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MEng Mechanical Engineering
Virtually any machine or process you can think of in modern life has benefited from the input of a mechanical engineer.
Mechanical engineers are responsible for the analysis, design and manufacture of an enormous range of industrial products and systems – almost anything with moving parts, from washing machines and wind turbines to automobiles and aircraft.
As a mechanical engineer, you will use fundamental physics, complex mathematics and state-of-the-art engineering software - as well as your creative and inventive skills - to design and improve products and processes.
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Studying engineering at the University of Edinburgh prepares you for a career as a professional engineer in the UK or abroad. All of our courses meet the requirements of the UK professional engineering bodies.
On graduating from this programme, you will have:
a thorough, core knowledge
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Award of Certificate with five subjects at Class XII, with an overall average of 80% or above and minimum 80% in all required subjects (or 85% where we require a grade A at SQA Higher). 75% at Grade XII English.
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10:10 is changing. Have your say.
As 10:10 approaches its tenth birthday, we've been thinking a lot about change. All the things that have changed in the last decade, and all the things that haven't. Most of all, we've been thinking about the massive challenge that lies ahead for the next ten years.
As the UN's climate scientists told the world last October, what we do in the 2020s matters if we want to keep to 1.5°C global warming. It matters a lot. We're going to have to radically change how we live our lives, from what we eat to how we keep our homes warm, cool and dry to how we move around.
We have to do all of this at an unprecedented scale, and an unprecedented speed. And we have to do all of it whilst also coping with the degree or so of global warming we've cooked up for ourselves already. People sometimes talk about tackling climate change as our generation's "moonshot", but honestly putting a man on the moon looks piddly compared to the challenge in front of us.
To help us meet this challenge, we're going to be making some changes at the 10:10 Foundation.
We're going to keep that same can-do attitude which has always been at the core of our work. We're also keeping our focus on community action. But we're ramping up our ambition, and going to be louder about pushing others to be more ambitious too.
We're going to be focusing our work into five key challenges, all areas we know the public can play a role in speeding up action:
Cleaning up energy - achieving zero carbon power and zero carbon homes.
Working with nature - restoring nature to lock up carbon and protect us from climate impacts.
Changing how we travel - swapping cars for public transport and active travel, planes for trains - and electrifying everything.
Changing what we eat and buy - switching to plant-based diets, ending waste, and learning to have more fun with less.
Talking about the climate crisis - breaking the climate silence, and empowering everyone to understand the crisis we face.
For each of these challenges, we're going to be sharing a range of actions people can take on their own, actions to take with others, and ways to help unlock larger change. These will include the sort of big, bold, eye-catching and adventurous ideas we've become famous for, like solar railways and heat pumps under parks, as well as a new actions blog full of advice for ramping up not only your own climate ambition but everyone else's.
We're also going to take the opportunity to change our name. From October 10th we're going to be called Possible.
10:10 was a brilliant name for a campaign (we asked people to cut their carbon by 10% in 2010, if you don't remember that far back...) but it was never a great fit for an organisation. For a charity like ours, with our eyes squarely on the future, we can't have a name that looks back to a decade's old campaign.
We think this new name fits our stubborn optimism. Community owned solar railways? Possible. Lift the ban on onshore wind? Possible. Car free cities? Possible. More than triple our government's tree-planting targets? Possible.
Moreover, we know that the thing we're good at - and the thing the people of Britain still badly need - is to beat climate fear with positive, practical projects which help build the world we want to see. We're here to help people not only see that action on climate change is Possible, but build it too.
We're excited about what we think we can achieve in the next decade, but we know we can't do any of it without our amazing supporters. It's only with your support we'll have the impact we need.
Our supporters have always been the greatest instigators and champions of climate action; starting conversations, sharing advice, inspiring others, bugging politicians, spotting opportunities. Together, we show what is Possible.
Will you help make sure we get this next bit right?
Skye, our new digital comms officer is hard at work rebuilding the website. She'd love to get your feedback on what you love and don't love about the current one. Get in touch, or fill in this survey, to have your say on the new website.
Have your say on the new website
Matt, our creative lead, has been working up a set of designs for a Possible logo and visual identity. He's got a few options in mind and could do with your feedback. So If you'd like a sneak peek and are up for letting him know what you think, he's all ears.
Tell us what you think of Matt's possible Possible logo
And Hannah, our supporter engagement officer, is keen to hear stories of what climate action you'd been making possible over the last 10 years, with 10:10 or on your own. What have you been up to?
Tell Hannah what being a 10:10er has meant to you
Thanks for being part of the 10:10 story so far. We can't wait to see what we'll do together as Possible.
Oh and if anyone wants one of our old 10:10 tags we have a few left in the office and will post you some in exchange for a donation. First come, first served!
Carbon City Zero
10:10 are working with games experts at Manchester Metropolitan University to create a brand new card game that gets people talking about cleaning up our energy system. That means taking the carbon out of the electricity we use in our homes, schools and workplaces as well as the heat we use to warm our buildings.
Esther Griffin
Powering up Canada schools with solar
Our Solar Schools project has inspired a cousin in Canada!
Tagged: Solar schools, Solar
Guest post: could we use the ground beneath a London park to generate low carbon heat?
We're working on an exciting project to investigate using heat pumps in Hackney parks to provide low carbon heat to the surrounding buildings. This week London has officially become the world's first National Park City - and to celebrate Hackney council have mown the logo into one of their parks! That got our team thinking… how much low carbon heat could you get just from that little circle of park? Louise Waters from Scene crunched the numbers.
To show their support for London becoming a National Park City, Hackney Council have mowed a 20 metre-wide National Park City logo into the grass at Millfields Park.
We've been thinking about the renewable heat resource beneath the country's parks and green spaces as part of the Powering Parks project, working with Hackney Council and Nesta. So we wondered what amount of heat could be generated from the area underneath the logo and the 45 metre-wide circle around it…
There are two ways to collect heat using a heat pump. If vertical ground heat collectors were installed – pipes inserted into boreholes up to 200 metres deep – then this piece of ground could supply up to 80 kW of heat, saving about 15 tonnes of carbon emissions each year. The heat extracted would pass into a heat pump (or several heat pumps) that would ramp up the temperature to a level that could be fed into a building's radiators, or generate hot water for sinks and showers. 80 kW could heat a medium-sized school, one or two large pubs or 6-10 typical detached homes.
A lower-cost option might be to install horizontal heat collectors – pipes buried in trenches about one metre deep. But this would mean that only about 20 kW of heat could be supplied (about four tonnes of carbon savings). This could still be enough for a café, community centre or 2-3 individual homes.
In either case, the heat collectors and interconnecting pipework would be fully buried, and the grass above re-sown so that the system is hidden and the park can continue to be enjoyed as normal.
This is just an example of what could be possible with a small area of parkland. There are no plans for a project like this at Millfields, but parks and green spaces across the country are home to vast renewable heat resources beneath the soil. Ground source heat pumps could offer councils the opportunity to save money on their heating bills or generate revenues to support park operations and improvements, while taking them one step further along their decarbonisation journeys.
Tagged: poweringparks, heating
At last - a ray of sunshine for solar power
Thousands of you have helped change the story for solar.
Tagged: Solar, daylight robbery
Inspiring stories of heat - our beautifully illustrated new book
We've gathered stories of some low carbon ways to heat and cool ourselves and brought them to life with magical storytelling and stunning illustrations.
Tagged: heating, heat network
Air pollution 101
What you need to know about dirty air and what you can do to change it.
Tagged: air pollution
Is Mr Whippy sending out toxic air? Our latest research.
Air pollution is a huge problem across the world. Our latest research project looked at how the ice cream van is contributing to the problem and ways they can be more clean air friendly.
Four ways your stuff can help cut carbon
It might not seem like it, but everything we buy has it's own carbon footprint.
Tagged: carbon cutting
Hannah Bland
Diary of a tree planter
Back in January we headed to the village of Wolverley for a weekend of tree-planting climate action. Here's Emma's diary of the weekend.


