I have never served in the Army or Air Force or Marines, but I suffer from PTSD.
The four-letter acronym–meaning Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder–conjures up images of military vets home from war always on edge, jumping at sudden noises, awakening in darkness in cold sweat. Or maybe even "the American Sniper," back home, unable to sleep or focus, longing to return to war, or the former marine who kills him at a Texas shooting range.
The sight of a police car in my rear view or side view mirror, even a black car or SUV that could potentially be an unmarked police car in my rear view or side view mirror, the sound of sirens while driving (I'll never understand why rappers think it's okay to have this as background noise) elicit in me a sense of panic.
Sometimes, the feel of loss of control, sweat secretes on cue, flashbacks of exchanges with police like disparate clips. Sirens like gunshots. Whites of eyes holding a nation's white imagination. Pulling people over from their cars and brutalizing them without reasonable reasons.
It's the daily stories of unarmed Black girls and boys, women and men gunned down by white cops like wild game, unlawfully arrested, found dead behind bars. It's the videos that go viral of young Black men being choked to death on cement, shot with hands in the air.


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Jahlil Okafor Stories Continue To Roll In
'Tis the season for Jahlil Okafor Stories.
Big Jah just can't seem to stay out of trouble off the court of late. After apparently having a gun pointed at him during an altercation at a Philadelphia night club in October and then punching a man outside a Boston night club on Thanksgiving eve (video below), reports are now surfacing from The Philadelphia Inquirer that Okafor was pulled over a few weeks back for going 108 mph on the Ben Franklin Bridge.
Sixers Legend Moses Malone Passes Away
According to multiple reports, former Sixers center Moses Malone passed away Sunday at the age of 60.
THIS JUST IN: Three-time NBA MVP and Hall-of-Famer Moses Malone dies at age of 60. pic.twitter.com/6v61xV7mbj
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 13, 2015
A three-time NBA MVP and 12-time All-Star, Malone was a key cog in the Sixers' 1982-1983 NBA Championship, being named Finals MVP for his performance. Malone averaged 20.6 points and 12.2 rebounds per game during his career and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001.
Post Summer League Sixers Preview Part 1: The Okafor Edition
The Sixers summer league games have come and gone. They're little more than a peak through the window at what we may or may not be working with on the court this season. One could argue that the summer league gives you a taste of what is to come, however 2014 Las Vegas Summer league MVP Glen Rice Jr would beg to differ as would Jordan McRae whose 2014 performance far surpassed his 2015 output. What I'm saying is, when enjoying the rich taste of basketball in July, the dish is best served with a grain of salt.
That being said, let's discuss some "findings" from the 8 sloppy summer league games in Utah and Las Vegas. This edition will be strictly focused on this year's top pick and hopefully future meal ticket: Jahlil Okafor.
Joel Embiid Out For Second Straight Season
The Sixers have officially confirmed that Joel Embiid will miss his second straight season - further delaying his NBA debut - and will have surgery on his right foot in the next seven to 10 days.
Following a report from Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer on Saturday afternoon, the Sixers confirmed the news that the 21-year-old Embiid would indeed undergo surgery on his right foot yet again, in an announcement Saturday night.
Reports: Embiid To Have Surgery, Miss Season
According to Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Joel Embiid is expected to undergo a second surgery on his right foot after suffering a setback in the healing of the injury. The surgery would likely put Embiid out for his second straight season and further delay his NBA debut.
With Embiid likely out for another full season with a career-threatening injury, the Sixers' drafting of Duke center Jahlil Okafor looks more and more like a wise choice.
Sixers' Trade For Stauskas Becomes Official
On Friday, the Sixers' trade with the Kings, in which Sam Hinkie absolutely fleeced Vlade Divac, became official. The Sixers acquired Nik Stauskas, Jason Thompson and Carl Landry, as well as a 2018 protected first-round pick and the option to swap 2016 and 2017 first-round picks in exchange for Arturas Gudaitis and Luka Mitrovic.
Sixers To Unveil New Mascot at Long Last
The wait is over. Almost.
Friday night the Sixers Twitter account (which is one of the best accounts in the game in case you aren't already following) teased a new mascot for the franchise (see below). The mascot is set to debut on February 10 at the Franklin Institute.
76ers Trade for Thabeet, Will Waive
Philadelphia completed a second blockbuster deal on Tuesday, receiving center Hasheem Thabeet from Oklahoma City, first reported by Marc Stein. Ok, so maybe not on par with the mega-deal that was completed over the weekend that sent Kevin Love to Cleveland and Thad Young to Minnesota among others. It is reported that the Sixers will immediately waive the former #2 overall pick's non guaranteed contract. Thabeet has averaged 2.2 points and 2.7 boards over his disappointing, five year career with 4 different teams.
So what do the teams actually get out of this trade? It's all about the money. While the Sixers receive cash considerations, the trade creates a $1.25 million trade exception for the Thunder. In the end, no players are being exchanged.
Report: Sixers to Send Young To Wolves For Bennett, Pick
The 76ers will reportedly be a part of the Love/Wiggins deal between the Cavaliers and Timberwolves, sending Thad Young to Minnesota in return for Anthony Bennett, the #1 pick in the 2013 draft, and a future first round pick. ESPN's Brian Windhorst reported that Cleveland and Minnesota have a handshake deal in place, as Wiggins can not be traded within 30-days of being signed. The trade cannot become official until August 23, which has left the smaller details of the trade a little hazy.
76ers Summer League Update
The Sixers opened play in the Orlando summer league over the weekend, facing the Magic on Saturday and the Thunder on Sunday. Nerlens Noel led Philadelphia in a loss against Orlando in his Summer League debut, but would sit(rest) as Philly notched a victory against OKC. Noel, Ronald Roberts Jr., and Casper Ware showed promise in the opening two games but unfortunately PG Pierre Jackson would go down with a ruptured achilles to dampen the excitement a bit.

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Q: Nuget package from CMake I am generating an C# WPF project using CMake. I followed this CMakeLists.txt example from Github.
My question is: How can add a Nuget package to this project using CMake?

A: CMake 3.15 and above supports referencing Nuget packages with VS_PACKAGE_REFERENCES. To add a Nuget package reference to a CMake target, use the package name and package version separated by an underscore _. Here is an example for BouncyCastle version 1.8.5:
set_property(TARGET MyApplication
    PROPERTY VS_PACKAGE_REFERENCES "BouncyCastle_1.8.5"
)

The documentation shows how you can add multiple Nuget packages by semicolon-delimiting ; the packages.
For older CMake versions, you could try the proposed work-around suggested here.

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Pinocci wins GOP primary in Montana Public Service Commission seat
Phil Drake
HELENA – Former state lawmaker Randy Pinocci won the Republican primary for Public Service Commission seat No. 1 on Tuesday, defeating Rep. Rob Cook of Shelby, farmer Mark Wicks of Inverness and Great Falls resident Cory McKinney, who is an employee of Herzog Rail Services.
Pinocci will face Democrat Doug Kaercher of Havre in the Nov. 6 general election.
Pinocci, 53, a property manager from Sun River, said during the primary he would focus on reducing federal overreach that affects Northwestern Energy.
"When the federal government places needless and unfair regulation on Northwestern Energy, Northwestern then passes rates increases to the Montana consumer. If I can restrict federal interference into Northwestern activities, it will lower energy rates for Montana consumers," he said in a candidate questionnaire posted to the Great Falls Tribune.
Pinocci, who served in the 2015 session of the state Legislature, received 35 percent of the 23,485 votes cast Tuesday, according to unofficial results posted on the Montana Secretary of State's website. Cook received 31 percent, Wicks got 20 percent and McKinney got 15 percent.
