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35 Inspirational Will Smith Quotes On Success
Will Smith is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter. Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards and has won four Grammy Awards. May his quotes inspire you to live a life of greatness.
1. "The first step is you have to say you can." Will Smith
2. "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too." Will Smith
3. "I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation." Will Smith
4. "And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working." Will Smith
5. "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." Will Smith
6. "Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that." Will Smith
7. "I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likeable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable." Will Smith
8. "I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything." Will Smith
9. "In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet." Will Smith
10. "The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school." Will Smith
11. "If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%." Will Smith
12. "When you create art, the world has to wait." Will Smith
13. "You can cry, ain't no shame in it." Will Smith
14. "I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it." Will Smith
15. "Life is lived on the edge." Will Smith
16. "I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class." Will Smith
17. "For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie." Will Smith
18. "I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive." Will Smith
19. "So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life." Will Smith
20. "I want the world to be better because I was here." Will Smith
21. "Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life." Will Smith
23. "I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing." Will Smith
24. "I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious." Will Smith
25. "I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived." Will Smith
26. "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." Will Smith
27. "Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real, but fear is a choice." Will Smith
28. "There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A." Will Smith
29. "Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity." Will Smith
30. "I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday." Will Smith
31. "If you're absent during my struggle don't expect to be present during my success." Will Smith
32. "If you're not making someone else's life better than you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people's lives better." Will Smith
33. "Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And stay." Will Smith
34. "The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft." Will Smith
35. "Greatness exists in all of us." Will Smith
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nouveautycoon April 3, 2019 At 1:16 pm
Will Smith is just a legend. Love this quote compilation perfect tribute to such an icon.


Complete Coach Works (CCW) delivered three buses to the Ark Encounter, a biblical theme park in Williamstown, Ky., featuring a 510-foot replica of Noah's Ark.
The project will supply the Ark Encounter with a fleet of 11 refurbished low-floor buses. The 40-foot buses are undergoing a complete overhaul at CCW's Riverside, Calif., facility and will be delivered to the theme park within the upcoming weeks.
The buses will be used to shuttle guests from the Ark Encounter parking lot to the attraction, 1.5 miles away.
The new buses are heading to Kentucky showing off their themed graphic artwork. There are multiple artwork themes, some featuring pairs of animals, dinosaurs, starry night skies and more.


In 2012 the European Cardiovascular Research Institute (ECRI) was founded as a European collaborative effort to perform Investigator Sponsored Studies in the field of cardiology.
The amount of information gathered in the SYNTAX trial has helped shape both clinical practice and international guidelines in the management of complex coronary artery disease. The conclusions drawn in the SYNTAX trial since its publication do however not take into account areas in which the progress has been made in more contemporary interventional practice.
Some of these progressions are now taken into consideration in the SYNTAX II trial, and discussed below.
A large body of evidence, largely based on the use of fractional flow reserve (FFR), has demonstrated that, compared with angiography, decision making of coronary revascularisation based on physiological assessment of stenosis severity results in improved patient outcomes. Recalculation of the SYNTAX score by incorporating FFR-derived information of stenosis severity (functional SYNTAX score) may decrease the number of higher-risk patients with multivessel disease undergoing PCI and contribute to a better discrimination of risk for adverse events in this subset of patients. A new pressure-derived index, instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR), that allows faster adenosine-free assessment may be more ideally suited for multiple measurements performed in the context of multivessel disease.
In the SYNTAX II trial iFR/FFR assessment is the first step of the index procedure.
Compared to first generation DES, newer generation DES have proven reductions in stent thrombosis and other clinical outcomes. This has largely been through the design of more biocompatible polymers, biodegradable polymers, limus based drugs, thinner stent struts through the incorporation of metallic alloys with greater radial strength, and increased deliverability of the devices. Outcomes of the SYNTAX trial related to newer generation DES are therefore unknown and will now be investigated.
In the SYNTAX II trial the new generation SYNERGY™ and/or SYNERGY II™ DES is used. This DES is designed with thinner struts, biocompatible and biodegradable polymer, and a limus based drug.
While the proposal of using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to tackle restenosis made in the bare metal stent (BMS) era was virtually abandoned with the arrival DES, a growing body of evidence suggests that DES implantation with IVUS guidance in complex anatomical subsets may contribute to better patient outcomes. Specifically, a recent meta-analysis of IVUS guided DES implantation in almost 20,000 subjects has reported significantly reductions in stent thrombosis and mortality.
In the SYNTAX II trial use of IVUS to assess stent deployment is mandatory.
In SYNTAX, the presence of a (chronic) total occlusion (C)TO was identified to be the strongest independent predictor of incomplete revascularisation in the PCI arm of the SYNTAX Trial. Over the last 10 years the practice of (C)TO recanalization has been largely modified by the systematisation in the approach to (C)TO recanalization and the development of new devices. Although acquaintance with these techniques is still limited among interventional cardiologists, international registries have consistently reported that skilled, dedicated (C)TO operators have success rates of 85-95%. This is a much higher success rate that that observed in SYNTAX operators (approximately 50%).
Major technical improvements include the development of new coronary wires, dedicated intracoronary cathethers (Corsair,Ⓡ Tornus,Ⓡ CrossBossTM) and re-entry devices (The Stingray™ CTO Re-Entry System).
Contemporary (C)TO procedures are performed both in anterograde or retrograde fashion (through collateral channels), frequently with the concourse of IVUS imaging. Virtually all these developments were not applied to (C)TO recanalization in SYNTAX.
In the SYNTAX II trial it will therefore be encouraged that each participating centre should select an expert in (C)TO revascularisation who should be involved in the procedure whenever a (C)TO is involved.


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Cam is one of the world's most recognized and successful sporting figures due in part to his versatility as a sailor. His achievements range from twin Finn Gold Cups championships and winning the 505 World championship, to Big Boat racing and offshore multihull record-setting. He was a key crew member on board Dennis Connor's victorious Stars and Stripes catamaran when they decidedly beat the 90ft super-monohull from New Zealand during the 1988 America's Cup. Cam was the only American aboard the Commodore Explorer, the catamaran that in 1993 broke the mythical 80-day around-the-world record to become the first holder of the coveted Trophée Jules Verne. In The Race, the ultimate around-the-world sailing competition among unrestricted multihulls that took place in 2000, Cam Lewis' 110ft catamaran Team Adventure was arguably the fastest boat in the fleet and only serious damages pushed his team into third place.*
*Source The National Sailing Hall of fame
I apply Harken Derm Sunblock every day I kite and sail, my face is my biggest priority, plus I have figured out how to wear sunglasses and a cap successfully while kiting to further protect myself

