>>4840438 pb #6178
Love it! wondered if the hands did not extend past the inner side of the 'ring' or whatever it's called….. like where the small hand ends, then the small hand just shy of that. I'm sure this is just fine tuning you've considered…. just in case👀 cleans it up a bit i think, defining a timepiece.
Q.S. sorry for the late response, just saw your drop now 😊
Super Blood Moon: Celestial phenomena align for a rare treat
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CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY THE BIG RED BALL IN THE VIDEO BOUNCES LIKE AN INDIAN RUBBER BALL AND DON'T TELL ME CAUSE THE CAMERA WAS BUMPED OR????
UH UH THE IMAGE ON THE CAMERA DEPENDS ON 'FOCAL' POINT OF LENS WOULD CHANGE DEPENDED ON WHERE IT WAS DIRECTED AT ANY POINT OF A 'BOUNCE' OTHERWISE STATIONARY UP THERE IN THE SKY. OR SUDDENLY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN AS IF THE CAMERA HAD BEEN PICKED UP AND MOVED OR SOMEHOW OTHERWISE 'ROTATED' THE VIEW BUT AGAIN THE MOON WOULDN'T SUDDENLY JUMP TO THE OTHERSIDE OF THE SCREEN, IT WOULD GO OFF SCREEN UNTIL THE CAMERA LENS AGAIN FOCUSED ON IT.
UNLESS IT WAS ALREADY TAPED THEN THE VIEW IS FIXED, THE RECORDED IMAGE EMBEDDED THUS AFFECTED BY VIBRATION, KOCKING, BUMPING, ROTATION
Abe expects peace treaty talks with Putin to be frank
World January 21, 8:08 UTC+3
Talks between Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe are scheduled for January 22
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TOKYO, January 21. /TASS/. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expects that his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, scheduled to take place on January 22, will be frank and will allow the two countries to advance peace treaty negotiations, as Abe himself said before departing for Moscow.
"I would like to hold thorough and frank talks with President Putin and advance peace treaty negotiations as much as possible," the Kyodo news agency quoted him as saying.
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Russia’s sovereignty over Kuril Islands not negotiable, says Lavrov
After his visit to Moscow, the Japanese prime minister will head to Davos, Switzerland, to take part in the 2019 World Economic Forum.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference on Monday that Tokyo "will continue to hold patient negotiations to make a peace treaty once the territorial issue is resolved." At the same time, he declined to comment on Kyodo’s reports that Abe was considering signing a peace treaty with Russia on condition that Moscow provided guarantees that Shikotan Island and a group of uninhibited small islands Japan calls Habomai would be handed over to Tokyo.
Peace treaty issue
Since the mid-20th century, Russia and Japan have been holding consultations in order to clinch a peace treaty as a follow-up to World War II. The Kuril Islands issue remains the sticking point since after WWII the islands were handed over to the Soviet Union while Japan laid claims to the four southern islands. In 1956, the two countries signed a joint declaration on ending the state of war and restoring diplomatic and all other relations, however, a peace treaty has still not been reached. Moscow has stated many times that Russia’s sovereignty over the islands cannot be called into question.
On November 14, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Singapore and agreed that the two countries would speed up peace treaty talks based on the 1956 declaration.
The Joint Declaration said that the Soviet government was ready to hand Shikotan Island and a group of small islands over to Japan, adding that Tokyo would get actual control of the islands after a peace treaty was signed. However, after Japan and the United States had signed the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security in 1960, the Soviet Union withdrew its obligation to hand over the islands. A Soviet government’s memorandum dated January 27, 1960, said that those islands would only be handed over to Japan if all foreign troops were pulled out of the country.
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Ex-Nissan boss Ghosn vows to stay in Japan if granted bail
Date created : 21/01/2019 - 05:59
Carlos Ghosn, the ousted Nissan boss detained in Tokyo on charges of financial misconduct, on Monday vowed to remain in Japan if granted bail and again proclaimed his innocence.
The Tokyo District Court will later Monday consider the 64-year-old's latest petition for bail but has already rejected previous applications, judging Ghosn a flight risk who might seek to destroy evidence.
"As the court considers my bail application, I want to emphasise that I will reside in Japan and respect any and all bail conditions the Court concludes are warranted," Ghosn said in a statement released by his US-based representatives.
