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From the archives: Keith Haring was here
Jorge Rodriguez Gerada talks with Global Street Art
Ceci n'est pas un graffiti (6/10) - L'art au marketing
GRAFFITI vs MURAL Artist | ft. Kiptoe
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ERNEST PIGNON ERNEST - Diffusé sur France 5, "Entrée Libre" (Saison 2)
THIS IS NOT GRAFFITI - A JONONE PORTRAIT & A RIGHT JAB !
OBEY x COPE2 Collaboration
ROA street artist profile film by filmmaker Colin M Day - Warholian
ZENT PROZENT - "The Creation of Adam" (Street art version)
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Timeline des Médias
Artist Keith Haring took the New York City subway system by storm in the 1980s, with his drawings appearing on the walls of hundreds of stations. His art is known for expressing concepts of death, sexuality and war. Charles Osgood takes a look at how Haring managed to get his works up, in this profile first broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on October 20, 1982.
Apr 18th 2016, 17:29
The brilliant artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada from Cuba talks to Global Street Art about 'culture jamming', developing his portraiture in urban spaces and using new technologies in his street art. -- Check out more of Jorge's work on our website: http://globalstreetart.com/jorge-rodriguez-gerada -- #globalstreetart #interview #paintedcities -- Music by Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100844 Licence Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Dec 19th 2016, 17:51
Compagnies aériennes, haute couture, agro-alimentaire, transports… On retrouve à présent le street art dans tous les secteurs. Les marques ont bien compris l'intérêt de ces partenariats avec un art populaire et jeune qui peut encourager les ventes et transformer l'image d'un produit. http://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/062822-006-A/ceci-n-est-pas-un-graffiti-6-10 Abonnez-vous à la chaine Youtube d'ARTE Creative: https://www.youtube.com/ARTEcreative Retrouvez-nous sur les réseaux sociaux : Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Creative.ARTE Twitter : https://twitter.com/ARTEcreative Instagram : https://instagram.com/ARTE_Creative
Sep 3rd 2017, 02:39
Graffiti artist vs Mural artist. I finally met my art friend Kiptoe in Los Angeles. We made a street art wall together next to the downtown. The painting looks like a little street battle between graffiti and murals. KIPTOE: https://www.youtube.com/kiptoe ??????????????????????????????????? ESHOP: http://dokestore.com/ ??????????????????????????????????? FOLLOW ME: Facebook : http://on.fb.me/1NK2053 Instagram : http://bit.ly/21aOj9n ???????????????????????????????????? CONTACT ME: Email : doketv.info@gmail.com ???????????????????????????????????? SEND ME SOMETHING: Martin Hirner P.O.BOX 12 85003, Bratislava 53 ???????????????????????????????????? MUSIC : http://bit.ly/1l3zpKd Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TdFHbzu0CY [Debris] • https://soundcloud.com/debrisnl • https://twitter.com/debrisnl • https://facebook.com/debrisnl [Our Psych] • https://soundcloud.com/ourpsych • https://twitter.com/ourpsych • https://facebook.com/ourpsych Epidemicsound.com
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THIS IS NOT GRAFFITI depicts JONONE's physical relationship with painting and intense personality. His love for boxing results from an unconditional need for self-expression and places some interesting light on the development of a movement which has made its way to the art auctions halls. Those who made this long and difficult path were the genuine artists. THIS IS NOT GRAFFITI is an introspective look back at JONONE's 30 years career which places the present days not as an end, bu as a beginning! JONONE is an iconic and extremely prolific artist born in New york city and living in Paris (France) for more than 20 years, he received the french egion of Honour on the 21st of JAnuary 2015, and a painting which he specifically produced is being exhibited in the national assembly's public part. Directed & filmed by Alexis DEFORGES Edited by Antoine DUFOUR Produced by BAISEMAIN http://www.baisemain.fr/ Music by DAEDELUS (California) - VANDETTA (Falling) from Dropping Gems http://www.droppinggems.com/
Sep 23rd 2015, 00:03
COPE2 is one of the most notorious bombers in New York City and the five boroughs. I first stumbled upon his work in the early 90's. From the Bronx to downtown to Brooklyn he had pieces everywhere. The two color, very stylish bubble letter throw ups reading COPE, were just everywhere. The guy was definitely one of the most prolific bombers I've ever seen, and I've spent a lot of time in New York City. Especially in the 90's, COPE was everywhere. I found out later on that he had actually been out bombing since the early 80's, starting very young. Some of the stuff I saw in the early 90's had maybe been around three, five, eight, even ten years, who knows… but he just stayed at it. He was incredibly tenacious and had built up a huge amount of work around the city. Of course graffiti is ephemeral, but back then New York wasn't cleaned as fast, so his stuff was accumulating. I didn't meet him, I just knew him through his work, and I just thought for traditional graffiti this guy has one of the best styles. Of course, success in graffiti is measured by volume and he was one of the most , if not the most, up of anyone in New York City. I first got in touch with COPE2 because he had painted on a skateboard that ended up in a show in our gallery. I said, "Wow, COPE2….that guy's work is everywhere but I've never met him, I don't even know anyone who knows him. Do you have his email?" The guy that organized the skateboard show had the contact info, so I emailed him. COPE was super cool and said he knew my work well. He said he would love to link up sometime when I was in New York, so yeah it somehow happened.. by modern technology. We ended up becoming friends and collaborating on a couple of walls. He took me up to the Bronx and we worked on a wall there on a production he's maintained for many years. He also took me out to do some bombing and hit some freeway spots. I simultaneously was doing a wall down in Manhattan that I had permission for, a really high-profile wall and told COPE2 he should get up on either end of this wall too. We showed a little uptown/downtown love, and mutual appreciation. We liked the way the production in the Bronx came out so much that we decided on a poster collaboration. Martha Cooper, who is one of the all-time great graffiti photographers, shot the photo. So between me, COPE2, and Martha, it was a pretty epic collaboration. We talked about doing something with the Obey clothing line with COPE2. His work is great and he can pretty much do tags on top of anything, so we decided to let him do his thing on top of the OBEY icon, to also create a shirt of our Bronx collaboration. We have some great stuff coming out, and I'm always about putting the spotlight on people that I think have really put a lot of work in the culture and have earned the respect that they deserve. COPE2 is one of those people. -Shepard Fairey
May 12th 2015, 10:29
Warholian's own Colin M. Day has outdone himself once again, this time presenting us with street artist ROA. This film piece is literally a work of art in itself, and is by far the best piece yet on ROA. Mr. Day seems to be producing better and better work, and we are honored to be able to continue to present his films on Warholian. ROA on the other hand needs no introduction, he is by far the most prolific street artist we've met. The guy can paint faster than a speeding bullet, and it's truly amazing to watch him work in person. Enough with all the talk... enjoy! - Warholian For more on Colin M. Day visit: http://www.ColimMDay.com For more on ROA's work at White Walls visit: http://www.WhiteWallsSF.com
May 6th 2015, 17:19
Remake of Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam" Sunday on Wall project, Sragen City, Central Java 2017 ____________________________________________________________ Music by Trevor DeMaere
Jan 12th 2018, 22:58
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Candidates aspiring to membership in the religious orders underwent severe tests to prove their worthiness. These ordeals were called initiations. Those who passed them successfully were welcomed asbrothers by the priests and were instructed in the secret teachings. Among the ancients, philosophy, science, and religion were never considered as separate units: each was regarded as an integral part of the whole. Philosophy was scientific and religious; science was philosophic and religious I religion was philosophic and scientific. Perfect wisdom was considered unattainable save as the result of harmonizing all three of these expressions of mental and moral activity.
During the Middle Ages the long-ignored axioms and formulæ of Hermetic wisdom were assembled once more, and chronicled, and systematic attempts were made to test their accuracy. To Theophrastus of Hohenheim, who called himself Paracelsus (a name meaning "greater than Celsus"), the world is indebted for much of the knowledge it now possesses of the ancient systems of medicine. Paracelsus devoted his entire life to the study and exposition of Hermetic philosophy. Every notion and theory was grist to his mill, and, while members of the medical fraternity belittle his memory now as they opposed his system then, the occult world knows that he will yet be recognized as the greatest physician of all times. While the heterodox and exotic temperament of Paracelsus has been held against him by his enemies, and his wanderlust has been called vagabondage, he was one of the few minds who intelligently sought to reconcile the art of healing with the philosophic and religious systems of paganism and Christianity.
Paracelsus was a great observationalist, and those who knew him best have called him "The Second Hermes" and "The Trismegistus of Switzerland." He traveled Europe from end to end, and may have penetrated Eastern lands while running down superstitions and ferreting out supposedly lost doctrines. From the gypsies he learned much concerning the uses of simples, and apparently from the Arabians concerning the making of talismans and the influences of the heavenly bodies. Paracelsus felt that the healing of the sick was of far greater importance than the maintaining of an orthodox medical standing, so he sacrificed what might otherwise have been a dignified medical career and at the cost of lifelong persecution bitterly attacked the therapeutic systems of his day.
Uppermost in his mind was the hypothesis that everything in the universe is good for something–which accounts for his cutting fungus from tombstones and collecting dew on glass plates at midnight. He was a true explorer of Nature's arcanum. Many authorities have held the opinion that he was the discoverer of mesmerism, and that Mesmer evolved the art as the result of studying the writings of this great Swiss physician.
The belief that nearly all diseases have their origin in the invisible nature of man (the Astrum) is a fundamental precept of Hermetic medicine, for while Hermetists in no way disregarded the physical body, they believed that man's material constitution was an emanation from, or an objectification of, his invisible spiritual principles. A brief, but it is believed fairly comprehensive, résumé of the Hermetic principles of Paracelsus follows.
THE TITLE PAGE OF THE BOOK OF ALZE.
This title page is a further example of Hermetic and alchemical symbolism. The seven-pointed star of the sacred metals is arranged that one black point is downward, thus symbolizing Saturn, the Destroyer. Beginning in the space immediately to the left of the black point, reading clockwise discloses the cryptic word VITRIOL formed by the capital letters of the seven Latin words in the outer circle.
This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. Every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the other invisible and transcendent. The latter consists of an ethereal counterpart of the physical form; it constitutes the vehicle of archæus, and may be called a vital body. This etheric shadow sheath is not dissipated by death, but remains until the physical form is entirely disintegrated. These "etheric doubles, "seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts. Being much finer in its substances than the earthly body, the etheric double is far more susceptible to impulses and inharmonies. It is derangements of this astral light body that cause much disease. Paracelsus taught that a person with a morbid mental attitude could poison his own etheric nature, and this infection, diverting the natural flow of vital life force, would later appear as a physical ailment. All plants and minerals have an invisible nature composed of this "archæus," but each manifests it in a different way.
