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Brad Mehldau
Larry Grenadier
Jorge Rossy
The Art Of The Trio Recordings 1996-2001 (7-CD Box Set)
Box Sets & Special Editions
Brad Mehldau (p), Larry Grenadier (b), Jorge Rossy (d)
Reference: 7559-79839-5
Bar code: 75597983951
7-CD box set conatining all five original Art of the Trio albums (vol. 5 included two CDs), released between 1997 and 2001, plus a seventh disc of previously unreleased material from shows at the Village Vanguard in 1997, 1999, and 2001.
These recordings feature Mehldaus long-time trio with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. Repertoire includes interpretations of standard tunes and modern classics as well as many original compositions. New liner notes by Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson include interviews with all three trio members.
With the release of The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1 in 1997, Brad Mehldau solidified his standing as the preeminent pianist of a young generation of rising jazz musicians and struck out on what would become one of the more notable recording endeavors in jazz.
In the years following, Mehldau, along with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, released a series of recordings under the Art of the Trio title, culminating with the two-CD The Art of the Trio, Vol 5: Progression in 2001.
As a whole, the series follows not only the growth of the band as a working unit, but also the development of Mehldaus compositional and improvisational voice, tracking his rise from wunderkind to superstar within a matter of years. Now, Nonesuch is reissuing the entire Art of the Trio series in a box set, bringing all the individual releases together in one package for the first time.
The Art Of The Trio, Vol.1 (1997)
Originally issued as Warner Bros. 9362-46260-2
01. Blame It on My Youth (Heyman-Levant) 6:17
02. I Didnt Know What Time It Was (Hart-Rodgers) 6:31
03. Rons Place (Mehldau) 6:30
04. Blackbird (Lennon-McCartney) 5:00
05. Lament for Linus (Mehldau) 4:39
06. Mignons Song (Mehldau) 6:35
07. I Fall in Love Too Easily (Cahn-Styne) 7:18
08. Lucid (Mehldau)5:43
09. Nobody Else But Me (Hammerstein-Kern) 7:36
The Art Of The Trio, Vol.2
Live At The Village Vanguard (1998)
01. Its All Right with Me (Porter) 12:38
02. Young and Foolish 13:06
03. Monks Dream (Monk) 11:09
04. The Way You Look Tonight (Fields-Kern) 12:32
05. Moon River (Mancini-Mercer) 10:51
06. Countdown (Coltrane) 12:40
01. Song-Song (Mehldau) 6:30
02. Unrequited (Mehldau) 6:08
03. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Hart-Rodgers) 5:58
04. Exit Music (For a Film) (Radiohead) 4:23
05. At a Loss (Mehldau) 6:20
06. Convalescent (Mehldau) 5:57
07. For All We Know (Coots) 8:02
08. River Man (Drake) 4:48
09. Young at Heart (Leigh-Richards) 6:22
10. Sehnsucht (Mehldau) 4:56
Back At The Vanguard (1999)
01. All the Things You Are (Hammerstein-Kern) 13:44
02. Sehnsucht (Mehldau) 10:48
03. Nice Pass (Mehldau) 17:35
04. Solar (Davis) 9:54
05. London Blues (Mehldau) 7:37
06. Ill Be Seeing You (Fain-Kahal) 7:17
Progression (2001) 1st Part
A double CD set originally issued
as Warner Bros. 9362-48005-2
01. The More I See You (Gordon-Warren) 10:06
02. Dreams Monk (Mehldau) 11:21
03. The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Hammerstein-Kern) 9:50
04. Alone Together (Dietz-Schwartz) 15:01
05. It Might as Well Be Spring (Hammerstein-Rodgers) 2:48
06. Cry Me a River (Hamilton) 8:50
07. River Man (Drake) 11:30
The Art Of The Trio, Vol. 5
Progression (2001) 2nd Part
01. Quit (Mehldau) 7:14
02. Secret Love (Fain-Webster) 10:08
03. Sublation (Mehldau) 14:58
04. Resignation (Mehldau) 8:39
05. Long Ago and Far Away (Gershwin-Kern) 14:50
06. How Long Has This Been Going On? (Gershwin-Gershwin) 10:45
Additional Unreleased Recordings
01. London Blues (Mehldau) 12:15
04. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Hilliard-Mann) 7:26
Personnel on all tracks:
Brad Mehldau (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass), Jorge Rossy (drums).
Recording dates:
CD 1, Recorded in Los Angeles, Sept. 4-5, 1996
CD 2, Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York City, July 29 - August 3, 1997
CD 3, Recorded in New York City, May 27-28, 1998
CD 4, Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York City, January 5-10, 1999
CD 5 & 6, Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York City, September 22-24, 2000
CD 7, Unreleased recordings from: 1997-2001
All sessions produced by Matt Pierson
"Dramatic music that leaps out of the subconscious"
-The New York Times
"A rare and special partnership"
-NPR
The San Diego Concert 1954 + Complete Studio Sessions 1955-1956 (3-CD Box Set)
Gerry Mulligan
Here That's Manne - Shelly Manne & His Men, Septet & Quintet Sessions 1951-1958 (3-CD Box)
Shelly Manne
FSRCD 2251_3
The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection (10-CD Box Set)
Charles Mingus
Passions of a Man - The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 (6-CD Box Set)
FSNT-007
Come Rain or Shine
Georgina Weinstein
New York - Barcelona Crossing, Vol. 1
Ademuz
Perico Sambeat
Chris Cheek
Blues Cruise
10 Years Solo Live (4-CD Box Set)
When I Fall in Love (2-LP Set · Audiophile 180 gr. Vinyl) Gatefold
FSNT33-101 LP


