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N.J. incest story should, ideally, make you think
Published on January 22, 2015 January 22, 2015 by Matt Rooney
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
How did the state that regulates EVERYTHING forget to ban incest, Save Jerseyans?
It boggles the mind!
Following the breaking of a nationally-circulated story about a father and daughter who want to move to New Jersey to tie the knot, public disgust is palpable if social media chatter is an accurate indicator. Remember: everyone is an expert on complex social issues like marriage in the age of Twitter.
Meanwhile, in Trenton, Asw. Mary Pat Angelini (R-Monmouth) is introducing legislation to close the loophole and outlaw the reviled practice. Incest was actually banned in New Jersey until 1979. It's still illegal in all circumstances if at least one party is under the age of 18.
"Incestuous relationships create many ethical questions and are often times sexually-abusive relationships blurred by the 'consensual' loophole," explained Angelini. Polygamy is illegal in all U.S. states (it's a misdemeanor in New Jersey but a felony in others) for similar reasons.
I agree with all of that. No question. And I would vote to outlaw it, too. No question!
Here's the rub: stepping back for a moment and widening our lens, we need to acknowledge how whenever governments regulate private relationships, and they do so on the basis of a public policy concern (in this case, an alleged imbalance of power), we're always engaging in an inherently subjective analysis and, therefore, a potentially problematic one.
Trenton simplifies with the intent to stupefy. Don't worry: I'm here to pick up the slack for them…
Back when gay marriage was being actively debated (FYI – in case you've missed it, same sex marriage legalization is now a fait accompli in America, unless SCOTUS shocks in June), opponents cited studies/data/theories suggesting children benefited from a heterosexual parenting environment or, taking it a step further, were somehow harmed by a homosexual parenting dynamic. Those arguments were vigorously attacked and met with countervailing studies/data/theories.
What ultimately carried the day? A cultural movement driven by the idea that two consenting adults, in love, shouldn't be told whom they could marry in a free country.
Uncontroversial? In that context, yes!
Just like it's uncontroversial, in most circles, that children cannot consent to marry and a father and daughter should not be able to marry.
But if abuse and the consent issues it implicates are truly our concern, then maybe we should also outlaw marriages where one party is an alcoholic?
Should we mandate divorce in cases of drug abuse?
Domestic violence?
Let me be clear: I have no problem with consenting adults, regardless of sex, marrying one another. What I'm saying is that you really need to deprogram, take a step back, open your mind and think about this kind of stuff a little deeper, folks. Don't react; scrutinize! The substance AND the procedural aspects, too. In all ten dimensions. Someone needs to because Trenton never does. I mean, this is the town that's actively considering "rape by fraud" legislation.
Cookie-cutter talking points don't always apply. Here, the 18-year-old woman is exactly that: a woman. She's an adult in the legal sense and, as far as I know, it hasn't been reported that she suffers from any mental handicaps (save for a severe Oedipal complex) which would render her unable to make a free and consensual decision. Nothing in the story suggests the presence of duress, fraud, etc. And I know we don't want the government to start deciding what's legitimate "love" and what isn't. Right?
Even the classic "we're protecting kids against growing up with webbed-toes" point no longer applies since, as we're reminded all the time by our cultural overlords, marriage is hardly contingent upon the act of childbearing and child-rearing.
So in each case, in truth, we're basically turning laymen and laywomen loose (1) interpreting studies produced by academics and (2) applying their personal cultural attitudes to the findings. Legislators who have a higher level a familiarity with incest's close cousin, nepotism.
When liberals like the legislative outcome, then they're heroically and progressively protecting a vulnerable class from abuse. When they don't agree with the end result? They denigrate the regulatory action as "legislating morality." But as you can see, it's all really just a matter of interpretation. Sometimes a highly-subjective one at that.
Our moral for this story?
Tread carefully! This is an opportunity to elevate our public discourse. There's always going to be a slippery slope to navigate in this area of the law, and it's always going to be more complex than the self-appointed guardians of civilization (on either side of each respective debate) would lead you to believe. And before legislators tinker with private relationships or decide to go full-demagogue for political gain, they need to start thinking – long and hard – about what role government is supposed to have in the process, not just what end result they'd like see were they king or queen for a day.
Supplementary reading: go ahead and read my 2013 "Save Marriage by Ending It" piece if you want a little more fodder for thought….
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Roger Stryeski via Facebook says:
Do any of our legislators have any experience with incest to be considered an expert?
Matt Rooney via Facebook says:
@Roger Only its close cousin: nepotism.
Daniel Biringer via Facebook says:
Two adults that love each other is now the standard right? Given that, this is perfectly fine. Can't have it both ways folks!
Joe Schilp says:
Just wondering, if the "webbed toes" concern was what made incest taboo, and if homosexual relationships don't produce offspring, should homosexual incest be permitted, or is the old fantasy of a threesome featuring a guy with twin sisters going to be illegal?
Was that last sentence a pun?
Thomas Nelson via Facebook says:
How about instead of allowing the state to use more force we fight to get rid of more regulations and bans. It seems to me that Freedom and Liberty are more important than a couple who commit incest.
Justin Joseph Rivera via Facebook says:
There are numerous accounts of incest in the bible. If you believe in the fictional stories of Cain, Abel, Seth, Lot and Abraham, all engaged in incestuous relationships. Hell, the bible teaches us that we're all one great big incestuous bloodline descending from Adam and Eve.
Needless to say, if you're a christian who condemns gays and lesbians and looks to the bible for a sense of moral code, you're pretty much being a hypocrite for not viewing incest as completely acceptable. That is how backwards and warped the bible's view of morality is.
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Save Jersey's Founder and Blogger-in-Chief, MATT ROONEY is a nationally-noted and respected New Jersey political commentator. When he's not on-line, radio or television advocating for conservative reform and challenging N.J. power-brokers, Matt is a practicing attorney at the law firm of DeMichele & DeMichele in Haddon Heights (Camden County). Read Full
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Q: Digit recognition in Matlab using morphological operations I have an image in png format of the digit '6', I want to determine the position of the stem with respect to the blob using morphological operations. I have detected the blob of 6 using the code below. Now, I don't know how to detect the stem of the digit '6'. I tried using hough transform and edge detection algorithms but it didn't help.
Here is my code for detecting the blob:
img=imread('six.png');
img=rgb2gray(img);
figure,imshow(img);
i1=im2bw(img);
st=strel('square',20);
imdilate(i1,st);
figure,imshow(i1);
i2=imfill(i1,'holes');
figure,imshow(i2);
i1=imsubtract(i2,i1);
B = bwboundaries(i1);
figure,imshow(i1)
i2=i2-i1;
figure,imshow(i2);
text(10,10,strcat('\color{green}Objects Found:',num2str(length(B))))
hold on

