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International Claims
Austria | Belgium | Czech Republic | Denmark | France | Hungary | The Netherlands | Slovak Republic | Switzerland
Closing payments from the General Settlement Fund
In July 2009 the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism (GSF) commenced the disbursement of the closing payments from the Fund along the lines of the final quotas agreed by the Fund's Board of Trustees. The GSF was established as part of the Washington Agreement signed in January 2001.
As the GSF was capped at $210m, awards were made on a pro-rata basis and the final shares will be 10.56 percent of the determined losses in the claims-based process, 17.16 percent in the equity-based process and 20.74 percent for insurance policies.
To date the independent Claims Committee has decided 20,537 of the total of 20,700 applications, containing approximately 120,000 individual claims, and recognised property losses of over $1.5 billion.
Since 2005, the General Settlement Fund has paid $139 million to around 14,000 applicants and 4,000 heirs in the form of initial disbursements, so-called advance payments. Approximately 30 percent of all claims concerned occupational and educational losses, 20 percent liquidated businesses. The remaining 50 percent are related to the other categories of property – bank accounts, stocks, bonds, mortgages, moveable property, insurance policies, real estate, insofar as no in rem restitution has been granted pursuant to the GSF law, and other losses and damages.
In settling these claims, the in-house research team of the GSF obtained around 70,000 different documents from various Austrian archives.
Along with the compensation of so-called slave and forced labourers by the Reconciliation Fund, for whom a total of 436 million was made available, the Washington Agreement also constituted a package of restitution and compensation measures: The GSF provides, on the one hand, for monetary compensation of property losses and, on the other hand, for in rem restitution of seized properties which are publicly-owned today. Additionally, $150 million were resolved for the compensation of seized tenancy rights and disbursed by the National Fund and further social measures for victims of National Socialism were implemented.
Additional payments
Following an agreement reached in the beginning of September, recipients of the $7,000 award from the National Fund in respect of confiscated rental apartments, household belongings and personal possessions will receive an additional compensation of $1,200 (approx. £660). The awards are made from the residual monies already allocated to the National Fund.
The National Fund will write to everyone on their database in the next few weeks requesting confirmation of up to date bank details. It is envisaged that payments will then be made in January next year. Heirs of those survivors who received the original award but have since passed away will be entitled to claim instead.
Austrian pension charges
Recipients of an Austrian pension who are still incurring commission charges from Austrian banks are advised to close their Austrian bank account in order to avoid account-running charges.
To transfer their pension from Austria to the UK, pensioners had to open an account at an Austrian bank, usually Creditanstalt-Bankverein or Bank Austria. Today, however, to avoid charges it is possible to have the annuities transferred direct by the pension authority in Vienna to a UK account via the Deutsche Post Stuttgart. Application forms for the direct transfer of a pension are available from this office.
Quoting your account number, Creditanstalt-Bank Austria – which merged in 2003 – can be contacted at: Internationale Privatkunden, Schottengasse 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria.
Deadline extended for Austrian National Fund
Austrian Jewish victims of Nazi persecution now have until 30 June 2004 to apply for a $7,000 (approx. £4,500) payment from the Austrian National Fund in respect of loss of rental apartments, business leases, household furniture and personal belongings.
Eligible to receive an award are Austrian Nazi victims who were living in Austria at the time of the Anschluss (12 March 1938). Heirs of persecutees can apply only if the victim died on or after 24 October 2000.
Applicants should contact the National Fund direct for further information:
Parliament, A-1017 Vienna, Austria
Tel:(43-1) 408-1263 or 408-1264
Fax: (43-1) 408-0389
Erste Bank
Austrian Holocaust survivors have been alerted to another possible compensation scheme by the Holocaust Victims Information and Support Centre in Vienna: the restitution of accounts held at the Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG, a predecessor of Erste Bank.
The Erste Bank has produced two tables of names – that appear below – of Holocaust victims who invested money in the bank prior to the Anschluss in March 1938. Table A lists dormant accounts and includes the name and date of birth of the owner as well as the balance, having been uprated using an annual interest rate of 4.5%. Where the balance is still modest, Erste Bank has pledged to make awards of a minimum of €200.
Table B records the names and dates of births of those persecutees whose real estate was aryanised by Erste Bank as well as the details of people who held mortgages or other loans. A Nazi racial law required Erste Bank to extend loans to Jews, which could then be used only to pay the punitive Jew taxes (Reichsfluchtsteuer and Judenvermogensabgabe).
Applicants, including heirs and beneficiaries, must complete the one page form and return it to: Erste Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG, Code, "2004-Historikerprojekt", Graben 21, A-1010 Wien, Austria. Applications must be submitted by 31 December 2004.
The table of names can be viewed by clicking here (1.43MB Adobe PDF)
£1 million healthcare breakthrough for Austrian victims in UK
A new fund to help needy Austrian refugees and Holocaust survivors who find themselves in financial difficulty and in need of urgent medical attention comes into operation this month. The Austrian Holocaust Survivor Emergency Assistance Programme will be administered by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) in the UK on behalf of an 'umbrella group' of six Jewish charities, at the request of the US-based Claims Conference.
Grants to refugees and survivors from the Austrian Assistance Programme's fund – which will begin operating with £1 million at its disposal – will be made to those living on low incomes, who have a medical problem requiring urgent attention, or who suffer a domestic emergency with which they cannot afford to deal. It is anticipated that the fund will be operational for two years, until 2005. The Programme's key objective is to provide financial assistance to Austrian victims of the Nazis.
Applications for benefits can be made through any of the organisations which constitute the 'umbrella group' of six Jewish charities, each of which is responsible for the welfare of former victims of Nazi persecution living in Britain. They are the AJR, Jewish Care, World Jewish Relief, Agudas Israel Community Services, Claims for Slave Labour Compensation, and the 45 Aid Society.
Following the receipt of an application for benefit from the Austrian Assistance Programme, a social worker from the appropriate organisation will make an appointment to visit the applicant in order to make an initial assessment of his or her needs and to recommend awards accordingly. The funds can be used to finance a number of items, including wheelchairs, the installation of appliances and aids for the housebound, as well as dental care and the payment of emergency rent to prevent eviction.
Details of less straightforward cases will be referred to a special vetting committee, whose members will include both lay and professional representatives from the leading Jewish welfare organisations, who will assess and adjudicate on the applications. Each award from the Austrian Assistance Programme's fund is being kept within a maximum payment of £5,300 per person. Similarly, a maximum of £1,650 will also be paid to help former Austrians 'buy into' the Austrian Social Security pension scheme.
A mailing with information on the new scheme is being sent out to 1,400 former recipients of awards in the UK from the Mauerbach Fund, which distributed modest compensation payments to needy Austrian survivors in 1997 and 1998. This is being undertaken by the Claims Conference to raise awareness of the availability of the Austrian Assistance Programme.
The UK's allocation, planned to reach £1.2 million, is part of a worldwide fund of £6 million ($9 million) which was negotiated between the Austrian Ministries of Social Affairs and Finance and the Claims Conference. In addition, the scheme benefited from an endowment representing the residual balance from the Bank of Austria litigation which was launched in the US in 1998.
For additional information about the Austrian Holocaust Survivor Emergency Assistance Programme, or to make an application for benefits, please contact AJR Head of Social Services Marcia Goodman - Tel: 020 8385 3070 - AJR, Jubilee House, Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4RL
Austrian officials give details of General Settlement Fund
The deadline to apply to the General Settlement Fund expired on Wednesday 28 May 2003.
'Austria has a collective responsibility, not a collective guilt', the Austrian Ambassador told Holocaust survivors and refugees at meetings in Manchester and London. His Excellency Alexandra Christiani spoke frankly of the enormous difficulties and challenges, past and present alike, Austria faced, and expressed the hope that the new General Settlement Fund would in some small way provide assistance to Austrian victims of the Nazis.
Hannah Lessing, General Secretary of the Austrian National Fund for Victims of Nazism, which administers the General Settlement Fund, gave an historical overview of Austria's handling of compensation issues, both in the formative years after the war and more recently. She also provided a detailed explanation of the comprehensive compensation package offered by the Austrian government, banks and businesses. In an emotionally charged atmosphere, Ms Lessing also responded to enquiries ranging from the restitution of assets declared in 1938 at the Viennese Dorotheum to the fundamental questions of how much each applicant is likely to receive and when.
The meetings were attended by a total of over 1,000 people and provided an opportunity for the AJR successfully to disseminate information as well as identify and enrol new members.
