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Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, 59, was charged March 18 with sexually abusing seven children — and a pet dog — in his home on a Suffolk County cul-de-sac.

She warned them over and over again.

School social worker Debbie Edwards filed multiple complaints with authorities about alleged foster father from hell Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu.

But investigators and a Longwood school district central office administrator always pushed her aside and never took the allegations of abuse and neglect seriously.

Edwards complaints to the New York State Central Registry, which were forwarded to the Suffolk County Child Protective Services, date as far back as 14 years ago. That's when children in Gonzales-Mugaburu's care apparently first began to attend the Longwood school district.

"I tried to initiate investigations against this guy," Edwards told the Daily News Monday. "My professional instincts told me things were way wrong in the house."

Gonzales-Mugaburu, 59, was charged March 18 with sexually abusing seven children — and a pet dog — in his home on a Suffolk County cul-de-sac.

Edwards first encounter with the alleged predator was after a 16-year-old summer school student said he got kicked out of the house because of a new girlfriend.

"He had nowhere to go," Edwards recalled." I thought that was awful. What parent would lock their kid out for having a girlfriend?"

But Gonzales-Mugaburu wouldn't budge, insisting any child with a girlfriend under his care must leave the house.

Edwards heard constant complaints about Gonzales-Mugaburu from colleagues over the years.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/social-worker-repeatedly-warned-school-pedophile-article-1.2580519
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At one point, an official with SCO Family of Services, the agency handling placement, promised Edwards no more children would be sent to his home.

That never happened.

A 5th grader from Washington State living in his house in 2012 began attending Longwood Middle School without his glasses despite bad eyesight.

When Edwards called to complain, Gonzales-Mugaburu was incredulous, saying, "What should I do? Drop my pants?"

Edwards filed a complaint with New York State's Central Registry, citing medical neglect.

"Cesar went nuts," Edwards said. "He threatened to sue me."

As a result, the Deputy Superintendent of the school district, Michael Lonergan, ordered his administrative subordinates to direct Edwards to stop talking with Gonzales-Mugaburu's children.

"I was devastated," she recalled. "The kid would seek me out. He was destroyed."

Meanwhile, Gonzales-Mugaburu earned as much as $18,000 a month as a foster parent and adoptive father, according to authorities. He got extra cash for children with learning disabilities and other issues.

But at least one of the kids didn't need the extra care, according to a school evaluation.

Gonzales-Mugaburu disagreed and furiously fought to keep the child in special education classes, according to Edwards.

He also repeatedly complained Edwards and other school staffers were giving the kid treats and other bonuses for good behavior.

"It was as though Cesar wanted him to be as bad as he could be," she said. "It guaranteed Cesar got the hard to place subsidy, the highest rated one."

Lonergan did not respond to a call seeking comment.

SCO said in a statement Sunday that it is "shocked and deeply saddened over the circumstances that led to the indictment." It promised to "do everything possible to prevent this from happening in the future."
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Several months ago, one of Gonzales-Mugaburu's children refused to get on a bus to go back home. An administrator within the special education department of the Longwood Central School district allowed the child to stay in the school's residential facility.

Shortly afterwards Gonzales-Mugaburu was arrested.

Still, Edwards doesn't feel vindicated after all these years.

"I feel only sad that I couldn't have done more to help those kids," she said. "I can't tell you how many nights I cried. There are no words for how bad I feel."
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Btw the children were all boys he also assaulted a dog

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/usgs-man-made-earthquakes-pose-risk-to-7-million-americans/

>About 7 million Americans live in areas of the central and eastern United States that could experience a damaging earthquake in 2016 that was caused by human activity such as wastewater disposal from gas production.

>For the first time, the U.S. Geological Survey has published an earthquake hazard map pinpointing potential sites of both man-made and naturally occurring earthquakes. The map and an accompanying study were released Monday.

