South Park sequel gets R18+ in Australia with no cuts
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-29-south-park-sequel-gets-r18-in-australia-with-no-cuts
The Fractured But Whole escapes the fate of its predecessor
South Park sequel gets R18+ in Australia with no cuts
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-29-south-park-sequel-gets-r18-in-australia-with-no-cuts
The Fractured But Whole escapes the fate of its predecessor
#Trigonometry #Mathematics #Ancient #Babylonians #Babylon #IRAQ #Ou...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/5955012
#Trigonometry #Mathematics #Ancient #Babylonians #Babylon #IRAQ #Our #World
Babylonians developed trigonometry ’superior’ to modern day version 3,700 years ago
They also beat the Ancient Greeks to it, according to Australian academics
Friday 25 August 2017 by Ian Johnston
The Ancient Babylonians knew about a form of trigonometry more advanced than the modern-day version – about 1,000 years before its supposed invention by the Ancient Greeks, academics in Australia say.
The astonishing claim is based on a 3,700-year-old clay tablet inscribed with a table of numbers.
Known as Plimpton 322, it is already known to contain evidence that the Babylonians knew Pythagoras’ famous equation for right-angled triangles, long before the Greek philosopher gave his name to it. (...)
The U.S. Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-spy-hub-cia-pine-gap-australia
An investigation, published Saturday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in collaboration with The Intercept, punctures the wall of secrecy surrounding Pine Gap, revealing for the first time a wide range of details about its function. The base is an important ground station from which U.S. spy satellites are controlled and communications are monitored across several continents, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept from the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Together with the NSA’s Menwith Hill base in England, Pine Gap has in recent years been used as a command post for two missions. The first, named M7600, involved at least two spy satellites and was said in a secret 2005 document to provide “continuous coverage of the majority of the Eurasian landmass and Africa.” This initiative was later upgraded as part of a second mission, named M8300, which involved “a four satellite constellation” and covered the former Soviet Union, China, South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and territories in the Atlantic Ocean.
Quelques références trouvées dans le livre Violent Borders de Reece Jones (excellent, par ailleurs), sur les #statistiques des décès de migrants (certains, voire beaucoup déjà signalés sur seenthis):
Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Border
This report is the result of a cooperative agreement entered into by Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties to explore and use binational strategies to protect the human rights of immigrants in the border region. The report describes the unacceptable human tragedy that takes place daily in this region. The study was conducted and written by immigration and border policy advocate Maria Jimenez who resides in Houston, Texas.
▻https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/humanitarian-crisis-migrant-deaths-us-mexico-border
Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost during Migration
In October 2013, over 400 people lost their lives in two shipwrecks close to the Italian island of Lampedusa. While these two events were highly publicized, sadly they are not isolated incidents; the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that in 2013 and 2014 nearly 6,500 migrants lost their lives in border regions around the world. Because many deaths occur in remote areas and are never reported, counts of deaths fail to capture the full number of lives lost.
Despite recognition that actions must be taken to stop more unnecessary deaths, as yet there remains very little information on the scale of the problem. The vast majority of governments do not publish numbers of deaths, and counting lives lost is largely left to civil society and the media. Drawing upon data from a wide range of sources from different regions of the world, Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost during Migration investigates how border-related deaths are documented, who is documenting them, and what can be done to improve the evidence base to encourage informed accountability, policy and practice.
Regionally focused chapters present most recent statistics and address a number of key questions regarding how migrant border-related deaths are enumerated. Chapters address: migration routes through Central America to the United States, with a focus on the United States–Mexico border region; the southern European Union bordering the Mediterranean; routes from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa; routes taken by migrants emigrating from the Horn of Africa towards the Gulf or Southern Africa; and the waters surrounding Australia.
Numbers have the power to capture attention, and while counts of border-related deaths will always be estimates, they serve to make concrete something which has been left vague and ill-defined. In a way, through counting, deaths too often invisible are given existence. More complete data can not only serve to highlight the extent of what is taking place, but is also crucial in guiding effective policy response.
