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Sydney's 1994 bushfire did, in fact, kill a young woman. But the death of strangers does not press on people for long. A killer fire will probably hit Sydney in due course, but not yet. The fires cause millions of dollars worth of damage, but if it was not your house that went up in smoke you hardly notice the personal cost of small increases in insurance premiums and the artful ploys of the state government to raise more revenue.
For most Sydney people I think there is a sensuous thrill in living under a red-black sky for a week or two, experiencing near-darkness at noon, breathing in lightly smoked air and seeing ashes accumulate in the pool. It's a toss-up who gets the greater thrill when hostesses call guests to cancel Sunday lunch invitations because "it's getting a bit hairy out our way".
The telling of post-fire war stories approaches Sydney ceremonial. To stand on the verandah, tracing with extended arm the path of the circle of fire that almost engulfed you, is richly satisfying. If you are lucky enough to live along the myriad inlets and bays of the Hawkesbury estuary, with the Kuringai or Brisbane Waters National Parks at your back, you can keep discussion going into the fourth bottle of chenin blanc about how you sent the women and children to safety in the boat, then joined your neighbours in battling rampaging nature through the night and beyond.
The coming of CNN and the internet means that even those of us who cower in the very bosom of civilisation, kilometres from rampaging nature, get a look in as resistance fighters. Overseas friends, seeing Sydney engulfed, call and ask anxiously how you are. As well as can be expected, you gruffly imply. You would be dangerously out of synch with the zeitgeist by following Galbraith and conceding that you were pretty much enjoying it.
Its bushfires are, in their way, helping to define Sydney. This is a big city that has actual bushfires. Where else sets itself alight at frequent intervals? Los Angeles, of course. But would LA really appreciate its bushfires, as Sydney does, without the additional frisson of movie stars fleeing the flames in their nighties, and celebs watching mega-multimillion dollars of their possessions going up in smoke?
Sydney takes its bushfires straight, and giving the finger to nature at its most wrathful is widely seen as enhancing the New World raffishness Sydneysiders like to detect in themselves.
Also to be considered is the intrinsic attractiveness of near-wilderness in the city. This is not a subject that comes easily to my consideration. My favourite city parks are Central, Hyde and Meiji, groomed, non-representational renditions of nature under the tight control of civilisation at its most polished in New York, London and Tokyo. I also like patios. The patio is an affront to nature. Freud surely enjoyed them.
But I have to concede that, several years ago, I took some enjoyment from a ravine at the end of an urban street where I then lived. It was seven or eight metres deep, pretty narrow and contained a stream, a small waterfall and other chunks of, well, nature, much of it deviantly alien–great thickets of lantana, for instance. My children loved the ravine, and I was not immune to the thrill of slithering down its side into an environment radically different from the mowed-lawn one I had just left.
The difficulty of extending this analogy is that access to most of Sydney's 38,000 hectares of national park is much more difficult than it was to my neighbourhood ravine. The National Parks and Wildlife Service provides in two volumes a detailed guide to 168 bush walks inside the parks of "the Sydney area" but admits that "most walks are intended for walkers of some experience".
Dodderers and blunderers–and the merely short-winded–keep out? Probably so. It is impossible to determine the number of people who make use of New South Wales's national parks because the NPWS counts as users anybody who drives through those parks that contain major arterial roads. The road through the Royal National Park, most of which is within the Sydney metropolis, is virtually a commuter route from the coast to the city–that is, when the park is not on fire. It was almost totally burnt out in both 1994 and 2002.
THE MOTTO of the NPWS twenty or so years ago was "Parks for the people". Today this would be considered heresy. The present motto is "Our environment, a living thing". The policy is one of exclusion of people, presumably out of fear that civilians might brutalise this living thing. It is as if the armies of the NPWS have invaded and occupied 5.3 million hectares of New South Wales, driving out hostiles. When nature reserves ("small areas of special scientific interest") were brought into being in 1999, the NPWS lobbied vehemently, but unsuccessfully, for the removal of the word enjoy from the legislation–this being thought by a majority of the lawmakers to be a good thing for the public to do in respect of nature reserves.
I had my own somewhat unnerving experience of the NPWS's exclusion policy a couple of years ago when, with time to spare, I decided to drive from Melbourne to Sydney over the mountains. Progress along the good roads of Victoria's Alpine Way was a pleasure. But when we crossed into New South Wales, whose Snowy Mountains are on a grander scale, and more picturesque, paving to drive on soon ended and deep ruts and protruding boulders took over. Worse, we came often to Y-junctions–not recorded on our small-scale map–that bore no signposts. Which way to go was entirely our call. The sense of being unwelcome to the Kosciusko National Park was strong. We might now be skeletons in a mouldering Ford had it not been for my wife's country girl instinct for compass direction.
The NPWS's sense of ownership has made it negligent–out of reluctance to damage "habitats"–about controlled burning-off of eucalypt undergrowth–the traditional and, in fact, virtually only way of guarding against bushfires running out of control. For all the Service's protestations and scattering around of irrelevant statistics, this is incontrovertible. It burnt off 19,000 hectares in 2000-01, less than half as much as it did in 1994-95, despite having brought thousands of additional hectares under its control. An anecdote will linger: three years in a row, scheduled burn-offs in the north-western corner of Sydney were called off because they threatened the habitats of purportedly rare frogs and the breeding grounds of relatively commonplace cockatoos. In the event, runaway fire wiped out these areas anyway, damage to human habitation being prevented by prodigious firefighting effort.
We of the Premier State need no reminder of this. Carr has established his own Kyoto Protocol and ordered electricity suppliers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 14 per cent on 2000-01 levels by the middle of this decade. My electricity bills now state the quantity of fossil fuels consumed in order to feed my habits, and invite me to consider installing solar-powered devices. No argument is offered as to why I should care or act. I share George W. Bush's uncertainty about the causes and effects of slight global warming.
Carr seemed uncharacteristically rattled when he returned hurriedly to Sydney from an overseas jaunt and found his state on fire for the second time in less than eight years. He blamed it all on firebugs and said heavier jail sentences were needed for arsonists. Possibly jail alone was too good for them. They should also be made to confront people whose property had been destroyed (and, implicitly, bereaved relatives, if any, of fire victims).
In response to this, the Daily Telegraph committed the grave error for a tabloid of excessive ingenuity. It ran a front page of blacked-out heads of twenty-one accused arsonists under the headline "21 LUCIFERS". Close scrutiny revealed that twelve of these devils were fifteen or younger, the youngest only nine. Many if not most of the arsonists appeared to have started big fires inadvertently with small fires. The father of one took strong offence to Carr's threat of doom for his son. The Director of Public Prosecutions came out with an unequivocal declaration that existing penalties for arson were adequate. Carr's fighting words about arsonists suffered quick public identification as a smokescreen, so to speak.
Carr's environment minister Bob Debus fared no better when he asserted that greater use of burn-offs would have made no difference to the state's bushfire assault. As he spoke, fire brigades were frantically burning off in an effort to halt advancing walls of out-of-control flame.
Also lacking sincerity, in my view, was the Carr government's abrupt decision to place authority for all decisions about hazard reduction (that is, burning off) in the hands of Rural Fire Services Commissioner Phil Koperberg. Effective and noticeable in the field every few years, Koperberg is a public servant who has shown no capacity or desire, between fires, to override Greens, local councils, the NPWS or anybody–certainly not the Premier or any of his closer associates. A more complex man than Koperberg would surely be reflecting on the role of the scapegoat in public life.
As a Sydney dweller, I have no confidence in his ability to protect my city from the fires–nor me personally, should I be so reckless as to move to an outer suburb. Who would support Koperberg if he chose controversially to burn off part of the Lane Cove River Park that was home to a distinctive family of bogong moths? Hardly anybody. The meekness of the public in accepting media and official statements about suburbia encroaching on the bush is astonishing. Surely the bush is encroaching on suburbia. Nature is menacingly intruding on civilisation.
