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New Release Review (DVD) - THE TIMBER
A pair of brothers agree to hunt down their fugitive father to save their land.
Directed by: Anthony O'Brien
Starring: Josh Peck, James Ransone, Elisa Lasowski, Mark Caven
Had O'Brien and his co-writers allowed us more time to get to know their film's protagonists, we may have cared more about their plight, but The Timber is a movie as paper-thin as its accompanying layer of snow is thick.
After decades in the wilderness, the western is enjoying a minor comeback. Last year gifted us with Slow West and The Salvation, while in recent weeks we've been impressed by the Kurt Russell double whammy of The Hateful Eight and Bone Tomahawk. Coming soon is the female led The Keeping Room and Ti West's revenge oater In a Valley of Violence. The Timber is more of a kin with the classic B-Westerns, and even features a B-picture running time of a mere 79 minutes.
The premise of Anthony O'Brien's film shares a similar dynamic with John Hillcoat's Aussie riff on the western, The Proposition, pitting family members against each other in service of the law. Here it's brothers Wyatt (James Ransone) and Samuel (Josh Peck) who are forced to bring their fugitive father Jebediah into the arms of the law when the bank threatens to foreclose on their homestead. Along with a sinister bank appointed hired hand (William Gaunt), the brothers set off into a foreboding stretch of wilderness known as 'The Timber'.
As I mentioned, The Timber has a very brief runtime; all too brief, as the film never allows itself time to breath. Unlike Bone Tomahawk, which afforded us time to get to know its characters on a similar journey, The Timber feels impatient and hurried, never allowing us any sense of how long this trek is actually taking its participants. It doesn't take too long for the brothers to arrive at the location housing their father, and the journey is devoid of any memorable incidents beyond a couple of sloppily edited encounters with hostile forces. Any suspense that may have arisen from the suspicious intentions of Gaunt's accompanying hired gun is blotted out by his limited screen time.
What the film does quite well is convey the harshness of this snowbound corner of the old west. Blanketed in snow and frost, the actors genuinely look like they're in pain throughout, and you'll be reaching for your warmest onesie should you watch this on your couch.
Had O'Brien and his co-writers allowed us more time to get to know their film's protagonists, we may have cared more about their plight, but The Timber is a movie as paper-thin as its accompanying layer of snow is thick. This one's for die-hard western fans only.
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Q: What happens if I forget to deallocate memory in C++ I have a question regarding the memory management in C++. As far as I know, there is no need to deallocate memory in Java, since unused objects will be removed by the JVM garbage collector at some time. My point is, if I forgot to free memory in C++, the used memory addresses will be occupied until I restart the machine and the data in the memory get lost? For example, on the code below I have a simple linked list and you can observe that I do not free memory(which is commented in the destructor):
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

typedef struct Node{
Node* next;
int id;
} *ListPtr;
class LinkedList{
public:`ListPtr header;

LinkedList(){
    header = NULL;
}
~LinkedList(){
    /*
     ListPtr a = header,b;
    while(a != NULL)
    {
        b = a;
        a = a -> next;
        delete b;
    }
    delete a,b;
    cout << "Memory freed!"<< endl;
    */
}

public: void Insert(){
    ListPtr new_element = new Node;
    new_element -> next = NULL;

    if(header == NULL){
        header = new_element;
        header -> id = 0;
    }
    else{
        new_element -> next = header;
        new_element -> id = header -> id + 1;
        header = new_element;
    }
}

public: void Print(){
    ListPtr curr = header;
    while(curr != NULL){
             cout << "[" << &curr -> id << "]" << "-->";
        curr = curr -> next;
    }
    cout << "[NULL]"<<endl;
}};

int main(){
LinkedList list;
list.Insert();
list.Insert();
list.Insert();
list.Insert();
list.Insert();
list.Print();
return 0;
}

Does it mean that those memory addresses will be occupied until I turn the machine off? What happens with variables such as integers after the execution of a program is done? Can I free them?
The Output for the program is:
[0x8622ac]-->[0x86229c]-->[0x86228c]-->[0x86227c]-->[0x8615bc]-->[NULL]

A: Unless you are using some kind of stripped down real-time operating system, it is extremely unlikely that the system cannot recover all the memory when the process exits.
That said, it is a good practice to not count on that behavior. For example, you could include counts of allocated objects in your constructors/destructors. If they all go to zero before the program exits, you have a good check against memory leaks. If those counts are non-zero, you have a memory leak somewhere.

A: It depends on the operating system. Most modern operating systems keeps track of allocated memory per process, so when the process exits all memory allocated by the process should be released.
However, not releasing resources after you're done with them will lead to leaks, in the case of memory you will have memory leaks. And for long-running processes, those leaks can accumulate, until all resources are used up.

Even when the memory and other resources are released automatically on process termination, it's often still considered good style to explicitly release allocated resources before exiting the process.

A: C++ does not have garbage collector like Java and it is programmers duty to free dynamically allocated memory. Operating system clears the memory that was allocated for a application when the application is terminated but there are specific cases where deallocation must be performed by the programmer otherwise it will cause memory leak.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class test {
    public:
    int cl;
};

int main()
{
  test *p;
  p=new(test);
  p->cl=5;
  return 0;
}

When the above program terminates it will free the pointer p but will not free the integer pointed by p though that integer is no longer accessible.

