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No smilies, no avatars, no flashing gifs. Just discuss the issues of the day, from last night's telly via football to science or philosophy.
Work and Careers
Started by PaperRustler on Jan 7, 2021 9:14:48 AM
Trumpocalypse XIV: DO SOMETHING!
Thirteen days.
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thePiMan - 07 Jan 2021 09:17:07 (#1 of 3287)
Let the cunt swing from the nearest lamppost
starting thread in the spirit of togetherness and healing
13 Days. They'll need a different title for the movie, that one's already been taken.
Crayola - 07 Jan 2021 09:21:00 (#3 of 3287)
He's still saying he disagrees with the outcome. Cunt.
FleurDuMal - 07 Jan 2021 09:22:35 (#4 of 3287)
I wonder if he'll have to be dragged out, kicking and bellowing?
PaperRustler - 07 Jan 2021 09:24:09 (#6 of 3287)
Yes, here's the full 'statement':
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/134710301549
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Electoral Certification:
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our...
...fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!"
I love the bewildered replies I'm seeing: how can he give up? Where is The Storm? Wait, you will see that he has A Plan.
Moschops - 07 Jan 2021 09:26:50 (#7 of 3287)
Man, this is 7D chess now
Here is the letter from an Italian lawyer, on a blank sheet of paper and helpfully in English, PROOFING that the Italians rigged the election for Biden:
https://twitter.com/cahill_meghann/status/13471041
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CaptainBlack - 07 Jan 2021 09:32:06 (#9 of 3287)
Still, at least the orange face will match the jumpsuit.
ReverendBlueJeans - 07 Jan 2021 09:34:46 (#10 of 3287)
In 12 years they've gone from McCain's gracious concession speech to this.
Of course, McCain was a 'loser' for getting captured...
nac1001 - 07 Jan 2021 09:35:12 (#11 of 3287)
"Venezuela expresses its concern over the acts of violence that are taking place in the city of Washington, USA; condemns political polarization and aspires that the American people can blaze a new path toward stability and social justice"
Arjuna - 07 Jan 2021 09:38:58 (#12 of 3287)
The contrast between the law enforcement reaction to the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday and the suppression of peaceful protests in the summer is not just stark – it is black and white.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/06/capitol-mob-police-trump-george-floyd-protests-photos
cozzer - 07 Jan 2021 09:55:35 (#13 of 3287)
I've seen several tweets praising the aides who rescued the electoral college ballots or otherwise they would have been burnt by the mob, but surely that wouldn't have made any practical difference? It's just academic, everybody knows what the vote tallies were, and what the electors' intentions were, you don't actually need the physical ballots to confirm the election.
HelenDamnation - 07 Jan 2021 09:56:40 (#14 of 3287)
I think it would have been highly symbolic and would have added an extra layer to the feeling of out-of-handness.
and meant there were no further delays
dreams99 - 07 Jan 2021 09:59:00 (#16 of 3287)
They're legal documents with signatures on from each state's legislature. By the process, they couldn't have completed without them. It's all archaic, but those are the rules. The US prides itself on living as if it were the 1770s.
Moschops - 07 Jan 2021 09:59:30 (#17 of 3287)
Maybe you do need them? Don't forget the US instruction manual dates from 1788.
Would probably have slowed it up whilst they printed off new copies and got them signed.
Or what dreams said
...and if the evidence had been destroyed the Trumpeters would have suddenly become all evidence-focused.
Companies all round the world have found problems in lockdown, where the law requires actual signatures on documents, or people to actually meet in person to effect a quorate meeting. These laws will change soon.
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Photo gallery February, 2015
In the residence of Novo-Ogaryovo.
With President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades.
Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, who is in Russia on an official visit.
Meeting with the Battalion film crew.
During interview to National State Television and Radio Company.
Vladimir Putin answered questions from the National State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK) journalist Vladimir Solovyov.
Wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall.
At a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall.
At a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.
After the ceremony awarding Great Patriotic War veterans the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War jubilee medal.
At a ceremony awarding Great Patriotic War veterans the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War jubilee medal.
Laying flowers at the monument to Anatoly Sobchak with St Petersburg State University students – holders of Anatoly Sobchak Public Foundation scholarships.
Before laying flowers at the monument to Anatoly Sobchak in St Petersburg.
Meeting with Government members.
In conclusion of his working visit, the President of Russia met with President of Hungary Janos Ader.
Press conference following Russian-Hungarian talks. With Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban.
Laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Heroes' Square.
During a visit to the Memorial to Soviet Soldiers in the Kerepesi National Pantheon in Budapest.
Meeting with President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach.
Statement for the press after Normandy format talks.
Normandy format talks.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, President of France Francois Hollande, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko before the beginning of talks in the Normandy format with participation by members of delegations.
With President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko before the beginning of talks in the Normandy format.
Vladimir Putin arrived in Minsk to take part in the Normandy format talks.
Statements for the press following Russian-Egyptian talks.
Official welcome ceremony. With President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
At a meeting with Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa.
While on a visit to Egypt, Vladimir Putin met with Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa.
Visiting the National Children's Sport and Health Centre in Sochi.
After the gala ice show One Year After the Games to celebrate a year since the opening of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
At the gala ice show One Year After the Games to celebrate a year since the opening of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
Congress of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia.
With Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande.
At the meeting on lending to real sector enterprises.
Before a meeting on lending to real sector enterprises.
Before a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.
At a meeting with Government members to discuss state policy on socioeconomic issues.
Before a meeting on economic issues.
Vladimir Putin congratulated Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on the anniversary of his enthronement.
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Q: Boy travels through time using a calculator I read a book from the late 80's when I was 13 or 14 about a boy who travels through time using a calculator. I don't remember too much detail...but I do know that he was on the run from a bad guy who was chasing him and trying to take the calculator. The bad guy might have had a time traveling calculator as well because I remember him chasing him through time.
He got the calculator from a scientist and he was friends with the scientist's daughter. I know that both kids were teenagers, but I don't remember too much more than that.
I never got to finish the book...and for some odd reason, I really want to.

A: This might be Strange Attractors by William Sleator.
I haven't read it but a plot summary on Amazon says it's about, not time travel exactly, but moving between multiple timelines.  Actually it sort of reminds me of Sliders.  It was published in 1990, so it pre-dates Sliders.

