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The Hidden History of Hans Scholl
by fyeahhistory May 7, 2019 June 25, 2019
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From a poster boy for the Nazi regime to a rebel determined to bring them down, discover the hidden history of Hans Scholl
A leader of the rebel student group, The White Rose, who fought against the Nazi regime and was ultimately arrested and executed for his actions- alongside his sister Sophie and friend Cristoph- Hans Scholl is undoubtedly a hero of history.
But in recent years Hans story has largely been overshadowed, at least in terms of the popular historical narrative, by his sister, Sophie. And that make sense. Sophie Scholl has become one of the most well known women in modern history. Growing up she pretty much the first (non royal) female figure from history that I learnt about in depth; she was on my school curriculum, there were countless books and films about her and every year on her death social media goes into a flurry remembering this incredible young woman. So is it unfair that when raising up women in an incredibly over saturated historical narrative, sometimes those men that stood with them will become a footnote. Of course. Is it understandable? Sadly, yes.
But we can't let that happen to Hans Scholl. Here's why:
We're just realising that a huge part of Hans story has been intentionally buried. He was most likely bisexual, and before his work with The White Rose he had actually been arrested for homosexuality.
More importantly – because Hans challenges what we think a hero is.
He didn't just start on the wrong side of history, he was at the 1936 Nuremberg rally as a poster-boy for the Nazi regime.
It's so easy to look at history and say 'I would have been the one to stand up, risk it all and fight', it's much harder to do. And that's why we need stories like Hans, especially in the current global political climate! So, without further ado, lets dive into the hidden history of Hans Scholl.
The Scholl siblings with their Dad Robert – Inge, Hans, Elisabeth, Sophie and Werner
Born in 1918 in Forchtenberg Hans was the second oldest of his siblings, Inge, Elisabeth, Sophie, Werner and Thilde.
He joined The Hitler Youth, with his brothers and sisters all following suit. But though the siblings all revelled in their roles in this new nation creating youth group, their parents weren't so keen.
Their father, Robert, was incredibly against the rising Nazi Regime. A former mayor, he'd actually been kicked out of office for his progressive views. But this didn't stop him from still vocalising his thoughts against Hitlers rise to power. And so the Scholl children joined the Hitler Youth against their parents wishes. No matter how much Robert debated Hitler and his government's policies with his children, they just rolled their eyes. As Elisabeth later said, the reason behind the kids refusal to budge was one as old as time:
'We just dismissed it: he's too old for this stuff, he doesn't understand'
Their dad was from a different generation, one whose future ambitions were limited, a hangover from the nationwide social and economic scarring from Germany's defeat in WW1. And so, his children thought that there was just no way he could get the kind of bold promises that were being made by Adolf Hitler under the guise of National Socialism.
Hans believed in the promise of the Nazis. A future lay before him full of opportunity and better yet it was a future where he was more than wanted. Tall, strong, smart, blonde and blue eyed, Hans was the ideal young man for Germany's future. Even being chosen as a flag bearer at 1936's Nuremberg Rally.
He was prepped as a potential high ranking official in the parties future. Hans natural leadership skills nurtured and honed.
But that's not to say that Hans hadn't started to notice things that jarred. At the Nuremberg Rally, he met party leaders whose extreme views shocked him. With these men there was no room for debate or discussion on how things should or could be. Their world view was set in stone, the Nazi ideology the only true answer. They would even dictate what Hans could read, with a leader snatching a book by one of the era's most popular authors, the Jewish born, Stefan Zweig, out of Hans' hands, declaring it to be banned.
Still Hans continued. He returned to his normal life, now a Hitler Youth troop leader.
Though his day to day was struck through to the core with the Nazi ideals, their ever rising power everywhere, Hans life felt a world away from the zealotry of the Nuremberg Rally. But then Hans allowed his troop to create their own banner. Intertwining the organisations existing banner with meaningful tributes from the boys own lives and community. And the unbudging might of the Nazi Regime came crashing down. Hans was out, his role as a Hitler Youth Leader gone.
At the same time, as Hans run in with the regime, the Scholl siblings noticed that their Jewish classmates were leaving school. Sophie, was disciplined for performing a poem by a Jewish poet. And all the while there were whispered stories of young people being spirited away to camps after speaking out against the party.
Suddenly they realised their parents had been right all along. As the new order that the Scholl siblings had believed in so deeply mutated into something entirely different, all they could do was huddle ever closer together as the world around them span out of control.
Hans and his brother Werner
Possibly seeking some escape, teenage Hans and Werner both joined a chapter of the German Youth Movement. For a few hours they could lose the harsh realities of home and flee to the woods; hiking, swimming and singing round campfires.
But the respite didn't last long and in 1937, at nineteen, Hans was conscripted to carry out mandatory military duties.
By all accounts Hans did well in the army. Just like in his Hitler Youth days he was held in esteem by his superiors. He joined the Calvary and it was expected that he despite his previous indiscretions, this young man would achieve great things.
But that didn't happen. Because on December 13 1937, Hans was arrested by the Gestapo.
Hans was arrested along with his brother Werner and sisters, Inge and Sophie, as well as several other youths. They were accused of being in an illegal youth group, which was true.
In 1936 most youth groups outside of government sanctioned ones, were outlawed. So those days Hans had spent in hiking and camping with his friends were illegal.
Still, this was a minor infraction committed by well behaved middle class kids. And so Sophie, Inge and Werner were released.
But Hans was kept incarcerated. It had come out during the investigation that he had committed a far greater crime:
Hans had fallen for another boy in his youth group, Rolf Futterknecht. The two shared an teenage romance; the kind of idlic first love whose relationship blossomed throughout their weekend camping trips.
There's little to suggest that this relationship outlived the typical teenage relationship, but as with any first love, it left a lasting impact. Which could explain why, despite Rolf having admitted to the affair under questioning, by the time Hans was interrogated he still sought to shield Rolf from the full criminal impact, saying:
'I must admit I am the guilty party. To some extent I was seen by (Rolf) as someone in a position of authority to who he subordinated himself.'
Though later in the interrogation saying:
'I can only justify my actions on the basis of the great love I felt'
Rolf was spared being charged, in return for testifying against Hans.
Ultimately Hans was found guilty.
But he was lucky. Thanks to his previous roles in the Hitler Youth and already strong military record, a lot of people came out to bat for him during sentencing. All of this combined meant that Hans' judge was persuaded to let him go free. Putting it all down to youthful 'indiscretion'.
Hans was lucky. His friend, Ernst Reden was not. A fellow member of the illegal youth group, Ernst was also put on trial for homosexuality and was sentenced to a term in a concentration camp, where he would join hundreds of other men and women, all guilty of the same 'crime'. By the end of the Nazi regime, thousands of those branded with the pink triangle badge would perish inside the camps.
Much later, Hans surviving family would choose not to let this part of his life become public knowledge, perhaps scared that his sexuality and arrest might in some way stop people from remembering him as a 'hero'. This chapter of Hans' life was missing, glossed over and was only uncovered in full recently when historians started re-examining the Gestapo transcripts from the trial.
Alexander Schmorell and Hans in their military uniforms
Following his trial, Hans wrote in his diary:
'If you tear our hearts from our bodies, you yourselves will burn to death for it'
Inwardly, he may have started to battle against the dictatorship he now lived under, but that's not what Hans was portraying to the outside world.
He was a young man who had just gone through a hugely traumatic experience. He now knew the full ramifications that being 'caught' in love could cause. Yes, he wanted to speak out -after all he'd done so before – but at what cost? Hans knew full well that you didn't get three strikes in Nazi Germany – one more arrest and he'd be out.
So he quietly continued his life. He gained a place to study medicine in Munich and when World War Two kicked off, he worked as a medic on the front line.
