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The Holocaust Violence
In 1933, darkness fell over Germany. The Nazi Party had come to power in a nation that for years had been the scene of street brawls, rallies filled with hatred, racist attacks and loud calls for war. Hitler, the Nazis' leader, had won the highest vote in the election and been declared chancellor. He was soon to become Germany's undisputed dictator.
The 13 difficult years from 1933 to 1945 brought ever-increasing savagery. The Nazis began by killing their political opponents, then set about murdering all those innocent handicapped and the mentally ill, whom they saw as being "harmful" according to their twisted theories of eugenics. They began oppressing and torturing Jews and other minorities living in Germany and then, in 1939, turned it into mass killings. The Nazis killed 11 million people in their terrible concentration camps, which turned into genocide machines where technology was systematically employed to sadistically murder babies, the elderly and the sick. Throughout the World War II, which the Nazis began for the sake of their sick ideology, they carried out countless mass killings in the countries they occupied, particularly in eastern nations whose members they perceived as belonging to "inferior races." A total of 55 million people died during that war, at least 30 million of them were innocent civilians killed by the Nazis. In short, between 1933 and 1945 the world was a place of hitherto unseen savagery.
All of mankind has a responsibility to ensure that such murders and genocide never happen again, and that such sick ideas are never again allowed to spread. It is therefore essential that the Nazi barbarities be remembered everywhere in the world, at every available opportunity, that their innocent victims not be forgotten and, of course, that the stupidity and rottenness of the concepts that gave rise to that savagery be fully exposed—as we shall be doing in this chapter.
The Nazi Party was founded and grew in the 1920s, during which period Hitler and the other senior Nazis came to prominence. Yet the party's ideology definitely had a number of influential predecessors.
The deception of racism was Nazism's basic teaching. Its whole ideology rested on the premise of the superiority of the German race, which was threatened by "inferior races," and in order for that threat to be eliminated, a racist formula needed to be applied. The source of that ideology, in turn, was a 19th-century invention known as "social Darwinism"—nothing other than Darwin's theory of evolution applied to the social sciences. In The Origin of Species, published in 1859, and The Descent of Man, published in 1871, Darwin suggested that living things developed as the result of a "racial struggle," and that nature made strong races superior to others. Darwin rejected the existence of any divine order and harmony in nature, instead advancing the lie that all living things and races were in a constant state of conflict. He also maintained the irrational and illogical idea that the white race, being superior to all others, would soon wipe them off the face of the Earth. Certain circles duly supported that idea for their own ideological reasons, despite the lack of any scientific proof.
Social Darwinism's perverted teachings, which regard human races as different species of animals, consider the use of the tooth-and-claw force seen among animals as entirely legitimate among human beings
In Europe, Darwin's theory led to a sudden resurgence of racism among some intellectual circles, who were generally opposed to people living by religious moral values. The British thinker Herbert Spencer adopted Darwin's theory—which had been expressed in more strictly biological terms—to the social sciences, thus giving rise to "social Darwinism." The most ardent supporters of this mistaken idea were the French writer Arthur Gobineau, widely regarded as the father of modern racism, and the British writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who took Gobineau's racist theories to an even higher level of fanaticism. Despite his being a British subject, Chamberlain was a great admirer of all things German. Also an avowed enemy of the Jews, he maintained the deception that the white Aryan race of Indo-European origin was superior to the Middle Eastern Semitic peoples such as Jews and Arabs. He hated the people of Israel, and saw them as inferior to the Germans' pagan ancestors.
Chamberlain died in 1927, but on his death bed, he had a famous visitor: Adolf Hitler, who had formulated his Nazi ideology under the influence of the mistaken ideas of Chamberlain and of similar social-Darwinist ideologues. He took the title of his book Mein Kampf, in which he set out his racist views, from social Darwinism's thesis of "the fight between the races." In Hitler's wicked logic, all of world history had shaped itself around the German race:
1) He believed in the lie that the German race was physically, mentally and culturally superior to all others, and held the idea that the Semitic and Slavic races were particularly inferior. In his view, the German race needed more room to live, which it needed to acquire by eliminating the Semitic and Slavic peoples to the east of Germany—Jews, Poles, and Russians, among others.
2) Hitler attached great importance to the "purity" of the German race. In his perverse thinking, he thought that to maintain that so-called purity, physical precautions were essential (by preventing Germans from marrying people from other races), as well as cultural ones (all "non-German" ideas and beliefs had to be destroyed).
3) His concept of racial purity included such inhumane acts as "improving" the German race, as if it were a breed of animal. To that end, people suffering from inherited diseases needed to be weeded out of society.
4) The destruction of "non-German ideas" meant, in effect, the elimination of all thoughts and beliefs that failed to conform to Nazi ideology. According to the Nazis' beliefs, devout Christians, liberals and members of other religious sects were elements that needed to be disposed of.
Thus the ruthless, racist ideology of social Darwinism gave birth to the worst genocide and slaughter the world had ever seen.
In the following pages, we shall examine the innocent victims of Nazi savagery—first the Jews, the Nazis' main target, and then those other victims of "forgotten genocides," whose sufferings were no less than those of the Jews, but have been largely ignored.
Children in Hitler's Germany were brought up with anti-Semitic teachings. Above: Children learning anti-Jewish slogans.
The Nazis systematically repressed those sections of society they regarded as enemies. At the top of their list came the Jews, whom Nazi ideology described as "the source of all evils in the world."
Even before they came to power, the Nazis' street gangs, known as the SA storm-troopers, had already staged attacks on Jewish homes and businesses. Once the Nazis came to power, the SA lost all restraint. An elderly Jew walking on the street or a little Jewish child going to school could easily be assaulted by the SA and other Nazi gangs. That same year, the Nazis initiated a boycott aimed at Jewish shops and businesses. All over Germany went up posters portraying Jews as terrible and ugly monsters, and carrying slogans reading, "Don't buy Jewish goods." In September that same year, a law was passed prohibiting Jews from owning land. In November, Jews were banned from being newspaper editors.
Further laws were passed in 1934, excluding Jews from trade unions and health insurance, and banning them from working as lawyers or judges. In 1935, all Jews were expelled from the army.
Under the Nürnberg Laws of 1935, Jews were no longer able to work in many areas of German society. Jews were prohibited from marrying Germans. In 1937, Jews were no longer permitted to be teachers, doctors or dentists, on the pretext that "They will physically or spiritually poison the German people." In November that year, the anti-Semitic film The Eternal Jew began to be shown in cinemas all over Germany.
In schools, teachers warned their students of the so-called "Jewish menace." During lessons, Jews were insulted and maligned. The quotation below is a thought-provoking reflection of how Germany's society was brainwashed:
Mr. Birgmann's 7th form is very lively today. The teacher is talking about the Jews. Mr. Birgmann has drawn a number of shapes on the board, and everyone finds these unbelievably fascinating. Mr. Birgmann looks at his watch? "It is mid-day, children. We must now sum up what we have learnt. What were we last speaking about?"
Everyone puts their hand up, and Mr. Birgmann nods to Karl Scholtz, who is sitting in the front row.
"We were learning how to recognise Jews."
"Excellent! Can you tell us a bit more?"
Little Karl rises to his feet and points to the shapes on the blackboard: "It is easy to recognise Jews by their noses. Their noses look like a number '6,' and are called a 'Jewish six.' Some people who are not Jews have big noses, but theirs point upwards, not down. Such noses are called 'hooked' or 'eagle.' They are nothing like Jewish noses."
"Well done!" says the teacher. "Richard, come up and tell us more about how to recognise Jews."
The blond, cheerful Richard approaches the blackboard. "You can tell a Jew by his movements and behaviour. Jews always nod their heads forward. They also have a funny way of walking. They waddle. They move their hands when they talk. They have odd voices, as if they are talking through their noses. They have a nasty, sweet smell. You can always tell a Jew if you have a good sense of smell."
