Dunwoody's Village Burger opened a new location in Johns Creek Monday. The new Village Burger is located in a The Fresh Market-anchored shopping center on Old Alabama Road. Village Burger opened in suite 220, most recently occupied by Yoforia, the frozen yogurt shop. Interestingly, when Village Burger opened in "Dunwoody Village" in 2010, it replaced a former Bruster's Real Ice Cream shop.
Cosmetics and skincare retailer Kiehl's is on the move at Lenox Square. Soon Kiehl's will relocate from their current space on the main level near Mont Blanc to a temporary space on the upper level. Upstairs, Kiehl's will occupy the former Jacadi kids shop, adjacent to Abercrombie & Fitch. Kiehl's will reportedly move at least one more time before arriving in their new home sometime next year, most likely on the main level.
The current Kiehl's space is reportedly being combined with the current Mont Blanc space to create a roughly 2100 square foot space that will house Atlanta's first Diane von Furstenberg boutique.
A larger Mont Blanc store will soon reopen in the former ALDO space, adjacent to Microsoft.
Doc Chey's Dragon Bowl is now open at Emory Village. The new restaurant replaces Doc Chey's Noodle House and features a similar menu to that of its predecessor, but with a streamlined ordering process. No additional changes at existing restaurants are planned, nor are there any immediate plans for expansion of the Dragon Bowl concept.
Paper Affair is closing all four of their Georgia locations. The stores are at Roswell Wieuca Shopping Center on Roswell Road near Chastain Park, Peachtree Battle on Peachtree Road, Northside Parkway near West Paces Ferry Road and North Point Parkway in Alpharetta. Three franchised stores in Texas will remain open. The Atlanta Paper Affair stores are currently offering 30% off and are slated to close "within two weeks."
Freddy's Custard & Steakburgers opened its new McDonough location this past week and reportedly set a single day opening record. The new restaurant is located at South Point in McDonough and is one of many Georgia locations planned. Freddy's offers a menu similar to Steak & Shake.
Chama Gaucha Brazilian Steakhouse is opening in place of Modern Restaurant & Bar at Tower Place in Buckhead. The 13,000 square foot restaurant plans to open in November and would compete with established churrascaria Fogo de Chão. Fogo de Chão has been in Atlanta for many years and today operates 24 domestic locations and nine more in Brazil. Chama Gaucha, by comparison, operates three locations in San Antonio, Houston and Chicago. Atlanta has played host to a number of failed churrascarias, in fact one space in Buckhead played host to two failures. Boi Na Braza and later Chima both opened in heavily renovated versions of the former Kudzu Cafe on Peachtree, and both failed to compete with Fogo. I predict that the large space and intense competition from Fogo will result in a short life for Chama Gaucha in Atlanta.
Bojangles' opened its newest metro Atlanta location yesterday on Lawrenceville Highway in Tucker. Other new locations are in the works in Snellville and Lithonia.
In one the least surprising restaurant moves of the past few years, Cardamom Hill will close later this month to allow owner Asha Gomez to focus on her growing restaurant portfolio near the Beltline. Upscale Indian eatery Cardamom Hill opened in January 2012 in a small shopping center on Northside Drive, just off I-75. While the food was good, the layout was a bit strange and the location was terrible. It was Antico Pizza without the terrible BUT funky location. The owners of downtown's FAB made a similar move when they first announced their then upcoming Buckhead outpost, F&B would be in addition to their struggling downtown eatery. Shortly before F&B opened came word that the restaurant would indeed replace FAB. Cardamom Hill is slated to close after dinner service July 28th. A new bakery cafe concept, Spice to Table, which Gomez calls an "Indian patisserie," is set to open August 1 in the Studioplex development on Auburn Avenue in the Old Fourth Ward. Later this year, Gomez will debut a new fast casual fried chicken concept, Spice Road Chicken, at nearby Krog Street Market.
A longtime reader has started a list of "Kids Eat Free" establishments and has asked that I share it in hopes that others will contribute to it. Please click here to view the list and feel free to add or edit to make the list as useful and up to date as possible. Feel free to include both local and national restaurants.
The Paper Affair at Peachtree Battle has a "store closing" sign out front. I'll be curious to see what goes into that space - vacancies don't last long at that shopping center.
In Dallas there are several Brazilian steakhouses that all seem to do well. Outside of poor location and bad execution, I don't see why Buckhead couldn't support another.
With the heavy traffic that Twin Peaks gets I wouldn't be surprised if this new place is successful.
Speaking of Chima, any rumors about this space? Can't believe it will stay empty for too long.
Simply put, Atlanta is no Dallas. Given the track record for failure in this very niche market, I don't see this newest entrant to the market succeeding. The space is also gigantic and the rent is surely pricy considering its size and Piedmont Road frontage. Twin Peaks and Farm Burger both do well, but are very different from a Brazilian steakhouse. I could be wrong, but I don't see this joint last much longer than a year or so.
As for the Chima space, it was sold to bank...for a branch...over a year ago. Unclear what the hold up is.
Someone on CL said that Asha Gomez was evicted, not that she chose to close Cardamom Hill... have no idea if that's true. However, if it is true then maybe a switch to much smaller eateries is the right move for her.
Just a heads up, you can go to bit.ly/kidseatfreeatlanta to access the spreadsheet. May be easier to remember and share than the lengthy Google link. Hopefully folks will fill in as they dine!
Thanks Eli for posting it.
Sad to hear about Paper Affair. My wife and I have used their services for close to a decade.
I know a few stores closed in recent years (Phipps Plaza, Birmingham metro), but it appeared both North Point and Peachtree Center were doing well. My wife and I spoke to a few North Point employees Sunday about this, and they said it was a "corporate decision" on Friday, and that no one in the store was expecting it.
Again a bit sad, as there aren't many stationary store options in the Atlanta area -- guess everyone's going the online route.
I agree with the above poster commenting on paper affair.... I shopped there often at Phipps and later in mountain brook in the birmingham area.... I don't think they did as well in birmingham because of the longstanding family owned stationary stores in the mountain brook area.... People in mountain brook are fiercely loyal to longstanding local businesses..
I have to say, I'm not surprised by Paper Affair. First off, you can get any of their products online (and at cheaper prices) and many other Atlanta stores carried the same non stationary items. The biggest thing of all to me, is the few times I went in, I was treated like crap by the employees, like I wasn't good enough to be in their stores (Phipps, Wieuca and Peachtree Battle locations).
I have the Dallas/Atlanta debate often. Why is it that "Atlanta is no Dallas"?
I find that there are many similarities between Dallas and Atlanta as I have lived in Atlanta for several years and spent a considerable amount of time in Dallas. Aside from an actual street grid and better highway/interstate system in Dallas, the two cities are laid out very similarly (downtown, midtown, uptown, large suburban office areas vs downtown, midtown, buckhead, perimeter) and the largest/wealthiest component of the metro population is north of downtown.
I was just down in FLA and noticed that both in Tampa and Orlando Brazilian steakhouses seem located across the street from each other. In Tampa , Texas de brazil and Boizao are in the west shore area, an upscale shopping and office district. In orlando Fogo de Chao and Texas de brazil are a block apart on international drive. Sort of like the Brazilian version of the CVS - Walgreens setup.


