in the week prior to the Blessing of the Fleet.
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If you have questions regarding the Blessing of the Fleet, please call (807) 344-8241.
Boaters and vessels are invited to take part.
If a decision to cancel the Blessing of the Fleet is made the day before the event due to the weather forecast, a notice will be posted on www.missiontoseafarers.ca/thunderbay.
On the day of the Blessing of the Fleet, in the event of winds being in excess of 20 knots (37 km/hr), heavy rain or lightning it will be be cancelled at 1015.
1030 The Macgillivary Pipe Band performs a tattoo.
1100 A short service consisting of greetings from the Mayor's representative, scripture reading, prayers, a memorial to those who died at sea, and a blessing over the water used to bless the vessels.
1115 (approximately) Parade of Vessels: Vessels are blessed as they pass the Lookout by sprinkling the vessel with water.
Go to Vessel Instructions for further information.
In the Blessing of the Fleet we ask God to give seafarers help to deal with dangers: good training; a clear mind, physical strength and courage; people who can be counted on; a well maintained vessel; and favorable weather. Drawing upon spirituality gives people resilience when dealing with life's challenges.
The blessing of ships is an ancient custom and religions all have their own ceremonies and customs. The Christian tradition is associated with blessings at the laying of the keel, commissioning of the ship, and the start of a fishing season. Going to sea is a dangerous activity and the protection of God is sought.
The Blessing provides an opportunity to bring the different marine communities together (Royal Canadian Navy, Coast Guard, government, commercial and recreational) and highlights the Port as an important economic activity for the city and the waterfront as a major focal point for the city. It helps make people aware of the work of the Mission to Seafarers. The Mission is for all seafarers, and we focus our efforts on assisting foreign seafarers from ocean-going vessels.


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High-affinity interaction of (des-tyrosyl)dynorphin A(2-17) with NMDA receptors
Qingbo Tang, Ronnie Gandhoke, Andrew Burritt, Victor J. Hruby, Frank Porreca, Josephine Lai
The opioid peptide dynorphin A elicits non-opioid receptor-mediated, neurotoxic response in vivo, which is blocked by pretreatment with MK-801, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist. In the present study, we examined the possible direct interaction of dynorphin A on the NMDAR. A nonopioid dynorphin A analog, 125I-(des-tyrosyl) dynorphin A(2-17), was used in radioligand binding analysis on rat cortical brain membranes. This radioligand exhibited a saturable, specific binding at high affinity with a K(d) value of 9.4 ± 1.6 nM and maximal binding of 2.4 ± 0.6 pmol/mg protein. This binding site was associated with the NMDAR complex because it was modulated by a number of NMDAR ligands. Transient expression of the rat NR1a/NR2A complex in human embryonic kidney 293 cells confirmed a coexpression of 125I-(des-tyrosyl) dynorphin A(2-17), [3H]CGP39,653, and [3H]MK-801 binding. These data provide direct evidence of the presence of a high-affinity binding site for dynorphin A on the NMDAR. The modulatory effect of the various NMDAR-selective ligands on dynorphin A binding suggests that dynorphin A may bind preferentially to the closed/desensitized state of the NMDAR. The physiological role of dynorphin A binding to the NMDAR remains to be established.
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Tang, Q., Gandhoke, R., Burritt, A., Hruby, V. J., Porreca, F., & Lai, J. (1999). High-affinity interaction of (des-tyrosyl)dynorphin A(2-17) with NMDA receptors. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 291(2), 760-765.
High-affinity interaction of (des-tyrosyl)dynorphin A(2-17) with NMDA receptors. / Tang, Qingbo; Gandhoke, Ronnie; Burritt, Andrew; Hruby, Victor J.; Porreca, Frank; Lai, Josephine.
In: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Vol. 291, No. 2, 11.1999, p. 760-765.
Tang, Q, Gandhoke, R, Burritt, A, Hruby, VJ, Porreca, F & Lai, J 1999, 'High-affinity interaction of (des-tyrosyl)dynorphin A(2-17) with NMDA receptors', Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, vol. 291, no. 2, pp. 760-765.
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EASTENDERS has been watched 62m times on the BBC's iPlayer service since returning from its break in September.
The soap was forced to take a three month hiatus due to the pandemic, but fans were eager to catch up.
In the months since the show returned it was watched tens of millions of times on the catch-up service.
Over the year so far it has been requested 163m times.
Meanwhile, Normal People was BBC iPlayer's most popular series of 2020 after it was streamed more than 62 million times.
The television adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel proved to be more popular on the platform than other leading programmes including Killing Eve, MasterChef and The Split.
There have been a total of 5.3 billion streams across all content on iPlayer this year, which is a 33% rise on the same period last year and is a new record for the BBC.
Killing Eve was the second most watched programme and was streamed a total of 39,344,000 times.
Cookery programme MasterChef ranked third with 22,206,000, followed by legal drama The Split with 18,939,000.
The single most popular episode of a programme on iPlayer was the series three opener of Killing Eve, which was streamed 7,398,000 times.
The first episode of Normal People was streamed on 6,378,000 occasions.
The drama focuses on the on-again off-again relationship between Irish teenagers Marianne and Connell, beginning in their school days through to their time at university.
Dan McGolpin, controller of BBC iPlayer, said: "It's been a tough year for so many of us but through two national lockdowns and many difficult months BBC iPlayer has been there to keep us entertained and well informed wherever you are throughout the UK, seeing five billion requests for the first time ever.
"It's pleasing to see the sensational adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People take top slot as the biggest series of the year and there have been other brand new drama series among the most popular, such as Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You, The Nest and The Secrets She Keeps as well say hugely popular returners like Killing Eve and The Split."
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They provide a concession which allows certain disabled people to park on-street with free use of parking meters and pay and display bays.
But the scheme has been open to abuse in the past. Audit Commission reports have identified how criminals forge blue badges or steal valid badges from cars which are subsequently sold on the black market, the consultation documents states.
Mr Robertson, who holds a blue badge himself, said: "We've got 270,000 blue badges in circulation but the national fraud information service has told us there are about 4,500 of these badges still registered to people who are deceased.
"We also know that people are making re-applications for the badges of persons who have been deceased.
"That leads us to believe that there is misuse and abuse of the blue badge. We know that blue badges are stolen, we know that they are duplicated.
