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by Lenni Brenner
May 3, 2007
It is only natural that contemporaries should be skeptical when they first hear accusations that Zionists collaborated with Hitler. Israel is constantly at war. The public projects Zionist pugnacity back onto the holocaust era and assumes that the World Zionist Organization opposed Nazism after Hitler came to power in 1933. In fact the opposite is true and it easily documented.
In 1983, London's Croom Helm Ltd. published my first book, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators.
A London Times review declared that "Brenner is able to cite numerous cases where Zionists collaborated with anti-Semitic regimes, including Hitler's." The book attracted similar favorable scholarly comments, worldwide. Naturally specialist interest moved on in the subsequent decades, but today, thanks to the internet, unique visual confirmation of that collaboration has come to my attention and it is presented now to the public.
I related how Kurt Tuchler, a member of the German Zionist Federation Executive,
"persuaded Baron Leopold Itz Edler von Mildenstein of the SS to write a pro-Zionist piece for the Nazi press. The Baron agreed on the condition that he visited Palestine first, and two months after Hitler came to power the two men and their wives went to Palestine; von Mildenstein stayed there for six months before he returned. ...
Von Mildenstein wrote favorably about what he saw in the Zionist colonies in Palestine; he also persuaded Goebbels to run the report as a massive twelve-part series in his own Der Angriff (The Assault), the leading Nazi propaganda organ (9/26-10/9/34).... To commemorate the Baron's expedition, Goebbels had a medal struck: on one side the swastika, on the other the Zionist star."
I never located the medal. But in 2003 John Sigler, like myself an anti-Zionist Jew, found an image and description in a closed mail-bid coin sale. He bought a bronze version. A silvered token appeared in 2005. Silvering is often done to medals. It is about 1.5" in diameter and is thicker than a coin. There is no doubt re authenticity. John bought his bronze from the same respected coin dealer.
Recently John sent me a photo of the silvered bronze, for which I am very grateful. The Star of David side reads:
EIN NAZI FÄHRT NACH PALÄSTINA -- A Nazi Travels to Palestine.
The Swastika side reads
UND ERZÄHLT DAVON IM Angriff -- And tells about it in Angriff [Attack]
I happily forward it to the internet world, with documentation re von Mildenstein's visit and Zionist collaboration, and the first of the Baron's articles for Goebbel's journal.
Readers will doubtlessly have questions. Queries about the medal should go to John via http://www.onestate.org. Many questions about Zionist collaboration can be answered by going to Zionism in the Age of the Dictators at http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/index.htm
Or readers can contact me at email@example.com. Do that and I'll also tell you how you can get a signed copy of 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis. I edited it in 2002. It has von Mildenstein's article and complete texts of many sources quoted in Zionism in the Age of the Dictators.
Werner Senator, a leading German Zionist, once remarked that Zionism, for all its world Jewish nationalism, always politically assimilates to the countries within which it operates. No better proof exists than the adaptation of the German Zionist Federation, the Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland, to the theories and policies of the new Nazi regime in 1933. Believing that similarities between the two movements – contempt for liberalism, 'volkish' racism and their mutual conviction that Germany could never be the homeland of its Jews – could induce the Nazis to support them, the ZVfD repeatedly solicited the patronage of Adolf Hitler.
Gobineau's [unlike Chamberlain's] was an honest Antisemitism, it was, like Nietzsche's, an historical Antisemitism: it had nothing whatever to do with modern Antisemitism, that movement born from fear, envy, and impotence ... [i]t is an upright, a genuine, a gentlemanly Antisemitism, it is the Antisemitism of the aristocrat, who sees his very blood threatened by revolutionary religions. Both Nietzsche's and Gobineau's Antisemitism, therefore, included of course Christianity.
-- Oscar Levy, from Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain, by Dan Stone
The ZVfD goal became an "orderly retreat," Nazi backing for emigration of at least the younger generation of Jews to Palestine. They immediately sought contact with Nazi elements whom they thought would be interested in such an arrangement on the basis of a volkish appreciation of Zionism. Kurt Tuchler, a ZVfD Executive member, persuaded Baron Leopold Itz Edler von Mildenstein of the SS to write a pro-Zionist piece for the Nazi press. He agreed on the condition that he visited Palestine first. Two months after Hitler came to power the two men and their wives went to Palestine; von Mildenstein stayed there for six months before he returned to write his articles.
In 1937, in exile in America, rabbi Joachim Prinz candidly described the Zionist mood in the first months of 1933:
"Everyone in Germany knew that only the Zionists could responsibly represent the Jews in dealings with the Nazi government. We all felt sure that one day the government would arrange a round table conference with the Jews, at which – after the riots and atrocities of the revolution had passed – the new status of German Jewry could be considered. The government announced very solemnly that there was no country in the world which tried to solve the Jewish problem as seriously as did Germany. Solution of the Jewish question? It was our Zionist dream! We never denied the existence of the Jewish question! Dissimilation? It was our own appeal!.... In a statement notable for its pride and dignity, we called for a conference." [1]
Both the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith were founded by well-to-do German Jews with a special outlook. Like other European Jews, the Germans immigrated en masse following the political upheavals of the mid-nineteenth century. But unlike their East European counterparts, the Germans clung to their original national identity, and were economically more established. Moreover, many German Jews believed they were so-called Hofjuden, or courtly Jews, and that coreligionists from Poland and Russia were "uncivilized" and embarrassing. The bias was best summarized in a June 1894 German-American Jewish newspaper, the Hebrew Standard, which declared that the totally acclimated American Jew is closer to "Christian sentiment around him than to the Judaism of these miserable darkened Hebrews."
Having achieved a secure standing in America, the German Jews organized essentially to protect their position from any "Jewish problems" that might appear. In 1843, in a small cafe on New York's Lower East Side, twelve German Jewish leaders founded B'nai B'rith as a benevolent fraternal organization. By aiding the Jewish poor, they hoped to remove any Jewish welfare burden that could arouse Christian anti-Semitism. In the 1880s, after hordes of impoverished East European Jews flooded America, B'nai B'rith accepted these newcomers as lodge members, but largely to "manage" the East European Jewish presence in the United States.
In 1906, as Czar Nicholas continued his anti-Semitic pogroms, men like Jacob Schiff, Louis Marshall, and Cyrus Adler went beyond philanthropy and constituted the American Jewish Committee. These powerful men would now function as a special lobby concerned with political problems important to Jews. The Committee initially limited its membership to roughly sixty prominent men, led by about a dozen central personalities from the realms of publishing, finance, diplomacy, and the law. As individuals, they had already proven themselves combating hotels and other institutions that discriminated against Jews. Once united as the American Jewish Committee, they waged effective private economic war against the Russian monarchy. Their motives were not based on concern for East European Jews, but rather on a solid opposition to organized Jew hatred anywhere in the world.
-- The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, by Edwin Black
The ZVfD's June 21, 1933 secret memorandum asked if they could
"be permitted to present our views, which, in our opinion, make possible a solution in keeping with the principles of the new German State of National Awakening and which at the same time might signify for Jews a new ordering of the conditions of their existence .... Zionism has no illusions about the difficulty of the Jewish condition, which consists above all in an abnormal occupational pattern and in the fault of an intellectual and moral posture not rooted in one's own tradition....
[A]n answer to the Jewish question truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with the collaboration of the Jewish movement that aims at a social, cultural, and moral renewal of Jewry.... Zionism believes that a rebirth of national life, such as is occurring in German life through adhesion to Christian and national values, must also take place in the Jewish national group. For the Jew, too, origin, religion, community of fate and group consciousness must be of decisive significance in the shaping of his life....
On the foundation of the new state, which has established the principle of race, we wish so to fit our community into the total structure so that for us too, in the sphere assigned to us, fruitful activity for the Fatherland is possible....
Our acknowledgment of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial realities. Precisely because we do not wish to falsify these fundamentals, because we, too, are against mixed marriage and are for maintaining the purity of the Jewish group....
We believe in the possibility of an honest relationship of loyalty between a group-conscious Jewry and the German state.... For its practical aims, Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration even of a government fundamentally hostile to Jews, because in dealing with the Jewish question no sentimentalities are involved but a real problem whose solution interests all peoples, and at the present moment especially the German people.
Boycott propaganda, such as is currently being carried on against Germany in many ways, is in essence un-Zionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build.... Our observations, presented herewith, rest on the conviction that, in solving the Jewish problem according to its own lights, the German Government will have full understanding for a candid and clear Jewish posture that harmonizes with the interests of the state." [2]
Talk of 'blut' reached Wagnerian proportions in the August 4, 1933 issue of the Jüdische Rundschau, the ZVfD organ. "Rasse als Kulturfaktor" argued that Jews should not merely accept silently the dictates of their new masters; they had to realize that race separation was wholly to the good:
"We who live here as a 'foreign race' have to respect racial consciousness and the racial interest of the German people absolutely. This however does not preclude a peaceful living together of people of different racial membership. The smaller the possibility of an undesirable mixture, so much less is there need for 'racial protection'.... Only rationalist newspapers who have lost feeling for the deeper reasons and profundities of the soul, and for the origins of communal consciousness, could put aside ancestry as simply in the realm of 'natural history.'" [3]
I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left elements, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace.
-- Gertrude Stein, New York Times Magazine, May 6, 1934
Prior to 1933, German Zionism was an isolated bourgeois political cult. While leftists were fighting the brownshirts in the streets, Zionists collected money for trees in Palestine. Suddenly in 1933 this small group conceived of itself as properly anointed by history to negotiate secretly with the Nazis, to oppose the vast mass of world Jewry who wanted to resist Hitler, all in the hope of obtaining the support of the enemy of their people for the building of their state in Palestine.
That Chamberlain is a strong Anti-Semite adds to the value of the testimony which he bears to the nobility of the Sephardim, the intensely aristocratic Jews of Spain and Portugal, the descendants of the men whom the Romans, dreading their influence, deported westward. "That is nobility in the fullest sense of the word, genuine nobility of race! Beautiful forms, noble heads, dignity in speech and in deportment.... That out of the midst of such men prophets and psalmists should go forth, that I understood at the first glance -- something which I confess the closest observation of the many hundred 'Bochers' in the Friedrichstrasse in Berlin had failed to enable me to do."
-- The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain
They were wholly deluded. No modus vivendi was ever even remotely possible between Hitler and the Jews. Given their failure to resist during Weimar, and given their race theories, it was inevitable that they would end up as Nazism's Jewish jackals.
The Original Semites were the fifth and most important of the seven Atlantean Races, because in them we find the first germ of the corrective quality of Thought. Therefore the Original Semitic Race become the "seed race" for the seven races of the present Aryan Epoch....
The Original Semites regulated their desires to some extent by the mind, and instead of mere desires, came cunning and craftiness -- the means by which those people sought to attain their selfish ends. Though they were a very turbulent people, they learned to curb their passions to a great extent and accomplish their purposes by the use of cunning, as being more subtle and potent than mere brute strength. They were the first to discover that "brain" is superior to "brawn."...
Under the guidance of a great Entity, the Original Semitic Race was led eastward from the continent of Atlantis, over Europe, to the great waste in Central Asia which is known as the Gobi Desert. There it prepared them to be the seed of the seven Races of the Aryan Epoch, imbuing them potentially with the qualities to be evolved by their descendants....now his thoughts were to be turned from the visible Leaders, the Lords from Venus, whom he worshiped as messengers from the gods -- to the idea of the true God, the invisible Creator of the System. Man was to learn to worship and obey the commands of a God he could not see....
Fourfold also are the steps by which man climbs upward to God. First, through fear, he worships the God whom he begins to sense, sacrificing to propitiate Him, as do the fetish-worshipers. Next, he learns to look to God as the giver of all things, and hopes to receive from Him material benefits here and now. He sacrifices through avarice, expecting that the Lord will repay a hundredfold, or to escape swift punishment by plague, war, etc. Next, he is taught to worship God by prayer and the living of a good life; and that he must cultivate faith in a Heaven where he will be rewarded in the future; and to abstain from evil that he may escape a future punishment in Hell. At last he comes to a point where he can do right without any thought of reward, bribe, or punishment, but simply because "it is right to do right." He loves right for its own sake and seeks to govern his conduct thereby, regardless of present benefit or injury, or of painful results at some future time.
The Original Semites had reached the second of these steps. They were taught to worship an invisible God and to expect to be rewarded by material benefits, or punished by painful afflictions. Popular Christianity is at the third step. Esoteric Christians, and the pupils of all occult schools are trying to reach the highest step, which will be generally achieved in the Sixth Epoch, the new Galilee, when the unifying Christian religion will open the hearts of men, as their understanding is being opened now....
To transmute Cunning into Reason proved no easy task. The earlier changes in man's nature had been easily brought about. He could then be led without difficulty because he had no conscious desire, nor mind to guide him, but by the time of the Original Semites he had become cunning enough to resent limitations of his liberty and to circumvent repeatedly the measures taken to hold him in line. The task of guiding him was all the more difficult because it was necessary he should have some liberty of choice, that he might in time learn self-government. Therefore a law was enacted which decreed immediate rewards for obedience and instant punishment for disregard of its provisions. Thus was man taught, coaxed and coerced into reasoning in a limited manner that "the way of the transgressor is hard," and that he must "fear God," or the Leader who guided him.
Out of all who were chosen as "seed" for the new Race, few remained faithful. Most of them were rebellious and, so far as they were concerned, entirely frustrated the purpose of the Leader by intermarrying with the other Atlantean Races, thus bringing inferior blood into their descendants. That is what is meant in the Bible where the fact is recorded that the sons of God married the daughters of men. For that act of disobedience were they abandoned and "lost." Even the faithful died, according to the body, in the Desert of Gobi (the "Wilderness") in Central Asia, the cradle of our present Race. They reincarnated, as their own descendants of course, and thus inherited the "Promised Land," the Earth as it is now. They are the Aryan Races, in whom Reason is being evolved to perfection.