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Q: How to remove highly differentiated element from a list of numbers I have some lists where each list contains similar numbers (tolerance: +/-10%). But sometimes the list also contains noises: elements with large differences from the other 'normal' elements.
Here are some samples:
a = [100, 102, 99, 225, 105]
b = [150, 142, 24, 153, 147, 315, 149]
c = [34, 33, 31, 80, 32, 30]

What I want is a simple way to automatically remove these noises. From the first list, the 225 should be removed. From the second list, the 24 and 315 should be removed. From the last list, the 80 should be removed. Currently, my code is this:
import math

def foo(numbers):
    numbers_filtered = []
    for i, n in enumerate(numbers):
        n_upper = n + (n * 0.1)
        n_lower = n - (n * 0.1)
        similar = 0
        for j, m in enumerate(numbers):
            if i == j:
                continue
            if m >= n_lower and m <= n_upper:
                similar += 1
        if similar >= math.ceil(len(numbers) / 2.0):
            numbers_filtered.append(n)

    print('%s -> %s' % (numbers, numbers_filtered))

a = [100, 102, 99, 225, 105]
b = [150, 142, 24, 153, 147, 315, 149]
c = [34, 33, 31, 80, 32, 30]
foo(a)
foo(b)
foo(c)

But I'm not satisfied with the code since I'm expecting much simpler code. Could you suggest me the easier way to accomplish this task?

A: One of the simple approaches would be to use standard deviation:
avg = sum(numbers) / len(numbers)
diff = [ (i - avg) ** 2 for i in numbers]
stddev = math.sqrt(sum(diff) / len(numbers))

# filter out outliers
result = []
for n in numbers:
    distance = abs(n - avg)
    if distance < stddev * FACTOR:
        result.append( n )

Defining correct FACTOR might be a challenge so that not too many numbers are dropped out. You might add additional outer loop to check how many numbers have been dropped and update the FACTOR accordingly. That would allow for logic like "keep at least 50% numbers".

A: I know no python, but here is the concept. I'll take the array you used:

a = [100, 102, 99, 225, 105]

And do it in one go over the array this way:

*

*100, 102 - diff 2 (2/100=.02 i.e. 2%), both ok

*102, 99 - diff 3 (3/102=.03 i.e. 3%), 99 is ok

*99, 225 - diff 126 (126/99=1.27 i.e. 127%), too high, drop it

*99 again, 105 - diff 6 (6/99=.06 i.e. 6%), 105 is ok

A: Code for my comment:
This keeps only elements within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean.
>>> def mean(array, function=None):
        function = function or (lambda x: x)
        return sum(map(function, array))/len(array)

>>> def standard_deviation(array, function=None):
        function = function or (lambda x: x)
        array_mean = mean(array, function=function)
        differences = [(i-array_mean)**2 for i in array]
        return math.sqrt(mean(differences))

>>> def foo(array, function=None):
        function = function or (lambda x: x)
        deviation = standard_deviation(array, function=function)
        array_mean = mean(array, function=function)
        return [i for i in array if abs(function(i)-array_mean) <= deviation*TOLERANCE]

>>> foo([100, 102, 99, 225, 105])
[100, 102, 99, 105]
>>> foo([150, 142, 24, 153, 147, 315, 149])
[150, 142, 153, 147, 149]
>>> foo([34, 33, 31, 80, 32, 30])
[34, 33, 31, 32, 30]

Set tolerance to whatever value you want. For the results you wanted, I used 1.5.
This will also work if the elements are "attributes of custom objects instead". You can do this:
>>> foo(my_array, lambda x: x.some_attribute_we_want_to_compare)

or even better:
>>> from operator import attrgetter
>>> foo(my_array, attrgetter("some_attribute_we_want_to_compare")

A: This could be solved by accessing list elements pairwise. I have written following code and verified the output is matching your expectation:
a = [100, 102, 99, 225, 105]
comp = -1
for x, y in zip(a,a[1:]):
    if comp != -1:
        x=comp
    if x-y > 10 or x-y < -10:
        a.remove(y)
        comp = x
    else:
        comp = x
print a

Output:
[100, 102, 99, 105]
[150, 142, 153, 147, 149]
[34, 33, 31, 32, 30]

A: Comparing to the median works for your examples but may be problematic if there is lots of noise - tweaking the tolerance may help in that case.
a = [100, 102, 99, 225, 105]
b = [150, 142, 24, 153, 147, 315, 149]
c = [34, 33, 31, 80, 32, 30]

tolerance = 0.1

for example in (a, b, c):
    example.sort()
    median = float(example[len(example) / 2])
    print example, median,
    print [n for n in example if 1 - tolerance <= median / n <= 1 + tolerance]

>>>
[99, 100, 102, 105, 225] 102 [99, 100, 102, 105]
[24, 142, 147, 149, 150, 153, 315] 149 [142, 147, 149, 150, 153]
[30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 80] 33 [30, 31, 32, 33, 34]
>>>

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Q: Cannot receive results from Square Point of Sale in a small Swift app I have written a small app in Swift using Xcode 12.5 by following the information and code samples provided here ... https://github.com/square/SquarePointOfSaleSDK-iOS
The app polls a server to see if there is a charge to be made.  The output from the server is in JSON format.  When a charge comes in, the JSON results are providing a customer id, amount to be charged, and a note to the Square Point of Sale SDK.
Using the SCCAPIRequest example from the GitHub page ...
// Replace with your app's URL scheme.
let callbackURL = URL(string: "<#T##Your URL Scheme##String#>://")!