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Q: How to install hpn ssh on ubuntu 20.04 I want to transfer files via ssh, but it's slow. I've read hpn ssh can speed up ssh. However, I don't know how to install it on Ubuntu 20.04. I just find nothing about this subject on the internet!!!!
Please guide me

A: From the comments - really you have two possible methods of HPN-SSH installation:

*

*Follow the recipe for compilation and installation of HPN-SSH may be done by following steps from ArchLinux PKGBUILD.

*Use pre-compiled binaries at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hpnssh/files/Debian%20Packages/ . You may want to test them on VM with your current Ubuntu version.
But I do not recommend to do so because of the fact that the ordinary SSH is proven to be stable and fast enough for years. Its speed is near full bandwidth of LAN while doing file-transfer via SSHfs. The roots of HPN-SSH are in supercomputing, but I do not think that you owning any of it. So speed of ordinary SSH would be enough. If you want to check what is really slow - try SMB/CIFS (Windows file-sharing) to compare.

A: I know this is an old question but in case anyone else is looking for an answer... So I'm the guy that developed HPN-SSH. HPN-SSH is a series of patches against OpenSSH. It's 100% compatible with OpenSSH because, well, it is OpenSSH with some added features. While these features were developed with high performance networking in mind it was started back when 1Gb connections were still the domain of major research centers. The main thing that HPN-SSH does is let the internal OpenSSH receive buffers be aware of the autotuning TCP receive buffers. This can lead to higher performance especially in if the path has a high BDP. You can read more about it at http://hpnssh.org.
We do have a number of prebuilt packages for Debian, Fedora, CentOS, and so forth. You can get those from https://sourceforge.net/projects/hpnssh. You can also get the full git repo from https://github.com/rapier1/openssh-portable. If you really want you can also join the mailing list at hpnssh-community@psc.edu


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Q: Collection Serialization with Kryo I'm trying to use kryo to serialize and deserialize a java collection.
The serializetion method looks like this:
public <T> byte[] serialize(List<T> objectsToSerialize) {
CollectionSerializer cs = new CollectionSerializer();
Output output = new Output();
cs.write(kryo, output, objectsToSerialize);
return output.toBytes();
}

Now I would like to write the deserialization method but having trouble doing so. Basically the CollectionSerializer has a read method, but I can't understand how to use it (and the documentation is pretty poor as far as I can tell).
Any ideas?

A: If you are looking to just serialize a Collection to a file then the standard Kryo commands (such as kryo.writeClassAndObject) can handle that very adequately. For example the following program passes a collection of strings to the file "testfile" and back again
public class TestClass{

    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException{
        serialize();
        deSerialize();
    }

    public static void serialize() throws FileNotFoundException{
        Collection<String>collection=new ArrayList<>();

        collection.add("This is a serialized collection of strings");

        Kryo kryo = new Kryo();
        Output output = new Output(new FileOutputStream("testfile"));
        kryo.writeClassAndObject(output, collection);
        output.close();
    }

    public static void deSerialize() throws FileNotFoundException{
        Collection<String>collection;

        Kryo kryo = new Kryo();
        Input input = new Input(new FileInputStream("testfile"));
        collection=(Collection<String>)kryo.readClassAndObject(input);
        input.close();

        for(String string: collection){
            System.out.println(string);
        }

    }

}


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Trump Likes His Chances in Arizona as He Quickly Closes Gap with Biden
President Donald Trump appears encouraged by the numbers he sees coming out of Arizona, which is still in the process of counting votes.
"From 200,000 votes to less than 10,000 votes. If we can audit the total votes cast, we will easily win Arizona also!" Trump tweeted Thursday.
He was responding to an Arizona Republic article whose headline claimed that Trump, based on the outstanding ballots, will not overtake Biden.
From 200,000 votes to less than 10,000 votes. If we can audit the total votes cast, we will easily win Arizona also! https://t.co/3eZHjdZL98
TRENDING: President Trump is 'Not Backing Down,' His Campaign Manager Bill Stepien Insists in New Message
The Associated Press called Arizona for Biden the day after last week's presidential election despite there being approximately 600,000 votes to be counted as of 11 a.m. that day.
CNN reported that day that Biden held approximately a 93,000-vote lead, or 51 percent to 47.6 percent (a 3.4 percentage point difference), down from over a 6-point lead on election night.
And the Democrat's lead has continued to shrink since, with Biden now ahead of Trump by 0.34 percentage points (49.41 to 49.07 percent) or 11,537 votes, as of Thursday afternoon.
Garrett Archer of the Phoenix ABC affiliate KNXV-TV tweeted Wednesday night there were less than 25,000 ballots to be counted, with a majority of those in Pima County (where Tucson is located), which Biden carried overall.
Trump will need to take approximately three-quarters of the outstanding ballots to pull ahead of his Democratic rival.
Automatic recounts in Arizona are nearly impossible to trigger, requiring a difference of 0.1 percentage points or 200 votes between the candidates, whichever is smaller.
Arizona has less than 25k ballots remaining. The majority of these are in Pima county. pic.twitter.com/dDBG2M0m3T
— The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 12, 2020
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Arizona over the weekend alleging in-person ballots were improperly rejected, The Hill reported.
In a Monday letter to Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, GOP state Senate President Karen Fann called for an independent analysis of the voting data in the Grand Canyon State to address concerns that computer tabulated results may not be accurate, as has been true in other states.
Some, including Trump, have suggested results in certain states may have been electronically manipulated to favor Biden.
Every noteworthy tabulation error that has been discovered so far appears to have worked against the Republican candidate, including in a county in Michigan, which actually went for Trump and not Biden as originally reported.
"Assuming the allegations of fraud are without merit, an independent analysis would restore credibility and hopefully end the current controversy over fairness in the election process in Arizona," Fann wrote.
Hobbs, a Democrat, responded in a letter to Fann, "It is patently unreasonable to suggest that, despite there being zero credible evidence of any impropriety or widespread irregularities, election officials nonetheless have a responsibility to prove a negative."
Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar noted that when Hobbs ran for office in 2018, she said, "I think we're going to do really well in electing statewide Democrats. And the secretary of state's office is how we're going to hold onto those wins, how we're going to continue to make gains in the legislature."
AZ hasn't forgotten what SOS @katiehobbs said: "I think we're going to do really well in electing statewide Democrats," Hobbs said. "And the secretary of state's office is how we're going to hold onto those wins, how we're going to make gains"#stopthesteal @FannKfann
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) November 7, 2020
Additionally, Trump campaign legal team attorney Ron Coleman pointed to a 2017 tweet by Hobbs in which she referred to the president's supporters as his "neo-nazi base."
This is Arizona's secretary of state. The one in charge of certifying the election.
You read that right. https://t.co/RdLeEsAlRd
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) November 12, 2020
"This is Arizona's secretary of state," Coleman wrote. "The one in charge of certifying the election."
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Cal Gilet és una casa de Sedó, al municipi de Torrefeta i Florejacs (Segarra), inclosa a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
Edifici que formava part d'una antiga casa senyorial. Actualment ocupa la part dreta. Consta de quatre plantes. A la planta baixa, a la façana est (la que dona a la plaça), hi ha una entrada amb arc escarser amb porta de fusta de doble batent que dona al garatge. A la planta següent hi ha un balcó amb barana de ferro. A la planta següent hi ha un altre balcó també amb barana de ferro. Al darrer pis hi ha una finestra amb ampit.

