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How to Stay Warm in Cold Water
1 Dressing for Cold Water
2 Swimming Efficiently in Cold Water
3 Staying Safe as a Swimmer
4 Surviving in Cold Water after an Accident
Co-authored by Eric McClure
Last Updated: May 21, 2021 References
This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Eric McClure. Eric McClure is an editing fellow at wikiHow where he has been editing, researching, and creating content since 2019. A former educator and poet, his work has appeared in Carcinogenic Poetry, Shot Glass Journal, Prairie Margins, and The Rusty Nail. His digital chapbook, The Internet, was also published in TL;DR Magazine. He was the winner of the Paul Carroll award for outstanding achievement in creative writing in 2014, and he was a featured reader at the Poetry Foundation's Open Door Reading Series in 2015. Eric holds a BA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MEd in secondary education from DePaul University.
Rule number one when you take an accidental plunge into ice cold water: don't attempt to swim long distances. You'll lose too much body heat, which you need to conserve as much as possible when you're in cold water without a survival suit. You never know when your sailboat might capsize or the ice break under your feet during a fishing expedition. Read on for information on the right way to stay warm.
Dressing for Cold Water
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Put on a drysuit if you're going scuba diving or spending time underwater. Buy or rent a drysuit to keep yourself as warm as possible in the water. Drysuits have a layer of thermal insulation that keep water off of your skin entirely. A drysuit is mandatory if you're spending an extended period of time in cold water. Put on your drysuit one leg at a time, pull your arms through the sleeves, and zip yourself up. Adjust the gaskets around your neck, wrists, and ankles so that they're comfortable and resting evenly against your skin.[1] X Research source
When it's fitted correctly, the drysuit should feel kind of like you have a vacuum surrounding your body. It may be uncomfortable at first, but you'll get used to it.
Opt for a wetsuit if you're surfing, swimming, or kayaking. If you're spending time around cold water where you may get splashed or end up temporarily wet, put on a wetsuit. A wetsuit is a skintight suit that provides some insulation against water by trapping heat in. It won't keep you entirely dry, but you'll be able to move around much easier than you normally would in a wetsuit.[2] X Research source
A wetsuit is ideal if you're going out in water that is warmer than 65–70 °F (18–21 °C). If it's colder than this, the wetsuit won't keep you entirely out of danger. It should still be fine if you're only in the water for a few minutes, but it isn't a good option for longer swims.
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Wear a neoprene survival suit for activities near freezing water. If you are going camping, ice fishing, or out in freezing weather where you may end up in water, wear a survival suit. It is heavily-insulated and can keep you warm in extreme environments. Put the suit on like a snowsuit by putting your legs in one at a time, putting your arms in the sleeves, and zipping it up with the hood on.[3] X Research source
A survival suit is not designed for swimming. However, it's ideal if you end up falling into freezing water where you risk immediate shock from the cold water.
Neoprene is a type of synthetic rubber that is phenomenal at capturing heat and resisting cold.
Wear neoprene gloves and socks if you're going for a cold swim. If you're one of those adventurous people that love cold water swimming, put on some neoprene gloves, and some neoprene socks if they aren't built into your wetsuit, drysuit, or survival suit. These garments will keep you from losing heat through your hands and feet.[4] X Research source
Warning: Cold-water swimming, which is any swimming taking place in water colder than 60 °F (16 °C), can be exhilarating. However, it is extremely dangerous. Never go cold-water swimming alone always wade in slowly to avoid cold-water shock.[5] X Research source
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Put on two neoprene swimming caps to keep your head warm. Get two neoprene swimming caps and put both of them on. The swimming caps should be tight enough that they don't fall off of your head in the water, but not so tight that they're restricting blood flow to your head. Test your caps in warm water first to make sure they don't fall off.[6] X Research source
A single swimming cap is fine for warm water, but you need two layers to keep your head warm in cold water.
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Pop in a pair of swimming earplugs to prevent swimmer's ear. Water in the ear canal is obnoxious to begin with, but cold water in your ears is especially painful. Get some swimmer's earplugs and put them in before taking a plunge.[7] X Research source
You must use swimming earplugs. Standard earplugs won't keep water out of your ears.
Swimming Efficiently in Cold Water
Warm up and stretch before going into the water. Take a quick 5- to 10-minute jog, do some general toe touches and arm stretches, and do some jumping jacks to prepare your body for the water. If you go in with cold muscles and a low heart rate, you're more likely to experience cold-water shock as you're wading into the water.[8] X Research source
This process applies to experienced swimmers looking to stay warm during cold water swims that take place in water colder than 70 °F (21 °C). While this is dangerous to do, it can be safe if you know what you're doing and take the proper precautions.
Wade into cold water slowly and resist the urge to dive in. There's a common misconception that it's better to jump into cold water to get it over with. This is fine if the water is 80 °F (27 °C) or warmer, but you may experience cold-water shock if you do this in cold water. Wade out slowly into the water and take your time acclimating to the temperature. It may be unpleasant, but it's much better than simply jumping in.[9] X Research source
This is a good general rule of thumb for anybody. It's never really safe to just jump into a body of water if you aren't already swimming or going off of a diving board in a pool.
Blow bubbles as you submerge your face in the water the first time. When your face first hits the water, the cold water may trigger cold-water shock. When this happens, your lungs may contract and you may accidentally swallow water. To prevent this, exhale like you're blowing bubbles as your face hits the water. This will keep you from swallowing water and make it much easier to control your lungs.[10] X Research source
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Focus on inhaling and exhaling evenly. In the cold water, your lungs may tighten up. As you're swimming, focus on your breathing and make sure you're inhaling and exhaling at even intervals. If you can't control your breath, get out of the water and warm up immediately.[11] X Research source
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Swim continuously to keep your blood circulating and limbs warm. Your body gets colder the slower the blood runs through your veins. If you stop swimming, your heart rate will slow down and you'll get cold as the blood slows down. To prevent this, keep swimming while you're in the water and avoid stopping to tread water or stand on the seabed.[12] X Research source
Swim back and forth along the shoreline—don't swim out to open water. The closer you are to the shore, the safer you are.[13] X Research source
Build your tolerance up over time to improve your cold-water swimming skills. If you're new to cold-water swimming, limit yourself to 10- to 15-minute swims. Work your way up slowly over time before progressing to longer swims. The same goes for temperatures. Start out with 60–70 °F (16–21 °C) swims and work your way up (or down) to those polar plunges over time.[14] X Research source
It can take months of practice to get used to swimming in cold water. Try not to get frustrated and take short swims regularly to build your tolerance up.
Staying Safe as a Swimmer
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Bring a lifejacket with you if you're going anywhere near water. If you're getting on a boat, doing some shore fishing, or heading out to the beach, bring a lifejacket. Nature can be unpredictable and it's hard to know when you'll need it, but a lifejacket will seriously improve your odds of survival if you go overboard or end up in the water.[15] X Research source
To put a lifejacket on, slide the vest over your head and clip the straps around your waist and shoulders. The lifejacket should be fit snugly to your chest.
Depending on where you live, it may be illegal to go boating without a lifejacket.[16] X Research source
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Check the water temperature before going for a swim. If the water is calling your name but it feels or looks a little cold, look the temperature up online. Water temperatures are published alongside regular weather reports and they're easy to find. If the water is warmer than 80 °F (27 °C), feel free to take a dip. If it's between 70–80 °F (21–27 °C), put a drysuit or wetsuit on before going in the water if you aren't an experienced swimmer.[17] X Research source
You can wear a wetsuit or drysuit if you're swimming in water warmer than 80 °F (27 °C), but your body should be fine so long as you're just going for a casual dip.
At 80 °F (27 °C), the water may sound pleasant and warm. For most people, this is actually quite cold! The body processes temperature changes from air and water differently, so even slightly colder water can feel freezing.
Do not go swimming if the water is colder than 70 °F (21 °C). Cold-water shock occurs in water colder than 70 °F (21 °C). As a result, it is not safe to go into water colder than this without special equipment, supervision, and experience. If you are swimming in water below this threshold in a drysuit or wetsuit, do not jump directly into the water. Instead, wade out slowly.[18] X Research source
Cold-water shock is the human body's response to being suddenly submerged in cold water. Your muscles will instantly retract and you could stop breathing.[19] X Research source
You can swim in water colder than 70 °F (21 °C) if you're wearing a wetsuit or drysuit, but only if the combined air and water temperature is at least 120 (in Fahrenheit). For example, if the water is 50 °F (10 °C) and it's 75 °F (24 °C) outside, you should be fine to take a short dip with a wetsuit or drysuit.[20] X Research source
Go into the water when you're warm and warm up slowly when you get out. Do not get changed outside, don't go in the water if you're drying out from a previous dip, and never go into water if you already feel cold. When you get out, warm up slowly with a thermal blanket and a warm drink after drying off. If you were wearing normal clothes, take them off when you get out of the water.[21] X Research source
Drysuits and wetsuits are designed to wick water, so you can normally warm up without changing. If you feel cold though and your clothing is keeping you from warming up, change.
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Swim as close to the shore as possible and never swim in open water. If you're on an anchored boat and thinking about swimming in some cold water, don't do it. It may be too hard to climb the ladder or get rescued if you go into cold-water shock. When swimming in a lake or at the beach, stay as close to the shore as possible. You need to get back on solid ground as fast as possible if anything goes wrong.[22] X Research source
Never go swimming alone. If you're debating a swim in chilly water but there isn't anyone around, don't do it. If you experience cold-water shock, you won't be able to get yourself out of the water.
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Limit the amount of time you stay in cold water. Keep your swim as short as you can to avoid dangerous situations or hypothermia. Unless you're experienced with cold water swimming, limit yourself to a 10- to 15-minute dip.[23] X Research source
If you're swimming in a lake or ocean, stay as close as you can to the shoreline in case you need to get back quickly.
