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As the Allies were approaching the German frontier at the beginning of September 1944, the German Armed Forces responded with a variety of initiatives designed to regain the strategic initiative. While the "Wonder Weapons" such as the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 missile and the Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter are widely recognized as being the most prominent of these initiatives upon which Germany pinned so much hope, the Volks-Grenadier Divisions (VGDs) are practically unknown. Often confused with the Volkssturm, the Home Guard militia, VGDs have suffered an undeserved reputation as second-rate formations, filled with young boys and old men suited to serve only as cannon fodder. This groundbreaking book, now reappearing as a new edition, shows that VGDs were actually conceived as a new, elite corps loyal to the National Socialist Party composed of men from all branches of Hitler's Wehrmacht and equipped with the finest ground combat weapons available.
Whether fighting from defensive positions or spearheading offensives such as the Battle of the Bulge, VGDs initially gave a good account of themselves in battle. Using previously unpublished unit records, Allied intelligence and interrogation reports and above all interviews with survivors, the author has crafted an in-depth look at a late-war German infantry company, including many photographs from the veterans themselves. In this book we follow along with the men of the 272nd VGD's Fusilier Company from their first battles in the Huertgen Forest to their final defeat in the Harz Mountains. Along the way we learn the enormous potential of VGDs . . . and feel their soldiers' heartbreak at their failure.
Among Douglas Nash’s previous works is Hell’s Gate: The Battle for the Cherkassy Pocket, January-February 1944, a work unsurpassed for insight into the other side of the hill in WWII.
This book is an attempt by an American historian to describe the experiences of one German Army combat unit during the Second World War and how they fought and died.
As a former commander of Füsilier Company 272, although only for a short period of time, I can say that these soldiers, despite the overwhelming odds against them and the technical superiority of the enemy, did as much as humanly possible to carry out their duty.
Like their brothers who served on the Eastern Front, they fought and died for their comrades and to protect their loved ones back home, and not for Hitler and National Socialism.
And like generations of Germans soldiers before them, they served their country honorably and bravely.
May they never be forgotten by younger generations.
May this book serve as a reminder of the horror of war and the suffering that both sides endured as they fought each other in that forest of death—the Hürtgenwald.
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing it is to say what was this forest savage, rough and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
The Battle of the Hürtgen Forest—known by German veterans as die Hölle im Hürtgenwald (the Hell in the Hürtgen Forest), lasted from 12 September 1944, when a costly reconnaissance in force was carried out by the US 3rd Armored Division near the Siegfried Line at Roetgen, until 10 February 1945, when the US 78th Infantry Division secured the Schwammenauel Dam and reached the Roer River.¹ During this five-month period, the German armies defending the Siegfried Line (known to German troops as the Westwall), were practically destroyed as an effective fighting force and ended with Allied troops poised to cross the Rhine, the last natural barrier to the heart of Germany.
The fighting was slow and enormously costly in lives and materiel. Losses in the two Allied armies participating in the fighting along the Siegfried Line, the US First and Ninth Armies, were substantial (this does not include the Battle of the Bulge, a separate battle that delayed the outcome in the Hürtgen Forest for nearly two months). All told, during the fighting for the German frontier, First and Ninth Armies lost a combined total of 68,000 men killed, wounded, and missing.
Additionally, the Americans lost another 71,654 men as non-battle casualties, from diverse causes like trench foot, sickness, and battle fatigue, bringing the total number of US casualties in the campaign to nearly 140,000 men.² Exact numbers of Germans killed, wounded, and missing during the Siegfried Line campaign are unknown due to the loss of key records, though they were at least as high as those of the Allies. The US First and Ninth Armies reported capturing over 95,000 Germans during this period alone.
American battle casualties within the ten divisions (seven infantry, one airborne, two armored, plus elements of another) and supporting units that took part at one time or another in the Hürtgen Forest portion of the Siegfried Line campaign totaled 33,000 men, more than twenty-five percent of the troops engaged, an extremely high figure by US Army standards at the time. The U.S. suffered some 24,000 killed, wounded and missing. In addition, another 9,000 were classified as being evacuated under the Disease, Non-battle Injury (DNBI) category. German losses were at least equally as great. Since German units were fighting at reduced strengths to begin with, their percentage of casualties was correspondingly higher. Many German divisions were virtually wiped out, only to be hastily rebuilt and committed to battle in the forest and destroyed again.
In all, during this five-month period, some 140,000 U.S. troops faced off against 80,000 Germans in the Hürtgen Forest, on some of the most brutal battlefields ever faced by soldiers of any nation during that war. It was a struggle that measured ground gained in yards, not miles.³ Unlike the rapid Allied advance across France and the Low Countries in the late summer and fall of 1944, the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest became a slugfest. The fighting there had much more in common with trench warfare in World War I than the modern mechanized war, or Blitzkrieg, that evolved during World War II.
The Battle of the Hürtgen Forest witnessed dogged defensive fighting by the Germans and equally determined Allied assaults. It was characterized by battles for key towns such as Schmidt and Kesternich, and for objectives hidden in the seemingly endless forest, such as Dead Man’s Moor (the Todtenbruch) and the Raffelsbrand hunter’s lodge. Interrupted by Germany’s last-ditch offensive in the Ardennes, WACHT AM RHEIN, that became better known as the Battle of the Bulge, the large-scale fighting in the Hürtgen resumed again with added ferocity on 30 January 1945, when the US First and Ninth Armies were finally able to begin the long-delayed operation to capture the Roer River Dams, which finally fell on 10 February 1945.
During the course of this final phase of the Siegfried Line campaign, the Allies, operating from a position of strategic advantage and employing numerical superiority combined with overwhelming firepower, steadily ground down the weary German defenders. By March 1945, the entire portion of the Wehrmacht that fought on the Western Front had become reduced to nothing more than an enormous Alarmeinheit (emergency unit), composed of a polyglot of various Army, Air Force, Navy, Labor Service, Volkssturm, and Waffen-SS units, all invariably hastily thrown together, poorly trained, unfit, and increasingly unmotivated to fight to the last for their Führer.
The Allied success in the Hürtgen Forest and along the length of the Siegfried Line paved the way for the even more successful Rhineland campaign, which began at the end of February 1945. In the space of less than two weeks, both the 12th and 21st Army Groups were able to overwhelm the German defenses along the Roer and had closed up to the western bank of the Rhine by 10 March. Seizure of the bridge at Remagen by First Army on 7 March marked the beginning of the end of the Wehrmacht’s attempts to defend in the west. By the third week of April, the German war effort had almost entirely collapsed and American troops would shake hands with their Red Army counterparts on the bank of the Elbe.
Even the bravest efforts of the individual German soldier came to naught as it only served to prolong a war that Germany had already lost in a strategic sense by 1943. Thousands upon thousands of these men were senselessly sacrificed to hold meaningless towns, bunkers, and fortresses, dying alone or by the hundreds. While the steadfast defense of the Westwall initially slowed the Allies during the fall and winter of 1944/45, this temporary success ironically paved the way for the great Soviet advances in the East from January to April 1945.
Hitler gambled and lost when he diverted Germany’s dwindling military strength to the West, first to stop the Allies’ Normandy invasion, then to launch the ill-fated Ardennes Offensive. His focus on the Western Front made him squander his remaining reserves just when they were needed the most in the east. As a result, the Ostfront (Eastern Front) was thinly manned and unprepared to hold back the Soviet juggernaut that relentlessly swept into Berlin by the end of April 1945 and ended a war that Hitler had started five and a half years earlier.
Today, few people understand why the average German soldier did not simply quit and go home. Fewer still can understand what kept him in the line, facing catastrophic losses that reduced companies, battalions, and even regiments to burned-out remnants in the space of a few days. Was the German soldier merely a benumbed robot by this stage of the war or a die-hard fanatic driven by desperation? Was it blind loyalty to Hitler that made them willingly sacrifice themselves in order to prolong a war that they had no hope of winning?
While answering yes to these questions provides a convenient explanation that many military historians frequently use today to highlight the moral and martial superiority of Allied troops to those of the Third Reich, it simply does not stand up to close scrutiny. More useful to this debate is to just state that the average German soldier was far more complex and the reasons why he fought—and fought so well—still defy easy categorization.
Increasingly, historians, and students of World War II want to know more details and pose more questions about the German soldier and why he fought. They want to know more about his daily existence, such as what was it like to live and to fight under these clearly hopeless circumstances and how he felt about it. In this vein, it is also worth asking the question: what was it like for the ordinary Landser (German slang for an ordinary infantryman) to fight in the hell of the Hürtgen Forest, or survive in the whirlwind battles in the Rhineland? The Hürtgen Forest was a battle, after all, where soldiers of both sides fought over trench lines and bunkers like their fathers had in the First World War. That such curiosity exists today belies the fact that military historians, both young and old alike, do not have a good appreciation for what it was like for the average German soldier who fought there, or for his American opponent, for that matter.
The American experience in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest and in the Rhineland is well documented by such works as the US Army’s Office of Military History’s The Siegfried Line Campaign, by Charles B. MacDonald, who was an actual participant in the fighting, having fought with the 2nd Infantry Division, and his follow-up study, The Last Offensive.⁴ Another seminal work, also by MacDonald, was Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt, which was commissioned by the US Army to determine why each of these particular World War Two battles was a success or failure and what timeless lessons could be drawn for tomorrow’s leaders.⁵ Added to these superb US Army official accounts are other recent works, quite detailed and informative, that are replete with first-hand accounts and situation reports from the archives. Works such as Edward G. Miller’s A Dark and Bloody Ground, Gerald Astor’s The Bloody Forest, and Cecil B. Currey’s Follow Me and Die contributed immensely to the body of literature about the fighting, relying heavily on memoirs and interviews with American participants.
In contrast, there have been few contemporary official German accounts to provide balance, with the notable exception of Wolfgang Trees and Adolf Hohenstein’s Die Hölle in Hürtgenwald and Gevert Haslob’s Ein Blick zurück in der Eifel.⁶ Kurt Kaeres, another eminent German author and participant in the battle, also published a fictional work describing some of his own experiences that received wide acclaim in Germany, Das Verstummte Hurra (The Muted Cheer). German popular accounts of the Rhineland campaign are even sparser, limited to Helmuth Euler’s Entscheidung an Rhein und Ruhr 1945 and Edgar Christoffel’s Krieg am Westwall 1944/45. A serious study of that campaign from a military perspective has yet to appear, though Heinz Günther Guderian’s Das Letzte Kriegsjahr im Western admirably covers that phase of the war from the perspective of the 116th Panzer Division.
Contributing to the lack of detailed knowledge of the German situation at the tactical level, many official German reports and unit daily journals were lost, destroyed, or misplaced after the war. The Bundeswehr, modern Germany’s successor to the Wehrmacht, has also yet to write the definitive official account of the Siegfried Line campaign, though it did commission a comprehensive study in the mid-1970s that was quietly shelved before it was scheduled to go to print.⁷ Perhaps the scars, even 60 years later, are still too fresh for most German veterans, whose generation is passing away without sharing its experiences with children or grandchildren. Accounts from those who took part in the fighting can still be found, but most of what they wrote has remained unpublished or was captured briefly in post-war veteran’s association newsletters. Most of these stories are not available to the general public and few have been translated. Locating these survivors’ accounts requires diligence akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
And while these few personnel accounts are useful, without official German studies or documents to guide their work, they are insufficient for historical purposes. They lack detail from a tactical or operational perspective, though do succeed in bringing to light the experiences of the average soldier. Thus, no study yet has attempted, from the German perspective, to marry the Alltagsgeschichte (the history of everyday life) of the battle with official records. Now, for the first time, such records have been uncovered that show the impact of the fighting on a certain German company-sized unit that fought for nearly five months in the Hürtgen Forest and the Rhineland, from both a human and tactical perspective. This book, then, is the story of that company.