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Ignoring the faults of Murphy's text, on a personal level I want to note that the above passage was the moment of clarion light that single-handedly wrenched me in 2003 from Social Anarchism deep into the depths of Anarcho-Capitalism.
But it was still a transitive experience. At that single moment I realized that Anarchy was not just a utopian ideal to be strived for endlessly (a la Malatesta) but a practical vector of social organization that could be put into place in immediate and substantive ways. Murphy's plain language gave me an intuitive grasp of HOW anarchy would work, or at least the tools and mental habits to figure any problem out without defaulting on unsatisfying crutches like "consensus" or "democracy".
It was nice to read something that wasn't written in academese for a change. I can't really fault the logic of the contents, but there are a few things that bother me about the society as depicted. First, the idea that stores and other businesses migh want to check a person's insurance policy before allowing him entry. Do we really want to live in a society where the mall cop asks, "papers, please?" before he opens the door? If anarchy is going to mean an end to privaccy, I want no part. Second, the idea that insurance companies would also have greater access to my personal life than they already do. Is it really necessary for them to know how many guns I own? The author even falls back on the tired myth that owning guns means you're more likely to harm somebody. Owning a baseball bat does not make you more likely to beat somebody to death. The third issue is the concept of putting a value on human life. Deliberately taking someone's life is the most heinous crime. The notion that a person could keep doing it as long as they could afford the rising insurance premiums and restitution fees is absurd. Capital punishment is the most fiscally sound option there is. The final objection I have to the society presented in this work is the idea that there would be a stigma attached to the uninsured. True, many such people would be criminals looking to avoid restitution, but there would also be a large group that simply didn't need insurance. Why would a billionaire spend hundreds or thousands of dollars every month to protect against the possibility of spending thousands in restitution for an accident?


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Best drunk soon after release, chilled.
The 2018 vintage in the Geographe region was mild and dry allowing for perfect ripeness of the fruit to develop, whilst retaining, natural acidity within the grape. The fruit for this wine was sourced from a single vineyard within the Geographe region, which is quickly becoming known for producing some excellent examples of this North-West Italian variety.
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A revised registration standard for Professional indemnity insurance (PII) arrangements has today been published by the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia.
by their next renewal of registration after 1 October 2016, whichever is sooner.
This registration standard does not apply to the current cycle of renewals (that is, it does not apply to late applications for renewal received in December).
The key change in the revised PII arrangements registration standard is that the minimum amount of cover specified in the current standard ($10 million for a single claim) has been removed from the standard.
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In addition the Board has removed the requirement for run-off cover to be unlimited, instead recognising the usual statutory arrangements that exist to provide adequate avenues for patient compensation.
As with the current standard, practitioners employed in public health facilities around Australia will meet the new standard by virtue of the indemnity arrangements that exist for the public sector employees.
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The revised standard was approved by the Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council on 27 August 2015 and was reviewed as part of a scheduled review of standards. A public consultation was held as part of the review, and the submissions to public consultation are published on the Board's website. A brief consultation report which outlines the public consultation, rationale for any changes and proposed way forward (including areas where further work is planned) has also previously been published by National Boards.
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Randall E. Burden Jr. (born February 6, 1989) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent.

College career
He played college football at the University of Kentucky.

Professional career

Missouri Monsters
On March 11, 2013, Burden signed with the Missouri Monsters of the Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL).

Tampa Bay Storm
Burden was assigned to the Tampa Bay Storm.

Spokane Empire
On September 10, 2015, Burden was signed by the Spokane Empire of the Indoor Football League. he was released on April 12, 2016.

Florida Tarpons
Following his release from Spokane, Burden signed with the Florida Tarpons of American Indoor Football.

References

External links
Kentucky Wildcats bio

Living people
American football cornerbacks
Kentucky Wildcats football players
Missouri Monsters players
Tampa Bay Storm players
Spokane Empire players
Florida Tarpons players
People from LaGrange, Georgia
Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
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BMW has revealed its new addition to the 5 Series range, the ActiveHybrid 5 model, touting it as the most powerful and efficient full hybrid in its class.
Boasting a total output of 250 kW/340 hp, the ActiveHybrid 5 is a real Jekyll & Hyde – capable of hitting 100 km/h (62 mph) in under six seconds, or, if you're not in a hurry, it can be driven up to 60 km/h (37 mph) on electric power alone. Average fuel consumption is between fuel consumption to between 6.4 and 7 L/100 km (or 44 – 40 mpg imp), with CO2 emissions of just 149 – 163 g/km.
Power comes from the car's bi-turbo 225 kW/306 hp six-cylinder engine – usually seen in the BMW 535i, which is supplemented by an 40 kW/55 hp electric motor. This is fed by a 675 Wh lithium-ion battery mounted within in the luggage area – between the wheel arches, and, on its own, can provide a range of 4 km (approx. 2.5 miles) when travelling at an average of 35 km/h (22 mph).
As well as the start/stop function, the ActiveHybrid 5 also benefits from kinetic energy which is utilized to charge the battery when the car is coasting or braking. Another bonus feature is enjoyed, which sees the electric motor add a boost to the car's power during acceleration.
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The Bill Cosby email, written by former District Attorney Bruce Castor to succeeding DA Risa Vetri Ferman, describes a verbal agreement between the prosecutor and Cosby that if he testified in his 2005 civil sexual assault case regarding his accuser Andrea Constand, his testimony could not be used in a criminal case. There is no time limit to the agreement, meaning that the criminal case against Bill Cosby is in jeopardy.
"The email was sent three months before criminal charges were filed against Cosby in Montgomery County in December, and could call into question the viability of the case," reports CNN on January 16. Of course, Cosby's attorneys will hold the new district attorney accountable for the former DA's verbal agreement and argue that a criminal case against the now 78-year-old comedian has to be thrown out because of his cooperation in Andrea Constand's civil sexual assault case.
"This agreement, made for the express purpose of inducing Mr. Cosby to testify fully in Ms. Constand's civil litigation against him, led Mr. Cosby to give deposition testimony in 2005 and 2006 without invocation of his Constitutional rights against self-incrimination. Now, to fulfill campaign promises, the newly-elected District Attorney has repudiated the agreement and has based these criminal charges on the very testimony Mr. Cosby gave in reliance on the Commonwealth's non-prosecution agreement," stated Cosby's attorneys.
Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, had accused Cosby in 2004 of having drugged and fondled her in 1994. Constand brought her case to the prosecutor shortly before the 10 year statue ran out. After the Montgomery County's District Attorney dismissed the charge due to a lack of "credible and admissible evidence," Constand filed a civil suit against the comedian. The official charge brought against Cosby was "first-degree aggravated indecent assault," including "penetration without the consent of his victim." The case was settled out of court leaving Constand with "monetary" justice.
The deposition that Cosby gave in Andrea Constand's civil suit is a key piece of evidence, according to prosecutors, for reopening the criminal case against Cosby. Without that evidence, a criminal case against Cosby might be impossible.


