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Steve Morris and Carl Hobbs, case dismissed insufficient evidence, where is the justice!
Carl Hobbs showed my wife his dismissal for his contempt proceeding in the 185th. Checked off on the dismissal was insufficient evidence as the reason, to bad there is not a category for no evidence. I know Carl, and he is a great guy and no one had their reputations dragged through the mud more than he and Steve Morris. When this happened it was on the front page of the paper and Ted Oberg was insinuating Carl and Steve were the Watergate burglars based on his coverage. The facts are that it was a completely bogus show cause order written by a very politically biased Judge. And, now you have to ask yourself why was this done and it brings us back full circle on the runaway 185th Grand Jury.
Carl and Steve desperately tried to protect the integrity of the grand jury. These men tried to stop the corruption of what was about to take place. See to make Anderson's smear job work Judge Susan Brown, Judge Marc Brown and Mike Anderson had to remove the prosecutors from the room. There was simply no other way they could perpetuate the corruption with honest men present. I have always found it more than coincidental that Judge Marc Brown appeared before his own wife's Grand Jury, and Shazam Stephen St. Martin and Jim Mount were appointed the special prosecutors for the 185th grand jury. You have to include Billy Belk in the scheme. He was the investigator hired by St. Martin and Mount. Belk works out of Rusty Hardin's office. Yes, that guy who was on the host committee for Mike Anderson's fundraiser. Now we know the whole thing was bogus from the get go. Carl and Steve were entirely correct in their actions and so you are left with the purpose of the 185th Grand Jury or lack thereof. These men tried to protect my wife, the residents of Harris County, and the DA's office from the corruption that is Mike Anderson's campaign.
Judge Susan Brown sought to recuse herself from this hearing after the problems were pointed out to her concerning the show cause order, smart. I found it ironic that time was of the essence to get a Judge appointed to hear Rachel's recusal, it was done within a couple of hours. Carl and Steve had to wait months and the timing fell on the day before super Tuesday. It is funny and I kept kidding Carl that he would never have his hearing and if he did it would be after the election, Murray write that down, Don was wrong. Mike Anderson will always blame his loss on the delayed primary, thank you redistricting and a few Judges in San Antonio. So the question remains will the Judicial Conduct Review Committee hold Judge Susan Brown accoutable for her actions. There was nothing in the show cause order that she wrote that was correct or true, well she may have gotten her court right? Brad Beers represented the court reporters, Randy Schaffer represented Steve Morris and, Bill Hawkins represented Carl Hobbs. All the lawyers staunchly defended the innocence of their clients and would not be bullied by Susan Brown. All demanded a hearing for their clients. Funny how God does not ugly or corruption. Congratulations to all four and thank you for trying to protect Rachel. You all are good honorable people who every day go to the Harris County Criminal Court House and give it your all. Carl and Steve are part of the crowd at the DA's office who lose sleep over the thought they may put an innocent person in jail. Mike Anderson, Stephen St. Martin, Jim Mount, Billy Belk, Murray Newman, Luci Davidson, Brad Hart, and Kristen Guinney do not fall into the category and are sleeping like babies with innocent people going to jail.
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Two brothers in Kashmir develop TikTok alternative
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of self-reliant India, two brothers from Kashmir's Budgam district have created a mobile application which they say is an alternative to the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok that was banned in India in June this year following the Galwan Valley clash.
Budgam : In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of self-reliant India, two brothers from Kashmir's Budgam district have created a mobile application which they say is an alternative to the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok that was banned in India in June this year following the Galwan Valley clash.
App Developer Tipu Sultan Walong with his elder brother Mohd Farooq, who is a software engineer, has developed the top-notch application named 'Nucular'.
Wani had earlier developed a mobile application --"File Share Tool" which allows sharing files at a speed of 40 MB per second, as an alternative to banned Chinese app SHAREit.
Buoyed by the success of "File Share Tool," the siblings decided to create an app on the lines of TikTok.
"After we created 'File Share Tool' like SHAREit, we got a good response from people. People wrote us emails that there should an app like TikTok. Then we started working on it. It took us one month. I developed this along with my elder brother Mohd Farooq Wani who is a software engineer. One can create songs, dialogues, and duet on the application," Tipu Sultan Wani told ANI.
He said that state-of-the-art technology has been used in the application which is available on Google Play to offer a great user experience.
"We have used a technology which will help to load videos faster on the app even the internet speed is slow. We have also introduced augmented reality effects into the app. There are no apps in the Indian market with features like this," Wani said.
"We used the latest technology in ARmask, beauty filters, and VR backgrounds. We keep on adding more and more filters and editing tools. Anyone can upload any video length between five seconds to 60 seconds. One can edit, cut, and add music to any video file. There is 4k resolution in the app," he said.
Wani said that they have launched a contest where those who will get 5,000 followers on the application first will get Rs 2,000 cash.
"We are also giving rewards. Those who will achieve 5,000 followers on the app will get Rs 2,000 cash. We are working on the next update so that people can earn money based on likes and shares," he said.
Locals lauded the Budgam brothers for creating an alternative to Chinese apps.
Firdous Ahmad, a local said: "Earlier we were using TikTok which was a Chinese app, the government banned such apps. In absence of these apps, there was a lack of entertainment mediums for us. We requested Tipu Sultan and Mohd Farooq to develop an alternate app. They earlier created a file-sharing application and that was very good. Now, they have come up with a Nucular app which is an alternative to TikTok. We are thankful to them."
Another local Faizan Bhat said that people got addicted to TikTok and they were looking for an alternative after the app was banned.
"Earlier, people use TikTok. Due to issues between India and China, these apps were banned. People were addicted to TikTok. After the ban, they were looking for an alternate. Tipu developed an app Nocular in which people can use like they were using TikTok. One can earn from Nucular app," he said.
In July, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) had banned 47 apps, which were variants and cloned copies of the 59 apps banned earlier in June. The 59 apps had been banned by the Centre in June in view of the information available that they were engaged in activities that were "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity and defence" of the country.
Almost all the apps banned had some preferential Chinese interest and the majority had parent Chinese companies.
On July 4, with an objective to support and build a strong ecosystem for Indian Apps, MeitY in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission - Niti Aayog launches Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge for Indian tech entrepreneurs and Startups.
In his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio programme, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said that the youth participated enthusiastically in the AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge.
He said that today's small start-ups will transform into big companies tomorrow and become the mark of India in the world, adding that one should not forget that the big companies which exist in the world today, were also, once, start-ups.