There's no sense to the NPWS's administering its holdings in Sydney the same way it does its Snowy Mountains parks. For tiny instance, it is against the law to play ball games in Kosciusko. I suppose you might fall on a valuable toad in diving for a slips catch. But it is effrontery to run the same regulation across the Sydney area, where a million or so people want to play ball games in their parks.
If Carr wishes to pursue his green dream, he would be wise to have the NPWS relinquish its claims on the Sydney area–where there are too many scrutinising eyes for his comfort–and put the national parks (and nature reserves) there in the hands of an entirely separate, relatively Greens-free, metropolitan authority whose brief would be to defend civilisation. Nature would receive a fair go, because it is popular, but not a free ride. If bulldozers were needed for defence against nature's rapacity–a hundred-metre gap between bush and house is, for example, considered a minimum safety barrier to fire–the bush would have to go, not the house.
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An Unexpected Cause of a Subcutaneous Nodule: A Case Report of Dirofilaria Infection
Bruno Man-Hon Cheung ,1 Yi-Lan Huang,2 Yie-Wen Lin,3 Yung-Sen Chang,4 and Shian-Min Liu5
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Tainan Municipal Hospital, No. 670, Chung Te Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
2Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Municipal Gangshan Hospital, No. 12, Shou-Tian Road, Kaohsiung City 820, Taiwan
3Office of Deputy Superintendent, Tainan Municipal Hospital, No. 670, Chung Te Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
4Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
5Department of Pathology, Tainan Municipal Hospital, No. 670, Chung Te Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
Academic Editor: S. Yazar
Received18 Aug 2011
Accepted09 Oct 2011
Published15 Jan 2012
Humans are not natural hosts of Dirofilaria; however, pulmonary or subcutaneous infections may occur through mosquitoes transmission. Patients presenting with simple subcutaneous nodules may not seek early medical attention, and hence systemic involvement through hematogenous spread may occur. Definitive diagnosis of Dirofilaria infection is made by histopathological examinations of the infected tissues. We report a patient with an incidental diagnosis of Dirofilaria infection confirmed by histopathological findings of a subcutaneous nodule on the right thigh. The source of infection remains unknown.
Dirofilariasis is caused by a zoonotic filarial nematode. It is transmitted to humans by Culex, Aedes, or Anopheles mosquitoes, which ingest blood-containing microfilaria from affected dogs, cats, or raccoons. The filariae, also known as the "heartworm", lodge in the right ventricle and pulmonary arteries of hosts, causing dyspnea and anemia. It is most commonly seen in tropical and subtropical areas, and canine infection is more common in southern Europe [1–3]. Human dirofilariasis is rare. It usually presents with nodular lesions in the lung, subcutaneous tissues, peritoneal cavity, or eyes. Dirofilaria does not mature into fully gravid worms in humans. Reported cases of Dirofilaria infection in humans included two species, Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens [3–14] and all were diagnosed by histopathological examinations of specimen biopsied from the infected tissues.
A 46-year-old, previously healthy women presented with a subcutaneous nodule at her right thigh for 4 months. The nodule enlarged gradually. Physical examination showed a well-defined, elastic, nontender, immovable, and oval-shaped nodule about 2 centimeters in diameter at the medial side of her right thigh. Initial impression was an atheroma or subcutaneous cyst. Soft tissue sonography showed that the nodule was adherent to the epithelia (Figure 1). Although the clinical characteristics of this nodule implied that it is benign in nature, excision of the nodule was performed due to its gradually enlarging size. An encapsulated nodule around 2.2 cm in diameter was resected. Unexpectedly, pathological examination revealed Dirofilaria infection (Figures 2 and 3). Chest X-ray showed no abnormal pulmonary nodules. Hemogram found no eosinophilia. As for the contact history, the patient has a 6-month-old pet dog, but has no contributory travel or contact history. We did blood tests on the pet dog for two times, but there was no evidence of dirofilariasis. At followup, the patient had no recurrence or newly onset nodular lesions in the skin or the lungs.
A subcutaneous nodule was detected by sonogram. Size: 1 0 . 3 × 1 0 mm. Depth: 11.3 mm.
Microscopic view of cross-sections of the nematode (hematoxylin and eosin stain, original magnification 125x).
Most human cases of dirofilariasis have been reported in America, Japan, and India [5–9, 11, 14]. In Taiwan, Huang et al. reported a case of dirofilariasis presenting with a subcutaneous nodule [15], and Tsung and Liu reported a case with a pulmonary nodule [16]. According to Wu's report, the estimated incidence of canine dirofilariasis in dogs older than 2 years of age is around 25% in Taiwan, which is higher than that of 10 years ago [17]. The highest incidence rate is in Nantou County in mid-Taiwan, up to 41% [17]. Lai et al. found that in mid-Taiwan, Aedes albopictus is more efficient at transmitting dirofilariae than Culex quinquefasciatus, but Culex quinquefasciatus is still the main source of transmission [18]. Our patient resides in Kaohsiung City of southern Taiwan and had no travel history. Her pet dog was only 6 months old and had no evidence of Dirofilaria infection. Therefore, the exact source of infection remains unknown in this patient.
Patients seldom seek medical help for a subcutaneous nodule other than for cosmetic concerns [3, 14]. Most subcutaneous nodules are benign [19]. Unless the nodules are situated at lymph nodes or are adjacent to major vessels such as the femoral arteries and veins, or major vessels of the neck, sonography is not routinely performed before surgical excision. By sonography, distinction between subcutaneous lipomas and epidermal cyst can be made. Subcutaneous lipomas are usually separated from the epidermis by a layer of subcutaneous tissue, while epidermal cysts usually are directly adjacent to the epidermis. The sonographic image of our patient resembled an atheroma [19] rather than a subcutaneous lipoma. However, the exact composition of the nodule could not be clearly identified solely by sonography. Histopathological examination remains the gold standard to confirm the diagnosis.
Human Dirofilaria infection, whether presenting as subcutaneous nodules, pulmonary nodules, pelvic cavity nodules, or nodules in the eye, must be diagnosed by histopathological examinations of the infected tissues. Eosinophilia is found occasionally [3]. For lung or pelvic cavity nodules, extensive survey is usually required to differentiate other diseases such as eosinophilic granuloma (histiocytosis X), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, Wegener' granulomatosis, primary malignant tumors, echinococcosis, histoplasmosis, hookworm infection, or Ascariasis [20]. Fortunately, our patient presented with a solitary subcutaneous nodule without eosinophilia or other organ involvement. There was no evidence of disease recurrence after complete resection of the nodule.
Dirofilariae are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes and may lodge in the lung, subcutaneous tissue, pelvic cavities, or eyes. It has been proven that canine dirofilariasis and mosquitoes capable of Dirofilaria transmission do exist in Taiwan. Experience from this case suggests that dirofilariasis should be considered as a differential diagnosis in patients presenting with subcutaneous nodular lesions, especially in those with relevant travel or contact history suggestive of Dirofilaria infection.
The authors report no conflict of interest.
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Naked Massacre
Evident by the lurid, nonsensical title most likely slapped on the final print by seedy exhibitors or greedy theater owners, Naked Massacre aims for the profound but falls victim to the basest of genre trappings.
Part character study and part exploitation film, Naked Massacre advertises itself as a dramatization of the infamous Richard Speck killings. Speck was an American mass murderer in the sixties who killed six female nurses during a home invasion.Only loosely inspired by the case, the film changes the locale from Chicago to Ireland and gives the Naked Massacre film an exciting backdrop of a war-torn country besieged by the IRA. The switch sets Naked Massacre apart from similarly themed movies like Last House on the Left and Last House on the Beach.
The main character of the film, not named Richard Speck though they share many similarities, is a Vietnam vet trying to return to the United States. Surprisingly for a movie of this ilk, the film spends more time with the killer than with his victims; the nurses are non-entities drawn in broad strokes. The most recognizable actress, Carole Laure, is best known for her role in Sweet Movie, a Yugoslavian film much more successful in blending socio-political statements with explicit sex and violence. Once the killing starts Naked Massacre devolves into a nasty grindhouse film. Scenes where our main character terrorizes a pregnant victim or forces a woman to perform oral sex on another cross the line of good taste and belittles the measured film that came before it. Though admittedly flawed, Naked Massacre is worth a look and deserves a broader audience.
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Q: Tensorflow: Repeat(tile) elements of a Tensor I have an input tensor as follow:
a = tf.constant([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]])

