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Philips Sells Last of Audio-Visual Business
An era draws to a close as Dutch electronics company Philips sells the last of its audio-visual business after years of bringing us radios, cassettes and even the first CDs. Dow Jones's Ian Edmondson looks at the competition it now faces in health-care products. Photo: Philips
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How Wide are Your Interviews?
How Wide are Your Interviews?
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I've been a part of and interviewed at companies where the interview process was not just long but also very wide- people from different teams and departments interview a candidate. (ie, a Microsoft-style interview process)
At my current company, our last two Art hires have had a much more abbreviated hiring process- the Art Manager, myself, and the Art Producer (and the Art Director if needed).
So I've been through and a part of interviews at both ends of the complexity spectrum. I've been thinking about it recently and I'll share some thoughts (and I'd also love people's own opinions and experiences).
- Only a few people are generally good interviewers. If this doesn't correspond with your Leads/Directors/Managers, there's a problem. So I am not sure the depth of the interview varies greatly between the two styles.
- On the other hand, interview experience is important for more junior members, and if they don't get experience they'll not turn into good interviewers.
- Only a few people are generally responsible for making the decision anyway, and I've never actually seen a contentious decision: if one or two people have a thumbs down opinion, it's enough of a red flag for everyone else. What's the point of six or twelve people sitting around and pretending to decide?
- How often are interviews really surprising? You know in the first couple minutes whether you'll accept someone or not, or whether they're in the middle (usually meaning you need to find a better candidate).
So given those experiences I'm going to try do the following for the interview process for Tech Artists:
- See who wants to be part of the interview. Cultivating this skill is vital, but it isn't for everyone, and people who have no interest shouldn't waste their time.
- Expand the interview to include those people- it should definitely extend past the manager/lead level.
- Be rigorous, and don't bother hiring anyone that isn't unanimously liked. When the candidate pool is thin or work is slipping, it's tempting to take a chance. It's not worth the risk (in my opinion, of course).
I'm curious how other studios handle it, and what people think of those processes?
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Scientific Community in Woods Hole
History of the Scientific Community
Since 1871, Woods Hole has grown into a world center for marine, biomedical, and environmental science.
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
The National Marine Fisheries Service's Woods Hole Laboratory conducts research on fisheries resources and the fishermen who harvest them, and on marine mammals and other protected resources in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center devoted to improving the human condition through basic research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of all aspects of marine science and engineering and to the education of marine researchers.
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Earth scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Woods Hole Science Center explore and study the geology, chemistry, and physics of the underwater areas offshore of the United States.
Sea Education Association (SEA)
Sea Education Association (SEA) has been a leader in marine education, developing an understanding of the importance of the ocean and of its powerful role in seemingly every aspect of our lives.
Woods Hole Research Center
The Woods Hole Research Center was founded in 1985 to address global environmental problems. The 40-member staff engages in scientific research, global environmental policy, and education.


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Delicious Recipes for Healthy Skin
Oatmeal and salmon are two foods that can nourish your body — inside and out
En español | To hide the gray, you can dye your hair. To flatten your stomach, you can wedge yourself into a pair of Spanx. Short of a major medical procedure, however, there's not much you can do to hide wrinkles. That's why preventive skin care is so important. Morning and night I use regenerating serum and an antiaging moisturizer on my face, but I also try to eat wisely. Here are two great recipes that incorporate foods good for your skin.
There's a reason they make lotions and soaps out of oatmeal: It nourishes the skin. I enjoy oatmeal year-round; now that the mornings are cooler, I've switched from oatmeal-based granola with summer fruits and Greek yogurt to hot oatmeal with dried fruit and nuts.
You can follow the instructions on the oatmeal package, but it takes only a minute to elevate this cereal from dutiful to delightful. Just add some canned pumpkin and a little pumpkin-pie spice. Then drizzle on maple syrup and add some walnuts (which also happen to be good for your skin). If you regularly substitute soy milk for dairy milk, you may start to notice your dark skin spots fading: Studies suggest that soy's minerals and proteins may reduce them.
With its omega-3 fatty acids, wild salmon is one of the best foods for keeping skin moist and supple. To create the perfect skin-care trio, couple the salmon with this recipe's healthy, potent spinach sauce (also high in omega-3 fatty acids) and serve it with sautéed cherry tomatoes; the latter are one of our best sources for the antiaging antioxidant lycopene.
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Pumpkin Oatmeal With Walnuts and Dried Cranberries
Serves 4
Turn leftover oatmeal into pudding by heating 2 cups of leftover cooked oatmeal with 2 cups of soy milk. Simmer until thick, stirring frequently — about 20 minutes. Pour into custard dishes and refrigerate until ready to serve. Sweeten with maple syrup or brown sugar.