"That means that people who are legitimate users of the blue badge are finding it much more difficult to find parking spaces."
The proposed Bill will extend the law which currently allows local authority parking attendants, traffic wardens and police to examine and seize blue badges.
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Bełżec extermination camp
"Belzec" redirects here. For the nearby town, see Bełżec.
Bełżec
Extermination camp
Belzec extermination camp memorial
Location of Bełżec in Poland
50°22′18″N 23°27′27″E / 50.37167°N 23.4575°E / 50.37167; 23.4575Coordinates: 50°22′18″N 23°27′27″E / 50.37167°N 23.4575°E / 50.37167; 23.4575
Genocide during The Holocaust
Near Bełżec, German-occupied Poland
Richard Wolfgang Thomalla (death camp)
Lorenz Hackenholt (gas chambers)
SS-Totenkopfverbände
First built
1 November 1941 – March 1942
17 March 1942 – end of June 1943
Number of gas chambers
3 (later 6)[1]
mainly Jews, Roma, Poles
est. 434,508–600,000
Liberated by
closed before end of war
Notable inmates
Rudolf Reder, Chaim Hirszman
Belzec mausoleum
Rails in Belzec
The ohel of the Belzec mausoleum
Fragment of the memorial in Bełżec
Belzec, Polish spelling Bełżec [ˈbɛu̯ʐɛt͡s], was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. Operating from 01942-03-17 March 17, 1942 to the end of 01943-06 June 1943, the camp was situated in occupied Poland about 1 km south of the local railroad station of Bełżec in the Lublin district of the General Government.
Between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews are believed to have been killed at Bełżec, along with an unknown number of Poles and Roma;[2][3] only one[4][5] or two Jews are known to have survived Bełżec and the war: Rudolf Reder and Chaim Hirszman.[5] The lack of survivors, who could have given testimony, is the primary reason why this camp is so little known despite the enormous number of victims.
1 Camp construction and purposes
2 Prior experience of killers in Nazi murders of disabled people
3 Changes to killing methods
4 Concealment of camp's purpose from victims
5 Camp operation
6 Closure and dismantlement
7 Subsequent careers of camp personnel
8 Camp guards
9 Kurt Gerstein's testimony
10 Death toll
11 Remains of the camp
12 Postwar commemoration
Camp construction and purposes
Belzec was situated in the Lublin district forty-seven miles north of the major city of Lviv (Lvov, Lwow), conveniently between the large Jewish populations of southeast Poland and eastern Galicia. Belzec extermination camp, the model for two others in the Aktion Reinhard murder program, started as a labor camp in April 1940, in the course of the Burggraben-project attached to the Lublin reservation in the same area: the reservation was to serve as a pool for forced labour exploited by various small camps like Belzec, to erect defensive works along the Nazi-Soviet demarcation line such as a long anti-tank ditch.[6] While the Burggraben project was shut down by the end of the year due to its inefficiency, Belzec was re-opened in 1942 to finish part of the anti-tank ditch.[6]
On 13 October 1941, Heinrich Himmler gave SS and Police Leader Lublin, SS Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik, two orders which were closely connected with each other: to start Germanizing the area around Zamość and to start work on the first extermination camp in the General Government near Bełżec. The site was chosen for three reasons: it was situated at the border between the districts Lublin and Galicia, thus indicating its purpose to serve as a killing site for the Jews of both districts; for reasons of transport it lay next to the railroad and the main road between Lublin and Lvov; the northern boundary of the planned death camp was the anti-tank ditch dug a year before by Jewish slave workers of the former forced labour camp. The ditch, originally excavated for military reasons, was likely to serve as the first mass grave. Globocnik's construction expert SS Obersturmführer Richard Thomalla commenced work in early November 1941, using Polish villagers, Globocnik's Trawniki men and, later, Jewish slave workers. The installation was finished by early March 1942 - the camp then started to turn from a labour to a killing camp as envisioned in the Wannsee Conference.[4]
Prior experience of killers in Nazi murders of disabled people
The two commanders of the camp, Kriminalpolizei officers SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth and SS-Hauptsturmführer Gottlieb Hering, had been — in common with almost all of their staff — involved in the Nazi euthanasia Action T4 program since 1940. Wirth had the leading position as a supervisor of all six euthanasia institutions in the Reich; Hering as the non-medical chief of Sonnenstein (Pirna, Saxony) and Hadamar. As a participant of the first T-4 test gassing of handicapped people at Brandenburg, Wirth had been a killing expert from the beginning. He was, therefore, an obvious choice to be the first commandant of the first extermination camp in the General Government. It might have been his proposal to transfer the T-4 technology of killing by carbon monoxide gas in stationary gas chambers to Bełżec, because the comparable technology of mobile gas vans used before December 1941 in the extermination camp Chelmno had proven insufficient for the planned number of victims.[citation needed]
Changes to killing methods
Wirth developed his own ideas on the basis of the experience he had gained in the "Euthanasia" program and decided to supply the fixed gas chamber with gas produced by the internal-combustion engine of a motorcar. Wirth rejected Zyklon B which was later used at Auschwitz. This gas was produced by private firms and its extensive use in Bełżec might have aroused suspicion and led to problems of supply. He therefore preferred a system of extermination based on ordinary, universally available gasoline and diesel fuel. For economic and transport reasons, Wirth did not make use here of industrial bottled carbon monoxide as in T-4, but had the same gas supplied by a large engine (although witnesses differ as to its type, most probably it was a petrol engine), whose exhaust fumes, poisonous in an enclosed space, were led by a system of pipes into the gas chambers. For very small transports of Jews and Gypsies over a short distance, a minimized version of the gas van technology was used in Bełżec: T-4 man and first operator of the gas chambers, SS Hauptscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt,[7] rebuilt an Opel-Blitz post office vehicle with the help of a local craftsman into a small gas van.[8] A member of the staff testified that the Jewish office girls were murdered in this car on the very last day of Bełżec.[citation needed]
Concealment of camp's purpose from victims
The wooden gas chambers were disguised as the barracks and showers of a labor camp, so that the victims would not realize the true purpose of the site, and the process was conducted as quickly as possible: people were forced to run from the trains to the gas chambers, leaving them no time to absorb where they were or to plan a revolt. Finally, a handful of Jews were selected to perform all the manual work involved with extermination (removing the bodies from the gas chambers, burying them, sorting and repairing the victims' clothing, etc.). The extermination process itself was conducted by Hackenholt, guards, and a Jewish aide.[9] The Jewish Sonderkommandos were killed periodically and replaced by new arrivals, so that they would neither organize a revolt nor survive to tell about the camp.