and the 'multiple' tensor:
mul= tf.constant([1, 3, 2])

Is it possible to tile a 3D tensor with the first element of a appears once, the second appears 3 times, the last element appears twice?
result = [
             [[1, 2, 3]],
             [[4, 5, 6],[4, 5, 6],[4, 5, 6]],
             [[7, 8, 9], [7, 8, 9]]
                                   ]

Tensorflow 0.12
Thank you very much.

A: No, this is not possible. Read about tensors and shapes from the docs.
To understand why it is not possible imagine the matrix that has different number of elements in each row. It will clearly be not a matrix.

A: You can use numpy
import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf
a = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]])
mul = np.array([1,3,2])
result = []
for i in range(len(mul)):
  result.append(np.tile(a[i], (mul[i], 1)))
result = np.array(result)

A: I am sure you cannot have non-rectangular tensors in tensorflow. That is what is causing the problem. Otherwise I just extended the code of @Kris to run wholly on tensorflow.
import tensorflow as tf

sess = tf.InteractiveSession()

a = tf.constant([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]])
mul = tf.constant([1,3,2])
result = []
for i in range(3):
  result.append(tf.tile(a[i],[mul[i]]))
print([r.eval() for r in result])
#r_tensor = tf.stack(0,[r for r in result]) # Not possible

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Q: How to get the distance of two point geometry in meters using NetTopologySuite? How to get the distance of two point geometry in meters using NetTopologySuite.
I have used the Distance() function, but I'm getting some values and I couldn't identify the unit of those values. Its for a c# application to neglect the tolerance value of 20 meters to be ignored.
using NetTopologySuite.Geometries;
using GeoAPI.Geometries;

private static double findistance()
{
   var geomFactory = new GeometryFactory(new PrecisionModel(), 4326);
   IGeometry geometry1 = geomFactory.CreatePoint(new Coordinate(12.977299, 77.571075));
   IGeometry geometry2 = geomFactory.CreatePoint(new Coordinate(12.977277, 77.571258));
   var distance = geometry1.Distance(geometry2);
   return distance;
}

I need to get the distance calculated in meters.

A: Per docs, SRID 4326 stands for definition below
GEOGCS["WGS 84",
  DATUM["WGS_1984",
    SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
  PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
  UNIT["degree",0.01745329251994328,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
  AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]

UNIT["degree"... tells us that the result you are getting has values in degrees. We can calculate distance in meters, if we transform these points into Projected Coordinated system. ProjNET4GeoAPI package could do that for us.
private static double findDistance()
{
    CoordinateTransformationFactory ctfac = new CoordinateTransformationFactory();

    var from = GeographicCoordinateSystem.WGS84;
    var to = ProjectedCoordinateSystem.WebMercator;

    var trans = ctfac.CreateFromCoordinateSystems(from, to);
    var mathTransform = trans.MathTransform;

    var p1Coordinate = new GeoAPI.Geometries.Coordinate(12.977299, 77.571075);
    var p2Coordinate = new GeoAPI.Geometries.Coordinate(12.977277, 77.571258);

    p1Coordinate = mathTransform.Transform(p1Coordinate);
    p2Coordinate = mathTransform.Transform(p2Coordinate);

    return p1Coordinate.Distance(p2Coordinate);
}

A: you can use the Pythagoras theorem to calculate the distance.
Here are the steps:

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*Get Deltas

*

*double int deltaX = Math.Abs(point1.X - point2.X);

*double int deltaY = Math.Abs(point1.Y - point2.Y);

*Pythagoras formula

*

*double distance = Math.Sqrt((deltaX * deltaX) + (deltaY * deltaY));

If you want to calculate a 3D point it is the same steps except calculate the DeltaZ and then the formula is distance = X^2 + Y^2 + Z^2


