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Matthew Stafford threw three of his four touchdown passes in the second half, rallying the Detroit Lions to a 31-17 win over the Cleveland Browns Sunday.
Lions down Browns 31-17
The Lions were lifeless and listless at halftime.
Matthew Stafford snapped his teammates out of its strange funk just in time.
Stafford threw three of his four touchdown passes in the second half, rallying Detroit to a 31-17 win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
The Lions (4-2) outscored the Browns 24-0 in the second half, sealing their win when Stafford hooked up with tight end Joseph Fauria with 2:01 left. Fauria caught three TD passes for the Lions, who played like a completely different team in the second half after being dominated up front and trailing 17-7 at half.
The Browns (3-3) had their chances at a comeback end when quarterback Brandon Weeden's baffling shovel pass with 4:36 left was intercepted by linebacker DeAndre Levy.
Lions running back Reggie Bush finished with 135 total yards, 121 in the second half. At halftime, Bush had touched the ball just seven times. But Stafford went to the versatile back whenever he needed a big play.
Stafford finished 25 of 43 for 248 yards. He completed eight passes to wide receiver Kris Durham, who took over as Detroit's top target with superstar Calvin Johnson not himself with a balky right knee. Johnson, who missed last week's loss at Green Bay, had 3 catches for 25 yards.
Weeden, making his first start since Week 2, finished 26 of 43 for 292 yards, but will be remembered for his ill-advised pass when Cleveland was driving for a possible tying touchdown.
Trailing 24-17 and at Detroit's 44 with a first down, Weeden was pressured. Instead of throwing the ball away or taking the sack to keep the drive going, Weeden tried a pitch to fullback Chris Ogbonnaya near the sideline and was picked off by Levy.
It was another poor decision by Weeden, the second-year QB thrust back into the starting lineup after Brian Hoyer sustained a season-ending knee injury against Buffalo on Oct. 3.
Stafford made all the right moves in the second half. He was 15 of 21 for 165 yards and three TDs in the final 30 minutes.
Detroit's defence stiffened after halftime and limited the Browns to 6 yards and no first downs in the third quarter.
Fauria's second TD reception, a 23-yarder early in the fourth quarter, gave the Lions a 21-17 lead. Fauria got behind linebacker Craig Robertson and made a leaping catch in traffic just inside the goal line before celebrating with a dunk over the goal post. Fauria has seven receptions this season, four for TDs.
Stafford's 18-yard TD pass to Bush had pulled the Lions within 17-14 in the third.
Bush's score capped a 79-yard drive for the Lions, who gained just 109 yards in the first half. The possession began with Bush dropping a short pass, but he more than made up for it with his catch and darting run.
Weeden threw two short TD passes and Billy Cundiff kicked a 40-yard field goal with 8 seconds left as the Browns, using a balanced attack, scored 17 unanswered points in the second quarter to build their 17-7 halftime lead.
Weeden shook off his first interception in 111 passes and threaded a 2-yard scoring pass to Greg Little, giving Cleveland a 14-7 lead. The Lions gave the right ball right back, going three-and-out and taking just 26 seconds off the clock before punting. Weeden's 36-yard pass to Josh Gordon helped set up Cundiff's kick.
The Browns racked up 115 yards rushing — 45 on Travis Benjamin's end-around — in the first half as Cleveland's offensive line surprisingly dominated Detroit's notorious defensive front.
After falling behind 7-0, the Browns tied it 7-7 on Weeden's 4-yard pass to Ogbonnaya. Stafford's 1-yard TD pass to Fauria had given the Lions a 7-0 lead.


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By 8 months old, most babies are pros at handling the iron-fortified infant cereals and the pureed foods that are part of their diet, along with breast milk or formula.
Over the next few months, they will start to explore table foods.
As you expand your baby's palate, continue to give new foods a trial run (a few days to a week) to look for any allergic reactions. But:
You can buy baby foods that offer new tastes and textures. You can fork-mash, cut up, blend or grind whatever foods the rest of the family eats. To prevent choking, cook table foods a little longer, until very soft, and cut them into small pieces that your baby can handle safely.
By the time babies are around 9 months old, they usually have the dexterity and coordination to take food between forefinger and thumb so that they can try feeding themselves with their fingers.
If you haven't already, have your baby join the rest of the family at meals. At this age, they enjoy being at the table.
By the first birthday, babies are ready to go from formula to cow's milk. If you're breastfeeding, you can continue beyond your baby's first birthday, if desired. If you decide to stop breastfeeding before your baby's first birthday, you will have to give iron-fortified formula. If your baby is over 12 months, you can offer whole milk.
You've probably already introduced your baby to a sippy cup, so let him or her keep working on it. (Juice should always be given in a cup, not a bottle.) After 12 months, you can serve whole milk in a cup, which will help with the transition from the bottle.
Never leave your baby unattended while eating. Don't serve foods that your baby could choke on, such as whole grapes, raw vegetables, hard fruits, raisins, white bread, pieces of hard cheese, hot dogs, popcorn, and hard candies.
If you're unsure about whether a finger food is safe, ask yourself:
Keep your baby's personality in mind when feeding your baby. A child who likes a lot of stimulation may enjoy it when you "play airplane" with the spoon to get the food into his or her mouth.
A more sensitive tot, however, may need the focus kept on eating with minimal distractions. If your baby rejects new tastes and textures, serve new foods in small portions and mix them with food you know your child likes.
Infant formula and breast milk continue to provide important nutrients for growing infants, but babies will start to drink less as they approach the first birthday. They're getting more nutrients now from the variety of foods they've learned to eat and enjoy.
You may worry that you're feeding your baby too much or not enough. Pay attention to your child's cues of hunger and fullness. A child who is full may suck with less enthusiasm, stop, or turn away from the breast or the bottle. With solid foods, your baby may turn away, refuse to open his or her mouth, or spit the food out.
Let your baby finger feed or hold a spoon while you do the actual feeding. This is good preparation for the toddler years, when kids take charge of feeding themselves. And if you haven't already, set regular meal and snack times.
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I often wondered what my pet cat does all day while Patty and I are hard at work making money so we could buy him even more cat toys and treats. Every morning as Patty and I backed the car out of the drive way, we would see Storm (Our 20 plus pound male cat) looking out the kitchen window at us. It was almost like he was waving goodbye to us. Or so we thought.
One day, on a whim, I turned on the living room computer web cam and set the camera for motion detection. I positioned the lens to display the entire living room area. I wanted to track his movement during the day to see exactly what he did, or didn't do. Every time he would walk into the living room, the webcam would snap a shot. Below is the startling photographic evidence that Storm had invited guests over after we left. The damn cat was hosting parties all day.
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Why 2,000,000 Americans Are Dope Fiends (Jun, 1930)
Why 2,000,000 Americans Are Dope Fiends
DR. WM. I. SIROVICH, a leading authority, tells here the amazing facts about the illegal dope traffic, which in recent years has assumed the proportions of a national peril. He is a member of Congress and a physician, and is leading the fight for an international agreement to stem the blighting tide of habit-forming narcotics that pours into this country from abroad.