▻https://publications.iom.int/fr/books/fatal-journeys-tracking-lives-lost-during-migration
#fatal_journeys
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people―more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.Working at a range of geographic scales and locations, contributors examine concrete and ideological connections among prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification, and militarization. They challenge the idea that prisons and borders create safety, security, and order, showing that they can be forms of coercive mobility that separate loved ones, disempower communities, and increase shared harms of poverty. Walls and cages can also fortify wealth and power inequalities, racism, and gender and sexual oppression.As governments increasingly rely on criminalization and violent measures of exclusion and containment, strategies for achieving change are essential. Beyond Walls and Cages develops abolitionist, no borders, and decolonial analyses and methods for social change, showing how seemingly disconnected forms of state violence are interconnected. Creating a more just and free world―whether in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, the Morocco-Spain region, South Africa, Montana, or Philadelphia―requires that people who are most affected become central to building alternatives to global crosscurrents of criminalization and militarization.
The Human Costs of Border Control (2007)
This article outlines the relationship between irregular immigration, increased border control, and the number of casualties at Europe’s maritime borders. The conclusion is that the number of fatalities is increasing as a result of increased border control. The author argues that States have a positive obligation under international law to address this issue, and formulates concrete proposals to monitor the number of border deaths.
▻http://thomasspijkerboer.eu/migrant-deaths-academic/the-human-costs-of-border-control-2007
#migrations #asile #réfugiés #chiffres #décès #morts #rapport #USA #Etats-Unis #frontières #Mexique
Fatal Journeys Volume 3 Part 1: Improving Data on Missing Migrants
Since 2014, more than 22,500 migrant deaths and disappearances have been recorded by the International Organization for Migration globally. The real figure could be much higher, but many deaths are never recorded. Fatal Journeys Volume 3 – Part 1 provides a global review of existing data sources, and illustrates the need for improvements in the ways that data on missing migrants are collected, analysed and communicated.
The report highlights three key ways in which to improve the collection, sharing and reporting of data on missing migrants. First, a growing number of innovative sources of data on missing migrants, such as “big data”, could be used to improve data on migrant fatalities. Second, much more could be done to gather data to increase identification rates, such as developing intraregional mechanisms to share data more effectively. Third, improving data on missing migrants also requires more thought and improved practice in the use and communication of such data. Improving information and reporting on who these missing migrants are, where they come from, and above all, when they are most at risk, is crucial to building a holistic response to reduce the number of migrant deaths.
►https://publications.iom.int/books/fatal-journeys-volume-3-part-1-improving-data-missing-migrants
#données #rapport #médias #journalisme #presse #couverture_médiatique #identification #corps #ceux_qui_restent #fatal_journeys #celleux_qui_restent
Nouveau rapport de l’OIM « Fatal journeys » (publié en 2017)
Fatal Journeys Volume 3 PART 2
▻https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/fatal_journeys_3_part2.pdf
#cartographie #visualisation
Crash Bandicoot back on top in Australia, New Zealand charts
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-10-crash-bandicoot-back-on-top-in-australia-new-zealand-chart
Australia-developed Rugby League Live knocked to No.2 as nostalgia train thunders on
Tiny ’meat-loving’ marine creatures ’eat’ teenager’s legs at Melbourne beach | Australia news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/07/tiny-meat-loving-marine-creatures-eat-teenagers-legs-at-melbourne-beach
A Melbourne teenager says his legs were covered in blood after they were eaten by tiny marine creatures at a Victorian beach.
When Sam Kanizay, 16, felt sore after football on Saturday, he decided to soak his legs at Dendy Street beach in Brighton.
Half an hour later, he walked out covered in what his family said were tiny marine creatures eating his legs.
Australia Fines NYK $25 Million for ’Criminal Cartel Conduct’ – gCaptain
▻http://gcaptain.com/australia-fines-nyk-25-million-criminal-cartel-conduct
The Federal Court of Australia has convicted Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) of criminal #cartel conduct and ordered it to pay a fine of $25 million relating to the transportation of motor vehicles to Australia between 2009 and 2012.
The fine is the second-highest fine ever imposed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC). The judgment also marks the first successful prosecution under the criminal cartel provisions of the country’s Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA).
Following an extensive investigation by the ACCC, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions charged NYK with “giving effect to cartel provisions in an arrangement or understanding with other shipping lines” over the transportation of vehicles to Australia between 2009 and 2012, the ACCC said in a statement.
“The cartel operated from at least February 1997 and affected vehicles transported to Australia by NYK and other shipping lines from locations in Asia, the US and Europe on behalf of major car manufacturers including Nissan, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota and Mazda,” The ACCC said.