He vowed to attend any subsequent trial "not only because I am legally obligated to do so, but because I am eager to finally have the opportunity to defend myself".
"I am not guilty of the charges against me and I look forward to defending my reputation in the courtroom," concluded the statement.
A spokeswoman for Ghosn, Devon Spurgeon, said his family had already rented an apartment in Tokyo where he promised to reside while awaiting trial.
He has also promised to hand over his passports, refrain from contacting people connected with the case and pay for security guards approved by prosecutors to monitor his movements, according to Spurgeon.
She added that Ghosn has also offered a higher bail fee by stumping up Nissan stock as collateral and promised to wear an electronic tracking bracelet paid for by himself.
The Tokyo court has dismissed all previous attempts by Ghosn to secure his freedom and even his lead lawyer has said he is unlikely to be granted bail until a trial takes place – which could take six months.
However, the case has been full of twists and turns that have kept Japan and the business world gripped since his first stunning arrest as he landed in his private jet at Haneda Airport.
The Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian executive said he has been in his Tokyo detention cell for 64 days "with no release in sight".
Since then, he has only been seen in public once, in a dramatic court appearance where the much thinner executive pleaded his innocence in a packed courtroom.
His wife Carole has appealed to Human Rights Watch, claiming he is being held in "harsh" conditions and subjected to round-the-clock interrogations intended to extract a confession.
'Solid, stable, sustainable governance'
Ghosn's arrest represented a sudden fall from grace for a once-revered tycoon widely credited with turning Nissan around from the verge of bankruptcy.
Nissan immediately ousted him as chairman after the arrest, as did Mitsubishi Motors, the other Japanese firm in the three-way alliance with Renault.
The French firm is expected to meet later this week to discuss removing Ghosn as chairman and CEO. French government officials have already urged the company's board to pick a "new lasting leadership".
Late Sunday, Nissan held an inaugural meeting of a special committee designed to improve governance in the wake of the scandal.
The head of the committee, Seiichiro Nishioka, said the problem was "an excessive concentration of authority in the hands of a single person".
The committee is expected to meet three or four additional times before issuing a final report at the end of March.
The charges against Ghosn are that he under-declared his income in official documents to shareholders over an eight-year period – in an apparent bid to dodge accusations he was overpaid.
In addition, prosecutors have formally charged him with involvement in a complex scheme they say was designed to make Nissan pay for personal investment losses sustained in the financial crisis of 2008.
Ghosn's arrest has thrown into question the future of the auto alliance he forged, which has come under pressure in his absence.
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Sunday denied talk of a potential merger between Renault and Nissan, despite reports in the Japanese media that Paris was pushing for that outcome.
"The subject is not on the table today. What is on the table today is the governance of Renault," he told journalists during a visit to Cairo.
"The most important thing for us is to have solid, stable, sustainable governance for Renault."
https://www.france24.com/en/20190121-ex-nissan-boss-ghosn-vows-stay-japan-granted-bail-renault
China records slowest growth rate in nearly 30 years
Amid a trade war with the United States, Beijing has reported its slowest growth rate in nearly three decades. Experts say China will need to pass economic reforms to counter the problem.
The world's second largest economy grew 6.6 percent in 2018, China's statistics bureau said on Monday — the slowest rate since 1990.
Figures from the bureau also showed that the economy grew by 6.4 percent in the final quarter of 2018.
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US trade war
One reason for China's slow growth has been the country's trade war with the United States. Both countries have slapped billions of dollars worth of tariffs on each other's goods and are currently negotiating a deal to end the dispute.
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Analysts fear that China's growth could take another hit if a three-month ceasefire ends in March without any deal in place.
"The trade war is currently making itself felt above all in growing uncertainty," said China expert Max Zenglein from the Mercator Institute. "Weak exports and investment restraint are already having an impact on growth," he added.
The country's economy also faces other challenges, including a debt pile at more than 300 percent of GDP and decreased public investment.
Experts say policies favoring state-owned enterprises over private companies have also prevented sustainable growth.
Stimulus needed
Premier Li Keqiang has also vowed to keep economic growth within a "reasonable range" by promoting more innovation.
