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Primary Care Pediatrician - Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics (ACHP) New Philadelphia
Akron Children's Hospital - Physician Recruitment
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Child Adolescent Psychiatrist - Regional Director, Richland County
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Reg Respiratory Therapist 1-$10,000 Sign On Bonus!
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Pediatric Endocrinologist
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Location: New Philadelphia, Ohio
Internal Number: 973
Pediatrician Opportunity, Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics (ACHP)&nbspNew Philadelphia
Akron Children's Hospital is dedicated to building a diverse workforce - one that reflects our patient population and represents the communities we serve. Whether you're a resident, a physician early in your career, or a seasoned physician with years of experience, Akron Children's Hospital has something different that's hard to explain. You feel it in the atmosphere as soon as you enter through the doors. You experience it every day with your colleagues, staff, patients and their families. Once you're here, you know you're home.
Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics (ACHP) brings pediatric primary care for babies, children and teens to many northeast&nbspOhio communities through our&nbsp35+&nbsppediatric offices.&nbspWe have recently expanded our New Philadelphia office to meet the demand of regional growth. This location offers primary care, cardiology, PT, OT, Speech and Mental Health services. The practice is seeking&nbspa Board Certified&nbspor Board Eligible&nbspPediatrician to join our&nbspexperienced 3 board certified pediatricians and 7 certified nurse practitioners&nbspto provide excellent outpatient care to our patients.
This practice partners with Union Hospital Cleveland Clinic in Dover, Ohio and provides high-risk call in the community. Call will be approximately 1:4 for well newborn nursery coverage. Attendance at deliveries when on call is optional although happens only infrequently. Physicians are compensated above their regular salary when on call for high risk deliveries and may opt out of the high-risk call. There are two neonatal nurse practitioners and pediatric hospitalists that assist in weekend call as well.
Our offices follow standard hospital-based policies, while retaining the local culture of each practice. Our physicians enjoy the use of EPIC as a system-wide integrated electronic health record. Our primary care offices are all PCMH certified. The Patient-Centered Medical Home&nbspis a model of care that puts patients at the forefront of care. PCMHs build better relationships between people and their clinical care teams. Research shows that they improve quality, the patient experience and staff satisfaction, while reducing health care costs.
This opportunity offers:
*Attractive guaranteed base salary
*Starting Bonus
*$2,500 per month residency stipend
*$100,000 Retention Bonus ($20,000 after year 1, $30,000 year 2, $50,000 year 3)
*Quality and Productivity Bonuses
*Comprehensive benefits package
*Occurrence based malpractice
*Relocation assistance
*Generous vacation and CME time/money
*Student loan repayment strategies with The Fiducius Team
Hospital Overview
Ranked a Best Children's Hospital by US News & World Report, Akron Children's Hospital is the largest pediatric healthcare system in Northeast Ohio, providing more than 1 million patient encounters each year. We were named as one of Forbes Magazine's list of Best Employers for Diversity in 2020 and designated by Parent's Magazine as one of the 20 most innovative children's hospitals in the U.S.
It is centered around two free-standing pediatric hospitals, regional health centers, and 50+ primary care and subspecialty locations. Children aren't just a segment of our focus, they&nbspare&nbspour focus. The services at Akron Children's Hospital span the entire scope of medical services available today - from routine and preventative care to emerging technologies in surgery and patient care. We've been leading the way to healthier futures for children since 1890.
Akron Children's Hospital is the only freestanding pediatric hospital in Northeast Ohio and the 8th largest children's hospital in the country. We are a major teaching affiliate of Northeast Ohio Medical University. Active involvement in medical student and resident education academic appointment at Northeast Ohio Medical University is available and commensurate with experience. Akron Children's is dedicated to family-centered care, and improving the treatment of childhood illness and injury through research at the Rebecca D. Considine Clinical Research Institute.
The resources available to our physicians, the cutting-edge technology, the collaboration from all departments and the cohesive nature in which we work allow us to live our mission and truly treat every child as we would our own.
Community Overview:
It's something you know as soon as you experience it. Our communities -- the Akron community, the Northeast Ohio community -- are deeply ingrained into our work, our volunteerism and our daily lives. We are truly a part of this community, and this community is a part of us. You'll be proud to tell people you meet that you work at Akron Children's as their faces light up and they tell you their own connection to the Hospital. Working at Akron Children's gives you so many opportunities to live in, work in and love Northeast Ohio.
Close to major metropolitan areas, physicians can enjoy quality of life in a safe, comfortable community to raise a family. New Philadelphia is the largest city in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. It is located approximately 70 miles south of Cleveland on the Tuscarawas River. With a population of just over 20,000 people, the city boasts a strong infrastructure while maintaining its small-town charm. The community offers a blend of the traditional and modern, punctuated by an extensive system of parks, lakes, cultural activities and recreational facilities.
As its name suggests, the city of New Philadelphia is laid out in the same grid style as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Even the primary streets - High Avenue and Broadway - are named after two original main streets in Philadelphia. New Philadelphia has one of the lowest crime rates in the state, and recently was voted one of "50 Safest Cities in Ohio." Our area was also listed as one of the "Top 11 Small Towns to Visit in 2021" by "My Town Today."
The new Performing Arts Center at Kent State University Tuscarawas in New Philadelphia is a contemporary 1100-seat theater featuring national tours of hit Broadway musical and dramatic stage productions, musical performers, comedians, and children's productions. The PAC is home to the excellent Tuscarawas County Philharmonic Orchestra. We are home to Ohio's official outdoor drama, a community theater group, and artists and lecturer's series at KSU Tuscarawas.
Sports are a way of life in our region with many private and public golf courses as well as numerous lakes for fishing, boating and sailing. Not far from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, we also offer many sports opportunities for youth as well as adults including basketball, baseball, soccer, football, swimming, tennis and more. Runners, hikers, bikers and families who like to explore have plenty of options including the recreation of the Towpath Trail.
Set in the picturesque, rolling hills of eastern Ohio. By contrast, our interstate highways put us minutes from major airports and the rich cultural benefits of Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh and Akron.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at www.akronchildrens.org&nbspor&nbspor submit a letter of interest, and curriculum vita to Shawna Roach at sroach@akronchildrens.org
Akron Children's Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individual with Disabilities.
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Reggie Ragland's rookie year in the NFL didn't go anywhere close to what he expected.
Not only didn't he get to play a single down, thanks to a season-ending knee injury he suffered in training camp with the Buffalo Bills, but he also never got to play for the coach who drafted him, Rex Ryan. Ryan was fired at the end of the 2016 season.
And when he left, so, too, did the defense for which Ragland was considered a natural fit. Now, as Ragland finally gets ready to return to the field for the start of the Bills' training camp this week, he's learning a new scheme that his new coach, Sean McDermott, employs.
Still, the fact Ragland was sidelined for most of the offseason until the final workouts of OTAs and minicamps put him behind teammates in learning McDermott's defense.
Ragland said his knee is feeling good. He has had "a good six weeks" of training and getting used to running and cutting on his knee. He expects to be ready to go when camp opens on July 27.
He also is working hard to make sure he reports to camp at his desired weight of 250 pounds. Ragland said that the max he is allowed to carry is 255 pounds, and he must pay a fine of $600 for every pound over that limit.


The Victorian Legislative Council referred the issue of end of life care to the Legal & Social Affairs Committee in 2015. The Committee established an Inquiry into End of Life Choices which ran from 2015-16, issuing a Final Report in 2016. Despite many good recommendations, the final one recommended a framework of legalised physician assisted suicide and euthanasia.
At the end of 2016, the Victorian Government announced their response to the Inquiry and their intention to legislate for euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
A Ministerial Advisory Panel was set up in 2017 to advise the Government on the issue. The Panel issued a final report in July 2017, providing a suggested framework for legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia in Victoria. A bill is expected to be introduced into the Victorian Parliament in August 2017.