for k = 1:length(B)
    boundary = B{k};
    plot(boundary(:,2), boundary(:,1), 'g', 'LineWidth', 0.2)

end

if eq(num2str(length(B)),'1')
    h=msgbox('the number is 6');
else
    h=msgbox('unknown number');
end

Here's the original six image and my current output

A: If you want to stick to morphological operations, you can simply find the pixels that are closest to the hole that you have already detected and remove them.
I start with the same morphological operations that you do, and add the extra step removing pixels within a distance threshold of the detected hole.
img=imread('six.png');
img=im2bw(img);
figure,imshow(img);

filled_img=imfill(img,'holes');
figure; imshow(filled_img);

filled_boundary= bwmorph(filled_img,'remove');
figure
imshow(filled_boundary)

hole = ~img & filled_img;
figure; imshow(hole);

hole_boundary = bwmorph(hole, 'remove');
figure; imshow(hole_boundary);

%Remove points on the boundary that are close to the hole
[hole_x, hole_y] = find(hole_boundary);
[fill_x, fill_y] = find(filled_boundary);
D = pdist2([hole_x, hole_y], [fill_x, fill_y]);
[distance, ~] = min(D, [], 1);

distance_threshold = 10;
top_edges = filled_boundary;
top_edges(fill_x(distance<distance_threshold), fill_y(distance<distance_threshold)) = 0;
figure; imshow(top_edges);

This is what my output image looks like

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Q: Hide columns on Stacked Bar when all values are 0 I want to a stacked bar chart to be able to automatically hide any empty columns, i.e. columns where all the values add up to 0.
For example, in the this chart I'd like to completely hide Oranges, even though in the code it would still exist as a category.
Highcharts.chart('container', {
    chart: {
        type: 'bar'
    },
    title: {
        text: 'Stacked bar chart'
    },
    xAxis: {
        categories: ['Apples', 'Oranges', 'Pears', 'Grapes', 'Bananas']
    },
    yAxis: {
        min: 0,
        title: {
            text: 'Total fruit consumption'
        }
    },
    legend: {
        reversed: true
    },
    plotOptions: {
        series: {
            stacking: 'normal'
        }
    },
    series: [{
        name: 'John',
        data: [5, 0, 4, 7, 2]
    }, {
        name: 'Jane',
        data: [2, 0, 3, 2, 1]
    }, {
        name: 'Joe',
        data: [3, 0, 4, 2, 5]
    }]
});

https://jsfiddle.net/jbaptie/dpLa4r8w/

A: First, you need to find which category has only 0 values, for example in this way:
var series = [{
        name: 'John',
        data: [5, 0, 4, 7, 2]
    }, {
        name: 'Jane',
        data: [2, 0, 3, 2, 1]
    }, {
        name: 'Joe',
        data: [3, 0, 4, 2, 5]
    }],
    i = 1;

series[0].data.forEach(function(el, j) {
    if (!el) {
        for (; i < series.length; i++) {
            if (series[i].data[j]) {
                i = series.length;
            } else if (i === series.length - 1) {
                ... // only 0 values
            }
        }
    }
});

Then, you can use broken-axis module and create the breaks array based on your data:
        } else if (i === series.length - 1) {
            breaks.push({
                from: j - 0.5,
                to: j + 0.5
            });
        }

Live demo: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/te1uv8rq/
API Reference: https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/xAxis.breaks

A: You can prepare the category and series before loading the data on the chart, where you can check the series elements which have values as 0 for all the columns and remove them from the JSON array.
removeNullValues() method is checking the categories with all values as 0 and removing it from the series and categories.

var category =  ['Apples', 'Oranges', 'Pears', 'Grapes', 'Bananas'];

var seriesData = [{
        name: 'John',
        data: [5, 0, 4, 0, 2]
    }, {
        name: 'Jane',
        data: [2, 0, 3, 0, 1]
    }, {
        name: 'Joe',
        data: [3, 0, 4, 0, 5]
    }];

function removeNullValues(){
 var seriesSize = this.seriesData.length;
  var dataSize = this.seriesData[0].data.length;
  for(var j=dataSize-1;j>=0;j--){
      var flag = 0;
      for(var i=seriesSize-1;i>=0;i--){
        if(this.seriesData[i].data[j]!=0){
          flag=1;
          break;
         }
      }
      if(flag==0){
        category.splice(j, 1);
          for(var i=seriesSize-1;i>=0;i--){
            this.seriesData[i].data.splice(j,1);
          }
      }
  }
}

removeNullValues();

Highcharts.chart('container', {
    chart: {
        type: 'bar'
    },
    title: {
        text: 'Stacked bar chart'
    },
    xAxis: {
        categories: this.category
    },
    yAxis: {
        min: 0,
        title: {
            text: 'Total fruit consumption'
        }
    },
    legend: {
        reversed: true
    },
    plotOptions: {
        series: {
            stacking: 'normal'
        }
    },
    series: this.seriesData
});


