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LIN WOOD: "I BELIEVE THE MILITARY IS IN CONTROL" - "JOE BIDEN IS A FAKE PRESIDENT" (Article & Video)
Posted By: Mr.Ed
Date: Wednesday, 27-Jan-2021 16:55:06
Superlawyer, Lin Wood joins Stew Peters to explain what is going on with Biden and Trump from a legal point of view.
Based on the evidence he's seen, Wood believes Trump has the votes, both electoral and popular and that he has the law on his side. He believes that legally, Joe Biden is not the President, because his "win" was fraudulent. Wood says the military has the evidence to prove this.
Further, Wood alludes to United States vs Throckmorton (1878), which states that, "Fraud vitiates the most solemn contracts, documents, and even judgments."
The legal term "vitiate" is derived from "vice", as in "debased". Fraud debases, corrupts, perverts and invalidates contracts. Therefore, the fraudulent election invalidates everything proceeding from it; the certification, the inauguration, the political appointments, the Executive Orders, etc.
The horror show to which we have been witness is the total collapse and the inversion of the law, as members of our government at every level were threatened or blackmailed to certify the fraud.
Federal law enforcement has been inverted to persecute patriotic Americans, while coddling Communist hooligans. For the past 8 months, thousands of violent Antifa vandals and looters have been celebrated for their rioting and have been bailed-out by the likes of Kamala Harris, while patriotic activists like Dr Simone Gold and Brandon Straka, who've engaged in zero violence have been arrested by the FBI, simply for being present at the Capitol on January 6th.
Those experts who were personally involved in the volunteer election fraud investigation (since the DOJ and FBI wouldn't do it) agree with Lin Wood, that Joe Biden is not the legal President, including Michael Flynn, Patrick Byrne, Jovan Pulitzer, Tore Maras, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Scott Bennett.
Lt Scott Bennett, who worked with Lt Gen Michael Flynn's team, examining the evidence and affidavits from the technical experts says they provided proof not only of election fraud, but of treason, espionage and cyber warfare attacks. He says, "I can say with absolute authority that the materials provided by the military personnel, the cryptologists, the attorneys, and the analysts prove beyond any doubt that the election on November 3, 2020, was a corrupt fraud and act of high treason committed, and an act of war by China."
So far, the State and Federal courts have ALL refused to hear any of this evidence in the 81 cases brought before them, not based on the cases' merits but on their "standing". Jovan Pulitzer posted this spreadsheet listing all of the lawsuits with the comment, "Behold the BOGUS REASONS that 81 Cases of which 72 were Illegal Voting Alleged HOW MANY WERE ALLOWED TO SHOW EVIDENCE? ZERO (0) Sadly only 30 cases are still alive: SEE THE SUITS AND NO EVIDENCE SHOWN TO ANYONE."
For their part, Dominion Voting Systems is suing both Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani for defamation at $1.3 billion each. In the old days, this would be the perfect occasion to present all of their evidence and to counter sue but with our compromised courts, nothing will be admissible and they will be railroaded.
We've been told that the military supports Trump but we've seen lots of evidence to the contrary. We've seen the Open Letters from past Secretaries of Defense and from the Joint Chiefs, censuring Trump and his supporters for the January 6th false flag at the Capitol that was, in fact staged by Communist Antifa. The extent of our government's capture is beyond breathtaking.
As Juan O Savin has said, the United States is going through a Near Death Experience.
The question remains as to whether there is ANY military leadership that is not corrupt and whether they will honor their oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Simon Parkes has repeatedly claimed that there are some 800 US military officers in all branches, from Majors to Generals, who are dedicated to restoring the Republic.
If it is true that such people exist, they would certainly not broadcast their plans to the panoply of international enemies conspiring with American traitors to overthrow this country.
(Contributed by Alexandra Bruce)
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This week an arctic blast has brought a real cold snap into the forest and here at Wandsworth, we have embraced the ice and frost. The children have enjoyed nothing better than smashing and crunching the ice on our roaming adventure walks, noticing that each day the ice has changed from surface sheet thickness into a sliver of thin ice. Many questions have been raised such as; Why are there bubbles in the ice? Why is it blurry? Why can't I take it home with me? All of which the children have tried to answer themselves.
So, what were the children's thoughts? Well the children have decided that it is not wise to take the ice home in our bags as it will melt and make everything wet! Their answer for the blurry vision was fascinating – "Because the water was moving when it got so cold that it froze". And best for last, "Why are there bubbles in the ice?"- well it's obviously because "The muddy puddle was trying to breathe and the bubbles got stuck!". The object of answering our own questions is so important for young children as they start to analyse their views and thoughts. Perhaps working out that we can't always be right at first, but we can always learn and improve!
We have introduced a whole new raft of stories this week that have really captivated the children's imagination. 'Chocolate Cake' by Michael Rosen has been a firm favourite with it's funny and charming story. It has brought to fruition a flowing creativity based around our favourite things. We have been able to discuss as groups the fact that every child has different interests and needs.
Have a lovely weekend everybody, we are looking forward to another inquisitive week.


I have been reading David Hobby's great site Strobist.com for quite some time now. I remember last year how he set up his lights (strobes) to light his living room so where ever he was, he had good light. This year, I figured I was going to try the same thing. So on Christmas Eve I set up a couple light stands with two of my flashes and began testing.
Olivia was unusually cooperative and sat in one in our funky chair. While her little sister, Mia, and the dog tried to ignore me while they lounged on the couch watching TV.
As you can see, they are both lit fairly well. Nothing amazing, but hey, this is my first try doing this and I am just practicing.
They are probably a little better than my photos from previous years.
To get this light, I took two of my flashes, (a Pentax 360 and a Nikon SB-25) and put them on stands in opposite corners of our living room. The stands brought them up to about 7 feet high in our 9 foot room. The pentax was tucked nicely between the fireplace and our television about a foot from the wall while the nikon was in the opposite corner in front of a small filing cabinet (yes, our living room is my office) about 3 feet from the wall. Both flashes were pointed into the wall, angled up toward the ceiling. Here is a very poorly drawn diagram of the setup. But I think it gets the idea across.
Just for clarification, it was early and we had the blinds down, so there was no light coming in the windows for most of the photographs. Later in the day I took more photos, but I don't believe there was any natural light coming in and having a big effect. I should of added the two lamps to the diagram. One is between the chair and sofa on a table, the other is a floor lamp almost right below the nikon strobe.
Both flashes were triggered with AlienBees CyberSyncs. They are what really made all of this possible. I would not have been able to do this with wires and only the pentax has an optical trigger.
The interesting thing is the Pentax flash is much newer and cost me a lot more money. But the SB-25 is my preferred flash. I bought the Pentax a number of years ago and it is showing it's age. Not that I don't take good care of it, but the battery door is sooo cheaply made that it will not stay shut without a bungee cord holding it shut. And it does not do a very good job, but tape really doesn't work. However, the Nikon I got off ebay for $20 shipped. It works great and the only thing wrong was a broken hot shoe mount. Since I only use it off camera, not a problem. A couple bucks for a mounting bracket along with gorilla glue and I have a great flash. But I digress.
So how did the photos turn out? I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I really like them much better. I find the images I was able to make this year are much more interesting than in any previous year. The lighting is much fuller and not the typical flat light one gets from the flash on the camera. Below are some of my favorites from Christmas, but you can see all the photos in my Christmas 2008 Flickr set. Compare the photos with just "Christmas-#" in the title to those titled "Christmas Eve-#." The photos from Christmas Eve were taken at a friend's house with my flash sitting in the hot shoe right on top of my camera. Let me know what you think in the comments.


