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ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has reiterated full support of the government and people of Pakistan to the just and legitimate right of the Kashmiri people for the peaceful resolution of the issue in line with their aspirations.
The Prime Minister was addressing joint session of AJK Legislative Assembly and Kashmir Council on the Kashmir Solidarity Day.
He said all the illegitimate use of force by the occupation forces in Kashmir had miserably failed to suppress indigenous freedom struggle. About 207 million Pakistanis supported their Kashmiri brethren in their struggle.
The Prime Minister said there might be differences among the political leaders but on the Kashmir issue, all the leadership was united and there were no two opinions.
He said the issue will remain alive till its peaceful resolution as per the aspirations of the Kashmiri people and the UN resolutions.
He underscored the need to involve the Pakistani and Kashmir diaspora to further highlight the Kashmir issue and the gross human rights violations committed by the Indian occupation forces.
The Prime Minister, referring to the AJK Assembly and Council, said the house had been a seat of unanimity among different Kashmiri leaders, who lent unequivocal support to the people in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.
He said the Kashmir Solidarity Day reflects a spirit of unity among all the ranks and files of the nation and the legitimate struggle of Kashmiris.
He reiterated that the government of Pakistan and its people will continue their political, diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiris people struggling for their right to self-determination.
The prime minister said the federal government will extend all possible support for the development of the AJK. The development budget for the AJK had been doubled.
He said various dormant projects like Neelum-Jhelum power plant are being completed with the active support of the federal government.
He said the construction of Mansehra-Mirpur-Muzaffarabad road under CPEC will enhance connectivity and spur progress and development in the AJK.
The Prime Minister lauded the role of Pakistan Army in its success against the war on terror. Pakistan fought the biggest war on terror in the world with immense sacrifices and succeeded whereas the world had failed.

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ISLAMABAD Aug 4,2021 – The federal government has decided to mobilize Rangers, ANF, FIA and Customs in Sindh to ‘provide relief to the people of Sindh’.
Sources said that it was decided to mobilize four federal forces – Rangers, ANF, FIA and Customs in Sindh.
An important meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran Khan, in which the federal government has decided to take steps to provide relief to the people of Sindh.
Sources said that rangers will take action against bandits, extortionists and criminal elements, a leading media outlet reported.
It was agreed at the meeting that operations would be carried out at specific locations in Sindh against the dacoits.
Sources said that the meeting has decided that peace and security will be ensured across Sindh.


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Due to the phasing out of R22 world wide, the introduction of a Carbon Tax in Australia, and increasing legislation relating to the use of hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), has resulted in a movement towards natural fluids for industrial refrigeration systems.
Australia continues to lead the way in the phasing out of hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerants, meeting or exceeding its phase‐out obligations under the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol is an agreement established in 1987 with the specific purpose of phasing‐out any substances deemed to be contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer. This agreement is implemented in Australia under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989.
Artificial refrigerants have long been identified for their ozone depletion potential and global warming potential. The more harmful CFC’s, including R11 and R12, are now virtually phased out and refrigerant stockpiles are nearly exhausted. HCFC’s, the most prevalent of which is R22, are likely to be effectively phased out in Australia by 2016.
In addition to R22, other HCFC’s to be phased out include R408A, R409A and R123. As of 1 July 2010 Australia has also banned the importation of most air‐conditioning equipment pre‐charged with HCFC refrigerant.
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- Installation of new R22 equipment
- Parts and service support for R22 equipment
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- R22 equipment conversions to alternative refrigerants
- R22 equipment retirement and replacement
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It is expected that R22 will become increasingly difficult and costly to source. In addition to this, it is likely that its price would increase significantly with the introduction of an emissions trading scheme.


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Chloe Bailey goes viral at least once a week these days… and this time, it’s for her breathtaking cover of Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain.”
Donning a neon orange two-piece, Chloe makes the single from RiRi’s smash hit “ANTI,” album her own. But just wait until she reaches the end — that note is something to behold.
Chloe rose to fame as part of the sisterly duo, Chloe X Halle, but both have been making a name for themselves as solo acts.
“We’re growing as young women. We’re finding ourselves through experiences — whether it’s through love, through heartbreak, getting over any insecurities we may have — we just wanted to put that into the music,” Chloe, 22, told Associated Press in January.
Discovered by Beyonce, the duo has proved themselves to be triple threats (probably more.) They write their own music. Produce their own songs. They can sing. They can dance. They do it all.
“Our dad has always told us to be independent and if we don’t know something to figure it out. That’s why we’re so hands on in everything that we do,” Chloe told the publication. “It wouldn’t feel right if we weren’t so hands-on with the process. If it’s our music and our art, we want to articulate in a way that is us fully.”
Earlier this year, the group took home two NAACP: Outstanding R&B Song for “Do It” and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional) for “Wonder What She Thinks of Me.”
“This right here is the award that matters. It is here where we stand in the light of an organization that has spent decades supporting people of color, and issues that we still to this day continue to fight,” she said while accepting the award.
Is there anything these ladies cannot do?


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The recent advancements in battery technology are placing new demands on thermal management systems. Precision engineered ceramic shafts and bearings are used in the water cooling pumps of next-generation hybrid vehicles for cooling critical engine electronics and lithium-ion batteries. In addition to their longevity due to their excellent chemical resistance to the glycol coolant, ceramic products are lightweight which contributes to improved fuel efficiency and low noise running. For example, boron carbide ceramics are used in the brake linings of vehicles. And silicon carbide ceramics are used for high performance “ceramic" brake disks, as they are able to withstand extreme temperatures.
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Lupin’s specialty business in the U.S. was established in 2003 with the reintroduction of SUPRAX (cefixime) oral suspension. Vinita Gupta was the President of Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. at the time and daughter of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin Limited’s founder. Vinita has guided Lupin’s U.S. business with a sense of deep conviction, leveraging a lifetime of familiarity with the pharmaceutical industry. Her vision was to grow a specialty brand business that launches innovative new products to address unmet medical needs.
