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Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company B, 4th New York Cavalry.
Place and date: At Front Royal, Va., 15 August 1864.
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Birth: England.
Date of issue: 26 August 1864.
Capture of flag of 3d Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.).
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NYAFF 2012 Screening: SCABBARD SAMURAI, A Swordless, Sincere Comedy
Many of us here at Twitch adore funnyman-turned-filmmaker Hitoshi Matsumoto and his ever growing stable of directorial offerings. First we had the wildly inventive mockumentary Big Man Japan. Then there was the most profound film based around a fart joke ever, Symbol. And now, at last, thanks to the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Society's Japan Cuts (which you'll be hearing about more and more in days to come) we have the US premiere of Matsumoto's take on the samurai tale -- Scabbard Samurai aka Saya Zamurai.
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If you aren't in New York or just want more of Scabbard Samurai then check out Ard Vijn's review from Imagine 2012 and Guillem Rosset's take from Sitges 2011.
Our correspondent Alexander Thebez with his thoughts:
The film follows the story of Kanjuro Nomi (Takaaki Nomi), a fumbling samurai and his daughter Tae (Sae Kumada). Nomi, having lost his sword and his honor, and Tae find themselves arrested by the royal guards. Nomi, with the help of his daughter, must find a way to revive the spirit of the grief-stricken young Prince.Scabbard Samurai is screening on Friday July 6 (3:30PM) as part of the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival at Lincoln Center, and then on Saturday, July 14 (1:00PM) as part of Japan Cuts: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema at Japan Society. For more info and tickets click here.
I have to say that Scabbard is probably the most straightforward film I have seen all year.
A complex movie sans the overly complicated storyline, Scabbard Samurai plays out its scenes almost as linearly as a furniture assembly instruction manual. After Nomi is captured, he is given 30 days to get the Prince, who recently lost his mother, to smile again. Starting out with small tricks and jokes, Nomi's attempts fall uncomfortably flat to hilarious effects.
The minimalism of the plot is supported by the same aesthetic that the film carries in its cinematography, editing, and art direction. Scabbard Samurai is a beautiful film, but just like the dialogue, for the most part, it is sparse. Long, wide shots with minimum cuts create an unflinching sense of tension.
The tone and aesthetic of the film are definitely welcome, if not a refreshing change from all the expected Western mainstream comedies that I have gorged on all year. It is comedy, but it is not light or easily dismissible. The second half of the movie will, most probably, stick with you for a long time. Scabbard Samurai is not just funny. It is moving, sincere and profoundly satisfying. Did I say perfectly acted? Gosh, I really do wish more comedies would do the kind of things that this movie did to me.
If you aren't in New York or just want more of Scabbard Samurai then check out Ard Vijn's review from Imagine 2012 and Guillem Rosset's take from Sitges 2011.
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When Dollar Savings Direct [3] first appeared, I thought Dollar Savings Direct was an Emigrant Direct clone [4]. I chatted with a CSR and learned that it was once Banco Fortuna, Emigrant Bank's attempt to market to the Spanish-speaking banking market, and merely rebranded in English. While it wasn't their intent, the end result is clear: Dollar Savings Direct is a clone of Emigrant Direct (both are subsidiaries of Emigrant Bank, FDIC #12054) but with a $1,000 account minimum and a better interest rate (4.00% APY).
Opening a new Dollar Savings Direct account was quick and easy. I did what any sane person would do, I closed my Emigrant Direct account and opened a new Dollar Savings Direct account. Emigrant Direct has a 3.00% APY rate and Dollar Savings Direct offers a 4.00% APY, which leads most high yield savings accounts rates [5]. My plan is to put all new funds into the Dollar Savings Direct account.
On the fact that their clones of each other. On one hand, I'm a little miffed that Emigrant Direct didn't just fold Dollar Savings Direct into it and just offer the 4.00% rate. On the other hand, it doesn't really affect me too much as opening new savings accounts don't affect your credit score (most of the time) and I didn't have much in my Emigrant Direct account in the first place so it's not too much hassle.
Savings account interest rates can change. Remember that savings interest rates are not guaranteed, they can change at any time. It's pretty easy to lock in a much higher CD rate [6] nowadays if you want to go that route. Surprisingly though, since August 30th, when I first looked at them, their rate increased from 3.75% APY to the current rate of 4.00% APY)
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I don't share Joachim Martillo's view of the Holocaust. The Nazi crimes define the word heinous. I don't see the expulsion of Arabs from Palestine in '47-'48 as comparable to the Holocaust. I'm also not going to be blocking Martillo from commenting here because I feel it is important to have an open discussion, including about the sacralization of the Holocaust in American Jewish life in the 70s. Before that period, in my family, it was "the 6 million." Then it became the Holocaust; and obviously this is not just a spiritual recognition but a politicization (just go to Yad Vashem, which has its own very Zionist interpretation). One of my themes here is that Jews are strong enough and well-situated enough, and the principle of free speech is strong enough, for us to have an open discussion about these things, with everyone participating, without a pogrom starting.
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cooperJune 19, 2007, 1:42 pm
OK. I'll open up with the first comment.
1. Why is the number "6 Million" so prominent in Jewish/Zionist history?
2. Why did the number stay at the mythical "6 Million" even after the "official" count of Jewish deaths at Auschwitz was dropped from 4mm to 2mm and beyond?
J.C.S MartilloJune 19, 2007, 2:30 pm
Among scholars that study the Holocaust or modern Central and Eastern European history, the 6 million figure is not so important.
Estimates of the number of Jews murdered ranges from 4-6 million. I used to agree with Raul Hilberg, who used a 5 million figure, but Soviet data suggests that he overestimated.
As far as I know, the figures provided by the Polish government at the Auschwitz memorial were not input to any scholar's calculation of the number of Jewish victims during WW2.
In recent years, the Polish government adjusted the Auschwitz memorial numbers to agree with those provided by historians.
LarryJune 19, 2007, 7:33 pm
I think you are in a tough spot. I respect your argument that you want to keep an open dialog. But allowing specious comments by Holocaust trivializers and rank anti-Semites taints your message and, in my opinion, drives away the kind of open-minded people you want to dialog with.
The rap on people who critize Israel is that they are anti-Semites. You, on the other hand, are a humane, thoughtful critic of Zionism who is not an anti-Semite. Yours is an important voice. But you have attracted a growing number, it seems, of extreme anti-Jewish racists to your blog. I fear Gresham's Law may be at work here. And it is a shame. It is very easy for those who should take you seriously to dismiss your ideas because of the company you keep here.
I feel it is long past time to debate people who quibble over 5 million or 6 million and argue that the Jews used their mythical power to bring industrial-strength mass murder upon themselves. It doesn't need to be countered because it is so marginal. It just needs to be ignored. Why give such views a forum? My feeling is: Yuck! Who wants to have anything to do with that?
Arie BrandJune 19, 2007, 8:31 pm
"a growing number … of extreme anti-Jewish racists" ??
Strange, I have only participated in this blog for a short time but I have (except for the Martillo post) seen nothing of the kind.
In fact my prize for the most racist comments goes to Bill Pearlman, a rabid defender of Israel. At first I half and half suspected that he was a creature of Phil's imagination, put in to provide some counterpoint (if we all agreed with each other we could soon stop talking couldn't we?). However I have dropped that idea. Phil would have given him more intelligent lines if that were the case.
