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Hitler's girlfriend filmed Nazis relaxing and the fuhrer dancing. Now the footage is going digital.
The National Archives is restoring the color home movies made by Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun
Michael E. Ruane
Reporter covering local news, Washington institutions and historical topics
April 10, 2019 at 7:00 AM EDT
About three minutes into reel No. 2, Adolf Hitler appears on the terrace of his mountain chalet in a white double-breasted jacket and black trousers.
His shoes are shined, and he is wearing a red armband with a black swastika.
But the swastika is backward, Criss Austin said as she ran the footage in a National Archives film room.
After World War II, she said, a piece of original film was mistakenly spliced in backward, resulting in the flawed copy.
It was fixed digitally, she said, and was a crucial step in the Archives' project to create the best version to date of the famous home movies shot by Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun.
Now the job is almost done and should be completed this month, said Austin, a film preservation supervisor.
Much of the extraordinary four hours of footage is in color and is known to historians via older Archives copies. The original is missing.
The film features Hitler and top Nazis Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, Albert Speer and Joachim von Ribbentrop.
But it also captures lesser figures like Hitler's doctors, Karl Brandt, who was later executed as a war criminal, and Theodor Morell, who treated Hitler with narcotics, amphetamines, leeches, hormones, vitamins and various quack supplements.
Morell also reportedly gave Hitler and Braun the cyanide ampules with which they committed suicide. Hitler shot himself in the head for good measure, according to historians.
Hitler's personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, who later wrote a book called "Hitler Was My Friend" and took thousands of pictures of the Nazis, appears in the footage.
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So does the brutal, soon-to-be-assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, known as "the hangman," a key architect, along with Himmler, of the slaughter of 6 million European Jews.
The two stand in crisp business suits as they chat on the terrace.
A lot of the film was shot by Braun or her friends at the Berghof, Hitler's retreat in southeastern Germany, against a backdrop of breathtaking Alpine scenery.
Well-dressed Nazis relax under red beach umbrellas and sun themselves in cushioned lounge chairs.
The atmosphere often seems lighthearted.
At one point, Hitler, in his white jacket and brown military hat, does a little dance on the stone terrace as he talks with another Nazi official. Elsewhere, the fuhrer swats away an insect, and in several scenes, he wears a fuzzy-looking brown fedora.
Later, someone playfully holds what looks like the same hat aloft as if for show. Hitler does not appear to be around. It's not clear exactly when the footage was shot, although many scenes seem to predate the 1939-1945 war.
There are plenty of pets — Hitler's German shepherd, Blondi, and Braun's Scottie, Burli — as well as children. At a gathering of youngsters, a little boy of about 5 faces the camera and salutes like a soldier.
People play ping-pong. Braun does gymnastic routines.
There are scenes of Easter and Christmas, of Himmler overseeing a wedding, and Hitler with the happy couple.
(The groom, Braun's Nazi brother-in-law, Hermann Fegelein, would later be shot as a deserter.)
Meanwhile, about 100 miles away, prisoners were being herded into the Dachau concentration camp, where tens of thousands would be killed, tortured in medical experiments, and incinerated in the ovens before the end of the war in 1945.
But up on the mountain, and elsewhere in Braun's world, life was good.
History in high demand
The film is being updated, the Archives said, because it is in heavy demand from researchers and needed to be digitized. The Archives has special negative copies it used for the digital scans, Austin said.
"This is one of the most requested groups of records that we have," she said.
(Most of those asking to see the films are believed to be documentary filmmakers. The Archives doesn't track specifically who they are or why they want the footage.)
With a suite of high-tech computers, Austin, and technicians before her, have been poring over the footage scene by scene, restoring faded colors and removing dark splotches.
The original 28 reels of film were recovered by the Army at the end of the war, according to the Archives.
Allied interrogators learned from former Nazi officer Franz Konrad that he had left the films with his mother in a small town in Austria about 50 miles from the Berghof.
They were found there in October 1945. (Konrad was later hanged for his role in crushing the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.)
To save space, the Army spliced the 28 reels together into nine, Austin said, and that's when the swastika error was probably made.
The sequences are not in chronological order.
The Archives received the footage in 1947.
In 1972, the film was discovered in an Archives storage vault in Maryland by German-born artist and filmmaker Lutz Becker, according to the Guardian newspaper.
It was then woven into the acclaimed British World War II TV documentary "The World at War" in the 1970s, according to the Guardian.
After that, the original film vanished. It's not clear when. Investigators found that the last record of the Archives likely having the original footage was June 1973.
"The whereabouts of the original camera film are in question," Austin said.
Filming the inner circle
Eva Braun, who was also briefly Hitler's wife, was 17 when she was introduced to him in 1929 by Hoffmann, who ran a Munich photography business where Braun worked.
Braun was infatuated by Hitler, then 40, fell in love with him and twice tried to kill herself because he wasn't paying enough attention to her, according to historians.
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Although he claimed that Germany was his only mistress, he allowed Braun into his inner circle at the Berghof, where she occupied quarters next to his.
The nature of their relationship has long been a matter of debate. Some claim they were lovers. Others reject that. "There never was any love story," Hoffmann wrote.
Either way, she and her movie camera had intimate access to him and other key Nazis.
In one segment, she appears in the footage standing near Hitler and gestures to whoever is holding the camera to come closer for a better shot.
Some officials seemed to enjoy being before her camera. Others looked wary.
In the section where Himmler talks with Heydrich, Himmler, creator of the Jewish extermination camps, shoots the camera a blank glance.
Goebbels, Hitler's chief propagandist and stage manager, seems to relish the attention.
He bounds up the steps to the Berghof and pauses so the camera can film him being greeted by Hitler's aides.
Several years later, Goebbels and his wife killed their six children and then themselves as the Nazi regime crumbled around them.
But Braun's films also record simple family vacations and outings.
Her parents and sisters appear, frolicking in a mountain stream, swimming in a lake and riding bikes.
Braun is seen ice skating, picking flowers, cuddling children and pets.
When the war came, and defeat loomed, things changed at the Berghof. Camouflage netting was draped over the house. And a sense of foreboding spread.
When a would-be assassin nearly killed Hitler with a bomb in 1944, he sent his shredded clothing to Braun at the Berghof as a trophy.
After the assassination attempt, his mental and physical state rapidly deteriorated.
With disaster closing in, Braun got out her old movies and showed them at the Berghof, according to historian Heike B. Gortemaker.
Goebbels noted in his diary how Hitler had changed from the sunny days on the terrace and was now bent and aged.
Hitler's final Berghof stay lasted four months and ended in July 1944, according to Gortemaker. The following April, a British air raid smashed the building.
A few weeks before the end, Braun joined Hitler in his Berlin bunker, where they were married on the night of April 28-29, 1945.
Later on April 29, Hitler tested his poison on his dog, Blondi. It worked.
The next day, he and Braun went into his study, sat on a sofa and killed themselves.
Back at the damaged Berghof, aides hurried to burn files, letters and books on the terrace overlooking the beautiful mountain scenery.
Also burned were Braun's hats, dresses and shoes.
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Last month's post was a list of some of my favorite TV shows which seemed a natural progression leading into TV show theme songs. Often those songs reflect an era and may sound dated unless you long for a style of a certain year – the "Shaft" guitar (SWAT), early synths (The Rockford Files), etc. As a child of the '50s and '60s, I tend to prefer a memorable tune or just one of those dopey mind-worming songs that tell the whole premise of the show in a minute. This was even harder than the list of fave series as frankly the theme songs have held up better than the shows have over time for me. It was incredibly painful to leave off certain songs, but this post would be over 50 deep if I used my first list. The only 2 criteria I decided to adhere to were that the show actually had to be a true stand-alone TV series (which painfully eliminated the incredibly influential theme from Davy Crockett) and the song had to be originally written expressly for that series. That last issue caused the loss of great songs like "Rawhide", Rossini's "William Tell Overture" (The Lone Ranger), "The Toy Parade" from Leave It To Beaver, Sousa's "The Liberty Bell" (Monty Python's Flying Circus) and Gounod's "Funeral March Of A Marionette" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents). Using that criterion how can I include a sentimental fave like Howdy Doody when the words were set to an over 100 year old song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay"? What do I do with iconic cartoons like Woody Woodpecker and Casper, The Friendly Ghost since these were originally movie shorts so the songs derive from that.? Let's not forget too that there were incredibly memorable spoken word intros to shows that turn out not to have theme songs that would make this list. Star Trek, The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone, for instance, had non-musical beginnings that guaranteed goose bumps before the music ever came in. If people my age hear "faster than a speeding bullet – more powerful than a locomotive – able to leap tall buildings at a single bound", they know it will lead to "look up in the sky – it's a bird – it's a plane – it's Superman!" As I mentioned last month, these are not meant to be the best theme songs or the biggest hits (though some did chart). The composers of the theme will be given credit if that info is available. I welcome any and all personal favorite responses as my readers always seem to come up with some goodies I forgot.
