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Open source C++ Box2D physics engine integrated into development platform
Unity has unveiled a new set of 2D tools for its Unity engine and editor.
Currently in beta, the tools were developed in response to growing demand for a specific feature-set to create 2D games.
Improvements to the workflow have been introduced, which included a dedicated scene view for specialised 2D scene manipulation tools.
The open source C++ Box2D physics engine has also been integrated into Unity, which the middleware firm said would provide better performance, more stable simulation and smaller game builds.
Other new features include a new sprite texture importer type, automated atlasing, a dedicated 2D rendering component. The Unity animation editor has also been upgraded with ‘dope sheet’ functionality and visual sprite animation editing.
The first iteration of the new tools will be released in Unity 4.3.
“We want to be relentless in the improvement of Unity and its usefulness to all developers,” said Unity CEO David Helgason.
“Unity can and has been used for the development of many amazing 2D projects, but we knew that it could be better. So we are taking a leap forward by introducing fundamental tools to make Unity a truly great 2D engine.”
Unity CTO Joachim Ante added: “Unity is already a great tool for making 3D games, and we wanted to make sure the same was true for 2D. But the ability to mix and match 2D and 3D easily makes Unity a uniquely powerful tool for game developers.”


DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Power is often amorphous, something you can recognize more than touch. Anyone who has spent a few years in Downtown Los Angeles has a good sense of who’s got juice.
This begs two important questions: 1) In a community chock full of power players, who are the most powerful?, and 2) How do you rank them?
Those who wield power in Downtown come primarily from a few fields: The top of the top in politics, business, labor and entertainment make most of the decisions that make the community go. There are also a few media and nonprofit folk who guide the civic discussion.
When it comes to determining the order, there’s a simple exercise: Pretend you’re a Downtowner with a modicum of power (though not enough for this roster). One afternoon you’re talking on the phone with, for example, the 18th most powerful person on the list, developer Jim Thomas. Suddenly, your assistant rushes in with a piece of paper saying there’s a call on the other line. If that person is less powerful than Thomas, you direct your assistant to say you’re not available.
If the caller ranks higher, you tell Thomas, “Jim, I’m really sorry, but I’ve got Person X on the other line. I need to take it.” Specifying who it is shows that you have some sway, and also that you’re only breaking off a call with Jim Thomas for a darn good reason. When you say who the call is from, he may not like being cut off, but he’ll understand that you don’t keep Person X waiting. That’s part of the game. As you read the list, ask yourself, “Would I hang up on this person for this other person?”
Here it is, the 2011 Downtown Power List.
42. Frank McCourt, Los Angeles Dodgers
Most of Los Angeles hates what he’s done to the Dodgers and squirms over his legal tangles with Jamie. That said, he still owns a baseball team. At least for now.
41. Tom Gilmore, developer
Five years ago, amid a booming market, Gilmore would have ranked in the top 20. Circa 2011, the charismatic don of nouveau Downtown development is fairly quiet. Still, unlike everyone else in the entire world, he saw how a decrepit Historic Core block could become a booming hipster land and invented the Old Bank District. He planted the seed, and the rest is local residential history.
40. Alex Padilla, state senator
His Downtown ties these days are thin, but considering he’s likely the only name Latino candidate running for mayor in 2013, he can’t be overlooked. Even though he now labors in the state Senate and represents the 20th District in the Valley (only slightly more important to Downtown than Akron, Ohio), he’s a past City Council president with a lot of names in his Rolodex. Or his iPhone contacts. Or whatever.
39. Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries
Last May, the pioneering gang intervention program helmed by Boyle nearly capsized with $5 million in debt. Normally that’s the kiss of death for a nonprofit, and even if it survives, the board usually tosses the boss. Not so with Boyle: He’s still running the show and has Chinatown-based Homeboy financially afloat. The moral of the story: Never dismiss a guy unfazed by gangbangers with neck tattoos.
38. The BlogosphereThe first group entry in the list is a sign of changing times. A decade ago, blogs were the province of high-tech shut-ins. These days, those with sharp prose, a laptop and a mastery of social media can get their message in front of everyone who makes important decisions. While newspapers and TV remain the best option for traditional reporting, the blogs often blaze the trail, and can make a Downtown restaurant, shop, business or personality blow up in a hurry. Or help tear them down.
37. Gary Toebben, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber had more influence decades ago, but as the president and CEO of a regional business group with 1,600 members, Toebben has the big seat at a still prominent table. Austin Beutner and Miguel Santana are among those who recently made the pilgrimage to the City West headquarters to speak to the Chamber’s top dogs, and Toebben and his posse make regular lobbying trips to Sacramento and D.C., where they get an audience with the very high and mighty. Yes, I just wrote that Gary Toebben has a posse.
36. José Huizar, councilman
The 42-year-old 14th District councilman has four kids and a whopping five election victories (three for council, two for school board). He took some hits in the recent race against Rudy Martinez (the power lists, the alleged FBI investigation), but he gets major points for bringing Rick Caruso, Eli Broad and Tim Leiweke on board for his streetcar project. He could expand his reach if he alligator chomps more territory when council redistricting comes up.
35. Millage Peaks, Los Angeles Fire Department
He keeps a low profile, but have there been any LAFD scandals or major PR conflagrations since Peaks became chief in 2009? Exactly. Peaks works behind the scenes, and as many on this list can attest, sometimes power is best wielded subtly.
34. Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic
The wild-haired Venezuelan wunderkind may have no idea how to use his power, but the face of the Phil is the bridge between the current generation of local classical music fans and the one that doesn’t exist yet. The big question is whether the Phil’s music director will recognize that the conductor’s baton is mightier than the pen and the sword.
33. Cedd Moses, barmaster
The head of 213 Inc. has made it safe and hip for thousands of the young and thirsty to get their drink on in Downtown. His Golden Gopher was the first of the new upscale bars, followed by the Broadway Bar. These days, he’s got his fingers in nine local watering holes and is a go-to connection for anyone hoping to create a Downtown nightlife spot.
32. David Weinstein, MPG Office Trust
Weinstein isn’t nearly as well known as Nelson Rising, his predecessor at the company formerly called Maguire Properties. However, when you’re president and CEO of a firm that owns seven Downtown Class-A high-rises, no one ignores you. If he can save the beleaguered real estate giant, every banker and lawyer in a $3,000 suit will want to do lunch with him.
31. Rick Caruso, gazillionaire
The man voted most likely to rocket up this list clocks in at number 32 only because he has yet to (publicly) decide if he’ll run for mayor in 2013. The developer of the shopping complexes the Grove and the Americana is a regional force whose Downtown footprint has been small to date. If Mall Master Rick throws his hat in the mayoral ring and his hand in his checkbook, he’ll find himself with more friends than Mark Zuckerberg.
30. Ron Nichols, Department of Water and Power
People tired of the city’s water and power factory being run by folks with limited knowledge in the field cheered the December hiring of the longtime utility consultant. The new DWP general manager has a full sink dealing with a distrustful council and an in-your-face union, but the fact that one of Nichols’ first moves was sacking second-in-command Raman Raj shows he’s come to play.
29. Ed Reyes, councilman
The Ol’ Man River of City Council, even though he’s not really that old (and doesn’t have a deep baritone). First District rep Reyes keeps moving steadily on Los Angeles River and affordable housing issues. He also chairs the council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee. He’s not flashy and doesn’t fight publicly very often, but everyone knows that if you want to do market-rate housing in his district, you’d better have a healthy low-income element.
