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How to Spot a Salesperson from a Million Miles Away
Adam Honig
I'm not saying that all salespeople are the same, but generally, there are a lot of commonalities between most salespeople. This makes it easy to spot a salesperson in a crowd.
Here are the 8 ways to spot a salesperson from a million miles away:
1. They're Probably on Their Cellphone
It's true. Salespeople take their cellphones with them everywhere we go. Salespeople tend to have a hard time getting away from work, be it their own unwavering sales work ethic, or the constant demands that a salesperson faces in their daily life. Sometimes this means that they need to take an unexpected call while they're out to brunch. You gotta do what you gotta do to close a deal, which is why you need to have a CRM with full mobile functionality, so you can work whenever, wherever!
2. They're Oozing Confidence
Cool, calm, and collected: the perfect description for a salesperson. There's a reason for that. If you're confident in your product, the person on the other end of the call will be too. And, this confidence translates to daily life as well. Salespeople tend to walk around with their chin up, ready to face the world. A salesperson could walk into a party without knowing a single person, and walk out with a whole group of new friends.
3. They're "Brushing The Dirt off Their Shoulder"
As stated by one of the great intellectual figures of our time, Jay-Z, salespeople know that you need to "get, that, dirt off your shoulder." A salesperson hears the word "no" more than just about anyone in any other career. This means that they develop some pretty thick skin. So, when they're going about their daily life, and something goes wrong, it just means that they're going to try again (and again, and again), with double the effort. That guy on your softball team that went from not being able to hit the ball, to becoming the King of Grand Slams? Probably a salesperson.
4. They're Smiling All the Time
No salesperson has gotten very far by thinking that every call they make is going to be a disaster. The most successful salespeople expect that each time they pick up the phone, they're going to close a deal. Obviously this isn't always the case, but the mindset goes a long way. It's pretty typical that great salespeople "smile and dial," to get into the right mindset before actually making the call. Your friends who aren't in sales may think you're crazy for being so positive all the time, but it's just natural when you choose the sales life.
5. They're Helping a Little Old Lady Cross the Street
One of the main drivers that bring people into sales is the desire to help others. The stereotype of the greedy salesperson couldn't be further from the truth. That guy at the grocery store helping the older woman carry her groceries to her car is pretty likely to be a salesperson. We can't help it, providing solutions and being helpful is second nature for people in sales.
6. They're Surrounded by People
Salespeople thrive off of interacting with others. Like in the old saying, salespeople are always "holding court," with a huge crowd of people around them. It's pretty likely that if you see a bunch of people crowded around a single person, and that person is a salesperson. Salespeople know how to talk to just about anyone, and to capture their attention. Spot a crowd, and you'll spot a salesperson standing in the middle of it.
7. They Look Put Together
Salespeople know the importance of first impressions, so they always are looking their best. Who knows when they might meet a great new prospect? This doesn't mean that they spend all their time in suits, but salespeople always make sure to stay well-groomed and well-dressed. Appearance isn't everything, but having food on your shirt and your fly undone doesn't exactly translate to tons of closed deals. When you spot an effortlessly stylish woman walking down the street, she's probably a salesperson.
8. They're Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies
Like good politicians, salespeople are always building relationships. After all, sales is built upon human relationships. They know how to network and cast their net wide. Although they aren't looking for you to vote for them, they do know the importance of pleasing their constituents and making everyone feel like their voice is heard.
Republished with author's permission from original post.
Categories: Blog • Sales Performance
Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spiro Technologies. He is a recognized thought-leader in sales process and effectiveness, and has previously co-founded three successful technology companies: Innoveer Solutions, C-Bridge, and Open Environment. He is best known for speaking at various conferences including Dreamforce, for pioneering the 'No Jerks' hiring model, and for flying his drone while traveling the world.
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I was thinking the other day about amazing books, you know the ones, those books that you just cant put down because you're so into the story and the characters and you need to know what happens next… and I realised that they have a huge downfall for me and I thought I'd share, cos I'm kind like that!
The one big downfall Ive noticed is that whenever I finish an amazing book I have a book slump straight after it, nothing compares for ages and it is sometimes a terrible feeling! This was definitely the case last week, I finished Pink by Lile Wilkinson, I loved it so, so much and I couldnt put it down, finished it in a few hours and wwas left in awe… so what did I do next, I went to pick out another book, thought I'd get my pile of netgalley books down a bit and read one of those, I picked Zero by Tom Leveen and started reading. I read about five pages but couldnt stop thinking about Pink and its awesomeness, I couldnt get into Zero and didnt even want to read it. It took me four days to get 30% into Zero, which is terrible for me. Then I gave up.
I think part of it was the fact that Zero really wasn't a great book, I probably would have struggled with it even if it didnt have to live up to Pink, but still, it didnt have a chance. I have had this problem a few times and often have to read quick reads that I know I'll enjoy but will be over fast, or books that I think will match the previous book, after an amazing one. I think after I read divergent I picked up Ten Things We did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) because I knew Id love it in a different way, and then after the two of them I picked up The Considine Curse because I knew it would be a quick, enjoyable read to get me over the awe.
I thought I'd share this with you and ee if anyone else feels the same, do you read something that totally blows your mind and then struggle with your next book? I know its a bad comparison as I probably wouldn't have finished Zero anyway but still, I know it was made worse because of how much I loved Pink!
That's a really valid point. I find it the other way. If I read something awesome I tend to read a few more fab books after it. But if I read something I don't particularly enjoy I struggle with the next books unless they are mind blowing.
I am the same as Emma. If I have read something awesome, I definitely head straight into the next fab book.
Yeah I totally get you. I read the Demon's Lexicon series by sarah rees brennan for the first time over a week ago and it was SO good that it's sent me into an immense bookslump. I seriously have only re-read books since then…I tried to read shattered dreams off netgalley and was just not enjoying it. I think this is especially relevant for book bloggers b/c it might affect our reviews if we read like this! I think reading stuff we'll love for a diff reason, like a contemp followed by a fast paced dystopian is a great idea tho!


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Handling Data Breaches in Your Business
Last updated on 01 July 2022 by Nicole Olsen (PrivacyPolicies.com Legal writer)
Data breaches have been a concern since the dawn of the internet, but they become a bigger issue with every passing day and every new breach.
During the first six months of 2019 alone, over 3,800 data breaches put 4.1 billion records at risk, and those are just the security events that were publicly disclosed. What's even more worrisome is that only eight of those breaches exposed 3.2 billion of the records.
Although it tends to be the bigger breaches that make the news, you shouldn't assume that the size of your business means you're not on someone's radar, particularly if you use cloud-based applications for core procedures.
Every business - big or small, tech or not - needs to have an understanding of what data breaches are, how they happen, and how to handle them if they happen to you. We cover all this and more in our guide below.
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1. What are the Most Common Data Breaches?
1.1. Cyber Attacks
1.2. Employee Data Theft
1.3. Human Error
1.4. Theft/Loss of Property
2. How to Avoid Data Breaches
2.1. Use Encryption
2.2. Choose Multi-Factor Authentication Methods
2.3. Schedule Employee Training
3. How to Respond to Security Incidents
3.1. Investigate the Breach ASAP
3.1.1. Do You Have an Incident Response Plan?
3.2. Let Those Affected Know (Internally and Externally)
3.2.1. Do You Need to Report Your Breach to Regulators?
3.3. Keep Records and Update Your Response Plans
4. Are You Ready for a Data Breach?
What are the Most Common Data Breaches?
Before diving into the most common data breaches, it's important to understand what a data breach is.
Basically, it's an incident where sensitive, protected, or confidential personal information and personal data has potentially been accessed, stolen, or used without authorization.
Revisiting this definition is important because society commonly associates data breaches with criminality. There's a good chance that your understanding of a breach is an external actor with an ulterior motive who breaks into your data systems to steal or reveal something.