1.Hawaii 5-0 – Morton Stevens
This song was smartly used in the original 1968 series plus in a shorter but similar sound in the 2010 remake. It charting at #4 in '68 for the Ventures as a cover version. Stevens passed away at age 62 in 1991 having worked composing for movies and TV plus arranging and conducting for the like of Sammy Davis, Jr and Jerry Lewis. The original cop procedural show with Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett ran for 12 years while the remake is up to nine seasons which has given this song plenty of chance to embed in viewers' neurons.
2.Bonanza – Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
Westerns were huge in my childhood and seemed to spawn memorably heroic theme songs ("Wyatt Earp" and "The Ballad Of Paladin" come to mind). The story of the Cartwright clan ran for 14 years on NBC starting in 1959 and survived cast changes and even the death of a popular star (Dan Blocker). Guitarist Al Caiola took his version of the theme to #19 on the charts in 1961, but it was also recorded by artists like Johnny Cash and even the show's Canadian star Lorne Greene. Evans and Livingston had written many songs for movies including "Buttons And Bows" "Que Sera Sera" and "Mona Lisa". It was incredibly painful to leave off another of their TV themes (sung by Livingston himself) – Mr. Ed.
3.The Monkees – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
As influential as these four actor/musicians have been over the years, it is hard to believe that their series was only popular from 1966 till 1968. Boyce and Hart's song feels like the Dave Clark Five's "Catch Us If You Can" in structure which fits with the series trying to bring a British Invasion style to TV – especially the Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night. The intro to the show used a short version of the song while a longer version was on their first album and was released in some countries as a single. Boyce and Hart originally sang the song, but they were replaced by Micky Dolenz when it was released. They also wrote "Last Train To Clarksville" in addition to having careers as artists in their own right ("Out And About", "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight").
4.Secret Agent Man – Steve Barri, P.F. Sloan
Well here is an example of a great theme song to a show I never actually remember watching. Reading about it, the British title for this show was Danger Man and starred Patrick McGoohan as a James Bond-like spy, but it was re-titled for the US and other territories. Apparently when it was licensed to air here, several songwriters were asked to come up with a new theme with this one winning out. Sloan and Barri were prolific songwriters supplying hits to acts like the Turtles, Hermans Hermits, Barry McGuire, etc. A lengthened version was a #3 hit in 1966 for Johnny Rivers who recorded the shorter original for the show itself. Back in the day, I preferred and purchased the Ventures' instrumental version on 45 which only managed a #54 chart placement.
5.The Munsters – Jack Marshall
The series only ran from 1964 till 1966 but once again seems like it has had more influence than that short span belies. Composer Marshall was mainly known as a producer for Capitol records in the '50s and '60s. I never much liked the Fred Gwynn/Yvonne DeCarlo series as it seemed silly as opposed to the more adult feeling The Addams Family, but the theme is great – a driving macabre rocker. The Addams Family theme song almost made the list as well due to finger snaps and harpsichord, but the verses just aren't spooky enough.
6.Simon & Simon – Barry De Vorzon, Michael Towers
This driving theme song was used starting in the second season (1982) about two brothers running a detective agency. Co-star Gerald McRaney (the one with the moustache) seems to always have a new project on the air to this day. De Vorzon's credits go back to the early days of rock being involved with hits like "Dreamin'" and "Hey Little One". He founded Valiant records and his group Barry And The Tamerlanes had a hit with "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" (not the Boyce & Hart song). He is best known for "Bless The Beasts And The Children" and "Nadia's Theme", but he also co-wrote (with Joe Walsh) the Eagles song "In The City".
7.Friends – Phil Solem, Danny Wilde, David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Michael Skloff, Allee Willis
Your Rock and Roll Dentist is a huge fan of power pop music (Cheap Trick, Badfinger, Raspberries) and was already a big Rembrandts follower when their song "I'll Be There For You" was used as the theme to Friends – a show I have never seen. In it's ten year run from 1994 till 2004, the sitcom was a smash hit with the finale being the biggest show of the 2000's decade at 52.5 million people. Solem and Wilde were definitely going against the tide of music in 1995 (Coolio, Shaggy, U2) when their lengthened single went to #17 in the US showing the power of TV to push pop culture.
8.The X Files – Mark Snow
If this isn't my wife's favorite show, it is one of them. The Chris Carter created sci-fi series seemingly has never left the air since it began in 1993 (though alot of that has been in syndication). FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigate paranormal and alien activities. The very distinctive and eerie whistle-like theme was created by the prolific composer Mark Snow (TJ Hooker, Hart To Hart, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, etc.). To some extent it reminds me of the spooky theme to the horror soap opera of the late '60s Dark Shadows which was a painful no-show on this list. I know Snow better by his given name Martin Fulterman as I was a big fan of his group the New York Rock (And Roll) Ensemble back in the late '60s-early '70s. Being an oboe player myself back then, I was drawn to rock and roll with a classical bent and really enjoyed the NYRE since they featured three Juilliard music students. Fulterman with Michael Kamen played the oboe while Dorian Rudnytsky played cello and they managed to work that into a rock context with their Roll Over album being a classic.
9.Mickey Mouse Club – Jimmie Dodd
Boy does this song bring back memories. This is one of my oldest original records in my collection getting the 78 as a little boy and playing over and over again. This faster version was used at the beginning of the show from 1955 till 1959 while a slower and sadder goodbye version was used at the end. The writer was the beloved adult ringleader of the juvenile Mouseketeers and I was sad to read that he died at age 54 in 1964. He had bit parts in movies like Flying Tigers and Easter Parade. I seriously doubt that there are too many kids of my age who couldn't then and can't now still sing this song by heart.
10.The Adventures Of Robin Hood – Carl Sigman
Oh my, here is another song that seems to be burned in the brains of every (Medicare) carrying baby boomer. This was from a British production for the BBC that ran from 1955 till 1959 here in the US. The series is set in Sherwood Forest during the 12th century, during the reign of King Richard when nobleman Robin of Locksley is forced into the life of an outlaw and with his band try to help the poor while thwarting the evil Sheriff of Nottinham. The singer was Dick James (Leon Vapnick) who made considerably more money as the publisher of the Beatles' songs through his Northern Songs company than he ever did as a singer. Songwriter Sigman wrote some true classics such as "Ebb Tide" and "The Day The Rains Came".
11.The Rifleman – Herschel Burke Gilbert
Every red-blooded American boy from the baby boomer era was a big fan of strong Western stars like Bart Maverick, Johnny Yuma and Lucas McCain played by former baseball player Chuck Connors. McCain was a single dad Civil War vet who blasted the bad guys bloodlessly with his Winchester. Johnny Crawford who played his son Mark had a credible career as a singer back in the day as well ("Cindy's Birthday"). Composer Gilbert was a mainstay of early TV music being involved in Burke's Law, The Dick Powell Show, The Westerner, etc.
12.The Avengers – Laurie Johnson
While this show aired in the UK as early as 1961, the version we all remember in the US started in 1965 when ABC bought the rights to air this spy series about dapper John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his lovely partner Mrs. Emma Peel (Diana Rigg). The lighthearted banter between the two and the jolly bowler hat and umbrella carried by Steed were notable. The theme song in the early version was a jazzier song, but this one juxtaposed an intense James Bond feel and a wistful string section. Johnson was a major TV and movie music composer back in the day scoring for movies like Dr. Strangelove, First Men in the Moon and Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter.
13.Route 66 – Nelson Riddle
I am pretty sure that I never saw this show that ran from 1960 till 1964 as back in the day we had one TV set and this was not the kind of series mom and dad would watch (no accordions, cowboys or comedians named Red, Jack or Jackie). The show apparently followed the travels of two dudes cruising the country in a Corvette and having adventures along the way. The show isn't as important to me as the string-driven drop-note piano mover created by the great Nelson Riddle. That the song only hit #30 in 1962 surprises me though that year was dominated by "The Twist" and "The Monster Mash". In his 64 years, Riddle packed in a lot of music mostly for Capitol records vocalists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. In the '60s he was involved with the music for Batman (not the theme) and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Later audiences know him for his groundbreaking work with Linda Ronstadt.
14.Hogan's Heroes – Jerry Fielding