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All About the "In the Service of the Motherland" Collection
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With Update 0.8.4, the second stage of the "Victory" competition will start, bringing a new collection called "In the Service of the Motherland" dedicated to the Russian and Soviet Navy.
In the process of its creation, the development team used a wide range of sources including meticulous historical research and photo archives. Today we will tell you about the features of the collection and show you some of its elements.
This collection will be permanently available in the game.
Renowned admirals, outstanding engineers, glorious naval victories, innovative projects, battleships wielding their powerful armament—this is the story of the Russian and Soviet Navy.
The new collection comprises 32 elements, thematically divided into 8 sections:
Admiral Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov
Main Battery
Illustrious Names
Russian Shipbuilders I
The Path of the Naval Commander
Shells for Battleships
Naval Awards of the U.S.S.R.
Russian Shipbuilders II
Shoulder Board of Admiral Flota (1944)
In May 1940, the generalship and admiralty were introduced into the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. Accordingly, the People's Commissar for the U.S.S.R.—Navy Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, previously Flagman Flota 2 Ranga (Flag Officer 2nd rank)—was awarded the rank of Admiral. The highest rank in the naval hierarchy was Admiral Flota, but at that time it hadn't been awarded to anyone.
The People's Commissar for the Navy, Kuznetsov, and his deputy Admiral Isakov, were the first to be awarded the rank of Admiral Flota (admiral of the fleet). This took place in May 1944. Circa that period, the corresponding insignias were developed. As the decree of 1940 implied the correspondence of the Admiral Flota rank to the Army General of the Land Forces, four stars were placed on the Admiral Flota shoulder boards of 1944 in analogy with the army ranks. In May 1945, a special decree equated the ranks of the Admiral Flota to the Marshal of the Soviet Union. At the same time, the Marshal-type shoulder boards with the emblem of the U.S.S.R. and one big star were introduced.
B-37 406 mm Gun
The design of 406 mm sea guns began in Russia in 1914. Up to the end of World War I, future battleships were supposed to be armed with such artillery. The design of the Great Navy battleships began in the U.S.S.R. in 1936. They were also supposed to have 406 mm guns, but the best practices from 20 years previous were no longer suitable. Between 1937–1940, the 50-caliber B-37 gun was designed and manufactured with contributions from several Soviet plants.
The range tests of the B-37 guns were carried out in the second half of 1940. The firing velocity of each 1,108 kg shell was 830 m/s. The firing range, at an optimum elevation angle of 45 degrees, exceeded 45.5 km. The B-37 guns were the main weapons of the Sovetsky Soyuz class battleships. Triple turrets were designed at the Leningrad Metal Plant, which once developed turrets for the first Russian dreadnoughts. The total weight of each mount was about 2,400 tons, and the turret was supposed to be operated in combat conditions by 100 people.
The Order of Ushakov
In March 1944, in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, the Order of Ushakov was established in the U.S.S.R. It would become the highest award for naval officers. The order got its name in honor of Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, one of the greatest Russian naval Commanders (1745–1817). It was established in two classes. The 1st Class order was a five-pointed platinum star with a silver anchor and chain secured to it, and an enamel-covered medallion struck from gold with a relief image of the naval commander. The star of the 2nd Class order was made of gold, and the anchor and the medallion were made of silver.
The Order of Ushakov was very rarely awarded—only 26 people ever received the 1st Class variety. In June 1944, Admiral Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov was awarded with Order Badge No. 5. A year later, he was awarded with his second 1st Class Order of Ushakov. The only foreigner ever to be awarded with this order was British Royal Navy Admiral Bertram Ramsay—one of the commanders of the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 and the Normandy landings in 1944. Interestingly, Order Badge No. 1 of the 2nd Class Order of Ushakov was awarded to a distant relative of Fyodor Ushakov, a participant of two world wars—Kontr-Admiral (Rear-Admiral) Yury Fyodorovich Rall (1890–1948).
You will be able to exchange duplicates for items of the "In the Service of the Motherland" collection that you are missing, the exchange rate will be 5 to 1. You can select which element you will receive for your duplicates. When you complete the collection, all remaining duplicates on your account will be exchanged for credits at the following rate: 1 duplicate = 15,000 credits.
By completing thematic sheets of the collection, you will earn "October Revolution" containers and an option to mount a second flag and use an alternative color scheme on Soviet cruisers and destroyers. The main reward for completing the collection will be the option to change the camo color for Soviet battleships, and mount two flags on them as well.
You can find one of the following rewards in "October Revolution" containers:
250 doubloons
2,500 doubloons
1 day of Warships Premium Account
5,000 Free XP
A container of the "In the Service of the Motherland" collection contains:
5 expendable Victory camouflage patterns or 5 special signal flags
1,000 Coal or 10 combat signal flags
1 element of the "In the Service of the Motherland" collection
A special Premium "In the Service of the Motherland" container with a great number of prizes will be available in the Premium shop:
15 expendable Victory camouflage patterns or 15 special signal flags
25 Provision Tokens
In addition to the specified rewards, you have a chance to find a special combat mission in both containers. When you complete it, you can get one of the Premium Soviet ships: V Okhotnik, VI Molotov, VII Leningrad, or VIII Lenin. The chance of getting a combat mission from the Premium "In the Service of the Motherland" container is higher.
Source: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/in-the-service-of-the-motherland/
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Cole McAndrew, left, and his mother Katherine meet with Jennifer Floersch of the Colorado Connections Academy.
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In a blue-collar Denver suburb, school choice is a fact of life
By Nic Garcia
ADAMS COUNTY — By the time Katherine McAndrew reaches the last table at the high school fair, her hands are heavy with brochures, data and swag from a number of high schools.
"It's a little overwhelming," says McAndrew, a mother with an eighth grade son trying to pick which high school he'll attend in the Mapleton school district north of Denver.
Cole, a stout young man, wants to be an engineer or an architect. Or a professional football player.
"I'm a lineman," he says. "Offense. Defense. Put me anywhere."
But before he can sign with the NFL, Cole and his mother must select which of the six district high schools he'll attend next fall.
Unlike most school districts in Colorado and across the county, Mapleton does not automatically assign students to schools. District families must choose the best fits for their students, marking down three in order of preference. Other districts — including Denver — promote taking part in school choice but don't require it.
