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Q: Rstudio crashes with Rcpp and OpenMP function This is a follow up question to dqrng with Rcpp for drawing from a normal and a binomial distribution. I tried to implement the answer but instead of drawing from a single distribution I'm drawing from 3. This is the code that I wrote:
// [[Rcpp::depends(dqrng, BH, RcppArmadillo)]]
#include <RcppArmadillo.h>
#include <boost/random/binomial_distribution.hpp>
#include <xoshiro.h>
#include <dqrng_distribution.h>
// [[Rcpp::plugins(openmp)]]
#include <omp.h>

// [[Rcpp::plugins(cpp11)]]

// [[Rcpp::export]]
arma::mat parallel_random_matrix(int n, int m, int ncores, double p=0.5) {
  dqrng::xoshiro256plus rng(42);
  arma::mat out(n*m,3);
  // ok to use rng here
#pragma omp parallel num_threads(ncores)
{
  dqrng::xoshiro256plus lrng(rng);      // make thread local copy of rng
  lrng.jump(omp_get_thread_num() + 1);  // advance rng by 1 ... ncores jumps
  int iter = 0;
#pragma omp for
  for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
    for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
      iter = i * n + j;
      // p can be a function of i and j
      boost::random::binomial_distribution<int> dist_binomial(1,p);
      auto gen_bernoulli = std::bind(dist_binomial, std::ref(lrng));
      boost::random::normal_distribution<int> dist_normal1(2.0,1.0);
      auto gen_normal1 = std::bind(dist_normal1, std::ref(lrng));
      boost::random::normal_distribution<int> dist_normal2(4.0,3.0);
      auto gen_normal2 = std::bind(dist_normal2, std::ref(lrng));
      out(iter,0) = gen_bernoulli();
      out(iter,1) = gen_normal1();
      out(iter,2) = gen_normal2();
    }
  }
}
// ok to use rng here
return out;
}

/*** R
parallel_random_matrix(5, 5, 4, 0.75)
*/

When I try to run it Rstudio crashes. However, when I change the code like follows it does work:
// [[Rcpp::depends(dqrng, BH, RcppArmadillo)]]
#include <RcppArmadillo.h>
#include <boost/random/binomial_distribution.hpp>
#include <xoshiro.h>
#include <dqrng_distribution.h>
// [[Rcpp::plugins(openmp)]]
#include <omp.h>

// [[Rcpp::plugins(cpp11)]]

// [[Rcpp::export]]
arma::mat parallel_random_matrix(int n, int m, int ncores, double p=0.5) {
  dqrng::xoshiro256plus rng(42);
  arma::mat out(n*m,3);
  // ok to use rng here
#pragma omp parallel num_threads(ncores)
{
  dqrng::xoshiro256plus lrng(rng);      // make thread local copy of rng
  lrng.jump(omp_get_thread_num() + 1);  // advance rng by 1 ... ncores jumps
  int iter = 0;
#pragma omp for
  for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
    for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
      iter = i * n + j;
      // p can be a function of i and j
      boost::random::binomial_distribution<int> dist_binomial(1,p);
      auto gen_bernoulli = std::bind(dist_binomial, std::ref(lrng));
      boost::random::normal_distribution<int> dist_normal1(2.0,1.0);
      auto gen_normal1 = std::bind(dist_normal1, std::ref(lrng));
      boost::random::normal_distribution<int> dist_normal2(4.0,3.0);
      auto gen_normal2 = std::bind(dist_normal2, std::ref(lrng));
      out(iter,0) = gen_bernoulli();
      out(iter,1) = 2.0;//gen_normal1();
      out(iter,2) = 3.0;//gen_normal2();
    }
  }
}
// ok to use rng here
return out;
}

/*** R
parallel_random_matrix(5, 5, 4, 0.75)
*/

What am I doing wrong?

A: Here lies the problem:
  boost::random::normal_distribution<int> dist_normal1(2.0,1.0);
                                     ^^^

This distribution is meant for real types, not integral types, c.f. https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_69_0/doc/html/boost/random/normal_distribution.html. Correct would be
  boost::random::normal_distribution<double> dist_normal1(2.0,1.0);

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News and current affairs
 Dubai Eye on One (since 2020, simulcast from Dubai Eye 103.8)
 Emirates News (since 2006)
 DXB Today (since 2023)

Dramas and comedies

United States
 18 Wheels of Justice
 Airwolf
 The A-Team
 Beauty and the Beast
 Benson
 Beverly Hills, 90210
 The Big Bang Theory
 The Bill Engvall Show
 Blood & Oil
 The Bold and the Beautiful
 Boy Meets World
 Brotherly Love
 City Guys
 Cleopatra 2525
 Close to Home (2009)
 Cobra
 The Colbys
 Cosby
 The Cowboys
 Curb Your Enthusiasm
 Dallas
 Dave's World
 Diff'rent Strokes
 Dinosaurs (TV series)
 Doogie Howser, M.D.
 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
 Dynasty
 Early Edition
 Empty Nest
 Everwood
 Everybody Loves Raymond
 Falcon Crest
 The Flash
 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
 Friends
 Gilligan's Island
 The Golden Girls
 Gossip Girl
 The Gregory Hines Show
 Happy Hour
 Head of the Class
 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
 Here and Now
 Home Improvement
 Hope & Faith
 Jack of All Trades
 The Jeffersons
 The King of Queens
 Knight Rider
 Knots Landing
 Life Goes On
 MacGyver
 Magnum, P.I.
 Malcolm & Eddie
 Manimal
 Melrose Place
 Murder, She Wrote
 The New Adventures of Old Christine
 Night Court
 Once Upon a Time
 Out of This World
 The Parent 'Hood
 Queen of Hearts
 Quantum Leap
 Red Band Society
 Reign
 Remington Steele
 Renegade
 Power Rangers
 Saved by the Bell
 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
 Seinfeld
 The Sinbad Show
 Sliders
 Smallville
 Small Wonder
 Smart Guy
 The Sopranos
 The Steve Harvey Show
 Street Hawk
 The Simpsons (2004–2005)
 Supernatural
 S.W.A.T.
 Team Knight Rider
 Teen Wolf
 Twin Peaks
 USA High
 Veronica Mars
 Walker, Texas Ranger
 The Whispers
 The Wonder Years