When I first began work on this book in the summer of 2000 while stationed in Heidelberg, I thought it would practically write itself. The wealth of original company documents I obtained from Emilie C. Stewart in 1993 seemed like more than enough material for a book. That was true, up to a point. I thought that the records provided everything needed to tell the story of Füsilier Company 272, but the more work progressed, the more it became apparent that I could not write about this one company without writing the history of its parent division, the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division. Once the decision was made to broaden the scope of the book, things began to get complicated. At first glance there was very little to work with except the division’s history put together after the war by one of its former artillery battalion commanders, the inestimable Martin Jenner. His book focused primarily the division’s predecessor, the 216th Infantry Division until it was disbanded in December 1943. Less than one twentieth of Jenner’s book dealt with the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division and the last six months of the war. Therefore, I enlisted the voluntary cooperation of a number of historians, many of them recognized authorities on the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest and the German Army of WWII, to help fill in the gaps. The Internet, only now beginning to realize its full potential, also proved to be a boon, directing me to reliable sources that I would never have considered even ten years ago. Despite a break in work brought about by a tour of duty in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2002, I was able to resume work in earnest in 2004. So here, after many twists and turns, is the final product.
I would first like to acknowledge the contributions of Edward G. Miller and Klaus Schulz, who first convinced me to write the book and directed me towards a wealth of source materials or at least where I could find them. Following their advice, while still stationed in Heidelberg I contacted French MacLean, Colonel, US Army (Retired), Dr. Stephen L. Bowman, and Hans-Gerhard Sandmann, the President of the 216th/272nd Infantry/Volks-Grenadier Division Veterans’ Association. Their advice led to further contacts, and this put me in touch with the 78th Infantry Division Veterans’ Association, the 8th Infantry Division Association, and Ray Fleig of the 707th Tank Battalion Association.
The 78th Infantry Division Veterans’Association proved to be a gold mine, not only because it publicized my search for survivor interviews, but also provided me with more original source material than I could profitably use. To the following members of these Associations I am extremely grateful: from the 78th Infantry Division Veterans’ Association Edward Malouf, John Robbie Robinson, Hermann Red Gonzalez, William Bill Parsons (Editor of The Flash), Stan Polny, Frank Camm (Lieutenant General, US Army Retired), James L. Cooper, Melvie Gilbert, Robert L. Greivell, the late Gus E. Hank, B. C. Henderson, W. Merle Hill, Robert A. McChord, John K. Rains; from the 8th Infantry Division Association, Albert H. Clayton, Merrill B. Westy Westhoff, and Walt Landry; and Don Lavender from the 9th Infantry Division Association.
In the United States I would like to acknowledge the help and advice of a number of historians and researchers, including Richard Anderson; Robert Applegate; Jon Bocek; Robert D. Burgess; Greg Canellis; Frederick L. Clemens; Stephen Ehlers; Hugh Foster; Jeff Gowen; Mike Hamidy; Brad Hubbard; David P. Hunter, Jason Long; Michael Miller; Alex Moore, John Mulholland; Tom Peters; George Petersen; Jason Pipes; Justin Smith; Major Charles Smith, US Army; Barry Smith; Christian Stock; William A. Stofft, Major General, USA (Ret.); Eric Tobey; Richard L. Baker and the staff of the US Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA; the US National Archives; and the dedicated members of the reenacted 11th Panzer Division.
Special thanks are due to Thomas McKnight, whose forthcoming book about his father’s experience at Kesternich as a member of the 78th Infantry Division and the captivity that followed stimulated both of our research efforts. His hard work in translating documents, making maps, and chasing down leads has been a boon and I hope that my assistance to him has been of equal value. I would also like to thank Mrs. Marilee P. Meyer of the Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy, who performed research on several graduates of that noble institution whose paths crossed with that of the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division.
In Europe, I would like to thank the following historians and researchers for their gracious assistance: Christoph Awender of Sweden; Piet Duits of Oudenbosch, The Netherlands; Veit Scherzer and Manfred von Freiesleben of Scherzer’s Militaire-Verlag of Ranis, Germany; Hubert Gees of the Veterans Association, 275th Infanterie-Division; Timm Haasler of Germany; Gevert Haslob of the 89th Infantry Division Veterans Association; Heinrich Heckner of Falkensee, Germany; Ralf Klodt of Germany; Volker Lossner of Aachen, Germany; Alex Moore of Leicestershire, UK; Dr. Leo Niehorster; Hans Peulen, Germany; Ron van Rijt of The Netherlands; Ingrid Roux of Heidelberg, Germany; Ralf Anton Schäfer of Germany; Christian Schwinghammer of Stockholm, Sweden; Brigitte Sebald of Heidelberg, Germany; Wolfgang Trees of Triangle Verlag, Germany; Andries Verspeeten of Ghent, Belgium; Hans H. Weber of Switzerland; Jakob Weiler of Hönningen, Germany; Marcus Wendel of Sweden; Annegret Wolfram of Wildbad in Schwartzwald, Germany; and Niklas Zetterling of Germany.
I also wish to acknowledge of the help of this men whom this book is about— the veterans of the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division, most especially Friedrich Adrario of Vienna, Austria; Helmut Aretz of Krefeld; Erich Bernutz, of Wernigerode; Helmut Beyer of Göttingen; Erwin Buchwalder of Storkow; Günter Ecker of Herschweiler; Friedrich Fosselmann of Berg; Adolf Fuhrmeister, brother of Hermann Fuhrmeister of Süpplingen; Ernst Fuhrmeister, son of Hermann Fuhrmeister of Bremen; Hermann Gehle of Heilbronn; Erwin Gläsig of Berlin; Otto Gunkel of Bad Sooden; the late Kurt Hake of Düsseldorf; Hermann Heiermann of Dinslaken; Gerd Hörner, of Wuppertal; Frau Maria Horstkotte, widow of Heinrich Horstkotte of Kirchlengern; Rudolf Ips of Gifhorn; the late Fritz Johns of Stendahl; Herbert Kaiser of Schwanebeck; Frau Else Klein, widow of Kurt Klein of Solingen; Heinrich Misskampf of Nauheim; Erich Möckel of Mannichswalde; Peter Moog of Bonn; Frau Erna Ortloff, widow of Harald Ortloff of Rudolstadt; Günther Peukert of Gera; Ferdinand Post of Hamm; Günther Schmidt of Hameln; Josef Stefan of Baden, Austria; Frau Irene Thiele, widow of Friedrich Thiele of Zeimendorf; the late Adolf Thomae of Münich; Hans Wegener of Hilden, Frau Anna Winkler, widow of Karl Winkler of Trippstadt; Wilfried Wilts of Emden; and last, but certainly not least, Eduard Zacharuk of Taufkirchen.
No acknowledgment would be complete without mentioning the help and forbearance of my wife, Jill, and children, Douglas Jr., Drew, and Deanna. Their tolerance of the seemingly endless days and nights I spent in researching and writing this book is a constant source of wonder and for which I am extremely grateful. While they showed these same admirable qualities during the writing of my first book, Hell’s Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, the demands of this book took them above and beyond the call of duty. A move from Europe to the United States, a war, a move to Virginia, and another war all added to the normal stresses and strains a family goes through and they have once again proven that a military family can put up with almost anything! My love and thanks to you all.
Lastly, I would like to thank the late Keith E. Kit Bonn of The Aberjona Press. It was he who saw the value of my manuscript and urged me beyond my original goal of covering just Füsilier Company 272 and elevating it to a study of the Volks-Grenadier divisions as a tactical and historical concept. Kit, this one’s for you.
The origins of this book can be traced to the acquisition of a remarkable set of documents that illustrate, from a German perspective, what happened to the lowest tactical building block in any army—the infantry company—from the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, through the Rhineland and into the heart of the Third Reich. From such building blocks, like the infantry company that serves as the focus of this book, battalions, then regiments, and finally entire divisions are made.
While operational records from hundreds of American companies, battalions, regiments, and even individual soldier post-combat interviews are still kept on file in the US National Archives and at the US Army Military History Institute at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, few comparable German records survived the war. Many were deliberately destroyed on orders, while many other documents were abandoned during the Wehrmacht’s long retreat or claimed by the elements. Locating any group of German company-level documents, therefore, is a rare find indeed.
The document grouping used in the writing of this book came into the author’s hands through a roundabout way. In late 1992, Emilie Caldwell Stewart, an American military relics dealer who specialized in German World War II identity documents, ran an advertisement to buy Wehrpässe (military identity books) and Soldbücher (paybooks) in Sammler Journal, a well-known German collectors publication.
Shortly thereafter, she received a letter from a gentleman living in what was the former communist German Democratic Republic, which had reunited with West Germany in 1989 at the end of the Cold War. He wrote that he lived in the village of Tanne, located to the south of the town of Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains of Thuringia. He stated that he had 163 identity documents as well as thousands of other related papers for sale. She immediately accepted and worked out the terms with the seller, agreeing to travel to Germany to complete the transaction.
In early February 1993, Ms. Stewart arrived at the seller’s tiny village consisting of about twenty houses with unpaved streets that was perched on the side of the mountain. A more rural setting in the former East Germany could not be imagined. The seller lived in a communal house with five other families, sharing the kitchen and living room with the others. The house had once been the home of the champion skier of that area, who had retired and moved away some years before.
The skier had apparently been a Gebirgsjäger, or mountain trooper. Ms. Stewart bought one of his beautifully carved chairs adorned with Edelweiss, his skis, and his photo album. The seller had apparently been using the dirt-floored basement of the house to store antiques he had bought at local auctions. When the original owner of the suitcase died (apparently he was a fellow resident of the same communal home), the seller discovered it in the basement and took ownership. The seller named his price for the suitcase and Ms. Stewart bought it.
The moldering suitcase, which had apparently contained the complete Kompanie Schreibstube, or company orderly room files and documents for a German infantry company, had been left behind in the farmhouse near the war’s end and forgotten when the company moved on. Ms. Stewart was amazed to discover the variety of its contents—identity papers, pay books, binders filled with casualty reports, mail logs, various correspondence, and even the reporting book or infamous Kohlenkasten ( coalbox ) of the company Spiess (first sergeant). In short, nearly every scrap of official paper this company had carried along with it since its creation in September 1944 until the middle of April 1945 was contained therein. While the suitcase itself was quickly discarded due to its rotten condition, she realized that its contents were of great historical significance.
For some obscure reason, the Kompanie Schreiber (company clerk) continued to carry the suitcase full of documents and office supplies to the war’s end, perhaps out of loyalty or a sense of duty, long past the point when it no longer mattered. As such, this was not only a great historical find, but an archeological find as well. In this moldy suitcase, figuratively frozen in amber, one could trace a single German infantry company’s path through virtually the entire Siegfried Line Campaign and beyond—from the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest to the crossing of the Rhine River to the surrender of the encircled German forces in the Harz Pocket—from early November 1944 to mid-April 1945.
By studying the suitcase’s contents, one could easily glean details such as daily losses, after-action reports, letters to next of kin, letters from hospitals describing the disposition of evacuated wounded, letters from anxious loved ones or next of kin inquiring about the fates of their sons, fathers, brothers, husbands, . . . it was all there. Unfortunately, the original owner of the suitcase was never named, though he undoubtedly had some connection with Füsilier Company 272.
The papers and documents she discovered all related to Füsilier Company 272, a special unit assigned to the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division (VGD). Created in September 1944 from the remnants of Füsilier Battalion 272, which had been all but destroyed in Normandy the previous month, Füsilier Company 272 was to function as the division’s Aufklärungs (reconnaissance company). It actually served as the division’s Feuerwehr (fire brigade, or quick reaction force), used for emergency situations that demanded hard-hitting, mobile, and well-led units.
Füsilier Company 272 fought in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, the northern shoulder during the Battle of the Bulge, around the Roer River dams, the retreat across the Rhine, and was nearly trapped in the Ruhr Pocket. There, the bulk of the 272nd VGD was finally forced to capitulate, along with the rest of Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model’s Army Group B on 18 April 1945, but a small remnant was able to fight its way to the transitory safety of the Harz Mountains. All that lay in the uncertain future, however, when the cadre of Füsilier Company 272, survivors of the retreat across France and the Low Countries, boarded trains along the German-Dutch border in September 1944, bound for the interior of Germany.
As primary source documents, those found in the farmhouse were unsurpassed. Despite years of storage in a dank cellar in Northern Germany, all of the documents were completely undamaged and easily legible. Most of the papers were assembled in binders or folders, making it easy to catalog and sort their contents. While nearly a third of the individual soldier service records and pay books were quickly sold to collectors, the remainder, as well as thousands of pages of other documents relating to the Füsilier Company 272 were kept together as a set and acquired by the author in 1994.
In all, the document grouping included 163 individual service records and pay books, as well as partial documents for 319 other men, enough material to fill twelve large binders, in addition to eight bound volumes of records. Collating and recording this material required hundreds of hours, but were necessary in order to piece the unit history together again. Once organized, the documents began to paint a clear picture of the life and death of this company from its inception in September 1944 until the end of March 1945, when the official record ends.