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Nicholas Cage is a Good Actor
On the Internet, there are the jokes that you make about people. Seth Rogen smokes weed? Seems funny, let's do a joke about that. Michael Bay seems to like explosions and breasts? Let's run that joke into the ground. And apparently, Nicholas Cage likes acting in terrible movies.
Some people may fall into the first fallacy behind this: that acting in terrible movies is no fun. The truth is that even a Great Movie can be no fun at all to act in.
But that's not all! The other fallacy is that any movie Nicholas Cage is in is going to be terrible. Now, depending on your displacement you might think some Nic Cage movies are bad, but most are good and the reason for that is Cage. Look at some of his earlier works: Adaption, The Rock, Peggy Sue got Married. Nicholas Cage gives serious performances. People explain that Nicholas has gotten more insane as time went on. But wait! What about Kick-Ass, The Sorceror's Apprentice, and The Croods? Those are much more recent, yet he doesn't act very insane in those at all.
This is because Nicholas Cage is not crazy: he played a crazy guy in Face/Off and since then he's been typecast. Some typecastings reveal the person beneath the act (Liam Neeson really is badass) but this one doesn't, and Nicholas Cage's range is very large. He plays every role he is given convincingly. He may "overact", but this is because people underestimate how extremely some people express emotion. Some actors (like Kristen Stewart or Shaun LaBoeuf) can keep one facial expression for a whole film and people call it good acting, because these are protagonists we are supposed to empathize with and we don't like to imagine that we display huge ranges of emotion. But Nicholas Cage's characters are not there for empathy, they are there to entertain, and that they do. So next time you see Cage at #9 on a list like this, ask yourself: is it that he can't act, or that I can't just lean back and enjoy?
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So I have a software striped array of Scsi drives that I use for capturing video, playback of video and graphics, etc.
I just cleared several hundred gigs of data off.
It seems to me that I recall hearing that defragging SCSI drives isn't necessary..... is that true? After clearing that much space (and after 2 years of using this array)... is there something I should do to "clean it"?
defragging can actuall over exersize the haeds and the flex-membrane cables to heads and cause failure or loss of life span of the drives.
Empty the drive and do a complete full reformat just as Pete says.
Ends up much quicker than a defrag too.
Great - thanks for the responses!


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Q: Does DbContext.AddAsync throw an exception given a duplicate unique index? I wrote the following code to add a Person to a database, and I am questioning the need to check for an existing email (the unique key) before adding the person.
Will AddAsync throw an exception for me if I try to add a Person with the same email as an existing Person?
I've included a MVCE including my Service, Repository, and DbContext, but really this is just about the behavior of one call and whether or not it throws an Exception. If so, what exception is it?
namespace Project
{
    public sealed class PersonService
    {
        private readonly PersonRepository personRepository;

        public PersonService(PersonRepository personRepository)
        {
            this.personRepository = personRepository;
        }

        public async Task<Person> AddAsync(Person person)
        {
            var existingPerson = await this.personRepository.GetByEmailAsync(person.Email);

            if (existingPerson != null)
            {
                throw new DuplicateEmailException(person.Email, $"The Email {person.Email} is already taken.");
            }

            await this.personRepository.AddAsync(person);

            return person;
        }
    }

    public sealed class PersonRepository
    {
        private readonly ProjectDbContext dbContext;

        public PersonRepository(ProjectDbContext dbContext)
        {
            this.dbContext = dbContext;
        }

        public async Task<Person> GetByEmailAsync(string email)
        {
            return await this.dbContext.Person
                .FirstOrDefaultAsync(p => p.Email == email);
        }

        public async Task AddAsync(Person person)
        {
            if (person == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            await this.dbContext.AddAsync(person);
            await this.dbContext.SaveChangesAsync();
        }
    }

    public sealed class ProjectDbContext : DbContext
    {
        public ProjectDbContext(DbContextOptions options)
            : base(options)
        {
        }

        public DbSet<Person> Person { get; set; }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

            modelBuilder.Entity<Person>()
                .Property(p => p.Email)
                .IsRequired();

            modelBuilder.Entity<Person>()
                .HasIndex(p => new { p.Email })
                .IsUnique();
        }
    }
}

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I am questioning the need to check for an existing email (the unique key) before adding the person. Will AddAsync throw an exception for me if I try to add a Person with the same email as an existing Person?

dbContext.AddAsync(person) will not throw any error but when _dbContext.SaveChanges(); will be called following exception will be thrown:

SqlException: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Persons' with unique index 'IX_Perosns_Email'. The duplicate key value is (foo@gmail.com).
  The statement has been terminated.

So you should validate/check this in controller or model level instead of in your PersonService.AddAsync() service method so that you can show the proper validation error message to the end user.

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Govt department responds to local scheme criticism
Wednesday, 15th May, 2019 1:00pm
THE Department of Housing has responded to criticism from a local councillor over affordable housing.
Cllr Alison Gilliland (Lab) attended a Dublin City Council meeting to consider a Scheme of Priority for affordable housing.
Cllr Gilliland claimed it was very clear from the meeting that Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy, is "not serious about enabling Dublin City Council, or any other local authority to provide an affordable housing scheme".
"A directive from the Minister requires local authorities to formally adopt the Scheme of Priority for Affordable Dwelling Purchase Arrangements by June 18 - less than four weeks after the local elections," said Cllr Gilliland.
"The Special Housing Strategic Policy Committee Meeting discussed the various priorities and the recommendations.
"However, upon their return from the Minister they must be formally adopted by a brand new council whose composition is presently unknown and who no doubt will want a voice in the scheme."
Cllr Gilliland argued that the Scheme of Priority is only one part of the overall proposal.
"No eligibility criteria have been published, no financial details," she said.
"Dublin City Council has several sites earmarked for affordable housing but is now in danger of not being able to offer these units as affordable due to the Minister's foot dragging.
"Affordable housing is one of the key issues on the doors as I go around canvassing in the Artane/Whitehall area.
"It is imperative that all the details of this scheme are provided immediately to enable proper consultation with local authorities so we can get this scheme up and running."
A spokesperson for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government said all previous affordable housing schemes were stood down in 2011 due to the economic crisis at the time.
"In recent years, however, Government has been clear that the provision of affordable housing is again necessary," said the spokesperson.
"In order to underpin the development of an affordable purchase scheme, the Minister commenced Part 5 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009 on June 18, 2018, the effect of which was to put in place new legislative provisions for affordable dwelling purchase arrangements.
"Specifically to support the provision of affordable housing the Government has made grant funding of €310 million available to local authorities through the Serviced Sites Fund (SSF). A second call for SSF project proposals was issued to local authorities in April of this year."
The spokesperson said legislation underpinning the affordable purchase scheme requires that each local authority develop a Scheme of Priority no later than one year after commencement of Part 5 (June 18, 2019),
"Local authorities were contacted in March 2019 and asked to have this process completed by this date," said the spokesperson.
On April 17, the Department hosted a workshop to brief and engage with housing authorities regarding their preparation of a Scheme of Priority and to map out next steps regarding development of the affordable purchase programme more generally.
"This will include the development of further regulations and guidance in other areas to support local authorities in their operation and administration of the scheme e.g. term of mortgage/determination of purchase price etc," added the spokesperson.
"This work will be completed before local authority housing units come on stream under the affordable purchase scheme. The Department will continue to engage closely with local authorities in this regard."
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I'll say this for the trailer for George Clooney's new political drama The Ides of March: by the end I had no sense that I knew exactly where the movie is going. That's a very good thing. Adapted from Beau Willimon's play Farragut North, the film features Ryan Gosling as a young but influential press secretary who has to manage a political scandal as he navigates the tricky waters of a Presidential primary race. Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei co-star, and the film looks pretty damn solid from here.
During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.


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Q: How should I throw a divide by zero exception in Java without actually dividing by zero? I have an I2C device that wants two inputs: a denominator and a numerator. Both are written to separate addresses, so no actual calculation (numerator/denominator) is done. The problem with this is that a divide by zero could occur on the I2C device, so a divide by zero error needs to be checked for. Ideally, exactly the same thing would happen if the dividing were done by the java code.
At the moment, I've bodged an unused variable that does the division, but I'm worried it'll get optimized out:
public void setKp(int numerator, int divisor)
{
    int zeroCheck = numerator / divisor;
    //... doesn't use zeroCheck
}

Surely there's a better way!

A: public class ZeroDivisionException extends ArithmeticException {
    // ...
}

if (denominator == 0) {
    throw new ZeroDivisionException();
}

A: There are two ways you could do this.  Either create your own custom exception class to represent a divide by zero error or throw the same type of exception the java runtime would throw in this situation.
Define custom exception
public class DivideByZeroException() extends ArithmeticException {
}

Then in your code you would check for a divide by zero and throw this exception:
if (divisor == 0) throw new DivideByZeroException();

Throw ArithmeticException
Add to your code the check for a divide by zero and throw an arithmetic exception:
if (divisor == 0) throw new java.lang.ArithmeticException("/ by zero");

Additionally, you could consider throwing an illegal argument exception since a divisor of zero is an incorrect argument to pass to your setKp() method:
if (divisor == 0) throw new java.lang.IllegalArgumentException("divisor == 0");

A: You should not throw an ArithmeticException. Since the error is in the supplied arguments, throw an IllegalArgumentException. As the documentation says:

Thrown to indicate that a method has been passed an illegal or inappropriate argument.