About racism and anti-Semitism, it is all a bit confusing, because one of France's most prestigious public intellectuals and philosophers, Alain Finkielkraut, has assured us that anti-racism is in fact anti-Semitism.
I have quoted him under an entry nobody seems to look at any more so here he is again:
When Mr.Finkielkraut visited Canada two years ago he declared in an interview published in the Canadian Jewish News of 9/22/05 inter alia:
"…traditional French anti-Semitism is bloodless, tired, moribund….the new anti-Semitism is, by contrast, vigorous, lively and continuously expanding. The old anti-Semitism of French pedigree is in its death throes, the new developing anti-Semitism expresses itself in the name of the religion of humanity. Not, in name of the nation, against the belief in the equality of people and the equality of human rights, but in name of the religion of humanity. The Jews are reproached for betraying these rights. It is an anti-Semitism one cannot accuse by referring to the past because it has nothing to do with the past. It is not an anti-Semitism of a racial type, against which people generally mobilise. It is an anti-racist anti-Semitism."
And also,
"We are not dealing here with racial hatred against which Jews could protest by dragging their detractors before tribunals. How can one combat anti-racist hatred? That is very difficult."
I bet it is.
Arie BrandJune 19, 2007, 8:48 pm
I have called the earlier Martillo post 'outrageous' and here is why.
The insinuation that there was, somehow, a justification for this mass murder is absolutely and totally beyond the pale.
In fact the 'defense' given: 'Germany was engaged in a life and death struggle' could have come straight out of the mouth of Hitler.
In fact this, or something very similar, did come out of the mouth of Hitler. It was when Henny Hoffmann, the wife of the Nazi party's youth leader, Baldur Von Schirach, protested to Hitler about the treatment of the Jews. She had just come back from occupied Amsterdam where she had seen a 'razzia' against the Jewish population there and was apparently very upset about it.
Why wasn't she shot? She was, apart from being Von Schirach's wife, the daughter of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's personal photographer and friend.
J.C.S MartilloJune 19, 2007, 11:03 pm
I am not asserting that the actions of Eastern Europeans and "liberated Soviet nationalities" in mass killing Jews were justified, but many Jewish anti-Zionist anti-Communist rabbinical leaders predicted that the behavior of a large segment of the ethnic Ashkenazi population in the late Czarist Empire and early Soviet Union was creating a hatred of Jews so hot that it would lead to mass murder of Jews. These rabbinical leaders were correct. (I believe Slezkine quotes one or two of them. Wasserman was another.)
Because of this element of collective revenge in the mass killing of Jews in Eastern Europe during WW2, I do not consider the Holocaust a particularly "pure" example of genocide.
I also do not consider the Holocaust particularly unique when viewed in the context of the wave of genocide that starts in the Czarist Empire in the 1820s (against the Chechens) and that spreads westward (through the Balkans).
Relatively speaking far more Eastern European Ashkenazim (relatively and probably absolutely) seem to have been directly involved in mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide during the Russian Revolution and during the first 20 years of the Soviet Union than were Germans directly involved in mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide during the Nazi period.
Occasionally Harvard research Sarah Roy has asked rhetorically as the child of Holocaust survivors, "How can Israeli Jews commit such atrocities against Palestinians?" And I answer her as someone who lost even more relatives to the German Nazis than she, "Study the history of the Russian Revolution and early Soviet Union."
[I have occasionally given a lecture on "The Myth of Jewish Powerlessness in Eastern Europe and Czarist Russia during the Late 19th and Early 20th Century."]
As for heinousness of the Holocaust relative to the experiences of Palestinians, it is a psychological issue. When a soldier is blown up in battle, it is not usually considered heinous, but if a child is dropped from a bridge onto a highway where it is smashed by high-speed traffic, such a murder is heinous.
A segment of the Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim chose to be players in Eastern European politics, and without them the Communists would never have stolen the Russian Revolution. Without the Soviet Union, no Hitler. Without Hitler, no Holocaust. There seems to be some sort of karmic principle operating in this case.
But in the case of Palestinians what did they do but live in Palestine? Unlike ethnic Ashkenazim they are descended from Greco-Roman Palestinian populations. Their ancestors wrote the Hebrew Bible, the Mishna, the Baraita, and the Jerusalem Talmud, which were to a large extent sliced and diced by Zionists to justify the genocide of the modern Palestinian populations.
The history of Palestinians seems almost anti-karmic, and I am completely creeped out that Zionist scholars like S.D. Goitein, who could out-Mengele Mengele, were or are praised and honored within the Jewish community and beyond.
BTW, I treat the Nakba as only part of the crime committed against Palestinians. I normally refer to the Holoexaleipsis, which is the Great Erasure, which includes the past and ongoing demonization of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims along with the physical erasing of Palestinians from their native land — a process that continues to this day.
The Holoexaleipsis also refers to the erasing and rewriting of both the history of Palestine and of Jews to conform to Zionist propaganda.
The Holoexaleipsis began in the 19th century and continues in the 21st. It is a crime that spans three centuries.
Arie BrandJune 20, 2007, 12:40 am
The passage I took and take exception to in your original post was this:
"German Nazi mass murders of Jews do not start until after Operation Barbarossa, and after reading a tremendous amount a primary German and Soviet documentation, I believe the Nazis killed Jews because they equated them (for the most part correctly) with the Soviet elite class with whom Germany was in a death struggle."
I know of no reputable scholar of the holocaust who would support that view. Is that why you refer to all that primary documentation you have allegedly studied? The idea that German anti-Semitism in general and the Nazi-variety of it in particular became murderous only after the Nazis had correctly identified their enemies is outrageous.
This is not just a matter of factual correctness or incorrectness. You came very close to the border where 'explanation' becomes justification. Because even if Nazi ideas about the nature of the Soviet political class had been correct and even if they did regard them as another type of combatants, how could that possibly explain their extermination of Jews in Russia, and all over Europe, who had absolutely nothing to do with this class? The fact that you ignored this question makes one suspect that you regard the holocaust in toto as one of the 'harsh necessities of war'. And that was the Nazi justification.
I support Phil's decision to let you have your say but I would rather not enter into any further discussion with you.
anonymousJune 20, 2007, 10:01 am
"I have quoted him under an entry nobody seems to look at any more so here he is again:"
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AncestorJune 20, 2007, 10:23 am
Joachim – Please share with us what is your ancestral background. Are you a Jew? Descended from Jews? Arab? Russian? Latino? Muslim? Christian?
Do tell. It is relevant.
Klaus BloemkerJune 20, 2007, 10:51 am
On the safe side of the Holocaust
If I may make a little comment:
A couple of weeks ago, a friend complained that "Hitler had killed all the German Jews." When I said: "That's not true", he raised his eyebrows and replied: "You know, there is a denial that is forbidden by law in Germany." When I told him that the majority of German Jews were abel to emigrate before the 'final solution', he said: "Oh, is this so?" But still, I think he considered me a politically dangerous fellow.
A nice woman told me not so long ago: 'millions of German Jews were gased.' She also raised her eyebrows when I told her that it were mainly Polish Jews. (Were I trivialising it?)
The effect of the Holocaust denial law is that people who don't know much about it, tend to overstate it to be polically and morally on the safe side.
J.C.S MartilloJune 20, 2007, 10:53 am
As right-wing psycho Zionist extremists spew all sorts of nonsense about Islamofascism, progressive anti-Zionist anti-racists have an obligation to revisit the accusation of Judeobolshevism, and we find that there was an extremely large segment of the E. European ethnic Ashkenazi population that was heavily involved in communism and communist crimes.