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Joey King and Jacob Elordi are both confirmed for a return to The Kissing Booth, and with filming on the movie already started, fans only have to wait for its debut. However, if you absolutely can't wait another second for secrets from the set, Joey did share what it was like to reunite with Jacob.
During their time on the set of the first Kissing Booth, Joey and Jacob had started dating. Although neither celeb made the end of their relationship official, fans speculated that social media posts made by the stars seemed to hint at a breakup, and Joey later walked the red carpet with a reported new partner.
Joey explained in an interview on a podcast called Mood with Lauren Elizabeth that reuniting with Jacob for this sequel was beautiful. "I know what everyone wants to know, of course," she said. "And yeah, it was crazy. It was a wild experience, but honestly, it was a really beautiful time because I learned a lot about myself and I grew as an actor, I grew as a person."
She went on to explain that because she appreciates and loves the film, she didn't mind reuniting with someone she once shared a relationship with. "I'm a fan of how it resonated with the world and it resonated with me," she said. "So going back, and doing that, and making the sacrifice, obviously, what everyone is thinking about. I'm not outwardly addressing, but what I'm kinda on the sly addressing, making those sacrifices was totally worth it."
There's no word on a premiere date for the upcoming KB sequel, but fans are hopeful that it will arrive sometime in 2020. In the meantime, we have this adorable video of Jacob announcing his return to tide us over.

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Modulation of human TRPV1 receptor activity by extracellular protons and host cell expression system.Eur J Pharmacol. 2006 May 10; 537(1-3):20-30.EJ
The transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptor is a ligand-gated cation channel that can be activated by capsaicin, heat, protons and cytosolic lipids. We compared activation of recombinant human TRPV1 receptors stably expressed in human 293 cells, derived from kidney embryonic cells, and in human 1321N1 cells, derived from brain astrocytes. Cellular influx of calcium was measured in response to acid, endovanilloids (N-arachidonoyl-dopamine, N-oleoyl-dopamine and anandamide), capsaicin and other traditional vanilloid agonists under normal (pH 7.4) and acidic (pH 6.7 and 6.0) assay conditions. The host cell expression system altered the agonist profile of endogenous TRPV1 receptor agonists without affecting the pharmacological profile of either exogenous TRPV1 receptor agonists or antagonists. Our data signify that the host cell expression system plays a modulatory role in TRPV1 receptor activity, and suggests that activation of native human TRPV1 receptors in vivo will be dependent on cell-specific regulatory factors/pathways.


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"Repose" is a peaceful moment of sunshine and fluttering insects. It reminds me of morning tea on the deck in the garden. This painting was one of several paintings in which the divine spiral or golden mean was used in the composition. This is the same mathematical proportion you find all throughout nature. Think of a conch shell cut in half, the spiral is the same. It is also interestingly, the same matematical ratio found in our DNA spiral.
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Before I moved away from Kazakhstan, I wanted to travel in Central Asia and the easiest way to do it seemed to be by bicycle. My reasoning was threefold.
1 – There are buses, trains, and planes in the region but the costs add up and navigating transit systems was difficult enough within the city I was already living in. Bicycle travel is essentially free and gave me the most control over my movements.
2- Kazakhstan felt very safe to me. When one of my Kazakh co-workers spent a semester studying in the States, I asked her what she found especially strange about living there and she said, “There are so many weirdos! Especially on the bus. You would never see that in Kazakhstan.” In my experience, this is true. The weirdest thing that ever happened to me on the bus was when a woman handed her baby to my friend without saying a word so that she could go through her purse to get change for her ticket. She wasn’t worried for a second about a complete stranger minding her child. Ask anyone in a western country what the weirdest thing they’ve seen on the bus is and the answer will always involve bodily fluids.
Buses aside, I only heard of three petty crime instances while living in KZ, which includes how my friend stole over 15 mugs from the university canteen. And though I experienced a great deal of sexism (but where in the world does this not happen, am I right?), I experienced as much catcalling/the-general-street-harassment-one-deals-with-as-a-woman in 10 months in Astana as I do in 10 days in Vancouver. I can’t even go for a run in a sports bra in this city without hearing a some dude yell out his opinion about it.
My rudimentary thought is that Kazakh culture is more family/community-minded, as opposed to western individualism. Maybe the consequences of out of norm actions are felt more deeply. But I almost never feel more like an oblivious foreigner than when I speculate too much on this topic.
Because of my inability to articulate my “safe feelings,” it sure came across as blind ignorance. We’re all scared of the unknown and this is not a trip I would’ve done by myself had I not already been living in and familiar with the region. So I told all my friends to shut it (and expressed my appreciation for their concern, of course).
3 – I had travelled by bicycle twice before and know that all you really need is a positive chill attitude. Even though I knew nothing about bikes except how to change a flat, I knew that I love bike trips and this was enough. Shit’s gonna go wrong even if you do have a lot of bicycle knowledge.
To go on a bike trip, you just have to want to do it. You will hate your life at times. And wonder why you ever decided to make yourself so uncomfortable. But it forces you to be entirely present. There’s a passage about a bike trip in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins that sums it up nicely.
And the countryside was something much more than just a setting: they were conquering it bit by bit, by main force. In the weariness of the climbs, in the joy of the descents, they became part of it, lived it rather than looked at it as scenery.
I guess there was also a fourth reason. I was working as a librarian at a university and the academic year ended in May. I could not imagine the boredom of working at a university library during the summer, at a university that did not really offer summer classes. But I was meeting friends in Europe in August so this seemed like a good way to kill two months.