The control of universal energy is virtually impossible, save through one of its vehicles (the mumia). A good example of this is food. Man does not secure nourishment from dead animal or plant organisms, but when he incorporates their structures into his own body he first gains control over the mumia, or etheric double, of the animal or plant. Having obtained this control, the human organism then diverts the flow of the archæus to its own uses. Paracelsus says: "That which constitutes life is contained in the Mumia, and by imparting the Mumia we impart life." This is the secret of the remedial properties of talismans and amulets, for the mumia of the substances of which they are composed serves as a channel to connect the person wearing them with certain manifestations of the universal vital life force.
From von Helmont's Ausgang der Artznen-Kunst.
Von Helmont is only one of many who have accidentally hit upon the secrets of the early priestcrafts, but none in this age give evidence of an adequate comprehension of the ancient Hermetic secrets. From the description von Helmont gives, it is probable that the herb mentioned by him paralyzed temporarily the cerebrospinal nervous system, the result being that the consciousness was forced to function through the sympathetic nervous system and its brain–the solar plexus.
mental and physical subnormality. The third was an unhealthy or abnormal mental attitude. Melancholia, morbid emotions, excess of feeling, such as passions, lusts, greeds, and hates, affected the mumia, from which they reacted into the physical body, where they resulted in ulcers, tumors, cancers, fevers, and tuberculosis. The ancients viewed the disease germ as a unit of mumia which had been impregnated with the emanations from evil influences which it had contacted. In other words, germs were minute creatures born out of man's evil thoughts and actions.
The fourth cause of disease was what the Orientals called Karma, that is, the Law of Compensation, which demanded that the individual pay in full for the indiscretions and delinquencies of the past. A physician had to be very careful how he interfered with the workings of this law, lest he thwart the plan of Eternal justice. The fifth cause was the motion and aspects of the heavenly bodies. The stars did not compel the sickness but rather impelled it. The Hermetists taught that a strong and wise man ruled his stars, but that a negative, weak person was ruled by them. These five causes of disease are all superphysical in nature. They must be estimated by inductive and deductive reasoning and a careful consideration of the life and temperament of the patient.
According to the Hermetists, disease could be prevented or successfully combated in seven ways. First, by spells and invocations, in which the physician ordered the evil spirit causing the disease to depart from the patient. This procedure was probably based on the Biblical account of the man possessed of devils whom Jesus healed by commanding the devils to leave the man and enter into a herd of swine. Sometimes the evil spirits entered a patient at the bidding of someone desiring to injure him. In these cases the physician commanded the spirits to return to the one who sent them. It is recorded that in some instances the evil spirits departed through the mouth in the form of clouds of smoke; sometimes from the nostrils as flames. It is even averred that the spirits might depart in the form of birds and insects.
The sixth method–which was prevention rather than cure–was regulation of the diet and daily habits of life. The individual, by avoiding the things which caused illness, remained well. The ancients believed that health was the normal state of man; disease was the result of man's disregard of the dictates of Nature.
The seventh method was "practical medicine," consisting chiefly of bleeding, purging, and similar lines of treatment. These procedures, while useful in moderation, were dangerous in excess. Many a useful citizen has died twenty-five or fifty years before his time as the result of drastic purging or of having all the blood drained out of his body.
Many primitive peoples used herbal remedies, with many remarkable cures. The Chinese, Egyptians, and American Indians cured with herbs diseases for which modern science knows no remedy. Doctor Nicholas Culpeper, whose useful life ended in 1654, was probably the most famous of herbalists. Finding that the medical systems of his day were unsatisfactory in the extreme, Culpeper turned his attention to the plants of the fields, and discovered a medium of healing which gained for him national renown.
Mediæval European herbalists rediscovered only in part the ancient Hermetic secrets of Egypt and Greece. These earlier nations evolved the fundamentals of nearly all modern arcs and sciences.
This famous physician, herbalist, and astrologer spent the greater part of his useful life ranging the hills and forests of England and cataloguing literally hundreds of medicinal herbs. Condemning the unnatural methods of contemporaneous medicos, Culpeper wrote: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable tome, I consulted with my two brothers, DR. REASON and DR. EXPERIENCE, and took a voyage to visit my mother NATURE, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. DILIGENCE, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by MR. HONESTY, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it." (From the Introduction to the 1835 Edition of The Complete Herbal.) Doctor Johnson said of Culpeper that he merited the gratitude of posterity.
[paragraph continues] At that time the methods used in healing were among the secrets imparted to initiates of the Mysteries. Unctions, collyria, philters, and potions were concocted to the accompaniment of strange rites. The effectiveness of these medicines is a matter of historical record. Incenses and perfumes were also much used.
Poisons were thoroughly studied, and in some communities extracts of deadly herbs were administered to persons sentenced to death–as in the case of Socrates. The infamous Borgias of Italy developed the art of poisoning to its highest degree. Unnumbered brilliant men and women were quietly and efficiently disposed of by the almost superhuman knowledge of chemistry which for many centuries was preserved in the Borgia family.
Egyptian priests discovered herb extracts by means of which temporary clairvoyance could be induced, and they made use of these during the initiatory rituals of their Mysteries. The drugs were sometimes mixed with the food given to candidates, and at other times were presented in the form of sacred potions, the nature of which was explained. Shortly after the drugs were administered to him, the neophyte was attacked by a spell of dizziness. He found himself floating through space, and while his physical body was absolutely insensible (being guarded by priests that no ill should befall it) the candidate passed through a number of weird experiences, which he was able to relate after regaining consciousness. In the light of present-day knowledge, it is difficult to appreciate an art so highly developed that by means of draughts, perfumes, and incenses any mental attitude desired could be induced almost instantaneously, yet such an art actually existed among the priestcraft of the early pagan world.
Herbal compounds were used to cause temporary clairvoyance in connection with the oracles, especially the one at Delphi. Words spoken while in these imposed trances were regarded as prophetic. Modem mediums, while under control as the result of partly self-imposed catalepsy, give messages somewhat similar to those of the ancient prophets, but in the majority of cases their results are far less accurate, for the soothsayers of today lack the knowledge of Nature's hidden forces.
The Mysteries taught that during the higher degrees of initiation the gods themselves took part in the instruction of candidates or at least were present, which was in itself a benediction. As the deities dwelt in the invisible worlds and came only in their spiritual bodies, it was impossible for the neophyte to cognize them without the assistance of drugs which stimulated the clairvoyant center of his consciousness (probably the pineal gland). Many initiates in the ancient Mysteries stated emphatically that they had conversed with the immortals, and had beheld the gods.
When the standards of the pagans became corrupted, a division took place in the Mysteries. The band of truly enlightened ones separated themselves from the rest and, preserving the most important of their secrets, vanished without leaving a trace. The rest slowly drifted, like rudderless ships, on the rocks of degeneracy and disintegration. Some of the less important of the secret formulæ fell into the hands of the profane, who perverted them–as in the case of the Bacchanalia, during which drugs were mixed with wine and became the real cause of the orgies.
In certain parts of the earth it was maintained that there were natural wells, springs, or fountains, in which the water (because of the minerals through which it coursed) was tinctured with sacred properties. Temples were often built near these spots, and in some cases natural caves which chanced to be in the vicinity were sanctified to some deity.
"The aspirants to initiation, and those who came to request prophetic dreams of the Gods, were prepared by a fast, more or less prolonged, after which they partook of meals expressly prepared; and also of mysterious drinks, such as the water of Lethe, and the water of Mnemosyne in the grotto of Trophonius; or of the Ciceion in the mysteries of the Eleusinia. Different drugs were easily mixed up with the meats or introduced into the drinks, according to the state of mind or body into which it was necessary to throw the recipient, and the nature of the visions he was desirous of procuring." (Salverte's The Occult Sciences.) The same author states that certain sects of early Christianity were accused of using drugs for the same general purposes as the pagans.
The sect of the Assassins, or the Yezidees as they are more generally known, demonstrated a rather interesting aspect of the drug problem. In the eleventh century this order, by capturing the fortress of Mount Alamont, established itself at Irak. Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the order, known as the "Old Man of the Mountain, " is suspected of having controlled his followers by the use of narcotics. Hassan made his followers believe that they were in Paradise, where they would be forever if they implicitly obeyed him while they were alive. De Quincey, in his Confessions of an Opium Eater, describes the peculiar psychological effects produced by this product of the poppy, and the use of a similar drug may have given rise to the idea of Paradise which filled the minds of the Yezidees.
Disease is unnatural, and is evidence that there is a maladjustment within or between organs or tissues. Permanent health cannot be regained until harmony is restored. The outstanding virtue of Hermetic medicine was its recognition of spiritual and psychophysical derangements as being largely responsible for the condition which is called physical disease. Suggestive therapy was used with marked success by the priest-physicians of the ancient world. Among the-American Indians, the Shamans–or "Medicine Men"–dispelled sickness with the aid of mysterious dances, invocations, and charms. The fact that in spite of their ignorance of modern methods of medical treatment these sorcerers effected innumerable cures, is well worthy of consideration.
The magic rituals used by the Egyptian priests for the curing of disease were based upon a highly developed comprehension of the complex workings of the human mind and its reactions upon the physical constitution. The Egyptian and Brahmin worlds undoubtedly understood the fundamental principle of vibrotherapeutics. By means of chants and mantras, which emphasized certain vowel and consonant sounds, they set up vibratory reactions which dispelled congestions and assisted Nature in reconstructing broken members and depleted organisms. They also applied their knowledge of the laws governing vibration to the spiritual constitution of man; by their intonings, they stimulated latent centers of consciousness and thereby vastly increased the sensitiveness of the subjective nature.
In the Book of Coming Forth by Day, many of the Egyptian secrets have been preserved to this generation. While this ancient scroll has been well translated, only a few understand the secret: significance of its magical passages. Oriental races have a keen realization of the dynamics of sound. They know that every spoken word has tremendous power and that by certain arrangements of words they can create vortices of force in the invisible universe about them and thereby profoundly influence physical substance. The Sacred Word by which the world was established, the Lost Word which Masonry is still seeking, and the threefold Divine Name symbolized by A. U. M.–the creative tone of the Hindus–all are indicative of the veneration accorded the principle of sound.
The so-called "new discoveries" of modern science are often only rediscoveries of secrets well known to the priests and philosophers of ancient pagandom. Man's inhumanity to man has resulted in the loss of records and formula: which, had they been preserved, would have solved many of the greatest problems of this civilization. With sword and firebrand, races obliterate the records of their predecessors, and then inevitably meet with an untimely fate for need of the very wisdom they have destroyed.
From De Monte-Snyders' Metamorphosis Planetarum.


