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Out Now: 'Face It' by Debbie Harry
HarperCollins Publishers has announced plans to publish Face It, the remarkable life story of Blondie front woman and music icon, Debbie Harry, on 1st October 2019.
Face It is written in collaboration with critically acclaimed journalist and author, Sylvie Simmons, based on a series of recent exclusive personal interviews. The book also includes original essays written by Harry.
At HarperCollins UK, Ed Faulkner will publish, and Zoe Berville will edit the publication which will be simultaneously published by Dey Street Books at HarperCollins US.
From her New Jersey childhood with adoptive parents, through her years at the heart of New York's underground art scene, to global superstardom as co-author of some of the best pop songs of all time, Debbie Harry is an icon amongst some of the greatest figures in music, art, film, fashion and more. A pioneering feminist–visually striking and musically revolutionary — Harry remains a trailblazer to generations of fans and artists, breaking ground for the likes of Madonna and Lady Gaga, as well as many others.
Here, for the first time, Ms. Harry pulls back the curtain and invites us into the shifting and multifaceted complexities of her interior life as it has played out over the last seventy-some years. The hardscrabble grit and grime of the early New York City years segues into a series of great commercial successes, interrupted by a plunge into heroin addiction, the near-death of long-time creative partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy and Blondie's break-up as a band.
With Blondie co-founder Chris Stein, Debbie brought punk, hip hop and disco into the mainstream, having pioneered the new wave in New York's pivotal 1970s downtown music scene, centered around the CBGBs club. Face It features everyone from bands Blondie came on the 1970s music scene such original artists as The Ramones, Television and Talking Heads, to Iggy Pop and David Bowie, to Jean-Michel Basquiat, to her artistic collaborations with Marina Abramovic and Debbie's work with H.R. Giger of "Alien" fame. It explores her successful acting career (she starred in over 30 film roles including David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" and John Waters' "Hairspray"), her weekends with William S. Burroughs and an attempted abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
Inspirational, entertaining, shocking, humorous and eye-opening, Face It captures Harry's expansive multi-disciplined artistry as well her singular voice and style. The book features a thoughtful introduction by Chris Stein, rare photos, original illustrations, fan artwork, installations and more.
As a musician, an actor, a muse, an icon, the breadth of Debbie Harry's impact on our culture has been matched by her almost Sphinx-like reticence about her inner life.
Through it all – while being acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women in the world, prized by a galaxy of leading photographers and fashion designers, beloved by legions of fans for her relentless, high-octane performances, selling 50 million albums or being painted by Andy Warhol – Debbie Harry has infused her perennial Blondie persona with a heady mix of raw sexuality and sophisticated punk cool.
In Face It, Debbie Harry invites us into the complexity of who she is and how her life and career have played out over the last seven decades. Upending the standard music memoir, with a cutting-edge style keeping with the distinctive qualities of her multi-disciplined artistry, Face It includes a thoughtful introduction by Chris Stein, rare personal photos, original illustrations, fan artwork installations and more.
Ranging from the hardscrabble grit and grime of the early New York City years to times of glorious commercial success, interrupted by a plunge into heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy and Blondie's break-up as a band, an amazing solo career and then a stunning return with Blondie, this is a cinematic story of an artist who has always set her own path.
Face It by Debbie Harry is published on 1st October 2019.
9780008229429 | HB | £20.00


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Allen, Kentucky
Not to be confused with Allen County, Kentucky.
Location of Allen, Kentucky
Coordinates: 37°36′48″N 82°43′33″W / 37.61333°N 82.72583°W / 37.61333; -82.72583Coordinates: 37°36′48″N 82°43′33″W / 37.61333°N 82.72583°W / 37.61333; -82.72583
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0.19 sq mi (0.50 km2)
1,081/sq mi (417.2/km2)
Allen is a 6th-class city in Floyd County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 193 at the 2010 census,[1] up from 150 at the 2000 census.
Allen was first settled in the early nineteenth century. The first post office was named "Mouth of Beaver" and was established on August 21, 1854 (Thomas P. Johns, postmaster). The town began to develop rapidly c. 1904-1905 after the establishment of a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad station. The station was interchangeably known as "Beaver Creek" and "Beaver Creek Junction".[2] In 1905, another post office opened and was named "Allen" after local resident T.J. Allen. The town was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1913.[3] In 1936, the railroad station was renamed to prevent confusion during mail delivery. An area outside the city limits known as "New Allen" began to develop in 1937 after a bridge was constructed across the Levisa Fork River.[2]
Allen is located north of the center of Floyd County at 37°36′48″N 82°43′33″W / 37.61333°N 82.72583°W / 37.61333; -82.72583 (37.613421, -82.725826).[4] It sits at the confluence of Beaver Creek with the Levisa Fork, a north-flowing tributary of the Big Sandy River and part of the Ohio River watershed.
U.S. Routes 460 and 23 pass just north of Allen, leading northwest 5 miles (8 km) to Prestonsburg, the county seat, and southeast 24 miles (39 km) to Pikeville.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Allen has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km2), or 7.06%, is water.[1]
As of the census[5] of 2010, there were 193 people, 67 households residing in the city. There were 67 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 99.48% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Hispanic or Latino, 0.00% Asian or Pacific Islander, 0.00% Native American and 0.52% from two or more races.
1920 216 —
1930 284 31.5%
1960 370 −12.1%
Est. 2015 186 [6] −3.6%
In the city the population was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 63.73% from 18 to 64, and 13.47% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35.4 years.
The median income for a household in the city was $45,104, and the median income for a family was $26,875. The per capita income for the city was $13,247. There were 19.7% of the population living below the poverty line.
Wesley Christian School
Prestonsburg High School
Big Sandy Community & Technical College
John M. Stumbo Park
Paul Hunt Thompson Golf Course
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park
1 2 "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001), Allen city, Kentucky". American FactFinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
1 2 Rennick, Robert M. (1988). "Place Names". Kentucky Place Names. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-0179-4. Retrieved on 2010-04-10
↑ Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Allen, Kentucky". Accessed 15 July 2013.
↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
↑ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on September 11, 2013. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
↑ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015". Retrieved July 2, 2016.
Municipalities and communities of Floyd County, Kentucky, United States
County seat: Prestonsburg
Auxier
Betsy Layne
Dwale
Other unincorporated
Alphoretta
Bypro
Grethel
Hueysville
Ivel
Ligon
Risner
Stanville
Warco
Watergap
Weeksbury
Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region
Middlesboro
Mount Sterling
Beattyville
Clay City
Coal Run Village
Salyersville
under 1k
Benham
Blackey
Booneville
Campton
Elkhorn City
Evarts
Fleming-Neon
Frenchburg
Hindman
Hyden
Lakeview Heights
Loyall
Lynch
Pippa Passes
Wallins Creek
Statistical areas
Frankfort (capital)
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Cumberland Mountains
Cumberland Plateau
Eastern Kentucky Coalfield
Highland Rim
The Knobs
Mississippi Plain
Pennyroyal Plateau
The Purchase
Ridge-and-Valley
South Central Kentucky
Tennessee Valley
Western Coal Fields
25 largest
Lexington–Fayette
Louisville/Jefferson County