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51% #1566: A Female Powered Film; Health Disparities; A Community Record Store
By Allison Dunne • Jul 31, 2019
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Zara Hayes
Kana Harris (right) interviewed in the Texas Folklife archive room
On this week's 51%, a filmmaker spotlights senior women; the play's the thing to highlight health disparities in African-American women; and a punk musician puts women and inclusivity at the forefront.
Dr. Sharon Ufberg returns with her 51% segment "Force of Nature." This time, she interviews Zara Hayes, a British filmmaker who has directed films for Netflix, the BBC, A&E, National Geographic and more. She is probably best known for her feature documentary "The Battle of the Sexes," the story of Billie Jean King's historic tennis victory against Bobby Riggs. Now she has directed and co-written her first narrative feature, "Poms," starring Diane Keaton. Inspired by true events, Poms is a female-powered film, which follows a group of senior women who form their own cheerleading squad in a retirement community. Hayes responds to why the subject of Poms was of interest to her.
Dr. Sharon Ufberg is co-founder of the personal development/wellness company, Borrowed Wisdom, in California.
African-American women in Indiana face disparities in healthcare and health outcomes. They are more likely than white women to die during or after childbirth. And they have higher rates of breast cancer deaths and diabetes. Indiana Public Broadcasting's Jill Sheridan reports on a research project that uses theater to shine a spotlight on some of the possible reasons why this is the case.
Punk musician and creator of Community Record Store Kana Harris is part of the Austin, Texas music scene. She's a punk musician and creator of Community Record Store, and she wants to make sure women on the music scene aren't overlooked.
And now writer Dr. Jeri Burns weighs in on compliments with unintended consequences.
Dr. Jeri Burns is a storyteller, writer and educator living in New York's Hudson Valley. You can find her at storycrafters.com. Burns also is an adjunct professor in the Department of Communication at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
That's our show for this week. Thanks to Elizabeth Hill for production assistance. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock. Our theme music is Glow in the Dark by Kevin Bartlett. This show is a national production of Northeast Public Radio. If you'd like to hear this show again, sign up for our podcast, or visit the 51% archives on our web site at wamc.org. And follow us on Twitter @51PercentRadio
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51% #1565: Documenting Sexual Trauma Through Art
On this week's 51%, some of the most highly regarded works of art portray sexual violence… we'll hear from a professor about sexual trauma in art. And following the U.S. women's soccer team World Cup win amid members' lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, New York has a stronger equal pay for equal work law on the books.
51% #1564: A Woman Carries The Water; Ani DiFranco Pens A Memoir
On this week's 51%, meet a woman whose calling is to carry the water, and the iconic Righteous Babe has written a memoir. We'll hear from Ani DiFranco. I'm Allison Dunne and this is 51%.
51% #1563: Motherhood On Both Sides Of The Pond
By Allison Dunne • Jul 9, 2019
On this week's 51%, we meet women experiencing motherhood in two countries… the U.S. and Germany.
51% #1562: The Importance Of Cross-Race Friendships; Inclusivity On The Ice
On this week's 51%, a researcher makes the case for the importance of interracial friendship among young people; hear how a few women are helping refugees with a language barrier to health care and a figure skater endeavors to bring more black women to the ice.
51% #1561: Campaign Boot Camp; Postpartum Depression; Loneliness As A Health Issue
By Allison Dunne • Jun 26, 2019
Courtesy of Ken Hurd
On this week's 51%, grooming women for political office continues; a mother shares her struggle with postpartum depression, in a graphic way; and a researcher on gerontology says loneliness negatively impacts health.

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Following advice from the Health Service Executive, Irish Water and Carlow County Council are pleased to confirm that the Boil Water Notice for the area supplied by the Borris Public Water Supply has now been lifted following recent drinking water quality tests.
The Boil Water Notice, affecting approximately 629 customers, had been put in place as a precautionary measure earlier this week.
Irish Water drinking water compliance and operational experts have been working with colleagues in Carlow County Council all this week to resolve this situation as soon as possible.
"We would like to thank the people of Borris and surrounding areas for their patience and co-operation as we worked throughout the week to restore a normal water supply.
Irish Water's priority is the provision of safe clean drinking water and safeguarding that water supply for the future is a vital focus," said James O'Toole of Irish Water.


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Battle of Stalingrad
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
German soldiers being lead to Soviet POW camps pass a bombed out building in Stalingrad, February 1943
August 21, 1942 – February 2, 1943
Stalingrad, USSR
Decisive Soviet victory
Combatants
Croatia Soviet Union
Commanders
25px Friedrich Paulus #
25px Erich von Manstein
25px Hermann Hoth
Petre Dumitrescu
25pxConstantin Constantinescu
Italo Garibaldi
Gusztav Jany Vasiliy Chuikov
25px Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy
25px Georgiy Zhukov
25px Semyon Timoshenko
25px Konstantin Rokossovskiy
25px Rodion Malinovskiy
25px Andrei Yeremenko
Army Group B:
German Sixth Army #
German Fourth Panzer Army
Romanian Third Army
Romanian Fourth Army
Italian Eighth Army
Hungarian Second Army
Total: 850,000? Stalingrad Front
Southwestern Front
Don Front
Total: 1,700,000?
740,000 killed or wounded,?
110,000 captured?
750,000 killed, wounded or captured?,
40,000+ civilian dead?
The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd) that took place between August 21, 1942 and February 2, 1943, as part of World War II. It was the turning point of World War II in the European Theater and was arguably the bloodiest battle in human history, with combined casualties estimated above 1.5 million. The battle was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties on both sides. The battle is taken to include the German siege of Stalingrad, the battle inside the city, and the Soviet counter-offensive which eventually trapped and destroyed the German Sixth Army and other Axis forces around the city. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad saw the Germans pushed back towards the West, allowing the Soviet advance on Berlin from the East. Indirectly, it resulted in Soviet domination of East Europe and the creation of proxy socialist republics from the end of the Second World War until the end of the Cold War.
1.1 Importance of Stalingrad
2 Operation Blau / Blue
3 Beginning of the battle
4 Soviet counteroffensive
5 Operation Uranus
6 The pocket
7 Operation Saturn
8 Soviet victory
9.1 The scope of the battle
9.2 Stalingrad in the media
12 References and Further reading
Barbarossa – Baltic Sea – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Blue – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Baltic – Bagration – Lvov-Sandomierz – Lublin-Brest – Balkans (Iassy-Kishinev) – Balkans (Budapest) – Vistula-Oder – East Prussia – East Pomerania – Silesia – Berlin – Prague – Vienna
Operation Blue to 3rd Kharkov
Blue – Voronezh – Edelweiss – Stalingrad – Uranus – Winter Storm – Saturn – Tatsinskaya Raid – 3rd Kharkov
On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union, quickly advancing deep into Soviet territory. Having suffered multiple defeats during the summer and autumn of 1941, Soviet forces counter-attacked in the Battle of Moscow in December. The exhausted German forces, ill equipped for winter warfare and with overstretched supply lines, were stopped in their drive towards the capital.
The Germans stabilized their front by spring 1942. The Wehrmacht was confident it could master the Red Army when the winter weather no longer impeded its mobility. There was some substance to this. Army Group Centre had suffered heavy punishment, however sixty-five percent of the infantry had not been engaged in the winter fighting, and had spent it resting and refitting[1]. Part of the German military philosophy was to attack where least expected, so that rapid gains could be made. An attack on Moscow was seen as too predictable by some, most notably Hitler. Along with this, the German High Command knew that time was running out for them. The United States had entered the war following Germany's declaration of war, in support of its Japanese Ally. Hitler wanted to end the fighting on the Eastern Front or at least minimize it before the U.S. had a chance to get deeply involved in the war in Europe.
