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The EU and the US criticize the lawsuit that led to the ousted Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi and over 100 other people were sentenced to death at the weekend.
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House Minority Whip Bradford Hill, United States District Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.), and Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian led a full capacity crowd in a lively debate of the pros and cons of the sentencing reform bills currently being negotiated by a Massachusetts legislative conference committee. Rep. Hill explained the evolution of “Melissa’s Bill,” which he introduced shortly after the murder of 27-year-old Melissa Gosule in 1999, from a California-type “three strikes” bill to a more narrowly tailored habitual offender provision targeted at the most violent offenders. Others questioned whether even a more narrow provision will reduce crime or just exacerbate prison overcrowding.
Falso amigo, Juliano (Igreja Pr. Antonio Floriano, Newark NJ)
Outubro 4 2009 Ministério Fé & Esperança Igreja do Evangelho Quadrangular
pastor Orlei de Souza. Newark NJ
Robinho de Jesus (aka robson souza), Dayse Barros (aka Dayse Salema),
On Sept 12, 2013; Pereira was found guilty of rape, he received a sentence of 15 years.
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It is rather unusual for a photographer, to be able to take photos of his assassin, before he is killed; or for that matter, for a photographer to take a series of photographs of the individual who later on, would place a murder contract on the photographer.
That is exactly the case with this photo series.
On Oct. 2009, I did a series of photos and videos of Brazilian Pastor, Marcos Pereira da Silva, who appears on most of the photos of this series, while he visited the NY-NJ Region in Oct., 2009.
Soon after, I decided to stop doing this work, because of many illegalities witnessed of Pereira da Silva.
Months later and until the present, Pereira da Silva, did place a murder contract on Branko, because of the information that Branko had acquired of Pereira's wrongdoings.
During the beginning of March 2012, several people have denounced Pereira da Silva in Brazil.
The charges are for child brutality, rape, killings, placing murder contracts on other individuals, etc.
One of his denouncers has called him, "one of the biggest criminal minds of Rio de Janeiro", and I, by my own experience, happen to agree.
On May 7 2013, Pastor Marcos Pereira, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
He is indicted for several rapes, some minors. He is also being investigated for Money Laundering for Drug Cartels, Conspiracy to commit several murders.
Several killers contracted by Pereira, continue trying to kill Branko to this date.
The FBI, Newark Police and Newark's US District Attorney's Office have done a Cover up of Pereira's Case in the US.
Branko
Esta serie fotografica, feita por Branko, do Pr. Marcos Pereira da Silva, foi feita na area de NY-NJ, em uma visita de Pereira da Silva aos USA, na area de NY-NJ em Out. 2009.
Depois de poucos dias, decidi suspender esta serie fotografica, porque descobri informação de Pereira da Silva, sobre ele fazer lavagem de dinheiro para narcotraficantes no Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Por causa disto, Pereira da Silva tem pago assassinos para me matar, desde o començo de 2010 ate o presente.
Recentemente, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; no mes de Março 2012, tem aparecido muitas denuncias contra Pereira da Silva, por estupro, violencia infantil, ameaça de morte.
Em Março 7 2013, Marcos Pereira foi preso por varios estupros, incluindo menores. Tambem tem uma investigação de Pereira fazer lavagem de dinheiro para traficantes, conspiração de Pereira em varios assassinatos.
Varios assassinos contratados por Pereira, continuam querendo matar Branko ate a presente data.
O FBI, Policia de Newark e o esritorio do Promotor do Governo nos US em Newark, tem feito um encobertamento do crimes de Pereira nos US e os atentados de assassinato de Pereira em contra de Branko nos US
Branko
Kenosha Deputy Frank Fabiano Jr's widow, Amy, wipes her eyes during memorial ceremony in front of the Kenosha Courthhouse. Fabiano's murder, Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Wilburn W. Warren III.
Today, 6 May 2021, Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") sentenced Dominic Ongwen to 25 years of imprisonment following the Trial Judgment in which the Chamber found him guilty for a total of 61 crimes comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. The period of his detention between 4 January 2015 and 6 May 2021, will be deducted from the total time of imprisonment imposed on him. The sentence may be appealed before the ICC Appeals Chamber by either party to the proceedings.
Ferrara appears first in a document of the Lombard king Desiderius of 753 when he captured the town from the Exarchate of Ravenna. Later the Franks, after routing the Lombards, presented Ferrara to the Papacy in 754. In 988 Ferrara was ceded by the Church to the House of Canossa, but at the death of Matilda of Tuscany in 1115, it became a free commune. During the 12th century, the history of the town was marked by the wrestling for power between the Guelph Adelardi and the Ghibelline Salinguerra families. The Ghibellines won and in 1264 Obizzo II d'Este was proclaimed lifelong ruler of Ferrara. His rule marked the end of the communal period in Ferrara and the beginning of the Este rule, which lasted until 1598.
Girolamo Savonarola was born here in 1452. He was an Italian Dominican friar and a rebellious preacher active in Renaissance Florence. His flaming speeches against the depravity of the ruling classes were cheered by large sections of the people. In 1495, Pope Alexander VI forbade Savonarola to continue preaching, but soon after he denounced the abuses in the church again. In February 1497, Savonarola had crowds of youths and children ("fanciulli") parade through Florence, confiscating "in the name of Christ" everything that could be interpreted as a symbol of human depravity. This included paintings, jewelry, cosmetics, mirrors, secular musical instruments, playing cards, elaborately crafted furniture, and expensive clothing. In February 1498, all these items were burned on a huge pyre in Piazza della Signoria.