Other countries
 Are You Afraid of the Dark?
 The Adventures of Sinbad
 Brazil Avenue
 Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat
 Dastaan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali
 Doctor Who
 Due South
 Hey Dad..!
 Highlander: The Series
 Hustle
 İntikam
 Jhansi Ki Rani
 Jodha Akbar Keeping Up Appearances Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Mr. Bean Naagin Neighbours Razia Sultan Rossella Swarajya Janani Jijamata Swarajyarakshak Sambhaji Muhteşem Yüzyıl (aired under Hareem Al Sultan name)
 lacasa de pepel The Golden Horde Derecho a soñar Children's series
 Animated series
 1001 Nights 2 Stupid Dogs The Adventures of Blinky Bill The Adventures of Paddington Bear Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin The Adventures of Tintin Aladdin The Amazing Adventures of Morph Andy Panda Animaniacs Angry Birds Toons Angry Birds Blues Angry Birds Stella Anne of Green Gables Ant-Man Arthur Avenger Penguins The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Avengers Assemble Babar Baby Looney Tunes The Baby Huey Show Bad Dog Batman: The Animated Series Beany and Cecil Beethoven Beetlejuice Biker Mice from Mars Billy the Cat Bimble's Bucket Bionic Six BlackStar Blazing Dragons Bob Morane Bonkers Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars The Busy World of Richard Scarry Captain Planet and the Planeteers Challenge of the GoBots Channel Umptee-3 Chilly Willy Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Count Duckula Creepy Crawlies Cro Danger Mouse Defenders of the Earth Dennis the Menace Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Denver, the Last Dinosaur Dink, the Little Dinosaur Dog City DragonFlyz Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop DuckTales Earthworm Jim ExoSquad Family Dog Fantastic Four Fantomcat Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Fireman Sam Free Willy Fudge G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Godzilla: The Series Go Go Gophers Goof Troop Gummi Bears Guardians of the Galaxy Hammerman The Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Iron Man Jumanji Kampung Boy The Karate Kid Kid vs Kat Kimba the White Lion Kipper The Legends of Treasure Island Little Bear The Magician M.A.S.K. The Mask: The Animated Series Masha and the Bear Mighty Ducks Monster Force The Moomins Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm The Mozart Band Mr. Bogus Mr. Hiccup My Little Pony My Little Pony Tales The Looney Tunes Show The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Oggy and the Cockroaches Oscar's Orchestra Pigeon Street Pingu The Pink Panther Pink Panther and Pals Piggy Tales Pippi Longstocking Police Academy Popeye and Son Popples Problem Child The Raggy Dolls ReBoot Redwall (TV series) (~2000)
 Road Rovers Robinson Sucroe The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show Roger Ramjet Rude Dog and the Dweebs Rupert Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs Sandokan Savage Dragon Sharky and George Sky Commanders South Park Spider-Man Space Goofs Space Racers The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper Spunky and Tadpole Stunt Dawgs The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Super Mario World SuperTed The Centurions The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Taz-Mania Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Timon & Pumbaa Tiny Toon Adventures Tom & Jerry Kids The Transformers Ultimate Spider-Man Underdog The Legend of Calamity Jane The Magic Ball The Real Ghostbusters The Toothbrush Family The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse Victor and Hugo Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Widget, the World Watcher Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa Wisdom of the Gnomes Wish Kid Where's Wally? Woody Woodpecker The Wuzzles Yo Yogi! Young Hercules Crocadoo Kim Possible (2004-2005)
 Poochini Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (2004-2005)

 Other series/shows
 3-2-1 Contact Animal Shelf Art Attack Barney & Friends Beakman's World Bill Nye the Science Guy Brum Critter Gitters The Dooley and Pals Show Dynamo Duck Fraggle Rock Ghostwriter The Great Space Coaster Groundling Marsh Jay Jay the Jet Plane
 Kratts' Creatures Let's Read... With Basil Brush Mr. Men Show Noddy's Toyland Adventures Oakie Doke Ocean Girl Polka Dot Shorts Pumuckl Ramona Sesame Street Size Small Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Space Cases Spellbinder Square One Television Sunshine Factory Super Gran Tales of the Tooth Fairies Theodore Tugboat Wimzie's House Wishbone Reality and game shows
 America's Funniest Home Videos Blockbusters The Crystal Maze Zero Hour
 Fashion Star I Shouldn't Be Alive Give Us a Clue Pussycat Dolls Present Terror Towers What Would You Do? The X Factor Variety and lifestyle shows
 Ask One (2010)
 Bonds for Life (2009)
 The Carol Burnett Show Emirates 24/7 (2010–2014)
 Chef Tell City Wrap (Ramadan 2011–2013)
 Dubai 101 (2009-2011)
 Dubai One Minute Emirati (2009)
 Healthy, Wealthy and Wise Guy in Dubai (2023-present, imported from Amazon Prime)
 Her Say (2010)
 Out & About This Week (2010-2014)
 Studio One (2011-2014)
 That's Entertainment (2011-2014)
 Twenty Something (2009-2011)
 Yan Can Cook World of Movies (2023-present)

 Others
 2004 Zee Cine Awards
 Ripley's Believe It or Not! Understanding Islam (2011-2014)
 World of Sports''

See also
 Dubai One
 Dubai Media Incorporated
 Television in the United Arab Emirates
 List of television programs

References

External links

Dubai One original programming
Dubai One

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      <Route path="/forgotPassword" element={<ForgotPassword />} />
      <Route path='*' element={PageNotFound}/>
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    </Router>

This is the router and this works when we call it using 'NavLink'. When I type http://example.org/shop in the url its showing 404 error on server. But in localhost it works fine. The router problems occurs when its hosted. Please help me out.