The Nazi mass murders of Jews do not start until after Operation Barbarossa. Before then the German Nazis were for the most part content with driving Jews out of German controlled territories. Post Soviet invasion, German war propaganda often uses terminology like jüdisch-bolschewistische Terrorbanden.
Hilberg discusses the issue in his Holocaust history as does the latest generation of Sovietologists, of whom Slezkine is only one example.
I can understand why racist Ashkenazim and Zionist extremists wish to ban the topic. Racist Ashkenazim certainly do not want the same sort of analysis applied to them that they apply to Germans, Russians, Arabs, Muslims or non-Jews in general.
In addition, the subject of Jews and Bolshevism interferes with the Zionist Holocaust narrative in which the Holocaust is an extraordinary crime, Jews are extraordinary victims, for whom extraordinary relief is required, to wit the theft of Palestine from the native population.
The genocidalism of Soviet Ashkenazim then and the genocidalism of Zionist Ashkenazim from the late 40s through the present day looks tremendously similar.
In analysing the issue, we have to focus specifically on E. European ethnic Ashkenazim. Except for German Jews undergoing a process of Ashkenazization, Jews of other ethnic groups generally were not nearly so involved with communism or communist crimes.
The German Nazis in fact show awareness of such ethnic differences. In Poland and Lithuania, the German Nazis ignored Jewish Tatars, who had troubled relations with ethnic Ashkenazim, or even recruited Tatar Jews into the SS. Thus in Poland we even run across anomalous incidents of Tatar Jewish SS recruits that take part in actions to hunt down Tatar Muslim Polish patriots fighting in the anti-Nazi resistance. Yad Vashem does not document such occurences.
In the Crimea, where Soviet Ashkenazim managed to enmesh large numbers of Tatar Jews in the service of Soviet communism, we find that the local non-Jewish population was killing the Tatar Jewish population even before the German Nazis arrived and even though there was little evidence of a modern sort of anti-Semitism in the region before the Russian Revolution.
Bill PearlmanJune 20, 2007, 11:09 am
Joechim: How is life up there among the extra terrestrials. What do you do all day in that other galaxy.
Klaus BloemkerJune 20, 2007, 12:31 pm
Bill's universe
Bill – you keep throwing the first stone when you yourself are sitting in a glasshouse. It's Judaism that has been living in its own moral universe for 3000 years – a universe that started out not only at Mount Sinai but also with a genocid. Remember the Amalek?
anonymousJune 20, 2007, 12:43 pm
"Judeobolshevism" is a racist canard right up there with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
"Post Soviet invasion, German war propaganda often uses terminology like jüdisch-bolschewistische Terrorbanden."
Gee, I don't speak German but " jüdisch-bolschewistische" sounds a lot like "Judeobolshevism." Nazi propaganda, you say?
"The genocidalism of Soviet Ashkenazim" ???
This is ahistorical, racist, crackpot stuff no matter how you try to burnish it with a veneer of phoney authority citing Hillberg. Lenin and Stalin weren't Jewish. The only thing that stopped a major pogrom against "Soviet Ashkenzim" in 1953 was Staliln's timely death.
AnonymousJune 20, 2007, 1:33 pm
I understand your feelings, Bill. Whenever I fight with a theorem I cannot grasp I invariably start thinking it was written by extra terrestrials. Mr. Martillo is doing a Riemann in your unidimensional world. My sympathies, if not my love.
AncestorJune 20, 2007, 1:43 pm
Martillo – Are you a Jew or a Muslim? Seriously. What's your deal and why do you fail to respond to these questions? Is there something about you that we are not supposed to know?
Klaus BloemkerJune 20, 2007, 2:23 pm
Some years ago, there was an exhibition about the German Wehrmacht's(army's)occupation of the Balcans and the killing of Jews there. There was an elderly visitor at the exhibition (around 80) who was interviewed. He said, he had been there and he said (I can't remember the question put to him): "At the time, the Jews and the Bolshewiks were the same thing to us."
To me, it's perfectly clear: Hitler managed to merge his anti-Semitism with his anti-communism.
J.C.S MartilloJune 20, 2007, 3:24 pm
The Pentateuch and Genocide
Before the 1830s the traditional education of Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim focused on the Talmud not the Bible, and of the Pentateuch only Leviticus was studied in much detail as a prelude to Talmud studies because of the book's focus on ritual rules.
Michael Prior wrote an interesting book entitled The Bible and Colonialism which analyzes the misuse of the pentateuchal stories for conquest and apartheid, in the Spanish Empire, in South Africa and in Zionism, but historically the most religious ethnic Ashkenazim were the most opposed to Zionism.
While many Zionists studied in Eastern European reformed curricula, where the Bible was often studied along German Protestant models, Zionist genocidalism looks more like a part of general intellectual current in Central and Eastern Europe.
Hellenistic readers of the Bible in Greek and Hebrew understood it very differently than we do. Traditional Jews in the 19th century did not focus on the Pentateuch. And genocidal attitudes were widespread in E. and C. Europe among circles that did not have much contact with the Bible.
While the study of the Bible in Israeli government schools has been fairly conclusively correlated with genocidal attitudes, I think we have to be careful in associating the origins of Zionist genocidalism with scripture.
Arie BrandJune 20, 2007, 6:06 pm
Though I have announced that I don't want to engage in any further discussion with Mr.Martillo and want to stick to that there is one small question that lurks in my mind.
Googling on his name the first entry is from a Joachim Martillo who had something to do with computers in Israel. The second entry gives the curriculum vitae of a Martillo who is also a computer expert.
I assume both these entries concern the same Martillo who is speaking to us on this blog.
That Martillo claims that he went through a 'tremendous amount' of 'primary' German and Soviet documentation.
Soviet documentation is in Russian of course.
The Martillo who provides his c.s. specifies his knowledge of languages as follows:
"German (reading better than speaking), some French, some Polish, Latin, some Spanish."
Where is Russian?
Arie BrandJune 20, 2007, 7:30 pm
P.S. It is of course quite possible that I am mistaken about Mr.Martillo's real identity but he can easily clear that up.
Arie BrandJune 20, 2007, 8:36 pm
Klaus,you claim that the majority of German Jews was able to emigrate before the 'final solution'. Well, I don't know whether it was the majority but at any case quite a few seem to have escaped from the 'Reich'pre-war – but unfortunately generally to countries that later were occupied by the Germans ( viz.France,Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands etc.).
The relevant Wikipedia entry claims that only a quarter of the pre-war Jewish population of Germany survived.
GeneJune 20, 2007, 8:44 pm
I don't understand why so many posters are so concerned with Marillo's identity. Shouldn't you be responding to his arguments? Who cares what his nationality/ethnicity is? What possible difference does that make, unless you plan to discredit him if he's one ethnicity and attack if he's another?
J.C.S MartilloJune 20, 2007, 9:02 pm
German Jewish Survivorship
There are several ways to count the size of the population of German Jews during the Hitler period, and there are several ways to count survivorship and mortality.
One can fairly easily produce figures to show that a majority emigrated and to show that only a quarter survived.
Arie BrandJune 20, 2007, 10:18 pm
Gene, I don't know about other enquiries but the reason for mine seems to me obvious.