Chinese universities start a new spring semester in March. International students from British, Italy, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria, India and other countries are arriving in China.
Thus, SICAS Student Service Team Members of SICAS Headquarter and different cities are busy picking up and serving students who landed in China from around the world.
Here we select some airport pick-up pictures which were taken by SICAS Student Service Team Members and sent to the students` parents on the minute of the students` safe arrival in China.
SICAS Student Service Team Member Tommy set off from SICAS Headquarter Qingdao to picked up Indian student Dennis from Qingdao Airport and accompanied him to China University of Petroleum (Huadong).
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The following picture is Ayomide from Nigeria who will spend four years studying in Donghua University. SICAS Service Team Member Rudolf picked her up from Shanghai Airport and accompanied her to the university.
After accompanying Dennis for the whole week, one of our most experienced SICAS Student Service Team Member Tommy set off again. On the early morning of today, he picked up Violet from Qingdao Airport and escorted her to Weifang Medical University.
7: 40 AM Everything is done, setting out to Weifang.
10:15 AM Tommy sent message to SICAS headquarter to report their arrival in Weifang and he will accompany Violet do register in the afternoon.
SICAS student Mathius arrived from Tanzania to study for MBBS at Liaoning Medical University on March 13th, 2014. He was picked up by SICAS Students Service Team Member Rudolf.
On March 17th, 2014, SICAS Students Service Team Members went to Wuhan International Airport, to pick up the SICAS students, who will study in Huazhong University of Technology from March, 2014.
SICAS students arrived from South Africa to study for their undergraduate degrees at Shandong University on March 20, 2014. They were picked up from Jinan International Airport, and ushered by SICAS Students Service Team Members.
On March 23th, SICAS Tanzania Students Janeth and Karima arrived at Beijing Airport to study atUniversity of International Business and Economics. They are picked up by SICAS Students Team Member Representative of Bejing, Jessica.


Apple users were being warned to update immediately to the latest version of the firm's software amid a new hacking scare.
Researchers at Cisco revealed a flaw in older versions of Apple's iOS and MacOS software could let hackers into their device.
It uses a flaw in iMessage to allow access to a device's internal storage, including all passwords, by sending a single file.
Researchers at Cisco revealed a flaw in older versions of Apple's iOS and MacOS software could let hackers into their device and gives access to everything stored on it.
To avoid falling prey to the problems, experts say you should update your iOS and MacOs device to the latest version.
These are iOS 9.3.3 and El Capitan 10.11.6.
To do this, simply got to general/software updates on your IOS device, and follow the prompts.
'This vulnerability is especially concerning as it can be triggered in any application that makes use of the Apple Image I/O API when rendering tiled TIFF images,' the researchers say.
They also believe that users may not even have to click on the image to trigger the problem.
'Depending on the delivery method chosen by an attacker, this vulnerability is potentially exploitable through methods that do not require explicit user interaction since many applications (i.e. iMessage) automatically attempt to render images when they are received in their default configurations.


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Lord Waldegrave is also the Chairman of the Rhodes Trust and the Chairman of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry. He is currently Provost of Eton College, formally taking over the position in 2009.
The Clifton Club was formed in 1818 and has been in Clifton village since 1856. An exclusive gentleman's club, it is one of the earliest examples of its kind in the country. For more about the Club, visit their website.
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October 21, 2016 Alasdair Belling
There's never been a more exciting time to be an Australian…if you're a Lamb Of God fan that is.
The band, who are set to tour alongside Slipknot in Australia next week, have unleashed some new music on the world, with a new EP due out just before Christmas. Called The Duke, the will be released in memory of recently deceased fan Wayne Ford, who died of leukaemia in 2015.
Yesterday Rolling Stone premiered the title track for the new EP, which the band had originally recorded for last year's VII: Sturm Und Drang album. The song itself shows a far more melodic side of the band, with clean lyrics and even harmonies producing a dissident tone in both the verse and chorus.
Die-hard fans of the band need not worry, however, as the rest of the song is carried by a super-heavy riff laden with the band's trademark groove.
Frontman Randy Blythe still shows off his throat-tearing shrieks and growls, while drummer Chris Adler holds down a steady, thudding drum beat which sees the song home.
The EP is also set to feature the unreleased Culling, a thrashy track that was originally slated for the band's 2010 LP Wrath and was finished especially for the EP. Blythe, who was a personal friend of Ford, has penned a lengthy note on the band's website revealing how the passing of the fan inspired the band to release the extra music.
"On Oct. 30, 2012, Lamb of God was playing a show in Phoenix, AZ. Before I went on stage, a guy named Adam came up to me and said "My friend Wayne Ford is a huge fan- he's in the audience tonight. He got diagnosed with leukemia not too long ago, and he wanted you to have this." Adam handed me a t-shirt that had the words FUCK CANCER printed on it. "Will you give him a shout-out, man? He's got a hard fight ahead of him, and he could use the encouragement."
The post then goes on to detail Randy meeting the fan before heading back off on tour, only to be contacted 3 years later to find out that Wayne's condition was deteriorating, setting up one final Skype call as a result.
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I was deeply moved by the experience- when presented the option, Wayne had decided to live and die surrounded by his loved ones, and on his own terms, to the best of his ability. What more could any reasonable person put into his grim situation want?
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Na escala de tempo geológico, o  é o período da era Mesoproterozoica do éon Proterozoico que está compreendido entre há 1200 milhões de anos e 1000 milhões de anos, aproximadamente. O período Estênico sucede o período Ectásico de sua era e precede o período Tônico da era Neoproterozoica de seu éon. Como os outros períodos de seu éon, não se divide em épocas.

O período Estênico (do grego στενός (stenós), significa "estreito") é o período geológico final na Era Mesoproterozoica. Em vez de se basearem em estratigrafia, essas datas são definidas de forma cronetrômica. O nome deriva de cintos polietamórficos estreitos formados durante este período. O supercontinente Rodinia se agrupou durante o Estênico. Isso duraria até o período de Tônico. Este período inclui a formação do Keweenawan Rift.

Rodinia teve caracteristica de um local árido e desolado. A vida ainda não havia colonizado terra. Os únicos sinais de vida perto da terra foram os crescimentos profusos de estromatólitos ao longo das costas. A atmosfera, que continha cerca de 1% de oxigênio no início do mesoproterozoico, aumentou o teor de oxigênio para não mais de 2-4% no momento da formação de Rodinia. Consequentemente, não havia camada de ozônio.

