NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A hotel that caught fire in the Indian capital on Tuesday, killing 17 people, passed safety checks 14 months ago, but an investigation has revealed breaches of regulations, such as faulty alarms, prompting a mass reinspection of other hotels.
Poorly enforced regulations lead to thousands of deaths in fires across India every year and officials in New Delhi say an overstretched fire service is hampering safety efforts.
The Hotel Arpit Palace passed a fire safety check in December 2017, but a copy of the initial police investigation seen by Reuters showed several breaches of fire regulations, including a lack of signs to guide guests to exits and fire alarms that did not work.
Delhi's fire service, which is responsible for safety inspections as well as fighting fires, is now reviewing certificates issued to more than 1,500 hotels in one of India's tourist hubs, a senior fire official told Reuters.
But stretched resources mean the re-inspection process could take months.
The city has around 1,700 firefighters, he said, which is less than an eighth of the number in New York, a city with less than half of Delhi's population.
The fire is believed to have begun on the hotel's first floor, spreading quickly through wood-panelled corridors, police say. Among the dead were members of a wedding party from Kerala and a two Buddhist pilgrims from Myanmar.
"From the outside, the building looked intact, but inside everything was completely charred," a police officer told Reuters.
Two of the 17 died after jumping out of windows in desperation after failing to find emergency exits, added the officer, who declined to be named as he is not authorised to talk to the media.
"Fire preparedness is a matter of shockingly low priority in most parts of the country," said an editorial in the Indian Express, one of the country's leading newspapers.
A 2018 study by India's home ministry that found the country had just 2,000 of more than 8,500 fire stations it needs.
More than 17,000 people died in fires in 2015, according to data from the ministry, the last year for which figures are available, one of the largest causes of accidental death in India.
Fire safety is an issue for shanty towns and some of the country's most expensive real estate.
A day after the Arpit Palace disaster, more than 250 makeshift homes were destroyed in a slum in Paschim Puri, a poor area of New Delhi, though no one was killed.
In 2017, 14 people were killed during a birthday party at a high-end bar in India's financial capital Mumbai.
In several upscale neighbourhoods in Delhi, police shut hundreds of shops and restaurants last year for trading on floors meant for residential use, though many continue to operate illegally, residents say.
By the boarded-up Arpit Palace in the Karol Bagh area of New Delhi, wires from adjacent hotels still trail across the street, though staff there told Reuters they were complying with fire regulations.
Adding to the safety problems, poorly paid staff in the hotel and restaurant industries are often unable to help guests when fires break out, Kental said.
"They are not trained. They don't know what to do in the event of a fire," he said.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China's population is set to reach a peak of 1.442 billion in 2029 and start a long period of "unstoppable" decline in 2030, government scholars said in a research report published on Friday.
"From a theoretical point of view, the long-term population decline, especially when it is accompanied by a continuously ageing population, is bound to cause very unfavourable social and economic consequences," it said.
India has overtaken China and become the world's most populous country, according to an academic who believes that Beijing has overestimated the number of its citizens by as much as 90 million.
With none of the infamous birth control policies that China enforced for decades, India had been expected to become No 1 in the next five to ten years.
However, Yi Fuxian, a researcher and critic of China's one-child policy, says that the Chinese authorities have greatly overstated the country's real fertility rate since 1990.
At a conference in Beijing, Mr Yi concluded that China was home to 1.29 billion people at the end of last year, not the 1.38 billion that is Beijing's official estimate.Mr Yi's calculations would put China's population lower than that of India, whose government estimates that the Indian population is 1.33 billion. Yesterday China's "ministry of births", the national health and family planning commission, rejected his claims.
"Some people ignored the birth population data issued by the state statistics bureau after revision, make no analysis on the raw data of population census and random surveys, directly gathered, and believe 2015's total fertility rate is 1.05," the commission said. "This is completely not in accordance with the real situation." It said the 2016 fertility rate — births per woman — was 1.7.
Mr Yi, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose book Big Country with an Empty Nest was published in Hong Kong and banned on the mainland, said that the government's denial came as no surprise.
"I am confident in my research," he told The Times. If the public knew the true numbers then they and policymakers would have stopped the policies and the commission would have been closed years ago, he added.
He called on China to abolish all restrictions rather than just allowing two children per family, a reform introduced last year.
Its one-child policy was introduced in 1979 and was phased out gradually. There were many exceptions: ethnic minorities were exempt and some families could have a second child if the first was a girl.
The title of the world's most populous nation probably remains with China for the time being, according to other experts. He Yafu, an independent demographer in Guangdong province, said China's official population statistics probably are inflated "but it's impossible to be that much [90 million]"."China's population must have exceeded 1.3 billion but is less than 1.4 billion. Figures from social insurance and other areas can also prove that it's definitely more than 1.3 billion," Mr He said.
Angus Deaton, the economist who won a Nobel Prize this week, has spent much of his career trying to measure poverty and progress in India and China.