The teacher was quite satisfied.
"There you are, children. Watch out! If you remember all that when you leave school, the Jews will never be able to take you in!"
He turns the blackboard round, and one of the students reads out the poem written on it:
The Devil talks to us
From the face of a Jew.
Let us be free of the Jews,
Who are a plague in every land.
Let us be happy and joyful again.
All young people must fight.
These devils are deceitful!107
Enmity of Jews increased rapidly in a society educated along such lines. Every Nazi act of repression against the Jews met with society's approval. 1938 saw all Jewish-owned goods, property and money being registered, and new sanctions being imposed.
The Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, one of the hundreds of synagogues demolished during Kristallnacht, when Jewish homes and shops were looted.
A new chapter in the oppression of the Jews opened on the night of November 9-10, 1938. The incidents were sparked off on November 7, when a 17-year-old Jewish Pole, Herschel Grynszpan, whose family the Nazis had mistreated, shot an official at the German Embassy in Paris. The Nazis used the incident as an act of provocation, and staged attacks on Jewish places of worship, houses and businesses all over Germany.
In one single night, 1,350 synagogues were destroyed. More than 90 Jews were killed, and some 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. 7,000 Jewish businesses were looted, and thousands of homes damaged. That night was called "Kristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass) because of all the windows smashed in the looted buildings. The German government then managed to hold the Jews responsible for all that had gone on, and raised the amazing sum of 1 billion marks from Jews to pay for all the glass that had been broken.
In the wake of Kristallnacht, the oppression increased. When Germany united with Austria in 1938, some 200,000 Austrian Jews continued living in fear along with the 55,000 or so living in Germany. Yet the real savagery started with the outbreak of the war.
On March 15, 1936, Nazi armies invaded Czechoslovakia. On September 1, they invaded Poland. Great Britain and France declared war, and World War II had begun. The invasion of Poland brought a new dimension to the twisted Nazi ideas known as "the Jewish problem." That part of the country under German occupation (the rest was occupied by the Soviet Union) contained more than 1 million Jews. Successive decrees published by the Nazis confined these Jews to ghettoes, or in newly built concentration camps. All Jews were ordered to wear yellow stars of David on their clothes so they could be immediately identified.
Jews in Nazi Germany were forced to sew this symbol onto their clothing, proclaiming their Jewish identity.
Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, gave orders for death squads known as SS Einsatzgruppen (SS Special Action Units) to search out Jews in the occupied territories. Death or worse awaited Jews in the ghettoes and the camps.
Toward the autumn of 1940, the Nazi armies occupied Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece. In addition to Italy and Japan—which had already formed an alliance with Germany—Hungary, Romania and Slovakia also declared themselves allies of Germany. The Nazi armies' largest invasion was of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941. Within 12 weeks, the Germans had taken Kiev, and a month later had approached the outskirts of Moscow.
To sum up, in the first two years of the World War II, Hitler or his allies had captured most of the continent of Europe, from the French coast to Moscow, from Denmark to Greece. Shortly before their collapse in 1945, the Nazis initiated a ruthless genocide campaign in all their occupied regions. First Jews in particular and then—as we shall see—other ethnic and religious groups began to be systematically wiped out. Even after 1944, when it had become clear that Germany would lose the war, the Nazis continued their genocide. During that final stage of the conflict, in fact, the elimination of the Jews—and also of gypsies, Poles and Slavs, all members of the so-called "inferior race"—became the Nazis' principal aim. Hitler knew that he would lose the war, but wanted to eliminate all the Jews first. This genocide had several main "areas of implementation:"
1) Ghettoes: These open-air prisons where Jews were kept were used to kill by degrees.
2) Concentration camps were first established as places where Jews and others were kept as "slave laborers." In early 1942, however, the mass extermination of detainees began. A total of 11 million people (5.5 million Jews, 500,000 gypsies, 3 million Poles, 400,000 handicapped and hundreds of thousands of Russian, Slav and other prisoners of war) were systematically exterminated in these camps.
3) Mass killings in occupied regions: Special German Army units, and particularly the SS Einsatzgruppen responsible for "finding and killing Jews," executed civilians in a great many places.
The largest of the ghettoes was that in Warsaw.
Before the Nazis' arrival, Jews made up approximately a third of Warsaw's 1 million inhabitants. Following the Nazi occupation, Jews were transferred in from other areas, increasing their numbers from 330,000 to 450,000. But the Nazis crammed this huge number into a walled area that represented only 2.3 percent of the city. The poorest district was set aside for the Jews, and Jewish residents from all the other parts of the city were moved there forcibly. Before they were put inside, all their money and valuables were taken from them.
Life in the ghetto went on under terrible conditions. An average of seven families were crammed into one room. Very little food was given, and everyone lived on the edge of starvation. The buildings were crawling with rodents and insects. Every day, those living in the ghetto could be subjected to slaps, mockery and abuse from the Nazis, who made elderly Jews so weakened that they could barely walk wash the streets with soap and water and laughed at their suffering. People living in the ghettoes were beaten at random, and the Nazis would merrily yank the beards and ringlets of the elderly, which they let grow as a religious obligation. An average of 100 people a day died from hunger, sickness or maltreatment. The photographs of wretched children in the Warsaw ghetto clearly reveal the suffering of these innocents.
Jews who took part in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising were all put to death en masse. These Jews were murdered shortly after leaving the ghetto. Jews rounded up in the camps were stripped of everything they possessed, including their money .
The memories of one Jew who lived in the Warsaw ghetto reveal the true situation in the city:
The oppression began as soon as the Germans entered the city, with the killing of 34 innocent Jews. The German SS were just looking for excuses to kill Jews. The SS asked a gentile where the Jews were living. He indicated Itzhak Goldfliess' house. The SS entered my friend's house and killed his parents, wife and two children. On the first Sabbath of the occupation, the Germans rounded up all the Jews and ordered them to dig a long, wide ditch in the city centre. They were then told to go home, put their Sabbath clothes on and come back. To the great surprise of everyone, the Jews were then made to line up in that filthy trench. They were made to spend a whole day in it, which was full of sewage. The Germans beat them with sticks, and sometimes allowed the Ukrainians to attack them with sticks and pieces of wood. Whenever anyone tried to get out of the ditch, they would be beaten by German SS officers or Ukrainian civilians and made to get back in.108
Hundreds of thousands of innocent Jews were slaughtered in the Warsaw Ghetto, a place of starvation and poverty.
In 1942, some 300,000 people from the ghetto died, some from hunger and disease, others in the concentration camps where they were sent. In April 1943, some of the 60,000 or so Jews remaining in the ghetto began a doomed uprising. Even though they had almost no weapons, they fought the Nazis for exactly three weeks. In the end, the Nazis regained control and killed all the Jews they could find. Of the original 500,000 in the ghetto, only a handful of Jews remained alive.
In other ghettos set up by the Nazis, hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed after suffering fear, terrible starvation, and torture.
In 1943, the last Jews remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto initiated an uprising against Nazi oppression, which the Nazis suppressed with terrible bloodshed.
At the beginning of 1942, Hitler and his staff decided on a "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem. That meant the systematic extermination of all Jews, and leaving not one Jew alive in territory controlled by the Nazis.
The Nazis carried out mass slaughters in nearly all the lands they occupied.
In accordance with that decision, the concentration camps were turned into extermination camps. Starting with the Jews in Germany, Jews from all the countries occupied by the Nazis began to be transferred to those camps by SS units specially assigned to the task. The official story was that the camps were to employ them as workers. But when they arrived, most were killed at once, and the rest later, after having been used as forced labor.