Austrian General Settlement Fund
In addition to the individual awards of $7,000 made to Holocaust victims who lived in Austria before the war, the General Settlement Fund (GSF) provides payments 'to acknowledge the moral responsibility for losses and damages inflicted ... and to settle comprehensively unanswered questions of restitution and compensation'.
As well as compensation for bank accounts, stocks, bonds and mortgages, the GSF has been endowed with $210 million to recompense survivors as well as heirs for liquidated businesses, real property and unredeemed insurance policies. Compensation for personal valuables and household possessions was covered in the scheme introduced last year by the National Fund.
Under the rules of the GSF there will be two processes for claiming: claims-based and equity-based. A Claims Committee will investigate each application under relaxed standards of proof and an award will be made on a pro-rata basis once all applications have been submitted. In all cases, compensation will not exceed $2 million per individual.
Equity-based payments will be made in circumstances where claims cannot be verified under the claims-based procedure. As well as the above categories, claims can also be filed for occupational and educational losses.
Claims must be submitted before 27 May 2003.
Claims can also be filed in respect of land and buildings, which on 17 January 2001 were owned by the Federal Government or the City of Vienna.
All applicants to the Austrian National Fund will automatically receive further information on how to proceed with making a claim. The GSF is administered by the National Fund, which can be contacted by writing to The Parliament, 1017 Vienna, Austria, by telephone on 0043 1 408 12 63/4, or by visiting the National Fund website at www.nationalfonds.org.
Claimants to the GSF are advised to support their claims with relevant documents. To this end, claimants should write first to Dr Hubert Steiner at the Austrian National Archive requesting a search for records of assets that were declared forcibly by Jews in Austria following the Anschluss in March 1938. Letters must be no more than one page and should refer to the people who most likely owned the assets. The service is free. The address is: Archiv der Republik, Nottendorfergasse 2, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. The Archive can also be contacted by telephone on 0043 1 795 40 270, by fax on 0043 1 795 40 109 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Austrian government has also set aside $112 million (£76m), over the next ten years, to widen the provision of social benefits to victims not previously compensated. Under the terms of this part of the GSF, any former Austrian born after 1932 is now entitled to receive a state pension. Also included here is the extension of social care or Pfleggegeld to victims of Nazism even if they no longer live in Austria.
Austrian Reconciliation Fund
Eligibility for payments from the Austrian Reconciliation Fund extends to child Holocaust survivors who were forced to watch their close relatives scrubbing the streets as a measure of Nazi persecution in Vienna and other Austrian cities.
Applications to the Fund are divided into one of three categories:
- Forced labour in agriculture and forestry or in the form of personal services (households, hotels, etc.)
- Forced labour in industry, business, construction, electric power enterprises and in other business enterprises, in public institutions, at the railroads ("Reichsbahn") or postal services ("Reichspost")
- Slave labour (work under inhumane conditions while under detention in a concentration camp-like place of confinement)
Completed applications to the Reconciliation Fund, which was established in November 2000 and endowed with €436m or £300m, must be filed by 31 December 2003, although a letter stating an interest to submit a claim received by this date will be accepted as a registered application.
The Fund's remit is to, "make voluntary payments to former slave and forced labourers of the National Socialist regime on the territory of present-day Austria". At the outset, Fund administrators estimated they would make payments to 150,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide. To date, the fund has disbursed more than €284m, approximately £198m, to in excess of 109,000 Nazi victims. 603 survivors who live in Britain have shared almost €1.3m, around £900,000, in awards.
For application forms, explanatory materials and further information please contact P.O. Box 44, A-1011 Vienna. The telephone number is 0043 1 513 60 16 and the fax number is 0043 1 513 60 16 15. Details of how to apply are also available from the Fund's website www.reconciliationfund.at.
In Summary
Victims of National Socialism from Austria should all now be entitled to a state pension and should have received two lump sum compensation payments from the Austrian National Fund: the first, AS 70,000 or approximately £3,500 was paid about 3-4 years ago and can still be applied for; the second, worth AS 105,000 or around £4,500 and distributed in the last two years can only claimed until 31 December 2003 .
Applications for compensation in respect of assets looted in Belgium during the Second World War can be made to the Indemnification Commission for the Belgian Jewish Community's Assets. The Commission was created in Belgian law in December 2001 following the work of the Study Commission on Jewish Assets started in July 1997.
Whilst the total amount to be distributed by the Commission has not yet been disclosed – because the Jewish community continues to be involved in three sets of negotiations with Belgian banks, insurance companies and the government – the fund is expected to be endowed with €110m or approximately £73m.
Anyone who has previously completed an application form for asset restitution to the Belgian office of the World Jewish Restitution Organisation or the Belgian Jewish community does not have to complete another form. Heirs of the original owners of assets are also eligible to apply.
The 2,000 already filed claims will be passed to the Commission early next year for assessment. Applications must have been filed by 19 March 2003 and the Commission hopes to complete its work by the summer of 2004.
To receive a claim form and explanatory materials please write direct to the Commission at: Federal Public Department Chancellery and General Services, 16 rue de la Loi - Wetstraat 16, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. The telephone number is 0032 2 501 04 45. Enquiries can also be made via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
For further information and details of the work of the Commission visit www.combuysse.fgov.be and follow the links.
Czech Republic
The Government of the Czech Republic together with the Federation for Jewish Communities in Prague have created the Endowment Fund for victims of the Holocaust (EFVH).
Victims of Nazi persecution from the former Czechoslovakia who have not previously received compensation in respect of properties owned by them or their families that were confiscated during the Second World War are now entitled to a share of the 300 million Czech Krona fund (approximately £5.5m).
Those eligible to claim include the original owners, whose properties were confiscated between 29 September 1939 and 8 May 1945, those who have previously applied at court but were not successful and the rightful successors of the original owner.
Applicants have to prove that the original owner of the property was a victim of Nazi persecution and must provide details and ownership of the real estate.
The amount of compensation paid to each applicant will reflect the value of the property but in any case will not be allocated until after the filing deadline of 31 December 2001.
The completed application must show that the applicant has not received any previous compensation for the property and that the EFVH is authorised to investigate any necessary archives. Every application must also include an extract from the cadastre (Land Registry) stating the locality of the property. Other documents such as birth and death certificates should be included as necessary. Extracts from the cadastre can be obtained through the Fund office.
Having applied to the EFVH, applicants are free to pursue the restitution of the property through restitution legislation.
Claim forms are available from this office and completed applications should be addressed to Endowment Fund for Victims of the Holocaust, Legerova 22/1854, Czech Republic. The telephone number is 0042 02 2426 1615. The email address is firstname.lastname@example.com and further details about the fund can be found at www.fondholocaust.cz.
Information on and support with property restitution claims in the Czech Republic can be addressed to Mr David Lewin via the Search and Unite website www.remember.org/unite.
Hoejgaard and Shultz' Foundation for Former Slave Labourers
The Hoejgaard and Shultz' Foundation for Former Slave Labourers makes reparation payments to individuals who during the war performed forced labour for the Danish construction company Hoejgaard and Shultz or its subsidiaries in Germany or territories occupied by Germany.
The Copenhagen based law firm Jonas Bruun has been appointed to process applications to the Foundation, which was created by Hoejgaard Holding, parent company of Hoejgaard and Schultz Constructions Company.
Advertising and a direct mail operation have been undertaken, often utilising the Survivors Registry in the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C focusing on individuals who during the war resided in the localities where it has been confirmed the Hoejgaard and Schultz construction company conducted business.
To date, the Foundation, which has a capital of less than Euro 400,000, has received only 70 applications but none have come from UK survivors. At a recent meeting of the Foundation's Board of Directors, it was decided not to extend the deadline beyond 30 November 2002. The Board cannot begin making ex gratia payments until all applications have been received. In addition they are well aware of the age of most of their applicants and feel that to continue as speedily as possible would be desirable.
This fund is distinct from the German Slave and Forced Labour Compensation Programme, though applicants may, if eligible claim from both funds.
For further information and details of how to apply contact Peter Kierkergaard at Jonas Bruun. The address is:
Copenhagen K
Mr Kierkergaard's telephone number is 00 45 33 47 88 84 and the main Fax number is 00 45 33 47 89 39. The law firm's website is www.jonasbruun.com.
French investigative commission
Following an agreement signed by the US and French governments in January 2001, the "Commission for the compensation to victims of despoilment resulting from anti-Semitic legislation of the Vichy Regime and the German Occupation" (CIVS) has been created in France to investigate claims for lost, stolen or confiscated assets.