The rebellious ones who were abandoned are the Jews, of whom the great majority are still governed more by the Atlantean faculty of Cunning than by Reason. In them the race-feeling is so strong that they distinguish only two classes of people: Jews and Gentiles. They despise the other nations and are in turn despised by them for their cunning, selfishness and avarice....
Races are but an evanescent feature of evolution. Before the end of the Lemurian Epoch there was a "chosen people," different from the ordinary humanity of that time, who became the ancestors of the Atlantean Races. From the fifth race of those, another "chosen people" was drawn, from which the Aryan Races descended, of which there have been five and will be two more. Before a new Epoch is ushered in, however, there must be "a new Heaven and a new earth"; the physical features of the Earth will be changed and its density decreased. There will be one Race at the beginning of the next Epoch, but after that every thought and feeling of Race will disappear....
[E]xtra care must be taken that as few of the spirits as possible become enmeshed in the fetters of Race. This is exactly what happened to the spirits reborn in the Jewish Race-bodies. They attached themselves so firmly to the Race that they are drawn back into it in successive births. "Once a Jew, always a Jew" is their slogan. They have entirely forgotten their spiritual nature and glory in the material fact of being "Abraham's seed." Therefore they are neither "fish nor flesh." They have no part in the advancing Aryan Race and yet they are beyond those remnants of the Lemurian and Atlantean peoples which are still with us. They have become a people without a country, an anomaly among mankind.
Because of their bondage to the Race-idea, their one-time Leader was forced to abandon them, and they became "lost." That they might cease to regard themselves as separate from other peoples, other nations were stirred up against them at various times by the Leaders of humanity, and they were led captive from the country where they had settled, but in vain. They stubbornly refused to amalgamate with others. Again and again they returned in a body to their arid land. Prophets of their own Race were raised up who mercilessly rebuked them and predicted dire disaster, but without avail.
As a final effort to persuade them to cast off the fetters of Race, we have the seeming anomaly that the Leader of the coming Race, the Great Teacher Christ, appeared among the Jews. This still further shows the compassion and Wisdom of the great Beings who guide evolution. Among all the Races of the Earth, none other was "lost" in the same sense as the Jews; none other so sorely needed help. To send them a stranger, not one of their own Race, would have been manifestly useless. It was a foregone conclusion that they would have rejected him. As the great spirit known as Booker T. Washington incarnated among the Negroes, to be received by them as one of themselves, and thus enabled to enlighten them as no white man could, so the great Leaders hoped that the appearance of Christ among the Jews as one of their own might bring them to accept Him and His teachings and thus draw them out of the meshes of the Race-bodies. But sad it is to see how human prejudice can prevail. "He came unto His own and" they chose Barabbas.
The rejection of Christ by the Jews was the supreme proof of their thralldom to Race. Thenceforth all efforts to save them as a whole by giving them special prophets and teachers, were abandoned and, as the futility of exiling them in a body had been proven, they were, as a last expedient, scattered among all the nations of the earth. Despite all, however, the extreme tenacity of this people has prevailed even to the present day, the majority being yet orthodox. In America, however, there is now a slight falling away. The younger generation is commencing to marry outside the Race. In time, an increasing number of bodies, with fewer and fewer of the Race characteristics, will thus be provided for the incarnating spirits of the Jews of the past. In this manner will they be saved in spite of themselves. They become "lost" by marrying into inferior Races; they will be saved by amalgamating with those more advanced.
As the present Aryan Races are reasoning human beings, capable of profiting by past experience, the logical means of helping them is by telling them of past stages of growth and the fate that overtook the disobedient Jews. Those rebels had a written record of how their Leaders had dealt with them. It set forth how they had been chosen and rebelled; were punished; but were yet hopeful of ultimate redemption. That record may be profitably used by us, that we may learn how not to act....
The Original Semites were set apart and forbidden to marry into other tribes or peoples, but they were a stiff-necked and hard people, being yet led almost exclusively by desire and cunning, therefore they disobeyed the command. Their Bible records that the sons of God married the daughters of man -- the lower grades of their Atlantean compatriots. They thus frustrated the designs of Jehovah and were cast off, the fruit of such cross-breeding being useless as seed for the coming Race.
These cross-breeds were the progenitors of the present Jews, who now speak of "lost tribes." They know that some of the original number left them and went another way, but they do not know that those were the few who remained true. The story of the ten tribes being lost is a fable. Most of them perished, but the faithful ones survived, and from that faithful remnant have descended the present Aryan Races.
-- The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel
Economic collaboration began in August 1933 with the Ha'avara (Transfer) agreement between Berlin and the World Zionist Organization. Jews could put money into a German bank. It was used to buy export items which were sold by the WZO, usually but not exclusively in Palestine. When the emigres arrived there, they received payment for the goods that they purchased, after they had been sold.
Ha'avara's attraction remained the same throughout its operation. It was the least painful way of shipping Jewish wealth out of Germany. However the Nazis determined the rules, and by 1938 average users lost between 30% and 50% of their money. Nevertheless, this was three times, and eventually five times, better than losses endured by Jews whose money went to other destinations. [4]
Some 60% of all capital invested in Palestine between August 1933 and September 1, 1939, the beginning of WW II, went through Ha'avara. In addition, Britain set an annual Jewish immigrant quota, using the country's weak economic absorptive capacity to limit their number; but "capitalists" bringing in over $5,000 were allowed in over quota. The 16,529 capitalists were an additional source of immigrants. Their capital gave Palestine artificial prosperity in the midst of the worldwide Depression.
The WZO solicited new customers for Germany in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Zionists exported oranges to Belgium and Holland using Nazi ships. [5] By 1936 the WZO began to sell Hitler's goods in Britain. [6]
In 1937, the Labor Zionist Haganah, the WZO's underground military arm under the British mandate, negotiated directly with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the SS Security Service. Haganah agent Feivel Polkes arrived in Berlin on February 26, 1937. Adolf Eichmann, von Mildenstein's protege, was his negotiating partner. The Eichmann-Polkes conversations, in a report by Eichmann's superior, were in SS files captured after WW II.
"Polkes is a national-Zionist. He is against all Jews who are opposed to the erection of a Jewish state in Palestine. As a Haganah man he fights against Communism and all aims of Arab-British friendship.... He noted that the Haganah's goal is to reach, as soon as possible, a Jewish majority in Palestine. Therefore he worked, as this objective required, with or against the British Intelligence Service.... He declared himself willing to work for Germany in the form of providing intelligence as long as this does not oppose his own political goals. Among other things he would support German foreign policy in the Near East. He would try to find oil sources for the German Reich without affecting British spheres of interest if the German monetary regulations were eased for Jewish emigrants to Palestine." [7]
Berlin didn't take up the Haganah offer, but patronage of Zionism continued. The SS was the most pro-Zionist Nazi element. Other Nazis even called them "soft" on Jews. Von Mildenstein, the head of the SD's Jewish Department, studied Hebrew. Maps on his office walls showed rapidly increasing strength of German Zionism. [8]
An interesting footnote to history is the revelation of the cozy relationships which developed between top Nazi officials and the founders of the Zionist terrorist network, Haganah and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, in the closing days of the Second World War. The Zionists were working to drive the British out of Palestine; the Nazis were also at war with England, which gave birth to the most curious political alliance of the twentieth century. One of the leading advocates of working with the Abwehr, German Intelligence, was one Yitzhak Shamir, now Premier of Israel. After the war, the Zionists employed many former Nazis to help set up their military opposition to the British. The leader in this alliance was the veteran of the old Stern Gang of terrorists, which was now the Irgun Zvai Leumi, none other than Menachem Begin. One of Begin's proteges was a young woman named Mathilde J., as she was known in terrorist circles. She was born in Switzerland after her father left Italy because of "poor economic conditions," no political ideology there. The present Mrs. Krim is described by Current Biography as a "geneticist" and a "philanthropist." She has been the resident biologist at the American Cancer Society for many years. In her younger days, she joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi, marrying a fellow terrorist in a show of solidarity. She soon became a favorite of Begin, and divorced her husband. It was Begin who was asked by a grinning Mike Wallace on the program "Sixty Minutes," "Did you really introduce terrorism into the politics of the Middle East?" Begin answered emphatically, "Not just the Middle East -- the whole world." He was referring to the worldwide terrorist operations of Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence group which is entirely financed by the CIA with American taxpayers' funds.
-- "Murder by Injection -- The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America," by Eustace Mullins
In May 1935, SD chief Reinhardt Heydrich wrote an article, "The Visible Enemy," for Das Schwarze Korps, the SS official organ: "The time cannot be far distant when Palestine will again be able to accept its sons who have been lost to it for over a thousand years.
The course of Jewish history has provided for a peculiar artificial selection of the morally higher section: by banishments, by continual withdrawals to the Diaspora -- a result of the poverty and oppressed condition of the land -- only the most faithful (of the better classes) remained behind, and these abhorred every marriage contract -- even with Jews! -- in which both parties could not show an absolutely pure descent from one of the tribes of Israel and prove their strict orthodoxy beyond all doubt. There remained then no great choice; for the nearest neighbours, the Samaritans, were heterodox, and in the remoter parts of the land, except in the case of the Levites who kept apart, the population was to a large extent much mixed. In this way race was here produced. And when at last the final dispersion of the Jews came, all or almost all of these sole genuine Jews were taken to Spain. The shrewd Romans in fact knew well how to draw distinctions, and so they removed these dangerous fanatics, these proud men, whose very glance made the masses obey, from their Eastern home to the farthest West, while, on the other hand, they did not disturb the Jewish people outside of the narrower Judea more than the Jews of the Diaspora. -- Here, again, we have a most interesting object-lesson on the origin and worth of "race"! For of all the men whom we are wont to characterise as Jews, relatively few are descended from these great genuine Hebrews, they are rather the descendants of the Jews of the Diaspora, Jews who did not take part in the last great struggles; who, indeed, to some extent did not even live through the Maccabean age; these and the poor country people who were left behind in Palestine, and who later in Christian ages were banished or fled, are the ancestors of "our Jews" of to-day. Now whoever wishes to see with his own eyes what noble race is, and what it is not, should send for the poorest of the Sephardim from Salonici or Sarajevo (great wealth is very rare among them, for they are men of stainless honour) and put him side by side with any Ashkenazim financier; then will he perceive the difference between the nobility which race bestows and that conferred by a monarch.
-- The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Our good wishes together with our official good will go with them." [9]
In 1934, SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler was presented with a "Situation Report – Jewish Question" by his staff. The vast majority of Jews still considered themselves Germans and were determined to stay. As force couldn't then be used, for fear of international repercussions, the way to break down their resistance was to instill distinctive Jewish identity amongst them by promoting Jewish schools, athletic teams, art and music, and Hebrew. Combined with Zionist occupational retraining centers, this would induce them to abandon their homeland. Nazi policy was therefore to increase support for Zionism, so that Jews would see that the way to ward off worse trouble was to join the movement.
Zionists were still persecuted as Jews. But within that framework it was possible to ease the pressure. On January 28, 1935, the Bavarian Gestapo circularized the regular police that henceforward:
"members of the Zionist organizations are, in view of their activities directed towards emigration to Palestine, not to be treated with the same strictness which is necessary towards the members of the German-Jewish organizations [assimilationists]." [10]
Prinz sorrowfully admitted that
"It was very difficult for the Zionists to operate. It was morally disturbing to seem to be considered as the favoured children of the Nazi Government, particularly when it dissolved the anti-Zionist youth groups, and seemed in other ways to prefer the Zionists. The Nazis asked for a 'more Zionist behaviour.'" [11]
The Rundschau was banned on at least three occasions between 1933 and November 1938, when the regime finally closed down the ZVfD's headquarters after Kristallnacht. After 1935 Labor Zionist emissaries were barred from the country. But even then Palestinian Zionist leaders were allowed to enter for specific meetings. Arthur Ruppin was granted permission to enter Germany on March 20, 1938, to address a mass indoor Berlin rally on the effects of the post-1936 Arab revolt in Palestine. Zionists had far less trouble than their assimilationist rivals, and Communists were sent to concentration camps while the Rundschau was hawked in Berlin's streets.
Today's Zionists can't claim that their predecessors were duped by Hitler. They conned themselves. His theories on Zionism, including the Jews' alleged inability to create a state, had been there, in plain German, since publication of his Mein Kampf in 1926. They convinced themselves that, as racists against mixed marriage, believing that Jews were aliens in Germany, Hitler would see them as the only "honest partners" for a diplomatic detente. [12]
Nor can it be claimed that the WZO collaborated to save Jewish lives. After the 1938 Kristalnacht pogrom, London, hoping to ease pressure for increased Jewish immigration into Palestine, proposed that thousands of children be taken into Britain. But David Ben-Gurion, later Israel's first Prime Minister in 1948, denounced the plan on December 7, 1938:
"If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel." [13]
Five days later he warned the WZO Executive:
"If Jews will have to choose between the refugees, saving Jews from concentration camps, and assisting a national museum in Palestine, mercy will have the upper hand and the whole energy of the people will be channelled into saving Jews from various countries. Zionism will be struck off the agenda not only in world public opinion, in Britain and the United States, but elsewhere in Jewish public opinion. If we allow a separation between the refugee problem and the Palestinian problem, we are risking the existence of Zionism." [14]
1. Joachim Prinz, "Zionism under the Nazi Government," Young Zionist (London, November 1937), p. 18
2. Lucy Dawidowicz (ed.), A Holocaust Reader, pp. 150-5
3. "Rasse als Kulturfaktor," Jüdische Rundschau (August 4, 1933), p. 392
4. Mark Wischnitzer, To Dwell in Safety, p. 212
5. "Reflections," Palestine Post, (November 14, 1938), p. 6
6. Yehuda Bauer, My Brother's Keeper, p. 129
7. David Yisraeli, The Palestine Problem in German Politics 1889-1945, Bar-Ilan university, Appendix (German): Geheime Kommandosache Bericht, pp. 301-2
8. Heinz Hohne, The Order of the Death's Head, p. 333
9. Ibid and Karl Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz, pp. 193-4
10. Kurt Grossmann, "Zionists and Non-Zionists under Nazi Rule in the 1930s," Herzl Yearbook, vol. VI, p. 340
11. Prinz, Ibid
12. Jacob Boas, The Jews of Germany: Self-Perception in the Nazi Era as Reflected in the German Jewish Press 1933-1938, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Riverside, (1977), p. 111
13. Yoav Gelber, "Zionist Policy and the Fate of European Jewry (1939-42)," Yad Vashem Studies, vol. Xll, p. 199
14. Ari Bober (ed.), The Other Israel, p. 171