The records were maintained by the company clerk, who was responsible for the various files and for processing various administrative actions, such as requests for furloughs, promotions, punishments, and awards. Füsilier Company 272 was fortunate in that its company clerk, Obergefreiter (senior corporal) Ulrich Lorenz, was not only efficient, but also able to write clearly and legibly, an advantage when studying documents written in a different language than one’s own. Additionally, Lorenz was assigned to the company from its inception until it was finally disbanded in April 1945.
The orderly room was the repository of all the relevant documents required for the efficient administration of a company-sized unit. The functions of the orderly room were replicated on a larger scale at the battalion, regiment, and division levels, with more personnel with greater specialization being found the further up the chain one went. At the company level, however, one clerk (sometimes a mail clerk was assigned as well) was sufficient to handle the workload. The clerk was directly supervised by the company’s Spiess (first sergeant), Hauptfeldwebel Hermann Fuhrmeister, though in practice, these duties were often delegated to the first sergeant’s assistant.
The company orderly room with its clerks normally was set up in the company Tross ( trains or administrative-logistics area), usually six to ten kilometers from the front line, where the unit’s combat troops were occupying defensive positions. The company trains also consisted of the supply section with its horse-drawn carts; several Hiwis (Hilfwilliger—Russian prisoners of war who volunteered to serve the Germans) to care for the horses and perform manual labor; the senior medical NCO and his Sanitäter (assistant aid men); and the unit cook along with his kitchen assistants. One of these kitchen assistants, Grenadier Herbert Pitsch from Berlin, had owned a butcher shop in his hometown before the war. Lorenz, the company clerk, and his other compatriots in the company’s administrative and logistics area were relatively safe from harm, with only the occasional air raid or American artillery interdiction barrage to worry about.
The documents that Lorenz used to track administrative actions in the company and the personnel records he maintained consisted of individual service records, pay books, identification disks, unit roster sheet, and the punishment book. In addition, he kept up the casualty reporting book, hospital report book, and the correspondence file for the company commander, Oberleutnant Heinz Kolb. Lorenz, equipped with his trusty typewriter, also prepared hundreds of letters to casualties’ next of kin for the commander’s signature, wrote letters for the Hauptfeldwebel to sergeants major of other units in the division, and compiled the unit daily strength report for the division IIb, the enlisted personnel management section of the division staff. All of these documents were essential for proper administration of the unit, and Lorenz appears to have done his job well.
In addition, the unit mail clerk, Füsilier Johann Anderka, maintained the record books for both incoming and outgoing mail, as well as official orders and administrative announcements from division headquarters. While there were no doubt interruptions at various times due to attacks on the German transportation network and the bombing of cities, mail appears to have been delivered to the company with a fair degree of regularity, with packages and mail reaching the company as late as 16 March 1945. For soldiers who had no writing paper or envelopes of their own, the mail clerk had a limited supply of writing materials and postcards to be distributed upon request. In all, enough writing paper; carbon paper; pencils; pens; blank casualty reports; postcards; and blank paybooks and identity tags remained on hand to serve the company’s needs for several more weeks, had the war not ended for Füsilier Company 272 when it did.
Equally as important was the discovery among the documents, of a fragment of the company’s Kriegstagebuch (daily combat journal, or KTB). This was an extremely important find, since it provided insight into the more mundane daily occurrences as well as combat. Apparently, Hauptfeldwebel Fuhrmeister dictated the bulk of the KTB to the company clerk, since the various papers are all in Obergefreiter Lorenz’s script throughout. Transcribing and deciphering the journal was a challenge, however, since the journal was written in pencil in old German shorthand script on scraps of notebook paper. While the translated combat journal proved to be a font of valuable information, it only covered the period from 28 December 1944 to 17 March 1945. Because the official records of the company began to deteriorate in quality beginning in early February 1945, however, this journal fills in many of the gaps and provides much information not available through the other documents.
While these documents provide insight as to what was occurring within the miniature world of Füsilier Company 272, they shed little light on the overall military situation developing around it. This is a common occurrence in any company- or battalion-sized unit whose perspective was limited to its own comparatively short range of action. All too often, information rarely filters down to the small unit level and this failing was even more pronounced in the German Army of 1944–45, whose leaders had good reasons not to reveal the true situation to the combat troops, lest they become demoralized. Consequently, one must resort to other primary source documents or official records in order to place the history of Füsilier Company 272 into its proper historical context.
Most of all, this grouping of documents also sheds light on a little-known and poorly understood type of combat division that the Wehrmacht created during the last year of the war—the Volks-Grenadier Division, or People’s Grenadier Division. Long confused with the Volkssturm, or People’s Assault Force, an organization created by the Nazi Party at roughly the same time, the VGD represented an attempt by the German Army to wring the last ounce of manpower and military capability out of Germany’s nearly spent military resources.
Though nearly all American and British combat divisions fought VGDs at one time or another during the last eight months of the war, there has been little effort until recently to understand how these divisions were organized, how they were equipped, and how they fought. What made them unique? Did they represent a departure from German military tradition? Were they part of the SS? Could they have affected the outcome of the war in Europe? These and other questions have been asked frequently, but little attempt has been made to answer them to the satisfaction of military scholars.
This, then, is the purpose of this book. Using the document grouping as a point of departure, Füsilier Company 272 will be seen as a microcosm of its larger parent organization, the 272nd VGD. In many ways, this division was typical of the rest of those created in September and October 1944, at a time when German victory was a forlorn hope and when the best that Germany could expect was a negotiated truce. Fighting exclusively on the Western Front from November 1944 until April 1945, this division experienced brief glimpses of success in battle against American and British troops before it finally succumbed during the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, the largest battle of encirclement in the west during World War Two.
Designed to secure final victory, these divisions instead found it to be an ever-elusive goal that continued to recede before them. Despite the extraordinary exertions required to man and equip them, they never lived up to expectations and the men of these divisions were sacrificed senselessly in a vain attempt to overcome Allied supremacy. Hastily assembled and trained, Volks-Grenadier divisions were forced to use the bodies of their men as a substitute for firepower and mobility. The result was an enormous bloodletting that drained the German people, das Volk, of the last ounce of available manpower—the husbands, sons, and fathers who had so far been spared from the clutches of a total war. They now found that they had become little more than cannon fodder for a Führer who, in the end, thought them not worthy of his leadership.
Volks-Grenadier Divisions sprang into being in the aftermath of the 20 July 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life, when fanatical loyalty to the Nazi regime rather than skill or leadership ability increasingly became the paramount criteria for service and advancement in the Wehrmacht. Adolf Hitler, ever attuned to the latent nationalistic character of the German people, selected the Volks-Grenadier honorific "to appeal to the national and military pride of Das Volk."¹ It was to be the Wehrmacht’s last concerted effort to mobilize Germany’s remaining potential manpower to turn the tide of war.
Using the pretext of the assassination attempt to guarantee the Führer the Army’s future ideological loyalty, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer (national leader) of the SS, convinced Hitler to appoint him commander-in-chief of the Ersatzheer (the replacement army). Approved only hours after the attempt on his life, this appointment merely masked Himmler’s ambition to increase his own share of power at the Army’s expense. His path to this new command was made easier by the fact that many of the key conspirators, such as Generaloberst Erich Fromm and Oberst Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, had held senior positions in the Ersatzheer.² Their elimination removed any remaining obstacle to the realization of Himmler’s goal.
Another reason advanced for use of the Volks designation was the belief that this title would distinguish such units from other infantry divisions of the German Army, perhaps in conscious imitation of the term Guards Division as used by the British and Soviet armies. The title Guards Division had been bestowed since the middle of the war upon Soviet divisions that had distinguished themselves in battle.⁵ Of course, the title "Volks" was bestowed on many divisions that had not even seen any fighting at all, much less having distinguished themselves. Left unspoken, of course, must have been the hope that they would do so at the first opportunity so that they might live up to their lofty title.
Nineteen Volks-Grenadier Divisions, which constituted the 32nd Welle (Mobilization Wave), were to be created on 31 August 1944 to serve as an operational reserve.⁶ The orders authorizing their creation, issued by the Oberkommando des Heeres (German Army High Command, or OKH) on 26 and 28 August 1944, stated that they were to be raised, trained, equipped, and ready for employment on either the Western or Eastern Fronts between 16 September and 26 November 1944. As it turned out, most of these new divisions were initially committed on the Western Front.⁷ This order did not affect other types of divisions, such as Panzer, Panzer-Grenadier, Mountain, or Light Infantry divisions. Nor did it apply to any Luftwaffe Parachute or Field divisions, though many airmen were eventually transferred into VGDs. In addition to creating VGDs, Himmler also authorized the creation of Volks-Artillerie Corps (for the command and control of corps-level artillery) and Volks-Werfer (Mortar) Brigades. Six more VGDs were formed on 16 September 1944.
The nineteen new Volks-Grenadier divisions being formed mentioned above, which had divisional numbers from 564 to 582, were merged with the remnants of older divisions that had been shattered during the summer and fall campaigns of 1944.⁹ So it came to be that new divisions, like the 575th Volks-Grenadier Division, were merged with veteran divisions like the 272nd Infantry Division before their establishment was ever completed. Many older Kriegsetat (Wartime Establishment, also known as Infantry Division 44 neuer Art) 1944 infantry divisions, whose pre-war organizational structures had been modified during late 1943 and early 1944, were never re-designated as VGDs and retained their old titles and structure until the end of the war. This was a function of insufficient time or opportunity to pull them out of the front line to undergo reorganization rather than a deliberate oversight.
In the case of the 272nd VGD, nearly all of the officers that had escaped from Normandy with the old division were retained in the same key leadership positions (for the names and positions of key leaders at this time, refer to Appendix A). Many of them met or exceeded the above-stated specifications for the desired types of individual decorations. A noteworthy omission from the officer positions authorized by the new structure, however, was that of divisional chaplain, which had been eliminated by order of Himmler himself.
That was the idea, at least in theory. Actually rounding up the manpower was another matter, although Himmler had ultimate control over the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS replacement pools. The bitter reality was that experienced manpower had become a scarce commodity by the early autumn of 1944. To fill the ranks of these new divisions, Himmler, as commander in chief of the Ersatzheer initiated a series of imaginative and ruthless measures. One such measure was his resort to the use of mobile drafting units, the so-called Heldenklaukommandos ( hero-snatcher units ).
Comparable to press gangs during the days of Frederick the Great, these roving teams, consisting of Nazi Party officials, military police, and Army recruitment personnel, scoured Germany and the remaining occupied areas for manpower. They resorted to re-activating convalescent soldiers discharged from hospitals as no longer fit for frontline service; culling the now-underemployed Luftwaffe for suitable personnel; converting Kriegsmarine personnel from sailors to infantrymen; conscripting boys of sixteen and seventeen years of age; and snatching able-bodied workers from German industry or the railways and replacing them with women and forced laborers who were from conquered territories.
Further guidelines were issued to generate additional manpower from the hospitals by shortening a soldier’s recuperation. On 21 September 1944, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command, or OKW) issued an order that specified that the terms ‘Limited Fitness for Field Service’ and ‘Limited Fitness for Duty in the Replacement Army’ have been so routinely abused that they are no longer meaningful. They are henceforth no longer to be used. ¹³ What then followed was a list of requirements that effectively forced military hospitals to discharge patients much earlier than in peacetime and to reclassify soldiers with infirmities or disabilities for front line service. It is doubtful whether these men contributed anything meaningful to a unit’s combat effectiveness, but at least it had the immediate effect of freeing up more manpower for the new Volks-Grenadier divisions.