Already in May 1497, Savonarola had been excommunicated by Pope Alexander VI as a "heretic". When the Pope demanded that the magistrate Florence imprison Savavarola an enraged crowd dragged Savonarola from the monastery. He was imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death after confessing to the misdeeds with which he was charged. Before his execution, he recanted his confessions, but they falsified his trial record in this regard. Savonarola was finally hanged and then burned with two confreres in front of a huge crowd on 23 May 1498.
Martin Luther considered Savonarola to be a vital precursor to the Reformation.
Daruka Das showing the police the burrial site of Chakradhari's body. He agreed to reveal the location in exchange for a lighter sentence.
This is an important leaf from of Peter Lombard's Sentences produced in England c.1280. (See also Ref 73).
The text is perhaps from Distinction XIV of the book, as the second rubric on the verso seems to refer to Chapter 77 of the book (Chapter 4 of that Distinction). Having said this, the other two rubrics are not easily recognisable as referring to Chapters 76 and 78 and it is not known what the long text on the recto is.
The size of the leaf, including repair, is 326mm x 219mm (12 8/10ins. x 8 6/10ins.).
Many letters in the top and bottom lines with calligraphic extensions, most highlighted in red and five of which include dragon's heads.
The text seems to have been proof read, as there are instances where omissions have been identified and noted in the margin (example - line 15, right column, recto). There are also instances where the original text has been removed and replaced (example - line 52, left column, recto).
This leaf is quite well glossed. There are two glosses in bright red, the longer of which translates as "Here begins the permitted authorities that are explained". Other glosses in at least four different hands can be identified.
CONDITION OF LEAF: -
The leaf must have fallen away from the book at some time and then repaired so that it could be re-attached. Otherwise it is in very good condition for its age.
PROVENANCE: -
This information has been provided by Dr. Christopher de Hamel, Librarian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
1.From a volume consisting of Books III-IV only of which this is the last leaf written in England about 1280;
2.Edward Walmsley, whose library was sold in London in 1795 (his signature in the bottom line of the outside column of text [mentioned in the 1980 catalogue description];
3.The manuscript was already imperfect by 1910 when a leaf was given by J.F.Lewis to the Free Library in Philadelphia (now Lewis fragment XIII:373);
4.Another leaf was owned in the late 1950's by the late Marquess of Cholomondley, who bequeathed it to the Society for Italic Handwriting, which still owns it;
5.Most of the volume, including the present leaf, was owned by Nell and Charles Wheeler (their sale, New York, 29th. July 1919, lot 593);
6.Purchased by the calligrapher C.L. Ricketts (and described in his possession by S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance MSS in the United States and Canada, I, 1935, p.646, No. 185, mentioning Ed. Walmsley [copy of entry attached to Ins. No. 73];
7.Sold at Parke Bennett in New York, 24th. February 1939, lot 280, for $100;
8.Re-appeared, still bound, at Sotheby's, London, 24th. June 1980, lot 59 (cat. description attached to Ins. No. 73);
9.Already broken up by late 1980 (see Sotheby's 14th. July 1981, lot 17 [cat. description attached to Ins. No. 73] ).
There is a leaf in Keio University Library, Tokyo, MS. 177, and the historiated initial for the opening of Book III, showing the Annunciation, was illustrated in A.M.W. As-Vijvers, Miniaturen en Monnikenwerk, 1999, p.57, no. 27, with colour plate.
GENERAL COMMENTS: -
Whilst not in perfect condition, this is a leaf of the greatest interest being from a book that was "the fundamental book of all medieval theology" (Bernard Quaritch). The book was written in the 12th. Century by Peter Lombard whilst he was professor at the cathedral school in Notre Dame in Paris.
It is a good example of the way that university textbooks were laid out - wide margins - as evidenced here by the wideness of the outside and bottom margins. They were made so to enable the student to write his notes about the text, the "Gloss".
Today, 6 May 2021, Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") sentenced Dominic Ongwen to 25 years of imprisonment following the Trial Judgment in which the Chamber found him guilty for a total of 61 crimes comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. The period of his detention between 4 January 2015 and 6 May 2021, will be deducted from the total time of imprisonment imposed on him. The sentence may be appealed before the ICC Appeals Chamber by either party to the proceedings.
Ishwar noi bolei sansar kori
chhaposa manus hoye
manuser mazhe
gachhpala goruchhagol
manuser sathe
godhuli batase aj jeno holir mela
akashete chhire khure katoshato rang -berong
-aro kato rong
athocho emon to kotha chhilona
kotha thakeo ba ki
tomay apon kore neya bujhte parlamna ajo
...bairer jhorjhonzha sob sohzhya hoy
talmatal ami
mataler moto monohsangjoger chesta kori
bishwasta haoar , sebok haoar
bhalobasar jogya haoar
bhalobasate bhoriye dite
bhalobasa tomar
doinondin khunte khaoa sansar o
mohanonde FM bajiye
chole jay vangarite chepe
anyadike joubon mete othe, bole
haari om haari om haari om haari
ami shudhu hisi kori
ardhek maneo janina tobu
motrochcharon o holo onek
sondhibadhya shabdogulo aro sondhi hoye
boba kannar moto gumriye othe
jibon
tumito onek bhalobesechho amay
ebare
mrittuchumbone shes karo sob
sob odhikar
11 FEB 12
I can almost hear the audible groans from the crowds, but I am not going to apologize for going out at midnight to purchase Breaking Dawn. I know its tweeny and a lot of people think its stupid...BUT and this is a huge BUT...
