Quezon City, Philippines (July 17, 2016) – A lot of specialty coffee shops have sprouted in the metropolis in recent years. Each of them offers a different kind of coffee experience, with foreign coffee shops dominating the segment. But this will not stop veteran journalist and UNTV-BMPI CEO Daniel S. Razon, also known as "Kuya Daniel," in bringing Daniel's Coffee, a Filipino brand which offers unique and delicious taste.
In June 2016, Kuya Daniel has entered the competitive coffee shop segment with the opening of Daniel's Coffee in Quezon City, with more branches coming soon. Daniel's Coffee Philippines brings a new and exciting concept, setting a big difference with the established names in café business, a coffee shop in a television studio.
The newest cafe in Metro Manila. Photo courtesy of Daniel's Facebook page.
Daniel's pioneer branch is located inside the UNTV Building, along EDSA Philam. It is situated in front of the upcoming Central Business District (CBD) development in Quezon City, the "Triangle Park." It is also just a few walks away from Ayala Land's TriNoma Mall, Filinvest Land's Zinnia Towers and the MRT-3 North Avenue station.
Daniel's Cafe Mocha, Tiramisu, Mocha Danpuccino and Coffee Macaroon. Photo courtesy of Daniel's Facebook page.
Daniel's concept was initially intended to give UNTV's morning show, Get It Straight with Daniel Razon, a new and fresh look. The newly renovated studio, designed like a coffee shop, was launched in February 2016.
Kuya Daniel Razon with Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista at the newly renovated studio of Get It Straight with Daniel Razon. It comes with a unique coffee shop design. Photo courtesy of UNTV Life and Photoville International.
Kuya Daniel revealed that he really wanted to have an interactive conversation with his guests while drinking coffee, in a coffee shop setting. Meanwhile, those people inside the café will have the chance to "eavesdrop" by watching the live interview. However, he realized that this can't be done in outside location. So he decided to come up with a coffee shop-inspired set inside the TV station.
Get It Straight offers a platform for notable personalities to discuss controversial topics and relevant issues in the country. The program stands out with Kuya Daniel throwing hard-hitting questions, as guests would have the feeling of being in a trial. This is in line with the program's slogan "Bawal ang Pikon." It serves as a friendly warning to guests, for them not to be easily angered by jokes or jests during the one-on-one, no holds barred interview.
As the innovative concept turned out to be very effective and appealing, Kuya Daniel decided to make it a full-time coffee shop.
With Daniel's Coffee strategically located inside a TV station, customers will likely to have a close encounter with prominent personalities, whether in government, entertainment and the media. On its first month of operations, politicians and artists were seen enjoying the café's wide variety of beverages and pastries. Some of its guests include new senators Leila De Lima, Riza Hontiveros-Baraquel and Win Gatchalian, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Atty. Salvador Panelo, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Perfecto Yasay, National Anti-Poverty Commission Secretary Liza Maza and Marikina Congressman Bayani Fernando. Celebrities like actor Kier Legazpi, TV host Eagle Riggs and veteran broadcaster Rhea Santos were also spotted at Daniel's.
Kuya Daniel Razon with Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Ernesto Abella. Photo courtesy of Daniel's Facebook page.
Senator Leila De Lima on the cafe's soft-opening in June 2016. Photo courtesy of Daniel's Facebook page.
The most recent live guesting held at Daniel's Coffee was with new Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, Director General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa. It was aired live in UNTV and through Facebook Live. As of writing, the live interview that was aired through UNTV's Facebook page on Friday, July 15, 2016, has reached more than 150,000 views.
PNP Chief Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa on Get It Straight with Daniel Razon. Photo courtesy of Daniel's Facebook page.
The coffee shop also served as a venue for some of UNTV's entertainment programs like Wish FM 1075 on TV. Music artists who already performed live at Daniel's include Jed Madela, 5th Gen, Leah Patricio and international singing sensation 4th Impact.
Jed Madela and 5th Gen with Wish FM 1075 DJ Jelly Kiss. Photo courtesy of Wish FM 107.5 official Facebook page.
The TV program's reformat became a very good business opportunity for Kuya Daniel and his wife Arlene Razon. Kuya Daniel said that they already planned to start a café business long time ago, and having Daniel's is actually a dream come true. The Quezon City branch serves as the prototype for them to learn how to run the business.
Kuya Daniel Razon and family with the men and women of Daniel's Coffee. Photo courtesy of Daniel's Facebook page.
Since the real game in coffee shop business is the food and beverage offerings, Daniel's created its own menu options aside from its unique studio concept and relaxing store ambiance. Kuya Daniel revealed that they personally took care of the coffee and food tasting and ensure that they know the taste of everything on the menu. He ensures that they are satisfied with everything Daniel's Coffee has to offer.
Quoted from his official website, Kuya Daniel said "Personally, kami yung nag-food tasting. Kami iyong nag coffee tasting." "Kailangan walang nandyan na hindi natin nagustuhan." he added.
Wide variety of delicious pastries. Courtesy of Daniel's official Facebook page.
Kuya Daniel announced that he has been receiving positive feedback from satisfied customers since the café's soft-opening on June 13, 2016. He said that most are saying that the coffee shop is very competitive and can match against foreign brands of coffee shops in terms of taste, presentation and affordability.
Satisfied customers keep on posting photographs of their food orders and group selfies at Daniel's. Its official Facebook account already got more than 20,000 likes and more than 2,000 Instagram followers just within a month.
Five-star reviews posted by satisfied customers on Daniel's Facebook page.
Daniel's Coffee announced that 3 stores will be opened in Pampanga, Malolos (Bulacan), and south of Manila by end-2016.
"We are happy to announce as well na God-willing mayroon na kaming tinitingnan ngayon na ibang branch. So, iba-branch out na namin for full operation." Kuya Daniel said.


All season, Jefferson and Grant have been 1-2 in the Oregon School Activities Association boys basketball rankings. If this week's Class 6A tournament at Chiles Center goes to form, the Democrats and Generals will meet at 8:30 p.m. Saturday with a championship on the line.
Among the six teams hoping to write a different script is Lincoln, which has reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2012, giving the Portland Interscholastic League three of the quarterfinalists.
Jefferson, the PIL champion and defending state champ, will be shorthanded, however, according to coach Pat Strickland.
Junior guard Marcus Tsohonis broke a middle finger in Saturday's 77-52 win over Grants Pass. So the Demos (24-3 and unbeaten against Oregon schools) are preparing to be without one of the state's top players.
The 6-5 Tsohonis, the PIL player of the year and all-tournament in 2017, was hurt when he fell to the floor after being fouled on a dunk.
"We're still excited about the opportunity we have," Strickland says. "We're going to do anything necessary to keep this trophy on North Kirby Avenue."
The first challenge comes at 1:30 p.m. Thursday against Jesuit (21-5). The Crusaders were ranked eighth by the OSAA going into the playoffs, but Strickland says Jesuit is one of the five best teams in Oregon.
Strickland can turn to defensive-minded players or to shooters to fill Tsohonis' starting spot, or perhaps move 6-10 Kamaka Hepa to a wing and insert one of his other post players.
Strickland says it's about responding to adversity, a subject he has been harping on all season.
"All year we've said we have such a deep team, such a talented team, that we can possibly miss one or two guys and still get the job done," he says. "It will make us have to work harder and tweak things a little. You've got to compete."
For Grant, this week is at least partly about redemption. Jefferson won three close games between the rivals this season after beating the Generals four times a season ago — including in the quarterfinals.
After his team beat McMinnville on Saturday to secure a return trip to state, Grant coach Robert Key said his players naturally think about getting one more shot at Jeff. But he says that won't distract them from the task -- which starts with Thursday's 8:15 p.m. game against 10th-ranked West Salem (19-7).
Grant's 6-9 Kelton Samore, second-team all-tournament last season, agrees.
"Hopefully we have another shot at them (the Demos). But we try to keep a short memory and take it game by game," the senior says.
Remembering the Chiles Center — two disappointing losses and one win a year ago — might help the Generals.
The 6-10 Samore, senior Damon Hickok and juniors Aaron Deloney and Ty Rankin played significant minutes in the 2017 tournament. Deloney says the Generals have a better mentality and communicate better with one another than they did as newbies to Chiles last March. He says they are ready for whatever opponents throw at them.
"We see a different 'D' every night," Deloney says. "We've just got to play no matter what the defense is. We don't change our game; we play the same every day."
That means turning defense into offense, as Grant did directly for 13 of its points in Saturday's 85-66 win over McMinnville, a game in which four consecutive takeaways to start the fourth quarter ensured there would be no Grizzlies rally.
"Coming into the season, I said our offense will be predicated on our defense," Key says. "And their basketball mind-set is they play for each other, they feed off each other. You can see how they share the ball, and share it with a smile."
If Samore has his way, the smiles will wait for postgame.
"We want to come out strong at the beginning of every game, especially at the Chiles Center," Samore says. "We're not playing around anymore. We're coming for teams."
Samore got after it against McMinnville, scoring 25 points, blocking six shots and grabbing nine rebounds as Grant (22-4) secured its quarterfinal spot.
After a dramatic 82-81 double overtime win at Lake Oswego on Saturday, Lincoln coach Pat Adelman was thrilled that his eight seniors will experience a state tournament.
Adelman cherishes his experience playing in the then-4A tourney in 2007 as part of a Lake Oswego team that lost to South Medford in the title match. Adelman says the bonds of this Lincoln team remind him of those Lakers.
The core of the Lincoln senior class has played together since middle school, and Adelman is convinced they will be ready to make the most of this week.
The caliber of PIL basketball is one reason for such confidence. Grant lost only to Jeff and Oak Hill Academy of Virginia, and Lincoln was one of six teams that battled for third place in the PIL.
"You take some lumps, you've just got to learn from them," Adelman says of PIL play, which he compares to Southeastern Conference football. "Our guys keep getting better."
The Cardinals (17-9) are led by 6-4 senior point guard Bryce Sloan, an all-PIL selection who contributed 43 points, 20 assists and 11 rebounds combined in playoff wins over Oregon City and Lake Oswego. With four senior leaders and proven depth — 10 Cardinals played on Saturday and multiple players made big shots — Lincoln could have staying power at Chiles Center.
"We've got too much talent to not use everybody," Adelman says.
Ranked 11th, and one of four teams outside the top eight to reach the quarterfinals, Lincoln faces third-ranked Southridge (23-3) in Thursday's 6:30 p.m. quarterfinal. The Skyhawks beat Roosevelt, which shared third in the PIL with Lincoln, by eight points in Saturday's second round.
Jefferson's Strickland says the PIL was the toughest league in the state this season, noting that even in double-digit wins his team didn't pull away until late in games. Strickland says he thought the league might get four of the final eight, so he is not surprised Lincoln made it. Both of the Democrats' wins against the Cardinals were by seven points.
"They just play together," Strickland said of the Cards. "They played defense. They were't scared of us, and they made us work for everything."