Which is exactly what is going on here.
if (divisor == 0) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Argument 'divisor' is 0");
}

A: Something like:
if(divisor == 0) {
  throw new ArithmeticException("Division by zero!");
}

A: Do this:
if (denominator == 0) throw new ArithmeticException("denominator == 0");

ArithmeticException is the exception which is normally thrown when you divide by 0.


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What I try to accomplish in my paintings is not something explanatory or narrative, nor is it symbolic in meaning. It is about expressing sensibility itself into visual terms. It is like the complete abstract quality of music, which would give me the freedom to fly like a bird.
Wook-kyung Choi
Choi Wook-Kyung 1940–1985
Borrowing a palette derived from the vibrant colors of Korean folk art and forms based on those found in nature, Choi Wook-kyung developed a candid and lyrical visual language that would have a profound impact on contemporary art in Asia and the United States. Japanese occupation rapidly followed by war between the Communist north and the American-occupied south deeply affected the Korean national consciousness in the twentieth century, driving an unprecedented number of artists, writers and intellectuals to travel and gain knowledge abroad.
After studying under the well-known contemporary artists Kim Ki-Chang (1914-2001) and Park Re-Hyun (1920-1976), Choi graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. Each child in Choi's family received some of his or her education in the United States, and in 1963, she enrolled the Cranbrook Academy of Art. A versatile artist, Choi's work spans a range of media from carved seals and metal sculpture to paintings on canvas, wood, and paper to sketches in charcoal and graphite.
The United States afforded Choi the freedom to explore her identity, one that often defied societal expectations placed on women in Korea at that time. It also propelled her development as an artist to new heights. In the 1960s, Choi moved away from creating figurative works and began to experiment with such elements of abstract expressionism as bold and vibrant colors and dynamic brushwork. Some of the work she produced at this time also confronts social issues, particularly war, segregation, and the rights of women. In the 1970s, Choi taught at the University of Wisconsin and at the Atlanta College of Art. In Atlanta, she became increasingly interested in form and produced a significant body of monochromatic paintings. She also looked to nature for inspiration, incorporating translucent washes of color and shapes derived from birds, flowers, and fish. In 1976, she was accepted into the prestigious Roswell Artist in Residence Program at the Roswell Museum of Art. The works that she created in New Mexico incorporated colors and lines inspired by the natural landscape. While working in Roswell, Choi obtained American citizenship.
In 1979, Choi returned to Korea and began teaching at Yeongnam University. She continued to be inspired by natural beauty, particularly from her travels to Kyeongsang province. Her palette softened and her forms became more organic and rhythmic. In 1981, she began teaching and working at the Duksung Women's University where she remained until her untimely death in 1985. While there, Choi strived to help many young Korean women find a means of expressing themselves freely and confidently. Driven to create, Choi saw art as a means of communication, a way of articulating feeling and truth across culture, gender, and politics. Choi Wook-kyung left an indelible mark on a generation of artists on an international scale and her legacy will endure.
Choi's work has been exhibited internationally at such venues as the Paris and Sao Paulo Biennales, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Cornell University Art Museum. Examples of her art can also be found in the permanent collections of The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, The University of Missouri, The Colby Museum, the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, and the Ho-Am Art Museum.
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Nicolas Bokov, né le  à Moscou et mort le  à Paris, est un écrivain d'origine russe, qui a émigré en France en 1975.

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En 1967, alors qu'il est étudiant en philosophie, Nicolas Bokov se rend à Riazan, avec Slava Velikanov et Valery Chtcherbakov, pour rencontrer Alexandre Soljenitsyne. À la suite de leur rencontre, ce dernier leur écrit : « Vous ne vous tromperez jamais, si, dans toutes les situations qu'offre la société, vous agissez dans le sens de la justice [...] Cela nous donne la possibilité d'agir en permanence, sans baisser les bras, et ne m'objectez pas que « chacun comprend la justice différemment » Non ! Ils peuvent crier, nous prendre à la gorge, nous écorcher la poitrine, la chiquenaude intérieure est aussi infaillible que ce que nous suggère la conscience. »

En 1969, Nicolas Bokov obtient un diplôme de la faculté de philosophie de l'université d'État de Moscou. L'année suivante, il travaille dans cette institution, mais, en 1972, à la demande du KGB, il en est expulsé.

À partir de 1973, il est ouvertement harcelé, perquisitionné et interrogé à plusieurs reprises par les agences de sécurité de l'État pour son implication dans des activités de dissidence. Il participe en effet au Samizdat, un média clandestin de l'époque soviétique et, en outre, publie sous pseudonyme des ouvrages qui critiquent la société russe.

Plusieurs de ses textes sont traduits dans diverses langues étrangères et lus en Europe de l'Ouest. Sa nouvelle La Tête de Lénine paraît à Paris en 1972, d'abord dans le journal La Pensée Russe, puis chez Maurice Nadeau. Le livre, qui circule en Russie sous le manteau, est réédité en langue française en 2017, à l'occasion du centenaire de la révolution bolchévique.

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Le , il émigre en Autriche, puis en France. Il travaille dans le milieu de la presse et publie des nouvelles. En 1982, il embrasse la foi chrétienne et cesse d'écrire. Sans domicile fixe, il voyage aux États-Unis, en Europe et vit un temps en République monastique du Mont-Athos et en Terre sainte.

Il regagne la France en 1988. Il mène une existence nomade dans la rue et dans des carrières abandonnées, considérant ce mode de vie comme une forme d'ascèse. Il s'installe notamment dans une caverne à dix-huit kilomètres de Paris, où il cultive un potager, et devient membre de l'Association des Amis de Notre-Dame, organisant notamment des visites de Paris à des Russes nouvellement arrivés.

Retour à la littérature
Il revient à la littérature en 1998 pour relater cette expérience dans le récit intitulé Dans la rue, à Paris, préfacé par l'abbé Pierre. Déjeuner au bord de la Baltique, publié en 1999, évoque son passé dissident. La Conversion (2002) et La Zone de réponse (2003) raconte son cheminement vers la foi chrétienne. Il tient une rubrique dans le magazine français La Vie russe jusqu'en 2002.

Son ami Sergueï Bychkov explique ce retour à l'écriture : « Il n'oublia jamais sa vocation d'écrivain, il inscrivait dans des carnets ce qui lui arrivait, ce qui se passait autour de lui. C'est de ces notes que sont nées par la suite ses principales œuvres. C'était un homme doué pour le mysticisme. Il étudiait de près le patrimoine sacré, l'expérience catholique et protestante. Il s'est rendu sur les lieux de l'apparition de la Vierge, à Fatima et à Lourdes, ville avec laquelle il avait une relation particulière. [...] Créer était pour Nicolas Bokov aussi vital que de respirer. Ses dernières œuvres sont imprégnées d'amour. »

Il reçoit le prix de la Fondation Delmas de l'Institut de France en 2001.

Il est membre du PEN Club français, organisation qui défend la liberté d'expression des auteurs du monde entier.