… and Europe…
Rugby League Live finally dethrones Crash Bandicoot in Australia, New Zealand charts
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-03-rugby-league-live-finally-dethrones-crash-bandicoot-in-aus
Activision’s remasters settle for No.2, Splatoon 2 drops out of New Zealand top ten in second week
Hungry, poor, exploited: alarm over Australia’s import of farm workers
Each year thousands of Pacific island workers come to Australia to work on farms. Allegations of mistreatment are worryingly reminiscent of the era of bonded labour ‘blackbirding’, campaigners say
Cost for Australia’s offshore immigration detention near $5 billion
Ahead of Wednesday’s four-year anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s move to reinstate hardline rules to send any asylum seeker arriving in Australia by boat to offshore detention, Senate committee figures show the total operational and infrastructure costs for Australia’s detention facilities on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island has reached $4.89 billion.
via @forumasile
Australia’s ‘border protection’ policies cost taxpayers $4bn last year
Figure includes $1bn spent on detaining 1,140 refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru and a further $1.06bn on border enforcement
▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jan/05/australias-border-protection-policies-cost-taxpayers-4bn-last-year
PlayStation Plus fees going up in Europe, Australia
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-07-28-playstation-plus-fees-going-up-in-europe-australia
Starting August 31, Sony’s prices for online play subscription service will jump as much as 33%
Sperm counts of Western men are plummeting, analysis finds - CNN.com
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/sperm-counts-declining-study/index.html
Sperm counts of men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are plunging, according to a new analysis published Tuesday.
Among these men there has been a 52% decline in sperm concentration and a 59% decline in total sperm count over a nearly 40-year period ending in 2011, the analysis, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, said.
[…]
Though Levine emphasized that his analysis did not study the cause of declines, he speculated the reason may be “°we are exposed to many chemicals we’ve never been exposed to before.°”
Previous studies, including his own, show that exposure in utero to endocrine disrupting chemicals can harm male reproductive system development and fertility potential. Commonly used chemicals, including pesticides, lead and fire retardants, can increase or decrease production of certain hormones within our bodies and so are said to disrupt our endocrine, or hormone-making, system.
Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group Environmental Working Group, noted that sperm is manufactured daily by men’s bodies. Recent exposures to environmental chemicals would have an effect on sperm, which serves as a good indicator of contamination, while also serving as a good biomarker of men’s health.
Lunder cites the work of Russ Hauser, a professor of reproductive physiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who suggests that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be associated with poorer sperm quality among men and worse reproductive outcomes among women.
Résumé de l’étude (accessible intégralement)
Temporal trends in sperm count: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis | Human Reproduction Update | Oxford Academic
▻https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/doi/10.1093/humupd/dmx022/4035689/Temporal-trends-in-sperm-count-a-systematic-review
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Reported declines in sperm counts remain controversial today and recent trends are unknown. A definitive meta-analysis is critical given the predictive value of sperm count for fertility, morbidity and mortality.
OBJECTIVE AND RATIONALE
To provide a systematic review and meta-regression analysis of recent trends in sperm counts as measured by sperm concentration (SC) and total sperm count (TSC), and their modification by fertility and geographic group.
SEARCH METHODS
PubMed/MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched for English language studies of human SC published in 1981–2013. Following a predefined protocol 7518 abstracts were screened and 2510 full articles reporting primary data on SC were reviewed. A total of 244 estimates of SC and TSC from 185 studies of 42 935 men who provided semen samples in 1973–2011 were extracted for meta-regression analysis, as well as information on years of sample collection and covariates [fertility group (‘Unselected by fertility’ versus ‘Fertile’), geographic group (‘Western’, including North America, Europe Australia and New Zealand versus ‘Other’, including South America, Asia and Africa), age, ejaculation abstinence time, semen collection method, method of measuring SC and semen volume, exclusion criteria and indicators of completeness of covariate data]. The slopes of SC and TSC were estimated as functions of sample collection year using both simple linear regression and weighted meta-regression models and the latter were adjusted for pre-determined covariates and modification by fertility and geographic group. Assumptions were examined using multiple sensitivity analyses and nonlinear models.