How a show about the zany goings-on at a World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Germany ever got made is staggering and yet it was pretty darn funny if nothing else due to the stars (Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer – not to mention John Banner who played the lovable Sgt. Schultz). Of course when this show ran (1965 – 1971) America was a different place than it is today (better or worse – that is for another post), but we are more interested in the excellent military themed song from Jerry Fielding (Joshua Feldman – a Jewish composer, no less). Fielding was a big-band arranger in the '40s and radio band-leader. The McCarthy anti-Communist hearings were hard on Fielding's career in the early '50s (though he was never a Communist). He scored music for the early Star Trek series and for movies like The Outlaw Josey Wales and Straw Dogs.
15.The Andy Griffith Show – Earle Hagen
You are referred to two months ago (the blog about whistling) for the info about this song. Suffice it to say the melody was composed and whistled by the same gent who wrote the song "Harlem Nocturne" that was later used as the theme to a couple of shows about Mike Hammer. He also wrote themes for I Spy and That Girl.
16.Mission Impossible – Lalo Schifrin
Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin came up with a durable piece of music for this 1966 through 1973 spy series that has stood the test of time through numerous style shifts. While Schifrin's original single could only make it to #41 back in the day, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr's 1996 remake for the movie version managed to hit #7. There were numerous cast changes in the original TV series, but this is the first cast before Steven Hill (later of Law & Order) was replaced by Peter Graves since he was an Orthodox Jew who would not work after sundown on Fridays (till the next night) due to his religion.
17.St. Elsewhere – Dave Grusin
So many of these shows could have very easily ended up in my fave TV series list – case in point is this excellent hospital show that ran from 1982 till 1988. What a cast this one had – William Daniels, Norman Lloyd, Denzel Washington, Ed Begley Jr., Howie Mandel, Mark Harmon, David Morse, on and on. The theme song was written by 1956 University Of Colorado grad (and native son) Grusin. He composed music for Tootsie, The Graduate and On Golden Pond in addition to starting the GRP record label. Some of his other theme songs were for Maude, Baretta and Good Times.
18.Gilligan's Island – Sherwood Schwartz, George Wyle
Now here we may have, other than The Monkees and Star Trek, the ultimate show that has had way more influence than it's original run on CBS from 1964 through 1967 would suggest. The theme song tells the whole story of what happens in the show which always gets my admiration (you understand the whole premise right away) set to the tune of a jaunty sea shanty. Many find it truly is amazing that through all their ingenuity they couldn't find their way off the island, but we all know that the greater question was who did you like better – Mary Ann or Ginger (I went for the wholesome former). Stars Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr. played off each other's size differences much like the great comedy team of Laurel And Hardy. The show became a phenomenon when it wouldn't die in syndication and had several TV movie remakes and even a reset in space. The song was written by the show's creator Schwartz (who also created The Brady Bunch) and Wyle (a Jewish co-writer of the Christmas song "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year") in two versions. The version first used didn't mention the professor or Mary Ann, but was changed when they became popular characters.
19.Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
One of the great riffs in TV, this was written by perhaps the greatest composer of music for films and TV – Henry Mancini ("Moon River", "Charade", etc.). I most certainly never saw this show back in it's 1958 – 1961 run as once again mom and dad were not fans of these sorts of gritty detective shows. The show was created by another media icon Blake Edwards (10, Days Of Wine And Roses, Breakfast At Tiffany's, etc.) who always seemed to team up with Mancini for something memorable. This song has seen life several times over the years notably hitting for Ray Anthony, Duane Eddy and The Art Of Noise. Another near miss to the list was Batman which always felt like this song turned upside down.
20.Monk – Randy Newman
If there is one person who could rival Mancini for wonderful film music, it would be Randy Newman (Toy Story, Ragtime, The Natural, etc.). His song "It's A Jungle Out There" became the theme song for Tony Shaloub's starring vehicle in season two and won the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Main Title Music. It's sardonic Newman at his best talking about how hard it is to live in our world as Shaloub's damaged character Monk struggles with. For more about the show, please refer back to last month's fave TV show blog post.
21.Perry Mason – Fred Steiner
Boy does this song evoke the mood of an era with the grinding strings over the persistent piano triplets. Here is a show that ran forever it seemed – in first run from 1957 to 1966, then in syndication when I first saw it with my late friend Craig Sullivan; we tried to catch reruns during lunch breaks as Dental School Freshmen at Colorado. The TV movies with Raymond Burr were also engaging however I must say that after years of watching the show Law & Order I have wondered how much Perry would have gotten away with in a modern courtroom. As we discussed earlier for Hogan's Heroes, Steiner was a prolific composer also creating music for the movie The Color Purple and the theme for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
22.Get Smart – Irving Szathmary
It was through the connections of Irving's younger brother that he was able to compose the music for this silly spy spoof created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. Brooks said of his inspiration, "No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first." Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 worked for CONTROL and tried to thwart the nefarious KAOS every week – all with silliness like shoe phones and the dreaded cone of silence. The show ran for five seasons starting in 1965 and caused many a kid to use the phrases "would you believe" and "missed it by that much". Starting in 1934, Szathmary was a musical arranger for orchestras lead by folks such as Benny Goodman and Andre Kostelanetz. His younger brother Bill changed his last name to Dana and had a successful career mainly as the silly Hispanic character Jose Jimenez.
23.The Bugs Bunny Show – Mack David, Jerry Livingston
I am torn on this song as I can't prove or disprove that this song was written specifically for this show. Its such a great song and dance number, however, that I am going to go out on a limb and include it. The specifics of this show were included once again in last month's blog post. Generally it was a chance for all us kids to watch classic Looney Tunes cartoons that amazingly are still hilarious and don't look at all dated even today many some 70+ years after they were created. Lyricist Mack David shouldn't be confused with his brother Hal who wrote with Burt Bacharach. Mack co-wrote many great songs including "The Un-Birthday Song" (Alice In Wonderland) and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (Cinderella). With Denver native Jerry Livingston, they created the theme to Casper, The Friendly Ghost and "The Ballad Of Cat Ballou" among others.
24.Wild Wild West – Richard Markowitz
This over Rawhide is probably heresy, but that was a near miss to the list. Here is yet another example of how great music was inspired by Western themed TV. Supposedly Dimitri Tiompkin (High Noon, The Big Sky, etc.) was given first crack at the theme, but couldn't pull it off so Markowitz who had originally done the theme to The Rebel came up with this memorable song. The show was a regrettable last minute cut from my fave TV show blog (#26 perhaps?) as it combined a post-Civil War Western motif with Jame Bond spy work and gadgetry. I never saw the Will Smith movie, but I don't believe this was used in it.
25.The Flintstones – Joe Barbera, Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna
Oh how I struggled with this final entry – Mr. Ed, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies. Finally I had to go with this which is one of the most remembered songs from old TV and was used starting in the third season of the show's original run from 1960 till 1966 (though when you see reruns now, it has been added to the first two seasons as well). Now, it doesn't seem like a big deal, but at the time this was the first prime-time animated series paving the way for The Simpsons, King Of The Hill, The Family Guy, etc. The Hanna-Barbera animation studio had its beginning with The Ruff & Reddy Show in 1957 and their music director was Curtin. We can thank this studio for a succession of classics including Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, The Jetsons, etc.
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Until the mid-1980's, federal judges had broad discretion in sentencing defendants. However, this created disparities in sentencing from one judge to another, and this created a desire for much greater uniformity. This drive for uniformity resulted in a number of strict legislative measures, including mandatory minimum sentences and mandatory sentencing guidelines. Over time, the judiciary branch grabbed back some discretion (largely through the Supreme Court's Booker decision in 2005, which made the sentencing guidelines advisory rather than mandatory), but this has resulting in a return to disparities.
The underlying problem is a view of sentencing that sees a zero-sum equation between judicial discretion and uniformity - that is, the belief that uniformity must be established by curtailing judicial discretion. This article argues for a different model: Sentencing guidelines that use peer effects and modern technology to directly use judicial discretion to create uniformity. Instead of mandated, arbitrary guidelines, a computer-based sentencing information system would require a sentencing judge to review and consider all the other sentences chosen by judges in similar situations, and this body of experience would functionally become the guidelines. A judge who strays too far from the norm would have to justify that choice based on unusual and compelling circumstances. Such a system would harness discretion as the engine towards uniformity, and discard the false dichotomy between the two that has created so much discord.