- 3 1/2 cups vanilla soy milk
- 1 cup solid pack pure pumpkin
- 2 cups old-fashioned oatmeal
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin-pie spice
- Pinch salt
- 1/4 cup each: toasted chopped walnuts and dried cranberries
Bring milk, pumpkin, oatmeal, spice and salt to a simmer in a large saucepan or 5- to 6-quart Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, to desired thickness — 5 to 10 minutes, depending on oatmeal brand. Serve, sprinkling each portion with walnuts and dried cranberries.
Seared Salmon with Spinach "Hollandaise"
Serves 4
Serve this seared salmon and spinach sauce with sautéed cherry tomatoes.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 8 ounces factory-washed baby spinach
- Salt and ground black pepper
- Pinch of hot red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 4 center-cut salmon fillets (5 ounces each)
Place 1 tablespoon of the oil, garlic, spinach, a sprinkling of salt and pepper, and pepper flakes in a large heavy nonstick skillet. Cover and steam over medium-high heat until the greens are wilted and brightly colored — 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer spinach to a blender and process until puréed. Stir in lemon juice and keep warm.
Meanwhile wipe out skillet and return to strong medium-high heat. Set salmon fillets on a plate and drizzle with remaining tablespoon of oil. Turn to coat, then season with salt and pepper.
Add salmon fillets, flesh side down, to pan. Cook over high heat until they develop an even, rich brown crust — 3 to 3 1/2 minutes. Turn salmon fillets and continue to cook until skin side develops same crust — 3 to 4 minutes longer for medium, 4 to 5 minutes longer for medium-well. Transfer to plates, spoon a portion of sauce over salmon and serve immediately.
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We are looking for HR Manager who would be able: - to present our company on Belarusian labour market - to find experienced IT Sales Managers - to conduct first stage interviews validating candidate's competence and level of English
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I am looking for an Article writer for my Outsourcing Blog website. I need someone who has extensive experience with the subject. Please provide a sample of any article you have available related to the topic. The more the better.
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The United States Department of Labor Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health reported in 1999 that 88% of women construction workers surveyed had experienced sexual harassment at work. I searched high and low for more current data, but no extensive study has been done since then. Most recent information I found would just claim that things are "getting better" for women in construction, and while I don't deny that there are more women in construction fields, I am not convinced that sexual harassment and bullying is a thing of the past. Progress is great, but a hostile environment affects a person's ability to do their job correctly. I know first hand because it happened to me.
I studied Civil Engineering, and most Engineering students know that in order to improve one's chances of getting hired when you graduate you should have at least one internship or apprenticeship during your undergraduate studies. Internships give you some real life experiences that are just impossible to get from a classroom. During my sophomore year of Engineering school I applied and was hired for an internship as a Construction Manager Assistant for a major construction management company in New York City. My work consisted of being in a construction site and maintaining the project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities among the different trades, and resolving problems. The finished product was to be a high-rise residential building overlooking Central Park. To this day I am grateful for all that I learned while in a construction site. That experience has helped me along in my professional career in more ways than I can imagine, from dealing with a team, to learning how to schedule major projects. However, being one female out of a total of about 10 women in a site with hundreds of men, was quite alienating and frustrating, at times.
The first day of my internship I arrived with three other interns, two young men and one other female. After being briefed on job site safety we were asked to visit the project's head foreman, who called in two of his construction managers who would become our mentors. The first manager that arrived looked at all of us and immediately stated "I'll take the two boys" and feeling a need to apologize, looked at me and the other female intern and said "sorry ladies, I don't deal with women on this job." Shortly after another manager arrived, upon seeing us two waiting he said "are these the interns? I was expecting a couple of guys." Since we were all that was left he had no choice. He led us to a Field Engineer, a recent college graduate and the only other woman on site that day, and told her to "take care of us." Apparently, he could not be bothered with being our mentor.
Throughout the summer the two male interns were given jobs overseeing major tasks relating to mechanical equipment, electrical work, and concrete pouring, while the other female intern and I were asked to check if the finished apartments were painted, the marble was installed in the bathrooms, and the light fixtures were properly centered. It was easy to see that as females, we were given the tasks that required the least amount of effort and intelligence. After all, who goes to Engineering school to learn how to watch paint dry? It was aggravating to be doing such boring work; we wanted to be involved in actual construction tasks so as to truly learn engineering techniques applied in the field. After a few weeks of unsuccessfully trying to ask our mentor to give us more interesting work, we decide to seek help from the only female construction manager on site. She was a 50 year old Puerto Rican woman named Milly, who used to be a secretary for the company and fell in love with construction. She paid her way through night school and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After finishing her degree she was hired as a Construction Manager overseeing all the mechanical trades.
