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Q: Getting extra blank row when looping This is my first time working with VBA, so hopefully this is something easy.  I have code that loops through lines on one workbook, copies certain cells, and appends them into a second workbook.  It keeps leaving an extra blank line at the end of the pasted data.  I assume it has something to do with my for loop, but I have not found anything online that describes this problem.

i = 5
For Each agentRow In Range("A4:A45")
Workbooks("Agent.xlsx").Activate
    'Check to see if the agent is active this month
    If Range("D" & i).Value > 10 And Range("E" & i).Value > 10 Then
        'If so, copy this data
        Range("A" & i & ", D" & i & ":R" & i & ", U" & i & ":Z" & i).Select
        Selection.Copy

        'Goto the workbook that will store the data
        Workbooks("Agent Stats Monthly.xlsm").Activate

        'Find the last row with data, then paste onto the next row
        findLastRow = 1 + Range("A:A").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Row

        Range("A" & findLastRow).PasteSpecial
    End If
i = i + 1
Next agentRow

A: A few things to note:

*

*If you use .Offset(row,col) , you don't need to use i in your For each loop (albeit more useful to just use a normal for loop

*Your lastrow is probably better obtained by

Workbooks("Agent Stats
Monthly.xlsm").Sheets("YourSheetWithData").Range("A" &
Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

*

*You shouldn't use Select to copy/paste: see: Avoid Select in VBA

*You don't need to use copy/paste in your example, you can just set the values

*You don't need to activate a workbook to change values in its sheets

*PasteSpecial as what? Usually used to get rid of formulas with PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
I know those are a lot of "negatives" but this is meant as helpful criticism. You're doing far better than when I started with vba :)
The reason why you're getting an extra empty row is likely due to the starting value of your i
Workbooks("Agent.xlsx").Activate
Dim wbS As Workbook: Set wbS = Workbooks("Agent Stats Monthly.xlsm")
Dim wsS As Worksheet: Set wsS = wbS.Sheets("YourDataSheet")
Dim lRowS As Long
lRowS = wsS.Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
For Each agentRow In Range("A4:A45")
    i = agentRow.Row 'I'm assuming that agentRow is a Range object since it's in Range("A4:A45")
    'Check to see if the agent is active this month
    If Range("D" & i).Value > 10 And Range("E" & i).Value > 10 Then
        'If so, copy this data
        lRowS = lRowS+1 'only add +1 if you're going to add a row to your DataSheet
        Dim colCount As Long: colCount = 0
        Dim areaR
        For Each areaR In Range("A" & i & ", D" & i & ":R" & i & ", U" & i & ":Z" & i).Areas
            colCount = colCount + areaR.Columns.Count
        Next areaR
        wsS.Range("A" & lRowS).Resize(1,colCount).Value = Range("A" & i & ", D" & i & ":R" & i & ", U" & i & ":Z" & i).Value
    End If
Next agentRow

Hope I didn't forget anything and used the resizing correctly, I'm still learning myself and unable to test right now..
If anything is unclear, feel free to ask,  I'll answer in the morning.
**EDIT: ** Just noticed I did the resizing wrong when reading VBasic's answer, didn't noticed it was a continued range D:R, etc. My apologies. I adjusted my code but it's seeming less elegant now compared to VBasic's code. I do hope however that you can learn from both our code as is the point of this site.

A: Copy Discontinuous Row Ranges
Sub CopyAgentData()

    ' Source
    Dim swb As Workbook: Set swb = Workbooks("Agent.xlsx")
    Dim sws As Worksheet: Set sws = swb.Sheets("Sheet1") ' adjust!
    Dim srg As Range: Set srg = sws.Range("D4:E45") ' read
    Dim scrg As Range: Set scrg = Intersect( _
        srg.Rows(1).EntireRow, sws.Range("A:A,D:R,U:Z")) ' copy (first row)

    ' Destination
    Dim dwb As Workbook: Set dwb = Workbooks("Agent Stats Monthly.xlsm")
    ' If this code is in this workbook, instead use:
    'Dim dwb As Workbook: Set dwb = ThisWorkbook ' workbook containing this code
    Dim dws As Worksheet: Set dws = dwb.Sheets("Sheet1") ' adjust!
    Dim dfCell As Range: Set dfCell = dws.Range("A2")
    Dim dlCell As Range: Set dlCell = dws.UsedRange _
        .Find("*", , xlFormulas, , xlByRows, xlPrevious)
    If Not dlCell Is Nothing Then
        If dfCell.Row <= dlCell.Row Then
            Set dfCell = dws.Cells(dlCell.Row + 1, dfCell.Column)
        End If
    End If

    ' Loop.

    Dim srrg As Range ' Current Read Row Range

    For Each srrg In srg.Rows
        'Check to see if the agent is active this month
        If srrg.Cells(1).Value > 10 And srrg.Cells(2).Value > 10 Then
            'If so, copy this data
            'Debug.Print srrg.Address, scrg.Address, dfCell.Address
            scrg.Copy dfCell
            Set dfCell = dfCell.Offset(1) ' next first destination cell
        End If
        Set scrg = scrg.Offset(1) ' next source copy row range
    Next srrg

End Sub

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Dean didn't expect her to present such a precious thing to him. The value of this scroll was god knows how many times expensive than the god's marrow. Actually he wouldn't be able to get it even with money.
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Dean nodded as he looked at the black scroll in her hands.
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"Take the god's marrow." Aisha gave him the other bag.
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Aisha walked to the corner of the wall and began to climb.
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9th region of the dark church.
Hawkeye respectfully replied: "Yes." He left and came back with the Feather moments later.
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"Elder." Hawkeye looked at Dean as if waiting for an order.
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Why is Dean so dumb…. can't he loosen up? …. wait im First!!!!
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Combat skills is something more rely able than marrow, Have Faith Dean!
Really..? even his friend used as a laboratory rat..
hmm.. it's start getting su-k……….
This is to be expected as author intended so, sigh!
I was hoping aisha would be a good companion for dean but all the signs indicate something is up.
the marrow is probably screwed with and the combat skills, while powerful it is after all very valuable and thus dangerous.
she is using dean to weaken her sister's position in clan. If he is caught using the dragon combat skill, which he will, it can be pinned on her sister as leaking clan secrets to outsiders.


