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Diabetes needs to be controlled. For most people, this includes taking medicine. But some people may not need medicine. It depends on what type of diabetes you have. And it depends on other things. Read on to learn more.
All people with type 1 diabetes need to control it with medicine. You must use shots of insulin. That's because your body may not make any insulin. Or it may not make enough insulin. Without insulin, you could develop diabetic ketoacidosis. This is a life-limiting condition.
Many people with type 2 diabetes need to take medicine. But some people don't. Your healthcare provider may first advise both meal planning and exercise. You may need to lose weight. These can all lower your blood sugar. Your sugar level may go back to near the normal range. Then your lifestyle changes will be how you manage your diabetes.
But that may change over time. Your body often makes enough insulin when type 2 diabetes starts. But your body has trouble using it. This is called insulin resistance. As time goes on, your body may stop making enough insulin. Then you may need medicine.
Over time, many people with type 2 diabetes need medicine to manage it. But a healthy lifestyle is still important. This is done through diet, exercise, and weight loss. This is true even if you take medicine.
This is diabetes that can happen in pregnancy. Your blood sugar may be controlled early in pregnancy without medicine. But you will likely need medicine or insulin later. Your blood sugar will likely go back to normal after you give birth. You may then develop type 2 diabetes in the future.


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Makes about 2-1/2 cups / Scoop this into a beautiful bowl for the hostess to keep. Serve with pita chips or endive leaves.
2 14-ounce cans artichoke hearts in water, drained and rinsed
1/2 cup chopped Italian flat-leaf parsley, or 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
2-3 cloves garlic, sliced
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Finely grated zest and juice of 1/2 small lemon
1 cup yogurt or low-fat sour cream
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Parsley sprigs, for garnish
1. Place artichoke hearts, parsley or basil, and garlic in a food processor. Pulse until chopped.
2. Add remaining ingredients and pulse until combined. Cover and refrigerate up to three days or serve immediately, garnished with additional parsley.

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Most of us always have a health goal or two in mind. Whether you want to lose weight, gain muscle, clear up your skin, or something entirely different, it's completely human to always be working toward something.
You might not always meet your goals as quickly as you want to, and that can be frustrating. Beating yourself up gets you nowhere, so let's take that off the table first.
By showing yourself love no matter what's going on in your life, you can move forward and make positive change much more easily. Beating yourself up takes a lot of energy that you could be using toward reaching your goals.
After you flex your self-love muscles and master that skill, there are practical steps you can take to make sure you actually meet your health goals.
Here are my best recommendations to make your vision board a reality:
1. Get to the source of whatever is blocking you from your goals. Is your job or relationship stressful, causing you to overeat and skip exercise because you're too exhausted? Do you need to shift your mindset? Those are just a couple examples. I invite you to explore what's holding you back on a holistic level and remove the blockers.
2. Paint an "after" picture. Envision how your life will be after you reach your goals. Get specific and imagine how you'll feel and look, how your work and relationships might change, and how reaching your goals will affect every other area of your life. Get connected to the positive end result and you'll be more likely to stick with your plan.
3. Write down your goals and keep them in a visible place. Whether you tape them to your bedroom mirror or stick them on your door so you always see them on your way out, put them in the place you'll personally see them most often. They'll remind you of the vision you have for yourself, increasing the chances you'll take the daily action steps needed to reach your goals.
4. Share your goals with friends and family. Cheer each other on and hold each other accountable. Share your painted picture from the previous step and get on board with each other. If you want to go to the gym more often, have a friend call you two or three times a week to check in with you, or work out together.
5. Reward yourself often. If your intention is to lose weight and you lose a few pounds, pamper yourself with a massage or hot bath.
The best way to meet your health goals is to take consistent small steps. Big changes need to be sustainable. By integrating new behaviors slowly, you'll truly be living your vision instead of just thinking about it or forcing yourself to follow a diet for two weeks.
Your healthy actions will become second nature and a big part of who you are. Allow yourself to climb the ladder one rung at a time.
What are your current health goals? How do you approach sticking to goals, and what's been working or not working?
Share with me in the comments below! I can't wait to hear from you.


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The study infers the genetic changes that coincided with the appearance of different groups of animals and their main traits.
Researchers at IRB Barcelona and BSC-CNS have confirmed that the dynamics of genomic evolution, in addition to the presence or absence of the genes themselves, determines diversity in the animal kingdom.
Published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, the study has been based for the first time on the genomic data of all the large groups of animals.
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This mini-series started on Aug 8, and this is the 7th post so far. The previous post was on Sep 10. Each of the posts can be read separately.
Working towards and creating change (as distinct from change happening, which is a constant in life) involves conscious choice and action. On the personal level, this means becoming more the person we would like to be, and creating new options for ourselves. On the social level, this means moving towards the world of our dreams. In either case, three things need to be in place:
- Clarity that what is happening is not to our liking, and having a clear sense of what we want instead. Only knowing we don't like what is will not result in change. We need to have enough faith that something else is indeed possible to imagine mobilizing the resources necessary.
- Having or knowing how to materialize the resources needed to create the change, and trusting our capacity for accessing the resources. Resources here are both internal, in the form of skills, faith, consciousness, courage, presence and the like, as well as external, in the form of support from others, material resources where needed, access to the people with influence and the like. The faith in our capacity to access and mobilize resources is an irreducible part of what's needed to move towards the change.
- Making the choice to take action. This is not a trivial step. Both personally and collectively we find ourselves in situations where we know we want something done, we know we can do it, and we still choose not to take action. The willingness to commit is the final element that moves us into action.
In the previous parts of this mini-series I have addressed in some detail the question of internal resources I see as necessary for creating nonviolent personal or social change. I do not intend to address the question of external resources, since this is not my expertise. Lastly, I am not, in this moment, focusing on the willingness to commit, which I may take up at another opportunity. In what remains I want to focus on the element of vision which is often sorely lacking in social change movements. I have often wondered what a social movement would do if by some stroke of miracle they became victorious. In my non-expert review of historical example, successful social movements rarely end up implementing systems that are in any fundamental way different from what they replace. Instead of thinking of this phenomenon as proof of how horrible human nature is, I tend to think of it as a cautionary tale with the moral of inviting us to have much clearer vision of what we are attempting to create instead of only working on what we oppose.
