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WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: April
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April 1st, 1945: In the East, bitter fighting rages in the western suburbs of the fortress city of Breslau. In the Southeast, the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front (Tolbukhin) reaches Wiener Neustadt in its advance toward Vienna.In the West, the US Ninth Army (Simpson) reaches Lippstadt, thustrapping 300,000 German troops of Heeresgruppe B (Model) in the so called Ruhr pocket.
April 2nd
April 2nd, 1941: The German Afrikakorps captures Agedabia in Libya.
April 2nd, 1942: Axis air forces begin a bombing campaign against La Valetta, the British naval base on Malta in the Mediterranean.
April 3rd, 1945: In the East, while the siege of Breslau in Silesia continues, the Red Army captures Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. In the West, units ofthe British Second Army (Dempsey) reach Münster; the US Ninth Army captures Recklinghausen in the Ruhr, while the US First Army (Hodges)takes Fulda and Kassel.
April 4th, 1945: The British Second Army captures Osnabrück, while the US Third Army (Patton) advancing toward Leipzig takes Suhl and Gotha. The US 8thAir Force launches its heaviest raid to date (700 bombers) against Kielon the Baltic.
April 5th, 1942: Hitler orders plans for the execution of Fall Blau (Operation Blue), the new summer offensive on the southern front in the East designed to reach the Volga, as well as to capture the Caucasus oilfields.
April 5th, 1944: German forces of Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Kluge) encircled in the Kowel pocket are relieved after bitter fighting.
April 5th, 1945: The Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front reaches the outskirts of Vienna which has minimal German forces to defend it. In the West, the French First Army (de Tassigny) captures Karlsruhe on the upper Rine. The US8th Air Force carries out another heavy attack (450 bombers) against Kiel which causes severe damage to the cruisers Hipper and Emden.
April 6th, 1941: German, Italian and Hungarian forces begin the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. The Luftwaffe carries out several devastating bombing raids against Belgrade.
April 6th, 1942: Axis bombers attack the port of Alexandria in Egypt.
April 6th, 1943: Units of Heeresgruppe A (von Weichs) begin an offensive against the Black Sea port of Novoros sisk in the Caucasus. US and British forces in Tunisia launch an attack against 5.Panzerarmee (von Arnim).
April 6th, 1945: In the East, after eliminating the Heiligenbeil pocket, the Soviet3rd Belorussian Front (Vassilevsky) reaches the Baltic coast in East Prussia, separating communications between 2.Armee (von Tippelkirch)defending besieged Königsberg and 4. Armee (Hossbach) holding the Vistula delta N of Marienbrg. In the Southeast, Tito partisans occupy Sarajevo in Bosnia.
April 7th, 1940: Units of the Kriegsmarine carrying troops and equipment set sail from German ports to begin Operation Weserübung (Weser Exercise), the invasion of Denmark and Norway.
April 7th, 1941: Great Britain severs diplomatic relations with Hungary. German troops capture Skopje in Macedonia. In Libya, the Afrikakorps captures Derna.
April 7th, 1944: In the East, the Red Army breaks through the German lines at Kerchin the eastern Crimea.
April 7th, 1945: Preceded by a tremendous artillery and air bombardment, the 3rdBelorussian Front begins its final assault against Königsberg. In theWest, the US Ninth Army captures Hameln and Eisenach on the road to Leipzig.
April 8th, 1940: British naval vessels lay mines in Norwegian waters in preparation for landings by British and French forces at Namsos, Narvik and Andalsnes.
April 8th, 1943: Units of the British Eighth Army (Montgomery) capture Sfax in Tunisia.
April 8th, 1944: Troops of Heeresgruppe Ukraine (von Manstein) encircled at Kamenets-Podolsk break out to their own lines.
April 8th, 1945: Heavy fighting in the center of Vienna. The Red Air Force drops 1,500 tons of bombs on Königsberg. In the West, the British Second Army reaches Hildesheim, while the US Seventh Army (Patch) captures Pforzheim near the upper Rhine.
April 9th, 1940: With no opposition from the Danish Army, German forces occupy the whole of Denmark, while other seaborne and parachute troops are landed at Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergen and Narvik. During these operations, the Kriegsmarine loses the cruisers Blücher (sunk by Norwegian coastal batteries), Königsberg and Karlsruhe to Britishnaval action.
April 9th, 1941: In the Balkans, German forces occupy Nish in Yugoslavia and Salonika in Greece. In Libya, the Afrikakorps captures Bardia.
April 9th, 1945: In the East, the fortress city of Königsberg falls to the Red Army. In Italy, the US fifth Army (Clark) begins an offensive toward Bologna and the Po river valley.
April 10th, 1941: German troops capture Zagreb in Yugoslavia. Ante Pavelic, Croatian Fascist leader, returns from Italian exile and proclaims the independent state of Croatia, with him as Poglavnik (leader).
April 10th, 1944: German forces of Heeresgruppe Ukraine evacuate Odessa on the Black Sea and withdraw to the west bank of the Dnestr river. In the West, Usand British air forces begin an offensive against German airfields and communications in France and Belgium.
April 10th, 1945: The US Ninth Army (Simpson) captures Essen in the Ruhr. In another heavy attack against Kiel, the RAF sinks the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. The US 8th Air Force launches its heaviest raid to date (1,232bombers) against Berlin.
April 11th, 1945: Continuing bitter fighting in the center of Vienna, as well as in Breslau. In the West, the US Ninth Army captures Bochum in the Ruhr and Goslar in the Harz Mountains.
April 12th, 1941: German troops enter Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia. In Libya, the Afrikakorp approaches Tobruk.
April 12th, 1943: German troops of Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Kluge) evacuate Vjasma.The British Eighth Army captures Sousse in Tunisia.
April 12th, 1944: German forces in the Crimea withdraw to Sevastopol.
April 12th, 1945: President Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia, Vice President Truman is sworn in as the new President. In the West, the US First Army(Hodges) reaches the Elbe near Magdeburg; the British Second Army captures Celle 60 miles S of Hamburg.
April 13th, 1940: A fierce engagement between German and British naval forces inJössing Fjord near Narvik results in the sinking of 10 German destroyers whose surviving crews join Gebirgsjäger units defending isolated Narvik.
April 13th, 1941: In Greece, German forces launch an attack against Greek and British positions near Mt. Olympus. In Libya, the Afrikakorps capturesSollum.
April 13th, 1945: Vienna falls to the Red Army. In the West, the US Third Army(Patton) captures Erfurt and Weimar.
April 14th, 1940: British and French troops are landed near Namsos and Narvik in Norway.
April 14th, 1941: The Greek Army of Epirus withdraws from Albania. In Libya, an attack by the Afrikakorps to capture Tobruk fails.
April 14th, 1945: In the West, the US First and Ninth Armies continue to break up the forces of Heeresgruppe B (Model) trapped in the Ruhr pocket. The British Second Army reaches the outskirts of Bremen, while the US Third Army captures Gera and Bayreuth. The Canadian First Army (Crerar) assumes military control of the Netherlands where German forces of Festung Holland (von Blaskowitz) are now trapped in the Atlantik wall fortifications along the coastline.
April 15th, 1941: German troops occupy Sarajevo in Yugoslavia.
April 15th, 1944: The Red Army recaptures Tarnopol in the southern Ukraine.
April 15th, 1945: The Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front (Tolbuhkin) begins an offensive against the industrial area of Mührisch-Ostrau in Moravia defended by Heeresgruppe Mitte (Schörner). In the West, the US First Army (Hodges)captures Leuna and Merseburg in Saxony, while the French First Army (de Tassigny) captures Kehl and Offenburg on the upper Rhine.
April 16th, 1945: In the West, the Canadian First Army occupies Leeuwarden and Groningen in northern Holland. The US First Army captures Solingen and Wuppertal. In the East, the 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) and the 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev), from their Oder bridgeheads N and S ofFrankfurt, launch their final great offensive against Berlin. In the Baltic off Hela, the German liner Goya is torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing 6,500 wounded soldiers and refugees.
April 17th, 1941: The Yugoslav Army capitulates, the Wehrmacht taking 345, 000prisoners.