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Q: Use find data attribute to add class I am attempting to create a menu with unique data attributes attached to each navigation item.  On click I want that navigation item to find the section with the same attribute and add a class to it. This is the code I am using thus-far (it is part of a much larger script).
var $el = $( '#bl-main' ),
$sections = $el.children( 'section' ),
$navItems = $( 'nav > a' );

$navItems.on( 'click', function( event ) {

$el.addClass( 'bl-expand-item' );
$navItems.find("[data-section='" + current + "']");
$sections.find("[data-section='" + $navItems + "']").addClass( 'expand expand-top' );
} );

This is the script it based off of. http://tympanus.net/Development/FullscreenLayoutPageTransitions/
The idea is to add a separate floating navigation to link to the different sections (instead of the direct click to expand that is current implemented). The current script I added only seems to refresh the page on click. I couldn't get it to work in a fiddle at all so the original script im sure will work. The section pasted about I have added in on my local files.

A: On the first line, when you try to call for a <section> element, you are missing the jQuery shorthand before the parentheses. That should fix your script.
So it should look like:
var $section = $('section');

That should have you all set to continue!

A: First off you are missing your $ in the first variable assignment.  var $section = $('section')
After that it is difficult to tell what you're trying to do without seeing your markup, but I'll take a stab at it.
It appears that you are trying to filter the $section object by the data-section attribute of the nav > a element.  This code should do just that:
var $section = $( 'section' ), $navItems = $( 'nav > a' );

$navItems.on( 'click', function( event ) {
    var $navSection = $section.filter("[data-section='" + $( this ).data( 'section' ) + "']");
    $navSection.addClass( 'expand expand-top' );
    return false;
} );

Notice that we are filtering all of the sections by the value of the clicked anchor's data-section attribute.
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Ms. Thomas was known for her dawn-to-dark work hours, and she won her share of exclusives and near-exclusives. She was the only female print journalist to accompany President Richard M. Nixon on his breakthrough trip to China in 1972.
"Helen was a better reporter than she was a writer — but in her prime had more than her share of scoops the rest of us would try to match," Mark Knoller, the longtime CBS News White House reporter, wrote in a Twitter message on Saturday morning.
In the Watergate era, she was a favorite late-night confidante of Martha Mitchell, the wife of John N. Mitchell, Mr. Nixon's attorney general and campaign official. Mrs. Mitchell told Ms. Thomas that responsibility for the "third-rate burglary" at the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington and the cover-up that followed it had gone far above the midlevel officials who were implicated early on.
On April 22, 1981, three weeks after the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life, Ms. Thomas and a reporter for The Associated Press interviewed the president, who told them of the "paralyzing pain" he had felt when a bullet went into his chest and of the panic that had overcome him when he could not breathe.
In 1971, Ms. Thomas married Douglas Cornell, a widower, who was about to retire as a White House reporter for The A.P. and was 14 years her senior. He died in 1982.
Ms. Thomas wrote half a dozen books. Her first, "Dateline: White House," was published by Macmillan in 1975. Four others were published by Scribner: "Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times," in 2000; "Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom From the Front Row at the White House," in 2003; "Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public," in 2006; and "Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do," written with Craig Crawford, in 2009. With the illustrator Chip Bok, she also wrote a children's book, "The Great White House Breakout," about a little boy whose mother is president.
Helen Thomas was born in Winchester, Ky., on Aug. 4, 1920, and grew up in Detroit, one of 10 children of George and Mary Thomas. Her father, who could not read or write, encouraged his children to go to college.
In 1942, when Ms. Thomas graduated from what is now Wayne State University in Detroit with a major in English, the country was at war. She went to Washington to look for a job.
She found one, as a waitress. But she did not last long. "I didn't smile enough," she recalled years later.
The Washington Daily News soon hired her in a clerical job; soon after that, she began her career with the United Press news service.
Before she left U.P.I. in May 2000, the news service had been shrinking its payroll and closing bureaus for years, a decline that led to its takeover by News World Communications, the organization founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church. It also publishes The Washington Times, a favorite of conservative readers in Washington.
Ms. Thomas bitterly opposed the war in Iraq and made no effort to appear neutral at White House news conferences, where some of her questions bordered on the prosecutorial. In "Watchdogs of Democracy?," she wrote that most White House and Pentagon reporters had been too willing to accept the Bush administration's rationale for going to war.
In an interview with The New York Times in May 2006, Ms. Thomas was characteristically uncompromising and unapologetic.
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Dr. Pedro Talaia received his PhD in Applied Mechanics from the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, and has been a Marie Curie Scholarship holder. He was awarded his degree and Mechanical Engineering, with a major in Industrial Automation, and his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in applied Product Development, by the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
He has been involved in several national and international projects, with experience in several countries. During his career, he has worked in the domains of transport, safety, bio-mechanics, orthopaedics, aircraft and defence.
Dr. Pedro Talaia is a Research Fellow in Control Systems Engineering within the Cranfield Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D).
He is a member of the design team within the "Breakthrough Innovation Hub". His work is focused on instrumentation and control, applied to product testing, real-time monitoring, remote sensing and diagnostics, and IoT (Internet of Things).
His major role on Cranfield's "Nano Membrane Toilet", sponsored by the "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation".
Jones PM, Lonne Q, Talaia P, Leighton GJT, Botte GG, Mutnuri S & Williams L (2018) A straightforward route to sensor selection for IoT systems, Research-Technology Management, 61 (5) 41-50.
Ramos A, Talaia P & Queirós de Melo F (2016) Pseudo-dynamic analysis of a cemented hip arthroplasty using a force method based on the Newmark algorithm, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 19 (1) 49-59.
Barros L, Talaia P, Drummond M & Natal-Jorge R (2014) Facial pressure zones of an oronasal interface for noninvasive ventilation: A computer model analysis, Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 40 (6) 652-657.
Ramos A, Ballu A, Mesnard M, Talaia P & Simões J (2011) Numerical and experimental models of the mandible, Experimental Mechanics, 51 (7) 1053-1059.
Completo A, Talaia P, Fonseca F & Simões J (2009) Relationship of design features of stemmed tibial knee prosthesis with stress shielding and end-of-stem pain, Materials and Design, 30 (4) 1391-1397.
Talaia P, Ramos A, Abe I, Schiller M, Lopes P, Nogueira R, Pinto J, Claramunt R & Simões J (2007) Plated and intact femur strains in fracture fixation using fiber Bragg gratings and strain gauges, Experimental Mechanics, 47 (3) 355-363.
Talaia P, Parente M, Fernandes A & Natal Jorge R (2012) 3D geometry reconstruction from gray and RGB medical images. In: Third ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VipIMAGE 2011), Olhao, 12-14 October 2011.
Ramos A, Mesnard M, Relvas C, Completo A, Talaia P & Simões J (2010) The influence of screw positions of bone fixation screws on a TMJ implant. In: 6th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB 2010), Singapore, 1-6 August 2010.
Moreno D, Talaia P, De Cuyper J & Lozano M (2008) MYMOSA - A virtual motorcycle rider for closed-loop simulation of motorcycles. In: 23rd International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering 2008 (ISMA 2008), Leuven, 15-17 September 2008.
Talaia P, Moreno D, Hajžman M & Hynčík L (2008) A 3D model of a human for powered two-wheeler vehicles. In: 23rd International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering 2008 (ISMA 2008), Leuven, 15-17 September 2008.
Milczewski M, Martelli C, Canning J, Kalinowski H, Simões J, Stevenson M & Talaia P (2007) Orthodontie forces sensing with polymer PCF. In: 3rd European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors (EWOFS 2007), Napoli, 4-6 July 2007.
Talaia P, Abe I, Schiller M, Lopes P, Nogueira R, Pinto J, Claramunt R & Simões J (2006) Measuring strains on fracture femurs with osteosynthesis bone plates using fibre bragg sensors and strain gauges. In: 4th IASTED International Conference on Biomechanics (BioMech 2006), Palma de Mallorca, 28-29 August 2006.
Sun P, Talaia P, Rocha A, Grácio J & Ferreira J (2002) Experimental device about automatic control of a hydraulic press. In: Asian Simulation Conference / 5th International Conference on: System Simulation and Scientific Computing, Shanghai, 3-6 November 2002.