// Your client ID is the same as your Square Application ID.
// Note: You only need to set your client ID once, before creating your first request.
SCCAPIRequest.setApplicationID(<#T##Application ID##String#>)

do {
    // Specify the amount of money to charge.
    let money = try SCCMoney(amountCents: 100, currencyCode: "USD")

    // Create the request.
    let apiRequest =
        try SCCAPIRequest(
                callbackURL: callbackURL,
                amount: money,
                userInfoString: nil,
                locationID: nil,
                notes: "Coffee",
                customerID: nil,
                supportedTenderTypes: .all,
                clearsDefaultFees: false,
                returnsAutomaticallyAfterPayment: false,
                disablesKeyedInCardEntry: false,
                skipsReceipt: false
        )

    // Open Point of Sale to complete the payment.
    try SCCAPIConnection.perform(apiRequest)

} catch let error as NSError {
    print(error.localizedDescription)
}

The app successfully switches to Square POS, displays the amount due, and knows which customer I am wanting to charge (via customer id).  I can process the payment and Square POS switches back to my app just fine.
This is where I am running in to trouble.  I am also using the UIApplication delegate method example on that same page.  Under the comment "Handle a successful request" ...
func application(_ app: UIApplication, open url: URL, options: [UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsKey : Any] = [:]) -> Bool {
guard SCCAPIResponse.isSquareResponse(url) else {
    return
}

do {
    let response = try SCCAPIResponse(responseURL: url)

    if let error = response.error {
        // Handle a failed request.
        print(error.localizedDescription)
    } else {
        // Handle a successful request.
    }

} catch let error as NSError {
    // Handle unexpected errors.
    print(error.localizedDescription)
}

return true

}
I have added the following ...
print("Transaction successful: \(response)")

From what I understand, the response should include the transaction id, and anything that was passed along in the userInfoString.  It appears that this code example isn't even firing when Square POS returns to my app.  I cannot see anything in the Xcode console.
I have assigned a callback URL within Xcode using the documentation on the link above, and it's also added in the Square Developer Portal under the Point of Sale API.
What am I missing?  Where should the UIApplication delegate method be placed, in AppDelegate.swift or should it reside in ViewController.swift, or somewhere else?  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

A: @ElTomato provided me with the hint that I needed to solve the problem I was having.  I needed to delete SceneDelegate.swift, remove Application Scene Manifest from Info.plist, and remove some code from AppDelegate.swift
I found detailed instructions on THIS site ...
iOS 13: Swift - 'Set application root view controller programmatically' does not work
Thank you kindly for the fantastic help @ElTomato


I have never seen a reading teacher be required to sit through a mathematics professional development, because that would just be silly.
I've never seen a social studies teacher sent to a math PD, even though they could learn how to teach the concepts of proportions and scales in their maps units, or how timelines connect with students' understanding of number lines.
I've never seen a science teacher forced to attend a math PD, even though their content is deeply based in mathematics. In sixth grade alone, our science teachers need to be able to teach the concept of variables and substituting for them, evaluating expressions, solving equations, finding volume, the concept of negative numbers, and probably much more.
I've rarely even seen a MATH teacher required to attend a math PD, even though that's the content we teach EVERY DAY, even though its deeply hard to teach really well, and even though we're on the standardized tests just as much as reading is.
I am so tired of getting sent to literacy professional development sessions. Tell me why I spent 2 hours after school today listening to someone teach me how to structure a reading class? Tell me what's supposed to be useful for me about selecting books at the right lexile levels? Tell me why I need to know the difference between "rigorous" and "hard" novels to read?
I know literacy is fundamentally important, and I won't argue with it being more important than anything else. My kids can't pass a math standardized test if they can't read and understand the questions, and that's really all the motivation I need to be invested in this. I've been working really, really hard on including content literacy in my class this year. The English teacher is helping me teach my kids strategies for approaching reading in math. I explicitly teach vocabulary, both for content ("That was a great answer, but can someone say it better using a word from the word wall?") and for process ("Below is a math problem, but the directions are missing the verb. Fill in the blank with a verb from the word box below.") Every Friday, we spend the class learning how to write a rubric-graded description of how we solved a problem and why. I make my kids think and talk about math every single day. ("What did he do? Why did she do that? Do you agree with that answer? How do you know? Where is the mistake? As the teacher, why did I decide to teach it this way? How do you think someone else could get this problem wrong? Why is this important? What does this remind you of?") This is not the griping of a math teacher who doesn't value literacy. I know I need it, I know I want it, and I know it's important in my classroom. But I still need help doing it right, and yet all the training I get is viciously useless.
They tell us, "Reading is the cornerstone of everything. We are all reading teachers. Reading needs to be taught in every class, every day." I hear their point, but I have to disagree. The English, Science, and Social Studies teachers are welcome to be reading teachers (thanks, guys!), but I'm actually here to be a math teacher. I'm trying to get kids stretching their brains in entirely different ways, as they learn to analyze and problem solve and be creative and be precise. There are kids who never shine in reading but should be able to thrive in the world of mathematics. And if we want to bring up the whole failing-in-international-test-scores and look-where-the-jobs-are arguments, I think people should be okay if I put aside my role as "reading teacher" and start focusing on my role as math teacher.
After today's PD, I asked my principal for $600 and 3 days off to attend the annual National Council of Teachers of Mathematics conference in April. I nicely told him that I would like the opportunity to actually go learn something relevant. He looked at my face and realized it wasn't a good idea to say no right away, so I've got my fingers crossed….
I love the phrase "viciously useless." I wonder what "lexile level" that is.
In my grad school, we had a lot of coursework about incorporating multidisciplinary work into our classrooms (I'm not a math teacher). We also had to come up with a bunch of lessons that incorporated various other subjects into our own subject. In our literacy courses, we were taught to include lessons such as how to read graphs and charts in English class, or how to interpret data to make sense of something in Social Studies.
In my experience, my graduate classes did a much better job of helping me to incorporate math into my lessons, or to at least provide the option of analyzing charts/data/statistics to my more mathematically-inclined students. Professional development has never helped me out with that. Gotta love programs implemented by administrators who never spent more than a few years in a classroom and are out of touch with teachers' needs!
I'm sorry you've had to sit through so much irrelevant PD! Hopefully you'll get to that conference!
I love you for what you DO do to teach your kids reading. Please don't stop. Please. And also, know that somewhere a few hundred miles away, I DO make my kids calculate their grades, find percentages for summaries, teach multiplication between class periods, and make my kids show their work when they keep score. It's not much, but I try. I wouldn't mind math PD myself.
Waste-of-time professional developments are way too common, and literacy-related one seem to often be especially terrible. My theory is that it's because reading is a very complicated skill, but administrators are always looking for a quick fix, and those quick fixes are invariably dumb, hence so are the PDs.
That said, I am not a reading teacher but I am 100% on board with "every teacher is a reading teacher" phrase they bandy about…it really is a core skill for just about everything. I don't grade for English skills in content area classes (doesn't seem fair) except where they directly impact content area performance (say, truly unintelligible or inadvertently misleading lab reports) but if I can build language development into a content area activity I don't see a downside there. We just need to develop more ways to include reading in such a way that it complements and supports content area material, rather than taking instructional time away from it.
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Ergonomics is an important factor to consider in order to keep workers healthy, avoid injuries and maintain productivity and production quality. With IMMA, it is possible to perform ergonomic studies already in a virtual development stage. The foundation is a biomechanical model that allows fast generation of complex motions that are as comfortable as possible.
Similarly to a human, it is possible for the IMMA manikin to perform motions with different positioning of the body. The biomechanical model of the IMMA manikin is built as a simplified human skeleton and consists of 82 bone segments that are connected by joints and have, in total, 162 degrees of freedom. A comfort function is used to determine the positions of the manikin that are ergonomically sound. The comfort is based on ergonomic criteria of the biomechanical model and has been formalized to fit the generic mathematical framework of the IMMA manikin. The user instructs the manikin to work in different postures and interact with the environment, and based on the biomechanical model, a motion incorporating the kinematic constraints, balance, contact forces, collision avoidance and comfort is automatically computed.
The biomechanical skeleton and the corresponding ergonomic criteria are core functionality in IMMA that are used to compute complex motions that are as comfortable as possible, and to provide data for ergonomic studies.


