passed away Saturday at the Presbyterian Village at Hollidaysburg.  She was born in Glen White daughter of the late Stephen and Alice (Noland) Smith.  She married Edward C who preceded her in her death in 2019 after sharing 66 years of marriage Jeanette Muir and husband Kent of Duncansville; four sons: Edward Jr and Barry of Cresson; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and a brother She was preceded in death by three siblings: Peggy Myers June graduated from Gallitzin High School in 1953 and retired from the Presbyterian Home after 23 years in housekeeping Friends will be received from 4-6pm on Wednesday April 23 April 24 at Sorge Funeral Home & Crematory Inc. Hollidaysburg.  A funeral Mass will follow at 12 noon on Thursday at St please make memorials to Mending Hearts Animal Rescue: 4771 E Loop Rd at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in Pinehurst Don Padgett II: A Legacy of Leadership and Excellence in Golf  The Padgett name has long been associated with Pinehurst Resort For those who have visited Pinehurst Resort the Padgett Learning Center is a prominent reminder of the family’s impact on the game.  — the former Director of Golf at Pinehurst and a 2006 inductee into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame — followed in his father’s footsteps in shaping the future of Pinehurst Padgett II served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Pinehurst Resort and Country Club from 2004 to 2014 the resort hosted several prestigious events “Padgett’s visionary leadership was especially evident during the 2014 U.S Open when he played a key role in the restoration of Pinehurst No returning the course to its historic roots,” said Pinehurst President Tom Pashley “This restoration not only earned Pinehurst the Green Star Award for Outstanding Environmental Practices by Golf Digest 2 remains one of the most sought-after courses for golfers of all generations.”  Padgett’s own golfing accolades began long before his tenure in the Carolina sandhills Padgett played collegiate golf at Indiana University a Big Ten individual champion in 1969 and a member of the Big Ten Championship team in 1970 Other on-course accolades include Indiana Amateur champion Ohio Open champion and World Golf Hall of Fame Champion Padgett was a member of the PGA TOUR from 1972-74 making the cut four times and was the low club professional three times He represented the United States on four PGA Cup teams in 1976 His most thrilling round of professional golf came during the 1977 U.S where he shot a tournament-low 4-under-par 66 in the third round “Throughout my many years working with Don I have seen firsthand his visionary leadership and remarkable passion for the game,” said Jim Hyler former USGA President and 2019 Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame inductee combined with his unparalleled leadership at Pinehurst make him an invaluable figure in the golf community.”  Padgett was the Vice President and General Manager of Firestone Country Club in Akron His legacy includes being inducted into several halls of fame he was named Golfweek Magazine’s Father of the Year.  “This award was not one l was expecting,” said Padgett “To have my name placed among the previous honorees is humbling.  Golf is part of the fabric of the Carolinas and I consider it a great honor to be included in The Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame."  David Eger: A Champion on the Course and in Golf Administration  David Eger’s induction into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame is a testament to his exceptional contributions both as a player and an administrator.   Eger’s list of amateur achievements is impressive Mid-Amateur Championship and several other prestigious titles such as the Men’s North & South Amateur (1991 He won two CGA championships including the 1971 Carolinas Father-Son Championship and the 1973 Carolinas Four-Ball Championship He also represented the United States on three Walker Cup teams (1989 2001) and two World Amateur/Eisenhower Trophy teams (1990 He turned professional in 1978 and played in 58 PGA TOUR events before transitioning to a career in administration Eger served in multiple leadership roles at the PGA Tour responsible for the conduct of PGA Tour co-sponsored tournaments. He also served as the USGA Senior Director Eger returned to professional golf at the age of 50 His career on the Champions Tour was highly successful with four professional titles and over $7 million in prize earnings His professional victories include the 2003 MasterCard Championship the 2010 Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic and the 2011 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf “I’m honored and humbled to be selected to be in the CGA Hall of Fame,” Eger said “The CGA has always been near and dear to my heart having grown up in Charlotte Starting in the junior ranks in the mid 1960’s allowed me to learn and appreciate sportsmanship within competition having former CGA Executive Secretaries P.J as mentors during my administrative career only multiplies my fondness for the CGA.”  About the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame  The Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame is under the care of the Carolinas Golf Association.  About the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA)  The Carolinas Golf Association (CGA) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational organization established in 1909 to promote and protect the game of golf in the Carolinas The CGA supports golf clubs and golfers by providing competitions It is the second-largest golf association in the country representing over 700 member clubs and 220,000 individuals the CGA conducts 48 championships and five team match competitions across various divisions it organizes more than 150 One-Day events (net and gross) and manages qualifying tournaments for USGA national championships The CGA offers a wide range of services and programs to support golf in the Carolinas including the administration of the USGA Handicap System tournament management software and support course measurement and course/slope ratings Additional initiatives include Carolinas Golf Magazine and expense assistance for USGA Junior and Girls' Junior qualifiers from the Carolinas the CGA has distributed over $3.2 million since 1977 to support golf initiatives in the region including junior and women’s programs.  For more information about the CGA and its programs or visit our website at www.carolinasgolf.org.  passed away Saturday at the Presbyterian Village at Hollidaysburg daughter of the late Stephen and Alice (Noland) Smith of Hollidaysburg; Daniel of Roaring Spring; Stephen and wife of Altoona; and Barry of Cresson; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and a brother at Sorge Funeral Home & Crematory Inc. A funeral Mass will follow at Noon on Thursday at St please make memorials to Mending Hearts Animal Rescue Copyright © 2025 Central Pennsylvania Newspapers LLC | https://www.altoonamirror.com | 301 Cayuga Ave. When people living on the frontlines of the Israel-Hamas conflict began writing me letters after the October 7 attacks I asked myself the question that has plagued me for much of my life: Why me That question used to mean: Why was my childhood interrupted by war and loss Why did I survive the Nazi death camps when my parents and six million others perished the question meant: What can a 97-year-old Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor say to the people whose lives hang in the balance in this conflict — or to anyone of any nationality Do I have what it takes to connect with them Can I pass on my strength instead of my loss this has been my lighthouse: to guide others through suffering I wish I could tell you that once the crisis has passed — which it will; everything is temporary — you will pick yourself up and move on But healing isn’t simple; it isn’t “one and done.” The effects of trauma linger Life tests us.            Early in my career as a clinical psychologist a 14-year-old boy who had participated in a car theft was sent to me by a judge The boy wore brown boots and a brown shirt “What is the meaning of this?” I wanted to shout I saw my mother go to the gas chamber.” I would have been justified And maybe it was my job to set him straight; maybe that’s why God had sent him my way I listed my many objections to the very notion that I could be a bigot: I came to America penniless I used the “colored” bathroom in solidarity with my African American fellow factory workers But the voice insisted: Find the bigot in you I knew to impart any change in this young man’s perspective and future I’d have to do the unthinkable: Listen to him.  The boy continued to rant about the blights to America’s purity My whole being trembled with unease; I struggled with the inclination to wag my finger and make him accountable for his hate — without being accountable for my own withholding my forgiveness wouldn’t conquer his prejudice I had an opportunity to accept this young person for his singular being and our shared humanity The opportunity to welcome him to say anything and I looked at this young man as openly as I could I didn’t say much more than that during his first visit We had both lost our parents — his to neglect and abandonment We both thought of ourselves as damaged goods.  in letting go of my desire for him to be or believe anything different by seeing his vulnerability and his yearning for belonging in allowing myself to get past my own fear and anger in order to hear him I was able to give him something his brown shirt and brown boots couldn’t: an authentic image of his own worth.  But he had seen an alternative to hate and prejudice; he was no longer talking about killing And I had taken responsibility that I not perpetuate hostility and blame You are confronting the immediate intrusion of threat and loss You are calling on inner strength and resources to get you through You are calling on something larger than yourself — your family You’ll have new opportunities to choose your relationship with the past to come to terms with what happened to you you will realize that you’re stuck in the dark which was damaging to myself (the opposite of expression is depression) Or I vented it in ways that felt cathartic in the moment but were damaging to my husband and children to hold me down so I had a force to push against It took me decades of this kind of healing work to learn to channel and release my rage so that I could get to the more vulnerable feelings underneath it: the grief and the fear the soft underbelly the anger was there to protect When I forgave Hitler for killing my parents releasing the part of me that had spent most of my life exerting the mental and spiritual energy to keep Hitler in chains To forgive is to grieve — for what happened for what didn’t happen–and to give up the need for a different past it wasn’t acceptable for Hitler to murder six million people and I don’t want that fact to destroy the life that I clung to and fought for against all odds I don’t have the godly power to anoint anyone with forgiveness to spiritually cleanse others for their wrongs.  