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An excerpt from Ron Chepesiuk's new book, Sergeant Smack, The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson., Kingpin, and his Band of Brothers. (www.ikeatkinsonkingpin.com)
December 9, 1972—Itwas to be a routine flight, one of dozens the retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant had taken since 1966 when he first arrived in Bangkok, Thailand. Given the colorful nickname "Sergeant Smack" by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 47-year old Leslie "Ike" Atkinson, the squat retired U.S. Army master sergeant, was dressed appropriately for the long flight to the U.S. mainland: khaki pants, casual loafers and a loose white short-sleeve sports shirt. With his short-cropped curly black hair and military bearing, Atkinson looked like one of the scores of American servicemen, active and retired, black and white, who came to Bangkok in search of romance and excitement.
With Atkinson in the black Mercedes that sped through the chaotic streets of Bangkok was 30-year-old Thomas Southerland, a friend and fellow African American from Wilmington, North Carolina, whom Atkinson had known for nearly a decade. Like his companion, the trim, tight-lipped Southerland, or Sonny, as friends knew him, was a gambler—a card shark and hustler—and, their paths had crossed often in the numerous craps and poker games common in the black communities of eastern North Carolina. Southerland had visited Bangkok frequently, and over time Atkinson had become almost like an older brother to him.
Relaxing in the car, Ike assessed Southerland and could not help but admire what he saw. Fitted resplendent in an Army uniform complete with battle and service ribbons, Sonny looked like a war hero. He carried a military card that identified his rank as sergeant. His special orders explained that he had served a 12-year hitch in the Army, and they instructed anyone reading the orders to please accord all privileges worthy of such service. In reality, Southerland's orders were totally bogus, forged by Atkinson himself, who, as a retired 20-year service veteran, knew the military system inside and out. His "privileges" made obtaining military uniforms, NCO stripes and badges as easy as shopping for groceries.
Forging IDs was so easy to do, in fact, that Atkinson did it himself in the comfort of his bungalow on a klong (a small canal), located in the heart of Bangkok. Southerland could spend several years in prison for impersonating a U.S. military non-commissioned officer; it was a serious criminal offense. But he looked confident; after all, he had performed this role before—as a courier, carrying heroin in the standard army AWOL bags. Specifically designed for military travel, the bags looked like gym bags, except that they folded out like an accordion and contained hidden pockets. The false bottom of the AWOL bag had been stitched and fitted to carry two kilos each of a potent type of heroin commonly known on the "street" as "China White."
On this particular flight, Atkinson and Southerland each carried an AWOL bag, in addition to a suitcase. One kilo of heroin could fetch as much $50,000 in the U.S. Not bad for a $16,000 investment and a flight's work. Military servicemen can fly on a military flight or "hop," so long as space is available. The delays between flights can vary from an hour or two to as many as 24 hours. At times the wait and uncertainty can be aggravating, but invariably, the serviceman will get to his destination safely. And, of course, the best thing about the hops—they are free.
On this typically sweltering Bangkok day, the two travelers found space available for a grueling trans-Atlantic flight that would take them to Honolulu, Hawaii, via a relatively short hop to Okinawa and on to Travis Air Force Base in the San Francisco Bay area before flying cross-continent to the airbase at Dover, Delaware. The tired travelers would then rent a car and drive the 10-hour trip to Goldsboro, North Carolina, Atkinson's hometown.
Bangkok's Don Muang Airport had a U.S. military air base, but Atkinson preferred to fly from the U-Tapao air base in Sattihip, Thailand, located 100 miles to the south of Bangkok. Don Muang was always frantically busy and it was much easier to get a hop out of U-Tapao.
Sure enough, space was available at U-Tapao, at least for the first leg to Okinawa, and Ike and Sonny had no problem moving through security. There were no X-rays machines in those days and security guards often did not hand-check the luggage. Besides, it was almost impossible to detect the contraband stitched into the bottom of the AWOL bags. They boarded a large Lockheed C-5A Galaxy double-decker transport cargo plane, an enormous bird that could carry a payload of 125,000 pounds over a distance of 8,000 miles, take off and land in relatively short distances and taxi on substandard surfaces during emergencies. Shortly, Ike Atkinson would be very happy that he had flown this fortress-like military transport aircraft, which seemingly had an inexhaustible fuel supply.
After the plane reached cruising speed, the two pilots began taking turns coming back to chat with the passengers. Fresh from a war zone, the passengers had some first-hand knowledge of the situation, and the pilots were eager to learn what they knew. The United States Air Force (USAF) had deployed combat aircraft in Thailand since 1961, and its units trained annually with other Asian air forces. The U-Tapao base was activated in June 1966, and the following April, as the American presence in Southeast Asia increased, the number of aircraft based there swelled. B-52 bombers began raids over Vietnam. In fact, more than 80 percent of all USAF air strikes over North Vietnam originated from there and from other air bases in Thailand, and by 1970 Thailand had become part of the secret bombing of Cambodia.
A month before this flight, Richard Nixon won his second term as president, defeating Democrat George McGovern in the biggest landslide in U.S. history. Three weeks later, the U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam was completed under Nixon's watch, although 16,000 military advisors and other government and civilian administrators remained to assist South Vietnamese military forces. Two days after Atkinson's flight was scheduled to land at Dover Air Force Base, the U.S.-North Vietnam peace negotiations collapsed in Paris. So it was a pivotal time in the Vietnam War and inquiring pilots wanted to know: Do you think we are winning the war? How long do you think the war will last? Nobody on board really discussed the merits of the seemingly never-ending war because most of the passengers, given their backgrounds, supported it.
For Ike Atkinson, the war was more of an opportunity—that is, something to be exploited as he pursued his criminal objectives. He ignored the conversation around him and napped, dreaming of the stuff that drug trafficking empires are made of. It was a typical flight, but then as the plane approached the Okinawa air field and the pilots prepared for landing, Atkinson was jolted out of his reverie by an announcement that came over the intercom: "We have problems with our landing gear, but we expect to correct the problem shortly." A collective gasp rippled through the cabin. Never completely comfortable with flying, Atkinson asked himself: "Did the Lord bring me up here to die?" Ike looked at Sonny; his friend was so cool and collected he looked as if he had taken a tranquillizer. The passengers tried to stay calm as the plane flew in circles, seemingly endlessly. Then another announcement came: the crew was dropping fuel.
Thinking about the consequences was chilling. "Why are they telling us all this bad news," Ike thought? "Because they think we are brave, tough military people?" But he concluded—it's better to meet one's fate with eyes wide open. Finally, a few minutes later another announcement was made: the landing gear is free and the plane will be landing shortly. Some of the passengers cheered; others clapped. Ike and Sonny looked at each other and both flashed a chest high thumbs-up sign.