Even the process of transporting the Jews to the camps reveals the inhuman cruelty the Nazis inflicted. Jewish families were rounded up from their homes or the ghettos at gunpoint, with blows and abuse, and crammed into railway cars that had earlier carried animals or goods. Photographs of the time clearly show the terror on the faces of those forced onto the trains, and the hatred on the faces of the Nazis screaming orders at them. Small children, elderly men barely able to walk and pregnant women were all ruthlessly dragged about with kicks, guns and even whips.
One Jew who escaped the genocide reveals the horror of the transfer process:
They rounded us up at nine in the morning. When we arrived at Chortkow, it was evening. We had spent the whole day walking in the snow, hungry and with no rest at all. Everyone was dropping from fatigue.
Then they took us to the prison. There we had to pass in front of a SS officer and Ukrainian police officers. Every one had a stick in his hand and was just waiting to hit a Jewish head. There were about 80 of them, and it took a long time for a Jew to pass in front of 80 people, being beaten all the time. I was black and blue and covered in blood by the time I was thrown into my cell. Did the Germans want to kill us, or were they just enjoying themselves?
After that incident, I was squeezed into a tiny cell containing 60 other people. There was no room to sit or lie down. We had to remain standing, crammed together, dripping with blood, hungry, thirsty and in pain …
We were sure they would take us out in the morning and give us something to eat. But we were mistaken. Nothing changed in the morning. We spent the whole of the second day, and even that night, standing and packed together …
Many people began to murmur the Shema Israel prayer, that is recited before death. At that moment the Germans opened the door and took us all out of the cells. Everyone was trying to move his body and breathe deeply... Later, one of the German soldiers began throwing us bits of bread, as if he were throwing food to stay dogs. People threw themselves on the bread like animals, cramming it into their mouths before anyone else could get hold of it. They had filled a trough full of water, and we all drank out of it like cattle. Just when we had started drinking, a soldier came and started beating us: "Come on, move it!" …
They made us run from the prison to the train station about a kilometre away. The Germans did what they wanted with the sticks in their hands. You could find yourself on the ground at any moment, from a blow to the back of the neck or a kick to the stomach. That is why, weak as we were, we tried to run as fast as we could. When we reached the train station, we saw cattle trucks on the line. There were no steps or ramps leading up to the doors. The SS troopers therefore beat the first arrivals and told them "Bend down! Bend down!" in order to form steps for those coming behind to use as steps and board the wagons …
When the Germans thought they had filled the wagons with enough people, they threw a few loaves of bread in and shut the doors. We heard them locking us in from the outside. At that time, we had heard nothing about the death camps of Auschwitz or Majdanek in my town. We had no idea what the "Final Solution" was. We thought the Germans wanted to use the Jews as beasts of burden. We knew nothing about their extermination plans.109
Jews expelled from their homes en masse were transported to the death camps in packed trains.
To carry detainees to the concentration camps, dozens of men, women, children and old people were packed into small freight cars, locked in without even the chance to breathe any fresh air, and left without food and water for days during the journey. Many died of hunger, thirst or being unable to breathe in those terrible conditions, of which even a few minutes would be unbearable. The others had to carry on with their journey, even though the corpses of their loved ones were lying right beside them.
One who experienced those dreadful conditions gives eyewitness details of the Nazi savagery:
The police were waving their guns about and firing into the air, forcing more people to cram themselves into the already packed wagons. The gunfire continued, and the whole crowd was pushed forward. Those nearest the train were being crushed under the unbelievable pressure from behind... There was nothing those people in the front could do about it, and they responded with painful moaning to those people who were pulling their hair and clothes for support, biting their shoulders, necks and faces, breaking bones and screaming. Despite the fact that the wagons were much fuller than their normal capacity, a few men, women and children were still able to get in. Then, the police came and closed the gates in the faces of people who were almost being squeezed back through the bars.
Before cramming 120 Jews like sardines into the cattle wagons, the Germans covered the floors with 7 cm of burning lime. That was usually used in construction work, and burned if it touched the skin. That resulted in hundreds of Jews dying before they even got to Belzec …
Before even reaching the camps, many people on the trains died, either from being crushed or suffocated.
The floor of the wagons was covered in a thick, white powder. That was burning lime. Bare skin that came into contact with it immediately dried up and burned. The people inside were literally burning to death. The flesh on their bones was melting away. The lime was meant to stop the spread of disease.
There were two buckets in each component. One contained water, the other was to be used as a toilet, if that was possible in all the pushing and shoving.110
After days of travel in such terrible conditions, the final destination was death camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and Belsen:
The Germans were shouting "Los schnell, Quick!" They were hitting us with sticks and rifles. Since there were no steps or ramps, we had to jump off the trains from a height of a metre, or a metre and a half. We tried to get up as quickly as we could in order to avoid being kicked by the German soldiers waiting there. We were starving, thirsty and weakened. Even so, we were made to run the 2 kilometres to the labour camp once the wagons had been emptied. Some people were weeping from fear, others from relief. We were so caught up we took no notice of our surroundings. When we reached the camp, the whole group fell silent. We looked and listened with great care. The whole area was unbelievably quiet. The silence of death hung over the camp in front of us.111
In the camps where the worst Nazi savagery was carried out, some 11 million people lost their lives, proving how monstrous and ruthless people who turn away from religious moral values and silence the voice of their consciences can be.
They were first set up as "labor camps." Almost all, and Auschwitz in particular, were opened alongside major industrial complexes, and detainees brought there were forced to serve the German war industry as slave labor. Yet the malignant Nazi ideology did not restrict itself to that "pragmatic" oppression, but also turned them into sites for "the elimination of unwanted races." During the three years or so between the last months of 1941 and the end of 1944, a total of 11 million people, of whom 5.5 million were Jews, were killed in gas chambers and by other means, or else died of starvation, disease and mistreatment. The Nazis had not the slightest compassion for infants, innocent children, the old and wretched, the handicapped and the sick, but set about their extermination with sadistic brutality.
There is still a debate as to whether or not Zyklon B gas was used in the camps, but how these innocent people were slaughtered changes nothing. Whatever method was employed, millions of innocent people were ruthlessly put to death. Nazi savagery and the Jewish holocaust are facts. The human corpses and living skeletons observed when the camps were liberated by Allied troops are sufficient proof of the unbelievable tragedy that occurred.
The cruelty and oppression in death camps such as Auschwitz, to be found all over Europe, had seldom been equaled in history.
This genocide began when detainees set foot in the camps. The "life" considered fitting for these people was actually a slow death. In his memoirs, one Jewish prisoner who survived the Kamionka camp describes the "living standards":
In the Belsen camp, some 10,000 unburied bodies were found.
When I walked through the camp gates, I saw some terrible sights. German soldiers were watching us from the towers with machine guns in their hands. Everyone inside, up to 50 Russians, 100 Poles and maybe 1,000 Jews, were all in a terrible condition. Everyone wore a 5 x 5 cm piece of cloth. Those of the Russians and Poles were red, and the Jews' ones yellow. They were all so emaciated, they were half dead. They wandered about the filthy garden as if sleep-walking.
With most of them, their bodies were still alive, but their souls were dead. Our group halted at the entrance. There was a tall German soldier in front of us. He kept watching us. He cleared his throat before addressing us: "Hand over your watches, valuables and jewelry! You will be shot at once if anything is found on you." Looking at his filthy face and powerful weapon, I realized I had no alternative but to comply. I took my watch off, and as I was looking for loose change in my pockets, the Germans began slapping us, or hitting us in the stomach with their sticks. They never stopped that sadistic form of entertainment …
That first night, we were taken to the barracks after drinking a mug of "soup." It is hard to describe the wretchedness of that place. It had actually been built for animals, and the only concession made for human beings was that unfinished bunk-beds of two to three rows had been added. The wind came in through cracks in the walls. Everywhere was jumping with fleas, and they were all over us within a few days! I soon got used to living with them. Even though they carried typhus, the fleas were of little importance compared to the other problems in the camp …
After being awoken at five, they gave us two minutes to get dressed. Anyone who was not ready was beaten. Once everybody was ready, we could join the queue for a mug of coffee. Actually, what they called water was just a disgusting hot water. They gave us a slice of bread, too. A hard, stale bread, made of flour and sand that was difficult to eat... Since that was all we were given to eat all day, some people concealed part of their bread for "lunch," although others were unable to resist, and ate it all at once. I used to keep part back for the rest of the day. I knew that we would be worked all day, that all my physical strength would go, and that my hunger would get even worse.112
In the death camps, Josef Mengele (right) performed barbaric experiments on people he selected as guinea pigs (left)..