By JOHN E. LODGE
IN THE United States, one out of every sixty persons is a drug addict. During the decade from 1920 to 1930, the number of narcotic victims in America has doubled, tripled, quadrupled. One ton a year of crude opium and its derivatives would meet the legitimate medicinal and scientific needs of the nation. Yet, last year, approximately 200 tons were smuggled into America. The amount of morphine consumed is thirty-five times that required; and, with a smaller population than that of Germany, France, and Italy combined, we import ten times as much crude opium as these three nations together.
Such startling figures as these, presented, a few weeks ago, on the floor of Congress by Dr. William I. Sirovich, Representative from New York and a leading authority upon narcotics, have aroused officials to new efforts to stem this tide of habit-forming drugs. The House Ways and Means Committee reported favorably on the Porter Bill, to create a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Department, and the House passed it. Governors of many states began investigations to find how they could best cooperate in fighting the traffic. In New York City, U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle advocated the passage of a law to send dope peddlers to prison for life if convicted a second time.
What are the causes of the alarming increase in the number of drug addicts? Who are these more than 2,000,000 victims of a body and soul destroying habit? What are its effects on the health and morals of the nation? Where do the enormous quantities of drugs come from? How are they smuggled into this country and then retailed? How can the illicit traffic be prevented? How can narcotics be restored to their rightful place as a reliever of pain and kept from becoming a plague?
Recently I asked Dr. Sirovich to answer these and other questions for the readers of Popular Science Monthly. As superintendent of a New York City hospital and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a legislator and one of the leading spirits in America's light against the drug traffic, he has had wide opportunity to study the subject from all angles.
The problem, I found, is an exceedingly complicated one, even more involved on account of its international aspects. To begin with, the reasons for the shocking increase in narcotic consumption in the past ten years cannot be understood without a knowledge of who and what drug addicts really are.
In the public mind, narcotics are generally associated with crime and criminals. But though lawbreakers, especially holdup men and murderers, often are dope fiends, they are by no means the only users of drugs. There are addicts among the rich, the poor, and those of the middle class; among the socially respectable and members of the underworld; among the educated and the ignorant. Yet, in the main, they belong to one group; in the words of Dr. Sirovich, they all are "psychopathic constitutionally inferior types."
"They are mostly men and women," he explained, "who are afraid to face the unpleasant realities of life; in other words, moral cowards. To escape from the hard world of reality, with its pain, failure, disillusionment, unhappiness, and worry and to cross into a world of fantasy and oblivion they use four bridges—the bridge of opium, the bridge of morphine, the bridge of heroin, the bridge of cocaine. To return, they also have to cross four bridges—the bridge of sighs, the bridge of humiliation, the bridge of degradation, the bridge of infamy.
"There are five principal reasons why. this type of person first takes up narcotics. Four of these are physical; the fifth mental. The physical incentives are pain, sleeplessness, inflammation or irritation of all kinds, and digestive disturbances. The mental condition that causes thousands of people to turn to drugs is lack of courage or initiative. They take dope for sustenic purposes; that is to say, as a stimulant to bolster up their nerve."
Now up to 1920, Dr. Sirovich told me, a large percentage of this latter group used liquor as a stimulant. But when, on January 16, 1920, Prohibition went into effect, they found their supply either cut off entirely or hard to obtain. Many feared the poison in denatured industrial alcohol that flooded the bootleg market in the first years of Prohibition. And so they turned to dope. Another factor that contributed to the increase in addicts was the fact that a number of bootleggers, alter plying their trade for a while, found it easier, safer, and more profitable to handle dope than booze. Peddling drugs does not require transportation of goods in large bulk, detection is harder, and there is no danger from hijackers. Thus, Prohibition was one of the chief causes for the increase.
"Official figures bear me out," he said.
"In the year 1919-1920, 250,000 pounds of crude opium were imported into the United States. The following year, with the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act on the statute books, the imports leaped to 950,000 pounds, almost four times the quantity."
The manufacturers of narcotics, he explained, were fully aware of the change in conditions in this country. They speeded up production and unloaded their stuff on the United States by every conceivable means. And though liquor is now easier to get and also less dangerous to drink than in the beginning of the Prohibition era (P. S. M., May '30, p. 19), this overproduction of narcotics has continued, making illegal importation and sales the only way in which the drugs can be disposed of. Moreover, the drug habit is progressive, and it is safe to say that few if any former drinkers returned to liquor once they had taken up dope.
Virtually all the drugs which are used illegally in America come from foreign countries. There are just fifty-four narcotic factories in the world, four belonging he maintains, to the United States. This makes the drug problem an international one and therefore even more difficult to solve than the Prohibition question, which is almost wholly national in character. The location of all the production centers is known. Thus the source of all illegal dope can be traced. But before the traffic can be stamped out, an international agreement, a sort of "'narcotics League of Nations," is necessary. At present, the only countries refusing to sign such an agreement are England, France, Holland, and Switzerland—all large producers of opiates. England owns the greatest number of narcotic factories. Switzerland, which has several, makes two pounds of drugs a year for its own citizens and sends twenty-three tons, or 46.000 pounds, to other lands.
Dr. Sirovich proposes that an international convention be called by President Hoover in 1931. Representatives from all countries would meet in Washington to engage in a world-wide antidrug crusade. This move, he believes, would focus public attention upon the nations that yearly are increasing their output of narcotics, destroying unfortunate men and women mentally, morally, and physically for the enrichment of the drug-factory owners.
The only solution for the increasing use of drugs, Dr. Sirovich declares, is to stop the flood at its source. The total output of the world's fifty-four factories is more than a thousand tons a year. Three tons would meet the legitimate requirements of the entire world. The number of production centers, he feels, should be limited by international agreement. As battleships are sunk by naval agreement, he proposes that forty-eight of the narcotic factories be "sunk," leaving six to carry on the work of supplying the opiates really needed for medicinal and scientific purposes. The owners of the abandoned factories could be reimbursed from a fund raised by public subscription.
But until this solution is reached, drugs will continue to claim new victims, undermining their health, dulling their minds, destroying their moral fiber. Incomplete statistics, the only ones available, indicate that a dope user lives from a few to thirty years. His weakened condition makes him an easy prey to disease and infection of all kinds. Dr. Hobart A. Hare, famous drug authority, tells of several cases in which the systems of women addicts were so permeated with the drug that their new-born infants collapsed on the second or third day owing to lack of their customary doses.
Few of those who begin using narcotics are fully aware of the aftermath. All narcotics demand larger and larger doses as time goes on. One eighth of a grain is sufficient at the start. But by the end of six months to a year, to obtain the same reaction, the addict requires from two to three grains. The average dose of the average morphine addict is from ten to thirty grains a day. Some dope fiends use as much as 250 grains a day—nearly four tea-spoonfuls—an amount sufficient to kill five hundred normal men!
