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|1. Introduction. Revealing the Historical Truth. The Evidence --
2. A Coded Language. Sonderbehandlung (Special Treatment). The Gradual Change in Terminology. "Resettlement" and "Deportation" Rewards for "Special Missions" --
3. "Euthanasia" The Racist Objective. The Introduction of the Killing Procedures. Hitler Gives Written Powers to Kill. Executors of the Orders. More Code Names. The "Euthanasia" Facilities. Notification and Registration Procedures. The Review Commissions. The Evaluation Procedure. The Transfer. The Killing Procedures. Certification and "Condolences" Acquisition and Storage of the Lethal Substances. Treatment of Jewish Mental Patients. Suspension of "Operation T4" in August 1941. "Wild Euthanasia" The Number of "Euthanasia" Victims. Killings in the Pomeranian, East Prussian, and Polish Facilities. Convoys of Invalids from Concentration Camps. Letters about "Very, Very Interesting Work" Transfers to "Convalescent Camps" Orders and Counterorders to the End. The Number of Victims of "Operation 14 f 13" --
4. Killings in the Gas Vans behind the Front. Testing the New Killing Procedure. Technical Improvements "Based on Experience" Gas Vans in the Eastern Territories (Reichskomissariat Ostland). Murders in the Ukraine. Murders from the Crimea to the Caucasus. Gas Vans in Yugoslavia and Eastern Poland --
5. The Stationary Gas Vans at Kulmhof. The Planning. Building the Camp. The Camp Staff. The Delivery of the Victims. The Route to the Gas Vans. The Gassing. "Jewish Work Details" Jews and Non-Jews. The Sonderkommando Leaves Kulmhof. The Resumption of the Killing Operations. The End --
6. "Operation Reinhard": Gas Chambers in Eastern Poland. The Personnel of "Operation Reinhard" The Construction of the Belzec Extermination Center. The Construction of the Sobibor Extermination Center. The Construction of the Treblinka Extermination Center. The Deportations. Belzec --
17 March to June 1942. Sobibor --
May to July 1942. Treblinka --
23 July to 28 August 1942. The Construction of Larger Gas Chambers. In Belzec. The Gerstein Report. In Treblinka. In Sobibor. The Attempt to Remove the Traces. The Liquidation of the Camps --
7. Auschwitz. Testimony of Members of the SS. Testimony of Former Prisoners. The First Gassings. The Birkenau "Bunkers" The Selection Process. The Perfected Gas Chambers at Birkenau. The Civilian Suppliers Knew. More of the Usual Code Words. The Organizers Explain. The Prisoners Confirm. The Difficulties Arising from Too Many Corpses. The Last Months --
8. Gassings in Other Concentration Camps. Maidanek. Mauthausen. Sachsenhausen. The Women's Camp at Ravensbruck. Stutthof. Neuengamme. Natzweiler-Struthof. Building X at Dachau: A Special Case --
9. The Two Poison Gases --
10. How It Was Possible --
App. 1. Comparative List of SS and Military Ranks --
App. 2. Letter to Rauff from the SS Reich Security Main Office --
App. 3. Map of the Sobibor Extermination Center --
App. 4. Map of the Treblinka Extermination Center --
App. 5. Plan of Crematorium II at Auschwitz --
App. 6. Plan of Bunker 2 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Drawn by Szlama Dragon --
App. 7. Facsimile of a Contractor's Daily Report from Auschwitz --
App. 8. Map Showing "Euthanasia" Facilities, Concentration Camps, and Extermination Centers --
App. 9. Map of Gas-Van Operations.
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|Nationalsozialistische Massentötungen durch Giftgas.
|edited by Eugen Kogon, Hermann Langbein, and Adalbert Rückerl ; editor's notes and foreword to the English-language edition by Pierre Serge Choumoff ; translated by Mary Scott and Caroline Lloyd-Morris.
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PEBBLE BEACH - Major change could be in the cards for the NHL today and while most agree a radical move is best for the league there's no guarantee members will be able to set aside individual agendas for the good of the whole.
The league's board of governors is meeting today and tomorrow with realignment the No. 1 topic on the agenda.
The Winnipeg Jets, currently playing in the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference must be moved to a more palatable geographic home. The switch could be as simple as the Jets heading to the Western Conference's Central Division with either the Detroit Red Wings or Columbus Blue Jackets heading to the Eastern Conference.
What is viewed by many as the best solution for the league, however, is a move to four new geographic conferences with a new playoff format and a schedule matrix that includes a home-and-home series that would see each all teams play each other at least twice a season.
This option would see the league divided into four new conferences, two with eight teams and two with seven teams.
The conferences would be geographically constructed and the Jets would join, let's call it the Central Conference, a grouping with the Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota Wild, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Nashville Predators, Blue Jackets and Wings.
This format would also include a change in the playoffs with the top four teams in each conference qualifying for the post-season and then playing off against each other until a conference champion is determined.
The four conference champs would then meet in the semifinals.
Teams in the East are reluctant to accept such a proposition as it would increase their travel and alter prime broadcast schedules.
"I think everybody should accept a little bit of a burden to do what's right for the league instead of just saying, 'Well, this benefits us as an Eastern team because we don't want to travel,'" San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson told Yahoo Sports this week. "To me, sometimes what has to be done for everybody needs to be presented, and I think that's what Gary (Bettman) is trying to look at.
"Put aside your personal interests for a second. What's truly the right thing to do?"
Any vote for realignment would need two thirds, or 20 votes, to carry. The meetings are scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. today and conclude on Tuesday.
Here's a look at what the new conferences could potentially look like:
Conference A
Tampa Bay
Conference B
New Jersey
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Conference C
Los Angeles
San Jose
Conference D
St. Louis
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Opposing view: A moral obligation to intervene
As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi clings to power, vowing to fight "to the last man and the last woman," opposition forces in the eastern part of Libya no longer under government control are pleading for international assistance as the death toll mounts.
Unfortunately, as chaos in Libya has grown, the response of the Obama administration has been to equivocate and waver. It was not until Monday, two weeks after the uprising began, that the Pentagon announced it was sending two naval vessels to the region.
President Obama said on Thursday that his administration was reviewing the option of a no-fly zone, but key officials have sent mixed messages, citing resource limitations and even questioning whether such action was necessary. That is despite numerous reports by those fleeing the violence and journalists on the ground that the regime continues to bomb rebel-held positions from the air.
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A no-fly zone enforced by the U.S. and key allies does not require the approval of the United Nations Security Council. The no-fly zones over Saddam Hussein's Iraq and NATO's 1999 war with Serbia over Kosovo did not have the council's explicit blessing.
It is in our interest to see the Libyan people free themselves from Gadhafi's brutal reign. We should thus explore all possible options to do so, including arming the opposition so they are not slaughtered by regime forces.
Gadhafi's days are over. It is just a matter of time until he is forced from power. The question is whether we will stand on the sidelines and continue to watch thousands be killed in protracted fighting or whether we will ensure that his departure is hastened and casualties minimized.
Intervening is a moral obligation for the United States — a moral obligation we've all too often ignored in similar cases in the past, with disastrous consequences. This time we need to get it right. It's time for President Obama to lead.
Jamie M. Fly is executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He served during the George W. Bush administration at the National Security Council and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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Every month I read back over the links and things shared and discussed on the Pagan Families facebook and twitter pages, and write up the juiciest, most useful, most enduringly interesting links here in case you missed something. In April there were new babies, new facebook pages, and plenty of articles to read.We congratulated Niki from A Witch's Ashram who moved into her new house and immediately welcomed her baby girl to the world!Throughout April we observed Cesarean Awareness … [Read more...]
