On November 13 2015, Paris was hit by a series of attacks that left 130 people dead and more than three hundreds wounded. As news of the story spread and the magnitude of the event was revealed, an outpouring of support took over social media. Facebook activated its "I'm safe" feature to allow people living in Paris to check-in and let others know they were out of harm's way. Statuses were changed to show compassion for those affected by the tragedy. It seems the entire planet wanted, even for a little while, to stand with Paris. Facebook also released feature that allowed its users to change their profile picture to the colours of the French flag. The speed at which people did it was impressive and really demonstrated the reach [and social media power] of Facebook.
French flag used by millions of Facebook users to show their support to France during the series of attacks that hit Paris.
This seems all nice and compassionate until dissonant voices made themselves heard. People were legitimately offended by the level of support France was experiencing and lamented that terror attacks in North Cameroon didn't get the same response, even from other Cameroonians.
The debate is an intellectually interesting one. Why do we feel emotionally attached to one place and maybe not another? Why do some events touch us more than others? Those are the larger questions such events might generate.
But let's get back to the controversy. The sentiment is somewhat justified. People should give special attention to what happens in their own backyard than what happens thousands of miles away. Things are however a bit more complex than that. Should one care more about a person killed in Maroua or a family member/friend who might be in danger in Paris? The nature of interactions has drastically changed. We have people who are close to us living in all corners of the world and an event taking place somewhere might impact us, whether it's a bomb going off in Beirut, a tower tumbling in New York City, a shooting in a concert hall in Paris or a kamikaze in Maroua.
Should one care more about a person killed in Maroua or a family member/friend who might be in danger in Paris?
Also, the West as whole controls the media, thus the narrative. Being upset that all that is shown is the Paris attack doesn't make much sense. Covering events that hit them directly is what people in the media do.
Cameroonians changing their profile pictures to the French flag shouldn't shock or upset because they simply have the right to do so. Instead of labelling this act, how about understanding what motivated it? Asking questions seems more effective than casting stones, it would seem. The debate turns unfruitful when both parties fail to see it from to the other's side. Points are valid on both ends but mutual understanding gets lost in the noise.
This debate will probably come back every time a tragedy hit until Africans and Cameroonians in particular take charge of the narrative, their narrative.
This involves a media machine willing to spare no expense to hit all corners of the country covering stories about Cameroonians catered to Cameroonians. The Paris attacks took place on the 13th and was the leading media story in France for weeks. Cameroonian media stopped talking about the Maroua attacks 2 days after they took place.
Compassion for people affected by tragedies is not a mutually exclusive act. There is room for Paris and Maroua. Beirut and Sharm el-Sheikh. Furthermore, policing behaviour is pointless because ultimately, people will care about what they want to care and there's not much that can be done about that. This goes back to the aforementioned question: Does one worry more about the fellow countryman in the North of the country or the family member living miles away in a Western nation? There is no right or wrong answer. Individuals are unique so is their reactions.


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Whatever happens about the proposal for a new helicopter service from Penwith to the Scillies, one thing is for sure – Penzance Literary Festival 2018 has taken off.
Want to know more about the turbo-charged 2018 event? The theme is "Taking Flight", the dates are July 4th to 7th, and the "hub" will be the Acorn, Parade Street. Here, our partner booksellers Edge of the World will be happy to sell you the books you've been hearing about – and a range of others. Downstairs, the bar will be open to welcome you in – it is alleged that the cocktails are already being trialled. And upstairs, our box office staff will, as usual, be giving you plenty of change from your tenners: we remain committed to the low ticket prices that are such a popular feature of the Festival, and which – we hope – will encourage you to soar out of your comfort zone, as well as leaving you plenty of spare cash for those essential books and beverages.
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The Smashbox x Curtis Kulig 'Love Me' cosmetics capsule collection is a wonderful girly gift idea for Valentine's Day. The collaboration combines Smashbox's signature make-up palettes and products with Kulig's crafty graffiti style art. Each colorful compact, lip tube, liner and packaging comes adorned with the heartwarming slogan "Love Me" on it.