In any of the other concentration camps, living standards were no different. Those forced to work were shown no pity or compassion, and lived like slaves, suffering the threats and whims of sadistic Nazi officers, worn out by hunger, exhaustion, and torture.
In some camps, even worse things were done to prisoners, such as the experiments carried out by the monster Josef Mengele, the doctor at Auschwitz, the largest camp, where some 1.5 million people were killed. Mengele performed terrible experiments on adult and children "guinea pigs" chosen from among the prisoners, to see how much pain or cold the human body could withstand. People were forced into water full of chunks of ice on freezing winter days, to see how long they could survive. Mengele is also known to have carried out surgical operations with no anesthetic, amputating his subjects' arms and legs and opening their abdomens.
Mengele's cruelest experiments were those performed on twins who arrived at the camp. He used to separate them from the other prisoners, and perform unbelievably ghastly experiments on them to estimate the effects of inherited features. He injected twins with each others' blood and measured the effects, as one or both would generally suffer terrible pains and high temperatures. Mengele wanted to determine whether inherited eye color could be altered or not, and injected ink into twins' eyes. Almost all of them suffered terribly, and many went blind. Small children were injected with various diseases, to see how long they could survive. Many innocent children were tortured by Mengele, and were left crippled or dead.
The dreadful barbarity in the camps came to light only at the end of the war when the Allies defeated the Nazis and took control of the areas containing the camps. The British, American and Soviet units were shocked by the sights that greeted them. One record from the British unit that liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp reads:
This is the famous Belsen concentration camp,
liberated by the British on April 15, 1945.
10,000 unburied corpses were found here.
13,000 people died between then and now.
They were all victims of the German "New Order" in Europe,
And each one an example of Nazi culture.
Einsatzgruppen: The Nazi Death Squads
Apart from the ghettoes and the concentration camps, another element of the holocaust was the Einsatzgruppen teams, or death squads set up by Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, by authority Hitler gave him in the wake of the invasion of Poland. These special units moved into occupied territory behind the regular army, to seek out groups to be exterminated. The Jews headed that list. After Poland, Einsatzgruppen teams conducted house-to-house searches for Jews in occupied Soviet territory, and executed anyone they found, making no exceptions for women or children.
The "success rates" sent by Einsatzgruppen commanders to Berlin reveal the scale of the slaughter. According to their own figures, they shot more than 1 million Jews in Nazi-occupied regions, particularly Poland and Ukraine. When it entered a town, an Einsatzgruppe (the singular form of the noun) rounded up all the Jews, then moved them all out and made them dig a huge hole that would become their mass grave. They then shot all the prisoners and threw them in. Some who were not yet dead suffocated when earth was piled on top of them.
Following the occupation of Kiev on September 19, 1941, the slaughter of the Jews there may give an idea of the barbarity that the Einsatzgruppen practiced. On September 29, they called the Jews to a cemetery in the outskirts of the city, and announced that they were to be "resettled." They were ordered to bring with them food, warm clothing, documents, money and valuables—which prevented any from realizing this was to be a massacre. A Ukrainian officer who collaborated with the Nazis and was later tried described the incident stating, "It was like a mass migration… The Jews sang religious songs on the way." At the railroad siding their food and belongings were taken from them and:
Then the Germans began shoving the Jews into new, narrower lines. They moved very slowly. After a long walk, they came to a passageway formed by German soldiers with truncheons and police dogs. The Jews were whipped through. The dogs went at those who fell but the pressure of the surging lines behind was irresistible, and the weak and injured were trod underfoot.
Bruised and bloodied, … the Jews emerged onto a grassy clearing. They had arrived at Babi Yar; ahead of them lay the ravine. The ground was strewn with clothing. Ukrainian militiamen, supervised by Germans, ordered the Jews to undress. Those who balked, who resisted, were assaulted, their clothes ripped off… Screams and hysterical laughter filled the air.113
The first thing that German units invading Poland did was to hunt down Jews in every village, town and city.
Then the Jews were all shot, and their bodies flung into the valley. Records show that some 33,700 people were killed that day.
The executions by the Einsatzgruppen teams are generally ignored by those "revisionists" who deny that the Holocaust ever happened. They tend to focus their claims on the technical capacities of the gas chambers or on the function of Zyklon B, and ignore what went on in the ghettoes and the Einsatzgruppen's murders. Yet the very existence of such teams is sufficient to demonstrate that the Nazis planned to exterminate the Jews, and actually set about doing so. Any regime that executes innocents, even women and children, and sets up special teams to carry out those killings, is quite clearly capable of doing similar things in concentration camps.
When evaluating the Jewish Holocaust, one important question begs to be asked: Why did the Nazis hate the Jews so much?
The answer lies in their wicked ideology. As pointed out in this book's introduction, Nazism can be described as an imprudent neo-pagan movement. Nazi leaders such as Hitler and Rosenberg felt great nostalgia for Germany's pre-Christian pagan culture, whose basic feature was the admiration of pride, violence and war. The moral concept of Christianity, which stressed humility, peace and compassion—was diametrically opposed to that culture. Their hatred of Christianity was born with Nietzsche, continued with his disciple Martin Heidegger, and reached a peak with Hitler and Rosenberg, who inherited their false ideas.
One natural consequence of hatred of Christianity was enmity towards Jews, because Christianity is a religion born out of Judaism, and the Nazis regarded Christianity as "the invasion of Europe by Jewish culture." The Old Testament of the Christian Bible begins with the Torah, the holy book of Judaism. Christians love and respect all the Jewish prophets; and Prophet Jesus and his disciples were ethnically Jewish. All these elements led to the Nazis viewing Christianity as "a Jewish conspiracy." In addition to that ethnic hatred, the Nazis added a social-Darwinist perspective that regarded the Jews as an inferior race, that formulated an implacably fanatical loathing.
The memoirs of Jews subjected to Nazi fanaticism contain passages that show the Nazis' "hatred of religion." The best examples are how the Nazis attacked the Jews' religious symbols, distinctive garments, and long hair and beards, which they allowed to grow out of religious belief. Members of the SS and other Nazi groups stopped many devout Jews, especially the elderly, in the streets and cut off their beards and ringlets, symbols of their faith. They burned and tore up Jewish holy books. A Jewish eyewitness described one incident in the Warsaw ghetto:
As I was returning home one afternoon, I saw a group of young men lined up along a wall with the hands in the air. What was happening? I drew a bit closer. What had those boys done? Why had the Germans lined them up in that manner?
An SS officer with black boots and a riding crop was standing there. He reminded me of a dog trainer getting his kicks from watching the suffering of the creature in front of him. Another SS man had scissors in his hand, and was trying to cut the beards of those bleeding, pain-filled faces.114
Particularly noteworthy is the following account from a Jew who worked in the concentration camps:
… We plunged our rakes into the mud, and were astonished at their weight as we tried to pull them out again. The mud dropped from between the teeth of the rakes as we approached the handcart, and very little was left. We would bend down again to get another thick bit of mud. Again very little remained by the time we got to the cart. Again and again we strained our weakened bodies. I observed my companions as we performed that disgusting, illogical and hopeless task, and a tragic scene came to my mind: The Jewish slaves who built the city of Pharaoh in Egypt …
The Nazis, hostile to religious moral values, targeted Jewish religious values in particular. Right: A Torah scroll, the sacred text of Judaism. Hundreds of scriptural texts were burned during the Nazi regime.
