his neighbours have said Bouhlel 'drank alcohol, ate pork and took drugs' in the wake of the attacks.

Neighbour Walid-Hamou, who came from the same town as Bouhlel in Tunisia, claims he overheard an argument between the killer and another person who told him that he was 'worthless'.

He told the Independent: 'He was even drinking just before he did this.

'He was heard arguing with someone who told him that he was worthless. Lahouaiej Bouhlel shouted back "one day, you'll hear about me"'.

'He was heard arguing with someone who told him that he was worthless. Lahouaiej Bouhlel shouted back "one day, you'll hear about me"'.

Bouhlel was on a cocktail of drugs for schizophrenia, alcoholism and depression, it has also emerged. The Bastille Day mass murderer was prescribed the medicine tocontrol increasingly violent rages.

The 31-year-old had been on medication since the age of 12 – a year before he left his hometown in Tunisia to move to Nice.

His father Mohamed Mondher showed the Daily Mail a prescription from 2004 that pointed to his disturbed mental state.

Neighbours have said Bouhlel was a petty criminal who spent his time drinking alcohol, bodybuilding and trying to pick up women.

They added that the 31-year-old Tunisian showed no signs of radicalisation until recently and never made it onto the radar of intelligence services.

One of nine siblings, Bouhlel had two brothers - Jaber and Haroun. and five sisters Sarrah, Asma, Rabeb, Assia, Emna and Zayneb.

He enrolled at the University of Monastir, some 30km from his home in Msaken, north eastern Tunisia, to study engineering.

However


he dropped out after two years to marry his cousin, Hajer, and move to France.

His is neighbours have said Bouhlel (left and right) 'drank alcohol, ate pork and took drugs' in the wake of the attacks

Those who knew the killer said he was well known for his 'violent temper' and had trained as a boxer in Tunisia.

It has also emerged that he has a criminal record in Tunisia following one conviction for physical abuse.

BMF TV, which released details of the texts, said the message was ambiguous and he was probably demanding more guns… rather than stating he had brought more.

KILLER ON DRUGS TO CURB RAGE Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was on a cocktail of drugs for schizophrenia, alcoholism and depression. The Bastille Day mass murderer was prescribed the medicineto control increasingly violent rages. The 31-year-old had been on medication since the age of 12 – a year before he left his hometown in Tunisia to move to Nice. His father Mohamed Mondher showed the Daily Mail a prescription from 2004 that pointed to his disturbed mental state. The medicines left him prone to side- effects including aggression, suicidal urges and hallucinations. Aged 19, he was on Haldol, used to control schizophrenia, Tranxene for alcoholism and anxiety, and Elavil for depression. His alleged use of cannabis and illegal pills could have made him even more volatile. Further side effects include severe sexual problems. Advertisement

Video surveillance which has been viewed by investigators shows Bouhlel at the wheel of the hired lorry on Tuesday and Wednesday driving up and


down the famous Promenade des Anglais.

According to sources, he can be seen observing the scene carefully as he plots his assault on the Bastille Day revellers.

The revelation comes as French police today arrested a man and a woman believed to be linked to Bouhlel - bringing the total number of those arrested to eight.

Another man was arrested and taken in for questioning this afternoon by police in Nice. He is the eighth person to be taken into custody since early Friday.

The number being held has fallen to six after Bouhlel's estranged wife Hajer Khalfallah - who was among those arrested on Friday - was released this morning.

The mother of three was in hiding today after fleeing to her mother's apartment following her release from custody shortly before lunchtimeon Sunday.

She left a central Nice police station with her lawyer and was driven to her mother's home which is on the same rough housing estate in the north of the city where she had shared a home with Bouhlel.

A source close to the police investigation said: 'Hajer Khalfallah was released at about 11 this morning.

'She left the police station with her lawyer.

'She has gone to stay with her mother who lives on same housing estate.'

Hundreds were injured when Bouhlel ploughed into them in the Bastille Day attack - and some have started leaving hospital

Bouhlel's estranged wife Hajer Khalfallah, who was among those arrested on Friday, was released this morning

The lorry used by truck terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was towed away the day after the atrocity in Nice

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claimed responsibility for the attack and described the father of three as a 'soldier' who had responded to 'calls to target nations of coalition states that are fighting (IS)'.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the picture emerging during questioning of scores of friends and relatives was of someone who 'seemed to have been radicalised very quickly'.

Bouhlel arrived in France from the northeastern Tunisian town of Msaken in 2005.

Police searched the hired lorry after the crazed terrorist killed at least 84 people in Nice

He gained residency a year later, married a local woman of Tunisian origin, with whom he had his children, and went to work as a delivery driver.

His father Mondher Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who lost touch with his son years ago, said his son had shown no interest inreligion as a youth.

Mr Bouhlel, who still lives in Tunisia, said: 'He didn't pray, he didn't fast, he drank alcohol. He even took drugs.'

Patrons of the small Nice gym where the bodybuilding truck terrorist was a regular until two years ago described him as a 'show-off' and a flirt.

One woman described him as someone 'who flirted with anything that moved'.

Neighbours of Bouhlel - who took salsa classes - said he was often seen drinking beer.

In March, the truck driver received a six-month suspended jail sentence over a violent confrontation after a car accident.

One former neighbour, who also asked not to be named, described him as violent man who had lashed out after his wife requested a divorce.

He said: 'He cut up his daughter's teddy bear and slashed the


mattress.

'I don't think there was a radicalisation issue, I think there was a psychiatric problem.'

His father claimed his son suffered from depression and that he would be become angry, but a South African man who looked on in horror as he rammed his rental truck into the crowd on the Nice promenade said he looked 'calm' and very focused.

John Lambert told his country's ENCA channel: 'It was almost like he was playing a video game, he was just focused on his job, trying to hit as many as possible.'

His brother Jaber said he sent a picture of himself laughing as he mingled with the crowd on the Nice promenade on Thursday.

He said that his brother called him for a final time just hours before the attack and thensent the selfie in the southern French city.

His brother Jaber (pictured) said he sent a picture of himself laughing as he mingled with the crowd on the Nice promenade on Thursday

Islamic community leaders condemned the attrocity as they address the media outside of the hospital in Nice today

Jaber said: 'That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday.

'He seemed very happy and pleased, he was laughing a lot.

'He spoke to me about the town of M'saken, about boxing and sport, and how he was going to come back to M'saken soon.

'He asked for news about our parents ... he always spoke to me, we were very close.

'He sent us small sums of money recently, sometimes 300 or 400 euros


and mobile telephones.'

He cut up his daughter's teddy bear and slashed the mattress. 'I don't think there was a radicalisation issue, I think there was a psychiatric problem.

Bouhlel's sister has said he was treated for psychological issues for years before leaving Tunisia.

A psychiatrist who treated him more than a decade ago said that he had been aggressive towards his parents and had body image problems.

The psychiatrist, Chemceddine Hamouda, said Bouhlel's parents brought him to his clinic in M'saken in August 2004.

Hamouda said: 'He had behavioural problems with his parents at that time ... he was very aggressive with them.

'Sometimes he had tried to lock his parents in a room in their house.

'He had problems with his body. He said: "Why am I thin? I'm not happy with mybody."

'I just gave him some pills to calm these behavioural issues and this aggression.'

Meanwhile, a lawyer for Bouhlel's estranged wife says she was no longer in touch with her husband.

Jean-Yves Garino told BFM-TV on Sunday that Ms Khalfallah had been physically abused by her husband, and eventually threw him out of the house.

Garino said 'it was hard, but she did it', adding, 'she was no longer in contact with him'.

He said Bouhlel also was violent with the rest of the family, including the woman's mother.


a separate tweet, showing her sitting on a yellow bench, she added: "Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions."

The Amazon lease, which will accommodate more than 1,500 employees, is a far smaller footprint than the giant retailer was pledging with its second headquarters on Long Island.

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Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions https://t.co/AC64pG0nZI pic.twitter.com/xzCepkX4AV — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 6, 2019

Amazon had promised to bring between 25,000 to 40,000 jobs to the city in exchange for upto $3 billion in tax breaks and financial incentives from the state and city governments. Ocasio-Cortez's vocal opposition, along with others, was blamed for scuttling the deal.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Amazon.com is taking 335,000 square feet on the city’s west side in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood. According to the newspaper, Amazon said it did not receive any tax credits or other inducements.

Amazon already has more than 3,500 employees in its New York City tech hub and told the newspaper it will continue to grow.

Public subsidies for the HQ2 project as well as concerns over the gentrification of Long Island City sparked significant political opposition, including Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC.

"Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers &


CicLAvia, the popular Los Angeles bike and pedestrian event group, has received a $500,000 contribution, organizers said Tuesday.

The non-profit received the donation from the Wasserman Foundation, said CicLAvia organizer Aaron Paley.

“It will help us to continue to grow CicLAvia,” Paley said of the new funds.

CicLAvia shuts down streets in certain sections of Los Angeles, giving bikers and pedestrians access to car-free roads and drawing tens of thousands of participants.

The event originated three decades ago in Bogota, Colombia and is now held in many cities across Latin America and the United States.