OUTCOMES
SC declined significantly between 1973 and 2011 (slope in unadjusted simple regression models −0.70 million/ml/year; 95% CI: −0.72 to −0.69; P < 0.001; slope in adjusted meta-regression models = −0.64; −1.06 to −0.22; P = 0.003). The slopes in the meta-regression model were modified by fertility (P for interaction = 0.064) and geographic group (P for interaction = 0.027). There was a significant decline in SC between 1973 and 2011 among Unselected Western (−1.38; −2.02 to −0.74; P < 0.001) and among Fertile Western (−0.68; −1.31 to −0.05; P = 0.033), while no significant trends were seen among Unselected Other and Fertile Other. Among Unselected Western studies, the mean SC declined, on average, 1.4% per year with an overall decline of 52.4% between 1973 and 2011. Trends for TSC and SC were similar, with a steep decline among Unselected Western (−5.33 million/year, −7.56 to −3.11; P < 0.001), corresponding to an average decline in mean TSC of 1.6% per year and overall decline of 59.3%. Results changed minimally in multiple sensitivity analyses, and there was no statistical support for the use of a nonlinear model. In a model restricted to data post-1995, the slope both for SC and TSC among Unselected Western was similar to that for the entire period (−2.06 million/ml, −3.38 to −0.74; P = 0.004 and −8.12 million, −13.73 to −2.51, P = 0.006, respectively).
WIDER IMPLICATIONS
This comprehensive meta-regression analysis reports a significant decline in sperm counts (as measured by SC and TSC) between 1973 and 2011, driven by a 50–60% decline among men unselected by fertility from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Because of the significant public health implications of these results, research on the causes of this continuing decline is urgently needed.
Dans la mesure où c’est un suicide collectif de l’humanité, je propose de le rajouter aux compilations :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/499739
►https://seenthis.net/messages/524060
#effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #Anthropocène #capitalocène
#suicide #fertilité #sperme
Encore plus efficace que #childfree #no_kids #nullipare
... his analysis did not study the cause of declines, he speculated ...
Well, that moved quickly from evidence to speculation as to cause. So this is not a scientific journal but a space for speculation?
Dans les pays occidentaux, le nombre moyen de #spermatozoïdes a chuté de moitié en quarante ans
20 minutes, le 26 juillet 2017
►http://www.20minutes.fr/sante/2110115-20170726-nombre-moyen-spermatozoides-chute-moitie-40-ans-pays-occi
What it’s like to live and work illegally in Australia
Most of the people I spoke to came to Australia on a tourist visa with no work rights. Some workers told me about agents outside of Australia who target people who cannot afford a working visa or who don’t have the means to apply. For example, a retired teacher in her mid-50s, told me:
Australia says Chinese spy ship near war games
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-usa-china-idUSKBN1A7047
A Chinese spy ship has been detected off the Australian coast near joint war games underway between the United States, New Zealand and Australian militaries, the Australian Defense Force (ADF) said on Saturday.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy Type 815 Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence vessel was operating off the northeast coast during the Talisman Sabre war games, the ADF said in a statement.
The Chinese ship remained outside Australian territorial waters but was inside the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone in the Coral Sea, it said.
“The vessel’s presence has not detracted from the exercise objectives. Australia respects the rights of all states to exercise freedom of navigation in international waters in accordance with international law,” the statement said.
More than 30,000 troops from the United States, New Zealand and Australia are taking part in biennial war games, which end in late July.
Chinese spy ship watching Australia’s Talisman Sabre war games
▻http://www.news.com.au/world/a-chinese-spy-ship-has-been-watching-australias-talisman-sabre-war-games/news-story/41db16b1e9f27a55f3c9dfd1ac672bd0
MH370 search data unveils fishing hot spots, ancient geological movements
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-mh370-mapping-idUSKBN1A407W
Detailed sea-floor maps made during the unsuccessful search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, released by Australia on Wednesday, could help increase the knowledge of rich fisheries and the prehistoric movement of the earth’s southern continents.
[…]
“There are the locations of seamounts which will attract a lot of international deep sea fishermen to the area,” Pattiaratchi told Reuters by phone.
High-priced fish such as tuna, toothfish, orange roughy, alfonsino and trevally are known to gather near the seamounts, where plankton swirl in the currents.