He was not immediately available for comment Wednesday. All five current members of the board are Republican.
Kaercher, 57, the finance director for the city of Havre, was unopposed as a Democrat in the primary.
He said between now and the Nov. 6 general election he was going to focus on visiting the district's 19 counties to "get the message out that it's time for a positive change to bring balanced decision-making to the Public Service Commission."
He said Wednesday there is definitely a distinct difference between he and Pinocci.
"And when I travel to get the message out it will be clear that I am the reasonable and responsible choice on the November election," Kaercher said.
PSC Seat No. 1 was held by Travis Kavulla, who was termed limited out of office. The post pays Post $106,000 a year and the district consists of 51,000 square miles and has a population of 185,000.
The five-member PSC regulates the rates and service quality for investor-owned electric, natural gas, water, waste-water, and legacy telecommunication companies.
It generally regulates private, investor-owned natural gas, electric, telephone, water and private sewer companies in Montana. In addition, the PSC regulates certain motor carriers, including garbage trucks and passenger motor carriers. The commission focuses on ratepayers having access to utility services that are affordable, reliable and sustainable for the long-term, its website states.
The PSC, based in Helena, also oversees rail and pipeline safety regulations in the state.
In the PSC Seat No. 5 race, Andy Shirtliff won the Democratic primary over with 70 percent of the 23,317 ballots cast over Henry Clay Speich, who got 12 percent and Tyrel Suzor-Hoy, who got 19 percent.
Shirtliff, a state government employee, will face GOP incumbent Brad Johnson in the Nov. 6 general election.
Phil Drake can be reached at 406-422-0772 or pdrake@greatfallstribune.com.


Since the first patent was issued in 1886, cyclones have been generally designed and improved by empirical means. Building a reliable efficiency prediction method is very difficult due to the modeling complexity, since these pieces of equipment handle multiphase and highly turbulent flows, and because there is an overwhelming number of prototypes that have to be built in order to confirm the effect of changing dimension ratios on cyclone performance.
Fact is that the efficiency of general cyclones is insufficient for clients' needs, especially for small particle sizes (<10 µm).
ACS has been investigating particle agglomeration in cyclones for several years. Understanding agglomeration in cyclones has helped ACS build more accurate models of collection efficiency estimation, capable of explaining why sub-micrometer particles are often captured with much higher efficiency than predicted by standard models. Indeed, fine particles tend to form agglomerates (clusters) with much higher collection efficiency than those of the primary particles. Agglomeration increases in the presence of wide particle size distributions, long residence times in the cyclone and high inlet particle concentrations. This knowledge has been incorporated into ACS numerical simulation tool - the PACyc (Particle Agglomeration in Cyclones, Chemical Engineering Journal 162 (2010) 861-876) algorithm. This has been crucial in improving the design of ACS technologies, which have demonstrated to achieve significant reduction in emissions when compared with other high efficiency cyclones.
Supported by the PACyc Model, and considering several economical and operation constraints (such as size and pressure loss), with numerical optimization it is possible to generate millions of virtual prototypes within an affordable time period, and to observe the impact of each dimension ratio on the cyclone performance.
Considering this approach as the best path to obtain truly optimized cyclones, some theories of cyclone collection and pressure loss were chosen for each application, and afterwards improved for predicting collection efficiencies for new geometries. These numerical optimization problems have resulted in many customized cyclones but also in different new families of cyclones, some of those patented, which are used for each given application.
Indeed, different industrial cases have different needs resulting in very different cyclones, for which the optimization functions may be minimizing cost, minimizing space, among others. Each cyclone family can be further fine tuned for each client in order to meet the objectives. When high efficiency is required and particles are prone to agglomerate, which includes most of the handled dusts; recent developed Hurricane MK line of cyclones (patent pending) can be a solution to achieve emissions as low as 30mg/Nm3.
In 2014, a better understanding of agglomeration has allowed ACS to develop a completely new line of cyclone geometries, different from any other in the world: the Hurricane MK. It was obtained by combining stochastic numerical optimization with the PACyc model. This represents a giant leap in terms of efficiency for all ACS products, as these collectors can be used in ReCyclone configurations too, as presented ahead.
Mechanical ReCyclone® MH system for PM emission control in a 8 000m3/h at 280ºC cork dust boiler.
This equipment is composed by 6 hurricane cyclones and 4 mechanical recirculators.
It was installed to replace a cyclone deduster, which was above the legal emissions limit (150mg/Nm3).
Client Amorim & Irmãos, S.A.
It will be upgraded with 1 ReCyclone MH® with ø1,300mm to comply with 50mg/Nm3.
Hurricane system to reduce PM from Syngas emanating from a gasifier with a 425m3/h gas flow rate at 160ºC.
Efficiency is expected to reach 99.5% with a pressure drop of 1.7 kPa.
Hurricane system aiming to increase the recovery of milk proteins powder after a spray dryer. It has a capacity of 92 000m3/h at 65ºC effective flow rate.
The equipment is composed by 2 cyclones. It was installed to replace an existing high efficiency cyclone from the spray dryer manufacturer in order to increase powder recovery.
Title Hurricane HR cyclone system to limit ash particle content in the exhaust hot gases of the preheater tower at Duna-Dráva Kft ( 37 513 m3/h at 327ºC ).
Client JUAN JOSÉ ALBARRACÍN, S .A.
Client Careco | Luis Leal S.A.
* This pressure drop is only for the system, does not include ducts.
Title Hurricane HR Cyclone system to capture pharmaceutical waste particles from the combined flow of a deduster and a tablet press machine for product waste compliance at Actavis/Teva (416m3/h at 20º).


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Home » Music » Drum programming – The Ultimate Guide to Programming Drums
Drum programming – The Ultimate Guide to Programming Drums
Click Image To Visit SiteSome people think of drum programming as a technique that's only for cheap artists that can't afford to record a drum set at a studio or for bedroom producers.
Songwriting would be the most apparent one. When you are laying down some decent riffs or playing around with that monster Bass line at your home studio it's only half the fun if you can't do it to a rocking groove.
If you've ever tried to explain to a drummer the groove that you had in mind for a certain part of that new song you wrote you know it's almost impossible. Drum programming to the rescue: Just make them listen to it.
These are just two examples but you get the point: If you are a serious musician, songwriter, and/or producer knowing how to program drums is a must!
Watch the author personally giving you a tour through the book explaining each chapter and its content in the video on the left.
Learn how to create a variety of grooves, from simple "Four to the Floor" to raging Blast Beats, and how to come up with amazing grooves that perfectly fit any song on your own.
150 groove and fill examples with screenshots to get you started. You will learn how these examples were created so you can come up with your own grooves by applying the principles laid out in the book. This gives you literally endless possibilities for your own drum tracks.
Detailed instructions on how to make grooves sound realistic and just like a human would have played them. This part of the book covers how to alter Quantization and Velocities effectively to make your drum beats feel as natural as possible.
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When a collaboration formed between Nike USA's Department of Retail Design and Nike Brazil during the 2014 World Cup, we were tasked with designing a version of their brand experience store dedicated solely to soccer that echoed the new Nike worldwide signature of a more industrial look.
Industrial-style design naturally brings forth local Brazilian personality, which was one of our main goals in this creative concept. It requires walls be stripped, exposing original material and architecture. To emphasize and saturate this element we brought in local graffiti artists, vibrant colors, and tropical motifs to accent the Brazilian influence. To further root the retail experience in the unique world of Brazilian culture, we also featured products related to local soccer clubs and celebrated local trends. Premeditated and cutting-edge technology, architecture, lighting design and safety precautions delivered seamless results without costly afterthought. In fact the design and production went so well that Nike replicated our successful model and established 22 Nike Stores under the Nike Latin America brand, and integrated soccer product sales in storefronts around the world.