Here he met other young men, who like him had hopefully believed in the Nazis promised utopian future and were now getting their legs blown off for their trouble.
He slept in homes whose families had been thrown into the street, shipped off or now lay dead nearby. He saw not only the horrors of war but realised the emerging scale of the atrocities that were now being carried out at home.
Then, in 1942 Hans' father was arrested. Robert was reported for speaking out against Hitler and the war, and was sentenced to four months in prison. The family rallied around their father as best they could. They wrote to him every two weeks (all they were allowed to do) with Sophie attempting to see her father by playing music for him under the prison window she believed him to be in.
Hans was on the front line when the arrest happened. Away from home, he hoped he might be able to help by using his position in the army to plead for clemency on behalf of his dad. But he was talked out of doing so by a senior in the army. Feeling powerless he wrote to his mum:
"…I think so much about father, and in the way it can only happen in Russia, I shoot up the whole tone-scale of my personality to the highest tone of rage"
That rage boiled inside him. Hans knew how unstoppable the Nazi regime was. The unthinkable damage it would do if allowed to continue. Yes he knew the risks, but someone had to speak up. To fight tyranny with fact and freedom of thought. Slowly his rage evolved into resolve. And by the time Hans arrived back in Munich to continue his studies, he was a fully changed man.
The White Rose was ready to bloom.
Hans, his sister Sophie and Cristoph Probst, leaders of the White Rose
The White Rose has gone down in history as arguably the most well known civilian resistance group to fight the Nazi regime. Primarily made up of students, they were the antithesis to the brutality they sought to bring down. Utilising intellectual passive protest to both oppose and spread awareness of the atrocities being committed by the regime.
There is no true historical consensus on exactly how the White Rose was formed. However we do know that Hans was at the heart of its conception, along with fellow students, Alexander Schmorell, Juegen Wittenstien, Christopher Probst, Will Graf and Hans younger sister, Sophie. The group committed themselves to turning the tide against Hitlers regime. And unlike the Nazis they vowed not to change minds by brute force, but by arming people with the truth.
Protest graffiti was painted in the dead of night, secret meetings held and an illegal printing factory created.
The groups numbers swelled, secretly assisted and advised by one of the university's staff, Professor Huber. Hans soon emerged as the leader of the White Rose.
Time and time again, Hans was warned of the grave risk his actions put him in. That if caught, he'd pay the ultimate price. But Hans remained undeterred. He had a duty to tell people about the atrocities happening under their noses, to reach people that were, like he had once been, tied up into the Nazi regime. To show that there was another way.
And so when the White Rose's printing press whirred into action, it marked hundreds of papers with the words:
'We will not be silenced. We are your bad conscience.'
Text from the first White Rose leaflet, from The Holocaust Research Project
The group secretly organised to spread their leaflets through multiple German cities and targeted them both at the general population and directly mailed them to influential higher ups.
Their message was heard far and wide, as the group exposed hidden atrocities, and called for people to stand up and be heard in the struggle for freedom of speech.
On 18 February 1943, Hans and Sophie joined forces to arrange another leaflet drop. They set their sights on the main Munich University building, leaving bundles of leaflets outside lecture halls for students to come across after classes had finished. As they were about to leave, they realised a number of leaflets were leftover and so in the final push of the day, tossed them over a staircase onto the universities atrium floor. The leaflets lying as an inescapable carpet of protest for anyone entering or exiting the building.
But the pair were seen and quickly captured.
Evidence was gathered and Hans and Sophie were arrested, along with fellow White Rose member and a young father of three, Cristoph Probst, after a draft leaflet signed by him was found in one of the siblings rooms.
Gestapo mug shots of Sophie and Hans Scholl
Four days later on 22 February 1943, Christoph, Sophie and Hans were all made to take part in a show trial. The judge, Roland Freisler was notorious for both his harshness and for deciding sentencing before a trial had actually begun.
Hans and Sophie were both fortunate enough to be able to see their families in court. Christoph pleaded for the judge to think of his three children and now sick wife.
It fell on deaf ears. Freisler found all three guilty of treason and sentenced them to death. The sentence would be carried out that evening.
Before being rushed out of court, Hans managed to say goodbye to his parents, and urge his brother Werner, who was on the verge of tears to:
"stay strong. No compromises."
That evening, after being allowed to briefly meet again one last time, brother, sister and friend, were all beheaded by guillotine. Hans' last words were a defiant:
"Long live freedom"
Hans Scholl, Cristoph Probst and Sophie Scholl
But the story doesn't end there. The rest of the Scholl family were arrested whilst they ate breakfast. It was an act of Sippenhaft, a German term that means families take responsibility for the action of their kin. Thousands more families like the Scholls would be arrested as WW2 marched on.
Professor Huber, along with students and White Rose members, Hans Leiput, Willi Graf, Alexander Schmorell were all executed after quick show trials.
This was quickly followed by more of the members being rounded up and either sent to the front line or to prison.
Then in late 1943, a group of Hamburg students who'd been inspired by The White Rose and were attempting to keep the movement alive, were captured. Reinhold Meyer, Katharina Leipelt, Elisabeth Lange, Greta Rolfe, Kurt Leiden, Friedrich Rudolf Geussenhainer, and Margarethe Mrosek, would all die, either from disease or hunger in prison, or hastily executed without trial as the war came to a close.
Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Katharina Leipelt, Friedrich Rudolf Geussenhainer, Margarethe Mrosek and Professor Huber
Shortly after Hans, Sophie and Cristoph's deaths, the White Rose sixth, final and censored leaflet was liberated. Mass printed and released with the heading:
'Despite everything their spirit lives on'
It was spread across Germany. Copies dropped as a form of peaceful bombing by The Royal Airforce. The leaflets wound their way around Europe before going trans Atlantic. They showed a side to the German people many on the allied side had forgotten. With anecdotal evidence, historians believe that the word of the White Rose even found its way into concentration camps.
To this day the White Rose remains a key part of world history, taught in school and a constant reminder that even the quietest voice can be heard through the darkness.
And that brings me back to why Hans Scholl's story is so important.
'Heroes' aren't born a'la Harry Potter. There's no crack of green light and suddenly you're the chosen one. It's just normal people, with mistakes and pasts, but who make that difficult choice. And sometimes those people are remembered and celebrated. But sometimes, like Hans, they're an 'and'; parts of their history glossed over. Their story is just to spikey, there's too much grey, there's no clear hero moment. But the difference they made, big or small, still echoes.
So here's to not only Hans, but all of the forgotten members of the White Rose. Whose true stories may just be being discovered, but whose legacies live on.
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Alex Cochrane says:
Fascinating insight into Hans's story and history.
Great article, really interesting to read about Hans' journey.
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Q: How do I expand the state $| x \rangle$ in terms of another orthogonal basis? In my quantum mechanics textbook it says that the relation between the basis $|x\rangle$ and $|p\rangle$ is given by:
$\langle p | x \rangle = \Large \frac{e^{-ip x/ \hbar}}{\sqrt{2\pi \hbar}} \, .$
However, i'm not sure how to go about proving this relation. My idea was that the eigenstates of momentum can be written as below:
$\phi(x,p) = \Large \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi \hbar}} e^{-ipx/\hbar},$
which form an orthogonal basis.
But, we can expand any state, $|\text{state}\rangle$, in terms of the othorgonal basis right? So is my notation below correct for the expansion of the state $| x \rangle$ ?
$|x\rangle = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \phi(p', x) |p'\rangle dp'$
If it were correct then the following would also be correct?
Using the fact that $\langle p | p' \rangle = \delta(p - p')$, $\langle p | x \rangle$ can be computed:
\begin{align}
\langle p | x \rangle
=& \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \phi(p', x) \langle p | p' \rangle dp' \\
=& \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \phi(p', x) \delta(p - p') dp' \\
=& \phi(p, x) \\
=& \Large \frac{e^{-ip x/ \hbar}}{\sqrt{2\pi \hbar}}
\end{align}
as required.
Does the logic work here?

