Many Americans mistakenly believe that most slaves were captured by Europeans who landed on the African coast and captured or ambushed people. It is important to understand that Europeans were incapable, on their own, of kidnapping 20 million Africans.
Most slaves sold to Europeans had not been slaves in Africa. They were free people who were captured in war or were victims of banditry or were enslaved as punishment for certain crimes or as repayment for a debt. In most cases, rulers or merchants were not selling their own subjects, but people they regarded as alien.
Apologists for the African slave trade long argued that European traders purchased Africans who had already been enslaved and who otherwise would have been put to death. Thus, apologists claimed, the slave trade actually saved lives. This is a serious distortion of the facts. Some independent slave merchants did stage raids on unprotected African villages and kidnapped enslaved Africans. Professional slave traders, however, set up bases along the west African coast where they purchased slaves from Africans in exchange for firearms and other goods. Before the end of the 17th century, England, France, Denmark, Holland, and Portugal had all established slave trading posts on the west African coast.
The massive European demand for slaves and the introduction of firearms radically transformed west African society. A growing number of Africans were enslaved for petty debts or minor criminal or religious offenses or following unprovoked raids on unprotected villages. An increasing number of religious wars broke out with the goal of capturing slaves. European weapons made it easier to capture slaves.
Some African societies like Benin in southern Nigeria refused to sell slaves. Others, like Dahomey, appear to have specialized in enslavement. Drought, famine, or periods of violent conflict might lead a ruler or a merchant to sell slaves. In addition, many rulers sold slaves in order to acquire the trade goods--textiles, alcohol, and other rare imports--that were necessary to secure the loyalty of their subjects.


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Die Rheintalische Volkszeitung ist eine regionale, ehemals katholische Schweizer Tageszeitung in Berneck (früher Altstätten). Sie erscheint im Anzeigen- und Zeitungsverbund des St. Galler Tagblatts.

Auflage
Die Zeitung zählte 1890 2'657 Abonnenten, 2008 belief sich die WEMF-beglaubigte Auflage auf 6'212 Exemplare. Heute (2020) beträgt sie noch 3'822 (Vj. 3'771) verkaufte (und verbreitete) Exemplare. Rheintalische Volkszeitung und Rheintaler kommen zusammen bei einer Gesamtauflage von 12'010 verkauften/verbreiteten Exemplaren auf eine Reichweite von 27'000 (Vj. 26'000) Lesern (WEMF MACH Basic 2018-II).

Jeweils freitags erscheint zusammen mit dem Rheintaler die Grossauflage Der Rheintaler Weekend mit einer verbreiteten Auflage von 34'122 Exemplaren. Zusätzlich zur Verteilung an die Abonnenten wird das A auch in die Briefkästen der Nichtabonnenten aus der Region verteilt.

Geschichte
Der Ursprung der Rheintalischen Volkszeitung geht auf das Jahr 1855 zurück. Damals erschien in Altstätten seit dem 7. Juli 1855 (nach Probenummern seit dem 23. Juni 1855) der Allgemeine Anzeiger für die Bezirke Unter- und Oberrheintal, Werdenberg und Sargans, ein vom Buchdrucker Rudolf Unteregger gegründetes unpolitisches kleines Anzeigeblatt. 1864 wurde der Name verkürzt in Rheintalischer Allgemeiner Anzeiger, eine Bezeichnung, die nach der Umbenennung in den heutigen Namen Rheintalische Volkszeitung und dem gleichzeitigen Übergang zum grösseren Format am 16. April 1904 noch bis am 20. März 1986 als Untertitel verwendet wurde.

1872 erwarb eine Gruppe von vier Mitgliedern der Katholisch-Konservativen Partei Altstätten – Kantonsrat Johann Baptist Rist-Bucher, Bezirksammann Johannes Segmüller, Gemeindeammann und Kantonsrat Johannes Schneider und Musiklehrer Jakob Thür – die Buchdruckerei Unteregger. Die Gruppe bildete ein Konsortium von 35 Männern, das das Eigentums- und Verlagsrecht des Rheintalischen Allgemeinen Anzeigers übernahm. Aus Rücksicht auf die damalige vorherrschende katholische Zeitung des Kantons, den St. Galler Wahrheitsfreund (später umbenannt in Die Ostschweiz), warteten die Initianten aber bis zum 1. Januar 1893, um ihr Vorhaben einer katholischen Zeitung für die Region umzusetzen.

Ab 1884 erschien die Zeitung zweimal wöchentlich, ab 1900 dreimal, ab 1910 viermal, ab 1959 fünfmal und ab 1. November 1976 sechsmal.

Die Rheintalische Volkszeitung kämpfte Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts insbesondere für die Einführung des Proporzwahlrechts auf kantonaler und nationaler Ebene, das schliesslich nach etlichen Ablehnungen vom Stimmvolk angenommen wurde.

1947 wurde die seit 1925 bestehende Genossenschaft der Buchdruckerei der Rheintalischen Volkszeitung in die Buch- und Offsetdruck «Rheintalische Volkszeitung» AG umgewandelt. 1997 wurde die Firma in RVA Druck und Medien AG umbenannt.

Am 21. März 1986 wurde die orange Farbe auf der Frontseite eingeführt, gleichzeitig entfiel der Untertitel «Rheintalischer Allgemeiner Anzeiger». Am 1. Februar 1990 erfolgte ein Redesign der Zeitung mit dem Übergang vom Fraktur- zum heutigen Zeitungskopf.

Nachdem die Rheintalische Volkszeitung zum wiederholten Male in eine bedrohliche wirtschaftliche Lage geraten war, entschloss sie sich 2011 zur faktischen Fusion mit dem früheren freisinnigen Kontrahenten Der Rheintaler. Dazu gründeten die beiden Verlage, die RDV Rheintaler Druckerei und Verlag AG und die RVA Druck und Medien AG, eine gemeinsame Verlagsgesellschaft für die beiden Zeitungen im St. Galler Rheintal, die Rheintal Verlag AG, an der die RDV AG eine Mehrheit von 82 % hielt. Der lokale Text- und Anzeigenteil ist seither in beiden Zeitungen identisch. Die überregionalen Seiten bezog die Rheintalische Volkszeitung vorerst weiterhin vom Bündner Tagblatt (davor bis zu ihrem Eingehen 1998 von der Ostschweiz), der Rheintaler vom St. Galler Tagblatt.

Der Vertrag mit der Herausgeberin des Bündner Tagblatts, der Südostschweiz Medien AG (heute Somedia AG), wurde nach seinem Ablauf Ende 2013 nicht erneuert. Die überregionalen Teile werden seit 2014 wie beim Rheintaler ebenfalls vom St. Galler Tagblatt übernommen, wobei die Rheintalische Volkszeitung nur einzelne Mantelseiten übernimmt, der Rheintaler dagegen die kompletten ersten beiden Bunde. Die RVA Druck und Medien AG wurde mit der RDV Rheintaler Druckerei und Verlag AG und der Rheintal Verlag AG zur Rheintal Medien AG fusioniert und aufgelöst. Die Rheintal Medien AG wurde auf Anfang 2019 zu Galledia Group AG umfirmiert.

Chefredaktoren

Bis 1899 wurde der Rheintalische Allgemeine Anzeiger im Nebenamt von Kammerer Karl Josef Thüringer, Pfarrer Leo Benz, Gerichtspräsident Johann Städler, Nationalrat Carl Zurburg und Kanonikus Franz Xaver Wetzel betreut. Danach wirkten hauptamtliche Redaktoren:

 1898–1900 Emil Buomberger
 1900–1902 Karl Dux (Gemeindeammann)
 1902–1927 Josef Schöbi (Bezirksammann)
 1927–1929 Sebastian Regli
 1929–1952 Joseph Keel-Kathriner
 1952–1982 Eugen Rohner
 1982–1990 Christoph Mattle
 1990–1994 Thomas Schwizer
 1994–2001 Pius Schärli
 2001–2013 René Jann

Weblinks

 Website des Verlags der Rheintalischen Volkszeitung

Einzelnachweise

Zeitung (Schweiz)
Medien (Kanton St. Gallen)
Ersterscheinung 1855
Geschichte des Katholizismus in der Schweiz

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In solidarity with our NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) peers, we will be podcasting at 9pm on Friday Nov 2, 2007. This is for the ADDCast.
We are twisted and incapable of being serious about it. We'll be bringing on people who are drunk and attempting to write anything. This pandemonium will take place over a Skype call, through the magic of the Interweb.
Contact Paul at addcast@gmail.com to sign up for the event. Put "NaDruWriNi" (National Drunk Writing Night) in the subject line.
Mark Nov 4 on your calendar. We will be writing, drinking, and podcasting for National Drunk Writing Night. If you want to join in on the fun you just need to write and leave comments at the link below. If you want to join us on the podcast, leave a comment here. You must have Skype in order to participate on the podcast.