If a person regales us on what looks suspiciously like a rehash of Nazi propaganda dressed up in a pseudo-scholarly garb, it is pertinent to know whether his claims to scholarship have any validity.
If then it turns out that he has no reading knowledge of the language in which the primary documents he claims to have studied is couched we know somewhat more about these claims.
I note that Mr.Martillo retains a discrete silence about my inquiry.
What irks me most of all is that with all this stuff he is discrediting the cause that he claims to serve: justice for the Palestinians.
AncestorJune 20, 2007, 11:20 pm
Gene – Why is it that Mr. Martillo will not identify if he is a jew or an arab. On one of his blogs he claims to be ashkenazi, but his reported full name is both latino and arab. Personally, I find it hard to dispute Mr. Martillo without doing some research. He is quick to cite all sorts of sources for his anti-semitic arguments. Without researching them further I am unable to really make a judgment on them. Perhaps Mr. Brand is better equipped to judge their veracity. I would like to know who Mr. Martillo is. Is he a jew by ancesty as he seems to claim or is he a member of a clan that has a beef with jews, or both?
AnonymousJune 20, 2007, 11:36 pm
I doubt wikipedia is good at finding jews. Let's see:
Lewis Libby
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libby was born to "a prosperous family" in New Haven, Connecticut;
"The relevant Wikipedia entry claims that only a quarter of the pre-war Jewish population of Germany survived."
Maybe you should look for the other three quarter in the "born to a prosperous family" entry.
Ironies aside, Arie, I think you should refute Mr.Martillo's arguments or ignore his presence.
That said I would like to say I appreciate your comments. You are a fine "acquisition" of Phil's.
Arie BrandJune 21, 2007, 12:53 am
I don't care about Mr.Martillo's ethnic background ('member of the species homo sapiens' seems to me the appropriate response to such an enquiry) but I do care about his claim to scholarship.
Yes, Anonymous, I won't spend any further word on this.
Tennis bumJune 21, 2007, 9:09 am
Yeah, but why doesn't Mr. Martillo just tell us what his background is. You can be sure he points out other's ethnic backgrounds.
J.C.S MartilloJune 21, 2007, 10:12 am
The truth of a statement is independent of the ethnicity of the person that expresses it.
Anyway, link to leaderu.com is a book review that addresses the survivorship rate of German Jews.
"The Myth of Rescue" itself is a little dated and has some problems, but it is worth reading.
Klaus BloemkerJune 21, 2007, 10:50 am
German Jews
Arie – in the argument with that friend I said that Hitler's priority before the war, to make Germany 'judenfrei', was to force the Jews to emigrate, there was a Central Authority for Jewish Emigration in Berlin. I may be wrong that the majority emigrated/survived and I didn't think of those who emigrated to countries that were later occupied.
Klaus BloemkerJune 21, 2007, 1:50 pm
German Jewish emigration
Here are some official numbers for the German Reich from the Federal German Statistical Office.
Date of census: 16.6. 1933
Number of Jews: 500 000
Date of census: 17.5.1939
Number of Jews: 222 000
'Jews' are Jews by religion. The territory the 1939 number refers to is that of 31.12.1937 (so nearly the same as in 1933).
As a percentage of total German population,
Jews in 1933: 0.8% ; in 1939: 0.3% .
So, there were 56% less Jews in 1939 than there were in 1933 in the 'old' pre-Anschluss German Reich. I had these sort of numbers in mind when I claimed that the majority of the German Jews had emigrated.
Klaus BloemkerJune 21, 2007, 3:16 pm
For anyone interested in the religious affiliation of Germans in 1939 (in Germany in its pre-Anschluss borders):
protestant: 61% ; catholic; 33% ; other: 6% .
Arie BrandJune 21, 2007, 8:55 pm
About that 'Zentralstelle' for Jewish Emigration: as you know Heydrich was put in charge of that.This man showed throughout his career that his preference was for extermination. Later he chaired the Wannsee-conference.
All the same there have been some controversial contacts between leading Zionists and this 'Zentralstelle'or its predecessors. Lenni Brenner dealt with these in his Zionism in the Age of the Dictators.
Very recently the Australian ABC got into trouble with the Australian equivalent of the ADL by interviewing him. They had to organise an interview with Walter Laqueur to appear to be 'balanced'. Both interviews are online, I think.
Alex ChaihorskyJune 30, 2007, 2:32 pm
Arie –
Just a note. I do not really know how Hitler's mind worked, but in Russia, especially rural Russia, on all that vast stretch outside Moscow, St. Petersburg and beyond Urals, the words Jews and Communists were almost completely interchangeable, which slowly ended after the establishment of Stalinist rule. So closely these words were connected that they almost melted in one word "Zhidyikommunisty" – "Zhid" being an equivalent of "Kike" in Russian, only "Kike" was a derogatory intra-Jewish insult that educated, western, Germanic Jews in America called newly arriving "wild" Polish Jews (whose last names ended with "ki") and the Russian word was strictly used by non-Jews toward Jews.
The mind-boggling crimes against humanity by Communists in Russia is still something that only now starts to be gradually unfolded, despite all what we thought we already knew. Although Soviet Communist Party was not at all a "Jewish party", but it had been certainly unproportionally Jewish if one compares the percentages of population and especially its leadership and most importantly its violent and murdorous CHEKA (it is not easy to translate into English but its something like "Extraordinary, emergency, omnipotentiary Commission"). It would not be a big exaggeration to say that the absolute majority of Jews, excluding elderly, were members of one of the revolutionary parties (Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries).
The deeds in Lenin-Trotsky and later Stalins' time of this "Commision", (that later was renamed OGPU, GPU, HKVD, NKGB and after Kruschev's anti-Stalin purges – KGB), boggles the mind and in my opinion was something that was never done in human history – elimination of certain parts of population based on the circumstance of their birth – families of non-proletarian and non-farming origin, which lead to erasure of whole Russian clergy, aristocracy, military officers, landowners, intelligentsia, small business owners. Only later, Nazi repeated that by targeting another "birthright" group – Jews (and to the lesser extent others like Rom, mentally ill, and gays (if we accept genetic theory of homosexuality).
Also, since Ukraine became independent, the details of unbelievable, almost unknown before even in the Russian dissident circles to which I belonged, crimes in terms of barbarity, level or meticulous organization and scale, deliberate campaign of artificial famine that starved to death, whole parts of Ukrainian population, eradicated whole villages – totally around 8 million people. Together with earlier "collectivization" and eradication of Russian independent farmers (kulaks) the number is close to 15 million.
It was certainly Lenin-Trotsky (earlier in Russia) and later in Ukraine – Stalin's diabolic plan to break the spine of independent farming community, make them turn their property to state-controlled "kolkhozes" (public (or collective) farms) and make them the slaves of Communist regime, but the eyes of tens of millions of artificially starved Ukrainians saw Jewish commissars, Jewish NKVD officers, Jewish enforcers, mostly from shtetls, speaking with heavy accents, who, by Moscow orders were taking EVERYTHING away, killing those who resisted, making bonfires from rebelious villages, blocking the roads and making sure that no food would come from outside. An elderly friend of mine, a Jew who in his younger years was a NKVD soldier in Ukraine and later emigrated to Israel told me that when he first time saw a road block in Israel he immediately saw himself in a similar situation in Ukraine in 1932 during the famine and went into a strange comatose state from which he recovered only next day.