Paley said his group is planning four CicLAvia events in 2014. One of the new routes, he said, may be through the San Fernando Valley. The Valley spur would likely be located near the Red Line subway station,top richest person but he is a famous and successful businessman as well. His source of earning is the oil and gas business of reliance industry and he is the chairman of it. His gross stat of money is 27 billion dollars.

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For the past 11 years, the Gallup organization has done an interesting study where they rate every state in the country across five elements of well-being.

Combine them, and you get a pretty good assessment of how the states compare in terms of health and happiness.

For the past eight years, the top state on their well-being list has been one that probably won't surprise anyone: Hawaii.

The state that came in dead last has done so every single year for the past decade. Actually, I'm sorry to report that across the country, overall well-being declined slightly for the last two years.

First, we'll share the five elements, and then we'll list each of the 50 states in order. The five elements in this are described by Gallup as:

Career well-being: "liking whatto the market.

Some of Iowa's small distillers increased their lobbyist spending by a couple of thousand dollars, but the big push came from Templeton Rye Spirits, which hired lobbyists for the first time, paying them $108,014.

"It really did help," said Jane Knutson, the company's chief financial officer.

Branstad ultimately signed a bill giving distilleries greater freedom in the marketplace. For Templeton, it means being able to pour samples as visitors tour its new production facility.

"You can’t imagine having someone come up and doing a tour of a ($26 million) facility and then not being able to do a tasting," she said. "So we were very proactive in trying to get the law changed."

The American Progressive Bag Alliance, which represents the plastic bag industry, made its first foray into Iowa


600,000 poor or disabled Iowans, is a "tremendous" issue for hospitals and other health care providers in Iowa, where the state has shifted management of the program to for-profit companies. Nationally, debates over the future of the Affordable Care Act continue to generate uncertainty for state-level providers.

Other powerful industries, such as the tobacco and pharmaceuticals industries, also spent big to influence Iowa legislators this year.

Altria, one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco products, spent $172,701 on lobbyists in Iowa.

And unlike the hospital association, which registered its opinion on dozens of health care-related bills throughout the year, Altria's lobbyists registered on just four pieces of legislation. Among those was a budget bill ultimately signed by the governor that included language regulating the sale of e-cigarettes and"alternative nicotine products," which are seen by many as a threat to traditional tobacco products.

Pharmaceutical companies including Merck and Pfizer together spent a combined $545,000 in Iowa, up from about $351,000 last year.

Those companies lobbied on a bill that tries to limit a practice known as "fail first," in which patients have to prove cheaper medications are ineffective before an insurance company will pay for the more expensive drugs their doctors recommend. The House and Senate approved the bill unanimously and Branstad signed it into law.

Other private businesses representing a massive range of industries weighed in at the Capitol to the tune of about $3.5 million, and industry organizations and trade groups contributed another $3.6 million.

The Legislature passed a host of business-friendly legislation during its 2017 session, including


as corporate giveaways, while Republicans want to scale back carve-outs to lower tax rates across the board.

Event spending

Lobbyists and special interest groups also reported spending $325,976 on events and special functions for legislators during the 2017 session — up from about $311,000 the previous year.

Often, those events are as small as a spread of donuts and coffee in a Capitol meeting room, giving lawmakers a reason to mingle with members of various organizations.

But some, like an event hosted by the Iowa Association of Realtors at the Des Moines Embassy Suites, are more lavish. That event topped out at $23,628.

The association lobbied on dozens of bills during the year, including one that shortened so-called "statute of repose" periods for homeowners. Under the bill, which Branstad signed into law, IowaOtolaryngology

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life insurance policy issued by ReliaStar.
The policy named her estate as the beneficiary. When Emas died intestate on
November 18, 2006, she left her son, McCleary, as her only heir. The Polk County
District Court appointed McCleary as administrator3 of his mother’s estate.

       In accordance with Iowa law, McCleary published a notice that any creditors
with claims against the estate must file their claims with the district court for Polk
County within “four months from the second publication of this notice” or their claims
would be “forever barred.” See Iowa Code § 633.410. McCleary published the first
notice on December 11, 2006, and the second on December 27, 2006.

       On July 9, 2009, the attorney for Emas’s estate filed an application toThe German government has approved more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in arm exports to the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen since the beginning of this year, according to an Economy Ministry document seen by dpa.

The document showed that Berlin approved a total of 56 defense export deals between January 1 and June 5, including 801.8 million euros' worth of exports to Egypt and 26.1 million euros' worth of exports to the United Arab Emirates.

Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has headed an alliance of Arab states fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen that includes Egypt and the UAE.

The rebels are being backed by Iran in a war that has led to a humanitarian disaster described by the United Nations as the worst in the world.

Germany has imposed a


partial arms embargo on countries involved in the Yemen conflict, and slapped a total ban on Saudi Arabia in November last year following the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

That ban was recently partially lifted in response to pressure from Britain and France, in particular regarding arms exports with German components that fell under the ban.

The document seen by dpa, which was a response by the Economy Ministry to a request for information by Greens lamaker Omid Nouripour, also shows that Berlin approved two defense deals with Saudi Arabia during the period despite the ban.

Ulrich Nussbaum, a senior official in the ministry, said the deals included 831,000 euros' worth of armored vehicles.The US Senate Tuesday passed cybersecurity legislation aimed at facilitating sharing of attack threats, a measure backed by the US administration but opposed by many tech giants and privacy activists.

The 74-21 vote sends the measure to the House of Representatives, which earlier this year approved a similar bill.

Backers said the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would make it easier to share information between the government and private sector on cyber threats, but critics said it opened the door to greater surveillance.

"This landmark bill finally better secures Americans private information from foreign hackers," said Senator Richard Burr, head of the chamber's intelligence committee.

"American businesses and government agencies face cyber-attacks on a daily basis. We cannot sit idle while foreign agents and criminal gangs continue to steal Americans' personal information... This


LONDON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Conservationists say they have brought one of the world's most threatened bird species to Britain to start a captive breeding program.

Thirteen spoon-billed sandpipers arrived in Britain Friday after a 5,000-mile trip from their breeding grounds in Russia's Far East, the BBC reported.

After 60 days in quarantine at Moscow Zoo, the birds arrived at London's Heathrow Airport looking "bright-eyed, alert and active," officials of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust said.

Spoon-billed sandpipers are threatened by the loss of crucial shoreline feeding sites along their 5,000-mile migration route from Russia to the wintering grounds in South and Southeast Asia, conservationists said.

The breeding program is part of an international group involving Birds Russia, Moscow Zoo, the RSPB and the British Trust for Ornithology.

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Almost two years later  May 28, 1956  the Township Authority sold its water works to the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County (herein called County Authority) under a contract to which North Huntingdon Township (herein called Township) was a signatory. Paragraph XII of this agreement recites: "The seller and the Township will pay out of the monies paid to them jointly . . . [iii] the reasonable fees and expenses of consulting engineers employed by


attorney fees, and court costs in excess of $20,000" and, in the event of a settlement, will "pay all amounts agreed upon in excess of $20,000.00".
Burke's claim not having been paid, he instituted an assumpsit action, joining as defendants therein the Township, the Township Authority and the County Authority. Three causes of action were stated in the Complaint. The cause of action stated against the Township Authority is based upon the contract of June 3, 1954 between the Township Authority and Burke; the cause of action stated against the Township is based upon two grounds: (a) that the Township became liable to Burke by virtue of the provisions of the "Municipality Authorities Act of 1945", providing for the assumption of an Authority's projects by the municipality which createdAuthority by the municipality. To hold otherwise would be to ignore completely the statutory mandate. The bare execution by the municipality of the contract between the Township Authority and the County Authority cannot be substituted for the requisite "resolution or ordinance of the Authority." We cannot satisfy the statutory mandate by a fiction, to wit, that because the Township signed the agreement it necessarily must have acquired the project of the Authority. The Township's execution of the agreement between the Township Authority and the County Authority was simply a waiver by the municipality of its rights to acquire the project from the Authority and there was no statutory assumption by the municipality of any of the obligations incurred by the Authority in respect to its project. In this


respect Burke has failed to state a valid cause of action against the Township.
The next facet of Burke's argument dealing with the liability of the Township applies equally to the liability of the County Authority. Burke claims that, even though he was not a party to the contract of May 28, 1956 nor the understanding contained in the "letter of intent", yet he stands as to both in the position of a creditor beneficiary entitled to sue both the Township and the County Authority.
Assuming, arguendo, the Township to be a primary party to both the contract and the "letter of intent" is Burke a creditor beneficiary entitled to maintain a suit against both Township and County Authority?
That a third party, not in privity to the original contract, maySurvivor: Kayleigh Cullinan was left blind in one eye after an attack by a group of girls when she was 15. Photo: Caroline Quin.

Country musician Kayleigh Cullinan has said her life has been changed forever following an attack by school bullies, which left her blind in one eye.

The Dublin singer (21), from Kimmage, had been the target of bullies for a number of years prior to the 2010 incident, which left her with permanent sight loss.

Speaking to the Sunday World, Kayleigh recalled the day she was confronted on the street by the group as well as a dozen other spectators and was attacked.