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The sweet spot is the point where the advertised draw weight will be the actual drawn weight, drawing past this point will result in a rapid increase in draw weight known as 'stacking' which may make you inaccurate as you'd be pulling more weight than expected, and drawing your bow too short will result in an underpowered shot.
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As a simple rule of thumb bow length should be at least double your draw length, but this doesn't always correlate to a good decision, so the values in this table should assist.
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7. The Missionary Trails From Osage Mission
"Osage Mission was a great distributing center of civilization in the state because of the nature of its organization, the genius of the missionaries, the accessibility of its location, its long duration, and its numerous outposts flung across southern Kansas."
Sister Mary Paul Fitzgerald, Beacon on the Plains.
When Sister Fitzgerald wrote Beacon on the Plains in 1939, her focus was on Kansas. Appendix H of the book lists 113 missionary stations and churches established in Kansas by the Jesuits from Osage Mission. That number included Osage Mission itself.
Now we know that number exceeds 150 and we continue to find more. We also know that the Jesuit missionary range extended from Mount Vernon, Missouri, west to Pueblo Colorado; and from the Santa Fe Trail, south to central and southern Oklahoma. The number does not include three Wyoming missions served by Father Ponziglione after he left our Mission.
This is only one example of the widespread influence that emanated from our small southeast Kansas town.
The "Missions" of the Catholic Mission
The Catholic Mission was a government sponsored Indian school operated by the Jesuits. In that capacity it operated from 1847, winding down by 1870. What is less understood is another role of the Jesuit missionaries: That was disseminating the Catholic faith in the area south of the Santa Fe Trail. The term of this work spanned from 1847 well into the 1880's and the Jesuits were very successful in this endeavor.
Click on the image to enlarge it a bit. A downloadable image will be added later.
The map above is unreadable but a mouse click enlarges it a bit. As you look at the image it is interesting to look for individual towns and locations. Perhaps it is more interesting to note the density of the dots as you move away from the Catholic Mission. The heaviest density of missionary work was in an area from Mt. Vernon, Missouri, west to Wichita, Kansas; and from the Santa Fe Trail, south to northern Oklahoma—but there are also many in east central Kansas to the western Oklahoma region. Then, you move west to the scattered outposts like Fort Larned, Dodge and Pueblo, Colorado. Many, not all, of the mission stations in the 100 mile radius were founded in the span of 1847 through the late 1860's. The majority of those stations, and the Oklahoma stations, were founded and served by priests on horseback or horse and wagon.
Those who have hiked in mountains or canyons have found themselves surrounded by terrain, with no visual bearing beyond the immediate hills or rocks. If you have done so, you can appreciate the challenges of navigating the steep valleys of the Kansas Flint Hills or Oklahoma Osage hills using only time, sun position and a well-developed sense of direction. There were no water towers, power lines, hedge rows and only a few trails and dusty roads to assist with navigation. A few thoughts about the missionary trails of the Jesuits are discussed below:
The Adventurous, Romantic Lives of the Trail Riders.
There is little doubt that men like Fathers Paul Ponziglione or Philip Colleton were driven by the burning desire to spread God's word, fueled by a dose of wanderlust. Not all priests were cut out to do the incessant traveling, planning and then riding again as a very small group of trail riders. There are paintings and statues of missionaries riding tall in the saddle with a prayer book in hand. Their day's ride often ended, with head on saddle under a starlit sky—they did that. But those who imagine sleeping on the prairie probably don't consider burrowing inside of a wool blanket on a 90 degree evening to escape an onslaught of hundreds of mosquitoes. They did that too!
It was hard, dirty, hazardous work. The priests spent much of their time in the saddle, or on a wagon seat behind a team of horses. Food was often a supply of dried biscuits and smoked meat packed among hosts, a chalice, a small oil lamp, prayer books and other things the rider might need to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass or to read his prayers after dark. On one excursion to Wichita Father Ponziglione, dressed in boots, flannel shirt and broad hat was so caked with grime that locals considered driving the tramp out of town—luckily a Catholic familiar with the priest intervened.
During the late 1850's through mid-60's they had to be vigilant of roaming bands of Confederate guerillas or inebriated Union troops, either of which might decide to execute a stranger on the roadside. Horses went lame, wagon axles broke and illness could incapacitate. Father Colleton got caught in a hailstorm in 1869 and had to take shelter under his saddle to avoid injury. If a serious problem occurred, the lone rider had to solve it himself. Not doing so could be fatal.
Snow-Packed Trails.
Fathers Ponziglione and Colleton made long excursions during the winter months. Traveling could be miserable, but the likelihood of finding people at home was higher. One such excursion nearly took Father Paul's life as described in Graves' "Life and Letters of Fathers Ponziglione, Schoenmakers, …."
"…. On one occasion he came near losing his life in a Kansas blizzard on the prairie between Winfield and Howard. In those days there were few fences and roads between towns were merely trails across the country. The good Father was on his way home from a long trip in the "southwest country" when a "northerner" came up, and with it came a driving snow which soon covered all traces of the trail. The broad prairie was one wide expanse of white. He was not very familiar with the country and lost his way. He kept driving but came in sight of no habitation. In due time his horses became so weary from the long trip in the storm that they could go no farther. They stopped in a valley with the back of the buggy to the wind that it might afford some protection from the storm. The Father was so cold he could do nothing for his horses. There he was out on the open prairie, he knew not where, with his horses exhausted, a storm raging and no aid in sight. Neither he nor his horses had anything to eat since morning, and night was coming on. There he sat in his buggy, telling his beads when Abe Steinberger, now of Oklahoma, but at that time a Kansas newspaper man, came along on his way to Howard from Winfield, driving a team of big horses. Mr. Steinberger told the writer of seeing the buggy a short distance off the trail and going to it. "The good Lord will take care of me," was the reply the Father gave his inquiry as to how he came to be there, but he was so cold he could hardly speak this loud enough to be heard in the storm. Mr. Steinberger helped the Father into his own buggy, wrapped him in a buffalo robe, tied his horses behind his buggy and proceeded to Howard. Half pulling the horses behind, they made slow progress but reached Howard just after dark. Father Ponziglione was put to bed in a hotel and given "hot drinks," and altho no serious results followed his experience, he was not able to proceed homeward for nearly a week."
Iron Trails.
With the coming of railroads, the trail riders had the occasional luxury of a new means of travel. However two clips from Father Ponziglione's writings suggest he had some mixed feelings about the fledgling railroads:
"Since the introduction of railroads in this section of Kansas our way of travelling has changed considerably. Heretofore we went exclusively horseback, now however sometimes we travel as gentlemen in palatial cars."
In another place he said: " … travelling now becomes difficult, nay dangerous, and this especially upon our new rail-roads which are built rather superficially, in fact, here and there long tracks of grading are washed away, and bridges carried off, the result of this is that cars frequently run down from embankments and people are crippled and killed."
This last clip leads to a discussion of a rail accident when a bridge on the Ouachita River [likely in Arkansas] washed out. The train, which was carrying a large number of construction laborers, and Father Colleton, derailed landing many of the men in the river. There were injuries and two fatalities, but another stout Irishman pulled Father Philip from the water by his collar. But Father Colleton's railroad problems got much, much worse.
In a letter written in 1873 Father Ponziglione described a horrible accident that, again, involved Father Colleton. The priest was returning from Pueblo on a construction train loaded with 200 workers and equipment. They became snowbound in a blizzard on a stretch of rail between Fort Dodge and Fort Larned and subsisted for three days on scant provisions of biscuits and cheese. Finally, on day four, they were able to celebrate a break in weather and the crew prepared to depart. However, a second train appeared on the horizon and crashed engine-to-engine merging the two locomotives into a blazing inferno. Father Colleton was able to stay clear of the carnage and administered the Last Absolution to two crewmen as they burned to death in the tangled metal.
The push-bar of a simple handcar led to Father Philip's death.
Having survived two train wrecks, the event that led to Father Colleton's death seems cruelly ironic. On January 16, 1876 he was traveling between Parsons and Ladore on a common railroad handcar. The bar that propels the wheels struck him in the chest pushing him back into a metal tool chest. He was left unconscious and it was several days before he could return to the mission for medical care. On his return he was confined to his room under physician's care for some time. He slowly began to recover and resume some of his work at the mission. On December 1, of 1876, Father Colleton died suddenly of an apparent hemorrhage.
In our present, cushy society that worships the 'mental and physical toughness' of obscenely paid athletes, neither they, nor we, can even imagine how tough these men were.
Father Pierre Jean De Smet
A curious fact that is disturbing—at least to me. Much of the Jesuit missionary work north of the Santa Fe Trail was done by Father Pierre Jean De Smet. Some of De Smet's work was along the Missouri River corridor between St. Louis and the northwest United States. He also visited Kansas. In the areas where Father De Smet traveled there are many tributes to his name including a town, libraries, statues and at least one school. The name De Smet is almost synonymous with exploration, adventure and missionary persistence.
The work of the Catholic Mission Jesuits was no less important than De Smet's labors; and the scope of their travels is also impressive, to say the least. They sowed the seeds of civilization in a very large area and assisted with the startup of many communities. They established churches, many of which nurtured schools. In fact, nearly all of the Catholic schools in the nine-county southeast Kansas area are linked to the Catholic Mission. They faced danger and they, too, were rigid in their determination to do the work of their church.
Then, why is it that here, in the hometown of their labors, our prairie missionaries are all but forgotten?
Also see this brief explaination of Missions, Stations and Churches.
Go to: 8. A Dangerous Balance - The Civil War (1861 - 1965) - or - Story
Beacon on the Plains, Sister Mary Paul Fitzgerald, St. Mary's College, Leavenworth 1939 (Reprinted by Osage Mission Historical Society. (Appendix H of this book lists 113 Kansas Missions including Osage Mission.)
The Jesuits of the Middle United States, Chapter 27, The Osage Mission. This is one chapter from a three-volume, forty-four chapter work that was published by Gilbert J. Garraghan, S. J. PhD in 1938. It is an incredible reference source. If you can find a hard copy it would probably be very expensive. Fortunately, it is available on-line: http://jesuitarchives.org/virtuallygarraghan/ (Select a chapter and it appears at the right of the screen. Then double click on the page image to download the chapter in PDF format.)
Journal of the Western Missions Established and Attended by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus Residing at Osage Mission, Neosho County, Kansas, Transcribed by Reverend Eugene Grabner, Diocese of Wichita, 1995. This work is unpublished.
Life and Letters of Fathers Ponziglione, Schoenmakers, and Other Early Jesuits at Osage Mission, William Whites Graves, 1916.
The train wreck illustration was very heavily edited from a drawing of the Camp Hill disaster on the "Dangerous Crossings" page of the East Falls Local site. http://www.eastfallslocal.com/dangerous-crossings-railroads-19th-century/
The hand-car photo is from Railroad Handcar History, http://www.railroadhandcar.com/. This is a pretty neat site for anyone interested in railroad, and especially handcar information. The website author, Mason Clark, builds and sells completed handcars and kits.
The background map is a composite of six individual maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas, Austin. This collection provides a set of very uniformly drafted state maps showing counties, county seats, major water features, etc. Maps of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico were digitally stitched together and edited to add the Santa Fe Trail, forts and the Jesuit missions. A cutout from this same map is used in 7.A. All six maps are "Base Maps" from the University website: https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states.html