Nike hired us to design the world's first exclusive soccer store in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This prototype featured a wide variety of products related to local football clubs. Nike replicated our model and established 22 Nike Stores under the Nike Latin America brand. Building on this success, they launched soccer stores across the world. For the first time, a company had created a retail outlet that offered soccer products to all segments of the market.
We were awarded a multi-location contract covering the development and construction management of a series of Nike stores in Brazil. The stores covered a range of formats from brand experience stores to traditional outlets to small shops. In collaboration with Nike's design team, we were responsible for delivering a turnkey solution. This included developing and implementing the creative concept, being accountable for preliminary sketches, blueprints and technical specifications, engineering and execution.


I'm Blathering Now... (Tea, Tom & No Time to Blog!): Birds, birds everywhere, but not a Cormoran(t) in sight!
Birds, birds everywhere, but not a Cormoran(t) in sight!
Holibobs! OK, it's just a long weekend in Yorkshire, but it's a break…and there's a hot tub on the horizon.
Over the years I've visited a few Hoseason's lodges and they are a great place to wind down. The ones I go to are usually in a remote place where you can unwind and relax with a bottle of Prosecco, a book and a hot tub. There are usually places to walk and explore and they're great if your idea of fun is peace and quiet!
This winter (it's always winter when I go, best time to go I think for hot tubs) I decided to try a new location. Cedar Retreats in West Tanfield is relatively new, about 4 years old, and near the Yorkshire Dales. As I was heading northwards, I thought I'd stop off at York for a little wander around The Shambles, a bite of lunch, and a quiet pint at the iconic King's Head by the river. Iconic because it is prone to flooding, it even has a sign on the pub wall showing how high the water has risen!
Thirst slated and onto West Tanfield, a lovely little village near Ripon. The welcome at Cedar Retreats was warm, and we were directed to our lodge. Now the brochure shows lodges surrounding a duck pond, but in the company's defence, they do state that you need to advise them if you want a duck pond view. Our lodge was quiet and out of the way, and not overlooking the duck pond. As much as I love wildlife, three ducks started having a squabble about 11:30 at night, and it was then that I was relieved I wasn't near the pond. I was trying to relax in the hot tub and I just wanted to hunt them out with a vat of orange sauce. That from a veggie…terrible!! Even worse, the next morning when I opened the patio doors, Mr and Mrs Duck decided they would join me for breakfast.
I hadn't made any plans with what to do with my time away, often my plans are weather dependent, so I just decided I would take each day as it came. The hand book supplied in the lodge suggested a place called Thorp Perrow Arboretum for a good day out. The sun was shining, and I had just signed up to a digital photography course to learn how to take better photos and get the best out of my Canon EOS700D. A day shooting the springing snowdrops seemed a pleasant way to spend a sunny day. There is a bird of prey centre at the arboretum and seeing as I missed out on a planned visit to a bird of prey centre a few weeks ago because my cat was poorly, I thought I'd check this one out. A flying demonstration was due to take place, so I took a seat on a bench at the front of the display area and the head falconer Lindsey introduced us to three owls. She was so entertaining, informative and clearly had built up a wonderful relationship with the birds. She had them flying and sitting next to the people on the benches, and I just sat and held my breath as these owls sat next to me.
I was enthralled. I had recently started reading H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald and the magnificence of these birds was just starting to dawn on me. I hadn't realised the connection that could be achieved by the falconer and the birds, it was pure poetry watching the trust between raptor and human. A further demonstration was to be held a couple of hours later with three different birds and so I wandered off for a cup of tea before coming back to witness George and Mildred, a couple of Crested Caracarra who were great entertainment value.
By the time the birds had finished it was nearly 3pm; just enough time to slip down the road to Masham, home of the Black Sheep Brewery. The last time I was there, my friend had just got married and she held her reception there. I did the brewery tour, which I heartily recommend if you have the slightest interest in beer, and then I sampled some of Yorkshire's finest ale. It was so good that several bottles of beer made their way home with me… together with a rather snazzy Riggwelter t-shirt!
I hadn't realised just how close Masham was to where I was staying, it was only about ten minutes away in the car. By the time I'd finished at the brewery it was too late to go into the village for a meander round, so the next morning I went for an early walk by the river in West Tanfield, and then after breakfast I set off to Masham to take a few photographs around the town square. Why? Well some of The Cormoran Strike series was filmed there, and I like seeing the differences between what you see on TV and what the real place is like. Normally I will go to places after I have seen them on screen, but as the opportunity was there I thought I should take it.
Masham is still as pretty as I remember it from over ten years ago. I walked through the church the production crew had filmed at and the graves were carpeted in spring snowdrops. It really was peaceful. It was hard to imagine a film crew had been bustling around there only weeks before. At the back of the graveyard a gate leads across the fields and down to the river. I wandered down and followed the path round, fortunately, despite having no idea where I was going, it turned out to be a circuitous walk which eventually took me back to the village.
All too soon it was time to think about heading home. I'd decided to go to Betty's tearooms at Harlow Carr on the way home, but I didn't want to get there until lunchtime, so I needed to find something to do for a few hours…and it was raining. Hard! The day had started out so well. I'd gone for an early morning walk to the local wetlands centre, but as I headed back for breakfast, the sky had taken on a foreboding, menacing look. A friend had suggested the Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes, which was technically in the wrong direction, but it would be a picturesque drive, whatever the weather! So, despite the views not being as far-reaching as I imagine they are on a bight sunny day, I ambled through the Dales to the home of Wensleydale (Wallace and Gromit's favourite cheese!) The museum is small and interesting, and I enjoyed watching the factory workers making cheese, but the best place is the tasting shop. There must have been about 15 cheeses to try, and try, and just to make sure before buying, to try again! Beer and cheese, a delightful way to spend the weekend, and there was still Betty's to visit for Welsh rarebit, tea and cake.


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London – Fabric and back Home…
Filed under: Clubbing & Gigs,Travel — decoded_ @ 6:51 am
We're back home safe in Sydney, all is well.
Love your comment Paul! I have to say… Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 was a shocker! We'll never depart from that airport ever again, warning… rant coming up!
We only just made our plane, due to depart at 12.30pm and we arrived at the airport at 7am! We processed our tax refunds, checked in our baggage, and then it took hours to get through all the security screening/x-ray areas. The new security measures in place at Heathrow are extreme. Some people got screened/x-rayed 3 times! It's all random depending on what queue you chose to line-up in. So many people, so many queues!
What most annoyed us is now you're only allowed to carry one piece of cabin baggage if you depart from Heathrow. No other airport has this limitation.
Joanne and I both had very full back-packs plus I had a record bag, and Joanne had another bag (sack) full of Europe's finest chocolates. Our multiple bags didn't agree with the one piece of cabin baggage policy. The solution (as advised by staff)… stick them together in a large plastic bag, and carry it as if it's a single item until you're through the security screening/x-ray areas. Stupid huh! How much fun do you think carrying a full back-pack and record bag together in a plastic bag in your arms is, for the hours it took to get through security?!?! Not very much! My arms were killing me!
Once we got through all of that drama we then only had about 10 minutes to look around the food, shops, and duty free area (with the other 1000s of people) until our flight was due to board.
