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Bierman Henket Architecten
Uitbreiding Museum de Fundatie
2013 Habitat Winner
The new building volume on top of the neoclassical Museum de Fundatie has a whitish blue skin with a large glass window facing the city. Its coating consists of 55,000 three-dimensional tiles, produced by Royal Tichelaar Makkum.
Museum de Fundatie has recently undergone a complete renovation, but this nomination concerns specifically the 'cloud' covered with three-dimensional tiles. The committee of Spatial is of the opinion that the detailing and specific architectural components are indeed an inherent part of a design award. In this case, the project generates a huge impact in the city; the cloud has an incredible presence.
The jury saw the history of Makkum reflected in the design, in a way that repositions the building without dominating it. The apparent contradiction between classic and futuristic is balanced and gives the building an impressive appearance.
— The extension inspires amazement, attracts people and encourage photography - Robert-Jan de Kort, Dutch Design Jaarboek, 2013
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — Joep Jacobs
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Commissioner — Museum de Fundatie/ Gemeente Zwolle
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Astronauts Shannon Lucid and Jerry Ross to Be Honored With Hall of Fame Induction
by Emily Carney February 20, 2014, 8:00 am 2 Comments
Astronauts Jerry Ross and Dr. Shannon Lucid will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 3. Image Credit: The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation website
A Shuttle-Mir veteran and a spacewalking virtuoso will join the ranks of other spaceflight legends on the afternoon of Saturday, May 3, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex (KSCVC). Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) chairman, former shuttle astronaut Dan Brandenstein, made the announcement Friday, Feb. 7, at KSCVC's Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit that astronauts Dr. Shannon Lucid and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Jerry Ross will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. This induction will showcase the career highlights of Lucid and Ross, both prominent figures in the shuttle, Mir, and International Space Station programs.
Dr. Lucid was one of the first six female astronauts selected to NASA's astronaut corps in 1978, and she forged a career in biochemistry well before becoming an astronaut (she was also the first mother selected to the corps). In 1985, she made her first space flight on STS-51G (Discovery). She made further flights on 1989's STS-34, 1991's STS-43, and 1993's STS-58.
In 1996, Lucid spent 179 days aboard the Russian space station Mir, setting the record for the then-longest duration spaceflight made by a woman. She was the only American woman to make a long-duration stay aboard the space station during the 1990s Shuttle-Mir program. Following her return on STS-79, Lucid was honored with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for her contributions to Shuttle-Mir, becoming the first woman to receive that accolade. Following that milestone, Lucid stayed on at NASA functioning as its Chief Scientist and as a CAPCOM for numerous shuttle missions. She retired in 2012, having served 33 years at NASA.
Jerry Ross was selected to the astronaut corps in 1980, having served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight engineer. During his spaceflight career, Ross became the most prolific space shuttle astronaut, having flown STS-61B (1985), STS-27 (1988), STS-37 (1991), STS-55 (1993), STS-74 (1995), STS-88 (1998), and STS-110 (2002). On STS-88, Ross performed three EVAs ushering in the International Space Station (ISS) era—on that particular mission, he was instrumental in helping to connect the United States' Unity module to Russia's Zarya module.
In 2002, he ended his spaceflight career with another ISS assembly mission. His seven spaceflights broke another Hall of Fame astronaut's record for most number of flights (that astronaut would be John W. Young, Apollo 16 moonwalker and STS-1 commander). During his career, Ross was honored with the American Astronautical Society's Victor A. Prather award for his record-setting EVAs in 1985, 1990, and 1999, and several NASA and military medals. Prior to his 2012 retirement, he served as head of the Vehicle Integration Test Office at Johnson Space Center.
This induction will include Lucid and Ross among other U.S. spaceflight legends in the Hall of Fame, including last year's inductees, shuttle astronauts Curtis Brown, Eileen Collins, and Bonnie Dunbar. Brandenstein related during the announcement: "Shannon Lucid and Jerry Ross are extraordinary astronauts who made history as very important and frequent crew members in shuttle missions. We are looking forward to honoring their accomplishments and sharing their tremendous life stories at the May 3 induction."
Prior to the induction ceremony, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation will celebrate on the evening of Friday, May 2, with a gala reception at KSCVC's Apollo/Saturn V Center. For more information about this upcoming event and the induction, visit the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's website.
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How ancient parasite wormed its way into human life
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LONDON/PARIS – In a skeleton more than 6,200 years old, scientists have found the earliest known evidence of infection by a parasitic flatworm, revealing how human advancement enabled a creature resembling a tiny slug to spread. Today it afflicts more than 200 million people.
Archaeologists discovered the egg of the parasite near the pelvis of a child's skeleton in northern Syria and say it dates back to a time when ancient societies first used irrigation systems to grow crops.
Scientists suspect the new farming technique meant people were spending a lot of time wading in warm water — ideal conditions for the parasites to jump into humans. That may have triggered outbreaks of the waterborne flatworm disease known as schistosomiasis.
In a letter published by the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, a team of archaeologists and biologists said they had found a 6,200-year-old egg of the feared parasite in an ancient grave in northern Syria.
The site, Tell Zeidan, is in the valley of the Euphrates, part of the fabled Fertile Crescent, where humans settled down to farm nearly 8,000 years ago, making the historic leap from hunter-gatherers.
The team excavated the skeletal remains of 26 people from the burial site and gently sifted through sediment collected from their pelvic areas. The painstaking work turned up an egg just 132 thousandths of a millimeter long that under a powerful microscope turned out to be pale brown, stained by millennia-long exposure to the soil.
The egg, say the researchers, is from one of two species of schistosomes — flatworms that cause bilharzia, which affects hundreds of millions of people in tropical Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Schistosomes burrow into the skin when someone wades into freshwater, and develop into adult worms before invading the kidney and bladder or intestines. Luxuriating in the balmy flow of blood, they mate, and their eggs are excreted in urine or feces, thus exposing more people to the disease, which is also called schistosomiasis or snail fever.
Infection, typically signaled by blood in the urine, can result in kidney failure, bladder cancer, malnutrition and anemia.
Recent DNA analysis of schistosomes suggest the flatworm evolved in Asia and spread from there to Africa and beyond. But how this happened was unclear until now.
Migration through early human settlement in the Middle East, via the irrigation system of the Fertile Crescent, is a likely answer, the letter says.
The people at Tell Zeidan grew wheat and barley in highly arid conditions, which suggests they developed an irrigation system to water their crops. If so, wading in the water channels would have been the likely infection source for the individual who carried the parasite, according to the probe headed by Piers Mitchell at Britain's University of Cambridge.
"Our findings suggest that crop irrigation 6,000 years ago in the Middle East enabled schistosomiasis to spread to people living there, and so triggered the enormous disease burden that schistosomiasis has caused over the past 6,000 years," the letter says.
The World Health Organization says more than 42 million people were treated for bilharzia in 2012, and 249 million were given preventive treatment with praziquantel, the front-line drug for controlling the parasite.
The latest discovery also fits with other pieces of evidence.
They include the remains found at many ancient Middle East sites of freshwater Bulinus snails that provide a host for the parasite at an early stage of its life cycle, as well as an ancient medical text found in modern-day north Iraq whose author described diseases that caused blood-stained urine.
And in 2002, schistosomes were found in Egyptian mummies — evidence that the wretched parasite was a problem for the people living and working along the Nile 5,200 years ago.
Infection through irrigation could be the earliest known example of human technology enabling a disease to spread. The health consequences probably had "a significant impact upon early civilizations in the region," said Mitchell.