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BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal
B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) was established on Jan 18, 1993 and subsequently upgraded as an autonomous Health Sciences University on Oct 28, 1998 with a mandate to work towards developing socially responsible and competent health workforce, providing health care & involving in innovative health research. The Institute, located in Eastern Nepal, has extended its continued health services through teaching district concept to Primary Health Care Centers, District Hospitals and Zonal Hospitals in different districts of the region. This University is aptly named after Bisheshwar Prasad Koirala, Nepal's visionary leader in social uplifting, firm believer of national integration.
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care
Department of Anatomy
Department of Dermatology and Venereology
Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Department of Health Professions Education
Department of Otolaryngology & HNS
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescents Medicine
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Department of Basic and Clinical Physiology
Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging
Department of Dental Surgery
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A la Vie – Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
This is the second time director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann has tackled the true story of his mother's relationship with the two women she met at Aushwitz concentration camp who became her lifelong best friends. The first was the documentary Irene and Her Sisters and now A la Vie which details the lives of the three woman as they are reunited 15 years after the close of the camp. Despite its compelling subject matter and the chance for an original take on the endurance of the human spirit, contrary to expectations A La Vie is oddly lifeless and unmoving.
Ever since she left the camp on the notorious death march from Aushwitz in January 1945, Hélène (Julie Depardieu) has been looking for her friends Lili (Johanna ter Steege) and Rose (Suzanne Clément). After many years, she finally tracks down Lili believing Rose to have died after she was left behind in Aushwitz. Hélène and Lili agree to meet to spend a week together at Berck plage in the north of France. And Lili has a surprise for Hélène. She has found Rose who survived the camp and now joins them in Berck. Together the three woman set out to rebuild their friendship, but soon discover that Auschwitz and the intervening years have left an indelible stamp on them all.
Zilbermann's attention to detail in recreating 1960s postwar France is impressive. The cars, the clothes, the music are all spot on. And after A la Vie's opening scenes set in the camp at Auschwitz, the change of scenery to Berck-plage holds a real sense of optimism and joie de vivre reflected in the reunion of Hélène, Lili and Rose after a decade and a half's absence. But the story then takes a strange B-road into Hélène's unhappy marriage and a fling she has with a much younger man she meets on the beach. The affair dominates much of the film, while the more interesting story of how the woman have dealt with the experience of the concentration camp and the effect on them post-Aushwitz is largely unexplored. There is a hint that Lili in particular has a secret she wants to share but frustratingly never finds the courage to spit it out. Rose initially refuses to talk about what happened in the camp and when she does it's dealt with briskly and clinically before rapidly moving on. Zilbermann has roundly failed to recreate the complicity and depth of affection between the three woman reflected in the film's final scenes which show real footage of the women together. In a few minutes there is more laughter and emotion than in the preceding hour and a half.
An emaciated Depardieu fails to bring credibility to Hélène who is irritatingly wide-eyed and seemingly naive about everything especially men and relationships. Ter Steege remains mysterious throughout and only Clément seems comfortable as Rose. The Canadian actor is a regular in films by her fellow countryman, Xavier Dolan including Mommy, Laurence Anyways and I Killed my Mother and hits just the right note as the coquettish Rose who seems to be more deeply damaged than the others. French films celebrating the richness of female friendships are thin on the ground and here Zilbermann has missed a real opportunity to bring to the big screen the extraordinary tale of these three exceptional woman.
02/12/2014 in review. Tags: A la Vie, Aushwitz, Berck-plage, death march, French cinema, french film, French movies, french review, German concentration camp, I Killed my Mother, Irene and her sisters, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, Johanna ter Steege, Julie Depardieu, Laurence Anyways, Mommy, Suzanne Clément, Xavier Dolan
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Wow, it really feels like a fall day today!
because there are little yellow leaves from most of our trees all over the ground.
This beautiful balloon flew right over my yard and the guys waved at me.
Bella was barking full blast and running around like a chicken.
Balloons and the sounds they make are not her favorite thing.
And all of that pretty blue sky has disappeared.
laying in the recliner, reading, and sleeping.
show up in the yard, but have no energy right now.
I have always wanted to get down to Albuquerque for the balloon festival. It is on my bucket list. I look forward to seeing some fall photos, especially of those huge cottonwoods you have in the area.
What a gorgeous photo! It is raining here now too, after a beautiful week for real sunny Fall weather. Loved it. Now I am minimizing around the house.
thanks guys, Balloon Fiesta ALWAYS puts me in the mood for fall colors, blankets, hot chocolate, pumpkins, and books!
I'll try to get some good pics of the colors soon. And get down here for fiesta! Susan, you have to do it! And Jathy, I want to see your glamper!