It is significant that some Jews who survived these atrocities compared the Nazis to Pharaoh. The Nazis' hatred of religion was actually a new example of the savagery demonstrated by many atheist despots throughout history, such as Pharaoh, Nimrod and Nero. The Nazis tried to eliminate everyone who refused to accept their ideology, particularly devout individuals including Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as Jews. (In the pages that follow, we shall look at these in more detail.)
The account continues:
Jews condemned to death in Poland
Jews were forced to work at the edge of starvation. Their daily food intake consisted of a slice of black bread the size of a man's thumb, a small pat of margarine, and a bowl of liquid alleged to be soup. Sometime there might be a few bits of something floating on the surface. That is all they got for 24 hours.
Primitive gallows were set up. Six young men were standing on the platform. The hangman was putting the nooses around their necks. I thought I recognised two of the young men. Were they not the Spielman brothers? Yes, it was really them! This was their "lighter" punishment.
Orders for everyone to look were coming from all sides. "This is what happens to those who try to escape!" I shuddered.
One of the Spielman brothers suddenly started talking. He was defying the Nazis, and proudly looking death in the face: "You can kill us, and eliminate thousands of Jews. But you will never destroy the Jewish nation. They will survive as always…"
They then began to say the Shema Israel prayer, and were able to murmur "There is one God …" before they died.115
107 "Holokost: Bilimsel Yahudi Nefreti", http://www.sevivon.com/holokost/genelbakis/article7.htm
108 "Holokost: Getolar", http://www.sevivon.com/holokost/genelbakis/article17.htm
109 "Holokost: Trenler", http://www.sevivon.com/holokost/genelbakis/article21.htm
110 Ibid.
111 Ibid.
112 "Holokost: Calışma Kampları", http://www.sevivon.com/holokost/genel_bakis/article24.htm
113Lucy S. Dawidowicz, What is the Use of Jewish History?, pp. 106-107.
114 "Holokost: Nazilerin Yahudiler Hakkındaki Planları", http://www.sevivon.com/holokost/genelbakis/article15.htm
115 "Holokost: Çalışma Kampları", http://www.sevivon.com/holokost/genel_bakis.htm


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Don't Panic!
Last night after being swept by the Phils, I was texting with Rob–who may no longer be my boyfriend, but is still my Mets buddy. "Sure, it's frustrating," I texted. "But you can't always win, and it's too early to panic, and everything could change in our favor soon."
"How can you be so optimistic?" He asked me. "Aren't you pissed at all?"
Well, sure. It's frustrating to watch a good team play far below its capabilities. I don't fault the bullpen too much, because they've been stellar all year, and really it's impossible not to experience a blip here and there. Okay, Schoeneweis is having a tough season, and yes, I wince with dread every time he jogs to the mound. But overall, what are you going to do? The bullpen's going to screw up every so often. Ours less often than most. Such is baseball.
What's most frustrating to me is seeing so many men stranded on base. What'd we get last night, 12 hits and 3 runs–all solo homers? That's what gets to me the most. But you know what? It's really not time to panic. Because baseball is not a day-to-day sport. It's not even a series-to-series sport. It's a game of averages.
Look at any .300 hitter. Some days he's on fire, maybe hitting .400 for a couple weeks, but then he slumps for a bit, pulling a dismal .200. Well, there's your .300, no?
Just keep in mind: Baseball does not change day by day. If we have to give up June due to injury, or whatever else may pop up? Fine. July, August, and September are right around the corner. Pedro's coming back. Anything can happen.
Ours is not a .200 team. The law of averages says that everything will be okay. So, see? Not time to panic.
Besides, mark my words–if we sailed through this season scot free, easing into the postseason as everyone's favorite? Well, clearly we'd have nowhere to go but downward. I'd be very nervous in that situation.
Willie's post-game interviews may sound like rhetoric, but they're true. The bumps will come–and the Mets will overcome.
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970
Personally, I'm not panicking. It will pass. Sometimes you have to lose, to win. Let's hope it starts tonight.
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The Cubbies have not won the World Series since 1908.
They also haven't won a a game against the Pirates since September 29, 2009.
The Offense of the Pirates has been ignited all season when they are matched up with Chicago.
The Pirates put up 10 runs on Friday and have collected 26 runs thus far against the Northsiders.
Why the surge?
Look no further than the faces of the organization.
Andrew McCutchen and Garrett Jones made history Friday afternoon becoming the first teammates since 1999 to record five hits each while hitting a homerun.
Cutch went 5-for-5 with homer, Jones 5-for-6 with a three run blast.
It really has been a tale of two seasons for these two young men. Just establishing themselves last season in their rookie years the tandem had big, pressure filled roles placed upon their shoulders entering this season.
Andrew has lived up to the expectations. Garrett has not. At least until Friday.
McCutchen has been the unquestioned leader of his team. Batting a team leading .336 with a .522 slugging percentage.
Jones has been slow, but is finally turning his underperforming season around. The power he showed last year (21 homeruns in just a half a season of play) and at the start of this season (two home runs in his first two at bats of the season). Jones and McCutchen are tied for the team lead with five dingers. He has brought his Mendoza line BA up to a respectable .264.
He may never live up to the legend he built himself up to be last season, but Jones can prove he is a legitimate threat in this otherwise depleted lineup.
Currently Jones has struck out with the bases loaded in an attempt to add to the Pirates 3-2 lead over the Cubs. They scattered their only three runs in the first inning but have continued to get on base. This is a big series for not only the Bucs as they try to keep their win streak alive over a division opponent. It is also big for myself and other Pittsburgh fans.
For every run the Pirates score one dollar comes off the price of a Left field or Right field ticket for next week's series against the Braves. Currently those tickets will be just $11 dollars. They are great seats regularly priced at $24 dollars. 11 more runs and yep, they are free! I'm hoping for a few more insurance runs and bigger discount. I'd love to be at the ballpark for cheap next weekend!
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The Cubbies go though so much😦
Well good for the Pirates though! What an offensive splurge! Those really feel good. It's great when the whole lineup somehow clicks and everything feels right. It puts pressure of the pitcher too.
McCutchern for the all star game? I think YES!
Chicks may love the long ball….But bring on the free tickets!! I love rookies!
I hate to admit it, but as long as they are not playing the Phillies, I have been rooting for the Pirates, I really want them to have a good year this year, I think it'll let them build to a better one next year, who know s the cross state rivalry maybe worth more than just pride then… this week we get to see the Pirates then the sCrUBS in a couple of 2 game sets…should be fun
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Matt – what's this ticket deal all about? Tim and I are going to be in Pittsburgh on Saturday-Sunday for the Braves game. I'm a big fan of free tickets! And heavily discounted tickets. How do we get in on this?
It will be interesting to see how Garrett Jones does over the course of an entire season. He actually came up in the Twins organization, but we didn't really have a stop for him at the time. We tried him as a designated hitter for awhile, but we also seemed to be in the thick of a pennant race (who isn't in the AL Central?!) and thus didn't have the patience for his K's and (often) low batting average. It looks as if his power is being showcased on your Pirates, though!