La façana nord (la que dona al carrer Maguerola) consta de dues parts: una de més antiga que va del centre a l'esquerra i una de més nova a l'altre extrem. A la part més antiga hi ha una entrada, a sobre té una petita finestra. A l'esquerra té una altra finestra. A la part superior de la façana hi ha una tribuna i una finestra. A la part més nova, la que està arrebossada, a la planta baixa, hi ha una finestra, a la planta següent n'hi ha tres i a la següent una altra.

Història
En origen la casa que avui coneixem era la part dreta d'un casal senyorial de la darreria del  manat construir per Joan Carbonell, mercader de Sedó, vers el 1558. A la segona meitat del  el casal fou dividit en tres cossos, ocupant la part dreta la casa que actualment es coneix com a Cal Gilet.

En els primers anys fou habitat pel propietari Joan Carbonell i la seva família; en passar a la filla d'aquest deixà de ser la residència principal de la família i als inicis del  apareix habitada per masovers, tenint un ús exclusivament residencial i agrícola. A la darreria del  pogué combinar aquesta funció amb la de ferreria i durant el primer quart de segle XX i fins a l'esclat de la Guerra Civil funcionà com a Cafè i Sala de ball.

Referències

Patrimoni monumental de Torrefeta i Florejacs
Habitatges de Torrefeta i Florejacs

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Turkey May Soon Unleash Millions Of Refugees
Posted by Aaron Nelson | Mar 13, 2017 |
Article via Zero Hedge
As we noted moments ago, the tit-for-tat aggression resumed its escalation between Turkey and the Netherlands, with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus exclaiming from Ankara that "Europe's politicians are under fascist, neo-nazi influence" and in response, Turkey will suspend all high-level diplomatic meetings and cancel all flight permissions for Dutch politicians.
As part of its furious response, Turkey said it would impose various travel sanctions on Dutch diplomats such as halting all high-level political discussions with the Netherlands in the wake of the Dutch government's decision to bar two cabinet ministers from campaigning in the country. Kurtulmus said during a news conference following a weekly cabinet meeting that Ankara also is closing its air space to Dutch diplomats until the Netherlands meets Turkish requests, according to the AP.
Kurtulmus also says the Dutch ambassador to Turkey, who was traveling when the diplomatic row started, won't be allowed to return, and said that Turkey's government plans to advise parliament to withdraw from a Dutch-Turkish friendship group.
It was unclear what the sudden Turkish escalation means for economic ties between the two nations: as a reminder, Dutch direct investment in Turkey amounts to $22 billion, making the Netherlands the biggest source of foreign investment with a share of 16%. Furthermore, Turkish exports to the Netherlands totalled $3.6 billion in 2016, making it the tenth largest market for Turkish goods, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute. Turkey imported $3 billion worth of Dutch goods in 2016. Should the diplomatic spat lead to a collapse in trade relations, a Turkey recession is all but assured.
Kurtulmus said the political sanctions will apply until the Netherlands takes steps to "redress" its actions. He said: "There is a crisis and a very deep one. We didn't create this crisis or bring to this stage."
However the most troubling development, and one which has the potential to sway the outcome of the Dutch election which will be held in less than two days, is that in the final power play aimed towards Merkel, Kurtulmus exclaimed that since "Europe has not kept its promises on the migrant deal, for us that agreement has ended."
Which means that one year after it collected $3 billion for the migrant deal, Turkey has just voided the agreement, and the next step would be that Turkey is about to flood Europe with refugees currently held inside Turkish borders. And since by some estimates Turkey currently harbors over 2 million potential migrants, Europe's refugee situation is about to get far worse, and as a corollary, support for anti-immigrant political organizations across the continent is about to take another step function higher.
This article first appeared on ZeroHedge.com and was authored by Tyler Durden.
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Maesa takes full advantage of recovery
Gregory Mager and Julien Saada, the two founders of the company, respectively CEO and Deputy CEO, seem satisfied... And understandably they have every reason to be. All indicators are green, and the expected turnover exceeds 70 million euros in 2010. In nine months the business has grown by 38% in the United States and by 15% in Europe.
After a particularly trying 2009 year from every point of view, (economic crisis coupled with drastic restructuring of the U.S. entity in the wake of the acquisition of Zorbit Resources), the young group that designs and manufactures lines of beauty product and scented products, as well as customized packaging is seeing the future under more favourable auspices.
Reorganisation in the U.S. and in China
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Gregory Mager and Julien Saada
"In 2011 we are going to continue our growth on key accounts," explain managers, "and we are going to continue improving our profitability through the control of overhead costs. We will also continue our restructuring both in the United States, with the relocation, as of January next into functional premises designed for our business and also in China, where a new Managing Director has been appointed to strengthen our industrial partnerships and increase our margins."
Developments in all directions
Latest achievements undertaken by Maesa include, the redesign of Zara's perfume department, the creation of an exclusive branding for Icing by Claire's, the design of the beauty category for Payless ShoeSource, the development of a brand of thematic body products to simulate the sales of private labels at Carrefour's health and beauty department, the development of the first fragrance diffuser bearing the name of the car manufacturer Renault, the manufacture of Sephora's Christmas packaging lines, the development of a box of scented candles available in three different fragrances for L'Oreal Professional, the development for Target of a range of products with high added value at competitive prices, and finally the design for Costco of gift boxes with high added value and low prices with scented products coming from Anthousa the American brand of high-end home fragrance products.
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The first annual Elie Hirschfeld Symposium on Child Welfare was held on Thursday, January 24th in Greenberg Lounge from 5-8pm. The symposium was co-sponsored by NYU's Family Defense Clinic and the Review of Law and Social Change. Three distinguished panelists discussed racial injustice and the child welfare system, with moderation by Chris Gottlieb. The symposium closed with an open discussion with the audience followed by a reception.