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MABEL WREN was born in London, England. When she was five years old her parents took her to see the Mauretania 11, known as "the largest vessel ever to navigate the Thames and use the Royal Docks," according to the Cunard Archives.
The docks were open to the public for the festive occasion. The ships coming in and out of London docks and permanently docked in or near the Thames were her visual aids for geography and history. The President Peron and the Eva Peron were beautiful white ships and she was awed at the sight of them even before she knew anything about the people whose names they bore.
When eight years old she decided to visit another country by ship when she grew up. She didn't know then that one day she would cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary on her way to a new job.
But before she could travel she had to have a career. She studied and received her elementary teaching credential from London University. After teaching for five years in London she applied for a teacher-exchange position in the USA. She had to agree to go anywhere in America.
Her exchange was arranged with a first-grade teacher in Trinidad, California, on the coast, near the Oregon border. She could only find out the highest and lowest temperatures, annual rainfall, and population ( two hundred!) for her new residence. She'd committed her savings to this new adventure and these facts did nothing to reassure her she'd made a wise investment.
She soon arrived in a beautiful, small fishing and logging community on the Pacific coast. Problems arose because when she spoke English the locals heard American English. When they spoke American English she heard English. When she heard all the parents were upset because she'd burn down the school, she knew they needed to talk. Relief swept the community when they learned she only wanted each student to carry a flashlight on the stage. She'd used the English word "torch".
Today she has retired to about three thousand feet in the coastal mountain range of Trinity County, California, where the deer, mountain lions, bears, and skunks have the right-of-way.
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↑ 1,00 1,01 1,02 1,03 1,04 1,05 1,06 1,07 1,08 1,09 1,10 German National Library, Berlin State Library, Bavarian State Library et al. Record #11859964X // Gemeinsame Normdatei — 2012—2016.
↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rhijn — 2009.
↑ "Rembrandt" Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
↑ 11,00 11,01 11,02 11,03 11,04 11,05 11,06 11,07 11,08 11,09 11,10 11,11 11,12 11,13 11,14 11,15 11,16 11,17 Т. Каптерева. Рембрандт Харменс ван Рейн // Европейское искусство: Живопись. Скульптура. Графика: Энциклопедия. — М.: Белый город, 2006. — Т. 3.
↑ Rembrandt-signature-Պատկեր.com Archived 9 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Կամ հնարավոր է, որ 1607 թվականին, քանի որ 1634 թվականի հունիսի 10-ին նիր խոսթերով 26 տարեկան էր: Տես՝ Is the Rembrandt Year being celebrated one year too soon? One year too late?
↑ Доброклонский М. В. Рембрандт, Харменс ван Рейн // Большая советская энциклопедия / Гл. ред. С. И. Вавилов. - 2-е изд. - М.: Сов. энциклопедия, 1965.
↑ Erhardt, Michelle A., and Amy M. Morris. 2012. Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Boston : Brill. p. 252. 9789004231955.
↑ Slive has a comprehensive biography, p.55 ff.
↑ Berger, Harry. Manhood, Marriage, & Mischief: Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits. - Fordham University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-8232-2557-7. Page 177.
↑ Art in the Making: Rembrandt. - Yale University Press, 2006. Page 189.
↑ Art of Northern Europe, Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Useful totals of the figures from various different oeuvre catalogues, often divided into classes along the lines of: "very likely authentic", "possibly authentic" and "unlikely to be authentic" are given at the Online Rembrandt catalogue Archived 13 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ It is not possible to give a total, as a new wave of scholarship on Rembrandt drawings is still in progress — analysis of the Berlin collection for an exhibition in 2006/7 has produced a probable drop from 130 sheets there to about 60. Codart.nl Archived 27 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine. The British Museum is due to publish a new catalogue after a similar exercise.
↑ See Schwartz, 1994, where the works are divided by subject, following Bartsch.
↑ While the popular interpretation is that these paintings represent a personal and introspective journey, it is possible that they were painted to satisfy a market for self-portraits by prominent artists. Van de Wetering, p. 290.
↑ Catherine B. Scallen. Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship. - Amsterdam University Press, 2004. ISBN 90-5356-625-2.
↑ Kristin Bahre u. a. (Hrsg.): Rembrandt. Genie auf der Suche. - DuMont Literatur und Kunst, Köln 2006. Seite 208.
↑ «Наука и жизнь», № 12, 2011, стр. 66.
↑ Schama, Simon (1999). Rembrandt's Eyes. Knopf, p. 720.
↑ "...Rembrandt was not always the perfectly consistent, logical Dutchman he was originally anticipated to be." Ackley, p. 13.
↑ van de Wetering, p. x.
↑ Alison McQueen. The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-century France. - Amsterdam University Press, 2003. ISBN 90-5356-624-4.
↑ Рембрандт ван Рейн // Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона : в 86 т. (82 т. и 4 доп.). - СПб., 1890-1907.
Van De Wetering, Ernst (2004) (2nd paperback printing in 2016). The Painter At Work. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press, London, England. By arrangement with Amsterdam University Press. 0-520-22668-2.