AND the cost of this habit is enormous. An ounce of morphine or a similar narcotic smuggled into the United States is worth $150; seven times its weight in gold. At the European sources, the price is about fifty cents. It costs the average addict from five to seven dollars a day to indulge his habit; the sum, of course, increasing as he uses larger amounts. An addict taking 250 grains daily would spend nearly $75 a day or more than $27,000 a year for drugs alone.
Where, unless the victim happens to be rich, does the money come from? That, Dr. Sirovich told me, is where the relationship between drugs and crime comes in. Narcotics dull the mind and weaken the body of the user so he is unable to earn an honest living and at the same time make him desperate for more money. A large share of the robberies, holdups, and murders committed in America can be traced directly to drugs. These crimes are perpetrated either under the influence of dope, which gives the evildoer the necessary nerve; in order to obtain more narcotics; or under the combination of these conditions. When illegal narcotics go, Or. Sirovich maintains, a high percentage of crime will go with them.
OF THE 200 tons of such illegal drugs smuggled into the United States last year, 85 per cent came through the port of New York, he told me. Because of the ingenuity of the smugglers, detection is extremely difficult. And so far as the retail peddlers are concerned, they are much harder to discover, arrest, and convict than bootleggers, due to the fact that drugs can be carried about the person or in small bags or brief cases without arousing suspicion.
Still, the Federal narcotic agents often prove a match for the smugglers. In one haul, a short time ago, they confiscated 4,500 pounds in a single shipment at New York City. It came in on a liner in a box labeled "Brushes."
In another case, a box labeled "Bowling Pins" aroused the suspicion of the agents. On the side of the box were the letters "I. T." This meant that the box was "in transit" and was to be taken directly from the boat to a bonded warehouse to await shipment on the first train for its destination. The agents trailed the truck driver who drove off with the box. On his way to the warehouse, he turned into a side street and pulled up before an empty building. Several men came out and together they carried the box inside.
A few minutes later, they emerged again bearing what appeared to be the identical box they had carried inside. The truckman started off. In the next block, the agents stopped him, tore open the box—and found nothing but harmless bowling pins. But when they returned to the building, they surprised members of the dope ring opening the original shipment. In it were bowling pins, but each was hollow and filled with morphine.
A FAVORITE ruse by which big shipments of opium and its derivatives reach America, Dr. Sirovich explained, is as follows: The smuggler poses as an exporter who has an order for drugs from some foreign country. From the State Department, in Washington, he obtains an "export certificate." This allows him to bring the shipment into the United States from a drug factory in some other nation "in transit," to send on to his "customer" in the foreign country. The box cannot be opened while passing through the United States and it is to be kept in a bonded warehouse when it is not en route by railroad or steamer. But somewhere along the way, the shipment is diverted and another box, identical in size, shape, weight, and markings, but filled with any sort of junk, is substituted and sent to the "customer " in the foreign land.
During the past twelve months, narcotics at the rate of more than two tons a month have been shipped to Patagonia, the wild, sparsely-inhabited southern tip of South America. Practically all of these drugs, it is safe to say, "disappeared" somewhere along the route and were used in illegal traffic.
One of the most ingenious systems of smuggling morphine is by means of the "dope letter," a method recently uncovered in an American penitentiary. Someone on the outside sends an inmate a harmless-looking letter. It appears to be on ordinary writing paper. But, before the letter is penned, the paper is soaked all day in water saturated with morphine. Then it is allowed to dry, after which a short note is written on it. In prison, the convict tears off and dissolves in water pieces of the missive each day, thus obtaining an uninterrupted supply of the drug.
At another institution, a suit of clothes was sent to an inmate. It was found that each button on the garment contained a cavity filled with opium and morphine. Another time, a woman sent a picture of her son to a friend in prison. When guards examined the photograph, they found that enough morphine was hidden in the back to last for three months.
RECENTLY, Federal agents captured a supply of narcotics being carried about in a Bible. The center of the book had been hollowed out to provide space for morphine, cocaine, and hypodermic needles. Another time, they found a supply of dope hidden in cakes of soap. The cakes looked exactly like dozens of others in the same carton.
Candy is often used by dope smugglers to hide their contraband wares. The heroin, cocaine, morphine, and opium is coated with chocolate to give it the appearance of an ordinary piece of candy. In some cases, the dope is colored with dyes so it exactly matches the hue of the caramel or chocolate in which it is secreted. Cigarettes, with dope hidden inside, is another method by which the dope peddler escapes detection.
When the headquarters of a notorious drug ring in the eastern part of the United States was raided some time ago, quantities of morphine were found concealed in the panels of the wall with hidden scales for weighing the dope. By employing such devious methods, the narcotic smuggler escapes detection. There is only one Federal narcotic agent for every half million people in the United States. Consequently, most of the large hauls made by Federal men are achieved through information from disgruntled employees of the smugglers, or through lucky accidents.
Such an accident took place a few years ago in New York City. An automobile bumped into a barrel of "fish" which had just been unloaded upon a pier from a vessel. The barrel tipped over and, from a tin container within, there tumbled a flood of white pellets that looked like moth balls—a fortune in pure morphine. The entire consignment was found upon examination to contain illicit narcotics valued at three quarters of a million dollars.
Four drugs—opium, morphine, heroin, and cocaine—are the ones that are smuggled and cause all the trouble. Cocaine, extracted from the coca leaf of South America and Java, is used so infrequently that the main fight centers upon the other three, all derived from the opium poppy of China, India, Persia, Turkey, and Egypt. It is estimated that there are as many as 100,000 users of opium, morphine, and heroin in the city of New York alone!
AT FIRST sight, crude opium suggests the pulp of crushed raisins. It is obtained by cutting the side of the unripe seed capsule, which is about the size of an egg, when the poppy is a little less than a year old. From the cut a milky white secretion oozes. In twenty-four hours it turns dark and coagulates.
From this crude opium morphine is extracted, and from morphine heroin is obtained.
In all, eighteen narcotic drugs are derived from crude opium. Morphine usually comes in tablets that look like aspirin. Heroin and cocaine, known to addicts as "snow," are white powders having the appearance of talcum. Both cocaine and heroin are sniffed up the nose in the manner in which snuff is taken. Morphine is usually injected with a hypodermic needle and opium is eaten or smoked.
Just what happens when such drugs are taken? The first effect is a feeling of exhilaration, Dr. Sirovich explained. The drug affects the medulla, or "small brain," stimulating heart and lung action. The addict feels strong, happy, courageous. Hence the name, often applied to heroin, "happy dust." This lasts from half an hour to an hour. It is during this period that heroin-using gunmen commit their murders and holdups. Later, the drug deadens the cells of the main brain, particularly those in the forepart which govern perception, and the addict falls into a stupor filled with pleasant dreams. This lasts from eight to ten hours. The awakening is accompanied by nausea, headache, tremors, and depression.