Importance of Stalingrad
The capture of Stalingrad was important to Hitler for several reasons. It was a major industrial city on the banks of the Volga River (a vital transport route between the Caspian Sea and northern Russia) and its capture would secure the left flank of the German armies as they advanced into the Caucasus with large oil deposits, hard shortages of which were experienced by the German army. Finally, the fact that the city bore the name of Hitler's nemesis, Joseph Stalin, would make the city's capture an ideological and propaganda coup. Stalin realized this and ordered anyone that was strong enough to hold a rifle be sent out to war.[2] It is believed that Stalin also had an ideological and propaganda interest in defending the city which bore his name, but the fact remains that Stalin was under tremendous constraints of time and resources. During the Russian Civil War he played a prominent role in the Soviet defense of Tsaritsyn (as Stalingrad was then known), from White forces. Also, the Red Army, at this stage of the war, was less capable of highly mobile operations than the German Army. The prospect of combat inside a large urban area, which would be dominated by short-range small arms fire and artillery rather than armored and mechanized tactics, minimized the Red Army's disadvantages against the Germans.
Operation Blau / Blue
Army Group South was selected for a sprint forward through the southern Russian steppes into the Caucasus to capture the vital Soviet oil fields. These oil fields were a key goal for Hitler and instead of focusing his attention on the key capital of Moscow as his generals advised, he continued to send his forces and supplies to the southern Russian front. The summer offensive was code-named Fall Blau (trans.: "Case Blue"). It was to include the German Sixth Army and Seventeenth Army and the Fourth Panzer Army and First Panzer Army. In 1941, Army Group South had conquered the Ukrainian SSR, and was positioned at the area of the planned offensive.
Hitler intervened, however, ordering the Army Group to be split in two. Army Group South (A), under the command of Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, was to continue advancing south towards the Caucasus as planned with the Seventeenth Army and First Panzer Army. Army Group South (B), including Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army and Hermann Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army, was to move east towards the Volga and the city of Stalingrad. Army Group B was commanded by General Maximilian von Weichs.
The start of Operation Blau had been planned for late May 1942. However, a number of German and Romanian units that were involved in Blau were then in the process of besieging Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. Delays in ending the siege pushed back the start date for Blau several times, and the city did not fall until the end of June. A smaller action was taken in the meantime, pinching off a Soviet salient in the Second Battle of Kharkov, which resulted in the pocketing of a large Soviet force on 22 May.
Blau finally opened as Army Group South began its attack into southern Russia on June 28, 1942. The German offensive started well. Soviet forces offered little resistance in the vast empty steppes, and started streaming eastward in disarray. Several attempts to form defensive lines failed when other German units outflanked Soviet defensive lines. Two major pockets were formed and destroyed, the first north-east of Kharkov on July 2, a second around Millerovo, Rostov Oblast a week later.
Meanwhile the Hungarian Second Army and the German 4th Panzer Division had launched an assault on Voronezh, capturing the city on the 5th of July.
Operation Blau: German advances from 7 May 1942 to 18 November 1942 ██ to 7 July 1942 ██ to 22 July 1942 ██ to 1 August 1942 ██ to 18 November 1942
The initial advance of the Sixth Army was so successful that Hitler intervened, and ordered the 4th Panzer Division to join Army Group South (A) to the south. A massive traffic jam resulted when the Fourth Army and the Sixth both required the few roads in the area. Both armies were stopped dead while they attempted to clear the resulting mess of thousands of vehicles. The delay was long, and it is thought that it cost the advance at least one week. With the advance now slowed, Hitler changed his mind and re-assigned the Fourth Panzer Army back to the attack on Stalingrad.
By the end of July the Germans had pushed the Soviets across the Don River. At this point the Germans established defensive lines using the armies of their Italian, Hungarian and Romanian allies. The German Sixth Army was only a few dozen kilometers from Stalingrad, and Fourth Panzer Army, now to their south, turned northwards to help take the city. To the south, Army Group A was pushing far into the Caucasus, but their advance slowed. Army Group A's forces were deployed far to the south and provided no support to Army Group B in the north.
Now German intentions became clear to the Soviet commanders: in July Soviet plans were developed for the defense in Stalingrad. Soviet troops still moving eastwards before the Germans offensive were ordered into Stalingrad. The eastern border of Stalingrad was the wide Volga River, and over the river additional Soviet units were deployed. This combination of units became the newly formed 62nd Army under the command of Vasiliy Chuikov. Its mission was to defend Stalingrad at all costs.
Beginning of the battle
The battle began with the heavy bombing of the city by the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. The sprawling metropolis became a graveyard. Many died once the battle began, and the city became a shell of its former self. Still, many buildings survived and factory workers joined in the fighting.
Soviet factory workers heading to the front lines.
Stalin prevented civilians from leaving the city on the premise that their presence would encourage greater resistance from the city's defenders. Civilians, including women and children, were put to work building trenchworks and protective fortifications. A massive German air bombardment on August 23 caused a firestorm, killing thousands and turning Stalingrad into a vast landscape of rubble and burnt ruins.[3] Eighty percent of the living space in the city was destroyed.
The burden of the initial defense of the city fell on the 1077th Anti-Aircraft (AA) Regiment, a unit made up mainly of young women volunteers who had no training on engaging ground targets. Despite this, and with no support available from other Soviet units, the AA gunners stayed at their posts and took on the advancing Panzers. The German 16th Panzer Division reportedly had to fight the 1077th's gunners "shot for shot" until all 37 AA batteries were destroyed or overrun.[4] In the beginning, the Soviets relied extensively on "Workers militias" composed of workers not directly involved in war production. For a short time, tanks continued to be produced and then manned by volunteer crews of factory workers. They were driven directly from the factory floor to the front line, often without paint or even gunsights.
By the end of August, Army Group South (B) had finally reached the Volga, north of Stalingrad. Another advance to the river south of the city followed. By September 1, the Soviets could only reinforce and supply their forces in Stalingrad by perilous crossings of the Volga, under constant bombardment by German artillery and planes.
Amid the debris of the wrecked city, the Soviet 62nd and 64th Armies, which included the Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division anchored their defense lines with strongpoints in houses and factories. Fighting was fierce and desperate. The life expectancy of a newly arrived Soviet private in the city dropped to less than 24 hours and the life expectancy of a soviet officer was about three days. Stalin's Order No. 227 of July 27 1942, decreed that all commanders who order unauthorized retreat should be subjects of a military tribunal. "Not a step back!" was the slogan. The Germans pushing forward into Stalingrad suffered heavy casualties.
Street fighting in Stalingrad.
German military doctrine was based on the principle of combined-arms teams and close cooperation by tanks, infantry, engineers, artillery, and ground-attack aircraft. To counter this, Soviet commanders adopted the simple expedient of always keeping the front lines as close together as physically possible. Chuikov called this tactic "hugging" the Germans. This forced the German infantry to either fight on their own or risk taking casualties from their own supporting fire; it neutralized close German air support and weakened artillery support. Bitter fighting raged for every street, every factory, every house, basement and staircase. The Germans, calling this unseen urban warfare Rattenkrieg ("rat war"), bitterly joked about capturing the kitchen but still fighting for the living-room.
Fighting on Mamayev Kurgan, a prominent, blood-soaked hill above the city, was particularly merciless. The position changed hands many times.[5] During one Soviet counter-attack, the Russians lost an entire division of 10,000 men in one day. At the Grain Elevator, a huge grain-processing complex dominated by a single enormous silo, combat was so close that Soviet and German soldiers could hear each other breathe. Combat raged there for weeks. When German soldiers finally took the position, only 40 Soviet soldier's bodies could be found, though the Germans had thought there to be many more Soviet soldiers present, due to the ferocity of Soviet resistance. In another part of the city, a Soviet platoon under the command of Yakov Pavlov turned an apartment building into an impenetrable fortress. The building, later called "Pavlov's House," oversaw a square in the city center. The soldiers surrounded it with minefields, set up machine-gun positions at the windows, and breached the walls in the basement for better communications.