He won the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences award in economics by devising systems to understand consumption and poverty using household surveys and number crunching.
"Deaton's focus on household surveys has helped transform development economics from a theoretical field based on aggregate data to an empirical field based on detailed individual data," the academy said.
His decadeslong deep dive into data on the poor, their spending habits and their health gave him a surprisingly upbeat assessment of human progress, largely owed to the great strides that have been made in China and India. His book, "The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality," documented why the world is a better place to live than it used to be.
A recent World Bank report suggested that more than one billion people might have been lifted out of extreme poverty already this century. Most of that progress was in China and India.
Here are a few of the things Mr. Deaton said in his book about the massive shifts in China and India that are changing the world.
Researchers at Abbott Laboratories in Shanghai are busy testing flavors of nutritional drinks for China's senior citizens. Kimberly-Clark Corp. has launched television ads for its Depend adult diapers and expanded distribution online. Local e-commerce companies like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. are rolling out senior-focused marketing pushes.
The companies are after the growing ranks of people born during a Mao Zedong-inspired baby boom that took the country's population to nearly one billion people in 1980 from 542,000 in 1949. China's birthrate dropped sharply during the 1970s and 1980s as the government reversed course and implemented a one-child policy.
The boomers are now hitting old age: China's over-65 population is projected to soar to 210 million in 2030 from 110 million, and by 2050 will account for a quarter of China's total population, according to United Nations data. By then, the U.N. says, China's elderly population may exceed the entire U.S. population.
"What has us interested…is that half a billion people over the age of 60 will be living in China over the next 35 years," said Scott White, president of Abbott's international nutrition division.
via Tapping China's 'Silver Hair Industry' – China Real Time Report – WSJ.
China will speed up the exploration of immigration policies this year to attract skilled foreign workers, a senior official said on Thursday.
However, Zhang Jianguo, head of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, did not give details on when the policies will be introduced.
Experts said Zhang\'s remarks show that China may, for the first time, single out skilled workers as a special category in its general immigration polices, as the country faces a shortage of such workers.
Wang Huiyao, director of the Center for China and Globalization, said the government urgently needs to revise its immigration policies to attract more highly skilled foreigners.
\"China\'s population is aging quickly and we also need more skilled workers for our economic upgrading,\" he said. China needs to loosen its immigration policies, including giving citizenship to skilled foreign nationals, he added.
Such immigration policies are common in Western countries, which roll out favorable measures for the skilled foreign workers they lack.
China has experienced a talent \"deficit\" for years. In 2012 alone, more than 148,000 Chinese obtained overseas citizenship, while just 1,202 expatriates were granted permanent residency in China, according to a report by Wang\'s center on Wednesday.
China usually grants its version of green cards to foreigners in certain categories: Businessmen who have invested at least $500,000 in the country; technical personnel such as managers; people with skills \"needed by the State\" and spouses of Chinese nationals, providing their marriage has lasted at least five years and they have lived in China for at least nine months in each of those years.
via Global hunt for top skills accelerates – Chinadaily.com.cn.
College students in China\'s restive western Xinjiang region will not graduate unless their political views are approved, a university official said, as the country wages what school administrators called an ideological war against separatism.
Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur ethnic group, many of whom resent controls imposed by Beijing and an inflow of Han Chinese migrants. Some Uighur groups are campaigning for an independent homeland for their people.
University officials from Xinjiang said their institutions were a frontline in a \"life and death struggle\" for the people\'s hearts and a main front in the battle against separatism, the ruling Communist Party\'s official newspaper in the region, the Xinjiang Daily, reported on Tuesday.
\"Students whose political qualifications are not up to par must absolutely not graduate, even if their professional course work is excellent,\" said Xu Yuanzhi, the party secretary at Kashgar Teachers College in southern Xinjiang, which has been an epicenter for ethnic unrest.
It is unclear if such a policy has been officially implemented throughout the region.
\"Ideology is a battlefield without gun smoke,\" Xinjiang Normal University President Weili Balati said.
\"As university leaders, we have the responsibility to do more to help students and teachers properly understand and treat religion, ethnicity and culture and help them distinguish between right and wrong,\" he said.
China blamed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for an attack on October 28, when a vehicle ploughed through bystanders on Tiananmen Square in Beijing and burst into flames, killing three people in the car and two bystanders.
Uighur exiles, rights groups and some experts have cast doubt on the official accounts of what China has deemed terror attacks and foreign reporting of the incident has discussed whether it was motivated by punitive ethnic policies.
An Islamist militant group has released a speech claiming responsibility for the incident, which China\'s Foreign Ministry said should silence those who are skeptical about the threat of terror within China\'s borders.
The Uighurs are culturally closer to ethnic groups across central Asia and Turkey than the Han Chinese who make up the vast majority of China\'s population.
via Xinjiang college says approved political views needed to graduate | Reuters.