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Градостроительный кодекс Российской Федерации (ГрК РФ) — кодифицированный нормативный правовой акт, регулирующий градостроительные и отдельные связанные с ними отношения на территории Российской Федерации.

Предмет правового регулирования Градостроительного кодекса Российской Федерации
Предмет правового регулирования определяется ст. 1 и ст. 4 ГрК РФ.
 1. Градостроительные отношения — отношения, связанные с градостроительной деятельностью, то есть с деятельностью по развитию территорий, в том числе городов и иных поселений, осуществляемой в виде:
 — территориального планирования,
 — градостроительного зонирования,
 — планировки территории,
 — архитектурно-строительного проектирования, в том числе инженерных изысканий,
 — строительства объектов капитального строительства,
 — капитального ремонта, при проведении которого затрагиваются конструктивные и другие характеристики надежности и безопасности объектов капитального строительства,
 — реконструкции объектов капитального строительства,
 — эксплуатации зданий, сооружений (в ред. Федерального закона от 28.11.2011 № 337-ФЗ);
 — благоустройства территорий (в ред. Федерального закона от 29.12.2017 № 463-ФЗ);
 2. Отношения, связанные с:
 — принятием мер по обеспечению безопасности строительства, эксплуатации зданий, сооружений,
 — предупреждению чрезвычайных ситуаций природного и техногенного характера,
 — ликвидации их последствий
 — при осуществлении градостроительной деятельности, если такие отношения не урегулированы специальными законами;
 3. Прямо указанные в ГрК РФ отношения, связанные с:
 — приобретением статуса СРО,
 — прекращением статуса СРО,
 — определением правового положения СРО,
 — осуществлением деятельности СРО,
 — установлением порядка осуществления СРО контроля за деятельностью своих членов,
 — применением СРО мер дисциплинарного воздействия к своим членам,
 — порядка осуществления государственного контроля (надзора) за деятельностью СРО;
 4. Отношения, связанные с созданием искусственных земельных участков.
 5. Отношения, связанные со сбором и обработкой информации, необходимой для определения сметной стоимости строительства.

Предшествующие законы
 Федеральный закон от 07.05.1998 № 73-ФЗ «Градостроительный кодекс Российской Федерации»
 Закон Российской Федерации от 14.07.1992 № 3295-1 «Об основах градостроительства в Российской Федерации»

Структура Градостроительного кодекса Российской Федерации
Градостроительный кодекс Российской Федерации в редакции от 18.06.2017 содержит следующие главы:

 Глава 1. Общие положения
 Глава 2. Полномочия органов государственной власти Российской Федерации, органов государственной власти субъектов Российской Федерации, органов местного самоуправления в области градостроительной деятельности
 Глава 2.1. Ценообразование и сметное нормирование в области градостроительной деятельности, федеральный реестр сметных нормативов (введена Федеральным законом от 03.07.2016 № 369-ФЗ)
 Глава 3. Территориальное планирование
 Глава 3.1. Нормативы градостроительного проектирования (введена Федеральным законом от 05.05.2014 № 131-ФЗ)
 Глава 4. Градостроительное зонирование
 Глава 5. Планировка территории
 Глава 6. Архитектурно-строительное проектирование, строительство, реконструкция объектов капитального строительства
 Глава 6.1. Саморегулирование в области инженерных изысканий, архитектурно-строительного проектирования, строительства, реконструкции, капитального ремонта объектов капитального строительства (введена Федеральным законом от 22.07.2008 № 148-ФЗ)
 Глава 6.2. Эксплуатация зданий, сооружений (введена Федеральным законом от 28.11.2011 № 337-ФЗ)
 Глава 6.3. Освоение территорий в целях строительства и эксплуатации наемных домов (введена Федеральным законом от 21.07.2014 № 217-ФЗ)
 Глава 6.4. Снос объектов капитального строительства (введена Федеральным законом от 03.08.2018 № 340-ФЗ)
 Глава 7. Информационное обеспечение градостроительной деятельности
 Глава 8. Ответственность за нарушение законодательства о градостроительной деятельности
 Глава 9. Особенности осуществления градостроительной деятельности в субъектах Российской Федерации — городах федерального значения Москве, Санкт-Петербурге и Севастополе

Содержание отдельных глав Градостроительного кодекса Российской Федерации

Территориальное планирование
Территориальное планирование (п. 2 ст. 1 ГрК РФ в ред. ФЗ от 20.03.2011 № 41-ФЗ) — планирование развития территорий, в том числе для:
 установления функциональных зон,
 определения планируемого размещения:
 объектов федерального значения,
 объектов регионального значения,
 объектов местного значения.

В соотв. с ч. 1 ст. 9 ГрК РФ территориальное планирование направлено на определение в документах территориального планирования назначения территорий исходя из совокупности социальных, экономических, экологических и иных факторов в целях обеспечения устойчивого развития территорий, развития инженерной, транспортной и социальной инфраструктур, обеспечения учета интересов граждан и их объединений, РФ, субъектов РФ, муниципальных образований.

Ч. 1 ст. 9 ГрК РФ предусматривает следующие документы территориального планирования:
 Схемы территориального планирования РФ;
 Схемы территориального планирования субъектов РФ;
 Схемы территориального планирования муниципальных образований:
 Схемы территориального планирования муниципальных районов,
 Генеральные планы городских и сельских поселений,
 Генеральные планы городских округов.

С 1 сентября 2011 г. вступила в силу ст. 57.1 ГрК РФ, предусматривающая создание Федеральной государственной информационной системы территориального планирования, которая определяется как информационно-аналитическая система, обеспечивающая доступ к сведениям, содержащимся в государственных информационных ресурсах, государственных и муниципальных информационных системах, в том числе в информационных системах обеспечения градостроительной деятельности, и необходимым для обеспечения деятельности органов государственной власти и органов местного самоуправления в области территориального планирования.

Градостроительное зонирование

Градостроительное зонирование (п. 6 ст. 1 ГрК РФ) — зонирование территорий муниципальных образований в целях определения территориальных зон и установления градостроительных регламентов.

