Japanese Infrastructure Deal with Bangladesh May Disrupt “Belt and Road” Initiative
On 29 June, the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) and the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh signed a loan agreement to provide official development assistance (ODA) loans of up to 178.225 billion yen (approximately $2.05 billion) to fund six major infrastructure projects. Bangladesh is one of the world’s fastest growing economies, accelerating at an average pace of six per cent per annum due to the development of its garment industries. As such, the country
Beijing's Belt and Road ambitions rekindle Sino-Indian row Border tensions set off by Chinese road-building in disputed area
Starting in mid-June, both sides have deployed troops on the Doklam plateau -- an ill-defined region in western Bhutan, which relies on India for military support. The tiny mountain kingdom and China signed a series of agreements to maintain peace in the disputed area, but the border issue remains unresolved. Tensions began rising June 16 when China started building a road in Doklam that can be used by military vehicles, according to Bhutan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials. Netanyahu accidentally reveals Israel has struck Iran-backed fighters in Syria ‘dozens of times’
It has never been a particularly well-kept secret that Israel has conducted clandestine airstrikes in Syrian territory over recent years. But this week, Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to not only admit that these strikes had occurred, but that they had occurred “dozens” of times.
Bill Gates endorses genetically modified mosquitoes to combat malaria
Bill Gates endorsed the use of a powerful and controversial new gene-editing tool to create malaria-resistant mosquitoes in an interview with Bloomberg News today.
The world’s deadliest creature isn’t what you might expect. A 2016 graphic from Bill Gates’ blog outlined the number of deaths per year related to animals. You’ll see the biggest offender: mosquitoes.
Bill Gates: Some People Think Eradicating Mosquitoes With Genetics Is Scary, But
The mosquito laser is a device invented by astrophysicist Lowell Wood to kill large numbers of ... In 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requested Intellectual Ventures LLC to find a way to fight and eventually end malaria.
Bill Gates drops $1m on laser-based malaria fighter Mosquitoes repelled by 'light wall'
Bill Gates Doubles His Bet on Wiping Out Mosquitoes with Gene Editing
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to double the sum it is spending to create a mosquito-killing technology that relies on CRISPR gene editing.
The technique, called a gene drive, is a way to spread traits through wild populations of animals, but its ability to alter nature is drawing opposition from some environmental groups.
Tomatoes, mosquitoes and lasers: bizarre projects receive Gates grants
Can tomatoes be taught to make antiviral drugs for people who eat them? Would zapping your skin with a laser make your vaccination work better? Could malaria-carrying mosquitoes be given a teensy head cold that would prevent them from sniffing out a human snack bar?
These are among 81 projects awarded $100,000 grants today by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a bid to support innovative unconventional global health research.
sec 6. Definitions. “The Commonwealth” shall mean the Commonwealth of Australia as established under this Act. “The States” shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called “a State.” “Original States” shall mean such States as are parts of the Commonwealth at its establishment.
44. Any person who— (i) Is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power:
for latest information roads around B.C. Closed Highway 1 from the Highway 97C junction near Ashcroft to about 5 km east of Cache Creek. Highway 97 from Cache Creek to Clinton. Highway 99 from Highway 97 Junction to Hat Creek Road. Local Traffic only from Lillooet to Hat Creek Road Highway 97 from Junction of Highway 24 to Timothy Lake Road (25km north of 100MH), but currently open SB for evacuees Highway 97 from Williams Lake to McLeese Lake Highway 5A between Princeton and Allison Lake
Directional Closure Highway 97 southbound between Kersley (15km south of Quesnel) and McLeese Lake. Highway 20 from Chilcotin Bridge to Alexis Creek west of Williams Lake (EB OPEN for evacuees, WB closed except for emergency responders) Highway 24 At Horse Lake Road (30km from 100MH) to all traffic destined for 100MH but open for traffic headed to Clinton.
Partial Closure (Local Traffic/Supplies Only) Highway 1 westbound from Savona to Cache Creek
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Suggest if fire is heading your way evacuate early don't leave till last minute, take insurance policies, bank info, family photos, gold and seek shelter elsewhere away from path of fires
B.C. wildfire resources ‘stretched’ as around 37,000 residents forced to leave their homes
B.C.’s chief fire information officer, said there were more than 160 wildfires burning on Sunday, including 15 that pose a very real threat to nearby communities.
Hot, windy weather has also caused a fire that started burning near Ashcroft to balloon and fire officials estimate it has now burned through 423 square kilometres.
Another fast-moving fire raced through brush and forest above Okanagan Lake in the community of Lake Country on Saturday, destroying eight homes.
on Sunday that 2,900 people are battling blazes across B.C., including 415 from out of province. There are 203 aircraft assisting in the fire fight.