Œuvres
 1975 : Nobody - John Calder, London
 1982 : La Tête de Lénine - Robert Laffont, Paris ; réédition, Éditions Noir sur Blanc, 2017  ; réédition, Paris, Libretto, 2019
 1982 : Der Fremdling - Diogenes Verlag, Zürich
 1998 : Dans la rue, à Paris - Éditions Noir sur Blanc
 1999 : Déjeuner au bord de la Baltique - récit. Noir sur Blanc -
 2002 : La Conversion - Noir sur Blanc
 2003 : La Zone de réponse - Noir sur Blanc - 2003
 2005 : Or d'automne et pointe d'argent. Conversations avec Victor Koulbak. - Noir sur Blanc
 2005 : De tout un peu - éditions Lucile
 2008 : Liquidation dans: Hommage à Anna Politkovskaya. Buchet/Chastel, Paris
 2008 : Où va la Russie, et la France avec elle ? Franc-Tireur USA -
 2008 : Fragmentarium [Фрагментарий](en russe) Franc-Tireur USA -
 2009 : Envie de miracle - Franc-Tireur USA -
 2010 : Opération Betterave - Noir sur Blanc, Lausanne  dont la traduction par Maud Mabillard reçoit une Mention spéciale au Prix Russophonie 2011
 2010  : Le Pic Dorothée (roman, en russe) Franc-Tireur USA -
 2010  : La Bavure (plaidoirie) - Franc-Tireur USA -
 2015  : Loin de la Tour Eiffel, récit. Éditions de la Caverne / Amazon -

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en juillet 1945
Naissance à Moscou
Naissance en RSFS de Russie
Écrivain russe du XXe siècle
Écrivain russe du XXIe siècle
Écrivain russe francophone
Décès à 74 ans
Décès dans le 20e arrondissement de Paris
Décès en décembre 2019

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ATLANTA, Jan. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S.-based operations of IDI Gazeley are being renamed IDI Logistics effective with the sale of Gazeley, its European counterpart. IDI Logistics will remain as a portfolio company of Brookfield Asset Management. Brookfield has $265 billion in assets under management, making it one of the largest real estate investors in the world.
"The new IDI Logistics name retains the trusted IDI brand while reinforcing our commitment to being the leading logistics property company in North America," said Mark Saturno, IDI Logistics' Chief Executive Officer. "IDI Logistics will continue to provide the same high level of service to its customers and partners in North America under the new brand."
Added Saturno, "The Gazeley team has been a strong partner for several years and together we've cultivated valuable relationships that undoubtedly made both IDI and Gazeley stronger companies. We wish the Gazeley team well, and congratulate them on the successful sale, which is a testament to their exceptional track record and the strength of Brookfield's stewardship."
IDI Logistics is one of the world's leading investors and developers of logistics warehouses and distribution parks with 33 million square feet of premier assets under management and additional prime land sites to develop another 20 million square feet of distribution facilities near major markets and transport routes throughout North America. IDI Logistics is a portfolio company of Brookfield Asset Management.


Is lot B2 open? I'm working on headquarters for a big corporation there.
There isn't a lot claim system anymore. Your lot goes wherever there's an open spot.
RepSharpshooter wrote: As I mentioned before, "Here's how it'd work: you fill a 60m x 60m space full of objects. Get it ingame and working etc. Send it to me, and I can move it to wherever it fits in the city. That way there's no need for complicated claims. For those of you interested in a DMI lot, just continue modeling/working on it. Send it to me whenever you are done and I will place it in the world. After September 5th I will just free up unused claims and make it a free-for-all."
Location: Where I whant to be.
Is this project still going? And is there any more available space?
Yes and Yes. There's plenty of empty space.
Hey, Rep, I'm going to start on a lot now, and I'll try to have it done by New Years. I just wanted to let you know that you have one coming.
By the way, our lot can be based on something (like Halo), as long as we make the models ourselves, right?
I was wondering if we could change the ground texture in our lot. Would that count as "Terrain modifications"?
BTW, mine should be done by late December or early January.
computergeek wrote: Hey, Rep, I'm going to start on a lot now, and I'll try to have it done by New Years. I just wanted to let you know that you have one coming.
Yes, no porting from other games.
General_Nate wrote: I was wondering if we could change the ground texture in our lot. Would that count as "Terrain modifications"?
Terrain modifications such as height and texture are not included in layer files, so in general they will not be implemented. However, let me know if such properties are essential to your lot, (and give me a detailed description) and I can put them in for you.
Flat terrain is fine on mine, but it cant have foliage.
All models have to be custom, right?
Um, are you still expecting lot submissions?
My lot, I just found out, you can't even walk in the front door. There is an invisible wall.
I'm working on my new lot, but I was wondering if you were sill taking them. I hope you are! My lot should be done by the end of the month, or early next month.
I still would appreciate it if someone could post a deadline. I want to put a BUNCH of stuff in my lot, but I'm not sure if I have the time to do so.
EDIT: Wow, I'm double posting, and bumping a topic at the same time! But you all know, if I edited, no one would know if I posted or not, and you can't actually bump a sticky.
RepSharpShooter wrote: I plan on adding the rest of the lots, adding in Mav's sides, adding some Urban Map stock buildings, then calling it quits. I just don't have the time/energy to do much else with it.
That scares me. Are you going to post a warning before you do, so I can send my semi finished lot to you? Thanks!
Instead of double posting, you can copy the first post, delete it, then paste it in the new post and write more.
Your right! But for some reason, I can't delete it now.
That's because someone replied to it.
What do I have to do to get real estate outside the city?
I think that's as close as it gets to your question.
He doesn't make any extra stipulations like "...but you can go somewhere else if you really need it," or "...if your lot is really cool you can put it wherever."


Stefanie Marte is what her husband loves to call her and she totally loves this advertsing name.
Should Background Checks Be Essential Dating Blogs?
Can I buy my exboyfriend back? Typically to be avoiding my eyes. I called him so many times but he never answered any of my call. He didn't even give us a reply. What am I'm assuming to are going to do?
OK, OK, I've only been with you a little over a month, but I've been helping people create ceremonies to celebrate their lives for greater than 20 some time. And I want assistance you celebrate yours your way that best reflects who tend to be and may believe near!


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Q: how can I create OpenGL context using Windows memory dc (c++) In my Windows MFC application, in its View class I created an OpenGL context using View's DC:
HANDLE * hdc = GetDC()->m_hdc;
int nPixelFormat;
static PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR pfd = {
sizeof(PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR), // Size of this structure
1, // Version of this structure
PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW | // Draw to window (not bitmap)
PFD_SUPPORT_OPENGL | // Support OpenGL calls
PFD_DOUBLEBUFFER, // Double -buffered mode
PFD_TYPE_RGBA, // RGBA Color mode
24, // Want 24bit color
0,0,0,0,0,0, // Not used to select mode
0,0, // Not used to select mode
0,0,0,0,0, // Not used to select mode
32, // Size of depth buffer
0, // Not used to select mode
0, // Not used to select mode
PFD_MAIN_PLANE, // Draw in main plane
0, // Not used to select mode
0,0,0 }; // Not used to select mode

// Choose a pixel format that best matches that described in pfd
nPixelFormat = ChoosePixelFormat(hdC, &pfd);
// Set the pixel format for the device context
assert(SetPixelFormat(hdC, nPixelFormat, &pfd));

HGLRC m_hrc = wglCreateContext(hdc);
assert(m_hrc);
wglMakeCurrent(m_hdc,m_hrc);

All the code above works all right, and I can do OpenGL drawings as expected.
But , What  I need now is to change the DC to memory dc instead of window DC . To be exact, how can I use the 'hmemDC' bellow to create an OpenGL context like the way I did above with window DC:
CRect rct;
GetClientRect(&rct);
HDC hmemDC = CreateCompatibleDC(pDC->m_hDC);
HBITMAP hBmp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(pDC->m_hDC,rct.Width(),rct.Height());

with the same pixel format constructed above, I came across the "Invalid pixel format" error in calling wglCreateContext() , can not success in getting the correct OpenGL context.
I googled a lot , and tryed to change some of the values of pixel format, the result was the same.
Is it possible to create OpenGL context with Windows Memory DC? and if it is how should I do it?
Edit:
This is why I need a bitmap ( or Memory DC ):  I created a 2d map rendering library which uses OpenGL.  The client want to use this library to render background map, and draw its own symbols on top of it . But, they prefer to use Windows GDI other than OpenGL to draw their symbols.  So I thought if I can provide them with a bitmap or a Mmeory DC, they could to what they want. Any better solutions?  Am I in the right direction? Or it is a total bad idea to provide such a 2d library in OpenGL backend.

A: This can't be done in a useful way.
You can in principle render to a bitmap by using the PFD_DRAW_TO_BITMAP flag instead of PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW in the PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR.
However, doing so will disable all hardware accelearated rendering. This will fall back to Microsofts default OpenGL 1.1 implementation.
If you want hw-accleration and/or modern GL, you either need a window or some offscreen buffer like a pbuffer, which is available via the WGL_ARB_pbuffer extension. However, in modern GL, you are probably better off creating a window which is just never shown, and using a Frambeuffer Object as the offscreen render target.
In either case, you will have to copy the data back to the CPU, if you need it as some bitmap there.

A: Put in few words: You can't create arbitrary OpenGL contexts for MemDCs. At least no kind of OpenGL context you'd actually want to use.
If your goal is off-screen rendering either create a PBuffer-DC; which requires to create a OpenGL context first which in turn required to create a window and setting its pixel format. Or you can just create a window and a OpenGL context for it and use a framebuffer object.