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The Shipwrights
85 Bucklers Hard
SO42 7XB
The Shipwrights is a stunning character Georgian terrace house, which sits close to the banks of the River Beaulieu in the historic maritime village of Bucklers Hard. Beaulieu, home to the National Motor Museum, is also just a short distance away.
Up to six guests are welcome at The Shipwrights, which has a king-size bedroom, a twin bedroom and a sofa bed in the lounge, available on request, suitable for one adult or two children. It features a cosy lounge, complete with Sky TV and DVD, a spacious dining room and a well-equipped kitchen, with a cooker, microwave, fridge/freezer and dishwasher. Outside there is plenty of space to relax and play in the safe and secure enclosed lawn garden, complete with garden furniture and a BBQ. Electric, central heating, bed linen, towels and Wi-Fi are all included. Up to two dogs are also welcome to stay at The Shipwrights.
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At Work & Theology 101
NFL Coach Frank Reich Speaks Out on Faith and Work
What's a former seminary president doing as a head coach in the NFL?
This is the focus of an excellent story recently published by The Gospel Coalition on Frank Reich, former president of the Charlotte campus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) and current head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Reich's zig-zagging journey in football and theology is worth the read. While few people have had a career like his, many Christians may likely identify with some of the decisions Reich has made because of his faith. His "aha" moments in his career reflect biblical principles that we talk a lot about here at IFWE.
The Sacred-Secular Divide
Reich made a decision to go to seminary and eventually was asked to become its president. But that wasn't his original plan. TGC senior writer Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra recounts his story:
"When I was playing, I always thought I was going to be a coach," Reich told TGC. "When I went into full-time ministry, that was for all the right motives—a real, sincere, heartfelt love for God. I was trying to do the right thing."
He was "selling everything" to follow Jesus. And he did—he graduated from seminary, led RTS for three years, then pastored a local church. But he didn't feel called to it.
As Hugh Whelchel writes in How Then Should We Work, many Christians who are passionate about their faith become influenced by the "sacred-secular" divide. They believe that in order to truly serve God they need to leave their "secular" jobs and do something seemingly more spiritual, like become a pastor or missionary or work for a Christian organization. Reich told TGC that he now understands that all work matters to God:
"I came to recognize more and more this false dichotomy between sacred and secular work," Reich said. He learned about "the priesthood of all believers—that every Christian is called to live out their faith in their sphere of influence."
The Biblical Meaning of Success
Reich also recounts how he struggled in the past with allowing football—and specifically winning—to become an idol:
Football had become my God. . . . When that was taken away from me, I realized I had to reprioritize my life.
After some devastating Super Bowl defeats, he found comfort in the gospel and putting his hope in Christ.
Whelchel writes in Monday Morning Success that the idol of success comes as a result of two lies that culture has told us: that we can be anything we want to be and be the best in the world at it. He points to Jesus' Parable of the Talents (Matt. 25:14-30) as the best guidance on how God defines success with what he's entrusted to us. One of the most successful basketball coaches in history, John Wooden, sums it up like this:
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
The Cultural Mandate
Reich explains that his view of the biblical meaning of work extends beyond what happens on the field. Integrating faith and work means using his God-given resources to bring about flourishing in the world around him. He explained to TGC what that looks like,
As a quarterback, he tried to "be a good teammate, to bring out the best in players around me, to make a good locker room environment, to do my job right." As a coach, he "works hard, trying to create a culture where people can flourish."
Reich recognizes that his Christian faith is not just a bus ticket to heaven, it's a calling to live out the God-given mission given to Adam and Eve in the Garden—to be fruitful and multiply and to subdue the earth (Gen. 1:28). Whelchel writes,
This first calling of the biblical story is a calling to the world, a calling that comes for the sake of God's purpose to bless all things that he has made. It is a calling informing and shaping all the people of God throughout the entirety of the Bible.
This is the mission that Coach Reich will be living out this weekend in the NFL playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Whether his team wins or loses, Reich sees his work as part of God's big picture story of redemption and restoration—and that's what gives it eternal value.
Read the full story over at The Gospel Coalition.
Editor's note: Read more about the biblical meaning of work in How Then Should We Work? Rediscovering the Biblical Doctrine of Work.
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Kristin Brown is the communications director at Cherrydale Baptist Church and previously served as vice president of communications for the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics (IFWE). She continues to do consulting work with IFWE on key projects. Kristin received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Princeton University and is pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.
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Hitler's Origins
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
[To access the reference to the Porges family, click here]
It has become customary to judge National Socialism, the Third Reich, Greater Germany--or however one prefers to address this political fabrication so neglected by Salvation--solely by the years of its decline, by the abundance of its committed atrocities, and by the profusion of destruction that it caused in its early--but even more so in its final stages.
Yet, such judgment adds up to nothing less than to inferring the life of an organism from its final agony ; and it entails the attempt at depicting the death-throes of a wild beast as the actual cause of the outrages which it has ventured upon from the beginning.
In reality, though, the origins of the Third Reich differ from its end as completely as is imaginable.
All the way from the more or less controversial legitimacy of its beginning it advanced irresistibly to its undeniably rightful decline ; and its passing through countless most heterogeneous states as well as its incessant evolution contain not one moment of stagnation--not even one moment of shuddering before its inescapable doom.
Its origins, of course, were as unsuitable to generate speculations about the enormity of the consequences it was to bring about, as its horrifying end is unsuitable to allow for drawing conclusions to the actual wretchedness of its beginnings.
For if one refrains from starting with Adam and Eve (or rather their Nordic pendants Ask and Embla) as Adolf Hitler himself was fond of doing in many of his speeches, and if one respectively turns to the documented facts instead, the story begins with a certain Maria Schickelgruber, age 42, the unmarried daughter of farmer Johann Schickelgruber of homestead No.1 in Strones, a village in Austria's Waldviertel region, and his wife Theresia, née Pfeisinger, a farmer's daughter from Dietreichs.
On June 7, 1837, in house No.13 in Strones (where she served the farmer Trummelschlager as a hand-maid) said Maria Schickelgruber gave birth to a male infant whose father remained unknown : a boy that was christened Alois--Alois Schickelgruber, the father of Adolf Hitler.
This event took place in the Northern parts of Lower Austria, thus in a region of which popular judgment from old holds not exactly the best of views, as is evident, for example, from local place-names such as the hamlet Gaunersdorf [Scoundrel Village] or in a still prevailing proverb that portrays the aura of some other local settlements:
Zu Oberleis, Au und Püra
schaut's Elend füra.
Gaunersdorf* --which upon the residents' petition had its name changed to a somewhat more eccentric Gaweinstal* [Gawein's Vale] during the Third Reich--had, to be sure, as little to do with any scoundrels as with Gawein ; it derived its name merely from the time-defaced Old High-German name of a former feudal lord.
And the Elend [poverty] which allegedly "peeks forth" ["schaut füra"] in Püra, Au and Oberleis, is nothing but an old word for the remainders of certain "foreign"edifices--Elend originally signifying "foreign"-- to wit : crumbled bricks, rubble and decayed walls of some Roman forts that had been advanced as observation posts far beyond the Danube river into the land of the Quades and Markomans.
These forts had served the purpose of informing by firesigns the legions stationed on the Danube limes such as the X. Gemina Pia Fidelis and the XIV. Gemina Martia Victrix of occurring enemy movements.
But the days when the Imperium had stretched thus far were long gone and lay even further behind than their derelicts lay distant from Strones and Dietreichs.
Yet, an aura of disdain, negligence, and sadness unquestionably still lingers in these parts.
* Note :
The village of Gaweinstal, where I live in, changed its name from Gaunersdorf to Gaweinstal in the year of 1917, long before anybody knew about Hitler. Hitler, at this time, was a soldier fighting on the German side in WWI and completely unknown to the public.
Here is an excerpt of the webpage of www.gaweinstal.at :
"Am 11. Juni 1917 findet schließlich, aufgrund der oftmaligen falschen Auslegung (Dorf der Gauner), die Umbenennung in "Gaweinstal" statt."
The reason for the change of the name had nothing to do with ideology, but simply was done because the first word of the old name "Gauner" means something like racketeer. The very old and original name was "Gunestorf", village of "Guni" who was the founder of the village. The name later turned from Gunestorf to Gaunersdorf over the centuries.
Gerhard Hickl (12/01/2008)
Be this as it may, the Führer's origin remains more or less shrouded in darkness, as it is not possible to trace any further than to those dates and individuals mentioned above, at least not with any certainty.
Even the village Strones, the scene of this fateful childbirth exists no longer--Adolf Hitler ordered it destroyed when the adjoining military training facility of Döllersheim was expanded ; and this is even all the more peculiar since the village had been located at the outermost perimeter of this facility and could have been spared with only minimal effort.
But it was demolished, leveled, "eradicated" in the very fashion the Führer had pledged to do with the cities of his enemies : shot to smithereens by artillery fire, leaving behind a mere moonscape.
And although its residents were each given new homes someplace else, Siedlungsraum and an album with photographs of the vanished community, it is gone nevertheless--vanished like the knowledge of Adolf Hitler's true origins.
Yet, there were already more than enough to crowd around him as worshippers and to staff the ranks of his party, of his Schutzstaffeln and his Sturmabteilungen for dear profit's sake.
And among those, to be sure, were not only people with as brief an ascendance as the Führer himself, but also the descendants of families with family-trees whose magnitude easily outreached the would-be-"thousand-yearhood" of the Reich.
True nobility, it seems, has just as little or nothing to do with range of ancestry as does ignobility, and for this reason all the genealogical research rendered so fashionable by the Third Reich led to as few real results as those dubious Kämmerer- [chamberlain's] and Maltese-investigations practiced from old.
The parents of that illegitimate Alois's mother, for example, were preceded by simple farmers and farmers' daughters, with names like Pfeisinger and Schickelgruber, Hamberger and Reitterer, Sillip and Leidenfrost, Assfall and Ledermüller, of whom, however, no one any longer can say whether, and if, what qualities they may have once possessed ; and, ultimately, how long this had gone on, is of no interest to us, nor, for all we care, even if it goes back in that fashion to the dawn of time.
In any case they remain mere Pfeisingers and Assfalls, Ledermüllers and Schickelgrubers, and it makes no difference whatsoever to us whether they resided on homestead No.1 or No.13 in Spital or Strones, in Refing or Rotfahrn, in Raabs or in Waldteich, the county of the Earl of Lamberg.
They were--only so much is certain--serfs to the Stift Zwettl or to the Johanniter-Kommende Mailberg and to the earls of Noirquermes or Althan, or, earlier, to the Kuenringers or to some, by now completely forgotten secondary vassals of the Kuenringers to whom they were to surrender such and such many bushels of grain each year, this or that hen and several threescores of eggs, and whom they had to serve with compulsory labor.
And as with these country folk it was with the townsfolk, too, were they burghers or even patricians : craftsmen and merchants followed upon craftsmen and merchants, doctors and magistrates upon doctors and magistrates, be their names now Reichlin or Schertlin, Welzer or Holzschuer.
Hence, be all that as it may--ultimately they were nothing more than farmers and small-lot-owners : i.e. Hüttlers or Hitlers. Even with the noblest of families, nobility seldom extends back more than a mere handful of generations, and one discovers--or would discover, if one still could--the never-ceasing succession of farmers and Hüttlers and small lot-owners, just as with anybody else.
The gap between us and those Germanic warriors and heroes, noblemen and gods, from whom all of us allegedly descend, can no longer be bridged.
If, for example, the nearly almighty counts of Flanders and Namur--these off springs of Charles de Magne and Hildegarde of France, the Mahaut de Bourbon and Margarethe of Constantinople, those crusaders and victors of the Sporen battle--originally named themselves after the simple hill-castle or motte of Dampierre, built by one of their forgotten vassals named Petrus upon an artificial hill for himself and his family ; and if the later dukes of Lothringia and the Holy Roman Emperors of the German Nation ultimately descended only from the later ever so modest court of Richwinestein or Reichenstein, erected by their official ancestor Richwin of Verdun, on the Roer river in the Ardennes... if all this is so: what, then, are we to think of all the minor families!
Today, cattle grazes around the Tourist Bed & Breakfast w/ Garden Restaurant and the Agricultural Distillery of Reichenstein ; and on the spot where the now long-destructed donjon of Dompierre once stood, nothing remains aside from two hemispherically trimmed box-trees: symbolizing, as it were, the bosom of the all-birth-giving Earth--which eventually takes everything back into her womb.
Thus, Adolf Hitler, just like anyone else, really needed not be overly proud of his rural origin--nor, for that matter, to be ashamed of it, either.
For, it is after all clear that most families are of no nobler descent than the Führer's. But hardly anyone is also much ignobler than his neighbor--which is to say : neither much better than those numberless who allowed themselves to be unconditionally pushed and ordered around by Hitler, nor considerably worse than all those generals and other dignitaries who first had the cheek to accept all sorts of posts and decorations from that Bohemian private and who later would betray and attempt to assassinate him.