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Get out if you start shivering uncontrollably or your heart rate jumps. Shivering for a minute or so as you're getting in is fine, but if you keep shaking and your teeth won't stop chattering, get out of the water. Similarly, if it starts to feel like your heart is pumping hard, it's time to get out. These are the early signs of hypothermia, a dangerous condition where the body starts losing heat faster than it can produce it.[24] X Research source
If you start to experience hypothermia, warm up as quickly as you can and call emergency services. You'll need a medical checkup after you warm up to ensure that your organs are working correctly.
Other Signs of Hypothermia:
Shallow breathing
Clumsiness or difficulty moving
Surviving in Cold Water after an Accident
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Put on a lifejacket if you can access one. If something goes wrong and you end up in an emergency situation on a boat or plane, find a lifejacket immediately. Put it on and tighten the straps around your waist and chest so that lifejacket hugs your torso firmly.[25] X Research source
It's hard to stay warm if you're swimming to stay afloat since it requires so much energy and heat, so putting a lifejacket on is essential.
When you get on to a boat or plane, pay attention to the emergency preparation speech at the beginning of the trip. The flight attendant or ship's mate always tells you where the lifejackets are.
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Stay where you are unless you're close to a shore or floating debris. If you think you're within 1 mi (1.6 km) of the shore and there's nobody around to help, swimming for the shore is likely the best option. Otherwise, look for a piece of debris to grab on to and stop swimming. Swimming requires energy, which expels heat. While that may warm you up in the short term, you're going to start freezing much faster than if you just float or tread water.[26] X Research source
In 50 °F (10 °C) water, the average adult will survive for roughly 2 hours if they swim. If they stay still, they'll survive for roughly 3 hours. This is a big difference if you're waiting to be rescued or holding out for help![27] X Research source
In freezing water (32.5–40 °F (0.3–4.4 °C)), the average adult has roughly 15–30 minutes before they loose consciousness. It's extremely important that you do not waste energy or heat by swimming randomly if there isn't a shore or floating debris nearby.[28] X Research source
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Keep your head above water by holding onto something, if possible. If you're holding on to something in the water or you're floating with your lifejacket on, do everything you can to keep your head out of the water. If you're holding on to an object to help you float, pull as much of yourself up as possible.[29] X Research source
This will preserve heat and keep you from drowning.
The body has an easier time insulating itself in cold air than cool water.
Tread water to keep your head up if you can't hold anything. For cold water, the flutter kick is your best bet. Let your arms float on the surface and point your toes down. Then, kick your legs back and forth in short bursts while keeping your legs straight. Increase the kicking speed as needed to keep your head out of the water.[30] X Research source
You'd be surprised how long you can tread water, especially in an emergency. The average adult can tread water for 2–3 hours, but you can last even longer if you're athletic.[31] X Research source The time you'll last drops dramatically the colder it gets, but if your choice is treading water or swimming randomly, treading is the better option.
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Adopt the HELP position if you're floating with a lifejacket on. The Heat Escape Lessening Position, also known as the HELP position, keeps your body as warm as possible and conserves energy while you wait to be rescued. Draw your legs up to your chest and cross your feet. Wrap your arms around your chest and curl up as best as you can. Sit in the water with your knees facing up and bob in the water. This will keep you from losing heat quickly.[32] X Research source
In 50 °F (10 °C) water, the average adult will survive for roughly 4 hours in the HELP position. This is twice as long as you'd normally last by just floating freely or treading water.
Variation: This only works if you're wearing a lifejacket, but you can do a version of this if you're holding on to something in the water. Just open your hands and grip the edge of the debris, wood, or object, and slide your knees up underneath it to tuck them close to your body.
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Huddle together with others if you can to preserve your heat. If you're in the water with other people, the best way to stay warm is to huddle together. Get close to each other and lock arms and legs so that you're forming a big group hug. Make as much bodily contact with each other as you can.[33] X Research source
This is more beneficial than the HELP position, but it only works if everyone can stay linked.
Get warm as soon as you get out of the water and get help. Once you're rescued or get on your feet, slowly remove the wet clothing and cover yourself in dry blankets or clothes. Stay out of the wind and warm up as quickly as you can with a warm drink, warm water, or a warm compress. Focus on slowing your breathing and wait to warm up.[34] X Research source
If you get out of the water but don't have any dry blankets or clothes, cover yourself in any dry material laying around that can insulate you. Get help as soon as you possibly can.
What happens if the water below is freezing, and there is no boat in reach? The odds of surviving are slim in this situation, an example is the Titanic.
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Within approx. 0.5-1 hours, you will most likely die from hypothermia. The same happened on Titanic.
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Is it safe to swim for an hour in water that is 20 degrees Celsius?
Yes, that is perfectly fine, but make sure you are warm afterward or you might get sick.
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Doesn't moving around in the water warm a person up?
Yes, that is true. When you stay in the cold water and swim in it for several minutes, you will get used to it. If the weather is cold, clubs will usually warm up the water.
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Shivering is the body's natural response to the cold. The rapid shaking generates a quick burst of heat to warm you up. Don't worry if you shiver when you first get into the water. It's only a sign of hypothermia if you don't stop shivering after 2–3 minutes.
Never go swimming in water colder than 70 °F (21 °C). Even if you think you can handle it, it's simply not worth the risk.[35] X Research source
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Son La Former Prison & Museum
French colonization period has been over for a long long time, but a huge number of traces still existed as memory keepers for one of the darkest period in the history of Vietnam. Among these historical relics, Son La Prison is regarded as one of the most famous places, with a no less notorious name "Hell on Earth" to describe the frightened brutality of French colonialists to Vietnamese prisoners here.
The prison was established in 1908 at the center of Son La town and on top of Khau Ca Hill. A tiny one at first, the prison soon expanded to become a crucial place where numerous political prisoners were locked. The place was notorious at the time as a cruel and terrifying jail where resisting wills and patriotism on the mind of prisoners was diminished in the bloodiest methods. However, for revolutionists imprisoned inside Son La Jail, the place was a "college" where stamina, solidarity and combating spirit was enhanced. There were various stories about tenaciousness and courage of revolutionists who have resisted the colonial and perished at this place like To Hieu.
Inside the prison
Although the original construction was partially demolished after the two wars, Son La Prison has still conserved major features of it, especially jail system and torturing facilities inside. Impression of visitors to outer sceneries might be nothing special, but most guests crossing the entrance and enter the prison will definitely be surprised with inside space because they cannot understand how French colonial can lock prisoners in the terrible place like this.
The atmosphere is damp and stifling with ugly smelling and insects everywhere. For the underground jails, condition is much worse and essentials elements for human lives like light and air seems only be a luxury. Moreover, there are also some special rooms for torturing that has remained with almost complete collection of unbelievably terrifying items and method for excruciating and collecting information from prisoners. The common feeling of visitors when they see those rooms is horror with their brutality and fortunate when they do not have to experience the cruelty of these tools.
Son La Prison is at the center of Son La town, about 7 hours from Hanoi. The best way to visit this Northwestern mountain province is with an organized tour.
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The suspect, a Slovak convert to Islam who has visited Czech mosques, was arrested in November following a search of his residence that yielded instructions for making bombs and launching chemical attacks.
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When Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the region, she crippled the nation's largest sugar refinery, the Domino Sugar refinery in Chalmette.
Weeks later, Hurricane Rita landed to the west of the city and left much of the country's sugar cane crop covered in saltwater and mud from the ocean floor. In some cases, houses, dead livestock, and even fishing boats from miles away had to be removed before crops could be tended.
Despite it all, grocery store shelves were not empty and sugar did not become an unaffordable luxury. Restaurants and coffee houses nationwide still gave it away for free. That is a testament to our nation's strong sugar policy, which helped sugar producers get back on their feet quickly.
Thanks to the market stability provided by our strong sugar policy and the never-say-die spirit of Louisianans, the Domino refinery was one of the first Louisiana-based businesses to reopen, allowing growers throughout the state to keep multi-generational farms in operation.
Throughout the economic turmoil caused by these storms, sugar jobs stayed put, employing more than 16,000 people in Louisiana.
This serves as a reminder that small government policies can have a big impact. And it's even more remarkable when you learn that sugar policy costs taxpayers exactly $0.
This is in complete contrast to sugar producers on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The same year our Gulf Coast took a pounding from Mother Nature, European lawmakers were busy rewriting their sugar policies.
Under pressure from subsidized foreign producers hungry to eliminate the competition, and fueled by EU food manufacturers in search of cheap ingredients and big profits, Europe overhauled its sugar laws and left the region dependent on foreign producers.
And Europe found out the hard way that banking on the most distorted commodity market in the world is a recipe for disaster.
More than 120,000 sugar-related jobs in Europe were lost after 83 sugar mills closed, and when subsidized foreign suppliers opted to fill their own domestic needs before Europe's, supplies dried up.
The result was a widespread sugar shortage and price spikes from which the EU is just now recovering. The cost of food increased for everyday citizens, and EU taxpayers had to fork over more than $1.6 billion in hopes of minimizing the government's sugar policy miscalculation.
This is why maintaining our current strong sugar policy is vital. Should we move to a European model for our sugar policy, we would threaten over 142,000 well-paying sugar jobs and outsource production of a food staple to nations like Mexico and Brazil. Now is not the time to threaten a stable source of jobs and potentially deepen our already dire trade deficit.
We can do better. We must continue a no-cost sugar policy that keeps American jobs in America, ensures our ability to grow a vital food ingredient here at home, protects taxpayers and provides a stable, affordable supply for all.