FANTASTIC hallucinations are often experienced by the confirmed drug user, while another curious effect produced by narcotics concerns the eyes. When a doctor examines a patient who is in a drug stupor, the first thing he does is lift the eyelids and glance at the pupils. If they are contracted into pin points he knows morphine or opium was the drug used. If the pupils are dilated, heroin was used. However, young ambulance surgeons are always warned to look at both eyes when they are called to examine a man found unconscious. If one pupil is small and the other large, the victim has been black-jacked or has fallen and struck his head, resulting in a hemorrhage of the brain on the side of the pin point pupil.
A question that many people ask, and one that I put to Dr. Sirovich, is: How can you tell a drug addict? In the early stages it is often impossible, he told me. But later many signs are evident. The features are expressionless, indicating a lack of mental activity. The cheeks are sunken and the eyes lusterless. The color of the skin varies from a waxen pallor to a bluish appearance. The finger nails become brittle and chip off. The teeth soften and crumble away. Gradual loss of weight increases monthly. Addicts become excessive cigarette smokers. The blood pressure of morphine users is above normal; of heroin users, below normal. Yawning every few seconds is a symptom. Tremors are frequent and extreme muscular weakness finally ends in collapse.
Frequently addicts become fanatics, crusaders for drugs, seeking to persuade others to take up the habit. They think of nothing else, and when two or more addicts get together they talk for hours about their experiences.
In that way, many a weak character is made into a dope fiend. And like all other vices, the habit is much easier to acquire than to lose. Curing an addict is a difficult procedure and seldom entirely successful. At institutions where drug users are given the "cure," the amount of drug is reduced gradually. This tapering off process requires from a month to six weeks. Only in cases where the patient strongly desires to be cured is the effect permanent. Most addicts return to the drug as soon as they are released.
Thus medical science is almost powerless to redeem these unfortunates. The only way to combat this grievous evil is eternal vigilance on the part of the Government and, better still, the cessation of manufacture of all narcotics not required for medical or other scientific purposes.


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CALGARY – Crescent Point Energy Corp. (TSX:CPG) has signed an agreement to buy CanEra Energy Corp., a privately held oil and gas producer in southeast Saskatchewan, in a deal valued at $1.1 billion, including debt.
CanEra's assets include a large land position in the Torquay area in Saskatchewan, where Crescent Point is active, and production of approximately 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Crescent Point president and chief executive Scott Saxberg said the deal complement's his company's assets and grows its ability to expand in a region it is already excited about.
"This acquisition adds to our low-risk drilling inventory in the Flat Lake area and provides increased exposure on the greater exploration trend," Saxberg said.
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It expects to finish the year with production of 145,000 boepd, up from earlier guidance of 135,000. Average daily production is expected to be 133,000 boepd, up from 126,500.
Funds flow from operations for 2014 is expected to increase by six per cent to $2.38 billion from $2.25 billion, while capital expenditures for the year are expected to increase about $25 million to $1.775 billion.
The deal, which is subject to the customary regulatory, court and other approvals, is expected to close on or about May 15.
Shares in Crescent Point, which were halted pending the announcement, were down eight cents at $44.42 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday.


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The final Con†Stellation is over 🙁
😀↪ But, join us for Not-A-Con 2019!! ↩😀
😀↪ Which will be 18–19 October ↩😀
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Con†Stellation XXXV: Horologium (The Clock)
13–15 October 2017——Huntsville, Alabama
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|Artist GoH: David O. Miller
|MC: Toni Weisskopf
Welcome to the website for Con†Stellation, an annual general interest Science Fiction & Fantasy convention(←What's That?) in Huntsville Alabama. Con†Stellation (or Con*Stellation) is an annual, fan-run, general-interest science fiction & fantasy convention sponsored by NASFA—the North Alabama Science Fiction Association. The next con—Con†Stellation XXXV: Horologium—will be 13–15 October 2017.
This site will always be a work in progress and will be updated as details of the 2017 convention are firmed up (so please come back often!). If you can't readily find the info you need, please see our Contact Info below to get in touch. You can also follow us on Twitter @Con_Stellation.
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Con†Stellation XXXV: Horologium (The Clock) will held at 13–15 October 2017 at the Four Points by Sheraton Huntsville Airport located onsite at the Huntsville International Airport (HSV) :
For free parking, please remember to park in Hotel Parking (not regular airport parking). There are signs to follow when arriving at the airport. Bring the ticket you get when entering this lot to the hotel desk and show your convention badge to get validated for free parking. For further parking info, see the Accessibility page.
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Dates listed with each returning prior GoH are for each prior year when they were a Guest of Honor, MC, or Special Guest. Several of them also attended the convention and participated in programming for multiple other years.
|Orson Scott Card (GoH 1986 & 2015)
Randy B. Cleary (AGoH 1997)
David Drake (GoH 2006)
Les Johnson (MC 1997)
Theresa Mather (AGoH 2006)
Mark Maxwell (AGoH 1984)
David O. Miller (AGoH 1993, FGoH 1998)
Stephanie Osborn (MC 2011–2013, Sci. Guest 2016)
Stanley Schmidt (GoH 1996)
Kevin Ward (AGoH 1983)
Toni Weisskopf (MC 1991, FGoH 2012)
|Michael J. Allen
Jim Beall
Rich Groller
|Louise Herring-Jones
Taylor S Hoch
Rob Howell
Aaron Johnston
|Bryan Jones
Darrell "Doc" Osborn
Dan Thompson
Wes Yahola
We are returning in 2017 to the Four Points by Sheraton Huntsville Airport—a Starwood hotel. The hotel is located in the Huntsville International Airport, with hotel reception and most of the function space on the first and second floors and the sleeping rooms stacked above the airport arrival/departure areas. It is conveniently located immediately off of I-565 in the western part of the Huntsville Metro Area—click here for a Google Map. For info regarding accessibility features of the Four Points, please see our Accessibility page.
As of 6 October 2017, the room block is sold out (or very close to it). Rooms are still available if you contact the hotel directly.
Standard rooms (king or double-double) are $92 (+taxes). A limited number of Jacuzzi and Corner King rooms may be available for a nightly upcharge.
The hotel website is also a good place to learn about the hotel, get driving directions, etc.
Parking in the hotel parking lot is free for all convention members—just bring your parking ticket and convention badge to the hotel desk to get the ticket validated. If you want free parking, please be careful not to park in airport parking (short term or long term). The entrances for the various parking lots are close together so watch the signs carefully. For further parking info, see the Accessibility page.
The hotel has a full-service restaurant (The Grille) open 6A–10:30P (M–F); 6:30A–10P (S–S). Additional dining (and shopping) options are covered in the Area Guide below.
PREORDERS (for pickup at the convention) are CLOSED
You can still order online, but shipping ($6/shirt) will apply
You can also order at the convention—and pay shipping,
or make arrangements for pickup in Huntsville post-con
See the T-Shirt/Polo Order Page to order & pay for shirts and shipping. Cost, color, style, and size info is shown below (and on the order page). We use PayPal for online purchases, but you do not have to have a PayPal account to use that service.