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What's the space like? Sleek and stylish, the dining room sports a cream and brown colour scheme and dramatic modern art on the wall. With only 10 tables, a reservation is an absolute must.
Chef's background: Buffara is the daughter of a farmer and originally trained as a journalist .Before opening Manu, she cut her teeth with stints at some of the world's best restaurants including Noma in Copenhagen and Alinea in Chicago.


Here's a picture of the Crazy Crushed Can Accessory and lining, just before the sewing began.
As you see there are corners pointing to the inside, and there are corners pointing in an outward direction. My last post was about serging the inward pointing corners. As promised, this is the one about outside corners.
Honestly, I had never come across this method of sewing around outside corners before. In retrospect it's very obvious. It seems similar to production methods of sewing garments that I've read about. The Complete Serger Handbook by Chris James actually provides three different methods of stitching outside corners on a serger. This is the one that worked best for me with the Crazy Crushed Can Accessory.
Step 1. Stitch the first side of the corner and just keep on going. That's right. Don't stop. Don't stop. Continue serging right off the edge of the fabric.
Step 2. When the thread tail is about 4 inches long, turn the fabric so that the second side of the corner is in position to be serged. You can use the thread tail to help you guide the fabric into the correct position. You don't even have to lift the presser foot.
Step 3. Stitch the second side of the corner.
This is what is how it looks with both inside and outside corners stitched.
The author gives the instruction to cut the thread tail with the serger knife as you begin stitching the second side, but I'm still not comfortable doing that.
Important: If your project requires corners to be tight and sharp, I do not recommend using a serger. A sewing machine is much more suited to the task of sewing seams in tight corners. A serger can be used to finish the edges either before or after the seams are sewn with sewing machine, depending on the project. I did it this way to learn new skills and because sharp corners are not required in this project.
Another method that might be appropriate for the Crazy Crushed Can project is the one described in Revised Knit, Cut and Sew: Bk. 1 by Pam Turbett. She gives instructions to serge just one stitch beyond the edge of the fabric. Her next instructions involve moving the presser foot and needles and adjusting the thread. It's a bit more complicated than the Handbook method, but I think it may be useful. I'll just have to practice.


THING OF THE DAY, Well we can't let the anniversary of the riot pass without a mention can we?
May 29, 2013 in MUSIC.
May 29, 2013 in ART, MUSIC, STREET ART.
May 28, 2013 in ART, MUSIC, STREET ART.
May 23, 2013 in ART, MUSIC, STREET ART.
May 21, 2013 in ART, MUSIC.
May 20, 2013 in MUSIC.


Seriously, he isn't even technically IN this page and it STILL makes me despise him. AND DON'T GO SAYING IT'S MY OWN FAULT FOR MAKING DO ALL THESE THINGS, THAT'S NOW HOW THIS CREATIVE PROCESS WORKS!
You can just tell what her life is like from that constant expression she has on her face.
I'd have some suggestions on things that could be done with bricks... But I'm pretty sure they'd all backfire on Megaweapon.
The bricks are all that remain of the last jail that tried to contain Megaweapon.
I don't expect even an indestructible box would hold Megaweapon for long. Avatar's indestructible, and although she did make a commendable effort, we know how that's turning out.
Since I don't think this thing lets you have links, I posted it on the forum.
*overs mouse over comic* Caption: "Even the grinch thinks Megaweapon is a jerk." *Dies laughing* Lol, well put. It won't get simpler than that.
Why doesn't she use the bricks to build something? Masonry is fun!
1. A brick of what, exactly?
2. And did it come with a detonator?


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Guillermo Federico Molins Palmeiro (Montevideo, 26 de septiembre de 1988) es un futbolista uruguayo, nacionalizado sueco, que juega como centrocampista para el Sarpsborg 08 FF de la Eliteserien.

Trayectoria
Molins, jugó como juvenil para varios equipos suecos, hasta que recaló en las filas del filial del Malmö FF. Con el equipo de Malmö, debutó en la Allsvenskan (la liga sueca) en 2006.

Desde entonces fue entrando poco a poco en el primer equipo y, a partir de 2008, el entrenador le alternaba en la mediapunta del equipo con Jiloan Hamad, y en el extremo con Jimmy Durmaz. En 2010 realizó su mejor temporada con 7 goles en 28 encuentros, temporada en la que el conjunto sueco se alzó con el título liguero.

Tras una temporada con algunas lesiones, el 25 de mayo de 2011, el director técnico del equipo, afirmó que Molins abandonaría el club en verano, ya que el jugador no aceptó las condiciones de renovación del contrato.

Tras este periodo, el 17 de junio de 2011, el jugador fichó por el R. S. C. Anderlecht de la Primera División de Bélgica. Tras comenzar la temporada, se lesionó gravemente de la rodilla, percance que le tuvo separado de los terrenos de juegos durante 10 meses.

El 18 de enero de 2013 se hizo oficial la cesión al Real Betis hasta final de temporada, con opción a compra. Al término de la misma volvió a las filas del Malmö FF.

El 7 de julio de 2016 se oficializó, tras tres temporadas, su desvinculación del equipo sueco y se marchó a la Liga China a las filas del Beijing Renhe. Sin embargo, jugaría solo 14 partidos sin marcar goles, y su trayectoria seguiría en Grecia.

El 8 de febrero de 2017 el Panathinaikos FC de la Superliga de Grecia oficializó la compra de Guillermo.

Selección nacional
A pesar de su origen uruguayo, Molins hizo su debut internacional sub-21 con  el 25 de mayo de 2008, frente a . Después, formó parte del equipo sueco que participó en la Eurocopa Sub-21 de 2009, disputada en Suecia.

Finalmente, hizo su debut internacional absoluto frente a , como parte de la gira invernal del combinado sueco en enero de 2010.

Clubes
 Actualizado el 14 de mayo de 2016.

Palmarés

Títulos nacionales

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha en Transfermarkt

Futbolistas de Uruguay
Futbolistas nacionalizados en Suecia
Futbolistas del Malmö FF
Futbolistas del Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Real Betis Balompié en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Panathinaikos
Futbolistas del Sarpsborg 08 FF
Futbolistas del Rosenborg Ballklub
Futbolistas de la selección de fútbol de Suecia en los años 2010
Expatriados uruguayos en Suecia

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Blue Cactus Press is beyond excited to officially reveal the beautiful and haunting cover art for Samuel Snoek-Brown's forthcoming short-story collection, There Is No Other Way to Worship Them.
We'd like to introduce you to two original paintings by Show Pigeon, a tattooer and painter based out of southern California. Both pieces were created exclusively for There Is No Other Way to Worship Them and we couldn't be more thrilled to feature them on the front and back covers.
We were over-the-moon when Show Pigeon agreed to collaborate with us earlier this year, as her artwork is not only interesting and vivid, but often includes early twentieth-century feminist iconography, as well. Show Pigeon's online portfolio is littered with Kewpie doll-inspired art prints, figurines, tattoos and jewelry, as just one example.
Show Pigeon is the professional moniker of tattooer and painter Evie Yapelli, a Chicago-bred transplant to southern California. Two of her early loves were vintage illustration and pop culture, with sailor tattoos following not long after. You can see the influence of each in her stylized designs, limited palette, and retro subject matter. Paintings by Show Pigeon have been exhibited nationally and have been published worldwide in children's books, art compilations, fashion, and designer toys. Her tattoos are worn by collectors throughout the world.
Head to ShowPigeon.com to learn more about the artist, browse her work or find inspiration for your own project, whatever it is. In the meantime, remember to pop back to Blue Cactus Press in a few weeks for updates on the finished cover design, publication date and more details about There Is No Other Way to Worship Them by Samuel Snoek-Brown.