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Another American hero has passed away. This time, it's Eugene Cernan, one of the last Apollo space program astronauts to walk on the moon.
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more people like him to help our country excel in a competitive world.
I met the LM pilot--Harrison "Jack" Schmitt--from the Apollo 17 mission when he came to Midland , MI. Also a retired Navy chaplain who knew Gene and filled in at our church when our pastor died. Gene was know for some salty language. Cernan was one of my favorite astronauts.
This year, at Rocket Fest 2017, I plan to attend the night launch event and fly a Saturn V replica to commemorate the only night launch of a Saturn rocket. This year will mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission.
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America's Enemies, Who's On the List?
by James Petras on June 16, 2019
Prospects and Perspectives
For almost 2 decades, the US pursued a list of 'enemy countries' to confront, attack, weaken and overthrow.
This imperial quest to overthrow 'enemy countries' operated at various levels of intensity, depending on two considerations: the level of priority and the degree of vulnerability for a 'regime change' operation.
The criteria for determining an 'enemy country' and its place on the list of priority targets in the US quest for greater global dominance, as well as its vulnerability to a 'successfully' regime change will be the focus of this essay.
We will conclude by discussing the realistic perspectives of future imperial options.
Prioritizing US Adversaries
Imperial strategists consider military, economic and political criteria in identifying high priority adversaries.
The following are high on the US 'enemy list':
1) Russia, because of its military power, is a nuclear counterweight to US global domination. It has a huge, well-equipped armed force with a European, Asian and Middle East presence. Its global oil and gas resources shield it from US economic blackmail and its growing geo-political alliances limit US expansion.
2) China, because of its global economic power and the growing scope of its trade, investment and technological networks. China's growing defensive military capability, particularly with regard to protecting its interests in the South China Sea serve to counter US domination in Asia.
3) North Korea, because of its nuclear and ballistic missile capability, its fierce independent foreign policies and its strategic geo-political location, is seen as a threat to the US military bases in Asia and Washington's regional allies and proxies.
4) Venezuela, because of its oil resources and socio-political policies, challenge the US centered neo-liberal model in Latin America.
5) Iran, because of its oil resources, political independence and geo-political alliances in the Middle East, challenge US, Israeli and Saudi Arabia domination of the region and present an independent alternative.
6) Syria, because of its strategic position in the Middle East, its secular nationalist ruling party and its alliances with Iran, Palestine, Iraq and Russia, is a counterweight to US-Israeli plans to balkanize the Middle East into warring ethno-tribal states.
US Middle-level Adversaries :
1) Cuba, because of its independent foreign policies and its alternative socio-economic system stands in contrast to the US-centered neo-liberal regimes in the Caribbean, Central and South America.
2) Lebanon, because of its strategic location on the Mediterranean and the coalition government's power sharing arrangement with the political party, Hezbollah, which is increasingly influential in Lebanese civil society in part because of its militia's proven capacity to protect Lebanese national sovereignty by expelling the invading Israeli army and helping to defeat the ISIS/al Queda mercenaries in neighboring Syria.
3) Yemen, because of its independent, nationalist Houthi-led movement opposed to the Saudi-imposed puppet government as well as its relations with Iran.
Low Level Adversaries
1) Bolivia, because of its independent foreign policy, support for the Chavista government in Venezuela and advocacy of a mixed economy; mining wealth and defense of indigenous people's territorial claims.
2) Nicaragua, because of its independent foreign policy and criticism of US aggression toward Cuba and Venezuela.
A World of Multiple Detonators of Global Wars. Wars by Proxy
US hostility to high priority adversaries is expressed through economic sanctions military encirclement, provocations and intense propaganda wars toward North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Iran and Syria.
Because of China's powerful global market linkages, the US has applied few sanctions. Instead, the US relies on military encirclement, separatist provocations and intense hostile propaganda when dealing with China.
Priority Adversaries, Low Vulnerability and Unreal Expectations
With the exception of Venezuela, Washington's 'high priority targets' have limited strategic vulnerabilities. Venezuela is the most vulnerable because of its high dependence on oil revenues with its major refineries located in the US, and its high levels of indebtedness, verging on default. In addition, there are the domestic opposition groups, all acting as US clients and Caracas' growing isolation within Latin America due to orchestrated hostility by important US clients, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
Iran is far less vulnerable: It is a strong strategic regional military power linked to neighboring countries and similar religious-nationalist movements. Despite its dependence on oil exports, Iran has developed alternative markets, like China, free from US blackmail and is relatively safe from US or EU initiated creditor attacks.
North Korea, despite the crippling economic sanctions imposed on its regime and civilian population, has 'the bomb' as a deterrent to a US military attack and has shown no reluctance to defend itself. Unlike Venezuela, neither Iran nor North Korea face significant internal attacks from US-funded or armed domestic opposition.
Russia has full military capacity – nuclear weapons, ICBM and a huge, well-trained armed force – to deter any direct US military threat. Moscow is politically vulnerable to US-backed propaganda, opposition political parties and Western-funded NGO's. Russian oligarch-billionaires, linked to London and Wall Street, exercise some pressure against independent economic initiatives.
To a limited degree, US sanctions exploited Russia's earlier dependence on Western markets, butsince the imposition of draconian sanctions by the Obama regime, Moscow has effectively counteredWashington's offensive by diversifying its markets to Asia and strengthening domestic self-reliance in its agriculture, industry and high technology.
China has a world-class economy and is on course to become the world's economic leader. Feeble threats to 'sanction' China have merely exposed Washington's weakness rather intimidating Beijing. China has countered US military provocations and threats by expanding its economic market power, increasing its strategic military capacity and shedding dependence on the dollar.
Washington's high priority targets are not vulnerable to frontal attack: They retain or are increasing their domestic cohesion and economic networks, while upgrading their military capacity to impose completely unacceptable costs on the US for any direct assault.
As a result, the US leaders are forced to rely on incremental, peripheral and proxy attacks with limited results against its high priority adversaries.
Washington will tighten sanctions on North Korea and Venezuela, with dubious prospects of success in the former and a possible pyrrhic victory in the case of Caracas. Iran and Russia can easily overcome proxy interventions. US allies, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, can badger, propagandize and rail the Persians, but their fears that an out-and-out war against Iran, could quickly destroy Riyadh and Tel Aviv forces them to work in tandem to induce the corrupt US political establishment to push for war over the objections of a war-weary US military and population. Saudi and Israelis can bomb and starve the populations of Yemen and Gaza, which lack any capacity to reply in kind, but Teheran is another matter.
The politicians and propagandists in Washington can blather about Russia's interference in the US's corrupt electoral theater and scuttle moves to improve diplomatic ties, but they cannot counter Russia's growing influence in the Middle East and its expanding trade with Asia, especially China.
In summary, at the global level, the US 'priority' targets are unattainable and invulnerable. In the midst of the on-going inter-elite dogfight within the US, it may be too much to hope for the emergence of any rational policymakers in Washington who could rethink strategic priorities and calibrate policies of mutual accommodation to fit in with global realities.
Medium and Low Priorities, Vulnerabilities and Expectations
Washington can intervene and perhaps inflict severe damage on middle and low priority countries. However, there are several drawbacks to a full-scale attack.
Yemen, Cuba, Lebanon, Bolivia and Syria are not nations capable of shaping global political and economic alignments. The most the US can secure in these vulnerable countries are destructive regime changes with massive loss of life, infrastructure and millions of desperate refugees . . . but at great political cost, with prolonged instability and with severe economic losses.
The US can push for a total Saudi Royal victory over the starving, cholera-stricken people of Yemen. But who benefits? Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a palace upheaval and has no ability to exercise hegemony, despite hundreds of billions of dollars of US/NATO arms, trainers and bases. Colonial occupations are costly and yield few, if any, economic benefits, especially from a poor, geographically isolated devastated nation like Yemen.
Cuba has a powerful highly professional military backed by a million-member militia. They are capable of prolonged resistance and can count on international support. A US invasion of Cuba would require a prolonged occupation and heavy losses. Decades of economic sanctions haven't worked and their re-imposition by Trump have not affected the key tourist growth sectors.
President Trump's 'symbolic hostility' does not cut any ice with the major US agro-business groups, which saw Cuba as a market. Over half of the so-called 'overseas Cubans' now oppose direct US intervention.
US-funded NGOs can provide some marginal propaganda points but they cannot reverse popular support for Cuba's mixed 'socialized' economy, its excellent public education and health care and its independent foreign policy.
A joint US-Saudi economic blockade and Israeli bombs can destabilize Lebanon. However, a full-scale prolonged Israeli invasion will cost Jewish lives and foment domestic unrest. Hezbollah has missiles to counter Israeli bombs. The Saudi economic blockade will radicalize Lebanese nationalists, especially among the Shia and the Christian populations. The Washington's 'invasion' of Libya, which did not lose a single US soldier, demonstrates that destructive invasions result in long-term, continent-wide chaos.
A US-Israeli-Saudi war would totally destroy Lebanon but it will destabilize the region and exacerbate conflicts in neighboring countries – Syria, Iran and possibly Iraq. And Europe will be flooded with millions more desperate refugees.
The US-Saudi proxy war in Syria suffered serious defeats and the loss of political assets. Russia gained influence, bases and allies. Syria retained its sovereignty and forged a battle-hardened national armed force. Washington can sanction Syria, grab some bases in a few phony 'Kurdish enclaves' but it will not advance beyond a stalemate and will be widely viewed as an occupying invader.
Syria is vulnerable and continues to be a middle-range target on the US enemy list but it offers few prospects of advancing US imperial power, beyond some limited ties with an unstable Kurd enclave, susceptible to internecine warfare, and risking major Turkish retaliation.
Bolivia and Nicaragua
Bolivia and Nicaragua are minor irritants on the US enemy list. US regional policymakers recognize that neither country exercises global or even regional power. Moreover, both regimes rejected radical politics in practice and co-exist with powerful and influential local oligarchs and international MNC's linked to the US.
Their foreign policy critiques, which are mostly for domestic consumption, are neutralized by the near total US influence in the OAS and the major neo-liberal regimes in Latin America. It appears that the US will accommodate these marginalized rhetorical adversaries rather than risk provoking any revival of radical nationalist or socialist mass movements erupting in La Paz or Managua.
A brief examination of Washington's 'list of enemies' reveals that the limited chances of success even among vulnerable targets. Clearly, in this evolving world power configuration, US money and markets will not alter the power equation.
US allies, like Saudi Arabia, spend enormous amounts of money attacking a devastated nation, but they destroy markets while losing wars. Powerful adversaries, like China, Russia and Iran, are not vulnerable and offer the Pentagon few prospects of military conquest in the foreseeable future.
Sanctions, or economic wars have failed to subdue adversaries in North Korea, Russia, Cuba and Iran. The 'enemy list' has cost the US prestige, money and markets – a very peculiar imperialist balance sheet. Russia now exceeds the US in wheat production and exports. Gone are the days when US agro-exports dominated world trade including trade with Moscow.
Enemy lists are easy to compose, but effective policies are difficult to implement against rivals with dynamic economies and powerful military preparedness.
The US would regain some of its credibility if it operated within the contexts of global realities and pursued a win-win agenda instead of remaining a consistent loser in a zero-sum game.
Rational leaders could negotiate reciprocal trade agreements with China, which would develop high tech, finance and agro-commercial ties with manufacturers and services. Rational leaders could develop joint Middle East economic and peace agreements, recognizing the reality of a Russian-Iranian-Lebanese Hezbollah and Syrian alliance.
As it stands, Washington's 'enemy list' continues to be composed and imposed by its own irrational leaders, pro-Israel maniacs and Russophobes in the Democratic Party – with no acknowledgement of current realities.
For Americans, the list of domestic enemies is long and well known, what we lack is a civilian political leadership to replace these serial mis-leaders.
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CBEST Plaintiffs to Appeal
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Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the use of a test for new California teachers (see Examiner, Summer 1995) have vowed to appeal U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick's decision in favor of the State of California. Just prior to the trial, the State of California substantially modified its California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) after the state's own expert found that much of the math portion of the test was not job-relevant. However, Judge Orrick upheld the right of the state to require entering public school teachers and administrators to pass the modified version of the test, ruling that the requirement does not violate the plaintiffs' rights under Title II or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Plaintiffs' lawyer John Affeldt, of the San Francisco-based public interest firm Public Advocates, expressed disappointment that the Court did not require further changes in the test. Affeldt said that he would appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The class-action suit was first filed in 1992 on behalf of the Association of Mexican-American Educators (AMAE), the Oakland Alliance of Black Educators (OBAE), the California Association for Asian-Pacific Bilingual Educators (CAFABE) and eight individual educators (Examiner, Fall 1992).
In 1993 Judge Orrick ruled that the test was not a state licensing exam but rather an employment test subject to federal laws requiring it to be related to performance on the job (Examiner, Fall 1993). The state then reviewed the test and found that at least 60% of the math section was not job-relevant. As a result, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing modified the test and extended the time allotted to complete the test. Despite better performance by minorities on the new math test, the State raised the minimum passing score so the percentage of minorities who passed was unchanged. California state records for the revised test show that the pass rate for whites is 73%, but only 38% for African Americans, 49% for Latinos, and 53% for Asians. Orrick even suggested that would be justified in setting a higher pass score.
Continued use of the CBEST means that thousands of rigorously trained and otherwise qualified minority teachers will continue to be locked out of their profession because of their performance on a test that, as Judge Orrick acknowledges, "does not purport, and was not designed, to predict a teacher candidate's performance on the job." As Affeldt noted, a performance-based assessment, such as portfolios, would be a better measure of classroom competence. "These are hard to do and they're expensive, and the state doesn't want to do them," he added.