riving around Oriental I cannot help observing the dying white clover along the roadside. Apparently white clover is now a weed, a designation that warrants death by herbicide. The Town has been busy spraying the right of way to rid us of this pesky plant. I've been around long enough to remember when garden centers sold grass seed that included clover seed as an important part of the mix because clover can make nitrogen in the air usable by plants.
Plants love nitrogen, but often have a hard time finding enough even though 78% of the air is nitrogen. The problem for most plants is they cannot use the nitrogen in the air because it is in the wrong form. However, many, many eons ago some clever bacteria, who knew how to make nitrogen in the air usable by plants, struck a bargain with plants such as clover. If clover would give the bacteria sugar the bacteria would give it nitrogen. This relationship is so good that bacteria growing in the roots of clover provide more nitrogen than the clover can use to the benefit of other plants such as grass.
Free fertilizer for the lawn is a good thing for home owners, but not so good for companies that sell fertilizer. What if they could convince homeowners that clover is a noxious weed and sell them a product that would kill this noxious weed? Without clover to fertilize grass for free then homeowners would need to purchase fertilizer from the same company. A good deal for the company but not a good deal for clover, and certainly not a good deal for homeowners.
Enter clever marketing that shows the "weed" free lawn as the envy of the neighborhood. Why have lawns with lots of different plants when you can reduce your diversity to one so it looks like a putting green? Of course with only one species of grass there is the risk of insects or disease killing all of it, but fear not because the same company that teaches us to love grass and hate other small plants will eagerly sell us insecticides and fungicides to kill the insects and fungi.
Then, of course, there is "collateral damage". On my street there were several beauty berry shrubs growing along the roadside. They were so beautiful I was tempted to dig them up and move them to my yard. I wish I had because now they are dead. And then there were the yellow irises that naturalized in the ditch that are now dying. More collateral damage. The herbicide being used is called selective because it does not kill grass, but it does kill all other plants. It makes a person wonder why grass is the favored species, but we know the answer. Marketing.
Honey bees love clover (and other broadleaf "weeds"), and honeybees are in trouble across the country. Fewer clover plants mean fewer honeybees. I know that sometimes we step on a bee and get stung, but for most of us it is an inconvenience that can be avoided by wearing shoes. Lots of other insects such as butterflies and moths can be seen on clover and other broadleaf plants, and they enrich summer for all of us.
There are lots of plants and animals we can share our lives with, and we are the better for it. It really does not make sense to be convinced by people who want to sell us stuff we are better off by growing only grass in our yards, that we are better off to buy and spray herbicides to kill every other type of plant, and that we are better off to buy and use fungicides and insecticides to correct our own foolishness. That being said I still like clover, and I'm saddened to see attempts to spray it into oblivion. On a more positive note I suspect clover will likely still be here long after our time has passed as a species.
Bob Miller is a retired professor of urban forestry and volunteers with the Oriental Tree Board, which he chairs.