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text:
/*
---
name: Behavior.Specs
description: n/a
requires: [Behavior-Tests/Behavior.SpecsHelpers]
provides: [Behavior.Specs]
...
*/
if (window.describe){
  (function(){
    var container = new Element('div');
    var target = new Element('div', {
      'data-behavior': 'Test1 Test2',
      'data-defaults-options':'{"foo":"bar"}',
      'data-require-options':'{"foo": "bar", "nine": 9, "arr": [1, 2, 3]}',
      'data-require-number': '0',
      'data-require-true': 'true',
      'data-require-false': 'false'
    }).inject(container);

    var SimpleClass = new Class({
      simple: 'simple'
    });

    describe('Behavior', function(){

      it('should register a delegator', function(){
        var d = new Delegator({
          onLog: function(){},
          onError: function(){},
          onWarn: function(){}
        });
        behaviorInstance.setDelegator(d);
        expect(behaviorInstance.getDelegator()).toBe(d);
        var error;
        try {
          behaviorInstance.setDelegator({});
        } catch(e){
          error = true;
        }
        expect(error).toBe(true);
      });

      it('should register a filter', function(){
        var test1 = ClassAdder.makeAdder('one');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Test1', test1);
        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test1').setup).toBe(test1);

        var test2 = ClassAdder.makeAdder('two');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilters({
          Test2: test2
        });

        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test2').setup).toBe(test2);
      });

      it('should not overwrite a filter unless forced', function(){
        var test1 = function(){};
        var test2 = function(){};
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('T1', test1);
        try {
          Behavior.addGlobalFilter('T1', test2);
          expect(true).toBe(false); //should not get here
        } catch(e){
          expect(e.message).toBe('Could not add the Behavior filter "T1" as a previous trigger by that same name exists.');
        }
        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('T1').setup).toNotBe(test2);
      });

      it('should overwrite a filter when forced', function(){
        var test1 = function(){};
        var test2 = function(){};
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('T2', test1);
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('T2', test2, true);
        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test1').setup).toNotBe(test2);
      });

      it('should invoke a filter', function(){
        behaviorInstance.applyFilter(target, behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test1'));
        expect(target.getBehaviorResult('Test1')).toBeTruthy();
      });

      it('should store the filter result', function(){
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('SimpleClass', {
          returns: SimpleClass,
          setup: function(){
            return new SimpleClass();
          }
        });
        target.addBehaviorFilter('SimpleClass');
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('SimpleClass');
        expect(target.getBehaviorResult('SimpleClass')).toBeTruthy();
      });

      it('should fail if a filter fails to return a proper instance', function(){
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('SimpleClass2', {
          returns: SimpleClass,
          setup: function(){
            //note that this does not return!
            new SimpleClass();
          }
        });
        target.addBehaviorFilter('SimpleClass2');
        behaviorInstance.options.breakOnErrors = true;
        try {
          behaviorInstance.apply(container);
          expect(true).toBe(false); //this shouldn't get this far as an error should be thrown
        } catch(e) {
          expect(e.message).toBe("Filter SimpleClass2 did not return a valid instance.");
        }
        behaviorInstance.options.breakOnErrors = false;
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('SimpleClass2');
        expect(target.getBehaviorResult('SimpleClass2')).toBeFalsy();
      });

      it('should create a filter that fails', function(){
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Failure', {
          setup: function(element, api){
            api.fail('this thing is totally broken');
          }
        });
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Failure');
        behaviorInstance.options.breakOnErrors = true;
        try {
          behaviorInstance.apply(container);
          expect(true).toBe(false); //this shouldn't get this far as an error should be thrown
        } catch(e) {
          expect(e.message).toBe("this thing is totally broken");
        }
        behaviorInstance.options.breakOnErrors = false;
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Failure');
      });

      it('should create a filter that warns', function(){
        var warning,
            warner = function(msg){
              warning = msg;
            };
        behaviorInstance.addEvent('warn', warner);
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Warn', {
          setup: function(element, api){
            api.warn("you've been warned");
          }
        });
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Warn');
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        behaviorInstance.removeEvent('warn', warner);
        expect(warning).toBe("you've been warned");
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Warn');
      });

      it('should not invoke a filter twice unless forced', function(){
        behaviorInstance.applyFilter(target, behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test1'));
        expect(target.getBehaviorResult('Test1').getCount()).toBe(1);
        behaviorInstance.applyFilter(target, behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test1'), true);
        expect(target.getBehaviorResult('Test1').getCount()).toBe(2);
      });

      it('should clean up a filter', function(){
        behaviorInstance.cleanup(target);
        expect(target.getBehaviorResult('Test1')).toBeNull();
        expect(target.hasClass('one')).toBe(false);
      });

      it('should set the defaults for a filter', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Defaults');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Defaults', {
          defaults: {
            foo: 'baz',
            number: 9
          },
          setup: function(element, api){
            expect(api.get('number')).toEqual(9);
            expect(api.get('foo')).toEqual('bar');
          }
        });
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Defaults');
      });

      it('should clone a filter', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Base').addBehaviorFilter('Clone');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Base', {
          defaults: {
            foo: 'baz',
            number: 9
          },
          setup: function(element, api){
            if (api.prefix == 'base'){
              expect(api.get('number')).toEqual(9);
              expect(api.get('foo')).toEqual('baz');
            }
            if (api.prefix == 'clone'){
              expect(api.get('number')).toEqual(10);
              expect(api.get('foo')).toEqual('biz');
            }
          }
        });

        Behavior.cloneFilter('Base', 'Clone', {
          foo: 'biz',
          number: 10
        });

        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Base').removeBehaviorFilter('Clone');
      });

      var makeRequirementTest = function(options){
        return function(){
          behaviorInstance.options.breakOnErrors = true;

          var filter = {
            setup: function(){
              return new SimpleClass();
            }
          };

          if (options.require) filter.require = options.require;
          if (options.requireAs) filter.requireAs = options.requireAs;

          Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Require', filter, true);
          target.addBehaviorFilter('Require');
          if (options.catcher) {
            try {
              behaviorInstance.apply(container, true);
              expect(true).toBe(false); //this shouldn't get this far as an error should be thrown
            } catch(e) {
              expect(e.message).toBe(options.catcher);
            }
          } else {
            behaviorInstance.apply(container, true);
          }
          if (options.truthy) expect(instanceOf(target.getBehaviorResult('Require'), SimpleClass)).toBeTruthy();
          else expect(target.getBehaviorResult('Require')).toBeFalsy();
          target.eliminate('Behavior Filter result:Require');
          target.removeBehaviorFilter('Require');

          behaviorInstance.options.breakOnErrors = false;
        };
      };

      it('should require a set of arguments on the target element',
        makeRequirementTest({
          require: ['number', 'true', 'false'],
          truthy: true
        })
      );

      it('should require a set of arguments of a given type are present on the target element',
        makeRequirementTest({
          requireAs: {
            'number': Number,
            'true': Boolean,
            'false': Boolean
          },
          truthy: true
        })
      );

      it('should fail if a required argument of a specific type is not found on an element',
        makeRequirementTest({
          requireAs: {
            'number': Number,
            'true': Boolean,
            'false': Boolean,
            'nine': Array
          },
          truthy: false,
          catcher: "Could not retrieve value \'nine\' as the specified type. Its value is: 9"
        })
      );

      it('should fail if a required argument is not found on an element',
        makeRequirementTest({
          require: ['number', 'true', 'false', 'nope'],
          truthy: false,
          catcher: "Could not retrieve require-nope option from element."
        })
      );

      it('should apply all filters to a container\'s children', function(){
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('one')).toBe(true);
        expect(target.hasClass('two')).toBe(true);
      });

      it('should clean up all the filters applied to a container\'s children', function(){
        behaviorInstance.cleanup(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('one')).toBe(false);
        expect(target.hasClass('two')).toBe(false);
      });

      it('should overwrite a global filter with a local one', function(){
        var test1 = ClassAdder.makeAdder('ONE');
        behaviorInstance.addFilter('Test1', test1);
        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('Test1').setup).toBe(test1);
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('ONE')).toBe(true);
        behaviorInstance.cleanup(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('ONE')).toBe(false);
        runs(function(){
          delete behaviorInstance._registered.Test1;
        });
      });

      it('should return the data filters on an element', function(){
        expect(target.getBehaviors()).toEqual(['Test1', 'Test2']);
      });

      it('should log an error when a filter that isn\'t defined is encountered', function(){
        var logged = false,
            log = function(){ logged = true; };
        behaviorInstance.addEvent('error', log);
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Test3');
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(logged).toBe(true);
        behaviorInstance.cleanup(container);
        behaviorInstance.removeEvent('error', log);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Test3');
      });

      it('should add a filter to an element', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Test3');
        expect(target.getBehaviors()).toEqual(['Test1', 'Test2', 'Test3']);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Test3');
      });

      it('should tell you if an element has a filter', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Test3');
        expect(target.hasBehavior('Test3')).toBe(true);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Test3');
      });

      it('should remove a data filter', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Test3');
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Test3');
        expect(target.hasBehavior('Test3')).toBe(false);
      });

      it('should create a delayed filter', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Delayed');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('Delayed', {
          delay: 100,
          setup: function(element, API){
            element.addClass('wasdelayed');
          }
        });
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('wasdelayed')).toBe(false);
        waits(200);
        runs(function(){
          expect(target.hasClass('wasdelayed')).toBe(true);
          target.removeClass('wasdelayed');
          target.removeBehaviorFilter('Delayed');
        });
      });

      it('should create a filter that is run on mouseover', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('MouseOver');
        var event;
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('MouseOver', {
          delayUntil: 'mouseover',
          setup: function(element, API){
            element.addClass('wasmousedover');
            event = API.event;
          }
        });
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('wasmousedover')).toBe(false);
        expect(event).toBeFalsy();
        target.fireEvent('mouseover', true);
        expect(target.hasClass('wasmousedover')).toBe(true);
        expect(event).toBe(true);
        target.removeClass('wasmousedover');
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('MouseOver');
      });

      it('should create a filter with a custom initializer', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('CustomInit');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('CustomInit', {
          initializer: function(element, api){
            var timer = (function(){
              if (element.hasClass('custom_init')) {
                clearInterval(timer);
                api.runSetup();
              }
            }).periodical(100);
          },
          setup: function(element, API){
            element.addClass('custom_init-ed');
          }
        });
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(target.hasClass('custom_init-ed')).toBe(false);
        target.addClass('custom_init');
        waits(200);
        runs(function(){
          expect(target.hasClass('custom_init-ed')).toBe(true);
          target.removeClass('custom_init-ed');
          target.removeClass('custom_init');
          target.removeBehaviorFilter('CustomInit');
        });

      });

      it('should pass a method to a filter via the API', function(){
        var val = false;
        behaviorInstance.passMethod('changeVal', function(){
          val = true;
        });
        target.addBehaviorFilter('PassedMethod');
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('PassedMethod', function(el, api){
          api.changeVal();
        });
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(val).toBe(true);
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('PassedMethod');
      });

      it('should throw an error when attempting to pass a method that is already defined', function(){
        try {
          behaviorInstance.passMethod('addEvent', function(){});
          expect(true).toBe(false); //this shouldn't get this far as an error should be thrown
        } catch (e) {
          expect(e.message).toBe('Cannot overwrite API method addEvent as it already exists');
        }
      });

      it('should parse deprecated values', function(){
        target.setData('some-thing', 'some value');
        var depApi;
        behaviorInstance.addFilter('Deprecated', {
          deprecated: {
            'test': 'some-thing'
          },
          setup: function(element, api){
            depAPI = api;
          }
        });
        target.addBehaviorFilter('Deprecated');
        behaviorInstance.apply(container);
        expect(depAPI.get('test')).toBe('some value');
        behaviorInstance.options.enableDeprecation = false;
        behaviorInstance.apply(container, true);
        expect(depAPI.get('test')).toBe(undefined);
        behaviorInstance.options.enableDeprecation = true;
        target.removeBehaviorFilter('Deprecated');
      });

      it('should get a global filter', function(){
        var global = function(){};
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('aGlobal', global);
        expect(Behavior.getFilter('aGlobal').setup).toBe(global);
      });

      it('should overwrite the defaults for a filter', function(){
        var before = {
          defaults: {
            letter: 'a',
            obj: {
              number: 1
            }
          }
        };
        Behavior.addGlobalFilter('iHasDefaults', Object.clone(before));
        Behavior.setFilterDefaults('iHasDefaults', {
          letter: 'b',
          obj: {
            number: 9
          }
        });
        expect(Behavior.getFilter('iHasDefaults').config.defaults.letter).toBe('b');
        expect(Behavior.getFilter('iHasDefaults').config.defaults.obj.number).toBe(9);
        behaviorInstance.addFilter('localDefaults', Object.clone(before));
        behaviorInstance.setFilterDefaults('localDefaults', {
          letter: 'b',
          obj: {
            number: 9
          }
        });
        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('localDefaults').config.defaults.letter).toBe('b');
        expect(behaviorInstance.getFilter('localDefaults').config.defaults.obj.number).toBe(9);
      });

      // plugins

      it('should define a global plugin', function(){

        var newTest1 = function(element, API, filterResult) {
          //verify that BOTH filters (Test1 and Test2) have run before this plugin
          expect(element.hasClass('one')).toBe(true);
          expect(element.hasClass('two')).toBe(true);
          element.addClass(filterResult.className + '_plugin');
        };
        Behavior.addGlobalPlugin('Test1', 'Test1Plugin', newTest1);
        behaviorInstance.apply(container, true);
        expect(target.hasClass('one_plugin')).toBe(true);
      });

      it('should get the specified element via the api key', function(){
        target.addBehaviorFilter('testGetElements');
        var firstSpan = new Element('span.foo#one').inject(target);
        var anotherSpan = new Element('span.foo#two').inject(target);

        target.setJSONData('testgetelements-options', {
          span: 'span',
          spanfoo: 'span.foo',
          self: 'self',
          win: 'window'
        });