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San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner (40) raises the championship banner after mounting a horse on his way to deliver the banner to center centerfield before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' pitcher Madison Bumgarner (40) carries the World Series banner so it can be flown during Opening Day pre-game ceremonies as they host the Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 12, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
Festivities are held before the San Francisco Giants home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
Pitcher Tim Lincecum, manager Bruce Bochy, and catcher Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants deliver three World Series trophies to the mound during their home opener ceremonies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Manager Bruce Bochy of the San Francisco Giants carries a World Series trophy during the home opener ceremonies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Matt Duffy, (50), of the San Francisco Giants, dives safely back to first against Justin Morneau, (33), of the Colorado Rockies, in the second inning of their home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' Angel Pagan (16) reacts after flying out to end the game during the home opener for the Giants as they host the Colorado Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' Brandon Crawford (35) makes a stop on a ball hit by Colorado Rockies' D.J. LeMahieu (9) in the seventh inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. LeMahieu (9) was safe at first. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Chris Heston (53) collides with Colorado Rockies' Nick Hundley (4) at home plate in the seventh inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. Handley was safe at home. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' pitcher Chris Heston can't make the tag on the Colorado Rockies Nick Hundley (4) at home plate as he scores on a wild pitch as catcher Buster Posey looks in the 7th inning during Opening Day for the Giants' home season as they host the Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 12, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants pitcher Chris Heston can't make the tag on the Colorado Rockies' Nick Hundley at home plate as he scores on a wild pitch in the 7th inning during the home opener for the Giants as they host the Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants pitcher Chris Heston (53) and the Colorado Rockies' Nick Hundley (4) have words at home plate after Hundley scored on a wild pitch as umpire Tripp Gibson and catcher Buster Posey (28) look on in the 7th inning during the home opener for the Giants as they host the Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
Marie and Andy Fontella, of San Francisco, and other fans cheer during the home opener pre-game ceremonies as the San Francisco Giants host the Colorado Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
The San Francisco Giants 2014 championship banner was raised before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants pitcher Chris Heston (53) pitches in the seventh inning during the home opener for the Giants as they host the Colorado Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' Joe Panik (12) can't make a throw to first after tagging out Colorado Rockies' D.J. LeMahieu (9) at second base in the ninth inning at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
Joe Panik (12) of the San Francisco Giants reacts after striking out swinging against the Colorado Rockies during the ninth inning of the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. The Rockies defeated the Giants, 2-0. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' Joe Panik (12) reacts after grounding out in the sixth inning during the home opener for the Giants as they host the Colorado Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Chris Heston (53) throws the first pitch out against Colorado Rockies' Charlie Blackmon (19) in the first inning for their home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' Brandon Crawford (35) can't hang onto a pop fly from the Colorado Rockies' Justin Morneau (33) in the eighth inning during the home opener for the Giants as they host the Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 12, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
Brandon Crawford (35) of the San Francisco Giants, fields a grounder and tags the bag on a force out of Nick Hundley of the Colorado Rockies during the ninth inning of the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. The Rockies defeated the Giants, 2-0. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Pitcher Madison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants acknowledges the crowd as he is introduced during their home opener ceremonies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum (55), San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy and San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey (28) deliver the 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series trophies to the infield near the pitchers mound before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
Manager, Bruce Bochy (15) of the San Francisco Giants watches his his team struggle in the ninth inning against the Colorado Rockies during the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. The Rockies defeated the Giants, 2-0. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Joe Panik (12) of the San Francisco Giants throws out Justin Morneau of the Colorado Rockies during the sixth inning of the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
The Marshall Tucker Band performs the national anthem during their home opener ceremonies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Members of the San Francisco Giants, including San Francisco Giants' Jeremy Affeldt (41), prepare to raise their 2014 championship banner was raised before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants' Justin Maxwell (43) and San Francisco Giants' Santiago Casilla (46) hold up San Francisco Giants' Travis Ishikawa (45) name plate as Ishikawa is announced (but not there) before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner (40) acknowledges the crowd as he is introduced before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants fans cheer during a fly-over following the national anthem for their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
The Navy Band Southwest entertains the crowd begins to enter AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015 before the Opening Day game between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Joe Panik, (12), of the San Francisco Giants reacts after being tagged out on a ball hit by Angel Pagan against the Colorado Rockies to end the fourth inning during their home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Starting pitcher Eddie Butler (31) of the Colorado Rockies throws against the San Francisco Giants in the second inning during at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Matt Duffy (50) of the San Francisco Giants dives for a single hit by D.J. LeMahieu, (9), of the Colorado Rockies during the seventh inning during the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Jeremy Affeldt (41) of the San Francisco Giants pitches the eighth inning against the Colorado Rockies during the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
Jake Peavy, Hector Sanchez, Ryan Vogelsong, Madison Bumgarner, Jeremy Affeldt, and Justin Maxwell, left to right, of the San Francisco Giants, line up for introductions during the home opener at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. The Giants lost the game to the Colorado Rockies, 2-0. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)
The Blue Angels perform a flyover during the home opening pre-game ceremonies as the San Francisco Giants host the Colorado Rockies for the first of three games at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2015. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants mascot Lou Seal waves to the crowd before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum (55), San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy and San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey (28) deliver the 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series trophies to the infield from centerfield before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner (40) hands the 2015 championship banner to San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Matt Cain (18) in center centerfield before their home opener against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
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The San Francisco Giants' MLB home opener against the Colorado Rockies began with fanfare and pitcher Madison Bumgarner on horseback to deliver their 2014 World Series championship banner to be flown at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Photos by Nhat V. Meyer, Gary Reyes and Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
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When the Cubs talked all spring about the fast start they expected, the unspoken part of the optimism was the appearance of a soft schedule, with only one of their first five series against a team expected to be a threat for the playoffs.
The part they mentioned a lot was the rebuilt starting rotation that manager Joe Maddon estimated was the best he has had since arriving in Chicago in 2015.
So much for the best-laid plans of mice and World Series hopefuls.
Chatwood struck out seven and walked seven in 4 2/3 innings Tuesday night against the Cardinals.
The only semblance of heat on a cold, windy, bitter Tuesday night at Wrigley Field was provided by the Cardinals, who beat the Cubs 5-3 in the opener of a series already shortened to two games by snowy weather Monday.
In the first meeting between the division rivals, the Cardinals won their fifth straight and dropped the Cubs to 7-8 — with enough ugly weather in the forecast for Wednesday that Thursday was looking more likely as a rescheduled game day.
Rizzo might have provided the lone bright spot for the Cubs, returning from the disabled list after missing eight games and proclaiming his once-achy back well.
"The back felt great," he said.
That makes one part of the team, which has seen its bats enter a deep freeze as often as the game-time temperature (35 degrees with wind chills in the 20s Tuesday).
Meanwhile, the revamped rotation is still waiting to go on a run. Its combined ERA is 5.31 after three full turns.
And that's an improvement even after Tyler Chatwood failed to get out of the fifth inning, in large part because of seven walks that contributed to 97 pitches. He also struck out seven.
"He had really good stuff," Maddon said, suggesting the conditions made it tough to grip the ball but making no excuses for Chatwood's 14 walks in 15⅔ innings.
"I don't think we've played our best baseball by any stretch," general manager Jed Hoyer said. "That's for sure. It has been a little bit of a choppy schedule. That's made it hard to get on much of a rhythm. But I think we had some games early we let get away a little bit.
The Cubs' pitching staff ranks among the league leaders with 4.9 walks a game.
"When it comes to the pitching part of it, I think that's really where it's been difficult to get in a rhythm," Hoyer said, citing cold temperatures and multiple days off in a row created by postponements. "You've seen pitchers with really good control and command struggle to throw strikes. A lot of that I think is the conditions we've been playing in.
The issues are remarkably similar to the problems that afflicted the Cubs during their sluggish first half last year.
"One of the hard parts about early-season baseball is that if you're .500, if one of two of those games go the other way, then all of a sudden we're talking about a pretty good start," Hoyer said.