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What Makes a Family – Branches and Roots
This month, Pagan Families is hosting a discussion on "what makes a family?", exploring the many different approaches to parenting and family in our community. I have always loved the metaphor of the family tree. I was raised with a strong sense of family; not just our own immediate circle, but great-aunts and uncles and cousins twice removed, playing with children whose last names branched out from ours three or four generations ago. When I was in elementary school, a great aunt and uncle of … [Read more...]
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First some blog business, then the link round-up:Since I haven't been able to track down the original winner of the free seat in Wild Mother Arts' new Natural Mama Circle, I narrowed the pool down to those people who followed the instructions and actually left an email address, generated a random number, and the new winner is: Sarah Hodgkins! I hope you enjoy the Circle, Sarah (check your email for details). In December we welcomed A Witch's Ashram to Patheos Pagan! We continue to sen … [Read more...]
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This is an entirely unsystematic, unscientific, personally biased list of my top 10 favorite Pagan Families posts from 2013. It's obviously not all the good posts, or even all the great posts. It's not necessarily the most read or shared or commented on posts either. But I tried to include posts from all our regular (and irregular) contributors, and to represent the range of topics we now cover. From pregnancy to postpartum, from sex education to adoption, from spiritual practice with toddlers … [Read more...]
When Pagans Adopt: Open your soul, heart, and mind
I interviewed Tara "Masery" Miller in June about her experience initiating the adoption process. She writes the Staff of Asclepius blog here at Patheos and we previously published her beautiful essay about facing infertility. This week I checked in on her progress, and she generously answered five new questions:1. You're further along in your adoption process now. Can you briefly describe what that means?That means we are about half way done with our fostering and adoption classes. W … [Read more...]
Blessing the Wait to Become an Adoptive Parent
By Cindy McPherson. This post is reprinted with permission from her blog Pearls.Last week was the week before my 44th birthday. I had hoped to become a mom this year. A year ago James and I signed on with the Independent Adoption Center, and it's nine months since we leaped through the hoops required for us to go into circulation and begin waiting to bring a baby into our family through open adoption. Last week also a baby was born to a Berkeley couple that contacted us in November when they … [Read more...]
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By Cindy McPhersonA good friend of mine terminated a problematic pregnancy, and she wrote about it online in a courageous and beautiful way. Now she is taking a priestess program, which I have been part of for many years, and after seeing one of her mentors recently, she told me, "I'm planning a ritual for the child I lost.""I want to hear about it!" I said, "And remind me, when we meet, to tell you about the ritual I did to bury my unborn (and un-conceived) babies."My journey with in … [Read more...]
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On July 1, 1993, the RIVERBOAT GAMBLING ACT (Act), enacted by Public Law 277-1993 and codified at Indiana Code 4-33, et. seq., became effective, legalizing casino gaming on riverboats. In general, the Act established the Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC) and vested it with the authority both to issue not more than 11 riverboat licenses in specified areas of the State of Indiana and to regulate the operation of the riverboats along with related businesses, occupations and schools. The Act authorized the Governor to appoint the bipartisan seven-member commission and directed that the initial commission be appointed by September 1, 1993. The first meeting of the IGC was held September 7, 1993. While the Act requires the IGC to hold at least one meeting each quarter of the fiscal year, the IGC has greatly exceeded that statutory minimum in each year of its existence. This past year was no exception, as the IGC maintained an aggressive meeting schedule to regulate the operating riverboat casino industry, open two more riverboat casinos and continue hearings and deliberation on the final license for the Ohio River.
This, the fifth Annual Report, chronicles a year during which the IGC became more of a regulatory body than a licensing body. In 1997, an IGC meeting was more likely to have an agenda containing occupational licensee issues, disciplinary actions and the enactment of rules than it was to have a public hearing for the issuance of a certificate of suitability. That is not to say, however, that the IGC did not perform both functions.
Among the changes the IGC underwent this past year, the most notable one is the change in leadership brought on by the retirement of Chairman Alan I. Klineman. Chairman Klineman was the first Chair of the IGC and had held that position since the IGC was named in September of 1993. Donald R. Vowels, one of the original Commissioners, has succeeded Klineman as Chair and Richard J. Darko, an Attorney in Indianapolis and former Commissioner with the Indiana Horse Racing Commission has become the seventh Commission member. In addition, an overview of the IGC's year shows the following:
The reports will continue annually for each riverboat gambling operation and are available at the State Archives for public viewing and copying.
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Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-3408
The telephone numbers remain the same, specifically: the main office number remains (317) 233-0046 and the fax number remains (317) 233-0047.
The Indiana Gaming Commission is proud of its very significant accomplishments, not the least of which is the extremely capable and efficient way that the statutory goals have been achieved while maintaining the high degree of integrity this regulatory process and the State of Indiana demand.


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A Canadian archaeological team started its work at the Saunders Goose Pond settlement. The site was found last summer on Waskaganish territory in northern Quebec and it could could date back 7,000 years.
When archaeological crews were digging near the Smokey Hill rapids last summer, they expected to find relics and pottery dating back about 150 years, so it came as a surprise when one discovery was linked to pre-European times.
"It was very obviously quite different and quite old," says James Chism, the curator of archaeology at the institute. "It's pretty exciting, because we don't have a lot of sites in Quebec that are that old, if it's as much as 7,000 years. It's a time period that we know almost nothing about," Chism added.
Chism said the area where the relics were found was likely once a peninsula or island, even though the site is now about 63 metres above sea level. It's possible the territory was a campsite, but archaeologists won't know for sure until the team gets a better look at the settlement. Chism hopes they will be able to narrow down the timeline this summer through geological surveys and tests on any organic materials they might find, such as charcoal or bone.
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Chapter 25. The land itself is held for Jehovah, as being His; it must enjoy God's rest; and moreover he who had lost his inheritance therein should find it again, according to the counsels of God, at the appointed time. The trumpet of the jubilee would sound and God would re-establish each one in his possession, according to His (God's) rights, for the land was His. Their persons also were to be free then, for the children of Israel were God's servants. It was not so with those not belonging to God's people. And although Israel have sold themselves to the stranger, He who made Himself nigh of kin has redeemed them from his hands. The day of jubilee will free the people, whatever may be the power of those who hold them captives.Synopsis by John Darby


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Opened seven years ago by Dee Hencken, Ooh La La Home Furnishings was her answer to a common design problem: finding just the right accessory or piece of furniture to complete a room without driving all over town. Her design acumen has earned her a client base across St. Louis, with people coming to her for both interior services and the wonderful potpourri of items in her store.
"I've been an interior designer for about 22 years," Hencken says. "When I first started, I worked out of my office and traipsed around looking for accessories. I opened Express Blinds about 16 years ago when I became really interested in custom window treatments, and now that's part of Ooh La La." She admits the store came about because of her love for shopping. "There were so many great accessories out there that I wanted to be able to display," she says. "You can only fit so much in your house!"
Her 'retail therapy' led to a shop full of Old World-style lamps, mirrors, tables, accent pieces, clocks, wall decor…the list goes on, and it's all there at her fingertips for daily consultations and design projects. "Customers come to us in a variety of ways," Hencken says. "Some are referrals, some just love the store after walking around, and others bring in pictures asking for help."
Whether it's an entire lower level or just shelves in a library, Hencken and her design partner for the last seven years, Elaine Tesson, will take on any project, and get it done on time, she promises. "We're really good at meeting deadlines," she says. "If someone needs something finished in time for a party or company coming in town, we'll get it done. I guess you could say we're workaholics!" Depending on the scale of the project, Hencken says they often can complete a room in one day. "If we need more time, we'll take it," she says. "And if we're working on multiple areas in the house, we always like to work room by room. That way, the client will have one space that's completely done without having disarray everywhere."
