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by Texpatriate Editorial Board
Texpatriate endorses for the Texas Supreme Court
At a recent judicial panel at the Texas Tribune Festival featuring seven incumbent Justices, many on the court lamented the shifts that have occurred in the high court in the last quarter-century. Ostensibly, the nine justices –all Republican– serve as the court of last resort for all non-criminal cases (including, strange as it may sound, juvenile criminal cases). Nearly in unison, the justices seemingly bemoaned the transition the court has faced from an arbiter of common law to merely an interpreter of statutes and a State Constitution that is absurdly long and still growing.
And while the court's docket has been steadily shrinking, there are still some high-profile issues that have been left pending; chief among them, the rights of gays and lesbians. Specifically, a pair of cases regarding the ability of same-sex couples to divorce within the State. There is also a case, sure to reach the court one day, regarding the constitutionality of Texas' amendment against such same-sex marriages and "similar unions." For those and other cases, this board simply believes that Texas' highest court should be composed of advocates for equality between the sexual orientations. For these reasons, we have simply felt more comfortable with the Democratic candidates. However, we still have concerns about experience and the like from Justices and prospective Justices on this most important court.
Regarding the four elections up this year on the Texas Supreme Court, we endorsed two Democrats and two Republicans.
PLACE 1 (CHIEF)
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht has honorably served on the Court longer than any other justice. About a year ago, Governor Rick Perry elevated him to the Chief Justiceship, the culmination of a long and noble career. Most scholars on the court agree that he is arguably the intellectual leader, especially of the more conservative clique.
But Hecht is not without his weaknesses. In years past, he was admonished and fined by the Texas Ethics Commission for impropriety regarding using his office for personal purposes. He also tacks heavily to the right on many of those aforementioned important social issues.
For these reasons, we cautiously will support the Democratic candidate, Bill Moody. A State District Judge out of El Paso County, Moody has a history seeking high offices, including a seat on the Supreme Court once before. He espouses an inclusive view of the constitution, one that sees the document as a living creature subject to evolving standards of decency, rather than a strict originality view. Such philosophies lend themselves to a more inclusive idea of who should be covered by the equal protection clause of the constitution, such as gays & lesbians. Still, we have some doubts as to Moody's need for "on the job training," so to speak, upon assuming the office of Chief Justice. Still, we think he would be a welcome change of pace.
Accordingly, this board endorses Bill Moody for the Texas Supreme Court, Place 1 (Chief).
Justice Jeff Brown is the newest member of the court. Appointed last year by Governor Rick Perry, he previously served as a member of the 14th Court of Appeals in Houston. Without a doubt, he is a more than capable jurist who has the experience needed to be an effective member of the court. However, like Hecht, we have some major disagreements with Brown on contentious legal disputes, particularly those involving the expansion of equal protection rights. That being said, we have some hope that Brown is more level-headed on certain disputes than some of his colleagues. He cut his teeth in the law as a clerk for former Justice Jack Hightower, one of the last great Democrats on the court.
Though despite our qualms with Brown, we think he is night-and-day better than his opponent. The Democratic candidate, Larry Meyers, has served on the Court of Criminal Appeals since 1992…as a Republican. In a rather strange turn of events last year, he switched parties right at the filing deadline in order to run for this post. We have absolutely no problem with party-switching; in fact, with good reason, we actively encourage it. But Meyers has been a ghost since his filing. He didn't make a statement then, nor throughout the primary, nor throughout the general election. He boycotted the State Democratic Convention and has been a no-show at newspaper editorial screenings. And Meyers was no reliable liberal –or even moderate– voice on the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Thus, we have no idea why Meyers is running or what he stands for, and –judging by his record– we don't think he would improve upon Brown's record. Therefore, we will defer to the incumbent, albeit reluctantly.
Accordingly, this board endorses Jeff Brown for the Texas Supreme Court, Place 6.
Justice Jeff Boyd was appointed by Governor Rick Perry in 2012 and now will be seeking his first full term on the court. We think he has been a reasonable jurist but, like the other incumbent justices, we have some similar concerns regarding his opinions on constitutional interpretations. Much like his colleagues, we are naturally skeptical of his ability to extend basic civil rights to gays and lesbians.
Boyd's Democratic opponent, meanwhile, not only has a much more ideal philosophy, she is tremendously experienced. Gina Benavides, a Justice on the 13th Court of Appeals (Corpus Christi), has served in an appellate position for more than eight years. Previously, she had a long and illustrious career within private practice. Unlike the other Democratic candidates, Benavides has been very detailed platform and online presence. She has also been a persistent force campaigning throughout the State. Unlike others, we are totally sure that Benavides will not need any "on the job training," so to speak, if she wins office. She would make a capable, more and qualified Justice, a great addition to the court.
Accordingly, this board endorses Gina Benavides for the Texas Supreme Court, Place 7.
Justice Phil Johnson, first appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the court about nine years, will be seeking his second full term on the court. He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War and longtime veteran of the Court of Appeals in Houston. Beyond dispute, he is a very qualified and experienced Judge. Though, and not to sound like a broken record here, we have some of the same qualms with Johnson as we do with the other justices; namely, that he has an originality view of many constitutional issues and opposes extending civil rights protections to gays and lesbians.
But Johnson's only opponents, Libertarian RS Koelsch and Green Jim Chisholm, are spectacularly unqualified for this high office. They have little political credentials, and even fewer judicial ones. Simply put, they are unfit for the post they seek. Johnson, despite political disagreements, is indisputably qualified and capable to hold this position. We think he is a much better choice than his competitors.
Accordingly, this board endorses Phil Johnson for the Texas Supreme Court, Place 8.
The Texpatriate Editorial Board is comprised of Noah M. Horwitz & Olivia Arena of Austin, George Bailey of Boston, Luis Fayad of College Station and Andrew Scott Romo of New Orleans. Editorials represent a majority opinion of the voting board.
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In addition to being level headed, Judge Brown is a good guy. He was the Scoutmaster of my sons Cubscout Pack for several years. I got to see how he thinks and operates. He is not dogmatic; while I have never studied his rulings, he has always struck me as a thoughtful person.
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Back in January the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument on a petition for a writ of mandamus in the long-running military commission of al Nashiri, who is accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of USS Cole. We noted the hearing in this post, and linked to the audio in this post.
The basis for the petition was a challenge to former military commissions judge Colonel Spath (now retired) based on the fact that while serving as a commissions judge in the case prior to his retirement, Spath sought (and eventually obtained) employment as a federal immigration judge. During that time he also held the chief of the Military Commissions Defense Organization in contempt (a finding that was later reversed; the #8 Military Justice Story of 2018) and he abated the al Nashiri trial indefinitely.
In sum, the Attorney General was a participant in Al-Nashiri's case from start to finish: he has consulted on commission trial procedures, he has loaned out one of his lawyers, and he will play a role in defending any conviction on appeal. The challenge Spath faced, then, was to treat the Justice Department with neutral disinterest in his courtroom while communicating significant personal interest in his job application. Any person, judge or not, could be forgiven for struggling to navigate such a sensitive situation. And that is precisely why judges are forbidden from even trying. See Scott v. United States, 559 A.2d 745, 750 (D.C. 1989) (explaining that a judge's obligation to avoid seeking employment with a party appearing before him does not "change simply because the prospective employer is a component of the Department of Justice").
The fact of Spath's employment application alone would thus be enough to require his disqualification. But Spath did yet more to undermine his apparent neutrality.
First, in his job application, Spath chose to emphasize his role as the presiding judge over Al-Nashiri's commission. He boasted that he had been "handpicked by the top lawyer of the Air Force to be the trial judge" on "the military commissions proceedings for the alleged 'Cole bombing' mastermind," Reply Attachments B-2, and he even supplied an order from Al-Nashiri's case as his writing sample, see id. at B-11. Spath thus affirmatively called the Justice Department's attention to his handling of Al-Nashiri's case, making his performance as presiding judge a key point in his argument for employment.
Second, while Spath made sure to tell the Justice Department about his assignment to Al-Nashiri's commission, he was not so forthcoming with Al-Nashiri. At no point in the two-plus years after submitting his application did Spath disclose his efforts to secure employment with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Indeed, perhaps most remarkably, less than twenty-four hours after receiving his July 2018 start date, Spath indefinitely abated commission proceedings, musing on the record that "over the next week or two" he would decide whether "it might be time . . . to retire." Commission Tr. 12374 (Feb. 16, 2018); see also supra at 11–12. Given this lack of candor, a reasonable observer might wonder whether the judge had done something worth concealing. Cf. Rule for Military Commissions 902(e) (permitting, in some circumstances, "the parties to [a] proceeding" to waive judicial disqualification but only if the waiver "is preceded by a full disclosure on the record of the basis for disqualification").
It is, of course, entirely possible that Spath's orders were the product of his considered and unbiased judgment, unmotivated by any improper considerations. But that is beside the point: "[a]ppearance may be all there is, but that is enough." Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3d at 115. As the Supreme Court has explained, "[t]he problem . . . is that people who have not served on the bench are often all too willing to indulge suspicions and doubts concerning the integrity of judges." Liljeberg, 486 U.S. at 864–65. Spath's job application, therefore, cast an intolerable cloud of partiality over his subsequent judicial conduct. Al-Nashiri thus has a clear and indisputable right to relief.
Slip op. at 22-24 (emphases added).
Friday morning, on the last day of a weeklong hearing in which Eliades and Spears ignored prosecution subpoenas to appear at court by video feed, Spath assembled defense and prosecution attorneys in the court and offered a 30-minute monologue.
He listed his frustrations at having his orders ignored, uncertainty over his authority raised by the Marine general's decision-making and inaction by Pentagon officials to help him. At one point he said he was considering retiring from the Air Force, then declared that he needed clear answers on how to proceed.