Правила землепользования и застройки — документ градостроительного зонирования, который утверждается нормативными правовыми актами ОМСУ, нормативными правовыми актами органов государственной власти субъектов РФ — городов федерального значения Москвы и Санкт-Петербурга и в котором устанавливаются территориальные зоны, градостроительные регламенты, порядок применения такого документа и порядок внесения в него изменений (п. 8 ст. 1 ГрК РФ).

Территориальные зоны — зоны, для которых в правилах землепользования и застройки определены границы и установлены градостроительные регламенты (п. 7 ст. 1 ГрК РФ).

Градостроительный регламент — устанавливаемые в пределах границ соответствующей территориальной зоны виды разрешенного использования земельных участков, равно как всего, что находится над и под поверхностью земельных участков и используется в процессе их застройки и последующей эксплуатации объектов капитального строительства, предельные (минимальные и (или) максимальные) размеры земельных участков и предельные параметры разрешенного строительства, реконструкции объектов капитального строительства, а также ограничения использования земельных участков и объектов капитального строительства (п. 9 ст. 1 ГрК РФ).

Планировка территории
Подготовка документации по планировке территории осуществляется в отношении застроенных или подлежащих застройке территорий (п. 1 ст. 41 ГрК РФ).

Подготовка проекта планировки территории осуществляется для выделения элементов планировочной структуры (кварталов, микрорайонов, иных элементов), установления параметров планируемого развития элементов планировочной структуры (п. 1 ст. 42 ГрК РФ).

Подготовка проектов межевания территорий осуществляется применительно к застроенным и подлежащим застройке территориям, расположенным в границах элементов планировочной структуры, установленных проектами планировки территорий (п. 1 ст. 43 ГрК РФ).

Подготовка градостроительных планов земельных участков осуществляется применительно к застроенным или предназначенным для строительства, реконструкции объектов капитального строительства земельным участкам (п. 1 ст. 44 ГрК РФ).

См. также
 Федеральная служба государственной регистрации, кадастра и картографии (Росреестр)
 Информационные системы обеспечения градостроительной деятельности (ИСОГД)
 Исходно-разрешительная документация

Примечания

Административное право Российской Федерации
Кодексы Российской Федерации
Градостроительные регламенты
Появились в 2004 году в России
2004 год в праве
Градостроительство России


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Unter den Cadets de Gascogne ( für "Gascogner Kadetten") wird heute allgemein eine Freiwilligenkompanie der Gardes françaises verstanden, die im Französisch-Spanischen Krieg (1635–1659) diente. Durch Autoren wie Edmond Rostand und Alexandre Dumas dem Älteren erwarb sie anhaltenden literarischen Nachruhm.

In einem erweiterten Sinn wurde bereits im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts unter einem Gascogner Kadetten ein Spross der verarmten Kleinaristokratie des französischen Südwestens verstanden, der nichts besaß außer einem an Hochmut grenzenden übersteigerten Selbstwertgefühl und verbissenem Ehrgeiz. Als schnell reizbarer Glücksritter (Officier de fortune) versuchte er, bei Hof und mehr noch in der Armee Karriere zu machen. Die sprichwörtlich unzivilisierte "gascogner Manier" (manière gasconne) wurde von den übrigen Franzosen gleichermaßen belächelt und gefürchtet.

Geschichte
Die Kompanie wurde vermutlich zu Beginn des Französisch-Spanischen Krieges aufgestellt und bestand im Wesentlichen aus nachgeborenen Söhnen des Gascogner Kleinadels, es gehörten ihr aber auch Adelige anderer Regionen Frankreichs an. Die Kadetten dienten als Freiwillige ohne Sold, konnten jedoch das Kriegshandwerk erlernen und hoffen, bei passender Gelegenheit einen besoldeten Posten in der regulären Armee zu erhalten. Tatsächlich bildeten sie, vor allem in Kriegszeiten, ein Personalreservoir der Armee, die mit den Freiwilligen ihre durch Tod oder Invalidität gelichteten Regimenter, insbesondere die niederen Offiziersposten, auffüllte. Eine ähnliche Praxis war bis ins 18. Jahrhundert auch in den anderen Armeen Europas üblich.

Es ist indes fraglich, ob die Kompanie auch offiziell als Cadets de Gascogne tituliert wurde. In verschiedenen, auch zeitgenössischen Quellen wird die Truppe als Kompanie des Monsieurs de Carbon Castel-Jaloux genannt, der als Offizier des Régiment des Gardes françaises ihr Hauptmann war. Das entsprach dem damaligen Brauch, Einheiten oftmals nach ihren Inhabern zu benennen und nicht nach einer Region (erst ab dem 1. Januar 1791 wurden die Regimenter stattdessen nummeriert). Eine der wenigen Ausnahmen bildeten mehr oder weniger eigenständige Gardeformationen, etwa die Garde écossaise (Schottische Garde) oder die Cent-suisses (Hundertschweizer).

Die Truppe genoss bereits zu ihren Lebzeiten einen legendären Ruf. Die Casgogner Kadetten galten als disziplinlose Draufgänger, Raufbolde und Frauenhelden. Entsprechende Darstellungen und literarische Übersteigerungen finden sich etwa in dem Drama Cyrano de Bergerac von Edmond Rostand und dem Roman Die drei Musketiere von Alexandre Dumas dem Älteren.

Bekannte Mitglieder
Bekannte Mitglieder der Einheit waren:

 Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac
 Henry Le Bret
 Antonin Nompar de Caumont
 Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette

Auszug aus Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano von Bergerac – Kapitel 4, zweiter Aufzug, siebenter Auftritt:
Das sind die Gascogner Kadetten;
Ihr Hauptmann ist Castel-Jaloux.
Sie raufen und lügen und wetten;
Das sind die Gascogner Kadetten!
Sie halten zusammen wie Kletten
Und lieben und zürnen im Nu.
Das sind die Gascogner Kadetten;
Ihr Hauptmann ist Castel-Jaloux.

