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This is a set of 2,346 flash cards with both traditional and simplified fonts! Simplified in the front and traditional in the back. It's really perfect for families learning both and for lazy people like me who do not care for making their own cards all the time! The cards are water resistant. I probably wouldn't take a bath with it but many have ran it under a faucet online to show how water resistant it is… eek! That stuff always stresses me out to see cards and books get tortured…lol.
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"""Smooth implementation of conformal prediction approaches [1] and [2].

This module uses differentiable sorting to implement conformal prediction in a
differentiable manner [1,2], considering both calibration and prediction steps.

[1] Yaniv Romano, Matteo Sesia, Emmanuel J. Candes.
Classification withvalid and adaptive coverage.
NeurIPS, 2020.
[2] Mauricio Sadinle, Jing Lei, and Larry A. Wasserman.
Least ambiguous set-valued classifiers with bounded error levels.
ArXiv, 2016.
"""
import functools
from typing import Optional, Callable, Tuple, Any

import jax
import jax.numpy as jnp

import variational_sorting_net

_SmoothQuantileFn = Callable[[Any, float], float]
_ForwardFn = Callable[
    [jnp.ndarray, jnp.ndarray, jnp.ndarray],
    Tuple[jnp.ndarray, jnp.ndarray]]
_ForwardBackwardFn = Callable[
    [jnp.ndarray, jnp.ndarray],
    Tuple[jnp.ndarray, jnp.ndarray, jnp.ndarray]]

def _check_conformal_quantile(
    array: jnp.ndarray, q: float,
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet, dispersion: float):
  """Helper to check quantile arguments.

  Args:
    array: input array to compute quantile of
    q: quantile to compute
    sos: smooth order stat object for sorting
    dispersion: dispersion for smooth sorting

  Raises:
      ValueErrors if shape or q invalid.
  """
  if array.size == 0:
    raise ValueError('Expecting non-empty array.')
  if array.ndim != 1:
    raise ValueError('Expecting array of shape n.')
  if q < 0 or q > 1:
    raise ValueError('Expecting q in [0,1].')
  if sos.comms['num_wires'] != array.shape[0]:
    raise ValueError('Comm pattern has incorrect number of wires.')
  if dispersion <= 0:
    raise ValueError('Expecting dispersion strictly greater than zero.')

def smooth_conformal_quantile(
    array: jnp.ndarray, q: float,
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    dispersion: float) -> float:
  """Smooth implementation of conformal quantile.

  Args:
    array: input array to compute quantile of
    q: quantile to compute
    sos: smooth order stat object
    dispersion: dispersion for smooth sorting

  Returns:
    (1 + 1/array.shape[0]) * q quantile of array.
  """
  return sos.quantile(
      array, dispersion=dispersion, alpha=(1 + 1./array.shape[0]) * q, tau=0.5)

def smooth_conformal_quantile_with_checks(
    array: jnp.ndarray, q: float,
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    dispersion: float) -> float:
  """smooth_conformal_quantile with extra argument checks."""
  _check_conformal_quantile(array, q, sos, dispersion)
  return smooth_conformal_quantile(array, q, sos, dispersion)

def _check_probabilities(probabilities: jnp.ndarray):
  """Helper for checking probabilities for prediction or calibration.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities on test or validation set

  Raises:
    ValueError if invalid arguments
  """
  if len(probabilities.shape) != 2:
    raise ValueError('Expecting probabilities of shape n_examples x n_classes.')
  if probabilities.size == 0:
    raise ValueError('probabilities is empty.')

def _check_sos(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray,
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    dispersion: float):
  """Helper for checking arguments for prediction or calibration.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities on test or validation set
    sos: smooth order network
    dispersion: dispersion to use for smooth sort

  Raises:
    ValueError if invalid arguments
  """
  if sos.comms['num_wires'] != probabilities.shape[1]:
    raise ValueError('VariationalSortingNet used to sort n_classes elements, '
                     'comm pattern has incorrect number of wires.')
  if dispersion <= 0:
    raise ValueError('Expecting dispersion strictly greater than zero.')

def _check_predict(tau: float, temperature: float):
  """Helper for checking arguments for prediction.

  Args:
    tau: threshold
    temperature: temperature for smooth thresholding

  Raises:
    ValueError if invalid arguments
  """
  if tau < 0:
    raise ValueError('Expecting tau to be >= 0.')
  if temperature <= 0:
    raise ValueError('Expecting temperature strictly greater than zero.')

def _check_calibrate(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray,
    labels: jnp.ndarray,
    alpha: float):
  """Helper for checking argumetns for calibration.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities on validation set
    labels: ground truth labels on validation set
    alpha: confidence level

  Raises:
    ValueError if arguments invalid
  """
  if len(labels.shape) != 1:
    raise ValueError('Expecting labels of shape n_examples.')
  if probabilities.shape[0] != labels.shape[0]:
    raise ValueError(
        'Number of predicted probabilities does not match number of labels.')
  if jnp.max(labels) >= probabilities.shape[1]:
    raise ValueError('More labels than predicted in probabilities.')
  if not jnp.issubdtype(labels.dtype, jnp.integer):
    raise ValueError('Expecting labels to be integers.')
  if alpha < 0 or alpha > 1:
    raise ValueError('Expecting alpha to be in [0, 1].')

def _check_groups(probabilities, groups):
  """Helper for checking groups in subset aware class-conditional prediction.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities
    groups: class group labels

  Raises:
    Value Error if groups are incorrect.
  """
  if groups.ndim != 1:
    raise ValueError('Expecting group labels of shape n_classes.')
  if not jnp.issubdtype(groups.dtype, jnp.integer):
    raise ValueError('Expecting group labels to be integers.')
  if groups.size != probabilities.shape[1]:
    raise ValueError('Number of group labels is not n_classes.')

def smooth_predict_threshold(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray, tau: float, temperature: float) -> jnp.ndarray:
  """Smooth implementation of predict_threshold.

  Uses a sigmoid to implement soft thresholding.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities or logits
    tau: threshold
    temperature: temperature for soft-thresholding

  Returns:
    Confidence sets
  """
  return jax.nn.sigmoid((probabilities - tau) / temperature)

def smooth_predict_threshold_with_checks(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray, tau: float, temperature: float) -> jnp.ndarray:
  """smooth_predict_threshold with extra argument checks."""
  _check_probabilities(probabilities)
  _check_predict(tau, temperature)
  return smooth_predict_threshold(probabilities, tau, temperature)

def _get_sos_fns(
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    dispersion: float) -> Tuple[_ForwardFn, _ForwardBackwardFn]:
  """Get forward and backward functions with given dispersion from sos.

  Args:
    sos: smooth order statistic object to use forward and backward from
    dispersion: dispersion to use for forward and backward

  Returns:
    Partials for forward and forward with backward
  """
  forward_fn = functools.partial(
      sos.forward_only, dispersion=dispersion,
      lower=0, upper=None, key=None)
  forward_backward_fn = functools.partial(
      sos.forward_backward, v=None, dispersion=dispersion,
      lower=0, upper=None, key=None)
  return forward_fn, forward_backward_fn

def smooth_predict_aps(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray,
    tau: float, sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    rng: Optional[jnp.ndarray] = None,
    temperature: float = 0.01, dispersion: float = 0.001) -> jnp.ndarray:
  """Smooth version of predict_raps without regularization.

  Uses variational sorting networks to perform smooth sorting and sigmoid for
  thresholding. The final confidence sets are fully differentiable with respect
  to the input probabilities.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities on test set
    tau: threshold
    sos: smooth order network
    rng: PRNG key for sampling random variables
    temperature: temperature for soft thresholding, the lower the harder
      the thresholding
    dispersion: dispersion to use for smooth sort

  Returns:
    Confidence sets as arrays in [0,  1] after soft tresholding with given
    temperature.

