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Alec Ash is a writer based in China. He is the author of Wish Lanterns (Picador, 2016), about the lives of young Chinese, a BBC Book of the Week. His articles have appeared in The Economist, Dissent...
This essay was first published on the blog of The London Review of Books.
In 1902, Lu Xun translated Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon into Chinese from the Japanese edition. Science fiction, he wrote in the preface, was "as rare as unicorn horns, which shows in a way the intellectual poverty of our time." Not any more. The Three-Body Trilogy by Liu Cixin has sold 500,000 copies in China since the first volume was published in 2006 (it will come out in English in the autumn). Liu, an engineer, is one of the so-called "three generals" of contemporary Chinese science fiction, along with Wang Jinkang and Han Song.
"Sci fi," Han says, "can express a lot that can't be expressed in other literature." His most recent collection of stories, High Speed Rail, begins with a train crash that recalls the politically sensitive rail collision in Wenzhou in July 2011. In an earlier novella, Taiwan Drifts, Taiwan has broken free from its moorings and is on a literal collision course with the mainland. Unsurprisingly, much of Han's work isn't published in the People's Republic.
Nor is The Fat Years (2009) by Chan Koonchung. Set in 2013, it depicts an "age of Chinese ascendancy" following a massive global financial crash. But the month-long crackdown that launched the golden era is missing from the population's collective memory, and the water supply is probably spiked with a drug to keep everyone mildly euphoric. "The people fear chaos more than they fear dictatorship," a high-ranking Party official says.
But not being published in China doesn't mean not being read. A lot of "unpublished" sci fi is freely available online, and censors are engaged in a permanent game of cat-and-mouse with allusive writers and readers alert to disguised meanings. "For a long time," Chan told me, "Chinese intellectuals used history as a fable to talk about the present. Now, the newer generation is using science fiction to write about the present." (There are a few venerable precedents: Cat Country by Lao She was published in 1932; an English translation came out last year. It's set in a Martian civilization of cat-like people addicted to "reverie leaves," oppressed by both physically stronger foreigners and the architects of "Everybody Shareskyism.")
Many of China's science fiction writers are relatively young. The 32-year-old Chen Qiufan won two Xingyun awards (the equivalent of the Nebula) last year for The Waste Tide, set in the 2020s on an electronic waste recycling island off the Chinese coast called Silicon Isle, modeled on recycling villages such as Guiyu in southern China. The novel also features a wealth gap and environmental problems that have spiraled out of control. "If you wrote these things in the mainstream," Chen told me, "they couldn't be published."
The political charge of the genre shouldn't be exaggerated, however. There is a well-established mainland market for sci fi, and the bulk of it is straightforward tales of robots and aliens. Many of them appear in Science Fiction World magazine. Founded in 1979, it has around 200,000 readers, most of them schoolchildren and college students. Its circulation has halved over the past decade as readers have migrated online.
"The City of Silence" by Ma Boyong appeared in Science Fiction World in 2005. It's set in an authoritarian state in 2046 where life is lived almost entirely online, with all communication restricted to a rapidly diminishing "list of healthy words." The protagonist stumbles on a "talking club" where unhappy citizens meet in secret to speak freely (and have sex with each other). The story has been reposted in various places online since the recent crackdown on web freedom, including measures last summer against "rumor spreading" on the Weibo microblogging service.
In another satire posted by a netizen on a social media site, an upgrade of the Great Firewall called GFW Turbo becomes self-aware and starts to censor keywords uncontrollably. A national ministry is established to resist the renegade software, but fails. The story is written in the form of a diary, and the last entry, from 2025, ends with the announcement: "Comrades, in all online language there is only one term left: 'sensitive word'!"
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Pot retailer sets its sights on Elliot Lake
Colleen Romaniuk • Local Journalism Initiatives Reporter
Jun 04, 2020 • 7 months ago • 3 minute read
Photo by KEVIN McSHEFFREY/ THE STANDARD Sessions Cannabis is looking at opening a pot store next to the LCBO on Prince Edward Walk.
An Ontario-based cannabis retailer is hoping to set up shop in Elliot Lake in the next few months pending approval from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO).
Sessions Cannabis, which already owns two pot shops in southern Ontario, has expressed its intention to open a cannabis retail store on Prince Edward Walk next to the LCBO outlet.
Steven Fry, president and co-founder of Sessions, said the company is working with a resident in Elliot Lake who has elected to remain anonymous for the time being.
"We are working with a long-standing member of the Elliot Lake community who has already submitted all necessary applications to the AGCO," said Fry.
"Everything has been finalized on our end. As soon as we get the go-ahead from the ACGO, we will be ready. We're starting to swing hammers, too, to get the location set up. We're hoping to open in a couple months, probably this summer."
The store owner has allegedly already received their Retail Operator Licence and is waiting to receive their Retail Store Authorization, a process that can take about five to six weeks.
"Elliot Lake is a great opportunity for us, and the municipality has been really supportive from the start. It's an underlooked community that doesn't have a store yet. We hope to be the only store in Elliot Lake," said Fry.
Elliot Lake Mayor Dan Marchisella has been supportive of the cannabis industry in the city since council decided to opt into allowing cannabis retail stores in the area in 2018.
He stated that the industry could bring a number of benefits to the community, including controlled, legal retail and increased job and tax revenue.
The AGCO website has a table and an accompanying map showing the status of all cannabis retail store applications in Ontario. As of May 28, there is no Sessions Cannabis store application listed for the City of Elliot Lake.
However, Fry said they have been through the application process before, and they are just waiting for the AGCO to do its "due diligence."
Sessions is listed on the website for a number of other store applications, including locations in Cambridge, Hamilton, Kitchener, Welland and Stoney Creek.
The company stated its intention to open up to 30 more stores across the province this year, and it has its eye on the market in Northern Ontario.
"While we're expanding all across the province, we think that northern cities are a really great opportunity," said Fry.
"I think folks in the north will appreciate having a physical store because right now, the only means of getting cannabis is through the mail and that's a long, convoluted process. We are looking at opening locations in Timmins and Sudbury, as well."
(Sudbury already has two pot stores).
Sessions Cannabis, headquartered in Binbrook, Ont., has two locations currently open in Toronto and Collingwood, where it opened the first store in the area in December 2019.
"We are the fastest and biggest growing brand in the province, and we're all about winning the hearts and minds of consumers, providing an educational experience, and being socially responsible," the company said.
