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SIR DAVID: Prime Minister, in their 40 years of wandering in the desert, the Jewish people were led by God with a cloud during the day and a tower of fire at night. I wonder, do you sometimes find yourself wishing for such clear signs today?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, there are always clouds, and there are always towers of fire; and we try to reduce the towers of fire, but clouds are always available. They're always there. But you make your way between cloud and fire, between storm and tranquility to what I think will be ultimately a terrific future for Israel.
SIR DAVID: You've sounded quite optimistic of late about, for instance, that you can see your way through some of the major problems that you face; that you can see a way through on Jerusalem.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: That probably is the toughest one of all, and I think it would be a mistake to assume that there's anyone in Israel in fact, I think anyone in the Jewish people for whom Jerusalem doesn't remain the seat of our aspirations. You know, it's been the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years. It had been taken away from us. It was divided. It had a "Berlin Wall" built in it for 19 years, until 1967. Now it's an open city; it's open to all three faiths. And it's only been that way under Israel's sovereignty, and that's how it's going to remain.
SIR DAVID: But how are you going to persuade the Palestinians of that?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I don't know how you persuade. I think there are some things that are just there. But what I've been trying to do is, rather than deal so much with political questions, is also to deal with the human question. The Palestinians live here. There are 160,000 Arab residents of Jerusalem next to about 400,000 Jewish residents. And what I've done, what I've begun doing in this government that other governments did not do, is to build not only for Jews but for Arabs, for the Palestinian residents.
SIR DAVID: Well, now this is obviously right central to the controversy that's going on right now about Har Homa, where you're planning to build 2,600 Jewish houses, and
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: And actually a greater number of Palestinian houses.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Yes, spread throughout the city. That's not been done before. Sure, we've built for Jews since 1967 quite a lot. But we've never really built for Arabs, and I'm changing that. A few weeks ago, my government allocated roughly 50 million dollars for the development of infrastructure for Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem sewage, lighting, security, street security, and so on. These things, I think, are immensely important, so obviously we have political questions to resolve. But I think that in any conception that I can see, the development of Jerusalem means the development of its Arab residents and its Jewish residents. And this is our policy.
SIR DAVID: What did President Clinton think of your plans on this? Did you discuss them with him at all?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, I stated our policy. I didn't seek affirmation, and I didn't receive affirmation. Because obviously even between good friends, and I don't think you'll find closer friends than Israel and the United States, you can have family disagreements here and there. Formally, we have a disagreement here. Do we have a real disagreement? I don't know. Does anyone in the United States seriously think that we would allow a "Berlin Wall" to be rebuilt in the center of our city? That we will have again barbed wire? That we will again tear the city into two? It's not going to happen.
SIR DAVID: That's the subject of Jerusalem, and the difference is clear between the two sides. When it comes to the question of Palestinian statehood or Palestinian entity or et cetera, what are the things that you are happy with and what are the things that you're not? You don't mind a Palestinian entity having its own currency, its own flag or its own airport? They're all right, are they?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, many other things, I would say. I would look at it actually differently. All we're discussing here I'm speaking now, I assume, to a British audience
SIR DAVID: And to an American
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: To an American audience. Well, all right. America is a slightly larger country that Britain, but Britain is a slightly larger country than Israel. All of this greater Israel that everybody is talking about is all of 50 miles wide from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. Within those 50 miles, about 35 miles are what is called the West Bank, or the Mountains of Samaria and Judea, the Judean Mountains. That area, that wall, protects what remains of Israel, which is 10 miles, 15 miles along the sea, where 75 percent of our population live. This protective wall of the Judean Mountains happens to be not only our ancestral homeland, but also a place where about a million Palestinians live. So we have to resolve the problem of reconciling our security with their desire for freedom and our ancestral claims, our historical claims, with their claims. And my idea is to resolve it in such a way that the Palestinians in those areas on this mountain basically, it's a mountain where they live, they run their own affairs. They have self-government. They choose their own representatives. They legislate
SIR DAVID: Their own laws?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: They legislate their own laws. They levy their own taxes. They run every aspect of their lives with no interference from us. It's self-government. But those powers that can threaten Israel, our most basic interests, including our security, that remains under Israeli control. I'll give you an example. Did you fly into Israel?
SIR DAVID: Yes, I did.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: You unfortunately couldn't walk from Lebanon over
SIR DAVID: No, I've given up going on the water.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, you couldn't even drive yet.
SIR DAVID: Yes, no.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: But you will one day be able to drive across Europe through Turkey, through Syria, and you'll come to Israel. But at the moment you flew. You flew in from the Mediterranean. Your plane came in, after about a minute it crossed the old lines of Israel, went over the West Bank, made a turn, and was above the airspace of the Judean Mountains. If that becomes a Palestinian state, then they can have control of the airspace. They can, for example, if it becomes a full-fledged Palestinian state, bring in 1,000 people with the shoulder-fired missiles and shoot down that plane. They couldn't only shoot down that plane; they might even be able to threaten the whole Israeli Air Force. If there's no Israeli Air Force, there's no Israel.
So, what I'm suggesting, rather than belabor this I'm giving this as an example there has to be a certain limitation of powers on those areas, of those powers of the Palestinian entity that could threaten Israel. And what I'm suggesting is precisely that. Let them have the most generous self- government, absent those sovereign powers that could threaten us and could threaten the peace. That is the idea that I have in mind.
SIR DAVID: Which means could they have their own army under your definition?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, they have an armed force now.
SIR DAVID: They do?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Of roughly 24-25,000 people. Obviously, if it grew, it would be a major threat. It's enough for them to control their internal security. It should stay in a circumscribed form so as not to threaten ours.
SIR DAVID: Could they sign treaties with other countries under your definition?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: No. Well, not military treaties. Think of it yourself. If you were living in London, would you like somebody five yards away to make military pacts with Iran or with Iraq or with Libya? Of course not; you would oppose it. So do we.
SIR DAVID: Could they welcome members from the Palestinian diaspora around the world?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: That's a very tricky subject. Into their own domain this is something that will have to be negotiated. In any case, I think it's something that we'd want to have a say in. But definitely not realize the slogan of having the refugees return to Israel, no more than we could think of having the Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab lands returned to Baghdad or to Cairo, and so on. By the way, an equal number of refugees, roughly, from both sides were created from the Arab war against Israel in 1948. So, rather than try to reconstruct history, or to try to asphyxiate, to swamp Israel with returning refugees, I think we need a solution for the refugees where they are; rehabilitate them, for God sake, after 50 years.
SIR DAVID: But I think in the diaspora when I was told by Yasser Arafat, although there are various figures estimated, four or five million Palestinian people around the world, he thought the maximum of half a million would want to return. Could that be coped with?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Into their territory?
SIR DAVID: Yes.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: We'll have to discuss that. Certainly not into Israel. Israel is a tiny country, as you know, as it is.
SIR DAVID: You said once, if the Palestinians receive a state, there will be an unbroken swathe of fundamentalism from Iran to Algeria. And you saw a Palestinian state once as a sort of Trojan Horse. Do you still feel that way?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: It could be that way, because there is a fundamental battle between modernity and medievalism throughout the Middle East, and this is no exception. You know of the Islamic movement, Hamas, Islamic Jihad. Within the Palestinian domain, they vie for supremacy. I think what I'm suggesting is something else, something that would give a better life for the Palestinians and for us: an open arrangement, economic freedom, goods and services and people moving back across from the Palestinian domain into Israel back and forth into their territory. You know that I've lifted the closure, practically lifted it, so Palestinians can move back and forth now and work to ameliorate the situation. This is a sign of what I would like to see. But, of course, I think that the creation of full-fledged Palestinian self-determination, with no limitation on powers, would be an obstacle to peace, and not a solution.
I think, in any case, we're locked in a very serious conceptual trap in the 20th century. We think that the way to solve the problem of embedded nationalities that's the way life is in most countries, or at least 50 countries right now after the fall of Communism in Russia. We have countries, former republics, where one nationality is embedded in another nationality, ethnic groups in various places vying for independence. If we say that every place where you have a demand for independence you will have that independence, you will create a fragmentation of enormous consequence throughout the world, and you will have sub-states emerging, each with their own army, with their own weapons, with their own conventional, possibly non-conventional weapons. And we say, well, what's the choice? It's either subjugation or self-determination. I think there's a third way, and that is balanced self-government: powers to that ethnic or national group, but not all powers.