April 17th, 1945: German troops of Heeresgruppe B (329,000 men) surrounded in the Ruhr pocket surrender (their commander, FM Model, commits suicide on April 21). The US Ninth Army captures Magdeburg on the Elbe. In the East, the offensive by the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front against Berlinis stalled at the Seelow Heights 2 miles W of the Oder, with great losses in troops and tanks.
April 18th, 1945: The British Second Army captures Ülzen and Lüneburg. The US Third Army captures Nürnberg and advances into Bohemia. In the East,the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front captures Forst on the Neisse river. North of Frankfurt, the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front continues its attack to take the Seelow Heights, gradually wearing down the outnumbered German defenders.
April 19th, 1943: Beginning of an armed uprising in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw.
April 19th, 1945: The US Ninth Army captures Leipzig. In the East, the Red Army breaks through the German defenses both N and S of Frankfurt, and despite heavy losses in men and tanks (over 400 in two days), continues to advance toward Berlin. On the eve of Hitler's 56th birthday, Dr.Goebbels exhorts the nation and predicts that in spite of all misfortunes Germany will yet prevail, that the "perverse coalition between Bolshevism and Plutocracy" is about to break up, and that it is Adolf Hitler ("Our Hitler!") who will still turn back the tide and save Europe, as he has thus far, from falling into the clutches of the Kremlin.
April 20th, 1941: British forces in Greece retreat from Mt. Olympus.
April 20th, 1945: From its Oder bridgeheads S of Stettin, the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) launches an offensive toward Neubrandenburg,Stralsund and Rostock, while Soviet heavy artillery begins a continuous bombardment of Berlin. But the cost of victory is high: In the battle for Berlin, Soviet tank losses between April 1 and 19 amount to 2,807.During the same period, the Allies in the West lose 1,079 tanks.
April 21st
April 21st, 1945: The Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front captures Bautzen and Cottbus 70miles SE of Berlin. In East Prussia, remnants of AOK Ostpreussen (von Saucken) are still resisting in the port of Pillau, the Frische Nehrung and the Vistula delta between Danzig and Marienburg. In the West,continued German resistance around Elbingerode in the Harz Mountains. InItaly, heavy fighting near Bologna and along the Po river.
April 22nd, 1945: In the battle for Berlin, units of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (now Sokolovsky) have penetrated into the northern and eastern suburbs of the city. Hitler, ignoring the entreaties of his entourage whom he orders to leave for Berchtesgaden, and realizing that the war is lost, decides to stay in his bunker at Berlin to await the inevitable end.
April 23rd, 1945: In the West, units of the British Second Army reach Harburg across the Elbe from Hamburg. Reichsführer-SS Himmler begins secret negotiations for a separate peace in the West with Count Bernadotte,head of the Swedish Red Cross. In the battle for Berlin, the attacking Soviet armies have now completely surrounded the city and are systematically decimating the motley ranks, consisting of variousWehrmacht and Waffen-SS units (including numbers of Dutch, Danish,Norwegian, Swedish, Latvian and French volunteers) as well as Volkssturm and Hitler Youth, of the exhausted and badly outmanned and outgunned defenders who are now under the command of General Weidling, CO of LVI.Panzerkorps.
April 24th, 1941: German forces in Greece breakthrough British positions at Thermopylae. The British expeditionary force begins the evacuation of its troops to Egypt and Crete.
April 24th, 1945: In the West, the US Seventh Army (Patch) crosses the Danube at Dillingen and captures Ulm. In the battle of Berlin, the Soviet armies are tightening their grip and are slowly advancing toward the center of the city.
April 25th, 1945: Units of the US Ninth Army (Simpson) and the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev) meet on the Elbe at Torgau, 100 miles SW of Berlin. InBerlin, the battle continues with unabated ferocity, both sides suffering heavy casualties in bitter house-to-house fighting. The relief attack by III.Panzerkorps (Steiner) from the area of Eberswalde 50 miles NE of Berlin fails for lack of forces. The isolated fortress of Breslau is still holding out. In Italy, US and British forces cross the Po river and capture Parma and Mantua. German U-boats sink 5 Allied supply ships in the English Channel. Beginning of the San Francisco Conference convened to discuss the founding of the United Nations.
April 26th, 1945: The British Second Army (Dempsey) enters Bremen. In the East, the Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front (Vassilevsky) captures the port of Pillau 20 miles W of Königsberg, while the 2nd Belorussian Front(Rokossovsky) occupies Stettin at the mouth of the Oder. The remnants of 9.Armee (Busse) are cut off and surrounded in the Halbe pocket 30 miles SW of Frankfurt.
April 27th, 1941: German troops enter Athens, the Greek capital.
April 27th, 1944: German planes spot an Allied convoy west of Start Point along the Channel Coast. The convoy is actually making a practice run for the planned invasion of Normandy on a stretch of coast very much alike to that found in the Normandy region of France. The 5.Schnellbootflottille and 9.Schnellbootflottille are directed to attack at night, which they do with the following boats: S100,S130, S138, S138, S140, S142, S143, S145, S150. They engaged the convoy, consisting of 8 landing craft (LSTs or Landing Ship Tank), and protected only by the English Korvette Azeala, at Lyme Bay. Theresult: LST 507, on fire, had to be given up, LST 531 was sunk, and LST289 received a torpedo hit which killed many soldiers. Total Allied losses were 197 seaman and 441 soldiers lost. The event was largely covered up by the Allies during and after WWII and is not well known.
April 27th, 1945: The US First Army (Hodges) captures Straubing and Kempten in Bavaria, while in Italy the US Fifth Army (Clark) enters Genoa. In the battle of Berlin, Red Army units reach the government center, close to the Reichstag and Hitler's bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. The German 12. Armee (Wenck) defending against US forces on the Elbe isordered to launch a relief attack east toward Potsdam and Berlin. The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front captures Prenzlau and Tangermnde 70 NW of Berlin.
April 28th, 1940: British and French forces that were landed on the coast of Norway are evacuated by the Royal Navy.
April 28th, 1945: The Canadian First Army (Crerar) captures Emden and Wilhelmshaven,while the US Seventh Army (Patch) occupies Augsburg, Regensburg and Ingolstadt. In the battle of Berlin, the Red Army reaches the Anhalt Station and is within half a mile of the Führerbunker. Hitler marries his mistress, Eva Braun, and dictates his political testament in which he justifies the political and military actions of his 12-year-rule,blaming the war on international Jewry and exhorting the German people even after defeat to adhere to the principles of National Socialism,especially its racial laws; he appoints Grossadmiral Dönitz as his successor. In the English Channel, German U-boats have sunk 8 Allied ships, 3 destroyers and 2 corvettes.
April 29th, 1945: The British Second Army crosses the Elbe at Lauenburg, 20 miles E of Hamburg, and advances toward Schwerin and Wismar in Mecklenburg. The French First Army (de Tassigny) captures Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. In the battle of Berlin, the Red Army has now captured most of the city except for the area around the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichskanzlei and the Reichstag which is still fiercely defended by isolated units of the Waffen-SS.
April 30th, 1941: After the surrender of the Greek Army (Mussolini insists on a separate surrender to the Italian forces), the German occupation of Greece is now complete, the Wehrmacht having taken 223,000 Greek and22,000 British prisoners. In Cyrenaica, the Afrikakorps' second attempt to capture Tobruk fails.
April 30th, 1942: Hitler and Mussolini meet at Berchtesgaden to discuss future Axis strategy in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the main objectives being the reduction of Malta and the seizure of the Suez Canal.
April 30th, 1945: The battle of Berlin is reaching its bloody climax. Isolated pockets of German resistance throughout the city are overpowered and systematically destroyed. With Red Army infantry only a few hundred yards away, Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide at about 3:00 p.m.,their bodies being immediately incinerated with gasoline by ssbodyguards. The US Seventh Army (Patch) enters Munich. The defenders of Breslau, decimated by relentless Soviet attacks, are still holding out.