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Watchdog Denounces Russia's 'Escalating Persecution' Of Jehovah's Witnesses
January 09, 2020 14:53 GMT
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Russian law enforcement authorities have "dramatically escalated the nationwide persecution" of Jehovah's Witnesses over the past year.
"The numbers of house raids and people under criminal investigation have more than doubled, and 32 Jehovah's Witnesses worshipers are behind bars for peacefully practicing their faith," the New York-based watchdog said in a statement on January 9.
The statement said that "at least 313 people are facing charges, are on trial, or have been convicted of criminal 'extremism' for engaging in Jehovah's Witnesses' activities, or are suspects in such cases."
About two-thirds of them found out about their status as suspect or accused in 2019, it said.
HRW said authorities have carried out at least 780 house raids since 2017 in dozens of Russian cities -- more than half of them last year.
Eighteen people were convicted in 2019, nine of whom received prison sentences ranging from 2 to 6 years, for such activities as participating in prayer meetings.
Russia banned the religious group in April 2017 and deemed it an "extremist organization."
HRW said the authorities should reverse the ban and remove the "extremist" designation, which it said "blatantly violates" Russia's obligations to respect and protect religious freedom and freedom of association.
They should allow Jehovah's Witnesses to freely practice their faith, release those detained immediately, drop any outstanding charges, expunge all related criminal records, the watchdog said.
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All-weather railway line, biggest solar energy park in pipeline for Ladakh: Defence minister
LEH: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday lambasted the Congress for allegedly neglecting Ladakh over the past six decades and said various initiatives like railway line and biggest solar park are in the pipeline for the region for its overall development.
She assured all the pending defence issues, including rent for the land which is under the army's use, would be resolved as she listed out various steps taken by the Prime Minister Narendra Mod-led government for the region.
The Ladakh region usually remains cut-off from the rest of the country for nearly six months annually due to closure of the 434-km long Srinagar-Leh national highway during winter.
"I am not making any promises because it is a violation of the model code of conduct in view of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. I am speaking about the initiatives taken by the Modi government for the welfare of the people of the Ladakh region," she said addressing an election rally in support of party candidate Jamyang Tsering Namgyal here.
Namgyal is locked in a four-cornered contest from the Ladakh seat, where the campaigning ended this evening and the focus shifted to May 6 polling which will also decide the fate of Congress candidate Rigzin Spalbar and two independents – Congress rebel and former MLA Asgar Ali Karbalai and journalist-turned-politician Sajjad Hussain.
"The work on the detailed project report for an all-weather railway line between Himachal Pradesh to Leh has started. The railway line once completed will provide an all-weather connectivity to the region which is presently dependent on a road through Kargil which only opens in summer," the defence minister said.
She said the planning for the biggest solar power park in Leh has already been started by renewable energy which will not only provide electricity to the region, but also make Jammu and Kashmir energy a surplus state.
Sitharaman said she took charge of the defence ministry in September 2017 and visited Ladakh at least four times to witness the fast changing development scenario.
Drawing a parallel between Northeast and Ladakh, she said both the regions faced neglect during six decades of the Congress rule and only came up for a focused development during the last five years.
"The prime minister makes it necessary that at least one minister should visit Northeast because in the Congress' rule, the region was sidelined and no work was done there. Likewise, the Congress dominated the political discourse in Ladakh, but never paid attention to the region for its development," the defence minister claimed.
During the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government in the past, she said a separate department of Northeast affairs was set up which got a boost during the past five years after the formation of the Modi government.
"The land of seven sisters is actually eight sisters, including Sikkim, and this is for the first time that these Himalayan states are witnessing development in the shape of construction of new railway lines, better roads and airports.
"The funds were directly given to Ladakh councils instead through Srinagar headquarters to avoid delay in the development works. Leh was given more administrative and financial powers to utilise the money which resulted in speeding up of various development works," Sitharaman said.
She referred to the prime minister's speech at Red Fort in Delhi last year promising recruitment of women in the armed forces and said the decks were cleared and "local women will be recruited in Ladakh Scouts" shortly.
"After the return of the Modi government at the Centre, all your issues like pending rent cases for agricultural land under use of army and recruitment of women as porters will be addressed. A ministerial team will visit Ladakh and you need not come to Delhi to raise your issues," she said.
Terming Ladakh as a "very sensitive border region", she said an all-weather road, which will provide access to the northern border throughout the year, linking Leh with Daulat Beg is in the final stages of completion.
Sitharaman said the Centre also granted divisional status to Ladakh, Ladakh University, Leh Medical College, Expansion of Leh Airport, Funds for Zogilla Tunel, Huge funding for Zansker road and road to Demchok via Nyoma and future road project of Turtuk Tha Hanu road and electricity to households in all areas of Leh and Kargil.
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu also addressed the rally, highlighting the policies of Modi for Himalayan states.
"During the Congress government, only mess and chaos was in India and the country was plundered badly. There was no accountability and no transparency," Khandu alleged.
He assured the people of Ladakh that he would keep supporting them and appealed to vote unitedly for the party candidate and ensure his victory.
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Home|Prints|Abstract Prints|Glenn Brown|For JP Sartre 2009
For JP Sartre 2009
Edition of 20060.0cm x 45.0cm?
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This artwork is sold framed. For additional information on the frame please see the artwork detail information.
Subject | Still life > Flowers
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Signed | Yes, Signed in bottom right hand corner
Materials | Lambda photographic print
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Glenn Brown considers himself an artistic Dr Frankenstein. This extraordinary British painter revitalises art historical imagery. The way Glenn sees it, he is "constructing paintings out of the residue or dead parts of other artists' work". As morbid as this sounds, Glenn's work offers a thrilling and refreshing take on established modes of art. We love the richness of Glenn's canvases and the powerful strangeness they evoke. The prints available from Rise Art will have you mesmerised.
The Northumberland-born artist began his studies at the Norwich School of Art. Thereafter Glenn went on to complete a BA in Fine Art at Bath College of Higher Education, followed by an MA at the University of London's Goldsmith's College.
Glenn's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in the UK and abroad. Significant venues include London's Serpentine Gallery, Tate Liverpool, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Italy, and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. The artist was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000.


