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The French Connection: How Paris Police Closed In On Cameron's Biggest Donor
Nineteen people have been arrested and nine of them charged with money laundering after BuzzFeed News revealed Lycamobile's "deeply suspicious" cash movements.
Originally posted on June 19, 2016, 11:01 GMT
Updated on June 24, 2016, 10:55 GMT
By Heidi Blake (UK Investigations Editor, UK) Jane Bradley (Investigations Correspondent) Tom Warren (Investigations Correspondent) Richard Holmes (Investigations Reporter)
The Conservative party's biggest donor, the telecoms giant Lycamobile, has been raided by French police on suspicion of money laundering and tax fraud, BuzzFeed News can reveal.
Nineteen people were arrested in Paris last week and nine of them were charged on Friday, including Lycamobile's general manager in France, Alain Jochimek.
The investigation was launched in the wake of revelations by BuzzFeed News last year that the international telecoms group employs three cash couriers to drop rucksacks stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds twice a day at Post Offices scattered across London.
Almost €1 million was seized in raids on Lycamobile's Paris headquarters and a series of residential and business addresses across the city, and the group's French bank accounts have been frozen.
Among those charged along with Jochimek were cash collectors working for the company, officers of smaller companies that allegedly made illicit payments into Lyca's accounts, and a couple suspected of acting as conduits to criminal networks.
Subaskaran Allirajah (left) with David Cameron at the Conservatives' Black and White party in 2015.
The Conservative party has accepted donations of more than £2.2 million from Lycamobile. Its Sri Lankan-born owner, Subaskaran Allirajah, is a member of the exclusive Leader's Group for top donors and has dined privately with the prime minister or members of his cabinet twice in the past six months. He is also close to Boris Johnson after bankrolling his London mayoral campaign.
"75 million euros which could have come from various networks laundering profits from crime."
The French authorities have identified payments into Lyca's accounts from "shell" companies suspected of acting as fronts for "various networks laundering profits from crime" in intelligence documents compiled by the country's financial crime unit.
The charges brought in a Paris court on Friday relate to alleged illicit transactions of €17 million but documents reveal the French authorities suspect the true total is much larger.
BuzzFeed News has visited 19 companies that allegedly funnelled tens of millions of euros into Lycamobile's French accounts and found that all but one were registered at PO boxes, vacant offices, derelict buildings, or a construction site. At none of these locations was it actually possible to buy any Lyca products.
A source close to the investigation told BuzzFeed News that prosecutors have not established the origin of the funds and Lycamobile's explanation for the payments is not yet known.
Lycamobile did not respond to detailed questions from BuzzFeed News before this article was published. But in a letter sent several days later, its French lawyers strongly denied all the allegations and threatened to sue "all responsible parties" for damages. The letter said that Lycamobile "receives no cash payments from any of its business" in France and as such "the central theme of alleged money laundering relating to cash does not even arise". It continued: "No company of the Lycamobile Group has ever taken part in any criminal activity of this nature or any other nature whatsoever."
The lawyers said no action had been taken against Lycamobile itself by the French authorities and pointed out that the company had not been banned from trading, but did not address the fact that its accounts have been frozen or that its general manager and eight others have been charged. The company also strenuously denied the allegations in a statement sent the same day. Sources say Jochimek denied all the charges against him in his police interview and the other people charged could not be reached.
The registered addresses of four of the companies that paid Lycamobile Services millions of euros.
Cameron is now facing serious questions about why his party has continued to accept large donations from Lycamobile, reporting gifts of more than £870,000 since its suspicious cash movements were brought to light. The UK prime minister vowed to crack down on money laundering and offshore tax avoidance at the global anti-corruption summit in London last month, promising to "send a clear message to the corrupt that there is no home for them here".
BuzzFeed News has reviewed evidence gathered by French investigators, spoken to sources close to the inquiry, and conducted a forensic analysis of voluminous corporate filings that paint an extraordinary picture of the questionable business practices of the Conservatives' biggest donor. It can today be revealed that:
Investigators say Lycamobile's French arm received €75 million over nine months last year from the "shell" companies suspected of being fronts for laundering money. The funds were allegedly transferred into Lyca's offshore network via a bank account in London.
French investigators suspect Lycamobile is selling its prepaid calling cards on the black market in Paris for cash, and is then using a "a vast system of false billing" to invoice fake companies for the sales in order to conceal other illicit payments.
Lycamobile's own auditors declared over the past two years that they could not account for a total of £646 million that moved through ten companies in its complex corporate network.
Lyca was previously indicted for "serious organised money laundering" in France after agents of the company were found to have moved around €36 million in cash over the border into Germany without declaring it to customs in 2006. Allirajah vehemently denied the charges, and the prosecution was dropped in 2010 after a lengthy investigation. But French investigators are now re-examining the archived case files in light of their fresh probe.
Tax investigators at HMRC are scrutinising Lycamobile's finances after being passed information by Britain's National Crime Agency last year.
Lycamobile is the world's largest mobile virtual network operator, buying international airtime in bulk from the main networks and selling it to millions of customers around the world on inexpensive prepaid calling cards. It has reported an annual turnover of €1.5 billion and pools its revenues in the UK and Ireland, but it has legally avoided corporation tax for years by moving money to the tax haven of Madeira. The group has repeatedly been criticised by its own auditors for its failure to account properly for the flow of money through its global network of more than 60 companies.
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The company's practice of depositing up to £1 million a week in cash-stuffed rucksacks at scattered Post Office branches was described as "deeply suspicious" and "worryingly characteristic of money laundering" by Britain's former director of public prosecutions, Lord MacDonald, who called for a "serious investigation" after the bag drops were caught on film last year. BuzzFeed News also revealed that police in Sri Lanka are investigating allegations that the country's deposed president Mahinda Rajapaksa laundered millions of dollars through the telecoms giant's offshore empire. Lycamobile has always insisted that its business is wholly above board and said that the cash drops caught on film last year were just "day to day banking" of legitimate takings from the sale of its international calling cards.
The Post Office cash drops caught on film by BuzzFeed News last year.
Labour wrote to the Conservatives demanding that the party freeze all donations from Lycamobile while its finances were properly investigated following the revelations, but the letter was ignored.
However, investigators at the French government's anti-money-laundering unit began probing Lycamobile's accounts after BuzzFeed News published its investigation last October. They passed a secret intelligence file to prosecutors at the Parquet National Financier (PNF), who opened an official judicial investigation in January. Now, a source close to the investigation says that prosecutors suspect they may have uncovered a "huge European money-laundering system".
The charges were confirmed in a statement from the PNF sent to BuzzFeed News on Friday.
Statement from France's Parquet National Financier on 17 June 2016
"On Wednesday and Thursday, 19 people suspected of being involved in a money-laundering system implicating Lycamobile and Lycamobile Services were arrested. The arrests were part of a Paris judicial investigation into money laundering and VAT fraud. Several places in Paris and its outskirts were raided and police seized about 130,000 euros in cash and 850,000 euros from bank accounts. Nine people were brought in front of a judge on Friday and charged with money laundering among other things, and eight were released on bail while one man was remanded in custody. The charges relate to money laundering of at least 17 million euros and VAT fraud of several million euros."
The story of how the French authorities closed in on alleged financial crimes by the biggest donor to the governing party of the UK can today be revealed.
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The French Ministry of Economy and Finance
In the French Finance Ministry's sprawling modern complex, jutting out on stilts over the green waters of the Seine, is an elite unit of secretive intelligence analysts who form the country's first line of defence against corporate corruption. This is the arm of government tasked with detecting money laundering and terrorist financing on French soil. Its experts investigate intelligence from a variety of sources – including whistleblowers and suspicious activity reports from the country's financial institutions – and refer any evidence of criminal activity to prosecutors.
Last autumn, after BuzzFeed News published evidence of Lycamobile's suspicious cash drops in London, the unit began examining the group's French accounts, and quickly spotted a curious trend. While one of its two French entities – Lycamobile Sarl – appeared to be doing legitimate business with established telecoms customers, the other – Lycamobile Services – had billed tens of millions of minutes of international airtime to what appeared to be a network of ghost companies.
Lycamobile Services had received payments totalling €75 million over a nine-month period last year from clients that analysts thought bore all the hallmarks of being shell companies – "recent creation, address with a virtual office or domestic dwelling, non-payment of VAT". And the invoices these companies had submitted to their banks from the telecoms company seemed to the analysts to be "manifestly fake".
"The total lack of economic logic implies the likely existence of a vast system of fake billing."
The largest customer of Lycamobile Services, analysts found, had paid just under €8 million for almost 8 million international minutes, yet it had existed for just 15 months and was registered at an obscure address on the outskirts of Paris. By comparison, the major convenience store chain Relay France had bought 7.3 million minutes from Lyca's main French company, Lycamobile Sarl, to sell from 941 outlets across the country. "It appears totally inconsistent that small companies that are not well known and moreover have no distribution network could have the capacity to purchase volumes comparable to Relay France," the analysts noted. The hefty amounts of international minutes the tiny firms acquired "could never be used or consumed", and therefore the payments received by Lycamobile Services were "disconnected from all economic reality".
