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The 10 Most Popular Puppy Names of 2019
BY Emily Petsko
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If you brought home a new dog or puppy recently and named it Luna, you're far from the only one. The name, which means moon in Latin, is the most popular puppy name for 2019.
This analysis of cute canine monikers comes from Trupanion, a provider of medical insurance for pets. The company looked at its database of 500,000 dogs and crunched the numbers to identify the names that are currently having a moment. (Although some of the names that cracked the top 10 list, like Daisy and Max, have been around for quite some time.)
Interestingly, Luna wasn't always popular. As Trupanion points out, "Looking back 10 years, Luna was barely a blip on the name game chart … not even cracking the list of top 20 names." Nor did it appear on Banfield Pet Hospital's list of the 10 most popular dog names of 2018.
Often, there's some overlap between popular pet names and baby names. Luna was the 31st most popular baby name for girls in 2018. This is perhaps linked to the popularity of the Harry Potter character Luna Lovegood, as well as the publicity the name has received in recent years from celebrities like John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, as both couples named their daughters Luna.
Second on the list of popular puppy names is Bella (its longer form, Isabella, was the fifth most popular baby name for girls last year). Check out the top 10 list below to see if your pooch's name is trending right now.
2. Bella
3. Charlie
4. Bailey
5. Lucy
6. Cooper
7. Max
8. Daisy
9. Bear
10. Oliver
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Hundreds of Kangaroos Roam the Green at This Australian Golf Course
BY Ellen Gutoskey
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Anglesea Golf Club has all the makings of a regular golf club: an 18-hole golf course, a mini golf course, a driving range, a clubhouse, and a bistro. But the kangaroo mobs that hop around the holes add an element of surprise to your otherwise leisurely round of one of the slowest games in sports.
Anglesea Golf Club
According to Thrillist, the kangaroos have been a mainstay for years, and the club started giving tours a few years ago to ensure visitors could observe them in the safest way possible. For about 25 minutes, a volunteer tour guide will drive a golf cart with up to 14 passengers around the course, sharing fun facts about kangaroos and stopping at opportune locations for people to snap a few photos of the marsupials, which are most active in late afternoon and early morning. Kangaroos are friendly creatures, but Anglesea's website reminds visitors that "they can also be quite aggressive if they feel threatened."
Post-graduate students and academic staff from Melbourne University's zoology department have been researching Anglesea's kangaroo population since 2004, and some of the animals are marked with collar and ear tags so the researchers can track movement, growth, survival, and reproduction patterns throughout their life cycle.
One of the reasons kangaroos have continued to dwell on land so highly trafficked by people is because of the quality of the land itself, National Geographic reports. The golf course staff regularly sprinkles nitrogen fertilizer all over the green, which makes the grass especially healthy.
If you decide to plan a trip to Anglesea Golf Club, you can book a kangaroo tour here—adult tickets are $8.50, and children under 12 can come along for just $3.50 each.
[h/t Thrillist]
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10 Surprising Facts About Shoebill Storks
BY Kat Long
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Shoebill storks have been called the world's most terrifying bird (though the cassowary might disagree). These stately wading birds stalk the marshes of South Sudan, Uganda, and elsewhere in tropical East Africa, snatching up prey with their unique, immediately recognizable bills. But there are a lot of misconceptions about shoebill storks—the first being that they're not actually storks. Here are some more surprising facts.
1. Shoebill storks could win staring contests.
Shoebills live in the vast wetlands of the Nile watershed in eastern Africa. You really can't mistake them for any other bird: They grow 4 to 5 feet tall, have bluish-gray plumage and an 8-plus-foot wingspan, and their bill, which takes up a majority of their face, looks like a huge Dutch wooden clog. Shoebills can stand virtually motionless for hours with their bills held down against their necks. Complemented by their golden eyes, the posture affects a very convincing death stare.
2. Shoebills may be more closely related to pelicans than storks.
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Over the past couple of centuries, naturalists have debated where shoebills should appear on the Tree of Life. Some taxonomists said that the shoebill's syrinx, or vocal organ, resembled those of herons belonging to the family Pelecaniformes, which also includes ibises, pelicans, and boobies. Others countered that herons have specialized feathers than release a powdery down to help with preening, but shoebills didn't have these feathers, so they must be storks belonging to the family Ciconiiformes. "There is, in fact, not the shadow of a doubt that it is either a heron or a stork; but the question is, which?" zoologist Frank Evers Beddard wrote in 1905. More recent studies on the shoebill's eggshell structure and DNA have supported its place among the Pelecaniformes.
3. Shoebills poop on themselves.
Shoebills practice urohydrosis, the effective—if revolting—habit of defecating on their legs to lower their body temperature. In fact, this characteristic confused taxonomists: In the past, some felt that the shoebill's habit placed it within the family of true storks, since all true storks also use their own droppings to cool off.
4. European naturalists were introduced to shoebills in the 1840s.
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A German diplomat and explorer named Ferdinand Werne was the first European to hear about the shoebill. On his expedition in Africa to find the source of the White Nile in 1840, Werne camped at Lake No, part of a 12,000-square-mile wetland called the Sudd in what is now South Sudan. Werne's indigenous guides told him "that they had seen an extraordinary bird, as big as a big camel, with a bill like a pelican's, though wanting a pouch," according to a 1908 edition of The Avicultural Magazine.