For anyone who accepts the radical notion of creating a world based on the principle of meeting needs as the core organizing principle, this means putting energy into envisioning in detail how different systems would work. At one and the same time this act of visioning supports us in knowing what we work for as well as in transforming our consciousness. Specifically, this activity frees us from the paralyzing belief that what is happening is the only possible way that life could be, and opens us in very practical and daily terms to the desire and subsequently the capacity to act differently and become daily agents of change.
Unless we can truly embrace the uncompromising faith that human collaboration is possible, we will secretly continue to believe that in some instances imposition and control are necessary. If we continue to believe that, however unconsciously, we will recreate such structures if we come to power. Here's a powerful example of this principle. The people who created the Kibbutz movement in Israel were committed to economic equality and to sexual equality. They devoted endless hours to sitting together and envisioning what economic equality would look like, and what kind of institutions would make it possible, and then created those institutions, and sustained economic equality for decades (until unforeseen factors entered the equation, not the topic for now). On the other hand, as far as the evidence that I gathered some years ago shows, they didn't ever dedicate such energy and time to envisioning sexual equality. As a result, as soon as babies were born, gender role division re-asserted itself by default.
My own passion and vision is for a world operating on the basis of attending to needs, human and otherwise. Accordingly, my visioning is about what a world operating on needs would look like. For you reading this, you may have different principles or core values that inform your longing for a different world, and I invite you to take the time to reflect on the concrete applications, the nuts and bolts of what you are hoping for, and to gather friends and groups to engage in the visioning. I have found that doing visioning is invigorating, generates hope, and contributes to motivation to keep working. Try it out.
In my next post on this topic I provide an example of my personal visioning in the economic sphere.


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Z Day: Hearts of Heroes
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Evil scientists used weapons that could change the weather, which led to the D-Day battles in Normandy failing in the storm.
In 1945, the Nazis set off an experimental Antimatter Bomb, destroyed most countries in the world, and destroyed social rule.
This day is called Zero Day, or Z-DAY for short.
In this dark new world, evil forces seek to conquer all humanity, and none dare to oppose them... Except for those with the ""hearts of heroes"" who are willing to give their lifes to stop the zombie apocalypse!
The evil captain is already searching for the Antimatter, a compound with an infinite power of destruction. If nobody stops him, he will erase the entire human race and turn every human being into an undead zombie.
It is time to act with strategy in this war MMO game! Build your heroes army, fortify your base, make friends, and take out the enemy assault while trying to survive a zombie PvP war full of adrenaline!
Let the survival heroes battle begin:
• Rebuild and fortify your city and contain the zombie invasion, repair buildings and farms alongside your base and military centers in this survival strategy MMO!
• Multiplayer PvP World War! Hold your head high as a commander and march bravely onto a battlefield of global terror to claim glory!
• Army Alliances! Make friends and build relationships with your allies. Work together using different strategies to defeat the assault of the evil Commandant and storm the monster Bastion in this RPG!
• War Heroes! Gods of military will help you out to battle with strategy. Get your war heroes trained up!
• Destroyers! Death from above. A legendary Aircraft of devastating attack power! Survive the zombie invasion at all costs!
• Supersoldier! Explore the Abandoned Facility with your mechanization soldier and compete in the battlefield arena!
• Multiplayer battle competition! More than PvP, join the Region vs. Region, Alliance vs. Alliance, and the Northern Front events across multiple regions!
• Chat! Connect with other players from around the world in a real time conversation!
• Strategy multiplayer MMO RPG! Manage your resources, train your soldier army troops and develop the heroes defense and attack tactics. Understand your enemy and strike with strategy!
• Building! Build yourself an Empire strong enough for shelter to survive the war to end all wars in the MMO battlefield.
• Epic Survival Story! Fresh immersive horror fighting storyworld packed with terrifying zombie invaders!
Only ONE war alliance can claim the legitimate power to rule! Kill zombies, build military army troops, train heroes and form human alliances in this strategy MMO! Revive civilization as a zombie hunter accomplishing every RPG mission! Your soldiers are waiting. The zombie plague is just the beginning. YOU are a war hero in this invasion doomsday. Are you ready for the fight, Commander?
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The locks are in constant contact with flowing water in harsh climate conditions some 600 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. They have to withstand all possible water surges and reach a life span calculated in decades and centuries, rather than in years. An additional challenge was their desired shape, which was arched, as opposed to the traditional flat shape.
Outokumpu's high performance Forta LDX 2101 duplex stainless was chosen for its ultimate product qualities for extreme conditions. The local partner was the Outokumpu Service Center in Degerfors, located 400 kilometers south of Lossendammen. The grade's duplex microstructure contributes to high strength and high resistance to stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue – important qualities in dam structures. Due to its elevated content of chromium and nitrogen, duplex stainless offers good resistance to localized and uniform corrosion, while good weldability contributed to achieving the desired arched shape of the locks.
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To facilitate the forging work, Outokumpu did all the cutting and bending of the steel plates, before delivering them to a local forging workshop with decades of experience in demanding steel work.
The particular stainless grade enables thinner structures and weight reduction, which was another decisive factor in this project: the two identical lock elements weigh 26 tonnes each. Reduced weight made their handling much easier, both in the workshop and during installation.
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'Hustlers' Trailer: Jennifer Lopez Plays a Stripper Turned Thief
Well, this looks like a movie that is going to make a gabillion dollars.
It has Jennifer Lopez teaching you how to strip. It has Constance Wu coming off the hugely successful Crazy Rich Asians. It's got a heist film vibe. It has a get-revenge-on-Wall-Street-fat-cats message. It basically checks all the boxes. Watch the trailer for Hustlers above; here is the official synopsis:
Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. The film was inspired by the article published by New York Magazine entitled "The Hustlers at Scores" written by Jessica Pressler.