Later an argument was made that these were not "really Jews" because Communist regime demanded that everyone denounced his religion, but I leave this argument to your won critique. I just know that even in mid-80-ies when I was there last time, in rural Ukraine, a Jewish face made many an olderly woman turn terrifyingly stone-faced (men of that age if they did not die during famine, almost with no exception died during WWII) and walk away. I shuddered even trying to imagine what kind of damnation they were uttering in their minds. The historical irony was that in 1980-ies, 30+ years old me thought of Communists and KGB as my mortal enemies, despite the fact that my grandparents were Party members and my maternal grandfather was high-ranking Red Army officer (albeit veterinarian doctor, which was even more important than ordinary doctors in the age of cavalry).
MichaelNovember 6, 2007, 12:04 pm
This is the type of bullshit that gets at the end of the argument for all of this nonsense about the revolutionary war. it gets trotted down and compared to "worse than the nazis'" and at the right time you slip the word "zhid" (aka "the jeeeewwwww") in the equation. the commisars were "zhid", the NKVD was "zhid", cheka was "zhid". this all so "progressive" talk gets any discussion tail spinning into the type of folks like this Jo Martillo fellar, of whome i really wount waste my time speaking of.
Making a war against a particular class, and they had the stronger army, but they failed cuz the mostly working class/poor farmer soldiers turned against their imperial captains, how in the HELL is it comparable to the NAzi murder by Race??
this is quite pale descussion here.
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Today, two pieces of good news for foreign-film aficionados: New Yorker Films acquired "Still Life," Jia Zhang-ke's exquisite meditation on China's massive Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project that symbolizes the country's complete abandonment of its citizenry for the sake of progress. (I covered the film's Toronto premiere here.) And Dreamachine and Jaman have joined forces to unveil digital distribution of seminal early works from Jia, the Dardenne brothers, Jafar Panahi, Takeshi Kitano, Jacques Rivette, Walter Salles and Tsai Ming-liang.
Jaman acquired digital rights to a total of 42 films from the company formerly known as Celluloid Dreams. Films include the Dardenne's "La Promesse," Salles' "Foreign Land," Jia Zhang-Ke's debut "Pickpocket," two from Tsai Ming-liang ("Rebels of the Neon God," "The River") and Arnaud Desplechin's "La Sentinelle," among others. They are the kinds of movies that make cinephiles salivate, and while you won't be seeing them in a theater near you, Jaman's technical specs are second to none in the online world and the films are currently available for free rental, so I guess we can't really complain. (Titles can be bought for $4.99.) Here's a link to Jaman's current Dreamachine offerings.
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My friends recently brought home a spread from La Palma Mexicatessen (2884 24th St., 415-647-1500), my favorite one-stop shop for taco fixings, from beans to salsa to chile verde to thick, hand-patted, still-warm tortillas that you watch them make right there. But it was little bag of homemade papitas fritas—potato chips that come with hot sauce to douse them with, that was devoured with the most relish. These chips (thick, crunchy, not too greasy) are four-star quality. Perfect with a martini—which was our aperitif.
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Every Christmas my mom bakes. A lot. This year, because we're going to be in Mexico for the holiday, she "only" made a few things: makowiec, an Eastern European bread aswirl with raisins, almonds and poppy seeds; limpa, a Swedish molasses-based bread with anise; sweet potato refrigerator rolls (her new favorite thing; see Cottageliving.com for a recipe) and my personal favorite—persimmon pudding with hard (bourbon) sauce.
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For this blog, I'm going to continue to write about the memorable moments I have out there exploring the food world. But as much as I love the food itself, the markets and the restaurants, I tend to gravitate towards stories about the people that make it happen.
Case in point: A recent night in Half Moon Bay back at the Ritz Carlton's second annual Inside the Kitchen event (www.insidethekitchen.net)—a late October weekend of excess, including a lot of amazing food and wine, top chefs from the Bay Area and Las Vegas, cooking classes and more.


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Alabama vs. No. 3 FloridaOct. 6, 2013 - 1:30 p.m. CTFoster Auditorium
Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Alabama (13-3/1-1 SEC) opened the second week of Southeastern Conference play with a 3-1 road win against rival Auburn on Wednesday night. The Tide closes the week with a Sunday afternoon match against the No. 3 ranked Florida Gators (14-1, 3-0 SEC). The match between Alabama and Florida will start at 1:30 p.m. CT from Foster Auditorium.
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Following a 3-1 win over Auburn on Wednesday, the Crimson Tide has now won 11 of its last 12 matches. Last week Alabama posted a 3-0 win over Alabama State and suffered a 3-1 loss to No. 18 Kentucky. The Tide opened SEC play with a four-set loss to nationally ranked Kentucky, snapping Bama's season-long 10-match winning streak.
For the season, Alabama is 20th in the country with a .281 hitting percentage. The Tide ranks 18th in the country with 14.20 kills and 13.27 assists per set. Both totals rank fourth in the SEC. Alabama also averages 1.31 aces, 13.92 digs and 1.73 blocks per set. UA opponents hit .181 with 11.24 kills, 10.51 assists, 1.02 aces, 11.64 digs and 2.05 blocks per set this year. Head coach Ed Allen is in his third season with the Crimson Tide and 22nd overall as a head coach. With a 13-3 record this season, Allen has a 42-37 record at the Capstone, bringing his career record to 536-220 (.709).
Alabama redshirt freshman middle blocker Krystal Rivers leads the team with 3.56 blocks per set while hitting .441, ranking ninth and third, respectively, in the SEC. Freshman outside hitter Brittany Thomas is second on the team with 193 kills (3.27 kps) and is second on the team with 2.61 digs per set. Laura Steiner adds 3.30 kills per set and Kryssi Daniels leads the squad with 3.20 digs per set. Sophomore setter Sierra Wilson is second in the SEC with 11.77 assists per set and needs 13 more assists to move into sixth all-time in career assists at Alabama.
In its last match, Alabama went on the road and defeated the Auburn Tigers 3-1 (17-25, 25-15, 25-14, 25-15) on Wednesday night. The Tide snapped a four-match road losing streak to the Tigers, and had not won at Auburn since the 2008 season. Bama out-hit the Tigers .297 to .041 in the match, after Auburn hit .345 in the first set, compared to a .132 mark for the Tide in the opening set. Alabama posted 12 total blocks in the match while holding Auburn to a .038 hitting percentage in the second set, a -.057 mark in the third and a -.125 mark in the fourth.
Krystal Rivers led the Tide with 18 kills while hitting .484 against Auburn. Rivers also added seven total blocks, recording three solos and four assisted blocks. Brittany Thomas added 15 kills to go along with nine digs and Mattie Weldy came off the bench to record a season-high 10 kills against the Tigers. Sierra Wilson dished out 47 assists, Kryssi Daniels had a team-high 11 digs and Bria Green matched her season-high with 10 digs.
Florida enters the match ranked third in the country in the AVCA poll. Following a 3-0 win over Texas A&M on Friday night, the Gators are 14-1 overall and 3-0 in SEC play. The only loss of the season for Florida came on Sept. 8, when the Gators were defeated in straight sets by top-rank Penn State. Since the loss to the Nittany Lions, Florida has won nine straight matches. Florida is averaging 14.90 kills per set, while hitting .339 this season, ranking second in the SEC in both categories. The .339 hitting percentage is second in the country and the 14.90 kills per set rank seventh nationally.