SIR DAVID: So we're talking of a "statelet," or is there a new word for this?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: You know, I get into enormous trouble every time I get into that. Every time I get into that question, if they ask me frontally, "Are you for a state?" I say no. If you ask me a "statelet", believe me, that would send headlines throughout the world. I'll tell you something that happened to me. I was sitting in this room, right in this room, with ambassadors from one of the continents, and they said to me, "Well, what about a Palestinian state?" And I gave them this answer. And they said, "Well, what about self-determination?" And I said, "Well, what do you mean by that? Do you mean and I started giving examples: "Do you mean Andorra? Do you mean this? Do you mean that?" The next day headline: "Netanyahu favors Andorra solution."
SIR DAVID: I read that. It was the Andorra solution or the Puerto Rico solution.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Or Puerto Rico, yes. I gave a few examples. You see, I'm very careful now not to mention too many names. But I said, "What do you mean by that?" I didn't say anything definitive. Well, the end of the story is that I went to a Lisbon conference all the heads of state of Europe were there and I was invited as well. And we had a wonderful dinner at the palace there in Lisbon, and a gentleman walks up to me at the end of this dinner and he says, "I am the prime minister of Andorra." I said, "I hear that we offended you," because there was concern. He said, "No, for God sake, don't remove the model of Andorra. We've had more interest than we've had in 30 years. People are coming; people are interested." And so on. Well, I didn't give it a name, and I haven't given it a name yet, but I will.
SIR DAVID: The Andorran solution?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: A solution that we will present toward the final settlement. And, by the way, I believe we can have a solution between us and the Palestinians. I believe it's resolvable, difficult but resolvable.
SIR DAVID: Now, that's the key question, obviously, right now, because time is moving on apace, and these things take things that were far in the future, and now a year or two away, and so on. And what is your vision of that solution? Why are you confident? What makes you confident?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, first of all, I'm confident because this is probably the most complicated negotiation that any country has had to face. It has aspects of our very survival, of our very existence; things that are deep down, our attachment to land that goes back to our biblical forefathers, but at the same time is the protective wall of this tiny country called Israel. The water resources without which we cannot live, and so on. All of these issues are embedded into this in this tiny piece of land that is being contested by both sides. I believe we can find an equitable solution to the Palestinian problem and Israeli problem that balances their need for running their own affairs and our need for protecting our basic interest, the foremost of which is security. Now, what are the conditions for achieving the solution? I think there are three conditions.
One is, it has to be a reciprocal process. We do things; they have to do things. We fulfill our obligation; they fulfill their obligations. That has not been happening so far. We've done the Hebron redeployment. I released 20 women prisoners, more actually. That was an obligation that was not fulfilled by the previous government. I opened the closure. I've arranged for the transfer of funds that have been pending to Palestinians. We have to see reciprocity on the Palestinian side. They have to amend the charter. They promised to do it, and they haven't. They have to capture terrorists that they've released from jail. They have to collect illegal weapons. They have to do all those things that give confidence to the people of Israel that it's not only Israel that is making steps towards peace, but the Palestinians as well. I would say reciprocity is the first condition.
The second condition is nonviolence. We can have disagreements. We'll have a lot of them. But you resort to the negotiating table. You can debate and argue, occasionally scream and shout. But that's what we do: We shout, we don't shoot, and we certainly don't plant bombs.
And the third condition, I think, is to have realistic expectations of what can be done. Israel has already moved. I've moved before the elections. I said I'd accept Oslo, which I criticized and I thought was full of holes, especially security holes, which we're trying to plug now, but I moved. We have to see a similar movement on the Palestinian side. They have to stop talking about all the territory, about a full-fledged state, carving up Jerusalem, the right of return of refugees. What this creates are unrealistic expectations without and we cannot progress towards peace. There has to be a responsible movement of leaders. It cannot come from below. Where leaders take more responsible positions, so we're all in the sandbox of realistic expectations. Right now, I think there's a danger that we're out of that sandbox on the Palestinian side.
SIR DAVID: At the same time, looking at the situation the Palestinian Authority had as a real fledgling organization, starting from scratch, and so on, in terms of just running the place, policing around Hebron and elsewhere, actually it could have been chaos. Actually, they've done rather well.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, some things have been all right. Other things could be improved. I think there's a way to go. But you asked me why do I have the confidence that we can achieve peace. First of all, I didn't say there won't be problems and difficulties. And sometimes people get into this enormous state of depression. If something doesn't go well for two months, they say the peace process is doomed, all these rather peculiar prognostications of gloom and doom that I, myself, experienced here. And I always thought, what are they talking about? They're questioning our commitment to peace? My commitment to peace? My commitment, I have two small children at home, two small sons, young sons one two years old, one five years old. What did they think that I want for them and for the children of Israel and for the Palestinian children but peace? It's a bizarre conception of this great cyclical flow of expectations depending on a momentary impasse.
I'm confident in the long-term because I think I bring to this the majority of the people of Israel, because you cannot make peace on the outside if you cannot make peace on the inside. And the people of Israel trust my government, and they trust me to bring the real peace, which means peace with security, peace that doesn't have buses explode in the middle of Israel, but a peace you can literally live with. I mean that literally. And because we can bring the people of Israel, as we saw in Hebron, with great difficulty, but we can bring them along, I think the chances for peace are much better.
SIR DAVID: And your children, when they're 30 years old, what sort of a country will they be living in? Will there be two countries here? One country? What sort of world will they be living in in the Middle East in Israel, do you think, when they're 30?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I think between Israel and its Arab neighbors, I'm very optimistic. I think we'll have peace. Of that I'm quite confident. There are other aspects of the Middle East which worry me, especially a rogue state like Iran, which is trying to arm itself with ballistic missiles and nonconventional weapons. I think these are questions that have not yet been resolved. But in our immediate vicinity, I'm confident about peace.
What would I like to see in 30 years? I'd like to see Israel as one of the most advanced societies, run along free market principles which I very much espouse, secure in its place here and among the nations of the world, thriving, not just surviving, thriving, and helping the neighborhood, too, to thrive as well.
SIR DAVID: You mentioned just now driving to Israel via Syria, and so on. Mr. Mordechai has said maybe there will be talks with Syria next spring. You've said that you would take note of the undertaking of the previous Israeli governments in those talks, but no preconditions. Do you really think those talks will get underway in the next few months?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I can't force Assad to make peace. If he wants to, I don't want to say it's trivial, but it's possible to find such a formula. If there's no real desire to do that, then you can pile up all sorts of obstacles. I, for one, am trying to remove the obstacles and have a resumption of peace talks, but I cannot tell you if they will be resumed.
SIR DAVID: It's inconceivable that there could be a settlement with Syria without them getting some part of the Golan Heights back, isn't it?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, if you are asking will Syria agree to a territorial compromise, why don't you ask that of Assad? I see no reason why Syria cannot come into the negotiations with its demands and that we shouldn't come into the negotiations with our demands. The whole concept of negotiations, in some parts of the Arab world, is, "If you agree in advance with our claims before the negotiations, then we'll negotiate something that has already been conceded."
SIR DAVID: Well, that's a very safe way to negotiate.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I think so. And, you know, I may adopt that, too. Suppose I say to Syria, "You know, if you agree with our demands that we have the entire Golan Heights, then we'll agree to negotiate with you." You'd find that rather bizarre. But yet the same demand is being placed at Israel's doorstep, and people are actually considering it with seriousness. I would rather not get into the intricacies of how to formulate the resumption of the talks because I'd like those talks to resume. The less said publicly about this, I think, the better.
SIR DAVID: Who is the greater threat between Iran and Iraq at the moment, do you think?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: They are two radical regimes arming themselves with ballistic missiles, with unconventional warheads, chemical and biological, and both of them trying to achieve also nuclear capability. So it's not a particularly appetizing thought or comforting thought to think of what would happen should these regimes acquire such means. And both of them, obviously pose a problem, a great problem, a serious threat.