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Q: python - Open filelike object by filename I want to create a filelike object that will later be opened by its filename. Is it possible to do that? I'm looking for something like this:
import io

fileLikeObject = io.BytesIO()
fileLikeObject.write((b"randomContent")
fileLikeObject.name = "someFilename.txt"

sameFileAsbefore = open("someFilename.txt", "rb")
sameFileAsbefore.read()

I've looked at this thread, but the file is not accessible by its name afterwards.
For completeness, what I want to specifically do is to generate a sinusoidal waveform and play in an Android environment. Here is a code adapted from this answer.
from kivy.core.audio import SoundLoader
from kivy.base import runTouchApp
from kivy.uix.button import Button
import time

# Wave parameters
fs = 44100 # sampling frequency
duration = 2 # seconds

# Generating waveforms
timePoints = np.linspace(0, duration, duration*fs)
sineWave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * 440 * timePoints) # 440 Hz
outdata = np.transpose(np.tile(volume*outputWave, (2,1)))

class MyLabel(Button):
    def on_release(self):
        start_time = time.time()
        self.play_sound()
        print("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))

    def play_sound(self):

        bytes_out = io.BytesIO()
        wavfile.write(bytes_out, fs, outdata)
        bytes_out.seek(0)

        sound = SoundLoader.load(bytes_out) # only loads by filename :/
        sound.seek(0)

        if sound:
            print("Sound found at %s" % sound.source)
            print("Sound is %.3f seconds" % sound.length)
            sound.play()

runTouchApp(MyLabel(text="Press me for a sound"))

I'm also open to other solutions that allow me to play machine-generated sounds on Android. Thanks for helping!

A: As the saying goes, "premature optimization is the source of all evil", right?
Based on @fins' comment, I've created temporary files to store the audio using the library tempfile. It automatically destroys the file when it is closed.
Here's the working version for what I've posted in the question:
from kivy.core.audio import SoundLoader
from kivy.base import runTouchApp
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from scipy.io import wavfile
import time
import tempfile
import numpy as np

# Wave parameters
fs = 44100 # sampling frequency
duration = 2 # seconds

# Generating waveforms
timePoints = np.linspace(0, duration, duration*fs)
sineWave = np.sin(2 * np.pi * 440 * timePoints) # 440 Hz
outdata = np.transpose(np.tile(sineWave, (2,1)))

class MyLabel(Button):
    def on_release(self):
        start_time = time.time()
        self.play_sound()
        print("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))

    def play_sound(self):

        f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix = '.wav', delete=True)
        wavfile.write(f, fs, outdata)
        f.seek(0)

        sound = SoundLoader.load(f.name)

        if sound:
            print("Sound found at %s" % sound.source)
            print("Sound is %.3f seconds" % sound.length)
            sound.play()

        f.close()

runTouchApp(MyLabel(text="Press me for a sound"))