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The Norca Pin-Up was a small 35mm camera made from about 1946 by FAP, a French company that also made the Norca. According to Vial, it was first announced as the Norca PM (for Petit Modèle, "small model"), then as the Atomic. It was based on the bakelite body of the Rower, a prewar French camera inspired by the Universal Univex A. It is not sure if the Rower was also made by FAP, see the Rower page.
The Norca Pin-Up had more metal parts than the Rower or the Univex A. It used normal perforated 35mm film in special 12 exposure cassettes. There was an exposure counter in the advance knob, and a rigid optical finder mounted to the side of the body. The lens was a FAP Anastigmat 50/3.5 and the shutter was only marked NORCA on the metal rim. According to Vial, it was an Atos I from 1/10 to 1/300. The same lens and shutter combination has also been observed on a Norca B camera.
The Norca Pin-Up was offered in 1948 by Manufrance, a French distributor, with a f/3.5 lens and a 10-300 shutter. Accessories offered were void cassettes, preloaded cassettes, hood, filter and daylight film loader.
Vial, Bernard. Histoire des appareils français. Période 1940–1960. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1980, re-impressed in 1991. ISBN 2-86941-156-1.
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Pin-Up, home made camera using Pin-Up parts on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
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Kyla Mandel Editor of Desmog UK has been investigating the hidden contriving between shady fossil fuel lobbyists, prominent climate deniers, secretive think tanks, false news propagandists and government figures to subvert the unprecedented global consensus to tackle climate change of the Paris Agreement signed last year to achieve a crucial reduction in global warming.
Let's face it, Donald Trump could pull out of the Paris climate deal any day now and the UK could soon be left without any European environmental regulation backstop. In the blink of an eye both countries could hurtle back to when fossil fuels were king, the air was dirty, and climate targets were just a figment of hippies' imaginations rather than the backdrop to smart business deals.
Just 13 months after 195 nations agreed the landmark climate accord to curb global warming, you could be forgiven for wondering 'how the hell did we get here?'.
The Paris climate deal has long been in Trump's cross-hairs, and now efforts are rapidly ramping up in Britain – a country with a long record of climate leadership – to push for the US to ditch the deal during the critical first few weeks of Trump's presidency.
To better understand this renewed attack against the climate agreement, and what it might actually mean if Trump decides to withdraw from it, it's important to recognise the coordinated efforts to derail climate action, and those at the forefront of this push.
Climate science deniers on both sides of the Atlantic are working in concert to whip up a media storm to spread doubt and misinformation amongst the public about climate science.
Let's start with Myron Ebell's visit to Europe. Until recently Ebell has remained mostly behind the scenes working for the Washington D.C.-based libertarian think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) as director of energy and environment. The CEI is known for its climate science denial and being funded by Exxon and other groups tied to the fossil fuel industry.
But in November, Ebell was thrust into the spotlight (perhaps somewhat reluctantly judging by his lackluster media appearances) when he was picked to lead Trump's transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Fast-forward to January, and Ebell is making headlines in the UK saying Trump "will definitely" pull out of the Paris Agreement. He then appears at a press conference in London on 29 January hosted by UK climate science denying think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) to repeat this same message.
There's one hitch though — he is no longer part of the administration. And during the press conference he even admitted to never having met Trump or spoken with him. So how much weight do his claims to know what Trump will do really hold?
The next day, Ebell was photographed leaving Number 10 Downing Street. What he was there to discuss isn't clear, but it paints a picture of high-power access. What we do know is that since he is not part of the Trump administration anymore, this means the UK Government met him solely in his capacity as a member of CEI. This serves to further entrench the US-UK climate science denier ties to both administrations as first documented by DeSmog UK.
Ebell then took his anti-expert rhetoric to Brussels. The EU is another negotiating bloc known for its leadership on climate change. And Ebell's message was not well received. Senior conservatives wasted no time in criticising his attacks on scientific expertise.
Former UK energy minister Greg Barker pleaded with Ebell to "please, please stop trashing experts. It is an incredibly dangerous thing to do", while EU climate chief Jos Debelke rejected Ebell's calls to ignore scientific expertise saying "the evidence brought to the table by scientists is absolutely important" for formulating rational, evidence-based policy decisions.
Undeterred by Ebell's frosty reception, the attacks continue. The next big push against the Paris Agreement came on 5 February with an article by David Rose in the Mail on Sunday. The piece claimed to have found "astonishing evidence" that a scientific paper based on "flawed" evidence, that was apparently never shared, was "rushed" in order to influence the landmark Paris climate change negotiations.
But almost immediately after publishing, the article's many misleading claims were being called out online by scientists and international climate negotiators. A thorough debunking was published by Berkeley climate scientist Zeke Hausfather on Carbon Brief, who said the claims were "so wrong it's hard to know where to start".
As it turns out, the editor of Science, where the paper was published, told Rose that "any suggestion that the review of this paper was 'rushed' is baseless and without merit", and that the paper "underwent particularly rigorous peer review". But by then the Mail on Sunday's fake climate conspiracy had made its way around the Twitterverse, and was being echoed by key supporters such as Times columnist Matt Ridley, who sits on the academic advisory council of the GWPF, founded by former chancellor Nigel Lawson.
The misinformation made its way over the ocean and swiftly – almost too swiftly – into Congressional hearings on the future of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which is responsible for a lot of climate research in the US. House Science Committee chairman, and known climate science denier, Lamar Smith, said the article's so-called revelations justified his probe into NOAA.
These efforts are simultaneously calculated and clumsy. Built on a foundation of misinformation but treated as fact. And repeatedly echoed by far-right media outlets including Breitbart, the chief executive of which, Steve Bannon, is now Trump's right-hand man.
From day one Trump has surrounded himself with a cabal of climate science deniers and he himself has called for America to "cancel" the climate deal. Yet on the other hand, former Exxon CEO and newly appointed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently said the US should keep "a seat at the table" when it comes to international climate talks (while at the same time downplaying the responsibility of humans for causing the rising temperatures).
It's a strange world when a Big Oil man, who's foreign policy decisions appear to be in line with Exxon and Russia's oil interests, is the 'strongest' voice of support for the Paris climate deal within Trump's inner circle.
These mixed messages make it difficult to know which way the administration is leaning and even more difficult for those trying to implement policy or for investors looking towards the future.
One early hint at potential changes to come was seen on 3 February when the EPA quietly removed a reference to UN climate cooperation from its website.
But even if this network of climate science deniers gets its way it could still be hard for President Trump to immediately kill all the US's climate commitments.
As Client Earth explains: "The Paris Agreement is an international treaty and now that it has entered into force, it cannot simply be 'cancelled' by the United States. One nation cannot single-handedly destroy the deal.
So it seems that one option could simply be that Trump does nothing. He doesn't leave the deal but doesn't act on it either. This would have the added PR benefit from the administration's point of view of being able to cater to both sides; Trump would be able to say he decided to stick with the Paris Agreement while also demonstrating to his supporters that he is ignoring America's commitments under it.
Either way, it opens the floodgates for even more US fossil fuels to be pumped and burned into the atmosphere, with far-reaching and long-lasting international impacts.
It would also leave room for other countries to take up the climate leadership baton dropped by the US – an opportunity already being seized by China, the world's leading producer and consumer of renewable energy technologies.
But it's not a sealed deal – Britain recently reiterated its commitment to its Climate Change Act and the Paris Agreement in its Brexit whitepaper and Europe has said it will continue to lead on climate change despite any decisions taken by Trump.
It's still early days though and this emerging UK-US network of climate science deniers is using the political chaos created by referendums and elections as an opportunity to shape the outcome before the dust settles.
As new information, executive orders, and analysis continues to roll out hour after hour, day after day, things might feel like they're moving too quickly to predict what could happen next. But, beneath the surface, those with an interest in attacking the spirit of the climate agreement are steadily taking advantage of the frenzy floating above.
Glo-Bull Warming is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated in human history.
CO2 is not a pollutant and is necessary for photosynthesis which gives the atmosphere life sustaining oxygen.
Oil, coal and natural gas are organic.
To those fervent believers in the Cult of Glo-Bull Warming, do your part to reduce atmospheric CO2……………just stop exhaling.
Like all climate-change deniers, you have no understanding of the actual science behind it.
Yes, plants absorb CO2, but we've cut down so many trees and pumping so much CO2 into the air that we're we're producing more of it than they can absorb. Excess CO2 in the atmosphere traps heat just like the glass in a greenhouse, hence "greenhouse effect". Rising global temperatures are well documented, and the overwhelming majority of climate scientists are in agreement about its causes and effects.
Oil, coal and natural gas are organic compounds sure, but that's not the same meaning as the word "organic" when applied to fruit and veg. Dioxins are organic compounds, but just a few micrograms are lethal. Learn what words mean before using them to bolster your argument.
If you're going to join in the discussion, at least learn some actual facts, not the bullcrap touted by the anti-science lobby.
I wonder how much funding Desmog UK gets from George Soros? Like most NGO's with a leftist bent, you are delusional that the fossil fuel industry are conspiring to corrupt climate science. The shoe is on the other foot and it is becoming more obvious every year.
Randy, it's actually hilarious that you've just shared that 'source'. I doubt you can even see the irony.
"In association with David Icke dot com!" Well, as long as you're quoting such credible sources I'm sure you'll win this argument.