Iran has a different characteristic than Iraq. Iraq has regional ambitions. Iran has global ambitions. It has an ideology. It has millions of adherents, east, west, north, south. I would like to see the moderation of the Iranian regime as one of the great changes that would close the 20th century and begin the next. And if Iran undergoes such a transformation of its ambitions and its practices, ceases to support, for example, Hizbullah terrorism, but also terrorism elsewhere terrorism in a 360-degree radius, certainly in our northern border if it adopts a more responsible policy, I would be the first one to welcome such a change.
SIR DAVID: The first time we talked was during the Gulf War. Have you since then ever seen any evidence that Saddam Hussein did use chemical warfare at any stage in the Gulf War?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Not against us. No, I'm not sure if he did, actually, but he certainly might have contemplated using it against us. But I think he realized fully well what kind of horrific response he would encounter, and therefore in this, at least, he acted with good judgment.
SIR DAVID: How close did you get to actually taking part in the Gulf War?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Close.
SIR DAVID: How close?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Close, but not close enough. As you see, we didn't do it. At the end of the day the question that was considered in the government at the time was, essentially, if we would act against Saddam, we might, given the pretext, shift the whole focus away from his conquest of Kuwait to an Arab-Israeli conquest. And as long as we felt that the United States-led coalition was really going to solve the problem there, with great difficulty we abstained from responding. That, too, has its cost, because ballistic missiles were fired into Israel with no response. That may have led people in the neighborhood to misjudge how dangerous we view this development and that our lack of response in this particular juncture, in this particular context, and this particular situation, that it happened only once this international coalition led by the United States and Kuwait, it happened once that our lack of response then was unique to that situation and that situation alone. I'm not sure this has been registered around us.
SIR DAVID: What about March the 7th? Obviously, we're coming up to the date of March the 7th and the follow-up to the Hebron Agreement, and so on. What are you planning should happen by March the 7th?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, we've agreed to have the first stage of redeployment that was part of the previous agreement, the previous government's agreement, and we keep our agreement. We expect the Palestinians to keep some of the items on their side of the ledger. But assuming that all goes well, we will decide in the Cabinet next week on the extent of the first redeployment, and then proceed to do it.
SIR DAVID: And about 10 percent redeployment someone was estimating?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: We're going to decide that in this room, but not today, David. And I cannot tell you what the percentage will be. I really would like to leave it to a discussion with the ministers.
SIR DAVID: But do you think that peace would be possible in the Middle East without the United States? Is the United States indispensable?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I think so, yes. I think it has been. If you look from Camp David, U.S. involvement, our peace with the Palestinians at the end of the day they were very instrumental. The peace with Jordan, instrumental as well, and now our negotiations with Syria. The United States, I think, has been a very positive supporter of the peace process, a very positive supporter of Israel as well, and its contribution in this, I think, will remain important for the future.
SIR DAVID: And you said in a rash moment in one of your speeches, you said, "In the next four years, we will begin the long-term process of gradually reducing the level of your generous economic assistance," you said to America. Did that mean in the next four years, somewhere in the next four years, you'll start that process or complete that process?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Start.
SIR DAVID: What sort of a start might that be? It's $3 billion at the moment.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: No, well, be careful. The United States has, for example, investments, military activity on the soil of NATO, Europe, and so on, which is on a far higher scale. And, in fact, it gives military support to the European countries at a far larger many more billions of dollars. In the same way the United States and Israel have common defense interests. We're very grateful for the American assistance here, but it served the larger purpose, I believe, not only of our immediate defense, but of the way the United States believes one can stabilize a very unstable area, the Middle East. And I think this defense spending, this defense assistance that we have had, will be needed in the foreseeable future because of the problems that I described.
But there is also a billion dollars, roughly, of economic aid. And I have pledged that by the end of this term of office I will begin the process of reducing that dependence, because as we deregulate, as we privatize, as we move Israel into a free market area, our income is going to go up. And as it goes up, I think we can begin to bring down the American financial support.
SIR DAVID: Is religion important to you? Are you Orthodox, Reformed, Conservative, or are you an agnostic? I've read everything, and I don't know.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I'm definitely not agnostic, and I'm Jewish. I don't know if you know that. About 80 percent of Israelis are secular Jews, but many of us, and I'm no different, have abiding belief, certainly a belief in God, a belief in our heritage. There's got to be a special explanation for how the Jewish people were able to traverse these incredible stormy seas of history and, against all odds, come back to this land and build it up and now build it up and build it in a way that I think was not even imagined by the founding fathers of the modern state of Israel. I think it requires great faith, and I have that faith.
SIR DAVID: Why do you think the Jewish people had to go through so much? You mentioned the, as it were, happy ending to the story, but your father wrote about how the Jews seem to have a tradition of being punished and killed and mistreated around the world, and so on. What is the root of anti-Semitism? I mean, why?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: There are many roots, but I think it's a manifestation of the danger of being different and the danger of staying different. Jews, unlike other people, most other people who were expelled from their lands this happened to us. We were expelled from this land by successive invasions, from the Romans, on. Most other people who were expelled either conquered a new land for themselves or assimilated in the new lands to which they were expelled to. The Jews refused to do either. They neither assimilated as a group or wanted to adopt as their national home, as the national home of the Jewish people, a new land. They wanted to come back here, and they stayed apart.
As a result, when you stay apart, there is the fear and the xenophobia of the "other," and so on. And I think anti-Semitism is partly that. I think there are other reasons, as well My father just wrote a book 1,500 pages long on one of the great expressions of anti-Semitism, the Spanish Inquisition. There are deep roots for this. And by the way, I don't think Israel necessarily solved the problem of anti-Semitism in the world. And the founding fathers of Zionism didn't say that it would. They didn't say that the irrational aspects of Jew hatred would disappear from the world when we had a Jewish state; they said that the change would be that the Jews would be able to defend themselves against such attacks when there is a Jewish state. And I think in this they were right absolutely right.
SIR DAVID: And when you come down to not the terrible anti- Semitic examples of the last war in Germany, and so on, but when you come down to Jewish relations right now with, for instance, Palestinians, do you think that where there is a gulf between the two, it is because of religion? Or is it because of economic inequality, as much as anything?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Some of that, some of that. I hope it's economic inequality, because we can change it over time. But obviously there are other elements: cultural elements, historical elements. There's been an investment in the Arab world since the rise of Israel horrific vilification, horrific. I can say, on occasion, I feel it. I don't take it personally, but it's directed personally against me. I often meet with Arab businessmen from throughout the Arab world, or representatives, or even get, I'm happy to say, on television, Middle Eastern television, television from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere there's an openness, a degree of openness, that is happening that I very much welcome. And it's interesting to see, or to listen to, the responses of ordinary Arab citizens who hear me, and they say, "Oh, it's so different from that image that we get in our press," which is, as you know, a relatively free press. "A press run freely by my relatives," Stoppard says. But I think overall what has happened was that Israel was vilified and characterized as a great villain, and it's very difficult to take that away from people's minds after it's been implanted for two or three successive generations.
SIR DAVID: Now, did you agree with this statement from your tourism minister, who said, "I don't believe it is correct, but if it is correct, the government does not have a right to exist." He was talking about the current Bar-On scandal. Do you think it's as serious as that, that if it is correct, the government does not have a right to exist? Is it that serious?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I'm not even sure there is a scandal. I mean, all I know is there are many, many allegations and there's an investigation going on and I prefer to wait until the end. Let's hear the results. Then I'll say what I have to say. I have a lot to say.
SIR DAVID: You have a lot to say, and you can't talk about the specific case, presumably, because you've done your four hours of testimony, and
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, not only because of that. Because I prefer to wait. I mean, I think the truth will out. It usually does, at the end of the day.
SIR DAVID: But, obviously, reporters love talking about at last, at last, Israel has a Watergate, and so on, with this particular thing. And it can immobilize a government.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: It hasn't immobilized this government; it hasn't immobilized me in the least, even in the slightest. I continue to do everything that I need to do for the interests of the country, and I even find time to give a one hour David Frost interview.
SIR DAVID: Well, that's proof that there's business as usual, and the scandal is not really affecting the government at the moment.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: That's correct.
SIR DAVID: And do you expect to see indictments or not?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: I think that all we have to do is wait a few days, and we'll see the results, and listen to the results. I'll have a lot to say.