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Post 9-11 Terrorism Cases Show Federal Courts Bring Terrorists to Justice Without Administrative Detention, Military Commissions
NEW YORK— Federal courts have proven to be highly adaptive and flexible in delivering justice in complex terrorism cases, casting doubt on the necessity of the competing mechanisms proposed to supplant them since 9-11, according to a new Human Rights First report released today.
With this new report, written by two former federal prosecutors, Human Rights First steps squarely to the forefront of the national debate over the fitness of federal courts to handle terrorism cases. The report's findings undermine the arguments of those who urge invention of new systems, such as a special terrorism court or administrative detention without trial to deal with terrorist suspects. The issue of how to handle terrorism suspects is expected to take on increasing significance as part of a larger debate over the future of the Guantanamo detention system and in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, a Guantanamo case on which the Supreme Court is expected to rule in the coming weeks.
"In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts," a Human Rights First report written by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partners Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin Jr., constitutes the most thorough examination to date of federal terrorism cases against those who are "associated—organizationally, financially, or ideologically—with Islamist extremist terrorist groups like al Qaeda." The report is based heavily on a newly compiled, comprehensive database of federal terrorism prosecutions and relevant federal laws.
In Pursuit of Justice examines more than 120 international terrorism cases prosecuted in the existing criminal justice system over the past 15 years, ranging from epic mega-trials such as those involving the first attack on the World Trade Center (1993) and the East African embassy bombings (1998) to individual, pre-emptive prosecutions focused on prevention. The White Paper is based on a close review of motion papers, docket sheets, judicial opinions and press accounts, as well as interviews with prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges with firsthand terrorism litigation experience. It examines pre-trial detention procedures, rules for protecting classified evidence, the government's discovery obligations, the authentication and admissibility of evidence collected abroad and other aspects of the federal system that critics have suggested are ill-suited to prosecuting terrorist suspects. Using case-specific examples, the report finds that existing laws cover a broad spectrum of terrorism-related crimes and, in the vast majority of known cases, provide an effective basis for detaining, monitoring, and prosecuting suspects.
"Since 9-11 the ad hoc system created by the United States has failed to complete even one trial and has resolved only one case. By any measure, the current systems of military commissions and administrative detention at Guantanamo have failed when compared with the record of the criminal justice system," said Michael Posner, president of Human Rights First.
"Whether the criminal justice system can handle the prosecution of terrorism cases is not an abstract or academic question," said Jim Benjamin. "The answer to this question lies in the extensive record of actual prosecutions going back to the early 1990s and continuing to this day in federal courts around the country."
The report focuses not only on legal issues addressed in court decisions and federal statutes, but also on practical issues that confront courts and law enforcement agencies. In Pursuit of Justice explains how federal criminal courts balance defendants' rights to review the government's evidence with the need to protect sensitive national security information—a challenge that continues to face the military commissions at Guantanamo. The White Paper also discusses how the rules of admissibility and authentication are applied in a common-sense manner to evidence collected abroad.
"One of the federal court system's greatest strengths in prosecuting criminal terrorism cases is its inherent adaptability," said Rich Zabel. "When viewed collectively, these cases demonstrate that the laws and procedures in federal court have evolved to meet the challenges of prosecuting criminal cases arising from the growing and ever-changing threat of international terrorism."
According to the White Paper, "The evolution of statutes, courtroom procedures, and efforts to balance security issues with the rights of the parties reveals a challenged but flexible justice system."
Among the key findings of the White Paper are:
Prosecutors have invoked a host of specially tailored anti-terrorism laws, as well as long-standing, generally applicable federal criminal statutes to obtain convictions in terrorism cases;
Courts have consistently exercised jurisdiction over defendants brought before them, even those defendants apprehended by unconventional or forcible means;
Applying statutes such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), courts have successfully balanced the need to protect national security information, including the sources and means of intelligence gathering, with defendants' fair trial rights;
Courts have devised creative approaches to balancing a defendant's right to receive exculpatory information and other relevant discovery with the need to protect national security information;
The Federal Rules of Evidence, including rules that govern the authentication of evidence collected abroad, provide a common-sense, flexible framework for guiding admissibility decisions.
Still, critics contend that federal criminal courts are simply not equipped to handle the magnitude and complexity of the threat posed by international terrorism cases. Accordingly, some endorse the aggressive use of the military commission system, with ad hoc rules and procedures that depart in critical respects from American standards of justice, while others propose creating special terrorism courts with similarly modified rules of evidence, secrecy, and security.
In Pursuit of Justice demonstrates that the criminal justice system is capable of bringing terrorists to justice through procedures that are fair, and are seen to be fair, while protecting vital national security interests. The civilian criminal justice system is of course not, by itself, "the answer" to the problem of terrorism. Political, economic and educational initiatives; intelligence gathering; diplomacy; interrupting the flow of terrorism financing; and military force (including detention under the law of war and prosecutions within the military justice system) are, at various times, all a part of the equation.
As noted in the White Paper, one significant disadvantage to the creation of a new national security court system distinct from the existing federal court structure would be "the need to create from scratch the procedures, precedents and body of law that would govern such a court. The disarray that plagues the military commissions at Guantanamo—with abundant litigation as well as dissension within the military command structure but not a single completed trial some six years after the presidential order authorizing military commissions—does not bode well for proposals to create a brand new system from scratch."
Rich Zabel added, "The federal courts have amassed many years of experience and a reservoir of judicial wisdom as well as a broadly experienced bar to navigate the inherent complications posed by the prosecution of international terrorism cases."
"At stake in the notion of reinventing the wheel, is not just the question of how best to prosecute terrorism cases, but also how to defend the integrity of the American justice system, which would be compromised by the creation of a parallel legal system lacking adequate mechanisms for ensuring fairness and due process," said HRF's Michael Posner.


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When Nina came to see us in late June we made cookies - again. Ginger cookies! Last June we used a Tea Party theme. Is "twice" a tradition? This year our theme was Summertime - so many possibilities! We limited our selection to four cookie cutters and four icing colors plus white and dark brown for piping.
Nina made beach balls and happy suns. My sun (at the top of this post) wore sunglasses.
It was hot and humid - unusual for so early in the summer!
I made sailboats. Have you ever seen polka dot sails?
. . . and we collaborated on an ice cream cone.
Here's what the littlest member of the family and future cookie decorator made - at just 3 she knows what she's doing!
It's much more fun to do it together - thank you for coming to see us and decorating cookies with me, Nina. Visit Nina's Cookie Shop to see more of her great cookies.