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GOSSIPONTHIS.COM News Brittney Jones: Judge Denies Request to Drop Charges Against Woman Who Performed...
Brittney Jones: Judge Denies Request to Drop Charges Against Woman Who Performed Sex Acts in Florida Courthouse
Devarrick Turner
Updated August 30th, 2017 at 7:28 pm
Though she tried to fight it, Brittney Jones will continue to face charges for performing sex acts in a public court house. A Florida judge has denied a request to drop the charges.
Jones' lawyer argued the law used to charge their client is "unconstitutionally vague" because it does not explicitly define what "unnatural sex" is and leaves it open to interpretation for citizens.
However, the judge wasn't buying it and denied her lawyer's request on August 16. Jones was not present in court.
Jones caught the internet's attention back in February after she posted several videos performing sex acts, including oral, on a man on the fourth-floor hallway of the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, FL. Claiming her "skills" got her out of unrelated legal charges, she then bragged about her antics on social media as the videos went viral.
The 26-year-old was arrested in February and charged with unnatural and lascivious acts. Jeremiah Robinson, the man in the video and Jones' alleged "baby daddy" also faces the same charge.
Brittney Jones' next court hearing is scheduled for September 12.
Published August 30th, 2017 at 4:25 pm
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Brittney Jones Arrested Weeks After Performing & Filming Oral Sex in Florida Courthouse
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} from '@testing-library/react';