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Did You Know? Radio Station Call Letters
Ever wonder why radio station call letters start with the letters K or W? The reason goes back as early as 1912 and originated with the United States federal government. In 1923 the boundary was set by the Mississippi River and all radio stations to the West were given K and to the East were W. For the most part this holds true, but with AM stations there are exceptions.
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Here's the story behind some well known Cincinnati area stations:
WCKY stands for "Covington, Kentucky," its original studio location
WCPO stands for "The Cincinnati Post," which was owned by Scripps-Howard
WKRC stands for the "Kodel Radio Corporation," a now-forgotten radio manufacturer that bought the license in 1925
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This week: The Sixth Gun, Future Quest, and East of West
Welcome back, Donist World Denizens! For those of you new to our site, I'm Donist, and I am joined by Donist World CFO the Reverse Obie* (my friends' Boston terrier whose fur recently swapped colors) and by our marketing director / administrative assistant / party planner / wafflenator Tulip (my dog, Reverse Obie's sister). You'll have to excuse us, Donist World Denizens, as my puppy executive team and I are taking a break from our discussions of maintaining our status as a Fortune 320,000 company in order to fully appreciate our new waffle making station. Tulip is opting for a plain waffle with maple syrup (the classic), Reverse Obie is more of a strawberries with whipped cream kind of puppy, and I going all out with the chocolate chips and whipped cream. Nothing says "victory" like a waffles and sequential storytelling. So, pour yourself a fresh cup of coffee, cook up some waffles to your specifications, and most of all read some great comics. Take care. Thank you for reading!
The Sixth Gun #50
The Sixth Gun #50 - Written Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Brian Hurtt, colored by Bill Crabtree, lettered by Crank!, designed by Keith Wood, edited by Charlie Chu, published by Oni Press. The gates to hell have been thrown open by the Six Guns, and Griselda the Grey Witch means to rebuild the world to her suiting…that is unless Becky, Drake, and their companions put an end to the evildoer and her army and somehow rid the world of the guns once and for all.
<pwaw> <puff> <puff> <pwaw> That, Denizens, is the the sound of this Donist figuratively having a smoke after such an immensely satisfying read of an immensely satisfying series. (Seriously, though, I've never even tried smoking and you shouldn't either, as it supports a corrupt business that poisons people and the planet, but that's neither here nor there.) <sip> <rustle> <rustle> <sip> That, Denizens, is the sound of this Donist literally taking a celebratory sip of Henry McKenna Kentucky Bourbon (which you should switch to a strong ginger ale, if you are not old enough to drink alcoholic beverages.) Anyhow, what I'm trying to say is that after 50 issues, The Sixth Gun has run its course and come to an end, an end of the creators' choosing, done how they wanted it to be done. This is a great thing for everyone indeed.
I'm not going to spoil this issue, other than to say you need to be ready for the $9.99 cover price, but you can rest easy since this issue runs for 60 glorious, uninterrupted pages and ends with a kindly letter to the fans from Bunn. You'll rest easier over the initial sticker shock of the price once you actually get this issue in your dagburned, grubby little mitts and see how heavy it actually is. Then you start to read. If you remember, there was a lengthy delay between the end of the previous arc and the beginning of this one, and although I like issue 48, I was not blown away by it. Issue 49 — which I had to buy digital because my LCS sold my copy to someone else — had some big surprises that made me want to cheer aloud and served as a strong lead in for this series finale. I was pumped.
Okay, I will give you a little nibble by saying that you won't need to worry about the ending being just a bunch of folks sitting around conversing. Nope. If you've been loving The Sixth Gun as much as I have over the years, then you are expecting battles, monsters, demons, shocks, and thrills, as well as an ending that beautifully sticks the landing and artwork that remains as solid as it has ever been; you get it all. Bunn's narration and dialogue continue to pull you in as the stakes escalate throughout. Hurtt delivers some of his best work to date with some cool creature designs, and storytelling that keeps you glued to the action as Crabtree's not overly rendered colors depict Hell in greyed tones except when vibrant, blood reds burn in the underworld's gloom; as far as Hell goes, it's rather pretty, if not for the urgency of…you know…the end of existence.
I'm a happy buckaroo, Denizens. Not for the end of a fantastic series, of course, but for a solid ending that respects and builds upon everything that came before. I loved it. In fact, think I'm going to fast forward a reread of the entire series to the top of the reread tower to experience the series in all its glory once again. I honestly can't wait! Speaking of not waiting, if you never read the best supernatural Western comic to ever grace the stands, then you have a hefty amount of reading to do with the soon to be nine trades (not counting three side story trades), or go for the pricey-but-glorious hardcovers. You'll be glad you did. Huge congrats to the creators and a hope that we someday see The Sixth Gun done properly on television. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Future Quest #1
Future Quest #1 - Written by Jeff Parker, illustrated by Evan "Doc" Shaner and Steve "The Dude" Rude, colored by Jordie Bellaire, lettered by ALW Studios's Dave Lanphear, published by DC Comics. As a mysterious menace seeks to take over the universe, a lone warrior wages a losing battle to keep it at bay. Meanwhile, on planet Earth, the Quest family takes notice of mysterious rifts in space and time, as does a more devious mind.
Okay, full disclosure: I had no intention of picking up this book. Thankfully, the many glowing reviews and high praise all around made me reconsider. Why wouldn't I want to read a mashup of some of my favorite childhood cartoons? There's characters from Space Ghost, The Herculoids, Jonny Quest, Birdman, and a bunch of others from shows I did not watch — for you youngsters out there, I'm talking 'bout the dark days before the interwebs, streaming, and DVRs…spooky…scary. Anyhow, I don't know why I didn't think I'd want this excellent, fun, thrilling comic, but I'm glad my guy at the LCS talked me into letting them order me a copy.
The issue is $3.99, which is more expensive than the current "Rebirth" titles from DC, but it also has 30 pages of compelling, all-ages story that's sure to please fans of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, while intriguing those with limited experience to those great shows. In these 30 pages, Parker gives us a little space opera, a dash of jungle adventure, a pinch of spy intrigue, a tablespoon of superheroics, and a quarter cup of danger, all carefully folded into a pillowy phyllo dough of fun. (Ahem…sorry about that. It's almost dinner time and I'm hungry.)
Shaner, Rude, and Bellaire make nearly every panel a visual one-two punch of storytelling that refuses to allow you to look away, while gliding you through the course of the book, eager to see what happens next. The vibrant colors add tension and excitement, and with the beauty reflected on every page, it seems like the creators have an appreciation, if not total love, of the source material. You also can't go wrong with mechanized eyeball spiders, or a French bulldog named Bandit.
I love this comic, Denizens. It's a joy to read. Even without the nostalgia factor, the story and art are enough to make me a fan. Plus, a good thing about getting a hold of a copy this late in the game is that this coming Wednesday issue two comes out! So, if you have not given the fantastic Future Quest a try, then you should pick up a copy before it vanishes from the stands, so you can be ready for the next issue of what looks to be a heavenly series. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
East of West #27
East of West #27 - Written by Jonathan Hickman, illustrated by Nick Dragotta, colored by Frank Martin, lettered by Rus Wooton, published by Image Comics. When the Chosen gather, no good can ever come of it.
Dang. This issue struck a little too close to home. It very much reminded me of the annual Donist Family Reunion. You get everyone together and it is all fine…for about the first ten minutes. Next thing you know, it all falls apart: old grudges resurface; the bickering starts; the two or three sane people in the bunch are happy to see each other, yet acknowledge getting together is not the best of ideas; old wounds reopen. And then Aunt Bernice stands up. "Oh gawd," people mutter, "here we go again," as Aunt Bernice knocks a cup of demon's venom (aka…wine) from cousin Billy's hand before launching into her tirade about hellfire and brimstone; it's no wonder Uncle Stu up and vanished…we hope of his own accord. <ahem> So, yeah. This issue is kind of like that, only with a big, white nether demon added to the mix…as well as foretellings of the apocalypse…both of which could go down at the Donist Family Reunion come August. (Why do I keep going to those?)
Anyhow, this issue has all of the complexities East of West fans have come to expect from new installments, with not much coming from this meeting of The Chosen other than some bad tidings for one character in particular…which really bums me out as we have not yet fully gotten their story. <sigh> Oh well, I still hold out hope that we have not yet seen the last of the mysterious character, and someday understand what their deal is, what their relationship to another is, how they met another character, and why they played such an intriguing role only to be possibly "kilt!" in this issue. Dragotta's sequentials continue to be fantastic, and his character designs great, especially on the increasingly-gross Ezra.
East of West continues to befuddle the bejesus out of me, but I am still enjoying the comic…even when one of the coolest characters is (supposedly) taken off the board. If you like to work for your comic book enjoyment and you are a fan of sci-fi, post-apocalyptic / pre-apocalyptic, supernatural, fantasy, political dramas, then East of West is the book for you. You can catch up with the five available trades, or super-size the experience with the first hardcover. RECOMMENDED!
Out of time as always - Again, I'm out of time. There's still plenty of awfulness to gripe about, but let's lift the mood, focus on the good, and by all means stay the hell away from Aunt Bernice. Take care.
Labels: Brian Hurtt, Cullen Bunn, East of West, Evan "Doc" Shaner, Future Quest, Jeff Parker, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, Steve "The Dude" Rude, The Sixth Gun


