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Hello everyone, I wanted to update You that we are still discussing many things but have not held a meeting in a few weeks because we have not need to vote on anything. Below is a few things that have been discussed.
Insurance, I'll get to details on that in general discussion after I finish discussion with the insurance company.
SN Treasurer, We have all agreed to allow John Kitrell to regain his position as treasurer as soon as He is able to do so. This should be soon, however until He takes it over please continue sending fees to Allan Morrow.
SNAC/SNPC There has been discussion with Johnathan Ray about ordering baskets, We have agreed to allow Him to order the Baskets for both events. Also He had some questions about the players packs, everything is looking top notch for the event.
SNDC, there was some discussion about the date being earlier in the year. No vote was taken, but the majority of the Board is currently in favor of allowing the earlier date.
Ratings, they have been briefly discussed and We considered working a deal to add them. However there is much discussion to be brought up including the possibility of raising SN Fee's. This may be a hold up and will be discussed in General discussion later on.
Board Member Terms, Because the majority of the Board are from replacement elections We have decided to discuss which 3 members would like to continue another term when it comes time to change out. This will not be an issue until June or July when the new election takes place.
Next Seasons SNC's, We have discussed available dates for each SNC and plan to place protected dates on annual events that take place already that time of year. Casey has sent out request to these annual events already.
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Nice update, Eric.
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Agreed. Good job, Eric.
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Thank you on the monthly update of zero productivity Eric. Looks like you are the only one doing anything.
Any word on that cheap website?
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Gourley Wrote:
> Thank you on the monthly update of zero
> productivity Eric. Looks like you are the only one
> doing anything.
> Any word on that cheap website?
I think in the last meeting minutes we agreed to send the developer the rest of the money to get it set up. I have not had a discussion with Him and do not know what the progress of that is. I am also not sure if He ever got that Money as I never double checked with Allan. Maybe another Board member may be able to answer this question better...
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Is David Clarke Dead? Revenge's James Tupper Reveals Details — Exclusive
It's been a while since David Clarke and his flashbacky goodness appeared on Revenge, but actor James Tupper is more involved than ever.
Emily Thorne's quest this season has focused on her mother, Kara Wallace Clarke, so David's clocked less screen time, but he's about to return. Could he finally be appearing in the present day?
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Wetpaint Entertainment: Do you watch Revenge when you're not on it?
James Tupper: Why would I watch when I'm not on? I'm joking. Yeah, of course I watch when I'm not on. I love watching it. It's a fun show.
Does your family get into it too?
My wife would put her hands over [my son's] ears when it has inappropriate, which was hilarious, but they are totally addicted. And then he went to school — he was in fifth grade or sixth grade — and he's telling his friends about it. And all his friends are like, "Yeah. I watch it. And my mom loves it." So it was like a little cabal that happened that I had no control over.
This season you had your wife committed. That was sweet.
As you do on a Friday — off you go to the mental home! I think she deserved it, you know. She was trying to hurt the kid. What would you do?
Good call on that.
I'll tell you something really funny, and I'm not joking. Obviously, there's thousands of people who have curated their lives without Revenge, but there's hundreds who have. And in my world, I was walking down the street, and I was with my 3-and-a-half-year-old-son. And someone yells across, "You're not dead, are you?"
And what's your go-to answer for "You're not dead"?
Atlas, my son, said, "What did she mean, Daddy?" It's kind of complicated. Even adults can't follow the narrative when they watch it.
What do you think about David Clarke? Is he dead?
Do you think the answer's that simple? Here's the deal. If I say, "Yes, he's dead," then it's definite that he's not dead. If I say, "No, he's not dead," then, he's definitely a goner.
But they made a big deal of this prison shanking.
Did he have a twin?
Can you tease anything about what's coming up?
No. I don't think I can actually because the last one I shot you've already seen, and I'm going to shoot another one, hopefully Monday.
What was it like to work with Jennifer Jason Leigh?
She's a legend. She's amazing. She's terrific. She's just a really committed actress, and when you're working with her, she's in a world. And when she's done, she's like, "Hi. It's so nice to see you." You're like, "Oh, hi!" I appreciate that because it's not easy to have that level of concentration take after take, angle after angle, view after view. You really have to stop the rest of the nonsense and focus. That's how I like to work. I think pros are like that.
What's this vendetta that Kara Wallace Clarke was on? I feel like you've been completely brushed aside by Amanda and her revegenda.
Listen, if you know any of the executives at ABC, could you give them a call? I agree. No. You've got to love the cast. Every time I go in to work, it's such a feeling of joy and fun.
Is your wife [Anne Heche] in on what's coming up for David Clarke? Do you tell her?
Annie? She doesn't want to get ahead. It's one of those things where she won't even run the lines with me. And then sometimes, I'm like, "I just did this scene, I want to talk about it," and she's like, "Oh, okay," because she likes to watch the show. She's a fan. I like to pretend it's me, but I think it's the show.
What else do you have going on right now?
Tickle Time. My wife, Anne, started this. Her idea was to create a powdered sun block for kids. Instead of putting on a lotion or spray, you put on a powder. It's translucent. So you can put it on your skin and it's a total UVA and UVB block. It's approved by the USDA and all that stuff. It has an SPF rating, and it's really great in the morning. My kids just put it on and love it.
Why is a powder better than a lotion?
Well, according to the AMA, the lotion gets ingested into your skin and they're concerned about how they affect your liver in particular. So the powder we've developed doesn't get absorbed into the skin. It stays on top. There's a video of Anne and my 3-year-old [on the Tickle Time website]. He very hilariously demonstrates how to use it. But he's basically the first actor even in Anne's career to steal the scene. I'm going to ICM or CAA, or one of those big agencies [and say], "Look. Here's his audition tape. He's an actor."
What are your thoughts on him following your footsteps?
I think it would be great. Whatever he wants to do, I'll support him. Right now, he's really into baseball. But I think you'll be interviewing him on The Return of Revenge.