In reality, data breaches can be internal or external, and they can be malicious or negligent (or both). Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations report found that around half of all security incidents happen as a result of someone inside your company.They can even be an accident!
The wide scope of data breaches are why laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (the law covering healthcare organizations and patient data) govern not only hacks and encryption but poor password control and the unauthorized sharing of data.
So what are the most common types of data breaches?
Employee data theft
Theft/loss of property
Let's take a deeper look at each.
Cyber attacks are the most famous data breaches for good reason. They're increasingly common, and unlike the other types of data breaches, they're increasingly difficult to protect yourself against.
Hackers and other malicious actors can attack your systems and cause a data breach through:
Social engineering (imitating employees, etc.)
Employee data thefts/leaks are far more common than you might think or expect. The same 2015 Verizon report noted earlier found that 30 percent of data breaches caused by employees is usually a mistake, but 20 percent fall under the umbrella of misuse.
Employees might steal data for any number of reasons. The healthcare sector struggles with personal information theft used for stealing patient identities. In other cases, an employee might take data from a work product and bring it with them to their new employer.
Human error is a force to be reckoned with, and depending on who you ask, it's behind somewhere between 25 and 90 percent of all U.S. data breaches. The potential for human error grows as our data systems become more complicated: if all your data is in-house, the pool of potential candidates is small. But as more businesses move their data to third-party cloud-based services, the number of people whose mistakes can cost your business its security grows, too.
Unfortunately, many of these errors are ridiculously easy to commit. Attaching the wrong document, clicking a sketchy link, poor password hygiene, or CC'ing the wrong person in an email can all cause data breaches.
However, simplicity also means that these breaches are avoidable. While that's devastating if you have already suffered a spate of them, it also means preventing them in the future isn't as difficult as it sounds.
The final common type of data breach is the theft or loss of property containing credentials or sensitive information.
Why doesn't this fall under human error? Because it can be the result of carelessness, but it can also be unavoidable, particularly if the loss was a targeted one.
While thefts and losses aren't always preventable, the damage can be mitigated long before the phone or computer goes missing through common technologies. For example, iPhones are now difficult to penetrate because when the appropriate settings are in place, the owner can wipe the phone remotely if it falls into the wrong hands.
How to Avoid Data Breaches
Frankly, if you use the internet, some data breaches are unavoidable. While you should always take the appropriate measures to protect your data and resources, there is no 100% foolproof method for avoiding data breaches.
Your best chance is to follow appropriate security protocols for the category and volume of data you work with. However, because data breaches are so often the cause of human error, you need to do more than install an antivirus or a comprehensive security suite. Security is both a product and a culture.
At a minimum, you should be:
Using encryption
Training employees on best practices (regularly)
Use Encryption
Do you have personally identifiable data or highly-sensitive data? It should be encrypted to an appropriate standard.
You don't have to treat it like it's a state secret, but you do need to make sure that no one can read it if it falls into the wrong hands.
If you handle certain types of data, then you may need to follow prescriptive encryption measures. Though, these largely apply to the financial and healthcare sectors as well as public bodies and government organizations.
Choose Multi-Factor Authentication Methods
Multi-factor authentication is probably the most effective way to protect your organization from outside attacks.
In short, multi-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security beyond the password. The layer in question depends on the system you use: some use biometrics and others use other technological means of verification.
Multi-factor authentication helps make up for poor password hygiene (weak passwords, shared passwords, etc.). It also alerts you if there is an attempted breach and highlights the potential entry point, which gives your IT provider (either in-house or a managed service) a helpful starting point when preventing and investigating the breach.
Schedule Employee Training
Employee security training is your first line of defense against all types of data breaches, but it is too often overlooked in favor of expensive software and prayers.
Both your new employees and current staff need this training. In fact, you should make it part of your onboarding process during hiring to ensure that all employees start off on the right foot on day one.
Comprehensive and regular security training for employees not only prevents the constant barrage of preventable employee disclosures. It also protects your business from socially engineered attacks (where an outside actor manipulates the employee into the breach).
What does your training need to include? At a minimum, it should include the following topics:
Threat overview
Password policies (best practices and company policy)
Web browser protection
Remember that you should escalate your training based on the type of data you handle.
If you are a covered entity under HIPAA or you hold valuable personal information, then you should provide more in-depth and regular training sessions.
How to Respond to Security Incidents
Your response to a cybersecurity incident is as important as your approach to preventing one. It reflects both an attempt to mitigate the damage further and to take responsibility for what happened.
What should you do? Here are a few steps organizations of all sizes can take.
Investigate the Breach ASAP
Big or small, you should be investigating every breach that makes it past your security barriers. You might think this is the obvious thing to do, but you might also be surprised at how tempting it is to bury your head in the sand as if nothing happened.
When the Target breach happened in 2013, reports said that the company "declined to act" on an early alert provided by its security software. That credit card breach was the second largest data heist ever. The company spokeswoman was then forced to go on the record and say, "With the benefit of hindsight, we are investigating whether if different judgments had been made the outcome may have been different."
Investigating breaches quickly and thoroughly not only mitigates the damage but prevents further destruction of your reputation if the worst happens.
Customers understand that breaches happen. But they don't want to hear that you didn't take their data seriously enough to investigate them.
Do You Have an Incident Response Plan?
You're going to investigate more than one security breach during your tenure. Ideally, you will complete your investigations according to your organization's incident response plan.
An incident response plan is a formal process that helps your team identify, respond to, and move on from security breaches. These cover not only breaches but also service outages, and it should be unique to your organization by covering:
Summary of resources
Network/data recovery processes
Communications processes
Using this document allows your team to work systematically and uniformly in a crisis (and a security breach is a crisis).
Let Those Affected Know (Internally and Externally)
With an understanding of what happened and when, you are then free to share your information with the affected parties. You can do this with a Data Breach Notification Letter.
You should be open and sincere. If there was any fault on your side, accept responsibility.
You don't need to share all the dirty details of the breach, but you should at least tell people:
What type of data breach occurred
How many records were affected
What types of data were affected
What data subjects can do to mitigate losses on their own (change passwords, use identity protection programs, monitor credit reports, etc.)
What you intend to do to mitigate the damage
How you intend to prevent the issue from occuring again
All this also needs to be shared internally with the relevant parties. Employees should know what happened and when both in case their data was caught up in the breach but also to answer questions from clients and customers.
Do You Need to Report Your Breach to Regulators?
Does your business need to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? If so, then you may have an extra reporting step to take.
GDPR-compliant organizations must report specific types of personal data breaches to supervisory authorities within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach.
You don't need to report every breach to regulators. However, if the breach is likely to "adversely affect individuals' rights and freedoms," then reporting is required.
For example, if someone in your organization sends a single email that misuses a limited amount of data, then you typically won't need to report the breach, unless the data is health-related or it's a special category of data (related to criminal convictions). You also need to inform the people it affected.
However, if you have a Target-style breach (massive and resulting in issues like identity theft) that impacts European customers, then you need to report it right away.
You must also keep records of all data breaches, including those that you don't need to report.
Are you subject to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
The CCPA comes with penalties for breaches/unauthorized actions. The bill allows the state to penalize companies with fines of $100-$750 per consumer per incident, but it also allows for actual damages (whichever is greater).
However, if you fall under the jurisdiction of the CCPA, you should be prepared for reporting requirements to change as the state tinkers with the law over the next few years.
Keep Records and Update Your Response Plans
With your investigation complete and clients notified, it's time to make sure you keep records of the event.
These records are critical for your own security practices and in the event that your situation goes from bad to worse and you find yourself under the scrutiny of regulators or in a civil suit.
You should be updating your other work processes (including your response plan) based on the results of the investigation.
Are You Ready for a Data Breach?
As data breaches continue to grow in number and severity, it's important for businesses of all types and sizes to protect themselves and their customers from data loss or theft. Moreover, it's critical to understand that even if the size of your business may not make you a valuable target to hackers, data breaches very often come from inside your company.