Beijing has also said it will pass other measures to stimulate growth, including cutting taxes and making it easier for banks to lend.
"While the government is putting policy responses in place, we anticipate that these will need to be ramped up over the course of the year," said Stephen Chang from Pacific Investment Management.
China population rises 15.23 million in 2018, but rate slows
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Jan 21, 2019, 12:14 AM ET
China's population rose by 15.23 million people in 2018, marking a continued decrease in the growth rate of the world's most populous nation.
Numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday put the population at 1.395 billion in 2018, marking a growth rate of 3.81 percent over the previous year.
The total included 30 million more men than women, considered a long-time outcome of the recently abandoned one-child policy under which boys were favored over girls for cultural reasons.
The government estimates China's population will peak at 1.442 billion in 2029 before beginning to decline the year after.
India, the world's second most populous nation, has also been experiencing slower population growth. Its total population stood at 1.362 billion this month based on United Nations estimates.
China added more than 17 million people to its population in 2016 and 2017 following the scrapping of the one-child policy, but the effect hasn't endured.
Care for the elderly is a rising government concern as the working-age population continues to fall as a percentage of the total.
Chinese increasingly enjoy better living standards, education and health care, but a yawning gap between the wealthy and poor has experts saying the country will grow old before it grows rich.
Also Monday, the government announced China's 2018 economic growth fell to a three-decade low, adding to pressure on Beijing to settle a tariff war with Washington.
The world's second-largest economy expanded by 6.6 percent over a year earlier, down from 2017's 6.9 percent, official data showed.
China's ruling Communist Party is trying to steer China to slower, more self-sustaining growth based on consumer spending instead of trade and investment. But the deceleration has been sharper than expected, prompting Beijing to step up government spending and order banks to lend more to shore up growth and avoid politically dangerous job losses.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-population-rises-1523-million-2018-rate-slows-60515181
+++fuck with mother nature and pay the price mf'ers. One child per couple, talk about govt running our lives, now not enough so they want to turn the tap back on….. oops shouldn't have killed off so many of us nice human-beings++
Lunar Eclipse in January 2019: Next chance for Americans to see a total lunar eclipse is 2022.
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: Many lunar eclipse festivities were canceled due to a flash freeze across the central and northeastern U.S. states on Sunday, with icy roadways rather than cloudy skies blamed by astronomers for spoiling the party.
Star gazers from Los Angeles to New York had planned to gather at parks and observatories to keep their eyes on the sky for the total eclipse, known as a super blood wolf moon, expected to appear at 11:41 p.m. EST. Instead, astrology buffs were urged to witness the celestial wonder livestreamed online at sites such as AstronomersWithoutBorders.org.
Days earlier, it seemed the biggest threat to the cosmic fun was cloudy skies but it turned out a wet, wide-ranging snowstorm followed by a deep freeze on Sunday made driving and outdoor activities too hazardous. Eclipse parties were canceled from Indiana's Lemon Lake County Park to New Jersey's Rowan University.
"It's not the snow or cloudy skies, but rather the extreme cold, and what we fear may be hazardous travel conditions," said Pennsylvania's Carbon County Environmental Center, scrapping its party in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, 54 miles northwest of Allentown.
Although it is a total eclipse, the moon will never go completely dark but rather take on a coppery red glow - called a blood moon. It is also a full moon that is especially close to Earth, called a supermoon.
And since it appears in January, when wolves howled in hunger outside villages, it has earned the name wolf moon, according to The Farmers Almanac.
If skies are clear anywhere in the United States on Sunday night, the spectacular total lunar eclipse will be visible with the naked eye.
Unlike a solar eclipse, which requires eye protection to safely enjoy the view, no extra measures need to be taken for hazard-free lunar eclipse watching.
Next chance for Americans to see a total lunar eclipse is 2022.
The blood moon's red hue is the result of sunlight traveling through the Earth's dusty, polluted atmosphere, Fazekas said. The shorter, more pliable blue wavelengths of light are scattered outside the Earth's shadow and the longer, less bendable red wavelengths are refracted toward the moon.
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Best viewing of the one-hour total eclipse will be from North and South America, with as many as 2.8 billion people able to see it from the Western Hemisphere, Europe, West Africa and northernmost Russia.