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Curetis nisias är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Hans Fruhstorfer 1908. Curetis nisias ingår i släktet Curetis och familjen juvelvingar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Filing, navigating, and finally settling a car insurance claim can be a complex and disorienting process. This simple guide will help keep you on track and give you a step-by-step system for managing your car insurance claim.
Choosing when to file a claim and when to pay out of pocket can be as simple as comparing the cost of repairs with your deductible, or it might involve a myriad of factors. If the accident was your fault, take a close look at it. If you're the victim and you have Collision coverage, open a claim with BOTH your insurer and the other driver's insurance right away. Your insurer can always pay for the damage and get reimbursed later, without it affecting your rates. If they're brought in days or weeks after the accident occurred, they may have a hard time catching up or refuse to handle it at all, leaving you to deal with the other's driver's difficult insurer.
Exchange information with the other driver or drivers, passengers, and witnesses.
You'll need ALL of this information later if you need to file a lawsuit for the claim, so keep it in a safe place until the claim is fully settled and you've received your final payment.
No accident or claim is "too small" to warrant a police report. Call the local police or 911 to report a traffic accident, and be clear whether or not it is an emergency. If the police refuse to respond to the scene of the accident or take too long, file a police report at a later time with your local precinct, and an investigator should contact the other driver for a statement. A police report will act as an official record of the circumstance, and is extremely valuable if you need to prove your case later on.
Pretend you are working for a Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Unit, and you need to document the entire situation with photos. Take wide-angle photos of the whole accident scene, each vehicle involved, as well as close-ups of the damage. A few blurry close-ups of a dented fender aren't going to illustrate much later on, so make sure to get photos that show the whole area to document what happened.
Most companies will offer multiple ways to file a claim, either online, by phone, or in person at an agent's office. In any case, you will be asked to give a recorded statement over the phone.
Have your information and any other driver's information ready, as well as any police report information.
Give a statement, but be brief with your answers. Just as in speaking with the police, anything you say can and may be held against you later, so don't tell your insurance adjuster or the other insurance company that you were eating fast food and talking on your cell phone when you crashed your car. You can always go into more detail later on, so just give them enough information to start the claim.
Staying organized is your best bet to keeping your claim on track. Start a folder or a binder, or draft a document on your computer to keep track of everything. Tag or organize any emails you get from the insurance company, too.
Obtain contact info for insurance adjusters. These are the people who will be handling your claim, investigating the damage, issuing payment for car repairs, and/or negotiating a final settlement for any injuries you may have.
Get claim numbers, phone numbers for adjusters, supervisors, and claims handlers soon after you open the claim.
Ask about the chain of command. Some insurance companies delegate different duties to different people, so make sure you ask who has what responsibility for your claim. This will keep you from repeating your story to different adjusters and running around in circles.
Ask your adjuster or adjusters to email you with every conversation, and each commitment, guarantee, or promise they make. This will prevent them from going back on their word later, or shorting you on the cost of a repair when they said "We'll pay for everything" on day one.
This will save you time and stress otherwise spent discussing or arguing about a claim over the phone. Some insurance adjusters will prey on stressed-out customers and pressure them into accepting lesser settlements, so keeping your head clear will help you manage the claim.
Some insurers will recommend repair shops, however it might be best to choose your own shop. If an insurer recommends a shop, it might be because the shop offers cheap labor and discounts on parts, which is good for the insurer but not so good for you and your car.
Make sure your shop of choice offers a warranty. Some insurers will offer a warranty at any one of their "program" or "direct repair" shops, but it may be a very limited or vague warranty, so ask to read it in advance.
If you have the time, get multiple estimates from different shops, and choose the shop you feel most comfortable with. A knowledgeable and friendly staff will reflect good management and sound business practices, so go with a shop that offers friendly service at every step from estimate to completed repair.
Even if you don't have much time in your schedule to visit a doctor on a regular basis, schedule a checkup as soon as possible and follow up with a week or two.
Having a documented record of your injuries after an accident will be crucial to represent your claim later. If you wait a month or two to get your straining neck or back examined, the insurer might deny the claim, and you might have difficulty finding an attorney willing to take the case without good evidence.
Most claims limited to property damage only will be simple: once your car or property is fixed, you're good to go, and just make sure the shop warranties the work.
Make sure to keep track of other property damaged due to the accident, like coffee spilled on a nice pair of pants or other belongings.
For injury claims, the territory can be slightly more complex.
How long will a claim like this take to settle?
If I pursue it, can you give me a range on what I can expect from a settlement?
What sort of time commitment will be required from me?
What sort of expenses will I incur by hiring you to represent me?
What are the risks if we "lose"?
What are your fees from a settlement?
Do you think I should just settle this on my own?
Keep track of your medical injuries, and request your doctor give you notes on your recovery process and any long-term ailments you may have as a result.
Start a journal and write in it daily to keep track of your pain, any limit the injuries have imposed on your ability to work or perform daily chores, or even if your injuries have prevented you from spending quality time with friends or family.
If you can't play with your children because your back hurts, ask yourself, "How much money would you have to pay me to refuse to play with my kids, even if I was healthy?" Do this for every type of activity that you're prevented from doing.
Start a spreadsheet or list of all expenses, including small things like aspirin, bandages, ice packs, or massage therapy. Include dollar amounts for activities you can no longer perform due to the injury or injuries.
When you have reached full recovery and have returned to your pre-accident state of health, or if you are at a point where you feel you don't need to pursue any more medical treatment and are ready to settle, ask the adjuster to make you an offer in writing for a settlement. Don't tell them what you want just yet, instead ask them to make you an offer to start the negotiations.
The amount of their offer will likely represent anywhere from 10% to 50% of what the adjuster believes the claim is really worth. If they offer you $500 to start, you might be able to demand and negotiate to a final settlement of $1,000 or even $5,000.
Prepare a written counteroffer. Once again, don't give away all the details of your claim all at once. Make a thorough demand letter and send it via email and via regular mail or fax, but leave some items off the table until the next round of negotiations.
For any counteroffers you make, aim higher than your desired final settlement amount. They'll negotiate with you, so if you want $2,000, start with a demand of $5,000 or $6,000. Don't make a ridiculous demand of $20,000 for a small injury claim, but keep in mind they'll be negotiating and you'll need to give up some ground to reach a final settlement.
When the adjuster responds to your demand, prepare another written response. Add in some additional information, evidence, receipts, photos, or other details to support your demand. Send them copies, and keep originals of everything.
Escalate to their manager if necessary.
If you're not getting the results you want, ask to speak with the adjuster's manager. Bring them up to speed, ask them to review the documents you've sent to the adjuster, and demand a better settlement amount.
After negotiations, if they refuse to settle at a satisfactory amount, remind them that you can get an attorney and you're prepared to do so. This might cause them to produce a better settlement offer.
If your claim is only worth about $5,000 or less, you may be able to file a lawsuit in small-claims court.
Typically this process costs less than $100 to file, and typically you can get a court date within a couple of months. Check with your local government court system to ask about how this is done. The simple act of filing a lawsuit in small claims court may cause the insurer to offer up a better settlement right away.
If you need to go to small claims court, be prepared. If you've followed this guide, just present your argument to the judge the same way you presented your demand to the insurance adjuster, and bring all evidence and information necessary.
Having your agent handle the matter.
Request resolution via arbitration or mediation.
Filing a complaint with your state's department of insurance.
If you want to accept their offer: Ask them to send you a "settlement packet". This should include a check for the agreed settlement amount, a release-of-liability and hold-harmless agreement that will close the claim, and any other legal agreements necessary.
READ THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT! It should display the amount of the agreed settlement in the document, and if it does not, contact the adjuster to ask why. Make sure you're not signing off on an amount less than the one you agreed to with the adjuster.
By following this guide you should have success in opening, navigating, and negotiating a final settlement for any insurance claim.