import NoPermissionMessage from './NoPermissionMessage';

const testIds = {
  noPermissionWrapper: 'noPermissionWrapper',
};

describe('NoPermissionMessage', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    render(<NoPermissionMessage />);
  });

  it('should render noPermissionWrapper', () => {
    expect(screen.getByTestId(testIds.noPermissionWrapper)).toBeInTheDocument();
  });

  it('should not render noAccessToActualCostPage message', () => {
    expect(screen.getByText('ui-users.lostItems.message.noAccessToActualCostPage')).toBeInTheDocument();
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});

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Our coverage of Days of the Dead-Culture Shock 2015 continues with actor-producer-director Bobby Easley. He has a lot of titles, but I think he is best described as "dynamic."
As we encountered him at his booth at Days of the Dead Culture Shock, Easley quickly engaged us. In a room filled with people promoting their projects (or themselves), it isn't easy to stand out, but Easley did just that.
He was there promoting three films, namely Belly Timber, All Sinners Night and Devil Dogs of Kilo Company. Promoting three films seems appropriate for Easley. The man seems larger than life.
Along those lines, Easley told me he wanted to be the "Roger Corman of Indiana." Corman is a director-producer-actor, mostly of B movies (many awesome ones though), including Rock 'N' Roll High School featuring the Ramones. I believe Easley will succeed in this goal and I will be watching his progress.
In our interview below, Easley discusses the three films, his start in the business and more. He also gives us a scoop. Now that is a great interviewee. Scoops go a long way!
Check out the interview and you will become as captivated as we were. Then, you can learn more about Easley and his projects at HorrorWastelandFlix.com.


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Q: Why are unsigned int's not CLS compliant? Why are unsigned integers not CLS compliant?
I am starting to think the type specification is just for performance and not for correctness.