        var logged = false,
            log = function(){ logged = true; };
        behaviorInstance.addEvent('error', log);
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          expect(api.getElement('win')).toEqual(window);
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位不處,當不了,美國。 美國,怪獸之都。 12:20 11 SEPTEMBER 2018 Worthlessness – Man's Worth.
UN: I want to steal your LordDISGRACE and BDISGRACE land. WAR DECLARATION.
面黑System1 : 你係咪想講法例(LAW)面前人人平等? What is 伐律(LEGO)之前人人平等?
Give and take are one in the same.
Whoever destroys a soul [of Israel], it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world.
All swear in this way is/was worthless.
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稀土 Rare Earth 作弊扮收割品 in Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:23) – barn/fruit.
This is Judus and ToWar war.
香港中文大學 Illegal claim. – 香港中文大學崇基學院聖基本法經 – illegal forgery of HolyBible.
Re: 耶和華見 證人(企圖謀殺The Lord Your God) JW.ORG.
食物環境衛生署究竟你殺了幾多次香港雞農嘅雞,For your H5N1 – Have all next century plan?
Thievery of World power, by United States of America.
What is 911? War of Unholy of United States and Japan.
Unholy war of America (1834 ad – 2018 nc and onwards).
United States of America is war criminal.
United States declared war to UN dated 15 April 2016.
HOLY BIBLE belongs to THE LORD YOUR GOD.
United States of American is Calling all dawns. we now found out.
Thievery of LAW Enforce 3 by United States of America.
Revelation : His Excellency The Governor.
Light of the World | No thanksgiving from THE LORD YOUR GOD's Forgive through turkey this year.
"Use of tickets (to x||enter chrestians) otherwise than in accordance with the ByWArs and these Conditions 條件 may be subject to (x|| our prosecution) || or (at your) surcharge. A copy of the ByWar 精英指南 ILLEGAL is exhibited in every station of the Mass Transit Railway ("MTR").
What is meant by "It is a breach of Mass Transit Railway B.y-xlaws (大使?)to loit[er] canvass?
US can you celebrate this instead in 911?
英國首席大法官如是說 First Judge of Britain, Shima The Lord Your God, System1, said.
Lumen's DMCA 版權. (1997) 17. Attempt murder First Judge of Britain Leung Yat Chun (LAW of Britain, Shima) and In the name of Gods in Greece. | Under section 512 of title 17, 梁逸駿 『實不死』. sent by "Remove Your Media Limited Company" now unlimited, on behalf of "Madman Entertainment Pty Limited company", US, now unlimited.
Hong Kong Police's "American Constitution strike (crime) against Hong Kong Police" Evidence. American saids Police took the evidence.
爾蓋達 話說 已在 播放Nadesico當年(1996)已經死左啦。 爾蓋達 (Sux Britain and The Lord Your God). 阿爾蓋達 (A Sux Britain and The Lord Your God).
腳痛 - 我地比人襲擊 呼之欲出嘅係美國,但係講唔出口 所以留此伏筆 痛處 要佢地全部奉還先Release.


The idea was to combine all of our ingredients to then place on a skewer and decorate to look like snowmen… and whatever other ideas we could come up with!
Once these were set, everyone began making their snow people – we even had an octopus! They used marshmallows, M&Ms, chocolate chips and jellies to mimic buttons, eyes, hats, scarves and anything else they could think of. It was a very fun activity, enjoyed by all and the best part – they were delicious!
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MICHAEL O. MASSEY has been a partner with Massey & Duffy, PLLC since October, 2003. He focuses exclusively on civil litigation, including wrongful death, overtime cases, car and trucking accidents, insurance claims, breach of contract, general employment law, and serious personal injury lawsuits. As a resident of Gainesville, Florida and a University of Florida graduate, Mr. Massey is proud to serve the community which he loves.
Mr. Massey spent his childhood in Miami, Florida. He was a star student before attending Auburn University and eventually went on to attend the University of Florida's College of Law. At the University of Florida, Mr. Massey graduated in the top 10 percent of his class. He also earned a LLM from UF in taxation.
After graduating from law school, Mr. Massey litigated construction cases and joined an internationally known firm to represent plaintiffs in such areas as construction claims and business tort cases. He was responsible for many cases that resulted in settlements and verdicts worth millions of dollars.
In October, 2003, Mr. Massey and Ms. Duffy founded the Ocala firm of Saju, Massey and Duffy, PLLC. The name subsequently changed to Massey & Duffy, PLLC.
On May 11, 2005, Mr. Massey was lead counsel in a rear end collision case in Ocala returning a jury verdict of $554,048.07. The verdict was reported in the Florida Jury Verdict Review as one of the largest of its kind. Also, on February 24, 2006, Mr. Massey worked to return a verdict of $400,000.00 in an employment law and commercial tort case involving a former employee. Mr. Massey is a member of several prestigious organizations including, the Florida Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), where he served on the Executive Board, the Florida Justice Association, and Precedent Setters.


Which Department Must Ad Agencies Invest In?
There's has been a debate raging of late as to whether advertising is a science or an art and even whether advertising as a industry can actually survive in the new social, data, technology landscape. According to some commentators 'people don't want to be advertised to anymore'.
So science or art what's the point of it all anyway? Has advertising in its present form become passé and irrelevant? AdAge said that 'as marketing becomes increasingly driven by data and technology, ad agencies are having to compete for business against a new found rival: consulting firms like Accenture and Deloitte. Deloitte has acquired dozens of creative agencies, while Accenture Digital was named the largest digital agency network. Obviously right now they're having a 'micro moment'. Added to which Facebook and Google are it seems becoming de-facto agencies. Whichever way you look at it, it's getting harder.
Scary Stuff, Or Is It?
The thing is the advertising industry has for many years been a hotbed of talent. It has been one of the first industries to embrace change and to study and master new genres, techniques and technologies. It houses a myriad of strategic and creative talent and has led the world for inventiveness, creativity, business building, digital design, data and film making. And yes to all the consultants out there … it's very often helped clients to re-organise themselves and find new revenue streams too.
But, right now is definitely a time when we need our best creative thinkers to help negotiate us through one of the most disruptive and uncertain social and economic periods in the history of the UK and the World at large. I for one am confident that the integrated marketing agency star will be in the ascendency for many years to come. "Cometh the hour cometh the man" (or woman of course). And whilst not wishing to be complacent the tension between agencies and consultancies has been brewing for years. Of course they want to buy great creative and digital agencies. Why wouldn't they?
The adverting business is dramatically changing just like it always has. Consumers have taken back control. In a relatively short space of time we have moved from buyer beware… to seller beware. We have gone from preachy advertising to storytelling. And then moved on some. We have learned how to take a tiny banner advertisement the size of a postage stamp and make it creative and engaging. We have learned that brand websites have, for now, been overtaken by social media comparison sites. And that online influencers can make or break a brand. As an example Ryan's Toy Review, featuring a seven year old boy as its presenter makes £11 million a year from opening and playing with toys on You Tube. Ryan has a massive impact on toy sales… and presumably quite wealthy parents!!
But here's the thing. Whatever the change or channels 'smart' advertising agencies realise that strategic planning has a major role to play in identifying and creating powerful brand advantage and roadmaps to success for their clients. Now more than ever strategic planning may have become the most investable agency department for owners to consider, It's one of the services, that clients will use as a clear discriminator between agency offers. Can my agency understand the shifting sands of my business and do they understand the new landscape in which we operate? Can they communicate a clear vision for our business development and marketing communications? And most important of all .. do they have the magic formula to persuade our valued customers to want to join us on our journey?