28. Blake Griffin, dunk machine
Just consider this subject line from a recent L.A. Area Chamber email: “Network with more than 20 different chambers then watch Blake Griffin.” When big business uses a Clippers rookie to woo members to an after-hours mixer, you know the kid’s got pull. The dunktastic power forward is giving the Clippers, L.A. Live and South Park restaurants and bars a financial bounce by luring big crowds to meaningless games.
27. Richard Alatorre, connected
It’s been more than a decade since he held the 14th District council seat now occupied by Huizar, but this guy knows everyone and, more importantly, knows where the bodies are buried and the dollars are hidden. If you need to understand how things work on L.A.’s East Side, he’s the first call. Heck, the strip of Broadway that falls in the 14th is still known as the Alatorre Finger.
26. Los Angeles Downtown News
What kind of journalists would we be if we didn’t posses the reporter staples of a strong (or is that inflated?) sense of our own importance and the willingness to phone someone 600 times until they talk? The wise among us don’t ignore a news organization founded almost 40 years ago.
25. Cardinal Roger Mahony/Archbishop Jose Gomez
Though he retired in February after a quarter century atop the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Mahony hasn’t left the building. In fact, his connections, relationships and some of his stances (immigration reform, etc.) will live on through Gomez. When you represent L.A.’s 4 million Catholics, you’re not just a religious figure — you’re a politician.
24-23. Pat McOsker - United Firefighters Los Angeles City, Paul Weber - Los Angeles Police Protective League
Los Angeles’ budget debacle has resulted in thousands of layoffs and early retirements, 26 days of furloughs a year for some city employees, and across-the-board cuts in city services. Yet LAPD and LAFD workers haven’t felt much pain from the fiscal slash-and-burn, a feat directly attributable to the power of the unions representing their rank-and-file workers. McOsker of the UFLAC and Weber of the LAPPL have made their unions forces in local elections, too. The recent givebacks that the city and the Coalition of L.A. City Unions agreed to may provide pressure to Weber and McOsker to make similar cutbacks, but rest assured that if they give up something, they’ll also get something.
22. Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Department
Former LAPD Chief William Bratton was a top 10 power player, but that’s no slag on this cop’s cop. Good ol’ reliable Charlie Beck, who got the chief’s badge in late 2009, is more a policeman than a politician, and few care about his wattage before TV cameras when he has managed to keep crime at historically low levels. The fact that the LAPD is only slowing hiring now, this far into the city budget crisis, indicates that no one wants to mess with Charlie.
21-19. Rick Orlov - Los Angeles Daily News, Dave Zahniser - Los Angeles Times, Dave Bryan - KCAL9/CBS2
The Fourth Estate has been butchered as the world increasingly gets its information from the Internet, but there remains a handful of folks consistently able to shape opinion or spark controversy with a single news story. Orlov has been breaking news longer than many people in business and politics have been alive; his Monday “Tipoff” column is a must-read. Zahniser is tenacious; his dogged determination and ability to nullify spin makes him adored by many and feared by more. Bryan, the only full-time political reporter on local TV news, uses decades of relationships to get interviews others dream about. He also has the ability to make a complicated matter easily digestible in a two-minute City Hall stand-up.
18. Jim Thomas, developer
When megabucks shipping firm Hanjin decided to raze and rebuild the Wilshire Grand hotel, but needed a local partner, it reached out to Thomas Properties Group and its head, Jim Thomas. Smart move, and at a time when almost nothing is being built, Thomas has shepherded the $1 billion project through the approvals process. It’s only the latest bit of Houdini-like magic from Thomas, who has brought City National Plaza back from the dead and, before that, partnered with Rob Maguire to make a slew of office towers appear on the Downtown skyline.
17. Eric Garcetti, councilman
Smart, charismatic, and the president of the Los Angeles City Council for six years, the 13th District representative has the juicy job of deciding which council members get plum assignments like the Budget & Finance Committee, and who gets stuck with Education & Neighborhoods. He’s both a Rhodes Scholar and a friend of business (he regularly appears on stage at the CCA’s annual Treasures of L.A. luncheon) and is ahead of the City Hall curve on social media and other tech matters. By the way, he’s probably running for mayor in 2013.
16. Gloria Molina, supervisor
If you want to do something on the east side of Los Angeles County, there’s one path: through Molina’s office. Her 20 years as a supe have born fruit and produced myriad projects all across the district, with the latest being this month’s opening of the La Plaza de Cultura y Artes near Olvera Street. Like many on this list, she has tangled with some high-profile players for reasons even they don’t understand. Yet as proof of her power, consider that some of those who rank higher on this list are loath to criticize her on the record. They don’t want the fight or the fallout.
15. Mark Ridley-Thomas, supervisor
The millions the unions spent on his Second District election victory over Bernard Parks leads some to mislabel Ridley-Thomas as a labor-only guy. That’s foolish. During his time on the City Council in the ’90s, he helped make Staples Center happen when the area’s council rep, Rita Walters, bizarrely opposed the project. While Ridley-Thomas’ Downtown territory is slim (mainly Exposition Park and parts of the Figueroa Corridor and Skid Row), his experience in city and state elected posts give him connections to both people and money. Those union ties don’t hurt either.
14. Carmen Trutanich, city attorney
Trutanich is at once the strangest and most compelling elected figure in Los Angeles. He won a race no one thought he had a prayer of capturing, and has since irked the mayor and city leaders to the point that they’ve decimated his budget. Instead of shutting up, he takes audacious swings (his own grand jury?!). That said, the son of San Pedro never stops working, and he gets credit for the city making legal headway on issues where it had stumbled for years, such as pot clinics and billboards. He also secured an injunction against Skid Row drug dealers. Like the Lakers in the playoffs, he’s not someone you want to face off against. The big question: Will he run for District Attorney?
13. Wendy Greuel, city controller
The former Valley councilwoman’s audits are not as flashy as those of her predecessor, Laura Chick, but Greuel has been a force on the other, actually larger side of the Controller’s office: She’s given Angelenos frequent attention-demanding reports on the city’s finances. Of course, the audits are pretty good too, as was Greuel’s move to be the first person to declare for the 2013 mayor’s race. Her political ties go back to the Bradley administration and she’s got connections to the entertainment industry (she was an executive at Dreamworks). She’s also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe, as happened when she tangled with Trutanich.
12. The Lobbyists
In Los Angeles, when the going gets tough, the tough hire lobbyists. When the tough hire lobbyists, money flows faster and thicker than trash in the Los Angeles River. In 2010, lobbying firms registered in L.A. reported receiving more than $34 million from clients, according to records filed with the City Ethics Commission. That’s a lot of meetings at City Hall. Whether it’s billboards, golf carts, land use, food contracts or something else, when it comes to making things happen, these are the people who never sleep.
11. Brian D’Arcy, IBEW Local 18
Trying to figure out D’Arcy’s rise is sort of like trying to decipher how an Escher staircase comes together. The business manager (read, boss) of the union representing DWP employees really only ascended to his current lofty status once people started talking about his rising profile — did he go up on his own or did the rhetoric do it? What matters more is his record: While the city was laying off and furloughing people in 2009, the pugnacious D’Arcy actually secured raises for his workers. His biggest test is to come as he encounters new DWP GM Ron Nichols.
10. Richard Riordan, ex-mayor
Actually, ex-mayor is only the beginning for the man who left office in 2001 but continues to play a big role behind the scenes. He remains a deep-pockets philanthropist with a focus on education, and last year when he talked about the city speed skating toward bankruptcy, everyone listened. He could become a kingmaker in the 2013 mayor’s race.