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The average length of time from target discovery to approval of a new drug currently averages about 13 years, the failure rate exceeds 95 percent, and the cost per successful drug exceeds $1 billion, after adjusting for all of the failures.
On its face, this is not the kind of endorsement that would make most people drop what they're doing to pursue new therapies for the array of diseases and disorders bent on killing us. On the other hand, drug developers are dogged and the more than 95 percent failure rate doesn't mean the end for many medicines.
In many cases, drugs fail in the the second or third phases of their clinical trials. By that time, the research and development is done. The funding has been used and the compounds themselves have proven safe for humans. However, they just might not work for the condition that they were intended to treat. Sometimes it emerges that the drug works in an unexpected, but useful and marketable way.
Perhaps the most famous occurrence of researchers happening upon an alternate use for a failed drug is Pfizer's Viagra, which had been developed as a blood pressure and angina treatment. When it failed to improve trial subjects' blood pressure and angina, Pfizer's researchers, having taken note of the compound's other benefits, redirected their efforts toward creating one of the best-known drugs in history.
Other drugs, like AZT, have similar stories. AZT was intended to treat cancer, but researchers found that it was more effective at keeping the HIV virus from replicating. Sildenafil -- the compound that made Viagra a household name -- is also sold as Revatio, a drug that is used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. While these drugs may have found a second life by "accident," other, originally failed medicines find their way onto pharmacists' shelves quite purposefully.
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCAT) calls them "repurposed drugs" and it has a program in place to find new uses for failed treatments called Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules. Launched in 2012, the program helps researchers work with pharmaceutical companies to find and use already tested compounds that can aid them in developing new treatments -- and NCAT is not alone.
Several newer biotech companies have also taken up the repurposing mantle. A few companies leverage complex bioinformatics to pinpoint new uses for failed compounds. Others take a more systematic approach to happening upon new uses.
Safe medicines aren't the only ones that get a second -- or third -- chance. Science reported on a 1930s-era weight loss treatment that, in animal trials, shows some promise in reversing diabetes and the related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The original weight loss remedy was based on a compound used as an industrial chemical and explosive used during the first world war. People lost weight using it, but the side effects included cataracts and death. Today, researchers have found that a safer, slow-release version has some significant metabolic benefits.
Perhaps old dogs can learn new tricks.