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Jennifer Hudson defends 'CATS', says the movie is "misunderstood"
The critically-panned movie CATS will always have a special place in star Jennifer Hudson's heart.
Speaking to Total Film, the singer defended the 2019 movie musical, which flopped at the box office and became a certified punchline at various award shows — with fellow CATS alums James Corden and Rebel Wilson ripping the movie at the 2020 Academy Awards.
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TIME: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Central Time
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What if a simple intervention could produce a host of benefits for students, teachers and neighborhoods? Research increasingly tells us that greening schoolyards can positively impact children's healthy development and a community's overall health and connectedness to nature. And yet, there are relatively few green schoolyards in the US, indicating a disconnect between what we know from research and the decisions we make about educational interventions. And in some ways, the research has not kept up with great advances on the ground.
Join members of C&NN's Research and Green Schoolyards initiatives and special guest Bill Sullivan, head of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, for our second installment of the "Making the Case" research webinar series. Participants will leave with valuable evidence-based information to make the case for greening schoolyards, as well as an understanding of what we still need to know.
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ORIGINAL WEBINAR AIR DATE: Thursday, March 15, 2018
Children from communities of color and low-income neighborhoods face physical as well as social and structural barriers to quality nature spaces and experiences. This inequity is reflected in disparate health, mental health and developmental outcomes. Conversely, nature access can create more racially, socially and economically equitable communities.
In this first iteration of our "Making the Case" webinar series, join members of C&NN's Research, Cities Connecting Children to Nature, Natural Leaders and Green Schoolyards initiatives. We will explore what the latest research and our work in communities can tell us about overcoming barriers and implementing promising strategies to increase equitable access to nature for children and families.
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Chronic hepatitis B infections on the rise since 2008
In 2017, the majority (58%) of the almost 27 000 newly reported hepatitis B cases in the European Union and European Economic Area were classified as chronic infections. This follows a consistent upward trend in reported chronic hepatitis B cases since 2008.
There is evidence of on-going transmission of hepatitis B and continued importation of cases to many European countries according to the available surveillance data for countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area (EU/EEA) for 2017. Incomplete data as well as varying national surveillance systems and practices however impair more detailed epidemiological analysis of reported data.
The majority of EU/EEA countries consistently reporting experienced a steady decline in newly reported acute hepatitis B infections from 1.1 per 100 000 population in 2008 to 0.6 in 2017. This reflects overall global trends and is most likely a result of successful national vaccination programmes: in these countries, the proportion of acute hepatitis B infections among people below 25 years of age declined from 20% in 2008 to 12% in 2017. The proportion of chronic cases under 25 declined from 21% in 2008 to 10% in 2017.
However, during the same time period notifications of chronic hepatitis B overall increased from 6.7 per 100 000 population to 10.2 in 2017 with the highest rates reported among the 25–34-year-olds. Overall, the reported data on chronic hepatitis B seems to mirror the intensity of local testing and screening policies – thus countries with comprehensive testing programmes in place appear to have the highest notification rates. The high number of chronic infections from northern Europe has a strong influence on trends with e.g. 62% of chronic hepatitis B cases in 2017 notified by the United Kingdom.
Incomplete data affects interpretation
Transmission data are key to understanding the epidemiology of hepatitis B. However, information on the transmission mode was only complete for roughly a third (29%) of the reported acute cases in 2017 and only 13% of the notified chronic cases. Hence, data are unlikely to be fully representative, and observed trends and differences between countries are hard to interpret.
For the 718 acute cases with complete information, heterosexual transmission was most commonly reported (27%), followed by nosocomial transmission (16%), sex between men (13%), non-occupational injuries (10%) and injecting drug use (10%). Italy, Poland and Romania accounted for 74% of the acute cases attributed to healthcare-associated hepatitis B infections in 2017.
Where this information was available, transmission from mother to child and in healthcare settings were the most commonly reported routes for chronic hepatitis B infection (41% and 28% respectively). Poland reported 90% of chronic cases related to nosocomial transmission.
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The World Health Organization's European Action plan for the health sector response to viral hepatitis outlines ways to do this. Based on the information from the ECDC prevalence database, authorities can identify the key population groups and areas of high hepatitis prevalence for targeted efforts.
ECDC rolled out a monitoring framework to support EU/EEA countries in their efforts to implement hepatitis B and C control programmes. This system will provide a comprehensive and much needed overview of the progress in tackling these infections and allows for a clearer picture of the actual burden of disease.
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This is a news buy, a remote I'm dying dying Roberts, Iranian state state TV says says an Iranian scientist scientist that is real a glitch of the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000's was killed in a targeted attack, the gunman Mew explosives and machine gun fire AP correspondent serious chocolate reports on the killing of ya remember that Israel has has long been suspected a series of killings in new scientist a decade ago.State TV says says he was attacked by terrorist elements he died at the local hospital of the doctors and paramedics couldn't revive him serious chocolate, us federal appeals court rejects President Donald donald Trump's campaign campaign motion for an injunction pending appeal and Pennsylvania case court documents show the Trump campaign campaign did not make a specific allegation or provide proof in the Pennsylvania election case. The US us court of appeals for the third circuit says the Trump campaign campaign claims have no merit. According to the court document, this comes on the heels of President president Trump saying saying Thursday he he will leave the White House house and electoral college votes for president elect Joe Biden biden by the December deadline, resilience return to the polls and 57 cities Sunday for for the runoff municipal elections that have seen surging violence involving assassinations and physical attacks on candidates in 2 months of campaigning leading up to the first round of voting November 15th, they were 200 murders, attempted murders are otherwise enjoyed candidates, according to the Brazilian electoral authority TS e, this is the news you got pop star and presidential candidate Bobby wine said Friday security forces had ordered hotels in the town, where he was campaigning to deny him admission a new hurdle. As he challenges the incumbent president wine, whose real name is Robert, he is Chrislani, is crisscrossing the country and his campaign to unseat president you already lose danny was a 76 has been in power since 1986, the british government is asking a health care regulatory agency to assess some issues that have arisen with testing rosters and vaccine candidate, a pz jackie quinn, secretary for asking regulators to determine the potential vaccine developed by oxford university, should be authorized for use because the highest success rates findings resulted from a dosing error, the vaccine was reported to be 90 percent effective when volunteers received a half dose and then a full toast, which was a mistake and less effective with 2 full doses. The british government has ordered 100 million units of the vaccine, but some scientists are expressing concern about gaps in the testing reporting total cases in germany now number more than a million this as seabirds. We fit it and as of vaccination centre started in December, the airport closed permanently in November, Germany hopes to ramp up its immunization drive in the first quarter of 2021 and is already laying the groundwork for hubs across the country. Over 43000 refugees have crossed into Sudan since fighting broke out in the grind November 4th, the UN High high commissioner for refugees for the grand said Friday as as he visited Sudanese camps crammed with those fleeing the conflict in northern Ethiopia, Grandy warn the host country quote urgently requires international assistance to support its efforts. Black Friday friday offer struggling stores a beacon of hope, AP correspondent Mike camping reports typically the day when millions of shoppers get started on holiday spending this year, the economy is tanking and crowds are expected to be dramatically smaller as Corona virus cases spike in shoppers make more of their purchases online, but retailers are picking up their safety protocols to reassure customers that they can't do in the store shopping for those who can't be read. Doors are moving for their door Buster deals online and ramping up curbside pick up options I'm camping from Washington via remote I'm dying Roberts video news.
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This is a news buy, a remote I'm dying dying Roberts, Iranian state state TV says says an Iranian scientist scientist that is real a glitch of the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000's was killed in a targeted attack.State TV says says he was attacked by terrorist elements he died at the local hospital of the doctors and paramedics couldn't revive him serious chocolate. According to the court document, this comes on the heels of President president Trump saying saying Thursday he he will leave the White House house and electoral college votes for president elect Joe Biden in 2 months of campaigning leading up to the first round of voting November 15th, they were 200 murders.As he challenges the incumbent president wine, whose real name is Robert, he is Chrislani, is crisscrossing the country and his campaign to unseat president you already lose was a 76 has been in power since 1986, the british government is asking a health care regulatory agency to assess some issues that have arisen with testing rosters and vaccine candidate, secretary for asking regulators to determine the potential vaccine developed by oxford university, should be authorized for use because the highest success rates findings resulted from a dosing error, the vaccine was reported to be 90 percent effective when volunteers received a half dose and then a full toast, which was a mistake and less effective with 2 full doses. The british government has ordered 100 million units of the vaccine, but some scientists are expressing concern about gaps in the testing reporting total cases in germany now number more than a million this as seabirds. We fit it and as of vaccination centre started in December, the airport closed permanently in November, Germany hopes to ramp up its immunization drive in the first quarter of 2021 and is already laying the groundwork for hubs across the country. Over 43000 refugees have crossed into Sudan since fighting broke out in the grind November 4th, the UN High high commissioner for refugees for the grand said Friday as as he visited Sudanese camps crammed with those fleeing the conflict in northern Ethiopia.Black Friday friday offer struggling stores a beacon of hope, AP correspondent Mike camping reports typically the day when millions of shoppers get started on holiday spending this year, the economy is tanking and crowds are expected to be dramatically smaller as Corona virus cases spike in shoppers make more of their purchases online, but retailers are picking up their safety protocols to reassure customers that they can't do in the store shopping for those who can't be read. Doors are moving for their door Buster deals online and ramping up curbside pick up options I'm camping from Washington via remote I'm dying Roberts video news.
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Israel is alleged that the islamic republic's military nuclear program until its disbanding in the early two thousands was killed in a targeted attack. The gunmen use explosives and machine gun fire. Ap correspondent there is shockley reports. Israel declined to immediately comment on the killing of muscle.That name. Israel has long been suspected of carrying out a series of targeted killings of iranian nuclear scientists nearly a decade ago. State says that his father was attacked by armed terrorist elements. He died at a local hospital after doctors and paramedics couldn't revive him. I'm seriously a us federal appeals court rejects.Up to the first round of voting, november 15, there were 200 murders, attempted murders or otherwise injured candidates, according to the brazilian electoral authority t s c. This is VOA news.Which candidate will be wine said Friday. Security forces had ordered hotels in the town where he was campaigning to deny him admission a new hurdle as he challenges the incumbent president wine, whose real name is robert klein, is crisscrossing the country in his campaign to unseat president. You worry mussolini, as many as 76 has been in power since 1986. The British government is asking and healthcare regulatory agency to assess some issues that have arisen with testing for astrazeneca is vaccine candidate AP is Jackie quinn. This is typically.Quebec scene developed by astrazeneca and oxford university should be authorized for use because the highest success rates findings result from dosing error. The vaccine was reported to be 90% effective when volunteers received a half dose. And then a photo which was a mistake and less effective with two than two full doses. The British government has ordered a 100 million units.
This is a news buy, a remote I'm dying dying Roberts, Iranian state state TV says says an Iranian scientist scientist that is real a glitch of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program until its disbanding in the early 2000's was killed in a targeted attack.State TV says says he was attacked by terrorist he died at the local hospital of the doctors and couldn't revive him serious chocolate. According to the court document, this comes on the heels of President president Trump saying saying Thursday he he will leave the White House house and electoral college votes for president elect Joe Biden in 2 months of leading up to the first round of voting November 15th, they were 200 murders.As he challenges the incumbent president wine, whose real name is Robert, he is , is crisscrossing the country and his campaign to unseat president you already lose was a 76 has been in power since 1986, the British government is asking a health care y agency to assess some issues that have arisen with testing , secretary for asking to determine the potential vaccine developed by oxford university, should be authorized for use because the highest success rates findings resulted from a dosing error, the vaccine was reported to be 90 percent effective when volunteers received a half dose and then a full toast, which was a mistake and less effective with 2 full doses. The British government has ordered 100 million units of the vaccine, but some scientists are expressing concern about gaps in the testing reporting total cases in Germany now number more than a million this as seabirds. We fit it and as of vaccination started in December, the airport closed permanently in November, Germany hopes to ramp up its immunization drive in the first quarter of 2021 and is already laying the groundwork for hubs across the country. Over 43000 refugees have crossed into Sudan since fighting broke out in the grind November 4th, the UN High high commissioner for refugees for the grand said Friday as as he visited Sudanese camps crammed with those fleeing the conflict in northern .Black Friday offer struggling stores a of hope, AP correspondent Mike camping reports typically the day when millions of shoppers get started on holiday spending this year, the economy is tanking and crowds are expected to be dramatically smaller as Corona virus cases spike in shoppers make more of their purchases online, but retailers are picking up their safety protocols to reassure customers that they can't do in the store shopping for those who can't be read. Doors are moving for their door Buster deals online and ramping up curbside pick up options I'm camping from Washington via remote I'm dying Roberts video news.