In the incident, Kayleigh's ponytail was pulled back with such force, her retina detached.

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BRUSSELS, October 27. /TASS/. European energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger and Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuri Prodan had a telephone conversation on Monday to discuss aspects of the forthcoming tripartite gas talks due in Brussels on October 29, a spokesman for the European Commission told TASS.

According to TASS information, the sides discussed issues of financial guarantees to Ukraine to pay for Russian gas supplies in November-December 2014. The spokesman however refused to elaborate whether any agreement on that matter had been reached, saying only that preparatory work for the tripartite talls was underway.

After the previous tripartite gas talks in Brussels on October 21, Oettinger admitted that Ukraine needed from one to two billion U.S. dollars to be able to pay for Russian gas. Kiev has alreadyto last or will our fixation with pixelated graphics come and go like mom…

For the first time in the event's history, E3 2019 will not feature Sony or PlayStation. The massive event almost always features a lengthy press conference from Sony, often after all other major companies give theirs.

With a reported launch in 2019, AMD is focusing on the mid-range market with its next-generation Navi GPU. Billed as a successor to Polaris, Navi promises to deliver better performance to consoles, like Sony's PlayStation 5.

It's often overwhelming to navigate Hulu's robust library of TV shows. To help, we've put together a list of the best shows on Hulu, whether you're into frenetic cartoons, intelligent dramas, or anything in between.

There's no doubt that a good 4K smart TV is the


Hugo Theorell separated this yellow enzyme into apoenzyme and yellow pigment, and showed that neither the enzyme nor the pigment was capable of oxidizing NADH on their own, but mixing them together would restore activity. Theorell confirmed the pigment to be riboflavins phosphate ester, flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in 1937, which was the first direct evidence for enzyme cofactors. Warburg and Christian then found FAD to be a cofactor of D-amino acid oxidase through similar experiments in 1938. Warburg's work with linking nicotinamide to hydride transfers and the discovery of flavins paved the way for many scientists in the 40s and 50s to discover copious amounts of redox biochemistry and link them together in pathways such as the citric acid cycle and ATP synthesis.

Properties

Flavin adenine dinucleotide consists ofreduce FAD. Once NADP+ dissociates, the substrate can bind and the reduced flavin can reduce the product.

Thiol/disulfide chemistry

Glutathione reductase (GR) catalyzes the reduction of glutathione disulfide (GSSG) to glutathione (GSH). GR requires FAD and NADPH to facilitate this reaction; first a hydride must be transferred from NADPH to FAD. The reduced flavin can then act as a nucleophile to attack the disulfide, this forms the C4a-cysteine adduct. Elimination of this adduct results in a flavin-thiolate charge-transfer complex.

Electron transfer reactions

Cytochrome P450 type enzymes that catalyze monooxygenase (hydroxylation) reactions are dependent on the transfer of two electrons from FAD to the P450. In eukaryotic cells there are two types of P450 systems. The P450 systems that are located in the endoplasmic reticulum are dependent on a cytochrome P-450


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The well-equipped business center includes a comprehensive reference section, private offices, 7 meeting rooms in the 14,348 square foot (1,333 square meter) conference center, secretarial and translation services, and computers for rent. An Internet point is provided for guests' convenience, as WiFi access is available in public areas. Free newspapers are available in the lobby. The hotel runs a roundtrip, 24-hour airport shuttle (advance notice is required) and an area shuttle. An electric car charging station is available onsite.

Where to Eat

Kranzler's Restaurant & Bar - Featuring contemporary Asian and European cuisine prepared by the Executive Chef either à la carte or buffet style. Open from early morning to late evening.

Dragon Palace - An antique carriage used by Qing Dynasty royalty takes pride of place atthe entrance to this traditional Chinese restaurant, where red-and-gold decor and intricate murals reflect Beijing's dining heritage. The circular restaurant is surrounded by gardens. Open for lunch and dinner.

Paulaner Brauhaus - A German style restaurant and bar, which brews its own beer and serves traditional German food. The bar area is dominated by huge copper brewing vats, and the outdoor beer garden is popular among visitors and locals. Open from late morning to late evening.

Rendezvous - A spacious bar and lounge located off the lobby, with plenty of natural light from a sun roof. Live piano music in the evenings. Open from early morning to late evening.

Kempi Deli - This small Western café and bakery serves homemade sausages, pastries, cheesecakes, and chocolate pralines, together with freshly made bread


Democrat leadership has chosen to run defense for the party’s blatant antisemitism, and are now demanding the GOP apologize for calling it out.

On Monday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both demanded President Donald Trump and the Republicans apologize to Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib after they attacked her for her comments about the Holocaust during a podcast.

Trump had called Tlaib out for her comments on Twitter, adding that she had a tremendous hatred for the Jewish people, and asked what would happen if he had said anything of this sort.

Democrat Rep. Tlaib is being slammed for her horrible and highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust. She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people. Can you imagine what would happen ifsystems and ends up impacting business property owners (CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Kimco realty,...), municipalities, and ultimately even the homeowner.

While the technology is disruptive, a second possible consequence of this disruption is the potential impact to the well-established verticals and the key players in those verticals.

On one hand, embedded network technology manufacturers are expected to grow their existing networking footprint to include the massive footprint of deployed lights.

Do the CISCO's, Juniper's, Ericsson's, Huawei's... become lighting companies as well?

On the other hand, VLC is also an important extension to the lighting industry to leverage their ubiquitous physical presence and drive the conversion of a 100+-year-old lighting technology into future market opportunities.

Do the Phillips, OSRAM'S, Zumtobel's, GE's, Acuity's, CREE's,... become networking companies as well?

This opportunity to approach IoT through networking


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Like our microwave sensor? Vote for us in two product-of-the-year competitions! The Lumewave by Echelon microwave sensor was recognized in two industry product-of-the-year awards competitions this spring. The microwave sensor is the market’s first Bluetooth-enabled, very long range radar-based microwave sensor and controller for controlling street, pathway and area lights.

Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M) magazine, the technical authority for electrical professionals, named our MWX-LVE-180U Microwave Sensor a winner in the "Lighting Controls" category for 2015 Product of the Year.

And Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine, whose readers are responsible for buying or specifying technical products, selected the sensor as a finalist in the "Lighting Controls" category for its 2015 Product of the Year program.

The MWX-LVE-180U is the market’s first Bluetooth-enabled, very longtwo pediatric hospitals and two maternity hospitals. In 2009, the other pediatric hospital admitted 3,252 neonates (11% birth weight \< 2500 g) and had no neonatal intensive care unit. The two maternity hospitals performed 67,655 deliveries (more than 95% of the deliveries registered in the city). Of these, 18,328 were admitted to their neonatal units, including the neonatal intensive care units. No neonatal surgery was offered in the maternity hospitals.

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All neonates admitted to PH1 in a 12 month period from February 2009 to February 2010 were included in the study. The neonates were identified using the central hospital registry.

For a subgroup of neonates a questionnaire was completed. The subgroup included all of the neonates in emergency room and intensive care unit as well as every second neonate from


into the database. The doctors are instructed to assign all relevant diagnoses.

RH serves as local hospital to a part of Copenhagen and as tertiary general hospital for East Denmark. Obstetric care (including centralisation of deliveries with GA\<28 weeks) and neonatal care are among the services provided. The neonatal department, including intensive care, has 36 beds and manages both neonates born in the hospital and those referred from other hospitals. Six of the referring hospitals provide specialized care. None of these offer surgery in neonates and only one has ventilator capacity, which is limited. In addition to the therapies offered at PH1, RH provided inhaled nitric oxide, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, extensive surgical procedures and in the end of the study period controlled hypothermia. In 2009, the catchment population wasalso fined for accepting at least $369 million in illegal proceeds from drug trafficking and other activity from the period between 2009 and 2012.

Rabobank also warned against the risks of Bitcoin. Quickly after that, the bank took a major U-turn and announced that it plans to offer a cryptocurrency wallet.

The obvious conclusions aside, it’s important to note that multiple international governmental institutions have already spoken up on the risks of cryptocurrencies associated with illicit activities.

A report from the Financial Services and Treasury of Hong Kong on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment revealed that cryptocurrencies are widely left out of organized crime.

The National Crime Agency of the UK, in its National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing report of 2017 also outlined that the risks


Uncovered: A Japanese village outside Phnom Penh

For once! An archaeology story in Cambodia that doesn’t link back to Angkor. Remnants of a 17th-century Japanese village were unearthed outside Phnom Penh. It seems that Japanese settlers had set up colonies in Cambodia, probably to facilitate trade. There have been other colonies found in Vietnam.

17th century Japanese village uncovered in Cambodia
AP via AOL news, 13 February 2008

A site of a Japanese village dating back to the 17th century has been found in the outskirts of Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, a Japanese archaeologist said Wednesday.

Hiroshi Sugiyama, chief research fellow at Japan’s National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, said that based on research since 2004 and analyses of excavations and documents, the site in Ponhea Lueu Commune, about 25 kilometers north ofPhnom Penh, is a Japanese village dating back to the 17th century.