Hi! My name is Jenny Brown.
I'm an awesome crocheter, craft lover, and pattern designer living in Northern New Jersey (by way of Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and West Virginia). I create patterns that allow you to express your creativity in every crochet project with instructions that are fun, easy-to-follow, and have as few ends to weave in as possible.
I learned to crochet as a little kid when my left-handed mom learned to stitch right-handed so she could pass the craft on to me. That little bit of crafty kindness changed my life and gave me the chance to participate in the largest yarn bombing in the US, share original crochet projects with the world, and sell over 1,000 (and counting) patterns through Etsy, Ravelry, and Craftsy.
When I'm not crafting, I'm drinking great beer, eating vegetarian meals, and laughing louder than I should. I'm lucky enough to live with Craft Husband below my college best friend Erin, her husband, and their two children: Alexander & Babes (seen throughout this site as the world's best crochet models).
Erin Markan is the official photographer for Hi, Jenny Brown and her photographs appear throughout this site and in every pattern and stationery product. Erin trained in photojournalism and has had her photographs published in many newspapers and magazines. Her favorite subjects now are makers and her two adorable children. Check out her photography on Instagram: @fcollected.


Have you ever laughed really really hard, that you can't control yourself and you can't stop?
Then when you finally stop, you look at your friend you are laughing with and you burst out laughing all over again.
When I was a kid it always happened to me at times when I was supposed to be quiet. During class, during a presentation, during a prayer. I would hold my breath and try to get the next outburst of laughter to stop (or at least wait until I got to a more appropriate place) and it would never hold in quite long enough, and it would instead come out in a gigantic snort/laugh/giggle/gasp for air.
I love laughing like that. Although it is awkward, and sometimes incredibly inappropriate. For example: during class, during a presentation, and during prayer (reason 4,882,673 why I am surprised I am not cast down to hell yet).
As you get older, it seems these moments happen less and less, but luckily - they still do (at least with me).
There are times when Husband and I are laying in bed, and I say something I think is really funny, maybe Husband just weakly laughs at it, but then I somehow cannot stop laughing. My laughter makes him laugh, and then I stop, our breathing steadies, but then I start laughing again. This can go on for 20 minutes in a pitch black room, and Husband starts telling me to stop laughing between laughs. Our sides hurt, and we are out of breath from laughing so hard. But I. still. can't. stop.
I love Husband's laugh. It is kinda rare to hear it but to hear it happening so much, and almost this fear behind his voice of not being able to control it, and like he doesn't know what crazy laughing demon has possessed his body… makes me giggle more.
It's hard for me to stop in these times, partly because just a little thought gets me laughing again… but also because I am SO happy, and I know he is so happy that I don't want the moment to stop.
Currently, Husband and I are miles apart as he finishes one class at college and I stay with family. Every day I miss moments like this and being able to see his smile (and sometimes, even my own).