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Millions of patients around the world taking statins to lower the risk of heart disease fail to achieve the recommended levels of cholesterol reduction after two years of treatment, new research said Monday.
Statins - a class of medicines designed to reduce cholesterol linked to heart disease and strokes - are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States and Britain.
The cholesterol-lowering industry is worth billions of dollars, but guidelines over who should take statins are often unclear.
A team of researchers in Britain reviewed public health records of 165,000 patients taking the medicine and found that fewer than one in two reached the recommended "healthy" 40 per cent cholesterol reduction within two years.
"Statins do work and are effective, but some trials have highlighted there have been variations in responses among some patients," said Ralph Kwame Akyea, research associate at the University of Nottingham's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
"But we've shown there are some people not reaching this (safe cholesterol level) and the reducing of their risk is lower," he told AFP.
Akyea's study, published in the journal Heart, found that people on average started taking statins aged 62. It found nearly 23,000 cases of cardiovascular disease within six years of statin treatment among patients.
In total, 51 per cent of patients had an insufficient drop in cholesterol even while taking the drugs.
Akyea stressed that the study - the largest of its kind to date - could not establish why some patients responded positively to statins while others didn't.
"Probably some people would have stopped taking their medication, maybe they had side effects," he said.
"There might also be a role played by genetic variation. Not everyone responds to the medication and there are currently studies looking at the genetics of drug response."
Millions more patients expected
Recent changes to prescription guidelines are set to see statins given to more than 55 million people in the US and 12 million people in Britain in the next few years.
Akyea and his team suggested that better guidance and monitoring was needed to ensure those given statins were taking the correct doses for the prescribed amount of time.
Writing in a linked editorial, Marcio Bittencourt, from Sao Paulo's University Hospital, said the study's results were "clearly alarming".
He stressed, however, that statins had been shown to significantly reduce the likelihood of heart attacks and strokes in a large percentage of at-risk patients.
"Patients and society should be educated on the scientific evidence documenting the benefits of lipid lowering therapy," said Bittencourt.
"Anti-statin propaganda based on pseudoscience should be strongly disavowed."
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Thai League T1
Nong Bua Pitchaya 0 - 1 Samut Prakan City
Stadium : Pitchaya Stadium (Nong Bua Lamphu (Nong Bua Lam Phu))
Summary Statistics Form Head to Head Standings
League 10.57
Nong Bua Pitchaya
Thailand - Thai League T1
Overall W
Home W
Win % 100% 100% 0%
Scored 2.00 2 0
1st to Score 100% 100% 0%
Samut Prakan City
Both Teams to Score 100% 0% 100%
Nong Bua Pitchaya - Last Matches
03/09/2021 Nong Bua Pitchaya 2 : 0 Nakhon Ratchasima
Samut Prakan City - Last Matches
05/09/2021 Chiangrai United 2 : 2 Pattaya United
Nong Bua Pitchaya is +200% better in terms of Form
Nakhon Ratchasima (2)
(2) Chiangrai United
Nong Bua Pitchaya is 100% better in terms of Goals Conceded
Nong Bua Pitchaya is +200% better in terms of Forms 1st Half
4.5 Corners / Match
Match Corners are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team corners of Nong Bua Pitchaya and Samut Prakan City during the Thailand Thai League T1 2021/2022 season.
Match Shots on target are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team shots on target of Nong Bua Pitchaya and Samut Prakan City during the Thailand Thai League T1 2021/2022 season.
Nong Bua Pitchaya - Home
Samut Prakan City - Away
Find Out More About the Match of Nong Bua Pitchaya vs Samut Prakan City
When and where is the Match for Nong Bua Pitchaya vs Samut Prakan City
The Match between Nong Bua Pitchaya and Samut Prakan City takes place at the home of Nong Bua Pitchaya, in 12 September 2021, at 11:00. The match is part of the 2nd round of the Thailand - Thai League T1. The match will will take place at the Pitchaya Stadium (Nong Bua Lamphu (Nong Bua Lam Phu)).
Nong Bua Pitchaya Performance
Nong Bua Pitchaya has played 1 match in the Thailand - Thai League T1, with a total of 1 win, 0 draws and 0 losses. Nong Bua Pitchaya averages 3 Points Per Match in the Thailand - Thai League T1 with a total of 2 Goals Scored and 0 Goals Conceded.
Playing at home, Nong Bua Pitchaya have played 1 match in total with 1 win, 0 draws and 0 losses. Nong Bua Pitchaya averages 3 Points Per Match in Thailand - Thai League T1 at home with 2 Goals Scored and 0 Goals Conceded.
Samut Prakan City Performance
Samut Prakan City has played 1 match in the Thailand - Thai League T1, with a total of 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. Samut Prakan City averages 1 Points Per Match in the Thailand - Thai League T1 with a total of 2 Goals Scored and 2 Goals Conceded.
Playing away, Samut Prakan City have played 1 match in total with 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. Samut Prakan City averages 1 Points Per Match in Thailand - Thai League T1 at away with 2 Goals Scored and 2 Goals Conceded.
What is the Form of Nong Bua Pitchaya?
In the past 5 matches, Nong Bua Pitchaya has won 1, drawn 0 and lost 0. They averaged 3 Points Per Match in the past 5 matches compared to their 3 average in the competition.
At home, Nong Bua Pitchaya has won 1, drawn 0 and lost 0 in the past 5 matches. They averaged 3 Points Per Match at home in the past 5 matches compared to their 3 average in the competition.
What is the Form of Samut Prakan City?
In the past 5 matches, Samut Prakan City has won 0, drawn 1 and lost 0. They averaged 1 Points Per Match in the past 5 matches compared to their 1 average in the competition.
Away, Samut Prakan City has won 0, drawn 1 and lost 0 in the past 5 matches. They averaged 1 Points Per Match at away in the past 5 matches, compared to their 1 average in the competition away.
Head 2 Head between Nong Bua Pitchaya and Samut Prakan City
In the past five years, Nong Bua Pitchaya and Samut Prakan City have played 0 times against each other. Nong Bua Pitchaya has won 0, and Samut Prakan City has won 0 with 0 matches ended in a draw.
When the match is played at Pitchaya Stadium (Nong Bua Lamphu (Nong Bua Lam Phu)), there were 0 wins for Nong Bua Pitchaya, 0 wins for Samut Prakan City and 0 matches ended in a draw.


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Designer delivers custom-made coats to Bronx students
By Kemberly Richardson
SOUTH BRONX, New York City (WABC) -- Students at PS 154 in the Bronx each got a free custom-made wool coat as part of an early holiday celebration Thursday.
Andrew Jang is a top designer specializing in made-to-measure luxury apparel, and his company, Adriaen Black, dresses NBA athletes across the country, including players on the Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks.
He wanted to give back, and so he came up with the idea to create custom-made coats for kids.
He previously measured each child and returned Thursday with the jackets. Each has the student's name hand embroidered on the inside.
This was a pilot program, but Jang said he will do it again and hopes other designers will also get involved.
He initially offered to make 50 coats, but the principal said there were 366 kids in the school.
Jang didn't hesitate and came through big, making each student a coat.
They were all smiles when they tried on the final product.
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One of the more unique food trucks on the island of Oahu is at Tsue's Farm located near the Historic Haleiwa Town on Joseph P. Leong Highway or Highway 83. Tsue's Farm sits on a couple acres of land where they have farm animals to pet and feed. They have plenty of seating, all outdoors, but there are several benches and chairs under some large trees which provide you with some shade while you sit and enjoy your meal.
It would be very easy for most people to drive right by Tsue's Farm as they have a small sign on a mini trailer that lets you know to turn in, but it would still be pretty easy to miss if you were not paying attention. So if you want to stop by, be on the lookout for their sign and bring the little ones if you got 'em because they're sure to love the space to run around and pet some of the animals. Though their banner has pictures of several animals, at the time of my visit, they only had ducks and rabbits.
The menu at their blue food truck is pretty basic. They serve three of the most popular shrimp plates on Oahu, the classic Garlic Shrimp , Spicy Shrimp and Coconut Shrimp. You can also choose Teriyaki Chicken, Kalua Pork with Cabbage, Noodles and Veggies stir fry and a Garden Salad. The prices for these items are not listed on the menu but I believe, the Garlic shrimp plate I ordered was $13, which came with 8 pieces of shrimp, rice, salad and two slices of pineapple.
The shrimp at Tsue's Farm were nicely butterflied, seasoned very well and cooked perfectly. These were fairly large shrimp, maybe about 21 to 25 count. The garlic was fresh and added a lot of flavor to the shrimp. The pineapple was nice and sweet and the salad, which consisted of some mixed greens, was also pretty good.
Tsue's Farm also offers shave ice further back, by the Anahulu river. It is reasonably priced at $3 for a fairly large serving. They have 17 flavors to choose from. I ordered my usual, Rainbow, a combination of Strawberry, Blue Hawaii and Pineapple to compare it with others I have had. It was pretty good, the flavors were nice but not too sweet. The serving size is large enough for two (perhaps one, with a pretty big sweet tooth). If you're not up for shave ice, they do have a nice selection of island style sherbet you can try. I chose the Mango Wango. It was very tasty and only cost $2.00. You do get a better bang for your buck with the shave ice but of the two, I'd probably choose the sherbet unless I was super thirsty.
Another nice thing about Tsue's Farm, you can purchase fresh papayas straight off their small papaya trees for a $1.00 each. It doesn't get better or fresher than that.
Tsue's Farm's best feature has to be their beautiful scenery. It is a relaxed atmosphere and overall, this is just a real nice place to go visit and enjoy some good food while taking in nature's the view. The staff are pretty friendly, whether it be at the food truck, shave ice stand or their kayak and SUP instructors. You, your friends or family should enjoy your time here.
If you want to rent a kayak or a stand up paddle board (SUP) to go on the river, it costs $20 a head for either and includes one hour with an instructor. From what I was told, the river is where you'll most likely see some turtles.
Tsue's Farm has 30 SUP boards, 5 Single Kayaks and 3 Double Kayaks available for rent. The three young men photographed here, next to the shave ice stand, are some of the instructors who work at Tsue's Farm. If you are in a group of 9 or less and interested in SUP or kayaking, 1 instructor is assigned to work with your group. Those in groups of 10 or more have at least 2-3 instructors assigned to your group.
Tsue's Farm is only a few months old but with all they have to offer, it shouldn't be long before they become a fairly popular destination on the North Shore of Oahu.
If you are looking to stop by Tsue's Farm, they are open from 11:00am to 5:00pm, 7 days a week.