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a line of thugs right across the road
cordon at downing street
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one of many downing street arrests
pointless road clearance
woman dragged away and arrested
shoes of the dead
later i saw simila tactics near downing street. as i arrived a line of police were pushing people from the right hand side away from the gates of downing street. when challenged, the senior officer could not explain under what legislation he was acting. one member of the press was arrested in a scuffle.
the 'rhythms of resistance' samba band arrived and staged a die-in opposite downing street. others gradually joined the sit-down, although stop the war coalition stewards were urging the passing crowd to not join in, and police quickly surrounded the sitting protestors. after some twenty minutes, the samba band moved on, but some activists tried to use pipes to lock on on the ground, and were viciously arrested by police before they managed. i witnessed one young man being held face down on the ground with his neck bent to one side and his face being pushed hard down onto the road.
at this point, i witnessed the most pointless show of strength and bullying tactics as van loads of police poured out onto the road. they started pusfhing people randomly, seemingly confused as to their own orders, but then began 'clearing the road opposite downing street. people on the pavement were left alone, but i witnessed another five arrests. after this little show, they all got back in their vans and the road filled with demonstrators once again. what the hell was the point of that other than intimidation and harrassment.
in parliament square, police were also involved in scuffles and several witnesses told me they'd seen a woman being kicked by police.
later on, barbara tucker and steve jago took up their customary position outside downing street. once again, for simply holding a banner with some words on it, barbara was violently assaulted. i saw the handcuff marks several hours later and her arm was swollen, and the skin broken. she was charged with 'obstruction of the highway' rather than the usual 'unauthorised demo' offence. steve jago was charged under section 5 of behaviour liable to cause harrasment, distress or alarm, and he received a beating and an £80 penalty fine (blair's new summary justice!) - he will take the matter to court.
it is clear from today that police are instructed to use thuggery and violent tactics, and are particularly targetting peaceful campaigners against blair's genocide.

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Trooper pleads guilty to stealing jewelry and $3,700 from motorcyclist's body at crash scene after his dashcam recorded him in the act
- Aaron Huntsman, 45, entered an Alford plea - meaning he does not admit to the charges but accepts he would be found guilty at a trial
- He is expected to be sentenced to 16 months behind bars
- After motorcyclist John Scalesse crashed into a truck in September 2012, Huntsman was the first trooper on the scene
- His dashboard camera filmed him picking up the victim's $5,500 gold chain from a pool of blood and a roll of cash from his pocket
- He denied taking them but they were found inside his car
A Connecticut state trooper has pleaded guilty to stealing jewelery and $3,700 from the body of a motorcyclist who died at the scene of a crash after it was caught on his dashboard camera.
Aaron Huntsman, 45, entered an Alford plea for third-degree larceny and tampering with evidence - meaning he does not admit to the charges but accepts he would likely be found guilty at a trial.
The trooper, who had been with the department for 18 years at the time of the crime in 2012, will spend more than a year in prison, the Connecticut Post reported.
He allegedly stole a gold chain, valued at $5,500, and a roll of cash from 49-year-old John Scalesse's body when he was killed after he crashed into a truck on Route 15 in Fairfield on September 22, 2012.
Plea: Former state trooper Aaron Huntsman, pictured left with his attorney in court in 2012, pleaded guilty to stealing a deceased motorcyclist's gold chain and more than $3,000 in cash
Huntsman was the first trooper to the scene and his dashboard camera filmed him walking over to the body, picking up the chain from a pool of blood and taking out the cash from Scalesse's pocket.
He later told the victim's family that he had not seen any money on him.
An investigation was launched after the deceased man's relatives expressed concerns about missing items and the police log failed to show the jewelry.
When questioned about the items by his supervisor, Huntsman said he had left the chain in the cup holder in his police car inside a glove and had forgotten about it - but denied having the cash.
The money was later found under the seat in Huntsman's cruiser, police said. Despite the evidence and the footage, Huntsman maintained he was innocent.
He was arrested in November 2012 and left the state troopers in May 2013.
Missed: John Scalesse, pictured left and right, was killed when he crashed his motorcycle into a truck in September 2012. Huntsman's dashboard camera filmed him stealing the man's belongings
Investigation: Huntsman, pictured in his trooper uniform, has always denied stealing the items but they were both found in his car when authorities launched an investigation. He left the troopers in 2013
The victim's family said they were relieved that the case was over.
'John didn't deserve his memory to be tarnished like this and we are finally glad it’s almost over,' Scalesse’s mother, Marguerite, told the Post. 'After all we have gone through we are glad that he (Huntsman) at least didn’t make us go through a trial.'
Huntsman will be sentenced on October 3, where he is expected to get 16 months in prison followed by five years of probation.
He could have faced up to 10 years in prison but Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin said he would impose the shorter term but Huntsman's lawyer can still argue for a lesser term.
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This photograph near the North Pole was taken in late April of 1999. There was still plenty of ice at the north pole then - it's about 4 m thick. Perhaps you've heard reports that there was no ice at the North Pole on one day this summer when a tourist ship was able to cruise all of the way to the pole. In a normal summer, only about 90% of the ice north of 80 degrees north latitude is ice-covered. Large fractures or leads always occur each year when the ice deteriorates as summer progresses. The motion of the winds and the force of the ocean currents play a big role in determining where and when the ice opens up. So water at the pole may be a matter of happenstance and may not in itself be a source of concern.
Since the 1970s, the extent of the Arctic sea ice has been retreating about 1/4 of 1% per year based on analyses of satellite observations made by Claire Parkinson, Don Cavalieri, Per Gloersen, Joey Comiso and Jay Zwally at Goddard Space Flight Center. It should be mentioned that when the Arctic sea ice melts in summer, sea level doesn't rise. The sea ice is already floating on water and is in equilibrium with it. The concern, though, is that sea ice plays an important role in controlling climate, and the amount of open water and ice affects how much energy is absorbed and reflected back to space. With more open water, more energy would be absorbed by the water and less reflected back to space. Consequently, temperatures would be expected to increase even more.