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1,000 Disneyland artifacts go up for auction, offering a look into the theme park's past
Original concept art for "Pirates of the Caribbean", by Marc Davis.
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One of the original "Main Street Cinema" Mickey Mouse signs up for auction.
A completely intact animatronic "It's a Small World" doll.
13-year-old Annette Funicello's personal 1957 school notebook will also be available for bidding.
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Remember strolling down Disneyland's iconic Main Street, maybe stopping in the tobacco shop and grabbing a stash of "Disneyland Special Blend" tobacco and Disney brand lighter for the walk?
No? Well you'll be able to peek into the Happiest Place's history next month when items like a years-old unopened can of tobacco and ash trays go up for auction at Van Eaton Galleries' "Souvenirs of Disneyland."
The gallery will be auctioning away pieces of the theme park's past, including artifacts that span its 1955 opening all the way to the modern day. Mike Van Eaton, co-owner of the art animation gallery in Sherman Oaks, told KPCC the pieces will offer "a wonderful window into that particular era."
Most of the pieces come from collectors, but some of them also come from family members of past Disneyland employees, he said. The tobacco memorabilia in the auction was passed on by the son of the man who owned the tobacco shop in the park from 1950-1960.
Several pieces in the auction were donated by Annette Funicello's husband. Funicello is best known as one of the 24 original Mouseketeers in the old Micky Mouse Club during the 1950s. She battled multiple sclerosis before passing away in 2013. All the proceeds of those items will benefit a neurological disease fund that she founded.
Other notable pieces include original signage from the park, a car from the early days of the "Autopia" attraction and a doll from "It's a Small World", which has all the mechanical features still intact.
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Van Eaton's personal favorite: an original stretch painting from "The Haunted Mansion" attraction. For anyone familiar with the ride, the paintings that give the illusion of elongation as you stand in the elevator during the first part of the attraction are one of its standout features.
A photo of the original "Haunted Mansion" stretch painting up for auction.
"I love the Haunted Mansion painting. It's amazing — it's one of those rides that I've been on so many times that it's just iconic to me. As soon as I see it I know exactly what it is," he said.
An annual pass holder himself, Van Eaton says his passion for animated art often overlaps with his love for Disneyland.
"It's amazing to see what that park has and the effect it has on people," Van Eaton said.
The gallery has put on about four Disneyland-related auctions in the past year, attracting bidders from all over the country and world, who want a piece of that history.
Most of the pieces will start at a $50-100 bidding range, but he anticipates a majority of them will be sold in the $100-200 range. Some of the larger pieces, like the "Haunted Mansion" painting, can sell up to $50,000, but he said its estimated worth is around $35,000.
"The big thing about Disneyland is it crosses over many generations. I went there when I was a kid, so I had memories from it," Van Eaton said. "I take my kid there, so she has memories from it... It makes pieces from that park very important to people, very nostalgic and it's actually a piece of popular culture history. That's how much influence the park has had on the world."
The auction is on Nov. 19, live at the gallery, but it will also streamed online. If you can't make it in person, Disney fans can bid online, over the phone or fax.
Check out their 352-page catalog (!) below or at this link to see the full offering:
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November 21, 2012 - The Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) a poster child for corruption, and called for significant steps to improve the Authority's management of D.C. area transportation systems.
Chairman John L. Mica conducted a hearing on the Department of Transportation Inspector General's (DOT IG) recent audit highlighting problems with MWAA management policies, practices and programs.
"This is a sad chapter for Metropolitan Washington and advocates for good D.C. transportation," Mica said. "Information uncovered by the Inspector General revealed that MWAA has become a poster child for corrupt practices.
Mica also cited a news report that MWAA employees had been sounding alarms years before the DOT IG investigation. According to the Washington Examiner, comments from an employee survey in 2010 urged changes to the culture of management at MWAA by eliminating the "corruption," "favoritism," "nepotism," etc.
MWAA is an independent public body established by Congress and responsible for managing some of the Washington, DC region's major transportation systems and projects, including Dulles International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the Dulles Toll Road, and an ongoing extension of Metrorail to Dulles Airport. At the request of Congressmen Frank Wolf and Tom Latham, the DOT IG examined and found significant issues with MWAA's (1) contract award and procurement practices, including compliance with relevant laws, (2) code of ethics for employees, (3) hiring and compensation practices, and (4) accountability and transparency of its Board of Director activities.
Calvin L. Scovel, III, the Department's Inspector General, testified at hearing, in addition to the Department Secretary Ray LaHood and MWAA's Chairman of the Board of Directors Michael Curto. Scovel said in prepared testimony, "In summary, MWAA's policies and practices have not provided the controls needed to ensure accountability, transparency, and sound governance. MWAA's lack of internal controls has created a culture that allows questionable contracting practices by staff as well as its Board of Directors and senior officials including initiating work before contract award, awarding sole source and limited competition contracts without proper justification, and providing non-public information that gives potential contractors an unfair advantage in competition.
"While MWAA is taking positive steps to correct the deficiencies we identified, further actions are needed to fully address these deficiencies to ensure fiduciary and ethical responsibility and restore public trust in the soundness of its current and future activities," said Scovel. Leaders of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority reported they welcomed the Inspector General's report and will us it as an aid in improving transparency and accountability and Earning Public Trust.
The final report, which follows an Interim Report released in May, completes a 16-month audit that has prompted calls for improvements in areas including procurement, travel and ethics policies, human resources practices and transparency. Over the past months, the Authority has been engaged in a number of initiatives to review and revise policies and procedures across the organization.
"We take all the issues and concerns cited in the report very seriously and will respond to all of the report's recommendations," Authority Board Chairman Michael Curto said. "We are examining today's report with a particular focus on items that were not discussed in the Interim Report." Curto noted that the Authority is making significant progress addressing issues cited by the Inspector General, with several major policy revisions complete and others under way.
Curto emphasized that the Airports Authority has been working closely with a Federal Accountability Officer appointed by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to review and revamp policies and procedures and to address issues raised by LaHood, Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf.
"While the criticisms and issues raised have been unpleasant to hear and will require hard work to address we appreciate their interest and guidance, and we know they share our goal of making the Airports Authority a better organization." Airports Authority President and CEO Jack Potter noted that in the area of procurement, the Authority is "well into the process of revising our contracting manual and other procedures to reflect best practices and promote fair and open competition.
"In the area of human resources, we are moving forward with a process to ensure that at our hiring processes, our compensation and benefits structures to assure that they are consistent with our goal of best practices," Potter said, adding that the Board recently approved the airports police department's pursuit of regulatory approval for additional authority to conduct criminal background checks to aid the personnel process.


A simple way for me to share one of my passions, riding a motorcycle.
100 Mile loop starting at the Turkey Hill near my house and ending at the same. (NOT RIDEN YET) CLICK HERE to open this in google maps and to use your phone as a GPS. You must change the "Start" address to be your location in order to begin the route.
This great Ohio loop is sometimes referred to as the Tail of the Dragon's little cousin. CLICK HERE open this in google maps and to use your phone as a GPS. You must change the "Start" address to be your location in order to begin the route.


Between 6 November and 22 December, Young Landmarkers will enjoy an exclusive 20% discount on stays at Obriss Farm and Culloden Tower. To redeem your discount, please ring our Booking Enquires team on 01628 825 925 and quote the code YLM1017.
Obriss Farm, with its original brick and timber-framed buildings dating from as early as the 16th century, offers a haven of countryside tranquility at a convenient distance from London. With the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on your doorstep, Obriss Farm is perfect for a retreat from the bustle of the city, where you can experience the history of a bygone way-of-life, and of the ancient woodlands that surround this peaceful place.
Culloden Tower is a magnificent Landmark close to the beautiful market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire. Originally called the Cumberland Temple, Culloden Tower was built by John Yorke as a monument to celebrate the victory of the Duke of Cumberland's army over Bonnie Prince Charlie near Inverness in April 1746. Inside, two bright octagonal rooms at the top of the four storey tower are flooded with daylight, and contain a rich mix of Gothic and Classical carving and plasterwork. Situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, and with the River Swale within sight and earshot, it is perfectly located for setting out on some frosty autumn or winter walks in this beautiful part of the countryside.