  Raises:
    ValueError if probabilities have incorrect shape or tau is invalid.
  """

  forward_fn, forward_backward_fn = _get_sos_fns(sos, dispersion)

  def smooth_sort_fn(p, d):
    """Helper to vmap differentiable sorting across all examples.

    Args:
      p: vector of probabilities
      d: single number to put on the diagonal of the upper triangular matrix L

    Returns:
      Confidence sets for given probabilities
    """
    # Diagonal is set to zero by default, which is basically equivalent to
    # computing the cumulative sorted probability and afterwards
    # subtracting the individual (sorted) probabilities again.
    # This is done as, without randomization, we want the class
    # that just exceeds the threshold, to be included in the confidence set.
    matrix_l = jnp.triu(jnp.ones((p.shape[0], p.shape[0])))
    matrix_l = matrix_l.at[jnp.diag_indices(matrix_l.shape[0])].set(d)

    _, cum_sorted_p = forward_fn(-p, p, matrix_l)
    sorted_confidence_set = jax.nn.sigmoid(-(cum_sorted_p - tau)/temperature)
    _, confidence_set, _ = forward_backward_fn(-p, sorted_confidence_set)
    return confidence_set

  if rng is not None:
    diagonals = jax.random.uniform(rng, (probabilities.shape[0],))
  else:
    diagonals = jnp.zeros(probabilities.shape[0])
  smooth_sort_vmap = jax.vmap(smooth_sort_fn, (0, 0), 0)
  return smooth_sort_vmap(probabilities, diagonals)

def smooth_predict_aps_with_checks(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray,
    tau: float, sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    rng: Optional[jnp.ndarray] = None,
    temperature: float = 0.01, dispersion: float = 0.001) -> jnp.ndarray:
  """smooth_predict_aps with extra argument checks raising ValueError."""
  _check_probabilities(probabilities)
  _check_sos(probabilities, sos, dispersion)
  _check_predict(tau, temperature)
  return smooth_predict_aps(
      probabilities, tau, sos, rng, temperature, dispersion)

def smooth_calibrate_threshold(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray, labels: jnp.ndarray, alpha: float,
    smooth_quantile_fn: _SmoothQuantileFn) -> float:
  """Smooth calibrate_threshold version.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities or logits
    labels: corresponding ground truth labels
    alpha: confidence level
    smooth_quantile_fn: smooth quantile function to use

  Returns:
    Threshold
  """
  conformity_scores = probabilities[
      jnp.arange(probabilities.shape[0]), labels.astype(int)]
  return smooth_quantile_fn(conformity_scores, alpha)

def smooth_calibrate_threshold_with_checks(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray, labels: jnp.ndarray, alpha: float,
    smooth_quantile_fn: _SmoothQuantileFn) -> float:
  """smooth_calibrate_threshold with extra argument checks."""
  _check_probabilities(probabilities)
  _check_calibrate(probabilities, labels, alpha)
  return smooth_calibrate_threshold(
      probabilities, labels, alpha, smooth_quantile_fn)

def smooth_calibrate_aps(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray,
    labels: jnp.ndarray,
    alpha: float,
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    dispersion: float,
    smooth_quantile_fn: _SmoothQuantileFn,
    rng: Optional[jnp.ndarray] = None,
) -> float:
  """Smooth implementation of calibrate_raps without regularization.

  Args:
    probabilities: predicted probabilities on validation set
    labels: ground truth labels on validation set
    alpha: confidence level
    sos: smooth order network for probabilities, i.e.,
      has to allow sorting n_classes elements
    dispersion: dispersion to use for smooth sort.
    smooth_quantile_fn: smooth conformal quantile function to use
    rng: PRNG key for sampling random variables

  Returns:
    Threshold.

  Raises:
    ValueError if probabilities have incorrect shape or alpha is invalid.
  """

  forward_fn, forward_backward_fn = _get_sos_fns(sos, dispersion)

  def smooth_sort_fn(p, d, l):
    matrix_l = jnp.triu(jnp.ones((p.shape[0], p.shape[0])))
    matrix_l = matrix_l.at[jnp.diag_indices(matrix_l.shape[0])].set(d)
    _, cum_sorted_p = forward_fn(
        -p, p, matrix_l)
    _, cum_p, _ = forward_backward_fn(
        -p, cum_sorted_p)
    return  cum_p[l]

  if rng is not None:
    diagonals = jax.random.uniform(rng, (probabilities.shape[0],))
  else:
    diagonals = jnp.ones(probabilities.shape[0])
  smooth_sort_vmap = jax.vmap(smooth_sort_fn, (0, 0, 0), 0)
  scores = smooth_sort_vmap(probabilities, diagonals, labels)
  return smooth_quantile_fn(scores, 1 - alpha)

def smooth_calibrate_aps_with_checks(
    probabilities: jnp.ndarray,
    labels: jnp.ndarray,
    alpha: float,
    sos: variational_sorting_net.VariationalSortingNet,
    dispersion: float,
    smooth_quantile_fn: _SmoothQuantileFn,
    rng: Optional[jnp.ndarray] = None,
) -> float:
  """smooth_calibrate_aps with additional argument checks."""
  _check_probabilities(probabilities)
  _check_sos(probabilities, sos, dispersion)
  _check_calibrate(probabilities, labels, alpha)
  return smooth_calibrate_aps(
      probabilities, labels, alpha, sos,
      dispersion, smooth_quantile_fn, rng)

