Model: gabrielloiseau/ettin-17m-crossnews
Author: gabrielloiseau
Pipeline: sentence-similarity
Library: sentence-transformers
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base_model: jhu-clsp/ettin-encoder-17m
widget: source_sentence: Important piece in @guardian by Ukraine's former defence minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk https://t.co/07yy0rCMIV
sentences: Pune:  Indian Army veterans  recalled lesser-known stories and the lighter side of Field Marshal  Sam Manekshaw  on the eve of the 52nd anniversary of  Vijay Diwas , which is celebrated on December 16 every year to mark the country's victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan. 
Major General Binoy Poonnen (retired) shared his unique experience when he was serving as an instructor at the  Indian Military Academy  (IMA), Dehradun, in 1986.Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw had paid a surprise visit to the IMA in the summer of 1986. While he was interacting with the Commandant of the academy, he suddenly decided to visit room number 30, Collins Block, in which he had stayed for many years ago as a GC (Gentleman Cadet) while he was under training. 
"The occupant of the room was a second termer, who was out on a map reading outdoor activity and had obviously locked his room and taken the keys with him. Since I was the instructor in charge, I was told to somehow ensure that the room was opened for Manekshaw's visit," he recalled. 
"There was no option other than to break open the lock. I was getting that done when both Manekshaw and the Commandant landed up. My concern, as an instructor, was that the room had to be clean and all belongings of the cadet ought to be arranged neatly in a military-like layout," he told TOI from Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
"Incidentally, I had carried out an inspection of all the rooms just the previous night (cabin cupboard inspection as we say in the Army). I was hopeful that all would be okay. That, however, was not to be. As soon as we entered the room, much to my disappointment and horror, we found it in complete disarray! Towel on the bed, boots lying all over, undergarments strewn across the room, a kit bag full of soiled clothes huddled in a corner and even girls' posters pinned on the cupboard." he recalled
"I said to myself, I had it. The Commandant was noticeably angry and that was written all over his face as he glared at me, rather viciously. I was almost certain that I would be shunted out of the IMA sooner than later. The atmosphere was tense, to say the least. Standing at the entrance of the room Manekshaw said, "Thank God nothing has changed'," Poonnen said. 
"That one-liner spontaneous reply defused a very tense atmosphere. Suddenly, all of us were smiling. I could breathe easy again and the Commandant shifted his menacing glare away from me. That's the greatness of the Field Marshal. Obviously, Sam Manekshaw's emotional intelligence, which is amongst the most important traits of great leaders, was in abundance," he said.

Major General VK Madhok (Retd) said, "When I was posted as an adjutant of 2/3 Gorkha Rifles in Jammu, the Colonel of the regiment had forgotten a gift he had brought for the Commanding Officer (CO) on a visit in 1956. He told the CO that he had left it in the Flag Staff Officer's house. So the CO asked me to bring it from there." 
"I went in a Gypsy till the main gate of the house. I saw then divisional commander Major General Manekshaw inspecting rations on the campus of the house. So I parked my vehicle at the gate and walked up to him. Upon seeing me, he asked, 'Hello Sweetie, what's your problem?'. I told him that I came to collect the gift," he said. 
"Before I could complete my answer, he asked me to return to the gate, come to him in the Gypsy and then talk. I went back to the gate, returned to the site in the vehicle and saluted him. Then he replied, ‘Now, you go to a room and ring the doorbell. An old sleepy lady would come out. That is my wife. She will give you the gift.' I did what he said. It was a learning experience for me," " Madhok added. 
"I was commanding a newly formed Scouts Battalion in a high altitude region in 1968. The unit was in the region for more than one-and-a-half years. We were expecting the relocation to another location. However, it was not happening despite pursuing matters with the Brigade and divisional commanders." 
"So I had written a letter to the Army headquarters in strong words with the title ‘Army HQs cheated us'. Within a few days, then Army chief Manekshaw ordered an inquiry. The brigade commander immediately landed at the unit location in a helicopter to inquire about the matter. He agreed to my demands. Otherwise, they would have tried to prove me wrong," Madhok added., @EricLevitz @DavidKlion Isn't this pretty much fascism 101 though? The leader embodies the will of the volk, and so democratic procedures that get in his way subvert the organic flourishing of society, Five for #Rajasthan martyred in the #PulwamaTerrorAttack. The names include Narayan Lal Gujjar from Rajsamand and Jeet Ram from Bharatpur. https://t.co/7NjsqArquR, source_sentence: Not surprised to see NYT editorial about free speech treated to an obsessive critique of the 1st sentence and oversimplified complaints that it's all false equivalence, which it is not. The response shows how hard it is (esp on Twitter) to drag debate back to a pragmatic center.
sentences: @PistOffCreative @EdwinaLL @snb19692 Fascinating as ever to watch a straight person try to dictate LGBTQ identities to a LGBTQ person!