A culture of security and transparency can help any company get through the worst data breach. By preparing for the worst, investigating breaches when they happen, and communicating with stakeholders, you can minimize both the effects of a breach and the damage to your reputation.
Conduct a privacy law self-audit to make sure you're prepared.
Nicole Olsen
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Play of the Week 33
This week, I'm afraid I have to give the POTW to the USGA. Typically, I am not a fan of the US Open. When I've watched the tournament in years past, I've typically found it to be rather boring for a number of reasons. In most cases, it is pointlessly difficult, to where even the best in the world can make nothing of the courses (Oakmont, 2007; Shinnecock, 2004). In many cases, the winner is boring or surprising–as if we were playing the John Deere classic instead of a Major (e.g., Lucas Glover 2009, Angel Cabrera 2007, Michael Campbell 2005, Reteif Goosen 2001/2004). Often, it's just a war of attrition, where the one player who's lucky enough to find his ball on every hole manages to sift through the gauntlet and survive the fray (GMac, 2010). Or, the tournament is just boring (McIlroy, 2011).
But every few years, the USGA gets it right. One of the most memorable tournaments I've ever watched was the US Open at Torrey Pines in 2008, where Tiger edged Rocco Mediate with a gutsy performance that just outlasted one of the most tenacious players in the game. Or 1999, where the image of Payne Stewart sinking a 20-foot putt to save par on the 72nd hole has become an icon of the game of golf. But in 1999, although the winning score was -1, the course played fairly. It showcased how the greatest in the world (a very young Tiger, a younger than now Phil) could play when the pressure cooker was on, and Payne's lasting legacy of 1-putting the last 3 holes to hold on was truly a riveting watch.
Like '08 and '99, this year, the USGA got it right. The US Open this year wasn't flashy. It was a simple test–a par 70, even. No water hazards to fly over, no forced carries, not even more than a few fairway bunkers. But Olympic Club was just right. The winning score a nice +1, with Webb Simpson coming out on top over Jim Furyk–trying to hold on–and Graeme McDowell, who charged in at the end but couldn't seal the deal. Webb posted his second 68 of the weekend hours before GMac and Furyk walked off the course, leaving the scene for great tension and excitement. Olympic was a true test–not just a slaughterhouse. It TESTED the best in the world, but the test could be passed. Players didn't complain that it was unfair or say that it was too penal. Instead, they went about their business, and the winner played under par both rounds on the weekend. When was the last time you said that about a US Open winner? (well, other than 2011, when Rors was on an absolute tear, but who else?) And, for the second time this year, the winner of a major has come from a pairing other than the final group, which is some welcome excitement that we don't often see.
I'm not saying this was as exciting as the Masters is every year, or that the US Open is no longer my least favorite of the majors. What the USGA typically does to the players isn't right, on any level. But this year, the course was what a true test should be. When a player masters that test, he should get the trophy, and Webb did. So, to the USGA, we solute you. And, to Webb Simpson, congrats on passing the test.
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Failing St. Bridge
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Here's a quick slideshow of the Failing St. pedestrian bridge over Interstate 5, in Northeast Portland. I admit I included this bridge mostly for the name, since it's not too photogenic on its own, and I don't usually bother with giving overpasses their own blog posts. It's named for Josiah Failing, a pioneer-era businessman and the 4th mayor of Portland in 1853-54. I could swear that when I was a kid, the freeway sign naming the bridge just called it "Failing Bridge". I could be misremembering that. There was also a "Failing School" in SW Portland at one point, a building that's now home to the local naturopathic college, and "Failing School" sounds at least as shady as "Failing Bridge". At least he's merited two more commemorations than another unfortunately-named early pioneer, one Stephen Coffin. (Poor Mr. Coffin doesn't even have his own Wikipedia article, I see. I'd be happy to write about him, but I can't do that until they name a park after him or put up a statue or something; them's the rules here, I'm afraid.)
Searching for info about the bridge returns a lot of fun random results thanks to the terms "failing" and "bridge" in the query, like Wikipedia's List of Bridge Failures. And, of course, the video of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge doing its thing.
There's more to the story of this bridge than a funny name and random search results, however. A quarter century ago, this part of Portland was a very different place, and the Failing St. bridge was the center of an ugly controversy we'd be wise to remember in the rapidly gentrifying Portland of 2014.
Interstate 5 sliced through NE Portland in 1963, replacing the former Minnesota Avenue. (The previous link includes a photo of the Failing St. bridge in its original configuration.) Like other urban freeway projects of the era, it divided neighborhoods, cut residents off from parks and local businesses, lowered property values, and generally had a negative impact on existing parts of the city, all for the convenience of commuters from distant suburbs. The NE Portland stretch of I-5 was built with few overpasses; only certain major streets have them, and all other east-west streets dead end at the freeway. In the neighborhood around Failing St., I-5 became a neighborhood boundary, with the Overlook neighborhood to the west, and Boise to the east. No street nearby was busy enough to merit a full overpass, so the state just built this one little footbridge and called it good. After the freeway came the two divided neighborhoods went on very different trajectories.
By the late 1980s and early 90s, NE Portland, and the Boise neighborhood in particular, were synonymous with crime and poverty. The Overlook neighborhood, just across the freeway, was a significantly wealthier (and whiter) neighborhood, and Overlook residents came to see the bridge as a crime enabler. The theory was that criminals would skulk across from the Boise side, wreak havoc on the respectable side of I-5, and then flee back to safety over the bridge. The bridge was supposedly ideal for this sort of thing because criminals could run across it, and police were unable to give chase thanks to the whole pedestrian-only thing. I can't seem to find the original Oregonian stories from 1991 about this, which is odd, but I clearly remember the episode. The city bought the argument and padlocked the bridge, and it remained closed for the next seven years, despite ever-falling crime rates and creeping gentrification across the way in Boise. I-5 became Overlook's own Great Wall of China (or Berlin Wall, or West Bank separation barrier), keeping the "undesirables" out of their corner of the city. Although people could still go a few blocks north and cross the Skidmore St. overpass instead, so it's not like closing the one here would thwart a determined criminal.
The usual story is that the Failing St. bridge finally reopened thanks to the coming of the MAX Yellow Line, but that's not precisely true. Around 1999, the state transportation department wanted to modernize this stretch of I-5, and concluded that several overpasses (including this one) were too low to meet contemporary standards. The state wasn't keen to spend $300k raising a padlocked pedestrian bridge, so the city had a choice to make: Either renovate it, make it ADA-compliant, and reopen it; or demolish it. An April 1999 Oregonian story indicated the city was seriously considering bringing in the wrecking ball. They polled local public opinion, which (they said) ran narrowly in favor of reopening the bridge. A 3/31/1999 Willamette Week article pointed out that local opinion was strongly divided along the usual lines (east vs. west, black vs. white, rich vs. poor). Nevertheless, a month later the city announced it would do the work and reopen the bridge, in part due to the future light rail line being proposed for Interstate Avenue. (i.e. today's Yellow Line). Since the MAX line opened, gentrification has had its way with the neighborhoods on both sides of the freeway; if anything, Boise is now the hip and trendy (and increasingly Caucasian) side. Case in point, I took these photos while heading to the Overlook MAX stop from a trendy brewpub on Mississippi or Williams Avenue. There are several such brewpubs in the area, and I've forgotten which one it was.
For what it's worth, the overpass-raising operation was an interesting bit of engineering. The state elected to raise the existing overpasses instead of replacing them, I suppose because it was less expensive and disruptive to traffic that way. They pulled this off with an intricate system of computer-controlled hydraulic jacks, described in an article titled "Technical Marvel Raises Overpasses". Oh, and they did it at night, to further avoid impacting commuters.