About 10 years later, a collector named Mansfield Parkyns brought two shoebill skins to England, giving British zoologists their first look at the weird bird. At an 1851 meeting of the British Zoological Society, naturalist John Gould presented a description of the shoebill based on Parkyns's specimens and gave it the scientific name Balaeniceps rex.
5. Shoebills are also called whale-headed storks.
Balaeniceps rex means "whale-head king," evidently a reference to its bill shape resembling the head of a baleen whale (as well as a shoe). Other names for the shoebill include the boat-bill, bog-bird, lesser lechwe-eater (referring to the shoebill's alleged taste for lechwe, or aquatic antelope), and abu markub, or "father of a slipper" in Arabic.
6. Shoebills love lungfish.
Yum, lungfish! These air-breathing, eel-like fish grow to more than 6 feet long and comprise the shoebill's favorite food. Shoebills also chow down on actual eels, catfish, lizards, snakes, and baby crocodiles. To catch their prey, shoebills stand still in the water and wait for an unsuspecting fish to appear. Then, the bird swiftly "collapses" on its target, spreading its wings and diving down bill-first to ambush the fish. Then, with the fish in its mouth, it decapitates it by grinding the sharp edges of its bill together.
7. Shoebills really earned their fierce reputation.
Victorian photographers learned the hard way that shoebills could be as mean as they looked. "The shoebill is capable of inflicting a very powerful bite," 19th-century zoologist Stanley S. Flower wrote, "and is by no means a safe bird for a stranger ignorant of its ways to approach, a fact which we often have to impress on amateur photographers anxious to obtain 'snap-shots' of Balaeniceps at close quarters. It has been amusing to see how rapidly in some cases their enthusiasm has waned, when (as requested) confronted with the great bird screaming shrill defiance and crouching as if were about to spring, with gaping bill and half-spread wings."
8. Shoebills have always been a rare curiosity at zoos.
In the 19th century, the Sudanese government made the shoebill a protected species, but that did not stop collectors from attempting to transport shoebills to zoos. Flower, then director of the Zoological Gardens in Giza, Egypt, brought three shoebills (along with four giraffes, nine antelopes, a lion, a leopard, three servals, two ostriches, two porcupines, an aardvark, five tortoises, a crocodile, and several other animals) on a train north from Khartoum to the gardens. The temperature rose to 118°F and the irritated shoebills barfed up their dinners. Their diet of fresh fish that Flower had ordered never materialized, so he resorted to feeding the birds canned shrimp. Miraculously, the birds arrived at the Zoological Gardens in one piece and survived in captivity for at least five years. Today, only a handful of zoos open to the public have shoebills, including the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic, Pairi Daiza in Belgium, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and the Dallas World Aquarium.
9. Shoebills are worth thousands of dollars on the black market.
Shoebills rarely breed in captivity: In the last hundred years at least, only two chicks have hatched. In today's zoos, all shoebills were either born there or were legally collected from the wild. Unfortunately, their scarcity and mystique have also made shoebills a sought-after bird for poachers in the illegal wildlife trade. According to Audubon magazine, private collectors in Dubai and Saudi Arabia will pay $10,000 or more for a live shoebill.
10. Shoebills are at risk of extinction.
The IUCN Redlist estimates between 3300 and 5300 mature shoebills live in the world today, and that number is decreasing. The iconic birds are threatened by a number of anthropogenic forces, including loss of their marshland habitat from farming, livestock ranching, oil and gas exploration, fires, pollution, and more. International wildlife groups and local conservationists are monitoring shoebill habitats in South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia and patrolling the sites for poaching, but much more attention is needed to protect shoebills.
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HAVANA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - U.S. foreign aid worker Alan Gross completed his fifth year in a Cuban prison on Wednesday with his wife warning he is in terrible condition, while any hopes for improving hostile U.S.-Cuban relations hinge largely on his fate.
Cuba arrested Gross, now 65, on Dec. 3, 2009, and later convicted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor to 15 years in prison for importing banned technology and trying to establish clandestine internet service for Cuban Jews.
The case is emblematic of bitter U.S.-Cuban relations dating to the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, and any potential breakthrough appears remote while Gross is still in prison.
"The Cuban government's release of Alan on humanitarian grounds would remove an impediment to more constructive relations between the United States and Cuba," the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
The United States has rejected offers to discuss swapping Gross for three Cuban intelligence agents serving prisons terms in the United States, saying it would be wrong to equate Gross with Cuban spies. Havana labels the three as anti-terrorist heroes who defended Cuba by helping infiltrate anti-Castro extremist groups in Florida.
Obama has the authority to conduct a prisoner swap and rewrite U.S. policy on Cuba. Although he said "we have to continue to update our policies" on Cuba over a year ago, he has yet to signal change.
"It is time for President Obama to bring Alan back to the United States now; otherwise it will be too late," she said.
Gross' mental and physical health has declined, he can barely walk or see out of his right eye, and he has grown increasingly suicidal while losing some 100 pounds (46 kg), according to his lawyer, Scott Gilbert.
In April he went on a 9-day hunger strike. After his 65th birthday last May, Gross vowed not to turn 66 in prison, telling visitors he would rather die. He said goodbye to his wife and daughter in July and has refused to see them or U.S. diplomats in Havana, Gilbert said.