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Facebook is trying to prevent scams and fake profiles, one locked account at a time
By	Jam Kotenko	@MrazGal — Posted on	March 19, 2013 12:30PM PST 03.19.13 - 12:30PM PST
It's happened to the best of us, getting revoked access to our Facebook accounts, and sometimes for no reason at all. In fact, it happened to me, too:
According to a CBS news report, a lot of Facebook users are being locked out of their accounts and asked to verify their identity using a government-issued ID. Privacy sticklers may immediately frown upon this requirement and easily claim that it is a scam on Facebook's part to try and use your personal information to their advantage, but in fact, it's for a higher purpose – users are systematically being locked out by Facebook as part of a security measure against scams, according to the report.
A quick browse on the social networking site will easily reveal the following facts: One, there is a rich supply in fake Facebook profiles (you probably have seen one or two today, commenting on your favorite pages). Two, there's an abundance of Facebook scams – and that's likely where the increase in security measures are coming from. Facebook hopes that through temporary account suspension and lockout, they can put a stop to the growing number of accounts that continually violate their community standards.
Now the question is, is it really necessary to provide a government-issued ID to confirm you are who you say you are? According to Facebook, yes – they prefer require users to use their real name and birthday on their profiles so others can be certain that they're connecting with the right people. Upon reviewing profiles in question, Facebook ensures permanent deletion of user-submitted government documents.
Of course, like in any situation that requires you to provide personal information to a service that has public access, verification wouldn't hurt. In case you are brought to the same "Confirm Your Identity" page upon logging in, contact Facebook and find out the reason for your account suspension. You can additionally seek assistance by asking a friend you trust to report a problem on your behalf through the Help dropdown menu.
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Q: Figuring out cause of NullReferenceException when chaining methods, in debugging mode? Let's say you have code like this:
Human mario = HumanFactory.CreateRandomHuman();

Console.WriteLine(mario.GetFamily().GetFather().GetEyeColor());

And let's say you run this in debugging mode, and it shows that line as getting a System.NullReferenceException, with the error message 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' But you don't actually know which object was null.
Is there a way to know which object actually caused the reference exception in Visual Studio? The debugger just shows the entire line as causing the exception, but you don't know if mario is null, or if GetFamily() returned null, or if GetFather() returned null, etc.
In the past I've just broken it up into individual lines and stepped through them until I got the null exception, but there's got to be an easier way to do it that doesn't involve breaking up the chain.

A: You can probably do it by pressing Shift-F9 after selecting part of the expression Mario.GetFamily(), or Mario.GetFamily().GetFather() etc.
But you have a bug in your code, so fix that first and things will be much easier:

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*Either your GetXXX() methods are never supposed to return null, in which case at least one of them is not respecting this constraint.  Add a breakpoint in each method to find out which is the offending method, and fix it;

*Or there is no such guarantee, in which case your code above should be testing for null returned by each method.  If you are using C#6 there is a handy shortcut for this:
mario.GetFamily()?.GetFather()?.GetEyeColor()

A: When the exception is thrown in the IDE, use 'Quick Watch' (Shift-F9) on Mario.
In the Quickwatch window you can repeatedly build the chain and re-evaluate after each addition, to see when the null is returned.