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The Half Century Rematch: A review of Godzilla vs Kong (spoilers)
April 2, 2021 / bengalcritiques
Image from ScreenGeek The image that sold the movie.
It has been 58 years since King Kong and Godzilla fought each other for kaiju supremacy. Who won? Well, it was a draw though Toho stated that in truth it was Kong due to their fight culminating in Godzilla leaving Japan alone afterwards and Kong surviving the fight to boot, which counts as victory for the eighth wonder of the world I suppose.
The original film, King Kong vs Godzilla, is extremely goofy, even for what was the goofiest overall era for Gojira, the first period known as Showa, named after the Japanese emperor at the time, Hirohito. Yes, that Hirohito if you followed your history courses.
The same era that featured the first, best and possibly darkest Godzilla film from 1954 also had entries with Godzilla flying through the air propelled by his breath, his legendary double jump kick against Megalon made famous as seen on Mystery Science Theater 3000, having an ugly as sin son called Minya-Minilla something, fighting a giant lobster, jumping up and down hilariously in a victory dance and that one clip show film that occurs entirely in a mentally disturbed Japanese kid's head. Then again, that set of films came out at the advent of the drug revolution of the sixties/seventies and who's to say that more than a few at Toho Studios didn't partake?
For those who want clarification on these wacky moments, they are featured in the films Godzilla vs Hedorah( Godzilla vs the Smog Monster),Godzilla vs Megalon, Son of Godzilla, Ebirah: Horror of the Deep( Godzilla vs the Sea Monster), Invasion of Astro Monster( Godzilla vs Monster X) and All Monsters Attack( Godzilla's Revenge) in that order.
So, for the second feature film to have Kong and Godzilla in the same space ever, maybe it is well that it should be the silliest of Warner Bros./Legendary's Monsterverse. It starts off as seriously as can be expected with Gareth Edward's divisive 2014 film, introduces a new and necessarily bigger Kong in Kong: Skull Island( still the best in the series after this movie), mixes seriousness into the more outlandish aspects of the franchise with Godzilla: King of the Monsters to very mixed results and now we have Godzilla vs Kong, the film that eschews seriousness in favor of embracing the imaginative dumb that is needed to make this concept work at all.
Is it possible that a more serious take on G vs K could've happened? I have no idea. Both characters independently have had successful serious and even dark takes( Godzilla 54′, Shin Godzilla, King Kong 05′) but put them together, especially for the express purpose of having them clobber each other and what else can be expected?
When it comes to what you paid/subscribed on HBO Max to see, anything involving Godzilla, Kong and any other remotely Kaiju-like thing, Godzilla vs Kong is far from disappointing. It honestly lights up your senses in a way few contemporary blockbusters have in recent years. If I was vaccinated for Covid, seeing this on an IMAX screen would be an inevitability. It's still impressive on a somewhat big flatscreen, but the impact is still softened sadly.
There is a great mix of all out fun laced with a surprising amount of dread on how any one fight will turn out. Both monsters deal out and are dealt considerable damage. When Godzilla and Kong get hurt, they get hurt and despite being entirely CG creations who can and will without thinking destroy entire blocks of cities and definitely killed more than a few hapless humans, you can sympathize when they get hurt or the battle turns against them.
Despite Godzilla coming before Kong in the title, this is definitely Kong's film first and has much more screentime than the other. It feels more like a follow-up overall to Kong Skull Island than Godzilla: King of the Monsters despite the return of two human characters from the latter. Despite my bias for Godzilla as an overall character, it is wise that Kong is featured more prominently due to his primate nature relating him better to us lowly humans.
His expressiveness is better demonstrated than G's though he ain't lacking either thankfully and to further cement him as basically the main character, he has a sweet, almost symbiotic relationship with a little native girl from Skull Island who through sign language can communicate with her.
Honestly, the little girl is the best human character as all the other ones, including the one played by the talented Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things, are so flat and uninteresting. This has mostly been a chain around the neck of most Kaiju films, east or west. Very rarely do I remember the names of any character from any Godzilla movie. Hell, I can't even recall the little native girl's name, and I just praised her.
I don't think it's impossible to have a Kaiju/ giant monster movie with memorable human characters and perhaps fans of the series complaining about it in this series is a desire in having a new ingredient for a film series that is close to having 40 films at this point. Obviously, the monsters should come first, but at the same time, better human drama and characterization will make the inbetween monster moments much more enjoyable.
To Kong Skull Island's credit, the moments without Kong or any kaiju creation actually were enjoyable to watch but that was helped by that film also being a mixture of war film and survival adventure story, where the humans by necessity required more attention, especially for the grand tradition of guessing who will live or die in the proceedings. This year's Suicide Squad by James Gunn is gearing up for that same tradition, though certainly with more black humor attached.
This could very well be testament to how excellent the monster fights are, but compared to the three earlier Monsterverse films, you can feel the drag when it's humanity on-screen and in focus. I initially wasn't so hard on the human scenes in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and even Godzilla 2014, but as time passed, yes, I can see how your attention span and enjoyment can and will waver in those moments. Then again, most of Godzilla's filmography is guilty of the same thing and might be mitigated by the relative "exotic" factor of seeing Japanese culture and imagery post WW2.
There are two parties of humans we follow in Godzilla vs Kong, one that is aided by Kong and the little girl's presence and one that is absent of any kaiju up until the end. Alexander Sarsgaard, playing a hollow earth researcher and Rebecca Hall, a Kong researcher and the little girl's adoptive mother, take Kong off Skull Island and plan to use him to gain access to the aforementioned "Hollow Earth", a fantastical underground world with it's own separate planetary magnetism as a fever dream tribute to Jules Verne's imagination and apparent actual theory on the inner workings of the globe( I wish).
There lies a power source that helps explain the energy that makes up the kaiju of the world like Godzilla and his blue breath as well as being a refuge for Kong, seeing as how the world cannot have two apex predator kaijus at the same time, one reason for Godzilla "going bad" in this feature.
The hollow earth's presence opens up new possibilities for future entries in the Monsterverse depending on the commercial reception to Godzilla vs Kong which thus far is looking good due to the Chinese box office as of this writing. A whole host of classic Toho monsters that have yet to be seen in this universe could easily be said to originate from here. I'm holding out hope for Gigan, one of the coolest and most ruthless Godzilla enemies despite appearing in some of the very worst films in the franchise. He's actually from space, like King Ghidorah, but whatever, pencil in this guy's appearence if you can.
Image from Creature Feature
The Hollow Earth sequence in the film's middle also offers the best interplay between monster and man and it is just a pleasing place to look at, despite being filled with plenty of nasty monsters. The plot with Millie Bobby Brown's Madison Russell from the prior Godzilla:KOTM, teaming up with classmate Josh played by Julian Dennison from Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Deadpool 2 and a conspiracy theorist played by Brian Tyree Henry, is easily the weakest link.
A conspiracy theorist, who of course, is completely correct on anything regarding shady corporation Apex and kaijus but wrong about everything else like lizard people, chem trails and other favorites of Alex Jones. He works at Apex so he can investigate and spy on the company from within and then leak that forbidden knowledge to the public.
At the same time, he runs a podcast which Madison listens to attentively and doesn't bother to disguise his voice despite all the damning things he talks about. Maybe Apex is banking on no one taking him seriously enough to cause trouble. In fact, Apex might be the dumbest evil corporation ever put to celluloid which sells short the horrifying competency and/or power of real life evil corporations.