Milly became our mentor and made sure that we were always learning something from the tasks we were assigned. She also encouraged us to work separately because, as she would say "you'll probably be the only woman on any site, better get used to it." As expected, the work that we were given required us to constantly be around the tradesmen working, as opposed to before when we were mainly in empty finished apartments. I can only speak for myself, because I never asked the other female female intern how she felt or what kind of treatment she received, but it was at this point that I became the target of a lot of sexist, rude, and inappropriate remarks from some of the men. Many times as I walked on by, working men who would stop their work to stare and wolf whistle. Several times a day I had to say "no thank you" to men asking for my number or requesting to take me out on a date. On a few occasions I got called a bitch for refusing to reply to inappropriate remarks. Some men felt the need to give me "get fit" advice and make comments about my body, often pointing at my lack of physical strength as a sign of why I did not belong on a construction site: never mind that technological advances and strict safety codes has made the use of physical strength obsolete in most jobs. Once, I found myself in the middle of a storage room with one construction worker (whom I had never seen before that day) blocking the doorway and refusing to let me leave unless I accepted his request for a date.
I worked on the site for a year, after which I decided the stress of a workplace where I constantly felt harassed, belittled, and intimidated was not worth the effort. The constant fear that someone would make me feel uncomfortable or make a rude remark was making me lose my concentration, and on an active construction site, that is an actual safety hazard. I requested to work with the Project Managers who dealt with the Engineering consultants from the main office and only went on site for field meetings. Today, I am better equipped to deal with everyday sexism, but at 18 years old I was not. I never did report any of the many incidents of sexism and harassment that I endured. I was reluctant to do so for fear of being tagged as a complainer who could not handle the job.
Writing this was one of the hardest things I've had to do. I still love the construction industry and promote it as a great career choice for men and women who enjoy being active on their jobs. For every man that demeaned me, there were dozens who uplifted me. For every man that made a sexist comment, there were scores who respected me and valued my work. For every man that harassed me, there were hundreds more who protected me as their coworker. The issue is not that all men refuse to work with women, the issue is that a few men who do not, make the working environment hostile and dangerous for women. Those few that harassed me had the power to ruin my day, alter my mind, and destroy my self confidence. We need to increase the number of women in the construction industry so that we are not a rarity. We must also encourage labor unions and construction employers to include sexual harassment training as part of their health and safety plans. Women deserve to have access to skilled trades, and they deserve to be respected as a fellow colleague.


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SPARTA by Roxana Robinson, has been selected as the novel all incoming members of the class of 2019 will read and discuss.
The previous books and authors in the series are: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Waiting by Ha Jin Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Paco's Story by Larry Heineman Rich in Love by Josephine Humphries A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Old School by Tobias Wolff One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni Night Talk by Elizabeth Cox
So what is the Novel Experience, anyway?
The Novel Experience is a program that connects the members of the incoming class with each other through a shared experience and a shared meal. All incoming students read the same book before arriving on campus for Orientation. This year, that book is Sparta by Roxana Robinson.
Early in September the author will come to campus for the Novel Experience Convocation and will discuss the book with first year students and the rest of the Wofford community. A few days after the convocation students will gather with their Humanities 101 class for a catered lunch during which they will discuss the novel, the convocation, and what a shared reading experience means to them.


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Smudd580 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 453 designs submitted by 118 freelance designers.
Peepers of Severna Park
We are a service oriented, friendly, high-technology family optometry practice. We specialize in the latest contact lens designs and fashionable and quality frames and lenses.
We currently share our office name with a couple of neighboring practices. We have differentiated ourselves into a much larger office with a different practice philosophy. Therefore, we are changing our name slightly and rebranding starting with a logo and moving towards a new website. After a great deal of thought, we are simply changing "Peepers Family Eye Care" to "Peepers of Severna Park".
We would like a clean, professional logo that coveys a modern, competent and fun optometry practice. We would like the logo to be as recognizable as possible from the old one, while being as different as possible at the same time.
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Drew's New Mom Jazz Hands
First Anne Hathaway had them at the Actress roundtable, then Ben Affleck at the Directors' roundtable, and now Drew Barrymore was on Ellen yesterday, and was jazz-handing all things Olive. I'm with Duana, I like the name and I think the story of how they came up with it while reading a pregnancy book is slightly adorable.
And while she's effusive when talking about her daughter, I still don't know if she'll be a straight-up mom pimp. Drew sold her wedding photos, and Lainey has heard she may sell her baby photos. I was hoping she'd follow a Gwyneth/Reese/Jennifer Garner-style reveal: just let them get the shot of the baby. Even if it's choreographed, it's still less tacky. Or am I still holding movie stars to a standard to which they don't want to be held anymore?
Drew comes from a serious showbiz family and has had a very difficult relationship with her mom – if anyone knows the heavy price that comes from a Hollywood pedigree and childhood stardom, it's her. Her husband travels in very elite circles -- he's not Casper Smart – so there's no slumming or red carpet boner there. Olive is born into a rare type of family, so I don't understand why they would be tempted to stoop to reality star coverage. Start exclusive, stay exclusive, Olive!