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At first a single barrack accommodated only 180 persons, but later the overcrowding became intolerable, and bunks filled all available space. At the north end of Dachau stood the disinfection buildings and an Angora rabbit farm. The camp had a unique feature, the Dachau museum, containing plaster-images of prisoners marked by bodily defects or other strange characteristics.
Although Dachau was initially established to hold political prisoners of the Third Reich, only a minority of whom were Jews, Dachau soon grew to hold a large and diverse population of people targeted by the Nazis. Under the oversight of Nazi Theodor Eicke, Dachau became a model concentration camp, a place where SS guards and other camp officials went to train.
You see, when Bergen-Belsen was liberated these people were let loose. So we were wandering. We were wandering from one place to another. And there were warehouses. We came to a building, and we walked in, and I still see rows and rows and shelves of handbags, ladies' handbags. As we were walking over there to reach those shelves, I sort of stepped on something. And I said to my friend, "Look! There's a body!" You see, somebody, one of these inmates who wandered to these warehouses and dropped dead from exhaustion or something. And she says, "What do you want me to do about it?" I said, "Let's carry it out." She said, "Are you crazy? You can't carry that out." and she took a few packages of these linens and dropped it on (the body). And then we went to the shelves, and she wanted a handbag. And I wasn't in the mood anymore for the handbag. She pulled out one handbag. It was an alligator handbag. She says, "Take this one." I took it, and she took another one, and we walked out. And I remember, as we left the place, I just threw back the bag. I said, "I don't want it." - and walked away. And this only came back. I never thought about it.
Also in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council posthumously presented the Museum's Medal of Remembrance to Schindler. Rarely presented, this medal honors deserving recipients for extraordinary deeds during the Holocaust and in the cause of Remembrance. Emilie Schindler accepted the medal on behalf of her ex-husband at a ceremony in the Museum's Hall of Remembrance.
My sister recently told me of a story I did not know where while at Bergen-Belsen, post liberation, a Jewish lady who was delerious came to my grandfather asking for food and/or cigarettes (we presume the cigarettes were a bartering tool) while holding onto the dead body of her child and that it was clear that her child had been dead for quite a while but that the woman still cared for it as if it was alive."
It is estimated that approximately 3,000 Jews died on the Plantages. When the camp officials felt that these internees were too ill and too weak to work, they would march them into a lake (since drained) , regardless of the time of year. They were forced to stay in the water until dead. Those who remained conscious were placed in wheelbarrows, brought back to camp, where they died a few hours later.
Some former inmates and a few historians have claimed that Jews were put to death in gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen. For example, an "authoritative" work published shortly after the end of the war, A History of World War II, informed readers: "In Belsen, [Commandant] Kramer kept an orchestra to play him Viennese music while he watched children torn from their mothers to be burned alive. Gas chambers disposed of thousands of persons daily." /31
Smith was told by the former inmates of Dachau that "many ambitious projects were undertaken, such as the production of artificial pepper, the evaluation of seasoning mixtures, the extraction of Vitamin C from gladioli and other flowers, the potentiation of plant growth by hormone-enriched manure, and of most importance to Germany, the development of synthetic fertilizer. As a profitable sideline, garlic, malva, and other medicinal plants, and vegetable seeds, were cultivated by the prisoners and then sold; the profits went to the SS."
Eventually the studio bought the rights to the book, and when Page met with Spielberg to discuss the story, the director promised the Holocaust survivor that he would make the film adaptation within 10 years. The project languished for over a decade because Spielberg was reluctant to take on such serious subject matter. Spielberg's hesitation actually stopped Hollywood veteran Billy Wilder from making Schindler's List his final film. Wilder tried to buy the rights to Keneally's book, but Spielberg and MCA/Universal scooped them up before he could.
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Several resistance groups were formed, such as the Jewish Combat Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto and the United Partisan Organization in Vilna.[310] Over 100 revolts and uprisings occurred in at least 19 ghettos and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The best known is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, when around 1,000 poorly armed Jewish fighters held the SS at bay for four weeks.[311][q] During a revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943, inmates killed five or six guards and set fire to camp buildings; several managed to escape.[316][317] In the Białystok Ghetto on 16 August 1943, Jewish insurgents fought for five days when the Germans announced mass deportations.[318] On 14 October 1943, Jewish prisoners in Sobibór, including Jewish-Soviet prisoners of war, attempted an escape,[319] killing 11 SS officers and a couple of Ukrainian camp guards.[320] Around 300 escaped, but 100 were recaptured and shot.[321] On 7 October 1944, 300 Jewish members of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, who learned they were about to be killed, attacked their guards and blew up crematorium IV. Three SS officers were killed, one of whom was stuffed into an oven, as was a German kapo. None of the Sonderkommando rebels survived the uprising.[322]
In the weeks that followed liberation, the British burnt down the typhus - infested barracks in the concentration camp at Bergen Belsen. They transferred the former prisoners who had not died in the weeks that followed liberation to the military camp, where there were better living conditions. Many survivors remained at Bergen Belsen after liberation, because they did not want to return to their homes or because they had no homes to return to. The British registered these survivors, and Bergen Belsen began to operate as a DP (Displaced Persons) camp for them. Many Jews who survived other Nazi camps, or who survived the Holocaust in hiding or by fleeing to the Soviet Union, moved to the DP camp at Bergen Belsen.
The prisoners are divided into three classifications, each treated differently. The first class is picked at random. These men act as firemen, and their only routine consists of some drilling. The second class is made up of the majority of the prisoners, who receive the treatment outlined above. The third class is composed of leading Communists and all the Jews. This class performs the hardest work on the smallest rations. They receive no sheets to cover their straw sacks. For a long time they were confined to dilapidated barracks where on rainy days the water would stand six inches deep on the floor. They are beaten more than the other prisoners, and nearly all of the murders are perpetrated on members of this class. Even within the last-mentioned class, the Jews are segregated, because no Aryan is allowed to share sleeping accommodations with a Jew. The Jews are refused cigarettes, and the other prisoners are forbidden to converse with them. However, the solidarity among the prisoners makes it impossible to put this rule into effect: camaraderie between the Jews and the other confined men is very strong. The prisoners are allowed to write one letter, or postcard, a week, which has to be turned in to the authorities unsealed. Any remarks about the conditions at the camp means daily beatings and severe punishment in dark cells.
A British documentary film shows healthy Jewish liberated prisoners lined up, screaming at the top of their lungs at the SS men and women as they go about their macabre task. On the day that the German civilians were brought to the camp, the Jewish women in the camp screamed at them as the Germans were forced to watch the loading of the corpses. Later the Bergen residents were forced to evacuate their homes and former Jewish prisoners moved in; the Germans were ordered to leave all their silverware, china and linens for the use of the former prisoners.
As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people. Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or brutal treatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where these individuals worked and often died under deplorable conditions.
Dan Stone, a specialist in the historiography of the Holocaust, lists ethnic Poles, Ukrainians, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, black Germans, and homosexuals as among the groups persecuted by the Nazis; he writes that the occupation of eastern Europe can also be viewed as genocidal. But the German attitude toward the Jews was different in kind, he argues. The Nazis regarded the Jews not as racially inferior, deviant, or enemy nationals, as they did other groups, but as a "Gegenrasse: a 'counter-race', that is to say, not really human at all". The Holocaust, for Stone, is therefore defined as the genocide of the Jews, although he argues that it cannot be "properly historically situated without understanding the 'Nazi empire' with its grandiose demographic plans".[d] Donald Niewyk and Francis Nicosia, in The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000), favour a definition that focuses on the Jews, Roma, and Aktion T4 victims: "The Holocaust—that is, Nazi genocide—was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of entire groups determined by heredity. This applied to Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped."[33]
For the role, Spielberg cast then relatively unknown Irish actor Liam Neeson, whom the director had seen in a Broadway play called Anna Christie. "Liam was the closest in my experience of what Schindler was like," Spielberg told The New York Times. "His charm, the way women love him, his strength. He actually looks a little bit like Schindler, the same height, although Schindler was a rotund man," he said. "If I had made the movie in 1964, I would have cast Gert Frobe, the late German actor. That's what he looked like."
Most of the prisoners in the sub-camps of Dachau were Jews who had survived Auschwitz and had been brought on trains to Germany in January 1945 after a 50-kilometer death march out of the camp. By the time that the survivors staggered into the Dachau main camp in the last weeks of April, they were emaciated, sick and exhausted. Other Jews at Dachau in 1945 had been brought from the three Lithuanian ghettos in the Summer of 1944 to work in the Dachau sub-camps. The American liberators got most of their information about the Dachau camp from these Jews who had only recently arrived and were eager to tell their stories about abuse at the hands of the Nazis.
As the Amper River would divert into backwaters in several places, there were many fords making it possible to cross the river. The oldest findings of human presence here date back to the Stone Age. The most noteworthy findings were discovered near Feldgeding in the adjoining municipality Bergkirchen. Around 1000 B.C. the Celts arrived in this area and settled. The name "Dachau" originated in the Celtic Dahauua, which roughly translates to "loamy meadow" and also alludes to the loamy soil of the surrounding hills. Some theories assume the name "Amper" river may derive from the Celtic word for "water". Approximately at the turn of the first millennium the Romans conquered the area and incorporated it into the province of Rhaetia. A Roman trade road between Salzburg and today's Augsburg is said to have run through Dachau. Remains of this old route are found along the Amper marshlands.
They built roads, worked in gravel pits, and drained marshes, reclaiming them as arable land, initially, production in the camps was directly under the control of the individual camp commandant. But as the camps continued to grow, the range of production expanded, and the SS industries that were served by the camp labour were centralised under their main office in Berlin. In the first winter of the war the Dachau camp was used to set up the SS Totenkopf Division.
Commandant Kramer, who was vilified in the British and American press as "The Beast of Belsen" and "The Monster of Belsen," was put on trial and then executed, along with chief physician Dr. Fritz Klein and other camp officials. At his trial, Kramer's defense attorney, Major T.C.M. Winwood, predicted: "When the curtain finally rings down on this stage Josef Kramer will, in my submission, stand forth not as 'The Beast of Belsen' but as 'The Scapegoat of Belsen'." /24
On April 29, 1945, SS 2nd Lt. Heinrich Wicker surrendered the camp to the 42nd Rainbow Division of the US Seventh Army, which had found the camp on its way to take the city of Munich, 18 kilometers to the south. Accompanied by Red Cross representative Victor Maurer, 2nd Lt. Wicker surrendered the Dachau concentration camp to Brigadier General Henning Linden, commander of the 42nd Rainbow Division, under a white flag of truce. The 45th Thunderbird Division of the US Seventh Army also participated in the liberation of Dachau, arriving at the nearby SS garrison before the 42nd Division approached the installations's main entrance on the south side of the Dachau complex where 2nd Lt. Wicker was waiting to surrender the camp.
On March 7, 1933, an important law was passed by the newly-elected German Congress, which called for all high-level government officials in the German states to be appointed by the Nazis and for all state government positions to be supervised by the Nazis in the event of an emergency. Germany was already in an emergency situation and Article 48 of the German Constitution had already been invoked. Under this new law, Heinrich Himmler was appointed the acting Chief of Police in Munich, although his real job was Reichsführer-SS, the leader of Hitler's elite private Army.
A letter from Dr. Sigmund Rascher to Heinrich Himmler, the head of all the concentration camps, which makes a reference to a facility like the one at Hartheim which the Nazis were planning to build at Dachau, is the best proof that the fake shower room in Baracke X was actually a gas chamber. A copy of this letter was displayed in the gas chamber building in May 2001, but it was later moved to the Dachau Museum.
The first commander of Dachau, Hilmar Wäckerle, was dismissed from his position by Heinrich Himmler after charges of murder were brought against him by a Munich court for the deaths of several prisoners who had died after being severely punished. Another Dachau Commandant, Alex Piorkowski, was also dismissed by Himmler and was expelled from the Nazi party for breaking the strict rules set by Eicke.
The prisoner barracks at Dachau were renovated in 1948 and 5,000 refugees from Czechoslovakia, who were among the 12 to 18 million ethnic Germans that were expelled from their homes after the war, lived in the Dachau camp until 1964 when an organization of Communist camp survivors began demanding that they be removed so that a Memorial could be built in honor of the former concentration camp political prisoners.
Among the key revelations in Crowe's book: Oskar Schindler did not write out a list of people to save, he didn't break down in tears because he thought he could have saved more people, and it is unlikely he experienced a defining moment, such as seeing a girl in a red coat, that led to his decision to save the lives of his Jewish workers. Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List, while important, impressive and admirable in many ways, took creative license on these and other issues.