According to the decree, claims can be filed for materials and financial assets despoiled by the Vichy Regime and its German occupier during the Second World War.
The CIVS conducts free research and investigations into a claim but materials that might support a case include birth and marriage certificates, deportation cards, any document showing certifying ownership of assets. If you are acting for additional beneficiaries their names and addresses should also be included. Whilst it is not possible to receive a second compensation if a reparation has already been awarded re-evaluation of cases will be undertaken.
The average offer is €25,500 but it can take up to two years to process an application and for an offer to be made.
To make an application or receive further information about the work of the Commission write to Le Rapporteur Général, Commission Indemnisation de Victimes de Spoliation (CIVS), 1 Rue de la Manutention, 75116 Paris, France. The telephone number is 0033 1 56 52 85 00. Their website is www.civs.gouv.fr.
French Banks
As well as the claim schemes introduced by J P Morgan and Barclays (see Bank Accounts) the CIVS also pays compensation for dormant French bank accounts from two funds. Bank Fund A has been endowed with $50m and makes awards in respect of accounts found in archival research. Fund B with $22.5m pays standard $3,000 awards for accounts that were active prior to 1941 but where such evidence cannot be found. The deadline for Fund B claims expired in January 2003.
French Orphan Pension
The French government is paying a measure of compensation to orphans whose parents were deported from France during the Second World War.
Applications are restricted to people who were under twenty-one at the time and who had one or both parents murdered as a consequence of deportation by the French collaborationist authorities.
Precluded from an application are those victims who are already receiving a pension from either the German or Austrian government.
Those eligible will receive either a one-time payment of 180,000 Ffr (approx. £18,000) or a monthly pension of 3,000 Ffr (approx. £300).
Applications should be addressed to:
Direction des Statuts des Pensions et de la Reinsertion Sociale
Quartier Lorge
Rue Neuve de Bourg L'Abbey
14037 Caen Cedex
Alternatively, UK applicants can address applications to:
21 Cromwell Road
London SW7 2EN
Evidence supporting the application must include a copy of their parent's deportation certificate together with copies of the applicant's birth certificate, signed affidavit as well as bank details. Copies of deportation or disappearance acts can be obtained from the Central Office or via:
Direction de la Memoire du Patrimoine et des Archives
Sous-Direction des Archives et des Bibilioteques
Bureau des Mentions
14 rue Saint-Dominique
00450- Armees
Hungarian Government
The deadline to apply for the Hungarian government compensation programme expired on 31 December 2006. Under the terms of the law that provides for the compensation, the Hungarian government will make lump sum awards of $1,800 (HUF 400,000) to the living spouse, child or parent of a Holocaust victim who died due to the 'political despotism of the Hungarian authority or an official person, or if the injured person died during deportation or forced labour '.
In cases where there are no such living relatives then a living sibling is entitled to half the compensation amount.
Updates on applications submitted prior to the deadline should be sent to: The Central Compensation Office, 1116 Budapest, Hauszmann Alajos utca 1. The telephone number is 0036 1 371 8900, fax is 0036 1 371 89 12 and email firstname.lastname@example.com
The Netherlands
Dutch asset claims deadline extension
An extension to the deadline in respect of claims for the looting of safe-deposit boxes in Dutch banks has been announced. During the Second World War Jewish clients were charged for their deposit-boxes to be broken into. Claims must have been received by 1 July 2003.
To receive claim forms please write to: Foundation for Individual Securities Claims Shoah, Postbus 94200, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Dutch bank and insurance claims
Now that negotiations involving Jewish representative groups with Dutch banks and, separately, the Dutch Association of Insurers, have been concluded, claims can be filed in respect of dormant Dutch bank accounts and unpaid insurance policies bought before the Second World War in The Netherlands.
Completed research has identified credit balances in more than 3,000 accounts held today in Dutch banks. The results of the investigation do not include the balances compulsorily transferred to the looting Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co (LiRo) bank during the Second World War.
Claims can be submitted until 31 December 2002. Further details and information about how to obtain the relevant application materials are available from the Stichting Individuele Bankaanspraken Sjoa, P.O. Box 60000, 1320 AA Almere, The Netherlands.
The Sjoa Foundation for Individual Insurance Claims was established in November 1999 and endowed with NLG 50 million (approx. £14.5m) from the Dutch Association of Insurers to settle outstanding policies.
To date, approximately 7,000 claims have been received with more than €700,000 (£440,000) distributed to rightful beneficiaries.
Under the terms of an agreement signed with the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC), the Sjoa Foundation will handle all Dutch claims received by ICHEIC.
Claims can be filed up to 1 January 2010. Application forms and further details are available from the Stichting Individuele Verzekeringsaanspraken Sjoa, PO Box 91475, 2509 EB, The Hague, The Netherlands. Additional information is available at www.stichting-sjoa.nl.
Further compensation for looting of assets in the Netherlands
The Foundation for Individual Securities Claims – established jointly by the Central Jewish Board in the Netherlands and the Israel Platform of formal Dutchman in Israel together with the Netherlands Bankers' Association, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange Association and the Amsterdam Exchanges N.V. – provides compensation for three specific losses:
- For the gap in the post-war restoration of securities rights – The missing 10% of compensation paid in 1953 by the Restoration of Securities Rights Guarantee Fund (Waarborgfonds Rechtsherstel) – at this time only 90% of securities stolen by the Nazis was paid.
The Foundation has arranged to compensate for the incomplete restoration of rights by the Waarborgfonds. This provision does not cover looted securities for which no restitution was paid after the war.
If you are a victim or the legal successor of a victim and can prove receipt of a payment from the Waarborgfonds Rechtsherstel after 1953, you may apply to the Foundation for compensation for this incomplete restoration of rights.
If approved, applicants will receive 11.11% of the amount paid by the Waarborgfonds Rechtsherstel in 1953. The amount will be multiplied by 6.2, in keeping with the rise in cost of living since 1954.
- For the Puttkammer commission – Half of the commission charged to Jews who surrendered jewellery to Puttkammer during WWII in the hope of avoiding deportation is being refunded by the Foundation.
During World War II Jews in the Netherlands paid enormous sums for Puttkammer stamps entitling them to temporary stays of deportation. Puttkammer received commission for mediating the issue of the stamps. If your name appears as one of the victims on the list published in the advertisement, or if you are the heir of a victim, you may apply to the Foundation for compensation for the commissions received by Puttkammer.
Eligible applicants will receive 0.5% of the value received by Puttkammer from the original victim. To take into account the growth of the capital market, the amount will be multiplied by 27.5.
- Restitution of safe-deposit box expenses – During WWII banks charged their Jewish clients for having to break open their safe-deposit boxes. If you show that your safe-deposit box was broken open at the time, and that you were paid the cost, you will be eligible for a refund.
In the Netherlands the Nazi forces broke open the safe-deposit boxes of Jews. Banks passed the charges of breaking them open on to the safe-deposit box holders. If as a victim or as the heir of a victim, you can substantiate that a safe-deposit box was broken open during World War II, you may apply to the Stichting for reimbursement for these charges.
If approved, a reimbursement of ƒ 1,415 or € 642.10 for the charges for breaking open safe-deposit boxes will be paid.
Further information about these claim procedures is available by writing to Foundation for Individual Securities Claims Shoah, Postbus 94200, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
NB. Payments from the Foundation are separate from, and in no way interfere with, allocations from the Maror Foundation. Once awards have been made, any residual assets of the Foundation will be distributed to the Stichting Individuele Maror-gelden, the Stichting Maror-gelden Overheid and the Stichting Collectieve Maror-gelden Israël.
The Maror Foundation
Victims of Nazi persecution in the Netherlands are eligible to receive monies from a Dutch government scheme "in recognition of retrospectively identified shortcomings in the restoration of rights following World War II and the government's conduct in this matter".
The Stichting Maror-Gelden Overheid was created jointly in the spring of 2000 by Dutch Jewish organisations and the government of Holland and makes awards to Jewish targets of persecution who lived in Holland during the war and whose assets were looted during this period. Heirs of victims who died on or after 8 May 1945 are also eligible to apply.
From a total of NLG 764 million (approx. £220m) comprised of contributions from the Dutch government, banks, insurance companies and the stock exchange, each eligible person will receive a first payment of NLG 14,000 (approx. £4,000) with the possibility of a further grant once all applications have been received.
Owing to the uncertainty of the number of applicants a decision as to the total amount that will be received by each claimant has not yet been disclosed.