The landing was smooth and the big bird taxied down the landing strip before coming to a stop about 100 yards from the terminal of the Kadena Air Base. The base, which dates back to just before the Allies invaded Okinawa in 1945, spreads across Kadena Town, Chatan Town and Okinawa City in the central part of the main island of Okinawa. It is the largest and most active U.S. air base in the Orient, and today it is home to the 18th Wing, a subordinate of the U.S. Fifth Air Force.
Kadena is an airport Ike had seen often on his journeys to and from Bangkok and the U.S. In fact, Eddie Wooten, one of his best pals, had a bar in Okinawa. On his flights, Ike would stop to visit his old friend and at times plot a scheme or two on how to smuggle heroin into the U.S. But on this trip Ike knew Wooten was not in Okinawa. A bus came to retrieve the passengers and their luggage. Moving into the terminal, some of them joked about their harrowing trip. Ike and Sonny went to the service counter to check the flights. They were told space was available on the next leg of their flight, but they would have to change planes. "We want to make sure the landing gear is working properly, and it's going to take some time to do it," they were told. "Put your name on the flight manifest and we will get you home."
The next flight would leave early in the morning, so the travelers went looking for a nearby hotel. On the way, Atkinson told Sonny they would have paid Eddy Wooten a visit if he had been in Okinawa. When Ike and Sonny arrived at the airport early the next morning, they could see a number of mechanics looking over the landing gear of the C-5A they had flown from Thailand. They saw a different plane taxing up the runway. Built by Lockheed, the C-141 was more of a troop carrier than a cargo plane.
In the early 1960s, Uncle Sam introduced the C-141 to replace the slower cargo planes. One of the existing C-141s, the so-called "Hanoi Taxi," would be used in 1973 as part of Operation Homecoming, a series of diplomatic negotiations that in January 1973 made possible the return of 591 American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam. Ike was happy to ride a different plane. He would not have to worry so much about meeting his maker somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
An airman came into the airport terminal, calling out the names of those who were traveling "space available." "Yes sir! That's us," Ike said cheerfully, and he and Sonny picked up their AWOL bags, checked their suitcases and headed for the door and their flight to Honolulu.
On board, Ike noted a lot of friendly faces. It seemed everybody on last night's flight was on this one as well. Two of the faces were new though. They belonged to two high-ranking, uniformed airmen with somber expressions, who sat at the plane's rear.
Once the plane was airborne and reached cruising speed, one of the somber airmen came to the front of the plane and made an announcement. "The curtain at the back of the plane is drawn for a reason," he said. "On board are the bodies of two of our brave service men who have given their lives in Vietnam. Do not go to the back of the plane for any reason. If you must use the rest room, please use the one at the front of plane."
This would be a new experience for Atkinson. He had never knowingly flown with the bodies of dead GIs aboard. He knew that, given the heavy toll in the Vietnam War, the military had flown thousands of corpses back to the U.S. for burial. But why the announcement?
Most of the dead bodies were "processed" at the main military mortuary at the Tan Son Knut Air Base just outside Saigon. On June 20, 1967, the U.S. Army opened a second, less active mortuary at the Da Nang Air Base. The U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam led to the deactivation of the Da Nang Mortuary by February 1972. By this time, the number of bodies processed at Tan Son Knut Mortuary had decreased significantly because of the declining U.S. troop strength in Vietnam.
Having two corpses on board gave Ike a creepy feeling. It did not help that the airmen came back repeatedly during the flight to issue their blunt admonition: Don't go behind the curtain! "What's up with those damn fools?" Ike thought. "Why would we want to go behind the curtain?" What with his earlier near-death experience, Ike thought this was turning out to be one weird flight indeed. From Okinawa, the plane flew to Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. Unlike the initial leg, the flight was uneventful, but when the plane reached the tarmac at Hickam, the airport swarmed with military vehicles and personnel. Atkinson had never seen security like that before on a hop. However, after a 24-hour layover, the plane was on its way to the U.S. mainland.
The trip got more bizarre once the flight landed at Travis Air Force Base. Situated in the San Francisco Bay area and known as "the Gateway to the Pacific," Travis handles more passenger and air traffic than any other military airbase in the U.S. On this pleasant California day in December, the tarmac swarmed with military personnel and vehicles, which moved into position around the C-141. Ike's stomach churned; after all, he and Sonny were carrying four kilos of heroin. But would the authorities use an entire military police unit to make a bust?
Ike relaxed a little when he saw that two buses had come to pick up the passengers. They were directed to a holding area inside the terminal, where the passengers could see the C-141 through a big terminal window. Floodlights lit up the plane, and the military police remained in place. The hours slipped by; finally someone came and began to check the passengers' identification cards.
Ike had time to think. "This trip is getting stranger and stranger. Should we switch to a civilian plane?" Ike asked Sonny. "We are almost home, man," said Sonny. "Why should we spend the money?" Later, Ike wished he had followed his instincts instead of listening to his friend. Once again, the C-141 was airborne, this time heading cross country for Dover Air Force Base, located two miles south of Dover, Delaware's capital. Once again, the bodies of the two dead GIs were on board and the same airmen took turns pronouncing the same stern admonition. But about an hour from Dover, an announcement was made. The plane would not land as scheduled. Instead it was going to be re-directed to Andrews Air Force Base, southeast of Washington, DC, near the town of Morningside.
"I thought what the hell is going on?" Atkinson recalled. "Why's our flight being re-directed? The trip was getting more like the Twilight Zone by the minute. It was enough
to make me think that maybe I should buy my own plane." The landing was routine but when the door was opened, the passengers were surprised to see several military police standing at the bottom of the walk. With them were some men in black suits, who looked like FBI types. The passengers were directed off the plane to two waiting buses. Ike's mind raced. A military police (MP) jeep led the buses to a small terminal, where the passengers were told to disembark and go to a spartanly furnished room containing nothing but cold steel chairs to sit on. Four MPs stood guard; Ike moved quickly to take a seat besides Sonny. "What do you think is going on?" Ike asked his friend. "I don't know but it can't be good," Sonny replied.
Ike glanced at the floor and the two AWOL bags that carried the heroin. "Let's stay cool," Ike said. Sonny nodded. Then one of the FBI types came in and said: "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. I have some instructions. No one is to talk. When I call your name, come with me." One by one, the passengers were led away. A few hours passed, and Sonny was called out. Then a MP came back and picked up Sonny's AWOL bag. Ike's heart nearly fell to his stomach, but he knew Sonny would not panic and could be counted on to keep his mouth shut, no matter the circumstances.