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Cameron F. Kerry is the Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and is Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin. He previously served as general counsel and acting secretary of the Department of Commerce.
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Legislative Findings Will Be Important to Federal Privacy Legislation
Cameron Kerry, John B Morris, Jr. Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 11:33 AM
Our recent Brookings report lays the groundwork for such a law.
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As a proponent of baseline federal privacy legislation, I am encouraged that proposals that would have been poison pills not long ago, such as individual rights to see, correct and delete data as well as new authority for the Federal Trade Commission, are drawing wide support now. But some crucial and difficult issues remain wide open.
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A Congress that begins with a government shutdown carrying over and a raft of subpoenas to the executive branch issued by incoming House committee chairs promises to be at least as polarized and partisan as its predecessor. Even so, legislators want to legislate, and will seek some opportunities for bipartisan agreement. One area where this may happen is federal legislation to protect personal information privacy.
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This article is a building history the Dixon's Building in Cleveland Road and Dixon's site in the triangle bounded by Cleveland Road, Bilston Street and Hospital Street . It also contains information about Forder's, the cab makers, and about Reade Brothers, the manufacturing chemists.
References in square brackets can be found at the end of the article. Click on "notes" for further information about the topic under discussion. All "photos" are by the author.
The building and its site
This building, owned by S J Dixon & Son Limited, was erected in 1885 on Cleveland Road by a local firm of builders, Bradney & Co, as an extension to Forder & Co's extension to their 1880/2 factory. Bradney's workmen are said to have used the newly available electric light to extend their working day in order to complete the work.
The building was reported to have been, at the time of its completion, the tallest building in Wolverhampton; but whether or not that included church spires or purely secular buildings was not stated [Oldham].
It was set in a landscape of mixed industrial, residential and public buildings (Maps 1 & 2).
Map 1: part of John Steen's Map of Wolverhampton 1884. The site discussed here is shown outlined in red. Along Cleveland Road, on the way into town, stood the Staffordshire Hospital, the Baker building, the cattle market and St. George's church. At the back of the Hospital, the beginning of the All Saint's housing development could be seen and Cleveland House stood in its' own grounds.
On the road to Bilston was the workhouse and there were wharves and factories along the canal which, along with the railway, bisected the road, whilst there was extensive housing arranged around courts on the far side of Bilston Street.
It is known through the Town Commissioners' records that the cattle market was built on land purchased from the Duke of Cleveland at his own suggestion. The land on which Cleveland Road stands had of course once belonged to the Duke's estate but was sold by him to the Town Commissioners for their 1828/30 town road improvement scheme. The former Lord Darlington, granted the title of the Duke of Cleveland of the second creation, as a reward for backing the right side in the quarrel over the Reform Bill, thus had a road and two streets named after him (Cleveland Street connected Cleveland Road to town.
Map 2: part of Ordnance Survey Map, 1886. Note the open courtyard plan of the "carriage works"; the Royal Hospital in the bottom left corner; the grid pattern of the cattle market on the left edge; and the courtyard housing to the right.
Darlington Street had been constructed on land purchased from the Earl for the Holyhead Road).
The schedule of deeds to the Cleveland Road houses [note a], which stood in the part of the space now occupied by Dixon's' customer car park, shows that in 1848 the land or the houses were partly owned by the second or third Duke of Cleveland (the first having died in 1842). It has not however been possible to establish yet who owned the remainder of the triangular site owned by Dixon's today, including the original owner of the land on which both the first carriage manufactory and the extension were built.
Forder & Co
The success of Forder & Co's carriage making business [note b] had put pressure on their premises in town on the corner of Garrick Street and Bilston Street. In 1873, they had won joint first prize in a competition run by the Society of Arts to find an improved design for a London cab or two-wheeled public conveyance [Walrond, but sources vary. For another account of Forder's contribution to hansom cab design, see [note c]. The Prince of Wales, one of the patrons of the Society, granted Forder's his Royal Warrant, Queen Victoria's followed and the company also built for the Duke of York. They continued to win medals for their carriage designs.
The Hansom Cab, designed and patented by Joseph Hansom, first appeared for use as a public conveyance in 1834 and was not a success. By the 1870's however it had been improved and the finest version is said to have been made by Forder's [Walrond]. By using better materials and lighter wheels they had reduced the weight and made it more comfortable, even being the first to manufacture cabs with doors which could be opened and closed by the driver.
They traded throughout the UK, especially in London cabs, and abroad.
Figure 1: Advertisement from the South Staffordshire Fine and Industrial Arts Exhibition Catalogue, 1869. In 1880, they acquired the Tudor works in Cleveland Road and had a purpose-built manufactory constructed on the site to provide much needed increased floor-space. For over forty years the Tudor Works had seen the production of coach and railway carriages (William Tudor, later joined by G S Tudor) and coaches and harness, included the part-exchange of carriages and renting them out (J Ridges, Tudor's former Manager) (figure 1).
Later on, probably in the 1870s, Alfred Tudor, independently of the family firm, carried on the same line of work in the collection of buildings known as the Tudor Works. Alfred's presence there is said to have drawn Forder's' attention to the site when they needed to move. [R M Forder]
The names of the architects on the 1883 drawing (fig 2) of the new carriage manufactory are Walter G Forder (of whom nothing is known) and A Burnell Burnell who, according to his entry in the Directory of British Architects: 1834-1914, seems to have been only 19 or 20 years old when the site was purchased [note d].
Behind the two-storey brick showrooms and workshop fronting onto Cleveland Road, a two storey factory, which it is said had a glass roof although its extent and exact position has not been established [Oldham], ran back nearly to Bilston Street. Great pains seem to have been taken siting the different processes that went into carriage building. According to Richard Forder, Alfred's great grandson, the successful company's factory was run as a production line.
Figure 2: Forder's "New Royal Hansom Cab and Carriage Factory", 1883. From a framed print presented to Dixon's by Richard Forder. By courtesy of S.J.Dixon & Son Ltd.
Figure 10: Cleveland Road in 1902, showing Forder's carriage works on the right. (Detail of photo from S. Dewey and N. Williams, Wolverhampton on Wheels, crediting Bert Bradford's collection). Only three years after the 1882 opening, plans were drawn up for further expansion. In the event only the right hand side was built and forms the present Dixon's building. The old two storey building was left in place. (photo 1). It is not known why such a building was proposed in the first place instead of another two storey factory, nor why is was subsequently decided only to build half of it. The 'extension', as it is known, has its frontage on Cleveland Road (photos 1, 2, 3 & 4) and occupies the adjoining site to the east of the first factor
Photo 1: Dixon's Cleveland Road frontage, with the former MFI premises and the 'site' of Forder's to the left.
Photo 2: the roof line of Dixon's Cleveland Road frontage.
The building is 80 feet high, 117 feet wide and 45 feet deep (figs 4 & 5). The floor line, window design, and the use of brick would have integrated the "extension'' into the first factory.
Photo 3: Dixon's Cleveland Road frontage: the central section.
Figure 4: rear elevation, 1999, by Richard Deer, BA (Hons) (Arch). By courtesy of Reade Associates.
The gable and rear walls are of stock brick but it is the facade that fulfills the Victorian ideal of having a building that is both useful and beautiful, a celebration of Victorian commerce. The polychromatic effect is achieved by contrasting cream stone, as well as horizontal bands of blue bricks, against the high quality orange terra-cotta bricks laid in Flemish bond. Across the top of the third storey are decorated panels in terra-cotta that was prized for its qualities of durability and demonstration of decorative relief work (fig 15 & photo 2). Terra-cotta was used extensively on new commercial buildings, especially in Manchester and Birmingham' [Gorst, p.35]. This building predates the terra-cotta decorated Victorian Law Courts in Birmingham by two years. Eight brick pilasters frame the ground and first floor windows and have stone pediments and carving. Stone is also used in bands over some of the window arches and for most of the two central bay windows (photo 3).
Figure 5: east elevation, 1999, by Richard Deer, BA (Hons) (Arch). By courtesy of Reade Associates.
Photo 4: the east gable wall. The arches are not visible in this photograph but you can make out an old adjoining gable end and the shadows of a painted sign.
There are six floors including a basement; dormer windows afford enough light to use the loft as a working area. A steeply pitched roof with decorative ironwork railings rises from the square tower above the central dormer, perhaps echoing the cupola of the first building (photo 2). Drainage pipes run inside the front wall so as not to spoil the facade. The brick arches visible on both gable walls may suggest the removal and infill of windows, although the same stock brick has been used and the infill is so skillful as to render it virtually undetectable (photo 4). It was perhaps decided not to install the windows and only the arches remain as anomalies.
Although by now internal lifts were being installed elsewhere, e.g. the Granary in Bristol, 1869 [Gorst, p.39] this building's hydraulic lift was external and made best use of the designed roof space (Photos 5, 6 & 7).
Photo 5: the interior of the lift shaft, showing original pulleys.
Photo 6: a bricked in roundel, inside the top of
the lift shaft. Built at the back, raw materials and finished goods could be therefore transported in the lift and added to the processes undertaken in the original building [Forder]. There is however, evidence of brick infill to some rear windows that may suggest the installation of hoists or pulleys was necessary later on (photo 7) [Deer]. Perhaps the vertical 'extension'' did not meld into the horizontal factory as well as it had been anticipated. Five metal-framed windows light the lift floors.
Pedestrian access to each floor was inside the building by utilitarian wooden staircases and these may be the ones still in use today [Aston].
The rise of the steps is not of a uniform height and the outside edge of the tread seems at times to be following the grain of and knots in the wood rather than to have been planed or sawed to a common width.
Photo 7: rear elevation of Dixon's, from the Bilston Road.
It has not been established when the new building was first used but Forder's occupation of the "extension'' did not last long. In 1893 a notice in the London Gazette, reported in the Wolverhampton Chronicle of the 6th December indicated financial problems. The 'extension' had already been sold to Thomas Reade on the 1st December (fig 16)) and then passed by conveyance in 1908 to Reade Brothers. The basement had been leased to the Staffordshire Brewery in 1890 on a five year lease [note e].
Reade Brothers
Figure 4: an old letterhead of Reade Brothers, showing the building. By courtesy of Alan Reade. Reade Brothers, a local firm of Manufacturing Chemists, making patent medicines both for people and animals, as well as paints and varnishes, (figs 4, 5 & map 3 ) occupied the building until 1959 when it was put up for sale.
The introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 with free doctors' examinations and prescriptions had dramatically affected the patent medicine industry (fig 20) [Reade]. Reade Brothers moved to nearby premises to carry on diversified manufacturing until more recent times. When their last chemist retired, the premises were cleared for rental and the company's hand written recipe books for the patent medicines, as well as some of the containers of the products, were rescued for private safe keeping. Others were donated to Shugborough Hall, the Black Country Museum and Blist's Hill in Ironbridge; but the majority were destroyed [Reade].
Carriage manufacture under Forder's name carried on in the old building into the twentieth century. Thereafter the building had a chequered history. According to one source [CA] Attwoods bought the building but never actually used it as their car showroom although a lift was installed to take cars from the ground floor to the first floor.
Map 3: Block plan of the site, 1949, for Reade Brothers, by H. Marcus Browne & Lewis, architects of 46 Queen Street. By courtesy of Alan Reade of Reade Associates.
In years preceding its purchase by Dixon's in 1974, it was owned by MFI, as their Wolverhampton retail furniture outlet.
Figure 5: a 1928 photograph of part of the building with Reade Brothers' fleet of vans. Note the old building to the right. Photo by courtesy of S J Dixon & Sons Ltd and Reade Associates. By then the central archway had become a door, the windows blocked up or replaced, and the central gable and cupola removed from the roof. The brickwork now seems to have been replaced by block facing which has been painted (photo 1). Reade Brothers' original 1959 sale price for the 30,000 sq ft 'extension' premises, (also known as the Tudor Works), and including adjoining houses on Cleveland Road (map 3), was £40,000 [D. Swingwood, p.59].
S. J. Dixon and Son Ltd.
By September 1960, S. J. Dixon & Son Ltd, already looking to expand from premises in Princess Street, agreed to pay £21,000 for the by-then dilapidated factory and the houses (figs 6a, b, c & map 4). An application for planning permission for a change of use was put to Wolverhampton Council. Architects, Butler Wones, drew up plans for a ground-floor showroom and trade counter, modern offices and, at the top, storage space, all floors reached by a new concrete staircase attached to the inside of the east gable wall [CA].
Map 4: Block plan, 1960, by Bertram Butler & Co, Architects, Wolverhampton; for S. J. Dixon & Son Ltd.. By courtesy of S. J. Dixon & Son Ltd.
Figure 6a, a view of the building just before its acquisition by S. J. Dixon and Son Ltd. Figure 21c shows the five cottages with shops which were later demolished for the present customer car park. All photos from: S. J. Dixon and Son Ltd: the History of a Family Firm. Biddulph & Thrift's alteration work, somewhat curtailed, was unveiled in the grand opening of December 1961 and covered by a six page spread in the Express & Star. A window replaced the central archway and a canopy was erected from there to the new door where the right hand window had been. The revolving door inside the new entrance was later added to cut down on the cold draughts of air coming from the front entrance straight to the trade counter directly behind it at the rear of the building (photo 1) Single rectangular panes of glass replaced the two windows that it covered and their arches were in-filled at the top. The replacement of windows to the left was undertaken some years later. The brickwork was also cleaned.
Later works by Dixon's include access by roller-shutter doors (photo 7) out to the newly designed rear delivery yard with its own new buildings, those of Reade Brothers being demolished, and installing an electric lift. Dixon's' ownership of the entire triangular site was completed when they acquired the plastics and resins factory, which occupied the entire length of Hospital Street.
Demolition of neighbouring houses to the east in 1978, both on Cleveland Road and Bilston Street, created a much- needed customer car park and eased traffic congestion on Cleveland Road [Swingwood, p.99] (map 4). Dixon's then created two new customer entrances in the east gable wall, one to the trade counter at the back and the other to the public showrooms at the front of the building (photo 4).
Inside the loft walls are visible today the metal bands installed to prevent further bowing. A leaking roof has caused the complete replacement of roof tiles and battens, leaving what are thought to be the original beams in place [Deer] and the rain-damaged wood has been replaced on the inside of some dormer windows.
Figure 6b, another view of the building just before its acquisition by S J Dixon and Son Ltd.
Figure 6c, a final view of the building just before its acquisition by S J Dixon and Son Ltd. The building now finds itself virtually marooned in a run-down, albeit protected, area (photo 9) and Dixon's face the challenge of attracting the public (CA) from the busy major road at the rear, as Cleveland Road is now a cul-de-sac and is cut off from the town centre by the ring road. Plans are before Wolverhampton Council in spring 2000 to 'turn the building around' [Deer], including the addition of ceramic tiles to the east gable wall and a sculpture on the top of the lift shaft, thus establishing this as a landmark building for our own time [Deer].
Photo 9: Dixon's building from the car park of the former Royal Hospital.
[anon]1869 South Staffs Industrial & Fine Arts Exhibition, Official Catalogue
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Bridgen's Directory of Wolverhampton 1833
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Swingwood D., S. J. Dixon and Son Ltd: the History of a Family Business, privately published, 1985
Upton C., A History of Wolverhampton, Phillimore, 1998
Walrond S., Looking at Carriages, 1980
Wolverhampton Chronicle 1893 Wolverhampton Archives & Local Study Centre
Express & Star 1961 Wolverhampton Archives & Local Study Centre
Schedule of Title Deeds & Documents relating to Factory at Cleveland Road 1959 and houses nos l4 to 18 Cleveland Road. Courtesy of Alan Reade
Public Health in Wolverhampton, a collection of archive sources, Wolverhampton Archives
Grateful thanks to the following who gave generously of their time and information:
C. Aston, S. J. Dixon & Son Ltd for the tour of the building, photographs, company history and oral information
Richard M. Forder, great grandson of Alfred Forder, oral information.
Alan Reade of Reade Associates & Reade Brothers family for stationery, copies of deeds schedules, newspaper cutting, sight of recipe books and medicine containers as well as oral information
Richard Deer, architect, Reade Associates for oral explanation of his present plans for the building and for copy plans and photographs