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Florence of America
University of Regina Press / 8 October 2019
Florence of America: A Feminist in the Age of McCarthyismby Florence Bean James, with Jean FreemanPublished by University of Regina PressReview by Keith Foster$24.95 ISBN 9780889776470 Florence of America: A Feminist in the Age of McCarthyism is the autobiography of Florence Bean James and her passionate struggle against oppression to establish quality theatre in North America. Part of The Regina Collection published by the University of Regina Press, Florence of America is a slightly condensed reprint of her earlier memoir, Fists Upon A Star. The new version has a more compact format – easy to carry in one's pocket and handy to pull out while sitting in waiting rooms. In her memoir, Florence recalls her exciting life. Starting out at the end of the First World War was difficult for her and her husband, Burton. The bedroom of their New York apartment was so small that once they moved the bed in, they couldn't close the door. Their rent was three dollars a week, plus quarters for the gas meter, and included cockroaches, which stayed rent-free. Working temporarily as a switchboard operator, Florence hid twelve dollars, her weekly salary, under some shelf paper in the kitchen cupboard. Next week, in…
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Back to Blakeney: Revitalizing the Democratic Stateedited by David McGrane, John D. Whyte, Roy Romanow, and Russell IsingerPublished by University of Regina PressReview by Keith Foster$34.95 ISBN 9780889776418 Back to Blakeney: Revitalizing the Democratic State is the political biography of Allan Blakeney, a political giant who served as Saskatchewan's tenth premier from 1971 to 1982. This 342-page volume stems directly from a 2015 conference held at the University of Saskatchewan in which fifteen academic essayists discussed and evaluated Blakeney's legacy to the democratic state in Canada. It's wholly appropriate that academics discuss Blakeney as he himself was an academic, achieving early distinction as a Rhodes scholar. As the subtitle suggests, this study harks back to Saskatchewan in the 1970s, a difficult but in some ways a better time. It was better because Blakeney stuck to his principles in trying times. The editors applaud Blakeney's "openness to other views" and "his ability to extend courtesy in debate" – rare phenomena in today's politics. In paying tribute to Blakeney's many achievements, this scholarly study reveals a certain slant in perception; the editors acknowledge that Blakeney was a personal friend of theirs. One of the essayists and editors is Roy Romanow, a former…


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The British imperial enterprise from the 18th century to the 20th, and particularly the frenzied rush to control African territories in the late 19th, afforded opportunities for employment and profit to many Irishmen. During that long span of imperial ambition, the British Army drew large numbers of recruits, as well as separately standing regiments, from countries other than England, Scotland and Ireland chief among them. In Joyce's Dublin, stories circulate of men who have joined the British armed forces, and also of unscrupulous individuals who have made obscene profits off the war machine.
In Eumaeus, Bloom thinks "Irish soldiers had as often fought for England as against her, more so in fact." At times in the 19th century, it was also true that more Irish troops were in uniform than English ones. The great famine of the late 1840s, and growing nationalism, reduced Irish enlistment from over 40 percent of the force earlier in the century to less than 10 percent by World War I, but the total numbers were still large. Nearly 30,000 Irishmen fought in the Second Boer War, just before the time represented in Ulysses.
At the end of Telemachus Mulligan learns that his friend Seymour has "Chucked medicine and [is] going in for the army." The swimmer who gives him this information about Seymour mentions that he saw a well-off girl named Lily "Spooning with him last night on the pier" (OED: "To make love, esp. in a sentimental or silly fashion"), and Mulligan asks, "Is she up the pole?" (OED: "pregnant but unmarried"). A pregnant girlfriend would explain Seymour's sudden decision to abandon his study of medicine and secure one of the few near-certain sources of gainful employment available to young men in 1904 Dublin.
In Nestor, Stephen thinks of one of his students' family as "Welloff people, proud that their eldest son was in the navy." In Lotus Eaters Bloom contemplates recruiting posters on the wall of the post office, and in Lestrygonians he thinks of young revolutionaries who quickly change their tune: "Few years' time half of them magistrates and civil servants. War comes on: into the army helterskelter." In Eumaeus, the old sailor calls Irish troops and sailors "the backbone of our empire," while the innkeeper retorts that "he cared nothing for any empire, ours or his, and considered no Irishman worthy of his salt that served it."
Both of the Blooms have lost companions in the Boer War. Ithaca mentions a school friend of Bloom's named Percy Apjohn who was "killed in action, Modder River," an engagement fought in the Cape Colony in November 1899. In Penelope Molly thinks of a young lieutenant that she flirted with in a very serious way at about the same time: "that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me." The chapter later makes clear that Gardner has died of the fever. In wars fought before the age of antibiotics, it was very common for more men to die of infectious diseases than injuries.
Craftier souls found ways of thriving without risking their necks. Mulligan says of Haines that "His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other"—jalap being a violent purgative obtained from the dried tuberous root of a Mexican vine of the morning-glory family. It should be noted that this story is probably pure invention. Trench's father apparently enjoyed a distinguished career in the army and was a scholar rather than a huckster; he published several military studies.
Areas of the African continent controlled by European colonial powers in 1914. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Taking of Kumasi in the Second Anglo-Ashanti War, 1874. Source: Illustrated London News.
1899 photograph of Boer citizen-soldiers in a trench at Mafeking, held in the Imperial War Museum, London. Source: Wikimedia Commons.


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Brighton and Hove Albion boss Hughton says Seagulls face tough test from in-form Leeds
Posted On 24 Feb 2015 at 5:58 pm
By : Frank le Duc
Chris Hughton said that Brighton and Hove Albion's visitors this evening (Tuesday 24 February) will present a tough test for the Seagulls.
The Albion boss said: "I expect a tough test. They're in good form, particularly away from home.
"It's one hell of an achievement to go away to the league leaders (Middlesbrough) as they did on the weekend and get a win.
"They were tested a lot there and they'll certainly be in a confident mood at the moment.
"I would expect a very tough game but that's probably the same every single week at the moment.
"I just hope that the confidence we would have got from the goals and the three points at the weekend will turn the game in our favour."
Albion beat Birmingham City 4-3 at the Amex on Saturday (21 February).
Hughton said: "I was only focusing on the positives after the game on Saturday.
"To be able to score four goals was a real positive, especially in the manner in which we did it.
"I don't think there was anybody that felt we didn't deserve to win.
"Even if I look at recent weeks and the games we've played, like the ones we lost against Forest and Blackpool, the general opinion was that we didn't deserve to lose either of those games.
"That shows that the margins are small and if we lose a game, we're generally in with a chance and it can go either way. We just need to push those margins our way."
He praised goalkeeper David Stockdale: "When you are a goalkeeper, you are always going to be criticised because it's the nature of that position.
"On the back of two clean sheets (against Cardiff and Sheffield Wednesday) he made a really important penalty save at the weekend due to the timing of it.
"To do it particularly just before half time was a big moment and I'm pleased for him."
At his pre-match press conference yesterday (Monday 23 February) Hughton added: "We've got no casualties at all from Saturday's game which is good news and it's just about making sure the players get rest and recover ahead of a tough game.
"Apart from the long-term ones, it's Solly (March) and Greg Halford that won't be available.
"Greg's improving but he was very sore after the Sheffield Wednesday game and he won't be ready in time.
"What we definitely have got is good competition between the three (strikers) and it is about the one that can keep his form at a highest level.
"What it does do is give me options, particularly with Craig (Mackail-Smith) who's a different type of player than the other two.
"Do I know who my best striker is at the moment? Well my best striker is the one that's playing the best and in the team.
"It's a good problem to have but we scored four goals at the weekend and it would've been nice if one of our strikers had got on the scoresheet as well."


Newspaper news (correspondent Hu Quan) on the morning of May 5th, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president of Wang Ling in Foshan, Deputy Secretary General of Li Changqun and Luo Yulin, deputy director of Hu Ying and Wang Changhua, and the government of Sanshui District and the Bureau of science and technology, and so on, came to the investigation and investigation of Feng. Accompanied by the head of the deputy general manager, Liu Zhiming and other companies, the chief executive visited the company's extrusion workshop, the melting and casting workshop, the surface treatment workshop, and the staff leisure square, and worked on the company's comprehensive strategic cooperation project (industrial ice slurry cooling key technology research and industrialization demonstration) at the 2009 Chinese Academy of Sciences. As well as the company's ecological environment construction has given a high degree of recognition and praise, and hope to further strengthen cooperation and exchanges with the company in scientific research projects, personnel training and so on.