However… the actual gate our plane was departing from had not been advised, and then was only indicated 10 minutes before the flight was actually due to depart! and it instantly showed 'Flight Closing'! Panic! Oh, and how convenient that the gate we needed to get to was right over the other side of the terminal! We did the mad dash, then hit another queue, as every other passanger for our flight did the same mad dash. Then… another security check at the gate/lounge. But wait that's not all… Now we're going to cram you all into a bus to take you to the actual plane, which is… over the other side of the airport! Arghhh!
Once we were borded, we were further delighted at being delayed for 50 minutes before the plane could taxi and take-off. Arghhh!
You can imagine our mood after all that. Dark, very dark. Oh, I forgot to mention, to add to this… we also had had no sleep prior, having gone stright from Fabric (club), via a confusing early morning drive out of central London in the pouring rain, to quickly freshen up/shower up, pack up at Sandra & Mall's place back in Lee/Greenwich, then had to drive to the airport car hire return, return the hire car, then onto the airport terminal via a shuttle bus, which was delayed by a road accident.
I sound like a whinging pom hum!
Anyway, all good now, we know for next time… avoid Heaththrow! Deep breath… rant over.
Beta, if you're reading, I now know why you dislike Fabric so much. The club is awesome, great spaces, excellent sound and lighting, but the crowd… is horrible. The push/shove on the dance-floor was even worse than what we had had to deal with across Europe at many clubs. Fabric has a very ethnic/mixed crowd too. B.M.B were great, very punishing, with relentless beats, a different sound to their Awakenings set, which had more broken beats, and changes of intensity, they played 4am-6.30am. Heard a little of Ricardo Villalobos on the way out, but the main room was way too packed, so packed I don't know how people actually dance in there! He didn't start till 5.30am! At one point we bumped into Jamie from Infusion there, which was a laugh. We heard many of the other people playing around the club for the couple of hours before B.M.B started up, didn't like much of what we heard… nasty drum'n'bass, funky house, and grime. Dinner and drinks prior with… AC & DWC 🙂 was very nice, a fun night, lovelly to meet and chat to their guests/friends too, shouts to Rony and Maggot! It was really nice to have been invited out and to meet them. Whilst on the way out from dinner and drinks we bumped into Marc Houle and had a nice chat too.
yay.. those little plastic bags for all your fluids saved you from a terrorist attack.. yay!
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This Feral Hog Dog Hunt Incentive Program is put together to reduce the wild hog population or to at least keep it within manageable numbers on District lands.
The District will temporarily close these hunting areas to the public during the hunt on these wild animals, when only permitted hunters are allowed access.
A three-phase hunting system is used and prospective hunters can purchase permits for Phase I beginning at 9 a.m. on Oct. 3 on the District's Hoghunts.Watermatters.org website. Permits will be available on a first-come, first-served basis until they are sold out. The cost is $75 for each permit.
Much more information and permits are available online.


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Key Outdoor Inc. v. City of Galesburg
Lamar Whiteco v. City of West Chicago
Therefore, we conclude that plaintiffs' section 1983 claims did not ripen and the two-year limitations period…
Murphy v. Vill. of Plainfield
The purpose of an inverse condemnation proceeding is to determine whether a taking occurred, and if so, to…
7 Citing Cases
Full title:KEY OUTDOOR INC. and Robert Dahl, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF…
Date published: Apr 24, 2003
In Key Outdoors Inc. v. City of Galesburg, 327 F.3d 549, 550 (7th Cir. 2003), the Seventh Circuit instructed the district court to remand the case because, "[n]o state court has addressed the question whether, under Illinois law, a municipality may ban signs and offer only 'amortization' rather than cash compensation.
Summary of this case from Bailey v. City of Chi.
Argued April 2, 2003.
Decided April 24, 2003.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Michael M. Mihm, J.
John Rehn (argued), Galesburg, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.
Robert C. Newman, Peter M. Friedman (argued), Holland Knight, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.
Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
After the City of Galesburg enacted an ordinance banning most of the signage that they own within its borders, Key Out-door and Robert Dahl filed suit in state court seeking compensation for what they deem a taking of property. The complaint alleged that both federal and state constitutions require compensation in cash, rather than in delay. Galesburg has deferred the effective date of its law until 2009, and it contends that owners' ability to profit from their signs in the interim (which the City calls "amortization") is all the compensation that the Constitution requires — though what an owner can make during the years remaining is not "compensation" but is only the existing value that the government had refrained from extinguishing. (The United States, acquiring land for a post office, could not say anything like: "You have ten acres now; we are taking one of them, and the nine left behind compensate you for the acquisition." Nor could Illinois announce tomorrow that on January 1, 2100, all private property within its borders must be handed over to the state without compensation, even though the delay would allow owners to extract 95% of the land's value.)
Galesburg removed the suit to federal court, as was its right because some of plaintiffs' claims arise under federal law. The district court then dismissed the complaint under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim on which relief may be granted. Both state and federal takings claims are premature, the court held, because plaintiffs have not exhausted their remedies under state law and thus have not established that the government is refusing to pay whatever compensation may be required by the Constitution. Compare Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City, 473 U.S. 172, 105 S.Ct. 3108, 87 L.Ed.2d 126 (1985), with Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 533 U.S. 606, 618-26, 121 S.Ct. 2448, 150 L.Ed.2d 592 (2001). Plaintiffs' contention that the City's ordinance is incompatible with § 131(g) of the Highway Beautification Act, 23 U.S.C. § 131(g), failed because, the district court held, there is no private right of action to enforce that statute in federal court. With respect to plaintiffs' claims under state law, the district court concluded that cities' home-rule powers permit them to supersede the state legislation on which plaintiffs had relied. The court then dismissed the complaint outright, declining to remand any portion of the litigation to state court.
This leaves plaintiffs' takings claims unadjudicated, because they must pursue state remedies, but also blocks plaintiffs' pursuit of those remedies. They filed the case in state court precisely because they understood the need to seek whatever relief state courts could provide. When the City removed the suit to federal court, and frustrated plaintiffs' effort to invoke state remedies, it logically either surrendered the benefit of Williamson or consented in advance to the remand of state-law theories, so that the process required by Williamson could run its course. Yet Galesburg has steadfastly resisted a remand. The district court should not have abetted the City's strategy. Instead the judge should have considered the criteria in 28 U.S.C. §§ 1367(c) and 1441(c). The presence of "a novel or complex issue of State law", § 1367(c)(1), in a suit where all federal claims have been finally resolved, § 1367(c)(3), implies the wisdom of sending those state-law theories back to state court.
Plaintiffs concede that a federal takings claim is premature and do not ask us to reverse the district court's understanding of the federal Highway Beautification Act. Only state theories remain, and it makes much more sense to have these resolved by the state judiciary than to have them resolved by a federal court. Plaintiffs' arguments would require us to determine the extent of a municipality's home-rule power over a subject that also is covered by rules of statewide application. No state court has addressed the question whether, under Illinois law, a municipality may ban signs and offer only "amortization" rather than cash compensation. Nor has any state court addressed the question whether the sort of statute that Galesburg has enacted would be deemed a taking for purposes of state or federal law. If it is not a "taking," then no compensation is owed, and the delay until 2009 gives plaintiffs more than their constitutional due — though states are free to be generous, and perhaps Illinois has required municipalities to stop short of the constitutional limit on the power to regulate without compensation. Whether Galesburg's "amortization" approach is compatible with state law (if, indeed, either state or federal law requires any compensation) is the sort of issue that Illinois should be allowed to resolve for itself.