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SAA Championships: Panthers Extend First Place Leads
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham-Southern men's and women's swimming and diving teams extended their first place leads in the Southern Athletic Association Championships Friday night at the Birmingham CrossPlex. The Panthers combined for 10 top three finishes, including three championships to remain in first after day three of competition. The women are ahead of Rhodes College by 41 points, and the men lead Centre College by over 184 points.
The men went 1-2 in both the 400 IM and 200 freestyle. Luke Huffstutler (Odenville, Ala./Heritage Christian Academy) picked up another gold medal by winning the 400 IM in 4:05, shaving five seconds off his prelim time. Brady Coleman (Denham Springs, La./Denham Springs HS) finished in second just behind him at 4:06.
Nico Medina (Davie, Fla./American Heritage HS) took first in the 200 freestyle, just out-touching teammate Wil Barton (Memphis, Tenn./St. George's Independent School) by 0.06 seconds.
Noah Young (Clinton, Miss./Clinton HS) placed second in the 100 backstroke, and Caleb Riggs (Enterprise, Ala./Peninsula HS) finished third in the breaststroke.
The 200 medley relay team of Young, Riggs, Huffstutler and Will Retersdorf (Spring Hill, Tenn./Independence HS) earned the silver medal, touching in in 1:36.
On the women's side, Becca Erwin (Duluth, Ga./Duluth HS) earned another gold medal. She finished first in the 100 breaststroke ahead of the Rhodes swimmer by 0.31 seconds.
Kayla Canon (Arnold, Md./Blue Springs South HS) picked up the silver medal in the 100 backstroke and Jordan Ames (Birmingham, Ala./Spain Park HS) earned bronze in the 400 IM.
The BSC men head into the final day of competition with 672 points, with Centre in second at 487.5 points, and Rhodes in third place with 383.5 points. The women now have 583 points, with Rhodes in second with 542, and Centre in third with 517 points.
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Laura Haviland – An Abolitionist
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Statehood Era
An Anti-Slavery Society
In 1832, in a simple wood meetinghouse near Adrian, Michigan, the first anti-slavery society in Michigan was formed. Some of the people in this meeting were Quakers, a religious group that spoke out against slavery. One of the Quakers was Elizabeth Chandler.
Elizabeth wrote poems and articles that said slavery, the system by which people enslaved other people, was wrong. Local newspapers published her writing. She became good friends with Laura Haviland, another local Quaker, who also fought against slavery. Although Elizabeth died in 1834, Laura carried on the fight.
In addition to the anti-slavery society, Laura helped enslaved African-American's seeking freedom along the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses to help enslaved African-Americans reach freedom. She was a conductor, an individual who escorted or guided freedom seekers between stations or safe houses, along the route. She helped enslaved people, people forced to perform labor or services against their will, flee the south to safety in the north.
Travel to the South
Later in her life, Laura also traveled south to find enslaved people who had escaped and she brought them to Michigan. During those trips, she took careful notes about what she saw. She has horrified by how badly people were treated by enslavers, people who enslaved other people. She saw an enslaver whip two young boys because they had overslept.
Laura then returned to Michigan with the weapons that enslavers used to punish enslaved people. She brought a neck collar, knee stiffeners, handcuffs and leg irons back to Michigan with her. Laura showed the people of Michigan how terrible enslaved people were treated in the south.
Laura Haviland holding a knee straightener and a collar, items used as weapons against enslaved African-Americans.
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Statement Regarding Paul White
Thu 16 Jul 2015, 08:45 AM
Broncos' chief executive Paul White has advised the Board of the Brisbane Broncos that under medical advice he will be required to take a short leave of absence to seek treatment for a health issue.
Paul has advised the club board of the nature of his treatment and that he will be accepting the advice of his medical practitioners with the aim of returning to resume his duties in full in the near future.
Broncos' chairman Dennis Watt said the board was confident their chief executive would be able to work across the business during this time in an appropriate capacity with the full support of his executive leadership team.
"As always Paul remains strong, extremely positive and in a good health generally, and is determined to get the right health outcome," said Watt.
"This morning he addressed the Board, staff and players at the club to provide them with an update and reassure them about his upcoming treatment program.
"As stated previously, he will remain across all key business activities and decisions and has put the necessary plans in place with his management team and the board for this to occur.
"While Paul's absence is a significant event for the organisation, it is testament to his forward planning and risk management that the organisation has the capability to continue to execute the plan Paul and his team have outlined to the Board.
"This will allow the Brisbane Broncos to continue to perform both on and off the field."
White said his family had been touched by the outpouring of well wishes since the news of his illness had surfaced.
"My wife Angela, my four daughters and I have been overwhelmed with the messages of support and encouragement we have received," he said.
"In the past two weeks these messages have come from across Queensland and Australia, and also from the rugby league community overseas.
"We thank everyone for those positive wishes."


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Home Newsletters Daily Report PM Residents turn out to oppose Lakes at Legacy project
Residents turn out to oppose Lakes at Legacy project
More than 250 residents of Sherwood Forest and surrounding subdivisions attended a meeting Thursday night at St. Thomas More to voice concerns about a subdivision proposed for the former Sherwood Forest Country Club golf course.
Metro Councilman Matt Watson, whose district includes a small area that would potentially be impacted by the development, says opposition at the meeting appeared to be near-unanimous to the Lakes at Legacy, a 270-lot development that would require rezoning the neighborhood from A.1 residential to A.2.7 residential.
"At this point, it seems, the sentiment at the meeting was overwhelmingly negative toward this project," says Watson, who attended the meeting. "These folks were hit tremendously in the August 2016 flood by the overflow of Jones Creek, and you heard the word post traumatic stress more than a couple of times last night."
Residents are concerned about the potential impact of additional flooding that would come from adding more homes and filling in the golf course, even though engineers have said the development will include two retention ponds.
Residents have said they are also worried about increased traffic, already a problem in that area, and decreased property values. By rezoning the area to A.2.7, property developer Art Lancaster could develop smaller lots than is allowed under A.1.
"Our position is it stays A-1," says Phil Fetterman, who is active with the Sherwood Forest Citizens Association. "Why should we back down from that and allow them to go to A 2.7?"
Fetterman says the association is developing plans to mount a formal opposition to the project, which was originally to go before the Planning Commission later this month but has been deferred, at the developer's request, until September.
Lancaster did not return a call today seeking comment.
The 86-acre golf course has been closed since 2013. Current owner Randy Dornier, who acquired the property in 2012 with his sons, originally hoped to redevelop it into a tennis center but plans did not work out.
"I feel for the gentleman who owns the golf course, knowing he has dwindling income from it and therefore dwindling money for the upkeep," Watson says. "But this is not the solution"
Dornier has previously declined to comment on the plans.


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Dreaming of marvellous halls
Lenore Coltheart
If town halls in Australia are the capillaries of our democratic vitality, then Canberra's Albert Hall is the heart. Lenore Coltheart's history Albert Hall: The heart of Canberra tracks its pulse from the 1920s to today.
The 1920s were still roaring when Canberra became Australia's national capital and, if you know the right places, you can feel those first passions of the new city still. In March 1928, prime minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce declared open the city's 'town hall' – though as the national capital it could not really have one. Standing close by the brand new Parliament House, it was named Albert Hall, a place 'destined to be the centre for culture and learning and the embodiment of the great national ideal'.
That splendid opening day was the city's first civic celebration. Schoolchildren thronged the afternoon bazaar, among them Gough and Freda Whitlam, the twin daughters of the city's first realtor and all the toddlers transferred with their public servant families. In the evening, Sydney Conservatorium artists performed Puccini at a grand concert featuring items from the new opera Turandot. Within a decade, Australia's brand new Broadcasting Commission had begun a magnificent half-century of regional concert tours in which the Albert Hall was a keynote.
As in every twentieth-century town, Canberra's success depended on its people, but as a planned city practically everyone was a transplant. And not everyone was ready to be shaped to approved forms. You could see it at the Albert Hall, where the official attempt to outlaw jazz and alcohol and quiet the remnant roar of the 1920s instead stimulated subversive creativity, making gods of jazz musos as well as turning the Albert Hall's surrounding shrubbery into shadowy, al fresco speakeasys.
While the 'quiet tip' of the public service town made conformists of more than a few, the exceptions were all the more colourful. At the Albert Hall a repertory society offered a stage for elegant flappers, secret passions and lashings of light fare like The Unfair Sex and The Naughty Wife. Even more controversial, prompting Sunday sermons and weeks of letters to the editor, were more challenging contemporary works like feminist playwright Clemence Dane's A Bill of Divorcement.
The 'New Woman' of the interwar era was much in evidence at the Albert Hall, where an exhibition of women's work included not only a modern infant health clinic complete with real baby, but the model clubroom considered essential to women's participation in public life.
Town halls in Australia are symbolic of such civic, cultural and community vigour, the very capillaries of the democratic vitality that shows the health of a nation. Along with the schools of arts and mechanics institutes, town halls nourished us to nationhood, with thousands of meetings and fêtes and fora all feeding into the 1901 ceremonies of nationhood attained.
That vitality glowed in creating the nation's capital city too – a city that would be both mirror of the nation and inspiration to the world, with the ideals of civic democracy enshrined in its form and its daily life.
It's not nostalgia that makes this vivacity so appealing to us. Like Canberra itself, in Albert Hall are secreted the ideals of a vigorous civic democracy enlivened every day in the exchanges between people. So how's your town hall? Can you still call a town meeting there? Can local musicians put on a concert? Can community groups hold a fundraiser ball?
Albert Hall: The heart of Canberra by Lenore Coltheart is published by UNSW Press/NewSouth in December 2014. This is an edited excerpt from a speech by Dr Coltheart.
Dr Lenore Coltheart is an Australian historian and heritage consultant. She is the author of several books and has written extensively on Canberra.