9. John Perez, Assembly speaker
Although Perez doesn’t figure much in the day-to-day happenings of the Central City, this Downtown resident’s position means he can direct enormous influence, and money, to local efforts. The state’s budget boondoggle, and its corresponding impact on local matters (adios Community Redevelopment Agency) means everyone wants face time with this cousin of Antonio Villaraigosa. By the way, speaker of the Assembly happens to be a killer springboard to better things, as Villaraigosa can attest.
8. Maria Elena Durazo, labor powerhouse
At the dog and pony show that was the announcement of the Farmers Field naming rights deal, one labor leader was invited to speak: That was Durazo, who as executive secretary-treasurer of the County Federation of Labor/AFL-CIO helms a coalition of 300 unions representing more than 800,000 trades people. Know that when developers cozy up to the politicians, they also come asking for Durazo’s blessing — in turn, she asks for jobs with union pay and benefits. Few knew how the widow of Miguel Contreras would fare when, in 2006, she took the position he once held. Five years later, there’s no doubt: You still don’t mess with the County Fed.
7. Zev Yaroslavsky, supervisor
Another longtime playa whose high ranking is bolstered by a presumed run for Villaraigosa’s seat in 2013. An elected leader since he was about 4 (actually, 26, when he joined the City Council), he has held the Third District Valley/Westside seat for 17 years. Strong on transportation, experienced in financial matters and with connections a president or pope would envy, he’s known for exerting his will, others’ desires be damned. A lot could happen between now and the mayoral primary, but the man with an M.A. in British Imperial History (really!) is a top contender.
6. Carol Schatz, Central City Association
Many people had a hand in the Downtown upswing of the past decade, but few stirred the pot harder and to better effect than Schatz, the president and CEO of the CCA. After 20 years with Downtown’s most potent business group, her role is varied: She hosts major discussions (Leiweke unveiled many of his stadium plans at a CCA luncheon), lures business to the community (a current focus is Seventh Street) and pushes legislation (she helped craft the adaptive reuse ordinance). She also persuaded a mass of business owners to tax themselves and form Downtown’s largest business improvement district. She acknowledges that you need sharp elbows in this community, and it’s gotten her in plenty of battles. She’s won most of them.
5. Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor
Ah, there was so much hope and expectation when he flew into office in 2005: While Villaraigosa still has pull (witness the recent agreement on givebacks with the Coalition of L.A. City Unions), he never mastered the mayoral bully pulpit and, worse, doesn’t scare people (witness the council recently thumbing its nose at AnVil and delaying new police hires until July 1). You could write a book about the high hopes and hard landings of the Villaraigosa administration (someone probably will), but as he nears lame-duck status, he risks a legacy that lacks a single defining achievement. Yes, there’s still significant power attached to the office, but he’ll be haunted by everything from the failure to make the 30-10 mass transit dream deal happen to the dissolution of his marriage while he was mayor. He should be top two or three on this list; his placement here says more about him than those who rank higher.
4. Austin Beutner, first deputy mayor
Here are a few positives Los Angeles has recorded in the past year: Chinese car manufacturer BYD signed a deal to open a plant in Downtown; the failed 12-2 development reform initiative was finally euthanized and replaced by a new plan that has serious backing; a three-year “business tax holiday” was launched, and has helped bring companies like architecture firm Gensler into Downtown. Is it any coincidence that all those (and more) happened after former venture capitalist Beutner joined Villaraigosa’s office for a salary of $1 a year? In other words, in 15 months he’s pulled a list of accomplishments that exceed what most people in city government do in five years. This pal of Riordan is another possible mayoral candidate. The business community already adores him. It remains to be seen if the rest of Los Angeles will.
3. Jan Perry, councilwoman
If this were a Los Angeles-wide list, the Ninth District representative would be much further down. In Downtown, however, the woman elected to office in 2001 has hit all the bases: She’s got business cred for propelling housing, restaurants and bars, and championing L.A. Live, the Wilshire Grand project and the Grand Avenue plan. The residents like Perry because she has pushed for a slew of community amenities. Even the majority of the Skid Row services community applauds her work (she’s also pulled some nice achievements in South L.A.). Not only that, she’s smart, tough and doesn’t take kindly to intimidation — she recently had some harsh words for the labor groups trying to teach Councilman Bernard Parks a lesson by financially propping up his election challenger. The Downtown stakeholders generally think of Perry as the best area representative in decades, and they’ll be there for her, financially and otherwise, as she too runs for mayor.
2. Eli Broad, philanthropist
In a town packed with one-note wonders, Eli Broad stands out for his depth: He founded two billion-dollar companies (home builder Kaufman Broad and retirement investment firm SunAmerica) and has emerged as the leading philanthropic voice in the region through his Broad Foundation. His involvement in Downtown stretches back decades, from helping found MOCA to working on plans in the ’90s to upgrade Grand Avenue and bring football back to the Coliseum. Football is no longer his focus but Grand Avenue is, and while Broad pushes for Related Cos.’ stalled mega-plan, he also is building his $100 million art museum across from the Colburn School. By the way, did you notice how L.A. jumped through hoops to get that project? But wait, there’s more: Broad is on board with the streetcar effort, and whomever he backs in the mayor’s race will see their stock rise. Some complain that he’s tough to deal with, but you don’t get his CV by being a patsy.
1. Tim Leiweke, Anschutz Entertainment Group
Calling Leiweke’s rise meteoric is an understatement: Just 15 years after coming to Los Angeles, the president and CEO of AEG has notched Downtown a $400 million arena (Staples Center), a $2.5 billion entertainment complex (L.A. Live) and a $1 billion tower (the Convention Center hotel). Granted, he did those with billionaire Phil Anschutz’s money (the MacFarlane Group also played a big financial role in the hotel), but it is a remarkable achievement nonetheless. Everyone listens to him, which is necessary considering he’s now engaged in his biggest challenge yet: the vision quest to create a $1 billion South Park football stadium/events complex (a project that also needs Anschutz’s blessing and bankroll). Right now, everyone in Downtown wants to be a Friend of Tim and help make the deal happen, knowing it would have an economic ripple (tidal wave?) across the community. Numerous local power players have failed in the past to win on football, but many people on this list say they’d never bet against Leiweke — on this project or any other.
Contact Jon Regardie at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Equality California Honchos Wanda Sykes, Stuart Milk & Others Won't Meet Public During Executive Director Search?
The search for a new executive director for gay rights powerhouse Equality California (EQCA) is still underway, even though ordinary gay folks know very little about it.
Blogger Michael Petrelis has been constantly demanding that EQCA hold town hall meetings so the public can give their input and hear what's happening during the important hiring process -- whoever lands the job will lead an organization that helps create laws and policies on the behalf of some 850,000 gays and lesbians in California.
Equality California board members will ultimately hire the next executive director, but they appear to have no desire to hold town hall meetings and face regular gays and lesbians -- the very people who help fund the group through small and large donations.
Asked if Equality California has held town hall meetings as Petrelis and others have suggested, Cary Davidson, chairman of EQCA's search committee, says in a prepared statement to L.A. Weekly:
"Morris & Berger [the consulting firm spearheading the effort to replace outgoing executive director Geoff Kors] have contacted more than 1,000 people in the course of the search and are continuing to have conversations. They have spoken with people from grassroots organizations, unions, large and small nonprofits, foundations, elected officials, and a diverse array of advocacy organizations, per the recommendation of the search committee."
Davidson is a practicing attorney, so we'll simplify his answer: No town halls meetings have been conducted. Not only that, the above list of people and groups are largely gay rights insiders, not the general public.