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Former Member of National Policy Committee
Chung Woo Taik is a chairman of Chungcheong Buk-Do in Liberty Korea Party and a member of Trade, Industry, Energy, SMES, and Start-ups Committee in the National Assembly of the Korea. He doctorate in Economics at graduate school in University of Hawaii and was the former minister of Oceans and Fisheries.


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Published: March 12, 2020, 8:32 pm Updated: March 13, 2020, 6:02 am
Tags: Ron DeSantis, politics, Health, Government, Florida
Florida poised to raise smoking, vaping age to 21
Legislation heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis for consideration
Tracking the vaping threat
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida is poised to raise the minimum age for smoking and vaping to 21.
The state Senate on Thursday joined the House in approving a measure that would also ban the sale of vapored nicotine products used in so-called e-cigarettes. The legislation now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis for consideration.
Health advocates said the measure is necessary to protect public health, particularly among young tobacco users.
While smoking among youth has been on the decline in recent years, vaping has surged. The rise has alarmed health advocates who worry about nicotine addiction and the stunting of brain development.
Vape shop operators have asserted that vaping is safer and helps wean smokers off cancer-causing cigarettes.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has joined other federal and public health agencies in investigating an outbreak of deaths and lung injuries that appear to be associated with e-cigarettes.
As of last month, more than 2,800 such cases have been reported across the United States and its territories in the Carribbean. The CDC said 68 deaths have been confirmed in 29 states and the District of Columbia.


Package Geometry is a tool that visually simulates the optimal arrangement of goods inside the boxes before packing them. The feature is powered by Zia: Zoho's in-house AI.
It helps you decide what item goes into which box and in what arrangement.
Picks the right boxes for a compact arrangement. Thus, minimizes wastage of space within the boxes.
Package slips can be generated for each box.
Goods support dimensions and weight. To compute package geometry for an order, you need to set the measurement units for your goods.
Go to Settings > Preferences > Items.
Choose how you want to measure the dimensions (inches or centimeters) and weight (pounds or kilograms) of your items.
Click Save at the bottom of the page to apply the changes.
It is recommended that you enter the dimensions of all your items in advance. If not, you can skip this step and enter them at the time of computing package geometry.
Go to the Items module in the sidebar.
Click an item name to open the details.
Click the icon to edit the item details.
Enter the dimensions and weight of the item.
Likewise, you can also enter the dimensions of the item at the time of creation.
Go to the Sales Orders module.
Click to open a Draft or Confirmed sales order.
Go to the Packages tab on the sales order page.
Click the Package Geometry option.
Here, you will provide box details such as the types of boxes you possess along with its dimensions and weight capacity.
Enter the box name/type. For example: Large Cardboard Box.
Enter the dimensions of the box and the maximum weight it can hold. Make sure that the dimensions and weight holding capacity of the box is greater than the items.
Likewise, you can add more box types by clicking the + New Box option.
Note: Each box type should be entered only once. The system generates as many boxes required from each given type to pack all the items compactly.
The boxes and its contents will be projected in 3D.
Click the Add option to place the items into the box.
Click the box number at the top to navigate to the next box and add the desired contents to it.
Pro Tip: You can also hold and drag the 3D image in any direction to view its contents in different perspectives.
When you're done adding the items, click View Summary.
The summary section displays the details of the contents added in each box.
Click the Create Package button to generate package slips for the respective box.
Make changes to the package slip# and date if needed.
Click Save to create a package slip for the box.
From the summary section, click the View Package button to navigate to the respective package slip details page. You can then ship this package to your customer.


Professor Wu Xiaoming and his research team have developed a theoretical model to calculate various engineering properties associated with HDD installations in complex formations. This model has been coupled with three-dimensional visualization software to calculate optimal design of pipe installations using HDD. These research results have been successfully applied to a variety of complex projects.


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Q: DaskML with XGBoost and using eval_set requires pre-computed data I am trying to run dask_ml.xgboost using eval_set to allow for early stopping in an attempt to avoid overfitting.
Currently, I have a sample dataset shown in the example below
from dask.distributed import Client
from dask_ml.datasets import make_classification_df
from dask_ml.xgboost import XGBClassifier

if __name__ == "__main__":
    n_train_rows = 4_000
    n_val_rows = 1_000

    client = Client()
    print(client)

    # Generate balanced data for binary classification
    X_train, y_train = make_classification_df(
        n_samples=n_train_rows,
        chunks=100,
        predictability=0.35,
        n_features=50,
        random_state=2,
    )
    X_val, y_val = make_classification_df(
        n_samples=n_val_rows,
        chunks=100,
        predictability=0.35,
        n_features=50,
        random_state=2,
    )

    clf = XGBClassifier(objective="binary:logistic")

    # train
    clf.fit(
        X_train,
        y_train,
        eval_metric="error",
        eval_set=[
            (X_train.compute(), y_train.compute()),
            (X_val.compute(), y_val.compute()),
        ],
        early_stopping_rounds=5,
    )

    # Make predictions
    y_pred = clf.predict(X_val).compute()
    assert len(y_pred) == len(y_val)

    client.close()

All of X_train, y_train, X_val and y_val are dask DataFrames.
I cannot specify eval_set as nested lists of dask DataFrames, using eval_set=[(X_train.compute(), y_train.compute()), (X_val.compute(), y_val.compute())]. Instead, they need to be pandas DataFrames, which is why I needed to call .compute() for each of them.
However, when I run the above code (using pandas DataFrames), I get this warning
<Client: 'tcp://127.0.0.1:12345' processes=4 threads=12, memory=16.49 GB>
/home/username/.../distributed/worker.py:3373: UserWarning: Large object of size 2.16 MB detected in task graph:
  {'dmatrix_kwargs': {}, 'num_boost_round': 100, 'ev ... ing_rounds': 5}
Consider scattering large objects ahead of time
with client.scatter to reduce scheduler burden and
keep data on workers

    future = client.submit(func, big_data)    # bad

    big_future = client.scatter(big_data)     # good
    future = client.submit(func, big_future)  # good
  warnings.warn(
task NULL connected to the tracker
task NULL connected to the tracker
task NULL connected to the tracker
task NULL connected to the tracker
task NULL got new rank 0
task NULL got new rank 1
task NULL got new rank 2
task NULL got new rank 3
[08:52:41] WARNING: ../src/gbm/gbtree.cc:129: Tree method is automatically selected to be 'approx' for distributed training.
[08:52:41] WARNING: ../src/gbm/gbtree.cc:129: Tree method is automatically selected to be 'approx' for distributed training.
[08:52:41] WARNING: ../src/gbm/gbtree.cc:129: Tree method is automatically selected to be 'approx' for distributed training.
[08:52:41] WARNING: ../src/gbm/gbtree.cc:129: Tree method is automatically selected to be 'approx' for distributed training.

This code runs through to completion and predictions are generated. However, the line estimator.fit(...) line is producing this UserWarning.
Additional notes

*

*In my use-case, the number of rows in the training and validation splits used in the example here reflect sizes after sampling from the overall data. Unfortunately, the overall data splits required for training (+hyperparameter tuning) dask_ml.xgboost are a few orders of magnitude larger (in number of rows, based on training and validation learning curves, per dask_ml recommendations, generated using standard XGBoost (using from xgboost import XGBClassifier) without dask_ml's version of XGBoost (1, 2)) so I can't compute those and bring them into memory as pandas DataFrames for distributed XGBoost training.

*The number of features used in the example here is 50. (In the real use-case) I arrived at this number after dropping as many features as possible.

*Code is run on a local machine.

Question
Is there a correct/recommended approach to run dask_ml's xgboost with eval_set consisting of Dask DataFrames?
EDIT
Note that the the training split is also being passed in eval_set (in addition to the validation split) with the intention of generating learning curves using the output of model training (see here).


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namespace xmfForm\Inputs;

class Input_Plaintext extends xmlForm\Input{
	protected function craftInput(){
		$attribs = array(
			"type"=>"text",
			"id"=>"$this->id",
			"name"=>"$this->id",
			"class"=>$this->input_classes
		);

		if($this->required){
			$attribs[]='required';
		}

		$select = new OTag("select",$attribs);
		foreach($this->option_nodes as $node){
			$select->add($this->craftOption($node));
		}
		return $select;
	}
}

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The Hindola Mahal might have been constructed during the reign of Hoshang Shah about 1425 C.E. but may date to the end of the 15th century during the reign of Ghiyas-al-Din.It is one of a set buildings making up the royal palace complex at Mandu, which consists of the Jahaz Mahal, the Hindola Mahal, the Tawili Mahal, and the Nahar Jharokha. The Hindola Mahal may have been used as an audience chamber.