...I went to just buy the dvd and watch it. That's it. Let us rewind to Harry Potter Mania shall we. I sat by watching while my 20 something year old friends dressed up like middle schoolers in capes and robes and with wands and went around casting "spells" on people. I sat by while my friends went out to wait in line at 2 and 3 in the morning to see Star Wars. I had to endure having to run a corporate Harry Potter Halloween party at work where even older 40 and 50 somethings got drunk and passed out in ill fitting costumes. All I ever did was see Breaking Dawn in theaters, and then go out to buy the Dvd. That's it. This movie and the series is not everyone's cup o' tea. I get that. I don't like everything you like either, but people are so judgy. I don't swoon over the characters, I don't own any posters, and I only actually read the first and last book in the series. I just like the movie and I am the first to admit some in the series are flawed and weren't that great, but I still like it. Deal with it.
Anyway, today I am still feeling like crap and I easily regretted going out to get this because I was having trouble catching my breath. My lungs were in so much pain that putting a bra on and then putting on my seatbelt were super difficult. I felt like both were squeezing the air out of me like a balloon. I knew I was in trouble when my friend called as I was in line and I was having to take moments out to just finish sentences. So after I bought the movie I went home and immediately went to the sick couch. I took my meds and they knocked me out, but not before making me nauseous. I thought I was going to ralph right on the couch but the sleepy part of the meds put me right out before I could do or think anything. I woke up a few hours later and everything hurt. It was like, from lying in the position I was, put a lot of pressure on my lungs, so sitting up all of a sudden pulled my pain threshold. So I went back to the couch and started watching of all things, Teen Wolf. I know, WTF, but for some reason (I can't imagine what?!? :o) Netflix recommended the series to me so I figured I'd be locked up on the couch all day, might as well watch it...and it was surprisingly good. You wouldn't think something called Teen Wold would be any good, but much like the new genre of super hero movies, I think the show passed because they took up the subject matter with an heir of seriousness so what could have been easily cheesy, wasn't.
“One who knows the Mississippi, will promptly aver — not aloud, but to himself — that ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey; cannot save a shore which it has sentenced; cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over, and laugh at.” —Mark Twain
I have driven the road along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and Tensas Parish more times than I can count. My mother is from the small farming town of Newellton on the banks of Lake Saint Joseph. The lake is a shallow, hyacinth choked ox-bow. Once it was part of the main channel of the Mississippi but now it is a silted-in curve of still water surrounded by fecund, deltaic soil. The river is the whole, full reason for that place. Its annual floods, over millennia, left rich ground that drew planters like my Swayze and Netterville forbearers who arrived there in the late 1700′s having picked the losing the side of the Revolutionary War.
They made their new home in the piney knolls south of Natchez and called it Kingston in a final act of reference to their lost political cause then got down to the business of turning the primeval delta into a farming paradise. But like the Biblical paradise that fired their dreams of torment and salvation, their new home contained within it the seeds of its own destruction. The river had made the land and the river would do what it wanted with its creation. Later generations, having been turned out by the river in extreme fashion during the 1927 flood, joined with the rest of the country in trying to tame the Mississippi. The levees were raised and, it was hoped, that the power of the river that had given them so much had finally been harnessed to the will of man. As we now sit and watch the brown murk rise again it is impossible to not consider that the mighty current of nature is close to throwing off that harness and taking back ownership of the delta it made.
I heard a national radio commentator say yesterday that the Corp of Engineers was considering opening the Morganza Spillway to “save the city of Baton Rouge.” Could a more horrifying statement be constructed? Has it come to that? Is it so bad that this first city of the bluffs is in danger of being washed away? Back in the time of the first European exploration of this area the Istrouma Indians placed a gore smeared stick in the first bits of high ground along the Mississippi to mark the edge of their hunting grounds. The Istrouma knew the power of the river and the value of the land that stayed above its lapping current. And now we are prepared to open the spillway, the final war machine in our battle with the Mississippi, to save the city. What calamitous times we live in, what vanity and struggle to think ourselves free from the hazards of creation.
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Casey Anthony and her 2-year-old daughter of a court, Caylee death penalty for lying toinvestigators that was published Wednesday in jail.
Anthony on Thursday sentenced to four years in prison before, but he gets credit for time served and good behavior already was. She was almost three years in prison.
Although acquitted of murder and abuse of his two-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthonylied to investigators trying to find his daughter in July 2008 sentenced to four. He leftthe girl with her friends, Zanny does not leave a baby sitter for her daughter to receive a phone call from him on the Universal Studios theme park hidden in their work.
At the time of the missing girl in June 2008, Anthony, a mother of Caylee and Orlandoon the periphery, Anthony, George and Cindy Anthony parents lived. This was not the father of a child.
The Postcard
This is the reverse side of the Norris Modern Press postcard.
It was posted on Tuesday the 25th. June 1918.
The Military Execution of Walter Dossett
So what else happened on that day when Edie was enjoying herself on the Isle of Man?
You might not want to read on if you are easily upset.
Private Walter Dossett aged 22 from Sheffield was shot at dawn by a firing squad consisting of men from his own division.
Walter fought as a machine gunner from 1916 up until he went absent during the Ludendorff Offensive of 1918, and was sentenced to death.
The execution took place in the Ypres Salient. An ambulance drew up, and Walter was led out to a rifle range. He was bound to a chair, blindfolded, and shot.