Davidson does suggest that people send recommendations via the Equality California web site.
"Community members are encouraged to contact Morris & Berger directly to provide input and candidate recommendations," Davidson says in a prepared statement.
That heavily hints that EQCA board members such as comedienne Wanda Sykes, Harvey Milk's nephew Stuart Milk, and labor union icon Dolores Huerta have no plans to face ordinary gays and lesbians in person and hear what they have to say.
We aren't surprised when you consider EQCA's reputation for not playing well with others.
Read L.A. Weekly's cover story "Mission Drift at Gay Inc." to understand exactly how Equality California works behind the scenes.
Davidson does inform us that the "search committee has received many applications and hopes to name a new [executive director] by the beginning of June."
Wonder if people will go to the EQCA web site and recommend town hall meetings? What will happen then?
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BIG credit to geohot
here's his original thread below
this is very simple, but don’t blame me if you break your tab. But feel free to ask me questions
1. Download SuperSU from market and install
i) Open SuperSu and install as normal. (it will say Knox, continue anyway!)
ii) It will fail, install, but don’t worry just reboot.
2) After reboot, install goehot’s root. Follow his links
and install the root..(at time of writing it should be volume 2)
3) After install, it will say reboot not needed…reboot anyway
4) Now test with root checker app.
5) Should be rooted at this point
I took other steps, but I think the above will get root going but in case it does not, here is other things I did before coming up with the above step.
a) Downloaded SuperSu from market, installed it
b) Opened SuperSu and installed with the recovery option
1. Place the ZIP package you want to install in the same location where you keep ADB drivers - adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll and AdbWinUsbApi.dll (usually it's SDK\platform-tools)
2. Make sure you have USB debugging enabled in Settings > Development on your device
3. Make sure your phone drivers are installed on the PC you're going to use
4. Boot your device in recovery mode (Android logo with a exclamation mark) and connect your device to PC
5. Hold down "power" button first, followed quickly by "volume up" button. You should now see the recovery menu
6. Use the volume up/down keys to select "apply update from ADB," then press power to select it
7. Open a command prompt on the PC (cmd.exe), type and confirm with ENTER:
8. cd /d <adb.exe location> (for example: cd /d c:\SDK\platform-tools) or you can open your SDK/platform-tools folder, then press SHIFT button and the right-click mouse button and choose “Open command prompt here”
9. adb sideload <filename>.zip (for example: adb sideload update.zip)
10. The zip package will begin installing. When it's done, select "reboot system now."
i) This will end up in a fail. But reboot the system
ii) Now download Geohot’s root. Root the device
iv) Test with root checker app
I've tested Xposed and it works
adaway 2.8.1 also works (no more ads)


MEL Scripting a Character Rig in Maya by Chris Maraffi
Book Summary from the Back Cover:
Whether for big budget films and game productions or lower budget TV and Internet content, creating flexible and believable character rigs is an essential skill required to bring any 3D animation to life. As the leading software used for cutting-edge animation, Maya has an established rigging toolset for creating realistic character controls. Traditionally, however, the process of manually building custom rigs in the software interface has been time-consuming and expensive for those who want to produce high-quality 3D characters. Now for the fi rst time and from the author of the best-seller, Maya Character Creation, comes an in-depth guide on how the pros are using MEL (Maya Embedded Language) scripting to streamline and automate the rigging process. With MEL Scripting a CharacterRig in Maya, you’ll learn how you can build custom character rigs in a matter of seconds, as opposed to days or weeks.
In this detailed guide, you’ll learn:
■ The techniques used to build a complex character rig in the software interface, followed by instructions for writing the equivalent MEL code for scripting the entire process.
■ Fundamental concepts of creating animation controls in Maya, from the basics of creating, editing, and binding skeletons, to more complex rigs with controls that employ spline IK and channel connections.
■ Important coding techniques such as using conditional statements, loops, variables, and procedures.
■ How to create a character animation GUI (Graphical User Interface) that makes animating the character easy and fast.
■ Important skills for building rigs using numerous hands-on exercises, with code examples and Maya files available on the companion Web site.
Book now available at all major bookstores… more Info and Rig Demo Video available at: www.chrismaraffi.com (http://www.chrismaraffi.com/)
Chris Maraffi has been teaching 3D computer graphics for over 10 years, most recently as the Course Director of the scripting and character rigging classes at Full Sail University in Orlando. He has also authored two popular books; Maya Character Creation published by Peachpit, and Softimage XSI Character Animation FX and Design published by Coriolis. In addition, he has lectured internationally at numerous conferences and universities, including SIGGRAPH, Animex, Red Stick, UNM Arts Lab, NYU CADA, Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, NYIT, Academy of Art, Mesmer Animation Labs, and The Master's Institute.


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Channel Four is, in my opinion, the best TV channel in the UK. They make the best documentaries on British TV, and have some of the most innovative and entertaining programmes. Who would have thought ‘Countdown’ would still be on TV today! ‘Sunday Brunch’ with Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy is another example. Originally on the BBC, Channel Four commissioned the show when it became available, got rid of the worst features, started some better ones and the show has gone from strength to strength. It’s a cookery show first and foremost, but they have an eclectic mix of guests and features as well, it’s worth a look on a Sunday morning.
Let’s make a TV shown about people watching TV.
But I applaud whoever came up with the idea for Gogglebox. On paper it doesn’t sound good – A TV show watching people watching TV.
But it’s hilarious. The reason it’s funny is simply this, firstly it’s brilliantly edited and put together, but it’s the people who matter. Dom and Steph the posh B&B owners. Leon and June the retired teachers, Sandy and Sandra the best friends from London, and many others. Ralph on the Wirral, Scarlet from County Durham, the Reverend Kate, they are all so opinionated. How on earth did they find these people?
In one episode one person, not the sharpest knife in the drawer this one, said that he really looked forward to the ITV Show ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’. I really can’t imagine why. If Gogglebox is the best show on TV, I’m A Celebrity, for me, is one of the worst. And here’s why.
British people are obsessed with celebrity. Totally. More that any other nation on earth I think. Katie Price, why is she famous? Peter Andre, what has he ever done that merits attention? Kim Kardashian, Harry Styles, Coleen Rooney, Simon Cowell, Zoe Ball, Sandi Toksvig, give me a break! Don’t even get me started on ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ and ‘Made in Chelsea’. These plastic people, told what to do and what to say in front of the cameras, are not real people, not celebrities and should never be regarded as such.
But the British people love them all. There are dozens of magazines you can buy all about so called ‘Celebrities’. Ok, Now, Heat, Closer, Hello, that started life as a Spanish Magazine called Hola, and many more. We idolise our celebrities, put them on pedestals, queue for hours just for a glimpse of them, buy overpriced tickets to see them, buy their ghost written books, their exercise videos, their DVDs, their CDs. We can’t get enough of them.
Why then is there one thing we like even more – and that is to see them humiliated?
‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’, is all about that. Of course real celebrities would never do a show such as this. They are above that. Most of the people on this show are not what you might call ‘A’ list celebrities. Most of them are barely famous at all and appear on this ridiculous show, presented by two lucky Geordies, for one of three reasons. Many are not really celebrities at all but are hoping their appearance will boost their celebrity rating. Some are down on their luck, and are hoping their appearance will help restore some of their former glory. Many of them are hoping that the appearance fee they have negotiated will continue to fund the lavish lifestyle that their dwindling celebrity status no longer affords.
