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Fresh clashes in Manipur

Manipur violence spikes as BJP law stokes Meitei-Kuki clashes and media blackouts




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Bangladesh's Saint Martin's Island - a potential flashpoint

The island's close vicinity to significant marine lanes in the Bay of Bengal has piqued the interest of global powers.




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Angelina Jolie brings classic style to 'Maria' premiere night in NYC

Angelina Jolie brings classic style to 'Maria' premiere night in NYC

Angelina Jolie exuded elegance in New York City on Tuesday as she promoted her upcoming biographical film, Maria.

The 49-year-old actress was spotted heading toward an awaiting car in a sleek, black dress, paired...




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Judiciary stakes: Bar-bench bond breached in 2010 clashes

Lawyers movement forgotten as year dominated by clashes within legal community.




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Blasphemy backtrack

It seems quite obvious that religious groups have more bark than bite.




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Blast damages oil tanker in Chaman, injures one

Explosive device was planted on the rear of the tanker; one person injured.




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    Seattube (SA): 71.5°
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    Standover (SO): 8.4"
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Afghan girls, barred from school, seek education through TV classes

Afghan girls are part of a TV channel that is broadcasting the entire Afghan curriculum for girls out of school




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Meghan Markle sparks backlash over ‘disrespectful' tone-deaf tribute

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Pamela Anderson slays in classic style at ‘The Last Showgirl' screening

Pamela Anderson slays in classic style at ‘The Last Showgirl' screening

Pamela Anderson exuded elegance in New York City, as she attended the special screening of The Last Showgirl.

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Illegal plasma sale thrives in Lahore

First Covid-19 patient recovered through trial treatment last month




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US airman who leaked classified Pentagon documents jailed for 15 years

An undated image of the suspect, national guardsman Jack Teixeira, can be seen reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC in this photo illustration created on April 13, 2023. — AFP

Jack Teixeira, an American airman who admitted to leaking a trove of...




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‘Luckiest Priest in America’ Leads His Last Eucharistic Procession on Campus

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Smog crisis shuts schools, moves classes online in five more Punjab divisions

Students wearing face masks walk along a street amid smoggy conditions in Lahore on November 21, 2023. — AFP

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Key facilitator in Police Lines deadly blast turns out to be policeman: IG

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General Akhtar Hayat Gandapur addressing a press conference in Peshawar on November 12, 2024. —Screengrab/ Geo News

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Pakistan's undefeated baseball team wins Arab Classic Dubai 2024 championship

An undated image shows Pakistan's baseball team poses with national flag Arab Classic Dubai 2024 championship. — APP/File

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Trump keeps up pace in last stretch before election

So the countdown continues on the presidential election, now just days away and looming large on the calendar. As is his habit, former president Donald Trump is on the road and eager to reach out to voters. He begins his journey at a voter rally in Traverse City, Michigan, on Friday followed by rallies in Novi, Michigan and State College, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.




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Alaska Coast Guard tracks Chinese, Russian vessels in Bering Sea

Four Russian and Chinese security ships were tracked by the Coast Guard in a sign of increased activity by key U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, the Alaska office of the Coast Guard said on Tuesday.




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Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison for putting classified data online

Jack Douglas Teixeira, 23, pleaded guilty in March 2024 to six counts of "willful retention and transmission of national defense information." His defense team asked for an 11-year prison sentence while federal prosecutors in Boston pushed for him to spend 16 years behind bars.




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Shelton outlasts top seed Rublev to face Fils in Basel semifinals

Ben Shelton knocked out top-seeded Andrey Rublev in the Swiss Indoors quarterfinals in his first matchup with the Russian on Friday.




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Juneau, Alaska, part 1: We Belong to Each Other

A visit with a Chilkat Ravenstail weaver, a rain-forest hike in search of Devil’s Club, the tale of a rudely awakened Black Bear, an afternoon with a fishing boat captain, a mountain jog with a champion ultra-runner, hair and make-up tips with a renowned drag queen, a sound-check at the home-studio of a Juneau-based hip hop musician, and a window into the life of a local poet and her 10-year-old son.

Special thanks this episode to Juneau field producer MK MacNaughton and the National Endowment for the Arts.