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Updated Sept. 28 Europe Energy Stress Test Under Way
Posted on September 28, 2021 by Ron Clutz
Update Sept. 28 Additional commentary in Footnote at end
Europeans are going to get a strong dose of energy cuts Greta has long called for since starting her Fridays for the Future. Shortages of fossil fuels are in the outlook and already reflected in skyrocketing prices. Tyler Durden explains at zerohedge All Hell Is Breaking Loose In Energy Markets. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
By now readers are well aware that Europe is suffering from a historic gas crisis, one which according to Rabobank is now even more extreme than the US oil price shock.
And unfortunately for Europe's population, with every passing day – and to a lesser extent hedge funds such as Statar Capital which suffered a big loss in the past few days – it's only getting worse. As Bloomberg's Javier Blas notes today, both UK NBP and Dutch TTF natural gas benchmarks have closed the day at their highest ever settlement level, up ~11% on the day (to a closing price equal to more than $26 per mBtu).
Natural gas prices in Europe have surged past $25 per million British thermal unit, more than 400% higher than the 2010-2020 average, and significantly higher than in the U.S., where the commodity trades at around $5 per million Btu. In Asia, liquefied natural gas has recently changed hands at around $27 per million Btu, a seasonal record high, as China has also been hit by a widespread energy crisis (see "Millions Of Chinese Residents Lose Power After Widespread, "Unexpected" Blackouts; Power Company Warns This Is "New Normal""). Also, for those who haven't read it yet, please check out Rabobank's extensive recap of Europe's energy crisis which we posted over the weekend.
Europe's energy crisis is not contained to nat gas, and as we discussed over the weekend in another flashback to the 1970s US, UK gas station pumps are running dry in British cities on Monday with vendors rationing sales as a shortage of truckers strained supply chains to breaking point. Pumps across British cities were either closed or had signs saying fuel was unavailable on Monday, Reuters reporters said, with some limiting the amount of fuel each customer could buy.
The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents independent fuel retailers accounting for 65% of all the 8,380 UK forecourts, said members had reported that 50% to 90% of pumps were dry in some areas.
A post-Brexit shortage of truck drivers as the COVID-19 pandemic eases has sown chaos through British supply chains in everything from food to fuel, raising the specter of disruptions and price rises in the run-up to Christmas. Drivers lined up for hours to fill their cars at petrol stations that were still selling fuel, albeit often rationed. There were also calls for National Health Service (NHS) staff and other emergency workers to be given priority.
Hauliers, gas stations and retailers said there were no quick fixes as the shortfall of truck drivers – estimated to be around 100,000 – was so acute, and because transporting fuel demands additional training and licensing. "We need some calm," Gordon Balmer, executive director of the PRA, told Reuters. "Please don't panic buy: if people drain the network then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Shifting from gasoline and nat gas to oil, the near-term outlook is looking even more grim. According to Trafigura, one of the world's largest commodity trading houses, the world faces higher oil and gas prices this winter and beyond as supply struggles to catch up with fast-rising demand.
"We're going to see higher oil prices," Ben Luckock, Trafigura's co-head of oil trading said in an interview with Bloomberg.
Luckock said the market was mispricing forward oil contracts for the next couple of years because traders hadn't yet woken up to the fact the supply-demand balance will remain tight for some time. Translation: even higher prices are coming with no easing in sight.
"I struggle to see anything but higher prices going forward in the next two years," he said, one day after Goldman hiked its price target, now predicting that Brent would hit $90 some time in December. On Monday, Brent crude for immediate delivery surged toward $80 a barrel, setting its highest price in nearly three years.
On natural gas, he said prices could shoot up even more this winter if cold weather forces demand higher in Europe and Asia.
The bullish outlook comes as oil demand fast recovers toward its pre-pandemic level, with most traders expecting that consumption will reach the 2019 by early-to-mid 2022. As demand rebounds, supply has struggled to keep up: U.S. shale companies have kept a lid on spending, preferring to pay dividends to shareholders. With U.S. shale reacting slowly to higher prices, the OPEC+ oil cartel has been able to keep control of the market.
"The U.S. shale industry is showing very strong discipline. Oil prices are roughly double what they were a year ago and despite that we're not seeing a huge increase in drilling," Luckock said.
Luckock said that it was difficult to see lower natural gas prices this winter in Europe, despite the commodity trading at a record high already: "If it's a cold winter in Europe or Asia, we have a big problem," he said. "If it's cold, and on top, it isn't windy, then we have a much bigger problem. We will face shortages."
Notably, Luckock said he was skeptical that Russia, the biggest gas supplier to Europe, was intentionally tightening the market for political gain, suggesting that Moscow was already pumping as much gas as it could right now.
"It's easy to say that's politically motivated, but I think it's simpler than that: Russia is facing maintenance in many gas fields, very low domestic inventories, substantially increased flows to Turkey, and Gazprom is struggling to increase production," he said.
Footnote: Commentary from Bloomberg Green and National Review
Ewa Krukowska at Bloomberg Green Energy Crisis Puts World's Most Ambitious Climate Plan to Test. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Soaring power and gas prices shoot up EU political agenda
Governments across EU fear backlash over costs of green shift
Natural gas and power prices are surging to all-time highs in the 27-nation region, as the bloc's economies rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic. The surge in demand comes amid limited gas imports from Norway and Russia, with some countries accusing Moscow of manipulating supplies. At the same time, the EU strategy to accelerate emissions cuts in every sector from transport to manufacturing and agriculture boosted demand for carbon permits, with prices more than doubling over the past two years to new records.
The green package unveiled in July aims to align the economy with a 2030 stricter binding goal of reducing emissions by at least 55% from 1990 levels. The laws need to be approved by the European Parliament and member states in the Council of the EU, with each institution entitled to amending the plan, in a process likely to take around two years.
But for Europe's lower-income countries — as well for the continent's energy-intensive industries — the pain of any transition will be significant, and the EU will be under pressure to help cushion the blow from the current price jump.
But European governments are limited in what they can do to tackle the power crunch — without making their climate goals even harder to reach.