Just as trivial and normal as they was that illegitimate child who, in time, was to become the father of the Führer.
And that is precisely why later there were attempts made--for good or bad intentions--to fabricate a considerably more exciting ancestry for him.
Thus, it was claimed that Maria Schickelgruber's son was fathered by none less than a member of the Rothschild family for whom she had been in service.
If true, the child's father could only have been Baron Anselm von Rothschild, Member of the House of Lords for Life (that is, until his earthly departure on July 27, 1874).
At the time of Alois Schickelgruber's birth, this Anselm would have been at the height of his manhood ; a fact which--as his presumable grandson later would somewhat pleonastically express it--certainly made the supposed impregnation of an Aryan folk-comrade an unproblematic issue for him.
And if one furthermore considers the Jews' nearly unlimited sensuousness (as irrefutably established by the National Socialists!) such an act could easily have been credited to him.
Not likely credited to him, however, can be the circumstance that for the execution of his lusty design --or accident!-- he would not have found a woman more attractive than a forty-two year-old backwoods peasant maid.
Assuming such a set of circumstances, it seems to us, would be thinking in terms too provincial --if not too nationalistic--after all ; and consequently the Lifetime Member of the House of Lords can de facto be ruled out as the Führer's grandfather.
Much rather, it appears, this entire story is a mere variant of a different legend (or, more precisely, a local rumor), according to which one of Hitler's relatives was employed as a humble cook with the Rothschilds at a time when the Führer had already become Reichs-Chancellor, and who supposedly from this humble yet comfortable position took to badmouthing him.
Yet, the wives of the now deceased Rothschild brothers Alphonse and Louis --i.e., the alleged employers of that cook-servant-- never made any mention of such a fact ; a fact which, after all, would not have been completely without implications for their husbands.
And besides: the circumstance that such stories out of principle seem to be dealing with no lesser a house than the Rothschilds, the fact that any other super-rich families such as the Foulds and Montefiores, the Thorschs and Porges, the Portheims and Mayers are apparently regarded too minor already to sustain such theories, shows the fallibility of these reports.
Surely, these rumors aimed at showing how Hitler's larger family was altogether much more respectable than their offspring himself ; that they sought no benefits from him, and that they even wanted nothing to do with him whatsoever.
Of course, one case where this is true is that of a half-brother of the Führer, a certain Alois Hitler, who quietly continued to run a small restaurant on Wittenberg Square in Berlin whilst Adolf Hitler was already busily at work with the expansion of Germany in the nearby Reichskanzlei.
And just as little benefit did one of Hitler's nephews, a Gottfried Hitler, reap from his uncle : he fell on March 5, 1942 in the field ; his name is still engraved on a war memorial in the home village of the Hitlers, Spital, while any other traces of the Hitler family were carefully purged--including their graves which were removed from the local cemetery.
At any rate, when the Rothschild-story fell through, the need for a more humble non-Aryan grandfather of the Führer arose, and he was eventually made out in the son of a certain Frankenberger family of Graz, where Maria Schickelgruber had also been in service.
In that petty shopkeeper-environment, so the story goes, she was impregnated by that impassioned young Israelite and then cast off to her native village, Strones, where she was delivered of Alois Schickelgruber, for whom the old Frankenberger supposedly paid alimonies for a full fourteen years.
But in respect to this particular story, no credible evidence has been brought forth, either. And just as uncertain is it finally whether Alois Schickelgruber was not really the child of that traveling miller-journeyman Georg Hiedler whom Maria Schickelgruber officially named as father of her baby son on the occasion of his baptism and whom she eventually married on May 10, 1842 --that is, nearly five years after the birth of her illegitimate son. It remains without consequenc, too, that this merrily journeying journeyman's brother, Johann Hiedler, a farmer in Spital near Weitra, induced the parish priest of Döllersheim--where Georg Hiedler and Maria Schickelgruber had been married-- to change the name of Alois Schickelgruber (then aged 40) to Alois Hittler in 1876.
To this end he supplied three witnesses from his family who testified that Alois Schickelgruber was really Hiedler's son.
But, for one, things had happened four decades ago, of course.
And, secondly, it is not overly likely that either one of these witnesses had actually borne the candle for the young lovers in those bygone days, either.
To cut a long story short : Alois Hittler must have had some father somewhere, but in no case was he a legitimate child.
Which ultimately renders the matter rather insignificant whether all those Hitlers, Hiedlers, Hüttlers, Hydlers, and all their relatives--those Haubners and Kollers, Capellers and Lauterbecks--can actually be traced back to the 15th century, as was later triumphantly announced.
And just as little does it matter if they actually resided in Walterschlag, Stierberg, Reinpolten, Mannshalm, Kühbach, or some other god-awful corner of the Waldviertel.
Neither Alois nor Adolf Hitler, however, had any Jewish features about them, although --to the great amusement of some political opponents-- their family-tree did list several Pollacks.
But even these, alas, had not been Jews but rather Christian farmers in Ober-Windhag.
The Hitlers were, at any rate, vulgarily Aryan.
And there can hardly be any doubt as to the Führer's lineage from some slightly slavicized Lower-Austria petit-bourgeois--perhaps not unlike one of those Pollacks whose name certainly derived from nothing but their origin in the Polakei [Poland]. Hindenburg's epithet of the "Bohemian private" alludes to this very background.
Of course, do not many of our best families hail from Lower Austria and are marked by a distinctly Bohemian streak?
Georg and Maria Hiedler lived under the most destitute of conditions at Strones ; they are said to have used nothing better than a fodder-trough for a bed.
Thus, although Hitler's assertions of his parents proletarian background (stated and maintained for propagandistic reasons many times over in later years) were untrue as we are about to see, they were indeed justified in regard to his grandparents.
Alois Schickelgruber, howbeit, soon came to live in more regular circumstances after his mother died of consumption in 1847.
He was then taken in by his then-uncle-in-law, the farmer Johann Hiedler in Spital near Weitra, where he was apprenticed as a cobbler while his presumptive father, the vagrant Georg Hiedler, continued to live (or rather, vegetate) in Strones, Klein-Motten, and, eventually, resettled in Spital.
By 1855, however, Alois Schickelgruber had already abandoned cobblery and had joined the Royal Fiscal Force.
And since he distinguished himself by conscientiousness and eagerness --qualities certainly not inherited from the slovenly work-shirker Georg Hiedler-- he began to make a career in the customs force. In due time he would rise to the position of a Zollamtsoberoffizial (to use the complicated nomenclatura of Austro-Hungarian administration, which provided a several-hundred-page directory of such awkward titles for official use and which, in later days, had no scruples of affixing a Georg Trakl with the title of a Militärmedikamentenakzessist!)
Through marriage and inheritance, Alois Schickelgruber eventually acquired moderate wealth.
Along with that, however, he was a typical Deutschnationaler, a Pan-German nationalist, which is to say that --just like most Austrians at the time-- he was opposed not only to Austria's separation from the German motherland but also opposed to supra-national (i.e., anti-national) tendencies, to conservatism, and to the submissivereligiosity of the reigning dynasty.
This peculiar nationalism, furthermore, included most notably a general fondness for singing clubs, beer-houses and waitresses (in short: wine, song and women, predilections all of which Alois Schickelgruber shared wholeheartedly), as well as--particularly on those long provincial winter nights--enthusiasm for the Pan-German Reichsrat MP Georg von Schönerer.
Said Schönerer, too, hailed from the Hitler region; that is, before dedicating himself to the idiocy of politics he was an estate owner in the Waldviertel region.
Adolf Hitler's father raved about him much the same way other estate owners from the Waldviertel --Weitra, to be exact-- were later to rave about Alois Hitler's son, probably because they were simply accustomed to seeing the then-settled vagabond Georg Hiedler as well as the alleged offspring from his menage with Maria Schickelgruber around Spital village.
For although the chief of the large family clan that owned Weitra held the most remarkable titles, he still became such an ardent follower of the Führer that he--when in 1945 interned at the American correction camp Glasenbach near Salzburg--was put in charge of tending the pigs...; from which time on he was generally referred to as Eumaios.
We, of course, think such mockery ill-advised.
For if National Socialism had any halfway redeeming quality at all, it was not only that of mentally orienting all its followers towards the same main goal, but that of practically eliminating all differences in social rank and status between them....
Fiscal Officer Alois Schickelgruber was married three times, and while he may have had extramarital offsprings on the side, his first marriage remained childless.
After separation from his--by the way, much older--first wife, he entered into matrimony with one of his Teutonic ideals, namely a young waitress by the name of Franziska Matzelsberger with whom he had maintained a previous relationship and with whom he begat three children : a son Alois, born before the marriage of his parents, whom we have already encountered in the restaurant-keeper from the Berlin Wittenberg Square.
(This Alois, in turn, would wed a woman from Ireland with whom he had a variety of children--among them a son William Patrick Hitler who later made himself a name through mysterious allusions to his family's alleged Jewish origin.)
The Schickelgrubers also had a daughter, Angela.
But Franziska Matzelsberger died young, and now Alois Schickelgruber married for the third time; this time his presumable --or at least purported-- niece, Klara Pölzl, then twenty-five.
Klara Pölzl was the daughter of farmer Johann Pölzl of Spital, No.37 ; a half-foundered farmstead on the slopes on the Northern village limits which neighbored (and still neighbors) the house No.36 whence Georg and Johann Hiedler emanated.
From this very house No.36, Klara Pölzl's mother, too, happened to come, for her name was Johanna Hüttler, and she was the daughter of Johann Hüttler or Hiedler.
Johann himself, however, was son to the farmer Martin Hiedler (also from Spital No.36) and to Maria Göschl of Walterschlag.
Thus in short : If Alois Schickelgruber was indeed the son of Georg Hiedler, Klara Pölzl was Johann Hiedler's granddaughter, or, as we said above, his niece.
For which reason they necessitated a churchly dispensation to be married.
Above all, though, Klara Pölzl's mother, Johanna Pölzl, née Hüttler, demanded that her son-in-law have his name changed from Schickelgruber to Hüttler ; albeit not because she disliked the name Schickelgruber, but to indicate publicly that the inheritance which Klara Pölzl in turn was about to enter upon was a Hüttler inheritance.
She considered this matter so important that she even included a clause to this effect in her will; and this is also the reason why Johann Hiedler with his three witnesses later called at the Döllersheim priest_s, petitioning for his nephew's name-change in the registry rolls.
The priest --since Johann Hiedler's vagrant brother was named Hiedler and the bride's mother Hüttler-- choose the happy medium and renamed the customs officer Alois Schickelgruber into Alois Hittler, which name his later-famous son would then gradually slur into Hitler.
These events in the dark Waldviertel may seem minuscule enough -- especially since what happened was nothing more than some peasant woman stamping the provenance of her heritage with her birth-name.
Yet, in time they would assume global significance. For the people of Germany would not -- or at least not after overcoming some serious inhibitions of taste!-- have readily taken to shouting "Heil Schickelgruber!".
Because they could shout "Heil Hitler!" instead, though, the National Socialist movement gained unprecedented momentum.
At any rate, Adolf Hitle r--even if indeed he hadn't been a real Hitler from his father's side-- now became something like a real Hitler : not only by way of the name-change through the Döllersheim cleric, but also through his father's third marriage and thus at least from his grandmother's side.
For Alois Hittler's wedlock with Klara Pölzl begat six children, four of which died early, but two survived : One daughter Paula, later to be married under the name of Wolf (she and her half-sister, Angela, could indeed have served as cooks with the Rothschilds), and a son, born April 20, 1889 in Braunau on the Inn (where the customs officer was then posted) : the Führer- and Reichs-Chancellor-to-be.
With all this said : Is it now conceivable, though, that an astronomer, astrologer, or prophet of the stature of Nostradamus--whose thoughts were devoted to the revolutions of the stars and whose visions concerned the fates of kings and countries and the world in its entirety --is it conceivable that Nostradamus himself could actually have predicted that very child-birth in the pettiest of all spheres and have distinguished its resulting events as predestined?
If this were so, then the fact that legions of members of the highest society (as long as they were not "Jewishly related," that is), packs of decommissioned career officers and the lot of all those otherwise untalented and unsuccessful would eventually flock to the ranks of the Hitlerians almost seems excusable.
After all : perfidy, brutality and murder as means for advancement in life come all too easy to those who are otherwise complete failures.
The verses, at any rate, which are believed to make reference to these events --in translation and with a preliminary commentary-- read thus :
On the Rhine of the Noric Alps, that is, the Inn river,
a powerful man shall be born from base folk,
but he will come too late to truly fulfil his mission.
Furiously will he fight for Sarmatia, that is Poland, and Pannonia, that is Hungary
--thus, the so-called Ostraum--
and in the end it will not be known what will have become of him,
his end will be veiled in darkness and shrouded in shadowy mysteries.
Do these verses indeed speak of Adolf Hitler? In French they read thus:
Auprès du Rhine des montagnes Noriques
Naistra un Grand des gens trop tard venu,
Qui défendra Saurome et Pannonique,
Qu'on ne saura qu'il sera devenu.
Translated by Thomas G. Ringmayr
Published in Southern Humanities Review, 1998
(special thanks to Tony Osborne)


