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IBM Offers POWER Technology for Licensing, Forms OpenPOWER Consortium
by Jarred Walton on August 7, 2013 1:32 AM ESTThe CPU wars are far from over, but the battlegrounds have shifted of late. Where once we looked primarily at the high-end processing options, today we tend to cover nearly as much in the ARM licensing world as we do in the x86 world. IBM is joining with Google, NVIDIA, Mellanox, and Tyan to create the OpenPOWER Consortium, with the intent being to build advanced server, networking, storage, and GPU-accelerated technologies based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture. High performance computing clusters and cloud computing are other areas of focus for OpenPOWER.
Along with the forming of the OpenPOWER Consortium, POWER hardware and software will be made available for open development for the first time, and POWER IP will be licensable to others. (While not stated explicitly in the news release, Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham reports that licensing will begin with POWER8.) Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive at IBM, states, "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
The NVIDIA aspect is also interesting, considering how many of the Top 500 Supercomputer list now use some form of GPU. Sumit Gupta from NVIDIA's Tesla Accelerated Computing Business states, "The OpenPOWER Consortium brings together an ecosystem of hardware, system software, and enterprise applications that will provide powerful computing systems based on NVIDIA GPUs and POWER CPUs." Considering NVIDIA has also announced their intent to license Kepler and future GPU IP to third parties, we could potentially see SoCs in the coming years with POWER-based CPU cores and NVIDIA-licensed GPU cores in place of the common ARM and PowerVR solutions so prevalent today.
This is clearly intended to slow and perhaps even reverse the exodus seen from the POWER architecture over the past decade. Apple switched from POWER to x86 back in the Core 2 Duo days (2006), and after getting wins in both the current generation consoles (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) the next generation Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will both be going with x86 designs. Many are likely to see this as vindication of the IP (Intellectual Property) licensing route taken by ARM, with NVIDIA, and now IBM all looking to license their IP (not to mention AMD and others licensing ARM IP). Considering the decline in POWER use in recent years, this move should help give POWER more relevance in the future.
Source: IBM News Release
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althaz - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
But what are the actual benefits of "POWER" over x86 and ARM (and others)?
Licensing is great, but it only matters if people actually want your IP. -
Krysto - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
I assume the biggest advantage is customizability, just like for ARM chips (or perhaps even more so). It allows customers to make (roughly speaking) any type of chip they want, instead of relying on Intel's "stock" chips.
Also ARM isn't in that high-end market yet, and probably the only competition there could be MIPS, but I think Imagination will be focusing more on mobile this decade at least. So yeah, I guess it makes some sense to do this at the very high-end levels, and it gives Nvidia the opportunity to stave off Xeon Phi. -
Ramiliez - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
Intel offers customizability too and x86 is cheap and has thriving market which translates to really cheap hardware unlike IBMs vendor lock-in. Thats why is IBM trying to openwash Power with this openpower marketing
http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Sends-Amazon... -
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
I think this is IBM trying to get POWER to actually get used outside of IBM hardware. It may be too little, too late (RIP DEC Alpha and others), but we'll see. POWER processors tend to have a lot of options that appeal to the server market, more so than ARM servers I think, so as Krysto said there's now another option besides x86 or ARM for companies to look at. My guess: the licensing costs will be so high that no one will use it outside of academia. :-p -
Krysto - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
Yes, IBM has been disrupted for decades by Intel with its cheaper prices. But the ironic thing is this may be just a battle between dinosaurs in the end. ARM chips will be disrupting Intel soon, too, with cheaper prices and a more customizable model (everyone can make their own CPU/GPU cores), much in the same way Intel disrupted IBM.
Nvidia is positioned to take advantage of that, too, with its Denver/Maxwell chips, and beyond. -
iwod - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
Exactly, i am going to assume it will be expensive. Coming from IBM.
Would like Anandtech to do a summary on POWER, what is it good at ( if anything ).
To my knowledge it isn't any better then Intel at the high end ( TCO wise ), and it doesn't offer anything special in the low end either.
Which makes me kind of question its value of existence. -
nevertell - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
Well, IBM licenses it's software for the amount of cores, as many enterprises do, but you can use 2 intel cores for a single POWER license, so that's quite a good indication that Power does in fact beat Intel on some occasions. (And even with the 2 intel cores, customers often choose Power instead because of the higher performance). -
MrSpadge - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
At the high end the current Power 7 offers some serious performance. The chips, caches power consumption and prices are truely massive. Don't know if power efficiency can get anywhere near Intel, though. -
iwod - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
Looks like i cant edit :(
I just read over in HN that ARM, MIPS and POWER all surprise x86 in Unit shipment. And it is interesting that Automotive industry are all set on POWER, ( why is that? ). -
Kevin G - Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - link
Modern POWER and PowerPC chips share a common ISA. Early on when cars were first getting embedded computers, IBM made the push to get their embedded chips (PowerPC 400 series) into them. The rest has been historical. Another reason is that IBM has a IEEE compliant floating point unit incorporated within the PowerPC/POWER spec. Thus if an embeded PowerPC chip comes with a FPU, it will use the same FPU instructions as other PowerPC chips. (For comparison, ARM's FPU unit hasn't been standardized in its ISA until very recently.) This allowed software developers to keep their FPU code between generations of PowerPC chips.

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- Between the tower blocks and family houses: what mapping election results taught me about Budapest
Socialist pensioners in high-rise estates. Far-right voters in other, less fortunate estates. Romanis in crumbling courtyards who don't come out to vote. Upwardly mobile green voters in newly-built housing developments that have popped up in the suburbs. Prosperous Fidesz voters in the city's wealthiest parts, doubtlessly doing well off the government's business schemes. Fidesz voters who just get by, in modest family houses with small gardens. It's a big city, Budapest, and … (more) - In 2016, the Hungarian government held an anti-refugee referendum. It failed. Here's how Budapest voted
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Flexible Map allows you to add Google Maps to your WordPress website with simple shortcodes.
- three ways to load a map:
- by center coordinates
- by street address
- by URL to a Google Earth KML file
- simple shortcode for adding maps to pages/posts
- PHP function
for theme and plugin developers - supports multiple maps on a page/post
- supports responsive design — specify width / height in percent
- map marker doesn't have to be the center of the map
- optional description for info window
- optional directions link for info window
- directions can be dropped into any div element with an ID
- minimal dependencies — just WordPress and the Google Maps API
Get started with Flexible Map.
Read the manual online.
- directions on KML maps generously sponsored by Roger Los
Thanks for sponsoring new features on WP Flexible Maps!
Many thanks to the generous efforts of our translators:
- Czech (cs) — caslavak and the Czech translation team
- Dutch (nl) — Ivan Beemster and the Dutch translation team
- English (en_CA) — the English (Canadian) translation team
- French (fr) — mister klucha and the French translation team
- German (de) — Carib Design and the German translation team
- Greek (el) — Pantelis Orfanos
- Hungarian (hu) — Krisztián Vörös
- Italian (it_IT) — the Italian translation team
- Korean (ko_KR) — the Korean translation team
- Swedish (sv_SE) — the Swedish translation team
- Norwegian: Bokmål (nb_NO) — neonnero
- Norwegian: Nynorsk (nn_NO) — neonnero
- Portuguese (pt_BR) — Alexsandro Santos and Paulo Henrique
- Spanish (es) — edurramos
- Welsh (cy) — Dylan
The initial translations for all other languages were made using Google Translate, so it's likely that some will be truly awful! If you'd like to help out by translating this plugin, please sign up for an account and dig in.
Flexible Map embeds Google Maps into your web pages. Please review Google's Privacy and Personal Information for information about how that affects your website's Privacy Policy. By using this plugin, you are agreeing to the terms of use for Google Maps.
The Flexible Map plugin itself does not collect any personally identifying information, and does not set any cookies itself.
- Upload this plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‹Plugins› menu in WordPress.
- Get an API Key from Google and add it to Settings > Flexible Map
- Add the shortcode
to your pages / posts to embed maps
There are two ways to load maps with this plugin:
- specify the map's coordinates or street address
- specify the URL to a KML file (e.g. from Google Earth)
To add a Flexible Map to a post or a page, add a shortcode [flexiblemap]
and give it some useful attributes. A map can either be specified using center coordinates or street address, or by loading a KML file.
Get started with Flexible Map.
Read the manual online.
Refer to the attribute reference for detailed information.
Do I need an API key?