Al-Nashiri is charged with perfidy, murder in violation of the law of war, attempted murder in violation of the law of war, terrorism, conspiracy, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, and hazarding a vessel. The charges arise out of an attempted attack on the USS THE SULLIVANS in January 2000, an attack on the USS COLE in October 2000, and an attack on the MV Limburg in October 2002.
A war court judge, reversing himself from remarks a day earlier, said Wednesday that he was still deciding whether to send U.S. Marshals to pick up two civilian defense lawyers who quit the USS Cole case and then ignored a subpoena to appear at the war court.
"I said very clearly yesterday that I want draft options … I haven't decided yet to issue any writs," Air Force Col. Vance Spath said at the opening of a third day of a weeklong hearing that has mostly focused on the presentation of evidence to the judge before a jury is seated and the trial begins.
On Wednesday morning, the judge said the night before he was reading an online military justice blog, CAAFlog, as part of his professional responsibilities and saw a reference to a Miami Herald article about his order to the prosecution to prepare arrest warrants for Eliades and Spears. They had ignored a subpoena to appear before the court by video feed on Tuesday.
Spath said the article misrepresented his request for the writs and left the impression that he was ordering the lawyers forcibly brought to Guantánamo. If he has them seized, he said, they will be brought to war court headquarters in Washington, where the court has a secure video link to the maximum-security court.
The post is available here, and did indeed imply that the warrant would be to bring the attorneys to Guantanamo because that's what I though Colonel Spath was suggesting based on my knowledge of the case and the orders Colonel Spath previously issued to the civilian defense counsel to appear and represent al Nashiri (outlined in a comment here). But I updated my post on Wednesday after I reviewed the transcript of Tuesday's proceedings (available here), to reflect that a warrant would be to appear in Virginia.
So what I would like is some homework overnight. Would you at least craft the two writs. Because I'm going to issue warrants of attachment — I plan to do it tomorrow — to have them brought sometime on Thursday or Friday.
Transcript at 11910 (emphasis added). The certainly looks like a decision to issue the warrant.
I will update this post when the transcript of today's proceedings is available.
And yes, I use CAAFlog. I don't read the comments and I tend not to read the analysis; I don't need their help, because some people suggest it has a bias. But what I appreciate about them is they tell me what cases have been decided, what cases are of interest. And then I can click on those links and go right to the case and I can read the case law, right, from CAAF or from AFCCA, or from the Supreme Court, and I can keep track of even cases that are affecting us. Seems like a reasonable one-stop shopping mechanism.
So I was a little surprised last night when I opened it to find this case making their — the top of the banner, and noticed very quickly that it said that I had ordered, or was going to order today, writs be issued against civilians to be dragged to GTMO. Imagine my surprise. Fortunately, there was a link to figure out where in the wide, wide world of sports is that coming from.
And it's coming from a reporter who we brought down here and we bring down here willingly, and you know, put up, who got it wrong. I said very clearly yesterday I want draft writs so I have options as I figure out what to do, and I hadn't made a decision yet. I don't know if I could have been more clear. So I'll say it again, I said yesterday I haven't decided yet to issue any writs. If they're issued, they're not being brought to GTMO. Anybody paying attention to this process knows that, right?
The witness [the civilian defense counsel] clearly refused, through counsel, because I saw the e-mail. And the Attorney Fox said they're not showing. And I assume he can speak for them since he's their attorney. And so I can't see a valid excuse. Again, the e-mail that I was shown said I lack jurisdiction; I don't. And that the — having to appear at the Mark Center by VTC for DoD civilians employed in D.C. would be oppressive, with no evidence to the contrary.
Transcript at 11909-11910. There are significant optics (if not legal) differences between a warrant of attachment to appear in Virginia and one to appear in Guantanamo.
Air Force Colonel Vance Spath – the chief judge of the Air Force and a judge on the military commissions (and the person who held General Baker in contempt) – apparently wants federal authorities to use force to bring two DoD civilian attorneys to Guantanamo.
The judge in the USS Cole terrorism case ordered prosecutors Tuesday to draft warrants instructing U.S. Marshals to seize two civilian defense attorneys who have quit the case and ignored his orders and a subpoena to appear at the war court.
Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge, said he would sign the "writs of attachment" on Wednesday and cautioned from the bench that the lawyer for Pentagon-paid attorneys Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears should hustle to federal court, if the lawyer wants to stop what are essentially arrest warrants.
Subpoenas issued under R.C.M. 703 are federal process and a person not subject to the code may be prosecuted in a federal civilian court under Article 47 for failure to comply with a subpoena issued in compliance with this rule and formally served.
Failing to comply with such a subpoena is a felony offense, and may result in a fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the district court. The different purposes of the warrant of attachment and criminal complaint under Article 47 should be borne in mind. The warrant of attachment, available without the intervention of civilian judicial proceedings, has as its purpose the obtaining of the witness's presence, testimony, or documents. The criminal complaint, prosecuted through the civilian federal courts, has as its purpose punishment for failing to comply with process issued by military authority. It serves to vindicate the military interest in obtaining compliance with its lawful process.
The judge had earlier Tuesday expressed a reluctance to have the women seized. He said in court that their arrests could cause them to lose their security clearances and jobs with the Department of Defense and thwart his goal of having them return to the defense team of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri.
Such sanction or disciplinary action seems to be inevitable (if it hasn't actually happened already). This is – by the way – a unique rule for the Guantanamo commissions; there is no similar limitation on civilian defense counsel in courts-martial.
But even if al-Nashiri's former civilian defense counsel aren't disqualified by rule, there's the fact that now facing a real threat of arrest and involuntary relocation to Guantanamo, they almost certainly have a conflict of interest with the accused.
was picked up at his home, apparently in Massachusetts, on [Tuesday, October 18, 2016] "at gunpoint," he estimated by 20 officers, put in three-point restraints and held overnight at an Alexandria County, Virginia, detention facility.
In a press release dated yesterday and available here, the Office of Military Commissions Convening Authority announced that the finding of contempt against Marine Corps Brigadier General John Baker by Air Force Military Judge Colonel Vance Spath – a finding that I analyzed in this post and concluded exceeded Spath's statutory authority – is correct in law and fact.
The convening authority (Harvey Rishikof) disapproved the punishment of confinement for 21 days and a $1,000 fine. BGen Baker served three of those days of confinement in his quarters at Guantanamo before the remainder was deferred.
The convening authority also announced his intent to refer the matter for an ethics review.
The full text of the release is after the jump.
Marine Corps Brigadier General John Baker – chief of the Military Commissions Defense Organization – was ordered into confinement today by Air Force Military Judge Colonel Vance Spath, who found the General in contempt for in connection with the release of three civilian defense counsel from the case of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri (who is accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of USS Cole).
In court Wednesday, Baker attempted to protest that the war court meant to try alleged foreign terrorists had no jurisdiction over him, a U.S. citizen. Spath refused to let him speak and ordered him to sit down.
"There are things I want to say, and you are not allowing me to say them," Baker told the judge.
The judge said in court that a senior official at the Pentagon, Convening Authority Harvey Rishikof, would review his contempt finding and sentence. Meantime, however, he ordered court bailiffs to arrange for the general to be confined to his quarters — a room in a trailer at Camp Justice, behind the courtroom — until Rishikof acted or found a different place.
Rishikof had approved the site provisionally, Spath said, and was permitting Baker to have internet and phone communications at his quarters.
Additional details about the release of the three civilian attorneys is available in this report (also from Miani Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg).
A variety of outlets (here (FoxNews) and here (The Hill)) report on the POTUS's decision to defer to SecDef Mattis on whether the US will use interrogation methods that some have argued constituted torture under international law. It is unclear if SecDef's view, which is that the US should not use interrogation techniques such as waterbording because they do constitute torture, will be applied to DOD actions abroad or all US agency actions abroad. The Army Field Manual has always prohibited torture, including waterboarding, so DOD operations are clearly governed by SecDef's view. But it is unclear if CIA covert actions would be bound by SecDef's view.
Thoughts on how US policy on torture has now been shaped by judge advocates? Anyone ever advise then-General Mattis on this topic?
Spath, in court Monday, called dismissal "not appropriate" in this instance. Instead, he disqualified [the convening authority, retired Marine Major General Vaughn] Ary and four lawyers who worked on the move-in requirement: retired Army Col. Mark Toole, Army Reserves Lt. Col. Alyssa Adams, Navy Reserve Cmdr. Raghav Kotval and Army Lt. Matthew Rich.
He ordered the Pentagon to replace them with new staff for the purposes of the USS Cole case — meaning a new convening authority would fund and assign Nashiri's legal team resources and pick the pool of military officers for his eventual jury.
Update: Wells Bennett has an excellent writeup of Col Spath's order in this post at Lawfare Blog.
Thanks to a Commenter, we now have the rescission of the order (here) that MC judges move to Gitmo until the cases are completed.
A military commission may not try the offense of material support for terrorism for conduct that occurred before enactment of the 2006 Act. All seven judges likewise conclude that a military commission may not try the offense of solicitation for conduct that occurred before enactment of the 2006 Act. The Court is unanimous that those two offenses were not war crimes triable by military commission at the time of Bahlul's conduct in 2001. Therefore, all seven judges agree that we must vacate Bahlul's material support for terrorism and solicitation convictions as ex post facto violations.
Since Hicks has long since been released from Gitmo, this doesn't do much for him. His defense counsel should get an astro-turf rug in front of his door (sorry, bad Code 45 tradition). WSJ coverage here.
More to follow, here is the order. Prior coverage from the WSJ here.
Here (Feb. 12, 2015), here (Feb. 11, 2015), and here (Feb. 9, 2015) are links to reports from the US v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al. (9/11 conspirators) Military Commission hearing. NIMJ's volunteer observer for these hearings was NIMJ President Dru Brenner-Beck.
Here (Sep. 26 Part 1), here (Sep. 26 Part 2), and here (Sep. 28) [Update: here (Jan. 29, 2015)] are links to reports from Monday, September 26, 205 and Wednesday September 28, 2015 at the Al Hadi Military Commission hearing. NIMJ's volunteer observer for these hearings was Malcolm Savage, a student at the University of Richmond School of Law. Thank you Malcolm for taking time to go to Gitmo.