We therefore vacate the district court's decision to the extent that it resolves any question arising under state law, and we remand with instructions to remand the case to state court. See 28 U.S.C. § 1441(c). Illinois courts are free to redetermine all claims under state law, without any preclusive effect from the district court's decision. Moreover, state courts may elect to enforce 23 U.S.C. § 131(g) as a matter of state law, whether or not this provision is implemented by private action in federal court, for states are not bound by all limitations on the authority of federal tribunals. (Whether Illinois does provide a state-based right of action to enforce § 131(g) is a question on which we express no opinion; nor do we address whether the district court was correct in ruling that § 131(g) cannot be enforced by private litigants in federal court, for that issue is outside the scope of the appeal.) Once the state-law theories have been resolved, any remaining takings claim then will be ripe for decision.
VACATED AND REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS
In Key Outdoor, the Seventh Circuit acknowledged that a defendant may waive its Williamson County argument when removing a case to federal court, but the court must still conduct its own Williamson County inquiry. Key Outdoor, 327 F.3d at 550;accord Koscielski v. City of Minneapolis, 435 F.3d 898, 903 (8th Cir.2006) ("[The plaintiff] suggests because the case was removed, the City should be required to waive its ripeness challenge.
Summary of this case from Murphy v. Vill. of Plainfield
In Key Outdoor, the plaintiffs filed suit in state court alleging, inter alia, federal and state takings claims after the defendant enacted an ordinance banning outdoor signs.
In Key Outdoor, the City of Galesburg enacted an ordinance banning most of the signage in the city, but the ordinance deferred the effective date of the ban until 2009.
Summary of this case from Lamar Whiteco v. City of West Chicago


Spent an hour or so after work with colleagues in the pub.
Possibly the only company I know in which you can have that much fun geeking out over each other's MBTI profiles.
I'm glad yo're having fun honey!
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Students in the Federal Tax Clinic represent low-income taxpayers in controversies with the IRS, both before the IRS and in federal court. Students will work individually and in teams to represent taxpayers involving examinations, administrative appeals, collection matters and cases before the United States Tax Court and Federal District Courts. Students will represent taxpayers with the goal of maximizing financial wellbeing and protecting taxpayer rights, including securing refunds and credits to which taxpayers are entitled, providing relief from joint and several liability for innocent spouses, and reducing tax liabilities through successful negotiated resolutions or compromises of liabilities based upon taxpayer financial hardship.
The Clinic provides a singular opportunity to have extensive client contact, to conduct fact investigation and legal research, and to develop, present, and argue cases on behalf of vulnerable taxpayers who would otherwise not have access to justice. Because the Clinic teaches lawyering skills applicable across numerous practice areas, students are encouraged to enroll whether they have an existing interest in tax law and practice or simply seek an immersive law practice experience through which they can learn valuable skills and provide pro bono representation to those in need.
In addition to representing local clients, the Clinic looks to comment on proposed rules and regulations impacting low income taxpayers, and it looks to litigate broadly on issues impacting this community as well as to file amicus briefs on issues of importance.
Students in the Federal Tax Clinic represent low-income taxpayers in controversies with the IRS, with the goal of maximizing financial well-being and protecting taxpayer rights.
The Federal Tax Clinic is offered in the Fall and Spring semester. You can learn about the required clinical course component, clinical credits, additional requirements, and the clinical registration process, by reading the course catalog description and exploring the links in this section.
I am a tax lawyer, hailing from India. I did my first law degree in India and worked there for four years with a law firm prior to coming to Harvard. While many factors went in to my decision to do my LL.M. this year, the primary one was to gain a different experience by placing myself in unfamiliar situations.
Many of the students who enroll in the Clinic have a deep interest in tax law. Others are not committed to a tax law career but are curious about a topic so central to the social safety net and have an interest in exploring public service law careers. Still others are motivated by a desire to deepen their understanding of administrative law practice and/or hone their appellate advocacy skills.


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VITAS® Healthcare Redesigns VITAS.com to Enhance User Experience
The website's updated design and robust search function provides easier access to information on end-of-life care
VITAS Healthcare, the nation's leading provider of end-of-life care, today launched its redesigned VITAS.com website with enhanced content, a cleaner design and improved functionality. The goal of the website redesign is to provide quicker and easier access to end-of-life information for the millions of healthcare professionals and families who use the site every year.
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League of Legends November 16, 2020 / 3:59 pm
Riot Announces Academy League to Combine Amateur Play
Riot announced on November 13th that the League of Legends Championship Series will reshape the structure of its Academy League in 2021 to create an ecosystem where Academy and amateur teams compete against one another. Rather than playoffs and finals, both Academy and Amateur teams will compete in various tournaments to qualify for the LCS Proving Grounds: a 12-team tournament held at the end of March to determine the best amateur team in North America.
Starting in 2021, Academy teams will compete against rising North American talent in a series of tournaments.(Photo courtesy Riot Games)
2021 Amateur Ecosystem Updates #LCS
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Teams will have multiple chances throughout the split to qualify for LCS Proving Grounds. (Photo courtesy Riot Games)
Starting in 2021, Riot will also introduce a new system of amateur tournaments that both amateur and Academy teams can participate in to earn points to qualify for Proving Grounds: Tier 2 and Tier 1 tournaments. The Academy season will now only last from January to February; the top six teams will automatically qualify for Proving Grounds, and the bottom four will participate in Tier 1 tournaments for a shot to qualify.
Tier 2 tournaments are amateur tournaments organized by a third party in affiliation with Riot and will take place alongside the Academy season. Teams competing in these tourneys will earn points across multiple Tier 2 tournaments, and the 10 teams with the most points at the end of the Academy season will advance to the first Tier 1 tournament of the year along with the 7th and 8th place Academy teams. .
Tier 1 tournaments will be run by various teams, sponsors, or third-party organizers licensed by Riot. Three Tier 1 tournaments will be held in a given Academy split before LCS Proving Grounds.
The first Tier 1 of the split, consisting of the top 10 Tier 2 teams and the seventh and eighth place Academy teams, will be held at the end of February. The top four teams from this tournament will auto-qualify for Proving Grounds, and the remaining eight teams will slot into the next Tier 1 along with the ninth and 10th place Academy teams.
The second Tier 1 of the split will be held in early March. Similar to the first Tier 1, the top four will advance to Proving Grounds and the remaining eight teams will have one last chance to qualify at the end of the month.
The final Tier 1 of the split, known as the "Last Chance Qualifier", will be held at the end of March. Only two teams from this tournament will qualify for Proving Grounds.
A NEW LOOK FOR AMATEUR
All parties will be eligible to get involved with this tournament ecosystem as long as they submit an application through Riot. This includes LCS teams, third-party tournament organizers, brand sponsors, and amateur teams without any LCS affiliation.
To ensure the continued development of an amateur ecosystem within NA, Community-run amateur tournaments, now referred to as Tier 3, will not be replaced by this new system. Riot has also established a few regulations regarding the new system:
A minimum player signing age requirement of 15.
Player protection and parental consent guidelines for players signings below age 18.
Only NA residents (US, Canada, OCE) may compete in Tier 1 and Tier 2 tournaments.
Amateur contracts may not be longer than one year and must end before free agency. They cannot be renewed or extended.
Riot has also confirmed that a system will be put in place to compensate amateur teams for assisting in developing talent that are signed to Academy and LCS teams.
This announcement comes after a poor performance from the LCS at the 2020 World Championship left the community critical of the region's talent development infrastructure.
Nick is a Richmond based writer and pianist with a passion for League of Legends and esports dating back just far enough to say he was into it before it was cool. When he's not consuming massive amounts of League content, grinding out ranked games, or walking his dog, he's quite possibly asleep.