As noted, the film is based on a true story, so be wary when reading about the story if you don't want to spoil the end of the movie. The screenplay was written by director Lorene Scafaria, whose previous movies include Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. This looks ... a lot different from those films? But it's a really good trailer; like Magic Mike mixed with Ocean's 8. (This might have been how the concept was pitched to the studio for all I know.) Hustlers opens in theaters on September 13.
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Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90.
A towering figure of the second half of the 20th Century, Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed him in 2006. He formally ceded power to his younger brother two years later.
Wearing a green military uniform, Cuba's President Raul Castro appeared on state television to announce his brother's death.
"At 10.29 at night, the chief commander of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died," he said, without giving a cause of death.
"Ever onward, to victory."
The streets were quiet in Havana, but some residents reacted with sadness to the news, while in Miami, where many exiles from the Communist government live, a large crowd waving Cuban flags cheered, danced and banged on pots and pans, a video on social media showed.
"I am very upset. Whatever you want to say, he is public figure that the whole world respected and loved," said Havana student Sariel Valdespino.
Castro's remains will be cremated, according to his wishes. His brother said details of his funeral would be given on Saturday.
The bearded Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution and ruled Cuba for 49 years with a mix of charisma and iron will, creating a one-party state and becoming a central figure in the Cold War.
He was demonized by the United States and its allies but admired by many leftists around the world, especially socialist revolutionaries in Latin America and Africa.
"I lament the death of Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban revolution and emblematic reference of the 20th Century," Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Twitter.
Transforming Cuba from a playground for rich Americans into a symbol of resistance to Washington, Castro outlasted nine U.S. presidents in power.
He fended off a CIA-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 as well as countless assassination attempts.
His alliance with Moscow helped trigger the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a 13-day showdown with the United States that brought the world the closest it has been to nuclear war.
Wearing green military fatigues and chomping on cigars for many of his years in power, Castro was famous for long, fist-pounding speeches filled with blistering rhetoric, often aimed at the United States.
At home, he swept away capitalism and won support for bringing schools and hospitals to the poor. But he also created legions of enemies and critics, concentrated among Cuban exiles in Miami who fled his rule and saw him as a ruthless tyrant.
In the end it was not the efforts of Washington and Cuban exiles nor the collapse of Soviet communism that ended his rule. Instead, illness forced him to cede power to his younger brother Raul Castro, provisionally in 2006 and definitively in 2008.
Although Raul Castro always glorified his older brother, he has changed Cuba since taking over by introducing market-style economic reforms and agreeing with the United States, in December 2014, to re-establish diplomatic ties and end decades of hostility.
Six weeks later, Fidel Castro offered only lukewarm support for the deal, raising questions about whether he approved of ending hostilities with his longtime enemy.
He lived to witness the visit of US President Barack Obama to Cuba earlier this year, the first trip by a US president to the island since 1928.
Castro did not meet Obama, and days later wrote a scathing column condemning the US president's "honey-coated" words and reminding Cubans of the many US efforts to overthrow and weaken the Communist government.
In his final years, Fidel Castro no longer held leadership posts. He wrote newspaper commentaries on world affairs and occasionally met with foreign leaders but he lived in semi-seclusion.
His death — which would've once thrown a question mark over Cuba's future — seems unlikely to trigger a crisis as Raul Castro, 85, is firmly ensconced in power.
Still, the passing of the man known to most Cubans as "El Comandante", or simply as "Fidel", leaves a huge void in the country he dominated for so long. It also underlines the generational change in Cuba's communist leadership.
Raul Castro vows to step down when his term ends in 2018 and the Communist Party has elevated younger leaders to its Politburo, including 56-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel, who is first vice-president and the heir apparent.
Others in their 50s include Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and economic reform czar Marino Murillo.
The reforms have led to more private enterprise and the lifting of some restrictions on personal freedoms but they aim to strengthen Communist Party rule, not weaken it.
"I don't think Fidel's passing is the big test. The big test is handing the revolution over to the next generation and that will happen when Raul steps down," Cuba expert Phil Peters of the Lexington Institute in Virginia said before Castro's death.
Revolutionary Icon
A Jesuit-educated lawyer, Fidel Castro led the revolution that ousted US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista on Jan 1, 1959. Aged 32, he quickly took control of Cuba and sought to transform it into an egalitarian society.
His government improved the living conditions of the very poor, achieved health and literacy levels on a par with rich countries and rid Cuba of a powerful Mafia presence.
But he also tolerated little dissent, jailed opponents, seized private businesses and monopolized the media.
Castro's opponents labeled him a dictator and hundreds of thousands fled the island.
Many settled in Florida, influencing US policy toward Cuba and plotting Castro's demise. Some even trained in the Florida swamps for the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion.
But they could never dislodge him.
Generations of Latin American leftists applauded Castro for his socialist policies and for thumbing his nose at the United States from its doorstep just 90 miles (145 km) from Florida.
Castro claimed he survived or evaded hundreds of assassination attempts, including some conjured up by the CIA.
In 1962, the United States imposed a damaging trade embargo that Castro blamed for most of Cuba's ills, using it to his advantage to rally patriotic fury.
Over the years, he expanded his influence by sending Cuban troops into far-away wars, including 350,000 to fight in Africa. They provided critical support to a left-wing government in Angola and contributed to the independence of Namibia in a war that helped end apartheid in South Africa.
He also won friends by sending tens of thousands of Cuban doctors abroad to treat the poor and bringing young people from developing countries to train them as physicians
'History Will Absolve Me'
Born on August 13, 1926 in Biran in eastern Cuba, Castro was the son of a Spanish immigrant who became a wealthy landowner.
Angry at social conditions and Batista's dictatorship, Fidel Castro launched his revolution on July 26, 1953, with a failed assault on the Moncada barracks in the eastern city of Santiago.
"History will absolve me," he declared during his trial for the attack.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison but was released in 1955 after a pardon that would come back to haunt Batista.
Castro went into exile in Mexico and prepared a small rebel army to fight Batista. It included Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who became his comrade-in-arms.