At the initial appointment, Hencken says she and Tesson take lots of pictures of the space and the entire house so they have a feel for what needs to be done and what the client likes. "Sometimes people can't describe their style to us, but once we're in their home, we can figure out what they're trying to accomplish," Hencken says. The next appointment, the two arrive with a truckload of accessories and furniture from the store to start work. "We always bring more than we need, and a big variety of pieces, so we don't have to run back and forth," she explains.
Hencken says one of their goals is to make everything simple for their clients. "Many of them are working women or mothers of multiple children, and they don't have time to run around shopping," she says. "This way, we bring in what we think will work and they can decide what they want to keep after we're through." Hencken notes that clients can also set aside pieces of their own that they want to make sure are included in the finished room. "We'll use anything they absolutely want us to, which is often a family piece or something really valuable. If we think it would work better in another spot, we'll make that suggestion."
Along with home consultations and services, customers are encouraged to bring in pictures to the store and ask for suggestions. "We have a designer who is always there to help with these issues," Hencken says. "Whether customers are trying to find multiple pieces for a room or something for the mantel, she'll find things for them to take home and try. We have a 48-hour policy that allows them to bring back items that didn't work. We can extend that if needed, too. We don't want them to be stuck with something they don't like!"
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So true is it that statesmen have no concern with pater nosters, the Sermon on the Mount, or the vade mecum of the moralist.
They are the vade mecum of modern life in all its moods and variations.
It is my vade mecum, and I carry it and the Sedan new testament still about with me.
The pharmacopœia was neglected, the vade mecum thrust on one side.
French , in the first place as a vade mecum for a princely traveller, the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth.
"vade retro, Satanas," was heard through a high window in the hall.
But I presume your outing would justify the title of this vade Mecum?
This was intended to be a vade mecum to the writer of erotic poetry.
His essays had been my vade mecum in all my world-wide wanderings.
Surely this hand-book of cant had been Philip's 'vade mecum' through his life's pilgrimage.


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Well, they were pretty awesome cookies.
While we didn't win the chance to go to a taping of ATK, they graciously invited participants to a tour of their office. Whaaaaaaaat?
Some tidbits?
They have 2 full time grocery shoppers. TWO. In one year, they spend about $500,000 on groceries alone. Half a million.
ATK has a great collection of cookbooks, one of the biggest! Why so many? To test new recipes, test cooks must first do research and gather 5 different recipes and try each one. From there, they can make adjustments until they get it perfect.
Currently, their top selling book is the Slow Cooker Revolution. Because the making of this book requires numerous slow cookers going on at once, ATK had to build a special wall with special electricity wiring (I really don't know what I'm talking about) in order to sustain all the slow cookers. So hardcore!
There are a jabillion cookbooks... puts my library to shame. I have... four?
(And that's three just from this summer...)
The kitchen!
It was a great visit and a big thanks to Steph for taking the time to show me around!
After my exam was over, I was ready to get back into the kitchen. Taking advantage of some fresh basil -a bit from my makeshift garden and mostly from the farmer's market- my roommate and I ventured out of our comfort zone to make some fresh pesto!


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Like their biological counterparts, computer viruses are locked in an evolutionary arms race. These programs, whose crucial characteristic is that they reproduce by copying themselves onto new machines, began as a curiosity in the early 1980s.
Now, however, they – and other, similar, types of malicious software – support a multibillion-dollar industry in which those who use them to steal information and subvert computers struggle with those who devise and sell digital protection. With so much at stake, malware, as it is known, gets ever sneakier, while the programs designed to detect it must get cleverer and cleverer just to keep up.
A paper presented to a conference in Washington in August describes – for the enlightenment of the white hats in this arms race – an innovation that may make viruses still sneakier. Its authors, Vishwath Mohan and Kevin Hamlen of the University of Texas, call their program Frankenstein, after the fictional scientist who (at least, in film versions of the story) stitched together his monster out of body parts scavenged from graveyards and slaughterhouses.
The digital version of Frankenstein works by scanning innocuous programs – word processors, say, or the calculator that is part of Microsoft's Windows operating system – for small chunks of code dubbed "gadgets".
Such snippets encode handfuls of the most basic operations that computers perform: loading a number into memory, for instance, and then adding two numbers together. Harvest enough of these, and arrange them in the right order, and it is possible to knock together a piece of software that can perform any task you like.
Frankenstein starts with a "semantic blueprint": an abstract description of what the program is designed to do. It then sifts through all the gadgets on its host machine until it has put together the required list of instructions. In their paper, Mr Mohan and Dr Hamlen demonstrate the feasibility of this by having their program construct two simple algorithms – not full-blown viruses but the sorts of things that a virus author might find useful – using only gadgets harvested from Explorer, the file browser with Windows.
Besides being technically neat, this gadget-based approach has advantages for malware writers. As with natural language, it is possible to write "sentences" in computer code that, although different in composition, convey the same meaning. Since Frankenstein is designed to generate its algorithms from a different set of gadgets each time it infects a new machine, the resulting program will look different from any other version that has gone before it. Each variant of the program will, however, behave in precisely the same way.
Protean programs like this are not, in themselves, a new idea. Virus writers have used similar obfuscation techniques since the early 1990s. So-called polymorphic viruses employ encryption to scramble themselves. If a new key is used every time the program replicates, each generation of the resulting gibberish can be made to look different from its predecessor. But antivirus scanners have adapted. Modern ones look for the small chunk of code necessary to decrypt the virus, which is harder to tinker with.
Scrambled computer code also exhibits telltales that can be detected by statistical analysis. Dr Hamlen offers the analogy of a bank robber with an unlimited supply of ski masks. The robber may look different each time he holds up a bank but that hardly matters; hanging around a bank in a ski mask is always going to be suspicious.
The authors hope that Frankenstein's methods will hinder such detection strategies. Because the program is not encrypted, statistical methods will report nothing amiss. And the fact its progeny are composed of bits and pieces from legitimate programs will help fool scanners that rely on heuristics – rules of thumb designed to spot dodgy behaviour.
One potential weakness might be the semantic blueprint, which has to remain unchanged between generations. But, says Dr Hamlen, as the blueprint is not itself computer code – merely a description of what the generated code needs to do – it can be safely hidden from defensive programs with traditional encryption.
Who might be interested in such a thing? Malware writers and antivirus firms are two obvious audiences. But Wei Ming Khoo, a security researcher at Cambridge University who is not affiliated with the paper's authors, reckons that Frankenstein's reliance on code harvested from pre-installed software may slow its ability to spread between computers. That would lessen its appeal for criminals.
Mr Khoo does, on the other hand, think the new approach will be good for precisely aimed, short-lived attacks. In this context it is, perhaps, no surprise that the work was paid for in part by the US Air Force and that the authors note delicately that their program may come in useful for "active defence" – or, as one of Britain's rugby coaches once put it, "getting your retaliations in first". The world of cyber-warfare, always a murky place, may thus be about to get murkier still.
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A police crackdown on Stockport's organised crime gangs has seen 157 suspects arrested.
Since April 1, Operation Worn has also seen seizures of £340,000 class A and class B drugs, 17 cars thought to have been used in crime and £176,000 cash.
Of those arrested – largely on suspicion of money laundering or drugs supply – 42 have been convicted, charged or cautioned. Many of the others remain on bail pending forensic examination of financial records.
The operation has involved nine officers and remains ongoing.
Chief Superintendent Rebekah Sutcliffe said: "We are winning the battle against organised crime. That is important because in a number of our communities in Stockport we have criminals who effect the day to day lives of people who live there.
"No one likes to see people who are very wealthy when they know it has come through crime."
Previously, Operation Worn had focused on disrupting organised criminals by sending police officers to pubs and clubs where they were known to spend time.