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Q: alexa dynamic entities is not updated I am trying to build a simple skill that uses dynamic entities.
here is the link to source: alexa dynamic entities test.
But somehow they are not updated.
It works when I choose static data:

And not works when I am trying to use dynamic:

A: Try to remove spaces from values of dynamic entities (e.g. "first one" change to "first")

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Next: How Different VC Systems Specify Sources, Previous: Generalizing VC Systems, Up: Version Control Systems
3.1.2 Source Tree Specifications
So for the Buildbot's purposes we treat each VC system as a server which can take a list of specifications as input and produce a source tree as output. Some of these specifications are static: they are attributes of the builder and do not change over time. Others are more variable: each build will have a different value. The repository is changed over time by a sequence of Changes, each of which represents a single developer making changes to some set of files. These Changes are cumulative.
For normal builds, the Buildbot wants to get well-defined source trees that contain specific Changes, and exclude other Changes that may have occurred after the desired ones. We assume that the Changes arrive at the buildbot (through one of the mechanisms described in see Change Sources) in the same order in which they are committed to the repository. The Buildbot waits for the tree to become "stable" before initiating a build, for two reasons. The first is that developers frequently make multiple related commits in quick succession, even when the VC system provides ways to make atomic transactions involving multiple files at the same time. Running a build in the middle of these sets of changes would use an inconsistent set of source files, and is likely to fail (and is certain to be less useful than a build which uses the full set of changes). The tree-stable-timer is intended to avoid these useless builds that include some of the developer's changes but not all. The second reason is that some VC systems (i.e. CVS) do not provide repository-wide transaction numbers, so that timestamps are the only way to refer to a specific repository state. These timestamps may be somewhat ambiguous, due to processing and notification delays. By waiting until the tree has been stable for, say, 10 minutes, we can choose a timestamp from the middle of that period to use for our source checkout, and then be reasonably sure that any clock-skew errors will not cause the build to be performed on an inconsistent set of source files.
The Schedulers always use the tree-stable-timer, with a timeout that is configured to reflect a reasonable tradeoff between build latency and change frequency. When the VC system provides coherent repository-wide revision markers (such as Subversion's revision numbers, or in fact anything other than CVS's timestamps), the resulting Build is simply performed against a source tree defined by that revision marker. When the VC system does not provide this, a timestamp from the middle of the tree-stable period is used to generate the source tree1.
[1] this checkoutDelay defaults to half the tree-stable timer, but it can be overridden with an argument to the Source Step

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St Michael's Church is in Townley Street, Middleton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Heywood and Middleton, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

The church was built in 1901–02 replacing an earlier church on the site dating from 1839. It was paid for by J. W. Lees, a brewer.  It was designed by the Lancaster firm of architects, Austin and Paley. At this time only the east end and the first bay of the nave were built.  The nave was completed in 1911, and the tower was added between 1926 and 1931 at a cost of £6,656 (),

Architecture

St Michael's is constructed in stone with a tile roof. Its architectural style is Perpendicular. The plan consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a side chapel, vestry and organ chamber, and a virtually free-standing tower to the west of the north aisle. At the west end of the church is a canted baptistry. The tower is in four stages, with bands separating the stages. It has angle buttresses, an octagonal stair turret, a doorway over which is a four-light window, clock faces, three-light bell openings, and a castellated parapet. The windows along the sides of the aisles have two, three or four lights with flat heads; those in the clerestory have three lights under round-arched heads. Both the east and west windows have five lights. Inside the church the arcades are carried on octagonal piers. Most of the stained glass is by Shrigley and Hunt.

See also

List of churches in Greater Manchester
Listed buildings in Middleton, Greater Manchester
List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1895–1916)
List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)

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Gothic Revival church buildings in England
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South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (sometimes abbreviated SGSSI) is a sovereign country in South America, with a total land area of approximately 3,903 sq km. The islands, with large bird and seal populations, lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland Islands and have been under British administration since 1908 - except for a brief period in 1982 when Argentina occupied them. Grytviken, on South Georgia, was a 19th and early 20th century whaling station. Famed explorer Ernest SHACKLETON stopped there in 1914 en route to his ill-fated attempt to cross Antarctica on foot. He returned some 20 months later with a few companions in a small boat and arranged a successful rescue for the rest of his crew, stranded off the Antarctic Peninsula. He died in 1922 on a subsequent expedition and is buried in Grytviken. Today, the station houses scientists from the British Antarctic Survey. Recognizing the importance of preserving the marine stocks in adjacent waters, the UK, in 1993, extended the exclusive fishing zone from 12 nm to 200 nm around each island.
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THE AGE OF MY OLDER DIAMOND RING MAKE ME NERVOUS ABOUT WEARING IT, CAUSE THE ONE PRONG IS SLIGHTLY BENT, SO I WANTED THIS ONE TO MATCH AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE TO IT--IT DOES, AND ACTUALLY EVEN PRETTIER ! THE STONE IN THIS RING STANDS UP PROUDLY AND JUST GLISTENS, AND THE STAINLESS STEEL IS BRIGHTER THAN MY GOLD ONES- P/S--STAINLESS STEEL IS AS CLOSE TO 14K WHITE GOLD IN COLOR AS ONE CAN GET, AND WILL LAST A LIFETIME WITH OUT COLOR CHANGE..
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According to the representatives of a cryptocurrency exchange Bancor, its application was shut down for some technical reasons. No clear explanations were provided at that time.
In a couple of hours it became known that a hacker attack took place. Bancor employees assured the anxious customers that their wallets were out of danger. However, the app was still down, awaiting for the developers to counteract the attack.
Later on, the exchange released a report which included details of the hacking. The post said that the criminals managed to get hold of around 25k ETH. They took NPXS and BNT tokens as well. Unfortunately, the stolen funds cannot be frozen or transferred to cold wallets. Thus, the only thing Bancor could do is to cooperate with other exchanges and try to track the coins down.
Right now, the experts are still trying to fix the problem. Being a completely decentralized exchange, Bancor is still prone to hacker attacks and other vulnerabilities, however, not to such extent as the regular, centralized ones, which should "burn in hell", according to Vitalik Buterin.


text:
/**
* \file Tools.cpp
*/

#include <gsl/gsl>

#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
#include <pybind11/numpy.h>