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|Publication number||US5303061 A|
|Application number||US 07/894,923|
|Publication date||Apr 12, 1994|
|Filing date||Jun 8, 1992|
|Priority date||Jun 18, 1991|
|Publication number||07894923, 894923, US 5303061 A, US 5303061A, US-A-5303061, US5303061 A, US5303061A|
|Inventors||Tokikazu Matsumoto, Fumiaki Koga, Hiromu Kitaura, Takashi Inoue, Nobuyuki Ogawa|
|Original Assignee||Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (16), Classifications (7), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to a time base corrector, used with an image reproducing system such as a video disc player, in which a video signal is sampled to be digitized and the jitter of the video signal is removed.
A time base corrector (TBC) for removing the change in time base (jitter) of a video signal, used with a video disc and a VTR, is heretofore realized by sampling the video signal with a clock following the jitter of the video signal to write the resultant signal to a memory. At this time, the clock is generated using an analog VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) which is controlled by a PLL (phase locked loop). As an example for performing the full digital processing with PLL including VCO, as described in JP-A-2-58947, there is known a method in which a clock of low frequency is generated with a digital VCO, and the clock thus generated is multiplied by a frequency of a fixed oscillator to perform the frequency conversion to obtain a clock having a predetermined frequency. In this case, however, jitter is generated in the clock due an unnecessary frequency component which was produced during the processing, and the video signal is processed with that clock, and therefore, the jitter is also generated in the video signal. As a result, in the case where the video signal includes a carrier chrominance signal, there arises a problem in that a beat is generated in a chrominance signal.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for rejecting a time base error of a video signal in which no beat is generated in a chrominance signal.
It is another object of the present invention to provide means for generating a clock for a time base corrector with a digital processing.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a time base corrector which is capable of coping with both the NTSC system and the PAL system by utilizing only one fixed oscillator.
The above objects can be attained in the following manner. Specifically, a video signal including a carrier chrominance signal is sampled by sampling means using a clock which is generated through the digital processing. The clock is obtained in such a way that two outputs of two oscillators of which the lower frequency is (n+1/4)·fH (where n is an arbitrary integer and fH is a horizontal synchronizing signal frequency of the video signal) are multiplied by each other through a multiplier, and only one of an upper side wave and a lower side wave of spectra of the output of the multiplier is filtered through a band pass filter.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3A to 3C are spectrum diagrams showing spectra of a clock generated by the first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a third embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5A to 5D are spectrum diagrams showing spectra of a clock generated by the third embodiment of the present invention.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described on referring to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an apparatus for processing a video signal in the first embodiment of the present invention. An input video signal is sampled by sampling means 1 to be written to an FIFO memory 2. When the following processings are to be digitally performed, an A/D converter is used as the sampling means 1. The FIFO memory 2 is a memory wherein a fixed capacity is provided and the data is read out in sequence from the data written earlier. Thus, in the FIFO memory 2, a write clock and a read clock are operated independently of each other. The write clock for each of the sampling means and the FIFO memory 2 is supplied by generating a clock locked in a carrier chrominance signal, for example, of the input video signal through a PLL circuit 3. Therefore, since even if the input signal contains jitter, the input signal is written to the FIFO memory 2 by the clock synchronized with the jitter, if that signal is read out by a clock having a fixed frequency, it is possible to obtain a video signal free from the jitter.
In the present invention, the read clock is generated by the combination of oscillators 4 and 5, and an EX-OR (exclusive OR) circuit 6 acting as a multiplier 7. The principle thereof will be explained on referring to FIG. 3. For example, it is assumed that the frequency of the oscillator 4 is lower than that of the oscillator 5, and the frequency of the oscillator 4 is f4 and that of the oscillator 5 is f5. At this time, the relationship of f4=(n+1/4)fH is established. FIG. 3(a) shows spectra of those frequencies. Next, if the two frequencies are multiplied by each other through the multiplier 7, the frequency component having a frequency of (f5-f4) and that having a frequency of (f5+f4) are produced as shown in FIG. 3(b). The frequency difference of the two components is (f5+f4)-(f5-f4), i.e., 2·f4. Then, by utilizing the above relationship, 2·f4=(2·n+1/2)fH is established (refer to FIG. 3(b)). In other words, the frequency difference is expressed by lo the horizontal synchronizing signal times the sum of the integer plus one over two, i.e., the relationship of the so-called 1/2 line offset. At this time, the frequency 4 times as large as that of the color subcarrier fsc, i.e., 4fsc is, for example, selected as the frequency of the component of higher frequency. If this frequency component is filtered through the band pass filter 8, the signal of 4fsc frequency is obtained (refer to FIG. 3(b)), and the resultant signal is used as the read clock for the FIFO memory 2.
According to the present embodiment, even if the cut-off characteristics of the band pass filter 8 are poor so that a little amount of lower side wave component of (f5-f4) frequency remains, the 1/2 line offset is applied to the clock of 4 fsc frequency. Therefore, the line offset is also applied to the harmful component which is present in the form of phase change between the video signal read out from the FIFO memory 2 and the carrier chrominance signal. That component is a color oblique line on the picture of the television. In this connection, the detection limit of the eye to the oblique line is low and thus that component is not remarkable at all.
In other words, there is provided the feature in that even if a filter which is low in cost and has slightly poor cut-off characteristics is used as the band pass filter 8, the chrominance signal is not hindered.
Next, the second embodiment of the present invention will be described on referring to FIG. 2. A video signal which was inputted is, in the same manner as in the first embodiment, sampled by sampling means 10 to be written to an FIFO memory 11. The write clock is supplied by generating a clock synchronizing with the input video signal in a clock PLL circuit 12. At this time, the PLL circuit 12 has an input connected to the output of the sampling means and is operated in such a way as to synchronize with the burst signal and the horizontal synchronizing signal of the input video signal. However, since the phase error can be detected from those signals only every 1H (H is a horizontal synchronizing period of time), the circuit 12 cannot respond to rapid jitter of the input signal. Then, the error component which remains due to no response in the circuit 12 is removed in such a way that when accessing to the FIFO memory 11 for the read operation, the phase of the read clock is shifted and the feed forward control is performed. This method is heretofore called the velocity error correction. The present embodiment has the feature in which the shift of the clock phase can be digitally controlled. The method thereof will hereinbelow be explained.