Chloe Mann leads the Gators with 159 kills, averaging 3.38 per set with a .513 hitting percentage, which is second in the SEC and second in the country. Mann also ranks 18th in the conference with 0.87 blocks per set. Sophomore outside hitter Ziva Recek leads the team with 3.60 kills per set, while adding 2.29 digs per set. Simone Antwi leads the team blocking with 1.17 blocks per set (5th in the SEC) with 12 solo blocks and 44 assisted blocks. Taylor Unroe is sixth in the SEC with 4.19 digs per set and setter Taylor Brauneis is third in the SEC with 11.48 assists per set.
The match Sunday will be the 43rd meeting between the Tide and the Gators with Florida leading the series 37-5. Since Alabama reinstated its program in 1989, the Tide has dropped 37 straight matches to the Gators, winning a total of four sets in those meetings.
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Top 10 Selling Condos in 2010
We recently ran an article highlighting our Top 10 Condos of 2010 – this was based purely on our own subjectivity.
Urbanation, a company devoted to Condo Market Research recently revealed the top 10 Condos for 2010 based on SALES. This is a very interesting list, however, my only gripe is that certain developments such as King Edward Private Residences had no chance of making the list – despite selling out in the blink of a eye because it only had 140 suites. The top two in the list are likely the top 2 because they had a large number of suites to sell in the first place (DNA3 and One Bloor).
Without further ado – here is the list (Source: Urbanation).
10. Yorkland by Monarch Group (North York)
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We are delighted to see some of our personal favourite developments such as One Bloor, DNA3 and Five on the list. Congratulations to all 10 developments!


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We almost feel guilty writing this post, because here in Washington, we're finally seeing some spring (the cherry blossoms have reached full bloom!): But in the Plains, a spring storm is bringing snow to Colorado and Wyoming and whipped up enough winds to cover parts of Arizona in dust.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
"Wyoming took the brunt of the snowstorm as the cold front dawdled over that state rather than barrel through Colorado. More than a foot of snow fell in from Laramie to Lander, more than expected.
"Originally, the National Weather Service was predicting a sizable snow accumulation in Denver, but predictions were revised downward in the area from more than 12 inches to about half that. As much as 10 inches of snow have already fallen in the state's mountains.
"Fierce winds blew from south of Denver to the New Mexico line with gusts of more than 50 mph. At least two tornadoes were reported. In Arizona, at least 30 miles of Interstate 40 were closed for several hours because of the swirling dust."
Capital Weather Gang reports that the storm is being fueled by the interaction of cold arctic air in the north and warm tropical moisture in the south.
"Winter storm warnings now stretch from Utah to Minnesota, and blizzard warnings are up for locations near Denver, where schools and many businesses are closed today," the weather blog reports.
Weather.com reports that Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas City, Des Moines and Chicago are in the bullseye today. Those areas could see a tornado breakout, hail and dangerous wind gusts.
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Ohio's State Route 9; Salem to Armstrong Mills
Average Rating - This road has been rated by 3 visitors
State: Ohio
Date Submitted: May 1, 2004
Submitted by: Richard L. Jagers (Road
Motorcycle Road Length: 85 Miles
Written Directions
Start by finding State Rt. 9 in Downtown Salem Ohio. Salem Ohio is about 35 miles south east of Akron Ohio. Take Rt. 9 (or what is called "Newgarden Ave." in Salem) south and stay on Route 9 about 85 miles all the way to the very small town of Armstrong Mills Ohio. From here the route I'm describing is done but you can choose to either turn left (east) on 148 will take you to Powhaton Point on the Ohio river or right on 148 (west) will take you to Barnesville (from there state route 800 will run you north up to I-70 if you are in a hurry to get back to wherever you came from).
Scenery runs from low land dairy and beef farms to rough hilly valleys of southeast Ohio typical of the Ohio River valley. Many times wildlife is visible from the road.
Road Quality
The northern section (north of the town of Cadiz) of this route is comprised mainly of sweepers ... pavement is good, some tar snakes in the area. The southern section is comprised of sweepers that run in to very twisty, down and up hill runs. Watch out for wildlife on the road!
Roadside Amenities
This route runs mainly thru a rural area. Camping can be done at Bark Camp State Park west of Warnock Ohio. Fuel is easily found. Larger towns with interesting shops are (from north to south) Salem, Carrollton, Cadiz, and St. Clairsville. Hotels and motels can be found in St Clairsville and Salem.
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|Creator: John
|motorcycle_year: 2006
|motorcycle_make: Honda aero 750
|motorcycle_type: Cruiser
|Comment: If your looking for a rural ride, this is it. Not a lot of curves but Great scenery. Watch your gas as there are not many stations. Make sure you stop in Salem, its a nice little town.
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|Creator: HammerDan
|motorcycle_year: 2002
|motorcycle_make: Honda
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|Comment: Yes,this was a great day trip,and i would really reccomend the 800 rt. back if your heading north!
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|motorcycle_year: 2007
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|Comment: We took RT7 from Youngstown south along the Ohio River stopping at the Moundsville Haunted Prison in West Virginia. You've got to do the tour of the prison! We then continued South on RT7 to Powhatten and took 148 over to Armstrong Hills and picked up RT9 and road it all the way into Salem. Great ride. Lower part of RT9 is tricky with twisties and hills.
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Addition of Prednisolone and Heparin in Patients Undergoing IVF With Failed IVF Cycles
This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)
Verified April 2016 by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Siristatidis Charalampos, MD, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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The addition of heparin and prednisolone increases pregnancy outcome parameters in women undergoing In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) with failed IVF cycles.
Drug: Prednisolone and Heparin during COH for IVF
Drug: COH for IVF
Phase 2
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Blood Thinners
Drug Information available for: Prednisolone Prednisolone acetate Methylprednisolone acetate Methylprednisolone Prednisolone sodium phosphate Prednisolone phosphate Prednisolone sodium succinate Methylprednisolone sodium succinateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- no of oocytes retrieved [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- clinical pregnancy rate [ Time Frame: finding of a fetal heart at >6 gestational weeks / 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- miscarriage rate [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- live birth rate [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Prednisolone and Heparin during COH for IVF
Drug: Prednisolone and Heparin during COH for IVF
Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) (Enoxaparin Sodium, Clexane, Sanofi-Aventis, Australia) at a dose of 1 mg/kg/day and 5 mg prednisolone p.os (Prezolon; Nycomed Hellas SA) were to be initiated on the first day of injections in both protocols until the pregnancy test. In cases of pregnancy, prednisolone and enoxaparin were to be continued up to the 12th and 34th week, respectively
|Active Comparator: COH for IVF
Drug: COH for IVF
Both GnRH agonists (long, starting at day 2 or 21) with Triptorelin acetate 0.1 mg (Gonapetpyl daily; Ferring, Kiel, Germany) and antagonists' with ganirelix 0.25 mg (Orgalutran; Organon, Oss, The Netherlands) or cetrorelix 0.25 mg (Cetrotide; Serono, Rome, Italy) protocols will be used; for ovarian stimulation both recombinant FSH (Puregon; Organon, Oss, Netherlands or Gonal F; Serono, Rome, Italy) and human menopausal gonadotrophin (Menopur; Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Langley, Berkshire, UK) will be used. Ovarian response will be monitored by ultrasonography, oocyte retrieval will be performed 36-38 hours after the hCG triggering and for luteal phase support 600 mg progesterone tablets (Utrogestan; Laboratoires Besins- Iscovesco, Paris, France) or gel 8% intravaginally (Vasclor; Verisfield Ltd, UK) will be applied.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|25 Years to 45 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- personal history of ≥2 failed IVF/ICSI cycles
- age <45 years
- availability of fresh ejaculate sperm for IVF/ICSI procedures
- confirmation of normal uterine cavity
- presence of good quality (Grade I or II) embryos for transfer
Exclusion Criteria:
- endocrine disorders
- immune disorders
- coagulation disorders
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01590173
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01590173
|Contact: Charalampos Siristatidis, MD, PhD
|3rd Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
|Athens, Chaidari, Attica, Greece, 12642
|Contact: Dimitrios Kassanos, Professor firstname.lastname@example.com
|Contact: Charalampos , Chrelias 210 5832286 ext 0030
|Sub-Investigator: Dimitrios Kassanos, Professor
|Sub-Investigator: Charalampos Chrelias, MD, PhD
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Urman B, Ata B, Yakin K, Alatas C, Aksoy S, Mercan R, Balaban B. Luteal phase empirical low molecular weight heparin administration in patients with failed ICSI embryo transfer cycles: a randomized open-labeled pilot trial. Hum Reprod. 2009 Jul;24(7):1640-7. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dep086. Epub 2009 Apr 8.