Not only do they let Tyree Henry's Bernie openly discuss Apex's secrets out to the public with no repercussion brought down on him, but when Madison, Josh and Bernie go to the Apex facility in Pensacola, Florida( recently destroyed by a furious Godzilla for good reason), there is NO SECURITY OR POLICE PRESENCE whatsoever at the facility. Not to mention it should also be a quarantine zone due to almost certainly having some amount of radioactive or dangerous materials lying around.
Even if there isn't anything life threatening(Godzilla spewing his breath on stuff doesn't seem to have any deleterious after affect, apparently) to watch out for, Apex could have a faux quarantine zone set up as a façade to further ward away trespassers. Instead, the trio walks in completely without incident and as their journey takes them by futuristic underground cargo tunnel all the way to Hong Kong( roll with it), they don't get spotted by any security until the very last minute. The lack of danger in comparison to the Kong plot makes it the most boring and skippable on rewatch portion of the film.
That being said, it might be intentional that Apex is this ludicrously incompetent. In the Showa era of Godzilla films, there were various evil organizations, often extra-terrestrial in nature, who had secret bases and plans to use giant monsters as weapons to defeat the native kaiju like Godzilla and conquer the world. Godzilla baddies like King Ghidorah, Gigan, Megalon and Mechagodzilla were the tools of these alien threats and often our heroic human characters snuck in( somewhat easily as well from my recollection) to learn about and sabotage the bad guy's plans, assisting the big lizard and friends in the process. Speaking of Mechagodzilla…
From the first trailer shown shown off two months ago, eagle eyed viewers were able to spot an unusual figure in one of the trailers first shots. This monstrous dust and debris obscured figure didn't seem to be Godzilla or Kong. Before pictures of a toy spoiled the surprise, with director Adam Wingard even posing with a figure after the cat was clearly out of the bag, fans realized that Mechagodzilla was likely to appear and almost certainly be the common enemy that united the opposing monsters together.
Hell, there were rumors about something mecha related happening in G vs K due to a post credits scene from Godzilla:KOTM showing that one of King Ghidorah's heads, ripped off by Godzilla, had been recovered by Apex. Fans wondered if Mecha-King Ghidorah would be the big bad of the next movie. Here is the original appearence of King Ghidorah's second lease on life, as seen in 1991's Godzilla vs King Ghidorah.
Image from Godzilla-Movies.com
King Ghidorah technically does return for revenge against Godzilla as his brain is cybernetically repurposed to act as an energy conduit to power Mechagodzilla with a human, Dr. Serizawa's(Ken Watanabe's character from earlier movies) wayward son as pilot. Wouldn't you know it, an influx of "Hollow Earth" energy revives Ghidorah's consciousness and then takes control of the mecha and, well, you can guess what happens next. Safe to say it has the funniest and most direct interaction between monster and human outside of Kong and the little girl.
Once Godzilla and Kong converge in Hong Kong, you are made witness to some of the finest CGI fights ever created. Both monsters use the metropolis' number of skyscrapers, the most in the world, to their advantage. It's a mix of brutal street fight, WWE and hide & seek as like in the original, Kong is the clear underdog and only a dorsal fin axe with Hollow Earth energy gives Kong any real advantage over Godzilla aside from being more agile.
There are some cute callbacks to the original fight( Godzilla indeed gets something shoved down his throat), and it honestly plays out like something from your childhood imagination. The first two Godzilla films in the Monsterverse were like taking a relatively serious kaiju battle, like from the two subsequent eras after Showa( Heisei(80s/90s) and Millennium (2000s)) and giving it a big modern budget. Now we finally see a sillier but no less epic original era battle (60s/70s) given the big budget treatment. I honestly never thought I'd see the day someone did that but here we are.
That alone, and receiving a cool, successive battle with Mechagodzilla ticks off all the boxes of what I was hoping for with a film that wears its absurdity on its sleeve as asset rather than detriment. It accomplishes an old wish held by many movie fans of many generations of seeing this kind of "what if" scenario play out again and with much higher production values.
Taken as a whole, Godzilla vs Kong is somewhat expendable. Taken in the parts you were hoping to see, this new bout between cinematic legends may indeed endure in memory. I'm unsure, however, exactly how an experience encompassing Godzilla, Kong and Mechagodzilla can be topped.
I am certainly open to future entries in this multiverse and if the human side to this movie is any indication, there remains still room for improvement.
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Dabeli is a vegetarian delight comprising boiled and mashed potatoes, sandwiched between traditional Indian buns called pav. The potatoes are mixed with a dabeli masala, from which it derives it name. Top your potatoes with several chutneys; sweet tamarind, spicy garlic, and red hot – red chilli chutney. When you add the sweet and salty of fresh pomegranate pearls and roasted peanuts you have an explosion of flavor. Bring these delicious sandwiches everywhere, packed in your new Vaya Tyffyn lunchbox. This recipe is simple and quick!
The primary ingredient of Dabeli are potatoes. Potatoes are a vital source of vitamins C and B6. A veritable storehouse of potassium, potatoes provides even more potassium than bananas, making it a great snack for your post workout routines. Potassium helps regulate the fluids and mineral balance in cells, and maintains normal blood pressure. The complex carbohydrates provide all the fuel your body needs to power through even the most sluggish day.
Add potatoes, salt and a some water. Stir to combine and add dabeli masala, lemon juice, half cup sweet tamarind chutney, and sugar.
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Medacta Launches M.U.S.T. 2.0 Instrumentation to Expand its Offerings for Spine Pathologies
CASTEL SAN PIETRO, 13 October 2020 - Medacta is proud to announce the release of the M.U.S.T. 2.0 instrumentation, a next generation solution for spine surgery designed to simplify the procedure and provide robust instruments in open surgery when treating degenerative spine pathologies.
The M.U.S.T. 2.0 system is the next generation of M.U.S.T. instruments that incorporates an upgraded geometrical design to support every single step of the surgery. A new innovation in material technology with the addition of a thin carbon film coating ensures superior instrument performance and durability thanks to wear-resistant properties.
The M.U.S.T. 2.0 has been designed in collaboration with the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, thus being developed with an optimal insight in clinical experience together with an engineering foundation.
After providing solid support to the design phase of the M.U.S.T. 2.0 system, Prof. Dr. med. Mazda Farshad, Medical Director, Chief of Orthopaedics and Chief of Division of Spine Surgery at the Balgrist University Hospital, has successfully accomplished the first series of spine surgeries with optimal initial outcomes. 'The evolution of the M.U.S.T. spinal instrumentation was strongly driven by cognizant observations of each surgical step and incremental improvements. The M.U.S.T. 2.0 is a reliable system based on established concepts and innovations that simplify the surgical flow of spinal procedure,' said Prof. Farshad.
The M.U.S.T. 2.0 instrumentation is used to implant the Medacta M.U.S.T. (Medacta Universal Screw Technology) pedicle screw system, a universal polyaxial screw, rod and connector system applicable to degenerative, deformity and trauma cases.
Medacta is continuing to deliver optimal solutions to surgeons for the benefit of their patients, and M.U.S.T. 2.0 represents a further expansion of the fast-growing Medacta spine portfolio.
For more information on the Medacta spine surgery solutions, please visit spine.medacta.com
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About Medacta
Medacta is an international company specialized in the design and production of innovative orthopaedic products and the development of accompanying surgical techniques for joint replacement, spine surgery, and sports medicine. Established in 1999 in Switzerland, Medacta's products and surgical techniques are characterized by innovation. Medacta is a pioneer in developing new offerings on the basis of minimally invasive surgical techniques, in particular its Anterior Minimally Invasive Surgery (AMIS) technique for hip replacements. Medacta has leveraged its orthopaedic expertise and comprehensive understanding of the human body to develop the sophisticated MySolutions technology, which offers surgeons highly personalized pre-operative planning and implant placement methodologies by creating advanced personalized kinematic models and 3D planning tools for use in hip, knee, shoulder and spine procedures.