But they have to do the most outrageous things on this show. They are forced to eat kangaroo testicles, have live insects shoved up their noses, made to sit in locked boxes full of snakes, but why? This is not entertainment, it’s pure and simple humiliation. Why, when we love these people so much, do we want to see them being belittled? For me it’s the equivalent of queueing at a Black Friday sale to buy a 48″ flat-screen TV, taking it home, putting in on a stand, and then smashing it to bits with a hammer. I just don’t get it.
Having been lucky enough to work in the radio industry for many years, I was able to meet and talk to many celebrities, some of them real genuine celebrities, some of them not. I’m not that impressed by famous people to be honest, but I certainly don’t want to see them having to pick up pigs innards with their teeth. Okay, the world has moved on from the days of ‘The Black and White Minstrels’, and ‘Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game’, thankfully, but I’m not sure the world of TV entertainment has moved in the right direction. There are many alternatives to mainstream TV today, paid services like Netflix, Apple TV and Amazon Instant Video, unpaid services like IPTV, so we really do have a choice. Thankfully there are still some shows on TV that are genuinely worth watching, and surprisingly perhaps, Gogglebox is one of the best.


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“Yes,” I said on the morning of my 18th birthday, “I am finally an adult and can legally go out and enjoy myself and get what I want”. Jenny was a quite girl at school, she never had many friends and was constantly picked on because her parents were poor and couldn’t afford the latest hi-tech trainers or designer school bag. Everyday was a nightmare for Jenny. She would have to be forced out of the house by her parents and made to go to school. Jenny was now 18. This is what she had been waiting for. Finally I can have a catalogue in my own name and order nice clothes and accessories. Before long Jenny’s was on the internet browsing through different catalogue companies and looking for the best one. After only a couple of days from applying, Jenny’s first catalogue arrived along with a letter saying that she had a credit limit of 300 and payment terms of up to 52 weeks. 43.50 a week is all she was paid for being on a Youth Training course. Her parents expected most of this and with bus fares taken out, there was not much left over, so she was easily tempted to buy new clothes from the catalogue and “Pay Later”. After a few months, Jenny decided that she wanted to learn to drive. She took out a credit card with a credit limit of 500. She felt rich, but before long it was over the limit. Jenny didn’t come from a wealthy family and her father always expected half of her wages, so she began to fall behind with payments. After completing the Youth Training course a year later, Jenny was employed full time and was now on a monthly wage of 500. The driving lessons continued and so did the spending. Before long a new mobile phone had been ordered and placed on a contract for 18 months. Applications for new credit cards kept arriving on the door mat every day. Jenny new she had no money so she applied for more cards. After getting another one with a limit of 200 and maxing it out, she applied for another and another. It wasn’t long before 6 credit cards sat in her purse with zero balance available to spend on them. The bills kept arriving and using one card to pay the other was proving to be a pointless task. She went to the bank for a loan of 3000 to clear her debts. Jenny managed to clear the balances of 4 catalogue and 6 credit cards and a door-step caller who came on a weekly basis to collect 10 payments for a small loan of 300 taken out to go Christmas shopping. The payments on the loan were easy but Jenny got a little bored with sitting at home watching television when she could be on the net buying new stuff. A mail shot came with the post from another catalogue company, Jenny was tempted and thought “what the heck” and ordered some more stuff. More and more things were arriving in the post almost on a daily basis. Jenny loved the excitement of coming home to parcels and new things, it is what used to get her through a busy day at work. After 3 years Jenny had managed to acquire 4 loans, 7 credit cards, 4 catalogues , 3 door-step loan companies and 2 store cards. She was seriously in debt. She kept falling behind and missed payments on several occasions. Red letters were appearing on her door step, callers were knocking at the door and the telephone was constantly ringing. She was on the edge of suicide. Her parents new about her problems, but were unable to help because they were unemployed due to disabilities. She was on her own, crying herself to sleep every night and dreading the next phone call. Before long the debt collection agencies were ringing her at work, “I need to seek help”. Jenny sat down with her sister that night and added up the balances on all of her debts. She was horrified when the balance on the calculator came to 35560. How did this happen? How did it get this bad? What do I have to show for it? She kept telling herself over and over again. This is when she finally realised “I need to do something about this, NOW”. She contacted a debt management company through her local Citizens Advise Bureau, who helped her to complete a income and expenditure sheet. After this was completed the debt management company made reduce payment offers to all of the creditors who excepted the offers and finally backed down.
Jenny began to enjoy life again, and met a young man who she really liked and loved very much. After dating for over a year and plucking up the courage, she told him about her debts. Mark was shocked and a little disappointed but understood her problems and agreed to help her through it. He would take her out and buy her lunch and make her feel like a lady again.
Now at 28 I am more than 3 quarters of the way from paying back my debts. I am still turned down for credit and cannot get a mortgage, but I know that by the year 2011 I will be debt free. I have a loving partner who supports me in every way and is there for me to turn to. I find that living on 200 a month is a struggle at the moment, but I am throwing all of my extra cash towards paying off these debts. All of my prized processions have been sold on the internet auction site and my car has been down-graded and is only worth 400, but I appreciate the things that I now have, such as a job, partner and loving family. This is all that I care about now and I will never ever get myself in this situation again. Just remember that when they say “Buy Now Pay Later” they really mean “Pay Later” because you will most probably never pay it back.


Known by many as the “Pink Palace of the Pacific” the Royal Hawaiian Hotel has become an icon on the shores of Waikiki Beach. This picture was taken just a year and a half after the hotel’s opening on February 1, 1927.
The Royal Hawaiian set the standard for the coming tourism boom. It was home to many famous “firsts” including thrusting “beach boys” into the limelight.
Behind the hotel is Waikiki as it looked before it boomed with tourism and construction in the ’30s and ’40s.


JUN 24, 2018: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a coalition of the religious right, unveiled its list of candidates vying for Karachi-based seats in the national and provincial assemblies elections on July 25.
Liaquat Baloch, the secretary-general of MMA, announced the candidates for 21 National Assembly seats and 44 Sindh Assembly seats. Asadullah Bhutto, Maulana Noorul Haq, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, Dr Mairajul Huda and Hafiz Hamdullah Haqqani are on the list.
“Karachi and its people want good leadership,” said Hafiz Naeemur Rehman. “MMA will provide that leadership.”
He also said that the coalition will organize the “biggest rally” in Karachi’s history on July 8.
The rally will be preceded by one in Peshawar on Sunday. On June 28, an ulema convention in Karachi will follow, after which a rally will be held in Multan on June 29,, Rehman said.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam – Fazl, Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees and Islami Tehrik Pakistan formed a coalition to contest the election under one banner. They termed it the revival of the MMA. Their election symbol is a book.
In March, the religious right parties held their ‘revival’ meeting at Allama Kaukab Noorani’s residence in Karachi. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Liaquat Baloch and Shah Owais Noorani were made president, secretary-general and information secretary, respectively.
The MMA was originally formed in 2002. Its candidates won 63 out of 342 National Assembly seats in the 2002 elections. They also formed the provincial government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa that year. The coalition disintegrated in 2007 after disputes.


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History of the Danube Swabians
the book “The Last Generation Forgotten and Left to Die” The
History of the Danube Swabians”.