But since April the emphasis has switched to using intelligence – both from officers and the public – to seizing drugs, cash and offenders.
Ch Supt Sutcliffe says that this shift has partly been enabled by a change in police culture.
She said: "This is the type of activity that 12 months ago we weren't doing. Nationally there is an increasing understanding that there is a need to look at the individuals causing most harm and most risk."
She added: "This is rather than focussing on the type of crime that features in Home Office figures. We decided that this is something that we would put full time resources into."


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'Wajah Tum Ho' actor Sana Khan has found love in director Vishal Pandya. According to the latest buzz, Sana and Vishal are dating for several months. The affair starts on the set of 'Wajah Tum Ho' in which Sana Khan was the lead actor. According to a report, Sana and Vishal are so much co
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Labor's plan may benefit more mothers, but as policy it still leaves much to be desired.
In December 2002, federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward introduced proposals for a national paid maternity leave scheme with the words: "Australia has debated paid maternity leave almost to a standstill." Her observation was more literally accurate than she would have wished. Nothing came of her challenge to the Howard Government, backed up by its own family taskforce recommendations, to use its next budget to adopt universal paid maternity leave, an entitlement accepted in every other OECD country but the US. Last May, The Age voiced concern that paid maternity leave was among the work and family policies that John Howard had nominated as priorities for his Government's third term, toyed with, then shelved. Enter Labor leader Mark Latham with his knack for setting agendas from opposition. He has revived debate by proposing a new baby-care payment, which would be means-tested generously enough to apply to 90 per cent of mothers, whether in paid work or not (and, really, all mothers do valuable work). The Government's first response was pathetic: it claimed Labor had plagiarised unreleased Coalition policy. This just raises the question of why the Government waited so long to act that it could be gazumped by Labor.
Most Australians are more concerned with a policy's implications than its inspirations, and Ms Goward has made a pertinent point that Labor's plan "falls short of paid maternity leave . . . Let's hope this proposal is the beginning of a policy bidding war, not the high point." Labor deputy leader Jenny Macklin promised paid maternity leave only last December, but that is not what Mr Latham has announced - for a start, setting up a payment scheme does not establish every mother's right to 14 weeks' leave. The plan is also phased in over two terms of government. The payments would start at $3000 from July 2005 and increase over five years, so that only from 2010 would the scheme match 14 weeks' minimum wage. It does have the merits of simplicity and broad eligibility, but at a cost: $2.2 billion over four years (more than twice the cost of the Goward plan). Treasurer Peter Costello has challenged Labor's costings on the basis that it overestimated savings, although when he eventually released documents to back his claim these also confirmed the poor take-up of the Government's inadequate and unfair baby bonus.
Yet regardless of the poverty of policy on both sides, Mr Latham has achieved something by retrieving issues of work and family, Mr Howard's "barbecue stoppers", from the back burner. Ms Goward emphasised the need to "get the principle accepted" and Australia is again creeping towards that point. If the parties hurry, one of them may even manage to implement a scheme that lives up to the International Labor Organisation's principles of maternity leave within a century of these first being enunciated in 1919. As Ms Goward lamented at the end of 2002, this should not have been so hard.
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Women's Golf Returns to Action at UCF Challenge
Feb. 8, 2014
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky women's golf team finally returns to the golf course in tournament play with the UCF Challenge in Orlando, Fla., beginning Sunday, Feb. 9 and finishing Tuesday, Feb. 11 at the Eagle Creek Golf Club. The UCF Challenge marks the first of four spring tournaments before the SEC Championship and NCAA Tournament.
The Wildcats will look to pick up where they left off after a successful fall season that saw Kentucky win its season-opening tournament at the "MO"Morial Invitational to go with another top five finish at the Schooner Fall Classic. Senior Liz Breed leads the team with a 72.08 scoring average after four fall tournaments that included a second-place finish at the Schooner Fall Classic. Breed fired a personal-best 64 during the final round of play, for one of her three top 15 finishes in fall competition.
Freshman Haley Mills recorded her first collegiate individual championship in her first collegiate tournament, the "MO"Morial Invitational. She ranks second on the team with a scoring average of 74.25 after the fall slate.
UK will use the lineup of Breed, Mills, sophomore Sarah Harris, sophomore Cylia Damerau and freshmen Alessandra Walker and Megan Kinney.
"I can't believe the first spring event is here," said Kentucky head coach Golda Johansson Borst. "This winter break flew by and we are all definitely ready to get down to Florida to compete. We have worked hard over the offseason and now that we have our new golf building we have been able to practice at a different level this early in the spring. We have been to this event for a few years now, but UCF has changed venues this year so we are excited to see a new course and to play some tournament golf."
This marks the third time Kentucky will participate in the UCF Challenge. The Wildcats finished eighth in 2012 and fourth in 2011. Former Wildcat Ashleigh Albrecht tied for first place in the 2011 event with a final score of eight-under par.
Eighteen holes will be played Sunday through Tuesday, with fixed tee times on hole No. 1 and No. 10 starting at 8:30 a.m. ET on Sunday and Monday. The final round of 18 holes on Tuesday will begin at 8:45 a.m. with a shotgun start. The Eagle Creek Golf Club will feature a par-72 (35-37), 6,349-yard setup.
Joining the 21st-ranked Wildcats are 18 teams that consist of No. 22 Iowa State, Augusta State, Campbell, ECU, ETSU, Florida International, Georgia State, Kennesaw State, Miami, Minnesota, New Mexico, SMU, South Florida, Texas State, Tulane, UCF, Western Carolina and Wisconsin.
Following the UCF Challenge, UK will compete in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C., from March 7-9. For more information on the University of Kentucky women's golf team please visit UKathletics.com and follow on Twitter @UKWomensGolf.
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Par: 72 (35-37)
Yardage: 6,349 (3,060-3,289)
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UPDATE: Lots of insiders have been telling me all week that Eric Mika is out as publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. Or is that just wishful thinking? (Remember, this guy was once described to me as "a prick with all the people skills of a feral pig".) The word is he'll be replaced by THR's fellow Variety emigre Rose Einstein, and Mica may get shifted by Nielsen to some job in England. Mika's office would not confirm or deny. By my count, this would be the 5th THR publisher since 2006. Anyway, whoever's in the job will most likely preside over an online-only trade before too long.
Mika Out, Einstein In, As THR Publisher?
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What is wrong with online-only crap like "Deadline Hollywood"
I hope Rose gets the nod, she is one of the warmest, nicest people in the business, not to mention that she's earned the position and replacing Mika with her will be a night-and-day difference for everyone at THR.
Who misses Bob Dowling now?
This is great news. Since Dowling's departure, it has been a ridiculous mess.
Einstein isn't much better than Mika. Believe me. They need a whole new crew at that place. Let the layoffs start hitting the top people!
It would seem only fitting that Mika get the ax himself just before the holidays. It's karma for the massive layoffs that he's overseen during his tenure, including 17 more early this month.
THR needs the old THR crew back.
Rose is kind, warm, genuine, experienced and capable; THR, and Hollywood in general, could do ALOT worse in a leader.
Good riddance. Karma is a bitch, but he's a douche.
The trade crumbled after Bob Dowling and his crew left. He was the primo in the business. Why would any conglomerate go out and purposely destroy a brand that was on top? Not to mention the employees who were respected and talented. I think most of them are now at VARIETY. Very sad. This town needs two trades. Why do these type of men and women, who are so inept, get big jobs? Just don't understand.
I've had the pleasure of working for Rose Einstein before. Can she be tough… absolutely! Is she a person of integrity who just wants to get the job done… you bet!