With no end in sight, the Germans started transferring heavy artillery to the city, including the gigantic 800 mm railroad gun nicknamed Dora. The Germans made no effort to send a force across the Volga, allowing the Soviets to build up a large number of artillery batteries there. Soviet artillery on the eastern bank continued to bombard the German positions. The Soviet defenders used the resulting ruins as defensive positions. German tanks became useless amid heaps of rubble up to 8 meters high. When they were able to move forward, they came under Soviet antitank fire from wrecked buildings.
Panoramic view of Stalingrad from the east bank of the Volga during the siege.
Soviet snipers also successfully used the ruins to inflict heavy casualties on the Germans. The most successful sniper was Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko of the Soviet 1122nd Rifle Regiment, who had made approximately 500 kills by the end of the war. Soviet sources state that 1,000 of the snipers were Soviet women. [6] [7]. Vasiliy Grigor´yevich Zaytsev was credited with 242 kills during the battle. He also is thought to have killed an infamous German sniper by the name of Heinz Thorvald (a story dramatized in the David L. Robbins book, War Of The Rats and in the film Enemy at the Gates), but most historians believe this tale to be apocryphal.
For both Stalin and Hitler, the battle of Stalingrad became a prestige issue, on top of the actual strategic significance of the battle. The Soviet command moved the Red Army's strategic reserves from the Moscow area to the lower Volga, and transferred aircraft from the entire country to the Stalingrad region. The strain on both military commanders was immense: Paulus developed an uncontrollable tic in his eye, while Chuikov experienced an outbreak of eczema that required him to bandage his hands completely. The troops on both sides faced the constant strain of close-range combat.
Attack on a factory in Stalingrad.
In November, after three months of carnage and slow and costly advance, the Germans finally reached the river banks, capturing 90 percent of the ruined city and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets. In addition, ice-floes on the Volga now prevented boats and tugs from supplying the Soviet defenders across the river. Nevertheless the fighting, especially on the slopes of Mamayev Kurgan and inside the factory area in the northern part of the city, continued as fiercely as ever. The battles for the Red October Steel Factory, the Dzerzhinsky tractor factory and the Barrikady gun factory became world famous. While Soviet soldiers defended their positions and took the Germans under fire, factory workers repaired damaged Soviet tanks and other weapons close to the battlefield, sometimes on the battlefield itself.
Soviet counteroffensive
During the siege, the German, Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian armies protecting Army Group South (B)'s flanks had pressed their headquarters for support. The Hungarian Second Army consisting of mainly ill-equipped and ill-trained units was given the task of defending a 200 km section of the front north of Stalingrad. This resulted in a very thin line of defense with some parts where 1–2 km stretches were being guarded by a single platoon. Soviet forces held several points on the south bank of the river and presented a potentially serious threat to Army Group South (B). However, Hitler was so focused on the city itself that requests from the flanks for support were refused. The chief of the Army General Staff, Franz Halder, expressed concerns about Hitler's preoccupation with the city, pointing at the Germans' weak flanks. Hitler replaced Halder in mid-October with General Kurt Zeitzler.
Operation Uranus
The Soviet counter-attack at Stalingrad
German front, 19 November
German front, 12 December
██ Russian advance, 19-28 November
In autumn the Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy and Georgy Zhukov, responsible for strategic planning in the Stalingrad area, concentrated massive Soviet forces in the steppes to the north and south of the city. The German northern flank was particularly vulnerable, since it was defended by Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian units that suffered from inferior training, equipment, and morale when compared with their German counterparts. This weakness was known and exploited by the Soviets, who preferred to make their breakthroughs against non-German troops whenever that was possible, just as the British preferred attacking Italian troops, instead of German ones, whenever possible, in North Africa. The plan was to keep pinning the Germans down in the city, then punch through the overstretched and weakly defended German flanks and surround the Germans inside Stalingrad. During the preparations for the attack, Marshal Zhukov personally visited the front, which was rare for such a high-ranking general.[8] The operation was code-named "Uranus" and launched in conjunction with Operation Mars, which was directed at Army Group Center. The plan was similar to Zhukov's victory at Khalkin Gol three years before, where he had sprung a double envelopment and destroyed the 23rd Division of the Japanese army.[9]
On November 19, the Red Army unleashed Uranus. The attacking Soviet units under the command of Gen. Nikolay Vatutin consisted of three complete armies, the 1st Guards Army, 5th Tank Army, and 21st Army, including a total of 18 infantry divisions, eight tank brigades, two motorized brigades, six cavalry divisions and one anti-tank brigade. The preparations for the attack could be heard by the Romanians, who continued to push for reinforcements, only to be refused again. Thinly spread, outnumbered and poorly equipped, the Romanian Third Army, which held the northern flank of German Sixth Army, was shattered. On November 20, a second Soviet offensive (two armies) was launched to the south of Stalingrad, against points held by the Romanian IV Corps. The Romanian forces, made up primarily of infantry, collapsed almost immediately. Soviet forces raced west in a pincer movement, and met two days later near the town of Kalach, sealing the ring around Stalingrad. The Russians filmed this linkup for later use as propaganda, and the piece of footage is famous today, though it is not of the actual linkup. Instead, the Russians had to stage and film it later because they had no cameras available the first time.
The pocket
Because of the Soviet pincer attack, about 250,000 German and Romanian soldiers, as well as some Croatian units and volunteer subsidiary troops found themselves trapped inside the resulting pocket. Inside the pocket (German: kessel) there also were the surviving Soviet civilians—around 10,000,[10] and several thousand Soviet soldiers the Germans had taken captive during the battle. Not all German soldiers from Sixth Army were trapped; 50,000 were brushed aside outside the pocket. The encircling Red Army units immediately formed two defensive fronts: a circumvallation facing 'inward', to defend against breakout attempt, and a contravallation facing 'outward' to defend against any relief attempt.
Adolf Hitler had declared in a public speech on September 30 that the German army would never leave the city. At a meeting shortly after the Soviet encirclement, German army chiefs pushed for an immediate breakout to a new line on the west of the Don. But Hitler was at his Bavarian retreat of Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden with the head of the Luftwaffe, Jeschonnek. When asked by Hitler, Jeschonnek replied, without much thought, that the Luftwaffe could supply the Sixth Army with an "air bridge." This would allow the Germans in the city to fight on while a relief force was assembled.
A similar plan had been used successfully a year earlier at the Demyansk Pocket, albeit on a much smaller scale: it had been only an army corps at Demyansk as opposed to an entire army. Also, Soviet fighter forces had improved considerably in both quality and quantity in the intervening year. But the mention of the successful Demyansk air supply operation reinforced Hitler's own views, and was endorsed by Hermann Göring several days later.
The head of the Fourth Air Fleet (Luftflotte 4), Wolfram von Richthofen, tried in vain to overturn this decision without success. The Sixth Army would be supplied by air. The Sixth Army was the largest unit of this type in the world, almost twice as large as a regular German army. Also trapped in the pocket was a corps of the Fourth Panzer Army. It should have been clear that supplying the pocket by air was impossible: the Luftwaffe's carrying capacity after the Battle of Crete had not been reinforced, and the maximum 300 metric tons they could deliver a day would be less than the 500 needed by the pocket. To supplement the limited number of Junkers Ju 52 transports, bomber units equipped with aircraft wholly inadequate for the role (such as the Heinkel He-111 and He-177) were pressed into service. But Hitler backed Göring's plan and reiterated his order of "no surrender" to his trapped armies.