In December 1956, Castro and a rag-tag band of 81 followers sailed to Cuba aboard a badly overloaded yacht called "Granma".
Only 12, including him, his brother and Guevara, escaped a government ambush when they landed in eastern Cuba.
Taking refuge in the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, they built a guerrilla force of several thousand fighters who, along with urban rebel groups, defeated Batista's military in just over two years.
Early in his rule, at the height of the Cold War, Castro allied Cuba to the Soviet Union, which protected the Caribbean island and was its principal benefactor for three decades.
The alliance brought in $4 billion worth of aid annually, including everything from oil to guns, but also provoked the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when the United States discovered Soviet missiles on the island.
Convinced that the United States was about to invade Cuba, Castro urged the Soviets to launch a nuclear attack.
Cooler heads prevailed. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy agreed the Soviets would withdraw the missiles in return for a U.S. promise never to invade Cuba. The United States also secretly agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
'Special Period'
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, an isolated Cuba fell into a deep economic crisis that lasted for years and was known as the "Special Period'. Food, transport and basics such as soap were scarce and energy shortages led to frequent and long blackouts.
Castro undertook a series of tentative economic reforms to get through the crisis, including opening up to foreign tourism.
The economy improved when Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who looked up to Castro as a hero, came to the rescue with cheap oil. Aid from communist-run China also helped, but an economic downturn in Venezuela since Chavez's death in 2013 have raised fears it will scale back its support for Cuba.
Plagued by chronic economic problems, Cuba's population of 11 million has endured years of hardship, although not the deep poverty, violent crime and government neglect of many other developing countries.
For most Cubans, Fidel Castro has been the ubiquitous figure of their entire life.
Many still love him and share his faith in a communist future, and even some who abandoned their political belief still view him with respect. But others see him as an autocrat and feel he drove the country to ruin.
Cubans earn on average the equivalent of $20 a month and struggle to make ends meet even in an economy where education and health care are free and many basic goods and services are heavily subsidized.
It was never clear whether Fidel Castro fully backed his brother's reform efforts of recent years. Some analysts believed his mere presence kept Raul from moving further and faster while others saw him as either quietly supportive or increasingly irrelevant.


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The U.S. Department of Justice late Friday urged the court
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hinted that the parties are flexible on certain provisions.
"As presently drafted, the Proposed Settlement does not meet the legal
standards this Court must apply," the DOJ said in a 32-page filing (click for PDF)
with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
"This Court should reject the Proposed Settlement in its current form
and encourage the parties to continue negotiations to modify it so as
to comply with Rule 23 (a federal law governing class-action
settlements) and the copyright and antitrust laws."
After Google was sued in 2005 for digitizing out-of-print yet copyright protected books by several groups representing authors and publishers, the parties settled out of court in October 2008. That deal granted Google sweeping rights
to scan and display out-of-print books. Ever since the settlement was
announced, opposition has mounted to what one University of California
at Berkeley professor recently called "the largest copyright licensing deal in U.S. history." Opponents claim that Google and the plaintiffs overstepped their bounds in assigning the company the sole right to make digital copies of out-of-print books that are still protected by copyright law.
"The Proposed Settlement is one of the most far-reaching class action
settlements of which the United States is aware; it should not be a
surprise that the parties did not anticipate all of the difficult legal
issues such an ambitious undertaking might raise," the DOJ wrote in its
The DOJ has been looking into antitrust concerns
stemming from the fact that Google and the nonprofit Books Rights
Registry set up to handle payments to authors would have sole control
over the pricing of institutional subscriptions to the digital library.
But in its filing, it also raised questions about whether the
settlement complies with Rule 23 of the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
as well as copyright law in general. "In the view of the United States,
each category of objection is serious in isolation, and, taken
together, raise cause for concern."
Still, the DOJ noted that a digital library of books holds important benefits for society, a point that has been repeatedly raised by Google's supporters,
who argue that it would improve access to knowledge. It would appear
that the DOJ, however, would prefer Congress settle the thorny issues
of copyright laws that apply to orphan works–books whose rightholders
cannot be located but which can be scanned by Google under the
agreement–rather than making policy through legal settlements.
"As a threshold matter, the central difficulty that the Proposed
Settlement seeks to overcome – the inaccessibility of many works due to
the lack of clarity about copyright ownership and copyright status – is
a matter of public, not merely private, concern. A global disposition
of the rights to millions of copyrighted works is typically the kind of
policy change implemented through legislation, not through a private
judicial settlement," the DOJ wrote.
Reaction to the DOJ's filing allowed parties from all sides of this issue to claim victory.
"The Department of Justice's filing recognizes the value the settlement
can provide by unlocking access to millions of books in the U.S. We are
considering the points raised by the Department and look forward to
addressing them as the court proceedings continue," Google said Friday
in a statement.
The Internet Archive, perhaps Google's most vocal opponent in this
matter, was likewise pleased. "Despite Google's vigorous efforts to
convince them otherwise, the Department of Justice recognizes that
there are significant problems with terms of the proposed settlement,
which is consistent with the concerns voiced with the Court by hundreds
and hundreds of other parties," the Open Book Alliance said in a
"This is a major agreement, and it is entirely appropriate for DOJ to
look at a deal of this magnitude," said Ed Black, president and CEO of
the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which has
supported the settlement. "They are doing their job scrutinizing the
competition aspects of this settlement."
And Consumer Watchdog, a strident opponent of the settlement, also found something to like in the DOJ's filing:
Consumer Watchdog supports digitization and digital
libraries in a robust competitive market open to all organizations,
both for-profit and non-profit, that offer fundamental privacy
guarantees to users. But a single entity cannot be allowed to build a
digital library based on a monopolistic advantage when its answer to
serious questions from responsible critics boils down to: "Trust us.
Our motto is 'Don't be evil.'"
Google will learn whether it has earned that trust from Judge Denny Chin on October 7 in New York. That is, unless the settlement is modified in the coming weeks, in which case we could be looking at several more weeks of debate.