Sessions stores are unique because they are one of the only franchises in the province that display their product right on the floor.
"A lot of other brands out there keep their product in the back, which I equate to the LCBO in the 1950s," said Fry.
"We have our product on display and we have an amazing training program for our staff, so whether you are an experienced buyer or a newbie, you will have a great experience in the store. There are so many new product segments coming out, including edibles, beverages and topicals, so it's important to us that we can educate the consumer on what products are best for them."
The company also recently announced its intention to open a storefront in Sault Ste. Marie, which would be located at 216 Second Line West, pending approval by the AGCO.
The Local Journalism Initiative is made possible through funding from the federal government.
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Photo by KEVIN McSHEFFREY/ THE STANDARDSessions Cannabis is looking at opening a pot store next to the LCBO on Prince Edward Walk.
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Home > Disasters: Relief & Updates Published September 16, 2015 - 11:50am
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR,
Federal legislation is being unveiled today that would force the American Red Cross to do something that it has repeatedly resisted: open its books and operations to outside scrutiny.
The proposed American Red Cross Sunshine Act comes in response to a government report, also being released today, that finds oversight of the charity lacking and recommends Congress find a way to fill the gap.
Though the Red Cross has a government-mandated role responding to disasters, "no regular, independent evaluations are conducted of the impact or effectiveness of the Red Cross's disaster services," the Government Accountability Office report found.
The inquiry cites reporting by ProPublica and NPR about the Red Cross' failures during Superstorm Sandy and misleading statements by CEO Gail McGovern about how the group has spent hundreds of millions of donated dollars.
The 18-month GAO examination was requested by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who also authored the proposed legislation. The bill would require regular government audits of the Red Cross' finances, its response to disasters in the United States, and its work abroad.
"The public deserves and needs to know that money is going for which it is intended," Thompson said in an interview, citing the troubled Red Cross responses after Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, and Superstorm Sandy.
Thompson said in an interview that the Red Cross did not cooperate fully with the inquiry, which the GAO confirmed.
"When you get pushback from the very beginning it creates doubts and suspicion in the minds of a lot of us," Thompson said.
As we reported, last year McGovern tried unsuccessfully to get Thompson to shut down the inquiry by the GAO, which is the investigative arm of Congress.
Thompson said that McGovern's request was the first of its kind he'd gotten in over 20 years in Congress.
The head of the GAO's inquiry, Andrew Sherrill, said the Red Cross did not give "unfettered access" to investigators. Still, he said the GAO was able to get the information it needed. The report notes that while it reviewed Red Cross policies, it "did not assess the effectiveness or sufficiency" of the charity's work.
In response to the pushback, Thompson added language to his bill saying the GAO can have access to any Red Cross records, including those related to the group's "financial transactions and internal governance."
The Red Cross did not respond to a question about its cooperation with the GAO inquiry.
In a statement on the report, the Red Cross stressed that it is not a federal agency. The group said it "believes there are several already existing mechanisms in place to evaluate our disaster response that provide considerable oversight." The statement cited the group's ombudsman office, its board of directors, and regular after-action reviews.
The Red Cross was chartered over a century ago by Congress and operates as a public-private hybrid: While it is funded mostly by private donations, it has an official role in the United States' disaster response plan. The Red Cross receives a variety of benefits from the government, including tens of millions of dollars in funding in recent years. It also enjoys a one-dollar, 99-year lease on government land in Washington the charity uses for its headquarters.
If passed, Thompson's bill would also:
Require audits by three inspectors general – the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the Homeland Security Inspector General, and the USAID Inspector General – to be conducted at least once every three years and to be posted publicly online.
Require the Department of Homeland Security to submit to Congress an annual report on its partnerships with the Red Cross on "preparedness and response capabilities."
Require the Red Cross to "make prominent on its website" information on how to submit concerns to the group's ombudsman.
The bill's prospects in the Republican-controlled House aren't clear.
But Thompson said he's hopeful because disasters are not a partisan issue. The charity is also facing pressure from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to answer questions about its Haiti response.
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But they're coming back, that's the whole thing. It's not going away. They're just giving people time to acclimate before throwing them back in.
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@ZyloWolfBane Which is exactly what I said. They are removing them FOR NOW.
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Watching this unfold in real time was fascinating.
But to build off what I posted earlier in the thread: This is a temporary band-aid on the biggest issue, but it doesn't solve the gameplay problems being reported:
Boring and uninteresting gameplay in the campaign and gameplay in the multiplayer is a step back from the previous game.
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Honestly, it just seems like they're waiting until the next gaming controversy comes along so the spotlight is off of them. I'm curious to see what changes are implemented but they've known this is a problem for months. It's always temporary solutions or scaling back on the time to earn things, but that never removes the problem entirely. When your whole game links progression to something that can be paid for (and was designed that way from the ground up), it's not exactly something you can just strip out and replace overnight. It's very strange to see people excited over this news, acting as though everything about the game is suddenly fixed. The problem will be coming back, just potentially in a different form. A lot of games launch and then add microtransactions in later so as much as I'd like to say this is huge news... it just doesn't feel that way to me. Hopefully everything turns out for the best, I just personally wouldn't bet on it.
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This was the biggest, most insidious MTX implementation in a full priced game that I can think of. The fact that they are backing down on it and say they are rethinking how they will reapply and balance the game based on consumer outcry is a good thing.
If they just drop microtransactions back in and it's still as foul as it is now, then it will be bad again. If they decide on something like a cosmetic only model, it could be fine. We won't know until they bring it back. For now, I see it as good news though.
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Someone on the EZA Facebook group posted this in response to EA's statement and it just needs to continue being shared.