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It was in July. My friend and I decided to go to the river for bream. We got up early, about three o'clock, took the boat and went fishing. Since they were going to catch on the stream, they gathered the floor of a bucket of chernozem (so that the bait was washed out longer). As bait, we used a makuha, boiled peas and barley. They were going to catch on pearl barley, moldy worm, worm and protein honey mastyrka. We went out into the water in the dark, became about five meters upstream from the supposed pit, put on a dozen medium-sized balls from bait and threw them so that, on the stream created, the float floated as accurately as possible. They laid out their six-meter carbon fiber rods (you need to enjoy fishing, not to think about when you can put the rod and rest), but they didn't catch it right away. As a rule, right after bait, usually small fish fits – roach, buster, bleak, etc.
Comfortably seated in two local boat, we decided to drink coffee before fishing. In short, ten minutes later, after feeding, we began to hunt for bream.
At first, as expected, came across mostly roach and white bream. It was almost five o'clock on the clock, but there was no bream bite. Somewhere at the beginning of the sixth, the biting abruptly stopped. Several postings in a row float did not even budge. We immediately understood – bream came up.
After the first bream was caught, (by the way, the whole bream took on barley) the biting of small fish again resumed. A flock of more serious prey, apparently moved away. But it did not last long. As at the last break, the bite of fines abruptly stopped and over the next two or three minutes we and a friend, almost simultaneously, spotted one good bream. In order not to interfere with each other and not to confuse the tackle, we parted our prey on the sides – comrade took the fish at the stern, and I from the bow. By the way, it should be noted by beginning fishermen, because, personally, I had to see pretty "funny" cases of the diving out of large fish.
In general, our fishing continued. Poklyovki large bream followed necessarily after ten – fifteen minute pauses and cool "trivia". And it lasted about ten o'clock in the morning. Until that time, we, for two, with a friend, caught a dozen and a half solid and simply large fishes. And then, as the fishermen say, how to chop off. The trifle took constantly, and the bream was no more.
We already wanted to go home, when suddenly, on my knockdown, I felt very stubborn resistance in my hand. I just could not tear the fish from the bottom. At first, there was a feeling that I was hooked, but then … I was holding a thicker weighing about one hundred grams in my hands. She was dead and "chewed." Literally about five minutes later, the same story repeated. And again, "chewed" gustera. A predator "entered" the pit. You had to think of something to try to catch him. And, since, I managed to feel that the predator, still quite a decent size, needed the appropriate tackle. It's good that I'm always used to taking spinning with me. It was not difficult for me to decompose it very quickly. And now, after a few moments, I made the first cast on a wobbler, very much like a buster. But, to my surprise, there was not even the slightest hint of the presence of a large predator. What to do?
Comrade prompted me to exit. He proposed to remake spinning on livejack. Moreover, we have enough live bait.
So I did. He made a loop with two tees at the end of the wicker, stuck a small live bait into this loop and tightened it a little so that the tees were on the sides of the fish. The same wobbler, only natural. Twenty centimeters above the base of the loop, I put a thirty-gram sliding load.
Everything was ready for a "fight". Zhivets sank to the bottom, about seven meters downstream. I relaxed the clutch on the coil and we began to wait for a bite. Comrade, as before, continued to catch the bait, but there was practically no bite.
It was not long to wait. The clutch worked so that if I did not hold the spinning in my hand, it would have been thrown overboard. Cutting and … I, to put it mildly, came to light bewilderment. On the other end of the wicker, there was clearly something.
very large and very strong. I could not lift a fish a centimeter, but I felt that it was still a fish.
We were standing on two anchors, but this did not stop the prey – it pulled us downstream, as if there were no anchors at all … My friend, in a hurry, rolled up his rod, raised both anchors and sat on the oars. It was not possible to swim back, but on the spot we still stalled.


Good afternoon. Welcome to the Trib Total Media All-Time Team Zone. We are all excited to announce the All-Time Team. These are all players that played for the Penguins and gave their all for the city of Pittsburgh and for the Pittsburgh Penguins. It's nice to be able to tribute this guys in this unique way. These are all touch screens that are interactive. There are a couple of different ways that you can do a Hall of Fame. This is a rather unique way. Instead of having cases of artifacts, we think this is more consistent with our fan base, our brand and what the Penguins and Trib Total Media wanted to present in this wonderful new venue.
Penguins president David Morehouse announces the Trib Total Media All-Time Team on Friday afternoon at CONSOL Energy Center.
When you walk up to the screens, they are like giant iPods. You can touch them and see statistics, highlights, photos and bios of each of these players. To my left we have three Stanley Cups – which are also interactive. You can touch the screen and spin the Cup around. You can zoom in and look at different names. Pierre (Larouche) can see his name on the Cup. The Penguins' Cups – you can press the screen and the highlights and a bio of that team that won that Cup – will come up on the screen. We also have great memories in Penguins history on the other side of the Stanley Cups. That is also an interactive touch screen. You can see highlights of some of the great moments in history.
You will notice that one of the members of our All-Time Team, Pierre Larouche, is here today. Welcome Pierre. Congratulations and thank you for everything that you have done for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
We really think our fans, especially the kids, will appreciate this display. We would like to thank our partner – one of the founding partners of CONSOL Energy Center – Trib Total Media. I would like to introduce and thank Ralph Martin, the CEO of Trib Total Media.
Following his introduction of the All-Time Team, Morehouse took questions from the media in attendance at the Trib Total Media Gate.
Yes, this will be open during regular business hours. People can come in and enjoy the Trib Total Media Zone.
The names were actually voted on by the fans. The Tribune Review ran a contest and the fans voted for the players. These are the results. No active players were eligible. It is only for players who have retired. This is a pretty good team. I don't know if we would have enough pucks for them.


