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Gretchen Alkema, PhD, LCSW (2008-09 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was appointed Vice President for Policy and communications for the SCAN Foundation immediately after her Fellowship. She served as lead staffer for the Congressionally appointed, Long-Term Care Commission chair and has worked on including chronic care management into the language on the establishment of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Dawn Alley, PhD (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has been continuing in her role as the Surgeon General's Senior Policy Advisor.
Arlene Bierman, PhD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was promoted to full professor at the University of Toronto. She led the landmark POWER study that examined gender and health outcomes across multiple programs in Ontario. The results have shaped policy in the province from government to the health service delivery level and the methodology is being replicated around the world. During her 2012-13 fellowship year, she played a major role in the cross-HHS initiative for patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and as an advisor to Representative James McDermott, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Christine Bishop, PhD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– a Professor at Brandeis University, served as senior staff on the Commission on Long-Term Care (as arranged by the HAPF program and the commission leadership) and played a major role in shaping the commission's recommendations which are expected to be published later this year.
Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA (2009-10 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has been serving as the Program Director, Improving Healthcare Systems, of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Boult helped to implement and establish the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Ken Brummel-Smith, MD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– worked as staff for the Senate Committee on Aging during his Fellowship and advocated for and got the first hearing on the Hill since the election on advance care planning and has been working with three Florida cities (Ft. Myers, Pensacola, and Jacksonville) to begin POLST pilot programs. He has also been working at a state policy level with the staff of the Speaker of the House, the Senate President and the Department of Health to look at legislative or regulatory means for implementing POLST in Florida. Ken was also elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society and along with Marshall Kapp, JD, MPH, was awarded a grant by the Retirement Research Foundation & Oregon Health Sciences University to study end-of-life training and curriculum in Florida allopathic and osteopathic medical schools.
Julie Bynum, MD, MPH (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has been working on patient reported quality measures and the implementation of the Physician Compare Program at the CMS Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, during her Fellowship. This program, authorized under the Affordable Care Act, is designed to permit consumers to evaluate the quality of care provided by individual physicians. She is also now a member of the IOM Committee, Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Costs, and is a guest editor for a special issue of Health Affairs dedicated to issues related to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Joan Davitt, PhD, MSS, MLSP (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– developed a position statement on the Older Americans Act for the National Committee that was posted to their website. She has also been appointed to the Public Policy Committee of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
Xinqi Dong, MD, MPH (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was prominently featured in a report for the NY Time's Health section by reporter Judy Graham on elder self-neglect issues (July 10, 2013):
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/unable-to-cope-unwilling-to-accept-aid/?ref=health. Xinqi was also the 2013-2014 recipient of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse's Rosalie Wolf Award. This award is given to "an individual who has demonstrated dedication and commitment to the ideals of Dr. Wolf to prevent and reduce the incidence of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation and to promote awareness through one or more of the following: research, education, policy, or practice."
Michael Fosina, MPH, FACHE (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– worked at CMS during his Fellowship. On his return to his role as VP and Executive Director of NYP/Allen Hospital, he was asked to merge the former New York Downtown Hospital into New York Presbyterian. The merger became effective on July 1, 2013. He was then promoted to SVP of NYP and Chief Operating Officer of NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital.
Tracie Harrison, PhD (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was the recipient of the 2012 Southern Nursing Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Research Award and has co-authored several recent publications.
Maureen Henry, JD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– formerly Executive Director of the Utah Commission on Aging, worked on the staff of Senator Mark Warner from Virginia during her fellowship year and helped to introduced the first bi-partisan bill on advanced care planning in the Senate. This major health reform legislation would strengthen the quality and availability of counseling, support services and care management for patients and families coping with life-limiting illnesses and addresses inadequate access to often unorganized care planning services that can result in unnecessary tests, treatments and hospitalizations – medical services that more informed individuals might not otherwise choose.
Angelica Herrera, DrPH, MPH (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has co-authored several recent publications including "Opportunity costs associated with caring for older Mexican-Americans" in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, "Local health department assurance of services and the health of California's seniors" in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and "Variation in Older Americans Act caregiver service use, unmet hours of care, and independence among Hispanics, African Americans, and Whites" in Home Health Care Services Quarterly.
Greg Hinrichsen, PhD (2008-09 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has left his role as VA National Director of Community Mental Health but continues as a consultant on the development, implementation, and evaluation of VA's national evidence-based training program in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for the treatment of depression in Veterans. This year he joined the faculty of the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine integrating evidence-based mental health practices (including the IMPACT model) into their geriatric primary care clinic (The Martha Stewart Center for Living). He is chair of the workgroup revising the American Psychological Association's Guidelines for Psychological Practice for Older Adults, is part of a committee that is completing the establishment of boarding in Clinical Geropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology, joined the editorial board of The Gerontologist, and has authored numerous publications.
Brooke Hollister, PhD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– worked in the House minority leadership office with Wendell Primus, the Senior Policy Adviser on Budget and Health issues to Leader Nancy Pelosi during her 2012-13 fellowship year. She focused on a range of domestic issues affecting older Americans and has developed a deep and extensive understanding of legislative and budgetary processes.
Kelly Horton, MS, RD (2009-10 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)-was appointed as legislative assistant to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. She will be handling a portfolio that includes agriculture, food safety, and nutrition, as well drug, device, and product safety, among other issues.
Kathryn G. Kietzman, PhD, MSW (2008-09 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has continued her positions as Research Scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and as Assistant Researcher in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences. In recent months, Kathryn published a paper in the Journal of Geriatric Care Management entitled "Using a "person-centered" approach to improve care coordination: opportunities emerging from the Affordable Care Act". She was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society on Aging, presented testimony about the mental health status of the older adult population to the California Assembly Aging and Long Term Care Committee during a hearing about the Geriatric Mental Health Workforce, and was selected by the National Institute on Aging to participate in the Butler-Williams Scholars Program (formerly known as the Summer Institute on Aging Research) at NIH in Bethesda, MD last July. She is also serving as Co-Investigator on a Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grant with former fellows Lisa Troy and Eileen Sullivan-Marx which aims to support tenure-track faculty in creating policy-relevant research agendas.
Bruce Leff, MD (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– developed the Hospital at Home model and is president of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians and was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (February 4, 2013) article entitled "Hospitals Try House Calls to Cut Costs, Admissions".
Lené Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has co-authored a white paper on pharmacological and person-centered approaches to dementia care as part of the Dementia Initiative with funding from Archstone. She is on the leadership committee of this effort, which includes 40 researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the country. Lené is also working on a policy project that includes the NAHHA (nurse aide/home health aide) inquiry to HRSA-funded training sites across the country about their curricula. The goal of this project is to review their approaches to and content for training NAHHA in order to make policy recommendations on core competencies.
Lew Lipsitz, MD (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– continues to work closely with the Office of Medicare/Medicaid Coordination and the CMS Innovation Center on their initiative to reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes. He recently had two commentaries published in JAMA "Understanding Health Care as a Complex System, the Foundation for Unintended Consequences" and "The 3-Night Hospital Stay and Medicare Coverage for Skilled Nursing Care".