Why is me discussing co-parenting with a co-parent hypocritical? What are you talking about? Do you even know?, As someone who is filled with an unholy terror every time Alexa or Siri speaks and who wishes to run screaming for the hills – where my fully stocked bunker awaits – whenever I see kids playing with toy drones instead of kites in the park, Netflix's Unknown: Killer Robots is … a challenging watch. "It's a cliche but I 100% believe that ‘Freedom is not free'," says Brandon Tseng, former US Navy Seal and co-founder of Shield AI. His company is now joined in the battle for military supremacy via artificial intelligence. The race is on throughout the US and doubtless Russia and China too to develop autonomous drones and other technology that can allow soldiers to avoid such perilous work as clearing buildings of armed personnel, explosive devices and so on, or which can track subjects over inhospitable terrains and vast areas – oh, and kill people when the need arises. The enemy, obviously. Which they will be able to identify reliably, always acting within the rules of engagement. I mean, there may be tricky moments along the way. Paul Scharre, former US army Ranger and author of Army of None, remembers the unspoken agreement among his men not to shoot when insurgents sent an eight-year-old girl out ahead of them to scout for danger. A robot would have seen her as a legal and legitimate target, but I'm sure these kinks will get worked out in time. (Does anyone know how the racist chatbot that made headlines last year is getting on, by the way?) Except, of course, how can they be? Unknown: Killer Robots walks us through various inventions (including those headless robot dog-alikes you see far too much on social media), scenarios and ramifications with admirable surefootedness. You sense that its heart lies with the cool guys making all the cool stuff. And it is hard not to be mesmerised by the extraordinary stuff in the offing. To see MIT's latest dog quickly navigate new surfaces via the infinite raw power of machine learning, or a flight lieutenant with 20 years of combat under his immaculately polished belt be outclassed in a dogfight by a new piece of tech that has been filled with 30 years of experience in 10 months, is to watch a terrible beauty being born. But whenever the film slips into full cheerleading (and jingoistic) mode, it recalls itself and us to duty and turns to showcasing the less telegenic side of things. By which I mean stories like Sean Ekins' and Fabio Urbina's. They "just flipped a 0 to a 1" in their work finding treatments and cures via AI molecules and modelling for underresearched diseases, "pushed go" and returned to their desks later to find their six-year-old Apple Mac had created 40,000 new molecules that would be absolutely lethal to humanity. Only if a bad actor got hold of them, but … anyway, Ekins has barely slept since. "We were totally naive … Anyone could do what we did. How do we control this technology before it is used to do something totally destructive?" The dilemma surrounding almost all military inventions – perhaps almost all inventions full stop – is what is slightly grandly called "the dual use problem". On the one hand, you've got drones and robots who can clear buildings without risking soldiers' lives. On the other, you can weaponise them, autonomise them and use them to take out entire villages without anyone getting their hands dirty. What is that sense of detachment likely to do to the level of carnage in a war overall? Former US defense secretary Bob Work doesn't think "human intervention in kill decisions" will ever change. I cannot help but pause for a moment to suggest, respectfully, that either the good colonel has never met humanity or that he is the programme's equivalent of the flight attendant urging people to keep calm as the passenger jet plummets to its fiery doom. Ultimately, the latest instalment in Netflix's Unknown documentary strand leaves me knowing a lot more about something I feel I was better off not knowing at all. So, a good job done, I guess. I write to you from a bunker in the hills and I am never coming out. • Unknown: Killer Robots is on Netflix now., @themaryhopkin @jessleemorgan They are both commentaries on being young- one filled with pain and the other with nostalgia and both sung by singers sounding wiser than their years., source_sentence: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is taking a huge gamble with the health of athletes competing in Beijing – and risking its own reputation and finances. It is leaving itself and other Olympic bodies vulnerable to legal action by competitors who experience adverse reactions to the city's notorious pollution. The IOC could face multi-million pound lawsuits from hundreds of affected sportsmen and women, as could the Chinese, British and other national Olympic bodies. The victims might argue that the games' authorities knowingly placed them at risk of health damage and required them to compete in conditions that jeopardised their wellbeing. Even mere prolonged severe eye, nose, throat and lung discomfort might be grounds for legal recourse. In such cases, it could be argued that expecting competitors to suffer choking, burning sensations was an unreasonable expectation by Olympic chiefs. In a