In the present embodiment, the output from a variable phase oscillator 15 and that from a fixed oscillator 24 are multiplied by each other in a multiplier 23 employing an EX-OR 22, and one side band of the output of the multiplier 23 is filtered through a band pass filter 25 so that the resultant signal is used as the read clock for the FIFO memory 11. At this time, by controlling the phase of the output of the variable phase oscillator 15 through a control circuit 13, the phase of the read clock for the FIFO memory 11 which was obtained in the form of output of the band pass filter 25 is shifted.
Further, the operation of the variable phase oscillator 15 will be explained in detail. The variable phase oscillator 15 is made up of a data generating circuit 14 for generating data corresponding to the oscillating frequency, an adder 16, and a D flip flop 17 for generating data of saw-tooth-wave on the basis of that data, and an adder 18 for shifting the phase of the saw-tooth-wave data. The output from the adder 16 is fed to the D flip flop circuit 17 and then fed back to the input of the adder 16. By the provision of this configuration, the input data is accumulated every one clock. Since when the accumulated value exceeds the dynamic range of the adder 16, an overflow occurs, the output data is changed in the saw-tooth-wave shape. The frequency of the saw-tooth-wave is proportional to an input value x to the adder 16 and the clock frequency of the D flip flop 17. Now, assuming that the dynamic range of the adder 16 is D, and the clock frequency of the D flip flop 17, i.e., the oscillating frequency of the fixed oscillator 24 is fck, the oscillating frequency per input data is expressed by x·fck/D. Therefore, the oscillating frequency when the input data is x becomes x·fck/D.
Next, the description will be given using concrete values. It is assumed that the adder 16 is constructed by a 9-bit adder, and the oscillating frequency of the fixed oscillator 24 is 893.75fH. That is, D=512 and fck=893.75fH are assumed. Moreover, if x=9+17/55, the oscillating frequency of the variable phase oscillator 15 is given by (9+17/55)·893.75fH/512, i.e., 16.25fH. How to set x will be explained later. By adding the output of the control circuit 13 to the saw-tooth-wave data having a frequency of 16.25fH, the phase can be shifted. Since the adder 16 has 9 bits, 512 corresponds to the phase of 360 degrees. Therefore, if the data is added by 1 through the adder 18, the phase of 360/512=0.73125 degrees can be shifted. Next, if only the most significant bit of the output of the adder 18 is taken out, since this signal is a rectangular wave having an oscillating frequency of 16.25fH, it can be analogically multiplied by the output of the fixed oscillator 24 using the EX-OR 22. Since the oscillating frequency of the fixed oscillator 24 is 893.75fH, two frequency components, i.e., the component having a frequency of 893.75fH+16.25fH=910fH and the component having a frequency of 893.75fH-16.25fH=877.5fH are produced as the output of the EX-OR 22. Then, only the frequency component of 910fH frequency is filtered through the band pass filter 25 to be used as the clock. At this time, even if with the characteristics of the band pass filter 25 are somewhat poor so that a little amount of component of 877.5fH frequency remains, since the difference therebetween is 32.5fH and the 1/2 line offset is applied as described in the first embodiment, the chrominance signal is not remarkably hindered at all.
Next, how to set x will be explained in detail. In order to perform the operation as has already been described, it is necessary to set a value including a decimal part such as x=9+17/55. Then, x is divided into an integer part a and a decimal part b. In other words, in this case, a=9 and b=17/55. The data generating circuit 14 serves to generate such data. With respect to a, the data generating circuit 14 gives the integer value directly to the adder 16. In this case, the integer value is 9. With respect to b, the data train in which the seventeen data of 1 is included in the fifty five data is generated by a decimal part generating circuit 27 to be given to a carrier input of the adder 16. That is, with respect to b, the data having an average of 17/55 is given.
The data train in which the seventeen data of 1 is included in the fifty five data can be generated in the following manner for example. The adder 16 and the D flip flop 17 are similarly combined. In this connection, the dynamic range of the adder 16 is set to 55. Then, if 17 is sequentially added to the input to be accumulated, the overflow occurs in the additions of 55 times by 17 times. That is, the desired data is provided at MSB (the most significant bit) of the output of the adder 16. In general, however, except the case of 2 to the n-th power, the construction of the adder having the dynamic range is complicated. Then, in the present embodiment, when the output of the adder 20 is fed back thereto with being delayed by one clock through the D flip flop 19, the output of the adder 20 is compared with a fixed value in a comparison circuit 26, and when the output is larger than the fixed value, a fixed value generating circuit 21 is switched so that a different value is added, whereby the generation of the data train is realized by the adder for 2 to the n-th power.
The description will be given using concrete values. It is assumed that the two values switched by the fixed value generating circuit 21 are d1=17 and d2=26 and the comparison circuit 26 is controlled in such a way that when the data is more than or equal to 38, the switch circuit 21 selects d2, and when the data is less than 38, the circuit 21 selects d1. As a result, the adder 20 overflows when the accumulated value becomes equivalently 55. When the out ut of the D flip flop 19 is 38 for example, d1 (i.e., 17) is added in the adder 20 and of which output becomes temporarily 38+17=44. However, the next moment, the input of the adder 20 is switched to d2=26, and the output becomes 38+26=64. As a result, the adder 20 overflows so that its output becomes zero. That is, if the output exceeds 55, the overflow occurs. Thus, an arbitrary overflow (55, in this case) can be realized by the adder for 2 to the n-th power.