Based on on-site research, excavations and historical documents, Japanese people came to Cambodia aboard ships between 1601 and 1635, he said.

i just found out that besides Vietnam and Cambodia, the Japanese also had a settlement in Ayutthaya around the 17th century. it looks like they were quite busy! I wonder if there were any other similar settlements further down south, in the Malayan peninsula and the Indonesian islands…


ABC Sports cameraman dies two days after fall

MADISON, Wis. -- A cameraman for ABC Sports died two days after falling from a platform at Camp Randall Stadium while preparing for coverage of the Iowa- Wisconsin football game.

Richard Umansky, 48, died Sunday morning at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, the Dane County Coroner's Office said Monday.

Umansky, of Davie, Fla., sustained a head injury Friday when he fell about eight feet from a wooden platform to a cement entry ramp, police said.

Umansky worked for ABC Sports for nearly 20 years.

"All of us at ABC Sports are deeply saddened by the death of cameraman Rich Umansky," Michael Pearl, ABC Sports senior vice president and executive producer said in a statement Monday. "He was a valued colleague and friend, and he willsuit, challenges the validity of the Committee's action in disapproving the wage increases contractually agreed upon by plaintiff and the PIP. Plaintiff, by letter dated May 19, 1972, demanded that all signatory employers place all of the negotiated wage increases in escrow. Shortly thereafter, on May 26, 1972, the Committee notified plaintiff that the proposed escrow arrangement was prohibited by the Committee.
The CISC permits escrow of wages pending its determination but does not permit escrow of disallowed increases. Plaintiff challenges this distinction as arbitrary and capricious. Relying on the Committee's letter, the employer signatories have refused to place the negotiated wage increases in escrow. Plaintiff, by motion, now seeks to enjoin the Committee from prohibiting the escrow of the negotiated increases. At the same time, the PIP has


the renaissance of the repressed domain of the feminine in international affairs. Diplomacy itself of course in performative terms precisely belongs to the repressed domain of the feminine since diplomacy is essentially the art of speaking soft in pursuing female cunning. It has often been suggested that diplomacy is the opposite of warfare, meaning the opposite of patriarchal warfare specifically. Yet it has also been suggested that there is a continuum of warfare and diplomacy in both forming part of the same policy spectrum in one being a continuation of the other.

As diplomacy is surviving expression of a mostly repressed domain of the feminine as derived from gynocentric court etiquette needs the question be posed how the feminine practice of diplomacy may be complemented by feminist policy?

Diplomacy isprior to the Zagros War (usually known as the Kirkuk crisis) with the signing of the comprehensive Israeli-Kurdistani defense pact as prior to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) symbolic referendum of independence in 2017. Since the Afrin War of 2018 does the YPJ command both the SDF in Syria and the Peshmerga of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The internal, semi-secret and actual name of the DFNS is Femina. As a state is Femina committed to minimal government while promoting universal emancipation. This means that Femina seeks to minimize the functional involvement of government in life, including minimizing government administration with the purpose of ending the scourge of bureaucracy. Minimizing government is simply a matter of practically speaking abolishing patriarchy. The purpose of Femina is thus not projection of patriarchal power but


Netflix’s reboot of “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” has found its titular character.

Patrick Warburton will play Lemony Snicket on the series, which also stars Neil Patrick Harris, Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.

In 2014, the streaming service acquired the rights to produce an original series based the books, which recount the tale of the orphaned children Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire at the hands of the villainous Count Olaf, as they face trials and tribulations, misfortunes and an evil uncle in search of their fortune, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents’ death.

Also Read: 'Lemony Snicket' Being Adapted by Netflix for Series

It will be co-produced with Paramount Television. Paramount produced the 2004 movie “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

Jude Law voiced theAlvarez, 26, has won five consecutive fights after losing a majority decision to Floyd Mayweather in September 2013. He is considered one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world and has looked particularly sharp in recent fights. Alvarez enters the bout as a -1200 favorite compared to Smith at +700.

The timing and the nationality of his opponent for this upcoming bout are interesting given what transpired last Saturday. Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, easily considered Alvarez’s most prestigious potential opponent, defeated top English boxer Kell Brook, a welterweight champion who moved up to middleweight, by a fifth-round TKO at 02 Arena in London.

Now Alvarez will be fighting an even bigger underdog from England, and after he earned a convincing knockout victory over perhaps the most known English boxer, Amir


Greene Street Boat Club in Jersey City with the Lower Manhattan skyline and the World Trade Center in the distance, 1975

The view from a PATH train end-window on a trip from Newark to New York, Jersey City, March 1977.

The Erie Lackawanna railroad terminal, 1975

Liberty State Park, Jersey City, 1979

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Battery Park City landfill towards Jersey City from the abandoned West Side Highway in front of the World Trade Center (its shadow on the left), May 1974

1975

Jersey City industrial ruins at the end of Greene Street, 1975

Abandoned pier at Exchange Place in Jersey City with World Trade Center across the Hudson, March 1975

A fenced off overgrown area that was too toxic to remediate, Jersey City, March 1974Those burying plague victims would probably not have imagined that their descendents would be healthier than before the plague struck

London survivors of the Black Death were healthier than their ancestors before the plague devastated the city. The reasons remain unclear and may be revealing about the long term effects of other disasters.

Dr Sharon De Witte of University of Southern Carolina examined skeletons from 200 years either side of the Black Death's arrival in 1347. She says, “Given that the mortality associated with the Black Death was extraordinarily high and selective, the medieval epidemic might have powerfully shaped patterns of health and demography in the surviving population, producing a post-Black Death population that differed in many significant ways, at least over the short term, from the population that existed


Niehaus remembered by thousands at Safeco Field

Clockwise from top, a fan holds up a sign. Sherry Locke embraces her son Brandon during the ceremony. Mariners President Chuck Armstron points skyward during the ceremony. A Dave Niehaus jersey hangs in the empty broadcast booth. (Joshua Trujillo, Seattlepi.com) | Photo Gallery

The forecast Saturday was miserable, as the Mariners’ forecast has been during most of their 30-plus seasons. Still, as he did during the team’s tough times, Dave Niehaus made people smile.

“When the baseball club was at its worst, Dave was at his best,” broadcast partner Rick Rizzs told thousands gathered at Safeco Field celebrating the life of Niehaus, who died of a heart attack Nov. 10 at age 75.

Niehaus called the Mariners’ first pitch – a strike – from Diegosaid in a video tribute. “You could always take something home.”

In 1985, Niehaus was ranked by Sport Magazine as No. 4 among baseball’s most accomplished announcers. That was an honor for the man who was raised faithfully listening to Harry Caray call balls and strikes for the St. Louis Cardinals, the nearest baseball team to his Indiana hometown.

He broadcast Gaylord Perry’s historic 300th win in 1982, and said Phil Bradley’s game-winning grand slam in 1984 was one of his favorite calls. Niehaus marked the Mariners’ first winning season in 1991 and threw out the first pitch at Safeco Field in 1999.

Mariners President Chuck Armstrong – who jokingly thanked Niehaus on Saturday, saying the applause he got before giving a eulogy was the first he’d received since March –


choked up when talking about how Niehaus was a foundation of the franchise.

Armstrong announced the Mariners will wear a patch on the right sleeve of their jerseys next year. Also, Niehaus’ microphone will be on display at Safeco, and a statue of him will be unveiled during the 2011 season.

For as much as Niehaus loved baseball, he loved his family more. And he always asked about people in the lives of those he cared about.

Wilson recalled him always asking about his wife. He was never quite sure how Niehaus remembered her name with all the people he knew.

“He asked how the kids were every time I saw him,” Wilson said.

His broadcast booth was lined with pictures of his grandkids and family. The first Mariners game he missed wasfor his son Andy’s high school graduation. Niehaus was there when Andy and his two other children graduated from college and took time away to be at the birth of each of his six grandchildren.

“All the great things you saw in my dad, they were magnified in his personal life,” his daughter, Greta Niehaus Dunn, told the crowd.

An Indiana University graduate, Niehaus met his wife Marilyn at a party.

“The first thing he asked me was, ‘Do you like baseball?'” she once told the P-I.

She said no, but he still asked her to dance. That, his longtime broadcast partner said, was the best call of his life.

Niehaus was inducted into the broadcast wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, and thanked the fans for helping him


Anderson Silva and Shogun Rua to Coach TUF Brazil 4

UFC® AND GLOBO ANNOUNCE BRAZILIAN ICON ANDERSON SILVA AND “SHOGUN” RUA WILL COACH THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER® BRAZIL

THE SERIES WILL BE FILMED IN LAS VEGAS IN EARLY 2015 AND WILL STREAM ON UFCFIGHTPASS.COM

Sao Paulo – Two of the greatest Brazilian fighters of all time will lead the search for the next generation of Brazilian mixed martial artists, as the UFC® and Globo announce that Anderson Silva and “Shogun” Rua will coach the fourth season of The Ultimate Fighter® Brazil.