UNITED NATIONS United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that the international community needs to quickly step up funding to assist the three southern African nations that have been devastated by Cyclone Idai.
Tropical Cyclone Idai delivered a direct, one-two punch of wind and flooding across a vast area long experiencing poverty and drought, Guterres said of the storm which slammed areas of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
We fear that whole villages have been washed away in places we have yet to reach, Guterres told reporters.
I call on the international community to fund these appeals quickly and fully so that aid agencies can urgently ramp up their responses, the secretary-general said.
The cyclone's heavy winds and rains killed at least 750 people in Mozambique and neighboring Malawi and Zimbabwe, and made hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
Under extremely difficult conditions, we have been air-dropping emergency kits that contain food, medicine, water purification gear, and shelter to communities that are still stranded by the flood waters, Guterres said.
I believe in devastation like this, the full reconstruction will probably take years.


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24-й бомбардировочный авиационный Орловский Краснознаменный ордена Суворова полк (24-й бап(сбап)) — авиационный полк, участвовавший в Советско-финляндской войне, а затем в Великой Отечественной войне.

История наименований полка
 Отдельный тренировочный отряд (15.11.1924 г.);
 1-я отдельная тяжелая авиационная эскадрилья (15.12.1925 г.);
 55-я отдельная тяжелая авиационная эскадрилья (01.10.1926 г.);
 24-й скоростной бомбардировочный авиационный полк (01.03.1939 г.);
 24-й бомбардировочный авиационный полк.

История формирования
Полк сформирован на базе аэродрома в Кречевицах Ленинградского военного округа в апреле 1938 года, в 1939 переброшен на авиабазу Сольцы того же округа. В состав вошли два тяжёлых бомбардировщика ТБ-3, два дальних бомбардировщика ДБ-3 и два истребителя И-15 бис. В начале Великой Отечественной войны полк базировался на авиабазе в Бобруйске и имел 41 самолёт.

Участие в боевых действиях
Во время Советско-финляндской войны полк выполнил около двух с половиной тысяч вылетов, потеряли 13 единиц техники, сбили 14 истребителей.

В самом начале войны все самолёты ТБ-3, ДБ-3, И-15 бис были потеряны в боях, и личному составу пришлось переобучаться на управление штурмовиками Пе-2, полученными на Московском авиазаводе № 22 имени С. П. Горбунова. Участвовал в Орловско-Брянской операции в Битве под Москвой. За данную операцию командир звена Поколодный Василий Дмитриевич и начальник связи эскадрильи Тихомиров Илья Кузьмич были удостоены звания Герой Советского Союза посмертно.