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It is hard to find yourself in a place full of strangers, another land, miles and miles away from your own country, a different culture altogether, where life moves pretty fast, you might just miss a thing or two if you aren't concentrating.I'm talking about the States, the United States of America as we call it, New York and Boston in particular. What happens when you are in a place where the police department is faster than your pizza delivery guy, where most jaw-dropping movies are shot and where there is no darkness, I'm talking about the tall and large digital billboards that lights up all the streets there are.
I was, awestruck; the magnanimity of this place will take over you. It is like watching a five dimension movie, where the whole film is made in a single shot, much like Interstellar and Birdman, do watch that, you get the feel of what Broadway is all about. It is heaven for those who love to eat, it is dope for those who love cars, BMWs and Jaguars are common sightings.It helped me to understand why this location is called the "Hot Dog Republic" in the world, the view from the Empire State Building makes you realize how systematically built the whole of New York is, divided into streets and avenues, much like rows and columns, not forgetting its beauty.You see every guy running over there, from an 8 year old to an 80 year old, for fitness purposes and otherwise, the live their life to the fullest, period.
The Central Park is as beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan. The magnificent views over there are breathtaking, visit the Zoo, the Museum of Natural History; with a real T-Rex paralyzing you with terror, you might just shit in your pants after watching it, careful.I love Google maps; I travelled the whole city on my own, just with the help of the maps, from different boroughs to big malls, from subway stations to the Statue of Liberty, one gets astounded by how accurate they are in reality, trust me, I was once being approached by muggers late night in one of the streets, and was scared to death, but then a spark of inspiration came, Google maps; much like Zorro from the cartoon series rescued me, I took a slip road and ran for my life, it was fun.
For those who feel famished and running low on cash, there are plenty of one dollar pizza shops, 99 cents pizza, as they are popularly known. But be ready to shed some weight, because it is better to walk than to take a subway, it gives you an opportunity to look at the marvelous architecture and buildings along the way, from St. Patricks Church to Chrysler Building, from Rockefeller center to the Time Warner's center.
New York has a beautiful skyline; it is as radiant as a thousand suns. Let's take you to the Grand Central Station, they should remove the last word from it, because it is hard to even think of the s from the word station, its beauty would refresh the eyes of a man like a crystal pool of water would the desert wanderer.On the technology side of it, every person uses apple products there, not exaggerating, trust me, I've seen it from my own eyes, but still I went further ahead to decipher this code, I went to the main apple store, on the 5th avenue where thousands of people gather before any new launch of the product, from an iPhone to a MacBook. I entered the store, and calling it a tech. store hardly makes sense, it is more of a temple where we worship state of the art technological milestones.
More will be up about my visit and experiences in the States, keep an eye on this space.