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Amber is a budding chef and has begun to share her recipes and creations with the rest of the world here. In her own kitchen, she is trying to re-create the cakes and desserts that are very common in Hong Kong. She also tries to re-create delicious dishes that she has had at restaurants. One example is the creamy soup Chicken Santa Fe served at Souper Salad.
She has tried to make (1) green tea cake, (2) little paper-wrapped sponge cakes, and (3) custard tarts. She has suceeded in making Tiramisu and the soup base for the Vietnamese Pho Noodle Soup. She was so happy about that.
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How to buy Thor Industries (THO) shares in the UK
Learn how to easily invest in Thor Industries shares.
NYSE: THO - USD
Buy Thor Industries Shares
Thor Industries Inc (THO) is a leading recreational vehicles business based in the US. It opened the day at $109.35 after a previous close of $107.87. During the day the price has varied from a low of $109.22 to a high of $111.21. The latest price was $111.05 (25 minute delay). Thor Industries is listed on the NYSE and employs 31,000 staff. All prices are listed in US Dollars.
How to buy shares in Thor Industries
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Since the stock market crash that started in February 2020, Thor Industries's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was $99.97, which is 13.99% up on its pre-crash value of $85.98 and 209.50% up on the lowest point reached during the March 2020 crash when the shares fell as low as $32.3.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Thor Industries shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $427.15 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $1,217.63.
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Thor Industries's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 7x. In other words, Thor Industries shares trade at around 7x recent earnings.
Thor Industries's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.8. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Thor Industries's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Thor Industries's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $1.3 billion (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Thor Industries's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Environmental, social and governance track record
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Thor Industries.
Total ESG risk score
Thor Industries's total ESG risk: 32.65
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Thor Industries's overall score of 32.65 (as at 12/31/2018) is nothing to write home about – landing it in it in the 55th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Thor Industries is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score
Thor Industries's environmental score: 12.37/100
Thor Industries's environmental score of 12.37 puts it squarely in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Thor Industries is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Thor Industries's social score: 19.51/100
Thor Industries's social score of 19.51 puts it squarely in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Thor Industries is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.
Governance score
Thor Industries's governance score: 9.77/100
Thor Industries's governance score puts it squarely in the 7th percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Thor Industries is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary
Thor Industries Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
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Thor Industries share dividends
Forward yield
Dividend yield: 1.62% of stock value
Forward annual dividend yield: 1.62% of stock value
Thor Industries has recently paid out dividends equivalent to 1.62% of its share value annually.
Thor Industries has paid out, on average, around 11.89% of recent net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.62% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), shareholders could enjoy a 1.62% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Thor Industries's case, that would currently equate to about $1.66 per share.
While Thor Industries's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that the company is investing more in its future growth.
Thor Industries's most recent dividend payout was on 12 January 2022. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 28 December 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").
Have Thor Industries's shares ever split?
Thor Industries's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 26 January 2004. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Thor Industries shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Thor Industries shares which in turn could have impacted Thor Industries's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Thor Industries's shares have ranged in value from as little as $91.8185 up to $149.9609. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
THO.US volatility(beta: 2.02)Avg. volatility(beta: 1.00)LowHigh
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Thor Industries's is 2.0152. This would suggest that Thor Industries's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.
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What percentage of Thor Industries is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 4.359% of Thor Industries shares are held by insiders and 92.769% by institutions.
How many people work for Thor Industries?
Latest data suggests 31,000 work at Thor Industries.
When does the fiscal year end for Thor Industries?
Thor Industries's fiscal year ends in July.
Where is Thor Industries based?
Thor Industries's address is: 601 East Beardsley Avenue, Elkhart, IN, United States, 46514-3305
What is Thor Industries's ISIN number?
Thor Industries's international securities identification number is: US8851601018
What is Thor Industries's CUSIP number?
Thor Industries's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 885160101
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Stipa capillata is een vedergras uit de grassenfamilie (Poaceae). De soort komt hoofdzakelijk voor in de steppegordel van Roemenië en Oekraïne oostwaarts tot het zuiden van Rusland, Kazachstan en Daurië. Komt ook voor in Hongarije, het Zevenburgs Plateau, het oosten van Oostenrijk, het noorden van Italië en delen van Tsjechië en Duitsland. Elders in Centraal- en Zuid-Europa alleen geïsoleerde populaties.

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Foreign volunteer units of the Waffen-SS
Mountain divisions of the Waffen-SS
Skanderbeg
History of Albania
Military history of Albania during World War II
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian)
Insignia of 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian)[1]
Mountain infantry
Anti-Partisan operations
Division (never reached divisional strength)
XXI Mountain Corps
Garrison/HQ
Prizren
Yugoslav Front of the Second World War:
Operation Endlich
Operation Falkenauge
Operation Draufgänger
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The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The division was developed around the nucleus of an ethnic Albanian battalion which had briefly seen combat against the Yugoslav Partisans in eastern Bosnia as part of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian). Composed of Muslim Albanians with mostly German and Yugoslav Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) officers and non-commissioned officers, it was given the title Skanderbeg after medieval Albanian lord George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, who defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades in the 15th century.
Skanderbeg never reached divisional strength, being at most a brigade-sized formation of around 6,000 to 6,500 troops. In May 1944, members of the division arrested 281 Jews in Pristina and handed them over to the Germans, who transported them to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where many were killed. The division itself was better known for this action and for murdering, raping, and looting in predominantly Serb areas than for participating in combat operations on behalf of the German war effort. Its only significant military actions took place during a German anti-Partisan offensive in Montenegro in June and July 1944. Following those operations, the unit was deployed as a guard force at the chromium mines in Kosovo, where it was quickly overrun by the Partisans, leading to widespread desertion. Reinforced by German Kriegsmarine personnel and with less than 500 Albanians remaining in its ranks, it was disbanded on 1 November 1944. The remaining members were incorporated into the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. After the war, divisional commander SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS August Schmidhuber was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Belgrade and executed in 1947.
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The Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, greeting members of the 13th SS Division with a Nazi salute in November 1943.[2] The division included an estimated 1,000 Albanians from the Kosovo and Sandžak regions who fought alongside Bosnian Muslim and Croat soldiers in the Independent State of Croatia. These Albanians were later used to form the nucleus of the 21st SS Division.