By the provision of the above configuration, the chrominance signal can be prevented from being hindered, and the velocity error correction can be realized accurately by the digital processing.
Next, the third embodiment of the present invention will be explained in detail on referring to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an apparatus for processing a video signal in the third embodiment of the present invention. The difference in configuration of the present embodiment from the second embodiment is that a band pass filter 27 and a switch circuit 28 are additionally provided. The present embodiment is effective in the case where an second embodiment is made to correspond to both the NTSC system and the PAL system. The basic operation of the present embodiment is the same as that of the second embodiment except that the read clock of the FIFO memory 11 is selected in correspondence to the NTSC system and the PAL system by switching the output of the band pass filter 27 and that of the band pass filter 25 through the switch circuit 28. In the case where the present embodiment is applied to the laser disc player, it is advantageous that as the frequency of the sampling clock, 910fHn is used in the case of NTSC and 960fHp is used in the case of PAL. Then, fHn represents the frequency of the horizontal synchronizing signal of the NTSC system, and fHp represents the frequency of the horizontal synchronizing signal of the PAL system. In the case of the NTSC system, 910fHn is 4 times as large as the frequency of the subcarrier, and in the case of the PAL system, 960fHp is 4 times as large as the frequency of the pilot burst signal of the laser disc player. For this reason, such frequencies are selected.
The explanation will hereinbelow be given to the generation of the clock frequency with respect to NTSC and PAL, as just described above, on referring to FIG. 5. FIGS. 5(a) and 5(b) are spectrum diagrams each showing an oscillating frequency f5 of the fixed oscillator 24 and an oscillating frequency f4 of the variable phase oscillator 15. Moreover, FIGS. 5(b) and 5(d) are spectrum diagrams each showing frequencies of the output of the multiplier 23. If (21+27/112)fHn is selected as f4 and (910fHn+f4) is selected as f5 in the case of the NTSC system, the frequency of the lower side wave of the output of the multiplier 23 becomes 910fHn as shown in FIG. 5(b). In this case, the band pass filter 27 for filtering a signal of 910fHn frequency is selected by the switch circuit 28. If (22+19/77)fHp is selected as f4 and (960fHp+f4) is selected as f5 in the case of the PAL system, the frequency of the upper side wave of the output of the multiplier 23 becomes 960fHp as shown in FIG. 5(d). In this case, the band pass filter 25 for filtering a signal of 960fHp frequency is selected by the switch 28.
The reason for selecting such frequencies as f4 is based on the following respects.
(1) The absolute frequency of f5 in the case of NTSC is equal to that of f5 in the case of PAL.
Since the frequency of the fixed oscillator 24 in the case of NTSC is equal to that of the fixed oscillator 24 in the case of PAL from this condition, for example, only one kind of quartz oscillator may be provided.
(2) f4 is near the 1/4 line offset as much as possible.
Although the reason for selecting the 1/4 line offset was described in the second embodiment, there is no condition for fulfilling the condition (1) by a numeric value of just 1/4. However, if a numeric value is sufficiently near 1/4, there can be obtained the same effect as in the second embodiment.
It will hereinbelow be shown that f4 fulfills the condition (1). It is well known that with respect to fHn and fHp, the following condition is fulfilled. That is, 858fHn=864fHp=13.5 MHz is established. In other words, fHn is 13.5/858 MHz and fHp is 13.5/864 MHz.
Accordingly, the expression of f5 (931+27/112)×13.5/858=(938-19/17)×13.5/864= 14.6523945 MHz is established. Incidentally, the integer part a and the decimal part generating circuit in the data generating circuit 14 for generating f4 as described above may be set in the same manner as in the second embodiment. As for the concrete value, if the adder 20 has 9 bits, a=11 and the average of the decimal part is 5443/8023 in the case of NTSC, while a=12 and the average of the decimal part is 3524/24069 in the case of PAL.
As set forth hereinabove, according to the present invention, the read clock that is used when the data which was written to the FIFO memory 2 using the clock synchronizing with the video signal is read out is obtained in such a way that the outputs of the two oscillators 4 and 5 for oscillating respective signals of which lower frequency is (n+1/4)·fH are multiplied by each other and one of the resultant side bands is filtered through the band pass filter 8, whereby it is possible to realize the apparatus for processing a video signal in which the chrominance signal is free from the hindrance and which is simple in configuration.
Moreover, in the present invention, in order to digitally process the velocity error correction with accuracy, the fixed oscillator 24 and the variable phase oscillator 15 which is operated with the output of the fixed oscillator 24 as the clock are combined with each other to generate the read clock for the FIFO memory 11, whereby it is possible to realize the apparatus for rejecting a time base error of a video signal of which chrominance signal is free from the hindrance and which is capable of responding to even the rapid jitter.
Further, the present invention can cope with both the NTSC system and the PAL system, and can also cope therewith with a fixed oscillator oscillating the same frequency with respect both the systems. Thus, it is possible to simplify the circuit.
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A quickly growing homeless population amidst rising living expenses prompts the citizens of Fayetteville Arkansas to march from the homeless shelter to City Hall, a mile-long walk that many homeless must do every day.
Olivia’s Basketis one family’s effort to turn their tragedy into hope for others across the U.S./Mexico border. After the tragic death of their youngest daughter Olivia, John and Jane Ray of Fayetteville, Arkansas, started this nonprofit organization that funds and builds houses for homeless families just across the border. Each year, they take a group of high school students from Northwest Arkansas and drive all the way to Tijuana. Not only are these families provided a home, the students that build it for them learn problem solving, team building and cultural knowledge by crossing mental and physical barriers to help others.