27 мая 1942 года полк был привлечён для боевого удара по танковой немецкой группировке в районе г. Изюм, не получив воздушного прикрытия истребителей, эскадрилья выполнила боевую задачу, но с большими потерями, в том числе погиб командир полка полковник Горбко, получив звание Герой Советского Союза посмертно.

15 октября 1943 года в битве за Днепр благодаря слаженной работе трех полковых групп 241 бад, которые возглавлялись командирами 24 бап и 128 бап подполковниками А. И. Соколовым и М. М. Воронковым, а также подполковником А. Г. Федоровым, было уничтожено несколько воинских эшелонов и станционных сооружений, подорвано железнодорожное полотно.

27 июня 1944 года полк под руководством капитана П. А. Дельцова разрушил стратегически важную точку — железнодорожный мост через правый приток Днепра р. Березину, но самолёт был подбит, некоторые члены экипажа успели эвакуироваться, а часть погибла.

16 января 1945 года был дан приказ уничтожить мост через реку Пилица и не дать взять противнику оборонительный рубеж на северном берегу. В данной операции отличились командир полка подполковник А. И. Соколов, штурман майор Г. Д. Тураев. Снова они отличились при бомбардировке железнодорожны станций Добрынь, Пабьянице, Ласк, уничтожив общими усилиями 10 железнодорожных путей, 2 паровоза, большое количество вагонов и платформ с боевой техникой и боеприпасами. Успешными бомбардировками отличились экипажи майора Р. С. Сулейманова и штурмана звена старшего лейтенанта В. Н. Мусатова, командира эскадрильи капитана К. А. Молодцова и штурмана эскадрильи капитана С. Е. Хряпенкова.

Подчинение
 в составе 13-ой бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии с 22 июня 1941 по 25 июля 1941;
 в составе 61-й авиационной дивизии с 27 августа 1941 — 8 февраля 1942;
 в составе 223-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии с 18 мая 1942 по 31 мая 1942;
 в составе 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии с 14 июня 1942 по 20 февраля 1949 года.
 в составе 140-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии (бывшей 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии) по 20 февраля 1949 года по 1960 год.

Командование

Участие в операциях и битвах

 Воронежско-Касторненская операция «Звезда» — с 27 января 1943 года по 2 февраля 1943 года.
 Ржевско-Вяземская операция — со 2 по 31 марта 1943 года.
 Курская битва — с 5 июля по 23 августа 1943 года
 Орловская операция «Кутузов» — с 12 июля по 18 августа 1943 года.
 Битва за Днепр — с 26 августа по 23 декабря 1943 года
 Черниговско-Припятская операция — с 26 августа по 30 сентября 1943 года.
 Гомельско-Речицкая операция — с 10 по 30 ноября 1943 года.
 Калинковичско-Мозырская операция — с 8 по 30 января 1944 года.
 Рогачёвско-Жлобинская операция — с 21 по 26 февраля 1944 года.
 Белорусская операция «Багратион» — с 23 июня по 29 августа 1944 года.
 Бобруйская операция — с 24 по 29 июня 1944 года.
 Минская операция — с 29 июня по 4 июля 1944 года.
 Люблин-Брестская операция — с 18 июля по 2 августа 1944 года.
 Висло-Одерская операция — с 12 января по 3 февраля 1945 года.
 Варшавско-Познанская операция — с 14 января по 3 февраля 1945 года.
 Восточно-Померанская операция — с 10 февраля по 20 марта 1945 года.
 Берлинская операция — с 16 апреля по 8 мая 1945 года.

Самолётный состав
С 1938 по 1941 в состав входили самолёты ТБ-3, ДБ-3, И-15 бис, с 1941 года — Пе-2.

Награды
 За образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования и проявленные при этом доблесть и мужество 24-й бомбардировочный авиационный полк награждён орденом Красного Знамени
 24-й бомбардировочный авиационный Орловский Краснознаменный полк за образцовое выполнение заданий командования в боях с немецкими захватчиками при овладение городом и крепостью Кистжинь (Кюстрин) и проявленные при этом доблесть и мужество Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 26 апреля 1945 года награждён орденом «Суворова III степени».