Most dealers exist merely as a slick of grease keeping art business mechanisms grinding on; but a few legends have cemented themselves in the history of art, with their tastes and endorsements writing movements.
Among the greatest in the later 20th century was Alexander Iolas, an eccentric Greek dealer who is credited with introducing America to major Surrealist figures–René Magritte, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, and Man Ray were just a few he championed. He also happened to give a certain 23-year-old Pittsburgh-born illustrator his first show: "Andy Warhol: 15 Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote," in 1952. Yet, though a seminal collector, and notoriously flamboyant man-about-town, Iolas's reputation has lamentably faded from New York's consciousness.
The latest show at Paul Kasmin Gallery, "Alexander the Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955-1987," aims to rectify that. Against freshly painted royal purple walls are dozens of works by the many Surrealist masters the dealer supported. ("I count on you to work miracles," Magritte once told Iolas, "which will give me the peace of mind that is indispensable to getting my work done.") Warhol's presence is felt with a portrait of Man Ray (1974), The Last Supper (1986), and a 1974 depiction of Iolas himself, composed after a Polaroid.
Warhol remained friends with his patron for the rest of their lives. The two roamed–and climbed–in the same circles, doing business in between. "[Iolas] could travel in the world of high and low, which Andy could as well," says producer Vincent Fremont, a Warhol Factory alum who organized the show with writer and artist Adrian Dannatt. "Andy worked with many other dealers, but Iolas had a special place." In the exhibition catalog's introduction, Bob Colacello remembers how "negotiating with Iolas was a bit of an ordeal"–him being the only buyer for whom Warhol would overlook an underpayment.
Iolas started as a dancer, though had to give it up because "he realized he was way too small in stature," describes Fremont. "But he made up for it by wearing shoes with Cuban heels, outlandish furs… If you saw him you would stop and go, 'Wow, who is this person?'" However, dissimilar to contemporaries like Ileana Sonnabend, he never kept a permanent collection. "Iolas was selling and buying, selling and buying in kind of a Kunsthaus-ish way," explains Fremont. "He was loose on records… he didn't like bureaucracy or paperwork." Consequently, the whirlwind that was Iolas quieted more swiftly than others of his time.
"ALEXANDER THE GREAT: THE IOLAS GALLERY 1955-1987" WILL BE ON VIEW AT PAUL KASMIN AT 293 TENTH AVENUE THROUGH APRIL 26.