Susan Lynch, JD, MPH (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– had a key role in the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality initiative to reduce the use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes during her 2012-13 fellowship year. She presented at the Institute of Medicine's Elder Abuse and its Prevention Workshop on the topics of: ethical issues in elder justice, informed consent, elder abuse reporting, and HIPAA regulations and at the Health Care Compliance Association's National Compliance Institute on a half-day panel entitled "The Drive to Quality: Are You on the Bus or Under it?". Susan also testified before the Elder Justice Coordinating Council at its second public meeting and presented the Elder Justice Working Group Prosecution Subcommittee's recommendations on how to improve federal coordination on elder abuse and further support those in the field who seek to prosecute elder abuse cases.
Diane E. Meier, MD (2009-10 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)- was awarded American Cancer Society's Medal of Honor for Cancer Control in recognition of her pioneering leadership of the effort to bring non-hospice palliative care into mainstream medicine and received the AGS Edward Henderson Award in honor for her long standing and highly valued contributions to the field of geriatrics. Following her fellowship, during which she worked as a staffer on the Senate HELP Committee and in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation at HHS, she reoriented her National Center on Palliative Care to focus on policy change, successfully promoting major initiatives at state and national levels.
Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD (2008-09 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was appointed the Director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Georgia. She also published a book ("Healthcare Reform and Disparities") based on her fellowship experience focusing on eliminating health disparities based on race, ethnicity and income.
Rajean Moone, PhD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has been pursuing multiple projects with both public funders and private foundations. His work with United Way Worldwide is investigating the role UWW will play in supporting UWs across the US in their aging policies and work. His work with the Administration for Community Living during his 2012-13 fellowship year, investigated the intersection of private philanthropy and public funding policies in the implementation of ADRCs. Rajean also published an article in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work and presented at the National Adult Protective Services Association conference.
Kathleen Negri, JD (2009-10 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has had two articles published in The Colorado Lawyer publication of the Colorado Bar Association (and online with WestLaw) entitled "The Older Americans Act: What Every Elder Law Attorney Needs to Know" and "Advance Care Planning: The Attorney's Role of in Helping Clients Achieve a "Good Death".
Emily Nicklett, PhD, MSW (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– worked closely with both the CDC and EPA on aging initiatives during her 2012-13 fellowship year and has had 3 primary-authored papers, 1 collaborated book chapter, and 2 articles published or accepted, has participated in the preparation and submission of 7 grant proposals for internal and external awards, and has presented research at 6 conferences and has engaged in program leadership at other events.
Joseph Ouslander, MD (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– Chief of Geriatrics at Florida Atlantic University, was the principal creator of the INTERACT program, designed to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly, which has been widely adopted across the country. He received the 2013 Nascher/ Manning Award from the AGS for recognizing his innovative contributions to geriatrics. He also became Interim Chair of the Department of Integrated Medical Science at the College of Medicine.
Joan Penrod, PhD (2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– represented the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at meetings on quality measures for people with multiple chronic conditions including Health and Human Services Interagency Work Group where she reported on data that she had compiled about available measures in the PQRS Program that are relevant to patients with multiple chronic conditions; The Self-management Alliance Winter and Spring meetings; and the AARP Public Policy Institute Innovation Roundtable on family caregiving.
Adriana Perez, PhD, ANP (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was awarded the 2012 John A. Hartford Foundation – Western Institute of Nursing Regional Geriatric Nursing New Researcher Award. She also wrote a blog on CoLab Radio, a city and regional planning publication, about community engagement workshops which will inform city planning policies for community design in Central City South Phoenix.
Karon L. Phillips, PhD, MPH (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– is a Research Associate with IMPAQ International, working with the health team on long-term care and health disparities issues.
Dorry Segev MD, PhD (2008-09 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– is a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, who, as a fellow, played a major role in changing the rules regulating the distribution of organs to expand their overall availability and permit a more equitable distribution. More recently he worked with legislators and advocates to author the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (aka the HOPE act) which would permit donated, HIV-positive organs to be used for transplantation in HIV-positive patients, a medical procedure currently prohibited by federal law. He has been widely recognized in the New York Times and other major news media for these efforts.
Erica Solway, PhD (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– has been working as a staffer on the Senate HELP subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging. She played a major role in developing the Older Americans Act reauthorization bill that was introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and co-sponsors on May 23, 2013.
Sally Stearns, PhD (2011-12 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– published an article in Health Affairs based on work during her fellowship entitled "Proportion of Physicians in Large Group Practices Continued to Grow in 2009-11".
Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, CRNP, FAAN (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was selected as the Dean of the School of Nursing at NYU after completing her fellowship (during which she worked at CMS to expand the PACE model under the ACA). She received the 2013 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award and was inducted as a Fellow in the Health Science section of the Gerontological Society of America. Also, along with fellow alumni, Eileen Sullivan-Marx and Kathryn Kietzman, received a Mellon Grant to examine strengthening the links between science and policy. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided funding to University of Massachusetts, Amherst for competitive grants to encourage pre-tenure faculty to identify desirable areas for professional growth and opportunity and to develop the necessary mentoring partnerships to make such changes possible.
Mary Tinetti, MD (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was centrally involved in implementing the initial set of programs for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and continues to be a consultant to CMS. She is frequently asked by other organizations and agencies to assist them in their policy initiatives. She was asked to be a regular contributor to The Journal of the American Medical Association Viewpoint section publishing major commentaries on health and aging policy that have received wide recognition such as "Designing health care for the most common chronic condition—multimorbidity", "The Journey Across the Health Care (Dis)Continuum for Vulnerable Patients", "The gap between clinical trials and the real world: extrapolating treatment effects from younger to older adults", and "Patients' responsibility to participate in decision making and research" published in JAMA.
Lisa Troy, PhD (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts and along with alumni fellows Eileen Sullivan-Marx and Kathryn Kietzman, received a Mellon Grant to examine strengthening the links between science and policy. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided funding to University of Massachusetts, Amherst for competitive grants to encourage pre-tenure faculty to identify desirable areas for professional growth and opportunity and to develop the necessary mentoring partnerships to make such changes possible.
Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA (2009-10 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– and her team at Indiana University were selected as one of 7 sites across the country to participate in the "Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents" which is funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The project will implement an intervention strategy in 20 nursing facilities in Indiana aimed at improving care and lowering costs.
Jennifer Wolff, PhD (2013-14 Health and Aging Policy Fellow)- and several colleagues, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in February. The article, titled "A tool to strengthen the older patient-companion partnership in primary care: results from a pilot study", directly involves caregivers of older patients in improving and assessing the patients' care using a checklist.
Irene Yen, PhD, MPH (2010-11 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– was appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Judy Zerzan, MD, MPH (2008-09 Health and Aging Policy Fellows)– is serving as the Deputy Medicaid Director and Chief Medical Officer for the Medicaid Program in Colorado and is using the knowledge and skills she learned during the Fellowship on a daily basis.


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Information on running your own pub...
What do you think the key characteristics are for working in this industry?
