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Indira Eskieva
Multimedia Journalist | Reporter
The Fake News Problem
March 12, 2017 June 3, 2019 Indira Eskieva
"How do we know that something happened? That what we're seeing is real?"
— David Grossman, BBC Newsnight
Fake news is the latest phrase in America's lexicon that is used to discredit the media and add to the already abundant lack of trust in it. It is arguably one of the most popular terms that emerged out of the recent Presidential Election, but there are two different, yet equally important, types of fake news.
The first one is more like "faux" news, which is made deliberately to look like news that comes from established news outlets like ABC News or The New York Times. The perpetrators create outlandish articles, usually completely made-up, with the purpose of amassing viewership, spreading false information and, more importantly, profit from the traffic. These types of articles tend to pop-up on Facebook feeds, and because people don't take the time to examine them critically, they are shared and re-shared until the general belief becomes that the fake story is a real one. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to fight fake news, but said that he wanted to make sure attempts to harness fake news did not limit freedom of expression.
The second type of fake news emerged from the first type, when President Donald Trump accused longstanding news institutions, such as CNN and Times Magazine, of creating fake news. President Trump's press secretary called it "deliberately false reporting," and the accusations are not without merit. On the evening of President Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2016, Time Magazine White House correspondent Zeke Miller reported that the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. was not in the Oval Office, and therefore must have been removed by the new administration. It turned out that the bust was simply obscured by a door, and was in fact still present in the Oval Office. Miller quickly issued an apology and retracted the report, but the damage was already done, and in this instant world, it was shared countless times all over the internet.
There are ways that both types of fake news can be fought. With stronger filters and more caution from the reader, the fake news stories that appear on Facebook can be stopped. If news organizations give reporters more time to check their sources, and reduce the pressure to instantaneously report and update social media accounts, the second type of fake news stories can also be avoided. However, with the rapid growth of technology, a third category of fake news looms ahead, and it is the most dangerous.
Emily Bell from the Columbia Journalism School says that the next thing in fake news will be the ability to recreate people, "manipulate their voices," and "manipulate their facial expressions," using digital technology. Additionally, computer software giant Adobe Systems is releasing a new software program called VoCo, which can make anyone say anything by simply typing it in.
Before these technological advances catch up, the media needs to not only deal with the challenges we face today in regards to fake news, but also prepare to fight the issues that will arise tomorrow. If not, the lines between reality and illusion will be blurred, and then how will we know that something really happened, and that what we're seeing is real?
If I Were a Bird
May 11, 2016 June 22, 2016 Indira Eskieva
[Names have been changed to protect the family's privacy]
"When we got off the train that night, the city was eerily quiet. There was not a soul around. I said to my husband, 'Something happened here. Something is wrong.' We caught a driver, and my husband told me to turn towards the window and conceal my face from the driver. When we pulled up to our block, neighbors were gathered outside. I knew right away that something was very wrong. I knew that something had happened right in my building. As I was running up to my floor, I ran into one of my neighbors. She was sobbing, yelling at me, 'You need to look for your children! Go look for your children!' I ran up to my apartment breathless. The door was wide open. My daughters were gone."
That faithful night was over 26 years ago, but Anna Grigoryan, a Charlotte resident, can recall every detail second by second. The Grigoryan family, ethnic Armenians, were caught in the middle of a rivalry between neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although tensions between Azerbaijanis and Armenians started in 1988, they hit a climactic point on Jan. 13, 1990. The next seven days, from Jan. 13 to Jan. 19, 1990, became known as the Baku Pogrom. During this time, the Armenian population, which had called Azerbaijan home for centuries, were beaten, raped, murdered, and banished from their homes.
Anna Grigoryan and her husband, both Armenians, were born in Baku, Azerbaijan and had lived there for most of their lives. Along with their two daughters and son, they eventually immigrated to the United States in 1991, and made Charlotte their home. Anna is retired; her husband passed away a few years ago. Her oldest daughter owns a salon and spa, and her youngest is an established stylist in Los Angeles. Anna's son, who was studying in Moscow during the ordeals described, is an interpreter. But it's been difficult for them to forget Bake and Azerbaijan, and the frightening years that eventually left them banished from their home.
"My mother used to tell me harrowing tales about the Armenian genocide that happened in 1915, about mass murders and displaced families, and I never in a million years thought that anything like that would touch me. I used to say to her, 'Mama, we live in the late 20th century, things like that don't happen anymore!' But just six months after her death in 1988, the unrest began. People started talking – someone was beaten here; someone was killed there. But that didn't feel real to me. It was somewhere far from Baku. Baku was my home. No one could hurt us there."
But the tensions between Azerbaijanis and Armenians continued to escalate. The violence had started in Nagorno-Karabakh, a historically Armenian territory that was being occupied by Azerbaijan, which wanted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia during the Perestroika, when the Soviet Union was falling apart. This caused conflict between the Azerbaijanis and Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh. Over the course of a few months, that conflict spread throughout Azerbaijan and into its capital city, Baku.
During the Baku Pogrom, Azerbaijani extremists would beat anyone on the streets resembling Armenians – and they did not spare the elderly, women, or children. They had lists with the names and addresses of Armenians living in the city, and they would come tearing doors down, raping, beating, and killing families, and then stealing their belongings.
It was on January 13, 1990 that Anna Grigoryan and her husband traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia for a relative's funeral. Their daughters, who were at the time in their early teens, stayed home with one of their friend's with a stern warning from Anna to not open the door for anyone.
"My oldest daughter, Elya, had a friend visiting. My husband is half-Ukrainian, so my daughters did not have the typical Armenian facial features. Lilya, their friend, looked more Armenian. While my husband and I were gone, one of our neighbors, who lived in the building next to us, told the militants that we were an Armenian family, and showed them to our apartment."
"They began beating on the door, and my girls didn't open, just as I had told them to. So then they said they would tear the door down. Elya hid Lilya in the bedroom, and opened the door to the band of men. They looked at her and said to the man that brought them there, 'They're not Armenian! Why'd you bring us here?' But then Lilya stuck her head out the door, and so they grabbed all three of them, my two daughters and Lilya, and dragged them out of the building. Lilya protested. They hit her across the face."
When Anna and her husband came home to an empty apartment, Anna, a well-known and liked member of her community, began making calls to her precinct officer.
"He started yelling at me, 'Where did you go? Why did you leave at a time like this?' Give me some time, I will look for your daughters."
And so Anna and her husband sat, in anguish and fear, and waited. Two hours later, two men in government uniforms brought all three girls home. But even today, they find it difficult to talk about that frightening night.
"They were taken to basements by a nearby park. I knew that park. As a little girl, I took dance classes by it. The basements were big, with multiple rooms, all filled with Armenians. The girls could hear brutal screams coming from the other rooms; unimaginable things were happening there. But by God's grace, my daughters were taken to separate room, with armed guards standing by the door. I still don't know why that happened. Maybe it's because they saw how innocent these girls were, or maybe they had other, less noble reasons."
But Anna chooses to believe the first version. Despite all that she had seen and endured, she still believes in her Baku, and in its Azerbaijani population who, from the time of her birth, were her neighbors, her coworkers, and her dear friends.
That night, after Anna's daughters came home, the family rapidly gathered their belongings. They took only necessities, a few clothing items and some valuables, planning to come back in the morning to gather the rest of their belongings – which included antiques, imported goods (a luxury during the Soviet era) and rare chinaware. But that was the last time they ever saw their home.
An elderly woman is being escorted onto a ferry. Photo credit: asbarez.com
"We hid out at our Azerbaijani friends' homes for about a week – good people that could see through the injustices."
To restore order in Azerbaijan, the Soviet Union had to send in their troops. One week after they left their home, Soviet soldiers put Anna and her family, along with other Armenians, on a ferry boat and evacuated them to Turkmenbasy, formerly known as Krasnovodsk, a city in Turkmenistan.
"The ferries were full of victims of the Baku Pogrom – elderly folk and women with beaten faces, on canes and stretchers. It was a frightening journey, because we heard that some of the boats that left prior to ours were flipped over by militants, drowning the people on board."
A victim of the Baku Pogrom. Photo credit: asbarez.com