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Q: Azure AD -Single Sign On with personal account I have got an application registered on Azure portal which I can use to Single Sign on with my company email account. But it doesn't work if I use personal Microsoft account. Is it possible to enable single sign on for personal microsoft accounts? If so, how?

A: Are you only looking to be able to sign onto the account, or are you requiring admin access for the Microsoft account?
If you are just looking to sign on, using the Microsoft account should not be an issue. If you have not done so already, you need to add the user accounts (and Microsoft email) to the tenant. This is under Active Directory > Enterprise Applications > Click into the application > Users and Groups > + Add User > + Invite. You need to specifically invite these users as guest users who can log into the application.
This documentation explains where to do this: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-dotnet-webapp-openidconnect

A: Apps created on portal.azure.com connect to the Azure AD v1 endpoint, which works with organizational users (and guests of organizations) exclusively.
If your app needs to work with both work&school accounts and personal accounts, please consider integrating with the Azure AD v2 endpoint. More info at http://aka.ms/aaddevv2

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Is Heaven and Hell Here and Now?
Called by all, the president of Catania.
On the twentieth Leo was buried in the earth and poured forth liquid.
Saint Leo lived during the reign of Leo the Wise (886-912),* and was from the Italian city of Ravenna, the son of pious and noble parents. Due to the purity of his life, he went through all the stages of the priesthood, becoming a Reader, Subdeacon, Deacon and Presbyter. Lastly, by divine election, he became Bishop of the metropolis of Catania, which is found in the very famous island of Sicily, and where Mount Etna is located, which bursts forth flames of fire till this day. This blessed one, who bore the name of a prevailing lion, and having zeal for good and virtue, shined like a luminary in that place. In this way he attended souls, was a protector of widows, consoled the poor, dispersed the darkness of error, and by his prayers he toppled an idol statue to the earth.
He built by his own devices a magnificent Temple dedicated to the victorious Martyr Lucy of Sicily,** and completely burnt the magician and marvel-making Heliodoros. This man would not cease disturbing all the Christians of the place, creating marvels which were false and illusory, and later brought himself against the Church of Christ. Blessed Leo captured this marvel-maker with haste, and tied him up with his sacred stole, ordering that a great fire be made in the middle of the city. Since the Saint exposed and displayed all the magic done by the senseless one, he wanted to clearly present to all his own piety and truth, while those of the offender were demonic machinations. Wishing therefore to present these things, the Saint together with Heliodoros entered into the fire, and the Saint did not emerge from there until the wretched and pitiful one was completely consumed.
This miracle astonished everyone, for not only did the Saint remain unharmed by the fire, but neither were his sacred vestments touched by the fire. Because the fame of this miracle reached the ears of the ends of the world, Emperor Leo the Wise and his son Constantine, having heard of it, sent for him, and had the Saint brought to Constantinople. When he arrived, they grabbed his sacred feet, and begged him to pray to God on their behalf. This Saint not only worked great miracles while he was alive, but after he died and was buried, he worked even more miracles.
* Latin sources date the repose of the Saint to 787, which would place him during the Iconoclastic reigns of Leo III the Isaurian (717-741) and his son and co-emperor Constantine V Copronymos (720). We should also consider the fact that Saint Joseph the Hymnographer composed the divine office to the Saint, and he lived from 810 to 886, thus the Saint must have reposed before this time. Also, Sicily came under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in ca. 733, prior to which it was under Rome.
** Celebrated on December 13th.
Thou wast shown forth as a resplendent priest, a teacher of godliness and a wonderworker, blessed Hierarch Leo; for by the light of heavenly virtue thou wast enriched with the power of the Spirit, and dost heal the souls and bodies of those who hasten to thee. Glory to Christ Who has glorified thee; glory to Him Who has crowned thee; glory to Him Who through thee works healings for all.
The Church has thee as a light brighter than the sun, blessed Leo, crying to thee: By thy intercessions pleasing to the Lord, keep the Church unconquered and unshaken by any heresy.


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Princeton U Settles Tax Dispute For $18.2 mil
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Princeton University has agreed to pay $18.2 million over the next several years to settle claims brought by a group of local residents that the university was improperly claiming property tax exemptions on facilities that actually are used as money-making enterprises.
The university announced the settlement, which will end five years of litigation, on Oct. 14. A trial had been scheduled to begin Oct. 17 in New Jersey Tax Court.
The settlement funds will be used to defray property taxes of local residents, which run an average of $16,000 a year, and to help provide housing for the town's poorer residents, the university said in a statement.
The university will pay $2 million this year into a fund to be established to lower property taxes, and then $1.6 million a year for the following five years, according to the statement.
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Strategic Management - Cooperative Moves
While competition is important and unavoidable, cooperation can sometimes be profitable. Cooperative moves may allow organizations to enjoy better success that might be unreachable otherwise. Cooperation enables organizations to share the resources and to benefit from each other's strengths. Cooperative organizations take on risks, including losing control over operations, possible secret leaks, and allowing partners to take advantages.
A joint venture is a cooperative and special arrangement between two organizations that involves each contributing to the building up of a new entity. Joint venture partners share decision-making authority, operation control, and profits of the joint venture. Usually, two organizations enter a joint venture to benefit from an opportunity.
In some cases, a joint venture is designed to counter a shared threat. SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing Company created a joint venture called MillerCoors that combines their beer operations in the United States to better compete against their monstrous rival, Anheuser-Busch.
Strategic alliance is like a joint venture but it does not create a new entity. It is a cooperative arrangement between two or more organizations. Twitter and Yahoo! Japan's strategic alliance lets the two collaborate as opposed to creating a new entity together.
Collocation is the offering of goods and services under different brands that are located close to one another. Theatres and art galleries often get clustered together in one neighborhood. Customers get a variety of choices in case of collocation. Moreover, a set of collocated organizations can attract a bigger customer base collectively than the added sum of individual locations.
Co-opetition
Co-opetition is a new concept. Ray Noorda, Novell's founder, coined the term to refer to a blending of competition and cooperation between two organizations. The concept of coopetition highlights a complex interaction of the two different situations and it is becoming increasingly popular in many industries.
NEC (a Japanese electronics company) has three different relationships with Hewlett-Packard Co.: customer, supplier, and competitor. NEC and Hewlett-Packard are often termed to be in a relationship described as "frienemies" − part friends and part enemies.
No Hesitation
It is easy to become confused by the overwhelming sets of competitive and cooperative moves available. As most of the industries get fast-paced, hesitation can lead to disaster. Sometimes, competition gets transformed into hyper-competition, requiring very rapid and unpredictable moves that can undermine the competitive advantages. Therefore, it is often better to react quickly rather than waiting to take a step after long-timed analysis and hesitation to shake hands.


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ENB celebrates a decade of Dance for Parkinson's
Reporter: Vera Liber
ENB's Dance for Parkinson's class at Mulryan Centre for Dance Credit: Chris Currie
English National Ballet's Dance for Parkinson's programme, providing dance classes for people with Parkinson's, their family, friends and carers, has now been running for ten years.
Since its launch in 2010, the programme has reached more than 5,000 people through classes held at ENB's studios and through five hub partners across the UK as well as sessions provided over Zoom.
Anniversary celebrations were postponed due to the pandemic but will include the premiere of Momenta, a film co-created by class participants and professional artists to be released on ENB's web site on 15 December. An exhibition of personal stories, creative research collaborations and portrait photography opens to public viewing at the Mulryan Centre for Dance from 16 December until late February 2022.
Fleur Derbyshire Fox, English National Ballet's Engagement Director, said, "I am extremely proud of English National Ballet's Dance for Parkinson's programme and feel continually inspired by the creativity of our participants with lived experience, the passion of our artists, the care given by our volunteers and staff and the commitment of our delivery hub partners. Our classes are expressive, creative and promote feelings of freedom from the physical and social constraints of having Parkinson's."
The programme was a model for research published in 2015 by Dr Sara Houston from Roehampton University and is also part of a collaboration with King's College London and UCL on one of the world's largest research studies addressing the impact and scalability of arts interventions on physical and mental health.


Nicole Lizée's new work, Hymns to Pareidolia, a Soundstreams commission. Here, the ensemble perform in a musical language that began as Bach, but then was run through a composing filter where it becomes hazy, begins to mutate and stretch. Parts of the score are erased, canons are broken, hockets are damaged, and hisses, hums and a warping of material is created. I 'zoom in' on very short excerpts (sometimes just a rhythmic or gestural idea) – they form 'cells' for a section – and become stretched, melted and otherwise manipulated. The piece reflects structures found in Bach's score and imagines how unlikely instruments, including stylophones, omnichords, oscillators and vinyl would work in Baroque practices, such as in basso continuo, canons, chorales, or hockets. The psychological concept of Hymns to Pareidolia invites us to embrace unexpected sensory illusions as familiar.


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Q: Why highly correlated means higher variance? I am reading the book Introduction to Statistical Learning and on page 183, the book states that

Since the mean of many highly correlated quantities has higher variance than does the mean of many quantities that are not as highly correlated, the test error estimate resulting from LOOCV tends
  to have higher variance than does the test error estimate resulting from k-fold CV.

I found a formula that says

Var(+)=Var()+Var()+2Cov(,)

which kind of explains the above statement but I still have a hard time understanding it intuitively. Can anyone ELI5 this in layman's term?