"It feels unlikely that politicians will reverse track and go back to coal generation or make changes to the approach to carbon," said John Musk, an analyst at RBC Europe Ltd. "It is hard to see what measures can be adopted to alleviate near term supply-demand constraints on gas and power. There are likely be a couple of difficult years to navigate in terms of consumer prices and there may have to be some measures to help consumers here and there."
Andres Stuttaford adds an essay at National Review The Gathering Storm (But with Not Enough Wind): Europe's Energy Mess Gets Worse — a Lesson the U.S. Looks Set to Ignore. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Instead of looking at these alternative approaches, the EU, the U.K., and, soon enough, the U.S., seem set on what is looking more and more like a headlong rush into disaster.
To understand why this might be, it is important to understand that for many climate warriors a "bloody hard" transition is a feature, not a bug.
I wrote about this a week or so back:
Concentrating on resilience and adaptation do not follow the millenarian narrative that is an unmistakable subtext of the message now being sent out by many climate warriors, whether inside government, linked to government, or outside it. Underpinned by the expectation of apocalypse, this narrative, which has repeatedly demonstrated its dangerously persuasive power over the centuries, is based on the thought that a wicked humanity faces punishment and must, with the assistance of a morally superior, enlightened vanguard, be made to change its dreadful (often self-indulgent) behavior. Adaptation and resilience, by contrast, offer the prospect that our species will muddle on through, living pretty much as it has been doing, except even better, and without donning the hairshirt integral to so many climate warriors' faith. Theirs has the characteristics of a religion, and there is little that is original about it. Pointless asceticism comes with the territory.
Questioning whether those setting the climate agenda are going about things the right way is not a matter of climate "denial," but simple common sense. It is not, however, a conversation that the climate establishment wants to have. Fundamentalists are like that.
They may not want to have that conversation, but, as winter approaches, the growing crisis in Europe suggests that it is a conversation that may be difficult to avoid.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes out this Friday, March 20th. Early reviews have been favorable. I am not fortunate enough to get early or free games but you so my early review is just "is it Friday yet?"
The original Animal Crossing on GameCube was my favorite casual game growing up. I played it every day to avoid FOMO. I even played it on Christmas to capitalize on the Jingle series.
What makes Animal Crossing fun? Truthfully, I have no idea. I'd like to imagine it's the feeling that I'm part of one giant inside joke.
Animal Crossing for Gamecube feels like satire of the American dream. Players accumulate debt at the hands of a capitalist tanuki/raccoon dog. Once your first shack is paid off, you're encouraged to upgrade. This is not unlike American real estate where as your income and equity increase, the size of your home is expected to follow suit.
You can accomplish your goals in Animal Crossing by being a respectable fruit farmer and helping your friends but that takes forever. Get into flipping via the town dump or the Police Department's Lost & Found. Steal bells that someone carefully hid in rocks, trees and the ground. Maybe you'll even make it big playing the stalk market.
How do you improve upon perfection? Animal Crossing: Wild World.
The main downside to Animal Crossing is that it is a Gamecube game. No TV = no game. Wild World fixes this problem by bringing Animal Crossing to the Nintendo DS. The game is mainly played on the bottom screen (the ground) but the top screen enables the use of a slingshot to snag some balloon gifts. FOMO would be no more because the DS could be played anywhere.
Other games in the series have failed to excite me the way Wild World did. Maybe I named my town "Hell" too many times. Maybe I was too committed to the kiddie series. Either way, I barely put any time into City Folk.
City Folk's key features were: Wii speak and riding into the city. I only had one friend who owned City Folk and we were never on at the same time. Truthfully, they should've skipped the Wii and developed a game for the Wii U, which could've had the amiibo as the main selling point. Instead, they brought Animal Crossing back to portable with Animal Crossing New Leaf for the 3DS.
New Leaf was the dawn of a new era. Hell was now under my regime. Tortimer finally reached retirement age (which I'm assuming is at least 67) and moved to a private island with the money he most certainly embezzled from previous iterations of Hell. I made new friends (Beardo, a bear with a beard who really should wear pants), spent way too much time at the local coffee shop (both in game and IRL), and passed town ordinances that made Hell Heaven on Earth.
Then came the spin offs. Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer is the first Animal Crossing game I did not play. I considered it but opted out. Beardo can decorate his own home. I neglected to buy Amiibo Festival because party games are for people with friends.
Truthfully, when Pocket Camp came out in 2017, I was worried that Free-to-Play would be the death of Animal Crossing. Pocket Camp, like any other Free-to-Play mobile game, is addicting. I would log on whenever I had a spare moment to take care of my campers and craft new furniture. I would feel a sense of disappointment if the 3-hour timer reset before I was able to clear all of the requests. I quit playing soon after gardening was introduced because it was just another reason to obsess.
Until Animal Crossing: New Horizons was announced. It's been 8 years since the last proper Animal Crossing game, 19 years since the original. I am moving to a deserted island, which is actually my American dream, and am going to decide who gets to join my commune. I promise there will be plenty of flowers and absolutely no Kool-Aid.
But what have I been doing to hold me over until the release? I redownloaded Pocket Camp. There are even more things to monitor so my phone's battery is perpetually dying. In between timer resets, I watch my new favorite Twitch stream: Animal Crossing 24/7 – Let's get choppin'! ThatsMyTrucks/Fred streams Animal Crossing so fans can listen to the music and watch the occasional villager run across the screen. It's silly, I wish I would've thought of it, and I absolutely used my Twitch Prime free subscription this month on it.
How are you spending your countdown to New Horizons?
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History of the 4th Infantry Division: 10 Cool Facts
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What I want to do in today's post is share 10 cool facts about the history of the 4th Infantry Division. My first duty assignment as an Active Duty Army Officer was with the 64th Forward Support Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado.
I spent three years serving in the division and to this day, some 10+ years later it's still some of my fondest memories. I was very proud to wear the IVY patch and be part of this time tested unit. Deploying to Iraq during OIF 1 with the 4th ID was the highlight of my military career.
In the paragraphs below, I will share a few cool facts about the division, to tell you more about the unit history.
It traces its roots back to December 10, 1917 when it was originally formed at Camp Greene, North Carolina under the command of Major General George Cameron.
As of January 2015 it consists of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2 Armored Brigade Combat Teams, an Infantry Brigade Combat Team, a Fires Brigade, Aviation Brigade and Sustainment Brigade.