We are delighted to be partnering with the UK's leading Pub & Tenancy companies, helping you find a great Pub to Run! Running a Pub is really more of a way of life than a "job". Hospitality Jobs UK work with some fantastic Pub companies such as...
...eiPartnership, Star Pubs, Punch, Thwaites, Fullers and Wadworth to name a few, all who have some great pubs within the leased & tenanted sectors across the UK for you to run.
If you want to Run a Pub and running a pub is your ambition you can find out all you need to know about how to own and Run Your Own Pub right here!
What do you think the key characteristics are for working in this industry?
CONGRATULATIONS..! You have found the pub you're looking for.
You will now need to go through an application process; this can vary from company to company and below is a suggested example of the various stages of the process to help you prepare.
We hope the above has been useful however, please do remember this application process is a guideline and there may be slight changes to the stages depending on which pub company you find your pub with.
Varying from company to company, all will provide on-going support to realise your dream of running your own successful pub business.
The support you receive can be split into different categories and each one will demonstrate the value to your business. A selection of services for example could include:-
A licensee whose first pub with ei publican partnerships won its National Community Hero Award has taken on a second pub with the company. Adrian Emmett took over The Lion in Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley four years ago.
Such has been the success of his partnership with the pubco that he was keen to work with them on his second venture – Porters in Blackwood, 20 miles down the road. He explains: "Through working with ei publican partnerships and seeing that they're a great company to work with and provide a good support network, I decided to take on Porters with them.
"They do what they say – when we agree on something, they carry it through. There have been a few incidents in the past where they could have said no, but they haven't. It's a good working partnership."
Adrian attributes his success to both the community and the pub company. The pub has events and activities throughout the year for its customers, including two pool and darts teams and a football team.
"I'm just the guy with the keys," he says. "We're a close-knit community pub, and the more we do, the more our customers spend with us, and it just grows from there. We have an annual Winter Wonderland at Christmas and in the summer we do a music festival that attracts up to 2,000 people.
"The benefits of working on a tenancy basis with ei publican partnerships is that the investment isn't as high, so there's a lot more opportunity. There are benefits to having a free house, but it's a large financial commitment."
The Lion is one of ei publican partnerships Beacon pubs. "It's an agreement where they invest into the premises, they set prices and have a good support package for the licensees, to help with marketing and the fixed costs," Adrian explains.
One of the major benefits for him is the constant new offers and the willingness from ei publican partnerships to invest into pubs. He explains: "It benefits both ei publican partnerships and me" Adrian also gets support from his business development manager. "He's here as often or as little as I want – he's a good support network."
Matt Ralphs, Recruitment Marketing Manager at ei publican partnerships, said:
"We've got some fantastic buildings in great locations with the right demographics. We're looking for entrepreneurs who can cook – we can offer a lot of support for all other areas of running a pub."
Jack Baker, who has been a chef for 18 years in various outlets from fine dining restaurants to traditional pubs, had always wanted to run his own restaurant, and it was his partnership with ei publican partnerships that enabled him to realise his dream.
He now runs the Castle Inn at Bradway in Sheffield. He said:
"My business partner and I are both chefs so we'd run kitchens before, but we didn't have the knowledge or experience of running a pub."
For Jack, the biggest challenge was finding the right venue, but this was also something ei publican partnerships were able to help with. "If you know the style of food you want to serve and the type of venue you want, ei publican partnerships will put a shortlist together for you," he said.
"This was the first pub we saw and we fell in love with it straight away. We worked with our Regional Manager who gave us loads of ideas and helped through the whole process, and we've ended up with a cracking business."
Jack took over in February and said it's the best thing he's ever done. The pub is now drawing in the crowds who are enjoying his vision – which includes a snug room and a lounge area in addition to an open kitchen which makes flat bread pizzas to order, a chicken rotisserie and barbecue outside, alongside a Pimms area on the decking.
Jack added:
ei publican partnerships has been very supportive and helped us set up from scratch. They helped with everything from the website to the complete re-design of the pub. They gave us training on cellar management, advertising, profit and loss and accountancy, as well as general management, so we knew what we were doing.
Matt added:
"Many outlets being run by chefs are hugely successful and are outperforming the competition. There is a real opportunity here when you consider that quality food is a key reason why consumers go back to a venue."

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Women's Golf Tied for 10th Place at NCAA Championships
May 23, 2001
HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. - The University of Arizona women's golf team posted a 301 and moved up one place in Wednesday's second round at the 2001 NCAA Women's Golf Championships.
The Wildcats' total of 603 (+27) puts the team in a tie for 10th place in the 24-team field. UA's second-round total was one stroke better than its opening-round effort and is the team's highest two-round total of the season. Oklahoma State and Duke share the tournament lead at 592 (+16), one stroke ahead of Georgia. Auburn and UCLA round out the top five tied at 594 (+18). The top-ranked Blue Devils carded the second-lowest team total of the day Wednesday (293) to move from seventh place into a share of the lead.
'We're still confident that we can make up the difference,' said head coach Greg Allen. 'We just have to play better as a team. Tomorrow is moving day and we know that we need to put two solid rounds together to have a chance to win on Friday.'
Freshman Lorena Ochoa continues to lead the Wildcats. The nation's top-ranked individual fired a one-under-par 71 Wednesday and is tied for fifth-place at 144 (E). Her one-under 71 was one of just eight sub-par rounds registered by anyone in the tournament's top-25 places. Ochoa is six shots off the pace set by UCLA's Laura Moffat, who carded her second consecutive 69 (-3) and leads the 121-woman field by two strokes at six-under par.
UA's Laura Myerscough stands tied for 50th place after shooting a second-round 76. Through 36 holes, the sophomore has a 152 (+8) total. Freshman Natalie Gulbis and sophomore Anne Lee are among a group of three players tied for 70th place with a 155 (+11) total. Gulbis and Lee posted second-round totals of 78 and 76, respectively. Rounding out the Arizona contingent is junior Cristina Baena, who shot a second-round 82 and is tied for 87th place at 158 (+14).
The 2001 NCAA Championship is being contested at the El Campeon Course at the Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort. The course is a par 72, 6,119-yard layout. The NCAA Championships continue through Friday.
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A Bachelorette tell-all? The latest runner-up on the ABC series, Arie Luyendyk Jr., is penning a book about his life, his manager confirms to In Touch.
"He's pursuing a writing deal," Arie's manager, Klint Briney, tells the mag, on newsstands now.
And insiders say Ari — who finished second to Jef Holm on Emily Maynard's season — has tons he could spill!
"A lot of crazy crap happened during the filming of The Bachelorette, and it got even crazier afterward," a show insider explains.
As In Touch previously reported, Arie walked off the show and broke things off with the 26-year-old North Carolina resident after learning she had gone behind his back and slept with Jef in the Fantasy Suite.
But fans may be even more interested in what Arie could reveal about life after The Bachelorette. "Arie knows a lot of the ugly stuff that went down with Emily and Jef."