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I read an interview with the band The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart where they said they would like to be The Exploding Hearts whose amazing album Guitar Romantic is some of the best power-pop/punk ever recorded. Unfortunately (as was stated in the interview) the band is no more with most of its members perishing in an automobile accident in 2003. While TPOBPAH have more of a soft indie vibe to things, The #1's have really crafted the second Exploding Hearts record, complete with poppy punk, tales of late night relationships woes and a bouncing low end.
The band hails from Dublin, Ireland and may have never heard of the Portland, Oregon group but the similarities are striking and a bit detrimental to this outfit if they are looking to stake out their own turf. That said there isn't really a lot of area or new space to be found in the power pop realm and The #1's have solidly nailed all the best traits of the genre on their first effort which should be commended.
The propulsive "Heartsmash" is the first single from the band and in under 2 minutes gives you the summation of what is in store for a listener. Clanging guitars, a bassline that moves all over the track, a quick scream/drum break and brokenhearted feelings of adventure. All the songs run short showing off their energy without getting cluttered.
One issue that keeps popping up though is the vocal effects which makes the lyrics muffled. A track like "Sharon Shouldn't" has this issue as do others and having confidence in the singing while peeling back the microphone tricks would make for a better overall listen.
Picking on these issues though doesn't take away from the overall fun ride this debut album is. In fact if the worst thing you can really say about a release is that it to closely reminds of a masterpiece, things are pretty rad.