Camp operation
Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland (marked with black and white skulls)
Belzec extermination camp museum
Symbolic "death road" in Belzec memorial
Eventually, the extermination camp consisted of two subcamps: Camp I, which included the barracks of the Ukrainians, the workshops and barracks of the Jews, the reception area with two undressing barracks, and Camp II, which contained the gas chambers and the mass graves. The two camps were connected by a narrow corridor called der Schlauch, or "Tube". The German guards and the administration were housed in two cottages outside the camp across the road.
Bełżec's three gas chambers began operating officially on March 17, 1942, the first of the Operation Reinhard camps to begin killing.[3] Its first victims were Jews deported from Lublin and Lwow. There were many technical difficulties in this first attempt at mass extermination. The gas chamber mechanisms were problematic, and usually only one or two were working at any given time, causing a backlog. Furthermore, the corpses were buried in pits covered with only a narrow layer of earth. The bodies often swelled in the heat as a result of putrefaction and the escape of gases, and the covering of earth split. This latter problem was corrected in other death camps with the introduction of crematoria.
It was soon realized that the original three gas chambers were insufficient for completing the task at hand, especially with the growing number of arrivals from Kraków and Lviv. A new complex with six gas chambers made of concrete, each 4 × 5 or 8 meters, was erected, and the wooden gas chambers were dismantled. The new facility, which could handle over 1,000 victims at a time, was imitated by the other two Operation Reinhard extermination camps: Sobibor and Treblinka. There was a sign on the new building that read "Stiftung Hackenholt" or Hackenholt Foundation named after the SS NCO who designed it.[10] In December 1942, the last shipment of Jews arrived in Bełżec. By that time, the Jews in the area served by Bełżec had been almost entirely murdered, and it was felt that the new facilities under construction at Auschwitz-Birkenau could kill the rest.[citation needed]
Closure and dismantlement
A last train with 300 Jewish prisoners, told to depart for Germany but instead sent to Sobibor for gassing, departed in late June 1943 as the closing act of the camp.[11][12] As part of the Nazi plan called Sonderaktion 1005, bodies were exhumed and then cremated and bone fragments pulverized. The German and Ukrainian personnel then dismantled the camp and reforested the site with firs and wild lupines.[11] Any equipment of potential reuse were taken to the concentration camp Majdanek. Wirth's house and the neighboring SS building, which had been the property of the Polish Railway before the war, were not demolished.
When the staff left, the local population from the surrounding villages started large-scale excavations on the camp site, searching for gold and valuables.[11] These diggings were so extensive that the area was covered by human remains of all kind, and the Nazis' efforts to disguise the site were thwarted.[11] In response, SS personnel were again ordered to the camp site to turn it into a farm, with one Ukrainian SS guard assigned to reside there permanently with his family.[11] This model for guarding and disguising former camp sites was later adopted in Treblinka and Sobibor.[11]
Subsequent careers of camp personnel
The camp's first known commander, Christian Wirth, lived very close to the camp in a house which also served as a kitchen for the SS as well as an armoury.[13] He later moved to the Lublin airfield site to oversee Operation Reinhard. He was transferred to San Sabba, a former rice mill in Trieste, Italy. He received the Iron Cross in April 1944. He was killed the following month by partisans whilst travelling in an open topped car in what is today western Croatia. His successor Gottlieb Hering served after the war for a short time as the chief of Criminal Police of Heilbronn and died in autumn 1945 in a hospital. Lorenz Hackenholt survived the war, but disappeared in 1945.[8] British historian Michael Tregenza may have come close to finding Hackenholt in 1990 and his colleague Alan Heath suggested that he had located where Hackenholt may have been hiding in the 1960s.[citation needed]
Only seven former members of the SS-Sonderkommando Belzec were indicted in Munich, but only one of them, Josef Oberhauser, was brought to trial in 1965 and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison, half of which he served before being released.
Camp guards
Bełżec camp guards included Germans (Volksdeutsche) and former Soviet prisoners of war.[14][15]
Before they were sent as guards to the concentration camps, most Soviet POWs who served as camp guards underwent special training in Trawniki, originally a holding center for refugees and Soviet POWs whom the Security Police and SD had designated potential collaborators or dangerous persons.[16]
Kurt Gerstein's testimony
SS Lt. Kurt Gerstein, who worked in the SS medical service, was ordered to deliver a shipment of Zyklon B to Bełżec. He was so shocked by what he saw that he immediately buried the canisters of poison gas, and confessed his experiences to the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter in a train from Warsaw to Berlin, where they met on August 20. He describes how he arrived at Bełżec on August 19 (another source gives the date as August 18)[10] where he witnessed the unloading of 45 train cars crowded with 6,700 Jews, many of whom were already dead, but the rest were marched naked to the gas chambers, where:
Unterscharführer Hackenholt was making great efforts to get the engine running. But it doesn't go. Captain Wirth comes up. I can see he is afraid because I am present at a disaster. Yes, I see it all and I wait. My stopwatch showed it all, 50 minutes, 70 minutes, and the diesel did not start. The people wait inside the gas chambers. In vain. They can be heard weeping, "like in the synagogue," says Professor Pfannenstiel, his eyes glued to a window in the wooden door. Furious, Captain Wirth lashes the Ukrainian assisting Hackenholt twelve, thirteen times, in the face. After 2 hours and 49 minutes—the stopwatch recorded it all—the diesel started. Up to that moment, the people shut up in those four crowded chambers were still alive, four times 750 persons in four times 45 cubic meters. Another 25 minutes elapsed. Many were already dead, that could be seen through the small window because an electric lamp inside lit up the chamber for a few moments. After 28 minutes, only a few were still alive. Finally, after 32 minutes, all were dead...Dentists hammered out gold teeth, bridges and crowns. In the midst of them stood Captain Wirth. He was in his element, and showing me a large can full of teeth, he said: "See for yourself the weight of that gold! It's only from yesterday and the day before. You can't imagine what we find every day—dollars, diamonds, gold. You'll see for yourself! "[17][18]
This document, the so-called Höfle Telegram, confirms 434,508 Jews were killed at Belzec in 1942
Eugeniusz Strojt, in an article in the Bulletin of the Main Commission for Investigation of the German Crimes in Poland, estimated the people murdered in Bełżec as 600,000.[citation needed] This number became widely accepted in literature. Raul Hilberg gave a figure of 550,000.[19] Y. Arad accepted 600,000[14] as minimum, and the sum in his table of Bełżec deportations exceeded 500,000.[14] J. Marszalek calculated 500,000.[citation needed] British historian Robin O'Neil once gave an estimate of about 800,000 (based on his investigations at the site).[20] Dieter Pohl and Peter Witte[21] gave estimate of 480,000 to 540,000. Michael Tregenza stated that it would have been possible to have buried up to one million victims on the site although the true death toll is probably around half of that amount.