Finally, Ike was the last one left and they came for him. It was after midnight. Ike was taken to an office that contained a chair, desk, filing cabinet and a big American flag under which hung a picture of a smiling President Nixon. Behind the desk, sat one of the men in dark suits. "I see from the manifest that you are Sergeant Leslie Atkinson, retired.
Good evening, Mr. Atkinson," the man said. "It's been a long journey. You must be tired. Would you like a cup of coffee?" Atkinson declined the offer, wondering if the interview was about to become a mind game. "My name is Mr. Marr and I am the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland. Let me get to the point. We believe you are smuggling heroin from Thailand. Where is it?"
Atkinson did not flinch; he looked Marr right in the eye. "I don't mess with drugs. I don't know what you are talking about." Michael Marr made cold eye contact with Atkinson and began squeezing. "Mr. Atkinson. What did you do with the heroin on the two corpses that were on the flight coming from Travis?" Atkinson looked at the man as if he was crazy and snapped: "What?" In a strange way, he felt a little relieved. So this was not about the heroin in the AWOL bags.
Atkinson said nothing more. Marr stopped the interrogation, realizing it was going nowhere. "We have been taking the plane apart, panel by panel," Marr said. "We will find it."
About a half hour of awkward silence ensued and then the phone rang. Atkinson could see by Marr's expression that he did not like the news. "What? Are you sure?" Marr asked. He listened to the answer and then hung up the phone. Marr looked at Atkinson intently; then he sighed. "You can go now."
Sonny was gone by then. Outside in the street, Atkinson found a waiting cab and hopped in. He pulled a handkerchief from his back pocket and wiped his brow. He thought about the interrogation, the dead bodies and the heroin that was supposed to be in them. It made absolutely no sense, but obviously, a high ranking U.S. official would not waste his time on him unless he thought he was on to something. In the intensity of the moment, Atkinson had forgotten about Sonny and he wondered where he was. Ike concluded that his friend would have waited for him at the airport, so something must have happened. Maybe he was arrested. Atkinson told the cabby to take him to a nice hotel.
He remembered that a friend, a well-known drug dealer, lived in the Washington, D.C. area. At the hotel, he thumbed through his address book and made a call to his friend.
"I believe a friend of mine is in jail," Atkinson explained. "I need you to find him and bail him out."
"No problem," said the friend. "What is his name and the charge?" "I'm not sure, but it could be possession of heroin." It was the wee hours of the morning, but Ike could not sleep. He was exhausted and worried about Sonny. About noon, Ike heard a knock at the door. It was the drug-dealing friend who had gone looking for Sonny. With him was a man the friend identified as a bail bondsman. "We located Southerland," Atkinson's friend said. "He is in jail charged with using false military documents and impersonating a military non-commissioned officer. The bail hearing is tomorrow.
"What about his AWOL bag?" Ike asked anxiously. "His bags are at a local police station, stored in the property room. You can go down to the station and try to get them released to you." Ike was relieved about the heroin but concerned about Sonny. He would not talk, no matter what charges he faced, but Ike was certain the charges would be serious. How serious, Atkinson learned later at the bond hearing. Southerland was being held on a $50,000 bond in a Baltimore jail, and magistrate Clarence E. Goetz had denied a bail reduction after military and Customs agents told him at the hearing that Southerland was involved in a "large international conspiratorial organization." Furthermore, he had flown aboard a plane headed for Dover Air Force Base in Delaware that carried the corpses of two dead GIs, which, an informant had told authorities, might be packed with heroin.
Having to explain why the authorities did not find any heroin, Marr told the court—and later the press—that during the stopover in Honolulu, the bodies had been left in a hangar, unguarded for 16 hours. Marr further told the court that one of the bodies exhibited a recent incision and stitching.
The press jumped on the sensational "Cadaver Connection" and the headlines screamed: "Top people part of ghoulish heroin ring," "Body heroin smuggling a puzzler" and "Feds trace route of GI bodies." The press speculated in numerous articles, based largely on anonymous sources, theorizing that Southerland was accompanying bodies as a dry run to test the efficiency of Federal law enforcement. After all, the press speculated erroneously, he could have taken a commercial plane and not have to take the risk of wearing a military uniform and carrying bogus documents.
Since that flight, the story of the "Cadaver Connection" has persisted. More than three-and-half decades later, the speculation was rekindled with the release of the blockbuster movie, American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. The movie depicted the life of former Harlem gangster Frank Lucas, an Atkinson associate. In interviews hyping the movie, Lucas embraced the "Cadaver Connection." In its open and shut conclusion about things cadaver, the Associated Press, which did absolutely no investigative reporting on the subject, reported in November 2007 that Lucas "bought his dope in the jungles of Vietnam, and to get his drugs back into the U.S., Lucas established the infamous "Cadaver Connection."
Meanwhile, the press reports made Ike Atkinson guilty by association. In response, Atkinson described the cadaver connection as "the big lie…the biggest hoax ever perpetuated," and he asked, "Will we never know who is responsible for the hoax?" It is a question that Ike Atkinson has asked himself often since that fateful trans-Pacific flight in December 1972.
Ron Chepesiuk (www.ronchepesiuk.com) is an award winning freelance journalist and Fulbright Scholar to Bangladesh and consultant to the History Channel's "Gangland" television series. He is the author of several true crime books, including Drug Lords: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel and Gangsters of Harlem. His next book, Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and His Band of Brothers, appeared as an e-book in late April and will be published as a print book in late June. Go to www.ikeatkinsonkingpin.com/


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Jordan Spieth takes the lead at Torrey Pines
By Doug Ferguson
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SAN DIEGO | Jordan Spieth turned out to be the star attraction Friday playing with Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines.
Spieth again showed game well beyond his 20 years with a 9-under 63 on the North Course, giving him a one-shot lead over Stewart Cink going into the weekend at the Farmers Insurance Open. Cink drilled a 3-wood from 280 yards onto the green at the par-5 ninth on the tougher South Course for a two-putt birdie and a 71.
Woods rarely gets upstaged at Torrey Pines, where his eight professional wins include the 2008 U.S. Open.
But in his first competition in six weeks, Woods hardly looked the part as the defending champion. He did not make birdie on any of the par 5s for the second straight day, and a three-putt bogey on the par-5 ninth hole on the North gave him a 71.
He was nine shots behind.
Phil Mickelson's ailing back wasn't much better, though Lefty plodded along and shot 73 on the South to finish eight shots out of the lead. Mickelson contemplated pulling out to rest his back, and said only that he would give it a shot today depending on how he felt.