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Megan McKenna split from tragic Love Island star Mike Thalassitis last year and she's now said to be in a new relationship with Zack Gilbert
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Megan McKenna is now said to be in a new relationship with Zack Gilbert (Image: WireImage/Metropolitan Police)
Megan McKenna is moving on from her doomed romance with tragic Mike Thalassitis by reportedly striking up a romance with an ex-con.
The Towie star, 26, has been dating Zack Gilbert , 26, for the last three months, according to The Sun Online .
Gilbert was sentenced to five years in a young offender institution for wounding and assault over an attack on French banker in London in 2013.
A source said: "Megan and Zack have been dating for a good few months but have got serious in the last three.
"She has been keeping the relationship low key as it's been a difficult few months for her after Mike's passing."
Megan McKenna is said to have found love again (Image: Mike Marsland/WireImage)
Zack Gilbert was jailed for five years in 2013 for an unprovoked attack on a French banker at a bar in Shoreditch, East London (Image: Metropolitan Police)
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The publication reports that Gilbert has been helping Megan deal with her grief over the loss of Mike, who was found hanged in a London park in March.
The former couple dated for around sevens months, but split for good last summer.
Megan has been single since the break-up.
Gilbert was accused of holding down Frenchman Jonathan Agostini, 33, in an attack at The Light Bar in Shoreditch High Street in 2013.
His co-accused James O'Docherty was said to have kicked Agostini repeatedly in the head.
Megan has been single splitting from Mike last summer (Image: PA)
Megan McKenna sings about craving a lost love after Mike Thalassitis' tragic death
Speaking after the sentencing, Agostini said: "It will not change my opinion of London, not because some stupid kids behaved like that.
"This will not drag me down. Justice is done now. They will have a criminal record and their future is ruined, but hopefully they will learn from their mistake.
"Fortunately for me, I don't have any subsequent damage except the scar on my head which is now covered with hair. I could have died or lost an eye, so in fact I was fortunate.
After serving his time, Gilbert is believed to have turned his life around and gone on to become a successful businessman.
He's the co-owner of a persona shopping service called Affluent Attire.
Mirror Online has contacted a representative for Megan for comment.