After reviewing the evidence compiled by the analysts, BuzzFeed News visited the 19 biggest customers of Lycamobile Services, all of which had paid more than €1 million for airtime, to see whether it was possible to buy a SIM or prepaid calling card from any of them. Reporters found that 18 of them showed no sign of trading at their registered addresses, and one was listed at a half-empty mobile phone shop that said it did not sell Lycamobile stock. That company has since been shut down. Eleven of the firms had traded for less than two years and several are now dissolved. Only six of them were set up as telecommunications firms on the French company registry, with the remainder claiming their main business was construction, electrical, IT, property rental, or transport, although some had later amended their entry to add the sale of international minutes to their declared activities.
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In a run-down retail park in the commune of Gonesse on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, reporters found the abandoned address of the biggest customer of Lycamobile Services – the one that allegedly paid almost €8 million for airtime. MSR-F.D.B. was dissolved in March after existing for just 15 months. It had listed its type of business on the corporate registry as "painting and glazing", although the entry had been amended to add the sale of phone-cards to its declared activities. Its registered address turned out to be a serviced office, where a receptionist told reporters the company had packed up and left all of a sudden midway through its rental the previous year without completing the required paperwork. No phone cards had ever been on sale there, she said.
Another firm, Nego Tek, which analysts say paid Lycamobile Services more than €4 million, was listed as a wholesaler of household appliances. When reporters arrived at its serviced office address in a grubby glass and concrete structure just off the Paris ring road, the receptionist told them it had disappeared mid-way through its rental a few months ago. "One day they were here, the next they were gone," she said. A property rental firm that paid €4 million for international airtime was listed on the company registry at an address that turned out to be a vacant building site, which neighbours said had never been a business premises. One electrical supplier that paid €1.5 million was registered inside a large Parisian social housing block, while staff at the serviced office address of another electrical firm that bought more than a million minutes said it had never existed there and they didn't understand why they kept getting its mail.
One major customer of Lycamobile Services was registered at an address inside a social housing block in Paris.
BuzzFeed News spoke to a former manager for Lyca in France who said he developed concerns about "fake billing" while working for the company several years ago. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he claimed that the company was using "fake third-party distributors, sometimes just a PO box", that would bill the company every month for unrendered services. "It was a way to transfer money offshore and avoid paying tax," he said. "The services would be intangible – consulting or IT services, for example. It would all be billed to London."
After examining the payments into Lycamobile Services, analysts concluded that "the total lack of economic logic accruing to these transactions implies the likely existence of a vast system of fake billing". They prepared a secret intelligence report concerning allegations that the telecoms company "gave its clients, in particular via Lycamobile Services, an illegal money-laundering service".
"A number of clues lead to the hypothesis that the Lycamobile group gave its clients an illegal money laundering service."
The report noted that Lyca was "a global group characterised by organisational complexity" and that its owner, Allirajah, had enjoyed "a lightning-fast ascent for a person who is presented as a Sri Lankan refugee who emigrated to London". It also observed that Lycamobile had made large donations to the Conservative party in Britain.
The money received by Lycamobile Services from the "shell" companies had been paid into the accounts of the group's main French business, Lycamobile Sarl, before being transferred offshore to Madeira via a Barclays bank account in London. The analysts hypothesised that Lycamobile could be funnelling the proceeds of crime through its complex corporate network to wash away any trace of its illicit origins before it was "returned to the instigators of the offence with commissions deducted". They added: "Taking account of the fact that the group has subsidiaries in various countries, it would be feasible to effect international transfers to their 'customers' without raising suspicion."
They concluded: "At this point, only a judicial enquiry would allow confirmation or otherwise of these hypotheses of fraud."
Chris Applegate / BuzzFeed News
The intelligence report arrived in the offices of the Parquet National Financier (PNF) on 7 January 2016. The specialist unit of financial prosecutors had been established two years before to get tough on offshore tax evasion and money laundering following a series of corruption scandals involving top politicians. The PNF has already made waves by pursuing high-stakes cases against the country's former president Nicolas Sarkozy, the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid, the former head of world athletics Lamine Diack, and, most recently, Google. Soon after receiving the report, they launched an investigation into alleged money laundering by Lycamobile.
Sources close to the inquiry say that, early on, the prosecutors spent time studying surveillance footage gathered by BuzzFeed News last summer that showed three bagmen working for Lycamobile depositing rucksacks stuffed with as much as £240,000 twice a day at Post Offices scattered across London. They then sent police surveillance teams out to follow a group of cash collectors carrying out similar activities in Paris and appearing to sell Lyca's calling cards on the black market without receipts. Tracking devices were installed on their cars, and their phones were wiretapped, as were those of Lyca executives at its French headquarters.
Surveillance images of Lycamobile's suspicious cash deposits in London.
The couriers were found to be in contact with Alain Jochimek, the company's general manager in France, and also with representatives of the company in London, sources close to the investigation told BuzzFeed News. Jochimek was arrested this week and was charged with money laundering and VAT fraud in court on Friday. He was released on €30,000 bail, and the sources say he denied all the charges, but he declined to comment when reporters visited his home in the affluent Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine on Saturday.
The Lycamobile employees were also in contact with a couple suspected of acting as a conduit to money-laundering networks, the sources said. Investigators discovered that the pair appeared to control most of the alleged shell companies that had funnelled millions into Lycamobile Services via what seemed to be puppet directors. The man and woman were both charged with the same offences as Jochimek on Friday, and the man was remanded in custody while the woman was released on bail with a bond of €8,000. The couple could not be reached for comment.
A group of Lycamobile's cash couriers and officers of some of the alleged shell companies were also charged with money laundering and bailed out. The remaining 10 people who were arrested were released without charge, though sources say they remain under investigation.
Following the arrests, BuzzFeed News attempted to contact all directors of the 19 alleged shell companies accused of paying more than €1 million each into Lycamobile's accounts, and visited the registered addresses of those listed in Paris. Almost all of the addresses were in run-down tower blocks or social housing units in deprived parts of the city, and more than half of the directors could not be found there – there was no sign of their names on resident listings or letterboxes and neighbours had never heard of them.
A man listed on French corporate records as a former director of Express Tel et Communications, the company that was registered at a run-down mobile phone shop, confirmed that he had worked at the company several years ago but said he knew nothing about the payments, although he had heard of Lycamobile. The other directors of that company could not be reached. Relatives of the director of another company that had made big payments for airtime said he was away for Ramadan. They said he had mentioned some work for Lycamobile in the past, then asked reporters if they were working with the police. At the apartment block of the director of another firm, relatives told reporters the man was no longer professionally active because of ill health and was not available to comment. None of the other directors of any of the companies could be reached.
The raids last week were not the first time French prosecutors have targeted Lycamobile. Investigators have exhumed the case files of a previous investigation into alleged money laundering that was launched in 2006 after the company was found transporting large amounts of cash over the border into Germany in the back of a van without declaring it to customs. After a lengthy inquiry, the charges were dropped in 2010 due to lack of evidence, and the existence of the case has never been previously reported. But the files are now being re-examined in light of the fresh investigation, and BuzzFeed News can reveal the details for the first time.
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The 2006 investigation began on a February night when a van was pulled over by customs guards as it approached the German border.
On a freezing February night in 2006, a small blue van approached the Ottmarsheim border crossing between northern France and southern Germany and was flagged down for a routine inspection. French customs officials pulled open the side door and found five bulging heat-sealed plastic sacks marked for collection in Paris and delivery to the Dutch city of Rotterdam. When they carried the bags into their inspection room and split them open on the table, they discovered €735,000 in rolls of €5, €10, €20, €50, and €100 notes, accompanied by bank slips bearing the account name "Lycatel".
The drivers had been contracted by Lyca to drive the money to Holland, where it would be deposited at a bank and paid into the company's UK accounts. But the huge haul of cash had not been declared at the border as required by law. Eventually, investigators calculated that the company had moved €36.6 million out of France over the previous year without any sort of customs declaration.
Customs officials were told that all the money came from the sale of Lyca calling cards by its then agent in France, Crest Telecom, and they noted that "neither VAT nor charges" had been paid on the cards. Police surveillance teams began following the salesmen working for Crest Telecom in Paris and photographed them picking up bundles of banknotes and plastic carrier bags full of cash from small, dilapidated addresses all over the city. They noted that the company appeared to sell Lyca's stock "in cash and without invoices" and that customers had allegedly been forced to accept those conditions "under penalty of having the cards deactivated" if they refused.
In March 2006, prosecutors opened a file on Lyca "under suspicion of money laundering by organised crime, failure to make mandatory declarations, undeclared work, and threat of [stock] destruction". The company's owner, Allirajah, was charged by prosecutors with being "part of an organised gang" that had misappropriated revenues from sales in France "amounting annually to several tens of millions of euros and within a framework of an "opaque financial system so as to disguise the illicit source and destination". Lyca's then chief executive, Milind Kangle, was also questioned, along with the directors of Crest Telecom and its cash collectors in Paris, and the company was banned from doing business in France for the duration of the inquiry. Kangle insisted he had never been charged with any offence in an email to BuzzFeed News after this article was published.
Subaskaran Allirajah (left) and Lyca's then CEO, Milind Kangle, were questioned.