#include <ATK/Tools/ApplyGainFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/BufferFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/DecimationFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/DryWetFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/MuteSoloBufferFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/MSFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/OversamplingFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/PanFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/SinusGeneratorFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/SumFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/TanFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/VolumeFilter.h>
#include <ATK/Tools/WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter.h>

namespace py = pybind11;

using namespace ATK;

namespace
{
  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_ApplyGainFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<ApplyGainFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_BufferFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<BufferFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_DecimationFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<DecimationFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_DryWetFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<DryWetFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1))
      .def_property("dry", &DryWetFilter<DataType>::get_dry, &DryWetFilter<DataType>::set_dry);
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_MiddleSideFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<MiddleSideFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_MuteSoloBufferFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<MuteSoloBufferFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
    .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1))
    .def_property("mute", &MuteSoloBufferFilter<DataType>::get_mute, &MuteSoloBufferFilter<DataType>::set_mute)
    .def_property("solo", &MuteSoloBufferFilter<DataType>::get_solo, &MuteSoloBufferFilter<DataType>::set_solo);
  }

  template<typename Coefficients, typename T>
  void populate_OversamplingFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    using DataType = typename Coefficients::DataType;
    py::class_<OversamplingFilter<DataType, Coefficients>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_PanFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<PanFilter<DataType>> pan(m, type, parent);
    pan.def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1))
      .def_property("pan_law", &PanFilter<DataType>::get_pan_law, &PanFilter<DataType>::set_pan_law)
      .def_property("pan", &PanFilter<DataType>::get_pan, &PanFilter<DataType>::set_pan);

    py::enum_<typename PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS>(pan, "PAN_LAWS")
      .value("SINCOS_0_CENTER", PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS::SINCOS_0_CENTER)
      .value("SINCOS_3_CENTER", PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS::SINCOS_3_CENTER)
      .value("SQUARE_0_CENTER", PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS::SQUARE_0_CENTER)
      .value("SQUARE_3_CENTER", PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS::SQUARE_3_CENTER)
      .value("LINEAR_TAPER", PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS::LINEAR_TAPER)
      .value("BALANCE", PanFilter<DataType>::PAN_LAWS::BALANCE)
      .export_values();
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_SinusGeneratorFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
    .def(py::init<>())
    .def_property("frequency", &SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>::get_frequency, &SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>::set_frequency)
    .def_property("volume", &SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>::get_volume, &SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>::set_volume)
    .def_property("offset", &SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>::get_offset, &SinusGeneratorFilter<DataType>::set_offset)
    ;
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_SumFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<SumFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index, gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_output_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1), py::arg("summed_channels") = gsl::index(2));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_TanFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<TanFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
    .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1));
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_VolumeFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<VolumeFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
      .def(py::init<gsl::index>(), py::arg("nb_channels") = static_cast<gsl::index>(1))
      .def_property("volume", &VolumeFilter<DataType>::get_volume, &VolumeFilter<DataType>::set_volume);
  }

  template<typename DataType, typename T>
  void populate_WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter(py::module& m, const char* type, T& parent)
  {
    py::class_<WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<DataType>>(m, type, parent)
    .def(py::init<>())
    .def_property("volume", &WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<DataType>::get_volume, &WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<DataType>::set_volume)
    .def_property("offset", &WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<DataType>::get_offset, &WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<DataType>::set_offset);
  }
}

PYBIND11_MODULE(PythonTools, m)
{
  m.doc() = "Audio ToolKit Tools module";

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  py::object f1 = (py::object) py::module::import("ATK.Core").attr("FloatTypedBaseFilter");
  py::object f3 = (py::object) py::module::import("ATK.Core").attr("ComplexFloatTypedBaseFilter");
  py::object f4 = (py::object) py::module::import("ATK.Core").attr("ComplexDoubleTypedBaseFilter");
#endif
  py::object f2 = (py::object) py::module::import("ATK.Core").attr("DoubleTypedBaseFilter");

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_ApplyGainFilter<float>(m, "FloatApplyGainFilter", f1);
  populate_ApplyGainFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatApplyGainFilter", f3);
  populate_ApplyGainFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleApplyGainFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_ApplyGainFilter<double>(m, "DoubleApplyGainFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_BufferFilter<float>(m, "FloatBufferFilter", f1);
  populate_BufferFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatBufferFilter", f3);
  populate_BufferFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleBufferFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_BufferFilter<double>(m, "DoubleBufferFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_DecimationFilter<float>(m, "FloatDecimationFilter", f1);
  populate_DecimationFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatDecimationFilter", f3);
  populate_DecimationFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleDecimationFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_DecimationFilter<double>(m, "DoubleDecimationFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_DryWetFilter<float>(m, "FloatDryWetFilter", f1);
  populate_DryWetFilter<double>(m, "DoubleDryWetFilter", f2);
  populate_DryWetFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatDryWetFilter", f3);
  populate_DryWetFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleDryWetFilter", f4);
#endif

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_MuteSoloBufferFilter<float>(m, "FloatMuteSoloBufferFilter", f1);
  populate_MuteSoloBufferFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatMuteSoloBufferFilter", f3);
  populate_MuteSoloBufferFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleMuteSoloBufferFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_MuteSoloBufferFilter<double>(m, "DoubleMuteSoloBufferFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_MiddleSideFilter<float>(m, "FloatMiddleSideFilter", f1);
  populate_MiddleSideFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatMiddleSideFilter", f3);
  populate_MiddleSideFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleMiddleSideFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_MiddleSideFilter<double>(m, "DoubleMiddleSideFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_2<float>>(m, "FloatOversampling6points5order_2Filter", f1);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_4<float>>(m, "FloatOversampling6points5order_4Filter", f1);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_8<float>>(m, "FloatOversampling6points5order_8Filter", f1);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_16<float>>(m, "FloatOversampling6points5order_16Filter", f1);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_32<float>>(m, "FloatOversampling6points5order_32Filter", f1);
#endif
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_2<double>>(m, "DoubleOversampling6points5order_2Filter", f2);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_4<double>>(m, "DoubleOversampling6points5order_4Filter", f2);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_8<double>>(m, "DoubleOversampling6points5order_8Filter", f2);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_16<double>>(m, "DoubleOversampling6points5order_16Filter", f2);
  populate_OversamplingFilter<Oversampling6points5order_32<double>>(m, "DoubleOversampling6points5order_32Filter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_PanFilter<float>(m, "FloatPanFilter", f1);
  populate_PanFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatPanFilter", f3);
  populate_PanFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoublePanFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_PanFilter<double>(m, "DoublePanFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_SinusGeneratorFilter<float>(m, "FloatSinusGeneratorFilter", f1);
#endif
  populate_SinusGeneratorFilter<double>(m, "DoubleSinusGeneratorFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_SumFilter<float>(m, "FloatSumFilter", f1);
  populate_SumFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatSumFilter", f3);
  populate_SumFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleSumFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_SumFilter<double>(m, "DoubleSumFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_TanFilter<float>(m, "FloatTanFilter", f1);
#endif
  populate_TanFilter<double>(m, "DoubleTanFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_VolumeFilter<float>(m, "FloatVolumeFilter", f1);
  populate_VolumeFilter<std::complex<float>>(m, "ComplexFloatVolumeFilter", f3);
  populate_VolumeFilter<std::complex<double>>(m, "ComplexDoubleVolumeFilter", f4);
#endif
  populate_VolumeFilter<double>(m, "DoubleVolumeFilter", f2);

#if ATK_ENABLE_INSTANTIATION
  populate_WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<float>(m, "FloatWhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter", f1);
#endif
  populate_WhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter<double>(m, "DoubleWhiteNoiseGeneratorFilter", f2);
}


do you know any program in english speaking countries (like USA,Canada,Australia or England) which I can apply for?
How can I get a funded research position?
Do you know any attending or research leader that can help me?
could you please send me a list of research centers or labs that would possibly accept me?
that will be so kind of you.
Do the legwork yourself by looking online.
Right now, you are not impressing us with your diligence and initiative.
Honestly, I don't think very many of us know of such opportunities. Try looking up research articles in a topic you care about (cosmetic) and then google the authors to try and contact them.