From Turkmenistan the Grigoryan family journeyed to Armenia, and then to Moscow where Anna's son was studying. They were eventually granted visas to the United States as refugees, where they slowly started to rebuild their lives.
Baku is now a metropolitan city that attracts thousands of tourists each year. Despite all this, Armenians are still not welcome. But Anna holds no resentment towards Baku or the people of Azerbaijan.
"There were some extremists, but in general, they are good, loving people. I had so many wonderful neighbors and friends. Throughout the horrors that lasted from 1988 to 1990, my Azerbaijani friends always helped us and shielded us when they could."
Now, Anna just has one dream, and that is to see her beloved Baku just one more time.
"If I were a bird, if I could fly, I would fly straight to Baku, just to get a glimpse of my home and the street it stands on. Even from afar, that would make me so happy. My beautiful Baku. My beautiful Baku."
You Should Know What Happened on February 23
February 23, 2016 June 22, 2016 Indira Eskieva1 Comment
On a cold winter's night, at around 2 a.m., knocks were heard on doors throughout the small villages. Armed soldiers surrounded each small house. One by one, as each family opened doors to their unexpected visitors, they were read a decree by the soldiers, "Under the orders of Josef Stalin, you will be deported. You have two hours to gather your belongings. Those who resist will be executed."
It was February 23, 1944. In the dead of winter, the people of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia (at that time known as the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) were falsely accused of aiding Nazi Germany and ordered to be deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia.
Shocked and confused, families went back inside to pull their belongings together. They thought, they believed, that they were only leaving for a few days, so they didn't pack much, or else they didn't have much to pack.
In the village of Haybah, over 700 women, children, and elderly were told to gather at a horse stable to await further orders. The orders never came. They were burned alive.
In Galanchozh, thousands of people were executed by a firing squad, and their bodies dumped in the Galanchozh Lake.
The remaining were loaded onto trucks, taken to train stations, and crammed onto cattle wagons. Families and loved ones were separated.
"It was winter. We had no food, no warm clothing. The cold was more unbearable than the hunger," remembers one elderly man, then just a young boy.
There was an ample amount of snow fall, and the frigid winds flew in from all sides of the cattle wagons. There was no room to lay down. As people died, their bodies were thrown out of the still moving wagons. People would try to hide their dead loved ones from the officers of the Russian Army with the hope that they could eventually give them a proper burial.
"Not even half of the people in my wagon made it," recalled another woman.
It was, by every definition of the word, a genocide of the Chechen and Ingush people.
In total, 478,479 people were uprooted from their homeland and dropped off in the middle of nowhere, during a notoriously cold Russian winter, with nothing but the blue sky over their heads.
Countless lives were lost before the people ever made it to their final destination, and countless more died from hunger, hypothermia, and typhoid fever in the first years of exile. But the most deaths were caused by heartbreak at being separated from their beloved motherland.
It is estimated that anywhere from 35-50 percent of the Chechen and Ingush populations died.
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the tragedy. The world has a long and bloody history, but we must remember every part of it. At a time when there is so much anger and fighting going on in the world, it is only by remembering our past mistakes do we have the slight hope of not repeating our failures.
My people, the Chechen and Ingush people, have seen a lot of war and bloodshed, both 72 years ago and in the past 20 years. But to describe my brave people, I always remember these lines from Invictus by William Ernest Henley:
"In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed."
After 13 years of exile, the Chechen and Ingush people were finally allowed to return to their motherland in 1957.
How I Spent New Years Eve in Times Square
January 3, 2016 June 22, 2016 Indira Eskieva
New year. New memories.
For many years, along with most of America, my best friend and I would start off December by worrying about one big thing – what are we going to do on New Year's Eve? It has been a question that has brought about many bouts of depression and anxiety, as we always had to settle for a house party that involved chips, pizza, and watching the ball drop in Times Square on TV with about 10 other people. And, every single year, we would dream about being live in Times Square instead.
The incredible thing about my best friend (Katie) and I is that we always seem to get what we want. I don't mean to say that we are spoiled or privileged (although I often consider myself the latter). It seems that when we get an idea into our heads, someway or somehow, even if it is many years later, we get exactly what we asked for.
Which is how two days ago, on the eve of December 31st, we found ourselves right in the middle of Times Square. And, like the true champions that we are, we were there from 12 p.m. until 12 a.m.
Contrary to what they say on television, it was not one big party. Who would have guessed, right? In all honesty, we were mentally preparing ourselves for complete misery weeks in advance. Still, when it was only 3 o'clock, and we already felt sleepy, tired, and bored, we couldn't help but ask each other, "What were we thinking?!"
We arrived, as always, later than originally planned. We were yelling to the world that we would be the first ones in line, at 9 a.m., downright unstoppable. Ha. Ha. We arrived at noon and there was already a big crowd. Naturally, I panicked because that's just what I do. Naturally, Katie remained calm, because that's just what she does.
There were people going in all different directions, and we ran up to one officer who said that screening was at 49th street. No one was allowed to enter without getting screened and their bag checked. We ran to 49th street, which turned out to be quite some way from where we were. I was ten feet behind Katie, panting and begging her to slow down. She would until I would catch up, and then she'd leave me and I'd be ten feet behind her once again. This continued on until I wailed about a blister, and she switched boots with me so I would shut up.
After a few more wrong turns, we got in line to be scanned with metal detectors and have our bags checked. I would like to note that all of the police officers were courteous and very helpful (go NYPD!) I was concerned that we would get in trouble for bringing in sandwiches and protein bars, but the officer just looked at us with sympathy and understanding.
We ended up in a pen with a group of tourists from France. Everyone sat down on the ground to prepare for the 12-hour wait, and Katie and I occupied ourselves with a game of Heads Up. Even the tourists from France joined in, guessing the right songs and superstars when I was incapable of doing so myself.
At around 3 p.m., we saw some movement ahead of us. The good thing about being in a small group of just two is that you're always ready to go. So while the French tourists were gathering their belongings and pooling their party together, Katie and I jumped over their heads and ran to the front. We ended up three rows back from the front of our section. We were right in front of the ball, but were disappointed when we realized that the stage with all of the performers was behind us, and we couldn't see anything that was going on back there. Instead, we had to watch all of the singers on a big screen, which was exactly like watching it at home.
The cool thing, however, was that we were in front of a smaller stage where the hosts were interviewing people, and we kept seeing Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy going back and forth with their squads. Jenny McCarthy was absolutely stunning. Every time one of them would pass by us, Katie and I would start screaming, "JENNNY! JEEENNNNYY! OMG, RYAAAAAN!!! RRRRAYAN!" Everyone else was super quiet. We were the only ones yelling.
But, hey, at least we caught Jenny McCarthy's attention! I told her that she was beautiful, and she blew us kisses…
You laugh, but I live for this kind of stuff.
At around 7 p.m., they passed around hats and balloons. I almost fought a girl for a hat, felt super guilty about going all crazy lady on her, and ended up turning around and saying, "I'm sorry, do you have a hat? Here, have mine…" like an unstable person. I'm sure she didn't think I was nuts or anything like that.
[Note to self: If you go crazy, just go crazy all the way. Don't do that weird stuff where you switch back and forth between being a total psychopath and sweet PTA mom.]
At this same time, I was dreaming of being at home, eating food and drinking water in front of my television. Katie and I kept saying to each other, "What is the point of us being here?"
Toward 9 p.m., our spirits lifted and we decided that since we were there, we might as well make the best of it. We pulled out our balloons, put on our hats, and started to jump in place and sing out loud. Some people were grouchy, others were laying on the ground completely miserable (but determined to stay until midnight). We, on the other hand, were jamming out to Demi Lovato and Jessie J.
In the last hour, my excitement was starting to dwindle down again. I kept sitting on the ground to regain some energy. When there was only ten minutes left until 12:00, Jessie J did a beautiful cover of Imagine, and by the time she finished there were 90 seconds left until midnight, and the huge, final countdown began.
All of the regrets I had during the course of the 12 hours that I stood outside in Times Square immediately disappeared when that last countdown started. As the seconds ticked by, and everyone screamed out the numbers, the level of positive energy and anticipation was through the sky. And when the clock stroked midnight, I realized that it was all completely worth it.
We jumped, we screamed, we hugged as Times Square exploded with confetti to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
It truly was a once in a lifetime experience.
I hope you have an incredible, through-the-roof amazing 2016!