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It's the best time for us, coaches in the colder parts of Europe, to wind down, learn, catch up with the industry, think about the next season and our businesses.
My personal project for this winter is to dig deep into participation coaching. Unfortunately there is no CPD, no courses, no education that deals with that. Hence it's on me to find all the relevant information, experiences and people (not that there is a TOP50 Participation Coaches ranking!).
what are some of the effective approaches to coaching beginner golfers?
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how can we, coaches, enhance people's experiences of golf? How can we actually help golf's numbers?
This blog will show my journey towards answering (or just diving into) those and more questions.
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You can also find a bit more details about the project and myself on the About page.
I was wondering how I could start off the project. I've decided to speak to some of my mentors and coaches working in the participation realm to explore this. Then I thought – why not record these conversations and share them with everyone? So I've started a PODCAST!
Give the episodes a listen and let me know what you thought (by email: hi@participationcoaching.com , in the comments, or on Twitter).


Three years since the release of the original PlayStation 4, Sony has released the PS4 Pro (formerly the PS4 Neo), a mid-cycle hardware refresh of their best-selling video game console. The PS4 Pro supports 4K-resolution video — if you have a new, expensive 4K HDTV. I don't, but I still picked up the new model today. Join me in seeing what's in the box in my PS4 Pro unboxing video! Then ask yourself: should I get a PS4 Pro?
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Special match for Eusebio. The now Girona coach visits Anoeta, the one that was his home and in which he left a pleasant memory. His team needs to return to the path of victory as it has only added two points from the last twelve possible, a negative streak that has placed the Catalan team near the relegation places. The Real Sociedad for its part took the last day oxygen and did it in the best possible way, taking the derby in San Mamés against Athletic (1-3). Girona does not keep a pleasant memory of his last visit to Anoeta. Last season the Royal Society endorsed a 'little hand'.
2 of the 3 Real matches at home threw goals from the two contenders.
The last 2 departures of Girona left us goals in both sides.
2 of the last 4 matches between both left us goals on both sides.
Real Sociedad and Girona are the top scorers down half of the table.
Eusebio knows how to play Real and the team from San Sebastian is grown after taking the derby against Athletic. Goals of the two sets.