Почетный наименования
В целях дальнейшего закрепления памяти о героических подвигах Сталинских соколов и создании традиции для поступающих в эти части молодого пополнения 24-му Краснознаменному бомбардировочному авиационному полку Приказом НКО № 207 от 5 мая 1943 года присвоено почетное наименование «Орловский».

Герои Советского Союза
  Давиденко Степан Павлович, капитан, штурман эскадрильи 24-го скоростного бомбардировочного авиационного полка 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 3-го бомбардировочного авиационного корпуса 16-й воздушной армии Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 4 февраля 1944 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Золотая Звезда № 3217
  Дельцов Павел Андреевич, капитан, командир эскадрильи 24-го скоростного бомбардировочного авиационного полка 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 3-го бомбардировочного авиационного корпуса 16-й воздушной армии Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 13 апреля 1944 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Золотая Звезда № 3535
  Козленко Петр Алексеевич, капитан, штурман эскадрильи 24-го бомбардировочного авиационного полка 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 3-го бомбардировочного авиационного корпуса 16-й воздушной армии Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 15 мая 1946 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Золотая Звезда № 7042.
  Леонтьев Василий Александрович, старший лейтенант, заместитель командира эскадрильи 24-го скоростного бомбардировочного авиационного полка 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 3-го бомбардировочного авиационного корпуса 16-й воздушной армии Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 15 мая 1946 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Золотая Звезда № 7043.
  Поколодный Василий Дмитриевич, старший лейтенант, командир звена 24-го ближнебомбардировочного авиационного полка 61-й авиационной дивизии Брянского фронта Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 14 февраля 1943 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Посмертно.
  Сорокин Виталий Андреевич, лейтенант, командир звена 24-го скоростного бомбардировочного авиационного полка 241-й бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 3-го бомбардировочного авиационного корпуса 16-й воздушной армии Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 15 мая 1946 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Золотая Звезда № 6148.
  Тихомиров Илья Кузьмич, старший лейтенант, начальник связи эскадрильи 24-го ближнебомбардировочного авиационного полка 61-й авиационной дивизии Брянского фронта Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 14 февраля 1943 года удостоен звания Герой Советского Союза. Посмертно.

Благодарности Верховного Главнокомандующего
Воинам полка объявлена благодарность в составе дивизии:
 За отличие в боях при овладении городом Речица — крупным узлом коммуникаций и важным опорным пунктом обороны немцев на правом берегу среднего течения Днепра.
 За отличие в боях при овладении городами Лодзь, Кутно, Томашув (Томашов), Гостынин и Ленчица.
 За отличие в боях при овладении городом и крепостью Кистжинь (Кюстрин) — важным узлом путей сообщения и мощным опорным пунктом обороны немцев на реке Одер, прикрывающим подступы к Берлину.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Герои Второй Мировой
 Боевой состав ВВС
 Сайт Память народа. 24 бап
 24-й бомбардировочный Орловский Краснознаменный ордена Суворова авиационный полк
 Краткая боевая характеристика 24 бап. Сайт Память народа.

Бомбардировочные авиационные полки СССР во время Великой Отечественной войны
Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1941 году
Воинские части и формирования, расформированные в 1960 году
Участники Воронежско-Касторненской операции
Участники Ржевско-Вяземской операции
Участники Курской битвы
Участники Орловской операции
Участники битвы за Днепр
Участники Черниговско-Припятской операции
Участники Гомельско-Речицкой операции
Участники Калинковичско-Мозырской операции
Участники Рогачёвско-Жлобинской операции
Участники Белорусской операции (1944)
Участники Бобруйской операции
Участники Минской операции
Участники Люблин-Брестской операции
Участники Висло-Одерской операции
Участники Варшавско-Познанской операции
Участники Восточно-Померанской операции
Воинские части и формирования — участники Берлинской битвы

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Identification of deformation processes prior to the collapse of a viaduct
Client: ASI Italian Space Agency
Period: August 2018
Location: Polcevera viaduct, Genova (Italy)
Technologies: Satellite SAR Interferometry
Following the collapse of the Polcevera road viaduct, the need to determine the causes of the collapse emerged, assessing any deformation processes prior to the failure and their qualitative and quantitative characterization.
Advanced Differential Interferometric SAR analysis (A-DInSAR) was performed by using data acquired from the COSMO-SkyMed satellites (Italian Space Agency) in order to estimate any deformation processes suffered by the structure and the surrounding area, focusing on the deformation behaviour of the viaduct in the previous 10 years.
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