The art (see draft at right) is once again by by David O. Miller, who has done the art for most of our T-Shirts over the decades. You can see other examples of his work for us on the T-Shirt Retrospective page.
2017 T-shirt/Polo sales will be by:
The deadline for pre-convention orders to be picked up at the convention—17 September 2017—has expired. Orders after that date will still be accepted (up to and including at the convention) but will require shipping (at your expense)—or you may be able to arrange pickup in Huntsville.
T-Shirt Details:
|Dark (smoky)
|Dark Pink
|Galapagos Blue
|Royal Blue
|Forest (dark)
|Kelly Green
Polo Shirt Details:
Con†Stellation's annual Art Show, Print Shop, and Auction brings together science fiction, fantasy, or fandom-related art from both professional and amateur artists. We want you to enjoy just looking at the art, but we're happy to say that all the artwork in the Print Shop and the large majority of that on display in the Art Show will be for sale. Please click through for complete info on how to:
The contact info for our Art Show director is:
Most of the authors attending Con†Stellation XXXV will be selling their own books at an Author Table. Individual authors will rotate use of the table as their schedule permits, so you'll want to check by often to see who is there and selling.
As of 18 February 2017 the following dealers will be at Con†Stellation XXXV.
|Barnes & Noble
|New books
|B&N at Bridge Street
|Karen Boyd, A.B. Tales
|A.B. Tales on Facebook
|Marcia Illingworth, Magpie Curios
|Jewelry & collectibles
|Laura & Russell Peterson, Sci-Fi Collectables
|What it says in the name
|Sci-Fi Collectables website
|David Willoughby
|Used/collectible books
|Natalie Young
|Custom glasswork
|Facebook page
Also, you may want to check out Theresa Mather's table in the Art Show.
Planning for 2017 programming is well along and we are now able to post a draft schedule (yay!). Changes are bound to happen, so check back from time to time. The final schedule will be available in print at the convention.
Con†Stellation XXXV will be the site of the Alabama Premiere for the indie sf film Teleios. You can see the trailer at https://vimeo.com/162195948 or check out their website at https://www.thousandmilemedia.com/teleios.
A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened, and why.
Teleios has won 15 awards with an additional 8 nominations at film festivals both in the US and abroad. Lead actress Sunny Mabrey (center, at right) is from Rainbow City AL. She won Best Actress at the International Independent Film Awards for her role in Teleios. She had recurring roles on ABC's Once Upon a Time (2011), CBS's Reckless (2014), Lifetime's The Client List (2012), AMC's Mad Men (2007), TNT's Memphis Beat (2010), and CMT's Still the King (2016). She has starred in many studio and independent films, including playing opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the feature film, xXx: State of the Union (2005) and again in the cult comedy-thriller, Snakes on a Plane (2006). Her independent film, One Last Thing… (2005) premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
Con†Stellation XXXV also has the first episode of the brand new post-apocalyptic science fiction television series Extinct—created by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.
The 10-episode, action-packed sci-fi series takes place 400 years after the extinction of the human race and follows a small group of humans who are revived by an alien civilization. The aliens claim they want to restore the human species, but the reborn humans uncover new dangers, hidden agendas, and powerful secrets that challenge that claim and threaten to annihilate the human race all over again.
Do you have what it takes—a knowledge of classic genre book/movie/etc. titles and at least a little ability to translate emojis to English—to win this Game Show? Then join in as a contestant—or just hang out and watch, ready to chime in when the contestants fail and the host throws the question open to the audience. Full Disclosure: in some cases "classic" is just a bit of a stretch. 😜
We're happy to say that KandyKlatsches will be back in 2017—Con†Stellation's version of small-group meetings with some of our guests. Perhaps you've been to a KaffeeKlatsch at a convention before? If not, the short definition is a gathering with a convention guest and a small group of fans, drinking coffee (or tea, or...) and chatting. Starting in 2012 we put out our own spin on that; providing candy instead of coffee. Success! (Yes, there is strategy involved—you might be ill advised to put a piece of toffee in your mouth just before you want to ask a question.)
You will have to sign up at the convention for these events. There may be a limit on how many KandyKlatsches each convention member can sign up for, and there will be a limit on the number of people in each KandyKlatsch. Details of signup (including times available) will be available at the convention. Signup will be at convention registration during special hours to be posted at the con.
The Huntsville Area Science Fiction Writers Group and Cake Appreciation Society will also be back at Co†Stellation XXXV with their ("Patent Pending" 😀) mixture of readings and cake. Satisfy both your hunger for good fiction and your sweet tooth at the same time.
Sadly, we have found that there is just not enough support for a traditional Masquerade at a medium-to-small convention like Con†Stellation. That doesn't mean you should leave your costumes at home, though you might want to put emphasis on those that are comfortable to wear while doing other stuff at the con.
The Game Room is always a big part of Con†Stellation. Plans for 2017 are just beginning and will be posted here as they are firmed up.
If you want to run a game/tournament in the Game Room at Con†Stellation please email firstname.lastname@example.com to start the discussion. You can also send snail mail to the convention address below, marking your missive Attention: Game Master.
There will also be room for pickup in the Game Room—bring your own game(s) or check out one of the many games that should be available for your use.
Do you play spades and play to win? If so, have we got a deal for you! Killer Cutthroat Spades is a variant on no-partner spades with severe penalties for sandbagging, thus putting extra emphasis on both accurate bidding and sharp gameplay. What do you get if you win? Mostly bragging rights—no small thing in this neck of the woods! Never played Killer Cutthroat Spades before? No problem, we'll help. (Seriously, we actually will help. We love introducing the game to new folks. Some experience playing spades, bridge, or some other bid-and-trick based game is helpful, but not necessary. We can pretty much always round up enough players to teach you at a non-tournament game before you go swimming with the sharks.)
You can sign up at the door or contact "Uncle Timmy" by email <email@example.com> to get on the list.
Each year Con†Stellation chooses a charity and engages in fundraising activities at the convention, in particular selling donated art and other items in the Art Show & Auction. We're happy to report that for the second year in a row we've selected the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Many residents of the Huntsville metro area are familiar with the downtown "Fort Book" location, but may not be fully aware that there are a dozen locations all over Madison County (including in the cities/towns of Gurley, Hazel Green, Madison, New Hope, and Triana in addition to the eponymous Huntsville locations).
If you wish to make a donation of items for the Charity Auction (to be held in conjunction with the Art Auction), please bring it to the Art Show at the convention, or see the Art Show & Auction section of this page, above, for mailing information.
Our Convention Hospitality Suite (Con Suite(←What's That?) in the usual parlance) is one of the highlights of Con†Stellation. You'll certainly find the usual Con Suite munchies and soft drinks, but you'll also find more hearty fare at numerous times all through the con. Just ask anyone who's been to one of our conventions and you'll likely hear high praise. For further info on the Con Suite and on other food options in the hotel, please see our Accessibility page.