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Folsom Lake Auxiliary Spillway Complete
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink
A celebration at the completion of the new at Folsom Lake Aug. 27, 2015.
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The flood risk in the Sacramento metropolitan area is greatly improved now that a 12-year project to build a back-up spillway at Folsom Lake is complete.
Managers say the structure reduces the annual risk to a 1-in-200 chance, more than double the previous protection level.
The nearly $1 billion spillway was an unprecedented joint effort involving the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Reclamation's Drew Lessard says it will help water managers control the lake level during heavy storms because it can kick into action sooner than the release outlets at the dam.
"So the new spillway, the gates ae actually 50 feet lower, which is where the water will be," Lessard says. "It allows us to match the downstream levee capacity instantaneously."
Despite it being an auxiliary spillway, the new structure will likely be used regularly during wet years.
It's one of the largest infrastructure projects in the West in recent years.
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The mountain backdrop was more impressive than the race track, which reminded me at first of a large high school's football stadium. Even at age seven, it occurred to me that the half-mile race track was twice as large as a quarter-mile track around a football field, so, appearances aside, this was larger than a football stadium.
Besides, this was NASCAR, and NASCAR was big.
The way into those grandstands was a long incline at both ends. In the 1960s, men were men and ice coolers didn't have wheels on them. Ralph Barnes, sons Steve and Marty and adopted son Mooney Mims, took turns hoisting the cooler, which contained beverages I was 11 years removed from being able to quaff legally. Ralph may have remembered to pack a couple RC Colas, or Nugrapes, for me.
That was Bristol International Raceway. Now it's Bristol Motor Speedway, and it should have a different name because, even though it's on the same site, it's entirely different. The track was lightly banked back then, and it was asphalt.
It doesn't look like a high school football stadium anymore. High school stadiums now don't look like they did then, either, but they have doubled, and the race track near the Tennessee-Virginia line in 1965 was more like the square root of what stands there now.
By the way, I have competed once at Bristol and once at Darlington. I grew up on a farm, and we often went to horse shows. I competed in Western Pleasure on the back of a quarter horse. The shows were in the infield at Darlington and near the drag strip at Bristol. I won a pink ribbon at Darlington. My sister was the horse-show star of the family.
The next time I was there it was the spring, and it was cold, and there was no tunnel in turn three, and if a sportswriter got there when there wasn't a break in the action, he had to wait until a break, at which time the gate would swing open and those waiting could carefully make their way down the banking, which had gotten much steeper. I watched qualifying from behind that gate, and it reminded me of a pinball machine, a car shooting down the straight and roaring around the far turns like ball bearings.
What it looks like at night is out of sci-fi. It is illuminated by eerie blue lights and sits nestled in the valley, a would-be alien mothership.
Take us to your leaders.
Or, better yet, bring them here. It's going to be a hell of a show.