The crucial piece of evidence in the debate was published in 2001 by Stephen Tyas and Peter Witte.[21] It was a telegram sent by Hermann Höfle, Operation Reinhard's Chief of Staff, which indicates that 434,508 Jews were killed in Bełżec through December 31, 1942. As the camp had ceased to operate for mass killings by then, this figure needs to be treated as almost absolute. After this period a sonderkommando of up to 500 people worked in the camp, disinterring the bodies and burning them. The sonderkommando was transported to Sobibor extermination camp in around August 1943 and murdered on arrival.
The difference between this "low-end" figure and other estimates can be explained by the lack of exact and detailed sources on the deportations statistics. Thus, Y. Arad writes, that he had to rely, in part, on Yizkor books, which were not guaranteed to give the exact estimates of the numbers of deportees. He also had to rely on partial German railway documentation, from the numbers of trains could be gleaned. But here also assumptions had to be made about the number of persons per train.[14] Considering the vagueness of primary sources, many old scholarly estimates are not far off the mark.[citation needed]
It should also be noted that it is not completely clear whether the Jews who died in transit are included in the final sum.[citation needed] Considering the aim of compiling such a statistic (which was to know the overall number of the victims of the "Final Solution"—Hoefle's numbers were used in Korherr Report) they probably were included.[citation needed] Also, the sources like Westermann's report[22] contain the exact data about the number of deported persons, but only estimates of the numbers of those who died in transit, the fact which also hints that they were included in the final sum, because it would be hard for the authorities in Bełżec to learn the exact number of those murdered, excluding the dead in transport.
Remains of the camp
From late 1997 until early 1998, a thorough archaeological survey of the site was conducted as there was no memorial yet at the site. The survey was headed by Andrzej Kola, director of the Underwater Archaeological Department at the University of Torun, and Mieczyslaw Gora, senior curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Lodz. The team identified the railway sidings and remains of a number of buildings. They also found 33 mass graves, the largest of which were 210 by 60 feet. The team estimated that they had found 15,000 unburned bodies, and "The largest mass graves ... contained unburned human remains (parts and pieces of skulls with hair and skin attached) and entire bodies preserved in wax-fat transformation. The foul smelling bottom layer of the graves consisted of several inches to a meter thick of human fat resembling black soap. One grave contained uncrushed human bones so closely packed that the drill could not penetrate."[23]
Postwar commemoration
Scrawled with a Pencil in the Sealed Cattle Car, a poem by Dan Pagis, forms part of the modern memorial.
New monument commemorating the camp's victims
As a result of Nazi efforts to erase evidence of the camp's existence near the war's end, almost all traces of the camp disappeared from the surface of the site. The mass graves of the camp's victims remained, however, and in the postwar years some people, possibly local inhabitants, disturbed them to look for any valuables buried with the victims. Pursuit of the perpetrators continued into the second half of the 1950s.[24][dead link]
In the 1960s the area of the former camp was fenced off, and a few small monuments were placed on the site. The fenced area did not correspond to the actual area of the camp during its operation, and so some commercial development took place on areas formerly belonging to it. Due to the isolated location on Poland's eastern border, only a very small number of people visited the former camp before 1988. The site was largely forgotten and poorly maintained.
Following the collapse of communism in 1989, the situation slowly changed. As the number of visitors to Poland interested in Holocaust sites increased, more of them came to Bełżec. Many reacted negatively to the unkept state of the grounds. In the late 1990s extensive investigations were carried out on the camp grounds to determine precisely the camp's extent and provide greater understanding of its operation. Buildings constructed after the war on the camp grounds were removed. In 2004, a large new monument commemorating the camp's victims was unveiled.
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^ Belzec Death Camp Memorial, Poland (University of Minnesota)
^ a b "Belzec", USHMM. Accessed February 5, 2008.
^ a b Bergen, Doris (2003). War & genocide: a concise history of the Holocaust Critical issues in history. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 178. ISBN 0847696316.
^ a b "Belzec Death Camp: "Remember Me"" (in English). Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. 2007. http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec/belzecrememberme.html. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
^ a b Schwindt, Barbara (2005). Das Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Majdanek: Funktionswandel im Kontext der "Endlösung". Königshausen & Neumann. p. 52. ISBN 3826031237.
^ Tregenza, Michael, "The 'Disappearance' of SS-Hauptscharfuhrer Lorenz Hackenholt -- A Report on the 1959-63 West German Police Search for Lorenz Hackenholt, the Gas Chamber Expert of the Aktion Reinhard Extermination Camps", 2000, at Mazel on-line library
^ a b Klee, The Good Old Days, at pages 230, 237, 241, and 296.
^ Pfannenstiel, Wilhelm, "Statement" given 25 April 1960, translated and reprinted in Klee, The Good Old Days, at pages 238 to 244.
^ a b Gerstein, Kurt, "Report" dated 4 May 1945, excerpted, translated, and reprinted in Klee, The Good Old Days, at page 242
^ a b c d e f Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, 1999, p.371, ISBN 0253213053
^ "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website: Belzec". http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005191. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
^ YouTube - Belzec - the house of Christian Wirth
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^ Reder, Rudolf, Belzec, Panstwowe Muzeum Oswiecim – Brezezinka.
^ Trawniki (Holocaust Encyclopedia -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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^ Another translation of this document is found at Klee, The Gold Old Days, at page 242.
^ Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, Yale University Press, 2003, revised hardcover edition, ISBN 0-300-09557-0
^ A Reassessment: Resettlement Transports to Belzec, March-December 1942. Robin O'Neil. Accessed December 6, 2009.
^ a b Peter Witte and Stephen Tyas, A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during "Einsatz Reinhardt" 1942, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Winter 2001, ISBN 0-19-922506-0
^ The Westermann Report
^ "Archeologists reveal new secrets of Holocaust", Reuters News, 21 July 1998
^ http://www.belzec.org.pl/upamietnienie.php?site=dawne&id=1
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Reder, Rudolf, Belzec, Kraków, 1946
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Q: feature scaling and intercept it is a beginner question but I have a dataset of two features house sizes and number of bedrooms, So I'm working on Octave; So basically I try to do a feature scaling but as in the Design Matrix I added A column of ones (for tetha0) So I try to do a mean normalisation : (x- mean(x)/std(x)
but in the columns of one obviously the mean is 1 since there is only 1 in every line So when I do this the intercept colum is set to 0 :
 mu = mean(X)
mu =

  1.0000   2000.6809      3.1702

 votric = X - mu
votric =

  0.00000    103.31915     -0.17021
  0.00000   -400.68085     -0.17021
  0.00000    399.31915     -0.17021
  0.00000   -584.68085     -1.17021
  0.00000    999.31915      0.82979

So the first column shouldn't be left out of the mean normalization ?

A: Yes, you're supposed to normalise the original dataset over all observations first, and only then add the bias term (i.e. the 'column of ones').
The point of normalisation is to allow the various features to be compared on an equal basis, which speeds up optimization algorithms significantly.
The bias (i.e. column of ones) is technically not part of the features. It is just a mathematical convenience to allow us to use a single matrix multiplication to obtain our result in a computationally and notationally efficient manner.
In other words, instead of saying Y = bias + weight1 * X1 + weight2 * X2 etc, you create an imaginary X0 = 1, and denote the bias as weight0, which then allows you to express it in a vectorised fashion as follows: Y = weights * X
"Normalising" the bias term does not make sense, because clearly that would make X0 = 0, the effect of which would be that you would then discard the effect of the bias term altogether. So yes, normalise first, and only then add 'ones' to the normalised features.

PS. I'm going on a limb here and guessing that you're coming from Andrew Ng's machine learning course on coursera. You will see in ex1_multi.m that this is indeed what he's doing in his code (line 52).
% Scale features and set them to zero mean
fprintf('Normalizing Features ...\n');

[X mu sigma] = featureNormalize(X);

% Add intercept term to X
X = [ones(m, 1) X];

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Games Are Taking A Back Seat To Players On Video Game Streaming Sites
By Stephan Bisaha
Published March 12, 2017 at 5:01 AM PDT
Stephan Bisaha
Chris Schranck, wearing his Futureman outfit, says what draws fans is his personality and the community he built around his Twitch stream.
For four to eight hours a day, Chris Schranck sits between three computer monitors and a green screen in his one-bedroom apartment in Queens, N.Y. It's his job — live-streaming himself playing video games.
"I think 10-year-old me would be in shock," he says. "I could have never imagined that this is what I would be doing." Hundreds of viewers watch Schranck play video games on the website Twitch — and pay for it.
While video games are the common interest that attracts millions of viewers to Twitch, players often become as big a draw as the game they're playing. And Twitch has been experimenting with ways to take advantage of that.
The latest and broadest expansion yet is Twitch IRL, "in real life." Users can stream video of themselves doing just about anything: shopping for shoes, unboxing new gadgets, singing Christmas Carols.
The latter was exactly what Schranck did when he was visiting family in St. Louis for the holidays. "The party was kind of winding down but there was still some people hanging and kind of singing around the piano," Schranck says. "The light bulb kind of went on. There's the IRL section. I could broadcast this."
Schranck, who is on Twitch under than name Futureman, streamed about three hours of the party — and fans watched.
"I stayed there for the whole thing," says Jake Maddux, who goes by the username Fatality2X on Twitch.
The stream gave Maddux a glimpse into a Christmas celebration unlike his family's, and also let Maddux see a different side of Futureman, an Internet personality he spends so much time watching.
Moneymaker
Twitch made a name for itself when it launched in 2011 by letting players stream themselves playing video games live. According to the website, nearly 10 million people visit Twitch every day, outpacing YouTube and other competitors. Its acclaim caught the attention of Amazon, which purchased Twitch in 2014 for $970 million.
Given the popularity of cable networks devoted to people cooking, traveling, decorating houses or making art, "it's kind of unsurprising that people would want to watch each other play video games as well," says Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. "Especially watching really great players."
Schranck isn't one of those great players. Instead, he says, what draws fans is his personality and the community he built around his stream.
"They're coming to my stream to hang with the community, to hear my thoughts on anything and everything and to laugh and have fun and relax," he says.
As Futureman on Twitch, Schranck makes more than his previous job as a second- and third-grade teacher.
Over 17,000 streamers have a deal with Twitch that gives them a cut from the advertising sold on their streams. Fans can also donate directly to the streamers, and some pay a monthly fee for additional perks like access to exclusive chat rooms. According to Twitch, several of its streamers are making more than six figures.
Harassment concerns
Kevin Tihon lives in Germany and volunteers for Schranck's stream as a moderator, removing offensive and harassing messages from the stream's chat. Part of what draws him to Twitch is the chance to interact with American culture.
"I've always been super interested in English language," Tihon says. "I've read a lot of English books. I've watched a lot of movies in the original English language. So it wasn't that big a jump for me to jump into English conversation."
One danger with loosening Twitch's gaming focus and exposing more of the streamers' real lives is a potential increase in harassment. Even with moderators like Tihon, Twitch has had issues in the past with sexist and racist comments.
"I certainly think there's a bigger moderation challenge with any broader category," says CEO Shear. "It's harder to draw the lines."
While Twitch doesn't pay moderators, the site did introduce a feature to chats to automatically blog messages that included flagged words.
Despite the possible pitfalls, Shear says he hasn't seen anything that's caused him to question IRL's release.
"The community has decided on ways to use IRL that are mostly positive," Shear says. "And so while it is certainly a concern ... it's not something that keeps me up at night."
IRL roots
While Twitch is closely associated with gaming today, the website's roots bear a closer resemblance to Twitch IRL.