The marvelous make-up featured in the collection revolves around pink and red hues. This stays in line with the Valentine's Day themes and feminine colors that are great for an extra pop of color this season. This creative capsule collection comes with a full range of products at price points that are affordable and versatile.
The Smashbox x Curtis Kulig 'Love Me' collection is sweet and the perfect girly gift idea for Valentine's Day.


Eavesdropping, using packet-sniffing tools, allows attackers to read transmitted information, including logon information and database contents. Eavesdropping can yield information, such as credit card information, which can be used in later transactions, damaging both the customer and the business that allowed the breach.
A related problem involves eavesdropping and session replay in which the attacker retransmits the captured data, such as a session logon sequence to gain access to network resources.
If you're using a dynamic routing protocol that supports authentication, a good idea is to enable that authentication. This prevents some malicious attacks on the routing infrastructure and it can also help to prevent damage caused by misconfigured "rogue" network devices.
Many routing protocols support authentication and the commands vary somewhat, but the following example demonstrates the feature using RIP version 2.
RIP version 1 doesn't support authentication, but RIP version 2 allows RIP authentication on a per-interface basis. RIP supports two modes of authentication: plaintext authentication and MD5 authentication. The default is plaintext authentication. Don't use plaintext authentication for security purposes because the unencrypted authentication key is sent in every RIP version 2 packet. Interfaces on both sides of the link must be configured for MD5 authentication using the same key number and key string.
The key chain determines the set of keys that can be used on the interface. If a key chain isn't configured, no authentication is performed on that interface, not even the default authentication.
The following commands configure RIP authentication. The first three are configured in Global Configuration mode and the last two are in Interface Configuration mode.
Names a key chain. Could contain more than one key for added security.
Defines the first key in the key chain.
Defines the key value—must be identical on both ends of the link.
Uses MD5 digest authentication (or defaults to plain text authentication).
MD5 authentication uses the one-way, MD5 hash algorithm in which the routing update doesn't carry the actual password (key) for the purpose of authentication. A128-bit message, generated by running the MD5 algorithm on the password, and the message are sent along for authentication. The recipient device runs the same hash using the key information configured and, assuming it generates the same 128-bit message, the update will be accepted. MD5 hashing is covered in greater detail in Chapter 8.
Data separation using tunneling technologies, such as generic routing encapsulation (GRE) or Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), provides effective data privacy. When privacy requirements call for the use of digital encryption technology, protocols such as IPSec provide the added protection when implementing VPNs. The IPSec and VPN chapters, 9 through 16 and 21, cover these features in detail.
While less-common than a few years ago, the shared media technology of hubs made them susceptible to sniffing attacks. All an intruder needed was access to any port in the collision domain and they could monitor all traffic. Just changing to switches reduced the threat because the only traffic visible on the port is traffic directed to the attached host or broadcasts.
Many switches support port monitoring or port spanning, which allows traffic from ports designated for capture to the port designated as the monitor port. The sniffer is attached to this port. Care should be taken to prevent port monitoring.


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Ram Charan: "It's Going To Be A Film With My Father Again!"
By Vandhana
Jan 5,2017
Baahubali Tamil Rights to Studio Green-UV Creations
'Biskoth' Will Be For Santhanam What 'Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi' Was For Vadivelu: Director Kannan
Ram Charan has announced that he will produce his father's next film as well. He revealed this during a chat with his fans on his official Facebook page. This will be Chiranjeevi's 151st movie.
"A lot of people have been asking what my next production will be. Well, it's going to be a film with my father again. We'll make an announcement about the director, cast and other details soon," he said.
Reports indicate that Boyapati Srinu will direct this project. Ram Charan will produce the film through his Konidela Production Company. Meanwhile, his debut production Khaidi No 150 is all set to release on January 11, 2017.
Vandhana is a Alum at Silverscreen India, and can be reached on Twitter at anareads or by email at vandhana@silverscreen.in


You often hear people talk about planning their day in the morning, but planning at the end of the day is much more effective, is a better stress reducer, AND allows you to have real down-time in the evenings and on weekends.