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Institute of Applied Energy
IAE is a research institute for energy issues, established as a juridical foundation under the auspices of leading energy-related corporations and the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Its five major activities are: to collect and process information on energy issues in Japan and other countries; to review and analyze energy issues from technological viewpoints; to provide information capable of serving as a basis for policy planning and decision making in both the public and private sectors; to study and evaluate various future energy systems and energy-related research and development; and to encourage close communication among government, private and public organizations, and research institutions through the exchange of information and opinions.
http://www.iae.or.jp
1-14-2 Nishi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku , Tokyo 105-0003
English , Japanese
Japan average
Founders: Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Leader(s) (2021): Kouichiro Nakamura (Executive Managing Director)
Leader gender: Male Leader(s) (2020): N/A Leader(s) (2019): Ryoichi Shirato
公益財団法人 笹川平和財団
Sasakawa Peace Fondation
言論NPO
Genron NPO
キヤノングローバル
Canon Institute for Global Studies

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Members Assisting Members: New Zealand & Brazil Share Knowledge & Experience
Stuart Lowth of Coastguard New Zealand writes:
Coastguard Eastern Region recently hosted, on behalf of Coastguard New Zealand, a visit from Lieutenant Rodrigo Fiorentini. Rodrigo is a member of Maritime Fire Brazil, the Coastguard NZ equivalent. His unit operates in the state of São Paulo.
The objective of his stay in New Zealand was to see various types of vessels used by Coastguard and how Coastguard's common training matrix and SAR procedures are robust enough to work with any SAR platform. A variety of vessels were utilised including a Naiad RHIB with standard outboards, Tauranga Volunteer Coastguard's TECT Rescue, which is a 13m Catamaran with jet propulsion units, and the East Pack Rescue at Maketu which is an 11.7m Robson 345 Alloy Craft also powered by jet units.
The Maritime Fire Service in Brazil incorporates not only maritime SAR but also work which is carried out by a number of other agencies in New Zealand so we worked with our SAR partners in other emergency services to showcase how New Zealand operates during multi-agency events. Rodrigo also had the opportunity to walk through a live scenario which involved our Incident Management Team and the operational wet crew following the Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) in line with New Zealand SAR protocol.
Of course no visit to New Zealand would be complete without a visit to the world-renowned thermal activity located in Rotorua which also gave Rodrigo the opportunity to have a taste of New Zealand culture. It has been an absolute honour to host Rodrigo and to have the opportunity to extend the experience of both countries' services through practical simulations and the sharing of knowledge of our training and SAR systems.
Photo: Rodrigo at the helm of a Coastguard NZ rescue boat
Published: 6th June, 2016
Updated: 6th October, 2021


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'They're not trying to break us': Electric cooperative shuts down after three years
The Electric Cooperatives of Orange County, California, are closing after more than three years, according to a statement issued by the cooperative."We are closing our doors today for good," the cooperative said in a statement."We have not had a single customer or employee since we opened our doors in January of 2018."The cooperative, a joint…
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In April, Delaware's Electric Cooperative (ECO) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and its owners are asking a court to let them stay open while they work to reopen.While it was originally reported that the company would not reopen until 2018, the company's owner said he was "very optimistic" about the prospects of being able…


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Over the last week, President Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a total of about 12,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States, federal data confirms.
According to catch and release totals obtained by Breitbart News, DHS has released about 12,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. over a nine-day period between April 9 and April 17. At this rate, DHS is releasing more than 1,300 border crossers and illegal aliens every day into the country.
The catch and release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the promise that they will show up for their immigration and asylum hearings, sometimes years later. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S.
In the last week, alone, nearly 6,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released into the El Paso, Texas, area, and about 3,500 have been released into the San Antonio, Texas, region.
The catch and release policy carried out by DHS, in recent months, has inundated and overwhelmed border regions of the country so much that in Yuma, Arizona, this week, Mayor Douglas Nicholls declared an emergency, citing a lack of public resources to deal with the release of thousands of migrants into the community.
Since December 21, 2018, a total of 146,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released into the interior of the U.S. At current illegal immigration levels, the country is on pace to admit between one to 1.5 million. Should the Trump administration continue to mass-release border crossers and illegal aliens into the country, there could potentially be nearly 490,000 released by the end of the year.
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Italy is an ideal location for school groups. Rome is one of the best remaining examples of classical civilization, Florence was the leading city during the Italian Renaissance and finally Venice, surely one of the most unique cities in the world. In each of these cities, we offer tours suited to larger and smaller academic groups.
For smaller, more advanced academic tours like small University classes or study groups, the semi-private tour is a better option as it is more in-depth and more interactive due to the smaller tour size.
In this way guides can interact more with their customer and give them a truly memorable experience. Let us know your group size and requirements and we would be happy to contact you with a quote.
Group Tours are particularly suited to larger secondary school groups, and are available in Rome, Florence, Venice and the Vatican.
For students currently studying History, Art, Art-history or Classics, Italy With Us provides many exciting and interesting tours. Another feature which makes the Group Tour ideal for these larger groups is our guarantee that there are no queues! When travelling with large groups of children/young adults, the last thing that supervisors want for those in their care is to have to stand around for hours at a time.