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Juneau, Alaska, part 2: Learn How to Fall

A game hunter consults his conscience, a Native Rights advocate remembers being separated from her heritage, a local chef plays host to TV personality Gordon Ramsay, a widow remembers her late husband’s grace and humor, a Native Youth Olympics coach connects kids to culture through athletics, plus an artist, a musician, a cross-country bicyclist, two roller-derby girls, and a family in a half-built cabin on an island in the wilderness

Special thanks this episode to Juneau field producer MK MacNaughton and the National Endowment for the Arts.




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Maryland to join UCLA, Baylor, Texas in inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic

UCLA will play Baylor and Texas will face Maryland in a women's basketball doubleheader in the inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic in January.




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LOVERRO: Brown, Bailey and Branch head new D.C. Hall of Fame class

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Maryland eager to boost shooting prowess after too many misses last season

The Terrapins' struggles last season were rooted in the most basic of problems: They couldn't shoot, finishing 320th nationally in field goal percentage (41.3%) and 340th in 3-point percentage (28.9%).




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Maryland riding new wave of momentum into clash with Minnesota

Buoyed by a season-shifting comeback win over Southern California, Maryland now has a pep in its step as it hits the road again in the Big Ten this week.




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Blaney lost sleep after last week's loss, needs a big showing at Martinsville to defend NASCAR title

Ryan Blaney had the checkered flag in sight and a spot in NASCAR's title-deciding race within his grasp last week on the last lap of a contentious battle.




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Utah AD Mark Harlan blasts the Big 12 officiating crew after BYU rallies to beat the Utes

Utah athletic director Mark Harlan blasted the Big 12 officiating crew following BYU's 22-21 win over the Utes on Saturday night for controversial calls on the Cougars' winning drive.




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RFK Jr. cues up clash by calling for the removal of fluoride from drinking water

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing President-elect Donald Trump to crack down on fluoride levels in drinking water, saying the mineral can lead to unintended medical problems -- and setting up a clash with medical experts who defend it as a proven way to fighting cavities.




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France throws one last party to celebrate the Paris Olympics

The curtain will come down on the Paris' feel-good summer with a grand parade of French athletes on the Champs Elysees on Saturday as the country throws one last party to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games.




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Federal judge blocks state law ordering Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a state law that would require classrooms in Louisiana to post the Ten Commandments starting in January.






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Non lasciate che il rancore si impossessi di voi

Ospito qui la lettera aperta che Marta Rovira, dirigente del partito indipendentista di sinistra catalano guidato da Junqueras, ha inviato prima di lasciare la Spagna. Continuano in questi giorni arresti di esponenti politici catalani accusati (semplifico) di tradimento verso il governo spagnolo, all’indomani del referendum di ottobre. L’ex presidente Carles Puigdemont è stato fermato in Germania. Il ‘delitto’ riguarda le opinioni politiche espresse e il fatto di aver consentito ai cittadini di esprimersi col voto. Alle successive elezioni di dicembre questi partiti, queste persone (quelle che non erano in prigione) sono state rielette dalla maggioranza dei catalani. Fin dal primo giorno, a ottobre, Marta Rovira e gli altri esponenti del governo catalano hanno chiesto che l’Europa intervenisse. Un’Europa sorda a chi viene arrestato per le sue opinioni, all’esito del voto popolare e democratico, si chiedono, che Europa è.

Invece Concita
Blog di Concita de Gregorio
 
27-03-2018
 
 
Grazie a Marta Rovira, segretaria generale di Esquerra Republicana
 
 



"Oggi prendo un cammino duro, un cammino che disgraziatamente tanti altri che ci precedono hanno dovuto prendere: il cammino dell’esilio. Non posso nascondere la profonda tristezza che sento nell’allontanarmi da tanta gente che amo. Allontanarmi da tante battaglie condivise, per tanti anni, con persone mosse da un unico obiettivo: cambiare la società dove vivono. Farla più giusta. Persone degne. Lasciare i paesaggi che mi circondano fin dall’infanzia, non poter passeggiare nella città dove vivo… Sono triste, ma molto più triste sarebbe stato vivere obbligata internamente al silenzio. Sentire la mia libertà di espressione censurata da tribunali che intimidiscono e che applicano sfacciatamente criteri politici".