Pattiaratchi said the location of seamounts would also help model the impact of tsunamis, given undersea mountains help dissipate their destructive energy, and potentially change our understanding of the break-up of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.
Drowning mothers
As refugees try to cross the Mediterranean Sea - women are more likely to drown.
Women’s increased risk of death is not only true for the Mediterranean journey. The same lethal pattern can be seen along other borders. A major quantitative study of “border-crossing deaths” by Sharon Pickering and Brandy Cochrane focuses on precisely “where, how and why women die crossing borders”. Using data from 2012, well before the current crisis, Pickering and Cochrane surveyed deaths among female migrants in three areas of the world: in the Mediterranean on the way to the EU, in the Mexican desert on the way to the United States, and in the South Pacific for migrants sailing from Indonesia toward Australia.
On the ships, women and children are often placed below deck by their male family members in order to protect them during the crossing. But this location can quickly become a trap, often with tragic consequences. Rescue teams coming to the aid of capsized ships often find women and children who have suffocated from toxic exhaust fumes or drowned by incoming waters. Women often have poorer swimming skills compared to men, and their attempts to save their children often also lead to their higher risk of drowning. When rescuers discover drowned women, they often find them with heavier clothing that pulled them under the water.
#femmes #genre #mourir_en_mer #morts_en_mer #mortalité #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Méditerranée #frontières
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/sine-plambech/drowning-mothers
L’article scientifique auquel fait référence l’article publié sur Open Democracy :
Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender : Where, how and why women die crossing borders
In a global era of increased securitization of migration between the developed and developing world this article undertakes a gendered analysis of the ways women die irregularly crossing borders. Through an examination of datasets in Europe, the USA and Australia it finds women are more likely to die crossing borders at the harsh physical frontiers of nation-states rather than at increasingly policed ‘internal border’ sites. The reasons why women are dying are not clearly discernible from the data, yet based on the extant literature it is reasonable to conclude that gendered social practices within families, and within countries of origin and transit, as well as the practices of smuggling markets, are key contributing factors.
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480612464510
#USA #Australie #Europe
cc @reka
Migranti: la strage delle mamme, a Trapani morti e piccoli orfani
(AGI) - Trapani, 28 lug. - E’ una strage della mamme quella che si e’ consumata al largo della Libia martedi’ scorso, quando la nave della Ong spagnola Proactiva Open Arms ha individuato un gommone con 167 migranti a bordo e i cadaveri di 13 persone. Testimoni e soccorritori raccontano la portata dell’ultimo dramma dell’immigrazione. Tra gli sbarcati stamane a Trapani ci sono infatti anche sei bimbi che hanno meno di 5 anni e che sono rimasti orfani, dice Giovanna Di Benedetto, portavoce di Save the Children, sul molo per l’arrivo della «Vos Hestia», la nave della Ong giunta sul molo Ronciglio con 254 migranti e i cadaveri di 8 donne (2 in gravidanza) e 5 uomini.
▻http://www.agi.it/regioni/sicilia/2017/07/28/news/migranti_la_strage_delle_mamme_a_trapani_morti_e_piccoli_orfani-1989219
300 000 fois plus grand que celui qui a coulé le Titanic, un iceberg se détache de l’Antarctique
12 juillet 2017
▻https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_un-iceberg-geant-se-detache-de-l-antarctique?id=9658208
Un iceberg de mille milliards de tonnes, l’un des plus gros jamais vus, vient de se former après s’être détaché du continent Antarctique, ont affirmé mercredi des chercheurs de l’Université de Swansea (Royaume-Uni).
« La formation s’est produite entre lundi et mercredi », précisent les scientifiques, qui surveillaient l’évolution de ce bloc de glace gigantesque.
Ce gigantesque iceberg pourrait rendre la navigation très hasardeuse pour les navires voguant à proximité du continent gelé, rapportait, il y a 15 jours, des scientifiques.
Une immense faille de 175 km de long, identifiée depuis 2014, s’était créée sur la barrière de Larsen, une formation de glace le long de la côte orientale de la péninsule Antarctique du Cap Longing.
5000 km2
Cette faille, appelée Larsen C, a isolé un morceau de banquise de 5000 km2 qui, le 21 juin, n’était plus relié au reste du continent que par un bras de glace de 13 km. Celui-ci a cédé.