SIR DAVID: I know you feel strongly about the way the thing has been covered in the media, and so on. But you think that the government will come out with a clean bill of health, do you?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, the government is not at issue, here. There are specific allegations against specific people, and I'm sure that many of the things that have been said, if not all of them altogether, will prove to be untrue.
SIR DAVID: What about Lebanon? As we look at Lebanon, you've said that unilateral withdrawal would send the wrong signal to Israel's enemies, or whatever. At the same time, there's a feeling among people here they'd love to be rid of that commitment. And I think back to the advice, you remember, that Senator Aiken gave the American government during Vietnam: "Declare a victory and get out."
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: One small difference: Vietnam was several thousand miles away, across the waters. It wasn't across the Potomac or in the East Side of Manhattan or in the suburbs of London. That's where Lebanon is; Lebanon touches on Israel. So let's suppose we take Senator Aiken's advice, which I'd love to do. I'd love to declare victory, dismantle Israel's defenses in South Lebanon across the border, end of the story.
One small problem. Suppose Hizbullah follows to the border. It now will have the capacity not only to fire rockets, which they have now, a capacity they have now. Of course, those rockets will reach deeper into Israel, into our population centers, but equally it would have the capacity to fire directly into our towns and villages along the northern border with Lebanon or to penetrate with terrorist squads into our territory.
Hizbullah, you know, is not a collection of "Mother Teresas." These are very vicious people and they bomb and rocket and shoot people, our people. So our concern is a very mundane one; it's a very concrete one. That is that if we simply walk away and Hizbullah is not dismantled and another force doesn't take up the slack preferably the Lebanese army should do it under those circumstances we would be very confident, and that's what I seek with Syria and Lebanon. But absent that, if we simply walk out unilaterally, Hizbullah will follow.
SIR DAVID: Is there anybody else, apart from the Lebanese army, who could fulfill that role, I mean, whether it was the U.N. or somebody else who could provide that cordon sanitaire or whatever it's called?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: It's possible to contemplate that, but my preference would be the Lebanese army because it would have a vested interest in protecting Lebanese interests. And I think, by the way, they are physically able to do it. They are politically unable to do it because Syria has been vetoing such an arrangement. Effectively, I'm in the extraordinary position of being an Israeli prime minister, a Likud prime minister no less, who says, "I want to leave occupied Arab territory," and I'm being told by the Syrians and the Lebanese government, "No, stay; stay and occupy."
SIR DAVID: That is a remarkable situation.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, the Middle East has some remarkable situations.
SIR DAVID: Well, you've cited one example of the ways in which the Arab mind and the Israeli mind are different when you were talking about the business of negotiation and wanting to settle before the negotiations, and so on. Is there a different mind set you find with your Arab neighbors compared to Israelis? I mean, is there a different mind set, a different view of time or whatever?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Sure. There are cultural differences, but I also find points of similarity with quite a few of our neighbors, and I find an easy engagement on more than one occasion. You know, there are also lots of cultural similarities. It's hard to separate the two, but I don't find a difficulty in communication at all, certainly not on the one-on-one level.
SIR DAVID: Well, you've said a very interesting thing you said earlier on that there are certain areas where you felt it was necessary, e.g. in your attitude to Oslo, that you've moved before the elections, not just afterwards. And obviously that move has been greeted with relief or whatever around the world, and so on and so forth.
And so, in terms of people who are watching you now who may be in the difference between sort of peace and war and all of that sort of thing, if we could put it in movie terms as it were, and we're thinking is he one of the good guys who sometimes pretends to be bad or is he one of the bad guys who sometimes pretends to be good, how would you mark people's card on that?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, in movie terms, one of the good guys, of course.
SIR DAVID: And in terms of peace, one of the good guys?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: The fact is that the Likud governments before me and now the Likud government under me has been able to achieve things that other governments could not do. I think it's not an accident that the first peace was done by a Likud government with Egypt with Anwar Sadat. I think it's no accident that a Likud government did the Madrid conference which brought all of us together and began the process.
I think it's no accident that the people of Israel all want peace. Most of the voters that voted for me, Likud voters, wanted me to continue with the Oslo process, but they said, "Continue differently; make sure that there's real reciprocity, that they keep their commitments, that they fight the terrorists, that security is paramount, and so on. I think it's not only a misconception that people have that a conservative government, if you will, cannot bring peace; I think it's the opposite. I think it's far easier for us to make peace, just as in a paradoxical way it's easier politically for a left-of-center government
SIR DAVID: Nixon to go to China, for instance?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: That's one of the cliches, which happens to have a grain of truth in it, but it also is true that in general in democracies the left has an easier time making war and the right has an easier time making peace because of the ability to coalesce large coalitions around either option.
SIR DAVID: But it's going to be a real test but in the next year or two, if you'll ever achieve that sort of future dream, that future vision you were touching on, you're probably going to have to move again.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Well, let's see some movement on the other side. I think I spelled out fairly clearly that there has to be a measure of reciprocity and a measure of realistic expectations on both sides and a measure of good faith and the absence of violence. I think these are the terms that can bring us towards what seems to be the unresolvable that is, to resolve the unresolvable and it's not going to be easy.
Hebron wasn't easy. Many of the other decisions that we've taken were not easy, but I resolved to take them because I believe in doing something along the principles that I described. I believe that I can, with the help of the Israeli people, bring peace with security. There's no other peace. Peace without security is meaningless. It's an oxymoron; it's a joke. But I believe we can move towards this, and there will be a lot of difficulties along the way, I'll grant you, David. There are going to be crises and there are going to be difficulties, but I have a clear focus, clear compass how we can bring about a resolution of this conflict.
SIR DAVID: And in terms of your Arab neighbors and in terms of true peace, you've said, for instance, that there would only be true peace with the neighbors, you know, when they are also democracies as well. I mean, indeed, people have said that, you know, no two democracies have ever or but rarely fought one another. That's one reason why two democracies means peace and so on. I mean, that would be the dream, wouldn't it? A Middle East that was fully democratic? But, I mean, it's probably an impossible
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Yes, but it doesn't mean that you can't have peace without democratization. For example, you had peace in Europe for the last 50 years facing a very undemocratic partner or neighbor or adversary in the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. But it was a different kind of peace. It was a peace that was supported by very powerful defenses called NATO, and look at what's happening.
As Russia has democratized and Central Europe is democratizing, NATO is changing. Some of them are joining NATO. Certainly it's still a defense organization, but it's becoming a political organization of different needs, and some of these swords have been beaten into plowshares along both sides.
Obviously when the regime changes opposite you, when you're faced with democratic or democratizing neighbors, the need for defenses is reduced, and as long as we have, unfortunately, non-democratic neighbors, the kind of peace that we can have is a peace that is purchased from strength. We'll still need the swords, but eventually we'll get to the point of, I guess, plowshares, if there is that democratization.
SIR DAVID: It was Tolstoy, wasn't it, in "War and Peace," who said that the strongest of all warriors are these: time and patience. Now, do you think those two warriors are on your side in Israel?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Historically I'd have to say yes, even though Tolstoy's warriors, especially time in the span of time we see very positive things happening: an emerging peace between Israel and its neighbors; the collapse of the Soviet Union that stirred up a hornet's nest here throughout so many years; but we also see some unpleasant developments and dangerous ones looming, and we talked about some of them here.
But if I had to balance it all out, and I have to look, as we approach now the 50th anniversary of Israel, it's a remarkable success story. We were in the graveyard of history 50 years ago. We rose from the ashes. We came here; we were 600,000 strong or weak, a small bridgehead. Now we have a state almost six million strong, and I envision over the next 10 years the majority of the Jewish people, for the first time in millennia, living here in the Jewish state as immigration continues, as our population grows, as our economy grows, as this whole experience progresses. I think it's a tremendous set of triumphs of the Jewish people over a destiny that seemed to have been imposed by history. We've beaten history.
SIR DAVID: And the battle a phrase you used once the battle to eradicate Israel being finished, when might that day dawn? I mean, I suppose you'd say not as long as there is Iran in its current mood or whatever. When will the battle to eradicate Israel be finished do you think, if ever?