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While it's still early days, Mist, MetaMask and a variety of other browsers look set to make blockchain-based applications accessible to more people than ever before. Even people without a technical background can now potentially build blockchain apps. This is a revolutionary leap for blockchain technology that could bring decentralized applications into the mainstream.
The U.S. federal investigation was prompted by concerns of possible manipulation during futures settlement dates. The final settlement price of CME bitcoin futures is determined by prices on four exchanges, Bitstamp, Coinbase, itBit and Kraken. Following the first delivery date in January 2018, the CME requested extensive detailed trading information but several of the exchanges refused to provide it and later provided only limited data. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission then subpoenaed the data from the exchanges.[190][191]
In March 2013 the blockchain temporarily split into two independent chains with different rules due to a bug in version 0.8 of the bitcoin software. The two blockchains operated simultaneously for six hours, each with its own version of the transaction history from the moment of the split. Normal operation was restored when the majority of the network downgraded to version 0.7 of the bitcoin software, selecting the backward compatible version of the blockchain. As a result, this blockchain became the longest chain and could be accepted by all participants, regardless of their bitcoin software version.[42] During the split, the Mt. Gox exchange briefly halted bitcoin deposits and the price dropped by 23% to $37[42][43] before recovering to previous level of approximately $48 in the following hours.[44] The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) established regulatory guidelines for "decentralized virtual currencies" such as bitcoin, classifying American bitcoin miners who sell their generated bitcoins as Money Service Businesses (MSBs), that are subject to registration or other legal obligations.[45][46][47] In April, exchanges BitInstant and Mt. Gox experienced processing delays due to insufficient capacity[48] resulting in the bitcoin price dropping from $266 to $76 before returning to $160 within six hours.[49] The bitcoin price rose to $259 on 10 April, but then crashed by 83% to $45 over the next three days.[40] On 15 May 2013, US authorities seized accounts associated with Mt. Gox after discovering it had not registered as a money transmitter with FinCEN in the US.[50][51] On 23 June 2013, the US Drug Enforcement Administration listed ₿11.02 as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881.[52][better source needed] This marked the first time a government agency had seized bitcoin.[53] The FBI seized about ₿30,000[54] in October 2013 from the dark web website Silk Road during the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht.[55][56][57] These bitcoins were sold at blind auction by the United States Marshals Service to venture capital investor Tim Draper.[54] Bitcoin's price rose to $755 on 19 November and crashed by 50% to $378 the same day. On 30 November 2013 the price reached $1,163 before starting a long-term crash, declining by 87% to $152 in January 2015.[40] On 5 December 2013, the People's Bank of China prohibited Chinese financial institutions from using bitcoins.[58] After the announcement, the value of bitcoins dropped,[59] and Baidu no longer accepted bitcoins for certain services.[60] Buying real-world goods with any virtual currency had been illegal in China since at least 2009.[61]
A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security. A cryptocurrency is difficult to counterfeit because of this security feature. Many cryptocurrencies are decentralized systems based on blockchain technology, a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate network of computers. A defining feature of a cryptocurrency, and arguably its biggest allure, is its organic nature; it is not issued by any central authority, rendering it theoretically immune to government interference or manipulation.
The first cryptocurrency to capture the public imagination was Bitcoin, which was launched in 2009 by an individual or group known under the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. As of February 2019, there were over 17.53 million bitcoins in circulation with a total market value of around $63 billion (although the market price of bitcoin can fluctuate quite a bit). Bitcoin's success has spawned a number of competing cryptocurrencies, known as "altcoins" such as Litecoin, Namecoin and Peercoin, as well as Ethereum, EOS, and Cardano. Today, there are literally thousands of cryptocurrencies in existence, with an aggregate market value of over $120 billion (Bitcoin currently represents more than 50% of the total value).
IE… I have 50 ETH , and want to buy a 'widget' for 25 ETH given a particular set of circumstances (it works, or the temperature is >10c tomorrow). I agree with a seller on the conditions of a contract, and we 'create' a contract on an Ethereum platform, with appropriate sign-offs and verification. This could be 2 steps, or it could be 1000 steps. Once established in the 'smart contract', if it is indeed >10c tomorrow, the contract automatically shifts 25 ETH to your account and ships me my widget. The results are recorded in the blockchain.
The validity of each cryptocurrency's coins is provided by a blockchain. A blockchain is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography.[23][26] Each block typically contains a hash pointer as a link to a previous block,[26] a timestamp and transaction data.[27] By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way".[28] For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority.
Then, in early 2009, an anonymous programmer or a group of programmers under an alias Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin. Satoshi described it as a 'peer-to-peer electronic cash system.' It is completely decentralized, meaning there are no servers involved and no central controlling authority. The concept closely resembles peer-to-peer networks for file sharing.
As the industry continues to investigate blockchain platforms, it's apparent that Ethereum is becoming a de facto leader. For example, a few days ago JPMorgan publicly open-sourced its Quorum platform, architected and developed around the Go Ethereum client by Jeff Wilcke and his team. Several other major banks are using Ethereum, and Microsoft is anchoring its Bletchley platform on it as the foundational blockchain element. Industry, both publicly and confidentially, continues to contribute to Ethereum and work with us and others to help our promising, toddler-age codebase reach maturity. Stay tuned for news on this front.
As of November 2017, Bitcoin and other digital currencies are outlawed only in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam, with China and Russia being on the verge of banning them as well. Other jurisdictions, however, do not make the usage of cryptocurrencies illegal as of yet, but the laws and regulations can vary drastically depending on the country.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous, meaning that funds are not tied to real-world entities but rather bitcoin addresses. Owners of bitcoin addresses are not explicitly identified, but all transactions on the blockchain are public. In addition, transactions can be linked to individuals and companies through "idioms of use" (e.g., transactions that spend coins from multiple inputs indicate that the inputs may have a common owner) and corroborating public transaction data with known information on owners of certain addresses.[125] Additionally, bitcoin exchanges, where bitcoins are traded for traditional currencies, may be required by law to collect personal information.[126] To heighten financial privacy, a new bitcoin address can be generated for each transaction.[127]
^ Iansiti, Marco; Lakhani, Karim R. (January 2017). "The Truth About Blockchain". Harvard Business Review. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017. The technology at the heart of bitcoin and other virtual currencies, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Joshua A. Kroll; Ian C. Davey; Edward W. Felten (11–12 June 2013). "The Economics of Bitcoin Mining, or Bitcoin in the Presence of Adversaries" (PDF). The Twelfth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2013). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016. A transaction fee is like a tip or gratuity left for the miner.
Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. Bitcoin was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto[15] and started in 2009[16] when its source code was released as open-source software.[7]:ch. 1 Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services.[17] Research produced by University of Cambridge estimates that in 2017, there were 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.[18]


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using Microsoft.IronPythonTools.Interpreter;
using Microsoft.PythonTools.Infrastructure;
using Microsoft.PythonTools.Interpreter;
using Microsoft.PythonTools.Parsing;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace TestUtilities {
    public class PythonPaths {
        private static readonly List<PythonInterpreterInformation> _foundInRegistry = PythonRegistrySearch
            .PerformDefaultSearch()
            .Where(pii => pii.Configuration.Id.Contains("PythonCore|") || pii.Configuration.Id.Contains("ContinuumAnalytics|"))
            .ToList();

        public static readonly PythonVersion Python26 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V26, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python27 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V27, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python31 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V31, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python32 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V32, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python33 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V33, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python34 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V34, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python35 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V35, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python36 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V36, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python37 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V37, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion IronPython27 = GetIronPythonVersion(false);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python26_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V26, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python27_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V27, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python31_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V31, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python32_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V32, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python33_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V33, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python34_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V34, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python35_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V35, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python36_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V36, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Python37_x64 = GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V37, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Anaconda27 = GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V27, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Anaconda27_x64 = GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V27, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Anaconda36 = GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V36, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Anaconda36_x64 = GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V36, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Anaconda37 = GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V37, InterpreterArchitecture.x86);
        public static readonly PythonVersion Anaconda37_x64 = GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V37, InterpreterArchitecture.x64);
        public static readonly PythonVersion IronPython27_x64 = GetIronPythonVersion(true);

        public static readonly PythonVersion Jython27 = GetJythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion.V27);

        private static PythonVersion GetIronPythonVersion(bool x64) {
            var exeName = x64 ? "ipy64.exe" : "ipy.exe";

            var installPath = IronPythonResolver.GetPythonInstallDir();
            if (Directory.Exists(installPath)) {
                // IronPython changed to Any CPU for ipy.exe and ipy32.exe for 32-bit in 2.7.8
                if (File.Exists(Path.Combine(installPath, "ipy32.exe"))) {
                    exeName = x64 ? "ipy.exe" : "ipy32.exe";
                }

                return new PythonVersion(
                    new VisualStudioInterpreterConfiguration(
                        x64 ? "IronPython|2.7-64" : "IronPython|2.7-32",
                        string.Format("IronPython {0} 2.7", x64 ? "64-bit" : "32-bit"),
                        installPath,
                        Path.Combine(installPath, exeName),
                        architecture: x64 ? InterpreterArchitecture.x64 : InterpreterArchitecture.x86,
                        version: new Version(2, 7),
                        pathVar: "IRONPYTHONPATH"
                    ),
                    ironPython: true
                );
            }

            return null;
        }

        private static PythonVersion GetAnacondaVersion(PythonLanguageVersion version, InterpreterArchitecture arch) {
            var res = _foundInRegistry.FirstOrDefault(ii =>
                ii.Configuration.Id.StartsWith("Global|ContinuumAnalytics|") &&
                ii.Configuration.Architecture == arch &&
                ii.Configuration.Version == version.ToVersion()
            );
            if (res != null) {
                return new PythonVersion(res.Configuration, cPython: true);
            }

            return null;
        }

        private static PythonVersion GetCPythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion version, InterpreterArchitecture arch) {
            var res = _foundInRegistry.FirstOrDefault(ii =>
                ii.Configuration.Id.StartsWith("Global|PythonCore|") &&
                ii.Configuration.Architecture == arch &&
                ii.Configuration.Version == version.ToVersion()
            );
            if (res != null) {
                return new PythonVersion(res.Configuration, cPython: true);
            }

            var ver = version.ToVersion();
            var tag = ver + (arch == InterpreterArchitecture.x86 ? "-32" : "");
            foreach (var path in new[] {
                string.Format("Python{0}{1}", ver.Major, ver.Minor),
                string.Format("Python{0}{1}_{2}", ver.Major, ver.Minor, arch.ToString("x")),
                string.Format("Python{0}{1}-{2}", ver.Major, ver.Minor, arch.ToString("#")),
                string.Format("Python{0}{1}_{2}", ver.Major, ver.Minor, arch.ToString("#")),
            }) {
                var prefixPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemDrive"), "\\", path);
                var exePath = Path.Combine(prefixPath, CPythonInterpreterFactoryConstants.ConsoleExecutable);
                var procArch = (arch == InterpreterArchitecture.x86) ? ProcessorArchitecture.X86 :
                    (arch == InterpreterArchitecture.x64) ? ProcessorArchitecture.Amd64 :
                    ProcessorArchitecture.None;

                if (procArch == Microsoft.PythonTools.Infrastructure.NativeMethods.GetBinaryType(path)) {
                    return new PythonVersion(new VisualStudioInterpreterConfiguration(
                        CPythonInterpreterFactoryConstants.GetInterpreterId("PythonCore", tag),
                        "Python {0} {1}".FormatInvariant(arch, ver),
                        prefixPath,
                        exePath,
                        pathVar: CPythonInterpreterFactoryConstants.PathEnvironmentVariableName,
                        architecture: arch,
                        version: ver
                    ));
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