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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members at Northam Platinum ended a six days strike today (20 January 2015) after they accepted a draft memorandum of understanding developed by the NUM and Northam Platinum management.
Following the work stoppage by workers at Northam Platinum on the night of the 13th and the day shift on the 14 January 2015, endless efforts were made by the NUM to engage the company to resolve the work stoppage. What contributed to this strike was the flouting of policies by the company management. Management wanted to unilaterally change sick note and recruitment policies .They attempted to discipline workers who had valid sick notes and force them to work while they are injured or sick.
It was this reason that workers realized that with Paul Dunne at the helm things are going wrong. They sprang to action to force the company not to alter policies that they fought hard for. NUM members fought gallantly to force management to engage as they resorted to unconventional methods to engage the union to find a solution. This struggle paid off as management finally came to the negotiating table. The last meeting that we had with Northam Platinum management lasted until midnight on the 19th of January 2015.
To jointly design a process with no conditions or pre conditions which will focus on issues raised prior to and during the strike.
That Peace and Stability Framework will be adhered to.
Not to dwell on the past but commit to a multi-stakeholder healing process aimed at resetting the relationship.
That the above agreement will be effected on the proviso that all striking employees must return to work on Wednesday 21 January 2015 starting on the night shift of 20 January 2015.

industry_corpus2: Mining


text: Beillen BL-T1B Li-ion battery charger is used for charging Beillen BLP series high capacity Li-ion batteries. Charging takes place via XLR. The XLR cable used between the charger and the battery is included in the package.