In 2007, Shear launched Justin.TV with his former Yale classmate, Justin Kan. The plan was to live stream Kan's life in San Francisco. The website struggled to gain much traction until they allowed viewers to start their own stream.
Out of the random assortment of activities people were streaming, gaming became a clear favorite. Justin.TV re-branded as Twitch in 2011 with a laser focus on only streaming video games.
Now, even with the addition of Twitch IRL — or partial return to the Justin.TV roots — video-game streaming remains the most popular part of Twitch. While several thousand people could be watching Twitch IRL at any given moment, hundreds of thousands will be watching streams of League of Legends, the most popular game on the website.
And, for now, most of the IRL streams look exactly like the gaming streams, minus the games — people sitting in office chairs, in front of screens, talking. Twitch plans to make it easier to live-stream from anywhere by adding functionality to its mobile app later this year.
SinfullyRiddling via Twitch/Screenshot by NPR
Meghan Tobin receives a donation from a viewer while streaming with Twitch IRL.
Ultimately, Twitch IRL is still new, so it may take some time to catch on, says Nicolas Cerrato, co-founder of Gamoloco, a site that tracks what games are being live-streamed. "Even if something is great, it takes a long time for it grow," he says, noting that the early viewership numbers for Twitch IRL "are very encouraging."
Virtual people-watching
Meghan Tobin, aka SinfullyRiddling, starts most of her streams using Twitch IRL. Much of the stream is spent responding to messages from her viewers that appear in a chat bar on the right side of the screen. When she does eventually get to the video games, they function as a backdrop while she continues the conversation with her viewers.
"I think for many people what makes them love Twitch so much is not the game," Tobin says. "When you remove the game you still have those main aspects that they're there looking for."
Andrew Loftus has been watching Twitch for years and he connects Twitch's popularity to an ancient human pastime — people-watching.
"You go to the mall or you go to a department store and you people-watch," he says. "At least I do."
It might sound like geeky reality TV, but the major difference is the lack of editing. Loftus says this can lead to some dry moments, but also some surprising, candid moments enhanced by watching them in real time. And that's part of the addictiveness — the "just five more minutes" mentality, even if those extra minutes go unrewarded.
"So maybe another five minutes," Loftus says. "And it just keeps building and building. And maybe, you know, 20 minutes or an hour later sometime does happen and you're like, 'I knew I should have stayed.' "
Stephan Bisaha is a former NPR Kroc Fellow. Along with producing Weekend Edition, Stephan has reported on national stories for Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as other NPR programs. He provided data analysis for an investigation into the Department of Veteran Affairs and reported on topics ranging from Emojis to mattresses.


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Kyle Rittenhouse: Who is US teen accused of Kenosha Wisconsin protest murders?
Media captionTwo people were killed and one injured on the third night of unrest
After a black man was shot seven times in the back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, 23 August, people angry about police violence began protesting.
On the third night of demonstrations, a 17-year-old boy allegedly fired on protesters with a military-style semi-automatic rifle, killing two and seriously injuring a third.
On Wednesday he was arrested at his mother's home in Antioch, Illinois, some 30 minutes from Kenosha. A day later he was charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of first-degree reckless homicide.
Videos indicate he spent hours on Tuesday apparently helping patrol the streets. He told journalists it was his "job" to guard buildings and even offer medical assistance to protesters.
Here's what we know about the teenager, and his connections to a Donald Trump rally and a Facebook group reported for inciting violence.
Details are still emerging about Kyle Rittenhouse, but his social media profiles show a fascination with police dating back several years.
A Facebook photo of him was framed with the "Blue Lives Matter" logo – a staunchly pro-police movement that often clashes with Black Lives Matter supporters.
Several of his posts honoured police officers killed on duty, and he also posted pictures of himself wearing full police uniform. He is a former member of a local police cadet programme, Grayslake Police Department says.
Image caption Cars were burnt by protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin during angry clashes
Guns are another of his passions. Photos show him posing with weapons, practising target shooting and assembling a rifle.
One of the charges brought against him is possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.
In an interview on Tuesday night before the shootings, he echoes police language when telling a journalist why he is armed.
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"Part of my job also is to protect people. If someone is hurt, I'm running into harm's way," he says.
He is captured on video at different times during that night. At one point, he speaks to police who offer him water.
Later, he is shown being pursued by a group of people, one of whom appears to fire into the air. The teenager turns to see where the sound is coming from as another person tries to attack him. At that point, the teenager appears to shoot the man, later identified as Joseph Rosenbaum.
Fleeing momentarily, he finds himself chased by a crowd before falling to the ground, and firing his gun. One of those hit by the gunfire falls to the ground, fatally injured. He is later named as Anthony Huber.
Another person runs away apparently injured. Many shots are heard during this incident.
According to the New York Times, the person who runs away injured is carrying a handgun and CBS Chicago quotes prosecutors as saying the injured man "appeared to have a handgun in his right hand when he was shot".
After this second shooting, Kyle Rittenhouse heads towards police vans with his arms in the air. A bystander shouts, "that dude just shot them", but the police vehicles pass by to attend to the injured protesters.
Who were the victims?
Mr Rosenbaum, 36, was from Kenosha, and Mr Huber, 26, was from Silver Lake. The injured man has been named as Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, from West Allis.
They were on Kenosha's streets on a tense night that saw protesters clash with police and armed vigilantes.
Image caption Anti-racism protesters condemned the shooting of black man Jacob Blake on Sunday
Demonstrators are angry about another police shooting of a black American weeks after the US was engulfed by a huge movement calling for an end to racism and police brutality.
Jacob Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back by officer Rusten Sheskey while getting into his car with his children on Sunday. His lawyer says it will be a "miracle" if he walks again.
Limited law enforcement in Kenosha has led to individuals and groups taking the law into their own hands during the unrest, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Professional Police Association told the BBC.
Videos from Tuesday show armed civilians in military clothes congregating outside buildings in the city.
What are the alleged shooter's connections to Donald Trump?
The suspect's social media accounts suggest he is a supporter of President Donald Trump.
Video shows him cheering in the front row of an Iowa rally for the president's re-election campaign. He also posted video from the event on his TikTok account.
His Instagram profile bio read "Trump 2020".