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The infiltration of T-lymphocytes in the stroma and tumour is an indication of an effective immune response against the tumour, resulting in better survival. In this study, our aim was to explore the prognostic significance of tumour-associated stroma infiltrating lymphocytes (TASILs) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) through an AI-based automated method. A deep learning-based automated method was employed to segment tumour, tumour-associated stroma, and lymphocytes in digitally scanned whole slide images of HNSCC tissue slides. The spatial patterns of lymphocytes and tumour-associated stroma were digitally quantified to compute the tumour-associated stroma infiltrating lymphocytes score (TASIL-score). Finally, the prognostic significance of the TASIL-score for disease-specific and disease-free survival was investigated using the Cox proportional hazard analysis. Three different cohorts of haematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained tissue slides of HNSCC cases (n = 537 in total) were studied, including publicly available TCGA head and neck cancer cases. The TASIL-score carries prognostic significance (p = 0.002) for disease-specific survival of HNSCC patients. The TASIL-score also shows a better separation between low- and high-risk patients compared with the manual tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) scoring by pathologists for both disease-specific and disease-free survival. A positive correlation of TASIL-score with molecular estimates of CD8 + T cells was also found, which is in line with existing findings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to automate the quantification of TASILs from routine H&E slides of head and neck cancer. Our TASIL-score-based findings are aligned with the clinical knowledge, with the added advantages of objectivity, reproducibility, and strong prognostic value. Although we validated our method on three different cohorts (n = 537 cases in total), a comprehensive evaluation on large multicentric cohorts is required before the proposed digital score can be adopted in clinical practice.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
This study was supported by Medical Research Council UK grant number MR/P015476/1.
© 2021 The Authors. The Journal of Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
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- head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
- machine learning
- survival analysis
- tumour-associated stroma
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Indication of the shrinking atmosphere above Tromso (69°N, 19°E)
Hall, C. M. and Cannon, P. S., 2001. Indication of the shrinking atmosphere above Tromso (69°N, 19°E). Atmospheric Science Letters, Royal Meteorological Society
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Cthulhu will be so proud of this entertaining tadpole of an anthology.
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Let’s take a trip to fair Carcosa, where your voice is unheard and you die unsung.
Here’s a sequel that is in every way far less exciting and interesting than the previous story. Seriously, who thought this will be a good idea?

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This post will examine the relatively extensive experiments conducted by Tricia Robertson and Archie Roy. In some ways, these are the best I know of. But I’m getting ahead of myself, for they were of to a rather shaky start.
Archie Roy is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy from Glasgow University (Emeritus means that he is retired). He has had an interest in the paranormal for several decades and was president of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) from 1993-1995. Tricia Robertson is a past president of the Scottish SPR (SSPR) but I don’t know that she has mainstream qualifications.
The First Article
In 2001 they published the first paper that will interest us here. Interestingly, the results are presented not as evidence of mediums but as a test of “the sceptical hypothesis that the statements made by mediums to recipients are so general that they could as readily be accepted by non-recipients.“
To do so they conducted a “two-year study involving 10 mediums, 44 recipients and 407 non-recipients “. That’s really awesome in many ways. They really spent time and effort on this and they don’t even claim proof of mediumship. Compare that to the junk that Gary Schwartz has produced!
Unfortunately, despite all that the study is scientifically worthless. A complete waste of time and effort.
The first problem is obviously that no half-way knowledgable skeptic actually claims that. The second problem is that the experiment was carried out so badly that no conclusions are possible. It is indeed a maximally shaky start.
What they did
They assembled an audience and then had a medium perform a reading for one of the people in that audience. The reading was then broken down into individual items. All subjects (the entire audience), including the intended recipient of the reading, then rated these items as applicable to themselves or not.
This then allows them to determine if the recipient endorsed more items as applicable then the non-recipients. Which would mean that they found the reading as a whole more applicable. It also allows them to deduce how specific an item was. If many people say that an items applies to them it is quite general, if few, or just one, say so then it is specific.
They develop a fairly complicated method to statistically evaluate the readings based on both the number and the specificity of the accepted statements but we needn’t concern ourselves with the details now.
The First Problem
Now we face the first problem. What they test is if the entire reading is so general that it could be accepted by anyone. Yet, if we actually look at the literature on how to fake such readings we learn that this is only part of the art. An accomplished “faker” (actually, many mentalists, like magicians, are quite upfront about their use of trickery) will use any means at his or her disposal to tailor his or her statements specifically to the client.
But all right. Just because no one actually believes a certain hypothesis to be true, does not mean that it shouldn’t be tested. It just means that falsifying it is as exciting as finding that water is not dry.
This gets us to problem number two.
The Second Problem
Now it’s time to ask ourselves what results we would expect from the experiment, depending on whether the hypothesis is true or not.
If the medium makes statements that are true only for the recipient and for few or no others then we would find that the intended recipients accept more statements than non-recipients. Obvious.
But what if the medium only makes statements that are true for most or every one of the subjects?
We would expect exactly the same result. This is counter-intuitive but supported by ample psychological research. Such phenomena are called Barnum effect, illusory correlation, confirmation bias and a number of other names. It’s not necessary to go into detail now. Suffice it to say that Robertson and Roy will be able to confirm this expectation in a later experiment.
This simply means that the experiment did not test the hypothesis it was supposed to test. In fact, I don’t think any conclusion can be drawn from the data so collected. 2 years of research, 451 participants and all for nothing.
The Second Article
Others would have dug in, insisted on their worthless research and ranted about closed-minded skeptics. Robertson and Roy set out to make amends. A few months later they published a protocol for a new experiment that was supposed to demonstrate mediumship under conditions eliminating all ordinary, skeptical explanations.
Publishing the protocol in advance enabled them to take criticism into account before carrying out the experiments. Indeed, the experimental design found in their 3rd and last paper was improved over this one.
Basically, it is quite similar to the one in the first article except that the audience doesn’t learn for who the reading is and the medium performs in a separate room so that he or she does not get any usable clues.