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Gender gaps in African agriculture are holding back progress
African Union and FAO call for greater support to rural women as agents of change to end hunger.
A violet chair to give indigenous women a seat at the table
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has urged countries to unite behind a campaign to promote indigenous women's rights and encourage their participation in policy discussions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger.
Campaign to promote indigenous women's rights and role in policy discussions for Zero Hunger
FAO launches campaign to empower indigenous women in Asia and Pacific
Asia is home to the largest number of indigenous peoples on Earth, with an estimated 260 million of a total of 370 million original inhabitants worldwide.
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SPIF(4) Device Drivers Manual (sparc64) SPIF(4)
spif — SBus (spiffy) Serial/Parallel Interface
spif* at sbus?
stty* at spif?
sbpp* at spif?
The spif driver provides support for the Sun Serial/Parallel Interface card (Sun part number 501-1931) based around the Cirrus Logic CD180 octal serial controller and the Cirrus Logic PPC2 parallel port controller.
The device minor numbers for this driver are encoded as follows:
| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|   |   |   |   |   +---+---+---> port number
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|   |   |   |   +---------------> unused
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|   |   |   +-------------------> dial-out (on tty ports)
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+---+---------------------------> card number
Up to four cards are supported in the system.
Each of the serial ports has an 8 byte FIFO for receive and transmit as well as automatic hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control.
/dev/tty[jkl][0-7]
/dev/sbpp[0-3]
Parallel ports
spif0: ccr timeout
A timeout occurred while writing to one of the CD180 registers.
stty0-N: ring overflow
Incoming characters were discarded because the application in control of the device did not read the input fast enough.
intro(4), sbus(4), tty(4)
The spif driver was first supported in OpenBSD 3.1.
The driver was written by Jason Wright <jason@thought.net>, and is heavily based on the magma(4) driver written by Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk>.
The parallel port is not supported yet.
Dial-out (cua) devices are not yet supported.
July 16, 2013 OpenBSD-current


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Well, the FBI told us they've investigated Judge Kavanaugh, six times, five times, many times over the years. They know him very well, but here there was nothing to investigate from at least one standpoint. They didn't know the location, they didn't know the time, they didn't know the year.
So, I think when you really look at it call, it's not gonna change any of the Democrat's minds, they're obstructionists. They are actually con artists because they know how quality this man is and they have destroyed a man's reputation and they want to destroy it even more. And I think people are gonna see that in the mid terms, what they've done to this family, what they've done to these children, these beautiful children of his and what they've done to his wife.
And they know it's a big, fat con job. And they go into a room and I guarantee you, they laugh like hell at what they've pulled off on you, and on the public, they laugh like hell.


Aragos voyage took place between 1817 and 1820, during which time close to two months (early December to the end of January 1818) were spent in Brazil, particularly Rio de Janeiro. The engraving shown here, based on a sketch by Arago, is captioned Chatiment des Esclaves, Brasil (Punishment of Slaves). It shows an unidentified male and probably represents a composite of several enslaved Brazilians who Arago observed in the streets of Rio. This illustration is often confused and misidentified in secondary sources on slavery. Among other errors, such sources identify the subject as a woman, but Arago quite explicitly refers to the figure as a man. For a detailed discussion of this image and its historical context, see J. Handler and A. Steiner, Identifying Pictorial Images of Atlantic Slavery: Three Case Studies, Slavery and Abolition 27 (2006), 56-62. The transformation of this image in Brazil in modern times to represent a martyred female slave is discussed in J. Handler and K. Hayes, Escrava Anastacia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint, African Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World 2 (2009), 1-27.


Not only is this little one infinitely easier to photograph than his brother, but he is also just the happiest, sweetest, easiest baby in the world. (Except where sleeping is concerned!) He really is a dream come true!
I'm putting the finishing touches on a brand spanking new web site. It has an entirely new look and feel, with a calendar, client proofing galleries and a shopping cart. I'm really excited about it! It should be ready to go live in the next few days.


One of our favorite research problems, an historically the initial research of ur group, is the reconstruction of ancestral genome structures (genome maps based on synteny blocks, or ancestral gene orders) [MMB 2018]. Our main approach follows the comparative paradigm, that assumes that conserved features of related extant genomes indicate potential ancestral genome features. We work within two methodological frameworks for this problem: a local approach, that considers a single ancestral genome within a given species phylogeny [PLoS Comput Biol (2008), ANGES (2012)], and a global (aka small parsimony approach), that considers all ancestral genomes of a species phylogeny at once [PhySca (2017)].
Lately, we aim to extend these approaches in order to work within a model accounting for gene family events such as gene duplication, loss or transfer. In this approach, we developed a probablistic approach within the DeCo* algorithmic framework [DeCoSTAR (2017)]. This line of work also motivated a series of papers on the correction of gene trees [PolytomySolverNAD (2014)] and on the reconciliation between gene trees and species trees [ecceTERA (2016)].
The recent breakthroughs in ancient DNA (aDNA) sequencing naturally complements complement methods for reconstructing ancient genomes. This motivated our project to assemble recently sequenced historical samples of the pathogen Yersinia pestis, showing that it is possible to go beyond single nucleotide mutations to analyze ancient pathogens data [FPSAC (2013), AGaPES (2017)].
We are also currently applying our comparative genomics and genome rearrangement algorithms to a fascinating, large-scale, data set composed of toughly twenty Anopheles mosquito genomes [Science (2015)]. This in turn raises interesting questions on how to handle fragmented genome assemblies in genome rearrangement studies [ArtDeCo (2015)].
We recently started a very active collaboration with the SFU Computational Epidemiology lab of Dr. Leonid Chindelevitch, and Dr. Will Hsiao (BC center for Disease Control), focusing on the development and application of novel bioinformatics tools for the analysis of whole-genome sequencing data of microbial pathogens. We recently published our first papers on this topic [Beaver fever (2018), MentaLiST (2018)].
In a recently started collaboration with Faraz Hach (UBC and Vacouver Prostate Center) we are developing novel and efficient algorithms for processing large genomic and transcriptomic sequence data sets, mostly motivated by questions from cancer genomics. We are currently focusing on the analysis of Third Generation Sequencing data (PacBio and Nanopore) [CoLoRMap (2016), LRCstats (2017)].
This topic is relatively new in our lab. It stems from a starting collaboration with Ryan Brinkman (BC Cancer Agency) and Sara Mostafavi (UBC), funded by Genome Canada. Our first paper was just released [flowLearn (2018)].
Another question we investigated very early. Here we are mostly interested in developing accurate and efficient algorithm to compare pairs of RNA secondary structures. Among others, we have been involved in the development of the BRASERO benchmark, the analysis of the [BRALIBASE benchmark dent (2016)], and in the design of efficient dynamic programming algorithms for comparing RNA secondary structures [AlCoB (2016) , RNA-unchained (2015)].