Media captionThe US police shooting of Jacob Blake sparks protests in Wisconsin
A spokesperson for Mr Trump told BuzzFeed News that the teenager had "nothing to do with our campaign".
"President Trump has repeatedly and consistently condemned all forms of violence and believes we must protect all Americans from chaos and lawlessness […] We fully support our fantastic law enforcement for their swift action in this case," they added.
Is there a connection to a militia Facebook group?
Before the protests, a Facebook group called Kenosha Guard issued a "call to arms" to its members.
Members reportedly discussed what weapons and what type of damage to inflict on protesters' cars.
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Several users warned Facebook that the group was inciting violence but were told the post did not violate the platform's standards, reports the Verge.
It was eventually removed after the shootings on Tuesday night.
"At this time, we have not found evidence on Facebook that suggests the shooter followed the Kenosha Guard page or that he was invited on the event page they organized," Facebook told the Verge.
What's the reaction?
More than 200 FBI agents are being sent to Kenosha to try to bring order to the city, and the White House says 2,000 National Guard members are available to go.
Right-wing Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson sparked uproar on Wednesday when he appeared to justify the shootings.
"How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no-one else would?" he said on his TV show.
Media captionThe BBC's Aleem Maqbool says security forces in Kenosha are being criticised for losing control
He said Kenosha had descended into "anarchy" after being "abandoned" by authorities.
He was swiftly condemned on social media.
"An innocent black guy is killed by police and Tucker Carlson calls him a thug. A guilty white guy murders two people and Tucker Carlson calls him a patriot," tweeted CNN commentator Keith Boykins.
Meanwhile a viral rumour claiming that protesters fired a Molotov cocktail at the alleged shooter has been debunked.
Some claimed the video suggested the suspect was acting in self-defence, but other footage from the scene showed that in fact the protester threw a bag.
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It's Official: Massachusetts Voters to Decide Ranked Choice Voting on November Ballot
MA Secretary of State William Galvin Confirms Ranked Choice Voting Initiative For Fall ballot
Boston, Mass. – Voter Choice for Massachusetts 2020 has declared victory in its effort to bring Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to the ballot in Massachusetts. Secretary of State William Galvin informed the campaign late Friday night that our signature submission has been validated and approved for inclusion on the Mass November ballot. The historic and record-breaking signature drive included 128,780 validated signatures from citizens in every single municipality in the Commonwealth.
"Our volunteers had a tall order collecting these signatures, especially in the second round, which fell right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Brian Bass, Organizing Director for the campaign's 2019 and 2020 signature drives. "Not only did our volunteers come through in the clutch, but countless others have worked to bring this much-needed reform to our Commonwealth for years, laying the groundwork for this historic accomplishment."
"Inclusion on the ballot has been our goal for over a year now, and our volunteers and partners came through when it mattered most to ensure this achievement," said Shauna Hamilton, Deputy Campaign Manager. "Now we turn our attention to educating Massachusetts voters about the virtues of RCV, namely that if they vote 'yes' in November to implement ranked-choice voting for our elections, they will no longer feel like they are wasting their vote and they will elect leaders who represent the interests of the communities they serve."
"The record number of signatories on this ballot initiative collected shows the common-sense in a ranked-choice system and supported the cause, and it's our belief that Mass voters at large will realize those same benefits by the time they head to the ballot box," said Michael Meehan, a senior advisor to the campaign. "This is a simple, fair and effective way to address so many of the political ills that we all complain about at the dinner table. Candidates shouldn't take office without majority support or use divisive emotional issues to drum up fringe support, and RCV will enhance America's cherished tradition of majority rule." Meehan added, "We are so grateful to Secretary Galvin for his swift review of our signatures and we look forward to ramping up this campaign now that we're one step away from this critical reform."
To protect both voters and volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Judicial Court on April 29, 2020 issued an Order allowing for e-signatures during the second set of required ballot initiative signature collection. Since then, volunteers for the ranked choice voting campaign have collected e-signatures through a DocuSign online program, working with Secretary of the Commonwealth Bill Galvin and local town clerks.
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AOC: Twitter Targeting 'Neo-Nazis,' 'Violent Insurrectionists'
By TBHWT,
Wednesday at 05:37 PM in No Holds Barred Political Forum
king of the county
Location:deep in the swamp
3 minutes ago, king of the county said:
Clear any doubt there was fraud
Lol oh man I'd want there to be no chance anyone not one person could think there was voter irregularities by investigating each claim lol 😝
ROG62
Senior member +
Location:You can't get there from here...
1 hour ago, Zaro said:
Yes. In a LANDSLIDE
More like a manure chute...
1 hour ago, king of the county said:
I don't follow her but when she pops up in the news I'm all over it
2 hours ago, Pastafarian said:
Fox can call me whatever they like.
non-answer
1 hour ago, whiteboy said:
Have to disagree on the second part ... "child porn peddlers".
Didn't Biden just get elected President?
LMAO......FBI still masturbating to all the child porn on Hunter's laptop
Pastafarian
1 minute ago, CrimeaRiver said:
No, I answered you.
3 minutes ago, Pastafarian said:
You need more Jimmy Dor😁e time...the truth will set you free
superds77
Location:Michigan
1 hour ago, CrimeaRiver said:
AOC and the New:
Be careful or you will be sent to see OBrien in Room 101!
They probably should be held liable.
If so, they would have a great deal more than President Trump to account for...
Let's be real. Twitter and Facebook claim to be PLATFORMS, therefore protected by section 230, yet very much ACT like PUBLISHERS. Trying to have it both ways.
Can we agree on that?
Do we have common ground here?
slideman
Location:seattle
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. As used in this section, the terms "organizes" and "organize", with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87–486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
34 minutes ago, superds77 said:
Re-education camp?
17 minutes ago, slideman said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Slidey advocating for STATE CONTROLLED SPEECH
The New Left is CREEPY
TBHWT
Location:S.E.United states
3 hours ago, CrimeaRiver said:
AOC simply getting in line with her OWNERS
Smearing President Trump As a "Racist" and a "Motherfu**er"
In a December 2020 Vanity Fair profile, Ocasio-Cortez described President Trump as a "racist visionary" and slammed " these motherfuckers … only paying $750 a year in taxes" — a reference to a debunked claim that Trump had paid only $750 per year in taxes in 2016 and 2017. "These are the same people saying that we can't have tuition-free public colleges because there's no money," said the congresswoman, "when these motherfuckers are only paying $750 a year in taxes."