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Home List of Titles Maintenance of ageing social housing stock: Australia asset management in practice
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- According to the 2006 figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 259,000 units of the Australian national public housing stock were build before 1980. At the same time the rate of new social housing being added has continued to decrease annually during the last 15 years. Therefore a major issue for all State Housing Authorities (SHAs) is ageing stock. In such a situation maintenance of current stock becomes a major factor in meeting an increased demand for government subsided housing. Thus the role of facilities maintenance is of primary importance and warrants research into current practice. This study of five State Housing Authorities found that Facilities Management Plans were used by all states. However, both internal and external factors prevented full implementation of these plans resulting in continued maintenance backlog. This backlog, combined with ageing stock, means that although implementation of predictive maintenance would be considered best facilities management practice, on average 60% of maintenance activity is responsive. Four of the five SHAs in this study did sometimes manage to have a slightly higher percentage of planned maintenance. But the lack of new stock, the growing need for affordable housing and long-term tenant demographic changes puts pressure on the social housing numbers. The SHAs in our study had good records to assist in the decision-making process when considering up-grades or disposal. At present less than 0.1% of ageing housing stock across Australia is considered beyond repair. Thus, despite the ageing stock all SHAs appear to be able to balance the tenure, financial, social and technical management priorities to meet Australian social housing policy expectations.
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Crystal Lake really is a charming town with fantastic schools, a thriving downtown – a welcoming hamlet in which to live or work.
Unless, of course, you're a gay person who happens to row crew. Or a gay Boy Scout. A gay Boy Scout who rows crew into town might want to keep rowing toward more tolerant waters.
There's no merit badge for staying where you're not wanted, and apparently the still waters of the namesake lake run deep.
This is hyperbole, of course, but for the second time in a decade, Crystal Lake has acquired national recognition for its intolerance toward gay people. I so want to believe this reputation is unfair, but someone help a brother out.
It wasn't embarrassing enough in 2006, when the Crystal Lake Park Board initially rejected a proposal to hold a rowing competition for the Gay Games held in Chicago amid a ludicrous frenzy of paranoia over AIDS and delusions about acts of public indecency.
This was not Crystal Lake's finest hour. Eventually, enough of the town came to its senses. The Park Board ultimately approved the request, as did the Crystal Lake Council.
The Gay Games rowing event was held without incident. The waters of the lake itself remain asexual, although to be honest, I never asked and the lake won't tell.
Mayor Aaron Shepley among others spoke for most Crystal Lake residents who were embarrassed by the national press coverage.
"It's not the controversy we want that puts Crystal Lake on the map," he told the Northwest Herald in March 2006. "Crystal Lake is not a community that discriminates. We're not a community of people that are closed-minded."
Fast-forward roughly seven years, when Crystal Lake is thrust into national headlines again. The target wasn't gay rowers this time. The target was a Boy Scout troop being tied into a timber hitch knot.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church's pastor, the Rev. Brian Grady, went rogue and decided to sever ties with Blackhawk Area Council Troop 550 – the parish's troop in the Boy Scouts of America.
The Catholic Church's position on homosexuality is no secret, but even the church itself has not gone as far as Grady with regard to its relationship with the Boy Scouts, who reversed policy and now allow openly gay Scouts. The policy change essentially puts scouting in line with virtually every youth organization that offers no badges for heterosexuality.
According to the National Catholic Reporter, Edward Martin, chairman of the church's National Committee on Scouting, has said the Scouts policy change "is not in conflict with Catholic teaching" and that churches should continue supporting scouting.
Why the peaceful community of Crystal Lake continues to be a key battleground for these "Culture Wars" that no one wins is a depressing question that I can't answer.
But just as the reasonable minds of Crystal Lake overcame the unfortunate Gay Games controversy, the reasonable minds of Crystal Lake will get the town past this latest embarrassment.
Fortunately, plenty of well-wishers in town have offered new places for Troop 550 to pitch its tent.
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Highs and Lows of Spring
Here are some highlights from the last 2 Phillies Spring games:
3/7 vs. Tampa Bay; final score 5-3, Tampa: JA Happ started the game and went 2 1/3 scoreless innings; he did walk 2 batters, but overall looked good. But even better news was that newbie Phillipe Aumont recovered from his Phillies debut, which was a 5-run pounding in less than inning against Florida State. Against the Rays, he went 2 2/3 scoreless innings with 1 walk and 2 hits. Time for Aumont to exhale; he is back in top prospect form.
Joe Savery, on the hand, has a rough inning where he allowed 3 runs on 4 hits. Savery is a former first round draft pick of the Phillies but sadly, The 6'3″ lefty has never looked comfortable on the mound. He has a 4.14 ERA in 3 years of minor league play.
The polar opposite of Savery has been young outfield propect Domonic Brown; he continues to impress this Spring and went 3 for 4 with 2 RBI against the Rays. He also threw a runner out at home, just for good measure. New bench piece Ross Gload also went 3 for 5 in the game in the DH role.
3/8 vs. Yankees; final score 7-5, Yanks: Kyle Kendrick is putting the pressure on Jamie Moyer in competition for the 5th starters spot. Kendrick went 3 solid innings allowing just one hit and no runs. But more than that, he looked comfortable and confident. I suppose sporting that Roy Halladay look-alike beard has given him an ego boost ;o)
And then in the opposite category, Jose Contreras looked horrible today. He could not seem to throw a first pitch strike, worked behind almost every batter in the count and as a result, he allowed 6 runs on 3 walks and 6 hits over only 1 2/3 innings. Luckily, the Phillies have very little invested in the righty so if he does not shape up, no big deal. Then again, Contreras was supposed to be an upgrade over the departed Chan Ho Park; do I smell a huge disappointment on the horizon? Hmmmm….
Incidentally, Contreras began his career with the Yankees and his signing in 2002 is what precipitated the Yankee nickname, "Evil Empire." It is said that the Red Sox were so intent on signing Contreras that they booked every hotel room in the area of Cuba where Contreras was to keep the Yanks away. In the end, they still lost out to the Yankees and the Sox owner allegedly threw a chair through a window in anger. This is just a rumor, of course :O)
As for the bat today, Ryan Howard finally got his first, and then second, hit of Spring against the Yankees. Whew! But the big blast of the day came off the bat of Jimmy Rollins. Pitcher Javier Vazquez made his return to the Yankees today since departing in 2005 and his very first pitch was taken out of the park by Rollins. 1 pitch, 1 homer – nice.
Rollins had 2 hits in the game as did Howard, Chase Utley and John Mayberry Jr., who knocked the second Phillies homer of the game in the 6th inning. But while the bat were popping, the outing by Contreras put the Phils in a hole they could not climb out of.
Shane Victorino was still missing from the line-up, but it appears he may make his Spring debut tomorrow against the Braves at 7:05pm. His sore shoulder has been an issue so far this Spring and the Phillies are playing it safe with him. But hopefully the Flyin' Hawaiian will take flight again tomorrow night.
And congratulations to reader "blueferret" who was the first person to find the mistake on the new Cliff Lee Topps trading card from Saturday's blog. Topps photoshopped an old Phillies card to change the Phillies uniform to a Mariners uniform but they forgot to remove the "HK" patch from the new Mariners version. The "HK" patch was a Phillies-only items that the team wore in 2009 in honor of the late Harry Kalas.
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Good to see Aumont bounce back from that horrible outing (against college kids, no less!). I read in the paper the other day that Seattle had tried to have him change from his natural 3/4 arm slot to an overhead motion, but now the Phillies are trying to have him go back to his natural motion. So maybe it was just a matter of readjusting to that.
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I hope Contreras comes around for you guys. He did well with the Rockies so maybe he'll be better facing NL teams. Just don't put him in pressure situations, because he has a tendency to fold!
Wow, slick investigative work on that baseball card! As for the new Kendrick/Halladay bromance, I think it's kind of cool. Still, Kendrick isn't — nor will he ever be — anywhere close to Doc stuff-wise.
Go Jimmy Rollins with that nice first pitch (I think?) hr off of Vazquez. That was some good news. This guy Dominic Brown sounds like he'll be real good… maybe taking a hack at Doc's pitches WAS a good idea. Interesting story with Contretas, especially with the window haha. No comment?