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One year after arrests, Canadians held in China set to face trial
Two men have met monthly with consular officials from Canada
Dec. 10, 2019 12:00 p.m.
Canada's justice minister says he is troubled that two Canadians detained in China have been denied access to lawyers as they face trials where convictions are virtually assured.
Neither Michael Spavor nor Michael Kovrig has seen a lawyer or family in the year since they were each arrested in what is widely seen as retribution for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on an extradition request from the United States.
The two men have met monthly with consular officials from Canada, which calls their detentions arbitrary as part of an ongoing push to secure their release.
On his way into this morning's cabinet meeting — the first anniversary of the detentions — Justice Minister David Lametti says it troubles him that they haven't had any access to legal counsel.
He says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne "have made it their top priority" to secure the two men's freedom.
Those efforts were thrown further in doubt today when a Chinese foreign-ministry spokeswoman told reporters in Beijing that Spavor's and Kovrig's cases have been handed over "for investigation and prosecution" on national security allegations.
"China's judicial authorities handle cases in strict accordance with law and protect the two Canadian citizens' lawful rights," Hua Chunying said according to an English transcript posted on the ministry's website.
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She said the two men "are in sound condition," but demurred on questions about their access to lawyers.
Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, is employed by the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental organization. Spavor is an entrepreneur who specialized in business in North Korea.
In the year since Canada arrested Meng at Vancouver's airport on Dec. 1, 2018 and China retaliated by detaining Kovrig and Spavor, relations between the two countries have soured. Aside from the arrests, China has also restricted imports of some agricultural products, including canola.
The United States wants Meng extradited to face fraud charges for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran. She remains on bail and living in a luxury Vancouver home, as her extradition hearing remains before a British Columbia court.
Conservatives in the House of Commons are pushing for support to launch a special committee of MPs to probe all aspects of the Canada-China relationship, which would also call Trudeau, Champagne and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair as witnesses.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, in a statement, said the Liberals have shown themselves to be "an unserious government unable to handle this important file," adding that Trudeau needs to be held to account.
"While in prison, these two Canadians have been subject to near torturous conditions, including the confiscation of Mr. Kovrig's reading glasses," the statement said.
"During this time Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have demonstrated gross incompetence and poor judgement."
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Everything we do is for the betterment of West Indies – Brathwaite
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WATCH – Carlos Brathwaite goes six, six, six, six
Allrounder Carlos Brathwaite, who hit four successive sixes at the start of the final over to snatch the World T20 title from England's grasp in Kolkata, has said "everything we do is for the betterment of West Indies." Brathwaite's comments echoed the emotional address from West Indies captain Darren Sammy, who expressed disappointment that his players had not received the support he felt they deserved.
"Most of the nations have more resources than we do, but we have natural talent," Brathwaite, 27, told ESPN Caribbean. "It has been said we don't have brains, that we don't harness our talent, that we do things off the field that contribute to poor on-field success. But I just want to say being around these guys, that everything we do on and off the field is for the betterment of West Indies, not just the team but also cricket and the region in general."
West Indies began the final over, bowled by Ben Stokes, needing 19 runs to win. Brathwaite, playing his first major tournament, launched sixes over long leg, long-on, long-off and deep midwicket off the first four balls to complete one of the greatest finishes in the game.
"It was a little nerve-wracking to be honest, I just tried to stay focused, use my cue words, watch the ball and take some pressure off Marlon," Brathwaite said. "It would have been too hard to give him a single and expect him to do it all. I just had to bite the bullet and try to get a couple of boundaries, which fortunately I did, give God thanks for bringing it home for the people in West Indies.
"After the third six I just backed myself, go hard, if it goes in the air I knew Marlon would finish it but I knew I had to be there as close to the end as possible. We continued to back ourselves, back our strength and our strength is hitting boundaries. Once we knew it was manageable we knew we could do it.
"I just want say a special mention to everyone in Sergeant's Village, my family, my friends and especially to Mr Erroll Edie, the master bat-maker from the Caribbean. He made this special beauty for me to use in the World Cup and he told me, 'Carlos, go out there and smash 'em'. Erroll, I did, and now we are world champions."
Watching from the other end, as Brathwaite brought the trophy home, was Marlon Samuels, who had kept the chase alive with 85 off 66 balls as the top and middle order fell around him. Brathwaite gave his senior team-mate due credit.
"It's us against the world and someone needed to take responsibility. And today Marlon Samuels after a slow start took responsibility and played a fantastic knock," Brathwaite told Star Sports. "That was amazing man, I wish I could use some expletives on TV to really express how much of a top knock that was. He did it in 2010, and I knew if Samuels was there in the end, he'll bring us home in 2016 … it was a matter of when and not if."
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Turtle Ceremony
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Peter Miller
The artist Peter Miller was born Henrietta Myers. She changed her name to Peter shortly after concluding her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1934, believing that she would be treated more fairly if the public thought her work was created by a man rather than a woman. Miller is today classified as an American Surrealist, a reputation that she earned for having shown in the early 1940s at the prestigious gallery of Julien Levy in New York, then considered the premiere showcase for Surrealist painting in the United States. Despite this affiliation, her worked shared little in common with the dream and fantasy world of European Surrealists, although reviewers of her exhibitions at the Julien Levy Gallery noted the unmistakable influence of the artists Joan Miró and Paul Klee.
These same reviewers observed that she was also influenced by sources in Native American art and culture, which today we know came from the fact that she divided her time between homes in Pennsylvania and New Mexico. She first came to Santa Fe as a
child, but after her marriage in 1935 to Earle C. Miller, a fellow student at the Academy, she and her husband built a ranch in Española, about 25 miles north of Santa Fe (they
purchased 85 acres, which allowed them to lease an additional five thousand acres from the Bureau of Land Management). From that point onward, they considered New Mexico their spiritual home. They were neighbors of the indigenous people of the Tewa Pueblo, whose crafts and religious beliefs fascinated her. The reliance of Native Americans upon the land and the animals who occupied it permeated her work for the remaining years of her career. Just as they believed that the creatures who surrounded them—birds, turtles, lizards, snakes—could serve as intermediaries in their communication with the gods of the underworld, Miller appropriated these same symbols in her paintings, along with abstract signs that she extrapolated from their pottery and petroglyphs.
Historically, the two most important paintings included in the present exhibition are Miller's Five Ceremonial Dancers and Three Spirits, paintings that were both likely shown in her exhibitions at the Julien Levy Gallery. Stylistically, reviewers of these shows noticed their reliance upon the works of Miró, Klee and Picasso, but they also saw that their subjects were drawn from sources in Native American art and culture. This rapport existed because of Miller's intimate familiarity with the customs, rituals and ceremonies of the Tewa, to which she was given unique access through of her friendship with Tilano Montoya, a Native American from the San Ildefonso Pueblo who was the companion of the writer Mary Warner, one of Peter Miller's closest friends living in New Mexico at the time.
Until recently, Peter Miller has been a forgotten figure within the history of American modernism, a lacuna this exhibition and the book published as its accompanying catalogue, hope to rectify. This exposure will draw her paintings to the attention of a whole new generation of critics, curators, historians, and collectors, finally giving her the recognition and critical acclaim she and her work rightly deserve.
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The work of any news agency or website regarding the discovery of a new virus-like the coronavirus
is sure to be controversial, as there are numerous theories surrounding this virus. The fact is that the virus, the virus in question, has been circulating for many years and has not been found in nature, so it's not a brand new virus. It's a strain of coronavirus, which is a respiratory disease.
Is the virus a public health issue? This is a subject that will be debated for a long time, as the virus has not been properly identified. Although it's possible that the virus was contaminated through a person-to-person contact, such as from a health care worker with the virus, it is highly unlikely. It's also likely that a person might not be able to cough up the virus if they have not had a recent bout with the disease.
There are those who feel that the way that the virus is spread means that it can be considered as a disease. They feel that it has the capacity to jump species from one person to another person through contact. What will be defined as a case of the disease and what is only circumstantial evidence, will remain to be discussed in the future.
Should it be classified as a specific disease? The disease is the coronavirus, and it is a strain of coronavirus. We have found the virus in the body of people, but the body has not been infected by the virus.
Why has the term 'viral disease
' become a synonym for Ebola? This virus may appear to be harmless, but the chances of it finding its way into the blood stream and causing an infection are not high. It is not an airborne virus, so there is no reason why anyone would get the virus just by flying. It is also not contagious, as it cannot be passed on through droplets, sneezing, coughing or kissing.
What are viral diseases? Viruses are non-living microorganisms that do not reproduce themselves. Some viruses live in our body but others are able to pass on their genetic material to other cells in the body. They are known as the carriers of the genes and can be transmitted by means of various bodily fluids.
Have any people contracted cancer due to the coronavirus? It's a good question to consider, as there is a need to define the term 'cancer' to include the word 'cancerous'. The diagnosis of cancer is often by way of tissue tests. A lump on the arm could be cancerous, but the lump is not associated with any cancerous cells in the body. The diagnosis of cancer is a result of using cytology.
Since the coronavirus is not cancerous, the same criteria should be used to determine if the discovery of the virus causes cancer. There are no tests that can differentiate between cancer and viral illnesses like coronavirus.
In a situation where cancer is suspected, does the coronavirus cause cancer? The answer is, "Yes", but the exact cause of cancer has not yet been determined.
Have any children at a child care facility contracted the virus? Again, the answer is, "No". It appears that the virus has not spread.
Have any school children developed the virus? The answer is "No" - this is not so since there has been no indication that this disease has spread from person to person.