As of 2015, 18 Soldiers from the division have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, including Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. the eldest son of President Teddy Roosevelt.
The 4th Infantry Division has more than 25 campaign streamers to include St. Mihiel (WW1), Meuse-Argonne (WW1), Normandy (WW2), Rhineland (WW2), Tet Counteroffensive (Vietnam) and the Liberation of Iraq (OIF), to name a few.
The division's nickname is "Ivy" and their motto is "steadfast and loyal."
The division was inactivated on September 21, 1921 at Camp Lewis, Washington and was reactivated on June 1, 1940 at Fort Benning as a motorized division, part of the 1st Armored Corps. It was inactivated again at the end of WW2, on March 5th, 1946 and then was reactivated at Ford Ord, California on July 15, 1947.
It's played an important role in World War 1, World War 2, the Vietnam War, Iraq War and Afghanistan.
During WW2 4,097 Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were killed, 17,371 were wounded in action and 757 eventually died from their wounds.
A patrol from the 4th Infantry Division was the first ground force to enter Germany during World War 2.
From 1950 to 1956 the 4th Infantry Division returned to Germany and stood strong against the communist threat to Western Europe.
The bottom line is that the 4th Infantry Division has a proud history. It's served an important role in many wars and conflicts dating back to World War 1.
If you know any cool facts about the 4th Infantry Division, or have served in the unit yourself, I would love to hear from you. Please share your experiences and war stories with the rest of us by leaving a comment below.
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Greg Boudonck
It is very cool to hear the history behind different divisions of the United States Army. I never knew that Teddy Roosevelt's son received the Medal of Honor. We can learn so much from history.
It would be neat to go through finding similar facts about all the different Army divisions. I wonder where a person could discover all this information?
It is my opinion that any soldier should always know the history of the division they are in. If you don't know it, I suggest you research it and learn. It can help you have more pride.
Chuck Holmes
Yes, soldiers should definitely know their own division's unit history.
Where can a civilian such as myself find information such as this on all infantry divisions? I was thinking that it would be fun and an educational experience to do a book on the histories of each and every division. I believe books such as that would sell very well. It would be kind of like an encyclopedia of Army divisions. Do you have any idea where I could find that sort of information?
This is a really cool list. It's so good to hear about other, possibly less famous, divisions and I love military history. #9 (first on the ground to enter Germany during WW2) is especially cool. What a great honor! Also, very cool to hear about a semi-famous member (Roosevelt). That was truly the great generation. Practically everyone served because it was the right thing to do. Could you imagine a celebrity serving today? I wish some would– it would be good for everyone.
Thanks. I really enjoyed my time in the 4th ID. Great unit and great history.
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Baccarat is one of the most popular casino games played around the world today, both online and in person. Pronounced 'bah-cah-rah' (making sure you've nailed the correct pronunciation is the first step to becoming an expert in any casino game!), this is a game that one can do well in if exercising a little strategy. But first, it's best to be aware of the finer details before going all-in.
A card game in which you compare cards played between two hands – the "player" and the "banker" – baccarat features 'coups' (or rounds of play) with 3 possible outcomes: either the player ends up with the high score, or the banker does, or it's a tie. Each card has a point value, though in the case of combined totals only the right digit is counted (i.e. 7 and 5, adding up to 12, would in fact be 2), meaning the highest possible combined total is nine.
Some claim the game originated in the 19th century, while others would say it was first introduced as far back as the 15th century by soldiers fighting in the Franco-Italian war. While there have been – and still are today – different versions of the game with slight rule variations, the basic baccarat rules stated above are standard across all of them.
Nowadays baccarat is an immensely popular casino game due to its ease of play and an uncanny ability to create a relaxed atmosphere in live table scenarios. For these reasons primarily, live casino baccarat is still popular. Wagering possibilities are quite varied, with chances split between the player winning, the banker winning, a player pair, banker pair, either pair, or perfect pair.
As with many other casino games, of course, online play has become increasingly popular among baccarat players. Its vast accessibility has also helped it connect with a new generation who prefer to play primarily online rather than go to a physical casino.
Online casinos in the UK, for example, are now the popular method of playing baccarat, though most major UK cities now have land-based casinos as well, which are particularly popular in heavily student-populated areas. Furthermore there are plans in consideration to open at least one Vegas-style 'super casino' in London. These plans are, in part, aiming to capitalise on the popularity of online casinos in the UK, where a Vegas atmosphere can be recreated as well as any live casino.
Bet on the banker – if you're just starting out or are simply looking for the best chance of a win, the banker represents a higher win percentage (coming in just over 50% of the time) though at lower odds than the player.
Now, those with more experience or using a certain betting strategy (the Martingale system of progressively increasing stakes on each loss, for instance) may choose to back the player instead, for the same reason: its longer odds could mean a higher return. There's no "wrong" choice here, as it's dependent on your strategy and style of play. Ultimately it will, most of all, come down to luck, which is important to remember in baccarat as in any gambling activity.
Avoid the 'tie' bet – generally considered a waste of money, the tie bet firmly favours the casino. Sure, you could get a respectable payout price if you guess right, but the house has an advantage of around 15% here and you won't find many experienced baccarat players going for it unless they're over-confident to the point where they consider themselves Nostradamus. In which case their luck is probably about to run out.
Don't get too cocky – unfortunately, it's impossible to keep winning indefinitely. It's dangerous to get over-confident when playing baccarat even if you're on a nice win streak. This is a tight game and could easily flip the other way before you know it. So it's best to take regular breaks.
Perhaps decide beforehand how many games you want to play and hold yourself to it. That way, you'll be more prepared to walk away when you reach your limit. If you're still winning then, great! That means you get to walk away with a profit; if not, it's best to accept temporary defeat and come back at another point in time.
While these recommendations may sound simple, remember that baccarat is actually a fairly simple game. That is, in part, what people love about it. Keep these small strategies in mind, and it may just help you play smarter in future.