I'm just happy they have the Phillies on TV tonight…, 2 on, 2 out, in the 1st.. hopefully Halladay gets out of it…
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God is concerned with the health of women. God cares about teenagers who end up in a lifetime of poverty. Jesus healed the bleeding woman 2,000 years ago, and I think if he walked the streets today, he just might hand her a packet of pink pills.
Can we move from the encampments to the important work of speaking on behalf of the poor?
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Tournaments and new set equal an exciting time
It is an exciting time to be a card gamer! There is so much on the horizon for Magic the Gathering, my head has been kind of spinning to figure out what to write for this column. I guess I will start with the thing that has me the most excited, tournaments!
I love to play competitive Magic. Since the Mountain State is a bit smaller and has a smaller community, major tournaments do not come near very often. Many players in the state always look forward to the fall when the circuit of state tournaments come around. This year the excitement has started early! The online card shop TCGPlaer, magic.tcgplayer.com, is hosting a set of state tournaments this spring. The tournament will be May 18 at the Charleston Civic Center.
This is exciting for standard players because it will be the first time two different standard seasons will be represented in state championships. Standard rotates, which restricts players to play with only the newest available cards.
With the additional tournament, players will be able to shuffle decks that contain cards that would not be legal in the format this fall. The challenging part right now is getting ready for the tournament.
My suggestions for those players considering going are to play a lot of cards in the coming weeks and do your research. The Internet provides a wealth of information on the best decks, what people are going to play and how to combat the metagame (the most popular decks and strategies).
The most important part is figuring out what cards you need, but that is a bit of a challenge right now, too. That is because the new set, "Dragon's Maze," drops right before the tournament and will be legal to play. Luckily, Magic's daily online magazine, DailyMTG, www.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Default.aspx, spoils the cards early and allows you to see the upcoming set before it releases. This is important for competitive players because it gives us an idea of what cards we will need to get to finish off our "perfect" creations before the tournament. No deck is perfect. Every deck can be beat, but al players believe their deck is the best. They have to, or they should not play it.
I have never won a state championship and have tried several times. I do not get discouraged, because I love the game, the atmosphere of the tournaments and hanging out with other gamers. There will be a group from the area that will make the trip to the tournament.
We have started practicing and play testing decks. I am down to two different possibilities that I will play. Both decks contain three colors, and one is my own build of Esper Control.
Esper combines white, black and blue cards, and the aim of the deck is to control the board state and win with one big shot from a creature, or to grind their deck, or library, down. If opponents cannot draw a card from their library on their turn, they lose.
The other deck is dubbed The Aristocrats. The deck is being played by professional players and having a ton of success. I put my own twists on it to benefit my play style. The major reason I put the deck together was to test against it for the tournament so I would know how to play against it and hopefully be able to defeat it. In the very few games I have played with it, it is evident that it is good and should win several games.
I am still developing both decklists, and they could change drastically over the next month with the new set coming out.
Who knows, I may even build something completely different. But I learned an important lesson last fall during the state tournament. I didn't take enough time to build my deck and test it out beforehand. The night before we were heading to the tournament, I was up at 3 a.m. trying to finish the 60-card pile.
The deck was decent, but there was no way I could win with it. I had a blast, but I want to be more competitive this year.
I thought I would wrap this up with some tips for people who may be planning on going to the tournament. Like I said, I have not won one of these, but I have played in several and have learned some important lessons.
First, practice. You have to practice if you are going to do well. Playing more only makes you better. I would also suggest getting a good night of sleep the night before and make sure you eat a good breakfast before you go to the tournament. Six rounds that last 50 minutes each give you little time to grab something to eat. If you are hungry or thirsty, it is distracting and can cause you not to play as well. In my group, we always grab some bottles of water, soda and some snack foods and throw them in a backpack. It saves time and helps if you need a snack.
I would also suggest minimizing the amount of cards you take with you. I try to take two decks, in case a friend needs one or I make a last-minute change.
I also try to consolidate cards that are up for trade into one book that I can keep an eye on. Magic is a trading card game and you can get awesome deals on trading cards. There are a lot of people who will need one or two to finish a deck, and you can get something you want much of the time.
You also should keep your trade stuff with you as much as possible. I hear stories every year of how a player will have something stolen or taken. I like to carry a backpack to keep my stuff with me and can drop it at my feet at the gaming table when playing.
If anyone has any comments or questions for me, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are looking for someone to play with or try to get into the game shoot me a message.
I will keep everyone updated on my play testing and my preparations for the tournament in future columns.


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Education Funding Advisory Board
The full text of school code, as titled below, dealing with the funding of schools, specifically General State Aid funding.
105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 Basis for apportionment of general State financial aid and supplemental general State aid to the common schools for the 1998-99 and subsequent school years.
School Code creating the Education Funding Advisory Board.
105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 (M) Creation of the Education Funding Advisory Board
The continuing appropriation for the current General State Aid formula, which gives a funding level for each school based on student attendance.
105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 (B) & (H) Legislation which the Education Funding Advisory Board must address


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My son seems to have a lot of the symptoms related to overproduction, except for 1 that I find very important. He does NOT eat more often than expected. He's almost 7 weeks and he is like clockwork every 3 to 3 1/2 hours. he is gaining a good amount of weight, so much so that the Dr said we could feed him a little less in the bottle when I am working.
So my question is, am I really overproducing? I don't want to try to deminish my supply if it isn't overproduction. I am loving not having to spend a ton of time pumping at work... seeing as I have a medical job and the less time spent away from patients the better. My son has an hour or 2 of fussy time a day, usually in the evenings. He's gassy and spits up pretty often but not a ton (Drs are not concerned at all about his spit ups.) And he OCCASIONALLY latches and pulls off and relatches, and occasionally will cry at the breast as well. But we think that is usually when he is tired and not actually hungry because usually when he does this, a pascifier will put him to sleep and he will sleep until his next feeding.


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Diversity and cross-cultural issues in Armenia
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|In fulfilling the Peace Corps' mandate to share the face of America with their host countries, Peace Corps is making special efforts to see that all of America's richness is reflected in the Volunteer corps. More Americans of color are serving in today's Peace Corps than at any time in recent years. Differences in race, ethnic background, age, religion, and sexual orientation are expected and welcomed among our Volunteers. Part of the Peace Corps' mission is to help dispel any notion that Americans are all of one origin or race and to establish that each of us is as thoroughly American as the other despite our many differences.
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In fulfilling the Peace Corps' mandate to share the face of America with our host countries, we are making special efforts to see that all of America's richness is reflected in the Volunteer corps. More Americans of color are serving in today's Peace Corps than at any time in recent years. Differences in race, ethnic background, age, religion, and sexual orientation are expected and welcomed among our Volunteers. Part of the Peace Corps' mission is to help dispel any notion that Americans are all of one origin or race and to establish that each of us is as thoroughly American as the other despite our many differences.
Our diversity helps us accomplish that goal. In other ways, however, it poses challenges. In Armenia, as in other Peace Corps host countries, Volunteers' behavior, lifestyle, background, and beliefs are judged in a cultural context very different from their own. Certain personal perspectives or characteristics commonly accepted in the United States may be quite uncommon, unacceptable, or even repressed in Armenia.
Outside of Armenia's capital, residents of rural communities have had relatively little direct exposure to other cultures, races, religions, and lifestyles. What people view as typical American behavior or norms may be a misconception, such as the perception in some countries that all Americans are rich and have blond hair and blue eyes. The people of Armenia are justly known for their generous hospitality to foreigners; however, members of the community in which you will live may display a range of reactions to cultural differences that you present.
To ease the transition and adapt to life in Armenia, you may need to make some temporary, yet fundamental compromises in how you present yourself as an American and as an individual. For example, female trainees and Volunteers may not be able to exercise the independence available to them in the United States; political discussions need to be handled with great care; and some of your personal beliefs may best remain undisclosed. You will need to develop techniques and personal strategies for coping with these and other limitations. The Peace Corps staff will lead diversity and sensitivity discussions during pre-service training and will be on call to provide support, but the challenge ultimately will be your own.