>"By including human-induced events, our assessment of earthquake hazards has significantly increased in parts of the U.S.," Mark Petersen, chief of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project, said in a press release. "This research also shows that much more of the nation faces a significant chance of having damaging earthquakes over the next year, whether natural or human-induced."

>The USGS reported that almost all the risk of increasing man-made quakes is tied to "companies that are injecting wastewater from gas and oil production down to porous rocks far below ground."

>The study reveals that the most significant hazard areas for "induced" or man-make quakes are located in six states -- Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arkansas.

>Oklahoma has the highest risk, and along with Texas has the largest population that could be exposed to the risk.

>On Tuesday morning, just hours after the report came out, Oklahoma experienced two more quakes with a magnitude of 4.1 and 4.2.
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>"In the past five years, the USGS has documented high shaking and damage in areas of these six states, mostly from induced earthquakes," Petersen added. "Furthermore, the USGS Did You Feel It? website has archived tens of thousands of reports from the public who experienced shaking in those states, including about 1,500 reports of strong shaking or damage."

>The USGS reports that the central part of the country has experienced the most dramatic increase in seismic activity over the past six years.

>Between 1973 and 2008, there was an average of 24 earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0 or higher each year. The rate increased steadily in the relatively short amount of time between 2009 and 2015, averaging 318 earthquakes per year. This peaked just last year, with 1,010 earthquakes. So far this year, there have been 226 earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or larger in the central U.S. as of mid-March.
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other coverage:

http://gizmodo.com/humans-caused-earthquakes-are-so-common-that-us-geologi-1767571161

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0328/Manmade-earthquakes-on-the-rise-How-can-fracking-states-lessen-tremors
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>>34974
It's happening!!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/29/pair-earthquakes-hit-crescent-in-central-oklahoma.html

Yet another effort to come out of the woodwork, but this one was actually employed by Trump Tower!

> What was once Trump's desire to rank second place to send a message to America and to increase his power as a businessman has nightmarishly morphed into a charade that is poised to do irreparable damage to this country if we do not stop this campaign in its tracks.

> I'll say it again: Trump never intended to be the candidate. But his pride is too out of control to stop him now.

> You can give Trump the biggest gift possible if you are a Trump supporter: stop supporting him.

> He doesn't want the White House. He just wants to be able to say that he could have run the White House. He’s achieved that already and then some. If there is any question, take it from someone who was recruited to help the candidate succeed, and initially very much wanted him to do so.

> The hard truth is: Trump only cares about Trump.

> And if you are one of the disaffected voters — one of the silent majority like me — who wanted a candidate who could be your voice, I want to speak directly to you as one of his biggest advocates and supporters.

> He is not that voice. He is not your voice. He is only Trump's voice.

http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephanie-cegielski-donald-trump-campaign-defector
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So worth the read and good to hear from a form insider who sees what we all can see
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>>34918
>Wants a raise
>Trump says "fuck no"
>"I quit"
Next day,we find out Trump wants the presidency for the same reasons Hillary does(CUZ IS MUH TURN)

And there is no way other candidates would bribe his staff to fuck him over for the right money.

So much bullshit,so many lies have been told,people just outright reject them now about Trump,no questions asked.
Good job libtards,you made him stronger.
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Bernie for president

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iphone-case-cracked/index.html

>The Department of Justice says the FBI has accessed the iPhone used by one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino terrorist shooting.

>Law enforcement officials were able to break into the phone used by Syed Farook with the help of an unnamed third party. Government officials did not go into detail about what was found on the phone.

>"The FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple required by this Court Order," DOJ spokeswoman Melanie Newman said in a statement.

>The DOJ is dropping the case against Apple, since it no longer needs the company's help.

>Farook was one of two shooters in the December 2015 attack that left 14 people dead, and the government has been trying to force Apple to help bypass the phone's security features.

>Apple has declined to help, saying it would compromise the security of all iPhone users. The company has argued that law enforcement officials don't understand the consequences of creating a backdoor and the cybersecurity dangers that it poses..