        private static PythonVersion GetJythonVersion(PythonLanguageVersion version) {
            var candidates = new List<DirectoryInfo>();
            var ver = version.ToVersion();
            var path1 = string.Format("jython{0}{1}*", ver.Major, ver.Minor);
            var path2 = string.Format("jython{0}.{1}*", ver.Major, ver.Minor);
            foreach (var drive in DriveInfo.GetDrives()) {
                if (drive.DriveType != DriveType.Fixed) {
                    continue;
                }

                try {
                    candidates.AddRange(drive.RootDirectory.EnumerateDirectories(path1));
                    candidates.AddRange(drive.RootDirectory.EnumerateDirectories(path2));
                } catch {
                }
            }

            foreach (var dir in candidates) {
                var interpreter = dir.EnumerateFiles("jython.bat").FirstOrDefault();
                if (interpreter == null) {
                    continue;
                }
                var libPath = dir.EnumerateDirectories("Lib").FirstOrDefault();
                if (libPath == null || !libPath.EnumerateFiles("site.py").Any()) {
                    continue;
                }
                return new PythonVersion(new VisualStudioInterpreterConfiguration(
                    CPythonInterpreterFactoryConstants.GetInterpreterId(
                        "Jython",
                        version.ToVersion().ToString()
                    ),
                    string.Format("Jython {0}", version.ToVersion()),
                    dir.FullName,
                    interpreter.FullName,
                    version: version.ToVersion()
                ));
            }
            return null;
        }

        public static IEnumerable<PythonVersion> AnacondaVersions {
            get {
                if (Anaconda37 != null) yield return Anaconda37;
                if (Anaconda37_x64 != null) yield return Anaconda37_x64;
                if (Anaconda36 != null) yield return Anaconda36;
                if (Anaconda36_x64 != null) yield return Anaconda36_x64;
                if (Anaconda27 != null) yield return Anaconda27;
                if (Anaconda27_x64 != null) yield return Anaconda27_x64;
            }
        }

        public static IEnumerable<PythonVersion> Versions {
            get {
                if (Python26 != null) yield return Python26;
                if (Python27 != null) yield return Python27;
                if (Python31 != null) yield return Python31;
                if (Python32 != null) yield return Python32;
                if (Python33 != null) yield return Python33;
                if (Python34 != null) yield return Python34;
                if (Python35 != null) yield return Python35;
                if (Python36 != null) yield return Python36;
                if (Python37 != null) yield return Python37;
                if (IronPython27 != null) yield return IronPython27;
                if (Python26_x64 != null) yield return Python26_x64;
                if (Python27_x64 != null) yield return Python27_x64;
                if (Python31_x64 != null) yield return Python31_x64;
                if (Python32_x64 != null) yield return Python32_x64;
                if (Python33_x64 != null) yield return Python33_x64;
                if (Python34_x64 != null) yield return Python34_x64;
                if (Python35_x64 != null) yield return Python35_x64;
                if (Python36_x64 != null) yield return Python36_x64;
                if (Python37_x64 != null) yield return Python37_x64;
                if (IronPython27_x64 != null) yield return IronPython27_x64;
                if (Jython27 != null) yield return Jython27;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Get the installed Python versions that match the specified name expression and filter.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="nameExpr">Name or '|' separated list of names that match the fields on <c>PythonPaths</c>. Ex: "Python36", "Python36|Python36_x64"</param>
        /// <param name="filter">Additional filter.</param>
        /// <returns>Installed Python versions that match the names and filter.</returns>
        public static PythonVersion[] GetVersionsByName(string nameExpr, Predicate<PythonVersion> filter = null) {
            return nameExpr
                .Split('|')
                .Select(v => typeof(PythonPaths).GetField(v, BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public)?.GetValue(null) as PythonVersion)
                .Where(v => v != null && (filter != null ? filter(v) : true))
                .ToArray();
        }
    }

    public class PythonVersion {
        public readonly InterpreterConfiguration Configuration;
        public readonly bool IsCPython;
        public readonly bool IsIronPython;

        public PythonVersion(InterpreterConfiguration config, bool ironPython = false, bool cPython = false) {
            Configuration = config;
            IsCPython = cPython;
            IsIronPython = ironPython;
        }

        public PythonVersion(string version) {
            PythonVersion selected;
            if (version == "Anaconda27") {
                selected = PythonPaths.Anaconda27 ?? PythonPaths.Anaconda27_x64;
            } else if (version == "Anaconda36") {
                selected = PythonPaths.Anaconda36 ?? PythonPaths.Anaconda36_x64;
            } else {
                var v = System.Version.Parse(version).ToLanguageVersion();
                var candididates = PythonPaths.Versions.Where(pv => pv.IsCPython && pv.Version == v).ToArray();
                if (candididates.Length > 1) {
                    selected = candididates.FirstOrDefault(c => c.Isx64) ?? candididates.First();
                } else {
                    selected = candididates.FirstOrDefault();
                }
            }
            selected.AssertInstalled();

            Configuration = selected.Configuration;
            IsCPython = selected.IsCPython;
            IsIronPython = selected.IsIronPython;
        }

        public override string ToString() => Configuration.Description;
        public string PrefixPath => Configuration.GetPrefixPath();
        public string InterpreterPath => Configuration.InterpreterPath;
        public PythonLanguageVersion Version => Configuration.Version.ToLanguageVersion();
        public string Id => Configuration.Id;
        public bool Isx64 => Configuration.Architecture == InterpreterArchitecture.x64;
        public InterpreterArchitecture Architecture => Configuration.Architecture;
    }

    public static class PythonVersionExtensions {
        public static void AssertInstalled(this PythonVersion pyVersion, string customMessage = "Python interpreter not installed") {
            if (pyVersion == null || !File.Exists(pyVersion.InterpreterPath)) {
                Assert.Inconclusive(customMessage);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a Python virtual environment in vEnvPath directory and installs the specified packages
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pyVersion"></param>
        /// <param name="virtualEnvPath"></param>
        /// <param name="packages"></param>
        public static void CreatePythonVirtualEnvWithPkgs(this PythonVersion pyVersion, string virtualEnvPath, string[] packages) {
            pyVersion.CreatePythonVirtualEnv(virtualEnvPath);

            var envPythonExePath = Path.Combine(virtualEnvPath, "scripts", "python.exe");
            foreach (var package in packages.MaybeEnumerate()) {
                using (var output = ProcessOutput.RunHiddenAndCapture(envPythonExePath, "-m", "pip", "install", package)) {
                    Assert.IsTrue(output.Wait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30)));
                    Assert.AreEqual(0, output.ExitCode);
                }
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a Python virtual environment in vEnvPath directory
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pyVersion"></param>
        /// <param name="vEnvPath"></param>
        public static void CreatePythonVirtualEnv(this PythonVersion pyVersion, string vEnvPath) {
            var virtualEnvModule = (pyVersion.Version < PythonLanguageVersion.V30) ? "virtualenv" : "venv";
            using (var p = ProcessOutput.RunHiddenAndCapture(pyVersion.InterpreterPath, "-m", virtualEnvModule, vEnvPath)) {
                Console.WriteLine(p.Arguments);
                Assert.IsTrue(p.Wait(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(3)));
                Console.WriteLine(string.Join(Environment.NewLine, p.StandardOutputLines.Concat(p.StandardErrorLines)));
                Assert.AreEqual(0, p.ExitCode);
            }

            Assert.IsTrue(File.Exists(Path.Combine(vEnvPath, "scripts", "python.exe")));
        }
    }
}