Yes. You will need at minimum an API key for Maps, so that the Maps JavaScript API will work. If you want to add maps by address (not just coordinates or KML file), you will also need to select Places. If you want to use directions features of this plugin, you will also need to select Routes.
Get your API keys from the Google Maps Platform
Read more about API keys for Google Maps -
Where are the settings?
You can set your API keys in the WordPress admin:
Settings > Flexible Map
For everything else, just add some attributes to your shortcode telling the map what to do.
Of course, in WordPress there is a plugin for everything 🙂 so if you want more settings, please install the Flexible Map Options plugin. That plugin lets you set some defaults so that if you use the same attributes over and over, you can put them all in one place.
Can I add multiple markers to a map?
Using a KML file, you can have as many markers on a map as you like, with as much detail in the info windows. With KML you can also change marker icons and add other nice features. You can generate your KML file from an application like Google Earth, or you can create it yourself (in a text editor or with your own programming). Learn more about KML.
Why won't my KML map update when I edit the KML file?
Google Maps API caches the KML file, so it can take a while for your new changes to appear. To force a change, append a URL query parameter with a number (known as a cache buster) and increment the number each time you change the KML file. A nice simple and commonly used parameter name is v (for version), like this: http://example.com/my-map.kml?v=2
If your map is auto-generated or changes frequently, add the
attribute to ask Google to fetch a new copy periodically. You can specify the interval in minutes (e.g. «90 minutes»), hours (e.g. «2 hours»), or days (e.g. «1 day»). The minimum interval is 5 minutes.[flexiblemap src="https://webaware.com.au/maps/example-toronto.kml?v=2"] [flexiblemap src="https://webaware.com.au/maps/example-toronto.kml" kmlcache="8 hours"]
What parts of KML are supported?
The Google Maps API supports many commonly used KML elements, but has some restrictions. Read about Google Maps support for KML in the developers› guide, and also see the list of supported KML elements on that page.
Why won't the map show my place when I use the address attribute?
When you use a street address instead of center coordinates, you are effectively searching Google Maps for your location. Try being very specific about your address, including your town / city, state / province, and country to make sure Google can find where you mean. You can also specify your region with the
attribute to help Google Maps refine its search. If the marker is still in the wrong place, you might need to specify the location using center coordinates instead. -
How can I use center coordinates for the map and have directions to my address?
When you use just center coordinates for your map, the directions may send people to the location opposite your location! Yes, I know… anyway, if you specify both the center coordinates and the street address, the map will be centered correctly and the directions will be to your address.
How do I get the maps to use my language?
The plugin uses localized messages for things like the Directions link and the default message on links in info windows. If you have your WordPress installation set to use your language, the plugin should automatically pick it up. If you need to force it to pick up your language (or want to offer a different language), use the
attribute, e.g.locale="ru"
.Google Maps will use the locale information from your web browser to help display maps and directions in your language (see your browser's language settings). If you want to force the Google Maps language for every map on a page, you can use a filter hook. For example, here's how to force the Google Maps language to match the language of the page / post its on (e.g. when using WPML translated content):
add_filter('flexmap_google_maps_api_args', 'force_flexmap_map_language'); function force_flexmap_map_language($args) { $args['language'] = get_locale(); return $args; }
You've translated my language badly / it's missing
The initial translations were made using Google Translate, so it's likely that some will be truly awful! If you'd like to help out by translating this plugin, please sign up for an account and dig in.
The map is broken in tabs / accordions
When you hide the map in a tab, and then click on the tab to reveal its contents, sometimes the map doesn't know how big to draw until it is revealed. Since v1.9.0 most such problems are automatically resolved for modern browsers, including Internet Explorer 11 or later. If you need to support earlier versions that don't support MutationObserver, add some script to your website to handle this yourself.
For jQuery UI tabs and accordions, download the .php file from this gist, and install / activate it. If you'd prefer to add the jQuery code yourself, add this somewhere on the page (e.g. in your theme's footer):
<script> (function($) { function mapRedraw(event, ui) { if (ui.newPanel.length) { $("#" + ui.newPanel[0].id + " div.flxmap-container").each(function() { var flxmap = window[this.getAttribute("data-flxmap")]; flxmap.redrawOnce(); }); } } $("body").on("accordionactivate", mapRedraw).on("tabsactivate", mapRedraw); })(jQuery); </script>
How can I get access to the map object?
If you want to add your own scripting for the map, you can get the map object by identifying the FlexibleMap global variable for your map, and asking it to getMap(). By default, each FlexibleMap is given a randomly generated ID and the global variable name is derived from that. The map's containing div has a data property with this global variable name. Here's some sample jQuery code that gets the map object for the (first) map:
jQuery(window).load(function() { var flxmapName = jQuery("div.flxmap-container").attr("data-flxmap"); var flxmap = window[flxmapName]; var map = flxmap.getMap(); // ... use map ... });
Alternatively, you can specify the ID used for a given map, and it will then derive the global variable name from that. Here's a sample shortcode:
[flexiblemap center="-32.891058,151.538042" id="sugarloaf"]
And here's some sample jQuery code:
jQuery(window).load(function() { var map = flxmap_sugarloaf.getMap(); // ... use map ... });
Why won't the map load on my AJAX single-page website?
function my_preload_map_scripts() { if (function_exists('flexmap_load_scripts')) { flexmap_load_scripts(); } } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_preload_map_scripts', 20);
To make it load locale scripts as well, e.g. for French and Chinese language text, add them to the function call like this:
flexmap_load_scripts(array('fr', 'zh'));
The plugin will detect when AJAX is being used via the WordPress standard method, and adjust accordingly (but you still need to load the scripts as above). If another method is used, add
to the shortcode attributes.NB: currently, only AJAX methods that parse script tags will work correctly; this includes some jQuery methods (but not all). A future version of the plugin will be more AJAX friendly.
I have CloudFlare Rocketscript turned on and the map doesn't work
Either turn off CloudFlare Rocketscript 🙂 or install the Flxmap No Rocketscript plugin by loading that file into your website's wp-content/plugins folder and activating through the plugins admin page. Use the plugin if you still want Rocketscript to manage all of your other scripts but leave the Flexible Map scripts alone.
Contributors & Developers
"Flexible Map" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors"Flexible Map" has been translated into 13 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate "Flexible Map" into your language.
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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
The full changelog can be found on GitHub. Recent entries:
Released 2019-05-04
- fixed: KML map with center but no zoom breaks the map
- fixed: recognize center coordinates with whitespace before and after the separating comma


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Who Stole MLK?
That is, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
We live in a time of magical secularism. Right before our eyes the Gospel truth is ripped off, stolen, or at least seriously "dumbed down." For what reason do we allow fables to replace facts – even when the marvel and splendor of the facts far exceeds the secularist's ingenious fabricated fables.
Barely a year ago the majestic memorial to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was dedicated in Washington, DC. Just prior to that dedication, I paid a visit to admire the park area, the inscribed walls and monumental creative sculpture, themed from Rev. Dr. King's sermonic reference to the need for a "stone of hope." (That is me in the picture talking with a park ranger in front of the Stone of Hope.)
How very grateful we are that there is such a memorial to a Christian giant who so positively impacted America and the world with his overtly Biblical values! He belongs in the company of Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington and F.D. Roosevelt, all of whose stately memorials stand nearby.
I speculate that the Lincoln Memorial is behind the monument to Rev. Dr. King because President Lincoln had his back, in a way of speaking. The monumental Rev. Dr. King is also staring forward, in the exact direction of the Jefferson Memorial, across the Tidal Basin. Is it his forward, hopeful perspective? Is it a grateful glance to the author of "All men are created equal" and "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," great words that had also inspired and empowered Rev. Dr. King's leadership and ministry? Or perhaps is it a critical, disappointed look toward the historic, slave-holding Jefferson who was notably inconsistent in living those great words he wrote – and who never resolved the continuing crisis of his conflicted conscience? Or perhaps it is both divine gratitude and great disappointment. So I think.
Interesting as these artistic speculations are, everyone should be deeply disappointed in the complete absence of any reference to God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, the Church or his ordination – all absolutely central to Rev. Dr. King's awesome leadership. The entire monument area also ignores even that Rev. Dr. King was a Gospel minister. The nearby memorials include numerous references to the Lord, so the standard of telling the whole Godly truth was established long ago. Why suppress the most essential Truth about Rev. Dr. King –who was much more than an activist, but a church pastor for 14 years of his brief life, a Bible expositor, and an accomplished theologian? Public money has been spent to tell the truth about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln and their sincere trust in God – and their frequent references to determinative dependence on our Creator. What pathology suppresses the truth when we honor someone with an even more explicit God focus – a model pastor and Christian thinker? That same magical secular pathology eliminates the true Rev. Dr. King in most approved school textbooks and teaching modules allegedly about the man. What keeps the rest of us quiet?