Mr Abubakar's lawyer, Ahmed Raji, had approached the court requesting among other things, an ex-parte application preventing INEC from proceeding with its decision to collate results in the state.
According to the judge, what the court ordered following the earlier application is an order for parties to maintain status quo pending the determination of the suit before him.
The court also said the submissions of Mr Raji that the tribunal could entertain an application emanating from an election matter, "only after a return has been made: is a temporary situation that does not have the capacity to stand for long."
According to the judge: "the issue at hand happened during an election. And the complaint was also made as a result of an election, subsequently," said Mr Ekwo.
Subsequently the Mr Ekwo declined to give a pronouncement on the substantive matter and deferred his decision to allow the election tribunal make a pronouncement on the substantive matter.
The court also ruled that the order to maintain statusquo earlier granted on the matter had been lifted. Thus allowing the INEC the freedom to proceed with its decision made public in March 15.
The PDP candidate, Bala Mohammed, was present at Monday's court session.


Hey everyone it's Josh Schoenly, co-founder of Client Alchemist.
In this video I'm going to walk you through a system, a process, that you can use to generate or add more seller leads to your database. The process or the platform that I'm going to use in this example is Nextdoor and specifically sponsorship ads and some functionality you get when you're a Nextdoor real estate zip code sponsor.
Hey everybody, this is Josh, I want to show you one of the great features and great ways that you can use and leverage a Nextdoor real estate ad sponsorship.
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If I had to pick my least-favorite tax loophole, the economist part of my brain would select the healthcare exclusion. After all, that special preference creates a destructive incentive for over-insurance and contributes (along with Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, etc) to the third-party payer crisis that is crippling America's healthcare system.
But if I based my answer on the more visceral, instinctive portion of my brain, I would select the deduction for state and local taxes. As I've previously noted, that odious tax break enables higher taxes at the state and local level. Simply stated, greedy politicians in a state like California can boost tax rates and soothe anxious state taxpayers by telling them that they can use their higher payments to Sacramento as a deduction to reduce their payments to Washington.
What's ironic about this loophole is that it's basically a write-off for the rich. Only 30 percent of all taxpayers utilize the deduction for state and local taxes. But they're not evenly distributed by income. Here's a sobering table from a report by the Tax Foundation.
The beneficiaries also aren't evenly distributed by geography.
Here's a map from the Tax Foundation showing in dark blue that only a tiny part of the country benefits from this unfair loophole for high-income taxpayers.
As you can see from the map, the vast majority of the nation deducts less than $2,000 in state and local taxes.
But if you really want to see who benefits, don't simply look at the dark blue sections. After all, most of those people would happily give up the state and local tax deduction in exchange for some of the other policies that are part of tax reform – particularly lower tax rates and less double taxation.
And I suspect that's even true for the people who hugely benefit from the deduction. The biggest beneficiaries of this loophole are concentrated in a tiny handful of wealthy counties in New York, California, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
As you can see, they reap enormous advantages from the state and local tax deduction, though I suspect these same people also would benefit if tax rates were lowered and double taxation was reduced.
Regardless of who benefits and loses, there's a more fundamental question. Should federal tax law be distorted to subsidize high tax burdens at the state and local level?
Kevin Williamson of National Review says no.
…the deduction of state taxes against federal tax liabilities creates a subsidy and an incentive for higher state taxes. California in essence is able to capture money that would be federal revenue and use it for its own ends, an option that is not practically available to low-tax (and no-income-tax) states such as Nevada and Florida. It makes sense to allow the states to compete on taxes and services, but the federal tax code biases that competition in favor of high-tax jurisdictions.
The Governor of New York, by contrast, argues that the tax code should subsidize his profligacy.
It would be "devastating on the state of New York, California, et cetera, if you didn't allow the people of this state to deduct their state and local taxes," Cuomo told reporters… State and local governments have been working to preserve the deduction, and they argue that doing away with the preference would hurt states and localities' flexibility to make tax changes.
Gee, anyone want to guess how that "flexibility" is displayed?
Though at least the reporter acknowledged that the deduction is primarily for rich people in blue states.
…the deduction…is viewed as disproportionately benefiting wealthy people. It also tends to be used in areas that lean Democratic.
And that's confirmed by a 2016 news report from the Wall Street Journal.
Repealing the federal deduction for state and local taxes would make 23.6% of U.S. households pay an average of $2,348 more to the Internal Revenue Service for 2016. But those costs—almost $1.3 trillion over a decade—aren't evenly spread… Ranked by the average potential tax increase, the top 13 states (including Washington, D.C.), as well as 16 of the top 17, voted twice for President Barack Obama. …And nearly one-third of the cost would be paid by residents of California and New York, two solidly Democratic states. …President Ronald Reagan tried repealing the deduction as part of the tax-code overhaul in 1986, but he was rebuffed by congressional Democrats and state officials. …Republicans argue that the break subsidizes high state taxes, because governors and legislators know they can raise income taxes on their citizens and have the federal government pick up part of the tab. …half the cost of repealing the deduction would be borne by households making $100,000 to $500,000, using a broad definition of income. Another 30% would be borne by households making more than $1 million. Under the GOP plans, residents of high-tax states wouldn't necessarily pay more in federal taxes than they do now. They would benefit from tax-rate cuts.
Here's one final image that underscores the unfairness of the deduction.
The Tax Policy Center has a report on the loophole for state and local taxes and they put together this chart showing that rich people are far more likely to take advantage of the deduction. And it's worth much more for them than it is for lower-income Americans.
How much more? Well, more than 90 percent of taxpayers earning more than $1 million use the deduction and their average tax break is more than $260,000. By contrast, only a small fraction of taxpayers earning less than $50 thousand annually benefit from the deduction and they only get a tax break of about $3,800.
Yet leftists who complain about rich people manipulating the tax system usually defend this tax break.
It's enough to make you think their real goal is bigger government.
I'll close by calling attention to the mid-part of this interview. I shared it a couple of days ago as part of a big-picture discussion of Trump's tax plan. But I specifically address the state and local tax deduction around 3:00 and 4:30 of the discussion.
P.S. In addition to the loophole that encourages higher taxes at the state and local level, there's also a special tax preference that encourages higher spending at the state and local level. Sigh.
P.P.S. Now, perhaps, people will understand why I want to rip up the current system and replace it with a simple and fair flat tax.
– Local government knows better if some local action should be taken.
– Implementing new policy ideas locally allows many experiments to be run. Means less risk and greater chance for good ideas to surface.
– Makes government more accountable to the people, because people can move if they don't like the government they are getting.
– Overall better transparency, accountability, and efficiency.
I think the far better solution would be means-testing tax rates by ZIP code. No reason a guy making $500k in Wichita (where that's real money) pays the same as a guy making $500k in Manhattan (where you can't actually live with a a family on $500k). If you changed brackets so that top x% of earners paid 39.6%, etc., you'd have a tax system that didn't wildly penalize city dwellers. Separately, the Economist ran a piece a few yrs ago showing NY state had net transferred $1trillion from 1989-2009 to the rest of the country; they're paying for the $69k per capita ND received in the last few years in federal transfers…CA was no. 2 with $500bn, given to the rest of the country. more than their fair share.
I don't understand how the write off of state and local taxes benefits the "rich". Higher income earners are subject to the alternative minimum tax. Under the AMT, you lose your deduction for state and local taxes. What am I missing?
Politicians have to resort to various ways of relieving the most competent from heavy taxation, because we are already operating in the flatter part of the Laffer curve, and, more importantly, way beyond the peak of the Rahn curve — which at current economic growth trajectory will transform American voters into middle income citizens of a middle income country by mid century.
When coercive collectivism hits the Laffer curve, and thus runs out of competent people's money, it inevitably must consume its core supporters, the more mediocre.
Sooner or later, the people, the voter-lemmings, will get the VAT they deserve.
Politicians talk venom against the productive minority to get elected, but their economists remind them that Laffer effects limit revenue collectible from the most competent — necessitating that they eventually direct taxation towards their core supporters.
But "America is a rich country. It sure can afford more taxes, even though it's trendline growth rate has fallen to half the world average". That is the mentality of doom.