British Military Execution Protocol
chrishobbs.com tells us that nearly all executions conducted by the British Army in the Great War more or less followed the pattern described below in this first-hand account:
'The officer had loaded the rifles, and had
left them laying on the ground at our position.
We were warned to fire straight, or we may
have to suffer the same fate.
The prisoner was taken out of a car (we saw
him get out, with a black cap over his head
and guarded) and placed on the other side
of a curtain.
If we did not kill him, the officer would have
to.
As soon as the curtain dropped (the prisoner
was tied to a chair five paces away from us,
a black mark over his heart) we got the order
to fire.
One blank and nine live rounds. It went off
as one. I did not have a blank. The prisoner
did not feel it. His body moved when we fired,
then the curtain went up. The firing squad
only saw him for a few minutes.
We went back to the Battalion Orderly Room
and got a big tumbler of rum each, and we
went back to our billets, ate, and went to bed.
We had the rest of the day off. It was a job I
never wanted'.
(from 'It Made You Think of Home', the journal of Deward Barnes, CEF, on the execution of Private Harold Lodge on the 13th. March 1918).
Chris Hobbs goes on to say that even though the rate of desertion was over 4 times higher in the UK, no soldier was ever executed for desertion at home.
This was because executions abroad could be largely covered up by the Military, whereas any conducted in the UK would have provoked riots. This was especially the case after the futile loss of life that occurred during the Somme Offensive of 1916.
A Typical Execution
The condemned private spends his last night in a small room, alone with his thoughts before his execution at dawn. He might be writing painful letters to family and friends. He is also likely to be encouraged to drink heavily in order to be insensible during execution. The private is guarded by two military policemen (MPs or redcaps) and ministered by a chaplain.
The condemned man’s commanding officer (CO) orders a company of men to witness the execution, wanting to set an example to other would-be deserters. Meanwhile a firing squad assembles, sick with nerves, in the dawn light. Some of the men know the condemned and have mixed feelings about his fate, some even carrying deep resentment at having to execute him. Their rifles have been pre-loaded—one with a blank—to take some of the individual responsibility away from shooting their fighting pal.
The condemned man is led, blind drunk, to a post by two redcaps, his hands tied behind his back. The lieutenant waits at the side of the shooting party, with a medical officer (MO). The lieutenant (Lt.) gives the order to shoot the prisoner. Some deliberately shoot wide. Two of the men vomit on the spot. The MO checks the prisoner over and concludes that the private is mortally wounded, but not dead. The young lieutenant, with shaky hands, administers the coup de grâce: a bullet to the head.
A military ambulance stands by to take the corpse off to be buried. That same evening the battalion colonel writes a letter to the private’s parents informing them that their son has been shot at the front. He leaves the message deliberately ambiguous, sparing the man’s family any difficult feelings about his execution.
Posthumous Pardons
The 'Shot at Dawn' Memorial in Alrewas, Staffordshire, originally contained the names of 306 men who were executed for 'cowardice' or 'desertion'.
With many now recognised as having been suffering from mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, these men were posthumously pardoned by Royal Assent in November 2006.
The Staffordshire memorial was created to honour their sacrifices, along with all those who died in combat fighting for the British Empire during the Great War.
200,000 serving soldiers were officially court-martialled by the British High Command during the Great War.
Of these, 20,000 were found guilty of offences that carried the death penalty. 3,000 officially received it, although most of these sentences were subsequently commuted.
In the end, of the 3,000, 346 executions were carried out by firing squad.
Now, of the 40 names left off the Shot at Dawn Memorial, three have been added, thanks to the persistence of memorial creator Andy DeComyn.
They are New Zealander Jack Braithwaite, Gunner William Lewis from Scotland, and Jesse Robert Short, from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Jack Braithwaite
Braithwaite's 'mutiny', according to the Birmingham Mail, consisted of nothing more than a misdemeanour.
The bohemian former journalist, who'd confessed at his trial to not being a natural soldier, had tried to calm down a belligerent prisoner at Blargies prison in Rouen by taking the man to his tent to feed him.
The soldier, Private Little, had been a ringleader in a small uprising against the prison guards. But Little was an Australian, and couldn't be executed because Australia's government wouldn't allow Great Britain to execute its soldiers.
Unfortunately Braithwaite was a New Zealander, and could be executed. His attempt to defuse the potential riot (sparked by appalling conditions at the prison) involved him leading Little away from the custody of a staff sergeant, which officially amounted to mutiny.
Jack was subsequently shot by firing squad on the 28th. August 1916.
Gunner William Lewis
Jack's execution occurred within five minutes of Gunner William Lewis, who'd also been involved in the uprising at the prison.
Corporal Jesse Short
Meanwhile, Corporal Jesse Short was condemned to death for uttering:
"Put a rope around that bugger's neck,
tie a stone to it and throw him into the
river".
He was said to be inciting guards barring his exit from the infamous 'Bull Ring' training camp to rebel against their officer.
This was the September 1917 Étaples Mutiny, an uprising by around 80 servicemen rebelling against what are now acknowledged to have been harsh and unreasonable conditions at the camp.
The uprising was depicted in the 1978 book (and 1986 BBC series) 'The Monocled Mutineer', the lead character in which is said to have been based at least partially on Corporal Short.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, confirmed Short's death sentence (as he had Lewis's a year earlier).
Short, Lewis, and Braithwaite received their pardons and have been honoured along with comrades who fell in battle.