The deadline for submitting claims is 31 December 2001 and completed applications should be sent to: Maror Desk Netherlands, P0 Box 19008, 2500 CA The Hague, The Netherlands.
Additional information is available by contacting the Help desk by fax on +31 70 33 824 56.
Please click here for the full text of a letter written by the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to the Dutch Parliament commenting on the activities and conclusions of Committees set up to investigate the fate of assets belonging to Jewish vicitms of Nazi persecution in Holland during the Second world War.
Slovak Republic
Slovak Compensation Fund
A SKK 850 million (approximately £13.5m) fund has been established by the government of the Slovak Republic to provide compensation to Holocaust victims and to "finance projects concerning social and cultural needs of the Jewish community in Slovakia".
The Council for the Compensation of Holocaust Victims in the Slovak Republic will pay compensation to those Holocaust victims (or their heirs) whose properties were aryanised during the Second World War on the territory of the wartime Slovak state and that part of Slovakia that was 'awarded' to Hungary in 1938 by a German and Italian brokered settlement.
Application forms and further information are available by contacting the Council at: Kancelaria Rady, P.O. Box 115, 820 05 Bratislava 25, Slovak Republic. The Council's website is www.holocaustslovakia.sk and they can be reached on email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The deadline to apply is 31 December 2003.
Dormant accounts
For information about the work of the Claims Resolution Tribunal (CRT) and to see a list of dormant accounts held in Swiss banks visit www.crt-ii.org
Swiss Refugee Programme
Applicants under the Refugees class of the Swiss bank settlement had until
30 September 2001 to file claims. Compensation is paid to those "who were either denied entry or expelled from Switzerland, or were admitted into Switzerland but abused or mistreated there."
Further help
Written enquiries should be sent to Central Office for Holocaust Claims (UK), Jubilee House, Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4RL. For assistance with the completion of application forms please telephone 020 8385 3070 for an appointment.


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National Immunization Survey (NIS), 1998 (ICPSR 3878)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This survey is part of a series that was designed to track the rates of proper vaccination of children in the United States. The target age range for the children was 19 to 35 months. Respondents were queried on the number of children present in the household between the ages of 12 months and 3 years, those children's dates of birth, their sex, whether there were vaccination records for the children, whether those records were accessible, whether the respondent was the adult in the household most knowledgeable about the vaccinations, and whether the respondent accompanied the children to more than 50 percent of their vaccinations. For each child in the household, information was gathered on whether he or she had received all of the recommended vaccinations, and the number of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis shots (DTP or DT), polio vaccinations, measles vaccinations, meningitis or Haemophilus Influenzae type B (HIB) shots, varicella (chicken pox) vaccinations, and hepatitis B (Hep B) shots each child had received. Further information was obtained about additional vaccinations the child may have received to combat diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, yellow fever, and malaria, the child's health care providers, the number of doctors that had performed vaccinations, and whether the measles vaccination was strictly for measles or for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) combination. Once parental consent was obtained, health care providers were queried on the vaccination records for each child whose vaccination information was gathered from parents. Health care providers were queried on the type and the level of detail of the vaccination records for each child, the dates and types of vaccinations administered, the date of each child's first visit to that provider regardless of reason, the date of the child's most recent visit to that provider regardless of reason, and the type of care the provider gave to the child. Health care provider respondents were asked to describe their facility, to give their position within the facility, the child's date of birth according to their records, whether the child was known by another last name, and to provide a list of any additional health care providers for that child. Demographic information provided by the parents or guardians includes the number of people living in the household, the number of people over and under 18 in the household, the number of children under the age of 12 months, ethnicity of the child and respondent, marital status of the respondent, respondent's relationship to the child, respondent's educational level or that of the child's mother, the date of birth of the child's mother, household income, and whether the child was living at the same address as when he or she was born.
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U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION SURVEY, 1998 [Computer File]. ICPSR version. Hyattsville, MD: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [producer], 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03878.v1
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Subject Terms: child health, disease prevention, health, health care, health care delivery, immunization, medical records, vaccines
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1998
- 1998-01-22--1999-04-16
Universe: The target population for the National Immunization Survey is children aged 19 to 35 months living in the United States at the time of the interview.
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Sample: The National Immunization Survey uses a random-digit-dialing (RDD) telephone survey to identify households containing children in the target age range and to interview an adult who is knowledgeable about the child's vaccinations. With the consent of the child's parent or guardian, the National Immunization Survey also contacts (by mail) the child's health care providers to request information on vaccinations from the child's medical records. Samples of telephone numbers are drawn independently, for each calendar quarter, within 78 Immunization Action Plan (IAP) areas. Of the 78 IAP areas, 28 (including the District of Columbia) are urban areas. The remaining 50 are either an entire state or a "rest of state" IAP area (where the state contains one or more urban IAP areas). The target sample size in each IAP area is designed to achieve an approximately equal number of children with completed telephone interviews in all 78 IAP areas.
telephone interviews and mailback questionnaires
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Pablo Sandoval makes World Series history as San Francisco Giants beat Detroit Tigers in Game 1
It's a good thing the Giants signed Pablo Sandoval through his arbitration years. Otherwise, his representation would do a little name dropping at the Panda's hearing.
As in Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson, Albert Pujols … and Pablo Sandoval.
The Panda became the fourth player in World Series history to hit three home runs in a game.
In one way, the Panda is in a class by himself. Sandoval became the first player to hit home runs in his first three plate appearances of a World Series game.
Sandoval came up with two outs in the first inning. He fell behind 0-2 to Detroit's Justin Verlander. Verlander's third pitch was a letter-high fastball that Sandoval hammered over the center-field fence 410 feet away.
In the third inning, Sandoval came up after the Giants had scored a run on an Angel Pagan double off the third base bag and a single by Marco Scutaro (yet again). This time, Sandoval worked ahead on the count 2-0, drawing a visit to the mound from Tigers' pitching coach Jeff Jones (who I loved in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, by the way). On Verlander's next pitch, a fastball on the outer half of the plate, Sandoval went the opposite way, smacking the ball over the left-field run for a two-run shot and a 4-0 lead. The shot drew a "wow" from Verlander.
In the fifth, Sandoval came up with one out against reliever Al Alburquerque. Sandoval threw his bat after swinging and missing on the first pitch. When the bat landed near the Tigers' dugout, it broke the handle. The Panda fetched another bat, and after a ball in the dirt, he served the ball deep over the center-field wall.
Sandoval came up once more in the game and simply lined a single to center off Jose Valverde, ending a 4-for-4 night.
To look at Sandoval's night another way: Last year, the Cardinals' David Freese was the World Series MVP with 8 hits, 4 runs, 1 HR and 7 RBI for the series. On Wednesday night, Sandoval had 3 hits, 3 runs, 3 HR and 4 RBI.
The last three times a player had a three-homer game, his team went on to win the World Series. Ruth's Yankees beat the Cardinals in 4 in 1928, Jackson's Yankees beat the Dodgers in 6 in 1977 and Pujols' Cardinals beat the Rangers in 7 in 2011.
Here's a look at other three-homer games in the World Series.
1926 Game 4: Yankees 10, Cardinals 5
Oct. 6, 1926, at Sportsman Park, St. Louis
Ruth went 3 for 3 with two walks. He hit a solo off in the first and a solo in the third against Flint Rhem and a two-run shot in the sixth off Hi Bell.
1928 Game 4: Yankees 7, Cardinals 3
Oct. 9, 1928 at Sporstman Park, St. Louis
Ruth went 3 for 5. He hit solo homers off Bill Sherdel in the fourth and seventh innings and another solo off Pete Alexander in the eighth.
1977 Game 6: Yankees 8, Dodgers 4
Oct. 18, 1977, at Yankee Stadium
Jackson went 3 for 3 with one walk. He hit a two-run shot off Burt Hooton in the fourth inning, a two-run homer off Elias Sosa in the fifth and a solo shot off Charlie Hough in the eighth.
2011 Game 3: Cardinals 16, Rangers 7
Oct. 22, 2011, at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington
Pujols went 5 for 6 with two singles. He hit all three of his homers off relievers — a three-run shot off Alexi Ogando in the sixth inning, a two-run homer off Mike Gonzalez in the seventh and a solo shot off Darren Oliver in the ninth.


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A.J. to get Good Guy Award day before Rangers FanFest
By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com
ARLINGTON -- Catcher A.J. Pierzynski has been selected as the 2013 winner of the Harold McKinney Good Guy Award by members of the local chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He will be honored at the Rangers Awards Dinner on Friday, Jan. 24, in Grapevine, Texas.