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The Freedom to Feel
A Review of the Hebrew edition of Alexander Lowen's Book
Joy - The Surrender to the Body and to Life
By Iris Argeband
The book Joy, the first in Hebrew and one of fourteen books written by Lowen, lays out his doctrine that the path to mental well-being of joy and pleasure passes through the somatic and verbal expression of repressed emotions as a result of early attachment, especially feelings of fear, anger and sadness.
In his clinical work as a psychotherapist over the span of decades, Lowen has identified the link between traumatic early attachment and its physical manifestation in shallow breathing, chronic muscular tension, limited range of motion and a split between body and mind. Lowen's influence is evident today among psychotherapists and therapists from different approaches who give space to feelings and emotions in the body as an integral part of treatment.
A familiar example is professor Basel van der Kollek, one of the leaders in world trauma research and author of the book, The Body Keeps the Score, who emphasizes in his work a therapeutic process that combines Top Down, meaning psychological conversations and understanding, together with Bottom up, meaning a space to process the patient's physical experience.
Lowen writes in a fascinating, clear and direct way while reasoning from a psychological perspective and enriching with his personal story, many case stories and practical tools for treatment. The Hebrew translation is eloquent and fluid and brings with it an Israeli flavor. Yaniv Gefner, who published the book, was Lowen's client and shared about his experience as a patient in the introduction to the book, which I read with curiosity and interest. From the first chapter Lowen gets my full attention as he writes candidly about how most of his patients come out of the session feeling good but that these feelings dissipated quickly.
The book is read as a road map and its chapters go through sadness, anger, love, fear, passion and sexuality, as a way to understand the resistances and survival defenses that arise on the way to surrendering to the body, and to experiencing joy as a natural state of being. Lowen gives a central place to grounding as a person's connection to his body and to the reality of his life, and to breathing as affected by his emotional state. Where the reduction in respiration reflects the prevention of an emotional response, and fuller breathing deepens the experience of emotion and brings with it a sense of vitality and presence.
Lowen views therapy as a journey of self-discovery and self-love. He sees it as developing the deep and intimate acquaintance with the body while also acknowledging the role of the therapist as a guide who has gone through a continuous process of his own self-discovery. A process of increasing self-awareness of feelings and emotions, self-expression, dealing with fears, of self-acceptance and the freedom to be.
In the chapter on love, Lowen writes about the longing for love that cannot be realized as long as there is fear of loss or rejection. The longing represents the child whose needs have not been met and in adulthood he restores these connections in the hope for their satisfaction. Lowen suggests that only the individual himself can fulfill this satisfaction out of his ability to be open to himself and to life:
"Just as one falls in love, one can fall out of love, and that happens too often because we are disappointed by the fact that the other person doesn't fulfill us. We do not realize that no one can fulfill us but ourselves and that our fulfillment stems from being fully open to ourselves and to life. When the arrow of love pierces our armor and reaches our heart, we are opened to life and joy but we do not stay open. Our egos slowly reassert their power, questioning, distrusting and controlling. The opening is seen as a breach in our defensive position which we must heal or close. Falling in love is not the answer, being in love is -- that is, being open. First it is necessary to be open to one's self, to one's deepest feelings, and for that one needs to be free from fear, shame or guilt."
He adds that the surrender to the body and its emotions is the surrender to love that is realized in the range of feelings, emotions, and expressions in the relationship:
"The surrender to love involves the ability to share one's self fully with one's partner. Love is not a matter of giving but of being open. But that openness has to be first with one's self, then with another. It involves being in touch with one's deepest feelings and then being able to express those feelings appropriately… The surrender to the body and its feelings is the surrender to love."
I came to read the book Joy after getting acquainted with Lowen and his books, and with a deep appreciation for his life's work along with my impression of him as strong minded and determined. In this book, I discovered a softer and rounder side of Lowen with a spiritual connection that is especially present in the final chapter that connects passion and spirit, defining spirituality as feelings of excitement in relation to nature, life and the universe. The book was written at a time when, he said, he had undergone a transformation in his feelings and understandings about life and his work as a therapist. He describes this period as puberty along with connection to it:
"In 1995, I published Joy: The Surrender to the Body. The 1990s were a period of transformation in my feelings, in my understanding of life and in my work as a therapist. I describe this period as growing older and growing wiser."
As a Biosynthesis Somatic Psychotherapist, I have wondered about the effectiveness of the exercises, some of which rely on an auxiliary device used in Bioenergetic Analysis. After reading the book, I came to realize that some of the exercises can be adapted and there are other exercises that can be a source of inspiration for any therapist who wants to integrate the body in the clinical work.
In conclusion, reading the book is highly recommended for therapists and people who want to more precisely listen to their body, to pay attention to the feelings and emotions in the body, and to their acceptance and expressions in the world. To deepen the process, it is recommended to be accompanied by a therapist. The book contains in it many years of clinical experience and is an important source of knowledge, a necessary resource and an excellent guide on the path to health, confidence, and well-being.
1. A. Bessel, van der Kolk, (2014) The Body Keeps the Score
2. Lowen, Alexander (2020) Joy - The Surrender to the Body and to Life
3. Lowen, Alexander (2004), Honoring the Body
4. www.irisargeband.com


As we head into the end of November we have significant trading levels to watch in the major US dollar pairs.
AUD/USD is holding 11 pips above important support at 7185/75. Therefore try long positions here with stops below 7160. A break lower is a sell signal targeting 7140, 7125/20 and perhaps as far as 7090/85.
If we hold above this key support level we target 7215 before strong resistance at 7255/65. Short positions worked here earlier in the week but I think they are too risky now on the next test. A break higher, however, is a buy signal targeting 7300 and 7330/40.
NZD/USD is currently trading sideways-to-lower in what I think is a bull flag. This means we will eventually break higher to re-target 6860/70. We have key upper trendline resistance at 6800/10 but a break higher is a buy signal targeting strong resistance at 6860/70. Try short positions with stops above 6900.
Failure to beat 6800/10 keeps us in the bull flag formation and risks a slide to 6750/40. Try long positions with stops below 6725.
USD/JPY beat resistance at 113.00 for a buy signal this week, targeting minor resistance at 113.50/60 and 113.75/80. The outlook remains positive into the end of the week as we look for a test of the November high at 114.10/20 for profit-taking on all longs. Expect very strong resistance at 114.45/55 with a good chance of a high for the week if we make it this far.
We have minor support today at 113.60/55, then better support at 113.30/20 could hold the downside if tested. Long positions here need stops below 113.00.
USD/CAD held strong support at 1.3190/80 as expected this week and shot higher to re-test last week's high at 1.3310/20. Strong resistance at 1.3355/65 is likely to hold at this stage, if tested today. Short positions need stops above 1.3385. A break higher is a buy signal.
There is the risk of a double top after we tested last week's high, which acts as a sell signal today targeting 1.3270/60 and support at 1.3230/20. A break below 1.3190 is another sell signal into the end of the week.