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Coming every Saturday, Hodler's Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
Top Stories This Week
Binance CEO CZ is the richest crypto billionaire at $96B: Bloomberg
Bloomberg has estimated Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao — also known as "CZ"— to be the 11th-richest person in the world at a net worth of around $96 billion, making him the wealthiest billionaire in crypto.
However, Bloomberg's tabulation excluded CZ's personal holdings of crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Binance Coin, suggesting that the $96 billion could become much larger in the future.
To make the list of the top 10 richest people, CZ will need to look under his sofa and find a spare $11 billion to surpass Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Topping the list is South African bad boy and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, who has accumulated $263 billion on the back of the success of his heavily subsidized electric vehicle company.
Disney patents technology for a theme park metaverse
Disney has obtained a patent that will enable the creation of personalized interactive attractions for its theme park visitors.
The technology could reportedly be used to develop licensed, headset-free augmented reality attractions, involving such features as personalized 3D effects displayed on physical spaces across its parks that correspond with visitors' journeys to different locations.
The patent, dubbed the "Virtual-world Simulator," was filed in the United States. It appears the move is part of Disney's broader push to enter the metaverse sector, with CEO Bob Chapek noting in a Q4 conference call last year:
"We'll be able to connect the physical and digital worlds even more closely, allowing for storytelling without boundaries in our own Disney metaverse."
Billionaire investor Bill Miller puts 50% of net worth in Bitcoin
Famous investor Bill Miller has now put 50% of his net worth in Bitcoin, as well as major industry firms like Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy and BTC mining firm Stronghold Digital Mining.
Miller was an early investor in Amazon, which he says still accounts for nearly 100% of the rest of his portfolio. He said he's been gradually accumulating Bitcoin since the price hit $30,000 in mid-2021.
The investor stated that he no longer considers himself just a "Bitcoin observer" but rather a real Bitcoin bull. Miller initially bought his first Bitcoin back in 2014 when BTC was trading around $200 and then purchased a "little bit more overtime" when it became $500.
Tonga to copy El Salvador bill making Bitcoin legal tender, says former MP
Former Tongan member of parliament Lord Fusitu'a outlined a bill for Bitcoin to become legal tender in the island nation. Fusitu'a stated that the country's Bitcoin bill is almost "identical" to the one that was enacted in El Salvador.
Fusitu'a, who currently serves as chairman of the Oceania chapter of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, outlined five points in the roadmap for the bill's adoption, predicting that it will pass in parliament around September or October, and potentially be legislated by the end of 2022 if all goes to plan.
In 2021, it was widely speculated that Tonga would become one of the next countries to adopt BTC as legal tender, and optimism appears to be high among Tongans in 2022.
Jack Dorsey announces Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
Former Twitter CEO, Bitcoin maxi and Block founder Jack Dorsey announced plans to create a "Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund" with Chaincode Labs co-founder Alex Morcos and University of Sussex academic Martin White.
The announcement, shared via Dorsey's mailing list, states that the fund will help provide a legal defense for Bitcoin developers, who are "currently the subject of multi-front litigation."
"The main purpose of this Fund is to defend developers from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including finding and retaining defense counsel, developing litigation strategy, and paying legal bills," the announcement stated.
Winners and Losers
At the end of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) is at $43,121, Ether (ETH) at $3,292 and XRP at $0.77. The total market cap is at $2.05 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap.
Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Oasis Network (ROSE) at 47.47%, Secret (SCRT) at 32.23% and NEAR Protocol (NEAR) at 25.73%.
The top three altcoin losers of the week are Loopring (LRC) at -14.23%, yearn.finance (YFI) at -13.52% and Ravencoin (RVN) at -13.01%.
For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph's market analysis.
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"It's more going to be an exercise in asking questions and seeking input from the public rather than taking a lot of positions on various issues, although we do take some positions."
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"Centralization is antithetical to the ethos of DeFi and poses major security risks. Single points of failure can be exploited by dedicated hackers and malicious insiders alike."
"We're already at a quarter of that number, so we've got 24% of Americans owning Bitcoin. It won't be that much of a stretch for it to get to a third. Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream. People are hearing about it everywhere — it isn't going away."
Ric Edelman, founder of Edelman Financial Engines
"Wikipedia really can't be in the business of deciding what counts as art or not, which is why putting NFTs, art or not, in their own list makes things a lot simpler."
Jonas, Wikipedia editor
"Solana prioritizes scalability, but a relatively less decentralized and secure blockchain has tradeoffs, illustrated by several network performance issues since inception."
Alkesh Shah, digital asset strategist for Bank of America
"The number of addresses with the minimum number of Bitcoin is actually growing compared to the number of whales. I think you get a profound retail trend everywhere in the world; people onboarding Bitcoin, they trust Bitcoin more and more. It's really the people that will push the price up."
Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger
"Subsequent employee surveys made it clear: recharge weeks work."
L.J. Brock, chief people officer at Coinbase
"Most cryptocurrency investors are ready to pay tax but are concerned whether their move will violate the Revenue Code."
Suppakrit Boonsat, president of the Thai Digital Asset Association
Prediction of the Week
Traders say Bitcoin run to $44K may be a relief bounce, citing a repeat of December's 'nuke'
Bitcoin had somewhat of a rocky trading week, as the flagship cryptocurrency fell to a price of $39,675 on Monday, according to Cointelegraph's BTC price index. BTC found itself priced at $44,315 by Wednesday. The asset hit $44,448 on Thursday before subsequently dropping later in the week.
Although Bitcoin's price increased on Tuesday, its Wednesday rally came on the same day it was reported that U.S. inflation rose at an annual pace of 7% in December, the highest in 40 years.
Even though Bitcoin's price rallied in the days following Monday's drop below $40,000, the potential for further downward action remains a possibility as of Wednesday, according to widely-followed Twitter personality Material Scientist.
"Remainder of bids was just pulled," one of the tweets stated. "Either they're done accumulating and use liquidity to chase now, or we see the same thing as in late November (pulled bids + stacked asks a few days later)."