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In situ transmission electron microscopy on operating electrochemical cells
Kuhn, Luise Theil (Project Participant)
Simonsen, Søren Bredmose (Project Participant)
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Gualandris, Fabrizio, (Project Participant)
Imaging and Structural Analysis
Solid oxide fuel/electrolysis cells (SOFC/SOEC) will play an important role in future efficient and environmentally friendly energy systems if a better long term performance of the cells can be achieved. In a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) a fuel such as hydrogen, methane, synthesis gas, etc. is oxidized over a solid oxygen ion-conducting electrolyte which physically separates fuel and air.
The electron transfer in this chemical reaction takes place via an external circuit and electricity is therefore a product of the reaction. Catalysts are used on both sides of the ion conducting electrolyte to activate the splitting of fuel and oxygen molecules.
Impressive performance improvements have recently been reported for cells with specific multiphase nano-structures, but structural and compositional nano-scaled changes can also lead to deactivation. On the other hand, deactivation processes due to nano-scaled structural and compositional changes (segregations followed by nano-particle precipitation in some cases) can be observed near the material interfaces in the electrodes. Neither the mechanisms of the initial fast electrode process nor the development and dynamics of these critical structures are understood. Further studies of these dynamical changes are hampered since there are no available methods which offer in situ characterization of operating cells with nano-scale spatial resolution.
The project will develop a method for in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of operating solid oxide electrochemical cells. Until now, knowledge of the nanoscale SOFC/SOEC dynamics is entirely based on observations performed post mortem, when the cells have been cooled down and de-mounted. To obtain direct insight into the dynamics of the active nanostructures of a SOFC/SOEC in operation can therefore have significant importance for our understanding of the cell dynamics during activation and deactivation.
The aim is to record TEM image sequences (movies) with atomic resolution of the active nanostructures in the SOFC/SOEC during operation. To do this, model SOFC/SOEC systems will be developed and integrated into a TEM holder so that heating, electrical currents and exposure to reactive gas environments all are integrated at the same time. In addition the model systems will need to be highly compact and the thickness of the imaged area should be approximately 100 nm. The project will therefore push the limits of in situ TEM experiments.
The goal is direct insight into the nano-scale dynamics of the operating SOFC/SOEC during exposure to elevated temperatures, electrical currents and a reactive gas environment. This will be a key factor in developing more efficient and stable SOFCs/SOECs. Therefore, micro-SOFC will be developed and characterized by thin layer, especially regarding the electrolyte layer which will have a thickness lower than one micrometre. This will allow to work at temperature lower than 600°C.
The project will be carried out as a PhD project in collaboration between the two applicant institutions (DTU Energy Conversion and DTU Cen) and with the in situ group from Nagoya University with Prof. Shunsuke Muto. The work will primarily be carried out by the PhD student with support and supervision from the project team. The principal supervisor is Head of Section Luise T. Kuhn. The TEM work will be carried out under the guidance of Søren Bredmose Simonsen and Prof. Jakob B. Wagner. Prof. Mogens B. Mogensen will contribute to the project as an internal consultant when analyzing and linking the observed physical properties to the electrochemical performance.
TEMOC
In-situ TEM
http://www.energy.dtu.dk/TEMOC


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Creating meaningful roles for young people in youth development organizations supports and sustains youth engagement. Staff turnover, program redesign due to funding changes, youth aging out of the program, and adultism (stereotypes and attitudes about youth) constitute some of the ongoing threats to youth engagement. A supportive infrastructure (policies and practices) that integrates youth development into organizations provides the strong and lasting foundation that is required for success.
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Project Level: At this level, young people make decisions and carry out responsibilities related to a range of projects and activities. Youth can be peer educators or mentors to young children, develop a community service project, or give a community presentation. These opportunities allow them to develop skills, learn more about the community and agency, and develop a sense of competency. Guided and supervised by adults, these projects are action-oriented and show results quickly.
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Shared Leadership Level: At this level, young people are given roles that are more influential. Together with adults, they make decisions about policy, hiring staff, or raising and spending money. The young people involved need to make a bigger commitment of time and regular attendance. This level also requires certain skill sets and a more comprehensive understanding of the organization and its mission and goals.
This model or framework demonstrates important issues:
First, there are more opportunities for engagement at the project level; this is a good entry level for young people to develop skills, competence, interest, and commitment to the agency. Younger adolescents (middle school age) are able to engage and be very effective in these roles. Examples of roles and opportunities for participation at the project level include facilitator, trainer, fundraiser, peer educator, mentor, youth theater, and community service.
Secondly, all levels provide opportunities for input and leadership. This framework allows young people to find and build on their strengths and interests, and advance to other opportunities over time. Furthermore, this flexibility ensures early and ongoing recruitment of young people. Examples of opportunities for participation at this level include youth forums, advocacy, youth advisory groups, focus groups and surveys, evaluation, consulting, and media.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed banning artificial trans fats in processed food ranging from cookies to frozen pizza, citing the risk of heart disease.
Partially hydrogenated oils, which are the primary dietary source of the fats, have been shown to raise "bad" cholesterol. Reducing the use of trans fats could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths from heart disease a year, the FDA said.
"While consumption of potentially harmful artificial trans fat has declined over the last two decades in the United States, current intake remains a significant public health concern," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said.
Public health advocates welcomed the move.
"Artificial trans fat is a uniquely powerful promoter of heart disease, and today's announcement will hasten its eventual disappearance from the food supply," Michael Jacobson, executive director of the non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest said.
The FDA's proposal is not the first public effort to ban trans fats. New York City banned the use of trans fats in restaurants, and many restaurants and fast food chains, including McDonald's Corp., have eliminated them.
Trans fats are present in a wide range of processed foods including crackers and cookies, frozen pizza and refrigerated dough, coffee creamers and ready-to-use frosting.
Some products will be harder to reformulate than others, FDA officials said.
"We know that technically this is not an insoluble problem," Hamburg told reporters on a conference call, adding that the use of trans fats has declined dramatically since 2006, when the agency required companies to disclose trans fat levels on package labels.
According to the Grocery Manufacturers Association, food manufacturers have voluntarily lowered the amounts of trans fats in their food products by more than 73 percent.
Partially hydrogenated oils are derived from vegetable oils such as soybean. Hydrogenation, a chemical process, converts liquid vegetable oils into solid or semi-solid fats, which are preferred for baking and have a longer shelf life.
The FDA's proposal is subject to a 60-day public comment period in which food companies are expected to outline how long they expect it to take them to reformulate products.
If the proposal becomes final, partially hydrogenated oils would be considered food additives and would not be allowed in food unless authorized by health regulators. The ruling would not affect naturally occurring trans fat that occurs in small amounts in certain meat and dairy products.
Companies wishing to include trans fats in their products would have to meet the safety standards applied to food additives and prove with reasonable certainty that they do not cause harm.
It has been more than half a century since U.S. regulations governing food additives were last revised. In that time, the number of chemicals in the food supply has risen from fewer than 2,000 to an estimated 10,000, many of which are never reviewed by the FDA because companies and their advisers have declared them to be safe.
Under loose regulations created more than 50 years ago to help companies avoid lengthy delays in getting food additives approved, the FDA created a list of products considered "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS).
Companies can either petition to get their ingredients affirmed safe by the FDA, or they can declare them safe based on their own research or that of hired consultants. The FDA has the option to challenge such declarations but has rarely done so.
The FDA's Hamburg said in an interview on Thursday that while the GRAS system provides the current legal framework for regulating food additives, the system bears re-examining to see if it is adequate to ensure the safety of the food supply.
"We do need to be thinking about what is needed to update laws and processes," she said.
The dominant vegetable oil used in the United States is soybean oil. The FDA's announcement sparked a rapid sell-off in Chicago soyoil futures prices by creating uncertainty about the impact on vegetable oil demand.
Soyoil futures fell 1.75 percent to 40.42 cents per pound in midday trading.


The painted desert part of the park (Petrified Forest and Painted Desert National Park) is remarkable. I had seen the Grand Canyon in the morning. The Painted Desert looks like the Grand Canyon on a smaller scale.