Sign up here to jumpstart your mornings with Katie's dynamic daily newsletter Jumpstart your mornings with Katie's dynamic daily newsletter After decades in the venerable Magnus-Haus our office is now embarking on a new chapter we left our premises on Kupfergraben and moved to Tempelhofer Ufer we have been at home in Palais Eger – a magnificent listed building from the Wilhelminian era the elaborate restoration of which has won several awards It was not easy for us to say goodbye to the Magnus-Haus But after an intensive search in Berlin’s challenging real estate market we are convinced that we have found a worthy location for our work in Palais Eger The location close to the government district ensures proximity to political players while the good connections make it easier for our members and guests to visit It was particularly important to us that our association remains anchored in historical rooms in the future – with an atmosphere that promotes debates and encounters at eye level The Palais Eger offers precisely this setting: prestigious yet modern enough to appropriately accompany current discourse Our team is looking forward to the new working space the new neighborhood – and above all to the exchange on site We cordially invite all members to visit us at Palais Eger and join us in shaping this new phase Image: Judy Burns He wrote about it for Sarasota Magazine—now the story of the great Florida cattle drive is a hardcover book seven-day journey on horseback—offered him a new perspective on the land he thought he knew The book, which was inspired by Eger's Sarasota Magazine story about the cattle drive started as a simple photo compilation but evolved into an exploration of Florida’s cowboy history the environmental role of ranchers and the endurance required to live and work on the state’s wild interior prairies originally dismissed cattle ranching as an environmental threat growing up with the belief that raising cows was inherently destructive But as he reported on conservation and land use he came to a different realization: Florida’s ranchers far from being adversaries to the environment Eger discusses his journey from urban journalist to novice cowboy and why he believes anyone who calls Florida home should take a closer look at the land beyond its coastline This edited has been edited and condensed for length and clarity I didn’t spend much time thinking about the state’s interior so I saw cattle ranching as a negative thing—something that used too many resources and contributed to environmental problems But when I started reporting more on conservation I realized that Florida’s ranchers are some of the most important land stewards we have Their land isn’t just grazing space for cattle; it’s also a refuge for wildlife and a huge part of what keeps 'Old Florida' intact the more I realized how wrong I had been about them." "I kept having these dreams about horses, and I wasn’t sure why. Around that time, I wrote a profile of Elizabeth Moore for Sarasota Magazine even though I had never been on a horse before She had bought herself a ticket but couldn’t make it It was kind of a “baptism by fire” moment—I just decided to go for it Most people on the drive were serious riders and brought their own horses The experience was so incredible that I would do it again in a heartbeat." We rode for hours—sometimes more than 10 hours a day—and covered about 80 miles in total You spend most of your time looking at the backside of a horse in front of you no baseball caps—just proper cowboy attire I felt like less of an imposter wearing it." There were moments when my body hurt so badly I didn’t think I could keep going it hurts more to sit at a computer all day And the tradeoff was worth it—the landscapes were breathtaking If you want to see what Florida looked like before highways and high-rises "After I wrote about the cattle drive for Sarasota Magazine He had also participated in the drive and bought photos from it He wanted to put them into a book and asked the organizers who might be able to help he envisioned a straightforward photo book but I pushed for something bigger—a book that would tell the full story of Florida’s cattle heritage the people who keep it alive and what it was like to actually live it for a week "This book is for anyone who wants to know where they actually live If you have a Florida driver’s license or license plate I think it’s important to understand what this state really is the least you can do is learn about the place you’re benefiting from." "The fact that Florida had cowboys before Texas did The first cattle in North America arrived here in the 1500s with the Spanish and Florida cowboys—known as 'crackers' because of the sound of their whips—were driving cattle long before the American West was even settled The way cattle ranching worked here was different Cattle hunters would round up free-roaming cows and drive them across the state using whips to keep them moving." Image: Carlton Ward Jr./Wildpath and developers are buying up land faster than it can be protected Ranchers are some of the only people standing between Florida’s natural landscapes and more strip malls These people work hard to maintain this land we don’t just lose a way of life—we lose an essential part of Florida’s ecosystem but I’m working on a new project—a series about how Florida is a glimpse into America’s future The past five years here have been intense and I think what happens in Florida is a preview of what’s coming for the rest of the country so I think we’re a little wiser about what’s ahead Image: Isaac Eger Life on the cattle drive was simple—just a horse is a psychotherapist and international bestselling author including "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do," have been translated into more than 40 languages "The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong," is one of the most viewed talks of all time On The Verywell Mind Podcast and other inspirational people about the strategies that help them think She and her husband moved to the United States in 1949 and she got her degree in psychology which inspired her to continue working on healing herself She chose to take what she learned from her experiences and help other people She became a psychologist who specializes in treating people with PTSD And she wrote books about the lessons she learned so she can help others who are struggling There are many factors that determine how someone will fare when they experience trauma Some of those factors are within your control [as] not a victim of anything or anyone at any time because suffering makes me stronger Editor’s Note: Please be mindful that this transcript does not go through our standard editorial process and may contain inaccuracies and grammatical errors For media or public speaking inquiries, contact Amy here For award-winning director and producer John Coles making a documentary about Holocaust survivor Dr Edith Eger has been a journey that started in one place and ended — thanks to unforeseen events — in an entirely different and unexpected destination Originally his goal was to make a film about Eger’s unusual life – explored in her 2018 autobiography, The Choice: Embrace the Possible – about how she survived the terrors of the Holocaust and became a psychologist specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) But first there was an actors’ and writers’ strike then the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 and finally an unexpected revelation from Iris Haim the mother of an Israeli hostage killed accidentally by the Israel Defense Forces.  and hours after her mother was killed in the gas chambers Nazi physician Josef Mengele forced her to dance for his amusement.  When American troops liberated the camp in 1945 she was discovered barely alive in a pile of corpses She weighed just 32 kilograms (70.5 pounds) Eger moved with her husband and daughter to the United States and became a psychologist After decades of suffering, where she hid her terrible past, she visited Auschwitz and began a remarkable process of healing, which culminated in two books, The Choice and The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save your Life, which shows how to find freedom in even the worst circumstances.  Coles, 66, who produced and directed a string of widely acclaimed series including “Homeland,” “The West Wing” and “House of Cards,” and who has his own production company, Talking Wall Pictures, came across Eger four years ago through her book, and through friendship with her daughter, and decided to develop her story into a movie. “I am fascinated by the idea of how people who are put in these incredibly difficult adversarial situations manage to move forward,” he says. “And I thought that was something important to try to share with the world.” Development ground to a halt during the Hollywood strike, and when Hamas attacked Israel, Coles – who has a strong personal connection to Israel, not only through his father, a doctor, who had volunteered there during the 1967 war and the 1973 Yom Kippur war, but also through his own visits to the country — understood that he had to think anew.  “I was horrified and aghast at what happened that day, though I was aware that opinions were divided, even before Israel began its military response,” he says. “I really wanted to see what I could do to connect with this event in a more personal and tangible way.  “It occurred to me that it would be interesting to look at some of the stories of that through the prism and frame of the ideas that are central to Edie’s book, and her ideas to do with healing and facing demons.” The question of how to do that was answered in December 2023, when Haim, whose 28-year-old son, Yotam, had been kidnapped on October 7, and held hostage for two months, was shot and killed accidentally by Israeli soldiers as he tried to escape Hamas.  Instead of blaming the soldiers, Haim sent them a message forgiving them and said she blamed only Hamas. “I love you very much and hug you from afar,” she wrote. “I know that everything that happened is absolutely not your fault, and nobody’s fault except that of Hamas. Don’t think that you killed a hostage deliberately. You have to look after yourselves because that’s the only way you can look after us.” It was an act of such astounding compassion and magnanimity that it moved the world.  When asked what motivated her, and the touchstones that gave her strength, she immediately pulled out a copy of Eger’s book, The Choice. A meeting was arranged between Eger and Haim in the US. Coles and his team came to film, along with photographer and artist Kim Lieberman.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kim Lieberman (@kimlieberman_) As Coles worked with the footage, he realized that these two women, though generations apart, had dealt with extraordinary traumas and yet managed to make their choices positive and to find a way forward.   “They resonated with one another in a very powerful way. And I thought, well here’s our focus,” he says. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kim Lieberman (@kimlieberman_) Coles and his film crew arrived in Israel in October They met with Haim and her family and visited Kfar Aza the kibbutz where Yotam was kidnapped.   “We spent a day with Iris talking about Yotam It’s a very powerful and extraordinary story but a heartbreaking and difficult one as well.” and hostage family members still fighting to get their loved ones out of Gaza “It was an extraordinary trip,” says Coles “Edie has been processing her experiences for 70 to 80 years whereas these people now dealing with it are in a very much more raw time.”  and one of the most difficult and tumultuous periods of its history just a few kilometers from the Gaza border where he also visited the site of the Supernova music festival massacre “The vestiges of what happened on October 7th are very manifest and it’s deeply disturbing and moving,” he tells ISRAEL21c “It was almost like there were two Israels that I was seeing one that’s at war and that is struggling to defend itself against these forces He was also surprised to discover that some of his crew members had just been released from reserve duty and had been in combat over the last few weeks.  “It was something I had never imagined. I talked to a crew member who said that at some points he didn’t think he was going to return alive from Gaza,” says Coles. “To be faced with that kind of situation and to have that kind of courage and then to come back and to be working on lighting an interview — that was something that I thought was extraordinary. It taught me a lot about the Israeli character and resilience.” Another thing he found striking was the cultural and political divide now fragmenting Israel Coming just a short time before the US election he understood that the same divisions occurring in the US were occurring in Israel as well.  “As Americans we have a certain chauvinism and think we are at the center of the universe The fact is a lot of what we’re experiencing in the US is being echoed in places around the world as we try to navigate a divided and fractured culture.” Coles has worked on many widely acclaimed dramas including “The Right Stuff,” “Bates Hotel,” “Homeland,” “Sex and the City,” “New Amsterdam,” “Elementary,” “The Sinner,” “Law and Order” and “Criminal Intent.” He has also directed movies with stars such as Matt Damon and even directed off-Broadway plays.   that the work he did on the political shows “The West Wing” and the Netflix phenomenon “House of Cards,” for which he was nominated for an Emmy and a PGA award have had the most impact on this new documentary.  “‘The West Wing’ was set during the end of the Clinton and start of the Bush era and it was a show that presented a kind of romanticized vision of what the American government could be a show of what we all aspire to for the political process “Ten years later I was pulled into ‘House of Cards,’ which was exploring the much darker side of ambition and power It peeled back illusions and looked at what was really going on.” He believes these shows relate to what Eger tries to do in her life and through her work.  “When you talk about the Holocaust or October 7th the possibility of hopefulness comes out of that It’s how we take those events and find a way to be hopeful as opposed to letting them lead us into a land of despair that we can never recover from,” he says The years since these shows were aired have obviously seen a great deal of change in the White House What kind of show might reflect the Trump government “It’s hard to imagine at this point,” admits Coles It’s very hard to do the kind of straight drama that we did.” he shot while at Amherst College and was about the challenges the school faced as it became coeducational.  Is it hard to go from fictional series to documentaries “It’s difficult in these situations [October 7] to ascertain what the boundaries are and at what point you go into territory that’s really personal and difficult “I appreciated the fact that people were willing to share but I didn’t want to exploit that in any way,” he says making this film has also been a journey of his own finding a way to navigate personal tragedies by seeing how others have dealt with extreme challenges.   Coles was just 10 days into editing the film which has the working title “The Choice,” with an Israeli editor in New York It is still unsure when the film might be finished.  The beauty of doing this as a documentary is to let people speak their truths and then we put them together rather than my coming in with a larger truth that I want to hammer forward,” he says.  He hopes that this will be a documentary of ideas and emotions Will there be more documentaries in the years to come “It’s sort of like asking someone in the middle of a marathon if they will do another one,” he laughs “But it has certainly been a fascinating journey.” Germany’s Evelyn Eger capped an unforgettable week by claiming the individual gold medal during “Friday Night Stars” in the FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* Grand Prix Freestyle on Friday The last combination to dance down centerline Eger and Hof Kasselmann’s home-bred Totilas daughter Tabledance pulled out all the stops with a captivating Shakira-inspired performance which was rewarded with a new personal best of 77.235% The victory came just a day after the pair led Germany to the team gold with another winning career high score in the grand prix The FEI Nations Cup is the centrepiece of week seven the midway point of the 2025 Global Dressage Festival (GDF) in Wellington It was incredibly close fought for the silver and bronze medals with just 0.005 percentage points dividing the two Eger’s compatriot Felicitas Felicitas Hendricks won the battle for silver with 75.13% on her own Drombusch OLD filled the bronze medal podium step thanks to a 75.125% ride on Vamos which features 23 qualifying rounds—seven of which are being held by Wellington International at AGDF—before the final in California in November thanks to her victory she now sits atop the table with 60 points has been riding 12-year-old Tabledance since she was seven and they began their international career in the Under 25 division Georges and we made our way together up to the big sport,” said Eger “We’ve grown and this makes a very deep relationship Tonight was a big surprise and an unbelievable evening Tabledance told me in the warm-up that she wanted to win so I could enjoy the music and I could enjoy the audience Eger’s powerful final centerline was met with clapping and whoops from the audience so it was a long-time wish for me to have this music,” said Eger who had originally planned the freestyle for another horse “It fit Tabledance so well that I decided to swap On the last centerline I was singing a bit because it came out of my heart!” Eger is grabbing every chance she can get to compete and gain experience at her first AGDF “It’s a completely different world here than in Europe and I’m super happy to be here,” enthused Eger whose groom Joseph Oprea was awarded the $500 Grooms Award “My horses can show from week to week and that’s what makes Wellington so great.” Felictas Hendricks on DrombuschFelicitas Hendricks who won individual freestyle gold at the Wellington FEI Nations Cup show in 2024 rode to her familiar disco music on the 14-year-old Drombusch OLD  “We had some real highlights in today’s test but there was a fine line in the piaffe pirouettes,” she said referring to a kick-out on the final centerline “I’ve had the pleasure of being on the Nations Cup team for the third time now and I’m definitely never getting tired of it,” added Hendricks who trains with her uncle Christoph Koschel so you really want to bring home a good round Diamante Farms’ 13-year-old Vivaldi gelding up the levels and he is coming into his own at grand prix this year “This is our third freestyle under the lights and when he walks out at night he walks out different,” said Kane “He really enjoys the dancing and the music and he knows exactly what’s happening He lights up and he’s game on from the start.” Kane rode Vamos to “techno swing” music based on the new Gatsby movie It was originally intended for her retired horse though Kane plans to preserve some of the difficult choreography—which includes changes on a circle—into the new routine “Vamos is special in every way,” she continued he’s intense and he’s needy but he shines when he shines so I hope I keep giving him the right answers and asking the right questions.” Karen Lipp (USA) rode her own 12-year-old Infinity to 72.255% and to the top of the leaderboard from last draw Second place went to Japanese athlete Kiichi Harada who rode Chiemi Katayama’s 12-year-old Don Schufro gelding Impression to 67.42% Amy Bradley (USA) rode her own 15-year-old Quileute CCW (by Quaterback) into third with 63.09% Karen Lipp on InfinityLipp has produced the Dream Boy gelding since she bought him in The Netherlands as a four-year-old The pair stepped up to international grand prix less than a year ago “The young horse stuff was really not his thing as he didn’t have the strength and power for it so I backed off that and started working toward the high performance stuff,” explained Lipp “We wanted to take it slow because it’s the best horse I’ve ever had and I want to preserve him He never says no to me in the ring—ever—and I never want to feel that he’s pushed “I chose him because even at four he had such a propensity for collection,” she continued “Plus he’s beautiful and his personality is a 10 but then he stands quiet in the awards ceremony.” Lipp’s music was put together by Karen Robinson and is from the Netflix series ‘Wednesday’ It features a cello rendition of Paint It Black as well as Flowers and Rhianna’s Diamonds This class was also a US Equestrian Open of Dressage qualifier and Lipp currently sits third on the standings “I’m also thinking about doing some shows in Europe this summer but I’m fit and working hard and I feel the horse has the quality I think he can score an eight on everything.”  In Friday’s daytime  1* Intermediate I Benjamin Ebeling (USA) repeated his win in the previous day’s Prix St Georges by topping the class with another personal best ACR Enterprise and Hof Kasselmann’s 10-year-old Escalar mare It confirmed Ebeling’s assessment that the mare’s training has recently stepped up to a new level thanks to help from his dad Jan Ebeling and Cristoph Koschel Katrina Sadis (USA) finished second with 69.235% on the nine-year-old Legend Ymas (by George Clooney) with Jill Irving and her Zack 10-year-old gelding Knight’s 68.588% score claiming third place Stalls for Rent at Durondeau Dressage in Peer, Belgium Exceptionally Well Located Equestrian Facility in Wellington, Florida Well-built Equestrian Estate With Multiple Business Opportunities in Sweden Stable Units for Rent at Lotje Schoots' Equestrian Center in Houten (NED) For Rent: Several Apartments and Stable Wing at High-End Equestrian Facility Stable Wing Available at Reiterhof Wensing on Dutch/German border Real Estate: Well-Appointed Country House with Extensive Equestrian Facility in the U.K. Rémi Blot the 27-year-old German rider in her first season in Florida has taken the lead in prize money after three of seven weeks of international competitions at the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington With high placings in both the World Cup and CDI1* Small Tour Evelyn who rides for Hof Kasselmann in Hagen Germany has accumulated a total of $8,450 in prize money Evelyn is also atop the leader board for the $250,000 US Open series that will have its final in California in November based in Wellington who had led the prize money the first two weeks of competition is now in second place with $8,000 also of Wellington who clinched an invitation to the World Cup Final on her Olympic mount Helix the seven-time Olympian for Sweden and a competitor on the Global circuit since its creation in 2012 Anna Marek of the Ocala area community of Dunnellon was tied with Germany’s Felicitas Hendricks Edith Eger was 16 years old when the Nazis sent her and her family to Auschwitz both her parents and grandparents were killed in gas chambers guards were relentlessly cruel and abusive toward her When the death camps were liberated US soldiers found the ballerina and gymnast among a pile of corpses in a wooden structure at a subcamp of Mauthausen their Slovakian hometown on the border of Hungary Almost 40 years after the Holocaust, Eger returned to Auschwitz to release her grief and survivor's guilt she wrote in her memoir "The Choice." There she put a stone down for her parents in keeping with the Jewish tradition of paying respect to deceased loved ones "We can't alter the past or control what's coming around the next corner writes in her new book "The Ballerina of Auschwitz." that's how it's going to be," Eger told me on a video call from her sunny home in San Diego last month She appeared onscreen a little late because "Edie can't be on Zoom without her lipstick!" her grandson he said heartfeltly that speaking to her would change me "just a little bit." I hoped I'd be able to distill how someone who had experienced such unimaginable tragedy could go on to live a long I'd spent the day absorbed by the horrifying details of her Holocaust story in her book so I already knew she was hugely resilient glamorous face popped up on my laptop screen it was hard to fully grasp all she had been through This person had gone from sharing a single pair of shoes with her two sisters