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(UPDATE) #LSR2015: A "Love And Sex With Robots" Conference Is Happening In Malaysia?
In today's strange findings, a "Love and Sex with Robots" conference is slated to happen in November this year. In Malaysia.
Yes, you read right.
Source: loveandsexwithrobots.org
First reported by MMO, citing news.com.au, the "Love and Sex with Robots" 2015 (LSR 2015) conference will see an attendance from academics to discuss the legal, ethical and moral questions on everything from "teledildonics" to "humanoids". It will be chaired by City University London's Prof Adrian Cheok and Intelligent Toys Limited's chief executive officer Dr David Levy.
On the "Love and Sex with Robots" website, it states that LSR 2015 will be held on 16th November in the Black Box and White Box arts complex in Medini Mall in Johor's Iskandar economic region. It's right next door to Legoland Malaysia.
An introductory note on the website read:
Within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction, the past few years have witnessed a strong upsurge of interest in the more personal aspects of human relationships with these artificial partners. This upsurge has not only been apparent amongst the general public, as evidenced by an increase in coverage in the print media, TV documentaries and feature films, but also within the academic community.
The LSR 2015 congress has planned several sessions to cover various topics including robot emotions, humanoid robots, clone robots, entertainment robots, robot personalities, teledildonics, intelligent electronic sex hardware (???), robot personalities, roboethics, and more.
What makes it even more confusing is that the "Love and Sex with Robots" website features the logo of Tourism Malaysia's "Malaysia Year of Festivals 2015" (MYFEST) campaign.
Think that this entire idea sounds wrong? Not according to Dr David Levy, who also wrote the 2008 book "Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships ".
He's "absolutely convinced" sex with robots is a positive thing for the "millions and millions" of people around the world who don't have satisfactory relationships.
Dr David Levy also thinks they could be the cure for everything from loneliness to paedophilia by helping to "wean" paedophiles off having sex with the children they're attracted to.
new.com.au quoted him as saying:
If you've got a robot that looks like a human, feels like a human, behaves like a human, talks like a human why shouldn't people find it appealing?
Um, because it's not a real human relationship, Dr David Levy.
On the other hand, Prof Adrian Cheok, an Australian academic who specialises in human-computer interface, said that they really don't know how human society will react but the worst case scenario is that people begin to have a robot partner rather than a human partner.
He also added that he thinks most people will prefer to have "real human relationship" and with only a minority opting for robots over humans.
Source: life2c.com
The congress is a part of ACE (Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology) 2015 Conferences, while the website also features the logos of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the SIGCHI society for human-technology and human-computer interaction.
UPDATE (1st October, 12:52pm):
Well, we kinda knew that we had good reasons to be confused!
According to a new MMO report, neither our Tourism Minister nor our Tourism Malaysia chairman knew about the "Love and Sex with Robots" conference.
Expressing shock upon hearing that the organiser's website had used Tourism Malaysia's "Malaysia Year of Festivals 2015" (MYFEST) campaign" logo, Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz said that it's an "obscene idea to organise such a conference in Malaysia". MMO quoted him as saying, "By using our logo, the organiser is implying Tourism Malaysia endorses the event. The organisers will be told to remove the logo immediately."
Source: inquisitr.com
Tourism Malaysia chairman Wee Choo Keong also said that he wasn't aware of such event and that he will look into the matter. He added that "not by any measure" would Tourism Malaysia have approved the use of their campaign logo for such an event. As such, Tourism Malaysia will take appropriate action against the organiser as soon as they have more information.
As at time of writing, the "Malaysia Year of Festivals 2015" (MYFEST) campaign" logo is still up on the "Love and Sex with Robots" website.
Sources: news.com.au, MMO (1), Love and Sex with Robots' website, MMO (2).
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The Third Reich invasion of Poland and the crimes of German operational groups in the autumn of 1939
The Second World War claimed the lives of about 6 million Polish citizens. Most of them were victims of the Third German Reich, which on 1 September 1939 attacked Poland without declaring war.
When on 24 October 1938 the Third Reich proposed Poland to solve the disputed problems in Polish-German relations, Hitler's expectations did not seem particularly excessive. He wanted Poland's consent to incorporate the Free City of Danzig (Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) into the Reich (while maintaining certain economic and transportation rights for Poland), to build an extraterritorial motorway and a railway line through Polish territory (connecting Germany with East Prussia via Polish Pomerania). He also demanded that Poland join the Anti-Comintern Pact against the USSR. In return, Germany offered Poland an extension of the German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact of 26 January 1934 and inviolability of borders. Needless to say, Warsaw's consent to subordinating its policy to Berlin could have resulted in handing over the reins of Polish foreign policy to Hitler. The lack of self-reliance in this field would undoubtedly lead to the loss of independence. There was no guarantee that Hitler would keep to the terms of the agreement and would not press any further demands. As evidenced by the history of relations between the Third Reich and other states, violations of agreements and the policy of faits accomplis were permanent elements of Hitler's policy. An example of this may be the annexation of the Czech Republic in March 1939, a few months after the Munich Agreement in which Germany obtained the Sudetenland, at that time allegedly satisfying its territorial claims.
Surprised by the German proposal, Polish diplomacy gave their answer in early 1939. The German offer had not been accepted, however, the Poles declared their readiness to talk. For Hitler, however, it was far too little: he considered his offer addressed to Warsaw not only as one-off but also non-negotiable [1]. In April 1939, he decided that the conflict with Poland would be resolved by the use of force and issued appropriate directives to the Wehrmacht. Poland as an independent state got in the way of German expansion both towards the West (because it was bound by the alliance with France and received guarantees from Great Britain) and the East (rejecting the repeatedly submitted proposals for a joint march on Moscow). Therefore, its elimination became the goal of the Third Reich.