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Dramatic images emerge of two cars badly smashed up in Lincoln crash
The road has been closed by police
One of the two cars left badly damaged by the crash on Boultham Park Road (Image: Lincolnshire Echo)
Dramatic images have emerged of the two-vehicle crash which has closed off Boultham Park Road in Lincoln.
Lincolnshire Police were called to the scene of the crash just after 9am on Wednesday, May 15.
The road was closed while emergency services dealt with the incident - and it was still shut as of 10.40am.
Two people have been taken to hospital (Image: Lincolnshire Echo)
Police, ambulance and fire engines were all called to the scene and two people have been taken to hospital.
Live updates as busy Lincoln road closed after two-vehicle crash
A statement from East Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We received a call at 9.07am on 15 May to Boultham Park Road in Lincoln. The caller reported that there had been a road traffic collision involving two cars.
The road has been closed by police (Image: Lincolnshire Echo)
"We sent two crewed ambulances to the scene and two patients were taken to Lincoln County Hospital."
A grey Honda CR-V and A blue Citroen were the cars involved in the accident.
Lincolnshire Police believe that only minor injuries have been suffered in the collision.
Live updates as A15 closed in both directions after crash
Services 6 and 9 of Stagecoach are having to divert via Tritton Road in both directions while the closure is in place.


The collaboration between the National Museum of World Culture and Wikimedia Sverige included some more workshops for the staff, some clean up of previous uploads and some preparations for future uploads. We have also planned two public edit-a-thons, with the themes Africa and female travelers. Feel free to add resources, inspiration or other great stuff to the pages, or help out with content in your languages before or during the edit-a-thons.
Artist Eric Langert while recording the pronunciation of his own name.
As a satellite part of the Sounds of Changes project the Museum of Work and Council of Working life Museums set up a recording station at the museum during a weekend to have visitors record the pronunciation of the cities, municipalities and villages from their area. Almost 200 soundfiles, in both Swedish, Bosnian, Farsi, Spanish and some other languages were uploaded to Commons, and some have already made their way to Wikidata and articles.
1950s style hat in the Nordic Museum collection.
Together with User:Vesihiisi, the Nordic Museum has continued development of a script for uploading images from Digitalt Museum to Wikimedia Commons. In April, the script was adapted to handle historical photographs as well as object photos. A batch upload with approximately 140 photos of 1950's fashion was completed to test the script.
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HISTORY OF THE DOCUMENTARY
A front page New York Times article on March 12, 2003 inspired me with a passionate commitment to make this documentary. I immediately began working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, the State Department, and the Joint Voluntary Agencies to make this project happen. After eight months, I was finally able to convince IOM to schedule families slated for Atlanta and Springfield in the same Cultural Orientation class in Kenya so that there would be a pool of people to choose from during the first shoot. With a grant from the Ceil and Michael Pulitzer Foundation, I took a crew of three people to Kenya in January 2004. The crew consisted of Joan Churchill on camera, her husband Alan Barker on sound, and Dina Hossain as associate producer. Joan's son Barney Broomfield volunteered on the production and shot second unit footage.
After a somewhat rocky beginning at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, the Somali Bantu community welcomed us and gave us complete access to everything in the camp. We were fortunate to find the families mentioned above, one bound for Atlanta and the other for Springfield, who were eager to participate and who were very much at ease in front of the camera. We filmed them for two weeks in their homes, in adult literacy classes, in soccer games, healing dances, and in their Cultural Orientation class. We also filmed them telling harrowing stories of murder and rape in Somalia and talking about their hopes for America. These people are heartbreakingly beautiful, completely open to the filming process, surprisingly natural in front of the camera, and eager to participate.
In late February I received the news that the families were about to come to America. This was a difficult moment. Reaching into savings and calling in favors, I flew to Nairobi on March 6 and met up with Barney Broomfield, who had shot second camera in January. We filmed the refugees' last three days in Kakuma, including Adan and Madina's wild nighttime departure party lit by Coleman lanterns and the headlights of a security-patrol jeep, Arbai's more stately departure dance, and poignant good-byes to relatives and friends they may never see again.
We flew with Adan and Madina's family to Nairobi, filming their flight and first experience of a modern city in a disjointed way to reflect the refugees' amazement and disorientation. On March 17 we boarded a charter of three-hundred Somali Bantu refugees and filmed the family's flight to America. They weathered the trip amazingly well, and were very excited when they saw the frozen mainland of North America.
Joan Churchill met us at Newark airport to take over the shooting for the next two weeks. We filmed the five-hour limousine ride to Hartford, where the refugees were met by Somali staff members from Jewish Family Services and taken to temporary housing in Springfield provided by a Catholic church – a wonderfully diverse scene of Muslims sponsored by a Jewish organization staying in a former nunnery. The refugees were happy to be in America, despite freezing temperatures, strange food, inexplicable canned goods and kitchen apparatus, and confusing interactions with neighbors.
In early April, Joan and I flew to Atlanta to meet Arbai's family as they landed from Nairobi. They spent their first week at the home of evangelical Presbyterians, another unique experience. In addition to the scenes mentioned in the treatment (arrival at the airport, watching The Lion King, etc.) we filmed Arbai, her daughters, and the Somali translator in an intense discussion of female genital mutilation, an unfortunate cultural practice of the Somali Bantu, which is illegal here.
Later that month, I returned to Springfield to film the children's first school days. The younger ones immediately found American friends, while the older boys stayed close to their two Somali Bantu classmates, unsure of how to connect to the other students. Their ESL class was especially lively, with refugees and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Bosnia. These classmates are potentially a rich source of friendships for the boys, and of stories for the documentary.
With grants from the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and ITVS, we continued to film with the families in Springfield and Atlanta through September 2005, capturing moments of struggle and difficulty as well as humor and poignancy as they navigated their way in this strange new land. Aden, a farmer in Somalia, finally got a job as a landscaper and carpenter; and Arbai, through a Goodwill Industries training program, is now working as a janitor at the Georgia State Archives. The younger children are doing well in school, as is Sahara, Arbai's wild daughter, while the Springfield schools have failed Aden and Madina's teenage boys, dashing their hopes for an education.
Our last shoot in Springfield was the naming ceremony of Aden and Madina's first-born American child, Jahora Aden Kabir, a joyful moment of celebration. In September, the beautiful wedding that Arbai gave her daughter Khadija , a wildly colorful affirmation of family bonds and culture.