It's really simple to do, but it takes commitment and discipline. Spending 10 minutes at the end of each workday to plan for the next day is a key habit that will allow you to both get the day and week started (because your tasks will already be prioritized properly) and to truly disconnect and recharge when you stop working for the evening or weekend.
If you've prioritized what you need to do for tomorrow, then you won't be spinning out about it at home, or when you are trying to fall asleep. You will feel calm and collected because your tasks are out of your head and already prioritized. You will be able to be present for whatever you do when you are not at work.
The first thing to do is to make sure to schedule planning time on your calendar, as it won't happen if you leave it up to chance. Remember, work expands to fill the time allotted, so if you think "I'll get to it at the end of the day" but don't schedule it, it's very unlikely to happen. Schedule 10-15 minutes of time on your calendar every day for end of day prep as a recurring appointment. So, if you typically leave the office at 6, then schedule this for 5:45. If you tend to leave the office as varying times, you can always drag the appointment around on your calendar as it makes sense.
When you get to your scheduled planning time, review your notes from the day and add them to your task-list.
Do a quick brain dump of any remaining tasks lingering in your head.
Re-prioritize any tasks that you didn't get to today. Remember, just because you didn't get to it today doesn't mean that tomorrow is necessarily when they need to get done.
Check your calendar to make sure that what's on the docket for tomorrow still works with the time you have allotted in your day. If you have 5 meetings tomorrow, you're probably not going to be able to make much headway on that big project on your task list.
Then leave work with a clear head, ready to tackle your other responsibilities - or to just have fun!
When you spend 10 minutes reviewing your task-list and re-prioritizing for the next day, then when you start work again, you don't need to spend any time at all wondering what you should do first, or deciding what to work on; you've already prioritized. You can hit the ground running.
Alexis is a productivity, time-management and efficiency coach. She spent the first 15+ years of her career running operations and HR at several early-stage start-ups, where there was always way more to do than people to do it. But she also believes that work-life balance is essential for everyone, even though the definition may be different for everyone. Alexis' aim is to help you do all that you want to do, with less effort and less stress.


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Man is only a flower of air held by the earth, cursed by the stars, inhaled by death; the breath and the shadow of this coalition, sometimes, lift him up.
Our friendship is the white cloud preferred by the sun.
Our friendship is a free bark. It does not detach itself from the deeds of our heart.
Where the spirit no longer uproots but replants and takes care, I am born. Where the childhood of the people begins, I love.
Twentieth century: people were at their lowest. Women lit up and moved about quickly, on an overhang to which only our eyes had access.
To a rose I bind myself.
We are ungovernable. The only master propitious to us is Lightning, which now lights us and now again splits us apart.
Lightning and rose, in us, in their fleetingness, add together to accomplish us.
I am grass in your hand, my adolescent pyramid. I love you on your thousand flowers closed up.
Lend to the bud, leaving it the future, all the shine of the deep flower. Your harsh second look can do that. Thus the frost will not destroy it.
Let's not permit anyone to remove the part of nature we close up in ourselves. Let's not lose one stamen, let's not give up one water's gravel.
After the departure of the harvesters, on the plains of the Ile-de-France, this narrow tapered flint protruding from the earth, lightly held, causes an equivalent kernel to come forth from our memory, a kernel of a dawn whose change or end we believe we shall not see; only the sublime blush and the lifted face.
Their crime: a raging will to teach us to scorn the gods we have within us.
These are the pessimists that the future raises. They see the realization, in their lifetime, of the object of their apprehension. Yet the grape cluster, which followed the harvest, above its stem, forms a circle; and the children of the seasons, who aren't gathered in the ordinary way, hasten to make firm the sand at the edge of the wave. That, the pessimists see also.
Ah, to be able to rise differently.
Say, will what we are cause us to spurt forth as a bouquet?
A poet should leave, not proofs, but traces of his passage. Only traces set us dreaming.
To live, is that to insist on completing a memory? To die, is that to become, but nowhere at all, alive?