Obviously, I think the intent is to keep Revenge going for seven years. But at what point does it just get too complicated? Last season it was pretty simple: David Clarke's the victim, and she's going to avenge his death.
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Göring was born at the sanatorium Marienbad in Rosenheim, Bavaria. His father Heinrich Ernst Göring (31 October 1839 7 December 1913) had been the first Governor-General of the German protectorate of South West Africa (modern day Namibia) as well as being a former cavalry officer and member of the German consular service. Göring had among his patrilineal ancestors Eberle/Eberlin, a Swiss-German family of high bourgeoisie.
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Göring's mother Franziska "Fanny" Tiefenbrunn (1859-15 July 1923) came from a Bavarian peasant family. The marriage of a gentleman to a woman from lower class (1885) occurred only because Heinrich Ernst Göring was a widower. Hermann Göring was one of five children; his brothers were Albert Göring and Karl Ernst Göring, and his sisters were Olga Therese Sophia Goring and Paula Elisabeth Rosa Göring, the last of whom were from his father's first marriage. While anti-Semitism became rampant in Germany of that time, his parents were not anti-Semitic.
Hermann Göring had an older brother Karl Goring (?), who migrated to the United States. Karl's son, Werner G. Göring, became a Captain in the Army Air Force and piloted B-17s on bombing missions over Europe. Göring's younger brother Albert Göring was opposed to the Nazi regime, and helped Jews and other dissidents in Germany during the Nazi era. He is said to have forged his brother Hermann's signature on transit papers to enable escapes, among other acts.
Ritter von Epenstein purchased two largely dilapidated castles, Burg Veldenstein in Bavaria and Schloss Mauterndorf near Salzburg, Austria, whose very expensive restorations were ongoing by the time of Hermann Göring's birth. Both castles were to be residences to the Göring family, their official "caretakers" until 1913. Both castles were also ultimately to be his property. In 1914 he tried to commit suicide; however, he was found by his mother,and was sent to the hospital. He survived after cutting his wrist and was soon sent back home. In 1915 he joined the army and fought in the Battle of the Somme.
According to some biographers of both Hermann Göring and his younger brother Albert Göring, soon after the family took residence in his castles, von Epenstein began an adulterous relationship with Frau Göring and may in fact have been Albert's father. (Albert's physical resemblance to von Epenstein was noted even during his childhood and is evident in photographs.) Whatever the nature of von Epenstein's relationship with his mother, the young Hermann Göring enjoyed a close relationship with his godfather. Göring was unaware of von Epenstein's Jewish ancestry and birth until, as a child at a prestigious Austrian boarding school (where his tuition was paid by von Epenstein), he wrote an essay in praise of his godfather and was mocked by the school's anti-Semitic headmaster for professing such admiration for a Jew. Göring initially denied the allegation, but when confronted with proof in the "Semi-Gotha", a book of German heraldry (Ritter von Epenstein had purchased his minor title and castles with wealth garnered from speculation and trade and was thus included in a less than complimentary reference work on German speaking nobility), Göring, to his youthful credit, remained steadfast in his devotion to his family's friend and patron so adamantly that he was expelled from the school. The action seems to have tightened the already considerable bond between godfather and godson.
Relations between the Göring family and von Epenstein became far more formal during Göring's adolescence (causing Mosley and other biographers to speculate that perhaps the theorised affair ended naturally or that the elderly Heinrich discovered he was a cuckold and threatened its exposure). By the time of Heinrich Göring's death, the family no longer lived in a residence supplied by or seemed to have much contact at all with von Epenstein (though the family's comfortable circumstances indicate the Ritter may have continued to support them financially). Late in his life, Ritter von Epenstein wed a singer, Lily, who was half his age, bequeathing her his estate in his will, but requesting that she in turn bequeath the castles at Mauterndorf and Veldenstein to his godson Hermann upon her own death.
Göring was sent to boarding school at Ansbach, Franconia and then attended the cadet institutes at Karlsruhe and the military college at Berlin Lichterfelde. Göring was commissioned in the Prussian army on 22 June 1912 in the Prinz Wilhelm Regiment (112th Infantry), headquartered at Mulhouse as part of the 29th Division of the Imperial German Army.
During the first year of World War I, Göring served with an infantry regiment in the Vosges region. He was hospitalised with Rheumatism resulting from the damp of trench warfare. While he was recovering, his friend Bruno Loerzer convinced him to transfer to the Luftstreitkräfte. Göring's application to transfer was immediately turned down. But later that year Göring flew as Loerzer's observer in Feldflieger Ableilung (FFA) 25 - Göring had arranged his own transfer. He was detected and sentenced to three weeks' confinement to barracks. The sentence was never carried out: by the time it was imposed Göring's association with Loerzer had been regularised. They were assigned as a team to the 25th Field Air Detachment of the Crown Prince's Fifth Army - "though it seems that they had to steal a plane in order to qualify. They flew reconnaissance and bombing missions for which the Crown Prince invested both Göring and Loerzer with the Iron Cross, first class.
On completing his pilot's training course he was posted back to Feldflieger Ableilung (FFA) 2 in October 1915. Göring had already claimed two air victories as an Observer (one unconfirmed). He gained another flying a Fokker EIII single-seater scout in March 1916. In October 1916 he was posted to Jagdstaffel 5, but was wounded in action in November. In February 1917 he joined Jagdstaffel 26. He now scored steadily until in May 1917 he got his first command, Jasta 27. Serving with Jastas 5, 26 and 27, he claimed 21 air victories. Besides the Iron Cross, he was awarded the Zaehring Lion with swords, the Karl Friedrich Order and the House Order of Hohenzollern with swords, third class, and finally in May 1918 (despite not having the required 25 air victories) the coveted Pour le Mérite. On 7 July 1918, after the death of Wilhelm Reinhard, the successor of The Red Baron, he was made commander of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen, Jagdgeschwader 1.