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Close your eyes, open your heart, and enjoy the debut EP from Italian singer-songwriter Ginevra.
Ginevra's complete name was still not revealed, but we know she was born in Turin in 1993 and lives in Milan since 2012. She has released just two singles so far, "Forest" and "Lips", and now an EP titled "Ruins". Factory Flaws is her label.
Ginevra's music is intimate and very emotional. Her sound is simple, keyboard or piano driven with some digital beats whose purpose is not really to give a rhythm part to the songs, but to amplify the inner strength of the interaction between Ginevra's songwriting, sound and voice.
The result is extremely soulful, and Ginevra is not scared to show her most personal feelings, whilst encouraging who listens to do the same.
A visual support for her songs could be very interesting, as her music is very evocative and the right filming and/or animation would create a very strong work of art.
For now, we can just close our eyes, open our hearts and souls and let those song talk to us and inspire us.
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"To establish a hostile work environment claim, a plaintiff must produce enough evidence to show that the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment." 2018 WL 4372674, at *6.
Plaintiff was employed at NYSDOT for approximately six months and during that time, he endured insults and the use of a "racial slur" against his Italian heritage from multiple NYSDOT employees, including Defendants Cresno and Boranco. … Plaintiff alleges that his supervisors and co-workers "continuous[ly] and intentional[ly]" failed to intervene, which allowed his co-workers to "continue to abuse him and harass him without fear of consequences." … Moreover, Plaintiff claims that the second time he was sent to work on the roadside without a back-up truck was "obviously planned by Defendants" because he "was the only one who was ordered to pick up trash off of the side of a busy road without a back-up truck protecting him from oncoming traffic." … While the insults may not qualify as "severe," they were pervasive. Conversely, the incident with the roadwork, while isolated, was severe and resulted in a permanent injury to Plaintiff's foot. … Plaintiff's Complaint establishes a facially plausible hostile work environment claim, and Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiff's Title VII hostile work environment claim against NYSDOT and Plaintiff's NYHRL claim against Defendants Cresno and Boranco is denied.