The real sometimes takes away the thirst of hope. That's why, expectation to the contrary, hope survives.
To touch a manure heap with our shadow, so much does our side enclose maladies and our heart mad thoughts, is possible; but to have in yourself something sacred.
When I dream and move forward, when I retain the ineffable, waking up I am on my knees.
History is only the other side of the way masters comport themselves. Also a frightful land where the lycaon hunts and the viper scrapes. Distress is in the gaze of human societies and Time, with victories rising.
Shine and leap forward – ready knife, slow star.
In the breaking apart of the universe that we are undergoing, oh marvel! The falling pieces are alive.
My all, my earth, as a bird changed into fruit in an eternal tree, I am yours.
What your winters ask from us, is to take off in the air what would be without that only filings and drudges. What your winters ask from us, is to serve as prelude for your taste: a taste equal to that sung by the civilization of fruit under its winged roundness.
What consoles me, when I will be dead, is that I will be there—dislocated, hideous—to see myself as a poem.
My lyre must not find me out, my verse must not become what I would have been able to write.
The marvelous in this being: every spring, in him, gives birth to a stream. With the slightest of his gifts doves shower down.
In our gardens forests are getting ready.
Free birds do not let anyone look at them. Let's remain obscure, let's renounce ourselves, near them.
Oh still surviving, better and better!
When a death is expected—as in the case of a family member, such as a parent—perhaps an elderly parent—or even more specifically, in the case of one's father, for example—decisions must be made as to the means of final disposition of the body.


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Q: Getting a continuous modification in existence proof of SDE (Oksendal) I am reading Øksendal, Stochastic Differential Equations (6th ed.), the existence and uniqueness result for SDEs.
But I am stuck at the last step where he shows that the solution can be take as a continuous process.
I understand (5.2.15) below holds, and I am fine that there is a continuous version of the RHS of (5.2.15).
But I do not understand the last step, where the author just swaps $X_s$ with $\tilde{X}_s$.
If $X_\cdot$ and $\tilde{X}_\cdot$ are indistinguishable, I am fine with this.
But $\tilde{X}_\cdot$ is just a modification, so we are supposed to be allowed to swap only countable, say, amount of $(X_1,...)$? How do we justify this?

A: The idea is the following. By the aforementioned Theorem 3.2.15, there exists a continuous process $\tilde{X}_t$ such that:
$$
 \mathbb{P}\left(\tilde{X}_t=\text{RHS}_{(5.2.15)}(t)\right)=1. \tag{1}
 $$
This justifies the first equality of the last set of expressions. To get the second one, first we set $t=0$ so $\tilde{X}_0=X_0$. Now, it follows from (1) that:
$$
 \mathbb{P}\left(\tilde{X}_t=\text{LHS}_{(5.2.15)}(t)=X_t\right)=1~\forall t.
 $$
Using that $\mathbb{Q}$ is countable,
$$
 \mathbb{P}\left(\omega\in\Omega ~|~\tilde{X}_t(\omega)=X_t(\omega)~~ \forall t\in\mathbb{Q}~\cap[0,T]\right)=1.
$$
I would say that this is not enough to show that the integrals are the same, see Remark 1 below.