When the Nazi's rose to power they built facilities to hold and, eventually kill, their enemies. When the first concentration camps were built in 1933, this primarily meant political dissidents and opponents of the Nazi government, such as German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats but would grow to include asocial groups – Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, the homeless, the mentally ill and homosexuals. It was not until Kristallnacht that the prisoners became primarily Jewish.
I loved the movie that Steven Spielberg did years ago with Liam Nesson as Schindler and realized I never read the book the movie was based on. And while needless to say books into movies never go well this one did. I really thought the book was well done and not one of those boring old history like texts and actually finished it a weekend because I couldn't put it down. I am glad Keneally wrote about Schindler becasue the world needs to know that while nobody is prefect even the least likely of people can become heros. This book needs to stay in print and maybe even one that is read in schools because people need to learn about the Holecust and the average people that helped save others during a really dark time in human history so that we do not reapeat the same mistakes as our fore fathers. Oscar Schindler and this book gives me hope in humanity.
Working together with both Commandant Kramer and chief inmate representative Kuestermeier, Colonel Hanns Schmidt responded by arranging for the local volunteer fire department to provide water. He also saw to it that food supplies were brought to the camp from abandoned rail cars. Schmidt later recalled that Kramer "did not at all impress one as a criminal type. He acted like an upright and rather honorable man. Neither did he strike me as someone with a guilty conscience. He worked with great dedication to improve conditions in the camp. For example, he rounded up horse drawn vehicles to bring food to the camp from rail cars that had been shot up." /17
Beginning in 1943, a series of 123 sub-camps were set up near the Dachau main camp. The worst of these sub-camps were the 11 camps near Landsberg am Lech, which were named Kaufering I - XI; Kaufering was the name of the railroad station where the prisoners arrived by train. Beginning on June 18, 1944, Hungarian Jews from the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were brought to the Kaufering camps to work on construction of underground factories where airplanes were to be built.
The Nazis then combined their racial theories with the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin to justify their treatment of the Jews. The Germans, as the strongest and fittest, were destined to rule, while the weak and racially adulterated Jews were doomed to extinction. Hitler began to restrict the Jews with legislation and terror, which entailed burning books written by Jews, removing Jews from their professions and public schools, confiscating their businesses and property and excluding them from public events. The most infamous of the anti-Jewish legislation were the Nuremberg Laws, enacted on September 15, 1935. They formed the legal basis for the Jews' exclusion from German society and the progressively restrictive Jewish policies of the Germans.
Britain's attitude to Jewish refugees from Nazi-controlled areas was strongly influenced by its role as the mandatory power in Palestine, where it had to mediate between Jewish and Arab interests. In December 1941, the Struma, a ship carrying 769 Jewish refugees, left the Romanian port of Constantsa hoping to reach Palestine. Towed into Istanbul harbour when its engines failed, it became the subject of diplomatic discussions between Britain and Turkey. Britain's chief concern was to discourage what it regarded as an undesirable traffic, and it proposed that the ship be returned to Romania. After ten weeks of wrangling the Struma was towed out to sea, its engines still disabled, where it was sunk by a Soviet submarine. There was one survivor.
A young man sits on an overturned stool next to a burnt body in the Thekla camp outside Leipzig, in April of 1945, after the US troops entered Leipzig April 18. On the 18th of April, the workers of the Thekla plane factory were locked in an isolated building of the factory by the Germans and burned alive by incendiary bombs. About 300 prisoners died. Those who managed to escape died on the barbed wire or were executed by the Hitler youth movement, according to a US captain's report. #
^ After the invasion of Poland, the Germans planned to set up a Jewish reservation in southeast Poland around the transit camp in Nisko, but the "Nisko Plan" failed, in part because it was opposed by Hans Frank, the new Governor-General of the General Government territory.[147][148][149] Adolf Eichmann was assigned to remove Jews from Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the reservation.[150] Although the idea was to remove 80,000 Jews, Eichmann had managed to send only 4,700 by March 1940, and the plan was abandoned in April.[151] By mid-October the idea of a Jewish reservation had been revived by Heinrich Himmler, because of the influx of Germanic settlers into the Warthegau.[152] Resettlement continued until January 1941 under Odilo Globocnik,[153] and included both Jews and Poles.[154] By that time 95,000 Jews were already concentrated in the area,[155] but the plan to deport up to 600,000 additional Jews to the Lublin reservation failed for logistical and political reasons.[156]
Also set for extermination were members of any group considered by Hitler to be ill-equipped to reside in the new Germany. Among them were artists, intellectuals and other independent thinkers; communists, Jehovah's Witnesses and others who were ideologically opposed to the Nazi Party; homosexuals and others who were viewed as sexually deviant; Gypsies; the physically and mentally handicapped; and anyone else considered to be racially or physically impure. (Between 1941 and 1944, several thousand sick and handicapped Dachau prisoners were sent to a Nazi "euthanasia" center in Hartheim, Austria, where they were put to death by exposure to lethal gas).
In April 1943, the SS took over the southern section of the camp and turned it into an "exchange camp" for Jewish prisoners. The SS decided in the spring of 1944 to also use the camp for other purposes and additional groups of prisoners. This dramatically changed the character of the camp, the structure of the prisoner society and, above all, the prisoners' living conditions. When the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on 15 April 1945, British soldiers found thousands of unburied bodies and tens of thousands of severely ill prisoners.
Compared to the appalling number of men, women and children killed at the Nazi extermination camps—places like Sobibor, Chelmno, Treblinka and others where, cumulatively, millions perished—the death toll at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwest Germany was (a horrible thing to say!) relatively small. More than a million people were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau alone; at Belsen, by most estimates, fewer than 100,000 died—from starvation and disease (typhus, for example), as well as outright slaughter.
These programmes are best seen as a series of linked genocides, each having its own history, background, purpose and significance in the Nazi scheme of things. The Holocaust was the biggest of the killing programmes and, in certain important ways, different from the others. The Jews figured in Nazi ideology as the arch-enemy of the 'Aryan race', and were targeted not merely for terror and repression but for complete extinction. The Nazis failed in this aim because they ran out of time, but they pursued it fanatically until their defeat in 1945. The Holocaust led to widespread public awareness of genocide and to modern efforts to prevent it, such as the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide.
In the main camp too, conditions at the end of the war were horrendous. Dachau was unbearably overcrowded as a result of the influx of prisoners evacuated from the camps that were being closed ahead of the Allied advance. Thousands of prisoners fell victim to a typhus epidemic. On the 29th of April 1945, 30 000 thousand prisoners at the camp were liberated by US army units without any fighting.
Over a short period of time, Bergen Belsen became the largest DP camp in Germany. In 1946, more than 11,000 Jews lived there. Some survivors succumbed to their despair in the DP camp. After years of forced labor, some survivors refused to work at all. Others developed a Black Market at Bergen Belsen, trafficking in anything that would earn them a penny. However, the majority of survivors at Bergen Belsen were able to gather emotional energy and channel it towards rebuilding their lives.
During the liberation of the sub-camps surrounding Dachau, advance scouts of the U.S. Army's 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, a segregated battalion consisting of Nisei, 2nd generation Japanese-Americans, liberated the 3,000 prisoners of the "Kaufering IV Hurlach"[85] slave labor camp.[86] Perisco describes an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) team (code name LUXE) leading Army Intelligence to a "Camp IV" on 29 April. "They found the camp afire and a stack of some four hundred bodies burning ... American soldiers then went into Landsberg and rounded up all the male civilians they could find and marched them out to the camp. The former commandant was forced to lie amidst a pile of corpses. The male population of Landsberg was then ordered to walk by, and ordered to spit on the commandant as they passed. The commandant was then turned over to a group of liberated camp survivors".[87] The 522nd's personnel later discovered the survivors of a death march[88] headed generally southwards from the Dachau main camp to Eurasburg, then eastwards towards the Austrian border on 2 May, just west of the town of Waakirchen.[89][90]
By July 1944, Germany was losing the war; the SS began closing down the easternmost concentration camps and deporting the remaining prisoners westward. Many were killed in Auschwitz and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Schindler convinced SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth, commandant of the nearby Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, to allow him to move his factory to Brněnec in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, thus sparing his workers from almost certain death in the gas chambers. Using names provided by Jewish Ghetto Police officer Marcel Goldberg, Göth's secretary Mietek Pemper compiled and typed the list of 1,200 Jews who travelled to Brünnlitz in October 1944. Schindler continued to bribe SS officials to prevent the execution of his workers until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, by which time he had spent his entire fortune on bribes and black market purchases of supplies for his workers.
The twin goals of racial purity and spatial expansion were the core of Hitler's worldview, and from 1933 onward they would combine to form the driving force behind his foreign and domestic policy. At first, the Nazis reserved their harshest persecution for political opponents such as Communists or Social Democrats. The first official concentration camp opened at Dachau (near Munich) in March 1933, and many of the first prisoners sent there were Communists.
In 1944, Plaszow transitioned from a labor camp to a concentration camp and all Jews were to be sent to the death camp at Auschwitz. Schindler requested Göth allow him to relocate his factory to Brnĕnec, in the Sudetenland, and produce war goods. He was told to draw up a list of workers he wanted to take with him. With Stern's help, Schindler created a list of 1,100 Jewish names he deemed "essential" for the new factory. Permission was granted and the factory was moved. Not wanting to contribute to the German war effort, Schindler ordered his workers to purposefully make defective products that would fail inspection. The employees spent the remaining months of the war in the factory.
Hadassah Bimko was born in Sosnowiec, Poland. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and then to Bergen Belsen, where she arrived in November 1944. A dentist who studied medicine, Hadassah made a name for herself caring for children in Bergen Belsen before and after liberation.She headed a team of survivor-doctors and became the head of the Health Department of the Jewish Central Committee. She was broad-minded and well-educated.
Dachau was mainly a camp for Communist political prisoners and anti-Fascist resistance fighters who were captured in the Nazi-occupied countries. On the day of the liberation of Dachau, the political prisoners were in control, as Commandant Wilhelm Eduard Weiter had left the camp on April 26, 1945, along with a transport of prisoners who were being evacuated to Schloss Itter, a subcamp of Dachau in Austria. Former Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss was in charge of the camp for two days until he fled, along with most of the regular guards, on the night of April 28, 1945.
When British tanks reached the camp Mr. Le Drieullenac was having his first meal for five days – grass. In the whole ten days there he had about one pint of soup in a mug which he took from a pile of effects of the dead. There was no water to wash the mug, but he did get one drink by climbing over the dead bodies in the washroom. The grass meal was got when the Germans on the last day moved him with some comrades to better quarters, this apparently being done to make a more favourable impression on the British troops. This motive was also, it would seem, behind the efforts which the Germans forced the prisoners to make to get rid of the bodies in the course of which Mr. Le Drieullenac said, the number of dead buried ran into five figures.
The Jews killed represented around one third of the world population of Jews,[398] and about two-thirds of European Jewry, based on an estimate of 9.7 million Jews in Europe at the start of the war.[399] Much of the uncertainty stems from the lack of a reliable figure for the number of Jews in Europe in 1939, numerous border changes that make avoiding double-counting of victims difficult, lack of accurate records from the perpetrators, and uncertainty about whether deaths occurring months after liberation, but caused by the persecution, should be counted.[392]
In October 1939 Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree" backdated to 1 September 1939 that authorized Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, the chief of Hitler's Chancellery, and Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician, to carry out a program of involuntary "euthanasia"; after the war this program was named Aktion T4.[98] It was named after Tiergartenstraße 4, the address of a villa in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, where the various organizations involved were headquartered.[99] T4 was mainly directed at adults, but the "euthanasia" of children was also carried out.[100] Between 1939 and 1941, 80,000 to 100,000 mentally ill adults in institutions were killed, as were 5,000 children and 1,000 Jews, also in institutions. In addition there were specialized killing centres, where the deaths were estimated at 20,000, according to Georg Renno, the deputy director of Schloss Hartheim, one of the "euthanasia" centers, or 400,000, according to Frank Zeireis, the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp.[101] Overall, the number of mentally and physically handicapped murdered was about 150,000.[102]
On 23 October 1943, 1,800 of these Jews arrived in Auschwitz where they were all immediately killed. During the undressing, prior to entering the gas chambers one woman throws her clothes at SS- Scharfuhrer Schillinger grabs his revolver and shoots him three times. She also shoots SS- Unterscharfuhrer Emmerich. Reinforcements were called, some women were shot, the rest are driven into the gas chamber and killed. Schillinger died on the way to the hospital, Emmerich recovered but was crippled.
As the first major camp to be liberated by the allies, the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. Sixty-thousand prisoners were present at the time of liberation. Afterward, about 500 people died daily of starvation and typhus, reaching nearly 14,000. Mass graves were made to hold the thousands of corpses of those who perished.