« Danapoint simplified : How do you classify pulmonary hypertension (PH) ?
When STEMI presents without classical ST elevation , we are in trouble !
"STEMI is Acute MI" , and "Acute MI is STEMI" ! This is how we have been taught over the years.
4. Present as ventricular tachycardia. Untill VT it is reverted ST elevation will not manifest.
5. When a STEMI presents with complete heart block ST elevation may not manifest.
6.Atypical ECGs and subtle ECG changes are especially common in elderly, diabetic and in patients with LVH.
7. Finally, it is often quoted in text books acute MI occurs with normal ECG in up to 10 % . This is a high estimate .We belive acute MI with normal ECG is very rare presentation < 1% . That too in the very early stages of evolving MI.
As of now only condition No 1 and 3 are approved for thrombolysis or PCI. The unfortunate few who fall in other categories will continue to lose their muscle in the golden hour without any intervention as the guidelines has not addressed these issues.


text:
Wolfhorde – The Great Old Ones
Wolfhorde is releasing a tribute EP with three cover songs from the best known pioneers of Finnish metal music: Finntroll, Moonsorrow and Amorphis. These bands have been big inspiration to Wolfhorde and also to many others.
From the core, Wolfhorde is a Folk Metal band, but after all categories don't really mean that much. With this release we want to show where our biggest musical inspiration comes from and how long and diverse is the history of Finnish Folk Metal, which leads back to early 90's death metal of Amorphis, to Epic Heathen Metal of Moonsorrow and finally to humppa-infused black metal of Finntroll.


text:
Žuly (též granity) jsou hlubinné vyvřelé horniny obsahující v podstatném množství křemen. Žuly jsou obvykle světlé, šedavě nebo bělavě zbarvené, někdy s modrým odstínem. Známé jsou ovšem také žlutavé, růžové a červené druhy. Žuly jsou stejnoměrně všesměrně zrnité (eugranitické), občas porfyrické. Struktura je hypidiomorfně zrnitá.

Hustota žul se pohybuje kolem 2,8 g/cm³. Odlučnost žuly je kvádrovitá někde tlustě lavicovitá, vyskytuje se také sloupcovitá a kulovitá odlučnost, nepravidelně polyedrická odlučnost je typická pro zvrásněné oblasti.

Při větrání žul dochází k silnému zaoblování původních hran. Proto se lze setkat se zakulacenými tvary u balvanů i skal. V případě kvádrové odlučnosti vznikají balvany značných rozměrů.

Složení
Žula obsahuje v podstatném množství křemen a živce, přičemž draselný živec převládá nad plagioklasem. Tím se žula liší od granodioritu, u něhož převládá plagioklas. Z dalších minerálů bývá přítomen biotit, muskovit, turmalín, granát apod.

Typy žul

Možné dělení
 I–typ žuly derivované tavením dříve existujících magmatických hornin.
 S–typ žuly vzniklé tavením původně sedimentárních hornin.
 A–typ žuly vzniklé ze zbytkových roztoků frakční krystalizace. Typické pro riftové zóny a stabilní kontinentální oblasti, anorogenní žula.
 M–typ žuly vzniklé diferenciací nejsvrchnějšího pláště. vyskytující se v oceánských ostrovních obloucích, jsou podobné svým složením I-typu.

Podle příměsí se rozeznávají biotitická žula, dvojslídá žula, amfibolická žula, amfibolicko-biotitická žula, apod. Porfyrová žula obsahuje větší porfyrické vyrostlice ortoklasu. Výlevným ekvivalentem žuly je ryolit. Žilným ekvivalentem žuly je žulový porfyr.

Výskyt
Žuly se vyskytují v hlubinných tělesech – plutony a pně. Budují i značně velká tělesa. Žuly jsou spolu s příbuznými granodiority nejrozšířenějšími hlubinnými vyvřelými horninami. V Česku se žuly vyskytují hojně ve středočeském a centrálním moldanubickém plutonu a prakticky ve všech hraničních pohořích.

Česko
 Český masív: Šumava, Novohradské hory, Český les, Smrčiny, Krušné hory, Jizerské hory, Krkonoše, Železné hory, Českomoravská vrchovina, Jeseníky, Krty (okres Rakovník)

Svět
 Německo: Smrčiny (Fichtelgebirge), Oberpfälzer Wald, Bayerischer Wald (Bavorský les), Schwarzwald, Odenwald, Lužice, Centrální Alpy
 Rakousko: Mühlviertel, Waldviertel
 Norsko
 Švédsko
 Finsko

Původ pojmenování
Slovo žula pochází z německého  (tj. podklad, podloží). V odborné terminologii se používá označení granit (z latinského slova  tj. zrnko), termín používaný k označení zrnitých, krystalických hornin. V literatuře jej poprvé použil Andrea Cesalpino v roce 1596.

Využití
Žula se používá na sokly pomníků, na náhrobky, slouží jako stavební kámen pro liniové stavby (žulové kostky cest, dláždění luxusních chodníků a vnitřních prostor staveb) a v některých regionech jako běžný stavební kámen. Rozpukané žuly se používají na štěrk. Uplatnění nachází také jako materiál pro nosnou soustavu obráběích strojů, kde je vysoce ceněná pro své materiálové vlastnosti.

Galerie

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Aplit
 Liberecká žula
 Pegmatit
 Žulový pegmatit

Externí odkazy

Intruzivní horniny
Stavební materiály
Kyselé magmatické horniny


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Youxin Yang ( 杨有新; geb. 1963 in Xuzhou, China) ist eine Wissenschaftlerin, Drehbuchautorin, Filmregisseurin und Malerin.

Youxin Yang studierte Medizin in Nanjing. Sie erlangte ihren Doktor der Medizin in Paris an der Universität Pierre und Marie Curie. Für ihre Arbeit zu WT1 Genen beim Densy-Drash-Syndrom und der diffusen mesangialen Sklerose erhielt sie den Preis für Jungwissenschaftler der Association pour l'étude de la pathologie pédiatrique.

Drehbuchautorin und Filmregisseurin
Feuille (deutsch: Blatt), der erste Spielfilm Youxin Yangs, gewann den Remi Platinum Award beim 37. WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, den Accolade Award (Award of Excellence), und den Best Drama beim 2004 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

Die ursprüngliche Version des Films war ein abendfüllender Spielfilm. Er wurde 1998 in Paris gedreht. Feuille erzählt die Geschichte zweier Künstlerinnen, der chinesischen Malerin Meihua (Youxin Yang) und einer französischen Fotografin (Sabine Bail).

Bei erleben zusammen Konflikte mit den Kulturen und Homosexualität. Sie teilen tiefere Aspekte der menschlichen Natur: Ehrlichkeit, Großzügigkeit und Schönheit. Der Film durfte wegen seines Inhalts in China nicht gezeigt werden. Er wurde in einer gekürzten Fassung auf einem Shanghaier Fernsehkanal unter dem Titel Listening to the Rain gezeigt.

Die Filmautoren bearbeiteten den Film immer wieder, bis die endgültige Version durch das Gewinnen mehrerer Preise bei internationaler Filmwettbewerbe und -festivals Anerkennung fand. Obgleich es nur eine kleine unabhängige Produktion war, wurde der Film vom World Journal für seine Beschreibung reiner Liebe und Freundlichkeit in der menschlichen Natur gerühmt.

Songschreiberin
Yangs Spielfilm Feuille erschien auch mit neuen Bildern und dem Titelsong True Love Has Only One End als Musical. Der Titelsong wurde von Youxin Yang selbst geschrieben und vertont. Der Film gewann am 28. April 2007 einen Remi Gold Award beim 40. WorldFest Houston.

Youxin Yang gewann den Award of Excellence bei der 2005 Accolade Competition für den Text ihres Songs Silent Fire aus ihrem zweiten Spielfilm Silent Fire, der auch den Best Score beim New York International Independent Film Festival 2005 gewann.

Part 1: Baby get rid of that dark obsession please!

Das Projekt beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Gewalt. Insbesondere mit durch Jugendliche verübte Gewalt, wie Terrorismus und Gewalt an Schulen. Diese Musikvideo und ihre Bilderserie Peace wurden im September 2014 im Arts Club of Washington DC und im Oktober 2014 in der Watertown Free Public Library gezeigt.

Sandra Gobar, Kuratorin des Arts Club of Washington, sagte:

Ihr Gemälde Peace wurde in der Ausstellung Pursuing Justice Through Art gezeigt, die 2015 vom Whistler House Museum of Art präsentiert wurde.

Baby get rid of that dark obsession please! erhielt 2014 den Ehrenpreis bei der Accolade Global Film Competition, und den Ehrenpreis bei der Best Shorts Film Competition.

Part 2: God means loving, not killing!

Das Musikvideo God means loving, not killing! gewann drei Remi Awards in den Kategorien World Peace & Understanding, Historical und Film & Video Art beim 48. Annual WorldFest Houston International Independent Film Festival.

God means loving, not killing! war der Gewinner der Kategorie New Age bei den American Songwriting Awards 2016.

Malerin
Ihr Gemälde Dialogue between History and Modern I gewann 2008 die WCA national Featured Member Artist Competition.