In June 1917, after a lengthy dogfight, Göring shot down an Australian pilot named Frank Slee. The battle is recounted in The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering. Göring landed and met the Australian, and presented Slee with his Iron Cross. Years after, Slee gave Göring's Iron Cross to a friend, who later died on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Also during the war Göring had through his generous treatment made a friend of his prisoner of war Captain Frank Beaumont, a Royal Flying Corps pilot. "It was part of Goering's creed to admire a good enemy, and he did his best to keep Captain Beaumont from being taken over by the Army.
Göring finished the war with twenty-two confirmed kills.
Because of his arrogance Göring's appointment as commander of Jagdgeschwader 1 had not been well received. Though after demobilisation Göring and his officers spent most of their time during the first weeks of November 1918 in the Stiftskeller, the best restaurant and drinking place in Aschaffenburg, he was the only veteran of Jagdgeschwader 1 never invited to post-war reunions.
Göring was genuinely surprised (at least by his own account) at Germany's defeat in the First World War. He felt personally violated by the surrender, the Kaiser's abdication, the humiliating terms, and the supposed treachery of the post-war German politicians who had "goaded the people [to uprising] [and] who [had] stabbed our glorious Army in the back [thinking] of nothing but of attaining power and of enriching themselves at the expense of the people. Ordered to surrender the planes of his squadron to the Allies in December 1918, Göring and his fellow pilots intentionally wrecked the planes on landing. This endeavour paralleled the scuttling of surrendered ships. Typical for the political climate of the day, he was not arrested or even officially reprimanded for his action.
Göring as a veteran pilot was often hired to fly businessmen and others on private aircraft. On a winter's day in 1920 Count Eric von Rosen, a widely-known and intrepid explorer, arrived at an aerodrome in Sweden and requested a flight to his estate at Rockelstad near Sparreholm. It was a short journey by air and as it was snowing it seemed a flight would be the quick way home. The count relished the challenge of flying through snow if a brave enough pilot could be found. With only one or two hours' of daylight left, Göring readily agreed to make the journey. After take-off they got lost as the aircraft pitched and plunged over trees and valleys; the count was violently airsick. They finally touched down on the frozen Lake Båven near Rockelstad Castle. It was too late for Göring to go back that day so he accepted the count and countess's invitation to stay overnight at the castle.
The medieval castle, with its suits of armour, paintings, hunting relics and exploration trophies was suited to romance. It may have been here that Göring first saw the swastika emblem, a family badge which was set in the chimney piece around the roaring fire.
This was also the first time Göring saw his future wife. A great staircase led down into the hall opposite the fireplace. As Göring looked up he saw a woman coming down the staircase as if toward him. He thought she was very beautiful. The count introduced his sister-in-law Baroness Karin von Kantzow (née Freiin von Fock, 1888–1931) to the twenty-seven year old Göring.
Carin was a tall, maternal, unhappy, sentimental woman five years Göring's senior, estranged from her husband and in delicate health. Göring was immediately smitten with her. Carin's eldest sister and biographer claimed that it was love at first sight. Carin was carefully looked after by her parents as well as by Count and Countess von Rosen. She was also married and had an eight year old son Thomas to whom she was devoted. No romance other than one of courtly love was possible at this point.
Göring joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and took over the SA leadership as the Oberste SA-Führer. After stepping down as SA Commander, he was appointed an SA-Gruppenführer (Lieutenant General) and held this rank on the SA rolls until 1945. Hitler later recalled his early association with Göring thus:
I liked him. I made him the head of my S.A. He is the only one of its heads that ran the S.A. properly. I gave him a disheveled rabble. In a very short time he had organised a division of 11,000 men.
At this time Carin, who liked Hitler, often played hostess to meetings of leading Nazis including her husband, Hitler, Hess, Rosenberg and Röhm.
Göring was with Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich on 9 November 1923. He marched beside Hitler at the head of the SA. When the Bavarian police broke up the march with gunfire, Göring was seriously wounded in the groin.
The Görings, acutely short of funds and reliant on the goodwill of Nazi sympathizers abroad, moved from Austria to Venice then in May 1924 to Rome via Florence and Siena. Göring met Mussolini in Rome. Mussolini expressed some interest in meeting Hitler, by then in prison, on his release. Personal problems, however, continued to multiply. Göring's mother had died in 1923. By 1925 it was Carin's mother who was ill. The Görings with difficulty raised the money for a journey in spring 1925 to Sweden via Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig. Göring had become a violent morphine addict and Carin's family were shocked by his deterioration when they saw him. Carin, herself an epileptic, had to let the doctors and police take full charge of Göring. He was certified a dangerous drug addict and placed in the violent ward of Långbro asylum on 1 September 1925. Biographer Roger Manvell interviewed a psychiatrist in Stockholm who had seen Göring at a private clinic before being placed in Långbro : Göring was very violent and had to be placed in a straitjacket but was not insane.
The 1925 psychiatrist's reports claimed Göring to be weak of character, a hysteric and unstable personality, sentimental yet callous, violent when afraid and a person who deployed bravado to hide a basic lack of moral courage. "Like many men capable of great acts of physical courage which verge quite often on desperation, he lacked the finer kind of courage in the conduct of his life which was needed when serious difficulties overcame him.
At the time of Göring's detention all doctors' reports in Sweden were in the public domain. In 1925, Carin sued for custody of her son. Niels von Kantzow, her ex-husband, used a doctor's report on Carin and Göring as evidence to show that neither of them was fit to look after the boy, and so von Kantzow kept custody. The reports were also used by political opponents in Germany.
His wife Carin died on 17 October 1931, aged forty-two, of tuberculosis.