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Many divers with Sports Certifications are actually breaking the law in many Countries as they are not engaged in sports or recreational diving but deemed in some Countries to be "Commercial Diving"... This may seem confusing so we offer a clear definition below.
Any aspect of diving operations not directly associated with recreational diving, as Sports or Technical Diving activities and where divers are paid for services as income or in kind, is generally considered to be "AT WORK" Diving and therefore "Occupational".
ITDA Specialist Approved Training Centre run certification programs for In-Land, In-Shore and Offshore air and bell diving supervisors, as set out in ITDA diving supervisor and life support technician certification schemes.
As our members will be aware, there are a range of export regulations and restrictions which affect business and trade with many countries of the world. These may apply to International standards as well as financial restrictions.
ITDA promotes advancements in quality, health and safety, environmental, higher education and advanced technical standards through the publication of our training materials, notes, codes of practice and by other appropriate means.
ITDA Professional Members are self-regulating through the adoption of ITDA guidelines as appropriate. They commit to act as responsible members by following relevant guidelines and being willing to be audited against compliance with them by their clients.
In the early years of commercial diving in support of the oil and Gas industry in many regions, the diver in the water was normally supervised (i.e. watched over from the surface) by one of the other divers. As techniques and equipment developed, some of the more experienced divers became recognised as supervisors and many of those who demonstrated a capacity for this responsibility ceased to dive and became full time dive supervisors.
Legislation in the UK, Norway and other countries introduced since the 1970s requires that the diving supervisor be responsible for all aspects of the diving operation which they are controlling and that they must not dive themselves unless another properly appointed diving supervisor is present and has taken over responsibility for the dive operation. It also requires that the supervisor should have been a diver with suitable experience for the project(s) undertaken to supervise.
The diving contractor, who in such areas is required by law to appoint the diving supervisor in writing, relied in the past upon personal assessment as the principal method of selection, although a number of offshore contractors organised in-house examinations and training courses. ITDA has formalised this process into general areas such as: In-Land - In-Shore and Off-Shore Dive Supervison.
Taking into special account the various types and scope of projects and the health and safety risks involved for divers in these environments.
The ITDA Offshore Diving Supervisor Program covers all diving personnel either acting as a diving supervisor or superintendent or gaining experience in order to become one. (Trainee Supervisor) It applies to all personnel supervising dives in the water using surface orientated (Air/SSA) and bell diving techniques (hereinafter referred to as: 'air diving' and 'bell diving' respectively). Other forms of Occupational Diving, like Underwater welding etc. May also use our Supervisor Programs.
This program also addresses the role of the diving supervisor in relation to general diving operations and the qualities required of a diving supervisor. The basic requirements in order to commence training as a diving supervisor are laid down, together with the normal route for gaining experience, leading to appointment as a diving supervisor.


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Crewmembers of U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Station Montauk held a change of command and retirement ceremony in Montauk, N.Y., Thursday.
Capt. Edward J. Cubanski, commander, Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound, presided over the ceremony to transfer command of Station Montauk from Senior Chief Petty Officer Jason Walter to Senior Chief Petty Officer Eric Best. Best comes to Montauk after recently serving as the executive petty officer of Station Gulfport, Miss.
Walter retired after serving 20 years in the USCG. Prior to his assignment as officer in charge of Station Montauk, he had command of Station Tawas, Miss.; served on the Coast Guard Cutter Ridley out of Montauk and served as executive petty officer on the Coast Guard Cutter Cleat out of Philadelphia. His other units included the Coast Guard Cutter Grand Isle out of Gloucester, Mass. and Independent Maritime Response Vessel out of Taylors Island, Md.


The descriptions of the privately owned holiday homes are composed as accurate as possible. We make reservations for changes and typing errors. The conception of the furniture and interior is individually described and is a matter of personal taste. The ground plans are illustrated as accurately as possible, but are intended as guidelines only, and deviations regarding the placing of the beds etc. may occur. In order to maintain clarity, terraces, basements, first floors etc. are not illustrated on the ground plans.