Sie fliehen vor weichlichen Betten
Und sammeln kein Geld in der Truh';
Sie pflegen ihr Haar nicht zu glätten;
Sie fliehen vor weichlichen Betten
Und stopfen in ihren Toiletten
Die Löcher und Risse nicht zu.
Sie fliehen vor weichlichen Betten
Und sammeln kein Geld in der Truh'.

Wenn Teufel zu Gegnern sie hätten,
Ihr Herz fällt nicht in die Schuh';
Sie würden dem Ruhm sich verketten,
Wenn Teufel zu Gegnern sie hätten!
Und gilt es zu kämpfen, zu retten,
Dann kommen sie gerne dazu ...
Wenn Teufel zu Gegnern sie hätten,
Ihr Herz fällt nicht in die Schuh'.

Das sind die Gascogner Kadetten;
Sie stören des Ehemanns Ruh'!
Ihr Blonden und auch ihr Brünetten,
Das sind die Gascogner Kadetten!
Euch hilft an verschwiegenen Stätten
Nicht lang euer sprödes Getu'!
Das sind die Gascogner Kadetten;
Sie stören des Ehemanns Ruh'.

Einzelnachweise

Militärischer Verband (französische Geschichte)


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Q: Loop through and concat spatial files with Geopandas I've been trying to batch process a series of .geojson files for demographic census tract data into into one output GeoDataFrame. All the inputs have the same file shape, shared index/label and geometry columns. For example:
Table 1:

Geo
Businesses
Geometry

Census Tract 1
5
Polygon(x,y)

Census Tract 2
6
Polygon(x,y)

Table 2:

Geo
Employees
Geometry

Census Tract 1
100
Polygon(x,y)

Census Tract 2
2
Polygon(x,y)

Table 3:

Geo
Loans
Geometry

Census Tract 1
94
Polygon(x,y)

Census Tract 2
3
Polygon(x,y)

...and so on.
I expect to get an output like this:

Geo
Businesses
Employees
Loans
Geometry

Census Tract 1
5
100
94
Polygon(x,y)

Census Tract 2
6
2
3
Polygon(x,y)

I've had scucess doing this for .csv and .xlxs files, but I have not been able to successfully with geopandas. So far my workflow has been the below:
First, I set point the .geojson files I want in my directory:
# point to files in data_path directory so we can loop them all
files = os.listdir(inputs_path)
files_mo_geojson = [f for f in files if f.endswith('MO.geojson')

#view
print(files_mo_geojson)
['SBALoans_CensusTract_MO.geojson',
'Businesses_5_9_Employees_CensusTract_MO.geojson',
'Businesses_Under50_Employees_CensusTract_MO.geojson',
'Businesses_1_4_Employees_CensusTract_MO.geojson']

then i make an empty geodataframe
gdf_mo = geopandas.GeoDataFrame()

and try various methods of getting the output desired
#this results in have teh index duplicated for each time a new geodataframe is adhered
for file in files_mo_geojson:
     data = geopandas.read_file(inputs_path/file)
     gdf_mo = gdf_mo.append(data,ignore_index=True)

or
#this results in only the first geodataframe being read in
for file in files_mo_geojson:
     data = geopandas.read_file(inputs_path/file)
     geopandas.GeoDataFrame(pandas.concat([gdf_mo,data], ignore_index=True))

or
#this results in all geodataframes being read in but only the first onen listed retaining values
for file in files_mo_geojson:
     data = geopandas.read_file(inputs_path/file)
     gdf_mo = gdf_mo.append(data,ignore_index=True).dissolve(by='label',aggfunc='sum')

or
#this results in only the first geodataframe being read in
for file in files_mo_geojson:
     data = geopandas.read_file(inputs_path/file)
     gdf_mo = geopandas.GeoDataFrame(gdf_mo.merge(data,left_on='geometry',right_on='geometry'))


The 2019 vintage will be remembered as one of the most trying in modern history. After 3 years of drought, we had sufficient rain during the winter of 2018. During bud break, we had very warm weather and cold weather immediately after that. This had a negative effect on the evenness of the budding and also the eventual shoot growth. Other than that and some wind during flowering, the conditions did not look too bad. We had moderate temperatures during the first part of ripening, and then a lot of very warm weather in December. The first Pinotages we picked was very uneven, and we had green, ripe and overripe berries in one vineyard. This was one of the most challenging vintages to determine when to pick the grapes. There was not the typical fruit expression that we were looking for, and the pH levels were still too low, and the acids too high.
We accordingly picked about a week later than normal to find better ripeness.
The later ripening varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon struggled to pick up sugar, and we had to pick the fruit at lower sugar levels because the berries were starting to deteriorate. Hopefully the lower alcohol levels will put a smile on some faces.
Of great benefit was the recently installed optical sorting machine which in most cases automatically removed all unripe berries and green matter.


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'Let It Be' at Palace Theatre, Manchester
Mike Strul
If you treat the "Let It Be" show as a tribute act it's a jolly toe tapping- sing along evening...
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If you treat the "Let It Be" show as a tribute act it's a jolly toe tapping- sing along evening, as its essentially a concert with an above average covers band offering a non-stop parade of hits in a rather matter of fact order from the group's early songs to tracks from their last Abbey Road album.
The show opens with a scene from the Cavern in Liverpool and your expectations are very high indeed as the scenery is great but I didn't really feel the band got the audience going at all and it was very difficult to create the atmosphere they were trying to generate.
There is no attempt to arrange the Beatles hits into a fictional story, such as in Mamma Mia!, and it isn't really a recreation of their historic rise in the mid sixties to seventies.
Nearly everyone got up to "Twist and Shout" but it was the great songs of the Beatles that kept the audience on their feet and not the energy of the band.
If you love the Beatles songs you were definitely in the right place but John Lennon's character was trying too hard to mimic a Liverpudlian accent and the other actors James Fox – Paul, etc weren't trying hard enough.
The costume changes and clothing which the Beatles were almost as famous for over the years of their evolution as a band were intermingled around film footage and some rather thought evoking hippy graphics from their Sgt Pepper era.
The encore was the best bit with "Let It Be" followed by "Hey Jude" and we all left with a smile on our faces. I still would have rather listened to The Beatles Greatest Hits in the car, singing at the top of my voice.
The actors for this performance were John Brosnan, James Fox, Michael Gagliano, Ben Cullingworth and Steve Greene
Let it be at the Palace Theatre is running till sat 8th march.
Tickets: £10 – £45
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Q: How to add picture taken by camera to GridView in my app I take picture and save it, now I want display it in gridView and repeat this process to build some kind of gallery photos taken by me. It should looks like (First screen) :