Thank you to everyone that replied to my blog, it has been very helpful, and if anyone else would like to add I am still very interested to hear what you have to say!
Been a little more than hectic this week, not helped by spending most of it on trains going nowhere. I posted some weeks ago my idea to give those of us who still have to commute (working on stopping doing that) a little something back. I sent it to the train company, who then two days later promptly decided they weren't squeezing enough money out of their franchise so reverted it back to 'public ownership' which seems to mean no ones in charge. Having said that I quite like the new bizarre mix of 1970's and 2006 carriages linked together, the old ones are way more comfortable too! However it's lucky dip as to if they are running on time or hugely late though.
Claire hunt out old unloved spoons and turns them into Jewellery, on the night she was wearing a lovely pendant made from the end of spoon which had stunning art-deco style pattern. I think it says a lot for craftsmen of old that these old spoons had such wonderful detail on them that can still be reworked and re-envisioned into something beautiful and desirable again.
One of the lovely things Claire has also done is create a series each with their own stories of past loves, broken friendships, and times past called 'Broken Promises,' each spoon having a personal memento embedded in resin in a spoon. The stories are very personal indeed, my favourite is an earring given to her by a chap she met in a bar, clicked with, exchanged numbers, but never saw again. It has the romantic title of 'the one that got away.' There are so many lovely ones it was tough to pick a picture, and some with such heartrending stories, even an old engagement ring that never turned in to marriage. Gulp! I do promise that not all the stories are quite so sad though!