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Media Library, Thionville
Designed by: Dominique Coulon & Associés
For client: Ville de Thionville Floor area: 4590.00 M² Year of completion: 2016
Nominated for: Governmental Interior of the Year
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This project has the ambition of becoming a new model for media libraries, a place for creation as well as reception. In association with the basic programme, the building includes areas for displays, creation, music studios, and a café-restaurant. The various activities blend into each other, creating a dynamic arrangement.
The facade acts as an unfurling ribbon that serves as a backdrop to the different universes contained in the programme. The hollow and solid sections produce an ambiguity between inside and outside, questioning the borders of the public space. A garden ramp offers another escape route to the outside, leading up to a summer bar, the culminating point of the architectural promenade.
The building rests on a principle of stacking simple systems, each with their own logic - creating tension in the space and in how it is read. The bubbles - cocoons where people are cut off from the other universes - contain very specific elements of the programme, such as a storytelling area, places for playing video games, a plastic arts room, etc.
The multiple routes offer a variety of viewpoints throughout. The promenade turns into a process of revealing the various universes. This sophistication generates a 'plastic acoustic', an atmosphere which re-examines the relationship with the body and fluidity. There is no unequivocal reading of the space; the perception one has of it reveals a complexity and an unexpected richness. It is a place of freedom.
The media library brings back meaning to the notion of co-habitation. It even resonates with the teenagers, a demographic that generally stays away from media libraries. The building has become a place-to-be in the town, creating social links with a lot of enthusiasm and interest for the multiple programmes it provides: fine art, music studios, media library, and a tourist information office. It is used by a large number of people – nearly three times as many as expected.
The spatial principle is based on a non-hierarchical superposition of different systems. The columns are not organised according to a legible regular line, but appear to have been positioned at random, even though they literally respond to the requirements of stability. The floors and ceilings of the principal space are made of discontinuous and autonomous surfaces, with gridlines that are independent of each other. The bubbles are the last refuge, the most intimate part of the building. The distance between them depends on their area of influence and on their scale.
Within the building, the ergonomics of the building are called into question, and the place of the body is rehabilitated in a playful approach with a variety of seating arrangements. The unusual texture of the concrete walls in the present music room offers users a sensorial experience. Its uneven - almost organic - appearance has acoustic and haptic properties.
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Dominique Coulon & associés
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Solares Bauen
E3 Économie
Euro Sound Project
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HashKey Capital named as one of the key VC firms in the crypto industry
Jordan Major
Cryptocurrency Jan 18, 2023
The landscape of cryptocurrency venture financing is constantly shifting, with different firms in and around the space funding deals in blockchain amid turbulent crypto markets.
In this line, HashKey Capital was also identified as one of the most significant financial supporters of cryptocurrency initiatives, as per The Block's 'Digital Asset Funding Landscape' report published on January 17, which monitored 6,380 venture capital financing agreements in the blockchain sector over the previous six years, creating a comprehensive database of the crypto venture funding environment.
HashKey Capital, which has so far made 321 investments in the cryptocurrency space, was identified in the study as one of the most active venture capital firms.
The firm is positioned alongside other VC companies, including Animoca Brands, Alameda Research, Polygon Studios, and Shima Capital.
HashKey Capital on of the most active investors. Source: The Block
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CEO of HashKey Capital, Deng Chao, stated:
"Venture Capital has been a major driving force behind the rapid development of digital assets. In the last six years alone, over 6,000 VC deals were closed. We believe that this trend will continue and despite the bear market, significant capital (from around the globe) will gather here and when the next cycle comes, these investments will pay off. The Block's report provides a comprehensive analysis of these deals and a reference to understanding the crypto industry over the past six years."
Digital assets accounted for 8% of all VC investment in tech
The report's findings that venture capitalists perceive tremendous opportunity in the digital asset industry is one of its most important conclusions. In 2022, digital assets accounted for 8% of all VC investment in the technology sector.
The findings also come as the Hong Kong-based global asset manager, with a focus on crypto and blockchain investments, announced on January 17 that it has closed its third fund at $500 million.
In particular, VCs have poured $73.4 billion into the digital asset industry across 2,668 seed and pre-Series A deals and 86 late-stage deals, with median values of $149.2 million and $105 million, respectively, attracted by the industry's disruptive potential and the likelihood of an upcoming technological revolution.
NFTs and gaming sees the highest number of deals
The non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and gaming sector, which is responsible for 1,364 total agreements and account for around 21% of the total. NFT and gaming has been the most successful sector of the cryptocurrency market since the beginning of 2021 when 87% of those deals were made.
The research analyzes also investor interest in digital assets on a worldwide scale and finds that North America is the leading contributor to global venture investments.
Over 38% of the entire amount generated in the sector was contributed by projects located in the United States, which accounted for 2,423 deals totaling nearly $38 billion. This is reflective of the United States dominating position in international venture capital, where it accounts for slightly more than half of all deals raised.
While the United States is a major hub for digital assets, it is far from being the only one. Europe saw a rise in deals in 2019 compared to other regions, due to a more favorable regulatory framework that emerged that year
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Munk's critical intelligence comes into play in his alternate role as a critic and writer. His alter ego, James Kalm, provides Munk another point of entry to dissect contemporary art in New York. Through the medium of his online video program, Kalm documents and analyzes studio tours, gallery and museum openings, and other art world events, allowing the viewer to become immersed in the insider's experience even as Munk himself assumes an implied critical distance from it.