after the war to leading a life many would envy and it became clear that her positive mindset and sense of humor are her defining features Eger shared some of the key principles that have guided her through life Eger didn't speak to anyone about surviving the Holocaust for decades Eger decided it was time to come to terms with her past that entailed becoming comfortable having conversations about her experience and ultimately accepting what happened to her who works closely with his grandmother to tell her story publicly said that accepting being a Holocaust survivor enabled her to move forward "Being able to look it in the face and say That's what helped her start the version of her life she leads today Eger said although she was victimized by the Nazi regime it was important for her to shift from a victim to a survivor mentality This empowered her to choose how she wanted to frame her experience Eger now sees her time in Auschwitz as a "hellish classroom" where she developed patience These traits enabled her to help others through her clinical work and storytelling she encouraged her clients to treat everything as a learning experience and a chance to grow very important the way you think because that can make or break your life," she said and remember that everything in life is temporary and you can survive it Aside from Eger's evident resilience, Engle believes a big factor in her longevity is her strong sense of purpose her purpose was to survive the horrors inflicted on her it has been to share the lessons she learned "She's very committed to doing the work," he said Having a strong purpose, be it work, religion, or social responsibility, is a common theme among healthy older people BI has spoken to many who still work well into their 80s and 90s In Japan's Blue Zone Okinawa a region where people live around a decade longer than the country's average older residents remind themselves of their "ikigai," or life purpose Self-care is a big part of Eger's life and she's adamant that "it's not narcissistic." 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Interment will take place at Calvary Cemetery 2025–Evelyn Eger of Germany rode Dancing Darkness to victory in the Global Dressage Festival CDI3* Grand Prix Special Saturday in the mare’s international debut competition Evelyn admitted the win on the 11-year-old mare was a “big surprise” with a score of 72.362% Evelyn is in her competition debut in Florida and that top ranked in earnings for far including leading the German team to Nations Cup victory a week ago Susan Pape of Great Britain on Harmony’s Giulilanta the winning pair in the Grand Prix two days earlier Susan and the 14-year-old KWPN mare began Big Tour last June after success in Small Tour said she took over the ride a year ago on Dancing Darkness who now displayed quality that that she is “ready and steady” to be the international arena The CDI5* in Wellington in two weeks may be the next competition and possibly the German championships at home The victory Saturday was “a big surprise… because I really was not sure what was coming if she’s strong enough or if she is confident enough to be in the big ring here in the international show “So Thursday was already a big surprise and today even more because I know she was a bit class tired “But she was fighting and so everything was a big surprise… a very good one.” The popular Palm Beach Derby returned for its 42nd anniversary edition on Friday 28 February 2025 The exciting knock-out contest pits riders head-to-head to ride a Prix St Georges on an unfamiliar horse with just five minutes to warm up before tackling the test in the main arena the ever-popular class culminated in a tussle between Spain’s Paula Matute Guimón and Evelyn Eger (GER) Both athletes emerged victorious from the semi-final knock-out rounds earlier in the evening Matute Guimón rode a sympathetic test on Karen Pavicic and Thomas Baur’s 13-year-old Hanoverian Totilas x Donnerhall gelding Totem for 71.654% and the spectator judging score makes up 25% of the final mark Stepping into the stirrups second and making her Derby debut the 27-year-old Eger coaxed a 74.89% test from Totem It was bolstered by high marks for the walk and canter pirouettes as well as a final spectator judging score of 77.353% “I’m super honored to do my first Derby experience here in Wellington at my first season here; it’s super special,” said Eger actually I just did my job because I’m used to riding so many different horses in a day Of course it was a big challenge to go directly into the test but we had such nice horses today—thanks to the owners—that it was a pleasure to ride them.” OtsEger went straight into the difficult exercises in her warm-up to gauge Totem’s reactions “I wanted to get a feel for them without making him tired or putting unnecessary kilometers on the horse,” she said so I just tried to relax him and give him a good feeling.” Even when you know your horse it’s a challenge to ride a test I enjoyed seeing how the other riders handled the horses; I’d love to do another Derby.”   Text by GDF - Photos © Sue Stickle Stalls for Rent at Durondeau Dressage in Peer, Belgium Exceptionally Well Located Equestrian Facility in Wellington, Florida Well-built Equestrian Estate With Multiple Business Opportunities in Sweden Stable Units for Rent at Lotje Schoots' Equestrian Center in Houten (NED) For Rent: Several Apartments and Stable Wing at High-End Equestrian Facility Stable Wing Available at Reiterhof Wensing on Dutch/German border Real Estate: Well-Appointed Country House with Extensive Equestrian Facility in the U.K. "\/11-resilience-tools-from-holocaust-survivor-and-psychologist-dr-edith-eger\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=zMULjBZWVLq2dKChk9uz4uEOpv6XzwI6Zf5DZ6IhvpM-1746521728-1.0.1.1-ZutA._Ktor5XUgJyjN3uYV4U2LS.1e_F6V5nw4odY7Q" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null “Is she your mother or your sister?” A seemingly innocent question perhaps even a flattering one under the right circumstances Josef Mengele asked Edith Eva Eger this question when she first arrived at the concentration camp in 1944. An SS officer and physician Mengele would go on to earn himself the nickname “the Angel of Death” for the atrocities he performed under the Reich’s auspice Eger had yet to learn of his monstrous reputation or the horrors of Auschwitz She also didn’t realize that only one answer would protect her mother “Mother,” she answered truthfully Her mother was directed to a line of Jewish women on Mengele’s left Auschwitz took the lives of an estimated 1.1 million people She and Magda endured the hellish conditions for months before being led on death marches to other camps by Nazi forces desperate to evade the encroaching US and Russian forces They were rescued by US troops at Gunskirchen a year after their imprisonment Eger had been left for dead among the bodies of other victims — emaciated Eger survived and was nursed back to health it would take decades before she would escape the prison of guilt and denial she had built inside her mind She is as far from the horrors of Auschwitz as it is possible to travel in a lifetime but the road to La Jolla was long and far from straightforward “It was close to 20 years until I finally admitted to people that my classroom was Auschwitz,” Eger tells Big Think neither Eger nor her sister talked about that grueling year They chose instead to suppress the pain and ignore the memories the experiences nonetheless managed to bleed out to the conscious surface When confronted with images from the Holocaust and even seemingly innocuous and everyday sights or sounds could trigger crippling flashbacks In The Choice, Eger describes a time when she was riding the bus to her factory job after immigrating to the US and waited for a ticket collector to come by Eger began studying psychology at the University of Texas The career choice led her not only to help others reconcile with their crushing pasts but also to recognize the need to confront her own many survivors who were able to function well and be able to have families and you can even do many things that you learned [with it] But you’re not there,” Eger says Her studies and conversations led her to a crucial lesson on trauma’s influence over the mind: It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do with it It’s a lesson Eger has passed on through her clinical practices To be clear: That’s not to disregard the Holocaust’s many atrocities Eger experienced that barbarous inhumanity first-hand chose to walk into the electrified fences surrounding the camps In a heartbreaking story recounted by Eger a fellow prisoner named Anna convinced herself that they would be liberated by Christmas 1944 she pauses to listen,” Eger writes in The Ballerina of Auschwitz “to lift her eyes to the farthest line of fence This part of the Holocaust story is significant, and it would be an injustice to the ill-treated innocents to forget it. What’s often missing from this story though, Eger’s grandson, Jordan Engle, pointed out during our interview, is what happened after 1945 — the stories of the people who chose not to let this suffering define them but to use it, learn from it and pursue their life’s meaning in spite of it Eger personifies this aspect of the Holocaust: “I am free It’s a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind While the shape of any one person’s key will be unique, Eger believes a vital notch is learning to accept your authentic self. For her, that meant recognizing that she was victimized at Auschwitz, but she was not a victim Those experiences would be an indelible part of her life but they didn’t define her identity or life story Rather than pretend they didn’t happen or let them control her thoughts she would choose how to think about and live with those experiences that meant using them to help others and better understand the best and worst of what it meant to be human “I want people to know that no one can replace them,” Eger says “Maybe [someone else] looks like you Another notch in the key is an adherence to kindness While Eger’s memoirs don’t shy away from the immorality of the Holocaust they also shed light on the numerous small acts of grace and mercy that helped people endure Eger sharing a loaf of bread she had tucked away with others A kind word that raised another’s spirit for a moment A guard who looked the other way when a prisoner broke the rules.  