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By Sandeep | Posted in kashmir | Also tagged Article on kashmir, india, JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU, kashmir, pakistan, sheikh mohammed abdullah | Comments (0)
By Sandeep | Posted in genocide, hinduism, hindus, human rights, india, JAMMU & KASHMIR, kashmir | Also tagged 19 jan 1990, india, kashmir, KASHMIR BLOG, kashmiri muslims, kashmiri pandits, muslims, pakistan | Comments (12)
Balidan Divas–Some pictures-14-09-10-jantar mantar
Balidan Divas was observed across various locations in India.A rich tribute was paid to the departed Martyrs…
some more pictures of Balidan Divas(BK Ganjoo Park) can be viewed here
By Sandeep | Posted in kashmir | Also tagged Balidaan divas, india, jantar mantar photographs, kashmiri pandit photographs, kashmiri pandits, pakistan | Comments (2)
Once there was a Kashmiri pandit…..
Once upon a time , There lived a community in Kashmir, who were known as Kashmiri Pandits…
Imbibing their age old customs, They lived in the valley till the eighties..
As the angel of death Azrael hounded them in early nineties…
In the dead of night, they fled from the valley, lest they get killed, by the Islamic mob …
Killers killed old and young, their conscience deaf towards the cries of helpless and a child's sob….
Their only sin was that they were Hindus and loved India and believed in peace and god's grace…
While the jihadis celebrated the killings of pundits with impunity as they left their sinister trace….
The demagogues incited the poor and Bourgeoisie to kill the minority for the sake of heaven….
And the Jihadis indoctrinated the rape and killing of infidels as religious duty and a sign of Brave men…
With deceit, can killing of unarmed neighbor be termed as pride and bravery, and a struggle for independency…..
Alas, Vicarious knowledge has never given anyone tranquility, peace and a berth in heaven, nor Ecstasy..
Ostracized & penniless, they had to leave their hearth and homes, During the height of Jihadic mobocracy….
Now, left with little faith have become disillusioned and disheartened with so called pseudo-democracy….
Now In kashmir, Gone are the times of Pandits, when there was goodness and a time of simple folks..
In the land of Amarnath, even shiva has failed to behold the Islamic crescent in his hair locks….
Are there still any good men left, who can stand by truth, justice and maintain their dignity and poise…
Have been looking for those stoic & brave men, who can shake the dead conscience by their stentorian voice..
azaad.pandit@gmail.com
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sacrifice day
September 30, 2009 – 5:44 am
The new generation of KM's and KP's, who are in their teens and early adulthood, have grown up in the absence of each other and know about each other only through the word of mouth from their elders, they may not share the same vibes as their ancestors once did in Kashmir.
Practically, no communication between the two communities of Kashmir with common ancestors, has given rise to mistrust and miscommunication, which can only be corrected by people to people contact.
In early 1990, when militancy was at the peak ,terrorists were enjoying VIP status, and were killing innocent people, majority of whom were Kashmiri pundits at will. Many terrorist supporters were helping terrorists by giving them minute to minute details about their targets. In most of the cases these informers happened to be neighbors of hindu victims.
But, there were other Kashmiri Muslims also who risked their lives to save their Pandit neighbors. But their good intentions could not stop the exodus of 3,50,000 Kashmiri pundits. The bullets of Gun had not only killed innocent lives, but also the conscience of many muslims.
20th year of Balidan divas(Sacrifice day)(Photos above) was observed on 14 sep 2009.20 Panun Kashmir activists tonsured as a mark of respect towards the Martyrs.Kashmiri Pandit organizations in Jammu,Delhi and rest of India paid their Homage to those Martyr's who were Murderered cold bloodedly by the implacable, Blood thirsty Jihadis, funded and backed by Pakistan. This low cost warfare tactics has severely put a big dent on Pakistan's precarious economy, which largely survives on financial aids provided by Middle east countries and U.S.A. Majority population in P.O.K are fed up with the step motherly treatment by Pakistan's political system dominated by Punjabi Muslims…
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Hindus feel the heat in Pakistan
March 7, 2009 – 8:06 am
Riaz Sohail
BBC News, Karachi
Wealthy Hindus like Garish Kumar are targets for kidnappers
The kidnap and murder of a Hindu engineer in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh has increased the insecurity among fellow Hindus.
Garish Kumar disappeared last month near Hyderabad city, 250 km (160 miles) from the port city of Karachi in Sindh.
His dismembered body parts were later found near a madrassa (Islamic religious school).
Police initially said the crime was committed by an outlawed Muslim militant group. Five people were arrested.
However, Hyderabad's police chief, Shaukat Shah, the incident now seems to be a simple kidnapping for ransom case.
Kumar's father, Saspal Das, is a trader from Kunri town in Sindh's central district of Umerkot.
Most Hindus are poor peasants and serve as bonded labour
"No one listens to the Hindu minority," he complains. ""We have no security.
"We are targeted because we are Hindu. There is no other reason for kidnapping Garish."
Pakistan is home to some 2.5 million Hindus, 95% of them living in the southern Sindh province.
Most are poor, low-caste peasants.
However there are also some successful upper caste businessmen. In Sindh, they are a hot commodity for bandits.
They lack the protection afforded to local tribal Muslims.
Whole tribes often go to war with one another in rural Sindh over any slight to their members.
That cushion is not available to the Hindu minority.
Protection money
In recent years kidnapping for ransom and armed robberies have multiplied in the area and Hindus have increasingly been the focus of attacks.
Hindus have to pay thousands of pounds to avoid kidnapping
Many pay protection money regularly to local gangs or influential figures. But in spite of this they are still targeted.
Santosh Kumar, a rice trader from Larkana town in upper Sindh, and his two brothers were kidnapped in separate incidents in 2006. They were later released after paying a huge ransom.
Another wealthy trader from the nearby city of Sukkur in Sindh, Sundeep Kumar, was kidnapped in 2005.
He was released after paying a ransom of over a million rupees ($16,000), according to local sources.
The ransom can sometimes go up to five times that amount.
But not all Hindus are as rich as Sundeep Kumar.
Last August, a youth, Ramesh Lal, was kidnapped. His relatives could not afford the ransom, and his body was later found at a police check post.
In the last three years at least five Hindu traders have been killed after being kidnapped or offering resistance.
"Powerful oppress the weak"
Ramesh Lal, a Hindu MP in Pakistan's parliament says, "The Hindus are not as rich as portrayed."
"Often the kidnappers ask a huge amount that the families cannot pay. As a result the hostages are killed."
Even Hindu women and children are not spared by the kidnappers
The President of the Hindu council in Sukkur district, Mukhi Aishwar Lal says, "the powerful always oppress weaker communities… Hindus are weak so they are targeted."
He relates how a few years back a Hindu family travelling by local bus were kidnapped by local bandits, while rest of the passengers were allowed to go.
Around that time some foreigners were also kidnapped in the same area. The police secured their release without any payment, but the Hindus were released after a huge ransom was doled out.
Such incidents increase the feeling among Hindus that they have no say in power and authority in the country.
Political apartheid
In Pakistan's political system, the minorities, such as Hindus, Christians and Sikhs, remain outcasts despite represented in every major political party.
After Gen Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he scrapped the controversial separate electorate system introduced former dictator Gen Zia-ul-Haq in 1980s.
Under the separate electorate system, non-Muslims could only vote for candidates of their own religion. Seats were reserved for minorities in the national and provincial assemblies.
Critics said Muslim candidates no longer had any incentive to pay attention to the aspirations of the minorities.
Gen Musharraf hoped to reverse that by the simple step of abolishing the system. But that appears to have failed.
Sudham Chand, a Hindu community leader who led a local campaign to scrap the separate electorate system was killed in broad daylight. His murder conveyed many a message.
The killers were not arrested. His brother later migrated to India.
Ramesh Lal, a member of the National Assembly, says that the restoration of the conventional electoral system is of little use if the minorities have no security.
And still, he complains, no one asks the minorities what problems they are suffering.
Mukhi Aishwar Lal agrees that Hindus in Sindh are still afraid.
Garish Kumar's grieving father, Saspal, wants justice
They are frightened to move outside freely. Some even put themselves under a self-imposed curfew after 2000 hours a few months ago.
"No-one is targeting the minorities," argues Kishanchand Parwani, Advisor for Minorities' Affairs to the Sindh Government.
But he admits that, although the minorities are supposed to be equal citizens according to the constitution, the reality is different. He accepts that they feel like second class citizens.
Garish Kumar's father, Saspal Das, still retains faith in the system: "I will fight till I get justice for my son."
But many Hindu families who stayed in Pakistan after partition have already lost faith and migrated to India
By Sandeep | Posted in pakistan | Also tagged genocide of hindus, hindus, hindus of pakistan, human rights, india, ISLAMIC TERRORISM, pakistan | Comments (3)
militants in j&k are terrorists-ZARDARI
October 6, 2008 – 4:19 am
Declaring that India is not a "threat" to his country, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has described the militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir as "terrorists", the first such admission by any top Pakistani leader.
"India has never been a threat to Pakistan. I, for one, and our democratic Government is not scared of Indian influence abroad," Zardari told 'Wall Street Journal' in an interview
He spoke of the militant groups operating in Kashmir as "terrorists," the paper said noting that former President Pervez Musharraf would more likely have called them "freedom fighters."
Indicating a major shift in Pakistan's well known position, Zardari had, as chief of Pakistan People's Party, said in March that the ties between two countries should not be held "hostage" to the Kashmir issue, which should be left for future generations to decide, raising hackles at home.
The latest positive signals from Zardari come days fater his maiden meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on the sidelines of UN General Assembly meeting.
Replying to a question, Zardari said he had no objection to the India-US nuclear deal so long as Pakistan is treated "at par."
"Why would we grudge the largest democracy in the world getting friendly with one of the oldest democracy?" he said.
Asked whether he would consider a free-trade agreement with India, the paper said he responded with a "string of welcome, perhaps even historic, surprises."
While seeking better ties with New Delhi, he noted that "there is no other economic survival for nations like us. We have to trade with our neighbours first."
About Pakistan's economic crisis-the central bank has about two months' worth of foreign currency reserves left to pay for the country's imports of oil and food-Zardari said he looks to the world to "give me USD 100 billion."
The paper says he imagines Pakistani cement factories being constructed to provide for India's huge infrastructure needs, Pakistani textile mills meeting Indian demand for blue jeans, Pakistani ports being used to relieve the congestion at Indian ones.
Against the backdrop of the US-Pakistan row over the cross-border raids in the restive tribal belt by coalition forces from Afghanistan, Zardari said "I am an American friend" and admitted that the US is carrying out Predator missile strikes on the Pakistani soil with his Government's consent, the paper reported.
"We have an understanding, in the sense that we're going after an enemy together," he said.
"I am not going to fall for this position that it's an unpopular thing to be an American friend. I am an American friend," he said.
About the Pakistani security forces firing on the US aircraft, he said it was merely an incident, "and while incidents do happen, they are not important."
Zardari also acknowledged the problem that had bedevilled past efforts at US-Pakistani cooperation, particularly in intelligence sharing: the widely held suspicion that Pakistani intelligence services continue to cooperate with, and even arm, the Taliban.
"You know, you keep an uglier alternative around so that you may not be asked to leave," he said, in reference to allegations that while Musharraf was fighting Islamic radicals with one hand, he was protecting them with the other.