Ihre Arbeiten Dialogue between History and Modern II und Peace III gewannen den ersten Platz und eine ehrenvolle Erwähnung bei der Ausstellung People, Faces, and Figures 2013 der Leading Artists Gallery. Die Jurorin Maud Taber-Thomas sagte: "Dieses Stück ist wirklich wunderschön in der Art, wie die Buchstaben des Schriftstücks Leben und eine eigene Persönlichkeit erhalten und an der allgemeinen Bewegung des Stückes teilnehmen. Die Buchstaben werden aktive 'Charaktere' in der dramatischen Komposition und erstellen in Umkehrung der Evolution von Bildern zu Piktogrammen zu Symbolen, die zu Schrift der heutigen Zeit führte. Die ungewöhnliche Komposition und die umsichtige Verwendung zarter Farben machen es zu einem äußerst besonderen Stück."

Ihre Gemälde wurden auf internationalen Einzelausstellungen im Espace Richelieu in Paris, Frankreich, der L'Essence Art Gallery in Boston, USA, dem Cultural Exchange Center in Boston, USA und im Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in British Columbia, Kanada ausgestellt.

Artikel zweier französischer Kunsthistoriker und mehrerer chinesischer Journalisten wurden mit Bildern Yangs in einem Buch mit dem Titel Youxin Yang, M.D.,  Ph.D.:  An Artist and Scientist zusammengestellt. Diese gesammelten biografischen chinesischen Artikel stammten aus den Presseerzeugnissen The European Times, Europe Journal, Modern Family, The Chinese Journal of Youth the Youth References und World Journal.

Peace Art Exhibition

Im April 2012 fand im Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in British Columbia, Kanada eine  Einzelausstellung Yangs mit dem Titel Peace statt.

Yangs Gemälde Peace 1 zeigt sieben Babies unterschiedlicher Ethnien über zwei Reihen internationaler Führungspersönlichkeiten. In einer Reihe sind als positiv  und friedliebend angesehene Personen, darunter die früheren US-Präsidenten George W. Bush und Barack Obama. In der anderen Reihe sind negativ angesehene Personen, darunter der deutsche Führer Adolf Hitler und der Gründer al-Qaida Osama bin Laden. Zwischen den Babies und den Anführern gibt es eine Blase, die die Verantwortung der "guten" Anführer für den Schutz der Unschuldigen darstellen soll. Das Bild gewann den Zweiten Preis in Wassermalerei bei der Highlands Museum and Discovery Center's National Juried Art Show 2013.

Ihr Gemälde Peace III wurde für den 26. Jährlichen September-Wettbewerb des Alexandria Museum of Art ausgewählt.

Yangs Gemälde Peace II, 2012, Peace IV, 2013, Peace I, 2012 und Peace VI-Boston Marathon 2013 gewannen 2013 den American Art Award in der Kategorie Pastell.

Youxin Yang erhielt 2013 in Massachusetts, USA den dotierten Stoney Award für die meisten Siege. Ihre Wasserfarben-, Öl- und Tuschebilder gewannen ein Dutzend Preise in den 52 Kategorien der 2013er American Art Award's.

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Fun, fun, fun. That is what I had at Dave & Leora's wedding!! What a fantastic couple and so many laughs. When Dave smiles his whole face smiles and it just makes me happy. Leora is beautiful, composed and just lovely. What an honour it was for me to spend such a momentous day with them. Their beautiful ceremony was at the Pinebrook Golf and Country club. After the ceremony we walked around the property for pictures. We found this excellent old beat up truck that I loved. We were all over that truck, including me on the roof that felt like it was going to collapse in. At one point Dave voluntarily hung upside down in a tree – it was awesome! The day was perfect.
Michelle & Leora checking themselves out in the mirror.
We did a fun group shot of all the guests right after the ceremony.
This bridal party was up for anything and it was great!
Dave really wanted to jump over Leora. It was so funny.
They had a candy bar at the reception – it went over VERY well with the guests.


Coordinate system created using Juventae Fons observations for determinig rotation and 260 control points by Camichel. 40 was used in this map.
This map was made by Dr. de Mottoni (Giardini Glauco de Mottoni y Palacios), and presented at the 1958 Moscow IAU meeting. It represents the avegare positions of surface markings observed 1941-52.
Source: A. Dollfus: Visual and photographic studies off planets at the Pic du Midi. In: Planets and Satellites, GP Kuiper and B Middlehurst, eds. Chicago Univ Press 543-571.
Measurements made at Pic du Midi 1941-54 by H. Camichel. Of 260 control points, 38 were used in the map.
The map was produced from six "planisphere" maps by G. de Mottoni with the help of Pic du Midi photographs taken during 1941, 43, 46, 48, 50, 52 oppositions, respectively.
+60- -60 latitudes in Mercator, following Schiaparelly, and polar azimuthal equidistant projection.
Source: Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Moscow, August 12-20, 1958: Cambridge University Press, v. 10, pl. 1, p. 262.
Source: W. R. Corliss: The Moon and The Planets. The sourcebook project 1985.
Reference: Patrick Moore: Der Mond. Herder.


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Some of the cyclical issues that landlords face won't be due to weather variations. For instance, people might have more parties and more visits from relatives during the winter holiday season, and this means that tenants might become more particular about the amenities of their apartments. Tenant apartments also might become noisier for the same reason. Of course, this same thing can happen during the summer months, making the situation even more complicated.
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Тельбин — пресное озеро в Днепровском районе Киева.

Основные сведения
Г-образной формы озеро находится посреди жилого массива Березняки.

История
Впервые озеро упоминается (под названием «Тербин») в грамоте царей Иоанна и Петра Алексеевичей от 1694 года.
Происхождение названия не выяснено, предположительно — не славянское.

Интересные факты
 Озеро привлекает к себе фанатов творчества Виктора Цоя. Тут в 1986 году снимался первый короткометражный фильм о группе «КИНО»: «Конец каникул», режиссёр Сергей Лысенко. Ива, возле которой проходили съемки фильма, имеет название «Дерево Цоя»; получила статус ботанического памятника природы местного значения в феврале 2020 г.
 На берегу Тельбина, недалеко друг от друга, расположились три церкви.