On 7 April 1939, five months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, the Kingdom of Italy invaded the Albanian Kingdom. The country was overrun in five days, and the Italian King, Victor Emmanuel III, subsequently accepted the crown offered by the Albanian parliament. The Royal Albanian Army was incorporated into the Royal Italian Army and a viceroy was appointed to administer the country as a protectorate.[3] After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941, Italian Albania was expanded to include adjacent parts of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia incorporated mainly from the Yugoslav banovinas (regional subdivisions) of Vardar and Morava.[4] Kosovo was annexed to Albania, and in the beginning, Albanians living there enthusiastically welcomed the Italian occupation.[5] Although officially under Italian rule, the Albanians in Kosovo controlled the region and were encouraged to open Albanian language schools,[6] which had been banned by the Yugoslav government.[7] The Italians also gave the inhabitants Albanian citizenship and allowed them to fly the Albanian flag.[6] Kosovo Albanians then sought retribution against Serbs and Montenegrins settlers in the region[5] for the oppression that Albanians had experienced at the hands of the Serbs during the Balkan Wars, the First World War, and under Yugoslav rule.[8] The Italians subsequently cleared the area of most Serbs and Montenegrins who had settled in Kosovo during the inter-war period.[9] The local Albanians took advantage of their changed circumstances by taking revenge against their Serbian neighbours and burning the homes of as many as 30,000 Serb and Montenegrin settlers.[6]
Albania remained occupied until Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943.[10] In August of that year, faced with the imminent collapse of the Italian war effort, Nazi Germany deployed the 2nd Panzer Army to the Balkans to take over areas previously occupied by Italy. One of the Italian areas seized by the Germans was Albania, where the XXI Mountain Corps of Generaloberst (General) Lothar Rendulic's 2nd Panzer Army had been deployed. A Wehrmacht plenipotentiary general, and a special representative of Heinrich Himmler, SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und Polizei Josef Fitzthum, were both based in the Albanian capital of Tirana. The Germans took control of all Albanian forces that had been collaborating with the Italians prior to their capitulation, including the Balli Kombëtar, an anti-communist and nationalist militia. The Germans strengthened the Albanian army and gendarmerie, but quickly decided those troops were unreliable.[11] That year, a number of Albanians from Kosovo and the Sandžak region were recruited into the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian), a Waffen-SS division composed largely of Bosnian Muslims and Croats with mostly German officers. For about six months the division included about 1,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and the Sandžak who made up the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment (I/2), which later became the 1st Battalion of the 28th Regiment (I/28).[12][13]
The formation of an Albanian Waffen-SS division was Fitzthum's idea, initially opposed by the German Foreign Ministry representative Hermann Neubacher and the head of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei (Lieutenant General) Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who influenced Himmler to shelve it. But the Albanian government supported the idea; in the face of increasing difficulties Himmler soon changed his mind, and in February 1944 the idea received Adolf Hitler's approval.[14]
Formation[]
The division was named after Albanian national hero George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, who fought the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century.
In February 1944, Hitler approved the creation of an Albanian Waffen-SS division that was to serve only inside Kosovo,[7] and was intended to protect ethnic Albania but remain under German control.[14] It was meant to be one of three Muslim Waffen-SS divisions serving in the Balkans, the other two being the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) and the 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian).[15] Himmler's goal was to expand Waffen-SS recruiting in the Balkans and form two corps of two divisions each, with one corps to operate in the region of Bosnia in the Independent State of Croatia and the other in Albania. These corps would then be combined with the Volksdeutsche 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen and together would form a Balkan Waffen-SS mountain army of five divisions.[16]
In March 1944, Bedri Pejani, the chairman of the Second League of Prizren, an organization created after the Italian surrender to advance the interests of Kosovo Albanians, proposed to Hitler that a force of 120,000 to 150,000 Kosovo Albanian volunteers be raised to fight the Yugoslav and Albanian Partisans. Pejani asked the German leadership to give the Albanians equipment and supplies to fight the communist insurgency, and requested the expansion of the borders of the German puppet state of Albania at the expense of the German-occupied Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia and the German puppet state of Montenegro. These requests were not fulfilled,[11] but in April 1944 Himmler ordered the establishment of a new Albanian volunteer division,[10] which was subsequently named after the medieval Albanian warrior George Kastrioti Skanderbeg.[17] The SS had initially envisioned a force of 10,000–12,000 men,[14] and Himmler saw the Muslim Albanians as a potential source of manpower in Germany's war against the Yugoslav Partisans,[10] who faced significant difficulties in recruiting Kosovo Albanians to join their ranks.[7][8] The Germans found that Kosovo Albanians were more cooperative than Albanians in Albania itself,[11] mainly because they feared a return to Yugoslav rule,[7] and many of the division's recruits were Albanians from Kosovo. The quality of most of these recruits was poor, with only 6,000 being considered suitable to receive training.[10] Those that were accepted were a combination of about 1,500 former Royal Yugoslav Army prisoners of war, elements of the failed Albanian army and gendarmerie, volunteers from both pre-war and expanded Albania, and conscripts from families that had more than two sons.[14]
On 17 April 1944, the Albanian battalion of the 13th SS Division was transferred via rail directly from combat in Bosnia to Kosovo to form part of the Skanderbeg division. The head of Waffen-SS recruitment, SS-Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger, reported to Himmler that the Albanians "... were quite sad about leaving."[18] On 23 May, Fitzthum reported the failure of Albanian units used in operations against the Partisans, and that he had dissolved four Albanian battalions organized by the Wehrmacht. He described most Albanian army and gendarmerie officers as "totally corrupt, unusable, undisciplined and untrainable."[11]
Operations[]
The division was founded as the 21. Waffen-SS Gebirgsdivision der SS Skanderbeg (albanische Nr.1)[19][20] on 1 May 1944[21] as part of the XXI Mountain Corps. Most or all of the division's officers, non-commissioned officers (NCOs), and specialists were German,[14][22] and were mainly provided by the 7th and 13th SS Divisions, which noticeably weakened those formations.[23] The divisional artillery regiment was formed from the 1st Albanian Artillery Regiment.[21] The division was placed under the command of SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) August Schmidhuber,[24] who was promoted to SS-Oberführer (senior colonel) in June. Estimates of the size of the division range from 6,000[20] to 6,500[25][26] men. Members took a religious oath using the Quran, pledging "jihad against unbelievers."[27] The division was originally equipped with captured Italian Carro Armato M15/42 tanks, which proved to be unreliable.[28] Its garrison was located in the town of Prizren.[29]
The division was supplied with captured Italian Carro Armato M15/42 tanks, but they proved to be unreliable.
Early on, it became clear that most of the division's Muslim Albanian members seemed to be interested only in settling scores with their Christian Serb adversaries and numerous atrocities were committed.[10] The Germans had to disarm battalions of the division in the towns of Peć and Prizren and arrest the Albanian officers, with one commanding officer even being sent to prison in Germany.[14] On 14 May 1944, members of the division raided Jewish homes in Pristina and arrested 281 Jews and handed them over to the Germans, who sent them to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where many were killed.[30] In general, units of the division were better known for murdering, raping, and looting, mainly in ethnic Serb areas,[14] and for arresting Jews, than for participating in combat operations on behalf of the German war effort.[31] In addition to indiscriminately killing Serbs and Montenegrins, the division was responsible for the expulsion of up to 10,000 Slavic families from Kosovo as new Albanian settlers arrived from the poor areas of northern Albania.[32] The arrival of these Albanians was encouraged by Italian authorities, and it is estimated that as many as 72,000 Albanians were settled or re-settled in Kosovo during the war.[6]
In June 1944, the division engaged in large-scale field manoeuvres between the towns of Berane and Andrijevica in Montenegro,[33] and participated in Operations Endlich (Finally) and Falkenauge (Hawkeye)[23] in June and July, as well as Draufgänger (Daredevil),[20] during which it was the main force used by the Germans.[34] These operations were focused on the destruction of strong Partisan forces in the Đakovica, Peć and Mokra Gora areas.[23] According to Neubacher, the division was carelessly committed to fighting in the early stages of its training and performed poorly.[14] By the end of August 1944, the Germans had decided that the division was only of use for basic guarding duties.[35] Subsequently, some members were charged with guarding chromium mines near Kosovo before the area was overrun by the Partisans. In the ensuing clashes, one of the division's regiments lost more than 1,000 men and many Albanians deserted,[20] some after Serb Partisan attacks on areas northeast of Gusinje.[14] Army Group E claimed that the performance of the division showed that it had "absolutely no military value."[20]