In the case of Bitcoin trading, bids refer to buyer demand seen on exchange order books. Following its $68,969 peak in November 2021, BTC declined notably through the rest of the month, falling down to $41,614 by early December.
FUD of the Week
LCX loses $6.8M in a hot wallet compromise over Ethereum blockchain
Liechtenstein-based crypto exchange LCX confirmed on Sunday that one of its hot wallets was compromised after the platform temporarily suspended all deposits and withdrawals.
The hack was initially highlighted by blockchain security firm PeckShield, which spotted a suspicious transfer of ERC-20 tokens from LCX to an unknown Ethereum wallet. The compromise was then promptly confirmed by LCX, which announced that several crypto tokens were compromised, including Ether, USD Coin (USDC), Sandbox (SAND) and its native LCX token.
According to an investigation by PeckShield, LCX lost a total of around $6.8 million via the hot wallet hack.
FTC issues public warning about new crypto ATM scam
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) posted an alert earlier this week regarding a new crypto ATM scam that involves nefarious QR codes.
The FTC stated that the scam starts with fraudsters impersonating figures, such as public officials, law enforcement agents, or potential dating partners on dating apps, who all spin various fables to dupe the victim into sending crypto.
If the victim falls for the fake story, they are directed to withdraw cash and then head to a crypto ATM and purchase some crypto. Once they purchase the crypto, the fraudster shares a QR code with the victim that diverts the funds back to the scammer upon scanning.
"Here's the main thing to know: nobody from the government, law enforcement, utility company or prize promoter will ever tell you to pay them with cryptocurrency. If someone does, it's a scam, every time," the FTC said.
Pakistan's central bank reportedly wants to ban crypto
According to reports from local media outlets, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) wants to ban all crypto transactions in Pakistan, arguing that assets such as Bitcoin are illegal and shouldn't be used for trade.
Pakistan's Sindh High Court reportedly held a hearing related to the legal status of crypto in the country, with several Pakistani authorities, including the SBP, calling for a ban on the sector via a document submitted to the court.
Alongside the usual tropes of investor protection and money laundering and terrorism concerns, the document urged the court to follow the model of countries such as China, whose government has stamped out the local crypto sector to pave way for a spawn of satan central bank digital currency (CBDC).
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King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.


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That makes it sound like we got a box full of dog parts or something. It wasn't that kind of horror. It's the kind of horror that screams the truth is even bigger and worse than you thought. The kind of horror that makes you want to bite the UPS man for bringing it to your door, even though he knows your name and always pets you on the head.
I'm talking about the kind of horror you see in today's picture.
Yeah that's me and it might look like just a postcard. But my human said it's advertising. Advertising so she can take pictures of even more stranger dogs. And it gets even worse. I went to the dot-com on the postcard and it's a freaking website my human made! For her stupid dog shooting business!
UGH with a capital, uh, UGH.
I had NO IDEA she was telling the whole internet about this stuff. I mean, you know how many dogs there must be on the internet?? The internet is HUGE. The website even has a freaking blog. Yeah.
So now my human is:
- giving away my cookies
- taking pictures of stranger dogs
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- telling the whole internet
- AND blogging about it!
I think the only poof that my human still loves me (and thinks I'm cute) is my picture on the postcard. And I think the only remotely good thing about any of this is that a picture of big beautiful Gracie is on the back of the postcard. It might be the closest I will ever be to her again.


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BEIRUT – Activists say fighting and government shelling has stopped in Syria's central city of Homs in advance of an expected visit by U.N. observers.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Homs is peaceful for the first time in more than a week.
Salim Qabani, an activist based in the central province of Homs, said Saturday that troops are hiding armored vehicles. He says tanks were pulled off the streets and into a police base.
A U.N.-brokered cease-fire that technically went into effect last week has been steadily unraveling. Regime forces had shelled rebel-held neighborhoods in Homs and opposition fighters were reported to have ambushed government troops.
The Observatory said they had no reports of violence through most of Syria on Saturday.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops fired tear gas and bullets on thousands of protesters who spilled out of mosques after noon prayers Friday, activists said. State media reported that bombs and shootings killed 17 soldiers as the latest diplomatic efforts failed to halt more than 13 months of bloodshed in the country.
Opposition activists reported that at least 11 Syrian civilians were killed in regime shelling and other attacks Friday, the main day of the week for protests calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad.
The United Nations hopes to have 30 observers in Syria next week to monitor the tenuous cease-fire between regime troops and opposition, and the Security Couincil reached a tentative agreement Friday night on plans for the deployment of up to a total of 300.
An advance team of seven monitors, whose presence set off anti-Assad marches that prompted gunfire from security forces in at least two areas earlier this week, did not venture out Friday.
The U.N. is also trying to ramp up its humanitarian response and send more food, medicine and aid workers to Syria, said John Ging, the head of emergency response at the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"The whole infrastructure of the country is under strain," Ging said. He added that the Syrian regime has finally acknowledged that there is a "serious humanitarian need" and that he hopes this will ease the aid mission.
Ging said the idea is to help one million people over six months with food, medical assistance and emergency supplies.
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the World Food Program, through the Syrian Red Crescent, had given food to about 100,000 Syrians in need, a figure expected to double in a month.
The U.N. estimates some 230,000 Syrians have been displaced and more than 9,000 killed since the uprising against President Bashar Assad erupted more than a year ago. The revolt began with largely peaceful protests, but has grown increasingly violent as the opposition has taken up arms in response to a brutal regime crackdown.
A U.N.-brokered cease-fire that technically went into effect last week has been steadily unraveling, with regime forces continuing to shell rebel-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs and opposition fighters ambushing government troops. Still, the truce is still seen as the most viable way to end the bloodshed, simply for a lack of other options.
Western powers have called for Assad's ouster, but the Syrian leader has dug in, unleashing his military on an ill-equipped and fractured opposition, and there appears to be little appetite in the international community to try to dislodge him by force with an operation similar to the one that helped topple Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi last year.
Instead, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took a hard line against Damascus, saying Syria was not honoring the cease-fire and that violence was escalating.