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Four policemen detained for alleged murder of 26 years old suspect
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Q: Fix segmentation fault I am trying to make a postfix to infix program using two stacks. The basic idea is this -
ptr1  -->  ptr2 --> ptr3 --> ptr4 --> NULL
|    --------- | --------   |  ---------   |
(4*5) ----5  --------  6  --------   10
Each operand is a separate stack and the ptr stack is for the memory address of first element of each operand. But I am getting a segmentation error. I think it is due to the
(*ptr) = (*ptr)->next1;   statement in the pop function. Can someone explain/fix this to make a pop function that  returns the address of the operand stack at the top and pops the ptr stack  at the same time?  Complete code -
struct bracket {
  char c;
  struct bracket* next;
};

struct outer {
    struct bracket *down;
    struct outer *next1;
};
struct outer* push_ptr (struct bracket *ptr,struct outer * out){
    struct outer *temp = NULL;
    temp = (struct outer*)malloc(sizeof(struct outer));
    temp->down = ptr;
    temp->next1 = out;
    return temp;
}

struct bracket* push_ch(char ch,struct bracket *head){

  struct bracket *temp = NULL;
  temp = (struct bracket*)malloc(sizeof(struct bracket));
  temp->c = ch;
  temp->next = head;
  return temp;
}

struct bracket* pop(struct outer **ptr){
  struct bracket *top = (struct bracket*)malloc(sizeof(struct bracket));
  top = (*ptr)->down;
  (*ptr) = (*ptr)->next1;
  return top;
}

int main(){

    char c[] = "25,9,6,/,-,3,/";
    struct outer * address = NULL;
    struct bracket * num;
    for (int i=0;i<strlen(c);i=i+1){

        if(c[i]==',') continue;

        else if (c[i]=='*' || c[i]=='-' || c[i]=='+' || c[i]=='/'){
            struct bracket *top1 = pop(&address);
            struct bracket *top2 = pop(&address);

        }

        else {
               num = NULL;
               while(c[i]!=','){
                   num = push_ch(c[i],num);
                   i = i+1;
               }
               address = push_ptr(num,address);

        }

    }
    return 0;

}

A: Your problem is definitely in the function pop()...
struct bracket* pop(struct outer **ptr){
  struct bracket *top = (struct bracket*)malloc(sizeof(struct bracket));
  top = (*ptr)->down;
  (*ptr) = (*ptr)->next1;
  return top;
}

You are poping from the outer ptr every time and eventually, at some point, it will remain empty. Let us understand what will happen when it is empty. So you pass a reference struct outer **ptr which points to NULL. Hence it will not be able to retrieve (*ptr)->down on this line ...
top = (*ptr)->down;

And You will have a segmentation fault.
You should treat the NULL case in your pop function (in general it is good to NULL protect every function). An alternate implementation of the pop function could be this...
struct bracket* pop(struct outer **ptr){
  struct bracket *top = (struct bracket*)malloc(sizeof(struct bracket));
  if (*ptr)
  {
      top = (*ptr)->down;
      (*ptr) = (*ptr)->next1;
  }
  else
      top = NULL;
  return top;
}

This will fix the segmentation fault. It will return NULL if the outer struct contains no elements.

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Marvel Can Reboot Iron Fist and Luke Cage in a Month
By Adam Barnhardt - September 11, 2020 05:21 pm EDT
The weather's beginning to cool, leaves are starting to change colors, and before you know it, Halloween will be here. Around these parts, another major event is on the horizon — the "return" of the live-action rights for characters in Netflix's DefendersVerse to Marvel Studios. In a matter of months, the likes of Charlie Cox's Daredevil and Jon Bernthal's Punisher will be back at the House of Ideas, able for use in other properties within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. First up? Iron Fist and Luke Cage.
Netflix pulled the plug on both shows, starring Finn Jones and Mike Colter, on October 12, 2018, leading to a chain reaction that'd eventually lead to the cancellation of all shows on Netflix featuring characters from the Marvel library. Daredevil was subsequently cancelled on November 29th after a critically acclaimed third season, and both The Punisher and Jessica Jones were sent to the chopping block on February 18, 2019.
As some of you may be asking — why's the timeline matter when it comes to these cancellations? The shows have been cancelled, so surely Marvel can use the characters whenever, right? In short, not necessarily.
You see, once these shows were cancelled, news began to surface of a clause in the contract between Netflix and Marvel Entertainment that prohibited the latter from using any characters introduced in the Netflix shows for a period of two calendar years after the programs sailed into the sunset. While Disney and Marvel still owned the live-action rights to the characters — this wasn't a Sony or 20th Century Fox scenario — they were reportedly prohibited from using them due to the contractual obligation.
It certainly makes sense from a business standpoint, after all — Netflix wanted to make sure as many fans as possible would watch the shows before Marvel Studios ran wild with the characters, introducing them in other properties and film franchises.
Fast forward to 2020, two full years after the beloved DefendersVerse began losing shows. With Iron Fist and Luke Cage both being cancelled on October 12, 2018, that means that Marvel Studios could hypothetically start using those characters in the development of new shows and movies in a matter of weeks.
It should be noted this news wasn't ever confirmed by Marvel Studios or Netflix, nor will it ever be, for that matter. In fact, there's a world where all of the rights have already reverted, perhaps. Several actors involved in the productions, however, have talked about the existence of such a clause prohibiting their characters from going elsewhere.
Iron Fist and Luke Cage each have two seasons now streaming on Netflix.
Where do you think the characters could pop up? Do you think they will anytime soon? Let us know your thoughts either in the comments section or by hitting our writer @AdamBarnhardt up on Twitter to chat all things Marvel!
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end

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Q: Gooey effect messed up after transition ends I'm trying to create a kind of radio button with the gooey effect.
The effect looks well while the transition happens, but as soon as the transition ends, the effect is messed up (the colors do not blend well and the edges glow).
I've been trying to figure out what's the problem, without success.
Video: https://vimeo.com/248225026
Here is the code:

$('.register-option').click(function() {
  $('.register-option').removeClass('selected');
  $(this).addClass('selected');
});
body {
  background-color: rgb(158, 158, 158);
}

.register-choose {
  -webkit-filter: url(#goo);
  filter: url(#goo);
}

.register-choose .register-option {
  position: relative;
  width: 100px;
  height: 40px;
  border-radius: 120px;
  display: inline-block;
  color: #000;
  font-family: Tahoma;
  line-height: 40px;
  font-size: 12px;
  background-color: #fff;
  text-align: center;
  -webkit-transition: all 600ms cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1);
  transition: all 600ms cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

.register-choose .register-option.selected {
  -webkit-transform: scale(1.1);
  transform: scale(1.1);
}

.register-choose .register-option:first-of-type.selected {
  background-color: rgb(0, 181, 255);
}

.register-choose .register-option:last-of-type.selected {
  background-color: rgb(255, 118, 217);
}

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<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
  <defs>
   <filter id="goo">
    <feGaussianBlur in="SourceGraphic" stdDeviation="10" result="blur" />
    <feColorMatrix in="blur" mode="matrix" values="1 0 0 0 0  0 1 0 0 0  0 0 1 0 0  0 0 0 16 -6" result="goo" />
    <feComposite in="SourceGraphic" in2="goo" operator="atop" />
   </filter>
  </defs>
 </svg>

Thanks.

A: This is a magical incantation that seems to solve the Firefox visual bug. I have no idea why it works, but it seems to kick the right part of the Firefox filter code.
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
        <defs>
            <filter id="goo" >
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Q: ReactJs problem setting up Environment variable I have a react project that I have on a vps.
I have two environment, dev and production and I want to add some Environment variable to know in which I am.
I tried to setup something like that in my package.json
"build:dev":  "REACT_APP_ENVIRONMENT=dev react-scripts build",
"build:prod": "REACT_APP_ENVIRONMENT=prod react-scripts build",

and use that as an indicator
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And it works quite well for production environment with a value of "prod".
But for some reason for the build:dev this value is undefined.
I can't understand why it's working for one but not the other.
EDIT
So i found out that the problem was me not setting the imagePullPolicy (kubernetes deployment part) for both part.
I assume that it worked with production because the tag latest should always be fetched I think whereas other tag not necessarily.
After putting "imagePullPolicy":"Always" everything seems ok whenever I deploy to both environments.