As a fan-run convention, Con†Stellation is run entirely by volunteers and we would like you to join us. We need people with various levels of convention experience, including none. We have to keep a lot of balls in the air to make a convention work; could you lend a hand (or two)? See our email or snailmail addresses below to let us know that you are interested in helping out! If you email, please include Volunteer in your e-mail subject line so that we can direct your request to the right person.
Use these methods to contact the convention for registration or to ask a question.
Main Email Address
Other Email Addresses
The immediate precursor to Con†Stellation was ZerCon, a two-day convention in November 1981. While planning and executing ZerCon, we came up with the name "Con†Stellation" (or "Con*Stellation") for a planned ongoing series of three-day-weekend conventions.
The first Con†Stellation was held July 16–18, 1982, under the full name Con†Stellation I: The Pleiades. The time of year varied over the first few conventions, though at least one has been held each year since. After the first few years, the convention made the shift from a spring/summer convention to a fall convention. Each Con†Stellation has been subtitled with an astronomical constellation—usually one of the 88 official modern constellations, though the first one was named after an asterism in Taurus. The convention often uses the constellation as a theme in its advertising and for events at the convention.
Con†Stellation has been held at a number of Huntsville-area hotels over its history. Other than Con†Stellation II.V (2.5), each has been a 3-day (Friday to Sunday) event.
Details of Con†Stellation XXXI: Perseus—held 12-14 October 2012 at the Holiday Inn Express in Huntsville AL—can be found at the link above.
Details of Con†Stellation XXXII: Columba—held 11-13 October 2013 at the Holiday Inn Express in Huntsville AL—can be found at the link above.
Due to hotel issues (including the closing of the late, lamented Holiday Inn Express), there was no Con†Stellation in 2014.
Details of Con†Stellation XXXIII: Coma Berenices—held 16-18 October 2015 at the Four Points, Huntsville Airport in Huntsville AL—can be found at the link above.
Details of Con†Stellation XXXIV: Mensa (The Table) was held 14–16 October 2016 at the Four Points, Huntsville Airport in Huntsville AL—can be found at the link above.
Per current plans, 2017's Con†Stellation XXXV: Horologium (The Clock) will be the last Con†Stellation. NASFA—the North Alabama Science Fiction Association—may still choose to sponsor other conventions or convention-like events in 2018 and forward.
Statement of the 2017 con chairs:
Other Fannish Stuff in Huntsville
The sponsor of Con†Stellation is the North Alabama Science Fiction Association, aka NASFA—a general-interest science fiction & fantasy club headquartered in Huntsville Alabama. Besides planning and running Con†Stellation, NASFA has monthly meetings that bring together sf/f/h/etc. fans from Huntsville, Madison, and other surrounding areas. Each meeting features both a noisy lively business meeting (which often digresses forays into a variety of sf/f/h/etc. topics) and a program. That latter may feature a regional author, cover a science topic of interest, display some off-the-beaten-track videos, or address almost any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. There's also a social aspect to the club, with an "After-The-Meeting Meeting" each month and occasional other events. To find out how to join this year-round club, or to get in touch with NASFA about any other matter, please visit the NASFA website.
Links to Other Conventions, etc.
Fannish Oddities
It's a short drive from the Four Points Hotel/Airport to the nearest concentration of shopping, restaurants, etc. An Area Guide (PDF file) (revised 4 October 2017) is available for your pre-con perusal. Printed copies will be available at the convention. You can also check out the wider area at www.findmoremadison.com.
This 2017 version of the guide may be revised again before the convention if anything significant changes—so be sure to check back here or use the printed copy available at the con.
We think Huntsville is a great place to visit and hope you do too. This section is somewhat hastily thrown together, but lists at least some of the many attractions you can visit and events you can go to in and around Huntsville while you're in town.


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Justin Bieber Reportedly Being Sued Over June 2013 Ferrari Incident
An incident from last summer may be causing Justin Bieber trouble again.
On June 18, 2013, Bieber and his friend Lil Twist were leaving the Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard late at night. The paparazzi swarmed Bieber and Twist as they were trying to leave in Bieber's Ferrari. A photographer got in the way and after Bieber motioned the paparazzo to move, he started to move his car anyway when the photographer refused to move. On his way out, Bieber struck the photographer, causing him to fall down.
The police were brought in but Bieber was cleared of any charges, including a hit-and-run, because the police said the photographer should not have been a pedestrian on the street.
Now, TMZ reports that Bieber is being sued over a man who claims Bieber injured him that night. It is unclear whether the man suing Bieber is the same photographer that was struck by Bieber with his car.
According to TMZ, Walter Lee claims in his lawsuit that he suffered from lacerations, hematomas, deep abrasions on his left knee and leg and deep venous thrombosis as a result of reckless driving by Bieber. In addition to hospital and other medical bills, Lee claims that he does not believe he will ever recover.
You can watch video from that night by TMZ here.
See Justin Bieber's Childhood + Baby Photos


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The Bengals beat the Redskins with a lot of interesting play calling and strong play from Andy Dalton and A.J. Green. But for a lot of the game, it seemed like the Redskins were just playing badly. At half time, it was 24-10 Washington, and people we're saying stuff like this:
What? I don't know what that means. Let's go a little simpler: most people we're saying stuff like this:
Indeed, for a while. We already grabbed one of the big highlights that contributed to that—Sanu to Green for six—but this is the weird play that kept the Redskins in the game early. The Bengals were backed up into their own endzone and Andy Dalton pretty much threw exactly where he shouldn't have. Credit Washington Linebacker Rob Jackson for the quick reflexes:
Despite 17 consecutive points to get the Redskins to 31-24, the Bengals never actually trailed, and looked well in control until the wild flurry from the Redskins that came up just short. A.J. Green had 183 yards receiving, which leads WRs for the week so far; Robert Griffin (sigh, "the third") came back down to earth a bit, though he did lead the Redskins in rushing with 85 yards. He also got sacked 6 times for losses of 53 yards, so that'll hurt you. (2-1) Bengals 38, (1-2) Redskins 31.


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You just found a 50 lbs (23 kg) davenport anchor and can't figure out how you can get this prize back to the surface You need a lift bag You never know what you're going to find on a dive that is worth money, so always pack a lift bag when you go diving XS Scuba offers 100 lbs (45 4 kg) Lift Bags with a unique "anti-spill" bottom with baffle to allow easy fill from any device and prevent lift bag from dumping air or taking on water when it hits the surface
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"Sisterland" (Random House), by Curtis Sittenfeld
To characterize Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel, "Sisterland," as an ideal beach read isn't meant as an insult. The author of "American Wife," a fantastic account of a protagonist clearly modeled after Laura Bush who ascends from a small town in Wisconsin to the White House, is a skilled storyteller.
Her new novel isn't as sappy as the jacket description implies. It's the story of identical twins — Kate and Violet — who are raised by an emotionally absent father and a depressed mother and share the gift (or curse) of "senses" or an ability to see people's secrets and events before they happen.