The legendary icon Silva (33-6 in professional MMA, fighting out of Curitiba, Brazil), the longest-reigning and most successful UFC champion of all time, will coach the UFC’s flagship reality competition series for the first time. He will coachoperated by Zuffa, LLC, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC®) is the premier mixed martial arts (MMA) organization and largest pay-per-view event provider in the world. Headquartered in Las Vegas with offices in London, Toronto, Singapore and Sao Paulo, UFC produces more than 40 live events annually that consistently sell out some of the most prestigious arenas around the globe. UFC programming is broadcast in 129 countries and territories to nearly 800 million TV households worldwide in 28 different languages. The UFC has a multi-year broadcast agreement with FOX in the U.S., which annually includes four live events broadcast on the FOX network, as well as The Ultimate Fighter® reality television show and thousands of hours of programming on FOX Sports 1 and FOX Sports 2. In 2014, UFC


of Florida State in 2015, Williams battled injuries and inconsistency early in his career. But he had the best stretch of his career in that slot-cornerback role during the second half of last season after veteran Patrick Robinson broke his ankle.

Williams was named the NFC's Defensive Player of the Week for Week 8 after returning an interception for a touchdown and helping to force a fumble in the Saints' 30-20 victory at Minnesota.

The Saints do have other options at nickelback if needed, though, including the now-healthy Robinson and rookie safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson.

Williams' arrest came just three days after the Saints' loss in the NFC Championship Game. He was stopped after driving 80 mph in a 50 mph zone along the Crescent City Connection Bridge and refused a breathtest, according to the New Orleans Police Department. He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center for DWI, speeding, improper lane usage and failure to use a turn signal.

Williams also was arrested for DUI shortly before the 2015 draft, though charges were later dropped. And, while he was at Florida State, he was involved in a 2014 car accident, where he initially left the scene before returning 20 minutes later. He was ticketed only for failing to yield and driving with a suspended license in that incident, and police noted no suspicion of him being impaired.


everyone laughed. But while everyone was laughing and not looking at him he told himself "I need to help this starving tribe I need to make a difference" so he jumped. They all said "he's dead" but while he was under the blue substance he tried to move his flippers and squirm his body around an then the next thing he knew he was floating on the blue substance saying "come on in the waters nice there is little creatures down here I bet there good to eat" so they all did and Bob saved the day.

While on the other side of the earth there were the birds. lazy and starving because they didn't know how to get the juicy berries and nuts high up in the trees.in businesses that are either inefficiently run or have failed to produce goods and services that consumers’ value highly. In the absence of bailouts, some firms would have gone bankrupt and the capital reallocated to vibrant firms that are producing what consumers demand in a cost-effective way.

Expansion of government entitlement programs, such as food stamps and unemployment compensation, has reduced the incentive to be employed. The average benefit per recipient of food stamps jumped by approximately 25 percent between 2007 and 2010 due to rule changes. It also became easier to qualify for food stamps. As Richard Vedder points out in a Wall Street Journal editorial, the number of food stamp recipients rose by over 7 million between 2010 and 2012, a period of falling unemployment.

A number of


less output is produced and real GDP grows more slowly.

In addition to the policies described above, health care reform has also likely contributed to less employment and output in the economy. By requiring all firms employing more than 50 workers to provide health insurance coverage, the Affordable Care Act has discouraged some firms from hiring workers, while giving other firms an incentive to reduce hours or lay off workers.

Finally, uncertainty about the future direction of the economy has resulted in fixed investment that is only 93 percent as high as it was in 2006. This uncertainty likely stems from a combination of recent bailouts, huge and unsustainable government deficits, Federal Reserve monetary policy and growing government regulation such as Dodd-Frank and health care reform. Investment is what makesworkers more productive thereby driving economic growth.

Although some of the policies responsible for slow growth began before Obama took office, he has expanded those policies and added new ones as well. It is necessary that those policies be reversed if the U.S. economy is going to again grow as rapidly as it did during most of the 2oth century. Such growth is vital both as a means to lift people out of poverty and to raise the revenue necessary to pay for Social Security and Medicare benefits to a growing population of retirees. Unfortunately, in the meantime, the lack of growth under Barack Obama during the last five years has been literally the worst for any president since World War II.

By Dr. Tracy C. Miller

–Dr. Tracy C. Miller


this pattern forming method, a resist pattern is formed by performing the steps of: generating an acid in an exposed area of a resist film; selectively forming a metal oxide film in the exposed area by using the generated acid as a catalyst; and dry-etching the resist film by using the metal oxide film as a mask. Thus, this method is a negative type lithography process in which a resist pattern is formed in the exposed area of a resist film.
The negative type lithography process has the following problems in, for example, forming contact holes for connecting multi-layer interconnections of an integrated circuit.
First, the usage itself of a mask, generally employed in an exposure process step, causes the following problems. In the lithography process for forming contact holes,of players, and broken all the limitations of nature and nurture, physical and psychological, inside and outside the sporting environment.

The Adidas 2017 marketing campaign “One in a Billion” was launched with a themed commercial created by an international design team.

From January 9, this Adidas commercial will be comprehensively shown on the main TV stations, streaming sites and cinemas across all the major cities in China. Adidas will also launch a series of promotions via outdoor media, social media and digital media, with its endorsers (like Hui Ruoqi, Ning Zetao and David Beckham) interacting with followers on social media.


and during the night when in bed.

In fact, Henry Ring Crocker, recently arrived from Valentia, proved unable to cope at all: "at times his senses seem to fail entirely – another Newfoundland winter would be too much for him." Weedon shipped him back to Ireland.

The station had a desperate need for medical services. The young doctor at Heart's Content, Arthur Buchannan, was an habitual drinker whose wife had deserted him. He spent his time carousing with off-duty staff, and according to Weedon was "fit for nothing." He soon moved to Trinity to live with his mother and sister and died shortly after. With Buchannan gone, the closest physician was in Harbour Grace. The company provided Frank Perry with a medical reference book, and he did his best toPages

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

General Donald Donaldson, alias Dimitri Dimitrov alias Jim Adams, was intimately acquainted with the CIA people who planned JFK's assassination. He was in Holland to tell his story to NOS-TV and Willem Oltmans. He told Oltmans that Allen Dulles was the key CIA man in planning JFK's assassination. (Donaldson had been brought to the U.S. as a double agent during World War II by Franklin Roosevelt.) He held back his knowledge of the assassination conspiracy until the Church Committee was formed. He then took his information to Church, who brought him to President Ford rather than having him questioned by the Church Committee or the Schweiker sub-committee. Ford, Church and Donaldson had a meeting in which Ford talked both of them into keeping Donaldson's information


under wraps.

When de Mohrenschildt was killed, Donaldson decided it was time to make his information public and to offer it to the Select Committee. He approached Oltmans, asked that his identity be kept secret, told NOS his story, and then remained in Holland while Oltmans attempted to tell the story to President Carter. Oltmans revealed Donaldson's identity on American TV and to the Select Committee when Carter refused to listen to the story. Donaldson then moved to England, and subsequently disappeared from a London hotel, leaving large unpaid bills at both his London and Amsterdam hotels. The possibility is very good that he has gone the same route as de Mohrenschildt, murdered by the PCG.

Mossad chief Tamir Pardo held secret talks with top U.S. officials in recent days,cursory comments made during a public Senate hearing indicated on Tuesday.

The clandestine Washington visit was exposed during a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which was participated by CIA Director David Petraeus, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate panel.

During the meeting, Feinstein asked Clapper whether or not Israel intended to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, with the top U.S. intelligence official answering that he would rather discuss the issue behind closed doors.

Feinstein then indicated that she had met Mossad chief Pardo earlier in the week in Washington, with Petraeus adding that he too met Pardo and cited what he called Israel's growing concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

The CIA chief also said that it was important to note that Israel considered


missile delivery as its preferred method of delivering a nuclear weapon."

Clapper also indicated that the 2011 Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi envoy to the U.S. indicated that the Iranian leadership "changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime."

"We are also concerned about Iranian plotting against U.S. or allied interests overseas. Iran's willingness to sponsor future attacks in the United States or against our interests abroad probably will be shaped by Tehran's evaluation of the costs it bears for the plot against the ambassador as well as Iranian leaders' perceptions of U.S. threats against the regime," Clapper added.

News of the Mossad chief's reported Washington visit came as, alsoon U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds

By Greg Miller

U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said in prepared testimony that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington that was uncovered last year reflects an aggressive new willingness within the upper ranks of the Islamist republic to authorize attacks against the United States.

That plot “shows that some Iranian officials — probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that


we are always at war? Do you understand that as long as private central bankers control the economies of nations that wars murdering millions of innocents are inevitable?

Government School: Six Year Old Guilty of Sexual Assault After Playing Tag

Kurt Nimmo

In politically correct San Francisco, a six year old boy was charged with sexual assault after playing a game of tag on the playground.

The child was accused of brushing his best friend’s leg or groin while the two were playing on the playground at Lupine Hills Elementary in Hercules two months ago, according to CBS in San Francisco.

The parent of the child said his son was held in the principal’s office and interrogated. The school coerced a confession from the child. He was suspended and a sexual battery chargetrade instinct of government is largely above reproach.