This anthem of dedication beautifully expresses the believer's desire to respond to God's call until Christ returns. "We are here and we are Yours, lead us in Your way. May we be Your messengers tomorrow and today."


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Q: Reading h264 or h265 stream with ffmpeg/OpenCV: Which is faster? I'm using OpenCV with ffmpeg support to read a RTSP stream coming from an IP camera and then to write the frames to a video. The problem is that the frame size is 2816x2816 at 20 fps i.e. there's a lot of data coming in.
I noticed that there was a significant delay in the stream, so I set the buffer size of the cv::VideoCapture object to 1, because I thought that the frames might just get stuck in the buffer instead of being grabbed and processed. This however just caused for frames to be dropped instead.
My next move was to experiment a bit with the frame size/fps and the encoding of the video that I'm writing. All of those things helped to improve the situation, but in the long run I still have to use a frame size of 2816x2816 and support up to 20 fps, so I can't set it lower sadly.
That's where my question comes in: given the fact that the camera stream is going to be either h264 or h265, which one would be read faster by the cv::VideoCapture object? And how should I encode the video I'm writing in order to minimize the time spent decoding/encoding frames?
That's the code I'm using for reference:
using namespace cv;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
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    int x264 = cv::VideoWriter::fourcc('M', 'J', 'P', 'G');
    videoWr = cv::VideoWriter("test_video.avi", 0, 0, 20, frame.size(), true);

    namedWindow("test", WINDOW_NORMAL);
    cv::resizeWindow("test", 1024, 768);

    for (;;)
    {
        cap >> frame;
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Q: Let's start with the basics – how did EYE VYBE come to be? Is there a particular focus that people should know about your label?
A: I started releasing music for other people under the name Eye Vybe Records in early 2013. I moved to Chicago 9 years ago this summer and was immediately blown away by the DIY music culture that was shown to me – the existence of bands like Great Society Mind Destroyers (mind-altering psychedelic garage rock) and Rabble Rabble (high energy psych punk) completely blew me away – "people actually like this kind of music??", my rural upbringing made a lot of this seem totally unreal. I spent the vast majority of my adolescence poring over magazines and websites that focused on bands I was excited about (The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc) with few "real life" friends to share this excitement with me – so seeing what I had heard so much about right in front of me with people who would eventually become my friends was totally mind blowing. Soon after I moved to Chicago I learned of Burger Records, which was a brand new label at the time, and after a Burger Records showcase at a warehouse party here where I had met their founder and bonded with him over a love of 60's psych pop I did some research, fell in love with what they were doing, and decided I was going to do it too, as best as I could. Once I was done with undergrad (5 years ago) I was able to fully invest my meager time and money to make it happen, and it's just been growing from there.
A: I do everything! Finding music to release, setting up releasing for production, promotion, managing mail order / the web store, selling to stores and at tabling events.
Lately, the bands I've been working with have varied from super-high cult status (Acid Mothers Temple) to brand new and unknown projects (Josh Condon [of Glyders]). It's fun to go to a show and see a friend play a brand new experimental set and dig it so much you insist they put out a tape with you and play shows to support it. That's the best part about running a project like this completely by yourself – you never really have to compromise with anyone about releases, artistic vision, or how to go about doing anything.
Production has always been a huge part of running Eye Vybe. When I started the label, I was buying blank cassettes from National Audio Company, dubbing releases on a $60 Telex tape duplicator that I got off eBay, drawing on label stickers and putting them on each tape, and then printing artwork at Kinkos. There were so many ways to go wrong here – double sided artwork wouldn't line up, I'd run out of label stickers, sometimes the tape duplicator would ruin a batch of tapes. Once in a while I'd have friends call me and tell me they'd bought a copy of a new release at a record store and came home to find that it was blank – that was humiliating! In late 2014, I was ecstatic to be given a few home recordings by my friend (and member of one of my favorite bands of all time, The GO) to release in anticipation of a couple Chicago shows he was playing soon – I gave him his copies of the tape at the show, everything was groovy, and then I got an email from him a week later saying 'thanks for the effort but these tapes are either blank or super warbly' – he was very cool about it but I also chucked that goddamn duplicator out my 3 story apartment window and never saw it again. NOW I have National Audio Company do everything for me – dubbing, art printing, imprinting (printing on the tapes), and packaging – it saves me SO much time and stress, the tapes sound better, and it's actually more cost effective than before.
The only time I ever really get extra help is for tabling at Pitchfork Music Festival – that's kind of the big event for local labels every year – thanks to CHIRP, we all get table space in the vendor tents to sell our releases to the tens of thousands of fest-goers every summer. It's surprisingly easy to sell a $5 tape to a kid that has a band T on – "hey kid! Cool Wire shirt! Ever hear of Negative Scanner?" and if they don't flip me off and walk away I get a tape for them to check out queued up in my listening station and if all goes well, they'll listen to 30 seconds, dig it, and then hopefully I can sell them on a couple more. I always have a friend or two help out with this event, which is a fun but very long and taxing 3 days – being able to get up and walk around without worrying about missing sales or leaving my table alone is so so so awesome.
It's worth mentioning that I help to run a record label collective called BOCRL – the Benevolent Order of Chicago Record Labels. This has "been a thing" for a while but has really come to fruition over the last couple years. Myself and a couple dozen local labels (Maximum Pelt, Feel Trip, Dumpster Tapes, Midwest Axn, Randy Rex, Dark Circles, Tall Pat, FPE, Hausu Mountain, No Index, 1980, to name just a few) work together to host record label fair events (where we all bring our wares to a local bar – The Empty Bottle has been super supportive of us on this end), share label-running tips and info, and I guess be a platform for mutual support and guidance. We have some cool projects in the works that I can't really talk about yet, but I am very excited about. I'm not going to get specific here but it bums me out when I see people/places/entities around Chicago who are similarly focused on the musical/creative communities who play politics and get petty and do things that aren't in the best interest of the art they are supposedly handling – aren't we all in this to promote beautiful things that the world should benefit from? Getting to work closely with those doing the same work that I am is a real pleasure (not to mention always knowing where to buy the cheapest cassette mailers!), and I'm looking forward to seeing how some projects that are in the works with BOCRL will unfold over the next year or two.
aren't we all in this to promote beautiful things that the world should benefit from?
Q: Soooo DIY! Speaking of which, are you aligned with any particular house show-type spaces? I'm not a cop. Or maybe another Good Vybes fest on the horizon?
A: The DIY community has changed and shifted so much in the 8/9 years that I've been around – I used to help run Wally World, a house space in Logan Square, that was mainly run by my partner Magic Ian (of Maximum Pelt Records), and have lived at a bunch of other rad show spaces over the years (Ottoman Empire, Animal Kingdom), but sadly, there aren't really any true DIY spaces that I currently hang out at or work with these days. That being said, I bartend at two of the only spots on Milwaukee Ave in Logan Square that I feel still embody a certain DIY spirit – Cole's and Cafe Mustache – even though they both have storefronts on a busy strip and all the proper licensing to run a liquor establishment with live music, they are both small businesses owned by folks that genuinely care about helping the DIY communities in Chicago flourish, which is something I am very happy to be a part of. The Empty Bottle is also incredibly supportive and are great dudes to work with on setting up awesome events.
I would love to have another Good Vybes Fest soon! They're really difficult to book and I always have a million projects going on so I haven't really been able to think about the next one — but hopefully, sooner or later, I'll have more news on that front.
Q: Newest release, and an EYE VYBE back catalog item that EVERYBODY should check out?
(Cardinal Fuzz) for local freaky space scuzzers PCWS. Heavy and deep.
EV-060 – Sir Plastic Crimewave – Feathered Serpents CS – This is the cassette version of an LP that Steve from PCWS released on a UK label (Sunstone) last year – introspective psych folk.
EV-054 – Dre Genevieve – Strangely Free – I still actually have a copies of this one! Dre Genevieve is a solo musician living in Oakland who put this sweet tape together for me after I expressed interest in a heavier 70's-influenced group that she used to be a part of. Dreamy and introspective. I wish I had the resources to make her famous because she absolutely deserves it.
EV-034 Soft Eyes – Stay Home – Sleepy bedroom pop about getting stoned, listening to the Dead, and laying in the sun. This was solo project that I'm pretty sure is no longer.
EV-025 Balduin – All In A Dream – I worked at a record store a few years ago and came across a new 45 from this Swiss artist – it was super dreamy and well composed Beatles-esque psych pop, right up my alley. I found him on FB and wrote him and long story short I released the cassette version of his upcoming solo LP. Unfortunately I never really hard much from him after the release and the arrangement we made about splitting tapes and costs was never super clear, so I wound up having to give him almost all of my copies of it before letting it properly hatch in America. Despite the weird situation that release found itself in, I still love the album and listen to the MP3s I have of it regularly.
Q: Thanks for the time, Karissa! Best way for our readers to plug into EYE VYBE now that you've piqued their interest?


