard on the Pottawatomie patio.
He certainly sees something of a trickle-up effect from children to parents when it comes to modern family time dynamics. Ogiego knows the score when it comes to the city's juniors and adult players alike.
"I remember growing up, I played baseball in the summer and I had 16 games," Ogiego said. "I have a kid in my junior golf league who had swimming at 6 a.m., 6 to 8. Had tennis from 9 to 11, played his nine holes down here in the league and then had a baseball game in the evening. How parents have enough time to do what they have to do, you know, three weekends, is a tough thing."
Still, it's not just the family men. Past summers have produced a handful of cases in which newly married or single competitors weighed entering the tournament against vacationing with their wives or girlfriends.
Even the recent high school graduates or young collegians in the field might face conflicts from orientation or early returns to campus.
Nothing has been established yet, but the tournament appears to be scrambling to work on its short game. Aurora crowns a city champ with a 72-hole flighted tournament, but that's just one alternative.
"It'll still be here," Ogiego said, "but how will it be, we don't know."
Sounds like ideal tee box chatter. Beginning Saturday, the best of the best will have three weekends to talk.
• Kevin Druley is a sportswriter for the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5347 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @kevindruley.
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Milo French missed the cut in his two Illinois Open appearances before this week.
He was recently removed from his Kaneland graduation then, which, as French tells it, says a mouthful about how he fared.
Refocused and re-energized by his young son and family, French cited maturity as the chief reason behind his ninth-place tie at the 2013 Open, which concluded Wednesday at The Glen Club in Glenview.
"Definitely came away with a very positive experience. Definitely learned a lot about the importance of minimizing mistakes in a tournament like that," French said. "Definitely a step in the right direction that will make me a better player in the long run."
French carded two double bogeys and one triple en route to a three-day, 2-under-par score of 214. In the past, he said, such blow-up holes would send him sputtering.
Not anymore.
Behind his newfound perspective and the guidance of caddy Greg Takata of North Aurora, French has harnessed his mental game more than ever. Perhaps he can lend encouragement to any fellow golfers at his 10-year Kaneland reunion next summer.
"Everybody can handle playing well and hitting good shots just fine. That's never going to be a problem for anybody," French said. "The biggest problem a player can face on a golf course is your misses. Recovering from that and not letting that affect you the rest of the round is something I did very well all week."
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National Hot Dog Day might have been Tuesday, but early patrons of Batavia's Settler's Hill Golf Course relished a miniature reprisal Thursday.
Among its listing of online specials, Settler's Hill offered a free hot dog to any player paying for a round before 2 p.m.
The promotion was billed as "Dog Day Afternoon." The pleasant weather suggested it was anything but.
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