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Q: Confidentiality on quip pages/spreadsheets required for appointment scheduling I raised this question as well on the exchange, would you have a guidance for us?
Quip is used for participant's registration regarding employee health program. Would it be possible to create a confidential environment which only allows a few people to view the whole content of a document?
e.g. a table shows date/time and appointment slots to all but only the quip creator and approved people can view the entered employee information? Employees would only see blocked or vacant cells?
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A: I'm afraid Quip doesn't allow for different users to see different portions of a document, however you can mirror a portion of a spreadsheet into another one. The idea is that you can create an "internal" spreadsheet, and an "external" document which only shows parts of the internal one.
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in Deutschland:
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 Moosweiher (Freiburg), See im Moosweiher-Park der Grünanlagen in Freiburg im Breisgau
 Moosweiher (Rötlein), See im Lauf des Rotbachs bei Rötlein, Gemeinde Fichtenau, Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall

 in Bayern:
 Moosweiher, nämlich Oberer Moosweiher, Mittlerer Moosweiher und Großer Moosweiher, drei Seen bei Hirschau, Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach, die über den Hirschauer Mühlbach in den Ehenbach entwässern
 Moosweiher (Ehingen), See bei der Hammerschmiede, Gemeinde Ehingen, Landkreis Ansbach, neben dem Moosbach (zum Lentersheimer Mühlbach)
 Moosweiher (Gebenbach), See bei Gebenbach, Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach, der über den Gebenbach zur Vils entwässert
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 Moosweiher (Peising), See bei Peising, Markt Bad Abbach, Landkreis Kelheim, am Wolkeringer Mühlbach zur Pfatter
 Moosweiher (Reinhartshofen), See bei Reinhartshofen, Gemeinde Großaitingen, Landkreis Augsburg, am Anhauser Bach (zur Schmutter)
 Moosweiher (Reuth), See bei Reuth, Markt Weisendorf, Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt, der letztlich in den Seebach (zur Regnitz) entwässert
 Moosweiher (Wüstenaumühle), zwei Seen bei der Wüstenaumühle, Markt Hahnbach, Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach, die letztlich zur Vils entwässern