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Since it's a specified string I don't see how to make it go to the Documents Folder on whatever OS language it's on. My solution so far is to hardcode a folder con the C like this: C:\CodedFolder\LookupFiles but I would like to know if there's another way around to this
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Гнойовик сінний, Панеоліна сінокісна (Panaeolina foenisecii) — вид грибів роду Панеоліна (Panaeolina). Сучасну біномінальну назву надано у 1933 році.

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Шапинка гриба дзвоникоподібна, 1-2 см. Її колір коричневий, світлішає до центру. Строкаті коричневі пластини прирослі до ніжки. Споровий порошок коричневий.

Життєвий цикл
Плодові тіла з'являються у липні - грудні.

Поширення та середовище існування
Росте на газонах у невисокій траві.

Практичне використання
Не їстівний. У деяких дослідженнях зазначають, що він містить психоактивні речовини.

Схожість
Гриб схожий на Laccaria laccata, Panaeolus cinctulus та Panaeolus olivaceus.

Галерея

Примітки

Джерела
 Panaeolina foenisecii // Mycobank.org, - CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Center Utrecht, 2016. -  URL
  Maire, R. 1933. Fungi Catalaunici: Contributions à l'étude de la Flore Mycologique de la Catalogne. :1-120
 E. Lawrence, S. Harniess Mushroom and other fungi. Identification guides British & European. // Flame tree publishing. London, 2007. — 384 p. — P. 256.

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Їстівні гриби

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NICU Tradition Spreads Holiday Cheer
After nighttime diaper changes and feedings, and once the last parent has left to return home for rest, Santa's elves are hard at work behind the doors of the Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). With the precision of an IV start and scissors in hand, they carefully cut through card stock, dab glue sticks and place shapes of hats, stars and gingerbread men. They are ready for the final touches that make their work one-of-a-kind each and every time, as they pull back blankets to reveal tiny, warm fingers and toes to dip in red and green paint. They are Santa's elves donning scrubs and a passion for caring for Hillcrest's smallest patients, spreading the spirit of the holidays amid beeping monitors and the bright neon blue cast of phototherapy bulbs.
"I've been a nurse in the NICU for 10 years," shares Misty Matheson, RN. "One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to do special things for parents of my patients."
"No one plans to have a baby in the NICU," adds Joanie Pierce, RN. "Making their stay just a little easier is something I work hard to do."
Misty and Joanie are among the NICU night shift nurses who transform the "hospital homes" for babies in the NICU during the holidays. Creating handmade cards as time allows between caring for their patients, their work to give parents a special holiday keepsake has become a tradition throughout the year. "We have provided holiday cards for each family every year that I have worked here," says Joanie, who has worked in the NICU 16 years. "While the process has evolved over the years, each holiday includes a photo theme and a handmade card with either footprints or handprints. The cards are handmade with scrapbook supplies and are usually made in advance by several of the staff members. Pictures and footprints are done in the few days before the holiday and then put in the cards."
"We like to have them at the bedsides the morning of the holiday for the parents," adds Misty, who understands how parents of babies in the NICU feel. "My daughter was in the NICU for 11 days and it was so hard. Some of these babies are in here for weeks or even months. I think these cards give the parents something to look forward to for the holidays."
Handmade for each baby's family, the NICU night shift nurses spend several nights creating the custom cards. Any given holiday, they may have 30 or more cards to make."These cards are a lot of work, but are a special memory that we get to give each family," says Joanie.
The morning of Christmas Day, Joanie, Misty and the NICU night shift nurses will have completed their shifts, leaving behind these gifts made with love next to each baby awaiting their parents' soon return. "I love hearing about their reactions to seeing the cards and seeing their posts on social media about how much they meant to them," adds Joanie.
"I like to think these parents will treasure these forever," says Misty.
Bottom photo: Kaitlyn Timmons holding the card she received when her daughter, Zoey, was in the NICU over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2013.


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Novel solar-microbial device harnesses sun and sewage to produce hydrogen
Collaboration between researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) resulted in development of a solar-microbial device that produces hydrogen gas and electricity using sunlight and wastewater as the only energy sources. By combining solar and microbial technology, it provides a sustainable energy source while improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment.
The device is composed of microbial fuel cell (MFC) and a type of solar cell called photoelectrochemical cell (PEC). The MFC is a bioelectrochemical system filled with electrogenic bacteria that are capable of moving electrons to solid phase materials including electrodes. Bacteria oxidize organic matter in the wastewater and then transfer the electrons to an electrode and generate electrical energy.
The MFC is a self-sustained bio-battery that provides extra voltage and energy to the PEC. The generated electricity is delivered to the PEC component to support the solar-powered splitting of water (electrolysis) that generates hydrogen and oxygen.
Both the PEC and MFC can be used alone in order to produce hydrogen gas. Unlike the MFC-PEC device that is self-sustained and self-driven, both PEC and MFC require a small additional voltage to overcome the thermodynamic energy barrier for proton reduction into hydrogen gas when used separately.
In the initial testing of the MFC-PEC device, the research team used a well-studied strain of electrogenic bacteria grown in the lab on artificial growth medium. They also used municipal wastewater which contains both rich organic nutrients and a diverse mix of microbes that feed on those nutrients, including naturally occurring strains of electrogenic bacteria.
According to the researchers, the MFC-PEC device showed continuous production of hydrogen gas at an average rate of 0.05 cubic meters per day. Simultaneously, the black wastewater became clearer. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) test, which is commonly used to indirectly measure the amount of organic compounds in water, showed decline in the amount of organic compounds by 67 percent over 48 hours.
Generation of hydrogen gas declined over time as the bacteria deplete the organic matter in wastewater, so researchers had to replenish wastewater in each feeding cycle.
"The successful demonstration of such a self-biased, sustainable microbial device for hydrogen generation could provide a new solution that can simultaneously address the need for wastewater treatment and the increasing demand for clean energy", said Yat Li, associate professor of chemistry at UCSC.
According to LLNL researcher Fang Qian, they are working to commercialize the MFC-PEC device. Their next goal is to scale up the device by making a 40-liter prototype which would be continuously fed with municipal wastewater. If results from the 40-liter prototype are promising, the research team will test the device on site at the wastewater treatment plant.
"The MFC will be integrated with the existing pipelines of the plant for continuous wastewater feeding, and the PEC will be set up outdoors to receive natural solar illumination", said Qian.
For more information, read the paper published in the journal ASC Nano: "Self-biased solar-microbial device for sustainable hydrogen generation".
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BOZEMAN — The Bozeman Icedogs dominated the Butte Cobras by a score of 10-0 on Friday night at the Hayes Pavilion in Bozeman.
Hazen McKay and Gage Blatter led the team in scoring with two goals each, and Luke Hartge started his Icedogs career with four assists after being traded recently from the Yellowstone Quake.
The Bozeman defense stifled the Cobras, allowing just 12 shots, while Bozeman goalie AJ Ruskowski earned his second shutout and seventh win of the season.
The Icedogs' next home game will be Feb. 8 against the top-ranked Great Falls Americans. That game will face off at 7:30 p.m.