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Trade dispute with Washington could be behind Beijing pulling the plug on US tech giant's service
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Beijing — Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
Attempts to open cn.bing.com have resulted in an error message for users since Wednesday, taking away the most prominent foreign search engine available in China.
"We've confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine next steps," a Microsoft spokesperson said, hours after saying the company was investigating the matter.
China's communist authorities operate an online censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall, which blocks a slew of websites including Facebook, Twitter and several foreign media outlets.
But it was not clear whether or not Bing had joined the list of prohibited websites, or if its China service was experiencing technical difficulties. The search engine had been censoring searches in China.
The wording of the US company's statement "means Microsoft received no government order, but clearly China has the power to block a URL and that may be what happened", said independent US tech analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group.
"China has been aggressive in terms of controlling the media, 'censorship' is kind of their middle name. If there were searches going on providing results the Chinese government didn't like, it wouldn't surprise me if they blocked the site," Enderle said.
But the analyst said it could also be a hack gone wrong.
China's cyberspace administration did not immediately return a request for comment.
China's Great Firewall can be circumvented by using a virtual private network (VPN), which can hide a user's IP address.
While its rival Google shut down its search engine in China in 2010 after rows over censorship and hacking, Bing has continued to operate in the country along with Microsoft-owned Skype.
On Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media site, people complained about the lack of access, with some speculating that Bing too had been "walled off". Others aired their dissatisfaction about having to use Baidu, China's largest domestic search service.
"Even Bing requires a VPN now, how exhausting," wrote one user.
"Our country is amazing, even the obedient Bing has been walled off, while Baidu flourishes," said another. "Thank you wise party leaders!"
China has tightened policing of the internet in recent years, shuttering 26,000 "illegal" websites in 2018 alone and deleting 6-million online posts containing vulgar content, the official Xinhua news agency said earlier in January.
Bing complies with Chinese censorship rules, but its link to Microsoft might have put it in the government's crosshairs as Beijing and Washington spar over trade and tech issues.
"The fact that Bing is run by Microsoft, which is not a Chinese company, means that Beijing has less leverage over the company, compared to say Baidu," said Lokman Tsui, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The block is also mostly symbolic, given Bing's tiny market share in China, he said.
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by Dr. Giriraj Amarnath
Disasters typically hit hardest at the most vulnerable populations among us. Such people often have the poorest access to information and the weakest tools to help them prepare or recover. In developing countries, this includes smallholder farmers, who face worsening climate-related disasters. Recurring but unpredictable floods and droughts threaten their food production, livelihoods and safety. And solutions are often vague and hard for local farmers and decision makers to access.
As the world eyes the UN climate talks, innovations that can help farmers are again in the spotlight. Decision makers have a chance to create new kinds of partnerships, bringing public and private sectors together to develop and scale up data-based tools to help the most vulnerable. With thousands of satellites orbiting our planet, we already have part of the solution.
Data and digital technology can help farmers and decision-makers better manage the impacts of extreme events. With satellite data, we can better understand flood impacts, predict drought damage, or assess crop loss. Large-scale solutions hinge on making data available – and usable – to those facing on-the-ground decisions.
Our research partnership is developing solutions that show we can link data collected via satellite with historical records to forecast, reduce and respond to disaster risks. There are five promising solutions that can be scaled up to improve both short-term disaster relief and long-term climate resilience.
In the photo: Satellite images showing the flooding extent in the Gandak River following the 2017 Indian Monsoons. Photo Credit:IWMI
1) Providing insurance against crop losses caused by floods
In the state of Bihar, India, two-thirds of the population live under the threat of floods that regularly wipe out farmers' crops, destroying their livelihoods. In a bid to protect farmers, the Agriculture Insurance Company of India agreed to offer flood insurance pay-outs underpinned by satellite data during the 2017 monsoon season.
This is index-based flood insurance, which combines satellite images with hydrological modelling. If rainfall reaches a level at which flood losses are deemed likely, then satellite images are used to verify the depth and duration of the flood. This way, the insurance company is able to quickly, accurately and inexpensively identify exactly which farmers are eligible for what pay-out. These successful pilots show potential for similar programs across countries and regions.
2) Monitoring droughts with satellites for faster disaster relief
Drought affects more people than any other physical hazard. To allow national authorities to assess exactly when and where disaster relief efforts are needed to help farmers affected by drought, the South Asia Drought Monitoring System launched in 2016.
Every eight days, the system publishes detailed maps showing drought severity across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The maps depict seven categories, from healthy vegetation to extreme drought, as identified according to a drought severity index based on historical satellite data. Drought relief can then be deployed more effectively. Scaling efforts are underway to bring this solution to Southern Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
In the photo: Dried up land from a drought Photo Credit:IWMI
3) Using satellite data to predict droughts
Almost more important than knowing the current drought situation is being able to predict droughts. Building on the monitoring system described above, is a drought early-warning system developed for six districts in India. Also based on satellite data, it accurately estimates water deficits in the soil and indicates future drought risk in exact locations. Local and national authorities can then brief farmer associations and communities on possible mitigation measures, such as sowing drought-tolerant crops and using soil and water conservation methods.
4) Using satellite data to forecast floods
The Niger-Benue River Basin in West Africa is regularly devastated by severe floods. Limited monitoring systems are on the ground, making it difficult to forecast flood risks. Using satellites, we are able to remotely measure how much water is in the rivers. This has enabled us to accurately predict downstream water flows and potential floods five days in advance, allowing local authorities to send out warnings.
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5) Guiding emergency flood response through satellite maps
Finally, we can use satellite technologies to better manage flood disasters. For example, in August 2017, incessant rains caused severe flooding in northern India and southern Nepal, affecting two million people. The Sentinel Asia initiative developed high-resolution maps that helped guide relief efforts and enabled officials to locate vulnerable populations and estimate crop damage early on. Further a prototype concept is being developed using weather forecast data to provide disaster preparedness funds before disasters strike. Similar solutions could work across the globe with the right investment.
All these solutions show that satellite data can help boost climate resilience for the communities that need it the most. However, strong partnerships, – like those we are advocating at the climate meetings – among scientists, space agencies, and local, national, and regional decision makers are key. Through these partnerships, we have a chance to successfully predict, manage and respond to climate-related disasters, helping vulnerable communities and the world at large.
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\section{Introduction}
Regression analysis has been one of the most important statistical techniques in data science. To study the relationship between the response variable $Y^{*}$ and a set of covariates $X$, linear regression methods have been widely applied, which assumes that $E(Y^{*}|X)=X^{T}\beta$ and $\beta$ is an unknown parameter vector \cite{seber2012linear,neter1996applied,huang2020bi,huang2019bi,huang2019decomposition}.
However, in practice, the response variable $Y^{*}$ may not be fully observed because of data issues, such as censoring or detection limit, which is common in economic and biomedical research\cite{tobin:1958,ORKIN2020e389,huang2020high}. One example in medical research is that in HIV clinical studies, the HIV viral load that usually serves as the primary endpoint in HIV clinical trials, has a lower limit of detection of 50 or 20 copies/ml \cite{ORKIN2020e389,wohl2019bictegravir,erlandson2021weight,acosta2021three,orkin2019long,brar20201028,castagna2020548}. And another example in ecomomic research is that in household economics survey, household expenditures on various categories of goods vary with household income, and often censored at some lower limit\cite{tobin:1958}.
In such situation, instead using traditional regression approach, certain statistical techiniques would need to be employed to adjust for data issue.
In the literature, for regression with a response variable having data issue such as censoring or detection limit, researchers proposed Tobit regression models and have been extensively studied \cite{tobin:1958,amemiya1973regression,amemiya:1984,huang2020estimation}. In Tobit models, the linearity assumption between latent true response variable $Y^{*}$ and $X$ is maintained as in linear regression models, and the censoring or detection limit problem has also been taken account  \cite{tobin:1958,amemiya1973regression,amemiya:1984}, i.e.
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:00}
Y^{*} &=&X^{T}\beta  +\epsilon,\\ \nonumber
Y &=& \max(Y^*,c) \nonumber,
\end{eqnarray}
where $c$ is some fixed detection limit, $\epsilon$ follows normal distribution with mean zero and some unknown variance $\sigma$, and $Y$ is the observable value of latent true response variable $Y^*$. Likelihood approaches could be used to obtain statistical consistent estimation for (\ref{eq:00}) \cite{tobin:1958,amemiya1973regression,amemiya:1984}.
However, it is worthy noting that (\ref{eq:00}) may be subject to linear shape restrictions. In the literature for regression analysis, additive models have been broadly acknowledged as an extension for linear models to increase model flexibility and have been widely investigated\cite{hastie1987generalized,hastie1990generalized}.
As a natural consequence, we consider extending Tobit models to Tobit aditive models by replacing the linear form $X^{T}\beta$ with additive components $\sum_{j=1}^{d} m_{j}(X_{j})$, where $m_{j}(\cdot)$ is an unspecified smooth function for a $d$ dimensional covariate $X$.
Although there are a great number of studies in the literature for Tobit and additive models, in the literature, a direct hybrid of Tobit and additive models has not been investigated.