If you lose a loved one in an accident as the result of another person's negligent, reckless, or careless action or inaction, you'll have to deal with genuinely tough emotional and legal matters all at once. It may be difficult, but you must consider filing a unfair loss claim as quickly as possible. When carelessness or negligence is the reason for a sudden, accidental death, surviving family members are legally entitled to compensation.
It doesn't matter how a unfairly loss took place (with one exception discussed below). If another person's negligence causes an accidental death, that person may be held legally responsible in the state of California with an illicit loss lawsuit – a legal claim for compensation. For example, if medical negligence results in a patient's death, the survivors can pursue an illicit end lawsuit against the negligent healthcare provider(s) and/or the medical facility where the death occurred.
Other types of wrongful deaths include fatal car accidents caused by impaired or otherwise negligent drivers; a slip-and-fall from a staircase or a balcony because of a broken safety railing; or a fatal reaction to a pharmaceutical drug because of insufficient directions and warnings. Wrongly losses happen every day in California, in almost every way and in almost every setting you can imagine.
Whenever someone's death is caused by someone else's negligence (or by the negligence of more than one person), the survivors usually have the right to bring a civil lawsuit against the person or persons who were negligent. Although the details regarding unfair departure and the rights of survivors differ from state to state, each state's wrongful death laws are based on the same basic legal principles.
PRECISELY WHAT IS A WRONGFUL DEATH CLAIM?
A wrongful death claim is a civil lawsuit that seeks monetary damages. In some states, only the surviving members of a decedent 's immediate family qualify to bring a unfair departure action. In other states, in rare cases, someone other than a family member – but still close to the decedent – may have legal grounds to file a wrongly loss claim. The person bringing the action is called the plaintiff, and the person accused of negligence is called the defendant.
Typically, the plaintiff in a wrongful death lawsuit is an immediate family member suing on behalf of everyone in the decedent's immediate family. A wrongful death lawsuit charges that a defendant acted negligently and was thus directly responsible for the decedent's wrongful death. After a wrongly departure claim is filed, attorneys for both sides will usually attempt to reach a negotiated out-of-court settlement.
IN A WRONGFUL DEATH CASE, WHAT MUST A PLAINTIFF PROVE?
Duty of Care: First, the plaintiff must show that the defendant owed what the law calls a "duty of care" to the decedent. For example, drivers owe others a duty to drive carefully. Property owners have a duty to eliminate potential hazards on their properties. And pharmaceutical companies are obliged to test products for safety and to provide adequate directions and warnings.
Breach of Duty: Secondly, a plaintiff must prove that a defendant breached the duty of care owed to the decedent. That is, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant was negligent.
Cause of death: In a wrongful afterlife case, it is not enough for a plaintiff to prove that a duty of care existed or that it was breached in a negligent manner. A plaintiff must prove that a defendant's breach of duty – a defendant's negligence – was the direct cause of the fatality.
If a plaintiff in a wrongful death case cannot meet the burden of proof for any one of the three elements listed above, the wrongful death claim will fail, and the decedent's survivors will not recover damages. As difficult as it may be, if someone loses a family member in southern California because of someone else's negligence, an experienced Orange County wrongful afterlife attorney can provide the advice and insights that a family will need. In many cases, a wrongful afterlife attorney can quickly determine if a potential plaintiff has legal grounds to file a wrongful death claim and the evidence to prevail.
In almost every case where a death is caused by negligence, a wrongful death lawsuit is the proper response by surviving family members. However, California will not allow survivors to pursue a wrongful death claim for a workplace-related fatality where only the employer and no third party was negligent. Based upon the workers' compensation "exclusivity rule," a wrongful afterlife lawsuit against a deceased person's employer will not be heard, because California courts have determined that fatalities which are strictly work-related do not fall outside of the state's standard worker's compensation coverage.
WHAT COMPENSATION CAN WRONGFUL DEATH SURVIVORS EXPECT?
The survivors of a wrongful loss deserve high-quality, aggressive legal representation. Everyone understands that no amount of cash can replace someone you love, but a wrongful loss lawsuit can compensate a family for their medical and funeral expenses, loss of companionship and consortium, future earnings, and lost benefits. Surviving family members may also be compensated for their suffering and emotional distress.
This has been a general introduction to wrongful death claims, but when a wrongful death actually happens in southern California, an Orange County wrongful death attorney can advise surviving family members regarding their legal rights and best options. Of course, whatever a family recovers in a wrongful death settlement or verdict is no compensation for a human life, but it is still important to hold negligent parties accountable – so that it won't happen again.


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Q: Calling a paginated API with promises I want to call a paginated API with promises. The information how many pages are available is not known at the beginning but is delivered on every response. In detail I am calling a Jira search, the paging information part looks like:
{
    "startAt": 0,
    "maxResults": 15,
    "total": 100000,
    ...
}

I solved the handling of the pagination with recursion, this is my solution in Typescript:
search(jql: string, fields: string[] = [], maxResults = 15) : Promise<JiraIssue[]> {
    // container for the issues
    let issues: Array<JiraIssue> = new Array<JiraIssue>();

    // define recursive function to collect the issues per page and
    // perform a recursive call to fetch the next page
    let recursiveFn = (jql: string, fields: string[], startAt: number, maxResults: number) :
        Promise<JiraIssue[]> => {
        return this
            // retrieves one page
            .searchPage(jql, fields, startAt, maxResults)
            .then((searchResult: JiraSearchResult) => {
                // saves the result of the retrieved page
                issues.push.apply(issues, searchResult.issues);
                if (searchResult.startAt + searchResult.maxResults < searchResult.total) {
                    // retrieves the next page with a recursive call
                    return recursiveFn(jql, fields,
                        searchResult.startAt + searchResult.maxResults,
                        maxResults);
                }
                else {
                    // returns the collected issues
                    return issues;
                }
            })

    };

    // and execute it
    return recursiveFn(jql, fields, 0, maxResults);
}

However, I don't like the recursive approach, because this works only well with small result sets (I am afraid of a stack overflow). How would you solve this problem with a not recursive approach?

A: This is not actual recursion, and there is no stack overflow danger, because the function is being called inside a then handler.

A: One options is to wrap this in an iterator pattern.
Something like:
interface Searcher {
    (jql: string, fields: string[], startAt: number, maxResults: number) => Promise<JiraSearchResult>;
}

class ResultsIterator {
    private jql: string;
    private fields: string[];
    private searcher: Searcher;
    private startAt: number;
    private maxResults: number;
    private currentPromise: Promise<JiraIssue[]>;
    private total: number;

    constructor(searcher: Searcher, jql: string, fields?: string[], maxResults?: number) {
        this.jql = jql;
        this.startAt = 0;
        this.searcher = searcher;
        this.fields = fields || [];
        this.maxResults = maxResults || 15;
        this.total = -1;
    }

    hasNext(): boolean {
        return this.total < 0 || this.startAt < this.total;
    }

    next(): Promise<JiraIssue[]> {
        if (!this.hasNext()) {
            throw new Error("iterator depleted");
        }

        return this.searcher(this.jql, this.fields, this.startAt, this.maxResults)
                    .then((searchResult: JiraSearchResult) => {
                        this.total = searchResult.total;
                        this.startAt = searchResult.startAt + searchResult.maxResults;

                        return searchResult.issues;
                    });
    }
}

This code isn't perfect, as I'm not entirely sure what you're doing there (for example what's this.searchPage?), but you should probably get the idea I'm aiming at.
You'll just do:
if (resultIterator.hasNext()) {
    resultIterator.next().then(...);
}

Hope this helps.