As part of the truce, Assad was to withdraw troops and tanks from urban centers and allow peaceful anti-regime marches, which the opposition has staged every Friday since the uprising began. He has ignored both provisions and continued attacking opposition strongholds, though the overall level of violence is down compared to the period before the truce.
On Friday, protests were reported in the capital Damascus and its suburbs, as well as in the northern city of Aleppo, the central regions of Hama and Homs, in eastern towns near the border with Iraq and in the southern province of Daraa. Demonstrators spilled out from mosques onto the streets, calling for Assad's downfall and chanting in support of the country's rebel forces, activists said.
"Security is extremely tight in Damascus," said activist Maath al-Shami, adding that despite the heavy presence of plainclothes security agents, there were protests in the capital's neighborhoods of Qaboun, Midan, Barzeh and Mazzeh.
He said troops fired in the air to disperse the protesters. Activists also said troops fired bullets and tear gas at protesters in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, as well as the central city of Hama. They had no immediate word on casualties.
In the rebel-held Khaldiyeh neighborhood in the central city of Homs, which has become the heart of the uprising, a mortar round was striking every five minutes, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. An amateur video posted online by activists showed thick black smoke billowing as shells fell in a residential area.
The Observatory said eight civilians were killed in Homs on Friday, including a family of three whose home was struck by a shell. The group reported three more civilians were killed by army fire in other parts of Syria.
Citing its network of sources on the ground, the group said explosions and the crackle of gunfire rang out in the town of Qusair, near the border with Lebanon. Activists said the government was sending reinforcements to the town.
Meanwhile, Syria's state-run news agency SANA said a large roadside bomb went off in the southern village of Sahm al-Golan, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing 10 soldiers. A separate explosion, also in southern Syria, killed five troops, the agency said, adding that two more soldiers were killed in separate shooting attacks.
In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Friday that the international community has to live up to its responsibilities in Syria and prepare for the possible failure of an increasingly fragile cease-fire. He told France's BFM television that if special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan "doesn't function, we have to envisage other methods."
Clinton referred during the Paris meeting to a resolution under the U.N. Charter that would be militarily enforceable.
"We need to start moving very vigorously in the Security Council for a Chapter 7 sanctions resolution, including travel, financial sanctions, an arms embargo, and the pressure that that will give us on the regime to push for compliance with Kofi Annan's six-point plan," she said.
Her comments were welcomed by the Syrian opposition Friday.
"The fact that Mrs. Clinton talked about this resolution (Chapter 7) shows that the international community is preparing to take stronger action against this cruel regime," said Fawaz Zakri, an Istanbul-based member of the Syrian National Council.
Any attempt to push for U.N. sanctions on Syria would likely meet resistance from Syrian allies Russia and China, which hold vetoes in the Security Council. Moscow and Beijing have already twice shielded Syria from U.N. sanctions over the crackdown.
Ban has recommended the Security Council quickly approve a 300-member U.N. observer mission to Syria, a number larger than what was originally envisioned. But he said he will review ground developments before deciding when to deploy the mission.
Associated Press writers Frank Jordans in Geneva, Switzerland, and Peter James Spielmann at the United Nations contributed to this report.


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Violent and Volatile First of all, the scheduled visit of Archduke Frans Ferdinand to Bosnia was published as early as March. Sarajevo was a volatile cosmopolitan, half-oriental community of 42,000 people. For hundreds of years, it had been under Ottoman-Turkish-Muslim rule. The Austrians had liberated Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman-Turkish Empire in 1878. In 1908, the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina were incorporated formally into the Austria-Hungarian Empire. Those Who Forget the Lessons of History are Doomed to Repeat It The date chosen for the state visit of Archduke Frans Ferdinand to Sarajevo was a date of painful historic significance for the Serbs, it was the anniversary of the disastrous defeat, 28 June 1389, at the hands of the Ottoman-Turks at Kosovo. Serbian Hostility Despite Austria playing the leading role in liberating the Balkans from centuries of Ottoman-Turkish oppression, the neighbouring country of Serbia was intensely hostile to Austria and wanted to greatly expand its territory to include all the Slavs of the Balkans, including Bosnia and Herzegovina into Serbia. Serbian Nationalism Serbia was a monarchy and having tasted victory against the Turks in the Balkan War of 1912, deluded itself that it was a great power, able to even take on the Austria-Hungarian Empire! The Black Hand The head of Serbian Military Intelligence, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, known by his code name Apis (after the Egyptian bull god), also controlled The Black Hand, an international terrorist group run by Major Vojin Tankosic. It was this group which provided The Young Bosnians, including Gavrilo Princip, with 4 Browning semi-automatic pistols, 6 bombs and cyanide capsules. This was in May 1914. Princip received some training in pistol target practice in the park in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The Devious Dragutin Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic was described as: "a revolutionary fanatic, pale, bald, heavy, enigmatic, like a giant Mongolian." Dragutin never married. He was devoted to the movement of Serb-nationalism and international terrorism. Occultic Initiation He required his revolutionaries to undergo a hooded initiation ritual, which included a seal engraved with skull and crossbones, a dagger, a bomb and poison. Murder was his Business Murder had been his business since his involvement in the 1903 assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia. The king and queen were murdered in their own palace bedroom by a group of Serbian army officers which included Dragutin. A Rogue State Hardly a democracy, Serbia was described by many as a rogue state whose rulers were intimately involved in international terrorism. The evidence is overwhelming that the young Bosnian terrorists who murdered Archduke Frans Ferdinand received their weapons from the Serbian military and their basic training in Belgrade Park. Advance Knowledge The Serbian Prime Minister Pasic informed the cabinet at the end of May that assassins were on their way to Sarajevo to kill Frans Ferdinand. Serbian state documents include details about the movements of the assassins and of the bombs and pistols in their luggage. The Interior Ministry in Belgrade was fully briefed on all aspects of their mission. Yet no warning was forwarded to the Austrian authorities of the planned assassination. Security