worst-case scenario, the IOC and other Olympic authorities could be tied up in legal cases for years and be bankrupted if the courts rule that they acted recklessly by giving the green light to the games in a heavily polluted city. The day before the Olympics opened, pollution levels were nearly four times above the World Health Organisation's recommended safe levels. If the games go ahead under these conditions, some competitors could suffer lung and heart damage from the double whammy of heat and pollution. The danger is particularly great for high-exertion endurance athletes, such as cyclists, rowers and long-distance runners and walkers. In most cases, the adverse reactions are likely to be temporary, but no one can be certain that some athletes will not collapse and that others will not suffer longer-lasting effects that may undermine their post-Olympic performance in follow-on sports meetings scheduled later this year. I hope my fears are misplaced, but on the eve of the Olympics, a BBC monitoring unit found that the level of particulate matter (PM10) in Beijing's air was 191 micrograms per cubic metre. This is nearly four times the World Health Organisation safety target of 50 micrograms per cubic metre. It is this reality that has prompted the Ethiopian world champion long-distance runner, Haile Gebrselassie, to pull out of the marathon. He says pollution levels in the host city are so bad that it would be unsafe for him to compete. Gebrselassie is right. Despite some improvements, the Beijing air is still so toxic on most days that it is doubtful whether athletes can participate safely – let alone fairly – at this month's games. The head of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, has brushed aside pollution fears, praising Beijing's "extraordinary" efforts to improve air quality. He said there was "absolutely no danger" to the health of athletes taking part in events that last less than one hour. But he conceded that if pollution levels got out of hand, events lasting longer than 60 minutes might have to be relocated or deferred. Echoing the bland assurances of the Chinese authorities, Rogge stressed that it was important to distinguish between harmless fog and toxic pollution – implying that much of the cause of low visibility was mere humidity and mist. The distinction is a valid one, but I am not confident that this controversy is a needless fuss about fog. My scepticism seems to be shared by at least two British Olympic journalists who have road-tested the Beijing air this week. Tom Fordyce, a BBC sports correspondent, did a run around Beijing last Monday and reported what happened to him: My throat has started to feel sore, as if I had a cold coming on … there's a strange lumpy feeling halfway down my throat … The metallic taste in my mouth remains … The haze obscures anything more than 100m away. I've picked a bad day – today the BBC reading registers 292 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic metre (the World Health Organisation target is 50) … my eyes have started to feel gritty, as if I'd been out all night in a club full of smokers … The stinging in my throat gets worse … My lungs feel half their normal size … At the end I'm coughing like a 20-a-day man. Tom Fordyce's experience was shared by Guardian journalist Paul Kelso when he took a jog around the Olympic stadium on Tuesday: It's five years since I smoked a cigarette, but the acrid taste and mild burning at the back of the throat was familiar. By the time I turned for home, having circumnavigated the stadium more slowly than the entire athletes parade will take at Friday's opening ceremony, I was more than ready to stop … I'm glad I don't have to compete in the Beijing air this month. If these are the effects on light joggers, imagine what Beijing's usually foul air will do to elite athletes going all-out for a gold medal, vigorously inhaling huge amounts of air for prolonged periods. I suspect they will suffer extreme discomfort at best, and possibly physical collapse and even heart failure at worst. The British Olympic Association spokesperson, Simon Clegg, is unfazed. He has dismissed concerns that the smog in Beijing could impact on the performance of athletes. "It's not a concern to us," Clegg told the Guardian. "The expert advice that we are getting is that the situation continues to improve." He might be right. I hope he is. But what if he is not? Is it fair to play Russian roulette with the health and lives of the world's greatest athletes? And what if it all goes pear-shaped, with competitors being unable to complete their events or collapsing and ending up in hospital? Could some even die? The IOC and its national counterparts had better get their lawyers briefed and their finances beefed up. There are bound to be some competitors who will suffer adverse reactions to Beijing's poor air quality. They are likely to sue and they are likely to win. If they do, it will be a sad day for the Olympic spirit but a wholly self-inflicted wound by misguided Olympic administrators who could have, and should have, anticipated the risk to athlete's health. This article was edited on August 8 2008 at 18:00 at the request of the author after finding that a linked source concerning a marathon held in Beijing may not be journalistically reliable.