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'Who ended the Holocaust?'
Originally published: Strategic Culture by Martin SIEFF (January 29, 2021 ) | - Posted Feb 02, 2021
Inequality, Movements, State Repression, WarGermany, Russia, United StatesNewswireHolocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust Remembrance Hypocrisy, Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Front of the Red Army, Nazi SS, Red Army, the Great Moral Inversion, the Liberation of Auschwitz
Today in the West, while hypocritical empty crocodile tears are wept over the Nazis' victims, real history continues to be suppressed, denied and buried beneath mountains of lies.
The anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 and Holocaust Remembrance Day every year have been hijacked. They have become bizarre photographic negatives of the horrors they were meant to commemorate and manipulated to insult the millions of victims and the heroic warriors who gave their lives to end such horrors
For who ended the Holocaust? Who actually liberated and shut down every one of the six great Nazi industrialized extermination camp killing centers of death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Sobibor, Chelmno, Treblinka and Belzec? Why the Soviet Red Army did of course.
They did not just stroll into camps at the end of the war where the cowardly Nazi SS ubermenschen had just fled for their lives to forever after fearfully claim they were "just following orders." No. From October 1944 when astonished and revolted Red Army soldiers and officers first uncovered the horrors of Majdanek in central Poland to the fierce battle that still cost many lives in the freeing of Auschwitz-Birkenau itself on January 27, 1945, the war was still raging, the Nazi war machine was still fiercely functioning and previous innocent blood had to paid for every yard that was freed.
Yet today, and for many years now, we have entered a world of the Great Moral Inversion. The thousands of precious lives that the extraordinarily dedicated medical staff of Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Front of the Red Army saved at Auschwitz alone are forgotten. Western intellectuals now proclaim a contemptible moral equivalence between those who died fighting to rescue and save, and those who killed them and all the genocide victims.
The scale of this moral inversion–this contemptible behavior that the great Sigmund Freud–whose own sisters and their families died in the Holocaust–identified as "projection," becomes more huge and disgusting every year. We now know that in addition to the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide, at least 20 million innocent Russian civilians were deliberately exterminated too in 200 smaller camps across the occupied East set up and run for that very purpose. Where are the ceremonies and heartfelt tears in the West for them?
The very commander of the heroic unit that liberated Auschwitz, the 1085th 'Tarnopol' Rifle Regiment of Major General Petr Zubov's 322nd Division, was of Ukrainian Jewish origin himself, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Shapiro lived to the age of 92 and eventually died on Long Island in the United States. To the end of his days, he was proud of his lifetime service in the Red Army: He spent the last years of his life combatting the Big Lie of Holocaust denial by neo-Nazis.
By contrast, today in the West, while hypocritical empty crocodile tears are wept over the Nazis' victims, real history continues to be suppressed, denied and buried beneath mountains of lies. And not coincidentally, new Nazi slugs arise from the garbage piles from Ukraine to Washington. Starting with the 2014 U.S. and European Union-backed coup that murderously toppled the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych led to the open, defiant emergence of open neo-Nazi militias and forces that continue to weld disproportionate power in Ukraine, backed by the U.S. government to this day.
New U.S. President Joe Biden has already approved the appointment of one of the open architects and champions of the infamous coup, neocon Victoria Newland, then Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, as the new Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs–the position that basically tells Secretary of State Anthony Blinken what to think. From Kiev to Moscow, Nuland has been remembered unforgettably as "The Cookie Lady" who openly handed out sweet treats on ßthe streets of Kiev to encourage the rioters who were waging revolution and war on their democratically elected government.
But what goes around comes around. Blowback of course is now happening all across the United States. The mob that blundered into the U.S. Capitol, more by luck and permission than by deliberate armed force, on January 6 was mixed with individuals who were idealistic and admirable as well as contemptible clowns. Several white supremacists among them were proudly photographed in Camp Auschwitz T-shirts. One can only imagine how such vile slugs would scream in terror if confronted with any of Marshal Konev's brave real warriors.
The 2014 coup is now called with masterly irony in Wikipedia "The Revolution of Dignity." That is a Big Lie even Josef Goebbels would have envied.
Scores of millions of decent, suffering working class Americans who have been crucified on the crazed policies of global liberalism, open borders and hard drugs on demand for the past half century are now being slandered and conflated with a handful of jerks and agent provocateurs. The new fascism across the West justifies itself by suppressing traditional freedoms and speech by sticking on the Innocent, labels taken from the Guilty.
According to Lev Golinkin, writing on the New York Forward news web site, well over a thousand statues to Nazi war criminals have been erected from the United States to Ukraine over the past 20 years.
"Wherever you see statues of Nazi collaborators, you'll also find thousands of torch-carrying men, rallying, organizing, drawing inspiration for action by celebrating collaborators of the past," Golinkin writes,
In Ukraine, where 25 percent of the Jews killed in the Holocaust died: "In 2016, a major Kyiv boulevard was renamed after [Nazi collaborator Stepan] Bandera. The renaming is particularly obscene since the street leads to Babi Yar, the ravine where Nazis, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, exterminated 33,771 Jews in two days, in one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust," Golinkin continued.
Yet of course, the Biden administration has made clear it is preparing to send even more lethal weapons to arm the ferociously Russian-hating regime which perpetrates such despicable measures.
This obscene farce unfolds now every year, but it is not even a constant: It is getting worse than ever at an exponentially accelerating rate of intensity. One now has to turn to calculus to grasp it.
It is surely more than an ordinary coincidence that on Holocaust Memorial Day this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced its latest setting of its fearful Doomsday Clock assessing the possible imminence of nuclear war.
The experts who set the clock clearly welcomed Joe Biden replacing Donald Trump as U.S. president, a predictable liberal bigotry. Yet they remained clear-eyed enough, scientific enough to recognize and publicly acknowledge that this would be no improvement at all. The setting of the symbolic clock remains at only 100 seconds to midnight, the closest setting to nuclear war in its 74 year history.
It should have been moved much closer–perhaps to only 75 seconds to catastrophe: For the intensifying phenomena on Western Holocaust denial and projection: The obsession with backing real live 21st century Nazis in Ukraine against the descendants of the very people who died to save the world from them, is now clearly linked to the blowback of emerging white supremacy and leftist anti-Russian conspiracy theories alike in the United States.
Stupid and wicked policies pursued across Eastern Europe have driven U.S. policymakers literally mad–or perhaps just even more insane–and that mania has poisoned and destroyed the fading embers of democratic due process and fair play in the United States itself. The two theaters of madness generating more wickedness are inextricably linked. They cannot be separated.
To truly be a great president and bring the peace at home he claims to cherish, President Biden needs to end at last the disastrous policies in Ukraine and elsewhere that he supported as vice president under Barack Obama. But that would be a new idea–and the new president appears to be incapable of ever accepting such things. Then the obscenity of Holocaust Remembrance Hypocrisy will continue–until its madness brings Destruction upon all.
Martin SIEFF, during his 24 years as a senior foreign correspondent for The Washington Times and United Press International, he reported from more than 70 nations and covered 12 wars. He has specialized in U.S. and global economic issues.
Holocaust Remembrance Day Holocaust Remembrance Hypocrisy Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Front of the Red Army Nazi SS Red Army the Great Moral Inversion the Liberation of Auschwitz
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Q: enabling write cache on existing RAID arrays I have an Adaptec 3805 RAID controller and with two arrays without write cache. Now that I have bought the battery module for this controller, can I now enable the write cache on the existing arrays? Or do I need to delete and re-create new arrays with write cache on?

A: You enable/disable the write cache without any other modifications. Just use the same management software you use to create/delete arrays.
You even won't have to reboot.
But I think you make a mistake about Adaptec 3805 RAID controller [...] without write cache. This controller have a write cache. You can use it without the battery. But in case of power loss, the content of the cache is not written to disk.
The purpose of battery backed-up write cache is to allow the cache to be written on disk next time you power on the system.

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A wine lovers housewarming gift. A little play on "mi casa es su casa" the Mi Vino es Su Vino box is for the friends whose door is always open. Whether you're celebrating the new front door of their new home or bringing them a well-earned host gift they are sure to be pleased...and share. Perhaps this box can store all the corks from future nights enjoyed with friends. Engrave a note thanking them for their welcoming friendship.