The race-car driver publicly shared his alliance with the Utah businessman just one day Jef and Emily announced their split, tweeting, "Hanging with @jefholm while he's in Arizona, I can tell you that he is still the coolest guy I know!"
Arie is now dating the latest Bachelor winner, Courtney Robertson, who recently split with her fiancé, Ben Flajnik.
For more on Arie's tell-all book, pick up the latest issue of In Touch, on newsstands now.


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Tablets have taken over our homes and workplaces in the past two years, and if you are looking for a reason to purchase an iPad 3 or to convince your boss to buy you a tablet at work, you might want to let her know that you'll have a better work life balance and be more productive.
Staples put together an infographic about tablets, highlighting why users love their tablets. The inforgraphic offers a collection of stats, but the most interesting statistic is about an improved work life balance.
An incredible 80% of tablet owners report that they have a better work life balance, meaning they are better able to prioritize home and work tasks and activities, than they were with just a laptop and a phone.
A tablet won't magically make you more productive or help you get your life in order, but the ability to work when you feel the need, with the same device you are using to schedule a family trip or check an actor's name on IMDB while watching a movie is helpful.
A Staples survey found that 60% of respondents reported increased productivity on tablets. This may seem counterintuitive because we think of tablets as consumption devices, not creation tools, but this syncs up with the way I use my iPad 2 and how I use Android tablets I review.
Because tablets force you to focus on a single task productivity can greatly increase. from writing a report to checking email, tablets are often the best tool in your hands. I am awful about reading email on the computer because I'm easily distracted, but Gmail in the iPad web browser allows me to power through 100 emails in 20 minutes, an amazing amount of time.
Before a tablet, this task I would have read all these emails on my phone or laptop, both of which don't fit my style or level of email. I'm not going to use the iPad as a laptop for work, but for many work tasks the tablet is a better fit during business hours and when I need to take care of some quick work while on the go.
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New Jersey's top court sides with Christie on pensions
New Jersey's top court sided with Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday in a legal fight with public worker unions over pension funds, sparing a state budget crisis this month but leaving unanswered questions about how the state will pay for the promised pensions as Christie prepares to announce whether he'll run for president.
The state Supreme Court overturned a lower-court judge's order that told the Republican governor and the Democrat-controlled Legislature to work out a way to increase pension contributions for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.
A decision in the unions' favor likely would have sparked a contentious scramble to come up with billions of dollars that Christie has repeatedly insisted the state doesn't have, while drawing additional attention to New Jersey's fiscal problems, which Christie's rivals are sure to point to often if he chooses to run.
In a 5-2 ruling, the court said that state constitutional provisions calling for an annual budget process trump a 2011 law requiring high pension contributions from the state.
"That the State must get its financial house in order is plain," Justice Jaynee LaVecchia wrote in the majority opinion. "The need is compelling in respect of the State's ability to honor its compensation commitment to retired employees. But this Court cannot resolve that need in place of the political branches. They will have to deal with one another to forge a solution to the tenuous financial status of New Jersey's pension funding in a way that comports with the strictures of our Constitution."
LaVecchia also noted that the state is obligated to pay individual retirees their pensions. That's not in danger this year, but unions say the funds could start going insolvent within the next decade unless changes are made.
Justice Barry Albin dissented and was joined by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner.
"The decision unfairly requires public workers to uphold their end of the law's bargain -- increased weekly deductions from their paychecks to fund their future pensions -- while allowing the State to slip from its binding commitment to make commensurate contributions," Albin wrote. "Thus, public workers continue to pay into a system on its way to insolvency."
Christie hailed the ruling from a court with which he has had major disagreements in the past.
"This decision is an important victory not only for our taxpayers who simply cannot afford these unsustainably high costs, but for limited, constitutional government that recognizes the proper role of the executive and legislative branches of government," he said in a statement. He called on lawmakers and unions to join him in solving pension problems "once and for all."
Governors from both political parties have been skipping public employee pension fund contributions or making small ones over the past two decades, creating a major funding shortfall.
One of Christie's major achievements as governor has been the 2011 deal that required workers to pay more and raised retirement ages while also setting up a system for the state to make up for the shortfalls over seven years of escalating contributions. The deal helped burnish Christie's reputation on the national stage and fueled interest in a potential run for the White House in 2012.
But amid an unexpected revenue shortfall last year, Christie reduced the state's contributions by more than half for fiscal 2014 and 2015 and made a similar proposal for the budget that kicks in July 1.
The governor says he has a new plan to reduce health benefit costs and use the savings to stabilize pension funds -- but over a longer time. Current workers would also have their defined benefit plans frozen and replaced with 401(k)-style plans. Lawmakers and unions have not agreed to that.
While the court fight over pensions could be over pensions are still a major political and fiscal issue in New Jersey.
At a news conference, Steve Sweeney, the Democratic president of the state Senate, blasted both the ruling and Christie's response.
"This is outrageous. I listened to the governor say 'come back to the table,'" Sweeney said. "Who in their right mind would come back to a table and negotiate with someone who didn't keep the first part of the deal?"
Sweeney said that lawmakers expected to adopt a fiscal 2016 budget that fully funds pension contributions and funds it partly by raising taxes on people who earn more than $1 million. Legislators took the same approach last year and Christie used a line-item veto to reduce the contributions and eliminate the tax hike.
Hetty Rosenstein, president of Communication Workers of America in New Jersey, said her members would continue to fight for pension funding.
"It's of course extremely disappointing that the Supreme Court didn't decide the law was exactly what the law said. It's just one obstacle," she said. "We will win, there is no way we will ever, ever give up this fight."
Michael Catalini in Trenton and Jill Colvin in Manchester, New Hampshire contributed to this article.
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Jaitapur nuclear power project discussed by Manmohan Singh and ChavanApril 26th, 2011 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr 26 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan met the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, here today to discuss the fate of the controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project.
The meeting assumes importance owing to the growing protests against the ambitious 9,900 MW nuclear power project.
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh was also present in the meeting that was held at Dr. Singh's official 7 RCR residence.
Chavan had on Monday convened a meeting with senior officials and his Cabinet colleagues, including Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Home Minister R R Patil and Industries Minister Narayan Rane to review the situation in Jaitapur.
The Jaitapur nuclear power complex is located in the ecologically sensitive coastal Maharashtra region, which includes Raigad, Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts.
Nuclear Power Corporation of India is building the 9900-megawatt power plant - said to be the world's largest - in collaboration with French nuclear designing firm Areva.
The Union Environment Ministry had last month given a conditional go-ahead to the plant. However, it is facing staunch opposition from people of the area, who fear environmental degradation in the fragile Konkan area.