It was the first time Spieth has played with Woods in a tournament - they played a practice round together at the Presidents Cup last fall - and the Texan felt and played as if it was any other round on the PGA Tour.
Then again, the first time he played with Mickelson, Spieth closed with a 62 at the TPC Boston last year, a round that led Mickelson to call Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples and lobby for Spieth to be picked for the team.
In both cases, Spieth was more interested with the score than the audience.
"Any time you can shoot a lower score than a 66 or 65 and you can really get it deep and be in a zone and not worry about what your score is ... that's special," Spieth said. "That's proving that I can play my best golf when it matters on a PGA Tour venue. Each time you can do that, you get more and more confident that you can do it more often."
As for playing with Woods? He only shrugged.
Spieth grew up watching, idolizing and being amazed by Woods. But this was only a Friday.
"They were both rounds that I needed to move up the leaderboard," he said about playing with Woods this week and Mickelson last year. "They weren't in the last couple groups on Sunday, so they weren't to win. They were to get myself up and in a position."
Spieth was at 10-under 134 and will be in the last group today with Cink and Nicolas Colsaerts, who shot 67 on the South and was two shots behind.
"I'm looking forward to playing with Jordan. I've never seen him hit a ball, so that will be fun," Cink said. "It's always exciting to see the young guys play. I'm playing really well. I'm really excited about golf right now and the way I'm playing. I'm having some fun out there and seeing a lot of good things."
The final two rounds will be on the South, which is about 600 yards longer and on Friday played more than 4½ shots harder.
Spieth didn't hit the ball better than his opening-round 71 on the South. His putter made the difference. He rolled in a bending 18-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole and his confidence grew up there.
He avoided a three-putt on the 17th by making a 15-footer for par, and he really took off down the stretch. He holed another sidehill birdie putt on the par-3 sixth from about 20 feet, and he made a 15-footer for his final birdie on the eighth hole. The rest of his birdie putts were inside 4 feet.
"The kid's got talent," Woods said. "He hits it a long way, phenomenal putter. He made a boat load of putts today from the 10- to 20-foot range, and on poa greens, that's not easy to do. He was pouring them in there. He had speed to them, too. That's what you have to do to putt on poa.
"He putted with a lot of confidence."
That wasn't the case for Woods, whose only birdies came on his opening hole and on his sixth hole, a flip wedge to 4 feet. He didn't feel like he was off by much, but that's all it took. The course is set up in such a way that the thickest grass is just off the fairway.
"I wouldn't say it's rusty," Woods said. "I was just a fraction off, and at this level and on golf courses like this, if you're just a fraction off it doesn't take much, especially as tight as the North Course is. I had so many balls that landed in the fairway that went in the rough. Now I can't be aggressive, I've got to play conservative into some of these flags. When you should be able to fire at some of these flags, I just couldn't."
The cut was at even-par 144, and 83 players advanced. There will be another cut to top 70 and ties after the third round.
Woods wasn't ruling himself out just yet. He remembered the time he made the cut by two shots in 1999, and then had a 62-65 weekend to win by two shots. But that was before the South Course was lengthened. No had better than 67 the first two days this week on the South.


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Corporate Mobile Banking Slowly Gaining Traction
Despite the exploding growth of mobile banking among consumers, mobile banking for corporate customers has seen a more cautious adoption.
While most, if not all, corporate treasurers use their own personal mobile devices, incorporating that same functionality for use in their work lives has proven a bit difficult. I recently spoke with Patricia McGinnis, director of the commercial and enterprise payments solution at Mercator Advisory Group, who authored a report on this very topic, and discussed the ways in which mobile banking is catching on slowly among corporate customers.
[See Also: Mobile Business Banking on the Rise]
According to McGinnis, corporate mobile banking faces a two-fold challenge: on the one hand, corporate IT departments are still figuring out BYOD policies and how to best secure mobile devices that are used for company purposes. While many corporate treasurers can do things like receive alerts and approve payments on a mobile device, functions like performing administrative duties and initiating payments are still being debated.
Secondly, says McGinnis, banks are still facing challenges in figuring out how to best serve corporate customers in this way while maintaining strict security.
"The company is leery of breaches that can occur via a mobile device, and the bank doesn't necessarily want unlimited access to corporate accounts on mobile devices," she says. This is especially true since cyber criminals are increasingly targeting corporate accounts, and banks fear ultimately being held responsible for breaches, she notes.
"I would say everybody is moving a little more cautiously in the corporate than in the consumer space because there is larger amounts of money moving, and the technology is evolving so fast," McGinnis says.
For more on the current state and future of corporate mobile banking, be sure to check out the cover story in our upcoming February digital issue.
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Outlook.com gets two-step verification, sign-in by alias and new international domains
As announced earlier today, over the next few days we are releasing an update to Microsoft account. For people who use Outlook.com, this includes a number of new features such as two-step verification, the ability to sign in with an alias and new international domains for your email address.
Optional two-step verification helps keep you more secure
You can now choose to enable two-step verification for your entire account. Two-step verification is when we ask you for two pieces of information when you sign in to your account–your password plus a code sent to a phone or email that you gave us as security info. Many of you have asked for this and we're delighted to be able to offer this capability.
Two-step verification is a great way to add extra protection to your account. Once you've enabled two-step verification, even if a criminal gets your password (for example, through malware on a friend's machine that you used, or if you use the same password for another service that gets breached) they can't access your account.
You can read more about two-step verification here, or just start setting it up at https://account.live.com/proofs/Manage –it only takes a few minutes.
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We've heard from a lot of you that you love using Outlook.com but you wish you had more flexibility signing in. Many of you have added an email alias to your account, but you can't use the alias to sign in to your account. Previously the only option was to permanently rename your account, which is a hassle and requires you to reset certain devices.
With this release, you can now sign in with any alias that has been added to your account. We've also simplified the experience of adding and managing aliases, with better advice on when you should add an alias vs. renaming your primary alias.
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We've been delighted by the reception to the new Outlook.com service. Many people have chosen to create new @outlook.com aliases, and as we previously discussed, many people have switched over from other email services.
But we also heard from some of you that you'd like to be able to have an @outlook address that is unique to your country (e.g. @outlook.de), so here is the list of new @outlook email domains that will be available in the next few days.
Help end the "Don't open an email from me, I got hacked" updates
We encourage you to turn on and tell your friends to turn on two-step verification and help reduce the number of accounts that get hacked. And we hope you like the other new features released today. Thanks for all the interest in Outlook.com and Microsoft services and we look forward to hearing what you think.