Washington, D.C. – Nov. 7, 2017 – SCORE, the nation's largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, has published an infographic depicting the current state of small business employment, including where small business owners are finding qualified workers, and the specific challenges they face in filling open positions. More than half of all small business owners found it difficult to fill their hiring needs in the past six months, with more than a quarter stating they were ultimately unable to fill job openings.
This employment-focused infographic accompanies the latest installment of SCORE's Megaphone of Main Street data report series, which presents original, statistically-significant survey data on the American small business landscape.
For more information on small business hiring trends, download The Megaphone of Main Street: Small Business Jobs Report and the first accompanying infographic on small businesses and employment. Stay tuned for our next infographic, "The Impact of the 'Gig' Economy," slated for release in two weeks.
Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 10 million aspiring entrepreneurs through free small business mentoring sessions and educational services offered in 300 chapters nationwide. In 2016, SCORE's 10,000 volunteers provided 2.2+ million hours to help create more than 55,000 small businesses and 130,000 full-time, part-time and contractor jobs.


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YPF sees first FLNG output this year
Commissioning under way now after vessel's arrival in Argentina last month
YPF is on track for first production via Exmar's Tango floating liquefied natural gas unit later this year, which the company sees as the first "baby steps" towards realising its export potential from the Vaca Muerta shale.
The state-led Argentine company said the FLNG barge, which has a small capacity ranging from 500,000 tonnes to 2 million tonnes per annum, arrived in Argentina about a month ago after a long-term contract for the vessel was signed for the vessel late last year.
The facility is "already moored in the port of Bahia Blanca... We're working on the commissioning of the plant", said Marcos Browne, executive vice president of gas and energy at YPF. "We should be producing LNG after our winter this year."
"We are really confident that having the barge in Argentina, and being a player in the LNG international market, is going to be a good opportunity to start learning about how to market, sell and commercialise all the LNG we'll have in Argentina."
The emergence of the Vaca Muerta has meant that in less than a decade Argentina has gone from importing large volumes of LNG to taking steps to becoming an exporter.
Argentina's gas demand is highly variable between the winter and summer seasons, however, meaning as output from the Vaca Muerta has grown the company is looking at surpluses at some times but not others.
YPF has also already begun scoping out potential for a more permanent liquefied natural gas facility onshore, Browne said.
In addition to liquefaction infrastructure, that project would also require a pipeline to connect the Vaca Muerta with Argentina's Atlantic coast some 600 kilometres away.
The company is weighing three options for the development: the ports of Bahia Blanca, Necochea or Golfo San Matias.
The goal is "to figure out which of these three locations is the most convenient for the development," he said.


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You are here: World Customs Organization Media Newsroom 2014 May Tons of fake goods intercepted under Operation TIGRE 3
Tons of fake goods intercepted under Operation TIGRE 3
Customs officials intercepted 21.3 million counterfeit and pirated items at 21 ports across Central America, South America and the Caribbean during a one-week enforcement operation to combat counterfeiting and piracy called TIGRE 3. The operation, which took place in November 2013, was coordinated by the WCO with funding provided by Japan Customs.
Following the use of sophisticated risk assessment and systematic inspection, eighty-four maritime containers were found to contain counterfeit goods. Customs officials in Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Jamaica, Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, and Colombia took part in the operation. As part of the operation, they had received specialized training in risk analysis and targeting by WCO IPR Experts.
Among the tons of counterfeited goods intercepted were games and toys, heath care products, and textile items. TIGRE 3 built on the success of TIGRE 2, tripling the results of the previous operation in which Customs intercepted 6.8 million fake items.
The primary objective of the Operation was to analyze and deter the counterfeiting and piracy phenomena in these regions and to test the practical applicability of risk analysis standards under real-life conditions. The operation also promoted co-operation with rights holders, and made use of the WCO anti-counterfeiting tool, Interface Public-Members (IPM).


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Föreningen Göteborgs kultur- och miljöarv (GKMA) är en förening som bildades 2010 med syftet att "verka för att Göteborgs kulturarv respektive miljöarv förvaltas på ett för medborgarna och staden Göteborg optimalt sätt så att värdefulla kulturtillgångar och kultur-områden samt miljötillgångar och miljöområden ur såväl aktuellt som historiskt betingat perspektiv tas tillvara på bästa sätt och därmed undviker förminskning och förstörelse av nämnda områden".

Föreningen bildades 2010 och anges ha cirka 1 000 medlemmar.

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The Grammy-winning Phoenix Chorale is adding a creative twist to their search for a new artistic director. The list of finalists is down to four, and each will lead a concert weekend during the Chorale's upcoming 2018/19 60th Anniversary season. The following is the second of a series of introductory interviews by guest writer Katrina Becker. Images are courtesy of the Phoenix Chorale.
Combine the loveliest choral music of the mid-19th century with fresh songs from composers born in the mid-20th century and you'll find the formula for the Phoenix Chorale's "Mid-Century Modern" program, coming to Sun City, Phoenix and Paradise Valley near the end of October.
From tender and tragic to jubilant and whimsical, the repertoire was chosen as a nod to 1958, when the Chorale was founded as the Bach and Madrigal Society.
"The idea of Mid-Century Modern is something I've been wanting to do for a while," says conductor James K. Bass, one of four finalists in the Phoenix Chorale's search for a new artistic director. Bass will lead the Chorale in rehearsals and concerts for this program, meeting with the ensemble's board, staff, singers and community.
Architecture inspires. Phoenix Financial Center photo by Jen Rogers.
"I didn't want to only do a program of 20th-century music, so the play on words is that the 'Mid-Century' is the middle of the 19th century in the first half [of the concert], and the 'Modern' is the composers and works that have been written within the lifetime of the Phoenix Chorale," he explains. "My aim is to show how much choral music has evolved in just that 100-year period, which is fascinating.
Bass is a three-time GRAMMY®-nominated singer and conductor who currently serves as Professor and Director of Choral Studies at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. He's also Artistic Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers, Associate Conductor and Director of Education for the ensemble Seraphic Fire, and a performer with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Conspirare, and True Concord, a choir based in Tucson. With Seraphic Fire he created the Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival.
The first half of the "Mid-Century Modern" program is bookended by the music of Felix Mendelssohn, beginning with the celebratory Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt (Shout to the Lord) from Psalm 100.
On a lighter note, innovative composer Paul Crabtree created the whimsical Romantic Miniatures (from The Simpsons) with a nod to the yellow-hued characters in the long-running subversive animated Fox Television series.
Marge and Homer of The Simpsons.
"Mid-Century Modern" ends with a suite from Dan Locklair's changing perceptions, a prize-winning composition exploring the idea of death using poetry by Arizonan Carol Adler. "There's a little bit of humor at the end to let the audience off," says Bass.
For bonus insights into the unique Mid-Century Modern era, don't miss a free lecture complementing the Chorale's program, presented on October 16 by "Hip Historian" Marshall Shore at First United Methodist Church in central Phoenix. Shore flexes his storytelling muscles with cultural sound and historical artifacts.
The Phoenix Chorale performs "Mid-Century Modern" in Sun City on Oct. 26, in downtown Phoenix on Oct. 27, and in Paradise Valley on Oct. 28. Find more information and purchase tickets at phoenixchorale.org.


Do all necessary research, think of possible outcomes, rehearse what you will say and set goals. Have an agenda and stick to it as closely as possible.
When you reach an agreement on something, take the time to summarize it. This allows both parties to recognize that progress is being made.