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Several reports, here and here, suggest that the Tories have beat a mini-retreat on the Kyoto Protocol. The Canadian delegation either "agreed to the next step", that is to negotiate a second phase to Kyoto, or at least "kept a low profile" and didn't play an actively obstructionist role at the Bonn climate conference. Why? According to Greenpeace, the Tories "been taken aback by the international and Canadian response to their preposterous position on Kyoto."
Would that it were true, but I suspect this is a mere tactical retreat to repair some of the damage Rona Ambrose and Co. have done to themselves onthe issue. In the end, I suspect, the Conservative Policy will resemble the Liberal Policy under Paul Martin. They'll talk a big game but do nothing.
But I suppose we must take our victories where we can get them on this front.
So Cheers, Greenies.


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Excel is much maligned. One reason is it's so easy to make mistakes; take the recent news that Tibco investors "lost" $100 million dollars due to a spreadsheet mistake, or the story last year that there was a mistake in the Excel calculation of a 2010 paper which has been widely cited to justify budget-cutting and austerity measures across the US and Europe.
The reason these mistakes were even possible is because spreadsheets are so easy to use they fall out of the usual testing procedures applied to other business critical applications. The people using Excel are not skilled developers, they have no development background and so checks are not simply missed, they are not even considered.
Now, as I see the take up of BI Analytics tools like Tableau, Alteryx and their brethren accelerate and start to become locally ubiquitous I feel it is important to step back and issue a warning:
Excel, Tableau, Alteryx and other similar tools are development tools, and as such should be given the same standards in quality assurance and documentation as any other development tool / project.
Now when I write development tool I mean that when you are writing an Alteryx workflow, or a Tableau visualisation, or an Excel spreadsheet, you are writing a program – a set of instructions for the software to interpret. In C# you do this by writing lines of code, in Tableau you do this by dragging pills and placing them on panes, in Alteryx by dragging an configuring tools on the canvas and in Excel by using formulae in cells. Regardless of how you get there this set of instructions needs documenting and checking.
In days gone by all "programming" was done by skilled developers who were trained in unit tests, user acceptance testing, and other disciplines with Quality Assurance teams who would have dedicated resource to find bugs and issues. Step forward 5 years and those same routines and reports are now being written and promoted by business users with no formal development testing.
Could we be in a position in 5 or 10 years from now where we see headlines such as:
"Tableau mistake costs manufacturer $500 million"
I doubt it, neither Alteryx nor Tableau suffer from the horrible obfuscation that nested a nested VLOOKUP can bring, but I am making a series point that needs considering during any BI deployment driven by the business.
As a BI consultant I've been asked about this testing problem many times, and so below I set out the common practices I've employed as I've led BI deployments as a consumer, and later as a consultant.
Purple People
IT has already learned the lessons of testing and has many best practices and methodologies laid out to catch and deal with these issues. Most of these best practices can be simply applied to BI in the business universe but they need experienced leaders from the IT world, who understand the business problems to help implement and maintain them.
Purple people are the solution – if they come dressed as this guy then ideal – but regardless they should have skills from IT but with an understanding of the business world, bringing the red of IT and mashing it with the blue of business. Employing a few purple people when recruiting a BI team can bring many advantages but the rigour of process they can bring from the IT world can really help drive testing and quality assurance.
Peer Review
My first manager and mentor Simon Hamm instilled this practice in me and I will never forget it, over the years it's caught many mistakes in teams and projects I have run. It is simple and can be applied to any BI workflow or dashboard.
The premise:
Nothing leaves the team until it has been checked by a peer, that person is responsible for finding the issues you will inevitably have made.
Peer review should be the cornerstone of the business, it should apply to everyone and the assumption during checking should be that there are errors to find. So Senior members of the team are not exempt from errors (often they are the worse culprits as they take on pressure work and publish it quickly).
in the corporate world implementing a peer review policy can also be backed up by personal objectives, instilling an ethos of checking rather than a culture of blame, e.g. replace an objective saying "In the next 6 months your reports should produce no errors" with "Everything you produce should be reviewed by a peer". People make mistakes, removing the blame increases efficiency and moral and shifts the onus onto ensuring the policy designed to catch those mistakes works.
Smoke Testing
Fact checking and other simple functional tests should be part and parcel of the early part of any report / data testing process. Producing a dashboard on the number of people in the UK, then check the top line numbers looks right. It's often said the devil is in the detail but it's important that the broad numbers are checked first – I've seen situations where reports that have been "checked extensively" have basic headline figures with glaring mistakes, which have been missed because of the focus on the detail – I imagine this could have been the issue with the Tibco numbers.
This sits firmly alongside peer review, as replicating the results of the module / workbook should the mainstay of the checking process and are the responsibility of the peer "checker". Thankfully tools like Tableau and Alteryx (and other rapid development BI tools) make this easy. Checking a Tableau report? Use Alteryx to do some adhoc analysis and check the numbers. Checking an Alteryx workflow? Drop the data into Tableau and do some visual checks.
Hand crank a few rows of data, say for an individual or product, through the entire process – are the results what you'd expect? Checking a few rows is much simpler than checking 10 million.
Trend Analysis
Ensure processes track MoM and YoY trends; small data quality issues can be difficult to pick up and will only manifest themselves over time. Keeping headline QA (Quality Assurance) figures of key datasets can help track these trends and pick out issues with data processing.
Unit Testing
Modular workflows like Alteryx are easy to build but in when building them people need to ensure that checks and balances are built into the logic; tools like Message and Test can be used to build simple checks – e.g. are joins 100%? Are there duplicate records? Build in outputs at each of these key stages and ensure these row level error logs are checked if they contain data. Without these checks modules can run unattended for a long time before anyone notices key lookup tables haven't been updated and data dropped during the process.
User Acceptance Testing
With rapid development BI comes a whole new paradigm, UAT can and should be done in an agile and flexible way. Often business users are building their own reports but even if not then co-locating individuals can lead to a much better experience for both parties.
Documentation, Documentation, Documentation
Just do it! Documentation doesn't have to be dry and Word / Visio based though.
Annotate requirements in the tool itself (both Alteryx and Tableau provide a rich set of tools to allow users to do this as they build workflows and dashboards, and other similar tools have similar features). Comment formula and use visual workflows to provide commentary on the analysis and decisions. Hide and disable dead ends / investigations but don't delete them – they are as useful as the finished result as they show the development process.
Also document the checking processes: released a report with an error? Learn from it. Keep a diary of checks for each dataset to refer back to, there's nothing worse than a mistake that's then repeated needlessly later.
Spiderman was once told: "With great power comes great responsibility" and that's never been more relevant than to the new users picking up the BI tools of tomorrow. Throwing away 30+ years of software development lessons would be a shame, it's important those lessons grow and change along with the tools.