Drew's long career also means she knows how to play: she has a lot of control over her schedule, and, coincidentally?, she scheduled a Barrymore Primo Grigio Wine push 10 weeks after having a baby. With a cooking demo! Former wild child Drew Barrymore is pulling a full-on GOOP. As Lainey said, how come suddenly everyone can do everything? And if she does want to do everything, I prefer producer Drew to pinot Drew. Producer Drew can get Bill Murray to do a Charlie's Angel movie – that is infinitely more interesting than cooking pasta. Or …baby-gushing on Ellen…?
Fortunately Ellen is such a great host in semi-absurd situations like this because she's encouraging without being a kiss-ass; she plays along but gently teases and Drew is a good sport, laughing and gesticulating enough for the cheap seats.
Ellen: She's only ten weeks old but you're lucky. Because you hear stories like that…she's so good and she sleeps all night. You're the people that lure other people in and they're like my baby doesn't do that.
Drew: …I will say Olive is a definite ambassador to having lots of babies. I have met babies who are screaming and they're crying and they're trying to convey all these things and you get so terrified and overwhelmed. I' m very grateful to her. She really has it together…She's really impressing me.
Ellen: Again, to say she has it together…Again,is a bit premature…
New moms* need a guideline on acceptable conversation topics, because we don't have Ellen to make our boring brags seem funny. We just have a bunch of friends who think, "When is this b-tch going to stop talking about her nipples?" Cameron Diaz does not want to hear about cluster feeds.
After the baby talk, Drew makes "Will's Favorite Pasta" while dropping lots of promo for the pinot. This is what she's selling now: domesticated, but not uptight, kooky, but responsible. More famous than her husband, but traditional. It could work, I guess, I just wish she had picked a better product.
Who would buy this wine? I'm no oenophile (I'm low class and pick by the label), and maybe for that reason I wouldn't pick up a Barrymore Pinot Grigio. It would be like getting a French manicure. I. Can't.
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A thrifty bunch of young (and wanna-be young) people, from any part of the world, trying to help kids, living and working on the Street.
Did you hear about the Canadian, Norwegian and the Filipino guys who chased away 3 cops, trying to arrest an 8 year old for not having a place to go home to, last night??
Yeah, Streetlighters are the best!
Yeah, Streetlighters are the best!
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The Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department and the Community Forestry Advisory Board invite the public to participate in updating the City's approved street tree list. The list is sent to every resident who receives a voucher to plant on the City right of way. The list also is used to determine which tree species should be planted in new subdivisions.
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Joseph Rott Family History
By Connie Dahlke, Napa, California
Joseph Rott b. 1852 Gluckstal, South Russia was the tenth child of Martin Rott b. 1804 Hunsbach, Elsass, Germany. Martin Rott emigrated to South Russia as a young child with his parents in 1809. The family of Martin Rott, Sr. (b. 1767) included wife Elizabetha Niess (b. abt 1768), and the older siblings of young Martin: Salome Rott b. 1786 married to Franz Foerderer, Balthasor Rott b. 1789, Margaretha Rott b. 1791, and Friedrick Rott b. 1799/1800. Also traveling to South Russia in 1809 were the Georg Landenberger family, with wife Barbara Rott b. 1769 (who was pregnant) and their children Anna Maria Landenberger b. 1790, Michael Jacob Landenberger b. 1793, Georg Landenberger b. abt 1797, Barbara Landenberger b. 1799, and Eva Landenberger b. 1807. Martin Rott, Sr. and Mrs. Barbara (Rott) Landenberger were the children of Georg Rott and his wife Barbara.
The party likely took the overland route in 1809, as the Danube River was closed to travel due to the war with the Turks in the lower reaches of the Danube. It was an arduous route, through central Germany, across lower Poland to the border crossing and quarantine station at Radzivillov. Groups traveling this route aimed to leave their homes in Germany as soon as the dirt roads were passable in the spring, with the hope of arriving in South Russia before the snow began to fall. At the border crossing they could expect to be held in quarantine for 30 days.
The Rott/Landenberger party arrived in South Russia just as the Gluckstal colonies were being set up. Salome and Franz Foerderer were initially assigned to Rastatt, one of the Beresan Colonies eastward on the Steppe from the Gluckstal Colonies. Some earlier arrivals in South Russia had been housed in Grigoriopol on the Dniester River since 1804, most being placed in with Armenian families. The German colonists found this arrangement to be unsatisfactory, so they appealed to Duc de Richelieu for their own village. The good Duc granted their wish and decided to move a village of Moldavians out of their mud-hut village of Glinnoi into Grigoriopol, and simultaneously move the German colonists from Grigoriopol into the mud huts of Glinnoi vacated by the Moldavians. The changeover occurred in the spring of 1809. The Rott/Landenberger party arrived in the fall of 1809 – the Rott family was assigned to Houselot G-111 in Gluckstal, while the Landenberger family was assigned to Houselot N-90 in Neudorf, a smaller village that was just being established. And they arrived just in time – baby Martin Landenberger was born in Neudorf November 10, 1809.