If public health workers are working with children, are children contracted with the virus? As far as the children are concerned, no, since no one has been infected with the virus. However, it's not clear whether this disease was transmitted via contact with infected materials or by skin-to-skin contact.
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Posts tagged '10-year Irish bond prices'
Europe's biggest can of worms is overflowing again.
Fears that Europe's banks are vulnerable to losses on risky government bond investments are sending shivers through the European bond markets, especially Ireland and Greece. Investors are dumping risky bonds tied to weaker European economies and crowding into the safe havens of German and British government bonds.
Ireland, which is grappling with an increasingly expensive bail-out of troubled lender Anglo Irish Bank, is the single worst performer Tuesday.
The premium that Ireland has to pay over Germany to borrow from investors in the bond market has hit its highest level since the euro was created in 1999 (Specifically, 3.75 percentage points compared with 3.47 percentage points on Monday.) Prices of Irish bonds have fallen, sending the yield on the benchmark 10-year Irish bond above 6%. (Bond prices and yields move inversely.)
Greece isn't faring much better. The yield on its 10-year note is nearly 12%, while its own "risk premium" over Germany has also blown higher. Portugal's spreads are also weaker. Credit-default swaps for Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece have all jumped in price, suggesting investors are more worried about these countries defaulting on their debts
Source http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/09/07/europes-bond-market-tanks-again/
Struggling with the euro zone's biggest budget deficit relative to its gross domestic product at more than 14% last year, Irish authorities are also grappling with the ballooning cost of bailing out the banks, especially state-owned Anglo Irish—a bill that has already hit €33 billion ($42.55 billion), or roughly 20% of Ireland's GDP.
Source http://wsj.com
ON THE radio on Monday, Brian Lenihan spoke of "not showing his hand" to the European Commission. He suggested that we in Ireland had to "hold our nerve". These phrases are not normally used in economic policy — rather, they come straight from the world of poker.
This language is appropriate as it probably best sums up the Government's policy throughout the banking crisis — it has all been a big bluff.
Yesterday, the financial markets reacted to the gambler's words by selling Irish bonds, thus driving the yield (at one stage) up from 5.78pc to 6.15pc.
Yields came down to 6.01pc, following rumours that the European Central Bank was buying Irish bonds. We are fast becoming a vassal state of the ECB, the only institution prepared to buy Irish bonds.
The ECB is doing this for one reason — to protect the bondholders of Anglo from the default which has to come. In this little game, we issue expensive IOUs at 6pc that the ECB buys with money it prints for nothing to keep open zombie banks that don't lend. The ECB is doing this not to protect you, but to protect rogue creditors who have no right to expect that they will be paid.
source http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2010/09/08/we-dont-have-an-economic-policy-its-all-just-a-big-bluff
Ireland has effectively nationalised its financial system for two years: it will guarantee deposits and debts for the country's six biggest banks until 2010. This means it is assuming potential liabilities of around EUR550bn, compared with existing government debt of EUR40bn and overall GDP of EUR160bn. The move has increased pressure on the UK authorities to boost the size of the deposit guarantee.
The move was designed to shore up rapidly dwindling confidence in the banking sector. Irish financial sector shares plummeted early this week amid fears that it is particularly dependent on the frozen interbank market; loan to deposit ratios are 150% in Ireland compared with 130% in the rest of the EU, Sebastian Orsi of Merrion pointed out in the FT. Banks have been "bleeding money" as the Irish property and construction markets have tanked, noted Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Daily Telegraph. Ireland has become the first eurozone member to slide into recession now that the property bubble has burst and consumption has slumped.
By effectively betting its economy, Ireland has "certainly upped the stakes in the confidence game that is banking", as Alphaville said in the FT. The hope is that the guarantee will improve Irish banks' access to funds on world markets. But Ireland may be in for a bumpy ride. Note that the banks' assets are highly concentrated in "fast-fading" UK and Irish property, said Lex in the FT. At Anglo-Irish Bank, the exposure to these two sectors is 80% and at Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish it is 71% and 60% respectively. And if markets keep withholding wholesale funds from "property plays", then the government "may have to reconsider that guarantee".
source https://info.moneyweek.com/article.php?p_id=10807
I have posted the various sources above in support my own opinion that the government are totally on the wrong economic path and what's even worse they are hell bent on sticking with this disastrous policy all logic seems to have disappeared and we are becoming slaves to the mantra we must spin ourselves out of this mess no matter what
Brian Lenihans language is increasingly that of a gambler (read DavidMcWilliams latest posting on this Link above)
David is one of the country's finest economists and it would appear this government are choosing to ignore his sound advice just like they did on the eve of the first bank blanket guarantees
This is the time when the government should be getting the best minds in the country to come up with a real solutions to the financial crises that is after all their own making
Whether you agree with me or not, that facts are the well informed lenders (Bond Traders) of the world certainly do so, and what's more they are getting very nervous at the lack of this governments realistic economic road map
The constant dirp drip feed of ever more disastrous figures emanating from Anglo and NAMA should frighten all of us
The Governments belligerence and a misplaced sense of loyalty to their pals a la Galway tent has to be abandoned pronto, and these gamblers must face the music themselves
The Irish nation cannot afford the commitments made by incompetent government minsters that are overwhelmed by the sheer complexity that is the Derivatives market
It is just plain stupid to expect civil servants who have no training in this field to advice party indoctrinated con men to understand these financial nuclear bombs
There are only a hand full of people in the world that understand these complex financial instruments ,even after 10 years of market participation myself I still don't know anybody in the field that has successfully traded their way into profit
These financial instruments were created by the largest financial corporations in the world (AIG, JP Morgan, Citi etc and they were designed as far as I can make out to protect themselves as they were the market makers as well as the insurer and we all know that insurance companies are notorious in looking after themselves
the bottom line here is the markets have now copped on to the spin the Irish Government have been spewing out on the world's airways and they Ireland Ink has a set repayment capability and that is now breached and any further surprises coming from Anglo Irish and Allied or Bank of Ireland is going to push this little country over the Default Bridge
And with the current Captain on the Irish Titanic ignoring the warnings of Icebergs dead ahead what does he do?
Call for more Ice for his pals cocktail,s
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VOL 29 // SPRING 2021
PREVIOUS VOLUMES
CURIOUS METHODS IN RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
By Samuel Ridge
Looking to dissect the tools of surveillance present in Rittenhouse Square, this project uses Sean Burkholder and Karen Lutsky's 'Curious Methods' to probe the relationship between public space and monitoring.[1] The drawings were done as a part of Sean Burkholder's Curious Landscapes course at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2020.
As one of the original four public squares in William Penn's Philadelphia Master Plan, Rittenhouse Square sits aptly in Philadelphia's Center City. Today's Rittenhouse Square is based on a 1913 design by the French-American architect Paul Philippe Cret.[2] The square is simple in plan - emulating traditional French squares - with two diagonal axes intersecting at a central oval-shaped plaza, and a secondary circular path connecting the two axes. While the plan is simple, the spatial characteristics are complex. Subtle topographic and planting changes create diverse spaces and a sense of privacy.
But there is one thing that is quietly unsettling: a coy guard booth, built in 1991 by the 'Friends of Rittenhouse Square,' sits sinisterly in the center of the square echoing the irreverent Panopticon. The Panopticon is a prison design conceived by 18th century social theorist Jeremy Bentham that locates a guard at the center of a circular ring of prison cells, creating the sense of constant surveillance. The guard booth in Rittenhouse Square has a similar presence, reflecting Michel Foucalt's panopticism,[3] always there, always watching, always distant; an internal reformer. This project confronts this existential morsel by asking the question: does the guard booth, an overt form of authority, offer a more humane method of surveillance compared to the covert security cameras that dot the park and neighboring buildings?
The directives include four methods of observation: a spatial comparison of Rittenhouse Square and the Panopticon, a historical analysis of the guard booth, documentation of the guard booth, and an interview with a Rittenhouse guard. The fourth directive proved most fruitful in understanding the surveillance network in the square. The guards occupy the booth twenty-four/seven and provide a symbolic sense of security to visitors. The primary source of surveillance is the security cameras within and on the perimeter of the square. The guards do not have access to the camera footage and they themselves are monitored with security cameras inside the booth.
The outcome drawing dissects this complicated subject-object relationship. The base of the drawing overlays a plan of Rittenhouse Square with a Panopticon plan, while the inner ring of photos is taken from the perspective of the guard in the booth. The second and third ring of photos are taken from the perspective of a visitor focusing on the guard booth. The fourth and outermost ring of photos capture the security cameras both within and just outside the square. The bold white line represents the visibility of the guard booth, showing that the booth offers limited visibility over the square despite its central location.
The guard booth's presence at the center of the square exemplifies a prioritization of control and disregards Cret's design intent for a central, open, gathering space.[4] While the booth provides a sense of security for visitors, its location is ineffectual with limited visibility, and its relationship to the Panopticon is unsettling. The guards that occupy the booth do play a more humane role in surveillance compared to the security camera system. The guards often interact with visitors and add a face to an otherwise the omnipresent network of video monitoring. However, the presence of the guards in Rittenhouse Square and the location of the booth are separate issues. The booth's location disrupts the design intent of the central plaza, provides limited visibility for guards, and has a semiotic presence linked to control.
[1] Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder, "Curious Methods," Places Journal, May 2017.
[2] Heinzen, N. The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square. n.p.: Temple University Press, 2009.
[3] Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.
[4] Baratta, Eric Anders. The Performance of History and Design in Paul Cret's Rittenhouse Square. (Masters Thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.
Samuel Ridge is a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to attending Penn, he worked as an architect in Los Angeles at CO Architects, and received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2015 from the University of Oregon. His work focuses on the spatial relationships between landscape and architecture with a focus on cultural and spatial form.