Zardari refused to go into further detail other than to say he "solved the problem". The head of ISI Nadeem Taj was replaced this week by Ahmad Shuja Pasha. (PTI)
By Sandeep | Posted in kashmir | Also tagged asif ali zardari, Democracy, Dr. Manmohan singh, india, islamic jihad, kashmiri muslims, kashmiri pandits, pakistan, politics, terrorism | Comments (2)
Kashmir Ki Pukar-real reasons!!!!!!
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from Pakistan that the government of the North Western Frontier Province has banned the booklet on Kashmir titled "Kashmir Ki Pukar" (loud voice of Kashmir) on October 21 by issuing an official notification. The writer was informed through telephone calls that if he enters the province he will face dire consequences, including loss of his life. The writer is receiving threatening calls at his home and to his mobile phone insisting that he denounce the book and make an apology in public, otherwise his family will not be safe. The writer says that most of the calls are from the officials of Pakistan secret services (ISI). When the writer made a phone call to the number from which he was receiving the threats no one answers the call. Even if it was answered by chance, there is just an announcement telling that this number is not in use. The police have not yet registered the author's complaint of being threaten yet.
CASE DETAILS:
Mr. Arif Malik is a prominent journalist from Mirpur, the capital city of the Pakistan territory of Kashmir and has worked in several leading newspaper companies in different cities of the country. He is the editor of monthly magazine "Bharosa" in Mirpur, which was closed down after the ban on his booklet was announced by the government. The book "Kashmir Ki Pukar" (the loud voice of Kashmir) was largely circulated in Pakistan and it has given a different view about Kashmir's stand with the Pakistani government and holy war in Kashmir on the both sides of India and Pakistan.
The writer criticised the Muslim religious Parties and their leaders about their role in holy wars in the book. Mr. Malik accused the government of Pakistan that it had treated Pakistani side of Kashmir as its colony, not as an independent state and claimed that Pakistani Kashmir is run by the ministry of interior of Pakistan. Although Pakistan Kashmir has a parliament, the elected members all have close connections to the government of Pakistan and the military intelligence service including the ISI.
He also pointed out the role of the ISI in the holy war against India by referring to several examples from the past. The audacious greediness of religious fundamentalist parties and its leadership was also criticised by him in the book and he pointed out the privileges that those people had been enjoying over the propaganda that they made during the war, urging youths in the country to sacrifice their lives for the holy war.
In the book he also pointed out a cynicism towards the two-faced attitudes of the religious parties that once fought against Pakistan government for the rights of people in the Kashmir territory and called the youth to sacrifice their life for the so called "holy war" against the imperialism of the United States. The religious parties now are catering to the extremist Pakistani government.
The writer, Mr. Arif Malik is now facing threats to his life since his book was published. He tried to register the report to the police however the Mirpur police station refused to register the case. Instead the police officials said this is a high profile matter so that only high officials in the rank of Superintendent Police can register this type of case. The writer is receiving continuous threats, not only from fundamentalists groups but also from the army, particularly from the ISI. Mr. Malik and his family cannot move about freely after they started to receive threats and now they are taking shelter in different places. The government of NWFP instructed the police in the province to arrest the writer when they find him in the province.
BACKGROUND INFROMATION:
The government of North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) is purely Islamic fundamentalist and the members are from Islamic religious groups who had started a holy war after the intervention of USSR in Afghanistan in 1980.
The fundamentalist religious parties have won the elections in NWFP in 2002 as an alliance group called Muttehda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). This alliance has also won several seats in different assemblies including National Assembly. In 2002 MMA formed a government in NWFP and announced the Islamic system by introducing the Hisba bill (accountability bill) that allows district Islamic officers to monitor the religious conviction and practice of Islam of all citizens.
SUGGESTED ACTION:
Please write letters to the concerned authorities and urge them to provide protection for the life of Mr. Arif Malik and his family and take necessary actions to stop the intimidation and take legal action against the perpetrators. Please also demand the governments of NWFP and Pakistan to respect the freedom of speech and movement within the country as it has been guaranteed in constitution of Pakistan that meets the international human rights standards.
By Sandeep | Posted in P.O.K | Also tagged AZAD KASHMIR, FREEDOM, GULAM KASHMIR, human rights, india, kashmir, KASHMIR BLOG, KASHMIR TRUTH, P.O.K, pakistan, terrorism | Comments (0)
propoganda against hindus of kashmir
April 4, 2008 – 6:15 am
Here are the headlines which show that how Hindus in Kashmir are wiped out in last 19 years…source by Mr.Manish zijoo
Srinagar (January 4, 1990): Aftab, a local Urdu newspaper, publishes a press release issued by Hizb-ul Mujahideen, set up by the Jamaat-e-Islami in 1989 to wage jihad for Jammu and Kashmir's secession from India and accession to Pakistan, asking all Hindus to pack up and leave. Another local paper, Al Safa, repeats this expulsion order.
In the following days, there is near chaos in the Kashmir valley with Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and his National Conference government abdicating all responsibilities of the State. Masked men run amok, waving Kalashnikovs, shooting to kill and shouting anti-India slogans.
Reports of killing of Hindus, invariably Kashmiri Pandits, begin to trickle in; there are explosions; inflammatory speeches are made from the pulpits of mosques, using public address systems meant for calling the faithful to prayers. A terrifying fear psychosis begins to take grip of Kashmiri Pandits.
Walls are plastered with posters and handbills, summarily ordering all Kashmiris to strictly follow the Islamic dress code, prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks and imposing a ban on video parlours and cinemas. The masked men with Kalashnikovs force people to re-set their watches and clocks to Pakistan Standard Time.
Shops, business establishments and homes of Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of the Kashmir valley with a recorded cultural and civilisational history dating back 5,000 years, are marked out. Notices are pasted on doors of Pandit houses, peremptorily asking the occupants to leave Kashmir within 24 hours or face death and worse. Some are more lucid: "Be one with us, run, or die!"
Srinagar (January 19, 1990): Jagmohan arrives to take charge as governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah, whose pathetic, whimpering, snivelling government has all but ceased to exist and has gone into hiding, resigns and goes into a sulk. Curfew is imposed as a first measure to restore some semblance of law and order. But it fails to have a deterrent effect.
Throughout the day, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists use public address systems at mosques to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men, firing from their Kalashnikovs, march up and down, terrorising cowering Pandits who, by then, have locked themselves in their homes.
As evening falls, the exhortations become louder and shriller. Three taped slogans are repeatedly played the whole night from mosques: 'Kashmir mei agar rehna hai, Allah-O-Akbar kehna hai' (If you want to stay in Kashmir, you have to say Allah-O-Akbar); 'Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e-Mustafa' (What do we want here? Rule of Shariah); 'Asi gachchi Pakistan, Batao roas te Batanev san' (We want Pakistan along with Hindu women but without their men).
In the preceding months, 3000 Hindu men and women, nearly all of them Kashmiri Pandits, had been slaughtered ever since the brutal murder of Pandit Tika Lal Taploo, noted lawyer and BJP national executive member, by the JKLF in Srinagar on September 14, 1989. Soon after that, Justice N K Ganju of the Srinagar high court was shot dead. Pandit Sarwanand Premi, 80-year-old poet, and his son were kidnapped, tortured, their eyes gouged out, and hanged to death. A Kashmiri Pandit nurse working at the Soura Medical College Hospital in Srinagar was gang-raped and then beaten to death. Another woman was abducted, raped and sliced into bits and pieces at a sawmill.
In villages and towns across the Kashmir valley, terrorist hit lists have been floating about. All the names are of Kashmiri Pandits. With no government worth its name, the administration having collapsed and disappeared, the police nowhere to be seen, despondency sets in. As the night of January 19, 1990, wears itself out, despondency gives way to desperation.
And tens of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits across the valley take a painful decision: to flee their homeland to save their lives from rabid jihadis. Thus takes place a 20th century Exodus.
Srinagar (January 19, 2005): There are no Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar, or, for that matter, anywhere else in the Kashmir valley; they don't live here anymore. You can find them in squalid refugee camps in Jammu and Delhi. As many as 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits have fled their home and hearth and been reduced to living the lives of refugees in their own country.
Two-thirds of them are camping in Jammu. The rest are in Delhi and in other Indian cities. Many of them, once prosperous and proud of their rich heritage, now live in grovelling poverty, dependent on government dole and charity. In these 18 years, an entire generation of exiled Kashmiri Pandits has grown up, without seeing the land from where their parents fled to escape the brutalities of Islamic terrorism, a land they dare not return to, although that land still remains a part of their country.
A large number of them are suffering from a variety of stress and depression related diseases. A group of doctors who surveyed the mental and physical health of the Kashmiri Pandits living in refugee camps, found high incidence of 'economic distress, stress induced diabetes, partial lunacy, hypertension and mental retardation.' Statistics reflect high death rate and low birth rate among the Kashmiri Pandit refugees.
And thereby hangs a tragic tale that has been all but wiped out from public memory.
An entire people have been uprooted from the land of their ancestors and left to fend for themselves as a weak-kneed Indian state shamelessly panders to Islamic terrorists and separatists who claim they are the final arbiters of Jammu and Kashmir's destiny. A part of India's cultural heritage has been destroyed; a chapter of India's civilisational history has been erased.
Had this tragedy occurred elsewhere in Hindu majority India, and had the victims been Muslims, we would have described it as 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide.' We would have made films with horror-inducing titles. We would have filed cases in the Supreme Court of India. Our media would have marshalled remarkable rage in reporting the smallest detail.
But, this tragedy has occurred in Muslim majority Kashmir valley, and the victims are all Hindus, that too Pandits. What has been lost is part of India's Hindu culture, what has been erased is integral to India's Hindu civilisation.
Therefore, the government makes bold to record that the Kashmiri Pandits have "migrated on their own" and their 'displacement (is) self-imposed;' the National Human Rights Commission, after a perfunctory inquiry, refuses to concede that what has happened is 'genocide' or 'ethnic cleansing,' though facts add up to no less than that, never mind that 300,000 lives have been destroyed.
And, our jhola-wallah brigade of secular activists rudely turn up their noses to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits: Hindu sorrow, inflicted by Islamic terror, stinks.
Now Year 2008 18th anniversary of the forced flight of Kashmiri Pandits, look back at India's wretched history of secular politics and consider the terrible price the nation has paid at the altar of appeasement because the Indian State has, and continues to, toe the line of least resistance.
What exactly Those Terrorist are proposing? Are they saying that They have a fundamental right of self-determination and Kashmiri Hindus don't have a right to exercise their fundamental right of political voice? terrorists can have a political voice and a peace-loving patriot cannot. What kind of standard is it?
By Sandeep | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged genocide, hindus, human rights, india, islam, muslims, pakistan | Comments (1)