A: Say you have a normal six-faced die. And you are interested in the mean of the two numbers you get after rolling it twice.
Scenario 1: You roll the die twice and you get {5} and {3}. Their total is 8 and their mean is 4, while we know the expected value is 3.5. We roll again and we get {2} and {5}, their mean is 3.5. We got quite close to the true expected value.
Scenario 2: You roll the die once, and then you roll the die until you get a number that is at most $\pm$1 away from your first roll. I roll a {6}, hence I can only get a {5} or a {6}. Their mean will be 5.5 or 6. After getting one of those I roll again, I get a {3}. The second roll is a {2}, their mean is 2.5.
In Scenario 1 the two rolling of the die are independent and uncorrelated, hence they can freely explore the sample space. In Scenario 2 the two values are highly correlated, and the sample space is constrained for the second roll, hence it is easier to get more extreme sample means (like 1.5 or 5.5) more often.
We also note that for Scenario 1 there are many ways you can get the same sample mean that corresponds to the true mean: {1} and {6}, {5} and {2}, {4} and {3}. Whereas in Scenario 2 only {3} and {4} will give you the true population mean, as such, the sample means are more variable in the latter case.
Edit for negative covariance:
Consider now a Scenario 3, which is similar to Scenario 2 in that the second roll is also constrained, but in this case the rule for the second roll is a little bit more tricky: if our first roll is below 3.5 (the expected value), we will only accept rolls that are at least $+$3 away from the first value, and if it is above 3.5, we will only accept rolls that are at least $-$3 away from the first value.
We roll once and we get a {4}, the only value we can accept then will be a {1}, giving us a sample mean of 2.5. We roll again and we get a {2}, leaving us as possible values for the second roll only {5} and {6}. The sample mean will be 3.5 or 4.
We can see that the sample space is constrained for both Scenario 2 and Scenario 3, but while the first constrains the space so that it is more likely to get extreme sample means—like {1} and {2}—the latter constrains the space so that it is more unlikely to get extreme sample means—it is not possible to get {1} and {2} anymore, nor {1} and {3}. As such, the possible sample means are less variable and closer to the true expected value. This is the effect of a high negative covariance, so the sign is relevant in interpreting the original statement.

A: An extreme example to complement the other answer: making $N$ exact copies of one sample gives me $N$ completely correlated samples. Clearly, this does not reduce the variance of any estimates made using the samples.
We can show this with your formula making two copies
$$
\text{Var}(\bar x) = \text{Var}\left(\frac{x+x}{2}\right) = \frac14 \left[\text{Var}(x) + \text{Var}(x) + 2\,\text{Cov}(x,x)\right] = \text{Var}(x)
$$
The result can be seen by making $(x+x)/2 = x$ or by recognising that $\text{Cov}(x,x) = \text{Var}(x)$.

A: The image below might give an intuitive view

This image also shows that high correlation does not always mean higher variance, or is at least ambiguous (that is, the image on the left has a high negative correlation and the result is a low variance for the sum $x+y$).

A: Because "highly correlated" generally means Cov(X,Y) is +ve and "uncorrelated" means Cov(X,Y) is zero, so comparing "highly correlated" with "uncorrelated" using your expression you would have Var(+) highest in the "highly correlated" case (Var(X) and Var(Y) are always positive.


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Q: Callback once Activity in another process has started? If I do startActivity() on an Activity in another process; is there a good way to receive a callback at the starting point (starting the new Activity form a background service) that the new Activity really has started? I mean I can make a broadcast but that seems lame. Is there a better way for this?

A: Basically what you are asking about is ipc. Google it for more info.
To achieve this you need to create a sevice class and bind the two activities to it.
An example Service class would look like this.
public class MyService extends Service{
    //create a handler that will be used to handle messages
    //this is just an example. Use static handlers
    final Handler handler=new Handler(){
         public void handleMessage(Message msg){
            //I've just created a static feild.Check below.
            MyFirstActivity.activity.seconActivityStarted();
         }
    }

    //create a Messenger object
    Messenger messenger=new Messenger(handler);

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent){
       return messenger.getBinder()
    }
}

Now things are simple.
Now you have to bind the first activity with the servie.
public class MyFirstActivity extends AppCompatActivity{
    //for the time being I'll just create a static field that will be used.
    //you can use an interface
    static MyFirstActivity activity;
    //create a ServiceConnection
    ServiceConnection connection=new ServiceConnection(/*contents of the service connection */);

   public void onStart(){
       super.onStart();
       activity=this;
       bindService(new Intent(this,MyService.class),connection,Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE));
   }

   //following method will be called by the handler in the service
   public void secondActivityStarted(){
       //some code
   }

   //you have to handle the activity lifecycle with the bound service.
   //right now its described here

}

Now the second activity
public class SecondActivity extends AppCompatActivity{
    //create a ServiceConnection
    ServiceCOnnection serviceConnection=new ServiceConnection(){
         //call the handler at onServiceConnected
         public void onServiceCOnnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service){
              Messenger messenger=new Messenger(service);
              //compose a Message object as you like
              messenger.send(new Message());
         }
    };

    //bind this activity to the same service
    public void onStart(){
       super.onStart();
       bindService(new Intent(this,com.package.name.MySerice.class),serviceConnection,Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
    }
}

That's it. Modify this according to the requirements.
P.S.Above mentioned code is just working structure.

A: If you do startActivity() on an Activity in same or another process (and assuming the second activity starts), the calling Activity will go in to first PAUSED, and then STOPPED state. Which means no callback would be processed. However, you can call startActivityForResult() instead of startActivity() and receive onActivityResult() callback.

A: Add a class MyApplication that extends Application and mention in your Manifest too and than put two boolean variables in it.
      private static boolean activityVisible;

  public static void activityResumed() {
    activityVisible = true;
}

public static void activityPaused() {
    activityVisible = false;
}
 public static boolean isActivityVisible() {
    return activityVisible;
}

and so now you can use call activityPaused() when you do startActivity() on onPause() and onStop() of current activity, and when you return back to same activity do call activityResumed() in overriden onResume() method.
Now, by using MyApplication.isActivityVisible() you can get to know whether your Activity is running or paused.