Times were rough for the early colonists. They had many urgent tasks to complete just to survive the winter. There were 10 water wells in the village of Glinnoi, which was renamed Gluckstal, but the mud huts were cramped and unsatisfactory. As soon as possible, the German colonists laid out decent-sized houselots and began building brick homes to replace the mud huts. But let us remember that these "bricks" were made of mud dried in the sun. Later, when materials were more plentiful, the bricks might have added straw or "mischt" (manure) to strengthen them. As the village became more prosperous, colonists built houses out of stone quarried from the local hillsides. Much later, there was a tile factory which made roof tiles, but in the early days the roofs were made of thatch.
Early in the spring, all males of working age were required to break up the steppe sod and begin planting crops. This was virgin land, never plowed, and it was tough going, especially with the single plows which were in use at the time. Too often the rains were unreliable, the grasshoppers ate what did come up, or hailstorms flattened it all before it could be harvested.
And then there were the epidemics. The German colonists came into a land where diseases sprang up to which the colonists had no natural immunity. If a water well or a stream became contaminated from human or animal waste, it could wipe out all the families which depended on that water source. In 1812, just 3 years after arrival, Martin Rott, Sr. died at the age of 45. Elisabetha (Niess) Rott died two years later in 1814 at the age of 46. By this time Margaretha Rott had married Johannes Gross and was living in Houselot G-3. Balthasor Rott married Klara Dieter around 1814 – Balthasor became "head of household" with voting rights, and he and Klara became surrogate parents to Balthasor's younger brothers Friedrick age 14 and Martin age 10. Eventually Friedrick Rott married Rosina Schaeffer (married around 1821) and Martin Rott married Catherina Sauter (married about 1828).
In the winter time, the wolf packs in the area could become very aggressive. When traveling from one village to another, an extra horse was always included in the team. If the wolf packs attacked and could not be frightened away, the extra horse would be cut loose and the wolves would run off after the hapless horse, allowing the remainder of the team and the wagon to escape safely to their destination. (1)
By the 1850's Gluckstal had entered its "Golden Age." Farmers were more prosperous, and the church and school had a steady, disciplining effect on the colonists. The foundation built in the early years began to yield dividends.
Then Czar Alexander II came to the throne in 1855. His great desire was to modernize and unify Russia. No more would the crown tolerate serfdoms, nor special colonist status for the Germans. The Czar freed the serfs in 1861, and in 1871 announced that the German colonists were henceforth expected to serve in the Russian military. He advanced many civil reforms in the court system and promoted the industrialization of Russia, including the building of a vast railroad system. When Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 his son Alexander III came to the throne. Alexander III was a strict authoritarian as he ruled Russia. He continued to push the "Russification" of all peoples in his land. This meant the German colonists were expected to conduct all business in Russian, and all school subjects were to be in Russian, from Russian speaking teachers, with the exception of Bible classes and German language class.
The Germans resented this change in their historical status. They had been promised not only freedom to practice their religion and culture in Russia, but also exemption from military service "forever." To their protestations, the crown replied that in Russian culture, "forever" was 100 years, and their 100 years was expired. The German colonists began looking elsewhere to settle. Those who felt strongest about the possibility of military service left first – many Mennonite Germans left Russia as early as 1871. As the military conscription was enforced and the reality of Russian military service became known, more and more German colonists sold all their possessions and left. Those who stayed often tried to escape the Cossack's who were sent to enforce the edict. If soldiers were seen approaching a village, all the males of military age would try to hide – some hid in the barn, some hid by climbing trees -- they hid any place they thought the soldiers would not find them. Those who were caught hiding or who resisted the soldiers were often summarily killed. If a young man was known to have escaped, the bodies of his parents were often found floating in the river. In the 1880's a Rott cousin was murdered by the soldiers and his head was displayed on a pole in the middle of his village -- a stern warning for any others who thought they might resist military conscription. (1)
In 1878 Joseph Rott (b. 1852) married Christina Kessler (b. 1861). The Kesslers had become Baptists prior to this time, and it appears that Joseph Rott also became a Baptist about the time of his marriage to Christina. Their marriage is not recorded in the records of either the Lutheran or Reform records of the time. They worshipped with the Baptist group in Neudorf and the village of Neudorf became as important to them as the village of Gluckstal. Later in America, Gluckstalers would remember that there was one Baptist family in Gluckstal who would sit outside their home and sing hymns at set of sun to welcome the Sabbath. (2) Was this the Kessler-Rott family?
From 1880 to 1889 Joseph and Christina (Kessler) Rott had seven children. Of these, three died in Russia as young children or infants. Again, no official record has been found of these child deaths, since they would have been included only in Baptist records.