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Probably when every Arab school child, possibly every Iranian school child, opens a textbook and he sees a map of the Middle East and there's a small little triangle there that says next to it, "Israel," and when the Jewish people are described in those textbooks like any other people, and when there are no algebra or mathematics questions saying, "What would happen if you killed three Jews and add another four Jews, what's the result."
I give it in the most simplistic terms because I think in an unsimplistic way, but in a very profound way, that what is required in addition to everything that we've talked about is education for peace. I think leaders in the Middle East have to educate their people for peace and they have to tell them that war is behind us and peace is ahead of us.
And I, for one, have been somewhat disappointed that after we went through this very extraordinary process, including the very difficult mission of arriving at a redeployment in Hebron, which was truly not easy, we don't see a response. We don't see Arab leaders coming up and improving ties, submitting I don't want to categorically say all of them, this is not true, but they're holding back.
When they're holding back, they're not holding back on us. They're holding back on themselves and their own people, because their people deserve a different kind of relationship with us and a different future for themselves that a relationship of peace with us would give them. So I think at the end of the day you'd have this acceptance of Israel when leaders in the Middle East begin to educate their people for peace and undo the education for war and for hatred that has been the mainstay of so much of intellectual traffic in the Middle East over the last 50 years.


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Sarah and Joe ... WHAT A COUPLE!!! I mean, any couple that helps with GRAND OPENINGS for Chic Fil A is a POWER COUPLE in my book! These two went to Maryville High School together. They even shared a math class.... but Sarah doesn't remember it. Fast forward, they go to UT and end up having friends in common. Their first date was to the FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE concert... and about 3 months later, Joe finally asked Sarah to be his girl friend.
The Old City was the setting for their getting ready and their reception. Sarah's friend Sarah (there were 3 Sarahs in the wedding party) lives in the coolest apartment downtown. The girls got ready there while the guys got dressed at Jackson Terminal. After the first look, we took a trolley ride to the Knoxville Botanical Gardens to take pictures. The couple was married at Graystone Presbyterian Church in South Knoxville and then headed to Jackson Terminal for a WAY FUN DANCE party to celebrate!
After their honeymoon, the couple with begin their Chic Fil A tour, where they are assigned to different Chic Fil A's to help with grand openings.
GUYS - it was MY PLEASURE to shoot. your wedding... WHAT AN INCREDIBLE DAY!
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Stephen Gallagher Jr. 13-August-2017
It is very clear that electronic trading in the fixed income markets is advancing exponentially creating more efficiencies for market participants, improving liquidity, and reducing market segmentation. As liquidity and transparency problems continue in the fixed income space, electronic trading continues to grow and you will see many venues consolidating while the four dominant players in the arena (Bloomberg, MarketAxess, Tradeweb, Liquidnet) continue to grow and offer more tools for the buy side execution trader.
Reducing the dependence of the traditional voice trader/ salesperson relationship and becoming more dependent on electronic trading generates lowers transaction costs, provides better liquidity, and creates a greater variety of opportunities to trade a portfolio. The dealer-client relationship will still exist particularly for illiquid; price and size sensitive positions. Traditionally when a client wishing to trade a specific security would contact several dealers via phone asking for available prices; buy side clients did not communicate nor trade with other buy-side market participants.
This is changing through the inception of all-to-all trading capabilities now provided by all the major ECN's (Electronic Trading Networks). All-to all ECN trading is changing the behavior of buy-side investors. Buy-side firms now have the opportunity to act as price makers rather than price takers from the dealers. To be clear, buy-side firms have not become market makers. Rather, they are participating in the market directly as buyers and sellers more regularly.
- It is estimated that 5% of electronically traded US issued IG and HY corporate bonds was traded on all-to-all platforms last quarter and this continues to grow. All-to-all platforms have seen tremendous growth in Europe and this will soon evolve in the US markets.
- MarketAxess reported that their platform booked record volumes in the first quarter of this year. The company's global clients traded $944 million of European fixed income products through its all-to-all system, up 140% from the previous quarter.
- Since launching in September of 2015, Liquidnet's all-to-all fixed-income platform has increased to $7 billion of order flow per day. In January of this year, it had more than 230 different institutional firms and more than 165 users.
There has been growing focus by large buy-side on locating new sources of liquidity as regulators are increasingly demanding proof of best price execution through TCA (Trade Cost Analysis). Very few fixed income buy-side firms know the true details of their transaction costs. The exact transaction cost incurred and TCA (fees, commissions, dealer makeups, intra-day market movement) is a difficult figure to calculate given the trading dynamic of the fixed income market.
Other non-ECN technological innovations have been introduced into the marketplace in Europe that will soon take grip in the US markets. This includes platforms that uses technology to increase the chance of matching two participants in the fixed income market with offsetting interests.
There is a lot of excitement on the street surrounding companies such as Algomi and Neptune. Algomi is a non-ECN platform that provides market information on liquidity and opens the window to real-time activity into the markets, including: governments, corporates, emerging markets, municipals and structured credits. It uses algorithms to link groups of dealer salespeople offerings, dealer Axes, ECN's, and other buy-side client inquiries and inventories to generate trade ideas and consolidates all this information into one location. Due to market's segmentation, quotes and pricing for the same bond at the same time can vary greatly across dealers and ECN's. Algomi solves this problem. This utility helps traders and portfolio managers determine not only whether to buy or sell a security given current market conditions, but also how and which platform to execute (Electronically or through a dealer salesperson). Algomi aims to add more US dealers and buy-side clients on top of the 80-plus US asset managers already on the network. With broad access to streams, runs, inventory, and axes in one place, Algomi aims to augment and streamline the trader's workflow, create new trading opportunities, and enhance price discovery and minimize operational costs.
Another innovation is starting to solidify a footing in the corporate bond space is Neptune. This network provides buy-side firms high quality axes, pricing and inventory data from most of the dealers. This allows traders and portfolio managers to be more effective and targeted when looking to execute large size orders. Twenty one dealers are already live on the network, providing axe information in real-time on over 15,000 different securities with over $150 billion in gross notional across 20 different denominations. This is generated from over 27,500 pre-trade real-time "axe" indications in the network, daily.
The electronic trading environment is primed for continued growth as market participants access more information with better analytics to support their trading activity. By taking advantage of these technological advancements and devising new methods of trading, buy-side firms are able to have broader access to markets and their participants. Ultimately this will increase transparency, uniform a trader's workload and reduce operational costs, and enhance performance. There no better time to capitalize on these developments.


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Abbey- Victoria Smith
I was a late bloomer into the world of journalism and news reading but in the short time I've been in my dream job- I've been a mover and shaker. My nickname is hippie Abbey among my colleagues because I'm that person who really does believe you can make anything happen in your life with your thoughts.
I read the news 5 days a week in Cairns for Hit and Triple M. I'm up at 3am and home after an F45 session, ready to get back into writing about a number of topics for my own freelance clients. My main attribute- I love finding out what makes a person, them. We are heavily focused on local news, so the amount of people who are going above and beyond to change the piece of paradise I live in, are the ones I want to have on the phone, telling me why we should be listening to their voice.
I currently have a handful of clients I create blogs, newsletters and engaging content for their websites. I also have my own blogging page, She Can Talk, which documents the ups and downs of my own life. This all began after a life changing trip to the states, and 8 months of working so hard, I eventually landed my dream job up in sunny Townsville.
I can write about anything, given some research, a spare few minutes and my laptop and love to delve into mental health, coming from my own background of dealing with autoimmune illness and spending the past year working on mental health coaching. Working in commercial radio and knowing people who are listening want the facts in an engaging way, where possible, has helped me to tweak my writing for businesses who are trying to engage clients with an attention grabbing headline and leave the details in the print.
Writing has and will always be a part of my life. I write to tell my story, but I also write to tell other people who can't seem to get the right words out on their own. Let me help you tell yours.
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Bangor and Brewer Hampden Old Town Orono and Veazie Directory 1930.