Hitler became Chancellor on 30 January 1933, by a deal with the conservative intriguer Franz von Papen. Only two other Nazis were included in the cabinet. One was Göring, who was named minister without portfolio. It was understood, however, that he would be named minister of aviation once Germany built up an air force. At Hitler's insistence, Göring also was appointed interior minister of Prussia under Papen, who doubled as Vice Chancellor of the Reich and minister-president of Prussia. (Prussia at this time, though a constituent state of Germany, included over half of the country.)
Although his appointment as Prussian interior minister was little noticed at the time, it made Göring commander of the largest police force in Germany. He moved quickly to Nazify the police and use them against the Social Democrats and Communists. On 22 February, Göring ordered the police to recruit "auxiliaries" from the Nazi party militia, and to cease all opposition to the street violence of the SA. New elections were scheduled for 5 March, and Göring's police minions harassed and suppressed political opponents and rivals of the Nazis. He also detached the political and intelligence departments from the Prussian police and reorganized them as the Gestapo, a secret police force.
On 28 February 1933, the Reichstag building was gutted by fire. The Reichstag fire was arson, and the Nazis blamed the Communists. Göring himself met Hitler at the fire scene, and denounced it as "a Communist outrage," the first act in a planned uprising. Hitler agreed. The next day, the Reichstag Fire Decree suspended civil liberties.
Göring ordered the complete suppression of the Communist party. Most German states banned party meetings and publications, but in Prussia, Göring's police summarily arrested 25,000 Communists and other leftists, including the entire Party leadership, save those that escaped abroad. Hundreds of other prominent anti-Nazis were also rounded up. Göring told the Prussian police that "...all other restraints on police action imposed by Reich and state law are abolished..."
On 5 March, the Nazi-DNVP coalition won a narrow majority in the election; on 23 March, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which effectively gave Hitler dictatorial powers. As part of the anti-Communist campaign, in the first executions in the Third Reich, Göring declined to commute the August 1933 death sentences passed against Bruno Tesch and three other Communists for their alleged role in the deaths of two SA members and sixteen others in the Altona Bloody Sunday (Altonaer Blutsonntag) riot, an SA march on 17 July 1932..
At a luncheon on the birthday of Hitler in 1942... [Göring said]... "The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!" With that he slapped his thigh with the flat of his hand.
Göring in his own Nuremberg testimony denied this story. It remains unclear whether or not Göring was responsible for the fire. The following is a transcript excerpt from the Nuremberg Trials:
GOERING: This conversation did not take place and I request that I be confronted with Herr Halder. First of all I want to emphasize that what is written here is utter nonsense. It says, "The only one who really knows the Reichstag is I." The Reichstag was known to every representative in the Reichstag. The fire took place only in the general assembly room, and many hundreds or thousands of people knew this room as well as I did. A statement of this type is utter nonsense. How Herr Halder came to make that statement I do not know. Apparently that bad memory, which also let him down in military matters, is the only explanation.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You know who Halder is?
GOERING: Only too well.
GOERING: That accusation that I had set fire to the Reichstag came from a certain foreign press. That could not bother me because it was not consistent with the facts. I had no reason or motive for setting fire to the Reichstag. From the artistic point of view I did not at all regret that the assembly chamber was burned - I hoped to build a better one. But I did regret very much that I was forced to find a new meeting place for the Reichstag and, not being able to find one, I had to give up my Kroll Opera House, that is, the second State Opera House, for that purpose. The opera seemed to me much more important than the Reichstag.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Have you ever boasted of burning the Reichstag building, even by way of joking?
GOERING: No. I made a joke, if that is the one you are referring to, when I said that, after this, I should be competing with Nero and that probably people would soon be saying that, dressed in a red toga and holding a lyre in my hand, I looked on at the fire and played while the Reichstag was burning. That was the joke. But the fact was that I almost perished in the flames, which would have been very unfortunate for the German people, but very fortunate for their enemies.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You never stated then that you burned the Reichstag?
GOERING: No. I know that Herr Rauschning said in the book which he wrote, and which has often been referred to here, that I had discussed this with him. I saw Herr Rauschning only twice in my life and only for a short time on each occasion. If I had set fire to the Reichstag, I would presumably have let that be known only to my closest circle of confidants, if at all. I would not have told it to a man whom I did not know and whose appearance I could not describe at all today. That is an absolute distortion of the truth.
In the Nazi regime's early years, Göring served as minister in various key positions at both the Reich (German national) level and other levels as required. For example, in the state of Prussia, Göring was responsible for the economy as well as re-armament.
His police forces included the Gestapo, which he converted into a political spy force. But in 1934 Hitler transferred the Gestapo to Himmler's SS. Göring retained Special Police Battalion Wecke, which he converted to a paramilitary unit attached to the Landespolizei (State Police), Landespolizeigruppe General Göring. This formation participated in the Night of the Long Knives, when the SA leaders were purged. Göring was head of the Forschungsamt (FA), which secretly monitored telephone and radio communications, The FA was connected to the SS, the SD, and Abwehr intelligence services.
After Hjalmar Schacht was removed as Minister of Economics, Göring effectively took over. In 1936, he became Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan for German rearmament. The vast steel plant Reichswerke Hermann Göring was named after him. He gained great influence with Hitler (who placed a high value on rearmament). He never seemed to accept the Hitler Myth quite as much as Goebbels and Himmler did, but remained loyal nevertheless.
In 1938, Göring forced out the War Minister, Field Marshal von Blomberg, and the Army commander, General von Fritsch. They had welcomed Hitler's accession in 1933, but then annoyed him by criticising his plans for expansionist wars. Göring, who had been best man at Blomberg's recent wedding to a 26-year-old typist, discovered that the young woman was a former prostitute, and blackmailed him into resigning. Fritsch was accused of homosexual activity, and though completely innocent, resigned in shock and disgust. He was later exonerated by a "court of honour" presided over by Göring.
Also in 1938, Göring played a key role in the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria. At the height of the crisis, Göring spoke on the telephone to Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg. Göring announced Germany's intent to march into Austria, and threatened war and the destruction of Austria if there was any resistance. Schuschnigg collapsed, and the German army marched into Austria without resistance.