While one sister embraces the gift and uses it to her advantage both socially and financially, the other sister hides it and consciously ignores it.
Sittenfeld delivers a well-told, compelling story about characters so real they settle into your psyche like old friends. The relationships between the sisters and between Kate and her husband, Jeremy, feel both loving and realistic.
It's a novel about growing up, making big choices and living with mistakes and regrets.
It's not perfect — Sittenfeld asks her readers to suspend disbelief more than once and swallow circumstances and situations that seem unlikely to happen in real life — but it's a fast, smooth, guilt-free read.
Review: 'Sisterland' is perfect summer read
"Sisterland" (Random House), by Curtis Sittenfeld


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The Labour Party, David Shearer's leadership and the politics of caution that are failing them both
National up, Labour down in new poll
The Roy Morgan poll, conducted in the first weeks of January and released yesterday, shows support for John Key's National Party was up half a per cent to 46 per cent.
Support for David Shearer's Labour Party was down 2 per cent to 31.5 per cent.
Pundits were quick to claim that Labour's nudge up in the polls last year was because of Shearer's butch routine with Cunliffe. The idea that we are all secretly political masochists who love a sadist for leader isn't a new one but I argued at the time that this was a terrible conclusion to draw and that what Shearer had managed to do with his promise of 100 000 'affordable' homes for the children of the middle classes was pierce through the news cycle with actual policy NZers are screaming out for.
Housing affordability is a massive issue for middle and working NZ and what Labour managed to do with his speech is lift genuine interest in the Party, the policy was recording 70% support.
The decline in the first Poll of the year won't be helping with Shearer's confidence issues however. Part of the problem is the methodology of the Polls which by the day become more and more biased as fewer NZers have landlines and part of the problem is Shearer's inability to connect with the 800 000 mainly Labour Party voters who were enrolled last election but didn't bother to vote. For them the Party simply isn't left enough and Shearer's following of Pagani Doctrine to reach out to National voters with beneficiaries on roofs anecdotes (which embarrassingly turned out to not have even happened) were a major turn off that spawned an open revolt on the blogs.
Luckily for Shearer, he gets to restart his flawed first year with a new policy direction speech. Chris Trotter has been publishing some damning blogs of late looking at Shearer's early bromance with private mercenaries and his flirtation with privatization of war. While I don't share all the conclusions Chris reaches, I do think it does show how ideologically malleable Shearer has been in the past and shows how important it will be in the future for him to have far better advisers than he has had. It also means that voters have to force Labour to promote better policy.
While the weight of opinion for a more interventionist Government role is building...
"Over 70 per cent of Kiwis endorse KiwiBuild – our policy to build 100,000 affordable homes in 10 years. Around 60 per cent of New Zealanders support both universal KiwiSaver and our prudent policy of steadily raising the retirement age to 67. And today it's shown that 55 per cent support a capital gains tax.
...the reality is Labour have to be forced to do anything progressive because their ridiculous caution always holds them back. NZers will be demanding more from Labour and the blogs will be relentless if Shearer doesn't lift his game.
I don't think we can appreciate how spooked many in Labour had been by the loss in 2008. The Politically Correct Nanny State bogeyman created by National in the wake of the repeal of section 59 alongside Labour's refusal to slaughter any of the free market sacred cows left many MPs burnt by the idea of an interventionist Government.
Labour did not comprehend what was happening to the free market's sacred cows in 2007 as the financial markets crashed (but then again neither did those running the response). They didn't understand that the foundations of neoliberalism that had been cemented into NZs economy were open for challenge and so didn't bother to challenge them.
After four years of hearing what Government can't do from John Key, by 2014 NZers will want to hear what Government can do. That's where David Parker steps in.
Parker has an agenda for a far more interventionist Labour than he has been letting on, the question is whether Labour's natural caution will force him to backdown.
The ball is in Shearer's court, he and Parker better be ready to serve.
Now is the time to be bold.


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Author: Spector, Shmuel ; [translated by Jerzy Michalowicz].
Publishing information: Jerusalem : Yad Vashem : Federation of Volhynian Jews, 1990.
383 pages.
This book describes the situation of the Jews in the western two-thirds of Volhynia before and during the Nazi conquest. The area covered is the part of Volhynia ruled by Poland between the World Wars, including the major cities and towns of Kovel, Vladimir-Volynski, Lutsk, Dubno, Rovno, and approximately 275 other towns and villages specifically mentioned in the book.
Spector has used original non-Jewish sources, including German, Soviet and Polish records, in addition to memorial books and extensive testimonies from survivors, to describe the unfriendly and sometimes harsh Polish rule, the relatively brief Soviet Occupation, and the increasingly horrible steps in the Nazi occupation that led to the final extermination Aktionen. These steps began with a series of decrees that, over the course of time, isolated the Jews as much as possible from the rest of the population, used them for forced labor, and stripped them of their posessions and livelihoods. Next, Jews were forced into ghettos.
The final step was liquidation of all the people in the ghettos. Unlike the Jews in Central Europe, the Jews of Volhynia were not shipped to extermination camps like Auschwitz. Instead, the entire ghetto population of a town would be herded from the ghetto and marched outside of town, where they would be shot and buried in mass graves. But, while the vast majority of the Jewish population died from disease, starvation, and murder, some Jews escaped to survive in the Volhynian forests. Some Jews would escape from the ghetto before it was liquidated, some would hide as long as they could in the ghetto and escape later, some even survived being shot and ran to the woods. Because the Germans had limited manpower to murder the Jews, the extermination actions took place over a period of months. Word of the exterminations at one town would spread to towns not yet liquidated, giving some people a short time to prepare their escape.
While mass escapes occurred, most attempts were organized among small groups of friends. Spector describes many plans for escape and resistance all over the region, not all of which were successful. Even more tragically, many people, including some heads of the Jewish Councils, resisted the escape plans of others, for fear that the Germans would punish the people who remained. Most of the people planning to escape or resist were young, and they had to face the real danger that their own parents, grandparents, and younger siblings would die of starvation, without anyone there to help them obtain food. As a result, escape and resistance plans were sporadic, limited in scope, and made on extremely short notice. Once someone managed to escape to the forest, they still had to contend with the problem of staying hidden while finding food.
These problems would be bad enough, but the escaped Jews also had to contend with a hostile Ukrainian population that, when it found Jews, would often either kill them immediately or turn them over to the Germans. The survival rate of escapees was abysmally low.