On 1 September 1944, troops of the division in Tetovo and Gostivar mutinied, killing their German officers and NCOs.[36] By this time, the division numbered fewer than 7,000 men, which was less than one-third of its intended strength.[22] Within two months of its initial deployment, 3,500 men had deserted. Himmler brought in 3,000 to 4,000 Kriegsmarine (German navy) personnel from Greece to make up the numbers, but this had little effect on the division's fighting ability.[37][10][38] By the beginning of October 1944, the division's strength had fallen to about 4,900 men, fewer than 1,500 of whom were fit for combat.[20] Schmidhuber held his men in contempt, and he, his superiors, and Fitzthum explained their failure to create an effective security force by denigrating the Albanian culture and military reputation.[39][40] Later, less-involved members of the Wehrmacht stated that the principal issue regarding the unit's reliability may have been that the Germans did not work closely with the Albanians at the local level.[39] In mid-October, it was engaged in heavy fighting around Đakovica.[23] By this time, desertions had significantly affected the division's strength and its 86 officers and 467 NCOs were left with a force of only 899 men, about half of whom were Albanian.[41] On 24 October, Generaloberst Alexander Löhr, the commander of Army Group E, ordered that all Albanian members of the division be disarmed and released.[22]
On 1 November 1944, the division was disbanded.[20] At the same time, Albanians in Kosovo took up arms against the Partisans when they learned that the region would not be unified with Albania after the war, despite earlier Partisan promises. Atrocities occurred when 30,000 Partisans were sent to Kosovo to quell Albanian resistance in the region.[17] Thousands of Kosovo Albanians were killed in the ensuing violence, with estimates ranging from 3,000 to 25,000.[42] Claims that the number of Albanians killed were as high as 36,000–47,000 have been described by historians such as Noel Malcolm as greatly exaggerated.[43]
Aftermath[]
The remaining German troops and former naval personnel were reorganized as the regimental Kampfgruppe Skanderbeg under the command of SS-Obersturmbannführer Alfred Graaf. The unit withdrew from the Kosovo region in mid-November along with the rest of the German troops in the area.[22] Many Serbs and Montenegrins then took revenge against the region's ethnic Albanians, especially collaborators and those who had been members of the division.[43] When Kampfgruppe Skanderbeg reached Ljubovija on the Drina river, it was placed under the command of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, which was securing the river crossings in that area.[44] Kampfgruppe Skanderbeg held the towns of Zvornik and Drinjača during the first half of December 1944 as part of the Ljubovija bridgehead. It withdrew across the Drina and fought its way northward, towards Brčko on the Sava river, where it relieved the Wehrmacht forces holding the town.[45] In late December the assault gun battery of Kampfgruppe Skanderbeg was committed to the Syrmian Front at Vinkovci,[46] and the remainder of the Kampfgruppe was deployed to Bijeljina.[46]
In January 1945,[47] the handful of naval personnel that survived[41] were transferred to the 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division 30 Januar,[20] and the remnants of the former division were reorganized as II Battalion of the 14th SS Volunteer Mountain Infantry Regiment of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. On 21 January 1945, Schmidhuber was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (brigadier) and placed in command of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen.[47] After the war, he was found guilty of war crimes and was hanged in Belgrade on 27 February 1947.[48] The men from II Battalion fought with the Prinz Eugen until February 1945, when they were sent north to defend the Oder-Neisse Line.[49] That month, the battalion was disbanded altogether and its remaining manpower was assigned to the German police regiment near Zagreb.[22]
The division itself was considered to have been a military failure,[50] and not one of its members was ever awarded an Iron Cross while serving in it.[51] Overall, it was better known for committing atrocities than for contributing to the German war effort.[31] Its role in deporting Jews from Kosovo has been questioned by Albanian historian Shaban Sinani, who claims that the division did not participate in any deportations on behalf of the Germans.[52] Prior to the outbreak of the Kosovo War in the 1990s, American journalist Chris Hedges alleged that some of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were directly descended from members of the division and that they were ideologically influenced by it and other Albanian right-wing elements.[53] This claim has been challenged by British historian Noel Malcolm.[54]
Insignia[]
The division's identification symbol was the Albanian double-headed eagle.[55] Despite its short existence, a collar patch depicting a goat-crested helmet was manufactured for the division but there is no evidence that it was ever used. Photographs exist of a machined-woven cuff band with the title Skanderbeg,[20] but this was awarded to the 14th SS Volunteer Gebirgsjäger Regiment of the 7th SS Division in autumn 1944, and not to this division.[56] Members of the cadre staff were photographed wearing an Albanian arm shield depicting a black Albanian double-headed eagle on a red field.[20] Many of the division's Muslim members wore traditional grey-coloured skull caps instead of the standard SS field cap.[10]
Order of battle[]
The principal units of the division were:[21]
50th Waffen Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Infantry) Regiment of the SS (1st Albanian) (I, II, III battalions)
51st Waffen Gebirgsjäger Regiment of the SS (2nd Albanian) (I, II, III battalions)
21st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (four companies)
21st SS Freiwilligen (Volunteer) Panzerjäger (Anti-tank) Battalion (three companies)
21st SS Gebirgs (Mountain) Artillery Regiment (four battalions)
21st SS Freiwilligen Pioneer Battalion (three companies)
21st SS Feldersatz (Replacement) Battalion
21st SS Freiwilligen Signals Battalion (three companies)
21st SS Mountain Supply Troop
List of Waffen-SS units
Table of ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS
Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
↑ Keegan 1970, p. 139.
↑ Fisk 2006, p. 439.
↑ Lemkin 2008, pp. 99–100.
↑ Lemkin 2008, pp. 260–261.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Judah 2002, p. 27.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ramet 2006, p. 141.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Judah 2002, p. 28.
↑ 8.0 8.1 Mojzes 2011, p. 95.
↑ Tomasevich 2001, p. 151.
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 Williamson 2004, p. 128.
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Tomasevich 2001, p. 153.
↑ Lepre 1997, pp. 48–49.
↑ Tomasevich 2001, p. 498–499.
↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 Fischer 1999, p. 185.
↑ Longerich 2011, p. 677.
↑ Lepre 1997, p. 223.
↑ 17.0 17.1 Judah 2000, p. 132.
↑ Stein 1984, p. 184.
↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 Williamson 2012a, p. 38.
↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Nafziger 1992, p. 21.
↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 Tomasevich 2001, p. 154.
↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Kaltenegger 2008, p. 69.
↑ Williamson 2012b, p. 18.
↑ Cohen 1996, p. 100.
↑ Abbott 1983, p. 27.
↑ Simeunović & Dolnik 2013, p. 94.
↑ Cappellano & Battistelli 2012.
↑ Elsie 2010, p. 261.
↑ Perez 2013, p. 27.
↑ 31.0 31.1 Mojzes 2011, pp. 94–95.
↑ Poulton 2003, pp. 127–128.
↑ Frank 2010, pp. 84–85.
↑ Fischer 1999, p. 224.
↑ Kaltenegger 2008, p. 251.
↑ Kaltenegger 2008, p. 65.
↑ 39.0 39.1 Fischer 1999, p. 186.
↑ Judah 2002, pp. 28–29.
↑ 41.0 41.1 Bishop 2003, p. 71.
↑ 43.0 43.1 Bideleux & Jeffries 2007, p. 526.
↑ Kumm 1995, p. 236.
↑ 46.0 46.1 Kumm 1995, p. 245.
↑ MacLean 1996, p. 141.
↑ Ailsby 2004, p. 169.
↑ Butler 2001, p. 188.
↑ Zolo 2002, p. 25.
↑ Malcolm 5 May 1999.
↑ Bishop 2007, p. 164.
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1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
2nd SS Division Das Reich
3rd SS Division Totenkopf
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg
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11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
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17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen
18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel
23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland
6th SS Mountain Division Nord
7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen
13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)
23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian)
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8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer
22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Division Maria Theresia
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26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian)
27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Langemarck (1st Flemish)
28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien
29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian)
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