I know that I have complained about this before, but it makes for a good introduction to our message, and I need to hear it again, so please bear with me for a moment. There are a great many things in professional sports which should discourage Christians from their participation and their fanaticism. Such things as the immoral, wicked life-styles of so many of the elite athletes, their drug abuse, and their disgusting pride and blatant arrogance in the midst of their sins. A lot of sports involves a constant desecration of the Lord's Day and of the Lord's Name. Then there is the desire of so many for blood and to inflict pain on another person. There is little difference between the Roman Coliseum, the bull-fight ring and the modern football stadium or the basketball court. A peripheral problem with sports is that it can grow beyond recreation into an all-consuming waste of time. It is a really sad thing to see that for so many people, sports – the playing of games – or even worse – the watching of others playing – is the primary component of their lives. It can be as addicting as drugs, alcohol, soap operas, and video games. And like most addictions, not only is it a waste of time, but it's a waste of hard-earned money as well. Ultimately the waste of time and the waste of money means the waste of a person's life. The Lord is not pleased with such things.
But the thing about which I am thinking right now is what the sports world teaches about promises and contracts. The best pro-athletes often think that it is their right, if not their duty, to break the contracts that they sign. Some ball player agrees to a five year deal at the unthinkable salary of a million dollars a year – which really means $150,000 or $175,000 a month for six or eight months "work." But then this player has a really good year, and he decides that he is better than another player who is being given twice as much money. So this man refuses to play again until he gets twice as much money as that other player and four times as much as he agreed to last year. We aren't surprised at the greed of the athlete – which is sad and condemnable, but what is worse is that the team almost always agrees to permit him to break all the promises, contracts and covenants which they had together. And in the process they make new contracts which aren't worth the paper on which they are written. You could say – that athlete "despised," or had "indignation against," his original, unholy covenant.
God's angel, probably Gabriel, is in the process of giving to Daniel the future history of Antiochus Epiphanes. He says, "that man will be going back and forth in war with this own sister who will be queen of Egypt, and with her son Ptolemy." At times Antiochus will be victorious and easy to live with, but at other times, he will come home empty. He'll be so angry, that when he comes through the door he'll be ready to kick the cat – so to speak. On one occasion, after Antiochus defeats Ptolemy, the people of Alexandria, Egypt, will make another son of Cleopatra the new king. And when the Syrian king can't take that city, he will return home with a great deal of Egyptian spoil, but as angry as a hornet because he couldn't complete his objective. And thus, when he passes through Israel, he will unleash an unprecedented holocaust upon the Jews. He will slaughter tens of thousands of men and captivate tens of thousands of women and children. He will put a stop the morning and evening sacrifices, and he will pollute the temple of the Lord.
The terminology that the angel uses is quite significant. "His heart shall be against the holy covenant." He shall have "indignation against the holy covenant." This morning I want to address what this means in the context of Antiochus Epiphanes, but then I want to consider it on a broader scale.
First, let's think about the term "COVENANT."This is an important Old Testament, Hebrew word, but it isn't difficult to understand. It is used 284 times, and 264 times it is translated "covenant." The other 10% of the time it is translated "league" or some form of "confederacy." In other words a "covenant" is an agreement or alliance between two or more parties.
I find it disconcerting that most of the expert comments on Antiochus' "indignation against the holy covenant," say that this means that he poured out his wrath and contempt upon the defenseless people of Jerusalem. While I don't question that is what he did, I disagree when they say this is the meaning of the statement. The "holy covenant" was not Israel, it was the agreement that the holy God made with Israel. And the context clearly demonstrates that. Antiochus will decide to reward those Jews who become Grecian like himself – the Hellenistic Jews. You could say, he will reward those who profess to be saints of God, but who live like the world. Verse 32 puts it this way – "And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits." The people who know the Lord, as they should, refuse to become corrupted by the world – to become Greeks. They instinctively know what the Apostle John will eventually tell us – "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." And those who do become Hellenists – worldlings – do "wickedly AGAINST the covenant." The covenant is the agreement – the league – between God and His elect nation – or His elect people. The covenant is not the people themselves.
I believe that this was the "holy covenant" to which Gabriel refers in this chapter. It is not dissimilar to the covenant that God has made to choose and to save specific people today. Throughout the centuries, the Lord has graciously chosen to reach down, draw people out of the filth of their sins, and to save them. That is what he did with Abraham and the people of Israel, and He does the same thing with individuals. God's graciousness towards Israel is "the holy covenant" to which Gabriel refers.
And it is something which is AMONG THE MOST DESPISED of all things in religion.The heart of Antiochus was against this "holy covenant." And he was "grieved… and had indignation against the holy covenant." He was so opposed to it, so grieved with it and indignant against it, that he attempted to annihilate the people who identified with this covenant and tried to live under its precepts.
The Hebrew word translated "indignation" helps us to understand what was going on within this man's heart. Unlike "covenant" this is not a common word – it is used only a dozen times. In more than three-quarters of those places it is translated "indignation," "abhor," "abominable" and "angry." In its only other translation, it is rendered "to defy." The idea behind the word is that Antiochus hated and wished to oppose God's covenant with Israel. He defied it, and tried his best to thwart the holy covenant, by trying to exterminate the only party in that covenant that he could touch.
This is the crux of the matter, and it illustrates what a lot of people feel, even though they don't have the same diabolical and political power as Antiochus Epiphanes. The average man thinks of himself, and treats himself, as if he is god. He says, "Despite Jehovah's command against eating the fruit of this tree, I'm going to eat it any way." Sometimes, he may foolishly think that he has good reason, but far more often it is just rebellion. He says, "I don't think that I like God's definition of sin; I think that I'll write a new dictionary – a new Bible." He says, "God's plan for delivering me from the punishment of my sins and weaknesses doesn't suit me." And most particularly, he hates – he abhors – he thinks it abominable that God should elect one nation over another nation, or one person and not another person. Generally it boils down to the age-old problem of pride. I cannot possibly be as bad as God makes me out to be. And I am certainly better than that person over there whom God has chosen to elect and call to himself.
Just like so much of the modern religious world, Antiochus was trying to eliminate the words "elect" and "chosen" from the pages of the Bible and from the decrees of the Lord. He was indignant, not only against the people of the covenant, whom he could touch and kill, he was indignant the covenant which God made with those people, defying and trying to destroy that as well. Granted, he was probably not directly aware of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and he had probably never read Genesis 17, but that is really beside the point. He hated the evidence of the covenant which was seen in some of the people of Judah.
And here is where the rubber meets the road. It is one thing to be hated for believing that there is a covenant between God and us. It is one thing to be despised for believing in sovereign election and salvation by free grace. But it is another thing for people to be indignant towards us because we display the evidence of that covenant. I am not saying that we are a part of the same holy covenant which Antiochus so hated. But the children of God are a part of a similar kind of covenant – a covenant of salvation by God's grace. And we are told that there should be a parallel kind of distinction between us and the rest of the world.
Titus 2 – "The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." I Peter 2 – "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Why don't the Antiochuses of today's world hate us the same way that Antiocus Epiphanes hated Israel? Isn't it because we don't outwardly wear the signs of the covenant?
Again, WHY was it that he hated the "holy covenant?"Well, there was the fact that he wasn't happy in his own personal life. He was angry. He was not as "successful" as he had hoped to be. Some people turn to drugs and alcohol, when things aren't going their way. This man turned his wrath towards a group of people who had been hated ever since they were called out of Egypt.
Coupled to his anger, something which helped to intensify his anger, was his pride. Like everyone else, he felt that he deserved more than he was getting. His brother, Seleucius had been the darling of their father, while he had been enslaved in Rome. And his sister, Cleopatra, although used as a pawn for his father's benefit, had made something of herself, and actually had stood-up to them all. This Antiochus, out of his own weakness and pride, envied all three of them. Coupled to this pride in and against his family, there was the fact that he was a Greek, while those residents of Jerusalem were the despised worshipers of Jehovah.
Why did he express his hatred this way? Part of it was his ignorance. He was ignorant of the history of the holy covenant. He was unaware that it originated in Jehovah, not the people of Israel themselves. Israel was no more noble, large in number, hard-working, or more honorable than anyone else. In fact they were among the least of all the peoples of the earth. It was the Lord, in His sovereignty and grace, who chose to call and save them as a nation. And Antiochus, the Lord was also gracious toward men who were actually much greater and more powerful than yourself – people like Nebuchadnezzar, the greatest king of Babylon. You shouldn't pout and whine about not being a part of God's covenant. Rather you should humble yourself, repent of your sin and cast yourself upon the mercy of God. Who knows, you may in fact be a part of the Lord's covenant of salvation, but you'll never know it if you refuse to repent and trust Him.
Why did Antiochus proceed in this rampage against the "holy covenant?" Coupled to his ignorance, was his foolish stupidity. Your temper tantrum is ultimately not going to hurt or thwart that covenant – it is eternal. That covenant is from the hand and heart of the omnipotent God. There is nothing that you can do against it, so your best response to it is to completely surrender to its Creator.
There is no need to quarrel with the Lord about His covenant and with whom He makes it. Our quarreling isn't going to change anything. And the proof of whether or not we are included in that covenant is in our humble relationship to God and our obedience to His command.
One of the definitive statements in regard to this subject is to be found in Isaiah 45. It involves a foreign king, who was not unlike Antiochus, and yet the Lord was gracious towards him. Please listen – "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him …. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron…. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else… Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?" There is no point in quarrelling with the Lord about His covenant and with whom He makes it.
There are REPERCUSSIONS for this indignation against the Holy Covenant.Honesty demands that we point out that Antiochus' initial attacks upon the people of God were successful. As I pointed out last week there were more than 120,000 Jewish casualties inside of a week. But what the unbeliever tends to do is forget that the fall of the Lord's people doesn't mean the fall of the Lord Himself. Time and time again, God's people, whether they have been of the nation of Israel or those whose only allegiance was the Kingdom of God… Time and time again, God's people have been slaughtered and decimated by the enemy of the Lord, and yet out of the remaining remnant there has arisen an even greater army of servants for God. The kingdom of the Lord is not confined to artificial borders and rocky seashores. Nor is it limited to a certain number of human leaders and "x" number of years. The kingdom of God is as eternal as the Lord himself, and it is as glorious as He is.
That should be our plea as well.