When Allirajah was interviewed in 2006, he told prosecutors Lyca had set up Crest Telecom as an intermediary to sell its stock in France and take a commission from the cash it collected from customers. He insisted that managers in London ensured all the sales of its stock were properly accounted for with invoices and delivery slips. No tax was due in France, he said, because "the prepaid cards were not sold by a French company" but were in fact supplied by Lycatel Ireland. Strict French money-laundering laws meant the country's banks refused to accept cash deposits of the size Crest was collecting, so instead the money was picked up by a secure transit company three times a week with instructions to drive it to the Netherlands and pay it into Lyca's UK accounts through a partner bank in Rotterdam.
The police told Allirajah that both the wholesalers who bought Lyca's stock and the Crest employees who sold it had disputed his claim that all the sales had been properly accounted for. "How can it be that the group of wholesalers we have interviewed state they have not signed the delivery slips and they have never received an invoice?" an officer asked. "How can it be that most of the salesmen from Crest Telecom say the same things as the wholesalers, namely that they are not given either delivery slips or invoices?"
But Allirajah was adamant. "That's completely false. They have lied," he said. And he strongly denied claims that customers were pressured into paying in cash, insisting: "It's the wholesalers' choice, we have never told them that we will not accept cheques or transfers."
The investigators made an intriguing discovery during the probe. The month before the customs check, they were told, executives from Lyca's London headquarters had "intervened by breaking into the Crest Telecom offices to seize its hard drives and folders".
When Allirajah was questioned about this, he responded that an "audit" had been arranged following a tipoff that money was being embezzled by Crest employees, and the managers from London had simply asked for copies of the company's computers. "As far as I know they didn't break anything," he added. But police interrogators stated that the alleged break-in was "not an audit but a real raid" and said both managers of Crest Telecom had told them the seized hard drives had been "cleaned" and "the English had given instructions not to record on the mainframe but only on the detachable USB-type devices".
"I told them something is going wrong in the accounting system. You can't have so much cash and not declare it to customs."
The former Lyca manager who spoke to BuzzFeed News said he had begun raising concerns about Lyca's financial practices in France with Allirajah and Kangle before the 2006 customs search. "I told them that something is going wrong in the accounting system," he said. "I said that is not the way do it because you can't have so much cash and not declare it to customs." Kangle has since denied that the manager had raised any concerns with him.
The prosecutors also raised concerns with their British counterparts about the integrity of Lyca's financial record-keeping in 2007. There is a reference in one document to a memo sent to the British authorities setting out "anomalies … by which the police called into question the veracity of the Lycatel invoices produced".
Over the course of the investigation, Lyca handed over reams of invoices to justify the sums of cash it had been found moving over the border, and by the the end of 2010, prosecutors had amassed dozens of boxes of paperwork. But after four years, they concluded that they did not have enough evidence to support the charges and applied to have the case dismissed. Their application acknowledged that "some areas remain unclear", certain key witnesses had "disappeared" or been unable to communicate in French, and there had been "clashes among some of the witnesses on whether or not invoices were submitted". But overall they concluded: "Evidence uncovered by enquiries does not allow sufficient certainty as to any offences committed in respect of the network of prepaid card sales involving Lycatel and Crest Telecom save for failure to make the required declarations."
Though prosecutors believed that customs offences had been committed, they said it was not possible to conclusively establish who was to blame, because "the various speakers all refuted any responsibility for failure to make the required declarations". The charges were dismissed in December 2010, and the case files were locked away in the vaults of French justice without any details of the investigation becoming public.
The boxes of evidence have now been recovered from the archives and are being re-examined.
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A Lycamobile store in Paris. The company says its cards are on sale at a million outlets around the world.
In the years between the two investigations, Lycamobile has significantly expanded its business. The group's annual revenues doubled to more than € 1 billion in the two years after the first prosecution was shelved. By 2013, it was boasting that a new user joined its customer base of 30 million callers every two seconds and its cards were on sale at a million shops around the world.
Lycamobile also began a concerted effort to gain access to the corridors of power and influence in the UK. The company made its first donation to David Cameron's Conservative party the year after the investigation was shut down and is now its biggest current benefactor.
In addition to dining privately with the prime minister as part of the Leader's Group of top donors, Allirajah has been a guest at the Conservatives' highly exclusive Black and White winter party, where he spent £210,000 on a bronze bust of Margaret Thatcher in one of the highest bids of the night last year.
He has also energetically courted Boris Johnson, bankrolling his campaign for re-election as mayor of London in 2012, giving him use of Lyca's Canary Wharf offices to conduct telephone canvassing sessions on at least five occasions and showering the Tory politician with champagne, flowers, and gift hampers, according to the official mayoral register of gifts and hospitality. Johnson has responded to Allirajah's overtures warmly, hailing Lycamobile publicly as a "wonderful business" and speaking at several big company events.
Allirajah has courted the royal family as well as the Conservatives.
Allirajah's efforts to endear himself to the British establishment did not end there. The tycoon also enjoyed royal hospitality at Windsor Castle after donating £1 million to Prince Charles' British Asian Trust in 2012, and he handed the University of Cambridge £150,000 for Sri Lankan language and public health projects.
At the same time, the company has come under increasing scrutiny over its chaotic finances. An analysis of its corporate filings by BuzzFeed News has revealed that over the past two years its auditor, KPMG, has flagged debt movements totalling £646 million across ten Lyca entities for which "managers had not provided all the information and explanations we consider necessary for the purposes of our audit".
In the same period, regulators in the UK and Ireland have threatened to strike off 16 Lyca entities for failing to file their accounts on time, and its main holding company has failed to comply with the legal requirement to produce consolidated accounts showing a complete picture of the finances across the whole group.
British tax authorities are scrutinising Lyca's finances after information about its cash movements was passed to investigators by Britain's National Crime Agency last year. An spokesman for the NCA confirmed that the agency had "passed relevant information in respect of Lycamobile to HMRC," adding: "When considering material for criminal investigation, sometimes it is most appropriate for the NCA to take action itself. Sometimes it is more appropriate for action by another agency." HMRC refused to comment.
Lyca's holding company has set aside £9.5 million for possible fines and unpaid taxes in its latest accounts. Its main UK company declared a tax liability of £1.2 million in 2014 after paying no tax at all for five years and last year it declared just over £2 million. In Belgium, the group owes €1.5 million to authorities in penalties and unpaid VAT.
Yet throughout the repeated warnings by Lyca's auditors, its skirmishes with European tax authorities, and the revelation of its "deeply suspicious" cash movements, the Conservatives have continued taking the company's money. The party has insisted that all donations undergo strict compliance checks and are lawfully declared to the Electoral Commission. But the investigation by the French authorities raises urgent questions about the legitimacy of the funds the Tory government has accepted from its most generous benefactor.
Jun. 24, 2016, at 10:37 AM
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Over 10, 000 pilgrims from all over the world are gathered at the Namugongo Catholic Shrine to pay homage to the 22 Catholics and the 23 Anglicans who were killed by Kabaka Mwaga in 1886.
It is Martyrs Day! Martyrs' Day celebrations.
Over 10, 000 pilgrims from all over the world are gathered at the Namugongo Catholic Shrine to pay homage to the 22 Catholics and the 23 Anglicans who were killed by Kabaka Mwanga in 1886.
All is set for the mass at Catholic shrine. Christians singing songs of praise and those hailing the Martyrs.
The main celebrant is the new Bishop of Kotido Diocese Giuseppe Filippi.
He is Provincial Superior of the Comboni Missionaries in Uganda.
The Bishop was born on March 17, 1945 in the Archdiocese of Trent in Italy.
He studied Philosophy and Theology at Ggaba National Major Seminary in Uganda. Guiseppe Filippi made his final profession in the Congregation of the Comboni Missionaries on April 28, 1977 and was ordained a priest in 1978.
Following his ordination, the Bishop elect served as Provincial Vocations Director for the Comboni Missionaries in Uganda, and served in the diocese of Moroto.
He also served at the Diocesan Minor seminary in Nadiket (Moroto Diocese), secretary general of the first and second diocesan synods of Moroto Diocese.
He was also the Assistant to the Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries in Rome, and later the Novice Master for the Comboni Missionaries in Zambia.
The scripture was read from the book of Romans 8:31 which says: What then shall we say of these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Delivering the sermon to thousands of celebrants, Bishop Giuseppe Filippi preached against worshipping money and power.
"If there is no corruption, Uganda would be the best country to live in. If we say no to injustice, our communities will live in peace and harmony," Bishop Giuseppe Filippi said.
He hailed the Martyrs for their trust and faith in God when they refused to partake actions that could have separated them from God.
"Martyrs understood that salvation comes from the blood of Christ. We have come to Namugongo to learn how to live on the love of God. Nothing can separate us from the love of God," the Bishop said.
Giuseppe implored the rich to share their wealth with the poor citing the Martyrs who were committed to sharing what they had learnt with others and opened their houses to the sick.
"Let us learn to live the love of God and as we leave this place, we ask God to commit ourselves to become God fearing Christians. May the love, peace and prosperity be upon all of us," he prayed.
Addressing the congregation, President Yowri Museveni commended Kotido Diocese for organizing this years' Martyrs Day.
"I want to thank the Karimojongs for singing very well today. They have also attempted to be Christians," Museveni.
The President welcomed pilgrims from Malawi, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Nigeria.
He said as Pan Africanist, Martyrs Day celebrations bring together Africans in the region. "I have no apologies for being a Pan Africanist. I have believed in that and nobody will make me change my mind. I feel happy when I see this unity of Africans taking shape in this part of the continent," Museveni said.
The President challenged religious leaders to champion the fight against poverty by embracing programs geared towards improving household incomes.