Nightmare From the Austrian side, the lack of rudimentary security arrangements on that tragic day is astounding. Acts of terrorism in and from, the Balkans were a clear and present danger. Dark Humour British newspapers published cartoons of Serbian anarchists asking one another: "What time is it by your bomb?" As Archduke Frans Ferdinand left his estate on 23 June to travel by train to Bosnia, he commented: "Our journey starts… down there they will throw bombs at us!" A Trail of Terror The Emperor of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, Frans Joseph, had lost his wife, the Empress Elizabeth, when she was stabbed to death by an anarchist in 1889. She was boarding a steamer to Geneva at the time. In 1908, a 20-year-old Slav student assassinated Count Potocki, the Governor of Galicia. When is Murder Justified? At the trial of an American born Croat, who had fired at a member of the royal family, the judge asked if he thought killing people was justified. The man responded: "In this case it is! It is the general opinion in America and behind me are 500,000 American Croats!" Bombing a Wedding In 1906 an anarchist bombed the wedding procession of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. King Alfonso was marrying a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Shots in Sarajevo In June 1908, a young Bosnian, Bogdan Zerajic, had failed in his attempt to assassinate the Emperor in Mostar. Later he had travelled to Sarajevo and fired at General Marijan Varesanin. It was alleged that The Black Hand of Serbia had provided his revolver. Bullets and Bombs In June 1912, the Governor of Croatia was fired upon in Zagreb. Although the governor was missed, a member of his administration was wounded. In March 1914, the Vicar-General of Transylvania was killed by a time-bomb sent through the post from Romania. Numerous conspiracies to assassinate officials were detected and prevented by the Austrian police. Inexplicable Complacency Interestingly enough Gavrilo Princip was known by the Austrian police to be a potential threat. Yet, when General Oskar Potiorek, the Governor of Bosnia was warned of the threat from The Young Bosnians, he only laughed. The officials at Sarajevo spent more energy discussing dinner menus and the correct temperature at which to serve the wines than to issues of security. A Date of Infamy So, on 28 June 1914, a date of intense significance for the Serbians, the Archduke Frans Ferdinand set out in the uniform of a Cavalry General: blue tunic, gold collar, three silver stars and black trousers with red stripe. His wife, Sophie, wore a white hat with a veil and long white silk dress with red and white fabric roses tucked into the red sash. The Bomb On the morning of 28 June, in accordance with the published schedule, the motorcade left Sarajevo railway station and shortly before reaching its first scheduled stop, a bomb thrown by Nedeliko Cabrinovic, struck the car of Frans Ferdinand, but bounced off the hood before it exploded, wounding two bystanders. As Cabrinovic was arrested and led away, he shouted loudly: "I am a Serbian hero!" The other conspirators lost their nerve and failed to use their weapons. A Wrong Turn Despite the attack, the Archduke continued with his published schedule, meeting the governor general, where he watched two local girls perform a folklore dance and then he went to visit the hospital where those wounded by the bomb were being treated. Upon leaving the hospital the driver took a wrong turn, turning left after crossing the bridge. The driver was told to stop and turn back. As the car had no reverse gear, it had to be pushed backwards into the Appel Quay. The Shots that Sparked the Great War It was at this point that Gavrilo Princip walked up to the open car and fired at Frans and Sophie Ferdinand at point blank range. The last words of the Archduke were: "Sophie! Sophie! Do not die! Stay alive for our children!" They were survived by their daughter and two sons. 28 June 1914 was Frans and Sophie Ferdinand's 14th Wedding anniversary. The Remorseless Revolutionary The district judge Leo Pfeffer, commented on Princip: "It was difficult to imagine that so frail a looking individual could have committed so serious a deed." In fact, when Princip had volunteered to fight for Serbia, in the First Balkan War in 1912, he was rejected as being too small. At his first interrogation by the police in Sarajevo, Princip had declared that throughout his life, wherever he went, people took him for a weakling, and he wanted to prove them wrong. Within days all the conspirators were in custody, except the Muslim Mehmed Mehemed basic who escaped to Montenegro. As Austria did not execute adolescents and Princip was either 17, or 18, years old at the time, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison and died of natural causes (Tuberculosis) in April 1918. Before he died, he was asked by the prison psychiatrist if he had any regrets that his deed has sparked a world war and the death of millions? Princip made it clear that he had No regrets! Murdering a Moderate Interestingly, Princip had killed the one man in the Austrian Empire who was committed to averting war with either Serbia or Russia. Frans Ferdinand had been the one member of the Austrian royal family who had good relations with the Russians and was on record declaring: "I shall never lead a war against Russia. I shall make sacrifices to avoid it. A war between Austria and Russia would end either with the overthrow of the Romanovs or the overthrow of the Hapsburgs – or perhaps the overthrow of both!" Against War He once wrote to the foreign minister: "Let us not play Balkan warriors ourselves. Let us not stoop to this hooliganism. Let us stay aloof and watch the scum bash in each other's skulls. It would be unforgivable, insane, to start something that would pit us against Russia." Frans Ferdinand's moderate stand was clearly seen by how, despite all the threats, he chose to make a state visit to one of the most volatile cities, in one of the most unstable parts of Europe, in an open car, with almost no security. However, it is the practise of terrorists to assassinate moderates, to provoke reaction. Revulsion The British Ambassador in Germany declared that the assassination was: "a dreadful act of which the political consequences are incalculable." In St. Petersburg, Russia, journalists dismissed the assassination as: "a characteristic bit of Balkan savagery." Almost every country in Europe had suffered the effects of assassinations by communist revolutionary anarchists like Princip and there was general sympathy for Austria and disgust for Serbia's obvious role. Yet, just over a month later, most of Europe would mobilise against Austria's attempts to deal with the Serbian terrorist threat. "…'Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore, the wrath of the Lord is upon you.'" 2 Chronicles 19:2
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Thank you very much for the encouragement. These are very important events that have had a far reaching impact Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. We need to learn from history.
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Once I started, I could not stop reading this article. Thank you for the history lesson, Peter.
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Love this history. Wish we could learn from this. In my country South Africa, we are continually stumbling over the same mistakes, and never learning
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