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Tip: If you would like the skin to roast well and crisp up add 2 more teaspoons of oil and place each wedge skin-side-down on the baking tray, this will give you the desired effect!
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Paul Carl Hieronymus Krause (* 30. November 1871 in Glogau; † 7. Mai 1934 bei Frücht)  war ein deutscher Mediziner (Internist, Radiologie, Infektionskrankheiten).

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Krause stammte aus einer Familie von Handwerkern und Bauern und absolvierte sein Abitur am Matthiasgymnasium in Breslau. Er studierte Medizin in München, Kiel (Promotion 1897), Bonn, Berlin und Freiburg. Zu seinen Lehrern gehörten Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke, Eugen Fraenkel, Alfred Knast (1856–1903) und Adolf von Strümpell. Nach dem Studium war er Assistenzarzt in Kiel (Hygienisches Institut), Hamburg (Krankenhaus Eppendorf) und Breslau, wo er sich 1902 habilitierte. 1901 bis 1907 war er Oberarzt an der Medizinischen Klinik in Breslau. 1907 wurde er Direktor der Medizinischen Poliklinik in Jena.

1909 wurde er Direktor der Medizinischen Poliklinik in Bonn mit persönlichem Ordinariat. Er gründete dort auch 1910 einen Verein zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose, wie schon zuvor in Jena.  Im Ersten Weltkrieg war er Leiter des großen Typhus-Lazaretts der ersten bis dritten Armee in Spa und beriet als Internist in Russland und auf dem Balkan in Mazedonien. Ab 1924 war er Ordinarius für Innere Medizin an der neu gegründeten Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Münster und war als deren Gründungsdekan maßgeblich an deren Aufbau beteiligt (Berufungen, Aufbau der Radiologie mit Unterstützung von Kollegen in Groningen u. a.). Außerdem wurde er 1923 Geheimer Medizinalrat.

Bekannt war er für das von ihm herausgegebene Lehrbuch der medizinischen Diagnostik, das zuerst 1909 erschien und auch im Ausland durch verschiedene Übersetzungen weite Verbreitung fand, und als Röntgenpionier in der Medizin, insbesondere in der Diagnostik, aber auch in der Untersuchung der Wirkung der Röntgenstrahlen auf Gewebe. Er ersetzte Wismutsalze durch Bariumsulfat bei der Röntgendiagnostik im Magen-Darm-Trakt. 1909 wurde er in Würdigung seiner Verdienste als Nachfolger von Hermann Gocht der vierte Präsident der Deutschen Röntgengesellschaft.  Er lieferte mehrere Beiträge zu dem von Franz Maximilian Groedel herausgegebenen Grundriss und Atlas der Röntgendiagnostik in der inneren Medizin von 1909.

Er war Gründungsmitglied der Röntgenvereinigung in Breslau, nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg der Röntgenvereinigung in Bonn und 1927 einer der Gründer der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Röntgengesellschaft (RWRG), die 1930 das Deutsche Röntgenmuseum in Remscheid-Lennep begründete, das im November 1932 eröffnet wurde mit Röntgenfeiern, denen Krause vorstand. 1931 war er Rektor der Medizinischen Fakultät und er war Verwaltungsdirektor der Kliniken.

Die RWRG schreibt einen Paul-Krause-Preis für Radiologie aus, der 2014 mit 5000 Euro dotiert war.