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Here at St. Bernadette Catholic Church we are a community of family, faith, and friendship. We want you to feel like you are at home when you are with us in Mass, during our ministries, or in our community events. We hope that this website will assist you in exploring all that we have to offer here at St. Bernadette and that it allows you to be up to date and informed on our growing mission to evangelize to all people and to form a strong and loving community of people of God.
St. Bernadette was founded in 1977 by Bishop John L. Morkovsky, S.T.D. and entrusted to the care of the Carmelite Fathers with Fr. Frank Tasker serving as the first pastor. The surrounding Clear Lake area, at the time, was undergoing substantial growth with the end of the Apollo program and the beginning of the Shuttle program at NASA.The programs brought into the area families from across the country and the world.
Following the leadership of Carmelites, Fr. Tasker, Fr. Butler, and Fr. J.J. McCarthy, the parish was entrusted to the care of our current pastor, Fr. Robert Barras. With Fr. Bob at the helm, the focus continues to be directed toward full, conscious and active participation in faith life and parish life. The parish is blessed with a number of original families for whose wisdom we are grateful, a vibrant mixture of cultures and international experiences, and growing families with young children.
St. Bernadette Soubirous was a poor, uneducated, peasant girl, who lived in the small milling town of Lourdes, France. On February 11, 1858, when she was 14, Bernadette enjoyed the first of many visits from the Blessed Virgin Mary, who appeared to her as she gathered firewood with her sister and a friend.
The message of Lourdes was a simple one: prayer and penitence. In one of her appearances, the apparition identified herself by saying, "Tell them I am the Immaculate Conception." Soon thousands of people crowded the meadow overlooking the grotto where the Virgin Mary appeared. Watch the video for more information on St. Bernadette!
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Ural (SSV-33) (v kódu NATO třída Kapusta) byla zpravodajská a velitelská loď sovětského námořnictva. Je jedinou postavenou vojenskou pomocnou lodí s jaderným pohonem. Plavidlo bylo vyvinuto na základě trupu velkých raketových křižníků projektu 1144.2 (třída Kirov). Bylo jedinou dokončenou lodí projektu 1241 Titan. Do služby bylo přijato v roce 1988 a k jeho vyřazení došlo 27. prosince 2002.

Pozadí vzniku

Jedinou jednotkou této třídy se stalo plavidlo Ural, postavené v letech 1981–1988 v Leningradu.

Konstrukce

Plavidlo neslo celou řadu speciálních elektronických systémů, např. Andromeda, Vajgač 2, Amulet a Tajfun. Bylo vyzbrojeno dvěma 76,2mm kanóny AK-176, čtyřmi čtyřnásobnými protiletadlovými raketovými komplety 9K38 Igla (celkem 32 střel), čtyřmi 30mm kanónovými komplety AK-630 a osmi 12,7mm kulomety Utes-M. Některé prameny uvádějí také čtyři 122mm raketomety DP-63. Na zádi se nacházela přistávací plocha pro vrtulník Kamov Ka-32.

Pohonný systém koncepce CONAS (Combined nuclear and steam) byl převzat ze třídy Kirov. Kombinoval dva jaderné reaktory OK-900B o výkonu 342 MW, dva kotle a dvě parní turbíny GTZA-688 o výkonu 46 000 hp, pohánějící dva lodní šrouby. Nejvyšší rychlost dosahovala 22 uzlů.