Here we take a look at the upcoming Nike Vapormax Plus Wmns Creamsicle. A fitting name for the creamy-orange looking sneakers. This hybrid sneaker is a mix between the Air Max Plus and the Air VaporMax, a silhouette that was first seen at the start of this year when Nike released their Triple Black colourway.
The sneakers have the signature wavy Air Max Plus lines, tracing up the sneaker almost in a flame like shape. The all over colour of the upper forms a crisp appearance for these sneakers, the lace unit and inner matching perfectly. A slight break between the upper and midsole has been designed into these sneakers in a lighter orange hue, and below that sits the bright orange.
The midsole of this sneaker is the main attraction, the burst of colour draws your eyes to it immediately. This sneaker gives off premium feels while looking fresh with an on point colourway for Summer. Mini swoosh branding can be seen towards the back of the sneaker along with Nike branding on the tongue and also on the heel in yellow, red and white.


Pattie wears these wonderfully colorful collections of yarn tied into her pony tails and today's session was all about reproducing the one she is wearing accurately.
At first I was worried that the bright color of the fairy lock would be distracting but because it is so close to my main point of interest, her face, I don't think it will be an issue. Now I just need to get the right combination of fuzzy and sharp edges and I will be happy.


Health Citizenship – Whose life is it anyway? Whose health? Whose decisions?
For centuries people relied for their health and health care on the wisdom of their people and the care of their families, churches and charities. There was little help available from health professionals, whose skills were uncertain and whose knowledge was patchy at best. Now, with medical science and the professions having advanced so spectacularly, the position is reversed. Mighty medicine and powerful health systems dominate our lives in the West to the extent that many professionals now talk about the necessity to engage and empower patients.
The need for a new balance with patients and citizens re-asserting their ownership of their own health has become urgent for many reasons. Common sense and research alike reveal that patient participation and citizen engagement is needed for many treatments to work effectively. We need only think of examples as different as diabetes, where patient self-monitoring and self-care has to be the norm, or vaccinations programmes where professionals often have to persuade citizens that the vaccines are safe and in their and their families' interests.
Even more importantly, we now understand both how people's behaviour affects their health and that education, economic status and social structures shape our chances of good health and long lives. These determinants of our health – and the actions we must take to influence them – are controlled by citizens not clinicians.
The need for a new balance between citizens and professionals is also about costs and limiting the power of the professionals to maximise their economic leverage. As tasks become the province of professionals, patients and citizens are disempowered and have to find new funds to purchase these new commodities. Moreover, it is generally the professionals who dictate the terms: deciding what remedies are needed and charging for supplying them. Safeguards are needed for the public to be confident of sorting out the effective from the snake oil.
Patients and citizens need to be very confident that they understand the risks and either refuse or consent to them.
All these reasons, as well as the greater availability of information, the better education of the public, and the decline of deference and trust mean change is needed. The approach we have taken in the last 100 years or more, as we have increasingly given up our control to the professionals, has been one of seeking safeguards from the State through regulation and scrutiny and through placing trust in professionals, their Hippocratic Oath and their social mission. This approach is no longer sufficient by itself.
We need to become health citizens, respectful and appreciative of our health professionals, but also engaged in self-care as well as influencing policy, contributing our insights and wisdom alongside professional knowledge and experience. Pioneers around the world are already showing us the way.


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Die VHS Witten/Wetter/Herdecke ist die gemeinsame Volkshochschule der Städte Witten, Wetter und Herdecke.

Geschichte

Die Volkshochschule Witten wurde 1919 in der Aula der Gerichtsschule gegründet. In den 1920er Jahren zahlte die Stadt Witten der vereinsgetragenen VHS jährliche Zuschüsse. Anfang der 1930er Jahre musste die Stadt aufgrund der Weltwirtschaftskrise diese Zahlungen einstellen und so fand 1933 die vorerst letzte Lehrveranstaltung der VHS Witten statt. Während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ruhte der VHS-Betrieb. 1946 wurde die VHS wiedergegründet. 1963 bezog die VHS die Villa Friedrich Lohmann sen. als VHS-Haus. 1964 übernahm die Stadt Witten die Trägerschaft der VHS Witten vom Volkshochschulverein.