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FIFA Rankings: St. Lucia At #138
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GERMANY remains on top of the FIFA world rankings after a busy month of international football fixtures.
The November 27 update comes after a scintillating round of qualifiers ahead of Euro 2016 and the African Cup of Nations as well as friendlies from across the globe.
Here's a rundown of the top 25, followed by a look at the biggest movers and shakers since the previous update on Oct. 23,
This month's update sees very little change to the top 10, with each of the highest six nations remaining intact. Wins over Armenia and Argentina push Portugal onto equal points with France in seventh, with former world champions Spain also moving up one spot to ninth.
Uruguay are the only side in the top 10 to drop, while England, Romania and the Czech Republic can be extremely happy with their push to make the elite.
No.(1) Germany, (2) Argentina, (3) Colombia, (4) Belgium, (5) Netherlands, (6) Brazil, (7)Portugal, (8) France, (9) Spain, (10) Uruguay. While Italy, Switzerland, England, Chile, Romania, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Algeria, Croatia and Mexico make the top 20 teams.
Trinidad and Tobago lead the Caribbean charge in the latest rankings at (49th), Antigua (70th), Haiti (93), St. Vincent and the Grenadines (105th), Cuba (112th), Jamaica (113th) and St.Kitts (115th), while St.Lucia in at (138th place) and is currently ahead of Grenada (145th), Barbados (146th), Curacao (147th), Guyana (152nd), Dominica (180th) and Bahamas (194th). US Virgin Islands (197th), Cayman Islands (201st) and Anguilla (207th).
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CMA CGM COMPLETES TENDER FOR CEVA
CMA CGM has completed its public tender offer to acquire CEVA Logistics and now holds 97.9% of all outstanding shares in the Switzerland-listed logistics operator.
Following settlement of the offer on 16 April, the French container shipping group plans to delist CEVA from the Zurich stock exchange and merge CEVA's operations into its own. The expanded group will have revenues of over $30bn and will employ 110,000 people, CMA CGM said.
Merging CEVA's operations into the CMA CGM Group will strengthen its position as a worldwide leader in maritime transport and logistics, present in 160 countries, CMA CGM said, adding: "The CMA CGM group will now be able to meet the logistics needs of its customers around the world with a comprehensive range of solutions across the supply chain, including LCL, airfreight, purchase order management, contract logistics or customs clearance."
A new strategic plan has been drawn up that will attempt to return CEVA to profit and improve its financial performance. CMA CGM said the implementation of CEVA's new strategic plan, prepared jointly with CMA CGM, and the close co-operation between the teams of the two companies "are going to drive an improvement in CEVA's financial performance through investment in information systems, balancing customer segmentation and streamlining the corporate organisation".
Among the operational initiatives to drive CEVA's return to profit, CMA CGM said a "CEVA operational centre" will be set up in Marseilles to bring together the management teams and support functions, involving the creation or transfer of around 200 jobs.
It added: "This consolidation will enable the deployment of a coordinated set of structural initiatives, such as: improving productivity by investing in information systems and digital technology; refocusing local teams on customer service; achieving a more balanced customer segmentation; streamlining the corporate organization, in particular by reducing the number of regions and harmonizing processes; implementing more targeted, more customer-focused communication."
CMA CGM chief executive Rodolphe Saadé said: "This successful transaction marks a major milestone in the history of CMA CGM's growth. With CEVA, CMA CGM has confirmed its position as a leading worldwide maritime transport and logistics group. We can now offer our customers a complete range of solutions that meet all their needs and set us apart from the competition."
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Why Red Hat, Inc. Fell 14% Today
Market makers ignored the Linux vendor's strong earnings, focusing on revenue hiccups and a CFO departure instead.
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Shares of Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) fell as much as 14% on Thursday morning in response to the previous night's third-quarter earnings release.
The open-source-software specialist saw third-quarter sales rising 18% year over year, landing at $615 million. Adjusted earnings per share increased 27%, stopping at $0.61. Analysts were expecting earnings of roughly $0.58 per share on sales closer to $618 million, so it was a mixed performance.
Alongside the earnings release, Red Hat announced that CFO Frank Calderoni is leaving the company in January to take a CEO position at a still-unnamed company.
The revenue miss was caused by election-related delays in signing contracts with the U.S. government, moving several large deals to be signed in the fourth quarter instead. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst fully expects to close these delayed deals, so it's hardly a case of lost opportunities.
Further pressure on the top line came from currency exchange effects, as the value of the U.S. dollar keeps rising against other world currencies at a faster rate than analysts or management had expected. But Red Hat balances those sales damages against lower operating costs, as the same currency effects also apply to funding the company's worldwide sales and development staff. So the weakness is long gone before reaching the bottom line, and Red Hat walked the talk by delivering a positive earnings surprise.
Several analyst firms have already urged their clients to buy Red Hat on this share-price dip, and I think it is the right call.


A British rock music fan stabbed himself to death after a night out watching U.S. band Them Crooked Vultures left him with severe tinnitus, a coroner's investigation reported.
Robert McIndoe, 52, was unable to sleep for three months after seeing the band – made up of former band members from Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age – at the Brixton Academy, south London.
His psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Stinson, said, "He accepted death as a side-effect of stopping the noise," the Daily Mirror reported Friday.
The inquest heard he tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose at his home in south London in the same month that he fatally stabbed himself.
McIndoe's wife Shirley said, "He just wanted not to be suffering."
Tinnitus is characterized by a constant ringing in the ears, with the noise coming from inside the body rather than an outside source.


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SINGAPORE - Ticket sales for K-pop boyband BTS, which will be performing in Singapore on Jan 19, will go on sale from Saturday (Oct 27).
Concert organiser One Production released ticketing details for the group's mega concert at the National Stadium on Sunday.
One Production had announced that the septet will be coming to Singapore in a Facebook post on Oct 10.
Tickets are priced at $348, $268, $238, $198, $148, $118 and $88, excluding booking fees.
From 10am on Saturday, fans can snag the tickets online at www.sportshubtix.sg, via hotline on +65 3158 7888 or at the Kallang Wave Mall ticketing booth and all SingPost outlets.
Those who buy Cat 1 tickets ($348) by Jan 7 will participate in a lucky draw, with 1,000 tickets to a sound check party up for grabs, according to One Production.
The organiser said in its statement that the Singapore concert will feature songs from the band's chart-topping albums and also solo performances by each member.
They will be the first K-pop group to play at the National Stadium, which has a capacity of 55,000.
The concert is part of the group's Love Yourself World Tour, named after their record-shattering Love Yourself series of albums.
It was also announced earlier this month that the group will perform in Taiwan at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium, Hong Kong's Asiaworld-Expo Arena and Bangkok's Rajamangala N ational Stadium.
These are the first South-east Asian tour dates announced for the group's world tour.
The seven members, aged between 21 and 25, last performed in Singapore at The Star Theatre in 2014.
In recent years, they have gained massive success as the only K-pop artist to top the Billboard 200 albums chart.
The South Korean presidential office also said that it would award the boys an Order of Cultural Merit for their contributions in spreading Korean culture and language.
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Media From All Over The World Are Already Camping At L.A. Jail!
LYNWOOD, Calif. – Media from around the world converged on a Los Angeles County jail Saturday in hopes of spotting Paris Hilton arriving for a three-week stay for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.Some 15 photographers, reporters and television crews staked out positions at three entrances to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. Authorities had also cordoned off a grassy area outside the jail for members of the media.
"Today, Paris is the story," said Robert Penfold, a TV reporter with Australia's Nine Network.
As of late afternoon, however, the hotel heiress had yet to appear.
Hilton has been ordered to turn herself in by Tuesday to begin her sentence.
The prospect of Hilton's arrival was on the minds of some at the 2,200-bed facility.
"If it was me, I'd want to see her, because she's famous!" said 29-year-old Trishan Bell during a visit with her mother, who is serving an 8-year sentence for drug-related offenses.
Susannah Johnson, who was released Saturday after a one-day stay at the jail, said many inmates were angry at Hilton, believing officials were making room for the starlet at the expense of other inmates already coping with crowded conditions.
"The only advice I could give her when she comes is to shut her mouth and do the time," said Johnson, 35, of Claremont.
The 13-year-old jail, located five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, has been an all-female facility since March 2006. The two-story concrete building sits in an industrial neighborhood, beside train tracks and beneath a bustling freeway.
Though a judge sentenced her to 45 days behind bars, Hilton is expected to serve only 23 days because of a state law that requires shorter sentences for good behavior, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Once she arrives, the "Simple Life" star will be housed in the jail's "special needs" unit.
Like other inmates in the special-needs area, Hilton will take her meals in her cell and will be allowed outside the 12-foot-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone.
Inmates are not allowed to bring cell phones into the jail.
Besides a decidedly unglamorous orange jumpsuit, inmates are issued a standard-issue kit that includes: a toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, soap, a comb, deodorant, shampoo and shaving implements, along with a jail-issued pencil, stationery, envelopes and stamps.
Officers arrested Hilton in Hollywood on Sept. 7. In January, she pleaded no contest to the reckless-driving charge and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
She was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on Jan. 15. Officers informed Hilton she was driving on a suspended license and she signed a document acknowledging she was not to drive. She then was pulled over by sheriff's deputies on Feb. 27, at which time she was charged with violating her probation.
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Comment from anonymous
Time: June 2, 2007, 4:46 pm
I'm worry about how they will protect her. All areas are not segregated from the other inmates. I heard of a plot that 4 inmates and a gaurd were planning to assault her .
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I'm also worried. I don't think we can trust these guards.
If I were her, I would stay in my cell all the time. It's really not safe for her go walk around without a real bodyguard.
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I hope they let her out early like they did that Michelle Rodriguez chick. It'd only be fair. I've heard other people commenting like attorneys (not connected to Paris/the Hilton family) say how most people with the same circumstances serve about a day before they're released b/c of the overcrowding. They should NOT punish Paris more harshly than they would a "normal" person b/c that would not be fair, right or justice at all. The law is NOT supposed to make examples of people.
I also think a better punishment woulda been house arrest with like ankle bracelets monitoring if she left or whatever. Then they wouldn't have to worry about her safety, making room, etc and she'd still be punished ya know?
I know, but they won't let that happen to Paris. It really pisses me off that the media isn't talking more about how unfair the punishement is.