A decade ago, Mapleton launched its unique choice system as part of a series of reforms aimed at improving student performance in the predominantly blue-collar school district with a growing Latino population. The goal was to make all schools equally rigorous and make sure parents were armed with information to make good choices, while trying to create healthy competition between schools to raise the bar for all.
The results have been up and down. Since the reforms were adopted, Mapleton has been labeled by the state as failing — and then shed that label. Some schools in the district previously on the rise have been flagged for poor performance. Encouragingly, ACT scores have risen dramatically, suggesting that individual students, on average, might be better prepared for college.
Mapleton also has successfully avoided the rancor that can distinguish debates about school choice elsewhere. For Cole McAndrew and the district's 8,600 students, school choice is simply a way of life.
The genesis of choice
While major urban school districts such as Denver, New York and New Orleans have been nationally recognized for their school choice reform efforts, they're relatively late to the choice game compared to Mapleton.
In 2001, when Charlotte Ciancio was named Mapleton superintendent, students were either dropping out of high school or leaving the district for other schools at disturbing levels.
"That's when the board decided the test results we were getting were not acceptable," she said. "That's when the board decided our graduation rate wasn't acceptable."
Within three years, she and her team, bankrolled by grants from education advocacy groups including the Children's Campaign, put into motion a plan to bust up the district's single high school into a cluster of smaller schools with different philosophies. To get students on the path early, some schools start at kindergarten and go through high school.
Today, the district's offerings include a K-12 International Baccalaureate school; a K-8 expeditionary learning school; an early college school; and a high school focused on science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
The district also promoted smaller schools as a tool for fostering better relationships between teachers and students.
"We learned knowing our kids matter," Ciancio said. "When we know our kids well and when we can engage them in learning, they improve."
Teachers agree.
"It lets kids have a say in their education," said Alisa Grimes, a STEM teacher at Academy High School. It makes a difference. The buy-in — you already have it."
The district's reforms have not come without challenges and false starts. And results, district leaders and school advocates say, are far from where they need to be.
By 2008, one year after the district had graduated the last class of its comprehensive high school and graduated the first classes of its smaller programs, students were more engaged but not learning at high levels, said Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado.
"The struggle they had at the time was that Mapleton was creating a better learning environment, kids were brought into the schools, but teachers were struggling with high expectations for kids," said Welner, who conducted an external audit of the district. "The district admitted this."
In 2011, the district and five of its schools were labeled failing by the state. In 2013, the district made enough progress to jump off the state's accountability watchlist. But in 2014, four schools that had previously improved were flagged again for poor performance.
Perhaps the district's greatest accomplishments is its improved composite ACT score. In 2001 it was 14.1. In 2007, it was 16.5. Last year, it was 19.2.
"It's hard to move a dial on an ACT score," Ciancio said, adding that during the same time the state's ACT average has been mostly flat.
By other metrics, Mapleton has turned a corner. The dropout rate is holding steady at 3 percent, slightly above the state's average. It was 5 percent in 2001. And more students are choosing to enroll in Mapleton schools than leaving — likely due to growth in its online school.
"We're really proud of our results," Ciancio said. "They're not yet where we want them to be. But they're significantly better than they were."
Making choice work
Asking families to actively enroll their students in a school instead of a district assigning them to a school has become a staple of urban education reform in the United States.
Academy High School students Josselin Chavez, left, and Gizelle Cruz dissect a cows eye at a high school fair.
Supporters champion the policy for a variety of reasons. In dire situations, it allows low-income parents to send their students to high-performing schools historically found in middle-class neighborhoods. In the best situation, parents are allowed to find schools that fit their students learning style.
Those who oppose school choice claim it creates a dog-eat-dog competition among schools that often results in students stuck in impoverished and under performing school for one reason or another with fewer resources.
Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a Seattle-based think tank that champions school choice, said Mapleton's effort to offer students different learning environments is promising on a number of fronts.
"It's not just good for the students," Lake said. "It's good for teachers to know what the school is all about."
Mapleton also has taken steps to ensure families have equal access to all schools by providing free transportation to students and information about programs and quality to parents, closing poor performing and under-enrolled schools and discouraging unhealthy competition — in the classroom and on the playing field.
All high school students, regardless of what school they attend, play on one team for each prep sport.
"We'd be lying if we said we didn't look at each other's ACT scores," said Justin Thomas, an English teacher at Academy and boys soccer coach. "But it's friendly competition. We push each other to be better."
It also appears Mapleton has avoided creating segregated schools, a criticism of school choice playing out in some urban areas.
"We find that if you make sure quality is evenly distributed between schools and you create a lot of good options, folks evenly sort themselves out," Lake said.
At the Mapleton's recent "Highway to High School" fair, eighth grader Tate Marshall was sorting through his options. He is leaning toward Academy High because of its technology focus.
His father, Dave Marshall, is anxious. He thinks his son should go to Mapleton Early College when he could have the chance to earn an associate's degree.
"But it's up to him," Dave Marshall said. "It's his life. He needs to make a choice. … But I'll help."
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that Alisa Grimes taught English. She is a science, engineering, math and technology teacher at Academy High School.
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There are two actors on every network–people and machines. People rely on usernames and passwords to authenticate themselves so they can access applications and services. Machines also need to authenticate themselves with other machines in order to communicate securely. Today, organizations spend over $10 billion protecting and managing usernames and passwords, but they spend almost nothing protecting and managing the keys and certificates that serve as machine identities. As a result, many organizations suffer from damaging service and system outages that occur when the certificates that serve as machine identities unexpectedly expire.
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Die Florida State Road 934 ist eine State Route im US-Bundesstaat Florida, die lokal auf einem Abschnitt auch als Hialeah Expressway bekannt ist. Sie führt auf einer Länge von gut 21 Kilometern von Medley nach Miami Beach innerhalb des Miami-Dade County. Die Straße wird vom Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) betrieben.