From Arusha airport (about an hour's drive from Kilimanjaro), Gill took a light aircraft transfer to Seronera airstrip, followed by a fifty-minute scenic drive through the bush to reach the lodge, so it is quite a journey, but Gill says that it usually means that you're heading somewhere very special... and she was right! When she was shown to her suite at Four Seasons Safari Lodge, she was blown away by the incredible views over the spectacular Serengeti plains that stretch as far as the eye can see − a wonderful feature of all the rooms, suites and villas. There is no need to forego any luxuries here, as there is a lovely little spa where Gill enjoyed a fantastic massage that soon made her feel relaxed after her long journey.
Gill says that the wildlife is abundant all year round in the Serengeti which is also world-renowned for the spectacular annual migration of wildebeest and zebra in search of the best grazing land, often known as 'the greatest show on Earth'. The lodge offers a an impressive range of activities including half and full day safaris (there are no night-time game-drives as vehicles have to be out of the park by sunset) that offer brilliant opportunities to spot the 'big five' (lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes and rhinoceroses).
Gill enjoyed game-viewing from the comfort of the balcony of her suite too and says that there are plenty of other ways to experience this wonderful wilderness, from simple pleasures including relaxing beside the infinity pool − where elephants often drink at the watering hole beyond − to a unique dinner at the boma restaurant accompanied by Masai tribal dancing. A visit to the discovery centre is an absolute must to find out fascinating facts about African culture and history; you can even meet the local Masai people and learn about programmes designed to help local schools or wildlife. Guest speakers sometimes visit the lodge too, so you might have the opportunity to listen to a lecture about the region's flora and fauna.
If you want to do an excursion, there is an exciting hot-air balloon safari that takes off early in the morning so you can catch the sunrise and when you wish to wind down in the evenings, begin with sundowners at the bar, but do make sure you have your camera ready to snap away at the beautiful sunset. Before retiring to your bed, you must take a seat in the outdoor lounge, look up, and simply admire the beauty of the stars in the clearest of night skies − the scene simply took my breath away.
Gill also suggests combining your luxury stay in the Serengeti with a couple of nights exploring the beautiful Ngorongoro Crater conservation area, also in Tanzania – where black rhinos, elephants, big cats and flamingos are amongst its residents.


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I've been enthusiastic about yoga lately. I'm just a beginner, no peacock pose for me (yet!), but I've been getting more into it. I practice at home with DVD's and do my best. I can feel that it's healthy for me, and rewarding. The body learns to like it, to want it.
Yesterday I found myself comparing yoga to my old nemesis, running. Most runners I know are concerned, to varying degrees, with numbers. The times, the distances, the 10K and the personal bests, and so on. Usually when they have a conversation about running — how a race went, or the training for the "Fun Run!" — mathematics quickly enters into the equation.
We like to measure things. The numbers tell us where we are, help us navigate the process; otherwise we are like ships lost at sea, the night sky absent of stars. So we are comforted by numbers, and motivated by them, too.
Whereas with yoga, one of the principal tenants is that each one of us has our own yoga experience. If you can't stretch beyond your feet, grab an ankle or a knee. There are no winners, no losers. People of widely divergent ability can take the same class and each person will have his own (valid, rewarding) experience. You can't measure it. Anyone who practices yoga and gives an honest effort will get something out of it, each according to his own need and ability.
It was like reading, I realized. We can all sit down with the same novel and turn the same pages, encounter the same characters, events, and ideas. Do we have the same experience? Of course not.
Was one's experience "better" than another's? Well, okay, I suspect it's true; I agree with Mr. Pirsig that the quality of experience matters, certainly in terms of reading comprehension and how our (singular!) understanding of a text effects emotional and intellectual responses. However, we immediately get into slippery areas, since readers understand texts differently, and there are no "right" or "wrong" responses to a work of art. A skilled yoga practitioner may well get more fullness out of a sequence of movements than someone who is not yet able to hold the poses correctly. But in the practice of yoga, nobody tries to measure these things. It would be absurd. The important thing is that you engage in the discipline of yoga and get out of it what you can.
Given practice and effort, we trust that the process-oriented experience will deepen over time. Just like with reading. Yet in the academic world, there's pressure to quantify these experiences. We have to separate the minnows from the sharks. Bestow A-pluses and C-minuses. Issue standardized tests. Strive to measure results, meet target scores, and achieve statistical objectives. The numbers guide us to the point where, by the sorry end of things, the numbers rule over us. In our pursuit of quantifying the mystery we are in danger of losing the essential thing, because we lack faith in reading itself.
We should look at reading instruction, and writing instruction, the same way we look at yoga (as opposed to the runner's mathematical model). Or at least, align ourselves more closely to the yogic perspective.
Trust that reading is enough. Any reading. Trust in the process, and reward the reader for engaging in that activity. Sure, an instructor must still instruct, walk the room, adjust a spine, remind one to stay conscious to the moment, breathe. Or think about the book. Dwell in it, reflect, ask questions, make connections.
In my perfect world, anybody who reads — regardless of ability, regardless of age or experience — gets an A+ and a "Great Job!" sticker.


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'This is not a game': Parents speak out after TikTok 'blackout challenge' sends child to ER
Joshua Haileyesus is fighting for his life at Children's Hospital Colorado after participating in the deadly 'blackout challenge' on Tik Tok. Now, his parents are speaking out.
AURORA, Colo. — Several dozen friends, family and neighbors of Joshua Haileyesus gathered at Children's Hospital Colorado on Monday night to pray.
Joshua has been fighting for his life in the hospital after participating in a social media challenge requiring participants to attempt to pass out using household items.
"He is very, very much a fighter," his father, Haileyesus Zeryihun, said. "I want others to see what I'm going through, learn for their children."
The "blackout challenge" is a trend on social media apps, like TikTok, that encourages children to choke themselves until they lose consciousness.
Joshua was home with his brother when he saw the trend on the social media app and attempted it himself. It was several minutes before his brother found him.
A week later, his family is praying for a medical miracle.
"I can't even describe the grief and the devastation," said Hirut Yitayew, a family friend. "Nobody could ever imagine this would happen to a 12-year-old."
Joshua has used social media frequently, and his parents say it has helped him learn and gain connections to new passions like cooking, guitar and acting. He was exposed to the positive aspects of the social media and technology, helping him gain exposure for his creativity across the internet.
But the platforms also present their dangers too.
"This is something that kids need to be given to be taught, to be counseled. Because this is a serious a serious thing," said Haileyesus Zeryihun. "It's not a joke at all. And you can treat it as if somebody is holding a gun. This is how dangerous this is."
This story was originally published by Sloan Dickey at KMGH.


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The White Oak parcel of land next to the municipal center in downtown Plainville has been a subject of conversation as plans for remediation continue. Town staff acknowledge the potential of the parcel and hope that it can be a vital piece of property in the coming years, but right now, there is much work to be done there.
The property was the former home of White Oak Construction, which closed down about 16 years ago. Due to its past use as a construction company site, town officials had concern that the property might be contaminated or may have some type of hazardous material.
The parcel of land is owned by the estate of Roger Toffolon and managed by estate executor Marcia Toffolon, who agreed to an access and option agreement with the town. It allows the town permission to access the property, and offers the option to purchase it.
The project was something former director of planning and economic development Mark DeVoe kept a close eye on for years before he moved last month.
DeVoe added the town also would consider applying for liability relief, so if the town takes over the property, they will be absolved of any environmental wrongdoings that may have occurred on the site. He also said there may be an option of disposition for the back taxes on the property.
In the best possible scenario, remediation will take place and the town will take ownership of the property, making way for mixed-use development including housing and retail.