The relations between the different ethnic groups is one of the most interesting subjects covered by the book. Before the war, relations between Jews and Poles were far from warm. The Polish government had issued a series of laws that curtailed Jewish economic, social, and educational life. Jewish-Ukrainian relations were even worse. The Ukrainians dreamed of having their own state and hated both the Jews and the Poles. When the Soviets occupied the area in 1939, many Jews were active supporters and joined the local militias and provisional governments that disarmed and arrested Polish police and officials. Right after the Soviet retreat, and before the Germans had established strong control of the area, many Ukrainians and Poles staged pograms against the Jewish population. The German Einsatzgruppen, units whose job it was to exterminate Jews, often encouraged these pogroms. Other German military units were alarmed by these actions, as they front lines were still not very far away and the disorder caused by the pogroms could have disrupted the Wehrmacht's ability to fight. They shut down the pogroms.
There are a number of cases, early in the occupation, where the Jews actually turned to the Germans for protection from the Ukrainians. When the Germans conquered the area, they worked very closely with Ukrainian nationalists. Short of manpower, the Germans were very happy to recruit Ukrainians as police, para-military forces, and local government officials. These Ukrainians, in turn, used their new authority to harass and murder Jews and, after the Jews were gone, Poles.
Eventually, a situation existed where the Germans controlled the large towns, but armed Ukrainian partisans controlled the countryside. The large Ukrainian partisan formations would kill any Jews they found, along with Poles and Czechs. A number of Jews who escaped the extermination actions managed to find safety in Polish and Czech towns, where they helped defend against the Ukrainians. Meanwhile, Soviet partisans had established themselves in Northeast Volhynia, and were in a constant struggle with the Ukrainians. There was a situation described as "every group against every other." (There were a few "righteous Gentiles," though, who helped save individuals and small groups of Jews from the carnage, and Spector describes these people as well.) Some of the escaped Jews set up their own partisan units, which would try to defend other Jewish survivors and to punish those who attacked the Jews.
Many of the Jewish partisan units were eventually absorbed into the Soviet partisan formations. While anti-Semitism was not unknown among the Soviet partisans, the senior Soviet officers enforced a strict discipline that usually protected the Jews from serious abuse. Once the war was over, most of the surviving Jews from the region eventually went west to Poland, and from there to Israel and the United States. Most Jews now in Volhynia, Spector says, come from farther east in Ukraine and Russia. This book was adapted from Spector's doctoral dissertation, and he often spends considerable time explaining his analysis of his sources and how certain population figures, etc., were arrived at.
This sometimes makes for more "scholarly" reading than the casual reader might prefer. Overall, however, the book is an excellent and exhaustive study of a cataclysmic time in the Jewish history of Volhynia. People researching specific towns in the area will benefit from the translations and summaries from memorial books and testimonies; all references to towns are indexed. Of special interest to genealogists is the book's index of names, which includes approximately 400 names of Jews and others from the region that are mentioned in the book. I obtained this book from the University of California, Santa Barbara library, call number DS 135 R93 V63713 1990. The book is also held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) library. -- Mark Heckman


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The Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev
HarperCollins, 1990 - Heads of state - 401 pages
Mikhail Gorbachev's influence on recent events in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the entire world is nothing short of astounding. But, until now, very little has been known about Gorbachev the man. Gail Sheehy presents the most intimate, comprehensive, and lively account ever published about this intriguing world figure. 16 pages of halftones.
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RG Cinnamon Rolls Part Deaux - New & Improved. Tastes Great (more filling) :)
September 06, 2015, 11:15:16 AM »
So, in my never ending quest to improve on things I cook I set out to find a different Cinnamon Roll recipe than what I had used in the past. I don't make these very often, actually I've only made cinnamon rolls from scratch maybe 4-5 times in my life
These are the real deal, no need to continue to look for another recipe. This is
the one
My last recipe was pretty dang good but I knew they could be better. I don't see a way to improve this one even though they are very similar to the others. You can look at this recipe to compare to my other one and see they have a lot in common :
RG's Sweet Buns
The only adjustment I made to this recipe was that I did not have unsalted butter so I cut back on the salt. The recipe calls for 1 3/4 tsp salt, I used 1 1/4 Kosher salt. I also added a little more vanilla to the icing, I just free poured it, no measuring but if I had to guess I used 3/4tsp or even a whole teaspoon. Also, I had to bake them longer than the recipe says. My oven is a convection oven and it has an "Easy Convect Bake" mode that lowered the temp from the 400° it called for to 375°. My recommendation would be to cook for a longer time at a lower temp. Maybe 20-25+ minutes at 350°. A thermometer comes in handy, you want an internal temp of 190°.
Once I had them rolled out and cut and placed into the baking dish, I wrapped them in plastic wrap and let them hang out in the fridge overnight and then took them out early to proof in my oven on "Proof" mode for an hour before baking. All in all, these were great. Especially for the first time making them. The next time I make them, I think I will add a little orange zest to the icing.
Without further adieu, I give you..............RG's Cinnamon Buns Revisited
Not really my recipe but I'm claiming it should anyone ask, lol.
1 cup (8 ounces) lukewarm milk
2 large eggs, room temperature
1/3 cup (2 5/8 ounces) unsalted butter, cut up
4 1/2 cups (19 1/2 ounces) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1/3 cup (2 5/8 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup (7 1/4 ounces) brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons (3/4 ounce) ground cinnamon
one 3-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup (2 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) glazing or confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Manual/Mixer Method: Combine all of the dough ingredients in a large mixing bowl, stirring till the mixture becomes cohesive. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled work surface, and knead it for 5 to 8 minutes, till it's smooth. Or knead it in an electric mixer, using the dough hook, for 4 to 7 minutes at medium speed. Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl, turn to grease all sides, cover the bowl with a proof cover or plastic wrap, and let it rise for 60 minutes, till it's nearly doubled in bulk.
Bread Machine Method: Place all of the dough ingredients into the pan of your bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer (usually, liquids first, yeast last). Program the machine for dough or manual, and press Start. After about 10 minutes of kneading, check the dough's consistency; it should be fairly smooth, not too sticky, not dry and "gnarly." Adjust its consistency with additional flour or water, if necessary, and allow the machine to complete its cycle.
Assembly: Transfer the dough to a lightly greased work surface, and roll it into a 16 x 21-inch rectangle. Spread the dough with the 1/3 cup butter. Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon, and sprinkle it evenly over the dough.
Starting with a short end, roll the dough into a log, and cut it into 12 slices. Place the buns in a lightly greased 9 x 13-inch pan. Cover the pan with a proof cover or plastic wrap, and let the buns rise until they're nearly doubled, about 30 minutes.
Bake the buns in a preheated 400°F oven until they're golden brown, about 15 minutes. While the buns are baking, make the icing.
Icing: In a small bowl, beat together the cream cheese, butter, sugar, and vanilla. Spread the icing on the buns while they're warm. Yield: 12 big buns.
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I "knead" to make this soon
These suckas are good, Caj and Rich can back me up on that!
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It has come to my attention that we are our own worst enemies. The lack of our effectiveness and success is primarily due to our own stupidity and failure to get out of our own way. We tend to get wrapped up in our own little worlds and forget that our primary goal is to influence others to higher levels of performance. We forget that the energy we bring to our team through our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual presence is what sets the tone for their morale, productivity, and well-being.
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