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Happy 21st Birthday to our (not so) baby girl. From the moment you were born you could light up a room.
You are a bright light for your Heavenly Father in all that you do. It shows in your beautiful smile, your caring nature, your big heart and all that you do for everyone with whom you come in contact with. You are always quick to offer words of encouragement or the BEST HUGS EVER!
You are the daughter, sister and friend that everyone wants to have.
You have accomplished so much already. We know great things await you in the future!
We love you and pray you have a blessed day!!
Mom, Dad, Elie, Kylie and Toby too!!
***Today you can also find me over at Erin's blog Live Pretty On A Penny where I am participating in her Creative Spotlight series.
I received word just a short time ago from my radiologist who performed the biopsy last Wednesday. It is not cancerous. It is a benign condition, radial scaring (that can mimic cancer cells on mammography images). However, it does have a potential to develop into something down the road so it is best to be proactive and have it surgically removed at this time. I will be scheduling the surgery (day surgery) soon.
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank each and everyone of you for your prayers and sweet words of encouragement that you kept showering me with all week. I feel so blessed to be part of this wonderful blogging community where we can share our fears with each other, and pray for one another.
If I could ask a favor, would you pour that prayer into another blogging friend of mine's family. Some of you are familiar with Jennifer (Beaufortbelle), she is such a sweet encouraging reader of many blogs. Jennifer's beautiful daughter Brooke was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma and is undergoing Chemo. Brooke is a recent college graduate. She reminds me a lot of my two girls, beautiful, bubbly, outgoing and more importantly a kind, caring individual who was always there for her friends and many others. They have created a Caring Bridge site to keep friends and family informed and where we can shower her with prayer! You can visit Brooke (and Jennifer) at One Day At A Time . To leave Brooke a message, scripture verse or to shower her with prayer you just need to create a simple account (email address and password). Prayer is a very powerful thing, and it is what He has commanded us to do for one another.
Happy Sunday! Have a blessed week everyone.
Still no word. I was told it could be Monday, and Monday it shall be. Yesterday was hard...the waiting, being hopeful for word, and then 5 o'clock came and went.
I am still clinging to a quote I stumbled upon just a few weeks ago, "I do not know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow." And, He does.
I find my hope in Him.
Thank you for your continued prayers and sweet words of encouragement.
I was in need of a place to post some of my favorite quotes and sayings, so I created a new bulletin board for my office. I just adore the leopard print fabric that I found at my local fabric store, frugal fabrics. I also love the addition of the greek key ribbon. The green really pops off the blue leopard print. This was such a simple project. All that was needed was a store bought cork bulletin board, some fabric, ribbon and my trusty electric staple gun (a life changer). Simply cut the fabric a bit larger than your board, lay fabric right side down on a solid surface, lay the bulletin board cork side down on the fabric, wrap edge around and staple to the back of the frame, folding corners like you would a present. I decided to just add the ribbon in four simple strips creating a frame, however you could go with the traditional criss-cross of a memo board. There are great tutorials for that online.
I also decided to add some art to the top of my Ikea expedite. The Live Laugh Love print was created and gifted to me by my sweet #1, the Hey Y'all print is from the Etsy shop-Stephanie Creekmur, the abstract art is one that I personally painted, and the other two are prints of images I found on Google-one a Lilly Pulitzer quote and the other an Audrey Hepburn quote. I love the pop of color they add. The frames are simple white frames I purchased from Michaels during their buy one, get one sale.
I have a lot of other fun projects and some organizational things I would like to conquer, but they have taken a back seat until I receive the results back from my resent procedure. I am hopeful that I will have answers possibly later today, but know that it could potentially go into Monday because of the weekend.
Now that the temperatures here in the South are finally cooling off, I am gradually adding a few fall touches around our home.
I love fall, the cooler temps, the colors, the smells. However, I am not a huge fan of all the Halloween stuff. I prefer to decorate for the season, not just a one day holiday. The touches I add will carry us through until Thanksgiving...which I cannot believe is just two short months away!!
A fun frame with the girls picture from fall two years ago (they are begging me to have it done on canvas to replace the existing one). Battery operated candles from Pottery Barn-I love these...you set them and then they come on each evening at the same time and stay on for 5 hours!! The cream ones I use year round and bring out the birch ones in the fall. My beloved dough bowl that holds succulents in the summer months has been filled with 3 small pumpkins. And lastly, my sweet owl I found last fall rounds out the grouping.
Love the little pumpkins!! And their bright orange color.
This fun frame I picked up at a local gift store called Swoozies. Perfect Southern saying.
Just little things here and there.
Thank you for your continued prayers and sweet emails of encouragement.
I wanted to take this chance to update you all. I am so thankful to all who have prayed for me the past couple of days (and continue to do so), sent well wishes and words of encouragement.
The procedure went well this afternoon. Relatively pain free, and quicker than expected. I had a wonderful 3 person team working with me.
I feel at peace and am glad to put the test behind me.
I should have results no later than Monday morning, and we will proceed from there.
I am forever thankful that my God has gone before me, and is always with me.
We made this for dinner last night, and boy were they good! Super simple and perfect for a crazy weeknight.
Use a 6-quart slow cooker. Put the butter into the bottom of the slow cooker and turn on. Swirl the meat, onion rings, and garlic around in the melting butter. Add the sugar and pepper. Then stir in the broth, beer, sherry and Worcestershire sauce.
Cover and cook on low for 7 hours or until the meat is tender to bite and has begun to lose shape and fall apart. Serve on gluten-free toasted soft rolls with slices of provolone or Swiss cheese. (we put the mixture on one half of the bread, topped with the cheese and toasted to melt the cheese). Dip sandwiches into the accumulated broth for a tradional French Dip Sandwich experience.
I want to thank everyone for their kind words and prayers regarding yesterday's post. It is comforting to know so many are praying for a good outcome tomorrow.
I was a bit hesitant at first to share this information, but I know so many others are currently in my shoes or may be in the future.
I went in for my routine mammogram a couple weeks ago. 6 days later, I received a message on my answering machine requesting that I call back the imaging center where my mammogram was performed.
I did so, only to hear that this years scans detected a change from last years and they would like to repeat them and potentially do further testing.
I was fortunate enough to get in the very next day.
The scans were repeated, and then I was told they would like to take a look via ultrasound. Both the technician and the radiologist did not see anything definitive on the screen...just dense tissue.
I was asked to follow up in 6 months, something quite routine after a call back.
I had a lunch date with two dear friends and was relieved to have the testing behind me.
So, you can imagine my surprise when I arrived home and my hubby tells me someone from the office had called and hands me a piece of paper with a name and phone number on it.
Apparently, AFTER I left the radiologist was still unsettled by the tests and consulted a colleague. She suggested that they bring me back for a 3D mammogram.
That test was today. What they saw on the inital scans showed up again on the 3D scans. They ordered yet another ultrasound. After about an hour, the radiologist came in and said that spot was not detected on the ultrasound clearly.
She ordered a core biopsy. This would ensure what they were looking at.
The test is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
I would appreciate any and all prayers on my behalf. I feel at peace knowing that God has gone before me, and is in full control.
I also want to strongly encourage all women above age 35 to have their annual mammograms done, and if the 3D test is offered accept it (much better visual).
I will blog as I can, and will be sure to post once the results are back.
I have to have some further testing done tomorrow, and I have two dear friends who have procedures awaiting them in the morning. I pray we can all hold tight to this in knowing He has got this!!
Last night called for a quick easy meal, and after the latter half of the week I was craving some comfort food. I had to have some tests run, and will have to return for what I hope is the final one on Monday morning.
This recipe is super easy to prepare!
***You can adjust this recipe for the number you are feeding quite easily. This makes enough for about 3-4.
In a large Ziploc bag place the beef tips. Sprinkle enough flour to coat the meat. Add salt and pepper to taste (we use about a TBS of each). Shake to combine and coat.