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Top 10 deefits of SAP HANA
The SAP HANA database is capable of much more than simply storing, serving, and delivering a single source of truth. The following are the top ten advantages of SAP HANA (both on premises and with SAP HANA Cloud).
1. Comprehensive: Database services, complex analytical processing, application development, and data integration are all included in one package.
2. Quick: In big production applications, it responds to queries in less than a second.
3. Versatile: Supports a variety of data types and mixed transactional and analytical processing.
4. Efficient: Reduces data silos and provides a lower data footprint with no data duplication and superior compression.
5. Powerful: Uses a massively parallel processing (MPP) database to quickly query enormous datasets.
6. Scalable: In a distributed context, it easily scales for data volume and concurrent users.
7. Versatile: Can be deployed in a public or private cloud, numerous clouds, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment.
8. Convenient: Provides a single point of access to all of your data with advanced data virtualization.
9. Intelligent: Includes built-in machine learning that enhances applications and analytics (ML)
Secure: Provides extensive data and application security, as well as secure setup.
SAP HANA Architecture
Design of the database
SAP HANA is an in-memory, columnar, massively parallel processing database that can handle both transactional and analytical workloads on a single platform. It organises data in columns, stores it in high-speed memory, and splits and distributes it over several servers. This provides faster queries than aggregate data and avoids expensive full-table scans.
ACID conformity: Assists in meeting all requirements for the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) standards.
Multi-tenancy: Allows numerous tenant databases to share memory and processors in a single system. For optimal security and control, each tenant database has its own database users, catalogue, repository, data files, and log files.
Multi-tier storage and persistent memory support: To optimise performance and storage costs, various software solutions manage multi-temperature data (hot, warm, and cold). The SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake's native storage extension is a built-in feature for effectively managing data between memory and persistent storage. More information on SAP HANA permanent memory can be found here.
Scalability: Supports terabytes of data on a single server and scales even farther over numerous servers in a cluster by implementing a shared-nothing architecture. Large tables are automatically distributed over various servers based on rules.
The History of SAP HANA
SAP HANA was announced in 2010, and a pre-release version was shipped to select customers in November of that year. The first official version, SAP HANA 1.0, attained the first ten go-live customers.
By 2012, SAP started announcing products for cloud computing with the SAP HANA Cloud PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). SAP HANA becomes the fastest growing product in SAP history with 345 customers.
The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service was announced in 2013 to provide customers with a managed private cloud offering for SAP HANA. Now 3,000 customers and 520K+ end-users strong.
SAP sets the Guinness World's record for largest data warehouse at 12.1 petabytes (PB). That amount could store the entire printed content of all academic research libraries (2 Petabytes) 6 times over.
Released SAP HANA 2.0 and SAP S/4HANA ERP system written specifically for the SAP HANA platform – introducing a whole new set of users to the database. Recognised as a leader by Forrester in The Forrester Wave™: In-Memory Database Platforms, Q3 2015.
SAP HANA 2.0 general availability and launched SAP BW/4HANA data warehouse solution.
Recognised as the #1 leader in the new Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2017 providing a unified and integrated data platform that simultaneously supports many types of workloads including transactional, operational, and analytical in real time.
Through co-innovation, SAP becomes the first major database optimised for Intel® Optane™ persistent memory
Announced SAP HANA Cloud as SAP's next-generation data platform-as-a-service. SAP HANA runs on all SAP's hyperscaler partners' platforms.
SAP HANA turned 10 in 2020. Launched SAP HANA Cloud to deliver the next generation of innovation of SAP HANA.


— Nearly anyone who has hit the greens knows that pints go with putters.
Apparently the same is true when it comes to mini greens.
Adventure Golf — a miniature course at 615 Miamisburg Centerville Road, Washington Twp., Montgomery County — is launching a Friday to Sunday Charitable Pint and Putt Weekends program.
Now owned by wife and husband team Megan Lee and Earl Hatmaker, the 32-year-old course plans to open later this season, according to a press release.
Owners says customers will notice several improvements and a list of new promotions that includes adult mini golf leagues, $25 Sunday family night and the Pint and Putt Weekend program for charities.
Non-profits interested in the program can send email to morefun@youradventuregolf.com.


"So do I need to make the cake or not!?" Kooka is getting a little annoyed.
"Make the cake so we know if you can bake!" Darkshock said then pushed Kooka into the kitchen.
Kurai followed them both, deciding that watching Kooka would be more interesting than fighting with her father.
As they walked into the kicthen Kooka looked around, "So, what do I have to work with?"
"Everything you can find!" she grinned, pointing to the numerous utensils and ingredients.
"If you need any ingredients that aren't already here, i'm sure you can go into town and buy some."
"Uh," Kooka takes another look around, "Okay then, I guess I will get started." He started, collecting materials.
"Take your time, I have some important business to do, so I'll be unavailable for a while," he said has he went right back to the spot he was at first and fell asleep.
Kooka thought to himself, Okay... "So lets see what I have to work with," Kooka walks over to the cupboard and opens it to find barely any food. He looks over to Kurai, "When was the last time you guys restocked the kitchen?"
Kurai shrugged, "Ask my dad. It's not my job."
"Two days ago...that incident with Nugale torched most of our food..." he groaned.
"Uh..." Kooka looks back at the empty cupboard, "Well if I am going to make a cake then I am going to need more supplies. Where do you guys get usually get your food from?"
"Pecha Forest and the local merchants have some ingredients we can't find in dungeons, and vice versa," Darkshock said, "If you want an icing that is easy to manipulate but won't fall off the cake if it's too close to the edge go to Icicle Woods, the altar in the middle has snow around it that you can mix with any kind of icing to make it better."
"How long will it take to get all of the necessary ingredients?" Kook asked fearing the answer.
Kurai shrugged, "I haven't actually been to fetch ingredients yet so I wouldn't know."
"Great, well then this cake is going to take awhile. I didn't bring any supplies that are necessary for baking one so this will take awhile." Kooka turns around and heads out of the kitchen, "I guess I will be back once I am done collecting the ingredients." he said.
Darkshock waved his tail, "Good luck."