Mark Clattenburg will be the first Englishman in six years to referee the Champions League final when he takes charge of Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid later this month.
Clattenburg, 41, has been selected by the UEFA Referees Committee to oversee club football's biggest game just over a week after he came under fire for losing control of Chelsea and Tottenham's Battle of the Bridge last Monday.
The County Durham-born official dished out 12 yellow cards and missed at least one clear dismissal for Mousa Dembele's eye-gouge in the heated 2-2 draw.
But Clattenburg will now complete a cup final double, having taken charge of the FA Cup final between Manchester United and Crystal Palace seven days prior to his May 28 date in Milan.
He is joined by an English team with Simon Beck and Jake Collin, Clattenburg's regular assistants, selected by UEFA and Anthony Taylor and Andre Marriner as the assistants behind the goals.
A Hungarian, Viktor Kassai, is the fourth official, while Stuart Burt completes the English line-up as the reserve assistant referee at the San Siro.
UEFA have also picked Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson to handle the Europa League final between Liverpool and Sevilla on May 18 in Basle, Switzerland.
Clattenburg, seen by European football's governing body as one of their outstanding officials, heads for Euro 2016 this summer as a potential candidate to run the rule over the final there, too.
He officiated the Champions League semi-final first leg between Atletico and Bayern Munich last month and has been trusted with six games across the competition this season.
Madrid derbies between Real and Atletico have proven to be some of the most-challenging games to officiate with the likes of Portuguese centre back Pepe and Uruguayan Diego Godin well-versed in the game's dark arts.
Clattenburg's stock fell in the eyes of some critics with the mad scenes in the closing stages at Stamford Bridge last week but that has not dissuaded UEFA from appointing him to this month's final.
Sportsmail's Graham Poll said Clattenburg should have been 'stronger in the early stages of the game' before chaos descended.
Poll also praised Clattenburg for having the most successful season of his career and said the Chelsea-Spurs game could be a wake-up call to ultimately help him.
Howard Webb was the last Englishman to be trusted with the Champions League final in 2010, with Philip Don preceding him in 1994.