but they showed Eger the shared humanity that bound everyone who experienced Auschwitz together a recognition that ultimately led her to forgive her tormentors she realizes that the Nazis themselves had been brainwashed Their rigid thinking and identities made them prisoners of their minds too “I shook my fist at God before I got to this [point] And I’m still not done,” Eger says “I’m still in the process of hopefully being free from my own prison “To experience it one more time and wonder the wrought-iron words Arbeit macht frei (“Work sets you free”) still hung over the entrance to “the world’s biggest cemetery.” The first of many false promises meant to keep Auschwitz’s prisoners complaisant in the face of their looming deaths But the lie that haunted Eger on her return was the one told to her by Mengele: “You’ll see your mother very soon.” Eger wondered if she had condemned her mother She had chastised herself for her naivete and questioned how it might have been different if she had simply lied was not the one made when she was “hungry and terrified […] surrounded by dogs and guns and uncertainty.” the choice that matters is the one she makes now The choice to accept herself; the choice to be imperfect and even so be happy; the choice to stop questioning why she survived and commit herself to the truly freeing work of serving others and making the world a better place “I didn’t run away from the past,” Eger says I don’t believe in any kind of retirement.” By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org The announcement of Rabbi Denise Eger as interim director as well as Daniel Hernandez as board chair earlier this year comes as the group contends with pressures from multiple angles has named a new interim executive director four months after its previous director was charged with sexual misconduct It’s been a “really difficult time for the LGBTQ community and for the Jewish community,” Hernandez said in an interview Tuesday “While we are coming together to combat against the LGBTQ hatred that is rampant right now in legislatures and in executive offices all over the country we also need to make sure that people are showing up as their whole selves,” he said “A lot of folks that are Zionists and a lot of folks that are Jewish don’t feel safe in these communities.” For at least part of the time when those winds were buffeting the constituency of A Wider Bridge In November 2024, a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct was brought against the organization’s then-executive director based on allegations that he committed sexual misconduct against a Vermont museum employee Felson represented the group publicly at least until January when the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on the charge who had taken over as board chair in late January Hernandez declined otherwise to elaborate on Felson or the leadership transition A statement from the group confirmed that Felson was no longer in the position but did not elaborate on the circumstances of his departure who took the helm of A Wider Bridge in 2020 His case is moving through the Vermont state court system and is in the discovery phase Felson’s lawyer did not respond to a request this week for comment I am committed to working closely with our team and Executive Committee to continue the critical work ahead to advocate for LBGTQ rights and justice connect LGBTQ communities in North America and Israel and  other forms of hate,” she said in a statement Hernandez is not Jewish but said he was awakened to the importance of fighting antisemitism and advocating for Israel after learning about the Holocaust in grade school He previously served as a state representative in Arizona and now serves as government affairs director for the Arizona branch of Stand for Children Both of his sisters, Alma and Consuelo Hernandez converted to Judaism and serve in the Arizona state legislature I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of hate — I’ve seen racism “It was really important for me to stay in this fight because we have a lot of shared struggles.” Hernandez said the anti-LGBTQ initiatives coming from the White House and state governments have put LGBTQ Americans in “a fight for survival” but have only pushed concerns of antisemitism and anti-Zionism to the side a “little bit.” A Wider Bridge’s focus now is to “show up” as Jews and pro-Israel activists in LGBTQ spaces especially with Pride parades coming up in June The group has also brought LGBTQ Israeli leaders to the United States and American LGBTQ leaders to Israel “I think a lot of the things that are important are just being visible and being aggressive against antisemitism,” he said We’re going to be providing resources to activists on the ground we’re holding gatherings and building up folks in their own local communities and giving them support.” JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent I accept the Privacy Policy 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offspring this way: “I was really happily surprised because the first half of the test was like and then you put all of your hard combinations and everything in the last part and I’m like So I started sitting up straighter and I’m like So it was a very interesting way that you put the choreography together to kind of get us on the edge of our chairs for the last part of the test I think this is what makes Wellington so great but to have the horses regularly on the shows they grow super good and that helps us.” Team mate Felicitas Hendricks on Drombusch the top prize winning combination on the Global circuit in 2024 with experience on three of Germany’s five gold medal teams in Wellington “We had some very great highlights in today’s test,” she said which makes him great for a freestyle horse So that was unfortunate but again he’s a sensitive boy and I love that about him Devon Kane based in Wellington at her family’s Diamante Farms placed third on Vamos The duo led the United States to Nations Cup team silver a day earlier with her husband “It’s pretty incredible,” she said Definitely not what I expected but I couldn’t be more proud of everyone “This is our third freestyle under the lights and I have to say He knows we’re going to dance and he really enjoys it He lights up in there and he’s never let me down He really enjoys the dancing and the music and he knows exactly what’s happening and he’s game on from the start “This was our best performance with the music and now he really has deserved his own music so now we go forward from that but there’s a lot of the choreography that I think I will keep similar or the same because he likes it he really enjoys it he’s just special all around and he shines when he shines So I’m blessed to be his mom and he really looks at me like that and he looks to me for guidance so I hope I keep giving him the right answers and asking the right questions.” After both the CDIO3* and CDI3* Freestyle Friday night Northwestern Medicine | Northwestern University | Faculty Profiles News Center Steven P. Cohen, MD, an international leader in pain medicine who recently joined Feinberg’s faculty as the inaugural Edmond I Eger Professor of Anesthesiology and vice chair of Research and Pain Medicine is working to advance collaborations to advance pain medicine through new targeted treatments and precision care strategies Cohen is also a retired colonel in the U.S Army and was deployed four times in support of operations in Bosnia His research supported the passage of the 2008 Military Pain Care Act and he served as an inaugural member of the U.S he organized and chaired the largest pain conference in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war Cohen is also the director of Pain Research and an adjunct professor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda and is the president-elect for ASRA-Pain Medicine the largest pain organization in the United States It’s a subspecialty discipline that focuses on the prevention and treatment of pain and it cuts across nearly all specialties in medicine Poorly treated acute pain becomes chronic pain and it is one of the top reasons that people seek healthcare there’s also an emotional component called affective-motivational and then there’s a cognitive component called cognitive-evaluative There’s a push in the field to measure things like depression fear and somatization and how they contribute to pain the research efforts and international guidelines I’ve led have helped transform how pain medicine is practiced throughout the world These include the first description and randomized trial for lateral branch radiofrequency ablation for sacroiliac joint pain developing and validating the IV ketamine test and cervical non-organic signs performing the first studies on the use of injectable cytokine inhibitors for chronic pain and when mandated by Congress in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) leading the widely publicized study showing compounded pain creams are ineffective for chronic pain we are working on novel ways to treat PTSD traumatic brain injury and postamputation pain and just submitted the first study evaluating treatment of the latter for war injuries suffered in the Ukraine.  As a follow-up to our ‘Lancet’ cover article showing the most common reasons people were medically evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan and their return-to-duty rates I helped lieutenant colonel Ron White open up the first pain clinic in a war zone I’ve also chaired or co-chaired international guidelines on the treatment of lumbar and cervical facet (spine) arthritis and ketamine for pain management An area that our group is now focusing on is precision medicine and we’re starting to look at predictors of health outcomes Prevision medicine favorably alters the risk-benefit ratio of invasive and expensive procedures and more importantly it favorably alters the cost-effectiveness ratio and this is where pain medicine needs to go because the outcomes with pain medicine are subjective and the results of studies are often conflicting There’s also a big push for regenerative medicine the cause of pain is from wear and tear or natural degeneration and therapies like platelet rich plasma or stem cells could possibly modify the course of treatment; the evidence for this at present is weak There is also a focus in finding animal models that better translate to humans because when we’re testing treatments in animal models we are measuring behaviors that may or may not be associated with pain and these models also don’t take into account the “affective” and “cognitive” components I share faculty appointments in the Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Neurological Surgery, so for our upcoming studies, I will hopefully be collaborating across these departments. I also continue to work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. I’ll also hopefully be credentialed at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center soon for a volunteer position I’m really looking forward to working with my excellent group of attendings and fellows and continuing to mentor them to push the field of pain medicine forward Evelyn Eger of Germany stayed in front of America’s Kevin Kohmann in prize money earnings after five weeks of the Global Dressage Festival with the $150,000 CDI5* next on the schedule Evelyn brought her earnings as of Sunday to $14,750 with the international debut of Dancing Darkness in the CDI3* she has led the earnings for three straight competition weeks who was atop the prize money the first two weeks of Global is not far behind on $14,000 with success in Wellington on Dünensee that earned him a start at the World Cup Final in Basel It will be the second championship for the partnership the seven-time Olympian for Sweden and a competitor on the Global circuit for well over a decade also based in Wellington and who earlier in the season clinched a start in the World Cup Final on her U.S is in fifth place just $100 back on $8,800 Anna Marek of of the Ocala area community of Dunnellon Susan Pape of Great Britain with $6,800 is ranked seventh Australia’s Jemma Heran in eighth on $5,200 with Americans Erin Nichols on $5,100 and Devon Kane on $4,900 filling the ninth and 10th spots "\/israel-allies-adversaries-in-latin-america\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=.heyrtiReM0MoPI_g1CrxGnxRLMsJFUUPIKWU0hWstI-1746521762-1.0.1.1-jbVyvL71f.11LIGAx8Y6gdHfpsqW1gkmfXw_gNKJ524" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null While his office was entangled in allegations of workplace discrimination and misconduct, Sarasota Public Defender Larry Eger lied under oath and destroyed a sexual harassment complaint against a former subordinate according to interviews and documents obtained by the Herald-Tribune The elected public defender for the 12th Judicial Circuit Eger faced a turbulent period of more than a year when accusations in his office of harassment and improper conduct toward women by an IT administrator spiraled into a federal lawsuit two federal investigations into workplace discrimination and cash settlements of more than half a million dollars While questioned under oath for a lawsuit in which he was accused of mishandling an allegation of sexual harassment Eger told the plaintiff’s attorney he had never seen a written harassment complaint shown to him He later relayed through his attorney that he