It's unbelievable that Rose Einstein would get promoted to the top spot. She is old news and totally incapable of leading the publication- print and definitely online. Gerry Byrne, what on earth are you doing?? Take notice, look around, your top execs don't have a clue!!! Get rid of them both, and you might salvage the THR name.
Your kidding….right?
These two are perfect for each other, and they both should be thrown out together. Mica is a pompous, egomaniac who only got to where he did by keeping his lips firmly planted on the right derriere.
Einstein, although certainly smarter, nicer, and more respected does not have a clue of how to manage this business in the 21st century. She's a terrific soldier, but not capable of being a leader within this changing business model.
Speaking of a leader, or lack of one as the case may be, everything flows from the very top. Gerry Byrne needs to be sent packing for his dismal failure to guide THR in even a barely competent manner. What in the world are the people at Nielsen thinking, can they really be this ignorant.
I love that fact amongst the pablum being posted is no accountability for what Finke wrote… but everyone is willing to comment and vent. Don't forget Rose had a stellar career at Variety and running the Home Entertainment Group at Reed. She's a highly regarded executive – and a damn good one – and her leaving Variety ultimately got Koones fired. So there is a form of justice! THR has weathered the publishing storm better than many other publications anywhere. Those of you that are unhappy deserved to work elsewhere. Let Rose and Eric do their thing.
Give us a break, Stephen. THR is a sad shell of a sad shell. The owners took away its lips so it can't even kiss ass anymore. The web owns breaking news. THR doesn't have the pages, the intellect or the guts to do features with any measure of depth. So it just runs half-assed versions of the half-assed horse race pieces everyone else does.
ProudPub, I agree with you about Rose, she's very capable and had a long tenure at Reed, especially with the Home Ent Group, but that was also when the DVD market was exploding, so she kinda rode the wave. But I also agree with GTNworse, Rose is an excellent soldier, but probably not an inspiring leader. (Bob Dowling was excellent and a tough act to follow for anyone….)
Now about Mika and Gerry Byrne, it's absolutely AMAZING that those two have been able to keep their jobs while THR has spiraled down the drain. It's a shell of it's former self and very sad to watch the leadership do very little to fix things. (Especially Mika, he's SUCH A PUTZ!!) And now Mika blew the budgets visting his GF in Asia and they had to get rid of SENIOR editors with years of experience to balance the books! SHAME ON THEM!! Karma is a bitch, boys!
Just in – Craig Hitchcock just announced he is leaving THR to return to DV – what is wrong with that picture?
Hey Outed…you got it half right….Hitchcock is leaving, but going to the Paley Center (formerly Musuem of Television and Radio) as VP/Exec Director as reported in TV Week today. Now that's a bizarre choice, Craig bullshitted them good!! (BTW, DV would never let him come back, way too much bad blood…)
Hey Outed – Just In – Get your facts straight. Craig Hitchcock will not be going to DV.
Get it right folks… Hitchcock is not going to DV
I got it right at 1:30 PM, thanks!!
The beginning of the end for THR was when Bob Dowling was shown the door. He came to town with a vision and worked as hard as a person could work to make the paper competitive. In these tough times it would've more prudent than ever to have someone like Dowling manning the ship. THR has been on a downswing since 2006 and during that time it has let go of many quality people. It should surprise no one to see the predicament it's in now.
It appears that this is indeed the end for this management group of clowns and ego maniacs. I worked and lived through this regime and can't believe Nielsen so highly invested in Mika, Einstein and Byrne. Its obvious they didn't talk to the powers that be in Hollywood and/or Cahners? Mika hasn't fooled anyone with his expensive suits and monogram shirts. His pompus manner and arrogance is his curse. So under qualified for this seat; what a sham! Then that three-ring circus of a "re-design" was simply a calamity and a financial disaster for Nielsen! Can they ever recover? This over-paid management "team" who is still living in the 90's is an offense to the talent and trench workers at THR. They are the ones that live in the 21st century and have tried to keep that pub alive with their talent, relationships, skills and hard work. Unfortunately, they are the casualties and the first to the life rafts are Mika, Einstein and Byrne, not a surprise!
Nielsen is up to their eyeballs paying for Mika's excessive trips to Asia, what could be there that he's often on a plane crossing the Pacific? Ski trips to Sundance where no body knows him and vice versa and trips to Europe, the South of France and six star hotels in Dubai. Hmmm, wonder if these expensive first class trips have garnered stellar relations and financial gain for the organization? And, then there's Rose, who has the management skills of a sales manager at GM. She can't inspire a fly and manages with a fear factor mentality. It's any wonder that all the sales talent flew the coup from both DV and THR. She's far better suited and skilled to run a cell-block at the LA County Jail.
And, Mr. Byrne, the good old days of Bob Evans, Ali McGraw and Peter Guber are long gone Gerry, it's time that you register this fact!
The industry is evolving and changing everyday and these three can't seem to accept this notion. It's a new day and the only way THR will survive this tsunami is to immediately cut the dead weight at the top and bring in a revered maverick with a successful record of industry relationships, experience, intelligence and is connected and understands today's industry, the players and decision makers, as well as our current economy, the consumer and new media market. Importantly, they need a respected leader who regards and values editorial and sales execs that are the bread and butter of a trade publication second to it's advertisers!
Lastly, per the comments by ProudPub, this numb-nut doesn't have the facts. Charlie didn't get fired because Rose left! Rose was given her DV pink slip because she was living and working in another decade and clearly didn't get along with the numerous sales staff's then or the staff at the Video Pubs and before that, the DV sales staff she managed in the 90's. Charlie rescued her many times, she did well by him! Let's hope that this current management team will throw you a life raft in this imminent spiral since you'd throw yourself under a bus for them!
Hey, "Been There, Lived It" what Kool-aid are you drinking? Koones was fired not for rescuing Rose so many times as you say, but because he makes Mika look humble. He won the battle but lost the war! It was a power play that back-fired on him. Clearly you are too far down in the food chain to understand that the TOP management at Reed and Nielsen tie these executives hands with revenue demands and lame policies that are absurd. I'm still working and don't have patience or sympathy for those of you who think you can do it better or know more. Bring in a better plan…
Nope, not drinking anyone's Kool-aid "Let the Truth Be Known," just stating facts that I and many others know far too well. Charlie was a smart, intelligent and strategic exec that kept DV in the black for many years under his watch, however, there was only room for one Captain Quigg on the DV ship and Mr. Smith, made sure it was him that would be first to the oxygen machine – not Koones! I'm sure Koones has long moved-on to a bigger and higher mountain to climb.
Mika humble…don't think so. Humble doesn't exist in Mika's DNA. Insecurity on the highest level mixed in with arrogance, no leadership skills and ZERO ability to connect and build relationships – yes, these are the skills of Euro-trash Mika. Eric has been Byrne's boy for years, and it was Byrne who garnered his son the "Publisher" seat. Come on, we all know this! Question is, who's kool-aid are you drinking?
If you're still working at THR, then your hired leaders should have figured out "a better plan" to make this once renowned and very viable trade more than survive. Poor poor executives who have their hands tied with revenue demands and lame policies. What will they do with their handsome six figure contracts when this ship finally sinks? Patience is what we've all had these past two years, particularly being a paid subscriber that pays for these big fat golden packages "Let the Truth Be Known!" "Bring in a better plan…well, this industry is still waiting… Isn't this what Nielsen employed Mika, Byrne and Einstein to accomplish and achieve?
Boy, the days of Dowling and Segal are surely valued and missed!