In this manuscript, we propose semi-parametric Tobit additive models, which is more flexible than traditional Tobit models and also takes censoring problem into consideration.
The method is easy to implement with well-established optimization techniques, and can perform well even when sample size is relatively small.
The manuscript is organized as follows,
Section II introduces  Tobit additive models and the likelihood-based estimation procedure. Section III explores the performance of the method through numerical simulation studies.
Section IV states conclusions and future study directions.

\section{Model formulation and Methods}\label{Model and estimation methodology}

\subsection{Model Formulation}
\noindent
We assume the following model for the latent response,
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:21}
&&Y^{*} =\sum_{j=1}^{d}m_{j}(X_{j})  +\epsilon,\\ \nonumber
&&\epsilon \sim N(0,\sigma^2) \nonumber,
\end{eqnarray}
where $X = (X_{1}, \ldots, X_{d})^{T}$ is a $d$-dimensional covariate, $m_j(\cdot)$'s are unspecified smooth functions which are standardized such that $E(m_{j}(X_{j}))=0$ \cite{hastie1987generalized,hastie1990generalized}.
The observed $Y_{i}$ is such that $Y_i=\max(Y_i^*,c)$, where $c$ is the known lower detection limit, that we will assume to be zero W.L.O.G. \cite{tobin:1958,amemiya1973regression}.
Let $\delta_i=I(Y_i^*>0)$,
and we assume that $\epsilon_i$'s are independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) from normal distribution with mean $0$ and unknown finite variance $\sigma^{2}$.

\subsection{Likelihood-Based Estimation Approach}\label{Estimation method}

The likelihood based estimation method combines the idea in estimation of additive models \cite{hastie1987generalized,buja1989linear} and  maximum likelihood estimation methods for Tobit models in the literature \cite{tobin:1958,amemiya1973regression}.  In the estimation of Tobit models (\ref{eq:00}), $\beta$ could be obtained by maximizing
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:a0}
L_{n}(\gamma) &=& \prod_{i=1}^n\left\{ \frac{\phi\left(\frac{Y_i-X^{T}\beta }{\sigma} \right)}{\sigma}\right\}^{\delta_i}
\left\{1-\Phi\left(\frac{X^{T}\beta}{\sigma}\right)\right\}^{(1-\delta_i)}.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}

Naturally, by replacing $X^{T}\beta$ by $m(X)= \sum_{j=1}^{d}m_{j}(X_{j})$, the likelihood function for our model is thus given by

\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:a1}
L_{n}(\gamma) &=& \prod_{i=1}^n\left\{ \frac{\phi\left(\frac{Y_i-m(X) }{\sigma} \right)}{\sigma}\right\}^{\delta_i}\nonumber
\\
&&\times\left\{1-\Phi\left(\frac{m(X)}{\sigma}\right)\right\}^{(1-\delta_i)}.
\end{eqnarray}