I won’t bore you, dear readers, with the minutiae but as far as I can tell, in this final, rigorous protocol, skeptics would not expect the intended recipient to accept more statements in a reading than anyone else.
The Third Article
The third and final article in the series was published in 2004. It presents data collected in 13 sessions that took place over 2 and a half years. They involved some 300 participants and 10 mediums giving 73 readings.
However, few of the experiments conducted actually followed the rigorous protocol they took so much care designing. Ostensibly the reason for this is to assess other factors that may influence subject’s acceptance or rejection of statements but there is not much in the way of analysis of such factors. There’s not even a complete table with results to allow readers to perform their own analyses. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
One thing that they did find was that misleading the subjects on who the intended recipient is, really does affect the results. As I’ve said previously, psychology leads us to expect that someone who believes that a reading is intended for him or her will rate it as more applicable than someone who believes it is for someone else. This expectation was found to be true, confirming that the experiment presented in the first article was indeed a waste of time.
Despite the ample evidence that psychology has amassed that lead us to expect this, it is good to have it confirmed. The situation is not exactly the same as in the standard experiments demonstrating the relevant cognitive biases. This leaves a slight possibility that these biases are not operating under the conditions in which Robertson and Roy studied mediumship.
Now what about the results to the rigorous protocol. That’s, after all, the supposed main point of the exercise. I’m not sure how to put this but… they aren’t there. Yes. Seriously.
We never learn how mediums did under conditions precluding normal explanations.
All right, this needs some more explanation.
There is a lot of analysis presented in the article but it’s almost all completely pointless filler. The results come from experiments that differed in crucial design aspects. In principle, this allows one to determine if a variable factor correlates with greater mediumistic success. However, such analyses are almost completely absent with the notable exception mentioned.
Instead the results from these different experimental conditions are pooled without any reason being given or even inferable. Such pooled results are also compared with other pooled results, even though there is nothing to be learned from that. It’s just weird and bizarre. I can only conclude they don’t really have anything to report that they want to report and so stuff the paper with filler.
The reviewers seriously failed in not demanding that the analyses be cleaned up and all the results reported.
An Abstract Untruth
So where does the supposed main result come from that they report in the abstract?
Due to the design of the experiments the results cannot be due to normal factors such as body language and verbal response. The probability that the results are due to chance is one in a million.
In context one would be lead to believe that these results are actually the results of the rigorous protocol that was so much talked about. One would be wrong.
Indeed these results come from pooling data from several different experimental conditions. That includes the rigorous protocol but also data from experiments where normal factors operate. For one, the bias of the subjects introduced by whether they belief the reading to be for them or not. There are also other factors which might conceivably have influenced the result but one is enough.
To make this clear, if I have results that indicate that something is going on and I combine them with other data then the combination should also indicate something going on because that’s the case, even if there’s nothing in the added data.
In a very strict sense the quoted statement is true. The mentioned factors do not operate, different factors do. It is merely completely misleading in context.
Clearly Robertson and Roy confirmed one skeptical explanation despite their protestations. Moreover, all results that they report have ordinary, conventional explanations. Speculating about paranormal effects is not justified.
I personally believe that the results of the rigorous protocol must have been negative or else they would surely have been reported.
As such, I consider Robertson and Roy’s work the best evidence against mediumship obtained in modern times.
I also think that the misleading nature of their last article was not intentional. I think they just couldn’t face up to the results. Although, the fact that Tricia Robertson has threatened to sue people who claim that they fixed or rigged the result does not speak of a clean conscience. Not that I see why anyone would claim that, given that the available results are so ordinary.
Robertson, T. J. and Roy, A. E. (2001) A preliminary study of the acceptance by non-recipients of mediums’ statements to recipients. JSPR Vol 65.2
Roy, A. E. and Robertson, T. J. (2001) A double-blind procedure for assessing the relevance of a medium’s statements to a recipient. JSPR 65.3
Robertson, T. J. and Roy, A. E. (2004) Results of the application of the Robertson-Roy Protocol to a series of experiments with mediums and participants. JSPR 68.1
JSPR, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, can be accessed via Lexscien. Skeptical minds, interested in double-checking my work, can do so for free by signing up for a free trial.
Tricia Robertson on critics: “I am aware that critics will say the tests were somehow rigged. But, rest assured, we could not have been more scientific in the way this was carried out. If anyone claims it is fixed or rigged, we would sue.”

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Scientists have made a rare discovery from over 500 million years ago that provides new information on how a record of the past was perfectly preserved by nature.
Geologists at the University of Leicester have found that pyrite - or fools gold - replaced soft tissues, thereby preserving animals to their smallest details for posterity.
Dr Sarah Gabbott and colleagues, of the University of Leicester Department of Geology, found creatures with the very hairs on their legs preserved and, in some cases, the contents of their last meals could be identified in the guts of animals. Details of how pyrite preserves these ancient creatures were published this month in Geology, published by the Geological Society of America.
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Comoros has become the 54th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force on 22 January. It deposited its instrument of ratification with the UN secretary-general on 19 February 2021, following the approval by its parliament in December 2020.
Comoros has promoted universal adherence to the treaty, including by consistently voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”.
It has said that the treaty “plays an important role in strengthening global standards against the use, proliferation, and possession of nuclear weapons by any state”.
In September 2020, the Comorien foreign ministry and the Association SALAM, an ICAN partner organisation, co-hosted a workshop in the country’s capital, Moroni, to brief members of parliament about the treaty.
Azali Assoumali, the president of Comoros, signed the treaty when it opened for signature on 20 September 2017. In an address to the United Nations the same week, he called on nuclear-armed states “to abandon their nuclear weapons programmes”.


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This week the boys of HMP look back to the year 2005 with SIN CITY, written and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. Does this nearly straight from the comic adaptation still hold up a decade later- or have the boys of HMP become jaded? We answer this and so much more in this episode that was voted on my our Patreon supporters.
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