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World War 3: Korean Peninsula to the Brink of Nuclear War?
By HEFFX on May 2, 2017
North Korea accused the United States Tuesday of pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic US bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese air forces in a show of strength.
The 2 supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers were deployed on the back of rising tensions over North Korea's pursuit of its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of US sanctions and pressure from the United States.
The flight of the 2 bombers Monday came as US President Donald Trump said he would be "honored" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the right circumstances, and as his CIA director landed in South Korea for talks.
South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told a briefing in Seoul that Monday's joint drill was conducted to deter provocations by the North.
North Korea said the bombers conducted "a nuclear bomb dropping drill against major objects" in its territory at a time when Trump and "other US warmongers are crying out for making a preemptive nuclear strike" on the North.
"The reckless military provocation is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war," the North's official KCNA news agency said Tuesday.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high for weeks, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of pressure from the United States and Pyongyang's sole major ally, China.
The US military's THAAD anti-missile defense system has reached initial operational capacity in South Korea, US officials said, although they cautioned that it would not be fully operational for some months.
North Korea test-launched a missile Saturday that appeared to have failed within minutes, its 4th successive failed launch since March. It has conducted 2 nuclear tests and a series of missile-related activities at an unprecedented pace since the beginning of last year.
The North is technically still at War with the South after their Y's 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty, and regularly threatens to destroy the United States, Japan and South Korea.
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Oh no, Space Ivan has been kidnapped by the evil aliens! Luckily he is armed with a powerful cannon so the chances are high he can manage to get through the barriers and reach the exit portal again. Will you help him to escape?


While many acknowledge concerns about security, post-Orlando, they're even more determined to support gay-friendly businesses. Deborah Gembara reports.
This is what a safe zone looks like. The "Town" dance boutique in Washington DC. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ED BAILEY, OWNER OF GAY NIGHT CLUB "TOWN DANCEBOUTIQUE" SAYING: "Nightclubs and bars have been that refuge for us for over a hundred years. " While Town's owners have a policy of not discussing the club's security --- many at this fundraiser for the families of the Orlando shooting victims say they've noticed an increase in police officers on site. Event organizer Jose Plaza, of the Latino LGBT history project. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSE PLAZA, FUNDRAISER ORGANIZER AND PRESIDENT OF THE LATINO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER HISTORY PROJECT, SAYING: "We're fortunate that we have security and we have the D.C. metro police department here." While safety is on their minds --- it isn't the only thing. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSE PLAZA, FUNDRAISER ORGANIZER AND PRESIDENT OF THE LATINO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER HISTORY PROJECT, SAYING: "We want to celebrate those whose lives were taken from us and we need to continue living our lives and be proud of who we are for them." (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHANIE MILLER, A BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SAYING: "I don't want to live in fear. I think that I probably actually am not looking to notice extra security." Stephanie Miller's friend KJ Morris was killed in Orlando. (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHANIE MILLER, A BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DISCUSSING HER FRIEND KJ MORRIS, A VICTIM OF THE ORLANDO SHOOTING "The quality time that I had with her was in the club, that was our safe space and in fact that was where I met her. She was the leader of drag king troupe up in Massachusetts where I'm from and where she lived many years." Post-Orlando, many say cowering is not an option. "I don't know half the people here but I will tell them I love them before I leave because they are my brothers and sisters and that is how I look at it." It's a message many here can agree with.


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Kanye Forced to Continue Touring After Mental Breakdown?
According to X17, if Kanye thought he was going to cancel his Saint Pablo tour and be done with the rest of the concert dates, he may be out of luck.
Live Nation, the tour promoter, is reportedly going to force him to go back on the road after the new year as soon as he's healthy enough.
"Kanye's still not off the hook for the rest of those concert dates that were cancelled. They had to refund tickets, so the company wants Kanye to add dates to make the money back."
X17 also claims there's a reason why none of the Kardashians, besides Kim, visited the rapper in the hospital.
"The whole family's pissed at Kanye and they have been for a while. This all started before he had his breakdown, before he was hospitalized. I'm not sure if it's just his erratic behavior the past few months or what, but they all have a beef with him."
How much longer until Kris convinces Kim to file for divorce, and do you think it's wrong for Kanye to be forced to continue the tour?
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If they make Kanye do that concert that's really the end of his career, that's a setup they know he's not equipped to get out there and do a concert after what happened November 21st tell you the truth you could have been replaced it may not be the real kanye y'all looking at you could be a clone the way technology advanced Through The Years cloning please he can have three clones
Anonymous Dec 2, 2016 at 20:32
speak preach and do ya thing
Science is not that advanced. Cloning a fully grown adult human is an impossibility.
A baby, yes. But not an adult. Do you understand that cloning is just like the regular gestation process? You don't just pop some stem cells in a beaker and POP! a baby comes out.
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Didn't the pizza gate exposed as bullshit. Convince you you nutjobs to take your anti conspiracy meds? Get help.
Barbed Wire Dec 3, 2016 at 02:37
Koonye is now obsolete used up his expiration date is here.
And I know a lot of you weak stalkers hate what I say too f*cking bad I represent millions of awake black women if you notice and I know you have, there's been a shift black women aren't mammying black males anymore not that I ever did.
Kanye's legacy will be a laughingstock a closeted gay man who got played by white women he's not the first he won't be the last.
CRAZYCHRIS Dec 5, 2016 at 12:55
HES WORTH MILLIONS IF HE PASS KIM AND HER FAMILY ALREADY KNEW THIS
Uh-oh. If he tours, it could be another MJ situation, where he doesn't make it and then his "last" tour and album make millions for the "estate" in perpetuity. That way, Kim or the kids never have to do anything ever again and they get all his money. Hmm, I wonder if this was the plan all along cause you know Kim fully targeted him and was the home wrecker when he was with Amber Rose.
Say Cheese Dec 3, 2016 at 10:29
I understand people wanting to get paid but it's still cold hearted. He could do a Britney and perform a bunch of shows dead eyed on medication but something tells me Kanye will resume his destructive habits as soon as he starts working again.
ANYBODY ELSE THINK JAY HAD SOMERTHING TO KIM GETTING ROBBED.
THEN KANYE GOING NUTS SAYING DONT SEND THEM AFTER ME.'
ALL BECVAUSE OVER A DAMN GRAMMY ALL THAT ASSKISSING KANYE DID TO JAY AND BEY.
stephen Dec 5, 2016 at 16:24
kayne knows jay had a lot of people killed remember his mistress who was spill the beans and now she's dead i wonder how dame dash feels about this dame knows if he says he's dead too jay z has forgive about the aaliayh situation
not forgiven that's what i meant lol
The Truman Show Dec 7, 2016 at 07:00
Kathy White, yep. Jay is a very cold blooded, ruthless soul- well he doesn't even have that. It's gonna be hell, but hopefully somehow someway, kanye can get away from the kardashians, hollyweird, and the shackles of his handlers.