Why ignore that he was an ordained minister? Why pretend that he did not have a seminary degree from Crozer at age 22? Why disregard as well his PhD degree in systematic theology from prestigious Boston University when he was a young 26 years old? Why not a single mention that he was a professional theologian, minister, pastor and preacher? Why make the special effort to select fourteen quotes from Rev. Dr. King without a single acknowledgement that he drew his prime inspiration from the Bible? Why no mention of Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, or the Father, or the Gospel, or Church or any one of his other significant spiritual anchors?
There is even a lovely waterfall at the memorial, but someone nixed the Bible verse (Amos 5:28) to go with it. Why keep the waterfall?
Why did the designers of the monument not even include a word about his extraordinary name that explicitly references Dr. Martin Luther (1483-1546), another monumental minister of the Gospel, transformative theologian, courageous civil-rights hero, and profound and passionate preacher.
And how did the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. get that unusual name? This story needs to be told. He was originally named Michael King, Jr., the eldest son of Rev. Michael King, Sr. (1899-1984) and Alberta Williams King (1906-1974). "Michael King, Jr." was his name on his birth certificate. It is how he was first introduced to the world. His father and mother were proud of their first child. Everyone called their precocious child "Mike." Mike King's parents were also very bold in their efforts to transform their world toward the goal that all people would be recognized for their Divine human dignity and God-given inalienable rights.
Then the plot thickened. All this changed when Mike King, Jr. was five years old. Rev. and Mrs. Michael King, Sr. took a tourist trip to Germany, seeing a variety of sites over a few days, including visiting famed Wittenberg. That is the town in Germany where Dr. Martin Luther, a pastor and theologian, in the face people wanting to murder him for it, courageously took a stand for the Bible, for the Gospel, for the civil right to choose faith and to worship God as God guides. Luther had his flaws, but he was an articulate minister of the Gospel whose words so transformed the world around him that we all continue to benefit – especially in terms of religious choice, free market, and open access to the Gospel of God's amazing grace. Rev. King understood that palpable courage of Luther. He already embodied it, and he and Alberta wanted to raise their children to have such Godly bravery, too.
Then the plot really thickened. Rev. Michael King, Sr. was so deeply moved by the Luther model that he decided to openly embrace the paradigm – in the most public statement possible. When he and Alberta returned home to Atlanta Georgia, he brought his son down to the courthouse with him to have both of their names legally changed! In an instant he became Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., and his five year old son became Martin Luther King, Jr. What a statement! Can you imagine a precocious five year old being told that he and his father are now walking monuments to Gospel clarity, human liberty and divine courage? Names matter so much. An official name change matters even more – especially to a young, impressionable, brilliant child. And by God's amazing grace, the walking human monument Martin more than lived up to the awesome name change.
In one of the most stressful and dangerous times of his ministry, in the aftermath of leading the successful, lengthy Montgomery bus boycott, in 1957 the Lord spoke to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: "Stand up for righteousness; stand up for truth. God will be at your side forever." Three nights later someone bombed his home. No one was injured – and Rev. Dr. King was amazingly calm. Later he wrote about this crisis, "My experience with God had given me a new strength and trust. I now knew that God is able to give us the interior resources to face the storms and problems of life." So he reported in his Strength to Love, 1963, at the end of one of 15 great sermons, "God is Able."
We do not need a public acknowledgement of the Lord's ministry through Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King for God to be present at the Martin Luther King Memorial. However, I am sure that Rev. Dr. King would then be much more pleased. And so would the Almighty.


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Nibiru Chain, a general-purpose layer 1 blockchain, has successfully closed its latest round of funding, securing $12 million to set the stage for an ambitious phase of growth. Venture investments included contributions from Kraken Ventures, ArkStream, NGC Ventures, Master Ventures, Tribe Capital, and Banter Capital.
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Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year
Feast of the Trumpets remembers world's creation
by David Johnson
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Rosh Hashanah Dates
On Sunday night, Oct. 2, 2016, Jews will begin celebrating one of their most important religious holidays, Rosh Hashanah. It remembers the creation of the world. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means the "head of the year." It is also called the Feast of the Trumpets. The blowing of a ram's horn, a shofar, proclaims Rosh Hashanah, and summons Jews to religious services.
Jews used the ram's horn as a trumpet in Biblical times to announce the new moon, holidays, and war. Today, a variety of horns are used, including curved antelope horns.
Putting your spiritual house in order
While it does have its festive side, Rosh Hashanah is not one big party, as the New Year's celebrations on Dec. 31 tend to be. Rosh Hashanah is a time for personal introspection and prayer.
Jews may also visit graves. It is thought that the prayers or good wishes of the dead can help the living. By wishing each other well and sending cards, people let friends know what happened in the past year and what plans lie ahead. Christmas cards and get-togethers fill a similar role for Christians.
Rosh Hashanah is part of a process of spiritual growth. The Hebrew month preceding it, Elul, is a time for charity, tzedakah. Rosh Hashanah falls on the first and second days of the seventh month, Tishri.
Food for thought
Traditional Jewish foods accompany Rosh Hashanah. Typically, a blessing will be said over two loaves of bread, known as challah. The round shape symbolizes a crown, a reminder of the kingship of God. Challah also stands for the circle of life, and the hope that our lives endure without end.
Challah is sometimes baked with a ladder on top in recognition that only God decides who climbs up or down the ladder of life. Forming challah in the shape of a bird is also done. The Torah says that God will protect Jerusalem in the same way a bird hovers.
Apples dipped in honey are another Rosh Hashanah tradition. It symbolizes the hope for a "sweet year" ahead. Honey is spread on challah. Tzimmes, a mixture made from carrots, cinnamon, yams, prunes, and honey, is also traditional.
Sephardic Jews—those of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern origin—serve a whole fish as a wish for prosperity, fertility, and good luck for the coming year. Some Jews also present fruit baskets covered to hide the contents, symbolizing that no one can know what the new year will bring.
Determined by the new moon
Rosh Hashanah observances vary. Orthodox Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah for two days. Reform Jews often observe it for only one day. In Biblical times the moon, not the calendar, determined dates for festivals. Witnesses watching the sky proclaimed the new moon. Since Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of the month, people living far from Jerusalem did not have time to learn the exact date. Even those living near Jerusalem could miss the festival if the witnesses did not arrive on time. So, two days were set aside for observance so everyone would have time to participate.


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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Animal lovers all over Palm Beach County, Florida, are contributing to the healing of sea turtles at Loggerhead Marinelife Center.
Sierra Malnove is a beekeeper and founder of Palm Beach Creamed Honey Co. She's one of several beekeepers who offer honey to Loggerhead as a healing therapy for the turtles' wounds.
Malnove got her first hive eight years ago and she's become obsessed with every step of the process of commercial beekeeping. She maintains hives across the county and on her property, and enjoys every element of commercial beekeeping, from moving colonies to selling flavored and raw honey.
She's seen firsthand how honey can heal. It's a practice that dates back thousands of years.
"My partner Al cut his thumb nearly in half with a table saw, took him to the emergency room, they sewed it back and the girl said, I do not think this is going to heal," she explained.
Malnove says Al kept his thumb wrapped or submerged in honey for days. It's what he credits with his healing.
"Today, you can't even see a scar, his nail healed, totally normal, like his nail was cut in half."
Malnove has given gallons of her honey to Loggerhead. Malnove does not remove any nutrients in the process of making her honey, which makes it useful for therapy.
"We have honey that we've taken through the creamed process," she explained. "It's nice and thick and creamy, so it's spreadable, which is perfect use I think for wounds on a sea turtle."
Galapagos the sea turtle sustained injuries during an unintentional boat strike. Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Director of Rehabilitation, Dr. Max Polyak, used Malnove's honey to treat the wound.
"Topical, antimicrobial therapy, it's very effective for that," he said.
Honey is one of several therapies used on turtles. Polyak says it's a special one.
"When we use the honey as therapy, to always remember the bees, because they did the work," he said.
The process is very fulfilling for Malnove.