Are you in the Cloud? Or, just lost in the fog? Do you have the nagging feeling that everyone else is there and so should you? These are the questions that bedevil CIOs and CTOs these days. If one reads the trade press, one can easily end up with the impression that everyone, but you, is floating on a high, looking down on the Ryanair flights passing below. In practice, the majority of core application implementations in the life and pensions industry have been on-premise, and are likely to remain that way in the short-term.
At first glance, it appears that the answer should be yes, you should be moving to the Cloud. In theory, it seems to be the answer to everyone's problem – paying just for the software you use sounds beguilingly simple. The problem is that there are wildly different views of what is involved in 'being in the Cloud', and the benefits and problems it brings.
This is partly because there is no unified view about what the difference is between the SaaS, cloud-based, and hosted deployment models. Many people use the phrases interchangeably, and so it is difficult to establish the pros and cons, and decide whether there is a business case for your company to move away from on-premise software.
True Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is cloud-based, and the consumer only pays for what he or she consumes. It is akin to electricity usage where a small standing charge gets you connection to the service, and after that you only pay for every kilowatt you use.
True SaaS is achieved by allowing clients access the software in a multi-tenanted environment where when you release resources, they are available for another customer to use. Hence, the model is optimised to get the maximum use from the underlying hardware. Using SaaS frees up the organisation from the expensive but non-core activities of maintenance, backup, disaster recovery, and data protection issues as these all become the vendor's problem.
This is fine for utilitarian software such as email and office productivity suites, but when it comes down to the company's core offerings, things get slightly more complicated. Illustration, quotation, underwriting, policy, and claims are all areas where the data is very personal and highly sensitive. Because of this, putting core information out onto the public cloud in a multi-tenanted environment is potentially a high-risk move for life companies.
Although the chances of the data being leaked may be very low, the consequences of it happening are extremely high with the possibility of huge costs in fines and damages. A safer solution to consider is moving to a private cloud, single tenanted environment, where the benefits of the maintenance can be achieved, albeit at a higher cost, with the risk of data leakage massively reduced, if not eliminated.
Few life and pension companies are truly prepared for the real SaaS offering, where you are charged by transaction, input/output, database size etc. Subscription based charging is a more realistic approach, and gives a reasonable facsimile of per-use charging.
For that reason, true multi-tenanted SaaS is still a leap for life and pension companies at this point in time. While there has been a lot of talk about the SaaS model for life and pension software delivery, actual deployment has been mostly to hosted private versions with subscription licensing, as the industry makes cautious moves in the direction of the cloud.
Software as a service is a goal to be approached in stages, rather than a big leap, if they are to retain the confidence of both their customers and the regulator that they are in full control of their data. Don't let the silver lining lure you into the Cloud, before you're ready.


Donna Strickland is a Canadian associate professor who is a pioneer in the field of lasers. She is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics after Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert-Mayer. She won the prize for the work she did as a PhD student. The technique she developed with her PhD advisor, Gérard Mourou, called chirped pulse amplification, is used for producing ultrashort pulses of very high intensity, useful in laser micromachining, surgery, medicine, and in fundamental science studies.
Strickland graduated with a B.Eng in Engineering Physics from McMaster University and obtained her PhD in Optics Physics at the University of Rochester in 1989.
Strickland is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo, where she leads an ultrafast laser group that develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations. On 2 October 2018, Strickland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on chirped pulse amplification with Gérard Mourou, who was her PhD supervisor. Her pioneering work on the "Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses" was published in 1985, and led to the development of the field of high intensity, ultrashort pulses of light beams. Strickland's recent work has focused on pushing the boundaries of ultrafast optical science to new wavelength ranges such as the mid-infrared and the ultraviolet, using techniques such as two-color or multi-frequency techniques, as well as Raman generation. She is also working on the role of high power lasers in the microcrystalline lens of the human eye, during the process of micromachining of the eye lens to cure presbyopia.
In her professional capacity, she has served as the vice-president (2011) and the president (2013) of the Optical Society, and was a topical editor of the journal Optics Letters from 2004 to 2010.


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True no load Japanese mutual funds will usually not have any 12b-1 marketing fees charged either
Japanese no load mutual funds are funds which invest mainly in equity securities issued by Japanese owned companies. Japanese mutual funds have both benefits and drawbacks, and even the best no load funds in this area will not be ideal for every single investor. These funds can include Japanese index funds, and for some investors these investments may be the best possible choices. There are plenty of these funds to choose from, and choosing no load funds instead of loaded funds means paying fewer investment expenses and experiencing better fund performance and higher values. Load fees are not necessary, and they are simply sales commissions which reduce the value of the investment and hinder the performance. Most investors do not require professional investment advice, and they can find the best no load funds on their own when it comes to Japanese mutual funds. Since there are a number of free online investment tools that are easy to use and can help direct investors to the best no load mutual funds, there is no need to pay between five and eight percent of the investment capital in load fees. Japanese funds which are no load funds also prevent any conflicts between the best interests of the investor and the financial interests of the broker.
One of the Japanese funds that many investors consider before choosing a no load mutual fund is the ProFunds UltraJapan Inv Fund, with a ticker symbol of UJPIX. This fund is offered by the ProFunds family, and it has net assets with a value of more than seventeen million dollars. This is one of the Japanese mutual funds which were started in the year 2000, and it offers a yield of one point three three percent. There is a low Morningstar quality rating of only one star, and the minimum initial investment may seem high to some at fifteen thousand dollars. One of the best no load funds where Japanese funds are concerned according to many investors is the Fidelity Advisor Japan I Fund. This fund is offered by the Fidelity family of funds, a name known and trusted by many investors, and this fund has the symbol FAJIX. This Japanese mutual fund has a three star Morningstar rating, and a year to date return that is close to eight and a half percent. Large value investments are the specialty of this fund, and it has been investing successfully for more than ten years. Robert Rowland has managed this specific fund since 2007, and a small twenty five hundred dollar initial investment is all that is needed to take advantage of the benefits that this Japanese fund offers.
One of the Japanese funds considered one of the best no load funds is the DFA Japanese Small Company I Fund, with the trading ticker DFJSX. This is one of the Japanese mutual funds which specialize in small company investments and holdings, and it is offered by the fund family Dimensional Fund Advisors. This fund receives the highest possible Morningstar rating at five stars, marking it as one of the best of the best. The fund has more than one hundred million dollars in net assets, and the total operating expenses for the fund are quite low at only point five eight percent. There are no 12b-1 marketing fees or load fees charged, making this one of the Japanese funds which are truly no load mutual funds and not just loaded funds which practice deceptive advertising. There are many Japanese mutual funds which will fit well in many investment portfolios, but choosing the best no load funds means that the investor must use care and caution to do thorough research and comparisons before choosing the right fund.