The remaining 37 men who were shot, according to Richard Pursehouse of the Staffordshire military history research group the Chase Project, were not executed for mutiny, but murder.
As this also would have resulted in a death sentence even under civil law codes of the time, it was decided that their names should not be added to the memorial.
(further information and pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Schottenstift
Schottenstift Exterior - © Schottenstift
In the heart of Vienna lies the abbey of Our Lady to the Scots, the habitat of Benedictine monks who know themselves addressed by this sentence from the book of Psalms in person.
By the aim of the search for God and by the concrete form of life the monks are associated with the many Benedictine monks and Benedictine nuns all over the world. In addition, they know themselves in solidarity with all people of good will, like them, seeking true life.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Following the Benedictine rules, the monastery but provides also very specific services. In the spirit of Benedictine hospitality the Schottenstift offers »monastery for a limited time", in the as a bed and breakfast run Benediktushaus guests from all over the world are welcome. The pastoral and spiritual care are just as much part of everyday life of the members of the Convention as the teaching in the traditional Scots high school and youth work in the basement. In the spirited Scots parish a lively cultural activity can unfold.
History of the Schottenstift
Duke Henry II Jasomirgott made Vienna the residence of Babenbergerreiches (Kingdom of the Babenberg). To emphasize the importance of the new capital, he convened in 1155 iroschottische (Irish-Scottish) monks from the St. Jakob monastery in Regensburg to Vienna. The new foundation in the first place should be a place of prayer, but then also a place where pilgrims and guests could find admission, a refuge for asylum seekers (the name "Freyung" still today reminds of that) and a center of cultural life.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In the years from 1160 to 1200 outside the former city limits arose a mighty Romanesque church, which was a lot bigger than today's church, and the eastern part of the Roman church reached about 25 meters beyond the east wall of the present house of worship. In 1200, the church and convent were consecrated by the Bishop of Passau Wolfger von Ellenbrechtskirchen. Already in 1276 much of this troublesome erected complex fell victim to a fire. Earthquakes in the years 1348 and 1443 again left traces of destruction. In the mid-15th Century thus arose a new monastery.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In 1418 the era of Irish-Scottish monks ended, since in the course of the Melker Reform they were encouraged also to integrate locals into their ranks because junior staff more and more became sparse. The Iroschotten but prefered to return to their mother abbey in Regensburg. The name "Scots" but remained to this day.
Schottenstift Deed - © Schottenstift
Deed of Foundation
The fundamental redesign of Scots Abbey falls in the 17th and 18th Century. 1648, the present church was completed, in the following decades the monastery complex was changed from its very foundations.
Decisive role in these buildings had Abbot Carl Fetzer (1705-1750). Today's "Schottenhof (Court)" under abbot Andreas Wenzel (1807-1831) by the architect Josef Kornhäusel was classicist redesigned. The intensive study of science and close ties to the in 1365 founded University of Vienna resulted yet in the times of irish-scottish monks in the emergence of a first library. Although from those roots today almost nothing remains, the number of medieval manuscripts and incunabula in the following centuries grew. In this regard, wrote Albert P. Huebl (1867-1931) all currently valid printed catalogs. During the reorganization of the monastery, a new library hall was built under Abbot Andreas Wenzel for printed books, whose current division Vincent P. Knauer (1828-1894) had created. Under his leadership, a handwritten nominal catalog of books was created in 1883.
In 1807 on the request of the emperor it came to the foundation of the "Schottengymnasium" which took up the old school tradition of the house on the Freyung and should it continue. The prestigious school has become a main area of work of the monks. Concerning the building structure, the two world wars the Schottenstift on the whole has survived intact, for the Convention itself they entailed great damage, be it the economic troubles after the first world war or the great human bloodletting in the years 1939 to 1945. Numerous brothers fell in the war or did not return, the gates of the school remained closed from 1938 to 1945. The Second Vatican Council for the Scots Abbey, too, entailed the profound reflection upon the peculiarities of the monastic life and the tasks, which a Benedictine community in the world of today should and can shoulder.
The museum in Schottenstift
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Important art dating back several centuries
The Vienna Schottenstift on Freyung is among the most important Benedictine monasteries in Austria. Yet in the 15th Century, the Abbey of the Scots developed into a center of the Vienna spiritual and city life. Not coincidentally shows the Scots masters altar the first topographically correct view of the city of Vienna. The reign of Barockabtes (Baroque abbot) Carl Fetzer (1705-1750) was an economic and cultural heyday. The 1826-1832 by Josef Kornhäusel designed Prelature now houses the "Museum in the Abbey of the Scots". In addition to an extensive collection of paintings, furniture, tapestries, vestments and liturgical utensils and vestments, it shows an impressive documentation of the monastery history.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Scots Champion - © Schottenstift Scots Masters - © Schottenstift
The high altar of the original Gothic collegiate church was removed about 1640. Today, the altar of the "Wiener Scots Master (Schottenmeister)", originating from 1469 to 1480, is a masterpiece of late Gothic painting in Austria and the center of the museum in Schottenstift. History, development process, workshop operations, among others, illustrates an informative documentary, which complement the successor works to Flemish painting of the 17th Century by Josse de Momper the Younger and David Vinckboons.