>The two sides were due in court last week, but the judge granted a last minute request from DOJ to postpone the hearing, saying an unidentified "outside party" came to the FBI with an alternative method for hacking into the phone.

>The fact that the DOJ was able to successfully access the phone without Apple's help is bad news for the tech giant because it suggests Apple's encryption technology is not as advanced as once thought.

tl;dr
- FBI cracked San Bernardino terrorists' phone without Apple's help
- FBI used a "third party" to help them crack it
- Now Apple and Tim cook look like huge faggots who overstated the threat to their phone's security and utterly BTFO
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>>34809
>the court order wasn't necessary
Everyone knew this. Everyone knew the FBI was grossly misrepresenting their capabilities. That's why everyone opposed it, it was never about the San Bernardino phone. It was about setting a legal precedent.
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>>34813
The McAfee guy mentioned a work around. He made it sound braindead simple which leads me to believe you are right. The otherside is that if it was that simple and the FBI can't already do this we have problems.
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>>34821
It is, Phone PINS are not really hard to bruteforce.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Cop_Who_Filmed_Himself_Raping_Children_On_Duty%2C_Found_Dead/50065/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Say what you want about brothas, but at least they rape adult women.
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Weird.
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KKK
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Goodnight pigger

http://www.brindisireport.it/cronaca/cocaina-e-sostana-da-taglio-in-un-muretto-a-secco-arrestati-due-giovani.html
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>>34768
Are these guys famous in Italy?
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Read the article (I was born in Italy)... This article has a lot of spelling mistakes
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Yes, a lot of mistakes! LOL
this guy is famous, of course !

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35915232 so this is yesterday's news, but I only just saw this today.
So my questions are: how the fuck does the cartel get ANYONE to take that job smuggling? It looks like the shittiest possible job on earth. Seriously, you can't even use a blanket when you're half in water.
Secondly, six TONS?! Wouldn't six tons of cocaine be worth a lot more than $200 million? How do you fit 6 tons of cocaine on that little boat? Or was there more than one boat, and the video just doesn't show it?
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Northern California Coast Guard crew seizes more than 6 tons of cocaine worth $203 million

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-coast-guard-cocaine-bust-20160328-story.html
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.S. Coast Guard crew based in Northern California seized more than six tons of cocaine after intercepting a semi-submersible vessel in the Pacific Ocean, the agency announced Monday.

The March 3 bust occurred 300 miles southwest of Panama after a Customs and Border Protection aircraft spotted the drug smuggling boat and alerted the Alameda-based crew of the Coast Guard cutter Bertholf, according to Lt. Donnie Brzuska.

See more of our top stories on Facebook >>

The crew seized more than 12,800 pounds of cocaine worth more than $203 million and a loaded gun. Four suspected drug smugglers were arrested, Brzuska said. It took the crew numerous times to retrieve the drugs.

It was the second time the Coast Guard has intercepted a self-propelled semi-submersible or SPSS in recent months. Such vessels are able to operate while partially underwater.

See the most-read stories this hour >>
In January, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Northland intercepted a similar craft 280 miles off the coast of the Mexican-Guatemalan border.

In all, the agency has intercepted five similar vessels since June 2015, Brzuska said.

"Transnational organized crime groups continue to adjust their tactics to avoid detection indicated by a recent rise of SPSS vessels," said Vice Adm. Charles Ray, commander of the Coast Guard's Pacific Area. "Despite these efforts, we will continue to execute an offensive strategy that targets, attacks and disrupts these dangerous criminal networks."
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Does anyone have any links to other stories about the extreme measures drug smugglers are forced to take?

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Amanda Zolicoffer, 27, copped to the misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to a year in state prison, a term that will run concurrently with lengthier sentences she received last month in an unrelated felony prosecution.

The case against Zolicoffer’s codefendant, Douglas Blansett, 76, is pending.