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Immigration to the United States of America
The first Danube Swabians arrived in the
United States at the turn of the century. The credit for the initial
emigration obviously belongs to the travel agents. These representatives of the
steamship companies visited Eastern and Southern Europe with the encouragement
of the American government and of private enterprise, recruiting industrious
laborers to fill the demands of the rapidly expanding factories, mills and mines
in the U.S.A. The
influx of Danube Swabians lasted for 60 years; how many thousands came
is anybody's guess. But we can distinguish three periods of emigration; each one
of them characterized by different circumstances.
to World War I
For generations only the fittest,
the strongest, the most persistent colonists had survived famine, plague and war
in the Danube plain. With the achievement of relative prosperity and the
improvement of hygiene toward the end of the 19th century, this hardy race,
raising six to eight children per family, found itself in a population
explosion. Since there was no virgin arable land left to settle on, family
property was divided among the children, which led within two generations to
tiny holdings and rapid impoverishment. There were no factories in the area to
hire the landless; the Hungarian government did not promote industrialization.
Therefore the only remedies left were birth control and emigration.
Fortunately for these disadvantaged people the political and economic
situation in Western Europe had stabilized and the lot of the poor in the
Anglo-Saxon countries like Germany, England, Ireland, Scandinavia -improved. No
longer did they immigrate to America to open up the West and build the
factories, they preferred to stay home. It was this socio-political fact that
sent the steamship agents into the villages of Austro-Hungary, Russia, Italy in
search of new reservoirs of human muscle with promises of one dollar a day wages
In Hungary emigration was illegal until 1903. But it was simple enough to
travel illegally to the ports in Western Europe, there were no passports, and
one could sail to America, if one had the money and passed medical inspection.
In that year Hungary entered an agreement with the British Cunnard Line and
emigrants could now sail from Fiume (Rijeka) on the Adriatic Sea. This was an
expensive and arduous journey and most of our people preferred the illegal route
to the west. After a few years it became legal to also depart from Germany,
Holland, Belgium and France. The ensuing competition between steamship companies
lowered the one-way fare in 1908 to $8 -less than two weeks wages for a laborer
in the USA that is steerage. They offered one hundred cubic feet space per
passenger, including the iron berth with straw mattresses and a life preserver
as a pillow. There was no privacy. Salt water was used for washing, the men and
women separated from each other, steep narrow ladders lead up to the deck and
down from the deck. Up to 1,500 persons were hoarded on a ship. They had
guaranteed meals consisting of salt pork, dry peas and beans, gruel, rice,
noodles, sauerkraut, potatoes, hardtack, tea or coffee for breakfast and supper
during three weeks on an unfriendly, sometimes violent sea amid a vile smell.
Nevertheless, arriving in America, the immigrants stepped off the boat
with high hopes. First they had to pass general inspection: mental and physical.
Barred from entry were: idiots, insane, paupers, people suffering from a
loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, or a convict of a felony or other
crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, a polygamist, an anarchist, a
prostitute, a cripple, deformed or professional beggar. People with goiters,
abnormal growths, harelips, cleft palate, trachoma, ringworm, and tuberculosis.
Those with mutilated or paralyzed limbs were all sent back to Europe.
Danube Swabians usually landed in New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore.
After they passed inspection and were admitted, they encountered the sweatshops,
the robber barons, the loan sharks and cutthroats, the dishonest politicians, a
host of natives all ready to pounce on the “greenhorns” and take advantage
of them. Not knowing the language, the laws, the mores, the customs of the land,
they invariably had to learn how to survive the hard way. That did not
discourage them. They were used to hardship and they did not intend to stay.
Until 1910, 75% of the immigrants were males; none of them thought of
going to work on a farm. Their intention was to make money quickly, to live
frugally and save as much as possible in the shortest time and then return to
the “Heimat”, the tranquil villages of their ancestors. They found work in
the cities, in the shops, factories and mills. Single men and women, some not
older then 14 years old, who had to be accompanied by an adult stayed longer.
Family men worked from 6 in the morning till 7 at night, six days weekly,
earning as much as $ 10, and returned home after 2-3 years to buy land with
their savings. Many made the trip several times.
By 1913 half of the immigrants were female, women with children coming to
join their husbands. How many Danube Swabians came during this period? How many
stayed? How many, encouraged by the steamship companies, returned? Legislation
was proposed in Washington at the time to halt the stream of the “migrating
birds”, those who come to work here and take their earnings out of the
country. In one year 50 million US dollars was taken to Hungary by returning
The “Lists of Alien Passengers” for the “Commissioner of
Immigration” shows nationality, country of which the immigrant is a subject or
citizen, which for Danube Swabians was Hungary. The next entry establishes Race
of People, meaning ethnic affiliation. Our people chose either German or Magyar.
For us, 80 years later, it is confusing and difficult to evaluate these records.
Many German sounding names are followed by the entry “Magyar”. Did these
people consider themselves ethnic Hungarians even though the may have been of
German descent? There are no US Immigration statistics breaking down the
Hungarian immigrants into Magyar, German, Slovak, Romanian, and Hebrew etc. Of
the 193,460 Hungarian nationals who came to the U.S.A. in 1907, how many were
Danube Swabians and how many of them returned home again, successful or
disillusioned, we shall never know.
The US Census of 1910 is equally indefinite. It solely establishes
nativity by place of birth, which for Danube Swabians at the time was either
Austro-Hungary or Hungary and the spoken language which most declared to be
English at the time of the Census.
The Danube Swabians who stayed in the U.S.A. identified themselves as
German-Hungarians. They usually settled closely together in the cities, deriving
strength and solace from each other. At that time there was no social security,
no unemployment benefits, no welfare, and no health insurance available. Out of
necessity the “Greenhorns” joined together in benevolent and relief
associations, in societies promoting social life, cultural experiences and
Critical Time Between the Wars
The First World War
stopped the traffic between Hungary and America both ways. At the peace
Conference following the defeat of Austro-Hungary, president Wilson approved,
among other measures, the partition of the regions the Danube Swabians settled
between Yugoslavia, Romania and Hungary. Apparently in order to insure
everlasting peace in Europe. As a result of the huge losses incurred through the
war and the chaotic disruption of production and distribution of agricultural
goods caused by the drawing of new borders, the economic future for the farmers
looked bleak. In addition, the Danube Swabians as a minority in their newly
assigned fatherlands had to contend with the antagonistic sentiments of their
new masters and their restrictive legislation infringing on their traditional
German cultural heritage. This gave impetus to the second wave of emigrants who,
feeling alienated in their own homeland, resolved to leave for good.
Several things had changed in the meantime in the U.S. In 1917, over the
veto of President Wilson, the Literacy Test for Immigrants became law in order
to exclude undesirable immigrants from certain countries. The Danube Swabians
had no problem reading the required “30-80 words in any language”.
By this time also the quota system was introduced in order to stabilize
the racial structure of the U.S. The number of aliens of any nationality
admitted into U.S. during any year was limited to 3% of foreign-born persons of
that nationality (country of birth) residing in the United States. The guideline
for the limited permits issued, was the 1910 census. In the case of the newly
defined Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary, an estimate was made of the number of
people to be admitted. In any case the numbers never reached the pre-war
figures. The combined total, for instance, for Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary in
1924, counting all ethnic groups, was a mere 1,747. From here on it is
impossible to know how many of our people came to America. That information lies
buried in the records of Ellis Island, where it would have to be culled from the
individual registration forms.
Those who came after WWI had it easier. They found well-established
enclaves of German-Hungarians, Banater, Batschkaer, and Apatiner etc. in many
cities, as well as relatives, countrymen and organizations, which helped them,
overcome the initial culture shock. Only a small minority returned home during
the Great Depression. Most stayed and became citizens, bought property, raised
their families and became Americans. Their social life revolved around their
clubs and the parishes with German-Language services. They stayed apart from
other German-speaking groups and from politics.