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Russia's Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu speech at the Defence Ministry Board Session
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Today Moscow hosted the meeting of Defence Ministry Board Session chaired by the General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.
The attendees discussed issues associated with the implementation of the decrees of the President of Russia in May 2012 and 2018, and his instructions on the outcome of the meetings
in Sochi.
In particular, the implementation of the 2016-2020 plans years for land and engineering troops, as well as the Western Military District.
The Defence Minister drew attention to the growing momentum of the negative trend towards targeted increased military activity of the NATO in Eastern Europe.
"Strengthening of Russia as an independent international player does not give rest to our colleagues from the NATO," Sergei Shoigu said . –They are trying to prevent Russia from becoming geopolitical rival, even more that has allies".
This involves various institutions, including international, and many areas – politics, economics and even culture and sports.
"In these conditions we demonstrate openness, friendliness and absence of any aggression against other countries. The World Cup proved this point", said the Defence Minsiter.
Sergei Shoigu said that the Armed Forces in cooperation with other Federal agencies carried out a large volume of tasks to ensure the security of football matches and festivities in the cities. Among them — the air defence, engineering, radiation, chemical and biological intelligence, counter-sabotage and search & rescue support, radio technical control at sports venues and routes.
10,631 people and 2,186 units of armament and military equipment, including 32 ships and ship, 54 airplanes and 37 helicopters were involved.
719 thousand square meters of sea area were surveyed.
On the football arenas, fan zones and other places of mass presence of people unmanned aerial vehicles were prohibited to fly over.
Returning to the increasing military activity of NATO, Sergei Shoigu noted that, "while the foreign guests spoke enthusiastically about Russia and has disproved the myth about our hostility, another NATO summit took place in Brussels, which confirmed the confrontation of the countries members."
The build-up of NATO contingents extra-regional countries continues in Eastern Europe. Since 2014 their number has increased from 2,000 to 15,000 troops.
The intensity of the training activities is constantly increasing.
Since the beginning of the year, they held for more than 100 exercises, involving up to 80,000 soldiers. At the same time, the number of personnel, annually involved in the trainings over the five years has grown ten times (from two thousand to 20 thousand people), and the number of combat aircraft-in 10 times (from 11 pieces to 101).
With the help of the United States, five cyber warfare centres were deployed in Finland, Estonia, Poland, Germany and France.
"One may get concerned about retraction of Finland and Sweden to the NATO. In May they signed a treaty providing for their full participation in the exercises of the NATO and its C2 and weapons systems. In return, the NATO got unhindered access to airspace and territorial waters of these countries, " Sergei Shoigu said, stressing that " such steps of our Western colleagues lead to the destruction of the existing system of security in the world, gave rise to even more distrust, forcing us to respond. "
Defence Minister expressed the hope that "held July 16 at Helsinki Summit Russia-United States will deepen Russian military cooperation with Washington and NATO countries, will consolidate the efforts of the parties in the interests of common security."
Turning to the agenda of the meeting, the head of the military department offered to discuss the plan for land forces.
Sergei Shoigu said that in 2016 in the framework of the implementation of this Plan more than 350 events were held.
One combined army, four motorised rifle and one armoured divisions, one rocket, two artillery and one air defence brigade were formed.
The modernization improved the combat characteristics of ten types of weapons and military equipment. Five new samples, superior in its capabilities to the best foreign analogues were developed and entered the service with the armed forces. These are: the fighting vehicle, Tornado-S multiple rocket launcher, Tor-M2 short-range anti-aircraft missile complex,and Typhoon-K and Typhoon-U armored vehicles.
In some army units of 5,000 new and upgraded weapons and military hardware.
In total, 7,698 exercises at various levels were held since 2016 This is 17 percent more than in the same period of the previous years.
In preparation for the International Army Games 2018 some 2,000 contests and competitions were organized involving almost all units of the army.
Last year revived the tradition of assigning the most prepared and capable military units, formations and units of the honorary titles of "shock units". This title currently awarded to 176 military units.
The following issue on the agenda was devoted to the status of implementation of the activity plan of the Western Military District.
As stated by the Minister of defence, "the situation, down to the Western strategic direction requires us to continuously improve the combat troop and their home system."
For these purposes since 2016 there was more than 70 military units formed, including two divisions and three brigades.
Necessary infrastructure is being created to accommodate them. It is planned to put into operation more than 350 objects by late 2018.
For example, the number of units and the military bases that score well on the results of the inspection in winter training this year, increased by 15 percent.
"In many ways, this contributed to modern approaches to training of personnel, use of experience of the application of forces and means, including in the Syrian Arab Republic," stressed the Minister of Defence.
Special attention, according to the head of the military department, is paid to the preparation of the Regional grouping of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
It was noted that Western military district together with our Belarus colleagues have already started the preparation of the Union Shield 2019 joint operational exercise.
Afterwards, participants of the meeting considered how the 2016-2020 Plan for engineering troops is being implemented.
The Minister of Defence has stated that the construction and development of the armed forces during the reporting period provided a balanced structure of engineering troops.
In total, 19 formations, military units and organizations have been formed.
The troops received more than 2,000 pieces of engineering equipment and 300,000 sets of engineering equipment, more than 30,000 engineering ammunition.
Set of Uran 6 multifunctional robotic demining systems proved well in Syria.
Thus, the share of modern weaponry and military equipment in the army brought to 65 per cent.
Russian experts of the International Mine Action Center in Syria, cleared more than six and a half thousand hectares of territory and 17 thousands of different buildings, cleared 105 thousand explosive objects.
They trained 1,245 Syrian engineers who then cleared about 2,000 hectares, 3,850 defused explosive devices.
In addition, the army corps of engineers are actively involved in solving problems during periods of floods and forest fires.
As Minister of defence informed, since 2016 year more than 30,000 civilians and about 7,000 pieces in flooding areas were evacuated. Some 10,500 tons of various materiel were shipped.
In summary, the Defence Minister said that in general engineering troops comply with the requirements. He expressed confidence that the planned events will bring the troops to a new level.
The meeting of the Board attended by the senior members of the Armed Forces, representatives of state authorities and public organizations.
Deployment of the Pantsir-S air defense system near The Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg during the FIFA World Cup.
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Mats on July 24, 2018 · at 6:01 pm EST/EDT
Ready for war.
Don't poke the Bear.
Tomsk on July 24, 2018 · at 6:42 pm EST/EDT
Totally right – and let's remember, the Russians have powerful friends
https://russia-insider.com/en/chinese-military-arrives-russia-drills-brings-serious-hardware/ri24291
djole on July 25, 2018 · at 6:22 am EST/EDT
I think it was enough of talk, photosessions, propaganda. Buying time for clients. Serbs were fighting NATO and Americans three times in last 25 years. Serbs were Russians when they were not. They were occupied by stealing money from former socilaistic ravenue. From their perspective, NATO soldiers are just kids living in movies. Nothing else. NATO soldiers are feeling free only when the aviation pack is present, They are good in destroying properties, butchering people, raping wifes of gerila soldiers. Western men are to busy to earn money, to look themselves in a mirror after building cabinet. They dont have anything why should be fighting for. Just money, liberal values and maybe dog or second spouse to be proud of. Real belivers from east are something else. However their elites are smart enough to buy people after the battle, Serbs have lost everything behind green table. The Syrians will also. Whenever came the time in modern history to solve accounts, somehow a good masonic fairy evolved to protect their…… Last time communists offer them agreement. However Eu-ropeans remember well Sarmats, Huns, Tartars. Every 800 years Khan is taking a lead. East at the moment need a Khan, to line up milions. This will wake up normal citizens of western countries to revolution and regime change or they will (like always before) follow orders. Nuclear weapons will never be used, except maybe proxy tactical. Nothing else will change status quo. All this useless talks are just filter.
B.F. on July 25, 2018 · at 7:11 am EST/EDT
Russia is, of course, is paying attention to it's defensive capabilities, as it should, bearing in mind that NATO still exists, when in fact it should not.
However, when it comes to NATO, it is increasing it's strength in Europe, both in men and material. The question is why. To prevent the possibility of a non existent Russian aggression ? This does not exist. To launch a conventional attack against Russia ? That would be absurd, as even Pentagon generals stated that NATO could not win in a conventional attack against Russia. The only logical conclusion is that NATO is being strengthened in order to prevent European states from joining the Russian/Chinese economic camp, and thus ruin Wall Streets imperial ambitions. NATO is in fact the Praetorian Guard of private bankers and corporations.
Finally, when it comes to potential Russian "aggression" against Western Europe, this possibility is illogical, and for two reasons. Russian military doctrine is based on defense, as Russia is huge. It has enough men and high tech for this purpose. It does not have the men for any invasion of Western Europe, nor does it wish to commit financial suicide to attain this purpose. Secondly, Russia needs a prosperous Europe for economic reasons, namely trade, which is mutually beneficial. When the US instigated sanctions against Russia, the EU by the second half of 2016 lost 100 billion euros in trade, bitterly resented.
frances on July 27, 2018 · at 4:33 pm EST/EDT
I agree, NATO's purpose is to put and keep the EU on its knees; by draining the coffers of the EU for NATO upkeep, preventing commerce from increasing with Russia and having an excuse to keep troops all along RU front, forcing RU to fund military efforts such as the ones above.