Zolicoffer and Blansett were charged with public lewdness after a self-described “video vigilante” provided Oklahoma City cops with footage (seen above) showing the duo appearing to have sex in the front seat of Blansett’s truck.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Brian Bates, the anti-prostitution avenger, followed Blansett’s Ford F-150 after he spotted Zolicoffer entering the vehicle. When the truck turned down a deserted road leading to a tire yard, Bates launched his drone from an adjacent street.

As seen in Bates’s footage (beginning around the 4:10 mark), he lowered the drone to within a few feet of Blansett’s truck. As detailed in the police affidavits, the footage revealed that “Zolicoffer’s pants were off and the driver appeared to be having sexual intercourse with Zolicoffer.”

Investigator Ben Lacaze noted that, “Once Zolicoffer and the driver saw the drone, they immediately ceased their activity and left the area.” Lacaze, a Vice Enforcement Unit officer, stated that he was “familiar with Zolicoffer and her involvement in prostitution related activity,” adding that she had distinctive facial tattoos that were visible in the drone video.

Zolicoffer’s rap sheet includes convictions for prostitution, credit card theft, cocaine trafficking, larceny, leaving the scene of an accident, and concealing stolen property. Blansett is a defendant in a second lewdness case in which his codefendant is a convicted prostitute.

Zolicoffer is pictured above in a mug shot taken last year.

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/drone-footage-leads-to-prostitution-conviction-178394
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>>Brian Bates, the anti-prostitution avenger
what a tool...he needs to get a real job and a life
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>>34763
>what a tool...he needs to get a real job and a life
Says the 4chan NEET. Sheesh, millennials have no self-awareness.
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What a time to be alive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510958/How-viral-fame-killed-father-left-foster-care-friendless-Girl-meme-bullying-4chan-members-age-11-reveals-horrific-toll-Internet-family-six-years-later.html?ito=embedded


Anyone else remember Jessi Slaughter?
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>>34526
yes interesting times.
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>>34526
She still looks like a meme
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Yes I remember, Good old times.
We are the assholes of the internet

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/science/new-york-climate-change-inquiry-into-exxon-adds-prosecutors.html

>More government officials are asking what Exxon Mobil knew about climate change.

>Attorneys general from Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands announced Tuesday that they would join Eric T. Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, in his investigation into whether Exxon Mobil lied in decades past to investors and the public about the threat of climate change.

>The additional participation was announced during a news conference at Mr. Schneiderman’s offices in Lower Manhattan announcing support from 15 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands for the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.

>Attorneys general from Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, Connecticut and the Virgin Islands, as well as former Vice President Al Gore, attended the event.

>While none of the other officials present, aside from Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Claude Walker of the Virgin Islands, announced inquiries of their own, Mr. Schneiderman said, “not every investigation gets announced at the outset.”
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>Mr. Schneiderman began his investigation in November. His staff is looking at whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks — some as recently as last year — conflicted with the company’s own scientific research.

>Part of that inquiry includes the company’s funding, for at least a decade, of outside groups that worked to dispute climate science, even as its in-house scientists were describing the possible consequences of climate change, along with the areas of uncertainty.

>The company has supplied thousands of documents in response to the inquiry. While the inquiry could be expanded to include other energy companies and trade organizations, none have been named so far.

>Many legal experts have questioned whether the actions and statements by Exxon Mobil can be construed as criminal and outside the protections of the First Amendment.

>Mr. Schneiderman said, “The First Amendment, ladies and gentlemen, does not give you the right to commit fraud.”

>The attorneys general have a range of laws to work with, including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. Mr. Schneiderman has statutes specific to New York, including the Martin Act, which gives the government broad investigative powers; laws allowing the state to take action against “persistent fraud or illegality”; and the state’s deceptive business and trade practices act.
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>Mr. Schneiderman reached a settlement last year with the coal giant Peabody Energy over that company’s financial statements and disclosures with regard to climate change.