Aftermath of World War II
Immigration of Germans
into the United States after World War II was forbidden. That law also applied
to “Volksdeutsche” (ethnic Germans), the designation used by the National
Socialists and adopted by the Allies in order to identify people of German
descent living outside the borders of the Third Reich included the Danube
Swabians. There were millions of German refugees from Soviet occupied lands
languishing in the overcrowded barrack compounds scattered throughout British
and American occupied Germany and Austria. They were homeless, hungry, without a
job, vegetating from day to day, without hope for the future. Many refugees
remembered the addresses of relatives and friends overseas and wrote to them.
The Danube Swabians in America, on their part, also had fallen upon bad
times during WW II. Native Americans openly expressed anything German was
suspect and sentiment of hatred, fueled by the war propaganda, toward German
individuals and associations alike. It took great courage and material
sacrifices on the part of the Landsleute in the USA to show concern for and try
to alleviate the plight of their brothers in Europe. It is to their credit that
they took action. They sent thousands of food packages to the suffering in the
camps and they initiated political action in order to have the immigration law
Due to the persistent expansionistic tendencies of the Soviets Josef
Stalin, the thinking in the American congress changed in the late 1940s. Marxism
was now perceived as a threat to Western democracies. This was exactly the same
reason that motivated Danube Swabians to fight in the war. As a landowning,
God-fearing people they had been willing to die before surrendering their land
and their churches, the two pillars of their existence, to the communists. The
arguments of those who now pleaded before the Senate for the admittance of the
Volksdeutsche to the USA found sympathetic minds and in 1950 the immigration law
was changed, assigning to the Volksdeutsche 50% of the German and the Austrian
The International Refugee Organization (IRO), several religious
organizations, American consulates in Salzburg and Hamburg started with the
registering, screening and dispatching of ethnic German refugees, the Danube
Swabians among them. Every person had to pass a rigid medical examination, get
political clearance and have a sponsor in the States guaranteeing lodging and a
paying job. Those accepted left on troop transports, on luxury liners or by
airplane, glad to escape the hopeless oppressiveness of war ravaged Europe. It
is estimated that 40,000 Danube Swabians came, definitely came to stay, to start
life anew with nothing but their willingness to work hard, to secure a living
for themselves and their families, to learn the language and become proud
citizens of this country. Of course, they still found prejudice expressed toward
the individual “Nazi”, but in their place of employment, the Danube Swabians
earned the respect of the others with their willingness to work, their
trustworthiness and their ability to get along with everyone. The war in Korea
and the full employment associated with it gave the last immigrants an
opportunity to earn sufficient money and lay the foundation for a secure future.
Once established, the immigrants of the 50s searched for their identity.
The experience of the last 30 years had shaped them; they could not readily
identify with the old-timers, the German-Hungarians. Neither did they accept the
second-class label Volksdeutsch. Rebuffed by the German Germans (Reichsdeutsche)
in their regional clubs, they chose to be known as the “Donauschwaben”, the
Danube Swabians and as such affirmed their oneness with their brothers and
sisters all over the world.
By the early 1960s immigration of Danube Swabians to the US had come to
an end. Those Danube Swabians belatedly leaving Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia,
even today, due to the economic and social support they receive, prefer to
settle in the now prosperous Germany.
A very few American Danube Swabians also have returned to Germany and
Austria, never to Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia, only to come back again to
the United States with the realization that they have found here a new homeland
for themselves and their descendants.
The information on “Coming to America” was supplied by Michael
Bresser Ed. D., of the Rutgers University Ed. D. Educational Psychology. They
are excerpts from his article published in 1987 in the “Festbuch zur 30.
Jahrfeier” of the Danube Swabian Association of the U.S.A.
Danube Swabians in North America
As shown in Michael Bresser’s comments,
Danube Swabians have been immigrating to North America, in particular the United
States as early as prior the two World Wars. As further stated it is very
difficult to identify them or trace them to their place of origin. A classical
example is my great-great-uncle Josef Ergh who came Batschsentiwan to the United
States in 1905 and his family that followed him here in 1907 as well as his
sisters who came here in 1909. They are listed in the ships manifest that took
them across the ocean, archived in the records of Ellis Island, as coming from a
town in Hungary that is spelled differently three times. If we did not know that
they were relatives coming from the same town and did not know that several
different spellings of the town’s name existed, we could not have been able to
determine that they were indeed members of the same family. Once here in
Cleveland, my great-great-uncle opened a barbershop in a Hungarian neighborhood
on Buckeye Road. He spoke perfect Hungarian and therefore, one would not know
that he was a Danube Swabian except for us, our family. While he remained with
his family his sisters returned to Batschsentiwan. One interesting note is, and
all of us Danube Swabians should be proud of the fact, that his barbershop was
dismantled the day he retired and reassembled in the Cleveland Auto and Aviation
Museum where it can be seen today.
also learned that the German-Hungarian emigrants arriving from Hungary organized
themselves into various interest groups and clubs with names like “Die
Deutsch-Ungarn” and “The Banater”. There they were active fostering their
culture and traditions as well as language, mostly in songs. Very little is
known however, about their businesses and daily lives although we know of many
businesses whose founders were of German extraction, and several of them indeed
were Danube Swabians, like in Cleveland the Blasius brothers from Obrowatz,
Stefan Fischler from Futok and Johann Gerber of Batschsentiwan.
brought them together was the strong inherited character, the desire and need of
the Danube Swabians to socialize with other fellow Danube Swabians, who
experienced the horrors of the Second World War and the expulsion from their
homes by the communist governments in their home countries. Homes their
ancestors had built during the past 250 years. The Danube Swabians now uprooted
by the hundreds of thousands, their homes destroyed, the survivors left homeless
and penniless. But not only that, they were also deeply scarred by their ordeal,
the suffering from the loss of family members and were often now all alone in a
strange new world they have come to, to seek new opportunities, new homes, to
seek new lives and live in peace.
after their arrival in the United States and Canada, and after they had made new
friends and acquaintances, the urge to form new club communities where they
could speak their language did grow ever stronger. They organized themselves in
many interest groups, however their primary goal was to maintain and foster
their inherited culture and customs they brought from their homeland. In most
cases, it was the only thing they had left from their home country to hold onto
besides their families and friends. First, many of them were organizations to
aid other Danube Swabians with social problems, like housing, employment and
give them support to build new lives and new homes. One of their foremost
concerns was their youth. Bringing them together was accomplished by organizing
dance groups, choruses as well as with a variety of sports clubs, mainly soccer
(football). These soccer clubs attracted young men who in turn attracted the
young women; they became very popular and enjoyed a large following. For the
Danube Swabians the Sunday afternoons became a place to socialize and unwind
among friends. German language interest groups were organized followed by German
language schools to teach the children German as well as German history. The
result of the programs required many hours of work, dedication and patience by
many volunteers. Their efforts brought rewards. Although the programs originally
intended for our children, attracted also their parents and grandparents. It was
the parents and grandparents attracted by the activities, who became a viable
support group for other functions of the Danube Swabian Societies. It was a win,
win situation from the start from which everyone involved benefited and thus,
became the springboards and the cornerstones for the Danube Swabian Societies of
today in North America.