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drugwar updates: money, child care fronts & more
drug money 'saved banks from collapse'
from daily mail: Drugs money saved some banks from collapse at the height of the global crisis the United Nations' drugs and crime chief claimed today. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, told the Observer that there were signs that some banks were rescued by billions of dollars that 'originated from the drugs trade and other illegal activities.'
Speaking from his office in Vienna, Costa explained that in the second half of 2008, lending was the banking system's main problem. 'The system was basically paralysed because of the unwillingness of banks to lend money to one another,' he told the newspaper. He said he had seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were the 'only liquid investment capital' available to some banks on the verge of collapse last year.
Costa said that as a result, a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economics system, effectively laundering it. The UNs' drugs and crime chief said that he was first made aware of evidence that illegal money was being absorbed into the financial system around 18 months ago, although he would not name countries or banks that may have received drugs money.
drug dealers use child care as front
from jsonline: More than a dozen Wisconsin child-care centers that reaped millions of dollars in state subsidies have had close ties to drug-dealing operations, including big-time crime bosses, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found [18.1mb PDF]. The newspaper identified 16 child-care centers with recent connections to drug operations, and the number is likely much higher. Those 16 alone have collected more than $8.5 million in public subsidies since 2006.
Records show many of those centers have been used to stash and transport drugs, launder dirty cash and provide fake employment for criminals - at taxpayers' expense. In an ongoing investigation that has spanned more than a year, the Journal Sentinel has revealed rampant fraud within Wisconsin Shares, the state's $350 million child-care subsidy program. The investigation has spurred sweeping reforms by lawmakers and regulators, led to more than 130 child-care centers losing public funding and resulted in criminal charges against several providers.
marijuana, prescription drug use up among teens
from csmonitor: A national study widely considered to be an important indicator of youth drug abuse showed progress with some drugs but widespread problems with marijuana and prescription or over-the-counter drugs. The study, compiled by the University of Michigan for the federal National Institute on Drug Abuse, found that 7 of the 10 drugs most abused by high school seniors are prescription or over-the-counter drugs acquired primarily from teens' friends or relatives.
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Can You Really Make Money Taking Surveys Online?
Anyone looking to make money online or work from home has probably heard about earning money by taking surveys. Sounds pretty simple, right? But can you really make money taking surveys online?
Let's take a look and see if this is a legitimate money-making opportunity!
Is It Worth Your Time To Fill Out Paid Surveys?
So, Can You Make Money Taking Surveys Online?
You may have seen ads promising to hook you up with high paying surveys for big bucks. They make it all sound so easy and so profitable. So you're probably wondering if it's really possible or if it's just a bunch of get-rich-quick marketing hype?
First of all, taking surveys online is a legitimate way to make money. It isn't a get-rich-quick scheme, evidenced by the fact that you will definite not get rich doing this! You will probably be able to earn some extra spending money, pay a bill or two, or cover a couple of monthly living expenses.
While there have been a rare few individuals who claim to make a full-time living from filling out surveys, they didn't start making the big bucks overnight. They've been doing it for years and know all the little tricks to maximize their earnings per hour.
However, most people don't have a clue as to how much time it takes to complete paid surveys. Also, you can spend a lot of time researching different programs and signing up for a lot of them to increase your earning potential.
Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should. Yes, you can earn money filling out surveys online, but you could also make money searching parking lots for loose change.
If you jump into the world of paid surveys with high hopes of earning enough money to quit your job or put your kids through college, you're going to be very disappointed. If you're serious about making money with paid surveys, you've got to be realistic.
In the beginning the money will trickle in slowly, and you'll probably ask yourself why you're even bothering to do this. But, if you're willing to stick with it, your earnings will increase as you gain access to higher paying surveys, and learn how to find and take the surveys more quickly.
You need to learn to value your time in relation to how much effort you need to put in to make the money. Patience and discipline are essential if you choose to do this.
Whether you're looking to take surveys online in order to pay a couple of bills or just to earn beer money for the weekend, there are a few things you'll want to do in order to maximize the amount of money you're earning each day.
The first thing is to understand the value of the effort you are putting in. Sounds pretty simple, but a lot of people don't understand how important that is.
Think of it like this, a short survey pays you $.50 to complete it, while another that may take you a little longer to fill out pays you $1.00. You may be thinking that the second one pays twice as much, so that's the one you'd automatically choose.
But are the surveys that pay $1.00 always the best just because they are higher pay? You also have to evaluate your time to find out. Suppose the $1.00 survey takes 10 minutes to complete, but you can knock out 3 of the $.50 surveys in that amount of time. In that case, you're better off taking the lower paying surveys.
When you start thinking about it like this, you can pick and choose the surveys that give you the best chance of maximizing your earnings and time. Best of all, many of the places where you'll find these surveys, such as MTurk, give you an estimate on how long it will take to complete.
So understanding the value of your earnings in relation to your time and effort will help you to zero in on the surveys that can put the most amount of money in your pocket in the least amount of time.
Okay, so if you really want to do this, it only makes sense that you'll want to find the best surveys that pay you the most. Unfortunately, that can be kind of hard to pin down.
The reason is that high paying surveys typically won't be available to you, at least not right away. This is because in most cases you need to build a reputation with the site they're hosted on, or because you need certain qualifications. Seriously, some surveys require you to have certain college degrees to be eligible to take them.
The best thing you can do is begin browsing survey sites like MySurvey, Valued Opinions, and Swagbucks to get a feel for what they have to offer, and which ones meet your needs the best.
Remember, there is nothing saying you can't sign up for more than one site. In fact, the more sites you sign up for, the more options you'll have.
In the end though, you'll probably narrow down your preferences to just a few sites that you like best. And don't forget, some sites, like MTurk and Swagbucks, have other non-survey tasks you can complete for cash as well, so keep that in mind while you're looking around, and trying things out.
The answer is yes, but not a lot. You'll need to spend a lot of time and effort for not a lot of cash coming into your pocket. But if you're just looking for some extra spending money and you have a lot of time, it could be worth checking out.
If you're looking for more substantial income, I recommend starting an online business with your own website. This is what I did to earn extra money and have been able to quit my job and retire early!
The most popular ways to make money online are blogging, affiliate marketing, or selling products online. These are much more lucrative in the long run than something like taking paid surveys.
The best thing is that you can start 2 free websites, start online marketing training, and get help from a community of successful marketers with the program I use–all without even putting a credit card down! This program is Wealthy Affiliate, and you can read my in-depth review here to get more information.
Have you taken paid surveys online to earn extra cash? Have any tips or suggestions for those looking to start? We'd love to hear them in the comments below!
I started out filling out surveys in my early days on the internet. I also found out that you don't make much money, and you spend a lot of time trying to find good surveys to take. I quickly found out you might as well work for minimun wage at a part time job. You would earn more per hour! If I had a college degree, you wouldn't think I would need to fill out surveys.
And starting your own business requires good training, and self motivation. You must be able to wear many hats when you are in charge! Does Wealthy Affiliates provide all the resources to create all the different types of business you mention?
Wealthy Affiliate provides all the resources you need to start a website and online business. Their focus is affiliate marketing and blogging, but I have learned a great deal about freelance writing, selling products online, and creating eBooks from their community forum.
This community is extremely active with members who are building online businesses of all types and niches. So you can ask questions that will educate you on all the resources you need to be successful!
I have tried surveys and while they do pay, you are right in stating that you probably will not get a significant income from them ( you probably spend more on electricity and internet costs!) I think setting up your own website is a far better option because your hard work will determine how much you can make (among other factors).
Having your own sustainable online business is much better than relying on someone else who much shut down their survey site tomorrow! It is also nice to have digital real estate that you can sell or leverage to reach a financial goal.
You are very right, and thanks for bringing up a subject that I haven't touched on much in my site–making money by selling websites. It's a very legitimate way to earn income once you've got some experience, and it can be very lucrative!
You've encountered one of the most frustrating things about taking surveys online–the time it takes to find surveys that you're qualified for. In the long run, it may be more beneficial for your time to start with Wealthy Affiliate's free starter membership where you can create 2 websites. Then you can spend your time creating content for your sites that can earn money down the road!
Some people think that online surveys are great for making money. What you need to do is to sign up, wait for survey alerts, then zip through the questions of different survey and then survey sites add the cash or other rewards to your account. It's fun and its good money for just being honest about your thoughts but if you want to earn full-time income then Wealthy Affiliate is a great place to start and grow your business.
Thank you for sharing your tips and experience with taking surveys online!
Great post. I've tried out online surveys as a way to make money online during my days as a newbie to MMO. It was frustrating, I never made enough to reach minimum payout, sometimes after filling pages of questionnaires, I'll not be qualified for the surveys.
Just like you, I'm on WA now. my only regret is not joining sooner. I've learnt a lot from wealthy affiliate and I've saved time/money on searching. Thanks for sharing.
My problems with filling out surveys was the fact that there were never enough available during the time I had to do them, or that I wasn't qualified, like you said. It doesn't make a difference if a survey only takes 10 minutes if you have to spend 30 minutes or more finding it or trying to qualify for it!
With Wealthy Affiliate you're not going to make money right away and it takes a lot of effort, but it's extremely lucrative and low cost if you commit and stick to it. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
From my own experience, a lot of get paid to fill in surveys are not available in my country. So that leaves very few other opportunities and as you mention, one doesn't get paid a lot for doing the survey.
The other issue I have is with having to provide personal information in the survey and I'm not comfortable with that. From this point of view, I'm skeptical as to why they need that information for the survey if it's about a product or item.
One would be better off spending time creating their own website and creating reviews of Paid To Fill In Surveys and earn more money that way.
Providing personal information is definitely something that many people are not comfortable with and is another reason they get turned off from filling in surveys. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment!
thanks for the information! Some years ago I was looking for ways to earn some extra money and found some survey sites but It looked like you have to spend a lot of time for so little money. I kept searching and found Wealthy Affiliate and have never looked back. It is an awesome community to learn and started your business!
Starting an online business is definitely the way to go to earn money online, and Wealthy Affiliate has everything you need to be successful if you're going into it with the right mindset. Paid surveys are for someone who has a lot of time, needs to stay at home, and doesn't need substantial income. For everyone else, I recommend an online business.
This is a great article on taking paid surveys. Years ago I made my first money online with paid surveys. Im not going to lie it took a lot of my time for very little money. I have since moved on to bigger and better things.
However my wife does do surveys and she usually does it on the go. Sitting at the Dr office, cleaning house and so forth. She does a lot of surveys and makes maybe the best ever maybe 200 in a month but usually between 50 and 100 dollars.
It can be a good place for starters who have nothing but time and have absolutely no money to get into a great opportunity.
It's great that your wife has found a way to make some money by taking surveys! By using her extra time while doing other things, she's able to make some spending money and make it work for her–thanks for sharing!
Thanks Janelle, I have found doing surveys to be a thankless and painful task. The reason being is that for many of the platforms you need to do fairly extensive initial surveys so that they can match you to appropriate surveys down the track. You do not get paid for these qualifying surveys and they can take a very long time. Then, depending on the platform, you may only ever get a couple a week. Which means if you want to make any money you have to sign up for MULTIPLE survey platforms. You really only make peanuts at the end of it. I think many of them bank on the fact that people give up before they ever cash out their first payment. Affiliate marketing is a far better option in my opinion.
I think you're absolutely right. I know that I was one of the ones a few years ago who signed up for a lot of sites and then got frustrated and left money on the table–which was very little!
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Organochlorine analysis Analyses of OCs were performed at the Environmental Toxicology Laboratory at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in Oslo. OCs were quantified in blood samples using the methods described by Brevik (1978) with modification by Bernhoft et al. (1997). Briefly, samples were homogenised and extracted twice with cyclohexane and acetone using an ultrasonic homogeniser. Extractable fat was determined gravimetrically and cleanup was done with ultra-clean sulphuric acid. The samples were injected on a gas chromatograph with a 60-m SB-5 and SPB-1701 capillary column and an electron capture detector. Due to the strong correlations between different PCB-congeners in glaucous gull samples from the Svalbard area Henriksen et al. (1998) we considered it cost-efficient to quantify only nine of the major PCB-congeners in the blood and fish samples. High correlation between congeners would in any case prevent assigning possible effects to specific PCB-congeners. The following OCs were determined in the blood samples; hexachlorobenzene (HCB), -oxychlordane, p,p'-DDE (1,1-dichloroethylene bis[p-chlorophenyl]), p,p'-DDT (dichlorodiphenyl-trichloro-ethane), and 9 PCB-congeners (IUPAC nos.): 28, 99, 101, 118, 138, 153, 156, 170, and 180. In addition trans-chlordane, cis-chlordane, trans-nonachlordane, and PCB congeners 47, 74, 66, 149, 114, 105, 187, 128, 196, 189, 194, 206 were analysed in the blood samples from the field experiment in 1998. In the fish samples HCB, oxychlordane, p,p'-DDE, and nine PCB congeners (28, 52, 99,101, 118, 138, 153, 170, and 180) were analysed. It was decided to analyse an enlarged series for the egg samples. This to have an as good as possible overview over the exponation of OCs given. The following OCs were analysed in eggs; HCB, ?-HCH (1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexanes), ?-HCH, ?-HCH, oxy-chlordane, trans-chlordane, cis-chlordane, trans-nonachlordane, p,p'-DDE, o,p'-DDD, p,p'-DDD, p,p'-DDT, mirex, and 33 PCB congeners (IUPAC numbers; 28, 31, 52, 47, 74, 66, 56, 101, 99, 87, 136, 110, 151, 149, 118, 114, 153, 105, 141, 137, 138, 187, 183, 128, 156, 157, 180, 170, 199, 196, 189, 194, and 206). Percentage recoveries were in the in the range of 80-115%. Quantification limits for individual OCs were 0.9-28 ng g-1 extractable liver lipids. The laboratory's analytical quality has been approved in several intercalibration tests, including the four steps of the ICES/IOC/OSPARCOM intercomparison exercise on the analysis of PCBs in marine media. The laboratory is accredited (1996) by the Norwegian Accreditation as a testing laboratory for quantification of PCBs and selected chlorinated pesticides in biological matrices according to the requirements of NS-EN 45001 and ISO/IEC guide 25. Immune analysis Method developments for immunological studies on glaucous gull were started in September 1998 when 19 birds of different age were sampled. Blood and spleen lymphocytes were isolated in the field to measure their general immune response. Techniques for measuring lymphocyte proliferation were also developed. The aim of the immunological part of the project was to develop knowledge and methods to test the immune competence and the immune response in glaucous gull. By testing the immune response to specific antigens and measuring specific lymphocyte activities it would be possible to assess the ability of glaucous gulls to resist specific infections without performing challenge studies. In 1998 an operational cell culture laboratory were established in the field. The immune response of lymphocytes was measured in blood collected from glaucous gulls of different ages. Lymphocytes were isolated from peripheral blood by using different purification techniques and a method was developed for measuring lymphocyte proliferation. A whole blood technique was also tested without success in glaucous gull. The capability of the lymphocytes to respond was measured by the lymphocyte proliferation test using in vitro stimulation with different mitogens such as Phytohemagglutinin (PHA), Concanavalin A (Con A), Poke Weed mitogen (PWM), purified protein derivate of mycobacterium (PPD), lipopolysakkarid of E.coli (LPS).