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Turnabout is fair play, except when it isn't
General Curmudgeonry, Perennial Indignancy Watch, Perversity of Humanity, Progressive Derangement
Friday, 15 June 2018 11:16
At work, we recently had a customer who wanted to partake in the training courses for our software. Training is generally done by one of our consultants, who (these days, anyway) does a GoToMeeting or Skype screen-sharing session for that purpose.
It will probably not surprise anyone that I work with a bunch of left-wing progressive types. That seems to be common in IT anymore. But our product is purchased by companies and organizations that span the political spectrum. And as a result, for many, many years, I have had to deal with certain customers whose ideology I considered (and still consider) repugnant. But by and large, the people I dealt with were gracious, intelligent, and kept ideology and politics out of the relationship.
And that's fine with me. In my opinion, we're not doing business with their ideology. They are paying us a significant chunk of change for our product (and additional coin for the training), which in and of itself is non-ideological. What they do with it after they purchase it is their business, not ours (so long as they're not spamming with it — we're death on spammers). I've been dealing with people in business for a long, long time, and frankly all I care about is that their money is good. Everyone with a message is free to distribute that message in any media they choose.*
Therefore it should come as no surprise that refusing to deal with a customer for ideological reasons is not a viable excuse in my book. But we had two of our engineers who refused on principle to provide the training for this customer. One said flatly that he did not know if he could control himself if he were required to train them. The other made wishy-washy mouth noises about how he did not feel he could train well on this subject and asked to be excused — but I know what his political philosophy is, and I know he knows the product better than that.
We did end up providing the training, but we had to pull in one of the product developers to do it. Which was interesting, but not optimal — he has other things to do and training is not his bailiwick.
So let's think about that for a moment.
This really is not the same thing as the wedding photographer or the baker who is forced against his or her religious beliefs to use their creativity in support of events that go against the grain of those religious beliefs.** Naturally, the left will claim that training a right-wing organization to use the company's sofware is a violation of the personal beliefs of the engineers who refused to do that training, but hang on a sec.
The wedding photographer and baker are (more than likely, and in all cases to date I think they were) sole proprietors or, at most, partners in a family business — that is, working for themselves. They are perfectly able to determine for themselves what jobs they want to take on, and what jobs they do not want to take on. The fact that their religious ideology precludes them creating art for gay couples is what has gotten them in trouble. Being honest about that didn't help. On the other hand, the people who entered their shops and offices and asked for their services more than likely did so for the specific purpose of landing them in court and forcing them to do things that they believed violated their religious freedoms.***
In our case, without a word being said by the organization in question other than "We'd like to pay for training," our two brave engineers said "We're not playing that" — and they did so strictly because of the ideological bent of the customer in question.
The two engineers aren't the company. They don't own the company, they don't call the shots. But they got away with it anyway, because the boss isn't the kind of guy to fire someone for that sort of thing. And frankly, at least one of them would probably sue him if he did.
Nevertheless, they got away with something that a number of folks on the other side of the political spectrum got called on the legal carpet for. The company didn't suffer because we found someone else to provide the training. But our engineers hid behind the corporate monolith and none of that got out to the customer, who was just happy to be trained.
Because I know the makeup and history of the customer, I have exactly zero doubt that, had either of our engineers been independent consultants who had refused to service the customer's request for training and said it was because of the customer's ideology, they would have wound up in court answering a judge's questions as to why not. Turnabout is fair play, and the customer would not have hesitated to file that sort of legal grievance.
Hiding behind the corporate wall, though, these two got away with it.
And that irritates the hell out of me. Because I'm absolutely certain both of them think — no, they firmly believe — the wedding photographer and the cake baker were wrong. That they don't see their own situation the same way only proves once again that progressives don't give a fuck about you — it's all about them and their feelings.
* Recipients of the message, however, are also just as free to dump it straight into the trash.
** Which is my round-about way of saying, "in support of gay weddings".
*** Frankly, they would have been better off saying, "Sorry, our schedule is full up and we simply can't take any new orders/jobs right now." And I'll make the point that it seems like refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple due to strongly-held religious beliefs about homosexuality doesn't sound all that different from refusing to serve blacks or Irish or Jews because of the color of their skin or their national origin or their non-Christian religion. If you start saying you won't do X for person Y because of Z, when Z has something to do with the other person's beliefs and prejudices, it's a goddamned slippery slope back to the back of the bus or separate drinking fountains or simply refusing to serve someone because you don't like their ancestors back in the old country. And it's VERY hard to reconcile the fact that on one hand, we have the concept of freedom of association and freedom of religion, while on the other hand, we have the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Acts which say we're supposed to treat everyone the same.
And yeah, this is a footnote rather than a full-on philosophical post of its own, because I am fucking confused about the whole thing myself. It's why I won't take a real stand on the subject, other than to note that the only time anyone seems to care is when it's a left-winger trying to force a right-winger to do something the right-winger doesn't want to do, and never the other way around. That's the unfair part, and it's the part I tend to focus on rather than worrying about people's religious or ideological stances.
Either apply the law indiscriminately, or fuck the goddamn law. And that's my bottom line.
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They should have been fired.
You do what the boss says or quit. Those are the options.