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The Auschwitz registry (Hauptbücher) shows that 20,946 Roma were registered prisoners,[145] and another 3,000 are thought to have entered unregistered.[146] On 22 March 1943, one transport of 1,700 Polish Sinti and Roma was gassed on arrival because of illness, as was a second group of 1,035 on 25 May 1943.[145] The SS tried to liquidate the camp on 16 May 1944, but the Roma fought them, armed with knives and iron pipes, and the SS retreated. Shortly after this, the SS removed nearly 2,908 from the family camp to work, and on 2 August 1944 gassed the other 2,897. Ten thousand remain unaccounted for.[147]
As of right now though, it's uncertain whether Fiennes will ever get the chance to reprise his role. The only movies exploring the Wizarding World currently are the Fantastic Beasts films, which take place in 1927. Voldemort was born in 1926, so even if there would be a substantial time jump, Fiennes might be too old to play Voldemort. But at least we know that he is dedicated to the character, and that if Voldemort ever did come back, fans could count on him to jump right back into the role.
Known as block 13 until 1941, block 11 of Auschwitz I was the prison within the prison, where violators of the numerous rules were punished. To extract information from them, guards would hold inmates' heads held against the stove, burning their faces and eyes. Some prisoners were made to spend the nights in standing cells. Measuring 1.5 m2 (16 sq ft), the cells held four men who could do nothing but stand, and who were forced the following day to work as usual.[136] In other cells, inmates were subjected to hanging with their hands behind their backs, thus dislocating their shoulder joints. In the basement were the "dark cells", which had only a 5 x 5 cm opening and a solid door. Prisoners placed in these cells gradually suffocated as they ran out of oxygen; sometimes the SS lit a candle in the cell to use up the oxygen more quickly.[137]
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
The resistance sent out the first oral message about Auschwitz with Dr. Aleksander Wielkopolski, a Polish engineer who was released in October 1940.[201] The following month the Polish underground in Warsaw prepared a report on the basis of that information, The camp in Auschwitz, part of which was published in London in May 1941 in a booklet, The German Occupation of Poland, by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The report said of the Jews in the camp that "scarcely any of them came out alive". According to Fleming, the booklet was "widely circulated amongst British officials". The Polish Fortnightly Review based a story on it, writing that "three crematorium furnaces were insufficient to cope with the bodies being cremated", as did The Scotsman on 8 January 1942, the only British news organization to do so.[202]
The first such extermination camps were introduced during Operation Reinhardt, which targeted the elimination of the Jewish people within the General Government of Occupied Poland and Ukraine. After the first killing center open at Chelmno, the use of these extermination tactics spread quickly. At the height of deportations, the Birkenau killing center murdered 6,000 Jews a day.
Schindler's most effective tool in this privately conceived rescue campaign was the privileged status his plant enjoyed as a "business essential to the war effort" as accorded him by the Military Armaments Inspectorate in occupied Poland. This not only qualified him to obtain lucrative military contracts, but also enabled him to draw on Jewish workers who were under the jurisdiction of the SS. When his Jewish employees were threatened with deportation to Auschwitz by the SS, he could claim exemptions for them, arguing that their removal would seriously hamper his efforts to keep up production essential to the war effort. He did not balk at falsifying the records, listing children, housewives, and lawyers as expert mechanics and metalworkers, and, in general, covering up as much as he could for unqualified or temporarily incapacitated workers.
In a blitzkrieg, tanks and troop-transport vehicles were concentrated, and massive attacks by dive bombers were conducted on enemy front-line positions. When these forces had broken through, they continued deep into enemy territory, encircling and cutting off the enemy. The techniques were first developed by the German army late in World War I in an effort to overcome static trench warfare, but the Germans lacked the mobility to succeed. Between the wars, armored tactics were further developed by Basil Liddell Hart and J. F. C. Fuller in Britain, Charles de Gaulle in France, and Heinz Guderian in Germany. Made chief of German mobile troops in 1938, Guderian led the drive across France in 1940.
The Texas Senator upset that holocaust denier, Arthur Jones has won the Republican nomination for Illinois third Congressional district. — Fox News, "Judge Jeanine: The rise of socialism," 1 July 2018 In 1947, with immigration quotas still in existence, the SS Exodus, a boat carrying holocaust survivors who intended to migrate to Mandatory Palestine, was boarded by British forces, who killed three and returned the rest to refugee camps in Europe. — Billy Perrigo, Time, "Prince William Is Visiting the Middle East. Here's What to Know About Britain's Controversial Role in Shaping the Region," 25 June 2018 As the son of a Polish holocaust survivor, the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart wrenching,' Cohen wrote. — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, "Like Bush and Obama, Trump gets stuck on immigration," 21 June 2018 According to holocaust historian Eric Saul, about 20 scouts of the 522nd Field Artillery entered Dachau's 'Camp X' finding the crematoria and gas chambers. — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, "Survivors thank 'strange' liberators," 18 Apr. 2018 In the book, the protagonist — a black female — wakes up 250 years after a nuclear holocaust, to find that humans have been rescued by aliens with three genders. — Billy Perrigo, Time, "Octavia E. Butler, Who Brought Diversity to the World of Science Fiction, Honored With Google Doodle," 22 June 2018 As the son of a Polish holocaust survivor, the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart wrenching. — Monique Judge, The Root, "Is Michael Cohen About to Flip on Trump?," 20 June 2018 So, yeah, one of the North Korean team members led the world to a nuclear holocaust [but] that's a truly impactful moment for that kid. — Mark Harris, Ars Technica, "First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education," 25 June 2018 To be sure, the current U.S. moral crisis is no holocaust and IBM's deep involvement in customizing its punch card technology for the Nazis stands out like a red flag compared to a simple government cloud services contract. — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, "Data Sheet—Tech Industry Condemns Migrant Child Separation Policy. But What Will They Actually Do About It?," 20 June 2018
In the German parliament, the Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, gained popularity. The number of seats Nazis controlled in the parliament rose from 12 in 1928 to 230 in 1932, making them the largest political party. The strong showing guaranteed the Nazi party would need to be part of any political coalition. Believing he could check Hitler's ambition, President Hindenburg reluctantly made Hitler the Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
Blitzkrieg's unique and completely flexible campaign structure puts you in control of deciding how your forces will fare in each of the major engagements that comprise three central Campaigns. Hardcore vets have the option of engaging the enemy immediately in a desperate struggle for battlefield dominance, or more cautious players can choose from pre-defined or unlimited randomly generated side missions as they gain experience, promotions and weapons upgrades as well as wear down the enemy before the central conflict.
Auschwitz, the largest and arguably the most notorious of all the Nazi death camps, opened in the spring of 1940. Its first commandant was Rudolf Höss (1900-47), who previously had helped run the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany. Auschwitz was located on a former military base outside OÅ›wiÄ™cim, a town in southern Poland situated near Krakow, one of the country's largest cities. During the camp's construction, nearby factories were appropriated and all those living in the area were forcibly ejected from their homes, which were bulldozed by the Nazis.
Oskar Schindler was a German who joined the Nazi Party for business reasons. Before the war, Schindler was known mainly for his interest in making quick money, drinking, and womanizing. Indeed, he saw the war at first as a chance to indulge in all three. Soon after the invasion of Poland, he came to the city of Kraków in search of business opportunities. With equal doses of bribery and charm, he managed to convince the Nazis that he was the right man to take over a failed cookware factory outside the city. He then proceeded to make a fortune turning out mess kits for German soldiers.
As discrimination against Jews increased, German law required a legal definition of a Jew and an Aryan. Promulgated at the annual Nazi Party rally in Nürnberg on September 15, 1935, the Nürnberg Laws—the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour and the Law of the Reich Citizen—became the centrepiece of anti-Jewish legislation and a precedent for defining and categorizing Jews in all German-controlled lands. Marriage and sexual relations between Jews and citizens of "German or kindred blood" were prohibited. Only "racial" Germans were entitled to civil and political rights. Jews were reduced to subjects of the state. The Nürnberg Laws formally divided Germans and Jews, yet neither the word German nor the word Jew was defined. That task was left to the bureaucracy. Two basic categories were established in November: Jews, those with at least three Jewish grandparents; and Mischlinge ("mongrels," or "mixed breeds"), people with one or two Jewish grandparents. Thus, the definition of a Jew was primarily based not on the identity an individual affirmed or the religion he or she practiced but on his or her ancestry. Categorization was the first stage of destruction.