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4 Responses to "The Physical Pains of Discrimination"
July 15, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Randomly enough, I was just reading an article last night from the 2006 issue of the Blackletter Law Journal touching on a related issue. According to the article, settlements from unlawful discrimination suits are usually considered taxable income because they are not associated with any physical but rather only with emotional pain or damages. The cite is Stephen Cohen and Laura Sager, Why Civil Rights Lawyers Should Study Tax, 22 Harv. BlackLetter L.J. 1, 2-9 (2006).
July 21, 2007 at 1:57 pm
This excellent post connects some interesting dots. I'm hoping to find more current discussions or research addressing social mechanisms that 'intentionally' exploit this sort of physiological domino effect that results from what would appear, on the face of it, as very mild and innocent forms of harassment. I'm thinking of targeted victims such as the unwanted family member, the nuisance of a too-ethical employee, the polis' latest freethinking threat, and in particular: the member of a typical American religious community who questions the community's leader. Common forms of 'shunning' and Christian 'excommunication' might also fit the bill, such as when the Apostle Paul wants to hand over the rebellious member to Satan for a while – possibly ending in physical death. My belief is that successful leaders in more communitarian settings frequently employ subtle forms of discriminatory language and gestures with powerful downhill physiological and emotional effect.
There is a difference, though, between strategically singling out the individual and the injustice done to a larger social group; in the latter case, each individual has the larger group for solace and dealing with the damaging effects. And the discrimination might not be as strategic.
In any case, thanks again for some of the best blogging on the internet.
Michael Metzler
February 5, 2016 at 1:23 pm
racial slurs should be illegal why because it is discrimination and its really rude
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Situational Obesity, or, Friends Don't Let Friends Eat and Veg
Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 2, 2007
No one would deny that your friends have a profound effect on your personality and what you find to be socially acceptable. A group of friends develops inside jokes, shared history, and gestures that instantly convey complex meanings. They also influence each member's views of how people should act in groups and what is acceptable behavior. Sense of humor, language deemed acceptable, and actions that are allowed and frowned upon all develop within a group.
It should not surprise us to learn that our social groups also influence our appearance — from how we dress, to whether we like or are turned off by tattoos and piercings. A recent study shows that this group influence may go further than most of us probably assume and may even influence obesity rates. A great deal has already been written on the situational sources of obesity. But this study sheds light on how body type and fitness may be connected to one situational feature that has been largely missed in previous work: friendships, social connections and their associated implicit (perhaps sometimes explicit) group norms . Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California San Diego, followed the weight levels of more than 12,000 Framingham, MA residents over a 30 year period and found some shocking correlations. Gina Kolata of the International Herald Tribune reports.
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Obesity spreads to friends, study concludes
by Gina Kolata
Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, according to researchers. When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight too.
Their study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved a detailed analysis of a large social network of 12,067 people who had been closely followed for 32 years, from 1971 until 2003. The investigators knew who was friends with whom, as well as who was a spouse or sibling or neighbor, and they knew how much each person weighed at various times over three decades.
That let them watch what happened over the years as people became obese. Did their friends also become obese? Did family members? Or neighbors?
The answer, the researchers report, was that people were most likely to become obese when a friend became obese. That increased one's chances of becoming obese by 57 percent.
There was no effect when a neighbor gained or lost weight, however, and family members had less of an influence than friends. It did not even matter if the friend was hundreds of miles away – the influence remained. And the greatest influence of all was between mutual close friends. There, if one became obese, the other had a 171 percent increased chance of becoming obese too.
The same effect seemed to occur for weight loss, the investigators say, but since most people were gaining, not losing, over the 32 years, the result was an obesity epidemic.
Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a physician and professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator in the new study, says one explanation is that friends affect each others' perception of fatness. When a close friend becomes obese, obesity may not look so bad.
"You change your idea of what is an acceptable body type by looking at the people around you," Christakis said.
The investigators say their findings can help explain why Americans became fatter in recent years: Persons who became obese were likely to drag some friends with them.
Their analysis was unique, Christakis said, because it moved beyond a simple analysis of one person and his or her social contacts, and instead examined an entire social network at once, looking at how a friend's friends' friends, or a spouse's siblings' friends, could have an influence on a person's weight. The effects, Christakis said, "highlight the importance of a spreading process, a kind of social contagion, that spreads through the network."
Of course, the investigators say, social networks are not the only factors that affect body weight. There is a strong genetic component at work too.
Science has shown that individuals have genetically determined ranges of weights, spanning perhaps 30 or so pounds, or 13.5 kilograms, for each person. But that leaves a large role for the environment in determining whether a person's weight is near the top of his or her range or near the bottom. As people have gotten fatter, it appears that many are edging toward the top of their ranges. The question has been why.
If the new research is correct, it might mean that something in the environment seeded what many call an obesity epidemic, making a few people gain weight. Then social networks let the obesity spread rapidly.
It also might mean that the way to avoid becoming fat is to avoid having fat friends.
That is not the message they meant to convey, say the study investigators, Christakis and his colleague James Fowler, an associate professor of political science at the University of California in San Diego. You don't want to lose a friend who becomes obese, Christakis said. Friends are good for your overall health, he explains.
So why not make friends with a thin person, he suggests, and let the thin person's behavior influence you and your obese friend?
That answer does not satisfy obesity researchers like Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
"I think there's a great risk here in blaming obese people even more for things that are caused by a terrible environment," Brownell said.
On average, the investigators said, their rough calculations show that a person who became obese gained 17 pounds, and the newly obese person's friend gained 5 pounds. But some gained less or did not gain at all, while others gained much more.
Those extra pounds were added onto the natural increases in weight that occur when people get older. What usually happened was that peoples' weights got high enough to push them over the boundary, a body mass index of 30, that divides overweight and obese. (For example, a man 6 feet, or 1.8 meters, tall who went from 220 pounds to 225 would go from being overweight to obese.)
Their research has taken obesity specialists and social scientists aback. But many say the finding is path-breaking and can shed new light on how and why people have gotten so fat so fast.
"It is an extraordinarily subtle and sophisticated way of getting a handle on aspects of the environment that are not normally considered," said Dr. Rudolph Leibel, an obesity researcher at Columbia University in New York.
Dr. Richard Suzman, who directs the office of behavioral and social research programs at the U.S. National Institute on Aging, called it "one of the most exciting studies to come out of medical sociology in decades." The National Institute on Aging funded the study.
But Dr. Stephen O'Rahilly, an obesity researcher at the University of Cambridge in England, says the very uniqueness of the Framingham data is going to make it hard to try to replicate the new findings. No other study he knows of has the same sort of long term and detailed data on social interactions.