A: Not all languages have the concept of unsigned ints. For example VB 6 had no concept of unsigned ints which I suspect drove the decision of the designers of VB7/7.1 not to implement as well (it's implemented now in VB8).
To quote:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/12a7a7h3.aspx
The CLS was designed to be large enough to include the language
constructs that are commonly needed by developers, yet small enough
that most languages are able to support it. In addition, any language
construct that makes it impossible to rapidly verify the type safety
of code was excluded from the CLS so that all CLS-compliant languages
can produce verifiable code if they choose to do so.

Update: I did wonder about this some years back, and whilst I can't see why a UInt wouldn't be type safety verifiable, I guess the CLS guys had to have a cut off point somewhere as to what would be the baseline minimum number of value types supported. Also when you think about the longer term where more and more languages are being ported to the CLR why force them to implement unsigned ints to gain CLS compliance if there is absolutely no concept, ever?

A: Unsigned integers are not CLS compliant because they're not interoperable between certain languages.

A: Unsigned int's don't gain you that much in real life, however having more than 1 type of int gives you pain, so a lot of languages only have singed ints.
CLS compliant is aimed at allowing a class to be made use of from lots of languages…
Remember that no one makes you be CLS compliant.
You can still use unsigned ints within a method, or as parms to a private method, as it is only the public API that CLS compliant restricts.

A: Part of the issue, I suspect, revolves around the fact that unsigned integer types in C are required to behave as members of an abstract algebraic ring rather than as numbers [meaning, for example, that if an unsigned 16-bit integer variable equals zero, decrementing it is required to yield 65,535, and if it's equal to 65,535 then incrementing it is required to yield zero.]  There are times when such behavior is extremely useful, but numeric types exhibit such behavior may have gone against the spirit of some languages.  I would conjecture that the decision to omit unsigned types probably predates the decision to support both checked and unchecked numeric contexts.  Personally, I wish there had been separate integer types for unsigned numbers and algebraic rings; applying a unary minus operator to unsigned 32-bit number should yield a 64-bit signed result [negating anything other than zero would yield a negative number] but applying a unary minus to a ring type should yield the additive inverse within that ring.
In any case, the reason unsigned integers are not CLS compliant is that Microsoft decided that languages didn't have to support unsigned integers in order to be considered "CLS compatible".

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A Russian news organization with ties to the 2016 election interference operation started a website called USAReally. Its stated purpose was for Americans to get uncensored news about their own country — from Russia. We spoke to the man behind it. Guest Host: Kevin Roose, who writes about technology for The New York Times, talks to Alexander Malkevich, the founder of USAReally, and David E. Sanger, a national security correspondent for The Times. For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.