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Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood)
Updated on Jan 25, 2022
Name Barry Mills
Role Aryan Brotherhood
Similar People Tyler Bingham, Michael Thompson, Thomas Silverstein, Clayton Fountain, Larry Hoover
Died July 8, 2018 (aged 70) Florence, Colorado, U.S.
Born July 7, 1948 (age 70), Windsor, California, U.S.
Barry Byron "The Baron" Mills (July 7, 1948 – July 8, 2018) was a leader of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang. Mills was incarcerated into the California state prison system at a young age, where he rose in the ranks of the AB organization in the 1970s and 80s.
Mills, from Windsor, California, was first incarcerated in 1967, and jailed for a year in a county lockup. He entered the California state prison system after an armed robbery in 1969, and has been jailed almost continually since then. He became involved with the AB in San Quentin Prison, where the group originated in 1964. He was convicted of nearly decapitating another inmate in a Georgia maximum-security prison in 1979. According to a federal indictment, Mills was involved in the consolidation of the AB power structure in 1980, where he assumed a seat in a three-member "federal commission" for the gang. Along with Tyler Bingham, he expanded the operations of the AB in federal and state prisons, moving the group into narcotics dealing and racketeering.
In March 2006, Mills, along with three other leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood, including Bingham, were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering. Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham were convicted of murder and sent back to United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility Prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado where they are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Mills died on July 8, 2018 at the age of 70.
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Q: Approximation of the law of a stochastic process Hello Dear fellows,
I thank you in advance for your help and ideas.
I have just read an article and want you to help me understand the rational behind a part of it.
We have two processes $v_t$ and $V_t$
such that:
$dv_{t}=\omega v_{t} dW_{t}$ $W_{t}$ is Brownian
and
$V_{t}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{T} \int_0^T {v_{t}}^{2}\,dt}$
We know that $v_{t}=(law)v_{0}\exp(\omega z \sqrt{T}-\frac{\omega^{2}T}{2})$ $z$ is a gaussian with mean 0 and std 1.
The next statement is the one that i did not fully undestand the way they authors did have it :
They state $V_{T}=(law)\exp(\omega z_{1} \sqrt{\frac{T}{3}}-\frac{\omega^{2}T}{6})$ ou $z_{1}$ is a gaussian with mean 0 and std 1 and $\rho (z,z_{1})=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$
I have tried to approximate $V_{T}$ by $\frac{1}{T} \int_0^T v_{t}\,dt$
(We know that $\frac{1}{T} \int_0^T v_{t}\,dt \leq V_{T}$)
But I did not obtain any pertinent result this way.
Does someone have an idea how to prove the law equality above?
Many thanks

A: This is wrong. Let for simplicity $\omega = 1$. Write
$$
E[V_T^2] = \frac 1T \int _0^T E[\exp(2W_t-t)]dt = 1/T\int_0^Te^{t} dt = (e^{T}-1)/T.
$$
This is inconsistent with their claim.
(In fact, by considering expectations of greater powers of $V_T$, one can see that $V_T$ cannot be log-Gaussian with any parameters.)


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Der Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Langemark im belgischen Ort Langemark ist ein Soldatenfriedhof für 44.304 Deutsche, die 1914 in der Ersten Flandernschlacht gefallen sind. Er steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Mythos von Langemarck.

Geschichte

Gleich nach der Flandernschlacht im Jahr 1914 war "Langemarck" zu einem besonderen Symbol deutscher Propaganda geworden. 1928 tagte in Paris der Rat der Conféderation Internationale des Etudiants aus Vertretern von mehr als vierzig studentischen Korporationsverbänden. Auf ihrer Reise fuhren deutsche Studentenvertreter durch Westflandern, um die Kampfstätten des Ersten Weltkriegs, insbesondere Langemarck, zu besuchen. Dort fiel ihnen auf, dass die gefallenen englischen, französischen und belgischen Soldaten auf gut gepflegten Friedhöfen begraben waren, während ein Friedhof für die deutschen Soldaten fehlte. Stattdessen fanden sie einzelne von Unkraut überwucherte Gräber und umgefallene Kreuze mit Aufschriften wie "Unbekannt. Deutscher". Nach dieser Beobachtung beschloss die Deutsche Studentenschaft, den "Deutschen Soldatenfriedhof Nr. 123" nahe Langemarck auszubauen. Zur Finanzierung wurde die "Langemarck-Spende der Deutschen Studentenschaft" begründet. Als zur Langemarkspende aufgerufen wurde, verbot das Land Preußen im Gegensatz zu Bayern das Einsammeln. Kundgebungen gegen den Vertrag von Versailles, die von den Universitäten geplant waren, wurden vom Kultusminister untersagt. Über diesen Eingriff beschwerten sich nicht nur die
Studenten, sondern auch Rektor und Senat der Hochschulen in Berlin, Breslau, Königsberg und Kiel. Außer den Spendenaufrufen fanden Feiern des Langemarckausschusses für Hochschule und Heer statt; 1929 kamen dazu 15.000 Teilnehmer in den Berliner Sportpalast. 1930 wurde der Grundstein des Friedhofs gelegt. 10.500 deutsche Soldaten wurden umgebettet. Anlässlich der Einweihung des Friedhofs am 10. Juli 1932 hielt der Münchner Schriftsteller Josef Magnus Wehner, der selbst an der Westfront verwundet worden war, eine später weitverbreitete Rede. Gleichzeitig fanden im gesamten Deutschen Reich Gedenkfeiern statt.