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Die SR 934 beginnt in Medley, nordwestlich von Miami, wo sie von der State Road 826 (Palmetto Expressway) abzweigt, überquert anschließend kreuzungsfrei den U.S. Highway 27 und kreuzt schließlich die State Road 823. Bis hierher ist die Straße autobahnähnlich ausgebaut und wird Hialeah Expressway genannt. Weiter nach Osten trifft die State Road als normale Stadtstraße durch Hialeah auf die State Road 953 und passiert danach die Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer Station. In unmittelbarer Nähe befindet sich auch der derzeit noch in Betrieb befindliche Amtrak-Bahnhof von Miami. Bis zur als nächstes folgenden Kreuzung der State Road 9 wird die SR 934 zudem von der ebenfalls in Medley startenden Linie Grün der Metrorail begleitet, biegt dann jedoch mit der SR 9 nach Süden ab. An der Stadtgrenze von Miami (Stadtteil Little River) wird direkt hintereinander der U.S. 441 (SR 7) und die Interstate 95 gekreuzt. Als nächstes quert die Strecke die Gleise der Florida East Coast Railway und den U.S. 1, bevor sie als John F. Kennedy Causeway die Stadt North Bay Village und die Biscayne Bay durchquert. Schließlich führt sie nach Miami Beach, wo sie auf die State Road A1A trifft und endet.