Cracking refers to the practice of hacking computer systems and software with malicious intent, such as cracking a password or a public Wi-Fi network in order to see people's private information.
While hacking is the process of bypassing computer safeguards in order to gain access to them – which can either be good or bad – cracking specifically refers to the same practice, but with criminal intent. The general opinion is that hackers build, while crackers break. In particular, crackers engage in such unruly practices as stealing credit card numbers, deploying viruses, destroying files or collecting personal data to then sell.
Where does cracking come from?
Any number of things can motivate a cracker, ranging from financial gain, to furthering a cause, or maliciousness for its own sake, or just because they like a challenge. As such, cracking can come from anywhere. However, cracking, unlike hacking, relies more on persistent repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks in order to break into systems, rather than cleverly exploiting the system's weaknesses. As a result, most crackers are in fact only sub-par hackers.
How do you recognize cracking?
Whether or not it's possible to recognize cracking depends on what's being cracked. For example, software companies likely won't know if someone has cracked their software. Likewise, students using the public Wi-Fi at the corner café won't know if someone has cracked the Wi-Fi network and is capturing their vulnerable data, such as banking info or passwords. That said, it might be obvious that your computer has been cracked if your friends and colleagues start getting phishing emails from your email address.
How do you stop cracking?
Trying to stop cracking is like trying to stop crime itself, and if Batman can't do it, we don't have much hope of that happening anytime soon. As long as people with criminal intent and the skills needed to crack into computer systems exist, cracking will persist. The best thing you can do to help curtail cracking is to ensure that none of the systems you use get cracked in the first place. Fortunately, there are many ways you can do that, such as using a password manager to protect your login info. In the event your computer has been cracked, however, you can use a powerful antivirus to search for and remove any viruses or other malware that may have been installed on your computer as part of the crack.
There are a couple of habits you can learn in order to protect yourself against cracking. These include not opening attachments from suspicious email addresses, never sending your banking info or credit card numbers over email and not using public Wi-Fi for any sensitive activities. But the best thing you can do to protect yourself against cracking is to use strong antivirus software such a Avast Antivirus which will protect you against all kinds of malware, including viruses, spyware, ransomware and more.


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namespace Eigen {
namespace internal {

#if defined(EIGEN_USE_GPU) && defined(__CUDACC__)
// Full reducers for GPU, don't vectorize for now

// Reducer function that enables multiple cuda thread to safely accumulate at the same
// output address. It basically reads the current value of the output variable, and
// attempts to update it with the new value. If in the meantime another cuda thread
// updated the content of the output address it will try again.
template <typename T, typename R>
__device__ EIGEN_ALWAYS_INLINE void atomicReduce(T* output, T accum, R& reducer) {
#if __CUDA_ARCH__ >= 300
  if (sizeof(T) == 4)
  {
    unsigned int oldval = *reinterpret_cast<unsigned int*>(output);
    unsigned int newval = oldval;
    reducer.reduce(accum, reinterpret_cast<T*>(&newval));
    if (newval == oldval) {
      return;
    }
    unsigned int readback;
    while ((readback = atomicCAS((unsigned int*)output, oldval, newval)) != oldval) {
      oldval = readback;
      newval = oldval;
      reducer.reduce(accum, reinterpret_cast<T*>(&newval));
      if (newval == oldval) {
        return;
      }
    }
  }
  else if (sizeof(T) == 8) {
    unsigned long long oldval = *reinterpret_cast<unsigned long long*>(output);
    unsigned long long newval = oldval;
    reducer.reduce(accum, reinterpret_cast<T*>(&newval));
    if (newval == oldval) {
      return;
    }
    unsigned long long readback;
    while ((readback = atomicCAS((unsigned long long*)output, oldval, newval)) != oldval) {
      oldval = readback;
      newval = oldval;
      reducer.reduce(accum, reinterpret_cast<T*>(&newval));
      if (newval == oldval) {
        return;
      }
    }
  }
  else {
    assert(0 && "Wordsize not supported");
  }
#else
  assert(0 && "Shouldn't be called on unsupported device");
#endif
}

template <typename T>
__device__ inline void atomicReduce(T* output, T accum, SumReducer<T>&) {
#if __CUDA_ARCH__ >= 300
  atomicAdd(output, accum);
#else
  assert(0 && "Shouldn't be called on unsupported device");
#endif
}

template <int BlockSize, int NumPerThread, typename Self,
          typename Reducer, typename Index>
__global__ void FullReductionKernel(Reducer reducer, const Self input, Index num_coeffs,
                                    typename Self::CoeffReturnType* output) {
  const Index first_index = blockIdx.x * BlockSize * NumPerThread + threadIdx.x;

  if (first_index == 0) {
    *output = reducer.initialize();
  }

  typename Self::CoeffReturnType accum = reducer.initialize();
  for (Index i = 0; i < NumPerThread; ++i) {
    const Index index = first_index + i * BlockSize;
    if (index >= num_coeffs) {
      break;
    }
    typename Self::CoeffReturnType val = input.m_impl.coeff(index);
    reducer.reduce(val, &accum);
  }

  for (int offset = warpSize/2; offset > 0; offset /= 2) {
    reducer.reduce(__shfl_down(accum, offset), &accum);
  }

  if ((threadIdx.x & (warpSize - 1)) == 0) {
    atomicReduce(output, accum, reducer);
  }
}

template <typename Self, typename Op, bool Vectorizable>
struct FullReducer<Self, Op, GpuDevice, Vectorizable> {
  // Unfortunately nvidia doesn't support well exotic types such as complex,
  // so reduce the scope of the optimized version of the code to the simple case
  // of floats.
  static const bool HasOptimizedImplementation = !Op::IsStateful &&
                                                 internal::is_same<typename Self::CoeffReturnType, float>::value;

  template <typename OutputType>
  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC static void run(const Self& self, Op& reducer, const GpuDevice& device, OutputType* output) {
    assert(false && "Should only be called on floats");
  }

  EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC static void run(const Self& self, Op& reducer, const GpuDevice& device, float* output) {
    typedef typename Self::Index Index;

    const Index num_coeffs = array_prod(self.m_impl.dimensions());
    const int block_size = 256;
    const int num_per_thread = 128;
    const int num_blocks = std::ceil(static_cast<float>(num_coeffs) / (block_size * num_per_thread));
    LAUNCH_CUDA_KERNEL((FullReductionKernel<block_size, num_per_thread>),
                       num_blocks, block_size, 0, device, reducer, self, num_coeffs, output);
  }
};