Then we approximate each $m_j(\cdot)$ using B-spline \cite{hastie1987generalized}. Suppose $\kappa \in \mathbb{N}^{+}$ B-spline basis functions would be used to approximate each nonparametric additive components, for notation simplicity, we define
basis functions and the associated coefficients as
\begin{eqnarray}
B_{\kappa}(X)&=& \Big\{b_{1}(X_{1}),\ldots,b_{\kappa}(X_{1}),b_{1}(X_{2}),\\
&&\ldots,b_{\kappa}(X_{2}),\ldots,b_{1}(X_{d}),\ldots,b_{\kappa}(X_{d}) \Big\}^{T},\notag\\
\theta_{\kappa}&=&\Big(\theta_{11}, \ldots,\theta_{1\kappa}, \theta_{21}, \ldots,\theta_{2\kappa},\ldots,\theta_{d1}, \ldots,\theta_{d\kappa}\Big)^{T}.\notag
\end{eqnarray}
Let $\hat{m}(X)=B_{\kappa}(X)^{T}\theta_{\kappa}$, for $X_{j} \in [0,1]$, $~j=1,\ldots,d$, and
we find $\hat{\theta}_{\kappa}$ and $\hat{\sigma}$
by maximizing
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:a1}
L_{n}(\theta_{\kappa},\sigma)
&=&\prod_{i=1}^n\left\{ \frac{\phi\left(\frac{Y_i-B_{\kappa}(X)^{T}\theta_{\kappa} }{\sigma} \right)}{\sigma}\right\}^{\delta_i} \nonumber\\
&&\times\left\{1-\Phi\left(\frac{B_{\kappa}(X)^{T}\theta_{\kappa}}{\sigma}\right)\right\}^{(1-\delta_i)},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\phi$ and $\Phi$ are the standard normal density and distribution functions, respectively. Correspondingly, it is also equivalent to maximimize the log-likelihood function  given below
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:a2}
\log(L_{n}(\theta_{\kappa},\sigma))
&=&\sum_{i=1}^n \delta_i \{-\log{\sigma} - \frac{(Y_i - B_{\kappa}(X)^{T}\theta_{\kappa} )^{2}}{2\sigma^2}\} \nonumber\\
&&+ \sum_{i=1}^n (1-\delta_i)\log\{1 \nonumber\\
&&- \Phi(\frac{B_{\kappa}(X)^{T}\theta_{\kappa}}{\sigma})\}.
\end{eqnarray}
Numerically, well-established optimization methods like Newton-Raphson or BFGS algorithm can be used to solve (\ref{eq:a1}) and (\ref{eq:a2}).
In addition, to select the tuning parameter $\kappa$ that used in the B-spline basis functions, we borrow the idea of cross-validation, and propose a 5-fold cross-validation likelihood score function (for parameter tuning) as follows:
$$CV(\kappa)=\sum_{l=1}^{5}\log(L_{n}(\theta_{\kappa},\sigma))^{-l},$$
where $\log(L_{n}(\theta_{\kappa},\sigma))^{-l}$ is the log likelihood with the $l$th folder removed and using tuning parameter $\kappa$. We maximize this function over a grid of $\kappa$ values and choose the $\kappa$ which yields the maximum cross-validation score.

\iffalse
$$CV(\kappa)=\sum_{l=1}^{3}\sum_{i=1}^{n_{l}}(Y_{i}-\hat{Y}_{i}^{-l})^{2}$$
where $\hat{Y}_{i}^{-l}$ is the fitted value with the $l$th folder removed and using tuning parameter $\kappa$. We minimize this function over a grid of $\kappa$ values and choose the $\kappa$ which yields the minimum cross validation score.

\subsection{Variable selection}

The estimation method above assumes the case that each covariate
contains important information. However, in practice, it is quite possible that irrelevant covariates are included, which causes inefficient model fitting. This motivates us to consider variable selection in our model. Here we adopt the  group lasso penalty to select important variables \cite{yuan2006model,huang2010variable}. More specifically, we propose to minimize

\begin{equation}
L_{n}(\gamma;\lambda) = L_{n}(\gamma) + \lambda \sum_{l=1}^{K} \sqrt{p_{l}}||\beta_{l}||_{2}).
\end{equation}

\section{An HIV Vaccine Study}

In HIV vaccine development, one key goal is to introduce protective humoral response to prohibit HIV infection. To study the for induction of potent neutralizing antibodies, one method is to study the relationship between characteristics of the B cells and  IC50 values in HIV infected patients, thus the
mechanisms for the generation of potent neutralizing antibodies may be inferred.

In a clinical trial, $42$ patients are recruited, and information about their IC50 values and B cell subsets are collected for analysis, including IC50, Bcell6 and Bcell49.
There are $42$ observations and among them one third of their IC50 values are left censored at $20$.
Bcell6 and Bcell49 were standardized to $[0,1]$. Log-transformation was applied to the IC50 values because there was some extreme values. We use cubic B-spline with 1 inner knots.
The estimated coefficients for $\theta_{\kappa}$ and $\sigma$ are given by $\hat{\theta}_{\kappa} =(-2.68, 0.58, -5.54, -1.77, 6.25, 16.21, 24.32, 21.31)$, and $\sigma=0.5123$.
Tests of normality were then applied for the error distribution,
Shapiro-Wilk normality test gives a p-value of $0.254$ and
Anderson-Darling normality test yields a p-value of $0.421$, which implies that the normality for the error terms holds.

The values of additive components $m_{1}(\cdot)$ and $m_{2}(\cdot)$ are then estimated at $50$ equally-spaced grid points over $[0,1]$, and $m_{1}(\cdot)$ and $m_{2}(\cdot)$ represent the effects of Bcell6 and Bcell49.
Fitted values, along with bootstrapped 95$\%$ confidence intervals for the effects of Bcell6 and Bcell49 are plotted in Figure 2.
Figure 2 indicates that Bcell49 has a negative effect for the response variable IC50, and the effect of Bcell6 seems have a quadratic form, which first has a negative, and then positive effect for IC50. In general, our results are consistent with other researchers in the literature,
\cite{haynes2005cardiolipin}and \cite{mcgranahan2016clonal} discovered that B cells exhaustion like Bcell49 (IgD-B220-CD27-, percentage of IgDB cells) have a negative effect on the HIV neutralizing activity.

\begin{figure}[htbp]\label{fig-m}
	\begin{center}
		\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,height=2.2in]{bcell6.jpeg}\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,height=2.2in]{bcell49.jpeg}

		\caption{Fitted patterns of  Bcell6  and  Bcell49  (solid lines) with $95\%$ confidence intervals (shaded areas) }
	\end{center}
\end{figure}
\fi
\section{NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS}

In this section, we investigate the finite sample performance of our proposed model and methods by Monte Carlo simulations. We generate $50$ replicates, each consisting of $n$ observations from the following model :
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:01}
Y^{*} &=&\sum_{j=1}^{2}m_{j}(X_{j}) + 0.2 \epsilon,
\end{eqnarray}
where $n$ is chosen to be $80$ or $160$, and $\epsilon$ follows a standard normal distribution.
Both  $X_{1}$ and $X_{2}$ are generated independently and following an uniform distribution on $[0,1]$.
The components of the additive model (\ref{eq:01}) are:  $m_{1}(v)=v-0.5 $ and  $m_{2}(v)=(s-0.5)^2-1/12$, where one component is linear and the other one is nonlinear.
The observed response variable $Y_i = \max(Y^{*}_{i},c)$, where $c$ is determined by censoring proportions (Cens): Cen=5\%, Cen=15\% and Cen=30\%.