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Paedophilia: Everybody's Business
One in six people are survivors of child sex abuse. It's time to adopt new strategies.
Issue 25, 7th January 2015
Sarah Goode
| Researcher and author of 'Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children' and 'Paedophiles in Society'
If research is right, 20% of men are capable of feeling sexual arousal to children below the legal age of consent. That is an eye-opening statistic. One in five men: in this country, that's around six million men.
This claim is backed up by eight different studies conducted between 1970 and 2006 in Europe and North America, using questionnaires and a "strain gauge" to measure "physical response", for example to pictures or audiotaped sexual stories. The research found a significant proportion of the men in their studies – ranging between 17 and 58% – showed sexual arousal to children under the age of twelve. It is important to point out that these studies were all relatively small samples and I don't know how robustly they were designed and conducted, but they still suggest there is an important truth here that we need to learn much more about. The most important points, for me, are firstly that it seems pretty clear that most men with a sexual attraction to children, including those who go on to sexually abuse children, are not in prison but out in the community. And, secondly, that you probably know some of them.
So what is the impact? Again, here are some more eye-opening statistics. The NSPCC tells us that one in twenty children has experienced contact sexual abuse. That's a conservative figure. Recent research by the University of Bedfordshire has found that between 87% and 95% of children who are sexually abused do not report it to an adult at the time. Very slowly, as they grow up, they may tell, perhaps decades later, perhaps never. So it's very hard to know exactly how many people have been abused. The Lantern Project recently estimated that over 11 million people are survivors of child sexual abuse in Britain today (out of a total population of 64 million). That's a lot of people living with the after-effects of these experiences.
An overview of research in 2000 found that a likely figure is that one in six of our children will experience sexual abuse. That's somewhere in the region of one in four of our girls, one in eight of our boys. This is serious, and I hope you really get exactly how serious. If we accept the finding (broadly accepted by the Government, child protection charities, and the World Health Organisation) that "one in six children are sexually abused", it lends weight to the statistic at the beginning of this article, that one in five men are capable of finding children sexually attractive. We thought it was only "evil paedos", those "sick monsters" over there, who found our kids sexually arousing. No, it's one in five of all men, it seems. That may stop us in our tracks but it does help to make sense of the epidemic levels of child sexual abuse we are having to come to terms with. For that many children to be abused, quite a lot of adults (and the figures suggest primarily men) would have to be abusers.
Does that mean one in five men are potential paedophiles? Well, in order to sexually abuse a child (including looking at online photographs or videos or webcams of sexual abuse) it's common-sense that you'd personally need to find that sexually arousing on some level, or you wouldn't be motivated to do it. Curiosity might start you off, but sexual arousal makes you continue. It's estimated that there are now around 100 million child sexual abuse images online (up from 7,000 in 1990) and at least 50,000 offenders in Britain known to be viewing them. In 2000, Detective Chief Inspector Bob McLachlan, then the head of Scotland Yard's paedophile unit, used Home Office statistics to suggest that there may be as many as 250,000 sex offenders living among us, including those not convicted.
Sexual abuse is quite clearly about (the misuse of) power, but it is also about sex. Otherwise it seems to me you'd just hit or yell or sneer at the poor child, instead of choosing to involve that child in your sexual gratification. If the research is correct (and it's important to keep emphasising this, as we really need more research here), roughly four out of five men would have no motivation, under any circumstances, to involve a child in their sexual behaviour. The other 20% of men (look around you, think about all the men you know) are tempted to do so. Does that make them all paedophiles? Again, the research suggests that only a much smaller percentage, approximately one in every hundred men (maybe as many as one in every fifty), are likely to meet the threshold for a clinical diagnosis of paedophilia.
Defining paedophilia is a bit more complicated than you'd think. Recently there have been five different attempts at developing diagnostic criteria everyone can agree with, and none are yet fully satisfactory. Briefly, to be defined as a paedophile, you need to be aged at least sixteen yourself, and five years older than the children you are attracted to; you need to have had recurrent fantasies, urges or sexual activities involving children, occurring over a period of at least six months; and either you have acted on your desires or your desires have caused you distress or difficulty. If all those are true, you are a paedophile, regardless of whether or not you are also sexually attracted to adults. If your entire sexual life revolves around constant fantasies or urges involving little children but you do not act on them and they do not distress you or cause you difficulties, then you wouldn't be classed as a paedophile. Confusing, isn't it?
Initially baffling though it may be, sexual interest in children doesn't necessarily mean you are a paedophile, and sexual interest in children doesn't necessarily lead to offending behaviour.
So, going back to the one in every five of the men in your life, what does their sexual interest in children actually mean? For most of them, most of the time, not much, as far as we know (funding organisations, please note: we need a LOT more research here, please). Drawing on the answers from my (admittedly very small) sample of 50 respondents in the Minor-Attracted Adults (MAA) Daily Lives Project I conducted online, and from the kinds of topics raised on paedophile web-forums (go and have a look for yourself if you're interested), the sexual desires that this 20% of men might feel are likely to run the gamut from a mild, infrequent experience of little consequence, simply a feeling that arises and passes, or something that defines one's whole life. A few respondents explained that they were heterosexual but found themselves sexually attracted to boys, sometimes to their own surprise and confusion. Few things seem straightforward in the realm of sexuality.
Sexual attraction to children can include a spectrum of desire and action which – depending on circumstances, opportunities, predispositions and moral stance – may encompass romantic, never-acted-on, daydreams of dancing with a certain child, for example, holding her in your arms, or hugging a particular boy, giving him a back-rub, right up to – as we all know only too horrifically – violent, sadistic rape, torture and murder. That's the spectrum of desire and action encompassed in men's sexual response to children.
One paedophile told me: "I imagine including little girls in my daily activities. I could be driving to the store, and I will imagine that a little girl was going with me, and imagine what we would talk about on the ride there." Another said: "I think beautiful Little Girls are just amazing, and I want to gain a sense of what it must feel like to be the Girl, and to be the Girl in the situation of being adored, being loved, being made love to." A third said: "If I see a handsome boy I sometimes fantasise about how he would look naked. It makes me horny." Others told me more disturbing fantasies of oral sex or penetration.
While some of the respondents had previously sexually abused children, others among the respondents I communicated with were clear that these fantasies would never be acted on and they were used as an outlet to prevent actual sexual contact. Typical was 'Louis', who wrote that originally his fantasies "would involve me being a super-hero and rescuing the boy from some evil bad-guy – now I'm happier just imagining a friendship. These fantasies I would have several times a day, every day … The second kind of fantasy involves sexing up a boy accompanied with masturbation. … If I don't have regular sexual release I find myself tempted to fantasise about real boys, to be more sexually interested in real boys, to follow boys around in shopping centres ..."
We cannot know what is happening in people's heads, how much sexual fantasy towards children exists, how much is controlled, how much is translated out of fantasy into actual, dangerous, behaviour. But what we do know is that we must stop being so squeamish – there is a lot we need to learn more about.
The scale of child sexual abuse in Britain is currently at epidemic levels. Around one in every five men (around six million men) is capable of finding children sexually arousing, and around one in every hundred men (approximately 300,000 men) has an exclusive or primary sexual attraction to children. Meanwhile, prisons are full, the NHS is on the point of collapse, and we as a nation are in debt up to our eyeballs. But this is an article about morality – about how we choose to act in the world as moral agents – and, because of that, it is fundamentally about hope and optimism. The only way out of this fiasco, this wholesale betrayal of our children's wellbeing, is through all of us taking some active responsibility.
There are good and effective strategies already existing which can fundamentally alter child protection in this country. If we intervene before children are harmed, then we don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of our traumatised children. These initiatives don't cost much money; they actually save money and they will keep our children safe. We need to get motivated and influential people behind these strategies to get them into the mainstream, now.
At present, there are around 11,000 sex offenders in prison, of whom less than 1,000 are likely to get any sex offender treatment. That has to change. We do already have a telephone helpline, run by Stop It Now!, which people can phone if they are worried about their own or someone else's sexual behaviour towards children. The number is 0808 1000 900 but it doesn't operate at weekends and last year it missed four times as many calls as it answered, with over 2,000 people a month being unable to reach an advisor. That has to change. In Germany and the Netherlands there are now imaginative and highly effective advertising campaigns addressed to all those paedophiles living out in the community, unknown to any authorities, asking them to come forward voluntarily and get help with managing their sexual urges. It has been so successful that, from one initial pilot project (funded by Volkswagen), there are now ten centres around Germany offering treatment and support for those living in the "dunkelfeld", the "dark field" outside the purview of criminal justice or healthcare. We urgently need initiatives like Project Prevention Dunkelfeld to be set up in Britain.
To keep children safe, we have to tell the hysterical tabloids to shut up and get real. All adults must take responsibility and be held accountable for their actions – yes, that means you too, newspaper editors. Child protection has to be about prevention first and foremost.
Child sexual abuse can be prevented when we adopt a public health approach. "Clunk click, every trip" now makes us wince but the seatbelt campaign worked. So have the drink-driving and anti-smoking campaigns. Now we need a child protection campaign which is equally effective. In Texas, in the land of the free and the home of the electric chair, they have recently been able to close down three prisons simply by adopting a robust community justice approach. Those three prisons are no longer needed. The Right on Crime approach uses a form of restorative justice which has a proven impact on people's behaviour by challenging them and holding them accountable. How about an approach like that with the 10,000 sex offenders who right now are sitting in prison and then being released back out into the community with no treatment?
On Newsnight recently, a senior police officer misunderstood my work and challenged me with "You wouldn't want a paedophile babysitting your children!" The answer, realistically, is that, more often than we realise, they are already babysitting our children. We need to face up to that and we need to respond effectively.
Dr. Goode's book, Paedophiles in Society: Reflecting on Sexuality, Abuse and Hope, is available here.
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Happy Birthday, Mama and Papa!
My parents' birthdays are five days apart. My mom turned 60 last Sunday while my dad will turn 60 tomorrow. Me and my siblings have planned a simple party to celebrate the occasion on Sunday and friends and relatives will be coming to celebrate with us.
I am really thankful that my parents are turning 60. I actually wish them more years to come so that they can truly enjoy their retirement years. Honestly, I feel kind of sad that we are still unable to provide them the lavish party that I wanted them to have. We are short in funds because I had to shell out money for our youngest brother's tuition.
But anyway, the Lord does provide. Two cousins of mine who are overseas sent money that we added to our budget. Aren't they the sweetest? Plus, I recently spoke to my former editor and she asked me to be part of a new project she's spearheading! After receiving the good news, I suddenly felt excited to head to SM tomorrow and find a handsome piece for my dad from the men's polo shirts department. I also hope to buy something for my mom.