The air supply mission failed almost immediately. Heavy Soviet anti-aircraft fire and fighter interceptions led to the loss of over 490 German transport aircraft. The winter weather also reduced the flying efficiency of the German Air Force. In general, only ten percent of the needed supplies could be delivered. Even then, it was often inadequate or unnecessary; one aircraft arrived with 20 metric tons of Vodka and summer uniforms, completely useless in their current situation.[11] The transport planes that did land safely were used to evacuate technical specialists and sick or wounded men from the besieged enclave (some 42,000 were evacuated in all). The Sixth Army slowly starved. Pilots were shocked to find the troops assigned to offloading the planes too exhausted and hungry to unload food. General Zeitzler, moved by the troops' plight at Stalingrad, began to limit himself to their slim rations at meal times. After a few weeks of such a diet he'd grown so emaciated that Hitler, annoyed, personally ordered him to start eating regular meals again.
Operation Saturn
Soviet forces consolidated their positions around Stalingrad, and fierce fighting to shrink the pocket began. An attack by a German battlegroup formed to relieve the trapped armies from the South, Operation Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") was successfully fended off by the Soviets in December. The full impact of the harsh Russian winter set in. The Volga froze solid, allowing the Soviets to supply their forces in the city more easily. The trapped Germans rapidly ran out of heating fuel and medical supplies, and thousands started dying of frostbite, malnutrition and disease.
On December 16, the Soviets launched a second offensive, Operation Saturn, which attempted to punch through the Axis army on the Don and take Rostov. If successful, this offensive would have trapped the remainder of Army Group South, one third of the entire German Army in Russia, in the Caucasus. The Germans set up a "mobile defense" in which small units would hold towns until supporting armor could arrive. The Soviets never got close to Rostov, but the fighting forced von Manstein to extract Army Group A from the Caucasus and restabilize the frontline some 250 km away from the city. The Tatsinskaya Raid also caused significant losses to Luftwaffe's transport fleet. The Sixth Army now was beyond all hope of German reinforcement. The German troops in Stalingrad were not told this, however, and continued to believe that reinforcements were on their way. Some German officers requested that Paulus defy Hitler's orders to stand fast and instead attempt to break out of the Stalingrad pocket. Paulus refused, as he abhorred the thought of disobeying orders. Also, whereas a breakout may have been possible in the first few weeks, at this late stage, Sixth Army was short of the fuel required for such a breakout. The German soldiers would have faced great difficulty breaking through the Soviet lines on foot in harsh winter conditions.[12]
Soviet victory
German POWs: The staff of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus
The Germans inside the pocket retreated from the suburbs of Stalingrad to the city itself. The loss of the two airfields at Pitomnik and Gumrak by January 25 meant an end to air supplies and to the evacuation of the wounded.[13] The Germans were now not only starving, but running out of ammunition. Nevertheless they continued to resist stubbornly, partly because they believed the Soviets would execute those who surrendered. In particular, the so-called "HiWis," Soviet citizens fighting for the Germans, had no illusions about their fate if captured. The Soviets, in turn, were initially surprised by the large number of German forces they had trapped, and had to reinforce their encircling forces. Bloody urban warfare began again in Stalingrad, but this time it was the Germans who were pushed back to the banks of the Volga. A Soviet envoy made Paulus a generous surrender offer—to include a guarantee of safety to all prisoners, medical care for the German sick and wounded, a promise that prisoners would be allowed to keep their personal belongings, "normal" food rations, and repatriation to whatever country they wished to go to after the war—but Paulus, torn by his sense of duty and the suffering of his men, chose the former and turned down the offer, ensuring the destruction of the 6th Army.
Hitler promoted Friedrich Paulus to Generalfeldmarschall on January 30, 1943, (the 10th anniversary of Hitler coming to power). Since no German Field Marshal had ever been taken prisoner, Hitler assumed that Paulus would fight on or take his own life. Nevertheless, when Soviet forces closed in on Paulus' headquarters in the ruined GUM department store the next day, Paulus surrendered. The remnants of the German forces in Stalingrad surrendered on February 2; 91,000 tired, ill, and starving Germans were taken captive. To the delight of the Soviet forces and the dismay of the Third Reich, the prisoners included 22 generals. Hitler was furious at the Field Marshal's surrender and confided that "Paulus stood at the doorstep of eternal glory but made an about-face."
German Waffen-SS soldiers celebrating a success near Stalingrad, 1942
According to the German documentary film Stalingrad, over 11,000 German and Axis soldiers refused to lay down their arms at the official surrender, seemingly believing that fighting to the death was better than what seemed like a slow end in Soviet prisoner of war camp. These forces continued to resist until early March 1943, hiding in cellars and sewers of the city with their numbers being diminished at the same time by Soviet forces clearing the city of remaining enemy resistance. By March, what remained of these forces were small and isolated pockets of resistance that surrendered. According to Soviet intelligence documents shown in the documentary, 2,418 of the men were killed, and 8,646 were captured.[14]
Only 6,000 of the 91,000 German prisoners of war survived their captivity and returned home. Already weakened by disease, starvation and lack of medical care during the encirclement, they were sent to labour camps all over the Soviet Union, where most of them died of overwork and malnutrition. A handful of senior officers were taken to Moscow and used for propaganda purposes. Some, including Paulus, signed anti-Hitler statements which were broadcast to German troops. General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach offered to raise an anti-Hitler army from the Stalingrad survivors, but the Soviets did not accept this offer. It was not until 1955 that the last of the handful of survivors were repatriated.
The German public was not officially told of the disaster until the end of January 1943, though positive reports in the German propaganda media about the battle had stopped in the weeks before the announcement. It was not the first major setback of the German military, but the crushing defeat at Stalingrad was unmatched in scale. On February 18, the minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, gave his famous Sportpalast speech in Berlin, encouraging the Germans to accept a total war which would claim all resources and efforts from the entire population.
The scope of the battle
The aftermath of the Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was the largest single battle in human history. It raged for 199 days. Numbers of casualties are difficult to compile due to the vast scope of the battle and the fact that the Soviet government did not allow estimates to be made, for fear the cost would be shown to be too high. In its initial phases, the Germans inflicted heavy casualties on Soviet formations; but the Soviet encirclement by punching through the German flank, mainly held by Romanian troops, effectively besieged the remainder of German Sixth Army, which had taken heavy casualties in street fighting prior to this. At different times the Germans had held up to 90% of the city, yet the Soviet soldiers and officers fought on fiercely. Some elements of the German Fourth Panzer Army also suffered casualties in operations around Stalingrad during the Soviet counter offensive.
Various scholars have estimated the Axis suffered 850,000 casualties of all types (wounded, killed, captured...etc) among all branches of the German armed forces and its allies, many of which were POWs who died in Soviet captivity between 1943 and 1955: 400,000 Germans, 200,000 Romanians, 130,000 Italians, and 120,000 Hungarians were killed, wounded or captured[15]. Of all of the German POWs taken at Stalingrad, only 5,000 returned to Germany in 1955. All of the rest of the POWs died in Soviet captivity[16]. The Germans were also harsh on Russian POWs. In addition, as many as 50,000 ex-Soviets HiWis were killed or captured by the Red Army. According to archival figures, the Red Army suffered a total of 1,129,619 total casualties; 478,741 men killed and captured and 650,878 wounded. These numbers, however, include a wide scope of operations. Also, more than 40,000 Soviet civilians died in Stalingrad and its suburbs during a single week of aerial bombing as the German Fourth Panzer and Sixth armies approached the city; the total number of civilians killed in the regions outside the city is unknown. In all, the battle resulted in an estimated total of 1.7 million to 2 million Axis and Soviet casualties.