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Want a Nativity Scene in your yard to show the true meaning of Christmas? Here are 25 unique manger scene ideas. Some are home made and original designs, others are store bought. Some pictures show interesting ideas for displaying and lighting these Manger scenes. Christmas nativity scene is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects representing the scene of the birth of Jesus. A nativity scene takes its inspiration from the accounts of the birth of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. A static nativity scene may be erected indoors or outdoors during the Christmas season, and is composed of figurines depicting the infant Jesus resting in a manger, Mary, and Joseph. 15 Christmas Nativity Sets Design Ideas for This Year.


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Ivelina Ilieva (), née le  à Haskovo, est une judokate bulgare.

Palmarès international en judo

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The National Park Authority will be putting fire risk warning signs up on key sites advising people what they can do to help to reduce the risk. The signs will remain in place until the fire risk passes.
A reduction in rainfall, coupled with very dry ground vegetation such as heather and bracken, has prompted the decision by the National Park Authority to put the North York Moors on fire alert.
Even if rain is forecast, it may not be enough to make a difference to conditions on the moors.
"Past experience has shown us that under these types of conditions, moorland fires can spread extremely quickly causing significant damage to the landscape and its wildlife.
"The message we want to give to people is please do come and enjoy the North York Moors and as the majority of moorland fires can be prevented, please take extra care and follow the advice on the signs, such as avoiding lighting fires and BBQs and to not discard cigarettes, matches or glass bottles including throwing cigarette ends out of car windows."
If people see a fire, they should report it quickly to the Fire & Rescue Service by dialling 999 so that they can take the appropriate action.


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Mound City (1862-1865)
USS Mound City, a 512-ton Cairo class ironclad river gunboat, built at Mound City, Illinois, for the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla. was commissioned in January 1862. She was actively engaged in combat operations during the later winter and spring of 1862, participating in the action at Columbus, Kentucky, in February, the capture of the Island Number Ten fortress in March and April, and operations against Fort Pillow in May. She was twice rammed by Confederate steamers off Fort Pillow on 10-11 May, requiring her withdrawal for repairs.
Mound City returned to action in June and was badly damaged by enemy cannon fire during a bombardment at St. Charles, Arkansas. Repaired again, she was involved in operations in the Yazoo River, Vicksburg and Grand Gulf campaigns during 1862-63. In March-May 1864, Mound City participated in the Red River expedition. Her activities during the remainder of the Civil War involved guard and patrol duties and excursions up Mississippi River tributaries. Decommissioned after the end of the conflict, USS Mound City was sold in November 1865 and broken up in 1866.
This page features views of USS Mound City and provides links to pictures of her actions.
For additional images, showing USS Mound City's Civil War actions, see:
USS Mound City -- Actions and Activities.
USS Mound City (1862-1865)
Photographed on the Western Rivers, circa 1864-65.
Note pilothouse constructed atop her armored conning tower, deckhouse constructed forward of her paddle box, and light-colored five-pointed stars mounted on the fronts of her smokestacks.
Photographed on the Western Rivers, 1864.
Note rowing boats in the foreground. That at left has a fancy-edged awning.
"City" Class ironclad gunboats
Off Cairo, Illinois, in 1863, with barges moored in the foreground.
These ships are (from left to right):
USS Baron de Kalb (1862-1863);
USS Cincinnati (1862-1865) and
USS Mound City (1862-1865).
Boats are tied astern of Baron de Kalb and Cincinnati.
Photo #: NH 56663-A
Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981.
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Note: This image shows somewhat more on the right side and somewhat less on the left side than Photo # NH 56663. Ship images are also not quite as sharp, though trees in the distance are much more distinct.
"Commodore Foote's Gun-boat Flotilla on the Mississippi"
Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
Ships are identified below the image as (from left to right): Mound City, Essex, Cairo, Saint Louis, Louisville, Benton, Pittsburg and Lexington.