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HUFFMAN – Jack Morman, not "Cactus" Jack Cagle, now represents this area to the Harris County Commissioner's Court; meaning that Precinct 2 has assumed the responsibility for almost all of the spraying for mosquitos and other county services near Lake Houston and the San Jacinto River.
Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle held a catfish dinner on Aug. 15 at the I.T. May Community Center to introduce Precinct 2 Commissioner Jack Morman.
The redistricting plan that was drawn by the legislature was changed following submission and pre-approval by the United States Justice Department in 2011. Harris County Precinct 2 would be the largest in land area and has been designated a "Hispanic Opportunity District." The plan was delayed by a lawsuit.
On August 2, U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore struck down a lawsuit filed in 2011 and having been fought in court since November of 2012. Several scenarios were presented as alternatives and several compromise versions were offered to settle the suit but Congressional District and County Precincts were uncertain even during the 2012 election.
Finally, the federal judge determined that attorneys representing the Latino community had failed to prove that the redistricting submission was unconstitutional due to the "Voters' Rights Act" or that race was a predominant factor in the design of the plan.
Morman, elected to Harris County Commissioners Court in 2011, is a graduate of Deer Park High School and Baylor University Law School. Since he presided over the Crosby area , he almost immediately implemented plans to be the "infrastructure Commissioner" and began in Crosby, "Better Streets 2 Neighborhoods," which started work on local roads some of which the commissioner found had not been updated in 30 years. Currently, in the Newport Subdivision South Diamondhead Boulevard is currently undergoing a conversion into an actual boulevard.
Morman mentioned updates to ball parks at the I.T. May Community Center during his talk at the Huffman dinner. He expressed a wish to hear from the community on what changes and needs the Huffman community feels important.
"If a constituent was having an issue with Pct. 4 and it hasn't been resolved before the transition, they need to call us so it can be addressed and resolved."
Harris County Precinct 2 can be reached by the computer savvy by visiting www.hcp2.com or call 713-755-6220.
Items of confusion related to the redistricting plan were pointed out at the Crosby-Huffman Chamber of Commerce New Educator's Luncheon. U.S. Congressman Ted Poe, R. Texas District 2, had a representative attend and say, "We really miss Crosby," many local residents are not aware that they are now represented by U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, R. Texas District 36. Stockman did not attend the meeting, nor did a representative of his. Wayne Smith, R. 128th Texas House District now represents Crosby and the portion of Huffman that is just a mile or so north of FM 1960 at FM 2100, west about a mile. Dan Huberty, R. 127th Texas House District represents the rest of Huffman, west to Humble. In law enforcement, Precinct 3 Constable Ken Jones heads patrols of the same area as before redistricting for Huffman.


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Buchinaidu Kandriga mandal or B. N. Kandriga mandal is one of the 34 mandals in Tirupati district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The mandal headquarters are located at Kanamanambedu. The mandal is bounded by Varadaiahpalem, K.V.B. Puram, Thottambedu mandals.

Demographics

 census, the mandal had a population of 34,261. The total population constitute, 17,097 males and 17,164 females —a sex ratio of 1004 females per 1000 males. 4,170 children are in the age group of 0–6 years, of which 2,129 are boys and 2,041 are girls. The average literacy rate stands at 65.39% with 19,677 literates.

Administration
The mandal was a part of Chittoor district and was made a part of the newly formed Tirupati district on 4 April 2022. It is a part of Sullurupeta revenue division.

Towns and villages

 census, the mandal has 24 villages.

The settlements in the mandal are listed below:

† – Mandal Headquarters

See also
 List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh

References

Mandals in Tirupati district
Tirupati district

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What happens when you take an API evangelist for OpenTok and introduce him to a bunch of developers in a place he's never been to, for example Tel Aviv? Yeah, I had no idea either. It turns out that in a place like Tel Aviv, where there are some brilliant startups springing up, there's no shortage of awesome developers with endless creativity.
TDHack, the first Telefonica Digital Israel hackathon, took place this past weekend. I saw it not only as an opportunity to go meet some our extended family, but to jump out of the American startup scene that I know so well and see how things are different (or the same) in Israel.
People use Waze instead of Google Maps. The timing of me being there to discover this is pretty coincidental given the news that came out while I was there.
GetTaxi has been around for years, and we just got something comparable in NYC a few weeks ago.
The community feels relatively small and tightly-knit. The night before the hackathon I went to a launch party for GeekTime. I met a bunch of interesting entrepreneurs working on all sorts of projects from POS systems to Voxer-like video messaging services. The products sounded cool but it wasn't anything I thought I wouldn't hear about in the Valley or in NYC. What was intersting was the size of the party, about 75 people. Moreover, people really knew each other. It wasn't a 500+ networking event for entrepreneurs, it was truly a community gathering.
Lastly, I noticed a couple interesting things about the developers in specific.
Over and above all the developers I met in Israel are smart. In fact, the group that won the overall hackathon were 4 teenagers who built Tokcurity, an app to keep their parents and siblings from touching their stuff while they were out. By speaking with faculty at Afeka College of Engineering, our hosts for the hackathon, I saw just how progressive their education programs are. Afeka has the first accredited mobile development concentration program in Israel. I got a chance to hack with some of those students, and I was surprised when a small group put together a well-designed, fully functional (with a real database and not hardcoded), cross platform app that ran on iOS, Android, and the web for StageDive in that short timeframe. These guys were wizards as far as I could tell.
Speaking of platforms, I was pretty surprised how much more important Android is to developers than iOS in Israel. Looking back, it makes a lot of sense, you need a Mac to write an iOS app and those cost nearly twice as much in Israel. Also, there's just a ton more Android users than iOS users in that part of the world, and to address that market, knowing Android development is a more valuable skill to have.
Besides the mobile platform balance offset, I found that developers are excited about a lot of the same technologies. I guess we all read the same Hacker News no matter where we come from.
I also want to give a quick shoutout to all the folks that helped put together TDHack: Telefonica Digital, Afeka College, SendGrid, and Yotpo. This was great an I hope we do it again soon.
Another shoutout to all the participants, that came out to hack with us. You guys rock and I hope you continue to work on amazing things.
Tokcurity: A security system web app that runs in your browser. Leave it running in your room and over time it takes multiple snapshots, diffs them, and if something seems to have changed significantly, it will send an alert to your iPhone. From the iPhone App you can open up a live stream so you can catch the trespasser in the act!
StageDive: A cross-platform concert from home experience. Open up your web browser to perform for your fans right from home. The companion Android app can be used to watch the concert lineup from where ever you are.
News-Worthy: Enabling everyone to be a stringer from their Android device and help put together stories for journalists and news organizations. Future plans include helping the man on the scene sell his coverage to a media outlet.
Diet.ly: A support group for dieting. Use discussion with your closest friends to help keep yourself on track with your nutritional and diet goals.
You can find the rest of the projects on HackerLeague.