The 85-meter-tall statue of Mother Motherland crowns the Mamayev Kurgan
Besides being a turning point in the war, Stalingrad was also revealing in terms of the discipline and determination of both the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army, though this was often maintained by brutal enforcement of commands. The Soviets first defended Stalingrad against a fierce German onslaught. So great were Soviet losses that at times, the life expectancy of a newly arrived soldier was less than a day,[17] and life expectancy of Soviet officer was three days. Their sacrifice is immortalized by a soldier of General Rodimtsev, about to die, who scratched on the wall of the main railway station (which changed hands 15 times during the battle) "Rodimtsev's Guardsmen fought and died here for their Motherland."
For the heroism of the Soviet defenders of Stalingrad, the city was awarded the title Hero City in 1945. After the war, in the 1960s, a colossal monument of "Mother Motherland" was erected on Mamayev Kurgan, the hill overlooking the city. The statue forms part of a memorial complex which includes ruined walls deliberately left the way they were after the battle. The Grain Elevator, as well as Pavlov's House, the apartment building whose defenders eventually held out for two months until they were relieved, can still be visited. Even today, one may find bones and rusty metal splinters on Mamayev Kurgan, symbols of both the human suffering during the battle and the successful yet costly resistance against the German invasion.
On the other side, the German Army showed remarkable discipline after being surrounded. It was the first time that it had operated under adverse conditions on such a scale. Short of food and clothing, during the latter part of the siege, many German soldiers starved or froze to death.[18] Yet, discipline and obedience to authority prevailed, until the very end, when resistance no longer served any useful purpose, Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Paulus obeyed Hitler's orders, against many of Hitler's top generals' counsel and advice, such as Von Manstein, to not attempt to break out of the city before German ammunition, supplies, and food became totally exhausted. Hitler ordered Paulus to stay, and then promoted him to Field Marshal. Hitler, acting on Göring's advice, believed the German 6th Army could be supplied by air; the Luftwaffe had successfully accomplished an aerial resupply in January 1942, when a German garrison was surrounded in Demyansk for four months by the Red Army. However, Göring and Hitler failed to see the obvious differences, in terms of the difficulty of supplying a garrison as opposed to supplying the remnants of an embattled and encircled army. By the time Hitler made him a Field Marshal, even Paulus knew Stalingrad was lost and the air lift had failed. Hitler thought that Paulus would commit suicide, the traditional German General's method of surrender; promoting him was a consolatory gesture, and further impetus for Paulus to avoid being taken by the Soviets alive. Paulus would have been the highest ranking German commander to be captured, and that was not acceptable to Hitler. However, Paulus disobeyed Hitler, shortly after being promoted to Field Marshal, saying that as a Christian he could not, in good faith, kill himself. Hitler did not find this reasonable, and openly lambasted Paulus for being the only Field Marshal in German history to surrender alive.
Stalingrad in the media
The extreme conditions of the battle, including the paralyzing Russian winter that precipitated massive German fatalities due to starvation and freezing, have been immortalized in several films of German, Russian, and American origin. The struggle is also remembered and reflected upon in countless books, for its significance in thwarting the German invasion, as well as its significance as a landmark of military barbarism and human suffering in which the loss of life was unprecedented.
Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
Italian war in Soviet Union, 1941-1943
Hungary during World War II
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It's hard to believe that Etixx-Quick Step lost a race in which everything was going in its favor, but this is what happened on Saturday, in the 70th edition of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. After forcing the main selection with 43 km to go, the Belgian team had three riders at the front – Tom Boonen, Niki Terpstra and Stijn Vandenbergh – who had only one thing to do: make the life of Ian Stannard (the other cyclist in the group) difficult and break him on the cobbles and hills that were remaining until the finish. At first, the team lead by sports director Wilfried Peters worked hard and made sure of staying at the front, so that the chasing group will not come back. Everything was looking perfect for Etixx at that point, but something happened in the last 10 km, when the three riders of the team began to act in a chaotic manner, without a clear strategy and that cost them big time. With 5 km to go, Terpstra accelerated, but was brought back in by Stannard. Then, all of the sudden, Boonen attacked, even though he didn't need to, because he could count on his sprint. His move was a short on, with Stannard covering it immediately. Afterwards, Terpstra escaped again, but Vandenbergh made a surprising move by chasing his teammate. Eventually, Terpstra and Stannard flew from there, while Boonen and Vandenbergh were cooked. In the sprint, Terpstra made one final mistake, leading-out the Brit, who had an extra ounce of energy that gifted him the win in one of the most thrilling finishes the race has ever seen.
Few people gave a chance to Ian Stannard when he was up against three Etixx-Quick Step guys, but the Sky leader made the race of his career and outwitted his opponents to take a huge win, which will boost his confidence ahead of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. One of the strongest riders out there, the 27-year-old was also a great poker player and that payed off eventually, as he crossed the finish line in Ghent with his arms raised high, just like last season. If then he won ahead of Greg Van Avermaet, this time the British cyclist defeated a whole team, which was looking for its first Omloop victory in ten years. As Ian Stannard – who continues to impress with his brute strentgth – said after the race, everything aligned on a day that didn't looked to be so promising with 40 km left until the end, when he was on an impossible mission, against three riders who were expected to outmaneuver him and land the win.
The first important Classic of the season is over, but it's worth mentioning it isn't relevant for the big cobbled Monuments of April, Flanders and Roubaix. The riders who didn't make the cut in the final group had either bad luck (one example is Sep Vanmarcke, who punctured at the moment of the decisive move), or they still aren't at their best, which isn't a problem considering they have five more weeks until De Ronde. Actually, throughout history, no rider won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the Tour of Flanders in the same year, while only Eddy Merckx (1973), Franco Ballerini (1995) and Johan Museeuw (2000) have won the Paris-Roubaix after taking the victory in the Belgian season opener.
Mark Cavendish is on fire this season, one in which he has to clock up as many (big) wins as he can, so that Etixx-Quick Step comes with a new deal. A favorite in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, the former world champion was the first to cross the finish line after an impressive sprint, which found him without a lead-out and facing a fierce Alexander Kristoff. Much skinnier than he was in other seasons at this time of the year, Cavendish is not only in a great condition, but also has the mentality and determination to give it all and prove he's the best sprinter in the world. The six victories he scored so far make Mark Cavendish one of the big favorites for Milan-Sanremo, the Spring's first Monument, which is scheduled to take place in three weeks. But until then, he will go to Tirreno-Adriatico, where he is expected to finally defeat Marcel Kittel, his "bestia nera" in the previous years.
Both Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurse showed a very nervous Tom Boonen, always irritated and having something to make a reproach to other cyclists. Unlike Cavendish, the 2005 world champion isn't in his final year of contract, but the pressure is huge also on his shoulders, because there are now three seasons since he last won a Monument. Etixx-Quick Step's leader for the Spring one-day races, Boonen wanted to have a dream start by winning Omloop, a victory that would have reassured his status in a team where Niki Terpstra is strongly coming from behind. Thanks to Mark Cavendish's victory on Sunday, things are much calmer in the Belgium squad, but the situation can explode very easily in April, if the team will fail to win at least one of the cobbled Monuments.
Sep Vanmarcke missed on a win last week-end, but the signs are encouraging for the LottoNL-Jumbo rider, who hopes to finally get a Monument under his belt. Coming into the Classics from the Volta ao Algarve, the Belgian had a fine display on home turf until bad luck struck, a puncture which came at the moment of the Etixx attack taking him out of contention. Nevertheless, Vanmarcke showed he is already in great form, and there's still room for improvement in the next weeks, before the "holy weeks" of April, which include E3 Prijs Harelbeke, Gent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. One more thing worth mentioning is that Vanmarcke has found a great support in the young Tom Van Asbroeck, who can prove to be of great help in the Belgian's attempt to have its name engraved in the history books.