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Telluride stands alone. The Festival worked another seeming miracle by assembling a slate of consistently entertaining motion pictures and retrospectives in its coterie of makeshift theatres miraculously transformed into high tech film palaces. Like Cinderella of fairy tale fame, this bucolic old mining town again transformed into a film world mecca.
Nearly a century ago, immortal talents such as the Marx Brothers, Sarah Bernhardt, Houdini and Lillian Gish journeyed to the remote mining town of Telluride to entertain the miners in the Sheridan Opera House. Today, the venerable Sheridan still stands and welcomes the show people of our times. In this restored, historic, antique gem beats the heart of the Telluride Film Festival: it is that building’s antique sign, reading simply "SHOW," that inspires so many of our traditions. We took that as a direct order.
Since the Opera House is one of only three existing year-round theatres in the town, seven more must come alive each Labor Day weekend for the Festival: The Werner Herzog Theatre in Town Park with its state of the art visual and audio capabilities, a Victorian-flavored theatre emerges from the town’s Masonic Hall, the middle school gym morphs into the Meliés-inspired Galaxy, intimate spaces on opposite sides of town form the Pierre and Backlot Theatres, and the Mountain Village Conference Center puts on its bunny ears to become Chuck Jones’ Cinema. There’s even an open-air cinema built in Elks Park to enjoy the hot new films in the cool mountain nights. Out of necessity, we’ve built them, but we’d like to think that each theatre has its own special character; unique spaces that infuse the films we show there with a little extra zest. Each venue is distinct, and like great character actors, each fleshes out the whole of the film-going experience. That’s just another part of The Show.
Telluride is God’s own multiplex!
The town’s theatres are filled with the famous, the infamous, and the anonymous, seated side by side in a joyful camaraderie of discovery.

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Radix, Asia's largest new gTLD applicant, announced top players of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on 26th August '14.
The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, OVH, Arvixe, and the UK2 Group, in addition to regional leaders such as Natro (Turkey) and UOL (Brazil), HostPapa (Canada), Blacknight (Ireland). Several top global wholesale registrars, such as OpenSRS, ResellerClub and InternetX have also signed on as Pioneer Partners.
"Jumping on the .HOST bandwagon was a logical choice for Media Temple and we are pleased to have a domain extension that specifically serves our industry," said Jacob Shin, VP of Marketing at Media Temple, a premium web hosting subsidiary of GoDaddy, and one of the first companies to sign on to what has shaped into an elite roster.
"We're seeing a huge amount of interest for .host among our global network of resellers," said Dave Woroch, EVP Wholesale at OpenSRS. "The Pioneer Program has been a great way to drum up anticipation for the launch, and we're excited to move forward."
Leading news and reviews site FindMyHost will pioneer the namespace on www.FindMy.Host. Hosting-Review and eBridge, both leading affiliate marketers and now .host Pioneers, look forward to the improved search engine rankings .host stands to afford.
Each of the .host Pioneers recognize the value of .host for the industry and have committed to helping in making it a successful and viable namespace.
Already, .Host Pioneers have explored innovative ways to use the domain. Bluehost, for example, acquired the domain name Pink.host for later use during its breast cancer awareness program, a clever way to adapt the namespace while enhancing its premier brand. Meanwhile, FindMyHost has acquired domains such as FindMyCloud.host in order to specifically target industry niches.
"We've long been a part of the hosting industry," said Viram Lodhia, .host Category Manager, Radix, "and now we're looking forward to giving back to the community. Thanks to all our Pioneers, we will go a long way toward driving awareness of .host's possibilities and it's great to see widespread interest in the launch."
The .host public Landrush phase began 26th August and will be open till 15th September. First-come, first-serve registrations will be available starting 17th September.
Interested members of the community can pre-register for free on www.dothostregistry.com. The Registry is also promoting Landrush names via a dedicated Landrush microsite on http://www.radixregistry.com/landrush.

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Once upon a time, there was a huge piece of land that was taken under wing by arrogant European has-been empires when they successfully destroyed a rival empire. They divvied up the land and told the world they would hold it in trust for the indigenous peoples of those regions.One of these was named the Mandate of Palestine by the trustees. It was supposed to be a homeland for the Jewish people given that it was sitting on our ancestral lands.
The neighbours did not like what they saw — those Jews! “There goes the neighbourhood,” they exclaimed!
The Jews were prepared to continue the work they had already begun in developing the infrastructure of their new modern state. However, the Arabs just could not let it go. So the British came up with what came to be called The Partition Plan. It was really the SECOND partition plan, the first having already been executed and the keys to the newly invented kingdom having been given to the Hashemites in the 1920s, the deal signed finally in 1947.
Map showing the insane divvying Up of the remaining land of the Mandate after giving the bigger half to Jordan.
You cannot step on any piece of dirt, or jump from one rock to another, in any part of the land west of the Jordan River without the strong likelihood that our Israelite ancestors walked across or tilled the soil in that very spot. That was way before the Muslim Conquest brought the Arabs raging across the lands that they would forever-after claim was theirs, lying about having been there before the Jews.
Among other important ancient Hebrew towns, the lands that were offered to the Arabs, marked in yellow on the map above, contained the second-most important piece of real estate upon which our indigenous culture was established and developed, Hebron. Other significant ancient towns were put into what was supposed to be the Jewish part of the partition: Tsfat, Tiberias, and Beersheva. Jerusalem, our capital city for eons was deemed too valuable to be kept in Jewish hands and so was supposed to be made an eternal international protectorate, accessible to the Jews only by going through the Arab part of the partition.
It would have been an excruciating decision to make had they been asked to: would the Jewish leaders of 1947 have chosen to hold onto Hebron and certain access to Jerusalem? We will never know. Anxious to have any part of our ancient homeland as a modern state, they accepted the crumbs offered us.
It almost parallels the “this baby is mine” case brought before King Solomon for judgement. Almost. The Arabs rejected partition, saying they would not cut the baby in half; that is true. But a land is not a baby. A land can be divided and it will not die. Just the people on it.
At the same time, I cannot imagine what it would have been like had the Arabs accepted the Second Partition Plan. How would it have felt to stand as close to Jerusalem as one could get, on the border of the second Arab Palestinian state that would have arisen, barely able to see Jerusalem and certainly unable to smell it and taste it and hear it? For have no doubt, it would not have remained “international” for very long, and the Arabs would not have let us in. But still, we were willing to accept crumbs as long as we could have independence as a free nation.
The Second Partition Plan was conceivable because the 1947 Jews somehow could not believe that we no longer needed to ask anyone for permission to live and breathe. The longevity of the Two-State-Solution Myth is because many of us still cannot get that we are a sovereign nation and need not beg others to recognize our right to exist as such.
The Second Partition Plan died when the Arabs rejected it and they cannot resuscitate it with a doomed Two-State “Solution”. End of chapter. Turning the page and moving on . . . and hopefully growing a pair, finally.
I agree with you, Israel should have the courage to annexe the land to which they have an unassailable right. I was discussing this recently with someone online. They characterised the late 19th century immigrants to Palestine as, “thugs with guns,” bent on dispossessing the land of its inhabitants. I just wish that people would take the time to read and understand the history of the re establishment of Israel. They would come to understand that you fought for the land with blood, sweat and tears, that the land rightfully belongs to the Jews. You have probably heard of the uproar in Britain that the Labour Party have finally been brought to account by the Board of Deputies over their institutionalised antisemitism. Labour brought this on themselves because of their obsessive hatred of Israel. Britain as a country is accountable for having turned its back on the Balfour Declaration, for helping to promote the establishment of the fake nation of Palestine.It was Britain who gave up on the Mandate entrusted to them, who turned the issue over to the United Nations, who came up with UN181 proposing partition. Israel did the right thing in 1947 and the wrong thing in 1967. Britain has been reaping its just rewards. I believe Israel will yet be vindicated. Thank you for all you write to help get the facts out there.
I am glad you find value in what I write. I find the real history fascinating and not just a little troubling.
Just writing to say thank you for another excellent, informative, inspiring post, Sheri.
Excellent summary Sheri. You have laid out the history of the Partition Plan very clearly and concisely.
And you are so right about the way Israel conducts itself, or rather, conducted itself, up until Oslo. The only good thing to come out of Oslo – at the cost of over 1,000 Israeli lives – is that it put paid to the Two State Solution once and for all. Bibi made a huge mistake with that Bar Ilan speech of his, but I think he felt under pressure from Obama. He should have known better and stuck to his principles. At least now he seems to be walking his rhetoric back.
More importantly, the Arabs don’t seem to care any more. They are paying no more than lip service to the Palestinians and their ridiculous demands from Israel via the international community. Israel seems to be at the height of its international relations davka now when Netanyahu and his government have dug in their heels.
Now he needs to find the spine to legalize the remaining “illegal” settlements and permit the free construction of new ones and/or expand the existing ones. They are choking from lack of housing, and it is outrageous that Jews are not allowed to freely build homes on Jewish land. The way every purchase of property in places like Hebron are scrutinized and almost always disallowed by the courts is infuriating. The words of the Jews are never believed, but the Palestinians, who we must remember are under threat of death for daring to sell property to the Jews, are always believed when they renege on the deal. There should be a witness protection system for those Arabs who sell land and property to Israelis, and the courts have to be fairer towards their own people rather than bending over backwards to find fault with the Jews.
I like your idea of a witness protection plan. I have the feeling, if it included Israeli citizenship, there may be lots of takers.
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Bond Brothers Run Club is sponsored by Bond Brothers Beer Company and Fleet Feet Sports of Morrisville. We meet at Bond Brothers Beer Company on Cedar Street @6:30pm every Tuesday for a 3 or 5 mile run through downtown Cary followed by socializing over great beer in the taproom and beer garden. All paces welcome, and we encourage beginners!
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In the context of gravity (general relativity), higher curvature corrections are modifications of the Einstein-Hilbert action that include not just the linear appearance of the scalar curvature RR but higher scalar powers of the Riemann curvature tensor.
When viewing Einstein-Hilbert gravity as an effective field theory valid at low energy, then higher curvature corrections are precisely the terms that may appear at higher energy in pure gravity. Notably the effective field theories induced by string theory come with infinite towers of higher curvature corrections.
In the context of cosmology, higher curvature corrections are a candidate for the inflaton field, see at Starobinsky model of cosmic inflation.
A spacetime that extremizes the Einstein-Hilbert action for given cosmological constant and arbitrary higher curvature correction is called a universal spacetime.
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Canadian artist, Isabelle Rezazadeh has quickly distinguished a name for herself by using a dark, twisted and mystical approach to her production. Currently signed with Mau5trap, the artist better known as Rezz has created her own style of music that can easily induce you into a hypnotic trance like state without warning. With deep support from her loyal fan base known as the "Cult of Rezz," she is easily one of the most creative artists when it comes to initiating a unique experience filled with deep underground space-like vibes. To update your Halloween playlist just in time, Rezz has provided her fans with a 32-minute mix of original and unreleased music that many fans would not have the opportunity to listen to otherwise.
You are in for a treat as the Space Mom is in the house for this one. It is easy for Rezz to go dark, but this remix satisfies all you desire for a sinister approach to Halloween in the best way possible. The remix starts off with a slow-tempo coiled with jaw-dropping bass and clear distortion. The more you listen, the more you feel as if you are walking down a haunted street accompanied by spirits ready to take your Rezz loving soul away. Without a warning, the Boogie Man is here to great you, except this time he's dancing as the pace begins to speed up. With many clear instrumental sounds used in this remix, it is almost as if this mix was intended to build a connection between creatures and humans. A fair warning, you may or may not experience nightmares after listening to this mix.
Be prepared to go to space as Rezz will be playing in Suwannee County USA on October 26th.