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The Black Watch, Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006 - Tuesday 12th September 2017
Thread: The Black Watch, Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006 - Tuesday 12th September 2017
30th August 2017, 11:59 #1
Dear Association Members,
I thought you might like details of the September lecture at Balhousie, it is being given by Victoria Schofield who will talk about writing the final volume of the history of The Black Watch. Maybe you were one of those she talked to during her research. There will be an opportunity to buy the book and Victoria will be happy to sign and dedicate copies for you. This final volume of the 300 year history is the one that covers where you all played a part. Come and hear how Victoria captured those stories. Please call 01738 638152 Ext 201 to book and pay for your ticket.
Sarah Riddell-Webster
The Friends of The Black Watch Castle and Museum
The Black Watch, Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006
Tuesday 12th September 2017
Friends of The Black Watch Castle and Museum Lecture Series
Entitled The Black Watch, Fighting in the Front Line 1899-2006, and with a foreword by HRH the Duke of Rothesay, Victoria Schofield will be discussing writing the second and last volume of The Black Watch's official history. She will be highlighting some of the amazing and moving stories which have helped to make the history live through the words of officers and men as revealed in their diaries, letters and memoirs. For this volume she has also been able to include the recollections of over 100 veterans, of whom the oldest was the late Lance Corporal Dave Hutton, who celebrated his 100th birthday in April. In her talk, Schofield will describe the challenges she faced in reducing (for this volume) 107 years of history (1899-2006) into 600 pages and why it is so important for regimental history to be preserved not just in archives but in a readable and accessible form. In addition to having been able to make use of the wealth of information contained in The Black Watch Museum's archives, she will share some of the stories of how other research material came to light, often made available by a chance conversation when a friend would say: 'Oh, I know someone whose grandfather/ father/ uncle was in The Black Watch, "Do you want me to introduce you?"
£9 non members | £7 Friends
To book contact 01738 638152 Ext 201
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Home > Autographs > Business Leaders' Autographs > ' RARE Parmachenee Club signed by Henry W. Poor (Standard & Poor's Fame) and H. P Wells (Inventor of the Parmachene Belle Fishing Fly) - 1896
Home > Rare and Unique, Specimens > Rare and Scarce Stocks / Bonds > ' RARE Parmachenee Club signed by Henry W. Poor (Standard & Poor's Fame) and H. P Wells (Inventor of the Parmachene Belle Fishing Fly) - 1896
' RARE Parmachenee Club signed by Henry W. Poor (Standard & Poor's Fame) and H. P Wells (Inventor of the Parmachene Belle Fishing Fly) - 1896
Beautiful RARE stock certificate from the Parmachenee Club issued in 1896. This historic document has an ornate border around it with the organization's name om top center. This item has the signatures of the Company's President, Henry W. Poor and Secretary, Henry Parkhurst Wells.
This is a portrait print from book in 1895 - Printed signature.
The Parmachenee Club was a private hunting-fishing club for wealth gentlemen on Treat's Island at Parmachenee Lake in Maine.
Henry William Poor (June 16, 1844 - April 1915) was an American banker, stockbroker, and author. Henry William Poor was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1844, the son of Henry Varnum Poor. The family moved to New York City when he was five years old, and he spent his youth there. He attended Harvard College, graduating in 1865.
The firm that he and his father established in 1868, H. V. & H. W. Poor, was a predecessor to the business that eventually became Standard & Poor's. Henry William Poor became prominent as a stockbroker and investor, but had to liquidate his business in 1908 following some major losses.
He was also widely known as a book collector and a patron of the arts. Poor died in New York City in April 1915.
Henry P. Wells invented the famous Parmacheene Belle fishing fly in 1876.
The Parmachenee Club was formed in 1890 to lease 120,000 acres (49,000 ha) of commercial forest land extending south from the Canadian border where they built a camp in the meadows along the Magalloway River. Club members lodged at the camp while engaged in sport hunting and angling. The meadows and camp were seasonally flooded by a log driving dam built by Brown Mills Company and International Paper Company. Camp Caribou was originally a floating camp built by John Danforth who in 1870 relocated the camp to Treat's Island. In 1890 it was sold to the Parmachenee Club who expanded the facility with a farm house and farm on the East shore and a fish hatchery. Camp Caribou eventually consisted of a main lodge, maids' quarters, quides' quarters, a large woodshed and 13 individual family cabins. They also developed a hillside spring that was piped across the lake to the Club. As angling opportunities declined on more accessible lakes before the advent of fishing licenses, fishing seasons, slot limits, and creel limits, the nearly aboriginal conditions of the private reserve of the Parmachenee Club became legendary among outdoor writers. Parmachenee Lake became a vacation retreat for the United States' industrial and political elite. One of the last visitors, before the club disbanded in the 1960s, was President Dwight D. Eisenhower[5] in 1952 who slept in Cabin 5. The Brown Company eventually bought the property and used it as a Corporate retreat. The Island was then leased to a private individual and has been seasonally occupied since then.
Biography of Henry William Poor (from America's Successful Men of Affairs, 1895)
Source: Hall, Henry, ed.. America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, pp. 512-513. New York, USA: The New York Tribune, 1895-96.
HENRY WILLIAM POOR, banker, stock broker and author, a man thoroughly American in sentiment, an authority of world wide reputation in railway matters and statistics, and for character and accomplishments highly regarded, was born in Bangor, Me., June 16, 1844. All of his ancestors on both sides of the family originated in England and established themselves in Massachusetts in the earliest colonial times, where they shared in all the activities of their day for subduing the wilderness and the Indian tribes, planting a commonwealth, and creating in the new world a representative form of government Ezekiel Merrill, great-grandfather of Mr. Poor on his father's side, held a commission as an officer and wielded a sword bravely in the American Revolution. He served in Colonel Gerrish's regiment, April 19, 1775, when the Minute Men in New England were summoned, at the time of the Lexington alarm, to withstand the aggressions of the British troops, and had the honor to be present in the American army at the time of Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777. In 1785, this old Revolutioner moved to Andover, Me., situated among the mountains of Oxford county near the Rangeley Lakes and there, in 1791, built the Merrill House, an old homestead of the colonial style, which is now owned by the subject of this biography and occupied by him as one of his country seats.
Benjamin Franklin, great great uncle of Mr. Poor on his mother's side, performed services in the period of the struggle for independence, which are historic and require no further mention. On his mother's side, also, Mr. Poor is a grandson of the Rev. John Pierce, who presided over the first parish church in Brookline, Mass., for over fifty years and was a prominent figure in the annals of Harvard University, his picture occupying a conspicuous position in Memorial Hall at Cambridge, Mass.[p.512]
His father, Henry V. Poor, a graduate, in 1835, of Bowdoin College, Maine, was a lawyer in Bangor, Me., until 1849, when he moved with his family to New York and was well known in this city in railway affairs and as editor of The American Railroad Journal, which he conducted until 1863. In 1865, he retired from active life and moved to Brookline, Mass. Since then, he has become the author of various financial and statistical works of great value and is yet living in a hale, hearty old age, greatly respected by all who know him.
Mr. Poor received a preliminary education in New York city, to which place he was brought when five years old, and graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1865. He entered upon the serious work of his career immediately on graduating, returning to New York city in August of 1865, and has ever since made the metropolis his home. Finding occupation at once as clerk in the then stock brokerage firm of Henry Fitch & Co., he learned in that house all the technicalities of the brokerage business and soon gained sufficient confidence to engage in business on his own account. Any man of receptive and tenacious mind, who is inspired with the least particle of determination not to remain in a rut but to make his own way in the world, will in due time leave a subordinate position and display to the world the sign, which announces that he is in business for himself. Mr. Poor's period of probation was an unusually short one, and in 1868, he established himself in business under the firm name H. V. & H. W. Poor in this city as a dealer in railroad securities. He then associated with himself the Hon. C. E. Habicht, Consul General of Norway and Sweden, in the importation of railroad iron as correspondent of the firm of Tiden, Nordenfelt & Co., of London. Mr. Nordenfelt became the maker of the heavy ordnance known as the "Nordenfelt gun" for the British Government. Mr. Poor's connection with this branch of the business, through the necessity of keeping a record of all railway companies and new construction undertaken by them so that he might be the first in the field in negotiation for the rails needed by them, led to the establishment by him, in 1868, of the now famous annual publication known as "Poor's Railroad Manual," which has ever since filled an important place in the railroad world. Embodying as it does, exhaustive financial information concerning every railway company on the continent, it is an absolute necessity to every manager of an American railroad, every operator in railroad shares and every statistician and writer on economic questions and is as well known in Europe as in this country. Mr. Poor gave extremely close study to the subject to which the Manual was devoted, and soon rose to the position of an authority upon railroad statistics. The firm of H. V. & H. W. Poor is yet in existence at No. 44 Broad street, as publishers of the "Railroad Manual" and other statistical works, Henry W. Poor having been the sole partner, however, since 1883. The period in which Mr. Poor made his entrance into affairs was one of great activity in financial circles. The Civil War had come to an end, railroad building was the order of the day, the country was animated with a spirit of restless enterprise and Wall street became the centre of exciting operations. The firm of H. V. & H. W. Poor prospered from year to year and undertook the construction of several lines of railway, and the junior partner gradually gained the capital to engage in a regular banking business.
The now well known banking firm, of which Mr. Poor is the senior partner, was [p.514] organized in 1880, under the name of Anthony, Poor & Oliphant. They located their office at No. 19 Broad street and attracted important clients from the start. Various transmutations have since occurred in the personnel of the firm. In 1881, they organized as Poor, Oliphant & Co., changed to Poor & Oliphant in 1882, and taking the name of Poor, White & Co., in 1883, upon the addition to it of B. Ogden White, who had been for twenty years the secretary of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1884, the name was again changed to Poor, White & Greenough by accession of John Greenough, a classmate of Mr. Poor in Harvard College, and who formerly had been a leading merchant in the South American business, in which he had accumulated a fortune.
In 1886, the name was changed to Poor & Greenough, the title of the present firm. The house has always managed its affairs with prudence, energy and ability and is now prominent in Wall street, both partners being rated as millionaires. It represents a number of important foreign interests and corporations, has extensive English and continental connections, deals largely in railway and other securities, having issued upward of $100,000,000 of railway loans, has borne a part in important railroad reorganizations, and has acted as financial agents of The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway, The New York, Ontario & Western Railway, The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway and many other corporations.
Mr. Poor purchased a seat in the Stock Exchange, Oct. 2, 1890, and individually has made investments in and been active in the management of a large number of corporations, in which his counsel has been desired. He is at the present time president of The Kansas City & Pacific Railway; an active director of The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway; a director of The Bank of the State of New York, and chairman of The Sherman, Shreveport & Southern Railway; and a director of The United States Casualty Co., and the Consolidated Ice Co. He has also been connected at various times with many other corporations in an official capacity.
Mr. Poor is a man of refined and scholarly tastes and prominent in the social life of the city. He is an ardent student and a great lover of books and has, by careful and gradual accumulation, collected one of the finest private libraries in the city of New York; and he maintains his vigor for business pursuits by recreation in the open air, having been distinguished in youth for prominence in athletic sports and great physical strength. Among the clubs of which he is, or has been, a member are the Union League, Harvard, University, Players', Tuxedo, Country, Lawyers', Down Town, Riding, Racquet & Tennis, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht, American Yacht, Rockaway Hunting, Oval, Aldine, Grolier, Barnard, Lotos, City, Vaudeville, Arkwright, Lawrence, New York Athletic and Mendelssohn Glee of this city, and the Algonquin of Boston. He was the first president (1894) of Good Government Club F, and is treasurer of the Parmachenee club, a sporting club in Maine. By virtue of lineal descent from Ezekial Merrill above referred to, he is also a member of The Sons of the American Revolution in this State, and from public spirit and interest in their objects he became a member of The New York Historical Society, life member of The New England Society and The American Institute of Fine Arts, a member of The New York Geographical & Statistical Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The American Museum of Natural History and The Hakluyt Society of London. He is also a director of The Symphony and Oratorio Societies and a member of The Musical Art Society. He was married Feb. 4, 1880, to Constance Brandon, and is the father of four children, [p.515] Henry V., born 1880; Edith, born 1882; Roger, born 1883, and Sylvia, born 1892.