- 1 Overview of Diversity in Armenia
- 1.1 What Might a Volunteer Face?
Overview of Diversity in Armenia
The Peace Corps staff in Armenia recognizes the adjustment issues that come with diversity and will endeavor to provide support and guidance. During pre-service training, several sessions will be held to discuss diversity and coping mechanisms. We look forward to having male and female Volunteers from a variety of races, ethnic groups, ages, religions, and sexual orientations, and hope that you will become part of a diverse group of Americans who take pride in supporting one another and demonstrating the richness of American culture.
What Might a Volunteer Face?
Possible Issues for Female Volunteers
Armenia has a traditional, patriarchal culture. Among the challenges of living and working in Armenia is learning to cope effectively and constructively with the different status of women and men and the different standards of behavior to which they are held.
Female Volunteers may find that being a single woman living alone goes against the cultural norms of their community. Besides receiving unwanted and inappropriate attention from Armenian men, female Volunteers may also have to work harder than male Volunteers to gain the professional respect of colleagues in the workplace. In addition, female Volunteers may experience resentment from host country women over their "male-like" position of authority in the community. Finally, female Volunteers need to keep a low social profile and practice discretion in public (e.g., not smoking in public or drinking in bars) to avoid developing an undesirable reputation.
Possible Issues for Volunteers of Color
Volunteers of color may face challenges both inside and outside the Peace Corps community. Within the Volunteer corps, you may be the only minority trainee or Volunteer in a particular project. You may not find minority role models among the Peace Corps/Armenia staff and may not receive necessary personal support from other Volunteers.
Once you move to your site, you are likely to work and live with individuals who have no experience or understanding of a non-Caucasian-American culture. Because of ignorance, stereotyped cultural perceptions, or the country's current or historical relations with other countries, you may encounter varying degrees of harassment. You may not be perceived as being North American, or you may be viewed with suspicion, or you may be evaluated as less professionally competent than a white Volunteer. In any community in Armenia where you are not known, you need to be prepared for staring, pointing, and comments. Finally, you should be prepared to hear derogatory terms and racial epithets that would be considered completely inappropriate in the United States today.
Possible Issues for Senior Volunteers
Respect comes with age in Armenia. Younger Volunteers may have to work harder than their older colleagues to be accepted as professionals. Older Volunteers may feel isolated within the Peace Corps community overseas because the majority of Volunteers are in their 20s.
Training may present its own special challenges. Older trainees may encounter insufficient attention to their needs for an effective learning environment, including timing, presentation of materials, comfort level, and health. You may need to be assertive in developing an individual approach to language learning.
Possible Issues for Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Volunteers
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual Volunteers have to practice discretion. Although homosexuality is no longer illegal (Armenia decriminalized homosexual acts on January 9, 2003), it may be considered immoral by some people. Certain styles of hair and dress (e.g., earrings on men) and mannerisms considered acceptable in the United States may be viewed with disdain or suspicion by Armenians. Your basic civil liberties may be ignored, and you may be hassled in bars or in the streets.
You may serve for two years without meeting another homosexual Volunteer or Armenian. Most Armenian homosexuals probably have migrated to larger cities, while many Peace Corps Volunteers are posted in rural sites. Relationships with host country nationals can happen, but as with all cross-cultural relationships, they are not likely to be easy. Lesbians will have to deal with constant questions about boyfriends, marriage, and sex (as do all women). Wearing an "engagement ring" may help. Gay men must deal with machismo: talk of conquest(s), girl watching, dirty jokes, etc.
The Peace Corps is committed to providing support for all Volunteers regardless of sexual orientation.
Possible Religious Issues for Volunteers
Volunteers are frequently asked about their religious affiliation and may be invited to attend a community church. Although Volunteers not in the practice of attending church may have to explain their reasons for not attending, it is possible to politely decline if the church or religious practice is not one of their choice. Most Volunteers find effective ways to cope with this challenge and come to feel quite at home in Armenia.
Possible Issues for Volunteers With Disabilities
In Armenia, as in other parts of the world, some people may hold prejudicial attitudes about individuals with disabilities and may discriminate against them. There is very little of the infrastructure to accommodate individuals with disabilities that has been developed in the United States.
That being said, as part of the medical clearance process, the Peace Corps Office of Medical Services determined that you were physically and emotionally capable, with or without reasonable accommodations, to perform a full tour of Volunteer service in Armenia without unreasonable risk of harm to yourself or interruption of your service. Peace Corps/ Armenia staff will work with disabled Volunteers to make reasonable accommodations in training, housing, job sites, and other areas to enable them to serve safely and effectively.


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Walker announces investment in Hispanic loan fund
Gov. Scott Walker has announced that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. had committed an additional $100,000 to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin's revolving loan fund.
Walker made the announcement Saturday at the Chamber of Commerce's annual gala in Milwaukee. »Read Full Article(37)
Johnson Controls profit drops, shares fall
Shares of Johnson Controls fell 3% Friday after the company warned that a slowdown in European automotive production would hurt earnings in the quarter that just began.
Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) reported a 16.5% drop in first-quarter earnings and said earnings in the fiscal second quarter wouldn't meet investment analysts' current forecast. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
Guild Software goes online to raise funds for expansion
Guild Software Inc., a Wauwatosa game maker, on Friday began trying to raise $100,000 on the crowd funding site Kickstarter.
The company is raising the money to fund expansion of its multiplayer online game, Vendetta Online, and bring the game to the iPad. It already has a version of the game for Android tablets. »Read Full Article
Bank Mutual 4Q earnings up 62%
Profits at Bank Mutual Corp. jumped 62% in the fourth quarter as interest expense fell and gains from the sale of loans rose.
The Brown Deer-based parent company of Bank Mutual banks posted net income of $2.3 million, or 5 cents a share, compared with $1.4 million, or 3 cents, in the final period of 2011. »Read Full Article(1)
Work on new I-90 bridge over Mississippi to start Monday
La Crosse - After more than 10 years of planning, construction of the new I-90 bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at Dresbach, Minn., is expected to begin Monday.
Transportation officials said the first year of the project won't cause many traffic delays. Interstate 90 will remain open during the four-year project, but various ramps will be closed for months at a time. Project manager Terry Ward said traffic from La Crosse to La Crescent, Minn., on westbound I-90 to southbound Highway 61 will be closed for an extended period of time. »Read Full Article(2)
Indoor golf center opens in Oconomowoc
Wisconsin Indoor Golf Center has just opened in Oconomowoc.
The 7,000-square-foot facility operates in a remodeled warehouse at W359 N5740 Brown St., and features four netted driving bays, and three golfing simulators.The simulators can replicate different course situations, and provide a swing analysis. »Read Full Blog Post


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text: LOL! I so didn't mean to take over the post with the diet soda complaint, but thanks for the support. He's over every week, and yes, he brings his own. We don't keep it here in the house. I know he's only giving her sips, not the whole thing, but I don't want her to have any. Period. There is absolutely no benefit from it, and it's very unhealthy for her (not to mention bad on her teeth!) And I really don't like her sharing food or drinks with anyone as a lot of family members have cold sores periodically, and one cousin always has strep. It's easier to just explain no sharing food or drink to her than making a list of who to avoid and who's ok, so to speak. He knows I get pretty upset about the sharing thing so you would think he'd really avoid a double whammy of sharing and giving her soda. I hate confrontations, but I'm going to have to intervene for her sake and DD2. I try to pick my battles, but when it comes to my girls health, I have to speak up. I will say he is a great grandpa, and a great dad. I think he just hasn't take me seriously about our rules. I am sure he will eventually.


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