For the ordinary parent, the only sane option is to remove his or her children from government indoctrination mills and the prison complex and homeschool them.

Iran Will Be Attacked Because International Banksters Are In Pursuit of A One World Colony

Globalization, as practiced by the U.S. government since the state terror attacks on September 11, 2001, is colonization under a new internationalist flag.

International usurers aka banksters are at the tip of the spear in the economic colonization of Earth and thus they are the enemies of all nations and all laws. America is the biggest victim of their financial colonization/imperialism.

America's national sovereignty and constitutional government were destroyed in 1913 by the private banksters of the Federal Reserve cartel. Freedom became a fantasy


and America became an illusion.

In the 20th century, a few countries resisted the economic colonization of the planet by the banksters. Germany and Japan resisted the banksters' economic aggression in the 1930s, which means that the governments of the United States and Britain were not the leaders of the free world, but instead representatives of the banksters' tyrannical will.

Dr. Ingrid Rimland Zundel laid out the case for why this historical viewpoint is true and accurate in her article on June 26, 2011, called "Japan in WWII: A Casualty of Usury?" She wrote:

"Thanks to best-selling author, David Irving, the establishment view that the United States of America became embroiled in World War II as a result of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941 is nolonger accepted by major historians. The origins of this conflict, says South African politician and noted banker, Stephen Goodson, have far deeper roots.

Goodson explains the background as follows:

During the 1930s Japan rapidly expanded her industrial production, while the rest of the world, with the exception of National Socialist Germany, stagnated. By 1941 Japan had become the leading economic power in East Asia. Her exports were steadily replacing those of America and England.
Writes Goodson:

Japan has very few natural resources, so what was the secret of her success? In order to answer this question, it is necessary to return to the year 1929, when one of the twentieth century’s foremost monetary reformers, Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, went on a lecture tour of Japan.
Douglas’s economic theory advocated the transfer of the


money creation process from private banks, which create money out of nothing as an interest-bearing debt, to the state. This government created money he termed social credit. "
Dr. Ingrid Rimland Zundel ended her article by saying:

"The reality is that World War II was fought to make the world safe for usury – to ensure the permanent enslavement of mankind through debt and interest."
American poet Ezra Pound tried to point out this truth to the American people but he was branded as an anti-Semite and painted in the image of the crazy uncle in the attic. He was then thrown in a psychiatric hospital by the hijacked U.S. government for exercising his free speech and expressing a dissenting opinion about the foundations of America's economic and banking structure.

Ron Paulis the world's biggest monetary and economic reformer in the 21st century, and he has also been branded as a crazy uncle and a nutcase. But this is all bankster propaganda.

Ron Paul is against the banksters' wars of global economic colonization. He resisted the wars in Iraq and Libya, and he resists the war against Iran. He is the only free man in American politics who has a big following and political credibility.

Dr. Paul opposes the activities of the U.S. Empire and potential U.S. military action against Iran because he is a patriot who cares about the prosperity and security of America.

The traitors in the media and government want America to attack Iran because they want America to collapse, which will definitely happen if America fights another war


of conquest in the Middle East for the expansion of a global empire indebted to international banksters.

Bankster propaganda against Iran, plus some kind of false flag attack by Israel and/or the U.S government, will be used in order to persuade global public opinion that Iran is a threat to the economic security and stability of the world. The war can only work if the leaders of Iran are painted as mad demons like Saddam and Gaddafi were.

The invasion and colonization of Libya preceded with unrelenting bankster propaganda and fake news reports of massacred civilians and protesters. Psychological warfare talking points came out of the whorish mouths of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, and other European puppets, all of whom are in the pocket of the international banksters.

OnApril 1, 2011, Stephen Goodson wrote an important article called "The Truth About Libya," in which he stated:

"The Central bank of Libya is a wholly-owned by the Libyan Government and is run as a state bank, issuing all government loans free of interest. This is in contrast to the exploitative fractional reserve banking system of the West. The no-fly zone and the bombing of Libya have nothing to do with the protection of civilians. It is an act of war  a blatant and crude attempt by the oil corporations and international bankers to steal the wealth of Libya."
Libya's Gaddafi was taken out because his economic and monetary policies were a real threat to the banksters' global colonization program.

Anthony Wile wrote on May 5, 2011 in his article


for which I was interviewed (See – Real Cause for Gaddafi's Expulsion: Wanted Gold Currency?), Gaddafi was planning to introduce a gold dinar – "a single African currency made from gold, a true sharing of the wealth."

The idea, according to Gaddafi, was that African and Muslim nations would join together to create this new currency and would use it to purchase oil and other resources in exclusion of the dollar and other currencies. RT calls it "an idea that would shift the economic balance of the world."

Syria and Iran are next on the international banksters' termination list because they stand in the way of their pursuit of a one world colony.

On December 30, 2011, the website Truth11.com published a piece about how the banksters and their political puppetsthe economic occupiers of Earth.

War is to the banksters what air is to human beings. They need a world war to survive and retain absolute control over governments, especially the most powerful government in their secret possession: Washington.

The Beast of War grew new horns on 9/11 thanks to the creativity of the banksters and the ideological propagandists in Washington who serve their interests. The false flag attacks on that day injected blood into the dying veins of Washington's military-industrial complex, which does not answer to the will of the American people but to the demonic will of the international banksters.

But the 9/11 lie has lost its magic in scaring people. And the fear of Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program does not stir the emotions of the people. So


better.

Christopher Paton, the managing director of JP Morgan's "Treasury Solutions" business, made the following statement about the "food stamp business" that his firm is engaged in during an interview with Bloomberg Television....

"This business is a very important business to JPMorgan. It's an important business in terms of its size and scale…Right now, volumes have gone through the roof in the past couple of years. The good news, from JPMorgan's perspective, is the infrastructure that we built has been able to cope with that increase in volume."

You can see more of the interview with Paton in the video posted below....

As the interview above noted, more than 40 percent of all food stamp recipients in the United States actually have a job.

This is an exciting "growth area" for JP Morgan.Several others are also making money in massive quantities on the backs of the poor.

The following example comes from a Huffington Post article....

Shawana Busby does not seem like the sort of customer who would be at the center of a major bank's business plan. Out of work for much of the last three years, she depends upon a $264-a-week unemployment check from the state of South Carolina. But the state has contracted with Bank of America to administer its unemployment benefits, and Busby has frequently found herself incurring bank fees to get her money.

To withdraw her benefits, Busby, 33, uses a Bank of America prepaid debit card on which the state deposits her funds. She could visit a Bank of America ATM free of charge. But this small


community in the state's rural center, her hometown, does not have a Bank of America branch. Neither do the surrounding towns where she drops off her kids at school and attends church.

She could drive north to Columbia, the state capital, and use a Bank of America ATM there. But that entails a 50 mile drive, cutting into her gas budget. So Busby visits the ATMs in her area and begrudgingly accepts the fees, which reach as high as five dollars per transaction. She estimates that she has paid at least $350 in fees to tap her unemployment benefits.
There is something about all of this that just seems very, very wrong.

When we have good jobs, the big banks hit us with outrageous bank fees and they try to geton two islands located just south of the Strait of Hormuz, and within easy striking distance of Iran.

In addition to some 50,000 U.S. troops currently in the region waiting for orders (apparently they won’t be home by this past Christmas as was originally promised), Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama is deploying an additional 50,000 soldiers to be ready for ‘any contingency’ by March:

President Barack Obama is reported exclusively by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military and Washington sources to have secretly ordered US air, naval and marine forces to build up heavy concentrations on two strategic islands –Socotra, which is part of a Yemeni archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and the Omani island of Masirah at the southern exit of the Strait of Hormuz.

Since 2010, the US has been quietly


building giant air force and naval bases on Socotra with facilities for submarines, intelligence command centers and take-off pads for flying stealth drones, as part of a linked chain of strategic US military facilities in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.

The Socotra facilities are so secret that they are never mentioned in any catalogue listing US military facilities in this part of the world, which include Jebel Ali and Al Dahfra in the United Arab Emirates; Arifjan in Kuwait; and Al Udeid in Qatar – all within short flying distances from Iran.

Additional US forces are also being poured into Camp Justice on the barren, 70-kilometer long Omani island of Masirah, just south of the Hormuz entry point to the Gulf of Oman from the Arabian Sea.

…

Western military sourcesfamiliar with the American buildup on the two strategic islands tell DEBKA-Net-Weekly that, although they cannot cite precise figures, they are witnessing the heaviest American concentration of might in the region since the US invaded Iraq in 2003.

Then, 100,000 American troops were massed in Kuwait ahead of the invasion. Today, those sources estimate from the current pace of arrivals on the two island bases, that 50,000 US troops will have accumulated on Socotra and Masirah by mid-February. They will top up the 50,000 military already present in the Persian Gulf region, so that in less than a month, Washington will have some 100,000 military personnel on the spot and available for any contingency.

US air transports are described as making almost daily landings on Socotra and Masirah. They fly


above.