1977 fusionierten die Volkshochschule Witten, die 1974 gegründete Volkshochschule Wetter und die 1948 gegründete Volkshochschule Herdecke zum Volkshochschulzweckverband Witten/Wetter/Herdecke. Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre nutzt die VHS ehemalige Räumlichkeiten des Möbelhauses Ostermann in Annen als Seminarzentrum, in die 2011 auch die Geschäftsstelle aus dem Haus Witten umzog. Ende 2007 beschloss die VHS die Gründung einer gemeinnützigen GmbH.

Sonja Leidemann, zwischen 2004 und Oktober 2020 Bürgermeisterin von Witten, war 1998–2004 Leiterin der VHS Witten/Wetter/Herdecke.

Öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung

In Kooperation mit der Qualifizierungs- und Beschäftigungsgesellschaft der Diakonie Ennepe-Ruhr/Hagen (QuaBeD) betreibt die VHS zwei Betriebe im öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigungssektor, den Secondhandladen Tragbar und den Secondhand-Baumarkt Cap Baumarkt.

Literatur

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

Bildung in Witten
Wetter (Ruhr)
Herdecke
Witten
Bildungseinrichtung der Erwachsenenbildung in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Gegründet 1919
Organisation (Witten)

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Sally Kohn: What Is The Opposite Of Hate?
By NPR/TED Staff
Published July 13, 2018 at 8:33 AM CDT
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Why We Hate.
About Sally Kohn's TED Talk
Political commentator Sally Kohn wanted to understand why people hate. She traveled the world tracking down stories of hatred - but along the way, discovered an uncomfortable truth about her own past.
About Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn is a columnist and political commentator for CNN. She is the author of the book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity.
Kohn is also the host of the podcast State of Resistance with Sally Kohn, a show that explores the emotional toll of activism on community organizers and leaders on the left. Previously, Kohn was a Fox News contributor and worked for as a community organizer for more than 15 years.
Kohn's writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, as well as several other publications.
Corrected: July 29, 2018 at 11:00 PM CDT
In Sally Kohn's TED talk, she says that Bassam Aramin's daughter was 12 years old when she was killed walking to school. Bassam's daughter was actually 10 years old when she was killed.
NPR/TED Staff


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Chillerama is an American 2011 horror comedy anthology film consisting of four stories (or segments) that take place at a drive-in theater playing monster movies. Each segment is a homage to a different genre and style.

The first is "Wadzilla" and was directed and written by Adam Rifkin spoofing 1950s monster movies. The second segment is "I Was a Teenage Werebear" and was directed and written by Tim Sullivan which parodies Rebel Without a Cause and Grease and is set in the American 1960s.  The third is called "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" and was directed and written by Adam Green and spoofs Frankenstein and The Diary of Anne Frank. The last segment is "Zom-B-Movie", a spoof of zombie films, and was directed and written by Joe Lynch.

Filming took place in late 2010 and premiered FrightFest on August 27, 2011. On September 29, 2011, it was released to video on demand and on DVD and Blu-ray on November 29, 2011.

Development
Adam Rifkin and Tim Sullivan met while working on Detroit Rock City and quickly discovered they shared a mutual love of horror, monster and drive-in B-movies, so they began developing an idea to make an anthology called Famous Monsters of Filmland, loosely based on the magazine they had grown up reading, and with each short dedicated to a different era in film.

First they came up with names and mock-up posters for each of the mini-features: The Diary of Anne Frankenstein (1940s), I Was a Teenage Vampire (1950s) Zombie Drive-In (1960s) and Werewolf of Alcatraz (1970s). A deal with Famous Monsters magazine fell through, so it was pitched as a weekly MTV series to be hosted by KISS frontman Gene Simmons, but reality television was beginning to dominate American households, so the project was shelved.

A few years later, Rifkin and Sullivan met with directors Adam Green and Joe Lynch at Rainbow Bar and Grill, and the idea resurfaced. Soon the quartet decided to make Chillerama as an independently produced film, with Green's studio, ArieScope Pictures, serving as the headquarters of operations. Due to estimated budgetary constraints, Werewolf of Alcatraz was dropped and replaced with Wadzilla; I Was a Teenage Vampire was changed to Teenage Werebear at Lynch's behest; Zombie Drive-In became Zom-B-Movie; and a fifth short called Deathication was added to the drive-in sequence to mislead viewers.

"Wadzilla"

Premise

"Wadzilla" is a spoof on 1950s monster movies and is about "a guy that goes to get his sperm count raised, and it creates one big sperm that attacks New York City".

Cast
 Adam Rifkin as Miles Munson
 Sarah Mutch as Louise
 Owen Benjamin as Larry
 Ray Wise as Dr. Weems
 Eric Roberts as General Bukkake
 Lin Shaye as Baglady
 Tania Raymonde as Zelda
 Tracy Dawson as Molly
 Summer Altice as Andie Sumner
 Olivia Taylor Dudley as Nurse Unger
 Ron Jeremy as Capitan Fatso

Production

It was directed and written by Adam Rifkin, who also stars in the film. Special effects were done by The Chiodo Brothers.

"I Was a Teenage Werebear"

Premise

"I Was a Teenage Werebear" is a beach musical and a spoof of films like Rebel Without a Cause, Grease and The Lost Boys. It is set in 1962 and is about a "closeted kid who meets these other closeted kids, who when aroused turn into leather daddy werebears".

Cast
 Sean Paul Lockhart as Ricky
 Anton Troy as Talon
 Gabby West as Peggy Lou
 Adam Robitel as Butch
 Lin Shaye as Nurse Maleva
 Ron Jeremy as Playbear
 Tim Sullivan as Coach Tuffman

Production

It was directed and written by Tim Sullivan. Sullivan, who is openly gay, included some gay culture in the segment. The word bear is slang for "big hairy burly men" in the gay community. It includes five original rock 'n roll songs performed by the actors.

Casting was difficult as straight actors declined the role and many gay actors were not allowed to do the role by their representatives. Former porn star Sean Paul Lockhart (Brent Corrigan) was cast as the lead role. On November 5, 2010, a scene was filmed on the beach of Sycamore Cove near Malibu. Robert Pendergraft provided the practical effects.

Soundtrack
Chillerama Presents: Tim Sullivan's I Was a Teenage Werebear was released on February 14, 2012 through BSX Records. The album includes all of the songs from the segment, as well as Room For All (Everybody's Gay), a production number which was cut out of the version of the film included in Chillerama, and two versions of the titular Chillerama song by Psycho Charger.

eBay controversy

In February 2012, Sullivan began selling copies of the CD soundtrack for I Was a Teenage Werebear on eBay, and as a bonus he included an autographed 8x10 still  of Lockhart clad in a pair of red briefs. After some auctions had ended, eBay suddenly pulled down the listing and canceled all finalized orders of the album and 8x10. Initially, Sullivan thought it was a mistake, but when he spoke to people in eBay's safety & trust department, he was told that the auction included a photo of a man with "engorged genitalia" which they deemed "sexually and morally offensive". Sullivan was initially told that he could re-list the auction, but only in the adults-only section of the site that features pornographic material.  After two failed appeals to reinstate the auction, eBay told him that he could not relist it at all, even without the offending photo.

"The Diary of Anne Frankenstein"

Premise

"The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" is a black and white film about Hitler "trying to create the perfect killing machine to win the war".