10. Why are you applying for YRN? Because this clan has skills.
Very weak application. You didn't even send a link for your alt account, your answer in Question 11 and 10 are very weak, your offers don't really help us.
As I said your answers are very weak, you seem like you didn't put a lot of effort in your application.
Wrong field of application, better read more about the application processes next time.
Feel free to reapply after 5 days.


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Q: Django: store common fields in a parent model I've got some models:
class Place(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(unique=True)

class Bar(Place):
    drinks = models.ManyToManyField('Drink')

class Restaurant(Place):
    meals = models.ManyToManyField('Meals')

That's a multi-table inherited structure where each bar serves drinks only, and each restaurant serves meals only. I, though, need a name of each place to be unique across all the places - hence the parent Place model.
Now, multi-table inheritance presumes a parent and a child are separate entities. That means when I want to create a new Bar, I should go like this:
>> parent = Place(name='Myplace')
>> parent.save()
>> child = Bar(place=parent, drinks=mydrinklist)
>> child.save()

But in my case, Place is not a separate entity: it should not exists by itself. It's just a shared storage with some restrictions. I'd like to have something like this:
>> child = Bar(name='Myplace', drinks=mydrinklist)
>> child.save()

Where name attribute is automatically passed to the underlying parent model and a Place model is silently created when save() is called. SQLAlchemy can do that via its multi-table inheritance. Is there a way to achieve the same in Django?

A: Django's abstract base classes solve the problem of sharing common fields between models:
class Place(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(unique=True)

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

Edit: Having said that, as Daniel mentioned in the comments, the solution you propose should work just fine. Here's more on Django's multi-table inheritance