sentences: Malaria is often associated with Africa, but the disease is rampant in the Asia Pacific region too. In countries such as India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea, almost 30m cases are reported every year, resulting in an estimated 42,000 deaths. The region's national governments would do well to look at the experience of Sabah on the island of Borneo. Cases of malaria in the Malaysian province have dropped from a high of 49,192 in 1994 to 2,032 in 2011. At the root of the rapid decline lies an informal, yet highly effective, partnership between the state-led Malaysian Malaria Control Programme (MCP) and companies operating in palm oil and rubber sectors. Since 1991, MCP has been building links with many of the state's 1,074 plantation estates, leading to joint cooperation around key interventions such as indoor residual spraying and the distribution of insecticide-treated nets. "In large districts with remote populations, malaria control officers struggle to meet deadlines for bi-annual IRS (indoor residual spraying) coverage because of the time required to travel to rural areas," states a recent research paper in the Malaria Journal. Resource commitments and divisions of labour between MCP's district offices and plantations differ hugely. The most engaged plantations go as far as to construct office buildings and living quarters for MCP's rural outposts, as well as providing equipment, electricity and help with transport. All participating plantations, whatever their level of involvement, cover the costs of spraying and net distribution as a minimum. In return, MCP provides training on malarial prevention, as well as assistance with screening new workers and advising on appropriate treatment if and when a worker should become infected. "Most communications between partners are informal and ad-hoc, occurring on a daily or weekly basis," the researchers note, adding that MCP's programme officers aim to physically visit most participating plantations on a weekly basis where possible. The motivations for the private sector to engage with the government's malarial programme range from the ethical (ie worker care) to the economic (ie avoiding lost productivity). Very often, the partnership strikes up after a plantation has experienced a malarial outbreak. Risk of infection is comparatively high as up to 45% of the sector's workers come from neighbouring Indonesia and the Philippines, where malaria is endemic. Managing a cross-sector relationship is not without its difficulties. The most frequent source of tension occurs around the allocation of scarce resources. Government officers state that educating plantation management on the importance and benefits of malaria control is a time-consuming business, while estate owners complain that logistical support can be tricky during peak production periods. Still, the results are impressive. In 2011, only 107 cases were reported across all Subah's plantation estates. Among the "best practices" identified by the researchers are the importance of frequent communication between the two partner entities, the engagement of top-level management, and the formal recognition of plantations' achievements. "Partnering with the commercial sector has been an essential operational strategy to support malaria elimination in Sabah," the independent analysis of the partnership concludes. "Private industry is an untapped resource for malaria control programmes regionally." Read more stories like this: Business and academia join forces to tackle UK food security How partnerships can pay for business and rural workers Advertisement feature: Unilever seeks innovative startups for sustainable living hack The sustainable living hub is funded by Unilever. All content is editorially independent except for pieces labelled advertisement feature. Find out more here. Join the community of sustainability professionals and experts. Become a GSB member to get more stories like this direct to your inbox, The world's first transorbital lobotomy was performed in 1946 by Walter Freeman, in his Washington office. Using an ice pick from his own kitchen, he went through the eye sockets into the brain of his patient, a 29-year-old severely depressed housewife, and cut into her frontal lobes. Then he sent her home in a cab., Goa CM Pramod Sawant pledges to donate his kidney, liver and cornea ⁦@TOIGoaNews⁩  https://t.co/DayVALoQWS, source_sentence: WASHINGTON - When President Trump's national security adviser, Robert C. O'Brien, convenes meetings with top National Security Council officials at the White House, he sometimes opens by distributing printouts of Mr. Trump's latest tweets on the subject at hand.