¡Felices de anunciar que volvemos a Buenos Aires con un nuevo Appcircus!
Estamos felices porque después de cuatro años, volvemos a Argentina con una nueva edición de Appcircus Buenos Aires. Junto al Google Developers Group como organizador y la Universidad de Palermo como patrocinador, celebraremos el 17 de noviembre la cuarta edición de este Appcircus.
Todos los desarrolladores argentinos están invitados a participar con sus aplicaciones móviles, da igual la temática y la plataforma para la que se han desarrollado, todas están invitadas a participar.
El plazo de presentación de apps se extenderá hasta el 31 de octubre y una vez que se cierre, se seleccionarán las 10 finalistas que competirán en vivo y en directo ante un jurado de expertos que valorará su funcionalidad, capacidad de innovación y de proyección.
El evento final se celebrará en la Universidad de Palermo, en Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires C1175) y el formato será el habitual: un escenario, público, un jurado de expertos y 10 finalistas que tendrán 3 minutos para realizar una presentación impecable.
A la ganadora le espera una nominación para los Mobile Premier Awards 2017, los premios de referencia en el sector de las app que se celebran anualmente desde hace más de una década el primer día del Mobile World Congress.
Toda la información de Appcircus Buenos Aires y el registro lo tenéis en este enlace. ¡Mucha suerte a todas!
On Tuesday 27th January, AppCircus will hold a new and exciting app contest in São Paulo, at Google São Paulo. An international community of developers will showcase their latest top trending android apps from all categories and compete for the first place on the podium.
All app developers are encouraged to enter their app for free at the Appcircus São Paulo event page: -http://appcircus.com/event/sao-paulo- the submission deadline is January 16. Finalists will be announced after a jury review period, and the winner will be celebrated on all media and press channels sponsoring the event.
On 20 January 2015 a new and exciting Appcircus contest will take place in Berlin, in Factory Berlin.
An international community of developers will show their latest mobile app creations. The contest is open to all app categories, showcasing future and top trending apps.
During the event, 10 entrepreneurial developers will have the opportunity to pitch their app live on stage in front of a jury of top experts. The winning app will receive a nomination for the Mobile Premier Awards 2015, the largest cross-platform app showcase in the mobile industry, and a point of reference for apps and startups during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
All app developers can enter their app for free at the Appcircus Berlin event page: — the submission deadline is 13 January. Finalists will be announced after a jury review period, and the winner will be celebrated on all media and press channels around the event.
For its last event in 2014, Appcircus chose the vibrant city of Moscow, Russia. The pitch night will take place during the Mobile Developer Day Russia, one of the most important mobile industry events in Russia and CIS.
On Monday 22 December, three days before the start of Christmas holidays, AppCircus will hold a new and exciting app contest in Moscow. An international community of developers will present the latest android app creations and compete to win the first place. The event will be open to all app categories, showcasing future and top trending apps.
The submission deadline is 15 December. Finalists will be announced after a jury review period, and the winner will be celebrated on all media and press channels sponsoring the event.
On Wednesday 10th December, AppCircus will hold a new and exciting app contest in Paris, at Institut Mines-Telcom. An international community of developers will present the latest android app creations and compete to win the first place. The event will be open to all app categories, showcasing future and top trending apps.
The submission deadline is November 28. Finalists will be announced after a jury review period, and the winner will be celebrated on all media and press channels sponsoring the event.
Mercredi 10 décembre, AppCircus organisera un nouveau concours passionnant d'applications à Paris, à l'Institut Mines-Télécom. Une communauté internationale de développeurs présentera les dernières créations d'Applis Android et sera en compétition pour gagner la première place. L'événement sera ouvert à toutes les catégories d'applications, y présentant les applis du futur les plus tendances.
La date de clôture des inscriptions est le 28 novembre. Les finalistes seront annoncés après un délai d'examen et le gagnant apparaîtra dans la presse et tous les médias qui sponsorisent l'événement.


This week, we brought some of our team to Pendulum Summit 2018 at the convention centre Dublin. We were lucky to hear from some of the world's leading business, sport and performance leaders.
Back in the office this morning, all we could talk about was the incredible stories the speakers shared and who we learned the most from.
How you use your time was a recurring theme with many of the speakers. Richard Branson recommends that you learn to delegate so you can focus on the big ideas and plans for your business. "Too many entrepreneurs cling on to every single little detail for too long. It makes them ill, it ruins relationships, they don't keep fit and healthy, and they get bogged down with the minutiae so they are no longer pushing the company forward," says Branson.
Rugby favourite Paul O'Connell also suggested, "Instead of trying to go hard forward all time, take some time to access what you are doing".
Like Wallace Myers International, many of the speakers put value into the importance of a positive work culture.
Branson suggests that "Just like a flower when it's watered, people flourish when praised". Marci Shimoff recommended giving specific examples when offering praise, "Tell someone why you appreciate them, not just that you do appreciate them... ".
Whilst James Cann said, "Surround yourself with people who are better than you or as good as you, that way you can be confident when you delegate".
Much of the inspiration gleaned over the last two days was from the relatable life stories of some of the speakers. The entire Pendulum Summit audience were enthralled by Baroness Mone and Jo Malone MBE, both of who built their success with little more than determination.
"The less money you have the more creative you become, that is a fact, because you're determined," said Baroness Mone of Mayfair (Michelle Mone) who launched her Ultimo bra line with only £500.
How did Baroness Mone of Mayfair OBE get to be as successful as she has? "We all have our knocks but if we don't get up and dust ourselves down, we won't be able to fly high and keep going." And, "I never take no for an answer".
Branson also told the thousands of delegates gathered that he starts every day with a game of tennis or by going surfing. Advocating exercise and fun to get your energy pumping for the day.
Happiness was a recurring theme at the two-day event, with Paul O'Connell suggesting, "Figure out what makes you happy and what makes you good at your job and plan your week around that".
Scheduling in time to be inspired and creative was advocated by more than one of the thought leaders at Pendulum Summit 2018.
How would you like to work from a hammock on a beach? Richard Branson says he sometimes does because it allows him to switch off and daydream, which in turn can lead to new ideas.
Jo Malone was in agreement that taking time out to let yourself come up with ideas and be inspired is important, telling the summit to "Invest in the currency of creativity".
"The hackathons changed my life, I encourage you guys to throw a hackathon. It's crazy what can happen when you put your phone down for an hour and let creativity take over", said Randi Zuckerberg.
Something Branson, Mone and Malone appear to have in bucket loads is self-belief. Whether or not that comes naturally remains to be seen, but what is clear is that (natural or otherwise) it has been vital for each of them.
Dr Bob Rotella asked, "Why is it easy to believe in your doubts and doubt your beliefs?" and went on to add, "Greatness is in everyone. Fear and doubt distort your vision and disable your attitude. Spend your life convincing yourself you can, you will".
Finishing off the event with a perfume cocktail (made using water supplied by Wallace Myers International to keep the speakers hydrated and happy), Jo Malone summarised, "Make sure you stay true to yourself, that way you will be happiest. Trust your gut".


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Emoji has teamed up with the brainiacs at Zimpli Kids to create a new bath time and creative range featuring the popular Emoji brand.
In a deal secured by Bravado, Zimpli Kids will now introduce a unique collection of products with five new SKUs: Chocolate emoji maker, emoji Gelli Play Pods, emoji Gelli Baff Pods and two versions of emoji Baff Bombs.
The bath time products focus on a new concept of Display and Play. The emoji Gelli Play, Gelli Baff and Baff Bombs are encased in a plastic emoji shaped pod.
Another new product in the range is the Chocolate emoji maker, allowing kids to get creative and make their own chocolate emoji bar by melting the milk, dark and white chocolate in a bowl of warm water, placing the emoji stencil underneath and creating their own icon in chocolate form.