"When you come upon things that inherently look a bit implausible, you raise the bar for standards of proof," O'Rahilly said. "Good science is all about replication, but it is hard to see how science will ever replicate this."
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For an NPR, Morning Edition transcript and audio report about the study click here. For a collection of previous, related Situationist posts discussing the role of situation in obesity, click here. To link to an article by Situationist contributors, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, and David Yosifon on the situational sources of the obesity epidemic, click here.
6 Responses to "Situational Obesity, or, Friends Don't Let Friends Eat and Veg"
August 3, 2007 at 4:42 am
Nice post.
We've a real problem with obesity.
In fact I recently blogged about this exact thing here: http://tinyurl.com/38zvkm
In short: In May of 2002, the World Health Organization announced a rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Remarkably, this occurred not only in affluent developed nations – but also among developing nations in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, where malnutrition was once the major dietary issue.
Obesity in the developing world can be seen as a result of a series of changes in diet, physical activity, health and nutrition, collectively known as the 'nutrition transition.' As poor countries become more prosperous, they acquire some of the benefits along with some of the problems of industrialized nations. These include obesity.
Since urban areas are much further along in the transition than rural ones, they experience higher rates of obesity. Cities offer a greater range of food choices, generally at lower prices. Urban work often demands less physical exertion than rural work. And as more and more women work away from home, they may be too busy to shop for, prepare and cook healthy meals at home. The fact that more people are moving to the city compounds the problem. In 1900, just 10 percent of the world population inhabited cities. Today, that figure is nearly 50 percent.
Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/2scnhk
August 3, 2007 at 6:49 pm
You're doing a great job covering this…I've blogged responses here:
The "situationist" frame is critical, because otherwise people who want to cut funding for health care are likely to say the obese are violating the "duty to be healthy:"
March 3, 2008 at 1:25 am
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Here are the top transfer-related stories in Monday's newspapers…
Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain wants to leave Serie A outfit Napoli this summer and would be interested in a move to Liverpool, even though they have missed out on European qualification. (Daily Mirror)
Borussia Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke has rubbished claims that Arsenal target Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who scored 39 goals in all competitions this season, is set to leave the German club. (Bild)
Jose Mourinho wants to add former Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand to his backroom team at Old Trafford. (The Sun)
Mourinho is considering a bid for Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba who has informally been placed on the transfer market. (The Times)
The Red Devils boss is also plotting a £54million deal to sign Atletico Madrid midfielder Saul Niguez, despite the 21-year-old recently signing a new deal with the Spanish giants. (Daily Star)
Mourinho is also eager to snap up 17-year-old West Ham starlet Reece Oxford. (The Sun)
Bayern Munich will resist any attempt from Real Madrid to prise away free-scoring striker Roberto Lewandowski. (Sky Sports)
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Mount Union gets its revenge, edges Marietta
Mount Union bent, but didn't break, this time.
Almost a year after experiencing the bitterest of defeats, the Purple Raiders beat defending champion Marietta 73-72 Wednesday to solidify their place atop the Ohio Athletic Conference.
T.J. Gillespie hit the winning free throw with eight-tenths of a second left as the Raiders (11-2, 6-0) won their ninth straight game. He finished with a game-high 21 points.
It was a victory 11 months in the making.
The matchup was the first between the two teams since last year's OAC tournament championship game in Marietta. The Pioneers rallied from a 20-point second half deficit to beat the Raiders 80-76 in overtime.
The Pioneers threatened to recreate the nightmare in the final 11 minutes when they wiped out a 12-point deficit. Gillespie's winning free throw and Cody Dillon's clutch 3-pointer earlier helped Mount Union stem the tide in front of a crowd of 2,354, one of the largest for a Raiders men's basketball game.
"Losing the championship like that and them storming the court on us, there's no other feeling like that," Gillespie said. "... This was a big game. We had our whole crowd behind us, so we knew that we had to get this game."
Head coach Mike Fuline said the way the Raiders lost last year's title game hurt most. It ultimately became a valuable lesson for a team that returned 90 percent of its players.
The Raiders now are enjoying one of their longest winning streaks in years.
"If you ever get lazy in the weight room, conditioning wise, we have guys who would just say, 'Marietta,' or the score, and it gets them refocused," Fuline said. "I want to learn when we win. I hate to learn after a loss like that. To be honest with you, it was big for us.
"In sports you can go in two different directions. We just have a group of people who collectively as a family just kind of drew together."
Dillon's 3-pointer with 51 seconds left gave Mount Union a 70-67 lead. After the Pioneers cut it to one, he hit two free throws with 20 seconds left to put the Raiders on top 72-69.
Marietta's Garrett Stephenson buried a 3 with 13 seconds left to tie the game at 72-72. There was still time left for Gillespie and the Raiders.
Gillespie drove the lane and drew a foul from Marietta's Andy Stegman with less than a second left. He hit the first free throw and purposely missed the second to help run out the clock.
The free throws were Gillespie's first of the night.
"I wanted the ball in my hands," he said. "Coach told me to make a play, so that's what I did. Luckily, I got fouled and was fortunate enough to make the free throw."
Gillespie hit four 3-pointers, including a pair which helped Mount Union rally from a 10-point first half deficit. His 21 points were one off a career high.
Dillon finished with 15 points, while Jarrett Ruffin and Jimmy Darnley added nine apiece. Darnley also grabbed a game-high seven rebounds.
The win pushes the Raiders 1 1/2 games ahead of Marietta (10-4, 5-2) in the OAC. The week isn't over though. Second-place Wilmington visits Mount Union on Saturday.
"That's going to be the next sign of maturity," Fuline said. "Can you forget this by tomorrow and move on at home on a Saturday against another team we haven't beaten in the last three years?"
Mount Union 73, Marietta 72
MARIETTA (10-4, 5-2) Dollman 5-12 5-10 16, Stephenson 5-9 2-2 14, Garcia 4-10 2-2 11, Ewing 3-11 2-2 10, Grenert 2-4 4-4 9, McKean 2-7 2-2 7, Davis 1-4 0-1 3, Richardson 1-5 0-0 2. Totals 23-63 17-23 72.
MOUNT UNION (11-2, 6-0) Gillespie 8-12 1-2 21, Dillon 5-9 2-2 15, Ruffin 4-11 1-2 9, Darnley 4-8 1-2 9, Foreman 2-3 0-0 5, Sherman 1-2 2-4 4, Jackson 0-2 3-4 3, M.Griffin 1-1 0-0 3, Shull 1-3 0-0 2, Keeslar 1-2 0-0 2, S.Griffin 0-2 0-0 0, Scelza 0-1 0-0 0, Jacubec 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 27-58 10-16 73.