On 28 April 1939, in his speech in the Reichstag Hitler terminated the Polish-German Pact of Non-Aggression of 26 January 1934. [2]. Obviously, the negotiations conducted in the spring and summer of 1939 by Berlin were only meant to turn the eyes of the whole world on "peaceful" attempts to resolve the conflict, while Hitler was already determined to start the war.
His resolve in this respect is unquestionable. A few days before the invasion of Poland, on 22 August 1939, Hitler announced to the Wehrmacht generals that "the destruction of Poland [is] in the foreground. The goal is to remove live forces, not to reach a specific line. Even if the war in the West breaks out, the destruction of Poland is at the forefront"[3]. He ordered them to conduct the war with "the greatest brutality". He cynically declared that he would provide an excuse for the German invasion: "Winners will not be asked if they were telling the truth" [4]. The excuse provided was a provocation in Gliwice, where on 31 August 1939 Polish "insurgents" allegedly took over the radio station and made a radio announcement calling on Poles to rise in the German part of Upper Silesia. The provocation was prepared by the German services subordinate to Himmler, and the Polish "insurgents" were prisoners dressed in Polish uniforms brought to the scene [5].
The Third Reich invasion on Poland, however, would be at least risky without diplomatic preparation. It was particularly important for Berlin what position Moscow would take in this matter. The invasion would certainly be facilitated by a favourable, or at least neutral, attitude of the Soviet Union. This was achieved on 24 August1939 by the conclusion of the non-aggression pact between the Third Reich and the USSR (backdated to 23 August), which went down in history as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, named after the Foreign Minister of the Reich, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov (in many countries this pact is also known as the Hitler-Stalin pact). The secret protocol attached to it provided for the division of spheres of influence between the two totalitarian powers in Central and Eastern Europe, including the partition of Polish lands. Earlier, the alliance of two states representing extremely different and hostile ideologies seemed unthinkable. Their joint action against Poland seemed equally unlikely [6].
When Hitler struck Poland on 1 September1939, Stalin delayed any action until the outcome of the war campaign seemed already decided (on 9 September Molotov extended premature congratulations on the seizure of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht to the German Ambassador in Moscow [7], in fact the German army entered the Polish capital on 1 October, after the defenders surrendered). The Red Army entered Polish lands on 17 September 1939, but only the Third Reich was considered an aggressor in this war.
Polish lands were divided between the two totalitarian states. The territory occupied by Germany was partially incorporated into the Reich and the General Government was created in the remaining area. The Polish territories incorporated into the Reich were subjected to Germanization, which was understood as expelling all Jews and some Poles, especially those who were considered dangerous (including representatives of the intelligentsia). In turn, the General Government was to be the deportation destination of "undesirable elements", i.e. Jews, Roma and Poles, from the Reich itself and incorporated lands, and an area of economic exploitation by the occupant. There, in 1942-1944 the Germans were murdering Jews from Poland and other European countries.
Following Hitler's order, the war campaign was conducted extremely brutally, the invading German army not sparing the civilian population, and already then, and not from 1941, the Third Reich conducted a total war, directed also against civilians. In the wake of the entering of the Wehrmacht divisions in Poland, at the beginning of September 1939, operational groups of the Security Police and Security Service appeared, consisting of members of the SS, Gestapo and other German police formations. Although they were many times less numerous than the Wehrmacht invaders, and amounted to about 2,700 officers, it turned out that they were extremely dangerous. Acting in the rear of the front, they carried out mass arrests and executions of the defenseless civilian population [8].
At the end of August 1939, five operational groups of the Security Police and Security Service were organized and concentrated near the Polish border. Their activities were coordinated by Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Security Police and Security Service, close associate of Heinrich Himmler, head of the German police and the Reichsfuhrer of the SS. Right after the start of the German invasion of Poland it turned out that the number of operational groups was insufficient. As a result on 3 September, at the order of Himmler, an additional operational group for special tasks was created, and sent to Upper Silesia. On 9 September another group was established, which then operated in Wielkopolska, and on 12 September an operational commando was established in Gdańsk, which, in turn, operated in Pomerania. In addition to these units created specifically in connection with the attack on Poland, also the Ordnungspolizei squads, including police battalions, were sent to occupied lands [9].
The task of the operational groups was to "fight the enemy elements of the Reich and the Germans in the enemy territory in the rear of the fighting units". Such a general and enigmatic command left the commanders considerable freedom of interpretation. On 7 September, Heydrich, overseeing operational groups' activities, ordered to clear the Polish lands of "leadership layer" and Jews. This undertaking was called "clearing the foreground", and in further directives it was specified that it was about the removal of "Jews, intelligentsia, clergy and landowners" [10].
The operational groups were equipped with lists of citizens of the Second Polish Republic, whom the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin considered dangerous. The lists were drafted on the basis of information coming from various sources (from German consulates and organizations in Poland and German informers residing there). After entering Polish lands by the Germans, these lists were supplemented on the basis of documents found by administrative and police authorities alongside with archives of political, social and veteran organizations. They became the basis for arrests of people who were ascribed anti-German attitudes. They included political and social activists, people of culture, clergy, people employed in the security authorities (police, intelligence services) broadly understood intelligentsia (teachers, representatives of liberal professions), members of veterans organizations and participants of the Silesian uprisings (1919, 1920, 1921) and the Wielkopolska uprising (1918/1919). In the territories incorporated into the Reich, the "dangerous element" also included Poles from the lands of the former Russian Partition [11].