Zimpli Kids' Gelli Baff and Slime Baff products have clocked up over 3.5 billion views on YouTube from independent reviewers worldwide in just over two years.
In early 2017, Europe's largest toy distributor, Simba Toys, became a major shareholder of Zimpli Kids.


After four years of marching band in high school, Cherrie Lemon was done. She decided not to join the Purdue "All-American" Marching Band her freshman year, but that all changed when she heard the tapping of drums after class. Since her sophomore year, Cherrie has been a dedicated member of the marching band and is currently serving as the first African-American drum major.


They recount nature and its colours, they delight us each day and give the environment a warm, delicate and refined atmosphere. They are the landscapes of winter, summer and spring with the romantic shades of autumn, which in any version or format make us dream and add a special touch of contemporary and modern look to any home.
For years, Mariani Affreschi has been dedicating itself to these much-loved subjects and its artists have created a collection specifically dedicated to this enduring theme. Drawing inspiration from the fascinating Venetian villas, from gardens and settings, an art maestro from Mariani has created a vast collection of fresco paintings, inserting colours that bring to mind white stone, rose-coloured marble, green parks and hills.
"We decided to create a collection of "trompe l'oeil" frescoes," explains Laura Mariani, "because they represent a timeless pictorial genre that creates a romantic effect in any home, adding colour, beauty and luminosity to the rooms.
Sprays of wisteria, ivy, references to old Venetian villas, romantic scenes, dream-like settings. These "touches of reality" in the form of a fresco painting decorate our homes and make them even more beautiful and interesting".
Although most painters from the 17th to 18th centuries used oil as a medium for these types of subjects, the emotions that a landscape fresco gives us is unrivalled: the lightness of the colours coming from the rapid brush strokes, the subject that is not overly defined, the atmosphere suspended between dream and reality. These technical aspects make the work more enjoyable and give us the sensation of actually being in the painting, just as if we are walking among the hills, feeling the warmth of the sun and smelling the perfume of the wind.


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The Finnish side produced quite a coup by holding Twente to a 1-1 draw in the first leg, but they will need to play another great game if they are to make it to the next stage. The Tukkers, on the other hand, are looking to make things right and progress into the next stage.
Inter Turku have been on the constant uptrend over the last few years and they are now in a position to fight for the Finnish Veikkausliiga title. After finishing last league campaign 24 points behind champions Helsinki, the team are doing much better this term and currently have a two-point cushion at the top of the standings. While Job Dragtsma's side were very unfortunate to be pitted against mighty Twente in Europa League, they were extremely lucky to avoid defeat in the first leg, having been completely outclassed by their more illustrious opponents. Inter Turku are now flying high following a great run of results, but I seriously doubt they have what it takes to stop Twente from winning this game.
Twente have established themselves as one of the best sides in Dutch Eredivise over the last few years and they spent most of the previous league campaign fighting for the title. The poor finish of the season ended up costing them dearly, but at least the Tukkers managed to ensure Europa League qualification. The team have since stayed without attackers Luuk de Jong and Ola John, but they have reinforced the squad with Dusan Tadic, Andreas Bjelland, Dmitri Bulykin and Felipe Gutierez. Steve McClaren's side did well to create a host of clear-cut chances in the first leg, but they were very unfortunate not to score more than one goal, although the odds are they will make things right in the return leg.
Of course it is much better known Twente and stronger team and is a reason, and the favorite in this match so it should come to victory in this match and pass the next round.


Merisi's Vienna for Beginners: Letter to SpringMarch is here!
Your post made me think of this statue in Paris... I have my own picture of this statue somewhere... no time for "browsing", sorry !!!
Nothing wrong with a little nachtmuzic in the afternoon especially when it's loaded mit schlag!!!
Lovely the poem of Emily Dickinson!
Have a pleasant weekend, Merisi.
The globes on that chandelier remind me of my favorite absinthe fountain. The one I want to buy. Even though I've never even tried a sip of absinthe before. It's just so beautiful!
Carol's too funny. This is just a delight, Merisi--beautifully composed post with poem and images so in tune with each another.
Merisi, with this visually and verbally poetic post, you again encourage me to visit poetry more often.
To see it around me, to perhaps even read some poetry, to think poetically. That last bit is what I would aspire to, but might not reach.
March is marching wowards April.
Love this quote and as always your photos are just lovely.


When a federal judge in Texas sentenced a 52-year-old Dallas woman to 10 years in prison recently—and ordered her to pay more than $23 million in restitution to Medicare and Medicaid—it marked the end of a massive health care fraud case in which the government was systematically defrauded and the care of vulnerable patients was placed at risk.
Cynthia Stiger was the last of seven defendants to be sentenced in the long-running scheme. The ringleader, Dr. Jacques Roy, received a 35-year sentence in August 2017 and was ordered to repay the government more than $268 million. Roy and his co-conspirators—some of them nurses—perpetrated a home health care fraud that involved thousands of patients over a period of eight years.
Evidence showed that Dr. Roy approved plans of care for 11,000 unique Medicare beneficiaries. "The more patients he had, the more services he could bill for," Drews said. "When the case went to trial," she added, "it was the largest single-physician home health care fraud in the country." Dr. Roy was certifying patients for Medicare home health services from more than 500 home health companies. "Those kinds of numbers were unheard of in the industry," Drews said.
After an individual was certified for services, the fraudsters falsified home visit notes to make it appear as though skilled nursing services were being provided and continued to be necessary. Dr. Roy performed unnecessary home visits and then ordered unnecessary medical services for patients. At his instruction, hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims were submitted to Medicare. And in many cases, patients were deprived of care or received inferior care.
It took time for the fraud to be discovered, Drews explained, because Medicare and Medicaid are trust-based systems. "There are so many eligible beneficiaries. In order for patients to get the care they need and then to get their claims processed in a timely manner, the system trusts that providers are submitting a true and accurate billing for their services," she said. Dr. Roy exploited that process.
The case was investigated jointly by the FBI, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, and the Texas Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit as part of the Department of Justice's Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Dr. Roy and his co-conspirators were arrested in 2012 on a variety of health care fraud charges.


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Education/Youth Demand for wildlife products falling in Vietnam: seminar
Demand for wildlife products falling in Vietnam: seminar
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Student on Phu Quoc Island participate in activities to raise awareness on dugong protection organized by Wildlife At Risk in 2015. Photo credit: WAR
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Vietnam's strong appetite for wildlife products has been changed in recent years thanks to many campaigns launched by governmental agencies and advocacy groups, according to counter-trafficking organization Freeland.
"As two of the world's foremost markets for rare species products, Vietnam and the US have contributed significant resources to demand reduction in the region," the organization said in a statement released at a seminar on the issue on March 30.
Recent activities included USAID ARREST Program, which provided funds and resources, and Operation Game Change, a public-private sector initiative that brings wildlife range and consumer countries together to stop cross-border illegal wildlife trade. Operation Game Change initiative included the outdoor film and music festival WildFest, Vietnam's largest wildlife conservation awareness-raising event to date.
"Wildlife trafficking will remain a major global threat to species loss, ecosystem degradation, human health and security unless we work collaboratively with stakeholders and as one community," US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius said at the seminar that attracted 25 Vietnam-based civil society and government organizations.
According to Steven Galster, Freeland's executive director and founder, changing centuries-old consumer behavior and countering clever marketing techniques employed by criminal organizations requires a smart strong and long term behavior change campaign.
"The seminar on wildlife demand reduction efforts in Vietnam was a great step in the direction of crafting a broad-based alliance of civil society organizations and government agencies that can use rich data and state-of-the-art methods to convince Vietnamese to refrain from purchasing rhino horn, tiger bone, pangolin and other rare and endangered wildlife," he said.
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