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Some inspiration for parents to take up music! How wonderful to show children that you keep learning during all stages of your life.
Here are some great ways that your lessons can help you in other aspects of your life!
Our guest is Christine Donkin. She's active in the field of music education as a teacher, adjudicator, clinician, and arranger. Several of her pedagogical compositions, along with over seventy arrangements and figured bass realizations, appear in the Royal Conservatory of Music publications for piano, voice, violin, viola, cello, clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet. The repertoire books of Trinity College London and the Australian Music Examinations Board also feature her music.
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'Belief' and 'trust' are key for 1st-year coach Drew Valentine, who has guided No. 22 Loyola to a 10-game winning streak and its best start in 56 years
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Astros beat Red Sox 5-4 in Game 4, advance to ALCS
By Jimmy Golen
The Astros' Yuli Gurriel hugs Alex Bregman, right, as teammates swarm closing pitcher Ken Giles, left, while celebrating their 5-4 win over the Red Sox in Game 4 of the American League Division Series, Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, in Boston. (Charles Krupa / AP)
BOSTON — Justin Verlander outpitched Chris Sale in a relief role reversal of aces, and the Houston Astros advanced to their first AL Championship Series, rallying past the Boston Red Sox 5-4 Monday in Game 4 of their playoff matchup.
Houston will open the ALCS on Friday, either at Cleveland or at home against the New York Yankees. The Indians held a 2-1 edge over the Yankees going into Game 4 of the AL Division Series on Monday night.
With Verlander and Sale — the Game 1 starters — both pressed into relief, the Astros prevailed to win the ALDS 3-1.
Alex Bregman homered off Sale to tie it in the eighth and Josh Reddick hit an RBI single off closer Craig Kimbrel later in the inning.
The Astros last reached the league championship series in 2005 as a National League team, and were swept in the World Series by the White Sox.
Carlos Beltran added to his legacy of postseason success with an RBI double in the Houston ninth for a 5-3 lead. Red Sox rookie Rafael Devers opened the bottom of the ninth with an inside-the-park homer off Ken Giles, the ball hitting above center fielder George Springer's leap and bouncing off the angled Green Monster.
Giles retired the next three batters for a six-out save.
Springer and Yuli Gurriel each had three hits for the AL West champions, and Reddick's go-ahead single made up for misplaying a fly ball into a home run in Game 3 to force a fourth game.
Verlander allowed just one hit: A two-run homer to Andrew Benintendi — the first batter he faced — that gave Boston a 3-2 lead in the fifth. Verlander wound up with the win in his first pro relief appearance after making 424 starts in the majors and minors.
The big-hander, acquired late in the season from Detroit, also beat Sale in the playoff opener and is now 7-0 for his new team. Verlander went 2 2/3 innings in relief of starter Charlie Morton.
Sale pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowing two runs and four hits, striking out six.
On a rainy day at Fenway Park — the fourth straight day game — the Red Sox again saw a starter struggle early, with Rick Porcello giving up Houston's eighth first-inning run of the series. The reigning AL Cy Young winner, who led the AL with 22 wins last year and the majors with 17 losses in 2017, gave up two runs in three innings, walking three and striking out four while allowing five hits.
Like Houston, the Red Sox called on their ace in relief.
Sale was sharp before giving up Bregman's leadoff homer in the eighth. He allowed a one-out single to Evan Gattis before closer Kimbrel came on with two outs, walked Springer and gave up Reddick's single.
Xander Bogaerts also homered for the AL East champion Red Sox, and Hanley Ramirez had two hits a day after going 4 for 4 in Boston's only postseason win since the end of the 2013 World Series.
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This article is about Holy People. For The Lord Buddha, see Gautama Buddha.
A Lord Buddha is a very holy person in Buddhism. The word Buddha means "enlightened one" in Sanskrit. Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama. He was the man who started Buddhism. Sometimes people call him "the Buddha". Other times, people call any person a Buddha if they have found enlightenment. If a person has not found enlightenment yet, but is very close to reaching it, then he is called Bodhisattva.
Since Buddhism tradition thinks Buddha is an ideal person, tradition reached a notion of 36 ideal features of Buddhas. Some of those features are represented on statues of Buddhas. Some other features, like the feature of their foot, are difficult to be represented on a statue.
Buddhists believe that the Buddha was enlightened, which means that he knew all about how to live a peaceful life and how to not to suffer in an afterlife. They think he never got depressed, frustrated, upset or confused. He is said to have never argued with other people, but just said what was true and useful, out of compassion.
"If one studies the Buddhist scriptures one will see the Buddha's compassion. He taught the Dhamma to those who wanted to listen, he taught for the sake of their benefit and wellbeing. He wanted to help the listeners and did not want any misfortune to occur to them, no matter who they were. Even shortly before his final passing away he still taught the Dhamma to Subhadda who became the last disciple in the presence of the Buddha himself. This clearly shows his great compassion.
Some Buddhists pray to Buddhas, but Buddhas are not gods. Buddhas are just teachers, to help people who will listen. A Buddha is a human being who has woken up and can see the true way the world works. This knowledge totally changes the person beyond birth, death, and rebirth. Nothing can annoy him anymore, even the circulation of incarnation, since his enlightenment put him outsides of this eternity circle in time and space. This person can help others become enlightened too in a proper way.
There are ideas which are said to lead someone to enlightenment. They are called the Dharma, meaning the way or the truth. Anyone can become a Buddha, it is said, but it is very hard. Age and gender do not matter. Buddhists believe there have been many Buddhas who were alone, called pacceka-buddhas. They reached enlightenment on their own, but they did not teach others. The first Buddha was afraid to teach people too. Their poor understanding made them hard to teach. But he did teach people, and people followed him.