Cast
 Joel David Moore as Adolf Hitler
 Kristina Klebe as Eva Braun
 Kane Hodder as Meshugannah
 Jim Ward as Mr. Frank
 Silvia Moore as Mrs. Frank
 Laura Ortiz as Margot Frank
 Tim Sullivan as a gravedigger

Production

Adam Green came into Chillerama with the title of this short already established, but was encouraged to make it his own. Green's first decision, given the delicate nature of the subject matter, was that the story had to be over-the-top and would have to "make a clown out of Hitler" to ensure no one would deem it offensive. His second decision was casting Joel Moore in that role. "If Joel Moore is Hitler", Green said, "there is absolutely no way you can take this seriously for a second."

Green then decided to hire a cast of German-speaking actors and, to make Hitler look like even more of a fool, have Moore speak gibberish throughout the film. Green's idea was to have Moore sound slightly convincing as the film began to give audiences who don't comprehend German the idea that he was actually speaking the language, but as the film progresses "his German gets worse and worse", ultimately devolving into total gibberish and random words and phrases, such as "Oshkosh B'gosh" and "Boba Fett". Actress Kristina Klebe and her mother translated Green's script into German, and the cast rehearsed it two ways: first in English to get the rhythms down, and then in German as it would be shot. For a few key moments, Moore was taught to speak German phrases, albeit not the ones that are subtitled on the screen. For example, during his song "I Don't Want to Rule the World", instead of the titular line Moore sings, "Ich habe Würmer in meinem Schwanz", which means, "I have worms in my penis".

"Zom-B-Movie"

Premise

"Zom-B-Movie" is a spoof of 1970s and 1980s zombie films and was directed and written by Joe Lynch.

Cast
 Richard Riehle as Cecil Kaufman
 Corey Jones as Toby
 Kaili Thorne as Mayna
 Brendan McCreary as Ryan
 Ward Roberts as Miller
 Laura Ortiz as Desi
 A. J. Bowen as Rick Marshall
 Briana Mackay as Deb Marshall

Soundtrack
Chillerama Presents Zom-B-Movie was released on November 16, 2011, through BSX Records. The album includes Bear McCreary's complete score, as well as I Don't Want to Die a Virgin by star Brendan McCreary's band Young Beautiful in a Hurry.

Release and reception
Chillerama was distributed by Image Entertainment in the United States. The segment "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" was shown at the 2010 London FrightFest Film Festival to a positive response from the audience. The film had a full premiere at London FrightFest on August 27, 2011. The film was released in fourteen U.S. cities called the Chillerama Roadshow Tour from September 15, 2011, to October 29, 2011. It was released on video on demand on September 29, 2011 and on DVD and Blu-ray on November 29, 2011.

Evan Dickson writing for horor news website Bloody Disgusting gave the film a score of four out of ten, with his least favorite segment being "I Was a Teenage Werebear".

References

External links
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2011 direct-to-video films
2011 horror films
2011 comedy horror films
2011 films
Parodies of horror
American comedy horror films
2010s English-language films
American independent films
Films directed by Adam Green
Films shot in California
Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler
Cultural depictions of Eva Braun
Cultural depictions of Anne Frank
American horror anthology films
LGBT-related black comedy films
Gay-related films
Films directed by Joe Lynch
2011 comedy films
Films scored by Bear McCreary
2010s American films


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The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Törless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and fascinate him. Estranged from everyday life, Törless gradually learns to accept his experiences and describe them with analytical precision. The novel is based on the author's own experiences at an Austrian military academy. A school story with a difference, Törless extends the scope of fiction with its non-judgemental presentation of transgressive sexuality and violence. It is a profoundly disturbing exploration of a non-moral outlook on life and of dictatorial attitudes that prefigure the outbreak of the First World War and the rise of fascism. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Prominent Carding Marketplace UniCC announced it's shutting down
One of the biggest underground carding marketplaces, UniCC, announced it's shutting down its operations.
UniCC, one of the biggest underground carding marketplaces announced it is shutting down. The site was launched in 2013 and according to the Elliptic Threat Intel about $358 million (across Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether and Dash) in purchases were made through the platform.
"Hundreds of millions of payment card details have been stolen from online retailers, banks and payments companies before being sold for cryptocurrency on online marketplaces such as UniCC." reads the analysis published by Elliptic Threat Intel. "These stolen cards have value because they can be used to purchase high-value items or gift cards, which can then be resold for cash. This process is known as "carding", and it has become a key part of the cybercriminal's playbook. "
UniCC reached a 30% market share after the takedown of the popular carding platform Joker's Stash in January.
The news of the shutdown was announced by the UniCC administrators on underground carding sites in both English and Russian, they are giving 10 days to their members to spend their balances.
"Don't build any conspiracy theories about us leaving, it is (a) weighted decision, we are not young and our health do not allow to work like this any longer." reads the message. "We ask you to be smart and not follow any fakes tied to our comeback and other things,".
According to Elliptic Threat Intel team, after the shutdown of the UniCC marketplace other carding platforms will attempt to fill the gap in a market that overall surpassed more than $1.4 billion in sales with Bitcoin alone.
On the other side, the operators behind UniCC will be seeking to cash out their millionair profits.
But in recent months, Elliptic pointed out that other underground marketplaces appear to be hanging up the towel. The White House Market announced it was shutting down in October; and by November, Cannazon went dark. In December it was Torrez' turn. By early January, Monopoly Market was unexpectedly inaccessible, the report added.
"In July 2021 stolen credentials market Slilpp was seized by the FBI in collaboration with numerous European agencies after making almost $22 million in Bitcoin." concludes the report. "Nevertheless, the carding market has also seen numerous new entrants – most notably All World Cards in June 2021, which made headlines by offering nearly three million cards for free in an early publicity stunt."
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Harlem is nowhere : a journey to the Mecca of Black America
by Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa.
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For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that begins at her front door, Rhodes-Pitts introduces us to a wide variety of characters, past and present. At the heart of their stories, and her own, is the hope carried over many generations, hope that Harlem would be the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy.
Rhodes-Pitts is a brilliant new voice who, like other significant chroniclers of places -- Joan Didion on California, or Jamaica Kincaid on Antigua -- captures the very essence of her subject.
A finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject . . . Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that -- all of which this book displays in abundance." -- Zadie Smith, Harper's
Booklist Review: "Harlem is firmly enshrined at the very center of African American culture and has been much celebrated and chronicled since the growing numbers of blacks coming to New York were met with housing discrimination that forced them into the neighborhood in the late 1800s. Rhodes-Pitts compares and contrasts her own experience of moving from Texas to Harlem with accounts from literature of the Harlem Renaissance and other cultural glories and news reports of gentrification. She recalls characters from Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and other writers who struggled to find a place for themselves in Harlem even as she listens in on tour-guide lectures and reads contemporary accounts of the changing real-estate and cultural landscape of Harlem that signify a very different future than the one imagined by the fiction writers. Settling into her own place in Harlem, she offers vivid portraits of the residents, who straddle the past and present of the storied neighborhood, many wondering themselves about their futures and the future of Harlem.--Bush, Vanessa Copyright 2010 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Rhodes-Pitts, an essayist and recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, takes as her title a 1948 essay wherein Ralph Ellison describes "nowhere" as the crossroads where personal reality meets the metaphorical meanings attached to people and places. A transplant to Harlem from Texas, Rhodes-Pitts began a personal journey into the iconic neighborhood, poring over Harlem in literature and life, reading its empty lots and street scenes, its billboards and memorials for clues to what it means to inhabit a dream (that fabled sanctuary for Black Americans) and a real place (the all too material neighborhood buckling beneath relentless gentrification). Acutely conscious of the writer's simultaneous role of participant in and recorder of present and past, Rhodes-Pitts weaves a glittering living tapestry of snatches of overheard conversation, sidewalk chalk scribbles, want ads, unspoken social codes, literary analysis, studies of black slang-all if it held together with assurance and erudition. Like Zora Neale Hurston (whose contradictions she nails), she is "tour-guide and interpreter" of a Mecca cherished and feared, a place enduring and threatened that becomes home. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Subjects African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Community life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Publisher New York :Little, Brown,2011
Edition 1st ed.
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Defining the field
Global politics, also known as world politics,[1] names both the discipline that studies the political and economic patterns of the world and the field that is being studied. At the centre of that field are the different processes of political globalization in relation to questions of social power.
The discipline studies the relationships between cities, nation-states, shell-states, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and international organizations.[2] Current areas of discussion include national and ethnic conflict regulation, democracy and the politics of national self-determination, globalization and its relationship to democracy, conflict and peace studies, comparative politics, political economy, and the international political economy of the environment. One important area of global politics is contestation in the global political sphere over legitimacy.[3]
Global politics is said by some to be distinct from the field of international politics (commonly seen as a branch of international relations[1]), as it "does not stress the primacy of intergovernmental relations and transactions".[4] This distinction however has not always been held among authors and political scientists, who often use the term "international politics" to mean global politics.[1]
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, several groups extended the definition of the political community beyond nation-states to include much, if not all, of humanity. These internationalists include Marxists, human rights advocates, environmentalists, peace activists, feminists, and minority groups. This was the general direction of thinking on global politics, though the term was not used as such.[5] The way in which modern world politics is implemented is structured by a set of interpretations dating back to the rise of the European powers. They were able to overtake the rest of the world in terms of economic and military power. Europeans, with their global supremacy, imposed their own system and views on others, through envisioning the world as a whole and defining the regions of the world as 'modern' or 'backward'. They saw nation statehood as the best and highest form of political organization, therefore viewing world politics as the result of the pursuit of hegemony by competing states.
The modern world politics perspective is often identified with the works, in particular their 1972 work Transnational Relations and World Politics. Here, the authors argued that state-centric views of international relations were inadequate frameworks to utilize in political science or international relations studies due to the increased globalization.[4] Today, the practices of global politics are defined by values: norms of human rights, ideas of human development, and beliefs such as Internationalism or cosmopolitanism about how we should relate to each. Over the last couple of decades cosmopolitanism has become one of the key contested ideologies of global politics:
Cosmopolitanism can be defined as a global politics that, firstly, projects a sociality of common political engagement among all human beings across the globe, and, secondly, suggests that this sociality should be either ethically or organizationally privileged over other forms of sociality.[5]
The intensification of globalization led some writers to suggest that states were no longer relevant to global politics.[6] This view has been subject to debate:
On the other hand, other commentators have been arguing that states have remained essential to global politics. They have facilitated globalizing processes and projects; not been eclipsed by them. They have been rejuvenated because, among other reasons, they are still the primary providers of (military) security in the global arena; they are still the paramount loci for articulating the voices of (procedurally democratic) national communities, and for ordering their interactions with similar polities; and finally, they are indispensable to relations of (unequal) economic exchange insofar as they legitimize and enforce the global legal frameworks that enable globalization in the first place.[7]
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^ a b c Evans & Newnham 1998, p. 273.
^ See for example, Jan-Erik Lane, Globalization and Politics: Promises and Dangers, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006.
^ James, Paul; van Seeters, Paul (2014). Globalization and Politics, Vol. 2: Global Social Movements and Global Civil Society. London: Sage Publications.
^ a b Evans & Newnham 1998, p. 578.
^ a b James, Paul (2014). Globalization and Politics, Vol. 4: Political Philosophies of the Global. London: Sage Publications. pp. x.
^ Matthew Horsman and Andrew Marshall, After the Nation-State, London, Harper Collins, 1995
^ James, Paul; Soguk, Nevzat (2014). Globalization and Politics, Vol. 1: Global Political and Legal Governance. London: Sage Publications. p. xlii. ; AG McGrew and PG Lewis, Global Politics, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992
Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economy and Culture, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1999.
McGrew, AG, and Lewis, PG, Global Politics, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992.
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This blog accompanies the exhibition Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, on view from September 22, 2014, through January 4, 2015 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Both the exhibition page on the Met's website and the Blog that accompany it – http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/assyria-to-iberia/blog – are packed with information about this key transitional period. Highly recommended.