Portland, Maine: Fred L. Tower, 1930. 8vo. 770 pp. Corners and spine ends of covers bumped and worn. Small tear to edge of map. Pages are clean. Number 24. Containing a general directory of the citizens, a classified business directory, city officers, churches, Societies, etc. Large fold out map of Bangor and Brewer made in 1892 by Baldwin and Coombs civil engineers. Combining five seperate and distinct directories. "Governmental directory- city, county, state, federal. Buyer's directory- a source of local service. Alphabetical directory- names, occupations, addresses. Classified directory- business, professional and social." Includes list of state tax paid by Bangor, blocks and public buildings, wharves, parks and squares, cemeteries, railroad stations, street directory, opening and closing of navigation, advertisements with graphics of contractors, engineers, fertilizers, fish, insurance, daily news, opticians, and much more. Very Good Cloth (Item ID: 57140)
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OSWEGO – Rudy's Lakeside Drive-in will launch this year's Oswego County Salvation Army's Guest Chef Dinners with a sampling of their favorite foods on March 21, with dining room and take-out service from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
The meal will include some of Rudy's popular sea foods and summer fare, including clams, fish, macaroni salad, and tossed salad, along with desserts and beverages provided by members of the advisory board.
There will be two menu choices: fish pieces or two Texas hots; both served with fried clams, macaroni salad, tossed salad and assorted desserts.
The dinner will be at the Salvation Army Center for Worship and Service, 73 W. Second St., Oswego.
Future Guest Chef Dinners this year will be provided through the generosity of Springside at Seneca Hill on May 7, The American Foundry on June 4, Zonta Club of Oswego on September 11, the Press Box on a date TBA in October, and Canale's Restaurant on November 12.
Rudy's is one of Oswego's most unique and popular summer eating places, known for its efficient service and a great variety of fun foods cooked to order while you watch.
It has been operated by the same family since 1946, with members of the fourth generation now on staff.
This is their twelfth consecutive year providing Guest Chef Dinners.
They have served 2,280 meals and raised more thanr $20,200 for The Salvation Army.
Rudy's Lakeside Restaurant will open for the season on March 27.
The Guest Chef Dinners are organized by the Salvation Army Advisory Board and offered to the community to raise funds for fresh-cooked meals in both Fulton and Oswego and other services that are provided to individuals and families in need throughout Oswego County.
The food is donated so all receipts go to the work of the Army.
Information about The Salvation Army or about serving as a volunteer is available at 343-6491 or at the office at 73 W. Second St.


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When it comes to rain boots...supple, chic Roma Boots are THE way to go. These rubber beauties are not only resilient to inclement weather, but are playful, colorful and wonderfully mod. Offering an array of styles and hues to choose from, Roma boots are cornering the market!
Roma Boots were conceived by Romanian born Samuel Bistrian, who grew up in the remote village of Benesti, and had experienced poverty firsthand in the still communist ruled country. Though having moved to the states when he was 8, he returned to Romania in 2001, and though communism no longer remained, poverty did. He witnessed children in the streets lacking proper shoes, or no footwear at all.
After college, Bistrian took a job with Neiman Marcus and in 2009 met Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes. Bistrian was truly inspired by his story, and a year later Samuel decided to take his experience in retail fashion and meld it with his altruistic efforts - with the help of family and friends, Roma Boots was born.
With a mission to help eradicate poverty, Roma aspires to directly serve street children and orphans. Working on a "buy one, give one" model: for every pair of boots sold, a new pair are donated to a child in need. In addition to the protective galoshes, the boots are filled to the brim with educational supplies. Fantastic!
Expanding the effort: 10% of all sales go to the Roma For All Foundation, created with an aim to help educate these children to break the cycle of poverty.


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Verge Trade Show and Fashion Brands
Hi Guys! So I was able to attend a tradeshow in Detroit called Verge. I love being in the know of what is new in contemporary fashion/accesories and streetwear. The event showcased the latest in contemporary fashion all the way to streetwear for men and women. They also have children's wear as well which I loved looking at of course! The show runs twice a year, I think having a show where Michigan fashion brands can come and showcase their latest apparel and accessories makes perfect sense. It was such a great show with so many amazing vendors!! To hear more check it out on www.detroitgarmentgroup.org
One of my favs! Check them out also, notsorryapparel.com
Such a cute clothing set up at Petite Tweets!!
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It's this time of the year again.
I have done a few years to promote Out of Picture comics 1 and 2 at Comicon.
And then, I haven't done it for a few years since I have not done comics since then.
Also, there has been so much going on with my family and also Toy Story PR.
Lots of amazing artists from all over the world will be present and I am bummed out that I cannot hang out with them!
I DO have very slight presence there though.
Graphic Collectible who is exhibiting and selling original art work of illustrators, is carrying a few of my original paintings. If you are at Con, check them out.
In the meantime, I have been painting in the morning, "early bird style" with Robert Kondo and Shelly Wan. It's been awesome to get back into painting outside!


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Should I rent a storage unit?
Is storage the solution to reducing clutter at my home, office or garage?
A storage unit can be an excellent solution to that extra bit of clutter that's been collecting around your home or at the office. As business booms or as your family grows, you may feel as if you are bursting at the seams. If you find your spare room, garage or office crammed with boxes, over-sized items, or stacks of files, it can begin to feel a little crowded. If you could use a little extra space, considered storing your overflow with Strong College Students; it's like having an extra garage or business supply room.
Items to consider storing-
Seasonal clothing
Travel bags and suitcases
Camping or hiking gear
Sporting equipment
Business supplies
Extra inventory
Client files
Company records
Items you shouldn't store-
Combustible, hazardorous or toxic materials
Radioactive materials
Animal products
Perishable foods
Some construction materials
When deciding on a storage space, be proactive and ask about what items they will accept. Create a list of your belongings ahead of time and bring it with you to the facility for review. While crates, boxes and buckets are traditionally used for storing possessions, shelving, stacking boxes and see-through totes, clothing racks, filing cabinets and other organizational systems can help make your storage accessible and easier to manage.
Renting storage space is an option that can help you take your home, office or garage back. Enjoy clutter-free living and bring organization, joy and beauty back to your living or working spaces. Strong College Students offers secure, climate controlled, and easily accessible storage. For more information ask your booking agent.


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100 Themes 029 - Happiness
Grozchev was the antagonist for Oxy, my NaNo piece. He's a truly horrible person; I like making horrible people. They're so much fun to write about!
Definitely going to finish Oxy sometime.
He says.
Grozchev felt the closest thing to happiness he could. Somewhere, under the blankets and life support system, a little flutter of excitement curled within him as he watched the combatants circling.
The komodo dragon, ten feet long, hissed at the human and the mutant. They looked at each other, and with the benefit of his viewscreen he could see the sweat on both naked torsos. The human woman was dark skinned, her long black hair ragged and matted, clutching a spear; the Altered one was male, a pair of knives gripped in his fists. The two were shooting glances at each other as much as the dragon.
The beast opened its mouth, tongue stabbing out; the man rolled to one side, then the woman as the lizard's tail swept around towards her. Grozchev smiled grimly. The dragon's tongue was sticky, and would draw them in for feeding, while the tail had a poisonous barb; being caught by either meant death.
They were closer together now, almost back to back, as the dragon began to pace forward.
"Controller: zoom in on their faces for me," Grozchev muttered. The camera drew closer to them and he could see the panic on the man's face. The woman was tensed, waiting; a fighter. As the lizard's tongue flicked out again the man dived away but she stabbed the point of her spear into the dirt floor. The long elastic tongue wrapped around it and stuck for a moment.
Clearly he saw her shout and point: "Go, now!" but the Altered one was frozen to the spot, knives held loosely. Cursing, she ran over to him. Grozchev raised an eyebrow; teamwork was a rare thing in the Arena.
She had wrestled one of the knives out of his hands now and turned back towards the dragon. It yanked on the spear and pulled it from the ground, retracting its tongue. The tail came around, stabbing down. She rolled out of the way, the man breaking free of his paralysis just in time to spin away.
Now he was speaking urgently, and the woman was nodding. Grozchev chuckled; it was like one of the old adventure shows from his youth, flickering on the antique flatscreen in their dingy flat.
They moved with purpose now, he towards the dragon's tail, she towards its head. He ducked the tail, moving closer, then shouted something; she stabbed the spear down, repeating her strategy from before, but this time circled around and quickly slashed through the tongue.