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
I know you haven't read Shakespeare, so I will interpret.
If you have to tell us you aren't gay ... you are gay.
That's what I'm thinking!!! He quickly answers to those accusation.
XavierOnassis 8-11-2019 5:46pm
All this sorry little zerocollege rustic bumpkin has going for him is accusing others of homosexuality. Someday the truth will out about his roosterfooking and turkeybuggery back on the farm.
Enemies List of Trump Allies & Supporters
During the first weekend after Election Day in November 2020, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future." A group calling itself the Trump Accountability Project(TAP) voiced its agreement with the congresswoman's position. Said TAP: "Remember what they did. We should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience: Those who elected him. Those who staffed his government. Those who funded him."
This kind of talk only comes from dictators and looks like you support them.
25 minutes ago, CrimeaRiver said:
Yeah, that. I assume you are familiar with "1984".
Except in 2021 "OBrien" would be Pelosi.
53 minutes ago, TBHWT said:
She is a lying whore politician.
Maybe her SPEECH SHOULD BE POLICED as a congress-whore
drvoke
16 hours ago, TBHWT said:
Sunday on Twitter, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) responded to a complaint from former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, who noted she had lost tens of thousands of Twitter followers as the social media platform began silencing conservative voices, arguing that Twitter is simply targeting "neo-Nazis and violent insurrectionists."
Sanders was responding to a January 9 tweet from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who posted a screenshot showing prominent members of the GOP suddenly losing thousands of followers.
"Free advice – if you are losing tens of thousands of followers the moment Twitter starts taking down Neo-Nazis and violent insurrectionists, maybe don't advertise that!" Ocasio-Cortez taunted. "Also maybe people are unfollowing you out disgust for your support of a coupist bc they care about our country."
She's absolutely right. When they banned the right-wing extremists, the right-wing pundits lost followers. It happened to Scott Adams too. It makes perfect sense. You might not like it, but too bad.


The number of elderly people moving into long-term care facilities is expected to increase as the population of people 65 and older continues to rise at a significantly high rate. Simultaneously, the number of people expected to be diagnosed with dementia will also increase unless a cure for this devastating disease is found. In the meantime, caregivers face many problems in providing healthy and humane treatments. One such problem that is a major concern for caregivers is controlling wandering behavior. This behavior often places patients in life threatening situations, and the current methods used by many facilities do not promote a high quality of life.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of various tape patterns on the wandering behaviors of residents living in a special dementia care unit in Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Blacksburg, Virginia. Similar studies revealed that alternative methods using tape patterns could reduce exiting attempts at a fire exit door or could possibly increase these attempts.
In order to address these inconsistencies, exiting attempts at a fire exit door were recorded during one baseline and two similar test conditions. It was found that exiting attempts was a serious problem in this unit as 40% of the residents attempted to exit the faci I ity during the study. The use of tape patterns reduced exiting attempts by 19.05% and 11.12%; however, this reduction was not statistically significant. In conclusion, the use of these tape patterns affected wandering behavior differently for each of the residents, suggesting that a multi-method approach for controlling exiting behavior may prove to be more successful when dealing with a heterogeneous sample and their multi-needs.


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Penguin Computing knows a thing or two about enterprise technology. The Freemont, Calif.-based company is one of the largest private suppliers of Linux-based enterprise and high performance computing solutions in North America.
So when SAP announced it was ending support for the particular version of an aging SAP R/3 ERP system the company was using to manage its financials earlier this year, Garth Thompson, vice president of Support & IT Services with the company, knew it was time to look elsewhere. In fact, replacing SAP had been under discussion at Penguin for the past five years, but the potential disruption of replacing the company's ERP system convinced leadership to hold off. With the end of support, Penguin took the chance to move to a fully software as a service (SaaS) software platform.
"We change our business rapidly," Thompson said. "We needed an ERP system agile enough to deal with that so we can change processes in days or weeks. That's impossible with SAP or Oracle where changes often take weeks of planning, are challenging to implement and result in customizations that have to be maintained."
And Penguin Computing is not without its internal IT resources. The company builds high performance computing clusters for its customers and performs sophisticated enterprise server installs as well. The IT team had even written its own middle layer to pull data from the SAP system, a cumbersome process that left team members frustrated.
"It was difficult to pull useful info from SAP and impossible to update that information through any means other than through their client interface," Thompson said.
Despite that in-house expertise, Penguin wanted a cloud ERP system, one where the vendor took care of maintaining the code, data center and upgrades. It was already spending more money than it wanted on expensive SAP consultants to come in and help make changes to the system.
"We needed something simple, something I can train a user to use within days," Thompson said. "It needed a robust API to integrate with our systems. It also needed to be a true SaaS service. We need a strong motivation to run anything in-house now. There's a significant time sink to run ERP in house."
NetSuite was the only solution that provided everything Penguin needed, according to Thompson. NetSuite gave Penguin the agility, flexibility and ease of use to run is business efficiently without all the overhead of maintaining an on-premise SAP system. NetSuite provides Penguin with revenue recognition, inventory management, a module supporting work orders, bin management and assembly management for its build-to-order production facility.
"We're already more efficient on NetSuite than we were with SAP," Thompson said, less than a year after the implementation. "Users have more access. Finance loves it, and they trust the numbers now. It takes me minutes to trace an order in full from order to cash and know what accounts were hit. It is mind blowing how easy it is to find information in NetSuite."
And the disruption of ripping out and replacing an ERP system? Well, it wasn't easy. In fact, the SAP data was so corrupted, Penguin elected not to migrate it over, preserving it only for historical reference.
But the implementation came in 40 percent under budget and the quarter Penguin took NetSuite live was the largest and most profitable in the company's history. In the meantime, Penguin has retired two servers and estimates its IT staff is now 30% more efficient.
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In the discussion of the Tucson shooting, I keep hearing complaints about the high-capacity clip that the shooter used. A clip is a strip of metal that holds cartridges together for loading into certain magazines, generally those of rifles. A magazine is a box that holds cartridges in a firearm. The one is not the other and are not to be confused.
This entry was posted in English Diction, English Usage, Magazine or Clip on 2011/01/17 by Greg Camp.