Halftime—Mount Union 34-32. 3-point goals—Gillespie 4, Dillon 3, Stephenson 2, Ewing 2, McKean, Grenert, Davis, Garcia, Dollman, Foreman, M.Griffin. Fouls—Mount Union 21-16. Fouled out—Jacubec. Rebounds—Marietta 37 (Davis 6, Stephenson 6), Mount Union 41 (Darnley 7). Assists—Marietta 10 (Dollman 4), Mount Union 13 (Gillespie 3, Jacubec 3).


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This is a pedigree chart for Almeda [Miner-1615]. There are additional tools below.
This is a pedigree chart for Almeda [Miner-1615]. There are additional tools below.
Almeda Emeline (Miner) Francis
17 Sep 1872 - 23 Oct 1974
Mitchell, Iowa, United States
Sister of Charles Allen Miner, Mabel Clara Miner, Ella R. (Miner) Colwell, Cyrus William Miner and Cary Miner
Wife of Frederick Llewlyn Francis
Mother of Craig Miner Francis, Nathalie Francis, Leander Adrian Francis and Jacqueline (Francis) Porter
Leander Hoskins Miner
09 Mar 1851 - 10 Jun 1933
Allen Miner
14 Apr 1804 - 08 Jan 1880
Steuben Co., New York
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Emeline Wolcott
13 Aug 1810 - 29 Apr 1892
Utica, Oneida, New York, United States
Nathaniel Wolcott
08 Mar 1784 - 28 May 1840
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
Nathaniel Wolcott
09 Jul 1748 - 27 Jul 1810
Dorothy Evans
abt 15 May 1747 - abt 1810
Abigail Wolcott
12 Aug 1778 - 28 Jul 1856
Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Solomon Wolcott
21 Jun 1743 - 21 Jan 1811
Sarah Wells
13 Sep 1747 - 03 Apr 1805
Ella Elizabeth Scouten
Mar 1851 - 10 Apr 1930
New York, New York
William Scouten
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Almeda Andrews
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Here is a collection of tools for genealogists with an interest in Almeda's family history.
Ancestor List for Almeda (Miner) Francis
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Ancestor Explorer [independent app]
View or download a list of up to 25 generations of ancestors who meet a wide variety of criteria, map them, and more.
Compact Family Tree
Packed with eight generations — up to 254 ancestors — along with birth and death dates and locations. The downside is that it's not a conventional tree format; it may take a couple minutes to orient yourself.
How many degrees of separation are between Almeda and Henry VIII (or anyone else)? This Connection Finder includes relationships through marriage, so it is not a genealogical cousin calculator like our Relationship Finder, but it's a fun way to illustrate how closely we're all connected.
DNA Ancestors and DNA Descendants
Designed to help you use genetic testing to confirm and expand Almeda's genealogy. The DNA Ancestors page shows the specific ancestors from whom Almeda gets her mitochondrial DNA. Especially helpful for some serious genetic genealogists is the inheritance pattern for Almeda's X chromosome, also shown here. The DNA Descendants page shows exactly who has inherited Almeda's testable DNA.
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A step beyond the DNA Ancestors and DNA Descendants views. The ambitious goal: scientific confirmation of each parent-child relationship in Almeda's tree.
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Expands to include an unlimited number of generations of parents and children. You can zoom in or out and pan around for the perfect view as you browse.
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Advanced visualization tools plus downloading and printing capabilities.
Family Group Sheet
Simple page to illustrate nuclear families based on marriages. Handy when someone had children from more than one marriage.
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Flexible tool for viewing more ancestors and/or descendants on one page than anywhere else on WikiTree.
Fan Chart [independent app]
Lots of options for display, color, and sharing, including DNA inheritance, print with PDF, and other views such as "Fractal H-Trees" and "Relative SpiderWebs."
Images of Almeda
Photographs and source images for Almeda. Please contact the profile managers if you have any to add.
Index of Miners
Shows all the Miners on WikiTree. Useful for genealogists with an interest in the surname that goes beyond Almeda. There are a variety of connected tools, such as Miner DNA Connections and MINER G2G.
Location Maps [independent apps]
Here are quick links to mapping websites:
Birth: Mitchell, Iowa, United States on Google Maps | Open Street Map.
Marriage: Humboldt, California, United States on Google Maps | Open Street Map.
Death: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States on Google Maps | Open Street Map.
WikiTree+'s Map Navigator can plot Almeda's ancestors or descendants on a map.
Printer-Friendly Tree
Parallel to the pedigree chart above but optimized for printing. Can be used as a fill-in-the-blanks form.
Profile of Almeda
The central place for organizing and viewing information and sources. Whenever you see Almeda's name on WikiTree it will be linked to the profile at https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Miner-1615 where Miner-1615 is Almeda's unique WikiTree ID.
Profile Overview [independent app]
Dig into the contents of WikiTree profiles in a completely different way.
Relationship Finder
Enter Miner-1615 and any other WikiTree ID to find the genealogical relationship between Almeda and the other person. It will name the relationship, e.g. "third cousin twice removed," and show the trail of connections to a common ancestor. Although not everyone on WikiTree shares common ancestors, finding and connecting them is our ultimate goal. See the Relationship Finder Quick Links to check for relationships to US presidents, Mayflower passengers, Magna Carta Sureties and more.
Research with RootsSearch [independent app]
Automatically search for Almeda on more than 20 different genealogy websites with the RootsSearch app.
Share Tree on Facebook
Download and share an attractive family tree image. This is a great way to elicit information and photo sharing from family and old friends. You might be surprised at who replies. The "Wikid Shareable Tree" is another option. You can just copy and paste the URL https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Miner-1615/4 into your favorite social network.
A quick reference sheet with seven generations of Almeda's family names.
Here are additional tools to help genealogists collaborate on WikiTree to grow Almeda's family history.
Activity Feed
Here you can view the additions and changes that WikiTree members have made to Almeda's profile so far.
Bio Check [independent app]
Scan for missing sources and opportunities to improve profiles.
Edit Profile and Relationships
Almeda's edit page is the central location for adding information and correcting mistakes. Is there anything you can add or improve upon? Since you're not logged-in yet you can't make changes directly. Contact the profile managers. Please don't go away without giving us your information and sources. Thank you!
Family Tree Widgets
If you're a blogger who's writing a post about Almeda or have a Miner family website or surname website you can include one of these widgets to illustrate tree.
Privacy Setting
You'll notice colored privacy icons in search results, the Miner surname index, etc. The white dot for Almeda indicates that profile is Open. Only the profile manager can edit this setting.