had been dishonest under questioning and afterward testified he had lied under oath he said in his deposition and told the Herald-Tribune actions that were a potential violation of Florida public records laws Florida’s Public Records Act says allegations of employee misconduct must be preserved for five years The state’s statutes are also clear that any public official who knowingly violates public records laws could be subject to removal from office and a first-degree misdemeanor charge no action was taken against Eger by the Florida attorney general whose office had direct knowledge of his actions A spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office did not respond to questions about whether the state investigated Eger’s actions our office represents state officials when they are sued the Executive Director of the First Amendment Foundation — a Tallahassee-based non-profit that advocates for the protection of public records laws — said Eger’s conduct almost certainly violated the public trust and the destruction of government documents can be a third-degree felony He was incredulous that the Attorney General’s Office did not take action against Eger “What kind of message does it send other public officials when the people responsible for law enforcement in this state don’t enforce the law?” Block said Florida Attorney General’s office spokesperson Whitney Ray provided a statement to the Herald-Tribune is responsible for enforcement of the Florida Public Records Act Ray did not respond to inquires about whether the office referred any information on Eger’s infractions to other authorities He is paid more than $212,000 a year as an elected constitutional officer The public defender’s office eventually settled the lawsuit out of court with two women for $580,000 Eger told the Herald-Tribune he regretted some of his actions but also said he handled the internal investigations and turmoil in his office to the best of his ability More: Larry Eger: 'Bias' numbers don't lie I was put in the position of acting as both defense attorney which is sort of unusual in my life,” Eger said The complaints that led to Eger's infractions and the lawsuit were against an IT administrator the public defender hired in 2020 named Jay Butterfield three women accused Butterfield of harassment or improper conduct Eger asked for Butterfield's resignation after the third complaint in February 2023 — the complaint Eger destroyed Butterfield categorically denied all of the accusations made against him to the Herald-Tribune All those allegations are just false," Butterfield said The Herald-Tribune's investigation — conducted through interviews the acquisition of public and private records court documents and deposition transcripts — shows that despite repeated allegations of misconduct toward women over more than a decade Butterfield got jobs at three different Florida public defenders' offices within six years Butterfield worked for the 13th Judicial Circuit’s public defender in Tampa where there were at least two investigations and disciplinary actions against him over his conduct toward women Although the complaints involving Butterfield in the Sarasota and Tampa offices are in public records he now works at the office of Rex Dimmig — the 10th Judicial Circuit’s public defender in Bartow Dimmig did not respond to several requests for comment from the Herald-Tribune Those past complaints led to a key assertion in the federal lawsuit against Eger's office — that the Sarasota public defender should never have hired Butterfield The Herald-Tribune has verified records of multiple complaints against Butterfield but does not personally identify victims of sexual assault or harassment Failure to check job candidate's disciplinary historyWhile in Tampa Butterfield occasionally advised his colleagues in Sarasota on how to operate STAC a central database used by many public defenders in Florida When Eger needed someone proficient in STAC to run the system in his own office who began working in the Sarasota public defender's office in January 2020 Eger did not contact Butterfield’s former employer — Public Defender Julianne Holt of Hillsborough County — for a reference Eger said he was unaware of any complaints against his newest hire at the time Butterfield’s proficiency in a complex online system with a limited pool of prospective hires made him an attractive candidate or anybody in his office responsible for Butterfield’s hiring contacted Holt’s office or conducted a public records search they would have learned of the disciplinary actions taken against him a Tampa-based attorney who represented the plaintiff from Eger's office in the federal lawsuit said a public records search of Butterfield’s previous employer should have been routine “Judging from the way he behaved toward (the complainant) I suspected it wasn’t the first time,” Presswood told the Herald-Tribune I simply made a public records request to his prior employer and found out there were Presswood argued that Eger should have requested a reference and public records of Butterfield’s time at the Hillsborough public defender’s office he would have discovered that Butterfield had been accused of inappropriate conduct toward female employees at least twice and that the investigation of the complaints supported the accusations,” the federal lawsuit against Eger's office said But Eger told the Herald-Tribune that he does not make a habit of conducting those kinds of searches of potential hires “I don't assume that someone has done something bad in their past so I don't know if I would pursue that,” Eger said The public defender added that because the nature of his job is to recognize the potential for an individual's rehabilitation he has hired people with criminal backgrounds in the past The woman who lodged the first complaint against Butterfield in Sarasota alleged that his harassment began just weeks into his tenure the woman submitted a written complaint saying she was subject to inappropriate comments unwanted touching and improper behavior by Butterfield She reported Butterfield to two supervisors and Eger was later informed Butterfield sat down next to her at her workstation and asked what she was wearing underneath her skirt then reached over to try to pull the skirt up The complaint said she slapped his hand away and asked him to stop Eger determined that Butterfield and the woman who filed the complainant had a previous romantic relationship the woman had not disclosed and other administrators said they were also unable to find witnesses to corroborate the woman’s claims it was decided by consensus that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that Mr Butterfield had engaged in any wrongful misconduct,” Eger later wrote in his response to the complaint The public defender told the Herald-Tribune he felt he had a duty to protect both the accused and the accuser Eger concluded that his two employees needed to be as separated as much as possible He reassigned Butterfield to work primarily from the Manatee County office with weekly visits to Sarasota for work purposes He told the employee who filed the complaint that when Butterfield was in the office she was only to leave her desk to use the bathroom When she said she wanted Butterfield fired Eger said there was no basis for a dismissal she filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Eger’s office She wrote in the complaint that Butterfield continued to make her uncomfortable during his weekly visits to Sarasota the employee also filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S Middle District of Florida against Butterfield and Eger — the public defender for workplace discrimination and Butterfield for battery the suit claimed Eger did not have proper policies and procedures in place to prevent harassment and that he disproportionately punished the woman by ordering her to remain at her desk when Butterfield was present a woman in the Manatee County office filed a complaint about Butterfield She alleged that while staying at a hotel for a work conference in July of 2022 Butterfield grabbed her in a pool while she played with her daughter He then starts dragging me toward him while I am still underwater He would not let go no matter how much I tried to swim away from him,” the complaint alleged The woman said she had to kick several times before he let her go Eger was once again put in a position where he had to investigate Butterfield’s actions The public defender questioned other people the complainant said were in the pool with them He asked the woman what she wanted to do regarding Butterfield and her only request was that she have no direct contact with him Butterfield was instructed he could only interact with her when a third party was present and when it was strictly related to his job description At Hillsborough County Public Defender Julianne Holt's office in 2011 complaints of harassment against Butterfield had been investigated and he was cautioned for behavior toward a new employee Butterfield’s supervisor reminded him that it was not their first conversation about his “friendliness” with female employees in the office especially because of the “uncomfortable feeling he creates" among them Butterfield was given a “day of reflection;” and the following month he completed sexual harassment awareness training office administrators conducted another investigation into Butterfield’s behavior after a complaint by a woman in the office Asked to describe her interactions with Butterfield The woman alleged Butterfield made sexual comments and asked her to help find him someone to have sex with within the month he was hired She said the harassment escalated over a year later to Butterfield physically touching her as he walked by and making comments about having sex with the woman Butterfield denied any inappropriate behavior Among the investigation’s several conclusions did not take responsibility for his actions and made his female colleague uncomfortable Butterfield uses his position to wander about the office and interact with female employees even though his immediate supervisor told him not to do so on multiple occasions,” the investigation concluded Holt wrote in a memo that she found the accusations against Butterfield credible The only person she did not find credible throughout her investigation was Butterfield himself Butterfield used his position in this office to engage female support personnel and said use of his position would no longer be tolerated,” Holt wrote Butterfield was reminded that he had been previously counseled about these types of interactions.”  The federal lawsuit involving Butterfield and Eger's office was assigned to U.S a 2020 appointee by then-President Donald Trump a woman at the Manatee County office just a few months into the job filed a written complaint against Butterfield — the third against him in a little over three years Her one-page letter echoed similar behavior alleged of Butterfield: Unwelcome office visits such that he would “get me drunk at an upcoming STAC conference and carry me to my room.”  The woman also wrote that her colleagues warned her about Butterfield and called him “creepy.”  After he received the complaint from the woman’s supervisor Eger told Butterfield he could resign or be fired Butterfield turned in a handwritten resignation note to Eger later that day The woman later also filed a complaint against Eger’s office with the EEOC — alleging that Butterfield’s behavior amounted to a hostile work environment and discrimination based on her sex She then contacted Presswood to seek legal counsel Because he was sued in his capacity as a state constitutional officer Eger was represented by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and Assistant Attorney General Ivy Rollins He argued that he “took immediate and appropriate corrective action as soon as he became aware of the alleged harassing conduct by Butterfield.”  