In a large saute pan, drizzle oil to coat and add minced garlic to taste (we like garlic so I add about a TBS or so). Heat on medium-high heat until garlic starts to sizzle. Add the beef tips. Continue cooking until they are browned. Add about a cup of wine and a cup of the stock-enough to cover the beef tips. Stir to coat, reduce heat and let simmer 20-30 mintues. The longer you let it simmer the more tender the beef tips will be. The sauce will also thicken as it cooks down.
We serve ours over rice.
I told you, easy peasy!!! You can also add in some cut up root vegetables and cook a bit longer for a complete meal.
Here's is the Sunday addition of What' for Dinner. If you have followed along for any length of time, you will know I have a tomato allergy. Out of all the sensitivities and allergies that I have, it has been by far the hardest one to deal with...no tomatoes, no marinara sauce, no pizza sauce, no chili sauce, no salsa, no ketchup, no bbq sauce...ok, you get the picture. Well, that is until now...we came across a Tomato-Free Marinara Sauce on Vegetalion. We decided to give it a try. I figured it was worth a shot.
It was aaaaHHMAZING! It was the first time I had had spaghetti with "marinara" sauce in a year!!! The recipe for the sauce can be found here. The only thing is we would add a bit more garlic and spices next time.
Well, now that we had found a replacement for marinara sauce it was time to test it out on a pizza. Bacon-Cheeseburger Pizza that is.
The recipe is found in Fine Cooking's Pizza on the Grill Magazine 2012.
This can be baked on the grill, but we chose to bake in the oven this time around.
Mix together the ground meat, Worcestershire, mustard, onion powder, 1/2 tsp salt, and a pinch of pepper until well combined. Preheat a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the hamburger mixture and cook, stirring occasionally and breaking up any clumps of meat, until no longer pink. Let cool and reserve for topping.
Spread entire surface with the sauce. Top with the hamburger mixture. Place squares of cheese in a square-like pattern, making sure not to overlap them. Top each with 2 strips of bacon and a grilled onion ring so the pizza resembles 4 bacon cheeseburgers.
Finish baking according to package directions (or on the grill).
Remove, garnish with the pickle slices, and season with salt and pepper. Slice and serve.
I also found a company that makes a ready made jar No Tomato sauce called Norine's Nomato Sauce. However, the one little market that carries it in Atlanta was sold out. It can be ordered online. The ingredients are very similar to the recipe we used.
How very true. My sweet friend, Paige, had posted this along with some other wonderful quotes. I was reminded of it yesterday after driving around town and revisiting some of my childhood homes.
It has been a week of good eating and trying out new recipes my friends. This was actually Wednesday night's dinner.
Taco Sliders with Chipotle Aioli from my Paleo Happy Hour cookbook. While the cookbook is all about appetizers, small plates and drinks, many of the recipes can be adapted for lunch and dinner.
1. In a bowl, mix together the ground beef, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper, and paprika. Form the mixture into 10 small patties (or larger if making regular size burgers), pressing a small thumbprint in the center of each one. Grill or pan-fry the patties for 3 minutes per side (or longer for doneness or if cooking larger burgers).
2. To make the Chipotle Aioli, combine the egg yolk, apple cider vinegar, and mustard in a blender, and blend on low. Drizzle in the olive oil as slowly as possible to allow it to emulsify. Add the garlic, sea salt, honey, chipotle chilies, and jalapeno pepper, and blend the mixture on high until it is smooth.
3. Place each burger on top of a piece of butter lettuce. Top with 1 tablespoon of the Chipotle Aioli, a slice of avocado, and pieces or red onion.
We made our patties a bit bigger, so rather than making 10 sliders it made 7 slighter larger (enough for dinner and leftovers).
We served them with Alexia's Spicy Sweet Potato Fries (chipotle). I will say the burgers are not for the faint of heart...they were SPICY. You can control the heat by cutting the spices in half or cutting back on the number of Chipotle peppers you use (we used 3, we like the heat).
May we remember to pray EVERY day! While we are holding up those events and those affected by 9/11 today, may we remember that it doesn't stop there. Continue to hold those in prayer, pray for our leaders, and our country everyday.
Well, if you follow little 'ole me on Instagram, you will know this was actually Tuesday night's dinner. And, man was it good.
Not anymore. I was CRAVING me some southern fried chicken and while meal planning this past Sunday I stumbled upon this recipe in Ina Garten's Family Style cookbook. With just one substitute, we could make it gluten free. And, it did not look difficult at all not that I cared about the difficulty as I was having hubby make it for moi.
After the frying process, but prior to baking in the oven.
2 chickens (3 pounds each), cut in eight serving pieces ***this girl went the easy route and purchased already cut pieces, 2 breasts and 4 drumsticks for us-choose what you want.
Combine the flour, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Take the chicken out of the buttermilk and coat each piece thoroughly with the flour mixture. Pour the oil into a large heavy-bottomed stock pot to a depth of 1 inch (hubby used more and found it easier to keep the temp consistent) and heat to 360 degrees on a thermometer.
Working in batches, carefully place several pieces of chicken in the oil and fry for about 3 minutes on each side until the coating is a light golden brown (it will continue to brown in the oven). Don't crowd the pieces. Remove the chicken from the oil and place each piece on a metal baking rack set on a sheet pan. Allow the oil to return to 360 degrees before frying the next batch. When all the chicken is fried, bake for 30-40 minutes, until the chicken is no longer pink inside. Serve hot.
***the stockpot works out perfectly, unlike when using a traditional frying pan the grease does not fly everywhere!!
Mouth Watering!!!! This is hands down the best fried chicken I have ever had, and this girl loves her fried chicken. It was light and not greasy at all!
We served it up with a good dose of homemade mashed potatoes. Only thing missing was the gravy (next time).
I will let y'all decide whose plate was whose this girl is not ashamed one bit and don't let him fool you, that was only the first plateful.
Trying out another new recipe tonight, Taco Sliders with Chipolte Aioli. Will let you know how it turns out.
Okay, forewarning...this week it may be all about the meals! We have planned some super yummy dinners this week and I can't wait to share the with you all.
Sunday night's dinner...Kielbasa, Pepper, Onion and Potato Hash courtesy of The Two Bite Club.
1. In a heavy bottomed skillet, heat 2 TBS of olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the potatoes to the skillet and season with salt and pepper. Fry until golden brown and cooked through, around 8-10 minutes, stirring a few times to ensure even browning.
2. In a separate skillet, brown the sliced kielbasa for around 5 minutes in 1 TBS olive oil over medium-high heat. Remove the kielbasa from the pan and set aside. Add the peppers and onions to the skillet and season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes, or until softened, stirring occasionally.
3. Add the cooked potatoes and kielbasa to the skillet with the onions and peppers and mix everything together. Serve nice and hot!!
This tool makes the chopping a breeze, vegetable chopper at Williams-Sonoma.
And, tonight we are making Fried Chicken...the first time I have had fried chicken since going gluten free...the smell alone is intoxicating!
Will share the recipe soon! Right now I cannot wait to dig in.
Ok, this one could not wait until next Wednesday's addition of "What's for Dinner Wednesday". So, without further ado...Blackberry Jalapeno Pork Roast.
This recipe comes from my relatively new cookbook, Make Ahead Paleo (also Gluten Free).
1. In a small bowl, combine the rub ingredients.
2. Sprinkle the rub over the pork roast, and rub it in with your fingers to thoroughly coat all sides of the meat. (I had already placed my roast in a large ziploc after bringing home from the market, so I added the spices and smooshed!! I know y'all have to love that term, but it worked).
3. In a large skillet, heat the coconut oil (or whatever oil you choose) over medium-high heat.
4. Place the roast in the skillet and brown on all sides, about 8 minutes.
5. Transfer the roast to a slow cooker.
6. In a medium-sized bowl, combine the sauce ingredients.
7. Pour the sauce over the roast in the slow cooker, and cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high 4-5 hours.
8. With 2 forks, shred the pork while it is still in the slow cooker.
9. Serve the shredded pork with the juices and berries spooned over the top.
We served with rice a side and it was a nice compliment.
Here you can see all the vibrant colors of the pork, berries and jalapenos.
And while the colors have dulled once cooked the flavors have not!! It was delicious!!!
Hope you will give it a go. And with that, I am off for the weekend. Hosting the Children's Team on Sunday for ice cream sundaes!!
Today was my first day with my littles for Bible study this year. Who knew that ten 2 year olds could be soooo active. Whew, this momma of now adult children is plum wore out. They are a very sweet, loving, inquisitive group.
Can't wait to love on them for the entire year!
So, if I am a bit MIA in the next couple days, I will be recuperating until I host our ENTIRE children's leadership team (family style for ice cream) on Sunday!!
Once you have prepared the dough and pre-baked crust according to directions, spread the entire surface with the hosin and sprinkle with the red pepper flakes. Top with the chicken, scallions, and pepper strips. Sprinkle with the cheese.
Finish baking the pizza utnil the cheese is light golden brown or thoroughly melted.
Remove from oven (or grill), sprinkle with the cilantro and cashews, and season with salt and black pepper. Drizzle with the sesame oil (if using), slice and serve.