The agitation against the project has the support of Shiv Sena, the Opposition party in Maharashtra. (ANI)
- Maharashtra CM Chavan ready to hold discussions over Jaitapur project - Dec 29, 2010
- Environment Ministry defends Jaitapur project - Dec 29, 2010
- Prithviraj Chavan bats for Jaitapur nuclear project - Feb 26, 2011
- Nuclear plant in Maharashtra's Jaitapur cleared: says Ramesh (Lead) - Nov 28, 2010
- German bank pulls out of Jaitapur nuclear project: Greenpeace - Mar 15, 2011
- Villagers continue to agitate over proposed Jaitapur nuke power project - Feb 27, 2011
- Sack Rane for threatening anti-nuke activists: Maharashtra party - Jan 23, 2011
- Malafide protests against Jaitapur will not be tolerated: Narayan Rane - Jan 21, 2011
- Uddhav takes on Chavan for pro-Jaitapur remarks - Feb 27, 2011
- Anti-Jaitapur activists allege Rane disrupted their protest - Jul 11, 2011
- Court issues notice on suit challenging Jaitapur n-plant - Apr 12, 2012
- Prove bribery allegation or quit, Bal Thackeray dares Chavan (Lead) - Apr 30, 2011
- Anti-nuke activists plan 'jail bharo' - Jan 12, 2012
- Jaitapur n-plant site issue being politicised, says Ramesh (Lead) - Dec 29, 2010
- Shiv Sena got Rs.5 bn to oppose Jaitapur: Narayan Rane - Apr 21, 2011
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Governor says widening N.C. 43 will aid medical district, eastern N.C.
ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard, at right speaking with Gov. Mike Easley, said improvements to roads leading to the medical district will be a boon to the university and region. Photo by Cliff Hollis
GREENVILLE, N.C. (June 21, 2004) — Improving access to Greenville's medical district will continue with upgrades to N.C. 43 between Memorial Drive and Edgecombe County, said Gov. Mike Easley.
Easley attended a June 21 news conference at the Brody School of Medicine to unveil several road improvement projects for Greenville.
N.C. 43, a highway Easley said he knows well because he traveled it often growing up in neighboring Edgecombe County, will be resurfaced and upgraded with paved shoulders and new turn lanes at B's Barbecue Road and N.C. 121 near Falkland Elementary School.
The 13-mile, $3.9 million project is expected to begin in March and be completed sometime next year.
The road project is one of several aimed at improving access to the growing health care service area surrounding Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the medical school, a driving force in the economy of eastern Carolina, officials said.
"You don't have rural economic development without rural health care," said Easley.
ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard said highways are a major symbol of progress and will bring significant changes to ECU and the medical district.
This spring, officials broke ground across Emergency Drive from the Warren Life Sciences Building for the $58 million Learning Village, which will house the School of Allied Health Sciences, School of Nursing and the Laupus Health Sciences Library.
In addition, ECU is awaiting legislative funding for a multi-million dollar cardiovascular disease institute to be built on the medical campus.
Marvin Blount III of Greenville, the state transportation board member representing Division 2 which includes Pitt County, announced the following improvement projects in addition to the N.C. 43 project:
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--Resurfacing 17 miles of U.S. 264 to the northwest bypass in Greenville and adding shoulder width in narrow areas. Paving from Greene County to Wilson is underway and is set for completion by the end of this year.
Blount was joined on the podium by N.C. Transportation Secretary Lyndo Tippett. Local legislators attending the event were Reps. John Kerr of Goldsboro, Marion McLawhorn of Grifton and Edith Warren of Farmville and Sen. Tony Moore of Winterville.
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Very few promotions can say they have lasted as long as InvictaFC. A loyal fan base and an eye for talent, Shannon Knapp has kept the promotion going through stream crashes, back office drama, losing a lot of talent to the UFC, and putting out fires at events. Many would falter at these hurdles, but InvictaFC continues to shine after four years of operation.
Let's breakdown four years of events that helped break the glass ceiling of female athletes in the MMA world.
16: Total events. All but two where headlined by title fights.
161: Number of fights held under the InvictaFC banner, which is an average of 10 per show. The most fights are at strawweight (39), followed by bantamweight (33), flyweight (26), atomweight (25), featherweight (21) and lightweight (3). This doesn't include the 14 catchweight bouts.
87: Total number of finishes. Half of them (44) happened in the first round.
43: Submissions in the company's history. The most popular way to win is by rear naked choke (19). Only 13 ended by armbar, with Rose Namajunas still holding the fastest submission in the company's history with a 12 second flying armbar.
35: Number of InvictaFC fighters that have signed to the UFC after debuting from the organization. This includes three that made it into The Ultimate Fighter 23 (Amanda Bobby Cooper, Jamie Moyle, and JJ Aldrich.) Twenty one strawweights and thirteen bantamweights made it to the octagon, with Cyborg Justino making her official debut at 140 in a few weeks.
22: Title fights in the company's history. There have been 12 champions in the company's history with Cyborg Justino having help her belt for nearly 3 years. The atomweight title has seen the most title changes with three.
6: Pure Knockouts. This is compared to 38 TKOs. The fastest one in company's history was by Amber Leibrock, who only took 37 second to KO Marina Shafir.
1: Shannon Knapp. The president of InvictaFC who has kept her athletes busy as possible in 16 events. She also gave them a platform to be watched worldwide to millions of fans.


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I had a few trips to the store this week…One stop at Kroger, one stop at Trader Joes, and then one more stop at Kroger (for the diapers!!!).
Trader Joes $16.14 (Sorry no photo)
Free: 6 Buddies soaps, 2 Fleishman's yeast strips, Daisy sour cream, 2 Cottonelle TPs, Colgate toothpaste
Nearly free: frozen veggies $.50 each, 3 Simply Asia products on closeout with coupons ($.24 each), Cheerios ($1 a box!), 2 Olay ribbons body wash ($.50 each by matching sale + paper coupons + BOGO "ecoupon"!)
Why do I buy Cheerios if the boys are gluten free? Reason: Hubs (who NEVER requests anything from the store when asked) asked me out of the blue, "Can you get me some honey nut cheerios?" "Sure, it's your lucky week because I can get them for $1 a box this week!" So Hubs got his only grocery store wish!
6 Huggies + 2 Wipes = $65.12 (I did this in 2 transactions.)
– $8 in "e coupons" from Cellfire.com and Shortcuts.com (I had 6 "ecoupons" loaded and used all 6 coupons by buying 3 Huggies Supreme and 3 Huggies)
– $7 in paper coupons (6 $1 for each diaper pack and 1 $1 for 1 of the wipes)
-$12 in Kroger promotion savings
-$6 rebate that I will submit to Caregiver's Marketplace
-$1.50 "ecoupons" that will be deposited in my Upromise (Register your grocery card and save when you shop!)
Total for diapers = $30.62
Less than $5 a package!!!! It really doesn't get much better than that for "name brand" diapers. And yes, I am a Huggies "snob", so I'll take this deal anyday!
Total for food for the week $43.85 (Well under my $60 food budget!)
Question from a Reader: How do you use more than one coupon when they say "limit coupon per purchase"?
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Even those who are planning to get breast augmentation sometimes shield themselves from some of the more dour points of getting the procedure. They close their eyes to the risks and the recovery stories because they don't want to talk themselves out of it. This is no way to go into what should be a major life decision. Unfortunately, some women wind up very unhappy after their surgeries because they did not do the basic research beforehand. If you want to have a happy and successful recovery, you should at least know what you're getting into. No two recoveries are exactly the same, but here are some possibilities you should be aware of.