Boomsma CM, Keay SD, Macklon NS. Peri-implantation glucocorticoid administration for assisted reproductive technology cycles. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;(1):CD005996. Review. Update in: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;6:CD005996.
Nelson SM, Greer IA. The potential role of heparin in assisted conception. Hum Reprod Update. 2008 Nov-Dec;14(6):623-45. doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmn031. Epub 2008 Aug 12. Review.
Primi MP, Senn A, Montag M, Van der Ven H, Mandelbaum J, Veiga A, Barri P, Germond M. A European multicentre prospective randomized study to assess the use of assisted hatching with a diode laser and the benefit of an immunosuppressive/antibiotic treatment in different patient populations. Hum Reprod. 2004 Oct;19(10):2325-33. Epub 2004 Jul 29.
|Responsible Party:
|Siristatidis Charalampos, MD, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Director of the IVF Unit, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01590173 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 30, 2012
|Last Updated:
|April 6, 2016
|Health Authority:
|Greece: National Organization of Medicines
Keywords provided by National and Kapodistrian University of Athens:
Low molecular weight heparin
Recurrent implantation failure
Pregnancy rate
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Calcium heparin
Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight
Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate
Methylprednisolone acetate
Prednisolone acetate
Prednisolone hemisuccinate
Prednisolone phosphate
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Autonomic Agents
Fibrin Modulating Agents
Fibrinolytic Agents
Gastrointestinal Agents
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neuroprotective Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protective Agents
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Bruins rally, push Rangers to brink of elimination
NEW YORK John Tortorella's message isn't going to change even though his New York Rangers are in an even more desperate situation than before their latest loss to the Boston Bruins.
The margin of error went from slim to none in an uncharacteristic home loss that put the Broadway Blueshirts on the brink of elimination.
New York squandered a one-goal lead in the third period and lost 2-1 on Tuesday night to fall into an 0-3 series hole. The Rangers can be ousted by the Bruins as early as Thursday in Game 4 at home.
"We'll meet (Wednesday), practice, and we're going to try to win a game," Tortorella said. "That's all you can do. Down 3-0, it's a very tough situation, but I have full faith in our athletes. They will be ready to play another game.
"You try to win one and see where you go from there."
After two losses in Boston, the Rangers seemed headed toward getting back into it. They had won nine straight at Madison Square Garden, dating to the final six games of the regular season, and hadn't lost in regulation when leading after two periods in more than three years.
But defenseman Johnny Boychuk tied it 3:10 into the third and Daniel Paille scored the winner with 3:31 remaining to push the Bruins to the verge of the Eastern Conference finals.
Only three NHL teams have rallied from an 0-3 hole to advance. However, the Philadelphia Flyers did it to the Bruins in 2010.
"We haven't talked about history at all," Tortorella said. "We just try to go about our business."
Bruins coach Claude Julien discussed it briefly, but only when asked about the collapse three years ago and another near one in the first round this year when Toronto nearly eliminated Boston after trailing the series 3-1.
"We can talk about it all we want, but that's in the past," Julien said. "We had to live with that and we still have to live with that."
The Bruins did some rallying of their own in that one, erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period of Game 7 before winning in overtime.
"The Toronto series, I didn't think our team was in the zone the way it is right now," Julien said. "I anticipate - knowing my team - that we're going to come out the same next game and certainly not be the Jekyll and Hyde team that we were in the first round."
The Bruins shook off the 2010 collapse and swept Philadelphia in the conference semifinals the following year before going on to win the Stanley Cup.
The Rangers haven't been swept since New Jersey did it to them in 2006 in the first round.
"You can't look at it as you have to win four games," said Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who stayed down on his knees for several moments after Paille's goal. "You just have to focus on the next one. The season is on the line, so you have to leave everything out there.
"We definitely have to give everything right now, mentally and physically, and put it out there on Thursday."
Boychuk tied it with his fourth of the playoffs after he netted just one in 44 regular-season games.
Boston thought it had grabbed the lead seconds before Paille scored when a shot deflected off the mask of Lundqvist, popped up in the air and landed on the goal line. Lundqvist couldn't find it before Paille swooped in from behind the net and poked in the puck.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Lamont Middleton scored 17 points as North Carolina A&T's offense shot 64.7 percent in the second half in a 65-55 win over Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference-foe Bethune-Cookman Saturday.
The Aggies (12-12, 5-4) hit 11 of 17 after halftime, helping make up for a 10-of-25 showing before the break, when they led 28-25.
Bethune-Cookman (9-15, 4-5) fared little better from the field early, hitting 10 of 23 in the first half. The Wildcats lost their touch after halftime, though, making only 31 percent (9 of 29) from the field.
"When we don't shoot the ball, we struggle. That's the bottom line. If you make shots, you have a chance, if you don't, this is what happens," said Wildcat coach Gravelle Craig.
North Carolina A&T also hit 13 of 16 free throws in the second half.
Adrian Powell added 13 points for the Aggies, while Austin Willer pulled down 14 rebounds.
Javoris Bryant and Adrien Coleman had 12 points each for Bethune-Cookman, which had its two-game winning streak snapped.
"In the first half, we made some shots early and took care of the ball," Craig said. "North Carolina A&T capitalized on 'live' turnovers. They were able to get the ball out in transition."
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- 4 cups sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb
- 1 quart plus 1 tablespoon water, divided
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
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- 1 egg yolk, beaten
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1. In a 2-qt. saucepan, combine rhubarb, 1 qt. of water and sugar; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 or until rhubarb is tender. Cool for 15 minutes.
- 2. Place in a blender; process until smooth. Return to pan. Dissolve cornstarch in remaining water; stir into rhubarb mixture. Bring to a boil; boil for 2 minutes; stirring constantly. Add food coloring if desired; mix well.
- 3. Add a small amount of soup to egg yolk, stirring constantly; return to pan. Chill. Just before serving, beat cream until very soft peaks form; fold into soup. Yield: 6 servings.
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General Zod - Superman
Packaging - ***
I've included two shots of the packaging, just because I thought the
outer box was pretty sweet as well.
outer box has a silver S on the front, with the General Zod name done
in the 'zooming' font that we saw in the film. Open this one up, and
inside you have a package very similar to what we're getting with the
Mattel sixth scale Ghost Busters line.