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	$filename = ($upload_dir == '') ? $attachment['physical_filename'] : $upload_dir . '/' . $attachment['physical_filename'];

	$gotit = false;

	if (!intval($attach_config['allow_ftp_upload']))
	{
		if (@!file_exists(@amod_realpath($filename)))
		{
			message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, $lang['Error_no_attachment'] . "

404 File Not Found: The File " . $filename . " does not exist.");
		}
		else
		{
			$gotit = true;
		}
	}

	//
	// Determine the Browser the User is using, because of some nasty incompatibilities.
	// Most of the methods used in this function are from phpMyAdmin. :)
	//
	if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
	{
		$HTTP_USER_AGENT = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
	}
	else if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
	{
		$HTTP_USER_AGENT = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
	}
	else if (!isset($HTTP_USER_AGENT))
	{
		$HTTP_USER_AGENT = '';
	}

	$browser_version = 0;
	$browser_agent = 'other';

	// Correct the mime type - we force application/octetstream for all files, except images
	// Please do not change this, it is a security precaution
	$user_agent = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) ? htmlspecialchars((string) $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) : '';

	if( !strstr($attachment['mimetype'], 'image') )
	{
		$attachment['mimetype'] = ( strpos(strtolower($user_agent), 'msie') !== false || strpos(strtolower($user_agent), 'opera') !== false ) ? 'application/octetstream' : 'application/octet-stream';
	}

	//bt
	global $userdata;

	if (!(isset($_GET['original']) && !IS_USER))
	{
		/*
		if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROVIDER']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_PROVIDER'] != 'local')
		{
			message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, 'Скачивание торрентов доступно только из локальной сети Билайн-Калуга. Для этого надо заходить на трекер по адресу t.ivacuum.ru');
		}
		*/

		require_once SITE_DIR . 'includes/functions_torrent.php';
		send_torrent_with_passkey($filename);
	}
	//bt end

	// Now the tricky part... let's dance
//	@ob_end_clean();
//	@ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off');
	header('Pragma: public');
//	header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: none');

//$real_filename = html_entity_decode(basename($attachment['real_filename']));
	$real_filename = clean_filename(basename($attachment['real_filename']));
	$mimetype = "{$attachment['mimetype']};";
	$charset = (@$lang['CONTENT_ENCODING']) ? "charset={$lang['CONTENT_ENCODING']};" : '';

	// Send out the Headers
	header("Content-Type: $mimetype $charset name=\"$real_filename\"");
	header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"$real_filename\"");

	unset($real_filename);
	//
	// Now send the File Contents to the Browser
	//
	if ($gotit)
	{
		$size = @filesize($filename);
		if ($size)
		{
			header("Content-length: $size");
		}
		readfile($filename);
	}
	else if (!$gotit && intval($attach_config['allow_ftp_upload']))
	{
		$conn_id = attach_init_ftp();

		$ini_val = ( @phpversion() >= '4.0.0' ) ? 'ini_get' : 'get_cfg_var';

		$tmp_path = ( !@$ini_val('safe_mode') ) ? '/tmp' : $upload_dir;
		$tmp_filename = @tempnam($tmp_path, 't0000');

		@unlink($tmp_filename);

		$mode = FTP_BINARY;
		if ( (preg_match("/text/i", $attachment['mimetype'])) || (preg_match("/html/i", $attachment['mimetype'])) )
		{
			$mode = FTP_ASCII;
		}

		$result = @ftp_get($conn_id, $tmp_filename, $filename, $mode);

		if (!$result)
		{
			message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, $lang['Error_no_attachment'] . "

404 File Not Found: The File " . $filename . " does not exist.");
		}

		@ftp_quit($conn_id);

		$size = @filesize($tmp_filename);
		if ($size)
		{
			header("Content-length: $size");
		}
		readfile($tmp_filename);
		@unlink($tmp_filename);
	}
	else
	{
		message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, $lang['Error_no_attachment'] . "

404 File Not Found: The File " . $filename . " does not exist.");
	}

	exit;
}
//
// End Functions
//

//
// Start Session Management
//
$user->session_start();

if (!$download_id)
{
	message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, $lang['No_attachment_selected']);
}

if ($attach_config['disable_mod'] && !IS_ADMIN)
{
	message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Attachment_feature_disabled']);
}

$sql = 'SELECT *
	FROM bb_attachments_desc
	WHERE attach_id = ' . (int) $download_id;

if (!($result = $db->sql_query($sql)))
{
	message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not query attachment informations', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
}

if (!($attachment = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)))
{
	message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Error_no_attachment']);
}

$attachment['physical_filename'] = basename($attachment['physical_filename']);

$db->sql_freeresult($result);

// get forum_id for attachment authorization or private message authorization
$authorised = false;

$sql = 'SELECT *
	FROM bb_attachments
	WHERE attach_id = ' . (int) $attachment['attach_id'];

if (!($result = $db->sql_query($sql)))
{
	message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not query attachment informations', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
}

$auth_pages = $db->sql_fetchrowset($result);
$num_auth_pages = $db->sql_numrows($result);

for ($i = 0; $i < $num_auth_pages && $authorised == false; $i++)
{
	$auth_pages[$i]['post_id'] = intval($auth_pages[$i]['post_id']);

	if ($auth_pages[$i]['post_id'] != 0)
	{
		$sql = 'SELECT forum_id
			FROM bb_posts
			WHERE post_id = ' . (int) $auth_pages[$i]['post_id'];

		if ( !($result = $db->sql_query($sql)) )
		{
			message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not query post information', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
		}

		$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);

		$forum_id = $row['forum_id'];
		$attachment['forum_id'] = (int) $row['forum_id'];

		$is_auth = array();
		$is_auth = auth(AUTH_ALL, $forum_id, $userdata);

		if ($is_auth['auth_download'])
		{
			$authorised = TRUE;
		}
	}
}

if (!$authorised)
{
	message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, $lang['Sorry_auth_view_attach']);
}

$datastore->rm('cat_forums');

//
// Get Information on currently allowed Extensions
//
$rows = get_extension_informations();
$num_rows = count($rows);

for ($i = 0; $i < $num_rows; $i++)
{
	$extension = strtolower(trim($rows[$i]['extension']));
	$allowed_extensions[] = $extension;
	$download_mode[$extension] = $rows[$i]['download_mode'];
}

// disallowed ?
if (!in_array($attachment['extension'], $allowed_extensions) && !IS_ADMIN)
{
	message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, sprintf($lang['Extension_disabled_after_posting'], $attachment['extension']));
}

$download_mode = intval($download_mode[$attachment['extension']]);

if ($thumbnail)
{
	$attachment['physical_filename'] = THUMB_DIR . '/t_' . $attachment['physical_filename'];
}

// Update download count
if (!$thumbnail)
{
	$sql = 'UPDATE bb_attachments_desc
	SET download_count = download_count + 1
	WHERE attach_id = ' . (int) $attachment['attach_id'];

	if (!$db->sql_query($sql))
	{
		message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Couldn\'t update attachment download count', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql);
	}
}

// Determine the 'presenting'-method
if ($download_mode == PHYSICAL_LINK)
{
	$server_protocol = ($board_config['cookie_secure']) ? 'https://' : 'http://';
	$server_name = preg_replace('/^\/?(.*?)\/?$/', '\1', trim($board_config['server_name']));
	$server_port = ($board_config['server_port'] <> 80) ? ':' . trim($board_config['server_port']) : '';
	$script_name = preg_replace('/^\/?(.*?)\/?$/', '/\1', trim($board_config['script_path']));

	if ($script_name[strlen($script_name)] != '/')
	{
		$script_name .= '/';
	}

	if (intval($attach_config['allow_ftp_upload']))
	{
		if (trim($attach_config['download_path']) == '')
		{
			message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Physical Download not possible with the current Attachment Setting');
		}

		$url = trim($attach_config['download_path']) . '/' . $attachment['physical_filename'];
		$redirect_path = $url;
	}
	else
	{
		$url = $upload_dir . '/' . $attachment['physical_filename'];
//		$url = preg_replace('/^\/?(.*?\/)?$/', '\1', trim($url));
		$redirect_path = $server_protocol . $server_name . $server_port . $script_name . $url;
	}

	// Redirect via an HTML form for PITA webservers
	if (@preg_match('/Microsoft|WebSTAR|Xitami/', getenv('SERVER_SOFTWARE')))
	{
		header('Refresh: 0; URL=' . $redirect_path);
		echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=' . $redirect_path . '"><title>Redirect</title>
If your browser does not support meta redirection please click HERE to be redirected
';
		exit;
	}

	// Behave as per HTTP/1.1 spec for others
	header('Location: ' . $redirect_path);
	exit;
}
else
{
	if (intval($attach_config['allow_ftp_upload']))
	{
		// We do not need a download path, we are not downloading physically
		send_file_to_browser($attachment, '');
		exit;
	}
	else
	{
		send_file_to_browser($attachment, $upload_dir);
		exit;
	}
}


One of the inspirations behind this Air Jordan 1 "Pinnacle Pack" comes from the love Michael Jordan has for the Air Jordan 1 as well as the fact that he was born in Brooklyn. As well as celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jordan Brand and the silhouette that started it all.
This season the Air Jordan 1 "Pinnacle Pack" has been designed with premium materials that includes 24k Gold plated tongue logo, lace dubrae, wings logo, heel tab, eyelets and aglets.