"We get to do what we love and we get to help others do what they love," she said.
This story was originally published by Ashleigh Walters at WPTV.


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Budget Tightening in Pennsylvania—and Around the Nation
Pennsylvania's new governor, Tom Corbett, has submitted his first annual budget to the state legislature. It includes proposals for spending cuts and no new taxes. In some ways, the budget is a model of what must be done nationwide.
Gov. Corbett also claims that it cuts spending, but that depends on how the numbers are crunched. During the current 2010-2011 fiscal year, $28 billion is being disbursed from the general fund. That's less than half of total Pennsylvania government spending—the balance consisting of special funds and federal funds. Next year, approximately $3 billion of one-time federal stimulus funds will be gone; thus, the 2011-2012 general fund would decrease to $25 billion without any spending cuts or increases. Since Corbett has proposed to spend $27.3 billion in fiscal year 2011-2012, then the alleged 3.1 percent cut from $28 to $27.3 billion, while technically true, appears to be an actual 9.5 percent, $2 billion hike in Pennsylvania-funded spending ($25 to $27.3 billion).
Nevertheless, Corbett has proposed specific spending cuts, eliciting criticism from those who have grown accustomed to receiving erstwhile Gov. Ed Rendell's perennial largess. Indeed, the contrast between the Democrat, Rendell, and his Republican successor is unmistakable. It brings to mind the late Austrian scholar Erik R. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's description of the competing parties in modern democracies: The liberal party is the Santa Claus party; the conservative party is the "tighten the belt" party.
In Pennsylvania, ex-Gov. Rendell was Santa Claus on steroids. He increased subsidies to his favorite constituencies, such as school districts and state colleges, all eight years he was in office, even while the private sector was shrinking from the recession. Under Rendell, Pennsylvania's general obligation debt rose 39 percent. Wait, it gets worse. Most of the commonwealth's debt is in off-budget agencies. That indebtedness soared 93 percent under Rendell. In total, Pennsylvania's state debt swelled 82 percent in eight years to $43 billion. (By way of comparison, local debt in Pennsylvania increased 35 percent during the same time period.) So profligate was Rendell's spending that he borrowed more than $3 billion of federal monies to fund unemployment checks, and he left Corbett without sufficient funds to pay all current bills; consequently, Pennsylvanians are paying interest on emergency loans to cover current expenditures. Want more? The teachers' retirement fund is $31 billion underfunded and the state employees' pension $11 billion underfunded. Thank you, Ed Rendell.
In ancient Athens, there was a time when citizens voted on an office-holder's performance at the end of his term. If he had governed poorly, the citizens voted to exile him. We don't have such a safeguard today. Instead, Rendell goes on his way while Corbett inherits a mess and takes all the heat for trying to make ends meet.
Gov. Corbett has one option if he is not to allow the state's finances to continue deteriorating to the point of bankruptcy: To play the role of belt-tightener-in-chief. Thus, he has begun to do what fiscally responsible governors across the union are doing and must continue to do to help salvage states' financial viability. He is asking long-time beneficiaries of state spending, like the education sector, to accept some cuts. Also, citing figures that the median state government salary in Pennsylvania increased from $39,000 in 2004 to $45,000 today (in comparison to today's private sector median income of $32,000), Corbett proposed freezes and cutbacks for state employees.
Corbett is to be commended for defying the know-nothing leftists who complain, "The big winners [in Corbett's budget] are corporations with out-of-state addresses," particularly oil and gas companies. This is economically illiterate. One of the best hopes for increasing state tax receipts is for those out-of-state companies to continue to create good jobs by developing the state's rich natural-gas deposits. As for them being domiciled out of state, blame our anti-business (and therefore anti-job) tax laws. You don't attract businesses to your state by taxing the heck out of them.
It remains to be seen which of Corbett's proposals will be enacted by the GOP-controlled legislature. However, since the total indebtedness (including unfunded obligations) of all units of government in Pennsylvania now exceeds $194 billion, it would be fiscally insane for Corbett and the legislature not to trim spending. Actually, a three-percent trim is not enough. The debt figures are plain: It's time for some major belt-tightening, in Pennsylvania and around the nation.
(© 2011 Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson)


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The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration's regulatory activity.
During the week of August 12 to August 16, the number of pages in the Federal Register increased by 3,076 pages, bringing the year-to-date total to 42,798 pages. The week's Federal Register featured a total of 527 documents, including 405 notices, one presidential document, 52 proposed rules, and 69 final rules.
One proposed rule and two final rules were deemed significant under E.O. 12866—meaning that they may have large impacts on the economy, environment, public health, or state or local governments. Significant actions may also conflict with presidential priorities or other agency rules.
During the same week in 2018, the number of pages in the Federal Register increased by 2,146 pages for a year-to-date total of 42,016 pages. As of August 16, the 2019 total led the 2018 total by 782 pages.
The Trump administration has added an average of 1,297 pages to the Federal Register each week in 2019 as of August 16. Over the course of 2018, the Trump administration added an average of 1,301 pages to the Federal Register each week. During the Obama administration, the Federal Register increased by an average of 1,658 pages per week.
According to government data, the Federal Register hit an all-time high of 95,894 pages in 2016.
Ballotpedia maintains page counts and other information about the Federal Register as part of its Administrative State Project. The project is a neutral, nonpartisan encyclopedic resource that defines and analyzes the administrative state, including its philosophical origins, legal and judicial precedents, and scholarly examinations of its consequences. The project also monitors and reports on measures of federal government activity.


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I fell in love with hostels during a college study abroad trip. By 2014, I had stayed in over 150 hostels in 30 countries. I've slept on everything from pillow-top beds with handmade duvet covers that could rival any Four Seasons all the way down to hammocks strung above dead cow parts on a cargo ship in the Amazon (advertised, of course, as a "luxury cot").
When you stay in a hostel, it's an adventure unto itself. You're straying from the beaten path; you never quite know what's going to happen next or who you'll meet along the way. Guests mix and mingle with each other in a way they never do at hotels, and the close quarters lead to lifetime friendships. As anyone who has spent time on the hostel trail can attest, it's a slice of traveling life you have to see (and experience) to believe—and I had seen enough of it to know the good, bad, and ugly.
Over the years, I'd always return home from my travels longing for the atmosphere inside hostels. Hoping to find a way of recreating that excitement and camaraderie without having to jump on a plane, I moved to Austin, TX in 2014 and invested nearly every dollar I had in opening what I hoped would be a very different kind of hostel.
Easier said than done: hostels aren't the most understood thing in the neighborhood, to put it mildly. It took a full year of wrangling with the city, acquiring permits, finding partners, and establishing ourselves, fighting city hall at almost every turn. It was, at times, totally maddening. One example: It took three months, 12 (unanswered) emails, and four different trips from city inspectors just to reach consensus on—wait for it—the height of our stairs. And that was just one of thirty such measurements or approvals we needed. But it was all worth it when we could open our doors to guests and, at long last, in June 2015, HK Austin was born. By the end of 2015, in a result none of us expected, HK Austin was the highest-rated hostel in America.
It was a year packed with mistakes, heartbreak, and dozens of sleepless nights. But like any great entrepreneurial journey—or any journey at all—I walked away with scars and lessons that will last a lifetime.
1) Just because your competitors fail at something, it's not your job to improve it
Most hostels provide a meal approximating breakfast for their guests. Emphasis on "approximating". One glance at a review of most hostels, and you'll find the all-too-frequent complaints about the quality of breakfast. "They put out boxes of pizza and old doughnuts (half a donut each, if that)," wrote one traveler on the review website HostelWorld. From another: "The hostel's 'free breakfast' consisted of ROTTEN EGGS, Stale BREAD." And that's only scratching the surface. A hostel breakfast is a culinary roll of the dice.
Why is that? Simple: It is labor-intensive and cost-prohibitive to cook great breakfasts for dozens of guests, each one with their own specific tastes, allergies, and preferences. Hostels run on relatively low margins, so simple decisions like whether or not to serve a gourmet breakfast can actually make a big difference. The result: a meal that begins the day and starts with the best intentions turns out to be too much of a hassle for the hostel owner, and you, the unfortunate hostel guest, are left smearing peanut butter onto white bread and calling it breakfast.