What we are going to show is that the integrals of $\tilde{X}$ are the same as the ones of $X$, so $\tilde{X}$ is a continuous solution. First, using the Lipschitz condition and Hölder's inequality (or Lyapunov's),
$$
 \mathbb{E}\left|\int_0^t (b(s, X_{s})-b(s, \tilde{X}_{s}))ds\right|^2\lesssim \mathbb{E}\left(\int_0^t \left|X_{s}-\tilde{X}_{s}\right|^2\right)=\|X-\tilde{X}\|_{L^2(\mu)}^2.\tag{2}
 $$
Thus,
$$
 \text{LHS}_{(2)}\lesssim\|X-\tilde{X}\|_{L^2(\mu)}^2=\int_0^t\mathbb{E}|X_s-\tilde{X}_s|^2ds=\int_0^t\int_{\mathbb{R}_{\ge0}}\mathbb{P}\left(|X_s-\tilde{X}_s|^2>\tau\right)d\tau ds=0
 $$
as $\mathbb{P}\left(|X_s-\tilde{X}_s|^2>\tau\right)=0 ~~ \forall s,\tau$ in its range, as $\tilde{X}$ is a version of $X$. I have used a standard result to rewrite an expectation using the cumulative distribution, see Remark 2. Therefore,
$$
 \int_0^t (b(s, X_{s})-b(s, \tilde{X}_{s}))ds=0
 $$
for almost all $\omega$. Similarly,
$$
 \mathbb{E}\left(\int_0^t\left|\sigma(s, X_{s})-\sigma(s, \tilde{X}_{s})\right|^2ds\right) = 0
 $$
By the Itô isometry,
$$
 \|\int_0^t(\sigma(s, X_{s})-\sigma(s, \tilde{X}_{s}))dB_s \|_{L^2(\mathbb{P})}= 0
 $$
Therefore,
$$
 \left|\int_0^t\left(\sigma(s, X_{s})-\sigma(s, \tilde{X}_{s})\right)dB_s \right|^2=0
 $$
for almost all $\omega$. So we conclude that, almost surely,
$$
 \int_0^t b(s, {X}_{s}))ds=\int_0^t b(s, \tilde{X}_{s}))ds,\quad \int_0^t\sigma(s, \tilde{X}_{s})dB_s=\int_0^t\sigma(s, {X}_{s})dB_s.
 $$
This justifies the second equality and we are done.
Remark 1. As I said above, using that $\mathbb{Q}$ is countable,
$$
 \mathbb{P}\left(\omega\in\Omega ~|~\tilde{X}_t(\omega)=X_t(\omega)~~ \forall t\in\mathbb{Q}~\cap[0,T]\right)=1.
 $$
As you mention, this is not as strong as indistinguishability, i.e.,
$$
 \mathbb{P}\left(\omega\in\Omega ~|~\tilde{X}_t(\omega)=X_t(\omega)~~ \forall t\in[0,T]\right)=1.
 $$
Let $\{t_j\}_{j\in\mathcal{J}}=\mathbb{Q}~\cap[0,T]$.
With this, trying to show that the integrals are the same can fail. For instance, taking $\{t_i\}\subset\{t_j\}_{j\in\mathcal{J}}$ for the elementary functions
$$
 \phi_n(t,\omega):=\sum_{i\in \mathcal{I}_n}{\sigma}(t_i, X_{t_i}(\omega))\chi_{[t_i,t_{i+1})}(t)=\sum_{i\in \mathcal{I}_n}{\sigma}(t_i, \tilde{X}_{t_i}(\omega))\chi_{[t_i,t_{i+1})}(t)=\tilde{\phi}_n(t,\omega) \quad \omega\text{-a.a.,}
 $$
is not enough because $\int_0^t\phi_n dB$ might not converge to $\int_0^s\sigma(s, X_s)dB_s$ (in the construction of the Itô integral one needs first to mollify and cutoff to get a continuous and bounded function, see Øksendal, §3.1). And with the equality only in a countable number of $t_i$, the standard integrals might be different too (take $X_s=\chi_\mathbb{Q}$ and $\tilde{X}_s=1$ for all $\omega$).
$\diamond$
Remark 2. From the solution manual of J. Shao "Mathematical Statistics".

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Press Ombudsman is planned to be established, which will protect the rights of media outlets in Uzbekistan, the Information and Mass Communications Agency said in a statement.
The new structure will prevent groundless interference of government bodies into the activities of media outlets and mediate in disputes between the media and government bodies, individuals, and legal entities.
The press ombudsman will also monitor compliance by the media with legislation and handle individuals and legal entities' complaints on "any controversial" news.
"We believe that the establishment of the press ombudsman, which will have access to both readers and the media, will contribute to the strengthening of the legal and ethical culture of journalists," the statement said.
The press ombudsman will be created under the Information and Mass Communications Agency, with the draft relevant regulation being developed, the agency concluded. The document will be due before June 1.