In Schottenstift the Interested visitor finds in addition to major religious paintings (among others by Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Cossiers and Giovanni Battista Pittoni), portrait and landscape painting of the 17th and 18th Century (eg by Johann Christian Brand, Christian Seybold, Christoph Paudiss and Simon de Vos) and Vienna Biedermeier painting by Johann Baptist Drechsler, Johann Knapp, Thomas Ender and Johann Peter Krafft. Works of the Dutch and Austrian still life painting of the 17th and 18th Century complement the valuable private collection. The large-sized former Baroque high altar painting by Joachim von Sandrart »The heavenly glory" (1671) in Prälatensaal is, like the lecture hall with works of Austrian baroque painters, as Peter Paul Strudel and Tobias Pock, integrated into the museum complex.
PORTSAID, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 1: Riot police conscripts spotted inside the governorate headquarters - which broke out chaos as protester passed by
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Thousands went down to the streets on Friday in memory of the dozens killed in clashes with security forces, also in solidarity with local football fans sentenced to death.
Protesters demanded the downfall of President Mohamed Morsi and called for the army to take over. Some protesters even demanded the independence of Porsaid - to be a separate country from Egypt.
The violence started after 21 football fans were sentenced to death for their involvement in last year's stadium riot that left 74 dead.
Army was deployed to the streets after Morsi announced a curfew - a curfew defied by protesters - to be imposed in Portsaid, Ismailia and Suez.
Frase Típica (d'un votant del PP) (COLOR: VERD)
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Frase Típica (de un votante del PP)
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1- Tots els polítics són iguals. (COLOR: BLAU)
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¿I per què votes al PP? (COLOR: ROIG)
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Todos los políticos son iguales.
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¿Y por qué votas al PP?
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2- No podem canviar res.
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¿Com va a canviar, votant de nou al PP?
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No podemos cambiar nada.
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¿Cómo va a cambiar, votando de nuevo al PP?
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3- La corrupció és normal....
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Home, votant sempre al PP.... ¡¿Tu ets còmplice o què?!
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La corrupción es normal....
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Hombre, votando siempre al PP.... ¡¿Tú eres cómplice o qué?!
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4- ¿Per què protestar, si tot seguirà igual?
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¿I per què votar al PP, si tot seguirà igual?
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¿Por qué protestar, si todo seguirá igual?
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¿Y por qué votar al PP, si todo seguirá igual?
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5- El bipartidisme aporta estabilitat.
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¿Estabilitat per seguir robant o governant...?
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El bipartidismo aporta estabilidad.
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¿Estabilidad para seguir robando o gobernando...?
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6- El bipartidisme aporta confiança.
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Però, ¿no eren tots iguals? ¡¿En qui anem a confiar...?!
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El bipartidismo aporta confianza.
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Pero, ¿no eran todos iguales? ¡¿En quién vamos a confiar...?!
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7- Jo sóc ciutadà del Món.
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Sí, però 'Gibraltar EsPPaññool', ¿¿no???
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Yo soy ciudadano del Mundo.
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Sí, pero 'Gibraltar EsPPaññool', ¿¿no???
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8- Jo sóc apolític.
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Digna sentència, per un votant del PP.
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Yo soy apolítico.
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Digna sentencia, para un votante del PP.
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9- A mi no m'interessa la política.
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A mon iaio tampoc. Era feixista.
De fet, odiava la política i la democràcia.
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A mí no me interesa la política.
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A mi abuelo tampoco. Era fascista.
De hecho, odiaba la política y la democracia.
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Sueca, País Valencià, Marènia. 28-8-2014. Joanjo Aguar Matoses (COLOR: GROC. OMBRA: NEGRA)
(Últims retocs: 30-8-2014. 14.40)
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POTS PUBLICAR O REENVIAR AQUEST TEXT. ENDAVANT!!!!
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SI VOLS VEURE AQUESTES FRASES EN IMATGES, VISITA FLICKR - JOANJO AGUAR MATOSES
ÀLBUM: Frase Típica (d'un votant del PP)
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MÉS COSES....
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Clica M'AGRADA a aquestes pàgines de Facebook, si n'estàs d'acord, clar.
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Més pàgines personals.
FOTOS I ALTRES IMATGES
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RELATS I ALTRES ESCRITS
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ETIQUETES PER A FLICKR (IMATGES) I PER A RELATSENCATALA.CAT (ESCRITS)
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24 year-old Charly Pitman, of Brislington, Bristol, was found guilty of riot following a trial at Bristol Crown Court in April. On 7th July 2022 she was sentenced to three years in prison.
During her trial jurors heard how she positioned herself at the front of the crowd challenging police officers as they attempted to separate them from the neighbourhood police station.
They were shown footage of her acting aggressively towards the officers, striking their shields and helmets, and were told her actions caused them and others to fear for their safety.
Judge Julian Lambert said Pitman made a conscious decision not to leave the riot and encouraged others to attack police officers. He added jurors decided quickly there was ‘no basis for self-defence’, as Pitman had claimed during the trial.
Including Pitman, those jailed for offences committed during the riot have been imprisoned for a combined total of 74 years and nine months.
I am Delara Darabi 20 years old, sentenced to death. It is three years now that I try to defend myself using colors, forms and words.
These paintings are my swear to what I have not done. So maybe colors would return me back into life.
From behind the walls, I say hello to you, who has come to see my paintings.
(Iraj’s translation of part of how Delara introduces herself, which is printed on the “Delara Darabi Exhibition in Tehran Oct. 20-25” portrait)
Some of her paintings are done using only her fingers, nails, and a black color in the dark days of her loneliness in prison. She calls herself and prisoner of colors. She knows colors since she was 4 years old and lost her connection when she was 17.