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Trial nears for woman accused of killing jeweler Pat Murphy in New Orleans
By Peter E. Bortner
Pottsville Republican Herald |
| POTTSVILLE
The trial of the New Orleans woman who is charged with killing Pottsville businessman Patrick J. Murphy in February in her hometown still is scheduled to begin next month, although the date is not set in stone, a spokesman for prosecutors said last week.
Megan Hall, 26, formerly of Tennessee, will go on trial Jan. 7, Ken Daley, a spokesman for Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon A. Cannizzaro Jr., said Thursday.
Megan Hall, 26, is charged in New Orleans in the stabbing death of Pottsville jeweler, Pat Murphy, 62, whose body was found in a hotel near the French Quarter on Feb. 28, 2019. (New Orleans Police Department via AP) (AP)
However, Daley said that date is "fluid" and could be changed as late as Jan. 6.
Hall faces charges of second-degree murder, armed robbery and obstruction of justice in a homicide investigation. Daley said she remains in the Orleans Justice Center jail, where she is being held in lieu of $750,000 bond pending trial.
Ad hoc Judge Dennis J. Waldron will preside over the case, which is expected to last three or four days, Daley said.
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Prosecutors alleged Hall stabbed Murphy, the owner of Murphy Jewelers, one of Schuylkill County's oldest family businesses, three times, once in the neck and twice in the abdomen, in the early morning hours of Feb. 28 in a room at the Empress Hotel in the Treme section of New Orleans. A housekeeper discovered Murphy's body at 11:41 a.m. in a room registered to Hall, according to prosecutors.
Video surveillance cameras showed Murphy and Hall at 2:10 a.m. arriving at the hotel together, prosecutors said. Hall was seen leaving the hotel room alone and briskly walking out the front door at 3:42 a.m., believed to be leaving with some of Murphy's possessions, and no one else was seen entering or leaving the room until the housekeeper eight hours later, according to prosecutors.
Hall faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted of second-degree murder, with a sentence of 10 to 99 years in prison, the maximum for armed robbery, and up to 40 years behind bars for obstruction of justice in a homicide investigation. The life sentence would include no chance of parole, Daley said.
Assistant District Attorney Sarah Hawkins is the lead prosecutor in the case. Daley said a second assistant district attorney will be selected to help Dawkins. John Fuller, New Orleans, is representing Hall.
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Murphy and his family have operated Murphy Jewelers at the same 115 W. Market St. site in Pottsville since 1913. In recent years, Murphy expanded the business, adding locations at the Promenade Shops in Upper Saucon Township and in Hamburg.
Contact the writer: pbortner@republicanherald.com; 570-628-6014
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Investigation of Microplastic Accumulation in the Gastrointestinal Tract in Birds of Prey
Julia Carlin, University of Central FloridaFollow
Plastic pollution is unavoidable in the natural environment. Consequences of plastic ingestion include exposure to environmental pollutants and toxin accumulation, causing endocrine disruption, inflammatory and physiological stress in organisms. Microplastics have been shown to transfer across food webs, however, limited studies have examined microplastic accumulation across terrestrial food webs. Furthermore, few studies have examined plastic pollution in apex predatory animals. A study was conducted to quantify the abundance of plastic pollution in the gastrointestinal tract in birds of prey. Two species were investigated, one which forages in terrestrial habitats and one which forages in aquatic environments including Buteo lineatus (red-shouldered hawk) and Pandion haliaetus (osprey), respectively. The gastrointestinal tract was necropsied, chemically digested, and examined for microplastic prevalence. Overall, microplastics are significantly more abundant per gram of gastrointestinal (GI) tract tissue in species that forage on small rodents and terrestrial reptiles (B. lineatus) as compared to species that forage on fish and aquatic invertebrates (P. haliaetus). Buteo lineatus averaged 0.81 (±0.15) fibers and 0.14 (±0.04) fragments per gram of GI tract tissue while P. halieatus averaged 0.31 (±0.09) fibers and 0.04 (±0.02) fragments per gram of GI tract tissue. There was a significant interaction between type and color in both B. lineatus and P. haliaetus GI tract tissues. Micro-Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (μ-FTIR) was run on haphazardly selected samples and found that rayon was the most common polymer identified in both species. The significant difference found between species could be indicative that terrestrial raptors may experience greater bioaccumulation than aquatic species foraging at comparable trophic levels. However, the significant interaction between type and color in both species indicates a potential common source of pollution that affects both environments. Further investigation on the source of polymers is necessary in order to develop conservation and management strategies aimed at decreasing the output of synthetic fibers into the environment. Due to the abundance of polymers found in these species, understanding the potential biological and physiological effects of plastics is essential to informing superior management strategies that can better protect and preserve wildlife from increasing anthropogenic pressures.
Walters, Linda
Donnelly, Melinda
Carlin, Julia, "Investigation of Microplastic Accumulation in the Gastrointestinal Tract in Birds of Prey" (2019). Honors Undergraduate Theses. 501.
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No matter where you go in life, people skills are important. In this engaging and informative book, O'Hallaron shares his 21 "GoldenRules." Each chapter focuses on a specific "GoldenRule" and there is a neat bonus section at the end.
Broken down into five sections, the tips are simple, while the reward can be great. From something as easy as genuinely smiling to the more complex concept of finding a way not to complain, applying these concepts can improve your life. The author teaches you about what he calls the Conversation Funnel to be considered a brilliant conversationalist. He encourages the reader to practice connecting with others. O'Hallaron also shares tips when you're communicating in a variety of mediums.
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I've got a busy week coming up, so I took most of the weekend off. We set up the Lil' Princess' new bedroom furniture and I've got contractors quoting out some new floors and painting. Twenty years is enough with the old stuff. I don't know why I ever put carpets in this house. I'll be so happy when they are gone.
What is on your list to read this week?
Romance, adventure, and faith swirl together to create a story that will captivate you from beginning to end. The Cumberland Bride by Shannon McNear continues the Daughters of the Mayflower series: a series said to be for "lovers of history, adventure, romance, and family legacy."
In Book 5, the family of Kate Gruener is preparing to move to the frontier of western Kentucky. Like her father, who fought during the War for Independence, Kate is looking for adventure. She quickly sets her mind to finding out more about their scout, the elusive Thomas Bledsoe.
Thomas has a job to do--get the settlers across the Wilderness Road safely and keep an ear out for news of Shawnee unrest. Kate's inquisitive nature and her penchant for getting into trouble could put all of them in danger. He's not sure he wants to share his story anyway.
As tensions rise, Kate might have to tap into courage she doesn't know she has to thwart a coming disaster.
The Cumberland Bride is a nice addition to a series that I have enjoyed from the start. The history lover in me appreciates the historical detail each author weaves their story around. The character-driven reader in me admires the complex characters each author creates and brings together during some of history's most memorable times. The Cumberland Bride is set during a challenging and dangerous time in our country's history, where the Native Americans were pushed farther and farther west by the American government, which caused tensions that led to deadly consequences on both sides. In the late 1700s, the author draws these two characters together who couldn't be more different.
McNear's story is one of being lost and found again for Thomas. It is also one where Kate taps into courage she never thought she had. The connection between them isn't immediate, but it grows and propels this story forward as much as the wagons move them along the Wilderness Road.
You can read The Cumberland Bride by itself, but if you want to read about the Lytton family from their landing in America, you should start at the beginning. This amazing family saga continues with The Liberty Bride by MaryLu Tyndalll. Look for my review of that story soon.
Most of us have a favorite writing book (or ten), too. These books have helped us understand storytelling better, demystifying certain aspects of writing. Well, today I'm taking part in welcoming a new writing guide into the world: The Emotion Thesaurus (Second Edition).
You may have heard of The Emotion Thesaurus before, or even have a copy. The original's lists of body language, thoughts, and visceral sensations for 75 unique emotions made brainstorming character expressions and reactions so much easier. It quickly became a bestseller.
Anyway, if you're interested in checking it out, you can read some of the reviews on Goodreads or find information here.
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Happy Monday! I hope you had a great week. It's snowing here. The white stuff started last night. I'm okay if this is the end of the snow, but I fear that's not the case.
This weekend we cleaned out one of our daughter's bedrooms and bought new furniture. Most of what she owned was hand-me-downs. It is time she had her own things.
On the reading front, I'm taking some time to read a book that isn't one of my February review titles.
The Daughters of the Mayflower is such a great series. This book is about a family moving west in the late 1700's. Tensions are high considering the tense relationship between the settlers and the Native Americans.
Then these three are next.
I'm trying to get back to my first book of the year, which has ended up being more like my first paragraph of the year.
Then I'll probably read the next book in The Daughters of the Mayflower series.
What is on your list this week? Are you staying on track with reviews? I think that's the hardest part about blogging.
Book Review: Always Welcome by Welcome W. Wilson Sr.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, in business, or someone who likes fascinating stories, Always Welcome by Welcome W. Wilson Sr. is sure to please.
Like anyone who has lived more than 90 years, Welcome W. Wilson Sr. has stories to tell. In this lively and engaging memoir, he shares his life, his successes, and his failures with wit, charm, and sincerity. He's more down to earth than you can imagine someone who has developed 8,000 home sites, served in the Armed Forces and in key government positions, dined with celebrities and politicians from both sides of the aisle, and served on the Board of Regents for the University of Houston would be.
A masterful business man and problem solver, Wilson has led a life many of us only dream about. Through what he calls Welcome's "Rules of Order," you can also learn to succeed in business and life by avoiding his mistakes he so willingly shares. Filled with numerous photographs, Always Welcome would be a great addition to your home library, office, or as a book club title. My copy will have a special place in my home office, so that I can refer to his "Rules of Order" regularly.
With Always Welcome, Wilson inspires us to reach new heights in our personal and professional lives. He takes leading by example to a whole new level.
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Hard to believe it is Wednesday again. I just finished time blocking my calendar. Usually that's a Sunday night thing, but this weekend was hectic. I'm working to stay on top of reviews, but here's a book that is one of my Kindle freebies.
BLURB: Father Ambrose found a simple, worthwhile path leading a secluded spiritual community in Northern California. He spends his days happily focused on guiding the farming and teaching meditation. Then, someone dumps a body in one of their orchards.
Now, the confusion and violence of the modern world have come crashing through the gates. Father Ambrose wants Sheriff Charlie Cormley to believe the body has nothing to do with them, but it's not that easy.
He reluctantly takes on the sleuth's role to find the truth and clear New Life of suspicion. He finds himself moving out into the world in ways he never imagined, and life in his community will never be the same.