An NSSE designation allows the feds to have a field day. It puts the Secret Service in charge of event security, the FBI in charge of intelligence, counter terrorism, hostage rescue and investigation of incidents of terrorism or other criminal activities, and FEMA in charge of recovery management in the aftermath of terrorist or other major criminal incidents, natural disasters or other catastrophic events.

Indianapolis Chief of Homeland Security Gary Coons told Fox News that the NSSE rating puts the Super Bowl just below national security events involving the president and the Secret Service. Ratings are based on factors including international attention, media coverage, the number of people the event attracts and visits by celebrities and foreign dignitaries, Coons said.

The Super Bowl NSSE is an ideal opportunity for thenational security state. It allows government control freaks to parade the latest security gizmos and acclimate the masses to the prospect of a police state – not for protection against miscreant cave dwellers, but perpetrators of victimless and petty crimes.

Debka: Massive US Military Buildup on Two Strategic Islands: Socotra and Masirah

Sources estimate from the current pace of arrivals on the two island bases, that 50,000 US troops will have accumulated on Socotra and Masirah by mid-February. They will top up the 50,000 military already present in the Persian Gulf region, so that in less than a month, Washington will have some 100,000 military personnel on the spot and available for any contingency.

While quietly casting lines to draw Tehran into talks on their nuclear dispute, PresidentBarack Obama is reported


exclusively by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military and Washington sources to have secretly ordered US air, naval and marine forces to build up heavy concentrations on two strategic islands – Socotra, which is part of a Yemeni archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and the Omani island of Masirah at the southern exit of the Strait of Hormuz.

Socotra is situated 80 kilometers east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometers southeast of the Yemeni coastline. It lies athwart the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. A military base there is in a position to oversee the shipping moving in and out of those strategic naval waterways.

Lushly verdant, Socotra is approximately 120 kilometers long by 40 kilometers wide. Its population of 55,000 has its own distinct language and culture. Since 2010,the US has been quietly building giant air force and naval bases on Socotra with facilities for submarines, intelligence command centers and take-off pads for flying stealth drones, as part of a linked chain of strategic US military facilities in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.

The Socotra facilities are so secret that they are never mentioned in any catalogue listing US military facilities in this part of the world, which include Jebel Ali and Al Dahfra in the United Arab Emirates; Arifjan in Kuwait; and Al Udeid in Qatar – all within short flying distances from Iran.

Additional US forces are also being poured into Camp Justice on the barren, 70-kilometer long Omani island of Masirah, just south of the Hormuz entry point to the Gulf of Oman from


the Arabian Sea.

US military facilities were established there after the signing of an access agreement with Oman in 1980.

Up to 100,000 US troops present by early March

For the new buildup on Socotra, Washington had to negotiate a new deal with Yemen's ousted ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Injured in an assassination attempt last year, Saleh demanded permission to travel to the United States for medical treatment. The Obama administration first refused, then relented when Saleh made it his condition for consenting to additional troops landing on the island.
Western military sources familiar with the American buildup on the two strategic islands tellDEBKA-Net-Weekly that, although they cannot cite precise figures, they are witnessing the heaviest American concentration of might in the region since the US invaded Iraq in 2003.

Then, 100,000 American troopswere massed in Kuwait ahead of the invasion. Today, those sources estimate from the current pace of arrivals on the two island bases, that 50,000 US troops will have accumulated on Socotra and Masirah by mid-February. They will top up the 50,000 military already present in the Persian Gulf region, so that in less than a month, Washington will have some 100,000 military personnel on the spot and available for any contingency.

US air transports are described as making almost daily landings on Socotra and Masirah. They fly in from the US naval base of Diego Garcia, one of America's biggest military facilities, just over 3,000 kilometers away.

The US military presence in the region will further expand in the first week of March when three US aircraft carriers and


profession but rather spent his entire career before retirement in the gold business where he wisely only provided low markup bullion instead of expensive numismatics to clients. He knew more about gold than any individual I’ve ever met. Also since Les is now terminally ill with cancer, I would like to disclose to readers that he was the secret source of my original No Gold At Fort Knox editorial written for LRC back in October of 2010.

Also, my friend Les is not going out with a whimper. With almost 40 years experience in the gold business and a decade of illness to research gold and Lyme disease he hints of a another manuscript set on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the FED. Tentatively named The GoldQuake Memorandum it describes the secret history of gold, central banking and money from ancient times until today. From our discussions, readers will never look at gold, wars, politics, history or central banking the same ever again. I hope he finishes this for all of us.

It has been months since I talked to Les so I called him today. He told me today how many chronic Lyme disease suffers are also finding a dramatic increase in cancer among themselves. The growing spread of Lyme through the US and now Canada may well be just the forerunner for a compromised immune system for millions paying the way for a much higher incidence of cancer in our future.

There is talk of The Poison Plum being made into a movie and


cultivate a society of competent human beings.

As Hebrew University historian Martin van Crevald points out in his book, The Rise and Decline of the State, nineteenth-century state worshippers who wanted to impose a love of big government ideals upon the youth popularized the archetype for state-directed education. Additionally, there was an overall appetite for discipline of the "unruly" masses that reinforced the campaign to take education out of the hands of individuals. After all, the self-educated masses might resist government decrees, and this kind of disarray would be undesirable in the move toward building a powerful, controlling state apparatus. Prussia's Frederick William I and France's Napoleon discerned this, as did a legion of other despotic rulers throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In a recent article published onthe American Daily Herald "Dumberer and Dumberest," Glenn Horowitz writes:

If you're not familiar with it, the Prussian system was a teaching methodology designed to stamp out good little worker bees assembly-line fashion, trained to be complacent with their station in life and compliant with every demand of the State. An elite of those better educated but still proven unquestioningly loyal to the State were promoted to lead the proletariat, rewarded with elevated status and material success commensurate with their skills and the zeal they demonstrate in supporting the system. It specifically avoided developing creativity and independent thought, reasoning these were skills the worker classes didn't need in their roles as mass produced labor.

Modern education is built upon a foundation set forth by tyrants. What is most disquieting about


the Separation of School and State website. Mr. Resch contends that compulsory, government-controlled education is trying to achieve ends that are not possible due to the fact that general equality is not only impossible to define, but that biological, environmental, and cultural differences among us are so vast that a compulsory, standardized public education poses difficulties that cannot be overcome, and certainly not by a government-run school system.

It's obvious that public schooling is neither beneficial to most students, nor is it efficient. Education is an acquired good, a good that has to meet the needs of the consumers or else face rejection in the free market. Accordingly, there is a necessity for unique, private educational institutions that cater to the urgencies of the marketplace, or home schools thatThey are expected to sit quietly at desks – analogous to a factory animal cage – with only limited exercise approved for limited, scheduled intervals. Animals and children alike are deprived of the ability to fulfill their natural desire to exercise and explore their outdoor environments.

The confinement of children on the part of authoritarian figures who demand mandatory attendance illustrates how the federal public school system has become a security garrison with satellite detainment facilities. Moreover, yanking children from their parents and assimilating them into dumbed-down, draconian learning pools based on age and collectivizing their learning experience in a quasi-prison environment hasn't worked, and it will never be ideal for the vast majority of the children. Skip Oliva continues:

There is also the issue of socialization. Many farmed animals,


exclusive access to a parent, ideally the mother, who serves as a model for proper social behavior. Children of the same age are inadequate substitutes. They cannot model behaviors that they themselves have not learned. Nor is a teacher in a position to do so, as one person is incapable of developing the necessary relationship of trust with several dozen children during normal "business" hours.

The reality of public schools in America is that they resemble prisons, holding children captive and subjecting them to monitoring, authoritarian supervision, arbitrary rules, prescribed conformity, coerced abstinence, zero tolerance insanity, irrational fears, invasion of privacy, prison-like security, unlawful searches, mind-controlling drugs, and the police state. John Taylor Gatto, in his essay, "Some Reflections on the Equivalencies Between Forced Schooling and Prison," noted thatvengeance and seeking maximum jail sentences for all of them. And he can ramp up the drug war in other countries as well, especially with the use of the army and the CIA.

Most important, the president can now exercise the wide range of totalitarian powers that the president now wields. He can order that Americans be rounded up and transported to concentration camps or military prisons, where they can be tortured and held for the rest of their lives. He can order his military and intelligence subordinates to sneak into people’s homes and businesses and peek into their private affairs. He can order the assassination of American citizens.

He can do the same to foreigners. He can order his forces to enter any country on earth to kidnap people


and rendition them to some friendly totalitarian regime for the purpose of torture. Or he can order that they be carted away to the gulag at Guantanamo Bay.

He can sanction and embargo any nation he wishes for whatever reason he wishes, including maneuvering another nation into going to war against the United States. He can freeze bank accounts and other assets of any foreign regime. Indeed, he can order his military and intelligence forces to invade and occupy any nation on earth, without a congressional declaration of war. Or he can simply order them to assassinate a foreign official or take other steps to effect regime change in foreign countries.

And make no mistake about it: the president’s military and intelligence forces will follow whatever orders he issues, especiallyBy Aditi Khana

London, Dec 13 (PTI) The UK''s Indian diaspora on Friday hailed the impressive victory of Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the historic General Election, which saw unprecedented activism by the community members against the Opposition Labour Party''s perceived anti-India stance.