In her first trial, she claimed that she killed her cousin so she could save her boyfriend’s life, since she was only 17 years old at that time and they would not execute her because of her age.
Read more about Delara, Ashraf, Nazanin, …
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www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/story_id/000292.html
Don’t forget to google yourself
Life Sentence, Asexuals, Underdog, Duck Duck Goose, and Face First at the Sports Palace. Sunday July 12, 1987.
Pag is the island of the North Dalmatian group with surface of 284,5 km2. Larger settlements on the island Pag are: Pag, Novalja, Stara Novalja, Lun and Caska. Southwest coast of the island is flat, and northeast coast is steep and high with Pag bay (with huge bay Caska) and Stara Novalja bay located here.
Through whole history, until nowadays, the special place in economy of the island of Pag has the salt production.
It’s a traditional activity that has been existing on Pag for almost thousand years now. In fact, the beginnings of economic prosperity of the island and origin of town Pag connected with beginnings of exploiting of natural suitable shallowly cove inside closed bay (so-called “Valle di Pago”) for salt manufacturing.
The mediaeval Pag emerged near the salterns where the abandoned Old Town used to be, 3 km south of the present location. According to historical documents, the name Pag was mentioned for the first time in the 10th century. In 976, the Croatian king Stjepan Držislav took Pag from the Byzantine authority and appointed a Croatian district Prefect as the administrator of the town.
In 1244 Croatian-Hungarian king Béla IV granted Pag the status of a free royal town. After the rebellion against Zadar, Pag obtained partial autonomy, and Ludovic I acknowledged its full autonomy in 1376 as to all other Dalmatian towns. In the battles against Zadar which took place in 1394 Pag suffered a heavy defeat and devastation, and the inhabitants moved to a new location, where the present Pag was founded.
In 1403, the king Ladislav sold his share of Dalmatia, Pag included, to Venice and thus sentenced Pag to a centuries-long life under the Venetian rule. In 1433 Pag received the Town Statute, one of the first documents of that sort in Croatia.
In the middle of the 15th century, Ottoman threat kept rising and therefore the inhabitants of Pag decided to build a new town. The construction works began on today’s location of the town, on 18th May 1443. The urban plans of the new town were developed in Venice respecting the principles of architecture and urbanism of that time. Juraj Dalmatinac, a great constructor and sculptor participated in the development of the urban plan.
In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, the town of Pag had 4700 inhabitants. In later years, and especially in 1905, following the emergence of a blight, which had destroyed the vineyards, the number of population started declining. Many inhabitants emigrated, mostly to the USA, Canada and Australia.
During World War II, a concentration camp was set up on the island of Pag by the Croatian Ustaše puppet regime. It held about 8,500 people: 4,500 Serbs, 2,500 Jews, and 1,500 Communists. When the Ustaše learned in 1941 that the island of Pag was to be transferred to Italian control, they killed all of the prisoners.
Another wave of depopulation of town and island Pag took place at the end of the Second World War. In this period, the nobility completely ceased to exist.
During the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, the only link between southern and northern Croatia was the island Pag, thanks to the bridge that connects it to the mainland on the south and a ferry line on the north of Pag.
Sentenced to 6 months, George Robb was sent to Newcastle City Gaol for stealing money.
Age (on discharge): 19
Height: 5.5
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Place of Birth: Scotland
Status: Single
Occupation: Joiner
These photographs are of convicted criminals in Newcastle between 1871 - 1873.
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While on holiday in Rosas, Spain I had an idea for a photography project which would also challenge my social and lingual skills: a series of photos on the people of Rosas (which I decided to name "Gente de Rosas").
Familiar faces of people I see every day and friends, but also random passers-by on the streets and persons unknown to me.
I memorized a few sentences and carried a small book with me so that people could give me their names if they wanted to cooperate.
I've met a lot of interesting and beautiful people who were very friendly and helpful, even though my Spanish isn't very good.
This will probably be an ongoing project which I'll continue next year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrKl25KFUBc IN 1965 THERE WAS A CALL TO March from Montgomery by Dr rev James Luther bevel . REV BEVEL DIED In Dec 17 2009 and thin history was made Sunday February 28. 1965 where Zion United Methodist church Marion AL . WHO REVEREND JAMES LUTHER BEVEL TO QUELL THE VIOLENT ENERGY BREWING FROM THE MURDER OF JIMMIE LEE JACKSON,by redirecting that energy to a march from Selma to. Montgomery History has been made we are asking for Donations from all Organizations worldwide and Globle off $ 300,000 The Rev. James L. Bevel, a prominent figure in the civil rights movement whose legacy was clouded by an incest conviction has died, a relative said. He was 72. Bevel died Friday in Virginia after a fight with pancreatic cancer, said a daughter, Chevara Orrin. He was recently released on bond while appealing a 15-year prison sentence. Bevel was a top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and architect of the 1963 Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala. But in April, a jury convicted Bevel of incest for having sex more than a decade ago with a then-teenage daughter. Bevel served several months of his 15-year sentence before he was released in November on bond while appealing. Prosecutors opposed Bevel's release. A Baptist minister, Bevel was a leader in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, two of the stalwart organizations that led efforts in the 1960s to desegregate the South. Decades later, he also helped organize the Million Man March. "Jim Bevel was Martin Luther King's most influential aide," civil rights historian David J. Garrow said. Bevel fought to desegregate downtown Birmingham stores, prompting police to respond with fire hoses and attack dogs against peaceful protesters. Bevel was a key figure in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama's capital. The chain of events and police violence that was captured on national television ultimately (About) - 0.81 s | SearchScanBETA On
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Over the coming months, thousands of gleaming letters of the alphabet will be constructed, imaginatively designed and equipped with LEDs and receivers. And all these constructors are invited to bring their letters to Linz’s riverside Donaupark on the evening of September 1, when these works of art will get connected up to the voestalpine Klangwolke and become part of a gigantic spectacle. After all: it’s the interplay with thousands of other letters that enables each individual character to unfold its full potential—to become components of words, and, in turn, sentences in which information morphs into communication.