Göring also "collected" several other offices, such as Reichsforst- und Jägermeister (Reich Master of the Forest and Hunt), for which he received high salaries.
Göring acquired a vast Prussian estate in 1933, and built his great manor house there. It was named Carinhall in memory of his first wife Carin. He exulted in aristocratic trappings, such as a coat of arms, and ceremonial swords and daggers, such as the Wedding Sword (an oversized broadsword with elaborate gold hilts presented to Göring at his 1935 wedding to Emmy). He also owned many fancy uniforms and much gaudy jewelry.
Göring was also noted for his patronage of music, especially opera. He entertained frequently and lavishly. Most infamously, he collected art, looting from numerous museums (some in Germany itself), stealing from Jewish collectors, or buying for a song in occupied countries.
When Göring was promoted to the unique rank of Reichsmarschall, he designed an elaborate personal flag for himself. The design included a German eagle, swastika, and crossed marshal's batons on one side, and on the other Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes ("Grand Cross of the Iron Cross") between four Luftwaffe eagles. He had the flag carried by a personal standard-bearer at all public occasions.
He was known for his extravagant tastes and garish clothing. Hans Rudel, the top Stuka pilot of the war, recalled twice meeting Göring dressed in outlandish costumes: first, a medieval hunting costume, practicing archery with his doctor, and second, dressed in a russet toga fastened with a golden clasp, smoking an abnormally large pipe. Italian Foreign Minister Ciano once noted Göring wearing a fur coat looking like what "a high grade prostitute wears to the opera.
Though he liked to be called "der Eiserne" (the Iron Man), he was flabby and overweight, over 280 lbs. He was one of the few Nazi leaders who did not take offense at hearing jokes about himself, "no matter how rude". Germans joked about his ego, saying that he would wear an admiral's uniform to take a bath, and his obesity, joking that "he sits down on his stomach.
Furthermore, the "Wilhelmine Imperialists" expected to achieved their goals within the established international order. While not rejecting war as an option, they preferred diplomacy, and sought political domination in eastern Europe rather than the military conquests envisioned by Hitler. And they rejected Hitler's mystical vision of war as a necessary ordeal for the nation, and of perpetual war as desirable. Göring himself feared that a major war might interfere with his luxurious lifestyle.
Göring's advocacy of this policy led to his temporary exclusion by Hitler for a time in 1938-39 from foreign policy decisions. Göring's unwillingess to offer a major challenge to Hitler prevented him from offering any serious resistance to Hitler's policies, and the "Wilhelmine Imperialists" had no real influence.
Göring was the highest figure in the Nazi hierarchy to issue written orders for the "final solution of the Jewish Question", when he issued a memo to Heydrich to organise the practical details. This resulted in the Wannsee Conference. Göring wrote, "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." It is almost certain however that Hitler issued an oral order to Göring in late 1941 to this effect.
In 1936, Göring at Hitler's direction sent several hundred aircraft along with several thousand air and ground crew, to assist the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War this became known as the Condor Legion.
By 1939 the Luftwaffe was the most advanced and one of the most powerful air forces in the world. On 9 August 1939, Göring boasted "The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring: you can call me Meier!" ("I want to be called Meier if ..." is a German idiom to express that something is impossible. Meier (in several spelling variants) is the second most common surname in Germany.) By the end of the war, Berlin's air raid sirens were bitterly known to the city's residents as "Meier's trumpets", or "Meier's hunting horns."
There was even a Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, which had originally been the special police battalion mentioned above. Many of these divisions were led by officers with little or no training for ground combat, and performed badly as a result. In 1945, two Fallschirmjäger divisions were deployed on the Oder front. Göring said at a staff meeting "When both my airborne divisions attack, the entire Red Army can be thrown to hell." But when the Red Army attacked, Göring's 9th Parachute Division collapsed.
Göring was skeptical of Hitler's war plans. He believed Germany was not prepared for a new conflict and, in particular, that his Luftwaffe was not yet ready to beat the British Royal Air Force (RAF). His personal luxuries might be endangered, too. So he made contacts through various diplomats and emissaries to avoid war.
However, once Hitler decided on war, Göring supported him completely. On 1 September 1939, the first day of the war, Hitler spoke to the Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House. In this speech he designated Göring as his successor "if anything should befall me."
Initially, decisive German victories followed quickly one after the other. The Luftwaffe destroyed the Polish Air Force within two weeks. The Fallschirmjäger seized key airfields in Norway and captured Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium. German air-to-ground attacks served as the "flying artillery" of the panzer troops in the blitzkrieg of France. "Leave it to my Luftwaffe" became Göring's perpetual gloat.
After the defeat of France, Hitler awarded Göring the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross for his successful leadership. By a decree on 19 July 1940, Hitler promoted Göring to the rank of Reichsmarschall (Marshal of Germany), the highest military rank of the Greater German Reich. Reichsmarschall was a special rank for Göring, which made him senior to all other Army and Luftwaffe Field Marshals.
Göring's political and military careers were at their peak. Göring had already received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 30 September 1939 as Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe.
Göring promised Hitler that the Luftwaffe would quickly destroy the RAF, or break British morale with devastating air raids. He personally directed the first attacks on Britain from his private luxury train. But the Luftwaffe failed to gain control of the skies in the Battle of Britain. This was Hitler's first defeat. And Britain withstood the worst the Luftwaffe could do for the eight months of "the Blitz".
However, the damage inflicted on British cities largely maintained Göring's prestige. The Luftwaffe destroyed Belgrade in April 1941, and Fallschirmjäger captured Crete from the British army in May 1941.
The Luftwaffe shared in the initial victories in the east, destroying thousands of Soviet aircraft. But as Soviet resistance grew and the weather turned bad, the Luftwaffe became overstretched and exhausted.