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Spending plans by China provinces
BEIJING, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Yunnan's intention to spend heavily to buy base metals is just one example of the ambitious spending proposals that China's 31 provinces, regions and municipalities have rushed out in recent weeks.
Local governments have treated Beijing's Nov. 9 announcement of a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) economic stimulus package as a green light to dust off plans for investments that until then had been blocked by planners who were nervous about creating unwanted capacity.
Here is a partial list of provincial and municipal spending plans drawn from official websites and media. There is no guarantee they will be approved, let alone financed and executed.
BEIJING: The city government plans to spend 120-150 billion yuan in the next two years, catalysing 1 trillion yuan of overall investment.
GANSU: 16.5 billion yuan on road improvements in 2009.
GUANGDONG: Total investments worth more than 2.3 trillion yuan over 5 years.
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GUIZHOU: 120 billion yuan on expressways alone through 2010.
HAINAN: The island province has listed major investments worth 207 billion yuan in total.
HEBEI: 559 key investment projects with a total price tag of 588.9 billion yuan.
HEILONGJIANG: 200 major investment projects are on the drawing board for coming years with a total price tag of 657.1 billion yuan.
HENAN: Total investments of 1 trillion yuan in 2009.
HUBEI: Total investments of 1.5-2.0 trillion yuan in 2009 and 2010, part of a plan to spend 8 trillion yuan through 2012.
HUNAN: Investments of 700 billion yuan in 2009
JIANGSU: 300 billion yuan in government-sponsored projects that will generate total investment of 1.2 trillion yuan in 2009 and 2.5 trillion yuan in 2010.
JIANGXI: 163 new projects totalling 300 billion yuan.
JILIN: 400 billion yuan in infrastructure projects in coming years.
LIAONING: 1.3 trillion yuan in fixed-asset investment in 2009.
SHANDONG: 240 key investment projects totalling 800 billion
SHANGHAI: 500 billion yuan by the end of 2010, with most of the money to be spent on affordable housing.
SHANXI: 650 billion yuan in investments by the end of 2010
SICHUAN: 800 billion yuan by the end of 2010, catalysing total investment of 3 trillion yuan in the quake-stricken province.
TIANJIN: An additional 100 billion yuan this year.
YUNNAN: Plans to complete investments of 1 trillion yuan in 2009 and 2010.
ZHEJIANG: Government spending of 350 billion yuan, catalysing total investment of 1 trillion yuan. (Reporting by Zhou Xin; Editing by Alan Wheatley)
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The White House on Thursday again vowed to address access for press photographers after sharp criticism that it did not offer enough during President Obama's trip to South Africa.
During the White House briefing, press secretary Jay Carney took a barrage of testy — and sometimes shouted — questions about press access to Obama during his speech at Nelson Mandela's memorial service and the plane ride over.
Nearly 40 news outlets and organizations signed a letter last month saying previous administrations have allowed more access to the president.
The American Society of News Editors and The Associated Press Media Editors encouraged other news outlets to stop using the White House's official photos, calling them "propaganda."
The Associated Press director of photography released an op-ed on Thursday criticizing the administration, with the headline "Obama's Orwellian image control."


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The Royal New Zealand Artillery Association (Inc)
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Promoting the fellowship and supporting the wellbeing
Greetings to all fellow Gunners,
The RNZA Association 2106 Reunion and AGM is to be held at the East Coast Bays RSA, North Shore, Auckland over Labour Weekend - 21-23 October 2016.
This is being hosted by the Northern Gunners and we would love you to join us for this gathering in the stunning setting of Browns Bay, which is a picturesique beachside suburb of Auckland. The RSA has great facilities and is very thrilled to be providing the facilities for this reunion.
This is a great chance to spend the long weekend discovering the greater Auckland area.
All the details and Registration forms are attached for you to fill in and return before the cutoff date of 2 October 2016.
Just be aware of Auckland traffic and plan your travel arrangements accordingly.
In the tradition of Reunions we will have several raffles for your purchase. If you have any item that you would think might be suitable as a raffle,and you would be willing to donate, please advise us.
The Association Q Store will also be in operation over that weekend - look out for new items and some specials!!! Don't forget to bring cash for your purchases as we do have EFTPOS facilities.
Come and enjoy a great weekend catching up with fellow Gunners- get a group of your era Gunners together and enjoy the Northern hospitality.
If the Committee can be of any assistance to you, please let us know.
Bernie McCort
RNZA Association
Details of the Royal New Zealand Artillery Association 2016 Reunion and AGM
It is with great pleasure that the Northern Gunners invite you to attend the 2016 Annual General Meeting and Reunion, over Labour Weekend 2016.
The venue is the East Coast Bays RSA. It stands in the seaside suburb of Browns Bay, on Auckland's North Shore. The beach is a few minutes' walk away.
This RSA is well-appointed,and sited close to the local shopping area. Albany Mall and Takapuna are within reach. The bus service is good and free for some.
Various accommodation options are within easy driving distance of the RSA.
The Programme (subject to change)is as follows:
Friday: 1600 – 1900hrs Registration & Nibbles – RSA
Q Store sales & Raffles
Dinner – own arrangements
Saturday: 1000hrs Morning Tea - RSA
1030hrs AGM – RSA
1000 – 1200hrs Partners activity – to be held at the same time as the AGM locally within an easy stroll of the
RSA. (subsidised)
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1330 hrs Optiional Tour- Bus departs for the Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has many
Exhibits including "NZ War Stories"
Cost $20.00
1630hrs Bus returns to RSA
1800 for 1830hrs Semi Formal Dinner at RSA. Minimum Dress: Jacket & Tie – minatures to be worn if appropriat
Sunday: 1000hrs Memorial Service
1030hrs Morning Tea
The cost is $105.00 per head, for all activities except for the Partners activity and the Optional Tour on Saturday afternoon.
Gunners are welcome to attend the Dinner only on the Saturday evening at $80.00 per head
There are links to the Registration Form below. Payment in full is required at the time of Registration.
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Very Early Recommendations for Phoenix Suns' 2013 1st-Round NBA Draft PicksMarch 4, 2013
While some NBA teams may be trying to secure a playoff spot with just a couple dozen regular-season games left, the Phoenix Suns should already be shifting their focus to player development and this upcoming offseason.
The Suns will have two first-round picks in the upcoming draft, and as long as the Lakers miss the playoffs, Phoenix will have the opportunity to acquire two lottery prospects. If the draft were today, the Suns would have the sixth and 14th picks in the draft.
The Suns have a lot of holes in the current roster that need filling, and they can consider drafting a number of players. Goran Dragic has point guard covered, and the team already has plenty of power forwards, but the Suns could definitely use an explosive scorer on the wing, as well as a big man down low.
So, if the Suns kept their current draft position, who should they go after?
Ideally, Ben McLemore from Kansas is the best-case scenario. McLemore is an extremely athletic scorer, he has a great shooting stroke and can make a shot from any spot on the court, and he has the potential to be a great defender as well.
However, most mock drafts such as this one have McLemore going first now. Almost everyone agrees that he should be a top-three pick, and the Suns would need to get lucky in the lottery for a shot at drafting him.
So, with McLemore almost certainly off the board, the Suns should shift their attention to UCLA prospect Shabazz Muhammad.
Muhammad has seen his stock drop slightly since the season began, but the freshman guard-forward is still having a stellar season. Muhammad is averaging 18.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game, and he is shooting 46 percent from the field as well as 45 percent from behind the arc.
Muhammad is a pure scorer, which is exactly what the Suns need, and that scoring ability stems from his athleticism. Shabazz is strong, he has an extremely quick first step, and he is explosive at the rim. He relentlessly attacks the basket and is extremely aggressive, and he can easily elevate over defenders to put them on a poster.
Shabazz does rely on his athleticism and physicality to be a successful scorer, and that means he may suffer through a rapid decline once he gets into his 30s as an NBA player. But as a fresh young prospect coming out of college, Muhammad has all the tools to be a go-to scoring option.
Of course, driving to the basket is not the only way he can score. Shabazz has decent range and should be able to make jump shots and some three-pointers at the NBA level, even though his jump shot is fairly inconsistent. He still could work on improving his range, but it won't be a huge problem for him going forward.
Additionally, the 6'6" wing can occasionally post up on smaller defenders. Muhammad would most likely be a shooting guard in Phoenix, where he would be a couple of inches taller than most of his opponents. In those cases, Muhammad has the strength to make a few shots in the low post, making him a threat to score in so many different ways.
There is no doubt that Muhammad is one of the most prolific scorers in college basketball. He definitely has the potential to score 20 points per game at a professional level, but he is also not a complete player.
Shabazz has one job on the offensive end, and that is to score. He rarely looks to create plays for teammates, and he averages just 0.9 assists per game this season. He isn't a great passer, nor does he look to pass; because of that he can occasionally be a black hole on offense.
The Suns already have Shannon Brown and Michael Beasley on the roster, and they will need to hope that Muhammad doesn't develop into another player with poor basketball I.Q and terrible shot selection.
Shabazz does have a lot of talent, and he has all the tools to be the next primary scoring option of the Phoenix Suns. He doesn't project to be a true franchise player, he may not be a great passer and he isn't an elite defender either (though not a bad one), but Muhammad could still be a major contributor for the Suns over the next several seasons.
In addition to adding a future go-to scorer, the Suns should try to closely examine all of the center prospects in this year's draft class.
The Suns have plenty of players at power forward now, but center is a problem. Marcin Gortat's contract will expire at the end of next season (if he hasn't already been traded), and Jermaine O'Neal is an expiring contract this season who is only getting older each year.
He may not be as well-known as Cody Zeller, Alex Len or Nerlens Noel, but Kelly Olynyk out of Gonzaga could be a great pickup for the Suns in the late lottery.
Olynyk is a 7'0" junior center, and he has done a great job of replacing former Gonzaga center and current Los Angeles Laker Robert Sacre.
This season, Olynyk is averaging 17.7 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. He is shooting a ridiculous 67 percent from the field, and he also leads the NCAA with a PER of 37.8.
What can Olynyk bring to Phoenix? Well, other than the hair, he is one of the best offensive centers in college basketball.
Olynyk is the perfect offensive big man. He is extremely mobile and quick for his size, and he has the ability to run the floor on the fast break. He is a surprisingly good free-throw shooter, connecting on 78 percent of his attempts, and he has enough range to knock down long jumpers with ease. Currently, Olynyk is shooting 38 percent from behind the arc.
Olynyk is also great in pick-and-roll scenarios, and he could create a nice pick-and-roll combo with point guard Goran Dragic.
But his real offensive strength is his low-post game. He has a great back-to-basket game, and despite the fact that he lacks a true go-to move in the post, Olynyk can establish great post position and score on even the best defensive-minded centers.
But while having a 7'0" who can score in so many ways might be nice, Olynyk also comes with plenty of weaknesses.
First of all, he is not athletic. He might be seven feet tall, but Olynyk is not a leaper, and he is not incredibly strong. This contributes to the fact that he only grabs seven rebounds per game, as stronger, more athletic centers often have the advantage over him.
Defensively, Olynyk is not special either. His defensive rating of 89.1 is actually fairly impressive, but he struggles in defending against the pick-and-roll, and he only averages 1.2 blocks per game, which is not impressive for a player his size.
Olynyk will almost certainly never be a superstar, but he could be a great offensive weapon and potential future starter for the Suns. Len, Zeller and Noel will all definitely be taken by the 14th pick, and Mason Plumlee projects to be more of a power forward, so Olynyk appears to be the best big man available.
Overall, the Suns could go a lot of different routes in the upcoming draft. Players like Ben McLemore, Shabazz Muhammad, Anthony Bennett, Nerlens Noel, Otto Porter, Victor Olapido and Cody Zeller could all realistically be targets for the team with that first pick, and it is impossible to tell what they will do at this point.
But this draft could be huge for the Suns. It might not be known as an extremely strong class, but the 2013 draft has the potential to set the foundation of a contending Suns team for years to come.