#endif

} // end namespace internal
} // end namespace Eigen

#endif // EIGEN_CXX11_TENSOR_TENSOR_REDUCTION_H


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Posts Tagged 'Onslaught'
'Call of Duty: Ghosts' DLC Onslaught Pack Lets You Be Michael Meyers
by John Carle, Jan 14 2014 // 8:00 AM
Yesterday, Activision gave the first detailed glimpse at Onslaught, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts. As has become the standard, the pack will include four regular multiplayer maps, one new weapon and one survival map, this time for the Extinction game mode. As you'll see in the trailer after the break, the multiplayer levels are more goal oriented than ever before with a "reward" system that looks to really change the dynamic of each individual match.
The most exciting new map has to be Fog. A dark and spooky backwoods map with cabins and a barn, the real excitement comes from the completed field order which turns a player into Michael Meyers. Yes, from Halloween. When you're Michael, you get armed with an axe… and his signature theme music. When you get close, your victim knows it's coming and hear it before you take them out.
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Marvel Reveales Variant Covers For 'Onslaught Unleashed' By Rob Liefeld
by Matt Raub, Nov 2 2010 // 2:00 PM
The rule is to "never say never" in the comic book world. When a writer or publisher vows that they're killing off a character, never to bring them back, 9 out of 10 times they end up resurrecting him. Same goes for storyline stunts.
Back in 1996, in a ploy to pull themselves up from bankruptcy, Marvel revealed a new cross-universe villain called Onslaught, created by Mark Waid, Andy Kubert, and Scott Lobdell. The books were filled with continuity holes and plot devices meant to engage even the most causal reader. The end result left a bunch of fans alienated, and hardly any newcomers to show for the work.
Now, with the help of Heroes Reborn artist Rob Liefeld, Onslaught Unleashed is making it's way to shelves this February, with a brand new storyline that takes place in an alternate universe, and promises not to "shake things up" with the normal universe like the last one.
In getting ready for the release, Marvel has unveiled two new variant covers for the book, by Liefeld himself. Check out the full sized covers after the jump, and be sure to pick up Onslaught Unleashed on shelves this February.
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Game Review: 'Transformers: War for Cybertron' Character and Map Pack DLC
by John Carle, Aug 3 2010 // 12:00 PM
Transformers: War for Cybertron has been one of the favorite licensed games in recent memory for us. Especially after seeing what Michael Bay did to the film franchise, it was great to see people who had a true appreciation for the source material get their hands on it and get to play around with the world.
At Comic-Con, we spoke to the game's director Matt Tieger and he walked us through the now recently released DLC content that was announced at the Con. Make sure to check out the full interview with Tieger for more of his insight into the game.
The first thing you notice when playing the new content is the great variety of additional character models and loadouts for the game's Multiplayer and Escalation mode. Classic favorites like Jazz, Demolisher and Shockwave make their return to the Transformers universe that were previously only available as pre-order bonuses while never before seen Scattershot and Onslaught make their way to Cybertron.
As expected from the high values of this production team, all the models look beautiful and do a great job of separating themselves from the others already on the battlefield. It is easy to spot these new characters in online play, especially the uniquely shaped head of Shockwave. These new models do a great job of preventing games that feel like the final fight in Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen where Michael Bay's horde of clone-like Decepticons cannot be told apart during the chaos.
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Interracial Families
Raising Kids Of Color
by: Alvin Poussaint, M.D.
Children of color need to grow up experiencing the world as a place where they feel included, not invisible.
Challenges Ahead
As an African-American parent of a 21-year-old son and a 6-month-old daughter, I've had the opportunity to reflect for over 20 years on the special issues of being a parent of color. In the past two decades, many positive changes in race relations have occurred in America, but conditions have not yet improved to the extent that we can feel comfortable that the effects of white racism are irrelevant.
Being a parent of color, I cannot raise my daughter-any more than I could raise my son 21 years ago -- by assuming that our society will be color-blind and judge her solely by the content of her character. On the other hand, many opportunities exist for minorities today in schools and in the work place when diversity is valued.
Parents of color, as well as white parents, must raise their children by exposing them early on to the reality of our multiracial society in which the future generation will play an important role. Children of color need to grow up experiencing the world as a place where they feel included, not invisible. As a parent, you can nurture your child's healthy development in the following ways:
Expose your child to dolls, toy figures, storybooks, and music that reflect diversity.
Choose TV programs and movies that feature people who share your child's ethnicity.
Talk about the civil rights movement, wars, and our present struggles so children of color can appreciate that we strive to live in an open and just society.
Teach kids about your ethnic history, including contributions to the sciences, arts, music, business, and sports. It's important that your children have ethnic pride and respect for their own cultural background.
Don't encourage ethnic chauvinism because it will instill in your children feelings of superiority over children from other groups.
Teach your kids to respect themselves while honoring the differences in other cultures.
Dealing with Prejudice and Racism
Parents of color must maintain an upbeat approach when talking to kids about race. Although racial discrimination still exists, don't paint the world as a scary place for your child. It's better for him to assume, at first, that the world will treat him fairly -- so that you don't inadvertently inhibit him.
When questions of difference of skin color and hair texture arise-usually when kids are about four or five years old-simple answers are adequate: The world is made up of many different kinds of wonderful people who help to make life more fun and exciting." Later on your child will have more sophisticated questions to ask about differences. Your answers should instill a philosophy based on democratic principles, with a "we are all brothers and sisters under the skin" outlook.
On some occasions, children of color (and white children, too) may be verbally attacked with racial slurs or insults. If that occurs:
Quickly reassure your child that he or she is just fine and that the person using such a slur has a terrible problem.
Follow up, if necessary. You may need to talk to the offender's parents.
Encourage your child's school to have multicultural activities and positive discussions about differences.
As I view it now, I will be raising my young daughter in a fashion similar to the way I raised my 21-year-old son: giving her a solid base of self-worth and helping her to feel good about who she is. A strong sense of self will help her cope constructively with any rejections or discrimination she may encounter along life's way. But I hope in this next generation, racial prejudice will become less and less of a problem and not tarnish the hopes of millions of children of color.
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When bosses are bullies
By David Lieberman
Harvey Weinstein attends the "Reservoir Dogs" 25th anniversary screening during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April. (Charles Sykes, Invision/AP)
Policymakers have enjoyed a free pass in discussions over what to do in response to the sexual harassment allegations taking down Hollywood producers, news media titans and actors. Because the worst of the transgressions already are illegal, lawmakers seem satisfied to call for culprits to be fired or to step down, and for corporate leaders to promise that they'll crack down on offenders more quickly in the future.
But legislators can do more to address the problem. They can make workplace bullying illegal. Too many corporate leaders find it expedient to look the other way when bosses — especially ones they deem indispensable — systematically intimidate and humiliate underlings. Bullies who believe that their whims matter more than other people's dignity often don't see why their sexual impulses shouldn't be just as indulged.
Sweden, France and Belgium, as well as the Canadian province of Quebec, have passed anti-workplace bullying laws. Courts in Spain, Germany and Great Britain consider it a violation of other statutes.
The U.S. should follow their lead. Workplace bullying is morally repugnant, bad for business and it seems to correlate closely with sexual harassment. Harvey Weinstein and Fox News head Roger Ailes, for example, were famous for their general cruelty long before we knew how they treated women.
"Harvey was a bully. Harvey was arrogant," his brother, Bob Weinstein, told the Hollywood Reporter. "That I knew. And I had to clean up for so many of his employee messes. People that came in crying to my office: 'Your brother said this, that and the other.' And I'd feel sick about it."
But, he said, he didn't do anything because "it didn't rise to a certain level." Instead, he counseled employees to "leave, please leave."
Ailes' behavior was just as obvious. "The real harassment was emotional harassment," CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota — who worked for 16 years at Fox News — said on air in April after Ailes died. "I went to my superiors to talk to them about it, and there was certainly a feeling like, 'This is Roger. What are you going to do? Who are you going to go to?' " She added: "He'd call people names. And it was that feeling of not wanting to run afoul of him. That was really the chilling effect."
Abused employees would be able to go to court if states or Congress adopted laws like the Healthy Workplace Bill, proposed by Suffolk University Law School professor David Yamada. He found that U.S. courts rarely sided with victims of bullying who sought relief under employment laws that already prohibit "intentional infliction of emotional distress." Taking a page from the standards for a hostile work environment established under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Healthy Workplace Bill would empower employees to sue companies for actions that "a reasonable person would find abusive, based on the severity, nature or frequency of the conduct."
That would "patch a hole in discrimination law," says Gary Namie, director of the Workplace Bullying Institute, an advocacy group. Employees need the leverage provided by a spelled-out set of protections because perpetrators often are considered indispensable, even if they are jerks.
And there are a lot of them. In an April online Zogby Analytics survey, about 9 percent of respondents said they'd been bullied at work within the last year, and an additional 10 percent said they'd experienced it, too, though not in the last year. That would translate to about 30 million employees. Men in the survey accounted for about 70 percent of the perpetrators and they targeted women 65 percent of the time. Female bullies targeted women 67 percent of the time. Although the survey covered all workplace bullying, the most common and extreme examples involved bosses bullying subordinates.
State and local chambers of commerce and other business groups have effectively fought the Healthy Workplace Bill. It has been defeated in 29 state legislatures, including Illinois. Its opponents say it's too vague and too likely to sink small businesses with unfair lawsuits. They worry about undermining hard-driving perfectionists who prove to be business geniuses, such as Steve Jobs at Apple.
But all laws that protect workers could be said to weigh most heavily on small businesses, and courts should find it relatively easy to differentiate between frivolous cases and serious systematic abuse. In fact, the Healthy Workplace legislation is written to protect employers who take "reasonable care" to prevent or correct abuses. It requires plaintiffs to take advantage of in-house remedies. And it only covers repeated offenses, unless the abuse was "especially severe and egregious."
The potential problems an anti-bullying law might create for a business would be more than offset by the advantages of replacing bullies with managers who truly have the temperament to lead. "Hundreds of experiments," writes Robert Sutton, of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, show that demeaning bosses undermine employees' "decision-making skills, productivity, creativity and willingness to work harder and help co-workers."
Weinstein, Ailes and others in positions of power who stand accused of sexual harassment are not merely isolated bad apples who couldn't control their libidos. They are bullies, too, who learned they could get away with almost any behavior, as long as their operations generated enough cash.
Bullies affect all industries. Lawmakers can establish that intimidation and humiliation are off-limits in the workplace. They can give employees a better option than taking the abuse or leaving.
David Lieberman, an associate professor at the New School, is the former executive editor of Deadline.com, a media industry news site.
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Lifelong learning is not just for students who enrol into EASB but for our staff and teaching faculty as well. We believe that training and development is a necessary process that widens opportunities for employees to gain knowledge, experience and exposure to reach their goals and beyond.
Last week, Ms Kang, Head of School for Business Managementat EASB,joined the three-day biennial EBS partner conference by Edinburgh Business School in London.
The conference shared an overview of new courses, learning platform and programme structures, giving partners opportunities to learn more about curriculum design and face-to-face delivery models.
With new and exciting insights from our university partners, EASB is proud to be a part of collaborations that explore and innovate strategies that seek to improve better learning.