The dinner will be followed by the 2014 Texas Rangers FanFest, which will be held at the Ballpark in Arlington from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT on Saturday, Jan. 25. Tickets for the event, which is part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Ballpark in Arlington, are on sale at texasrangers.com/fanfest.
FanFest will feature:
• Autograph sessions with current Texas Rangers players and coaches, with individuals signing in the Capital One Club, Captain Morgan Club, Batters Eye Club, and Texas Rangers Hall of Fame (3rd floor).
• Interactive question & answer sessions with Rangers executives, players and announcers in the Rangers Hall of Fame (1st floor).
• On-field events to include running the bases, bullpen toss and catching popups (weather permitting).
• Pitching, hitting and fielding clinics conducted by Rangers coaches and alumni.
• Free tours of the Rangers clubhouse and dugout.
• Free play in the Rangers Kids Zone.
• Photo stage with current and former Rangers players.
• Rangers Baseball Foundation Sale.
• Food and beverages on sale at The Short Stop Grill, Captain Morgan Club and other Ballpark concession stands.
• Merchandise on sale at Ballpark Gift Shop locations.
Admission to the 2014 Texas Rangers Fan Fest Presented by AT&T is $10 for adults, $8 for season ticket holders, and $5 for children 13 and under. Parking at the Ballpark is free for the event.
For more information, visit texasrangers.com/fanfest.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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How do i make a function that uses this statement:
cout << "Enter 4 positive number: "<<endl;
for( x = 0; x < north; x++)
cin >> north;
cin >> south;
cin >> east;
cin >> west;
cout <<'*';
I am not allowed to use assigment statements, only function calls. I don't know how to do that with a statement that isn't mathamatic. I know there is probably a better way to write the above statement, possibly using a loop. But i am really stuck on how to creat a function
Anyone who can help, I would very much appreciate it.


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and exclaimed when he saw my comp
and it's many, uh... counterparts.
hey..thats not so bad what. Want to see the back of my desktop? LOL
ATTN: Hau Yon
– Haha. You think it's not so bad cos you're comparing it to you and me. NORMAL PPL.
You should see the comps of the ppl in my company. Either there's NOTHING plugged in, or even if there is, max it's just one mouse. That's all. Not normal lah!
then you can't compare with my place either uish uish!!
ATTN: ah:beng
– Whatever the case, you are the boy without speakers. Hah!
haha u should hang your portable hd up so it looks like ur mac is on IV drip!
ATTN: Tzy Wen
– HAHAHA. OMG, that's quite a brilliant idea. Haha. My boss would so think I've gone nuts. Haha.
You do utilise your ports to the max. Thats a lot of slots used up
uh?! You are a fan of logitech speakers...
ATTN: Chee Hoe
– Yeah, I do. Kinda pity my comp sometimes. It often gets overworked.
ATTN: Adrian Lim
– Hmmm. Not really. It's just that they're cheap. I use Creative at home. But I prefer Altec Lansing. If only they weren't as expensive. -_-
me altec lansing lover also!
the computers in my office arent usually pimped up. :) should you reincarnate into a pc, pray to be a pc for my office.
ATTN: sheon
– Haha. Good sound quality ma. It's not surprising that many ppl will prefer it lor. Just that it costs a bomb. =_=
And EXCUSE ME, I don't intend on being any old PC okayyy. I'd be a Mac. GOOOOO, APPLE!
So secured, even got the kensington lock.
ATTN: Simon Seow
– Have to lah. There was once ppl stole our laptops. 3 kena taken on the same day during lunch hour. -_-
yay normal people LOL. one mouse? wtf -.-. they tell the computers what to tyepe ar? superheroes sial. Like the kid in Heroes haha. Eh you srsly damn sarcastic LOL. its hard to sense sarcasm thru the internet. My friend Yinhao couldn't haha.
ATTN: Hau Yon
– Haha. They lucky cos they use laptop and the keyboard comes with it ma. HAHA. I can just imagine talking to the comp. LOL.
Kasihan your friend. Haha. He must be traumatised after this encounter. Haha. As him to chill laaaa...
you should try it, they are quite entertaining ;]. Have an intellectual chat with them. Quite worth well. XD Yeah he is fine la. Getting on well.
ATTN: Hau Yon
– I tried having the comp read my friend's nicks when they get online with MSN last time. It was super funny. Haha. Especially when my friends had really weird names. Kept me laughing for days.
And then I got tired of it. =p
Good to know that Yin Hao's doing well. =)


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A push for legislative approval of a gaming compact between the state and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe ran into some wary lawmakers who questioned a previous compact's rejection by the federal government and whether the current compact should be shelved until the casino approval process is further along.
A push for legislative approval of a gaming compact between the state and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe ran into some wary lawmakers who questioned a previous compact's rejection by the federal government and whether the current compact should be shelved until the casino approval process is further along.
The Mashpee face a few hurdles in their bid to build a 150,000 square-foot resort casino with 150 table games, 40 poker tables and 3,000 slots on an industrial park in Taunton. The first compact with the state was rejected by the Department of the Interior, and the federal government is still reviewing the necessary step of taking the Mashpee's land into federal trust. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has decided to open up the licensing process in southeastern Massachusetts to commercial casino developers along with the tribe, while the commission waits to see how the land-in-trust and gaming compact are resolved.
According to the tribe and its attorneys, the land-in-trust application is on its way towards clearing another stage in the approval process, and the new compact will likely receive approval as federal regulators have been apprised of the negotiations.
The second iteration of the gaming compact was met with some skepticism, however, as questions remain over whether the tribe will be able to receive all the necessary approvals.
"I think we can put it on a shelf," said Rep. Robert Koczera, D-New Bedford, as the compact was up for a hearing before the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. He said, "We can take it up if the time comes when the land is taken into trust."
"We swung and missed in a pretty big way the last time around," House Chairman Joe Wagner, D-Chicopee, said, referring to the rejection of the last compact. He said it was his intention to "at some point sooner rather than later move forward this compact to a vote." Wagner later said, "This committee is likely at a point going to move this compact forward."
The last compact between the state and the tribe was the first of its kind that federal regulators had seen, said Brendan Ryan, chief of staff to Gov. Deval Patrick. Massachusetts is the first state to move ahead on tribal casinos and commercial casinos at the same time, Ryan told the committee, attempting to assuage concerns that the second compact would be rejected again.
"We're as confident as can be that we addressed every concern," said Ryan, who said the Bureau of Indian Affairs worked much more closely with the tribe and the state in the second go-around. He said, "I think it's more likely to succeed because we got constructive feedback and addressed it."
The November 2011 gaming law allowed for three casinos in three regions of the state and created a special process for an Indian tribe that was able to line up a vote in the host community and receive a legislatively approved gaming compact with the state by July 31, 2012, which the Mashpee accomplished.
Mashpee Chairman Cedric Cromwell told reporters the compact gives "a meaningful concession to our tribe — exclusivity" and said it is "so important to build a relationship." The new compact creates a sliding scale for what the tribe would owe the state, ranging from 21 percent as long as it's the only casino in the state to zero if another casino opens in the southeastern region.
If the federal government grants the tribe land in trust, the tribe will be able to put "a shovel in the ground," regardless of any revenue-sharing agreement with the state, Cromwell said. He told the committee, "If our compact is not approved, the tribe's going to move forward anyway."
A tribal casino without revenue-sharing would provide fierce competition to any nearby commercial casino that would have to hand over a portion of profits to the state.
"You can't compete with us," Cromwell said.
KG Urban Enterprises, which wants to build a casino in the southeastern region, rehabbing a polluted former power plant along the New Bedford waterfront, has already spent $7 million on its potential venture, according to KG Managing Director Andrew Stern.
"All we've ever asked for is a level playing field," Stern said. He said it was a "worthy endeavor" to attempt to clean up a "filthy" brownfield along the harbor.
KG Urban Enterprise's gaming expert Marsha Sajer said if its reservation is approved, the Mashpee would need a compact to build a full-fledged casino, and could only go forward with a much smaller operation absent a compact.
"It simply is going to be a bingo hall or nothing more than a card room," Sajer said. She also said that the Bureau of Indian Affairs closely reviews the environmental effects of taking land into trust for gaming, and said it can be a six-year process.
"These are indigenous people to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," said Senate Chairwoman Gale Candaras, who said the state would have to negotiate a compact with the tribe if it obtained land in trust. She said, "All they ever got from us was smallpox, and we treated them very poorly."