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Die Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) ist ein alljährlich stattfindender Wettbewerb für Fahrten- und Regattasegler. Ziel der ARC ist die Atlantiküberquerung mit dem Ausgangspunkt Las Palmas auf Gran Canaria und dem Zielhafen Rodney Bay auf St. Lucia.

Die ARC unterscheidet zwischen Fahrtenyachten (meist Amateure mit eigenen oder gecharterten Booten) und Regattayachten. Für die Gruppe der Fahrtenyachten bietet die ARC primär die Möglichkeit, den Atlantik in einer sicheren Gemeinschaft zu überqueren.
In der Regattagruppe steht hauptsächlich die Wettkampfeigenschaft im Vordergrund. Die Boote werden nach dem internationalen IRC-Rating bewertet, der die Segelleistungen der verschiedenen Yachten vergleichbar macht.

Für die ca. 2700 sm lange Strecke benötigen die Yachten je nach Bootsgröße und Windstärke zwischen 12 und 24 Tagen. Gesegelt wird auf der Barfußroute im Nordäquatorialstrom mit dem Nordostpassat. Die Rally startet mit Einsetzen des Passatwindes Ende November und endet vor Weihnachten in der Karibik.

Die Rally findet seit 1986 statt und zieht seitdem jährlich mehr als 200 teilnehmende Yachten an. Organisator der ARC ist der World Cruising Club in England, einem Teil der Yacht-Racing-Agentur Challenge des britischen Segelpioniers Sir Chay Blyth.

Weblinks
 ARC-Homepage

Transatlantikregatta
Sport (Gran Canaria)
Segelsport (St. Lucia)
Erstveranstaltung 1986
Segelsport (Spanien)

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The queue opens 15min before the war begins.
When you enter the queue, you are placed at the end of the queue. You can use stars to move up the queue. Your new position will then depend on whether other users also moved up or not. For example, if 2 people already moved up the queue once, your new position will be 3rd. If you move up again, you will be 1st.
When the war stars, the first front is opened and the first 15 players on each side will start playing. New fronts will open progressively as long as there are enough players on each side.
In order to be able to reinforce a server if a user leaves the war, the queue will always keep at least 5 players in the queue on both sides. This means that a new front will only open if both sides have at least 20 players in the queue (15 + 5).
Why am I stuck in the queue?
- There might not be enough users in the queue on the other server.
I never got to play the war. What about the stars I spent on moving up the queue?
Users who never joined the war and spent stars moving up the queue will be refunded.
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#Haiku Happenings #4: Jim Feeney's latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
"a grand stretch to the evenings". What a lovely way to describe them. I love it.
I like the image of the sun bawling–unique. And the name of your blog is priceless.
The sun bawling in the sky… an interesting idea! Great Tanka!.
I like the grand stretch.
What a brilliant saying, 'a grand stretch to the evenings' – it describes spring well.
One of my mom's more printable sayings!
This made me imagine the Sun as stretching over the skyline and yawning as the evening approaches.
Hey there, thank you…that's an image in itself!
Thank you, you are way too kind!
Quite a stretch where you are, Bjorn!
A beautiful spring sky it is.


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Margot Robbie channels Barbie (again) in Pink Chanel at the Golden Globes
Margot Robbie might be out celebrating "Babylon," but her dress gives "Barbie." While attending the Golden Globe Awards 2023 on Jan. 10, where Robbie is nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, the 32-year-old actor wore a pink Chanel dress styled by Kate Young.
The custom-made dress featured a halter neckline adorned with a silver brooch at the collar bone. The bodice consisted of a triangle-shaped pattern layered over lace that led into a tulle skirt, creating a relaxed mermaid silhouette. Subtle sequins and feathers gave the dress an elegant touch and a nod to the old Hollywood period in which "Babylon" takes place.
Robbie's other recent outfits sparked rumors of the end of her longtime contract with Chanel, but it seems she still has some affinity for the heritage brand. Unlike her Backless Alaïa dress at the "Babylon" premiere or her dramatic Celine gown at the "Amsterdam" premierethis soft Barbiecore the look is very much in line with the actor's usual aesthetic.
Keep scrolling for a closer look at Robbie's cute dress.
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The Russians are attacking! With a rickety old ship that may or may not have nuclear weapons on board. (Spoiler: it does.) The Russian leader introduces himself: his name is Constantine Nicholai Ruskov, a former vice admiral who clearly thinks very highly of himself. Chandler tells Ruskov to stand down, but the Russian's all "pffftttt." He says the Nathan James must hand over the primordial strain of the virus (along with Dr. Scott) or "leave this harbour atop a mushroom cloud." Instead, Chandler proposes they meet somewhere to negotiate a peaceful solution face-to-face.
Chandler prepares his team for the Ruskov meet-up. He's made some weird choices: Quincy and Tex, the former Guantanamo Bay guard, are both along for the ride. They arrive at a small cantina on the Cuban mainland wearing full biohazard gear. Ruskov's sitting inside, smoking a cigar and drinking vodka like he's on an all-inclusive vacay.
Quincy steps forward and tests Ruskov for the disease—he's clean.
Meanwhile, on the ship, Slattery spots the Russians planting mines all over the bay. So he starts plotting an escape route—nd says it might be time to retaliate with force.
As for the vaccine, Chandler says they have no interest in keeping the treatment for themselves—it's for the world. But Ruskov tells him the world descended into chaos while the Nathan James was in the Arctic. Worse than the virus itself was the fear, which inspired people and governments to commit terrible atrocities. "The world is not worth saving," Ruskov insists.
Oh, and one other thing: apparently the Russians have a special ingredient necessary to make the vaccine work. Ruskov again demands that the Americans hand over the primordial strain, along with Dr. Scott. As a compromise, Chandler offers a sample of the primordial strain—but Ruskov is not satisfied. And he's not interested in Quincy, either.
So the two leaders are at loggerheads. Chandler says he's happy to wait, especially since the Nathan James has all the food on the island. This comment inspires Ruskov to pull out a gun and shoot one of his own men in the head. "One mouth less to feed," the admiral says.
Time to make some plans. There's a canal they could use as an escape route, but it's probably too shallow for their ship. Greene says he could take a smaller boat through the canal, sneak up on the Russians, and bomb them. But first, they're going to need to stock up on supplies at Gitmo.
Two sailors scout the canal, feeding video footage back to the Nathan James. The canal is in better shape than they thought—they could blow the coral and get the ship through. Which is encouraging news! But then something horrible happens: Russian fighters attack the Americans in the canal, killing them on the spot while the Nathan James crew watches via video feed.
Chandler is livid. He races to the deck and calls Ruskov, then hits the retreating Russian dingy with a missile. The three Russian soldiers survive, giving Chandler the opportunity to make a threat: after killing one of his men point blank, is Ruskov really ready to sacrifice three more? He isn't. Just before the Americans launch their killing shot, Ruskov stops them. He agrees to leave the harbour, but says they have 24 hours to hand over Dr. Scott and the primordial strain.
In the lab, Dr. Scott is shocked when Quincy pulls a gun on her. He forces her onto the deck and tries to get her to jump in the water. But of course, he's a nerdy scientist, not a thug, and she easily runs away.
Scott races to an area where several American soldiers are working. They all pull their guns on Quincy. So he takes out a vial of the virus and threatens to open it—infecting everybody—if Scott doesn't go to the Russians. She talks him down, and convinces him to hand over the vial.
Scott is totally confused as to why Quincy went rogue, but his reasoning becomes clear during an interrogation: Ruskov has his family hostage. (Which explains how a British lady spoke to Chandler via radio last episode.) During the hysteria of the outbreak, Quincy collaborated with a Russian scientist named Sergey—his aim was to find a cure, not to help the Russians. But Sergey was killed by Ruskov a few weeks before, and the Russians took his family hostage. Later that night, Quincy was supposed to take Rachel and the samples to a beach, where a boat would be waiting to transport them to the Russian ship. Which could very well come in handy.
On the Russian ship, Quincy's wife Kelly has a drink with Ruskov—who is definitely trying to channel some Christoph-Waltz-in-Inglourious-Basterds vibes. Also, he has a cruuuuuush on Kelly.
Meanwhile, Chandler thinks they can escape through the old canal. His crew thinks the water isn't deep enough. Chandler insists they'll have two-three feet clearance at high tide—just with zero margin for error. He tells the crew to get ready.
Then he recruits Lt. Foster to pose as Dr. Scott during the mission. Greene (aka Foster's secret boyfriend) first objects—then insists on going with her.
To avoid the Russians' radar, the Nathan James must travel the canal with no sonar and no radar—an extremely difficult task. The Americans prepare a decoy to convince the Russians they're staying put in the bay. Apparently by spreading out a sheet of aluminum foil, they can create enough reflection to show up on the Russians' radar.
When the aluminum foil is in place, they turn off all of the ship's signals. The red blip on Ruskov's radar stays the same, meaning their fake-out worked.
As the Nathan James slinks across the canal, Foster and Greene speed toward the Russian ship in a lifeboat. When they get close, the Russians shine a huge spotlight in their direction. Greene holds the box of test tubes in front of his face so they can't actually tell he isn't Quincy. And the Russians buy the con!
Greene accelerates, and they start racing toward the Russian destroyer. Timing is key here: at the exact moment when Greene and Foster attack the Russian ship, the Nathan James must torpedo the coral so they can get through the canal without damaging their hull.
But Greene gets distracted. As they pull closer to their target, he slows down the boat and tells Foster to bail. She retorts with a defiant no.
So Greene accelerates again. As they approach the ship, Foster takes out a couple of Russians with a rifle, then she and Greene bail into the water. Their boat—which was loaded with explosives—smashes into the Russian ship, causing a huge blast.
This gives the Nathan James the opportunity to torpedo the coral and get the hell out of the canal. It's a very tense moment, but they make it through without any damage to their hull.
The same can't be said for the Russian ship, which is taking in water following the blast. Nothing they can't patch up, though.
Chandler doesn't look so sure. In fact, he goes out in the hall and kind of has a solo freakout.
Back on the Russian ship, Ruskov visits their lab—and there's a scientist there! Presumably this is Sergey, still alive. The scientist says he needs Scott and the primordial strain to make a vaccine work. As Sergey fishes under the bed for a runaway lab mouse, Ruskov assures him they'll make it happen, and leaves.
But what's going on with the mouse? As the episode ends, Sergey holds it close to his face by the tail… and seems to make a major discovery.
Watch the whole friggin' episode right here!