"Ogni giorno, ogni ora sentivo la mia libertà limitata da minacce giudiziarie arbitrarie. Non mi sentivo libera. Non mi riconoscevo. In queste ultime settimane ho vissuto dentro una prigione interna. L’esilio sarà duro, ma è l’unica forma che ho di recuperare la mia voce politica. Di sollevarmi contro il governo del Partito Popolare, che perseguita chi vota e che castiga chi intende cambiare ciò che è prestabilito. Un governo disposto a rinunciare allo stato di diritto e alle libertà civili per i suoi obiettivi politici".

"Ho una figlia, Agnese. L’esilio mi permetterà di esserci di più come madre, e lo merita molto".

"Vi voglio dire un’ultima cosa: non lasciate che il rancore si impadronisca di voi. L’analisi di una realtà antidemocratica e profondamente ingiusta non deve cedere il passo al risentimento. Contro nessuno. Contro niente. Solo a partire dal rispetto e dall’amore verso tutti i cittadini e tutte le opinioni costruiremo cambiamenti radicali e profondi. Solo dal lavoro comune otterremo una Repubblica per tutti. Come dice Oriol Junqueras: ‘In questi giorni che verranno rimanete forti e uniti, trasformate l’indignazione in coraggio e perseveranza. La rabbia in amore. Pensate sempre agli altri, a  quello che dobbiamo ricostruire. Perseverate perché io persevererò’. Questo è quello che faremo, Oriol. Vi scrivo, ora sì,  con libertà e sincerità. Viva la libertà, la giustizia, l’uguaglianza e la fraternità. Viva una Repubblica Catalana per tutti".

 




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Classical monographs re-published in advanced open access

The new Advanced Books platform of Pensoft opens new horizons for semantic book publishing
 
Easy access to legacy data collected over hundreds-of-years of exploration of nature from the convenience of people's own computers for anyone all over the world? It may sound futuristic but a brand new pilot showcases how this is possible here and now.

The new workflow demonstrates a re-publication of a volume of Flora Malesiana in a semantically enriched HTML edition available on the newly launched, Advanced Books publishing platform. The platform was demonstrated today at the EU funded pro-iBiosphere project which supported, in part, the re-publication of Flora Malesiana.
 

 
When Linnaeus was laying the foundations of taxonomy as a science in his Species Plantarum and Systema Naturae books he probably did not imagine that his methods of publication of natural history data would remain almost unchanged for more than 270 years! The bulk of the information on the living World is still closed in paper-based legacy literature, especially in fundamental regional treatises such as Flora, Fauna and Mycota series, hardly accessible for readers, despite the dramatic changes in the publishing technologies that have taken place over the last decade.

The new pilot, developed by Pensoft Publishers in a cooperation with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Plazi, and Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM), demonstrates how a fundamental book in natural history can start a new life with Advanced Books. Re-publication of the Flora of Northumberland & Durham, published in 1838, will be the next to appear as a result of a collaboration between the Botanical Garden Meise National Botanic Garden of Belgium and Pensoft.

Flora Malesiana is a systematic account of the flora of Malesia, the plant-geographical unit spanning six countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. The plant treatments are not published in a systematic order but as they come about by the scientific efforts of some 100 collaborators all over the world.

With the new platform, such scientifically important historical monographs, enriched with additional information from up-to-date external sources related to organisms' names, species treatments, information on their ecology, distribution and conservation value, morphological characters, etc., become freely usable for anyone at any place in the world.

The re-publication in advanced open access comes with the many other benefits of the digitization and markup efforts such as data extraction and collation, distribution and re-use of content, archiving of different data elements in relevant repositories and so on.

"Advanced Books will bring many outstanding scientific monographs to a new life, however the platform is not only restricted to e-publish our legacy literature." commented Prof. Lyubomir Penev, Managing Director of Pensoft. "New books are mostly welcome on the platform, joining their historical predecessors in an open, common, human- and machine-readable, data space for the benefit of future researchers and the society in general" concluded Prof. Penev.
 
Original Source:
 
de Wilde W (2014) Flora Malesiana. Series I - Seed Plants, Volume 14. Myristicaceae. Advanced Books: e1141. doi: 10.3897/ab.e1141




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EU BON acknowledged paper is classified as the fourth hottest article in Ecological Informatics

A recent paper by Duccio Rocchini et al. (2015) has been classified as the fourth hottest article in Ecological Informatics. The paper is part of the EU BON project, and discusses from a conceptual point of view, the potential of remote sensing in estimating biodiversity using various diversity indices, including alpha- and beta-diversity measurements. 