So at the start this gallery should be emptny then I will fill it.
here is what I got already
public class GuidePhotoAlbum extends Activity {

    private static final int TAKE_PICTURE = 1;
    Button button1;
    private Uri imageUri;
    GridView gridview;
    Bitmap help1;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
        setContentView(R.layout.guide_photo_album);
        gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridView);
        button1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonCam);
        //imageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView) ;

        button1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                TakePictureIntent();
            }
        });
    }

    private void TakePictureIntent()
    {
        int count = 0;
        Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
        imageUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"fname_" +"v" +count+".jpg"));
        takePictureIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT,imageUri);
        startActivityForResult(takePictureIntent, TAKE_PICTURE);
        count++;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data)
    {
        if(requestCode == TAKE_PICTURE)
        {
            if(resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK)
            {
                try {
                    help1 = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getContentResolver(),imageUri);
                    //imageView.setImageBitmap(thumbnail.extractThumbnail(help1,help1.getWidth(),help1.getHeight()));
                    gridview.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));
                }catch (Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    }

    public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter
    {

        public ImageAdapter(GuidePhotoAlbum guidePhotoAlbum) {

        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return 0;
        }

        @Override
        public Object getItem(int position) {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public long getItemId(int position) {
            return 0;
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            return null;
        }
    }

Don't exactly know what should I do inside this ImageAdapter to add this picture and display it. One more thing If will be a lot of images it should scroll.
Here XML to
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/guide_photo_album"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.example.kylu.layout.GuidePhotoAlbum">

    <LinearLayout

        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_height="0sp"
        android:layout_weight="3">

       <GridView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:id="@+id/gridView"
            android:numColumns="3"
            android:horizontalSpacing="5dp"
            android:verticalSpacing="5dp"
            android:stretchMode="columnWidth">

        </GridView>
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_height="0sp"
        android:layout_weight="1">
        <Button
            android:text="Take Picture"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:onClick="onClick"
            android:id="@+id/buttonCam" />
    </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

P.S Sorry for weak english

A: Get All images shot by Camera by following method
public void List<String> getCameraImages(Context context) {
final String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
final String selection = MediaStore.Images.Media.BUCKET_ID + " = ?";
final String[] selectionArgs = { CAMERA_IMAGE_BUCKET_ID };
final Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
        projection,
        selection,
        selectionArgs,
        null);
ArrayList<String> result = new ArrayList<String>(cursor.getCount());
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
    final int dataColumn = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
    do {
        final String data = cursor.getString(dataColumn);
        result.add(data);
    } while (cursor.moveToNext());
}
cursor.close();
return result;

}
Change your imageAdpater construtor like this
public ImageAdapter(Context context,List<String>list) {
     this.imageList = list;
    }

and put following code in getview method of your imageAdapter
ImageView imageView;
     if (convertView == null) {  // if it's not recycled, initialize some attributes
         imageView = new ImageView(mContext);
         imageView.setLayoutParams(new GridView.LayoutParams(220, 220));
         imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP);

     } else {
         imageView = (ImageView) convertView;
     }

     Bitmap bm = decodeSampledBitmapFromUri(itemList.get(position), 220, 220);

     imageView.setImageBitmap(bm);
     return imageView;


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The kids, in full army gear, set out for a rescue mission. As they learn more about each other they form a bond of brotherhood and friendship called …THE RACK PACK.


For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by stories.
As a child, I remember reading any and every thing that I could lay my hands on. From fairy tales to westerns to mysteries to newspapers… and there was that one romance novel from my sister's room that made me physically ill in the pit of my stomach, but that is another story for another day.
(Actually… that day will not come, because I cannot think about it without making myself nauseated all over again).
We should talk about those fairy tales though. I would have liked to meet some of the authors because I had a host of questions.


which allows me to do slicing. But the problem is it only takes int64_t as input but x0, y0, x1 and y1 are CUDA tensors. I just wonder how PyTorch implements the Python version of slicing (i.e. data[:, x0:x1, y0:y1]). I tried searching the source code but I couldn't that.
How should I implement the C++ extension for the above code?
Either slice() or narrow() (https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/torch.html#torch.narrow, https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/b2dde4386adf110262203a57d8cc552309be0e27/aten/src/ATen/core/Tensor.h#L441) should work. If x0 is a single-element tensor, we can use x0.item().toInt() to cast it to int64_t.


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Q: Swift Class for multiple targets can't compile when calling target-specific functions In order to not rewrite the same code for different targets, I have "Universal" classes that are accessible for all targets.
Now I'm facing a problem where I call an API that's available on one target but not on the other. I don't care about functionality for the other target, the problem is that the code does not build as I'm unable to specify that the code should only get called on the "supported" target.
    @available(iOS 13.0, *)
    func isTestDevice() -> Bool {
        #if canImport(UIKit)
        print("iPhone")
        print(UIDevice.current.identifierForVendor?.uuidString) //Cannot find 'UIDevice' in scope
        return true
        #endif
        return false
    }

How can I make this function "optional" in a way that on devices that support UIDevice it returns true but on other targets it returns false?

A: Neither @available(iOS 13.0, *) nor #if canImport seem to check at compile time for some reason.
I got it working by doing
#if os(iOS)
    print(UIDevice.current.identifierForVendor?.uuidString)
#endif

then it does not try to compile for other platforms.