To implement our likelihood-based estimator, the basis functions used  in the estimation are chosen to be cubic  B-splines  with $1$ inner knots decided by cross-validation, the selection of cubic B-spline is based on some previous numerical studies and its desired theoretical property \cite{horowitz2004nonparametric,horowitz2011oracle}.
Since the Tobit model can only work with linear relationship, it is by theory can not work with nonlinear relationship, we compare the performance of our method with nonparametric estimation method (NP) for additive models \cite{doi:10.1080/10485252.2018.1537441}.
Table  1 summarizes the  IIMSE (integrated mean square error) of  $\hat{m}_{1}(\cdot)$ and $\hat{m}_{2}(\cdot)$ at $50$ equally-spaced grid points over $[0,1]$. From Table  1, it can be seen that in general, the IMSE's of Tobit Additive method are much smaller than those of the NP method.
For both methods, the IMSE's increase when Cen's increase, and the IMSE's will decrease with the increase of the sample size.

\begin{table}[htbp]\label{tab:b1}
	\begin{center}\tabcolsep 0.5mm\caption{
			$10^4\times$IMSE of $\hat{m}_{1}(\cdot)$ and $\hat{m}_{2}(\cdot)$  at $50$ equally-spaced grid points  over $[0,1]$.}
		\begin{tabular}{c c  c c c  c c c c c}
			\hline\hline
			$n$& Cen & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Tobit Additive} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{NP}&\\

			&  &  IMSE($m_1$) & IMSE($m_2$)  & IMSE($m_1$)  & IMSE($m_2$) \\ \hline

			80	& 5\% & 26.9  &26.0 &60.9 & 41.9 \\
			& 15\% & 35.6 & 27.5 & 79.6 & 42.2 \\
			& 30\% & 67.9 &31.9 & 107.7 & 44.3  \\

			160 & 5\% & 12.5  &10.5 &36.5 & 18.4 \\
			& 15\% &13.3 &10.8 &42.6& 19.1 \\
			& 30\% & 19.0 & 11.9 & 72.7 & 20.9 \\
			\hline
			\hline
		\end{tabular}
	\end{center}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
	\begin{center}
		\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,height=0.65\textheight]{linear1.png}
		\caption{For linear function:the true curves (solid lines), estimated median curves (dashed  lines),and associated $95\%$ confidence bands (dotted lines) for $m_1(\cdot)$, using the Tobit Additive method, the NP method (from bottom to upper) when cen=$30\%$. \label{fig:41}}
	\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
	\begin{center}
		\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth,height=0.65\textheight]{quardratic1.png}
		\caption{For quadratic function: the true curves (solid lines), estimated median curves (dashed  lines),and associated $95\%$ confidence bands (dotted lines) for $m_2(\cdot)$, using the Tobit Additive method, the NP method (from bottom to upper) when cen=$30\%$. \label{fig:42}}
	\end{center}
\end{figure}

Figures (1) and (2) present the point-wise median curves of the estimated component functions $\hat{m}_{1}(\cdot)$ and $\hat{m}_{2}(\cdot)$ at the selected grid points when $n=80$ and Cens $=0.3$, as well as the $95\%$ confidence bands.
The discrepancy between the true curves and fitted median curves provide a measure for the bias of the estimators, and the 2.5\% and 97.5\% lines demonstrate the variability of the estimators.
From Figures  1, it can be seen that the fitted values for both methods are close to the true values, and the confidence bands in general covers the true curves, while the Tobit Additive method can produce a better point estimation and narrow confidence bands compared with the NP approach.

\section{Conclusions}
In this research article, a novel semi-parametric Tobit additive regression model was proposed to account for censoring or limit detection in regression analysis and to extend flexibility of Tobit models. The method is straight forward and easy to implement, and perform well in numerical experiments. In the future, the research direction would be in theoretical perspective, in which asymptotic properties for the estimators could be further investigated.