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Books|'Veronica': Two Girls, Alive and Dead
'Veronica': Two Girls, Alive and Dead
By Meghan O'Rourke
By Mary Gaitskill.
227 pp. Pantheon Books. $23.
Mary Gaitskill made her reputation as a chilly chronicler of emotional brutality and sexual sadism, earning her the apt sobriquet "the Jane Austen of sickos" from one Amazon reviewer. The indie film "Secretary" was based on a Gaitskill story in which a girl endures -- and even seems to like -- humiliating spankings by her exacting boss. But Gaitskill's work is far more humanistic than a reader given to sunnier fare might first suppose. And her palpable talent puts her among the most eloquent and perceptive contemporary fiction writers. The stories in "Bad Behavior," her 1988 debut, are Chekhovian in their quietude, inviting us to complicate our frameworks for questions of individual and social responsibility. Is the bullied always a victim? Is love always intimate? Why does weakness make us uncomfortable -- or excited? A lesser writer might have sentimentalized or valorized the "bad behavior" Gaitskill has continued to make her terrain over the past 17 years; she has instead worked to make us more aware of our own uninterrogated assumptions. Currents of empathy pool beneath the icy surface of her prose -- a surface that is itself very beautiful indeed: her sentences are flinty and bright. In a curious way, Gaitskill may be among the more old-fashioned of our writers, a documentarian for a hypersexualized age in which Jenna Jameson's memoir is a best seller and appearances matter more than ever.
"Veronica," Gaitskill's fourth book, marks something of a departure from her usual taut style. A rumination on the relationship between beauty and cruelty, it moves around disorientingly in time, as if to mimic the emotional distress of its narrator, Alison. A former model now in her late 40's, she is haunted by her friendship with Veronica, an older woman who died of AIDS. Alison herself has hepatitis C now and cleans offices in San Rafael, Calif., a Norma Desmond sunk to new lows. Once beautiful, her face is "broken, with age and pain coming through the cracks." She takes fistfuls of codeine so she can move her arm, injured in a car accident, enough to wash windows. It is hard for her to reconcile her decrepitude with her glittering memories of being a model in Paris -- a life that crashed to a close after an affair with a powerful, corrupt agent ended badly.
A life governed by style, of course, demands slavish devotion to its rules, and such devotion, Gaitskill deftly suggests, is at once divine and disgusting. Much of "Veronica" dissects, in an almost Proustian manner, the obsessive pursuit of a way of feeling. In Paris, Alison is horrified by what she sees -- a man limply rubbing himself at an S-and-M club, a photographer forcing a 15-year-old model to masturbate while having her picture taken. But she is also attracted to all of this. When she flees this Sadean world of cruel beauty for the security of her family in suburban New Jersey, and then office life in New York, she is buffeted by contradictions: she understands she is safer and healthier at home, where she attends college and reconnects with her sisters, and yet the safety leaves some essential part of her untouched; she finds herself being surprisingly cruel to her dowdier younger sisters.
This is how Veronica, whom she meets in New York, becomes a strange object of Alison's attention, and the foil for her attempts at self-explication. Veronica is a person whom she can't categorize neatly. Their friendship is, to say the least, improbable: Veronica is a plump proofreader with bleached-blond hair, an outsize affection for opera and a predilection for knickknacks: hanging over her desk is the sign "Still Anal After All These Years." But she's also tied into an avant-garde life, and curiously knowing, if abrasive; she is self-destructively in love with Duncan, a callous bisexual who carelessly infects her with the disease that ultimately kills her. One of the great ancillary pleasures of "Veronica" is its portrait of what's happened to the participants of Manhattan's downtown arts scene of the 1980's, the first generation to come of age in an era of AIDS -- a kind of "where are they now" for the Nan Goldin crew.
A book about superficiality might easily be fueled by fumes. But in Gaitskill's hands "Veronica" is a masterly examination of the relationship between surface and self, culture and fashion, time and memory. Gaitskill has long been interested in what she once called the "great ferocity latent in women," and the best passages in "Veronica" detail the young Alison on the prowl, at once hunter and prey as a young runaway in San Francisco. Gaitskill is enormously gifted at depicting youthful impatience and the dangerous, febrile sensuality that accompanies it, and throughout the book are passages of plainly spectacular beauty:
"At 17, I lived with 12 other kids (sometimes more slept on the floor) in a three-story purple house that listed to one side. I worked for a florist, selling flowers in the bars and outside go-go clubs in North Beach. The bars were little humpbacked caves with bright liquor bottles and sometimes a glowing red jukebox inside. . . . When we were done, my friend Lilet and I would meet in a coffee shop to count our money and have pie or fries. Then we'd take a late bus to Golden Gate Park and get high. At night, the park was thick with the smell of flowers and pot, wrapped in darkness and smells, hidden, so you could find it only if you knew the right way in. . . . We'd look up and see the fog race across in the sky, then look down and see trees, houses, knots of electric lights. I'd feel like an animal on a pinnacle, ready to leap."
The stylized sentences lull and seduce the reader just as a world of feverish cruelty seduces Alison. One of Gaitskill's trademark stylistic effects is to pair words that seem unmatchable -- "receptive and guarded" -- and another tic (and who knows if she knows it) is that many of her characters, from "Bad Behavior" on, have hazel eyes, as if they can neither be one thing nor another. These mixed-up eyes are a perfect metonym for the larger aims of Gaitskill's work, with its subversive habit of mixing up what have, until now, seemed to be contradictory qualities.
The main problem with the book is that its curious central friendship stays ever so slightly out of focus, like an old Polaroid that never quite finished developing. Though it is full of meditative wisdom, "Veronica" begins slowly and laboriously, taking a while to find its footing. Its structure is ungainly. Some of the flights of prose seem overwrought, as when Alison imagines her distraught father mourning her ("I hear him crying out with grief for his daughter, who was taken away from him and violated by people he found alien and terrible").
Even so, Gaitskill is reaching further into her preoccupations than ever before, and the novel is full of very real pleasures. Her prose has a perfumed clarity. She tacks against the upright dichotomies of our historical moment -- dichotomies that shape how we think and who we are but are often more contingent than we know. In "Veronica," as ever, Gaitskill's brand of brainy lyricism, of acid shot through with grace, is unlike anyone else's. And it constitutes some of the most incisive fiction writing around.
Meghan O'Rourke is the culture editor of Slate and a poetry editor of The Paris Review.