Yosemite on MBP Major WiFi issues?
Discussion in 'OS X Yosemite (10.10)' started by EFaden, Oct 16, 2014.
Just upgraded my MBP to yosemite and ever since my wifi will not stay connected. It works for about 30 seconds and then stops. Wired works fine. Anyone seen anything like this or have suggestions?
I don't have an answer, but I'm wondering what are the specs and model year of your MBP?
I am having the same issue on my rMBP (late 2013), except that the problems are confined to 5.0ghz wifi. 2.4ghz works fine. But on 5ghz I have the same issue as the OP (can't stay connected for more than 30 seconds).
5GHz band is still having issue with the official release 10.10. There is no issue with 10.9.5.
Yosemite installed about two hours ago, using 5.0 Ghz WiFi setting, AirPort Extreme (Newest), and thus far no issues of dropping down to 2.4. Not enough time, but so far so good.
I had the issue during the developer preview process with both 5ghz and 2.4ghz, but the issue cleared up in DP6 for me. I'm running a 2012 rMBP.
I am having the same problem on a late 2013 mbp. I also experience the issue on the 2.4ghz range.
Did a fresh install of Mavericks from Yosemite (wiped the hard drive) and I had normal connectivity like I did before upgrading. I then upgraded from the clean Mavericks install to Yosemite and had the same problem on both ranges (5 and 2.4). I'll get connectivity then it drops after a 30 seconds to a minute and then comes back in another minute or so then drops again.
At the point I need to fall back to Mavericks.
I'm not losing connection, but it is extremely slow (after upgrading to Yosemite) on my MBP Retina (using Safari, 2,4Ghz Wifi) and sometimes Safari says it can't find the server... Had no problems with Mavericks.
Also not having any issues when connected via Ethernet.
I'm using an A1398. I'm on 2.4 ghz connected to a netgear r7000. I had no p problems until the upgrade. Now it connects for about 30 seconds then I just get a ton of packet loss. It says it is still connected.. It just cannot do anything.
Upgraded to Yosemite (not fresh install) ant noticed that wifi is fu*king with me. Visually wifi signal bars are full, but safari not load webpages, mac store as well. Only solution i found is to turn wifi off and turn it back on.
I apparently solved this issue removing all the preferred networks and then establishing a new connection.
I'm having the same issues. Wifi was working fine last night after I upgraded but this morning I can't get wifi to connect no matter what I do. Bummer.
Same issue for me as well. I have two SSIDs - one for 2.4 and one for 5.0ghz and the 2.4 one works fine, the 5.0 is super slow. Really disappointing.
Used to connect at MCS index of 15+, around 100Mbps of actual bandwidth.
Laptop is in same place, other devices working fine. On 2.4ghz btw.
This is exactly what worked for me. Thanks!
There's definitely a wifi bug that needs to be addressed ASAP. My late 2011 MBP was absolutely worthless with no internet connectivity.
Having the same issue. Retina 15inch mid 2012. Will try what @dandl posted when I get home.
Here's a video on the issue.
I've been having the same troubles since the installation and throughout the Developer Previews.
I just tried the deleting of the preferred networks - will see if it helps.
Deleted the preferred networks didn't work for me.
I'm hard wired in and connected to WiFi, I found that after upgrading it doesn't want to stay on 5GHz and will back down to 2.4GHz rather quickly.
I have the same problem in my rMBP. Wifi is useless and the console is flooded with error messages.
Wifi seems to work fine at home (various Airports) but same problem at work with a TP-Link wireless router; 2012 (15") rMBP.
I've reported this issue to Apple on the first day of GM1 for my 2012 rMBP and sent them 3 separate WiFi logs. I only received one response which was to send them more logs after the first log I attached. I can't believe they released Yosemite with this serious bug, I have to either suffer with slower internet on the 2.4 GHZ band or use a thunderbolt ethernet adapter and hang out with router.
Add me too. Can't connect to 5ghz at all, but 2.4ghz seems to work fine. 5ghz was working perfectly smooth on Maverics. I have an Asus AC66U here.
Same problem here, both in 5GHz and 2.4GHz but no problems when using the same frequencies and 802.x authentication system with certificates.


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typedef struct redisCallback {
    struct redisCallback *next;
    redisCallbackFn *fn;
    void *privdata;
} redisCallback;
typedef struct redisCallbackList {
    redisCallback *head, *tail;
} redisCallbackList;
typedef void (redisDisconnectCallback)(const struct redisAsyncContext*, int status);
typedef void (redisConnectCallback)(const struct redisAsyncContext*, int status);
typedef struct redisAsyncContext {
    redisContext c;
    int err;
    char *errstr;
    void *data;
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        void *data;
        void (*addRead)(void *privdata);
        void (*delRead)(void *privdata);
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redisAsyncContext *redisAsyncConnectUnix(const char *path);
int redisAsyncSetConnectCallback(redisAsyncContext *ac, redisConnectCallback *fn);
int redisAsyncSetDisconnectCallback(redisAsyncContext *ac, redisDisconnectCallback *fn);
void redisAsyncDisconnect(redisAsyncContext *ac);
void redisAsyncFree(redisAsyncContext *ac);
void redisAsyncHandleRead(redisAsyncContext *ac);
void redisAsyncHandleWrite(redisAsyncContext *ac);
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SIX WAYS TO GET RID OF SKUNKS: 1. If skunks are under a shed, porch, or house, inspect the structure, and find the entry hole(s). 2. If skunks are under a building the best option is to install an exclusion barrier around the building, and a one-way exclusion …... There are simple ways to keep skunks out of these locations around your home. Place leaves, dirt or straw into any existing openings that could be welcoming to them. These tactics will help to get rid of any skunks that have built a den.
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There are simple ways to keep skunks out of these locations around your home. Place leaves, dirt or straw into any existing openings that could be welcoming to them. These tactics will help to get rid of any skunks that have built a den.
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Fantasy basketball forecaster - Nov. 12-18 Sit Blake Griffin for D'Angelo Russell this week?
Fantasy basketball forecaster: Sit Blake Griffin for D'Angelo Russell this week?
Should you consider sitting usual impact starters like Blake Griffin or Kemba Walker? Should you start someone like D'Angelo Russell or Dario Saric, who might generally be on your bench -- perhaps even your waiver wire?
This is a wild week in the schedule, with one team playing the maximum five games and another team playing the minimum one game. In between them, 12 teams play four games, 12 teams play three games and four play only two. It's all over the place, and this week's Forecaster results reflect that, with almost all of the scores in the 4-7 average range.
The Golden State Warriors play five games and are the only team to score a 10 this week. They are also dealing with injuries to two of their best players, Stephen Curry (abdomen/groin) and Draymond Green (toe), who could miss some action this week. As such, the "potentially startable" section below will be littered with Warriors.
The Timberwolves scored an 8 on the Forecaster with four games, and they have their own intrigues. Jeff Teague has missed several games with an injured ankle and may miss some time this week, In Teague's absence, Derrick Rose has put together a couple of throwback performances to vault himself back into the limelight. Plus, there is the ongoing Jimmy Butler saga -- and uncertainties about whether he will play also affect his teammates' values.
At the other end, the Detroit Pistons scored a 1 with only one game this week. The Charlotte Hornets scored a 3 with two games, and the Phoenix Suns and Sacramento Kings scored a 3 with three games each. The Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers and Cleveland Cavaliers all have only two games each and scored 4s on the Forecaster. Their limited schedules could have interesting ramifications for the startable/sittable lists below.