She wrote that Eger wanted to "dismiss each claim against him for a host of reasons," adding: “None have merit.”  The judge concluded Eger's employee sufficiently alleged claims of discrimination on the basis of sex The judge also noted the worker made at least three complaints to supervisors about Butterfield who continued to harass her until corrective action was taken expected the letter would be among the public records she requested from Eger’s office as part of the lawsuit When Presswood questioned Eger about this during a deposition on Aug he denied the complaint was ever put in writing according to transcripts obtained by the Herald-Tribune Eger told the Herald-Tribune that when he realized his mistake who then wrote to Presswood in a letter that Eger had given false testimony “The purpose of this letter is to correct inaccuracies contained in a series of statements made by Larry Eger in his deposition on August 8 Rollins acknowledged that Eger misled Presswood and provided inaccurate testimony even though he had been specifically questioned on whether he ever saw the complaint and if he deliberately concealed the complaint I really thought I was handling this correctly,” Eger told the Herald-Tribune “After the third complaint I realized I had .. completely lost my way as a result of that to my attorney — because I wanted to regain my integrity He said he had destroyed the complaint the day he received it He also admitted that he failed to produce the document requested as part of the lawsuit I was kind of in shock trying to recover it but I was unable to recover it,” Eger told Presswood during the later deposition “And I don’t really know what else to do at that point.”  In explanation of his handling complaints against Butterfield Eger said he thought he had sufficiently warned him of the potential consequences for any infractions and that he wanted to give Butterfield the opportunity to redeem himself He later called his actions an emotional mistake Asked in the deposition what efforts he made to try to recover the document “You have very accurately and succinctly deconstructed everything I did and everything I did was wrong,” Eger told Presswood The public defender’s office paid $580,000 between two settlements — one to close the federal lawsuit and one to resolve the second EEOC complaint Notwithstanding the various records brought forth in the lawsuit and EEOC cases in one of the Settlement Agreements Eger and Butterfield denied “any wrongdoing or unlawful acts” and asserted their good faith belief that the “Employee’s claims relating to or arising from employment Presswood filed a complaint about Eger to The Florida Bar Association which regulates and disciplines attorneys in the state “I regret to inform you that a fellow attorney destroyed a written complaint of sexual harassment relevant to a federal sexual harassment lawsuit that was pending at the time and gave false testimony under oath,” Presswood wrote The attorney included both of her depositions with Eger in the complaint the Florida Bar declined to act against Eger a counsel for the Attorney Consumer Assistance Program said “The Florida Bar has no jurisdiction to investigate and discipline such constitutionally elected state officials.”  The Florida Supreme Court ruled in Florida Bar v McCain — a 1976 case over charges of misconduct against a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida — that the state cannot discipline attorneys who are also elected constitutional officers and require Florida Bar membership to hold office The attorney suggested that Presswood take up the issue with the Florida Commission on Ethics Butterfield said he denied all of the accusations made against him while in Eger's office "to the utmost conviction." He would not comment on the investigations and disciplinary action taken against him while in Julianne Holt's office and I'd rather just forget about those," Butterfield said Butterfield also said he had no idea why Eger destroyed the sexual harassment complaint but added he thought the public defender handled the investigations well and did not deserve to be punished or removed from office Asked about the allegations by at least five women in two workplaces over more than a decade Butterfield said it could be because he tried to be helpful to the women I have no freaking clue," Butterfield said Although Butterfield's employer in Polk County did not respond to a request for comment Butterfield said they were aware of the investigations against him and did not limit his movement and interaction with women in the office I don't know what I can even say about that," Butterfield said "I don't think it can be rectified — that's the problem 'Doth protest too much,' I think the saying goes." This story has been updated with a statement from the Florida Attorney General’s Office provided after initial publication Christian Casale covers local government for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Email him at ccasale@gannett.com or follow him on Twitter @vanityhack  Eger was first elected Public Defender in 2008 after working in the office for over a decade Eger was sued in federal court and investigated by U.S Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for alleged discrimination and mishandling sexual harassment within his office Eger was represented by the Florida Attorney General’s office The allegations of harassment were against an IT Administrator named Jay Butterfield He had previously worked at the Public Defender’s office in Tampa where he was twice disciplined for inappropriate behavior toward his female colleagues There were three allegations of misconduct against Butterfield during his time working for Eger The third led to Butterfield’s resignation although Florida’s Public Records Act says allegations of employee misconduct must be preserved for five years Eger destroyed the complaint the day he received it Even though five women have complained about Butterfield at two Public Defenders’ offices in Florida he was hired by the 10th Judicial Circuit’s Public Defender in Polk County in 2024 Read the results of the Herald-Tribune investigation by Christian Casale here Evelyn Eger of Germany maintained her place leading prize money earnings with riders from seven nations in the top 20 at the Global Dressage Festival as of Feb according to compilations by DRESSAGE-NEWS.com the seven-time Olympian for Sweden and a  competitor in Wellington for several years Kevin Kohmann of Wellington is the top ranked American on $9,000 riders Adrienne Lyle of Wellington with $7,100 and Anna Marek of Dunnellon Florida with $6,100 filled the fifth and sixth places Erinc Nichols of USA on $5,100 and fellow American Devon Kane on $4,900 and Pablo Gómez Molina of Spain rounded out the top 10 "\/chasdi-corporate-security-surveillance-review\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=5EzFCpNzBuvw6J5ac.uSrZyHRQHlrxgLKO_ZVzihb1k-1746521772-1.0.1.1-uGiqYecCAWBbgHl6cM9okHyBvAE94mbLSLMDidcvfLY" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null "\/the-greentech-heroes-of-the-greed-detox-revolution\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=eWkf_UF.H5nogIwf6RqLfseR_xoZkPGk8.Ay5_K7LhI-1746521774-1.0.1.1-pMlbMt1Cm.SW2D_Bj64hiotwtXSDGGiCv4ZseLRh1jo" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null By providing your contact information to us you agree: (i) to receive promotional and/or news alerts via email from Federal News Network and our third party partners (ii) that we may share your information with our third party partners who provide products and services that may be of interest to you and (iii) that you are not located within the European Economic Area How is the Army leveraging OSINT to strengthen its intelligence capabilities The Army is working on a refresh of its open source intelligence strategy a little more than one year after the service finalized an initial strategy that focuses on training and building up a premier open source “collection force.” The Army has already completed more than 90% of the tasks in last year’s strategy, according to Dennis Eger He said the Army will start the rewrite this fall and aim to have it finalized by next September While last year’s strategy looked out to 2030 Eger said the forthcoming document will take a longer view “I’m going to go bold this time,” Eger said on Federal News Network Which is kind of a lofty goal given how much technology changes and how much the internet in this space changes in just days The Army’s embrace of OSINT comes amid a broader open-source renaissance across the intelligence community. Many different facets of the intelligence community are now pushing out their own OSINT strategies. The Army’s new strategy will likely retain the same four broad “lines of effort” as the service’s current OSINT strategy: people But the emergence of artificial intelligence and large language models will also be a “major portion” of the Army’s new strategy How are we going to use it to to our advantage?” Eger said He said the Army sees the potential for generative AI to help summarize and derive insights from existing OSINT reports The capability could help Army analysts more quickly pull reports and query information about specific issues Eger said the Army could also use AI to help identify misinformation and disinformation “We’re going to have to look at industry especially for the mis- and disinformation space how do we leverage it to help us crack that code?” Eger said the Army has already made strides in formalizing OSINT operations through many of training and personnel processes One of the major signs of progress for the Army’s open source ambitions is the impending approval of an OSINT “skill identifier.” Such identifiers are codes that the Army use to identify the training a soldier has gone through Eger said the OSINT identifier is in “final staffing.” “It validates that an OSINT collector position needs to exist,” Eger said So when you get those things on a manning document or a position document and we actually need resources to get after it The Army is building OSINT collection teams into many of its major formations And Eger said the demand for OSINT collectors is growing across the service “We probably have more OSINT collectors doing true OSINT than anybody in the [intelligence community],” Eger said The Army is now looking at the potential OSINT requirements for its civilian workforce Virtual training has also been a major focus for the Army Eger said the service’s OSINT basic training course is offered online through a partnership with the University of Arizona the Army plans to establish an “Army OSINT university” that will offer more than 40 online classes next year The Army has also opened its OSINT courses to rest of the intelligence community “We would like there to be one holistic solution for the IC that everybody can take advantage of rather than all of us paying separately for training venues,” Eger said The Army’s new strategy will continue to focus on modernizing OSINT training so that we’re not talking about waiting for a conflict or waiting for somebody to deploy.” The service is also considering how OSINT training can be incorporated into the Army’s combat training centers “How do we get feeds and injects into there so that when folks are going to the combat training centers and going through rotations that they have full on OSINT as part of the scenario,” Eger said Another major goal of the forthcoming strategy is more quickly delivering OSINT to the so-called “tactical edge,” such as combatant commands “I would like OSINT reporting to hit the tactical edge almost instantaneously it is disseminated where a commander sees it populate their picture,” Eger explained Fulfilling that concept will require the Army to effectively integrate OSINT into its broader intelligence architecture Eger said the Army wants to swiftly bring in new OSINT capabilities