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Post-study work visa plans heard by Scottish Affai...
Post-study work visa plans heard by Scottish Affairs Committee
Sat, 2015-12-12 09:52 AM
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UK Immigration Minister, James Brokenshire, faced questions from MPs at a Scottish Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday, 9 December 2015, over the possibility of re-introducing a post-study work visa scheme in Scotland. Robert Wright, Economics Professor at Strathclyde University, along with two immigration lawyers were also in attendance at the meeting to provide evidence.
Post-study work visa should be reinstated
The Scottish Affairs Committee, based in the Westminster Parliament chaired by the Scottish National Party's (SNP) Pete Wishart, is carrying out an inquiry into whether the post-study work visa scheme should be reintroduced.
Scottish Government's Post-study work Group also supports scheme
In March this year [2015], a report published by the separate Scottish Government's post-study work group insisted that students from outside the European Union should be granted 'special permission' to remain and seek employment in Scotland upon completion of their studies.
The group further recommended that the post-study work visa (previously called Tier 1 Post Study Work visa), which the UK government scrapped in 2012, should be reinstated. However, the Home Office disagrees stating that the previous visa system, which permitted non-EU graduates to stay in the UK for two years after completing their studies, was subject to 'widespread abuse.'
The post-study work visa scheme officially ended on 6 April 2012. The now defunct UK Border Agency stopped processing applications for Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) visas, leaving those on Tier 4 student visas wishing to remain in the UK after graduation, probably either having to apply for a Tier 2 visa or leave the UK.
In many cases that meant only graduates who had a skilled job from a sponsoring employer with a Tier 2 sponsorship licence under Tier 2 of the points-based system would be able to stay and work in the UK.
Others Support New Post Study Work Visa programme
Mr Wishart, who is the MP for Perth and North Perthshire, said that so far evidence indicates 'cross-sector support for some type of programme.' He said: "Representatives from the Scottish Government, industry and trade unions have all explained how it would benefit them."
"This session helped us to drill down to the nuts and bolts of the issue, to understand how such a system could operate. We welcomed Mr Brokenshire's participation, to hear his reaction to such widespread support and get an update on cross-government talks on the issue," Mr Wishart added.
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MP's report reveals problems with British immigration system.
A recent parliamentary report reveals serious problems with the UK's immigration system. The report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised £1bn wasted on cancelled IT projects...


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Пук:

 Пук — связка, кипа однородных предметов, пучок.
 Пук — звукоподражательное название отхождения пищеварительных газов (см. метеоризм).
 Пук, или Пак — мифологический персонаж в фольклоре фризов, саксов и скандинавов.
 PUK-код () — персональный код разблокировки SIM-карты.

Аббревиатура
 ПУК — Пероксиуксусная кислота

Фамилия
 Пук, Елена Васильевна (более известна как Аладова; 1907—1986) — искусствовед, заслуженный деятель искусств Беларуси.
 Пук, Жоселин (род. 1960) — британская альтистка и композитор.
 Пук, Карл Рудольф (1877—1945) — американский художник.
 Пукк, Мартти (род. 1977) - эстонский футболист

См. также
 Пука (значения)
 Пукк
 Пуко
 Пуков (значения)


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Oy Teboil Ab is an oil company in Finland, engaged in the marketing, sales and distribution of petroleum products and operation of filling and service stations. It is a subsidiary of the Russian company Lukoil.

History

Teboil was established by Mauritz Skogström in Helsinki in 1934 at the name Trustivapaa Bensiini (meaning: "Trust-free Petrol (Benzene)"), abbr. TB, from which came the current name in 1966. At the same year, Estonian shale oil companies Eesti Kiviõli and New Consolidated Gold Fields became the main shareholders in the company.  Another predecessor of Teboil, Suomen Petrooli, was established by German investors in Vyborg in 1932.  During World War II, the ownership of Trustivapaa Bensiini was transferred to German owners and later the company was held by the Ehrnrooth's family. After the Continuation War, in 1947 according to the Paris Peace Treaty TB became affiliated and it became the property of the Soviet Union state-owned company Soyuznefteexport. In 1966, the company changed its name to Teboil, which came from the pronouncing of its abbreviation TB with addition 'oil'. During these years, the Finnish government enterprise Neste held a legal monopoly in the wholesale of oil products, thus also Teboil actually obtained its petrol and diesel from Neste.

There is some evidence that Teboil kept tank fuel reserves, in the case the Soviets would invade. These were discontinued after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1994 Soyuznefteexport was privatised and reorganised into Nafta-Moskva. In 2005, Nafta-Moskva sold Teboil to Lukoil.  Teboil acquired JET unmanned stations chain in Finland, from the American company ConocoPhillips in 2006 and they were integrated into the Teboil chain as Teboil Express unmanned stations in 2007. The lubricant factory and laboratory functions of Teboil was moved to the subsidiary LLK Finland, founded in 2007. The three subsidiaries, Suomen Petrooli, Suomen Tähtihovit and Suomen Tähtiautomaatit were merged to the parent company in 2008.
March 3, 2022 Teboil asked Finnish newspaper Kaleva not to use the term "war" when reporting on the company and war in Ukraine and replace "war words" with more Russian-friendly terms like conflict. https://www.is.fi/autot/art-2000008667168.html

Service station network

At the end of year 2012 there were 336 business locations, of which 141 service stations and 195 unmanned refuelling stations. Commercial traffic is served by around 450 refuelling stations, of which about 210 are unmanned diesel points.

The brand Autoasi ("Of Your Car") works in the car maintenance and spare parts services of Teboil Service Centres.

Market shares

Teboil is the second-largest oil company in Finland. The company's turnover in 2012 was €2,369 million, and its market share of oil product sales in Finland was 26,8 %.

Market shares in 2012
 petrol 17.7%
 diesel 27.1%
 light heating oil 32.8%
 heavy heating oil 48.6%
 liquid gas 17.9%
 lubricants 30.1%

See also

 Energy in Finland

References

External links
 Teboil homepages

Oil companies of Finland
Lukoil
Finland–Soviet Union relations


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Local distribution: Common and widespread throughout Britain and Ireland.
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Foraging season: Leaves in spring.
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