Göring by this time had lost interest in administering the Luftwaffe. That duty was left to incompetent favorites such as Udet and Jeschonnek. Aircraft production lagged. Yet Göring persisted in outlandish promises. When the Soviets surrounded a German army in Stalingrad in 1942, Göring encouraged Hitler to fight for the city rather than retreat. He asserted that the Luftwaffe would deliver 500 tons per day of supplies to the trapped force. In fact no more than 100 tons were ever delivered in a day, and usually much less. While Göring's men struggled to fly in the savage Russian winter, Göring had his usual lavish birthday party.
Göring was in charge of exploiting the vast industrial resources captured during the war, particularly in the Soviet Union. This proved to be an almost total failure, and little of the available potential was effectively harnessed for the service of the German military machine.
Göring's prestige, reputation, and influence with Hitler all declined, especially after the Stalingrad debacle. Hitler could not publicly repudiate him without embarrassment, but contact between them largely stopped. Göring withdrew from the military and political scene to enjoy the pleasures of life as a wealthy and powerful man. His reputation for extravagance made him particularly unpopular as ordinary Germans began to suffer deprivation.
Hitler was enraged by this proposal, which Bormann portrayed as an attempted coup d'état. On 25 April, Hitler ordered the SS to arrest Göring. On 26 April, Hitler dismissed Göring as commander of the Luftwaffe. In his last will and testament, Hitler dismissed Göring from all his offices and expelled him from the Nazi Party. On 28 April, Hitler ordered the SS to execute Göring, his wife, and their daughter (Hitler's own goddaughter). But this order was ignored.
Instead, the Görings and their SS captors moved together, to the same Schloß Mauterndorf where Göring had spent much of his childhood and which he had inherited (along with Burg Veldenstein) from his godfather's widow in 1937. (Göring had arranged for preferential treatment for the woman, and protected her from confiscation and arrest as the widow of a wealthy Jew.)
Göring surrendered on 9 May 1945 in Bavaria. He was the third-highest-ranking Nazi official tried at Nuremberg, behind Reich President (former Admiral) Karl Dönitz and former Deputy Führer Hess. Göring's last days were spent with Captain Gustave Gilbert, a German-speaking American intelligence officer and psychologist (and a Jew), who had access to all the prisoners held in the Nuremberg jail. Gilbert classified Göring as having an IQ of 138, the same as Dönitz. Gilbert kept a journal which he later published as Nuremberg Diary. Here he describes Göring on the evening of 18 April 1946, as the trials were halted for a three-day Easter recess.
Sweating in his cell in the evening, Göring was defensive and deflated and not very happy over the turn the trial was taking. He said that he had no control over the actions or the defence of the others, and that he had never been anti-Semitic himself, had not believed these atrocities, and that several Jews had offered to testify on his behalf.
Despite claims that he was not anti-Semitic, while in the prison yard at Nuremberg, after hearing a remark about Jewish survivors in Hungary, Albert Speer reported overhearing Göring say, "So, there are still some there? I thought we had knocked off all of them. Somebody slipped up again. Despite his claims of non-involvement, he was confronted with orders he had signed for the murder of Jews and prisoners of war.
Though he defended himself vigorously, and actually appeared to be winning the trial early on (partly by building popularity with the audience by making jokes and finding holes in the prosecution's case) he was sentenced to death by hanging. The judgment stated that:
There is nothing to be said in mitigation. For Goering was often, indeed almost always, the moving force, second only to his leader. He was the leading war aggressor, both as political and as military leader; he was the director of the slave labour programme and the creator of the oppressive programme against the Jews and other races, at home and abroad. All of these crimes he has frankly admitted. On some specific cases there may be conflict of testimony, but in terms of the broad outline, his own admissions are more than sufficiently wide to be conclusive of his guilt. His guilt is unique in its enormity. The record discloses no excuses for this man.
Göring made an appeal, offering to accept the court's death sentence if he were shot as a soldier instead of hanged as a common criminal, but the court refused.
Defying the sentence imposed by his captors, he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was to be hanged. Where Göring obtained the cyanide, and how he concealed it during his entire imprisonment at Nuremberg, remains unknown. It has been claimed that Göring befriended U.S. Army Lieutenant Jack G. "Tex" Wheelis, who was stationed at the Nuremberg Trials and helped Göring obtain cyanide which had been hidden among Göring's personal effects when they were confiscated by the Army. In 2005, former U.S. Army Private Herbert Lee Stivers claimed he gave Göring "medicine" hidden inside a gift fountain pen from a German woman the private had met and flirted with. Stivers served in the 1st Infantry Division's 26th Regiment, who formed the honor guard for the Nuremberg Trials. Stivers claims to have been unaware of what the "medicine" he delivered actually was until after Göring's death. Regardless of his suicide, his dead body was hanged.
After his death, the bodies of Göring and the other executed Nazi leaders were cremated in the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp, which had been re-lit exclusively for them. His ashes were scattered in the Conwentzbach in Munich, which runs into the Isar river.
He and Alfred Rosenberg were born on the same day (12 January 1893), and had Göring not committed suicide the night before his planned execution, they would also have died on the same day.
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
The well-known quotation, and its variations,
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning.
is frequently attributed to Göring during the inter-war period. Whether or not he actually used this phrase, it did not originate with him. The line comes from Nazi playwright Hanns Johst's play Schlageter, "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning" ("Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning"). Nor was Göring the only Nazi official to use this phrase: Rudolf Hess used it as well, and it was a popular cliché in Germany, often in the form: "Wenn ich 'Kultur' höre, nehme ich meine Pistole."
Footage of Göring has been included in many films, notably in the 1935 Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. See her page at Internet Movie Database
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What is the best Spanish translation for the English adjective "haunting" (as in "a haunting melody")? WordReference gives three options: evocador, inquietante and inolvidable. Do any of these really convey what the English word does (something enthralling, beautiful, somber/sad)? What are the differences between these three words?