The figure is pose nicely
on a Oval Office background, complete with cracked Presidential Seal on
the floor at his feet. The accessories are stored on the left in a box,
but instead of doing it up like a locker (as it was with Ray), it's a
book case. Appropriate of course for the office scenario.
I really like the look of the
here, but it's not collector friendly. You'll have to do some hacking
and slashing to get him free, and once you do...it's not really worth
it. This is one of those rare times where I recommend just keeping the
guy in this package - he'll look the best on the shelf thsi way.
Sculpting - ***
I'm surprised about this sculpt - it's not as bad as I expected. It's
quite a good likeness of the actor as the character, as you can see
from this screen
this is not a $60 figure head sculpt, unfortunately. We've come to
expect a lot on the high end, but it would be unfair to expect the kind
of amazing detail that we see on a $100 - $150 figure from someone like
Enterbay or Hot Toys. However, the almost non-existent detail in the
eyes, eyebrows, hair, skin, lips, and beard will remind you more of a
$20 Hasbro figure than it should.
The saving grace is that it is
a good likeness. You'll recognize Zod instantly, even if it does look
like a mannequin version of Zod.
The figure stands fine on his
own, and the hands are sculpted to work with the various accessories
and some key poses. They work pretty well, although better gripping
hands for posing with the guns would have been useful.
Paint - **1/2
Again, if this were a $30 figure, or even a $40 figure, this score
would be a little better. The eyes are clean and straight, as is the
edges of the hair, beard, and eyebrows. The colors are nice and
consistent, and the only real slop is around his soul patch, where the
brown is a bit smudged.
without a ton of sculpt detail in the portrait, a little more work with
the paint could have gone a long way toward adding some more visual
interest. And maybe it's just me, but didn't Zod have some gray in his
hair? Actualy, Mattel did try to get a little gray in there, but it's
too far back from the temples, looking a bit out of place.
Articulation - ***
The underlying body is fairly well articulated, having most of the
joints you expect from a sixth scale body these days.
ball neck is not quite up to par with other lines though, and the body
doesn't quite hang and flow as naturally as, say, a TrueType or RAH
He's a pretty tall figure,
coming in at almost 12 1/2". I
don't have any issue with that though, because he should stack up
pretty evenly with Superman, and Supes should be a taller than average
He also has a feature that no
other body currently on the
market does - he has the ability to truly cross his arms like a real
human. This is because his torso is split in thirds, and the outside
thirds can move inward to almost touch at the center of his chest. You
can actually see this weird articulation in several of the photos,
since the outfit doesn't cover the chest well enough to hid it. I'm
assuming this is the same on the Ghostbusters figures, although I
haven't tried getting them into this particular pose yet.
Accessories - ***
While this figure isn't outfitted like the Ghostbusters characters, he
does come with a couple decent extras.
there's the extra hands. He has two additional sets, along with the
fisted hands he comes wearing. There's a sculpted gripping set, as well
as a gesturing set that work great in the crossed arm pose or in the
traditional Mr. Burns "Excellent" pose.
The gripping hands don't
work quite as well with the guns as I'd like, but they'll manage. I
expect I'll keep him in the crossed arm pose, since he'll be the only
figure in the collection that can work that look.
Speaking of the
guns, these are both done in a soft rubbery material. The shotgun is
being superheated, and because of the soft rubber wil actually wilt in
his hand over a little time. The machine gun goes one better, using
wires to make the stock and barrel bendy. He can be posed bending and
warping the gun in any number of ways.
Finally, there's a display
stand if you wish to use it. Personally, I like a display without
stands, but I don't live in an earthquake state.
Outfit - **
This poor guy suffers from one of the stupidest
villian outfits in the history of film. Seriously. How can
you take this guy seriously in this bad 80's disco ball room reject of
a jumpsuit?
really dislike how the outfit looks on the figure, but part of that is
due to how bad it looked in the film. It's ill fitting, the boots are
tubular in shape and look ridiculous, and the crotch strap looks about
as uncomfortable as you can get. Assuming of course that Zod still has
The itty bitty feet don't help
any, making the funky tube boots look even fatter and rounder.
ignoring the goofy look that they were sort of stuck with, the quality
of the work is not quite up to par. The edges of the red trim are
unevenly cut, and the white stitching is distracting. They should have
gone with a color that matches the shiny material a bit better, so it
would have blended in.
Speaking of the shiny material,
knows the color isn't quite right. But this red is as good as they
could get to matching the screen look in available material.
Fun Factor - ***
Too bad Mattel can't make a figure like this for the mass market in the
$30 price range. While this guy might end up a medicore collectible,
it's a decent enough toy, with the kind of quality that would hold up
to basic play.
Value - *1/2
At $60, these figures are in the same ball park as the current work
coming from companies like Amok Time and Executive Replicas. And while
those companies are far smaller, with far smaller production runs, the
figures are generallyl a better deal.
For example, the recent Boris Karloff
was $70, just ten bucks more than this figure, and included not one but
three head sculpts, as well as a much more complex outfit and much
better paint and sculpting.
Things to Watch Out For -
Switching hands can be a bit tough, since the pegs fit very tightly in
the forearms. Take your time working with them.
Overall - **1/2
This isn't a figure you can pose with your
Hot Toys Supes series, or even the DC Direct deluxe versions. But once
Mattel gives us a Superman of similar quality, this guy will have a
home. I think Mattel may have sold more of Zod had they released
Superman first, since as a pair the the display value will rise.
Score Recap:
Packaging - ***
Sculpting - ***
Paint - **1/2
Articulation - ***
Accessories - ***
Outfit - **
Fun Factor - ***
Value - *1/2
Overall - **1/2
Where to Buy -
This is a Matty
Collector exclusive, or you can try
ebay to get a deal.
Links -
If you're looking for other sixth scale Superman items, try these:
- Hot Toys has done a few, and they are
generally Hot Toys quality, although I'm not a huge fan of their Superman.
- DC Direct has done an older Supes, as well as
a couple younger versions.
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The body+soul run coach app has arrived!
Everything you need to know about your brand new running app
Available to download for free on iTunes, our run coach is the ultimate running companion.
Packed with week-by-week training programs, the latest health news and features, personalised run tracking to share with your friends, and lists of local running routes, you'll never want to leave home without it!
Week-by-week training programs
Whether you're up for a challenge or are getting back into shape for spring, our 9K training programs will keep you motivated. Designed by our experts at B+S, these workouts will help you improve your stride, tone all over and keep you fit well into the next season.
Health and fitness news
Never miss running beat on Body+Soul. Read up on the latest health news, learn about new fitness trends and discover tricks to keep you motivated.
Explore your area
Nothing beats finding a great running trail in your neighbourhood. Wherever you are in Australia, our running app will show you the best running routes around. Challenge yourself and try a new one in your area every week.
Personalised run tracker
Map your run every time you head out for a jog. Our start/stop functionality allows you to record your distance, track your time and one of the best parts; you can share your time with friends! Rival each other and watch your running skills reach new heights.
Download the B+S running app now on iTunes.
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|European economic integration has created the largest trading block in the World. The most recent phase of this integration is European Monetary Union whereby twelve EU member states have united to form a single currency area. These pages offer a concise explanation of the economic theory behind the key aspects.