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Subject: 1901 census update
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:11:08 +0000
Hi board
I have found this information on www.pro.gov.uk
1901 census
The site remains unable to meet continuing levels of demand. The PRO has
agreed with Qinetiq's technical team to close Internet access to the site
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There is a list of places which have copies ot 1901 census (for that
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Oconee's 2012 campaign winds down
Competing with the World Series and a televised Clemson game made for a small audience at last night's League of Women Voters' forum in Seneca. However, Oconee political observers are telling 96.3/WGOG NEWS that attendance at this fall's forums has dropped, and they've failed to duplicate the drama that last spring's forums featured when James Bartee waged his campaign for sheriff. Nevertheless, those who sat inside the Gignilliat Center last night took advantage of an opportunity to size up the six men who are waging bids for two seats on the Oconee County Council. Through out the day, we'll have excerpts of some lively interchanges from the candidates for council seats 4 and 5.


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Bahrain Opposition Can't Have it Both Ways
After a brief visit to Bahrain earlier this month, it is clear the situation in Bahrain is reaching a head. February 14 marked the year anniversary of demonstrations at the Pearl Monument. Clashes and arrests continue. The Bahraini government has not been as proactive with reform as perhaps it might. Grievances in Bahrain—where the majority population is Shi'ite whereas the royal family and security forces are overwhelmingly Sunni—are real, and stability, security, and economic growth ultimately require they be addressed.
Bahrain might be the smallest Arab state, but it has disproportionate importance for American national security. It hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, a vital tool in securing the Persian Gulf to international shipping and also, potentially, in containing Iran. While American officials generally recognize Bahraini grievances and pressure the king and prime minister to become more proactive with reform, the future of the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain will ultimately shape American decision-making.
The Bahraini opposition has generally argued—in English and to Western journalists and officials—that they are far more likely to acquiesce to the Fifth Fleet's continued presence if the Americans side more completely with their demands for reform.
The problem is that some Bahraini activists have fallen into a trap of saying one thing in English, and yet another in Persian. Here, for example, is a statement reported in the Persian press in early September from a Bahraini activist that speaks of compromise in English:
Bahrain is America's front line… The Americans will not easily allow removal of their stooges in the region unless the conditions dictate otherwise. Where can they find a ruler who is ready to give his oil to them for free? Or allow them to establish military bases? Allow them to do what they please in his country? To defend the Zionists and give them the domestic market and its chambers of commerce? This is what the Khalifa Dynasty has done for the Americans and it is documented.
Now, it is quite possible the person in question was misquoted by the Iranian press. And it is also true that the Bahraini opposition does not speak with a single voice. The words of a single activist do not obviate the need for reform. Still, the discrepancy between the opposition remarks in Persian and in English is glaring. Until the opposition describes its positions consistently in Persian, Arabic and English, distrust is going to hamper reform. It comes down to a choice: Bahraini opposition figures either need to tell the Americans what they do not want to hear in the American press, or tell the Iranians what they do not want to hear in the Iranian press. But it will not be possible to have it both ways.
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Playing Transgender Politics
Posturing, not policy.
On Wednesday morning, at 8:55 a.m., President Trump tweeted: "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…" Many in the Pentagon wondered if he was announcing military action against North Korea, which, according to new intelligence estimates, is set to field a nuclear-tipped ICBM as early as next year. Not until nine minutes later was the suspense lifted with another presidential tweet: "…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."
Alarm in defense circles soon turned to befuddlement: Why was Trump making this announcement? And why now? There was no immediate indication that the president had consulted with Defense Secretary James Mattis, who is on vacation, or notified other senior military leaders. The Pentagon referred all inquiries to the White House. When pressed for details, the White House had none. "That's something the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work out," a spokesman told reporters.
So the president is tweeting first and then leaving it to someone else to work out the actual policy he just announced.
This is all the odder because Mattis had committed to a comprehensive, six-month study, not due to be finished until December, of whether the military should accept new transgender recruits. Several GOP congress members, meanwhile, had introduced legislation to prevent the military's health insurance plan from paying for gender reassignment surgery (which costs ten times less than what the military spends annually on erectile dysfunction medications—$84 million). What Trump announced is far broader—a ban not only on new transgendered recruits or on future gender reassignment surgeries but also a ban on existing transgendered personnel.
The only comprehensive study on transgendered service personnel, conducted by Rand last year, found that roughly 2,450 are currently serving and that they have a "minimal impact on readiness and health care costs." "The limited research on the effects of foreign military policies indicates little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness," Rand reported. "Commanders noted that the policies had benefits for all service members by creating a more inclusive and diverse force."
The leadership of the Defense Department is certainly not agitating to boot out transgendered personnel who serve honorably and bravely. In fact, they'd rather not deal with this issue at all. Sen. John McCain, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke for many, especially younger military personnel, when he said, "Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving. There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military—regardless of their gender identity."
So why would President Trump, out of the blue, issue a momentous policy pronouncement for which there is no pressing need and no preparation? It is hard to explain this other than to suggest that it is Trump's way of distracting attention from the multiple crises besetting his presidency—from his bizarre feud with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to his inability, so far, to pass health-care legislation through a Republican-controlled Congress. Trump's attacks on Sessions, a favorite of his nationalist-conservative base, have been especially costly, leading even longtime allies such as Newt Gingrich to criticize him.
The transgender ban is a symbolic way to try to stay in the good graces of the religious right and to simply change the subject. Indeed, Zeke Miller of Time tweeted: "White House official tells me admin[istration] is thrilled media is focusing on transgender service member issue."
This may be good politics, but it's bad policy. If Trump really cares about enhancing military effectiveness, rather than simply grandstanding for his populist rooting section, he would focus on repealing the sequestration act that, as Sen. Tom Cotton noted, makes defense budgeting arbitrary and unpredictable. Trump also needs to work with Congress to simply increase the defense budget to make up for years of neglect. But that would require the kind of heavy legislative-lifting in which the president has shown no interest.
A Secularist vs. the Progressive Faith
A double standard is, in fact, a standard. Just an immoral one.
Really it should come as no surprise that the scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins is the latest public figure to have fallen victim to a disinviting mania. After all, if a darling of the left feminist like Germaine Greer can face a campaign to silence her over her views on transgenderism or a woman of color like Ayaan Hirsi Ali can face similar attempts to have her free speech on campus canceled, why should Dawkins be spared?
The English geneticist was slated to give a talk in Berkeley, California in August on his new book Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist. Over the weekend, however, the organizers (the local community radio station KPFA) announced that they are canceling the event because, apparently, it had been discovered that Dawkins is, in fact, an Islamophobe. They explained that, while their station "emphatically supports serious free speech," that nevertheless KPFA "does not endorse hurtful speech."
Disappointingly, the statement from KPFA Radio doesn't elaborate on what constitutes serious free speech. Nor does it define where the bounds of hurtful speech lie. Of course, it should go without saying that those who wish to do away with all speech that might ever be deemed hurtful to someone don't actually take the value of free speech that seriously at all.
For what little good it will do him, Dawkins has hit back by insisting that his criticism of the "appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam" has been made in defense of the rights of Muslims. As he put it in an open letter to the radio: "far from attacking Muslims, I understand–as perhaps you do not–that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women."
Given Richard Dawkins's pretty damning view on religious belief in general, you would have thought the event organizers might have anticipated that this arch-secularist wouldn't have anything very complimentary to say about Islam either. Yet there is something rather troubling in KFPA's statement on their discovery of Dawkins's "hurtful speech." As the radio station explained: "We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt–in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people."
This leaves a question. If Dawkins's incriminating tweets on Islam eventually came to the organizer's attention, what about all of his other pronouncements on religion? As in, the many writings and speeches that deal with insulting all the other religions. Are KPFA Radio still yet to stumble upon Dawkins's international best-selling The God Delusion? Imagine their sense of horror when they learn of all those hurt Jewish and Christian feelings. After all, Dawkins has had some pretty fiery things to say on the "God of the Old Testament".