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The Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden (Reich Representation of German Jews) was established in September, 1933. Its headquarters were in Berlin-Charlottenburg, on the Kantstrasse. For German Jewry, this was an umbrella organization comprising all the political and religious groups of Jews living in Germany. Its main task was the coordination of Jewish self-help activities during the long and harsh persecutions of the Nazi era. Jewish self-help activities were widespread, innovative and charitable. Programs were organized to provide whatever legal defenses were still acceptable to the Nazis, as well as to initiate and sponsor a variety of emigration efforts. Alongside these efforts, location of shelter and distribution of food and clothing for the elderly and handicapped, as well as for families suddenly impoverished, traumatized and dispirited was an ever-escalating responsibility.
The Reichsvertretung also served as the political representation of German Jewry. From 1939 on it was the only organization attempting to meet all the various needs of German Jews. Throughout its existence, from 1933 until June 1943, its structure and tasks were constantly being reorganized.
In 1938 the members of the Reichsvertretung planned its reconstitution, one of the main goals being to become more effective through centralization of executive functions. In February 1939, efforts to restructure as a response to ever-changing and growing needs and desperation led to a "new" organization under a different name: The Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland).
On July 4, 1939, the legal status of the Reichsvereinigung was determined by a special directive from the Nazi regime. The Reichsvereinigung included all Jewish subjects of the Nazi Reich as defined by the Nuremberg Laws (1935) and not by religion. Thereafter, the government-approved tasks of the Central Organization were limited to the coordination and support of the emigration of Jewish people, the organization of basic and vocational education (the only approved schooling for Jews) and the distribution of welfare. The Reichsvereinigung was supervised by the Ministry of the Interior, (i.e. the Reich Security Main Office, RSHA), section IV B 4, headed by Adolf Eichmann.
The beginning of deportations to the concentration camps in October 1941 brought a fundamental redirection of purpose to the Reichsvereinigung, which was forced by the Nazi government to help organize the deportations. It became the duty of the Jewish leadership to notify people who were to be deported. Any support or supply of necessary goods to people gathered at assembly points and about to be deported was left to the Reichsvereinigung. The "forced" collaboration of the Jewish community at this point was the subject of controversial discussion after the war.
In June 1943 the headquarters of the Reichsvereinigung in Berlin were summarily closed by the RSHA and the remaining staff deported to Theresienstadt. It was replaced by the "Rest-Reichsvereinigung" (Residue Reich Association), which existed until shortly before the fall of the Reich. It dealt mainly with Jews living in mixed marriages and their descendants, who were not being deported. It continued its restricted and controlled work within the Jewish hospital in the Iranische Strasse in Berlin until liberation, in May 1945. There were 285 Jewish women and men living in the hospital during the summer of 1943. This figure is in stark contrast to the numbers of Jewish women and men living in Germany prior to January 1933. At that time, there were more than 520,000, of whom approximately 170,000 lived in Berlin.
Within the Central Organization of Jews in Germany, especially between 1933 and 1938, in addition to the stress and urgency of a continually worsening situation for all the Jews in Germany, there was a complicated hierarchy of leadership and power between the women and the male leaders of the organization.
When the Jewish leadership negotiated the founding of a central organization of German Jews in the fall of 1933, Hannah Karminski (1897–1942), who was at that time the secretary of the League of Jewish Women, participated in the meetings. Karminski was the "soul" of the League, succeeding Bertha Pappenheim, who had retired from her activities in the League.
Held in high esteem in the Jewish community, Hannah Karminski personified the women's interests represented by the League of Jewish Women. During this time she became a close friend of Leo Baeck (1873–1956), who was one of the spiritual leaders of German Jewry and the president of the Reichsvertretung from 1933 until his deportation to Theresienstadt in January 1943. In 1939, when Hannah Karminski had a leadership position in the department of welfare, they became even closer. Their offices were side by side in the Kantstrasse and they had daily work meetings, often spending their private time together as well.
Leo Baeck was also close to the president of the League of Jewish Women, Ottilie Schönewald, and other members of the League, such as Margarete Berent. He was frequently invited to be one of the speakers at the annual meetings of the League. Although President Baeck and the Reichsvertretung thought highly of the work and activities of the League of Jewish Women, those same women did not have a seat or a vote in the Reichsvertretung. Between 1933 and its liquidation after the pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938 ("Kristallnacht"), the women of the League led a campaign to become full members of the Reichsvertretung, but failed in the attempt for a variety of reasons.
First, though the president of the Reichsvertretung, Leo Baeck, was sympathetic to women's politics, the atmosphere in Jewish organizations and communities was patriarchal. Jewish women had no right to vote in the conservative Jewish communities. Their political participation was not welcome. Even when the League was part of the Jewish Self-Help and participated wholly in the attempt to survive as a community under Nazi persecution and violence, all power and influence remained in men's hands.
It was only in 1936 that the League was given a seat on the Council of the Reichsvertretung. Although Hannah Karminski and Cora Berliner had attended the organization's meetings from 1933 on, the League officially became a member only in 1936. Prior to this date, the League could propose a delegate, but the Council was not obligated to accept their suggestions. Instead they chose women who would promote their political interests and strategies. In 1936, for example, the women of the League proposed the chairwoman, Ottilie Schönewald, for this position, but the Reichsvertretung instead appointed Bertha Fraenkel-Ehrentreu (1895–1965), who was a Zionist and a member of the Orthodox denomination, both of which were underrepresented in the organization. Clearly, male power was far more important than women's interests.
The League of Jewish Women was dissolved after the November pogrom in 1938. Some women continued their work, trying to fight for women's issues within the Central Organization. Cora Berliner and Hannah Karminski, for example, advocated women's participation in the Reichsvereinigung while they continued their activities for and among women in the Women's Self-Help. Primarily they supported the education and especially the emigration of women and girls.
The pogroms of November 9 and 10, 1938 were called Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), because the broken glass from damaged houses, shops and synagogues littered the streets in almost every German city or town. The Hitler Youth and the SS destroyed Jewish institutions and private homes and arrested more than thirty thousand Jewish men, among them leaders of the Reichsvertretung. Shortly after Kristallnacht, the offices of the organization were closed for approximately two weeks.