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Multivariate skew-t approach to the design of accumulation risk scenarios for the flooding hazard
The multivariate version of the skew‐t distribution provides a powerful analytical description of the joint behavior of multivariate processes. It enjoys valuable properties: from the aptitude to model skewed as well as leptokurtic datasets to the availability of moments and likelihood analytical expressions. Moreover, it offers a wide range of extremal dependence strength, allowing for upper and lower tail dependence. The idea underneath this work is to employ the multivariate skew‐t distribution to provide an estimation of the joint probability of flood events in a multi‐site multi‐basin approach. This constitutes the basis for the design and evaluation of flood hazard scenarios for large areas in terms of their intensity, extension and frequency, i.e. those information required by civil protection agencies to put in action mitigation strategies and by insurance companies to price the flooding risk and to evaluate portfolios. Performances of the skew‐t distribution and the corresponding t copula function, introduced to represent the state of the art for multivariate simulations, are discussed with reference to the Tanaro Basin, North‐western Italy. To enhance the characteristics of the correlation structure, three nested and non‐nested gauging stations are selected with contributing areas from 1500 to 8000 km2. A dataset of 76 trivariate flood events is extracted from a mean daily discharges database available for the time period from January 1995 to December 2003. Applications include the generation of multivariate skew‐t and t copula samples and models' comparison through the principle of minimum cross‐entropy, here revised for the application to multivariate samples. Copula and skew‐t based scenario return period estimations are provided for the November 1994 flood event, i.e. the worst on record in the 1801–2001 period. Results are encouraging: the skew‐t distribution seems able to describe the joint behavior, being close to the observations. Marginal distributions derived from the skew‐t multivariate fit are comparable to the observed ones, and the model is also able to describe the tail behavior.
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Titolo: Multivariate skew-t approach to the design of accumulation risk scenarios for the flooding hazard
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Abstract: The multivariate version of the skew‐t distribution provides a powerful analytical description of the joint behavior of multivariate processes. It enjoys valuable properties: from the aptitude to model skewed as well as leptokurtic datasets to the availability of moments and likelihood analytical expressions. Moreover, it offers a wide range of extremal dependence strength, allowing for upper and lower tail dependence. The idea underneath this work is to employ the multivariate skew‐t distribution to provide an estimation of the joint probability of flood events in a multi‐site multi‐basin approach. This constitutes the basis for the design and evaluation of flood hazard scenarios for large areas in terms of their intensity, extension and frequency, i.e. those information required by civil protection agencies to put in action mitigation strategies and by insurance companies to price the flooding risk and to evaluate portfolios. Performances of the skew‐t distribution and the corresponding t copula function, introduced to represent the state of the art for multivariate simulations, are discussed with reference to the Tanaro Basin, North‐western Italy. To enhance the characteristics of the correlation structure, three nested and non‐nested gauging stations are selected with contributing areas from 1500 to 8000 km2. A dataset of 76 trivariate flood events is extracted from a mean daily discharges database available for the time period from January 1995 to December 2003. Applications include the generation of multivariate skew‐t and t copula samples and models' comparison through the principle of minimum cross‐entropy, here revised for the application to multivariate samples. Copula and skew‐t based scenario return period estimations are provided for the November 1994 flood event, i.e. the worst on record in the 1801–2001 period. Results are encouraging: the skew‐t distribution seems able to describe the joint behavior, being close to the observations. Marginal distributions derived from the skew‐t multivariate fit are comparable to the observed ones, and the model is also able to describe the tail behavior.
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Baguio, as a 'high–tech' city, vies for efficient, fast services
by Jessa Mardy Samidan
As Baguio turns 110 years old this Sept.1, the city government has bankrolled into speedy and efficient government transaction as the first step of improving the local government unit's delivery of public service to its more than 400,000 constituents and countless visitors as well.
Policies, systems, and procedures on government tran-sactions are being reviewed and polished to catch up with the changes and demands of the populace with the goal of making Baguio City as "high-tech" as the other cities in the country, particularly on the acquisition of vital government clearances and permits.
At the start of his administration on July 1, Mayor Benjamin Magalong presented his 10-point core agenda, which later became the 15 development goals of the city government after these were adopted in the recent out-of-town executive-legislative agenda meeting. First among the 15 development goals of the city is speeding up government action by making services accessible, available, and affordable to the people.
"We must do away with policies that make our people wait in long lines just to be served, or told to return in vain for follow-up. We must make our constituents feel and experience government service at its finest," Magalong said.
Under Republic Act 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Act of 2018, the government sector shall follow the national and standard deadline for government transactions, the put up of business one-stop shop, an electronic or automated system for processing business permits, observance of the zero-contact policy, and a central business portal and Philippine Business Databank are among the requirements.