Abstract:

Many geospatial tools have been advocated in spatial ecology to estimate biodiversity and its changes over space and time. Such information is essential in designing effective strategies for biodiversity conservation and management. Remote sensing is one of the most powerful approaches to identify biodiversity hotspots and predict changes in species composition in reduced time and costs. This is because, with respect to field-based methods, it allows to derive complete spatial coverages of the Earth surface under study in a short period of time. Furthermore, remote sensing provides repeated coverages of field sites, thus making studies of temporal changes in biodiversity possible. In this paper we discuss, from a conceptual point of view, the potential of remote sensing in estimating biodiversity using various diversity indices, including alpha- and beta-diversity measurements.

Original source:

Rocchini D, Hernández Stefanoni JL, He, KS (2015) Advancing species diversity estimate by remotely sensed proxies: a conceptual review. Ecological Informatics, 25: 22-28. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.10.006

 

 





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Open access, data sharing, and citizen science among the topics of the last EU BON workshop

Open access to biodiversity is key for addressing pertinent ecological issues such as biodiversity loss and impacts of climate change. On 22 & 23 March 2016, experts from EU BON met with scientists, policy makers and practitioners from across Europe to discuss issues of biodiversity data sharing, curation and publishing.

The workshop, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, introduced participants to key concepts, demonstration and practical exercise in biodiversity data sharing using the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). Practical training sessions led by Larissa Smirnova from the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) and Kyle Braak from GBIF demonstrated the integration and management of datasets in GBIF. A step-by-step demo and practical session on how to publish a data was also featured in the workshop.


Participants at the EU BON data sharing & data publishing workshop in Sofia; Credit: Pensoft

Special attention was paid to innovative data publishing practices in a session led by the local hosts Pensoft Publishers who introduced their ARPHA publishing platform, as well as its new journal Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO), which publishes unconventional output types across the research cycle, including data and software descriptions, workflows, methods and many more.

PlutoF demonstrated its citizen science gateway and  demonstrated how the citizen science data can be managed using the CS module. Plazi also presented their GoldenGate Imagine tool, optimized for marking up, enhancing, and extracting text and data from PDF files.

    
Sessions at the at the EU BON data sharing & data publishing workshop in Sofia; Credit: Pensoft

 





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Article Alert: Biophysical Characterization of Protected Areas Globally through Optimized Image Segmentation and Classification

A new EU BON derived paper, publsihed recently in the journal Remote Sensing, introduces eHabitat+, a habitat modelling service supporting the European Commission’s Digital Observatory for Protected Areas.

Abstract:

Protected areas (PAs) need to be assessed systematically according to biodiversity values and threats in order to support decision-making processes. For this, PAs can be characterized according to their species, ecosystems and threats, but such information is often difficult to access and usually not comparable across regions. There are currently over 200,000 PAs in the world, and assessing these systematically according to their ecological values remains a huge challenge. However, linking remote sensing with ecological modelling can help to overcome some limitations of conservation studies, such as the sampling bias of biodiversity inventories. The aim of this paper is to introduce eHabitat+, a habitat modelling service supporting the European Commission’s Digital Observatory for Protected Areas, and specifically to discuss a component that systematically stratifies PAs into different habitat functional types based on remote sensing data. eHabitat+ uses an optimized procedure of automatic image segmentation based on several environmental variables to identify the main biophysical gradients in each PA. This allows a systematic production of key indicators on PAs that can be compared globally. Results from a few case studies are illustrated to show the benefits and limitations of this open-source tool.

Original Source: 

Martínez-López, J.; Bertzky, B.; Bonet-García, F.J.; Bastin, L.; Dubois, G. Biophysical Characterization of Protected Areas Globally through Optimized Image Segmentation and Classification. Remote Sens. 2016, 8, 780. DOI: 0.3390/rs8090780










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14 Exceptionally Rare Videos Of Famous Composers In The Last Century

The Classical period was over far too early for any film footage to existing. Textbooks usually say that the Romantic period ended in 1900 and ... Read more

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