Lage

Der Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Langemark liegt am nördlichen Ortsausgang, an der Straße nach Houthulst und Diksmuide.

Gestaltung
Man betritt die Gräberstätte durch einen Eingangsbau aus rotem Wesersandstein. Im Inneren befinden sich zwei Gedenkräume. Der linke Raum enthält eine in Holz geschnitzte Karte Belgiens, die die Lage der früheren und der heutigen Friedhofsorte wiedergibt. Hier befindet sich auch das Namenbuch, sowie ein Kondolenzbuch. Der rechts gelegene Raum enthält – in Eichentafeln geschnitzt – die Namen der bekannten Gefallenen, die auf diesem Friedhof bereits vor Beginn der großen Zusammenbettungsaktion der Jahre 1956 bis 1958 lagen.

Gemeinschaftsgrab
Wenn man den Eingangsbau verlässt, gelangt man über einen kleinen Hof an das große Gemeinschaftsgrab, in dem die sterblichen Überreste von mehr als 25.000 unbekannten deutschen Soldaten ruhen. Für annähernd 17.000 hat der Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge nachträglich die Namen feststellen können. Diese sind in Bronzetafeln gegossen, die – auf schweren Steinquadern befestigt – an drei Seiten des Gemeinschaftsgrabes aufgestellt wurden. Im Hintergrund erblickt man die Figurengruppe von vier aus Bronze gegossenen "trauernden Soldaten", welche ein Werk des Bildhauers Emil Krieger sind. Das Gräberfeld selbst ist mit Eichen bepflanzt und von einem Wall mit davor liegendem Graben umgeben.

Spenderverbände

Im nördlichen Bereich ist ein Teil der ehemaligen deutschen Frontlinie durch drei restaurierte Bunker und dazwischen befindliche Granitblöcke markiert. Diese Blöcke tragen die Bezeichnungen von an den Kämpfen beteiligt gewesenen Truppenteilen und Korporationsverbänden, die in der Zwischenkriegszeit durch Spenden zum Ausbau des Friedhofes beitrugen.

Neugestaltungen
Dieser Friedhof, den man seinerzeit aus der Gruppe von vier Hauptfriedhöfen in Flandern als "Studentenfriedhof" heraushob, wurde 1957 neu gestaltet. Infolge zahlreicher Umbettungen von danach aufgelassenen Soldatenfriedhöfen und auch einzelnen Soldatengräbern aus Flandern liegen auf dem Friedhof 44.304 deutsche Soldaten begraben. Der Friedhof zeigt sich nun offen, Kreuze wurden entfernt und durch schlichte Platten ersetzt, die gesäumt von Stieleichen ein harmonisches Bild in der Landschaft Flanderns bilden.

Im Jahr 2006 wurde auf der Nordseite ein tunnelartiges Gebäude errichtet, in dem drei aufeinander aufbauende Filmsequenzen gezeigt werden, die Bilder aus dem Krieg, einen geographischen Überblick über die Lage der Orte und ehemaligen Soldatenfriedhöfe in der Region sowie die Geschichte des Soldatenfriedhofes Langemark darstellen.

2015 wurden das Eingangsgebäude, die Wege und die Flächen der Kriegsgräberstätte renoviert. Am 16. Oktober 2015 wurde er mit einer feierlichen Gedenkveranstaltung des Volksbundes Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. in Anwesenheit des Deutschen Botschafters in Belgien, Rüdiger Lüdeking, wiedereröffnet.

Gräber
 Eduard Kulenkamp, Richter und Kompaniechef (Block A Grab 2199)
 Eckard Meister, Rechtshistoriker
 Werner Voß, Jagdflieger

Friedhof als Mahnmal
Der Friedhof ist ein Mahnmal dafür, dass viele jugendliche Freiwillige wissentlich in den Tod geschickt wurden und viele Tote nicht mehr identifizierbar waren. Das politische und militärische Versagen wurde durch Propaganda verharmlost. Der Friedhof hat jährlich 100.000 Besucher.

Zwischen dem Friedhof und dem zugehörigen Parkplatz findet sich eine Informations- und Erinnerungsstätte. Der Zugang vom Parkplatz zu Friedhof führt durch diese. Die Informations- und Erinnerungsstätte ist in Form eines dunklen Tunnels gestaltet. Bildschirme im Tunnel vermitteln Informationen über den Ersten Weltkrieg und die Flandernschlacht, während auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite Schießscharten den Blick auf den Friedhof freigeben.

Siehe auch

 Liste von Kriegsgräberstätten
 Langemarckhalle

Literatur
 Karl August Walther (Hrsg.): Das Langemarckbuch der deutschen Studentenschaft. Koehler, Leipzig 1933.
 Ernst Loewy: Literatur unterm Hakenkreuz. Das Dritte Reich und seine Dichtung. Eine Dokumentation. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
 Ernst Keller: Nationalismus und Literatur. Langemarck, Weimar, Stalingrad. Francke, Bern u. a. 1970, ISBN 3-317-00011-2.
 Helma Brunck: Ideologische Strömungen in der Deutschen Burschenschaft zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik und des Nationalsozialismus. In: Einst und Jetzt. Jahrbuch des Vereins für corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung. Bd. 45, 2000, S. 161–175.

 Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.: Informationsblatt Belgien – Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätten. Kuthal, Aschaffenburg 2008.

Weblinks

 Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. über Langemark, abgerufen am 7. Juli 2012
 (en) Langemark auf der Internetseite Find A Grave
 (nl) Langemark auf der Internetseite wo1.be

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Einzelnachweise

Langemark
Soldatenfriedhof in Belgien
Langemark-Poelkapelle
Friedhof in Flandern
Gedenkstätte des Ersten Weltkriegs
Friedhof in Europa
Bauwerk in der Provinz Westflandern
Kulturdenkmal in der Provinz Westflandern

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Ex-Anthrax singer Neil Turbin has slammed guitarist Scott Ian for "fabricating lies" about his split with the band over 30 years ago to "draw attention" to Ian's upcoming autobiography 'I'm The Man: The Official Story of Anthrax.'
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Turbin took to his blog and shot back at Ian writing, "It's been great to see Anthrax's success throughout all the years. I'm very happy for all the current and former members who got to be part of it. However, I find it very sad that somebody I've had no contact for 30 years feels that it's necessary to fabricate lies about me in order to draw attention to themselves."
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