Surgery Type
You may have heard that where the surgeon places the implant has as much effect on the appearance of your breast augmentation as which material you choose. This may not be exactly true, but it will have an impact on your recovery. Implants that are placed on top of the chest muscle will allow you a much quicker, less painful recovery than implants that are placed underneath the muscle. In neither situation should you be looking at weeks of pain, of course. Instead the difference should be somewhere around a day of discomfort for above-muscle implants and two or three days for below muscle implants. You should be provided with pain medication in the meantime.
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Bruising and swelling accompany the recovery from any plastic surgery procedure and breast augmentation is no exception to this. This can last quite a while longer than the actual pain from the surgery. Expect to have some degree of swelling for at least the first two weeks. Most of it should be gone by that two week mark, but the remaining twenty percent or so could stick around for the next couple of months. In other words, don't expect everything to look like you imagined for at least a few months.
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115 million Americans caught in deep freeze—This is on CNN discussing the cold weather on the east coast with nary a word that this is the result of Global Warming or Climate Change. What is the hysterical media coming to? When delirium and data clash, data must win.
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Wherein we see two great lies of the Germans during World War 2 refuted. The first is that we didn't know about atrocities and/or it was the SS, not the ordinary German soldier.
This was the genius of British Intelligence–let the Deutschers indict themselves, Many were brutal and almost all knew about the Holocaust.
We gunned down English women and children – it was great fun: Newly published transcripts of the private conversations of PoWs prove ordinary German soldiers were just as barbaric as the SS death squads
By Guy Walters
To an untrained eye, the small room must have looked like a telephone exchange. A console of sockets and plugs was placed on top of a table, at which was sat an operator who was wearing a pair of headphones.
Occasionally, he would swap some of the plugs around, but there would be little more movement than that.
Wearing the uniform of a British sergeant-major, the operator was, however, no telephonist. In fact, he was taking part in one of the most secret operations ever conducted during World War II.
The man was part of a team of eavesdroppers — fluent in German, quite often Jewish, and more than likely to have fled from Nazism to Britain during the Thirties — who were listening to conversations of German prisoners-of-war incarcerated in Trent Park, a Hertfordshire mansion that housed the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, or CSDIC.
Between 1939 and 1945, no fewer than 10,191 German and 567 Italian prisoners passed through Trent Park and its two related PoW listening centres. The operation was unimaginatively nicknamed 'Operation Eavesdrop', and what the listeners heard appalled them, as the German soldiers, sailors and airmen reminisced about committing some of the most barbaric atrocities imaginable.
They would recall machine-gunning civilians from their fighter planes, or knowingly torpedoing boatloads of children. They would laugh about raping Russian women and Jews before slaughtering them, or wiping out inhabitants of Russian villages with grenades and petrol.
As one CSDIC officer said at the time: 'If we didn't know why we were fighting the war before this, we sure as hell knew afterwards.'
'I had an hour to spare and we went to a kind of barracks and slaughtered 1,500 Jews. There were some 20 men there with tommy-guns. It only took a second, and nobody thought anything of it.'
Recordings and transcripts were made of these conversations, and then, for several decades, they remained under lock and key, before they were sent to the National Archives, where they gathered dust.
It was not until 2001 that they were finally unearthed by a German historian called Sönke Neitzel, who quickly realised that the conversations constituted some of the most important testimony to have emerged from the war.
And, most controversially of all, Dr Neitzel realised that the CSDIC transcripts gave the lie to the notion that the regular German armed forces — the Wehrmacht — had more or less behaved honourably, and that it was only the fanatical members of the armed SS that had committed the most repellent of war crimes.
After working on the transcripts for a decade, Dr Neitzel published his book about the recordings in Germany last year, and now it is published in Britain.
The fact that ordinary German soldiers were likely to be complicit in acts of barbarity has shocked modern German readers
What emerges most strongly in the recordings is the fact that many German soldiers did not see their acts as crimes, no matter how horrific. As one soldier put it: 'the fact that we were soldiers was enough to justify any crimes and corruption, and was sufficient basis for an existence in hell.'
Between them, the German Army, Navy and Air Force most successfully did create their own version of hell, and they created it all over Europe. A Luftwaffe corporal called Müller recalled how he had travelled around the Ukraine by lorry, from which he had observed women being forced to work.
'They were employed on road-making,' he told his companion in his cell at Trent Park. 'Extraordinarily lovely girls; we drove past, simply pulled them into the armoured car, raped them and threw them out again. And did they curse!'
'If we didn't know why we were fighting the war before this, we sure as hell knew afterwards.'
Officer involved in 'Operation Eavesdrop'
These women were fortunate compared with those living in the Belgian village of Hilay, who found themselves at the receiving end of the anger of Private Franz Diekmann and his comrades. They had just lost one of their men to a 'terrorist'.
'We fired MGs [machine guns] into the midst of thirty Belgian women,' Diekmann said. 'They wanted to raid the German supply dump. But they were chased away in no uncertain manner.'
When Diekmann's cellmate asked whether the women managed to run away, Diekmann simply replied: 'No, they were all dead.'
Even women in Britain were not safe from the murderous impulses of members of the Wehrmacht. The operators at Trent Park once heard two Luftwaffe officers sharing tales of how they had machine-gunned civilians in British towns.
'We once made a low-level attack near Eastbourne,' recalled a pilot called von Greim. 'When we got there, we saw a large mansion where they seemed to be having a ball or something; in any case we saw a lot of women in fancy-dress, and an orchestra. We turned round and flew towards it. The first time, we flew past, and then we approached again and machine-gunned them. It was great fun!'
Similar atrocities were carried out by other members of the Luftwaffe. First Lieutenant Hans Harting from Fighter Wing 26 recalled how he had raided southern England in 1943: 'We were ordered to fire at everything, except military targets,' he claimed. 'We killed women and children with prams.'
At sea, submariners were just as likely to kill children as from the air. In September 1940, the vessel U-48 spotted the civilian passenger ship the City Of Benares, which was carrying 90 evacuee children from Britain to Canada.
Target: Passenger ship City of Benares was sunk by a German U-Boat in September 1939 as it was taking evacuee children to Canada
On board the U-boat was a corporal called Solm, who later claimed that the Germans knew that the boat was carrying children, and yet they still decided to attack.
'We bagged a kiddie ship!' Solm triumphantly told his Trent Park cellmate. 'Six thousand tons. We heard on the radio what was on board. No one survived.' In fact, 13 of the children did survive, but 260 of the 407 on board were killed.
Often during the conversations, the German prisoners justified their crimes by claiming that they were a reaction to the brutalities carried out by the Russians.
An army Lieutenant called Leichtfuss recalled how he had come across six dead German soldiers on the Eastern Front who had had their tongues nailed to a table, as well as another dozen who had been thrown down a well and stoned to death.'These incidents were taken for a reason for repaying it tenfold, twenty and a hundredfold,' said Leichtfuss.
'When a small detachment of about ten or 15 [enemy troops] was captured there, it was too difficult for the soldier to transport them back 100 or 120km. They were locked in a room and three or four hand grenades were flung in through the window.'