need to establish contacts with groups from other cities and to establish a
national Organization developed soon after their arrival. From this need the
head organization “The Society of Danube Swabians of North America” was
founded in 1957. The sport of soccer was among one of the first inter city
contacts bringing young people together for that purpose, and establishing
friendships across the states. Society meetings hammered out other types of
functions, such dancing, and singing as well as social and political interest
groups giving them directions and goals to follow. Many of the Danube Swabians
had the desire to meet with relatives in other cities and the need to visit them
grew ever stronger. It did not take long before arrangements, in the sixties,
were made to hold an annual “Danube Swabian Day”. During such times memorial
services were held for the victims of death camps, chorus performances, youth
dance performances as well as inter city youth dance competitions, among other
functions. But most important, meeting with long lost relatives and friends from
their old home towns and the socializing of young adults, who would eventually
be asked to carry on the tradition of our culture.
than 60 years have passed since our expulsion that brought the end of the Danube
Swabians in their home country, as we knew it then. As we look at the
accomplishment of the “Last
Generation of Danube Swabians” born in their home country. In the free
world they live in today, one can only admire them for their never fading in
themselves and the persistence to leave the fruits of their labor for the
generations to come. How could they achieve the wealth they have achieved in
such a short span of time one has to question? The answer lies in the strong
inherited character they acquired as survivors. By being used living all their
lives on foreign soil, and being exposed to the many political changes and the
pressures existing there and from their work ethics handed down from generation
to generation. The school systems they created back home, where young women were
taught to knit, sew, cook, and bake as well as good housekeeping and childcare
from early on in life. While the same time, their oncoming men were taught not
only how to hold a hammer and nail, but also the necessities they needed to know
how to raise farm animals and farm products and process them. This valuable
education continued in the environment of a good home under the supervision of
their parents and grandparents.
post WW I changes they were exposed to, like the closing of their schools
forcing them to go to Austria and Germany to study. The post WW II changes they
were exposed to, like the deportation of many to Russia. The expulsion from
their homes in Hungary, the expulsion from their homes in Romania and
deportation to the Baragan planes. The expulsion from their homes in Yugoslavia
and incarceration into death camps as well as forced labor camps. All of these
factors helped them to become useful, productive and prosperous citizens in the
New World the live in today.
it understandable that the survivors of the Danube Swabians, who were dealt the
lowest hand in the stack of cards of politics, who landed at the shores of equal
opportunity, would rebound under this environment of their new gained freedom!
are the last generation, expelled from our homes our forefathers had built and
have survived the insurmountable odds placed in our lives. We whose forefathers
had amassed a wealth in riches and culture, and who inherited this wealth and
riches, came to the United States with only a suitcase, which held all of what
was left of our possessions. We came to the United States, a strange land we did
not know. We came here with new hopes to establish new roots. Some of us came
here deeply depressed for we had lost our homes but also a mother, a father or
both. Some had lost a brothers or sisters some came alone after losing every one
of their family members.
the last Generation came here to work again with our bare hands and with the
sweat of our brows to establish a new life and a new home, as our forefathers
did in the land of the Danube Swabians. This however, was by no means an easy
task as one might want to believe; it was a difficult uphill struggle for all of
us. We had to find housing mostly in poor neighborhoods because of the lack of
money. More often then not we were exploited at the work place, because of the
language barrier or the lack of education which had suffered greatly, especially
by those of us born in the thirties, who lost anywhere from two to six valuable
school years. We had now go to evening schools not only to learn to speak
English but also take academic classes to further our education. However, it
took perhaps not more than five years after our arrival and we were proud owners
of a car and even had a house to our name.
may not have made a giant industrial impact in this country, but have never the
less made a distinct economical impact in the local communities where we live
today. Today, we the Danube Swabians not only take working places in this
country but also are in a position to give thousands of jobs to the American
people in our factories, our construction businesses, our tool shops and farms.
Most of our children have obtained higher education and are professionals,
doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, and entertainers and as such have much
to offer. Thus they have contributed to the common good and welfare of this
country, even though our descendants may no longer speak German, the language of
their forefathers. They still recognize themselves as Danube Swabians, members
of the youngest of the “German
Volksgroups”, to foster and maintain the heritage and culture of their
ancestors in their community centers, we the “Last generation” have built for them.
the successful lives, many of the Danube Swabians enjoy today, none of them have
forgotten who they are. They have not only been able to establish themselves
financially but also as great supporters of the Danube Swabian heritage and
culture in North America. It would take pages and pages to write about their
unselfish contributions of their many hours of dedication and labors of love.
There are thousands of names connected with the many achievements. We need to
thank them all what they have accomplished to uphold the traditions and memory
of our ancestors by erecting monuments in their names. Pause there and spend a minute in silent prayer in
have earned it.


‘Brian Flynn’s Barmy Army’ . . . ‘Brian Flynn’s Barmy Army’, has a bit of a ring to it - and the fans on Saturday who attended the game against Orient, belted it out for a good 10 minutes during the game.
The scoreline flattered our guests. If we had got out of third gear we may have overhauled our goals deficit on Tranmere.
The game wouldn’t have gone ahead without the hard work by head groundsman Andy Thompson and his staff, and the fans who shifted all the snow, including one Orient fan who had travelled up early to help. We salute you.
The pitch held up remarkably well. It was only fitting that Andy received the man of the match accolade from the match sponsors.
The team carried where they had left off against Stevenage. The same combination of a Cotterill corner and Rob Jones heading home got the ball rolling and the points were secured in the second half when another Cotterill assist (how many has that been?) found Chris Brown. Not known for his pace, he outpaced the defence to knutmeg the O’s keeper Jones.
On the playing side, it was difficult to pick out a man of the match, Coppinger, on his 300th appearance, Jones leader extrordinaire or Brown, whose work rate is brilliant.
But the man who just shaded it for me was Paul Keegan, blighted by injury, and lack of opportunity, he showed his true potential.
When Brian was asked about Keegan after the game, he asked “how many men does it take to carry a piano ? his answer was five, four to carry it and one to play it (has he been to Eric Cantona’s school of rhymes ?)
What he was getting at? I think was was you have your workers, but with Paul calling the Tunes, a leader.
It was nice to interview Brian face to face, in my case literally at low level (lol). Throw Jonesy in and you get the Little and Large Show. I believe they will lead us back to the Championship, and with Rob is taking his FA Coaching Licences, there is a bright future.
There is a real feelgood factor around the place, and through In Rovers We Trust, the club is listening to it’s fans.
Currently they are asking for new kit designs for next season, and prizes are being given to fans who buy their season tickets early.
No game this weekend due to Milton Keynes being in the FA Cup, so the next fixture is Bury away. By all the talk this could be a sell-out in the away end, with the dearest tickets being £17.
Please book early for the supporters coaches, as I think there will be a high demand. Also, remember England Under-19s are coming to the Keepmoat. We beleive that if we can get a good attendance for thsi fixture, the FA may give us another under 21 game. There are special priced tickets for season ticket holders.
The transfer window is nearly closed, do you think we need to add to the squad?
Well with no footy, why not pay a visit to your local non-League club to give them support, there are plenty to choose from in the area.
Get your friends to come and support the mighty Rovers in their next home game against Walsall.
And season-ticket holders, get your five free tickets by taking your season ticket to the ticket office.Lets get the ‘Moat a rocking .


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It's time for the Newest Dine-O-Mite Recipe Reveal:) I have to say that for the first time, I actually "altered" the recipe (at my own risk, of course) to go along with the pictures I wanted to use for this layout.
My friend, Robin, also used this for a MLPA (Memory Lane, PA) LLS challenge a few weeks back. I was impressed with the layouts produced in that challenge. Here is a direct link to the challenge.
You can also see the entries that were added to my site here.
Here was my "take" on the layout:
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