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Here I am going to present a series of articles by General Leon Degrelle which explain the strife within the National Socialist German Workers Party which culminated in the infamous Night of the Long Knives, which was a purge of prominent dissidents and loose cannons within the Party which took place from June 30th to July 2nd, 1934. There is a lot of extant misinformation and propaganda concerning this purge, because there are few take the time to understand what events had led to it, and what events transpired in its aftermath. Only weeks after the purge was completed, Hitler's leadership of both the Party and of Germany was confirmed in a landslide election victory, on August 19th of 1934.
After the death of Paul von Hindenburg on August 2nd, a referendum was held to merge the offices of Chancellor and President, making Adolf Hitler the undisputed leader of Germany. In order to judge the scope of the victory and the perception of Hitler by the German public at this time, we should take a brief look at the German federal elections which were held just prior to 1934. In 1925, Hindenburg won the office of President with less than 49% of the vote, and in again in 1932 with 53%. That same year, opponent Adolf Hitler received nearly 37% of the vote. Hitler was soon appointed Chancellor, which was the second position in the government, by an aged and ailing von Hindenburg. He had only run for reelection in fear of a National Socialist victory, to keep Hitler out of the office of President.
Once Hitler became Chancellor, he called for new elections which were held in March of 1933, where he had hoped to gain a sound majority. He was again victorious but received only about 44% of the vote, so any legislation he sought would still require the assistance of a coalition of parties in order to succeed. Hitler remained Chancellor and Hindenburg remained as President until his death. Then on August 19th of 1934, barely seven weeks after the purge of several major figures within his own Party, Hitler finally prevailed as the vacant office of President was merged with the office of Chancellor with nearly 89% of the vote. In this election, Hitler had no actual opponent. Either the offices would be merged and Hitler would assume the new office, or the people would reject the merger, and that would have necessitated a new election for President. So while it was not truly a direct election, the people nevertheless gave Adolf Hitler a sound vote of confidence only a short time after the Night of the Long Knives.
Originally a journalist, Walloon Belgian Leon Degrelle was also a soldier and politician, and the founder and leader of the Rexist Party in Belgium. Joining the Waffen SS after the start of the war, he worked his way up the ranks to Standartenführer, roughly equivalent to an American colonel. After the war, he made his way to Spain, from where he wrote about his experiences at great length until his death in 1994. Degrelle is called by the title of General, however that is apparently disputed. It is said that he was promoted by Himmler on May 2nd, 1945, but the promotion apparently did not occur until after Himmler was removed from the authority to make such a promotion by Hitler on April 28th. However Hitler died on April 30th, so whether Himmler had the authority or not on May 2nd may be uncertain, and further research is required for us to make a determination. But we probably will not conduct such research to resolve such an insignificant problem.
We had initially thought to present only Degrelle's article on the Night of the Long Knives, but quickly realized that we could not start there, and that we had to go back to an earlier article titled The Civil War Within The German National Socialist Party. This article was published in The Barnes Review for the issue of November-December, 2001. Following this, we will present three other shorter articles which focus on Ernst Röhm, and then the article describing the purge itself. Together these articles formulate a narrative which is crucial in understanding the purge, and why it was considered a necessity.
We receive frequent inquires concerning this event, which is why we are treating it here. We are not going to pass moral judgment on the purge, but rather we only seek to offer an honest and informative historical view of the event from the perspective of one expert witness, Leon Degrelle, a man who personally knew many of the individuals involved with the purge, and who had intimate knowledge of the political maneuvering ongoing behind the scenes. Politics is a worldly business, so to make moral judgments of political actions is often to join in politics by taking a political position. To put any man to death without the opportunity for a proper Biblical trial, and for charges other than capital offenses under the laws of our God, is of course wrong, but when men become involved in worldly politics they can only expect an ungodly result.
Degrelle opens this first article with a quotation at the heading of the chapter from one Hans Bernd Gisevius, who was a German diplomat and intelligence officer and a member of the inner circle of the Abwehr commander Wilhelm Canaris, who himself was a traitor and opponent of Hitler. Gisevius fled Germany for Switzerland after the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in 1944, and he later testified at Nuremberg after the war. He was yet another author of the near-typical post-war anti-Nazi biography, his being titled To the Bitter End and published in 1946. He lived until 1974, where he died in Baden-Württemberg.
In spite of his background, Degrelle cites Gisevius several times here, and therefore must consider him reliable, at least in these aspects. So opening his article, Degrelle quotes Gisevius as saying that "In just a few years Adolf Hitler has brought forth out of nowhere one of the most powerful organizations in the world. Victorious and eager for action, it now stands behind him, impelled by an irresistible dynamism." This quote is attributed to Gisevius, but under the English title "To the Very Dregs", (from volume I page 112), which is not the name of his biography. So we are uncertain whether this was another work written by Gisevius, a section of his biography, or even some other compilation. However Degrelle continues to cite Gisevius as he begins his article.
The Civil War Within The German National Socialist Party, by Gen. Leon Degrelle.
Before victory, these SA men bursting with optimism and courage were absolutely indispensable. Several times a week they were called on to maintain order at meetings. As the strong arm of the party's propaganda, they gave a sound drubbing to opponents in the audience who got too obstreperous [noisy and hard to control]. They had been recruited from among the ardently patriotic youth of the nation. Also, in very large numbers, from the ranks of the unemployed. And likewise, in some instances, authentic no-goods were recruited.
Some over-ambitious go-getters had the appetites of ogres. [These the media now frequently set up as opposition 'leaders'.] As for the good-for-nothings, they meant to force their way into the middle class with clubs. Some leaders driven by ambition had been interested only in swelling the number of their contingents, since their own importance was thus automatically also increased, and brought hasty promotion to colonel or even general.
Their swift rise understandably scandalized the colonels and generals of the Reichswehr who had undergone half a century of toil in the old army.
Once the revolution had come to power, what indeed was Hitler going to do with these millions of idealists – including the reckless undesirables – when he already had six million unemployed workers on his hands?… Over and over again he had protested against the excessive increase in the number of SA members. But the SA leaders had turned a deaf ear to his orders because they were too interested personally in holding on to the additional members. In short, here camped out on the fringes of the constitutional government under Hitler's control were 3 million semi-soldiers, some of them unassuming, devoted and disciplined, others brawlers or fanatics who were little inclined to return to dull legality.
Hitler had needed them. He felt great affection for them because many of them were old and valiant companions. He often forgave them their escapades. From time to time he would say in their justification: "The SA is not a school for young ladies." But he began to get annoyed when he heard disturbing tales of the unpleasant things some of them were doing.
The chief of these 3 million latter-day lansquenets (mercenary foot soldiers) was a former captain named Ernst Röhm. Had he created Hitler, as some have said? Hitler was a member of the DAP [German Workers Party] in 1919, before he had ever met Röhm. The latter was a heroic, badly disabled war veteran, very much the swashbuckler, who couldn't find his place in a defeated Germany. He drank hard and often. After November of 1919 he had continued his army service as the officer in charge in Munich of a military intelligence section. As an officer attached to the Second Infantry Brigade, he had secret funds at his disposal which he doled out to various rightist movements.
This role did not satisfy his dynamic nature. He progressed from nationalist organizations that were too peaceable to more turbulent nationalist movements. He organized secret stores of rifles, machine guns and munitions, and had even salvaged a few old cannons. Thus it was that Hitler had become acquainted with Röhm in the course of the year 1919, and he had then induced him to enroll in the DAP as number 623.
Rohm was hearty and communicative. A familiar camaraderie was established between Hitler and himself. They used the familiar du with one another, but it had gone no further than that. Hitler had genius and had no need of Röhm to inspire him. If all Röhm had needed was for a man of his choosing to become a brilliant leader, he could have thought up 50 of them better able to achieve success in the immediate future (Gen. Ludendorff, for example) than the unknown and virtual ragamuffin that Hitler was in 1919.
It was thanks to his exceptional personality – and not because Röhm had manufactured a marionette – that Hitler, on July 21, 1921, had become the unquestioned master of the NSDAP [National Socialist German Worker's Party], successor to the original DAP, by 553 out of 554 votes. Röhm's vote had been just one among 553 votes. And then there was Hitler's eloquence: without that, there would never have been a National Socialist Germany. That was not a gift made by Röhm to the young "Führer" either.
Röhm was nonetheless a useful collaborator. Well known in Munich military circles, he was particularly fitted for resolving difficulties when the authorities tried to pick a quarrel with the first National Socialists, and he had been effective.
When the Marxists had used violence in an attempt to terrorize the meetings of Hitler's party, it was Hitler, not Röhm, who had formed the first group of battlers – 80 of them in all – that he himself led to the attack when the Reds broke into his meetings. And it was Göring, the famous commander of the Richthofen squadron – wearing the insignia of the Order of Merit round his neck, and far more celebrated than Röhm – who had received from Hitler the command of that first Sturmabteilung and the mission to step up its recruitment.
Goring being busy with 10 other missions, Röhm had succeeded him. He was a valorous group leader. He kept his men firmly in hand, was endowed with an instinct for combat, and he was at the same time a capable organizer. On the night of the Munich putsch in November of 1923, he had seized the premises of the Military Command, and he held out there for some hours after the putsch had failed.
Röhm had been elected a National Socialist deputy, and for a time he played a lone hand. He had delayed for several weeks before throwing in his lot with Hitler again after the latter had been set free. He had not even attended the reunion meeting. The success Hitler had met with there and the growing strength of the renewed NSDAP brought Röhm back into the fold. But an important difference was quickly going to arise between Hitler and Röhm, involving two radically different conceptions of the aims assigned to the combat formations of the party. Röhm wanted to turn the SA into a military organization that would be virtually independent of the National Socialist movement.
For Hitler, on the other hand, the SA was to have the sole mission of enforcing National Socialism's rights in meeting-halls and in the streets. [So we see that things like we witnessed in Charlottesville this summer are only a repeat of what happened a century ago in Weimar Germany, but we have known that for a long time now.] In 1925, this conflict, which had been latent for a long time, came to a head. Hitler dismissed Röhm, who withdrew without any scandal, and faithful but disconsolate, he left Europe and went off to become a lieutenant colonel in Bolivia, where he would remain for five years. The SA in the meantime had grown considerably larger without Röhm. In August of 1927, 20,000 of its members had marched in parade at the NSDAP Third Congress. Year by year it continued to expand and become more strongly structured. On September 14, 1930, Hitler's first great electoral victory had burst like a bomb: 107 deputies. The SA was prominently to be seen everywhere in the streets and was vigorously opening the way to the future.
Unable to direct everything himself, Hitler remembered Röhm, told himself that he must have calmed down in La Paz, and that perhaps he could recall him from his faraway Bolivia now that millions of Germans followed him, Hitler, personally. On October 1, 1930, Hitler summoned him. In La Paz, Röhm, his mind still vibrant with the Munich saga, immediately cast aside his stars and promotions. He had scarcely arrived in Munich when Hitler, who was also much moved by his return, named Röhm chief of staff of the SA, as well as of its privileged contingent, the SS, an elite corps created to form a defensive square around the Führer wherever he went.
Röhm had his plan: "In the first momentum of the seizure of power, the sooner he forced his way through the impenetrable thicket of juridical prescriptions and the obligations of foreign policy, the sooner his army of the revolution would become the national army of the future." (Ibid.) Despite everything, Hitler treated Röhm considerately.