Eine westliche Verlängerung der SR 934, die NW 74th Street, wurde 2010 eröffnet und verbindet den Palmetto Expressway mit der Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821), ist jedoch nicht als State Road ausgeschildert.

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Current: Wartime and Postwar Dutch Attitudes Toward the Jews: Myth and Truth
Wartime and Postwar Dutch Attitudes Toward the Jews: Myth and Truth
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, August 15, 1999
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
Filed under: Anti-Semitism, World Jewry
Dutch Attitudes, Dutch Jews, Jews, Myth and Truth, Postwar, Wartime
Publication: Jerusalem Viewpoints
412 August 1999
The myth that the great majority of the Dutch people had a highly positive attitude toward the Jews during World War II, identified with their suffering, and took risks to help them has gradually been unmasked in The Netherlands itself over the past decades. The historian Nanda van der Zee summed this up in 1997: "The vain national self-image of the most tolerant people on earth, which had assisted its Jewish fellow-citizens so 'charitably,' was corroded in the 1960s when another generation born after the war started to ask questions."
Israeli historian Joel Fishman has also refuted a follow-up myth. He has referred to the treatment of the Dutch Jews in the postwar years by the country's democratically chosen government. The internationally known Dutch political scientist Arent Lijphart wrote that Holland "has no minorities that are disfranchised, deprived of their civil liberties, or subject to systematic discrimination." Fishman has retorted that Lijphart's statement could only be true if "the Jews in The Netherlands counted for absolutely nothing, and their history was of no consequence."
Internationally, the benign Dutch war image has held on for over fifty years. In its introduction to The Netherlands, the 1999 Jewish Chronicle Travel Guide still writes: "the Germans transported 100,000 [Jews] to death camps in Poland, but the local population tended to behave sympathetically towards their Jewish neighbors, hiding many."
Israel, where at least the authorities should know better, is no exception. One former Israeli ambassador to The Netherlands told this author that he regularly corrected draft speeches of visiting high-ranking Israeli politicians, to prevent them from thanking theDutch for their "extraordinary efforts" for the Jews during World War II without mentioning the substantial collaboration with the Nazis.
There were no extermination camps in The Netherlands, and the Dutch did not actively participate in the killing of Jews. The mass atrocities, for which Germany and so many other European nations supplied willing executors, did not take place on Dutch soil. Few people, however, would consider this itself a sign of great humanity.
Why Were So Many Dutch Jews Killed?
The percentage of Jews from The Netherlands murdered by the Germans and their associates in World War II was higher than in any other Western European country. There were approximately 140,000 Jews in The Netherlands at the outbreak of the war, representing 1.6 percent of the Dutch population, though in Amsterdam they comprised as much as 9.5 percent of the city's population. Some 107,000 Jews were deported from The Netherlands, of whom 102,000 were murdered. Most of the remainder went into hiding, were married to non-Jews and thus freed from deportation, or fled abroad.
Several explanations have been given for this high percentage of Dutch Jews killed. Before The Netherlands capitulated five days after the German invasion in May 1940, Queen Wilhelmina and most members of the Dutch government fled to England. The Germans had initially intended to install a military government, but in the legal vacuum resulting from the flight, Hitler saw the opportunity to insert a civil Nazi government almost immediately.
The head of the Reich's civil government for The Netherlands, the Austrian Nazi leader Dr. A. Seyss-Inquart, reported directly to Hitler. Seyss-Inquart brought with him several other Austrians who later were to show their efficiency, inter alia, in administering the looting and deportation of the Jews. The historian Jozeph Michman, former chairman of the Jerusalem-based Center for Research on Dutch Jewry, suggests that another reason for the high impact of the Holocaust in The Netherlands is that Hitler had special designs on the country and wanted to make it part of the Reich after the war.
Eichmann's Pleasure
Since The Netherlands was well-administered and well-documented, it was relatively easy to round up the Jews. Orders were given by the occupiers and executed by the Dutch authorities. Yet another reason sometimes given for the high Jewish death-toll is that The Netherlands is a small and flat country in which it is more difficult to hide than in Belgium or France. This is a weak argument since, in the later war years, many hiding places were found for Dutch workers who had been called up for labor service in Germany.
After the flight of the Queen and the government, the highest remaining authorities in The Netherlands were the secretaries-general of the ministries, the senior ranking civil servants. These officials–in an inferior position vis-a-vis the German occupiers–were out of their depth, and helped to put the Dutch bureaucratic and institutional apparatus at the disposal of the occupiers. This greatly facilitated the deportation of the Dutch Jews after their property had been systematically looted.
In their preparations for the extermination of the Jews living in The Netherlands, the Germans could count on the assistance of the greater part of the Dutch administrative infrastructure. The occupiers had to employ only a relatively limited number of their own. Dutch policemen rounded up the families to be sent to their deaths in Eastern Europe. Trains of the Dutch railways staffed by Dutch employees transported the Jews to camps in The Netherlands which were transit points to Auschwitz, Sobibor, and other death camps. Van der Zee writes that with respect to Dutch collaboration, Eichmann later said "The transports run so smoothly that it is a pleasure to see."
Well before the deportations, the systematic looting of Jewish properties had begun. For instance, on German orders, the Dutch banks sent out forms to Jewish clients enabling the transfer of their deposits to LIRO, the "looting bank" instituted by the Germans to expropriate money from the Jews. Many Amsterdam stock market traders made good profits on the sale of shares and bonds taken from the Jews.
Other respectable Dutch citizens just "accommodated" themselves. Jacques Presser, a Jewish historian who wrote the official history of the persecution of Dutch Jewry during World War II, was interviewed shortly before his death in 1970 by filmmaker Philo Bregstein. Presser said that when he was dismissed as a high school teacher during the war, what affected him even more than the dismissal was the name of the person who had signed the dismissal letter: "That was a man who then and years after the war–I believe even justifiably so–had a reputation of total rectitude. I could only relate it to my general situation as a Jew, and was aware that, within the context of the interests at play, I was a dispensable piece of small change."
Feeding the Myth: The Anne Frank Story
The myth of the exceptionally benign Dutch attitude feeds on several motifs. One is the February 1941 solidarity strike in Amsterdam and a few other cities; the other is the Anne Frank story. Her diary is widely read throughout the world. The house in Amsterdam where she was hidden occupies a respectable place among Europe's most visited museums. The way in which she is remembered focuses on the courage of those who took risks to hide her. Her diary statement that she believed in the good of man is widely quoted. Society prefers to remember noble individuals rather than traitors.
The one-sided Dutch "resistance image" was heavily propagated in the postwar period. It conveniently ignored the fact that the vast majority of the nation accommodated itself to circumstances. The traumatized and impoverished remnants of Dutch Jewry were in no political or personal position to fight this distortion of history. They had to start from scratch to build up a new existence and, to keep their sanity, they had to look to the future. Some of the survivors were ill. After the Holocaust, many did not want to identify with the community. Furthermore, those who had been hidden during the war had mainly seen the better side of the Dutch. The majority, who had experienced a more representative truth, were no longer alive.
Nor was the Dutch Jewish community in those and later years an equal partner in negotiations with the Dutch government. The country's bureaucracy did not facilitate the fight of this community and its individuals to regain their property. Immoral application of Dutch inheritance tax laws enabled the state to appropriate a substantial part of the assets of those who did not return.
Coldness and Abuse of Power
The immediate postwar attitude of the Dutch government reflected a coldness and abuse of power against this vulnerable community in many other areas. The remnants also had to fight an uphill battle to return Jewish war orphans to family members or Jewish institutions. The government commission appointed to decide on these cases was stacked not only with Christians, who had their own agenda, but also with baptized and assimilated Jews. In another example of Dutch insensitivity, for several months after the war a number of stateless Jews of German origin were locked up in the same camps as Nazis and their collaborators.
Michman told this author two stories which he had heard first-hand from those involved, and which illustrate that Dutch postwar authorities were well aware of discrimination against the Jews. Joop Voet, later Dutch honorary consul in Tel Aviv, worked at the Beheersinstituut, the government body which acted as custodian of the property of enemies as well as of missing persons, nearly all of them Jews. Voet was often told there that "legal restitution to the Jews would be in conflict with the postwar economic reconstruction of The Netherlands."