The land-in-trust application is currently under a review to determine whether the Mashpee were federally recognized before 1934, according to the tribe's attorney, Arlinda Locklear, who said the federal government had dealt with the tribe on multiple occasions over the years.
Locklear said that in the 1820s, as the U.S. secretary of war was removing tribes along the eastern seaboard, the federal government elected to allow the Mashpee to stay, and in the early 20th century about a dozen Mashpee students were sent off to an Indian school in Pennsylvania.
Locklear said the land-in-trust will give the Mashpee a tribal reservation, and said final approval is "months, less than years" away from final approval. It is "weeks" from clearing the historic test, Locklear told the committee.
Mashpee Vice Chairwoman Jessie Baird said Taunton was an important place in the tribe's history, as a tribal chief during King Philip's War was captured by the English while crossing the Taunton River and her head was put on a pike in Taunton where it stayed for years.
"We have not forgotten our territory or who we are. And I will submit to you that water always seeks its source," Baird told the committee in the middle of a roughly five-hour hearing.
Both Ryan and Mashpee attorney Howard Cooper said Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn, who rejected the last compact, seemed likely to approve the new compact if it reaches his desk.
"They could not give us pre-approval because no such thing exists," Cooper said.
Rep. Keiko Orrall, R-Lakeville, who now represents the area of Taunton that includes the proposed site, said she thought the federal government would not approve the compact, because the Gaming Commission's decision to open up the licensing process to commercial bidders removes the tribe's exclusivity.
Rep. Antonio Cabral, D-New Bedford, said that the compact would allow the tribe to decide on a completely different site for a range of reasons, allowing it to build a casino as far away as Chatham.
Rep. Kevin Kuros, R-Uxbridge, said a potential compact would still be valuable to the tribe even if it received land in trust before a compact was approved.
"There's value in exclusivity, and that value doesn't go away the day that land gets taken into trust," said Kuros.


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She was born March 3, 1921 at Freedonia, Kan. to the late Russell and Pearl Ray Farrington. During WWII she worked for U.S. Rubber in Detroit, Mich. She married Opal Tilmon in 1947 and their son, Tommy, was born in 1949. She worked for awhile for the Dardanelle Lunchroom. She was an active member of the First United Methodist Church, a volunteer of St, Mary's Regional Medical Center in Russellville, a member of the Council Oaks Chapter #589 Order of the Eastern Star, and helped deliver Meals on Wheels.
Her parents opened the Kountry Kandy Kitchen making many delicious candies, including hand dipped chocolates. Frances and her sister, Marion Thaxton, assisted them and continued operation after his death until early 1960's.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Thomas Opal Tilmon; a son, Tommy Allen Tilmon; sister, Marion Pearl Thaxton; and two brothers, Charles Farrington and Red Farrington.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church in Dardanelle with Pastor Jim Benfer officiating. Burial will be Private. Visitation will be open on Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Pallbearers will be J.J. Wilcox, Bruce David McConnell, Billy Tilmon, Bill Storment, Al George, and Bob Griffin.
In Lieu of Flowers, Memorial Donations may be made to the First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 188, Dardanelle, Arkansas 72834.
Arrangements By Cornwell Funeral Home, Dardanelle.
Online Guest Book and Condolences at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.


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Nobody wants a second American Civil War, so why are Republicans in North Carolina repudiating the Constitution? Here's the law they're trying to pass.
SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.
SECTION 2. The North Carolina General Assembly does not recognize federal court rulings which prohibit and otherwise regulate the State of North Carolina, its public schools, or any political subdivisions of the State from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.
Amazing. Not only are they trying to make laws in open defiance of constitutional limits, but they're doing it for a stupid cause — so they can declare a state religion.
So far, we've determined that some Southerners are traitors, and that they have a history of committing treason for appallingly stupid reasons. This is not good for your reputation, people!


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Beazer Homes, the national home builder plagued by recent accounting, financial and legal problems, has given a preliminary fourth-quarter report reflecting a rocky fiscal quarter and year.
This week, the company said it was unable to provide investors with final fourth-quarter financial figures because in a recent internal audit, the company determined it will have to restate financial figures for fiscal years 2004 through 2006, and for interim periods of 2007. In preliminary fourth-quarter results, the company said it expects to take a $230 million charge for abandoned land option contracts, a surplus of unsold homes and several other related items.
Also this week, CTW Investment Group called for the ouster of company CEO Ian McCarthy, citing the company's difficulty in accounting for land development costs, sale-leaseback transactions, as well as for other legal matters plaguing the home builder.
Still, in the company's fourth-quarter preliminary statement, McCarthy spoke on how Beazer plans to stabilize its financial position.
"With recent industry data suggesting that market conditions may deteriorate further before a recovery is underway, we need to adapt and further align our cost structure and investment levels to expected lower volumes," he said. "While these decisions are not taken lightly, they are necessary in order to maintain our sound financial position."
To combat its declining financial position, since October 2007, Beazer has reduced its employee base by 25 percent -- approximately 650 positions. Overall headcount has declined more than 50 percent, the company said, both through reductions and attrition. Beazer's board of directors also recently voted to suspend the company's quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share.
Additionally, the company has been investigated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for regulatory violations. McCarthy has said he expects negotiations between the home builder and federal agency to begin "in the short term."


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text: This might be better in TV/Media...but what the hell...if MODs feel like moving it...that is fine...but... SCRE4M or Scream 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_4 Some major hotties in this... Neve Campbell Courteney Cox Emma Roberts Hayden Panettiere Alison Brie Marielle Jaffe Britt Robertson Aimee Teegarden Shenae Grimes Lucy Hale Kristen Bell Anna Paquin Past & hopefully future GBOW/BOW [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlaZfOiGaCU[/yt] SCRE4M Trailer It comes out 4-15-2011...a week from now. So don't vote until you see it but feel free to discuss all the hype till then. I enjoyed the first 3 movies and want to see this one as well.


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The vast majority of Americans have not set any goals that will hold up under the strain and changing world tugging at us from every direction.
I took a survey on a small scale asking people what their goals were in this life. The answer I got from most said something like "I just want to survive this cruel world and have as much fun as I can and go as far as I can go." I asked the same question to Christians and their answers were very surprising. The majority of them said they just wanted to live a pure life and get to heaven when they die. Some of them said they just wanted to do as much good as they could for God and humanity. I didn't detect very much goal setting in this survey.
As I read the scriptures and ponder on God's plan and how He carried it out, I find that He set short-term and long-term goals from the very first chapter in Genesis.
Let's dispense for now with a short-term goal and concentrate on those of a long-term nature. I can find enough of those in the first three chapters to cover more than this brief devotional I am writing. Therefore, I'll try to cover the most important ones.
God's first great long-term goal in his creation was that of having a living creature He could fellowship with and commune with. Fulfillment of this goal resulted in the development and breaking of covenants right on down through the ages. Adam and his wife Eve broke the first covenant by eating of the forbidden fruit.
Another goal God set was that of saving humanity from its own destruction and condemnation to hell. This was done by sacrificing His only begotten son as payment for our sins.
Our nation and nations around the world are now in the process of crumbing financially and morally. Both of these are a direct result of the sins of God's people in direct violation of the covenants and goals set by our Creator. If we are to get back on the right track as a nation and as God's people, we need to be about setting goals for ourselves individually and as a nation. If these goals coincide with God's word, the situation will take a quick turnabout and God will bless us in the process. That is, if we, His people, will turn our lives around and make the Lord once again our God.
We read in II Chronicles 7:14: "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: Then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land."
That is a covenant God has given to His people and if we want to see greater things happen than we have ever seen before, all we need to do is follow up on that challenge God has placed before us. He did not say that this would happen if that nation will humble itself and turn from its wicked ways. It is His people — that is, the Christians of this nation who must make this move. The nation also has a role to play in this turnabout experience, because the scriptures also tell us "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." Christians need to wake up in this nation and around the world to the fact that the old cliché of Christians staying out of politics is utter nonsense. All through the scriptures, we are taught to obey God's law and man's law. However, we are also taught to take an active role in criticizing the way those laws are carried out if those carrying them out are going against God's word. Politics are nothing but two or more sets of opposing views or philosophies designed for the purpose of changing the course of a nation or municipality. We need to inform our political leaders that we will no longer tolerate being told to sit on the sidelines and let them decide our fate. We need to inform some of our politicians that this is a Christian nation that needs to turn back to God and put Him back into every aspect of public life. When this happens, this nation will turn around and become the great and powerful nation it once was with God at the helm.