as the technology in the open source space evolves quickly He said the Army has whittled its technology adoption process down to 60 days The goal is to eventually get that down to 30 days “It cuts out every bit of middleman,” Eger said point-to-point and that has really enabled us to look at things a lot more a lot more thoroughly and a lot more quickly.” Thank you for completing the form, here is your download: "+jQuery("body").attr("docName")+" Thank you for completing the form, here is the link to your on-demand webinar: On-Demand Webinar Link “Chief Eger is a seasoned professional and exceptional commander,” said Ken Corey former NYPD borough commander and retired chief of department “She is extremely adept at developing crime fighting strategies and also at connecting with the community and motivating her team to perform at their optimum level Thanks to her deep experience in Staten Island she is very familiar with the challenges here and I am very confident that Staten Island is in great hands under her leadership.” — Staten Island will soon have a new NYPD borough commander as Assistant Chief Joseph Gulotta moves into a new role and is replaced by the Island’s first female top cop Eger was most recently commanding officer of the NYPD Domestic Violence Unit and former commanding officer of the Island’s 122nd Precinct in New Dorp Eger’s career with the NYPD began in 1999 as an officer in Central Brooklyn She was later promoted to sergeant while working in Northern Brooklyn and a move to Staten Island brought with it the title of lieutenant at the 123rd Precinct in Tottenville “Chief Eger is a seasoned professional and exceptional commander,” said Ken Corey Thanks to her deep experience in Staten Island Gulotta’s tenure with the department has taken him throughout the city, from working as a young officer on the streets of lower Manhattan, to battling gangs in Brooklyn, and later holding assignments in the department’s Narcotics and Criminal Enterprise divisions, the Advance/SILive.com previously reported The 32-year veteran moves on from his post amid a dramatic drop in crime on Staten Island as according to the NYPD’s CompStat database there’s been a 7% decrease in major crimes throughout the borough in comparison to the same timeframe in 2023 “You could definitely feel that crime was up, your neighbors felt it and everyone you spoke to felt it,” Gulotta told the Advance/SILive.com shortly after taking over as borough commander “I was lucky enough to get assigned out here kind of have a chance to do good in your own neighborhood and knock some of this crime down.” With crime surging on Staten Island in 2023 Gulotta was instrumental in helping the NYPD enact a tactical shift that involved the development of an intricate multi-state system to gather and analyze intelligence as a strategy to crack down on car thefts and burglaries He was also a driving force behind a task force created to combat so-called “ghost cars” — vehicles with falsified paper license plates or plates that are obscured by a device that makes them unreadable to red light from Port Authority to New Jersey State Police to all the local police departments in New Jersey ,” said Gulotta “We’re so plugged in with each and every one of them The information sharing as soon as something happens is really making a difference.” Gulotta and other NYPD officials developed a plan to target New Jersey crews coming into Staten Island to commit burglaries and steal vehicles Gulotta credited this approach in combatting crime as one that is building upon infrastructure already put in place by the chief of patrol it’s the tremendous work by the men and women out on the street,” Gulotta said there’s a phenomenal collaboration of work here I’d be remiss if I don’t talk about the great partnership with the Richmond County D.A and some of the processes we’ve put in place have really made a difference in what’s going on.” Interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon took to X who were both sworn in to their new roles Wednesday It is great to welcome our newly sworn-in Chief of Transit Chief Gulotta brings the experience and knowledge needed to lead our transit team and continue to drive crime down (c)2024 Staten Island Advance, N.Y.Visit Staten Island Advance, N.Y. at www.silive.comDistributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 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graduate with a PhD from the University of Texas and became an eminent psychologist Olivia Morris said: “It’s a true privilege to work with Edie and team on this Edie’s combined sales stand at well over a million copies and with this new title we hope to reach an even wider audience so that more readers across the world can draw strength and hope from Edie’s incredible story and continued zest for life.”  Dr Eger said: “I am honoured that Ebury and Olivia Morris have such passion for these projects It is my life mission to tell this story and give humanity all the lessons I learned from the challenges I have faced covers such a vulnerable period of my life and I could not be more grateful to have the support of Ebury and Olivia as we bring this book to a new audience and truly all people to see the importance of focusing on the light at the end of the tunnel The Starpoint Dancesport FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* Grand Prix was the feature competition on Thursday, February 20, to open proceedings in week seven of the 2025 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington Photo – Evelyn Eger & Tabledance 3 Five countries lined out for the Nations Cup CDIO3* Grand Prix with Germany taking the gold medal for the fifth consecutive year with 207.022 points while Sweden’s tally of 190.761 points secured the bronze the format only allowed grand prix level combinations in line with the four remaining legs of the 2025 Nations Cup dressage series The victorious German team was made up of Lars Ligus who topped the class with a new personal best of 70.435% on Tabledance 3 Klimke has been chef d’équipe for each of Germany’s five consecutive victories “I’m very proud because year after year we plan this and try to have a good team,” said Klimke who rode the 11-year-old Harmony’s Fado to 63.435% but I was lucky to have three very good teammates Felicitas and Lars all had really good performances and the key to success is teamwork “I’m 55 now and have a lot of experience,” he added and we all have the feeling we can rely on and trust each other.” who works for Hof Kasselmann and is in her first year competing at AGDF rode the 12-year-old Totilas daughter Tabledance 3 to her first CDI victory in the three years the duo have been competing at the level so I could go into the test very relaxed,” said Eger “I finally got the canter work where I want it to be and finally got the one-time changes clean “It’s always a big honor to be on the team and this year is very special because I’m the new one but I felt perfectly included from the beginning and that contributed to the success today,” she added Team Germany also included Felicitas Hendricks who finished third individually with a contributing score of 69.522% on her own 14-year-old Destano gelding Drombusch OLD and Lars Ligus who rode Hof Kasselmann’s 15-year-old Sandro Hit gelding Santiago to 67.065% and seventh individually all under chef d’équipe Christine Traurig’s guidance riding Diamante Farms’ Vamos into fifth place on 67.435% Kohmann backed her up in sixth place with 67.304% on another Diamante Farm horse Jennifer Williams and Joppe K—an 11-year-old by Rousseau—put 66.826% on the board while Erin Nichols and Elian Royale were the drop score with 63.108% Kane had a tricky start to her test when Vamos “I think we started [trending] on 22% and pulled our way up from there so I knew we had to catch as many points as we could and make every movement count,” she said “I’m proud that my horse was able to overcome such a setback “It’s an honor to be able to represent the U.S but to do so with your husband next to you cheering for you and riding with you is extremely special,” added Kane who has produced both Vamos and Guilietta from young horses “It’s also a testament to our commitment to the sport and to helping each other and our team do well “This is both Vamos and Guilietta’s first year of CDI so to be trusted for the U.S team and to do what we did today makes us very proud In a repeat of the top three team placings from Wellington International’s 2024 Nations Cup Sweden took bronze under the leadership of chef d’équipe Louise Nathhorst Seven-time Olympian Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén recorded the nation’s top finish placing second individually behind Eger with 70.304% on the 13-year-old Lövsta Stuteri-owned mare Karin Persson contributed 60.326% on Christina Devine’s 16-year-old gelding Slæbækgåard’s Santino (by Sir Donnerhall) Caroline Darcourt stepped into the stirrups of another 16-year-old The Holsteiner gelding—also owned by Lövsta Stuteri—has been competed exclusively by Vilhelmson Silfvén since 2021 Both Australia and Canada fielded teams of just three riders so an elimination for one combination from each country meant the teams were out FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* FEI Grand Prix individual results. 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Unless otherwise noted. ©1997 - 2025 horsesdaily.com and dressagedaily.com Enter your email address and we will send you a link to change your password Germany’s Evelyn Eger capped an unforgettable week by claiming the individual gold medal during “Friday Night Stars” in the Starpoint Dancesport FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* Grand Prix Freestyle on Friday Eger and Hof Kasselmann’s home-bred Totilas daughter Tabledance 3 pulled out all the stops with a captivating Shakira-inspired performance which was rewarded with a new personal best of 77.235% the midway point of the 2025 Adequan® Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Wellington Eger’s compatriot Felicitas Hendricks won the battle for silver with 75.13% on her own Drombusch OLD There were two Canadians in the class: Mathilde Blais Tétreault placed 5th riding Fedor (70.765%) and Ava MacCoubrey was 7th with Don Camillo-S (68.295%) whose groom Joseph Oprea was awarded the $500 Grooms Award “We had some real highlights in today’s test “I’ve had the pleasure of being on the Nations Cup team for the third time now and I’m definitely never getting tired of it,” added Hendricks though Kane plans to preserve some of the difficult chorography—which includes changes on a circle—into the new routine “Vamos is special in every way,” she continued Judge at C Sarah Geikie (USA) was particularly impressed with the standard of riding “It was exciting to see a class where the riding was top quality and the creativity shown in the choreography was exciting I was happily surprised in Evelyn’s test because the first half was nice but then she put all her hard combinations in the last part and I started sitting up straight on the edge of my chair.” Click here for full results from the Starpoint Dancesport FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* FEI Grand Prix Freestyle For over 50 years Horse Sport has been the voice of equestrian competition in Canada and breeders who are highly involved in the equine marketplace Developed by The Web Developer LLC "\/energizing-israel-with-wastes-hopes-hurdles\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=gle5ob9Iyc2ip.FOvSMrL1s4sya0NnpV90uywAEKGGk-1746521809-1.0.1.1-j3aDewQZHfSsh3FgxQ6vqcrslhwN1Ad2kwJpu._YICA" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null "\/courtroom600-stop-radical-extremism-now\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=1rr7xXZvhsUbib0l0LjY.AznHP11WE5_US_Hy2W0n.0-1746521813-1.0.1.1-UXisW79XvYyKnQveKWs_blmFyJdDyshAGel7rarn73M" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null