In addition to 100 national TV appearances, Dale has appeared in concert with Jay Leno, Paul Anka, The Four Tops and The Temptations.
Dale has received the two highest awards professional speaking presents through the National Speakers Association. In 1988 Dale earned the designation of CSP, Certified Speaking Professional; and in 1995 was given the highest recognition of CPAE, Council of Peers Award for Excellence. Dale is one of only 67 speakers in the world to hold both of these titles.
Dale is the author of Laughter Doesn't Hurt and publishes Funny Business, a monthly humor newsletter with international distribution.
"Laughter Doesn't Hurt" This speech is more like a one-man show in which he demonstrates the healing power of laughter in such a hilarious way that the audience should be illness-free forever.
"Five Minute Funnies" Imagine having a comedy monologue presented to your audience once or twice a day based on what has just happened! Dale can do it, finding humor in every meeting and social function. His material is clean, intelligent, and timely. This is a one-of-a-kind presentation.
"Custom Put-On" Dale is introduced to your audience as anyone from the new vice president of sales to the junior senator from Montana. Together you decide on a character and Dale will create a program that will confuse and baffle the audience until they catch on and enjoy the fun. Dale has even performed this program in the character of a woman... and a darn good looking one at that.
"Power Thinking" This three hour creative thinking seminar delivers solid creative thinking techniques in a fun and memorable way. It is a very unique break-out session.
"Time Is On Our Side" Many people have covered the subject of time management but never in such an entertaining way. This is a half-day seminar.
"The Corporate Challenge" Dale has developed his own game show which is used to reinforce information your audience has learned during the course of the meeting. It is full of laughs and is a very fun way to learn. Dale Irvin is a smart savvy guy with a button-down style and a way of finding humor in just about everything. He laughs at life... and life, in return, laughs with him.


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The AVF MRC1204-A is a dual head, multi position desk mount for 13 to 27 inch screens and supports up to 17 lbs. each. Not only does it free up valuable desk space, but it also places the monitors at your desired viewing position for added comfort and reduced strain. The monitors can be tilted 15 degrees and adjusted in height up to 17.9 inches, placing them at the ideal eye level. It rotates 360 degrees for easy portrait or landscape viewing and is VESA compatible with hole patterns 75x75mm thru 100x100mm. Can be attached either clamped to the edge of your desk or clamped through the desk cable access hole with a thickness of 0.4 – 3.1 inches. Cable management is provided through the upright for an organized appearance and comes with a 2-year warranty.
Dual arms are height adjustable up to 17.9 inches.
Adjustable tilt feature provides better viewing angles and reduced glare.
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Rotates 360 degrees at head of mount to allow easy positioning from landscape to portrait view.
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VESA compatible with hole patterns 75x75mm thru 100x100mm.
Cable management is provided through the upright for an organized appearance.
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Gestrinone
13-ethyl-17alpha-hydroxy-18,19 dinorpregna-4,9,11-trien-20-yn-3-one
ATC code G03XA02
Formula C21H24O2
Mol. mass 308.4 g/mol
Metabolism Hepatic
Half life ?
Excretion Renal, fecal
Routes ?
Gestrinone is a synthetic steroid hormone that acts as an anti-progestin and also has some androgenic activity. It is marketed under the names Dimetriose, Dimetrose, and Nemestran, as a treatment for endometriosis. Gestrinone is available in many countries, but not in the USA. As it has anabolic effects, its use in competition has been banned by the International Olympic Committee.[1]
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1 Method of action
2 Metabolism
3 Contraindications and side effects
4 Other uses
Method of action
Its mechanism of action consists of suppression of the release of pituitary gonadotropins. Gestrinone also interacts with the endometrium, inhibiting its growth. The inhibition is the result of gestrinone's interaction with the androgen receptor; this is also the reason for androgenic side effects. Gestrinone has been shown to interact with the estrogen receptor, the androgen receptor, and the progesterone receptor.[2]
The drug is well absorbed via the oral route, passed through the liver, and has a half-life of about 24 hours. It is metabolized by the liver and excreted by urine and feces.
Contraindications and side effects
The drug is contraindicated in pregnancy, during lactation, and in patients with severe cardiac, renal or hepatic insufficiency. It is also contraindicated in patients who experienced metabolic and/or vascular disorders during previous estrogen or progestogen therapy, or who are allergic to the medication. The drug is contraindicated in children.
Side effects include vaginal spotting, and, in susceptible individuals, signs of increased androgen activity such as acne, oily skin, fluid retention, weight gain, hirsutism, voice change, or hair loss.
The drug has also been investigated for use as a prospective contraceptive agent and as a postcoital contraceptive.[3] It also has been used to shrink uterine fibroids and to reduce menorrhagia[4][5]
Its androgenic properties are more exploited in a "designer steroid", the derivative tetrahydrogestrinone. THG was banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2003.
^ Helping athletes compete drug-free (PDF) 34. Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (May 2000). Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
^ Tamaya, T.; Fujimoto J., Watanabe Y., Arahori K. & Okada H. (1986). "Gestrinone (R2323) binding to steroid receptors in human uterine endometrial cytosol". Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica 65 (5): 439-41. PMID 3490730. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
^ Emergency Contraception Update (RTF) 5. International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (October 2006). Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
^ La Marca, A.; Giulini S., Vito G., Orvieto R., Volpe A. & Jasonni V.M. (December 2004). "Gestrinone in the treatment of uterine leiomyomata: effects on uterine blood supply". Fertility and Sterility 82 (6): 1694-6. PMID 15589885. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
^ Roy, SN.; Bhattacharya S. (2004). "Benefits and risks of pharmacological agents used for the treatment of menorrhagia". Drug safety : an international journal of medical toxicology and drug experience 27 (2): 75-90. PMID 14717620. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
Category: Anabolic steroids
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gestrinone". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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Reindeer living on the Arctic island of Svalbard are getting smaller - and scientists say climate change may be the cause.
Ecologist Steve Albon of Scotland's James Hutton Institute says rising temperatures in the Arctic mean Svalbard is getting more rain, creating a hard ice sheet the island's reindeer can't easily break through to reach food.
Reindeer populations are also increasing due to warmer summers, stoking competition.
That's crazy. I can't believe that would happen. Who knew stuff like this could happen.
Scientists believe that the warm weather is causing the reindeer to shrink in size. The increase of rain in their community has led to difficulties in the reindeer getting food. If the reindeer are eating less, they will not be able to grow at the same rate.
Scientist think that they are shrinking in size because of the warmer weather. They are having trouble getting food because of rain. Without an efficient amount of food, they will not be able to grow.
Between the reindeer born a few years ago and the reindeer born in the 1900's, there is a 12% difference in their weight. Scientists say it is because of the warm weather. I think this is an interesting theory and I wonder if it's actually true.
Reindeer are believed to be getting smaller because of the warmer conditions causing more rain and then the deer not being able to eat.
The climate change are affecting the reindeer because it is starting to become warmer in the colder months. This because reindeer have a large coat on their bodies to shield them from the cold and allowing them to be comfortable in these climates. However, with the warm weather it is causing their bodies not to grow to their max potential and other things that are soon beginning to happen causing the reindeer to die off and may even become extinct.
Reindeer populations are increasing due to warmer weathers. During the summer, warmer temperature than normal is happening. Scientists say that there is a correlation between the warming temperatures and reindeer weight. Reindeer are getting use to this warmer weather. This warmer weather is also good for them to find food.
Warmer weather is creating more rain which means when it freezes it makes a hard sheet of ice that the reindeer can not break through to get to their source of food. Reindeer populations are also increasing due to warmer summers and something called stroking.
Because of warmer weather reindeer competition is stoking. Colder weather and rain are causing food to freeze in ice so they are not able to get as much food as easily.