I challenge every reader of this devotional to write a letter to at least one congressperson and inform then that God is about to take this country back.


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Global mining boom is leading to landgrab, says report
John Vidal, Guardian
The global mining, oil and gas industries have expanded so fast in the last decade they are now leading to large-scale "landgrabbing" and threatening farming and water supplies, according to a report by environment and development groups in Europe, Africa and India.
"The catalogue of devastation is growing. We are no longer talking about isolated pockets of destruction and pollution. In just 10 years, iron ore production has more than doubled, coal has risen 45% and metals like lithium by 125%. Across Africa, Latin America and Asia, more and more lands, rivers and aquifers are being devoured by mining activities.
"Industrial wastelands are being formed by vast open-pit mines and mountain top removal, and the poisoning of water systems, deforestation, and the contamination of topsoil," says the report by the Gaia foundation and groups including Friends of the Earth International, Grain, Oilwatch and Navdanya in India.
The dramatic increase in large-scale mining, clearly seen in places such as the Amazon for gold and oil, India's tribal forest lands for bauxite, South Africa for coal and Ghana for gold, is being fuelled by the rising price of metals and oil. These have acted as an incentive to exploit new areas and less pure deposits, says the report.
"Technologies are becoming more sophisticated to extract materials from areas which were previously inaccessible, uneconomic or designated of 'lower' quality," it says. "That means more removal of soil, sand and rock and the gouging out of much larger areas of land, as seen with the Alberta tar sands in Canada."
Economies are getting better at reducing the intensity of the use of raw materials but the sheer increase in their absolute consumption is now staggering, say the authors. According to the US Mineral Information Institute, the average American will use close to 1,300 tonnes of minerals in a lifetime.
(1 March 2012)
The report referred to is Opening Pandora's Box – A New Wave of Land Grabbing for the Extractive Industries and The Devastating Impact on Earth, spearheaded by the Gaia foundation and supported by various groups including Friends of the Earth International, Grain, Oilwatch and Navdanya in India.
Suggested by Common Dreams which writes: "the report cites that over the last ten years, iron ore production is up by 180%; cobalt by 165%; lithium by 125%, and coal by 44%. The increase in prospecting has also grown exponentially, which means this massive acceleration in extraction will continue if concessions are granted as freely as they are now."
Do Environmentalists Have an Interest in Who Controls Oil Resources?
Mark Weisbrot, Guardian/UK
Venezuela's Opec stand is a win for climate change campaigners
Environmentalists seem to realize that they have some stake in a fight such as the Ecuador-Chevron lawsuit. That case, which Chevron has recently moved to an international arbitration panel in an attempt to avoid a multibillion penalty handed down by Ecuadorian courts, is about whether a multinational oil corporation will have to pay damages for pollution for which it is responsible. Most environmentalists figure that would be a good thing.
what about fights between multinational oil giants and the governments of oil-producing states over control of resources? Do people who care about the environment and climate change have a stake in these battles? It appears that they do, but most have not yet noticed it.
In December of last year, Exxon Mobil won a judgment against the government of Venezuela for assets the government had nationalized in 2007. The award was actually a victory for the government of Venezuela: Exxon had sued for $12bn, but won only $908m. After subtracting $160m the court said was owed to Venezuela, Exxon ended up with a $748m judgment. The ruling was made by an arbitration panel of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). On 15 February, Venezuela paid Exxon $250m and announced that the case was settled.
Some background: the dispute arose out of the Venezuelan government's decision to take a majority stake in oil extraction, in accordance with its law. In 2005, it entered into negotiations with foreign oil companies to purchase enough of their assets in order to achieve a majority stake. Almost all the negotiations, with dozens of companies, were successful – with only Exxon and ConocoPhillips going to arbitration (Conoco is still negotiating).
Exxon adopted a strategy of trying to make an example of Venezuela, so that no other government would try to mess with it.
(3 March 2012)
Deforestataion, agroecology and Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
Joao Pedro Stedile, Friends of the MST (Brazil's Landless Workers Movement)
Statement by Joao Pedro Stedile in meeting with President Dilma
Transcription of the talk by João Pedro Stedile, of the MST, in the meeting between Dilma and representatives of civil society held on January 26 2012 during the Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre.
"In the name of the rural social movements, I want to begin by complimenting our president [President Dilma Roussef of Brazil] for having chosen Porto Alegre and not Davos. You appear to be really courageous. But my obligation here, in the name of the rural social movements – without claiming to represent all of them – is to put forward some ideas in this spirit of open and frank dialog.
I promise not to speak about agrarian reform because it is paralyzed, despite the fact that there are still 180,000 families camped alongside the highways who need at least a humanitarian solution. But since the topic here is Rio + 20, we analyze within the MST as everything that we learn in the tradition of socialist and Christian struggle, that the best preaching is done by example. That Brazil can only lead an international process to defend our planet, our biodiversity, if we provide the example.
We have a national agenda that needs to be resolved. The first item is that we cannot accept the changes that were agreed upon in the Senate for the Forest Law. We are going to reveal your email address so the Brazilian people can write you to ask you to veto some parts of the Law that you yourself promised to veto during your campaign, and which we cannot accept .
We cannot accept the amnesty for environmental crimes by the big estate owners, just as we cannot accept a reduced size for the legal reserves, even in the four modules. Because it gives an opening to international capital to continue deforesting the Cerrado and Amazonia. Our policy – we hope you agree – is for zero deforestation. There is no need to cut down a single additional tree to continue increasing the production of food, including in much better conditions.
The second item: we need to have a large national reforestation program for family farming, controlled by women – since women are now in charge in this country – a program so that each family farm can reforest two hectares. This is a pittance. The National Development Bank (Banco National de Desenvolvimento, BNDES) gives so much money to corporations, it ended up funding America Online, which went bankrupt…Why not give money so that family farmers can reforest our country, which would be a contribution to humanity?
Third item: we urgently need a national program to stimulate agroecology. A program of public policies that can recover a healthy agriculture, which plants foods without poisons. The more agrotoxins we put in our food, the greater the incidence of cancer. It's a requirement to produce healthy food and to do this, the techniques of agroecology are the most recommended. But the government is missing in action and we need to have public policies that compensate and encourage these practices. …
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in Portuguese, is a mass social movement, formed by rural workers and by all those who want to fight for land reform and against injustice and social inequality in rural areas.
The MST was born through a process of occupying latifundios (large landed estates) and become a national movement in 1984. Over more than two decades , the movement has led more than 2,500 land occupations, with about 370,000 families – families that today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land that they won as a result of the occupations. Through their organizing, these families continue to push for schools, credit for agricultural production and cooperatives, and access to health care.
Currently, there are approximately 900 encampment holding 150,000 landless families in Brazil. Those camped, as well as those already settled, remain mobilized, ready to exercise their full citizenship, by fighting for the realization of their political, social economic, environmental and cultural rights.
(26 January 2012)
More background on Joao Pedro Stedile and the Sem Terra Movement of Brazil


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Fenbendazole: Better Treatment for Fighting Resistant Ascarids (AAEP 2010)
Foal owners need to be especially mindful of Parascaris equorum, commonly known as ascarids, the most dangerous worms found in these youngsters, according to D. Craig Barnett, DVM, senior equine technical services veterinarian for Intervet-Schering Plough Animal Health (ISPAH). He reported that ascarid populations at several breeding farms have developed resistance to ivermectin and moxidectin1, drugs which are commonly used to treat these worms, and researchers are trying to determine the best way to deal with the problem.
Fenbendazole, he said, might be the answer researchers have been looking for. At the 2010 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention, held Dec. 4-8, 2010, in Baltimore, MD, he discussed the results of a recent study carried out by Craig R. Reinemeyer, DVM, PhD, president of East Tennessee Clinical Research; colleague Julio C. Prado, DVM; and Wendy E. Vaala, VMD, Dipl. ACVIM, equine technical services specialist for ISPAH. Reinemeyer and his team inoculated 16 foals with an ivermectin- and moxidectin-resistant strain of ascarids and divided the foals into two groups, then treated one group with fenbendazole paste (10 mg/kg) on days 11 through 15 post-infection, and the other with ivermectin on day 15.
After two and a half months, when the ascarids had matured and begun to lay eggs, the researchers performed fecal egg count reduction tests and total worm counts to compare the two regimens.