The other story concerns a visit to postwar Dutch Prime Minister Schermerhorn, a member of the Dutch Labor party, by one of his former school colleagues who lived in Mandatory Palestine. Also present was Karel Hartog, then secretary of the executive of the NZB, the Dutch Zionist organization. Hartog later reported on the visit to his organization's executive, of which Michman was a member. The prime minister had told them that they could not expect him as a socialist to help restore money to Jewish capitalists.
A New Museum of Dutch War Failures?
The time has come to provide a more balanced view of Dutch behavior during World War II. One could imagine the construction of a "Museum of Dutch War Failures" next to the Anne Frank house, to be visited with the same ticket. One major exhibit could be about Anne Frank's belief in man's goodness, in contrast to her latter experiences when one or more Dutch betrayed her and she died in the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.
Other exhibits could show pictures of individual Dutch collaborators who betrayed Jews and sent them to their deaths in exchange for a reward which, even if inflation-corrected, comes to less than twenty dollars in today's terms. Yet another exhibit could include pictures of the majority of the members of the Dutch High Court of Justice who, in the early days of the occupation, did not consider the German-imposed removal of non-Aryans, i.e., Jews, from Dutch official life to contradict the country's constitution. With this decision, they supported the removal from office of Court President L.E. Visser, who was Jewish.
The number of Dutch Nazi collaborators during World War II exceeded the number of those active in the resistance, even if one does not include in the first category the unknown number of those who stole Jewish property. Many cases are known of Jews who hid their possessions during the war with non-Jewish acquaintances and neighbors, who then denied any knowledge of this when the Jews returned after the war.
It is also not widely known that–relative to its population–The Netherlands had the highest number of Waffen SS volunteers in Western Europe. Giving these facts as much attention as the hiding of Anne Frank would help to balance the international perception of Dutch attitudes during World War II.
The Postwar Issue Revived
In postwar Netherlands, considerable attention has been given to documenting the war's history. After the war a special institute was established for this purpose and continues to carry out research, known today as NIOD, The Netherlands Institute of War Documentation. However, the attention paid to the immediate postwar period was very limited. Throughout the decades, only a few writers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have mentioned that, overall, the returning Jews were less than welcome in many places in The Netherlands, that Jews had been discriminated against in postwar restitution cases, and that there were expressions of anti-Semitism both by the Dutch government and in Dutch society.
Yet a change is now taking place. In recent years, there has been an intensified international debate on the fate of Jewish property during and after the war. This debate has also touched The Netherlands, where some new facts have been discovered that have helped bring this issue into the limelight. One involves Dutch government employees in charge of the restitution of looted Jewish property who, in 1968, auctioned off some remnants of it among themselves at ridiculously low prices. Another involves the accidental discovery of part of the LIRO archive in an Amsterdam building which once belonged to the Ministry of Finance.
The previous Dutch government realized that major damage to the country's image could occur if fragments of negative information on Dutch behavior during and after the war kept being exposed in the international media. The excessively positive image of the Dutch during World War II could rapidly switch to a negative one. The recent Swiss experience has shown how individual pieces of bad news can rekindle a publicity storm time after time.
In one ironic twist of fate, until recently, a painting from a "contested" prewar Jewish collection was found to have been hanging, until recently, in the Dutch ambassador's residence in Israel. After the Dutch authorities had already ordered it to be removed, the story was published in Israeli newspapers. The more the investigations continue, the more negative information will be revealed.
Books and newspaper articles continue to report additional stories which further erode the myth of Dutch behavior during the war. In the recently published book Dienaren van het Gezag (Servants of Authority), historian Guus Meershoek analyzes the attitude of the Amsterdam police during the war. Among many examples of misbehavior, he mentions how on one occasion Dutch policemen entered a Jewish cafe, searched the people there, took away the jewels they found which the Jews–according to German orders–should have handed over to LIRO, noted them in the police records as found objects, and then distributed them among themselves.
The Commissions of Inquiry
The Dutch government thus decided that it should become pro-active on this issue. In 1997 it instituted four commissions of inquiry to investigate the looting of Jewish property during the war and restitution afterwards. Furthermore, a body called SOTO, headed by historian Conny Kristel, a NIOD employee, was established to assess the postwar treatment of returnees. Although SOTO does not deal exclusively with Jews, they are its main concern.
Some commission reports have already been published. The Kordes Commission, which dealt with the LIRO bank, demonstrated in its final report an understanding of how cold the treatment of the remaining Jews by Dutch postwar governments had been, and recommended that payments now be made to the Jews for several wrongs. One of these involved the fact that the Dutch government did not return most of the taxes taken, without the knowledge of the owners, from looted Jewish accounts during World War II by Dutch tax authorities, including for years after the account owners had been gassed.
One major objection to the Kordes Commission's conclusions concerns their opinion that it was correct to apply the Dutch inheritance tax laws to the fortunes of the murdered Jews. This subject could become an academic case study. It is a paradigm of how a normal law in a democratic country can become a perverse tool if applied in an extreme situation, particularly against a politically weak community. The Dutch government instituted its inheritance tax laws for a normal society in which the vast majority of people die a natural death. It then used these laws to appropriate money from the estates of a community which it had been unable to protect, 75 percent of whom were murdered over a two- to three-year period.
The Scholten Commission's Abuse of Confidence
Another government commission of inquiry, the Scholten Commission, has come under major criticism. Most of the commission members are former board members of banks or insurance companies; thus they can hardly be considered impartial and fit to supervise an independent inquiry into institutions from which they have received money in the past.
The report of this government-appointed commission was paid for by the institutions it investigated, which undermines its value. Only a minority of the institutions approached agreed to cooperate with the commission's researchers. Thus, the first report from the Scholten Commission was methodologically flawed, as has been pointed out in reactions to it.
Detailed critical comments on this report were also made by the CJO, the central Jewish consultation body which encompasses the main organizations of the Dutch Jewish community. It charged the Scholten Commission with "abuse of their confidence," a particularly radical statement for the very prudent representatives of Dutch Jewry.
The historian Isaac Lipschits, one of the first authors to draw attention, decades ago, to postwar discrimination against Dutch Jews, told this author of yet another shortcoming of the commission's researchers. He visited one of the banks that was willing to cooperate, where he was very well received by its archivist and given a detailed file on the safe-deposit boxes of Jews which had been broken open–on German orders–during the war. The archivist told Lipschits that the researchers of the Scholten Commission had been told about these files but had shown no interest in them.
Twelve Billion Dollars Not Returned?
It remains unclear how much was looted from Dutch Jews during the war and what percentage was restored afterwards. The Van Kemenade inquiry commission is expected to publish an estimate at the end of 1999. The local branch of the international KPMG auditing firm was hired to develop these figures.
In Spring 1999, the historian Gerard Aalders, a NIOD employee, published the book Roof (Looting), on the expropriation of Dutch Jewish property during World War II. The numbers he suggests remain the subject of debate. Lipschits believes Aalders' estimates are far too low, and that the amount may be close to 2.5 billion guilders at that time, of which less than 50 percent was returned after the war.
Based on Lipschits' rough estimates, and multiplying what was not returned by a factor of at least 20, to compensate for inflation and interest over 50 years, one reaches a figure of about 25 billion guilders, or twelve billion dollars at 1999 values.
The Dutch government is obviously responsible for what happened with regard to the restitution of Jewish property after World War II. Aalders, who gave a lecture at an international symposium organized by the Center for Research on Dutch Jewry in November 1998 in Jerusalem, was heavily criticized by the public for focusing on the question of whether the postwar restitution laws were correctly applied, rather than emphasizing their morally doubtful character.
Aalders published an article quite similar to his lecture in the main Netherlands daily NRC Handelsblad in which he described what had occurred after World War II: "For the robbed Jews who had been harder hit than any other group, no extra provisions were made. A public discussion as to whether that was desirable or not has never been held."
Dutch Co-responsibility for the Jewish Fate?