No proscription lists were necessary in the case of Jews, who had been brutally and cruelly treated from the beginning. The basis of persecution was their origin; no difference was made due to political involvement or "anti-German" activity. Repression of the Jewish population was widespread. Jewish communities were forced to pay high contributions, property of their members (mainly shops) were robbed and confiscated. They were forced to work for the benefit of the occupant, being often humiliated and beaten. The places of religious worship was destroyed. In the autumn of 1939, many synagogues were burnt down or demolished. Torah scrolls and Jewish libraries would be destroyed. In the western lands of the Second Polish Republic, even before the end of the German invasion, "wild" expulsions of Jews were begun, who were dislodged from their homes and sent to the east, to the lands of the General Governorship or to the area occupied by the Soviet Union. Executions began, although it seems that during this period the occupant was still looking for some pretext. It could be a possession of a weapon (not necessarily a firearm), non-compliance with the occupant's orders or suspicious behaviour.
The local Germans, most often organized in Selbstschutz (German – Self-defense) [12], an organization led by the SS officers sent from the Reich, cooperated with operational groups of the Security Police and the Security Service. In Pomerania, according to the report of the Selbstschutz commander in this area, by the beginning of October 1939, 17,667 men had joined the organization. The document stated that "the strictest measures had to be taken against 4,247 former Polish citizens" [13]. This euphemism means the murder of the said number of citizens of the Second Polish Republic. Acts of outlawry and taking the opportunity to compensate for "private bills" were not infrequent. The anti-Polish attitude of the local Volksdeutsche was not the norm, however. Some "other Germans" helped Poles or prevented repression against them. A case was recorded when a Pole escaped death, having been pushed by a German from a truck carrying Poles arrested to be shot. In a few cases the Selbstschutz members refused to shoot Polish neighbours. The intercession by the Volksdeutsche for the arrested sometimes allowed them to be saved from murder [14]. Besides, among the victims of the operational groups were not only Poles and Jews, but also anti-fascist Germans, recognized by the Gestapo as "renegades". The Wehrmacht officers sometimes stood up for the civilians to be groundlessly executed by operational groups, although not always with the expected effect [15].
Many citizens of the Second Polish Republic were murdered in retaliatory actions, the occupant being guided by the principle of collective responsibility. In December 1939, in Wawer, in retaliation for killing two German non-commissioned officers from a construction battalion by local criminals, 107 accidentally captured Poles and Jews were arrested and executed. Seven of the wounded survived this execution.
Already in September 1939, the occupiers set themselves the task not only of destroying the Polish army, but also of all resistance which citizens of the Second Polish Republic could mount in the future. Thus, from the first days of the war, repression and terror encompassed the civilians on a large scale. The entering of the German armed forces was accompanied by preventive arrests of hostages among well-known and respected urban residents or accidentally chosen people, in order to counteract possible resistance. In this way, the occupant also wanted to prevent demonstrations or the "Polish uprising" on the anniversary of Poland's regaining independence – 11 November. In accordance with the instructions from Berlin, repression and terror were to embrace, above all, intelligentsia. It was supposed to be a retaliation for the alleged murder of 58,000 Germans in Poland.
Furthermore, officers of the operational groups of the Security Police and Security Service, as well as soldiers of the Wehrmacht and officials of the occupation administration, were under the influence of German propaganda, which had created the myth of 58,000 murdered Germans. Joseph Goebbels, the Reich propaganda minister, made numerous efforts to blame Poland for the outbreak of the war and to depict Poles as criminals. Hitler, in turn, referred to the Poles as animals, proving that they responded only to force, which was yet another incentive for using violence as the main tool of the occupation policy [16].
To destroy the nation's will to resist, repression - again on the basis of preventive actions and collective responsibility - was directed against the intelligentsia. In Krakow, insidious arrests of professors of the Jagiellonian University and the Mining Academy were made. The arrested professors were taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Thanks to the international publicity that this barbaric behaviour gained, the Third Reich buckled and most of the professors regained their freedom. Nevertheless, many of them lost their health or died due to the conditions in which they were held and the resulting diseases [17]. Similar actions were carried out by the Gestapo in Lublin, this time aimed at the professors of the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw and Poznań. The President of the city, Stefan Starzyński, who enjoyed the authority and respect of the inhabitants, was arrested and murdered in the Polish capital [18]. This is just one example showing the brutality of the occupant.
In the case of most of the tens of thousands arrested in the fall of 1939, however, no one intervened except for their immediate family. Usually to no avail - without even getting any information about the fate of loved ones (or receiving only evasive information). They were murdered without a judgment or on the basis of a summary court of the Gestapo, which dealt with the investigation of the case or interrogated the accused and witnesses, but issued a predetermined verdict. It is still unknown how many people were killed at that time. The executions took place in makeshift camps, forests and gravel pits. Many of the victims remain - as intended by the occupier - anonymous to this day. Execution documents have not survived, the victims were buried in mass, nameless graves, the tracks being blurred deliberately. When the Red Army approached the occupied Polish lands, the Germans would dig up mass graves and burn down the corpses, thus preventing not only the identification of the victims, but also the assessment of their number [19]. Post-war exhumations, historical research and investigations into German crimes often did not allow the names of those murdered to be determined, and the number of victims is only approximate in many cases. According to historians' estimates, in addition to direct military operations in the autumn of 1939, about 40,000 to 50,000 citizens of the Second Polish Republic were murdered.
In November 1939, operational groups of the Security Police and the Security Service were dissolved. This did not mean, however, the end of terror. Their staff formed the Gestapo outposts in occupied Polish territories, and continued to carry out repressive actions. Gehenna continued.
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