in der Schweiz:
 Moosweiher (Hinwil), See im Gemeindegebiet von Hinwil, Bezirk Hinwil, Kanton Zürich

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Title II: Freedoms
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18Right to asylum
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Title III: Equality
20Equality before the law
21Non-discrimination
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23Equality between women and men
24The rights of the child
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26Integration of persons with disabilities
Title IV: Solidarity
27Workers' right to information and consultation within the undertaking
28Right of collective bargaining and action
29Right of access to placement services
30Protection in the event of unjustified dismissal
31Fair and just working conditions
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33Family and professional life
34Social security and social assistance
35Health care
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37Environmental protection
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Title V: Citizens' rights
39Right to vote and to stand as a candidate at elections to the European Parliament
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41Right to good administration
42Right of access to documents
43European Ombudsman
44Right to petition
45Freedom of movement and of residence
46Diplomatic and consular protection
Title VI: Justice
47Right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial
48Presumption of innocence and right of defence
49Principles of legality and proportionality of criminal offences and penalties
50Right not to be tried or punished twice in criminal proceedings for the same criminal offence
Title VII: General provisions
51Field of application
52Scope and interpretation
53Level of protection
54Abuse of rights
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CJEU Case C-329/13 / Order
Ferdinand Stefan v Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat Wien
Policy area:
Justice, freedom and security
Deciding Body type:
Court of Justice of the European Union
Deciding Body:
Court (Ninth Chamber)
Decision date:
Article 47 - Right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial
Article 51 - Field of application
View full case
Key facts of the case:
Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure — Directive 2003/4/EC — Validity — Public access to environmental information — Exception to the obligation to disclose environmental information where the disclosure compromises the ability of any person to receive a fair trial — Optional nature of that exception for Member States — Article 6 TEU — Second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter'
Outcome of the case:
On those grounds, the Court (Ninth Chamber) hereby rules:
Consideration of the questions raised has disclosed no factor of such a kind as to affect the validity of Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC.
Paragraphs referring to EU Charter
14) However, the referring court takes the view that, even though Paragraph 4(2) UIG requires the competent national authority to accede to Mr Stefan's request, it is apparent that provision of the data sought would have negative effects on the ability of the lock keeper in question to receive a fair trial within the meaning of Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950, or of the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ('the Charter').
15) According to that court, since Directive 2003/4 does not oblige Member States to refuse a request for access to environmental information in a case where the disclosure thereof would compromise the ability of any person to receive a fair trial, but merely permits such a refusal in point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(2) thereof, that directive authorises Member States to adopt measures that are at variance with the fundamental rights protected in the European Union, a fact which renders it incompatible with the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter.
16) In those circumstances, the Unabhängiger Verwaltungssenat Wien (Vienna Independent Administrative Tribunal) decided to stay the proceedings and to refer the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling:
'1. As regards the validity of [Directive 2003/4]: is [that directive] in every respect compatible with the requirements of the second paragraph of Article 47 of the [Charter]?
2. As regards the interpretation of [Directive 2003/4]: In the event that the Court of Justice affirms the validity of Directive [2003/4] in its entirety or the validity of parts thereof, to what extent and on the basis of what assumptions are the provisions of that directive compatible with the provisions of the [Charter] and the requirements of Article 6 TEU?'
25) The French Government's argument concerning the admissibility of the request for a preliminary ruling rests on the premiss that the disclosure of environmental information, in circumstances such as those in the case in the main proceedings, does not constitute a breach of the right to a fair trial within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter.
26) Such a determination, however, comes under the jurisdiction of the referring court. Furthermore, it requires an interpretation of that provision of the Charter, in relation to which that court has not referred questions to the Court of Justice in the context of the present request for a preliminary ruling.
29) By its questions, which it is appropriate to examine together, the referring court asks, in essence, whether Directive 2003/4 is valid in the light of Article 6 TEU and the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter.
30) In this regard, it must be noted that, under Article 51(1) of the Charter, the fundamental rights guaranteed therein must be respected where national legislation comes within the scope of EU law (see, to that effect, Case C‑617/10 Åkerberg Fransson EU:C:2013:105, paragraph 21).
31) It follows that Member States are required to respect, inter alia, the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter when they implement Directive 2003/4.
33) By referring to the ability of any person to benefit from the right to receive a fair trial, point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(2) of Directive 2003/4 authorises Member States to provide for an exception to the obligation to disclose environmental information in order, specifically, to allow them, if the circumstances so require, to respect the right to a fair trial laid down in the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter.
34) Furthermore, even if a Member State does not provide for such an exception in its legislation intended to transpose Directive 2003/4, although, in order to respect the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter, circumstances require it, it must be borne in mind that Member States are, in any event, required to use the margin of appreciation conferred on them by point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 4(2) of that directive in a manner which is consistent with the requirements flowing from that article of the Charter (see, to that effect, Case C‑540/03 Parliament v Council EU:C:2006:429, paragraph 104).
35) Since all authorities of the Member States, including the administrative and judicial bodies, must ensure the observance of the rules of EU law within their respective spheres of competence, they are, in a case such as that here at issue in the main proceedings, required, if the conditions are fulfilled for application of the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter, to ensure compliance with the fundamental right guaranteed by that article (see, to that effect, Case C‑249/11 Byankov EU:C:2012:608, paragraph 64).
36) In those circumstances, an interpretation to the effect that Directive 2003/4 authorises Member States to adopt measures that are incompatible with the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter or with Article 6 TEU cannot be accepted. That directive is therefore, on the same basis, not invalid in the light of those two provisions.
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Britney Spears out of `X Factor,' sources say
By Associated Press | |
PUBLISHED: January 10, 2013 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 7:26 am
LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears is out of "The X Factor" after a season in which the pop star failed to deliver a ratings boost for the singing contest, a person familiar with the show's plans said Thursday.
Creator Simon Cowell and fellow producers are discussing replacements for Spears and another panelist, record producer Antonio "L.A." Reid, said the person, who lacked authority to comment publicly and insisted of anonymity.
Reid previously announced he was leaving after two seasons. Demi Lovato appears likely to return, joining Cowell on the revamped panel. The show is due to return in the fall.
The departures are yet another shake-up for "The X Factor," Cowell's attempt to strike magic with a U.S. version of his successful U.K. series. Cowell replaced panelists Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones after a disappointing first season, and ratings dropped in the second season.
The December season finale drew 9.7 million viewers, compared to about 11 million for the first year's season-ender. Although the series has failed to match Cowell's bold pre-debut predictions, and certainly hasn't eclipsed sister Fox show "American Idol," it's helped shore up the network's fall schedule.
Pop star Spears, however, proved less than a one-season wonder.
Combining fame and a history of erratic behavior, she was seen as a potential spark for better ratings. But reviewers faulted her for appearing inexpressive to the point of boredom and a repetitively dull use of the word "awesome."
On Tuesday, Fox network chief Kevin Reilly defended Spears, saying she was doing "a really good job" during a Q&A with the Television Critics Association.
"She came on, people remain fascinated with her and always will be," he said. "Maybe some people were waiting for more drastic displays of some nature that never came, so for those expecting that, it didn't happen."
Asked whether Fox would be on board to bring Spears back, Reilly replied "yeah" – this despite the fact producers have been talking since Christmas about substitutes for her and Reid.
Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian joined the show as co-hosts this season.
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2 men arrested in 2010 Key West gold bar theft
Originally published January 29, 2018 at 5:35 pm
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two men have been arrested in the 2010 theft of a museum's 17th-century gold bar, valued at $550,000.
A U.S. Department of Justice statement says 41-year-old Richard Steven Johnson, of Rio Linda, California, and 32-year-old Jarred Alexander Goldman, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, were arrested Monday and charged with conspiring to steal and stealing the gold bar from the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum in Key West.
Both await arraignment. It wasn't known if they have lawyers.
The 74.8-ounce (2.1-kilogram) bar was found in 1980 on a 1622 Spanish galleon wreck off the Florida Keys by the late shipwreck salvor Mel Fisher. Authorities say it hasn't been recovered.
The artifact was long displayed in an acrylic museum case, allowing visitors to touch and lift it.
Online: Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, http://www.melfisher.org