Such reprisal killings by the army were not uncommon, especially in Russia. Attacks by partisans often meant nearby villages were razed, and their inhabitants slaughtered.
A Private Müller recalled how he and his comrades disobeyed an order to kill every tenth man in a village, and decided instead to simply kill everybody.
'We filled beer bottles with petrol,' he said, 'and put them on the table and, as we were going out, we just threw hand grenades behind it. Immediately everything burned merrily — all roofs were thatched.
'The women and children and everyone were shot down; only a few of them were partisans. I never took part in the shooting unless I was sure that they were proved to be partisans; but there were a lot of fellows who took a delight in it.'
The idea that mass murder could be 'fun' was also shared by some members of the Luftwaffe. Even in the very earliest days of the war, during the invasion of Poland, members of the German air force would take similar delight in mowing down people and horses from the air.
'On the first day, it seemed terrible to me,' said Lieutenant Pohl, a Luftwaffe airborne observer, 'but I said to myself, "Hell! Orders are orders". On the second and third days I felt it didn't matter a hoot, and on the fourth day I enjoyed it. But, as I said, the horses screamed. I hardly heard the plane, so loud did they scream. One of them lay there with its hind legs torn off.'
Attacks by partisans often meant nearby villages were razed, and their inhabitants slaughtered
Of course, the most infamous crime to have occurred during the war was the Holocaust, and although much of it was carried out by units such as the SS, the Gestapo, and the SD — the SS Security Service — there were men and officers of the Wehrmacht who also participated.
When talking in their cells at Trent Park, German officers would often try to convince themselves it was only really the SS that carried out mass killings, but there were some, such as Colonel Eberhard Wildermuth, who knew better.
'In carrying out the mass executions, the SS did things which were unworthy of an officer,' said Wildermuth, 'and which every German officer should have refused to do, but I know of cases where officers did not refuse, and did do them, those mass executions. I know of similar things that were done by the army, and by officers.'
One of them was a First Lieutenant in the Luftwaffe called Fried, who was flying transport planes during the campaign in Poland. 'I was at Radom once,' he was recorded saying, 'and had my midday meal with the Waffen SS battalion who were stationed there. An SS captain or whatever he was said, "Would you like to come along for half-an-hour? Get a tommy-gun and let's go".
'So I went along. I had an hour to spare and we went to a kind of barracks and slaughtered 1,500 Jews. There were some 20 men there with tommy-guns. It only took a second, and nobody thought anything of it. They had been attacked at night by Jewish partisans and there was a lot of indignation about those damned Poles. I thought about it afterwards — it wasn't very "pleasant".'
When Lieutenant Fried was asked by his cellmate, a First Lieutenant Bentz, whether he had fired as well, Fried replied: 'Yes I did. Some of the people who were inside there said, "Here come the swine", and swore and threw stones and things at them.
'There were women and children there too!?.?.?.?There were whole families, some were screaming terribly and some were just stupid and apathetic.'
Although participation by members of the Wehrmacht in the 'Final Solution' was relatively infrequent, Fried's admission shows the German armed forces knew exactly what the SS was doing to the Jews.
Soldiers and officers in the Army often witnessed killings at first hand, and in the CSDIC recordings, feelings of regret or sorrow are rarely expressed. One who witnessed a mass shooting of Jews was Major General Walter Bruns, who watched a pit fill up with slaughtered families.
'I can still see it all in my memory,' said Bruns in his cell. 'A pretty woman in a flame-coloured chemise. Talk about keeping the race pure! At Riga, they first slept with them and then shot them to prevent them from talking.'
Although participation by members of the Wehrmacht in the 'Final Solution' was relatively infrequent, the transcripts show German troops knew exactly what the SS was doing to the Jews
Nazi concepts such as physical and racial purity were not just expressed by the SS. The chief quartermaster of submarine U-187, Heinrich Skrzipek, maintained that 'cripples should be put out of the way painlessly'.
'It's just a question of not being sensitive,' Skrzipek insisted. 'After all, we aren't women!?.?.?.?Because the half-wits are the very people who have very large families and for one mental-defective you could feed six wounded soldiers. Of course you can't please everybody. Several things don't suit me, but it's a question of the good of the people as a whole.'
But it appears Nazi ideology was not the chief motivating factor that made 'ordinary' members of the German armed forces commit atrocities. Dr Neitzel argues they took part in such actions because they saw it as their job, and that war normalises violence and creates a context in which men can commit bloodthirsty acts with little or no conscience.
In this, Dr Neitzel argues, the German army during World War II was not much different from that of the American army in Vietnam, or indeed, at times, in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Many would dispute such an analysis, and would state that there was something especially bestial about the actions carried out by German soldiers, sailors and airmen between 1939 and 1945. Although war crimes were undoubtedly committed by all sides during the war, the Trent Park transcripts reveal that the German military machine was uniquely brutal.
This tendency was even identified by the commander-in-chief of the Germany Army, General Walter Brauchitsch, who lamented the behaviour of some his officers during the Polish campaign. 'The image that results,' he wrote, 'is that of a pack of marauding mercenaries who cannot be reprimanded sharply enough.'
Thanks to the recordings made in Hertfordshire 70 years ago, it is an image that remains today.
Sad commentary on an entire nation.
Government Job or Respect–Which'll It Be?
Cheerio and ttfn,
Grant Coulson, Ph.D.
Author, "Days of Songs and Mirrors: A Jacobite in the '45."
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Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen Dead at 84
Don't Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe. Photo: Greenpeace
Jim Bohlen: 1926-2010
Jim Bohlen, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, died on Monday, a day after his 84th birthday. The cause of death was complications of Parkinson's disease. He first stepped on the world stage when he co-founded the Don't Make a Wave Committee in opposition to nuclear weapons tests in Alaska. The committee "leased the halibut fishing vessel Phyllis Cormack, and, after renaming it Greenpeace, sailed to Alaska." Thus history was made. There are many good obituaries of Mr. Bohlen on the web. Here are the best ones if you want to learn more about the man: Greenpeace.org, Discovery News, and New York Times.


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Fishers Park Trail is a 1.2 mile lightly trafficked loop trail located near Victor, New York that features beautiful wild flowers and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Beautiful Park! Great blend of tree covered and open areas, well maintained, little muddy in a few spots but manageable. Loved that it didn't feel like you were on a trail in some spots with the leaves down. And my dog loved exploring the area too!
Beautiful scenery. Easy to walk. Easy trails. Much to see. Access to water. Pet friendly. Not too long. Amazing overall. Highly recommend. Definitely would go back!!
Very nice hike. Trails were clean of debris, but as usual for spring hiking, pretty wet in areas. I like the mix of wooded trails, open meadowlands and streams.
A well maintained local park with several trail options. We tried to walk the outer perimeter; about 2 miles. The park is about 50% wooded and 50% meadow, with a small stream running along the north side. Port-O-Pots are located at the two main entrances to the park.
always come here... great fishing spots and beautiful trees
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Snowshoe trail is marked. Wooden walkways over some areas.