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When asked why she wrote, O'Connor responded simply, "Because I'm good at it" (Mystery and Manners, 81). In saying this, O'Connor was not being arrogant, although on the surface it might seem that she was. Rather, for her, "it was the only answer [she] could give" (Mystery and Manners, 81). O'Connor firmly believed that her desire and ability to write was a gift that, because of her faith, bore "considerable responsibility:"
"It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us. Usually the artist has to suffer certain deprivations in order to use his gift with integrity." (Mystery and Manners, 81).While I do not presume to say that I am "good" at writing, I, like O'Connor, do presume to say that I write because it is a gift that God has given me and, as I am beginning to see, it is a responsibility that I am called to steward well. How do I know this? Simply, because of the deep pleasure I feel when I write.
For me, writing is a medium for critical examination and reflection, a mode of creativity, and a means for the imagination to take hold. I believe that to live honestly as a Christian it is necessary to face the reality of the brokenness of our world. It requires a "plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system" (Mystery and Manners, 78). Without such a plunge, our worldview is sheltered, shallow, and, therefore, inaccurate and, any attempt at the working out grace, is futile. It is when I write, that I most able to bear this broken reality, and, simultaneously, I am most enabled to hope. It is then that I am most able to think critically and then that I am most enabled to be my most imaginative.
For what purpose I have this desire to write, I do not yet know. How good I am at, again, I do not yet know. But, I do know that I relate deeply to Eric Liddell's character in Chariots of Fire when he says, "I believe God created for me for a purpose … And when I run, I feel His pleasure." I may not be a world class writer as Liddell was a world class runner, but I do indeed feel God's pleasure when I write.


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It's amusing as gamers how much crap we accumulate overtime, so it was about time that my Display cabinet had a little bit of a clear out. Much to the annoyance of my partner this takes centre stage in my living room, in fact it's one of the only areas that I own in the house, and there is definitely an advantage to having all your models fully displayed, as it lets you see the projects that you've currently completed and the ones that are still outstanding. Surprisingly I have never actually counted the points of all the orks I own, but it would easily top 5000 points, and as you can see they definitely take centre stage, and quite rightly too. Looking back I cannot imagine the number of hobby hours spent painting and modelling, it's probably best that I don't, nonetheless I'm still very please of my achievement but it's a never ending battle there is something always need to start and something to finish. So enjoy.
It's really good to look at your army all at once, as sometimes it can be quite rare for you to see everything together, it makes you realise and appreciate all the different elements that hopefully make it complete.
Still a lot of white which means I need to finish these guys, as they do stick out like sore thumbs, but I suppose it's the best form of motivation.


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So I was having trouble comming up with an economic design for the EF. Both the Macross and Zeon sides economy works well in my opinion. But the EF seemed, well, to be at a major disadvantage. Having a limiting number of buildings that produces resources seemed to stagnent them, and seriously be a major disadvantage.
Then I thought, why not figure out a way to have the amount of cash comming in be based off of the size of your base? The bigger the base, the more money. Seemed to make since to me. So, there you have it.
The way it will work for the EF is simple. All base structures (other than base defense and power plants) will produce 100 resources every 10 seconds. (Not counting the actual resource deploy point. This one produces 1000 every 30 seconds, making it much more valuble but you can only make a few of these). So the bigger your base, the more money incoming, the harder it is to defend. It seems to work well for now. Hopefully this will work thoughout the design, we will see.
Any thoughts?