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NCR and Invenco to bring EMV pay at pump solutions to the U.S.
Bringing the big screen to the fuel pump with a, a new relationship with Invenco offers convenience stores 7" and 12" touch screens on fuel pumps for dynamic, interactive customer content
NEW YORK, NRF BIG SHOW 2016, January 18, 2016 – As EMV transitions begin for outdoor payment systems, NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, is bringing a new solution to the U.S petroleum and convenience store market to modernize the fuel pump experience and increase in-store sales. Through a relationship with Invenco, a leading global supplier of automation and transactional payment systems to the retail petroleum market, NCR will begin offering a large, touchscreen fueling experience at the pump. The new solution puts the retailer in the driver seat for content ownership and management.
With NCR Outdoor Payment Terminal as the consumer interface, retailers will be able to enhance future consumer interactions such as engaging fuel consumers for marketing promotions or sales inside the store, ordering food items, playing the lottery, or interact with loyalty program rewards. NCR Outdoor Payment Terminal will come in 7" or 12" interactive touchscreens, enhanced by NCR solutions on an open platform.
As petroleum and convenience stores develop their plans for EMV readiness in October 2017, the EMV-ready NCR solution will help prevent fraudulent transactions at the pump as well as drive incremental revenue and improved customer experience between the forecourt and the convenience store.
"With EMV compliance guidelines looming, convenience store operators are looking closely at their consumer experience at the pump," said Jason Groff, director of Petroleum and Convenience Retail at NCR. "Through our new relationship with Invenco, we are able to provide c-stores with a compelling change to their existing technology so that they can be EMV compliant and drive new revenue through enhanced engagement with their fuel consumers."
NCR Outdoor Payment Terminal allows retailers to control their own content. It supports a wide range of payment options including debit, credit, "tap and go", loyalty, vouchers and coupons and is small enough to fit into all major fuel pump manufacturer models. With a large, graphical display, retailers can provide customers with easy-to-follow user instructions, promotional advertising, brand-building messages and drive consumers to shop in-store.
"Invenco has demonstrated the power of this technology with over 40,000 EMV terminals deployed," said Craig Panter, Chief Business Development Officer, Invenco. "North American retailers will appreciate the ability to present a consistent customer experience across all of their sites, while shortening the payment process to help alleviate forecourt congestion and help protect consumer data."
NCR is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia with over 30,000 employees and does business in 180 countries. NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Web sites: www.ncr.com
About Invenco Group, LTD
Invenco is a global provider of self-service payment solutions with a range of products including outdoor payment terminals, electronic payment servers, payment switches, and cloud services. Invenco continues to build on its legacy of ground up engineering in security and rugged automation to deliver robust technology solutions to petroleum and other retail segments. Invenco works through its network of partners to deliver geographically optimized versions of its products around the world. Headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, Invenco also operates offices in Malaysia, U.S., and U.K.
www.invenco.com
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Charles E. Burchfield in his own words Share Tweet
Sally Burchfield Ferris, "The Burchfields' Favorite Town—Gardenville, New York." Ford Times 52, 11 (Nov. 1960): 2-9., Nov. 1960; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Archives
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, September 15, 1959
Sept. 15 Tues.
When I came in from the studio at late A.M. I found Bertha excited and almost in tears — but she assured me that something nice had happened, so moving as to produce tears. It turned out that Sally had written a "story" for the water-colors of Mart's the Ford Co. intends to use for their little magazine. The "story" turned out to be Sally's memories of growing up in Gardenville, with emphasis on the theme that Gardenville was made precious and romantic to our children because they "saw" it through my eyes: Memories of walks in the town and woods, Christmas, and finally Fourth of July with the "House on Fire" I built to end the day. A fine tribute that brought tears to my eyes also – She and Mart had collaborated on it, but the writing was Sally's, and an excellent job she has done. They sent it to Ford's, who replied at once that they thought it was one of the best "stories" they had had in a long time, and wanted Mart to do some special water-colors for it, including the house on fire, and if I were willing, to have one of mine on the cover. I felt reluctant about this, only because I felt that might be stealing the spot-light from Mart and Sally.
Called Mart and Sally in the evening to thank them.
--Charles E. Burchfield, September 15, 1959
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The Burchfield Penney is the first green art museum in New York State and is LEED-certified Silver. This feat befits a museum dedicated to the art and vision of Charles Burchfield, an artist whose love of the natural world was the subject of much of his painting.