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In 1951 Krika's Restaurant was Bounty's Bar - the place of the "decisive act" of Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs' long strange life. All he did was shoot his wife.
"I guess I'll be here the rest of my life
All I did was shoot my wife"
- "Parchman Farm"
Burroughs fled to Mexico to avoid a sentence (on drug charges) to be served at a prison farm in the South. He then fled back to the US to avoid murder charges in Mexico.
On 8 March 2018, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its judgments on the appeals against verdict and sentence in the case The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Aimé Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidèle Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido. Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Presiding Judge, read a summary of the judgments in open court highlighting the key findings of the Appeals Chamber.
THE murders of Andrew, Rose and Chantelle Rowe were calculated, cold-blooded, merciless and deserving of no less than 35 years’ jail, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Justice John Sulan this morning jailed Jason Alexander Downie for life, with a 35-year non-parole period, for the November 2010 murders in Kapunda.
More than 100 friends and family of Rowes listened, wept and shouted abuse at Downie as Justice Sulan said words could not adequately describe the murders and their impact.
They were caught off-guard, however, when his sentencing remarks went into further graphic detail about the murders.
Miika Juhana Tenkula (6. maaliskuuta 1974 Oulu – 18. helmikuuta 2009 Muhos) oli suomalainen muusikko, joka tunnetaan vuosina 1989–2005 toimineen Sentenced-yhtyeen soolokitaristina.
Hän kuoli perinnöllisen sydänvian aiheuttamaan äkilliseen sydänkohtaukseen kotonaan Muhoksella 18. helmikuuta 2009. Hänet haudattiin Kirkkosaaren hautausmaalle Muhokselle
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Miika Tenkula (6 March 1974 – 18 February 2009) was a Finnish heavy metal musician. He was the lead guitarist and the main songwriter for the band Sentenced until it disbanded. He was also the band's original vocalist from 1989 to late 1992.
After Sentenced disbanded, Tenkula withdrew from publicity. He died of a sudden heart attack caused by genetic heart disease at his home in the town of Muhos 18 February 2009. His former band members remembered him by publishing an obituary in the official Sentenced webpage on 22 February 2009.
Sentenced mourned the loss of Miika Tenkula, "a dear friend, a truly remarkable artist and musician, and the very soul of what used to be Sentenced. Rest now, brother – in your music and our hearts you will live forever".
An open memorial was held in the Club Teatria in the city of Oulu on 18 April 2009. In the music containing ceremony was also show Buried Alive - concert movie, that was filmed in the same location in 2005, where Miika Tenkula and the Sentenced held their last concert before disbanding. In the ceremony, music from Miika Tenkula's favourite artists was heard, but also cover versions from the Sentenced songs performed by various Finnish artists and bands.
Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium's song "Weighed Down with Sorrow" from their 2009 album Across the Dark is dedicated to Tenkula. (Wikipedia)
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Well-known television host Pamela Parker reports live from the Lincoln Fields Correctional Insitute, a medium-security prison for men and women in present-day Toronto. She's researching a story on the workings of the criminal justice system – in particular, the effectiveness of incarceration and the programs available to inmates to help them reintegrate into society once they are released.
The correctional facility is run by the socially progressive prison warden Beckett Benjamin Graff, a lover of theatre who believes in the therapeutic power of the arts. Graff decides that the gang members, prostitutes, con artists and thieves held in his institution will benefit from the opportunity to put on a play that mirrors their plight: a play about the social ills, societal inequality, human failings and moral choices they made that put them behind bars. The inmates have volunteered to design and perform a production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.
The Beggar's Opera tells the story of a love triangle between the thief Macheath, Polly Peachum, the sheltered daughter of Macheath's fence, Mr. Peachum, and the jailer's daughter Lucy Lockit, who is pregnant with Macheath's child.
Upon discovering Macheath and Polly have secretly married, Mr. Peachum is determined to have Macheath put behind bars. Polly warns him, but Macheath is betrayed by the prostitutes he frolics with and is caught and imprisoned. Lucy finds him in jail and Macheath convinces her it's not true that he's married to Polly, so Lucy helps him to escape.
Recaptured, Macheath is sentenced to be hanged. At the last moment, the jailer brings in four other pregnant “wives”. Macheath pronounces it all too much and claims he’d rather be hanged than deal with all these demanding women!
At this point, the news reporter Pamela Parker steps in, and pleads with the Warden to give the play a happy ending, with Macheath reprieved but forced to settle on one wife only.
Warden Graff hopes that enacting the 18th century Beggar's Opera will give 21st century inmates the self-knowledge that will help them on their path to rehabilitation.
But will it?
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Photos by: Judy Karacs
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Discovering Salience in Textual Elements Using Graph Mutual Reinforcement → Ahmed Hassan → Ahmed came up with an elegant idea: sentences that provide the best summary of a piece of text have important words. And important words are those that are contained in important sentences. Sounds like a job for the HITS algorithm, and Ahmed takes it for a spin.