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The Sims 3 Virtually Poised for Solid Release into Real World
EA will release The Sims 3 on June 2nd, marking a new chapter for this immensely popular life simulation franchise. As EA begins its marketing push, the title appears quite healthy based on a variety of metrics. Fully 72% of female PC gamers and 64% of male PC gamers were aware of The Sims 3 in Nielsen's most recent Video Game Tracking survey. Furthermore, 43% of females are definitely or probably interested in buying the title compared to 28% for males.
This high level of interest and gender disparity is to be expected based on PC audience measurement for the previous edition of The Sims which can be gleaned from GamePlay Metrics. The Sims 2 released in 2004 but has kept gamers engaged through numerous expansion packs (generally adding gameplay) and stuff packs (generally adding new items) which have been released through 2008. The most recent metered data from March indicates that The Sims 2: The Celebration Stuff, a stuff pack, had the third largest audience (146,000 unique players) of any simulation game. Additionally, the various Sims 2 packs and the core title occupy six of the top 20 rankings for simulation games by audience, accounting for a combined 749,000 unique players. The Sims 2: Mansion, an expansion pack, and The Sims 2: Garden Stuff had the most engaged Sims players for the month with gamers averaging 5 sessions and a little over 6 hours of gameplay per week. Looking at demographics, the players of The Sims 2 base title skew female, age 12 to 17 and play moderate amounts.
Turning to online buzz, The Sims 2 maintains strong engagement with consumers, perhaps through the various expansion packs. Buzz volume YTD for The Sims 2 is comparable to the upcoming title, until reports of leaked and pirated copies of The Sims 3 emerged on May 18.
Buzz for the new title has remained at an elevated level since. Even though The Sims series has a reputation of appealing to the female and casual gaming audience, this audience is not heavily engaged in online discussion of the title. The top sources of discussion for both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 are gaming sites Neoseeker.com, Eyesonff.com, Electronicarts.co.uk, and Gametrailers.com, which skew male and attract hard core gamers.