Unless, of course, the organizers already knew all about Dawkins's past comments on the other religions, but it only became a problem for them when they found out that Dawkins had been saying similar things about Islam. Had Dawkins been silent on Islam and only derided Christianity and Judaism, would he then have still been welcome at the Berkeley event? It rather sounds like it.
Presumably, few would claim that because of his views on the Hebrew Bible, Richard Dawkins is an anti-Semite? Yet these days it seems that it is rather easier for militant secularists to fall foul of the Islamophobia charge. Dawkins has himself spoken out against the Islamic practice of serving apostates with the death penalty. Would calling such things barbaric cross the line into Islamophobia?
And what of atheists more generally, who presumably believe that without exception, all the prophets of the world's great religions were either wildly self-deluded, or otherwise shamelessly and knowingly fabricated their various holy texts? Would making such a claim about the founder of Islam be classed as insulting the prophet? Judging by previous cases, making such a claim would steer one dangerously close to the borders of Islamophobia, or worse.
Canceling an event with an internationally renowned atheist on the grounds that he has offended the feelings of religious people is, of course, absurd.
That KPFA Radio in Berkeley feel they would like to impose something akin to blasphemy laws now is no less bizarre. Acting in defense of the hurt feelings of one religion is a far more concerning development.
Hopefully, whoever's job it is at Berkeley to safeguard equal opportunities for religious and ethnic groups will be taking this matter in hand.
Unmasking Is Not a Distraction
Democrats will regret treating this as a partisan issue.
Whenever a former Obama administration official's name comes up in the process of investigating the Trump campaign's alleged links to Russian sources, Democrats take the position that the right's penchant for "whataboutism" neutralizes the implication of wrongdoing. The Democratic objective is to shame those who are committed to crafting a full and unbiased portrait of the events of 2016 into ignoring inconvenient facts, but the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee remains unintimidated.
This month, the committee has met with a variety of senior Obama officials behind closed doors amid its probe of the Russia affair, including former Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The committee will meet with former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday.
These interviews are apparently being conducted in the effort to get to the bottom of why incoming Trump administration officials who were inadvertently captured in intelligence intercepts of foreign targets were conspicuously "unmasked" with their names and the details of their conversations leaked to the press. Trump administration opponents call the issue a distraction, but it's a matter of grave national importance.
Those who are disinclined to look too deeply into the issue of "unmasking" have latched onto a comment from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr like flotsam in a shipwreck. "The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes," Burr said of the House Intelligence Committee chairman whose reckless conduct compelled him to recuse himself from the investigation into the Trump campaign's conduct. "I'll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened," he added. Fewer have, however, paid much attention to Burr's full quote. "Clearly," he added, "there were individuals unmasked. Some of that became public which it's not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it."
Indeed, there is a lot to explain. Only weeks into the new Trump administration, unnamed former Obama administration officials began telling reporters to expect to see details involving the surveillance of administration officials and Trump associates' communications with their Russian counterparts. The New York Times, for example, revealed how these Obama officials left a "trail" of evidence of these contacts for investigators to uncover.
A month earlier, the Washington Post disclosed that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn had privately discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in phone calls prior to the inauguration. The transcript of those intercepted communications was related to reporters, despite its highly classified nature. This revelation contradicted the transition team's repeated denials that any such conversations between Flynn and Kislyak took place and it served as just cause for Flynn's termination.
Flynn was a liability and should never have been placed in such a sensitive role. His dismissal was a relief, but the methods by which he was discredited established a dangerous precedent. If a private citizen swept up in routine intercepts of communications with foreign agents can be "unmasked" to achieve a political purpose, even if that purpose is defensible, it won't be long before that precedent is applied toward more ambiguous ends.
Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to have been the target of a politically motivated intelligence reveal. As reported by, again, the Washington Post, the attorney general apparently misled U.S. officials and members of Congress with regard to the nature of his contacts with Russian officials. According to communications intercepted by "U.S. spy agencies," Kislyak related the details of two conversations he apparently had with then-campaign advisor Sessions to his superiors in Moscow. Sessions was not personally swept up in those intercepts, but Kislyak mentioned his name and the substance of those intercepts was related to Post reporters.
The outlet stressed that it could not confirm the authenticity of the intercepts as they could in Flynn's case, but President Trump went ahead and did that for them. "A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions," the president declared on Twitter. "These illegal leaks, like [former FBI Director James] Comey's, must stop!"
This particular leak was widely viewed within the context of the ongoing public feud between the president and his attorney general, but it should not be so quickly dismissed. In cryptic testimony before Congress, Comey revealed that Sessions's recusal from the investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Russia had nothing to do with Justice Department rules. He said he knew that recusal would be forthcoming, but he could not say why in an unclassified setting. Comey's disclosure and this leak may not be unrelated.
Trump administration opponents who celebrate these unprecedented disclosures because they damage the administration are being extraordinarily parochial. This is an assault on the American social compact. The precedent being established now erodes the prohibitions on using intelligence gathering as a tool to discredit your political enemies. Democrats can bet that this practice will be deployed against them in the foreseeable future. In the process, political actors will render intelligence products suspect, weakening their utility for policymakers and, thus, making America less safe.
It is a tragedy that Democrats have not followed the lead of Senator Burr and other Republicans who are treating the issue of "unmasking" as seriously as they are the unprecedented efforts by Moscow to shape the course of American political affairs in 2016. Like the hacks of Democratic targets, this is not a partisan issue. The "unmaskers" will one day come for Democrats, and they will regret their silence in this pivotal hour.
Will Mattis Betray the Gulf Allies?
Has Mattis gone rogue?
At the core of the Qatar dispute is the question of Qatar's support for extremism. While many Gulf states have histories of donating to or promoting radical Islamism, many have made real reforms. Saudi Arabia, for example, became much more serious about the need to curtail support for radical groups after the Kingdom started suffering blowback with terrorists targeting foreigners living in Saudi Arabia and senior Saudi officials. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, meanwhile, has cracked down not only on the Muslim Brotherhood but has also moved to sever the life-line Egypt often provided Hamas leaders in Gaza. Qatar, however, continues to set itself above the rest in its support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and other moderate Arab states are rightly confused, if not frustrated, by the muddled U.S. response so far. After all, diplomats and official from these states say, both Democratic and Republican administrations in the United States have both long beseeched them to take a no-nonsense approach to extremism and to operate in a coordinated fashion against regional threats.
When they finally do, the White House flip-flops and the State Department urges compromise and negotiation. Evenhandedness is not a virtue when one side is right and the other wrong. To negotiate with regard to the acceptance of terrorist groups is, however, a very dangerous precedent. If the United States re-engaged in Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda's bases there or began operations in Syria to counter the Islamic State, Washington would greatly resent outside powers demanding that the United States compromise with either.
In the wake of the Qatar crisis, now in its second month, Turkey set up a military base in Qatar, much to the outrage of the states seeking to pressure Qatar into compliance. That base's closure remains a key demand among moderate Arab countries.
Now word comes that the U.S. military is planning to conduct military exercises in Qatar with the Qatari and Turkish militaries. Daily Sabah, a once independent paper which was seized by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government and transferred to his son-in-law, quoted Qatari Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah as saying, "Qatar, Turkey and the U.S. regularly conduct military drills in Qatar. In the near future, a joint drill will begin by the three countries."
Like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has sought to temper President Trump's impetuousness on a number of foreign policy issues. While this can often be a good thing when done behind-the-scenes and in the course of a normal policy process through the National Security Council, the Pentagon conducting its own private foreign policy creates confusion and risks antagonizing allies.