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Oz Minerals CEO Andrew Cole eyes off four takeover targets – by Simon Evans (Australian Mining Review – May 25, 2015)
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OZ Minerals chief executive Andrew Cole says the copper and gold company has four potential acquisitions it is doing due diligence on but will only proceed if the price tags are at a level that deliver good value.
Mr Cole says while geographic diversification may be an outcome if OZ does make an acquisition it is not necessarily a driver of the company's acquisition strategy.
OZ operates just one mine, the Prominent Hill copper and gold mine in South Australia, which employs 1200 workers. He made the comments at the OZ annual meeting in Adelaide, where the company is in the process of shifting its head office to from its previous base of Melbourne.
OZ chairman Neil Hamilton said after the meeting the price paid by Evolution Mining for Barrick's Cowal mine in New South Wales appeared to be a steep price. "It's a robust number," Mr Hamilton said.
Evolution bought the mine in a $US550 million ($702 million) transaction on Monday. Mr Hamilton declined to officially confirm if OZ had also been closely looking at the Cowal mine, as has been heavily speculated. "We don't comment on speculation about sale processes," Mr Hamilton said.
Mr Cole also declined to comment on the likely acquisition targets for OZ, but said the company had four potential acquisitions that it was putting through its due diligence process. Mr Cole said it was a very systematic process, where the best prospect was at the top of the list and if another came onto the radar then the bottom one of the four potentials was put on the back burner.
Mr Cole also said that while the company had already earmarked $44 million in cost savings to come out through its restructuring there was still more savings that would be pursued. "We have a long pipeline," he said.
For the rest of this article, click here: http://www.afr.com/business/mining/gold/oz-minerals-ceo-andrew-cole-eyes-off-four-takeover-targets-20150525-gh8pxd
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In Russia-Ukraine faceoff, both sides stage combat drills
By Alexander Marrow and Pavel Polityuk
A Ukrainian fighter jet takes off during a drill in Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine
(This Nov.24 story corrects Estonian Prime Minister title in paragraph 6)
MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) – Russia staged military drills in the Black Sea, south of Ukraine, on Wednesday and said it needed to sharpen the combat-readiness of its conventional and nuclear forces because of heightened NATO activity near its borders.
Ukraine, which says it believes Russia may be preparing an invasion, held exercises of its own near the frontier with Belarus. An independent Russian investigative group posted photos and videos it said showed movements of tanks and other military vehicles in southern Russia in the past few days.
The increase of military activity on both sides follows weeks of rising tension that have raised the risk of war https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/qa-what-is-risk-war-between-russia-ukraine-2021-11-23 between the two ex-Soviet neighbours, even though Russia denies aggressive intent and Western intelligence sources have told Reuters they do not see any invasion as imminent.
Ukraine is not a NATO member but the United States and the alliance have signalled their backing for Kyiv in ways that Moscow considers provocative, including through warship manoeuvres this month in the Black Sea and a delivery of U.S. patrol boats to the Ukrainian navy.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told Reuters it would be "a grave mistake from Russia" to attack Ukraine.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said the European Union must make it clear to Russia that there would be a high price to pay if it acted against Ukraine, urging the EU to quickly agree on how to deter Moscow.
In Wednesday's exercises in the Black Sea, Russian fighter planes and ships practiced repelling air attacks on naval bases and responding with air strikes, Interfax reported.
Separately, the news agency quoted Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying the need for Russia to further develop its armed forces was dictated by "the complicated military and political conditions in the world and the growing activity of NATO countries near Russia's borders".
He said raising the armed forces' capabilities, supporting the combat preparedness of nuclear forces and strengthening the potential of non-nuclear deterrence are among the priorities.
Shoigu complained on Tuesday that U.S. bombers had rehearsed a nuclear strike on Russia from two different directions earlier this month, and that the planes had come too close to the Russian border. The Pentagon said these drills adhered to international protocols.
UKRAINIAN 'SPECIAL OPERATION'
Ukraine, which has tilted towards the West since a popular uprising ousted a pro-Russian president in 2014, on Wednesday held what it called a "special operation" at the border with Belarus, including drone exercises and military drills for anti-tank and airborne units.
It has deployed 8,500 extra troops to its boundary with Belarus, saying it fears being drawn into a migrant crisis which has seen the European Union accuse Minsk of flying in people from the Middle East and pushing them to enter neighbouring Poland. Belarus denies fomenting the crisis.
Kyiv also worries that the border with Belarus, a close Russian ally, could be used by Moscow to stage a military assault.
The head of Ukraine's military intelligence told the Military Times outlet last weekend that Russia had more than 92,000 troops massed around Ukraine's borders and was preparing for an attack by the end of January or beginning of February.
Moscow has dismissed such suggestions as inflammatory, said it was not threatening anyone and defended its right to deploy its troops as it wished.
The Conflict Intelligence Team, an independent Russian investigative group, posted video and photos on its website showing movements of tanks, infantry combat vehicles and howitzers this month near Voronezh, about 190 km (120 miles) from the Ukrainian border, and a new concentration of army vehicles at a training ground to the south of the city.
It also posted what it said was video evidence of military trains carrying infantry fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers in the past two days to Valuyki, 23 km from the Ukrainian border.
The group said Russian troops had been arriving as well in Crimea, the peninsula seized by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.
It said its assessment was that Russian troops would be ready for potential operations inside Ukraine no earlier than the start of next year.
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Q: Should one merge training and testing sets when predicting a class of a new sample? I have a binary dataset and I want to build a classifier. I understand that to monitor performance I need to split to training/test set and report accuracy or any other metrics that interest me on the test set. Now, I have a new example for which I do not know the label and I want to predict it using my classifier.
My question is: should I use the classifier that I built using the training set only or merge both training and test set, build a classifier based on all available data and then predict my new example while still reporting the accuracy based only on a the test set?