The dragon's roar was audible even up in the cripple's office, with its thick windows. He chuckled with glee, quickly devolving into a coughing fit. Spittle dribbled from his lips as he choked but, when the fit had passed, he wiped it away with one liver-spotted hand and leaned closer.
The man had leapt onto the dragon's back as it spasmed in agony, gained his balance, then run across it. He knelt and stabbed with all his might into its spine, where the legs met the body, and it collapsed. Quickly the man moved forward, stabbing into the spine again, then leaping free as both sets of legs slumped to the ground, paralysing it.
He stood, staggered forward, then plunged the knife into its bulging eyes. Blood and other liquids splashed onto his face, arms, body; he leapt away, coating himself in dust that clung to him, as the lizard thrashed.
The woman, breathing heavily, pulled the spear out of the ground and walked purposefully towards the komodo dragon. She spat, then drew it back for the coup de grace.
The tip of the Altered one's knife seemed to grow from between her breasts, red with her blood. The spear dropped from her nerveless fingers. Grozchev's mouth widened into a cruel smile as he watched her drop to her knees, then fall forward. The mutant stared at the body, his eyes wide and mouth agape, then he ran.
Too late, he realised that he had run in the wrong direction. The komodo dragon's tail whipped out and stabbed him in the leg, then withdrew as it shuddered and died. The man staggered, then tripped, fell, rolled to a stop. The crowd roared its approval.
Grozchev cut their adulation short with a wave of his hand, the viewscreen going dark. Pressing one of the buttons on the arm of his wheelchair he heard a bell ringing, then the door opening.
"Send the usual letter to their families. Get this mess cleared up. Bring in the next event; there's time for one more tonight. What are viewing figures like?"
"Forty million, sir. Down two percent on last night."
Grozchev grunted. "Make the next one more spectacular, then."
"Of course, sir."
"You'd better be, or you'll be in the one after that."
He heard the assistant gulp and smiled again. The door closed with a soft click, and he keyed the viewscreen back on. Perhaps the next fight could do something with acid spheres. Nothing left a mark on people like acid scarring.


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Adobe has confirmed that 2.9 million customers have had private information stolen during a "sophisticated" cyber attack on its website.
The attackers accessed encrypted customer passwords and payment card numbers, the company said.
But it does not believe decrypted debit or credit card data was removed.
Adobe also revealed that it was investigating the "illegal access" of source code for numerous products, including Adobe Acrobat and ColdFusion.
"We deeply regret that this incident occurred," said Brad Arkin, Adobe's chief security officer.Adobe Confirms Customer Data and Source Code Breach [bbc.co.uk]


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Netflix's 10-episode docuseries " Making a Murderer" has gripped viewers with its tale of possible police corruption.
The documentary follows Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who was in jail for 18 years for a sexual assault he didn't commit before DNA evidence cleared his name in 2003.
Two years later, Avery was arrested in connection to the murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach. His second arrest coincided with a $36 million pending lawsuit against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and the people who put him behind bars the first time.
The docuseries focuses on the role the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department played in Avery's arrests and whether or not Avery was framed.
Tech Insider consulted Michael Benza, a senior instructor of law at Case Western Reserve University, about some of the actions the police committed in the documentary and whether or not any legal infractions took place. Benza did not see the Netflix series.
Here's a closer look at the Manitowoc County's role in the Avery arrests.
Steven Avery was originally arrested as a suspect in 1985 after a local woman named Penny Beernsten was viciously attacked and sexually assaulted by a man while running alongside Lake Michigan.
When Beernsten was taken to the hospital, Judy Dvorak, then a deputy of the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department, said the description Beernsten gave "sounded like Steven Avery."
Avery's family and his defense attorney at the time noted it was suspicious Dvorak offered Avery's name, especially because the documentary points out Dvorak may have been personally biased towards him.
And although it does seem suspicious, there's legally nothing wrong with what she did.
"Yes, the police are allowed to suggest a suspect to a witness or victim," Benza told Tech Insider.
Though Benza said it allows the defense to attack the validity of the identification, he added "it is, however, rare that a court will find that simply telling a witness something like 'I think Joe did it' will get the identification suppressed."
"There is nothing inherently wrong" with showing a picture or sketch before obtaining one from the witness.
Manitowoc patrolman Arland Avery — who is also Steve Avery's uncle — said he was told by other detectives that Manitowoc Chief Deputy Eugene Kusche took Avery's mugshot from a previous offense and drew a sketch of it.
Kusche then showed the sketch to Beernsten who confirmed the man in the drawing was her attacker.
Arland Avery claims this was done instead of drawing a sketch based on Beernsten's actual description, which is what Kusche says he did. Beernsten later was shown a selection of mugshots with Avery's photo before she picked him out of a police line-up.
Kusche claims he did not see the photograph of Avery until after he made the sketch, which was based on Beernsten's memory. It's worth noting that Beernsten's original statement to the police described a man of different build, height, hair type, and eye color.
But even if Kusche had done what Arland Avery claims, Benza notes "there is nothing inherently wrong" with showing a picture or sketch before obtaining one from the witness. It's also worth noting that using a sketch artist is not legally required by any means.
"Sketch artists do exist but are not used as a matter of course," Benza said. "TV creates the impression that a sketch artist lives at the police station and sketches out each suspect."
Jumping ahead to the 2005 Teresa Halbach case, viewers of "Making a Murderer" were surprised when a search of the Avery property lasted a whopping eight days.
But the warrant can be executed "within a specified time no longer than 14 days," according to federal law. Additionally, Benza notes"circumstances that arise during the search can prolong the stay beyond the warrant limits."
So there was nothing legally preventing the police from staying on the Avery property for eight days, but Benza told TI that preventing the Averys from going on their property for eight days is uncharacteristic.
"Generally you are allowed to stay on your property when the police execute a search warrant and even if you want to leave the police can make you stay," Benza said.
People have argued that keeping the Averys off their property for over a week allowed the police to plant evidence against Avery. It was the Manitowoc County officers — who were not supposed to be at the crime scene — that found Halbach's key in Avery's house, which was a major piece of evidence in Avery's prosecution.
"Generally the courts frown on lying to lawyers.... [but] it does happen and the Constitution does not prevent it."
The eight-day police investigation of the Avery property found Halbach's key, her bones, and Avery's blood in her car. When Avery was taken in for questioning, his lawyer Walt Kelly was unable to locate him after talking to the police and looking for him.
This is similar to the 1983 rape case where Avery's lawyer at the time, Reesa Evans, said she was unable to locate her client and the sheriff didn't want anyone to have access to Avery.
"So I went over and asked to see him and the deputy told me that the sherrif had ordered that Steven's name not be on the jail list, that he not be allowed any access to the phone, which is illegal, that he not be allowed any visitors, and that he be held in a cell block all by himself so he could have no contact with anybody," Evans said in the docuseries.
When asked whether officers are required to inform a lawyer if his/her client is in custody when asked, Benza said:
"Generally the courts frown on lying to lawyers, but I am not aware of any case where this conduct resulted in something other than handwringing. It does happen and the Constitution does not prevent it."
During the investigation, the police announced that Avery's nephew Brendan Dassey had confessed to helping his uncle rape and kill Halbach. Police footage from the time shows 16-year-old Dassey being questioned without a parent or lawyer present.
The defense made the case that Dassey was coerced into confessing because Dassey — who is also learning-impaired with an IQ between 69 and 73 — was questioned without a parent or lawyer present and was asked leading questions.
Since the show's premiere, many viewers agree that Dassey's confession was false.
Still, the police didn't make any legal infractions despite the questionable nature of their interrogation, according to Benza.
"As a Constitutional issue, there is nothing unconstitutional about interrogating a juvenile without a parent present," Benza said. "The age is a factor in whether there was a valid waiver of 5th Amendment and Miranda rights, but it is not per-se unconstitutional."
Benza added that even in circumstances where there are police department rules or state laws requiring a parent to be present, "violating that rule does not equal a Constitutional violation and the statements could still be used against the child."
Judge Jerome Fox denied a motion by the defense that Dassey's statements to the police should be inadmissible due to misconduct during questioning.


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This story is sure to get some folks riled up about what parents have a right to do with their own children. A Corpus Christi mother was sentenced to five years of probation for spanking her child.