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AI Facial Recognition- a Blessing or curse?
Author: Dhaval Vora
Category: IoT Technology News
Face recognition is increasingly being used for biometric identification, from unlocking a phone screen or a banking application to access in buildings or check-in flights. Artificial Intelligence integrated facial recognition is used to track citizens, criminals, establish digital identity or biometric authentication.
A major thrust to this technology has come from governments across the world, esp. China and the US for extensive public surveillance and security. They are spending a large amount of money for integrated applications with existing citizen databases and to improve accuracy of face recognition algorithms and reduce false matches.
The use of facial recognition technology is used across verticals, such as BFSI, retail, healthcare, private companies or educational institutions, safety and surveillance of places including airports, railway stations, crossing state or country borders, etc. In the war against COVID-19, several governments have implemented these new surveillance devices in healthcare, public safety, and surveillance applications. This kind of "contactless" identification verification technologies have become of prior importance, to avoid transfer of virus or bacteria with biometric fingerprint scanners or other touch-based identity verifiers. During COVID-19, facial recognition had some major surveillance and authentication use cases.
What is a Facial Recognition system?
Facial recognition systems can be used to accomplish one of two different tasks:
Verification (Authentication)
Identification.
Verification (One: One matching) is used to confirm that the person is "who he claims to be"
Identification (One: Many matching) is when an unknown face is compared to a large database of known faces to determine the unknown person's identity.
How AI Facial Recognition works
Face recognition uses AI technology to automatically detect the face from thousands of photos and videos, it can identify a person from the real-time footage across locations. It analyses and identifies the face through a photograph or video.
Every person's face is broken up into numerous data points, it can be the height of cheekbones, the distance between the eyes and mouth. It searches data points and tries to account for variations. If a person is wearing a cap or sunglasses it can even be recognized by AI facial recognition. Facial recognition systems vary, but in general tend to operate as follows:-
Detection of Face
It recognizes the face and locates the image of the face then save it in the database
Analysis of Face
The software of AI facial recognition technology reads the geometry which includes distance between eyes, the depth of eye orbit, distance from forehead to chin, the shape of cheekbones and outline of lips, ears and chin. It is used to distinguish a face from others to identify the facial landmarks.
Changing the image to data
The captured face transforms the face into digital information based on the person's facial features. The analysis is turned into a mathematical formula. This code is becoming a faceprint which is as unique as a thumbprint.
Finding a match
To find a match, the faceprint is compared with the database to recognise the faces.
How AI facial recognition is used today
Smart Phone Safety
In today's time, every smartphone has a facial recognition verification feature that helps to unlock the devices. It can be used to scan the face to unlock different applications on the phone, to eliminate the need to remember passwords. Hence, it offers safest means to protect unwanted access to applications, even their data and guarantees its safety, even if the phone is stolen. Weak passwords are much easier to crack or guess if the phone is stolen.
Along with extensive CCTv monitoring, face recognition technology helps in registration, recognizing the patients, and even to detect emotions or pain. Apart from regular surveillance and asset monitoring, it can be increasingly utilised for Patient monitoring, health-staff identity, support pain management procedures and track patient medication consumption.
Airport checking
Busy Airports have millions of visitors moving every day. "Smart gates" can continuously monitor visitor faces and movements of passing visitors and can reduce time for scanning with combination of facial recognition and other techniques. Integrated with central databases, these checks can "trigger alerts" to airport authorities, for any suspected individuals or criminals on such gates. Thus, it can boost security, reduce the waiting time for immigration checks and bring efficiency.
Banks can increase safety of its cash in ATMs, branches, locker rooms, identification of its customers, as well as their employees with the help of CCTv surveillance and AI based facial recognition. Mobile banking applications are using face recognition to conduct remote KYC check of their customers. They can also use it to restrict unauthorised access of banking areas.
In retail, face recognition can be used identify staff, unauthorised access or alert shoplifting. It can be used to capture images/video for a customer's demographics or interest profile, their shopping journey. Thus, it can give valuable insights for marketing to drive promotions/offers and identify repeat customers across different stores to improve their customer experience.
Benefits of AI facial recognition.
Better security
On government level, facial recognition can help to identify wanted criminals and terrorists or finding missing children. Facial recognition technologies have been deployed via homeland security, federal and regional law enforcement departments, and other security agencies across the globe.
Better convenience
AI facial recognition can 'do more' to provide a better convenience. For example, it can be used to buy goods and "Fast Check out" from retail stores without paying with cash or credit card. A faster access for office premises by employees to account attendance or authorise candidates at online testing centres, lifts/hotel stay access or while entering through airports/ railway stations, hospitals etc.
Contact less Authentication
AI facial recognition can augment security guards at entrances, to perform fast authentication of visitors with accuracy. The technology collects a set of unique data pertaining to an individual associated with their facial features and expression to identify, verify and/or authenticate a person. During pandemic, FR proved to be more dependable, as it can analyse the person's face from a safer distance and verify identity of people through contactless gates.
Downside of AI facial recognition
Threat for privacy
This is one of the main concerns that people feel is a breach of their privacy, the majority of facial images are taken without people's consent.
Continuous surveillance
Facial recognition technology is omnipresent in every video surveillance camera, which can help the government to track wanted criminals. But it even tracks down ordinary and guiltless people at all time without their consent.
Possibility for error
Every technology has a possibility for an error, even facial recognition is not error-free. It can lead to people who are wrongly accused of crimes they have not committed. In the year 2018, Amazon face recognition matched with 28 Congress members as criminals.
Face recognition is an extremely powerful technology if it is used properly. For example, Snapchat uses facial recognition technology to uses filters that are mould into user's faces, Google photos uses to sort pictures and tag the person recognized in photos. Real-time face recognition is most accurate when faces are compared in a static image, but its accuracy drops when photos are taken in the public. AI facial recognition can transform the whole video surveillance system. However, most leading companies have expressed their concerns over misuse of this technology and a need to regulate.
Dhaval Vora
Dhaval brings over 22 years of experience in Product Management and Customer Engagement. His deep understanding of customer pain & technology led to the launch of multiple products that scaled to meet the needs of some of the largest global telcos & resulted in 10x growth for Elitecore. He was a founding team member of Elitecore (now STL Software), he built teams and led 700 employees to adopt successful agile product delivery practices.
Passionate about AI & Computer vision, Dhaval founded AIVID with the vision to solve critical but repetitive tasks using automation leaving humans to focus on value creation.