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Barcelona is much more!
Barcelona can be described as a city with a lot of passion and street parties.
Interesting Facts About Barcelona
Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. The city combines modern and historic architecture in a unique way. The modernist movement of which Gaudí was the most prominent exponent left its mark on the city with magnificent buildings like the Sagrada Familia, Casa Milà and Casa Batlló.
No matter where you come from, you're bound to know that there are two colours Barcelona is identified with: blue and maroon. Experience the passion for Barça and the best in football by going to a match and visiting Europe's biggest stadium and find out why Futbol Club Barcelona is much more than a club.
View Some Interesting Places in Barcelona
Most Interesting Places in Barcelona
Even though the Sagrada Família is far from finished, the remarkable church is well worth a visit. You can visit the crypt were Gaudí is buried as well as the transept and central nave with its giant, tree-like pillars and spectacular vaulting. A museum narrates the history of the church and tells the story of its great architect.
You can also visit the towers. An elevator and a long walk will lead you to the top of a tower from where you have a magnificent view over Barcelona. The climb is not recommended for those with fear of heights or for people with claustrophobia!
La Rambla is the most famous street in Barcelona. The wide boulevard connects the Plaça de Catalunya, a busy square, with the Columbus Monument and the city's waterfront. The often crowded street is popular with tourists and locals alike. The middle part of the Rambla is pedestrianized and bordered by trees. Kiosks, flower stalls and street artists are in abundance here. Traffic passes on either side of the pedestrian area.
Parc Güell is one of the world's most intriguing parks. The park's colorful main staircase and the fanciful pavilions that were designed by Antoni Gaudí look like they belong in some fairy tale.
Casa Milà, commonly known as La Pedrera is the largest civil building designed by Antoni Gaudí. The apartment block was constructed between 1906 and 1910. It was Gaudí's last work before devoting himself to the construction of the Sagrada Família.
In the center of the Barri Gòtic (Gothic district), the heart of Barcelona, is the city's Gothic cathedral, known as La Seu. The church was named after Barcelona's patron saint Eulalia; its official name – Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulalia – is Catalan for Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia. The commonly used name La Seu refers to the status of the church as the seat of the diocese.
The colorful Casa Batlló, a remodeled nineteenth century building, is one of Gaudí's many masterpieces in Barcelona. Its unique interior is just as extraordinary as its fairytale-like exterior.
The Parc de la Ciutadella is Barcelona's most central park. The park includes a zoo, a lake, a large fountain and several museums. The Catalan Parliament is seated in a building at the center of the park.
Magic Fountain
The Font Màgica or Magic fountain is a large fountain built in 1929. When the fountain is active, it constantly changes color and shape.
The fountain was part of a project built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition. The exhibition took place on Montjuïc, a hill just southwest of Barcelona's city center.
Arenas de Barcelona
The Arenas de Barcelona is a former bullring turned commercial complex near the Plaça d'Espanya. From the publicly accessible rooftop visitors have amazing views over the city.
Columbus Monument
The Christopher Columbus Monument was built in 1888 in honor of the renowned explorer and discoverer of America. It consists of a statue of Columbus standing on a tall column.
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Statistics help us summarize and understand the hard data we collect, and instincts do the same for all the messy real-world experiences we observe. And that's why the best products — the ones that people want to use, love to use — are built with a bit of both.
For many tech companies, design and data are intertwined. Companies work amid a constant stream of data detecting the impact of every minute change, and rely on teams of analysts, data scientists or engineers to continuously monitoring hundreds of metrics and multiple iterations.
For data analysis, this might mean a period of time when you release a new tool, that the results are surprisingly positive.
Tip: Be wary of early results which are "too good to be true", this might actually be attributed to a change appearing to be better simply because it's new.
Definition: The alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
Tip: Choose to do a double-blind study — in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment. And make a practice of using automatic recordings to ensure independence from individual data collection.
…when people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.
When faced with deadlines and limited resources, there may be some people who are only interested in the numbers when they support their decisions. After all, investing so many resources and time into an experiment can have you pinning your hopes on a certain results.
Tip: Make sure to be aware of your own/your team's bias — the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories, when interpreting your data results.
Definition: the changes in the instrument, observers, or scorers which may produce changes in outcomes.
Tip: There are no tricks to beating this one. Test your experiments before they go live with different browsers and devices. Get another pair of eyes to conduct quality control in your experiment process to ensure any bugs or issues are addressed before the test goes live.
Running an A/A test is much like an A/B test, except in this case the two groups of users, which are randomly chosen for each variation, are given the exact same experience.
When in doubt, it is good to check the quality of the execution (choice of variation and stickiness), data collection and integrity of the tool, and that no data is lost or altered.
Named after Tony Twyman, a media-research analyst, Twyman's law states: if a statistic looks interesting or unusual it is probably wrong.
Results can be skewed for a number of reasons — aforementioned bias/effects, data anomaly, bad design or test conditions.
Knowing who your customers are is great, but knowing how they behave is even better.
You can segment your user base into different groups based on demographics (e.g. gender, age) or by their behavior (e.g. purchasing behavior, engagement level, user status).
One important point to highlight is to beware of changes that improve an easy to move local metric (clicks to a feature, acquisition), at the expense of important key metrics (revenue, retention, overall experience).
One such example would be Blue Apron — a company that has the largest share of sales among U.S. meal kit companies but lower customer retention. While on the surface, it appears that the company is doing well, churn and high costs mean the bottom line suffers.
Teams that have the same language around successful product metrics are ones that are focused and aligned to chasing the right ones.


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'Tunnel Vision' Music Video Feat. Da' T.R.U.T.H By Faith Child
By M-Brio Music on February 18, 2015
MOBO Award nominee Faith Child has released the music video for 'Tunnel Vision,' his most recent single which features with GRAMMY nominated rapper Da' T.R.U.T.H. Website | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | iTunes Tweet
2015 Brings New Vision For Faith Child… 'Tunnel Vision' | New Single Feat. Da' T.R.U.T.H.
By M-Brio Music on February 3, 2015
MOBO Award nominee Faith Child has collaborated with GRAMMY nominated rapper Da' T.R.U.T.H. for his new single 'Tunnel Vision'. Set for a February 2015 release,...


In late July I met up with Heather, Tom, and their two dogs Morgan and Nellie, in North Park. Morgan and Nellie are going to be featured in the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society 2012 Calendar. To support WPHS, you can purchase a copy of the calendar today.
Nellie is a 3 year old Coonhound. They got her at about six weeks old from the Westmoreland County shelter, and keep waiting for her to outgrow her Terrible Twos. She likes to bark. If she is not barking, she is probably asleep. She loves ALL people and wags with her whole body to get their attention for some petting. She weighs more than 60 pounds but can curl up into a tiny ball the size of a loaf of bread. She loves to snuggle.
After the session Tom told me that he couldn't believe this was the same session that they had been too. At the time it felt like herding cats. I'm really happy with the result.


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NATO Chief Says Afghan Pullout Progressing In 'Orderly Way' Amid Continued Violence
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference ahead of an online NATO foreign and defense ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on May 31.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said the military alliance's exit from Afghanistan is "progressing in an orderly and coordinated way" ahead of a planned complete pullout by September 11.
"At every step, the safety of our personnel remains paramount," Stoltenberg told reporters on June 1 after chairing virtual meetings of NATO's foreign and defense ministers.
"We are ending our military mission, but we are not ending our support to the Afghans," he also said, amid fears that the Taliban could topple the Western-backed government in Kabul and its battered security forces once international forces leave after two decades of war.
Violence has soared across Afghanistan since the start of the international military withdrawal. On June 1, officials said at least eight people were killed in a series of attacks in the capital, Kabul.
NATO's departure from Afghanistan will figure high on the agenda of a summit in Brussels on June 14.
Major issues remain over how the 30-nation alliance will continue to fund the corruption-ridden Afghan security forces, whether to continue training special forces troops somewhere outside the country, and what forces will protect civilian workers, embassies, and the Kabul airport.
While NATO troops will no longer be in Afghanistan, the alliance and its partners will continue to provide funding to what Stoltenberg described as the country's "capable, strong security force."
NATO "will continue our civilian diplomatic presence in Kabul to provide advice and capacity-building support to Afghan security institutions," he also said.
"We are also looking at how we can provide military education and training outside Afghanistan focused on special operation forces, and are working on how to fund the provision of services enabling allies and the international community to stay in Kabul, including support for the airport."
Fewer than 9,000 foreign troops remain in Afghanistan, including up to 3,500 U.S. personnel.
With reporting by AP
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