>In terms of the current investigation, Mr. Schneiderman said, “It’s too early to say what we’re going to find.” He added, “We intend to work as aggressively as possible, but also as carefully as possible.”

>California started its own investigation into Exxon Mobil this year, but no other state had announced it was joining the effort until Tuesday. States can share information under agreements of confidentiality, and speculation has grown that Mr. Schneiderman has been working to bring other attorneys general into the New York investigation.

>Last year, Inside Climate News and The Los Angeles Times published articles from Exxon Mobil archives describing the company’s research into the risks of climate change. An activist uproar ensued, complete with a popular Twitter hashtag: #ExxonKnew.
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>Suzanne McCarron, Exxon Mobil’s vice president for public and government affairs, said accusations against the company “are politically motivated and based on discredited reporting by activist organizations.”

>She added, “We are actively assessing all legal options.”

>The accusations, she said, are based on the “preposterous” claim that the company “reached definitive conclusions about anthropogenic climate change before the world’s experts” and withheld it. The company, she noted, shared its findings in peer-reviewed publications.

>The company “recognizes the risks posed by climate change,” she said, and added, “the investigations targeting our company threaten to have a chilling effect on private sector research.”

>At the news conference, Mr. Gore drew an analogy to the actions taken during the Clinton administration against the tobacco industry, which denied risks of its products for decades, and noted that state attorneys general had been crucial to that effort. “I do think the analogy may hold up rather precisely,” he said.

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>Japan’s prison system is being driven to budgetary crisis by demographics, a welfare shortfall and a new, pernicious breed of villain: the recidivist retiree. And the silver-haired crooks, say academics, are desperate to be behind bars.
>Crime figures show that about 35 per cent of shoplifting offences are committed by people over 60. Within that age bracket, 40 per cent of repeat offenders have committed the same crime more than six times.
>There is good reason, concludes a report, to suspect that the shoplifting crime wave in particular represents an attempt by those convicted to end up in prison — an institution that offers free food, accommodation and healthcare.

>The geriatric crime wave is accelerating, and analysts note that the Japanese prison system — newly expanded and at about 70 per cent occupancy — is being prepared for decades of increases. Between 1991 and 2013, the latest year for which the Ministry of Justice publishes figures, the number of elderly inmates in jail for repeating the same offence six times has climbed 460 per cent.
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Is life that shitty in Japan?
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>>34582
Phillipenes has it worse.
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>>34582
What is do life?

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nobody seems to care about it. innocent people are dying in turkey because of their government. what do you think about it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ankara_bombings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2016_Ankara_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2016_Ankara_bombing
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/istanbul-taksim-square-area-hit-explosion-160319091702737.html
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US needs to have their bases back in Turkey so they won't provoke their government. It's in our best interests to be friendly to their government in order to bomb the shit out of Iraq again.
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They are terrible, but the government is not to blame. These are cowardly terrorists who target innocents.
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check out this crazy idiot redneck Donald Trump supporter that wants to kill all the MUSLIMS. here is a link to the video:
https://youtu.be/yaFNxV-OJK0

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>http://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/472138377/to-reduce-gun-violence-potential-offenders-offered-support-and-cash?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

>Not long ago, the city of Richmond, Calif., was considered one of the most dangerous cities in America

>But today, the city of about 100,000 residents is called a national model for reducing gun violence. Many cities around the country are adopting their unconventional strategy to prevent violence —– which includes paying potential criminals to stay out of trouble.

Goes on describing the program, they basically hire ex convicts to talk to potential convicts often and if/when they engage in gun violence they provide them with monetary support, counseling and other social services

It's partially paid for by city and private investors.
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>>34992
Of course extortion works.
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>Aliviating...

They should try paying you guys to learn to spell too...
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>>35009
I'm on mobile, sorry.

I know how annoying it is to see this shit.