I know what you're thinking: HK Austin decided to make breakfast amazing, right? Nope. In fact, we decided not to serve breakfast at all. Here's why: Across the street from HK Austin are the best breakfast tacos in the city (and possibly the world). We encourage our guests to visit Veracruz All Natural, and we've never had a single complaint about the tacos or about our lack of breakfast. After all, half the enjoyment of staying at a hostel is taking in the local flavor and culture. We want to encourage that for our guests, and we knew that our own pitiful attempts at breakfast would never compete with the Veracruz migas (a taco that Food Network named one of the Top 5 in America). Competing against that was a losing battle, and one we had no intention of fighting.
Here's the truth: Competitive advantages are excruciatingly hard to find, and it's tempting in business to think that any one of your competitor's weaknesses is something you can exploit. But sometimes what can seem like a hidden advantage for you turns out to be a warning. That was the case with our breakfast issue. If you notice a defect in your competitor's product, rather than race to say, "We can fix that!", take a step back and ask yourself, "Why is that a defect? What is keeping them from fixing it themselves?" More often than not, you'll discover good reasons why they've chosen to leave a flaw in their product, and that knowledge can be valuable competitive intelligence.
2) Your customer's ideas for your business are probably wrong
In fact, it's worse: Your customers can often lead you astray. But catering to the customer has become a kind of legendary goal, with companies like Zappos setting the standard for bend-over-backward service that tries to anticipate the customer's every desire and respond to their every whim. In our business, high-end, five-diamond hotels are notorious for going out of their way to do anything and everything their guests ask for, and they often earn their reputations by their willingness and ability to fulfill a guest's zaniest request.
But that doesn't mean it's always the best business practice, especially for a hostel. I learned this firsthand putting together our hostel common room. When they're at their best, the common room becomes the nerve center of any hostel: It's where you meet other guests, trade expert travel tips, swap war stories, and, importantly, where you plan the adventures you're going to have with other hostel guests. It's no exaggeration to say that a solid common room can make or break a hostel experience.
One of the most disheartening experiences in my own hostel travel was arriving at one in high spirits, only to find a few guests trapped indoors, glued to the television in the common room. Everyone silent, staring at the blue screen as if in a trance. No socializing, and none of the convivial banter that makes for the best memories. If you can judge a book by it's cover, then you can judge a hostel by the amount of wine and conversation that flows in its common room.
For HK Austin, I decided to head this problem off at the pass: A ban on TVs in the common room. Our guests were, initially, surprised. No TVs? What gives? A few guests even went out of their way to tell us that we absolutely, positively needed a television in the common room. We flat-out refused—and we haven't regretted that decision for a second.
I'm proud of the space that our common room has become, and I know that it's due in large measure to the fact that there's no television around. People use the space to play card games, concoct plans, strike up conversations, drink, and actually enjoy each other's company, without the endless buzzing distraction of television. In other words, they use the common room to find out what they might have in common.
Sure, it can seem strange to come into a common living area in the 21st century and not see the boob tube against the wall. But the customer isn't always right, and we had to trust our instincts and intuition. Besides, people will remember their stay at our hostel; they won't remember the show they never watched.
Think of what your customers say they want, but that you know in your gut isn't good for the business. Then stand up for yourself, and make your case if you have to. Don't let the cult of the customer crowd out your own strong instincts for what you know is best.
3) Know when to pay full price
It's basically the only iron-clad law in business: You will never, ever have enough money when you start. And so, you'll have to cut a few corners. There's no crime in that, and everyone who has started a business has done their version of it.
But there's an important difference between being cheap and seeming cheap. You can save money without appearing to be the cheapest joint on the block. Remember, in business, appearance is reality. Which is why it's important to know when to shell out a few extra bucks.
For us, as veteran hostel travelers, we immediately honed in on one thing: mattresses. When we were first putting together the hostel's bedding, we had an important choice to make. Buy the $109 mattresses, which were in keeping with our budget. Or, spring for the $279 mattresses. Multiplied by the number of beds we had, the $170 price difference wasn't an inconsiderable amount. At the time, that was actually our operating budget for a full month.
We went with our gut and not our pocketbook: the pricey mattresses were the ones we wanted our guests to sleep on. At the core of our business, after all, was people paying us money for time in a bed. Everything else—the atmosphere, the common room, the location, the book collection, the guests, the reviews—was secondary, and, to some extent, outside our control. But if we could make at least the beds an unforgettable experience, we knew we would be putting money on a sure bet.
It was a bet that paid off: Our most common "complaint" these days is that our beds are just too hard to leave. That's a problem any hostel owner is thrilled to have, but it wouldn't have happened if we nickel-and-dimed the decision.
Think about how this applies to your business. Where should you be ruthlessly frugal, and where should you be extravagant? What's the core part of the business that affects perceptions, and in a universe in which you can't control what everyone thinks of you and your product, how do you shape the few pieces you can control?
4) Stop "playing business"
"Playing business" is a very easy trap to fall into when scrambling to do any and everything you can think of to "help" your business. For me, "playing business" meant, among other things: setting up profiles on sites like AngelList, trying to get local bloggers to come to various BBQs, reaching out to other local business owners, researching complicated legal structures for when it was time to grow, trying to gain Twitter followers, spending weeks on logo creation, and plenty of other premature things that didn't directly impact a guest's stay at our hostel that night.
The reality is none of those tiny details matter if nobody likes your product. When we dropped the bullshit and focused solely on the guest's experiences, our reputation grew, and all of the little details started to take care of themselves. Now bloggers reach out to us for write ups, people follow us organically on Twitter, and other business owners want to talk business with us.
If what you're doing each hour doesn't directly and immediately benefit your customer's experience, you should probably be doing something else. Be honest with yourself: Are you setting up profiles on these sites for the dopamine hit of satisfaction they gave you, or because they will actually improve the business? Are you ignoring or avoiding some more difficult task that's actually tied to your success, in favor of idling on social media websites, gaining "followers" who will never become customers, and planning for realities way off in the distance rather than focusing on the here-and-now?
5) Hire faster
Every small business owner has a control freak living inside them. Especially when you are starting out, every single part of the business, no matter how insignificant, can seem like something you ought to have your personal stamp on. In our case, this meant scrutinizing everything from the website design to the email templates to the brand of bathroom cleaner, all the way down to making sure I was the one hand-making each bed so that the sheets were tucked in just tight enough. Plus, it was saving us the expense of paying someone else, right? And didn't Steve Jobs obsess over every detail of Apple products? That's sort of the same, isn't it? Of course I should make the beds myself, if only on the what-would-Steve-Jobs-do-if-he-ran-a-hostel theory of business.
You can see where this is going. While it's great to know a business inside and out, you have to acknowledge the difference between working in the business and working on the business. If your business is going to grow, you have to work on growing it. Otherwise you're just making beds all day, while the core business languishes.
The solution is to hire fast. It's in vogue these days to say things like "hire slow, fire fast." That's a fine rule of thumb in certain businesses and companies at certain stages in their growth, but it was my experience that I was reluctant to hire because I was unwilling to cede control. I assumed I knew best, and that anyone I hired wouldn't do the same high-quality job I could, right down to how tightly they tucked in the sheets. My delay in hiring was a kind of arrogance, and it badly impaired the business.
When you wait too long to hire, your company can't capitalize on your competitive advantages. In my case, I'm a partner at a successful marketing company. My competitive advantage is in marketing, branding, messaging, and growing the business and its digital footprint. Instead of focusing on that, I was busy making beds. And as soon as I got out of my own way, and trusted that others knew what they were doing, our business started growing.
6) Boredom is your new normal
Here's an inconvenient truth for anyone about to start a new venture: If you don't like doing the mundane parts of your business, you probably shouldn't be in that business.
I've seen many hostels fail when the 'owners' fall in love with the "lifestyle accessories" they believe come along with owning a hostel: adding "owner" to the LinkedIn profile, hooking friends up with free stays, flirting with attractive people who came through the door. Yet they hated changing beds, cleaning bathrooms, dealing with questions from guests, running the software required to keep track of stays, fixing small problems around the property, and the like. You know, everything that goes into actually running a hostel and making guests feel at home.
The trappings of owning a business aren't going to get you through tough times. You have to enjoy every part of the business if you're going to survive. This might sound like something of a Zen parable, but it's a fact of doing business that isn't talked about enough. Mundanities are the business; boredom is the norm. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you will know if your idea is something you're going to want to pursue on the lowest of low days.