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Sex and the City stars give support to Chris Noth accuserson December 21, 2021 at 8:48 am
Three Sex And The City actresses issue a joint statement after co-star is accused of sexual assault.
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The leading actresses of the Sex And The City TV show have expressed support for two women who have accused their co-star Chris Noth of sexual assault.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis said they were "deeply saddened" to hear of the allegations.
"We support the women who have come forward and shared their painful experiences," they said in a joint statement.
Mr Noth, 67, has rejected the accusations as "categorically false".
The actor, who played the character of Mr Big in the hugely popular series – the main love interest for Sarah Jessica Parker's protagonist – has said the encounters with both women were consensual.
However he has been dropped from several contracts since the allegations were made in The Hollywood Reporter magazine last week.
Four days on from the initial reports, US networks CBS and Universal Television confirmed that Mr Noth had been sacked from his current show, The Equaliser. Fitness brand Peloton removed an advert featuring him from its social media pages last week.
The statement, issued on all three actresses' social media pages, comes just a fortnight after a sequel to Sex And The City was released, entitled And Just Like That… in which Mr Noth reprised his role as Mr Big.
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The women who have accused Mr Noth of sexual assault told The Hollywood Reporter that seeing him on the new show had prompted them to come forward.
They gave detailed accounts of the alleged assaults to the magazine, under the pseudonyms Zoe and Lily.
Zoe, now 40, says she was 22 years old when the actor allegedly raped her at an apartment in West Hollywood in 2004.
Lily, now 31, says she was raped in his Greenwich Village apartment in New York City in 2015 when she was 25 and he was 60.
The detailed article by journalist Kim Masters also interviews people such as Zoe's boss at the time, a rape treatment centre and a friend of Lily's whose accounts all seem to back up both women's claims. The article also quotes text messages purportedly between Mr Noth and Lily at the time of the alleged assault.
Mr Noth has said in a statement to US outlets: "The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false.
"These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago – no always means no – that is a line I did not cross. The encounters were consensual."
"It's difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out. I don't know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women."
Los Angeles Police has said the allegations have not led to an investigation because no official report has been made to police.
Besides Sex And The City, Mr Noth is known for his acting roles on Law & Order and The Good Wife.
He has been married to actress Tara Wilson since 2012. They have two children together.
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Q: Incorrect Oozie dependencies when trying to install Cloudera Manager 5 I'm trying to install the newest version of the Cloudera manager on my Hadoop cluster (Ubuntu 14.04), following these steps. I moved Ubuntu Trusty Cloudera Manager list file to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory, not realizing someone else had already moved the Ubuntu Precise list there as well. I ran through as much of the installation as possible and am now getting some weird dependency errors with Oozie:
% sudo apt-get install cloudera-manager-daemons
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
cloudera-manager-daemons is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 oozie : Depends: oozie-client (= 3.1.3+155-1.cdh4.0.1.p0.1~precise-cdh4.0.1) but 4.1.0+cdh5.6.0+235-1.cdh5.6.0.p0.108~trusty-cdh5.6.0 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