Be strong, yet not predictable. Keep others interested by staying ahead of them. This way, they have something to look forward to as the negotiation proceeds. Nonetheless, stay friendly and open. And when it fits, use humor to lighten up the process. Silence can be a sign of strength. If the other party makes an impossible demand, be quiet and reflect on it. Soon enough, the other person will realize that he or she has "crossed the line" and will probably withdraw.
Realize that it's a state of uncertainty, so take it one step at a time.
Stick to your plan, yet be flexible, and look for unexpected opportunities.
Do your homework and be prepared to respond to any question.
Keep up your self-esteem and confidence, even when things get difficult. If it's not working out, maybe it's not the right time.
Negotiating can be fun, empowering and enjoyable for both parties. It works only when all those involved feel as if they have won.
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Teaching our children to think like Nazis. Why it's a good idea.
Posted: April 14, 2013 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: Albany High School, Elie Wiesel, Germany, Holocaust, Jews, Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Night by Elie Wiesel, political correctness, school teacher sacked for teaching students to think like Nazis, Sophie Scholl, teaching children about the Holocaust, Times Union
When political correctness interrupts good education it is even more stupid and wrong than usual. Have a read of this story and then I'll tell you why I think – and this might surprise, perhaps, some of Wellthisiswhatithink's regular readers – I consider this an extremely foolish moment for the local school authorities.
An SS officer speaks to a Jew in the Lodz Ghetto. Before the Nazis takeover, they might well have been friendly neighbours. What happened? And most importantly, how do we stop it happening again?
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ALBANY, N.Y. – A high school English teacher who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave.
The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive writing by penning a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that "Jews are evil."
District Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard held a news conference Friday to apologize for the assignment.
The Times Union newspaper reported on Saturday that the teacher was not in class on Friday and had been placed on leave by the school district.
The district has not named the teacher, who was described as a veteran.
The writing assignment was done before a planned class reading of the memoir "Night," by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
For the assignment, the teacher asked students to research Nazi propaganda, then write a letter trying to convince an official of the Third Reich "that Jews are evil and the source of our problems."
"Review in your notebooks the definitions for logos, ethos, and pathos," the teacher's assignment said. "Choose which argument style will be most effective in making your point. Please remember, your life (here in Nazi Germany in the 30s) may depend on it!"
Wyngaard said she didn't think the assignment was malicious but "it displayed a level of insensitivity that we absolutely will not tolerate."
Many of the students were dismayed by the assignment. Some refused to write the essay.
Encouraging students to think like Nazis? Disgraceful, right?
We spend much of our educative process with our kids encouraging them to empathise with people in situations much different to their own. In Australia for example, most obviously, we encourage them to imagine their life as an arriving refugee, for example from Afghanistan, or as an indigenous child. (Both "hot" political topics.)
Kristallnacht – the day when Nazis burned and looted Jewish premises and imprisoned or killed Jews throughout Germany. Still the population – and the world – was silent.
If we want to use our creative writing, philosophy, theology or sociology classes to encourage them to evaluate the world critically, why would we only ask them to put themselves in the minds of the weak, the downtrodden, or the dis-advantaged?
To be sure, such an exercise is worthy and valuable on many levels.
But what better lesson could we teach them but to understand the madness – the collective, breathtaking, murderous insanity – of the rise of fascism and racism represented so awfully and perfectly by the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany?
And, as here, to try to understand how ordinary people became swept up in it, abandoning their principles, their innate goodness, their better selves, through fear, intimidation, and has been demonstrated by many psychological experiments, a desire, above all, to conform to authority.
Without the passive and sometimes active support of the citizenry, a fascist regime cannot arise. It's as simple as that. Whether that citizenry is enthusiastic or cowed, the regime cannot exist in a vacuum.
The mob is a dangerous thing, and a mob turned against an ethnic group desperately so. And every mob is made up of individuals, suspending their individual ethical framework. It's not a problem that got locked away and dealt with in the 1930s and 40s. We have seen it occur many times since. Rwanda, anyone?
How can we possibly rid humanity of this sort of mass psychosis unless we can teach our children to try to understand how a combination of pressures can make otherwise sane people do terrible things – like write a letter to an official to convince him or her "that Jews are evil and the source of our problems." Especially when a short trip to the concentration camp or the guillotine would be your likely outcome if that letter did not sound convincing. (See below.)
Millions of "ordinary" Germans made these moral compromises in this period.
As many have admitted, they had a reasonable idea – if not the whole picture – as to what was happening to the Jews.
After all, there were cases of neighbours helping Nazi thugs to evict Jews, bundle them into trucks, take their furniture, and sometimes there was explicit violence, sometimes fatal, on the streets.
Within recent memory we have seen exactly the same sort of compromise with morality played out with dreadful consequences in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia …
Let us read the AP report carefully. The children in this man's class were being prepared to encounter Elie Wiesel's masterpiece "Night". A Holocaust memoir so excoriating, so terrible, so shocking in its description of how the wholesale slaughter of the Jews was not protested and allowed to continue, as to be almost unreadable.
There is a danger that in today's world, growing up in a relatively safe modern environment, distanced from these seminal events by time (it is coming up to 70 years from the end of WWII), the children of today will simply not be able to grasp or genuinely take on the horrors of that era – what man is capable of doing to his fellow man.
Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them. Not malicious? This teacher's actions were far-sighted and innovative. The teacher should be reinstated immediately. It's the school supervisor who needs to be sent on leave. Perhaps to tour Auschwitz, with enough time to think a little more deeply about their role than merely pacifying knee-jerk public opinion.
One of the key themes in Wiesel's work is the "Unheeded Witnesses" – people who tried to warn of the extremity of the Final Solution but who could not convince those around them. And of those who stand by while terrible events are allowed to unfold, uninterrupted.
In the end, even Wiesel himself finds himself in this role, too terrified of dying himself to intervene in the beating to death of his own father in the bunk under his.
Understanding how such events can occur requires, first, an understanding of how millions of apparently sane and compassionate people can connive in their perpetration. One can hear the students now, saying to each other, "We would never behave like that!" Yet people do. All the time.
Understanding why is the key to changing our world.
This teacher is not an insensitive bumbler, he is a hero.
Sophie Scholl: Born 9 May 1921, died 22 February 1943, aged 21
To understand what happened to those few incredibly courageous Germans who stood up against the Nazis, I warmly commend you to watch Sophie Scholl, The Final Days.
It tells the almost unwatchable, unutterably horrible and yet inspiring story of a group of five young people who defied the Nazis and published anti-war literature.
Their story is told here.
Read it, if you can. Watch it, if you can.
Read Wiesel's book, if you can.
It is often said that we owe it to the dead never to forget.
Well, we owe it to the living to understand, too.
Extract from Wikipedia:
Read it, if you can bring yourself to do so.