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Christian Marroni has been appointed Group Communications Director supporting Grosvenor Group and Wheatsheaf Group, the two corporate operating businesses of the Grosvenor Estate.
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor) has sold 20 Grosvenor Street on a 125 year lease for £96m to a client of the Shaftesbury Asset Management Group.
Event on 23-28 May celebrates Chelsea Flower Show in association with Royal Horticultural Society.
A new community garden is to be delivered at Barton Park, Oxford, alongside improvements to the existing community allotments. Oxford City Council last week granted planning consent for the proposals submitted by Barton LLP (a partnership between Oxford City Council and Grosvenor Developments (Grosvenor), the property investment and development company).
Grosvenor Group, the privately-owned international property group, recorded a total return of 9% in 2015 (2014: 13.1%), slightly ahead of what we predicted last year.
Luxury boutique opens at award-winning high street retail building at 185 Post Street.
Site near Victoria station to open up to entrepreneurs and local residents.
Grosvenor Group Limited (‘Grosvenor Group’), the privately-owned international property group, has announced important senior management changes which will take effect from 1st January 2017.
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland announces that The Fine Cheese Co. will open its first London store at 17 Motcomb Street, Belgravia in early May.
Haninge Centrum shopping centre, near Stockholm, has been recognised as one of the most improved shopping centres in Stockholm in 2015.
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor) has sold a 125-year leasehold interest in 69 Grosvenor Street to a private investor for £35m.
Community drop-in sessions provide opportunity for feedback on Belgravia plans.
A new survey of British Property Federation (BPF) members, released today, shows a positive short-term outlook for the UK real estate sector, with 88% expressing confidence in its performance over the next 12 months.
Barton Park in Oxford, a development by the Barton Oxford LLP (a partnership between Oxford City Council and property investment and development company Grosvenor Developments Limited), has been selected as one of 10 NHS Healthy New Town demonstrator sites.

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Always Share Your Iceberg: Big Words from Small Penguins is a perfect gift for Mother’s Day,Father’s Day, a graduation day?or any day!
Healthy Foods from Healthy Soils invites you and your students to discover where food comes from, how our bodies use food, and what happens to food waste. You’ll participate in the ecological cycle of food production > compost formation > recycling back to the soil, while helping children understand how their food choices affect not only their own health, but farmers, the environment, and your local community.
“Any actor will profit from Sharon Bialy’s advice, and, should they bring this book to any audition she and I are running, will surely get not only our attention, but our respect.” -- David Mamet To win a role in a movie or on network or cable TV, you must make a strong first impression in your brief, crucial audition--and the first person you have to impress is the casting director.
Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the land scape, these features speak to us if we can hear them—and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites.

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text: Five thousand blocks of ice and 22 years later, Darren Ho still carves ice sculptures for all kinds of special events in Hawaii and around the world. Here he works in his Kihei studio. At the Sapporo Snow Festival this year in Japan, his first appearance at the annual event, Ho’s sculpture placed fourth. You can book him at icesculpturesbydarrenho.com.


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cPanel provides an easy to use interface to manage all aspects of your email accounts. Let's start by creating your first email account. To do so, please login your cPanel and click on the Email Accounts icon under the Mail Section.
This will redirect you to the Email Accounts page via which you can create, delete and manage your existing accounts. To create a new email address, please enter the required details including your email account name, password, and mailbox quota.
It is highly recommend to use strong passwords to prevent password brute force attacks. FastComet has special firewall applied to prevent such attacks but passwords based on dictionary words may still be vulnerable.
The Mailbox Quota is the maximum size of your email account. If this quote is reached all new emails will bounce back to the sender until enough space is available.
When you have your first email account created you should be able to see it below under the email accounts list.
In this section you can manage your email accounts, change passwords, quotas, access the webmail interface or completely remove the email account.


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The exact cause of a birth injury and the condition of cerebral palsy may never be fully known. There are known however common risk factors that will indicate the likelihood for cerebral palsy. And these indicators should sound alarms in the mind of your doctor or medical provider. Most medical complications and/or conditions in this arena are caused by a brain injury that occurs during pregnancy or the birthing or in the months/years following birth. A faulty development of or damage to motor areas in the brain that disrupt the brain's ability to control movement and posture, is the underlying issue in a cerebral palsy diagnosis.
Genetics or genetic conditions, that are inherited from the parents and/or problems with the blood supply to the brain and/or how the brain develops during the first 6 months of pregnancy, can be a factor to consider.
An Oxygen Shortage - if the oxygen supply to the brain is abnormal or low at the time of birth, the infant can suffer hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, a type of brain damage.
Rh Incompatibility - this is a blood condition that causes the mother's own immune cells to attack the fetus.
Severe Jaundice in the child following birth.
Toxicity - drug or alcohol use during pregnancy.
Kidney and urinary tract infections - can lead to brain damage within the fetus, in some cases.
Exposure to certain infections including rubella, toxoplasmosis and cytomegalovirus can cause the condition.
Severe trauma to the mother during the pendency of the pregnancy.
The failure by the medical providers to recognize and treat seizures following delivery.
The condition of acquired cerebral palsy can be caused by: Brain Infections, Encephalitis, Meningitis and Head Injuries.

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As expected, the FCC’s set-top proposal got a lot of attention at the House Communications Subcommittee FCC oversight hearing Tuesday. Among the takeaways were that the U.S. Copyright Office is concerned about the proposal, and FCC chairman Tom wheeler is committed to working with the office to allay those concerns.
He also said that the cable proposal appeared to require a gateway device for TV sets, meaning another piece of hardware, adding that he knew how much the subcommittee didn’t like extra hardware. That was a reference to Republican and cable operator complaints that Wheeler’s “unlock the box” proposal could mean extra equipment.


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Oh my... It sure has been a while since I sat down to write a thought or two on this blog. I feel a bit guilty for not keeping up with it the past year, but in the same time I am giving myself some understanding. I got bored. I was not in the mood. I stopped using my camera. I had no time. I wasn't in the right state of mind. I was insecure.
I had no intention of stopping altogether, but the thought did cross my mind once or twice... Or maybe not stop, but try something new. A fresh start. Then I kept going back and forth and ended up staying in the same spot. Still a bit unsure how this will go, but one thing is certain. I want to continue documenting our journey one way or another. Maybe I'll just spruce up the space and continue. Maybe I'll give it a new face and a new direction. I wish I could take it more seriously and be more straightforward in my posts. I definitely feel I can share ideas and some of the things I know. I can be interesting!
At the moment I am sitting in my mother's den after a day of snoozing and mostly just switching horizontal positions... oh and we are still on a 'eating for fun' kind of state so that is still going on. I will probably hate myself at the next gym session.
The first day of 2018. It never ceases to feel like a fresh start no matter what the grinches of the world are saying. The 1st of January is never 'any other day'. It feels like you owe it to yourself to contemplate and reprogram. To set those new goals to chase for an entire 365 days. I am doing quite well with our tradition of writing down our goals and scratching them off at the end of each year. For me it's important to keep the goals specific, even if that means writing down smaller tasks. still, the sense of accomplishment when we manage to tick them off makes me feel 100%, so why not??!


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American rock queen Suzi Quatro has been in the music business for more than 50 years, delivering her greatest hits such as “Can The Can”, “48 Crash”, “If You Can’t Give Me Love”, “She’s In Love With You” and “Devil Gate Drive” with unbridled energy, mixing them with her current material. March 29 will see the arrival of her new studio album, “No Control”, on SPV/Steamhammer, with the lead single, “No Soul/No Control”, scheduled to arrive on February 15.
“No Control” contains 11 new songs (plus two bonus tracks), including a first-time collaboration with Suzi‘s son Richard Tuckey.
Suzi will embark on a major tour of Australia and Europe later this year.