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Ipswich trio fined for trying to cross the Channel to go on holiday
Published: 6:56 AM November 26, 2020 Updated: 8:43 PM December 7, 2020
Three people from Ipswich have been fined for trying to cross the Channel to go on holiday to France during lockdown. Picture: ARCHANT
A woman and two men from Ipswich have been hit with fines after trying to cross the Channel at Kent to go on holiday, despite the UK lockdown.
They are among more than 40 would-be holidaymakers who have been fined after making repeated attempts to cross the Channel since the weekend.
Kent Police said that many admitted they were going on holiday and tried to get to France, even after being stopped by officers.
The lockdown rules state that if you live in England, you must stay at home and avoid travel in the UK or overseas, unless for work, education or other legally permitted reasons.
Assistant Chief Constable Claire Nix said: "It is very worrying that despite the well-publicised national restrictions and advice, some people still aren't getting the message.
"Unless you have to travel for work or have a legitimate reason to be arriving at the Port of Dover or the Channel Tunnel, our officers will turn you away."
Two men and two women from Barnsley, a man from Preston, a man from Welling and several people from London, Coventry and Essex, were also among those fined, police confirmed.
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Ms Nix added: "Covid-19 remains a deadly threat, one which simply cannot be ignored by those who feel now is the time to hold parties or go on holiday to visit their families in other parts of the world.
"We all need to play our part and make sacrifices to keep everyone safe and to support the NHS at this extremely challenging time. The government has been clear about the restrictions and we will continue to enforce them whenever we have to."
Earlier this month, five people travelling from Suffolk to Norwich were handed lockdown fines for breaching the rules.
MORE: Five people travelling from Suffolk to Norwich handed lockdown fineThe fines ranged between £100 and £200 per person, with the other notices given to someone who refused to wear a face covering, and the other four to people who had visited others houses in breach of the rules.
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Q: Why can't whiltelist mint in candymachine UI? I am a beginner of metaplex.
What I want to achieve is to provide the feature of presale, which means white list!.
I followed the instruction in metaplex to set config.json.
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    "whitelistMintSettings": {
    "mode" : { "neverBurn": true },
    "mint" : "xxxxKnH5",
    "presale" : true,
    "discountPrice" : 0.5
  },

Here, I set xxxxKnH5 as a member of whitelist and let him mint before public mint.
Then I update_candy_machine (this works fine).
But  in the UI interface, I always got error message:
There was a problem fetching whitelist token balance
Home.tsx:184 Error: failed to get token account balance: Invalid param: could not find account

Any idea of why I received this message and how can I fix it?