It's been a while since my last post, exams and a few other things kept me busy, but I've still been working on the design now and again. Over the last few days I've really gotten back to boat-design and actually building something again! Today I built a quick 1:1 mock-up of the middle 1.5m of the cabin, to check on the ergonomics of the current design. That was my third mock-up overall, and I got it done in just over three hours, which is incredibly quick considering that the first one I ever built took more than three days. I'm getting faster at this prototyping business. 😉 You can definitely trade a lot of the accuracy for flat out construction speed, and there's plenty of tricks to help speed things along as well.
Would you believe me if I told you that it took me three years to produce this drawing?


text:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
  <title>my-list-basic</title>

  <script src="../../bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponents.min.js"></script>
  <script src="../../bower_components/web-component-tester/browser.js"></script>
  <script src="../../bower_components/test-fixture/test-fixture-mocha.js"></script>
  <link rel="import" href="../../bower_components/test-fixture/test-fixture.html">

  <!-- Import the element to test -->
  <link rel="import" href="../elements/my-list/my-list.html">

</head>
<body>

  <test-fixture id="basic">
    <template>
       <my-list></my-list>
    </template>
  </test-fixture>

  <script>
    suite('my-list tests', function() {
      var list, listItems;

      setup(function() {
        list = fixture('basic');
      });

      test('Item lengths should be equalled', function(done) {
        // Test a property
        // TODO: Fix list.items.push('Foo') causing a WeakMap exception
        // Invalid value used as weak map key
        list.items = [
          'Responsive Web App boilerplate',
          'Iron Elements and Paper Elements',
          'End-to-end Build Tooling (including Vulcanize)',
          'Unit testing with Web Component Tester',
          'Routing with Page.js',
          'Offline support with the Platinum Service Worker Elements'
        ];

        // Data bindings will stamp out new DOM asynchronously
        // so wait to check for updates
        flush(function() {
          listItems = list.querySelectorAll('li');
          assert.equal(list.items.length, listItems.length);
          done();
        });
      })
    });
  </script>

</body>
</html>


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extern crate flatbuffers;
use std::mem;
use std::cmp::Ordering;
use self::flatbuffers::{EndianScalar, Follow};
use super::*;
pub enum WoffMetadataDescriptionOffset {}
#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq)]

pub struct WoffMetadataDescription<'a> {
  pub _tab: flatbuffers::Table<'a>,
}

impl<'a> flatbuffers::Follow<'a> for WoffMetadataDescription<'a> {
  type Inner = WoffMetadataDescription<'a>;
  #[inline]
  fn follow(buf: &'a [u8], loc: usize) -> Self::Inner {
    Self { _tab: flatbuffers::Table { buf, loc } }
  }
}

impl<'a> WoffMetadataDescription<'a> {
  pub const VT_URL: flatbuffers::VOffsetT = 4;
  pub const VT_TEXT: flatbuffers::VOffsetT = 6;

  #[inline]
  pub fn init_from_table(table: flatbuffers::Table<'a>) -> Self {
    WoffMetadataDescription { _tab: table }
  }
  #[allow(unused_mut)]
  pub fn create<'bldr: 'args, 'args: 'mut_bldr, 'mut_bldr>(
    _fbb: &'mut_bldr mut flatbuffers::FlatBufferBuilder<'bldr>,
    args: &'args WoffMetadataDescriptionArgs<'args>
  ) -> flatbuffers::WIPOffset<WoffMetadataDescription<'bldr>> {
    let mut builder = WoffMetadataDescriptionBuilder::new(_fbb);
    if let Some(x) = args.text { builder.add_text(x); }
    if let Some(x) = args.url { builder.add_url(x); }
    builder.finish()
  }

  #[inline]
  pub fn url(&self) -> Option<&'a str> {
    self._tab.get::<flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<&str>>(WoffMetadataDescription::VT_URL, None)
  }
  #[inline]
  pub fn text(&self) -> Option<flatbuffers::Vector<'a, flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<WoffMetadataText<'a>>>> {
    self._tab.get::<flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<flatbuffers::Vector<'a, flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<WoffMetadataText>>>>(WoffMetadataDescription::VT_TEXT, None)
  }
}