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What do you mean by `Reference'? Under what circumstances and in which Court reference can be made?
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Question: What do you mean by Reference? Under what circumstances and in which Court reference can be made? [MPHJS 2018] Find the answer only on Legal Bites. [What do you mean by Reference? Under what circumstances and in which Court reference can be made?] Answer The term 'reference' means to transfer or send something for the opinion of… Read More »
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Find the answer only on Legal Bites. [What do you mean by Reference? Under what circumstances and in which Court reference can be made?]
The term 'reference' means to transfer or send something for the opinion of the receiver on the matter. In this situation, the reference power of High Courts means that the High Court is empowered to take cases referred to it by subordinate criminal courts. It means that the Courts of Magistrates and Sessions Judge may, on fulfilling the requirement under the CrPC, refer any case to the High Court of the State stating the questions referred.
Section 395 of CrPC deals with the reference powers of the High Courts in a State. Under this provision, the subordinate courts are allowed to refer a case to the High Court for its opinion if the subordinate court considers it necessary. The provision entails two situations when the case can be referred to the High Court:
When the validity of an Act, Ordinance, or Regulation is doubtful and the court considers it invalid.
When, in any case pending before the subordinate court, the court believes that there is a question of law that needs to be addressed by the High Court.
The validity of Act, Ordinance, or Regulation
According to Section 395(1) of CrPC, when a case is pending before the trial and it involves a question with respect to the validity of any law or rules and regulation in the country and in the opinion of the court such law is invalid but it is not yet declared invalid by the superior courts, therefore, the trial court can refer the matter to the superior courts to check the validity of such laws.
The essential requirements for reference under this section are:
The case must be pending before the trial court
It is an essential requirement that the case in which a question of the validity of law must be pending and not already decided by the court. The provision does not provide for any specific stage of the proceeding when the case can be referred and thus, the general practice is that a trial court can refer the matter to High Court at any stage of the proceeding when it considers it necessary.
However, if the trial or case is disposed of, it cannot be then referred by way of reference. It has to be taken to superior only to the parties by way of revision.
It must involve a question that directly or indirectly challenges the validity of a law
The main question before a trial court is always whether the accused person is guilty of the charged offence or not, the validity of a law is not an issue before the trial court. However, during the course of the trial, arguments may be raised with respect to the validity of a law or ordinance under which the person is accused of an offence.
The law must be in the form of an Act, Ordinance, or Regulation
The provision does not require a law to specifically be primary legislation. The court can also refer to matters with respect to an Ordinance or delegated legislation. For instance, in the first case under the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, i.e. Dasrathroop Singh Rathore v. State of Maharashtra, the objection was raised that the jurisdiction to courts given under the ordinance is not valid.
The court must believe that such a law is invalid
The court must have reasons to believe that the law is invalid by virtue of it being arbitrary or discriminatory or otherwise violating the principles of natural justice or any provision of the Constitution.
The validity of the law must not have been already settled by a High Court or the Supreme Court
Case Involving Question of Law
According to Section 395(2) CrPC, if a case does not fall under clause 1 or does not fulfill any or more of the requirements abovementioned, the trial court can still refer the matter to High Court under clause 2 if the case involves a question of law. A question of law means which requires the application of certain legal principles and not one where the existence of a fact is in dispute.
For instance, say a case is based on the extra-judicial confession given by the accused person to his friend who informs the police and deposes before the court. Here, the question of whether the confession was true and voluntary is a question of fact and whether the court can convict the accused based on such confession is a question of law.
Revisionary Powers of Sessions Court and High Court
Revision means where a higher court calls for the record of the case decided by a court subordinate to it to check whether the jurisdiction, procedure, and legal principles were duly followed while disposing of the case. Revision is different from appeal and review in several ways.
On one hand, revision means checking the judgment of a lower court only with respect to the procedural and jurisdictional aspects whereas in appeal the entire case is heard again. Further, in revision, there need not be a hearing conducted. The court can call for records and decide on that basis. In appeal, there is always a separate hearing from the very beginning. Lastly, review means analysis of a judgment by the court which gave the judgment.
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Facebook's experiment on over half-a-million unsuspecting users has taken a new twist with the revelation that a researcher connected to a Department of Defense-funded program to use the military to quell civil unrest also participated in the study.
Social media sites exploded over the weekend after it was revealed that Facebook, no stranger to controversy of late, secretly manipulated posts being seen by nearly 700,000 users in 2012 in order to allow researchers to study how emotional states are transmitted over the platform.
Results of the week-long study conducted by researchers at Facebook, Cornell University, and the University of California appeared in the June edition of the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists' (PNAS) under the rather insidious title, 'Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks'.
Facebook altered the content that showed up on certain users' news feeds to control the number of posts that contained words with positively or negatively charged emotions.
The team concluded its federally funded study by saying that "emotions spread via contagion through a network."
When word hit the internet that Facebook was essentially conducting Orwellian thought policing, an electronic outpouring of condemnation greeted the company that Mark Zuckerberg built. One of the study's authors, Adam Kramer, took to his own Facebook account to offer more of an explanation than an apology for the secret study.
"We felt that it was important to investigate the common worry that seeing friends post positive content leads to people feeling negative or left out," Kramer said. "At the same time, we were concerned that exposure to friends' negativity might lead people to avoid visiting Facebook. We didn't clearly state our motivations in the paper."
The attack on Facebook looks set to worsen as it was discovered that one of the authors of the platform's mind study, Jeffrey T. Hancock of Cornell University, also received funding from the Pentagon's so-called Minerva Research Initiative to conduct a similar study entitled 'Modeling Discourse and Social Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes'.
The Pentagon-funded Minerva program provides cash awards to everyone from "single investigators to large multi-university consortia," according to its website and includes "researchers from 32 academic institutions, including six non-US universities and four industry or non-profit organizations."
The program will disperse around six million dollars in 2014 and $17 million over the next three years.
Hancock's description page at Cornell University cites "psychological and interpersonal dynamics of social media, deception, and language" as his research and academic interests.
Hancock's study appeared in 2009, one year before the US Army War College's Strategic Institute warned in a different study, and in the wake of the global financial meltdown, that the United States could experience massive civil unrest from a series of crises it termed "strategic shock."
UK Data Protection Watchdog Probes Legality Of Facebook's Emotion Study http://t.co/iuZF89M3cQ by @riptari
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) July 2, 2014
The report, which carried the Rumsfeldian title, 'Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development', suggested that the military may have to be called in to restore domestic order in the event of a massive social breakdown.
"Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security," the report, authored by [Ret.] Lt. Col. Nathan Freir, states.
Meanwhile, Cornell University participated in another study under the Minerva Research Initiative (and supervised by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research) that looks to predict "the dynamics of social movement mobilization and contagions."
The project hopes to foresee "the critical mass [tipping point]" of social unrest and upheaval by studying their "digital traces" from a number of recent events, including the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
At the same time, Twitter feeds and conversations will be examined "to identify individuals mobilized in a social contagion and when they become mobilized."
Facebook apologizes after psychological experiment caused outrage
Coming so soon after the Snowden leaks, the idea of a researcher closely affiliated with a Pentagon study now secretly examining the behavior of Facebook users under 'controlled conditions' is certainly cause for alarm.
This latest scandal also speaks volumes about the disturbing frequency of US educational facilities cooperating so directly with military programs that do not appear to have the best interests of the civil society at the core of their actions.
Facebook manipulated users' emotions as part of psychological experiment – study
Facebook apologizes after secret psychological experiments caused outrage among users


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Alfred Anthony Williams (1860- ), theologian, author and educator, was an executive and administrator of the Committee of the Federal Council of Christ, founder of the Federation Committee of Good Will Between Jews and Christians, and treasurer of... more
Alfred Anthony Williams (1860- ), theologian, author and educator, was an executive and administrator of the Committee of the Federal Council of Christ, founder of the Federation Committee of Good Will Between Jews and Christians, and treasurer of the General Conference of Free Baptists. Collection consists mainly of 18th-20th century autographs, with the bulk from the mid-19th to 20th centuries, representing both primary and secondary figures from diverse fields including literature, music, education, politics, and royalty. Names include Susan B. Anthony, John Bigelow, Edwin Booth, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, H.L. Mencken, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Margaret Sanger, Philip Schuyler, and Daniel Webster. Figures represented are mainly Americans. Many letters are to Anthony. Following the name file is a subject file consisting of miscellaneous autograph letters arranged by profession or institution. Also, two boxes of unsorted material, including photographs usually relating to individuals whose autographs are contained in the collection; an autograph fan; and a glass plate negative. less
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Want to use this for iptv and so downloaded the ATV latest version and when flashes, it comes up in dutch at first!.
Have then exited and selected english but get the following errors when trying to use the opkg command.
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Through this website, we hope to collect, collate, capture, consolidate and communicate rare data, unique pictures and historical references about the fabled City of Tiruchengode and its holy temple. We consider it our sacred task to make this viable and valuable information accessible to internet users worldwide.
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Important and key events taking place at Tiruchengode and its holy temple are being updated on the webpage on a regular basis.
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According to the Sebi order, PACL was running a land purchase scheme, collecting money from investors by promising that the investments in the company's schemes were highly profitable. Sebi had found out that through its unauthorized CIS that was running for 15 years, PACL had collected Rs 49,100 crore from 5.85 crore investors. Of these many customers, PACL had issued sale deeds to only 19,284 investors.
"In such a case, permitting PACL to operate CIS by seeking registration under CIS Regulations would have been travesty of justice. Accordingly, no fault can be found with the decision of Sebi in directing PACL to wind up all existing schemes and refund the monies collected from the investors with the return which are due to its investors," SAT noted.


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Self-driving cars are rented for hourly rates and these could fluctuate during festive seasons or weekends. Also, there are two options, namely with-fuel and without fuel. If you choose with-fuel option, be ready to dole out extra bucks. Also, plan the type of vehicle you want to select based on the nature of journey. Obviously, an off-road thrilling ride differs from a long-distance pilgrimage with family.
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Madkaikar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Pandurang Madkaikar (born 1964), Indian politician
Parag Madkaikar (born 1986), Indian cricketer
Shamrao Madkaikar (1910–2011), Indian activist

Surnames of Indian origin