“The lineup of traffic, of people, leaving the city was incredibly long. It was a long ribbon of red tail lights, all headed in the same direction,” he said. “It was almost dreamlike. A scene of a movie, almost, to be leaving in such numbers from your hometown.”
Ryll made it to Kamloops and stayed the night,
Several communities in the Cariboo, including Williams Lake and 100 Mile House, have been evacuated as dozens of fires burn in the tinder-dry region.
About 57,000 people in the Cariboo Regional District, including Williams Lake, are under an evacuation order or evacuation alert. Officials are looking at setting up a second large-scale Kamloops shelter for evacuees. 300 slept in arena last night. 700+ registered today
Vernon just set up a group lodging shelter for evacuees - will be open 24/7
As of 1 p.m. on Sunday, July 16: Highway 97 north of Williams Lake is closed to traffic. Traffic is being directed south on Highway 97, then east on Highway 24 to Little Fort, then down to Kamloops. Evacuees can travel southbound through the fire area north of 100 Mile House.
don't loose sight of all the derivatives (legal binding contractual instruments floating about space) that some say they forgave, (except in the case of Greece emmm) the same derivatives that sunk Iceland, those contractual obligations of unknown valve still floating about up cyberspace. lest we forget
the far-reaching aspirations of Chinese foreign policy global reach The initiative includes some 60 countries accounting for 60% of the world’s population, 30% of its GDP, and 75% of its energy resources.
China & Portugal step up cooperation on New Silk Road initiative
Lisbon and Beijing are to broaden links as part of the Belt and Road Initiative which is bringing together dozens of countries in a global infrastructure project, Xinhua reports Thursday.
The initiative envisages the creation of six economic corridors: Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar, China-Mongolia-Russia, China-Central Asia-West Asia, China-Indochina Peninsula, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Eurasian Land Bridge.
Beijing criticizes Indonesia renaming part of South China Sea
China's reaction Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said he wasn't aware of the details of Indonesia's decision, but reiterated his country's territorial claims to the South China Sea.
Now the ice has completely crumbled, breaking off an iceberg around 5800 square kilometres - three times the size of Stewart Island. It weighs 1 trillion tonnes.
Mosul's population, which has fallen from a peak of around two million, now comprises mostly Sunni Arabs, and after Saddam Hussein was defeated the jihadist group Al-Qaeda took root there.
US bombers flew over the disputed South China Sea a day ahead of joint drills with Japanese fighter jets over the East China Sea, the US military said on Friday as Washington stepped up pressure on Beijing over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.
In another deployment, the US 7th Fleet along with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz began an 11-day joint exercise with Indian and Japanese forces in the Bay of Bengal on Friday.
The USS Coronado arrived at Cam Ranh International Port, Vietnam, for a five-day exericise with the Vietnamese navy, Wednesday, July 5, 2017.
The Navy has kicked off naval drills with Vietnam, just days after sending a guided-missile destroyer near a South China Sea islet claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
The USS Coronado and USNS Salvor steamed into Vietnam’s Cam Ranh International Port Wednesday for the annual five-day “Naval Engagement Activity,” which will include ship handling, medical evacuations and practicing the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, a Navy statement said. Skill exchanges will cover shipboard damage control, shipboard medicine and law.
B-1B Lancers near Yeongwol County Korean border US B-1B Lancer bomber planes (top) flying over South Korea during a South Korea-US joint live fire drill conducted at a range in Yeongwol County on July 8, flying close to the DMZ in a show of force after Pyongyang’s latest missile test. — South Korean Defence Ministry/AFP pic
The long-range heavy aircraft each dropped a 2,000-pound (907.1 kilos) laser-guided bunker-busting smart bomb.
US bombers carried out a rare live fire drill in South Korea Friday, flying close to the DMZ in a show of force after Pyongyang’s latest missile test, the South’s defence ministry said
The US Missile Defense Agency said Friday it would soon test an anti-ballistic missile system in Alaska, days after the North demonstrated its arsenal was capable of striking parts of Alaska with the ICBM test.
Donald Trump had his highly anticipated meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday, talking to the Russian leader for two hours and 16 minutes, well over their appointed half-hour. Trump pressed Putin on the topic of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, and the two also discussed North Korea, according to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was in the room during the meeting, along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The two leaders were apparently so engrossed in conversation that First Lady Melania Trump attempted to get them to wrap up the conversation but was unsuccessful.