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Q: Plotly Radar Chart - variables reference as the values I'm building a plotly radar chart graph, and I have variables that return arrays as the values in the radar chart. However, it doesn't display my values. Can you please advise? Thanks!
Variables Output:
output of aa > array([0.38570075]
output of bb > array([0.37840411]
output of cc > array([0.23178026]
output of dd > array([0.00411487]
output of ee > 0

import plotly.graph_objects as go

categories = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E']

fig = go.Figure()

fig.add_trace(go.Scatterpolar(
      r=[aa,bb,cc,dd,ee],
      theta=categories,
      fill='toself',
      name='Egress & Access'
))
fig.update_layout(
  polar=dict(
    radialaxis=dict(
      visible=True,
      range=[0, 1]
    )),
      showlegend=True
)

fig.show()

A: If you extract the values from the arrays your code should work:
import plotly.graph_objects as go
import numpy as np

aa = np.array([0.38570075])
bb = np.array([0.37840411])
cc = np.array([0.23178026])
dd = np.array([0.00411487])
ee = 0

categories = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E']

fig = go.Figure()

fig.add_trace(go.Scatterpolar(
      r=[aa[0], bb[0], cc[0], dd[0], ee],
      theta=categories,
      fill='toself',
      name='Egress & Access'
))

fig.update_layout(
  polar=dict(
    radialaxis=dict(
      visible=True,
      range=[0, 1]
    )),
      showlegend=True
)

fig.show()

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Maya Angelou Becomes First Black Woman on a Quarter
The coins featuring the writer and poet, which began shipping this week, are the first in a series that will commemorate female pioneers in a variety of fields.,
The coins featuring the writer and poet, which began shipping this week, are the first in a series that will commemorate female pioneers in a variety of fields.
The writer and poet Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to have her likeness depicted on the quarter, the first in a series of coins commemorating pioneering American women that began shipping this week, the U.S. Mint announced Monday.
"It is my honor to present our nation's first circulating coins dedicated to celebrating American women and their contributions to American history," Ventris C. Gibson, the deputy director of the Mint, said in a statement. "Maya Angelou," she added, "used words to inspire and uplift."
Ms. Angelou's landmark 1969 memoir, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," documented her childhood in the Jim Crow South and was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century Black woman to reach a wide general readership.
In it, she writes, "there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Ms. Angelou recited a poem at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration, in 1993, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Ms. Angelou, who died in 2014 at 86, was "one of the brightest lights of our time — a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman," Mr. Obama said at the time.
The new quarter featuring the likeness of the writer Maya Angelou.Credit…The Department Of Treasury/Agence France-Presse, via Getty Images
The quarter featuring her likeness — created by Emily Damstra, a designer, and Craig A. Campbell, a medallic artist — depicts Ms. Angelou with her arms uplifted, in front of a bird in flight and rays of sunlight streaking out from behind her. The images were both "inspired by her poetry and symbolic of the way she lived," the Mint said.
Ms. Angelou is featured on the "tails" side of the 25-cent piece; the "heads" side includes a portrait of George Washington.
The coin is the first in the American Women Quarters Program, a four-year effort in which the Mint will issue five quarters a year to honor women in fields including women's suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science and the arts. This year's other honorees are Sally Ride, the first American woman in space; Wilma Mankiller, a Native American activist; Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico's suffrage movement; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.
The Mint has previously issued coins featuring Black women, including a commemorative gold coin in 2017 that depicted Lady Liberty as a Black woman.
The suffragist Susan B. Anthony was the first woman to be featured on a circulating U.S. coin; silver dollars with her image were first released in 1979. (A dollar coin featuring Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark across the plains, was produced from 2000 to 2008.) In 2003, the Mint released a quarter featuring Helen Keller, the writer and activist for the disabled.
On paper currency, the abolitionist Harriet Tubman is expected to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill by 2030, according to the Treasury Department.
Representative Barbara Lee, the California Democrat who sponsored a bill promoting the new coins' creation, said in a statement last year that she was proud to have led an effort honoring the "phenomenal" women who were often overlooked in American history.
She added: "If you find yourself holding a Maya Angelou quarter, may you be reminded of her words, 'be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.'"
Maria Cramer contributed reporting.


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The Retirement Village at Tegallinggah has been completed to the 95% point of construction on the apartment project and the "Melaspas*" or dedication ceremony was held on the 9 March 2017 at noon. The date and time were chosen by a Balinese priest leader (Jro Mangku) as it was believed to be"the good day" based on Saka Calendar. We invited all parties who had helped this project; workers -their family and friends-, vendors, chief of village, and neighbors. We now invite you to watch the mini video we captured during the ceremony. Enjoy!
*Melaspas is an Indonesian ritual cleansing and purification of buildings recently completed or newly reoccupied, including a rumah (home), kantor (office), and others. Melaspas are carried out by Hindus in Bali, Indonesia. The word melaspas comes from Bali which consists of two words that MLAs and Pas. MLAs means dividing and Pas means to fit in. Melaspas also reflects that buildings are usually made up of two elements, namely wood and Batu (stone). For Balinese Hindus, this ceremony must be carried out and has become a tradition.
KATHY Besser visits Bali and she finds out that the hidden gem is in fact in the Northern part of Bali. Watch her video now and find out what she has to say about the Retirement Village at Tegallinggah.
Jane, one of our prospective buyers from Western Australia, arrived at The Retirement Village @Tegallinggah on Monday, June 19th, 2017, picked the unit she wants and stayed in a guest house near the project.
bali..rich in culture
Video courtesy of http://www.balidiscovery.com.