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What are a Chief Petty Officer's Responsibilities?
The rank of Chief Petty Officer is the seventh enlisted rank in the US Coast Guard. It is considered to represent the most significant advancement in the career of an enlisted Coast Guardsman. Any CPO position in the Coast Guard requires a combination of technical and leadership skill, with increasing emphasis being placed on a proven ability to lead.
The CPO needs to have specialist technical knowledge and the ability to train and mentor other servicemen and women in their specialisation, including newly-commissioned junior officers. The CPO carries out more administrative duties than more junior ranks and is responsible for maintaining discipline. Because of the smaller size of the Coast Guard organisation, he or she normally has more authority and responsibility than the equivalent ranks in other armed forces. CPOs are usually placed in charge of small cutters and boat stations. They also serve as technical leaders and deck watch officers. They are specifically tasked with the training of junior commissioned officers from ensigns to lieutenant-commanders.
Referred to as the "Chief", the CPO is the person in the Coast Guard expected to have the answers to most service-related questions. He or she is addressed by a combination of rank and rating, known as their "rate". Examples are Chief Gunner's Mate (GMC), Chief Quartermaster's Mate (QMC), or Chief Yeoman (YNC). The CPOs have separate dining and living quarters, known as the "Chief's Mess". As with lower ranks, the "High Year Tenure" applies to a CPO's career. If, after 24 years in service, he or she has not advanced beyond the pay grade E-7, the CPO faces mandatory retirement from active duty.
What is a Chief Petty Officer's Paygrade?
A Chief Petty Officer is considered a Chief Petty Officer, with a paygrade of E-7. The civilian equivalent of this military rank is roughly GS-6 under the federal government's General Schedule payscale.
On this page you can learn more about a Chief Petty Officer's payscale, the process of becoming a Chief Petty Officer, and the history of the rank in the United States Coast Guard.
Starting pay for a Chief Petty Officer is $2,875.20 per month, with raises for experience resulting in a maximum base pay of $5,167.50 per month. You can use the simple calculator below to see basic and drill pay for a Chief Petty Officer, or visit our Coast Guard pay calculator for a more detailed salary estimate.
Use the slider below to calculate the basic pay and drill pay for an E-7 Chief Petty Officer at varying years in his or her military career.
A Chief Petty Officer is a Chief Petty Officer, with a military paygrade of E-7. The civilian equivalent of this military rank is roughly GS-6 under the federal government's General Schedule payscale.
The table below lists the equivalent ranks of a Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer, and their insignia, in the other four branches of the United States' Armed Services.


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X-ray Microscope: Seeing Cells in 3-D
Sheraz Sadiq
Physicist Mark LeGros spent three years building this microscope which uses x-rays to take 3-D images of biological cells.
Mark LeGros, who spent three years building the world's first x-ray microscope dedicated to cell biology, greeted me at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) with a hearty handshake, effusive smile and an accent reminiscent of his New Zealand roots.
I spent an hour in April talking with him about the challenges and rewards of creating a powerful, state-of-the art microscope which can capture a truer, more accurate picture of a whole cell and its nucleus, mitochondria and other tiny, essential cellular structures.
I asked him to take me back to that moment in 2009 when he and the diverse team of researchers, including biologists, physicists, chemists and computer scientists, who comprise the National Center of X-ray Tomography at LBNL, powered up the microscope and waited anxiously for the first x-ray images of a yeast cell, the biological specimen they chose to test the capabilities of their new imaging tool.
Physicist Mark LeGros smiles for the camera while Bertrand Cinquin, a postdoctoral researcher, waits outside the lab containing the x-ray microscope. Photo by Sheraz Sadiq / QUEST.
"I wasn't sure exactly just how well this was gonna work out. But it turned out that it was beautiful...and everybody associated with the project was stunned with the degree of detail that it revealed about the internal structure of a cell and the chromatin, which is the genetic material of the cell," he said.
It's important to note that this powerful device does not render obsolete other imaging techniques, including light microscopy and electron microscopy. For one thing, the cell sample is frozen to hold the structures in place and protect them from the x-rays which have much greater penetrating power than visible light because x-rays have shorter wavelengths than light rays. So it can't capture dynamic activity of cells moving in real-time, unlike an optical or light microscope. Also, while the resolution possible with the x-ray microscope is five times greater than a light microscope, an electron microscope, which uses electrons to penetrate ultra-thin sections of cells, provides better resolution than the x-ray microscope.
Carolyn Larabell looks at images taken with the x-ray microscope while Bertrand Cinquin loads a sample of cells into the microscope. Photo by Sheraz Sadiq / QUEST.
Nonetheless, unlike an electron microscope, the x-ray microscope allows scientists to image a whole cell in its native state, with the only preparation being the freezing of the cell sample. Also, many of the classic textbook images of cells that were taken with electron microscopes which required the cells to be dehydrated and stained with heavy metals to bind the electrons to the cell and generate a rather grainy image. Since a cell is 70% water, dehydration and staining can degrade delicate cellular structures and thus make it hard to accurately visualize them.
In addition, the x-ray microscope uses the technique of tomography to faithfully reconstruct the volume of a cell in three dimensions, instead of a flat, 2-D image of it.
Here, a sample of cells is placed in the microscope and rotated 360 degrees. While it rotates, x-rays illuminate the carbon and nitrogen present in all biological cells and black and white images then display the absorption of the x-rays by the organic material in every part of the cell. All of this happens in about 30 seconds. Computer software then allows the team to process, in a mere five to ten minutes, the individual x-ray images and reconstruct a 3-D portrait of the cell which is possible since the cell has been imaged from every conceivable angle, allowing not only the shapes of its structures to be seen but also the amount of biological material such as the DNA packed into the cell's nucleus.
A cross-section of stacked x-ray images taken of a mouse olfactory neuron, with the dark regions indicating the inactive genetic material and the light regions indicating the active genetic material within the nucleus. Image courtesy of Carolyn Larabell, PhD.
This novel form of 3-D imaging is revealing new insight into the organization of the active genes - the euchromatin - and the silenced genes - the heterochromatin - in the nucleus.
"So we can see now for the first time that the heterochromatin, or those silenced genes, are more crowded than the euchromatin regions. And we can actually quantify that and say that it's 28% more crowded," said Carolyn Larabell, a microbiologist and the Director of the National Center for X-ray Tomography.
The stack of x-ray images taken of the mouse olfactory neuron is then processed by computer software and turned into this striking 3-D illustration of the cell, with the nucleus shown in blue. Image courtesy of Carolyn Larabell, PhD.
So why is it important to quantify the amount of active genes versus silenced genes in a cell's nucleus? For one thing, in certain diseases like cancer, previously silenced genes become active and the nucleus grows larger. So perhaps this new level of insight can shed light on the progression of cancer and perhaps even offer an early tool for its onset, well before symptoms appear. A three-dimensional window into cells may also lead to the development of better designed and consequently, more effective drug treatments.
Carolyn Larabell is a microbiologist and the Director of the National Center of X-ray Tomography at LBNL. Photo by Sheraz Sadiq / QUEST.
"It's important to see these structures in 3-D (because) you want to test drugs on cells to see if they're having the effect that you think they are," said Larabell. "If you get a single section, you have just a very thin window on what might be happening to that cell. (So) you want to see what's happening throughout the entire cell," she added.
Whether it's the life cycle of the deadly malaria parasite or the breakdown of sugars from plants in the production of biofuels, this exciting new imaging tool is providing a richer understanding of important biological processes.
But as ingenious as this microscope is, it can't compare to the ingenuity and complexity of the microscopic world of cells which we've strained to bring into lucid focus for hundreds of years, ever since Robert Hooke's 17th-century descriptions of the tiny structures in a section of cork, which he likened to the modest chambers, or cells, of pious monks.


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