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver. "If only I could get rid of this dead weight … Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever." In Night, everything is inverted, every value destroyed. "Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends," a Kapo tells him. "Everyone lives and dies for himself alone."[1]
Wiesel was 16 years old when Buchenwald was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945, too late for his father, who died after a beating while Wiesel lay silently on the bunk above for fear of being beaten too. Having lost his faith in God and mankind, he vowed not to speak of his experience for ten years. In 1954 he wrote an 865-page manuscript in Yiddish, published as the 245-page Un di Velt Hot Geshvign ("And the World Remained Silent") in Buenos Aires, after which the French novelist François Mauriac persuaded him to write it for a wider audience.[2]
Even with Mauriac's help, finding a publisher was not easy – they said the book was too morbid – but 178 pages appeared in 1958 in France as La Nuit, and in 1960 a 116-page version was published in the United States as Night. Fifty years later it had been translated into 30 languages, and ranked alongside Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl as one of the bedrocks of Holocaust literature. Unlike Levi's and Frank's work, it remains unclear how much of Wiesel's story is memoir. He has reacted angrily to the idea that any of it is fiction, calling it his deposition, but scholars have nevertheless had difficulty approaching it as an unvarnished account. The American literary critic Ruth Franklin writes that the ruthless pruning of the text from Yiddish to French transformed an angry historical account into a work of art.[3]
Night is the first book in a trilogy – Night, Dawn and Day – reflecting Wiesel's state of mind during and after the Holocaust. The titles mark his transition from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end – man, history, literature, religion, God. There was nothing left. And yet we begin again with night."[4]
Wiesel was born on 30 September 1928 in Sighet, a town in the Carpathian mountains of northern Transylvania, into a close-knit community of 10,000–20,000 mostly Orthodox Jews. The area was annexed by Hungary in 1940. Ellen Fine writes that anti-Jewish legislation was enacted between 1938 and 1944, but the period Wiesel discusses at the beginning of the book, 1942 and 1943, was nevertheless a relatively calm one for the Jewish population.[5]
That changed at midnight on 18 March 1944 with the invasion of Hungary by Nazi Germany and the installation of Döme Sztójay's puppet government. Adolf Eichmann, commander of the Nazi's Sondereinsatzkommando (Special Action Unit), arrived in Hungary to oversee the deportation of its Jews to Auschwitz. Between 15 May and 7 July 1944, 450,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz, around 12,000 every day, most of them gassed.[5]
As the Allies prepared for the liberation of Europe in May and June that year, Wiesel and his family – his father Chlomo (also written Shlomo), his mother Sarah, and his sisters Hilda, Beatrice, and seven-year-old Tzipora – were being deported to Auschwitz, along with 15,000 Jews from Sighet and 18,000 from neighboring villages.
Wiesel's mother and Tzipora were immediately sent to the gas chamber. Hilda and Beatrice survived, separated from the rest of the family. Wiesel and his father managed to stay together, surviving hard labor and a death march to another concentration camp, Buchenwald, where Wiesel watched his father die just weeks before the Sixth Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army arrived to liberate the camp.[6]
Night opens in Sighet in 1941. The book's narrator is Eliezer, a pious Orthodox Jewish teenager, who studies the Talmud by day and at night runs to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple, a prediction, writes Fine, of the shadow about to be cast over Europe's Jews.[7]
To the disapproval of his father, Eliezer spends his time discussing the Kabbalah and the mysteries of the universe with Moshe the Beadle, the synagogue's caretaker and the town's humblest resident, "awkward as a clown" but much loved. Moshe tells him that "man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him,"[8] a theme to which Night repeatedly turns.
Toward the end of 1942, the Hungarian government rules that Jews unable to prove their citizenship will be expelled, and Moshe is crammed onto a cattle train and taken to Poland. Somehow he manages to escape, miraculously saved by God, he believes, so that he might save the Jews of Sighet. He hurries back to the village to tell what he calls the story of his own death, running from one household to the next: "Jews, listen to me! It's all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me!"[9]
He tells them that when the cattle train crossed the border into Poland it was taken over by the Gestapo, the German secret police. The Jews were transferred to trucks and driven to a forest in Galicia, near Kolomaye, where they were forced to dig pits. When they had finished, each prisoner had to approach the hole, present his neck, and was shot. Babies were thrown into the air and used as targets by machine gunners. He tells them about Malka, the young girl who took three days to die, and Tobias, the tailor who begged to be killed before his sons; and how he, Moshe, was shot in the leg and taken for dead. But the Jews of Sighet would not listen, making Moshe Night's first unheeded witness.[10]
The Sighet ghettos
Over the next 18 months restrictions on Jews increase.
No valuables are to be kept in Jewish homes.
Jews are not allowed to visit restaurants, attend the synagogue, or leave home after six in the evening, and they must wear the yellow star at all times. Eliezer's father makes light of it:
The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it …
(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)[12]
The SS transfer the Jews to one of two ghettos, jointly run like a small town, each with its own council or Judenrat.
The barbed wire which fenced us in did not cause us any real fear. We even thought ourselves rather well off; we were entirely self-contained. A little Jewish republic … We appointed a Jewish Council, a Jewish police, an office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department – a whole government machinery. Everyone marveled at it. We should no longer have before our eyes those hostile faces, those hate-laden stares. Our fear and anguish were at an end. We were living among Jews, among brothers …
It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto – it was illusion.[12]
In May 1944 the Judenrat is told the ghettos will be closed with immediate effect and the residents deported.
They are not told their destination, only that they may each take a few personal belongings.[13] The next day, Eliezer watches as the Hungarian police, wielding truncheons and rifle butts, round up his friends and neighbors, then march them through the streets.
"It was from that moment that I began to hate them, and my hate is still the only link between us today."[9]
And there was I, on the pavement, unable to make a move. Here came the Rabbi, his back bent, his face shaved … His mere presence among the deportees added a touch of unreality to the scene. It was like a page torn from some story book …
One by one they passed in front of me, teachers, friends, others, all those I had been afraid of, all those I once could have laughed at, all those I had lived with over the years. They went by, fallen, dragging their packs, dragging their lives, deserting their homes, the years of their childhood, cringing like beaten dogs.[14]
Auschwitz II, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex of concentration camps.
Eliezer and his family are crammed into a closed cattle wagon with 80 others, with no light, little to eat or drink, barely able to breathe.
On their third night in the wagon, one woman, Madame Schächter, repeatedly becomes hysterical, screaming that she can see flames, until she is beaten into silence by the others.
She is Night's second unheeded witness, believed only as the train reaches Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the others see the chimneys for themselves.[15]
"Selektion" of Jews from Hungary at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May/June 1944. To be sent to the left meant slave labor; to the right, the gas chamber.[16]
Men and women are separated on arrival.
Eliezer and his father are sent to the left; his mother, Hilda, Beatrice, and Tzipora to the right.
He learned years later that his mother and Tzipora were taken straight to the gas chamber.
For a part of a second I glimpsed my mother and my sisters moving away to the right. Tzipora held Mother's hand. I saw them disappear into the distance; my mother was stroking my sister's fair hair … and I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever.[17]
The remainder of Night describes Eliezer's desperate efforts not to be parted from his father, not even to lose sight of him; his grief and shame at witnessing his father's decline into helplessness; and as their relationship changes and the young man becomes the older man's caregiver, his resentment and guilt, because his father's existence threatens his own.
The stronger Eliezer's need to survive, the weaker the bonds that tie him to other people.
His loss of faith in human relationships is mirrored in his loss of faith in God.[18]
During the first night, as he and his father wait in line to be thrown into a firepit, he watches a lorry draw up and deliver its load of children into the fire.
While his father recites the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead – Wiesel writes that in the long history of the Jews, he does not know whether people have ever recited the prayer for the dead for themselves – Eliezer considers throwing himself against the electric fence.
At that moment he and his father are ordered to go to their barracks. But Eliezer is already destroyed. "[T]he student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me."[18]
There follows a passage that Ellen Fine writes contains the main themes of Night.
The death of God, children, innocence, and the défaite du moi, or dissolution of the self, a recurring theme in Holocaust literature:[19]
Here we can see members of the Sonderkommando working in the camp at Auschwitz in 1944, disposing of a corpse. Photographs of their work was smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance.
Jewish inmates and Russian prisoners-of-war were forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
Their work was primarily to empty the chambers of dead bodies and to burn the mounds of corpses.
When they became too emaciated to work efficiently, or too depressed by their task, they simply joined the other prisoners in the queue for execution.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.[20]
With the loss of self goes Eliezer's sense of time: "I glanced at my father. How he had changed! … So much had happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense of time. When had we left our houses? And the ghetto? And the train? Was it only a week? One night – one single night?"[21]
God is not lost to Eliezer entirely. During the hanging of a child, which the camp is forced to watch, he hears someone ask: Where is God? Where is he? Not heavy enough for the weight of his body to break his neck, the boy dies slowly and in agony. Wiesel files past him, sees his tongue still pink and his eyes clear, and weeps.
Behind me, I heard the same man asking: Where is God now?