Conduct our business in a way that promotes fairness, honesty, integrity.
Know and keep watch on the business' condition.
Seek wisdom outside of ourselves. Seek God's wisdom.
Use wise decision-making techniques – Listen well, gain knowledge, be patient and consider all things before jumping in.
Watch temper and anger. Do not let it disrupt doing our part right.
Do not seek revenge. No "paybacks".
Only speak what builds others up.
Forgive each other. Get back to "ground zero" quickly.
Make sure and do our part with excellence. Trust God to do his part.
Cover employees, employees' families, dealers, end users, vendors and other business partners in prayer.
Do not quarrel with others inside or outside of the company.
Work effectively, with excellent follow-through.
Be excellent at our jobs. Do the job well. Know what your are doing.
Commit all we do to the Lord.


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"House Republicans just passed a bill that makes it legal for single mothers to be fired by their employers."
— Occupy Democrats on Friday, July 17th, 2015 in a meme on Facebook
House GOP attacked for passing 'bill that makes it legal' to fire single moms
By Anna Bruzgulis on Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 at 4:05 p.m.
House Speaker John Boehner addresses the media during a weekly news conference on July 16, 2015, at the Capitol. (Getty)
A meme shared by the liberal Facebook group Occupy Democrats calls out Republicans for an alarming affront to women.
"House Republicans just passed a bill that makes it legal for single mothers to be fired by their employers," it says.
The meme was shared more than 60,000 times, suggesting a lot of people found the news outrageous.
We wanted to know if the meme is accurate: Did House Republicans really pass a bill that makes it legal for single moms to be fired by their employers?
The outrage, we found, is overblown.
No bill was passed
It's clear from a cached image of Occupy Democrats' website and a Huffington Post article that the meme's underlying beef is with the First Amendment Defense Act, HR 2802, introduced by Republicans on June 17.
The bill, co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is a conservative response to the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage.
Before we get into the bill's language and possibly worrisome interpretations, we want to make one thing clear: This bill has not passed the GOP-led House.
Far from it.The bill has been submitted to a committee for consideration. But it has not been debated, much less voted on, in committee or on the House floor.
The Senate has also not moved on its companion. This, of course, doesn't preclude either chamber from getting around to it. But to say the bill has been passed is just wrong.
Only about 15 percent of bills make it past the committee stage, according to GovTrack.us.
With that out of the way, we'll explain why some advocates for women are concerned about its wording.
What the bill actually says
Some Americans saw the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage as a potential affront to their religious beliefs under the First Amendment.
The authors of the First Amendment Defense Act attempted to address how the court's decision could affect religious institutions in a situation that came up during oral arguments. Justice Samuel Alito asked in April whether a religious school could lose its tax-exempt status if it opposes same-sex marriage, and the U.S. solicitor general, who was arguing for same-sex couples, said "it's certainly going to be an issue."
The First Amendment Defense Act mentions this exchange in its text and proposes that it should be illegal for the federal government to impose tax, grant or benefit sanctions on organizations that oppose same-sex marriage because of religious or moral convictions.
The bill does not mention women at all. So where does the concern for single moms losing their jobs come into play?
The part that worries some people is section 3(a), which reads:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal Government shall not take any discriminatory action against a person wholly or partially on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief of moral conviction that marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage."
Emily Martin, vice president and general counsel of the National Women's Law Center, pointed to the last part about sexual relations being reserved for the marriage of one man and one woman. The wording "can absolutely" be applied to women who are pregnant outside of marriage, she said.
The introductory clause "notwithstanding any other provision of law," Martin said, seems to indicate that FADA would overrule other existing laws on this issue.
Usually, when an individual feels she has been discriminated against, she has to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The agency would then investigate the concern and give a ruling or provide the complainant with a "right to sue."
However, Martin argued that, in an extreme scenario, it's possible the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would not have jurisdiction in cases under this bill since the First Amendment Defense Act specifically forbids the federal government from taking discriminatory actions against a person. (EEOC spokesman James Ryan said that the agency does not comment on pending legislation in Congress.)
Samuel Estreicher, director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University's Law School, says he would not read the bill as repealing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which protects against sex discrimination). Still, he said it could use some clarification.
" 'Acting in accordance with religious belief' goes too far as a basis for protection," Estreicher said. "People can do bad things in accordance with their religious belief. … There needs to be better definition of the protected acts."
PunditFact reached out to Occupy Democrats but did not hear back.
What the bill's sponsors say
The bill's primary sponsors in the Senate and the House say the bill is not supposed to target single mothers. This accusation resonates with Labrador personally because he was raised by a single mother.
In a phone interview, Labrador said the First Amendment Defense Act deals exclusively with possible federal government actions against employers that do not support same-sex marriage. The federal government would not be able to use tax or other federal sanctions, such as withdrawing benefits or tax-exempt status, against employers who oppose same-sex marriage.
Further, he said, the bill does not address employer-employee relationships, and if an employee felt that she was discriminated against, she would still be able to seek recourse through employment protections in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
That said, Labrador said he would make the bill more clear by defining which government actions would be considered discriminatory against institutions that oppose same-sex marriage. One part of the law (Clause 3(b)(5), to be specific) might be read as a catch-all for federal discrimination, so Labrador said he will take it out.
"While (the possible firing of pregnant single mothers) was never an intended result of this legislation, we are taking these concerns seriously and working on tightening the language to ensure that the intent of the bill is clear," Labrador's office said in a written statement.
As of July 28, the bill had not been amended by the committee. Amendments can be introduced either by a committee or during debate in the House or Senate.
The Occupy Democrats' meme said, "House Republicans just passed a bill that makes it legal for single mothers to be fired by their employers."
There are big flaws with this claim: The bill in question has not been debated in the House or Senate, let alone passed under any definition of the word. It has merely been introduced.
Further, the bill does not legalize the firing of single mothers. The bill deals with discriminatory actions that the federal government could take (such as tax sanctions) against religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage.
The meme scares Facebook users about an outrageous House Republican move that did not occur. So we rate the claim False.
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 at 4:05 p.m.
Researched by: Anna Bruzgulis
Subjects: Congress, Women
Occupy Democrats' Facebook, Occupy Democrats' Photos, July 17, 2015
Huffington Post, "Bill That Lets Bosses Fire Single Women For Getting Pregnant Gains Steam," July 16, 2015
Occupy Democrats, Cached image of an Occupy Democrats' article, accessed July 23, 2015
Govtrack.us, "H.R. 2802: First Amendment Defense Act," accessed July 27, 2015
Congress.gov, "S.1598 - First Amendment Defense Act," accessed July 28, 2015
The Washington Post, "Could religious institutions lose tax-exempt status over Supreme Court's gay marriage case?," April 28, 2015
Phone interview with Emily Martin, vice president and general counsel of the National Women's Law Center, July 22, 2015
Email interview with Samuel Estreicher, director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law, July 21, 2015
Email interview with Gary Burtless, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, July 21, 2015
Email interview with James Ryan, spokesman for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, July 21-24, 2015
Phone interview with Raúl Labrador, Idaho congressman and sponsor of the First Amendment Defense Act, July 23, 2015
Email interview with Dan Popkey, press secretary for Congressman Raúl Labrador, July 23, 2015
Email interview with Conn Carroll, communications director for Senator Mike Lee, July 23, 2015
National Human Genome Research Institute, "How a Bill Becomes a Law," accessed July 28, 2015
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Serious baskets: The shopping cart economy in South L.A.
July 5, 2011, 9:19 a.m.
George Rios' mother sometimes gives him a hard time about his work. When she arrived from Mexico, she'd push her kids around in shopping carts, or use the carts to take laundry to the laundromat.
"That was me," she'll tell him.
George works for a shopping cart retrieval company in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Los Angeles – his area extends from Martin Luther King, Jr Boulevard, south to Imperial Boulevard, and between Avalon Boulevard on the east, and West Boulevard, near the border with Inglewood, to the west.
His job is to get shopping carts back to the markets that own them. So, on another level, his work is a constant judgment call about whom to get tough with. To many folks, after all, carts are more than just a vehicle to drive through grocery aisles.
In a city with poor public transportation, and in neighborhoods where many can't afford cars, shopping carts are truly useful items.
"They take the baskets serious," George says.
There are enough carts on the streets of Los Angeles to support the 40 drivers Hernandez Cart Service, George's employer, pays full-time, as well as Hernandez's two competing shopping cart retrieval companies. George picks up a cart every five minutes or less. On some days, he collects as many as 200.
He knows how to defuse violence.
George has seen carts used for pretty much everything: moving appliances, taking laundry to the laundromat, storing personal belongings, sitting on, taking out the trash, selling tamales, taking bottles to the recycling center and getting groceries home from the market.
That last use is the main reason George has a job.
Shopping carts, however useful in other settings, were invented as a way to get people to buy more.
Sylvan Goldman, a grocery store owner in Oklahoma, noticed people were having trouble carrying things. In 1937, he created the first shopping cart prototype, attaching baskets to a folding chair with wheels. The market for shopping carts in the U.S. is in the high tens of millions of dollars, according to Unarco, one of the country's leading manufacturers.
Carts are a service stores offer buyers as a convenience, but it's one that helps the businesses come out ahead because they encourage people to buy more goods.
In South L.A., the retrieval service is another level to the shopping cart service itself. Supermarkets would lose money if the carts stayed on the streets since they cost about $100 each. At El Super, on Slauson and Vermont, the market runs completely out of carts multiple times a day because of how many people take them.
But the cart service helps the market for another reason: since many folks don't have cars, they might buy less or not at all if they couldn't take the carts off the premises to get the goods home.
George was born and raised by the beach, but he got out of the crime life a long time ago. He's worked in cart retrieval for over 20 years, in nearly every neighborhood of the city. When he was working in Santa Monica and Culver City, he'd say "Hi" to people, and got used to hearing them say it back.
"Over here, I say good morning and these people think I'm crazy. It's a whole different world over here," he said.
George lives with and helps support his aging parents, who got priced out of Venice and bought a house in this neighborhood.
George cannot abide certain things about the neighborhood where he lives and works now, like the people who leave trash in the carts, expecting that he'll remove them from their property.
He's not a garbage man, he says, though his work outfit might suggest otherwise: it consists of a T-shirt, loose black pants, tennis shoes, a reflective vest and dirt-caked gloves. He buys a new pair every two months.
George has had a handful of other jobs, but the carts are, by far, his favorite. He works 10-hour days because he likes it. He can work at his own pace, which is quick. Driving around with the windows down, scanning the landscape for the thing that most other people ignore, he pulls over fast and turns on his hazard lights.
He collects the carts by stomping down on the back bar, and bouncing the front noisily up onto the bed of his low slung pick-up truck.
George's boss gets paid each time George makes a delivery, which consists of 15 carts. The more deliveries George makes, the better his boss pays him (though he won't say how much that is). And, with all the carts out there, there's no end to how much he can make. The sky's the limit.
There's a chance George's job is at risk. More supermarkets are putting in technology that prevents carts from being taken off retail premises. The systems – like Gate Keeper and Cartronics – place a locking wheel and sensor on carts, and electronic monitors around the store.
If the cart is taken beyond the perimeter of the store, the wheels lock. More supermarkets are adding these, and that would be bad news for the Georges of the world, and the consumers who depend on the carts, especially in this neighborhood.
Yet, if that were to happen, it could pave the way for manufacturers to sell the carts to consumers. Given the usefulness of the items, it seems puzzling that they don't do it already. But Jerry Scott, an account director at shopping cart manufacturer Unarco, says it's a question of margins – it just makes less economic sense than selling them in bulk. Plus, it seems unlikely that people would pay $100 for the carts when they can take them from stores at no cost at all.
With the current system, individuals find endless ways to use the carts. Shopping carts in South L.A. represent the creativity of folks with extremely limited means to close the gaps in the challenges of their everyday lives.
Ironically, so does George's company. What he does is a secondary market built on top of a secondary market, sometimes reversing the gains of those who were creative in the first place. It's no wonder he feels ambivalent about his work.
In a way, George is enforcing sharing. The carts are a never ending, shared resource in a resource-starved area, thanks in great part to cart retrieval. People know there will always be carts at the stores for them to take, and that's why it doesn't matter where they leave them on the streets.
George is constantly being asked for sympathy: by people who want to keep the carts, by folks hungry for food or just for a quarter. But he's working to replenish their baby strollers, moving equipment and tamale stands every single day, 10 hours a day.
Still, on his route recently, he saw a woman walking on the sidewalk with a child in a cart and no groceries.
He asked respectfully out the window, "Va a el super?" – Are you going to the market? She replied, unworried and absentmindedly, "Si," as if the interaction had taken place before. "She's on her way to the market," George said. He didn't really believe her, but drove on anyway.