7) The beginning isn't the end
Here's a daydream familiar to anyone who has had to launch a product: The larger-than-life grand opening. In our imagination, we'd invite our friends, family, and the press, and they'd all be blown away by our perfect hostel machine. We'd pop champagne from the second floor balcony, admire the amazing art on the wall, and laugh with all the guests occupying every bed in the place. Until that exact moment was possible, my partner didn't want to be in business at all. It was another excuse for inaction, another excuse to "hit the whiteboard" and plan some more, instead of actually hosting guests.
There is no perfect time to launch. A "grand opening" or a "launch party"—these are usually just overhyped events that don't deliver any kind of sustained firepower, revenue, or sales.
When the time actually came for HK Austin to open, we had bare walls and only half of the beds ready. We couldn't afford champagne, and we had a grand total of two guests. But we launched faster than we thought, and did everything we could to make the best two-bed hostel in the world. There was no reason to wait till we had everything set up to give it a true effort. In startup talk, we had achieved a minimum viable product. Every day since, we've worked to make the place a little bit better and slightly closer to that finely tuned machine of our dreams.
Start now. Figure out the rest as you go along.
8) Being human can get you extraordinarily far
Whole shelves groan under the weight of books about "customer service." Here's a simple formula that worked wonders for us: When in doubt, be a human.
What does that mean? Well, we knew our only ace in the hole was going to be the fact that we could beat our competitors on how and how much we engaged with our customers. We didn't have the sexy murals, established bar crawls, or the bank of good reviews to rest on when new guests came in the door. To be perfectly honest, we didn't have nearly the best amenities either. But we knew we could lavish time and attention on each guest who came through our door; we could make them feel like old friends. So every single one got a personal tour and an endless supply of conversation and advice. In other words, we treated them like human beings, not customers. We took time to pay attention to what they said (and didn't say) and we tailored their experience as best we could.
When a guest found themselves flat broke and in need of an unexpected 5 A.M. ride to the train station due to a family emergency, we woke up and gave them a ride, saving them a four mile walk. When another found themselves with nowhere to stay and all local hostels (including our own!) were fully booked, we invited them into our home for a place to crash and a family-style dinner. When one guest was too shy to go to two-step lessons on their own, we scrambled our local friends to accompany them—creating a memorable night for everyone involved.
This didn't cost us gobs of money, nor did it require us to do anything more than pay attention very closely and respond with energy and empathy. You'd be surprised how far simple humanity can get you in business. We were competing against hostels and hotels many times our size and with much deeper pockets, and yet, we were able to compete with them on ratings because we made each guest feel like a guest and not a line item on our balance sheet.
When you're starting, you don't have many unlimited resources. But you do have a limitless capacity for work, endless opportunities to provide a great experience, and the proximity to your customer that reminds you they are a person, not a profit center. Given you'll be starting with a minimum viable product—not a finely tuned machine—it is important to understand how much extraordinary customer service can make up for. At the start, you won't be able to match your established competitors in all aspects of business, but outshining their stale customer service can be a way to make up the gap.
Applying these hard-won lessons took our hostel from nothing to one of the best in the industry. While it is still a work in progress, each day we try to get a bit better. This year is sure to bring many more lessons, but we will never forget these and we hope you don't either.
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SAOZ is an UV-visible spectrometer able to provide vertical profiles of O3, NO2, OClO, BrO and H2O by solar occultation during ascent of the balloon (or descent) and from float at 30 km during sunset (or sunrise). The balloon version of the SAOZ instrument is very similar to the one used for ground-based measurements of total ozone and NO2.
It is composed by a commercial flat field, 360mm, holographic grating spectrometer equipped with a 1024-diode linear array and an entrance slit of 50 µm. A simple conical mirror replaces the gondola orientation or sun tracker systems generally used on large balloon platforms and is driven by an on-board computer, connected to a PTU (Pressure, Temperature and Humidity) sensor, a GPS (Global Positioning system ) for the localisation (Altitude, latitude and longitude) and an Argos transmitter for the recovery of the payload after cut-down and descent under parachute.
At left can be seen a picture of the standard package (click to enlarge).The weight of the instrument is 20 Kg and is contained in a insulated box with only a small aperture in the top for capture the solar rays. It's currently flown in three configurations, SaOZ-Standard, SAOZ-BrO and SAOZ-H2O each tuned to a different wavelength for measurements of different atmospheric constituents.
Also was flown under the same balloon an instrument called DESCARTES (Détermination Et Séparation par Chromatographie lors de l'Analyse des Résultats des Traceurs Échantillonés dans la Stratosphère) created for the measurement of long-lived trace gases (CFC-11, CFC-113, CCl4 and CH3CCl3) in the stratosphere by the University of Cambridge. The low weight of less than 20 kg and no need for telemetry make the instrument suitable for being launched on small balloons or fly as piggyback on larger balloons.
The working principle is to let an amount of air pass through 16 sample tubes containing a Carboxen adsorbent. A valve allows only one tube at a time to be exposed to the air flow. Trace gases will then be trapped inside the sample tubes while the rest passes through.
An on-board computer controls the sampling sequence, and also measures the flow of air, the pressure and temperature, the level of the batteries, and the state and position of the valve.
After the flight, the data is downloaded from the computer, the sample sizes are determined and the sample box is connected to a gas chromatograph for quantification.
Balloon launched on: 4/18/1996 at 17:10
Launch site: Centre de Lancement de Ballons CLBA, Aire Sur L'Adour, Landes, France
Balloon launched by: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Balloon manufacturer/size/composition: Zero Pressure Balloon model 10zl Zodiac - 10.000 m3
Balloon serial number: 10 ZL Nº 53
End of flight (L for landing time, W for last contact, otherwise termination time): 4/18/1996
Payload weight: 103 kgs
Gondola weight: 21 kgs
Balloon failed
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- Photographer
- Gerald (Gerd) Schwab
- Date
July 1946
- Locale
- Nuremberg, [Bavaria] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Nurnberg
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gerald (Gerd) Schwab
- Event History
- The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg indicted several Nazi groups and organizations which it declared to be criminal, in addition to the 21 individual leaders of the Third Reich that appeared in the defendants dock. These organizations included the Reich Cabinet, the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, the Elite Guard (SS), the Security Service (SD,) the Secret State Police (Gestapo), the Stormtroopers (SA), and the General Staff and High Command of the German Armed Forces.
The idea behind this novel and controversial proposal was the desire to deal with two problems: (a) finding a legal basis for punishing German crimes committed before the war, and (b) developing a procedure for dealing with the hundreds of thousands of members of the SS and other Nazi organizations implicated in German atrocities. The prosecutors felt that in these organizations there were so many war criminals that individual trials were impossible and that the perpetrators could only be punished on the basis of their proven membership in a criminal organization.
The tribunal, in accordance with its charter, ordered that notices of the impending trials be disseminated throughout Germany. Announcements were published in the German press, broadcast over the radio and posted in internment and POW camps where many of those affected were being held. The response to the trial notices was overwhelming. The deluge of letters, affidavits and applications to be heard in support of the Nazi organizations presented the tribunal with staggering logistical problems. In response, the judges on March 12, 1946 announced their decision to appoint a commissioner charged with the responsibility of reviewing the submissions and hearing witnesses. He was to report to the tribunal the results of his examinations. The judges also gave permission to defense counsel to visit the camps to select witnesses to testify about the accused organizations.
Lt. Col. Airey Neave, a highly decorated British officer, was named commissioner. On May 20, 1946 he began to hear witnesses, but quickly found that there were too many for him to cope with alone. As a result, several assistant commissioners, one each from the US, the USSR and France, were appointed. Over the life of the commission (May 20-August 12, 1946), 101 witnesses were heard in person and hundreds of thousands of affidavits, submitted on behalf of the various Nazi organizations, were reviewed.
The hearings were held in a large room at the Nuremberg courthouse that was dominated by an elevated platform, where the commissioner or his assistant sat. Next to him was the court reporter. In front and to the left of the court reporter were the representatives of the prosecution and defense, and on the right, at the front was the witness. Commission sessions usually lasted about three hours and were held in the morning and again in the afternoon. The single interpreter, who sat to the right and in front of the commissioner, was responsible for the consecutive interpretation from English to German and from German to English, the only two languages used in the proceedings. (The Russian prosecutor was usually accompanied by his personal interpreter.) A second interpreter (who was expected to relieve the one on duty at the break), usually sat behind the interpreter on duty. (There were a total of three interpreters, working two days on and one day off.) In the rear of the room were seats for perhaps twenty visitors.