Back in December, police arrested Rosalina Gonzales for Injury to a Child, related to the spanking of her daughter, who was nearly two years old at the time. It was her daughter's grandmother who noticed red marks on the child's rear end, and took her to Driscoll Children's Hospital to be checked out. Wednesday, Gonzales was in court to plead guilty to the charge after reaching an agreement with prosecutors. She'll be on probation for five years and during that time, will have to take parenting classes, follow all CPS guidelines, and make a one-time $50 payment to the Children's Advocacy Center.
The judge apparently had very strong parental advice for Gonzales:
"You don't spank children today," said Longoria, "in the old days, maybe we got spanked, but there was a different quarrel. You don't spank children. You understand?"
Gonzales answered, "Yes, sir."
The story noted the two-year-old child and Gonzales' other two children are in the care of their paternal grandmother. She is working with CPS to get them back. The reporters for the story could not get anyone to comment on the legality of spanking, but their investigation turned up this on the Texas Attorney General's website:
"Texas law allows the use of force, but not deadly force, against a child by the child's parent, guardian, or other person who is acting in loco parentis. Most parents do, in fact, use corporal punishment (in the form of spanking) at least occasionally, and most do not, in fact, consider it abusive. Experts disagree about the advisability of ever spanking a child. Some say that, combined with other methods of discipline, mild spanking of a small child is harmless and effective. Others claim that other methods of discipline work as well as spanking or better, and that spanking is not necessary. Many child advocates and experts in child development contend that all forms of corporal punishment, including spanking, are harmful. Most believe that spanking an infant is always inappropriate. The law does not attempt to arbitrate between the different views on the best method of disciplining a child. What we do know is that severe corporal punishment can be extremely damaging and dangerous, and this is what the law prohibits as abuse."
The comments under the article, not surprisingly, pretty much criticized the judge and the sentence the mother received. Spanking and disciplining children have always been issues parents take personally because any criticism or questioning implies they are being judged on how they choose to raise their children.
It is troubling this child had red marks on her after she was allegedly spanked by her mother. Spanking a child to the point where there's obvious injury is, in my opinion, a bit excessive. However, my libertarian sensibilities tells me the government has no business trying to regulate how parents discipline their children. I'm always weary when the government tries to step into the homes and bedrooms of citizens and dictate how we should live our lives.
But, I honestly don't think spanking is about disciplining children. Spanking is more about parents or caregivers taking their anger or frustration out on that child. I'm guilty of that. I can remember spanking my nephew because he wouldn't listen to me or he was acting out. I didn't spank him because I wanted to discipline him; I spanked him because I was angry with him ignoring me.
I'm also troubled by the ongoing notion that some parents have about their children belonging to them and subject to their form of discipline without regard to what is considered abuse. It's as if many parents still believe their children are their property and thus they have every right to discipline them however they please. I have a problem with that notion because that kind of thinking leads authorities to turn a blind eye towards child abuse, neglect and victimization. It's also the same kind of thinking that led authorities to turn a blind eye towards abused spouses. It wasn't too long ago when law enforcement and the criminal justice system viewed abused spouses (mainly women and children) as the legal, tangible property of their husbands and fathers.
And before one begins to ask: no, I don't have any children. Furthermore, I don't think me not having children prevents me from expressing my two cents on this matter as I was a child once and have been spanked plenty of times to have an opinion about this touchy subject.
I grew up in a family that had no qualms about picking switches to "discipline" us children. I can remember my grandmother having us pull down our pants and underwear/panties to whip us with switches to discipline us. I can remember my mother using a thick leather belt to "discipline" us, which wasn't very frequent, but still had the same sting (no pun intended). I can remember my mother, obviously frustrated with my youngest sister, frequently "disciplining" her with that same belt. My youngest sister had behavioral problems and would frequently have temper tantrums that would cause her to literally flip anywhere, anytime. My mother, having three older children with no obvious behavioral problems, had no coping mechanisms, so she turned to the belt since that was the only way she knew how to keep unruly children in their place.
No, I didn't grow up in what you may call an abusive household, but I did get enough spankings and whippings to understand how detrimental they can be as tools of discipline. Spanking didn't teach me discipline; it taught me fear and shame. It taught me to fear doing anything that would be considered "acting out" (or, as I like to call it: acting like a child) would lead to a spanking or a whipping. Some of you may say that fear is a form of discipline. I bet to differ, but we are all entitled to own opinions.
How do you feel about spanking? Do parents have a right to discipline their children any way they please? Does the government have a right to dictate to parents how to discipline their children?


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What was suppose to be the last term week at Dixon was canceled due to a lockdown. It was the final week for Renewing Fatherhood at Sheridan where 32 certificates were issued. Next week, Lord willing, will close out the current term.
I want to thank you for your continued prayer support.
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Class Cancelled.
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Donald- Pray for me to keep writing my son and one day he can remember me.
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Julio - Please pray for my nephew Michael. He is lost into the world of drugs and has tried to take his own life. Pray that he comes out of the darkness into the light. I like to also send out a special prayer for the forgiveness of my sins. Pray for the people who died in France of terrorist attacks and for our world leaders to make the right decisions for the country. God bless you. Amen. Hallelujah.
Stephen - Ask that we (inmates) turn to the Lord and ask for forgiveness. Pray for my wife pray and my kids be safe and blessed and think of us, that you be blessed and your prayers are heard and answered.
Randy - You are my God and I love You and I love Your goodness and Your mercy which endures forever. Thank You for Your forgiveness. I humbly ask in the name of Your Son my Lord and Savior Jesus for Your saving grace of the Holy Spirit to be upon my family. In Jesus name.
Isaac - Pray for the people in France that God will heal and comfort the people who were affected by the tragic incident. Pray for God to work out everything I need to get my parole site Texas. Pray for God to continue to move and direct in all the programs here at Sheridan and other prisons. Pray for the nation and those in charge (authority).
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John - I go home in 4 months, I had a dream to invent a new item that will provide for my future.
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March 13, 2018
Matthew 6:13b (KJV)
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
This little sentence is packed with meaning. It is more than a way to close a prayer, but identifies the totality of our work. We are building His Kingdom, in His power for His glory! It might come as a shock to some church leaders that you are not building your kingdom!
It might shock some of you that I believe that Jesus will return to earth and establish His kingdom on earth, w here He physically reigns over the affairs of man. (Even so come Lord Jesus!) But until then He is seeing His kingdom spiritually through the church, where He rules. Let us stay faithful to that call.
When we pray using this model it will lead us to pray for the expansion of His Kingdom in power and glory. We will pray about friends in service all around the world. Pray for friends who because of their safety we can't name but you know them through the church. For great men of God like Jason Vance and Cody Deevers who serve God in starting churches in the Phoenix area. Valley life ministries I believe have already begun three churches. They are supported both financially and with volunteers from two associations that want to enlarge Christ Kingdom. Men such as Rodney Myers, an independent missionary in Africa, he and his family help enlarge God's kingdom by starting churches, training local men to serve as pastors and leaders expanding, multiplying the Kingdom. I stood with other men from northwest Oklahoma on a vision trip to Colorado Springs. We stood and looked over hundreds of homes with no church of any flavor. Evan in this community, Konawa Oklahoma, there is a calling to change lives, change culture and change families. John 4:35 (KJV) 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Matthew 9:37-38 (KJV) 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the Glory. A great statement about our God and our commitment to faithfulness. We are blessed


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(May 24, 2018 Davis, California) Are you interested data imaging and statistical analysis but also a Bigfoot researcher? This informative session may be for you. The University of California Davis is hosting a informal lesson on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 from 1PM to 3PM in the DSI Classroom (room 360 Shields Library). The learning session is being made possible by a collaboration between UC Davis Library's Data Management Program & the UC Davis Center for Spatial Sciences.
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:Come learn to predict species distributions based on observation data, using R. Following a tutorial from Rspatial.org, Elise Hellwig will coach us through modeling the distribution of Sasquatch using the R programming language."
What the Sasquatch observational data is that the educators will be using has not been specified, however the most likely source where the data will come from is the database of sightings collected by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO).
We asked the U.C. Davis Center for Spatial Sciences if the statistical models would be available after this session and have not received a reply as of the time of this article's writing.
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