impl flatbuffers::Verifiable for WoffMetadataDescription<'_> {
  #[inline]
  fn run_verifier(
    v: &mut flatbuffers::Verifier, pos: usize
  ) -> Result<(), flatbuffers::InvalidFlatbuffer> {
    use self::flatbuffers::Verifiable;
    v.visit_table(pos)?
     .visit_field::<flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<&str>>("url", Self::VT_URL, false)?
     .visit_field::<flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<flatbuffers::Vector<'_, flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<WoffMetadataText>>>>("text", Self::VT_TEXT, false)?
     .finish();
    Ok(())
  }
}
pub struct WoffMetadataDescriptionArgs<'a> {
    pub url: Option<flatbuffers::WIPOffset<&'a str>>,
    pub text: Option<flatbuffers::WIPOffset<flatbuffers::Vector<'a, flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<WoffMetadataText<'a>>>>>,
}
impl<'a> Default for WoffMetadataDescriptionArgs<'a> {
  #[inline]
  fn default() -> Self {
    WoffMetadataDescriptionArgs {
      url: None,
      text: None,
    }
  }
}
pub struct WoffMetadataDescriptionBuilder<'a: 'b, 'b> {
  fbb_: &'b mut flatbuffers::FlatBufferBuilder<'a>,
  start_: flatbuffers::WIPOffset<flatbuffers::TableUnfinishedWIPOffset>,
}
impl<'a: 'b, 'b> WoffMetadataDescriptionBuilder<'a, 'b> {
  #[inline]
  pub fn add_url(&mut self, url: flatbuffers::WIPOffset<&'b  str>) {
    self.fbb_.push_slot_always::<flatbuffers::WIPOffset<_>>(WoffMetadataDescription::VT_URL, url);
  }
  #[inline]
  pub fn add_text(&mut self, text: flatbuffers::WIPOffset<flatbuffers::Vector<'b , flatbuffers::ForwardsUOffset<WoffMetadataText<'b >>>>) {
    self.fbb_.push_slot_always::<flatbuffers::WIPOffset<_>>(WoffMetadataDescription::VT_TEXT, text);
  }
  #[inline]
  pub fn new(_fbb: &'b mut flatbuffers::FlatBufferBuilder<'a>) -> WoffMetadataDescriptionBuilder<'a, 'b> {
    let start = _fbb.start_table();
    WoffMetadataDescriptionBuilder {
      fbb_: _fbb,
      start_: start,
    }
  }
  #[inline]
  pub fn finish(self) -> flatbuffers::WIPOffset<WoffMetadataDescription<'a>> {
    let o = self.fbb_.end_table(self.start_);
    flatbuffers::WIPOffset::new(o.value())
  }
}

impl std::fmt::Debug for WoffMetadataDescription<'_> {
  fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
    let mut ds = f.debug_struct("WoffMetadataDescription");
      ds.field("url", &self.url());
      ds.field("text", &self.text());
      ds.finish()
  }
}


Q Mr. President, don't you think the Republicans will say that reducing the FHA closing costs is just an election-year gimmick?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know what they'll say. But we've been working on this for quite some time now, and it's a part of an ongoing strategy. And we started in 1993 by driving the interest rates down, and in that year alone, something like 5.5 million people refinanced their home mortgages.
So many American middle class working people, starting with young people like the Kastens, have all their savings in a home. And we just feel that anything we can do to facilitate people buying their own homes and to speed the process along will increase savings, increase security and support families.
So that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to get -- we have, I think, about 3.7 million new home owners since I became President, and we're working on a target of eight million by the year 2000. If we can get to eight million, then we'll have home ownership at two-thirds of the American people; it will be the highest it's ever been in American history. That's what we're trying to do.
SECRETARY CISNEROS: Mr. President, if I may just add to that -- this is the culmination of a presidential directive to deal with the barriers of home ownership. And most surveys tell us the principal barrier, Mr. President, is the front-end cost. The average closing cost on a house are about $4,400. We made a commitment a year and a half ago to reduce that by a quarter -- $1,000. This announcement the President makes today is the capstone of reducing it by $1,000.
The first step was to reduce it by $600 when we reduced FHA premiums earlier in the term. Then another $200, for $800, by cutting time -- and time is money in purchasing a home. And today is worth about $200 more, so that's $1,000 less, which for a lot of people is the difference between actually being able to get into a home, or not.
So this is the culmination of a directive that's been a long time in the works.
Q Mr. President, does the Senate vote today on the balanced budget amendment give Senator Dole ammunition against you? Are you standing in the way of a balanced budget?
THE PRESIDENT: No. Look at what Senator Exon said, probably the strongest balanced budget advocate over a longer period of time than anybody in the Senate, of either party. And he's actually changing his vote, as I understand it, today because he doesn't want the gimmick of saying we're going to have a balanced budget amendment which will take forever and a day to take impact, and get in the way of the fact that there are now -- there are on the table, there's a Republican plan and my plan that existed when they walked away from the negotiations several months ago. Both of them would balance the budget by 2002; both of them have savings in common to do it.
And I would say again, whatever happens in that vote today -- and the President doesn't sign or veto amendments -- whatever happens in that vote today, the Congress ought to come back, pass the savings we have in common, give the American people a balanced budget, take the differences between them and then take that to the voters in November. Let the voters resolve the differences; let us do what we have in common. That's the way our system is supposed to work. Representative government is supposed to take what we have in common and make progress and let the voters resolve the differences. That's how the system is supposed to work.
So I would say that however this vote comes out, it's not an excuse not to go on and balance the budget. If we did that, we'd get interest rates down some more and we'd have more people, like the Kastens buying homes next year.
Q When are you going to buy a home? How come you don't get one?
THE PRESIDENT: You know how much my first home cost? About $20,500 -- 1,000 square feet, 1,100 square feet. Same sort of deal.
Q Time to get a new one, isn't it?


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Gabriel Alejandro Paletta (ur. 15 lutego 1986 w Buenos Aires) – włoski piłkarz argentyńskiego pochodzenia występujący na pozycji obrońcy we włoskim klubie AC Monza. Wychowanek Banfield, w swojej karierze reprezentował także barwy Liverpoolu, Boca Juniors, Parmy oraz Atalanty BC. Były młodzieżowy reprezentant Argentyny oraz seniorski reprezentant Włoch.

Bibliografia

Reprezentanci Włoch w piłce nożnej
Argentyńscy piłkarze
Piłkarze CA Banfield
Piłkarze Liverpool F.C.
Piłkarze CA Boca Juniors
Piłkarze Parmy Calcio 1913
Piłkarze A.C. Milan
Piłkarze Atalanty BC
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2014
Urodzeni w 1986
Ludzie urodzeni w Buenos Aires
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata U-20 w Piłce Nożnej 2005
Mistrzowie Świata U-20 w Piłce Nożnej


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Zhiyuan Sun
'You don't own Web 3.0,' says Jack Dorsey, criticizing its centralized nature
It's often a priority for VCs and angel investors that businesses comply with relevant regulations for growth. Dorsey believes this compromises decentralization.
In a series of Tuesday tweets, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, as well as the founder and CEO of Square (now Block), voiced his criticism over the direction of Web 3.0 development. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, joined Dorsey in the mockery. (On an unrelated note, the same day, Dorsey replied, "Bitcoin will" when asked if crypto will replace the dollar.)
Within context, Web 3.0 is a decentralized version of the virtual world that will, in part, feature public blockchains, metaverse technology, nonfungible tokens and decentralized finance free from the grasp of centralized power sources, such as corporate servers.
You don't own "web3."
The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It's ultimately a centralized entity with a different label.
Know what you're getting into…
— jack⚡ (@jack) December 21, 2021
However, Dorsey took aim at the fact that venture capital firms, or VCs, and limited partnerships, also known as LPs, frequently fund Web 3.0 projects in direct competition with decentralized alternatives such as initial coin offerings. By owning a controlling stake, VCs and LPs can pressure blockchain founders to comply with centralized regulations, such as collecting Know Your Customer (KYC) data, that conflict with their core crypto philosophy.
Although he didn't have much to add, Elon Musk commented that Web 3.0 projects haven't really lived up to their name.
Has anyone seen web3? I can't find it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2021
Related: Indian state government to accredit Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 blockchain startups
According to a report by PitchBook, fintech firms received $88.3 billion in aggregate funding from venture capital through the first three quarters of 2021, almost double the 2020 total of $44.9 billion. The report also highlighted the growing mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies as one potential growth driver, especially as more institutions look to access digital assets.
As for Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO appears to be much more vocal about his intent to contribute to the Bitcoin (BTC) economy since stepping down from the social media company in November. As Cointelegraph previously reported, Dorsey plans on building a decentralized exchange for Bitcoin that will make it easier to fund a non-custodial wallet.
#Funding
#Metaverse
#Jack Dorsey
#Web3
Elon Musk thinks Neuralink is better than the metaverse in long term


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