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When you realize how much more effective your marketing campaigns will be with this tool, you'll be kicking yourself for not using it earlier. We highlight just the tip of the iceberg; there's so much more for you to explore about fine-tuning your marketing strategy!
This paid marketing tool is popular with enterprises and small businesses alike. There are a bunch of reasons for that. The first reason is cost. You can tailor your marketing budget to the highest degree using this software from Google. In a traditional marketing channel, you would pay a large amount of money up-front.
Hoping for a good ROI would keep you stressed out and uncertain. Instead, one essential benefit of Google AdWords is that you only pay when a person clicks on your advertisement. This is the ultimate way of being cost-effective; you are only paying when your ad successfully gets your business a lead!
You have control over your AdWords campaigns to set the exact price that you're willing to pay. No more, no less. Whether you can afford a few dollars or several thousand, this tool gives you the flexibility to fit your budget.
Digital marketing is truly global. People from every corner of the world are shopping, sharing content, and interacting online. The results from all of these interactions are massive amounts of data. It's a challenge to sift through the noise and find exactly what you need.
That is, finding how to communicate your brand in the best light to your potential customers. We already know that personalization has been a rising trend in e-commerce and online business in general. But, targeting a specific audience with a specific message is well within the capabilities of AdWords.
You can drill down to find the exact audience that you're looking for, such as people in a certain age range, speaking a certain language or living in a certain geographic location. Mixing and matching your options can get your message to the right buyer at the right time and increase your ROI.
Time is short and, as they say, "time is money!" We have to make every second count in the digital marketing arena. The mind-boggling amount of digital transactions that happen every day--estimated at 150 million--means that digital marketers need real-time insights.
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Your business should use AdWords let you take on your competition head-to-head by bidding. There are only so many paid ads that can be placed on Google and other major search engines. To even out the competition, AdWords uses "ad auctions" to permit different parties to bid on search terms. And no, the largest company doesn't always win.
In fact, AdWords takes into consideration a bunch of factors to decide the bid with the highest relevancy. This means that you can win bids against your competition by having a website with better SEO, a high-performing landing page, or previous bids with high click-through rates. It's a chance for the smaller companies to compete (and win!) against the larger companies.
The essential benefits of Google AdWords are just that--the "barebone" advantages. What other ways do you see Google AdWords supporting your marketing efforts? Share your comment below.
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Interventions to Improve Social Outcomes in Offenders With Personality Disorders
Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC
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It is unknown whether training in emotional, social, and practical skills generalize to the "real world" setting once offenders are released.
Among individuals with a history of criminal convictions, personality disorders (PD) are highly prevalent. For example, up to 78% of adult male prisoners and half of adult female prisoners in the United Kingdom have been found to meet the diagnostic criteria for at least 1 PD.1 In addition, PDs have been noted in as many as half of individuals on probation and in 57% to 77% of male patients confined to high-security psychiatric facilities.2,3
Personality disordered offenders (PDOs), "are a group whose difficulties come at a considerable cost to themselves, potential victims, the communities in which they live and return, and to society as [a] whole, who must meet the costs of service provision," wrote the authors of a review published in BMC Psychiatry.4 "PDOs experience worse physical and mental health, poorer quality of life, reoffend at higher rates, and are overrepresented in the commission of serious further [offenses], indicating existing approaches may be overlooking important factors."
One aim of support services for offenders is to improve social outcomes, which are typically poor in this population. Social outcomes result from participation in activities that reflect effective functioning in society, including employment, independent living, and family responsibilities. Thus, the current paper conceptualizes social outcomes as participation.
Engagement in such meaningful and prosocial tasks by PDOs is essential, as these activities are closely linked with health, functioning, and social outcomes in general, and a decreased risk for recidivism in the offender population specifically. "Conversely, offenders who do not participate in prosocial activities (eg, those who remain unemployed or who lack prosocial relationships) or [who] participate in antisocial activities (gang affiliation, substance use) are at higher risk of reoffending."5
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Noting the dearth of findings regarding interventions aimed at improving social outcomes in PDOs, researchers at the University of Warwick and Brunel University London conducted a systematic review of studies that examined such endeavors.
Only 5 studies both met inclusion criteria and contained extractable data. The risk for bias was deemed high in all but one of the studies (in which the risk for bias was deemed moderate), and none were considered high quality. Treatment approaches included cognitive behavioral therapy, multimodal treatment with a psychosocial counseling component, multidisciplinary community-based services, integrative psychotherapy, and a psychological intervention called the Good Life Model.
The 2 studies that included social functioning as an outcome found no significant differences following intervention. Studies that included employment as an outcome did show an increase in employment following intervention — from 22% at baseline to 69% at 7-year follow-up in 1 study, for example, and from 41% to 71% over a 2-year period in another investigation.6 However, limitations in the design of the studies precluded conclusions regarding the effectiveness of the interventions examined.
The potential mechanisms by which the interventions may influence the outcomes include the following:
Training in emotional, social, and practical skills that are proposed to affect social participation among PDOs. Although such training is common within criminal justice institutions, it is unknown whether the learned skills generalize to the "real-world" setting once offenders are released.
Encouraging change in identity and values by supporting and validating offenders' efforts toward prosocial goals. This approach frames offending as a barrier to the attainment of such goals. It is proposed that mastery of new prosocial activities leads to "volitional realignment" toward these goals. The effectiveness of this approach has not yet been proven.
Practical assistance to help offenders overcome individual difficulties in "real-world" employment or social settings, similar to the Individual Placement and Support model for individuals with serious mental illness.8 "Whilst this has an immediate effect, it does not impart a change in the individual him or herself, and thus may not support continued participation on a long-term basis" in the PDO population, according to the present review.
Further research with a well-designed, clearly operationalized approach is needed to assess these and other potential mechanisms of change adequately. "The heterogeneity of the studies in this review indicate that a theoretically-informed exploration of the factors influencing participation is required before systematic development and evaluation of interventions that are likely to be effective can be conducted," the authors concluded.
They note that the Theory of Human Occupation is based on universal principles and explains, "how participation is achieved, experienced, maintained, and changed, and has valid and reliable measures for associated and influencing factors."9 This model is currently used in forensic research and practice, and may provide a solid starting point for exploring factors and mechanisms of change that should be targeted through intervention in the PDO population.
Singleton N, Meltzer H, Gatward R. Psychiatric Morbidity Among Prisoners in England and Wales. London, UK: Office for National Statistics; 1998.
Brooker C, Sirdifield C, Blizard R, Denney D, Pluck G. Probation and mental illness. J Forensic Psychiatry Psychol. 2012;23(4):522-537.
Blackburn R, Logan C, Donnelly J, Renwick S. Personality disorders, psychopathy and other mental disorders: co-morbidity among patients at English and Scottish high-security hospitals. J Forensic Psychiatry Psychol. 2003;14(1):111-137.
Connell C, Furtado V, McKay EA, Singh SP. How effective are interventions to improve social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry. 2017;17:368.
Andrews DA, Bonta J. The Psychology of Criminal Conduct. 5th ed. New York, NY: Routledge; 2010.
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