L’iceberg qui menace de se détacher est 300 000 fois plus grand que celui qui a coulé le Titanic et l’un des plus grands jamais enregistrés.
Un iceberg géant se détache de l’Antarctique
12 juillet 2017
▻https://reporterre.net/Un-iceberg-geant-se-detache-de-l-Antarctique
Two Luxembourgs, 10 Madrids, one Delaware: How a giant iceberg in Antarctica is described around the world — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1027701/two-luxembourgs-10-madrids-one-delaware-how-a-giant-iceberg-in-antarctica-is-des
Here’s a tour of the world, by way of iceberg-sized places:
In Argentina the iceberg was 25 times the size of Buenos Aires
In Australia it was twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory
In Belgium it was half the size of Flanders
In Brazil it was the size of the Federal District
In Canada it was the size of Prince Edward Island
In Chile it was the size of Cordillera Province
In Cyprus it was equivalent to two Luxembourgs
In Denmark it was the size of Funen
In Finland it was twice the size of Gotland
In France it was 60 times larger than Paris
In Germany it was twice as big as Saarland
In Greece it was the size of Crete
In India it was one-and-a-half times the size of Goa
In Indonesia it was almost as large as the island of Bali
In Italy it was the size of the Liguria region
In Japan it was the size of Mie prefecture
In Mexico it was 55 times the size of Paris
In the Netherlands it was slightly larger than the province of Gelderland
In Norway it was the size of Akershus county
In Poland it was one-third the size of Malopolska Province
In Russia it was quarter the size of the Moscow region
In South Korea it was half the size of Gyeonggi Province
In Spain it was the size of 10 Madrids
In Taiwan it was one-sixth of Taiwan
In Turkey it was four times the size of Istanbul
In the UK it was a quarter the size of Wales
In Ukraine it was half the size of the Transcarpathian region
And in the US it was definitely a Delaware
So groß ist der Eisberg im Vergleich zu Ihrer Stadt
▻https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/eisberg-groessenvergleich
These Images Show Just How Big the Larsen C Iceberg Is | Climate Central
▻http://www.climatecentral.org/news/images-larsen-c-iceberg-size-21612
#Iceberg_A68 désormais
Drifting Antarctic iceberg A-68 opens up clear water - BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40635883
The giant iceberg known as A-68 that was produced in the Antarctic last week continues to drift seaward.
All the latest satellite images indicate the gap between the 6,000-sq-km block and the floating Larsen C Ice Shelf from which it calved is widening.
The particular image on this page was acquired by the Deimos-1 satellite.
It is not easy getting pictures of the Antarctic at this time of year because of the long winter nights and because of cloud cover.
New map records sites of Australia’s colonial #massacres
▻http://news.trust.org/item/20170706090917-jkpp8
Map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872
By Ben Cooper
SYDNEY, July 6 (Reuters) - A new map that tracks the massacres of indigenous Australians by European settlers over more than 80 years, dating from the 18th century, could prove to be the country’s most comprehensive guide to the strife when it is completed.
The exact number of indigenous deaths since Australia’s settlement has long been debated, but the map is the first to detail evidence of more than 150 massacres involving almost every aboriginal clan between 1788 and 1872.
That compares with six recorded massacres of colonists during the same period.
“At present, it’s a preliminary list, as we expect to find more massacres, as people come forward with more evidence,” historian and project author Lyndall Ryan said at the launch of the map on Wednesday.
The map, published by the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century, drew on sources such as settler diaries, newspaper reports, evidence from Aboriginal groups and state and federal archives, Ryan told reporters.
The map was an “incredible historical project that will have positive repercussions,” aboriginal leader Warren Mundine told Reuters.
“Knowledge is so important because with it you can do things; we can add to the education of our nation and know how we got where we are today.”
The project, which now covers only massacres on Australia’s eastern seaboard, took four years of painstaking research, with more expected over the next two years as incidents in the country’s west are mapped.
The map showed there had been “very intense periods of #violence in particular regions,” added Ryan, inviting those who had information on massacres to come forward.
New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars
After years of painstaking research, an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia’s colonial frontier has launched.
▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-05/new-map-plots-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-in-frontier-wars/8678466
#peuples_autochtones #cartographie #visualisation #aborigènes #Australie #massacre
cc @reka
A Backlash Builds Against Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/technology/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment.html
Several other start-up investors have also issued mea culpas for not doing enough to prevent sexual harassment, with some around the world beginning to strategize over how to avert the episodes in the first place. The New England Venture Capital Association, a trade group, last week invited its members to sign an anti-discrimination and sexual harassment statement. In Australia, start-up entrepreneurs also issued a statement condemning the behavior.
For years, the start-up and venture capital industry — which is predominantly male — has been immune to criticism about its behavior because the industry has created immense wealth by churning out hit companies, such as Facebook, Snap and Uber. The backlash now suggests that those successes are no longer enough to excuse the anything-goes conduct of some investors and entrepreneurs.
With more women willing to speak openly about harassment and discrimination, Kate Mitchell, a founder of a Silicon Valley venture firm, Scale Venture Partners, said the industry was facing “a tipping point.”
“The fact this behavior is pervasive and what we know seems to be the tip of the iceberg has made us understand the difficulty and reality of our challenge,” Ms. Mitchell said. “Actions need to be more aggressive and more all encompassing than what I previously thought.”
#Silicon_Valley #agressions_sexuelles #idéologie_californienne
Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France in 1550
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1550, Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known.Decoration:Hand-painted illustrations of cities, kings, exotic peoples, animals, ships, and sea-monsters. Arms of King Henry II of France (lower left corner of the map) and the Duc de Montmorency (lower right).
1550, Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known.Decoration:Hand-painted illustrations of cities, kings, exotic peoples, animals, ships, and sea-monsters. Arms of King Henry II of France (lower left corner of the map) and the Duc de Montmorency (lower right).
#cartographie #cartes_anciennes #cartographie_anciennes #cartographie_historique
Five Eyes nations stare menacingly at tech biz and its encryption • The Register
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Officials from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will discuss next month plans to force tech companies to break #encryption on their products.
Foreign Policy - Situation Report
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Syria ops normal. Mostly. Tensions remain high between the United States and Russia after Sunday’s shoot down of a Syrian jet, and Moscow’s threats to begin tracking all coalition flights west of the Euphrates River with its warplanes and missile defense systems. There’s already been a bit of fallout. Australia announced Tuesday it had suspended its flights into Syria, "as a precautionary measure,” Australia’s Department of Defence said in a statement.
Strikes continue. A daily roundup of airstrikes released by the U.S. Central Command Tuesday showed eight strikes around Raqqa, which sits directly on the Euphrates. “Coalition aircraft continue to conduct operations [unescorted by Russian aircraft] throughout Syria,” Col. Ryan Dillon, the Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, told SitRep in an email Tuesday.
He added that despite Russian claims to have shut down the “hotline” between American and Russian military officers in Syria, “we continue to use the de-confliction line with the Russians. The Coalition is always available to de-conflict with the Russians.”
Syrians on the move. In southern Syria, government forces recently took the al Waleed border crossing, an ISIS-held crossing close to the al Tanf garrison where 150 U.S. Special Operations Forces are based. For the first time in years Syrians greeted Iraqi troops, who pushed the Islamic State from their side of the border crossing over the weekend. U.S. military officials said they believe the reports of the border meet and greet are true, but had no further comment. FP’s Paul McLeary has more on the latest complications in the almost three-year American effort in Syria.
Australia suspends air strikes in Syria
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb//News/Middle-East/2017/Jun-20/410251-australia-suspends-air-strikes-in-syria.ashx
Australia said on Tuesday it was suspending air strikes into Syria following the U.S. downing of a Syrian military jet on Sunday and Russia’s subsequent threat against U.S.-led coalition aircraft.
“As a precautionary measure, Australian Defence Force (ADF) strike operations into Syria have temporarily ceased,” Australia’s Department of Defence said in a statement.
Alibaba Cloud to Launch Data Centers in India, Indonesia | Data Center Knowledge
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Together with the recently announced data center in Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud will significantly increase its computing resources in Asia. When the three new facilities open, the total number of locations will grow to 17, covering mainland China, Australia, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the US.
“I believe Alibaba Cloud, as the only global cloud services provider originating from Asia, is uniquely positioned with cultural and contextual advantages to provide innovative data intelligence and computing capabilities to customers in this region. Establishing data centers in India and Indonesia will further strengthen our position in the region and across the globe,” Hu said in a statement.