When I list the Oozie packages installed I get:
% dpkg --list | grep "oozie"
ii  oozie                               3.1.3+155-1.cdh4.0.1.p0.1~precise-cdh4.0.1            all          A workflow and coordinator sytem for Hadoop jobs.
ii  oozie-client                        4.1.0+cdh5.6.0+235-1.cdh5.6.0.p0.108~trusty-cdh5.6.0  all          Client for Oozie Workflow Engine

So oozie is using the Precise installation and oozie-client is using the Trusty one. I can't remove either of them (purge gives similar results):
% sudo apt-get  remove oozie-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
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E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

If I try to continue with the Cloudera installation I keep getting weird Oozie dependency errors. Thoughts?

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What Is Kobudo? Everything You Need to Know
ByRobert	 December 3, 2020 December 3, 2020
There are some very famous martial arts out there, some of which have dominated the world. These are karate, judo, jiu-jistu, and a couple of others, which can be found in every city all over the world. There are some others, however, which aren't fortunate enough to be on the list of famous martial arts. One of these is Kobudo. In this article, we will dive into what Kobudo is, what it means, and where it comes from, and ultimately answer the question: what is Kobudo?
Kobudo is a traditional Okinawan weapon martial art, which probably developed somewhere between the 17th and the 19th century, by mostly farmers to defend themselves against Satsuma samurai.
There are some other versions of its history, but this is the most widely known theory. It is a complex martial art that deals with a lot of weapons, like the Sai, Bo, Kama, and a lot of others. Read on to find out more about this forgotten martial art and its teachings!
What Does Kobudo Mean?
What Is Kobudo?
History of Kobudo
Weapons Used In Kobudo
We will shortly touch on the origin and the meaning of Kobudo before we start exploring the art itself. When translated, it can mean "old martial way of Okinawa", though literally it only means something along the lines of "old martial art". It is considered to be like a sibling to karate, since both have been developed in Okinawa, and they go hand-in-hand due to the fact that one is traditionally an empty hand art (that is what the karate word is usually translated to), while the other is exclusively a weapon art. Some martial arts historians even believe that Kobudo was the forerunner of karate and that it served in many ways as the inspiration for numerous techniques.
So now that we have covered some basic origins and meaning, we can look into what it actually is. As we have mentioned, it is a weapon-based martial art from Okinawa. It isn't very famous in the modern world, for reasons we will later look into.
The main weapons Kobudo deals with are Bo, Sai, Kama, Tonfa, Nunchaku, Tenko, Tinbe-Rochin, Surujin, Tambo, and some others. Aside from the fact that it is a weapon martial art in the first place, the variety of weapons also makes it a very interesting and also hard-to-learn art. There are many varieties to the art, all of which deal with different types of weapons, but there are a couple of forms of it that require the mastery of all weapons we listed and more in order for one to master it.
There are two main theories about its origins, though as with most of these Eastern martial arts, the true origins will probably remain unknown since the people developing the techniques usually did so under some oppressive tyrant or tyrannical system in which they couldn't go public about what they were doing without risking their lives.
The first idea is that Okinawan farmers and other poor people were under samurai oppression, and they needed a way to fight back or at least defend themselves. In absence of any sophisticated weapon, they started using whatever they could get their hands on, which were usually farming tools. For example, the Kama is literally a sickle that they used in Okinawa for farming purposes, and the Bo is a long wooden staff, which isn't hard to come by on any farm. The problem with this theory is that there isn't much evidence to support it outside of the intuitive connection one makes between farming tools and the actual weapons that the art uses.
The second idea is that this art was developed by a warrior cast, the Pechin people of Okinawa and this idea is one that has been supported a lot more by serious martial arts historians, although the origin of mostly farmer's tools as weapons remains somewhat unanswered.
We listed the weapons used, and now we will take a closer look at the weapons which can be found in all variations of Kobudo.
The absolute most widely used weapon in Kobudo, the Bo staff is a long and straight wooden staff, usually around 6 feet long, but can reach lengths of up to 9 feet. The versatility of this weapon, aside from the fact that it is very easy to make and cheap to buy, is what makes it so popular. There is no Kobudo form or style which doesn't at some point contain techniques with the Bo staff. It was also very effective, since unlike a katana, which only had one attacking side and could break if edge alignment wasn't executed properly, the Bo staff, like any staff, could be used from all angles and directions. Both ends, sometimes even the middle of the staff is used to strike, even more so to lock weapons, block them, or to throw the opponent to the ground.
Probably the most iconic one of these weapons (in the Japanese context), the Sai is a three-pronged weapon, with one long center prong and two side-prongs which all come from the handle of the weapon, which is also known as the tsuka. The weapon can be used for quick thrusting and highly effective defense as well, and the small size and weight of the weapon make it feel like an extension to the arm of its wielder. The Sai should be as long as to extend between 1-3 inches from your elbow while measuring it to your forearm and hand, making the average Sai size around 20 inches. There are way longer and way shorter variations, however.
The Tonfa also sometimes spelled as Tongfa, also known as T-baton in modern language is a close-range, technical melee weapon best known for its role in the armed component of Okinawan martial arts (or in other words, Kobudo) and its modern use in many police forces worldwide. It consists of a relatively short stick with a perpendicular handle attached at around a third of the way down the length of the stick and is about 15–20 inches long. It was traditionally made from red or white oak and wielded in pairs, even though policemen nowadays only wield one. The tonfa is believed to have originated in either China or Southeast Asia where. It is highly technical and effective, since it acts as an armor to one's arm in some sense, making blocking strikes very easy and sometimes painful for the opponent, and also rendering punches and strikes exponentially stronger than a simple fist punch. Aside from striking and blocking, the Tonfa can be very effectively be used for engaging in close-quarters combat, since they can provide leverage to subdue an opponent easily. The pressure Tonfas can put on bones in close-range combat is more than enough to break bones if necessary.
The reason we wrote that Sais are the most iconic in a Japanese context is that Nunchaku are definitely the most iconic ones in a general Eastern martial arts context. However, it is a common misconception that Nunchaku are Chinese, they in fact originate from Okinawa, the home of Karate and Kobudo amongst other martial arts-related things. The Nunchaku probably was first a flail used to thresh rice, then it was turned into a weapon. One of the main advantages of Nunchaku over other weapons is that it is relatively small, insanely fast, and very powerful. You don't even need a strong strike, just a moderate blow can easily break a skull or shatter a collar bone. Martial artists who have mastered the Nunchaku are formidable enemies since the Nunchaku can also be used to grab the enemies' weapon and twist it out of their hands or to block with extreme speed. It is present in most, if not all Kobudo styles as well.
The last Kobudo weapon we will talk about today is the Kama. Kama means sickle, and there is really not much creativity and imagination required for someone to see where this comes from. The shape and size are virtually the same as any farmer's sickle since they realized that no modification is needed to a sickle to make it a dangerous weapon. It gave rise to a couple of different weapons like the Kusarigama, which is basically the Kama attached to a string, which is also a very intimidating weapon and one used in Kobudo. The Kama's L-shape makes the motion and the trajectory of the moving blade really hard to intuitively have a grasp on.
For example, a medieval longsword was simple and straight, and one knew that they just have to stay away from it. However, the Kama doesn't give you the option of being slightly cut if the weapon grazes you; if the Kama's blade touches you, you are most likely going to die. This is because if you look at the blade of a Kama in an extended arm, all the power of the blade will be concentrated at the very tip, where the whole blade lies. This makes the Kama all the more vicious of a weapon. Kamas can also be really fast, which combined with the blade angle make it a very effective weapon.
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Pictures depict progress on the new Forth bridge
By Victoria Weldon
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The Queensferry Crossing, which is costing between £1.35 and £1.4 billion to build, is expected to open in late 2016.
Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure Keith Brown said: "It seems a long time since 2011 when construction work on the bridge began. Looking out over the Forth now, it is hard to remember what it was like before the Queensferry Crossing started to emerge from the water.
"During 2015 the progress in building the new bridge has been much more noticeable to passers-by the higher above the water the bridge has grown.
"This past year is possibly the one that people will have noticed the most - the towers have gone up and it is now the tallest bridge in the UK, the deck is stretching out from each of the towers, the south viaduct is reaches out towards the main crossing and will soon be joined by its twin on the north side.
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The document also expresses 'deep concern about human rights and the humanitarian situation in Venezuela, including recent attempts to block the delivery of humanitarian aid'.
Russia also submitted an initiative at the UN Security Council, but opposed to Washington's draft resolution, as it expressed concern about Venezuela's sovereignty and territorial integrity in light of Washington-led threats.
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