During this time, the members of the organization held meetings in private homes. Some of them took place in Cora Berliner's apartment in Berlin. She had been hired by the organization in October 1933, and thereafter had held important positions. She was responsible for reports of the economic situation of German Jews that were used by the organization for several protest pamphlets that were presented to the German government. She also worked in the public relations department, of which she became the head. In 1939 she headed the departments of women's emigration, statistics and public relations. In March 1940, Cora Berliner became an unofficial member of the board and was allowed to participate in confidential meetings.
Her colleagues and friends, Hannah Karminski and Paula Fürst (1894–1942), also attended meetings of the board. Hannah Karminski co-managed the welfare department, while Paula Fürst was head of the school department. Hildegard Böhme (1884–1943) and Käte Rosenheim (1892–1980) were also prominent in the organization, Böhme being one of the few women to head a district office of the organization. (District offices were responsible for the administration of services to smaller Jewish communities.) Käte Rosenheim was the director of the Kinderauswanderung (Children's Emigration) department from 1934 until her own emigration to the United States of America in 1940. Together with her colleagues, she helped more than 7,200 Jewish children to escape Nazi Germany.
Although Cora Berliner was a member of the board and Hannah Karminski and Paula Fürst joined the board meetings of the organization, the three women earned lower salaries than their male colleagues—only 350 RM per month as compared to the men's 625 RM for virtually the same work. While leaders such as Leo Baeck often praised the women's work, it was never suggested that they should have the same rank and the same pay as their male colleagues.
Perhaps this was one of the reasons why Cora Berliner, Hildegard Böhme, Paula Fürst and Hannah Karminski developed a special form of networking, creating a group of four, a quartet with a special purpose: to present a strong and united front to promote Jewish women's interests.
The integration of the lives of these four women was remarkable. They not only worked together—in the offices of the organization in Kantstrasse—but also lived together. Cora Berliner shared an apartment with Hildegard Böhme. Paula Fürst was the partner of Hannah Karminski, and they too shared an apartment. These women had similar backgrounds; they had been educated and they had teaching experience. They had known each other through their work before 1939 or from their activities for the League of Jewish Women.
The four spent almost all their private time together. On religious holidays they would go to the synagogue to hear Leo Baeck preach. There was a bond of affection and purpose among them, a special form of women's networking and connection. Their lives were lived in contrast to the daily lives of their male colleagues, who were married and lived with their families. Great calamity brought these women together in a voluntary association. Studies of women in the far more extreme conditions of concentration and labor camps have also revealed the development of forms of communication and additional survival strategies unique to women. The persecuted women would often build small family units in which they helped each other to survive. The four women built their family within the Reichsvereinigung of Jews in Germany.
Nevertheless, every woman in this group of four also maintained a warm relationship with one of the leading male members of the organization. Hannah Karminski was very close to Leo Baeck, the president; they were both deeply religious and this created a special connection between the two. Paula Fürst and Hildegard Böhme were particularly fond of Moritz Henschel (1879–1947), who was on the board of the Reichsvereinigung and, at the same time, the president of the Jewish Community of Berlin. After Leo Baeck was deported to Theresienstadt at the beginning of 1943, Moritz Henschel became the president of the Reichsvereinigung.
Cora Berliner was a trusted friend and confidant of Otto Hirsch (1885–1941), a lawyer who had become secretary of the Reichsvertretung in September 1933. In 1941 he was arrested and murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp because of his protest against the early mass deportations of Jews from Stettin and Baden in the fall of 1940. His death was a shock for his colleagues because it was obvious that the Nazi regime would punish protests or resistance with both imprisonment and execution. After his death, Cora Berliner cared for Hirsch's wife, Martha Hirsch (1891–1943/44), spending time with her and supporting her in her unsuccessful attempt to flee Nazi Germany. In 1943, Martha Hirsch was deported to Auschwitz, where she perished.
Certainly the group of four were not without their conflicts. Though we have little documentation of quarrels, there is one letter from Cora Berliner, written after her fiftieth birthday in 1940, in which she wrote to her friend Hans Schäffer (1886–1967) that this birthday had been the most exhausting day she had ever experienced in her whole life. She had received sympathy and recognition for her work, but also "jealousy from her close female colleagues." Possibly the conflict started with an article written by Otto Hirsch and printed in the Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt (Jewish Newsletter, 1938–1943), at that time the only Jewish newspaper. In an article about Cora Berliner, Hirsch acknowledged her longtime significance for the League of Jewish Women. This must have disappointed Hannah Karminski, who had been the "soul" of the League and its most active member.
Although all four of this group of women had various opportunities to escape from Nazi Germany, they decided to stay in Germany and not to leave the Jewish community. They paid for this decision with their lives. In June 1942 Cora Berliner and Paula Fürst were deported to the East, leaving Hannah Karminski alone in her apartment for several months. In November 1942 Hannah Karminski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz a few weeks later. Hildegard Böhme had tried in vain to go in place of her friend and colleague. She herself was deported to Auschwitz in May 1943 and murdered there, sharing the fate of her friends and colleagues.
Only Leo Baeck and Moritz Henschel survived the Shoah. The other leading male members of the Reichsvereinigung perished in concentration camps. It is tragic that these talented, industrious and generous Jewish women and men lost their struggle to survive Nazi persecution in their native land. Their enemies simply held too much power and gloried in its brutal exercise, with no regard for innocence or human justice.
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Ibid, ed. Deutsches Judentum unter dem Nationalsozialismus. Dokumente zur Geschichte der Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden 1933 bis 1939, Vol. I, Tübingen: 1997.
Ibid. Hildesheimer, Esriel. "The Central Organisation of Jews in the Third Reich and its Archives." In Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute, 34 (1989): 187–201.
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A timeline showing the major organizations of Jews in Germany from 1893 to 1943.
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