sentences: For their latest show, dreamthinkspeak invite audiences to a secret address in Hull. A disused office building has been transformed into the headquarters of the Kasang corporation, an imaginary South Korean outfit specialising in smart technologies designed to identify consumer habits and encourage us to spend more. The audience of about 40 are given "kpads" so they can shop in the company's neon-lit mall and gain K points. As we do so, we unthinkingly reveal precious data about ourselves. We get a chance to try virtual reality, and play a real-world version of one of the company's successful online games. But, in a show played out over several floors of the building and an adjoining multi-storey car park, the game gradually turns nastier and darker. We find ourselves lost in a maze and suddenly transported to a police station where stony-faced officers glare if we try to go the wrong way. First produced in Korea in 2013, One Day, Maybe was inspired by the suppressed 1980 Gwangju uprising in which 2,000 may have died, many as a result of detention and torture. The uprising is often seen as the turning point in South Korea's struggle towards democracy. But what would some of the protestors think about what that democracy has achieved, particularly regarding South Korea's role in the global marketplace? Did people die so you and I could have a smart fridge? With dozens of cast members playing Kasang employees and police, the show conjures up the past and the dead who stare back accusingly from photographs. Director Tristan Sharps has always been a brilliant conjuror of absence. The scale is always impressive, even if the content is sometimes thin. Some segments trail on too long and the show is so specifically about Korea that it risks losing universality. Although it does make you think what our ancestors might feel about how we use the freedoms they died defending. The piece becomes increasingly emotionally pungent, and Sharps smartly uses juxtapositions: in one segment the muted home life of the past is in tension with the shiny emptiness of the present day. It is often in the silent moments that the show is at its most eloquent. • At a Hull city centre venue until 1 October., The only defendant to plead guilty to taking part in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan was sentenced on Wednesday to six years and three months in prison., Blinken at the ministry of foreign affairs in Kyiv, with his Ukrainian counterpart, inspecting a darkly fascinating exhibit about the grand building's construction https://t.co/IUlgevgHNk, source_sentence: Chandigarh:  Devender Pal Singh  Bhullar, a convict in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case, has withdrawn his plea seeking premature release from the Punjab and Haryana high court after the sentence review board (SRB) of National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) rejected his petition.
His counsel Vipul Jindal confirmed to TOI that they would challenge the SRB decision passed on January 19 through which his request for premature release was rejected by the Delhi government."Counsel for NCT has placed on record a copy of the January 19 letter of the home (general) department NCT, Delhi...In view of the order, counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw the present petition," Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi of the HC has observed in its order released on Wednesday.
sentences: #MSMEs to play a key role in exporting defence equipment in coming years said @nawegate on the first day of #DefenceExpo #Maharashtra #MaharashtraMSMEDefenceExpo #Pune https://t.co/SvpwwpklpC, @whitney_hurst @muyixiao @nytimes Congratulations Whitney! Two Pulitzers in one day! 👏🏻🎉, HARDA: Eleven people were killed and nearly 200 injured Tuesday morning in a series of explosions at a fireworks factory on the outskirts of  Harda  that was ordered closed in 2022. Sources said over 200 people worked in the factory, with 70-odd in the morning shift. But in the chaos and panic, their fate was unknown till Tuesday midnight.
Three people including the factory owners - brothers  Rajesh  and  Somesh Agrawal  - and general manager  Rafiq Khan  have been arrested.Ironically, Rajesh was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in 2021 after a blast killed two workers in 2015, but he challenged the verdict.
The three-storey factory was obliterated in blasts that went on for an hour, leaving behind a heap of concrete and rubble that was so hot that it was impossible to get near it till late in the night. The true toll may be known only in the morning. Govt officials claim the body count is unlikely to rise as most workers had "fled after the first blast".


This was a tragedy waiting to happen: a factory that shouldn't have been open at all, and run by an owner who was sentenced to jail for the death of two workers in a blast eight years ago.
The factory's licence was first suspended and later cancelled, but it kept running, allegedly under the patronage of powerful people. In Oct last year, an IAS officer inspected the factory and was shocked to find far more explosives stored than allowed. Action on the inspection report is still pending.
The factory has a history of deaths and failed inspections, yet it stayed in business until a catastrophic explosion reduced it to rubble, killing at least 11 people and injuring 200 on Feb 6.
On July 5, 2015, two people - identified as  Sheikh Iqbal , 27 and Rakesh, 21 had died in an explosion in a rented house where explosives were stored by Rajesh Agarwal, one of the owners of the factory. A Harda court sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment in 2021, but he filed an appeal and was out on bail.
In 2017-18, the then collector suspended the factory's licence after finding violation of norms. The suspension remained in effect for around six months - until the collector got transferred. Again, in 2021, three people died in a blast in a house in the same locality. Police registered a case, which is on.
On Sept 26, 2022, after an inspection by district officials, the collector suspended all licenses issued to the factory by the district administration. The collector also wrote to the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation to cancel the two licences it had given.
During the 2022 inspection, officials had found several alarming lapses - stocks of explosives beyond permissible limits and violation of security protocols. As per the licences issued to the factory owners, they were allowed to store only 15kg of explosives but officials found 7.5 lakh crackers.
However, the factory was again up and running after owners Rajesh Agarwal and his brother  Somesh  approached the then Narmadapuram divisional commissioner, who ordered a stay on the collector's order until further orders. It failed yet another inspection in Oct 2023 but stayed in business, with deadly consequences.
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