The RRISD Bond Propositions contain many worthwhile projects, but as I have explained in previous posts, at least 40% of the $572 million is earmarked for projects of questionable need, that could bedeferred, or that have excessive price tags. RRISD may have gotten it 60% right, but that is still a failing grade.
Recognizing that most voters do not have time to peel back the layers of the onion, I have done a lot of research and posted multiple threads to explain why the 3 Bond Propositions should be voted down. For your convenience, I am summarizing them here and providing links to documents with more detail. The first document is a 5-page summary of reasons to vote "NO" on the bonds. It explains why some projects are not justified by RRISD's own enrollment projections, how nice-to-have projects are bundled with other projects to force the hand of voters, how RRISD's track poor track record of managing operating expense raises doubts about its ability to spend bond money efficiently, and why voters should focus on debt service payments rather than incremental tax rates.
The second document goes into more depth on why RRISD's efforts to focus on incremental tax rates is like looking at the tip of an iceberg while ignoring what is below the surface.
The third document shows why High School #6 in Proposition #1 is not needed in the near future, especially after spending $64 million to expand Round Rock HS. Even if HS #6 is needed at some point, the $150 million price tag will make it the most expensive high school in the history of Texas, even after adjusting for inflation. By reducing its physical size to match Cedar Ridge, RRISD could reduce the cost by at least $33 million.
The fourth document shows why conversion of CD Fulkes Middle to a visual and performing arts center in Proposition #2 is not a wise decision. The total cost to build the academy is $51 million ($6 million from 2014 bonds + $45 million from 2017 bonds) versus $15.5 million to renovate/upgrade existing facilities at CD Fulkes. The $36 million premium will not result in higher enrollment, so it has nothing to do with growth.
The fifth document shows why the Indoor Aquatic Center ($22 million) in Proposition #3 is a project of questionable value, and if pursued at all, should be built and operated by the City of Round Rock, not RRISD.
The final document discusses RRISD's elusive goal of becoming a "destination" school district and how this fuels its unending appetite for spending.


MONTE CARLO, The Art of Taste Magazine was the brainchild of Juliet Cullinan that was launched in her quest to showcase the finest in luxury, delivered directly to the wealthiest families worldwide.
Monte Carlo is the ultimate destination of those who aspire to enjoying the finest and have the means of achieving it.
These glimpses of perfection are key to The Art of Taste.
Clarity, light and purity of colour drew Impressionist painters to the French Rivera. The English were drawn by the warm Mediterranean sun taking their daily walks along Le Promenade des Anglais. I cane to Monte Carlo for my heart.
As I wrote this, Rafael Nadal had just won his eighth consecutive Monaco Rolex Masters Tennis Tournament, the roads were being resurfaced for the Grand Prix, Top Marques was dismantled, extensively photographed cars roared away, large boats and the10m spacecraft for 2014 orbital flights was being lifted by large cranes from their displays outside the Grimaldi Forum.
Monaco is movement. The sets are constantly changed by a slick parade of skilled workmen preparing the stage for the waiting players of the next act.
Our debut issue celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 3 Michelin Star Louis XV at the Hotel de Paris with acclaimed chef Alain Ducasse. We share the face behind the world's most expensive frock designed by Debbie Wingham.
We glimpse the "New Face of Gucci", Charlotte Casiraghi, meet 007, Sir Roger Moore, showcase Bordeaux wines , share secrets on fashion, men's swimwear, perfume, antique jewellery, art, caviar, tea and restaurants in France.
Our magazine launched at the Hôtel de Paris just prior to the Grand Prix. We were joined by Ambassadors, members of the Lotus team, press and friends who share our passion to promote Monaco. Tracy Stern, Founder of Salon Tea in New York celebrated "The Art of Taste" launch with a presentation of her unique range of teas.
We aimed to present an elegant quarterly window on Monte Carlo, exploring its' lifestyle, exhibitions and celebrities.
Monte Carlo is the ultimate destination of those who aspire to enjoying the finest and have the means of achieving it. These glimpses of perfection are key to The Art of Taste.
I hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed presenting it to you.


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Q: Copy files in different gulp tasks to same folder I have files in folders like this:
- source_a
--- file_x
--- file_y
--- file_z
- source_b
--- file_z
- dest

And i want to copy all files from source_a to dest, after this finish i want to copy all files from source_b to dest so that file_z will be runover.
Here is my code
gulp.task("myCopy", ["copy_a"], function() {
    return gulp.src('source_b').pipe(gulp.dest('dest'))
});

gulp.task("copy_a", [], function(theme) {
return [
        gulp.src('source_b').pipe(gulp.dest('dest')),
        gulp.src('other_stuff').pipe(gulp.dest('to_other_places'))
    ];
});

But eventually all the files in dest are from source_a... if i run again copy_a in separate run it works... what am i missing?
Thanks.

A: Why don't you create 2 copy tasks and run them in sequence, like so:
gulp.task('copy_a', function(){
  // copy all from folder A
  return gulp.src('source_a/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dest'))
});

gulp.task('copy_b', function(){
  // copy all from folder B
  return gulp.src('source_b/**').pipe(gulp.dest('dest'))
});

gulp.task('copy', function(cb) {
  var runSequence = require('run-sequence');

  runSequence('copy_a', 'copy_b', cb); // run in sequence
});

This way your copy task run in sequence, task copy_b only starts when copy_a has finished.
Just call the copy task and you'll be on your way.


The Town Council is obliged to act in accordance with the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 and publish various types of information on a regular basis. This includes quarterly publication of expenditure exceeding £500 and the annual publication of details of all land and properties owned by the Town Council.
Full Details of the Transparency Code can be found in the Town Council's Financial Regulations (May 2017) here.
Lifeguard Station, North Walk Ryde.
Map references for each property and asset can be found on the PDF attached above, however we have not been provided with the Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRN).