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Are you talking about the drop-down menu when creating a new GitHub project, which allows you to choose among common (open source) licenses? – Brandin Sep 10 '19 at 8:52
@Brandin Yes... – Yan King Yin Sep 10 '19 at 22:34
I must admit that the phrasing of the question is a bit unclear, at least to me. I am assuming you meant something in the spirit of "Can I use a license that isn't listed on choosealicense.com, and thus isn't recognized by GitHub, when I host my project there?"
If my understanding of the question is correct, the answer would be a resounding yes. As the creator of the project, you can use whatever license you wish to license your project, or even write a new one yourself (although, if you're not a lawyer, that's probably an ill-advised idea). Just place the license in a LICENSE.md or LICENSE.txt file, and you're good to go.
The worst thing that will happen is that GitHub wouldn't "magically" recognize the license, and you won't get some of its bells and whistles around it, like explanatory text, or the ability to search according to it.
Note that you can also request GitHub to add a license, although License Zero doesn't seem to listed in one of appropriate sources GitHub would consider, so you may need to do some extra work beforehand (e.g., get it listed by the OSI).
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Adelio Sarro discovered the pleasure of drawing as a young boy. He grew up on a farm in the Andarina region of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and, despite serious economic difficulties, his family always encouraged his artistic inclinations.
This did not prevent the family from moving several times in pursue of a brighter future; his brushes went along keeping him company during these hard times.
Of a shy nature he often found a world of his own in his drawings. As a young man he enjoyed carpentry, worked in marble cutting and helped his father in the job.
A visit to the Workshop-Museum of renowned Brazilian artist Cándido Portinari (1903-1962) in 1972, in his native town, reaffirmed his vocation. Shortly after this visit he started displaying his works at the Republic Square in Sao Paulo, to be followed by more displays and exhibitions.
Today his works are displayed in individual exhibits, galleries, cultural centers not only in Brazil but also in Germany, Australia, Russia, among others.
His work features striking colours --with a clear emphasis in the use of blue, pink and red--, depicting life in the countryside, farmers with big hands and feet, oftentimes with furrowed faces, barefoot characters standing next to animals and musical instruments, portraying a unique, magical world where social problems are intertwined with emotion and happiness.


I've known for a while that I am very good at worrying. Throughout my life, I've always found something to worry about.
We're told happiness is a product of getting an education, a good job, a nice house, and starting a family. We're told we must make a significant impact on the world if we really want our lives to matter. We're told we have to set out on a mission to "find ourselves" to have peace and fulfillment.
These "truths" couldn't be further from the truth.
Before we're even born, God says we are valued. God says we are called. God says we are chosen.
So, this year, let's live as God intended us to live. Let's live like we are fully known and fully loved. Let's live like we are called upon. Let's live like we are chosen.
When we love Him first, we live in loyalty to our real home in heaven, where God lives. When we love God first – truly and fully love Him – everything else follows.
We are simply commanded to love our neighbors. Our identity is in love – a deep and sincere love for our brothers and sisters. This year, let's genuinely love. Let's be kind. Let's reach out more. Let's step in and stop the categorizing and the name-calling in this world. Let's be the evidence of God's love.
We are chosen, so we are called. Jesus calls us to obedience. We're each called to live out our lives for Him. We're each called to something unique. When God tugs on our hearts, let's listen to Him. Let's obey Him. Let's pursue Him. Let's press into Him.
Let's stay in the word.
Renewing our minds begins with taking our focus off everything else and everyone else, and placing it on our creator. Aligning our hearts and our thoughts with His truth. God provides us with His word because it contains all we need to know about how to live for Him and how to love. As we stay in the word and apply it to our lives, we learn to become more like Him.
Every day, let's pray. Just as God speaks to us in His word, we can speak to Him in our prayers. We have the opportunity to adore God, to thank Him, to confess, to share our hearts, to make requests. Prayer changes us. Prayer renews us.
Suffering is heavy, but it's truly a gift. It's real, it's valid, and it is meant to be felt. But it grows us in our faith and our wisdom. It draws us closer to God. It is used for good because God is still good. As Christians, we have to be prepared to suffer. Our suffering never goes wasted – in the end, it is always used by God for His glory.
Let's remember that nothing that lasts can be done apart from Him. He gave us the greatest and ultimate gift in Christ. Let's remember that every good thing comes from Him. Let's remember our eternal home in heaven.
In every aspect of our lives, let's seek God. Let's search for our Him who so generously chose us. Every day, let's live out His word and extend the grace and kindness that He so freely gives to us. In every step, let's walk in obedience and find the beauty in it all. And every moment, let's seek God first because everything else follows when we obey this command.
God wants to deliver us from our search for "who we are" to a life of true meaning.
Sometimes, we fall short. But there's hope – we can walk in purpose each day by living intentionally. Intentionally getting back up again. Intentionally choosing Jesus over ourselves. So, this year, let's live planted in God's presence.
Let's live the life He called us to live.