What Should You Cover In The Content Of Your Contracts?
When you started your online business, employment might not have crossed your mind. That's stuff for the big businesses, isn't it? You're just doing your thing and finding your own financial path. And, for as long as a few years, that might have served you well.
But, there may come a stage when you can't avoid employment any longer. Before you roll your eyes, consider that this is a good thing. If you need to take someone else onboard, it's a sure sign your business is soaring. And, isn't that what all entrepreneurs want?
The issue is, you then have to embark on an employment drive you never expected. And, that can come as a real shock to the system. As if that weren't enough, you also need to consider the ins and outs of employment. You'll need to get on top of matters like health and safety and break allowance. On top of that, you'll also need to consider writing up a contract.
This is a legal agreement between you and the person you're hiring. It provides protection for staff and employees and ensures everyone's on the same page. But, when you're breaking your employment virginity, you might feel at a complete loss as to what to include. You've signed contracts in your life, but you've never really considered what they involve. The issue there, of course, is that missing even a small important detail could leave you in hot water.
But, fear not. There are plenty of guides out there which can help with this. And, to get you started, we're here with some contract essentials.
The first thing to focus on is a description of the job role itself. This forms the footing for your agreement with any employee. For the most part, you should discuss job role before giving them the position. This is just a case of putting it down on paper. Within your description, list the job title, and the duties you'll expect completed on a regular basis. Naturally, other jobs will crop up along the way, and you may not be able to foresee them. But, if a particular task is a staple for the employee in question, you need to list it here. And, you'll need to remember to return to this if you add new ongoing responsibilities. That way, you'll have a document to turn to if the person you've hired doesn't fulfill that role. And, they'll have something to turn to if they aren't happy with what you're asking from them.
Payment is always a tricky issue. You may not want to discuss it in the interview, but there will come a stage where you need to agree upon a payment scheme. During deliberations, you'll need to settle upon an amount, and also whether to pay by the hour or on a salary. To arrive at a number here, consider your profit margins, and the amount competitors offer. A quick search on a job engine should be enough to show you that. Then, discuss this figure with the person in question. Don't be afraid to alter it a little during deliberations. Once you've reached these problematic decisions, include that figure on said contract. Aside from that, you should also clearly state any overtime allowance or holiday pay. And, if you embark on pay rises at any stage, you'll need to amend that figure and make your colleague sign a new contract. Having this backing behind you can go a long way towards avoiding payment disputes. And, that's essential if you want to keep your staff happy.
You should also include an outline of the work hours you expect from this person. As mentioned above, outlining individual overtime pay will give you some leeway on workload. But, as a general outline, you need to ensure your colleagues know how many hours you expect them to work each week. An average expectation would be 40 hours, and you need to be careful that you don't exceed legal limits here. But, something as simple as stating that you expect 40 hours from this person is all it takes. If they're working on a shift-based contract, you'll also need to include the agreed-upon working hours. This will ensure they don't skip shifts or claim to have misunderstood your agreement.
The above basics aside, you should also outline any company policies. These can range from anything to your sick day policy, to the amount of vacation you allow employees to take. That will ensure you never forget to stick to the legal agreement you've made when it comes to issues like these. This section of the contract should also apply to more pressing matters. Outline things such as your policy on theft, and your stance on drug and alcohol use. If you're unsure where to head with issues like these, something like this drug and alcohol policy guide could take you in the right direction. But, don't make the mistake of missing things here. If it isn't in the contract, you won't have any legal footing to stand on when it comes to dismissing people for issues like these. And, that could lead to big trouble for your company, as well as confusion for your staff.
It may seem bleak to include this in a contract, but it's essential you also outline your termination terms. Again, failure to do this could lead to issues when it comes to dismissal. And, that could lead to your being unable to get rid of unsuitable staff. So, include a brief outline of your termination terms. This should include the period of notice you give, and any situations which could lead to instant dismissal. You should also include information here for when your employee wishes to terminate the contract. State the length of notice they would need to give you so that you aren't left in the lurch if they do decide to jump ship.


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