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Success Stories >> Ryan King's Story
Ryan King is a D.C. resident in his late twenties who has been challenged by a number of health issues and disabilities, including cerebral palsy, impaired language and cognitive functions, and sickle cell anemia. In spite of these challenges, Ryan successfully completed high school, has worked in the same job for over ten years, and has achieved an increasing level of independence. With a positive attitude and a great sense of humor, Ryan enjoys a range of interests and activities, including volunteer and advocacy work. In Ryan's family an important principle is "A person who says 'I'll try' has a chance to succeed, but a person who says 'I can't' is already a failure."
What advice do you have for people looking for employment?
Dress for success, be nice, and be on time.
Ryan was born—more than two months early—with severely damaged lungs and sickle cell anemia. Bleeding in the brain caused seizures and impaired his language and cognitive functions, as well as his vision. When he was young, every three weeks or so there would be a sickle cell crisis; however, in his twenties his health has stabilized. His muscles, including facial muscles, can become very stiff, but with ongoing physical therapy his condition has improved. Ryan utilizes Medicare, Social Security Disability Insurance, and private insurance.
Ryan was at the Hospital for Sick Children from 18 months to 5 years old in the preschool program. This day program gave him a foundation in language, crawling, and walking. He attended Sharpe Health School from 5 to 12 years of age, where he received needed support services—language, occupational therapy (OT), adaptive physical education, etc. Susie King's advice to parents is
It is OK to put your kid in the community school—it saves so much on travel time. Parents should know that the school needs to provide whatever services are needed for their child's welfare. The school must put the resources in place, but parents need to make sure that the resources are there and work on the attitude of the adults. We had to learn to push and teach. You have to be persistent. Be pleasant, but determined. Have a positive attitude as a parent and be willing to work with everyone. Research and advocate!
At 12, Ryan went to the Takoma Educational Center, an inclusion program in the public schools that provided an environment to gradually learn to do many things for himself. Ryan was pulled from class for special instruction from resource teachers in math, reading, and adaptive physical education. Part of Ryan's education focused on "mastering his space." For example, Ryan's visual issues make stairs very difficult. At first, he used the elevator at the school. The teacher assigned a student buddy to help him get around, and he gradually got to the point where he could use the stairs.
After that, Ryan went to Roosevelt Senior High School/Sharpe Health Satellite Program for a couple of years to continue to build his skills and increase independence. He participated in the regular curriculum in a nongraded program. An aide accompanied him, and the assignments were adjusted to fit his level. He did all the school activities, including prom, which stands out as a special memory for Ryan. Susie King says, "They got him involved in everything, even signed him up for a barber class. I thought that was crazy at first because of his perception issues, but they did it for his socialization, and it worked out great." Ryan stayed in school until he was 20.
Ryan participated in the Marriott Foundation Bridges program during high school. The Bridges program assists individuals with intellectual disabilities get a competitive job placement and strengthen employment-related skills, such as resume help, dressing right, interviewing and on the job coaching. Ryan got a job at Safeway and has worked there for nearly ten years, including joining the union. He works three mornings per week, the same schedule as when he was in school. Ryan's advice for others is "to dress for success, be nice, and be on time." He points out that not everyone does these things and it is difficult to be successful without them.
Ryan also volunteers at his church and a local arts program. He likes having the opportunity to give back.
Legal/Advocacy
The doctors did not give Ryan's parents much hope at the beginning. Local support and advocacy groups helped both Ryan and his parents learn about his disabilities and health issues and gave them the strength to exceed all expectations. Two of the most important were Howard University's Parents Sickle Cell Support Group and D.C. Parents and Friends of Children with Special Needs. Educating themselves and working to support Ryan brought the family closer together. Now Ryan is working on how to be an advocate for himself. He is learning to be forceful, not to look to his parents, to speak for himself. Susie's advice to parents is:
Get over your guilt. Seek to learn. You must understand what your rights are. Learn that you are not alone. Talk to others about what you are going through. You need the support of other parents dealing with the same disabilities. Reach out to support groups. The support groups are so important. There are lots of groups in D.C. You need to find the ones that are the right fit for you. D.C. has the headquarters for the national groups of all different disabilities. Contact them and work down to the local level from there. I didn't know much about sickle cell before Ryan was born. I got a lot of information from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and their support.
As an adult, Ryan continues to draw strength from local support groups and to give back as an advocate for people with disabilities. Recently he participated in the Entrepreneurial Program by the Inclusion Research Institute, which got him thinking of starting his own business. He also participates in the Youth Empowerment Advocacy Resource Center group and is a board member. He is a consumer representative, providing feedback on health-care policy and laws, to the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, which includes government, professionals, consumers, and advocates. Ryan likes to be involved and participate—"The best part is that you get to give back and you meet a lot of people."
Ryan can travel by himself. He is eligible to receive transportation through MetroAccess, and the family learned that it is better for him to be able to do it by himself. Ryan was given a one-day training by Metro on how to ride the bus, but was unable to handle the bus changes that occur. Recently, he successfully figured out how to handle the Metro rate change.
Ryan loves sports and music, and both are a big part of his life. His most recent concert was going to see Jay-Z with a childhood friend. Ryan's favorite sports are basketball, football, and wrestling. In high school, the Make a Wish Foundation gave the family a trip to Tampa to see Stone Cold Steve Austin. Ryan and his family had their own limo. The hotel and tickets were in Ryan's name. He was so excited and happy that they made him the Make a Wish honor representative for the mid-Atlantic region that year.
Ryan has been to Las Vegas twice and loves it. Susie King says, "He likes the shows, the crowds, and the lights. He stays up all night. He played in a $5 Monopoly game. He was smart—he won $11 and cashed out." Ryan participates at church through Sunday lessons and monthly sing, praise, and social events. He volunteers and enjoys dances, trips, and a drama program for people with disabilities.
Ryan's language was delayed, but he worked hard and has far exceeded the initial expectations of what he could accomplish. Susie King says, "He had to work for all the things we take for granted—walking, speaking, on so on. He shouldn't have the language ability that he does. The doctors have told us that it is because we have always talked to him a great deal." Ryan is good natured and always smiling, positive. He continues to impress family and friends with his sense of humor and accomplishments. Once his mother observed that he wasn't smiling in his prom pictures, and he pointed out, "'Well, it was a serious moment." Another time a family friend was showing him a video game that cost $75. The friend said that he would provide $50, but that Ryan would have to come up with the rest. He figured out on his own that he needed $25.
The issue of independent living comes up with Ryan periodically. His mother jokes that he threatens it when he doesn't want to do housework. Ryan and his family are exploring options for Ryan to move out, but Ryan is not quite ready yet. At home, he works on becoming more independent. He can stay in the house by himself all day and lets himself in and out. His family pays attention to his current needs as they evolve, making adjustments and solving problems as necessary. For example, his keys are different sizes and labeled with different colors. They labeled the washer and dryer when he wanted to help with the laundry. He can prepare sandwiches by himself but uses the stove only when others are home. He also uses the microwave oven. Susie King says, "We allow him to have choices. There are some things that we might have to decide for him, but we always make sure that he is making decisions about his life, too."


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…The spread of printing was not a spontaneous entrepreneurial outburst. Much of the initial impetus for the use of print was political and administrative…
This object is the first book printed in Ireland and, as such, marks the island's rather belated acquisition of one of the defining features of modernity. The revolutionary process of printing on a press with moveable type had been pioneered by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany almost exactly a century earlier. The delay in catching up with this new technology says much about Ireland's absence from the mainstream of the Renaissance, but if the advent of the first printed book brings a key aspect of modernity to Ireland, that modernity arrives in a form that is unwelcome to a substantial majority of the population.
Much of the initial impetus for the use of print was political and administrative, but it became an important weapon in the struggles between the energetic new Protestant faiths and the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The first uses of print in Ireland came in the wake of a failed rebellion against the crown by Silken Thomas FitzGerald, when the Tudor monarchy set about building an effective permanent government in Ireland. Printed royal orders were sent from London, as were printed copies of the submission to the crown of the powerful chieftain Con O'Neill. Print, therefore, arrived as an aspect of official power and propaganda.
Its effectiveness was limited in part by the limited knowledge of the English language in Ireland and in part by the absence of a resident printer. This latter problem was addressed in 1550 when the privy council granted £20 to establish Humphrey Powell, a London printer, in his trade in Dublin. His first task was to produce what the title page calls 'The boke of common praier and administration of the sacraments…after the vse of the churche of England'. That Church of England was, of course, itself a momentous development for Ireland. The product of Henry VIII's split from Roman Catholicism in the 1530s and the establishment of a national church headed by the monarch. The Book of Common Prayer, produced in 1549 under Henry's short-lived son Edward VI, was a major step towards the creation of an official and uniform Protestant religion. It was temporarily reversed under Edward's Catholic successor Mary, before being copperfastened under Elizabeth I.
The relative failure of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland is one of the great shaping forces of modern Irish history. Who knows how the island would have developed had the Book of Common Prayer eventually become as common and comfortable a presence in the average Irish home as it was in England? That this did not happen made Ireland one of the great exceptions to the compromise formula adopted throughout most of Europe after ferocious religious conflict: cuius regio, eius religio: the religion of the ruler will be the religion of his subjects. In Ireland a majority of those from both Gaelic and Anglo-Norman stock remained Catholic.