A: So in your case, what you refer as the test set is in reality the validation set. And your new example would serve as the test set.
Normally, you would find the best model which minimize the validation error and use that to predict on the new example. Whether or not you retrain on the whole dataset (train + val) is up to you and can depend on the amount of data that you have and perhaps also the amount of time the training takes. But in general more data is better so I would retrain on train+val with the hyperparameters found minimizing the validation error.

A: You should be using only the model built using the training data set. Unless you realise that your training and test data are very similar and there is going to negligible difference when building a model including both, do not add test set to train for building a new model. In case you have a slightly different model, you would not be able to test how it would fare on an out of sample data (cross validation might be an alternative.
When you go into model maintenance, you could start with newer test and train. By this time, it is expected that you have more data, meaning more samples to build a more robust model.

A: This is a fantastic question. Both Tom and Srikrishna make good points. What it comes down to is choosing hyperparameters. Having selected hyperparamaters using a training and validation set, and assessing accuracy using a testing set, it will not be possible to know if those same parameters will work well if you use all your data for training and validation.
I suggest you do a bit of research to determine if data generated from a sufficiently similar distribution as your training / validation data will perform well.


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package org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.cache;

import org.apache.ignite.IgniteCheckedException;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.GridDirectTransient;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 *
 */
public class KeyCacheObjectImpl extends CacheObjectAdapter implements KeyCacheObject {
    /** */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 0L;

    /** */
    @GridDirectTransient
    private int part = -1;

    /**
     *
     */
    public KeyCacheObjectImpl() {
        // No-op.
    }

    /**
     * @param val Value.
     * @param valBytes Value bytes.
     */
    public KeyCacheObjectImpl(Object val, byte[] valBytes) {
        this(val, valBytes, -1);
    }

    /**
     * @param val Value.
     * @param valBytes Value bytes.
     * @param part Partition.
     */
    public KeyCacheObjectImpl(Object val, byte[] valBytes, int part) {
        assert val != null;

        this.val = val;
        this.valBytes = valBytes;
        this.part = part;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public KeyCacheObject copy(int part) {
        if (this.part == part)
            return this;

        return new KeyCacheObjectImpl(val, valBytes, part);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public int partition() {
        return part;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public void partition(int part) {
        this.part = part;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public byte[] valueBytes(CacheObjectContext ctx) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        if (valBytes == null)
            valBytes = ctx.processor().marshal(ctx, val);

        return valBytes;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public boolean internal() {
        assert val != null;

        return val instanceof GridCacheInternal;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public boolean isPlatformType() {
        return true;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Nullable @Override public <T> T value(CacheObjectContext ctx, boolean cpy) {
        assert val != null;

        return (T)val;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public void onAckReceived() {
        // No-op.
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public CacheObject prepareForCache(CacheObjectContext ctx) {
        return this;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public int hashCode() {
        assert val != null;

        return val.hashCode();
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public byte directType() {
        return 90;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public byte fieldsCount() {
        return 1;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public void prepareMarshal(CacheObjectContext ctx) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        if (valBytes == null)
            valBytes = ctx.kernalContext().cacheObjects().marshal(ctx, val);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public void finishUnmarshal(CacheObjectContext ctx, ClassLoader ldr) throws IgniteCheckedException {
        if (val == null) {
            assert valBytes != null;

            val = ctx.kernalContext().cacheObjects().unmarshal(ctx, valBytes, ldr);
        }
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (!(obj instanceof KeyCacheObjectImpl))
            return false;

        KeyCacheObjectImpl other = (KeyCacheObjectImpl)obj;

        return val.equals(other.val);
    }
}

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This is a custom cache extension of memcached sasl for laravel5, especially for aliyun ocs.

## Installation

This package can be installed through `composer`.

```bash
composer require ripples/memcached-sasl
```

## Usage

In order to use the extension, the service provider must be registered.

```php
// bootstrap/app.php
$app->register(Ripples\Memcached\MemcachedSaslServiceProvider::class);
```

Finally, add a store to you config file `cache.php` and update cache driver to `memcached_sasl`.

```php
return [
    'default' => 'memcached_sasl',

    'stores' => [
        'memcached_sasl' => [
            'driver' => 'memcached_sasl',
            'servers' => [
                [
                    'host' => env('MEMCACHED_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
                    'port' => env('MEMCACHED_PORT', 11211),
                    'weight' => 100
                ]
            ],
            'auth' => [
                'username' => env('MEMCACHED_USERNAME', ''),
                'password' => env('MEMCACHED_PASSWORD', '')
            ]
        ],
    ]
]
```

## LICENSE

[MIT](./LICENSE)


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package org.spearal.impl.property;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;

import org.spearal.configuration.PropertyFactory;

/**
 * @author Franck WOLFF
 */
public class SimplePropertiesFactory implements PropertyFactory {

	@Override
	public Property createProperty(String name, Field field, Method getter, Method setter) {
		Class<?> type = AnyProperty.typeOf(field, getter);

		if (type.isPrimitive()) {
			if (type == boolean.class)
				return new PrimitiveBooleanProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
			if (type == int.class)
				return new PrimitiveIntProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
			if (type == long.class)
				return new PrimitiveLongProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
			if (type == double.class)
				return new PrimitiveDoubleProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
		}
		else {
			if (type == String.class)
				return new StringProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
			if (Collection.class.isAssignableFrom(type))
				return new CollectionProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
			if (Map.class.isAssignableFrom(type))
				return new MapProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
		}

		return new AnyProperty(name, field, getter, setter);
	}
}


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