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Designer Nursery for Baby 1, 2, 3
Parents of triplets can use any shred of tranquility they can get their diaper-strapping, baby-bouncing hands on. What if the nursery could be designed to relax?
That's what Stephanie Marsh Fillbrandt and her team at Marsh & Clark Design accomplished with their Nursery Design for Triplets, at this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase.
Photographs by Elisabeth Fall
The subdued color palette isn't what you typically see in nursery design. "As with any room, even more so in a nursery, I strove to create a sense of calm…," said Stephanie.
"I used Beacon Gray (from Benjamin Moore) because of the complexity of the color–at times it appears gray and in a different light, appears blue. I think it is a soothing color for both babies and adults."
Light takes a starring role in this nursery, streaming in through the trio of dormer windows, and bouncing off the beaded glass of the Maya Romanoff wallpaper, in the custom-patchwork feature wall.
"I like to create original patterns in rooms that generate movement and echo other design elements within the space," said Stephanie. "In this case, the pattern of the wallpaper could be interpreted as the shadow generated by the celestial light fixture. I chose the Maya Romanoff glass-beaded wallpaper because the nature of the glass beads reflects light so beautifully."
"I drew the pattern on graph paper to start, and with the help of an amazing wallpaper hanger, Norman J. Meunier, who painstakingly installed each 3 x 3-inch square into the pattern I designed, we were able to translate our idea from a piece of paper to the nursery wall."
Each baby gets his own universe of sparkle with a custom-designed chandelier floating above his crib.
"I had seen light fixtures that were similar, but nothing really the size and volume that I wanted," said Stephanie. "So I custom designed them to be the proper proportion for above a crib; just big enough to serve as a light fixture as well as a decorative mobile. I love the way the small, crystal beads reflect light and create patterns on the ceiling and walls."
Further play with light happens at night, through the backlit 'constellations' drilled into the face of the light-box window seats.
"I wanted to create multiple sources of light in the room and the idea of gentle night lights, I felt was important in a nursery," said Stephanie. "Their placement in the room creates a nice glow around the bottom perimeter of the room." Another constellation is drilled into the face of the closet door.
Warm woods complement the white furnishings in the clean, modern space. Stephanie designed the graceful cribs, and had them crafted locally, from toxin-free materials.
A feature this design-loving mom found particularly useful is the drop-down changing tables that double as decorative wall mirrors.
Inspired by the less pretty versions found in airport bathrooms, this design would be useful in many nursery settings. "You can hang it on the wall at any height, so it's comfortable for any mother," said Stephanie.
"The steel cables make this a sturdy design engineered to hold up to 130 lbs–safe enough for any baby or growing toddler. It's also incredibly versatile; when you no longer need a changing table, I designed it so you can add interior shelves for hidden storage. "
Tucked into a cozy corner is a modern-style rocker big enough for multiples–Hightower's 'Sting Ray'.
I love the serenity of this space—it was a tangible feeling when I walked into the room—and the three baby-islands of comfort and light.
Maybe there is no such thing as peace in a household with triplets, but this nursery design is a step in the right direction.
I know first-hand that raising little ones can sometimes make you feel anything but calm.
How do you add pockets of peace to a home (and a life) with young children?
3 Comments for "Designer Nursery for Baby 1, 2, 3"
I love the serenity of this triplet nursery…and especially the custom lighting above the cribs. A mother of triplets most certainly needs a serene nursery!
Sherri Blum said | May 28th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Hi Sherri,
The room does have a peacefulness. Now I'm sure that wouldn't be the same when all three kids are wailing at 3 a.m. — but it's a step in the right direction. The light fixtures are gorgeous!
Thanks for stopping in,
Kathy said | May 28th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Hi, just wanted say thank you for post and make one small note — the beautiful cribs are custom designed but credit should go to Rob Taboada our favorite furniture maker. He is amazing!
Stephanie said | May 29th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
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