19:42 On the sidelines of the summit, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that Presidents Putin and Trump had agreed on details of a truce in conflict-ridden Syria. "It is our first success," said Tillerson. He added that Putin directly denied any state involvement in the US presidential election, a matter that is the subject of an investigation in Washington.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added that Trump had "accepted" Putin's assurances.
19:10 "We had a very lengthy conversation," said Putin after emerging from his one-on-one discussion with US counterpart Donald Trump. They discussed Syria, Ukraine and cyber security, Putin told the press. He apologized that the lengthy talk had made him late for his next meeting, with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
18:34 Presidents Trump and Putin finally emerge from their meeting after two and a half hours. According to the Associated Press, the two agreed on a plan for a cease-fire in southwestern Syria. 18:17 DW's Bernd Riegert reports that US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are still in their closed-door meeting, taking three times longer than expected.
The move onto the plateau by the Chinese military was resisted by the Bhutanese forces who asked the Chinese military to leave the area. When the Chinese troops refused, Indian soldiers in the area intervened and appeared to block the Chinese soldiers from moving forward. In retaliation, the Chinese troops destroyed two Indian military bunkers at the nearby Lalten checkpoint. Since this incident, both Chinese and Indian militaries have sent reinforcements to the area and the face-off between two of the region’s biggest armies continues.
Amidst growing belligerence at border, China outguns India's naval abilities in Indian Ocean Region 1 to 4
The Indian Navy has sighted over a dozen PLA-N warships, submarines and intelligence-gathering vessels in the Indian Ocean in the last few months.
These sightings come as the Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a three-week long standoff at the India-China-Bhutan tri-junction near Sikkim, leading to increasingly belligerent rhetoric between New Delhi and Beijing.
Trump and Putin take center stage as Hamburg's G20 begins This will be no easy meeting for German Chancellor Merkel. Disagreement on several issues hangs in the air, while the sideline meetings of Trump, Putin and Co. could overshadow the summit itself, Bernd Riegert reports.
On Thursday evening, police broke up a demonstration at which 1,000 members of the "Black Block" - the extreme anarchist end of the anti-capitalist movement - had gathered. According to authorities, around 6,000 protesters were still moving around in groups overnight. At least 76 police officers were injured in the various scuffles.
++ G20 opens in Hamburg - live updates ++ The G20 summit is set to officially begin in Hamburg, with world leaders divided over major issues on the agenda - including climate change, global trade and migration. Follow DW's live updates here.
G20 summit: Europe can no longer rely on US under Donald Trump's leadership, says Angela Merkel
Chancellor suggests Germany and China better placed to work together to solve world's problems
The G20 summit comes amid unease in Europe about the Trump administration’s “America First” approach to trade and other issues. After her last encounter with Trump in late May, Merkel said, “The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days.”
US President Donald Trump is to argue that the future of Western civilisation is at stake in a keynote speech in the Polish capital Warsaw. Holding up Poland as an example of a country ready to defend civilisation, he will warn against the threats of "terrorism and extremism". and i'd add the American Republican Terrorist Party Donald
this thread is about to expire we can only upload replies onto 50 pages then we wont be able to post any more in this one so i tried to very to types of images your welcome
i've backups running onto external 2 trig hard drive all the time + have full system install on another hard drive sitting about in case + full system Macrium image backup stored on another 2 trig hard drive + number image DVD disk backups + number different DVD recovery disks as well as images on google and Postimage sites...
Experience suggests all sorts of murphy's-law turns up and this or that may be will or maybe won't work, so what might appear as over kill in my opinion isn't really its minimum to my requirements....
i backup better pictures on ur computer i backup on picasa (now google photos) go to the Google Photos website and sort from there. OR Search online for version 3 Picasa download make sure you locate version 3.9.0 (build 136.12.0 Windows 7) nothing later than that. At own risk you might try
Make sure you turn off Picasa update and or go with google pictures and back up you photo on google, I didn't like the idea of google pictures uploaded every single picture on my computer (hint I've 22,000 files in my pictures) anyway i am happy using Picasa version three is last version that you can stop updating to google pictures
Starting last week, Photobucket changed its terms and membership structure, what once was free will now cost users a whopping $400 per year.
Photobucket website was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007. In December 2009, Fox's parent company, News Corp, sold Photobucket to Seattle mobile imaging startup Ontela. Ontela then renamed itself Photobucket Inc. and continues to operate as Photobucket
they work well friend mine used to supply a larger town council with worms, quite a big operation... I did photograph big worm but can't locate, some Slug here to
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i backup on picasa (now google photos) go to the Google Photos website and sort from there. 
RE: Say Anything IIV
link to book content including over 1300 images and names of "A field guide to Spiders of Australia"