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Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 9 Baelor
"Baelor" is the ninth episode of the first season of Game of Thrones.
It first aired on June 12, 2011
Story Plot –
"I learned how to die a long time ago."
In the black cells of the Red Keep, Lord Ned Stark wastes away in the darkness. Lord Varys visits the accused traitor to say that his own loyalties are to the people of the realm. Varys wants to avoid the war the Robb Stark is about to wage against the Lannisters - and all the devastation it will cause to innocent lives. Ned refuses to offer a false confession and capitulate to the queen who tried to murder his son: The lord's life is not so valuable to him that he'd forsake his honor. "What of your daughter's life," Viserys asks. "Is that a precious thing to you?"
Robb and his host approach the Trident River, which they must cross in order break the Lannisters' grip on the Riverlands. This means acquiring the cooperation of Lord Walder Frey, the ancient and wily patriarch who controls the river's lone crossing - a bridge fortress known as the Twins. Catelyn Stark calls on Lord Walder, hoping that his oath as her father's banner man will help shore up his loyalties. But Walder's only real pledge is to his own house, so the price of his backing is steep: Arya and Robb must each marry a Frey.
Grateful for Jon Snow's bravery in saving his life, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont bestows his family's blade, Longclaw, on the young Night's Watchman. All of Jon's friends clamor to examine the long sword, but any excitement he feels evaporates when Sam Tarly shares the news of Robb's march south, which was brought by a raven for Maester Aemon. Jon visits the old man, struggling under the weight of his devotion to Robb. Aemon explains that men of the Night's Watch are meant to live a life devoid of family because "love is the death of duty." The blind maester knows this firsthand. He reveals that he is a Targaryen - the uncle of the Mad King Aerys - and that he stood by his duty at the Wall while the Lannisters all but exterminated his family. "Stay or go," Aemon tells Jon. "You must make that choice yourself ... and live with it the rest of your days. As I have."
"You do not command me, khaleesi."
Khal Drogo's khalasar travels across Essos, through rocky terrain, with its leader slumped in his saddle and obviously ill. When Drogo falls from his horse and into the dirt, Daenerys Targaryen bolts from her saddle to help him. The bloodrider Qotho rides to the front of the hoard and looks down on Drogo and Dany, declaring, "A khal who cannot ride is no khal."
Tyrion Lannister eats with his father, Lord Tywin Lannister, and the family's war council. Tywin informs the dwarf that he is to lead the vanguard into battle with the Hill Tribesmen. "Surely, there are ways to have me killed that are less detrimental to the war effort," Tyrion says, but his father's decision is final. Tyrion pushes himself away from the table and returns to his tent, where Bronn has acquired a whore for him, a foreign girl named Shae, who Tyrion wants to serve him exclusively for as long as he pays her.
The Dothraki make camp, and Daenerys tends to Drogo. His wound has festered, leaving him just hours away from death. Ser Jorah Mormont urges Dany to leave now, before the khal dies and leaves her and her unborn son without protection. Instead, Daenerys sends for Mirri Maz Dur, the last hope of saving her husband. Mirri agrees that the khal will die, but when Dany begs her to perform magic, the witch agrees, slaughtering the khal's horse as a sacrifice. The Dothraki are enraged at this affront to nature, and Qotho draws his arakh and attacks Jorah. After a fierce struggle, Jorah manages to kill Drogo's bloodrider. Strange and demonic noises begin to emanate from Drogo's tent, and Dany, curled on the ground, begins to go into labor.
In Tyrion's tent, he plays a drinking game with Bronn and Shae. They try to divine each other's pasts, which Tyrion does very well with Bronn but fails miserably with his mistress. Shae manages to tap into Tyrion's pained past, however, which prompts him to tell the story of how he was married for a short time - until he learned that his brother Jaime Lannister had paid a whore to take him as her husband. After the joke was revealed, Tywin allowed his whole household guard to rape the woman while Tyrion watched. After Bronn leaves, Tyrion goes to bed with Shae, barely waking up the next morning in time to go to war. Once he does join the Hill Tribes on the field, he's knocked out by an errant war hammer moments into the march. He wakes up - shocked to be alive - after the fighting is done. The Lannisters have won, but against only a small fraction of the Stark forces. The rest have ambushed Jaime's army.
In a wooded area, Catelyn waits for her son to return from war, and she's beside herself with relief once he does. Robb rides out of the mist with Jaime as his prisoner. The storied member of the Kingsguard proposes that he and Robb settle the whole war with a bout of single combat, but Robb is no fool. He sends Jaime off to be put in irons, and shouts to his celebrating men: "One victory does not make us conquerors ... This war is far from over."
Arya wanders the streets of King's Landing, trying to trade a pigeon she killed for a bit of pastry. But when she notices the crowd streaming toward Baelor's Sept, she follows. On the steps of the holy building, the City Watch escorts her father before King Joffrey Baratheon, as his mother Cersei Baratheon watches with Sansa Stark at her side. Ned gives a false confession of treason in an attempt to save his daughter, and Joffrey responds that his mother and Sansa have both asked him to grant mercy. "But they have the soft hearts of women," Joffrey continues. "So long as I am king, treason will not go unpunished ... Bring me his head!"
In the crowd, Yoren of the Night's Watch finds Arya and wraps her in his arms to avert her gaze from the scene unfolding on the steps. Ser Ilyn Payne, wearing an executioner's hood and carrying Ned's family sword Ice, strides over to deliver the sentence. Ned bows his head as Payne raises the blade. The King's Justice delivers the blow swiftly, ending Lord Stark's life before the screaming mob.
Important Points –
Death of Character - Sean Bean (Eddard Stark)
The episode title refers to the Great Sept of Baelor, the grand seat of the Faith of the Seven in King's Landing, and from Baelor Targaryen, the King after whom the Great Sept was named.
Eddard Stark's word to Yoren before he is executed, "Baelor", refers to the statue of Baelor the Blessed, where Ned sees his daughter Arya; thus signaling Yoren to protect her.
Eddard Stark, because of his death, remains one of the most talked about characters in the show. In future episodes also he is still referenced in some way by other characters.
Best Quotes –
Maester Aemon: "Tell me, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?"
Jon Snow: "No."
Aemon: "So they will not love. Love is the death of duty. If the day should ever come when your lord father was forced to choose between honor on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?"
Jon: "He... He would do whatever was right. No matter what."
Aemon: "Then Lord Stark is one man in 10,000. Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman's love? And what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? Or a brother's smile?
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