Examination of the witnesses was handled by lawyers designated to defend the organizations or, on occasion, by the lawyers of the individual defendants before the tribunal. Cross examination was generally handled by Robert Kempner, one of the American assistant prosecutors and Mervyn Griffith-Jones of the UK, and less frequently by Col. Yuri Pokrovsky of the USSR and Henri Monneray of France. The witnesses heard by the commission ranged from the top to the bottom of the hierarchical ladder, from Gauleiter, deputy minister and field marshal to local officials. Among the more prominent witnesses were: Dr. Helmut Knochen, head of the SD in France; Dieter Wilisceny, deputy to Adolf Eichmann, SS; Dr. Franz Schlegelberger, State Secretary/Deputy Minister of Justice; Walter Schellenberg, Chief, SS Foreign Intelligence; and General Field Marshalls Gerd von Rundstedt and Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
After receiving the six reports submitted by the commission, the tribunal issued its judgement on September 30 and October 1, 1946. While the leadership corps of the Nazi Party, the Gestapo, SD and the SS were all found guilty, the SA, Reich Cabinet and General Staff and the High Command were found not guilty.
[Source, Schwab, Gerald, "The Trial of Nazi Organizations as Part of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal," (unpublished article, June 14, 2002)].
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg opened in the fall of 1945, but by the winter of 1942, the governments of the Allied powers had already announced their determination to punish Nazi war criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations. Though some political leaders advocated for summary executions instead of trials, eventually the Allies decided to hold an International Military Tribunal so that, in the words of Cordell Hull, "a condemnation after such a proceeding will meet the judgment of history, so that the Germans will not be able to claim that an admission of war guilt was extracted from them under duress." The October 1943 Moscow Declaration, signed by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, stated that at the time of an armistice persons deemed responsible for war crimes would be sent back to those countries in which the crimes had been committed and adjudged according to the laws of the nation concerned. Major war criminals, whose crimes could be assigned no particular geographic location, would be punished by joint decisions of the Allied governments.
The trials of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal (IMT), the best known of the postwar war crimes trials, formally opened in Nuremberg on November 20, 1945, only six and a half months after Germany surrendered. Each of the four Allied nations -- the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France -- supplied a judge and a prosecution team. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence of Great Britain served as the court's presiding judge. The trial's rules were the result of delicate reconciliations of the Continental and Anglo-American judicial systems. A team of translators provided simultaneous translations of all proceedings in four languages: English, French, German, and Russian. After much debate, 24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of Nazi diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels never stood trial,having committed suicide before the end of the war. The IMT decided not to try them posthumously so as not to create an impression that they might still be alive. In fact, only 21 defendants appeared in court. German industrialist Gustav Krupp was included in the original indictment, but he was elderly and in failing health, and it was decided in preliminary hearings to exclude him from the proceedings. Nazi Party secretary Martin Bormann was tried and convicted in absentia, and Robert Ley committed suicide on the eve of the trial.
The IMT indicted the defendants on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The IMT defined crimes against humanity as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation...or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds." A fourth charge of conspiracy was added both to cover crimes committed under domestic Nazi law before the start of World War II and so that subsequent tribunals would have jurisdiction to prosecute any individual belonging to a proven criminal organization. Therefore the IMT also indicted several Nazi organizations deemed to be criminal, namely the Reich Cabinet, the Leadership Corps of the Nazi Party, the Elite Guard (SS), the Security Service (SD), the Secret State Police (Gestapo), the Stormtroopers (SA), and the General Staff and High Command of the German Armed Forces.
The defendants were entitled to a legal counsel of their choosing. Over 400 visitors attended the proceedings each day, as well as 325 correspondents representing 23 different countries. American chief prosecutor Robert Jackson decided to argue his case primarily on the basis of mounds of documents written by the Nazis themselves rather than eyewitness testimony so that the trial could not be accused of relying on biased or tainted testimony. Testimony presented at Nuremberg revealed much of what we know about the Holocaust including the details of the Auschwitz death machinery, the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, and the estimate of six million Jewish victims.
The judges delivered their verdict on October 1, 1946. Agreement among three out of four judges was needed for conviction. Twelve defendants were sentenced to death, among them Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hans Frank, Alfred Rosenberg, and Julius Streicher. They were hanged, cremated in Dachau, and their ashes were dropped in the Isar River. Hermann Goering escaped the hangman's noose by committing suicide the night before. The IMT sentenced three defendants to life imprisonment and four to prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years. It acquitted three of the defendants.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Gerald (Gerd) Schwab
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- Photo Designation
PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Nuremberg Trial (IMT Nazi Organization Hearings)
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Gerd (now Gerald) Abraham Schwab is the son of David and Paula (Kleefeld) Schwab. He was born February 19, 1925 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, where his father owned an international plumbing supply company with a branch in Basel, Switzerland. Gerd had one sibling, Margot (b. 1920). The Schwabs were somewhat observant Jews who attended synagogue on holidays and held a Bar Mitzvah for their son in 1938. Until 1933, Gerd attended the local Volksschule [primary school] in Freiburg. In April or May of that year, following Hitler's rise to power and the economic boycott of Jewish businesses, the Schwabs left Germany for Switzerland. They hoped to settle in Basel near their business, but the Swiss authorities would not permit them to remain for more than a brief period. The family therefore moved to St. Louis, a town just over the French border from Basel. For the next two years Gerd's father commuted to his company in Basel on a daily basis. In 1935, however, the French implemented a new measure stipulating that refugees could no longer reside within 100 km. of the border with Germany. Realizing that if they were to move inland they would have to abandon the company in Basel, Gerd's parents decided to move back to Germany. They settled in the town of Loerrach, which was just over the German border from Basel, and continued to run the business. Sometime in 1937 or 1938, however, the Nazi government revoked David Schwab's permit to travel to Switzerland. At this time the Schwabs began the process of liquidating the business and applying for American visas. With the help of a relative in the U.S., the Schwabs received an affadavit and were put on a waiting list of would-be immigrants. After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 and Gerd's subsequent dismissal from school, the Schwabs focused all their energy on emigration. Gerd's mother heard about a Swiss organization willing to sponsor refugee children to live in Switzerland. She submitted an application, and Gerd became one of only 300 Jewish children to be selected for the program. Gerd's sister was not living with the family by this time. Shortly before the Schwabs moved back to Germany, she went to live at a French boarding school in Remiermont. A few years later she was able to immigrate to the U.S. Gerd left for Switzerland in March or April of 1939. He stayed first on a small family farm in Moenchaltdorf and later moved to Huetten ob Waedenswil, where he lived in the home of a florist, who was probably an adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses. In the spring of 1940, Gerd received word from his parents that their visas had come through and were ready to be picked up in Stuttgart. Gerd rejoined his parents in Germany, and the three secured their visas on May 10, 1940, the day Germany invaded Belgium and Holland. Barred from leaving Germany through the Low Countries, Gerd's father applied for a transit visa at the Italian consulate. A well placed gift secured the visas, and they proceeded to Genoa. There they boarded the SS Washington bound for New York. After a period of transition, the Schwabs purchased a poultry farm in Cranberry, N.J. In May 1944 at the age of 19, Gerd was drafted into the U.S. Army. He joined the 10th Mountain Division and was sent to Italy in October of that year. At the end of the war he was transferred to an intelligence unit and assigned to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation Center (USDIC). At this facility, where high level German captives were being interrogated prior to being sent to trial, Gerd worked as a translator and interpreter. He remained at the USDIC until May 1946 when he was discharged from the army. Immediately thereafter, Gerd went to work for the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg. There he served as a translator and interpreter for the commission hearing evidence on the seven Nazi organizations that were under indictment by the IMT. In particular, he was involved in hearings about the German High Command and General Staff of the Wehrmacht. Gerd remained in Nuremberg until the day the IMT defendants were executed. He then moved to Berlin where he worked for the U.S. Chief of Consul responsible for trying the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings. Assigned the position of junior research analyst, Gerd sifted through the collection of Nazi files stored at Tempelhof airport and made abstracts of relevant documents for specific cases. His research focused on material for the Justice Trial. In May 1947 Gerd decided to return to the U.S. to pursue his higher education. He studied political science at the University of Chicago and Stanford before launching a career in the American foreign service. He was married on December 25, 1949 to Ingeborg (now Joan) Nussbaum, a German Jew from Berlin who had escaped from Germany on a Kindertransport to Great Britain shortly before the war. Both of her parents perished in the Holocaust.