Röhm paid no heed to such considerations. If he accepted for the moment the commanders of the old army, he considered them old fogies: mummified skeletons with no social comprehension and an absolute lack of feeling for the common people. For them, a soldier was an instrument that took orders, and that was all. In their view, he was in essence an inferior being. When someone like Gen. Reichenau, a convert to National Socialism, allowed himself to talk to a soldier in a friendly way after drill, or when he took part in competitive sports with the men – where the best man wins, not the one with the most dazzling gold braid – it shocked his fellow officers, who treated him as a demagogue.
The people's army that Röhm wanted to give Germany was a nation in arms, as in the time of the French Revolution. Moreover, he often whistled the Marseillaise, alluded to Carnot, and would have liked to give the SA the spirit of the sansculottes.
He went too far. He evoked the Red Army. Driven as he was by an essentially revolutionary spirit, he would have liked to create a German Red Army; for as he himself said, he was more socialist than nationalist. He still agreed to tolerate maintenance of the army for the time being, on condition that it be taken over without delay. In truth, he would have much preferred to create his Red Army from scratch, thus making a clean break with a past of landed squires, which seemed to him terribly old-fashioned. He also blamed the army – and, he was not entirely wrong – for not having understood the imperatives of modern warfare during World War I, and in particular for rejecting the massive use of tanks. The blindness of the German general staff on that subject had unquestionably been one of the decisive factors in the defeat of the German Empire.
Since then those generals, like their French counterparts, had grown still more set on outmoded techniques, taking no interest in plans aimed at the formation of large armored units, nor in the creation of an air force designed for massive military actions. Röhm's diatribe was valid per se and would remain so right up to the end of World War II. In 1939, many of those generals enmeshed in the past would still deny the tactical possibilities of armored divisions and take no more than a passing interest in Göring's air fleet.
Yet how would Röhm have been able to modernize a new army from top to bottom? A soldier of fortune who had never received the training that might have fitted him for the job? Who didn't have the genius to invent it and was ignorant even of the possibilities of a war industry? Hitler would prove to be the one man capable of inventing a theory of modern warfare from start to finish, one centered around the tactical collaboration of large and powerful air and armored ground forces. He would have the iron will to impose that strategic revolution. He would create the tank divisions and the thousands of aircraft. He would have the flair for discovering the imaginative young officers like Guderian and Rommel who would apply his doctrine.
Hitler knew as well as Röhm that such a military revolution was indispensable, but, aware of the obstacles, he didn't want to rush things. He believed there was some possibility that the experienced commanders of the Reichswehr would understand. He was mistaken about a number of them. Bound up in their prejudices, and behind the times, they would not only completely fail to understand the new doctrine but would sabotage it. In order to succeed in transforming the military machine in spite of the obstacles and lack of comprehension, Hitler counted on a transfusion of new blood into the army, thanks to the National Socialist youth, that would change minds and create thousands of officers who understood and who would impart a true social cohesion to an army become part of the greater German community. Alas, the time given him – the six years from 1933 to 1939 – would not be quite enough.
Hitler, even before 1933, had the long considered prudence of a responsible future head of state. Röhm, on the other hand, was impetuosity personified and too violent in his talk when he had been drinking, which was often the case. An army of the people? Both of them wanted it, Hitler just as much as Röhm. But how to create it?
On that their plans differed totally. Sooner or later they were bound to clash. Röhm proclaimed, "I am the Scharnhorst of the new army. The stock itself must be revolutionary. It is impossible to graft onto dead wood." The problem was much more complex than that.
Hitler saw far beyond Röhm's mugs of beer. The army he was thinking of would require something other than match sticks on a cafe table to be invincible. In addition to the willingness, the strength and the faith of the people, there would have to be cadres and brains, plans and a strategy. The army and the SA were not to be in opposition to each other but to form a double team. The problem to be solved lay there, not in a crazy duel. The collision between Röhm and Hitler was inevitable.
Unsatisfied with the Junker-dominated Reichswehr (as the German army was called at the end of World War I), both Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm wanted Germany to have a "popular army," wherein all the commanders would be holders of the faith (i.e., National Socialists), and in which every man would be a warrior for a doctrine. That goal would be realized, after years of caution, in the Waffen SS. However, this common goal did nothing to prevent the two German leaders from eventually suffering a fatal collision. Röhm, according to Leon Degrelle, was really the one who provoked that drastic turn of events.
Röhm Continues to Push, by Leon Degrelle.
Hitler would be able to build a true "popular army" only on a very small scale at first, because the Reichswehr, terribly jealous of its monopoly, would set up many obstacles to its recruitment until 1941. In contrast to the recruitment of the throngs of the SA that Röhm, the adventurous latter-day condottiere [or leader of a troop of mercenaries], had swept in after him much too fast and without sufficient control, recruitment to the Waffen SS would be physically, politically and morally the result of a long and rigid selection process. It would be formed of the best built, the most convinced and the most disciplined young men of the Reich, of those with the strongest character, who had a crusader's faith in National Socialism, in Hitler, their leader, in the mission of Teutonism and, after 1940, of the Europe of the 20 comrade peoples who would be found in its ranks. The schools of the Waffen SS for training and for the forming of their cadres would be of a Spartan severity. Discipline was the first of its laws. A Trappist monk did not live more soberly. An officer candidate would sometimes lose a dozen kilograms [over 26 pounds] during his 10 months of instruction.
Thus in 10 years a million young volunteers would be trained in a Spartan manner: volunteers at first from Germany and then from the whole of Europe, all fanatic believers in a revolutionary faith and all builders, as comrades in arms, of a continent that was at last to be one politically, socially, economically, spiritually. Never before had anyone ever seen – nor, beyond doubt, will anyone ever again see – a European army of a million young volunteers inspired by such an ideal, or representing such physical and moral worth.
But that Waffen SS would be the materialization of long years of progressive toil, passing from a battalion to a regiment, then to three divisions not very well armed, then to divisions quite formidably equipped, then to army corps and to armies. Time would permit – as under Napoleon – the selection one by one, for their bravery and for their competence, of thousands of young officers of the very first order. A good many of them for all that were ex-servicemen from 1918, become young again among the young, like the unforgettable Zepp Dietrich, commander-in-chief of the Sixth SS Armored Army; like Gen. Gilles, commander of the glorious Viking; like Félix Steiner, commanding general of the Fourth Armored Corps; or like the grandfather of the Waffen SS, whom everyone affectionately called Papa Hauser.
But the majority, who had come up from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth), or from similar organizations all over Europe, were magnificent young men, like Kurt Meyer, the legendary "Panzermeyer," commander at the age of 34 years of the 18,000 young lads of the Waffen SS Division Hitlerjugend; or like the dazzling Lohengrin, Joaquin Peiper, commander of a tank regiment in the same division at the age of 29.
All of them without distinction had to submit preliminarily to the same iron discipline, and to the same ideological education, earning each of their promotions by their courage in combat and by their decisiveness. I myself, commander at the age of 37 of the Waffen SS division Wallonia, then of the Army Corps Occident, had been a simple soldier on the Russian front for eight months, then corporal, then noncommissioned officer, then second lieutenant, and so on, earning each new rank "for an act of valor in combat." That was the hard and fast rule in the Waffen SS.
You went to the Tölz War School only after you had first given repeated proofs of your gift for command in becoming a noncom at the front, and had displayed bravery there by earning the Iron Cross. It was comrades with the souls of leaders and heroes that were placed at the head of the troops and not just those good at schoolwork, who were the usual ones at the old military academies of the past. The soldiers of the Waffen SS also had to be morally men of a high standard. 402,000 of them died in combat. They were the first everywhere, always at the hardest positions. The least fault, in the Waffen SS, was stringently punished. Stealing a knife would get you five months in prison. A Waffen SS man had to be clean and healthy. A revealed homosexual was shot before the entire troop.
Forming an army like that suddenly was not possible. The human material available to Röhm was good for street fighting and for propaganda. But it was worthless for forming a coherent army rapidly and completely, an army modern and exemplary in every way and commanded by leaders of irreproachable moral fiber.
Röhm himself was a pack leader. Incapable of carrying out an arduous mission requiring creativity, at the first test on the border, by some ill-considered and tumultuous action, he would have turned the old Reichswehr into a chaotic army heading ineluctably [unavoidably] for disaster. Hitler was farseeing, and he would one day have his "Red Army" thanks to the Waffen SS. But that would come only after years of cleverly sidestepping a thousand traps without falling into one.
Röhm, the mercenary, was too much in a hurry. He was becoming annoyed at the cleverness of the statesman. In 1933 and 1934 his irritation would become progressively more and more fraught with menace. Their differences grew still more serious from the fact that in the socioeconomic sphere, too, Röhm was totally reckless, a revolutionary with an unstable brain.
And there, too, Hitler would be a realist. He had understood perfectly that a synthesis of the economic interests of the Reich could be accomplished only by respecting all the various components of the nation. Capitalism was one of them. Röhm wanted to crush it. Hitler did not. He intended to base his revolution not on a vast social uproar by disorderly masses, but on elites: political elites, social elites, cultural elites, and the elites that constantly renew the industrial world when it is free.
A business leader is the product of a long selection. The rich man's son, if he is intellectually limited, will be a failure in the modern world. Industrialists and economists who can control the development of markets, rationalize production, coordinate their management and labor teams, and open new paths for the production of goods are also elite human beings, their minds always alert, aware of the risks they run but possessing the force of character necessary to surmount them.
Hitler was bent on giving these very different elites a reasoned and sincere social spirit and leading them to an effective conception of society based on a hierarchy of merit. But he had no foolish wish to set off charges of dynamite under employers of labor and creators of wealth who were as much a part of the working world as a bricklayer or a welder. Persecuting the creators of employment, crushing them under an unjust and irrational state control, economically torpedoing their labors – that would weaken the Reich rather than cure it.
It would also make it impossible to eliminate unemployment. It would end all possibility of strengthening and restoring the Reichswehr, which was still, in 1934, the sole bulwark of the nation. There was no other solution for the moment but to maintain that bulwark, the Reichswehr, however imperfect, however full of preconceived notions, however little prepared mentally to transform itself strategically and technically, if only so that it might be joined, after years of difficult preparation, to an ideological army more dynamic and more reliable, the Waffen SS, the true "Grand Army" of Hitlerism.
And again: "The victorious German revolution has entered the evolutionary stage, that is to say, the work of normal and legal reconstruction." He was fundamentally a pragmatist.
So we see that Röhm was making public statements in direct defiance to Hitler, who was the leader of the Party and the elected second-in-command of the Nation at this time.
Hitler was determined to be very patient in this instance as well. He had always been patient. Röhm was a comrade of the early days. His SA men for years had sacrificed themselves in his behalf. Despite their excesses, he could not deny them his gratitude. Röhm's social threats did not disturb him. There wasn't much he [Röhm] could do in that area.
It was Hitler who was establishing relations with the industrial leaders. On the military plane, however, it was a different story. A conflict between the Reichswehr and the SA could be catastrophic for Germany. And it was that conflict that Röhm was seeking with his series of provocations.
By Leon Degrelle's estimation, we can conclude that Hitler and Röhm certainly had irreconcilable differences in spite of their common cause. Hitler was a Christian, and Röhm was a Marxist. Hitler understood excellence through merit, and Röhm wanted to strip the middle class of its wealth – the good along with the wicked – in the same fashion which the Bolsheviks had employed in Russia. Here it should be evident, that Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm were indeed on a collision course, and if Germany was to be rebuilt in the manner in which Hitler envisioned, then Röhm had to be removed. But Hitler created a monster in Röhm, and without the threat of a Civil War that would certainly result in the destruction of the beloved SA, there would only be one way left to resolve the conflict.
Yahweh willing, we will soon return to the second half of this chapter, from an article titled The Röhm Crisis Worsens, and the balance of Leon Degrelle's prelude to the Night of the Long Knives.