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http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2016/02/26/tokyo-police-man-filmed-costumed-teen-girls-engaged-in-sex/

>TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Thursday announced the arrest of a 25-year-old company employee after he allegedly filmed illicit acts performed by teenage girls and distributed the footage, reports the Asahi Shimbun (Feb. 25).

You'd think they'd give the man a goddamn medal considering how underpopulated Japan will be soon.
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>1763.45 USD per month salary
Is that liveable in Tokyo?
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>>34602
It's not uncommon for companies to provide housing for their employees in Tokyo so if that's the case, yes.
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>>34599
>underpopulated
It's fucking overpopulated by now with housing prices through the fucking roof. 40 million people live in the Tokyo metropolitan area alone. The declining population is a good thing, and the economy will stablise along with the population.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/27/national/science-health/jaxa-says-communication-link-x-ray-astronomy-satellite-lost/

>JAXA says communication link with X-ray astronomy satellite has been lost

>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Sunday it has experienced trouble communicating with a newly launched X-ray astronomy satellite since Saturday afternoon, making it difficult for the agency to ascertain its condition.

>The Hitomi satellite, which was called the Astro-H until its successful launch on a Japanese rocket in mid-February, could be experiencing a power shortage after an unexpected shift in its position may have rendered it unable to draw on solar power, it said.

>The satellite is supposed to be orbiting about 580 km (360 miles) above the Earth’s surface, but JAXA said the satellite may also have deviated from its intended path.

>The agency is trying to re-establish communications with the satellite, but if the situation persists, it will be unable to start astronomy observations, scheduled to begin during the summer. The agency was calibrating equipment on the satellite when it ran into problems.

>“We are taking this situation very seriously,” Saku Tsuneta, director of the agency’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said at a news conference, adding that he does not know at this point whether a communication link can be re-established.
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Better article:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/27/japan-loses-contact-with-newest-space-telescope/

>On Saturday, Japan lost contact with its newest space telescope, called Hitomi or ASTRO-H. The telescope, which includes an instrument from NASA, was intended to study the high-energy universe in X-rays and gamma rays, and observe such objects as supermassive black holes and galaxy clusters.

>Radar observations Sunday indicated that Hitomi, which launched on February 17, is in at least five pieces—and a plot of its orbit revealed a dramatic change on March 26, the date JAXA lost contact with the spacecraft.

>That means, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that some kind of “energetic event” has occurred—something more than a simple failure of communications.

>“Loss of comm + orbit change + radar detecting 5 pieces of debris is much worse than just loss of comm,” tweeted McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

>It’s not clear exactly what has happened on board Hitomi. Scientists are currently investigating the situation, and JAXA reports that it has gotten a trickle of a signal from the spacecraft. That means it’s possible the five pieces detected by radar are things like insulation, rather than large chunks of debris resulting from a catastrophic explosion; it’s also possible the spacecraft is tumbling, McDowell says, and that signals from Hitomi are periodically sweeping across the Earth.
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>Still, despite all the bad news, the spacecraft might not be lost.

>“I truly have not given up hope,” McDowell says, noting that equally bad space situations in the past have been successfully resolved. “We lost contact with SOHO for months and fully recovered it. ALEXIS had a solar panel break loose and was tumbling, but they learnt how to fly it and began science mission a couple months late. So it’s a long shot — and I refuse to put a number on the probability—but there is precedent for things being this bad and it turning out OK.”

>JAXA is no stranger to second chances. Late last year, the Japanese space agency managed to place its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus, after failing on the first try. When Akatsuki originally tried to orbit Earth’s twisted sister, a valve broke and sent the spacecraft on a long, 5-year journey through the solar system. But, eventually, Akatsuki caught up with its target and slipped into Venus’ gravitational clutches.
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>>34553
Aren't we seeing right here a classic case of flying retired satellites ,such as glonass, that may have collapsed with the Astro, I mean, that would explain the scattering of pieces and the change in the travel orbit

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