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United States District Court, S.D. Indiana, Indianapolis Division
January 30, 2015
DENNIS LEE MAXBERRY, Plaintiff,v.ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, Defendant.
SARAH EVANS BARKER, District Judge.
This cause is before the Court on Defendant ITT Technical Institute's Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim [Docket No. 28], filed on April 2, 2014 pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). For the reasons set forth below, the motion is GRANTED.
Plaintiff Dennis Maxberry filed a complaint in this Court on April 9, 2014 against Defendant ITT Technical Institute, LLC ("ITT"), an Indiana-based for-profit higher education company. Maxberry is a former enrollee at ITT; according to an Enrollment Agreement attached by ITT, he enrolled in an M.B.A. graduate course for the quarter starting June 2008. Docket No. 15-8, Def.'s Ex. A.[1]
Maxberry's initial complaint, which we noted was "confusing, disjointed, and difficult to decipher, " alleged that IT-and sundry others-had harmed him in a variety of ways over the course of many years. Docket No. 25 at 2. The court summarized the accusations as follows:
It appears that Plaintiff accuses Defendant of stealing his federal student loan money, failing to award him grades for the classes that he completed, and applying money from his educational loans towards tuition payments even after he withdrew from school. Plaintiff also accuses Defendant of "being unconscious to the plaintiff by arbitrating the contract, " searching his person or property "without a warrant and without probable cause, " using excessive force upon him, failing to provide him with "needed medical care, " "false credit testimony, mayhem on property, defamation, false imcriminalization [sic], malicious prosecution, conspiracy, and/or any other claim that may be supported by the allegations of this complaint." Plaintiff's Complaint makes reference to 28 U.S.C. § 1983, 1985, and 1986, "Title IX, and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, " the "False claim act, " and avers that "[t]he criminal proceeding by the defendants... [is] still pending, " but that Plaintiff "was innocent."
Docket No. 25 at 2 (internal citations omitted).
We dismissed Plaintiff's initial complaint on two grounds. First, a portion of it appeared to constitute, in effect, an "appeal" from a prior judgment entered by the state courts of Wisconsin. In his Wisconsin suit, Maxberry had alleged-in a similarly rambling fashion-that ITT and another entity had harassed him, stalked him, denied him employment, and discriminated against him on grounds of race and sexual orientation. Docket No. 15-3, Def.'s Ex. B. The Milwaukee County Circuit Court granted ITT's motion to compel arbitration of these claims on the basis of the binding arbitration provision. Docket No. 15-4, Def's Ex. C. The state's Court of Appeals and Supreme Court both denied his appeals, rendering the state court judgment final as of December 10, 2012. We accordingly invoked the Rooker-Feldman [2] doctrine, observing that we were barred from consideration of any elements of Maxberry's complaint that urged us to engage in review of the Wisconsin court's rulings. Docket No. 25 at 3-5. (citing Taylor v. Fed. Nat'l Mortg. Ass'n, 374 F.3d 529, 533 (7th Cir. 2004)).
Second, we dismissed all remaining portions of Maxberry's initial complaint on the grounds that they failed to meet the pleading requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a). As we said then:
Assuming that Plaintiff is asserting legal claims in this action that are different and independent from those asserted in Wisconsin, they are nevertheless cast in such an incoherent and confusing manner that they must be dismissed under [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)] based on Plaintiff's failure to give Defendant (as well as the Court) fair notice of what they actually are.
Docket No. 25 at 7.
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Knut the polar bear has turned from a cuddly cub into a publicity-addicted psycho, one of his keepers claimed yesterday.
Markus Roebke said Berlin Zoo's celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience.
"Knut must go and the sooner the better," he said, insisting that the bear should be sent to an animal park where he received less attention.
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Minnesota Twins Open as Moneyline Underdog vs the Chicago White Sox
The Minnesota Twins host Chicago on Saturday, looking to pick up a win and improve their 46-56 mark against the 50-54 White Sox in MLB betting odds action at Target Field.
Logan Darnell gets the call for the Minnesota Twins and he will try to build on a 0-0 mark. In the other dugout, Chris Sale brings a 9-1 ledger to the game for the Chicago White Sox as he tries to quiet the Twins bats.
Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins Opening Odds and Betting Line
The Minnesota Twins were listed as 140 moneyline underdogs earlier in the day at BetOnline, while odds makers set the opening total line around 7.5 earlier at TopBet.
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The Minnesota Twins vs Chicago White Sox odds would favor the White Sox if the betting lines were set according to our power ranks. Minnesota is rated No. 19 in the current Odds Shark poll, while Chicago is at No. 18.
How Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins Stats Matchup
Rating these teams in several key categories is important for handicappers and Minnesota has baseball's No. 13-rated offensive output, at 8.37 hits per game. The Chicago White Sox average 8.69 hits per game, good for No. 15 on the list.
Comparing defensive stats, Chicago owns the No. 25-rated road mark, allowing 4.58 runs per game on the highway. Minnesota, on the other hand, rates No. 12 in scoring at home.
Recent Outings Betting Recap
Chicago won its last outing, a 9-5 result against the Twins on July 25. Bettors who backed the White Sox at +110 on the moneyline won on the day, and the total score (14) sent OVER bettors to the payout window. Chicago rolled to a 9-5 win against Minnesota on Friday, as John Danks and the White Sox' bats led the team to victory at Target Field.
Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins Betting Odds Trends
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi White Sox's last 5 games
Chi White Sox is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi White Sox's last 6 games on the road
Chi White Sox is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing Minnesota
Minnesota is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota's last 7 games
Minnesota is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota's last 7 games at home
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I've been watching a lot of scary movies lately, and I really love the show "The Dead Files" with Amy Allan a Physical medium. In a lot of the show's there are always "Shadow People", not always a man but when there are men "Shadow People" they are usually wearing a hat and a long trench coat. Well this leads me to tonight's blog….
I had a crappy sleep last night, in pain and lots of tossing and turning, waking up which seemed every hour on the hour. In one of my awakenings I could of swore I saw a "Shadow Person/Hat Man" standing in the door way of my bedroom, thinking I was just dreaming I rolled over and ignored it. What seemed not long after, I opened my eye's again and the figure was at the end of my bed! Thinking it was probably just my over active imagination and the pain but being so tired I closed my eye's and fell asleep again but with an over-whelming urge to get up and take an Ibprophen tablet and take a trip to the bathroom. I could of swore I got up but when I opened my eye's again the "Shadow Man/Hat Man" was standing at the edge of my bed where I get in and out! I tried to scream but all that came out was a whimper and I couldn't move…..I closed my eye's and fell back to sleep, waking up about 8 am. I was shaken to the core, did I really see a black figure of this guy in a black trench coat and brimmed hat?? or was I dreaming? or going crazy, It all seemed so real!
This article I found describes what I saw and was written by Micha Ackerman, author of WormWood. This really freaked me out.
The Hat Man is a shadow person that has been reported all over the world. The entity is usually described as a tall shadow man dressed in a long black trench coat and wearing a wide brimmed hat or a fedora. He is distinctively male and witnesses say that he has no face or a shadowy blurred face. Most shadow entities are usually seen for a moment or two before disappearing, but the Hat Man seems to be different often staying for a prolonged period of time and sometimes he even touches, chokes or assaults his victims.
Another aspect of the Hat Man that is eerie and more sinister than other shadow people is that the Hat Man is often associated with hostile environments, aggression and is sometimes an indicator that something evil will happen. Here is what the Strange Accounts website has to say:
"This seemingly dark presence is known to cause – or be attracted by – hostile environments and aggressive behavior. Those who see him are often witness to domestic disturbances and family breakdown, noting a tangibly negative atmosphere, sense of dread or hopelessness. For this reason, many have labelled the spirit a "demon". An intelligent haunt, capable of both physical and psychological manipulation, the Hat Man may well be able to "oppress" those it comes in contact with, seeming to lend credence to this theory."
Do you believe?? Let me know what "You" think!!


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A PARTIALLY-renovated Birmingham church has been badly damaged by a roof fire which was apparently started accidentally by workmen.
The blaze broke out at St Richard's C of E church in Hallmoor Road, Sheldon, yesterday afternoon.
Watch Commander Colin Roberts, from Sheldon Fire Station, said: "It was a single pitched roof that was well alight.
"When we arrived there was smoke coming from the eaves and we managed to catch the fire in the nick of time.
"We had to strip the tiles off of the roof and we were there for about three hours."
He said the fire was believed to have been caused by workmen using a propane heater to dry out part of the roof.
Almost 20 fire fighters attended the scene from Sheldon, Ward End and Bickenhill fire stations.
No-one was hurt and no-one could be contacted for comment from the church.
In a seperate incident a family of six was forced to flee their blazing house in Birmingham after a fire was started by a young boy playing with a cigarette lighter.
Firefighters from Handsworth and Aston were called to the house in Warstone Terrace, Handsworth, shortly after midnight.
When they arrived at the scene a couple and their four children had all evacuated safely.
Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus rescued the family's dog while tackling the blaze, which destroyed the rear bedroom of the end-terrace house where the fire started. The rest of the house was damaged by smoke.
A spokesman for Handsworth fire station said: "The fire was started by a nine-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter, but he got out before it took too much of a hold.
"The family did the right thing in getting out of the property. This incident shows the value of having a smoke alarm in good working order."