One day, in the 1880's Christian Kessler, the father of Christina (Kessler) Rott, was thrown into the local jail for his religion. Apparently he took seriously the adage of Gerhard Onken "Every Baptist is a missionary." The neighbors (or the local Lutheran pastor?) complained, and the sheriff took action. When Joseph Rott heard that his father-in-law was in jail, he went to the authorities on behalf on Christian Kessler – only to be thrown in jail also. The next day both men were released. Whether they were punished as they were released is not known, but the warning was sufficient. Soon afterward the family decided to immigrate to America. (3)
After the harvest of 1889, the Joseph Rott and Christian Kessler families, bags packed, left Gluckstal. They traveled first by train from Odessa to Bremen, Germany where they boarded the S.S. Ems bound first for Southhampton, England, then on to New York. They were on the ship crossing the Atlantic for three weeks. They arrived in New York on October 16, 1889. The next leg of the trip, again by train, took them to Eureka, South Dakota. They stayed in Eureka for the winter, and there in February 1890 their first American child, Daniel Rott, was born. In the spring of 1890 the Rott family, with Christian and Louise (Voegele) Kessler, on the advice of their Baptist pastor in Eureka, headed out to North Dakota, to the area known as "The Flat," near Richville, where it was said that homestead land was still available.
Joseph Rott later said that he arrived in America with US $300 in his pocket. (3) This money had to support the family of 4 adults and 4 children through the winter in Eureka and supply funds to purchase essential farm tools, livestock, and household goods to start their new life, including a pair of oxen and a wagon to carry their supplies to North Dakota. The money also had to purchase any necessities needed until they might have a crop for cash income that next fall.
Joseph Rott and Christian Kessler each filed a homestead claim for a ¼ section, and they eventually purchased another ½ section. This gave them a full section of 640 acres, plus the "lay of the land" gave them title to another 30 acres, for a total of 670 acres. (4)
As with all pioneers, many pressing duties had to be done as quickly as possible, including building a sod house, digging a well, breaking the prairie sod and planting a garden and a cash crop. It is unknown which duty came first, but it can be assumed that all adults and the oldest son Joe, Jr. (age 10) worked hard that first year just to survive. It is known that the family lived together in one sod house for ten years before they built a frame house from wood hauled in from Dawson, North Dakota. (4)
It is also known that the Rott family provided shelter for other immigrant families as they arrived from Russia, whether the new family was related to them or not . (5) The marriage between Christian Kessler and Louise Voegele was a second marriage for both of them, and several of the families who settled in Logan County were descendants of Louise from her first marriage to Philipp Kiess, or were related to Christian Kessler or Joseph Rott.
Joseph Rott was well respected and considered a leader in his community, often functioning in the role of a magistrate in those early years. (1)
It was in the Richville area (Logan County) that Joseph Rott became a Seventh-day Adventist. In the fall of 1890 the Richville Seventh-day Adventist Church was organized by Pastor Henry Schultz, Joseph Rott becoming a charter member. The name of the church was later changed to the Streeter SDA Church. For several years, the Adventist group met in the homes of its members. As the group grew, it became necessary to meet in larger quarters, so they arranged to meet in the public school house. Eventually a group of some twenty families were meeting together. "Rott soon became a leader in that early church and a very effective lay evangelist. Rott, with his large, musically talented family, began to hold evening meetings in his home, inviting the neighbors to come and sing with them. Older residents of the Streeter area even today talk about the beautiful music that floated across the prairies of the Streeter flat as buggies were parked and horses tied by their owners who were coming to 'Father Rott's' home at set of sun. After the music, Rott would preach to the people, and as he touched on subjects unique to Seventh-day Adventist teachings, Rott invited the neighbors to come and worship with the little Richville group on the next Sabbath." [Bob Dupuy in Nothing to Fear, p. 42]
The Rott family farm had both good years and bad years. One year the crop was good, and they worked together with their neighbors in the harvest. All the neighbor's crop had been harvested and they had worked one-half day at the Rott place, when a hailstorm struck, leaving them with only the small amount already harvested, and no prospect for other income for the next year. One day Joseph Rott was in town and the grocer asked him if he had enough food at home. When Joseph Rott said they were running a little low on staples, the grocer gave the Rotts enough flour for the winter. "The Rott family then lived that winter on foods made with flour and potatoes – no meat was available." (6) It was the lack of money to purchase beef and the fact that the Rotts would not eat pork, which set the tongues clucking and wagging. "Now he's done it," the neighbors must have gossiped. "They won't eat pork which they could raise themselves, because of their religion, and now they're going to starve from his stubbornness." But if they had potatoes, they also likely had other root vegetables for the winter such as carrots, onions, beets and probably parsnips. And what decent German garden would be without cabbage and cucumbers for pickling? The Rott family was also known for drying peas and mature beans from their garden. Undoubtedly they had a few chickens for eggs and at least a couple of milk cows. So what could they make with flour, potatoes, eggs, milk, cream and vegetables? The list of German-Russian dishes made with just these ingredients is endless! And none of the Rott family died that winter from illness or starvation.