WHY I BOUGHT IT: I love mysteries and I enjoy amateur sleuths that happen to be in religious orders. Crazy, right? I really enjoyed the Father Dowling Mysteries when they were on TV. This also has the modern world invading the peaceful world of New Life, which I find interesting.
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It is the rainy season of elections again. Coming are the Punjab and U.P. Everybody will engage in election activities shortly or show to be engaged so. Colours of the turbans will also get change. Changing the party and taking the better opportunity in another party is a normal act for the political leaders. Every leader wants a suitable and comfortable position in his party, and if they did not get the desired honour, then they did not hesitate to even change the party. Matter of party ideology, manifesto, party worker's feeling and public interest are all of secondary importance in the urge of power and chair.
In our Indian democracy, it is a great defect that the rainy season of elections never goes. It is every time raining in the country at one place or another. It should be happen once in the time of 5 years in thorough out the India, which can save multi crores of public money and make the government working all time. Polls after a short span in different states make the political leaders indulge themselves in the cold war. They spent almost 60% to 70% of their working time either to blame the other party leaders or defend ourselves to reap the fruit in the coming elections.
Now the political parties have their eyes on U.P and Punjab. Every party is making big promises and it is the luck of the parties which depends upon the Head or Tail game play by the voters in the elections. Let's talk about Udta Punjab. Opposition is talking about the matter of drugs as an opportunity but the ruling party is saying that it is not uncommon in Punjab only, but also occurring the same cases in Udta Rajashthan, Udta Haryana etc. I get ashamed of these political statements by our political leaders, which is another push to just mislead the public only and in reality, no body have concern to the root problem. Drugs consumption among the youth (especially college students) has a steep rise in the last few years. Neither center government nor state government is ready to take the responsibility of this drug cancer. State government is blaming to the center for not securing its international borders, even the center government is their partner in the state. Is it not another misleading act of the state government? Center government have shut his mouth on this matter. Delhi C.M. wants full statehood. They said that they are just like a Mayor of the city and the police of the Delhi should be under the control of the Delhi C.M to work efficiently. But in Punjab this is not the problem. Even then the government is not ready to take the responsibility of drug cancer. Is it impossible to control the drug menace in Punjab, if the both governments (center and state) want to remove it collectively? If yes, then why another misleading to the public? And if you are not able to even control the drug menace at your land, then how can you show your chest of 56" to the Pakistan to control the terrorist in the Jammu and Kashmir. This is the matter of deep analysis by the general public. Because these leaders will never opt to close their shops, which are converting the blood of lakhs of youths in to multi crores rupees for them.
BJP have a good opportunity to play its card in the Punjab State, with its ideology. But due to some reasons they do not take divorcee from the Akali Dal in the Punjab. In actual, both parties have nothing in common in their ideology, but to remain in power and to keep the congress away from the politics, they are singing the song "CHOR CHOR MUSERE BHAI". Due to the fear of repetition of results of elections in Bihar and Delhi, despite of full Modi campaign wave in these states, they have forgotten the large public interest in Punjab. Even from the last few years, the party leaders were demanding divorce from the Akali Dal, but the senior leaders are watching the movie in the silence, which results in to the resignation of Navjot Singh Sidhu from the Rajya Sabha and from the BJP party also.
The congress party leaders have lack of unity, which was the main reason of defeat in 2012 elections also. This time, the shadow of the position of senior leaders at the center level and in other states will help to the other parties to put the ball of vote smoothly in their bags. I again give the reference of party ideology here through the idol of Manpreet Singh, who was the ex- finance minister in Akali Govt, make a new party and contest the election separately in 2012. Due to lack of funds and lack of efficient team leaders, he was defeated. But, he get 6% of voting share in 2012 elections, which I think is the second reason of the defeat of the congress in the elections. Even Akali- BJP was not sure in 2012 to come back in the power. It was happened due to this triangle and 10-15 seats were fallen in the bag of Akali – BJP with very low margin. Now he is contesting under the flag of Congress, and I want to ask from him that where his ideology goes now? Is he misleading to the people now? And if he have a concern to fight with the Akali's only, then why he mislead to the people in 2012?
Farmers suicide, Global recession, worst condition of industry in Punjab, high rates of electricity in the state, rise in the diesel and petrol prises, high commodity prices, worst sanitation conditions of cities and villages, lowering the standard of education in govt. schools, bad facilities in hospitals, are the matter of manifesto only to which the people vote for. At least we should compare the previous manifesto's of the ruling party with the actual working, that all the promises made by them in the last elections was fulfilled by them or not. The manifesto of the other parties should also be compared with each other and the comparison of the ideology of the parties should be paramount with the high agenda of development and youth employment.
Aam Aadmi Party has a new face in the state elections of Punjab with 4 M.P's. Earlier they won the Delhi with 67 score out of 70, which I think was amazing and very difficult. But all was happened due to a large unending list of promises made to the public. Do anything happen in to reality? Is it not another misleading to the public? Now they are claiming full majority in the Punjab. Will they succeed to get benefit of anti-incumbency or to mislead again?
Every party talk about 84 riots near by the election period and after the elections, they forget everything. Many Sikhs were brutally assassinated, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by a Sikh Security guard. So many governments have changed and congress and Akali- BJP both major parties have achieve the chance of rule in the Punjab and Delhi State. But have they done something. Then, why another misleading to the public? I also want to discuss here the matter of Gujrat Riots and Punjab Terrorist. Everybody talks about the Godhra incident, but anyone knows, what is the reason of the incident? Why the matter of the Hindu's assassination previous to the Gujrat Riots and during the black days of Punjab Terrorism is not discussed anywhere? Are they not People of India? Did they not deserve sympathy? Did they not deserve reservation, which have lost their parents in the assassinations? Indira Gandhi's move to attack on Golden temple was not to hurt any religious feelings, but it is not the fault of the Indira Gandhi, that the terrorist have taken the shelter under the roof of Golden Temple. She was "daringly" and "knowingly the consequences of attack" have taken the decision, and no one can stand in comparison of that Iron lady. I did not want to prove anyone right or wrong. Past time has gone and at current time, we should concern about the development of the state and not of any previous matters, by which no one will get benefit except these political parties. Even the youth of the Punjab States did not know that what was happened in the black days of Punjab. They listen the stories from their parents or read the incidents in the books or novels. Then why should they concern about these incidents in the elections, and how can these incidents help them to decide that to whom they should vote or not? These are just playing cards of political parties, but the ultimate game is in the hand of public and mainly youth is the deciding vote. Discussions should be made that how can we promote National games? How can we increase domestic production? How can we increase the matter of opportunity in the employment? How can we improve the conditions of government schools, hospitals and government offices for better results? How can we increase our research studies? How can we improve the quality of our food crop production? How can we improve our infrastructure? We have given wide powers via our Constitution, and this is the right time to use this power of vote and it will be luck of these parties, that who will win the race by the game of head or tail in the hands of the voters.
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The Alchemist (Prebound)
By Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
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HIROSHIMA--Students here are recreating the lives of people devastated by the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, by vividly colorizing photos taken before the city was leveled by the nuclear attack.
Students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School combine artificial intelligence technology and interviews with atomic bomb survivors to produce realistic coloring of black-and-white photos provided by hibakusha.
Monochrome pictures snapped before and during World War II are automatically colorized with artificial intelligence. The processed photos are shown to hibakusha so colors can be manually adjusted based on their accounts.
Converting one black-and-white photo into color takes from one week to several months, and 140 pictures have been colorized since November. The finished pictures will go on display at an exhibition here in autumn at the earliest.
In late July, Anju Niwata, 16, a second-year student who heads the project in which six other members are participating this fiscal year, visited Hisashi Takahashi, 89, who lives in Hiroshima's Nishi Ward.
A photo shows Takahashi with his parents, grandmother and younger brother smiling in a carpet of flowers.
"They were dandelions," Takahashi said, referring to the small flowers that Niwata had assumed were white clovers.
The Takahashi family's photo studio was destroyed by the atomic bomb a few years after the picture was taken, killing his parents and younger brother. Takahashi survived the disaster because he had evacuated from Hiroshima.
Tokuso Hamai, 84, in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, who lost his parents as well his elder brother and sister in the devastation, provided a photo showing his family going to see the cherry blossoms.
More than 10 people sit around a picnic box on a rush mat with smiles on their faces in the picture shot in spring 1935, a year after Hamai was born.
Hidenori Watanabe, 43, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, supervises the student project.
"I hope those who watch the photos will see firsthand that the atomic bombing took place only a short while ago, not in the distant past, and understand that it has a link with their own lives," he said.


The fire chief in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, admitted to starting a brush fire last month, and blamed it on a cigarette, according to court documents.
Ricky Plummer, 59, of Biddeford, was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with one count of arson in an April 15 fire that burned more than 42 acres in Old Orchard Beach's Jones Creek Marsh.
According to the Portland Press Herald, Plummer has served as the fire chief in Old Orchard Beach since 2014. He has also worked at fire departments in Arundel, Biddeford, Standish, North Berwick and Gray, Maine; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Marlborough, Massachusetts; and Cocoa, Florida.
He made his first court appearance on Monday and his bail was set at $10,000 cash. He is not allowed to travel to Old Orchard Beach or possess incendiary devices.
About a dozen investigators from the state fire marshal's office and the forest service seized computers at the Old Orchard Beach fire station on Friday. They also seized Plummer's town-owned car and his cell phone.
Plummer does not yet have an attorney.
Fire investigators said that, contrary to Plummer's account, no evidence of cigarettes was found in the area where the brush fire started. According to court papers, Plummer was spotted on surveillance footage arriving at the scene in his fire department vehicle.
More than 100 firefighters from southern Maine fought the fire. Smoke was visible from as far away as Interstate 295 in Portland. No one was injured.