HONG KONG/MANILA, April 15 (Reuters) - China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea amid roiling ​tension with the Philippines over the disputed feature, satellite imagery obtained by Reuters shows. Scarborough is one of Asia’s most hotly disputed maritime sites, where ‌some diplomats and analysts fear long-running frictions and confrontations could degenerate into armed conflict. The presence of four fishing boats, a Chinese naval or coast guard ship and a new floating barrier comes as the Philippines sends its own coast guard and fisheries vessels to support its fishermen frequently driven away by larger Chinese patrols. Photographs taken on April 10 and 11 show the fishing boats anchored along ​the entrance to the shoal, in addition to a floating barrier stretching across it in the April 11 image. Satellite image provider Vantor, formerly Maxar Technologies, ​said a probable Chinese naval or coast guard patrol vessel can be glimpsed just outside the entrance on April 10. China’s defence ministry ⁠did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment on the deployment to the entrance to the shoal or its timing. TRADITIONALLY RICH FISHING GROUND The traditionally rich fishing ​ground of the Scarborough Shoal lies entirely within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, but China also claims it as part of its territory. Last year, China approved establishment of a ​national nature reserve there, alarming Philippine security officials, who called the move a “clear pretext for occupation”. Jay Tarriela, a spokesperson for the Philippine coast guard, told Reuters on Wednesday the Chinese government had installed a 352-m (1,150-ft)floating barrier at the entrance on April 10 and April 11. “Six Chinese maritime militia vessels were observed within the shoal, while three others were spotted outside, seemingly obstructing the entrance to BDM,” ​he said. He was referring to the shoal by its Philippine name of Bajo de Masinloc, while China calls it Huangyan Island. While the Philippines coast guard has cut barriers ​in the past, Tarriela said the Chinese side appear to have removed the latest one since the weekend, but the Philippine Navy says its patrols continue. “According to our assessment in the ‌past, they ⁠consistently exhibit suspicion whenever they monitor a group of Filipino fishing boats,” Tarriela added. Ten Chinese coast guard vessels were sighted at the shoal from April 5 to April 12, Philippine Navy spokesperson Roy Trinidad said on Tuesday. SOVEREIGNTY HAS NEVER BEEN ESTABLISHED Despite the competing claims, sovereignty has never been established and the shoal is effectively under Beijing’s control even if Philippine boats still try to operate there. In January, the militaries of the Philippines and the United States sailed together at the shoal in the 11th such drill by the ​treaty allies. Military engagements between them have soared ​under Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., ⁠who has pivoted closer to Washington in response to China’s growing presence in the busy waterway of the South China Sea. Thousands of troops from both countries are set to begin large-scale exercises across the Philippine archipelago this month, including in Zambales, whose coast is ​about 120 nautical miles from the Scarborough Shoal. Diplomats say the drills and broader tensions are being closely watched amid fears ​that China could take advantage ⁠of perceptions that the U.S. is distracted by the Iran conflict and its effort to re-open the vital Straits of Hormuz waterway. China has kept a deployment of coast guard and fishing trawlers at the shoal since seizing it in 2012 after a standoff with the Philippines. Manila has said Chinese maritime militia operate some trawlers at the shoal and other disputed ⁠areas of ​the South China Sea, but Beijing has never acknowledged this. A landmark 2016 ruling on various South China ​Sea issues by the Permanent Court of Arbitration backed Manila, but establishing sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal was outside its scope. The court said Beijing’s blockade there violated international law as it was a traditional fishing ground ​for several countries, including China, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Warthog is a nickname that they couldn’t get rid of. It’s officially the Thunderbolt II.

Assassinate an archduke and that sounds an awful lot like the start of World War I

I like how he’s credited as a character from a different series.

They ended up banning him for a different reason: https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c309pj8d8qqo

The IOC added that Heraskevych had been banned for contravening athlete guidelines, rather than because of displaying political propaganda.

Luge isn’t like bobsled where they do a running push start and then jump in. Luge starts seated on the sled and they throw themselves onto the course with some handles on poles embedded in the ground at the start point (its sort of a rowing motion). The spikes are probably to use as breaking.

Maybe, he’s actually sad because he forgot he didn’t have his wallet.

It’s the bag for his gas mask.

You’re still confusing net and gross there. Let’s say they spent $70 mil on marketing and distribution. $170+$70=$240 million in costs. Let’s also say they get 75% of box office sales. 410*.75=$307.5. 307.5-240 = $67.5. $67.5 million in profit. Again, they almost certainly made a profit, but not nearly as big of one as the $200 million you proposed.

The $170 million budget is just movie production, it doesn’t include marketing and distribution. The $410 million at the box office is gross, not net. It’s what the tickets cost the customers not how much made it back to the production company. They almost certainly made a profit, but not nearly as big of one as the $200 million you propose.

It’s not a sequel, it’s a reboot. They decided to skip most of WWI (which everyone agrees was really boring and mostly just set up for WWII), and they swapped in Americans for the Germans to appeal to a wider audience.

Swiss government says it’s going to go ahead and hold on to that money until everyone forgets about it.

Not just data centers. Do that to everything. Find where to put a line; if you’re using x% of the local power you have to pay more for power. Flip that shit so massive electric consumers are paying for everyone else.

I don’t know what those labels are, but they’re not latitude.

gnuimptklibobject

you can go into your history and delete things you don’t want the algorithm to use

I don’t remember the font being changed for DEI reasons. I remember them leaving Times New Roman because some high schooler went viral with math that showed how much ink would be saved by using a sans serif font.

edit: Did some digging. It was the DOD that switched to Arial ~2013.

I can’t find any evidence of her having been in Andor. Are you thinking of Faye Marsay?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3849670/

Being an assistant can make it a replacement. If 1 AI assisted worker can do the job of 1.25 not AI assisted workers you can drop 1 in every 5 workers and still complete the same amount of work (numbers made up).

It may be your lucky day. I distinctly recall there being 3 movies. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108308