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Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a tiny new machine that converts laser light into work. These optically powered machines self-assemble and could be used for nanoscale manipulation of tiny cargo for applications such as nanofluidics and particle sorting. It has been a long-standing goal in the nanoscience community to create self-assembling nanoscale machines that can perform work in conventional environments such as room temperature liquids.
The machines are based on a type of matter known as optical matter in which metal nanoparticles are held together by light rather than the chemical bonds that hold together the atoms that make up typical matter.
Both the energy for assembling the machine and the power to make it work come from light. Once the laser light is introduced to a solution containing nanoparticles, the entire process occurs on its own. Although the user does not need to actively control or direct the outcome, this could readily be done to tailor the machines for various applications, according to the researchers.
In optical matter, a laser light field creates interactions between metal nanoparticles that are much smaller than the wavelength of light. These interactions cause the particles to self-assemble into ordered arrays. This is a similar principle to optical trapping, in which light is used to hold and manipulate particles, biological molecules, and cells.
In previous work, the researchers discovered that when optical matter is exposed to circularly polarized light, it rotates as a rigid body in a direction opposite to the polarization rotation. In other words, when the incident light rotates one way the optical matter array responds by spinning the other. This is a manifestation of "negative torque." The researchers speculated that a machine could be developed based on this new phenomenon.
In the new work, they created an optical matter machine that operates much like a mechanical machine based on interlocking gears. In such machines, when one gear is turned, a smaller interlocking gear will spin in the opposite direction. The optical matter machine uses circularly polarized light from a laser to create a nanoparticle array that acts like the larger gear by spinning in the optical field. This "optical matter gear" converts the circularly polarized light into orbital, or angular, momentum that influences a nearby probe particle to orbit the nanoparticle array (the gear) in the opposite direction.
The researchers made two machines based on this design using laser light with a 600-nanometer wavelength and sliver nanoparticles just 150 nanometers in diameter in water. They found that using a gear made of eight nanoparticles created a more efficient machine than a seven-nanoparticle gear, suggesting that the machine's efficiency could be altered by building different gears.
The researchers said that their simulations show that a much larger machine made of many more particles should be able to exert more power to the probe, so that is an aspect of refinement that they anticipate pursuing.
They are now experimenting with making machines with many more particles or with particles of different materials. The practicality of the machine could also be improved by creating patterned gears where the nanoparticles are immobile. This would enable the ability to optically address and combine several gears to make a more complex machine.
For more information, contact Norbert F. Scherer at


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In conjunction with the Committee for Coast-Wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, New Orleans jazz singer Stephanie Jordan is gracing the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center stage, 1600 Government Street in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on Saturday, January 19, at 7:00pm, with a tribute to the fabulous Lena Horne. Seating is reserved and limited. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the Mary C Box Office or online at http://www.themaryc.org/Tickets/Index.html, or by phone at (228) 818-2878.
Accompanied by Emmy-award winning arranger Mike Esneault on piano, the Stephanie Jordan Big Band jazz concert will fill the Center with Jordan's signature sound of jazz standards from the Big Band era. The show will include highlights from Jordan's self-produced CD; "Stephanie Jordan Sings A Tribute to the Fabulous Lena Horne" which honors the legendary Grammy Award winner who also starred in many films.
Jordan said, "It is fitting that this performance coincides with Southern Mississippi's Official MLK Birthday Celebration. In addition to being a great performer, Lena Horne was also known for her work in the Civil Rights era and was applauded by many and shunned by others for refusing to play roles that stereotyped African-American women. Horne remained active in the civil rights movement even though she had been blacklisted by Hollywood for her activist role. She performed at rallies around the country on behalf of the NAACP, the National Council for Negro Women, Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Urban League, and was a speaker at the 1963 March on Washington."
Jordan continues, "Lena Horne even spoke at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the weekend before Evers was assassinated."
By the end of the 1940s, Horne had sued a variety of restaurants and theaters for discrimination and become an outspoken member of the Progressive Citizens of America. McCarthyism was sweeping through Hollywood, and Horne soon found herself blacklisted. Since she was unable to work in film, television, theater or recording, she performed primarily in posh nightclubs around the country. The ban eased in the mid-1950s, and Horne returned to the screen in the 1956 comedy Meet Me in Las Vegas (Source: Bio.com).
According to Horne's Kennedy Center biography, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or to groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen." She was, as well, outspoken when she met with prominent officials—including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt—about the need to pass anti-lynching laws.
As Chairman of the The Committee for a Coast-Wide Dr. Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration we would like to invite all residence of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,Tennessee, and Georgia to join use for our 27th Annual Coast-Wide celebration. We honor Dr. King for his sacrifice of life for the freedom of all. Our younger generation must understand that freedom isn't free. It was the sacrifice of our fore fathers that made it possible for us to enjoy the freedoms that we have today.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coast-Wide Birthday Celebration schedule of events include:
– Friday, January 18, 2013, Gospel Extravaganza, 7:00 pm, Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 4303 Tennessee Ave. Gulfport, MS. 39501, Guest Choir Dr. MLK Gospel Choir;
– Saturday, January 19, 2013, Law/Health Fair/Blood Drive/Business Expo, 10:00am-1:00pm, Kroc Center, 575 Division Street Biloxi, MS. 39530;
– Saturday, January 19, 2013, Stephanie Jordan Sings a Tribute to the Fabulous Lena Horne Jazz Concert, 7:00pm, Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center for Arts & Education, 1600 Government Street, Ocean Springs, MS 39564, Admission $20;
– Sunday, January 20, 2013, MLK Program, 3:00pm, Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 4303 Tennessee Ave. Gulfport, MS. 39501, Guest Speaker: Dr. M. Christopher Brown II;
– Monday, January 21, 2013, Coast-Wide Parade, 11:00am, Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MS. 39531, Following the Parade Battle of the Bands, Adults 5$ Children 12 & under 2$
These activities are supported in part by The Committee for a Coast-Wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, City of Biloxi, Harrison County Tourism Commission, Biloxi Branch NAACP, Harrison County Board of Supervisors, Mississippi Power Foundation, WJZD Radio, Rex Distributing, McDonalds, and the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center. For more information on the Committee for Coast-Wide Martin Luther King, J. Birthday Celebration, contact Mr. James Crowell, President of the Biloxi branch of the NAACP at 228-432-0206.
Stephanie who had the privileged of mentoring under the guidance of Shirley Horn says that it was actually "Lena Horne who served as her first introduction to great jazz singers. As a little girl I wanted to be Lena Horne."
Following her performance with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Chicago Tribune's leading art critic Howard Reich wrote, "The woman can sing and indisputably knows how to reach out across the footlights . . . bringing heft to music of the Gershwins and Cole Porter without pushing volume levels. Clearly she values plush sound and knows how to produce it."
Music critic James Walker added, "Stephanie Jordan . . . stepped in and simply mesmerized the near capacity Harris Theater crowd with a sparkling performance that surely put her in good stead with the astute Chicago audience. . . . "
Bill Milkowski of JazzTimes Magazine writes of her Jazz at Lincoln Center performance; "Stephanie Jordan, a standout here, was the real discovery of the evening. Her haunting rendition of (Here's To Life) this bittersweet ode associated with Shirley Horn was delivered with uncanny poise and a depth of understated soul that mesmerized the crowd and registered to the back rows. Singing with clarity of diction that recalled Nat "King" Cole . . ."
Selected for the cover of the World's Who's Who in Jazz; "Showbiz, Pioneers, Best Singers, Entertainers and Musicians from 1606 to the Present," the London Monthly Herald declares, "Ms. Stephanie Jordan in her silk green dress catches your eyes. She reminds me of the flashy dashy days of Josephine Baker at the Lido in Paris, the author referred to Jordan as "The classy lady of modern Jazz!"
Ms. Jordan is the fifth performer to emerge from a family of New Orleans bred musicians. As the daughter of renowned Avant-jazz saxophonist and teacher Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Stephanie's musical roots run deep.
VIP admission tickets are available in limited quantity and include reserved seating for the show, as well as entrance to the Meet & Greet with Stephanie Jordan at The Almanett Hotel in Gulfport on Friday, January 18, at 5pm. Please contact the Mary C Box Office for more information regarding VIP tickets.
The Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center for Arts & Education is located at 1600 Government Street in Ocean Springs, open Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm (later for special events). Call (228) 818-2878 for more information.


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