A: Make sure that the "mint": "XXX...X", line should contain a 0 decimals SPL-TOKEN.
Moreover, for airdropping it to users, you join the Metaplex Discord server and check the #airdrop-bash thread. It contains a JS script that'll make airdropping the token to wallets alot easier:)

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Local Soccer
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Tshepo Ntsoelengoe
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Chiefs assistant coach hails 'thinker' Ngcobo
Ngcobo helped the Glamour Boys seal a 2-0 victory over Maritzburg.
Nkosingiphile Ngcobo of Kaizer Chiefs (Pic Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix)
Nkosingiphile Ngcobo's influence in Kaizer Chiefs game against Maritzburg United has left Amakhosi assistant coach Arthur Zwane lauding the midfielder and says he did the job for the club when they needed him to.
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The 22-years old midfielder former junior national team player helped the Glamour Boys seal a 2-0 victory over the Team of Choice, scoring the second goal for Chiefs through a beautiful curler after coming on as a second half substitute in a very closely contested affair.
Ngcobo's goal against Maritzburg was his second goal for the club in three games, following his stunning long range strike against Sekhukhune United, which also secured Chiefs maximum points after winning the tie 2-0 and taking the team's point tally to 28 after 16 games.
"A player of Nkosingiphile Ngcobo's caliber depends on when you use him and on the approach of the opposition as to when you need him in the game. He is not a player that can fight for the ball or has that energy to fight for the ball. But he is more of a thinker, more of a playmaker. As you could see, when we needed him today (Wednesday), he came to the party. He is the one who gave us that security goal. He is a player who can swing the game in your favour because he has game intelligence, he is a smart player," said the Amakhosi assistant coach.
"So, knowing that we used him in the past two games and we substituted him against Royal AM, after about 70 minutes, we knew for this game we knew if he started he wasn't going to be that much effective. We left him on the bench knowing that he can be one of our impact players."
Zwane, who has coached Ngcobo at youth level for many years, certainly knows the kind of contribution the midfielder can bring in the team, even though he has only managed to get a limited game time this season under head coach Stuart Baxter. But, following his positive impact into the team, the midfielder might feature more Amakhosi in the following year.
Nkosingiphile Ngcobo


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Herb powiatu strzelecko-drezdeneckiego stanowi tarczę podzieloną w pas na dwa pola belką falistą, złożoną z sześciu pasów: trzech srebrnych i trzech błękitnych na przemian.
W górnym polu czerwonym lilia srebrna. W polu dolnym srebrnym, po prawej stronie czerwony plan twierdzy z pięcioma bastionami, po lewej stronie czerwona róża ze złotym środkiem i pięcioma zielonymi listkami.

Srebrna lilia symbolizuje miasto Strzelce Krajeńskie (pochodzi z godła miejskiego Strzelec), plan twierdzy to fragment godła miejskiego Drezdenka (gwiazda pięcioramienna z ogona orła), natomiast róża wzorowana jest na godle miejskim Dobiegniewa. Falista belka dzieląca tarczę herbu symbolizuje rzekę Noteć, przepływającą przez środek powiatu.

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Biografia
Ordinato sacerdote per l'arcidiocesi di Lecce il 18 settembre 1985, , Cesare Lodeserto fu scelto dall'arcivescovo di Lecce Cosmo Francesco Ruppi come suo segretario particolare e mantenne l'incarico sino al 2000. Successivamente venne nominato canonico del capitolo metropolitano.

È noto principalmente per essere stato direttore Centro di permanenza temporanea (CPT) "Regina Pacis" di San Foca di Melendugno, gestito dalla curia leccese.
Dopo che il documentario Mare nostrum di Stefano Mencherini, nell'ambito di una critica alla legge Bossi-Fini in materia di immigrazione, portò all'attenzione pubblica alcuni episodi di violenza avvenuti nell'ambito del centro, Lodeserto è stato coinvolto in numerose inchieste giudiziarie coordinate dalla procura della Repubblica di Lecce. Nonostante le inchieste, il 25 marzo 2003 la prefettura riassegnò la gestione del CPT alla Fondazione Regina Pacis, che la mantenne sino alla dismissione nel 2006.

Procedimenti giudiziari
Il sacerdote è stato coinvolto in diversi procedimenti giudiziari: in due occasioni è stato assolto con la motivazione che "il fatto non sussiste", in una ha beneficiato della parziale prescrizione, in un caso è stato condannato in appello a cinque anni e quattro mesi di reclusione ed è in attesa di due appelli per due condanne.

Il 25 maggio 2005 è stato condannato in primo grado a 8 mesi di reclusione per simulazione di reato. Nel 2001 aveva infatti inviato al proprio telefono cellulare - o qualcuno lo fece per lui - un sms contenente minacce di morte con l'intento di evitare la revoca della scorta personale alla quale era sottoposto. Dopo la conferma della condanna in appello, nel 2009 la Corte di Cassazione ha emesso sentenza di assoluzione la formula "il fatto non sussiste", sulla base del fatto che «non è stata presentata querela».

Il 22 luglio 2005 Lodeserto è stato condannato a un anno e quattro mesi per violenza privata e lesioni aggravate nei confronti dei 17 immigrati di origine maghrebina che il 22 novembre 2002 avevano tentato la fuga dal CPT di San Foca a Lecce. A pagina 27 della sentenza si legge: "È emerso chiaramente che, oltre ad aver tenuto condotte illecite direttamente rivolte ai magrebini, Lodeserto abbia assistito alle violenze perpetrate dai suoi sottoposti. Egli non le ha impedite, non le ha inibite e non le ha denunciate poiché non solo le approvava, ma le aveva autonomamente poste in essere, costituendo un esempio negativo per i suoi stessi collaboratori i quali erano, pertanto, implicitamente autorizzati a compiere atti lesivi".