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Recently, I overheard some folks discussing how people shipped things overnight places to hurry processing of their items. Often, people pay substantial fees beyond normal postal rates for this service. However, all it does is get the item to its destination faster. It does not promise faster processing once it reaches where it is going. The difference is 100 times regular cost in some cases! When one of them realized how much it cost, they said, "That ought to be a crime!"
While I am aware the person was speaking for emphasis, I immediately realized at least some of the holes in their argument. It is these holes, and the paths down which they lead, away from our essential freedoms, I want to discuss.
To decide to regulate and criminalize how we spend our money is to violate an essential freedom we have as human beings. The person who spends 100 times more than someone else to get his item to its destination overnight (instead of the 3 to 7 business days for normal postal delivery) is spending their own money. They're not spending my money, nor yours. It's theirs. As such, the right of property ownership means they get to decide what happens to their property, so long as it does not harm others. If I use my property, like my car, to deliberately hurt or kill someone, that's a different story. We can all agree the law would be right to step in such a case.
Our freedoms guarantee we have the right to live, work and recreate as we choose, within the confines of a sensible legal system. They give us the ability to think, create and invent. Without freedom of choice and property, there is no creation, no invention, no innovation. The most repressed societies of the world have contributed the least in scientific developments, except for military applications. The greater the freedom in a society, the greater the creativity, in all walks of life.
The inventor Albert Einstein said,
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
I considered these thoughts during the debate over Mayor Michael Bloomberg's declaration sodas of a certain size (or larger) would no longer be sold in New York City. His decision to do it was for the health reasons of the people of his city, and its visitors. But I kept wondering what right he had to decide how much soda my family and I drink? Yes, sugared soda is harmful, when consumed over the long-term in large amounts. To me, as a diabetic, it's even harmful (in more than very small quantities when I am having a low blood sugar episode) in the short-term. But it's also my right as an adult to drink this legal beverage, in as large of quantities as I choose, and take the consequences of my behavior upon myself.
Is a 32 ounce cup of sugared soda sensible? Probably not. But our adult son buys and drinks them occasionally, and when he does it with his own money, all I can do is casually mention our family history of diabetes (besides me, both my parents & several of my grandparents), and the risk he's taking of it. But it's his choice, his money, and if he wants to spend it foolishly, it's his business. My husband occasionally drinks them, too, as do our daughter and son-in-law. Not sensible, but their choices. Our grandchildren, however, drink water or milk when we're out with them. We can control the behavior of 1, 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 year olds. Well, not the behavior, but at least what they drink! 😉
When it come to each choice, the consequences generally also fall on the people, or those closest to them. To say we must criminalize some behavior because of its potential for long-term damage is to remove the consequences of both the behavior and the damages. As humans, we all instinctively know our actions have consequences, whether we like them, or admit it, or not. By removing all consequences, we remove all personal responsibility, and thus remove all personal choice.
My father died of esophageal cancer, caused by being a smoker most of his adult life. Was it sensible for him to smoke? Of course not! He tried to quit many times, and failed. It was only in the last few years before he died that he succeeded. Does that mean I want smoking criminalized so other families don't have to go through the pain he and we as his family did? Of course not! His personal choices, determined by his personal freedoms, lead to his personal consequences, and thus our own personal consequences as his family.
To remove all personal responsibility, and thus all personal choice, is to remove all freedoms. For each freedom criminalizing and regulation removes, we are a more restricted people. Yes, there needs to be a rule of law, to dictate things a society considers inappropriate, like hurting or killing one another or stealing from each other. Yes, there needs to be laws about how what side of the road to drive on, and what to do when emergency vehicles are seen. These are sensible, and good, and we can all agree on such things.
But to go to extremes, to remove all personal responsibility, and thus all personal choice, is also to remove much of what makes us human. We instinctively want to choose our careers, our lifestyle, our cars, our homes, our clothes, our food, our life partners, whether we have children (and how many), how we school our children and ourselves and so on. Even the world's most repressed peoples have some choices in life, no matter how tiny they seem to us in the "free" societies of the world.
As toddlers, we understand instinctively the rights of free people to have property and choice. Watch small children at play if you don't believe me! Even if an adult starts them by encouraging coöperation, the play among toddlers normally quickly descends to a "Gimmie! That's MINE!" level, unless an adult stops them. And if an unsuspecting adult tries to force an unwilling toddler into a situation, outfit or activity in which the child has no interest in participating, this instinctive want of personal choice becomes all the more clear, and loudly verbalized!
With each cry of "That ought to be a crime!," we have that many fewer freedoms. A free society is loosely regulated. The more regulations and laws, the less free the society becomes. We are moving closer to less and less freedom, and more and more restrictions daily. All because so few are stopping to think that just because it's not sensible, doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be regulated or criminalized . . .


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Soot particles may be twice as bad as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming, suggests a new study.
Grains of soot deposited in snow have also caused about one-quarter of the observed rise in global surface temperature since 1880, suggests the model by James Hansen and Larissa Nazarenko. The pair examined how soot particles affect the atmosphere when they darken snow and ice.
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(From PDI-Entertainment's Indie Bravo supplement, published Dec. 9.)
'Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan'
Visionary filmmaker Lav Diaz's nonconformist ways have challenged viewers and distributors of his socially-aware works, which often run considerably longer than "traditional" movies.
Some of Diaz's acclaimed films include "Batang West Side," "Death in the
and "Melancholia"—all winners in film fests abroad. His most recent victories
include the NETPAC Award for "Florentina Hubaldo, Land of Encantos CTE"
at the Jeonju International Film Festival last year; and the top prize at the
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival for "Norte, Hangganan ng
Kasaysayan" this year.
He observes that the local indie scene continues to show progress: "Bawat region, naglalabas ngayon ng pelikula. May deluge. It shows that maganda ang nangyayari."
He is currently filming "Mula sa Kung Ano ang (From What is Before)" in the
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Thursday 24 September
Shocking day today with no winners whatsoever. Got a couple of football bets later on tonight but they will only make a dent in today's loss should they win so I'll hold those results over to tomorrow.
Maths bet Diablo lost out to Mhilu in what was effectively a match at Perth.
Punter Profits and SLH put selections up in the same race, the 3.10 Fontwell. PP gave out Capall Eile who was on the floor at the second, while SLH's pick Doubly Guest jumped appallingly and was pulled up after five fences.
The Form Guru is having a bad week so far, 31.5 points down in the last three days, but as I said last week I know what the score is with this service and it's not worth getting too worked up when two or three bad days come along together. Started last week in a similar vein but finished very strongly, hope for the same again this time.
The SLH A/W selection was unplaced, and no joy either from the extra bets today - although Ladbrokes saved me £50. Last minute decision to do a £50 r/f on the PP / SLH bets in the 3.10. Lads would only let me have a £25 r/f and by the time Corals site had clunked it's way to the race they were off !
Quick mention for Tipping Legends - still get the e-mails although I've stopped following the bets. The service had a major restruscturing earlier this month as current and former subscribers will know, with JC effectively steering the ship on his own now.
He's hit a good run as well this week, with Go Go Green advised today at 25/1 winning at Pontefract at an SP of 9/1. Early days yet, but will be interesting to see if this run is built on in the weeks ahead, or whether the pattern throughout this year will be repeated.
As for me, just have to hope for a better day tomorrow !
Bets Advised
SLH Private
Doubly Guest 2pts win @ min 5/2 - LOST (SP 7/2)
Equine Investments
Commander Wish 0.5 pts e/w @ 20/1 - LOST (SP 12/1)
Maths Account Bet
Diablo £50 win @ 2/1 - 2ND (SP 5/4)
Punter Profits
Capall Eile - system A - LOST (SP 7/4)
Tuppenny Piece e/w @ min 7/1 - LOST (SP 8/1)
Chris, The Form Guru
Ingleby Star 1 pt e/w @ 20/1 - LOST (SP 14/1)
Jeer 3pts win @ 4/1 - 3RD (SP 4/1)
Four Tel 2pts win @ 11/2 - LOST (SP 11/4)
Fire King 1 pt e/w @ 11/1 - LOST (SP 12/1)
Ocean Of Peace 2pts win @ 15/2 - LOST (SP 13/2)
Filun 1 pt e/w @ 14/1 - LOST (SP 10/1)
Bets Placed
Doubly Guest £200 win @ 3/1 - 7/2..............(200)
Commander Wish £50 e/w @ 20/1..................(100)
Diablo £250 win @ 2/1..........................(250)
Capall Eile £100 win @ 9/4.....................(100)
Tuppenny Piece £100 win @ 7/1..................(100)
Ingleby Star £50 e/w @ 20/1....................(100)
Jeer £150 win @ 4/1............................(150)
Four Tel £100 win @ 11/2.......................(100)
Fire King £50 e/w @ 10/1.......................(100)
Ocean Of Peace £100 win @ 7/1 - 8/1............(100)
Filun £50 e/w @ 14/1...........................(100)
EI - 7.0 / 9.0 Kempton - 6 win doubles..........(60)
Maths Mention - Larkham.........................(50)
3.10 Fontwell £25 r/f...........................(50)
Loss on day £1560


text: Sarah Pratt McLean, Mrs Greene (also wrote as: Sarah Platt McLean Greene) (1856-1935), was an American author. Her works include: Cape Cod Folks (1881), Towhead (1883), Last Chance Junction (1889), The Moral Imbeciles (1898), Vesty of the Basins (1900), Winslow Plain (1902), Flood-Tide (1902) and Power Lot (1906). "Aunt Sibylla was not sporting, now, in the airy realms of metaphor. Aunt Sibylla stood upon Cape Cod, and her voice rang out with that peculiar sweep and power which the presence of a dread reality alone can give. Something of the precariousness of her situation, too, was expressed in The wild, alarming, though graceful, gesture of her arms. "


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I finished major revisions to A Lady's Revenge and sent it off to beta readers. I have to say I'm really excited about the changes. It's amazing what one learns about writing craft and technique over the course of three years. Anyhoo, since this is supposed to be a goals check, I'd better get to it.
As I mentioned, I finished edits to ALR before Jan 31. Yay! I began the GIAM 100 words in 100 days challenge on Jan 1 and haven't missed a day. Yet. I have two more months to go so keep your fingers crossed. The only other task I needed to accomplish this month, and haven't, was to post once a week on this blog. Gotta correct that.
As a side note, Romance University's doing awesome. We have our calendar pretty well booked until May. How cool is that? I still can't believe the generosity of our guest bloggers. RU was a mere blip on the Internet scene eight months ago, and now folks are contacting us to blog.
I'm so proud to be part of RU's incredibly supportive community.


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I have no idea if these films are considered an embarrassment best forgotten or an alternative voice in cinema history that can be enjoyed without judgement. Who cares? It was fuckin' good fun.
East Surrey Young Conservatives meeting.
'70s interiors. A fascinating blend of bright plastics, brown surfaces and eye-tormenting awfulness.
"So, like, is that actually your hair or some weird plastic hat?"
You could possibly play cricket with that tie.