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Found out today that lovely scientist Brian Cox used to be the keyboardist in D:ream!!!
That is as much as I can tell you this morning.
Oh I managed to knock an impressive 2 minutes of my normal running route!
How I managed that I don't know.
I actually felt far more shattered than normal.
Maybe the answer to both is, I was running faster!!!
Recycling drawings and collage in attempt to get ideas for my fantastical trophies.
Drawings based on a hat I had made a while ago.
God I used to love these songs as a kid, still do!
Getting down to Kid Creole and The Coconuts!
Annie, I'm not you're Daddy. Some very horrible lyrics in this one. "Well if I was in your blood then you wouldn't be so ugly" Nice!
Being modest. I'm a Wonderful Thing Baby.


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Cepac are the UK’s leading independent corrugated packaging company.
Over the last 20 years they have taken pride in their pioneering spirit in state-of-the-art corrugate packaging. Like ourselves, Cepac believe collaboration is key to delivering results.
We were commissioned to create a sample pack targeting UK design agencies promoting quality packaging for the spirits industry.
Arcwise®, developed by Swedish firm SCA, is new technology which allows corrugate cardboard to be formed in to rounded shapes without sacrificing quality or structural integrity.
Cepac promoted Arcwise alongside a presentation on the future of corrugate at the Spirits Packaging Summit 2018. This promotional mailer served as an introduction of Cepac and Arcwise to UK design agencies and as an invite to the event itself.
We collaborated with illustrator Ben O’Brien, an industry veteran, to create illustrations of spirits bottles overlaid on curved shapes. Ben’s style lent itself well to corrugate print processes and we were confident in his ability to deliver on brief, on time and on budget.
Number of design agencies who received the mailer.
A number of recipients posted images of the pack on social media.
Within two weeks of receiving the pack, one of the targeted prospects had contacted Cepac to discuss a live project.
From day one of this project we truly partnered with both the client and our suggested collaborators.
Working with Cepac’s in house team was vital in creating the product design and print of the mailer sample itself. Ben was in touch with Cepac from the very start of the project, which ensured his illustrations required very few amendments. SCA were more than happy to support our (no doubt difficult) requests for content and technical knowledge.
We were happy to attend the Spirits Packaging Summit 2018 with Cepac and were excited and intrigued to witness the future possibilities for curved corrugated.


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Parliament are conducting further indicative votes today. The immigration implications of the four options are outlined below. As long as the UK leaves the EU and EEA it should be able to assert sovereign control over immigration although pressure for concessions might arise in future trade negotiations. (see our paper).
Enshrines in primary legislation the aim of establishing a customs union with the EU to help solve the Irish border issue. This would have no direct impact on immigration but the EU would likely make demands for bilateral liberal migration arrangements to be included in the course of negotiations on the establishment of a customs union.
Proposes UK membership of EFTA and the EEA and a commitment to a temporary customs union until alternative arrangements can be made establishing frictionless movement of goods across an open border with Ireland. Remaining in the EEA means free movement of people would continue. Technically, safeguard measures stipulated in Articles 112-113 of the EEA Treaty would allow the UK to enact an emergency brake mechanism to slow or halt the inflow of EU workers, but in practice this can only be used for a temporary period, is of very limited efficacy and its implementation and continuation must be agreed upon by an EEA arbitration committee. There is also the possibility that deploying the brake would result in reprisal measures by the EU. See our paper on Norway which is party to the EEA Treaty.
Prevents the government implementing or ratifying the withdrawal agreement unless it has been approved in a referendum. The immigration impact would depend on the outcome of the referendum. If this referendum endorsed the original outcome, the immigration consequences would depend on the content of the agreement. If that agreement is the PM’s deal as it currently stands, the government’s negotiating position would be so weak that the EU would probably be able to extract significant immigration concessions in return for trade arrangements.
Stipulates that there must be a vote on ‘no deal’ in the event that no withdrawal agreement is agreed upon. If ‘no deal’ is rejected then the government will be obligated to revoke Article 50. Multiple possible outcomes with regard to immigration. No deal will allow any EU citizen who arrive in the UK within three years of Brexit to obtain temporary leave to remain for a period of up to three years. The government’s white paper proposals would be expected to be implemented from autumn 2020 onwards.

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Rapid prototyping is one of the most powerful tools to quickly refine a design within an interactive context, and one of the most popular tools out there is InVision. We've invited Eric Thomas to come and give a high-level overview of adding InVision to your design workflow. In addition to a summary of his workshop at Design Week Tallahassee, he'll also discuss new features released since last October.
Eric is a leader in Tallahassee's design community, and is the cofounder of UnderStory. You can learn more about Eric on the UnderStory (http://understorystudio.com/) site, LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efthomas), and Dribble (https://dribbble.com/efthomas).
P.S. For those who have the extra time, we'll be having an informal after-party at GrassLands Brewing Company immediately afterwards.
P.P.S. This event is free, but "chipping in" (green button on the left) is highly appreciated! Your continued support keeps us going and helps us grow.


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Since the beginning of his artistic career in the 1980s, Rogelio López Cuenca (Nerja, 1959) has worked at the crossroads between the visual arts and the mass media. Taking writing off the page, he has exercised his own visual poetry that operates inside the tradition of institutional critique and the offshoots of Pop through multiple mediums such as painting, installation, urban interventions and publishing.
He began by exploring music and collaborative work, specifically with the group Peña Wagneriana and the collectives Agustín Parejo School and UHP (United Brothers of the Proletariat); early incursions which punctuate certain concerns approached individually, for instance city space, popular language and the language of avant-garde movements.
In 1992, in the context of the 5th Centenary of the Discovery of America, the Universal Exposition of Seville, Madrid as the Cultural Capital of Europe and the Barcelona Olympics, a turning point took place in his work. Thereafter, he would carry out different critical interventions in the contemporary system, interventions which reflect the issues running though his oeuvre – migratory policies and historical memory or new forms of urban speculation and the sensationalism of culture, symptomatic of burgeoning cognitive capitalism.
López Cuenca takes images and texts from different mediums of high and low culture, often placing them in advertising or commercial devices in public space to condemn situations of violence and discrimination that work at once in historical and present-day terms. Worthy of note is also the capacity to inscribe his works outside museum environments, thereby causing short circuits in different systems of the social circulation of images, calling into question the uniqueness of the art work and its space in conventional contemplation.


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Bhakri is a type of Indian flat bread that is thicker and crispier than other flat breads. My mother-in-law taught me how to prepare these since my husband loves to eat them in breakfast. It is really not difficult to make and we like to make it on weekends and serve as brunch. If serving as breakfast/brunch, it is best to be served with Gur Kari (Gujarati Sweet Mango Pickle), some fried or grilled fresh chili, or chili garlic chutney and Chai. It can also be served as lunch or dinner if paired with daal and some vegetable dish.
In a bowl, combine flour, salt, cumin seeds and oil. Mix with hands until oil is incorporated into flour. When you take a handful of flour and form a fist, the mixture should hold its shape.
Add water, little at a time until the dough almost comes together. Knead the dough for a minute or two until everything comes together and can form into a dough ball, adding more water if required. This is not soft dough so it won't be very smooth but should be in one piece without falling apart.
Preheat a skillet or clay pan over medium heat.
Divide the dough into 4 equal portions. Take each portion and with clasped hands, squeeze the dough between your two palms, pressuring on the edges while rotating the dough to form a smooth disk-like shape. Shape all four pieces.
Take one shaped piece and with rolling pin, roll into a circle about 6 inches in diameter and approximately 1/8 inch thickness. It is normal if the edges are not very smooth.
Place the rolled out dough on the skillet and cook for 1 to 2 minutes per side until some brown spots appear.
If using gas stove, take the cooked Bhakri with a kitchen tong and place it over direct fire over medium heat. Rotate and flip few times and cook over direct fire for 20 to 30 seconds to get more color. If not using gas stove, just continue cooking on the skillet till it is cooked through.
Place it in a plate and with a sharp edge kitchen tong or spoon poke some areas of Bhakri so that ghee can penetrate. Coat the back of a small spoon with ghee and spread it over the Bhakri evenly.
Repeat the rolling and cooking process with the remaining dough and serve either warm or at room temperature with chili garlic chutney (recipe below), Gur Kari(Gujarati Sweet Mango Pickle) and Chai.
Note: To save time, while you’re cooking one Bhakri work on rolling the other.
Process jalapeno and garlic in food processor until fine or chop it up with knife very finely. Transfer to a small bowl, add oil and salt. Mix it up and serve.