Hetze der Nationalsozialisten gegen ihn und Suizid

1933/34 veranstaltete die NS-Dozentenschaft unter Führung des Oberarztes Robert Gantenberg (1894–1946) sowie nationalsozialistische Studenten eine Hetzjagd auf Krause und sprach ihm die Kompetenz ab. Das hatte keine rassischen Gründe, sondern lag an der Kritik von Krause gegen das von Rudolf Heß und dem Reichsärzteführer Gerhard Wagner propagierte Heilpraktikergesetz mit der Gleichsetzung von Ärzten und Heilpraktikern und der Förderung biologischer Heilverfahren. Krause wollte einen Widerstand dagegen unter den westfälischen Ärzten organisieren und fand zunächst auch Unterstützung. Krause wollte den Reichsärzteführer Wagner stürzen durch Kontaktaufnahme nicht nur zur lokalen Ärztekammer, sondern auch zu SA-Ärzten, wozu er an den SA-Gruppenführer und Arzt in Bielefeld Hanns Löhr (1891–1941) schrieb. Der Brief wurde nach Berlin weitergeleitet und löste eine heftige Reaktion von Wagner aus, die Absetzung von Krause betrieb. Krause war keineswegs allein in seiner Kritik, auch die Medizinischen Fakultäten unter Führung der Berliner Fakultät sprachen sich dagegen aus. Krause, der durchaus mit den Nationalsozialisten sympathisierte (bei denen er allerdings als unbequemer Vertreter des katholischen Zentrums galt), sah sich in seiner Ehre gekränkt und beantragte ein Disziplinarverfahren gegen sich selbst, das aber vom Ministerium abschlägig beschieden wurde und ihm den Tadel einbrachte, sich offen gegen Regierungsmitglieder gewandt zu haben. Die nationalsozialistischen Ärzte in Westfalen und an der Universität Münster unter Anleitung von Löhr betrieben weiter seine Absetzung und er wurde an der Universität boykottiert. Löhr, der wissenschaftlich ein unbeschriebenes Blatt war, machte sich Hoffnung auf die Lehrstuhl-Nachfolge von Krause. Da er auch keinen Rückhalt vom Rektor der Universität erhielt (der ihm die Beurlaubung bis zur Beruhigung der Lage empfahl) und auch nicht vom Ministerium, reichte er am 3. Mai 1934 sein Emeritierungsgesuch ein. Vier Tage danach erschoss er sich im Wald von Frücht bei Bad Ems vor dem Grab des Freiherrn von Stein, den er verehrte. Er wurde auf eigenen Wunsch in Bonn begraben, nachdem sein Körper wie im Testament gewünscht radiologischen Experimenten diente.

Der Suizid führte bei denen, die beteiligt waren, aber nicht zu den radikalen Nationalsozialisten gehörten, zu Gewissensbissen. Löhr hatte keine Chance mehr auf eine Nachfolge, allerdings trat der Nationalsozialist und Hämatologe Viktor Schilling später die Nachfolge an. Das Heilpraktikergesetz wurde zunächst gestoppt und 1939 nur in abgeschwächter Form in Kraft gesetzt.

Schriften
 Beiträge (Trachea, Mediastinal- und Lungentumore, Bronchialerkrankungen, Lungentuberkulose, Gefässe) in: Franz Maximilian Groedel (Hrsg.): Atlas und Grundriss der Röntgendiagnostik in der inneren Medizin. (= Lehmann's medizinische Atlanten. 7). Lehmanns, München 1909, (Digitalisat)
 Herausgeber und Mitautor: Lehrbuch der klinischen Diagnostik innerer Krankheiten, mit bosonderer Berücksichtigung der Untersuchungsmethoden. G. Fischer, Jena 1909 und öfter
 Beiträge zum Handbuch der inneren Medizin. Band 1, Springer, 1911.

Literatur
 Ursula Ferdinand, Johannes Kirchner: Geheimrat Prof. Dr. med. Paul Krause (1871–1934) – Pionier der Röntgendiagnostik und frühes Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Regimes. Link auf den Aufsatz bei Münster-wiki.
 Bernd Haunfelder: Die Rektoren, Kuratoren und Kanzler der Universität Münster 1826–2016. Ein biographisches Handbuch. (= Veröffentlichungen des Universitätsarchivs Münster. 14). Aschendorff, Münster 2020, ISBN 978-3-402-15897-5, S. 198–202.

Weblinks
 Biographie und Nachlass an der Universität Münster

Einzelnachweise

Internist
Radiologe
Deutscher
Hochschullehrer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität)
Geboren 1871
Gestorben 1934
Mann
Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Absolvent der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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        Map<String, Object> model = new HashMap<>();
        model.put("message", templateVariable);
        String expected = String.format("<h1>%s</h1>", templateVariable);
        String actual = new MustacheTemplateEngine().render(new ModelAndView(model, "hello.mustache"));
        assertEquals(expected, actual);
    }

}

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Q: Ubuntu 20.04.1 Server, bonded network interfaces, keepalived not working I setup bonded network interfaces to provide greater HA for a HaProxy (HaProxy is a linux load balancer) setup with keepalived on two Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS servers.  The bonded network interfaces setup with netplan are working properly and setup with keepalived.  However, keepalived does not treat the master and backup nodes of the keepalived cluster properly and both show as Master.
# This file is generated from information provided by the datasource.  Changes
# to it will not persist across an instance reboot.  To disable cloud-init's
# network configuration capabilities, write a file
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following:
# network: {config: disabled}
network:
   version: 2
   ethernets:
     eth0:
      dhcp4: true
     eth1:
      dhcp4: false
     eth2:
      dhcp4: false
   bonds:
    bond0:
     dhcp4: false
     interfaces:
        - eth1
        - eth2
     parameters:
       mode: active-backup
       primary: eth1
     addresses:
         - 192.168.0.6/24
     nameservers:
       addresses:
         - 192.168.0.1

vrrp_instance VI_01 {
    state MASTER
    interface bond0
    virtual_router_id 51
    priority 101
    advert_int 1
    virtual_ipaddress {
        192.168.0.10/24
    }

vrrp_instance VI_01 {
    state BACKUP
    interface bond0
    virtual_router_id 51
    priority 100
    advert_int 1
    virtual_ipaddress {
        192.168.0.10/24
    }
}

Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks,
Leo

A: After trying a solution, which entailed added mac addresses to the netplan configuration, I found that the same issue with keepalived was occurring, which was that both machines were showing up as the master.  Further investigation showed that the mac address using for the bonded interface on both servers was identical, which ended up being the problem.
By changing the name of the bonded interface in netplan on the second server, to bond1 (rather then bond0), then using that name  in the keepalived config file solved the issue, as both bonded interfaces then had unique mac addresses.  Keepalived can know properly tell which server is the master and which one is the backup.
Thanks for all the help,
Leo

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