Mattis already displayed a tin ear for timing when, just days after Trump sided with the moderate Arab states and called Qatar out on its funding of extremists, the Pentagon announced a multi-billion dollar arms sale to Qatar. To conduct military exercises in Qatar with Turkey suggests Mattis is choosing sides and endorsing the positions of Qatar and Turkey. Perhaps he is motivated by the desire to maintain access to the al-Udeid Air Base. If this is the case, though, he confuses the Pentagon's preference for the status quo with broader U.S. interests. To prioritize preservation of the al-Udeid Air Base over broader interests effectively tells Doha that it need not reform its behavior and that it can use the U.S. presence as a "get out of jail free card."
Should Qatar's announcement of military drills be true and should Mattis go ahead with the exercises, he also risks undercutting efforts to repair the damage which the Obama administration caused with America's traditional allies Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. Those governments remain furious with how they believe President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry threw them under the bus.
Mattis may be more refined than Tillerson in his efforts to blunt Trump's excesses. To conduct his own foreign policy, however, is bad in any instance. To do so in such a counterproductive way and to again betray moderate states, which have only done what successive U.S. administrations have asked them to do, may risk damaging alliances beyond the point of no return.
Partisanship Masquerading as Wisdom
Anger over health care clouds the left's judgment.
Nate Silver spoke for most of the liberal blogosphere when he objected to the mainstream media's coverage of Senator John McCain's speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
McCain appeared in the Capitol just days after he had a blood clot removed from above his left eye. Amid that process, doctors discovered that a particularly malignant form of brain cancer was responsible for the clot. Despite his condition and his recovery, McCain made his way back to Washington to vote on a motion to proceed with a debate over the process of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Following his critical vote, which allowed the motion to carry only after the vice president broke a tie, McCain gave a stirring address extolling the virtues of the republic and the Senate, while also castigating his congressional colleagues over their approach to the health-care reform process.
"Among younger and less traditional reporters on Twitter," Silver began, "a lot of people are pointing out McCain's inconsistency in scolding McConnell's process but nevertheless voting for the motion to proceed." Silver added, however, that more traditional reporting outlets in print and on television were far more awed by the remarks. They didn't seem to recognize the inconsistency that so irritated the Twitter-verse.
"Longtime readers of FiveThirtyEight know that I have a lot of beefs with the establishment media," Silver wrote. "Moments like these, where they elevate style over substance, are a big part of why."
The self-selected, cloistered, like-thinking population of professional cynics on political Twitter is a bad target for professional statistical analysts to critique. Moreover, this criticism is a value judgment founded not in rationality but pique.
McCain's speech on the floor of the Senate was worthy of all the praise it received if only because not every political observer has yet abandoned basic human decency (a frailty that political Twitter discourages). McCain is by any definition an American hero who spent his life serving his country. On what may be his last speech to the nation from the upper chamber of Congress, the man deserves a hearing. Silver and his colleagues did not give him that.
McCain's speech was mostly dedicated to the dysfunction of the body in which he serves. "When I hear the Senate referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body, I'm not so sure we can claim that distinction with a straight face today," he said. "Our deliberations can still be important and useful, but I think we'd all agree they haven't been overburdened by greatness lately."
McCain implored his colleagues to ignore the professional rabble-rousers who have made a career of sowing internecine discord. "To hell with them," he said. "They don't want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood." If this speech started to sound like an appeal to bipartisanship, that became explicit in the following sentence.
The senator said that the virtue of the American system is found in those features that stifle one-party governance. "Top-down" "parliamentary maneuvers" that abandon the process of regular order to govern without bipartisan consent have poisoned and radicalized the country. And to repeat Democratic mistakes by shutting the other party out of the process of reforming one-sixth of the American economy would be a mistake.
"I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered," McCain said. "I will not vote for this bill as it is today."
Only ignorance of what a motion to proceed is or rage-induced blindness over the concept of repealing the Affordable Care Act could lead Silver or those for whom he speaks to make their claim. McCain's vote to proceed with a debate is entirely consistent with regular order, to say nothing of his stated reverence for the process of deliberation in the Senate. His insistence that he would not support the health care bill as it exists, without major reforms (including a bipartisan buy-in and, likely, a return to the committee process), is also intellectually consistent.
I would add that it is clear that the activist left with whom Silver has lumped himself simply didn't, or wouldn't, hear the substance of McCain's address. The senior senator from Arizona delivered a moving and eloquent statement of affection for the extraordinary history of the American republic. He painted a portrait of the United States as a fundamentally moral nation. He shared his love for the institutions that have made the American Constitution the world's longest surviving governmental charter. And while he criticized American politics and the politicians who practice it, his reverence for the American system of government—to say nothing of the prosperity and security it has afforded the American people for nearly a quarter thousand years—was infectious.
The left dislikes that kind of sentimentality. They find it mawkish, at best; chauvinistic, at worst. But an American who has dedicated his life to his countrymen, often at great cost, is owed a little maudlin schmaltz, even if the popular Twitter clique does not share those sentiments. Not only was McCain's vote consistent with his opinions, his speech was a moving tribute to the country he loves. It's a shame, but a telling one, that the left didn't hear any of it.


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Paris - FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday demanded action be taken by the Italian Football Federation after a banana was thrown at AC Milan defender Kevin Constant on Sunday.
Constant, a French-born Guinean international, was targeted during Milan's 2-1 defeat away to Atalanta, just two weeks after Barcelona's Dani Alves picked up and ate a banana thrown at him from the crowd during a Spanish league game against Villarreal.
And Blatter also made clear that football authorities in Russia must act after Zenit St Petersburg supporters invaded the pitch and attacked Dynamo Moscow's captain as their side were headed for a shock home defeat in a key game in Russia's title race on Sunday.
"Racism, and games stopped/abandoned due to acts of hooliganism. Each Federation needs to act. Sanctions are available & HAVE to be applied," Blatter said on Twitter.
Zenit were losing 4-2 in the 87th minute when fans launched their assault and forced the game to be abandoned.
One fan punched Dynamo skipper Vladimir Granat twice in the head. Granat was helped from the field in a daze with reports saying he had suffered concussion.
In Italy, Milan coach Clarence Seedorf, a former Dutch international who was born in Surinam, called for the banana-throwers to be banned for life.
"I hope that whoever was responsible will be banned from attending matches for life," he told Sky Sport television.
Early last year, Milan's Ghanaian international midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng led his team off the pitch during a friendly game against lower-league opposition Pro Patria after suffering racial abuse.
His gesture was widely applauded, with Blatter calling it a "really a strong sign," but warned that walking off the pitch "can't be the solution".
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Most of the American Jewish young people who have been reported planning to create an "irvutz," a city kibbutz in the Jerusalem corridor are affiliated with the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, the Reform seminary and many are Reform rabbis, Jewish Agency aliya officials said here today.
Members of the group, which calls itself "Halom," hope to pursue their vocations while living as a group, the Agency's aliya desk here reported. The officials added that the 30 members of the group have "a strong bias toward Reform Judaism" and will try to create a "progressive Jewish community" in the development town of Bet Shemesh, site of the proposed city kibbutz.
The officials said that the American Jews are seeking employment in Bet Shemesh as teachers, social workers and developers of the arts. Once the group has settled in Israel and achieved economic stability, members hope to initiate a variety of community projects. So far, according to the officials, nine of the young American Jews have made a commitment to settle in Israel by the summer of 1975.


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Although he never rushed for 1,000 yards in a season, Brown split snaps with Toney Baker and Jamelle Eugene all four years he was in Raleigh, never totaling more than 175 carries. As a senior, he rushed for 767 yards and seven touchdowns, and he was also the Wolfpack's second-leading receiver, totaling 29 catches for 309 yards and another two scores.


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