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Our Code of Ethics reflects our broader vision of our social and environmental responsibilities. It explains those values in which we believe, and which we have made a commitment to uphold.
As a company that operates in compliance with strict ethical norms, we have put in place a number of mechanisms that reveal risks that have previously, due to their nature, remained hidden; these include ethical risks. The purpose of the procedural rules is for victims in ethics cases, who until now have been unable to ask for help, to be able to consult and request advice, before taking action, if needs be, and to do so in an anonymous manner. In every member country the Intesa Sanpaolo Group has established a local ethics ombudsman system which, with a few exceptions, investigates ethics-related reports in the member country concerned, and the decisions are also made locally. To enable us to take local conventions into account, in addition to the ethics ombudsman the CIB Group has also established an Ethics Committee, the chairperson of which, as ethics ombudsman, is the Bank's head of CSR. We send a notification of every report to our head office in Italy without delay. The Ethics Committee does not impose sanctions, its task is to judge whether the claims made in the report are well grounded, and to take steps to share the lessons learned. If the report is well grounded, the Committee passes the case on to the appropriate professional department for investigation and a decision, and also to the HR area for a possible labour-law investigation.
In 2018 a total of six ethics complaints were received.
Unauthorised disclosure of information to a third party Conflict of interest Employee's conduct Employee's conduct No ethics reports were received Customer complaints
Verbal insulting of an employee Sexual harassment Manager's conduct Customer complaint Employee's conduct
Investigation, on the basis of ethical principles of the use of internal post for personal purposes Manager's conduct Manager's conduct
Investigation at the request of a coworker into the dishonest settlement of overtime Employee's conduct
Clarification of the Code of Conduct Obtaining information on overtime
Conduct of direct supervisor, overtime settlement Question that arose with regard to car purchases from CIB's contracted partners
Statutory compliance in respect of internal regulations Unfair conduct, apparent favouritism due to suspected personal relationship between an employee and a manager
The interactive learning material prepared in 2012 provides the basis for the training that every employee must complete via the online platform. The learning material that was produced took the form of a comic strip-type story, which provides the most important information and uses interactive exercises and case studies to guide employees through the maze of the Code of Ethics, the rules of conduct and the Code of Ethical Procedure. The purpose of the training program is to make key information on our ethical values and ethical procedures accessible and engaging, both in the way they are presented and in terms of the related tasks, by making them easy to understand through exercises that illustrate the rules of conduct through examples. All new hires must study and be familiar with the ethics-related training material, and employees must pass a new test on the subject every four years.
The Code of Conduct is a means of articulating, in the form of regulations, the values enshrined in the Code of Ethics. It goes into detail regarding the rules of personal conduct and the finer points of banking operations, sets rules pertaining to the expected model of conduct, and deals separately with the prevention of corruption and the criteria for gift-giving. The breach of the Code of Conduct may have consequences under labour law.
Equal treatment and diversity
The Bank's Organisational and Operational Regulations (OOR) also clearly define the key principles related to responsible practices. Through this, the Bank rejects all forms of discrimination and corruption in both its internal and external communication, prohibits any form of discrimination and guarantees the general requirements of equal treatment in accordance with the relevant EU guidelines. Besides the above, the regulations governing compliance and risk management activities also proclaim similar principles aimed at supporting responsible operation.
The CIB Group ensures equal treatment for its existing and future employees in accordance with the Fundamental Law of Hungary, the effective statutory provisions and the CIB Group's Code of Ethics. This is achieved through the transparency of decision-making processes within the company and the ethical training provided to both managers and employees. The examination of ethical issues associated with this topic and the subsequent preventive changes ensure legal and ethical compliance in this area.
We ensure equal treatment for all existing and prospective employees, but at the same time we also give special consideration to ensuing work opportunities for people with disabilities and disadvantaged workers, and to creating a level playing field for these individuals. Where necessary, we adapt the hiring process to accommodate the special needs of applicants with altered abilities. Through these measures, we ensure the diversity of our staff.
Functions supporting responsible operation
In terms of responsible banking operation, clearly defining responsibilities, and in certain cases - depending on the relative importance of the given function - creating a separate organisational unit, is of key importance.
We regard legal compliance - especially with respect to the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism - and the appropriate management of the risks arising from our operation as being of particular importance.
The functions supporting compliance with EU guidelines and legislative requirements ensure responsible operation, a key tenet of which is the effort towards corruption-free operation. Our corporate governance regulations, process requirements and internal training courses ensure that our employees do not fall victim to or become involved in corruption. Employees receive special training in this regard, and compliance systems ensure compliance with the regulations in the course of audits.
A separate team of specialists coordinates activities to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism. They have the task of checking transactions that are relevant or risky from the perspective of money laundering and sanctions, authorising the opening of accounts for new customers and reviewing existing customer relationships, as well as providing training for employees in the prevention of money laundering, forwarding reports to the competent investigating authorities, and ensuring the necessary flow of information. Digitalisation is exerting an impact in this area as well, and new schemes aimed at money laundering and by-passing sanctions surface continuously. The Bank must be prepared to recognize these and respond to them promptly and effectively.
Our employees have taken part in distance learning courses and examinations on the prevention of money laundering, anti-corruption and security awareness through the e-learning platform accessible via the intranet, as well as attending personal training courses. In 2018 a total of 330 employees took part in personal training on the prevention of money laundering, while a further 1,610 employees enrolled in such trainings on the e-learning platform.
The obligatory Code of Conduct, which was approved in 2008 and last reviewed in 2018, includes a set of rules on the prohibition of corruption. As a part of its efforts to combat corruption - in keeping with the relevant guiding principles of the Parent Company Intesa Sanpaolo - the CIB Group does not, in any way, support politicians or political parties, or institutions or persons that are associated with them.
Internal Audit is an independent and objective, corroborative and advisory function, the purpose of which is to improve the operations and effectiveness of the given organisation. In order to assist in achieving the organisation's stated objectives, the Internal Audit function methodically and systematically assesses and improves the effectiveness of the audited organisation's governance and control procedures.
Our internal policies set out stricter rules on conflicts of interest than the provisions of Act CXXXVII of 2013 (Credit Institutions Act), Act CXXXVIII of 2007 (Investment Firms Act) and Act I of 2012 (Labour Code).
The controlling of conflicts of interest is performed by the independent Compliance unit.
The Compliance unit also performs the subsequent control of gifts accepted by employees and is in charge of approving participation at professional events. The acceptance of gifts can, in certain cases, be classified as corruption.
As a consequence of the economic crisis, the demand for consumer protection in Hungary has strengthened on the part of both society as a whole and the legislators. In response to these expectations, the CIB Group has developed procedures that reinforce the protection of consumers. A dedicated specialist has been assigned to oversee this task, ensuring that consumers' interests are taken into consideration in the course of day-to-day operations, and that this attitude becomes an integral part of our corporate culture.
Our parent company, Intesa Sanpaolo - adopting an enlightened European approach - likewise places considerable emphasis on consumer protection and on providing a high standard of service to customers. Our parent company has issued a set of group-wide consumer and investor protection regulations, in order to harmonise and unify the consumer and investor protection provisions required and represented by Intesa Sanpaolo across all of its subsidiaries.
The purpose of the risk management function is to identify the risks of the given organisational unit, to measure the identified risks and manage them to ensure that they do not jeopardise prudent operation or the fulfilment of business objectives. At the CIB Bank Group, it is the Risk Management department that is responsible for these activities.
In 2011 the CIB Group elaborated its Risk Management Strategy, which is reviewed annually in line with the CIB Group's business strategy. The Strategy describes the internal capital adequacy assessment process and concept, which encompasses the CIB Group's risk assumption policy, its appetite for risk and the structure of risk control operations. The greatest risk that we face in the course of our business operations is credit risk, the mitigation of which is achieved partly through compliance with the statutory requirements and internal limits, and partly through prudent lending and loss-provisioning practices.
In 2013 the CIB Group introduced a new system of limits defining its risk appetite, in harmony with our parent bank's guidelines issued in this respect, which determines the framework based on which we control, depending on the extent of the risk, when, how and at what terms we provide services. We review the risk appetite and related system of limits annually, together with the parent company, thereby ensuring that the risk appetite, which imposes a limit on the various types of risk resulting from business activity, always reflects the effective statutory limits and the tolerable levels of the risks resulting from the CIB Group's activity.
We have established the Focused Customer Management Department, which has the primary objective of reducing credit risks through a reduction in problematic exposures, by means of an individual, customer-tailored business strategy for the customers concerned on the corporate side, and the development and the introduction of standard restructuring products in the retail segment.
In the course of its business operations the CIB Group is exposed to a variety of market risks. The CIB Group has identified interest risk, liquidity risk and price/exchange rate risk as measurable market risks. Each year, the Board of Directors, under the supervision of the Supervisory Committee, determines the appetite for market risk in line with the parent bank's tolerance for risk, and then sets out the corresponding limits and limit system. Risk Management is responsible for the operation of the limit system, the related processes, back-testing and reports.
The appropriate risk management committees, including the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board, regularly receive risk reports broken down by risk type and in aggregate, applying the system of limits serving to define the risk appetite, which was introduced in 2013. The CIB Group, in addition to the retrospective analyses, also plans possible future risk regularly and on an ad-hoc basis.
In addition to normal risk management activity, for the management of financial crisis situations, in 2013 the CIB Group drew up and reviews at least annually, together with the parent company, its recovery plan in compliance with the applicable Hungarian and European Union laws. The purpose of the recovery plan is to enable the CIB Group, in the event of a financial crisis, to recover its financial stability without the need to be bailed out by the government with taxpayers' money.
It is important for us to advance ethical behaviour within our industry by exhibiting fair market and competitive conduct, leading by example, and through participation. We adhere to the self-regulating approach adopted by the industry and apply this to our own operations, while acting ethically towards our competitors. Fair competitive market conduct serves as the basis for our pricing policy.
Authority proceedings
In 2018, the MNB initiated an ex-oficio audit procedure, primarily to determine whether CIB Bank Zrt.'s compliances related to investment services and auxiliary investment services and its internal audit activity are in compliance with the requirements stipulated by Act CXXXVIII of 2017 on Investment Firms and Commodity Dealers and on the Regulations Governing their Activities (Bszt.), Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse), Regulation (EU) 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (MAR) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC. In its resolution, the MNB imposed a fine of HUF 1,200,000, which our Company paid in due time. At the request of the MNB, an appropriately regulated system and procedure for preventing, detecting and screening market abuse is under development. Ensuring compliance with data reporting and measure-related obligations is also in progress.
In the last quarter of 2018, the MNB sent its audit report on the targeted consumer protection audit launched to check CIB Bank Zrt.'s complaint management activity. In addition to correcting administrative errors, the report focused on complaints related to non-CIB operated ATMs and the mailing process.
In the last quarter of 2018, a themed consumer protection audit was launched focusing on CIB Bank Zrt.'s unilateral modification of loan agreements with a mortgage collateral and the related information provision.
In its resolution sent at the beginning of October, the MNB compelled CIB Bank Zrt. to display the annual percentage rate (APR) prominently in the commercial communication - published on its website- on personal loans provided to consumers, as well as to comply with statutory regulations related to determining the value of the APR to be displayed in the representative example and the data to be presented in the representative example. In addition to the requested changes, the MNB ordered CIB Bank Zrt. to pay a fine of HUF 500,000 for violating the above regulations.
In the context of the MNB's continuous consumer protection surveillance, the MNB has issued a consumer protection warning adressed to CIB Bank Zrt., due to the fact that the document entitled "Information on the Risks Stemming from Excessive Indebtedness" has not been updated. Our Bank updated the document without delay and notified the MNB about this. The MNB accepted CIB Bank Zrt.'s notification on the response to the consumer protection warning.


A monument commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first commercial flight by Ansett Airways in February 1936.
Following the purchase of a Fokker Universal monoplane for the sum of 1000 Pounds, Reg Ansett's fledgling Airline commenced operations in February 1936, when his Fokker aircraft took of from Hamilton for its inaugural flight to Melbourne, carrying a full complement of 6 passengers plus the General Manager Mr Reg Ansett, together with the pilot of the inaugural service Captain Vern Cerche.
Passengers: R.M. Ansett, K.M. Wilson, Miss E.T. Lascelles, Mrs W.R. Pearson, H.E. Heine, K.E. Barr, J.R. Simpson.
Cr. B. G. F. WOODWARD, J.P.


Masticatory muscle of infratemporal fossa; origin, pterygoid fossa of sphenoid and tuberosity of maxilla; insertion, medial surface of mandible between angle and mylohyoid groove; action, elevates mandible closing jaw; nerve supply, nerve to medial pterygoid from mandibular division of trigeminal.
Synonym(s): internal pterygoid muscle, musculus pterygoideus internus, musculus pterygoideus medialis.
For evaluation of medial pterygoid muscles, 50% of the dentists preferred using a combination technique while 30% advocated the use of functional manipulation alone.
1995) and of the other masticatory muscles except the medial pterygoid muscle in the horse (Rodriguez et al.
Kelly & Goodfriend (1964) found a possible union between vertigo, nausea, vomit and syncope in 105 patients with over-closed dental relations because the medial pterygoid muscle enlarges and compresses, and he found the complete resolution of their symptomatology in 89% of these patients by increasing their vertical dimension.
The medial pterygoid muscle, as well as masseter muscle lifts the jaw acting in protrusion and lateral movements.
The upper part of the lateral surface is in contact with the submandibular fossa of the mandible and the medial pterygoid muscle below the mylohyoid ridge.
Use of buccal pad of fat to prevent heterotopic bone formation after excision of myositis ossificans of medial pterygoid muscle.