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Alexion fortifies rare blood disorder drugs business with Achillion deal
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc on Wednesday agreed to buy smaller biotech Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc in a deal initially valued at $930 million, as the company looks to retain its leadership in treating certain rare blood disorders.
Alexion, which is paying a 73% premium, is eyeing Achillion's two experimental treatments for the rare blood disorder, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a market it has dominated with its flagship drug Soliris.
The drug now faces patent challenges, and the company is fighting back by converting patients to a Soliris successor drug called Ultomiris, which won U.S. approval last year, and analysts said Wednesday's deal will support the strategy.
"The transaction has strong strategic rationale as a defensive play for Alexion versus competitors," Evercore ISI analyst Josh Schimmer said, adding that the deal would allow Alexion to preserve Ultomiris' market share and defend its franchise.
Soliris, which also treats atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, recorded sales of $3.56 billion last year, accounting for about 86% of the drugmaker's total revenue.
But the "obvious, and quite significant overlap in therapeutic focus" between the two companies could invite a challenge from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges.
Alexion Chief Financial Officer Aradhana Sarin acknowledged such concerns during a conference call with analysts.
"We'll just have to go through the FTC process and address the questions the FTC raises," she said.
Achillion shareholders will receive $6.30 per share held and are eligible to get another $2 per share subject to certain considerations, the companies said. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2020.
Shares of Achillion surged 74% to $6.35, while Alexion stock dipped 1.8% to $102.98.
PNH, which affects 1-1.5 persons per million of the population and is primarily a disease of younger adults, is a rare, life-threatening disorder in which red blood cells are prematurely destroyed by the patient's immune system.
For Achillion, which shifted focus to treating blood disorders after Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) backed out of a collaboration to develop a hepatitis C treatment in 2017, the deal is a "big win", said SVB Leerink analyst Joseph Schwartz.
Alexion, which is rebuilding after a series of setbacks in the past few years, is also beefing up its portfolio of drugs for other rare diseases.
The company bought Sweden's Wilson Therapeutics for $855 million and followed that up with the purchase of Syntimmune for a total value of up to $1.2 billion.
By Tamara Mathias


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## Introduction

Markdown Preview Enhanced is an extension that provides you with many useful functionalities such as automatic scroll sync, [math typesetting](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/math), [mermaid](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/diagrams?id=mermaid), [PlantUML](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/diagrams?id=plantuml), [pandoc](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/pandoc), PDF export, [code chunk](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/code-chunk), [presentation writer](https://rawgit.com/shd101wyy/markdown-preview-enhanced/master/docs/presentation-intro.html), etc. A lot of its ideas are inspired by [Markdown Preview Plus](https://github.com/atom-community/markdown-preview-plus) and [RStudio Markdown](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/).

Feel free to ask questions, post issues, submit pull request, and request new features.

For more information about this project and how to use this extension, please check out our documentation ⬇

## Documentation

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## Keybindings

> The cmd key for _Windows_ is ctrl.

| Shortcuts                                   | Functionality              |
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| ctrl-shift-m                     | Toggle preview             |
| ctrl-shift-s                     | Sync preview / Sync source |
| shift-enter                      | Run Code Chunk             |
| ctrl-shift-enter                 | Run all Code Chunks        |
| cmd-= or cmd-shift-=  | Preview zoom in            |
| cmd-- or cmd-shift-\_ | Preview zoom out           |
| cmd-0                            | Preview reset zoom         |
| esc                              | Toggle sidebar TOC         |

## Changelog

Newest updates for the current minor version can be found at the [newest notes](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/newest).
Detailed changes for each old release can be found at [history notes](https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/history).

## License

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Samuel Hoffman | The Journal Gazette Polio survivor Rev Steven Ailes spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon at Pine Valley Country Club, Wednesday.
It was 1954, the middle of the polio scare, before a vaccine had been developed, when hundreds of thousands of children were being struck down by the disease, and many were dying.
On a farm outside of Valpraiso, Steve Ailes, 4, came down with the disease. No one has any idea where he caught it, but he spent six weeks in the hospital, his legs packed in hot sandbags, and breathing with the help of an iron lung.
Unlike many others, Ailes recovered. He said people told him that he ran funny, but otherwise he lived a normal life, playing sports like baseball and basketball, not particularly well, but he still tried.
Today Ailes, a United Methodist pastor, is in his 60s, and he is now suffering from what is called post-polio syndrome, which involves muscle pain, weakness and fatigue. He has to use braces to walk.
But he is one of 640,000 Americans who survived the disease, and as a member of the Rotary International, he's spent a good part of his life trying to eliminate the disease.
Ailes will be speaking at the Fort Wayne Rotary Club meeting at Parkview Field on Monday, recounting his experiences and celebrating being "this close" to achieving the goal of wiping the disease off the face of the earth.
Unlike the early 1950s, when pools and schools and theaters closed and people avoided crowds in hopes of escaping polio, Americans haven't had to worry about the disease for decades.
As recently as 20 years ago, though, there were hundreds of thousands of cases of polio every year around the world.
But since 1985, when the Rotary launched its program to eradicate polio, 2.5 billion children have been immunized, and last year, worldwide, there were only 370 cases of polio.
All but two of those cases were in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
That's why Ailes refers to being "this close" to exterminating the disease.
Eliminating polio in those two countries is difficult, though. Wars and politics interfere with efforts to immunize people. There is distrust. Some people believe that the immunization is a plot to sterilize people, or that the shots will keep people from becoming Muslim. Polio workers have been assassinated, Ailes said.
It sounds absurd, but Ailes says one must remember that we're talking about people who "have no perspective other than their small culture, and they're surrounded by ideologues who are paranoid."
While only 370 cases of polio in the world in the last year is thrilling, there is always the danger that the disease could explode out of the countries where immunizations are resisted. There have been outbreaks in the past few years, spread by people from countries where the disease still exists.
But Ailes is confident. "I think we can make it disappear," he says.
The public can attend the Rotary meeting, which will be at noon, but seating is limited and people who want to attend are asked to make a reservation through fwrotarysecretary@gmail.com. The fee for lunch is $10.


The venture capital arms of consulting firms BearingPoint and Elixirr have both invested into two promising startups. As part of a growing trend within the professional service industry, Elixirr recently became financial backers to on-demand personal training app we:bo, with the service being dubbed 'the Uber for personal training', while BearingPoint invested in Norwegian startup Tribe, a FinTech firm that provides insurers with an innovative and agile tech platform.
An industry-wide trend has seen consultancies investing in start-ups across a wide cross-section of markets, with firms increasingly operating as venture capitalists either seeking to make sizeable returns from their beneficiaries, or looking to extend their own service portfolio for more long-term profitability. Big Four professional service industry rivals EY, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG each boast growing corporate investment schemes, with a host of competitors including McKinsey & Company and PA Consulting following suit.
Through their financial support of we:bo and Tribe, Elixirr and BearingPoint have emulated the culture of the industry's top names, and will be hoping to see returns that boost them in terms of their revenue and corporate infrastructure.
Elixirr Capital's investment in we:bo is primarily motivated by the former, this year becoming the start-up's first corporate client. The on-demand personal training service, heralded by Elixirr's statement as the Uber of personal training, uses two-way video technology to give consumers an instant connection to a personal trainer to instruct a live, interactive one-to-one fitness session.
This is Elixirr Capital's 8th investment since launching in early 2014, and sees the consulting firm offered the additional perk of enabling their team to engage in a weekly hour of free personal training sessions through the app, as part of their benefits package. However, the venture is aimed at being more than a simple fitness-drive within their own office.
Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint meanwhile has added Tribe to its strategic partnerships, as it attempts to strengthen its focus on digitalisation and Financial Technology (FinTech). While last year saw total global investment by venture capitalists in FinTech drop by almost half, BearingPoint no doubt sees this as an opportunity to position itself as a market-leader.
The consulting firm's investment in the Oslo-based start-up comes on the back of insurance provider Tribe's development of an innovative business model and IT insurance platform – aimed at enabling customers to receive simplified insurance solutions.
Both BearingPoint and Tribe enter the long-term symbiosis, with a mind to expand their respective service portfolios. In addition to its financial investment, BearingPoint will pledge support for the continuing development of Tribe, while gaining adding the company's notable expertise in digital transformation, analytics, and regulation of the insurance industry.
According to a recent analysis by McKinsey, the insurance industry is set to see a significant chunk of its profits eroded by InsurTechs and digital rivals, while another study, by Bain & Company, highlighted that customer loyalty is an area where digital can add high value.


With Spiders, to Know You Is to Spare You: Casual dating can be dangerous. A study of spiders shows female wolf spiders will eat strange-looking males that try to mate with them, but spare and even hook up with familiar-looking males.
"Hebets painted the legs of male spiders either brown or black with nail polish …. the females were more likely to eat males painted with the 'wrong' color instead of mating with him".