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Dallas Opera's SAMSON & DALILA Opens 10/20
by BWW News Desk
BroadwayWorld.com Oct. 5, 2017
The Dallas Opera is proud to present the initial mainstage offering of the 2017-2018 "Motives Unmasked!" Season: Camille Saint-Saëns' glorious nineteenth-century grand opera, SAMSON & DALILA, opening with The Linda and Mitch Hart Season Opening Night Performance on Friday, October 20, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. (note special curtain time), the first of five performances in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas. Saint-Saëns' 1877 masterpiece features a tremendous ensemble cast that includes Russian superstar Olga Borodina, Clifton Forbis, Richard Paul Fink, Michael Chioldi and Ryan Kuster.
Performances continue on October 22(m), 25, 28 and November 5(m), 2017 in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m., (except for the opening night performance mentioned above) and the curtain rises on our Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. There is absolutely no late seating.
SAMSON & DALILA will be performed in its original language, French, with English-language translations projected above the stage at every performance.
Tickets may be purchased by phone (214.443.1000), online (www.dallasopera.org) or at the door-starting at the low price of just $19.
Samson is the only hope of his people, the Hebrews, in the oppressive grip of the Philistines. Enter Dalila, the calculating seductress capable of capturing men's hearts with ease. Her temptation of Samson continues until she gets what she wants: the secret of his strength. Camille Saint-Saëns' opera builds to the familiar, spectacular climax, taken straight from the Book of Judges in this libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire.
Dramatic tenor Clifton Forbis has sung some of the most challenging roles in the operatic repertoire. He has mesmerized Dallas Opera audiences as Siegmund in Die Walküre, as well as a "forceful and manly" Tristan. Samson is a signature role for Mr. Forbis, who has performed this part at Bilbao, San Francisco Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera. He was last seen on The Dallas Opera stage in 2012's groundbreaking production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, directed by Christian Räth, after inaugurating Dallas Opera productions in the Winspear Opera House in October of 2009 in the title role of Otello.
He will star opposite the legendary Russian mezzo-soprano, Olga Borodina, who came to prominence in the West in 1992 when she starred opposite Plácido Domingo in Samson at London's Covent Garden. This Grammy Award-winner is considered the ultimate Dalila of her generation, according to London-based critic Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraph.
Adam Wasserman of Opera News observed "...to watch Borodina is to see the masterful emergence of a truly human, fully formed character...buttressed by some of the most luxurious, thrilling vocalism that one can hope to encounter in an opera house."
The artist is closely associated with the historic Mariinsky Theatre in her birthplace,
Saint Petersburg, Russia, but performs and records throughout the Western world, as well.
Ms. Borodina's recording of the Verdi Requiem with Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, won two 2011 Grammy Awards, including Best Classical Album.
Music Director EmManuel Villaume (The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director) will conduct the renowned Dallas Opera Orchestra in "one of the brightest jewels of French opera."
Maestro Villaume triumphed in a revival of Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; prompting Hannah Nepil of The Financial Times to praise Villaume for "teasing out sultry, sumptuous playing from his orchestra." He also earned uniformly outstanding notices for his superb conducting of The Dallas Opera's 2016 revival of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby-Dick, prompting Gregory Sullivan Isaacs of Theater Jones to write, "...with Villaume on the podium, Heggie's score comes across as much more neo-tonal, lush, magnificently constructed and neo-romantic opera than what I perceived in the score back then. Vocal lines soar, giving singers some great bel-canto phrases that are grateful for the voice."
Over the past summer, Villaume conducted a critically acclaimed Dallas Opera-Santa Fe Opera co-production of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel in its debut as part of the Santa Fe Opera 2017 Season. Directed by Paul Curran and designed by Gary McCann, this new production will take centerstage in Dallas in an upcoming season.
The Samson & Dalila performance on Wednesday, October 25th will be conducted by special guest Pierre Vallet, in his Dallas Opera debut.
Praised for the elegance and intensity of his performances, Maestro Vallet is a long-serving member of the Metropolitan Opera Conductors Staff. He also conducts at Paris National Opera; the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow; Sweden's Göteborg Opera; Barcelona's Gran Teatro del Liceu; the Saito Kinen Festival and in many other prestigious houses and venues throughout Europe and Asia. The New York Times even cited Vallet for conducting one of the "Ten Best Classical Performances in New York City" in 2016.
Maestro Vallet's symphonic work includes several appearances at the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; the Royal Camerata in Bucharest; the Spoleto Festival USA; and the Greenwich Village Orchestra in New York.
With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Elizabeth Sombart, Vallet has recorded the Chopin piano concertos, as well as a CD of adagios from piano concertos.
SAMSON & DALILA will be staged by internationally acclaimed German director Bruno Berger-Gorski in his TDO debut. He has been described as "the only active German opera director who has staged operas on four continents"-including more than a hundred from the standard repertoire. Mr. Berger-Gorski is also considered a champion of rarely performed, unusual, or contemporary works, such as Dirk d'Ase's Einstein, Gomes' Condor for the Festival, Wolf-Ferrari's Sly, and Offenbach's Rheinnixon hailed as "the discovery of the year" by Opernwelt magazine.
Keith Cerny, the Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO noted: "We've assembled a superb cast and off-stage team for our season opening production, to breathe life into an exciting and accessible grand opera that hasn't been seen on our stage in nearly half a century!
We are especially pleased to be giving Dallas audiences the chance to personally experience the world-class artistry of Olga Borodina and Clifton Forbis; however, I'm certain patrons will be just as swept away by the power and beauty of this terrific ensemble of principal singers and the amazing Dallas Opera Chorus.
If any show is guaranteed to bring the house down on opening night-it's this one!"
Other members of this cast include Grammy-winning baritone Richard Paul Fink as the High Priest of Dagon, baritone Michael Chioldi in his TDO debut as Abimélech (the Philistine provincial governor), and bass-baritone Ryan Kuster as the Old Hebrew.
The sets were designed by Peter Dean Beck for Pittsburgh Opera. Carrie Robbins designed the costumes for San Francisco Opera. Both will be making their house debuts. Lighting design is by Allen Burrett and choreography by Nycole Ray, artistic director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Encore!, in her Dallas Opera debut.
As always, chorus preparation is by Dallas Opera Chorus Master Alexander Rom.
Student Rush Tickets are available at the door 90 minutes prior to curtain - a valid student ID is required for each ticket purchased. Contact The Dallas Opera Ticket Office at 214.443.1000. For additional information about the cast, artistic/production team, and synopsis, or to purchase this "hot ticket"-visit www.dallasopera.org today.
SAMSON & DALILA: SYNOPSIS
Palestine, 1150 B.C. In a square in Gaza, a group of Hebrews beg Jehovah for relief from their bondage to the Philistines; Samson, their leader, rebukes them for their lack of faith. When the Philistine commander, Abimélech, denounces the Hebrews and their God, Samson kills him and leads the Hebrews away. The High Priest of Dagon comes from the Philistine temple and curses Samson's prodigious strength, leaving with the slain man's bier. An Old Hebrew praises the returning Samson. The outer walls of the temple disappear to reveal Samson's former lover, the Philistine woman Dalila, who invites him to come that night to her nearby dwelling. She and her maidens dance seductively for Samson, who becomes deaf to the Old Hebrew's dour prophecies.
In the vale of Sorek, Dalila calls on her gods to help her ensnare and disarm Samson, promising the High Priest to find a way to render the hero powerless. Samson appears, passionate in spite of himself; when Dalila has him in her power, she feigns disbelief in his constancy and demands that he show his love by confiding in her the secret of his strength, weeping when he refuses. Samson hears rolling thunder as a warning from God but cannot resist following Dalila inside. Not long afterward, having finally learned that the secret of Samson's strength is his long hair, she calls to hidden Philistine soldiers, who rush in to capture and blind Samson.
In a dungeon at Gaza, the sightless Samson pushes a grist mill in a circle, praying for his people, who will suffer for his sin. He hears their voices castigating him. During a bacchanal in the Temple of Dagon, Dalila and the High Priest taunt Samson. When they force him to kneel to Dagon, he asks a boy to lead him to the two main pillars of the templE. Samson prays to Jehovah to restore his strength, and with a mighty effort he pulls down the pillars and the temple, crushing himself and his foes.
By John W. Freeman - courtesy of Opera News
Founded in 1957, The Dallas Opera is an internationally-recognized innovator dedicated to the overall advancement of the operatic art form and the support of established and emerging artists, as well as the education and development of new opera audiences in North Texas-and beyond. These goals are achieved by commissioning and producing world-class opera; through groundbreaking institutes, national competitions and topical programs; and by presenting opera in both traditional and non-traditional formats and venues in order to attract patrons of every background, educational level, and ethnicity-while engaging with more than 87,000 people in our community each year. TDO is equally committed to the task of responsible stewardship and is managed with efficiency and accountability, to the highest possible standards.
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