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Are you looking for a sample Battalion Commander OER Support Form? If so, you are in the right place. Today, I want to do two things. First and foremost, I want to talk about some things that you should put on your OER Support Form. In addition, I want to offer you the ability to spend $4 and purchase a sample Battalion Commander OER Support Form that I wrote. Let’s get started.
When you first take command of your battalion, you will need to create an OER Support Form. Basically, you will take your Brigade Commander’s shell, and create your own Support Form from that document. You will evaluate their goals and priorities, and in return, establish your own goals and priorities from the information in that document.
The next benefit of creating your own OER Support Form is that you are going to give a copy to your Company Commanders, XO and even your staff, so they know what the “vision” and “big picture” for the battalion are.
1. MOSQ Rate – Look across the battalion and see what percentage of Soldiers are DMOSQ and then set a goal to achieve by the end of your rating period.
2. Re-enlist/Retention Rates – Set a goal for what percentage of eligible troops you want to reenlist. Look at historical data and also keep in mind you ONLY want to retain good Soldiers.
3. Operational Readiness Rates – Look at your OR rates for your unit’s equipment and find out what the current rate is. Set a goal of at least 90% or higher.
4. Non-Val Pay Rates – Once again, this is for ARNG and USAR leaders, but keep in mind you want to keep this at 1% or below.
5. APFT Pass Rate – Set a goal to have everyone take the APFT and then set a goal of what you want the “pass” percentage to be. Once again, look at historical documents so you can set a realistic goal.
6. Weapons Qual Pass Rate – Make it a point to have everyone attempt to qualify and set a goal for what the “QUAL” rate will be.
7. Soldiers Sent to and Graduated from Army Schools – Set a goal for professional development for your Soldiers. How many Soldiers do you want to go to school and graduate?
8. Soldiers Who Received Awards – Make it a point to create an Awards Program in your battalion. Set a realistic goal about how many people you want to achieve formal awards.
9. Soldiers Promoted – This is another great goal to set. Set a goal to ensure that five to ten percent of your troops (or more) get promoted.
10. Battalion Strength Rate and Improvement – This is where the rubber meets the road, especially in the ARNG and USAR. Set a goal and make a plan to improve your unit strength.
11. Family Support Group Related Stuff – Set a goal about establishing, maintaining and growing your Family Readiness.
12. METL Tasks – Look at the Battalion METL tasks and determine which tasks you want to focus on and what you want your ratings to be.
13. Deployments and Training Exercises – Look at the YTC and see which training events you have scheduled in the next 12 months and set goals for each event.
14. OPD/NCODP Program – Review the current OPD/NCODP Programs and write down what you want to achieve with these programs.
15. Mentoring Goals – Set goals about who you want to mentor, how you want to do it, and what the desired result is.
16. Personal Goals – This would be your personal goals such as books you want to read, classes you want to take, schools you want to attend, and things you want to accomplish in your personal life. It would probably include your weapons QUAL and APFT, too.
*** This is by no means an ends all list for your Battalion Commander OER Support Form, but it is a good starting point.
As an additional tip, I would suggest that you determine the ‘starting point’ for each category so you can set realistic and attainable goals. As a quick example, look at your starting DMOSQ rate and then set a goal based upon that.
Like I mentioned earlier, I created a sample Battalion Commander OER Support Form that you can purchase for just $4. It would probably serve as a 90% solution to writing your own Support Form. If you want a copy you can purchase it below. Once you make the payment in PayPal, it will be emailed to you instantly.
I appreciate you reading my post about the Battalion Commander OER Support Form. I hope you found the information helpful and I would love if you left a comment below to share your thoughts about it.
The Support Form was very well written however it is the outdated older format and was not as useful for it’s intended purpose as I hoped.
This is a great benefit to Battalion Commanders. For four dollars, it is a bargain not having to sit at the computer and take precious time developing the OER Support Form themselves. I believe any Battalion Commander, whether the Guard, or full duty, would do well in purchasing this form and putting it to good use.
I sell a good amount of these and I normally get good feedback. This definitely helps Battalion Commanders out and saves them a lot of time with their OER Support Form.
If someone else has already done most of the work, why reinvent the wheel? It’d be much easier to edit a document to add to or take away from what is already there.
With all the responsibilities a Battalion Commander has, it just seems to me that it would be wiser to just spend the four bucks and save some time. Yes, they could probably write it themselves, but why not use the resources available? Chuck has done the work and it can save a Commander much time and headaches.


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A long standing and reputable firm within the Greater Manchester area are looking for a Family Solicitor/ILEX to be based in the Saddleworth office. For this role full time or part time hours are being considered. You will be handling a caseload of purely private family/matrimonial matters from the firm's existing client base including HNWI.
You will be the main point of contact for clients in the absence of the Head of dept and will be expected to maintain relationships with clients and external contacts. Ideally you will have previous experience managing a team but this isn't essential.
You must have experience handling a caseload independently and will have previously deal with divorce proceedings, children matters, wealth protection and post/pre nups. The firm have a very strong high value client base and you will deal with a wide variety of matters.
With this particular position there are very good opportunities to progress into a Senior solicitor role and take responsibility for managing the family team, if that is of interest to you.

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Child Support Rulings Should Change with New Circumstances. Contact Our Firm If You Are Interested in Seeking a Modification.
Have your circumstances radically changed? Do you believe you're paying more child support than is legally required of you? If either of these are true, then it may be time to seek a modification of your child support orders. At Keffer Hirschauer LLP, our dedicated Indianapolis divorce attorneys know how sensitive child support matters are, but always provide the needed guidance and advocacy our clients need to rectify their issues. As proven litigators, we are prepared to aggressively fight on your behalf and ensure that your best interests are looked after.
Want to start exploring your modification options? Contact our team at (888) 857-0511 today.
The state of Indiana takes child support very seriously. These calculations are made with the best interests of the children in mind and for a modification to be approved, ample reason must be given.
Generally speaking, there are two scenarios in which a modification of child support can be permitted: when there is a significant and continuing change in the paying parent's circumstances or when a standing child support order is at least 20% lower or 20% higher than required by state law.
If you believe that you have a legitimate reason to petition for a change of your child support orders, then Keffer Hirschauer LLP is ready to hear from you. Whether you’re a paying parent dealing with hardship or a custodial parent who believes that more payment is needed, our compassionate professionals are ready to assess your circumstances and help you take the next steps towards establishing a fair and sustainable support arrangement.
Contact us today to schedule a free case evaluation. We are ready to hear from you and start assisting you with child custody matters.


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The former Prime Minister of Thailand has held talks with Vice President Joseph Boakai aimed at exploring avenues for a huge investment in Liberia. Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra told VP Boakai Tuesday it is his strong intention for Thailand to have good relations with African Countries. According to him, Thailand would like to share its success and failure in the areas of agriculture and poverty eradication. Mr. Shinawatra said his group is interested in oil and mineral exploration and extraction, agriculture, telecommunication license and Lottery.
The Thai billionaire arrived in Liberia early Tuesday and would continue his journey to Ivory Coast and other African Countries on Wednesday. Making remarks, VP Boakai welcomed Mr. Shinawatra and delegation and urged the Thais to investment in Liberia as the country has all of the minerals.
MONROVIA - A Thailand delegation headed by former Prime Minster of that country, Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra, has ended a private visit to Liberia.
The delegation held talks with the Chairman of the National Investment Commission (NIC), Dr. Richard Tolbert, in Monrovia on Wednesday.
Something funny seems to be happening in the protocol section of the Government; and it is worrying. Last week we had the visit of the recently deposed leader of Thailand who is now a wanted man by the government of his country for corruption. Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's ex-Prime Minister, came here flying the investment flag expressing his interest in oil exploration, mining and other natural resources of our country.
(1) Some part of the news said Thaksin was a Thailand delegation which is obviously incorrect and misleading. Thaksin left his prime sanctuary in Dubai, less than 7 days after his red-shirts army rioted and fell to overthrow PM Abhisit government. It could well be because of either Thaksin was scared of being arrested and deported from UAE, or UAE might have had politely invited him out of the country to review the situation.
(2) Thaksin is seeking another backup sanctuary (after UAE, Montenegro and Nicaragua) since he is as always a coward fugitive on the run away from the serious culprit-catcher, Kasit Piromya, (Thailand's Foreign Minister who is also a serious PAD supporter and a defyant of Thaksin). Thaksin just recently utterly failed the conspiracy to overthrow PM Abhisit by violent red riots and the wicked coup attempt. Moreover, he got caught off-guard and shamefully lost face on three major international media on April 13, 2009 as compared to the victorious PM Abhisit who could clarify all the issues asked by the interviewers.
(3) If Thaksin really means business with Liberia, it means that he sees the weak points in Liberia's administration, either corrupt bureacrats, corrupt leaders, wide social gaps, weak democracy, weak media and the richness in country's natural resources.
(4) If Thaksin really means business with Liberia, it may mean that he is abandoning his poor red-shirts whom he is really fed up with 500-baht per head line-up payment for each his self-cheering-up rally in Thailand, as he subconsciously complained in his phone-in instigation.

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We are happy to share our experience and advise you on art issues.
Be it in the acquisition of a work, to build a collection, or if you are simply looking for a special work, you might consider our support, as we have a long-term experience and contacts, which can be helpful for art-seekers.
What you always wanted to know about the art market, but did not dare to ask.
How do I recognize the value of artworks?
Is it worth it for me to invest in art?
Silke Tobeler gives an insight in dealing with art as a passionate collector and gallery owner.
Time: 03-22-2018 at 8 p.m.
You are welcome to book us for a presentation.


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We end the story of Alex and Jacques with a huge reveal about the future of Pod of Love. Music by bensound.com. Theme by Joe Marson.
Check out our Kickstarter now for Tales and Tomes Season 1: Tekumel and please consider backing. Check out Ben on the Party of One podcast, the Everything is Awesome podcast, and in a fireside chat with Sounds like Crowes, all available now.


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One Piece: Snegoku the Buddha!
Sengoku the Buddha how strong he really is?
I like One Piece very much. I also like to buy some One Piece toys and One Piece costumes .

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IM4P File Extension - What is an .im4p file and how do I open it?
What is an IM4P file?
An IM4P file is an IMG4 payload file used by iPad and iPhone mobile devices. It stores a payload for an IMG4 file, which is the actual content of the file such as the firmware key and iv.
The IMG4 format replaced the IMG3 file format. It is used on iOS devices running a 64-bit processor and the Apple Watch. The format is designed to contain IM4P files used by iOS' secure boot chain as well as signatures of the files. IMG4 files can be found in the /usr/standalone/firmware/ directory of the iOS file system.
Our goal is to help you understand what a file with a *.im4p suffix is and how to open it.
The IMG4 Payload file type, file format description, and iOS programs listed on this page have been individually researched and verified by the FileInfo team. We strive for 100% accuracy and only publish information about file formats that we have tested and validated.