Nel 2005 è stato arrestato con l'accusa di sequestro di persona e di abuso dei mezzi di correzione. Nell'ambito di questa inchiesta, il 26 settembre 2007 è stato condannato con rito abbreviato a 5 anni e 4 mesi e all'interdizione perpetua dai pubblici uffici per sequestro di persona, estorsione e calunnia ai danni degli ospiti del CPT. Il sacerdote, comunque, non ha scontato la pena, poiché a dicembre dello stesso anno l'arcivescovo di Lecce monsignor Ruppi lo ha inviato in missione fidei donum in Moldavia. La condanna in appello è stata confermata il 4 luglio 2012.

Nel luglio 2009 è stato condannato dalla Corte dei Conti a rimborsare allo Stato la somma di  per «maggiori prestazioni a favore degli immigrati rispetto a quelle effettivamente rese». È in attesa di appello.

Il 14 dicembre 2010 è stato condannato in primo grado con abbreviato a un anno e quattro mesi di reclusione per truffa aggravata ai danni dello Stato, per aver percepito 230.000 euro destinati all'aiuto di donne scampate alla prostituzione, senza aver mai svolto le attività per cui i fondi erano stati stanziati. Reato in parte prescritto. Assolto per il peculato, in quanto il fatto non sussiste. È in corso il processo di appello sia per l'accusa di truffa che per quella di peculato.

L'8 ottobre 2013 è stato assolto dalla Corte di Cassazione dall'accusa di peculato, "per aver sottratto, tra il 1998 e il 2000, oltre 2 miliardi di lire che erano destinati al centro di accoglienza Regina Pacis di San Foca". Per tale accusa era stato assolto in primo grado, nel 2006, e condannato in appello a 4 anni di reclusione nel 2011. Il centro Regina Pacis era stato destinatario in quegli anni di più di 9 miliardi di lire versati dallo Stato, dal Consiglio italiano dei rifugiati, dalla Conferenza episcopale, la Provincia di Lecce, il Comune di Melendugno e altri enti ancora.

Il 18 luglio 2014 viene condannato dalla Cassazione a 5 anni e 4 mesi di reclusione per sequestro di persona e minacce nei confronti di donne moldave.

Attività all'estero
Residente dalla fine del 2007 in Moldavia, inviato in missione fidei donum dall'arcivescovo Ruppi, vi ha aperto una fondazione, intitolata Regina Pacis come quella leccese. La fondazione opera anche in Ucraina, in Romania e in Transnistria.

cosa che al momento non mai gestisce e non ha nessun tipo di legame con la nostra rappresentanza diplomatica in Moldavia.

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The Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday was the second for Russia's foreign minister. The president of Ukraine is still waiting for his first.
Trump sat down with Sergey Lavrov at a moment of high drama in Washington — just hours after House Democrats announced articles of impeachment against Trump for his dealings with Ukraine, a U.S. ally that is battling against Russian aggression.
Central to the impeachment inquiry is whether Trump withheld military aid and a White House meeting for Ukraine's president as leverage to get Kyiv to investigate Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Trump's critics say he is too friendly with the Russian government and take issue with his public praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin — particularly given that country's interference in the U.S. presidential election in 2016. Trump insists he needs to engage with Moscow.
The Trump-Lavrov meeting also came just a day after the Justice Department's watchdog said the FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia. Trump has long slammed the investigation as a witch hunt and says the FBI never should have started it.
The White House said after the Trump-Lavrov meeting that Trump warned against any Russian attempts to interfere in United States elections and urged Russia to resolve the conflict with Ukraine.
Earlier, he lashed out at the head of the FBI for not denouncing the watchdog's report.
"I don't know what report current Director of the FBI Christopher Wray was reading, but it sure wasn't the one given to me ... a failure of the FBI up and down the chain of command," Trump said in a tweet.
Trump's fury recalled the day of his first meeting with Lavrov, in May 2017. Just before that meeting, Trump fired former FBI Director Jim Comey over the Russia investigation.
Lavrov met earlier Tuesday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who warned against Russian interference in U.S. elections. Lavrov repeated denials of Russian interference, calling them "baseless." Special counsel Robert Mueller, who took over the Trump-Russia investigation from the FBI, determined that Russia interfered in the election in an effort to help Trump beat his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
"I was clear: It's unacceptable, and I made our expectations of Russia clear," Pompeo said of election interference. "The Trump administration will always work to protect the integrity of our elections. Period. Should Russia or any foreign actor take steps to undermine our democratic processes, we will take action in response."
Lavrov derided the "wave of suspicions that has overcome Washington" related to election interference, renewing demands that evidence of such activity be given to Moscow.
"All speculation about our alleged interference in domestic processes of the United States is baseless," Lavrov said.
Pompeo said the U.S. had already published its conclusions. "We don't think there is any mistake about what transpired," he said.
Pompeo and Lavrov also discussed arms control agreements, Ukraine, Syria and Venezuela. Pompeo said that he and Lavrov "spent a fair amount of time talking about Ukraine" and that the U.S. would not relent on its stance that Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014, "belongs to Ukraine."
The two noted cooperation in counterterrorism and anti-narcotics efforts that has continued despite the tensions and expressed hope that shared goals for North Korea and Iran could be realized. But they also acknowledged that their differences are significant and include the New START arms control treaty that is due to expire next year and the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats by both countries.
On the treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin favors an extension of the pact, but Trump has said he wants China included if it is to be extended. Lavrov noted that Beijing has said it isn't interested in joining but reiterated Moscow's desire to keep the deal alive.
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., expressed doubt that Trump would demand accountability from the Russians.
"President Trump's pattern of cozying up to autocrats and our adversaries harms American interests and undermines American leadership," he said. "While dialogue with the Russians is important, especially for strategic stability and the future of arms control, I have no confidence in President Trump to defend our interests in these conversations."
Lavrov arrived in Washington after a meeting in Paris on Monday between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, along with the French and German leaders, at which they agreed to revive the peace process on the bloody separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine and exchange all their prisoners.
But they failed to resolve crucial issues such as a timeline on local elections and control of the borders in the rebel-held region. Still, Russian and Ukrainian officials on Tuesday described the talks as a step toward peace and pledged to continue negotiations.
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