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It would help a broader context of the sentence, but I guess "cautivadora" covers most of what "haunting" originally conveys, and it's common to hear the phrase "una melodía cautivadora" - "a haunting melody".
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We are transforming our built environment to support a shift in our research, innovation, translational and educational activities.
Work on the new Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), to replace our current facility, is the first milestone in our ambitious research and innovation capital development plan. CUBRIC will be a state-of-the-art brain research imaging centre that will become one of Europe's flagship facilities.
A further c£300M investment in four new buildings is planned and earmarked for the Maindy Road site, transforming an area of the capital from a disused, former industrial space into a range of state-of-the-art facilities.
We are committed to developing existing and new spaces across all our campuses to create an environment that supports and inspires innovation and fosters engagement with business, government, the voluntary sector and civic society.
The Social Science Research Park (SPARK)
We aim to build the world's first Social Science Research Park to translate world-leading research into innovative and effective solutions to pressing, global, societal problems.
SPARK will act as a magnet for national and international research leaders, increasing capacity for postgraduate research opportunities and fostering a collaborative learning and working environment for creating, sharing and applying new knowledge.
The planned c8,900m2 building will:
- bring together existing centres of research excellence to work alongside other disciplines, businesses and the third sector to generate new ideas which are tested and evaluated over time and in situ
- establish the University, the City and Wales as international leaders in the design, development and delivery of innovative, impactful, evidence-based social science research
- strengthen the Welsh economy through increasing the role of R&D, boosting entrepreneurship and innovation across all sectors, and creating new employment opportunities in the private and third sectors.
The Innovation Centre
The Innovation Centre will offer start-up companies high quality, affordable space, advice and support on flexible terms so that their companies can grow and become independent.
University spin-outs, staff and graduate entrepreneurs or local people with bright business ideas will all be able to access the Innovation Centre and benefit from its demanding, yet supportive entrepreneurial environment.
The proposed c8,730m2 centre will
- span the full breadth of innovation activities across all sectors
- provide opportunities for students to embrace the innovation and enterprise culture as part of their educational experience
- house enterprise initiatives, events and workshops to showcase the inspirational, enterprising students and staff from across the University
- offer our partners and collaborators the opportunity to co-locate with our researchers whilst developing their projects
- facilitate inward investment in the City region by providing a 'landing' space for businesses whilst they explore opportunities in the area and look for suitable long-term premises
- stimulate, support and exploit University research, raising the profile of the University, city and wider city-region internationally as a location for successful technology innovation.
The Translational Research Facility
The Translational Research Facility will be a multidisciplinary research facility that will support the translation of excellent academic research and maximise opportunities for industry engagement.
The planned c10,540m2 facility will
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It is a little strange to ask, but are there ways to get feedback from friends about the quality of fictional writing (whether they liked it, not more objective aspects like spelling/grammar/etc.) unbiased by the friendship that is likely to bias the judgment?
How to get feedback about the quality of one's fictional writing from friends unbiased by the friendship?
Choose your friends wisely! I started with a group of ten friends when I first started writing who had volunteered as beta readers. Five responded very quickly that they really loved my first book, even though I felt it still needed a lot of work. Three more came back a week or more later with glowing remarks. The last two took at least a couple more weeks, but both of them came back to me with questions, suggestions, and criticisms. Guess which ones are still beta readers five books later?
Make sure you tell your "friends" that you are looking for true, honest feedback. Tell them that they are not going to hurt your feelings (although in my case that turned out to be wrong, but I ultimately agreed with the criticism). Let them know that you truly NEED constructive criticism or feedback or suggestions and you need it to be brutally honest. Lastly, make sure you choose people that already read your genre (that was a mistake for me with two people who later admitted they really didn't read much of the first book).
Because they are your friends, their first inclination is going to be to encourage you and reinforce you, even if it means lying to you to not hurt your feelings. If a friend is willing to tell you the truth, even when they know it will disappoint you, then that is a friend you can trust!
Share your work as a revision-enabled word processor document (e.g. Word) or a cloud service (e.g. Google Docs):
Tell them to assume that they're reading an actual book that they paid money for. Tell them you already have positive comments and that you're looking for the flip side:
Choose beta readers who read regularly. Better if you've heard them talk about other authors' works in the past
As a final note. I did all these recently and it worked out very well. (It didn't hurt that I had several well-read friends with absurdly high standards!)
I like to listen to how people reacted to my writing. Frankly, I don't care what their suggestions are. They are reading your book, and I think they should act as a reader does, not as a writer. Feedback such as:
This is feedback I like because it gives me an honest impression from the reader. They didn't understand, like or find meaning about something, and this will be different for each reader. My readers find positive things about parts and areas that I never found to be a big deal, so I focused on it a little bit more.
Conversely I think the following kind of feedback is limited in how it can help:
The most helpful advice I have gotten is from people who have simply told me what they think of the story, not what they think should be in the story.
"What do you think?"
"What do you think it should be?"
These are two very different questions. The second question can go bad very quickly. If the person gives you genuine answers about the first question you can say, "Well that's their impression, and everyone has a different one". No hurt feelings, and even better, a look into what your audience is thinking.
I agree with the above comment that first off, you need to make it clear that advice and criticism are what you want, rather than affirmation. You also need to make sure that that's actually true; many writers find it harder to discuss their work critically than they expect to. And nothing kills a writing workshop/beta faster than having the author get touchy or mount a defence in response to each criticism.
On a practical level, I would suggest you ask for your friends' thoughts on specific aspects of your work that you already have doubts about or want comments on--say, 'did this scene work for you?' or 'do you care about this character as a person?'
Also, you can present them with specific questions about what they think makes a story good/worth reading, and then ask them how well your piece lives up to that. Basically, the more you give your friends a concrete set of criterion with which to assess your story (or make them come up with one on their own) the easier they'll find it to give you solid feedback.