Tests of Almeda's DNA
If Almeda's DNA (not a family member's or descendant's DNA) has been tested for genealogical purposes the test or tests should be selected here. This will automatically create connections on the profiles of Almeda's relatives where the test may be useful for confirming relationships. It's very valuable for advanced genealogy. To add tests you need to be on Almeda's Trusted List.
Trusted List
This shows you the WikiTree members who have full power to access and edit Almeda's information. Use it to see who else shares your interest in Almeda and receives updates about changes to the profile. The Relationship Finder icon links next their names will show you their relationship to Almeda.
Here are ways to connect and communicate with genealogists regarding Almeda's profile, especially if you're unable to collaborate directly using the WikiTree Tools above.
Comment on Profile Message Board
Almeda's profile, like all WikiTree profiles, has a section for public comments. This is the best place to put anything you'd like seen by all genealogists who are interested in Almeda. Profile managers are alerted to new comments via email, everyone on the Trusted List will see a notice about it in their activity feeds, and people who visit Almeda's profile in the future will see your comment. You will need to login to post.
E-Card for Almeda
Any image uploaded to WikiTree can be sent as a free e-card, including photos of Almeda or scans of vintage postcards. An e-card can be a great way to tell a genealogist or family member about what's here.
Private Message — Directly Contact Profile Manager
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Trusted List Request Form
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CAIRO — Gaza's ruling Hamas will not stop arming itself because only a strong arsenal, not negotiations, can extract concessions from Israel, the No. 2 in the Islamic militant group told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.
The comments by Moussa Abu Marzouk, just three days after the worst bout of Israel-Hamas fighting in four years, signaled trouble ahead for Egyptian-brokered talks between the hostile neighbors on a new border deal.
Hamas demands that Israel and Egypt lift all restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Palestinian territory, which has been buckling under a border blockade since the Islamists seized the territory in 2007. The restrictions have been eased somewhat in recent years, but not enough to allow Gaza's battered economy to develop.
Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. However, an Israeli security official said this week that Israel would likely link a significant easing of the blockade to Hamas's willingness to stop smuggling weapons into Gaza and producing them there.
Abu Marzouk said Saturday that the group would not disarm, arguing that recent Palestinian history has shown that negotiations with Israel lead nowhere unless backed by force.
"There is no way to relinquish weapons," Abu Marzouk said in his office on the outskirts of Cairo. "These weapons protected us and there is no way to stop obtaining and manufacturing them."
Hamas' founding charter calls for Israel's destruction, but leaders of the group have also said they are ready for a long-term cease-fire with the Jewish state.
The group is believed to have amassed a large arsenal of thousands of rockets since Israel's last military offensive in Gaza four years ago. Hamas has been smuggling weapons through tunnels under the border with Egypt, but also claims to have begun manufacturing longer-range rockets in Gaza.
During the latest round of fighting, Hamas fired Iranian-made Fajr-5 rockets that came close to Israel's heartland, including the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time. Israel warplanes pounded the tunnel area during the offensive to disrupt smuggling, and tunnel operators reported serious damage, but in the past were able to rebuild quickly.
Hamas used to be evasive about Iranian weapons support, but in recent days senior officials in the group have openly thanked Tehran. Gaza strongman Mahmoud Zahar told reporters on Saturday that he is confident that Iran will increase military and financial support to Hamas and the smaller militant group Islamic Jihad.
Iran and its regional rivals, the Sunni Muslim-led states in the Gulf, have been competing in recent months to lure Hamas into their respective camps. The top Hamas leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, is being hosted by the Gulf state of Qatar, which has promised hundreds of millions of dollars for Gaza reconstruction.
Zahar said Saturday that Hamas is not beholden to anyone, but defended the group's ties with Iran. "If they don't like it, let them compete with Iran in giving us weapons and money," he said in an apparent jab at the Gulf states.
Abu Marzouk, meanwhile, said Hamas would not stand in the way of a bid by its main political rival, internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to seek U.N. recognition for a state of Palestine next week.
Abbas will ask the U.N. General Assembly to approve "Palestine" — made up of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in 1967 — as a non-member observer state.
Such a state is far from being established, but Palestinians hope U.N. recognition would affirm its future borders, to be used as a baseline once negotiations with Israel resume. Israel, while willing to cede some land, refuses with withdraw to the 1967 lines and opposes Abbas' U.N. move as an attempt to bypass negotiations. Israel has moved half a million Israelis into settlements on war-won land.
Abu Marzouk suggested that Abbas is wasting his time at the U.N. "Hamas believes the General Assembly is not the one to create states," he said. "Occupation needs resistance, not negotiations."
Israel and the West have shunned Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in shootings and bombings over the years, as a terror organization. However, Hamas officials believe the boycott is slowly eroding, pointing to U.S. support for the cease-fire deal brokered by Egypt and the ongoing indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
Overall, Hamas leaders have claimed the group has emerged victorious from this round, noting that Israel did not make good on threats to send ground troops into Gaza. Israel says it has achieved its goal of halting rocket fire on Israel.
Abu Marzouk said the next round of indirect talks will take place in Cairo on Monday. He has not met his Israeli interlocutors, he said, but said they are security officials and experts on border arrangements.
Until late last year, most top Hamas leaders in exile were based in Syria, the Islamists' main foreign backer in addition to Iran. However, Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown on a popular uprising there made Hamas' alliance with the Damascus regime untenable.
Abu Marzouk, who has settled in a quiet Cairo suburb, said the follow-up talks with Israel were going well so far.
In Gaza, residents said Saturday that Israel has already eased some restrictions.
Fishermen were able to sail six nautical miles out to sea, or double the previous limit, said Mahfouz Kabariti, head of the local fishermen's association. "This is an opportunity and a chance for a better catch, though it is still a limited area," said Kabariti, who represents some 3,500 fishermen.
Israeli navy boats have been enforcing a sea blockade in an attempt to prevent weapons smuggling to Gaza. The restrictions on fishermen have fluctuated over the years, linked to the ups and downs in Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Meanwhile, some Gaza residents said they were able to enter an Israeli-enforced buffer zone on the Gaza side of the border Saturday with Israel without fear of being fired on.
Israel's military had carved out a 300-meter-wide (300-yard-wide) zone several years to try to prevent militants from sneaking into Israel. The zone gobbled up scarce farmland in one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
On Saturday, 42-year-old farmer Nidal Abu Dakka said soldiers stood and watched as he and others moved close to the fence. In other border areas, residents said Hamas police kept them away from the fence.
An Israeli government spokesman said he was unaware restrictions had been eased. A defense official said the Israeli military was no longer enforcing the no-go zone, but reserved the right to act against suspicious people. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss the issue with reporters.


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