And I heard a voice within me answer him: … Here He is – He is hanging here on this gallows.[22]
Fine writes that this is the central event in Night, the religious sacrifice, Isaac bound to the altar, Jesus nailed to the cross, described by Alfred Kazin as the literal death of God. Afterwards the inmates celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, but Eliezer cannot take part.
Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him?
Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?
How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?
But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.[24]
In or around August 1944, Eliezer and his father (seen left) are transferred from Birkenau to Auschwitz III, a work camp, their lives reduced to the avoidance of violence and the constant search for food.
"Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach."[25]
Their only joy is when the Americans bomb the camp.
In January 1945, with the Soviet army approaching, the Germans decide to flee, taking 60,000 inmates on a death march to concentration camps in Germany. Eliezer and his father are marched to Gleiwitz to be put on a freight train to Buchenwald, a camp near Weimar, 350 miles (563 km) from Auschwitz.
Pitch darkness. Every now and then, an explosion in the night. They had orders to fire on any who could not keep up. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure. If one of us had stopped for a second, a sharp shot finished off another filthy son of a bitch.Near me, men were collapsing in the dirty snow. Shots.[26]
Resting in a shed after marching 50 miles (80 km), Rabbi Eliahou asks if anyone has seen his son. They had stuck together for three years, "always near each other, for suffering, for blows, for the ration of bread, for prayer," but the rabbi had lost sight of him in the crowd and is now scratching through the snow looking for his son's corpse. "I hadn't any strength left for running. And my son didn't notice. That's all I know."[27]
Wiesel doesn't tell the man that his son had indeed noticed his father limping, and had run faster, letting the distance between them grow.
And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed. My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done.[28]
The inmates spend two days and nights in Gleiwitz locked inside cramped barracks without food, water, or heat, literally sleeping on top of one another, so that each morning the living wake with the dead underneath them. There is more marching to the train station and onto a cattle wagon with no roof, and no room to sit down until other inmates make space by throwing the dead onto the tracks. They travel for ten days and nights, with only the snow falling on them for water. Of the 100 Jews in Wiesel's wagon, 12 survive the journey.
I woke from my apathy just at the moment when two men came up to my father. I threw myself on top of his body. He was cold. I slapped him. I rubbed his hand, crying:Father! Father! Wake up. They're trying to throw you out of the carriage …His body remained inert …I set to work to slap him as hard as I could. After a moment, my father's eyelids moved slightly over his glazed eyes. He was breathing weakly.You see, I cried.The two men moved away.[29]
Buchenwald and liberation
In Buchenwald concentration camp, seen left, the Nazis are waiting with loudhailers and orders to head for a hot bath. Wiesel is desperate for the heat of the water, but his father sinks into the snow. "I could have wept with rage … I showed him the corpses all around him; they too had wanted to rest here … I yelled against the wind … I felt I was not arguing with him, but with death itself, with the death he had already chosen.[30]
An alert sounds, the camp lights go out, and Eliezer, exhausted, follows the crowd to the barracks, leaving his father behind.
He wakes at dawn on a wooden bunk, remembering that he has a father, and goes in search of him. "But at that same moment this thought came into my mind. Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself. Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever."[31]
His father is in another block, sick with dysentery.
The other men in his bunk, a Frenchman and a Pole, attack him because he can no longer go outside to relieve himself.
Eliezer is unable to protect him. "Another wound to the heart, another hate, another reason for living lost."
Begging for water one night from his bunk, where he has lain for a week, Chlomo is beaten on the head with a truncheon by an SS officer for making too much noise. Eliezer lies in the bunk above and does nothing for fear of being beaten too. He hears his father make a rattling noise, "Eliezer". In the morning, 29 January 1945, he finds another man in his father's place. The Kapos had come before dawn and taken Chlomo to the crematorium.[31]
His last word was my name. A summons, to which I did not respond. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched for it, I might perhaps have found something like – free at last![31]
Chlomo missed his freedom by just a few weeks. The Soviets had liberated Auschwitz 11 days earlier, and the Americans were making their way towards Buchenwald. Eliezer is transferred to the children's block where he stays with 600 others, dreaming of soup. On 5 April 1945 the inmates are told the camp is to be liquidated and they are to be moved – another death march. On 11 April, with 20,000 inmates still inside, a Jewish resistance movement attacks the remaining SS officers and takes control. At six o'clock that evening, an American tank arrives at the gates, and behind it the Sixth Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army.
Eliezer is free.[32]
Beachbums1 says:
Wow ~ great post!
What a pity this teacher is being punished for teaching "critical thinking" skills by people who obviously have none. Reading the comments to articles which have come out are very telling.
One of the best lessons I learned in a history class was about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our teacher gave us a "voting qualification" test to see if we would have been able to vote in prior to 1965. I "failed" the test along with three other students. We were put in a separate corner of the room and then those who passed the test were allowed to vote on class assignments, etc. And the students who passed gave us those pity looks which reflected their thoughts "how could you have failed that easy test".
It made me feel awful. I KNEW I passed the test. My only saving grace was one of the other rejected students was the smartest kid in the class. We agonized amongst ourselves as to why we failed. At the end of the very long class period which we were not allowed to participate in any way, our teacher explained he didn't like the color of our eyes (green) which was his sole criteria for failing us.To this day, I thank that teacher for what I know was a turning point for me and critical thinking (some say I've become too cynical). No doubt in today's PC world, a kid subjected to such a lesson would go home whining to the parents and then there would be a phone call to the school…
George Polley says:
That teacher is a truly wise man; sad to say, the school administration, no doubt buckling under the criticism from parents, was and is not. As difficult as it is, these situations have to be dealt with in a way that students and others can understand. Otherwise, freedom is too easily lost. I saw a lot of this during the 1950s and 60s in the USA.
Perhaps post a link to my story, George, and ask others to do so as well. The oxygen of publicity …
Did that as soon as I posted the comment, Yolly. Received several lengthy replies on the Facebook share, too, from one very positive one to one decidedly negative one.
I am sure the story is polarizing – the entire subject is, of course. But I think if people really read the article and focus on the issue they will perceive the sense of what I am saying. Perhaps.
Valentine Logar says:
One of your best to date! This teacher is a hero, the administration a bunch of idiots.
Thank you, Val, the support is appreciated. I have copped a bit of flack for posting this, in other forums, so it's nice to know some people agree with me!
jvdix says:
Am I being unrealistic to suggest that maybe, if a teacher is planning a project which he or she realizes, or maybe should realize, will get a lot of flack, it might be smart to discuss it with the administration in advance and either get administrative support beforehand, or else discover one will not be backed up? How many of us have made decisions in a hurry that later turned out not to be the best? I agree that this is a creative teaching project, but what the students in the end have learned from it is not creative: they have learned that communities can easily destroy good teachers. A lesson which does not encourage future positive actions or courageous stands.
Incidentally I have been a fan of Elie Wiesel since the early 1970's and I admit he is darned difficult reading but well worth the effort. Did the students ever even get to read "Night"?
I don't know. I simply know that his teacher was publicly pilloried by Ye Politically Correct, and I hate that. Sure, he could have checked first, but he wasn't doing anything WRONG, so why?
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I graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Education in 1998. After graduation, I taught for six years, the first three in two small southwest Kansas towns, and the last three at a private school near Fort Worth, Texas. In 2004, I left teaching to start my own business. While this venture went well, my passion remained in education. This being the case, in August 2007, I applied for and won a post teaching middle school Language Arts and Social Studies. My specific area of expertise is education, but I have a devoted dilettante's interest in both history and literature, as these are the specific fields in which I teach.
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Born in 1974, I was raised in a small southwest Kansas farming town (pop. 450). From an early age, I loved to write, and when I was in my teens, I realized I also enjoyed teaching. My father became ill and passed away in the spring of 1997; this event moved me to begin writing my first novel, which would remain unfinished until 2004. I have yet to seek a publisher for the novel, and have begun other works while I decide what the best course of action might be with regards to the finished novel.
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