You can use rchive.co and manage all comments and feedback on your writing. Advantage is ,it is private and you can revoke the access when ever you feel like. Any one can provide the feedback as notes or comments on the document directly .


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halibut, tilapia, or mahi-mahi, one piece per person
Marinade Ingredients:
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tsp. coarse ground black pepper
2 tsp. Spike Seasoning (optional, but good)
2 T garlic puree (or slightly less garlic powder but I think the garlic puree from a jar gives better flavor)
1 T dried basil
This marinade would also be good on shrimp, scallops, or chicken. Chicken could be marinated quite a bit longer; I would marinate shrimp or scallops for only about 2 hours.
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More Good Ideas for Fish for the Fourth of July:
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Grilled Halibut with Southwestern Rub and Tomatillo Salsa from Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Salmon with Asian Dipping Sauce from Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Halibut with Cumin and Lime from Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Halibut with Garlic Cilantro Sauce from Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Spicy Tuna from Kalyn's Kitchen
Fish and Shrimp on the Grill from The Kitchn
Grilled Fish with Green Mango Pico de Gallo from [No Recipes]
Grilled Whole Fish with Chili Soy Dipping Sauce from Steamy Kitchen
Mediterranean Fish in Foil Packets from Gluten Free Goddess
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Located on the southeast corner of 32nd and Market Streets, the Paul Peck Alumni Center is open to all alumni and houses the Alumni Relations office.
The building was originally designed by master architect Frank Furness in 1876. As one of few buildings on campus that are listed on the National Register of historic buildings, the Peck Center is a Victorian-style building that currently houses an art gallery and serves as the university's alumni center.
After undergoing a two-year renovation in 1999, under architects Voith & Mactavish, the Peck Center has been restored and converted into a gallery which houses a portion of The Drexel Collection and provides functional spaces for formal receptions and meeting facilities. To view select pieces from the Drexel Collection, click here.
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UWS to launch health and wellness degree
The University of Wisconsin-Superior plans a spring 2012 launch for a new Health and Wellness Management degree through its online Distance Learning program. Through the program, students will learn how to recognize, implement and facilitate health and wellness programs that promote well-being for employees.
For Peter Nordgren, Ph.D., interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and outreach, the major is in sync with a national trend of healthy initiatives and awareness.
"(The program will) move away from treating the issues, treating the symptoms, treating the problems that occurred toward maintaining the lifestyle to prevent those kinds of issues happening therefore giving us better lives and hopefully saving money in the process."
According to Nordgren, alternative ways of viewing the health management field opens the door to new and creative careers.
"In creating this major we're recognizing that society is changing, has gone through a change in the way it looks at this," he said.
The major is designed to allow students with associate degrees or students who've already completed credit to finish their bachelor's degree. It requires 21 courses, or 63 credits, to finish the degree.
However, traditional students are not the only ones who may find this major attractive. William Simpson, an associate professor in the Health and Human Performance department, believes there are draws for companies to send existing employees for additional training.
"Now we're at the point where there are people in various departments, or maybe in a position where they have some college credit, and the company is interested in or already has a program established and they need someone to manage it," he said.
Simpson, who will be teaching some of the required courses, believes that companies have bought into health and wellness management programs due to their effectiveness at lowering insurance costs, decreasing sick time, and improving morale of employees. Sending these students back to school would be an investment in creating a healthy lifestyle environment for employees.
Following graduation, students "can come prepared to their company to take the reins of the program and hire the people that need to run the wellness programs and various pieces of it," he said.
The courses for the major will familiarize students with management as well as health trends. However it won't delve into actual care techniques.
"The person that is going to take this degree on and get the job is not necessarily the person that will be doing the bits and pieces," said Simpson. "They're going to need to know the global picture of what the concepts are in the program, what people do, and who they need to be."
Students will take courses such as health and medical terminology, statistics, stress management, and leadership - all designed to train students to collect data, analyze, and recognize the company's problem areas.
Simpson gives the example: If a student goes to work and determines from an analysis the company would improve if a registered dietitian were hired for the cafeteria, "They would know whom they need to hire, and they could oversee that. Because they were given the tools to recognize where the problems are."
The major is open to all, but Simpson believes a majority of students will come from human resource and nursing backgrounds.
"Both of those backgrounds would have some expertise in parts of the major, now it's blending of that so they understand cross-discipline and cross-training," he said.
The new program partners UW-Superior with University of Wisconsin system schools at Stevens Point, River Falls, and La Crosse. Each campus has expertise in major-specific areas, such as community and health promotion, physical education, exercise science, nutrition, and stress management.
"It's a win-win because of strength in numbers," said Simpson, "We all have our strengths, histories, and traditions. Putting them together is a logical thing to do. One campus alone could not do this, and it had to be a collaborative effort. "
The collaboration among the four schools is a relatively new concept to the upper-Midwest. The first collaborative major, Sustainable Management, won the 2010 Chancellor's Award for Excellence and was the model for the Health and Wellness Management program.
"We don't have a way of doing things across campus boundaries, but leadership in the division of Continuing Education Outreach and Learning at University of Wisconsin Extension saw the opportunity to bring academic programs together across campuses to meet substantial needs where the individual campuses could contribute," said Nordgren.
Students can choose any of the four schools to be their "parent" institution, but professors from all participating institutions will teach courses. The collaboration will allow students to only pay a flat rate of $375 per credit, with no segregated fees or distance learning fees.
Simpson believes that prospective students will see the allure that online flexibility will give students.
"When life comes in the way at home, if they have another child, or work is going to be busier that particular semester, they don't have to fit the model, as long as they are progressing in the sequence of courses," he said.
Interest in the major has already been high. According to Nordgren, interest, opportunity, and timing prompted the UW-System to get this major on the ground.
By virtue of the University of Wisconsin system saying health and wellness is an emerging trend, he said, the field deserves its own major.
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