In Baguio City, compliance to the ease of doing business started as early as 2010 when the Business One-Stop Shop building was put up, followed by the launching of the Electronic Business Permit and Licensing System (EBPLS) in 2014. Schemes were also developed over the years to lessen bureaucratic processes particularly business permit application.
In August, the city government launched its "Bilis Serbis-yo Baguio" campaign, which aimed at informing the public on the processes of government transactions following simplified procedures. Using infographics as a guide in government transaction, the city encourages the public to prepare the needed documents before heading to City Hall for their transactions. This way, the amount of time spent going back and forth in offices to acquire needed documents will be better managed by the person.
Under the newly-adopted set up of business permit processing, applicants can get their permit in less than an hour, provided that all pre-requisites have been acquired and clearance have been issued by the concerned offices prior to input of data into the EBPLS.
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This means that even before President Rodrigo Duterte, in his State of the National Address in July, ordered all mayors nationwide to cut the processing period of business permits to just three days, the city government is already headed towards that direction.
City Administrator Bonifacio dela Peña, co-chairperson and action officer of the monitoring team for the Ease of Doing Business in Baguio, explained that if the concerned offices will not act on the request for online validation of the clearances within one hour, the business permit application will be deemed approved. The same will be printed upon payment and subsequently released to the applicant.
Also an important aspect of Ease of Doing Business is the online payment system for real property and business taxes similar to Valenzuela City where online and credit card payments has been in place since 2013.
At present, the City Treasurer's Office accepts payment of business and real property taxes through the bank account of the city government. But the payee has to submit or email a copy of the deposit slip to the City Treasury.
To lessen human contact at the City Assessor's Office, assessments are sent via email upon request.
On the issuance of building permits, the City Buildings and Architecture Office has been mandated to issue applications for simple building permits for structures below three stories in seven days; medium complex building permits for structures up to eight stories but less than 10,000 square meters floor area in 22 days; and complex building permits for structures having over 10,000 square meters in 32 days inclusive of the signing of the permits by the city building official.
Dela Peña said there will be personnel of the CBAO who will first evaluate the application for issuance of building permits and if the applications will be returned to the applicant for lack of requirements, the counting of the number of days will not start until such time that all the requirements are completed.
An important component of the Ease of Doing Business is the improvement of the city government's Internet connectivity since frontline services, such as the business permit processing, is dependent on this unseen sort of link in the worldwide web. If Internet service is not available at City Hall due to unforeseen circumstances, business permit processing will have to wait, including the issuance of vital information to the public who rely on social media and emails to have their inquiries answered.
Foremost, the city needs to improve its website to serve as the official data source particularly for frontline services. This would lessen the number of clients that go to City Hall just to inquire on simple transactions such as clearances or steps in acquiring permits.
Even ordinances and resolutions have to be accessible via the official website of the city for public access and reference. On the part of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, it has recently launched its social media page serving as the direct line where the public can express their opinions on proposed legislations. This way, transparency in governance and community involvement is enhanced.
But while online-based governance may be the dream of every organization as a means of fast service, there is always the human factor. Uploading too much personal data and document to the web increases the risk of compromised cyber security including impersonation and illegal or misuse of confidential information, among others. The risk is especially high in the third world country like the Philippines where Internet service is too slow that a lot of the population depends on free Wi-Fi connectivity increasing cyber security attack all the more.
To ensure compliance on the Ease of Doing Business, Magalong has issued Executive Order 51-2019 creating a monitoring team for this purpose. The mayor is head of the monitoring team with dela Peña as the action officer while several department heads are the composite members.
The team shall determine and recommend the methods/strategies for the 100 percent implementation of the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act in Baguio. The team will also review existing systems, procedures and process flow of frontline services to improve and decrease waiting time and prevent graft and corruption.
An on-the-spot monitoring of all the departments and offices of the city government will also be conducted to ensure posting of the Citizen's Charter, Anti-Fixer Campaign/Contact Center ng Bayan, No Noon Break Policy, wearing of IDs among employees, and the presence of public assistance and complaints desks as well as designated priority lane for senior citizens, pregnant women and persons with disability. All of these postings have already been complied with.
SPEEDING UP GOVERNMENT SERVICES -- Baguio officials led by Mayor Benjamin Magalong have vowed to faster and efficient government services when they took their oath of office at City Hall in June. -- Harley Palangchao
While officials acknowledge that there is still much work to be done to fully speed up transactions at City Hall, immediate resolutions are being implemented to improve promptness of government service.
But of course, we are all humans. A little consideration and patience would be enough while your public servants are looking into solutions. Let us move forward, one step at a time.
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