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Will Chance the Rapper Tour in 2022?
June 6, 2022 by Julianna Hurtado
Last week (May 28) Chance the Rapper released a new single, "A Bar About A Bar," along with its cinematic music video companion. The song, with a beat strummed together by a riffing guitar, is a brief moment of storytelling. "A Bar About A Bar," a realistic scene told in the spirit of "a man walks into a bar" jokes, is just under two minutes long. Check out "A Bar About A Bar," below.
In the video, Chance shares his "Bar About A Bar" while visiting with fellow Chicago rapper Vic Mensa. In the background of their hang, you can find the Hyde Park-raised visual artist Nikko Washington painting. Later in the video, Washington's painting is featured in its fullness.
Washington's piece was later shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, the perfect culmination of this moment between Chicago native artists. It's always been true about Chance and what he does: Chicago, and his love of the city's artists, is at the heart of it.
Chance the Rapper's ongoing album rollout is largely inspired by a collective of visual artists he met in Ghana while taking a trip there with Vic Mensa. For Chance the Rapper's first single since 2019's The Big Day, "Child of God," he collaborated with painter Naïla Opiangah. "This project is really about what happens when you take all the noise out and you have one person and another person exchanging — just committing to bringing their conversations to life," said Opiangah in a gallery interview.
"Wraith," in collaboration with Vic Mensa, was released just three days before "A Bar About A Bar." According to Vic Mensa, he and Chano have a lot more music to release together. Mensa said to Complex, "Me and Chano have been working on a lot of music for a while now, there's much more to come."
Clearly, the new Chano season has arrived.
When is Chance the Rapper releasing a new album?
So far, Chance the Rapper has not release the official release date, or title, of his new album. As of now, we know of five singles: "The Heart & The Tongue," "Child of God," "Wraith," A Bar About A Bar," and "The Highs & The Lows"—the last of which is due out soon. With the rollout of new singles only increasing in speed since March, we think Chance the Rapper could drop his new album as soon as this month.
Chance the Rapper typically drops mixtapes and albums in the summer. Coloring Book arrived in May 2016 and The Big Day arrived in July 2019. Considering how many singles have dropped this year already, we would be surprised if the new Chance the Rapper album doesn't arrive before our next summer holiday—July 4th.
It's been nearly three years since Chance the Rapper went on tour—and we all know how that went. Long story short, Chance the Rapper only performed five of his promised 35 shows. Which means that many, thousands, of Chance the Rapper fans haven't seen him live in concert in a very long time. For most, it's been since the "Be Encouraged" Tour that ran for most of 2017.
Will Chance the Rapper tour in 2022? We think it's very likely. Here's why.
This year, we know for a fact that Chance and his wife aren't expecting another baby. It only takes a quick scroll through wife Kirsten Corley Bennett's Instagram to see that the couple is currently focused on their life as it presently exists. Back in December 2019, when Chance cancelled most of his "Big" Tour, the couple had welcomed their second child just two months prior. We're hoping the family planning makes way for Chance to finally go on tour for The Big Day, and his next album, this year.
Chance the Rapper is scheduled to perform the 2022 Float Fest along with headliners Vampire Weekend and Deadmau5. Currently, it's his only scheduled performance in 2022. But the tours of Chano's past, specifically the "Magnificent Coloring World Tour," suggest a fall run of shows. This would give Chance plenty of time to drop his new album, and for the hype to swell, before announcing his next promotional tour. Hopefully, come this fall.
Are you ready to see Chance the Rapper in concert? Check back soon, as we think Chance the Rapper will shed light on his 2022 tour dates any day now.
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Well allow me to retort, try playing something other than the Waffentrager Auf E 100, perform consistently good in other tanks, you know ones that aren't capable of completely destroy every tank in the game within 10 seconds. Thanks that require you to stop, aim, shoot, back up, reload, well you get the idea.
Wow and I only got these in 6 battles in a lowly Matilda ! Yes I know the rest isnt as good but it's early days !!
People giving [edited]to tbown about using a waffle but the funniest thing is, The waffle is absolute garbage. Name an advantage to that tank other than its gun. Honestly its absolutely terrible. Why do you think some players have not bought it, If it was as OP and it was really that good dont you think literally everyone would be running around with one. Just cut Tbown some slack lol, Hes a bit of a troll on the forum but some of the stuff he does say is actually constructive and he does ask people for advice etc. this thread might be a bit off but i have a mate that does the same thing, "Fishing for comments" is what i would put it as but i tell him hes a scrub for the lols.
To be the most improved player you would have needed to be absolute trash to start out.
Now to be fair to Tbown I did see him in my last 2 matches of the night late last night. I was running the 261 just cuz I hadn't driven it in months and wanted to get some matches in it. Of course he was driving the WT and was on red both times. First was lakeville, second was prok. Here is the post match screenshots.
To be fair I didn't even realize he was in game in the 1st match until he sent me a GG. I was kinda on the run after some uni's stormed through the valley with a pair a lights. I barely made it behind a building next to spawn and spent some time waiting on an arty round to hit me. I survived but didn't contribute much.
The second match I took 1200 or so of his health in 2 hits. That match had a lot of fail, but tbown2 did just fine in my opinion since I was watching in "Sky Cancer" and trying to kill him. This match was without question won by me and the other arty with very good spotting from a fatton. Here are the post match screen shots.
Wait, am I the only one that finds the fact that Tbown has to give awards to himself somewhat sad?
Isn't wffle the clan that he started?
And we all like to fluff our Epeen every once in awhile.
I found it sad he considers around 900 WN8 in 50 battles to be much of an improvement, let alone a big one.
When there's far many others that have actually pushed to do better, figure out how to do good and whatnot, and here he is giving awards to himself because no one else would.
Or tickle the ol' e-gina.
But please tell me how hard it is to play the most broken tank in the game again.
This is true. It is a dirty dirty tank.
Edited by tbown2, 01 February 2016 - 02:41 AM.


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If I had to envision the perfect scenario for my life at this age and stage, it would be exactly how it is now. Married with two little ones and a dream job that challenges my creativity everyday. But even with this so called ideal life, there are challenges.
A few weeks ago, Zoey was on her Spring break vacation. On my way to work that Monday, I was overwhelmed with mommy guilt because I wasn't home with her. Instead, we put her in backup daycare for that entire vacation week. That morning, I went into the office almost emotionally distraught and it took me a few good minutes to get myself together. I love my work so I'm not resentful that I had a job to do but I was more disappointed in myself for not planning better as a mommy.
I already cherish weekends with the family, but this particular 'lesson' in my life made me realized it's time to #stepforward to be my best mommy self. It's not the quantity but the quality. To spend each moment with the kids and make it happy, positive and memorable.
Last weekend, we took the kids on an adventure and strolled them into the city for six hours! We picnicked, rode the merry-go-round among other fun things. Zoey and I even stopped by a few spots along the way for some mini-yoga sessions. She taught me a few poses that she had recently learned from school.
I've realized that I can't do it all, all the time. When I'm at work, I completely immersed myself into that corporate world. But when I'm at home, I'm mommy and wife— just trying to fulfill those duties as best as I could.
Live in the moment. The present is all that matters— right now.
Wearing Nike Flex Trainer by Famous Footwear.
Childhood is the right time to learn Yoga though we can learn Yoga anytime in our lifetime. Being a Yoga Mom is a blessing for the child from the God!
I love your posts and your family is beautiful. I also love the fact that in this post you spoke of the guilt that you felt when you couldn't be home with her on her week off. Hit the nail on the head. A lot of us feel that way but don't put a word to it. It's therapeutic in a way to do so. I have 2 little ones of my own. They are my everything, but I work 45-50 hours a week in a job where there is high expectations and low recognition. I do it though because my customers notice and that is enough for me. 2 days ago, it was bring your cold to work day and they were hard with me for 3 hours out of my shift. My regulars came in and finally saw them in person, not just a picture or remembering my overly pregnant belly from 2 years ago. Little things….