On January 20, 1942, several top officials of the German government met to officially coordinate the military and civilian administrative branches of the Nazi system to organize a system of mass murder of the Jews. This meeting, called the Wannsee Conference, "marked the beinning of the full-scale, comprehensive extermination operation [of the Jews] and laid the foundations for its organization, which started immediately after the conference ended" (Yahil, The Holocaust, p. 318).
Corum continues: General Walther Wever compiled a doctrine known as The Conduct of the Aerial War. This document, which the Luftwaffe adopted, rejected Giulio Douhet's theory of terror bombing. Terror bombing was deemed to be "counter-productive", increasing rather than destroying the enemy's will to resist. Such bombing campaigns were regarded as diversion from the Luftwaffe's main operations; destruction of the enemy armed forces. The bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam and Warsaw were tactical missions in support of military operations and were not intended as strategic terror attacks.[139]
In Autumn 1943, the camp administration was reorganized following a corruption scandal. By the end of 1943, the prisoner population of Auschwitz main camp, Birkenau, Monowitz and other sub-camps was over 80,000: 18,437 in the main camp, 49,114 in Birkenau, and 13,288 at Monowitz where I G Farben had its synthetic rubber plant. Up to 50,000 prisoners were scattered around 51 sub-camps such as Rajsko, an experimental agricultural station, and Gleiwitz, a coal mine (see The List of the Camps for a complete list of those sub-camps).
Several SS personnel oversaw the killings at each gas chamber, while the bulk of the work was done by the mostly Jewish prisoners known as Sonderkommandos (special squads).[91][92] Hungarian doctor Miklós Nyiszli reported that the Sonderkommando numbered around 860 prisoners when the Hungarian Jews were being killed in May–July 1944.[93] Their responsibilities included removing goods and corpses from the incoming trains, guiding victims to the dressing rooms and gas chambers, and working in the "Canada" barracks, where the victims' possessions were stored.[94] Housed separately from other prisoners, in somewhat better conditions, their quality of life was further improved by access to the goods taken from murdered prisoners, which they were sometimes able to steal and trade on Auschwitz's black market.[95] Many Sonderkommandos committed suicide in response to the horrors of their work; others were generally shot by the SS in a matter of weeks. New Sonderkommando units were formed from incoming transports. Almost none of the 2,000 prisoners placed in these units survived to the camp's liberation.[96]
Once the strategic Schwerpunkt had been identified, the attack could commence, using the concept of Kesselschlacht ("cauldron battle"). A frontal attack would immobilize the enemy while forces on the flanks would execute a double envelopment, forming a pocket called a Kessel ("cauldron") around the enemy. Once surrounded, the opposing army, demoralized and with no chance of escape, would face the choice of annihilation or surrender.
^ Some of the military historians who consider Operation Citadel, or at least the southern pincer, as envisioning a blitzkrieg attack or state it was intended as such are: Lloyd Clark (Clark 2012, p. 187), Roger Moorhouse (Moorhouse 2011, p. 342), Mary Kathryn Barbier (Barbier 2002, p. 10), David Glantz (; Glantz & House 2004, pp. 63, 78, 149, 269, 272, 280), Jonathan House (Glantz & House 2004, pp. 63, 78, 149, 269, 272, 280), Hedley Paul Willmott (Willmott 1990, p. 300), Oscar Pinkus (Pinkus 2005, p. 35) and others.
The core principle behind Blitzkrieg was to concentrate the force on a single point. The German called this penetration or breakthrough, and its purpose was to rupture enemy defenses. The main objective: apply overwhelming force at a weak point in the enemy line to force an opening. This opening functions as the first stage of tactical deep battle in its Blitzkrieg form, and it was so effective that the Germans often referred to it as "the beginning of the end".
In March 1941, Himmler ordered a second, larger complex to be built next to the original camp. It was called Auschwitz II - Birkenau. The camp at Birkenau was divided into subsections surrounded by electric fences with barbed wire. During 1943 and 1944 the BIIb section became the location of the "Terezín family camp". At its summit, Birkenau had over 100 000 inmates. In March 1942, the Auschwitz III camp was set up at nearby Monowitz, also known as Buna Monowitz. German company I.G. Farben set up a synthetic rubber factory there, in which it used the prisoners' slave labour. Auschwitz also had a further 45 auxiliary camps, where prisoners were forced to engage in slave labour, mostly for German companies.
To more than 1200 Jews Oscar Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. A man full of flaws like the rest of us - the unlikeliest of all role models who started by earning millions as a war profiteer and ended by spending his last pfennig and risking his life to save his Jews. An ordinary man who even in the worst of circumstances did extraordinary things, matched by no one. He remained true to his Jews, the workers he referred to as my children. In the shadow of Auschwitz he kept the SS out and everyone alive.
^ Many of the German participants of Operation Citadel made no mention of blitzkrieg in their characterisation of the operation. Several German officers and commanders involved in the operation wrote their account of the battle after the war, and some of these postwar accounts were collected by the US Army. Some of these officers are: Theodor Busse (Newton 2002, pp. 3–27), Erhard Raus (Newton 2002, pp. 29–64), Friedrich Fangohr (Newton 2002, pp. 65–96), Peter von der Groeben (Newton 2002, pp. 97–144), Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin (Mellenthin 1956, pp. 212–234), Erich von Manstein (Manstein 1983, pp. 443–449), and others.
Greetings to everybody, I will be visiting Krakow in September for 5 days in order to attend a wedding and also to meet some colleagues. I am an Indian, however, before moving to India I have lived and worked in Germany. I can speak fluent German. Would just like to have one piece of advice from any one of you please, if possible. I know for a fact that I will start to weep and cry if I go to Auschwitz (Oswiecim at present). At times people call me very German by the way I speak. Is it advisable for a person like me to visit the place, though I know that I will weep and tears will flow out from my eyes like heavy rainfalls. I hope it is not a matter of shame to call my self a German Speaker. Would be grateful to someone's advice on this. Best Regards,
The gas chambers in the Auschwitz complex constituted the largest and most efficient extermination method employed by the Nazis. Four chambers were in use at Birkenau, each with the potential to kill 6,000 people daily. They were built to look like shower rooms in order to confuse the victims. New arrivals at Birkenau were told that they were being sent to work, but first needed to shower and be disinfected. They would be led into the shower-like chambers, where they were quickly gassed to death with the highly poisonous Zyklon B gas.
In September 1939, the German army occupied the western half of Poland. German police soon forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews from their homes and into ghettoes, giving their confiscated properties to ethnic Germans (non-Jews outside Germany who identified as German), Germans from the Reich or Polish gentiles. Surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, the Jewish ghettoes in Poland functioned like captive city-states, governed by Jewish Councils. In addition to widespread unemployment, poverty and hunger, overpopulation made the ghettoes breeding grounds for disease such as typhus.


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module RuboCop
  module Cop
    module Style
      # This cop checks uses of the `then` keyword
      # in multi-line when statements.
      #
      # @example
      #   # bad
      #   case foo
      #   when bar then
      #   end
      #
      #   # good
      #   case foo
      #   when bar
      #   end
      #
      #   # good
      #   case foo
      #   when bar then do_something
      #   end
      #
      class MultilineWhenThen < Cop
        include RangeHelp

        MSG = 'Do not use `then` for multiline `when` statement.'

        def on_when(node)
          # Without `then`, there's no offense
          return unless node.then?

          # Single line usage of `then` is not an offense
          return if !node.children.last.nil? && !node.multiline? && node.then?

          # With more than one statements after then, there's not offense
          return if node.children.last&.begin_type?

          add_offense(node, location: :begin)
        end

        def autocorrect(node)
          lambda do |corrector|
            corrector.remove(
              range_with_surrounding_space(
                range: node.loc.begin, side: :left, newlines: false
              )
            )
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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