When haying time came in the summer, everyone pitched in – one year even a very pregnant Mother Christina Rott. She soon realized that she had better get to the house before the baby was born in the field! After little recovery time, Mother Christina was back out pitching hay. (7)
Boys were taught to do farm work at a young age. As the boys gained experience, they were given more responsibility. This was wheat country and a major event was threshing time. As threshing machines became more common, many young boys aspired to learning how to run them. On breaks from the more manual part of the wheat harvest, they would hang around the crew working the machinery and began learning as they watched. Eventually they could help out the crew that came to their farm at threshing time, learning to run the steam engine and the grain separator. If they were good at it, as teenagers they might start traveling from farm to farm with the threshing crew and eventually become responsible for a good share of the operation or even buy an outfit of their own and run their own threshing crew. (8)
On their Logan County pioneer farm, by 1900, the Rotts built a large comfortable house of wood carted in from Dawson, North Dakota – a two-day trip if they started out at 4 o'clock in the morning. (4) This was a two-story house with a wide front balcony on the second story. They also built a separate summer kitchen a few steps away from the main house, so that the hot cooking and canning in the summertime did not have to be done in the main house. (9) They used large barn window screens and square nails when they built the summer kitchen. (4) Outside the door was a cast-iron dinner bell mounted on a tall post, to call the family in for dinner. From the second-story balcony on the south side of the house one could look out over the farm yard, past the barn and out over the grain fields. (9)
In 1900, daughter Christina Rott was 12 years old and was doing the dishes in the kitchen. She and her mother were the only 'grownups' in the house, and she wasn't sure just what her mother was doing. After a while, Christina needed a dry dish towel, so she went to get one from the linen cupboard which was in her parent's bedroom. She discovered her mother was in bed, holding a newborn baby. Christina was definitely surprised, as she had no idea her mother was pregnant. As she got a little older, Christina began to realize that her mother had given birth alone, with no assistance, and acted like this was routine. Of course, this was Mother Christina's 12th baby! (7) (This story places the death of Louise (Voegele) Kessler prior to 1900, otherwise she would have been helping her daughter. Louise was born in 1821 so would have been 75 years old in 1896.)
In 1917 son John Rott was inducted into the U.S. Army where he was trained as a cook/baker at Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico. He served during World War I, coming home in March of 1919. He had been exposed to mustard gas during his time in the Army, and he arrived home with badly damaged lungs. Joseph Rott sold the farm in April of 1919 and the family moved into Napoleon. Did they sell the farm to raise money for John's needed medical care? Joseph Rott was 66 years old at the time. Three of the Rott sons, Joe, Jr., Jake and Dan, had married prior to 1919, with Dave, Ned and Sam still at home. Joseph Rott did divide a portion of the proceeds from the farm among his sons. Daughters Christina and Louisa were married by 1919, with daughters Martha and Ida still at home. John Rott never recovered his health. In late 1923 he became ill with the flu and pneumonia and he died at home January 1, 1924 in Napoleon, North Dakota. (1) (3)
In their Napoleon house, Grandmother Christina Rott had a buffet in which she kept white peppermint candies in one of the drawers. When the grandchildren would come to visit, Grandmother Christina would give each child a treat of peppermint candy from the buffet drawer. (10)
In the kitchen, a hand-pump to pump water was attached right by the sink, so that they could pump water directly into the kitchen sink as needed. Grandfather Joseph Rott liked to sit at the kitchen table and peel onions and garlic from his large garden. These he ate raw, in abundance. Family members always felt this is partly why he lived to be over 90 years of age. (10)
Around 1920 or 1921 Dave Rott decided to teach his sister Martha to drive a car. They headed off down the straight roads of their area, but somehow Martha drove the car off the road and the car overturned. After that experience, Martha refused to drive any car on a public road. In later years, she would sometimes, with reluctance, drive the car on their farm property as long as she didn't have to go out on "the road." (3) (11)
One day, a neighbor told Joseph Rott, "You Adventists don't believe in Christmas." Joseph replied, "Yes we do. And we have special Christmas treats for the children, just like everyone else. My wife and I fix up the sacks of nuts, candy, oranges and apples every Christmas and hide them in the attic, then on Christmas I bring the treats down from the attic and give them to the children." (7)
In 1923 Gilbert Ringering was in the Napoleon, North Dakota area helping run the threshing machines during harvest time. He attended the Napoleon Seventh-day Adventist Church and became acquainted with the Rott family. It wasn't long until he started to show an interest in the youngest Rott daughter, Ida (age 18). One day, he approached father Joseph Rott as to the possibility of marrying Ida. Joseph Rott informed Gilbert that Ida was not available – Martha was the oldest unmarried daughter of the family, so it would be Martha or nobody. Gilbert thought about that for a while, then started courting Martha. Courting in those days consisted of visiting with the individual in the parlor or living room of the family home. The young people would sit and talk in the parlor, and in the case of the Rott family, would participate in the "singing school" which father Joseph Rott often organized in his home in the evenings. Then they could do a little visiting after the singing and preaching had wound down. In the Rott home, when "Father Rott" walked into the parlor in the evening winding his pocket watch, everyone knew "visiting hours are over" and it was time to go home. After two weeks of courtship, Gilbert Ringering (age 29) and Martha Rott (age 22) were married. For a time they lived "in town" in Napoleon, then in 1932 they moved their possessions (including their house) to a farm north-east of Napoleon, next to the Kapp farm. (8) (10)