A hidden gem featuring hundreds of wildflowers, beautiful woods, & open meadows with scenic vistas.
Went a couple days ago, snow pack was good. Very easy, nothing all to special to see but a great place to bring my dog for a walk. Just make sure in the winter you have a dog who knows a command not to go in the creek.


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The Great Commission: Matthew 28:16-20
"Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.' Amen."
The Great Commandment: Matthew 22:36-40
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
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Credit Suisse this week added Barbara Reinhard as the new managing director and chief investment strategist of its Private Banking Americas group.
Reinhold will be responsible for investment strategy, working closely with Credit Suisse's Private Banking Global Research and Asset Management to deliver global investment themes for Relationship Managers and clients, company officials said.
She will also head the PB Americas' Investment Strategy and Advisory Team. Reinhard reports to Stewart Brenner, Head of Private Banking Americas Wealth Management Solutions.
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Six Ice Ages in One Billion Years, Climate Change, and Boston's Earthquake Problem
The Arnold Arboretum welcomes James Lawford Anderson, Boston University, who will give a special lecture on the various ice ages, today's climate, and Boston's glacially-influenced earthquake problem.
Our planet has experienced six ice ages in the last billion years. The first two at about 800 and 600 million years ago may have covered all or most of the earth in ice and is referred to as the "Snowball Earth". The most recent Pleistocene ice age, perhaps not done, involved over 16 glacial cooling and warming events over the past 2.5 million years.
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It happened at 7:15 a.m. Thursday in the southbound lanes of the Northeast Extension at mile post 24.8 in Whitpain Township.
Police say 49-year-old William Kishbaugh of Wapwallopen, Pa. was at the wheel of a tractor trailer and failed to obey posted signs instructing all trucks to use the left lane only.
The right front bumper of the tractor trailer struck a concrete barrier on the right shoulder of the highway, and Kishbaugh lost control of the rig. He veered into the left lane, striking a Honda Civic driven by 22-year-old Kristen Maehrer of Allentown, Pa.
The impact forced Maehrer's vehicle into the center concrete median barrier. The car rolled onto its right side and became wedged between the barrier and the tractor trailer with the driver's side of the car facing up.
Maehrer was flown by medical helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Kishbaugh was driven to Mercy Suburban Hospital with minor injuries.
Traffic in both directions was shut down for several hours. All lanes were back open by 10:30 a.m.
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According to 2010 statistics, the number of active blogs has reached 126 million. This figure has certainly increased since the time the calculation was made. Blogging is one of the most popular online activities today. How did it all start? What is the history of blogging and how has the publication of an online journal become so influential in 17 years?
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The Contribution of Justin Hall
The year was 1994. A student called Justin Hall began writing an online journal. Today, Hall is a freelance reporter and his diary – Justin's Links from the Underground is probably among the earliest blog forms.
New York Times magazine calls Hall "the founding father of personal blogging."
Some researchers claim that famous programming expert Dave Winer is the author of the first blog – Scripting News. Most, however, have reached an agreement, saying that Hall is the author of the first blog while Winer is the first blogger to gain wide popularity and recognition for his online journal.
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The Term "Blog" Gets Born
Until December 17 1997, the writing of an online journal lacked a specific web niche of its own. It was just a form of sharing personal information. Nobody believed that this revelation of thoughts and ideas online could actually develop in a separate discipline.
John Barger is the person who coined the term "weblog," which was later changed to blog for short.
Barger is creator of Robot Wisdom – an online journal that was initially published in February 1995. In his weblog, Barger wrote about artificial intelligence, internet developments and technological trends.
The term weblog is a contraction from "logging the web." The verb was turned into a noun and was later on shortened to define blogging, an entirely new and unprecedented niche in the online realm.
The person responsible for shortening the term weblog is Peter Merholz, author of Peterme journal. Merholz turned the word weblog into the combination of words "we blog." The word blog was then turned into the verb "to blog" – meaning to write an online journal and to share information with the web community.
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Blogging Goes International
The term blogging was born. Still, this activity was just getting started, being available to a small group of people able to create their personal journals. The next important step in the history of blogging was just around the corner.
The situation started changing in August 1999, when a company named Pyra Labs revolutionized blogging and took away its exclusivity. The company based in San Francisco created a portal named Blogger.
Blogger was the first free of charge service that facilitated the creation and maintenance of a personal journal. The creation of Blogger is seen as the first step towards the appearance of the blogosphere.
Blogosphere is a general term, bringing together all blogs. The appearance of a blogosphere gave birth to a new community, the group of people writing online and interacting with each other.
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Bloggers Gain Popularity
Until the appearance of blogs and Web 2.0, the majority of websites remained unidirectional. A group of people published information while readers where there to receive it. Blogging gave common people the chance to shape the manner in which information was presented online.
The community of bloggers began gaining power and becoming more influential as more and more people started writing. Blogs were no longer personal journals, some of them turned into highly specialized information sources.
Blogs became political in 2000. Reporter Josh Marshall started a blog named Talking Points Memo, which discussed the Florida election recount. His postings were to quickly gain popularity among readers and according to some, Talking Points Memo even caused political scandals and controversies.
September 11 2001 came. New York bloggers provided eyewitness accounts of the huge tragedy that occurred in the city. They published pictures and reports as soon as the World Trade Center collapsed. For the first time, the concept of blogging entered the academic world and was discussed by journalism students.
After the US military presence in Iraq, many US soldiers started their blogs to write about experiences and difficulties experienced there. Iraqi people were also there, presenting their side of the story in their blogs. The blog of Salam Paks is probably the most popular one, giving people detailed information about military operations and their impact.
Blogs entered the world of politics to stay there when US presidential candidate Howard Dean started writing Dean Call to Action, which was later renamed to Blog to America. Following his example, many politicians and officials started maintaining blogs and popularizing their campaigns through the participation in the online community.
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Media Vs. Blogs
Traditional media have always maintained their reputation but blogs were there to change the landscape. Blogs had one main advantage – they were written by eyewitnesses and people having deep knowledge in specialized issues. In fact, blogs began influencing the manner in which news were written and presented.
The first battle between traditional media and blogs occurred when CBS aired a report about George Bush, who, according to the evidence presented, managed to escape military service in Vietnam due to the patronage of famous individuals. Bloggers supporting Bush were able to prove that the documents CBS used were falsified.
According to Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about four percent of all American internet users turn to blogs to receive information, neglecting traditional media.
Today, the blogosphere is a large community, bringing together people from across the globe. They share specific interests and write on a multitude of topics, ranging from advanced sciences to arts.
The history of blogging is still to be written. This niche has proven to have huge potential and is to evolve with the advance of technologies and the manner in which new opportunities are provided to common individuals. Whether blogs will replace newspapers is yet to be seen. One thing is certain – blogs are here to stay and to continue shaping trends.
Thompson, Clive. A Timeline of the History of Blogging. New York Magazine, http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/
Baker, Stephen. A Brief History of Blogs. BusinessWeek, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_30/b4140074545626.htm
Blogging Timeline. http://www.enterpriseblogs.info/history
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