They found that the foals treated with a five-day fenbendazole regimen had significantly lower egg counts than ivermectin-treated foals. Ivermectin exhibited minimal efficacy against the resistant population (as expected), whereas fenbendazole reduced the egg counts by 99.5%. The number of adult ascarids in the foals treated with fenbendazole was also significantly lower; there was a 96.3% reduction of adult worms compared to the foals treated with ivermectin.
According to the researchers, a 5-day regimen of fenbendazole (10 mg/kg) has proven to be "highly effective" against ivermectin-resistant ascarids.
The team noted that the 5-day course of fenbendazole "is not recommended as the sole approach to routine ascarid management, but is an effective tool in the face of ivermectin-resistant ascarids."
Reinemeyer added, "Another important application of this regimen is that it is larvicidal, meaning that it kills ascarids while they're still migrating through the liver and lungs. Larval infections cannot be detected by any known tests, and this is probably the stage at which foals transmit infections from one farm to another."
This poses a particular problem for breeding farms where the mares are transported to another premise for breeding: "Their foals-at-side can pick up a resistant strain of ascarids at the breeding farm, and then take it back home. Even if they are treated with ivermectin upon their return, it will have no effect on the developing infection because that strain is ivermectin-resistant. Once those worms mature and begin to lay eggs--which is around 75 days post-infection--the new farm will be contaminated with a resistant strain."
The fenbendazole treatment provides a way to prevent introduction of resistant strains to previously naive farms, Reinemeyer added.
1 Moxidectin is not approved in the U.S. for use in foals less than 6 months of age. But, because ascarids can be found in young horses up to about 18 months, it could be used against resistant worms in weanlings and yearlings, Craig R. Reinemeyer, DVM, PhD, said.
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According to a handful of dedicated hackers of
Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL)
computer operating system, OS X, the OS is actually
less secure than Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT)
Windows. But thanks to the OS's small market share (traditionally 5
percent or less) most cybercriminals haven't felt it worthwhile to target the
platform. Also, some hackers have misgivings about attacking Unix-like
operating systems (e.g. Linux, OS X).
Still, Apple's growing market share and boastful
claims of security have lead to an increased interest in attacks and some
OS X malware has been popping up of late.
The latest malware to target OS X is dubbed
"MACDefender". Attack pages for the new malware exploit the way
auto-initiates the download of a script file. If the user has opted to
open "safe" files, the archive will then auto-open and initiate an
install dialogue.
The risk is minimal as users must approve of this
dialogue and enter an administrative password to complete the installation.
Still it may be a bit more widespread as the attack pages have boosted
themselves to near the top of many search results, thanks to search engine
optimization (SEO) poisoning.
It is unclear what the software does when active,
though it appears to be logging user activities. Users who accidentally
installed the software can still delete it by killing its process and dragging
it from the Applications folder to the Trash bin.
Members of the Apple Support community first noted
the malware last Saturday.
On Monday, security firm Intego released an
advisory, calling the risk of the malware "low". Intego writes:
When a user clicks a link after performing a search on a search
engine such as Google, this takes them to a web site whose page contains
JavaScript that automatically downloads a file," Intego said. "In
this case, the file downloaded is a compressed ZIP archive, which, if a
specific option in a web browser is checked (Open 'safe' files after
downloading in Safari, for example), will open.
The malware unfortunately shares its name with a legitimate
OS X software firm. MacDefender is a
small software firm that makes geocaching software, including GCStatistic
and DTmatrix. The company has released a statement emphatically
saying that it is not affiliated with the rogue software.
The company writes:
IMPORTANT NOTE: As it seams (sic) someone wrote a virus/malware
application named mac defender (MacDefender.app) for OS X. If you see an
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an application named like this.
In recent months botnet-forming
worms and trojans
have targeted OS X. Most of these pieces of malware have been amateurish
efforts, though, or works in progress. Nonetheless it remains a very real
possibility that Apple could one day see a serious attack.
For its part Apple has suggested
users get an antivirus program, though it still claims
in advertisements that its platform does not suffer from malware like
Windows. Apple has refused to provide customers with free antimalware
software like Microsoft
does, so security firm Sophos Plc. has picked up the ball offering
free basic protection to Mac users. Some other smaller firms also offer
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UPDATE: Road re-open after man dies in crash on the A11 on a new section of road at Barton Mills
PUBLISHED: 11:29 19 May 2014 | UPDATED: 17:00 19 May 2014
A man has died after a serious crash on the A11 on a new section of road at Barton Mills.
The dual carriageway was closed between Fiveways in Mildenhall and Elveden Forest in Elveden following the two vehicle collision around 1.45am this morning.
Officers are investigating the scene and a diversion has been in operation via the A134 and A14.
The road re-opened at 4.40pm having been closed in both directions between the Fiveways Roundabout (the A1065/A1101 junction) and the B1112 near Mildenhall after the two-vehicle collision.
The Highways Agency and its contractors worked throughout the day to reopen the road. After the police concluded their investigation at the scene, the road was inspected for damage, repaired and resurfaced.
There are residual delays in the area and drivers are advised to plan their journeys and allow extra time to travel.
There was a single occupant in each car, with one man dead and the other driver taken to West Suffolk Hospital with minor injuries.
A spokesman for Suffolk police said the road would be closed for a "quite considerable" amount of time due to damage to the road surface when one vehicle caught on fire.
Repairs to the road surface are being carried out.
A spokeswoman for the Highways Agency said a five metre stretch of tarmac had been damaged by the incident. There was no indication of how long repairs would take at this point.
Any witnesses to this collision are asked to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Team at Suffolk Police on 101.
There is a northbound diversion at Fiveways to follow the A1065 northbbound to Brandon then southbound along the B1107 to rejoin the A11 at Thetford.
The southbound diversion is currently the A134 southbound to Bury St Edmunds and the A14 westbound to Newmarket.
Road users should allow extra time for their journeys in the area and may wish to consider alternative routes.
A lorry also shed its load of roughly 20 tonnes of paper at the Fiveways roundabout at around 7.30pm.


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I come from a family of four.
On grocery days, my mom would pull into the garage, car full of food, and suddenly, a change would come over the family. We became louder, bigger, more. I don't know what it was, or how it happened, but to this day I have the happiest memories of the unexpected, friendly chaos that ensued when the groceries arrived and we all gathered to put them away. It was as if my family of four became a foreshadow of the family of seven-soon-to-be-eight that I would have as an adult.
It was awesome.
So now, years and years (and years and years –ahem-) later, I'm surrounded by this family that I love so much that it breaks my heart every day because they fill it so full. But sometimes the friendly chaos becomes a little….well….well a little much.
Too much. Too shrill. Too intense.
And that's when I know it's time for us to take a break.
Not from each other, since I usually come to this realization on the weekend, which is sacrosanct in the family- Thou Shalt Not Leave the Family (for too long) On the Weekends. But a break is needed from the house, from the chores, from the routine. We all need a chance to take a breather.
I think this is common for every family, no matter what the size. At some point, the family needs to have a group battery recharge. If this need is ignored for too long, the squabbling and the bickering and the shrillness and the irritation will keep building and building until either a parent dissolves into a screaming fit, or a child breaks something big.
Neither result in anything good for the family.
In order to be most effective, the family breather should have the following criteria:
1. It should be close.
In an ideal world, you could walk there. When our family just started out, and it was only Ken and myself and Lotus, we could put her in the stroller and walk a block or so down to this fantastic stretch of common area called Hines Park. We could stroll along the River Rouge, stop at a little playground and let the baby wander around, and enjoy some quiet conversation. Then we'd walk home, feeling calmer and having had a nice bit of exercise to boot.
Not every place has such areas within walking distance. You do what you can. But the more easily the place is accessed, the more likely you are to go there before the family reaches critical levels of hysterics.
2. It should offer something for all the members of the family.
Everyone should enjoy going. Yes parents, even us. I know that so often the autopilot response is to put the kids first, and in most cases this is noble, but when dealing with a family breather, if the adults aren't able to breathe, then it's pointless.
When we lived in Mississippi, our family breather was the Memphis Zoo. It was a good 30-40 minute drive from our house, which meant that it required more planning than a leisurely stroll down to the local park, but it was worth it to us. The kids never tired of visiting, and the place was both small enough and visually attractive enough that Ken and I weren't on high oh-my-gosh-we're-going-to-lose-the-kids alert, and we weren't bored out of our minds by watching the stupid penguins for the 7 millionth time. Compare that with, say, Chuck E. Cheese, which sends my eye into spasmodic twitching just typing out the name.
As kids get older, interests will change, and the location of the family breather will reflect that. We've always been transferred to a new state before that ever happened, but I imagine someday it'll catch up to us.
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