Britain’s first December election in nearly a century was called by Prime Minister Johnson with a central goal to break the deadlock in Parliament over Britain’s impending exit European Union (EU) and diaspora leaders felt this message resonated with the Indian-origin voters alongside the wider electorate.

Johnson won the historic election as his Conservative Party crossed the 326-mark required for a majority in Parliament.

"Boris Johnson will deliver Brexit and take the country to the next level,” said Lord Rami Ranger, co-chair of the Conservative Friends of India (CFIN),


made a decisive play for this vote with a visit to the famous Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, north-west London, just days before the election and made a pledge to partner with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his mission to build a new India and also announced plans for a major visit to India in the New Year.

"A defining feature of the election has to be the unprecedented activism of the Indian diaspora in standing up to the anti-India propaganda that Jeremy Corbyn presided over within his party, regrettably much akin to the antisemitism that has plagued Labour all through his leadership,” added Ladwa, in reference to the perceived anti-India Labour stance which seems to have cost the party votes from a traditionally loyal Indian-origin base.

The Overseas Friends ofBJP (OFBJP) diaspora outfit proactively rallied community votes against what it said was the Labour party’s betrayal of British Indians.

"The Indian community in Britain has been hurt by Labour’s stand on Kashmir as well as its lack of response in the face of the attack on diaspora members at the Indian High Commission in London on our Independence Day. Our aim has simply been to run an information campaign,” he said, adding that the focus of their efforts were in all the areas with a strong Indian-origin population to better inform the electorate.

Overall, Boris Johnson’s victory is seen as good news for India-UK relations, given his past track record.

"The return of a Boris-led Conservative government focused on bilateral trade, diaspora and security relationships could possibly ensure a true


it under the skin bridge to gently pull the vein out from under the skin bridge until the tributary is sufficiently exposed so that it may be ligated and divided. When the vein has been completely mobilized, the surgeon cuts the proximal and distal ends of the vein and removes the vein from the leg. After removal, the vein is prepared for implantation into the graft site, and the long incisions made in the leg are stitched closed.
The procedure described above can be used to harvest veins for a femoral popliteal bypass, in which an occluded femoral artery is bypassed from above the occlusion to the popliteal artery near the level of the knee. The procedure can also be used to harvest veins for the revascularization of the488 F.3d 81
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Felix SINDIMA, Defendant-Appellant.
Docket No. 06-2245-cr.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued: December 15, 2006.
Decided: March 5, 2007.
As Amended: May 21, 2007.

Marybeth Covert, Federal Public Defender's Office, Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.
Stephan Baczynski, Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of New York (Terrance P. Flynn, United States Attorney, Joseph J. Karaszewski, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), Buffalo, NY, for Appellee.
Before: SACK, KATZMANN, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.
SACK, Circuit Judge.

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Following a guilty plea on federal mail fraud charges, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Richard J. Arcara, Chief Judge) imposed upon the defendant, Felix Sindima, a sentence under the United States Sentencing Guidelines (the "Guidelines") of, principally, three years' probation. The terms of probation included a prohibition


August 10, 2005, while Sindima remained on probation, the government filed a petition alleging two violations of that condition—crimes he had allegedly committed and for which he had been arrested by the Buffalo Police Department.1 On September 21, 2005, the district court conducted an evidentiary hearing. Thereafter, on December 29, 2005, the court found Sindima guilty of both charges.

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The evidence presented at the hearing indicated that on or about April 26, 2005, almost two years after his mail fraud sentence, Sindima opened a series of bank accounts in the name of "FS Computers." The first was with Bank of America, where he deposited $3,200 with two checks that were eventually returned for insufficient funds. Prior to the checks being returned, Sindima withdrew $3,400 from the Bank of Americaaccount, $3,000 of which he used to establish a similar account at Evans National Bank. On June 13, 2005, after this $3,000 check and another check for $760 were returned for insufficient funds, Evans National Bank informed Sindima that his account had been suspended. Undaunted, Sindima deposited another check, but it was also returned for insufficient funds. On June 24, 2005, he then wrote a $3,700 check drawn on his still-suspended Evans account which he used to open a third account at the Greater Buffalo Savings Bank. In accordance with its policy, however, the bank placed an automatic nine-day hold on the newly opened account. This check was subsequently returned for insufficient funds, along with another check from a bank account in his wife's name, which Sindima had


learn his lesson while on probation. He's exhibited complete disregard for the rules of law.

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It is clear this sentence . . . was necessary to address the extent of the criminal behavior and to deter the defendant from future acts of fraud. This is not a situation where the defendant has made an isolated bad judgment call while on probation. Instead, he engaged in a calculated pattern of fraudulent activity on a repeated basis in complete disregard of the terms of his probation.

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10 Tr., Apr. 13, 2006, at 17.

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Second, however, the district court was persuaded in some respects by the mitigating factors presented by defense counsel— that Sindima provided financial and emotional support to five children, that he had continued his college studies while on probation, and thatMP names Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and the rest of cabinet in letter to ICC alleging crimes against humanity

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Andrew Wilkie has written to the international criminal court (ICC) asking it to investigate the Abbott government for crimes against asylum seekers.

The independent Tasmanian MP has sent the application, naming the prime minister, Tony Abbott, and his 19-member cabinet, including the immigration minister, Scott Morrison.

“In my application I have particularly named crimes against humanity, such as the forced relocation of people, obviously to the Republic of Nauru or Papua New Guinea,” Wilkie said.

He also claims that the government’s hardline immigration policies contravene the Refugee Convention, Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant


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In February 2016, when Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was locked in a tense primary battle with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the former secretary of state appeared on the Steve Harvey Show in an interview during which she was asked about her personal life and her campaign.

However, Harvey and his staff may have coordinated with Clinton's campaign on the format and questions posed in the interview, according to a leaked February 17 email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

“We coordinated closely with the show’s producers on the script and format of the show," a memo from Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney andanother aide, to the candidate attached to the email read.

The outlet reported that Harvey himself worked closely with the Clinton campaign to "craft the structure of the interview" and that there was collaboration between the parties on wording of questions.

The memo also noted that Harvey's program was conventionally a "light" interview setting, suggesting that Clinton would not be grilled on any policy topics, including gun control and racial issues.

The Free Beacon report said Clinton was also privy to questions Harvey was to ask for a March TV special on the Flint, Michigan water crisis.

Clinton's campaign reportedly saw Harvey's interview as a key way to reach out to women and African-Americans in the electorate.

The email itself was reportedly originally posted online by hackers allegedly connected to Russia.

What do you


hours building the next Twitter, chances are very good you'll end the
year with nothing at all.

Just like 90% of the people who headed off to the Yukon with a shiny new pick
in their hand.

~~~
maxklein
I believe you miss the point of the analogy.

The analogy is not about people selling _services_ to the gold diggers, it's
about selling _tools_ to the gold diggers.

The services market would be akin to the people who sell food to the miners.

~~~
jmm
Perhaps you're both being a bit too literal? I think what Chris is trying to
say is that while it may be more obvious to pursue a consumer facing startup
because of the attention they get, entrepreneurs should still keep in mind the
less shiny/immediately gratifying things. Because the existence of the first
set creates an opportunity for thebiological reality. That might be as simple as a large penis, or more pertinently those furries who roleplay as hermaphrodites, and those as transgender-but-with-a-focus-on-genitalia.

Further, it's common for representations of furry characters to be objectifying, a phenomenon not restricted to non-cisgender fursonas. It's common for female transgender furry characters and also male cisgender characters to have overt genitalia. And that's all good. The problem comes about because these fursonas refer back to real people, and our two groups of furries with enormous cocks—the women and the men—are treated differently.

Our cis male fur—let's call him Starfox—tends to be given agency by default in human society and so his fursona's sexuality is seen in that context. However our trans woman—let's call her Krystal—is regularly fetishized and objectified in human society, a


After a year in which the climate has been far more naughty than nice, even Father Christmas – in his various guises – is feeling the heat, according to the towns that claim to be his birthplace.

From Alaska to Finland, half a dozen Arctic towns have staked a claim to be the home of Santa Claus or whatever other name he is locally known as. And almost without exception, these winter wonderlands are hotting up.

In Sweden, festive tourists flock to Mora, which boasts a Santa headquarters known as Tomteland that follows local traditions dating back to the Viking era. But the effects of global warming are becoming harder to ignore.

Reindeers are becoming confused by unseasonal temperatures, according to the indigenous Sami. This spring, there were bad floods, andsnow has finally come.

Hans Petter Treider, a local author who has written a book about the life and history of Santa Claus, said Drøbak was doing its bit to fight climate change with an electric ferry service to Santa’s island and a promise to make the town centre car-free by 2030. “We have one earth, and we must take care of it,” he said.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest City hall decorated for Christmas in North Pole, Alaska. Photograph: Robert Lype/Getty Images

The Alaskan city of North Pole, which has its own Santa Claus house complete with a 42ft (13-metre) tall statue of the man in red, is in the middle of its second warmest winter on record. It was only last week that it finally registered freezing temperatures, a delay that