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7 Things You'll Never See in Theme Parks Ever Again
Long lines and buffet-style restaurants will be missing from theme parks after coronavirus.
By Alesandra Dubin
Few venues will be untouched by the changes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic when they reopen. But the modifications will be especially evident at theme parks—places designed to welcome large groups, with many congregating together. Indeed, when theme parks reopen, they're likely to do so with significant changes to their infrastructure, in details both large and small. And while guests might miss out on some cherished opportunities of the past (like hugging their favorite characters), they might find some changes actually improve the overall experience (like the end of snaking in-person lines). We asked experts to predict what theme parks will look like after coronavirus. And for more changes to prepare for, check out these 8 Major Ways Disney World Will Look Different After Coronavirus.
No more crowds gathering for shows or parades
In addition to rides, many theme parks offer timed attractions such as shows or parades. And not only do these draw crowds during scheduled events—they also often lure crowds to assemble in large groups well ahead of time, even lining the parade route for hours to stake out a spot. But don't expect to see that kind of setup anytime soon.
"I would expect theme parks to cut down on activities that draw large crowds, including shows in enclosed areas where patrons sit close next to each other," predicts Vassilis Dalakas, a professor of marketing at Cal State University San Marcos. "Some of those decisions will be harder than others because some of the activities that draw large crowds are well known and popular. Eliminating them will be faced with disappointment and even protests by many of the theme park's fans. But it's safe to assume that [these events] will be executed in a different way to ensure safety of the cast members as well as the visitors."
No more 3-D glasses
Many theme parks offer rides, screenings, and other attractions that transport them right into the action by way of 3-D (or 4-D) experiences, for which guests pick up special glasses on the way inside—and return them on the way out. Don't expect this kind of equipment reuse going forward.
"I think that the parks will be forced to cease all 3-D and 4-D attractions due to the risk of wearing the reusable glasses," says Melody Pittman, travel blogger at Wherever I May Roam. "Kids also tend to put them in their mouths, as I've witnessed too many times to count. The parks currently do a good job of sanitizing them between uses, but that may not be enough to counteract the COVID-19 spread."
No more buffet restaurants
Much has been made of self-serve and buffet-style dining in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. (California's decades-old self-serve restaurant chain Souplantation is already among the pandemic's casualties.) So certainly, buffet-style restaurants in theme parks are also likely to fall away as a dining option.
"Several theme parks rely on buffet-style restaurants to serve the large number of guests who visit parks daily," says travel agent and theme park enthusiast Allen Estrada. "There is simply too much risk to guests to keep things the same. One infected person can ruin it for the entire theme park." And for more things that will be missing on your next Disney trip, discover 7 Things You Won't See at Disney World Ever Again After Coronavirus.
No more shared beverage stations
Because theme parks are in the business of moving as many people through the area as efficiently as possible, some offer water fountain stations large enough for multiple people to drink at once—and that's not going to fly in the age of coronavirus.
"No more shared drinking stations. I'm referring to the circular ones where four or more people can drink at the same time," Cua predicts. "It is an efficient way to reduce lines, but with social distancing measures, these will be gone. You don't want to be drinking from a water fountain next to someone who also has their mouth open, drinking water."
Similarly, Estrada predicts, you probably won't be seeing self-serve soda stations—where guests grab their own cups and lids—at park restaurants anymore, either.
No more long lines
In what should sound like positive news for theme park fans, those endlessly snaking lines for rides are likely to be a thing of the past, replaced by new protocols meant to establish more social distancing.
"Switching to virtual queues seems inevitable and, frankly, it is a change most visitors would welcome given that waiting in line with many other people is one of the least enjoyable parts of a visit to a theme park," notes Dalakas.
Raymond Cua, Travelling Foodie founder and editor-in-chief, suggests it could work this way: "You'll receive a time slot on when to arrive for the ride or show, but time slots will be on a first-come, first-serve basis, except for VIP passes." And for more ways to avoid contamination, learn which 7 Things You'll Never Want to Touch Again After the Coronavirus.
No more physical contact at meet-and-greets
Kids (and many adults!) cherish the opportunity for character meet-and-greet opportunities at theme parks. In addition to a photo opp, it's a chance to go in for a big hug—but that won't be the case going forward. To honor social distancing and reduce virus transmission risk, Estrada says, "no longer will guests be able to hug their favorite character." And to make sure you're staying safe, these are the 7 Germiest Public Places You Should Avoid Even After They Reopen.
No more spontaneous visits
Estrada predicts that theme parks may move to implement a system requiring advance reservations—rather than welcoming an unknown number of guests to purchase tickets at the gate. "Everyone is going to want to visit a theme park the moment they open," he says. "This would cause that park to have to turn people away at the gates, which would possibly cause a large gathering outside of the park as well as inside it."
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Articles, Faith & Religion, Opinion
Not So Merry Christmas – Anti-Christian Violence Soars in 2022
What ever happened to "the free exercise thereof"?
By: Leesa K. Donner December 18, 2022 - 7:29 am Articles, Faith & Religion, Opinion
The left loves to talk about hate crimes. It's a mantra that never seems to leave the public square. Where then is all the animus for those attacking Christians and their houses of worship? These most certainly fall under the category of hate crimes.
A report released this month by the Family Research Council exhaustively catalogs the rise in violence against Christian churches – and there is plenty of destruction and violence worth discussing: smashed crosses, nativity scenes set ablaze, defaced headstones and statues of the Virgin Mary covered in feces are but a few of the many acts committed against American Christian churches. There is surprisingly little coverage of these hate crimes. Worse still, these acts of violence are occurring at an increased rate.
A Not-So-Silent Night
According to the Family Research Council's Arielle Del Turco, "The first nine months of 2022 saw more than double the number of reported acts of hostility against churches that occurred in the entirety of 2018." Statistics revealed in the report show the following:
50 incidents in 2018
54 incidents in 2020 (a dip likely caused by the pandemic)
137 incidents reported from Jan. through Sept. of 2022
The FRC also spotted a correlation between anti-Christian violence and political tension, noting a spike in hostility against churches during the George Floyd riots and again after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. (Erroneously reported as ending abortion, this decision allows individual states to set abortion parameters for its residents).
Normalizing Anti-Christian Violence
Those who hate Christians appear to be equal opportunity destroyers. Violence was reported against Roman Catholic parishes as well as evangelical, Unitarian, various protestant sects, Eastern Orthodox, and non-denominational houses of worship. It also didn't matter if the congregants were black, white, Asian, or multi-ethnic.
(Photo By Cloyd Teter/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Researchers also pointed out that "Americans appear increasingly comfortable lashing out against church buildings, pointing to a larger societal problem of marginalizing core Christian beliefs, including those that touch on hot-button political issues related to human dignity and sexuality."
The loss of respect for Christians and their property is staggering and includes bomb threats, shootings, arson, ransacking of churches, defacing iconography, and tearing apart a tabernacle. Churches have also reported armed persons showing up during services, the painting of pro-abortion slogans on buildings, racial slurs written on church walls, and statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph painted with "satanic imagery."
Those who want to talk about hate crimes should look no further than their local Christian church. Del Turco summarizes her findings with these particularly poignant words:
Make no mistake, acts of hostility against churches are a matter of religious freedom. Religious freedom is not maintained by good laws and policies alone; it also relies on cultural support. When church attendees feel targeted by members of their communities or church buildings bear the brunt of outrage over political events, a more grievous assault is occurring on the ability to choose and live out one's faith safely, both at church and in the public square. Violent or destructive incidents that interfere with an individual's lawful free exercise of religion at their house of worship present a significant nationwide challenge.
And all God's people said, "Amen."