A more complex matter is the extent of Dutch government responsibility for what happened to the Dutch Jews during the war. One aspect of this concerns the flight of the government and the Queen to London and its constitutional impact. Another is the quality of the contingency plans left behind. Nor did the government in exile give clear instructions as to how the Dutch civil servants should behave when the Jews were isolated, looted, and transported to their death, while they did so on the occasion of other deportations. Queen Wilhelmina mentioned the suffering of her Jewish subjects only three times in her radio speeches to the Dutch people during five years of exile.
The issue is not that the Dutch officials under the occupation served the Germans and few of them were heroes. The issue is much more that the present Dutch government cannot claim that its wartime predecessors in exile did their utmost to provide clear instructions to the Dutch authorities under occupation as to how to behave on matters of discrimination against the Jews, making possible the accusation of their co-responsibility for the fate of the Dutch Jews in the war. For example, the Dutch police was a body meant to arrest criminals. However, it also systematically arrested innocent Jewish citizens on German orders. Can later Dutch governments be exempt from legal responsibility for those actions?
In 1998, Avraham Roet, an Israeli businessman of Dutch origin, founded the Israel Institute for Research on Dutch Jewish Assets Lost during the Holocaust, which has become a source of information for those seeking documentation in this field. Roet recently made public a letter sent to him by a well-known Amsterdam law firm in which one of the senior partners writes: "certainly morally, and arguably legally, the Kingdom is responsible for what happened to its subjects that it could not protect during the Nazi occupation."
Today, the Dutch government has a difficult task before it: it must manage a politically hot issue with both financial and image risks. One of its goals must be to avoid trouble with the world Jewish community. It has seen how the Swiss state and its institutions have experienced worldwide criticism from the media, boycotts by some American institutions, and problems with the American justice system.
The Dutch government is well aware that similar actions could be taken against major Dutch banking interests in the United States. For instance, the financial damage that class action suits could cause might far exceed the amounts the Dutch government intends to pay the Jewish community.
The Dutch government is clearly aware of the dangers. According to the Volkskrant daily, in a highly unusual step, the Dutch government has paid over $100,000 to Hill & Knowlton, a leading American public relations firm, to deal with issues concerning its restitution policies in the American media. The Dutch government justified its decision by stating that there had been reports in the media that the Dutch had not been diligent enough after the war in returning looted art, brought back from Germany, to its rightful owners.
Obtaining a Seal of Approval from the Jews
One of the Dutch government's major political goals, in its quest for damage-control, is to obtain recognition that, while its predecessors may have failed, it is now acting reasonably under the circumstances. The only people who can give this seal of approval–we might call it "a kashrut stamp"–are the Jews. From the Dutch government's point of view, it is unfortunate that there are so many potential Jewish counterparts. From the Jewish side, this may be an advantage. If the results of the negotiations are not satisfactory, there will be so much criticism of the negotiators from other Dutch Jewish interests that any such approval would become ineffectual.
Ideally, the present Dutch government would like to receive testimony of good conduct from the representatives of all Dutch Jews around the world. This is impossible. The government will thus, at best, have to make do with certification by the leading bodies of Dutch Jewry and Jews in Israel of Dutch origin.
In The Netherlands, the main Jewish body involved in these matters is the CJO, though its claim to exclusive representation is contested by some smaller organizations. In Israel the various organizations of Jews of Dutch origin have created an umbrella body, "Platform Israel." However, the thousands of Dutch Jews who emigrated to North America after World War II are not organized.
Another aim of the Dutch government must be to reach a generally accepted historical truth about the systematic looting of Dutch Jewry during World War II and the question of restitution thereafter. From the government's point of view, the best solution would be if the Dutch Jewish community would accept the validity of the conclusions reached by the government inquiry commissions.
After what has been published so far by the Kordes and particularly the Scholten Commissions, however, this would be a major historical and political mistake. The Jewish representatives should focus on the financial side of the negotiations, and leave the political and historical aspects to be judged by future generations. At least some of the Dutch Jewish leaders are aware of this. One said to this author, "We have to avoid falsifying history in exchange for money."
Paying as Little as Possible
There are indications that the Dutch government has at least one more aim: to pay as little money as possible to the Dutch Jewish community. The negotiations potentially could become very one-sided. The government is very powerful with a huge infrastructure and almost unlimited means. The CJO and Platform Israel represent small communities with limited organizational structures and few human resources.
On the other hand, the Jewish representatives have a few cards to play. The Dutch government must wish to avoid the involvement in the negotiations of international Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress. These organizations are not dependent on the Dutch government, their financial claims will exceed those of the Dutch Jewish community, and they may even desire some additional international media exposure. These are excellent reasons for the Dutch government to try to keep world Jewry out of the negotiations.
Against this background, statements appear in the Dutch media which remind one of anti-Semitic stereotypes, for example, that Jews are money hungry. Some Dutch officials claim that the Jewish community should primarily aim "for recognition and not for money."
This led Hans Vuijsje, director of JMW, the Dutch Organization for Jewish Social Work, to write to one of these officials: "The statement that we should not talk about money but about 'recognition' is seen in our circles as chutzpah, cheek. It is the opposite of the facts. It is not the Jews talking all the time about money, but Dutch society. The question about 'recognition' is: for what? Not recognition as war victims, that has already been given [but]…recognition that the possessions of the Jews have been handled in a careless way."
An Israeli Aspect
One specifically Israeli aspect of the debate is that The Netherlands has heavily criticized Israeli policies on many occasions over the past decades, mainly within the framework of the European Union. These one-sided criticisms have often been dressed in the cloak of morality. It is obvious that they have been highly politically motivated, because there has been much less European criticism of murderous Arab dictatorships.
The studies of the Dutch government's own commissions of inquiry strengthen what was known before, that democratically elected Dutch governments and several major institutions behaved immorally toward the Dutch Jews when this was profitable. The further research of the inquiry commissions will demonstrate consistent moral failures of a series of Dutch governments.
These can be used as a powerful argument against the Dutch government when the European Union tries to put pressure on Israel in the forthcoming peace negotiations. A nation that has frequently exercised discrimination against a weak minority should concentrate, in the future, on its own shortcomings before criticizing other nations.
The debate on this issue will undoubtedly heat up in the near future when further commission reports are published and negotiations begin with the Dutch government on what will be returned to the Jews. At present it seems quite probable that the work of the commissions of inquiry and SOTO will not accomplish what the Dutch government wants. They will not mark the end of the investigations of how the Dutch government and society treated the Jews in the postwar years, but rather may well signify their beginning.
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is emeritus chairman (2000-2012) of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The author was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, and the International Leadership Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. His latest book is The War of a Million Cuts: The Struggle against the Delegitimization of Israel and the Jews, and the Growth of New Anti-Semitism (2015). His previous books include Europe's Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today's Anti-Semitism; Judging the Netherlands: The Renewed Holocaust Restitution Process, 1997-2000; and The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses.
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The Richmond Masonic Association is the organizing body of Masonic Charity and Activities on Staten Island. The RMA's members are the Masters, Wardens, past Masters and current and past Grand Lodge officers of the seven Masonic Lodges on Staten Island, under the direction of the District Deputy Grand Master of the Richmond Masonic District. The RMA President and officers are elected yearly by the members.
The Richmond Masonic Association, is the official sponsor of all joint activity, such as the Richmond Masonic School of Instruction and the Masonic Blood Bank. It also runs the Annual Charity Ball/Mason of the Year Dinner, Annual Masons / Knights of Columbus Brotherhood Dinner, Annual Picnic, Annual Holiday Party and the Children's Holiday Party.
Every year the RMA provides for Charity at the Annual Allocation Meeting. Gifts and scholarships for many Local and National Charity organizations, groups and individuals are suggested and voted upon by the members. Food drives, Child ID shoots and Clothing / Toy Drives are also organized and scheduled at this meeting.
Meetings are at the Tottenville Masonic Temple, 236 Main Street, Staten Island, NY 10307, 1-718-948-9805, on the second Wednesday of every month.
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