Around 1933, grandson Gilbert Remboldt decided to start a wheat-puffing business. He and his cousin Clarence Horst bought a wheat-puffing machine and set it up in the basement of Grandfather Joseph Rott's house. The Rott family was then "treated" to the noise of the wheat-puffing machine on a rather constant basis, as the contraption would heat up, and then the kernels of wheat would explode with a resounding "bang." After a few weeks, the wheat puffing operation was moved to other quarters! (10)
In the summer of 1936, during the terrible dust bowl years, Joseph and Christina Rott decided to move to Lodi, California, where several of their children had already moved. Daughter Christina (Rott) Remboldt came from California to help her parents pack their things, then Joseph and Christina went by train to California. For a time they rented a house from their son Jake Rott. When the rental house on daughter Christina's back lot became available, they moved to Christina's place. (10)
Joseph Rott died in Lodi, California in February 1943 at the age of 90. Christina (Kessler) Rott died in Lodi, California in September 1948 at the age of 87. Joseph and Christina Rott, immigrants from Russia, traveled half-way around the world – from Gluckstal, Russia to North Dakota to Lodi, California. They had 14 children, seven born in Russia and seven born in the United States. Of these, three died young in Russia. Three additional sons died unmarried, without descendents. The remaining eight children provided Joseph and Christina with 23 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren. Joseph and Christina Rott embraced three religions in their life-time and fluently learned two languages. They were true pioneers.
1. Family story passed down to Dan Rott.
2. From an interview by Jim Klein with Fred Flemmer (Son of Christian Flemmer b. 1882 Gluckstal)
3. Family story told by Martha (Rott) Ringering to her daughter Verna Tillotson.
4. From title papers and information from Bert Spitzer.
5. From Viola (Horst) Kaiser, granddaughter of Joseph and Christina (Kessler) Rott.
6. Streeter, N.D. Golden Jubilee,1905-1955, p. 72. Republished by Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, N. Dakota.
7. Family story told by Geraldine (Rott) Anderson.
8. Family story told by Gilbert Ringering.
9. From photos taken in 1917 by the Rott sons' "Minute Camera."
10. Remembrance of Verna (Ringering) Tillotson.
11. Remembrance of Connie (Tillotson) Dahlke.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
US intelligence officials say Israel has "crossed red lines" in its spying on America, according to a report published in Newsweek on Tuesday. According to the report, in closed door meetings the Americans expressed growing concerns that the Israeli "friends" had gone way too far in their espionage activities on US soil.
The remarks were reportedly made during intelligence briefings to members of Congress amidst ongoing discussions over whether or not to remove visa restrictions on Israelis wishing to visit the US. Currently, Israelis require a pre-approved visa to visit the US, while Americans can enter the Jewish state without any prearranged permits.
Newsweek reported that the American intelligence officials are most worried over what they said were Israeli's constant efforts to obtain industrial and technological secrets. The officials insisted that while this is true of all nations, Israeli spying in America far exceeded that of any other ally.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren responded by telling Israel's Ynet news portal that the allegations of Israeli spying were simply untrue. "Israel has not spied against the United States since the Pollard affair, period," said Oren. "I do not know if there are people in the business and commercial arena that conduct espionage, as this happens all over the world, but no one is spying [in America] on behalf of the Israeli government."
Another Israeli official told Ynet that it was probably a case of some American politicians who are opposed to removing visa restrictions on Israelis. "Anyone who opposes the removal of visas for Israeli has only to bring up the topic of intelligence security," he said. "It always works."
Another official said the entire affair carried the "stench of anti-Semitism."
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman also weighed in, telling Israel Radio: "We're talking about lies and falsehood, simply libel which is baseless and unfounded. I am sorry that there are apparently anonymous elements in the United States who are simply trying to maliciously spread false accusations."
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There is no self-diagnosis for empty. Because hollow and quaking are not symptoms.
Questions pushed aside, not denied but hesitantly unasked.
She stayed still, usually. Unable to disturb, unwilling to interrupt.
Her fingertips bent, folded and danced against her life line. Tucked like her opinions, woven into something and from nothing at once.
She wasn't clueless. Far from.
Not misunderstood, but under-heard. Not quite lonely, but not quite in the light.
Aimless yet not missing. Lost beyond the comprehension of a map. No key to spell out the details that may not be grasped.
At the volume of a drowning gasp, whispered from unconvinced lips.
Her life was a dimmer switch. Stuck before it realized bright.
woman in that coat.
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